i believe that ann romney. i guess more other recent ann romney's where she spoke to "the washington post" late today something not as definitive but, look. we know that the republican party, it is in their dna to let people have another chance. but usually just second chances. >> third? >> third chances, not so much. >> the thing i think is really interesting is maybe the reason why romney, his name is out there so much and that is about the midterm elections in three weeks. almost all of the competitive races are in red states where romney did really, really well. kentucky is a great example. he won by like 4 points and why he's out on the campaign trail because he can be an asset in states where it matters now. >> a lot of romney supporters including ann romney love the fact that mitt seems relevant again and important in these senate races. when i interviewed them as a couple back last june she had, you know, it's hard to watch the news and not be a part of it. she wasn't enthusiastic about this last race b

and mitt romney knows that.ows how to slam the door on running, which he did when he said i'm not doing it again. in 2013. and he knows how to reopen the possibility, which he did. by saying circumstances can change. mitt romney went on hugh hewitt's radio show knowing there was no chance that hugh hewitt would ask him an university comfortable question. there was no chance he would be cornered into saying something he didn't want to say. it's very clear that mitt romney chose the hugh hewitt radio show to say circumstances can change. and here is the circumstance that changed. the same week romney was on the hugh hewitt show, a usa poll of iowa voters showed mitt romney with a gigantic lead over every other possible republican candidate for president. so what did mitt romney do after dropping that circumstances can change bomb on hugh hewitt's radio show and getting a poll showing him30 points ahead of the rest of the field? he invited a new york times reporter to visit him at his summer home in new hampshire k

connell: off the campaign trail and campaigning now for research, the romneys launching the end romney center for neurological disease in boston and the center is focusing on treatments for alzheimer's as well as multiple scheursz and neil recently sadth sat down with the former first lady finding out about this new center that bears her name. >> full disclosure going into this interview i'm on the advisor board for the ann romney center because i like and aspire to the causes she's addressing. (?) as ann and i discovered this is a disease in neurological ailments are those that target democrats and republicans alike. they don't care about your social status, your wealth, whether you're in the media or being interviewed with the media. with that let me begin with ann romney and welcome. >> thank you. neil: this is a little bit different. it's not just an ms center. it's something bigger. explain. >> okay. very excited about it. because this is going to be a different approach. we are going to be studying not just ms, but alzheimer's, als, parkinson's, so anything related to the brain,

romney walks by.true that when you put the words mitt romney in a poll with potential gop candidates, support for all the other republican candidates collapses. and mitt romney is far ahead of his rivals, way farther ahead than he ever was in his last presidential campaign. the polls indicate very clearly at this point, maybe not in the future, but at this point, that this is mitt romney's moment in the republican party. eager beaver that he is, mitt tried to make it his moment eight years too early and again four years too early, but the party is familiar with mitt now. and they are familiar enough with the other candidates that they know and they like mitt the best. so when you're wondering if mitt romney is going to run for president again, just ask yourself this question -- when is the last time that a super rich politician with nothing else to do saw himself with an astronomical lead over all the other candidates for president in his party and decided, nah. being president is not for me. who need

you showed mitt romney up there. there is such an opening in that sort of establishment lane of the republican party, you know, the donor and professional class of the republican party aren't really sure where to go. >> with all of this jeb talk, i called around and has anyone gotten a call from jeb? the birthday cards or calling about a new baby. i'll give you this one for the space in the middle. former new york governor george pataki. is this an open question or can we put this one to rest? in the middle of the week, mitt romney actually says, i might take a look at 2016 if the rest of the field doesn't come up to it. then in kentucky, he felt compelled to say this. >> i'm not running. i'm not planning on running. i expect to be supporting one of the many people who i think are being looking at this race. we have a number of different voices within our party that have different views about where america should go and i look forward to supporting one of them. >> are we done with this? can we just be done with this

i'm a friend of obama and also mitt romney.for mitt romney and contributed to his campaign. people reach conclusions, but i'm a moderate, i want to end the poisonous disputes between republicans and democrats and i want to get back to the time where we can be friends in the united states senate and get some things done. we haven't done anything on the budget. the senate hasn't passed a budget in years. >> i know. i'm with you on that, senator. i am totally with you. the failure, the delinquency of that body to do what it's told to do by its own budget act, it doesn't even do a budget. how can you keep to a budget if you don't even have one? and they don't. do you want the voters to know who you're going to caucus with if it's a close vote between republican and democratic control of the senate? do you want the voters to know how you're going to vote, or don't you want them to know? >> senator, angus king has counselled me and he does not necessarily support me, he's counselled me to wait until i get there. the decision what i w

