where does trump stand now?hire early in the primary process and i found a lot of people who were sort of embarrassed but they were embarrassed about the fact this they kind of were interested in him. he was just tap nothing an anti-obama sent.and an anti-washington sentiment but he never had any coherent ideas. never had any coherent ideas. he is a self-promoter around something of a clown. his past is not conservative to any stretch of the imagination. i'm embarrassed that any conservatives from cpac were cheering for him. hopefully he was cheering for his jokes or obama. a long record of being a developer who takes away people's land. pro-choice until it became politically good to be pro-life. gave more money to democrats than republicans over his life. i think he ought to go back to that party, go back to the democrats, the conservative movement, the republican party would be glad to see him go. >> michael medved, i am heaping that you will defend mr. trump. >> i won't defend mr. trump, because i think he wa

not something most people can identify with. >> right, but he -- so did donald trump earlier. >> trumpas absurd. trump comes in there, nobody's there in the morning, of course, to see him. a problem in both problems if you have it, authenticity. i think rom sney is a business guy, teaching others how to do it. a philosophy based on his own practice of making money and wants to keep the american system very much like it was when they made all this money. pretty simple. when he talks philosophical beliefs, this stuff, come on. we don't believe it. i want to give you something from the last romney appearance. here's romney's previous appearances at cpac, showcased awkward moments. his problem with the conservative base last year was on full display last year when this ad-lib comment came out of his mouth. let's watch. >> i fought against odds in a deep blue state, but i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> those words do not strike me as authentic. >> wait a minute. >> severely conservative? what is that? painfully? >> what does that mean? >> disgustingly? what does it mean

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and the scene from donald trump's speech this morning.'s just say, it wasn't standing room only. how about seating room plenty? here's a question. if it's a bad sign if you spend your cpac speech, is it, trying to point out what's craziest? enter wayne lapierre, ceo of the nra. >> if you're not free to protect yourself when government puts its thumb on the freedom. they can call me crazy or anything else they want. and they say we're crazy? that's crazy. crazy. crazy. it's as if sanity, itself, has been sequestered in washington. >> crazy. that's the word he likes. that's what we're hearing. see what i mean? >>> finally this week in conspiracy theories, is ben affleck a secret undercover government operative as in the present day version of character he played in movie "argo" that came out this year? the iranian government is not pleased with affleck's oscar winning movie which tells of the escape of six americans during the iranian hostage crisis. this week an iranian news agency gave an american conspiracy theorist a chance to discredit

. >> already seen donald trump. >> donald trump, he's nothing. >> mitch mcconnell. >> conservatives were never meant to be part of the cry baby caucus. >> the gop identity crisis on full display. >> case of the old versus the new. >> we don't need a new idea. there is an idea, it is called america. >> the gop of old is steal. >> i remain haunted by the experience of the 2012 campaign. >> i am tired of the hammering. >> how does the party move forward. >> as someone that lost the last election. >> start with mitt romney. improbable not in the best position to chart the course. >> cpac not strongly supportive of romney. >> i left the race disappointed i didn't win. it is up to make sure we learn from mistakes, my mistake. >> if mitt made one mistake, he didn't talk enough about his success. >> guess what, i made a lot of money, i have been very successful. i am not going to apologize for that. >> how stupid is that? >> there's a certain schizophrenia in the party. >> we can't keep doing what we're doing. >> opinions are all over the map. >> i reject pessimism. >> the can yulturculture. >>

not something most people can identify with. >> right, but he -- so did donald trump earlier. >> trumpd. trump comes in there, nobody's there in the morning, of course, to see him. and he says the problem romney had, no one else would have thought of this, he didn't brag enough about being rich. >> yeah. >> how can he make a message? flaunt it. he started off by saying, hey, i made $8 billion, why doesn't this guy brag about it more? that was his political advice. donald trump. >> if you take political advice from donald trump, you're going to be in worse shape than when you started out. i mean, there's no question about that. but, look, i don't think -- i don't think romney showed any move toward moderation in his remarks today. i listened to the whole thing, and, you know, it was the same old romney. it was the, you know, the usual sonorous cliches about america. i mean, one of the things that was striking about his remarks was that he, again, was sort of extolling america's military adventures abroad. the week of the anniversary of the iraq, you know, huge mistake, for him to do tha

