the problem with romney is and i've talked to romney many, many times, as recently as he was here in vegas for the caucuses a couple, few weeks ago. he's not the bold decision-maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to -- every time i talk to him, he says, well, let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. i'm in favor of newt gingrich because i like people who make decisions. he's a decision-maker. >> he's a decision-maker. mitt romney a little mealy mouth, i like newt better. but rick santorum, the exact quote, "i don't want him running my country." my country. so sheldon adelson picked newt gingrich and kept newt gingrich in the race well beyond his natural life span in that race at least in part to box out rick santorum. so rick santorum came in second overall, but importantly he did not win. sheldon adelson got his second choice pick for the republican presidential nominee. can't have newt gingrich, i can settle for mitt romney. once mitt romney was the nominee, sheldon went on to spend so much to defeat democrats and president obama, he went on

i wonder before nevada if ann romney, josh romney, some way romney is able to hint i don't love ted cruz, my guy is rubio. >> have you seen evidence where romney people are whispering like that? >> not yet. romney's people in the state and the guy who won the caucuses for rom n. overwhelmingly is running jeb bush's campaign. jeb bush's campaign is very well-organized here. but to what end? i think they're frustrated. >> right. so i think that's the problem. but there's not been a big presence yet of romney folks going to rubio. i do think, and perry said numbers accurately, a quarter of the turnout being mormon is going to matter if that's what it is, if they'll have the same enthusiasm when an actual mormon matter if that is what it is, if they have the same enthusiasm. that could be a huge percentage of the caucus turnout. they will get out there and vote and many are going to vote for marco rubio. >> when i was las vegas for the debate they talk about caucus being organizational test. it could be about national momentum and not what is going on with the ground game. it could get swept

romney's mistakes. also with me are matthew and daniela. it's weird at this point for a candidate stuck tht low digits, someplace mitt romney never was. it is a head scratcher. >> i think the campaign which has a lot of veterans realized early on their candidates have a lot of the same similarities which as one obama adviser put to me as obama's awkward dad. their policy wonks, they inspire tremendous loyalty but they can't quite connect with voters. you hear from both of them if only america could see the jeb bush, the mitt romney we knew. so they looked at that and used mitt romney as a reverse play book and said what can we learn from this? the things they decided were romney didn't talk to the press that much and created a vacuum. they have jeb talking to the press all the time. he does a lot of interviews, he stops and answers questions. and they are trying to show the embrace the dorky side of him rather than cover it up. >> i don't think this is really about tactics. isn't this about he's burdened with the last name in a year of anti

mitt romney could easily prove i am wrong by releasing his returns. i had some fun with him in print so it wasn't as if harry reid escaped unscathed. the only trouble is i don't think he carries what we write about him and he will say what he is going to say. we have time for one more question if anybody has a question, one more question. anybody? anybody? here we go. >> in the era of social media, can you give your opinion on how you think this has changed the way coverage goes on, to carry their own image in a way they didn't before because the media and other tools of communicating with different before we had social me and seems this has taken on an ever increasing components of what candidates are doing. >> one word. macaw, you can carry what you get out of donald trump is the classic example of someone using twitter. at the same time, you also have more people following you literally and figuratively, you also can be more easily caught doing something totally stupid. i wonder if in the end social media will reduce their cue manatee, they will be

green is the romney victory. essentially, romney had one ohio, because of strong support in the western reserve. same thing in illinois. the yankee north voted for romney to get down stay, he had great difficulty against santorum. romney also clinched oregon and washington, coastal california. however, pundits started saying, the primaries are coming, alabama and mississippi, this is where newt gingrich will have his chance. the polls are too close to call. except, they weren't. in now them the blue is gingrich -- ine green is romney, alabama, the blue is gingrich, the green is romney, the brown is santorum. santorum walked away with alabama, because he had gotten votes again.hian the posters were blindsided, because they had done polls based on gender and income level and race, but not by regional cultures. mississippi was a bit closer, only because the appalachian section of mississippi is much smaller. posters ignored these kind of things at their own peril. that is the most recent presidential election, just

