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message. when you have donald trump out there, he's a better performer than jeb bush is. i do think there's something to be set for that. >> he makes fun of jeb bush that he's so weak and doesn't have much energy and he's passive, if you will. we are seeing more of maybe a sharper demeanor on the part of the jeb bush. >> he is being more aggressive. it's clear that his campaign has sort of decided, we're going to take trump on head on and we're going to be the anti-trump. i was talking to a frundund raiser for jeb. he said i'm not sure it's the right strategy. while you do want a candidate that's passionate energetic about making their argument, this person doesn't feel like jeb performs at his best when he is defensive. we have seen the flashes of angry jeb bush. that's why he wants to be the happy warrior and not angry and defensive. >> you say once again whenever reporters ask him about his use
of the phrase baby anchor it irritates him. anchor baby i should say. >> you do see flashes of irritation. at the same time the big problem that we were hearing from jeb's perspective from voters was that they weren't seeing enough energy they weren't seeing enough fire from him. today he did show more of that energy and also the fluency going back and forth in english and spanish. he is competing with donald trump and wants to be in the ring with donald trump right now. in the long run, the group of republican voters that he is going to pull from is probably going to be a different segment of that population. that's who he is really performing for today. he is saying i'm the contrast. i can bring it on this issue. i'm going to be the stronger candidate in the long run in the general election. whether or not republican voters buy that argument remains to be seen. but we're not really talking about any of the other
derogatory term. what i was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there's organized efforts, and and frankly it's more related to asian people coming into our country, having children, in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, birthright citizenship. i support the 14th amendment. >> reporter: bush's visit comes after trump flew his signature plane down to laredo texas, another border city. he toured the dividing line between the u.s. and mexico in the midst of a media frenzy. >> we have a tremendous danger on the border with the illegals coming in. >> reporter: trump today needling his fellow gop candidate. >> i was down on the border. it's rough, tough stuff. this is not love. this is other things going on. and i think he'll probably be able to figure that out, maybe. >> reporter: another significant difference here between the trump and bush visits to the border jeb did not visit the border itself even though the restaurant he spoke in behind me
that final choice later this year early next year about who they really think is going to be able to beat hillary clinton, jeb is positioned to do that. his last name doesn't matter that much. >> we're getting word from jeff zeleny that he is quoting a senior democratic source as saying that the president, when he had lunch today with the vice president, gave the vice president the green light to go ahead and consider running for the democratic presidential nomination. what do you make of that? >> that it's again not a done deal at all. remember think about how much joe biden did for barak obama. right? it's going to be really tough for president obama to navigate this fight. but he owes it to biden to let him throw his hat in the ring if that's what biden wants to do. i think it would make it a much more interesting race and sharpen up hillary clinton in a
republican candidates right now other than trump and jeb. that's something. >> the national polls, those are the two frontrunners. donald trump released a new instagram video today targeting jeb bush. let me play a clip from there. >> would you like to see him run? >> no. i really don't. i think it's a great country. there are a lot of great families. there are other people out there that are very qualified. we've had enough bushes. >> what do you think? >> i'm impressed the trump campaign such that it is can use social media that well. i can't imagine any other republicans doing an instagram hit like that. i will say that it's not a bad point. at this point it's irrelevant. jeb bush is in the race. trump is running against him. based on where he is in every national poll this is second place, to me that's a sign that a sizable number of republican voters see him as basically electable. when it comes down to making