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And they had good -- >> republicans to get out there and not convince -- the republicans shouldn't convince themselves what democrats tried to convince themselves of in 2009. >> i think that is very important. i think governor sanford had it exactly right in his earlier comments on your show. listen. this is part of legitimate dissent and people are allowed to come do it. frankly the town hall meetings i had during obamacare town hall eruptions were probably, in some ways, more difficult. the crowds were bigger but they weren't happy with you no matter where you were. and on the issue. so i th...

Hedge monoin the region, malicious efforts in regions like yemen as well as syria and other places in the region. so this isn't going to be the end with this confrontation in the water. and i don't think it's going to be the end even if there's an agreement on the nuclear issue. >> representative cole the saudis said on behalf of them and their partners that means you guys the united states government that operation decisive storm has achieved its goals. and they outline these five points of what they were trying to get done in yemen. they say they did it. it's almost a laughable assertion giv...

The republican study committee has one. the idea there's no alternative to obama care isn't the case. i haven't seen this particular poll. all the polling i've seen and that's what i used to do for a living saying this program has never been popular. it's been well run or well conceived jammed through with overwhelming temporary democratic majorities that don't exist today. it's been i think the administration has been pretty intransigent in looking at change, delay, what have you. at the end of the day, politics is politics. the distribution of power is such it's going to be very difficult to...

Ranking for a tornado. that smashed into the town 11 days ago. joining me by phone oklahoma congressman tom cole a native of moore, oklahoma. representative cole, many thanks for joining us. this is a tough thing to be talking about. second time in less than two weeks that moore has been up ended by tornadoes. is this unprecedented for you? >> well, unfortunately, at this scale it is. and the whole weather complex around us just almost biblical in proportions last night. it was -- we had a tornado immediately to the east and a little bit northeast i should say. another one that popped up again...

Difficult budget battle ahead? >> well, i think the major thing that was learned was that if you attach big social changes to basically what is a budget, you are not going to get it through very easily. you're going to have a big fight. i think that's why the debt limit has to be raised. there is no question we're going to raise the debt limit. so let's just do it and then we'll have the big fight, which is going to be on the budget. sometime between now and september 30th, we have to come up with a budget, which is going to have a lot of big policies in it, but i think that the debt limit sho...