ron kaufman, will donald trump be the republican nominee?unclear. >> ed -- >> probably not. >> that's one word so okay. ed, go ahead. yes or no. >> questionable. >> questionable. >> in the air, we got to keep it going for good tv. >> three guys unsure. >> for you and for me it's good tv. >> certainly. mark, ron kaufman, ed, thank you gentleman, appreciate it. >>> while the power brokers try to broker a convention, there are two candidate whose can actually win this thing and mitt romney who people were trying to draft just announced he'll vote for ted cruz in tuesday's utah caucuses and he encouraged others to do the same. that has to be good news for my next guest that joined ted cruz' national finance team and thinks taking away the nomination from anything is a bad idea. neal brush, sibling of jeb. neal, thank you for being here. what do you make of my previous guests not enbracing ted cruz. what do you read into that? >> i think it's very early in the process and i have great respect for all three of your guests. ron kaufman has been an

>> ron kaufman, if donald trump is the nominee and he wins, he owns.his party becomes one in his image. what if trump is the nominee and is defeated badly by hillary or by bernie? my thought is that there will be a big dispute as to what the lesson was. what would the lesson be? >> well, the same lesson we learned in '64. it's a cyclical party like all parties, just like the democrats did with mcgovern. i think we'll be fine and i don't think it's going to happen. i think we'll win in november and hold the senate in november and we're a majority party and i think we'll continue to be the majority party. >> i mean, i always hear about if it's ted cruz, you know, we get to run the experiment. what happens when you run a pure conservative, is that what we need? a la ronald reagan, a la "w"? or do you need more bridge building? would cruz resolve in that respect? >> his candidacy is based on the notion there are a lot of voters out there who haven't had a pure conservative candidate. he says let's try it. we haven't done it in a long time. let's put out a

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. >> the most telling comment out of all of that came from ron kaufman who acknowledged donald trump six perfect representatives of the establishment, that's who they were. i mean, these are guys who have been around washington a long, long time, worked for reagan, worked for bush, worked for john mccain. if you had to pick the six top people to represent the establishment, that's who they'd pick. >> if you were casting a dramatic version of the establishment, it would look like that, guys sitting in a dark room. >> jon meacham, we've been talking about precedent. if he gets the delegate count all he has going for him is a lot of votes. [ laughter ] what -- i don't know what the other options are and why anybody would have the gal to put some out there. >> well, this is this old democratic -- lower case "d" principle -- called "the majority is to govern." [ laughter ] and i know that's complicated and i hate to throw a physical problem at you at this hour. >> here we go again. >> sorry. but it's kind of a basic principle of political physics and that's -- i think you're right. i thin