editorial director of the national journal. trump did factor into the undercard, the happy hour debate. the kids table. he did because the moderators asked about donald trump. and it s very clear from the folk hot answered, rick perry and carly fiorina, that the tack they were taking is the issues. okay? rick perry saying actually, i think we have this sound bite. let s roll this sound bite. i ve had my issues with donald trump. i talked about donald trump from the standpoint of being an individual who was using his celebrity rather than his conservatism. how can you run for the republican nomination and be for single-pair health care? right, and carly fiorina pointed out he changed his mind on health care, amnesty and abortion. so they were taking the tack that says, look, on the issues this guy has been all over the
his real conservative record. if you go back to 1994, for example, he was a popular conservative governor. he was one of the most conservative in the country. so he is going to go back in time and remind people of those positions that he held back when he was governor of florida. all right, dana bash. stay with us. i am going to bring in now cnn chief political analyst gloria borger, cnn senior washington correspondent, and ron brownstein, editorial director of the national journal. if you are the nine other republicans [ laughter ] that s a crowded stage. it is so crazy isn t it. if you are the nine other guys, they are all guys, how do you prepare for this with donald from snp a trump? are they all wearing bracelets that say what would donald do? as dana was saying. i talked to a couple campaigns today. what they seem to be saying, look, i know i have to present a contrast to donald trump in some
but an y claim that is fake should be dealt with. we have a law enforcement establishment in this country. we have prosecutors. we have investigators. they should deal with these issues. they should not be left to professors who are unqualified for the job or student counselors or student board. one rape is destruction of a human life. but it does harm the conv conversation falsifying it. let s deal with the individual instances and deal with the systemic issue it is. we have to go. jenna lee is coming up. happening now rolls your way at the top of the hour. good morning. the national journal today has an intriguing headline is this joe biden s moment? they argue stumbles by hillary
new allegations hillary clinton e-mailed classified material using her private server while serving as secretary of state. we re back with our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin political director david shall on, and senior analyst ron bronstein. the editorial director of the national journal. let s talk about the legal part. jeffrey, sources telling cnn that these inspectors general, their report referred to the justice department presumably they re going to open up an investigation. they will have to decide whether it should be a criminal investigation, right? that s right. and there are really two big issues that could be a problem here for hillary clinton. one is that classified information sounds like a clearly defined category. but it s not. what is and is not classified is often very much a judgment call. and she could be at the mercy of people who are after the fact
other, you know folks who are high up on the economic pyramid. it s you know that for all his money, he is appealing, and maybe it s intentional, but he is appealing to a real constituency that is not at his economic level. or anywhere close to it. anderson i have to say, i spent some time with him once and he does have this reaganesque ability to communicate with regular folks. he is a new yorker. he is very plain spoken. he is at 17% in the most favorable poll. 17%. even barack obama got 37% in iowa. so he s got a long way to go. plus you know he is not taking as much out of the ron bronstein had a really good article in the national journal today pointing out that this is coming out of the high. most of it is the tea party candidates on the right.