i went on camera and shared my thoughts for the special. you don't want to miss it. well, jon stewart has left the building. he's left the stage. but he's certainly left the stage a lot better than when he found it. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. the big fight card. trump versus kelly. let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. not since bobby riggs challenged to billie jean king have we seen a matchup like this one. everyone on the right is touting the match. megyn kelly with her direct shot at donald trump's demeaning references to women. the throwing of rosie o'donnell under the bus followed by rush limbaugh's claim the entire

match was fixed and unknown big money boys bought the fox news channel to dump trump from the race. the entire spectacle after the spectacle, the buildup to a really wild battle that has donald trump hoping to fight his way all the way to the top, perhaps even the nomination over the conservative media's dead body, meaning fox. you can see it coming i'm wondering whether it will be a battle between megyn and donald. i'm trying to think through the drama like roger has already. megyn kelly against donald trump. trump better let her have a couple points. if he takes her on, that will be television. i know this is pure media chatter. it will be donald trump against megyn kelly. i think she's going to be tough in her questions. he's going to not like to take it from her. he'll try to stop her from scoring any points on him and that's when he'll lose. saw that one coming.

3:00 this morning trump saw a message actually on twitter calling megyn kelly a bimbo, which she certainly isn't, and he retweeted it to his 3.5 million followers. a few minutes later he went after her saying megy kelly really bombed tonight. people are going wild on twitter. funny to watch. in an interview on "morning joe" trump called it a setup job. i've been set up before, he said. i think i handled it well. wow. howard dean is governor of vermont, dnc chair. he had all those positions and jaunt capehart with "the washington post" and liz mair is a republican strategist. they don't usually blame the entire operation. trump is saying this was a fix. a fix to get him by box with limbaugh jumping in saying oh, it wasn't just megyn kelly. this was the money boys who put a contract out for you. what in the world are we watching here right mow? >> well, this is the -- i mean,

all the usual rules don't apply to donald trump, chris. i mean, if i'd said something like this in my campaign, it would have been over that day. but he's done this again and again and again. it's just stunning. so the big thing is i want to see what the snap polls show, who won the debate, who liked who and all that kind of stuff. i haven't been able to find them on the internet because they're probably not quite ready yet. i believe it's unbelievable. if he goes up in the ratings after the performance he had last night, i think we can't have any prediction what's going to happen. >> yeah, with 24 million people watching, jonathan, he will tweak up a bit. i think he'll crest soon but not yet. your thoughts. taking on megyn kelly. i knew this was coming because i knew she'd be tough and i knew he's not used to that from fox. a real tough question from her which she nailed him with, his language about women which is obviously demeaning and indefensible. and he threw rosie o'donnell under the bus, a gay woman.

he thought it would be a laughingstock and he turned her into the joke with that nasty audience last might. >> that was the most shameful moment in the debate and it came near the beginning. when those ten people are on that stage, yeah, they're in a debate, yeah, they're in a television show and for donald trump it's just a broader extension of his reality television brand, but the people at home are looking at that stage and looking at a potential president. and the bar's much higher. the expectations should be higher. and the responses to the questions from the candidates should comport to a president. and i think donald trump's act, his shtick, my hope is that it will start to wear thin because there's only so long i think people will put up with sort of these glib answers and these putdowns when what they -- as we go along in the campaign season what they're going to want to

hear is specifics about the problems that worry them, that keep them up at night and for the republican party primary base, there are a whole lot of problems from their perspective. >> liz, it seems mon s to me he caught out by megyn. knowing his reputation for his wise ass attitude. that didn't stop him. he didn't look embarrassed. he throws rosie o'donnell under the bus, makes her look stupid and and she even a combatant here. then he starts this blaming on her. then he did that weird thing with his hands. i've been nice to you, megyn, but we may have to change that. twists his hand back and forth. like a weird threat against her. what is that all about? i do think he's going to go up, because there's a third of the party, not the republican party, but a third of the party on the right that does like this over the top political incorrectness as he puts it.

