the panel is here. we gotten a exclusive first look at bernie sanders first tv ad. he has a ton of money. here s a bit of a clip of it. in congress he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. now he s taking on wall street and a corrupt political system. funded by over a million contributions, bernie sanders. husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. anne gearan, honest leader. not too subtle there. not too subtle at all. but this is still in the very much in the mode of the classic upbeat biographical ad which candidates very often start with. it s interesting to me he s starting now. hillary clinton has been up on the air in iowa and new hampshire since august, she s spent well over $6 million so far and for much of that time her poll numbers were going down while his were going up.
party credit cards, no credible experience beyond government. so they re putting this out. i asked governor bush about what his campaign is doing and it was interesting to hear what he didn t say. your campaign, there was a leaked memo, 112-page memo and there was a big chunk about why marco rubio wouldn t be a good nominee and you went through sort of all of the opposition research on that. that s not a hopeful campaign tactic. i didn t see it. i m focused it s your campaign. i didn t see. it you don t know this powerpoint? i read about it when it was leaked? is this something you want your campaign involved with? i want them to focus on winning new hampshire, winning iowa, winning nevada. that s our first mission. an gearan, the introspective bush was politician bush. absolutely. and he can the that. i agree with the 1956 thing. he does seem like a candidate
about the different things on rubio. they said he news accomplishments, misuse of state party credit cards, no credible experience beyond government. so they re putting this out. i asked governor bush about what his campaign is doing and it was interesting to hear what he didn t say. your campaign, there was a leaked memo, 112-page memo and there was a big chunk about why marco rubio wouldn t be a good nominee and you went through sort of all of the opposition research on that. that s not a hopeful campaign tactic. i didn t see it. i m focused it s your campaign. i didn t see. it you don t know this powerpoint? i read about it when it was leaked? is this something you want your campaign involved with? i want them to focus on winning new hampshire, winning iowa, winning nevada. that s our first mission. an gearan, the introspective bush was politician bush. absolutely.
here s a bit of a clip of it. in congress he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. now he s taking on wall street and a corrupt polical system. funded by over a million contributions, bernie sanders. husband, father, grandfather, an honest leader building a movement with you to give us a future to believe in. anne gearan, honest leader. not too subtle there. not too subtle at all. but this is still in the very much in the mode of the classic upbeat biographical ad which candidates very often start with. it s interesting to me he s starting now. hillary clinton has been up on the air in iowa and new hampshire since august, she s spent well over $6 million so far and for much of that time her poll numbers were going down while his were going up. david, you talk to the sanders campaign and they say we have one goal right now, we have to make people think he s not crazy.
with those migs, whether you viewed it as provocation from miami or unconscionable shootdown of civilian aircraft that did cross into cuban airspace, whatever that did it changed the whole political dynamic. and once bill clinton signed that law you could argue that that s what castro wanted that he was trying to sabotage. wanted exactly. that s right. always been a part of this story that s not been told well enough. i know you ve done i think when we look back on this that was a deliberate sabotage of what was about to, i think, be an opening. indeed. thanks so much chuck. i know you re going to have a lot more on this on meet the press as well. i m joined here by alan gomez from usa today and also ann gear ran gearan from the washington post. the sentiment is changing. we are seeing the pew poll 59% of republicans want the embargo lifted. none of the republican candidates are going to endorse