thanks for watching. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. the race for the white house is officially on. jeb bush announced today that he's planning to explore a run for the presidency in 2016. now, the twitter and facebook posts reads in part, quote, i've decided to actively explore the possibility of running for president of the united states in january. i also plan to establish a leadership pac that will help meet, facilitate conversations with citizens across america to discuss the most critical challenges facing our exceptional nature. the pac's purpose will be to support leaders, ideas, policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all americans. here now with breaking news and response to the breaks news fox

news contributor karl rove. how are you? >> fabulous. how are you? >> it seems like a lot of people are going to get in. >> yeah, i suspect that's accurate. let's not make too much of this facebook post because paul ryan has a leadership pac, marco rubio has a leadership pac, rand paul, rick perry is meeting this week every night with bundlers in austin where he's having them in for dinner. we have santorum exploring, huckabee, there's 22 people. >> is that the actual number? >> it was 23 until rob portman said, i'm not going to run. but there are 22 who are talking about it. virtually every one is taking steps that would indicate they're seriously contemplating it and doing things -- maybe haven't gotten into the final decision. >> because you're so closely aligned with the bush family and you served george w. bush, are you supporting jeb bush?

>> i'm sitting on the sidelines. i do know this from my association with the bushes. he said i will not make a decision -- i was at the beginning the one employee of the bush prepresidential campaign, our chairman was james a. baker iii, a young houston attorney. but the senior bush said, i'm not going to make a decision until after the 1978 election. and he didn't. then george bush said i won't make a decision after the 1998 election. and it wasn't until the time between christmas and new year's that he went away and made the decision. if jeb bush says i'm not going to make a decision until after the first of the year, we won't have a final decision until after the first of the year regardless of whether he did a leadership pac today. >> this is what he had to say that he won't change his views if he's going to run for the primary. >> if i was to run, i would try to persuade people -- i won't change what i believe. my beliefs, i think, are good, solid, mainstream conservative

thought. winning with purpose, winning with meaning, winning with integrity. >> rush limbaugh said today he's being looked at as a savior for the big money, establishment of the party to head off the tea party. reaction? >> that's rush's opinion. let's wait and see what jeb bush says. i think he's absolutely right. i think every candidate ought to follow that same advice, which is be in the primary who you are and be that same person in the general election. richard nixon convinced the republican party for a period of time that they needed to be one thing in the primary and somebody else in the election. if you're a democrat run to the left in the primary and get back to center in the general, if you're a republican run to the right in the primary and come back. that my have worked at some point. i don't think so, but it may have. but today that eats away at your authenticity. people are paying attention to this process, particularly on the republican side. these candidates will be subjected to a lot of scrutiny, and by the 2016 general

election, if you're one place in the primary and someplace else in the general election, the independent and swing voters we need, you know what? can i really trust you? haven't we already seen this from one guy who said something during the general election and governed at a different person. i want authenticity and what you said in the primary i want it in the general election as well. >> i was reading a lot of social media today. a lot of conservatives, big part of the republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration. a lot of references were made to an article that he was consulting with john mccain who is viewed as very establishment on how to deal with the conservative wing of the party. >> well, this goes back to the nature of any candidate's message. the question will be for every single candidate, what do you say and are you persuading people to be with you? because there are a diversity of opinions inside the republican party on a whole range of

issues. there are things that each and every candidate will offend this and that element of the party. the clarity of a candidate in describing who they are and what they're about and more importantly describing what they want to do is what's going to allow them to unify enough of the republican primary in order to win the general election. take for example in north carolina, there was a self-described tea party candidate, there was a self-described social conservative, there was the so called establishment republican who ran on the message of here's what i believe and he got enough of the tea party vote and enough of the social conservative vote to win the nomination and thom tillis will now about senator. >> i think from my perspective, because conservative governors have great track records to run on. high unemployment when they took over the states, they lowered the unemployment rate, scott walker, rick perry, kasich, nikki haley. >> almost every governor -- mike huckabee can point to that

