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Or scott walker. there was more enthusiasm. in the world of journalism that used to be called news. >> reporter: students here at liberty university are required to attend today's convocation so he should be seeing a pretty large crowd. the student newspaper reported that he actually bumped virginiacall live out of this slot when he wanted to come here and make this announcement. mika? >> kasie, here we go. thank you very much. >> here we go. >> i have a question for the table here. is he the herman kaine? the 999 of this election? is he the, i don't know, rick perry? >> he's the sarah palin. ...

>> jake, that's the key point here. the question is not whether steve scalise is racist. the question is whether staeve scalise knowingly tried to get racist votes. when you're a republican in louisiana in 2002 after a decade before david duke won the republican nomination and even in 1999, scalise was quoted as saying, while david duke was unelectable, they shared some consecutive values. once you make a commitment to the group, you're pandering to a racist element in the state. that's heavy, heavy baggage for a party that knows it needs to reach out to minority voters. steve scalise is well-...

The republican candidates are going to be saying and that the gop base kind of expects out of them. do that on enough issues and then you reach the general election and you're not really electable. so what you're saying is true. it's had a major impact on policy and the effectiveness of institutions in washington, but i think that it's over time just making the republican party more and more unelectable in presidential years. >> brian, someone we haven't talked about a ton but who is likely to have a role in all of this if not a driver's seat role in the clown car, perhaps riding shotgun, is d...

Which the republican party, when you look at its base as opposed to its figureheads, is an increasingly old white party. and they sort of value conservative celebrities that are female or ethnic minorities because they sort of break that impression that the public has. but i think that if you -- if ben carson is on stage in the debates in 2016, he's going to -- it's not going to be that he's going to disavow his claims about obamacare being worse than slavery, he's just going to pull other candidates in his direction. maybe not quite that far, but just make whoever ends up winning that process...

To where there's a tea party challenger who has gained the nomination of the party and has therefore weakened the party's chance to win the race. but it seems like they have avoided the worst possible traps they could have fallen into it and that they have fallen into in the last three successive cycles. >> you know, that's absolutely right, john. and joe, once again, we're not actually disagreeing. we're perhaps looking at different sides of the coin. in fact, yes, the root of the republican party has decided it is tired of throwing away elections on candidates who are unelectable. and so it'...