>> larry bush for friends of ethics. i would like to note that we now have three current and former mayors who have endorsed prop c, mayor lee, dianne feinstein and art agnos and five members of the board of supervisors. one concern that has continually arisjen concerns from the unions and if would be helpful if the commission put together a simple fact sheet that explains how prop c affects unions and that it doesn't affect their ability tot to do collective bargaining and doesn't affect their ability to talk to members and doesn't affect workplace conditions. when i met with the political directors of least one union, and explained it, they said that really allayed their concerns. but since what i am suggesting is essentially a fact sheet and not an advocacy piece, i think if it came from the commission itself, and was provided to members of the board of supervisors, all of them, not just the ones who have endorsed it as well to the labor council would be very helpful. thank you. >> thank you. david pilpau speaking aga

, exclamation point decided to give his brother a jab. >> you can't blame george bush. >> he was president, okay. >> larry: trump/leno impersonation is coming along. bush did 911. so what was his response to the allegations of "w" >> he responded to the crisis as would hope, he organized the country and the great majority of americans believe that. >> larry: um, are you serious? also why are you shaking your head the entire time you answer the question, right? right? i mean, it's almost like your head can't contain the [bleep] your mouth is spewing. i'm completely qualified to the president of the united states. my campaign is only going up from here. all right. i'm not saying jeb bush doesn't believe what he's saying i'm saying his body doesn't. that's why his mouth can't help but stammer when he says [bleep] like this. >> does anyone actually blame my brother for the attacks on 911? >> larry: no. i would never blame your brother for the 911 attacks, no, no, no. but continue your point, mr. exclamation >> if they do they're totally marginalizing our society. it's what he did afterwards that matter. >> la

larry: you think he knows.of. i think this is about book sales and lecture fees, i mean for all of them. maybe not-- jeb bushot for him. >> larry: du have any regretsbe, do you ever wish man, i wish we could have got that done. >> one regret, is that you have to address the issue of gun safety in our country. >> larry: what do you think istg anything. because it seems like nothing ever happens. it's very disheartening to people that want to see something. what do you think is the biggest stumbling block? >> the national riefer el association and the gun owners of america. >> larry: they think people wan. >> nobody wants to take away their guns. what we don't want is people who shouldn't have a gun to have a gun. one time when i was in a child care center in my district, we were playing on the floor, and this four year old children. and a balloon popped. and one of the children said drop. >> larry: wow.isn't that-- . >> larry: four years old.four y. so something is very wrong. >> larry: it's in the culture.s. political survival or the survival of children in newton, college kids in oregon. >> larry: one more

as larry pointed out, george w. bush is popular again with republicans. mean, you look at his numbers, favorable, unfavorable in iowa is quite high and the i were donald trump, i could think of a lot more people to attack than george bush and to keep it going from my standpoint makes absolutely no sense but again, nothing trump does makes any sense to me. maybe he knows something i don't know. >> larry, how does this help him? he has personal animosity for jeb bush but how does this help donald trump? >> i'm with bob. to me, it makes no great sense although it's his m.o. it's donald trump's m.o. to double down on anything he says that's really controversial especially the statements that backfire because his base, which is about a quarter of the republican electret, at least as currently measured by surveys, his base loves it. they love it that he will flaunt conventional manners and circumstances and do exactly what he wants and say exactly what he wants. >> is this going to make a difference? do you think we'll continue to see it back and forth between

know, noting his wire frame glasses and at times dish shef eled white access.wgg >> larry: tonight, donald trump and jep bushver twitter. guys, stop arguing, in this case you're both right. [cheers and applause] it's a tie. donald trump claims he would have prevented 911 if he had been president. it's true, bin laden would have been like, let's not bother america. it's obviously destroying itself. call it off, guys. call it off. and retailers in d.c. are using a text app called group me to racially profile black shoppers. this is not the reason we wanted black

