and that s what donald trump calls winning. joining us now, robert reich, former labor secretary of state under president clinton. he s current at the university of california at berkley and is the author of saving capitalism for the many, not the few. can you grade the deal paper that donald trump gave us today? it s like a c minus or a d. it s not big of a deal. i don t want to sound like an ingreat. there are jobs that were saved. and those 800 jobs are important to those 800 people, and let s be clear about that. but donald trump did give away a lot, not just the free publicity, and not just the $7 million, but also carrier is a company that has a parent called united technologies. united technologies is a major military contractor. donald trump is planning a huge military buildup.
tell her to take very few risk. don t engage him hugely. think about it, if the election goes on its current course, barring a triple bank shot followed by another triple bank shot she will win, just based on the numbers. take no risk. it is all to his benefit once you get outside of the norms of what debates are to be expected. to her credit her best asset is a debater and she s rarely an a-plus, almost never a c-minus. the smartest thing by the commission of the presidential debates may have been to have this hosted by chris wallace at fox news because donald trump can t say no to a fox news debate. secretary clinton is a trained attorney and her closing argument i think tonight will pivot to russia and he s sensitive about this. i think she s going to ping him on his foreign policy experience or lack thereof. the wikileaks showed i wish we could have a better relationship with vladimir putin. naturally he ll get defensive
trump, c-minus. it was almost like a cage match, sort of walking around one another and it points trump sometimes looking menacing behind her. yeah, the looming figure of donald trump is not exactly what probably he wanted to portray. i always tell my debaters, you have to practice just like the real event. that means you should practice standing, walking around and then sit, when it s not your turn. you ll notice hillary went and sat when it wasn t his turn. he needed to take that lead. he would wander into the camera shot and it was look like he was hovering over her, especially after the language choices that just came out over the last few days, the last thing you want is a giant, grown man to be hovering over a woman in a debate. the visuals are awful. at the same time, maybe his supporters like it. they like him looking a little more tough, that s why they re supporting him. i know you look into linguistics
teacher he was so disruptive in school he had a teacher that bribe bribed him not to come to class. she said, if you don t come, i ll give you a c-minus. if you come, i ll give you an f. but you know what? he turned it around in college. i give him a lot of credit for that. he said when he had to start paying for school, all of a sudden he woke up and paid attention. that s an interesting thing. on the other issue of paying for school, all in, a broader policy, jamie will stay with me. i want to bring in our executive editor for politics, mark preston. watching the interview with marco rubio. as we said, slow and steady rise in the polls, a little way to go. could he win this nomination? when you watch him and how he handled those questions in that interview, do you think he has what it takes to get to the top? no question about it. marco rubio when he first ran for the senate was the outside. he was not the republican establishment s pick. he went against the grain. i remember
i think a b, his supporters will like his performance perhaps better than i do. trump? b minus. rubio? b plus. i say a. i thought he s strong, too. fiorina? a. a minus. carson? c. really? c minus. why? i think look. the magic of carson is when he made the comment about being an okay doctor trump being an okay doctor. that is good humor, calm. the things we like about him. and charming. i think he held his own. i think he was fine. but there was nothing magic about his performance and there wasn t in the first debate either but he made such a boppo closing comment, if you end strong, as you know in this business, it goes a long way.