play in because he could have the money. is chris christie tying up a lot of the oxygen, or is it all jeb? i think a lot of people think the bushes, all of them, are from kennebunkport maine. i want to go back to something you say about the is that the the thinking inside florida in terms of political strategist that is given the two of their both of them had positions all over the place, but jeb overall is a stronger potential candidate?
i m for it. i don t have a problem with that. i don t see how you do it, but i m not smart enough to figure out every aspect of a really complex law. well, now the old pro-immigration jeb is back warning against harsh political red rick on the issue. let s not forget his trip to las vegas to receive two tap on the shoulder from the sector of gop wannabe king maker sheldon adelson last week. is jeb in, and more importantly, is he viable? for more on that let s go to democratic strategist kevin tate and washington political post reporter nia malika henderson. i have to start with my florida homey. jeb bush, is he the honey badger? is he just believing that despite the last nature or the flip-flops on immigration, he is running? he sounds like a raging liberal to me, but here in florida we call that position on immigration practical. it s something that jeb won by 13 noints his last gubernatorial
meanwhile, who would have imaged five years after the presidency that brought us the iraq war, the botched hurricane katrina response, and the worst financial collapse since the great depression that someone named bush would be mentioned as a serious contender for the white house. it s happening. john ellis bush is thinking about it. more than that, he is taking the kinds of steps you would expect a would-be presidential candidate to take. take immigration. this weekend jeb broke with party doctrine drawing a line between those who cross the border illegally, those who overstay visas, and those who are looking for work to provide for their families. someone who comes to our country because they couldn t come legally, they come to our country because their families, you know, a dad who loved their children was worried that their children didn t have food on the table and they, you know, wanted to make sure their family was
intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. yes, they broke the law, but it s not a felony. it s kind of the it s a it s an act of love. now, you ll recall that jeb, like his brother, george, has long been a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform. it was part of his supposed appeal and the way he could woo the hispanic vote. he publically opposed arizona s papers please laws back in 2010 backed business his protege marco rubio. that was before rubio changed his mind and supported the law. then in 2012 jeb wrote a book studying long-time jeb watchers only to try and where iingle out of that position including our morning joe last year. there is a difference if you can craft that in law where you can have a path to citizenship where there is an incentive for people to become illegally.
i think what they re telling me is that it s not so much about, you know, what kind of crazy primary candidate the republicans might produce out of iowa. it s more about what is going on with his own family and his wife being a huge factor in that, and also, george p. who is on the cusp of winning a state-wide election in texas. what does this do to his potential national electoral progress? so i think what you are seeing here is jeb having a public conversation, but a lot of private conversations going on in his family and those closest to him. i think one of the things that s probably oversold of jeb bush potentially to do well with hispanics. i ve seen polling that shows he doesn t do better than any republican candidates among hispanics right now. in terms of when they look at this potential field, how do you do they see that as such a liability that he would be somebody they love to see get