not a knock against marco. i ve said the same thing. maybe i have a hang over from barack obama getting into the senate. he decides he s going to run for president. maybe i m an old man and skeptical. i ve always said marco rubio in his second term would be a great seasonal candidate. i sat in the crowd in the press cot bush event in connecticut with a room full of republicans. they were there, they were drad to explode and everybody left just kind of flat marco didn t wow them. the only thing i would say about rubio is he has the ability to breakout of this field. you re looking at these numbers and saying my gosh, trump and carson, how s this going to
nice to see you. i was watching the deb waet and i wasn t really expecting to be offended by donald trump. i m an undocumented mexican woman. so i couldn t expect anything else from him. i think for me watching the debate and seeing how the other candidates would react. unfortunately he s driving the rhetoric for the republican party when it comes to immigration. it s been very offensive towards mexicans, towards immigrants. i was hoping bush or rubio would stand up to that. i think they defended their views on immigration. bush said he would still think that undocumented folks come here for an opportunity. he went on to say he wanted sanctuary cities, to get rid of sactuary cities. it needed to pull back stronger
undocumented immigrants coming over as an act of love. michael steele, do you think that message will resonate with republican voters? or do you think he needs to make aa harder stand? i think he needs to stick the message the party up until recently always supported. we ve always been a party of als simulation. it was something part of our package, if you will, when we talked about immigration. how do we make people who want to be here fully american? i think there are elements of this debate that certainly need to be addressed in an ongoing way, border security, using technology, using manpower. at the end of the day, you ll have to deal with immigrants and others as human beings. that is the aspect of the bush argument that resonates the most and the loudest. even though people don t think so within the party, i think it
on that. erica, i was going to ask if there was anyone other than donald trump who had a stance on immigration that you could support or gave you maybe a ray of hope, but it doesn t sound like it at all. i was pleased to see bush would still say that he does think he cuss lick ki to come to the united states as an immigra immigrant. bush s wife is mexican. rubio is a latino. for me it was like at what point are they going to come out and say your comments are racist, very offensive to our community. no one said that. for me, i m waiting for that to happen. if they want latinos to listen to the republican party right now given that they ve done absolutely nothing for the undocumented community or immigrant community, they have to step up their game. erica brought up governor bush s comment about illegal
about std treatment and all of those other things. so to have them lump together is good for the democrats. republicans would like to stop abortions. to the ex-temperature they can separate out the two things would make it easier to cross whatever that second entity would be, if you had a second separate entity. on the government shutdown stuff, ted cruz wants to shut down the government because it s raining, because there s sun outside. he wants to shut down the government. this is like a perfect storm for him in that he s got an issue of conscience for the republican side he can combine with shutting down the government and shrinking government. the truth is most of these services that planned parenthood provides are ones that almost everybody in the country supports. press cot bush supported it, jeb bush s grandfather. his father created title ten where midwest of the funding comes from. most of this stuff used to be completely controversial. everything else has to be seen