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Peter binard joining us. also he writes for the atlantic media. guys standby. i want to take a quick break. we want to discuss what we just saw. lots of political news coming up reaction to the debate last night. stay with us. you tuck here... you tuck there. if you're a toe tucker... because of toenail fungus, ask your doctor now about prescription kerydin. used daily, kerydin drops may kill the fungus at the site of infection and get to the root of your toe tucking. kerydin may cause irritation at the treated site. most common side effects include skin peeling... ...ingrown toenail, redness,...

Candidates. peter, you don't necessarily think bush had such a great night, do you? >> no i don't think so. i don't think bush was competing with the bush of the previous debate. i think he was competing with the people on that stage. carly fiorina was very effective against donald trump. george w. bush -- i mean jeb bush did get better later on in the evening, but i think in the critical early moments he went after trump on the question of casino gambling in florida. i don't think he won that exchange. he's just not very quick on his feet. on the pivotal point when he asked donald trump to ap...

And that africa stopped being this proxy battleground between communism and capitalism, moscow and washington. sometimes i think the problem when someone looks back at the dead hand of history makes what happened look inevitable. but i remember covering it at the time and none of it felt inevitable at all. and mandela himself took enormous risks when he was moved out of robin island where he started talking on his own, secretly to the architects of apartheid to see if he could broker a deal. that was an extraordinarily act of self-confidence and risk taking that began the unlocking of the whol...

Foreign correspondent and author. peter binard is an associate professor of journalism. if i may start with you, you pointed out that mandela was always different, even in prison, you say everybody else wore rumbled clothes, he took pains to iron his clothes, he stood ramrod straight, he had a kind of imperial bearing. your foundation tried to train leaders in mandela's wake. do you think that the dropoff was inevitable or has south africa taken a particular by bad spiral downward after nelson mandela? >> look, i think as a country, we have taken a knock, but i don't think the process has comp...

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