, or romney's staff reported this security violation to the white house.urely they were very interested to know. >> by the way, the prompter just hit me back, he was assigned to romney and i should mind my business. [ laughter ] >> the basic problem is secret service inconfidentiality. >> absolutely. and it would have been on the romney staffers who were aware of the security breach and say, your staff, this is an executive branch staffer who is violating the president's safety. >> it's sad for those who are doing it for the right reasons, because this defines the secret service. so now we think about them in this light, and it's quite tragic. >> and that they would be so loose with what could be serious safety issues for the president, because they have access to the information and want to impress somebody, so they can try to talk to them. >>> now let's go to a bizarre court case in ohio. a woman there suing a sperm bank because she became pregnant with sperm from a black donor. three years ago, jennifer and her same-sex partner, went to the midwest sper

mitt romney, of course, lost two presidential elections. obviously some of his ideas have been vindicated since 2012 when he lost to barack obama, but he's still a two-time loser and he would have to contend with that. >> lastly, how do you think the midterms will turn out? >> republicans right now certainly have the edge. we have a witer battle field and democrats are defending their turf, but there is still a number of races like iowa, colorado is another where the polls have been inconclusive and it could come down to election day. >> okay. we will be staying on top of that, of course. rebecca, thank you so much for joining me this afternoon. >> thank you. >> okay. >>> fears over ebola being feld all across the country. coming up, how the public health scare could affect our economy. we'll talk about that. g?góéj÷ç÷ç the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast

be the sinking ship of the romney presidential campaign.he fun of rerunning her prediction about romney becoming the nominee and losing. political commentators like ann coulter make much more colorful predictions than politicians do, especially politicians named romney. the only colorful things mitt romney has ever said are all on his gaffe reel. >> 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? i love this country. i should love this state. this feels good, paying back. the trees are the right height. i like to be able to fire people who provide services to me. i'm in this race because i care about americans. i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair, i will fix it. i was a conservative republican governor. the girlfriend's here. have to be careful. ann's not here today. don't tell. >> who let the dogs out? who? who? >> please, please run again. >>> here is a mitt romney prediction from may of 2012 that is easily forgettable, not just because mitt romney said it but because it's such a boring, off the shelf politici

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romney in the vacuum of establishment, romney is still that vacuum. >> a lot of people support mitt romneyes saying they want him to run. >> i know. i don't know. you know, knowing them, having covered them over the years, i don't know if ann romney can stomach it. i hope he does come back into the race. i think he might be the most viable candidate. >>> a new ad in the texas governor's race is getting a lot of attention and that's what democrat wendy davis was hoping for. she focused on a debilitating accident that he had decades ago. >> a tree fell on greg abbott. he sued and got millions. since then he spent his career working against other victims. abbott argue ad woman whose leg was amputated was not disabled because she had an artificial limb. he ruled against a rape victim who sued a corporation for failing to do a background check on a sexual predator. he sided with the hospital that failed to stop a dangerous surgeon who paralyzed patients. greg abbott, he's not for you. >> so, obviously, dorian a lot of people saying not cool. putting your opponent in a wheelchair. >> i think thi

is the romney name -- could that potentially hurt you there?>> the good news and the bad news about disease is it's not partisan. you know, it just isn't. and so i think it will not at all, because people recognize that disease hits us all and that we need to be compassionate and caring for all of those. it's so devastating to watch a family member come down with one of these disorders, as i know, having watched my husband -- this is probably the toughest thing in his life, is watching me suffer. >> when you were first diagnosed, he stopped everything, all over the world to try to get you the best of care. >> it doesn't affect the person, it affects the families. and so many people are affected by multiwall sclerosis, alzheimer's, a.l.s., parkinson's and brain tumors. this is everybody. everybody out there knows something that has one of those disorders. surprises me the marriage breakups and relationships destroyers, these diseases. >> it's tough. it seems odd, because it brought us closer, but for other people, it doesn't. it's too much of a

