jeb bush: thank you. support the presidential initiative for that early childhood development in education? a multilateral [indiscernible] jeb bush: if it is effective. it is outcome-based. if it was simple and did not try to impose western-u.s. imposition on countries that were completely different and it could work. >> jeb bush: i would turn all of our aid programs into those kinds of projects, and also, programs with more free market economics, and promoting governments that are productive. great question. yourself -- sider jeb bush: [indiscernible] i kind of like the traditional .onservative approach back then, we had totally different -- we now have a progressive government. now the progressive government has run amok. [indiscernible] ♪ [the national anthem] [applause] [indiscernible chatter] jeb bush: a lot if you will have converted support because it is lean and healthier. the safety is higher. how is the cheeseburger -- you have cheese inside? you have bacon and that too? it? have my name on the

jeb bush: yeah. and faxed, i would turn all of our aid programs into those kinds of projects, and also, programs with more free market economics, and promoting -- instead of promoting governments that are corrupt. great question. do you consider yourself a mckinley republican or a theater roosevelt republican? jeb bush: [indiscernible] i kind of like the traditional conservative approach. hard to be critical of teddy roosevelt the guy was so all in. back then, we had totally different -- we now have a progressive government. now the progressive government has run amok. if you have the same pass in as passion for reform teddy roosevelt, that would it be bad. ♪ [the national anthem] [applause] [indiscernible chatter] >> how are we doing? jeb bush: a lot of people pork because it is lean and healthier. >> the chinese are buying a lot of pork. jeb bush: the safety is higher. how is the cheeseburger -- you have cheese inside? you have bacon in that too? you have egg? you have my name on it? >> you bet. we

bush: all right. thank you. >> [indiscernible] mr. bush: [laughter] mr. bush: that is not fair. where are we looking? >> right there. mr. bush: move-in. why are you so far back? >> [laughter] thank you so much. mr. bush: thank you. >> my granddaughter. >> [indiscernible] mr. bush: thank you. over your kids generation and go right to the grandkids. >> the table back there. incredible event. >> thank you. mr. bush: how are you doing? >> good. how are you? mr. bush: i'm doing pretty good. you working the state fair? >> i am getting a day off. [laughter] mr. bush: that is a permanent position. >> that is right. how are you? mr. bush: excellent. great. we are great again. where are you going? >> [indiscernible] community college. mr. bush: excellent. what are you doing? >> i am just [indiscernible] right now. mr. bush: are you getting a degree in community college? >> know, i am just [indiscernible] mr. bush: that is the smart thing to do. you don't live here? how long do you intend to be a resident? >> i believe a year. i also work full-time. i cannot be a full-time student the firs

bush chief of staff. please chime in welcoming for the quiet man indispensable president via george h.w. bush. [applause] >> when they sang gibsons for their hospitality. i'm an old book and books are adding and i think the way you've been able to handle such that the scope in an intimate as though they'd should satisfy any look at it and i recommend anybody looking for a place to browse and find grace to have to read, this is the place to come. i'd also like to thank you for taking a little bit of time to join us today. i wrote the "the quiet man" because i feel george herbert walker bush had in his one term as extraordinary presidency as we've had in modern times and i wanted to get between the two covers of a book all of those great accomplishments and put great accomplishments included in the way people would appreciate how unique, house daschle and how important the presidency was. if you are all here buying both, i won't go through from page one. what i would do today is talk a little bit about the

bush. george w. bush! it went out today as a fund-raising appeal for the presidential campaign of his brother, jeb. and that, in itself, is not an embarrassing thing. unless, of course, you're the brother who launched your presidential campaign by telling everybody that they should think of you as a stand-alone candidate, unrelated to your family. yeah, sure, maybe you had a father and a brother who were also presidents, quite recently, but that's totally irrelevant to your own run for the presidency, because you are your own man. >> as you might know, i've also been fortunate to have a father and a brother who helped shape america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions that they had to make. but i'm my own man. and my views are shaped by my own thinking, in my own experiences. >> that was how jeb bush basically told us he was going to run his campaign for t

