also joining me again is gloria borger, john king and david axelrod.t's a hard message to say you're the outsider with insider experience. >> especially because when you're an outsider because you lost your senate seat. he was an outsider by the insistence of the people of pennsylvania. >> excuse me because president obama ran for a second term kind of as an outsider with insider experience. how do you do that? >> i think we can be too glib about this outsider/insider thing. >> right. >> it is your orientation. do you come at it from the perspective of people out in the country who are very deeply concerned about this economic issue, very disappointed in the politics of washington and are you an agent for change? and i think that's what people want to convey. it's just some are more convincing at it than others. >> rick santorum though is the living, breathing example of throw out the rule book and this is a very different election. there's something in the water we have disruptive forces in our politics. he won 12 states last time. now, again, part of

let's go ahead to john king, host of "inside politics" and gloria borger, nia-malika henderson and michael smerconish. what do we expect in the big debate just minutes away? john king, what did you think of what you heard tonight? did anyone break out of this lower tier? >> it's a fascinating question. everyone did what they wanted to do. the question is, can they change their poll numbers? lindsey graham, every question you asked about the sunrise or sunset, he said we're in a war against radical islam. we cannot afford to lose. he turned every question to that. that is his beat in this campaign. he nudged some of the candidates in the earlier debate. we'll see if it happens in the front-runner class with more boots on the ground. lindsey graham was pushing the other candidates. the most interesting to me, rick santorum opened and closed by mentioning his leading role in fighting partial birth abortion. why is he doing that? because he won iowa last time and he's nowhere right now. he's got donald trump, ben carson in his evangelical lane and this is a survival question right now. all fou

joining me now, chief political analyst, gloria borger. t-minute fundraising push and a day before the deadline tomorrow. the stakes seem so high for the bush campaign right now. they seem to be pushing so hard, despite the fact they had so much money in the bank between the campaign and the super pac. what is going on here? >> well, look, jeb bush has raised more money than any other republican candidate. he spent the first part of this campaign raising $100 million for his super pac. but this now is campaign money so it's a proving ground for him, particularly since he is fifth in the polls? and this is money that is very, very important to the bush campaign. because it's the money that they will be able to directly spend on their own message. on their own ads. on their own organization in early states like iowa and new hampshire. so it's important symbolically. but it's also important in terms of how they get out the vote in those early states. >> and gloria, i know you have been talking to the bush campaign. they hate this idea, the whi

. >>> gloria borger, thank you for coming on. the first question is, we have heard trump say a lot.he is saying tonight bush should only talk in english in the u.s. has he gone too far this time? >> you know, there are lots of times over the course of the summer where we have all said, hasn't he gone too far. is this it? hasn't he gone too far? the answer is, no. because donald trump knows exactly what he is doing here. as dana was pointing out, he is playing to his conservative base. we can just state that donald trump is not going to win with hispanic voters. he has an 82% infaufsherable rating with hispanic voters. the voters he is doing well with are the white conservative base of the republican party. by saying is that bush ought to speak english, you know, they say, yeah, he should. he is plagying into his group o supporters. >> something else trump said was that bush is attacking him because he had no choice. what do you think, is that true? >> i do. i think it's true. actually, i think bush probably should have started attacking him earlier. but early on in this race, everyb

standing by with us our chief political analyst gloria borger, our chief national correspondent john ng, our senior political commentator, former obama senior advisor david axelrod. you've been talking to a lot of the campaign, gloria. what are you hearing about their strategy in approaching donald trump tonight? >> i think they're all saying if attacked they will attack back. none of them really believes donald trump is going to go after them frontally like he does on the campaign trail. i think particularly jeb bush in talking to his advisors it's clear they want to establish a contrast with donald trump just like he's been doing on the campaign trail. and the contrast will be i'm a reformer, i know how to get things done, that's my kind of experien experience, i'm optimistic and you're negative. i know what i'm doing and basically you don't. >> how do you really prepare, john, for a donald trump being part of a debate like this? you and i we've moderated republican presidential debates, democratic presidential debates, donald trump is extraordinary. >> he is extraordinary. he under

