everything sean spicer said, i don't think you're stuffy, sean, yes -- >> i think he heard you. >> yes, i think there's an echo chamber. >> yeah. >> i just think it seems everything that priebus laid out in this report is what you do when you've learned the lessons of taking a pretty bad loss in 2012. >> jackie, you know, the cpac straw poll, we had senator rand paul, 25%. marco rubio just a couple points behind him. rick santorum at 8:00%. chris christie, 7%. he didn't speak there. was the filibuster that rand paul, that he pulled off, did that elevate him and his name and his brand here? >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, rand paul was expected to win this straw poll. his father had won it two years -- two years in a row but the filibuster, the 13-hour filibuster he did two weeks ago really brought him into his own. it was over the drone strikes. there's a certain libertarian faction of the republican party that have really embraced him in his own right now. we'll see another rand paul sweep, who nose. >> lynn, we have cpac over the weekend, has the republican party reached that come

. >> joining me now, sean spicer welcome from the rnc. as we all know and as we covered, that tape arguably made it a lot harder for mitt romney to win the election and reemerges as romney publicly reemerges to a crowd. the guy behind this, scott prouty, he's a regular guy, an independent. he's not tied to any political organization. in your estimation from the rnc's standpoint, how much do the comments continue to haunt romney and the party? >> well, there's no question, they're not helpful. i mean, governor romney said so much. part of the reason that we're moving forward and, again, i think what we can't do is not learn lessons from what happened in november. not only in the presidential election but throughout the entire party. that's what we've been focused on doing, ha do we need to do better in unquestionably comment like that don't help us. we have been focused on trying to figure out what's the way forward, messaging, tone, demographics, the whole spectrum, if you will of what it's going to take to grow our party and win more ele

. >> joining me now with more, sean spicer, communications director for the rnc. nk you, craig. good afternoon. happy st. patrick's day. >> happy st. patrick's day to you as well. good to see you in your green. you guys had a task force to speak with people all over the country, in order to try to figure out how the rnc could improve. what was the most common gripe that you found, that people had in the wake of the 2012 election? >> well, as you pointed out, we spoke to 51,000 people throughout the country, and frankly, there was no common theme, there was no magic bullet that said, if you did this, you would have won. i think what we found was there was a lot of things, there's a messaging piece, a mechanics piece, a datas piece, a ground game operations piece, all of which we have to work on to be a better party and to grow. so we're going to look at -- we recognized all of those areas are problems and we're going to present a series of solutions tomorrow morning on how the party can address each of them and grow. >> you said messaging there was one of the proble

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sean spicer made an important point. that is the way government used to work. he is right. that is the way government is supposed to work but both parties are responsible for the total dysfunction. 16 years since the house and senate passed a budget and went to a comrchs committee. he is right about schoolhouse rocks but unfortunately our own members of congress and both parties lost track how they are supposed to do their job so they don't do conference committees any more. wonderful if we could get back to that world but not where we are and both parties are to blame. look. as we we have this conversation on a friday morning we wasted last week. republicans making their case and president making his case separately. not talking to each other. the president only called this meeting hours before the deadline. as soon as the meeting is over the president will within a couple of hours sign the paper work necessary to implement these cuts and see what happens in the next 72 hours and pick this up next week sometime. as americans are frustrated with this, this week was wasted a

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