the group's not so subtle name and the european american unity and rights organization. it was founded by former coup clucks clan wizard david duke. today speaker boehner stood by scalise saying he has his full confidence to continue has whip. will that support last? ed rendell, former governor of pennsylvania and nbc news political analyst. welcome to both of you. so hogan, is scalise on the hook here, or is this going to go by the boards because it's not a real political story? >> well i don't necessarily know it's a real political story, but right now, racial tensions in this country are at an all-time high. so this is the news. when you head into the new year there's not much going on and people glom on to stories like this. not that there's not something here, but the real story, from 12 years ago, you've been a candidate, you know you go into