in the meantime we send it to washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. i'm back from new hampshire. as donald trump might say, there was so much winning going on. "the lead" starts right now. there will be blood. donald trump moves on to south carolina with ted cruz in his cross-hairs. if you thought the race was chaotic and ugly before, wait until you see the tv ads running today. >>> going national. bernie sanders getting a huge fund-raising bump after his blowout win in new hampshire. can he break through in friendly territory for hillary clinton? >>> determined to attack. the top u.s. security official warning isis could strike inside the u.s. this year. and we may not see the terrorists coming. hello, everyone, welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. our politics lead today, new hampshire narrowing the republican field. carly fiorina announcing she is suspending her campaign today. governor chris christie expected to do the same. while tuesday spelled the end for some, it was a momento

bush also vowed to change washington. but he's also putting the blame on republicans especially with this supreme court nomination. a question of will you give this nominee a hearing? that's going to put republicans on the defensive. but at the same time, don, i don't see the republicans caving. now, will the democrats say, well, the president won't sign spending bills unless you give him this nominee. that, will they raise the stakes to that degree? we'll see later this year, but i don't see republicans caving any time soon and i think republicans might say, listen, we might lose the senate over this, but this is more important to prevent obama from shifting this court. >> i appreciate all of you coming on tonight. gloria borger working hard in the field. all the guys, lazy in the studio sucking up the air-conditioning or the heat. gloria, thank you very much. >> come on down. it's fun. >> thank you, guys. see you soon. >>> when we come right back, hillary clinton on the trail in harlem. will african-american voters be t

we don't need anymore of these washington acts. the acts to get rid of are washington, d.c. acts and as a governor of a state capital i said we don't need somebody from washington, d.c. what i said in that campaign was the problem is washington, d.c. and we don't need washington politicians to fix it. and so when you look at who's remaining on the stage, no question this is the person who will go to washington, d.c. and be able to absolutely turn the place around. we don't need anymore washington politicians, especially some who have only been there for a term and never shown up for work to tell us how to run the united states government. and so, i absolutely believe that donald trump is the best person on that stage to be president of the united states. by the way, there was a period of time i was running against him. he knew i wanted to beat him. he wanted to beat me. we had open conversations about that. but that part of this is over. and then you have to say to yourself as a good, loyal, american who is the best person to stop hillary clinton from ever getting inside the

he has been covering washington for more than 40 years. he also moderated three presidential election debates and now a cbs news contributor. before we talk about the presidential race, let me ask you about the stunning and tragic news about justice scalia. i think it's known for you in washington sometimes you see the justices even though there's a vail of secrecy over the court. did you ever interact with him and what are your experiences with him? >> i met him once at a party. that's the extent of my personal contact. he was truly an intellectual giant. no getting around that. one could disagree or agree with him. he made his mark but i got to tell you, brian. i woke up this morning and looked at my iphone and there was the headline on the washington post story that says scalia's death spurs partisan sclash. i thought my god they haven't dug the poor man's grave yet and we're talking about a partisan brought on by his death. it's where we are in american politics today. >> we can talk about whether it's good or bad but it's certainly ch

your colleagues in washington. if you are going to have a problem with them, what are you going to say to them as president to get them on board so that we can get legislation passed? >> it's a great question, robert, thank you for asking it. let me focus on two levels, let me explain how we actually change the direction in washington. it's not that i speak with a lack of civility or respect, you have seen in the presidential campaign as other people insult me, i don't respond in kind. i try very much -- the bible talks about if someone treats you unkindly, repay them with kindness. it's like heaping coals on top of their head. that is the standard i have tried to follow. i have not attacked my colleagues in the senate, democrat or republican. even if i disagree with them on the issues i'll tell you why they say ted is unlikable in washington. because i'm actually honoring the commitments that i made to the women and men who elected me. for example, on planned parenthood, i led the fight for us to use the budgetary

too many people in washington are telling voters they're wrong, washington knows best, and what we have right now is a process where more people are helping decide our nominee. that's supposed to happen. for the washington post to sit here and criticize our side when you have a self-described socialist as a leading candidate for the democratic party. think about that. we're a capitalistic society. we're the most amazing country on earth, and they sit back and say, oh, it's no big deal that you have a socialist that wants to take this country in a vastly different direction. i don't really put too much stock in what the washington post editorial page has to say. >> you talked about the consolidated calendar. the rnc is doing it a little bit differently this time. how hard does it make it for candidates to come back if they fall behind early? after next tuesday they could be behind by a lot. it's hard to come back after that. >> with the rnc did this cycle is ensure proportionality. when you win a state right now, the phase up until march 15th is proportion proportional. it's only 10 of t

