>> i am john heilemann. mark: i am mark halperin. with all due respect to the biblical slaves of egypt, you didn't build that. ♪ mark: on the show tonight, jeb on the family and ben carson's fresh beat. but first, the doctor is in the hot seat. thatost of this week, hotseat has been occupied by marco rubio. now, two stories in the last 24 hours have put ben carson in the proverbial barrel. the first is from cnn, looking into his claims of having had a

set of violent outbursts as a kid. cnn interviewed his childhood friends, and they say they do not remember him being a violent type. today in florida, carson stood his ground. mr. carson: one of the ones where i threw a rock and broke someone's glasses, that occurred when i was seven or eight. the stabbing, attempted stabbing incident, occurred when i was 13 or 14. what is another incident? give me another one. >> the punching. mr. carson: trying to hit my mother in the head with a hammer was around the same time. incidents before your mother, were they classmates, friends, neighbors? our investigation could not find them. mr. carson: what makes you think you would be able to find them, unless i tell you who they are?

if they come forward on their own because of your story, that is fine, but i will not expose them. mark: lots of questions on the campaign trail for carson. the other relevant news is from buzz feed, which located a video from 1998 in which carson described his unconventional theory of why the pyramids in egypt were built. mr. carson: my own personal theory is joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. the archaeologists think they were made for the pharaohs, but it would have to be something awfully big, and i don't think it would disappear over the course of time. mark: here is how carson responded to this this controversy. mr. carson: some people believe in the bible, like i do, and don't find that silly at all, and believe god created the

earth and don't find that silly. mark: how damaging of the likely -- how damaging are these two flaps likely to be to the carson campaign? john: as predicted on this show, the vetting will now begin of ben carson now that he is by many metrics the front runner. co-front runner. no doubt about that. the egypt story is not nearly as damaging as the biography story. you can survive being a bible literalist in the republican party. you cannot survive being a fabricator. if ben carson's bio, up from nothing, turns out to be fraudulent, he's in big trouble. mark: number one, nobody is going to prove it negative. if he exaggerated his violent tendencies, i understand credibly matters, but i don't understand what people think that if he exaggerated how violent he was, that's a problem. john: there's a weird element,

for sure. you say credibility matters. it really matters. part of the drama, he was born poor in detroit, no one doubts that, but that he transformed himself from a violent youth to a respected neurosurgeon. if that is fake, that is bad. mark: a lot of people have looked into his background and believe he has exaggerated and made stuff up about lots of his background. he handled things fine today. i don't think to his core supporters that will matter, but if ben carson is the nominee, he needs more credibility. there are doubts in the republican community and the media about who this guy is, because most people still don't know him. john: the story written by cnn exploring the issue, the campaign's response was troubling. they said, this is a witchhunt. they can't respond that way anymore. in other ben carson news, the man is on the radio. take a listen to the spot they are running in urban markets

like detroit, memphis, and birmingham. ♪ >> inspire, vote, revive. ben carson 2015 support ben carson for our next president ♪ >> america became a great nation not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people. john: ben carson is not the only one on the radio. i am really getting into that beat. donald trump also releasing the first ad of his campaign. >> donald trump learned the values of hard work, determination, and faith at an early age. he went on to build one of the world's most iconic brands that employs thousands of people. donald trump is running for president because politicians are all talk and no action. they will never make our country great again. mr. trump: if the people of iowa

vote for me, you will never be disappointed. i don't disappoint people. i produce. together, we are going to make america great again. i am donald trump, candidate for president and i approve this , message. john: mark, we have two ads on the radio. what is the strategy driving each of these ads? mark: the carson ad will get mocked by a lot of people, but he is quite admirably trying to show he will expand the tent of the republican party to reach younger and african-american voters. trump is trying to convince people he's a candidate who can inspire and hold supporters. i think that that is what a lot of this is about john: the 4 p.m.. carson ads, forget about what you think about the quality of them. if an african-american democrat did ads of this kind on urban radio, no one would think anything of it.

