jeb bush may win this rate, jeb -- race jeb bush may lose this , race. not going to lose this race because he is going to run out of money, though. mark: quickly, we see reports of marco rubio buying ad time for a way down in the future. is that a good idea to buy all of that space way in the future? ken: one of the most meaningless things to pay attention to is that. i could call the tv stations right now and by the hunt-halperin campaign space right now. i would not have to put any dollars down. mark: i like it! ken: they could do that, but they don't know what it is going to cost, so be wary because we don't know what those numbers will be. mark: thanks so much, we will be right back. ♪ mark: scott walker gets into the race monday. he has a new video. it is epic. dark imagery. it is a reminder of batman specifically, "the dark knight." we combined the we have it two. re-imagined with the audio from "the dark knight" trailer. announcer: but scott walker stood his ground, unintimidated. ♪ joker: where do we begin? a year ago, these cops and lawyers woul

jeb bush may win this rate, jeb bush may lose this race. not going to lose this race because he is going to run out of money, though. mark: quick coming we see these reports of marco rubio buying ad space all the way down in the future. is that a good time -- is that a good idea to buy all of that space way in the future? ken: i could call the tv stations right now and by the hubt-halperin campaign space right now. mark: i like it! ken: they could do that, but they don't know what is going to cost -- what it is going to cost, so be wary because we don't know what those numbers will be. mark: thanks so much, we will be right back. ♪ mark: scott walker gets into the race monday. he has a new video. it is a reminder of batman, specifically, "the dark knight." we have it reimagined with the audio from "the dark knight" trailer. >> but scott walker stood his ground unintimidatied. ♪ >> where do we begin? >> a year ago these cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. i mean, what happened? >> so what are you proposing? >> it's simple, kill

bring down the big jeb bush hammer? here is how we took it to hillary clinton. mr. sh: when president obama says that we have been too blind to the way past injustices shape the president, he is speaking the truth. [applause] but, we should be just as candid about our failures in addressing the injustices of a more recent origin. in our cities, we have so many people who have not known anything but poverty. so many young adults with no vision of a life beyond the life they know. every one of them was promised at least one big break in life in the form of a public school to help them learn who they are and what they could do. mark: so while jeb bush turned the other cheek, he left the responding to hillary clinton to his spokesman who took to twitter with this response -- "clinton has a chance to unite in fovavor of a false cheap shot." john did secretary clinton execute the place she wanted to execute at the urban league? john: she executed the play she wanted to execute. this signals that she thinks jeb bush is going to be the republican nominee and wants to frame h

a retweet about jeb bush's wife. >> yeah. >> the original tweet said jeb bush has to like the mexicanis wife. somebody else said that. you retweeted it. did you authorize it? >> i didn't authorize it. i have millions of people on twitter and facebook. i think i have over 5 million people on both. that's a lot of people. it's sort of like. like owning a newspaper, a big one without the losses. it's good. >> do you regret that? >> i don't regret anything. it was a retwechltet. it wasn't me. if you look at it carefully. a retweet of a story, a very good story, a fair story, strong story, good story. but, do i regret? no, i don't regret it. look i would say that he would. if my wife were from mexico i think i would have a soft spot for people from mexico. i can understand that. >> you think that influences his position on illegal immigration? >> i think it could. maybe it should. if he loves his wife. i hear she is a lovely woman by the way. if he loves his wife and she is from mexico, i think it has an influence on him, yes. i can understand that. >> boy, he dug in, didn't he andersen? >

now you have jeb bush talking about donald trump.ondering about your thoughts on how he and other gop candidates should be dealing with him. you have this new poll now that has him out in the lead. >> i think jeb bush is dealing with it just right, frankly. he is not going out there and making it a proactive issue. he has important policy issues that are of great significance to the nation that he's talking about. but if a question comes up i think he is not hedging. he is not mincing words. he is being civil and he's taking high road. i think he is making it very clear that donald trump does not represent him. does not represent every republican. that he is not going on engage in that kind of fear mongering. so jeb has been doing it from the start. i remember when donald trump first announced. he did it a couple days later. he did it again in new hampshire at a fourth of july parade. and he did it again today. so he is not throughout talking about it every day. i suspect he would like to be talking about other things. if he gets ask

