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the modern news cycle where cable news is sort of faster than it s ever been, twitter, facebook, all these different ways of communicating he wasn t really ready for it at that time with that book. the question is certainly he s had a lot of time to think about it if he s going to run for president he needs to show he can handle it. a new way of communicating that whips the news cycle into double or triple speed. it s one thing to be the first op e-mail, another thing to adapt all the way through. very good point. hillary clinton, if she decides to run, i m assuming i m covering hillary clinton so i m assuming obviously assuming she s running, we could see another bush/clinton matchup and you talk to people, i m sure you ve noticed then you ve been traveling around the country talking to voters, and they they re kind of like, oh, more of the same. and yet at the same time it seems like they might actually be pretty comfortable with the idea of this die nastic race, right?
run. he also announced plans to release thousands of e-mails from his time ins office and some major newspapers have already gotten their hands on those e-mails an they shed some light on bush s political priorities. joining me now to talk about jeb bush and the 2016 presidential race, we have time magazine political reporter zeke miller and rebeccaburg, political correspondent for the washington examiner. the first question is how likely is it that jeb bush runs for president in 2016 and it kind of seems like it s gotten a lot more likely just in the last couple weeks? as you mentioned he resigned from the board of tenant. he has also resigned from the board of barclayss and as you said, he s actively exploring the idea. you can look back to 2010 when he was 2008 when thinking of running for senate in florida, and for a long time, there it also looked like he might consider running. he was taking all the steps, talking to the right people and didn t end up running. this time it
won. but i agree. the primary process, 20 debates that degraded and hurt the brand. not the best set of candidates. did not put shining good light on the party. certainly hurt the brand. that was a race that should have been won and wasn t. a lot of tactical and strategic errors. doug: 15 seconds. the most important moment of the 2012 race from the republican side came before a vote was cast, before much money was raised. that was the series of potentially good candidates who didn t end up running, whether john thune or jeb bush or mitch daniels or ryan or rubio. group of candidates that might have been able to carry a stronger message without being burdened by what nina is speaking about. doug: that is it for the panel. stave tuned to see one awesome, truly awesome graduation ceremony. business pr. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away. while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds.
history at this moment actually turns that on its head? it gives an opening for something like this to happen? someone with doesn t have political experience to go to the highest office in the land? i m always open to unprecedented ideas and realities maybe but i m simply saying from a historical perspective the odds are clearly against it. i think you could interpret cain s percentage, first of all as an endorsement of him. people really like him but he might be a placeholder of sorts. we ve had a lot of comings and goings, mainly goings in the republican side recently and some people who maybe wanted to support chris christie or wanted to support sarah palin or wanted to support one of the other candidates who didn t end up running might go with cain for the time-being. we ll see what the eventual choice is once we get to iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. jenna: let me ask you the historical perspective on that. you cite in your crystal ball, right, that 10 different