lackluster debate performance in boulder, colorado, jeb bush sought to reassure supporters and donors that his campaign for president remains a strong one. but as a slew of negative headlines in the wake of wednesday night s debate meant bush was forced to answer questions on the trail yesterday, like this one. headlines that say your campaign is on life support? it s not on life support. we have the most money. we have the greatest organization. we re doing fine. look, there s eight more debates. there s ample time to do exactly what candidates do. end is not near. memo to file, life is good. but on a call with donors yesterday, bush reportedly acknowledged that his debate performance needs improvement, telling them, quote, i realize i need to get better. msnbc s kasie hunt caught up with bush in new hampshire last night and asked him about his admission. you told donors today on a conference call that you said you re going to get better at this. what are you going
candidates start running in to the media buzz saw starting with ted cruz who was falsely accused out of scaring the heck out of a 3-year-old girl. and this has blown up in the media. it s gotten worse and worse. it became girl tear tied.rrified p. by the ended of it i m freddy krueger. the horror movie theme also showing up in a piece caulked marco rubio s house of horrors. nd at resignation of schock noticed schock s office had been decorated in downton abbey s style. and what a killer ending. director of an hbo documentary about robert durst says he has no idea the real estate heir would be arrested shortly before the final episode which seems to contain a hot mike confession. were there any kinds of deals over the timing of the arrest? of course not. we don t have that kind of power. and we had no idea of the arrest timing. in fact i was very nervous about it. did the fillemmaker strike a blow with justice or was he too ovz? this is media #mediabuzz . ted cruz
rudely interrupt, not answer the questions that are asked, and hopefully the debate moderators will actually ask more substantive questions, as well. it s going fine. are you having any fun? oh, yeah. you saw it. i m having lots of fun. and the feud between bush and marco rubio is coming into sharper focus this morning. u.s. news has obtained 112 page powerpoint presentation from the bush campaign. some of which was released to select reporters earlier this week, that includes several pointed shots at rubio. and one of the slides meant for donors titled marco is a risky bet, bullet points include the cryptic warning, quote, those 40 have looked into marco s background in the past have been concerned with what they have found. another bullet on the same slide reads misuse of state party credit cards, taxpayer funds and ties to scandal tarred former congressman david rivero takes away line of attack against hillary clinton. that leak comes as some bush donors are beginning to expre
and you can picture the journalists after this moment talking with one another after the event having the impression. an basically being as we saw writing the same story which actually had nothing to do with what happened. interestingly cruz says the local press covered the substance of what he said, the national press was all about him terrifying this little girl. let s move to this politico story. a piece about marco rubio and his long friendship with david rivero. they bought a house together a decade ago now trying to sell it for $10,000 less than they paid for it. does this justify the headline marco rubio s house of horrors? quite a headline. different people write the headlines than write the articles as we although. i don t see anything wrong with the story. very long. i m not sure in my view as a reader that it deserves the kind of attention to the setup that