california local party embraces. i believe that that's what lost us our standing in california. and donald trump is a perfect example for that. he went back to the basics, went back to personal, family values and people rallied. >> but it didn't work in california? >> well, you've got to remember, california, we knew we weren't going to win it. even in our county we made over, oh, gosh. a million and a half phone calls. none in california. >> you were calling to other states? >> other states, yeah. >> but still the party is still a minority. do you want to grow the party or rather sort of ideologically pure? >> no, no. we need to grow the party and compromise as part of that. we all need to work together, but i think we're going to see in '17 and '18 more people coming to the trump side in california. >> when you say you should compromise. what should be compromised over? >> well -- i don't know if kprap micomprome is the right word. we need to embrace other neem before -- our room today when we had our meeting we had a lot of former democrats in there. and historically republicans would not emb