mike huckabee beat mitt romney by just over 10,000 votes. four years later, turnout is a little bit higher. romney, rick santorum, basically tied at 30,000 votes each. when you look at those numbers, what do you see? sasha: the conversations in these campaigns have been developing the projections of how many voters they turn out. you see a pretty steady constellation of voters who voted in 2008 and 2012. one of the questions this year is is there anyone who is going to expand the electorate through targeted contact? is it possible all of the attention we are seeing somewhat through polling, through debate management is going to help. but this is more of an art than a science. how much could it grow? what do you need to win in the expanded electorate? john: the premise of the rand paul campaign was he would change the electorate the way obama did. that is now the trump approach. is there anything trump would need to do to change the makeup and the size of the electorate? sasha: this is a big open question, what it takes to mobilize a nonvoter

jon: let's look at mitt romney, in particular. what is it about mitt romney that did not excite the conservative base and led to his defeat? >> before mitt romney became the republican nominee he had inert governor of massachusetts and before that had been a senate candidate running against ted kennedy in 1990s in massachusetts. he ran, mitt romney, against kennedy and for the governorship of massachusetts as a cultural liberal who was pro-abortion, didn't do anything to stop it when the supreme court in massachusetts legalize same-sex marriage in massachusetts, then when mitt romney -- to seek the republican, he became of pro-life, pro marriage traditionalist conservative. romney's biggest problem was lack of credibility on the positions he took when he ran for president, they did not believe him. jon: what is it that has donald trump leading the national polls? >> he has to position himself in three things. there it is -- he is opposing washington establishment of both parties that the nation rejects, secondly he is tough on ill

romney did not do it. so he failed. he let us down. that let me tell you something, if the people in this room who did not vote and all the other people, who would have never voted for obama, if they had the incentive to get up and go vote, romney would have won. but they were not inspired. but we have to remember that. hopefully i inspired. look i have the biggest crowds , anyone has ever seen. [cheers & applause] we have to remember that. i'm going to do something that is really not smart. i always like to end on a high note. we are on a high note. i can say, make america great. you are all going to go crazy, i leave, and i go back home. unlike hillary, i do not go to sleep, i think about things. she goes to sleep, and you don't see her for five days. she comes out and does another event. elton john would always say, and i love elton john. he said, you want to finish with a big bang. and when they do the encores, do you ever see where he finishes great. they say, more. the places going crazy. they do one song two songs. , three songs

i really believe that mitt romney was a better candidate and i thought i would never say that about romney's campaign superiority over anybody else. but, no, i think, again, it's not only just because of the rigors of the campaign itself, and not only because this is a particularly competitive campaign, but again, that he, like john kasich, seems to have, as i put it in the story, a wallet full of currency that has absolutely no value. and, you know, in today's campaign rhetoric. that he is a guy who can talk about how good he was in governance and people just don't seem interested in that. i think that if jeb bush knew that those would be the factors in play, no, he would not be running. >> robert draper, thank you for taking a few minutes. appreciate it. >> sure, my pleasure. >> and jamiel, robert, and eliana are staying with us. >>> up next in "the lid," trump keeps bashing the clintons, but will hillary take the bait? stay tuned. "sit" per roll. more "who's training who" per roll. bounty is two times more absorbent. so one roll of bounty can last longer than those bargain brands. so you

if 4% whites voted republican, mitt romney would have won. pete wilson won a huge come come-from-behind victory and antiillegal immigration measure would have called illegal immigrant from getting any government services. to how massgo back immigration of low-skilled workers, not popularrist with black americans proposition 187 won most of blacks, allegations. the average among congressional republicans was only 8%. there's your path to victory republicans and then you to shut it down because point three, okay, we are just -- we are just i don't know fiddling on the titanic because hispanics don't carehe about amnesty, they're i, they're already in, of all the issues we are not going to win the hispanics. also the idea -- this idea that there's some sortin of hispanic unity is something believed exclusively by white liberals and rnc apparently. [laughter]c >> talk to your maids once in a while. the dominicans hate puerto ricans. their are poor in need of government services, they come from one party-state, they are use today block voting for