mark: what about jeb bush?fer: they probably know each other, he was in office for one year -- she is very concerned about how much money he is raising. we are all concerned about that. she doesn't really talk about him much. mark: let's focus on her husband. obviously, that is a good relationship. some people are surprised, it seems like he helped to work on the announcement speech, but he is obviously not campaigning yet. what role does he play now? does he ever call you? jennifer: he does. these are questions between us. mark: you can characterize them broadly. jennifer: i ask him for advice. he is one of if not the greatest strategic minds in the country. mark: he's your former boss. you just call him up? jennifer: i'm not going to get into it, but -- you won't let me speak. speeches, themes, policy ideas what do you think voters are thinking about, i love it when he's in the room. i'm always fascinated to see hear what he has to say. he comes to some strategy meetings. not to headquarters. mark: when he co

we will have to see how useful this is for jeb bush. other candidates are saying they feel confidant despite the fundraising disadvantage. they see jeb bush as flaw and showing if he can raise this much money it will scare people out of the race. this hasn't happened yet. >> elizabeth let me ask you about the mitt romney effect if i can coin that. there was a comment made by jeb bush over the last 24 hours that americans need to work longer hours. he said he was talking about americans moving from part time to full time and the democrats saying he is out of touch. but that brings up mitt romney, right? two close ties to corporations, big business, little out of touch with middle class, do you think jeb bush risks going in that direction? >> i think there is definitely a risk because democrats will always paint the republican nominee as someone who is out of touch especially if it is jeb bush he will face the problems romney had being from a wealthy family and connections. but i don't think the statement about the part-time work will hur

how should jeb bush play his hand?i think jeb needs to talk about the concerns of the republican voters right? a lot of them are concerned about illegal immigration and don't find jeb bush persuasive on it? earlier today on "fox news sunday" bret baier played a clip of his interview with jeb bush and said what do you think about donald trump and bush said he -- he no longer wants to talk about donald trump. i don't think you can do that with somebody that you're tied with in the polls. i don't think you can treat somebody like that. i'm not saying he should emulate donald trump, but he needs to learn from donald trump. what is donnell trump tapping into and how can jeb bush do that? he needs to figure that out and try to convince republicans that he has the answers and he has the experience to do what donald trump says he's going to do if that makes sense. >> but maybe jeb bush doesn't want to talk about donald trump right now because he's waiting to see how this plays out, and that's what i want to ask you. how long w

jeb bush says people should work longer hours.his is part of his plan to grow the economy according to an interview he conducted with new hampshire union leader on wednesday. >> aspiration for the country and i believe we can achieve it is 4% growth as far as the eye can see, which means we need to be a lot more productive. workforce production has to rise from all-time modern lows. means people need to work longer hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families. that's the only way to get out of the rut we're in. >> not surprising democratic national committee quick to criticizes. democratic campaign hillary clinton quick to say, anyone who believes americans aren't working hard enough hasn't met enough american workers. bush clarified saying you can take it out of context as much as you want high-sustained growth means people work 40 hours instead of 30 hours. by success have money, income for their families and deciding how they want to spend it rather than getting in line and being dependent on governo

and we heard jeb bush talk about poverty.cord number of americans on food stamps and living in poverty. the opportunity gap is the defining issue of our time. more americans are stuck at their income levels than ever before. it's very hard for people to go from the bottom rungs of the economy to the top or even to the middle. this should alarm you. >> how worried do you think the bush people are about the comparisons to mitt romney? >> you know i think they're pretty worried in this sense. you know his brother, george bush, also you know the son of an extremely wealthy connecticut family, got around that image with his -- by being quite a good politician. whether you like him or not, he was quite good at the kind of aw shucks texan persona that made him seem like this everyman. and even though he didn't drink any more polls consistently said voters would much rather have a beer with him, you know than al gore or john kerry. so that kind of excuses a lot of the wealth the privilege and the policies in the mind of a lot of vote

