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>> thank you. they do for the bookstore. appreciate everyone coming here tonight. it is just so -- this is such a great institution and such a great thing for the city and country. i wanted to be here. i just really appreciate it. and i want to ask you first to be patient with me. this is only the second time i have talked about this book. is this cannot last week. this might be a little rough tonight, but hopefully will get to this all together. so many of my good friends here. that makes the extra hours. can you hear me? get. and how about this? no? yeah. i can, you know -- there w...

it's pungent. it's delightful. "morning joe" starts right now. >> some people in your party don't like you. are you a candidate for the entire republican party? >> well, we're a big party. i don't know how many hundred million people or so are republican and i'm not sure that everybody's going to think i'm the ideal person but i'm going to be the nominee, i believe, as of the end of this week and we're going to come together. and the people who are really open to voting to me that i need to get to vote for me to win the presidency are independence and democrats who have been disappoi...

long island geist tea. it's pungent. it's delightful. "morning joe" starts right now. >> some people in your party don't like you. are you a candidate for the entire republican party? >> well, we're a big party. i don't know how many hundred million people or so are republican and i'm not sure that everybody's going to think i'm the ideal person but i'm going to be the nominee, i believe, as of the end of this week and we're going to come together. and the people who are really open to voting to me that i need to get to vote for me to win the presidency are independence and democrats...

About mout mitt, thoughin venting it opinion certainlier that going to get attacked owe so i think they should go out and take the office. >> in every single state. in florida, unemployment got up to 12%. it's down to 8%, 9% now. we cut unemployment by 33%. the banking sector was here, we're here. like john kerrey, who in 2004 was for the war, before he was against the war, he was afraid to go there on what he believed in some of these issues and al gore, the same way with the environment in 2000. democrats make this mistake a lot. barack obama owns his record. he should embrace it and every s...

>> when you think back to 2004 and the swift boats attacked john kerrey on his perceived strengths, the number didn't move in two weeks or three weeks. it wasn't until the fall that stuff sunk in, doubts about kerrey and his character and history did not manifest themselves until some time later. we just don't know if it worked or not. it may be have they wasted all this time and money. it may also be come fall the undecided voters who are going to stay undecided probably until the fall, we may start to see change then. you just don't know the answer. >> the swift boat ads didn't beat johnson ...