>> because nicole wallace is vibrating at a high intensity at this point. she's six inches above her seat. you're freaking out. >> he talks about he is poll numbers on the stump every day for the first 15 to 20 minutes. >> the woman who said i like cruz and it looks like trump is going to win. >> we all said that to some degree. >> trump is not ahead in texas according to the polls. there are some polls that have him tied. but the impression she has is trump is the winner. >> but does ted cruz have any prospects of winning anywhere other than texas? >> he doesn't talk about it. so you have to think a campaign that's been so technically precise. i mean, their predictions in iowa, they had it down, they had the turnout model down to within 10,000 voters. this is a technically and operationally very, very good campaign. so they are not talking about winning anywhere other than texas. >> it's amazing to be a texas senator, thinking that you're going to win texas and not being able to say you're also going to win oklahoma. that's stunning. i mean, if ted cruz, o

. >>> let's bring in nicolle wallace. good morning to you. the question about a loss tonight for donald trump and how it damages his political brand, what do you think? >> listen, i think that he said what i was going to say, which is that this is a series of known-unknowns. i thought it was actually a sober interview from donald trump this morning with you guys. no one knows if his movement, as he described it -- bernie sanders describes it as a revolution on the democratic side -- is goif people are goin show up. is their model going to bear out the right number of evangelicals, or is donald trump's movement going to upend the republicans? >> a little uncertainty even from donald trump himself, who is usually a ton of confidence. >> right. >> the fact he's doing so well with evangelical voters, is that one of the more confounding things? they can be dispositive of what ultimately happens. he's winning them, donald trump. >> i sat down with my two evangelical whisperers, friends who know the block the best, and said, what's going on with tru

political analyst nicolle wallace and political correspondent, steve kornacki. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's take it piece by piece. if you watch the debate, you see there are certain voter groups and issues that keep cropping up. let's start with this battle, and it is an all-out battle for the african-american vote. steve, we saw hillary clinton really usher in this strategy that she's been trying out, which is to wrap her arms around president obama and his legacy. not only that, say that bernie sanders didn't do so sufficiently. >> that's the interesting thing. president obama is still extremely popular with african-american voters. more than 50% of the electorate in south carolina. all of the areas where bernie sanders would try to come after hillary clinton, so many of them, the criticism he levelled against her could also be applied to president obama. she pointed that out time and again. basically put him on the defensive. he had to say, this is why i'm criticizing hillary clinton but it's not meant as a criticism of president obama. it's tough

. >> let's bring in chuck todd and nicolle wallace, long night for you, nice to have you with us this morning. >> where am i? >> let's start on the republican side. yesterday morning you told us the cruz campaign was supremely confident. we interviewed donald trump yesterday morning, he seemed uncharacteristically subdued. >> exactly. >> did they know it was coming? >> i think the cruz camp definitely knew it was coming. i had seen them at lunch the day before, they were so calm, they hung out for so long there were no frantic cellphone calls i said they either knew they were going to win or knew they were going to lose. they had built a model to go to the capacity of 170,000, they knew they were going to do well last night. >> what is trump supposed to make of this? is it just, do you know what, he didn't organize well in the end for iowa and it's iowa specific or is this a sign that perhaps that support you see in polls over and over again that there's less than meets the eye when it comes down to voters going in and writing down his name? >> the answer to both of your questions is

let's get oonl sis, nicolle wallace, adviser to the mccain/palin campaign and mark halperin in las vegas. good morning to you. nicole, i'll start with you this morning, that's the question, is donald trump unstoppable? he seems to have the momentum and now got two big wins under his belt. >> you put it the other way around, can ted cruz or marco rubio win? i think it's a harder question to answer. it would be defying decades of political history to see the nomination in marco rubio's case after coming in third and fifth and second and ted cruz's case hasn't won since iowa. it is possible in my view but it is increasingly unlikely. >> mark halperin, the argument is if you get donald trump in a one on one fight, that's the way to beat him but which of the candidates, marco rubio or ted cruz or john kasich gives up the fight at this point given how well they've been doing in the second place slot? >> none of them give it up. all of them think somehow trump can be stopped when it's one on one. you've got the contest here tomorrow and then super tuesday a week from tomorrow and i think it's i

