gloria dana s talking about the polls here. there s the poll that has him as the front-runner the poll showing the favorability is way up. what is driving these numbers? look i think what we see in these polls is that he s striking a chord with the self-identified conservatives or very conservative republican voters that s the base of the base of the republican party. and that he s speaking to them and you see in this poll here it s within a margin of error with jeb bush. but you see that trump at least for now is speaking for an awful lot of republicans. and what jeb bush said today is, look if we just run on anger as a republican party, we re not going to win this election. we have to have some positive things to say to american voters because what bush is trying to say is that look we ve got to win independent voters if we want to win the presidency. and i think trump does have an
and then obama beat her and the rest is history. he started to hone the anti-clinton i can beat the clinton machine i m from arkansas back then. it looks like who knows, that is going to be much more of a sustainable message as he goes forward. his campaign is interesting to me. they took pains to point out that he s beaten women as he s run for elective office in the past lieutenant governor so he s not one of the republicans who doesn t know how to run against women. he knows how to run against women, whatever that means by the way. just starting. six republicans officially in this race for the white house. gloria dana thanks very much. still to come they say politics is all about perception but if that s the case hillary clinton may have a bit of a problem right now. we ll have that story right after the break. my cut hurt. mine hurt more. mine stopped hurting faster! neosporin plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. when you pi
with the president. as of right now they re getting ready to leave the white house, we re told. let s hope that s a good sign, talks yesterday with house republicans were described as, quote, good and useful. it was the first in at least some progress in this continuing stalemate. jim acosta is over at the white house. dana bash is here with me in the d.c. studio. jim, let s start with you right now. i guess the meeting has just wrapped up. these senators, we were expecting them maybe to come to the stake out over in the driveway outside the west wing of the white house. so far they haven t shown up, right? that s right. i want to point something out. if you look over my right shoulder you can see where some small buses have pulled up actually to the front of the front entrance to the north lawn of the white house, wolf. that large portico is where the buses are parked just outside. we re expecting to see where the republican senators come out of the white house shortly.
0 from one of those senators, republican senators, who is in the room standing by to speak with us, give us some details on what happened. also, right now we re waiting for today s white house briefing. it s expected to begin momentarily. we ll get the obama administration s latest take on the search for a way out of this stalemate. we ll have live coverage. jay carney, the press secretary, getting ready to be questioned by reporters. also right now, conservatives are rallying here in washington. anyone who thinks they have for gotten about obama care needs to think again. we re going there for a live report. welcome to our viewers. i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. will it be deal or no deal? that s the big question on this. day 11 of the partial government shutdown. this could be a crucial day in the fiscal stalemate. senate republicans, they came to the white house about an hour and a half or so ago. earlier in the day for talks with the president. as of right now th
0 . that does it for this edition of ac 360. later we re back with another show tomorrow, basically. another panel. see you again starting at 8:00 eastern with ac 360. crisis in syria decision point with jake tapper starts now. have a great night. tonight a special hour of cnn. america s not the world s policeman. president obama in america s living rooms, using words that even he probably could not have predicted just 48 hours ago. this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force. what began as a case for striking the regime turns into a cautious embrace of russia s plan to get syria to give up its chemical weapons. it has to be real. it cannot be a delaying tactic. what about that russian plan? will it work? what has the syrian regime ever done to earn the trust? and if president obama thinks it s such a worthy idea, why wasn t it his plan a? sunrise in damascus. how did the president s speech land in the potentia