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Monarch, and the only thing standing between him and a truly powerful president to get his agenda done, is a training montage. and the reason you hear is that he could just use the bully pulpit. the president can move congress directly or he can move the american people to get them to get the congress to move. the mind meld is from star trek, mr. president. the fact that half of washington thinks he does have a jedi mind trick, i dock them ten points, we actually have the evidence on this, political scientist after political scientist has studied it. and here is the truth. the bully pulpit mos...

This level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when you're in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be 2% less white in 2016 than it was in 2012, which was 2% less white than it was in 2008. so the republican party is going to have to figure out how to talk to this community through a prism of...

This level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when you're in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be 2% less white in 2016 than it was in 2012, which was 2% less white than it was in 2008. so the republican party is going to have to figure out how to talk to this community through a prism of...

With stop saying "send them all back" and "anchor babies", does that mean that we are beyond this level of advice? >> well, the first rule of hole digging is when you're in one, stop digging. so there are some encouraging signs on the republican side. and i think people are waking up to the political reality that the republican party will never again win a presidential election if we stay on the trend line that we have been on since 2004 with hispanic voters in the country. the electorate will be 2% less white in 2016 than it was in 2012, which was 2% less white than it was in 2008. so the rep...

Notion, that description. i think that's absolutely wrong. that is not -- i don't think that that represents where we are as a party and where we're going as a party. >> we're in a big hole. we're not getting out of it by comments like that. when you're in a hole, stop digging. he keeps digging. >> your response to this. do you think this is analysis on an issue or is this a change in tone or tenor going forward? >> it's a necessary change in tone. there's no reason to look back to 2012 and belaying anyone for the loss. what they're going to do is take lessons from it. don't forget, still got ...