jeb bush: how are you? >> good, how are you? jeb bush: how are you? >> [indistinct chatter] >> [indistinct chatter] >> [indistinct chatter] (202) 748-0003 for the mind -- -- -- the mind needs to have the same exercise as the body. lots of stories. learn about babe ruth. -- [indiscernible] take care. >> thank you. >> [indistinct chatter] >> ♪ >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: we have complicated things in our life, but if you are on the border -- [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] jeb bush: but you can do it. think about it. -- [indiscernible] -- all of a sudden this joan comes up. -- [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] jeb bush: checking out what was going on. -- [indiscernible] >> [indistinct chatter] >> trying to get them to sign up. >> [laughter] jeb bush: how are we looking? >> [indiscernible] >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: where are you guys from deco -- from? >> minnesota. jeb bush: minnesota? >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: i would love to have your help. take care. enjoy the budweiser. >> absolu

bush era. perhaps first before going into the principle part of my comments, let me just pick up on a couple of things that director goss said. and one is kind of a detail but an interesting one. and that is the president's daily brief. and when we made the transition from porter being the dci to my becoming the director of national intelligence there was about a month or so where we went in to see the president together at 8:00 every morning to brief him. that for me was a very helpful and interesting time to transition over to doing it myself with the pdb staff in ensuing months. but one thing i want to say about president bush, and this is now 2005, right? he's been in office four years. when any president's been in office four years, they know the situation pretty well. they've met a lot of leaders, they meet dozens of leaders, national leaders, international leaders every year. it's kind of hard to give them a leadership profile, if you will, on somebody who they just saw the previous week

trump or jeb bush? i'm not a fan of jeb bush. jeb bush is in favor of common core and weak on immigration. those are two bad things. bush the other day didn't want to fund them. he said i don't want to fund women's health issues. he didn't want to fund. that's worst than romney's 47%. when they give a million dollars or $5 million to jeb bush they have total control over him. he will do like a puppet whatever they say. >> jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. he has lobbyists. i know them. >> joining us now michael steel former chair of the republican party and msnbc political analyst, kasie hunt, msnbc political correspondent and the host of changing america on shift by msnbc. kasie hunt, you had your choice of events to go to in new hampshire. let me guess. were you by any chance at the trump event? >> maybe. yes. i was. although i did get a chance to catch john kasich earlier in the day but it was not possible, as you said to be at jeb bush's event and donald trump's at the same time. >> this the turnout for trump's event, is th

he calls jeb bush "dumb." he says the bush-cheney iraq war was a catastrophe.smisses rick perry and lindsey graham as lightweights. can that possibly be good for the republican party? mary: he's not speaking for all americans. i think that wears out pretty fast. like all americans, i like his spunk. i like that he gets more mad at -- gets that we are mad at the republican party. this is a very stellar field. people want the fight and the substance. we have not even gotten our jerseys dirty yet. we're basically in spring training. the real game is on the field after labor day, and then we get into the long-haul. i think whatever he calls the other candidates is belied by their presentations and their performance. al: hopefully you will have a better record than the new orleans saints. mary: hey. hey, you. [laughter] al: if one of the super pac's came to you and said we would take out negative ads on the donald -- good or bad idea? mary: that's a ridiculous idea. as i said, the first reaction to him that the establishment took, which was wrong, was to dismiss him

bush: i don't know.'t think congress is going to change this, so the president can't unilaterally open up trade. if you eliminate that, you are taking all the leverage that exists for us to create an environment where cuba moves towards freedom. we are legitimizing a regime that will allow it to continue to oppress its people. it is not the right approach. mark: just to clarify, are you worried about the chinese motives -- the motives of the chinese government and what they are doing? jeb bush: yeah, it was not an act of kindness to hack into the server that had 23 million files, some of which were required for security. mark: i'm talking about currency, though. mr. bush: i think we will have to see how that plays out. there are significant challenges in the economy right now that could be the motivation for this, but also, if you see continued growth, then this is a provocative act. mark: is it bad for american workers? mr. bush: it is not necessarily bad for american workers if it relates to weakness i