>> well, first of all, i would just point out that we do actually have some numbers back indicating how people responded to all of this. both of you look at the focus group that was done afterwards and some of the numbers that came back independent of that. it actually shows that, no, trump didn't play best with the audience and the people that benefited most from the debate were ben carson and marco rubio, not donald trump. part of the reason is this -- there are a lot of people out there, a lot of conservatives who love megyn kelly, think she's incredibly sharp and smart and she demonstrated that with her questions. when trump pulls this kind of stunt with her, that show justs people he's an unserious person and even if they like his lack of political correctness, he looks like a grade a something something clown. there's just no way of getting around that. so the conservatives i've been speaking to -- i'm down here in atlanta at the red state gathering. the conservatives i've been speaking to, the people they've had good things to say coming out of the debate are carly

fiorina and marco rubio. i've not heard people saying good things about donald trump and that accords with the data. >> what do you make of rush limbaugh who in many ways is the grand vizier on the right. he's got 10% of the country behind him backing up trump. what's that? in the media fight here. he's throwing in with trump against fox. >> yeah, i don't know. i don't listen to rush hlimbaug. it's hard to opine. >> engage his dismissal like that -- >> i think fox has much more clout when talking about the republican party and actual republican voters at this point probably than rush does, whether he likes that or not. whether he says that fox engineered this and went out to get trump, that may be the case. but if you look at the questions that were asked of all the candidates, none of these guys got a pass. they got very, very tough questions. this was actually an excellent debate and i thought fox did an outstanding yob of giving it to these guys up hard and making

them get on their "a" game. it's sad that donald trump wasn't capable of providing his "a" game and playing it on that level but he has nobody to blame but himself. he said he didn't prepare for the debate. he doesn't do debating. and he didn't do that well. >> the decision by bret baier. they decide to open this up, to rip the scab off, will all your candidates pledge to back the winner of this derby. whoever gets to be the winner, will you back that nominee. and i thought, governor dean, i thought it was great stuff. because it forced that news story right off the bat. we told you there's going to be a story here and there is right now from aurora. we've got a verdict from the sentencing phase of james holmes. the gunman who opened fire in that colorado movie theater in

2012 killing 12 people. let's go to the courtroom for that sentencing verdict. >> final sentencing verdict form count 2, murder in the first degree. after deliberation, alexander boik, we the jury do not have a unanimous final verdict on this count and we the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 3, murder in the first degree. after deliberation j.s.c. childres, we the jury do not have a final sentencing verdict on this count. we as the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 4, murder in the first degree. after deliberation, gordon kouden, we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count.

and we the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 5, murder in first degree, after deliberation, jessica you goy. we the jury do not have a final sentencing verdict on this count. and we the jury understand that as a result, the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 6, murder in the first degree. after deliberation, john larimer, we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count and we the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 7, murder in the first degree. after deliberation, matthew mcquinn.

we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count and we the jury understand that as a result the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 8, murder in the first degree. after deliberation, mikaela medic. we the jury do not have a unanimous final sentencing verdict on this count, and we the jury understand that as a result, the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on this count. final sentencing verdict form count 9, murder in the first degree, after deliberation, veronica moser. >> so the jury has failed to reach a unanimous verdict meaning the court imposes a life sentence without the possibility of parole. that's for jameses holmes the shooter in the aurora killing. scott, is this the procedure if it's not unanimous, hung jury on sentencing, you get life without

parole? >> that's right. the defense only had to convince one juror that it was not necessarily right to impose a death sentence on a man that the defense said is mentally ill, and with that, the automatic default is life in prison without the possibility of parole. it's worth noting, chris, that 17 months ago the defense offered this deal to the prosecution and the prosecution declined it. wanted to go ahead to court and go for the death penalty. and now, after a three-month trial, millions of dollars in expense and hundreds of witnesses, the jury has been unable to agree on that death penalty. so that means that james holmes will automatically go to prison for the rest of his life without the possibility of parole. >> scott, it's very understandable about what happened there. thank you so much for that news analysis. let's go back to the politics of last night. governor dean, i was asking you about this amazingly striking

