You know the rest. Oops. These are dangerous extreme radical times. Today has been awesome, girl. I think i could serve well as president. I do not like this uncle sam. Gays can serve openly in the military but our kids cant openly celebrate christmas. I hope jeb runs. I think he would be a great president. Obamacare is more like jason. Or freddie. Running for the president is not an iq test. Good to have you with us tonight we start with major news on the political front concerning 2016, yet another bush is setting his sights on the white house. Earlier today, jeb bush, former governor of florida changed the news cycle with this facebook post. Well, some republicans think jeb bush could be their savior. Heres what former secretary of state james baker said last month. I hope he does. He would make an extraordinary fine president. Hes a very, very capable young man. Jeb bushs older brother george w. Bush made it clear he wants jeb to run. Last week he had this to say about his brothers possible run. Youve often referred to bill clinton and talk about his relationship with your father and your mother and hes your brother from another mother. What does that make Hillary Clinton to the bush family . My sisterinlaw. Interesting. Do you think your brother could run against your sisterinlaw. Yeah and i think hed beater. Do you . I do. Shes formidable. No question so he is though. So you would take that bet. Absolutely. Well heres a statistic, republicans havent won a republican election with bush on the ticket since 1972. This has other president ial hopefuls taking stock mainly in the Lone Star State of texas. Ted cruz from texas is considering a president ial run. This guy has already come up with what is a very unique campaign strategy. The National Review reports this. With a strategy like this we could sure count on the republican primy season being a lot of fun. Better than the last one. Its three agencies of government gone when i get there, commerce, education and whats the third one there, lets see. Commerce, education, and the, uh, um. Epa . Epa, there you go. No. Is epa the one you were talking about . No sir we were talking about the agencies of government. Epa needs to be rebuilt, no doubt about it. You cant name the third one. The third agency of government i would do away with education, commerce, and lets see, i cant, the third one, i cant, sorry. Oops. I think that sound byte could give anyone a little bit of confidence if they ever want to run for congress. Thats right rick perry wants to walk right into the white house. He says hes not the same candidate who ran in 2012 saying this. Jeb bush, rick perry and ted cruz are all trying hard for the texas conservative vote. No doubt 2016 republican primary season will be very, very entertaining to say the least. I cant wait. Get your cellphones out. Want to know what you think. Are you ready for another bush in the white house. Text a for yes and b for no. Well bring you the results later in the show. Bringing in our guests tonight. Thank you for being with us. Brett i want to start with you tonight because i was really impressed with the play book or should i say, the manual that was put out by american bridge on all the candidates on the republican side or the hopefuls on the republican side for 2016 and you wrote this in there and fount had caveat about jeb bush. I think thats more than interesting. Is this the kiengd of stuff does he have a romney problem . I think he does. Not only do we know about his involvement in Lehman Brothers around and he tried to bail them out. We know he has been engaged in tax schemes over sea thats mitt romney was involved in. Not only does he have a mitt romney problem that may present itself in the primary or if he made it in the general election but he and romney are tussling behind the scenes over who has the bigger problem in equity investments. I think jebs problems makes it more likely that mitt romney will be in a little bit more enticing. I dont think he wants to give over the mantle to jeb bush. Bush was there when leman burned down. Its not just wall street. He has project for new American Century that hasnt been talked about. This is a guy who wrote the Mission Statement for cheney, hayden, bush, that are defending bush, he wrote the Mission Statement for it. Its what got us involve in iraq. Its why were in afghanistan. Its not just a wall street problem. It goes well beyond that. When this discussion starts about pea knack we will learn a lot. They have perry, cruz and bush in texas how will this play out. And i would add rand paul to that. Look, i actually think that jeb bush doing what he did today is actually kind of genius. Its not about voters. I think its about donors. I think hes frozen all the donors in place on two fronts. Front number one, the donors that would ordinarily support or at least think of supporting more of the established crew in this bunch, would include romney and christie, they get confused by that but more importantly to texas some of the biggest and most prolific in the conserve attive donors are