i was talking about romney. >> romney won't get in until bush doesn't. >> right. just said, there's no single establishment candidate. republican party going back to tom dewey. everytime the republican party has nominated, except for one, the guy whose turn it was, there's no such person, no establishment person, no person whose turn it is. that's why it's topsy-turvy and the hardest one to predict in my adult lifetime, i think. >> i think the international condition aces out the argument you can make which is let it alone. and rand paul, i'm close to him politically on these issues, he just said leave it alone. we're staying out. >> i think you've seen articles of recent that, is the window closing for rand paul, because now he seems to be out of step, not only with his own party, but potentially with all of america. however, don't forget, ron paul set up some real votes in places like iowa and so forth, that rand paul is going to be able to step into and get some of those real votes. with the number of candidates there are this time, no one's going to win iowa w

i don't know about you, i don't know what ann romney has been telling mitt romney, but this guy sounds interested in something beyond -- >> are you saying that? c'mon, glen, really? >> stop it. >> let me just get you on the record. you think mitt romney will run for president for a third time? >> whenever i hear that honeyed bar i tone coming over the airways, the perfect hair. >> when you're talking about the trees being exactly the right height, some national pride is -- >> run mick, run mick, the wind through the trees says to him. >> what just happened to this panel? >> the same thing that always happens. >> why is he out there? if not for some some future purpose. >> because it's his version of the time machine, to reconcile what happened to him in 2012. maybe, i don't know, i'm just trying to bring it home with a metaphor that you began it with. let's jump in the time machine together, my friend. >> take care. >> bye, alex. >>> bye. >> israel ramps up construction plans for 1,000 new homes in eat jerusalem, defying warnings it will poison the well with palestinians. that is next.

also we are happy to say , governor mitt romney will be with us shortly. but first the supreme court today decided they do not want to have anything to do with same-sex marriage this year. they defied expectations by declining to hear cases that could have opened up the door to more rights. nonetheless, this is seen as a victory by those who support legalizing gay marriage. this is super confusing. why are they happy the court did not take the case they wanted them to take? >> look, what they want is the court to come down and say on the national level we will have gay marriage everywhere. there will be a national ruling of that kind. this is the next best thing. they have said in the five districts or states covered it will go on the books in those states. because of the way the courts work, it expands it to 11 states. now in 30 states, plus the district of columbia, gay marriage will be legal. it is not a full victory, it is not 50 states, it is not every one, but still a big ground game victory. >> the biggest thing we learned is you have four liberal j

>> ryan won't run if romney will run. >> i don't think romney will go first.e'll have to be a draft. >> i think that people in romneyville are only thinking about jeb bush and whether jeb runs or not but they're looking at the same polls that jeb's looking at and i will say as somebody that's always been a supporter of jeb's, very surprised by how bad one poll after another seems to be for jeb. your iowa poll had him trailing behind. i will tell you that. mitt romney, that guy right there, that guy is not worried about chris christie. that guy is not going to stay out of the race -- >> let's say christie gets in shortly after the election. do you think mitt would come in? >> he doesn't care. he doesn't think that chris christie is going to win and we ought to do what we do around here and say on the air what nobody else says on the air but what everybody says off the air in republican circles, if you want to know what mitt romney is thinking, nobody thinks chris christie can win. nobody thinks he can get past everything that's happened before even if he's exon

and as far as romney is concerned, the reality is, romney didn't lose because he was moderate, he loste was a terrible candidate. he was too moderate for my tastes on economic policy topics, but the reason people didn't want to vote for him wasn't because of that. it was a whole host of other things. so i think ted cruz, when he says that's one thing that's certain, he's completely incorrect. it's one thing that's not certain. >> looking across the aisle, who do you fear most as a challenger to the democratic nominee, whether it's hillary or not, center right or hard right? >> you would fear someone who is center right. the extremes never win. they don't win if they're hard left. they don't win if they're hard right. now, they may campaign, and we all know this, in the primaries, because they're going after a certain part of the base to make sure that they -- especially if there are four or five candidates, chris. they have to win. but the reality is, when it comes to the general election, we see it in the debate, we see it in the appearance, they all move right back to the center. eve