vw bus. >> governor bush, welcome to the register soapbox. mr. bush: thank you so much.t a joy to be here. i support higher standards. poisonous, is so don't know what it means. hang on, sir. don't let your head explode. right now we have 3500 soldiers and marines in iraq. we have no strategy. it kind of creeps up. there responding to challenges that exist rather than having a strategy. excuse me? indid not have to get out 2011. it could have been modified. that was the expectation. everybody in iraq and washington knew the deal could have been expanded. now we need to do something else, which is deal with the fact we have islamic terrorists organized and the way you take them out is to rebuild the rack military, to reengage with the sunnis, to be able to have a strategy to take them out. >> he did it. he survived the soapbox. >> i think so. he did a bunch of stuff with the press. optimistice was more and smiling. i'm, court, he said i don't know what it means anymore. core, he said i don't know what it means anymore. john: let's not speak about it. let's speak about oth

john: john ellis bush bush -- bush bush? -- is heading to las vegas tonight.o not mistake him for the gambling type. even though he has been taking hit after hit from trump, bush has laid low and rarely offers a hint of criticism towards the front runner. just to give you a sense of what it is like to be jeb these days, here are some of the insults the donald has lobbed at him in the last 24 hours. mr. trump: when jeb bush talked about women's health issues, he was so bad. it is like, what is he doing? i think that will be his 47% there is no energy there. we need energy! when jeb bush raises $114 million, jeb bush is totally controlled by the people who gave him the money. there is not enough enthusiasm, there is not anything. jeb bush will not be able to negotiate against mexico. you know what he is going to say? oh, oh, and go back to sleep, ok? john: right cross, uppercut, bam, pow. here is how jeb decided how to counterpunch today in reno. mr. bush: i will not play the game that everybody wants people running for president to do -- to say that another per

bush: how you doing? >> senator. mr. bush: how are you? f us?ad o >> he is up there. >> i live in new jersey. >> welcome to the iowa state fair. >> how will you help us? how will you help us get back what we lost? mr. bush: we are going to try sustained growth for starters. it is doing business right now because of the combination of local, state and now federal stipulations are making it hard. the epa, the health care laws. you are the largest -- i've got. only one guy doing it? w>> you have to fix it. mr. bush: where do you sell your peacocks? >> all over. mr. bush: do you know your senator? >> we have talked, but you have to help people like us. mr. bush: where is your farm? >> weston, iowa. mr. bush: i would love to see them. >> peacock.com. how we doing? our yo how are you? >> i'm good. good to see you. mr. bush: i'm doing well. how are you? >> governor. mr. bush: good morning. >> cameras only. mr. bush: how are you doing? >> good. mr. bush: excellent. how are you? good morning. mr. bush: it sounds pretty cool. >> let me get a photo. taco a

21. 19 of 21 served in bush 41 or bush 43 administrations. >> mike viqueira in washington, thank you >>> a strong warning from the united nations on the crisis in yemen. next - why the civil war there is creating a humanitarian disaster, and american citizens fighting for family treasures seized by fidel castro during the cuban revolution. revolution. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm randall pinkston in for antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news - iraq eliminates layers of its government. why some say the reforms will make the situation worse. >>> first, libya's internationally recognised prime minister says he will step down. he was . he was conflict. >> reporter: government troops are on the offensive. soldiers backing exiled president abd-rabbu mansour hadi launched an attack to recapture a province in central yemen, it would pave the way for abd-rabbu mansour hadi loyalists to advance towards the capital. >> translation: our message to the houthis - you have 48 hours to withdraw from ebb or you will be killed. >> the push north follows a series