you mentioned jeb bush this week. he said number one the tone, the smearing, he thinks it's broad-based smearing of all undocumented who come in. jeb bush says that's not right. the crime statistics don't back it up. listen to jeb bush talking to the union leader in new hampshire about what he would do about the undocumented, 11 million or so here in the united states. >> what do we do with the 11 million people here? i think the answer is, earn legal status. that deal is, i think the right balance to deal with this. people came here illegally. there should be a consequence. >> people came here illegal, there should be a consequence. that's this past week. this is three years ago. >> you have to deal with this issue. you can't ignore it. and so either a path to citizenship, which i would support, and that does put me probably out of the mainstream of most conservatives, or a path to legalization. >> is it a coincidence? does donald trump have anything to do with the fact that jeb bush now stops that legal status when

jeb bush will never take us to the promised land. he doesn't have it. no energy. >> the biggest gop name in the news cycle, donald trump, repeatedly bashing the leading 2016 republican. and whether the gop likes it or not, trump is apparently here to stay. in his interview today, he said he doesn't care about the business contracts he's losing. and now he's trying to build a real campaign. the national journal reports today, quote, the seven full-time staff trump's campaign says it has hired in new hampshire, and nine in iowa gives trump possibly the biggest operation in the republican field. and then late today yet another surprising poll. donald trump leading the gop field in north carolina, four points ahead of both jeb bush and scott walker. we don't know how long this will last or how big trump will get. but we do know it's the last thing republicans wanted and they're only getting more of it. joining me now is jamal simmons. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me rev. >> jamal, trump is going hard at jeb bush. how does this play out? >>

it's the excitement level. >> he's extremely bright and thoughtful and serious. >> but jeb bush has as his position on immigration and on common core are not exactly where the conservative wing of the republican party are. he is a bush and for some folks, republicans or non-republicans, the idea of another bush in the white house the republican nominee is disconcerting and troubling. >> in town halls, you hear about common core you hear about your support. are those people who are concerned about it in your view not understanding common core? do you think they're misguided? >> there is a lot of misinformation. people are getting information that may not be how i define common core. for me they're higher standards than we had before. they were voluntarily created. not when i was governor. after my governorship. there is nothing coercive about it. you can opt out as some states v. but my advocacy is for higher standards. the commonality of the standard is important. here's the problem, about a third to 40% of our kids other than two or three tiny countries are college or career ready. s

interesting subset of what's going on today at this confidence. >> i'm curious on how you think jeb bush is going to be received today. >> he's always going to be received politely. secretary clinton wants to end her speech on such a high note. she wants jeb to be the guy who has to follow a bruce springsteen drum solo. jeb bush has a huge mountain to climb with african american voters. so far he hasn't done that good a job. his comments about black lives matter, it's not just a slogan. it is actually a political movement that people are involved in. that's going to matter for republicans and democrats next year. >> we'll see what happens when he stakes the stage. thanks to both of you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum... smoothies! only from tums. >>> new details in the hunt for missing malaysia airlines 370. malaysia now confirms this piece of debris belongs to a boeing triple 7. investigators trying to fi

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it's the excitement level. >> he's extremely bright and thoughtful and serious. >> but jeb bush has a few big problems his position on immigration and on common core are not exactly where the conservative wing of the republican party are. he is a bush and for some folks, republicans or non-republicans, the idea of another bush in the white house the republican nominee is disconcerting and troubling. >> in town halls, you hear about common core you hear about your support. are those people who are concerned about it in your view not understanding common core? do you think they're misguided? >> there is a lot of misinformation. people are getting information that may not be how i define common core. for me they're higher standards than we had before. they were voluntarily created. not when i was governor. after my governorship. there is nothing coercive about it. you can opt out as some states v. but my advocacy is for higher standards. the commonality of the standard is important. here's the problem, about a third to 40% of our kids other than two or three tiny countries are college or

