jeb bush said we all have mothers. yesterday's republican party makes a re-emergence this morning in "the wall street journal" where mitt romney announces a plan to rejoin the national dialogue. yesterday after his wife ann talked about who she and mitt would pick next time around. >> there are some great candidates out there and, you know, i think mitt and i are always very, very partial to paul ryan, but we don't even know if he is going to run. >> in a speech to new york republican fundraisers texas senator ted cruz announced he thinks republicans are and should be the party of the 47%. touting his generation of conservatives, the children of reagan. new jersey's chris christie made sure voters in his state saw him playing arcade games with the president this week. and tried to humanize his effort to lose weight with a spread in "people" magazine. that won a deep political discourse. vice president biden got one of his first 2016 endorsements from jack markel on this show. he made stops in trinidad toe bago this wee

we have the jeb bush question on our side, they got the hillary clinton question on the democratic side clinton-bush? >> neil: repeat. >> the conventional wisdom is this far out, it won't be either one of them. >> neil: dan quayle, always a pleasure. thank you very, very much. tough to get you here. toucher than the pope. dan quayle. more after this including the latest rumbling of the irs. its getting worse, the president was right. e union of tim and laura. it's amazing how appreciative people are when you tell them they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man. may i have the rings please? ah, helzberg diamonds. nice choice, mate. ...and now in the presence of these guests we join this loving couple. oh dear... geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> neil: take a look at that. that's going rate now on a 30-year fixed mortgage, 3.81% but it's the highest in a year," and for folks who were getting used to the mortgage rate for a while. remember when it was pairly at 3%. that's some adjusting

today well we're going to guess what bill gates warren buffett michael bloomberg oprah winfrey and jeb bush all have in common i give up well we're not really sure but last weekend bill gates and rented out the entire sanctuary hotel for them to meet now there has been no information or reports on what they were actually talking about it we don't know where all the story literally one place and one place only know worlds right you know when there's no information about what's going on ok so what's your guess what are you speculating ok i'm thinking we have bill gates here massive failure with windows eight warren buffett is there maybe warren buffett is there to help bill gates i don't know bill gates is worried about the stock price of microsoft buffett's going to sell him some long dated puts like he did a few years ago he called them you know weapons of mass destruction or destruction at one point and these are derivatives but he's back in the game and then i guess we have a bloomberg there he's a little scared he's been spying on ben bernanke or at least the employees of in the chief mo

rand paul and jeb bush are showing very god number, particularly with jeb bush. nd paul has got 32% favorable and a 24% unfavorable. it's pretty good, right? he's a controversial guy. bushed a 29 positive, 29 negative, despite the last nooim name, he is running even. >> what i make of it people are getting to know folks like rand paul and ted cruz, some of the mid-west governors i think will have a lot to say come 2015 and 2016. hillary kwn clinton has a 120% name i.d. so i think the democrats, if they're going to do what the republicans always do, which is to go to the next in lean, hillary:t or joe biden, they will probably come up short. plus, larry, i don't know if your andrew kwooum cuomo or mark o'malley, i don't know if you wait another ten years on the clintons? why should you wait to take your shot when you are 65 or 67. it makes no sense. if i were hillary clinton, i would not run. she is one of the post-admired women in america. she will go down as a good secretary of state, first lady, united states senator. that's a heck of a lot better than two-time

in the new one, they ask, would you vote for her against jeb bush or rand paul? said, do you like her? i wonder if that string of questions ends up putting in particular, republican partisans and republican leaners, romney voters in the context of thinking about a presidential election, rather than the last four years. and once you change that, suddenly you have all these republicans who go from like, yeah, i like hillary, to, no, i don't like her so much. >> our first read team is pointing out that clinton remains formidable, because she's running ahead of both bush and paul by 21 points. she trails among men in the single digits. and if she runs and if that gender gap really does persist, she would be really difficult to beat. so can she ride that through 2016? >> if hillary has a 20-point lead among women in 2016, in october of 2016, she's not going to lose. that's almost impossible for republicans to overcome. but when you look at those polls and see hillary at 48% or 49%, against basically unknown candidates in the case, or an unknown candidate in the case o