record, john kasich, jeb bush. >> how does hillary do that? >> well, look, i wrote my column about this last week, what is the hillary clinton message? is she a better candidate today than she was in 2008? >> i don't think so. >> i was talking to a guy today who said she was the best candidate when she ran for senate here in new york and she's gotten worse in each time she's gone out after that. >> karl rove, good to see you. we'll be watching. merry christmas, incidentally. >> merry christmas, you're allowed to say it on this network. >> i say it everywhere. it's close to my birthday. >> it is your birthday? >> december 25th. >> two cap ra corns. >> come to my birthday party. >> joining me with more on the jeb bush announcement is former florida congressman colonel alan west. what's your take on all this? >> i think when you look at by

the time we get to 2016 we're going to have a country that's $20 trillion in debt, a massive bureaucratic administrative regulatory state. the last thing that we need to see is a big government progressive republican running against a bigger government progressive socialist democrat. so the republican party has to be able to make a clear delineation between their vision and their goals and objectives to turn around the fundamental transformation of america. i think the challenge for governor bush is going to be his policies on illegal immigration and also common core. >> how big a challenge? >> i think it's going to be an immense challenge because i don't think that you're going to be able to go out and win presidential nomination without really, you know, i don't want to say kowtowing to, but fiscal responsibility, individual sovereignty, free market and free enterprise system and our strong national defense because our military's being decimated. those are five key points that

any republican nominee is going to have to stress. >> i'm very disappointed in john boehner in the house. for example, he had to go to barack obama, joe biden, steny hoyer and harry reid to get this deal. he didn't talk to any of the conservatives in his caucus when he made this cromnibus bill last week. what's missing to me with john boehner, why not push a cr to fund the government to the new year, use the new majority, talk about balancing a budget, talk about energy independence, talk about an alternative to obama care, they funned obama care for the entire income year. talk about securing the borders. i don't know where he stands. he's not inspiring anybody as a leader who is about to accumulate a lot more power as they have the power of the purse. that to me is a huge unforced error. >> yeah, you're absolutely right. that's the fear as we move forward toward 2016 election cycle. we have to have republicans that understand the fundamental

conservative principal base and what john boehner did was use a cr to get us into the new year where you have that senate majority and house majority to really get back to regular order and talk about prioritizing the bills by agencies. we've lost that. half of the new congress won't be able to do anything. >> let's look at the field as karl was describing it, senator cruz, rubio, kasich, walker and a few others, mike huckabee and rick santorum in the race. who do you think has the greatest possibility of breaking through? who are the top three who you like whose names are being mentioned? >> i will tell you you got three categories of individuals, you have governors, you have senators and then you have the others. there's talk of course, ben carson. >> mike pence. >> i don't think marco rubio -- mike pence is one of those in there. i don't think marco rubio will go forward because you can't

have two senators out of miami-dade county. scott walker who has won three elections in four years and impressive what he's done there in a very blue state in wisconsin. he has to be at the top of that as well as, like you said, mike pence and a john kasich as well. >> appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >> analysts are here to handicap jeb bush's odds. question of the day. do you think jeb bush can win the republican nomination? do you want him to win the nomination? go to facebook and twitte twitter @seanhannity. 130 students are dead after a taliban-led assault on a pakistani school. that comes after a deadly standoff in sydney, australia, between police and an islam sheikh. we'll ask mohammed siddiq that question.

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bob dole or john mccain or mitt romney, we will end up with the same result, which is millions of people will stay home on election day, which is what happened for all three of them. if we run another candidate like that, hillary clinton will be the next president. >> that's senator ted cruz. here now to break down jeb's chances is fox news contributor pat goodell and larry sabito is with us. both of these guys we haven't had them on, were dead-on accurate. you and i were the same, i think we missed by one. the eight pickups. you and i were in full agreement. although i had it a toss jaup in new hampshire. pat, you were pretty dead-on

accurate, too. >> i was dead on. >> okay. did you pick all nine senate seats? >> i did, actually. >> good for you. you heard what ted cruz said. i was reading a lot of social media today. a lot of people talked about common core, immigration, the core base of the republican party did not seem satisfied, energized by jeb bush's announcement today. larry, how do you analyze that? >> you know, sean, i saw the very same thing. i was surprised at the degree of opposition to bush, although you have to consider who's on social media and who is motivated to post a comment. but if bush does indeed run, remember, he's only at 80%. they hasn't fully declared. if he runs he has a tougher time than his father did or his brother did in 2000 although they didn't have cakewalks. the republican party has changed.

