many other people who are politically experienced have never seen it either. pf you don't think that bill clinton or the president with his birth certificate, people who sll >> no, not at all. >> why? >> because i'm a threat. i'm a very big threat to the progressives in the country because they can look at the polling data and see i'm the candidate that's most likely to beat hillary clinton. they see that. >> reporter: is this fun for you? >> would i have preferred to be doing something else? certainly. but it is impoant to me. and when i think about the sacrifices that were made by those who preceded us in order that we might have the freedom that we have now, it's the very least that i can do.

>> there's more to chris' interview on our website meet the press nbc.com including the recollections of the classes he took at yale. let me join donald trump, live from new yoror it's sunday morning withonald trump, after hosting "saturday night live." welcome to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> do you think this matter whaz's going on here with dr. carson? >> i feel badlyor ben. i've gotten to like ben. it's a tough thing. he wrote a book about wanting to him rhit his mom in the head with a hammer, stabbing somebody, only to be broken up by a belt buckle, which if you know belt buckles they@turn and twist. i don't think they're going to strong man. when he write it's, he has pathological disease. thinking about running for

he ss he has pathological disease. >> you don't believe him, do you? >> if you have pathological disease, that's ai problem. i didn't write it, he did. he's going to have to explain a lot of things away, the scholarship situation, the dinner with westmoreland when he wasn't there, the pir mirds. pyramids are solid structure essentially, a little area for the pharaoh. and you don't put grain in a pyramid because it's all solid. >> you've done a little -- >> they're large structural beams. >> you have done a political trick. you have referenced every negative connotation you can pick up on dr. carson. number one, you obviously believe he's a threat to your standing in the polls. number two, you believe these are pretty seriousus >> well, i think everyone is a threat to me. i look at all of these people. i like a lot of them. i respect a lot of them. i think everybody is a threat. but nobody will do the job i do,

nobody is going to take away jobs from klein na and bring them back to this country abdz many other places, india, japan. nobody will be able to do that. by in terms of the election, i'm number one in the polls, i was number one as you know qualifying for the fox debate. i'm number one. i'm in the pole position as they call it. but i think everybody is a threat. >> let me ask you something about your book that you said. i think in order to restore trust with the american people, i think yo have to be putting out your plans, you've got to put it out on paper. you said this in your book, "crippled america." they have been claiming i haven't put out enough specifics. there's a good reason for this and it fit was my overall foss fully of leadership. there are a loloof different voices and interests that have to be interested. this involves getting people into a room and negotiating compromises until everyonealks out wf the room on the same page. i think on the negotiaiang front, that's what a lot of americans want to see. in our polling, they pick a

president they want to see compromise. but don't you owe it to republican primary voters to put your stances on paper, more of them? put your plans in details on paper? we know they might change. >> sure. >> but let's see it. show us your work. >> i've done that. as you know i've come out with a x plan, very detailed. i've come out with a plan for vet wrz we're going to make the vets happy and healthy. these are great people. we're going to take care of our vets. >> you already told us how you're going to make mexico pay for the wall. >> it's easy. we have a trade imbalance of $45 billion with mexico a year. we spend billions of dollars, we give mexico billions of dollars a year. the wall is going to cost $6 billion n 7 billion ldz if i build it. if somebody else builds it, it will cost $20 billion. >> so tariffs. >> we can build a man nif sent wall and spent $7 billion not the numberer i'm hearing. when you have a trade imbalance of 40$40 billion and 45 bldz a year, when we give them billions of dollars, it's easy to

negotiate that deal. that i can tell you that, chuck. the other politicians can't negotiate because they don't have a clue about negotiation. but it's really easy. we're losing 45 -- think of it, a trade imbalance of $40 million to $45 million and that doesn't ininude the d dgs that pour over into our country. that's exclusive of drugs, and the drugs are probably bigger than the numbers we're talking about. >> so you're saying tariffs will pay for this. >> no. i think mexico -- i'll get mexico to pay for it one way or the other. i guarantee that. i have gre relationships with the mexican people. in nevada i won thehispanics. but the leaders are taking advantage of our leaders because our leaders are not smart, incompetent frankly. >> a new booooabout george 41 said you called up atwater and said, vet me as vp. >> lee was a great friend of mine, died at a very young age. ed came to me when i was quite yuj and he said, you know, you'd be a great vice prprident.