mitt romney's self-inflicted numbering will be in today's rewrite. today in iraq, the islamic state's advance on baghdad has been ever threatening, and the most shocking high school the football hazing ever is now a criminal case. >>> the obama administration is sticking with its anti-isis strategy. >> isis continues its assault on the syrian town of kobani. >> it is one community and a tragedy of what is happening there. >> they're trying to build this coalition to fight isis. >> it is going to take a period of time to bring the coalition thoroughly to the table. >> secretary of state john kerry made it clear kobani is isn't a priority. >> to begin the focus where it should be, which is in iraq. >> what is the price of inaction in syria. >> just three weeks to go until election day. >> in the second confirmed case of ebola in the unit. but first -- >> seven new jersey high school students have facing criminal charges. including aggravated sexual assault and criminal restraint. >> we decided to cancel our season based upon the information that was pr

ann romney said done, done, done. i think she said it three times when asked if they would be back for a 2016 run. did they have a different tune when you spoke to the governor yesterday? >> no, and it was interesting. it was bob dole on stage who asked mitt romney to run. he got a huge response when he was on stage. he demureded at the moment. when i caught romney after the event, i asked him and he immediately dismissed the question. i'm not running. we're not thinking about it, which was the question i asked him. not if he was ready to make the jump, but was this something they were think or talking about? he said no and quickly turned the conversation back to roberts. at least for now that door remains closed. >> a little romney reunion here. it's fair to say we shared a lot of time, a lot of bus rides in the 2012 campaign. let's focus on new hampshire right now. another friend of mitt romney right there is scott brown. but about shaheen specifically, she may be in better shape than democrats in iowa or colorado,

when you poll them when you put mitt romney's name in a poll with bush mitt romney is up there in then the republican side. and bush is like in the high single digits. and jeb bush mitt romney have got to have about the same name recognition. i think there might still be bush fatigue. >> certainly the name bush has the same level of name recognition. i'm not sure jeb does. he ran nationally. he was on people's tv screens every day for a year for mitt romney. i think that if jeb bush makes the decision to run, he'll run a very different kind of campaign and be a different person than his brother was. and so you know he'll have the opportunity to do that. and certainly he was a very popular governor and a very difficult state in florida. so i think time will tell if he ends up doing that. you know as far as governor romney is concerned, i think there's a very high regard for him. he turned out to be -- >> do you want him to run again? >> i don't know -- i don't know how to answer that. it doesn't really matter what i want. >> you work for the guy. you probably have some strong feelings.

but mitt romney who was cold toast about a year ago, is now mr. cool. he's getting 21% opposed to jeb bush and other candidates at 11%. then come the conservatives huckabee at nine and rand paul at nine. christie, rubio, and perry of course and carson. carson and paul ryan around lower single digits. i'm thinking, my theory is, i'll just test it. mitt romney is the guy you didn't vote for when you voted for obama. he was the alternative. through some interesting logic in the head of an average person, oh, i now got a chance to say in a poll, i made a mistake, i should vote for him. so he wins now because he's the guy that ran against obama. i don't know if he's the alternative to hillary clinton when the time comes, but right now -- >> it's either that. when you break up with somebody, your ex looks better in the rearview mirror than when -- [ laughter ] >> i think 21% is not a good number for mitt romney. everybody knows who he is. what you're saying, 4 out of 5 republicans don't want the last guy who ran, who is now seen as the leader of their party.

that are author this is big for bush and governor romney.ake a listen. >> the fact that he would not tell them before the election is a shameful thing. it's clear what he wants to do he knows will be unpopular so he won't tell the people the truth until after the election. that is a cynical and inappropriate thing. let him say his plans and let people vote on the plans. he doesn't want to see that. the republicans will be more balanced am we need immigration reform and we need to secure the border and make the system more transparent. you will see that with a republican house and senate. >> the president with his plan to not specify what he is doing and the promise to do something is to try to please a lot of parties here. does he risk alienating voters as mitt romney claims? both are finding a hard spot. on the one time in the 2014 elections with the vote playing a small role in most of the senate contests. we have seen a lot of democrats saying the last thing they need to do is talking about states like arkansas, alaska and north carolina.

