jeb bush: yeah. and faxed, i would turn all of our aid programs into those kinds of projects, and also, programs with more free market economics, and promoting -- instead of promoting governments that are corrupt. great question. do you consider yourself a mckinley republican or a theater roosevelt republican? jeb bush: [indiscernible] i kind of like the traditional conservative approach. hard to be critical of teddy roosevelt the guy was so all in. back then, we had totally different -- we now have a progressive government. now the progressive government has run amok. if you have the same pass in as passion for reform teddy roosevelt, that would it be bad. ♪ [the national anthem] [applause] [indiscernible chatter] >> how are we doing? jeb bush: a lot of people pork because it is lean and healthier. >> the chinese are buying a lot of pork. jeb bush: the safety is higher. how is the cheeseburger -- you have cheese inside? you have bacon in that too? you have egg? you have my name on it? >> you bet.

bush: all right. thank you. >> [indiscernible] mr. bush: [laughter] mr. bush: that is not fair. where are we looking? >> right there. mr. bush: move-in. why are you so far back? >> [laughter] thank you so much. mr. bush: thank you. >> my granddaughter. >> [indiscernible] mr. bush: thank you. over your kids generation and go right to the grandkids. >> the table back there. incredible event. >> thank you. mr. bush: how are you doing? >> good. how are you? mr. bush: i'm doing pretty good. you working the state fair? >> i am getting a day off. [laughter] mr. bush: that is a permanent position. >> that is right. how are you? mr. bush: excellent. great. we are great again. where are you going? >> [indiscernible] community college. mr. bush: excellent. what are you doing? >> i am just [indiscernible] right now. mr. bush: are you getting a degree in community college? >> know, i am just [indiscernible] mr. bush: that is the smart thing to do. you don't live here? how long do you intend to be a resident? >> i believe a year. i also work full-time. i cannot be a full-time student the firs

jeb bush: how are you? >> good, how are you? jeb bush: how are you? >> [indistinct chatter] >> [indistinct chatter] >> [indistinct chatter] (202) 748-0003 for the mind -- -- -- the mind needs to have the same exercise as the body. lots of stories. learn about babe ruth. -- [indiscernible] take care. >> thank you. >> [indistinct chatter] >> ♪ >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: we have complicated things in our life, but if you are on the border -- [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] jeb bush: but you can do it. think about it. -- [indiscernible] -- all of a sudden this joan comes up. -- [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] jeb bush: checking out what was going on. -- [indiscernible] >> [indistinct chatter] >> trying to get them to sign up. >> [laughter] jeb bush: how are we looking? >> [indiscernible] >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: where are you guys from deco -- from? >> minnesota. jeb bush: minnesota? >> [indistinct chatter] jeb bush: i would love to have your help. take care. enjoy the budweiser. >> abso

trump or jeb bush? i'm not a fan of jeb bush. jeb bush is in favor of common core and weak on immigration. those are two bad things. bush the other day didn't want to fund them. he said i don't want to fund women's health issues. he didn't want to fund. that's worst than romney's 47%. when they give a million dollars or $5 million to jeb bush they have total control over him. he will do like a puppet whatever they say. >> jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. he has lobbyists. i know them. >> joining us now michael steel former chair of the republican party and msnbc political analyst, kasie hunt, msnbc political correspondent and the host of changing america on shift by msnbc. kasie hunt, you had your choice of events to go to in new hampshire. let me guess. were you by any chance at the trump event? >> maybe. yes. i was. although i did get a chance to catch john kasich earlier in the day but it was not possible, as you said to be at jeb bush's event and donald trump's at the same time. >> this the turnout for trump's event, is th

bush era. perhaps first before going into the principle part of my comments, let me just pick up on a couple of things that director goss said. and one is kind of a detail but an interesting one. and that is the president's daily brief. and when we made the transition from porter being the dci to my becoming the director of national intelligence there was about a month or so where we went in to see the president together at 8:00 every morning to brief him. that for me was a very helpful and interesting time to transition over to doing it myself with the pdb staff in ensuing months. but one thing i want to say about president bush, and this is now 2005, right? he's been in office four years. when any president's been in office four years, they know the situation pretty well. they've met a lot of leaders, they meet dozens of leaders, national leaders, international leaders every year. it's kind of hard to give them a leadership profile, if you will, on somebody who they just saw the previous week

bush: thank you. >> my granddaughter. mr. bush: thank you. can skip over your kids generation and go right to the grandkids. >> the table back there. incredible event. >> thank you. mr. bush: how are you doing? >> good. how are you? mr. bush: i'm doing pretty good. you working the state fair? >> i am getting a day off. [laughter] mr. bush: that is a permanent position. >> that is right. how are you? mr. bush: excellent. great. we are great again. where are you going? >> [indiscernible] community college. mr. bush: excellent. what are you doing? >> i am just [indiscernible] right now. mr. bush: are you getting a degree in community college? >> know, i am just [indiscernible] mr. bush: that is the smart thing to do. you don't live here? how long do you intend to be a resident? >> i believe a year. i also work full-time. i cannot be a full-time student the first year. mr. bush: you have already accomplished that. what is the difference? i'm always curious about the difference between out-of-state and in-state. >> $10 per credit. at howard univer

