she did and that is something that i mean, boy, she is someone who you know, if america had a royal family system, she would be the queen mom of american politics certainly and american life. i remember when she was campaigning for george w. bush in those early tas when he was running for governor of texas, then for president. she did not think that son would become president. she thought jeb bush, who she regarded as perhaps the smarter of the two sons, would be president. but boy, was she proud of president bush, the son, certainly proud of the florida governor, jeb bush, but as wolf was saying in the obituary there, the story of her life, did not think it was a moment for more bushs in politics. she was very against the jeb bush run. we know she had a view of this president you know, that was not necessarily positive. she kept that to herself in her later year, but she kept active
complaining about john mccain s position. reporter: what must have stumped even more coming from a man that he helped. the most centered leader i know, marco rubio. republicans back a jeb bush run and he really has money in his favor in the way that other candidates don t have. he insists that he s good to go for the long hall and a lot of them are saying he may not be popping right now in october or november but it really matters in january right before the iowa caucus, the new hampshire primary. at the same time, they also admit, erin, that he needs to have a moment, a big moment that resonates and have a good debate performance here and really in the near future. brianna, thank you very much for that. and now, mark preston. what are your sources telling you about the future of jeb
pete williams, thank you so very much. now to a pair of political story lines how secrets could play into the race for the white house. according to a new report in the washington post, jeb bush has a new way to kwauquietly raise campaign cash and for hillary clinton, the e-mail controversy is not going way. investigating the benghazi attack putting a clock on clinton saying they want to speak to the former secretary of state before may 1st. clinton s spokesman says she is ready to testify, and joining me now, reporters on both stories, washington post political reporter ed oh keefe and msnbc political reporter alex sikes wald. good to see you both. good morning. ed, start with you. the headline reads secret unlimited donations could boost a jeb bush run. what did you find? a former aide and frent ofiend
of the e-mails he did release, there were people s full social security numbers in them. if that s not a data breach security breach, i am not sure what is. if you re going to run for president, let s hold everyone to the same standard and then we can have a conversation a legitimate conversation about e-mails. otherwise, it is a complete and total clinton bashing, 1990s pottery barn moment and bores me to tears to be brutally honest. on the republican side, let me read you what cheryl mcdonald, retiree who voted for both bushes there. she says i am finding out they did some things we got stuck with. i do not want to see jeb bush run. he turns me off. how does he break that image in what will be a crucial visit this weekend? i think coming off his run at cpac jeb bush is coming out as the frontrunner candidate who comes off very real very easy
forth i think it comes back to something, andrea, that you and i are always talking about, and that s the economy. if he stands up and says he has ideas to create jobs and attacks the financial woes in this country and actually has an agenda and has workable ideas, again, he s been away from traditional politics, running campaigns and doing all that for many years. he comes to it from more of a layman perspective. i ve been in the world. he might be able to sell that. i just think he s a compassionate conservative. bernie, i think he ll probably get a lot of wall street backing, i just don t know if there s energy behind a jeb bush run. and the two of you, watching you go back and forth on common core, that s the problem. it s such a complex issue. how is he going to stand on a stage with other candidates in a primary and explain it a very esoteric issue. look, it wasn t right for the primary like everybody else, and then he ll go back to the center, and he can win a