candidates, filled with loud reporters, a very rapid and vain political process we re in now. he does strike me as a charlie rose candidate in a charlie brown world. you were very close to his brother. is jeb not cut from the same cloth when it comes to campaigning? i think what ron side true in terms of somebody seems and senator rubio said this in the debate. someone seems to have advised jeb that the right way to respond to fallen poll numbers is to attack marco rubio, and you can see when he does it that he s not comfortable doing it. it seems very out of character, and that i hope you re right. i hope that, in fact, he stops it because it s not good for him. it s not good for the party, and it s not good for the future of the republican party. rubio addressed that on friday night. let s listen to what he said. it s part of a strategic decision they ve made and they have the right to make it and i
this is the landscape we play in. so right now i would say it s not as bad as the self-fulfilling mechanism indicates, but it could be in another week. one of the things he s doing is he s going hard after marco rubio and the presentation he s made last weekend to supporters in houston including a 112-page powerpoint presentation who said that those who looked into marco s background in the past have been concerned with what they found. they re second guessing themselves saying it s their job to go after marco rubio and the pac s job to go after marco rubio, and it s not jeb s nature to be that confrontational and they ll focus more on connecting his policies with real people and shortening his answers, but i agree completely with george. he seems to be right now a man who doesn t quite fit the times. i m not a fortune teller. i don t know if he s going to make it or not. bushes aren t quitters. we ve watched him deal with a debate process filled with loud
don t think it s a smart thing for republicans to do and one of the reasons why i think we lost in 2012 is republicans attacking each other and weakened the eventual nominee. the republican establishment is worried that jeb on his way down takes on marco rubio and that leaves ted cruz and how does ted cruz go against hillary clinton. and she appeals to suburban women and the thing for the bush campaign is things can change quickly in politics. if we ve been talking about hillary clinton three weeks ago, we ll would have been talking about how she s struggling and things are looking tough. so i think what he needs to do, ron is exactly right. his background and who he is is out of tenor with the times. a product of the establishment and upbringing of privilege and it s almost as if he needs to be humbled and said forget my last name is bush. i was governor smith of florida
jeb bush responding about donald trump and 9/11 saying that it was a security failure for it to happen under george w. bush s watch and that a president trump possibly could have stopped 9/11 as you look live now in anderson, south carolina. donald trump holding another rally, the campaign says some 5,000 people there clearly he is getting the numbers at all of these events. and he is getting the numbers in polls. the latest wall street journal /nbc poll has trump at 25%. his highest mark in this particular poll. there you see ben carson trailing just behind. marco rubio on the move going up. ted cruz ticking up as well. as you look at the rcp average, the real clear politics average. it basically mirrors this and these are the average of recent polls. we re back with the panel. jason? well, we know why donald trump is doing this. and jeb knows, too. donald trump thinks that george w. bush is jeb s biggest liability. to the extent that he can
of him similarly with the iraq war. is jeb too much of a dead fish? leaving aside jeb being a dead fish for a minute, go back to the poll. george w. bush is not ted cruz s problem. donald trump is. ben carson is. the wing of the republican party that he s been appealing to with his shut down the government, anti-immigration, marginally racist remarks about american latinos, this is a guy who s been big-footed by donald trump. george w. bush is not his problem at this point. donald trump keeps going after jeb bush. i watched jeb bush yesterday. he can t even put on a tie and jacket. he s running for president.