jeb bush: thank you. support the presidential initiative for that early childhood development in education? a multilateral [indiscernible] jeb bush: if it is effective. it is outcome-based. if it was simple and did not try to impose western-u.s. imposition on countries that were completely different and it could work. >> jeb bush: i would turn all of our aid programs into those kinds of projects, and also, programs with more free market economics, and promoting governments that are productive. great question. yourself -- sider jeb bush: [indiscernible] i kind of like the traditional .onservative approach back then, we had totally different -- we now have a progressive government. now the progressive government has run amok. [indiscernible] ♪ [the national anthem] [applause] [indiscernible chatter] jeb bush: a lot if you will have converted support because it is lean and healthier. the safety is higher. how is the cheeseburger -- you have cheese inside? you have bacon and that too? it? have my name on th

john: john ellis bush bush -- bush bush? -- is heading to las vegas tonight. do not mistake him for the gambling type. even though he has been taking hit after hit from trump, bush has laid low and rarely offers a hint of criticism towards the front runner. just to give you a sense of what it is like to be jeb these days, here are some of the insults the donald has lobbed at him in the last 24 hours. mr. trump: when jeb bush talked about women's health issues, he was so bad. it is like, what is he doing? i think that will be his 47% there is no energy there. we need energy! when jeb bush raises $114 million, jeb bush is totally controlled by the people who gave him the money. there is not enough enthusiasm, there is not anything. jeb bush will not be able to negotiate against mexico. you know what he is going to say? oh, oh, and go back to sleep, ok? john: right cross, uppercut, bam, pow. here is how jeb decided how to counterpunch today in reno. mr. bush: i will not play the game that everybody wants people running for president to do -- to say that another p

bush. george w. bush! it went out today as a fund-raising appeal for the presidential campaign of his brother, jeb. and that, in itself, is not an embarrassing thing. unless, of course, you're the brother who launched your presidential campaign by telling everybody that they should think of you as a stand-alone candidate, unrelated to your family. yeah, sure, maybe you had a father and a brother who were also presidents, quite recently, but that's totally irrelevant to your own run for the presidency, because you are your own man. >> as you might know, i've also been fortunate to have a father and a brother who helped shape america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions that they had to make. but i'm my own man. and my views are shaped by my own thinking, in my own experiences. >> that was how jeb bush basically told us he was going to run his campaign for t

21. 19 of 21 served in bush 41 or bush 43 administrations. >> mike viqueira in washington, thank you >>> a strong warning from the united nations on the crisis in yemen. next - why the civil war there is creating a humanitarian disaster, and american citizens fighting for family treasures seized by fidel castro during the cuban revolution. revolution. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm randall pinkston in for antonio mora. coming up in this half hour of international news - iraq eliminates layers of its government. why some say the reforms will make the situation worse. >>> first, libya's internationally recognised prime minister says he will step down. he was . he was conflict. >> reporter: government troops are on the offensive. soldiers backing exiled president abd-rabbu mansour hadi launched an attack to recapture a province in central yemen, it would pave the way for abd-rabbu mansour hadi loyalists to advance towards the capital. >> translation: our message to the houthis - you have 48 hours to withdraw from ebb or you will be killed. >> the push north follows a series

>> no. ♪ >> governor bush, welcome to the register soapbox. [applause] mr. bush: thank you so much. what a joy to be here. i support higher standards. the term common core is so poisonous, i don't know what it means. hang on, sir. we will get you. you are next. don't let your head explode. right now we have 3500 soldiers and marines in iraq. we have no strategy. it kind of creeps up. we are responding incrementally to the challenges that exist rather than having a strategy. excuse me? we did not have to get out in 2011. it could have been modified. that was the expectation. everybody in iraq and washington knew the deal could have been expanded. now we need to do something else, which is deal with the fact we have islamic terrorists organized as a caliphate, and the way you take them out is to rebuild the iraqi military, provide arms and support to the peshmerga, to reengage with the sunnis, to be able to have a strategy to take them out. mark: he did it. he survived the soapbox. >> i think so. he toured this place this morning, seemed more at ease and optimistic and smiling. mark:

