What Rand Paul is doing is pulling the cover off of all of this. And it's embarrassing to his colleagues. And he knows it's embarrassing. And he wants to embarrass them. And what his real message is this is Washington politics as usual.
David Axelrod discusses Rand Paul's actions as a critique of Washington politics and the hypocrisy within the Republican Party.
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