the fact carson is doing it should be unremarkable. mark: and admirable. john: sure. i just think unremarkable, mostly. the trump ad surprises me, given how conventional it seems. we have waited for donald trump to go on the air. that does not capture the renegade spirit of donald trump. that seems like a cookie-cutter ad. mark: carson and trump are both playing against type. carson is usually seen as not a lot of showmanship, doing an ad which is showing showmanship, and trump is more conventional. he's using a woman narrator, because he does much better with men than women, and wants to try to appeal to female voters. i think the message of those advertisements is his message, but not as bombastic. john: fair enough. the interesting question continues to be, when trump finally engages in the wartronic media or, --

radio or tv, will he do it with , a show of force? how much is he willing to spend? it's interesting he decided to go to radio rather than a big statement tv campaign. two flexible muscles and say that i am going to spend. sayflex muscles and that i am going to spend. mark: why are these guys doing radio? carson has done television already, but why is trumped starting on radio? john: targeted radio messages really work. still a lot of people listen to the radio in america, especially conservative america. we know about the conservative radio phenomenon, rush limbaugh and others. a lot of conservatives listen to the radio. mark: amongst the trump doubters, some say he would not file to be on the ballot. he is filing. the current doubt is he's not going to spend big, he's too cheap. some say he is starting with radio to be able to spend less.

to be able to say that we are clever, out foxing everybody. until trump is willing to spend millions on television ads, the doubters have a reason to doubt, and the radiobuy only soaks the -- stokes the views of people who say he's not in it to win it. john: when you have bernie sanders on television, spending millions of dollars, and donald trump is still not on the air, the doubters have a reason to doubt. mark: radio for trump allows him to not only be reaganesque, but allows them to change the image he has, the tone. it proves he can perform in that medium without the bombast of the trump visuals. john: when we come back, is this the best week or the worst week for chris christie? and we sit down with bush 43's former media mastermind.

mark mckinnon. we are back in exactly 60 seconds. ♪

♪ mark: if you look at it one way, this could be the best week chris christie has had in a long time, but paradoxically it could also be the worst week. this raw, emotional, moving, kind of extraordinary video of christie talking about drug addiction has been viewed over 5 million times on facebook. that is the definition of viral. many republican sources tell us they are increasingly and surprisingly bullish on christie's prospects for a lazarus style comeback.

at the same time, we will find out tonight if his polling numbers have slumped to the point he gets kicked off the primetime debate stage in milwaukee next week based on the fox business debate criteria. mark, if christie in terms of this debate gets the boot, will that overshadow everything else going on? mark: the biggest problem christie has now is money. he does not have a lot, and he needs to raise it. on the one hand i will be , curious to see if he raises money off that video. maybe some small dollar contributions. being on the other debate stage could hurt him with big donors. i will say this, christie is the kind of guy who will make something of it. he said he will show up in milwakuee. if he has to debate on the undercard, he will. he's the kind of guy who can turn that disappointment into something positive. john: i have always been skeptical of the argument, you can be on the b stage, it could be a good thing if you dominate it. lindsey graham dominated the last undercard, and he did not get anywhere.

i think that it is possible that christie with fewer star rivals could have a huge night on the undercard, and if it combines with genuine stuff on the campaign trail and the video going viral and the positive media attention, this could work to his advantage. it is possible, but it is a narrow needle to thread. mark: of the remaining establishment candidates, bush, christie, rubio, kasich, no one is bigger than christie in confidence. that confidence means a lot. he is showing it out on the campaign trail. john: it goes back to what we thought chris christie in 2013 would be a strong player for the nomination. some of that had to do with donors, but a lot of it is the natural skill on display in that video, and in this chaotic field, that will serve him well. mark: the reason why mitt romney almost put him on the ticket despite all his problems, he was a great brawler. this is a race with 15

candidates, brawling is a good skill to climb over 14 other bodies to get to the top of the heap. whether he gets into the debate or not, chris christie is smart enough to consolidate the momentum he has an focus on new hampshire, where none of the establishment candidates have caught on yet. if it seems you like we have not been talking about the democratic race lately, it's because it has been a relative snooze. so we have not been. all the winds seem at the back be at the back of hillary clinton, who is gaining traction in new hampshire and thumping bernie sanders in other states. he is doing something he needs -- people have said he needs to do to choose the game. after passing on the topic of her e-mails during the only democratic debate in las vegas, listen what the senator told the wall street journal about whether the e-mails were valid and fair as a political issue.