and donald trump goes, "a floating head!? that's great!"a. >> and everyone else sits silently. >> jimmy: where's lisa, mary-lou, your team -- like, no one said anything. you're just sitting there going like, all right let's think about this. and everyone's like, let's not think about. floating head. then, i got really tricky and then i go, "oh, that's it, dee's going home." >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i was a dead man. dead man walking. >> jimmy: i was bummed out. >> and i'm faked bummed, like i said. >> jimmy: yeah, i know -- but i'm genuinely happy to come back -- that you came back. >> it's an odd show though, because when you get fired, you still get paid. >> jimmy: is that right? >> yeah, it's great. >> jimmy: that's kind of fantastic. you got to want that. [ cheers and applause ] dee, i wanted to give you a little chance to get back at donald trump. what we do is, even though donald trump fired you, we thought we'd let you turn the tables tonight and fire him. so, here's how it's gonna work, we're gonna give you a donald trump digi-wig. -- a

now to the issue of donald trump. boosted your ticket sales. could it be overshadowed by his birther talk? let's take a listen to trumpy. >> i would like to have him show his birth certificate, and can i be honest with you? i hope he can. because if he can't, if he can't, and if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility -- i'm not saying -- i'm saying it's a real possibility. much greater than i thought two or three weeks ago. then he has pulled one of the great cons in the history of politics. >> a lot of people want to see his college transcripts. they're not looking at his marks, his grades, was he a good student? they want to see, what does he say about place of birth? >> there's another participate of yours at the cpac convention you're hosting and inviting people to. texas congressman louie gohmert, a co-sponsor of the house birther view. here's how "the new york times" described him saying "mr. gohmert has compared homosexuality to bestiality, endorsed a column likening barack obama's presidency to adolf hitler's dictat

cpac's invitation to donald trump led michelle malkin to tweet, cpac is dead. the conservative editors of the washington examiner who are actually co-sponsoring the event write, cpac flouts conservatism's rich intellectual tradition by inviting such a trans parent crackpot, a celebrity huckster with no history as a conservative and no knowledge of conservatism. virginia governor bob mcdonald as well as the most popular governor in the country, governor chris christie. that promoted one of the cpac's scheduled speakers to say this. >> i don't know what the purpose of cpac is anymore. i don't know how they define who gets to come in and who doesn't get to come in. my sense is that the board is not very open and not very clear about whether it's personality decisions or what they're thinking. you can say, well, chris christie is invited for x, but you can also look at his record on controlling spending and reform, new jersey government and say, he has a story to tell that's pretty interesting, and for a northeastern governor in a heavily unionized state is pretty

goes -- [ as trump ] "la toya, who are you bringing back with you?"ack with you?" and you say dennis and -- and brande. >> brande, yes. shame on me. yes, i did. >> jimmy: i was like -- and arsenio hall was, like, a guest. >> oh, he was so surprised. >> jimmy: he was like, what? [ laughter ] and i was like, "wait. i don't get this at all. why not -- why didn't you bring omarosa?" >> i kept saying over and over -- "i'm getting her back. if i lose, i'm bringing her back. i'm bringing her back." >> jimmy: but the whole team had your back. >> i was bringing her back, and then, she started those crocodile tears. and i thought donald bought it. >> jimmy: he did. >> i go, "oh, my god, if he bought that, he's not going to fire her. what do i do now?" it's like a catch-22 for me. do you understand that? >> jimmy: if i'm in that room, i guess. yeah, because watching at home, you're like, "this is a no-brainer." >> jimmy, i tell you, that room is so much pressure when you're there. especially at the board room and you're about to be fired and you have to bring so

they are more like donald trump.t this point, the core of their party are people whose core value is resentment. resentment against immigrants. resentment against minorities. and holding on to this economic philosophy that says give more and more tax breaks to the rich and the poor are bums. if they can't change that core problem, they can't add to the republican party. because most americans don't think that way. >> picking up on what you said -- >> chris, i want to add -- i would add to what joy said is even if the core isn't a majority of republicans, that base dominates their thinking. best example, the senate judiciary vote on universal background check. 93% of americans and all 8 republican senators voted against it. they know better. they're afraid of their base. until they can stand up to that base, until they can say to that base, look, we need a broader look at this and we're not going to kowtow to you on every issue. until they can do that, they're going to be a minority party. >> you mean by the base, peo