it is totally wide-open if it does not run -- mitt romney does not run.eb bush down to 4%, that strikes me as such a gap between the establishment and rank-and-file. >> you know ben carson a little bit. the big surprise of this poll is him there in second place. talk about what you think are his strengths and potential weaknesses. >> he operated on my son, so i know him very well. he is every bit as good as his reputation. one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the history of the world. his appeal is that he is a genuine outsider. people hate washington. there is a certain niche in republican circles for an african american conservative. this guy is so much smarter than they are, and more authentic. he has a charming, low-key manner about him. politics may not be brain surgery, but he has never been in politics before. >> 28% of the self identified tea party voters in iowa with ben carson. the gives him a base to work with. he is not well now as well. -- well known as well. >> he has only been there a few times. does he have a following in iowa like the pol

including mitt romney.keeps getting talked about for 2016 though he insists to joe scar bro this morning it's all about 2014. >> everything is about 2014 right now. >> right. >> all right. everything is about getting more senators elected for my party so we can have a house and a senate that could pass bills to go -- it's hard to predict. we'll pick up a lot of seats doing it. the majority? i don't know. if we do, we will actually end gridlock. we'll pass bills. then we'll go to the president's desk and he'll veto them or sign them. and things will hard with regard to energy, education, immigration. these things will finally be dealt with and long past and we'll end gridlock. joining me now is crystal and michael steel. thank you for being with me. michael, i want to start with you and romney. why do we keep talking about him when -- it's not just in the media. it's some fellow republicans. >> i think that because a large measure the field that should be emerging should be beginning next wednesday who looki

romney, you said, i'm not running now.the future? senator mcconnell, would you like him to run for president in 2016? >> you know, i've learned that sticking to the same answer makes a lot of sense when we're talking about topics like this, so i'm going to say the same thing i've done before and not add to the story. i'm not running. i'm not planning on running. >> that's what they always say. this week, bill clinton weighed into the kentucky race as well, appearing in his first senate ad of the 2014 cycle for kentucky senator allison grimes. >> i choose allison because she will work with people in both parties to do what's right for you. >> speaking of the clintons, hillary clinton was in south florida thursday to try to help former governor crist win his old job back. clinton, who pitched to women voters, has become a stand-in for the 2014 message. also a new title to her political resume, grandmother. >> i think it's the grandmother glow. she's doing great. she's the most perfect, most beautiful, smartest 5-day-old you'

nominee mitt romney keeps a packed schedule.democrats look to distance themselves from president obama, republican candidates are eager to get close to the man he defeated two years ago. and this is a big year for republicans. he has been in 20 states this spreng and today in arizona. >> please welcome number one. (applause) >> reporter: headlining a rally for doug ducy. >> every republican candidate running would be happy to have mitt romney on the stage with him. >> reporter: he listed crisis resulting in part of what he sees as a lack of involvement on the president and this about the handling of the ebola. >> i think it is pair to krietize how the president and his administration dealt with a massive threat to america and the world. frankly the president is once again spectator in chief. >> reporter: he said it was the president's failed leadership. and he is critical on foreign policy. >> he's tried to pull back and shrink our military and involvement and american weakness begets bad things for people. >> reporter: many rep

romney is running at double bush right now. i say maybe it needs a little bit more. >> obama has had such a tough time since 2012 and romney is enjoying the russia comment and he's enjoying being right about some things. that glow is making him shinier. >> early poll among republicans. an i told you so quality. >>> shifting back to 2014, an election two years from now. "new york times" is reporting that democrats are going to need to have huge turn out to maintain control of the senate. you see the headline right there. states where this is particularly critical. north carolina, louisiana, mary landrieu especially from new orleans and arkansas and didn't turn out in 2012. wasn't a contested state. democrats will need that to save mark prior. seems like it's a question, that old question we have been asking all year about democrats, can they get the base that was there in 2012 out in 2014? >> i think there are real concerns and i look at 2012 when republican pollter neal newhouse was convinced that romney was going to win based

they want that romney/obama contest again.y think maybe this time it will work, but it also speaks to this is a different set of choices republicans do want this to be a retest -- and re-context between obama and romney again. if you look at democrats, they are looking at issues in a much wider range. they don't think this is about obama. independents don't much think so, either. in iowa, they're definitely hoping they can use that, more of an anti-obama vote. >> i guess i'm confused about what exactly we are litigating. presidents have been more detailed about the fact this is about minimum wage, about economic policy, this is about infrastructure, but then you have ads like this from the agenda project action fund, a progressive 501 c 4 that's about ebola. let's take a listen. washington actually can cut spending. >> the cdc says the discretionary funding has been cut by $585 million. >> cut less government. >> cut -- >> cut -- >> cut -- >> our budget has been flat since 2003, responding to an emerging threat, this is partic