>> no. ♪ >> governor bush, welcome to the register soapbox. [applause] mr. bush: thank you so much. what a joy to be here. i support higher standards. the term common core is so poisonous, i don't know what it means. hang on, sir. we will get you. you are next. don't let your head explode. right now we have 3500 soldiers and marines in iraq. we have no strategy. it kind of creeps up. we are responding incrementally to the challenges that exist rather than having a strategy. excuse me? we did not have to get out in 2011. it could have been modified. that was the expectation. everybody in iraq and washington knew the deal could have been expanded. now we need to do something else, which is deal with the fact we have islamic terrorists organized as a caliphate, and the way you take them out is to the iraqi military, provide arms and support to the peshmerga to reengage with the , sunnis, to be able to have a strategy to take them out. he did it. he survived the soapbox. >> i think so. he toured this place this morning, seemed more at ease and optimistic and smiling. mark: there is this

bush: how you doing? >> senator. mr. bush: how are you? f us? ahead o >> he is up there. >> i live in new jersey. >> welcome to the iowa state fair. >> how will you help us? how will you help us get back what we lost? mr. bush: we are going to try sustained growth for starters. it is doing business right now because of the combination of local, state and now federal stipulations are making it hard. the epa, the health care laws. you are the largest -- i've got. only one guy doing it? w>> you have to fix it. mr. bush: where do you sell your peacocks? >> all over. mr. bush: do you know your senator? >> we have talked, but you have to help people like us. mr. bush: where is your farm? >> weston, iowa. mr. bush: i would love to see them. >> peacock.com. how we doing? our yo how are you? >> i'm good. good to see you. mr. bush: i'm doing well. how are you? >> governor. mr. bush: good morning. >> cameras only. mr. bush: how are you doing? >> good. mr. bush: excellent. how are you? good morning. mr. bush: it sounds pretty cool. >> let me get a photo. ta

trump. >> jeb bush is getting back from eric cantor some backing. >> there's no question that jeb bush will win the presidency running against mr. trump or running against ms. clinton. >> we'll see how that support turns out. cantor left congress in a year ago. he lost his seat in a shocking upset during the primaries to a little known college professor. hey, let's not beat up on college professors. let me bring in executive vice president at media. does eric cantor's endorsement really, you know, shake the rafters and make people excited? >> you know, i hope it doesn't take away from the excitement of dan quayle's endorsement, i got to be honest with you. no, eric cantor was ousted by his constituents for insufficient evil one year ago, which would make it funny. but it will cement jib's status as the ideological front-runner. they created this frankenstein monster of a base and he found a new mad scientist to go live with. >> frankenstein is the doctor himself. jeb bush essentially admitted trump's a legitimate front-runner, so where does he go from here? >> i think that's the latest

john: john ellis bush bush -- bush bush? -- is heading to las vegas tonight. do not mistake him for the gambling type. even though he has been taking hit after hit from el trumpo, bush has laid low and rarely offers a hint of criticism towards the front runner. just to give you a sense of what it is like to be jeb these days, here are some of the insults the donald has lobbed at him in the last 24 hours. mr. trump: when jeb bush talked about women's health issues, he was so bad. it is like, what is he doing? i think that will be his 47%. there is no energy there. we need energy! when jeb bush raises $114 million, which he has, jeb bush is totally controlled by the people who gave him the money. there is not enough enthusiasm, there is not anything. jeb bush will not be able to negotiate against mexico. you know what he is going to say? oh, oh, and go back to sleep, ok? john: right cross, uppercut, bam, pow. here is how jeb decided how to counterpunch today in reno. mr. bush: i will not play the game that everybody wants people running for president to do -- to

bush and first lady laura bush, you see them right there. jenna bush hager gave birth to her second child yesterday. to poppy louise hager named after her grandfather. george h.w. bush's nickname when he was a child is poppy. congratulations to the bush family on that little aligs. absolutely adorable. >>> coming up for us, the iowa state fair is a political rite of passage bringing together the best of fried foods and butter sculptures and white house hopefuls. the big question there -- speaking of bushes -- can jeb bush regain his momentum there? . no sixth grader's ever sat with the eighth grade girls. but your jansport backpack is permission to park it wherever you please. hey. that's that new gear feeling. this week, filler paper and folders just one cent. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. so you think this chip is nothing to worry about? well at safelite we know sooner or later, every chip will crack. these friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com... they d

bush chief of staff. please chime in welcoming for the quiet man indispensable president via george h.w. bush. [applause] >> when they sang gibsons for their hospitality. i'm an old book and books are adding and i think the way you've been able to handle such that the scope in an intimate as though they'd should satisfy any look at it and i recommend anybody looking for a place to browse and find grace to have to read, this is the place to come. i'd also like to thank you for taking a little bit of time to join us today. i wrote the "the quiet man" because i feel george herbert walker bush had in his one term as extraordinary presidency as we've had in modern times and i wanted to get between the two covers of a book all of those great accomplishments and put great accomplishments included in the way people would appreciate how unique, house daschle and how important the presidency was. if you are all here buying both, i won't go through from page one. what i would do today is talk a little bit about the