i said, really? tell me about it. this is like the first time i ever thought in terms -- i was building my empire, starting to build my empire, i was in the midst t it. frankly, lee said, you'd be great and you should do it. i want to get back to you. and we talked about it on two occasions. but noing ever came of it. >> quickly, on snl, there's always a line on these things. do y y think -- some people question how serious you are about running for president. does hosting "saturday night live" undermine how serious you are running for president? >> if you lookok every politician -- not every but just about every politician has gone on "saturday night live" it's very iconic, it's my second te hosting. i did it 11 years ago "the apprentice" was number one and they asked me to do it. i had a great time doing it. hilly was on two weeks ago and everybody was on. hosting it is a bigger deal than doing the singles skit. did had a fantastic time.

they say it's getting tremendous ratings. you know, it was a big success for nbc. you should be extremely happy, chuck, because i think it was a very big success for nbnb hi a lot of fun. >> do you think you should have taken the protesters more seriously? that must bother you. >> no. you know, before the show there were only a handful. i think more people were protesting in favor of me than against. and before the show started, about 30 minutes before the show started, everybody left. you know why they left? because they went home to watch it. they w wt home to watch "saturday night live". >> you were comfortable with larry david mocking the protest. >> not only comfortable t. was something i had to agree to and i loved it. i thought it was great. larry got up and he said certain things and i fully -- no. that was part of the script, in all fairness xs it was funny and the place was roaring. i can tell you inside the studio they were roaring. we had a good time. it's not a question of -- you know, i'm doing great with the hispanics, chuck. i'm winning so many different areas with hispanics. i employ thousands of hispanics.

i'm going to bring jobs back for hispanics. we're going to win the hispanics. watch. >> donald trump, i believe we have a face-to-face coming up soon. i know we're close to figuring it out. look forward to it. >> very good. thanks, chuck of. let's move to the other side the aisle, independent candidate from vermont. bernie sanders, let me ask you about this ben carson stuff because you have seen people leak out stuff you wrote 30 and 40 years ago. is this fair game? >> no. look, i listened to the interviews with dr. cacaon, and it's interesting. but you know what, chuck? the american people want to know why the middle class of this country is disappearing, why we have 47 million people living in poverty, why we have massive income and wealth inequality. when you look at dr. carson, to e best of my knowledge, this

climate change is caused by human activity. this man wants to abowlish medicare, impacting tens of millions of niors, and this man wants to give huge tax break totz rich. i think it might be a better idea -- i know it's crazy, but maybe we focus ornn the issues impacting the american people and what candidates are saying rather than spending so much time kmrorexploring their lives of 30 to 40 years ago. i think a lot of people are turned off because we're not talking out the issues impacting real people. >> you know, you have been very consistent about this, and i think it's been a very admirable part of your campaign. in enact, you made it clear you didn't want to go after hillary inton. let me play the many times y y said that. >> imnot going to get into the media game, andrea, of attacking, making personal attas against hillary clinton. i just am not going to do that.

american people want. it would be all over the front pages of the paper if you were viciously attacking her. don't do that. i happen to respect and like hilary clint nl so i don't get into perernal attacks. yoyo know that. >> senator, something seemed to change. a boston globe interview, you said, i disagree with hillary clinton on everything. consistency of such issues does speak to the character of a person. you spoke about the e-mails where you said at the debate you're tired of the damn e-mails you said let the investigation proceed impeded. are you babatracking here? >> not at all. chuck, this is exactly media stuff. my views on hillary clinton's e-mails are exactly what i said in the debate and right afterward. the american pepele are sick and tired of seeing on the front pages e-mails. they want a real discussion on real issues. there is an investigation ongoing. i have nothing to do with it. that's that. but my views on that have not changed. in terms of disagageing with

many, many issues. what i understand politics and elections to be about is to discuss differencece of opinion. i intete to do that, and do that vigorously. that does not mean that i'm making personal attacks against somebody i respect. i disagree with hillary clinton on whether or not we should break up the large financial institutions in this country. i don't have a super pac. she does have a super pac. we have many different points of view and i will discuss those vig rasly. >> one of the t tngs you've pointed out isis consistency. you believe that matters. what's wrong with evolving on issues? what's wrong with that? >> there's nothing wrong. everybody evolves on issues. nothing wrong with that. but i think if you look at the important issues facing this country, going back to 2002, who made the analysis, who looked at what bush and cheney were saying on the war in iraq? it's one thing to seeevolve and say, i made a mistake. it's another to say, you know, i

