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Surprised by how quickly whitaker has ascended to that job in washington? >> not necessarily. i think it's consistent with the way trump has run his administration which is it's very much a top-down thing. he promised to bring in outsiders and kind of that's what he's doing. i think a lot of people in washington feel comfortable with people who have more of a pedigree within washington. leland: sessions certainly did. >> and whitaker does not. he was the u.s. attorney in iowa. he is a well respected lawyer. people that i know a that know him say he's a good guy. leland: this discussion of the ...

Supports which candidate. that's the way we look at the tea party. it's not really a top down thing. it's a mindset. it's a mentality. it's true, the idea of entrechment. there are policies, and immigration is one of them. this is definitely a situation where i think you can say well, cantor's fingerprints weren't all over the senate bill, but you have a republican base responding to what they're hearing. there's a window that's about to open up. all cantor has to do is win the primary, and all republicans have to do is put this on the floor and 30 republicans will vote for it and immigration ...

Kind of old, tired brand of republicanism that's lost the last two presidential elections. but, then, you know, you see the statement this afternoon and i guess breaking up is hard to do with reagan. >> well, and to me that's what made this a much more interesting story. so see somebody who knows hard truths about the reagan legacy. things that are true about what happened in that era and will be willing to tell them until he wants to move up. and then it's just, you've got to get in line on this issue or you're really not allowed to be taken seriously in republican politics. it makes me wonde...