trump of curing socialized malkin and calling ms. malkin, mr. trump shot back.e and because this is donald trump. he then sent out another message calling ms. malkin stupid and ms. malkin writes back saying mr. trump doesn't like women he can't control. mr. trump expects women to be like beyonce and bow down. so, karen, isn't this the kind of positive outreach to women that the gop autopsy was recommending. >> absolutely. and it is the kind of big ideas and big thinking that conservatives, obviously donald trump was considering running for president. so these are the kind of big ideas that i guess we can expect from conservatives for over the next couple of years. >> yes. excellent. now, crystal, we did see reince priebus earlier today on "morning joe" and he was talking about re-branding the republican party and he said it's moving along great, yet on the very same day in north dakota, the republican-controlled state legislature has passed a so-called amendment which would virtually outlaw abortion in that state by defining life as starting at the point of conc

it's not all the messages of trump.dea our president snuck into this country and pretended to be who he is. and it's all a fraud. i think that's dangerous talk to. >> i think it's worth adding how -- >> one of the things we're seeing here on both sides of the political spectrum and it's important to recognize that, we certainly have a risk towards more of the extreme right wing. >> who on the left is talking nutty right now? >> charles barron is talking nutty from the left. the truthers are talking nutty from the left. we have the people with anonymous, with all kinds of conspiracy theories. one thing i think is important and that is conspiracy theories and the decoupling from our democracy occurring on both sides of the political spectrum. saying bush was the antichrist as is obama possibly. >> i don't buy that it's symmetric here. there are more birthers than truthers. >> that's right. the idea there's an equivalency of the far left and far right i think is ridiculous. i agree with brian on that there are conspiracy t

but they do have donald trump, a birther.tells you the republican party doesn't feel that they have a problem with who they are, they feel, yeah, we got some marketing problems but they like who they are. they like being the party of the john birch society because they're invited. they don't want to reach out to gay and lesbian people, because they're not invited. this is the pear being itself without the handlers telling them what to do. >> dana, when i looked at the time break-down, because i do -- congress is not too many conservative ones. so you kind of look at these things. this is very interesting because it shows the mess they're in. rick santorum gets seven minutes. paul ryan and marco rubio get 11 minutes apiece. bobby jindal and rand paul, rick perry, scott auguwalker get 13 minutes apiece. how about this, donald trump gets 14 minutes. and sarah palin, yes, sarah palin, gets 16 minutes. the keynote speaker, senator ted cruz, for 33 minutes. and chris christie, the most popular republican in the country, not even in

and they're saying, donald trump he's nothing. >> oh, mr. trump, i would never say you are nothing.ou are quite something, indeed. joining us now from the center of this three-ring circus. anna marie cox, correspondent for "the guardian." with us, msnbc political analyst, professor michael eric dyson. anna marie, you've been right there at the heart of it. all. i hope you've had time to catch your breath after mitt romney's blistering heart-stopping speech this afternoon. what have been the highlights today at the gaylord hotel? do tell us. >> actually, mitt romney's speech was interesting. i guess actually, you know what, it really says something that mitch mcconnell was the one who really brought energy to cpac. i think that, you know, yesterday had a lot of energy when rand paul was here. he really got people on their feet. today his has been more sedate, even though it's more people that are supposedly running for president in 2016. actually i just want to point out, behind me, it was really, really empty about 15 minutes ago because the panel was about outreach to minority and

they are inviting donald trump. >> when you mention trump and sarah palin.bble-rousers rather than a spiritual place where deep thought can happen, and that's fine. they'll get the headlines, and they'll sell a few tickets, but what's worrying for anyone with serious national aspirations of the republican party is that this is alarmingly close to the mainstream. that's the problem. >> well, there are sure to be big tweets if not big thoughts of donald trump. >> are you going to be there? >> i'm not going to be there. i think they've built a wall to prevent me from being there. i will see you tomorrow at noon eastern when i'm joined by former obama deputy campaign manager stephanie cut ar, chris hayes, melissa harris perry, and kim, and buzz feed's ben smith. until then, you can find us at facebook.com/now with alex. andrea mitchell reports is next. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your ban