mistake in terms of trade, i'm glad that in recent months hillary clclton has moved to myy position on the keystone pipeline. on the transpacific partnership. she's now making a step forward on marijuana, not far enough in terms of getting the federal governmeme seeing it illegal. but what people want to know is, who has leadership who was the in 1996 in terms of doma, the defense of marriage act? so what i think the issue is who is prepared under difficult circumstances, when it's not necessarily popular, to make decisions which are thehe right decicions, rather than 20 years later say, well, you know, maybe i was wrong or maybe i got to rethink that. >> well, i had a lot more i want to discuss. we're compacted today. but senator sanders, alwayay a pleasure to have you 0 on, sir. thanks very much. >> okay. when we come back, the panel will be here to discuss all that we've heard fromen carson,

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debate on friday, again ifill and mark caputo, nobody owns the political space in florida like mark with rubio and jeb bush so thanks for coming up. go canes. >> go canes. >> now we know what this is really about. >> exactly. hugh, let me start with what you heard from dr. carson. i think he's going to go got"the media is being unfair route" does it work for him? >> to quote dr. kissinger, it has the adadtional bebefit of being true. his objection to this week is there were four scandal bus two were reported. marco rubidoes not have a scandal, hillary had her non-disclosure agreement revealededt the washington freebie con and reuters obtained a letter from the teneo group refusing to answer questions about hillary clinton. so there were four scandals, two real involving hillary clinton, one about ben carson, west point, not a scandal, heavily media and the one about marco

>> why is it not important? >> i have no doubt someone at the rotc said to ben carson "we'll get you in." because it was common in the '70s and the '80s. >> but he's sort of a -- obviously he's a very distinguished retired surgeon. since retiring he's basically a professional autobiography and that's what he does, he sells and sells and sells and sells his autobiography. there are a lot ofthings, t t most dramatic things in his autobiography, all of which are favorable to him and helped sell himself as this amazing person who should d president cannot be corroborated including the factual statement that you cannot get a full scholarship. scholarships. >> no pays.s. it's n n like he g g offered to west point and had to pay when other people would have to. that's the impression he gave. >> here's my question. if you get into yale and you are

an rotc student, do you doubt someoneeame to himnd said "you need to go to west point by directed a mitt." do you really doubt that happen? >> what i doubt is a person ought to be president on the basis of their autobiography when they sell that t t the country as "i was offered a full scholarship to west point and i turned it down." you weren't offered a full scholarship to west point, nobody gets a full scholarship to west point and if you're selling yourself, you're not lling it truthfully. >> en, you've been on the trail a long time over the years. personal stories. i go toesz me the danger for dr. carson is the fact that his candidacy is built on biography and honesty. >> it is built on saying this is who i am, these are my bootstraps and we all admire that. interesting thing about the outsiders we talk about so much is that they all seem surprised on what it takes to run for president. and what it takes is scrutiny. when dr. carson saysthere's never been scrutiny like

i think -- i mean, we were all there when bill clinton went through the whole thing with killing ben foster. with theirstripin arkansas, still we're talking about barack obama's birth certificate years after he was president. there's always the scrutiny and each and every one of those times those folks hated it. they commained. they felt like victims and of course this is the way dr. carson, who has great self-regard, as he deserves to because he accomplished -- >> his objection isis the double standard. there is nda story, mrs. clinton is not being covered -- >> and clinton would say there was a report saying the two e-mails that were supposed to be classified were not classified and nobody covered that. >> mark -- >> i'd rather just watch them. >> i know, i know. [ laughter ] see why we put them next to each other? >> patented dynamic.