moment when you ask all the candidates who are running for the nomination of a party to say, will you at least, at least support the winner. let's watch that moment right now. >> is there anyone on stage -- and can i see hands -- who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the republican party and pledge to not run an independent campaign against that person? again, we're looking for you to raise your hand now if you won't make that pledge tonight. mr. trump. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animal. you once told a contestant on "celebrity apprentice" it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. >> what i say is what i say. honestly, megyn, if you don't like it, i'm sorry, i've been

very nice to you although i could possibly not be based on the way you've trite treated me, but i wouldn't do that. i've never gone bankrupt, by the way. i have never. >> no, but, sir, that's your line, but your company has gone bankrupt. >> what am i saying? talking about the lenders. first of all, these lenders aren't babies. these are total killers. these aren't the sweet little people that you thing, okay? you're living in the world of the makebelieve, chris. >> you said in most cases you identified as a democrat. when did you actually become a republican? >> governor dean, those are tough questions, but the guy's running for president of the united states. he ought to be able to handle the tough questions. those get back to who he is. is he a republican, is he loyal to the party and has he said terrible things about women. they seem appropriate to me. but they're buzzing that he's being afflicted by a media

attack being put together, according to rush limbaugh, by the money people, the big contributor in the republican party put a contract on him through those three moderators of the debate. your thoughts? >> it reminds me of ross perot saying that george bush interfered with his daughter's wedding or spied on him or something like that. look, you can't survive these kind of questions with the answers or the nonanswers that he got. i don't know of any candidate in either party that i've ever seen in any race who has been able to raise his hand and say i'm going to run as an independent in front a partisan audience like that. so that's why i want to see what the polling numbers show after this is all settled in. i can't believe this guy can survive this stuff, but he keeps surviving one crazy thing after another. who am i to say? i can't believe what's going on in the republican party. it's a spectacle. >> what about the guys and the women out there who spent their

whole lives working for the republican party, doing the scout work, all who believe in the party as such for a guy to say, look, if i don't win, i'm out of here? what's that say to him? >> those people don't like that. but more importantly, with the number of donald trump's answers last night we got an insight into why conservatives don't like him. it's not just about party affiliation and loyalty. there are people out there who will vote republican but don't have a loyalty to the party. they do to conservatism. they don't want to see donald trump setting hillary clinton up for a win which is what a lot have suspected he's been up to from the beginning. >> you think he's a mole. >> i think there are a lot of people who suspect he is. i don't know whether he is or not, but i think that's a suspicion that a lot of people have. >> wow. >> that's a problem for him. >> okay. >> beyond that, i would also make the point that a lot of people have a problem with the substance of what he had to say on the topic of health care last night. he basically went out and defended britain's national

health service which is an extraordinary position for anybody who is purporting to be a conservative or republican to take. it doesn't work in this party. it's not tenable. >> please come back. this debate is not going away. thank you. coming up here's what you didn't see. any discussion of voting rights, race relations, gender issues. these are front-page issues in this countryp they weren't even talked about last night. that's giving hillary clinton and the democrats plenty of amunation to use in the upcoming debates. the presidential candidates who didn't help themselves last night. jeb bush, where was he last night, mike huckabee, scott walker might be in need of a reboot. after 16 years on "the daily show," jon stewart says good night last night. finally let me finish with the jamboree i witnessed out in cleveland. what a show. this is hardball. the place for politics. "hardbal.

