think you worked for the campaign/palin campaign. so you have connection to both folks. i ask you bluntly, why is the president afraid of john mccain? i think it s a question of multiple things being true at once. john mccain was a decorated veteran of our military and deserved all the honors he received. he also was a long time senator and long time maverick. but it s also true he played a role and with his associates in distributing the fake dossier to the media, to the fbi not to the media. not to the media. through his associates. mccain gave it to comey after comey already had it after the election. and he actually testified that one of his associates gave it to the media. mccain knew gave to to buzzfeed, it was after the election. and it seems to me that that s irrelevant given that the russia investigation had begun so far before that, correct? but it s also true that was not given to the media as a
than he s in sulgted than he hasn t. if we end up talking about demographics tomorrow night, that conversation will have to include the vast numbers of groups of people, women. we make up 53% of the people who he insulted women. she gave off a pretty good list and she s got a point. you sound a little bit like someone who is looking at this in the rear view mirror. well, it s not over. i remember in 2008, i was on the mccain, palin campaign. we had a pretty good sense how it was going to turnout. the polls looked the same as mr. trump. it was 8:30 and i said my dad hasn t voted yet and you said with all due respect to your dad, i went back into the mccain suite and he turned into a trumper maybe it started there. but you do know on a campaign
democrats, including the president, in not such a favorable light. when game change came out, lost in all the drama about the mccain/palin campaign was the fact that team obama did not dish all that much. there was a game change for the second book. when it came to leaks, the white house was a veritable colander. president obama is depicted struggling sadly with debate prep and his advisors are described losing their patience with him. i just don t know if i can do this, the president says at one point, according to the book. on abc s this week george stephanopoulos seemed stunned the president wasn t upset at the amount leaked about him by trusted aides. i can only imagine what he s thinking as he sees all these details in this book. well, look, we are not the first white house to deal with leaks. every white house has dealt with it. i think we have been more leak-free than most and where we find them, we try to stop them. is he angry about this? the president is always fr
you want legal residency. yep. our proposal is a proposal that looks forward, and if we want to create an immigration policy that s going to work, we can t continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than immigration. so going forward, we broke this last year, going forward, if 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 come illegally, i m for it. i have created both, a path to legalization or a path to citizenship. potential presidential candidate in 2016, jeb bush, and his varying positions on immigration coming fast in the course of a week. joining us now is steve schmidt from palin campaign 08. steve, thanks for being here. good to be here, rachel.
bush held the same 48-47% lead over senator kerry the day before the election. in battleground states including colorado, ohio, virginia, florida and new hampshire, president obama has a slight advantage. he leads romney 50%-46%. when asked which candidate is best to improve the economy, romney leads by the president by five points. that s a closer margin than it was in mid-october. however, when asked which candidate is best for the middle class, the president has a double-digit lead. 51%-40%. there s also good news for obama on his handling of hurricane sandy. 67% say they approve of the way the president dealt with the disaster last week. that s pretty big. that s showing up in the national polls, mika. yeah. i think it s also showing up in the battleground state polls. yeah. where you have people who weren t affected by the storm but who saw the president s handling of the storm and standing there with chris christie. they were watching the coverage. one of the two ic