. >>> "outfront" tonight, gloria borger. thanks for coming on.in tom's piece george w. bush couldn't name world leaders. he still won two presidential elections. the big question, will this even matter for trump? >> it's a different world now than it was for george w. bush. we live in a post-9/11 world. the american public sees beheadings by isis. they understand the stakes in the middle east. you have a pending iranian nuclear deal. i think it is very important terrain in this election. having said that, will it stick? will it matter for donald trump? you know, if you look at the republican field right now, pamela, there isn't anybody except for lindsey graham who is accomplished on foreign policy, but there isn't anybody with a depth of experience. marco rubio is on the foreign relations committee. but he's a first term senator. it depends who donald trump really is up against. >> if he is a republican nominee, what if he's up against the fofrmrmer secretary of stat? >> look, hillary clinton is the most experienced foreign policy contender in t

"outfront" now, gloria borger. you look at the pictures from inside the arena. an estimated 20,000 people. looks like he's going to meet that number because i can't spot an empty seat in that crowd. people scalping tickets. here's the key question. how does he and can he translate these crowds at early events like this in the primary votes? you know, we really don't know the answer to that, jim. donald trump is not about a plan, an ideology. he's about an idea. and the idea is, i'm an outsider, i am different. what voters are doing right now or potential voters are doing right now is they are window shopping. this is early on. after the window shopping comes the scrutiny. so we don't know, honestly, enough about donald trump and, more importantly, we really don't know enough about the primary voters yet. and all of the polls we're looking at, we don't know which of these voters are going to be actual participants in the primaries or which of these folks are actually filling that arena and other places because they want to get a look at a celebrity and they love

here at the reagan library we're back with john king and joining us, chief political analyst gloria borger. so, we really did not get specifics that we kind of had been told perhaps we would, which is why we didn't play much of the speech. it was a shorter speech than a lot of the speeches that he has given. at this point, though, for donald trump, you know, one of the things he said which we've heard plenty of times before is him talking about veterans and he has talked about a quite loudly on the campaign trail. other candidates raised issues about the v.a. as well. none perhaps as loudly and consistently as donald trump. again, not a lot of specifics from him on what he could actually do. >> no, he said, again, he'd make the military big and strong and rebuilt. he said, again, he insisted, oh, they're all skeptical, i'll make mexico pay for the wall when i build it, says china will give into him and putin will. he said he will help veterans. when he says i will help you, that's part of his appeal. he said the others won't be able to do these things because they don't get deals. it's a s

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i want to bring in manu raju, and gloria borger, and also kevin madden, our cnn contributors, and now, manu, can you explain to us, what is so important about that vote that he woke up saying that for the good of the institution and the house of representatives that he needed to quit. >> well, wolf, this started in the end of right before the august recess, there was an effort by representative mark meadows from north carolina to vacate the chair, and what that is essentially means is that a vote on whether or not to keep john boehner as speaker. what we know, wolf, there are 25 republicans who are going to be voting against john boehner, and they did it in the beginning of the year, and what they were hoping to get is more than 29 republicans to vote against john boehner, and if they did get more than 29 republicans, then boehner would need to rely on democratic votes to keep his job as speaker. and now, that would have really undermined him, his standing among the republicans in the conference, and in addition to that, we have been hearing for weeks about how the fact that boehner h

but i did. >> it's tough, robert costa and gloria borger.ple cry. that is is tough. that's a really interesting story. and robert, you already knew this story because you wrote about this great piece today describing how the speaker reenacted this moment with you. >> it was an e emotional moment last night for speaker boehner. it was late at the capitol. i was with jake sherman. we heard rumors from his friends and associates he may be thinking about retiring. we thought we might hang out and see what happens. usually boehner when he comes out of his office goes towards his caravan and doesn't take questions. he took questions from us. he brought us over to this little area and said for me to stand right where the pope stood and reenacted this whole scene as if he was trying to saver the moment while the memory was still fresh. >> he described to you where he said that the pope said pray for me to the speaker. >> it was. boehner standing inches from me kept repeating this. he said please pray for me. he kept saying it as if he was saying it