you have tough candidates that won't back out just because jeb bush gets into the race. also, sean, this is going to be potentially the fifth nomination of a bush on the republican side for president in 28 years. it's totally unprecedented in american history, which doesn't mean that it can't happen, but it is unprecedented. >> you think that work against him? >> well, i think it makes it tougher. i think he has to go through a trial of fire. >> the issues of common core and immigration will be big problems in the primary. if i were to look into my crystal ball today, i would argue that one of these governors that we're talking about, pence, walker, kasich, one of the governors i think has the better shot this time. just my gut. reaction? >> you know, i think you're right. but jeb bush is more than a governor. i'm going to totally agree -- >> and rick perry, by the way. i didn't mention. >> rick perry.

but i want to come back to something which larry said and you talked about last week that i was up in arms about. there's a roiling in the american electorate, i don't mean just the, quote, definition tea party, i'm talking about the whole basic grass roots of the republican party. the revolt against washington. last week the republicans win a huge victory. they come in, and they throw their voters under the bus. the first thing we got to do is give the banks a bailout and make their contributors able to shut the system down even more and all these deals and, as you said, which i agree, i always thought the test was are you going to go give them nine months fully? are you going to fund the whole government? they did. and here's the problem with that. the grass roots is saying, what are you doing? you're supposed to change things. and the establishment core of the republican party, which runs the republican party, they are

basically bush's supporters. that's what you're seeing. >> that's what rush limbaugh says. >> i like bush. i think he's an able man. >> a little more difficult for the very reasons that larry mentioned, we've had a lot of bushes in the last 28 years. i do think that he's his own man. he was a great governor. nobody's taking that away from him. but look at what boehner did, larry and boehner going to obama, biden, steny hoyer and harry reid and not talking to his conservative base, funding obama care for the full year, kicking the can down the road, not taking advantage of the leverage of his new power. that angered a lot of conservatives including me. why not take the victory and run with it and come up with a bold vision for the future of the country and explain what conservatism means and how it will get americans back to work and energy independence and an alternative to obama care, securing the borders. it's not that hard, larry. >> yeah, and look, translate that into the presidential race

on the republican side. what does it equal? a populist movement, a populist revolt, call it whatever you want to. >> yes. >> and there are candidates there, cruz and paul are only two of them, who can articulate that and capture that lightning in a bottle. this is going to be the heck of a race. this is not one of those races that you can easily predict in advance. >> but is it a case where there's so many conservatives running that they split the vote, opens up the door so either christie or jeb bush that are being viewed more in the middle, that they get through? >> well, it's possible. some of those candidates are going to dry up quickly. their money's going to dry up. they'll be out. we've seen this movie before. >> right. >> and pretty quickly, you'll be down to three or four candidates at most, at least serious candidates. >> last word, pat. >> yeah, i think the real question is -- and bush has not been running in these polls very well, even in florida, against hillary. but i think the real problem that he has, you just put your

finger on, somebody's going to run against the establishment. he is the establishment. that's where the money is. yes, he'll get a billion dollars. but i'm telling you the messaging of what larry just said, when i've been saying, the populism in this country, which is really across the board and in the republican party and the alienation against the political class in washington makes him a very dubious candidate. this is the most open nomination since 1940. >> if they don't have a governing vision, they might have gotten away with it in this election, but there's an expectation that they're going to begin to solve america's problems, start to balance the budget, okay, what's your plan for health care? what's your plan for the border? these guys are going to have to lay their cards on the table and inspire people to support them. if they're inactive the next two years, it will hurt whoever is candidate is. you agree with that last thought? >> yep. >> it's not simply enough to run against obama and say everything

