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Acts if we go through a couple of polls show his lead ebbing. how is he going to react to this. the big question all along has been can donald trump turn a campaign thats basically a creation of his media profile into a real campaign. with four or five months now before people start to vote, its getting much more serious. this is the moment its going to tell. and it will be really interesting to see how he react to the ups and downs of the speech. hes leading every poll and he tells everyone abo...

Union". >> im a little surprised where other polls actually picked up after the debate. im in first place ever poll but gained substantially in a couple of them. but im a little surprise. its the poll. the only poll that matters is the big one. you know that one. its going to be the election. >> meantime scott walker, wisconsin governor scott walker one-time leader in iowa barely register in this new poll, getting less than one half of one percent. lets break down the numbers. what you make of t...

>> its incredible really. i saw him early on in this race and i thought he was a very impressive retail candidate. the question with scott walker was always would he be able to adapt to the bigger stage, the greater scrutiny of the presidential campaign, the higher stakes and the pressure. hes had a few, what you could call unforced errors under the scrutiny of the media. and the conservatives are quite disappointed. they thought this guy scott walker was someone who had done very well in wiscon...

Lets talk more about the republican race for the white house with our political comentators, ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson show and a p prof profess professor. mark, this is if first time weve seen donald trump lose points. did this debate reveal any trump weaknesses? is that whats going on? >> absolutely. and this is what i predicted back in the summertime. i said it was going to happen around this -- >> you predicted by october 24th, my friend, we wouldnt be talking about him. >> well...

Cnbcs rick santelli. former congressman democrat from tennessee, harold ford and jennifer granholm who left the state house last month and will be joining us on a regular basis as a contributor to our roundtable. governor, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice have you here. theres so much to talk about and as i said at the top of the program from wisconsin to washington it is this fight about reining in government spending. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madis...

Base for next years election. its important to understand that you cant look at all these states as one. the governor touched on it very well. this issue in wisconsin deals with whether or not public employees ought to pay in their health insurance program which they dont now and their pension prom which they dont. the unions agreed to do this. this has now become and president obama was right in his description of it, questionable whether he should have gotten init, but this has become an assau...

That the members of unions and public employees in wisconsin vote every year to validate their union participation. that is democracy. empowering the worker to make a determination as to whether or not they want to contribute these compulsory dues or not. this is what its about. the labor unions want to lock people in as soon as they get a job where they dont have a choice. democracy is a good thing. >> harold ford look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a ...

Public employees in wisconsin vote every year to validate their union participation. that is democracy. empowering the worker to make a determination as to whether or not they want to contribute these compulsory dues or not. this is what its about. the labor unions want to lock people in as soon as they get a job where they dont have a choice. democracy is a good thing. >> harold ford look at the numbers from 2008 in wisconsin and the presidential race. this was a state that the president carrie...

They can have fairness in the workplace and fairness in compensation. that is whats at stake here. it goes way beyond this budget issue. this governor of wisconsin is not setting out just to fix a budget hes setting out to break a union. thats a major move in terms of american history. i believe the president should have weighed in. i think we should all weigh in and say do the right thing for wisconsins budget but do not destroy decades of work to establish the rights ever workers to speak for ...

Former congressman democrat from tennessee, harold ford and jennifer granholm who left the state house last month and will be joining us on a regular basis as a contributor to our roundtable. governor, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice have you here. theres so much to talk about and as i said at the top of the program from wisconsin to washington it is this fight about reining in government spending. look at this picture. the sea of red. union protesters in the rotunda in madison, wisconsin, over t...