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Of various qualifications that voters look for in future presidents. we asked a number of them in our nbc/"wall street journal" poll. the idea of somebody without any political experience at all, any elective office experience actually made nearly 70% of those we surveyed uncomfortable or have significant reservations about. you obviously do not have a background in elective office. you believe that is something of an asset. voters dont see it that way. what do you say to them? >> well, i spent ...

Land. >> i think im certainly not a political neofight. ive helped lots of others win, in addition i have done a lot of policy work advised secretaries of defense, heads of cia, and nsa, sec states of state and the homeland security. >> theres real life experience and theres politics. politics you know there are some good people in the political arena, but im not sure that they actually in many cases understand real life. >> the third gop candidate to announce this week is former arkansas govern...

>> let me start with the issue of various qualifications that voters look for in future presidents. we asked a number of them in our nbc/"wall street journal" poll. the idea of somebody without any political experience at all, any elective office experience actually made nearly 70% of those we surveyed uncomfortable or have significant reservations about. you obviously do not have a background in elective office. you believe that is something of an asset. voters dont see it that way. what do you...

Someone outside the political class. they believe we need to challenge the status quo of washington. im certainly not a political neophyte. ive run my own campaign and advised others. i helped lots of others win. in addition, i have done a lot of policy work, advised secretary of defense, heads of cia, nsa, homeland security. im not a neophyte, but i come with qualifications others dont have. i understand how the economy works. i understand how the world works. i know more world leaders on the s...

Other areas, how do you call them into service with the idea being, you dont have to do this for the rest of your life. thats what schock shows. not anything about millennials but about the unique ability to get really famous as a politician doing nothing. >> so its about the kind of people who are currently attracted to politics. >> good abs are in the going to cut it. >> you find awesome people but getting them into aweoffice is tricky. lets say abby wanted to run for congress. what would you ...

If youre a republican governor and you have a republican majority in the congress? you can do a lot of good policy work. >> that was a big surprise. there were two or three went -- >> republican governors winning in blue states. >> illinois and connecticut. >> so there were a lot of stories to choose from. we had the eric garner, we had ferguson, the whole deal. but the biggest story for me from a national security and foreign policy standpoint was definitely isis. and the tremendous amount of c...

Have a republican majority. >> blue state. >> then you can do a lot of good policy work. >> that was a big surprise. there were two or three. >> governing wins in blue states. >> maryland. >> illinois. >> illinois. >> connecticut. >> so there were a lot of stories to choose from, right? we had eric garner, we had ferguson, the whole deal. but the biggest story from me from a national security and foreign policy standpoint was definitely isis. and the tremendous amount of coverage that we gave th...

And you have a republican majority in the congress? you can do a lot of good policy work. >> that was a big surprise. there were two or three went -- >> republican governors winning in blue states. >> illinois and connecticut. >> so there were a lot of stories to choose from. we had the eric garner, we had ferguson, the whole deal. but the biggest story for me from a national security and foreign policy standpoint was definitely isis. and the tremendous amount of coverage that we gave that. and ...

And making that into a policy question. >> i agree that it is racism, theres no question about it. we had sophisticated testing capability at hud where we would send an african-american person to go rent an apartment that had been advertised and over the phone had been told be here at 2:00. when they arrived, the landlord said, oh, im sorry, we rented that apartment. im terribly sorry you had to make the trip, but its not available. an hour later wed send a white tester with the same demographic...

Her? >> and marjorie cliffton. thank you for joining us today. >> and toyler i want to start with you. if the election were held today it a pores to be evenly devoided. and ran paul and chris christy 42 percent. and i want to gauge do you think that governor jeb bush would be embra embraced bite establishment? >> sure. they are popular. jeb bush is a qualified cappedidate. he was a popular governor of florida, and he went on to do policy work. and he has a capacity to pull together a strongly or...