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Way charlie crist's hand-picked chairman spent monday eight the state party, getting this information out in the open will be the best way to deal with it. as far as my spending is concerned it was for legitimate political purposes when i made personal charges i paid for them directly to american express. i have not been contacted and i don't know anything about any potential inquiries but i welcome the chance to set the record straight once and for all. as i mentioned he's in a double-digit lead over charlie crist. how does this affect his political future potentially? >> well, i think it can...

You look for ads. if you're prognosticating in an old school fashion, you add up all this stuff that tends to be a sort of oblique measurement of establishment support. and so when establishment candidates don't do well, it does usually blindside everybody. but i mean, this year with the kind of politics that we've got right now actually in both the democratic and republican parties, i think prognostication is a very dangerous business to be in in general. >> well, it is as you mentioned, steve kornacki night in america. i know a lot of people think of it as primary night. but it's steve korna...

Republican primary. in that case the g.o.p. could turn to mitt romney. he received more than 59 million votes last time around. is well known and has establishment support. something to consider. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight reaction. joining us from washington charles krauthammer more perspicacious analysis from me, am i correct? >> yes. i wouldn't exaggerate the use of the word perspicacious. reasonable analysis. that's as far as i would go for at least right now. look, what i think is going on here in substance, i think it's an excuse. i think what trump has successful...

Do is establish himself as the anti-trump, and so in a sense, this may be distinguishing himself from the kasichs of the world and from rubio and from the others who have some establishment support. and he can figure that if he can be the anti-trump, then if and when it gets down to just a two-candidate race, trump versus the anti-trump, he'll be there and maybe he can take him then. >> is it convincing, though? trump's been taunting him all summer, calling him names, he's basically telling him, his response to all that, is speak english. is this convincing, bush's attempt to fight back? >> we...

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