if 4% more whites would've voted for romney, he would've won. the point i make in my book is to california in 1994. the demographics of the entire country are about what they were in california in 1994 when pete wilson won a huge come from behind victory by tying himself with titanium cords to proposition 187 and anti- immigration measure. to go back to how mass immigration of low skilled workers, not popular with black americans, proposition 187 won a majority of blacks, whites, asians, 37% of hispanics, even people who 7% of hispanics, even people who were voting for the democrat were voting for proposition 187. pete wilson got 20% of the black vote that year. across across the country, the average among congressional republicans was only 8%. so there is your path to victory, republicans. then you have a a shot at then because .3, okay, then we are just fiddling on the titanic because hispanics don't care about amnesty. they are in. they are already in. of all the issues, we are not going to win the hispanics with this idea that there is some

and they'll think oh man, romney was the best we ever had. if it is jeb bush or rubio, i'm not saying this in an angry or threatening way, you would have to vote for rubio or rather for hillary. they are so objective, their sole objective is to open the border and pass amnesty. at least with hillary she wants to socialize any other industries that haven't been socialized she wants to lose wars for us abroad peerage she wants to take your children away and make abortion mandatory. gay marriage mandatory perhaps. there are a lot of items on her agenda where job and rubio single-mindedly focused on opening the border and passing amnesty. if trump is in the nominee, if it's rubio, i hope he does run as a third party candidates like and make it clear what my vote is about. >> in 2014 a lot of people voted about this topic. this was the deciding topic and i heard a very prominent member assure an entire room that that topic was not even an issue in the 2014 election. the question is, what should republicans have in what should they do and let's say

for romney loyalists all bets are off. a small group of wealthy donors will be ready with a strategy to win with a nomination. in recent months romney loyalists -- that strategy involves flipping from states with large mormon populations like utah, wyoming. it's so oddly written. >> this is crazy. i have to jump in here. this is crazy with all due respect to mitt romney. we appreciate him running for the presidency last time. are we going to erase the 47% remark, the binders of women? we are going to relitigate 2012 and 2016 when what has 2016 been all about? the placement of electability, who might be able to lead? the establishment is on its back. >> not been able to break through. they don't get the rallies. they don't get movement in the early states in the polls even if they spend money. with all due respect to mitt romney and loyalists is that the best we can do? >> when do we get to the running of the primaries? we can't build crowds. if it is cruz -- or is it going to be trump? i think those two will be the contest

today, republicans are trying to turn hillary into mitt romney. now, romney lost in 2012 because on the important issue in that election, the economy, his policies offered nothing to the struggling middle class. even if he had offered a more populist platform, no one would have believed it. voters perceived voters perceived romney as personally lacking empathy for his fellow american. romney could have come out for actual literal socialism and he still would have been the guy who like to fire people, the guy who attacked 47% of american people were takers living off the american government. the guy with the guy with the car elevator in his house. the republican concedes that hillary is running to strengthen middle-class families, platform that speaks to democratic primary voters but to general electric. one that the gop, the gop, four years later still cannot compete with. so their strategy is about disqualified hillary personally as a personal messenger of these popular ideas. they they want us to think that hillary cannot be trusted as a vessel

i don't think governor romney or speaker ryan see that as their place. i think they firmly believe in the will of the voters and letting this process play out before something like that would happen. i think a lot of party elders a lot of folks that are inside the leadership of the republican party, i think they are increasingly going to look to leaders -- other elders in the party like a mitt romney or paul ryan to start trying to have more of an influence on this race. >> those would be two names that you would think of who would play that sort of role. >> yes. you also have to remember when governor romney was the nominee, i don't think he took it very well when folks from the outside were trying to have an impact on him. or there was talk about somebody coming from the outside to start making decisions for the party. >> yeah. >> the will of the voters i think is important and that was something he articulated in 2012. and i think he'd be very reluctant to get too involved. >> okay. dan pfeiffer kevin madden thank you so much. as we are 26 hours away

