variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds were most likely to be the leaders whether it is tim scott or marco rubiorian sandoval, these are people who e wide looked at bipartisan fashion. with that as for theoleaders in america. they're all republicans. gerri: it is really fascinating. this to say about the selection. >> while i get this minority female, that is at everybody wants to talk about, i want to remind everybody h earned this for the person he is, he earned proven and he will continue to earn it for the leadershileadershi p that he showed. gerri: what do you think of the street credit? speak of the fact he is an articulate and forceful proponent of small government conservatism and an avatar of the tea party movement itself secondarily is he brings bring some level of diversity. the look of the kind of things about tim scott entered congress, who are the people who really have been looking at, the most likely leaders to emerge from this class? well the first people named from the very beginning. the way he makes the argument. gerri: his background fascining. he was not successful right aw

we have marco rubio emerges as the front-runner for g.o.p. leadership in 2014 or beyond. we have tim scott being appointed to replace jim demint but you take a careful look at these positions, at least in two examples, phillip almost exactly the same. john boehner's negotiating on the fiscal cliff which looks a lot like it did on the debt ceiling, a year and a half two years ago. we have a lot of discussion on the right about how things need to change but we don't have a lot of fundamental change they can this stage of the proceedings. >> eliot: ben, when i look at the pivot point issues of the election, it was same-sex marriage, it was immigration. it was perhaps if there was one question, should marginal rates on wealthy go up and every one of those questions in the debate we're having right now seems to be going in the direction of the president. >> i think the problem you have is at least in the house republican caucus, they don't view the election results the same way that you do, the same way that the president does. they see that the president won solidly. they retained their house