bush: i don't know. i don't think congress is going to change this, so the president can't unilaterally open up trade. if you eliminate that, you are taking all the leverage that exists for us to create an environment where cuba moves towards freedom. we are legitimizing a regime that will allow it to continue to oppress its people. it is not the right approach. mark: just to clarify, are you worried about the chinese motives -- the motives of the chinese government and what they are doing? jeb bush: yeah, it was not an act of kindness to hack into the server that had 23 million files, some of which were required for security. mark: i'm talking about currency, though. mr. bush: i think we will have to see how that plays out. there are significant challenges in the economy right now that could be the motivation for this, but also, if you see continued growth, then this is a provocative act. mark: is it bad for american workers? mr. bush: it is not necessarily bad for american workers if it relates to weak

he calls jeb bush "dumb." he says the bush-cheney iraq war was a catastrophe. he dismisses rick perry and lindsey graham as lightweights. can that possibly be good for the republican party? mary: he's not speaking for all americans. i think that wears out pretty fast. like all americans, i like his spunk. i like that he gets more mad at -- gets that we are mad at the republican party. this is a very stellar field. people want the fight and the substance. we have not even gotten our jerseys dirty yet. we're basically in spring training. the real game is on the field after labor day, and then we get into the long-haul. i think whatever he calls the other candidates is belied by their presentations and their performance. al: hopefully you will have a better record than the new orleans saints. mary: hey. hey, you. [laughter] al: if one of the super pac's came to you and said we would take out negative ads on the donald -- good or bad idea? mary: that's a ridiculous idea. as i said, the first reaction to him that the establishment took, which was wrong, was to dismi

it's a good thing for jeb bush. because all we have been talking about for the last couple of days and all over the media is this duel between jeb bush and donald trump. there is 15 other people running. nobody is mentioning them. i think jeb, getting testy. getting feisty. fighting back. talking about donald trump's record. which is not conservative. contrasting it with his. which is a very conservative record as a governor. is a very good tactic. it's a smart tactic for jeb bush. >> if i may, quickly. jeffrey will have something sig and a half can't to say. jeb bush has a lot of ground to make up. he should be spending the dollars, defining himself to voters before spending time on trump. >> jeffrey, i should tell you right now. we just got -- >> ana, hang on, we got word donald trump has arrived in the parking lot. elvis is near the building if you will. jeffrey lord. i want to go to you, jeffrey. earlier today i spoke to mitt romney's former deputy campaign manager. the people are going to this event is like goi

p that's jeb bush. we thought he was going to be the big front-runner, jeb clearly trump has gotten under his skin privately. this was from politico today, jeb describing trump as a buffoon, a clown, a word i can't say on television. clearly trump is getting under bush's skin. >> well what's a jeb? >> okay the other guy is a buffoon and a bad word we can't use, what's jeb bush? he's nothing. he has shown nothing. he has a famous name it's sort of his turn that's it. i'm telling you, the guy -- >> he's a successful two-term governor. >> how many years ago. >> let me tell you something, his name is bush and that's how he got to be governor as well. let me tell you, this is king of the hill tonight. if trump gets pulled off the hill he'll lose tonight. if he doesn't win, that's a huge story and an unexpected story, to me the story line is trump wins, he trumps because these other guys aren't in his league. it's a home game for him. television is where he lives. these other guys are putting on acts planning

he calls jeb bush "dumb." he says the bush cheney iraq war was a catastrophe. he dismisses rick perry and lindsey graham as lightweights. can that possibly be good for the republican party? >> he's not speaking for all americans. i think that wears out pretty fast. like all americans, i like his spunk. i like that he gets more mad at the republican party. this is a very stellar field. people want the fight and the substance. we have not even gotten our jerseys dirty yet. we're basically in spring training. the real game is on the field after labor day, and then we get into the long-haul. i think whatever he calls the other candidates is belied by their presentations and their performance. al: hopefully you will have a better record than the new orleans saints. mary: hey. hey, you. carl: [laughter] -- al: [laughter] if one of the super pac's came to you and said we would take out negative ads on the donald -- good or bad idea? mary: that's a ridiculous idea. as i said, the first reaction that the establishment took, which was wrong, was to dismiss him or to atta

i supported marco rubio for senator, i supported jeb bush for governor, i'm supporting just about bush for president. i think there's mainstream floridians in the same position as i am. when you see the numbers, i think the mainstream floridians are being split between jeb bush and marco rubio. let me tell you something, there are five floridians, people with florida ties that are in this race. ben carson is from florida. mike huckabee is now from florida, jeb bush is from florida, and if you count -- >> i'm going to give you the opportunity. are you calling on one of them to drop out so the other can pick up the support and beat -- >> oh, listen, i think it's not about what i'm calling on them to do. i can tell you that -- i can tell you i have conversations with them before they got into the race. right now everybody is in the race. i think we're going to respect the race, and everybody's got to go through the process. i want to comment on biden. this idea of biden running, for republicans it's christmas, kwanzaa and hanukkah all rolled up into one in august. biden has a lot of that