marginal figure throwing off votes, and maybe in the end giving the nomination to someone like a jeb bush, due don't kid yourself, he is a serious candidate. >> michael: he does seem--yeah, the more i see him the more i see exactly what you're talking about, how serious he is. but the distinguished gentleman from texas was the distinguish gentleman from canada. some are saying he should be allowed to run even though he's not born here. >> michael: you mean the cuban- cuban-canadian-american candidate? >> michael: act did i. >> ted cruz is--his father was a cuban immigrant. his mother was from delaware, and he was born in canada while his parents were working up there. his position, and many hold this position, because his mother is an american citizen he is a natural-born citizen and there are three requirements. one, you have to be 35. two, you have to live here 14 years, and you have to be a natural-born citizen. what does that mean? the courts suggests, and cruz says it means he was born a citizen because his mom was an american citizen, and frankly i think there is substantial law to

two separate federal challenges to the law are still penning. >>> and jeb bush apparently does not thinks best. the former florida governor said he is still considering that 2016 presidential run despite barbara bush's recent comments that there have been enough bushes in the white house. bush joked, quote, what can i tell you? we all have mothers, right? those are a few of the things we thought you should know. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our history matter to you? because for more than two centuries, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. ♪ and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for boat insurance. geico, see how much you could save. congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i f

and the same number said that about jeb bush, who's been on the republican scene much longer than thatw, than paul. how is this a problem and an opportunity at the same time? >> well, i don't think that will be an issue, richard. i think that when my party decides who they're going to rally around to be their nominee, i think that the american public will see what they're about, they'll take the measure of the person to determine if that's the kind of person they want to be in the oval office. i think chris says my party has challenges. i want to remind him, these are opportunities. my party has the ability to think through not only its time-tested principles, but what are those solutions for the american people with these vexing problems we have as a country? yes, you can look at the challenges that my party's had at the ballot box and say, how are they going to win in 2016? but it's very hard for a two-term president to turn around and hand the presidency to someone of their party. if hillary clinton or joe biden are the nominee, it's very thha to string three of these together. geor

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. >>> former governor jeb bush will be the keynote speaker at the michigan policy conference. he will address education and immigration reform to the regional chamber. >>> 2014 looks like a rough year for michelle bachmann. the ongoing investigation into finances from her failed 2012 presidential run and a rematch from a strong the democratic opponent could sink the tea party favorite. >>> senate gop leader mitch mcconnell could be facing a former miss america next year. heather french henry who won the title in 2000 is mulling a run against him. >>> and school children will join first lady michelle obama today to harvest the summer crop from the white house kitchen garden. among them are children from two new jersey communities hit by hurricane sandy. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> now let's get you some weather. bill karins is here with a look at the forecast. it's been rough this week. >> we had a huge tornado yesterday. possibly ef-4 tornado. but it was in a rural area. didn't take out any towns or cities and that's why it's not making big news. they h

. >>> jeb bush is still undecided on a future run for president. he said he will make a decision within the next 15 months, but he did laugh off previous comments from his famous mother who said too many bushes have already been in the white house. freud would have a field day. >> and new jersey governor chris christie is revealing his new diet since undergoing weight loss surgery last year. in "people" magazine the governor says he normally doesn't have the urge for breakfast, opting instead for a coffee mug full of milk and he said he's still not a vegetable lover, just sticking to green beans, lettuce and cucumbers. and that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> well, carl sandberg college in central illinois is one of many places effected by the flooding happening all over the midwest. classes at the university have been canceled until friday, due to flooding such as this. to tell us more is n bshgs krshc meteorologist bill karins. will we see more like that? >> not like that, but we will see some more flooding. yesterday we had more

say it was jeb bush print their not firing at our troops or are involved in an active active terrorismwe do not have to present any evidence. all we have to say is that they die next tuesday. that should be a chilling item. tavis: one thing that gets me, and there is a certain level where i consider this and you cannot, but since you are the expert here, you are the author, you are the documentarian, i want to get your take on this. what troubles me now and certainly into the future, when the historians look back on this moment at how this drone program and how theywire were killing innocents men, women, and children, and there were two who should have known better -- better. one was barack obama, and one was eric holder. i like both of them. one is the president and one is the attorney general. one has a bust of dr. king in his office, and i wonder how often dr. king whispers to him late at night, "what are you doing? " it unsettles me that two people that come out of the tradition of nonviolence and social justice who are making these decisions every day just do not seem to get it wh