larry? >> i think that this is a really important debate for jeb bush. i think this is really important debate for john kasich and they must have clear growth messages. taxes, spending, regulations. clear growth message. you wan to improve middle class wages, grow the economy, cut the taxes. >> but will that resonate the way sara was going to say they have to. because some of the words sound like buzzwords tossed around. how do they really sell it. >> i think people have to show everyone that they know the subject, they have a plan, and they know the details of the plan. and i think they have to say, we can do this. we can go from 2% growth to 4% growth. >> from what hillary clinton is saying tonight. >> one key point. she is worried about the inequality and taxing people. and the republican party should be for economic growth, contrast. joe is absolutely right. go out there and make the contrast. >> and you mentioned john kasich. this is a very good topic for him. he does a very good job of putting a human face on these economic issues. he has a very hu

larry, that is a tie. the other current officeholders, cruz, rubio, former governor bush back behind them, well behind themreally, 10, 9, and 8%. i guess, larry, just as is true on the democratic side we have a long way to go until the election and these numbers could change? >> yes, you've already given my answer jon, so i don't know what to say. jon: you say it better than i do. >> i would point out one thing to people, no, i think it is critical to remember something. how is this cycle different than 2012? probably 100 ways, but a way nobody has ever mentioned. it has been moved back a month. remember the last cycle started right after new year's day in iowa and then new hampshire. now i think the republicans and democrats did a smart thing, moving it back to february. so we have got an extra month of cushion in the new year and my guess is, whatever ways it goes, people are going to reconsider their initial choices in that key month of january because the voting is right there. they have to make a real decision not, a decision they tell pollsters. jon: and everybody is indoors and huddled up and paying

. >> larry: i'll tell you what, as long as the united states is apologizing, president obama, could you grab busherybody who has been in government for the past 14 years to apologize to everybody in the whole ( bleep ) world for being over there in the first place? ( cheers and applause ) let's move on. i can't even talk about this. but if you were turning to social media for a little light-hearted cat meme toy make you feel before better after that last story. i have bad news. >> rupert murdoc rupert murdochy apologizing this morning for a tweet he posted last night about ben carson and president obama. it read, "ben and candy carson are terrific. what about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide and much else." >> larry: hold on, hold on, now. let's unpack this 140-character putt down from the nearly 140-year-old character. ( laughter ) let's examine it. what about a real black president who can properly address the racial divide? now, i haven't seen that much racism packed into one vehicle since "amistad" came to america. ( cheers and applause ) seriously. so let me

bush at 8%. they round out the top five. so let's talk to larry sabato, director of the center for politics at the university of virginia. that "usa today" article, larry, quotes a woman in little rock who gives donald trump kind of a backhanded compliment. she says, unfortunately, i'm leaning toward trump only because he's a non-political figure. is that what voters are looking for this time? >> yes, and that lady should be a political commentator. she nicely encapsuled much of the emotion of this election. she also said i'm trying to send them a message. and that's what a lot of voters are doing. jon, politicians are never popular even in the best of times. they seem especially unpopular this year and especially on the republican side. so a lot of voters are saying throw the bums out, let's send them a message, and a solid majority of republicans are opting for one of the three candidates -- trump, carson, fiorina -- who have not served in public office. jon: four years ago in the runup to the 2012 elections, there were people who, you could arg

bush. john: very difficult. that --s time for gilligan's island. carly fiorina won the last debate. the question is how she would do tonight. rand paul did an interview with larryilmore. he will be with us shortly. chris christie is apparently upset about his greenroom. let's listen to a part of this rant. >> i have about had it with these people. let me tell you want. we have one candidate who says we ought to abolish medicaid and medicare. have you ever heard of anything so crazy as that? telling people that we are going to abolish medicaid and medicare? we have one person who says we ought to have a 10% let tax to drive up this this is -- deficit by trillions of dollars. why don't we have no taxes? a chicken in every pot on top of it. out: i know what a break moment would look like for the professor and marion, but for the rest of these? you see in john kasich, this is more tactical than pure frustration. there is no doubt he is frustrated. he is going to denounce what he sees as superficiality of the race. chris christie, rand paul, carly , mike huckabee, they need to dominate the floor. that acognized moderators will be unlikely to give them equal time. th

