get the transcript. he did in fact, sir. let me call it an act of terror. he did call it an act of terror. wow. we re back. that was president obama and mitt romney colliding in an exchange over benghazi in the october 16th second presidential debate. the washington post dean of political reporters is out with his new book about that campaign. called collision 2012, obama versus romney and the future of elections in america. the pendulum is swinging in the republican party now. as the party moves hard right, will they really try another establishment time like romney or dole or mccain or christie or jeb bush? or will the party go for one of its tea party heroes like rand paul? here with me now is the author of the great book collision 2016. dan, let s talk about what you call the subterranean campaign of 2012 and what it offers us in the future. we think of the campaign as
live streaming q & a hosted by zillow.com. while he was answering questions from home buyers, the event brought a question to one listing in particular, the president s own. zillow has a page for the white house. 16 bedroom mansion in a leafy area, over 16,000 square feet on 18 acres in a great washington neighborhood. amenities include a doorman, elevator, pool. the price, they crunched the numbers and estimated if the white house were on the market, it would be worth $319 million. i think that s a steal. next up, jay leno pressed president obama last night about his on again/off began relationship with former presidential opponent senator john mccain. let me ask you about something i m seeing. is it me or do i see kind of a bromance with you and john mccain? i remember you had that lovers quarrel for a while, and now you re all best friends.
now they face the awful conundrum, we don t want her to beat us. but we can t beat her with a right wing guy so we re screwed. and they hate that. but now they re thinking the only way to beat her is to run a guy like christie, and they don t want to beat her with a guy who can beat her. they want to beat her with a guy who can t beat, which is nonsense, that s the problem. i think it is, also, they would like to raise money off the specter of hillary. i think that s part of part of that s what s going on. i think president obama still scares them, but after all, he can t run again. washington s tied up and in gridlock. the president, it s a little hard to get people as worked up and as scared, perhaps, as they were a few years ago, but hillary scares the heck out of them, so they want to raise her profile at a time that hillary really doesn t want to do so. yes. they re trying to draw her in and draw her down. and the clintons have a great sense of timing. they know this is a
the last time they did this, when romney called him an appeaser, obama came out and said tell that to osama bin laden and the 15 leaders of al qaeda i ve taken off the field. the notion that this guy is somehow appeasing our enemies is so preposterous. do you think they have polled on this, the neocons, they figure after the embarrassment of iraq, a war they wanted to fight. they wanted to fight the war. george w. wanted to fight it, and the vice president wanted to fight it. they all wanted to fight it. okay. they decided that we have sort of forgotten that, and now they re coming back. bolton is back, kristol is back. do you think do the think it s time for more rousing? when they say retaliation, their idea of retaliation after 9/11, steve, was going into iraq. retaliation. what does that mean? i have never gotten the impression that their world views were radically altered by what happened in the last decade, after the invasion of iraq. i don t think the world view was chan
obama got last time will be the starting point if he s nominated. let me tell you why it s not ted cruz because occasionally, you have to smile once in a while. not all the time. you have to occasionally crack a smile. he doesn t do that. john brabender, it s great to have you on. and steve mcmahon. thank you. i think we re getting to the point where all agree. coming up, what patriots these republicans are. they re grateful that president obama canceled his summit with vladimir putin, not because they think it s good for the country but because they get to call it a foreign policy failure, just like they called getting along with putin timid. this president can t win on that side. also, president obama goes on leno last night, and who comes up? hillary. reince priebus wants to take on cnn and nbc, the right wing is ready to take on someone. it s always hillary. all roads lead to hillary. republicans seem to be terrified of her. they keep going after her. and looking for a leaf