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Tweet me @howardkurtz. when we come back, mainstream media love paul ryan and his are reluctant bid for speaker. but some commentators, not so much. and later, the pundits finally figure it out. donald trump could win the republican primaries. we ship everything you atcan imagine.n, and everything we ship has something in common. whether its expedited overnight...

Commentators to talk about it. and van, let me begin with you, we havent seen much of bill clinton on the trail. not nearly what we saw at this time in 2008. what do you think were going to see from him going forward and the impact he can have on this campaign. >> hes the super weapon for all democrats. its not just hillary clinton. even for president obama was considered the mvp of the campaign in 2012. it is a downside, he can make mistakes. hes human. for every dumb thing he says, hes going t...

And joining us, eugene robinson, opinion writer for "the washington post" and msnbc analyst and luke russert whos been on capitol hill, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. first of all, eugene, i want to offer you one of these losanges that hillary clinton needed to get through the day. >> would you have a shot of bourbon with me? >> i want to go to richard first. you have the experience that i find so relevant to what we were watching today. i said last night one of the reasons the watergate c...

Redistributing the resources. the moves come as bush struggles to break out of the pack in the republican race for president. according to the internal talking points, they are reducing cost by 40% this week, and gutting the salaries across the board and downsizing the head quarter staff and cutting the the travel cost and eliminating other overhead expenses. now, back to the commentators donna brazile and tara setmeyer, and what about signs that he is cutting back? >> well, donna and i were tal...

Hillary clinton provided to members of the select committee, seven republicans, five democrats, republican chairman gowdy. two of our cnn political commentators are with us. amanda carpenter, former communications director for ted cruz. paul begala, democratic strategist, very actively involved in a pro-hillary clinton super pac right now. amanda, anxious to get your reaction to what we heard during these first 3 1/2 hours. >> i think the hearing started off much stronger than it ended. you saw ...

Experts. i am beginning to believe he could be elect president of the united states. >> the upbeat assessments fuelled by trump expanding his lead as we heard in a spate of recent polls from cnn, nbc, "wall street journal," abc, "washington post" and in early states as iowa and new hampshire. many journalists had mocked trump as a nativist clown, such as one who said he was way too incredibly serious high-minded to showing himself before writing about trump before profiling him for "the new york...

Is going to portray himself as this truth teller, shouldnt he speak speaking the truth or at least admit when hes been caught saying things think didnt -- or reversing himself based on something he said two weeks before? >> i thought we were going to have a discussion on policy tonight. im sorry where this is heading. >> this is policy. >> well -- >> he said he was against going to afghanistan and now is -- >> i dont appreciate this at all. i didnt have any indication this is where we were going...

My thought though is that there was a moment in the campaign in the summer when hillary clinton seemed to be reeling, and there was a lot of discontent among the democrats when there was a market for the potential alternative and there was something within the vice president that kept him from leaping in, and at that point, and my judgment was that ultimately he never was going to run, and that he was going to play out the string, and it is very hard for the guy who has aspired for the presidenc...

Ryan, if they remain in disarray, doesnt that raise questions about whether you want to turn the keys over to this party? >> i think it does. i think it could have that kind of a long-term effect. people who disagree would say well, look, there was a shutdown and they recovered from the shutdown it could have that kind of an effect in particular because you are seeing sort of a nasty campaign being waged against paul ryan. not necessarily by members of the house freedom caucus who seem to be mos...

And i thank the vice president for his life of public nation, and for all he has done for our nation. that is are from bernie sanders. the fallout from the vice presidents decision, and our cnn political commentators donna brazile and s.e. cup. donna, you been watching like the rest of us, and i was convinced that he was going to run, but you were wondering would he or wouldnt he, and were you surprise ed d by the t decision today? >> no, i was not surprised. look, this is a great american, and ...