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exchanged fire with the attackers until the school was cleared out. according to one local hospital, most of the victims were between the ages of 10 and 20 years old. pretty unbelievable. sadly, this comes one day after a jihadist gunman held more than a dozen people hostage for 16 hours in a cafe in sydney, australia. here with reaction the imam siddeeq. another two days and two campbells of radical islamists using your religion to commit acts of terror. this is happening again and again and again. what i don't see are the voices of moderate muslims joining together loudly condemning and going to battle against these extremists. why don't we see that? after all these terror attacks. why? >> first of all, sean, god's name most merciful, let's identify this correctly. everybody that reported what took place in sydney said this

man had a serious mental problem and had been on the list, the watch list in australia for a long time. and as far as what's going on with the taliban, they are just totally off the hook. you can't contribute that or lay that at the feet of islam. >> are they off the hook in saudi arabia, are they off the hook in saudi arabia where they practice shariah law the are you going to condemn all of radical islamists that treat women the way they treat them and kays and l -- gays and lesbians? >> that's a pretty big -- you've given me a pretty big task there. >> yes, because it's a pretty big problem, imam. it's a worldwide problem. >> it's a huge problem. we condemn what has taken place in sydney. we condemn what took place in pakistan. >> i don't see this happening in the christian community, the jewish community, the buddhist community, radical islamic terrorism is now the scourge of

the world. >> well, you can pick out what you want. don't forget we had a serious killing where a man shot up his mother-in-law, his sister, his wife, his children -- >> okay. so this is organized, orchestrated. sympathizers, lone wolves, you have calls for lone wolves to act and you have, under shariah law, the oppression of innocent men, women and children. this is happening under -- this is happening in the name of your religion. if it was my religion, i'd be real angry. >> yeah, we're angry and, first of all, we're grateful for you giving us an opportunity to at least reach out and try to explain our position. we are outraged by what has taken place using the name of islam -- >> -- billion muslims and that this is a small mirnlt but you have entire countries where women are imprisoned under shariah law and the radical terrorist -- the biggest radical

terrorist movement is in the name of islam. and i don't see the moderates joining together to take back their religion, which is being hijacked. i think it's time, don't you? >> look, first of all, you can't hijack islam pu can get on the bandbaggen and use -- no, not islam. the name may be hijacked but the religion is not hijacked. >> doesn't the koran talk about jihad and holy war and not taking christians and jews for your friends. isn't that being taken literally by jihadists to justify the treatment of mirnnorities and women but people of other faiths? >> not necessarily being used by jihadists, but those who don't understand their religion, people who use it as an excuse to unleash their anger on. >> but they say they're practicing your religion. >> they can say that just like i can put on a pair of camouflaged clothing and say i'm a part of

the united states army, but am i really a part of it? so what i'm saying is there's a problem. but the problem is not necessarily tied to the religion of islam. it's tied to the use of the name islam. >> maybe does the koran need to be modified in this sense that all -- >> the koran is -- >> -- jihad, holy war, christian and jews, infidels maybe be interpreted and let islamists know this is a misinterpretation or you can't take a literal interpretation or explain to those who practice the faith what it's really supposed to mean? >> the koran is perfect in its presentation. >> perfect. take neither christians or jews for your friends is perfect? >> remember, we went through that and even doctor -- when he was here. >> holy war, jihad? >> that's interpretation. that's a misunderstandmisunders

the koran. the koran is crystal clear. >> so it's okay if the koran says don't take christians and jews for your friends. i'm a christian, it's okay to be friends with me? >> it's telling you right now, don't take imam siddeeq to run "hannity" show. >> you can speak out about the "hannity" show and you won't be beheaded or viewed as an apostate. we all know that the penalty for apost civil is death. >> you can speak out about islam. >> you can go into a public square in iran and speak out against islam or in saudi arabia? i doubt it. >> a radical person and an irresponsible person is going to be irresponsible no matter where he speaks out at. >> they'll be killed. >> they may be killed, but not killed by muslims. they're killed by confused people. >> thank you, we have to run.

>> thank you, sean, for inviting me. >> colonel ralph peters. what's your reaction to this? >> sean, the grotesque and tragic joke, the members of the taliban or islamic state or al qaeda would execute the imam for being too liberal. he can apologize and make excuses all he wants, but this terrorism we're seeing is one facet of islam. and islam is now facing the greatest crisis since its founding decades. this is a multi-sided, multi-layered struggle about the soul and future of this religion and whether it's our president that's saying this isn't islam or the imam's saying it, when you're in denial, you can't fix the disease. the imam probably means well, but if he wants to save his faith, he needs to deal with it honestly. >> is the problem the koran in as much as how it's written and how it's interpreted?