mr. sanders: it is all valid questions. was not saying, it useful seconds to say those things. there is a process. i did not say to end the investigation. there is an investigation going on, but i do not want this campaign to be just about hillary clinton's e-mails. let the investigation proceed unimpeded, and that's fine. mark: a much different tone from what he gave in the debate. a clinton spokesperson said "it is disappointing senator sanders and his campaign strategists have chosen to change direction and engage in the personal attacks they previously said he would not do." john does bernie sanders have , his heart in this line of attack, and does he need to go further than that to make it an effective one? john: it's funny the way the campaign responded, as if he had

really attacked her. you look at the video and it is kind of weak beer. his heart is not in this, not in going more negative. i don't think, and i have written about this. he has to figure out a way to sharpen the contrast. i agree with him and his team, they cannot be personal, but the contrast has to be sharper and he has to be more forceful. mark: the e-mail thing is a distraction. he did gum it up in how he handled it in the debate. if he will beat her, it will be in the contrast on issues. john: that's fine. mark: he has to make a character and ideological argument, which i believe he does have his heart in. john: it seems like he is trying to get a do over. he ruled it out emphatically on the debate stage, and heard from people that he should not do that, so he's trying to put it on the table in some mealymouthed way. do contrast on areas you are comfortable in, and do them aggressively. it should be on issues, because that's where there are genuine contrasts between the two of them. mark: the next democratic candidate will be huge.

first of all, only three people on the stage, so they will have more time to talk, and bernie sanders has to come in prepared and be ready to talk about whatever comes up. as has been the case all along, particularly in the wake of the cnbc debate, what the moderators choose to focus on will be a big deal. i don't think sanders will bring stuff up on his own. john: on a lot of issues, he is closer to where the democratic base is than she is. up next, we will explore jeb bush's hypothetical daddy issues. right after this. ♪

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-- : if you can't beat them there's a hot new political book released next tuesday. word is already out, and a lot of people are talking about it. president george h w bush is back in the news, with the upcoming john meacham biography of the president. in it, bush 41 takes some news -- newsworthy shots at his son bush 43's advisors, including dick cheney and defense secretary donald rumsfeld, whom 41 said serve his son badly. rumsfeld shot back, saying bush 41 was "getting up in years" and miss judges bush 43, who he found made his own decisions. rumsfeld and bush 41 have had a rivalry for a long time. former vice president cheney defended his role in the

administration and claims that he was a puppet of his daughter and wife. >> i have heard much worse said about me than anything he ever thought, and i don't spend a lot of time worrying about what he meant by those diary entries. after 9/11, i saw my role being as tough and aggressive as i needed to be to carry out the president's policy to make sure we don't get hit again. mark: jeb bush also took to the tv airwaves to defend his brother and his brother's administration. mr. bush: my brother is a big boy. his administration was shaped by his thinking his reaction to the , attacks of 9/11. my dad, like a lot of people, loved george and wanted to create a different narrative, because that was natural to do. right? george would say, this was under my watch, i was commander-in-chief, i was the leader, and i accept personal responsibility for what

happened, both good and bad, and i think that's the right way to look at it. mark: bush 41 says his son was unduly influenced by cheney and rumsfeld. rumsfeld, cheney, jeb, and bush 43, all are basically disagreeing. so what impact will this book cap on jeb's campaign? john: hard to say. it is so interesting. just step back from that for a second. what is getting all the attention is george herbert walker bush criticizing rumsfeld and cheney, and he also criticizes his son. he said that it's not dick cheney's fault that he has so much influence, it is his sons -- son's fault, the president's fault. amazing to have a father criticizing his son, the way a lot of other republicans would, a lot of americans would. george herbert walker bush has a lot of respect. it's amazing to see this kind of internal bush family

