this republican party establishment is in disarray. that's the story that the donald trump surge seems to tell. but, man, y'all are kind of running the board in the rest of the country. >> you know, i would say, nationally, we're a little disfuncti disfunctional. and that is not unusual. this has been a cycle that we've talked about before on your other show. donald trump has changed the rule and so have the stations and the media coverage. the folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then donald trump gets in it and turns it into a national election. so we were looking for the rick perries, the scott walkers, the bobby jindals, all to probably still be on the stage now. they're all gone and trump has sucked the oxygen out of this race right now. and made it a national race courtesy a little bit of nbc