republicans. you can t be more nonpartisan about that. they took a pasting in the mid-terms. incumbency since obama is not running. third party. gary johnson is polling way above what any libertarian has done. he might be fading and the lack of policy change given the gridlock in the second obama term. it goes term boy term and the lack of a big splashy foreign policy success in the second term like dispatching bid laden and number six the fact that hillary clinton is not a once in a generation charismatic candidate like a kennedy. i never hedged a prediction. it sounds like you might hedge. you want to hear it? let s hear the hedge. i m not locking at a crystal
it s hard for me to believe that chris christie would pursue the ideas he said this morning on cbs. thank you. you re laughing when you said that. i m not laughing at chris christie. it s one thing to yell at some call in person during a call in show and being unpleasant to her or him, it s another thing to talk about world war iii. you couldn t miss the republicans trying to go after hillary. tieing her to everything that s gone wrong. it used to be obama for the weather. now hillary is responsible with obama for everything that goes wrong. they did it consistently last night. they are looking to run against the third obama term. i know what they are up to. ask she present herself as a fresh start? can she beat this rap? who are they most afraid to face? a mistrial in the first of those closely watches cases relating to death of freddie gray. the city of baltimore is on edge
talk about world war iii. you couldn t miss the republicans trying to go after hillary. tieing her to everything that s gone wrong. it used to be obama for the weather. now hillary is responsible with obama for everything that goes wrong. they did it consistently last night. they are looking to run against the third obama term. i know what they are up to. ask she present herself as a fresh start? can she beat this rap? who are they most afraid to face? a mistrial in the first of those closely watches cases relating to death of freddie gray. the city of baltimore is on edge tonight as we might have expected. among the top candidates who helped their cause last night heading into the christmas holiday and who didn t. we ll check on all of that tonight. lots of politics tonight with the hardball round table. let me finish with the worst thing anyone said in las vegas. fight before christmas. this is hardball, the place for
actually. joe biden taking subtle swipes at hillary clinton portraying himself as closest advisor to vice-president among the cabinet secretaries more so than hillary clinton was and presenting himself as the best steward to run as the third obama term. and that is going to be the question in the democratic primary. joe biden moves forward. is hillary clinton a believable third term obama candidate or joe biden and say he is closer to what obama represents. that s what the democrats. our neighbor to the north elects a new prime minister. we ll look closer.
third term for president obama. and he was talking about it from the policy standpoint that this relationship with the president and himself means that he would have the third obama term and not hillary clinton which is something that she has been trying to articulate in the last few weeks, and joe biden is going toing after those voters should he decide to go into the race. i don t know why he would say these things if he were not getting in this morning. interesting, ashleigh. and these are parlor games, clearly, but two to three hours between each of joe biden s events at a least for today which could be plenty of time for an announcement, and jim acosta, that is your watch today and you have to keep your eyes tight to that schedule. jim acosta live on the white house lawn. thank you, david gergen and p patti solis doyle as well joining us. and joe biden is not the only democrat making news today. presidential candidate jim webb says he is going toing to announce ha he is droppi