bush has got to get it together. >> jeb bush chases after donald trump's huge lead in the polls. here they are going after each other one at a time, here they go. >> jeb bush is a low energy person. for him to get things done is hard. he's very low energy. >> look, there should be a little more focus on solving the problems and talking about ideas that matter. rather than just kind of coming in like a title wave and saying things that are just outrageous and don't make sense. >> has anybody in your lifetime look like either one of these two guys? trump is so outrageous every second he things of something and the other guy thinks that's a good question but one guy is totally slow motion. tortoise and the other guy is the heir. >> jeb bush's support is peeling off because people aren't convinced he has the fire in the belly. >> does he look like it? >> he doesn't look like it. that's why trump's critique is on target. when he makes statements like that, he just sort of wonders. he's not very focused. now that he's gone on the attack against trump, this is a big strategic pivot. >>

you might say that was trump's message to bush today. bush was in new hampshire taking questions from reporters and attacking trump's conservative credentials. while painting his rivals' immigration stance as cruel and harmful, bush seemed to strumibstruumble. >> governor, do you regret using the term anchor babies yesterday? >> no. i don't regret it. >> you don't? >> no. do you have a better term? >> athena jones was at that event. bush and trump now engaged not only in a battle in the polls but certainly a battle of words, too. >> reporter: it is a battle of words. up until just a couple of days ago, bush seemed hesitant to engage trump. that's changing in the face of those sagging poll numbers you mentioned. now the gloves are finally coming off. >> you win when you campaign like this. you don't win when you campaign like this. >> reporter: jeb bush, hitting back at donald trump today. >> you win when you connect with people about their as spir ragss. not about how great you are, how rich you are or how this you are or how that you ar

bush if she wanted. us to take spot but she said no, i will do it, as she wiped a tear from her eye while petting their new dog the scottish terrier barney. his the president was an athlete oft extraordinary skills. this was supported when his mit doctors measured his resting heartbeat at 50 beats per lance minute. which matched that of then cyclist lance armstrong. he did not jog, he ran. and in all weather and especially on the hottest days. with a few years of moving into the white house, he damaged his legs and hips as most runners eventually do.and hi he was distraught and searched for another means to keep up his exercise routine. he tried various types of equipment and found none that hs liked and that allowed him to bg outside.took he was introduced to off road biking by some of his staff and he took to it with a vengeance. he loved the physical challenge and the aerobic exercise.bro he even broke a trek bike that the designer said couldn't be broken at least not where he broke it. they ended up

bush, george herbert walker bush and, as of today, john kasich. tom, thank you for joining us from manchester. you are the most coveted endorser of the granite state in the republican party. you have given the endorsement to john kasich. why? i'm not sure all, any of that is right, but i accept it. i think our party needs to be inclusive and open and welcoming and optimistic and generous. i think john kasich embodies a lot of that. i watched him in various kinds of audiences. i watched the way he responds and he talks a language that people like to hear and inspires confidence. i think he has a great opportunity to win the right number of votes in the electoral college and win. thatnk that is something the republicans can win the election. this is a person that is making a pretty compelling case. mark: everything you said could be said if you endorsed jeb bush. given your longtime closeness with the bush family, why kasich over bush? tom: i'm not going to say anything bad about jeb bush because i admire him and respect him. this has nothing to do

in this case, i voted for bush. mark: what about 2004 versus the other bush? do you remember who you supported in that election? mr. trump: bush. mark: why? mr. trump: i was hoping he would do a good job. mark: what didn't you like about gore? mr. trump: i became more and more conservative. he was certainly more conservative, who wasn't, then gore. but bush was somebody i was very disappointed in. as you know, in 2003 and 2004 i said iraq was a mistake. i am a person who believes strongly in the military. i would have a very powerful, strong military. no one is going to mess with us, believe me, but to do iraq was a terrible mistake in my opinion. the way we got out was a mistake also, because i say we should have kept the oil. but these are things that i say, some people agree, some strongly, and some don't agree at all, but i was very disappointed with him, but i voted for him. john: you are going to stay right here. you're not going anywhere? mr. trump: no. john: we have two more questions. we are back with donald j trump after this word from our sponsors.

they'll shake this off and jeb bush will become a better candidate. by the way, the competition will make him a better candidate. >> does it matter this far out, dan? does he have room here? >> he's not going to end his campaign right now but, like, you will see this clip about cutting women's health in ads if he's the nominee running on women's programming for months. this will hurt him. it may not hurt him a lot in the primary because his record against women's health choices will probably help him there, but in a general election it can be death. romney's statement about defunding planned parenthood ran thousands of times until n television ads in our campaign room. so this will hurt him in the long run if he's the nominee. >> matt see this is as rustiness and you see that in all of these candidates. is that your diagnosis here? >> look, i think he's been out of politics for a long time, politics has changed dramatically in the nearly 15 years since he last ran for office but he has not answered the question of why he's running for president. like

