>> WHO WOULD BE WORSE FOR AMERICA AS PRESIDENT?
WOULD IT
BE DONALD TRUMP OR WOULD IT BE TED CRUZ?
WHO WOULD DO MORE
HARM FOR THIS COUNTRY, WE WILL WEIGH IN, BUT FIRST FORMER
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER WILL WEIGH IN WITH HIS THOUGHTS --
>>EVEN HIS HAIR IS NOT FIXED IN PLACE.
HE DID NOT SAY THAT.
>> THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK CENK HAS EXPRESSED ON THE
SHOW, I THINK BEN MANKIEWICZ HAS EXPRESSED, I HAVE GOTTEN MANY
TWEETS SAYING JOHN, I KNOW YOU HATE TRUMP, BUT WHY DO YOU KEEP
SAYING HE WOULD BE WORSE, WHY DO YOU FOCUS SO MUCH ON HIM WHEN
CRUZ IS CLEARLY A WORSE PERSON?
SO WHO DO YOU SIDE WITH?
ARE YOU
A CARTER GAL?
>>I DO AGREE WITH CARTER.
BUT I THINK CARTER
IS BEING A LITTLE TOO GENEROUS TO DONALD TRUMP.
I DON'T THINK
THAT TRUMP IS MALLEABLE.
I SEE WHAT HE IS SAYING ABOUT THAT.
HE
DOESN'T HAVE HARD-CORE POLICY POSITIONS.
FIRST OF ALL, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY POLICY POSITIONS.
>>HE DOESN'T SEEM TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
>>HE DOESN'T.
DURING THE DEBATES HE IS OBVIOUS IN BEING VAGUE IN
HIS ANSWERS, NOT BEING SPECIFIC ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO IF HE
WERE PRESIDENT.
HE USES WORDING LIKE, I WILL TAKE DOWN ISIS.
>>WE WILL WIN AT EVERYTHING EXCEPT IOWA.
>>HE DOESN'T HAVE POLICY POSITIONS, AND I SUPPOSE IF HE
GOT ELECTED, WHICH WOULD BE A TERRIBLE DAY IN AMERICA,
CONGRESS, OR AT LEAST THE MORE LIBERAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,
WOULD PLAY A BIG ROLE IN SHAPING SOME OF THE LEGISLATION THAT
GETS PASSED.
HOWEVER, I THINK I WANT TRUMP TO WIN THE REPUBLICAN
TICKET FOR ANOTHER REASON -- HE JUST DOESN'T STAND A CHANCE IN
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
I THINK TED CRUZ WOULD GET TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY THAN DONALD TRUMP.
>>BY THE MEDIA?
>>AND ALSO BY REPUBLICANS.
I KNOW THERE IS A HUGE CHUNK OF
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT IS SUPPORTIVE OF TRUMP NOW, BUT IF
YOU LOOK AT THE POLLS HE WOULD GET CLOBBERED IN THE GENERAL.
I
THINK TED CRUZ OR MARCO RUBIO STANDS A BETTER CHANCE.
I DON'T
THINK THEY WOULD GET ELECTED OVER HILLARY ARE BERNIE, BUT I
THINK THEY STAND A BETTER CHANCE THAN TRUMP.
I WOULD RATHER HAVE
TRUMP GET ELECTED SO WE CAN AT LEAST BE ENTERTAINED BY THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE AND ENJOY A DEMOCRAT GETTING ELECTED
INTO OFFICE.
>>I AM TORN ABOUT IT, BECAUSE I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TED CRUZ IS A
DISASTER.
HE LOVES TO SAY, AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT IT, THAT HE
IS FREE OF TIES TO BIG MONEYED INTERESTS AND EVERYTHING.
LIKE,
GO EFF YOURSELF, MOTHERFUCKER.
YOU GET SO MUCH MONEY FROM OIL
COMPANIES.
HE WOULD BE A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT.
AND THE IDEA
THAT BECAUSE TRUMP HAS SWITCHED A LOT OF HIS POSITIONS FROM A
YEAR AGO OR 10 YEARS AGO OR 20 YEARS AGO THAT HE WOULD BE
MALLEABLE, LIKE, THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS WHO WOULD INFLUENCE
HIM, SOME LIBERALS WHO WOULD -- THE IDEA THAT HE WOULD SURROUND
HIMSELF BY LIBERALS, OR THAT HIS DESIRE TO CONSTANTLY STAY IN THE
NEWS BY APPEALING TO OUR WORST INTERESTS, BY APPEALING TO THE
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR, THAT WOULD GO AWAY ONCE HE WAS SWORN
IN?
HE WOULD STILL WANT TO BE IN THE NEWS EVERY DAY, AND HE KNOWS
THAT BEING AWFUL IS THE WAY TO DO THAT.
WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE
WHAT HE WOULD DO AS PRESIDENT, BUT I DON'T HAVE MUCH REASON TO
BELIEVE THAT WHAT HE WOULD DO WOULD BE BETTER THAN WHAT CRUZ
WOULD DO.
>>YOU ARE RIGHT, HE IS GETTING A LOT OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
FOR SOME OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS HE SAID.
MAY BE THE SAME PEOPLE
WILL EGG HIM ON IF HE EVER GOT ELECTED.
I JUST -- HE WILL NOT
GET ELECTED.
MAYBE I AM BEING TOO, I DON'T KNOW, CONFIDENT IN
KNOWING THAT.
BUT I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE HIM BE THE NOMINEE, OR THE PICK
FOR REPUBLICANS, AND THEN WE CAN DESTROY HIM.