young man. maybe he ll find somebody to ask. there s always miss usa. let s go to thomas right now. that s my prom advice. let s check in with the chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen who his prom date was. no. we re checking in on the morning playbook. good to have you here. hope you had a great easter. thank you. you too. one of the stories you re following, rick perry s extreme makeover. this comes as the texas governor is facing one of his toughest political fights yet. we have eight months in his job as governor and he s the focus of a grand jury charge of abuse of power. how does this all play out for his political future? thomas, we saw governor perry here on morning joe and he was on jimmy kimmel and he spoke to the conservative political action conference. and politico has learned this is part of a deliberate strategy to
mike allen with the morning playbook. happy good friday. there we go. it s going to be a good friday now. facing a grim outlook on the 2014 midterms, now deploying a triage term with the candidates. why? this is a shrinking map for democrats. they have this bad political environment we saw in that special election in florida last month. they re seeing some of their most vulnerable candidates already being blitzed by these koch brothers ads. and so democrats are saying we need to cut our losses. we need to start focusing on members who might lose and not so much on members who have a chance. so this triage means that if you re an endangered incumbent, you re now more likely to get help from the national party in d.c. if you re one of those up and coming challengers, if you re one of those people who were recruited as a candidate and
with us now the chief correspondent for politico mike allen with the morning playbook. good morning. good morning, guys. let s start with politico reporting there maybe some reluctance with jeb bush because of concerns over his family. now not necessarily because of his brother george w. bush. what s the big concern? well, it s a holding pattern. there s all these bush family supporters over the years of people out there. people who supported president bush 41 and 43. and they re frozen while they re waiting for jeb bush s decision. as politico poked around, spoke to those supporters in florida and elsewhere, they found part of the concern about a jeb candidacy is whether or not his immediate family would be on board. friends of the family say that his wife has long been reluctant to do it. no one knows like the bushes what a political pylon can be if you get in. a couple of his children have been in the news over the years. they know that that would come back out. we talked to o
of throwing a shoe at hillary clinton last week. the subject was charged with trespassing and faces up to a year in prison. local authorities also booked her for misdemeanor disorderly conduct which can carry a six-month sentence. so much, thomas, for those that have been saying over the past 24 hours that hillary staged the event. it s a deep conspiracy. she handled it well, though. and then spend a year in prison. sounds like a deal. with us now, mike allen here with the morning playbook. it s great to have you here in person. thanks for having me. congratulations on pub day. very exciting. thank you. it is one of the most closely watched races of the year. we re talking about what s happening in louisiana with mary landrieu. now we have the first ad out for re-election. take a peek.
are back in their cages oh, listen, mika. we just wanted to get out for a couple of hours. and it just after making a daring escape yesterday at the kansas city zoo, a zoo keeper said one broke a nearly 6 foot long tree branch and climbed out of the zoo enclosure. he persuaded six over chimps to join. officials contained zoo guests in locked areaing until the animals were locked back inside their enclosures. no one was hurt. so they were lured back. i wonder what lured them back? they tasted freedom. good news. for me it was a hot fudge sundae. okay, thomas. let s do politico. all right. with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen with the morning playbook. give it to us. happy friday! there we have it. thank you very much. and happy birthday to the great ethel kennedy.