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welcome back to "hardball." hillary clinton's campaign said she was the real winner of this debate. senator marco rubio. >> this election cannot be a resul competition.

it's important to be qualified. but if this election is a resume competition hillary clinton will be the next president because she's been in office and government longer than anyone else running tonight. >> clinton spokesman actually tweeted thank you marco rubio for telling the world hillary clinton is the most -- he didn't exactly say this. but the most qualified for president. pretty close to that. but there were other moments that gave the clinton campaign reasons to pop the champagne corks including missed opportunities by the republicans on issues like climate change and women's health. no discussion at all about income inequality or college affordability, nothing on raising kids, no discussion about voting rights and barely any discussion about race or police behavior. and the gop continued their assault on planned parenthood and stuck to their default opinion on abortion which voters believe that will send women voters running back to the dems in 2016. >> unlike hillary clinton who has a radical position in terms

of support for planned parenthood, i defunded planned parenthood more than four years ago long before any of these videos came out. i've got a position that's in line with everyday america. >> as governor of the state of florida, i defunded planned parenthood. >> what i have advocated is that we pass a law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of its protection. i think that law already exists. it's called the constitution of the united states. >> it's time that we recognize the supreme court is not the supreme being and we change the policy to be pro life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a buick. >> ten men agree, anyway. well, i would think that is a fund-raising vehicle for you last night. because ten guys out there, all men, all agree on getting rid of planned parenthood, which in our poll is the most popular organization that we polled on.

>> we are in uncharted territory with this republican party. i mean, think about this. not since roe v. wade in 1973 has the republican presidential nominee been opposed to abortion in cases of rape, incest or life of a woman. >> life. >> life of a woman. that's right. >> so let the woman die. >> and we heard it last night from walker, rubio. it's unbelievable where we are with how right-wing and out of touch this cast of characters are. >> let's talk about manners. i know. the reason that politics makes some kind of sense is there are reasonable manners. nobody thinks about this till trump comes along. last night he was called out i thought effectively by megyn kelly. and i think that taib tape will be played again and again. watch this tape. i think this is going to have legs. here's the exchange between megyn kelly, a fox news channel, and donald trump over how trump talks about women. >> you've called women you don't

like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. >> it was well beyond rosie o'donnell. >> yes, i'm sure it was. >> your twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. you once told a contestant on "celebrity apprentice" it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees does that sound like the temperament of a man elected to president. and that you are part of the war on women. >> i think the big problem that this country has is being politically correct. and i don't frankly have time for total political correctness. what i say is what i say. and honestly, megyn, if you don't like it, i'm sorry. i've been very nice to you although i could probably not be based on the way you have treated me. but i wouldn't do that. >> you've dealt with politicians in rough circumstances.

they don't always like you. they get mad at the questions. what's this mean, what's this thing. if you don't change the way you talk to me, megyn, let me see -- what's this mean? what does it mean? >> the last day or so where he's come out on twitter and so on and used the term -- >> bimbo. >> bimbo. >> he's tried every negative thing. what's the fight he's having? why would he want to go to war against the majority voter, women. >> trump is pretty thin skinned. i don't think it's a strategic move. he's mad about megyn kelly. >> did he lose last night to her? >> he did and looks like he acknowledges that. he's trying to get into the a war with the media. fox bullied me. it's fox. so i don't think that's a great strategy for him. >> rush limbaugh has jumped on his side and said rich people got together and told fox to throw the game. to fix it.

i mean, what is this? paranoia? fox is a conservative network. >> and watching the questions all last night, you knew where fox's agenda was. but that being said, it is upsetting. it was upsetting to see the crowd reaction to donald trump -- >> why did they all laugh at the rosie o'donnell joke? did it just show that he was tough? >> i'm not sure. >> it wasn't funny. >> he was willing to throw at a person under the bus. >> completely uninvolved. >> she's not a part of this. >> this isn't just about women. i mean, all americans deserve an apology for this kind of behavior from the stage of a group of candidates who are trying to run for president of the united states. >> are there women out there that like in the old school they'd be the ones making the sandwiches for the guys' poker fame? are the women like macho guys

even this kind of rough behavi r behavior? there must be some people that like this kind of macho talk like yeah, rosie o'donnell. i can call her what i want to call her. >> sure. there are some, but we know that the mass majority of women and particularly women voters who are looking at this election are looking for candidates who are about an agenda that is going to advance women and families in this country. and we didn't hear any of that last night. >> here's john kasich with a much different tone. he was asked how he would explain his opposition to gay marriage if one of his children were gay or lesbian. let's watch this reaction, which is so different. >> i just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who just happens to be gay. because somebody doesn't think the way i do doesn't mean i can't care about them or can't love them. so if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course i would love them and i would accept them because you know what? that's what we're taught when we have strong faith. >> you know, i think -- i'm