bush: i very competitive.competitive. >> my granddaughter, 9 years old, won a blue-ribbon with a raspberry cake she made. pretty happy little girl. mr. bush: wild raspberries? >> they aren't wild. great time for raspberries. >> governor, i'm worried there are bubbles coming out of your pork burger. there is one. progress being made on the right-hand side. what do you think? all right. let me know, i will assist you. don't know how good he is on the grill. i do this with my son every sunday and we normally have either stake or pork. i'm pretty competitive. the more you do it, the better you get. >> that's why he's such a great governor. mr. bush: you get that mental health issue all worked out? >> yes. mental health redesign. we were fortunately one of the latter states to do that. mr. bush: we did that when i was governor. you did the right thing. >> it takes a while. we can actually provide better services. mr. bush: your focus on taking care of people who need the service, rather tha disruptions. we found th

sununu: i can't speak for jeb bush.hink it is the wrong thing to do this early in this stage to lash out and start going after your fellow candidates. you saw the debate, chris christie and rand paul going at it. i don't think anyone came out better for that. it is early. this early in the race, you have to remember, you are still introducing yourself, whether you are jeb bush are marco rubio bush, or marco rubio or john , kasich. you need to be introducing yourself to the voters here and across the country. you need to do it every day, every week, for the next couple of months. anytime you are not introducing yourself, you risk losing ground. in the case of john kasich, he is governor of ohio, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, created jobs, privatized prison, reformed entitlements. these are important issues for him to get across to voters, to make sure they understand where he come from, how he solves problems. it's not smart to be lashing out at every candidate. mark: if you were to compare john to any previous sena

bush.to tell "nightly news" there that he's not a cocaine user, but, yes, he, too, has cocaine on his cash. it was florida! it was the 1980s. what would you expect. jeb bush at that point was not yet a full-time politician. he was a local businessman in miami, but when you're the son of a man who was a state representative in texas and a u.s. ambassador to the united nations and the director of the cia and an aspiring candidate for president, politics sort of gets thrust on you whether you like it or not. and that was the case for jeb bush in the 1980s. now, for a very young and very inexperienced jeb bush in the 1980s. in 1980, poppy bush, having racked up that very impressive resume of public service, poppy bush in 1980 decided to make a run for president. you'll remember this is the presidential election that umly went to ronald reagan, but in 1980, reagan was being challenged for the republican nomination by george h.w. bush. and during that primary campaign went bush was trying to lock

jeb bush. there is no hiding the animosity between bush and trump on the campaign trail as the "the washington post" made very clear in this montage. >> this is a guy who was a democrat for most of the last decade. >> for him to get things done is hard. >> and if he was interested in a more comprehensive approach he might want to read my book "immigration wars" which i published four years ago. >> i think bush is an unhappy person. i don't think he has any energy. i don't see how he can win. >> you win when you connect with people about their aspirations not about how great you are, how rich you are, or how this you are or how that you are. that's not leadership? he is weak on immigration. he is in favor of common core. how the hell can you vote for this guy. >> he is doing this to inflame and incite and get to draw attention which seems to be his organizing principle of his campaign. >> you know what's happening to jeb's crowd as you know right down the street? they are sleeping. they are slee

>> no. ♪ >> governor bush, welcome to the register soapbox. [applause] mr. bush: thank you so much.to be here. i support higher standards. the term common core is so poisonous, i don't know what it means. hang on, sir. we will get you. you are next. don't let your head explode. right now we have 3500 soldiers and marines in iraq. we have no strategy. it kind of creeps up. we are responding incrementally to the challenges that exist rather than having a strategy. excuse me? we did not have to get out in 2011. it could have been modified. that was the expectation. everybody in iraq and washington knew the deal could have been expanded. now we need to do something else, which is deal with the fact we have islamic terrorists organized as a caliphate, and the way you take them out is to the iraqi military, provide arms and support to the peshmerga to reengage with the , sunnis, to be able to have a strategy to take them out. he did it. he survived the soapbox. >> i think so. he toured this place this morning, seemed more at ease and optimistic and smiling. mark: there is this notion of c

