biden gave was that his family needed time to grieve. they just ran out of time for this cam pane. that plays well outside of washington. you re a bit of an insider and this was his life-long dream. what do you think was the real reason. he calculated this wouldn t work? i think the calendar became his enemy. when you re going to run a national campaign, you have to have time to set up a campaign. to hire a staff, the fundraising. all the things that the average person doesn t see that operates behind the scenes. i think it just became impossible when you look at the calendar. we re not that far out from the iowa caucuses. i think he saw that and it became too difficult considering that have when you look at the current polling, both nationally in key battlegrounds, she has a pretty formidable lead. and even the political landscape was tipping in hillary clinton s favor. she had this benghazi problem but in the last few weeks, republicans have admitted that
it s been clear from moment one yes, right now that s it. that the president of the united i look at that group and i think states is indeed an american and is not some illegal interloper i still had rather be marco in the oval office and the more rubio than anybody else. i feel like he s the greatest and still the guy that can con folks on the republican side sal date t consolidate the pad keep feeding this and pushing the division, the worse it s going to be for whoever the republican nominee is going into be seen as the outsider. the fall. i think carly having a great if that nominee is donald trump, run, can she sustain it, does if that nominee is ben carson she have the infrastructure? and not on the other hand maybe a jeb bush or a carly fiorina or right now her cam pane needs to catch up to the pole numbers. i look at those other guys and i governor kasich, the party is think i had rather be rubio than going to have a hard time. anybody else. let s call it educated guess this
now in the mainstream of the gop field in terms of the level of discourse. ben carson saying what he s saying, donald trump saying what he s saying. there has been push back from the right saying hillary clinton started this obama s a muslim stuff with her campaign circulating a picture in 2008. what do you think of that? well, i think if we look at her recent answer, that s what s most important. why? clearly she defended the president. because she s served with the president. she was his secretary of state. certainly when you look at her remarks, she was one of the first to come out, unlike many of the republican candidates. she came out whether it was trump, whether it was ben carson. what about she was the first to raise the issue. not her, her cam pane. you have to be responsible for your campaign. that s how it is. i certainly agree you have to be responsible for your campaign. i think i m more concerned about where she is now and what she s
response. you re then accepting the premise of the question. yes. is this a turning point, errol? this is to my ears the easiest thing for a politician to hit out of the park. that was a repugnant, racist question, let s move on. it s almost a difficult gift. it lets the politician take the high ground. who questioned the president s citizenship and asked for a birth certificate. this is the transition from being an entertainer and a provocateur and being a celebrity figure and a politician. even donald trump, his interview with you, he s gone further faster than even he expected. 90 days in he s leading in all the polls, all kinds of new things are happening. he has to work rope lines althoughs a germaphobe. he has to handle the questions even though he stirred up the sentiments that are coming back to haunt his cam pane. he has to figure out what he s
before the prime minister of japan visits in a few weeks. steve? kristen with well kerr live at the white house. thanks for that. the debate on the trade deal spilling over to the 2016 race. former maryland gover nor martin o malley hinted he may run against hillary clinton calls the trans pacific partnership a bad trade deal. he s against it i. hillary clinton this week issued a statement saying she will be watching details of if i agreement before deciding whether to support it or oppose it. warring democrats isn t what president obama is looking for nor hillary clinton as she tries to build a coalition at the start of the cam pane. to the panel now, looking at how democrats move forward. we talked about it earlier in the show. hillary clinton and what possession she s taking. this is a perfect example of something. clearly she doesn t want to weigh in on this now. you have warren and the lay br unions on one side the presidents on the other. if you re a democrat up running for pre