>> the most fun is that they're so civil which is a reminder that that is what at least sunday mornings are about. story that hugh just brought up and it does go to the -- the head scratcher there was it was like a non-issue but what took him so long. >> there's a few things that took them so long. rubio in 2010, first batch of his credit cards got released, credit card statements to the republican party of florida were released on the behest of then-goverr charlie crist running against him in the senate and they made the calculation that look, ththe are private statements and i'm just going to take the hit. years later they had the luxury of knowing that when he runs for president they'll have time to analyze his other statements and when they analyze those statements a a put them together d pull the bank statements they realized, oh, my god, there's not much here. there's only $65,000 in spending over two years ashe head of the florida house campaigns which is not a lot of money. so they made the calculation that we'll hold off until the appropriate time and let the donald trumps of the world say this is going to be a disaster. >> it was a setup.

i think it was a setup. >> that's what i was going to ask. >> so you believe thth was -- >> that was part of it. i think it's part of the marco rubio strategy. i put it in my story that i wrote. when you look at the hype that built it up and then you look at the expenses, you really have to go o o of your way to make it look like a scandal. >> it's very smart. >> david rivera, the former member of congress down there who was basically chased out via scandal. is that going to be less of a hit on him because of how this credit card thing went down? >> i wouldn't presume to say what will be a hit and what won't. marco will have to answer questions about his relationship with david because david has been in trouble but has been able to avoid indictment at the state and federal level. >> that's the part of this i wonder how much. there was interest calculation. i'm going to hit the pause tton. we have so much to cover. we have the democrats. we have the bush familyly shakespeareaea drama going on there but we'll change lanes. after the break, the latest on the russian plane and why experts are increasingly

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the crash was yet in egypt's sinai peninsula. u.s. officials are increasingly convinced it was downed by a bomb and attention is focusing on intercepts of chatter between an isis affiliate in the sinai and members of a group in syria. for the latest, i'm joined by the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee, dianne fefestein of california. senator, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning. >> why are u.s. officials so convinced this was a bomb? >> well, i think it's an emerging story. i think first of all, you've got the flightt data recorder and the voice recorder that record something that could be an explosion. secondly, it's the nature of isil, i think. isil is now i i 12 countries. they do attack after attack. the forensics on the superstructure of the plane need to be done. i'mmdelighted to hee that the fbi will be going into the area

believe we are sharing our iiormation, intelligence information now. and this is a point i want to make. it is my strong belief that the united states and our good allies should share information regarding terrorist attacks. we usually do this and it's important we do this. >> are you concerned we're not sharing with russia because of this rivalry? >> yes. my understanding isthat we weren't for a while but i have now heard that we are. i hope that's true. >> do you believe this is a -- look, you've seen the intelligence. i know there's some things you can't share. but everything you've seen, you've seenenhis stuff in the past. do you believe it was a bomb? >> i think there's a strong probability it was. i can't say it's dead bang ceceain but there's a ststng probability that it was. >> what does this mean? >> well, this means i think a very big thing for russia. this was a russian plane with russian people.

russia is in thehe area. russia is at three bases, has planes, has people. my hope is that russia will take a strong stance against isil and they are not now so doing. most of the attacks are directed toward the moderate opposition and i think the time has come for us also to begin to develop a joint strataty with russia. >> you hope this is a wakeup dual putin? >> i hope it's a wakeup call to putin and i hope to some extent it's a wakeup call to us. i have said before and i really believe it.. wwwill fight them now or we will fight them later. it's only a question of time. and they're now in 12 countries. they've done 25 major attacks in these countries outside of syria and iraq in the last two years. this is a huge worldwide problem

and we've got to play a major role, the russians should as well. >> if this was a bomb, it looks like the assumption is it got on via airport workers, it didn't get on via the passengers. they seem to have cleared the passengers. the scary thing about this is do we have -- what do we do to screen airport workers in this country? the dea busts drug rings all the time. they've done a lot when it comes to airport workers smuggling drugs on planes. that tells you there's some security holes. >> well, this is a very complicated area and i think homeland security is doing as good a job they can. they are now tightening security. the kinds of bombs vary. the one i'm most worried about is the one that there have been four attempts to brg into this country and that's the one that goes through a magnetometer. the bomb maker is stillll alive

which is easy to get and it is very serious. it can take down a plane. so we need to tototly be on our guard. we need to do those things that are prudent and direct and i think homeland security realizes that and we are toughening in those places which are important to toughen security in now. >> 14 months ago you said this about the president "i think i've learned one thing about this president and that is he's very cautious, maybe in this instance too cautious." that had to do with syria. he obviously has made an incremental step about what he wants to do with syria with the special forces. is it enough? >> no. the special forces are limited. i think 50. that won't do it. if we're really going to use special operations, quick in, quick out, you have to do in the a much m me compreheeive way to get at isil. this isn't just one facility. it's not one building in raqqa or somewhere else.