working on a book about bob kennedy now. i'm trying to figure out compassion and its role in american life. everybody has to be tougher than the next guy. but what you really want is a president who looks out for people who are in trouble. who can hithink they just had a terrible hurricane. let's get the help to those people waiting at the convention center with their babies crying. get them the water they need. you want a president who gives a damn about people. a forest fire in california. let's help those people living out there in the hills. sounds like a weak word, but without it what do we have as leaders? a bunch of kings. >> really kasich is running as that person. the other interesting thing about last night is you talked about he expanded medicaid and he defended that. the problem to me in a republican proimary, i'm not sue you're rewarded for going to gay weddings. kasich is running a race to be the jon huntsman style. >> no, no. >> he's a republican. >> you have just tried to kill

the -- >> no. >> kill him. i think he's the republican we all grew up with, people my age. people in pennsylvania, ohio, regular guys, a bit more conservative than democrats all supported voting rights, all supported civil rights. they were lincoln party people. >> they lose in primary to ted cruz all over the country every year. >> you're so young you think that's the only republican party there ever was. >> well it's the one that is now. >> a great record on workers rights, on education and not on the advancement of women either. let's be careful where he really is standing as well. i think what's really important here as we look at what we saw over three hours of debating last night -- because don't forget there was an hour earlier that with you saw. 17 candidates. no conversation of equal pay for equal work. >> income inequality. >> the voting rights act on the anniversary of the voting rights act. no conversation. >> so when democrats talk about

one set of issues and republicans talk about another? it seems like that. they don't come together. >> there's been policings all over the country. not just democrats, america. except in this primary. i would blame the candidates but m megyn kelly did not talk about the huge racial debate going on. >> i thought of the movies of the '50s when you saw the streets of new york and you never saw one african-american. they cleared the streets, those alfred hitchcock movies. except when they get to the guys working on the trains. thank you. we'll have much more of last night's debate coming up with the roundtable. but up next chuck schumer, a key democrat in the senate, says he's now against the president's nuclear deal with iran. what's that mean for president obama and getting this thing through? that's coming up next. this is "hardball." ♪ hp instant ink can save you up to 50%

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the nuclear deal with iran. new york senator chuck schumer, the most influential jewish vote in congress, you might say. and he announced he will oppose the deal. congress is expected to vote on the deal this september. chris jansing senior white house correspondent for msnbc. i thought this was common but i thought it was interesting the timing over all the bally who over the republican debate. >> there's been a lot of speculation about why that was. there was even a report and our folks on the hill heard it was deliberately timed so it would get gur buried. the white house scoffs at that. if you want to bury something, you put it out on friday at 4:00. even though it looks like chuck schumer was going this way, make no mistake, the white house badly wanted this endorsement. nobody was pushed harder. nobody was lobbied harder. less than a month ago i watched him as he walked across the lawn behind me going into a meeting

with the president in the white house. everybody was watching him for the reasons you cited. and he's been walking around for the last couple of weeks with a dog-eared copy of this agreement in his pocket. he's highly respected for his knowledge on these issues. when he issued that statement it was 1600 words long in the end, he said there were serious weaknesses in the agreement that left iran stronger financially and better able to have a robust program. now, officially the white house response is that they're disappointed but not surprised. still, maybe just less than an hour ago the president took off in marine one heading to martha's vineyard. and they do say that he may be making some phone calls from there. the lobbying on this will have to continue. >> he still has a fighting chance to win this one if if he sustains the veto. >> the numbers are on his side. but the question is will his decision influence other democrats who are sitting on the