john: there's a number of you who are romney -- were romney supporters. you see romney and trump as being sort of similar? >> successful businesspeople? senseuess in the business , but as far as his -- maybe you could call elect ability, i think they are completely different. i think romney was a little too sensitive, and you could see that in the first debate, where he completely fell apart. i don't see that happening with donald trump. >> from what i can see, he is in touch with what everybody is thinking, what everybody wants, what is needed, like i said, not what people want to hear. he is still in tune with what everybody is wanting. do you like least about him? what concerns you most as a presidential candidate? if anything. could be nothing, if you want. >> i think potentially, he could cross over with some inappropriate comments that would turn people off, and it would very much concerned me if he were the dump -- if he were the nominee. my opinion, what hurt romney was the success and was his money, and i think that could be trump's downfall as m

romney was not a real conservative. and my response was to say, they had to so contort themselves in the nomination process that they lost the credibility that they needed to win a general election against obama. but you know how it is, pat. everybody likes to look at a cycle and say, see, there, i told you. maybe this will be the cycle where we settle this once and for all. >> but let me -- let's talk about mccain. he was down eight points when i was out at the denver convention for the democrats. and i said obama is going to win this thing, and i was -- the next morning, right after obama's speech, what did mccain do? he picked sarah palin, all right? and she gave a stunning speech at that convention. >> i remember. >> for a while, two weeks after that, mccain oddly was five points up. now, in -- then, of course, you had the whole economy thing break down. mccain handled it badly. so he went down to defeat. but the point of this is, there's a correlation. now, bush was in there for eight years. everybody wanted him go

what were some of the strategic romneys made by the mitt campaign? guest: the biggest strategic mistake they made was not understanding what the swing was and that person needed to be pulled away from the president. swing voter to be the middle income to lower middle income native born. less than ah college education and that not find mitt romney business experience attractive. not find the tax plan attractive. didn't like the president. they needed an alternative and campaign didn't .resent an economic growth plan host: reince priebus putting together an autopsy, learning from 2012. what was your take away from that report and has the party heeded the lesson? party is heeding the lesson. the autopsy was inefficiently deep. the idea was correctly diagnosed the republicans need to show that they're compassionate. what they didn't do was take the next step to talk about the recap the economic policy that people's sense compassion. we need to show we're good on immigration and other things. then people would agree with us on our core economics. the core

it's where rick santorum technically won a squeaker against mitt romney. santorum, of course, a catholic but very socially conservative catholic who appealed to evangelicals and makes sense to look at it as a major factor in iowa and i think what you have seen in iowa first ben carson ahead of donald trump and then ted cruz is evangelical voters liking carson and then to cruz and it is just not an ideal fit for trump who in spite of his claims occasionally is mostly a candidate of a more secular segment of the republican base. he is not winning churchgoers in large numbers and that's a problem for him in iowa. >> you know, it is real interesting. religion, you know, part of elections for a long, long time. but normally when candidates talk about faith it's subtle. dog whistle statements you make. buzz words to use. donald trump comes out and says things like i don't know if ted cruz is as evangelical as he says and ben carson being a seventh-day add sven tis. >> i'm presbyterian. that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. i mean seventh da

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the difference is rubio understands the problem in a way that romney never did. can he solve it, i don't know that. >> let me push back on something. we talk about the white voter in the wilderness. there's been internally democratic schisms, to your point, but this election feels like if there is a white voter in the wilderness it's open republican side of the aisle because of the turmoil and the difference between the establishment and the base at this particular moment. >> what i'm saying is those people are not arch conservatives. the missing white voter isn't the person who is there who is sort of railing against the 35% top tax rate or railing against the minimum wage law or even necessarily hard-core pro-lifer. the missing white voter, the people rallying behind trump are from all over the political spectrum. they're turned off by the republican party's closeness with big business, turned off by liberal social issues and maybe a perceived political correctness. they're not home at either party. right now they're being attracted towards a republican, donald

