feeling beneath the surface of bush world. this exposure has been met with some perhaps less than charitable reactions, kathleen. dick cheney sort of alludes to the iron-ass comments as sort of a compliment but donald rums femd had the least charitable reaction today which was bush 41 is getting up in years and misjudges bush 43 who i found made his own decisions. there are hundreds of memos on www.rumsfeld.com that represent advice dod gave the president. i m just delighted we could all say iron-ass on television now. all day long. donald rumsfeld is no spring chicken himself. i think he s about 83 years old. my experience with people is that we become more honest with age. i suppose that the senior bush would like to finally say what he thinks and get it out there. i think trying to explain it
who are in very, very successful financial people follow his advice when they decide where to give money and coming out of this debate in particular when the press is turning saying marco rubio had a breakthrough and jeb bush had a brave night and is jeb bush finished and i don t think he is. that s the kind of question being posed. paul singer announced this very day that he s not supporting marco rubio and we ll see that and properly seen as a big break for rubio and big breakthrough for him. he was competition for paul singer to help and also, please understand paul singer is not just what money he gives, he also is very influencetial in bundling. this is a significant breakthrough for rubio. so, anna, you are deeply involved in bush world.
see how this can work. by hard, i mean for me, impossible. let s talk about this with cnn political reporter malik ka henderson. a lot of bad signs coming from bush world today. bad signs. he was on a conference call yesterday with his donors trying to ease their fears, sparked by their lackluster debate. saying he can do better, he will do better. that new slogan, as you said, has a double entendra. we ll see him in florida. he s going to ramp up in new hampshire as well. they ll be pouring a lot of money in that state. meanwhile, they re trying to go after marco rubio as well. i think that s a theme we saw him hit yesterday and they think marco rubio, who s on the rise in some ways if not in donor but
happened last night in boulder. i think people, when they get elected to serve, they ought to serve. i do think people ought to show up to work. i m not going talk bad about governor bush. my campaign is not about him. what about your campaign is on life support? it. not on life support. we have the greatest money, the greatest organization. the debate the inis not near, memo to file. life is good. hit the press box. a tough day in bush world. kasie nuhunt is in new hampshir kasie jackson, and carrie dan details on a bush fund-raiser taking place in the nation s capital headlined by president george w. bush. but let s senator new hampshire, jeb bush spent the day. kasie hunt joins me from the grant it state. kasie, you ve been doing a lot of reporting behind the scenes. today about jeb bush trying to say all is calm, all is well. what have you learned behind the scenes?
movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. time for the lid to cap off today s big news. tonight, i m joined by center of the boston globe and mark kaputo. we ve got jeb bush s campaign, we had a story this morning, a little bit of cutting back. there is a sense of urgency in bush world right now that i m sensing, the super pac has announced they re going up with a major tv buy in the sec primary states. this is real skittishness. what is is it over? poll placement? donors? what are they responding to? everything. this part of the game, they would have figured that jeb had done all of the ground work.