the video of what skalise said.rplate speech, it's a lot different nan what trent lott said he was supporting what thurman was doing. >> i guess, though frapg, we were in that post eric ericson, the conservative bloger put up saying how kwould you not know it's david duke's event. i guess we're saying this conference occurred in 2002 that duke had come within three-points of making it to a run aif for a congressional seat in louisiana. he made the gubernatorial runoff. in was a guy who definitely had a conservative political con stitch when esill in louisiana. is it plausible with a very ambitious audience wouldn't know who duke was involved with? >> i don't know he didn't know who duke was. i think that there definitely are some questions about whether or not he knew who duke was. that might go down to what his defense is here poor staff work. if he only did have one staff work who is being shuttled from event to event, he wasn't necessarily sure what groups he was speaking to. grant it that is necessarily an excus

he decided to standby skalise, no questions asked. it's also why he helped push michael grim from staten island into retirement last night, too. john boehner's hold has aumgs been very sen e tenuous. this has been a big republican party since he regained power back in the house. the tea party base, they've long viewed him with suspicion. they are on constant guard. and it actually turned out there had been a full-flejed kyle in place to deny him the speaker ship. a cue that fell apart only hours before that vote. his party will soon have more seats when congress comes back next week. there has not been serious talks so far that boehner could face another opening day coup. but that threat, when you're john boehner, that threat is always there. it's always just around the corner. when you're john boeh nrksz er and the tea party base has never trusted you, the threat is always going to lurk. that's the other twist. skalise is trusted by the right far more than john boehne rurks is. joimpbing us now is ed okeafe. i think you get the gist

steve skalise was pretty new. there's not a lot propping him up.cessarily, isn't great. so this is definitely a series e serious cry sisz for him right now. >> so i imagine, at first he said he didn't know. and now i imagine the story is going to be look we had no idea we were talking to anybody. you throw a conference, we're there talking about our tax plan. how plausible is it that he just rolled up to the -- i think, the best western, with no idea what the heck he was addressing? in general, it isn't unheard of. but in this case there's a reaction of disbelief from a lot of plit coles. this is different duke. this is not an absecure figure. this is someone who has an international embarrassment for the united states and else specially for lae la. because he kept winning or running competitive elections in the state. this isn't someone who was, like some obscure french figure. maybe you dchblt know he wrote something on a web site at one time. it seems within two minutes of walking into that hotel, you probably had a good idea what's going on. >>

skalise >> skalise is basically pleadingic no rans. they've got white nationalists on the right. whoever wants to talk to me. >> not quite an apples to apples comparison there. but okay. >> i would agree. >>> but we get this talk with republicans to the changing demographics of america, the voting patterns and you know, this means something. david duke is a vile figure who believes vile things. he talked about the jews and israelis and the 2001 and 9/11 attacks. the guy, kenny knight who is basically his right-hand man is pulling this all together. he's neighbors with skael. skalise, in 1999 talks about huh believes some of the same principles as duke but duke's not electable. this is a problem for the republican party. >> yes, and they know that. and this's why you have to believe, first of all, that leadership had good assurances. there's not going to be assurances that makes us move passed it. but republicans know that these racial fault lines are a big issue for them. and i think in february, when we have the fight over the immigration action by president obama, that's going

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