the other thing that seems to be emerging is the belief the it. we've had over 7,000 sorties. others have made sorties as well. we have made the majority of the sorties and thatat hasn't changed the dynamic. so i think we've got to look at those things which can be major in scope and this means put together a strategy with russia and momo ahead. >> senator dianene feinstein, vice chair of the intel committee, let's see if they listen to yoyo advice. >> yes, chuck, right. when we come back, why carly

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we've already heard from threof the main outsider candidates for president today. sterday i caughtt up with another, the former ceo of hewlett-packard, carly fiorina, and asked her why she is one of just two candidates who have yet to release a detailed tax pl, or, frankly, any policy plan on her web site. here's her answer. >> well, let me disagree with the premise of your question. how often do politicians put out detailed p,ans? how often do they get enacted? never. that's theproblem. politicians put out detailed plans for all kinds of things, it never happens. but if you go to the carlyforpresident.com web site,

will see me answering the question in public verbally. in other words, i am being held accountable. a plan -- anybody can write a plan. anybody cananut a plan on a web b site. it's another thing to say "you know what i think we need do" and be held accountable for this. i think we need go from a 73,000 page tax code, which is what we have today with 4,000 changes since 2001, we need to get it down to about three. and what that means is we need to close every loopholeand lower every rate. >> well, show us what you're going to do. how do we trust -- >> that is what i'm going to do. >> show us your work. >> so in other words words on a piece of paper are more accotable than words said to people looking them in thee eye? i don't thinknkso. i don't think that's what voters think because i think voters have gotten smart enough to know that plans and papers, 50-point

plans are win by a bunch of advisors and consultants. so i'm perfectly prepared to be held accountable for my words and plans and i would encourage your viers to go onhe web site and ask any question they want.t. >> so weweshouldn't expect a tax plan out of you any time soon. >> i've given you a tax plan. i've given you a tax plan. it needs to be three pages and the only way to get there is to lower every rate and close every lolohole. >>so that's the question for you guys. will voters accept candidates who do not put their ideas on

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you by lyrica. we are back. it is no secret that democratic candidates across the country have struggled at the polls since president obama took office. just how badly have democrats been performing? since 2009 democrats have lost a net of 13 senate seats and 69 house seats. let's put this in context. you have to go back to eisenhower to match this many losses for a party that controls the white house with senate seats. 13 of them. in the house it's been 100 years since a two-termpresident's party suffered worse losses. that was wood droe wilson and the democrats. 99 house seats. the state level with president obama. under him democrats have l lt control of 12 governorships. plus given up 30 state legislative chambers and over 900 state legislative seats.

nixon/ford saw more governor and state legislative chamber losses in the president's ow party. there was a reason for those losses. the watergate scandal. you have to go back to eisenhower again to find more losses of state legislatures over 1,000 back in the '50s. so what is going on here? why are democrats across the country getting wiped out in election after election? where obama name is on the ballad. democrats don't turn out if obama is not on the ballad. wasn't that long ago, 2002 they won a bunch of governorships. something is wrong here and you can't just blame it on democrats don't show up. >> there's -- what's happening is that the democratic party is getting smoked by the republican party. they made a decision to invest long term in places where it makes an institutional

difference whether or not you're there. the republican party didn't talk nationally but investedeavily in advance of the 2010 cycle in winning state legislative seats across the country. they flipped enough to flip legislatates to flip thehe congressional map. republicans are thinking that way. democrats aren't. >> no better example than the state of florida, a swing state nowhere near swing. >> right. and florida every identifies a lot of the problems. the big thing is the obama political machine and we're big data, it's a lie. the obama political machine without obama is no mamaine. they don't n. that was largely a personality based campaign in two different cycles. i did witness at least in florida the obama machine for whatever it was it was good having its consultanan come down and build democrats in various races and not win them. in addition to that they would not do much to help.