. >> larry, i think the country went through a recession -- >> unemployment up. >> we're going to blame bush we go. >> black poverty, black poverty is up under this president. black net worth is down under this president. the net worth of everybody else has pretty much flat lined. the economy has hemorrhaged under tax, spend, regulate, jacking up minimum wage, the things that damage urban economies. to say nothing about porous borders. we can go on and on about what's happened under this presidents that made this country hemorrhage. >> it's been an economic and social disaster under this liberal ideology for black people over the last 50 years and it started with the destruction of the family unit, the most basic unit of society, tore the black family apart. it has been a nightmare. >> i couldn't agree more that we got the pay more attention. my feeling is black families matter. let's be very clear. but i just think that the two of you in focusing on all these other issues, this plays into -- >> all these other issues? >> -- any time you say all lives matter you're somehow cutting attention

bush and john kasich have, it's very difficult to break out of that mold. jon: you write what is happening in the republican party has no modern parallel in that regard. larryato -- >> does not, and that's great for us. [laughter] jon: it makes for interesting political writing, doesn't snit. >> it does. jon: larry, thank you. jenna: the economy was supposed to be center stage at the debate, leaving candidates sparring over tax policy which did happen. some candidates favor a flat tax, others flatly dismiss it. is that the issue we should demand to hear from candidates? a great econ panel coming up on that. jenna: the candidates sparring over taxes last night, touting their individual plans to fix the country's tax system. some, including ted cruz and ben carson, advocating a flat tax. take a listen. >> simple flat tax where for individuals a family of four pays nothing on the first $36,000. >> we're reducing taxes to 15%, we're bringing corporate taxes down, bringing money back in, corporate inversions. >> we'll have to get rid of all the deductions and all of loopholes. you also have to do some strategic cutting in several places. >> i'm the only person w

bush down in the polls low in money, trump pulling out the attack ads. the democrats were lighthearted over the weekend. bernie sanders had some fun after he was spoofed by comedian larry david on saturday night live. >> maybe i'll imitate larry david imitating me. >> reporter: hillary clinton is holding on to her lead 45% with vice president board of education in the rice 56% without -- vicevice president in the race,% without the vice president in the race. reporting live in washington, kenneth moten channel 6 "action news." >> thank thank you. tonight the candidates for philadelphia mayor face off this week at temple. they meet up later this weekend on 6abc. we want to hear your questions for the candidates. you can submit them by emailing to join the action a at 6abc.com or through using social meade i can't using the -- media using the #6abcaction. >>> still to come on "action news" at noon, a couple sure viervets a fiery -- survives a fiery crash. we'll tell you the only reason they made it out alive. >>> plus the government is imposing new federal regulations for anybody who uses a drone. we'll have those stories when we come right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ with the card acce

. >> the struggling jeb bush campaign, a slamming marco rubio calling him a gop obama in a meeting with donors. let me go back to larry first. what is that all about? >> it's interesting he made these comments not to voters. if you tell republican voters that marco rubio is the gop obama, those are fighting words. he made it to donors. he was talking about the candidacy and his experience and how he comes across as a candidate. i'm sorry to break there to you john ellis bush who really hasn't been in the game but the obama of 2008 actually won the election. by calling rubio the gop obama is not too big of an insult when it comes to talking about his candidacy. >> he wasn't criticizing his policy. he was criticizing his experience. what we're seeing is voters kind of don't want anyone with political experience. that may be a good thing. >> they're running very much as an outsider in this race. >> there's a lot inside the republican. i think these next few days will be really important. >> thst incredible important. there's one that will be happening tomorrow night. >> larry, let me ask you this. for those establishment