because this is not a small problem. this is a worldwide problem. you know, you see it in pakistan today, australia yesterday. we know what we've dealt with in the united states. then we also see countries that live under shariah law and how they impress people and the interpretation. how apostates are treated, people of other religions are treated. isn't it a much bigger problem than just terrorism? >> it certainly is especially if you're a woman to one of the most oppressed countries but the problem is interpretation because all religious texts are interpreted. i personally, among my jewish and christian friends, i don't know many jews that live according to all the tenets of leviticus. i don't have many christians who live up to every standard of sermon on the mount. just as christianity was born with passive martyrs, jesus

christ, st. steven, et cetera, islam was born fighting. its initial heroes are warriors. that's what's taught to children. islam does have contextual problems to deal with. all religions can change, but we can't change it for them. we can't fix it. we are not to blame for islam's problems. >> colonel, thank you for being with us. coming up next tonight on this busy news night -- >> i would hope that we would not stand in judgment in such harsh judgment of a moment in time where somebody was hacked. >> would oprah defend rush limbaugh the way she's defending sony executives sending racially charged e-mails? would she do the same for any conservative? then we'll dive back into the bill cosby controversy as his cousin wants to defend him.

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♪ they call me the seeker >> welcome back to "hannity." lst week we first reported on the sony hack e-mails and a conversation between sony executive amy pascal and producer scott rudin. countless celebrities are not rushing to the defense of the president, nope, they're sticking by their pals at sony. >> we do have, for example, an e-mail between the sony chief executive and this hollywood producer where they're making racially tinged joke about the president of the united states. >> yeah, i'm so much less interested in a tasteless joke than i am in a massive invasion of privacy. >> i would hope that we would not stand in judgment in such harsh judgment of a moment in time where somebody was hacked and their private conversations were put before the world.

>> it doesn't affect you at all. they're not doing anything illegal. they're not trying to fool you, the consumer. they're having private correspondence with one another. >> so the sony execs are getting a free pass from the left. here to respond juan williams and dory murdoch. i'm listening to oprah's comments, if it was mark levin or me or glenn beck, i'm sure she'd say the same -- i hope we don't stand in judgment. the fact that she makes movies has nothing to do with her opinion here, huh? >> man, this is so ridiculous. i understand about the invasion of privacy point, sean. >> i agree with that. >> but let's be honest. i do, too. but let's be honest, the kind of things they were saying about president obama, oh, he's black, so he's going to just like black movies, you know, kind of low brow kevin hart comedies, slap

stick, that's what this harvard educated lawyer will like, how racially demeaning and saying he's no bigger than the black guy singing on the -- i think that's ridiculous. to me a sign of liberal hypocrisy. now niece folks have formed the circle around their buddies at sony because that's their business, it's the hollywood industry. but they've formed a circle around liberal hypocrisy. >> this is a night we ought to mark in history because i agree with everything you say there. i saw django unchained, twelve years a slave and the butler. >> all great movies. >> and you can learn from them. oprah likes to make movies and doesn't want to alienate sony executives. >> that's part of it. we do have an invasion of privacy for sure, but there's a difference between an attempt at humor, maybe not a good one between friends versus the conversation we saw with donald

sterling and his girlfriend where he said ugly, nasty, disgusting things about black people smelling bad and attracting vermin and therefore he didn't like to rent to them. that's different than saying obama's black -- >> i found the whole thing distasteful and insulting. what if this was a hack of a prominent conservative. >> i think the folks giving pascal and rudin some slack would not give the same slack if you and rush limbaugh or any other people on the right were saying, i wonder if obama would like these movies. but a two-way street. >> that's the thing. conservatives don't talk like this, even in private, juan. i find the whole thing insulting. >> but you wouldn't have any kind of slack if you did. >> i've got to wonder on the political side, is it because hollywood gives a lot of money to democrats and then in the liberal media ranks those that want to make movies if they're looking at their long-term interests by not taking a stand

on this? >> i think chris rock was right. he's got a new movie out, and he said the other day, you know hollywood is a white industry. i think he should have said a white liberal industry. remember, these folks were going to a democratic fund-raiser. so they were going to contribute money to obama. >> but they didn't want to go. they kind of felt compelled. it was like they were forced to go. >> jeffrey stupid griffiths. >> i think they were glad to have their money. they were glad to have their picture with obama and all that, but they didn't have any idea what to talk to him about. but instead of saying what's going on in terms of world affair, the man's the president of the united states, like him or don't like him, it was immediately like a reflex, oh, he's black, so we'll talk to him about black movies. >> mr. president, did you like twelve years a slave, did you like the butler? it's rude. it's racial do you think it's racist? let me ask you that. do you think it's racist?

