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beautiful pink that goes with yesterday. >> dana: desantis making it official after months of speculation. the announcement coming in the form of a twitter livestream with elon musk. >> bill: many see him as possibly the biggest threat to the frontrunner former president donald trump. >> dana: the two have gone to friends to competitors. the former president is slamming desantis for months. you can expect a lot more of that moving forward. >> bill: desantis hoping his resume will cut t...

That will benefit those who do the retail politics in iowa and new hampshire, and south carolina and nevada and then you get to march 3rd and you have nine states going and four of the states are expensive. california, tks teex as, massachusetts and, and beto orourke if he can get into the race was also a good retail politician and kamala harris who california is also on that day and elizabeth warren who can raise a lot of money and she has the benefit of massachusetts and oklahoma both going th...

It wasnt so long ago when republicans were talking about, you know, comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship. of course, thats not their way mao. but texans understand that some of those hard line policies on immigration, even some republicans here, wouldnt work and they want a better solution. >> you look at beto orourke, phenomenon, the person attracting attention outside of tex hes borders. if youre talking to your democratic colleagues looking at this race and wondering ho...

Empathetic and low key the way bill clinton was in that 1992 town hall format, the first time you saw that format used in a presidential dete. can donald trump do that? >> dan, just one final note. you mentioned that donald trumps face is a road map and not always the road he wants to communicate or his advisors want. hillary clinton at times has seemed so defensive any time shes asked about e-mails but she was so carefully modulated, i think, in that first debate against trump that practice has...

>> its incredible really. i saw him early on in this race and i thought he was a very impressive retail candidate. the question with scott walker was always would he be able to adapt to the bigger stage, the greater scrutiny of the presidential campaign, the higher stakes and the pressure. hes had a few, what you could call unforced errors under the scrutiny of the media. and the conservatives are quite disappointed. they thought this guy scott walker was someone who had done very well in wiscon...

Romney basically still has not made indicates he can expand beyond that 25-30% vote for four years at least. >> brett: for a good while you were with the michelle bachmann campaign. she has suggested she is in this notwithstanding what may happen in iowa. do you believe that is true. what do you think this could mean for her? >> i feel badly for michelle and her team. he is a great retail candidate. she may have peaked too soon and at the end of the day she didnt pass the muster that you need to...

That he wants to keep down expectations, you know. well, his expectations may get really bad if he doesnt get a little more serious about it. i know romney is putting his focus in in new hampshire. if he gets clobbered here and comes in not in the top three, but say fourth or fifth, i think that really damages his campaign on the national basis. >> you know what, david, youve been in this business a long time. it seems to me romney only looks good on a wide field, on a platform. he seems to come...

The polls and i think he thinks that he wants to keep down expectations, you know. well, his expectations may get really bad if he doesnt get a little more serious about it. i know romney is putting his focus in in new hampshire. if he gets clobbered here and comes in not in the top three, but say fourth or fifth, i think that really damages his campaign on the national basis. >> you know what, david, youve been in this business a long time. it seems to me romney only looks good on a wide field,...

Clinton, theyre great political athletes. there arent great political athletes out there. looking at this guy in pictures, he doesnt look like hed be one. >> romney is an improved candidate from last time. pawlenty is a stronger retail candidate and political athlete than people give him credit for. huntsman based on what i saw this weekend has the potential if he keeps this up and grows toen a much better political athlete. >> you said naturally, he and his wife were better than youve ever seen...

>> his lack of understanding how business works is the key to his defeat. the fact that he does not simply understand that you cannot tax businesses and regulate them and then create jobs. the most, i think, telling piece of information that came out this week was that in this environment, 8 a% of the kids graduating from college this year are thinking that they may end up living with their moms and dads. because they dont have jobs coming out of college. >> you know, many pundits have said, gov...