bush. now, imagine when people go in the voting booth, the disenchanted people, and they see these other democrats and republicans and then all of a sudden they see jesse ventura. ( cheers and applause ) >> larry. okay, jesse-- >> i think i might like to vote for him. >> larry: keep it 100, jesse. >> and let me state this-- i won't join the libertarians because they're giving me ( bleep ) -- >> you're going to ( bleep ) right at the nomination? you're worse than trump at this point! >> this is amazing. >> okay, if they agree to nominate me, i don't want to join because i want to be able to turn to the people-- >> why would they agree to that? >> because they're libertarians. it's liberty. i know what it stand for. >> larry: i will not run for your party. i will not serve for your party. >> i will challenge the american people to make history and elect the first president since george washington. he's the only one who does not belong to a political party. ( cheers and applause ) would that resonate? would that resonate? >> larry: another one last question, one last question, jesse-- if you ran-- keep this 100-- if you ran against trump, you can beat donald trump? >> yup. ( cheers and applause )

larry david. >>> plus, trump says he could have stopped 9/11 and bush fires back. >> for him it looks like he's the role of candidate for president. >>> they almost had him. fugitive drug kingpin el chapo is captured and then escapes. let's fauk live in the "cnn newsroom." >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. bernie sanders may have gotten all the buzz after last week's cnn debate, but he's apparently not getting much of the love. despite all the social media chatter declaring him the showdown winner, a poll says hillary clinton won, the first since the debate. more than 50% of democrats say clinton turned in the first performance. she gained three percentage points among democrats. sanders picked up five points, but still languishes a distant second. good morning. >> good morning. as joe biden is weighing whether to jump into this race, some interesting numbers about what would happen if he decides to stay out of it. the advantage would very much go to hillary clinton. check this out. 45% of those polled say that clinton is their pick for the nominee, but if biden is

larry, good morning to you. a black army veteran and it is the bush in this ation got us mess. this war is causing 2 to i million already and don't -- i believe we'll have to be over there for a hundred years. this is ridiculous. put this mess on obama. and is the republican mess their policies. we are never going to be able to leave that place. nice day. host: because this is from "the new york times" about that price figure. while the pentagon's 500 million and equip train fighters has failed at one point or 5 onth only 4 combatants were in the fight. ia's covert program has weathered some setbacks to fighters 000 to 5,000 in the nearly two years it has been operating so. that price to 3 lot larger than 2 million. ike in florida, an independent of t . hi, there mike. aller: it was the republicans that put us in the mess after iraq.hen we invaded the middle east was relatively calm to what it is now. if anybody's to blame it's not the president and not the former it's the administration. say.'s all i have to host: devin in illinois. republican. think it's st utterly stupid tha

. >> bush defended his brother to cnn saying trump's statements only hurt trump's credit ability. >> comedian takes on hopeful bernie sanders. larry david of curb your enthuse yam did best impression of the senator for saturday night live. >> not a fan. bank. trample on middle class. control washington. and why do they chain that pen to the desk? on. he told reporters he is thinking of inviting david along on the campaign trail. >> in terms of larry david. i think we will put him up on stage at the next rally and let him do it rather than me. he does it better. imitation. david had a whole string of lines including comparing super pacs to backpacks. >> and new poll out this morning suggests vice-president joe biden is losing support from democrats for presidential run. even before he has officially entered the ring. latest cnn, orc pole showed he had 47 percent of voters support down from 53. and all eyes on biden camp waiting to see if he announce this is week. fox 25 news reported this morning biden reaches taught big groups for support as people have met with democratic national committee about a potential run. >> happening tod

