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Well, i want the president to succeed. i don't think he will succeed if he copies on this path. bush went on to add if the election is nationalized and it's not about the economy then, we'll lose. let's bring in the "hardball" roundtable night, pete is the democratic mayor of south bend, indiana. george f. will is a national columnist with the "washington post," and sabrina siddiqui political reporter for the guardian. i'll start with george because you know jeb well. what do you think he hopes to accomplish with this rather strong shot across the bow? >> i'm not sure had he an agenda. someone...

You know jeb well. what do you think he hopes to accomplish with this rather strong shot across the bow? >> i'm not sure had he an agenda. someone asked him questions. he agreed to an interview. but the persona that he says is dangerous, the presidential persona, is the same one he had in 2016 and he won the election. a lot of people voted for him not in spite of but because of the persona. so i think that that won't itself be crippling. you work for the man who obviously stayed all politics is local. not necessarily. if the economy's doing well, if the country's at peace, if people are ininto...

Throw his family under the bus in order to promote himself. what fire in the belly means for jeb is what you have seen him doing today, going and continuing to campaign, campaign as the happy warrior and something he has been wanting to do. if fire in the belly means being angry, being ticked off, being donald trump, no, you will not see jeb do that. >> final, maria. >> he needs to really focus on this quote unquote fire in the belly. a degree, fire in the belly doesn't need to be donald trump-like where uriyou are insulting everybody. it does mean that you have to show that you are going to f...

Maria calls us. i'm a friend of jeb's. i can tell you why a lot of democrats -- which is no coincidence this is happening. they now he would be a formidable candidate against hillary clinton. it is not a coincidence that that's what all the democrats have been doing today, focusing on jeb bush. i saw jeb have very good answers. i know jeb well. he is a policy wonk. he tends to get into the weeds. he loves policy. for him it's not easy to be able to condense answers to 60 seconds. he was able to do it. i think he gave good, solid policy-based answers. what he didn't have were good, memorable mo...

Last april, in an interview with nbc's matt lauer, when asked if she thought he should run, mrs. bush said, quote, he's by far the best qualified man, but no, i really don't. she also said at that time, there are a lot of great families, it's not just four families or whatever. we've had enough bushes. this time, mrs. bush said something very similar, telling c-span, quote, i think the kennedys, clintons, bushes, there are just more families than that. here's a clip of the interview posted last night by c-span. >> i think this is a great american country, great country. and if we can't find mo...