he's from eastern washington. you know washington -- make some really nice grapes out there. a couple years ago we decided to, you know, go into this little venture and it's a cab from eastern washington. and -- >> yeah. >> try -- >> supposed to have been sending you some of this, actually, the last couple of months. >> that's okay. i know how that goes, man. is the bathroom close? >> yeah. >> no. i'm kidding. >> and the great thing about it, he's out there, he grew up with some of the people in the wine business. he got great relationships and i thought it would be fun. >> that's great. >> so the last time there was a super bowl here in, in the bay area. >> uh-huh. >> in stanford, was the super bowl we both played in. a pretty good day for you. not so good for me. >> i'm not going to lie, man. that was a pretty dang good defensive team. >> that makes me feel a little bit better. >> joe, here's a mick chpicture and-of-you and i and this was your last game and peyton manning might be retiring. were you thinking about retiring then? >> this game bugs me, yeah. >> bugs you? >> y

let's talk about this with cnn senior political reporter who is in washington. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was quick to say he didn't think the president should nominate a replacement for scalia. president obama vowed he will nominate someone quickly. how long could the process drag out? >> quite sometime if you look at histor historical, typically they take 67 days on average. the longest when robert -- nomination was rejected three decades ago. that took 108 days. this is poised to smash that record. we are looking at right now mcconnell saying the president should not nominate anyone. if he sticks to his demand and decides not to allow a confirmation vote on the senate floor and if they deny a confirmation hearing in the senate, judiciary committee it is certainly likely there will be no nominee confirmed this year. that means it will drag on to the next presidency. it could take two or three months in the next administration. we can look for more than year. the question is whether or not political pressure will force republicans to change. >> i'm

he will hold a rally and then return back to washington, d.c. to cast some votes tomorrow. >> he lost to donald trump by more than 60,000 votes. donald trump had more than 60,000 votes ahead of ted cruz. clearly a very significant number. i want to go over to john king right now. the evangelical vote very important in south carolina as it was in iowa, not so much in new hampshire. >> no, not so much in new hampshire, but ted cruz stuck waiting fo are a number of mall towns to report, but it looks like ted cruz is at the moment is holding on to third place. some small places in there could change the math, but if he comes out third, what does he do, he has a win in iowa and a show in new hampshire. they go on to south carolina and why is this a big state, often decisive, but not this year, but ted cruz in iowa with the evangelicals. let's look at the population here. the deeper the color the more evangelicals you find. let me shrink this down. the big ad war is here. this is critical to a christian conservative. this part of the state is critical

little marco rubio is another washington politician that is all talk and no action. and the florida senator hit back making fun of trump's unusual tan and says what is trump's small hands. >> he doesn't sweat because his hands are clogged from the spray tan he uses. donald is not going to make america great. he's going to make america orange. he is always calling me little marco. he is 6'2", which is why i don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5'2". you know what they say about men with small hands. you can't trust them. you can't trust them. >> and new signs of republican panic in washington overnight. what might be called a disendorsement from senator ben sass. in a lengthy facebook post, he writes if trump wins the nomination, he will not vote for him. >> he is hugely popular. he campaigned all over iowa against trump. now he says he is in the never trump camp. he will not vote for trump if he is the nominee. interesting to see that. interesting to see how the party responds. >>> hillary clinton is campaigning fresh off her huge victory ove

i don't know how many conservative voters will say ted cruz washington insider when the constant washington insiders bob dole and trent lott and others are saying we don't like ted cruz, we can't stand him, we won't vote for him. you can't have it both ways. i think the difference between trump and cruz is this. they both have set it up this year to put the establishment flat on its back. the twoun tag team of trump and cruz. however, one is talking about taking on the washington accomplishme establishment and one's gone there and done it. >> but why change your tactics if you're winning? why would donald trump change and give specifics about things or change his campaigning when he's winning? >> he won't. >> kellyanne, i've got to disagree with you because this collection it's not about who's more conservative, which is what we typically see in a primary. this election is about who is more of an outsider. and for donald trump that means going after ted cruz and saying ted cruz took wall street money. i agree with you ted cruz is a great candidate, we'd be lucky to have him, he's the second

, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks and he didn't talk about that he pays no interest and now he's goeing to protect people from the big bad banks. give me a break. >> governor kasich. the idea -- i want to quote you now. . the idea that we're going to deport all these people is ludicrous and everybody knows it. should people be allowed to break the law just because it's not feasible to stop them? >> look, we have a great president here, george bush, 41st president of the united states. he work would ronald regan to pass an effort to try to solve this problem. a path to legalization. you see that was a time when things worked. when president regan and george bush decided we needed to make the country work. look, i think there is a answer here. you complete the border. you let p

>> voters won't change in washington. they know this is the election between those power brokers in washington who want to maintain the status quo and all of those americans who believe the government should work for the people rather than the other way around. that's the competition you're seeing. people are tired of political correctness and those really focused on favoritism for a few here in washington rather than opportunity for all. >> well, you want change in washington to be clear, to be sure, and the question is, who is most likely to get that change? it's the issue of, you know, electability versus purity, really. when voters in iowa were asked about who the most electable was, it was marco rubio at 43%, donald trump at 25%, cruz 22. you have a record and heritage has a record of being on the side of purity sometimes instead of electability. what do you think in this case? >> well, there's really no purity in politics. what we want to do is move things in a positive direction. americans know we haven't been doin

he drove to a mall in maryland, suburban washington. >> it was approximately 6:00 p.m. that bishop is spotted in the sears department store where he purchases a two and a half pound mini mall sledgehammer. bishop walked away from the counter, then came back with a gas can and purchased that. then went and filled his family station wagon with gas and also filled the gas can. >> a young lady stayed with the bishop family a number of days earlier, and they would have family dinner at the same time pretty much every day. but he never said anything at the dinner table. he was quiet. he was aloof. on march the 1st, after dinner, mr. bishop's mother takes the dog out for a walk. neighbors actually see her out that evening walking the dog. >> the wife was downstairs in a study area. >> two of the boys were in one room in their pajamas. the teenager is actually in his own room. >> he then used that mini hammer, that sledgehammer, and used it to bludgeon to death his wife first. >> they found her notes there on the shag carpet submerged in a pool of blood. >> one of her earrings

stay active with boost®. >>> live now to the washington hilton in washington d.c. this is the national prayer breakfast. aroma downy and mark burnett are speaking. producers of the tv mini series the bible. you hear them talking riebt now. when they are done president obama will come to the podium and we expect him to talk. the clock is ticking and the insults flying for republicans trying to seize momentum in next week's republican primaries. chris christie is holding a town hall in keane right now. doubling down after the dismal finish in iowa. look for christie to again take swipes at marco rubio who enjoyed a surge in iowa. in the meantime the biggest brawlers are the two front runners with donald trump accusing trump-cruz of stealing votes in iowa and demanding a do over. >> oh that voter fraud. you know, these politicians are brutal. they are brutal. they are brutal. they are a bunch of dishonest cookies. i want to tell you. >> i wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted. because he's losing it. >> cnn's dana bash live in mchsz new ha

a conservative candidate we can send to washington, d.c. for the first time in 208 years. >> -- 28 years. >> and you lost to him in the crime marry, primary? >> i like chris, done great things for the government of new jersey but doesn't have the track record i think are critical to this election and the future of the country. goes back not to that he's not the best candidate but that the ted cruz record on supporting the constitution of the united states and his background to doing this consistently is more important than ever before. >> mayor, thank you for your tinchts thanks for having me. >> nice to have you here. crunchtime here, of course. can donald trump and's bernie sanders win big and is this make or break for john kasich and chris christie? what of hillary clinton? live in new hampshire tomorrow with all five candidates for a very special edition of "state of the union" competely commercial-free tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern only here on cnn. >>> coming can up next, hillary clinton is trying to pull off a big co

they are desperate for somebody who will go in and shake up washington and it's like they didn't listen to the signs. they didn't change their course. and now they're being struck with donald trump, even if you look at what jeb bush was doing to marco rubio we had the scenario where so many times the party elders were trying to eat and defeat the party's young and now we have donald trump. >> it's no tt the end of the republican party, it's the broadening of it. he stands for policies that are not conservative policies saying i don't want to see people dying on the streets because they have health care, americans have paid into social security and ya emnot goie emi'm not going to take that away from them. he's american first and the republican party has needed to bro broaden their base and donald trump is doing that. >> the reason why she should be taken seriously is i hear this from democrats and you have democrats trying to decide to vote for sanders or trump. that makes zero sense. the other thing i think liberals need to wake up about with donald trump is this guy can win. he can go