trump. >> jeb bush is getting back from eric cantor some backing. >> there's no question that jeb bushwin the presidency running against mr. trump or running against ms. clinton. >> we'll see how that support turns out. cantor left congress in a year ago. he lost his seat in a shocking upset during the primaries to a little known college professor. hey, let's not beat up on college professors. let me bring in executive vice president at media. does eric cantor's endorsement really, you know, shake the rafters and make people excited? >> you know, i hope it doesn't take away from the excitement of dan quayle's endorsement, i got to be honest with you. no, eric cantor was ousted by his constituents for insufficient evil one year ago, which would make it funny. but it will cement jib's status as the ideological front-runner. they created this frankenstein monster of a base and he found a new mad scientist to go live with. >> frankenstein is the doctor himself. jeb bush essentially admitted trump's a legitimate front-runner, so where does he go from here? >> i think that's the latest tacti

bush, george herbert walker bush and, as of today, john kasich.thank you for joining us from manchester. you are the most coveted endorser of the granite state in the republican party. you have given the endorsement to john kasich. why? i'm not sure all, any of that is right, but i accept it. i think our party needs to be inclusive and open and welcoming and optimistic and generous. i think john kasich embodies a lot of that. i watched him in various kinds of audiences. i watched the way he responds and he talks a language that people like to hear and inspires confidence. i think he has a great opportunity to win the right number of votes in the electoral college and win. thatnk that is something the republicans can win the election. this is a person that is making a pretty compelling case. mark: everything you said could be said if you endorsed jeb bush. given your longtime closeness with the bush family, why kasich over bush? tom: i'm not going to say anything bad about jeb bush because i admire him and respect him. this has nothing to do with j

bush is not. the one thing that is true is not only does bush get to put on what they call the conservative uniform and respect to trump, but he needs to put it on more generally on the party where more people suspect he's a moderate. he's got to do it with a lot and less grim a visage. al: i agree but let me disagree with you strongly on trump. that was a show. it was entertainment. it was substance free, nothing but a bunch of demagogue. at some point that catches up to you. there was no contact last night. john: that man was her gold. say it ain't so, joe. and a new quinnipiac poll joe biden perform slightly better or at with hillary clinton. in florida, biden leading trump by three points while clinton is behind the donald by two or in ohio, biden leading trump by double digits also better than clinton. in pennsylvania the vice betternt trumping again than hillary. there's a similar pattern in matchups between jeb bush and marco rubio. how good is this news for joe biden as he considered wheth

bush and first lady laura bush, you see them right there.hager gave birth to her second child yesterday. to poppy louise hager named after her grandfather. george h.w. bush's nickname when he was a child is poppy. congratulations to the bush family on that little aligs. absolutely adorable. >>> coming up for us, the iowa state fair is a political rite of passage bringing together the best of fried foods and butter sculptures and white house hopefuls. the big question there -- speaking of bushes -- can jeb bush regain his momentum there? . no sixth grader's ever sat with the eighth grade girls. but your jansport backpack is permission to park it wherever you please. hey. that's that new gear feeling. this week, filler paper and folders just one cent. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. so you think this chip is nothing to worry about? well at safelite we know sooner or later, every chip will crack. these friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com... they didn't have t

how does bush respond? why hasn't he gotten it right? >> i don't work for jeb bush. what you should know is that jeb bush has been one of the few candidates who has put out a robust and thoughtful plan on terrorism. he has pointed out the fact that our secretary of state in the democratic presidential candidate in the course of her tenure visited iraq one time. jeb bush wasn't the person who said that isis was the jv team. jeb bush didn't set allow red lines to go past over and over again. jeb bush wasn't the person who spent a half a billion dollars to train 50 syrian pro h-democry fighters. this is not a situation where you can ascribe the train wreck in the middle east to george bush completely. i note donald trump today called george w. bush evil, which i find fascinating. that's an older piece of pain. this is a guy who also -- his version of an iraq policy is to say, we will go there and take the oil. really? that is the most superficial, drunked out at the local corner bar talking smack. this is a guy who has no policies to underpin his swagger. >> let me brin