. >>> joining us are brianna keilar, and gloria borger. trump has largely avoid ed the specifics in the case, and now he is coming up with the specifics on what is his largest issue, the economy, and how is that going to play? >> well with, it is going to be playing fine for him, and there is not a lot of surprises for him. he wants to cut taxes, and he also want ts to take on wall street. and that is what this is goinging to do, cuts out the loopholes for hedge manager, and he continues to call them that, and the big concern whether you a republican or a democrat is if it is revenue-neutral or end up costing the american taxpayers money, and trump says, no it won't, and growing the economy. and wolf, this is a little bit like jeb bush's tax plan, and so those two guys may have a lot more in common than they once thoug thought. >> thank you, briana, i want to get your thoughts on the new poll. and ben carson is one point behind donald trump, and there is also significant gains for carly fiorina, and marco rubio, but the dead heat of carson

let's get to gloria borger and jeff zeleny. what did you think of the response of some of the sharp criticism she took last night at this debate? >> i think she swatted it away. and she basically said that everything was the usual political back and forth. they're political attacks whether it was her record as secretary of state, which she said to you just read my book and you'll hear all about it. chris christie's charge against her on her e-mail server she called it overheated rhetoric baseless. she said she's comfortable and confident about our strategy when you asked her about bernie sanders, biden, you know she's the right person at the right time. so she didn't give anything away. also said if the dnc wants her to debate more she'll debate more. >> i think that was the most striking thing. bernie sanders of course and martin o'malley leading the charge on calling for more debates. this was hillary clinton in 2008 calling for more debates against barack obama when she was following behind him. so if the dnc wants to add mo

. >> let's get more from our chief political analyst gloria borger, jeff zelleny and gloria, making hiseelhouse, that's what i do well but in comparison to other candidates tax plan, does his stand out? >> his tax plan is like jeb plus and probably a smart thing for donald trump to do. jeb bush announced his tax plan and trump has lower brackets, lower corporate tax rate and so he's sort of one ups jeb and it's in keeping with republican orthodox, it also attacks wall street, which is very popular these days, as you know in both democratic party and republican party. so from trump's point of view, he looks like a republican whose a bit more populous and anti wall street and there isn't anything wrong with that if you run in the primary, wolf. >> probably right. trump usually shines when speaking off the cup but today we saw him sticking basically to the script. what does that tell you about his confidence level, if anything, right now? >> it's unmistakable, wolf. trump is on a downward slide in polls. certainly still in front in most of the polls but as sarah noted in her piece, he's ne

dana bash, gloria borger, jeff zeleny with us.lewandowski has specific information there. he plained what donald trump is trying to do didn't mince words. >> he's saying that donald trump's tax plan will grow the economy and that's why it won't add to the deficit, and he talked about curbing waste, fraud and abuse which we've heard for, what, 25, 30 years in the country. but he did -- he continued to make trump's case that it's going to inspire job growth and that put people, you know, where they need to be, economically, and that that's why it won't add to the deficit. chris christie, more skeptical, jeb bush, more skeptical. >> billion of families won't pay any income tax, that's a popular notion. >> that's heart of the plan. boy, doesn't this sound good? it's impossible to quantify the numbers of this because this is something that's impossible to score. but sure, sounds good on the campaign trail. he said, mr. trump has taken advantage of the system in a good way. i in that this is something we'll see coming up here more than

the cnn political commentators donna brazile, and amanda carpenter and our political contributor gloria borger. how long will this follow dr. car sson? >> well, it will continue to follow him, and people who are dr. carson supporters agree with his argument that what he was saying is that he would not support a theocracy under any circumstance, but the people who support carson are not going to be leaving him, because of what others find offensive. >> and do you agree, amanda? >> well, he has a habit of saying thing, and walking back, and he is not up to speed on the issues aside from the comment. and this is brought to him himself, and donald trump. and the birther issue with donald trump, and scott walker's resignation is a rejection on where the party is going on the issue, and the way he is trying to unify the anti-trump vote, and trying to see people put an end to it, and stop it, and that is positive. >> and donna, you are a democrat, and how does this play down the road from the democratic road? >> well, people are just appalled of the conversations that we are hearing from the republic

tonight, gloria borger, patty soleis doyle, and margaret hoover.ret, donald trump who calls, sees himself as the tell it like it is guy not politically correct guy, says what is on his mind. for a guy who is portraying himself as that, when he, when he says something like this, he sure does seem to try to make everybody else sound stupid by thinking he actually said what he said. what he said was, about her face, the idea that he was talking about her persona is frankly, it's a lie. it's just not true. he can try to, shine bright objects and make people distracted and stuff t if he was really a stand up guy he would say that's what i said that's what i think. that's what i said. i went too far. instead, he tries to act as if, we're all stupid. >> and continues to repeat what he wants-up to believe that he actually intended which then becomes the story. now it is clearly all about her persona, right, not her face. he is the only person in american politics who can spin his way out of controversy without having to say he is sorry. hillary rodham clin

