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Money being spent in this one house race. take a listen to some of the voters. >> can a democrat win here? >> they seem to think they can. i suppose it is possible if you throw millions and millions and millions of dollars at it. >> the amount of money being poured into this is criminal from the perspective of that advertising doesn't really do much for people. >> i've never seen this much. phone calls, ads, everything. but it is a shame we have to spend that much money on politics. >> and i think that second voter sort of nails it, the idea that this race has been so exposed, the idea that an...

Watch in the days ahead. >> i think you're hitting on something people haven't digested yet. this is probably the biggest test of the tea party in a governing role, because he will not just be whipping the obama hating votes or the symbolic votes, this job means whipping everything, right? >> absolutely. look -- >> steve and then e.j. >> look, i think when you look at -- when you look at the challenge before him, there's governing the country, so see how he performs. but it's a role that gives him a big stage, makes him a very, very powerful player in republican politics and potentially for a ...

Not just be whipping the obama hating votes or the symbolic votes, this job means whipping everything, right? >> absolutely. look -- >> steve and then e.j. >> look, i think when you look at -- when you look at the challenge before him, there's governing the country, so see how he performs. but it's a role that gives him a big stage, makes him a very, very powerful player in republican politics and potentially for a long time to come, because we don't tend to have these leadership elections and shakeups very often. >> i think the interesting thing is, there are tea party members of the house, s...

Republican caucus, i suppose it's a pretty reflective group that they elected. >> reflective. steve, part of what's going on here, and e.j. nails it, the bigger job at number two is status quo business as usual. so that wasn't a big shakeup. as we reported, these are secret votes. so if the conservatives had more juice, they could have tried to push one of these folks up to number two. but now you have the tea party in an operational role. previously, we were looking back at this in 2011, you had jeb pencerling put in the number four position. but that's not a real thing. the whip is very real...

Ari, listen, i am here to say thank you. you've done an incredible job over these nine weeks. that's not just me talking, that's everybody on my twitter feed. that's everybody who has been watching the show. i could not be more grateful to you to let me do this, to take this time to get ready to come back. you've been incredible. the network's been incredible. phil griffin has been incredible to me, getting me out of trouble in the first place when i was on an island that had no hospital that could do surgery, which i needed. i'm just filled to gratitude to everybody there, but especially you ...