John clinton, and the marco rubio position on abortion. Mrs. Clinton when one of their candidates, a much younger man, a senator from florida, says there should be no exceptions for rape and incensed, that is as offensive and as troubling a comment as you can hear from a major candidate running for the presidency. K, we thought that marco rubios no exception stance, which is shared by scott walker and my cut the be, we thought that was a deal when we first heard it, but how vulnerable do you think they are . Very vulnerable. John mccain did not have it. Mitt romney did not. It does not affect that many women in the country, but the polls are clear in this issue, thishese guys taking position, Hillary Clinton wants to be on offense, and there is a rumbling that she is not doing very well on some issues, and the reason is jeb. His campaign thinks that this position would be lethal in a general election. Been part of the reason they have lost five of the last six votes, and she will win the womens vote if she is the democratic nominee, but this is a huge goal of hers going over, and you are obviously right. The planned parenthood issue i think is on her side. 50 on heris 100 side. This is a crazy position to be in. Mark even in the press issue yesterday where he said he did not support exceptions for women who have abortions who are victims of rape or insects, that he went over the line enough for her to seize on it, and her calling him a much younger man is filled with meaning, complicated reading. And the rubio opinion is ba characterized in many different ways, and what youre not hearing is the Rubio Campaign standing up and saying, position. S not our mark and Hillary Clinton was there to make known her plan of making college more affordable, spending 350 billion over a decade, and it would increase support, and it would do other things to make college more affordable, and it would be paid for, she said, by Tax Deductions for rich people which the campaign is right now not outlining. Is this a good plan, after Bernie Sanders and Martin Omalley have also done this . John i think it is a good plan isstantially, because there no issue that troubles middleclass households more than the explosive rise in tuition costs in america. There are many issues, but that one cut to the core. It is off the charts. College tuition. You plan is to say that universities, you have suffered from state budget cuts. We will give you money to help make up that shortfall if you in tuition costs. Mark and not wise politically, republicans able to attack her, and i do not think it is good policy. If Hillary Clinton is president , will likely be speaker of the house, and to be paid for by unspecified attacks is, i do not think that will give her a mandate. Taxes, i doified it not think it will give her a mandate. All right, on morning j oe, donald trump again said he would not apologize for megyn kelly. Mr. Trump i do not understand it, myself. I have doubledigit leads, and george are just came out. 34. A lot of good things are happening, so maybe i should leave it the way it is. The fact is, she asked me a really inappropriate question, and she really should be apologizing to me, if you want to know the truth. Get asked this question almost every day, but where is Donald Trumps political standing right now . Mark all of the polls that have been put out so far but different methodologies suggest that donald trump is doing just fine. He has not been hurt by this. The establishment thinks donald trump is dead, but i think if anything, if he turns back to policy, which is Campaign Says he is going to do in the coming days, he turns back to talking about the economy, i do not think this will end his campaign or force him from the race or affect substantially where he is. John i agree with most of that, except what has happened in the last days, it has increased the oldness of the republican establishment to do something of theim the boldness republican establishment to do something about him. And have atrophied, something that was riling them up, it is donald trump. jeb bush is been more aggressive as of late, but they are still not finding a way to actually eliminate him from the race. He has yet to start spending money, yet to find anybody who can stop him from dominating the news. John i think there is a question, and we will see how he answers it, whether he will do any of those things and qualify as serious in terms of policies and other things, but there is no question it will take a while to drive him from the race. The question is if all of this damage will line up. If anyone gets better under the shadow of truck. If you want to be the republican nominee for president , you should play nice with fox news. Since the debate, mr. Trump has not followed that news, but today, he just tweeted this. His word is always a good exclamation point. That he iseports going to go on some fox programs in the next couple of days. Does donald trump in order to be the republican nominee need to be on good terms with fox news . I think, yes. There are too Many Republican voters who watched fox news all of the time. It gave sherman, who wrote a book about him and who knows that company well, freaked out by the amount of protrump, antimegyn kelly mail they have received. Mark if the reporting is correct on the website, then trumps power is stronger than we thought. Never undermining megyn kelly. It will be interesting when he goes on fox what those are like. And they have not