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Everybody else will do. take a look at the polls, take a look at how many people are giving him financial support dip his toe in the water and figure out what he wants to do. we'll see. but if he jumps in, welcome. there are a lot of folks in the pool already. >> there are indeed. i want to bring in a reporter for bloomberg politics dave wiegle. i think a lot of folks were surprised to hear jeb bush say it's time for republicans to let loretta lynch go and by go i mean confirm the woman. the country's black, african-american female attorney general. how much do you think his talking abouts on ...

What he's trying to do and raise his profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. >> perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s when the affirmative action wars really heat up. those become mainstream planks of republican party politics. >> you know, some of what he said, although a less extreme version of it, when you watch him, he's fighting over welfare and what is happening with welfare recipients. and that evolved into a centrist position. and ...

Democrats have done a pretty good job of keeping their intra-party fighting out of the headlines until recently, and i think if you look at the latest polling, democrats are really frustrated -- particularly young people -- with the president. and this has been brewing for a long time. they're upset that president obama never closed gitmo, never got the public option, they're upset about the nsa spying. but the key element of president obama's base, young people, are starting to break. so you're starting to see this rift between democrats, and it's also being fueled, i think, by the clinton pe...

Obviously completely true, and i can't disagree with it. it is at the moment a recipe for disaster. it's some kind of thelma & louise exercise where they're trying to take the party over the cliff. but i also agree, i think the colin powell performance was extraordinary. i think the way he calmly, clearly, logically -- it was just so logical from a, b to c laid out everything you just said in terms of how the republican party has moved and why it's not his party, i think there are a couple other things about the interview worth noting. one is, of course, he is to some degree still fighting the...

and you just watch it and shake your head. it's been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn't doing so well is because of those last two debates. don't you think? >> for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. >> we can't beat the money power romney himself. we can't beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we nee...