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back with me, douglas brinkley, gore ya borger, bob, and bob beckel. bob beckel, to you first, the president didn't just take on the gop today, he also spoke about the democratic candidates, too. watch this. >> i know hillary better than i know bernie because she served in my administration and she was an outstanding secretary of state. and i suspect that on certain issues, she agrees with me more than bernie does, on the other hand, there may be a couple issues where bernie agrees with me more. i don't know. i haven't studied their positions that closely. >> heard what gloria thinks, gloria thinks he's favoring one over the other. bob beckel, did you see him showing his hand, tipping his hat one way or the other there? >> sure. yeah, look, he's got the problem with bernie sanders he's got with trump. first of all, he's not too terribly happy some people in the white house tell me about bernie opening up the single payer thing and sort of buying into the line that hillary uses which trying to undo obamacare. besides that, he knows if bernie sanders get

back with me bob beckel and bakari sellers joins me now. the president has highlighted he failed to unite washington. does this surprise you? >> no, it doesn't. what we're seeing is a very humble president who recognizes that at seven years into his term, there are still things he wishes he could have gotten. he wanted the language to be less visceral, the rancor to be turned down. each ceasees a bernie sanders campaign that has tapped into an angst. sometimes viv to step back and realize my language in this political discourse is not what it should be. i'm not sure how we got there. i think it weighs on barack obama's heart. >> you think sometimes you say things you shouldn't say or that you're too inflammatory? >> no, i don't necessarily think it's too inflammatory but we've begun to let our emotions cloud our better judgment. to me to harp back on another earlier segment, we were talking about african-american young men dieing in the street. those type of emotions build up and there's so many going on around us, i think we have to let co

with me is the ben carson chief campaign and bob beckel and jack jackie kusnich. i want to start with the state of the race right now in south carolina and what's at stake. i don't think the lines have been more clear. let me play two pieces of sound. let's play donald trump first, talking as he has been about george w. bush, talking as he had been about september 11th and who did or did not keep america safe in fact let's listen, i hope. >> he kept the country safe after -- what does that mean, after? what about during 9/11? i was there. i lost a lot of friends that were killed in that building. the worst attack ever in this country? it was during his presidency. >> all right. that is donald trump. now let's listen to george w. bush who made a completely different case, i think to a completely different audience last night campaigning for his brother, jeb. >> strength is not empty rhetor rhetoric. it is not bluster. it is not theatrics. real strength, strength of purpose, comes from integrity and character. and in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't

van jones, hillary rose i don't knon, bob beckel. >> it would be a miracle for her to win -- i'm sorry, he's from vermont. i don't have a prayer here. she won the state eight years ago smeech h ago. she has a network in the state. the idea that this is a foreign country to me, i don't have a prayer -- >> they're neighborly. >> is there anything they can say to convince you as voter? i know you have your preferences. >> our numbers show there's huge percentage of undecided voters here. they have to make a decision. they're expecting a high turnout in new hampshire and i think they're looking. we'll see what happens after tonight. but these candidates are spending a lot of time in new hampshire, they're doing a lot of events. there was some question about whether hillary clinton would stay in new hampshire or just cede it to bernie sanders and she's not doing that. she p so so he has to state there, too. >> i think right now she's got a window because you still have -- even people who are bernie sanders fanatics, there's still this sense of can he win a general election? what would he do

and bob beckel. the whole idea of liar again tonight. remember the discussion last night about liar, liar, liar. this is tonight about ted cruz, donald trump responding to ted cruz being a liar. >> he has a problem with the truth. and even marco rubio, i guess today there was something about, he was -- a picture was manufactured and it was not -- >> photo shopped. >> it was totally photo shopped, i could see by just looking at it. in fact, they even made marco a lot shorter than he is, if you look at it really. i'm sure that's the thing that bothered him the most. he was a hell of a lot -- he was very small. he's not that small. not too big, but it's he's not that small. but i will tell you, i looked at that photo. i said immediately it was photo shopped. if you look at what he did, i'm talking about cruz to carson, he said, he's out of the race. that was so dishonest, and then he did something else, you people never picked up on, i think it was the worst of all, he did a voter violation notice, looked like it's right out of the irs. >>>

