biden, out, the benghazi hearing over. the ten days that may have vaulted hillary clinton to the democratic nomination. it s been quite a week, hasn t it? and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning are cnbc s john harwood, pulitzer prize winning historian doris kearns goodwin, the washington post s jennifer rubin, and steven henderson of the detroit free press. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. good sunday morning. we ve just come through perhaps the most significant ten days in the 2016 campaign to date. on the democratic side, hillary clinton reestablished herself as the clear front-runner, she won last week s democratic debate, two of her lesser opponent, jim web and lincoln chafee, dropped out of the race. joe biden decided he had no path to victory. on top of that, clinton was almost universally seen as having survived and some even thought she might have thrive at that house benghazi hearing. on the republican side, the candidates th
second place behind ben carson. we informed ben, but he was sleeping. [ laughter ] how do you respond to mr. trump? everybody has their own personality and if he d like to do that, that s fine. that s not who i am. and i don t get into the mud pit and i m not going to be talking about people. i will tell you in terms of energy, i m not sure that there s anybody else running who s spend 18 or 20 hours intently operating on somebody. do you think that people mistake your soft-spokenness with lack of energy. i think so. i have plenty of energy. but, you know, i am soft spoken. i do have a tendency to be relaxed. i wasn t always like that. there was a time when i was, you know, very volatile. but i changed. when was that? as a teenager. i would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats and hammers and, of course, many people know the story when i was 14 and i tried to stab someone. and, you know, fortunately my life has been changed and i m a very differen
from that snowy monday in iowa where we ll find out who wins those caucuses. and carson s under-the-radar rise has bewilder it had smarty pants crowd in iowa. i caught up with carson in iowa and asked him to respond to these comments from donald trump. we have a breaking story. donald trump has fallen to second place behind ben carson. we informed ben, but he was sleeping. [ laughter ] how do you respond to mr. trump? everybody has their own personality and if he d like to do that, that s fine. that s not who i am. and i don t get into the mud pit and i m not going to be talking about people. i will tell you in terms of energy, i m not sure that there s anybody else running who s spend 18 or 20 hours intently operating on somebody. do you think that people mistake your soft-spokenness with lack of energy. i think so. i have plenty of energy. but, you know, i am soft spoken. i do have a tendency to be relaxed. i wasn t always like that. there was a time when i was, you
the clear front-runner, she won last week s democratic debate, two of her lesser opponent, jim web and lincoln chafee, dropped out of the race. joe biden decided he had no path to victory. on top of that, clinton was almost universally seen as having survived and some even thought she might have thrive at that house benghazi hearing. on the republican side, the candidates that are struggling are feeling the pressure. here s jeb bush unplugged yesterday. i got a lot of really cool things that i can do other than sit around being miserable listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. that is a joke. elect trump if you want that. wow. a lot to dig into there, which we will later in the show. now, not one but two polls show ben carson leading donald trump and all the rest of the republicans in iowa. guess what? we are now just 99 days away from that snowy monday in iowa where we ll find out who wins and carson s under-the-radar rise has bewilder
i had a rough thursday. [ laughter ] we ll talk to the leading figures on that committee, republican trey gowdy and democrat elijah cummings. and clinton sig week. the democratic debate won, joe biden, out, the benghazi hearing over. the ten days that may have vaulted hillary clinton to the democratic nomination. it s been quite a week, hasn t it? and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning are cnbc s john harwood, pulitzer prize winning historian doris kearns goodwin, the washington post s jennifer rubin, and steven henderson of the detroit free press. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. good sunday morning. we ve just come through perhaps the most significant ten days in the 2016 campaign to date. on the democratic side, hillary clinton reestablished herself as the clear front-runner, she won last week s democratic debate, web and lincoln chafee, dropped out of the race. joe biden decided he had no path to victory. on top of that, clint