eliminated the situation about the comments about blood. John coming up, greatest hits, with a special guest soloist after this word from our sponsor. Mark Hillary Clinton cooked up quite a storm, and she was there to talk about college loans, and she made her comments about reproductive rights and donald trump, and lets go to the videotape. Mrs. Clinton what donald trump said about megyn kelly is outrageous, but what the rest of republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous. A lot of men on that stage. Understand,eople to if you just focus on maybe be biggest show man on the stage, you lose the thread here. I do not want people here to be confused about outrageous comments by one adjusts say we are focused on this, and we are going to let the fact that there should be no exceptions for rape or incensed go unnoticed or unmentioned i am not going to let that happen. I know it makes great tv. I think the guy went way overboard, offensive, outrageous, pick your adjective, but what marco rubio said has much an impact in terms of where the Republican Party is today and anyone else on that stage, and it is deeply troubling, and it should be to the press and not just those of us who have been doing this work so long. Rk fired up, and i would say authentic. And now dan is joining us from the newsroom and washington. Dan, thanks for coming in. Dan thank you. Mark what do you think the motivation would have been . The motivation is pretty clear. She wants to make this more than a campaign about donald trump, she once you continue to make a campaign against the Republican Party. To makeants to continue this a campaign against the Republican Party, and putting away from donald trump but also going after others, who she are morebelieves likely to be her opponent than donald trump. John something said to the effect that donald trump is not affecting the party. Donald trump is just donald trump. And this seems to be an instance where this is different, that he is creating a springboard for a broader argument. Think that is right, and the candidates have been tentative in going after donald trump. They make their statements after he said Something Like you did about megyn kelly, but then they back off and go there own way for a variety of reasons, and we can discuss that, but what Hillary Clinton is doing is trying to say that donald trump is not unrepresentative of the others in the race, that they are in one way or another saying things that are out of the mainstream or on the pale, whatever rhetoric she might use or beyond the pale, whatever rhetoric she might use, and we know she went specifically after marco rubio, and some see in marco rubio a chance to be a strong candidate, and i think the rubio people think regardless of what he set and how he said it about the rape and incensed exceptions that he has left himself some wiggle room on that in the future, but she is wasting no time in trying to pin all of their ears back. Of us know what is going on with donald trump, and none of us know where it will end up, but what other campaigns feel, they are obviously sick. The candidates are sick of answering questions about it. Strategy, orump are they doing other things and hoping that trump does not dominate . Do thethink they have to bare minimum, and he is quite outrageous in his comments, but i think most of them believe one way or another, he will sink under his own weight, at he will be the engine of his own undoing and that they need not do anything in particular. They want to run their own race. They want to say things the way they say them. As you said, they are sick and tired of people asking them we areonald trump, but all of a mind that we cannot predict how this Trump Presidency is going to go, whether it will go up or down or state level, but as long as he is a factor, it has a potential to rub off on the whole party, and i think that is what they are trying to calibrate. John there have been some surveys that say he is at least as good as he has been or better off. With this cause campaigns to rethink that strategy . He is acting under his own way to now. What do you think would come along that would cause him to sink . Dan i dont know, john. I think it is essential about where we are in the campaign right now. And what he said about john mccain a few weeks ago, i thought that would cause him problems. They clearly did not. I think what he said about megyn kelly would cause him problems, and we do not know. The early indication is that it has not particularly hurt him, but we will have to see. Air slowly comes out of his balloon or whether it stays afloat for a while, but i think the longer the poll numbers show that he is holding up, that will in bold and donald trump to continue to do exactly as he has been doing, to run the campaign he has been running, to say the kinds of things he wants to say in any given moment, and it will force others to rethink what they want to do about it. Dan, thank you very much, and we will be right back with a play on words. John the author of a novel that i totally read, ok, none of it, but other people say it is brilliant, and everyone has a copy, and only be great of us can finish it, but recently, we spoke with someone so brave who not even read the book but who is playing a role in it, called the end of the tour, and it is jason segel of how i met your and the serious part. david foster wallace. There are a couple of compilations. Essays as heny as will ever read, and that was sort of