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Let's look at some names out there. obviously a field for 2016. the question was asked. in "the wall street journal" poll, could you see yourself supporting the following people for president? this is now how the horse race is. it's about, is it possible to support them? there's a big gap. this is why we're seeing hillary clinton so far ahead in the democratic side. sort of polarizing. half the country said no, they couldn't support it. there are 50% who said yes. look at other democrats, big names at least. joe biden is 35 points under water. elizabeth warren, not as well known but starts out...

He seems to have become seasoned during the years. >> changed a little bit. >> yeah. >> i want to clarify something because i mentioned it a couple times about senator rubio this morning. did he call the compromise deal unamerican? that's not actually what he said. we got the clarification and i wanted to make sure to do this and apologize for the confusion about it. he asked why he couldn't support the deal, and he says, it's not just as a conservative that he couldn't support it, it's as an american that he couldn't support it. so he didn't actually call it unamerican, but he said, as an ame...

Because i mentioned it a couple times about senator rubio this morning. did he call the compromise deal unamerican? that's not actually what he said. we got the clarification and i wanted to make sure to do this and apologize for the confusion about it. he asked why he couldn't support the deal, and he says, it's not just as a conservative that he couldn't support it, it's as an american that he couldn't support it. so he didn't actually call it unamerican, but he said, as an american, he can't support it. so that's his level of his opposition. >> people are unamerican, in other words. >> i wa...

The republican party is engaged in a fierce game of tug-of-war with itself. last week after speaker john boehner pleaded with his party to vote for a bill to extend the debt limit for three months, 33 members broke rank. the measure would have failed without democratic support. yesterday the senate took up that same bill and even though it was hand-crafted by john boehner, eric cantor, and paul ryan, minority leader mitch mcconnell and 32 other republican senators opposed it. mcconnell's office released a statement saying leader mcconnell and other senate republicans had several amendments aim...

Defense. tom coburn, the republican from oklahoma, came out yesterday, said he couldn't support chuck hagel if nominated. is chuck hagel a good or a bad pick, and if you were in the senate, is that someone you could support to be our next secretary of defense? >> well, i served with chuck for all the time that he was in the senate. i respected him as a senator. i thought he was a very substantive, thoughtful guy. i think he would be a good secretary of defense. there's no question he made, took some positions which i disagreed with relative to iran and relative to iraq and also on the issue of...