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pledge i would not run as an independent. >> he's already hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians. >> we'll, i've given him plenty of money. >> if this election is a resume competition then hillary clinton will be the next president. >> we went from 8 billion in the hole to 2 billion in the black and we've grown 350,000 jobs. >> i've been very nice to you although i could probably not be based on the way you've treated me but i wouldn't do that. >> if you join isis, if you wage jihad on america, then you are signing your death warrant. >> knowing what we know now with faulty intelligence and not having security be the first priority when we invaded, it was a mistake. i wouldn't have gone in. >> i don't trust president obama with our records. i know you gave him a big hug and if you want to again go right ahead. >> senator paul, the hugs that i remember are the hugs that i gave to the families who lost their people on september 11th. >> probably the russian and chinese government know more about hillary clinton's e-mail server than do the members of

the united states congress. >> the money paid at consumption is paid by everybody including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now. >> thank you, megyn, i wasn't sure i was going to get to talk again. >> we have a lot for you, don't worry. >> no surprise that donald trump got the most speaking time of all the candidates with over ten minutes in total. jeb bush was second with eight while the rest each had about six. rand paul spoke the least with less than five minutes on his total. despite speaking the most trump has six questions posed to him during the debate. jeb received the most, eight in total while chris christie got just four, the lease of any candidate on stage. according to google, the top searched were donald trump followed by ben carson, marco rubio and john kasich which might be the big indicator of who made the best impression last night. how will the winners last night

capitalize on their success. jeremy peters, april ryan, paul seger. so you guys matter in this. so let me get your thoughts about this. who do you thing did well? give me a couple names. >> i think rubio outperformed. he speaks very well to these working class upward mobility themes that are going to be really prominent in the election. >> let's stick with that one. you like rubio, too, right? >> i like rubio. he really hit the ball out of the park. when he talked about various issues. but i thought kasich -- >> i want to stick with rubio. all three agreed on rubio. how can the republicans run a young first term senator who speaks well who has no executive experience or really lifetime experience and make him president after dumping all over obama for being that guy. first term senator with no executive experience with good speaking ability. >> that's his achilles' heel. >> has he ever done anything?

>> he hasn't -- well, he was the speaker of the floor of the legislature. >> that's rotational job. that's not seniority. >> if you look at his record in the senate there's not much to point to. but for most senators there's not a lot to point to because the senate just doesn't do much. >> if you would say why should this guy be president, what would be your answer, because he can speak? >> he offers the cheerest j ese clearest generational contrast to hillary clinton. >> he'd be able to say, don't tell me living paycheck to paycheck, that's how i grew up. i owed 100,000 bucks in school loans four years ago. >> hillary clinton's mother was a maid. she was a housekeeper. her mother was abandoned at 14. >> what's her mother got to talk about it? >> she talks about her mothermo >> he talks about himself. >> she grew up humbly.

>> that's funny because most people think she grew up upper middle class. >> right. he has something that bill clinton had. bill clinton was poor and he went middle class, then he went to be the president of the united states. he can relate to everyone. i believe that that is his story. he has a story that americans want to hear. >> one of the stories is his checkbook. apparently he has a problem balancing it. when it comes to dollars and debits and credits, he seems to know that stuff. >> but you don't want -- if you're hillary clinton, you don't want to get into an argument with marco rubio that maybe you're living beyond your means, young man. >> because? >> it returns to this notion of hillary clinton saying we were dead broke. >> did you notice last night there were a lot of guys playing alger hiss or uriah heep. like the old jewish comics. we were born to poor. >> kasich the coal miner's grandson, marco rubio the son of

a -- >> my father was a drunk. my father was a mailman. it was a sad story. >> we knew one person who wasn't coming from that. >> no trump started with a -- we'll come back and talk about jon stewart who everybody likes. people really like you at the end. jon stewart has left the building. highlight from the daily show last night. big farewell. [ horn honks melody ] well, well. if it isn't the belle of the ball. last night. big farewell. what's new, flo? last night. big farewell. name your what, now? last night. big farewell. our budget. i just hope whoever stole it knows that it only works at progressive.com. so, you can't use it to just buy stuff? no. i'm sorry, gustav. we have to go back to the pet store. [ gustav squawks ] he's gonna meet us there. the name your price tool. still only at progressive.com.

