Scarborough to WSJ’s Kissel: You’re So Frustrated Trump Is Teflon

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KAY: “Joining us now is member of the ‘Wall Street journal’ editorial board and host of ‘Opinion Journal’ on ‘Wall Street journal’ live, Mary Kissel. Mary, thank you.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Mary, Sam Stein is fascinated. How is it a lie that was spread by the left?”
KISSEL: “Because effectively what Donald Trump said is that President Bush knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction —“
SCARBOROUGH: “No way.”
KISSEL: “— in Iraq and that is simply not true. That is something that moveon.org has tried to climb for, now, four years. And you have —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Well you know, actually, if you look at what the ‘New York Times’ was writing from 1998 to 2001, what the ‘Washington Post’ was writing, their editorial boards, both of them, basically saying that Saddam Hussein was going to be one of the biggest threats to George W. Bush’s presidency.”
KISSEL: “Well, we know — we — look —“
SCARBOROUGH: “And that George W. Bush was sworn in.”
KISSEL: “Look, we know that presidents have to make big decisions sometimes with incomplete information but I think that the bigger issue here with Donald Trump and what he said is his temperament. Two big issues with Donald Trump are his temperament —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Why don’t you write that to your ‘Wall Street journal’ readers and see if it matters?”
KISSEL: “His temperament and his policies.”
SCARBOROUGH: “So, how frustrated are you that it doesn’t seem to matter?”
KISSEL: “Well, I think it does matter. It certainly mattered in Iowa.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “To voters.”
KISSEL: “It mattered in Iowa.”
SCARBOROUGH: “He got more votes than anybody else before him.”
KISSEL: “Yes, that is true, but I think the issue —“ (Laughter)
SCARBOROUGH: “Come on, Mary!”
KISSEL: “Look, let me make the argument, though. Let me make the argument.” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Just admit — just admin that you’re so frustrating. You were so frustrated by Donald Trump that he’s teflon. Ronald Reagan is not teflon. This man went out there and talked about Planned Parenthood, he talked about 9/11 in ways that Bernie Sanders wouldn’t talk about it. You look at the polls afterwards on who won the debate, it doesn’t — nothing seems to get to him.”
KISSEL: “Well, again, I don’t think that’s true. I think the issue is that Iowa and New Hampshire have not played the traditional role in winnowing down the candidates. And so, you have a group of candidates who is essentially playing survivor.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
KISSEL: “There’s no reason for Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush or John Kasich to drop out right now and why has that happened? It’s because they haven’t taken on the two big issues with Donald Trump — which is namely temperament, do you want a guy like this with his finger on the nuclear button —“ [crosstalk]