back with me now bob beckel and cnn contributor bacarri sellers joins me. for the second time in a month the president highlighted that he thinks he failed to unite washington. does this surprise you? >> no, it doesn't. i mean, what we're seeing is a very humble president who recognizes that at seven years into his term there are still some things that he wished he could have gotten. it's the epitome of the american dream. he wanted the language to be less visceral, the rancor to be toned down. and what he sees now is a bernie sanders campaign and a donald trump campaign which have tapped into an anxious, which have tapped into a worry. and all of you us, even myself included, sometimes i have to take a step back and realize my language in this political discourse is not what it should be. and i'm not absolutely certain how we got there. >> how so? >> but i know this is something that weighs on barack obama's heart. >> you think sometimes you say things you shouldn't say or too inflammatory? >> i don't necessarily think it's too inflammatory. but we've gone

bob beckel. bob, first to you. the e-mails we were just hearing from evan perez. now you have -- it's hatppening on the democratic side, and clinton will point out on the republican side as well. what is the impact here? does this change anything? >> well, only if the fbi decides to get aggressive and the justice department has a grand jury. they're not going to do that. this is a front runner for the democratic nomination. they're not going to do that in this campaign. when i was in the white house, we didn't have e-mails. i got in trouble for leaving things on my desk. i got a red note and stuff. but i think it has been -- it's a problem, but it's not a big problem. i don't think it's as big a problem as goldman sacs is. >> is it a problem in the general? what about a general election? could it still turn off independent voters? do you think this neutralizes it for her? >> i don't think a lot of people get up in the morning and say gee, the e-mail problem is killing me. i don't think it matters that much to people. a lot of other things do. >> jonathan, you watc

. >> bob beckel is a genius and i think he is exactly right as usual. >> donald trump is the front-runner. he is doing an amazing job. stunned everybody. surprised me from the get-go. i think he has a ceiling and of course he is going to get -- if john kasich got out tomorrow. some votes would go to donald trump. the vast majority would not. if you look at them, they're going to marco rubio or cruz. they're not going to mostly to go trump. the question is, will there be five candidates running indefinitely? or could you ever get trump one-on-one? until that happens or unless they employ my devious strategy of jiu jitsu, i don't think they can stop him. >> we are listening in. donald trump is speaking light at a campaign rally. we're talking about can he run the table? i'll get your thoughts. >> i would argue that hawaii you a a huge victory. donald trump came in, to his point, i would argue that polling shows he does the best among minorities of any republican candidate. frank lunlts. he could do as well as reagan did who won more votes than any candidate. >> john kasich is still in the r

. >> democratic bob beckel has counseled hundreds of candidates. >> it's theatre of politics, trying to get the people to come in and take a look and see if they like your play. >> here in cleveland, the romney campaign's preparing a play, trying to get lots of people to watch. >> only way to attract them to the theatre is if it looks good. >> tighten that out a little bit. >> just one presidential campaign, in the fall, in the general election, involves 400 people, advance people, setting up a stage. >> mike check. 1-2. >> a presidential campaign stop involves a lot of hard work. >> most are paid to do this. some are volunteers. >> does anybody have any questions? >> the planning starts days earlier. >> you send people driving around small towns in america, and asking people, hey, can we use your -- can we use your campus green? >> mel ritter is the director of candidate operations for mitt romney. >> let's get to work. >> campaign staffs try to make sure the right number of people show up. hillary clinton's presidential campaign was run by patty solis-doyle. >> you make calls to ca

and whatever happened to bob beckel? >> you can find him on cnn. we miss him too. thanks for watching. thank you. the founder of the festival, this will be a tough one. >> too that i introduced myself before, you belong here too. i am a member of this church and i can say helluva job. we are methodists, we dance, have a good time. >> i could have told that joke? >> yes. i am huge fan of the bush family, had different connections with them through various people, very close to the family. i voted for 41 three and i got behind jeb, but when barbara came into new hampshire i said oh well. there is hope. so anyway, when i was researching this festival i didn't know anything. people ask what is your background? are you published? and the. a good georgia writer, i signed him up for the festival and that turned a lot of people around, i end ed up going to the national, going to the south carolina, going to various festivals in decided the left-leaning, we tried to keep this festival first amendment. when we had karl rove here i was excoriated in local paper. rather than r