. >> 50% versus 44% for jeb bush. when you add trump to that mix, trump gets 20% and takes 14% away from jeb bush. so is he hurting jeb bush ana, in this race? >> i don't think he's hurting him short-term certainly. if anything i think he's been an opportunity for jeb to stand in sharp contrast with donald trump and what he stand for. jeb is a person that's not out there spewing venom going after folks. he's a guy that's talking policy issues and offering a vision and optimistic agenda for america. he really does stand as somebody that's head and shoulders, literally and figuratively above donald trump. he is hurting i think the rest of the field. he is sucking up the oxygen. you have seen him take numbers from a lot of that very crowded right wing lane. he's got the capacity to cause long-term harm to the party brand. >> but the trump bump thump is being felt by your boy jeb bush. jeffrey, what is this momentum behind the man? if it's not just about him, what is it that's keeping him up? >> what i think was the most

she went to florida, the home state of jeb bush the home state of marco rubio, and she went after jeb pretty thinly lyly lyly veiled and also talked about the cuban trade embargo, which is sort of thumbing your nose at both jeb bush and marco rubio, and a big chunk of the cuban community there. what do you think of that move? >> certainly she wasn't subtle on her attacks. i think she employed what i think is a good idea which is the old jordan rules for basketball which is no lay-ups. if jeb bush was going to show up at the urban league which i think was a smart thing, she wasn't going to make it easy. he has a record and should not be able to show up and not get scrutiny. on the cuban move i think it was smart, the campaign understands where politics in florida is going. obama won on many of the cuban precincts in 2012. the younger cuban electorate is supportive of lifting the embargo. so this was smart. play offense, not defense. i think it was a good day for the clinton campaign. >> ana, jeb bush didn't really play offense or defense. he didn't really respond to hillary clinton. a

with jeb bush it's 15% for clinton, 46% for jeb bush. so this feeds into the republican establishment argument that jeb bush is a tougher challenge to hillary. >> it will be interesting whether that starts to come up on the trail and into the debates. we're about ten days away from the first fox debate. do the other candidates start saying mr. trump you can't beat hillary and we know republicans are hungry to take the white house back. does that become a factor? and it does factor into the bush strategy. the bush strategy is trump is the chaos in the race, if you keep your head down, the establishment guy usually wins the nomination. he will start to use he will affectability as part of his case. >> one of the other things that's going on with donald trump is he is consuming so much attention of the public, of republican voters, of the media, there's a lot of candidates people don't know anything about. this was surprising in this new poll, candidates that voters are unsure about, who have not even heard of, include ben carson, 53%. scot

and jeb bush is one. unlike the democrats have one viable candidate who may be facing criminal charges for what she did as secretary of state. i much rather be us. and if i am jeb i would play the tortoise as well. other candidates are responding to donald trump. lindsay graham is taking him on head-on and critizing him over the things he's said. and you think about ted cruz he seems to be ignoring trump and leaving him alone, what is the best strategy. >> if you are jeb bush the best strategy is what you are doing. lindsay graham needs to get on the debate stage and henys to take on donald trump. jeb bush doesn't need to do that. cruz is taking on. >> and rick perry has name recognition. and he's gone after trump big time. >> he's barely. he may not make the debate. look at your numbers. he's 10 or 11. it is in his interest to attack on donald trump. jeb bush doesn't have to worry about that. he has to put in an acceptable performance and not falling to the donald trump media circus and a poling to the v

with jeb bush, it's 51% for clinton, 46% for jeb bush. this feeds into the republican establishment argument that jeb bush is a tougher challenge to hillary. >> it will be interesting whether that comes up on trail or debate. you get the second debate a month after that in september. do they start saying you can't beat hillary and republicans are hungry to take the white house back. does that become a factor? the bush strategy is that trump is the chaos in the race but if you keep your head down in the end if you look at republican history, the establishment guy usually wins the nomination. he will start to use electability as parlt of his case. >> one of the other things going on with donald trump, he's consuming so much attention of the republican voters and media, there's a lot of information and candidates that people don't know anything about. this was surprising in this new poll, candidates that voters are unsure about or have not even heard of, include ben carson, 53%. scott walker, who's third in the poll at 50%. marco rubio, well

