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Voted to repeal obamacare. he actually has substantive replacement ideas. but when you are a member of congress, you have to file a financial disclosure every year, where you have to list your investments, you have to list any potential conflicts of interest. so it seems to me that it would be silly of him, to do something as blatant as this, knowing he has to report this every year. maybe he did. it wouldn't be the first time. that's what the financial disclosures are for. that's what nomination processes are for and confirmation hearings. he will have to explain this. i think he is behind th...

Circumstance. and what typically happens in nomination processes is the parties come up with a the candidate who's most acceptable to their party. not necessarily the favorite of any one faction but the acceptable candidate. and that usually positions that candidate to be pretty good in the general election. polarizing candidates generally don't do well in general elections and i think the republicans have to go back a few years but the barry goldwater campaign is probably of this. so they want a candidate less polarizing than donald trump is. >> something else i don't understand about this po...

The mainstream, further to the right. i thought that ended with the romney era. but it seems like republicans still think that was a good idea. >> well, actually, rachel, it ended during the first few months of my campaign, of my chairmanship. we sat down with a lot of tea party activists after the scarzafava race in spring of 2009. largely a lot of other nomination processes had started, and that effort was under way. so what we tried to do is get in front and say look, let's cooperate, let's work together, because you can't go after our incumbents in states like delaware and colorado and uta...

Party activists after the scarzafava race in spring of 2009. largely a lot of other nomination processes had started, and that effort was under way. so what we tried to do is get in front and say look, let's cooperate, let's work together, because you can't go after our incumbents in states like delaware and colorado and utah and elsewhere where, you know, but for this individual, we would not have this seat. and so we negotiated a peace, if you will for further campaigns and worked cooperatively with tea party activists around the country. that clearly had not happened over the last couple of...

We sat down with a lot of tea party activists after the scarzafava race in spring of 2009. largely a lot of other nomination processes had started, and that effort was under way. so what we tried to do is get in front and say look, let's cooperate, let's work together, because you can't go after our incumbents in states like delaware and colorado and utah and elsewhere where, you know, but for this individual, we would not have this seat. and so we negotiated a peace, if you will for further campaigns and worked cooperatively with tea party activists around the country. that clearly had not ha...