the private polling done by the mitt romney campaign showed mitt romney winning. that's why they had him out here doing colorado events three days before the election in 2012. the romney campaign was doing this private daily tracking and the private daily tracking polls were event wrally published after the new republic. the secret mitt romney colorado poll on the saturday before election day showed that mitt rom fiwas going to win the election in colorado 48-twooif 456 that was saturday. sunday it was 48-46. they still thought mitt romney was going to win. when the polling was over. president obama not only beat him in 2012. he beat him by a ton. despite the polls saying otherwise. so what explains this distance between the polls and the results? it's an interesting outcome in colorado in 2012. here's another. this is from 2010. this was some of the polling for the senate race in colorado that year. of the final 18 polls, done in that senate race, 17 of the 18 showed that colorado's next senator would be a republican guy named ken buck. 17 of 18 polls, say democr

in a head-to-head matchup with mitt romney, romney leads by 1 point. romney's former running mate paul ryan is trailing by 1 point. 3 points separate clinton and rand paul. and she is 5 points ahead of new jersey governor chris christie. iowa has not always been that kind to hillary clinton. she limped into third place in iowa during the presidential race back in 2008. even ahead of the caucuses, iowa is already the center of the political universe. the same poll shows republican joni ernest and bradley a point apart. both are bringing in big names. mitt romney drawing major crowds this weekend for ernest. while the first lady campaigned alongside ernest's democratic opponent she struggled to properly remember bradley's name. >> we need to elect leaders like bruce bailey who will do the same. leaders like bruce bailey. just think about how many precincts all of us just in this room right now could swing for bruce bailey if we really rolled up our sleeves and got serious about these issues. we can go to vote.brucebailey.com. or even better, you can -- b

the private polling being done by the mitt romney campaign showed mitt romney winning colorado. that's why he is out here still doing colorado events three days before the election in 2012. the romney campaign was actually published by the new election by the american public, which is how we know this information. the secret poll on the saturday before election day showed that mitt romney was going to win the election 48-45. that was saturday. on sunday, they still thought mitt romney was going to win. but when the polling was over and the actual results came in, president obama not only beat mitt romney in colorado by 2012, he beat him by a ton. despite the polls saying otherwise. so what explains this distance between the polls and the results? it's an interesting outcome in colorado, 2012. here's another. this one is from 2010. this was the polling 2010. of the final 18 polls done in that senate race before the election in 2010, 17 of the 18 showed that colorado's next senator would be a republican guy named ken buck. 17 of 18 polls. despite those polls, republican ken buck l

. >> he was for obama in '08 and in 12, he voted against him for mitt romney. mirrors the american public, because the biggest group of voters in america are independents. >> the republicans are saying, he is somehow a trojan horse for harry reid. couldn't be further from the truth. this is the kind of desperation politics. the fact is he's the one candidate in america running for the senate and not running a negative campaign. >> i do want to get our own voters in if you will, the people who are voting with their fingers tonight on social media. roger g. mills, i'm choosing this because it sums up the last eight or nine. orman is a democrat and she's closing, get a clue. >> that is a charge, that there is a kenard, it's being thrown out there as a way to try to frighten people to safe a 34-year veteran -- 34-years in the senate who is no one basically and he is part -- look the election here is going to be simple. do you want change or do you want the same corruption going on in washington. if that's the issue, they lose. the republicans are december proper de

romney out, rockefeller in. meanwhile, over there in -- i your i should indicate right, the right wing of the party, was this new figure on political scene. he was fairly well along in year, the former screen actor, successful screen actor, by the way. people tend to write off ronald reagan's screen career as if it amateurish. i remember reading there was a "new york times" review of the n back when he was fifth leading box office store in hollywood. one year by bosley crowder, the movie critic for "the new york wrote, he had a nice way of looking at a dame. that was ronald reagan in terms made his living through most of his career. ronald reagan after his film had r came to an end, started working for a company you all heard of, general electric, which had plants and facilities d other in 38 out of the then 48 states. nd reagan was hired to go around from plant-to-plant and address the workers and the expectation, i think, was when hired he would tell sort of inside hollywood stories. a instead, he adopted in s

romney's been all over the map.f new hampshire, worked for mitt romney a couple years back. how you doing, by the way? nice to see you. >> i'm well. how are you, bill? bill: i'm doing very well. thank you for coming back. is this a romney revival that we're seeing? >> well, i think mitt romney's doing what all republicans should be doing, and that's making sure that we get a vote out on tuesday. mitt has worked tirelessly, he is one of the leading if not the leading voice for the republican party in this campaign. but he's helping republican senate candidates in a way that obama can't help the democratic candidates. and getting out the vote in the last week is the message that's important to everybody. bill: yeah. a lot of people ask this question, and i don't think anybody knows the answer: would you expect him to run again in 2016? >> look, i don't think so. i think mitt is very happy in the context of what he's doing now. he's happy to help the party. but i've talked to mitt, and i think he understands there's a

