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the hawkish bill kristol is promising to vote third party if trump wins the nomination. does he really want hillary to win? can anybody slow this guy, trump, down. and which republican candidate is most likely to succeed tomorrow night? who's going to throw the biggest punch at trump and who will be the most desperate and look that way. we'll preview the big fight at the reagan library tomorrow night, we'll do it tonight. finally, let me finish tonight with the nasty divorce we're watching in the republican party. they're going through it right now between the establishment ring and the wild guys. this is "hardball," the place for politics. but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. real madrid have about 450 million fans. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. it will help people connect to their passion of living real madrid. >>> well, there's more troubling the numbers out today for hillary clinton in new hampshire. let's check

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. >> bill kristol? >> trump has hit a ceiling of about 30%. he deserves a lot of credit to running for a very clever campaign and showing how unhappy every is with the republican establishment and unfortunately for some of the rest of the field. but i do -- i said this about six weeks it's premature. so, maybe trump will last another three weeks. >> another part has mystified people, donna, the rise of ben carson, now second to donald trump in iowa and new hampshire -- at least in iowa, some polls in new hampshire as well, what is the source of his appeal. >> slow, steady, without the swagger of donald trump. he's the candidate who knows how to speak in this tone. he's convinced his supporters but many in the establishment if donald trump is to come down, the only person who could possibly take him down the guy who's running a traditional republican campaign. he's drawing large crowds, he's also converting people from being what i call crowd pleasers to folks who will stand up with him at the caucus. >> here's a shocker, we're living in anties

thank you, pope francis, for the visit. >> bill kristol? >> it was an exciting visit. i'm not catholic, so i defer to matthew dowd. >> let's talk about the political implications, does any of this roll over, does any of this good mood stay? any party gain or lose off of it? >> i'm pretty doubtful. we have conservative popes prior to pope francis, it didn't help in the united states that much. one of 11 kids. i was supposed to be the priest, that didn't work out so well. i took away from this, and i'm of behavior, and i'm hopeful that it changes our tone in how we interact with people. the day after the pope leaves, who has just talked about poverty, modesty, empowering the homeless, there is a state dinner for a human rights violator who can care less about religious freedom. among a bunch of billionaires and millionaires. the first lady wears a vera wang designer gown, that to me is if we're going to change, we have to change these individual habits that we have. >> what terry reported this morning about the pope meeting with victims of sexual abuse, he's done it befo

this is a piece by bill kristol in the weekly standard. let me just share with you a portion of what he says. politicalld trump's appeal a cartoon version of richard nixon? the current candidates are understandably struggling with coming to group with the phenomenon of trump. none has put together the pieces as reagan did. your response. guest: i read that piece yesterday and tweeted bill kristol gets with the program. i think what he is saying is trump is a pragmatic conservative. he is not a purist. he believes we should tax hedge fund managers who are currently avoiding millions of dollars worth of taxes. trump gets no advantages.he pays an enormous amount in taxes. the average businessperson in his country is paying a high tax rate. why should this special niche of financial operators making millions not pay? that violates the orthodoxy. i went to a very nice dinner this past saturday and many people there were aghast at this idea. i think this idea will sell to the american people and populist republicans. i think it will sell in a ge

bill kristol now threatening to support a third party candidate if trump wins the election. some establishment guys are going to pick up their toys and go home if they don't get their candidate to win this after donald trump was pressured by everybody to sign an allegiance pledge. what's your reaction to that? >> i think that was the genius thing. i think he gamed them on the pledge. they're stuck with him now. but the fact is -- the fact is if he's the candidate, that poses a lot more of a problem for half those candidates. you hear this stuff, and these guys sound like they're living in cuckoo land. you hear the donor class because they're disenchanted with jeb now is thinking maybe if trump becomes the nominee they're going to dust off mitt romney and run him as the third party candidate. they're to blame for this situation. >> i have said this. you know what, mark, he's a creation of the broken promises of republicans that they made in 2010 repealing and replacing and stopping the illegal unconstitutional amnesty. i want to get your advice because we're running out of ti

. >> look, i love, bill kristol wrote this piece none of us would have predicted scott walker droppingohn boehner retire. when we tell you our predictions, remember that. let's start there. any of the people you mention, i would throw in kasich, certainly kasich, rubio, cruz, fiorina, carson and -- >> jeb. >> obviously trump, those six are all in my mind positioned to be the nominee and have a real shot at it. huckabee has a longer shot, i think. rand paul has an even longer shot. christie has a longer shot. but in a world that's this topsy-turvy, and remember, we have no idea how foreign policy's going to affect us. you have the chinese being very aggressive in the south china sea. >> very. >> as well as with cyber attacks. you have putin projecting russian power into syria in a way we've never seen since the cold war. >> it's scary. i'm running out of time, though. one last question. does hillary survive? >> no. >> does she get the nomination? >> no. >> i agree with you. joe biden gets it, right? >> somebody, but not her. >> you mean the guy that says you have to have a slight indian