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donald trump is the main speaker of the event. that should say it all.he tone was set very early on, reverend. they closed the door on groups like go proud, on republicans that have a strong stand on immigration. so the tone was set very early on that they weren't going to open up their tent to everyone within the republican party because frankly to move forward we need to have donald trump. i mean, heaven forbid we need to have the donald trumps, go proud, independence. everyone should be a part of a group like this and it was sad to watch this all play out. for the most part, i didn't hear a lot of new ideas. we mentioned that this was a time where people should be talking about new ideas for the republican party in the 21st century. fram frankly, i thought rubio presented a worst case for that. he didn't really talk about evolving on any issues. he didn't even bring up immigration. the one i was most surprised with was rand paul. he was talking about banks too big to fail. there was a lack of ideas overall. >> now, dana, one of the things that was int

mitt romney, sarah palin, donald trump. people irrelevant so far as the party. >> obviously they're irrelevant. i want tickets to all of them. >> john: that's why they're not irrelevant. >> there is a difference between a freak show and being politically relevant. bob mcdonald is relevant in the sense that he could appeal to some people but not necessarily a serious candidate in 2016. he would not sell tickets. but he is relevant. >> john: i think it's going to come down to who is as good of a public speaker as hillary clinton in 2016. that's w

then as now there were people that thought that market forces or surveys should trump internal equity, trump a policy of eliminating discrimination and those people did float the idea and shot down quickly by their own side because everybody knows that a two tier means you're not paying equal pay for equal work. how can you have comparable worth and for work of comparable value if you're under cutting the basics? so we never put it in our record at that time. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] next up i would like to call up nicky callahan, dr. callahan from the department of human resources. >> good afternoon supervisors. nicky callahan, human resources director. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today and i am pleased to see some sold colleagues and it's nice to see you all. i want to start by introducing my team who is working with me on this project we're involved with seiu and i think has been mischaracterized on attack on comparable worth and i have the chief negotiator and martin grand and mary who is leading this process with seiu right now and steve w

if you want to have donald trump, fine, have donald trump, but chris christie, too, have an argumentand fight and let the best argument at the end of the day win. >> there are 23 names on this straw poll that they will be taking later this evening. included on that list, dr. ben carson who is coming up shortly and we're waiting to hear him speak and listen to what he has to say and the only one on the list that hasn't served in political office. what do you expect to hear from him. >> he's been certainly quite a phenomenon. some of us have known about him going back a couple years, but recently, as a result of some speeches that he's given, people are paying a lot more attention to what he's saying and a lot more attention to the message sort of broadly of american conservativism that he embodies and i think that people look at his qualifications and the fact that he's at johns hopkins and has had such a distinguished career in medicine, and look at, you know, his own circumstances and say, this is somebody that we should be be taking some direction from. so i completely expect him t

and left that mantle to the inimitable donald trump. and unspoken advocatory for white immigration to this country, european immigration. >> for his russian oligarch friends and the judges he knows in monaco. >> ha does it mean that marco rubio did not talk about his signature issue? >> curious. i don't know, and i don't understand why. i thought that that would have been the perfect opportunity to frame the argument going forward. to bring the base, the core, the activists to the table on the signature issue that he is crafting and working with the democrats in the senate, and the white house. to put before the nation. part of the immigration issue within the gop is that you have a bifurcated process, the leadership is moving in one direction and the other is base is sitting there going what are you doing? so there has not been this connection made to bring the base into the discussion in a way to avoid all the crazy noise and sound bytes that feed the media frenzy, and further characterize caricature the gop. and that's been part of t

trump and senator paul are saying.o have a problem with the voters. >> as al gore used to say, right? denial is not just a river in egypt. it seems to be rampant in the speaker's. back to the ryan budget for a second. that to me was what was so striking about the ryan budget. these are the policies that were tested by them in and by him on the ticket so if anybody, he ought to know. more tax cuts for the wealthiest of americans. cutting medicare. turning medicare into a voucher program, all of that basically getting rid of medicaid by turning it over to the states. that was romney's platform and it was soundly rejected by the american people. he just wraps it up and ties it in a bow and says here is my budget for 2014. learned nothing. >> learned nothing. again, in the ryan budget that will be approved by the house next week, they cut the top tax rate from 39.6% to 25%. so if they give millionaires an incredibly generous break in the budget, more so than governor romney even advocate as part of his campaign. >> right.