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to discuss it, our national reporter maeve reston and jeff zeleny and also gloria borger. and really, jeb bush's numbers have been dropping in the last month or so, and he has a lot at stake tomorrow night? >> certainly. the donors and the allies are looking to see are from him that he can channel the kind of anger and frustration that voters are feeling right now in the way that trump has been doing that in the last couple of weeks. obviously, jeb has been dealing with the incoming fire from trump calling him the low energy ka candidate, and the boring candidate, and jeb has to get out there, and he has been throwing the punches, but he has to get out there to show that he can take on trump, and excite the voters and come back from this slide in the polls that we have seen which is really amazing from the candidate that we all thought would be the front-runner with $100 million. >> and gloria, he has a super pac that supports him with over $100 million, and maeve as you say, they just came out with a new ad that supports him by his super pac. >> he took on the unions and

gloria borger. patti solis. and manu who just joined cnn, great to have you here.th the great new numbers we have out of iowa and new hampshire when it come s s political race there. in iowa. let's start with the republicans. in iowa. we have trump 29, carson 22, bush 6, fiorina, 5, paul, 5. this is where the numbers are more surprising in new hampshire. trump 28. kasich, 12. carson 11. busch 8%. let me start with you. what is happening with jeb bush? >> he's in a bit of a small collapse. it's only september. with kasich leaping ahead of him like that. that's a major problem for bush in new hampshire. >> kasich has been smart. he knows if he got a shot it's in the state of new hampshire. >> why? >> because in the primary, independents can cross over. kasich's brand of government, he gets things down. they don't want to play dynamic politics and you're unhappy with jeb bush. you might want to give him a view. >> and they run in the same lane, politically. >> established, moderate. this poll just confirms that kasich is a huge threat to jeb who continues to catch fir

. >> our panel tonight, joining me, david gergen and gloria borger. >> david, do you take this apology from former secretary clinton at face value the same day on a strategic makeover for her campaign was reported? >> anderson. i think she deserves credit for taking personal responsibility for the e-mails and stepping up to it finally. it took a long type. for apologies to be effective, they need to be timely and need to come from the heart. this apology wasn't, didn't meet either one of the criteria. it took a long, long time. a begrudging quality. the second point you mentioned. i just can't believe that her team did what they did to her and put out in the newspapers, you know they're coming out, going to unveil the new hillary. that doesn't work. here is the new authenticity. >> nothing worse than that. fights against. david axlerod, just do it. don't talk about being awe then theic. -- authentic. >> political malpractice in my opinion to do that to her. >> political malpractice. same day she apologized for using the server to abc news. and on ellen said she was server not for using

let's dig deeper now, cnn's david gergen, gloria borger. >> donald trump talks about taking the oil from iraq, bringing in oil companies, soldiers, surround the oil fields take the oil and bomb the hell out of isis. every military official i have talked to or former military official said this doesn't make any sense. this is completely. l yet you look at the polls. and gop voters in iowa, when asked who can handle terrorism better they say donald trump. >> because he is entertaining. you listen to donald trump. he is really a bully. that's what he is. a bully who says things he thinks sound great as if he were standing on a street corner with his crew. people who don't examine what he is saying they think that sound great too if he stood up. and said the answer for isis. let's just turn the parts of syria to glass. bomb them flat. would that be good policy. a lot of people would say, hell yeah, that is a real good idea. because people want the problems, the many problems in the world to be solved. he is saying, i can solve them. look at me. i'm rich. i can do it. it is essentially a real

it's covered by most health plans. >>> we are back now with gloria borger and not dana bash.e with david chalian. we are looking ahead to a big week. one of the big events, dueling events between ted cruz and donald trump and hillary clinton. >> exactly. hillary clinton said today, when you turn the corner after labor day, it's a new phase of the campaign. that is very true. people are starting to tune in. next week we will see the issue of iran split down the middle. hillary will give a speech next wednesday supporting president o obama's work. donald trump and ted cruz, perhaps a ticket, will be together in strong opposition to this iran deal appearing at a rally that ted cruz organized. that will be a day where contrasts will be clear. >> ted cruz knows if he has organize a rally, the guy to get coverage is donald trump. >> it's the week of late night. >> that's part of the new phase. opportunity to introduce yourself to americans in a new way as people are focusing on the campaign. >> right. it's a way to appear spontaneous and full of humor without actually being spontan

