jeffrey lord who served as political director as president regan. so ross, this fox news poll showing donald trump still trailing ted cruz in iowa but a few points, you wrote for trump to lose, he doesn t actually have to collapse, he has to fail to expand his support. do you not think he can expand his support? well, i think it s a challenge. i think what you see in the polls of states where voters are paying the most attention and where the campaigns are actually focussing their efforts is that trump s numbers have been pretty stable between 25 and 35% basically since he surged into the lead last summer and this is true in iowa where he s a little lower. it s true in new hampshire where it s higher and true in south carolina. and trump does have a large conten gent of republican voters and when you break down second choices, you have a lot of
the first two years of his administration. i found him to be remarkably attentive and aggressive. this was on health care? with respect to what was going on all the policy issues that he faced. certainly, in the interactions that i had with him he might have made judgments that people would agree with. he might have made judgments that the people would disagree with. but he was someone who had a clear recognition of what his responsibility was as president. i saw the very thick book he would receive every evening. do you final it hard to believe that he didn t know? he always came back the next morning having fully mastered the conten of that briefing. do you think having people like you leave, rahm emanuel leave? you were friends with the people who might have said we have a problem. that there are too many yes
intentions are reasonable and acceptable target for intelligence gathering which would seem to indicate that even the contents of the cell phone calls of someone like angela merkel are fair game in the spy game. and jim, the nsa chief came out against allegations the u.s. has been spying on european citizens will these headlines, it seems every day. 70 million calls here, 60 million calls there bull they were really, really defensive on that issue, right? they were. they took a shot at the media saying there has been some very bad reporting out there. what they said is that these reports were based on the misreading of a single slide released by edward snowden. and that slide showing these numbers in millions and so on. but in fact, the nsa collected no information in europe. they say that any information, i in of this meta data, that s with a it was. not phone call or conten was
i know you ve answered this before, but in case we ve forgoten it. life in florida is natural life meaning we do not have parole. greta: so automatic murder 2, gone for life? well, 25 year minimum mandatory. best case you get 25 years, worst case, you get life which is natural life. manslaughter in low end of 12 years. high end is 30 because there is a firearm. so it s also serious so you ve got serious scary stuff he s looking at. greta: lawyers on both sides, i mean they have a responsibility but being a defense lawyer knowing tonight your client could be going away, it s tough. i, i can tell you doing trials i don t eat, i don t sleep. i don t do anything but conten trait on the market very someone s life in my hand.
i know you ve answered this before, but in case we ve forgoten it. life in florida is natural life meaning we do not have parole. greta: so automatic murder 2, gone for life? well,r minimum mandatory. best case you get 25 years, worst case, you get life which is natural life. manslaughter in low end of 12 years. high end is 30 because there is a firearm. so it s also serious so you ve got serious scary stuff he s looking at. greta: lawyers on both sides, i mean they have a responsibility but being a defense lawyer knowing tonight your client could be going away, it s tough. i, i can tell you doing trials i don t eat, i don t sleep. i don t do anything but conten trait on the market very someone s life in my hand.