administration currently there are still one hundred sixty six people being held in prison without charges jeb bush cost u.s. taxpayers eight hundred thousand dollars a year to detain and now over one hundred of those prisoners are on a hunger strike to protest their detention the indefinite imprisonment of these detainees stands in violation of international law and is a kin to psychological torture according to medical experts and now the detainees are using the only tool they have left their bodies to protest there and humane treatment. al-jazeera acquired a thirty page manual that details the standard operating procedures for military and medical personnel at one time obey when it comes to force feeding the prisoners and explains that detainees must be strapped to a chair and administered top goals that ics anesthetics apologize as they have a large feeding tube shoved down their nose all the way to their stomach once the feeding is finished their closely monitored and a cold dry cell for an hour to make sure they don't vomit and light of this new operating procedure the constitution project ta

the front-runners are hillary clinton and jeb bush.s an eight-point lead over the former governor. yes, it is early. i think the margin largely reflects name recognition. >> but you and i both love it. >> it's always fun to talk about politics. >> it never gets old. >> it never gets old. has a higher favorability rating than joe biden, rand paul, and jeb bush. >> mitt romney is not expected to run for president in 2016 but he is getting involved with politics again. romney is hosting a summit next week with republicans and a few democrats. yesterday, ann romney told us her husband has been busy supporting her since the election. >> he's writing. he's doing a lot of travel with me. >> let me ask you about 2016. who would you like to see the republican nominee be? >> there are some great candidates out there. mitt and i are always are very, very partial to paul ryan, but we don't know if he's going to run. >> ryan, who was romney's 2013 running mate is attending next week's summit. so are senator rand paul and new jersey governor chris c

there that are very qualified, and we've had enough bushes. >> at an event in detroit yesterday, jeb bush was asked to weigh in on his mother's comment. it seems they're not quite on the same page. bush said, "life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time. not too early, not too late." later, "what can i tell you? all i can say is we all have our mothers, right? she is totally liberated, and god bless her." >>> what do you do when you're running for governor and the polls aren't looking good for you? a ppp poll in virginia's gubernatorial race showed terry mcauliffe leading republican ken cuccinelli 42% to 37%. ppp can lean democratic. in response, the cuccinelli campaign blasted out this mock press release about a fake poll. "ken cuccinelli leads terry mcauliffe by 12 points in a virginia statewide poll released today by the newly formed polling firm republican republican, republican, rrr." has pledged to only conduct surveys on behalf of republicans. a quinnipiac poll isn't that much different from the ppp poll. mcauliffe leading cuccinelli 43% to 38%. isn't it earl

we have a spokesman for jeb bush and a former adviser to hillary clinton's presidential campaign. good morning. thank you for being with us this morning. justin, we heard the statement from jay carney, calling a, quote, small number of employees, but they say they seem to be the most senior officials of the irs? >> well, it's typical of the obama administration, trying to isolate this to a small number of employees, but what is the culture at the irs that anyone in the irs and the obama administration would think that the word patriot would be used to give additional scrutiny, additional inquire tow groups that had the word patriot? what's more offensive to me is that even once the senior officials found out this was being done, they changed it and they thought they were making it better by allowing the groups to get higher scrutiny if they were trying to educate voters on the bill of rights in the constitution. i want to know what at the irs -- what they found so offensive about the first and the second amendment and the bill of rights that they felt it was okay to do that. i thi

jeb bush, whose own mother doesn't want him to run, is up at 14%. that's all for him. rick santorum, pretty far down at 9%. pretty strong showing for rick. we'll be right back. >>> we're back with two big political stories today. massachusetts democrats are choosing a nominee to fill john kerry's senate seat. and u.s. congressman ed markey looks like the big favorite tonight. the other big story is the special house election in south carolina between elizabeth colbert-busch and mark sanford. the election is just one week away from today. it's next tuesday, in fact. last night the two of them met in their first and only debate. but to no one's surprise, it didn't take long for colbert busch to bring up the thing sanford is best known for, his extramarital affair. >> when we talk about fiscal spending and we talk about protecting the taxpayers, it doesn't mean you take that money we saved and leave the country for a personal purpose. >> she went there, governor sanchez. >> i couldn't hear what she said. >> okay. hogan, this is your home territory politically. first of al

