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>> not at all. nationwide im beating ben with the evangelicals but no, not at all. i just dont know about that particular religion. >> ben carson asked for an apology. will you goive to had im? >> i didnt say anything bad about it. i just dont know about it. i would certainly give an apology if i said something bad about it but i didnt. all i said was i dont know about it. >> and for his part, carson chose not to respond to trump in kind while defending his low key demeanor. >> you know, everybo...

Second place behind ben carson. we informed ben, but he was sleeping. [ laughter ] how do you respond to mr. trump? >> everybody has their own personality and if hed like to do that, thats fine. thats not who i am. and i dont get into the mud pit and im not going to be talking about people. i will tell you in terms of energy, im not sure that theres anybody else running whos spend 18 or 20 hours intently operating on somebody. >> do you think that people mistake your soft-spokenness with lack of...

To be i think most troublesome to clinton going forward. its the question of whether she somehow set the system up whatever the details of it because she thought she could -- she knew better and she thought she could do it her way, whatever the rules were at the time. and that is the perception problem that shes going to have to get over and didnt get over before the campaign started. and the other thing it tells us is this is going to be messy. this is going to be muddy and ugly. and there is g...

>> ronald reagan recognize this party today? >> i dont think he could -- he would recognize the party but wouldnt be in lock step with what is being advocated here, and that is if youre not with me 100% of the time youre against me: he said if someone is with me 80% of the time, im with him. >> sure. >> well to the guy who plays third in the cpac poll, dr. ben carson, the guy who was speaking about health care, big excess government, with the president of the united states looking at him, as he ...

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Joe biden and paul ryan. it will take place in kentucky. democrats counting on a strong performance from the vice president who has been hold up for days studying in his hometown of wilmington, delaware. the vice president is receiving counsel from obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod and has done two mock debates. vice president biden also reportedly been reading "young guns," remember that? a book co-written by paul ryan. congressman ryan is in florida this morning where hes lined up fo...

Parse-proof. you have campaigns looking at everything someone says, where inflection can become a campaign ad. obama i suppose in a sense should have known better. you dont put the subject anywhere apart from a predicate. youve got to say it better and this is an example of where hes paying the price. the corporations are people, too. this is a case study of how you dont say it. >> keep the predicate near the subject. >> i want to talk, hugo, were back in we said politics was back in the mud pit...

Cain at 32% and romney at 31%. while perry is once again far behind in third place at 8%. joining me now, national affairs editor for "new york" mack gazine, john heilman who was at the debate, msnbc contributor alex wagner, former adviser to the george w. bush and mccain campaigns, mark mckinnon also joins us. and former chief of staff to congresswoman michele bachmann ron kerry returns to the show. thank you all for joining me tonight. alex, could president obama have had a better debate night...

Wagner, former adviser to the george w. bush and mccain campaigns, mark mckinnon also joins us. and former chief of staff to congresswoman michele bachmann ron kerry returns to the show. thank you all for joining me tonight. alex, could president obama have had a better debate night? >> you have to think that president obama was sitting just rubbing his hands together saying, keep it going. i mean, it devolved, literally was there a mud pit stage left where they could take out the tax disputes h...

Quick-thinking driver who saved them, as you can imagine, from very serious injury. >> good to see one with a happy ending. >> unbelievable. also this close call for some kids in washington state. they were playing in the mud in the town of medical lake when that -- when the lake started acting like quicksand. two of them, a boy and girl, became stuck. more now from colleen obrien from abc affiliate kxny. >> reporter: brothers caleb and andrew were out for an afternoon of adventuring with frie...