. >>> lennie mcallister is a writer and conservative political analyst. lennie, from pittsburgh, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me paul. >> before substance first of all what do you think of lindsay graham talking about the republican party, riffing on donald trump, make a joke about the best way to assassinate ted cruz. >> i don't know about assassinations, i don't go into that. you know what they say about humor, humor is effective when a little bit of truth is wrapped around it, when they say about the authorities going off the rails, there was a little bit of truth with a good sense wrapped around it. >> liability or a lot of truth? lindsay graham is one of the pil larpillars ever republican establishment who thought all bets are off. >> he said marco rubio would have to bbepresident some day ae his support to leadership and statesmanship. he see something like this with chris christie who just a little while ago was literally railing against trump trying not to really antagonize an argument with him but at the same time says this

mcallister show. thank you for being with me. lenny was being more positive, but it seems he's not now, is he? >> positive for donald trump, or positive overall? that's basically the question. positive for donald trump, she's changed the tone. he's seen it hasn't worked with evangelicals in ohio. positive in ohio? no. the gloves are coming off for more of the candidates and donald trump has seen over the last several months he's led in the national polls because he's been so negative, and then, of course, puts his hands in the air and says i don't want to say that anymore, kind of like the p-bomb he had last week. he knows the tactic has worked. he's hoping it will bring in just enough voters to his side to offset the three to four points he lost by in iowa. he saw more of a base that he didn't expect in iowa. he's hoping to add on that from the trump magic. >> i will say the gay marriage issue is probably important like a state in south carolina, and he wants to get ahead of the accusations. >> that's right. cruz is being somewhat shi