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Advisors and staffers in iowa and new hampshire. the money wasnt there. donors werent ready to pony up. voters werent taking the bait on this idea of a persona, a profile the governor with results, a conservative governor. it showed with perry, now with walker. i talked with trump himself. did he a 30-minute call with the "the washington post" this evening. he said hes changed the race, people havent adjusted. he offered encouragement to walker. this is a different race and some people cant hand...

But this year as candidates jockey to replace him, other prominent democrats in the crowd, hillary clinton mingled at last nights dinner and held a private afternoon reception but she adid not give a people s and vice president joe biden stopped by the prayer breakfast as he still considers whether to launch a run himself. joining me now nbc senior political reporter perry bacon jr., who was at the cbc gathering yesterday. good morning. >> good morning, richard. good to see you. >> perry, joe bi...

After trump but the candidates, jeb bush, rand paul, chris christie, most notably fiorina going after trump really hard and this last day or so what i think you have seen now is people have forgotten that trump wasnt just involved with birtherism but the leading birther. this question isnt coming out of nowhere. thats something he initiated being -- saying the president wasnt born here a few years ago and brought this controversy on to himself. we dont know yet if the tide is turned, though, bec...

Most of the other candidates come from that political establishment so his reason for being will remain. i think the other factor is how much of his own money hes really willing to spend to stick in the race and costing a lot of money as it goes on. is he willing to put it snup. >> you saw that and something people forget. difference of trump and perry is not only popularity. funding. >> money. >> perry had to go. like a trump subsidiary, trump dipping in the polls can keep spending the way into...

Glared at trump over and over. im not sure mixing it up with trump the way he does does him a lot of good. thirdly, ann colter, the conservative commentate who are used a tirade of anti-semitic tweets which have drawn huge attention on social media. >> perry, what do you think about how donald trump did in the debate? as bob was saying, a lot of people not among member of the elite or washington bubble who say he won? >> i think bob is right in the sense that i read a lot of pieces saying marco ...

Didnt see a lot of the sunny optimism that was typical of the president whose library they stood in. >> for more, let me bring in perry bacon, nbc news political reporter and a democratic strategist and warshaw professor of politics at usc. >> glad to be here. >> perry, do you think josh earnests assessment is accurate of the people at the debate last night? pretty good. >> it was. they were not sunny, this was definitely like not morning in america, it was definitely even and definitely dark. t...

Perry, is carson the anti-trump specifically in terms of tone and style for republicans? >> he is. i mean, the terms of carson does very little attacking the other candidates. you watch the process, hes almost never made fun of or picked on or even taken a policy attack on the other candidates and i think you saw interesting that trump is a little bit adapting to carsons behavior and known throughout the campaign for like really the sharpest attacks and said jeb bush shouldnt speak spanish in pu...

Kept a straight face and said i want an attorney. >> that same afternoon in harrington, kansas after learning that he had become a person of interest, terry nickels turns himself in. unlike mcveigh, nickels cooperates with authorities. hes not the john doe number two they are looking for but he provides enough information to implicate mcveigh as the architect of the bombing plot. later in the day back in perry, fbi agents prepare to take mcveigh out of the noble county courthouse. it will be the...

Jefferson that the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots. >> i left a trail on purpose, a few pieces in my car, i had a piece i was wearing on my back so even if i wouldnt have been apprehended and had a trial i would have still gained the benefit automatically of being identified. i had already made sure that was in place. >> mcveigh had this all very carefully choreographed and he decides to go this way. and let the federal agents connect the ...

To simply be arrested. >> charlie disarms him and arrests him, you know, on some minor traffic counts. >> mcveigh is handcuffed and taken to the nearest local lockup in the small town of perry, oklahoma. hes charged with misdemeanors of driving a vehicle without plates and carrying a weapon without a permit. at booking, mcveigh is calm and unassuming. >> i talked to the people who booked him in. nice boy, not nervous, didnt show any inkling. this kid can mask whats going on inside of him very we...