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You off course. youll be our president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wish your family well. your success is our countrys success. i am rooting hard for you. good luck. george. today president clinton wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" calling his relationship with the man he succeeded one of the great gifts of his life. here is anderson cooper with more on the two men who went from political adversaries to close friends. in the 1992 presidential election, they were bitter po...

Advice, but dont let chris imcompeten -- critics discourage you or push you off course. you will be the president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wuish your family well, your success now is our countrys success. i am rooting for you. president clinton wrote an op-ed in "the washington post," calling his relationship with george h.w. bush one of the greatest gifts of his life. here is anderson cooper with more on the two men that went from political adversaries to close friends. >> in...

And the midterms? >> to that point, stuart stevens, at what point, what joe just outlined, this person in this op-ed saying we did x, we did y, i was here for that. thats what republican members of congress say. tax reform, tax reform, judges, judges. in your view people that believe the president is damaging the country but are willing to stick around for these other things, are they selling their souls? >> this is sort of a plea bargain with history that the writer is putting out there. that h...

President obama, i am just curious. you personally, have you thought about switching your party allegiance as youve watched all of this unfold? >> well, im glad you played the ben sasse clip because it gives me the convenient way to say ill consider myself a ben sasse republican. >> convenient. >> i think that there really is a battle here for what you have to call the soul of the republican party. a lot of us were drawn to the republican party because it was an optimistic vision. character coun...

Writer is putting out there. that he or she wants to be remembered for these good things that are done. look, i think this is one of these things thats a very individual decision. every person in the administration has to make. do you want to stick around and try to make things better which i admire both sides of this. or do you want to be out there speaking for what the party ought to be which is a different vision of the party. one that where character counts, personal responsibility. i think ...

President obama, i am just curious. you personally, have you thought about switching your party allegiance as youve watched all of this unfold? >> well, im glad you played the ben sasse clip because it gives me the convenient way to say ill consider myself a ben sasse republican. >> convenient. >> i think that there really is a battle here for what you have to call the soul of the republican party. a lot of us were drawn to the republican party because it was an optimistic vision. character coun...

Critical of donald trump? do you realistically think this is cooked right now? >> well, im not particularly optimistic. which is unusual for me, because i normally am, in that i just see the specific issues, the underpinnings of what it was that so many of us were drawn to the republican party for. it was character counts. personal responsibility. strong on russia, having a realistic view of the soviet union and russia, even the national debt. these are all things that have been turned on their ...

And so that tells you everything you need to know about where the republican party is in arizona, and it is, you know, just an anecdote about the shift away from the mccain republican party that weve seen in part really since 2007, like stuart was saying in 2008, when john mccain almost lost the republican nomination because of his very deep differences with that base. >> so, stuart, you have worked in republican politics for your whole life. where is this going? are you optimistic? do you feel ...

From the american intelligence community which i hope survives as well as general petraeus predicts it will, but it was a blow. senator coats didnt know he was going to say that. d.n.i. coats didnt know he was going to say that he since said he didnt think the one on one meeting that went down in helsinki went down -- he wouldnt have recommended it. are you in agreement these constitutions will endure? >> general petraeus is in a good position -- >> its not. >> there is another man right above y...

Post-9/11. within the primaries, within the party, he is as solid as he can be. and they show no signs of peeling off. well see if this has any impact, probably not. nothing else really has. so people are going to stick with him. and he has used his power in the campaigns to take out people that are against him. and so, you know, unfortunately for almost everybody in politics, its all about survival. >> conservative columnist george will, mark, is out with a column today about the president titl...