no one thought she voted for mitt romney.panel about whether you should own the fact that -- >> like nina. >> who said own the fact you're with the president, you know, defend the accomplishments he's made. shouldn't the party be doing that? >> yep, they should be. i think that was a political tactical mistake she made. that's not disqualifying. i think that race is very, very close. >> how's the economy doing? why is it we have americans seemingly more confident? the numbers seem a little bit stronger. but then we have a washington post poll that shows only 27% of americans think we're going in the right direction. >>cy think because so many people talk the economy down. number one. more importantly, people haven't seen wages go up. if wages are stagnant, there are more jobs that are not good paying jobs. this state's doing better because of auto rescue and because of trade enforcement. we're seeing some industrial jobs come back. we lost 5 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. we've gained back 600,000. but ther

romney won by 14 points or more.you show me a state where romney won by 14 points and i'll show you a state that in 2014 i would want to be democrat running for a federal office in that state. it just is what it is. third is turnout. quite simply midterm election turnouts tend to be a lot better for republicans with the turnout smaller. the presidential year, the turnout is big, broad, diverse. it looks like the country. midterm elections the turnout is about what, 70% of what a presidential turnout is. not only smaller but boulder, wider, more conservative, more republican. it's the thumb on the scale. and lush of a situation like 2006 we had an unpopular war in iraq and hurricane katrina, and lush a something like that going to tilted back to the of the direction you will have returned dynamic that will favor republicans and then the broader environment. you look at those four and say wow, those are pretty big, sort of atmospheric conditions for democrats. when i so do the math real quick and then i want to get nei

romney won these. territory. we will look at the results tomorrow. take theu look at just last 10 polls conducted, public look at ducted and obama's approval his approval 42% to 44% in the public polls. it has been stuck at 42 for a long time. on ink when we look back this next week, we will look at hat happened with isis and syria and iraq and it might which the point at president edged up nationally. affects republican motivation, et cetera. let's go it the states. the other factor playing out is the ntense unpopularity of republican party. this is to not a vote party issue. we have the current polling in the battleground and there is no un populpopular as mcconnell. as harry ell known reed and i don't want to make comparisons that will cause for people i work with on the house side who get att k mcconnell -- >> can i mention her name? mcconnell has exceeded that in the senate battleground. washington and gridlock and if you want to look what in a regression model would views of the define the icans republican party. say ve away from that and we do

not mitt romney. we've already seen him. he didn't work out. and not chris christie because as he hot head and you don't want him in the oval office. time reasonable guy. i'm the guy who is sane. pick me and i'll run and defeat ted cruz in the primaries or whoever it might be. >> well, here's jeb bush at a vanderbilt event. he spoke about anthrax scare. we gave people a sense of calm and that was the plan. we spoke complain spoken english. we were totally engaged. >> he is trying differentiate himself both from the president and from chris christie. i agree with ron. by the way, there is a money thing behind this. in the manager's category, the wise guys are looking for somebody to back. with jeb in it, it is a real contest to see who the establishment money people will go for. i think there are two other categories. the libertarian tea partiers, the rand paul kind. then the more religious cultural types, ted cruz and the others. >> they haven't taken on the skins yet. they're waiting out there. the geronimo types. here's mitt romney offering h

there are some people in romney land who would like him to run.hink, and as one person told me there, if he were to run and he stressed this is a real hypothetical, that he would be the last person to get in the race. in other words, if everybody else fell down and there was nobody left, then maybe mitt romney would come in and save the day. does anybody believe that's actually going to happen? no. are they happy he's getting these accolades that he's number one surrogate out on the campaign trail? that he can say i told you so? they're thrilled about it. but is it likely? i would still say no. >> it's not. and i don't think it's likely. that he'll run at all. it is true that the republican party tends to give their nominees other chances. third chances maybe not so much. but, you know, i think the other reason why he's having a resurgence of the map right now in the november election. most of the competitive races are in red states. like kentucky we were just talking about where mitt romney won by 24 points. of course he's going to go and campaig