drama playing out in the work of a pulitzer prize winning historian. mark: i think it's a good sign for him. this is the most smooth and comfortable i have seen him, talking about his brother and father and the bush legacy in the entire campaign. without a doubt if he does have , a come back, these issues will come back up, so the book might in some way be a good thing, for him to talk about his family. john: it is certainly true that he seemed more comfortable there. it might also flush some stuff out of the system. on the other hand i don't think , it is ever good for jeb bush to be in a position where he's defending his brother. to me that is a no-win situation for jeb bush, in terms of the general election and the republican party. i don't see how you win that argument. there is something us to talk about here separately. poppy bush seemed to be on jeb's mind when some students asked him what it was like to have a father who lived in the white

house. here is his answer. mr. bush: my dad was such an inspiration for me. whenever i made a mistake, all he would have to say is that he was disappointed, and that would send me into a deep, spiraling depression for days because i admired and respected him so much. he did not have to lift a hand. he taught me right and wrong by how he treated others, and, what it was like to grow up like that, a total blessing. john: we talked a lot over the last months of how jeb is doing -- dealing with his brother and the specter of that. here's the question, they are talking about his father. it raises a question, does jeb bush have some daddy issues? mark: here is the strange thing about this whole bush problem. it always hurts to talk about him. both bushes are very popular in the republican party.

general election, more complex. it is strange to me, it is tying him in so much not, when the reality is that if jeb bush gets back in this he will deploy his , family even more than he has so far. john: it's true they are both popular in the republican party. you and i both know because we have done focus groups around the country, and a lot of republicans say i like george herbert walker bush, i like george w. bush, but i don't want a third one. that is one too many bush. it plays into the dynastic thing, which hurts him even if they are individually popular. mark: he is not going to change his name between now and then. john: i know. mark: embracing this and trying to use this is the only thing he can do in his comeback. there is no reason to talk about jeb bush unless in the context of, can he come back? i still believe that the way he behaved this week, he is performing well enough to come back now, without a doubt. john: but you think -- there were various moments in the last couple days were people have noted in the press that it has been like a therapy session.

do you think that tom na li the way he's talking about his father like from the couch, does , that work? is that effective? mark: it's not flawless, but it could be worse. john: fair enough. when we come back, we ask former bush adviser mark mckinnon for his thoughts on the bush 41 biography we just talked about, after these words. ♪

♪ john: we are back, talking more about the book about the bushes and the presidential campaign with mark mckinnon, strategist

and former advisor to george w. bush, john mccain, and many others, including some democrats once upon a time. there is no way to look at this except to see them put in some way on the couch. what do you think this impact will be on the bush family? mark m.: well, the statute of limitations on discretion has run its course. i think the former president george h.w. is saying some things a lot of people agree with, and has probably thought for a long time but as a matter , of discretion while his son was president. i think he is saying the obvious, and he does not absolve the president of responsibility, but he has said some things, he's thinking about the legacy, the family.

he wanted to get some things off his chest. mark: why are both george w. bush and jeb bush saying this is just dad being dad, but we don't think it is right? mark m.: this is an opinion. a former president expressing his opinion. it's not a matter of right or wrong. the president has a different opinion about it. john: we talked about this earlier in the show. jeb bush has had to deal with the specter of his brother throughout the entire campaign, and now he has to deal with the specter of his father. how do you think that affects him as a candidate, does it matter? mark m.: i think it's helpful that his father, who is always seen as honest, you know, not somebody who dissembles at all, that he's saying something is on his mind that i think a lot of people agree with. i think that people love george h.w. bush across-the-board, and they will feel some degree of sympathy for what he is saying,