vw bus. >> governor bush, welcome to the register soapbox. mr. bush: thank you so much. what a joy to be here. i support higher standards. poisonous, is so don't know what it means. hang on, sir. don't let your head explode. right now we have 3500 soldiers and marines in iraq. we have no strategy. it kind of creeps up. there responding to challenges that exist rather than having a strategy. excuse me? indid not have to get out 2011. it could have been modified. that was the expectation. everybody in iraq and washington knew the deal could have been expanded. now we need to do something else, which is deal with the fact we have islamic terrorists organized and the way you take them out is to rebuild the rack military, to reengage with the sunnis, to be able to have a strategy to take them out. >> he did it. he survived the soapbox. >> i think so. he did a bunch of stuff with the press. optimistice was more and smiling. i'm, court, he said i don't know what it means anymore. core, he said i don't know what it means anymore. john: let's not speak about it. let's speak about

it is jeb bush. because he gigs tois going to be the guy next to trump and the guy who has $100 million plus in his bank account, the republican establishment said this is our guy they want to show they have got in a good investment and he can actually explain himself well show he has fire in his belly. over the past couple days he has been a little shaky on that. he has been practic over various ways he can do that. and show republicans who want a conservative that he actually is one of them. another big trick for him, anderson. >> yeah all belts are off about tomorrow night. dana want to dig deeper with our panel. joining me bill crystal, editor of the weekly standard and, jeffrey lord joins me former reagan white house political director and cnn political commentator and contributing editor for american spectator, and donna brazil vice chair of the dnc voter project. bill as you know i got to ask about "the washington post" article says former president clinton called donald trump a couple months

bush. this is the first of three panels looking at post-9/11 changes and initiatives to protect the country. after that, former senior bush administration officials debate the president's critics on counterterrorism and war fighting. then former veteran secretary james nick collison, a "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker review the reasons for going to war in iraq and afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. following, that nchlpr's garris keeler talks about 15 things that need to change right away. >>> the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites across the nation to hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders every other weekend on c-span2's book tv and american history tv on c-span3. and this month, with congress on its summer recess, the cities tour is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today the history of columbus, georgia, from the first prehistory residents to the growth of the textile industry, as well as a look at confederate gunboa

it is jeb bush. because he is going to be the guy next to trump and the guy who has $100 million plus in his bank account, the republican establishment said this is our guy they want to show they have got in a good investment and he can actually explain himself well, show he has fire in his belly. over the past couple days he has been a little shaky on that. he has been practicing going over various ways he can do that. and show republicans who want a conservative that he actually is one of them. another big trick for him, anderson. >> yeah, all belts are off about tomorrow night. dana want to dig deeper with our panel. joining me bill crystal, editor of the weekly standard and, jeffrey lord joins me former reagan white house political director and cnn political commentator and contributing editor for american spectator, and donna brazil, vice chair of the dnc voter project. bill, as you know, i got to ask about "the washington post" article says former president clinton called donald trump a couple

jeb bush. why not? jeb bush is weak on illegal immigration. bad on women's health issues and thinks the iraq war was a good thing. thoo it's clearly getting under jeb bush's skin. when i look at the two of them battle it out in public, it really looks like trump is getting the better of bush. >> i really think trump is getting the better of bush. i think bush is getting the better of himself as well. he has not found his footing. he's not found himself yet. and here you have a dynasty member, someone who you would think because their father was president, their brother was president, he would be presidential. he does not look presidential. he even acknowledged -- i mean, he tried to walk away from his brother at the first debate, talking about it was a bad idea for the war in iraq. so, i mean, i think he's trying to find his own footing in the midst of the 5,000 gop presidential contenders out there. it's a lot of them on that stage. and then he's trying to find himself. and donald trump doesn't make it any better. donald trump is a very intim

bush. he tried to encroach on george w. bush's personal space. i think at that moment he was trying to show he was sort of the tough guy or he could be the tough guy. it backfired. bush shot him this quizzical look and gore looked sheepish. i think of that dynamic now with the candidates having to go toe to toe with trump tonight. if you go after trump or try to attack him or call him out on something there's that risk he's going to talk over you, talk you down. if you don't have the response you look like you're retreating one of the risks in dealing with trump. >> you're giving him more time straight up. if you go after hip directly by name, that allows him the opportunity to respond. and to a certain extent the battle here is strictly for time to talk that doesn't help anyone who is trying to take the spotlight off of trump. >> we'll have to leave it there. of course, the worse case ever was rick lazio over to hillary clinton. to be continued. thank you so much, kasie hunt steve kornacki. don't forget to join steve live from cleveland today at

is that the real inside track for jeb bush to exploit? >> nomination endorsement battles come down to two p primaries. people go out and vote and the other is electability. they factor in both and there is going to come a point in time where people reach a fork in the road and say i might like some of what donald trump is saying but is he really electable? trump has six or eight months to show people he can be more than entertaining and could be president. if that happens, republicans may have to start warming up to the idea donald trump isn't going away and may not implode. >> trump just 8% think he's the best to handle l economy, down from 20% in june. he's losing ground there. 20%, down from 16%, i mean, what are the issues that will allow him not only to motivate republicans but to turn this around in terms of competency on key issues? >> he'll always have a tough time with immigration and education. we thought he would have a better time when it came to terrorism. obviously had a little difficulty with that. he's got to steak out his