jeb bush marco rubio, scott walker.e at least like what the clinton people think the top tier of the republican field looks like and i think they're right. look any time hillary clinton mentions you by name as scott walker who is not as well-known, frankly, as jeb bush it marginally as well-known as marco rubio, it's good for him. the more he the fainted as she's worried about me so she's talking about me, all to the good for him and same thing with being attacked for organized labor. all of those things pulse of the image, a guy who stood up, fought,nd won. which is the message in his video this morning and you will hear again tonight. >> molly ball he has won in three governor's races in four years. survive that recall. and has put together quite an impressive coalition of support. doing well in union households no one thought to be possible. what i've heard is that if he in fact, makes it through primary process, his focus is going to be on the midwest, sort of son of the midwest. he's going to try to compete in wisc

jeb bush isn't picking a fight with scott walker or marco rubio. he keeps talking about hillary clinton as well. >> you're saying she's deflecting from her own party. >> you want to fight with the other side to make your side stronger. thank you. i'm occasionally brilliant. great to have you on. please come back. when we return, let me win the the performance we saw today from donald trump. you're watching "hardball." >>> let me finish with a bit of pure american politics. like it or not know by donald trump or not, the performance he put on today was political gold. trump did what other politicians are not doing. connecting to millions of american people, to tens of millions. he is doing it by blasting the professional politicians for not doing what they should be doing. for not creating a workable, honest immigration system. for not honoring a workable way to protect their tax money. people want to know the people at the top are looking out for them. protecting the country from illegal immigration. protecting the tax dollars and right now they do

mark: the other leading republican, jeb bush -- republicans, jeb bush, marco rubio have suggested broadening the base. scott walker comes back to the same venue where he celebrated winning his recall and a county that is almost all white and a part of the state that is mostly republican. this is very much sentiment. scott walker has a sense of how to become the republican nominee. josh: mark, hillary clinton gave a so-called major economic address at the new school in manhattan today. she called for tougher regulations on banks and higher wages for workers, and she took shots at three of her republican rivals, jeb bush, marco rubio, and the man of the hour, scott walker. ms. clinton: you heard governor walker say last week that americans just need to work longer hours. well, he must not have met very many american workers. they don't need a lecture, they need to raise. we hear republican candidates talk a lot about tax reform but take a good look at their plans. sender rubio's would cut taxes for households making around $3 million per year by almost $240,000, which is way more than three ti

jeb bush though is a much different candidate than mitt romney. much different candidate we are already seeing that is not going to keep democrats and some republicans from trying to make that line of attack. but i don't think this is one of those situations where that's going to be successful. >> george? >> it's a bit thick being lectured on the life of the ordinary worker by hillary clinton, who has not had a job in the private sector since she was a rainmaker for the rose law firm the less said about the better. i summon in jeb bush's defense as a witness my man bernie sanders who is going around saying more or less correctly that the real unemployment rate, if you count people who are unemployed and those too discouraged to keep looking for a job and those who are working fewer hours than they want to work, the unemployment rate is 10.5%. now, is he a socialist. he is good at arit me continuing particular but he is probably close enough in that case. the fact is is the workforce participation rate, if it were today what it was when barack obam

a retweet about jeb bush's wife. the original tweet said jeb bush has to like the mexican illegals because of his wife. some one else said that. you retweeted that. did you authorize that? >> i didn't authorize it. i don't regret anything. it was a retweet, wasn't me. if you look carefully, a retweet of a story, a very good story, a very strong story, good story, fair story. but do i regret -- no i don't regret it. look i would say that he would, if my wife were from mexico, i think i would have a soft spot for people from mexico. i can understand that. >> you think that influences his position on illegal imization. >> i think it could, maybe it should. if he loves his wife. i hear she is a lovely woman by the way. if he loves his wife and she is from mexico i think it has an influence on him. yes. i can understand that. >> coming up more my interview with donald trump. his strategy for defeating isis in iraq. would you send u.s. troops? >> i would do things that would be so tough that i don't even know if they would

