senator, he was endorsed by senator o'connell and senator cornyn, and then marco rubio had senator jim dementhat was huge for him. mike huckabee was also really big. there was something else i came across in talking with a lot of people. around that time when senator dement and when mike huckabee were publicly coming out for marco rubio, there were a whole lot of establishment republicans and many of them spoke to me about this confidentially who had gun to have doubts about crist, and they were very quietly moving over into the marco rubio camp, and they were trying to figure out a way to sort of publicly distance them from crist, but they had to do it slowly and methodically. >> greta: do people in florida like him? he's a national figure, but take me back to his early days when he was running even as a representive. the people of florida, do the democrats like him? can he work with people? >> yeah. it's interesting because in talking to people, i found that there was a pattern with marco rubio, and i came to think of it as almost an apprentice. marco rubio is the kind of guy who when you m