r i'm hillary clinton p jeb bush was a very strong governor, probably the strongest governor in the history of the state of florida. he was a young guy and i think there were some folks in the legislature that thought they might be able to run over him. that didn't happen. one tax cut wasn't enough- he had to do more. it wasn't enough to have 15,000 kids with school choice in florida, he wanted to have 100,000 kids. if he didn't like a project, it was going to be vetoed. it didn't matter if you were a republican. it didn't matter if you were his best friend. he said: 'this is where we're going, this is how we're going to reform state government...' every politician comes in talking about making change, and generally there's not much change. but governor bush made a lot of changes. he got the nickname veto corleone. if he saw something in the budget that he thought violated his conservative principles, you could guarantee it was gonna get whacked. he vetoed a bunch of my stuff and i was the senate president. the message to washington, d.c., is 'get ready...' because there will be change. nri

hillary clinton. but perhaps he reserved his sharpest criticism for his g-o-p rivals jeb bush, marco rubio, and new front-runner ben carson. bush is failing, he's a very nice person, highly low on energy, he really is, he's low, he's low, he's low on energy, but he's a nice person. by the way, carson is super low, i don't understand the whole deal, i don't know what's going on, carson is lower energy than bush, i don't understand what's going on. for the first time in 100 days, i had a poll that said i'm in second place in iowa, don't worry, and this week jeb bush says staff and spending cuts announced by his presidential campaign means he's operating in a "lean and mean" fashion. bush was asked about the downsizing during a forum with pat robertson in virginia. he denies the cuts signify his campaign is in trouble.. but instead shows an ability to "adapt" to changing circumstance s. the campaign announced earlier friday a 40 percent cut in payroll, reduced staff at miami headquarters, and that travel costs will be slashed by 20 percent. police continue to investigate an overnight shooting that sent two people

p dictatorship. he's not returned our request for comment. jeb bush was out there live tweeting. he put out some videos really contrasting his position with hillary clinton'sox & "friends" this morning he reacted to the bernie sanders moment saying he would have taken hillary clinton to task. promising if he faces off against her in a general election he said he essentially wouldn't let her off the hook that easily. >> hallie jackson, thank you. >>> nbc's katy tur is interviewing him this morning. let me bring in ed rendell and former spokes woman for george w. bush. ed, after watching the debate, it appears as though sanders played to his base, hillary clinton played to her strengths, which is the smarter political option, do you think? >> i think they both did what they had to do. bernie sanders, i think, is going to stay in the race and be a relevant factor all the way through iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina. he displayed not great debating skills. he didn't look all that presidential. i mean, hillary clinton dwarfed the other four candidates when it came to looking presidential. but bernie gave his base enough to hold most of them in check.