jeb bush has a following.who are becoming increasingly energized by jeb bush whether you agree with him or not. i'm not sure people believe that about donald trump. trump is targeting jeb bush. the last thing i want to say, his words demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of foreign policy. it's easy to understand that person will be a disaster that person will be terrible i'll fix everything. he offered no concrete solutions. his understanding of isis is elementary at best. to say that hillary clinton is the worst secretary of state in the history of america is absurd. >> do the voters respond, ben, more to complaints and criticism than to concrete solutions? >> early on if no one else is saying anything yes. and that's why he's doing well. but he also does not have a principled campaign and that's what you see here. look at jeb bush good example. he has a principled campaign. you don't want to peak too soon when you're running for the presidency when it's virtually a two-year run for the white house. y

he included jeb bush, marco rubio, rand paul there. see today was jeb bush responding to trump and doing so in spanish to a spanish-speaking reporter and what he said in spanish was "trump spends his life fighting with people. bush said -- he said he doesn't represent the values of the republican party. i have been wondering for a while, when and how jeb bush was going to say something about trump, who attacks jeb bush every single day and is running second in the polls. that's our first response from jeb bush. >> first thing i want to say is when a republican candidate loses the golfers, he's in really big trouble. president obama aside, i always thought that was a republican constituency. i have been waiting for bush to do this, too. first of all, let's look at these polls. bush has an endurance in these polls like nobody else so far. he has managed to stay 18, 20%. he is behind in iowa. not doing that well in iowa but held on after a rough period. here's a guy who said you have to be willing to lose a primary in order to win the ele

hillary clinton continues to worry about jeb bush a lot, more than anybody else. part because she thinks he is going to be the nominee. and when she tries to do that, when she overstates the linkage between trump and bush i am not sure it will be effective but certainly for rallying her party, for having something to talk about that she feels can start to build her election. i think it is pretty effective. because republicans still don't know what to do it trump. and one thing the clintons do well, when they sense an issue they can drive a wedge, they use it. heidi: anything inflammatory he says. let's go down the list. immigration. he came out in his speech saying i am a rich white guy. that is the stereotypical image of republicans that they do not want having promoted. marco rubio spoke in chicago announcing he is running for president. he touched on jobs taxes internet regulation, and that big millenial target, college. and back, in the past few hours, republican candidates have been aiming right at backing -- key demographic. millenial. you know who you are a

and jeb bush he's a complete and total moderate. >> you're a democrat but you're considering jeb bushan appeal for latinos. he probably would be stupid for the republican party to not go after jeb bush because he's the only one that will be able to get the end pen upindependent votes. all the others are too far right to be in the middle. >> a lot of the minority here in iowa are latinos. it will be important to them that the republican candidate speak to their issues. cultural competency and also representation. and in that way jeb bush is the strongest republican candidate. and although i have voted democratic all my life i would give him a vote of fantastic. >> so you wouldn't vote for him but pat him on the back. >> absolutely. he's saying thanks thanks a lot. >> that doesn't do much to thele who. thatta boy. it's interesting hearing from the voters because we have been debating this morning why it is that trump is as high as he is in the polls. why he's resonating. did you get a sense of why they are taking him seriously? >> they are listening because you can't help but listen. do

the gunman still at large. >>> republican presidential hopeful jeb bush making a campaign stop in sanrancisco later today. his third. his father former president george hw bush injured his neck last might in a fall. doctors, though, say he should fully recover. >>> jeb bush expected to visit thumbtack. >>> today the president will go where no president has gone before, prison. he will visit a federal prison in oklahoma to talk about criminal just is reform. "today in the bay" tracie potts joins us live from washington, d.c. tracie, a lot of people talking about unexpected comments the president made during a news conference yesterday. >> reporter: exactly. separate from today's prison visit but there is still a lot of buzz here in washington about what the president said and the fact that he said anything about bill cosby's rape allegations. >> if you give a woman, or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape. >> reporter: he added no civilized country should tolerate that, but admitted theres no way to r

