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Blindsided when their plan to prevent the department of homeland security from shutting down was defeated. 52 conservatives voted no because the funding bill didn't also stop the president's immigration plan. in the end, a bill did pass to fund the homeland security department for one week which means once again in just a few days we're going to be facing another shutdown. i was reporting from the capitol friday night and had exasperated veteran republican lawmakers say things to me like how are we supposed to govern? they were at a loss with how to control their own right flank. at a time whe...

Republican party and republican leadership maybe mcconnell. republicans have to tread carefully as far as appealing hispanic voters and looking toward 2016 presidential race. >> and another key date is the debt limit crisis. mid year we're looking at that to be another key date. a key point in the calendar. >> sure. obviously with the debt limit it can be a little bit flexible as far as exactly when it runs out. at this point looking at mid year maybe late summer. that's something you saw it last time republicans struggled to get the numbers they needed to raise the debt ceiling. this is an is...

That the tratic strategy, and i'm quoting directly from the article, to the extent that there's been a unifying theme, it's the ongoing effort to portray republican hopefuls as captured by their party's right flank. it's pushed candidates into nearly the same position on far right issues. >> cotton is someone who came into the house during the tea party wave around 2010 and as as much, someone who's a rising republican star, he's pretty much voted with the conservative side all the way through. so now when it skoms to an election like the senate election, the general election, he doesn't have ...

>> i think some are secretly relieved. and the good -- the way paul ryan is handling this is he's being an ally of leadership without being an official member of leadership. so he's able to move the conversation away from obama care and bring conservatives along because he has strong political capital on the right and that's important for boehner who sometimes has a trust gap with his own right flank. >> just on this point, very quickly. i have learned last year that they did a survey, frank lunts did a survey of who the house freshman look to when they came on to the house floor, looked up on...

Fending off a challenge from inside the pro-gun movement, they're so worried about their own right flank that they're not capable of any sort of political acuity in participating in the wider discussion. i mean, they got their chance, but they could not pull it off. they are not well organized enough to do it. they are confused as to who they should be fighting with and they do not appear to be able to fight a two-front war. meanwhile, on the other side, on the other side of this debate, that side has literally never been so organized and so ambitious as they are right now. the marquee powerfu...