it says that donald trump tweeted, sarah palin did a great job.t she said was plain old common sense. so they haven't recovered totally over there yet, angela. >> no, they haven't. and he's wrong. it was plain and old. you know, reverend, at the end of the day these folks have got to acknowledge that even if reince priebus goes all jerry mcgwire on us, he loves black people and everybody else of color, we don't believe them. i know nowadays they're starting to understand jay-z and the lyrics. i'll give them a lyric. we don't believe you. you need more people. i'm just saying. >> let me go back to you, jonathan. but don't quote beyonce. it seems like the only thing the gop can unite on, though, jonathan, is the hatred for the president. one of the authors of the rnc autopsy said today, quote, we've got a socialist in office right now. how's that working for us? so they're still united in this venom against the president. look at governor scott walker. he was talking about the president. it's the same old makers and takers rhetoric even from the est

you had people like donald trump speaking to an almost empty room. does this compare to prior cpacs? do the members and activists that usually come, are he they losing interest or doing something else to help their party? >> i thought the vibe at this cpac was different than what i felt in the past couple of years. there was generally speaking a pretty pervasive anger among a lot of the activists that donald trump was offered the stage while some others weren't. not that there were a tremendous number of conservative activists who were big chris christie fans, but there was a general rejection of donald trump which certainly didn't surprise me. a lot of folks wondered to me why in the world he was given time at cpac as opposed to the governor of new jersey who allot of conservatives despite some disagreement think has done some very good things with the state's fiscal situation. so i think this is sort of the calm before the storm, perhaps, for republicans. >> what's the storm, shane? what's the storm? where is it going? where is it all going, and wh

okay, first of all why does donald trump have to put his name on everything? seriously jon?t kind of narcissistic (bleep) wants naming rights on racism. >> jon: they wanted to talk openly about race and racism. >> it was open all right. >> he writes a letter to a former slave and says i forgive you for all the things you did to me. >> for giving him shelter and food all these years? >> he's defending slave owners. oh, my god, jon, that's fantastic. knoll wonder that guy is sick of being called racist. i bet he gets called racist but other racists. it's unbelievable. >> jon: food and shelter he would lick reparations for descendents of slave owners. >> jon, it's not bad. you know they've had it for the past 150 years. >> jon: food, shelter, free transatlantic cruises. that doesn't come cheap. >> maybe there's some compensation for that. >> jon: how about 40 mules and an acre. we're both joking, right? aren't we joking about this? >> i'm not anymore, jon. i think i finally figured out how black people can get reparation, offer them to the descendants of slave owners. according

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she called trump a conserve-a-fraud. >> trump and malkin or trump and bachmann?y is true. >> still waiting for donald to tell me what i should be ashamed of. >> michelle malkin, you were born stupid. >> seriously? >> you were born stupid in dumbville. >> stephanie: i know you are but what am i? >> shouldn't he be running his corporations and not letting them go bankrupt? >> he's running them into the ground. >> stephanie: you're stupid, you stupid. >> you're stupid out of stupidville. >> stephanie: trump tweeted michelle malkin would be nothing without being on the sean hannity show. i don't know what sean sees in her. i worked my ass off. i never abused government power to steal private property. [ buzzer ] [ laughter ] >> she was a very popular blogger before she ever hit tv. pretty large online right wing following. >> she had a huge ass to work off. [ buzzer ] >> huge. >> you did not say that. >> stephanie: he wanted to. wow. >> i don't understand why anybody pays any attention. >> because they put him on tv. >> i was born stupid and huge. >> easy get for boo

in 2011, it was donald trump who was jeered after mocking ron paul. he used that to flirt with his own presidential bid and last year it was this line from mitt romney that, well, stole the show. >> i thought against law and odds in a deep blue state but i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> romney will have his swan song at cpac also on saturday at 5:00 p.m. releasing the results of the straw poll. no one wants to make too much of any straw poll. do note this. interesting trend. the last three gop presidential nominees either finished first or second at some point in their bids at cpac. romney finished first or second every single year in the cpac straw poll from 2007 to 2012. up next, pope francis begins his first full day at the vatican. we'll head live to rome where the first latin american pope and first jesuit is sending a strong message about change in the church. >>> and karzai clash. the strained relationship with the afghan president and what it means as the u.s. tries to wind down america's longest war. first, a look ahead a