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we have msnbc political analyst nicole wallace with us in studio. chuck, i will start with you. donald trump accusing ted cruz of stealing the election in iowa. number one, is there anything on the substance of it? and is it a smart political attack? >> i am shocked that political campaigns try to win elections. there is not a lot of there there. did they take advantage of the situation with carson? yes, but a lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes there. a lot of the charges are overwrought. it's donald trump playing a little bit of politics. that said, i have to say the more they fight, the more this helps one candidate. not ted cruz, not donald trump but marco rubio. the private polling i have been hearing about over the past two days post iowa indicates that cruz hasn't gotten a bump, and i think partly because trump has been beating him up. trump has been eroding a little bit and there's only one guy on the rise -- marco rubio. >> nicole, we know the voter base in new hampshire is different than iowa. are the new hampshire voters -- let's stick on the republican side here -

nicolle wallace served as an adviser to the mccain-palin campaign, and chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." >> good morning. >> chuck, big moment, big stakes. chris christie absolutely eviscerated marco rubio. this campaign with seven, eight candidates, it's like a game of three-dimensional chess. where does it fall out? >> i think the consequence of what happened saturday night is, i think no matter what happens here, barring one of the candidates sort of skyrocketing or an upset over trump, i think it means now nobody gets out. i think it means new hampshire doesn't win out the field. marco rubio had an opportunity to take control of the race on saturday night. he knew everybody was going to come after him. that's what makes saturday night so perplexing. he knew they were coming after him and he wasn't ready. he ended up blowing an opportunity that i think could have meant securing the nomination, believe it or not. if he had had as good of a night as he had as bad of a night. >> let's go further on that. we were talking before the show. chris christie spent the whole week say

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nicolle wallace served as an adviser to the mccain-palin campaign, and mark halperin is politics. >> good morning. >> nicolle, the question, is donald trump unstoppable? he seems to have the momentum and has two big wins under his belt. >> flip it the other way around. can ted cruz or marco rubio win? i think it's a harder question to answer. it would be defying decades of political history to seize the nomination in marco rubio's case, after coming in third, fifth and second, and ted cruz's case, he hasn't won since iowa. in my view, it is increasingly unlikely. >> mark, the argument from a lot of republicans is, if you get donald trump in a one on one fight, it's the way to beat him. i guess the question for me is, which of the candidates, whether marco rubio, ted cruz or john kasich, gives up the fight at this point, given how well place slot? >> none of them give it up. all of them think that somehow, trump can be eventually stopped when it's one on one. you've got the contest here tomorrow, and then super tuesday a week from tomorrow. i think it's increasingly -- as nicolle said

. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> let's get a check of the early weather from mr. roker. we talked about a snowstorm moves into iowa. timing, al? will it have an affect on the caucuses? >> it might. especially for folks a little nervous about a blizzard coming in. take a look at flag staff, arizona. in fact, listen. boom. thunder snow. that's right. this storm is making its way to the east. it's already dumped a bunch of snow throughout california, arizona, and it is headed this way. here's what we're looking at for today. already, snow making its way through the rockies. now, this system will push to the east. as it does, we look for some fairly good snow falling through the rockies today. heavy snow for southern-central rockies. moves to the plains later this evening. tomorrow, we have a blizzard likely for iowa. snow falling at rates of 2 inches an hour. heavy snow in the upper midwest. out west, flag staff, denver, 8 to 24 inches of snow. the timing for iowa looks like this. we're going to st

. >>> let's bring in chuck todd and nicolle wallace. long night for you. nice to have you with us this morning. >> where am i? side. yesterday morning you told us the cruz campaign was supremely confident. we interviewed donald trump yesterday morning and he seemed uncharacteristically subdued. did they know it was coming? i saw them the day before and they were calm. they hung out a long time and there were no frantic cell phones. i thought, they either knew they were going to win or knew they were going to lose. they built the model with the capacity to go to 170,000. it went bigger. well last night. >> what is trump supposed to make of this? is it just, he didn't organize well in the end for iowa, and it's iowa specific, or is this a sign that perhaps the support you see in polls over and over again, that there's less than meets the eye when it comes down to voters writing down his name? are yes. meaning that, look, if people are not people that are used to participating in the process, guess what that means? you'll work even harder to get them out to v