i think she s exactly right that they are evenly matched. it comes down to pure debating skills, though, ted cruz is really without peer in american politics. off guy who s been in front of the supreme court umpteen million times and won umpteen million and two. he s very, very tough to debate. i do think that really on rubio now. we came out of that last debate, it was rubio, rubio, rubio. it was like ted cruz wasn t even there. now you come back. this flip, it s reversed. rubio has got to figure out a way to assert himself that, listen, if you re trying to leave trump toll safer water, leading ben carson to safer water, i m the safe guy. i know how to keep you safe. not this guy. if he can figure out a way to do it, he could pull it off. but to go he to head with ted cruz, who you know is going to be meticulously well prepared, who s going to have this place ready to go, dangerous for rubio, but he has to do it. i disagree. i think ted cruz was vizable in
Digestive core.r so choose ultimate flora by renewlife. it has 30 billion probiotic cultures. feel lighter and more energized. ultimate flora. more power to your gut. new this morning, can he fix it? yes, he can! no, not bob the builder, but jeb bush in a very revealing interview with cnn s special correspondent bush explains how he plans to turn his campaign around. it was a wide-ranging conversation. in it bush talked about trump, criticized his own debating skills and also his attack on marco rubio in this last republican debate. for more, let s bring in jamie. jamie, you hit on a lot with jeb bush, and you got a lot more from jeb bush than many. you know, i think he was different in this interview. we talked about his parents. we talked about his brother.
Weren t about content. is that what you didn t agree with? we said let s have a lively debate. if they want to ask the tough questions i think mr. trump had a clear history of answering the hardest questions from the last three debates. we feel very comfortable with his debating skills. let s talk about who s going to be on that stage and make sure those happen. since he was successful of getting the debate down from three hours to two, what might we expect from mr. trump from the upcoming debate. let s make it a two-hour debate. i think the american people feel that two hours is enough time. let s have some fair questions. let s not ask if he s a comic book character. let s ask real questions the american people want answers to. let s talk about syria and isis
Candidate that he is most comfortable being. if you read it through the speech that he gave today, he is it is in conjunction with this e-book, his e-mails from the time as governor of florida. it is a lot about him as a policy wonk, a lot about him in ways that maybe he was advised not to be. he s been told you need to push those zingers home, attack marco rubio and he s not able to come through on that and you saw him stepping up in a way that i haven t seen on the campaign trail yet. he was definitely more fired up, seemed more in his element. he was surrounded by people clearly very excited to be there. this is his home turf and a good way to start the reboot. as you say, the question is whether or not he can turn around particularly the debating skills and another debate next week and something that all of his donors able to tune in to easily on tv and something he s judged on pretty aggressively so i think that the jury is definitely still out but at this point, we are seeing a
Marco rubio showed much better debating skills tonight than he ever has before. ted cruz, we knew had the skills but he never really had the time and he never had the moments in previous debates to show it off. chris christie we knew had debating skills and he got a couple of those moments tonight. it s not complicated where this went. i think one of the biggest problems for trump is, the trump campaign and the republican campaign has been all about trump. meaning it s all about a star. this campaign has a star, donald trump. he was not the star of this debate tonight. and in the world in which donald trump cannot hold on to that candidate stardom, i m not sure he can continue to support his poll numbers. i don t think hispanics looked like rapists tonight, they looked like great debaters, which is astounding when you look at trump. michael, steve and lawrence are sticking with me. and coming up, senator rand paul is going to join us here, fresh off the debate stage.