also with us, todd gillman, the washington burreau chief for th dallas morning news. this back and forth over donald trump's taxes, where the main aggressor is one willard mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee. i suppose there are two questions. you've been on the record with us saying you think at some point donald trump will be vetted more than he has in the past and this may be one of those areas that will take place in. be that as it may, is willard mitt romney the right messenger for this attack? >> it certainly does show he is the embodiment of the establishment. for him to compae out, i think it's unprecedented to come out like this. but where's his evidence? what does he know that we don't know? interesting to hear. >> impressive for the man who was the republican nominee. i should note that donald trump announced mitt romney four years ago and in case anyone forgets, mitt romney went hat in hand to trump towers to essentially beg for that endorsement. >> we will eventually see his tax return but we will not see him in march. >> all right, amanda carpenter,

in an an hour from now, family and friends will celebrate his life and work here in washington, dc. the funeral service begins 11:00 a.m. eastern, followed by a private burial. the 79-year-old was a leading conservative voice on the supreme court for nearly 30 years. he died suddenly a week ago today, in his sleep at a texas hunting resort. known for his sharp mind and brash demeanor, scalia leaves the supreme court transformed by his intellect, his ideology and his sheer presence. his family life just as extraordinary as his presence on the high court, scalia leaves behind his wife of 55 years, maureen, their nine children, and their 36 grandchildren. one of his sons is a catholic priest, father paul scalia. he will be leading the mass, delivering the homily later this morning. we will also hear a scripture reading from close friend fellow justice clarence thomas who shared his belief that the constitution should be interpreted as those who drafted it. vice president joe biden will be here as well as other notable lawmakers. before the funeral begins i want to bring in cnn correspo

that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors -- >> the bottom line, this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing -- >> there it is. there it is. memorized 25-second speech. there is is t is, everybody. >> here's the response. i think anyone who believes that barack obama isn't doing what he is doing on purpose doesn't understand what we are dealing with here. this is a president, this is a president who is trying to change this country. >> oh, boy. hard to come back from this. and the boston herald ran with it. choke. it takes you back to the drinking of the water moment. >> yeah. i mean, we're chattering a lot about this. but when you look at the google search trends, 538 did an article about this. actual viewers spike -- the interest spiked when he talked about his pro life position. that was two, three times as many hits as when this exchange was going on. so may

i think there is a lot of hand ringing in washington. the reality is much of washington brought this on. people are very mad at the leadership. i think in both parties frankly. but trump has had the benefit of having such a crowded field, it's disburpersed a lot of the i think the angryist voices have gone towards him. as long as his field stays as large as it is, that i a benefit to trump. >> washington is a little irked some people aren't dropping to perhaps coalesce behind one. alex, to you, sir, great piece with maggie and jonathan in "the times." in your reporting, you mention senate majority leader mitch mcconnell laying out the plan that would have lawmakers break with trump in a general election? tell me about that. >> what they're envisioning now is a scenario where they're struck with trump and it becomes very clear maybe even before the convention in july that he's a nonstarter and he's going to lose badly. what that means is you have a number of vulnerable republican senators up for re-election who suddenly have to choose do

. >> ted ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's a lousy house. i'm going to take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there. >> eminent domain! >> wow. there have been some dirty tricks. what do you expect over the next ten days? >> south carolina has long history here of creative campaign tactics, don, to say the least. i expect a sprint to the finish here in south carolina. as hugh was just saying, a lot of candidates have a real shot here in south carolina. it they get a bit of luck and they perform well in the debate here on saturday night. >> so outsiders, matt, have shaken up the party to the core. it's shaking up the left as well. the electorate is angry at the establishment. are you hearing the same thing in south carolina? >> there's a lot of frustration all around. people are frustrated with what seems to be a prone political class in washington, a political class that listens more to lobbyists and donors. much that much is warranted. many here in south carolina feel left behind on both sides. i think our party has th

here in washington, 8:00 p.m. in damascus, syria, wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we're keeping an eye on two major developing stories right now. first the fallout from the surprise passing of the u.s. supreme court justice antonin scalia, and the battle between the white house and republican-controlled senate over replacements. former president george w. bush makes a much-anticipated

