Jeb Bush Addressing Iowa Voters.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. I want to take you right back out to the Iowa state fair. There you see candidate Jeb Bush. He's on a literal soap box. He's talking about several things, about his standings in the poll, about Cuba, about the Iran nuclear deal. He also has talked about ISIS. I want to play a bit for you of what he had to say. Let's listen.</s>JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Today the FBI director says the thing that keeps him up at night are home grown terrorists. They're inspired by ISIS. We should be taking out ISIS. We should have a strategy to deal with ISIS rather than admit that we don't have one. Each and every day that they exist they gain more power. They recruit more people. The next president of the United States, if I'm president, we will have a strategy on day one to take out this grave threat to our national security and to the world. I promise you that.</s>COSTELLO: All right. He says we will have a strategy on day one but not right now. Sara Murray and David Chalian standing by in Des Moines to talk more about what Jeb Bush is saying to the crowd. Good morning. So I'll start with you, David. Actually, I got notes for when Jeb Bush was walking through the crowd and as he was talking to voters -- he was quite effective, right?</s>DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Yes, listen, Jeb Bush -- it is a comfortable atmosphere for him to talk to voters. This is actually I think where Jeb Bush is best on the trail, when he's sort of able to sort of tell his story small group by small group. Much better than we saw him on the debate stage perhaps last week. But listen, when he got up there on the "Des Moines Register" soap box, Carol, and you just played a little bit of it -- he gave a red meat speech to this crowd. He just did. He wanted to make sure to do a complete take down of the failures -- of what he sees as the failures of Barack Obama's leadership. I think he said no more "dog ate my homework" excuses. We need real leadership. That's exactly what this kind of Republican caucus going crowd here in Iowa wants to hear from Jeb Bush.</s>COSTELLO: But Sara I think the man they really want to hear from is Donald Trump because what Donald Trump has a lot more support in the polls today than Jeb Bush has. Jeb Bush only comes in at what -- 5 percent in Iowa?</s>SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Yes, so Jeb Bush sort of dismissed his standing in the polls this morning saying polls are kind of irrelevant at this point. It's still very early. But look it was a pretty big mob scene following Jeb around between the reporters and the supporters. And we're expecting it to be even crazier when Trump gets here on Saturday. Like you said he is the top of the polls here in Iowa. Plus it's a Saturday. There's more people with free time, more people, you know, got time to come out to the fair. And Trump is going to be giving away those free helicopter rides after all nearby. Not within the fairgrounds because they put kibosh on that. So I think you can expect quite a spectacle tomorrow from Donald Trump.</s>COSTELLO: Oh my goodness. Ok, so while we're talking about Donald Trump, I have to bring up former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. He was on "NEW DAY" this morning. And he talked about how we would just love to be considered as Donald Trump's running mate. Let's listen.</s>JESSE VENTURA, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA: I think Donald Trump is wonderful that he's shaking the system to its core. Could you imagine the Republican Party with the candidacy of Trump and Ventura, the ultimate Independent joining forces? I mean that would be very, very interesting.</s>COSTELLO: David -- that would be interesting, right?</s>CHALIAN: To say the very least -- Carol. It would be fascinating. Listen, that Jesse Ventura win, when he won the governorship in Minnesota, that was a big shock and surprise. And I think not completely unfamiliar to what Donald Trump is tapping into right now -- that outsider status. We see it on the Democratic side a little bit with Bernie Sanders as well. So I do think that the one thing that a Trump-Ventura ticket would have is like no relationship with the establishment, which is what some voters are very excited about right now.</s>COSTELLO: I'm loving those old picture we're putting out. Sara, Jesse Ventura also spoke glowingly of Bernie Sanders. So it was equal opportunity love fest.</s>MURRAY: Who knows? Maybe it will be a Bernie Sanders/Jesse Ventura ticket. Who can say? I mean as David points out the one thing these guys all have in common -- they're not the establishment candidate. And the polls are showing that's what voters want right now. That's what they are into at this moment.</s>COSTELLO: That's what they're into at this moment. But everyone says their bubble is soon to burst, David, but it doesn't seem to be bursting any time soon.</s>CHALIAN: No, I don't think it's going to burst any time soon -- Carol. I think that Donald Trump is here to stay for a while. And I think that we see no matter what comes his way in terms of media criticism or a criticism from his opponent or the Republican establishment, it doesn't stick because he has identified this group of supporters that are with him and love to see him under attack like that. It rallies them to his cause. Now, listen, we've got a long way to go here. Here at the Iowa state fair, Carol, they have a little stand with popcorn kernels for people to put their kernels in and reflect who they would vote for if the caucuses were held today. Jeb Bush cast his kernel for himself today. Donald Trump's jar is quite full and reflects what we're seeing in the polls right.</s>COSTELLO: All right. Well, let's just talk a little bit more about Jeb Bush because he said something yesterday that caused critics to pause. He said that it was actually a good thing to have invaded Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Is that the message voters want to hear -- Sara?</s>MURRAY: Well, I think that the message is different when it comes out of the lips of a guy named Bush versus President Obama who has also said that it was the right thing to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The problem, of course, for Jeb Bush is George W. Bush and how is he going to be different from his brother. That's what a lot of voters want to know. And I think people have not been very impressed by the way he's navigated these questions. I think they want him to be able to answer more directly how his policies would be different. That's a very difficult issue for Jeb Bush because he does love his family. It's awkward to throw your brother under the bus, to throw your dad under the bus. And he doesn't really want to do that. But, you know, it's something that he's going to need to work out. It's not a question that's going to be going away.</s>COSTELLO: All right. Sara Murray, David Chalian -- thanks to both of you. I appreciate it. And you don't want to miss the second Republican debate on September 16th on CNN. That will take place at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. CNN will also host the first of the six Democratic debates October 13th live from Nevada. I'll be right back.