it was not charlie crist, it was charlie crist and jeb bush. there are republicans, brother mainstream republicans, who believe in redemption and will take risks for it. there are others to become the new mainstream who are willing to do whatever they can to suppress the vote, and i think that is why it is important those of us on the left early to say, i may not agree with you on most things, but if this is one thing that we agree on, let's get it done. >> i want to raise the question, the supreme court will be deciding very soon on the iss of voting rights. your sense of what it looks like in terms of the court's decision, the importance of this decision? >> we have chosen to remain optimistic because the supreme court upheld the voting rights act in the past four decades. it would be an outrageous violence of multiple presidents for them to strike down section 5 now, especially because it was passed unanimously -- well, 98 with two abstaining, after 15 -- >> >> and section 5? >> the part that gives the certain counties the power to preempt c

on the other side, you see leaders like jeb bush who, at cpac this year, you know, not being seen asof antiscience. so, you're seeing them emerging among the leaders. >> a fiscal compoenent to this. you'll see the republican party if they unite around one way. it doesn't take a rocket s scientist to figure out we're getting more hurricanes later in the alphabet than ever before. >> i think this is a place where you're going to start to see a shift in the debate. climate change becomes a budget issue and becomes a spend issue. i think that's what we'll see more and more changes in shifts in the republican party. sandy was a $60 billion event. it costs the federal government that much money. the more, and the federal government is the nation's flood insurance and the nation's drought insurer. the more the budget starts to hurt as a result of paying out flood insurance, drought insurance, damages for increa d increased, you know, these increased storm and extreme weather experiences, the more the republican party is going to have to look at this as a spending issue. >> nancy, goes back,

. >> sean: jeb bush said no to citizenship and senator cruz. >> it is not -- there really isn't a pathzenship. a path to a green card. for ten and a half years minimum some people longer depending on when they get the temporary stratus that is all they will have, work, pay taxes and travel. after that the only thing that happens is you are are no longer are prohibited from applying for a green card. you are not awarded a green card. all that happens is you are no longer prohibited from applying for one. still have to qualify and get in line and do all of those store sorts of things to get it. in the long-term for the country i do not believe it is a good idea to have 10 million or 11 people permanently barred to ever aspiring for citizenship to a country. it has been a disaster for europe to have people trapped in that category. we want people to assimilate to america and embrace politically and cultureally and sit senship offers that. we don't want to proh hub by the people from doing that. if you have broken the immigration laws you have a long and expensive process as a consequence

jeb bush and chris christie at 15%. rand paul at 14%. paul ryan and ted cruz in single digits. by the way, the big mover among those rs is rand paul. his support has doubled over the past six months. he's moving up. now to the democrats where hillary clinton is up by 50 points. 5-0. over vice president joe biden. 63% to 13% for biden. andrew cuomo. mark warner. elizabeth warren. she's showing up. martin o'malley. all in low, very low single digits. we're going to look at general election matchups later in the hour. that's going to be fun to see how the republicans do against hillary, i guess. we'll be right back. >>> people may be starting to use the "i" word before too long. >> oh, okay. the "i" word meaning impeachment? >> yeah. >> is that within the realm of possibilities? i would say yes. i'm not willing to take that off the table. >> if you had watergate and iran/contra together and multiply it times maybe ten or so, you're going to get in the zone of what benghazi is. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> welcome back to "hardball." as you saw in that clip of republicans there, they're h

that would be jeb bush and also rand paul, the kentucky senator.march poll against marco rubio and paul ryan when she led both by more than double digits. and so, eight-point lead versus double digits, you're still ahead. >> yeah. >> there is a little bit of notice that her numbers have come back down to earth. >> what's driving the narrowing of the gap there. >> according to this one poll, a couple of things. one, it seems republicans have come back home. hillary clinton support among republicans has gone down a little bit. that should not be surprising. as soon as she turns from being secretary of state to more of a domestic political figure, her erosion among republicans was always going to happen. also, the polls show there's a little erosion among independents. she was ahead in the march polls among independents. now, in this may quinnipiac survey, she's running dead-even against the hypothetical republican opponents. >> are there any potential game-changers that you can see on the horizon? >> the thing that struck me most about these numbers,