where the deficit began in that decision and you said after 9/11, larry, but that's precisely the point. what we had in the early bush were two wars, iraq and afghanistan and several tax cuts. even if you think a tax cut is a good idea to do it at the beginning of two wars, that's why you do those two in combination you have the problem. >> barn, before we go i want to ask, barney, before the debate hillary clinton was on steven colbert's late show and they talked about her wall street plan they helped her craft. i want to ask you about this. >> if you're president. >> yes. >> and -- and the banks -- and the banks are failing, do we let them fail this time? >> yes. zee we let them fail this time? >> yes. yes. >> wow. >> do you agree? >> yes, because here is what we say, we let the bank fail, we insist that it fail. we will pay some of the debts and this is the difference that we did after hank paulson and ben bernanke asked us to work on this so that the debts -- some of the debts would be paid to prevent them from spiraling out of control. any debt that is paid by the way with taxpayer money is recovered by an asses

larry kudlow is an example. i have a lot of respect for. loves my tax plan. >> there you go, the donald. in the most confrontational moment, jeb bush marco rubio went head to head with bush accusing rubio of shirking his duties. >> you should be showing up to work. literally the senate, what is it like a french workweek? we get three days where you have to show up? you can campaign. or just resign and let someone else take the job. a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck as well. they are looking for a senator that will fight for them each and every day. >> i don't remember you ever complaining about john mccain's vote record. the only reason you're doing it is now is someone has convinced you that attacking me will help you. >> the french ambassador saying the french workweek is 39 hours, similar to what you are seeing in the u.s. why bring us into it? by the way, in any country, they offer a lot of bombastic nonsense. >> a nice push-back from the french ambassador to the u.s. as he says in that, highlighting the benefits of the french rules. fair enough. obviously bush wasn't necessarily being anti-french. he was making a

larry conor. great to have you here. chris, long time. i haven't seen you in a while. great to have you back. i guess jeb bush's people, including his president and his super pac guys are going to the gusto. they have to, right? >> well, i mean, he doesn't have much of a choice. his numbers keep falling. i mean, here's the weird thing. every time donald trump says something, all the pundits and experts say he's dead. he's deg to collapse in the polls. it doesn't seem to happen. it seems the opposite happens. i think that the bush campaign is not fully appreciating that there is something pretty significant happening in the republican primary. this anti-establishment, anti-if you will, washington type of candidates. and jeb bush kind of falls in that. i think he's got a much bigger problem in trying to rationalize or argue that he can't win, trump can't win, i think republicans, you know, are going to probably prove him wrong in whether he can win the nomination. >> the interesting thing is if you look at the poll with trump on top with 25%, jeb bush is at 8%. he continues to crater in the polls. and trump's fav

larry sabato, who is director of center for politics at the university of virginia. and dr. sabato, always great to talk to you. look, these poll numbers are not good for governor bush. in iowa he gone from fifth to sixth place. in new hampshire dropped from first to fourth. south caroline that he dropped from first to fifth. in home state of florida he is in fourth place. you know, he says look, long way to go. well, i'm not so sure about that. only 3 1/2 months till the first contest. >> you know, this is an anti-establishment year. at least that is the feeling of the republican base. of course nothing announces establishment like the bush name. i think that is the fundamental problem really he's got other than specific positions on immigration and common cause. but i will tell you where he is right. if somehow we could fast forward to february i can almost guarranty you that our jaws would collectively drop. we would be shocked at how many changes there will be in the overall balance in the actual polls that matter. in the year prior to an election, people give their preferences to pollsters in order to send messages. they really get serious when it comes time to

bush is our burl conner. let's not talk about the economy. you can't talk about that. net worth for blacks are down. so called wealth gap. >> i think it is pandering. but larryre a large constituency and the democratic party is making sure they're addressing -- >> there is a group of republicans that are called white lives matter. >> there is a group called nra, let's have a shooting gallery. >> you can't add nra in this racism. >> excuse me. >> i'm an nra member. >> and -- [ speaking over one another ]. >> you're for big tax cuts to the rich, right? big pandering throughout american policy. >> sean, here is why it's pandering. if you mean by black lives matter, 6,000 blacks were killed by other blacks let's talk about root causes. it has nothing to do with white cops racially profiling. it's young black people killing other young black people as a result of family breakdown, as a result of bad democratic policy. >> larry, you and i have come to a point of agreement. >> oh, my goodness. >> they're not addressing the key issue, family breakdown, education. they're lost on this issue. >> you're not breaking the key issue. the democratic party. . >> i don't kno

