Of national decline. if i can tap into that, that can compete with the anti-passion surrounding him. well, it is just it is one of these things, it s fun and frustrating to follow at the same time. is that wrong? it s right. scott walker tapped into what david just talked about when he talked about polling, nato and the need to get more troops on the front line with russia. and rubio does it, too. that s where the party needs to stay. i don t know that donald trump can go there. he doesn t have that background, he doesn t have that factual ability that the others bring to the table. what do you make of carly fiorina? i think she was the standout in the first debate and i think she deserves to be. i think she has great debating skills and a lot of confidence. do i think she s right on policy? do i think she s going to able to really change what is the big achilles heel for the right which is their economic position? is it as easy to attack hillary clinton than the men? we
Neptly on display with former daily show correspondents ever where you look. now it s a south african newcomer, comedian trevor noah, with the daunting task of filling jon stewart s shoes. much more on the top story coming up at the top of the hour where we take you live to cleveland as the gop candidates for president work on their debating skills ahead of the big events tonight. chris matthews is going to join us to tell us about the real showdown that he s expecting. also a connection between donald trump and bill clinton. a conversation between the gop front runner and former president coming to light. what does it reveal about trump s candidacy. and maish january authorities say another piece of the plane washed ashore while french investigators say they haven t seen anything new.
In policy there s no difference between them. but in terms of the debating skills on this subject, my bet is on rand paul crushing rick perry on this. so, lawrence, so sarah palin says no mas. i say mas lawrence in the future of this show. i can t wait! it s been great! thank you. you can watch the last word monday through thursday at 10:00 p.m. right here on msnbc. if you think there s heat between rick perry and rand paul. you want to check out the heat twitter was generating. take a look at the map. are americans finally sold on soccer? that s next. jennifer vooel is the founder of l.a. based clean bee baby. an ecofriendly cleaning service
Things, once in a while. but she usually was right and would back me down. that s the way he is. reporter: so that s one thing shannon: go ahead. maybe that s where she got her debating skills. she has always had this super clear sense of right approximate wrong. and she was never, obviously, been afraid to stand up and stick up for what she thinks is right. if that meant talking down dad at times, that s what she would do and she did. shannon: chuck sr., you mentioned there were so many books that were not accurate about her. are there misperceptions that you put to rest in this book? or factual things that you clear up? was that a big part of writing this book? well, we tried to set the record straight on so many things. some of the books said she banned books, she huns wolfs from helicopters and things like
Back to hardball and to the sideshow. well, the campaigns for both mitt romney and president obama are trying to tamp expectations leading into tomorrow s debate while playing up the debating skills, of course, of the other candidate. one of romney s biggest surrogates went a bit rogue this weekend on the daily show. take note. here is the great news for republicans, we have a candidate who is going to do extraordinarily well on wednesday night. oh, my [ bleep ], we got a runner, we got a runner! apparently only chris christie did not get the memo his party sucks at this. it s the restart of the campaign and i think you will see the numbers move back in another direction and the whole race will turn upside down. what you are you doing? if romney fails to meet those heavy expectations, he s going