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Very roman catholic. he is a roman catholic convert. something pope francis could say and it would be unremarkable. but as an american public official whose held public office and is a law enforcement official potentially if he becomes president, to say cross get border from some other country because you choose to do it against u.s. law and just move into the country to get a job illegally is not going to sell. what do you think? act of love. that might be a stretch for the republicans and the democrats maybe. >> well, i think it is a stretch for the most conservative part of the republican p...

Congress can find a way to control spending and foster job creation, that's not language the tea party voters want to hear. of course, health care repeal is driving the tea party voters to the polls. look at this number. 85%, tea partiers believe the u.s. supporters to the polls. for this group, the hawks are out. lindsey graham, watch out. non-tea party republicans are allowing a bigger social tent, tea party republicans have a purity test. mcconned's embrace of rand paul makes sense when you see it like this. while just 11% of tea party republicans say being a tea party supporter is an impor...

Guys are operating out of fear. what's important, though, lawrence, about the sond just played is that was speaker boehner trying to take some more control back, trying to reframe it. and if they're threatening always only about this sort of vague purity test or this anti-obama test, i do think they run out of credibility. there's been a lot of talk in political science about whether we have too many issue groups and too many single issue groups and there's a critique about that. but i will say this for the issue groups. at least they are experts in something and they can work up a reputation ...

Him always err on the tea party side of any strategic decision in the house. like will this inhibit him the way a tea party challenge has already inhibited mitch mcconnell? >> well, i think that's right, and it's true up to a point. if you think about that in a foreign policy context, sometimes when the cia says they think a nation is being led by an irrational actor we actually take the nation more seriously and if we can't get rudd or stabilize that threat we worry how irrational are going to be. that works in domestic politics up to a point. and they clearly have pushed and pushed and creat...

Have misunderstood this. what can we do to make better predictions going forward. >> so what happened? i remember that around this time last 84 carl rove, megan kelly, now a prime timer on fox news was basically keling him you are doing math to make republicans feel good. what happened to change that? >> they had that move him where they were examineing their losses. they produced that autopsy report. remember, that was something done by the so-called party establish. by the elselders. when things don't go their way on the outside, they become increaseingly obsessed with the ideological purity...