jim acosta from washington, good morning. >> good morning victor and christi. justice scalia dead at the age of 79 while on a hunting trip in texas he was said to have gone to bed not feeling well. found unresponsive in the afternoon. and appointed in 1986 by president reagan. first italian american on the high court. a strong vocal conservative voice. a critic of row v. wade and a dissenting voice in last term's same-sex marriage case. criticized recently for his comments regarding affirmative action. and who will succeed him now? and who will appoint that person. president obama said he intends to make the nomination in due time. but republicans made it clear in the senate they did it almost immediately they want the next president to fill the vacancy. and just scalia's death and the battle for his replacement on the bench loomed large at last night's republican presidential debate in south carolina. cnn's ryan nobles joins me now with a reaction from the gop hopefuls. they disagreed over a lot last light but on one thing this next pick should go to the next

when the washington lobbyists settled on other lobbyists in this race. when the media in one voice said a conservative cannot win, nationwide over 800,000 contributions poured in to tedcruz.org as courageous conservatives said, yes, we can. 800,000 contributions at tedcruz.org with an average contribution of $67. that is the power of the grassroots. but it's more than that. it's 12,000 volunteers here in the state of iowa. it's over 200,000 volunteers all across this great nation. you know, during the course of this campaign people have asked heidi and me are you tired? and i will admit it is 16, 18 hours a day, 6, 7 days a week. we are not tired at all. ♪ >> to the contrary, we are inspehred by each and every one of you. i leap out of bed every morning amazed that at a time when our country is in crisis, every one of us has the opportunity to stand and lead, that we have been put in a place of leadership. for such a time as this. >> all right, we're going to breakaway from ted cruz. there you see, hillary clinton and her husband and daughter. she's ab

i've done it in washington. i've done it in ohio, and i can go back to washington and do it again, but i also hope you notice tonight that i do have the foreign policy experience, not just a few years, but a lot of years, working with a lot of the great, great minds of this country to develop the firmness and the toughness to bring people together. i hope you would give me your vote. i would appreciate it very much, and we won't have to spend time figuring out what we will do. i will hit the ground moving and we will get america moving again. thank you all very much. [cheers and applause] >> senator rubio? >> thank you for having us tonight. you know, this campaign has come a long way. it was just a few months ago there were 15 or 11 of us on the stage, and it's narrowing. the time for games is over. i know you've had a lot of choices to make, but now it's time to narrow it down. and i'm asking you to get behind me. go on our website and join our effort, marco rubio.com so we can bring an end to the silliness, t

he's going to come to washington, d.c., and he's going to do that because the national prayer breakfast is on thursday. >> very unusual. >> very unusual. >> to be announcing that you're going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. >> very unusual, they said. it certainly was. but they didn't say he was dropping out of the race. now the story gets a little murky at this point. cruz campaign aides spread word to their supporters in iowa that carson might be or actually was dropping out. maybe planning a big announcement even though cnn never said that. carson accused cruz of dirting campaigning. cruz -- dirty campaigning. cruz apologized but blamed cnn causing brooke baldwin to call b.s. >> when senator cruz tries to throw my network and journalists under the bed, let me stand up for them. i'm going to call out b.s. if i hear b.s., and that's b. s. >> under pressure, cruz admit that "cnn got it correct." last night at the debate, he reverted to his previous position. he said this -- >> my political team saw cnn's report breaking news, and they forwarded that news to o

because all the money in washington and all the lobbyists in washington wanted amnesty. if you look at the special interest, amnesty, they it's its great, it's cheap labor. and, by the way, the way we won these fights is that i stood up and tried to shine a light on them, shine attention on them and empower the american people. rubio/schumer amnesty passed. it was headed to the house it pass. john boehner intended to take it up, pass it with all the democrats and a handful of republicans, roll over about 200 house republicans. and i stood with jeff sessions and steve king and we took the case to the american people and what happened is millions of american people rose up, lit up the phones to congress and said don't do this and we dedee feated the rubio/schumer amnesty bill in the house. in the world of washington, that's considered unlikable. when republican leadership -- i wrote a book last year called "a time for truth "oup. the opening chapter desights the inside story whachd on the debt ceiling, where republican leadership wanted to make it easier for harry reid to

he did come to washington with when dr. martin luther king spoke but john lewis never saw him. >> i think congressman lewis is the hero of the edmund pettis bridge. he has tremendous respect across this country including from me. i see this issue a little differently than him. it seems to me that as congressmen they might evaluate senator sanders not on what he did during the civil rights movement but on his 25 years in congress with these other members of congress. you know, today when i heard that congressman lewis made that statement, i actually called one of my college mentors who had gone on the mississippi freedom rides and asked him what he thought of that and he said, a, that he had tremendous respect for john lewis, but b, he thought the issue was what was sanders prepared to do now. >> as a long-time member of congress. but some of these members said over these 25 or 30 years, even as a member of the house and a member of the senate he did not take a leadership role on a lot of these issues. >> that's what's inter

