power. that will catch up with him, i m afraid. kentucky conservatives don necessarily trust him. he s a good performer. what about marco rubio? let s talk for a second about hillary clinton. we watched her in her debate a year ago or so and, you know what, she was good. you need a candidate who can stand on a stage and debate hillary clinton. you need somebody who is in the big leagues of politics. those three clips we showed of marco rubio, ted cruz and chris christie showed three politicians who can punch it out in different ways, different styles. they are all able to talk about the issues on the table in a way they can connect to people listening. debating well doesn t necessarily mean you will be president. these aren t debates. they are presentation exercises. who can present ideas is easiest, best and most coherently. they don t debate. what impress s you, james, about marco rubio? why do you think universally
clearly rehearsed. he wanted to do it. they even leaked they would attack rubio. he had just taken down the questioner and jeb still raised the point and gave rubio the opening. my problem with the ex change was not that he raised the point but that after rubio hit back he didn t respond. that was something similar when he asked trump to apologize to his wife in a previous debate. you know, there was no follow up. i think that makes jeb look weak. he doesn t continue the fight and show that he wants to win. can jebvive his campaign? it will be hard. a lot of his supporters are hitting the panic button. there is another debate in two weeks. it s hard to understand why, unlike the others, jeb bush doesn t commit to memory four
third debate of the 2016 campaign. while donald trump and ben carson took center stage in boulder, colorado, wednesday, some of the over candidates managed to steal the spotlight. she spent over a week telling the families of victims and the american people that it was because of a video. yet the main stream immediate i can t is say it was the greatest week in hillary clinton s campaign, the week she was expose ed as a liar, the week she got ex posed as a liar. [ cheers and applause ] wait a second. we have $19 trillion in debt, people out of work, isis and al qaeda attacking us and we are talking about fantasy football? you look at the question. donald trump, are you a comic book villain? ben carson, do math. john kasich, insult people over here. marco rubio, why don t you resign. jeb bush, why have your numbers fallen? how about talking about the substantive issues? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy mary o grady and
sound like sonny corleone from the godfather. he s not getting better and that s the problem. there isn t a lot there. i thought his counter punch on kasich was brilliant. he tied him to lehman brothers and said, you used to say you were going to be mr. nice guy and not attack anyone. what are you doing now? i think trump sounded as reasonable as he has. he talked about opening immigration, more high tech, high skill immigrants. sounds good. what about ben carson. this was his first time at center stage in the debate. more eyes on him. how did he do? he was his normal, low key self. that s not necessarily bad for him. a lot of people are attracted to what they view as his common sense approach. i think his problem though and we are seeing it again and again in debates and we saw it again that night. when faced with serious policy questions, he comes across as a little befuddled sometimes.
simply as a weapon of obstruction. you re now allowed after a filibuster is broken, 30 hours of debate. republicans have decided to use all 30 hours, they don t debate. just so they can run out the clock in effect. but it s not the only thing. you know, it s not just the consumer financial protection bureau. it s the center for medicare and medicaid services. to keep the health law from being implemented. and it s also, i should add, you know, you look at examples of things that have gone wrong. we had republicans in the senate push hard for a commission to deal with the debt problem. a congressionally-constituted commission with more teeth than the simpson-bowles one that was ultimately created. in the end, seven original co-sponsors in the senate voted against their own bill to preserve a filibuster because they didn t want to give president obama what would look like a victory. this is one of the key elements of this. there are the institutional problems, the way filibuster has