texans and they have strtraditionally supported bushes and supported rick perry early on. And i think him saying im kind of sort of it, it freezes everybody in place. Thats a big peril to some of the other guys. What about cruzs strategy. Jews and hispanics and millennials is his ticket to win the nomination what do you make of that. Every time a republican comes up with a strategy that doesnt include inladependent voter, th math doesnt add up. The biggest problem is believing for one second that a wideswath of hispanic voters will vote for him just because his last name is cruz. Thats never worked in texas. When hispanics run state wide in texas sthey dont get their fai share of votes. The hispanics are voting for people who support their values. I think hispanics of the world will say to ted cruz, you can go after our vote but youre not going to get it until you explain how youre going to represent my family. And he hasnt been able to do that in anyway, shape, or form. No. And now what about the former president , is he a hindrance or a guy who will really help his brother . You cant argue that the bushs know how to raise money. Thats the name of the game. You can have a few friends and a whole lot of money the way it works now. With w. Hurt or help his brother. I dont think there is any dat doubt that he could be helpful. Not just him, his father, his family, george p. Bush just won state wide office in texas. I associated with previous comments, in terms of donors jeb bushs strategy is strong. Who else will be the next establishment person in the race that could compete with those texas donors. I think in that regard, the name and the president certainly helps. Mike, where does this put carl rove . Back front and center . This is great, for, you know, the bushs named him the turd blossom and now hes back with the bush family, its life as usual for carl rove. Its not just about tieing up the money for republican candidates but for Hillary Clinton. Shes working wall street mighty hard and last thing bush wants is to see all that money jumping behind hillary. Hes saying guys im here too. You think theres a lot of cross over. Tremendous amount. On wall street. Tremendous amount. Theres almost not a difference between the parties when it comes to ideology on wall street. Does the bush name force hillary to on wall street go i think she has to. Do you think jeb bush could beat Hillary Clinton. I do. I do not, ed. You have the bush dynasty. The clinton dynasty. Bush has coverage right now. He moves into the arena. Hes not worried about this idea of the criticism being the clinton dynasty. I know how effective he is. Does he win florida . Yes. Do you agree. I dont first of all agree he will beat hillary, that shouldnt be a surprise to you. About the money, i believe he will lock up some of the donor class for a while. We know money dont buy you love. Right now jeb bushs biggest challenge is the right wing, the tea party, the people that are so critical in a state like iowa or South Carolina dont trust him on some key issues like common core, like immigration. I think he has a bigger problem. He doesnt even need to worry about Hillary Clinton right now, what he needs to worry about is his right flank where i think he will be easily attacked by some of his primary opponents. Much the way perry fell into this. Mitt romney attacked perry and. Doesnt hillary rile up the right wing to the point they would accept jeb bush. Would it be an over statement to say the right wing could not warm up to jeb bush . No i dont think their view is that long in the early states like iowa, new hampshire, South Carolina, the real question isnt whether jeb couldnt beat clinton, the real question is whether he could get out of his own primary. I dont think he can. I dont think it will be very long at all before the right wing of his party starts reminding everybody of what bushs are all about. Yeah. And if the primary voters of yesteryear are like the ones today, i doubt Ronald Reagan would have picked him as his running mate. I think he will have ate lot of problem getting out of the prime air why. Great to have you both with us. Thanks so much. Remember to answer tonights question at the bottom of the screen. Share your thoughts with us on twitter and facebook we want to know what you think about this one. Coming up outgoing senator from oklahoma, next. Good morning everybody. We are about to make more deliveries to more places than anybody on earth. We have the speed. We have the technology. And we have the team. We made over 15 billion successful deliveries last year. 15 billion football has a season. Baseball has a season. This is our season. My heart brakes for the people who commit suicide. They find no relief anywhere else except death. Theres no answer for them. We dont give it to them. We have failed them. Good to have you back with us. This ones hard to comprehend oklahoma senator one of the outgoing senators final acts was blocking a bill to prevent suicide. 