for the fact that he was discreet about it for a long time and is saying the obvious now. and it helps jeb, because it says what most people think anyway. mark: leave the book and fundraising aside. 's positiveb bush i assets that could be a treated to a jeb comeback? mark m.: part of it is the family. mark: leave the family aside. leave the money a side. what else has he got? mark m.: a real commitment to public service and seeing this through. the last few days have actually been really good for him. i remember in new hampshire getting hammered by john mccain, 19 points down. the hardest part is admitting you are resetting, but that is what the present demands of you. john: one asset is he is committed to public service. i would say most everybody in the race is committed to public service. mark m.: there's a long family history of true commitment. mark: leave the family and the money aside.

that is all he has got, the family name? mark m.: commitment to public service, strong record, and really animated about it in this reset period, seeing the part of jeb bush, he feels strongly about these things in a way that is connected to true public service, which i think can have an impact. john: let me ask you a two-part question. do you still believe the traditional model holds, that ultimately the nominee is likely to be an establishment nominee? mark m.: absolutely not. i think that part of our problem in politics is we are victims of confirmation bias and use history as a judge of what can happen in the future. absolutely anything can happen. john: so at this point, an outsider or insider campaign are just as likely? mark m.: you could have an establishment candidate, it is 52-card pickup. john: given current dynamics being what they are, and bush's

trouble, chris christie, the moment he is having right now, who is more likely, jeb bush or chris christie? mark m.: i think christie is having a great week. this is the moment for chris christie, his chance to really, we saw the softer side of chris christie. we know he's a tough guy, but we compassionateas a side on a great issue for new , hampshire, drug addiction. this is a big-time local issue that he is focusing on in a very compassionate way, showing there is another side to chris christie. i think people will give him another look. it gives him a boost in new hampshire, potentially. john: want to ask the question you are asked, who is more likely? mark m.: no. [laughter] john: do you believe one moment like that, giving everything has happened for chris christie, that a campaign can

turn? mark m.: it was one moment like that that vaulted hillary clinton to win new hampshire in 2008. mark: if you were working for the carson campaign? >> there's a moment they gives you insight into who this guy is as if human being. i saw that, i had no idea that guy was in there. mark: if you were working for the carson campaign, would you care for the fact that most people in the establishment did not think he could be the nominee? mark m.: no. i do not think that has anything to do with his ability to be the nominee. mark: he could raise more money. a lot of people in the establishment say, we don't need trump, we need someone to stop trump. if you look at the polls, you could argue the only person in position to stop trump is carson. mark m.: if it is either or, you would see an establishment shift to carson. mark: if carson could raise more money from the establishment -- mark m.: i don't think he's interested in sending the signal at this point in the

campaign. john: what makes you think that? right now more establishmentarians come to the realization donald trump could be the nominee. most of them still think there's no chance for carson, so why would they rally to carson? mark m.: if they thought either one could be president, i'm not saying that's where they think carson is now, but if they had the choice between the two, they would go with carson. mark: because? mark m.: i think they think he's more manageable. mark: more electable? mark m.: and more electable. mark: do you think carson is more electable in a general? mark m.: yeah. mark: ok. we left a lot of things hanging, , back.be mark will thank you, mark mckinnon. up next, mr. jay roach is here to ralk about his new film. we will be right back in just 60 seconds. ♪

♪ mark: you may have noticed we talk a lot about donald trump on this program. now we will talk about a different d.t., dalton trumbo. the new bio-drama starring bryan cranston opens tomorrow, about the screenwriter during the blacklist era in midcentury hollywood. the film's director, jay roach, a personal favorite of ours, "game change," talks about how he sees this movie set in 1957 of being7, as sort like about 2015. jay: over and over, people try to make political hay and use fear to get other people to conform. it seems like that happens all the time. seems like an old trick all politicians use, all people who

