finances but this is from the miami harold.says and on the allegations about mendez's trips with prostitutes. that is not a right wing blog the miami herald. >> at the daily collar we broke this back in november on the strength of testimonies of two women who were paid to have sex with bob mendez. >> you put it on camera. it is all translated from spanish. we will run some of the video to show that you did do that. >> what really became interesting about this story in the past week is a tipster came forward put documents on the internet including in those documents were the testimony of another woman who said i was 16 when i slept with the senator. that's what made it a bigger story. we have a law in this country with the protect act which makes it a federal felony thougo engan elicit sex acts regardless of where you are in the world or whether it is legal there. prostitution is legal in dominican republic. over the age of 18 but it's legal. what seems to be getting him in trouble is two things that he may have slept with an un

in florida, the republican house speaker told the miami harold, it is like wins in the three quarterse rules of the game, we need to get better. seems we need to bring them into the party versus trying to change the game. joining me is joy reid to talk about the game. good to see you. >> great to see you too, ezra. >> this does not seem healthy for the republican party right now. i mean, it seems healthy that some of their key members are rejecting it. but figuring out what in your party they need to change to be more appealing to the electorate. >> you know what, you're right, it is a capitulation. the republican party maxed out the white vote, their goal was to get 60%, they actually did better than that. but because of the shifting demographics of the country, president obama only needed to see the percentage of the vote that is nonwhite be 28%, because about every four years we're getting 2% more of the electorate is nonwhite. so you had for president obama a threshold where he could lose 60% of the white vote and still win the election. republicans can respond in other ways, sayi