how do think jeb bush did? >> i thought he did great.d a clear, crisp, concise answers on clear national security at -- issues. while some of the atmospherics are of an entertaining friday, i think it's an event that will talk about substance. i appreciate governor bush being the fifth one we've done. mark: all the campaigns we've talked to say -- it is like this in public polling, too -- national security has been an enduring, important issue for voters to do what you think republicans in iowa want to hear , see in their nominee in terms of national security ideas? matt: this goes back to the steve king freedom forum in january where applause lines weren't immigration or social issues, but it was standing steadfast with israel, calling radical islam what it is, tools to prosecute the war on terrorism aggressively. john: how do you prove that? matt: we are going to find that over the next couple months. let's go beyond that. do you want to support israel?how are you going to deal with china as an economic partner and also our next greate

bush. this is the first of three panels looking at post-9/11 changes and initiatives to protect the country. after that, former senior bush administration officials debate the president's critics on counterterrorism and war fighting. then former veteran secretary james nick collison, a "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker review the reasons for going to war in iraq and afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. following, that nchlpr's garris keeler talks about 15 things that need to change right away. >>> the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites across the nation to hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders every other weekend on c-span2's book tv and american history tv on c-span3. and this month, with congress on its summer recess, the cities tour is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today the history of columbus, georgia, from the first prehistory residents to the growth of the textile industry, as well as a look at confederate gunboa

jeb bush?on't think so. >> in talking with sean hannity last night, trump went after bush as a mouthpiece for wealthy donors. >> when jeb bush raises $114 million, which he has. when hillary raises $60 million, i know the people that gave them the money. they're not the nicest people in the world. >> the system is corrupt? >> jeb bush is totally controlled by the people that gave him that money. the nice part about me, i don't want anybody's money. >> donald trump is a rich guy. jeb bush is the son of political privilege. they reek of the establishment yet donald trump is drawing this distinction here, my wealth frees me from the political establishment, it allows me to say, i don't need your money. it allows me to throw it in their face. i know wealthy candidates make this argument a lot, i think it resonates. >> the one thing trump brings more than anyone else, he's saying things that people don't say. he's very honest and at times not politically correct, but in this case, the chief critique

bush. and during that primary campaign, when bush was trying to lock up any vote that he could find, he dispatched his son jeb in puerto rico. jeb spoke spanish, his wife was mexican, jeb bush went to puerto rico to make the case for his dad. he was 2 aefrn at the time. in puerto rico, turns out he was not at all ready for the family business. you can tell physically. check this out and the cameo is from the man's knees. watch. watch this. >> the republicans in puerto rico hold a primary election this sunday when they will choose 14 delegates to their national convention. it's not a large number of delegates. puerto ricans can goat voet but all of the candidates have been trying to win friends under the palm trees. the son of one of them there almost 60 days k. >> the campaign trail in puerto rico is different. ♪ >> puerto rico, not new hampshire, is the first primary at least for republicans. in puerto rico it's important to remember that democrats and republicans don't count as much as lo

on women's issues, jeb bush on common core, jeb bush on act of love. blah blah blah blah blah. he's been saying this now for two months. so i mean, now he's in new hampshire. i am very happy he's there because the questioners there, people show up with well craft, well researched questions and i'm not sure this broken record and entertainment routine, this spectacle, is going to sell when it comes down to town halls. >> jeffrey, i want to ask you. you look at the poll that came out today from cnn, it shows trump very competitive against hillary clinton, but when we look back to 2011 or 2007, they fade. rick perry in 2007, you look further back, when you look, michele bachmann, for instance, is it possible that bush is going to turn donald trump into the bachmann or perry of the 2016s? >> i think the answer is found in the description i heard from cnn a few minutes ago that there are 1500 people at donald trump's town hall and 200 at jeb bush's. right there i think is the essence of the answer being seen in the polls. >> jeffrey, we are watching the two