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green is the romney victory. essentially, romney had one ohio, because of strong support in the western reserve. same thing in illinois. the yankee north voted for romney to get down stay, he had great difficulty against santorum. romney also clinched oregon and washington, coastal california. however, pundits started saying, the primaries are coming, alabama and mississippi, this is where newt gingrich will have his chance. the polls are too close to call. except, they weren't. in now them the blue is gingrich and the green is romney, -- in alabama, the blue is gingrich, the green is romney, the brown is santorum. santorum walked away with alabama, because he had gotten those appalachian votes again. the posters were blindsided, because they had done polls based on gender and income level and race, but not by regional cultures. mississippi was a bit closer, only because the appalachian section of mississippi is much smaller. posters ignored these kind of things at their own peril. that is the most recent preside

mitt romney is who he is. he's taken companies and reduced them. and donald trump has sat there and, you know, told our members and that's what i care about this point, police officers, i'm not the head of the afl-cio. i'm head of the new england police benevolent association. i look after my members to ensure they have the best person to be endorsed. that's what we did collectively as a union. >> jerry flynn, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >>> chris hayes is up next. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> look at the way he's dealt with the senate. frankly, like a little bit of a maniac. >> donald trump continues to surge as his main competition appeals to conspiracy theorists. >> frank is a patriot. he loves this country. and he is clear-eyed about the incredible threat of radical islamic terrorism. >> tonight the fight on the right ahead of the debate. plus, why billionaires are having a hard time pushing their chosen candidates to the front of the pack. and is there any reason to believe donald trump's doctor's claim

give my super pac your millions and i will use the money to get mitt romney elected president. as you probably know, that promise didn't pan out for karl rove or for that matter mitt romney and it led to an infamous and humiliating election night meltdown by rove live on fox news when he refused to accept fox news's own call that president obama had won the state of ohio and thus the presidency. >> do you believe that ohio has been settled? >> no, i don't. and look, if we are calling this on the basis of 74% of the vote being in and when 77% is in secretary of state website i've got the director of the ohio campaign for romney on the other end of the line refreshing the page every few seconds, i don't know what the outcome is going to be but you should -- we've got to be careful about calling things when we have like 991 votes separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote yet to count. even if they have made it on the basis of select precincts i'd be very cautious about intruding into this process. >> well, folks. >> after that you may remember fox news host megyn kel

how does a gentleman line romney handle -- >> worst political move of the year? >> i think you can almost throw a dart at anything that rahm emanuel did in the last two years. i think the entire handling of the laquan mcdonald case and allowing the settlement to go through without comment and saying he never saw the video which mismanaged the situation. it's not only going to hurt his potential political future but he is also now going to hit anita alvarez and i think rahm emanuel is defunkt as a surrogate for hillary clinton. >> he is in a tough spot. >> worst political move of the year? >> the rnc chairman when he signed the note with donald trump saying he is going to support him no matter what. i think that did really tie him up and now he realizes he is about to face -- >> my worst political move of the year, john boehner inviting benjamin netanyahu to address the joint session of congress. trying to turn the congress against the president on the iran deal. it's one thing to do that. it's a giant moment in israeli politics to decide to do that. it is another

talking about whether there's a way for mitt romney to get in this race. >> stephen: mitt romney! frankly, i had no idea he wasn't in this race. i mean, he's in my graphic down there right in the middle. look. jim, get him out of there. jim, jim, he's still in there. oh, that's a manila envelope. i can't tell. ( applause ) and mitt-- thank you, sir-- has been keeping conservative hopes alive with his cryptic cagey statements. >> would you run in 2016 under any circumstances? >> i'm not running. the answer is no. i put the chances somewhere between zero and nil. >> stephen: so there is a chance. but whoever the g.o.p. tries to draft, they'd better do it fast because, according to a former republican adviser, "you have thanksgiving, christmas, new year's, then iowa, and a week later, new hampshire. and it's going to be over in the blink of an eye." the blink of an eye! and ben carson's already halfway through that blink! ( cheers and applause ) wake up! wake up! wake up! wake up! i don't know how he did surgery. it must have been like marco polo. "try to get the brain to yell. get t

