correspondent for politico. he s busy! mike allen with a look at the playbook. good morning. that strut is on youtube, so check it out. oh, wow. we ll have to look that up. all right, mike. you ve been speaking a lot lately to senator marco rubio, had a sit-down conversation with him. i guess when you talked to him, you took another crack at that science question. clarify an answer he gave to gq when he was asked about the age of the earth. remember, senator rubio took a little grief, saying that he was not qualified to answer the question, calling it, quote, one of life s great mysteries. remember, i m not a scientist, man, the whole thing. yesterday, mike, i guess you spoke to him as part of the playbook breakfast and you gave him a chance to explain that answer. let s listen. how old do you think the earth is? first of all, the answer i gave was trying to make the same point the president made a few years ago, and that is there is no scientific debate on the age
jazz recording to sell over a million copies. it made jazz popular in the united states. dave brubeck dying yesterday. a great musician. little-known fact, the guy that played stand-up bass for him the last ten years, mike allen. is that right? nobody knew that. allen. yes, he plays it and spins that thing around. oh, i love when he does that, slaps the back of it. he also, for a year and a half, when the stray cats went over to london. mike ailen? stand-up bassist for the stray cats. the boy s got range. very flexible. stray cat strut. the playbook, so much else going on. he also has a lot of people made that mistake, that were sort of around that stray cats group okay, getting old. a lot of tattoos. he wishes he could have those years back. brian seltzer. i wish i could have this time back. it was 1981, though. it was the thing do-to-do. he s also the chief white house
pretty definitively. at least 4.5 billion years old. i was referring to a theological debate which is a pretty healthy debate. mike, what did you come away with talking to marco rubio yesterday? people in the room came away thinking that he was really smooth, really on his game. and this is an example of that. he had that very clumsy sort of dismissive answer when he was asked by gq before. this is the first time senator rubio had been asked about it since then. and now he has a very clear and very sensible answer. and that there s two answers. a scientific answer, the one we know, at least 4.5 billion years, but also a theological answer. and he went on to say that we should have the freedom to teach our children both the science and the theology. it s a clear, good answer. i asked him some other tough questions. i asked him when life begins. i asked him in homosexuality is a sin. i asked him about his church. he goes to both the catholic