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Former sergeant josh courter will be here live next. decision day, high stakes in eight states holding primaries today, including mississippi's mud fight for the republican senate nomination. >> knock the walls down mississippians. knock the walls down. >> today is about mississippi's tomorrow. >> and cashing in, seattle mayor ed murray joins us as his city raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour, the highest in the nation. it will be phased in but will this set an example for those struggling for a living wage? good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the controversy over the release

Environment frozen in anticipation of a possible clinton bid. meanwhile former governor bush speaking publicly about a potential 2016 run this weekend saying he would base his decision, whether he quote, could run with a hopeful, optimistic message, hopefully with enough detail to give a people a sense it is not just idle words and not get back into the vortex of the mud fight. bob cusack, managing editor of "the hill" and the byron york, "washington examiner." byron, to you first, what do you think about the premise in that "wall street journal" hillary clinton's presence on the stage has sor...

>> bush also defended his support for common core educational standards, both issues potent enough inside the republican party these days that one or more potential primary opponents will feel compelled to use them as an attempt to make themselves look like the real anti establishment candidate. for his part, jeb bush called on the gop to pick candidates that, quote, are organized around winning the election, not making a point. and he said again that he'll make up his mind about a presidential run by the end of this year. . >> can a candidate run with a hopeful, optimistic message, hopefully ...

Different as he was trying to kabul together that bipartisan vote. >> except at that point who bought it? during the other disputes, i do not remember president clinton or speaker gingrich or anyone else like, you know, bringing it to the level where it was almost a mud fight and that makes it difficult to work something out later. he may have changed his tone in the last day or so, but i think that the damage was largely done in terms of making it more difficult for him to actually lead and to resolve things. our colleague dana perino has joined us. dana, your thoughts as we watch the senate ...

Idealogy was for republicans, this could end in 15 minutes to get this done, but was the strategy to keep the mud fight going on long enough to muddy both sides and the gop thought they would come out, mace takingly now, we see, the victors? >> i think that could be one strategy or it could be they had a planned strategy that they would bringtous the bring and the president would bring. and when he didn't blink as they perceived he has in the past, there was no plan b. and they didn't have a strategy now. and i tend to think that some felt that if we pressure him, we'll make him break a little...