clearly rehearsed. he wanted to do it. they even leaked they would attack rubio. he had just taken down the questioner and jeb still raised the point and gave rubio the opening. my problem with the ex change was not that he raised the point but that after rubio hit back he didn t respond. that was something similar when he asked trump to apologize to his wife in a previous debate. you know, there was no follow up. i think that makes jeb look weak. he doesn t continue the fight and show that he wants to win. can jebvive his campaign? it will be hard. a lot of his supporters are hitting the panic button. there is another debate in two weeks. it s hard to understand why, unlike the others, jeb bush doesn t commit to memory four
to do that. one is jeb bush s campaign, his super pac with his tens of millions of dollars in the bank. and then the other one is ted cruz. ted cruz is a candidate who is hoping that if donald trump goes away, he gets all of those donald trump voters or the lion s share of them. ted cruz isn t going to do it. and basically, jeb bush doesn t want to spend all that money on donald trump. i think sam was saying earlier, maybe it was robert, basically if you re going to spend that super pac money, you re going to try to raise yourself lateal bit before you go after someone else. and robert, these are highly informed voters. in iowa and new hampshire, if jeb bush s super pac does that, the super pac isn t go i think to say, this ad paid for by the friends and supporters of jeb bush, but we are. and everyone in iowa and new hampshire is going to know that. that s exactly right. when i sat down with donald trump, i said how are you going to deal with this barrage of ads in winter and earl
donald trump voters or the lion s share of them. ted cruz isn t going to do it. and basically, jeb bush doesn t want to spend all that money on donald trump. i think sam was saying earlier, maybe it was robert, basically if you re going to spend that super pac money, you re going to try to raise yourself lateal bit before you go after someone else. and robert, these are highly informed voters. in iowa and new hampshire, if jeb bush s super pac does that, the super pac isn t go i think to say, this ad paid for by the friends and supporters of jeb bush, but we are. and everyone in iowa and new hampshire is going to know that. that s exactly right. when i sat down with donald trump, i said how are you going to deal with this barrage of ads in winter and early next year. he said my whole game plan is i will go on any television program and counter it. he thinks he can overwhelm the race with liveliness and counter anything that comes at him. it s a different paradigm. he s changed the
saying i m not surprised dwud endorsed big government, big budget, anti-tree market ideas. that s how he approaches most issues from health care to taxes. he s a big government guy and that s how big government guys think. so what do you make of this new approach from jeb bush going on the attack if you will against donald trump? it really started to emerge when he went to the iowa state fair and his campaign came out and started really drawing some polling city contrasts to donald trump. i actually position this is a really good fight for jeb bush to have. he is in the conversation. as much as trump keeps going back and forth at him, jeb is trying to push the conversation over to a policy discussion where he positions that he can win against donald trump. i don t know if about that is true or not. i think we ll have to wait and see on that front. but clearly this is the back and forth that the bush campaign
organized efforts and frankly more related to asian people, coming into our country, having children in that organized efforts, taking advantage of a noble concept which is birth right citizenship. reporter: trump didn t hold back on twitter saying it was a clumsy move to get out of the anchor babies dilemma saying asians are very offended that jeb said anchor babies applies to them. on the trail today, bush needling trump. there is a lot of really good talkers running for president. and there is one in particular i m thinking of. look, talking is good. it is important to communicate. i got that. i think it is more important to solve problems now. reporter: the latest exchange, a signal of how the battle for the republican nomination is quickly coming down to a war of words between two top candidates.