22 veterans take their lives every day in this country. The bill was passed by senator of oklahoma. It would have required the va and department of defense to evaluate their programs on a yearly basis. Whats wrong with that. It also provided for more Community Outreach and better Online Access to Mental Health services. Republicans love to tell us how they never turn their backs on many veterans well it happened on monday and is unfortunate. Here to talk about it with us is montel williams. It is great to meet you. Ive ad admired your work for years. Your advocacy on this is outstanding. What do you make of this . Im completely baffled and i cant believe someone would allow their ego to get in the way of our nations responsibility. Im so sorry. Hes leaving so he wants this to be his legacy, dr. No. By saying no you have disgraced the service of every Service Member who served in the afghan, iraq war who put their lives on the line to allow him to stand their hypocrite doesnt even turn for a vote. Last night i was in a room with so many veterans, talking with a guy who was pushing to get this bill passed, he said youre not going to believe this, but that is on the is on the floor shutting us down. And you could see the sigh in the room before the movie started. How dare he do this. Someone might say the republicans who get the control will bring it back. A hundred days from now is probably the best shot. 22 lives a day. 2200 more soldiers have to die. Thanks for the Christmas Present. You know. Thanks. You are really emotionally wrapped up into this. I see soldiers. I talk to them daily. Guy who left body parts behind for us. This is the Christmas Present our congress, im sorry our congress voted unanimously to pass the bill. This is the Christmas Present our government gives our veterans this year, tells them, you know what well wait another hundred days to stop the slaughter. I dont know, man. Why do you think our veterans from iraq and afghanistan are coming to an end of life issue like this . What is it about this war . Or is it something that just hasnt had a light shown on sho on it in the past. What we dont remember as a nation is less than one percent of this nations population even sent a person off to serve. Less than 1 are actually wearing a uniform and we sent them back and back and back and back and we wonder why they have post Traumatic Stress syndrome and wonder why their families are in disarray. We wonder why there are lines at the va to get them services because Everyone Needs services. And again, we say things out of one side of our mouths, constantly, the last two speeches ago the president said were working on suicide rate, really . What did we go from 23 to 22. Oh, okay. Good. And youre convinced that this bill and the resources that would have been addressed to this issue would have brought that number down . 22 million is cheap to give it a try. Im not convinced that it would have changed things tomorrow but what it does do, opening up our services, it allows psychiatrists to apply to apply to be psychiatrist for the va and be reimbursed for their college tuition, and over five years pay it back. So what we have is psychiatrists who understand the issues facing our soldiers today. Go ahead. You wore the uniform. Do you think this hurts recruiting. Do you think it leaves a bad taste in the mouths of veterans about what they fought for and served for . I think theres longterm damage. I think the problems is our numbers are up. We have an economy that requires people to look for jobs and some of them are the best jobs we have. If you look across all the services, they have met their quot quotas. Uhhuh. Not like guys are running away. But it is hurting the morale of those who are there now. Those are the guys who will be called back quickly in an emergency situation in iraq or afghanistan where something heats up and we put another 3,000 troops on the ground they call those guys back and their hearts are breaking because they feel they hathe senate doesnt care. Do you have advocacy work and grass roots support could reverse this . Im hoping. Follow me im doing a passclayhunt. Were going to try to put pressure call 2022245754 thats Senators Office number and you tell them how disgusted you are. They are hanging up on veterans. I want to make sure his phone doesnt get any calls for the next couple days. Tell him to back out of the way. The senator has done this before. They need to pass this before they go away before christmas. If you leave washington, d. C. Without giving our guys some hope how dare you. And understand im coming. Every veteran in this country is coming hard. Elections are coming close folks. You may have won the last one youre going to deal with us on the next one. Period. Blow his phone up. 20222457 2022245754. Blow his phone up. 2022245754 itl fix itself. Ifs. And self correcting power grids make the world predictable. Thrillingly predictable. Oh and could you turn on air conditioning im starting to sweat. Ill just do it myself. Useless. Ats nice. Sets the mood. Have your entire house within reach, even when your devices arent. 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