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bob beckel, democratic strategist and awesome spenders wearer. and king supports bernie sanders. and whitman supports hillary clinton. all right. so as we head into this next match-up, i think the big question on everyone's mind is, they have been so polite, relatively polite. other than that whole artful smear business. is that about to change? when we moved to south carolina in every campaign, it starts to get kind of bloody. bob, start. >> yeah, it is. south carolina has notoriously been that way. i've been six presidentials down there and it's just mean. >> why? >> well, it's in the water, or something. i don't know. i mean, it's just -- there's a lot of dirty tricks played down there. and i'll tell you, from the democrats' standpoint, bernie sanders has got a real big problem now. almost half that electorate is going to be black. and he's not had any black votes. now, i'll say this. hillary clinton, when she ran in 2008, against barack obama, was carrying the south carolina black vote 60% of the vote. then obama wins iowa, and she loses 77 to something. so whether sanders co

the worst old bob beckel. >> o'reilly is scared to death of megyn kelly because megyn kelly has been beating him in ratings. the first time that's happened since it's been -- fox news channel has been on the air. >> of course that is absolutely false. false, not true. and that's why beckel doesn't work here at fox anymore. he could not care less about facts. on the newspaper side, you know there wasn't anything horrendous. papers like the "new york times," "l.a. times," "the washington post," they don't really care for fnc or donald trump. in this case there weren't any distortions or fabrications the kind of thing we see on the left wing internet sites. the most interesting analysis was done by chris in the "the washington post." he puts forth that trump is so far out ahead that he doesn't need any more debates. so that's why he passed on iowa.-éç the excuses he made were all smoke. now, it's impossible to say whether that's true but it's certainly a provocative theory. on the viewer front about 70% of the folks thought the interview was worthy. 30% hated it. sarah skeleton, uconn

let's bring in cnn political commentator and democratic strategist bob beckel. hi, bob. >> hey. >> so some feel this is a new-found embrace of president obama. calculated to happen right before south carolina and nevada. your take? >> somebody would be that -- i'm shocked. >> i know. >> as if -- and the flint trip not politically motivated. listen, that's what you do. you're about to go into the black belt of men politics and of course you want to embrace barack obama. i think the idea barack obama is a huge albatross around the democrats' neck is wrong. history will treat him well. jobs ratings 50/50 now. about a 10-point spread before. >> that would be good. george w. bush, way, way below that. it's a much different ball game right now. >> sure. >> for hillary clinton to do this now, though. you've been in many campaigns where you've made changes, adjusted mid-stream. can she adjust quickly enough to do what she needs to do? >> oh, yeah. her problem, or -- i mean, i don't know what's going to happen with the fbi and her e-mails, but if you take that out of the

(bob beckel/political commentator) "it is the hardest state in the world to poll. there is no way that bernie sanders is going to beat her by 30 points, i think she's going to come in under 10." meanwhile, hillary clinton left new hampshire sunday for a meeting in flint, michigan... where contaminated water threatens a community's health (hillary clinton/(d) presidential candidate) "the children of flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of america." the issue is sure to come up in the run- up to michigan's march eighth vote. (donald trump/(r) presidential candidate) "if i came in second, i wouldn't be happy" meanwhile on the republican side, the latest cnn polling shows about a third of voters supporting donald trump meaning he's got slightly more than twice the support of his nearest competitor marco rubio. come tuesday, it could be the end of the line for some candidates who don't perform well. (ryan lizza/the new yorker) "usually what happens, iowa and new hampshire weed out the weaker candidates and you might not have a lot of weeding out

i want to bring in bob beckel, rebecca bird and and haley, it's good to have all of you. coming out of iowa, have we seen a changed donald trump do you think? does he have a new brand? >> i wouldn't say a new brand. i think he's trying to fill in some. voids that he saw maybe happen in iowa, for instance, a lock of a graound game. maybe adding a little more soft ek rhetoric. he only lost iowa. reagan lost iowa in 1980. bill clinton lost iowa in 1992. by the way, he also lost new hampshire. this is one state that only has delegates in is not the end for donald trump. he needs keep doing what made america fall in love with him and that's being donald trump. >> rebecca, how important is tomorrow night's debate for all the candidates? >> it's huge for all the candidates but it's definitely huge for donald trump because he missed the last one. all of the candidates, jeb bush, john kasich, chris christie, even ted cruz and donald trump will be after him pop rubio will have toe see if he can defend himself in that setting, especially for those guys making what could be their las