speak fluent english. there are people we bring into this country from all walks of life, from all income levels, from all language speaking abilities, because we re the united states of america. you know, i mentioned my father, my father came here three weeks before the cuban missile crisis in 1962. he was 11 years old, didn t speak any english. he tells me the story about how a teacher at his school in virginia sat down with him and patiently taught him english as he was growing up here in northern virginia. you know, i think this goes back to a problem that this white house has. remember when the president launched his campaign for president, he referred to mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. and that bias against latino immigrants has just sort of infected the president, some of his top officials who deal with this issue of immigration throughout that entire time period, and i think you saw some of that spill out in the briefing room today. let me just remind everyone, w
a lot of these candidates who are successful in their own right can t do. certainly in fairness to donald trump in comparing him to sarah palin and michele bachmann his speaking abilities is far greater than those two in terms of extemporaneous speaking. i m glad you brought that up. the other thing is looking at the knowledge extra ektry of they have. remember herman cain. it was much more brief than donald trump. and remember people were seeing them for the first time. everybody knows who donald trump is and everybody has for decades. i want to play part of what jeb bush had to say. the people expressing support now for donald trump, they re not, they re good people. they see the world and they see the lack of rule of law.
bachmann, his speaking abilities is far greater than those two in terms of extemporaneous speaking. i m glad you brought that up. the other thing is looking at the knowledge extra ektry of they have. remember herman cain. it was much more brief than donald trump. and remember, people were seeing them for the first time. everybody knows who donald trump is and everybody has for decades. i want to play part of what jeb bush had to say. the people expressing support now for donald trump, they re not, they re good people. they see the world and they see the lack of rule of law. they see an uncontrolled border. so i respect the sentiments that they feel when they hear trump talk. i can imagine his response. it is about the tone. it is about this kind of divisive tone that he s using. you know, trump has said this in
a private citizen. rubio really is putting it all on the line which i think is sort of impressive. so jeremy peters has a question for you bill. i m wondering if you look at these candidates in the republican field apart from rubio and maybe christie there is really an absence of a great communicator type, right? i mean rubio really can command presence on the stage. and i wonder if, though it s more than just about his speaking abilities. if rubio is able to connect with average voters, if he can empathize with them in a way that is going to be really crucial in and election that very well could turn once again on these questions of who cares about me the nos. and most. and if rubio can talk about his bartender father and maid mother is really capable of doing that. i d say rubio, walker, christie, all come from middle american every day american whatever the phrase we re supposed to use these days is
interest in politics but we did have an engineering major in the white house. his name was jimmy carter, but my point was that, you know, there might be something to this. what do you think? talk is cheap. i agree. oh, no, no. didn t you used to write speeches, young man? i did write a lot of speeches and that s how i know that talk is cheap. but you never set it to music. but i never set it to music. but, look this guy is an inspiring entertainer and i d love to see him on tv and love to see him have his own show and he s a country preacher and reminds me of a very famous old-time child preacher and god bless him for his speaking abilities. says absolutely nothing about the future. the fact that he goes to georgia tech and he s in the engineering school, that says everything about him. i found this guy so incredibly annoying. if i was sitting in the audience as a freshman, i would have thrown an orange at him. adam, as a fellow nerd, only