bush's words and speech. we'll stand by to watch in new orleans when the former president begins to speak. we're watching another developing story right now in new hampshire. jury deliberations are under way in the prep school rape trial. owen labrie is accused of raping a 15 yier-year-old girl last ye the st. paul school. he's pleaded not guilty to all charges. gabe gutierrez is live in concord, new hampshire. good morning. >> hi, jose, gom. the cameras are behind me, waiting for the verdict. the media is waiting. the prosecution is waiting. so is the defense. this case is really brought national scrutiny to the issue of sexual assault in high schools, a topic many advocates say is not discussed enough. a jury of nine men and three women is deciding whether this encounter between two teenagers amounted to rape at one of the nation's most elite schools. prosecutors say owen labrie sexually assaulted that then-15-year-old girl at st. paul's campus just days before graduation as part of a school ritual known as

sununu: i can't speak for jeb bush. i think it is the wrong thing to do this early in this stage to lash out and start going after your fellow candidates. you saw the debate, chris christie and rand paul going at it. i don't think anyone came out better for that. it is early. this early in the race, you have to remember, you are still introducing yourself, whether you are jeb bush are marco rubio or john kasich. you need to be introducing yourself to the voters here and across the country. you need to do it every day, every week, for the next couple of months. anytime you are not introducing yourself, you risk losing ground. in the case of john kasich, he is governor of ohio, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, created jobs, privatized prison, reformed entitlements. these are important issues for him to get across to voters, to make sure they understand where he come from, how he solves problems. it's not smart to be lashing out at every candidate. mark: if you were to compare john to any previous senator, who would it b

bush. jeb's having to tell "nightly news" there that he's not a cocaine user, but, yes, he, too, has cocaine on his cash. it was florida! it was the 1980s. what would you expect. jeb bush at that point was not yet a full-time politician. he was a local businessman in miami, but when you're the son of a man who was a state representative in texas and a u.s. ambassador to the united nations and the director of the cia and an aspiring candidate for president, politics sort of gets thrust on you whether you like it or not. and that was the case for jeb bush in the 1980s. now, for a very young and very inexperienced jeb bush in the 1980s. in 1980, poppy bush, having racked up that very impressive resume of public service, poppy bush in 1980 decided to make a run for president. you'll remember this is the presidential election that umly went to ronald reagan, but in 1980, reagan was being challenged for the republican nomination by george h.w. bush. and during that primary campaign went bush was

jeb bush. there is no hiding the animosity between bush and trump on the campaign trail as the "the washington post" made very clear in this montage. >> this is a guy who was a democrat for most of the last decade. >> for him to get things done is hard. >> and if he was interested in a more comprehensive approach he might want to read my book "immigration wars" which i published four years ago. >> i think bush is an unhappy person. i don't think he has any energy. i don't see how he can win. >> you win when you connect with people about their aspirations not about how great you are, how rich you are, or how this you are or how that you are. that's not leadership? he is weak on immigration. he is in favor of common core. how the hell can you vote for this guy. >> he is doing this to inflame and incite and get to draw attention which seems to be his organizing principle of his campaign. >> you know what's happening to jeb's crowd as you know right down the street? they are sleeping. they are slee

this as trump tops bush in a state where both bushes, father and brother, won during their presidential campaigns. plus can donald trump actually beat hillary clinton in the general election? a new poll may be giving the clinton camp something else to worry about. and wild fires attack the west. military is being brought in to help. and. >>> first, donald trump is getting up close and personal. he'll hold a town hall just 20 miles from jeb bush's voters forum tonight. he scheduled the event at the exact same time saying bush draws so poorly i figured it would be a good time to draw a crowd. he hasn't had any trouble gaerting support. he's at the top of the republican ticket for weeks. trump leads bush in the most recent poll by 11 points. trump laid out a plan to block undocumented immigrants from the country by raising a wall and revoking birthright citizen hip. despite the constitution's standing in the way many gop candidates and compatriots agree. >> they are going to have to explain to people with why they don't support the policies mr. trump has come out. >> trump's vision keeps u

but governor bush is on track. he has serious competitors and he is the most likely republican nominee to broaden out our appeal. >> the clinton campaign thinks he is the most likely nominee because she is the one who attacks, except for your odd comment about donald trump. he's the one who you get press releases from all the time from the clinton campaign. they still think he is the person they need to draw. >> john cast itch, the last guy to get in this race stepped into the big leagues and my sense is someone who could attract the establishment and he is going to be a contender. i'm not saying he is going to win but the potential is there. >> charlie, can i just -- i served with john kasich in the congress and i know him well and i'm pro--bush but i'm not anti-cast itch, he is a great guy. ♪ charlie: will we see a turning point where there is more attention focused on these other candidates, their positions and who they are. >> yes. there are three bases of the party. bush has the establishment element. christ