have causes, try to get you scared to get you to behave. john: during this period, two things happen in america that young people would be stunned could occur in america. japanese internment camps and blacklisting of people in hollywood. explain to young people the dynamic that occurred and how it could be that in america such a thing could happen. jay: that's what drove me to this. i remember it vaguely, but i mostly associated it with the mccarthy hearings. i did not realize that in my own industry, people turned on each other and tried to destroy each other's careers using the idea that a sort of trumped up extrapolation from the fear of totalitarian communism, which was real. but in hollywood, there had been huge union battles during the war and right after the war, and -- hadlike had a hopper,

a hopper walt disney, ayn rand, , sam wood, got together and said, these troublemakers are inspiring our workers to rise up against us. they would not if it wasn't for these few people. so they formed a group called the motion picture alliance and invited congress to come and clean up hollywood. right away, people started informing on each other, saying he was at a meeting, he knew somebody else who might be a communist, and next thing you know they were crossing people off the list that are allowed to work in hollywood. john: like every good political film, it is driven by characters. the ideas are arid and not that interesting. what makes dalton trumbo such a compelling character in this movie? jay: for me, that's the essence of it. it was not even the politics. i love stories, even with "game change," once i latched onto the story of steve schmidt and his dilemmas and how he regretted so many choices. i understood, that is a story. the larger political thing is

sort of interesting, but to me only in that it puts pressure on the character you are most interested in. in this case trumbo was such a great writer. he wrote "spartacus" and "roman holiday," winning two academy awards while he was blacklisted. he was one of the funniest people i have ever read. the letters to his kids, to his enemies from jail, he was the opposite of the stereotype of a left-wing humorless apparatchik. he was a true one of a kind guy. some of his friends were much more hardline. we have louis c.k. playing the hardline guy, as funny as a person could be. mark: is there a lesson in the film? jay: to be wary of anyone trying to extrapolate from fear. in this world, instead of communism it is terrorism. , if you can get people focused on a threat that is not real, you can get people to do

anything. mark: in times of war and fear, governments will do bad stuff and it is hard to resist or stop jay: not just governments. individuals. hedda hopper was a gossip columnist with 30 million readers, and she became a fearmonger and a very hateful person. she drove charlie chaplin out of the country, and to her deathbed warned people not to let him come back. john: before i ask you, i want to play a little of the movie. let's play a little. we will talk about it. >> how long were you in show business? [laughter] [applause] ♪ >> dalton trumbo? >> yes. >> see you in washington.

enjoy your picnic. let's go, boys. mark: the centerpiece of the movie is bryan cranston. everyone knows him from "breaking bad." you are working with him on another movie where he plays lbj from his broadway performance. what is it like to work with an actor that good? jay: he just has so much range, so much ability to take these larger-than-life characters. lbj and trumbo are in very different ways big characters, and he has a kind of passion and intensity that is intimidating, daunting for people. coupled with this warmth and this great wit, in both stories, especially with trumbo, these were very witty people. they could turn a phrase in a

way that could expose the ludicrousness of something as evil as the blacklist, something so serious. so he's very funny, doing very intense things. as lbj, similar thing. lbj was a nut in a certain way, he was so driven, so larger-than-life, but also so passionate about civil rights and poverty, trying to make america a better place. it is a mixture of this earnestness and unapologetic preachiness, mixed with really funny attitude and dialogue. john: our deep thanks to our good friend jay roach. "trumbo" opens tomorrow, and look for "all the way" in 2016. when we come back, dick nixon and hillary clinton. right after this. ♪

♪ mark: a widely respected journalist, a great biographer and historian and bloomberg view contributor. he has a master opus on bloomberg.com about hillary clinton's nixonian roots. sam, welcome. tell us how hillary clinton got tied up with richard nixon. sam: her introduction to american politics, beltway politics, not working on campaigns, her first picture of politics was when she was on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee that drew up the articles of impeachment for richard nixon in 1974.

