Romney Has News Today

>> every candidate has their weaknesses, and jeb bush looking back at romney has said he didnt deal with his weaknesses very well, so jeb bush is going to be very aggressive, and theres going to be no shortage of candidates who come after him because jeb bush is a top tier candidate. heather: jeb bush has already said he makes no apologies when it comes to his business interests and that he, in fact, creates jobs and he shouldnt apologize for that. >> yeah. and the republican candidates -- and t...

Host at a utah mountain resort. i think its park city. hes considering writing a book and a series of opinion pieces. and he has plans to campaign for republican candidates in 2014. what sounds as if romney wants back into politics in some way, but does the party and its future candidates want romney as part of their path to victory? john braybender is a republican skutant who ran rick santorums presidential campaign last year and david corn is a washington bureau chief for "mother jones." we ha...

Ceiling. and id say 48.5% is the floor. and i think romney has, id say, the floor is about the same. 48.5% to 49, but id say his ceiling is a little bit higher. >> mark, i know youre hearing the same thing. one of the things the romney people feel about the point about turnout, they have been able to grow since this debate, the pro-romney sentiment as opposed to just an anti-president obama sentiment and that thats going to propel them. i talked to other republicans who are more familiar with th...

Campaign? >> well, i think that the -- whatever momentum romney had from the first debate stopped. and my reading of the polls is the last week had already been going at least slightly in obamas direction. and at least on the first couple of days, from the reaction to what the president did, from the difficulties romney has, this appears to be helping obama some more. and as long as polling stations can open up in places like philadelphia and in northern virginia, then the storm, i think, becaus...

A positive role in our lives. one of the reasons katrina was such a big scandal is for years, particularly under clinton, who really did a good job of reforming fema. we said, yeah, this is one of the things the federal government does well. and when states get into trouble like this, yes, they can do things for themselves and they do a lot of stuff for themselves. but theyve got to have the fed. i think right now, he has no choice but to say, well, whatever i said before, im going to keep fema....

That it really was that that set the table for a lot of other problems that he just couldnt overcome throughout this campaign? >> well, i think that the -- whatever momentum romney had from the first debate stopped. and my reading of the polls is the last week had already been going at least slightly in obamas direction. and at least on the first couple of days, from the reaction to what the president did, from the difficulties romney has, this appears to be helping obama some more. and as long ...

And along the jersey shore telling what they were doing, what they were coming back from and what you realized is that weve got union members, firefighters, cops, nurses and others who, you know, are passionate about doing their job and its amazing to me, startling to me that we have public officials who would attack them. >> well, romney has -- im going to pull it aside tonight and im not going to make any bones about it because the conversation in this country s hases to dismantle unions. wher...

Necessarily win the election -- >> nobody is suggesting that. >> theres an important point people need to focus on. when obama lost the first debate, all of us on the left conceded he lost. then when obama won the debate clearly last night, the game that the republicans are playing is to pretend that romney did well, pass the bar, had a good night so they prevent that narrative from being written. and this is a game that republicans played in 2000 when karl rove suggested that george bush would ...

Officials. no one from the government, no one from the intel community. >> andrea: at the last debate. the libya question came up and he looks at romney for disdain for bringing it up. he said ill bring him to justice now! >> kimberly: that is the problem with his foreign policy. reck lest. >> bob: height of juvenile foreign policy to open your mouth before a foreign policy crisis is over. and people are still alive. you say 90 minutes. that is the mindset of the republicans. libya. the world is...

If the president says something that opens up -- taps into that feeling governor romney has, he took may be more aggressive and hotter than his advisers have planned for. >> its true they dont like each other, and mitt romney knows how to get under barack obamas skin. >> and vice versa. what you saw in the first debate was kind of a primal tapping into what both of them feel. foreign policy is a hot button issue. for both these guys, they think they have the far superior world view, even though ...