bush challenging trump's credentials and trump calling bush unelectable. the surging numbers the are part of a wide conversation that trump had with chris here. but first, sara murray is live in new hampshire. tell us about the unusual town hall that donald trump had. >> reporter: good morning, alyson. it seems like the trump campaign was trolling the jeb bush campaign a little bit by adding their town hall later. the reason it was such a fiery evening is jeb bush's new strategy when it comes to donald trump taking him on face to face. take a look. step aside, manny

it's been around for a long time for the bush family. >> jeb bush is getting criticism for xenophobic remarks while simultaneously getting bash forward latino outreach. who cares that he speaks mexican. this is america. english. how is jeb bush going to negotiate both of those criticisms simultaneously? >> he is stuck between a rock and hard place. back to my initial comment. i think he really needs to own it. and something his brother did very well in the 20000 election is he used the gop rhetoric about values and family and valuing children and he used that to wring bring into the fore the need to reform immigration. i do think that even though it is a tricky line to walk jeb bush could do that if he referenced back the need to bring together families and to look at it in terms of something that helps our family grow, helps our nation grow rather than getting stuck in the xenophobic terms. >> jeb bush released a memo today. e mentions trump seven times. is he legitimatizing trump or trying to stay relevant? >> i think bush has not needed to legitimatize trump. the party has with the

bush. and during that primary campaign, when bush was trying to lock up any vote that he could find, he dispatched his son jeb in puerto rico. jeb spoke spanish, his wife was mexican, jeb bush went to puerto rico to make the case for his dad. he was 2 aefrn at the time. in puerto rico, turns out he was not at all ready for the family business. you can tell physically. check this out and the cameo is from the man's knees. watch. watch this. >> the republicans in puerto rico hold a primary election this sunday when they will choose 14 delegates to their national convention. it's not a large number of delegates. puerto ricans can goat voet but all of the candidates have been trying to win friends under the palm trees. the son of one of them there almost 60 days k. >> the campaign trail in puerto rico is different. ♪ >> puerto rico, not new hampshire, is the first primary at least for republicans. in puerto rico it's important to remember that democrats and republicans don't count as much as

she takes on jeb bush because she knows jeb bush will defeat her and become the next president of the united states. >> does al have a point there? >> she's taken on scott walker and donald trump. jeb bush is giving her ample opportunity by making mistake after mistake after mistake on the campaign trail and just to push back on something al said his unfavorables have not gone down but up. he is seen worse by the public according to the a recent poll than mitt romney in the entire 2012 campaign. jeb bush is less popular than romney after he hit 47% and made error after error. at some point the bush game has to look inside and figure what they are doing wrong and maybe not a question of strategy the fact they have a bad candidate running in the wrong election. >> big question now -- >> listen -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> on thursday, when he is facing off in this debate a good opportunity for him to make some ground up where maybe he well, at least dan thinks he lost. al great to see you. >> he'll do great, kate he'll do great. you'll see. >> we'll be there to watch with you. >> al d

she went after jeb bush. interestingly jeb bush did not return the fire. gwen: he spoke a couple of hours later. >> his speech was very high-minded, very effective. the best speech i've seen from him so far. that's why it's going to do be a matchup to watch if both of them end up surviving this process. gwen: on the other hand, jeb bush pulled out a lot of money. today's the deadline to find out about the super pac money. he's sitting really pretty. >> that's the whole jeb bush play. long-term, build the network, have the 100 million plus ready so you can have the positive ads and the negative ads once this campaign heats up. you don't see bush going after trump or clinton. this is a careful campaign. he's a candidate who's becoming more confident. gwen: you also saw bernie sanders show up andsaake a point. bernie sanders is pretty out there if he wants to be. is he h creeping up at all? is he creeping up? he's certainly -- his trajectory is more like this and hers is like that. >> i think he is creeping up mostly with white liberals. he needs to do better

she went after jeb bush. interestingly jeb bush did not return the fire. gwen: he spoke a couple of hours later. >> his speech was very high-minded, very effective. the best speech i've seen from him so far. that's why it's going to do be a matchup to watch if both of them end up surviving this process. gwen: on the other hand, jeb bush pulled out a lot of money. today's the deadline to find out about the super pac money. he's sitting really pretty. >> that's the whole jeb bush play. long-term, build the network, have the 100 million plus ready so you can have the positive ads and the negative ads once this campaign heats up. you don't see bush going after trump or clinton. this is a careful campaign. he's a candidate who's becoming more confident. gwen: you also saw bernie sanders show up and make a point. bernie sanders is pretty out there if he wants to be. is he creeping up at all? is he creeping up? he's certainly -- his trajectory is more like this and hers is like that. >> i think he is creeping up mostly with white liberals. he needs to do better w