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Debates, at least one of them needs to be a commanding performance i think. and because youve got a bunch of donors now -- the reason he has to do what he is doing is there are a whole bunch of establishment-type donors, big romney donor set, some of even his brother donor set waiting on the sidelines and may go and if they decide bush isnt going to be able to work they may go to rubio. i think he has about three weeks to prevent some sort of mass exodus of some sort of sideline mayor do nors an...

Doing well in the polls right now. hes a washington guy who spent his entire life working in government as well. >> marco rubio got a big bounce out of the debate. >> hes a lifelong politico. so this idea that scott walker, they cant win because hes been elected. these other guys are doing okay with it and he tried as hard as possible to run as an outsider. >> at the same time hes been an elected official all his life. maybe not in washington but hes been on the public till shortly easter got ou...

Possible to run as an outsider. >> at the same time hes been an elected official all his life. maybe not in washington but hes been on the public till shortly easter got out of college. thats all he knows is the world of politics. i agree with you. were certainly seeing the case that the outside candidates are very hot right now. but you need an establishment aufrkt. and he could have been that establishment alternative. he has a great track record for republicans. a republican whos governed a b...

>> one group im matching on that stage, ben carson, mike huckabee, ted cruz. all those on the hard right of the gop. ted cruz has even gone up to trump tower to sit with trump to kiss the ring. theyre all waiting to see, maybe trump is a summer fling for the gop, but they want his bloc, if he gets out of the race. whether theyre combative or not, thats going to be something im watching, because those conservatives are really, they know they cant be the bush alternative for the establishment alte...

He will still have problems with some of the base. the question is ultimately if he is the establishment alternative, whether theres enough establishment republicans to overcome the conservative alternative which will likely be governor walker. >> some of those establishment folks are willing to get behind scott walker. its not like jeb bush is going to have -- >> thats what i mean. when they looked at santorum in 2012, this guy lost in pennsylvania by 20 points. look at scott walker, he survive...

Got to ask you this. just saw this this morning. former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty, said he might have stayed in the republican presidential race longer had he known it would be this volatile. pawlenty says he would have persisted in the race if he would have known then what he knows now. >> hindsight is 2020. i would have loved for him to stay in the race. he made his decision. he has endorsed governor romney and is working hard for him now. >> you hear lee merrioff say less than 30% of r...

Pawlenty at 3%. why is it still so unclear what the republicans are doing? >> because the republican party in several decades have not had no clear front runner. today i think there are three slots. well see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a got, mitt romney has a slot and theres an establishment alternative to romneys slot. i dont think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from m...

No clear front runner. today i think there are three slots. well see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a got, mitt romney has a slot and theres an establishment alternative to romneys slot. i dont think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from mitt romney and those three slots will be joined by a lot of other people trying to claw their way into the possibility of nomination. >> de...

Not had a clear front-runner. today i think there are three slots. well see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a slot, mitt romney has a slot, and theres an establishment alternative to romneys slot. i dont think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from mitt romney and those three slots will be joined by a lot of other people trying to claw their way into the possibility of nominati...

People have the pride, if you will, of discovering the undiscovered candidate, you know this, ari. >> i will. i will. >> ive covered a million of these campaigns. people in iowa and new hampshire like to think they discovered the answer. they havent been told it by ari melber or me or whomever. thats the strength of ben carson as a word of mouth build. >> yeah. i think thats fair and clear that through as you mentioned the book circuit, the conservative events, word of mouth and then talk radio ...