we're back with brianna keilar, dana bash, jeff zeleny, gloria borger.ean it up, the comment he gave to "rocking stone" magazine, he said carly fiorina, look at that face, would anyone vote for that, can you imagine that, the face of our next president? now he's saying he told chris cuomo earlier on "new day," he said he was referring to her persona, not necessarily her face. >> chris cuomo, i think did a masterful job pushing back saying, if that's the case why didn't you say that, why did you talk about her face? trump kept going on and on beyond her persona, about her experience, about her time at hewlett-packard, which he said was terrible, and she did a terrible job there, and that her job before that at lucent, the fact that she lost in a landslide in california against a beatable senator, barbara boxer. and so the bottom line is that those are all things he now says he meant to say. but it doesn't matter because that's not what he said to "roing stone." whether or not that was in a moment he didn't necessarily think was going to be on the record o

i want to bring in nia mallika henderson and gloria borger.aught my eye is ben carson does better against democrats than donald trump does. what does that tell you? >> well, it tells you that the general electric to general electr general electric electorate, 58% of the general election population has a negative view of trump. and if you look at some other polls we've seen, that includes 85% of democrats, and a majority of independents. now somebody like hillary clinton also has a high negative, 47% but 58% is something that donald trump has to overcome that ben carson does not. so when you were talking to erin about the tone of donald trump and how he seems to be changing a little bit, you know, i think he is smart, he's looking at these negative numbers this unfavorable view and saying i have to do something to fix that if i want to win. >> these numbers are the glass half empty for trump. >> yeah. >> nia, there has been a lot of talk about a slide or plateau for donald trump yet, the polls all still show him on top. i mean, isn't there some

correspondent dana bash, senior washington correspondent jeff zeleni and our chief political analyst gloria borger. dana, you were there, you were in there, where iss elistening . you've been there many times before. this was so different. give us a sense of of what you heard, what you sensed. >> it's funny you put it that way because i was thinking the same thing. it's easy for somebody like me, i have had the privilege of witnessing a lot of states of the union speeches, a lot of, you know, addresses to the joint meetings, heads of state, all kinds of things. this was something like i have never seen before. it was historic. it wasn't just that. more importantly, i was looking at this sea of lawmakers who also have good reason to be jaded because they have seen it all, many of them, and heard it all. the way the entire room was focused on what the pope was saying, hanging on every word, whether they agreed with what he was saying or not was something like i have never seen before. and it really -- you felt the gravity of the moment. you felt -- i mean, forgive me for saying this, but the spiritu

and now joining us is the chief political correspondent dana bash, and chief political analyst gloria borger, and dana, are these comments going to hurt trump or carson in the caucus and primary states? >> possibly, i would even go as far to say probably not, because of what athena was talking about. i think that there are a lot of their potential voters who tend to agree. the question is out of those early states, you know, once and if they get to a more broad electorate whether it would hurt them, and then the answer is yes, and not so much of the muslims in particular, but because of the concept of tolerance. >> and dr. carson's business manager, gloria, armstrong williams was on cnn and rereacting to the group cair, this muslim civil rights group here in the united states, and strongly defending ben carson and he said this. >> where was cair at the 9/11 with the images of the muslim kids in the classroom rejoicing and cheering the falling of those buildings and our men and women dying? where was cair and when what happened at fort hd when someone in the name of islam killed someone becau

bring in gloria borger. cleave mr chief political analyst.talking to people in ooh iowa, do they see this a protest vote. or do people you talk to in iowa, new hampshire. feel like he could get the nomination? >> i think that what voters are doing in the two early states right now is they're kind of dating bernie sanders a little bit. they're not sure they want to marry him yet. it's not that they deon't like hillary clinton. 77% favorability. he has favorability at 73%. so, they're taking a look at some one new. and they like what they see. but here's something also to keep in mind. 2/3 of the democrats in those early states, believe that hillary clinton could actually win a general election. democrats want to win. they don't necessarily feel the same way about bernie sanders. you are going to have to see how this deaf ups. they want to nominate a candida candidate. they think can beat the republicans. >> how big a prb loblem. bernie sanders, identified as a socialist. if he gets hillary clinton's thunder. would she ever use that against him

