said they were salivating over running against ronald reagan. no one was going to vote for a right-wing, ex-movie actor for president of the united states. and pat kadell quoted as saying when you look at the data it just makes me salivate with all the things we can use against reagan. they were ready to go with this. of course things turned out a little differently than they thought. so you need to be careful here about getting what you wish for. you said that donna, earlier you said that hillary clinton had much better unfavorability ratings than donald trump. they re actually comparable in a number of polls. she is in the 40 percentile. any body announced they are running for president. 48. will eventually find themselves in a very unfavorable or underwater. the republican brand is under water. severely underwater. these politicians once you begin to take positions. once you got out there and get exposed as mr. trump will find
politician. you know trump, there is a kind of brilliance to trump in the way he handled the campaign so far. electorate is volatile at this time. i think he is tapping into something that is anti-washington, anti-politician, people who are disgusted. donald trump is out there saying you are absolutely right. things are bad. i can make america great again. so right now he sounds like somebody who is going to give you ice cream and cookies. but we don t know if it really if it is really the real deal. tomorrow night. game on. anderson. i went back and took a look at a december 1979 gallup poll. it had jimmy carter beating ronald reagan 60-36%. and there was a statement from hamilton jordan who was then the white house chief of staff who said they were salivating over running against ronald reagan. no one was going to vote for a right-wing ex-movie actor for president of the united states. and pat kadell quoted as saying
stature. are there more hold on one second, because we re hearing that, john, we re hearing that there are more? are there more prisoners? there s a canadian couple that are being held by the taliban, supposedly seen proof of life video. if the white house is going to release prisoners anyway maybe you would make the argument well you better something for it. there s also the marine in mexico which the administration doesn t seem to want to deal with and get him back. i don t know, i think we got to go back to the politics of this thing. pat alluded to it, doug and pat and i have talked about it. a week ago when we were with you, what was going on? it was to get the v.a. scandal for obama off the front page. they did it with this thing, but they so botched this thing from the get-go. can you imagine having the father of this prisoner standing in the rose garden next to the president while the father is tweeting with the leaders
can say it s old news. john, you say it won t take that long. what s going on. the white house probably itself has similar questions to the ones we ve within raising tonight. they don t know the answers, but the one thing they don t want politically or substantively is bergdahl holding a press conference under these circumstances. they want to keep him under wraps. they want to debrief him fully and they want this off the front page in the way that the irs scandal got off the front page, benghazi the v.a. the v.a. and in fact, pat, during the commercial you said you look at benghazi to kind of inform you about what doug is saying. why? well, because basically, you know, to quote marx, history repeats itself, first it s tragedy and then farce. we ve never heard from the people who were in the complex, who are there that day, have
not know of specific circumstances or details of u.s. soldiers dying as a result of efforts to find and rescue sergeant bergdahl. i am not aware of those specific details or any any facts regarding that that that issue. we ve seen the parents of dead soldiers who died searching for bergdahl on the t vx shows this past week complaining about this thing. so why are they out here talking about it and he says he didn t know? pat. well, let me say first of all that i think that the numbers are changing to their detriment. on sunday and monday, they had a split but negative proposition. i guarantee you by the end of the week, those numbers had