opponent got overly aggressive. blasio. when the subject of her likability came up and obama sort of threw off you re likable enough, hillary, and that hurt us. so there is an element of than but i will say this, i don t if there s a toughness barometer of the candidates on the stage, i think she d be right at the top. she s the toughest candidate on the stage. but could it backfire against a male candidate to be seen as as it s more likely to backfire because, as gloria points out, she s a very popular figure among democrats. and i think you have to be very careful how you attack when you re attacking someone who is broadly liked and admired among members of your own party. how she handles. she handled then-candidate obama when he she said you hurt my feelings to the questioner when he said you re not likable. and then obama said you re into
he loses some authenticity about who he is. so yes, i m conservative i should be at least bottom line acceptable to you. but nobody who works for jeb bush expects him to get a standing ovation. forget about a standing ovation. peter, you re there. there was some suggestion there might be people walking out in protest. have you heard that? reporter: there are whispers about that here that some people are coming into the event just to sort of stage a walk-out. but the other thing happening, interesting, jeb bush supporters are bussing in people from k street, from georgetown from washington, d.c. to sort of stack the audience as well. this is all theater, as gloria points out. this isn t necessarily going to be make-or-break for bush s campaign. but he s road testing a conservative message in front of a conservative audience.
suddenly is realizing wait a minute, we don t have the same goals as the tea party. the business community did not like this shutdown. the business community, for example, wants immigration reform, tea party not so much. so maybe you will see the business community now fund raising for tea party opponents, contributing to tea party opponents, and see how that rift in the republican party develops. the big business community never wants any discussion of america s credit rating out there to be an issue. absolutely. they were for having a clean c.r. right in the beginning and as gloria points out, they are for immigration reform. this is the idealogical split that s now in the republican party. you have a populist grassroots that s very anti-corporate, anti-corporate welfare, and you have a business community that wants the traditional agenda of low taxes and immigration reform and certainly not playing with fire in threatening default.
this week and i wouldn t be surprised if he gets that question and we hear something from him. not today, maybe, though, perhaps tomorrow or wednesday. for the white house and for the administration, for attorney general holder, this is a fine line they are walking between political pressure on the one hand from civil rights groups, from some of their core constituents, and the harsh realities of the law as gloria points out. very high standard and a very tough case to bring. some 15,000 signatures within 24 hours on a white house petition calling for the government to bring a case and for the white house and for the president in particular, a touchy issue because he has tried to stay above weighing in on issues that are too specific to race, one way or another. he wouldn t put it that way, but i think it is fair to say that. at the same time, he has
and possibly restrained. so the extent of the communication you have and what you learn from it, i mean, clearly they re asking questions about public safe tty first and foremost about, were there other bombs, is there any other issue that they need to be concerned with? so that would be the first part of their interrogation. tom, this is obviously, as gloria points out, not a normal interrogation. huge challenges. take us behind the scenes. how would such a nonverbal interrogation likely be conducted? well, they would try as best they can, if he s able to nod and if he can hear them clearly, to formulate as many questions as possible if a yes or no fashion. do you know, was somebody else involved in this? yes or no. do you have explosives hidden in some other location? and maybe they would name where they have recovered explosives and firearms and say, are there