what did you say to bill kristol and other conservatives who like you but are concerned you're not readyfor the job. >> i would say listen to what i actually say when i have an opportunity to say it in something other than a one-minute sound bite. that's a format that, you know, i have to grow accustomed to. that's not the world that i've lived in. but, you know, time will come down the road where i'll be able to adjust to that appropriately. >> do you view the presidency as something that you need to be a good manager where you don't necessarily have to have a full command of all policy issues? >> well, i think you need to have a very substantial command. but it's sort of like me as a neurosurgeon. i have know a great deal about the brain, but if i have a patient who has a kidney problem, i also know a lot about the kidney but i don't know as much as a renal specialist does and, therefore, i would get a consult. >> recently you were talking about in dealing with isis you said you would be going after them with ground troops in iraq, but you would not go into syria. why? >> well, first o

. >> can i just tell you, bill kristol wrote this great column where he said everybody was predictedt to the norm. hillary clinton will be the nominee, biden won't run, jeb bush will probably end up as the nominee and these outsiders will go away. yet who three weeks ago, as he writes, would have predicted that scott walker would drop out and speaker boehner would resign in the same weeks. >> i think the laws of gravity will come back. i'll step on the scale and say the same thing, i'm afraid of that scale. >> the headline out of our poll today is marco rubio. marco rubio is now tied with carly fiorina and he's moving on up. >> i would say the two things in the poll is ted cruz so far has not become the next trump. >> he's not the outsider candidate. fiorina grabbed it. >> and rubio is grabbing the plausible candidate mantra right now. >> but gravity is money and at some point even though we never thought trump or fiorina or rubio would be where they are today, the money will follow them because there are people who are jeb bush people who at some point will say the train is leaving

this is a piece by bill kristol in the weekly standard. let me just share with you a portion of what he says. politicalld trump's appeal a cartoon version of richard nixon? the current candidates are understandably struggling with coming to group with the phenomenon of trump. none has put together the pieces as reagan did. your response. guest: i read that piece yesterday and tweeted bill kristol gets with the program. i think what he is saying is trump is a pragmatic conservative. he is not a purist. he believes we should tax hedge fund managers who are currently avoiding millions of dollars worth of taxes. trump gets no advantages.he pays an enormous amount in taxes. the average businessperson in his country is paying a high tax rate. why should this special niche of financial operators making millions not pay? that violates the orthodoxy. i went to a very nice dinner this past saturday and many people there were aghast at this idea. i think this idea will sell to the american people and populist republicans. i think it will sell in a ge

jack king did even interview with bill kristol who talked about the heroism and the civilians and theive duty officers who were there to pull people to safety is astounding and amazing. and the new one opening in pennsylvania is very important. bill: "national anthem. " [♪] ♪ " national anthem" bill: you were in san diego, california on this day in 2001. you got a phone call, and it was your time to respond. if you flew to washington, d.c. and you have been an east code kid since. >> i worked at the justice department right after 9/11. for me it changed my life forever. soon after i net george w. bush and became his press secretary and it was an honor to do something. one thing about president bush no matter what he was talking about, you could see it in the back of his mind, you could see it in his eyes, are we doing everything we can to protect our country from another attack. bill: five minutes away, a moment of silence. stand by at the pentagon. martha: let's bring in our nexte pentagon. general jack keane. he what else a retired four-star general and is visor on the on -- and an

. >> yeah, i read that piece yesterday and i actually tweete bill kristol gets with the program. it's huge. i think what he's saying is this trump is a pragmatic conservative, not a purist. hcun so, for example, he believes we should tax hedge fund managers who are avoiding millions of dollars worth of tax. trump gets no advantage. he payshi enormous amount of taxes. why should this special niche of financial operators making s the millions not pay? that violates the orthodoxy of many republicans. i went to a terrific dinner party at larry kudlow's house saturday and many were agast atc thisan idea.l i think it will sell to the wilg american ivpeople, pop list republican, in a general election. i'll give you another example. he did propose in 2000, that there would be a one time surtax on the super, super wealthy, dedicating all that money to deficit reduction. knock out the entire deficit ong time. again, thatr ri violated the republican orthodoxy because it was taxing with super, super rich. not the wealthy.addition the super rich.er his o trump we figured would have owed an ad

burchard as i call her miss mary to crystal and her husband as bill kristol of the weekly standard.as made the intellectual life seem so energizing and reporting. >> host: when you were second lady did you maintain an office? >> guest: yes, but i didn't go down very much. this trouble to get secret service agent and a couple of cars. >> host: this text for you. can mrs. cheney comment on the role of think tanks and contemporary politics? >> guest: well, they are different. aei is even different since i've been there. i suppose there was more influenced -- more attention paid to the humanities. i think it has evolved so the issues that are front and center are those that are front and center on capitol hill and in the white house. it has become a much more dynamic and energize placed as the evolution has occurred and we have a great leader right now. a fellow named arthur brooks. >> host: this text goes on to say what in your opinion would madison and the other founders think of the think tanks? >> guest: they would probably want to be in one. >> host: 202. a little over an hour left