let's get perspective from hugh huet and anna navarro and gloria borger. hugh, great to have you. i don't know if you're nervous or excited or exhausted already but obviously, nate silver has a lot of historical data to base predictions on. does this primary season, does it defy historical data somehow? >> i think it does. i think i also look at the last four elections that pollsters were interested in. jeremy corbin won the party leadership. nobody saw that coming. david cameron won the british election. benjamin netanyahu, nobody saw that coming and republicans crushed it in 2014, nobody saw that coming. i realize nate probably has the best record of anyone when it comes to polling but this is new territory, and i like to say the first debate was a lot like the first episode where we were introduced to everyone. this is like the game of thrones and maybe the "red wedding". >> wow, the "red wedding" episode. definitely tuning in. the fact donald trump could be a combination of both the flavor of the month or surge candidate and a faction candidate, what's your thought on that? >>

i want to bring in our panel, gloria borger and dana bash and carly fiorina, when donald trump is goingecord said look, the tech bubble happened, she's a victim of circumstances that ultimately the deal with compact turned out to be a good one. >> that's not true. the deal with compact was a disaster. profits went down by the time she left. almost everything connected to the compact merger has either been shuttered or sold and they got in the wrong business. she pushed for it hard and alienated a lot of people. fortune magazine was right. she was not a good ceo and walked away with $100 million and stock price lower than when she da came and profits lower. it's astonishing really. >> was she sort of targeted people in the company? >> she was widely disliked within the company. one thing i noticed with her in debates is she's looser than she was and much more scripted than and never went off message. she was almost robotic at times and demanded total and complete loyalty and didn't want anybody to descent from her and pushed out executives, especially compact executives. she didn't have

campaign, along with assistant managing editor of business and economics at "time" magazine, and gloria borger commentator paul begala and christine romans. as john was saying, a lot to go through. he laid out his tax policy. the big headline, four tax rates, making them easier and fair for everyone. what is your big stayaway from trump? >> this is aspirational. all of these are aspirational. but he wants to cut taxes for everyone. and he wants to give away some of the goodies for the hedge fund managers but no hedge fund manager is going to cry over this. he's lowering the tax rate -- >> you say that because hedge fund managers are getting away with murder and they're not going to like my plan. >> talking about cutting capital gains tax, talking about eliminating the death tax, as he calls, it estate tax, and slashing the top rate to 25%. those are goodies for rich people. there are goodies for everybody. he wants to increase the percentage of americans who pay no tax at all. right now about 36% of americans pay no federal income tax. under this plan half of americans, half of americans would

want to bring in gloria borger, chief clinton supporter and super pac, paul begala. not sure that is your official title. >> need a card. >> vice president biden taped an interview airing to night on late show with stephen colbert, the vice president once again emphasized the emotional impact of running for president. want to read a quote. what he said. i don't think any man or woman should run for president unless number one they know exactly why they would want to be president, number two they can look at folks and say i promise you you have my whole heart, my soul, >> i think that is the honest joe biden. i think what joe biden is saying to people privately what he said to stephen colbert tonight. a man whose heart has been broken. his son just died. his son bo biden was supposed to carry the political torch for the family. be the generation of bidens and maybe become president himself. his life was cut short by cancer. joe biden is torn apart by it. his wife is torn apart by it. the family is going through huge emotional turmoil now. he looks at numbers. he is ta

correspondent john king joins us who's host of cnn's "inside politics" and chief political analyst, gloria borger. john, we're going to see donald trump on this decommissioned "uss iowa." you know, you think back to obviously president bush on an aircraft carrier. you think of michael dukakis on a tank. it can be a tricky thing to have, to use a military facility as a backdrop. especially for a guy who, you know, had a number of deferments and hasn't really put much meat on the bone in terms of specifics. >> it can be a tricky thing if we apply what we know from past campaigns. if we've learned anything about donald trump, we should be very careful about applying anything we know from past campaigns. for george w. bush, remember, he flew onto the aircraft carrier. he was in the flight suit. he had the mission accomplished banner. after the fact when things went south in iraq, turned out that event was a debacle. former president bush has noted that and said the staff made a big mistake putting the banner up there. i was there the day governor dukakis got on the tank. he didn't want to wear the he

