after the service. thank you so much to nicolle wallace. joining us now is presidential historian jon meacham. you were also fantastic, as though was it jeb who took a shot at you saying you were a bit too long on saturday. but i thought you were very sublime. tell us what you know about this emotional connection between the former president and the former first lady that apparently has affected him physically and medically in the last 24 hours. well, this was sunday morning was the first morning he woke up without her in his life since shortly after pearl harbor. so i think we re let s just pause for someone second and think about that. for much of the american century, they have been together. they have faced the remarkable vicissitudes of political and familial life. they raised a big, wonderful family. they lost a daughter to leukemia.
his core group love i am with that, but not sure how much farther he can move the needle with it. sandra: a lot of republican candidates are forced to answer the question, would you support him if he is nominee? jeb bush, says, yes he would. kasich, as we saw, he was pressed on this, on another channel and he was kind of put into a corner and he ultimately said no, not in his words. he actually said, it is not going to happen. basically said, i don t have to answer the question. andrea: he is refusing to answer the question. they re spending almost hundreds of millions, billion dollars the establishment to get trump out of the race but, sandra, they have been trying this for weeks and months, and it hasn t helped candidates. jeb who tried to attack donald, it actually hurt him and blew back in his face. jeb is busy attacking everyone. busy attacking rubio. busy attacking everyone. it is not helping them. you have to give voters a reason to pull the lever for you. that is the best poi
i believe they call that a dry wit. always good to have a fellow king back. didn t look like a guy having fun. but you re a jeb supporter. are you depressed, are you frustrated? i love jeb. marco rubio, a former intern, and jeb who ran my campaign. he was your campaign he was my campaign manager while his dad was president. and he s got so much to offer this country. and it s not the warrior that maybe people are looking for. it s not the outsider that maybe people are looking for. but he s a competent, legitimate leader, who guided our state through eight years of economic growth and prosperity and through tough issues. he s a true conservative, but are people looking for somebody who is so totally outside the
ronald reagan and dwight eisenhower and abraham lincoln and the giants that have sat as members of our party in the seat of the presidency of the united states. but that s woulda, coulda, shoulda. he s leading in the polls, he s way ahead of jeb who everybody knows who jeb bush is. everybody knows him. and they choose trump over him in the polls. what do you make of that? chris, you have covered american politics for a very long time. you are a historian. nothing like this. you know that these numbers hey, steve, nothing like this. at this moment in time in the polls. we cover this like a thoroughbred horse race. i know. there s a long way to go. we live in a time when trust has completely collapsed in nearly every institution in the country. people are fed up. they don t think the system s on the level. they don t think the political trump doesn t either. on the level. and he is in the tradition of the roman emperors, this is
this is opposite the virtues of goodness embodied in men like ronald reagan and dwight eisenhower and abraham lincoln and the giants that have sat as members of our party in the seat of the presidency of the united states. but that s woulda coulda shoulda. he s leading in the polls, he s way ahead of jeb who everybody knows who jeb bush is. everybody knows him. and they choose trump over him in the polls. what do you make of that? chris, you have covered american politics for a very long time. you are a historian. nothing like this. you know that these numbers hey steve, nothing like this. at this moment in time in the polls. we cover this like a thoroughbred horse race. i know. there s a long way to go. we live in a time when trust has completely collapsed in nearly every institution in the country. people are fed up. they don t think the system s on the level. they don t think the political trump doesn t either. on the level. and he is in the tradition of