my aches areas. When i got the script, i jumped into infinite jest, which is a different east. And it ispages, funny, but it is difficult, and it is intensely personal, and in answer to the press, that is how i got into foster wallace, because i felt that the man had on themself bear bare page. I went to my local bookstore, and i put it on the table, and there was a girl behind who literally rolls her eyes and me, and she says, oh, god, infinite jest. Hasy guy i have ever dated an unread copy on the bookshelf, and i think that is true. That is everyones experience with infinite jest, and you tried to get through it, but it is a difficult book. There happened to be three guys, and we would read 100 pages of week and get together on sundays and talk about it, and it is one of the most beautiful, intimate experiences i have had, and the themes of the book, loneliness, and reaching this age, in your early or mid 30s when you realize i have been working hard towards getting there, and then you find out the secret that there is no there, that the road just goes on forever, and you have to figure out how to be ok with what is ok. John and it is not a guy name david lipsky who goes to interview david foster for infinite jest, and they spend days together. ,ou have done a lot of tours and you have dealt with a lot of journalists in your life. What do you think the movie reveals about the nature of the writer subject or the writer celebrity relationship . Is complicated, but at the same time, david had one they came out the same year that did not do as a, so you meet a guy meeting and idol, a guy he idolizes me also once to dethrone, and to go to that, you realize the person interviewing you might have interests that diverge from your own, that you are trying to communicate a a point across, and seeing the person interviewing you might want to take your words and twist them and reveal something about you, and that is what comes into play in the movie, and david goes in with a bit of an agenda because there were addiction rumors fosterg around david wallace, and david lipsky once to expose him. Wants to expose him. I do not these days think you would agree to an interview that is four days long. Bloomberg asked me to gain 40 pounds, and i did it with martinis and steak. How did you gain the weight . Do you love the hot pocket, or is that just an efficient way to name weight . Jason i had fond memories of hot pockets growing up. Vanillahe padilla milkshake. First it is fun for the first three days, and after that, you feel terrible. You just want to nap. You do not want to do anything, but it helps with the part, because there is something heavy literally and emotionally going on with david foster wallace. He has achieved everything that he dreamed of, and yet, he still feels the same. That is a terrible moment. I have had it. It what was it the man who with played david in the movie . Jason it brought out the best that i wasse i knew going to be playing tennis against the best opponents around. John and you guys basically lived tother. Rapids,ilmed in grand michigan, and the first day of shooting, he did something that set the tenor for things. Jason it was before we started shooting. It was when we had our first meet and greet, and we were sniffing each other out, and some of the asked me how i itrted writing, and i said was by necessity. Nobody was knocking down my door to play captain america, and really quietly but loud enough for me to hear, jesse said, no, but you could probably play the captain of a weaker country, and i knew that was what was going to go on, and that was it. John i have heard two things. One, you would like to make a movie with Hillary Clinton and number two, you would like to go on a man date with barack obama. Jason with Hillary Clinton, it was when i was doing how i met your mother. Constant question was, who is the mother . Who is the mother going to be . So i got tired of that question, and i was hoping for Hillary Clinton, and i got the most graceful and amazing letter from Hillary Clinton or her people that she is really flattered, but she was going to be too is he to be the mother, which i saved, and i was also lucky enough to meet a barack obama. They did a screening of muppets at the white house for children of veterans, and you hear the man of approaching, and he walks in, and he looked at me, and he said, hey, i love you, man. Because i did a movie i love you, man, and i was more clever. I responded nervously with, i love you, too, mr. President. That comes up a lot. Jason i never felt more awkward in my life, other than following in a more awkwardly by saying we were doing a free screening in georgetown. You should calm. There will be free snacks. Real. S my life is a series of really uncomfortable moments. My life is a series of really uncomfortable moments. I assume he did not come paved jason no, he did not. I do not think he needs free snacks. John we will be right back. John we are on twice a day. Until then, sayonara. Joe we are moments away from the closing bell. I am joe weisenthal. Scarlet and im scarlet fu, in for alix steel. [bell rings] scarlet u. S. Stocks rising the most in almost three weeks. Joe the question is whatd you miss . The 37 billion deal. Warren buffett pursues berkshires biggest deal. He transforms his storied company. Does his big bet makes sense . Scarlet our neighbor to the north has never meant more when it comes to global mar
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