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Arguments that change minds. so how bad has this polarization gotten in the last 20 years? according to pugh in 1994 there was a great deal of ideological overlap in the two parties. 36% of republican voters were more liberal than the typical democrat and 30% of democrats were more conservative than the typical republican. just 8% of republicans and 6% of democrats were more conservative than the liberals of the opposite party and guess what? we've seen the same shift on elected officials. based on the initial analysis of voting records, there were 137 house members who fell in the ideological...

Senator sanders at one time contending for the democratic nomination himself was asked about whether or not he thinks trump will be a legitimate president and his answer was he will be inaugurated on friday. not exactly taking a hard line position on this. puts democrats in a strange place. >> senator sanders said the controversy was just words. so he was given an invitation to declare trump illegitimate and he did not go there. right now we have around 40 house democrats who say they'll boycott the inauguration and that just happens to be about the size of the left-most wing of the house demo...

Don't. he was really the only one of any consequence that went after me. and a couple of little shots. his whole thing was about going after me. i thought it was inappropriate. >> now, would i be unfair to say to you, which i would if we were at a yankee game,x+;x hey, calling senator rubio a clown was not presidential? >> >> no, i don't think you would be unfair. i have to tell you how that all started. i was getting along with him perfectly fine. two weeks ago. i don't reallyx know him. all of a sudden he attacks me about nothing but really attacked me quite viciously and i fought back. i to...

Cheney. he's the same dick cheney throughout history and had one of the most consistent voting records and still would be judged so today on that and is very proud of that. but after 9/11 he recognized the united states needed to put itself on a war footing and did so and george w. bush did so and they are very proud of the fact that america was not hit again in his administration. >> i know your books are concurrent, but did you hear if he was hurt on the comments that george bush sr. did steering us down this path? >> george bush sr. had this path of criticizing his successors in office. geo...

With that tea party hard line conservative base. ted cruz made a name by being that hard line conservative. he is the unflinching that doesn't move to bring democrats and republicans closer together. he led the fight that shutdown the government. that is one of his most famous moments and the filibuster of reading "green eggs and ham" on the senate floor. marco rubio has conservative ratings from the conservative groups that look at voting records and positions on abortion. he is not in favor of exceptions for that some candidates are in favor of. on the issue of immigration, he was one of the...