jeb bush, where ted cruz doesn't factor into poeg of but then ted cruz hasn't even talked about potentiallyet. once you throw his name into the mix there, you see things change. this far out on polling we really push things to the side. but some polling, you can't dismiss. that's on hillary clinton. where she is in the 60s in two polls. poor joe biden down there at 12% and 13%. >> you said ted cruz hasn't brought it up. who is pushing this? >> when the national review went looking to see what is ted cruz up to? is he thinking about this? those with sources in seventh sources. you get close to some of those folks and they would really like him to run them do see some energy behind him. you have to remember that for the last two election cycles, conservatives have not thought that the problem was their principles. their problem was john mccain and mitt romney being too moderate. so that's the discussion that they're having in the republican party. as to who they're going to nominate. we'll keep hearing about this until 2016. >> it is kind of the blame everyone else but not look at yourself th

jeb bush and chris christie at 15. rand paul at 14%. paul ryan and ted cruz in single digits. by the way, the big mover among those rs is rand paul. his support has doubled over the past six months. he's moving up. now to the democrats where hillary clinton is up by 50 points. 5-0. over vice president joe biden. 6 6 663% to 13% for biden. andrew cuomo. mark warner. elizabeth warren. she's showing up. martin o'malley. all in low, very low single digits. we're going to look at general election matchups later in the hour. that's going to be fun to see how the republicans do against hillary, i guess. we'll be right back. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. [ male announcer ] book ahead and save up to 20 percent at doubletree.com, so you can sit back, relax and enjoy. doubletree by hilton. where the little things mean everything. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using le

jeb bush would be great.ing? >> i would have a very hard time with that? i think -- i don't know. >> do you know them both? >> i know them both. i know hillary much better. but i respect them both. i think they're both very, very smart. i think they're both very direct. and i think they would both be good presidents. >> have they both come to you? >> no. >> you get a lot of candidates coming to you almost every election. >> that is true. >> but you haven't picked one yet? >> i would have a hard time. i would. but hillary has been my pal for a long, long time. i would probably have to go on that side. >> where has obama gone wrong? what happened? >> from my point of view? >> yes. >> i think he's terribly indecisive. and i think he announces positions. then when the red line comes, the game changing point comes, it moves again. that is a microcosm of what he does with everything. he is certainly a brilliant game. he's certainly got the tools, the kpoft to make change. but i don't think he's got the focus or the

jeb bush will never be the nominee.e is married to a mexican woman, but in mexico, -- host: stick to the democratic party for a second. you said you think clinton will be far and away the favorite. is that you want? -- who you want? caller: obama has done a good job. i think hillary would have done a better job. i would be awful disappointed if she is the next president. next president. she's got a lot of experience. she is smarter than most of the people in washington. i think she is smart enough that she can get a lot of things done. host: eugene, thanks for the call. all of our lines are open, independent, democrat, and republican. we want to hear from you this morning, but we also want to play a little bit more from the speeches last night. here is more of joe biden last night. [video clip] >> all of a sudden, since the last election, here are our republican friends talking about how much they value the middle class. you hear it now. bet it is going on at that silver elephant thing. and that they are talking about t

we were there with jeb bush, governor of florida.tions had called the race before the panhandle had voted. florida is in two time zones. i know the stations did not realize, or the networks would not have called the race that early. we were with our whole family. we just went into limbo, i guess, sort of a zen mode, especially when we went back to the ranch and waited for those dirty six days before we knew. days before we knew. >> that picture became a theme of the library. " is a himge to keep some at the first prayer service. at the firstsung prayer service. someone called and said, i have a painting, which was a wedding gift, a turner painting, called "a charge to keep." it is a painting of a cowboy, writing very hard. you can tell there are people falling behind. he loaned it to the governor's office. and we took it to the white house as well. it was in the oval office. now, joey has it again. >> there is a statue of president bush and his father. what was the genesis behind that, and who designed the statue? >> one of our very

presidential ring in 2016, she leads potential republican challenger rand paul and former florida governor, jeb bushly two miles wide will pass by planet earth today. at its closest point, the asteroid will be 2.6 million miles away from planet earth. indra peterson will join us to tell us what we can expect. that is, as berman says, a close shave. >> not as close as what we thought back in february, but this guy is huge. you just mentioned, two miles long, two miles wide, basically. if that hit the earth, it would be absolutely catastrophic. it would take us out. the dinosaurs, it was only five times bigger of an asteroid than this. but it is for a far enough away, we're talking 3.6 million miles away. and which can out how fast this guy is moving, 23,666 miles per hour. put that in perspective, that's 15 times faster than a bullet. now, yes, it's big, but so far out there, very tough to see. it's still a hundred times lighter than the lightest star out there. you'll still need a telescope. viewing, 4:59 today, but the best place to see it, even with a telescope, is going to be in africa. but there