she worked for a guy named john doerr, vanishing species of great liberal republican, who wanted a totally above board investigation. hillary was there in spring and summer 1974, one year out of law school, helping to draw up the articles of impeachment. mark: you go further, saying this was her entry to politics, and she is now nixon's heir? in what way? sam: she is nixon's strategic daughter. if i were aaron sorkin doing a hillary clinton biopic, i start with her in that hotel across the street from congress with headphones on, one of the first people on the planet to hear nixon's tapes. the one tape she listened to most closely was his defense in case he actually was impeached, how he was going to make the

case that what he had done was ok. so she does that, you stop and you turn, you wind the clock back to 1972 when hillary and her boyfriend, bill clinton, are in texas trying to get a great idealist, george mcgovern, elected president. they know he's not going to win, but they can't believe how he got crushed. they worked in texas. in texas, nixon got 67% of the vote. nobody does that anymore. nixon got 60% of the vote nationally, he won 49 out of 50 states. hillary says, bill and i had a lot to learn about how you run a campaign. if you are hillary clinton, it does not mean she wants to be nixon. she is taken inside the mind. mark: what has she said or written about nixon since then? sam: a few things. one is that one of her most

memorable moments was hearing that one tape, what she calls the tape of tapes, in which nixon extenuates. hillary, we learned a couple weeks ago, is a brilliant political witness. nixon was not. hillary actually believes what she says, and most of the time some of us will say, we think she is right. so one thing she learned from him was that, but there was a second thing. she had another job for john doerr on the watergate committee, to write up a memo that showed the blueprint of how nixon's white house worked. john: a question not about this piece. talking about this new book, the john meacham book on 41. talk about what you think is going on with that book. sam: since we are putting everybody on the couch and the bushes do not like to be there, here is my thought. if you read w's book, which is actually pretty good, "41," if

you read it closely, he takes his father apart as a political figure. he describes somebody who got ahead through family connections and wall street. even describing his father out in texas, whenever dad needed money, he came back to new york, he went to connecticut, went to washington where the money was. he describes his father's political career as having been a series of patronage jobs, which is true. he ran the republican national committee, ambassador job in china, they gave him the cia. the job he wanted was to be vice president, and he lost out to nelson rockefeller. at the end of the book, w. says, when i was trying to put together my team, i called dad and said, what do you think about dick cheney as vice president? his father said, great choice, son, he is loyal and will never stab you in the back. mark: thank you very much. your piece is on our website,

bloombergpolitics.com, comparing nixon and clinton. up next -- counterintuitive, but interesting. coming up next, your daily campaign traffic and weather. we will be right back. ♪

♪ mark: looks like it's another busy day in election land tomorrow, so let's go live to the 24-hour campaign forecast where our chief political meteorologist is standing by. when does all the action start tomorrow? alex: i would say it starts pretty early. in the early voting states, let's move over to south carolina, where we have a powerful delta forming. three major democrats are all at this first in the south democratic presidential forum at winthrop university, a standard

formation for this time of year, but keep your eye out on a moderate amount of maddow. because maddow will be moderating. fyi, i would not be surprised to see a light rand paul presents before things get going. moving over to iowa, we are expecting heavy candidate currents to blow through des moines. if you are out and about, stick to the skywalk. cruz at the iowa renewal project. jindal at the religious liberty conference. finally, all week, our eyes have been trained on new hampshire, where it is congested. bush, kasich, fiorina gusting through. mostly standard town hall activity. here is a nice november surprise. fiorina on "the view." john kasey kahne stephen colbert in new york. remember, like a poncho, we've got you covered. back to you. mark: i still think that guy is

a total weirdo. what are you going to be watching? john: in south carolina, it does give sanders and o'malley a chance to contrast themselves. mark: it will also be an early test of bernie sanders, how much is he willing to push? we are the tube twice a day now, and forever more, with a full hour at 5:00 and 8:00 e.t., and live on bloombergpolitics.com. when you visit that site, check out our campaign tracker for the latest updates. on tomorrow's show, actor wendell pierce. until then, sayonara. ♪ buddy- nice place, nice car what happened?

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