cnn.com/predict. let s get some final thoughts now from our commentedtators. anna novarro, final thoughts on the debate. key moments or what you will be looking forward to going forward? my final thought is i am very, very glad lincoln chafee became a democrat. we re not taking him back. the left left, not the other way around. listen, criminal justice reform is the only issue discussed favorably both by the republicans in both their debates and in this debate. we have had a break through. people like newt gingrich, cory booker, rand palm have come together. they have changed the calculation. that is going to be something you see going forward. it s the first time you seen both political parties in a generation moving i think in a more humane smart direction. hillary clinton said something along those lines in the debate. final thoughts. i think the democratic party proved we can have a substantive debate with candidates disagreeing without being
ways, because, jeb bush came into this as a governor, a successful governor and those are usually in a time like this, those people do very well in this kind of atmosphere. but in this atmosphere, where you have donald trump, carly fiorina and ben carson, three total outsiders of politics who have risen to the top so quickly, even a gof who isn t from washington is sinking as sort of an establishment insider candidate. and a quick rebuttal, please. i just don t think that donald trump has stolen jeb bush s hundred everyone as charles says. i suspect that there is very little crossover between trump voters, trump supporters, the ardent ones and jeb s supporters. i do think that donald trump has been able to consolidate the outsider, the anti-everything vote whereas jeb is having to divvy it up with 13, 14 others? anna, maybe it s not donald trump but something has happened
it s just hours away, folks, the all important cnn debate, which may give some candidates a boost and could force others to drop out of the gop race. charles hurst is here, he s a washington times columnist. anna novarro, a adviser to other gop candidates. mr. dan pfeiffer is here, former senior adviser to president obama and mr. david schein, he s back. dan, it s not just the gop with eyes on donald trump. joe biden was at a hispanic her teen-age tonight aimed squarely at donald trump. i want you to remember, not withstanding the fact it s one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people. appealing to the baseer side of human nature.
medias here. he s absolutely right, that if you put the word clinton into a search of all the closed captioning transcripts, you ll see thousands and thousands and thousands of mentions of her, many in a positive light. on the other hand, she s getting tough questions on this book tour. there s incredible criticism of her not just from conservative media, but from the conservative media and the interviewers like diane sawyer posing questions to her. i think there s a lot of free publicity for her and her book. but she is facing some serious questioning. and she will continue to as this book tour goes on. let s talk about this, gloria borger. we were discussing this earlier today. republican strategist anna novarro called this 50 shades of boring. you compare the book to, say, robert gates book, which has pretty big bombshells in it. this book is different. very different. to you, does it look like someone with skin in the game? it does.
when anyone, not least a member of congress launches specious and denigrating attacks on fellow americans on nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance for what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation and we all grow poorer because of it. this never happens, a sitting member of congress publicly scolding other sitting members let alone members of their own party. as we ve been reporting, they want the inspectors general of five security agencies to look into what bachmann calls the possible deep penetration, her words, of the muslim extremists in the u.s. government. but they re not talking about a general conspiracy, they re actually pointing fingers at a particular person, this woman, hillary clinton s deputy cheep of staff, implying she may be somehow work on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and questioning how she even got a security clearance. again, senator mccain today. to say the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by t