John, after spending a day in san diego ive gone from yes to maybe. There is a news here. Bloomberg politics reporting exclusively that little eisenberg is going to transition out of his investment from and become the National Finance chair of the Republican National committee. He is a great fundraiser. Some people speculate that he is doing it to avoid having to choose between jeb bush and Chris Christie. That is a big get. He is becoming the finance chair of the rnc. The previous person is leaving opposed to go work i have talked to people here who have lobbied him. They said they dont want him to run. They are wishful because they dont want to work for his campaign. They are doubting that he will make the race. Is getting some discouragement about whether this makes sense. I am hearing some of the things you are hearing. There is a question of whether he decided to dip his toe in the water. The problem is the other side of that coin is the family seems to be gung ho about him running. They want him to get in. That is still the thing that would recommend. If you put a gun to my sons head, i would say he would do it. Hes getting enough encouragement. The romneys thought they were going to win election in 2012 because they were listening to people who were telling them what they wanted to hear. Its not a sure thing. Now we have a message pertaining to a handful of our viewers, including rick perry, rick santorum, and others. It is time for us to find someone to say this is our sun with whom we are well pleased. The grassroots conservative wing of the Republican Party needs to unify around a single candidate. Is that possible . I would say it is unlikely. If you think about the different parts of the Republican Base the christian right, the populist part of the party each of those pieces will have a different potential candidate. If we had this big giant mark it will be hard. It will be hard to get a Unity Movement in any party. In this race, it will be harder than ever. Conservatives always want to do it. Now we say we cant let the establishment when. There is one person who can do it. You have to raise a lot of money. Rising National Poll numbers, phone numbers and iowa, and you have to convince conservatives you could beat the establishment candidate. I think my company can do that. I do think rick perry can do it. That does not mean they dont end up being the conservative establishment choice, but in terms of coalescing and getting by, my company is the one. Just on the basis of communication skills and constituency, that i be true. The biggest proper Mike Huckabee continues to be whether he can raise enough money. Even though it is less important the money thing, it still matters. Especially in a split field. If he does what a lot of these are putting candidates are doing, embraces the super pac, advice to her three people to write multimain dollar checks that gets in wealth as needs to be the player here. How many do you think Mike Huckabee knows who would do that . Not many. President obama signed an order to give federal worker six weeks of paid leave to care for a new child or sick family member. At the same time, he is asking commerce and local governments to allow workers to get seven paid sick days year along with a trillion dollar proposal for states for the paid the program. This is how obama made his case today. When they make that investment in their employees, it pays dividends. Employees are more productive theres lower turnover, theres greater productivity, any organization is owing to be as good as its people. Mark, this kind of proposal is overwhelmingly popular with voters. Im curious with you think this is another instance where president obama, despite not controlling any house of congress any longer, has the upper hand with the gop . This is something. If bill clinton or anyone who served in his ministration, what did you hear from real people. A lot of them will say, family medical leave. It is extraordinarily popular, politically shrewd of the white house to put this up now. I bet it will poll really well. He will test really well. Republicans, we talked about it yesterday, are still traveling to have a middleclass message. John boehner put out a message about how he talked at a republican retreat about middleclass voters. This is so concrete, so specific. It is really smart politics. A lot of americans will think its good policy. I think president obama is doing this thing we have seen other president s do. Theres very little chance that this will pass in this congress. Some have come against it. He is putting the public and party in a bad place. The party did not do well with electorate in 2012. They sent a bad signal to hispanics yesterday on immigration. If they oppose it, they will send a bad signal to a lot of women, a lot of single women who have kids. The oscar nods are out. Soma was snubbed selma was snubbed. Many thought he would do better than a paltry two nominations. I cant tell you whether the snow was justified or unjust. The biggest outrage of this years nominations was the absence of life itself, the great documentary about roger ebert. It did not get a nomination for best documentary. Its an incredible movie. Not just about the movies themselves, but about this extraordinary writer. This note is really surprising. Its a great movie. It is a snubbed to the memory of roger ebert. Mark, whats your view . The injustice of jake jill and hall got not getting a nod for best actor for nightcrawler. Incredible performance. The guy is a great actor, but this is a great performance. You look at the people got nominated, they are all fine, strong. I do think