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The for four years and mitt romney signing up for that job. >> peter, mitt romney is clearly back in 2012, was talking about russia long before a lot of other folks were. donald trump seems to have a different take on vladimir putin. >> and general flynn who looks like he's likely to be national security adviser. also much more similar to trump. soft line on russia. wants to work with russia on syria. i think the problem for romney, i would be very happy as a trump critic, i would be somewhat relieved to see mitt romney. the problem is, that when you have a national security adviser who is muc...

Hard to imagine them working together for four years and hard to imagine mitt romney signing up for that job. >> particularly mitt romney back in 2012 talking about russia long before a lot of other folks. donald trump seems to have a different take on vladimir putin. >> and also general flynn who looks like he's likely to be national security advisor. also much more similar to trump. soft line on russia. wants to work with russia on syria. i think the problem for rom. i would be very happy as a trump critic. i would be somewhat relieved to see mitt romney. i think the problem is when you have...

Foreign policy expert. he's distinguishing himself and other republicans on the foreign relations committee and elsewhere. he's in a tough florida race. trying to make this distinction in florida can resonate with voters to say there are other areas to go after hillary clinton. let's look from a governance point of view that russia threatening anything that's the united states should be a concern not to be used. >> donald trump has not been shy about going after marco rubio in the past, not shy about going after paul ryan. will he do that tonight, keep the fire focused on hillary clinton? >> f...

Jeb bush has still spent much more than anybody else and 30 points behind trump. >> jeb's problem isn't how many campaign adds he runs. it's really people looking at him and his candidacy right now, it's not a part of the g.o.p. conversation. so beyond that, when you look at someone like ted cruz or even a chris christie, the national polls begin to mean more to them than their placement. that's the starting point in the 30 day push before the bell rings on february 1st. >> and look at this. donald trump 37% outsider, ben carson outsider, ted cruz outsider. the only two d.c. establishment figu...

I think the question is does he think marco rubio is ready? does he think marco rubio is ready to be president, ready to take on donald trump? i think the jury is out on that not just for mccain but for people like mitt romney and other establishment figures. >> all right, everyone with us for a second. we want to bring in former rnc chair michael steele joining us by phone. thank you very much for joining us. i wanted to get your reaction to senator lindsey graham dropping out of the race and some of the commentary from both steve and mark in terms of how this may change the republican field,...