they were am cures at this stuff compared to the ron paul people t. n paul campaign did go on to twiek 22 of the 25 delegates. they were not fooled, they were not dissuaded. they were not storm tracker 2000ed. they stuck it out. that was nothing compared to oklahoma t. oklahoma state convention that year turned into a street fight. >> reporter: we are told police had to get involved when a 70-year-old mitt romney supporter punched a ron paul supporter in the head after they disagreed on the vote. most of the contention was captured on cell phone video. >> reporter: the video you are watching has been recorded by a woman who says she was just hit in the back. >> with a fist to my back. yes, she most certainly did. >> and a woman struck me with her fist in the mild of my spine and said it's your own dam fault r. these weren't the only commotions. this ron paul supporter says she was e he was hit in the head by a 70-year-old mitt romney supporter. >> after he got done, moved onto the important business that everyone is here for, instead of wasting time on

ron paul. it was actually the opposite. .t was an orchestrated in fact, the changing of the rules right before the convention, that was something the media put under the carpet. ron paul campaign was certainly organize and make sure they had all their delegates organized in 2012. this is going to be very important. they need people to run for delegate slots. they need to make sure those people remain loyal to them. host: you can read his reporting at national journal.com and also follow him on twitter. guest: thanks for being with us. guest:thank you. >> live every day with policies that impact you. coming up on sunday morning. he will join us to talk about the congressional elections. henderson -- wade henderson will join us to discuss the nomination of chief garland to the vacant seat on the supreme court and the history of nominating and voting to the high court. hart who will talk about the efforts to bring attention to poverty. c-span to watch washington journal beginning. join the discussion. on the communicators. bring broadband the fcc is expected to take of the proposal at the end of m

ron paul endeded up with 6% of the vote in the primary. look at this, he ended up with 40% of the delegates once he got to t t convention. and this happened last night in louisiana. there is a way to elect supportive of cruz, if you're the cruz campaign, to deny trump this. then it does undermine what steve was talking about. >> i think what we'll have here is a period where the candidates will really be looked at more closely, more closely than before, because there's fewer of them. you'll have a different threshold for it. i think there will be a lot of pressure for donald trump to believe as a frontrunner, someone who could lead a party. people would have had second thoughts about getting into a convention with john edwards. we'll have to see how these candidates perform under these test. >> steve, it seems as if, mitch mcconnell is sticking by the nominee, paul ryan, who some people believe right now is t titular head of the republican party given his position, he's getting criticized this morning the "time saying, hey, where are you, you could make a difference. >> a lot of the republican leaders may come to a momen