jeb bush, you know one of the bushes, too moderate.arco rubio is disappointing us on am nestnesty and immigration. that leaves the potential of someone who is true blue and let me tell you who has been totally consistent on the far right agenda and that could be ted cruz. >> bill: so but he could -- you know, for republicans, karl rove, whom you know very well? you write a book about him. he is he going to look at a ted cruz and say this is a guy we could win with? >> no. >> bill: that could be a problem. >> it is. it's hard to imagine that someone like cruz, although he could win the tea party primary in some of these other states it's hard to imagine someone like ted cruz with sort of extremest views that he has would emerge fundamentally as ultimately the nominee of the party because of that and certainly, like us not as the -- as the winner in a presidential race. but, bill, he is pushing but tongs. not just in texas. he is going to be in south carolina tonight. >> bill: yeah. >> at the silver elephant the republican dinner. he is

. >> jeb bush is a man of such character in the face of adversity, it truly is a pleasure to be ableng. and mountain biking has ban great way for me to be able to exercise without being able to run with some of the knee injuries that i've suffered, it's been a way i've been able to overcome some obstacles in my life. >> he served 18 years with the army. >> good luck keeping up with the president. >> and our mark segal is going to do the race as well. mark, don't beat the president. it's bad form. >> it's thousands of years old, weighs hundreds of tons laying at the bottom of the sea of galilee. >> and what happens when science experiments go horribly wrong? >> the teacher who flooded the classroom has a lot of explaining to do. get that entire class a thao! ♪ oops, i did it again n®. mom make you eat that? i happen to like raisins. [ male announcer ] invest in your heart health. now that's what i'm talkin' about. [ male announcer ] with kellogg's raisin bran®. now that's what i'm talnehey!r!ut. [squeals] ♪ [ewh!] [baby crying] the great thing about subaru is you don't have to put up

by the way, in hypothetical matchups she beat two potential republicans, rand paul, jeb bush of course joe biden did not beat those two candidates. so i think lots of democrats would like to be in hillary clinton's shoes right now. if they're thinking about running. >> let's point out still very, very early. >> very early. of course, she is transitioning to kind of be a quasi-private citizen. that is going to be a difficult job for her. because she is always going to be seen through the presidential prism until she tells us exactly what she is going to do. >> we'll find out at some point. thank you. >>> just ahead an american mother cleared of drug smuggling over joyed at being released from a mexican jail. she is speaking out about her ordeal, plus a plane nose dives into an apartment. this apparent disaster does have a surprise ending. we're keeping a close eye on the storm threats out there in the midwest happening right now. look at these live pictures coming in. ominous clouds. we'll have much more on this story when we come back as well. we went out and asked people a simple ques

jeb was the star. bush was kind of the na'er do well. chris: it often happens. chris: welcome back to more of our special show on the george w. bush presidency. our next huge question, describe the influence of dick cheney. elisabeth. it's a big one. >> the influence in the first term was overpowering. very powerful. and the second term, it was much -- very much a lot less. to the point where they had a big fight about -- bush and cheney had a big fight over the pardon of scooter libby which didn't happen. and they're not speaking today. chris: was that the reason for the breakup as of today? or was their breakup between the first and second term? >> i would add that by about 2006, they were -- members of the family and other people in the republican party had begun to say to the president, his advice is really -- when you turn to cheney for domestic stuff, it's not good advice. he's not -- he doesn't really have the public or the voters or the politics. >> and here's the thing. >> and rumsfeld who was cheney's -- and rumsfeld wasn't doing very well. and less pe

jeb bush during the presidential eleshgs, he himself looked at as a future presidential candidate saidlked about the partnersh partisanship that's been crippling to congress. let me play another clip from him. >> it seems almost unreal, that we can't get together on a budget or legislation. >> is the senate broken? >> it is bent pretty badly. as howard baker said, running the senate is like herding cats. it takes leadership. somebody has to stand up and say, we're going to do this. >> he mentioned the budget, lynn, of course other legislation like immigration so important to the president and he's made a priority in his second term. if you want to us auto the example of ronald reagan who, of course, based iran-contra, he still was able to get things done in the second term. the question is, can this president do it, given the partisanship we see on capitol hill? >> well, it's hard in the senate. bob dole served between 1969 and 1996, stepped down when he ran for the presidency, and one of the reasons he could get more things done is that the senate rarely used the 60-vote rule they now

