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Beyond saying mexico could pay for a fen or wall. >> are we approaching a spot -- as i listen to rick perry i wonder are we approaching a spot where the test of serousness for republican presidential candidates is a speech like that. a speech that goes directly to and dismantles donald trump and shows you are not afraid of donald trump and declares the person giving the speech a real republican and donald trump isn't. >> i think the silver lining for the republican party, a year and a half before the election is that donald trump is by contrast showing how serious some of these candidates for ...

We have big differences and it's caused us problems over the decades. but i think the end of the day if you don't like iran and you don't like what they're doing is it better to have an iran with nuclear weapons or without nuclear weapons? an iran that does terrorism and has nuclear weapons or an iran that doesn't? and i think the answer is pretty clear there. now benjamin netanyahu is his own guy, right, and he gave this speech a year and a half ago. he gave exactly the same speech when they announced the joint plan of ak. it's the worst thing ever. it's hitler. it's munich. a year and a half...

In the places that you don't visit. in your shining city. in fact mr. president, this is a nation -- mr. president, you ought to know that this nation is more a tale of two cities. than it is just a shining city on a hill. >> now governor kean you gave the republican keynote four years after this. so you know the kind of pressure and the spotlight that that was. you know it is interesting, after governor cuomo gave that speech a very famous speech taking ronald reagan on head-on. reagan went on to win 49 states it was almost as if he gave a great speech governor cuomo did, that america loved. ...

Some glee. what's now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the president approached this issue, everything he laid out in that big speech a year ago, everything he laid out in that agenda was something he could do without congress. congress is the one place we have to pretend that climate is not changing. but even though congress has gotten no better on it in the past year, actually, despite popular perceptions, a lot has changed around the politics of this issue. even in republican politics. republicans in congress are stuck exactly where they are. but republicans...

He said, it's not that sexy. the whole long speech went off for an hour. it was punctuated by a plane flying over the president and drowning out his words because the venue they chose was on the flight path from national airport. they did not do a great job with the logistics at that speech a year ago this week. but the president did roll out that agenda a year ago. he reiterated it last night with some glee. what's now clearly important about that big speech a year ago, and about how the president approached this issue, everything he laid out in that big speech a year ago, everything he laid ...