how would you rate that as a think tank bob shrum?ighly as a thing tank. i have some sympathy and i never thought i would say this for fox news. you take the candidates they'll get about seven minutes apiece once you have the fill-ins and the questions. you have jeb bush marco rubio, et al deciding whether or not and preparing to try to pull off a bents sen/quayle moment that will take donald trump down. he's very resilient and he'll come right back at them. go ahead ed. >> i just want to remind our listeners, our viewers of that that it was that moment when he said, i knew jack kennedy and you're no jack kennedy. and i remember quayle just looking at him. i don't think donald trump would look -- i think donald trump would fire right back at any one of these guys verbally and might even trip his trigger. interesting you bring that up. >> but they're going to have gamed that out. they're going to look for that moment. one guy who isn't looking for that moment is cruz. because if trump falls off the buckboard of bigotry, cruz wants to t

. >> bob shrum, thank you very much. that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> tonight on "politics nation," mike huckabee taking a page out of the donald trump playbook. guess what? it's working. also, president obama drops the mike with a big statement about what would happen if he was able to run again. and officials release new video showing sandra bland alive in jail. trying to debunk a major conspiracy theory. >>> welcome to "politics nation." we begin with mike huckabee using the donald trump playbook. step one in the playbook, say something outrageous like comparing the president's iran deal to the holocaust. and step two, never apologize. >> you're not backing down an inch? >> not at all. in fact, the response from jewish people has been overwhelmingly positive. the response from holocaust survivors, from the children of holocaust survivors. >> as president of the united states, would you use the words march the israelis to the door of the oven? >> yes, i would. let me tell you why, b