bush is under fire for shrugging and say stuff happens. was he making a legitimate point? will anything change? i'll talk to senator richard blumenthal introducing a gun control bill this tuesday. larryratt, head of gun owners of america, says gun-free zones are the problem. and gail saltz who says blaming mental illness is wrong. >>> first, the latest news, trying to combat years of inaction, connecticut senators richard blumenthal and chris murphy, representing the state where sandy hook elementary school shooting took place interduing new legislation on tuesday that will bar gun sales until background checks are complete. richard blumenthal joins me now. senator, if we couldn't get something like this post-sandy hook with 20 young individuals, young americans, slain in a school setting, why might this time be different? >> this time should be different. history shows that time is necessary to accomplish effective measures to prevent gun violence. the president of the united states, ronald reagan, was almost assassinated. and jim brady paralyzed. it still took 12 years to accomplish the brady bill. in stockton, california, more than 30 people were mowed down by an assault weapon. i

larry savado. what do you make have his argument and what his camp is insisting? >> poppy, one part make ace lot of sense. bush on the republican said has done, to build a nationwide infrastructure and prepare a national campaign that can slod through the 57 comcasts, 50 states, d.c., six territories, all the way through june. he's raised far more money than anyone else. he'll probably add another $20 million once his figure is announced from the third quarter. all that's good. his problem is not just his last name. it's that a solid majority of republicans do not want an establishment politician and he's at the tippy top pinnacle of the establishment. his brother and father have held the white house for 12 years. . the idea somehow he's an outsider will never sell. >> take a look at the latest "usa today" poll. they have him in fifth place with just 8% support. rubio, who he calls his friend, leading him. what do you do? because those numbers are reflective of something. >> there's only one way jeb bush can win the election, that's war of attrition. he's not going to be crowned relatively early in the primary

bush and hillary clinton and mitt romney. >>> "snl" poking fun of the presidential candidates from the first debate. and larrysanders. take a look. >> what does the e-mail scandal say about your ability to handle other crises as president? >> well, coop, i welcome this question because i rehearsed this one the longest. >> you know what? you know what? can i just jump in here? this may not be great politics by i think the american people are sick and tired about hearing about your damn e-mails! >> ha, ha, thank you! >> oh. >> thank you, bern. it must be fun to scream and cuss in public! i have to do all of my in a tiny little jar! >> hey, what is the deal with e-mails any way? i forgot my password the other day, so they say we will e-mail you a new one! but i can't get into my e-mail to without the password! >> the opening sketch of the cnn debate included a guest appearance by alec baldwin and jim webb, by the way. >>> in ft. myers, florida. police are looking for a suspect who opened fire at zombicon. >>> after days of deadly violence in the middle east, between the palestinians and israelis, a pause for pea

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larry sambado from the university of virginia. and also i'm joined by cnn political director david challion. david i've heard it more than once. jeb bush does not have the heart to rupp fn for president. he doesn't have that mean streak. is he done? did this finish him? or should he live to fight another day? >> jeb bush is in a world of hurt this morning. no doubt about that. he had a rough debate last night and it came at a very tough time for him, carol. because as you know there were all these questions about him heading into the debate about nervous donors wondering if jeb bush is the right horse to right all the way through here to go the distance here. and he clearly didn't deliver last night. but we are still three months from voting been cast and it would be immature to declare him dead. i think he has a major task ahead of him. because what were nervous donors are now going to be panicked and nervous supporters. and because rubio had good coverage monday night he's going to get some support from those folks looking for a established horse to ride. >> and i got to say rubio just made bush kind of look old and tired. >> i think