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What did you make of that? >> its a big theme. i was thinking as i was listening too, because i was in the room last night, you remember when ronald reagan tried to take his own age off the table by saying im not going to make my opponents youth and inexperience an issue, he took that and did the reverse. tried to make his youth a plus a positive at a time when you know i know weve been talking about it but at a time when barack obamas youth and his inexperience have become an issue for republic...

Executive experience obviously is a liability after president obama. we knew he would have the tear jerker story we have heard it before. americans listening to it for the first time. its very compelling. what i thought was really gutsy is he went straight for hillary and jeb. they are rich. they are old, and they are boring. i am a different generation. i have a different set of solutions to our problems. these people are blinded by their age their power. and. >> he said that to all -- totaled ...

Rick perry or rick santorum some of the other folks in the field, might make that argument do we really want to go down this route again of a first term senator as our sort of path to taking back the oval office. i dont think thats just going to be a critique elsewhere. you will hear it on the debate stage as divides exist. >> scott walker the wisconsin governor might say that as well. >> divides on the experience front between those who have been executives and those who have been legislatures ...

Concerns. i think its going to work very well for her. >> and steve schmidt what about marco rubio and the way he launched himself as the next generation taking a shot at hillary clinton and jeb bush saying that yesterday is over? is that a good strategy? >> marco rubio is a first term united states senator with no executive experience in his early 40s. what hes trying to do is take his chief liabilities to make them assets. theres two types of elections, change elections, more of the same elect...

Executive experience obviously is a liability after president obama. we knew he would have the tear jerker story we have heard it before. americans listening to it for the first time. its very compelling. what i thought was really gutsy is he went straight for hillary and jeb. they are rich. they are old, and they are boring. i am a different generation. i have a different set of solutions to our problems. these people are blinded by their age their power. and. >> he said that to all -- totaled ...

Wall. and so at this point, shes essentially the inevitable nominee. its not as though her staff can put her, you know put her back up against the wall and make it difficult for her so they have to do everything they can to show that this time she doesnt believe that this is something that she deserves that shes just waltzing into but something that she has to prove in situations ideally they believe will highlight her personable strengths and give her the ability to connect with voters one on o...

In 2008, her line is, i am the candidate that has the executive experience to get into the job, do the job on day one, and she wound up not being able to win the democratic nomination. so i think that that ought to be a concern. but more in the general election than in the democratic primary, because it doesnt look like shes going to have any real competition in the democratic primary. and in its own perverse way, i think that hurts her too, because it robs her of the chance to sort of sharpen h...

More of an executive experience. were seeing that in polls. voters are saying they would rather see a governor, they want somebody with executive experience. i think the way obama answered that in 2008 is the same way ted cruz has to answer it in 2016, which is when people begin to meet him, they begin to see him test his ideas, does he look and sound like a future president? and that begins to answer the question of doubt in many voters minds. >> i want to go out to the state of indiana because...

Tactics. they worked with nancy pelosi for the medicare reform. it will be interesting to see if he can hold on to that. congress has a big debt lines when they return. if he can hold on to that will be fascinating. >> well watch that. ed? >> john, these days my job is to spend jeb bush and marco rubio. i have to spend time in miami. >> tough. >> in talking to florida republicans about the emerging race, obviously theres concerns about how will the race go to replace rubio? theres talk wishing t...

Somebody with executive experience. i think the way obama answered that in 2008 is the same way ted cruz has to answer it in 2016 which is when people begin to meet him, they begin to see him test his ideas, does he look and sound like a future president? and that begins to answer the question of doubt in many voters minds. >> i want to go out to the state of indiana because there was a big controversy brewing there this week when the governor mike pence who you know used to be in the house, sig...