mad as hell i m not going to take it anymore aspect. should these established republicans be learning a lesson from trump or let him wear himself out? i advise a candidate to follow that second path. a i d say, voters react to his tenacity. a sense of self-proportion and strong media persona. over the long run you need a message that fits with the party and i don t think trump has solved that set of issues yet, if he can. i woo auld advise, what s the ration natural for yoll? pes cal problems we have, particular challenges from the obama administration and so forth. that s what i d advise candidates to start with. frank, do me a favor. fact check one thing trump keeps saying about china. you are very familiar in asia, worked out there. been an ambassador in asia. he keeps saying, well, he s just
add. gary johnson favors legalizing marijuana sashgs port abortion rights, vetoed 750 bills in his eight years in office. more than all the other governors combined. his first stop after introducing himself to voters, tucker s ravine on mount washington, an extreme ski experience where he s inviting the media to join him on saturday. well, republican race is getting wild. frank lavin, with political director in the reagan white house. frank, got to ask you, every day that we hear about donald trump. we hear about a gary johnson. we hear about other sort of wild card candidates looking and going, no front-runner. why not? do you sit there as a republican and go, this is turning into a little bit of a mess? well i wouldn t call it a mess, but i d say this it s an open field. that s the way the american system works, and the party out of power has the advantage and the disadvantage of living with that openness.
the team will go for $1 billion because a potential for a regional sports network to be put together t. chick, chuck, remember, last thing, remember, mccourt was the high bid for the red sox, too. so if you re a red sox fan, obviously he didn t get it. you re feeling pretty good. absolutely. hopefully baseball realizes, no more leveraged owners. mike and darren, hopefully the dodgers have been saved. thank you both. your team, chuck. yes, it is. today s trivia question from the almanac of american politics, which senator attended a lady gaga concert for his 86th birthday? the answer and more, coming up on the daily rundown.
in late 2003, 2004. few bidders. frank mccord put together a bid basically leveraged to the hilt, his entire construction career in boston is built on leverage and litigation. we should point that out. darren is right there. he is litigious. society the only other bid was a late 12th hour bid by eli in los angeles for the dodgers. fox wanted to dump that piece of property, the dodgers, bay it didn t fit with them so badly that s how he got it. darren, if at some point we know baseball just did this with the texas ranger, then created an auction. how nolan ryan led a group there, now owns, runs the texas rangers, a part owner there. what is the dodgers value as long as that tv contract doesn t get approved? what is the dodgers real world value? forget the mess right now that mccourt s created and how much money he actually has in the team. if they put it on the auction block? you know the business of sports well. it s what someone will pay for
it. the value is probably dictated more by the fact that we re in more of a precarious financial world than we are obviously when frank mccourt bought the team. but it is a marquise franchise and it will command a couple bidders. i personally have spoken with mark cuban. he ll look at the book. if it s for sale, he might be interested. of course, he was also interested in the texas rangers and lost out on that. mike, like i said, i know you re close to a lot of people in baseball. how quickly could they do the same thing to the new york mets, and could it happen this year? i don t think it s going to happen with the new york mets, because they ve indicated somebody something frank mccourt has not been willing to do, take on a partner. dodgers are one of the four premium teams, los angeles, cub, yankees and red sox, major league baseball la to put a caretaker in there to prep that team for sale.