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In both iowa and new hampshire and its hard to see, even with the surging -- supposedly surging crews and supposedly surging rubio. >> they are surging. theyve gone up a lot. they now have moved in -- theres a first tier and second tier. theres a solid second tier now and its moving up. >> absolutely. we forget how many of those other people -- there are 12 other people or whatever it is. we talk about jeb bush as if hes an important figure but just on the numbers and hes important in all of the...

Trump has been putting forth about jeb bush. he looks weak, he looks whiney. he looks wary, tired, doesnt have that fire in the belly. he always talked about being the candidate that will run a campaign in a joyful manner. >> the joyful tortoise, he said. >> exactly. it seems everything except that and so i think this is a time he has to reevaluate and, yes, hes saying that hes going to stay in this for the long run because he has a lot of money in his super pac. when you have a campaign that is...

And while george w. bush today insisted today that his brother is "going to win because hes a fierce competitor," their father, george h.w. bush, is reportedly so exasperated at a gop electorate currently rejecting his son and embracing donald trump hes telling friends, "im getting old at just the right time." on friday jeb bush ordered major cutbacks to save campaign cash including cutting his campaign payroll by 40%. and over the weekend a candidate who once described himself as "a joyful tort...

>> david, another candidate we heard from, calling himself the joyful tortoise, he seems frustrated, i dont know what frustrated animal you want to put with it, but he was speaking out over the weekend and heres what he said thats getting a lot of attention. >> if this election is about how were going to fight to get nothing done, then i dont want any part of it. i have a lot of cool things i could do than sit around, being miserable, listen to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demo...

Getting attentionti, and passio. jeb has a lot of time and money to make up the ground. for the moment not showing the spark, fire, sense of urgency that would make voters turn his way and make voters turn his way with confidence about him in the white house. >> despite the exclamation point on his poster? >> the exclamation point seems like a wish more than a reality. i have to say, last 36 hours a number of instances jeb has shown a new fire. your own john buerman said the tortoise is becoming...

Himself the joyful tortoise, it seemed wednesday was the night bush came out of his shell throwing this punch at trumps immigration policy. >> hundreds of billions of dollars of costs to implement his plans is not a conservative plan. >> reporter: a blow that the gop frontrunner blocked telling reporters -- >> the only thing con stant is trump. they are going up and down at the bottom like yo-yos. im doing this to make america great again. >> reporter: former florida governor jeb bush doesnt thi...

Other, both republican presidential candidates threw jabs. >> i dont see how hes electable. jeb bush is a low energy person. for him to get things done is hard. hes very low energy. >> mr. trump doesnt have a proven conservative record. he was a democrat longer in the last decade than he was a republican. >> reporter: though bush set the date for his town hall first, his crowd of about 200 got walloped by trumps 1200. >> we have a lot of people outside, hundreds and hundreds of people standing o...

See what happened inside and the prosecutor there getting ready to make a big announcement. plus, a city on edge. bottles, brick, tear gas as police and protesters clash in st. louis. is there more violence now in store? and then the joyful tortoise becomes the slightly aggressive turtle. jeb bush with a new strategy against donald trump. will the now eagle taming billionaire unleash his talents or some equally threatening animal metaphor? (vo) after 50 years of designing cars for crash surv...

Jeb bush appears to be having a hard time breaking through the phenomenon of donald trump. bushs strategy seems to be slow and steady. hes referred to himself as the joyful tortoise. we have the former executive editor for the miami herald. tom, great to see you. >> likewise. >> thanks for being here on "new day." you have covering every presidential campaign from 1972 to 1996 and covered jeb when he was governor of florida. are you surprises, tom, that he seems to be slow in gathering steam? >>...

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