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the romney campaign -- the guy made tens of millions of dollars raising money for romney. you give them money and they get a cut. our laws are so corrupt. our campaign-finance laws mr. trump: i don't necessarily want to stop people from giving, because i think that is a good thing. but you have to get away from the super pac's. what you have to have his people have to know who it is, so you have to open up the process and let people know -- if they want to give $1 million, then they can, but you must know who it is. that puts a little pressure on guys like brad, who raises hundreds of millions of dollars. pac, itept of the super is no good. it is no good. it is a very dangerous, terrible thing. we will change our laws because you really have no choice. it is so out of control. it is so terrible. the papers that are in this room tonight should look at this, there is so little money left over for the candidate, that is one of the reasons i'm so happy that i'm doing my own. we actually sent legal letters to around eight or nine super pac's. first of all, i'm sure that out of

four years ago mitt romney said russia was our biggest strategic enemy. president obama said he would reach out to adversarie adversa phone. could you understand why some would wonder for years russia has been our greatest adversary dealing with iran and syria and obviously, the actions. it would seem to be troubling to have putin praise you as he has and i understand your comments. tell me how you would work with him better to make us safer and perhaps make europe and the rest of the world safer. >> sure. look, i'm a deal maker. i make deals. really good deals. if you study what i've done, that's when i file my financials, people get it. i'm a deal person. sure, i could see if you want to be tough guys and everything, i could see russia being a big problem and mitt romney making that statement, frankly. i can also see russia being a big asset to our country and i think that's the way it's going to be. they're a powerful nation and they have a big military base and force and i think they can be a lot of good things happen with russia if we get along well

>> keep an eye on mitt romney. charlie: are you serious? mark: romney-ryan at the convention is the way the party would go. they would say america, you were wrong, we will give you a second chance. [laughter] charlie: thank you mark, john, nancy, bob, evan, and michael. i have learned a lot. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ charlie: our guest is nancy pelosi, the congresswoman from the 12th congressional district of california, and the democratic leader of the house of representatives. she has been the democratic leader for the past 13 years. she was the first woman in california, and the italian first american to lead her party. we are pleased to have you here. rep. pelosi: my pleasure. the omnibusart with spending bill. what is the status? what is going to happen? rep. pelosi: we are hopeful we can reach a compromise, but we are at a place where there is much more work to be done. but a spending bill like this, democratic president, republican congress, there are a large number of democrats in the house to sustain the president's veto

romney would not pick a favorite from the g.o.p. field, but senator mccain had an idea. romney: there are a number of people whom i support who presidents. i mean, there's jeb bush or chris christie or marco rubio. lindsey graham, carly fiorina. the list goes on and on. there are a number of people running that i think are qualified that would be terrific presidents. we're going to see how this works out. >> i'm heading the "draft romney" campaign. frank: the former bay state candidate and will not be making another run for president. sanders spending part the he is trailing behind hillary clinton in the polls. yesterday, he took part in a forum on racial justice and hall in dubuque. two-day swing through new hampshire tomorrow. his stops include nashua, hollis, rochester, and hampton. antoinette: a growing holiday tradition at the veterans cemetery down on cape cod. volunteers placing wreaths on the graves of those who served. thousands of wreaths laid down yesterday to honor past sacrifice. it's a tribute growing newscenter 5's se

he's got the -- sort of got what mitt romney wants. so he's in a good position to play the long game. and i do think he is probably -- i would predict he's going to win iowa. and then i don't know what mr. trump feels about that. and how he -- because he has always talked about the polls. what you have to realize is that all he talks about. if there's no polls to cite. when he can't keep saying, i'm winning, i'm winning, he's not talking about anything substantiative in there at all. all we're hearing about is, he's winning. so when he doesn't win, i don't know about what's left. >> john, how do you see marco rubio playing into all of this? he seems to be a candidate that has consistently played a long game, waiting for others to drop off. even if that may not actually happen? >> that may not happen until after new hampshire. part of the question for marco rubio's lane in this race. he's been patient, but he's in a pretty distant third or fourth place, lumped with dr. carson. and you have trump and cruz at the top. the question in this

my hunch is we have not seen the last of the romney's, by any means. i cannot predict any more than that. ok. there is a hand back there. >> thank you. is there anything in particular about politics that make dynasties more powerful or more likely to form, rather than butchers or bakers? stephen: i think it is a general rule of thought that if your father is a that you areer, more likely to become a bigger -- baker. so public service is a pretty heavy brew. if you are sitting at dinner and you are john and abigail and you are talking about their conversation with thomas jefferson, wow, that resonates. very often when they run for office their children join the had, certainly the kennedys a many people involved in that. so, i guess all of those things ofp along the possibilities generations. obviously when you are talking about money, it is easy to pass money along. many families do in one way or in another. and they write books about what happened in those families and where the problems are. clearly there are some occupations that depend on certain sk

