leadership skills to do it. governor bush, it s willie geist. good to see you. there was an interesting account of the last six or seven months of the campaign in the the washington post. one of the news worthy parts is mitt romney visited you and talked about the prospect of you becoming nominee and perhaps president of the united states pep said he liked you a lot, thinks you ll be a great president but thought you were severely burdened by the george w. bush presidency particularly the legacy of iraq. as you look at your poll standing do you feel your brother has weighed on you in the last seven months as you run? absolutely not. smirm a great guy and i do consider him a friend. in that private conversation we talked about the campaign because he was thinking about running. i went out the see him. i wanted him to know i was all in and i had a plan to win this. i still do. my brother if you did the polling and looked at it he s the most popular president amongst republicans in
simp making the tax code simple. fix these complex things. in closing three things you said, you said this sounds like a very long question. i m bored. one question. you said it s important to stop donald trump, you said you re a lone voice in speaking against him and you said your brother is popular. would you like the 34th president of the united states to speak out against donald trump as loudly as you are. that s my job. that s my job. you got take on the bully head on. that s what i m doing. everybody else is in the witness protection program in noticed. you got to stand up for a guy that says the things that he says and guarantees a conservative won t be elected president that s wrong. i ve been a conservative all my abuilt life. that s what i m fighting for. make sure the conservative cause is allowed to govern. by the way, that s a jeb i ve
america great again. so this ad if you haven t seen it it s everything we ve come to expect from donald. it s understated, thoughtful. it says trump will cut the head off isis, it doubles down on his plan to ban muslims from coming in to the country. trump is still the front-runner among republicans. we re finally in the election year. things are still very much up for grabs. only thing we know at this point about the republican nomination is that we shouldn t let steve harvey announce the winner. he had a great idea. these guys are in front of me. hold on a second. these guys that feel like they can go take over federal buildings, we have a great idea. why don t we send the chicago police department out there. right? see how they handle them. just send them out. again, like i said i m wondering, i m sorry if you re a black guy, right,
converted to actually vote into a guy that believes trump could do this. it s a national poll. but these numbers are just, they are astounding. the 15,000 in biloxi. 20,000. even james carrville driving past what the hell is going on here. we re less than a month away now. these numbers are starting at some point we have to start believing them. i continue to be stunned. he was in lowell, massachusetts last night which is not exactly there s not a lot of places in massachusetts that are republican strongholds. lowell, massachusetts is not one of them. it s a pretty democratic area. the pictures and the images coming out, there were thousands i mean it is incredibly packed. well crowds at some level indicate enthusiasm, passion, people coming out on a cold night. you know, waiting in line to get into these events. there are big lines to get into these events.
out. but like they had a finale. could we not just give him every award that could ever be given to an actor from evita to princess bride. he was extraordinary in evita. i haven t finished the season so i would ask star wars do whatever you want. you want to know what happens? no. i ll tell you what happens. no. mandy i want to meet that guy. very few people man i would love to meet. at seven past the hour i thought i would do the news. stop imitating them. new national polling this morning on the stand of the republican race. nbc news survey monkey weekly tracking poll find donald trump with a 17-point lead over his nearest rival.