administration officials gathered here at the george h.w. bush to mark 25 years since the beginning of his administration. the festivities wrapped up this morning with a townhall meeting withment jeb bush. i asked him the question everyone wants the answer to. will he run in 2016? here s what he told me his cry tee area is for deciding. can a candidate run with a hopeful, opt mickic message and enough detail to give people a sense of idol words and not get thrown back into the vortex of the mudfight. can you do it, in my case, you can do it. we talked about education, the economy and also immigration. here s what he had to say about the work for reform and what he thinks need to happen. if immigrants come to this country and want to participate, they should embrace our values
is it both? i don t speak for candidates. i don t speak for candidates. would you like to see him run for the u.s. senate? i would like to win elections in the fall, is what we re going to do. we re going to go with the candidate that the primary voters choose and we ll push them across the line. would you like to see him run? i would like to see a candidate run who can win. the chairs of iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, you will become very familiar faces over the next two years, thank you much. up next, mayoral matters what. can washington learn from big-city mayors? here we go again, the debt ceiling debate is back as the treasury secretary officially writes to congress saying the deadline is coming up. it s sooner than he thought. first, a look at today s politics planner. i told you a lot of it. u.s. conference of mayors. kind of a busy day here in washington, because this is cold tourist season. it s hip-hop. for cross-country, classical.
for why you re using language that strong. i wonder, though, if as a matter of political practice, the country is also a safe house for that kind of bigotry. the thing that underlied that whole fred davis proposal earlier this year, that we would see the republican candidate run against barack obama as the other, that whole met rosexual black abraham lincoln thing. as soon as that was brought to light t was denounced, but the thinking was that john mccain lost because he didn t denounce barack obama in racist enough terms. is that right as a matter of political practice? i actually think it is not. i don t think that s why john mccain lost the election the last time around. there is, and anyone who has followed my writing over many years will know, that there is a great deal of racism still in the united states of america. i have been calling people out on it for the longest time. but this country has become
that strong. i wonder, though, if as a matter of political practice, the country is also a safe house for that kind of bigotry. the thing that underlied that whole fred davis proposal earlier this year, that we would see the republican candidate run against barack obama as the other, that whole metrosexual black abraham lincoln thing. as soon as that was brought to light, it was denounced, but the thinking was that john mccain lost because he didn t denounce barack obama in racist enough terms. is that right as a matter of political practice? i actually think it is not. i don t think that s why john mccain lost the election the last time around. there is, and anyone who has followed my writing over many years will know, that there is a great deal of racism still in the united states of america.
that strong. i wonder, though, if as a matter of political practice, the country is also a safe house for that kind of bigotry. the thing that underlied that whole fred davis proposal earlier this year, that we would see the republican candidate run against barack obama as the other, that whole metrosexual black abraham lincoln thing. as soon as that was brought to light, it was denounced, but the thinking was that john mccain lost because he didn t denounce barack obama in racist enough terms. is that right as a matter of political practice? i actually think it is not. i don t think that s why john mccain lost the election the last time around. there is, and anyone who has followed my writing over many years will know, that there is a great deal of racism still in the united states of america. i have been calling people out on it for the longest time.