they don't listen to him any more than they listen to raince priebus. i want to give read what he said. he did respond immediately quickly to what young said and he said, congressman young's remarks are offensive, beneath the dignity of the office he holds, i don't care why he said it there's no excuse and it warrants an immediate apology. they're responding correctly. but the problem is the elites aren't necessarily who is listened to. >> and this is the danger. first of all in terms of the cues of well that person is older, that's not so much of an excuse any more. we teach little kids not to say offensive words or use bad language. so the old excuse about someone -- that doesn't really hold water any more. but the fact is in this type of society we live in where especially among hispanics, the growing hispanic electorate. all of these statements are being made. which is the one statement that the average person will hear about? the wetback statement. they won't hear about boehner's rebuttal. that's the only thing the tag line that people will hear an

and others, like raince priebus, for political expediency. chairman of the gop which drafted the gop platform last summer is now arguing for inclusion. >> i know our principles and i know our parties believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. but i also know we have a party that's going to be inclusive and is going to listen to people and is going to allow differences of opinion in our party. >> but if certain voices seem intent to move forward on civil rights, the party's right flank is digging in its heels. >> young conservatives, 30 and under, 35 and under, gay marriage, all that matters. homosexual marriage. if the party makes that something official, that they support, they're not going to pull the homosexual activist voters away from the democrat party. but they are going to -- cause their base to stay home. and throw their hands up in utter frustration. >> similar frustration was echoed by evangelicals and social conservatives. family reform council president tony perkins has wrote this week, raince priebus's has decided t

chairman raince priebus, even just this morning said we're not going to continue 20 deliberate on someold social issues that have continued to divide the republican party and that we're not going to use a draconian or old-testament version of this specific issue. to guide the compassion and the tolerance that the republican party needs to exhibit towards the gay and lesbian community. we are moving at a very quick pace. and being out here in california and seeing, you know the shifts that we've had here at the california republican party, you know we've got a lot of champions working at a lot of different levels in conservative movement. as we saw with rob portman, it's okay to be a republican and express your values. >> you mentioned rob portman and ken mehlman, who came out as gay himself. and rob portman, whose son is gay and dick cheney, who has a daughter who is gay. does it frustrate you or hearten you that it seems to be republicans if they have a personal family member coming across on this issue. but those in the broad republican party, who don't have a son or a relative in th

marriage across the country, in a way wouldn't that rev up the evangelical base that let's face it, raince priebusey would have a reason to be hopeful and active again? >> i think it would be good for the republican party. but i don't think it would be good for the party. i think this is the kind of thing, where if you look at something like roev. wade, america is moving toward the consensus and you step in and say five people said note, this is it. and you rev up people who otherwise would have been putting energy into the political process. might have lost. >> what's the alternative? should the five people don't have an opinion? they don't act? i mean -- they're doing it, what's the other -- >> go ahead. >> i mean it's a matter of when they do it. clearly, the supreme court doesn't want to deal with the issue of same-sex marriage and constitutionality. and all of that. if prop 8 is struck down, it's not going to be struck down because they feel that there should be a right to mayory. it's going to be on the fact that fact whether the folks bringing the case have standing. if doma falls, you get

and meanwhile, the blame game, the republican party chairman, raince priebus took a thinly veiled shotpredecessor in trying to explain what went wrong for the gop. >> for quite a while when we walked into the inc, both credit cards of the rnc were suspended. this is before i walked in. now just think about this for a second. if you got one of two of the biggest national political parties in the world, that has both credit cards suspended. >> are you saying that former chairman steele ruined the party or at least the rnc financially? >> i'm not going to go there. listen, i think the numbers speak for themselves. >> they speak for themselves. and joining me now is former republican chairman and current msnbc analyst, michael steele. michael, he took a real shot at you. he said basically that you bankrupted the rnc. maxed out the credit cards and that that was the problem and that's the blame game. >> and i won and he didn't. and the bottom line is -- >> you won in the elections -- >> i won in the elections, i had to win in 2009. christie and bob mcdonald in blue states. like new jersey,

. >> people wearing war paint the raince priebus document is just full of incredible nuggets in terms of what they think they need to do. one of them is the minority vote. and what remains unclear is let's say they move on gay marriage. let's say they have a more progressive immigration stance. does that actually win them black voters? right? they're like dispatching teams of minority outreach people to presumably brooklyn to get back voters on board. and i will read this -- >> they will spend all $10 million right in brooklyn. >> but in the "daily beast" this nail it is it, republican probably overestimate the traction thooerl get from changing the color and accents of their pitchmen. the gop's assumption that while its voters are motivated by ideology, latino racial affinity. >> put tim scott in brooklyn and everyone in brooklyn is going to vote for the republican. i think they are overestimating that. black people, minorities, asians, latinos, vote based on policy and the document doesn't address policy. i also think republicans underestimate vastly, the deep-seated resentment of t

it's been repudiated now by the speaker and in the last hour, by the head of the rnc, raince priebus. >> i think his comments are disgraceful, obviously and i don't think his explanation makes very much sense. but on the immigration issue, you know in the 2012 campaign, mitt romney was the first republican nominee in our lifetime to oppose comprehensive immigration reform. you can't as the rnc proposal says, you can't lay out now outreach programs, that's not going to fix it, that's a band-aid. they have more fundamental problem which is on the major issues of the day, immigration, climate change, jobs, taxes. the republican party is out of the mainstream and that's why they lost women voters by 11 points. that's why they lost youth voters you know by historic number. that's why 71% of latino voters voted for the president. and i don't think an outreach program is going to fix it it's a policy program. it's a mainstream political problem and i think that if they follow the recommendations of this report they're going to have more problems in the future. >> i want to ask you about ofa.