jeb bush is now offering his most aggressive comments yet on rival donald trump.ean time, trump is wasting no time in firing back at the former florida governor. this comes after trump made headlines calling immigrants from mexico racists. let's bring in cnn's sunlynn who has more. >> the fallout continues to dominate so much of the discussion on the campaign trail. and it does seem to be getting under the skin of many of the other republican candidates. many of them this week came out to denounce his comments. but now, after this continues to suck up so much of the oxygen on the trail they're really starting to ramp up their criticism. jeb bush he had some very strong words yesterday for trump while he was in new hampshire. this is his most pointed criticism to date. saying that he takes these comments very seriously, and personally, given that his wife was born in mexico. and he called trump's words extraordinarily ugly. >> trump is wrong on this. just he's doing this, and he's not a stupid guy, so i don't assume that he thinks that every mexican crossing the bo

we will see what scott walker and ted cruz and jeff dad -- jeb bush say.ark: walker addresses a hurdle. more of scott walker from today's speech. >> today, sadly, under the clinton, under the obama-clinton doctrine, america is leaving from behind. we are headed towards disaster. earlier this year, president obama declared, he proclaims the greatest threat to future generations is global warming. climate change. mr. president, i respectfully disagree. the greatest threat to future generations is radical islamic terrorism, and we need to do something about it. we need to stop the aggression of russia into sovereign nations. vladimir putin believes in the lenin principal, that you prove with the annex. -- with bayonets. putin has found a whole bunch of mush over the past few years. mark: this speech didn't make the case he is ready to be commander in chief. what are the opportunities he will have going forward to convince people he is ready to do that part of the job? al: he will have plenty of opportunities. he will probably give foreign-policy speeches over

the jeb bush calculation is a little different. they say go back to whether it's somebody running against bob dole or somebody running against john mccain or mitt romney that there's always some chaos and the establishment guy wins. their hope is to stay there and deal with the chaos. it's fascinating. more poll numbers coming up at the top of the hour on "state of the union." next a new sign of hillary clinton's weakness? highlighting the path republicans think gets them back to the white house. first politicians say the darnedest things. listen to president obama in kenya making light of those who argue he's not eligible to be our president. >> i suspect that some of my critics back home are suggesting that i'm back here to look for my birth certificate. that is not the case. to this ho mark and alissa anderson. they bought the place four months ago on what was arguably the scariest day of their lives. neither has any idea what the future holds for them. but they bought into a 30-year mortgage anyway. that was bold. they must rea

jeb bush had this response. i would probably check with -- i would appoint someone to run state and department of defense and check with our allies. maybe we figure it out. and that was what walker is attacking on. day one, be ready to bomb if that's what it takes. >> how different is that from what donald trump would say? maybe the way they deliver the sentiment would be the same but fundamentally trump would say the same thing. i'll wipe away the iran deal and make it a bigger and better thing. i can do it better than all of them. >> you're fired. >> exactly. that's the thing that i think to a large extent, you know, these republicans because they are somehow more respectable in the eyes of the media establishment in some measure maybe because they've been around longer, let's contemplate what comes out of the adults mouths. lindsey graham. anything in the middle east is a problem. really? >> an actual quote. >> is this something you want from -- is that presidential? when john mccain saying bomb, bomb, bomb i

jeb bush and allies raking in tons of cash raising $103 million in less than six months. wowzers. earlier announcement that the bush campaign pulled in $11 million in 16 days. andrea wow, this should put a scare on both side of the aisle. >> this reminds me of the saying if tequila can't give you a personality nothing will. if all of this money can't propel jeb bush and get people excited nothing will. i think julie in this case because there are so many people in the race all of the money i don't know if it will help the way it would if it wasn't such a crowded field. >> i think there is a level of bush fatigue among republicans. >> i have to tell you i have spent a lot of candidate's money effectively and it will buy you a lot of personality and making you the cool guy in the room. >> mitt romney had plenty of money. >> he got the nomination too. >> i think we need a meme and i think donald trump changed things. he can do all of this without any fundraising. he said it at his announcement. he is independent from this. >> you think he is going to write a $100 million check? >> i h

