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Republicans picked up 63 seats in the house. what you have to do is get the tea party's support and enthusiasm and the support of the right to life movement and everything else and yet be perceived as a centrist conservative candidate to the entire country. i think both pawlenty and romney, quite frankly, can carry that off. romney's got some problems, no doubt because of massachusetts and things. it seems to me both those candidates are electable in a general election. >> how about donald trump, peter? is he electable? how seriously do you think people -- we'll put up a poll. it will show gop...

Of it. i mean, you have got to go right if you're going to get that nomination. and the difference now is that the tea party has captured the attention. in fact, i'd say almost captured the republican party. and this isn't where independent voters are. this isn't where general election voters are. my sense of this is if you look at the tea party's agenda for the 21st century, it's to abolish the 20th century. and this is not good politics. >> and you know what, pat, peter's absolutely right when you talk about the republicans leaning to the right. they're doing it but the question to you is ho...

So if you're currently in the medicare about to go into medicare, it supposedly wouldn't affect you under that plan. >> right. >> the president's plan, also by the way, there' no cuts in defense really with that. the president's plan cuts across the board. you know, i think it's a lot fairer plan. the key point here, which i think a lot of people are missing, i don't mean to filibuster, is that we have to do things that are -- that keep the economy going and get it stronger and bring down unemployment. i don't think the rye an proch does that. >> let me talk right to that. the president's plan...

Gop proposal. pat buchanan is a republican strategist. peter phan is a democratic strategist. you get coffee together in the last hour, sort it all out for us. >> yes, we did. >> pat, that budget plan by congressman paul ryan proposes the changes to medicare. you've got to wonder if that's a risky move for republicans. how do you read it? >> it is risky. quite frankly we're not going to get it through the senate. that and the medicaid proposal which uses block grants and sends medicaid out to the states. the republican party has taken a stand. they put down a marker, they are deadly serious ab...

we're already seeing $4 for gas per gallon over much of the country. how much higher will it go? thanks so much for joining us on msnbc saturday. 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 out west. the rash of violent weather has left 16 people dead from oklahoma to alabama. those storms have reeked havoc on the midwest and deep south since thursday with more than 100 twisters reported. we're going to have more on which states will be hit hardest today. first up, the weather channel's eric fischer has more on how this system developed. >> a tornado crossing the highway just in front of us. >> re...