that folks not likingg barack obama very much. if you were running for office you ran away from obama and obama's people didn't run towards you to help. >> it took republicans 40 years to recover basically from the double whammy of the eisenhower losses and the watergate losses. 40 years. they may win the white house five of the next six times just like the republicans. >> siberia is big. they keep nominating bad candidates. i want to pay rachel a compliment. ten dayay ago former secretary of state clinton was on your show. this is the kind of faux pas that democrats make routinely bernieieanders talking to you and made a super pac add for every republican running for every office. they're not very good at running campaigns. >> let me go to speaking of

rachel, let me play a few highlights from clinton, sanders and o'malley, let's take a look. >> i want us to use diplomacy which is why i spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against iran. however, i will not -- i think it's irresponsible to rule out rce. >> to me, as opposed to maybe some other unnamed candidates, the issue of keystone was kind a no-brainer. it never made sense to me from day one as to why you would extract and transport some of the dirtiest fuel on this planet. >> look, contrary to donald trump's assertion the symbol of our country is not barbed wiree fence. it is the statue of liberty. >> rachel you did a good job. >> thank you. >> i fell in love with the format. the idea which you engage back and forth with candidates for periods of time withoutut them trying to break the rules, duck or change a question.

to do this. >> i would, too. >> yes. >> i think the one by one format if you care about if this is what everybobo says about the policy stuff -- >> we can mix it up between parties where you alternate. >> we can do it one issue at a me. >> you learn interesting things. to listen to bernie sanders say i don't want to name the names of these people, of course, he's talking about hillary clinton. you listen to hillary clinton saying i don't want to answer your question. i prefer someone say i don't want to answer your question than pretend to answer something else. if we're going to run campaigns based on personalilies let's find out somom more about their personalities and their true transparency. i think we don't find that out in one on one debates especially with ten people on stage. >> the confidence of hillary clinton today versusu three weeks ago, it's unbelievable. the change. you can see it in bernie sanders. look at him.

you know, he's getting anxious. >> he's going for it. >> he's try. >> he's more than 50 points behind in south carolina. she's got 80% support of democrats in south carolina. he knows where he needs to go. the problem is when hillary inton tries to run out the clock, that's always a topic. >> it's like the plot twist in law and order. just when you think then it comes. >> pow. >> you both said there's one take-awii in the show that you haven't been able to shake and going back to the republican side of the race. >> ben carson saying when he was interviewed where he says he has better things to do and it's very jeb bush where jeb said he had cool things to do and might not want to do this and these candidates are acting like oh i'm being dragged in this or my country and i'm going to go back me. i just don't get that.

you have got to have energy. donald trump put that word into the campaign. they have got energy. you got to want to serve. you can't be a martyr. >> listen to what we heard this morninin from carly fiorina and marco rubio and ben carson. whenever they're questioned, they immediately say go to my website and give me money. ben carson sent an e-mail saying i'm under attack. sendnde money. i need your help. carly fiorina mentioned her website 85 times. i don't want to put statements or papers on it, but come watch me talk and maybe give me money. there's a certain consistency with these candidates. >> you could have fell over. >> i was surprised. put it on paper. what's wrong with that? >> marco rubio put out a long piece on his defense straragy. very detailed. that's what you need to do. >> that's what he did with his tax plan, too. look, it's getting scrutinized and beaten up. >> on immigration. >> and he did it on taxes. >> yep.

>> whyan't she? >> we do have speech to text translation capeabilityiescapabilities. let's put it on carly letterhead and hold her to it. >> whehe we come back it's the one topic we haven't talked about in the end game segment. it is the shakespearen nature of the bush family. not only is the republican party not been able to figure out what to make of the george bush legacy, neith has the bush family. we'll be right back. >> announcer: stay tuned for end

brought to you by bobong. - covering your kid's eyes is one way to prevent thememrom seeing something inappropriate. another way is to use parental controls on your tv, computers, and mobile devices to control viewing habits when you're not around. it's in your hands. the more you know. we were going to alert the affifiates and saying "we're going lon" because it feels like we should go more than an hour but this last topic, we have a little time. there's more evidence that neither jeb bush nor the republican party has worked out how to deal with the legacy george w. bush's president.

a new book by george h.w. bush unleashed stinging criticism on wwo of 43s top lieutenants. bush 41 not a happy camper about rumsfeld and dick cheney. on rumsfeld he said this "i think he served the president badly, i don't like what he did and i think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything." on cheney. "i don't know, he just became very hard line and very different from the dick cheney i knew and worked with. the reaction to the attacks on 9/11, what to do about the middle east" again he uses this phrase you can't get enough of "iron ass." [ laughter ] mark caputo, we were last week dealing with jeb bush trying to figure out how to outdistance himself from bush. from whatever -- all things bush. this could haven't come at a worse timefor him. >> it gets even more awkward because this coming week we have the republican party is meeting for its annual or its presidential fund-raiser gathering. dick cheney's a featured speak there. >> hay oh.

