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They get the government re-opened pretty quickly and the debt ceiling extended for a couple months. the house republicans, they believe there are very few concessions, major concessions anyway to the republicans in here. which brings you to the question what's in it for republicans? that is the more complicated question. if you're speaker boehner, the republicans on the senate side, what's in it for you is if you can re-open the government, extend the debt ceiling and put this story behind you. you hope they can make up for the political damage. already, kate, redstate.com sending out alerts s...

When they sign up for health insurance. an inspector general finding that data security testing is months behind schedule, increasing chances that online insurance markets may be vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves. the editor of redstate.com and a fox news contributor, so, eric, hackers could have access to our personal data via obamacare? >> well, not just the nsa anymore, yeah. it's looking that way. the obama administration doesn't seem to really value the privacy of americans inside or outside of obamacare. this is really just another reason the republicans should go and defund it'...

They've done successfully. >> a conservative blogger on the website redstate.com says the tea party, quote, has become a cancer and is calling for the tea party movement to dump the name and rebrand. the blogger points to a poll that shows 8% of the americans identify as members of the tea party. and blame republicans like karl rove demonizing tea party candidates. jeff sessions says jack lew must never be treasury secretary. in a statement, sessions say lew would present a clear doing tore the economy and accused him of making false representations to congress. president obama nominated lew...

To fix the image and he's angered a lot of republicans, especially far right conservatives by talking about his plans to go against the most extreme in the primary. mark levin, the talk show host, says conservatives are being stabbed in the back. erick erickson, the editor of redstate.com says the efforts will, quote, crush conservatives, destroy the tea party, and put a bunch of squishes in republican leadership positions. what's your response to that? >> i tend to think that's kind of alarmism. we haven't really proposed any policy changes or anything like that, at least from the crossroads ...

People. people -- what do you think about the question whether the people -- will we still see birthers, still see people in the congress saying this guy is not president? >> yeah, you know what? we have talked a lot about this. i think unfortunately, look, obviously the intellectuals in the republican party can parse it, and they accept it. the people like steve schmidt, the operatives who do it for a living, totally get it and really understand the party's problems. >> but i've been scouring week le standard, redstate.com and looking it comments, the base reaction, and i do sense that they'r...