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>> one of the show's most famous and successful alumni steve colbert came back to say good-bye. stewart tried to hold it together while he thanked his family, and offered a final fair well. >> i want to thank my wife tracy, and my kids nate and maggie. i'm not going to look over there. for teaching me what joy looks like. nothing ends. it's just a continuation. it's a pause in the conversation. so rather than saying good-bye, or good night, i'm just going to say, i'm going to go get a drink. >> what did he do in television? i always like when people start something new. he did something, satire of a different kind. >> he brought politics into a fun zone, where a younger generation can really engage in it. there was a period of time when

people in their 20s were getting all their news, their political news from jon stewart and the "daily show." he's spawned a whole generation of people who are sort of reproducing his show. >> you say young. my daughter, i talk to my kids while they're still in the house, in the new hampshire primary. i would be filing my story for the newspaper like you do, and my sons were watching tv. everybody would be nice to him. all my daughter -- the only person she wanted to meet was jon stewart. that is the guy she liked. >> the crazy thing about it is, i wanted to -- he makes you laugh. we all want someone to make us feel good and laugh. you could rest assured he would make something funny out of the worst of situations. and you could laugh. i ran into him at the democratic convention in charlotte. we were staying in the same hotel. it's interesting when he talked about family.

the first thing we talked about is the fact that the convention was streenlly placed at the time when school first started and he did not have a chance to send his kids to school. >> bad timing. >> bad timing. it's interesting how he's going home to his family and how he loves his family. >> kumbayah and good feeling. he was knocking us the whole time. that was his thing, to make fun -- most importantly, people covering him. he didn't think they were being covered right. >> i think he's irreplaceable. he created this institution -- he's not going to take on the same type of satirist critic. and i think that's a huge void to fill. >> i'm sorry, bill maher.

>> just saying, that this show did -- was part of the ideological trend in news. it turned news into an ideological issue as well. >> he had a great target with fox. >> no one's irreplaceable. when you have something like that. but i think the person who could replace him is chris rowe. >> jon stewart has left the building. coming up on this network at 9:00 eastern, thank you jeremy peters, april ryan and paul singer. let me finish with a jam r jamboree i just witnessed out in cleveland. you focus on making great burgers, or building the best houses in town.

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jamboree i witnessed in cleveland. part of it is the familiar faces you meet. ben ginsberg, the tough campaign lawyer, who wins his fight like he did in the florida recount in 2000. and the republican pollster who i've known forever. and john sinunu. and another republican pollster. and todd harris is doing media for marco rubio, and as you saw last night, doing quite a job. there are a lot more women than there used to be. what do you make of the showup on the stage last night? i think rubio did a good job. i think kasich did, too.

kasich has a story to tell about as governor of ohio. it looks like jeb bush is up to nothing. we keep hearing that he's running for president. you've got to wonder when he's going to act like it. donald trump was under assault of tough questions. the story of his rise was told by his refuse will to commit to backing the nominee of the republican party. he declared his independence from the party, if they don't pick him as their nominee, he may as well go it alone. he's saying he'll gladly accept the nomination, and run against the person that they name as nominee. the other trump moment was megan's kelly using phrases most viewers would consider out of line. at least unworthy of a man to run the country.

basically he said he doesn't have the time to use the right words to describe women. i think trump showed his strength as a challenger. having the right message isn't enough, you need to be the right person sending it. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight, on "all in" -- >> i don't, frankly, hav time for total political correctness. >> record ratings for the republican debate and donald trump was at the center of it all. >> i just wanted to be treated well and with respect. >> was the treatment of donald trump fair and balanced? >> i don't think it's very professional. i walked out of that room and people were saying, that was really unfair. >> tonight the fallout for the republican front-runner. including the new hampshire group for trump sticking by their man. charlie pierce with the progressive view of the te