she takes on jeb bush because she knows jeb bush will defeat her and become the next president of thed states. >> does al have a point there? >> she's taken on scott walker and donald trump. jeb bush is giving her ample opportunity by making mistake after mistake after mistake on the campaign trail and just to push back on something al said his unfavorables have not gone down but up. he is seen worse by the public according to the a recent poll than mitt romney in the entire 2012 campaign. jeb bush is less popular than romney after he hit 47% and made error after error. at some point the bush game has to look inside and figure what they are doing wrong and maybe not a question of strategy the fact they have a bad candidate running in the wrong election. >> big question now -- >> listen -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> on thursday, when he is facing off in this debate a good opportunity for him to make some ground up where maybe he well, at least dan thinks he lost. al great to see you. >> he'll do great, kate he'll do great. you'll see. >> we'll be there to watch with you. >> al dan, th

bush attorney general and current jeb bush advisor, michael mukasey. wrote an op-ed piece in the washington journal. you have come under some criticism from defenders of secretary clinton in recent days who are upset about the notion that no one is pointing out that you have not identified yourself as an advisor to jeb bush. i want to get that out of the way. i want you to answer the question of the extent that how that affects the situation. michael: i have not spent a lot of time with governor bush. i got an e-mail from an editor at the wall street journal asking me if i had been following the story and whether i was interested in writing anything and i did. i didn't check with anybody on the bush campaign. i haven't spoken with anybody there in months. two-parter.-ed is a through in a went relatively careful way and talked about the various areas where secretary lee -- clinton might be in some legal jeopardy. area,ings in the legal one related to keeping classified material in an unclassified rotation -- location. another is to the espionage act. th

p that's jeb bush. we thought he was going to be the big front-runner, jeb clearly trump has gotten under his skin privately. this was from politico today, jeb describing trump as a buffoon, a clown, a word i can't say on television. clearly trump is getting under bush's skin. >> well what's a jeb? >> okay the other guy is a buffoon and a bad word we can't use, what's jeb bush? he's nothing. he has shown nothing. he has a famous name it's sort of his turn that's it. i'm telling you, the guy -- >> he's a successful two-term governor. >> how many years ago. >> let me tell you something, his name is bush and that's how he got to be governor as well. let me tell you, this is king of the hill tonight. if trump gets pulled off the hill he'll lose tonight. if he doesn't win, that's a huge story and an unexpected story, to me the story line is trump wins, he trumps because these other guys aren't in his league. it's a home game for him. television is where he lives. these other guys are putting on acts planning

it's a good thing for jeb bush. because all we have been talking about for the last couple of days and all over the media is this duel between jeb bush and donald trump. there is 15 other people running. nobody is mentioning them. i think jeb, getting testy. getting feisty. fighting back. talking about donald trump's record. which is not conservative. contrasting it with his. which is a very conservative record as a governor. is a very good tactic. it's a smart tactic for jeb bush. >> if i may, quickly. jeffrey will have something sig and a half can't to say. jeb bush has a lot of ground to make up. he should be spending the dollars, defining himself to voters before spending time on trump. >> jeffrey, i should tell you right now. we just got -- >> ana, hang on, we got word donald trump has arrived in the parking lot. elvis is near the building if you will. jeffrey lord. i want to go to you, jeffrey. earlier today i spoke to mitt romney's former deputy campaign manager. the people are going to this event is like goi