but i don't think it's a slam-dunk for jeb bush who is near the top of the polls.t least he is in the first tier of candidates. >> he is counting on be the nominee. jeb bush so counts on the fact he can outspend these guys and outwait them, here he is trying to cozy up to who i think he wants as his running mate. john kasich, if he doesn't get in this fox debate this august, he is going to give him a shout out. what is all this matchmaking at this point? let's watch. >> john kasich is an effective governor. and has a great record. and he's the host governor of the first debate in cleveland, and he may not be on it. it's odd. but i'm looking forward to being a participant in it. and i'll give a shout out to kasich if he is not on. maybe he'll be in the crowd if he is not in there. >> what's that? is this like the establishment wing cozying, buddying up? >> he is already setting up the florida-ohio general election ticket. meanwhile, as we make fun of donald trump, you don't make fun of the people who might vote for him. >> yeah. >> and who are now supporting him. an

when it comes to jeb bush there's a problem here. >> bush people like sheldon, addison and the koch brothersr efforts are undermining the foundations of american democracy, which means to me that we must overturn this disastrous citizens united. [ applause ] >> i don't remember right after watergate but in recent years, people complain about the money. does the debate about the money influence elections or come down to taxes and spending? what do you do about isis? >> you saw democrats try to make the argument in 2014 about the cokekoch brothers and harry reid talking about the influence of the koch brothers. you saw obama speak out against citizens united but give in to this new reality where all the money, where superpacs are dominant. that's the interesting thing. you have seen in past elections with bush outsourced to the superpacs and in 2012 superpacs had the best ads. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. the thought is all this money would scare people away. it ain't happening. you are going to get scott walker as well. >> 17 counting governor gilmore. i don't forget anyb

if you look at the jeb bush policy, that architecture is missing. >> joe, you know we've heard jeb bushity or try to give clarity to what he said. but the fact is he has not supported minimum wage and he is not supported things like a call for raising the social security retirement age, he said. listen. >> we need to leave it to the private sector. i think state minimum wages are fine. the federal government shouldn't be doing this. >> there are things i think raising the retirement age, for example. >> they have built a spider web that traps people in perpetual dependence. >> is this why what he said about working longer hours, giving minimum wage position given this position on raising the retirement age, is this why this hit a nerve? and is really in line with positions he's already taken? >> let me tell you, this is crazy and i'm not the economist but i think he could back me up on this. today's minimum wage probably is equivalent to what 40 years ago. that is the reality. you are absolutely right. you're talking about south carolina. there is a state, after that flag comes down, th

jeb bush though is a much different candidate than mitt romney.nt candidate we are already seeing that is not going to keep democrats and some republicans from trying to make that line of attack. but i don't think this is one of those situations where that's going to be successful. >> george? >> it's a bit thick being lectured on the life of the ordinary worker by hillary clinton, who has not had a job in the private sector since she was a rainmaker for the rose law firm the less said about the better. i summon in jeb bush's defense as a witness my man bernie sanders who is going around saying more or less correctly that the real unemployment rate, if you count people who are unemployed and those too discouraged to keep looking for a job and those who are working fewer hours than they want to work, the unemployment rate is 10.5%. now, is he a socialist. he is good at arit me continuing particular but he is probably close enough in that case. the fact is is the workforce participation rate, if it were today what it was when barack obama was inaugur

but jeb bush, i don't get it. so with bush, if you people go with bush, you're going to lose. >> in a new national poll by monmouth university released today, jeb bush is at the top of a poll of republicans at 15%. donald trump is second at 13% in the same poll taken a month ago, donald trump was at 2% with republican voters. joining us now stewart steven. and charlie cook, editor of the cook political report and nbc political analyst, caitlin huey burns. >> so explain what's happening within the republican party. we feel like we've seen versions of this before. four years ago in some of those bubbles that occurred for some of those minor candidates who finally found themselves riding up in the polls. what did you see of this trump situation. >> you and i are both fans of bulwark. >> that's right. >> i can't explain donald trump, but i don't think we really need to. he's someone who's enjoying himself. he's running for president. four years ago he was leading. he's actually lost votes as opposed to four years ago.

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