senate conservatives fund, an outside group that has aligned itself closely with the texas senator cruz." anyway, here's cruz's response. "i will not," according to one of the attendees. isn't it extraordinary for a member of a republican or any caulk tous tell his fellow members of the caucus i'm not only not going to protect you from these characters, i'm neutral, i don't care if they knock your buddies off? >> yeah, chris, it's a mess. i think that ted cruz has a lot of explaining to do. what i hear on the internet is people are rhino if they don't agree with ted cruz. that means republican in name only. but if you're the one spending all of your time attacking republicans, who's the real rino? that's my question. >> good point. by the way, remember reagan's 11th commandment? this guy sort of flaunts that baby. >> yeah. i think members in the senate especially but also the house, this strategy has just not worked out. and i commend john boehner for trying to keep his troops