any of them are as good. I thought john always going to win the oscar. Instead, not even nominated. Thats like my outrage of not just the oscars, but of the award seasons today. Of the time we get to the end of 2015, it might be the outrage of the year. Jake jill and i was incredible in that movie. Coming up, i guess who is named for brunei recipes. He is a very big deal in the party. Mark will talk with him next in san diego. Welcome back to san diego. Wise know be running against you . I dont know. I have no idea. I think we did pretty well in the midterm. The things we have talked about are actually starting to work. What i always tell people about our party is that we are starting to get our act together as a national party. We have a ways to go. The midterms dont mean we will be great in the president ial, but it means were starting to get things right. Ys joni ernst been chosen to give the republican response . Why she the right choice . The first female combat veteran in the senate. Obviously, a new face in our party. It is important for us to start promoting different people, different backgrounds, different everything in our party. That is part of it. One rolet that shares of played in the passes to enforce president reagans 11th commandment. Among your potential president ial candidates, ted cruz and others are bomb throwers. Ted cruz said a third run would be insanity. Rand paul is a chief cheerleader for obama. Does that violate the 11th commandment . Do you play a role saying to people about not talking trash . Differentiating each other is one thing, but talking trash taking cheap shots, i dont the we should be doing that. Is that a cheap shot . You are fine with all that. These are big boys and girls that are involved at this level. I think it would take where is the chairman previous line . What do they have to do . I dont know. You said you thought running against Hillary Clinton, that ringing up the Monica Lewinsky issue is an old issue. It is a little old. What about our record at the law firm . There are new revelations but i dont know what they are, or is new evidence, new questions, sure its all fair game. Are you familiar with that . I do not. We are writing a Hillary Clinton book now. We have a Research Team in little rock. We are not going to be shy. Were sending two or three to little rock. Are they setting up residency . Im not sure about that. We are going to be active. We are going to get whatever we have to in order to share with American People the truth of hillary and bill clinton. When you say new stuff about bill clinton, what you talking about . Anything. Business dealings. Travels. Whatever it might be that is important for people to know about bill and Hillary Clinton that is not old and stale stuff that we are ready no. I think its fair game. I cant take you what it is. Im not hiding it from you. Im not going to be a chairman is going to sit here and say, we are not going to do it. Not talk about anything other than fair trade with china, fracking, or clean coal. What about things from the person life . Are those things fair game question mark. Accident is what it is. Is that fair game. . It depends what it is. If it is something that is clearly egregious and something that most people would give a frown to, it is fair game. We are playing this hypothetical game. A few years ago, the conventional wisdom was it is better to have your convention later in the cycle. You made the decision it is better to have an earlier. I see the advantages of going early. Are you taking any risks by having an Early Convention . Is there a potential downside to that . Every choices risky but i have been to believe that going early, getting on with the general election sooner allowing our candidates to capture general money sooner rather than later, i think its a nobrainer for us. The democrats have a different choice to make. If we have sevennine candidates running and our candidate is broken the end of april, i need to get them on to the general election money. That person wont be up to get a nickel of that money until they get nominated before the convention. If the democrats dont have a primary or a very limited primary, then they are going to have the primary bucket full in march and april, when our candidates going to be broke. Obvious he, it is a smart decision. Is mitt romney getting into the race . What is your sense of the reaction amongst republicans to governor romneys were that he might run . And justin. Interested. What about sunday . The nice thing is there is not a ton of pressure on the packers. Rains previous congratulations. John what about the chairman and what he said about risking rewards. I think the chairman makes good sense. These no doubt these parties are fighting a loss for. There is logic to this. If there are a lot of republican candidates that spend all their money, Hillary Clinton will be well financed and could be really bad for republican nominee to spend the whole summer without any money to spend getting defined by a very wellfinanced and politically whole hunting campaign. Clinton campaign. The fallacy to me is your message gets dissipated. They drive their message of they have a good convention. The flaw is that mitt romney did not have a great super pac support. He was left naked between the nomination and they election. I see the outside, but there is real risks. The thing that struck me from your interview was the fact that the Republican Committee has a couple of people in little rock, arkansas digging up dirt on the clintons. Its not surprising. It was a fine point on how their only goal is how to defeat Hillary Clinton. They are