gloria borger, john king, host of inside politics and david axelrod, former top adviser to presidentbama. david axelrod, some quick thoughts. >> well, one thought is these people have an iron constitution to be standing there for as long as -- >> hot up there. a lot of sweating. three hours. >> it was. it was a gauntlet they ran up there. i would say one thing is that carly fiorina had a great opportunity tonight. she took full advantage of it. she's going to move up in the polls as a result of this. chris christie was on the verge of falling off the stage, had a very strong night, very strong performance tonight. >> let's listen in to donald trump. chris, go ahead. >> thank you for joining us after speaking to your family. what did they say to you about how you were tonight? >> they were very proud and very happy and it was a beautiful time. i had an amazing time. three hours is probably a record-setting long debate. but i guess you're sell a lot of commercials during that. because they increased it, supposed to be two, but they were very professional the way they handled it. cnn di

dana bash, gloria borger are with us. dana, talk a little about the impact and the fallout to a certain degree of the pope's address before a joint meeting of the u.s. congress yesterday. >> well, according to john boehner himself there was a pretty major fallout. it was the thing that led to him deciding that it was time to end his time as speaker. he had a very, he said intense moment, with the pope. not just what happened in public, but something that happened in private when the two of them he said walked out together. the pope put his hand on john boehner's shoulder and said pray for me. the kind of thing we're actually seeing the pope do all through his travels here. but i'm guessing it's quite a different moment when it's in private and you are the speaker of the house. and coming off a high really because boehner was trying to get a pope to speak before the house for 20 years. and this was the culmination of that. so he says that this was something he was planning to do in november around boehner's birthday. he wa

brianna kieler is back and gloria borger.agram that donald trump released today, going after jeb bush. here's the full thing. >> having trouble sleeping at night? too much energy? need some low energy? they have an hsa in some companies. i think the norm ought to be -- >> jeb, for all your sleeping needs. >> all right. how effective are these kinds of commercials or ads? >> really, this election is about getting votes. it is not about getting ratings. if we were talking about getting ratings, okay, all of with us high energy. this is about running for president of the united states. donald trump when you talk to him, when you listen to him, he talks about all the ratings he brings to networks including ours, which he does. i think jeb has a different point of view which is he might want to talk about issues. he might want to talk about things which by the way are boring. so i think it is kind of funny and cute but not serious. >> and he gets a lot of free ads from networks like us. >> i think you're right about that. except a

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i have with me dana bash, gloria borger and jeff. great to see all of you. you're such a stud.na bash. applause for you. i'm coming back to you in a second. i was watching the face line and carly fiorina and the whole donald trump. i think you're beautiful. we all sort of did, ugh. >> i thought he knew he needed to say something because his persona notion was so ridiculous. that he had to say something, but i think the first rule is stop digging and i think it was patronizing what e he said. i didn't mean to say you're not attract i havive. i meant to say you're beautiful. every woman watching that cringed. >> she didn't say anything. she just looked into that camera, no thank you, no acknowledgment, stone cold. >> that's all she needed to do. >> it was i got so many e-mails from female friends saying that was her drop the mic moment. boom, that's all she needed to do. >> to your point, people have been talking about sexism in politics. we have done segments with you, but to your point. >> there is a lot of discussion about donald trump's hair. and chris christie's weight. >> i

so to gloria borger we go.reak, however you want to phrase this headline, jeb bush said hang on, it's a marathon. is it make or break? is there truth to this donor panic? >> well, not according to a senior jeb bush adviser. i just got off the phone with h him. he was saying these stories are ridiculous. but he says we're in this for the long haul. we're going to have strong cash on hand at the end of the quarter. he understands that the dynamic right now is between carly fiorina and trump. but he says we are in it for the long haul. our donors have seen this movie before. they went through it with mitt romney and with john mccain and you'll remember john mccain in december of 2007 was at 7% in the polls and he ended up winning the nomination in 2008. giuliani was the front runner at that time. >> let me ask you about the new polls that came out. these are hypothetical head to heads between had hillary clinton and republican candidates. so every republican does really well against hillary clinton except donald t

