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With people and hes not nice to people in the senate. >> look. the thing with trump is it doesnt matter what he says. his people are going to love him for it anyway. so the more outrageous the better. they like the political incorrectness, as he calls it. his problem is hes in an arms race with himself. he has to keep ratcheting it up otherwise people think hes low energy like he called bush. so i think this muslim thing, no muslim immigrants, was partly he had to do something for his own audien...

Jonathan altar and jane tillman. im sorry, jane. thank you all for being here. jonathan, hes not saying much. i mean, what are republicans going to do when he finally does start talking policy? >> i dont think its going to be that big o a problem for him. its just a question of where his ceiling and his floor is. it might be the same place, i dont know if its 10% or 15%. theres a certain percentage of primary republican voters who wants the strongest, toughest guy who is not taking any money fro...

Guy in the polls to get into this debate. and he may not have helped himself in that little sniping, but thats the danger of these debates with this many people in it. someone down there a at 4.8% can take a whack at trump that doesnt help him, but might end up helping people slip from trump over to the other front runners. >> possibly, but you have to remember republicans cant stand obama. they cant stand clinton and they also cant stand political correctness. so when he brought that up, he bas...

The past. i think in some ways hes gaffe proof. >> well, in this case of course he is taking on fox news biggest star and hes also arguably offending women voter, the largest single voting bloc. lets play megyn kellys opening question to donald trump. >> youve called women you dont like fat pigs dogs slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie odonnell. >> no it wasnt. your twitter account has several disparaging comments about womens looks. you once told a contestant on...

Remember republicans cant stand obama. they cant stand clinton and they also cant stand political correctness. so when he brought that up he basically helped to continue to make himself gaffe proof. he was say figure you think that what i u said is a gaffe or what i said was wrong or im not entitled to change my mind thats a form of political correctness that youre supposed to be against as a conservative. so i dont see trump suffering in this debate o or getting chipped away at. rand paul is in...

Anymore. he is gaffe proof. they like the fact hell say anything. they like the fact hell turn to these guys who are kritd sizing him and deck them. that is going help him. im not saying hes going to necessarily go up in the polls. he may because hes taking it so lightly go down. but the idea that hes not going to be in this race at least to the republican convention a year from now i think is wrong. i dont see any reason for him to drop out. he obviously has plenty of money and this is a transf...

They cant figure what wine to watch or bark at the moon. >> the ross perot thing i think is fascinating. because when you look at the numbers, he drew evenly from the democratic side and the republican side. there is a lot of interesting data in terms of exit polls, republicans, you are absolutely right, believed that poppy bush would have been reelected if it werent for him. he was convinced hed never make it on his own. there is all this fear around the donald trump presidency. heres the quest...

With the liberals. and heres peggy writing the wall street journal about this. she said democrats, according to new research, dont like him, as they didnt like jimmy carter. this is one of the most underappreciated facts of 2012. the sitting presidents own party doesnt like him. >> thats why he will have to make changes in the next election. theres talk it will be an obama-hillary clinton ticket. shes very well liked. and we will talk about what people think about that ticket. >> and mr. wright,...

For a while i thought that trump was just gaffe proof. now i realize that gaffes are the fuel of his campaign. this is how hes built this lead is by saying things that are just, you know, completely unacceptable in standard american politics. >> its possible that hes seen "flash dance" that afternoon and heard the song "youre a maniac" and then ted was on the news and he just got -- >> thats what cruz used. >> exactly. thanks for playing along. >> hallie, by the way, you can completely ignore bo...