i supported marco rubio for senator, i supported jeb bush for governor, i'm supporting just about bush for president. i think there's mainstream floridians in the same position as i am. when you see the numbers, i think the mainstream floridians are being split between jeb bush and marco rubio. let me tell you something, there are five floridians, people with florida ties that are in this race. ben carson is from florida. mike huckabee is now from florida, jeb bush is from florida, and if you count -- >> i'm going to give you the opportunity. are you calling on one of them to drop out so the other can pick up the support and beat -- >> oh, listen, i think it's not about what i'm calling on them to do. i can tell you that -- i can tell you i have conversations with them before they got into the race. right now everybody is in the race. i think we're going to respect the race, and everybody's got to go through the process. i want to comment on biden. this idea of biden running, for republicans it's christmas, kwanzaa and hanukkah all rolled up into one in august. biden has a lot of that

bush if she wanted. us to take spot but she said no, i will do it, as she wiped a tear from her eye while petting their new dog the scottish terrier barney. his the president was an athlete oft extraordinary skills. this was supported when his mit doctors measured his resting heartbeat at 50 beats per lance minute. which matched that of then cyclist lance armstrong. he did not jog, he ran. and in all weather and especially on the hottest days. with a few years of moving into the white house, he damaged his legs and hips as most runners eventually do.and hi he was distraught and searched for another means to keep up his exercise routine. he tried various types of equipment and found none that hs liked and that allowed him to bg outside.took he was introduced to off road biking by some of his staff and he took to it with a vengeance. he loved the physical challenge and the aerobic exercise.bro he even broke a trek bike that the designer said couldn't be broken at least not where he broke it. they ended up

bush has got to get it together. >> jeb bush chases after donald trump's huge lead in the polls.ere they are going after each other one at a time, here they go. >> jeb bush is a low energy person. for him to get things done is hard. he's very low energy. >> look, there should be a little more focus on solving the problems and talking about ideas that matter. rather than just kind of coming in like a title wave and saying things that are just outrageous and don't make sense. >> has anybody in your lifetime look like either one of these two guys? trump is so outrageous every second he things of something and the other guy thinks that's a good question but one guy is totally slow motion. tortoise and the other guy is the heir. >> jeb bush's support is peeling off because people aren't convinced he has the fire in the belly. >> does he look like it? >> he doesn't look like it. that's why trump's critique is on target. when he makes statements like that, he just sort of wonders. he's not very focused. now that he's gone on the attack against trump, this is a big strategic pivot. >> th

even jeb bush.hey need to get their background, and where they stand on the issues, whoever can do it in an interesting manner will probably get the headline. i believe trump, he's not going to be on the attack. he needs to stick to the rules, not look like a bully and show people where he stands on some issues that make sense. >> just to justify the media attention, i just looked at our poll, 2% of the american people don't have a fixed opinion about this guy. so the american people have a lot of investment in thinking about donald trump, for whatever reason. he's far more interesting to most people than the other candidates. >> the debate's a level playing field. he only gets 1/10 of the time and you need to cover it that way. >> how do you approach it? >> depending if you're swinging up or down. >> who's swinging down on donald trump? >> even though the poll numbers suggest he has a commanding lead, it's ten points. and jeb bush had that just a little while ago. i'd say jeb bush is punching acros

his biggest obstacle is bush. to get bush to the middle or the lowest parts of this pack so that he can keep that momentum going in his direction as opposed to having it disperse towards a bush or someone else. if it clooks like bush is the second guy, that's not good for trump right now. he needs to push him down. that's part of what you saw him do in this press conference. >> he's switched rooms. speaking again. let's check this out. >> we owe china $1.4 trillion. and i love china. nothing wrong with china. their leaders are so much smarter than ours. mexico's leaders are so much smarter than ours. they laugh at our people. they tell me -- because i have, as an example, with kline, they buy my apparents, they spend 30 million, 15 million, they're the cheap ones. when i sell a $15 million apartment, it's like china pays so much money to trump. i have the largest bank in the world from china. they're my tenant. i don't have to worry about the rent, believe me. many, many, many times you take our biggest banks, cit