pelosi could write a check to them, she would. and others see them as willing to drive a truck off a cliff with no purpose. as a reminder of how it flexes its muscles, heritage action pressured gop lawmakers today to oppose president obama's nominee to run the federal reserve, meaning anyone who votes for janet yellen will be scored by the group as traitors and invite a possible primary challenge. joining me is julia yoffi, senior editor at "the new republic" who wrote that article which appears online and in the current issue of the magazine. ,a microcosm of where the right is at this moment. we've made the point on this program that it used to be there's a policy shop and the politicians and the propaganda arm goes and sells the message they cook up. now it's the propaganda arm that's running things and that's what's happened to heritage. >> that's right pch and ironically, they've modeled themselves after the center for american progress, which they've long derided as the liberal political action lobbying arm masquerading as a think tank,