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Versus the establishment and you'll have a lot of dissatisfaction with the choices. >> so you think jeb bush will be the republican nominee? >> yes. if i had to guess right now, i would say yes. >> and he's one of the conservative guys? >> the conservatives are always -- just like last time we were talking why gingrich and santorum didn't form an alliance. any time the conservatives got dissipated in their energy, the establishment always works. conservatives never get that. they keep running five and six people. you're not going to beat the establishment guy raising tons of money by the way y...

In terms of a post-palin network. >> because he obviously lost her, dick morris, some of the presidential candidates like rick santorum, a fox news contributor, newt gingrich. i see a pattern here, but maybe you see something differently. >> well, you know, they come and they go at fox. and at other networks, too. some people have suggested that ail ai ailswas trying to buy the 2012 nominee by hiring gingrich, palin, and he laughed at that. he said he knew huckabee couldn't raise the money to run, and he knew palin didn't have a shot, and he kne that santorum didn't even win his own state wasn...

As far as we know, romney has not updated abc news on his taxes. that was an abc report. let me ask you this. why does he make that idiot kind of laugh when making a point about his taxes? >> chris, i'm not going to comment on the laugh. >> i think it's a nervous laugh. >> i talk to republicans all the time. when they see an answer like that they say the same thing to me, why wasn't he prepared for this? these questions were always going to come. that's the question on the right. >> you know what? >> give the laugh a break. >> you guys were on the right. and the guys in the party should have m...

General election. >> how come santorum didn't jump on this? >> conservatives were pushing for this but it wasn't an issue. they're talking about who's better to beat barack obama. >> not who's the best account t accountant. i think what he's done is stepped on what could have been a fairly good story today which is the unemployment went up to 8.3%. he didn't. he focused on his own economic mystery story which is good in politics. we always want the rest of the story. why did we get mad for pardoning nixon? he closed the books on watergate. we didn't want them closed. thank you david corn and r...

plus, disturbing video of a deadly police beating. the victim, a meanta willy ill homeless man who can be heard calling out to his father "they're killing me." i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> while we begin this hour with the romney campaign, having some trouble staying on message. let's go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta. he's on the campaign trail with the presumptive republican nominee. you're in lansing, michigan, right now. tell us what's going on, jim. >> reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt ro...