so you know what trump could do with that money?e could pay for a week of food stamp benefits for 2,242 people with that same $74,000. so, i mean, it's ridiculous to be talking about tours when you could be talking about real things. but i really question you, are they just trivializing? >> it's just a look at the impact of the sequester cuts. take, for example, what's happening in my state. $54 million in cuts to primary and secondary education which means 750 teachers are going to lose their jobs, 381 special ed teachers, 7500 kids won't get vaccinations. and republicans are grousing the loudest about constituents not being able to take white house tours? today i got notice from air traffic controllers in my district, they got letters saying that they will be forced to take 11 furlough days. >> wait a inmany. they got letters today? >> today. >> they are going to have to be furloughed, air traffic controllers? >> i believe all air traffic controllers got that notice today. >> these are letters and furloughs and letters that have h

is donald trump for the rebranding?alan west. >> the only one missing yet to receive an invite, herman cain. >> it is. that's unfortunate. i think he could hold the way forward for the republican party. i'm from virginia as you know. bob mcdonnell is no -- he's a conservative guy. i mean, you recall the whole transvaginal ultrasound situation. >> who could forget that? >> right. but he committed a sin against conservatism which was raising taxes for the infrastructure. the state has some of the worst traffic in the country. chris christie km itted the sin of embracing the president and saying nice things about him. apparently this is unforgivable in their world. you have to be happy not to go to this conference which seems like a clown car like the gop primary. >> interestingly the only road accident i've had in this country was in martinsville, virginia. because of the condition of the roads. john, the washington examiner is a cosponsor of next week's cp a rks c. they have a new editorial. it's called cpac embarrasses

[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: plus, she is the latest celebrity fired by donald trump on "all-starelebrity apprentice." did you watch last night? >> steve: yes. >> jimmy: it was -- again, it was another frustrating episode. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: i'm so mad 'cause i was rooting for her to go all the way. >> steve: right. >> jimmy: and then omarosa. again, she gets in people's heads, man. she's a mindbender. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: got them to do crazy stuff. like, i'm taking a cartoon into the board room. you're like, what do you mean? wait, why? they're making people up. they don't even know what they're talking about. anyway, claudia jordan is coming on tonight. [ cheers and applause ] can't wait to talk to her. and we have great music from wale! >> steve: wale! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: going to be playing with the roots. i love that guy. hey, guys, you know, there's been a lot of bad news out there. but here at "late night," we always try to find the silver lining. so with that in mind, it's time for a segment we call "on the bright side." ♪ on the bright side on t

noel, let's take a listen to donald trump from his speech on friday? million illegals, even if given the right to vote, you're going to have to do what's right. but the fact is 11 million people will be voting democratic. you can be out front, you can be the spearhead, you can do whatever you want to do, but every one of those 11 million people will be voting democratic. it just the way it works. >> of course that's just nonsense. i mean i'm a democrat and i represented a lot of hispanics in congress and hispanics are natural allies for the republican party if they don't keep giving them the stiff ample on immigration. >> while i'm not going to sit up here and defend donald trump, but i like the fact that cpac extended an invitation for donald trump to come. one of the things that i do not like is that i stood up and told this to a panel at cpac and i said that i was very disappointed that chris christie was not invited. that the go-crowd was not invite. if the republican party does not get more tolerant and get right on some things, we're going to los

>> and trump was given a major position at the podium at cpac and that's what he chose to say. so scared of the base -- marco rubio didn't even mention immigration reform in his speech. that's how afraid they are, so go against the conservatives that back them. >> michael: and do latino voters pay at attention to this? >> absolutely. there is a poll out today that said 32% said they would be more likely the vote republicans if republicans were in the lead on a change on immigration reform. but 49% said it would make no difference. >> michael: so what about this minority outreach? >> there is a program in california where republicans are trying to elect low-level candidates even community college and such build up the farm team from there. that's where you have to start. when you are at ground zero and they are on latinos, you have to start small. >> michael: okay. they are go for minor advertise and celebrities. >> who are the celebrities? cliff from cheers. >> michael: bill clinton eastwood. >> clint eastwood. he was terrible. kid rock and that's it. >> michael: and most repub