a week for the history books. all right. thanks for staying with us this sunday morning. lots more ahead as we continue this hour including the question of whether this was the best week ever of the obama presidency. we re going to tackle its impact on his legacy just a moment from now. also ahead, what will donald trump be like in the debates. what should candidates do when up on the stage with him. plus, the celebrations for friday s same-sex marriage ruling from the supreme court continue today. we ll take you to the biggest celebration, new york s annual pride parade. we begin this hour with president obama s landmark week. today after more than 50
talked earlier about the confederate flag the republican party is not it interested in falling down these little side streets they fell down in 2012. and donald trump is like that s all this map has. and that means every one of those comments he makes in a debate, whether it s about mexicans or anybody else every candidate on the stage is going to be asked, hey, do you agree with that? exactly, and his legacy could be destroying two beauty pageants. his own, and the scholarship pageant. and the republican field. look, anybody running against him, anybody on that stage, is going to have to give as good as they get from him. because they can t be made to look, you know as he would put it like weenies on the stage or something like that. the thing to remember though remember at the white house correspondents dinner a couple years ago, after all these months where he had been going
on to that stage? or is somebody else from back here going to catch him, going to catch rick perry, one of these other people and make it on the stage instead. again, about a month out, a little more than a month out here from that first debate it s very important to makes that stage or not. when you re on that debate stage in 2012 and newt gingrich, you can zoom up 30 points. you can win south carolina because of a debate. the flip side is if you re not on the stage, you might not exist to people. so it s very important to keep an eye on those numbers. still ahead, as we have just talked about, if the first debate were held this week donald trump would be in it. what kind of a headache does that pose for the other nine candidates on the stage? we ll talk about that, next. i can t believe bush is in first place. some people they re thrilled. i m not thrilled. how could bush be in first place? this guy can t negotiate his way out of a paper bag.
governors who have actually gotten things done and can also resonate with the base and would not have been tainted by either sandy or any of these other things. i think christie looked good in 2012 because of how poor the republican field was then. now you ve got to really yeah. his specialness is one thing. i can bring new jersey into the republican column. that was the one thing. i think they could forgive him if it looked like he could bring blue new jersey. mark quickly here. what is the best case scenario in this campaign for christie? do you think he has an actually shot to win it? the best case scenario he is a performer, he is able to have great town halls, great debate performances and able to catch lightning in a bottle. but steve, our own nbc wall street journal poll shows just 55% of republicans say they could see themselves supporting him. that s the highest bad number in our poll next to donald trump. and so i think that just shows
poll nationally, it s trump two, jeb bush one. and he is out there just viciously attack jeb bush. he said he can t negotiate his way out of a paper bag. he said if you re stuck in a papering about, bag, you probably don t want to negotiate your way out of it. you look at the trump style, the bombs he s going to set off on stage. if you re jeb bush, you better show up with a strategy to respond to this. yeah he better have a better strategy than when he was asked about his position on the iraq war and how he was going to defend his brother. it will give the other candidates an opportunity to show how fast they are on their feet. the simple line if you can t deal with donald trump, how are you going to deal with putin or kim jong-il. so there is an opportunity for the other candidates. his positions are different. he s going to force them to be clear on their positions. you re not going to be able to duck and weave with donald trump. he s a one-man wrecking ball and he ll keep at you