casualty of that. the tea party isn t the answer. kristen, it s interesting that the last time if you look at 98 to 2000. and you had this tension, nervousness mooning outside d.c. republicans about how republicans were running the house. house republicans didn t lose control of the house, but they somehow didn t win seats, they lost seats and it helped bush unite the establishment and kind of hold off the conservatives. is that scenario possible where the tea party takes the blame for the 2014 debackal and the you can take a look at this recent shutdown and say there s a lot of people assigning blame to the tea party. ted cruz will say, hey, this is a failure because mcconnell and didn t we have not had the consistent si on why which lost the shutdown debacle. if there s no agreement on why we lost, then there can t be an agreement on how we move
a primary. reporter: he said kentucky is going to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. john harwood on the ground giving a little inside scoop there. we re seeing this division among republicans in other parts of country, too. john mccain had to deal with a tough crowd in phoenix last night. let s bring in our wednesday gaggle. former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy. kriste kristen, let me play the mccain bite for you, mccain being mccain, a ted cruz supporters we know what ted cruz stands for and that is the shut youp of the government. no, he stands for us. i have to disagree with you. i want to make my point. i who fought and they weren t even members of the senate, fought for 25 days against obama