deeper on what's going on with our senior washington correspondent and our chief political analyst gloria borgerrrespondent of slate and cnn senior plit analyst ron brownstein. gloria, he won't drop out. >> no. >> rand paul. you think others might start thinking about dropping o inpin? >> i think people in the 2 to 5% range will think about it. but what i notice most about rand paul is that he kind of doubled down on his attacks on donald trump. he called him an angry individual with empty platitudes, right? and said, of course, that he's not a conservative. i think you're going to hear this from more and more republicans because i think they're hoping that eventually republicans will start listening to what they are saying in their attacks on donald trump from the right. >> so ron, if more of these republican candidates in the lower tier start dropping out, will that eventually create someone who could be a real threat to donald trump? >> well, that will happen eventually, but in the near term, i think it will be the opposite effect. as we talked about on this show, donald trump is consistently

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dana will stay with us, we bring in rebecca berg of real clear picks, and gloria borger. by donald trump, saying -- >> keeping track. >> it just keeps on giving. he says that jeb bush should set example by speaking english when he is in the u.s. is there any point donald trump will have gone too far? >> we haven't seen it so far, right? we keep saying is this far enough? is this far enough? you know, we haven't seen it. nothing seems to stick to him. i think trump knows exactly what he's doing in this. he knows where his support is. 82% of hispanics view him unfavorably. can we say he is not likely to get the hispanic vote, right? but -- so what he is going for is the white conservative base of the party which likes him and doesn't like jeb. with this kind of comment, he is just strengthening his base of support. >> what do you think, rebecca, what does it mean for the entire republican party. i covered hillary clinton, and one of the things she's said, she tries to lump all republicans in with donald trump, she says republicans are on a spectrum of hostility toward immig

joining me, sarah murray, michael smerconish and gloria borger. so great to have all of you here.e hours out. beginning with you and some of your sourcing with the jeb bush campaign, how are they feeling going into tonight? >> well, i've been talking with a lot of sources in the jeb bush campaign. and the one word i would think of to describe what they want to do tonight is contrast. contrast themselves with donald trump as being a real conservative, a real reformer, somebody who has experience, somebody who knows how to get things done in politics, in the real world, and also one other huge contrast particularly here at the reagan library. somebody who is optimistic like ronald reagan compared to somebody who is not like donald trump. >> right. t. boone pickens sat in that seat and endorsed him. he said, brooke, he's walking in molasses. we're hoping for jeb bush's sake the molasses goes away. >> to simplify, donald trump would be the imposter on the stage and not the real conservative. >> speaking of donald trump, you have been following his every move recently, and it's interes

let's get some more with our cnn chief political analyst gloria borger.tical aimist ron bronstein is the director of the national journal. and the host of cnn smerconish, michael smerconish. and nia mmalika henderson. you said the dynamics of this debate could be impacted by the setting, the venue. this is a much smaller room than that huge basketball auditorium in cleveland. >> i was really struck by the intimacy in that hangar, only 500 seats. donald trump feeds off of crowds. this won't be there for him. wolf, i remember you asking a question of ron paul in the 2012 cycle in tampa where you posed a hypothetical about a patient that had no insurance and needed medical treatment. there was elicited from the audience, a cry, it's okay if they die. there won't be this element in this arena. >> a different setting, you agree, gloria. >> oh, yeah, like a new hampshire town hall in a way. it may benefit somebody like a jeb bush who has been out there in new hampshire, john kasich's been out there in new hampshire in those small settings. you know, as michael

here at the reagan library, we are back with john king and two political analysts, gloria bornlg borgers him talking about veterans, he has talked about it on the campaign trail. other candidate versus raised issues as well. none perhaps as loudly and consistently as donald trump. not a lot of specifics from him on what he would actually do. >> no, he said again he will make the military strong and rebuild. he said, oh, they're all skeptical. i will let mexico pay. he says he will help veterans. again, when he says i will help you, he says the others will never be able to do these things, i have it, it's a special inc. stininstinct. rip up the old playbook, it does not aplay to donald trump t. voters that support him are so disgusted and distrustful of the senators and the governors, when he says these things, they want something different, whether it's donald trump or ben carson, that's where we are going right now. >> he has a hint. he was talking about his opponent says now we heard it a million times, very nice people. they're all very nice people. what he is saying is they're incom