men in the midwest and northeast, voters some of whom stayed home in 2012 rather than vote for mitt romney and not a conkntitconconsit -- web they didn't really know what these voters wanted in 2012 or 2008, either. but the one thing to your question what they could actually do, the one thing that hasn't really happened is there aren't major republican organizations, forget the other candidates going after trump on the air waves running ads against him. there were some john kasich ran this sort of over the top ad comparing trump to hitler in new hampshire, the koch brothers aren't attacking donald trump in iowa. you have some groups doing that. there hasn't been a full spectrum press against trump because the assumption is he'll fade or it's not worth attacking him because you don't want to alienate supporters. >> i would say another thing here is that donald trump is really an attitude more than a plan and at some point, the party leaders need to press him for an actual credible plan which i think he's largely lacking. >> he's been pressed in countless interviews and his supporters don't

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romney did a lot of things wrong. but that image of you hugging obama after the hurricane came through was just devastating to many of us. i know have you addressed this and challenged it. but that's a really tough sticking point for me personally. to get over. >> it would han't have been a sticking point if you lived in new jersey. first of all, i didn't hug him. let's get over that. he got off the palestinian and i shook his hand like you do as a civil person. 75% of the state was without power. all of our schools closed. 51 gas stations for the entire state. no wastewater or treatment plants or water treatment plants operational. when the president of the united states comes and says we're going to help, you look at him and say thank you, mr. president. he does something right, you say, thank you mr. president. when he does something wrong, you criticize him. i took an oath of office. the people of new jersey deserved my very best to rebuild the state. so i did. i wouldn't change a theing, eri. i wish it wasn't eig

. >> i think he saw romney as too mushy but better than the alternative. >> a former democrat, adelson is actually liberal on most social issues but what he's most interested in is the security of israel. he is vehemently against the creation of a palestinian state. >> he cares deeply and passionately about the history of israel. everything is secondary to that. >> the best future for israel lies with the republicans. spoke frequently with senator marco rubio. he hasn't committed to rubio or any other candidate. >> he wants to see rubio win some votes in iowa and new hampshire and where we're standing it now. >> some call it the adelson primary. influence. can he not guarantee that the next president is going to do what he wants. but he will get access because he will put a lot of money into the process. >> he would say this is america. i've made a lot of money. i should be able to spend my money any way i want. do i want to influence the political process, sure i do. >> rules regulating gambling are simply business. >> he wants the government to stay out of his business, right? >> for

>> we all remember that tim pawlenty moment from 2012, where he had said something about mitt romney the day before and then got asked and basically whipped on it. and for cruz, this is so important, because so much of his candidacy is about authenticity and saying what he means. i'm a committed conservative, i'm not going to be waffling, i'm a truth teller. so this is now a recording of him. he can't walk away from the fact he said it. at the same time, he has been very smart in handling donald trump and knowing if he can draft off of his support for a while, that he could rise to this position. >> so we know that trump and cruz have had this bromance. and trump always says, i won't hit you until you hit me. or we should have the caveat, until you threaten me. he sees the cruz rise coming. listen to donald trump in iowa the other day. he knows that a lot of ted cruz's support in that state comes from the very conservative evangelical constituency. is donald trump just wanted to help them out with the bio. >> so i think we're going to do -- we're doing really well with the evangelica

romney. doesve him away in on this lend some credence to the chatter that is going on right now about the possibility of a brokered convention. everyone that i talked to in my story said everyone is thinking about it. it is too soon to know whether or not it will happen but everyone is planning for it. one thing that mr. ginsberg said in the story today, defending which took some fire recently for talking about a brokered -- we should not say brokered -- kathleen: let's stop you right there. explain to everybody what this is all about. the last time there was a brokered convention was a long time ago. 1952. >> brokered or contested convention is when candidates arrived to their nomination convention without more than half of the delegates. delegates are supporters are elected on the state level. this year, they are bound to the popular vote in these states. .ew york votes i believe they are a proportional state. those delegates are bound proportionally by the popular vote on primary day. so y