you'll have jeb bush and chris christie. it will be the all-stars. it will be so much fun.hristie will mop the stage with all of them. >> bill: it proves there is a god. john, great to have you with us this morning. >> john: i can't wait to hear how oliver north weighs in on lois lerner brushing aside congress's questions. >> bill: good point. say hello to the baby. talk to you soon. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv. >> bill: all right, now time for your e-mails brought to you today by sherwin williams. make the most of your color with the very best paint. ask sherwin williams. kevin points out hey bill, if you don't like the democratic senate giving apple a pass on their tax evasion here's a solution. change apple's name to tea party apple and there will be an automatic i.r.s. audit. and frank says he

being that so far, a lot of the frontrunners like paul ryan and chris christie and marco rubio and jeb bushhave all sort of disappointed republicans and he thinks that ted cruz or ted cruz thinks people are ready for a 2010 kind of republican tea partyer as opposed to one of the reformed republicans that may be coming out of this whole autopsy that republicans were looking at. so he's very serious about running. >>ted cruz running for president? so we have rand paul now and ted cruz running for president. it looks like 2016 could end up being a replay of 2012 in terms of the whackos running in the republican primary. you cover congress. ted cruz? republicans don't even like ted cruz? right? >> even jennifer ruben this week said he is acting like a jerk. >> he is a freshman senator. a lot of his republican colleagues have grumbled about the fact that he is getting out ahead of himself too soon. he needs to cutkeep his mouth shut at press conferences. he will talk on and on and on. and strategically, a lot of times it's best to keep quiet when you are presenting an issue and leaving. he is ce

he was a jeb bush guy down in florida. emergency management guy down there.rience with natural disasters and things like that from florida's hurricanes but also, you know, it is good for obama politically to pick one who has not only had experience but experience working with republican administration. >> bill: and finally we've seen that it happens in oklahoma, two united states senators, both of whom voted against aid to the victims of hurricane sandy. tom coburn now saying we'll give more money to fema but only if you take the money from somewhere else. not the prevailing view among most members of congress, would you say? >> no, not even among most republicans. just said spend the money and don't worry about the cuts elsewhere. coburn's stand is kind of an outliar. it is either very principle or pinched, depending on how you look at it. but it is not the prevailing few. >> bill: all right. hey, matthew thanks for your good reporting on this and for joining us this morning. always appreciate it. matt cooper is national correspondent with the "national jour

we were there with jeb bush, governor of florida.ons had called the race before the panhandle had voted. florida is in two time zones. i know the stations did not realize, or the networks would not have called the race that early. we were with our whole family. we just went into limbo, i guess, sort of a zen mode, especially when we went back to the ranch and waited for those 36 days before we knew. >> that picture became a theme of the library. >> "a charge to keep" is a hymn sung at the first prayer service. someone called and said, i have a painting, which was a wedding gift, a turner painting, called "a charge to keep." it is a painting of a cowboy, riding very hard. you can tell there are people folllowing behind. he loaned it to the governor's office. and we took it to the white house as well. it was in the oval office. now, joey has it again. >> there is a statue of president bush and his father. what was the genesis behind that, and who designed the statue? >> one of our very good friends commissioned it. he wanted a statue o

jeb bush and i were saying a couple of years ago, geez when we ran, we were considered conservative andk when you ran four years ago you were considered conservative. i mean, the curve is like bending really fast! like, you know, you didn't make it out of a term without people saying you were a rhino, a liberal. >> ken and i see things pretty much the same way. he is going to run a campaign very much like i did to win and that is focusing on kitchen table issues and focusing on jobs, economic development, schools, roads, the kind of campaign he'll run. people said i was too conservative. you're right, four years ago when i got 59% of the vote. that is the model for winning in virginia. it's a swing state. got to appeal to the independents to win but i'm still a conservative and i'm governing like that today. >> 5.2% is pretty good. >> that is great. bob mcdonald and ben jealous, thank you. >>> tomorrow on "morning joe," former governor jon huntsman is joining us. coming up today, actor tom hanks will be here on set. and later possible costas is here with new developments in the penn sta