girding for that war. The Rose Law Firm better in crickets files. Incredible. When we come back, a former insider from mitt romneys campaign. How can he do it differently this time . Should he do it all . His former Campaign Chairman will tell us, next. Our guest tonight is a hardscrabble political intellectual. His part vendee so then weber of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. In 2012 you were a cochair for mitt romneys campaign. We know that governor romney is now thinking about doing a third run. If he throws his hat in a ring, would you be a supporter . I have not decided yet. Im not happy with the way he has chosen to reenter president ial politics. I think his friends need to be honest with that. He is a great man. He would be a great president. There is not a a lot of president for people losing the election and coming back. Unfortunately i think that governor romney had to increasing the good years after losing the presidency. Now he has had one particular week. Have you talked to governor romney . I have not. I have talked to people around him. The people around him are very loyal. They should be. He is a good man. They want this to happen. I cant believe that most of them gave him the advice to handle this reemergence in president ial politics in the way that a was handled. It has not gone well for him. You think he has not handled his reentry well. Do not see any cut of rationale for a third run . Is that the real problem for you . No, i think there is a rationale, but i dont think he has put it forward. I think the rest know you hear from moderate republicans was that he was proven right about saying it was a bad rationale. The next election will not be against a barack obama. It is a bad platform to say, vote for me because you are wrong for years ago. I think the country is ready to turn a page on barack obama. I think there are very open to republican candidacy, but the candidate who will win will be one who can best layout a positive platform and a positive vision for our party and the country going forward. Its not that there is anything critical of this. Im not naive about politics, but if there is not a positive vision attached to the Republican Party this time, we will not win. It has been sent by some that part of the motivation for governor romney was that he saw jeb bush encroaching on his funders. What do you know about the strength of how jeff bushs fundraising operations have gone in its early days . Governor bush has moved systematically and aggressively. On the policy front, political front, and financial front. I think he is putting together a good financial base. I think he will make the goals that he talked about. Governor romney has a very dedicated donor base that he is paid attention to over the last couple years. I think there are enough to understand or round. That rationale is not the rationale for mounting another candidacy for the presidency. If governor romney were to call you and ask for advice your advice will be what . To stay out of the race . I guess that this point what i would say is that what i heard about governor romneys intentions up to the last week or so made a lot of sense to me. He was emerging as the senior statesman of the Republican Party. He should wait and see how the field develops. If indeed nobody a merge that had a chance of winning the white house let the party come to him. I think that was a plausible way of thinking about this. Instead to appear to get into this to preempt the first guy to reemerge emerge as a candidate for president , does it make them look like the elder statesman of the Republican Party that he altuve. If i ask you today, which im asking you now, to name the three most likely nominees of your party for 2016, who are your top three today . First of all, mitt romney is strong. I think is a possible nominee. I think jeb bush is possible. Number three gets hard to identify. I will spend the decision and probably say either Chris Christie or john kasich from ohio, who has been not talked about much lately. One of the charges against governor romney if he runs has been that he is yesterdays news. Rand paul has made that comment. In that same kind of thing be said from within the party and outside the party about jeb bush . I think they will say about governor bush because it is a little difference is situation. The bush name has been around a long time. We have had two president s. The last was controversial. The reality is, although the name is well known, governor bush himself, jeb bush, is not well known to most of the market people. He is wanted in florida. Hes one party insiders. He has an opportunity to introduce himself for the first time to most americans who may have heard his name, but no dont know much about him. Last question will quick. Do you think the republicans have an easy chance to be Hillary Clinton or it will take a really strong nominee and a great race to be her . I think would take a strong nominee in a great race, but its most closer to being a 5050 proposition than it wouldve been if you ask anybody a year ago or two years ago. I think the Republican Party look stronger after the last election. I dont think secretary clinton looks as nearly as indestructible as she did when she left the state department. We know she will have a powerful campaign. Thank you for joining us. We will be right back after the break. One other thing i want to show everybody. I slowed with the attorney general of utah. He is a rising star with the rnc. He gave me a war dance. There is more of the video on the website. We are off the air now. 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