>> and then jeb showing up. so great, g gting the band back together one more time to be dysfunctional. >> but this feels like, hugh, the republican party doesn't know what to do wth t bush leg. >> i a lot don't. the best moment jeb had inn the debate sosoar is when he said "my brother kept us safe." that's the best part of the bush legacy is that after 9/11 he did the hour of our grief speech, gave a state of the union on the axis of evill and thehe republican base wants that to be w's legacy. hw's comments about cheney and rumsfeld run into that head wind. most of the republicans i talked to admired the vice presesent a lot and there's not much upside in attacking them. >> what do we like the best? we like that these guys confirm that we suspect. we confirmed this is what h.w. was. also confnfm that our parents ask about years later what we thought about what we did there may be criticism. i would love to be at their thanksgiving table and here how that conversation plays out. >> the personal part of this, reading meacham's book, the one

feel while reading it, i had an emotional reaction to it which was i can't really imagine the same nuclear family having a third go at the presidency. i mean, going through lili all of this drama about one of our sons won his governor's race and one of our sons lost, which state do we go to? >> i think you can get on it, george p. bush wililrun for president in the next few years. >> you brought this up with barbara bush. doesn't it make the "no more bushes" comment make more sense now? >> her comment. >> it was about her. i think she was exhausted. it's funny you say that. i got the same -- the patriarch and matriarch are exhausted? >> dynastic politics don't solve america and mrs. clinton has the same p pblem jeb bush has which is this is not something we do well or often in the united states since the adams. >> having been first lady is not the same as your dad calling your brother "quincy."

it's not a dynasty when you're the same age. >> having bill clinton sitting on the sidelines was all of us waiting for him to say something, do something. >> but this is going to be that feel, mark, of the clinton presidency which is what does bill really think? what does bill really think? >> i think to rachel's point about thanksgigiing, jeb bush announced last time that he was probably going to go down this road of running for president after thanksgiving. this thanksgiving is going to be a big moment for the bush family because if jeb's poll numbers stay at 4% 50r%or 5% nationally and remain in the cellar in florida and new hampshire and iowa, i imagine that will be a really awkward thanksgivivi. >> iiso want an invitation. >> he never gets out though, right. >> h.w. in 1980 didn't get out of the race until may. we loed this up. these bushs are fighters. >> getting out of the race at thanksgiving is -- it was embarrassing, it would look like a loss. so is getting out of the race or

march or april. if he's going to lose, he's going to lose. quititng now serves him -- >> that's a quitter. >> right. that's a quitter. getting beat is on next thanksgiving. >> i think it's important to know that one of the reasons you have to think about florida is we don't havee election day in florida, we have election days. we have a month of early voting. a good 50% is cast by absentee ballots. so when you go to the polls in south carorona, y yu'll have 30% of the votes in in florida so you want -- if you're going to drop out, if you don't do well in new hampshire, that might be the time. so there can be different benchmarks if bush's situation remains the same. >> i will say this,,f there's popcorn involved it will be funnier than "saturday night live" was last night. >> wow. >> i had to get that in there. before we go, i think this might be the most vicious negative ad ever. > eveve >> let me show it. >> the choice for governor

john bel edwards answered our country's called and served as a ranger there the 82nd air born division. or david vitter who answered a prostitute's call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom. david vitter chose prostitutes over patriots. now the choice is yours. >> whoa. >> hugh and glen have seen it. mark and rachel have not. >> i love louisiana. the best attack ad before this was out of louisiana four or five years ago which was a coroner's ce where they acacally acted out a or or movie where a coroner was accused of selling body parts with igor. >> i wanted to fact check it. they're saying he chose prostitutes after patriots not over. >> politico would give that a half true. i have to leave it there. that'ssll we have for today. we'll be back next week because

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