>> everybody says to me, hey, juan, lighten up, they were just joking. but to me, it's racism. i don't know about racist. but it is racism when you define people solely on the basis of their race. that's what you would see in the dictionary and that's what they were doing. >> what do you think? >> i think it was humor between friends. it wasn't all that bad. we're sensitive to anything involving racial context, people freak out. this wasn't such an awful thing for people to say, it needs to be a two-way street so people on the right say something like this, people wouldn't be screaming in the heads if you had two conservatives having this exchange on e-mail. >> juan, this is my christmas, you decided to agree with me tonight. i'll take that and run with it. you're okay. it's you're fixated on loving obama.

he hasn't done well. >> i'm a hannity fan, i just don't want you to karate chop me. >> we've had our, you know, sort of like moments in the green room. let's put it that way. i'm doing a breaking hammer punch across juan's jaw. >> let the audience know. let the audience know. deroy, merry christmas to you. >> coming up next on "hannity" -- >> later i woke up with the back of his hand saying daddy says wake up. >> it is possible that all of bill cosby's accusers, maybe up to 25, are lying? when we return cosby's very own cousin will be here to defend the embattled television icon. we haven't even hit christmas yet but the countdown to 2015 has begun. fox news is putting together a lineup to ring in the new year. ♪

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sexually assaulted me that night. for years, i did not tell anyone about what he had done to me because i was afraid. i felt threatened by him. i did not think anyone would believe me. >> it was like that of a predator. >> i could not open any eyes. i couldn't move or say anything. i blacked out. 13, 16 hours later i woke up to him clapping his hands saying daddy says wake up. >> here with reaction is the author of "bill cosby is right."

thank you for being here. >> i'm glad to be here. >> dozens of women. do you think they're all lying? >> well, to tell you the truth, i was quite devastated when the

america's dr. huxtable. does that not raise a suspicion when so many people are saying it? >> well, i'm suspicious because they should have said something 30 years ago. if this was so traumatic and i saw so many of the women sitting there crying crying with a lawyer. >> do you think they're all lie something. >> i found in my own research some of the women have criminal back grounds. >> okay. how many have criminal back grounds? you believe all of them are lying? those stories are so similar, you think they're all liars? . >> i think people jumped on the band wagon coming up with their own stories. that is my opinion. but, i will say this. you know, if he -- i wasn't

there. at this point, it's a bunch of he said she said. >> it's he said, she said, she said sh she said, she said, she said. and she said. >> yes. but if it's real why didn't you talk to a lawyer? . >> i know you're his cousin do you hold a possibility there may be a dark side to bill cosby that nobody knows there is a possibility this may be true? do you hold a possibility that that is possible? >> if he had a dark side and wanted to get relationships outside of his marriage, i don't think he would have to drug anyone. sex. . >> i don't think he would have to put anyone, put things in anyone's drink. >> you believe all of these

i do know, that he is innocent until proven guilty. >> do you hold out the possibility they might be telling the truth? to think, wow? >> have there been any charges filed? >> well, we had one case settled years ago. we don't know what happened. that was a confidentiality report. there is another case coming forward, i believe a lawsuit has been filed but rest have not filed but felt compelled to tell a story. you're not holding out a possibility they're telling the truth? >> we have courts and a legal system in this country. if i was harassed and someone put their hands on me and i didn't want it i would have talked to a lawyer and i would have done it 30 years ago. >> coming up, a big question of

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welcome back to "hannity" time for the question of the day. do you think jeb bush can win the republican nomination? for me this is too early. i like governors like governor scott walker, governor perry. it's going to be interesting to see which gets into the race. then, of course we have senators. maybe marco rubio, rand paul. and then you have unknowns and of course, people have been running in the past like rick santorum. mike huckabee. my position is let us hear from all of the candidates and the person with the most inspiring vision that could win, that is who i'll support. who will you support?

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