i want to ask haley barbour about that who is a former rnc chairman. regarding the house and senate, we have senator johnson coming on, a leader in the senate from wisconsin, they're not getting stuff done the way i'd like to see gem ththem get it done but again that's the rules. you vote, you elect, you have legislation and it may not be what i want, what you want, but that's the way it works out and it's a pretty darn good system. >> and at points of high tumult and change where there are philosophical struggles within the republican party as there are within the democratic party, fighting for the soul of the party, you would expect to see some of this let me call it untidiness. >> look, this whole -- >> or dysfunction. >> if you buy the polls, polls are the polls, there's great anger, angst, and crankiness and unhappiness by the voters, particularly the base of the republican party, at what's going on, and you're seeing that. that is being reflected and there are divisions, and the primaries ultimately -- >> let me ask you, i believe it was karl rov

. >> i'm joined right now by msnbc's haley barbour out in milwaukee. thank you so much for -- halley jackson, not halley barbour. halley, it's live tv. you're the new kid on the block. let me ask you this, isn't it dangerous for a republican candidate, in a very conservative year, to be attacking an opponent, in this case, bush attacked rubio, for being too tough on abortion. >> this is something that could potentially, chris, play very well with the gop primary voters. like the folks who are actually going out and caucusing and casting ballots in this republican race. what's interesting about this times piece, too, it's essentially telegraphing bush's line of attack or bush's allies' line of attack. this is something we saw the last debate when jeb bush and his team televised the fact they were going to come after marco rubio on senate votes. that allowed the rubio team to prepare for that and to be able to have an attack line ready if that moment or that opportunity came up. so i wouldn't be surprised to see something potentially similar tonight. >>