"the washington post" join mess now. you want you to respond. he's been the subject of media coverage describing a cozy relationship with donald trump. he's been dismissing those criticisms. let's look at what he said about you on his show. >> "washington post" actually after our town hall meeting the other night when i eperred him with so many questions that i was attacked for interrupting too much actually said how dare they hold a town hall meeting where they don't ask him tough questions. e we asked tougher questions than our ket. tors ask who have the media writers and people have the audacity to ask if we're too close to donald trump. the answer is, no, we're not. >> he says he's been tough. you said he let him skate. >> i think that there is one of these it great situations where both sides can claim, look at this question, look at at that question. my point here is sort of a larger one. that is if you allow donald trump -- if youen gauge him only on social security, iraq, the issues and how he's going to unite the republican party, you'r

they are fed up with washington. it is a change election. it is send a message to washington. we're sitting here with $19 trillion worth of debt. we haven't had a balanced budget in 15 years. we have people who are struggling, absolutely struggling -- >> she's preaching this sunday morning. >> i know! let me tell you, they're sick of the southern border not being secured. and they want to see some action. and so they're sending a message, and god bless the american people for standing up and saying, we're going to get this country back on the right track. >> here's the thing. you cannot beat donald trump playing defense. you can't say i'm here to defend. you have to play offense. you have to say i want to extend what the last president did. that's what bernie is actually drawing people to him and building a movement. your state's a great state. but you also know that no one else gets to camp out for a year in any state. what we're seeing right now in places like chicago, places like detroit, places like flint, we'll both be there next week, is there's actually a movement build

they don't want bureaucrats in washington telling them how to educate their children. we spend as a nation more for education per pupil than any other nation in the world. not even close. more per pupil, second place doesn't even exist, it's so different. and yet out of 30 countries, we're ranked number 30. you have china, you have norway, sweden, denmark. and then you have number 30, the united states. so we spend the most, and we're at the bottom of the heap. it's not going to happen any more, folks. not going to happen any more. we are going to build our military, which i thank, because a number of the people came down, and a number of the pundits watching tonight, we love our military. we love our military. and by the way, we love our police. our police are terrific. we love our police. they are not being treated properly. we're going to build our military so big, so good, so strong, so powerful, that nobody is ever going to mess with us, folks. and we're going to buy -- we're going to buy the equipment that our generals, our soldiers, that everybody that's in the

there was an article in "the washington star," the competitor to "the washington post" and one of the great supreme court reporters of all time. and the headline was, "the supreme court will never be the sa same. everyone, left, right, center is going to miss justice douglas." i think it's the same with scalia. >> i love ending with bob woodward talking about headlines from the '70s. >> that's all i can do. >> thank you all very much for that discussion. >>> as we've just been talking about, the white house is vowing to nominate a new supreme court justice. who will it be? our experts' top picks right after the break. uesday. one second it's there. then, woosh, it's gone. i swear i saw it swallow seven people. seven. i just wish one of those people could have been mrs. johnson. [dog bark] trust me, we're dealing with a higher intelligence here. ♪ the all-new audi q7 is here. ♪ how do robots work? ♪ you need a team... ...working together... ♪ ...doing all kinds of jobs. and the best place to find the job that's right for you is on the world's number-one job site. indeed. how th

ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that. that is you know, the highest ranking mitch mcconnell saying that his fellow senators can run negative ads against the party's nominee. >> right. also make the comment that we drop him like a hot rock, i think is what he said. i want to know who the we is. the establishment? they have already gut punched the american worker time and time again. they hurt the republican party time and time again, so i'm not exactly sure where he's going. i understand he is trying to protect the senate but that's what makes donald trump so popular is that he's going against what they stand for. >> hurts them more. >> absolutely

we've had plenty of people in washington making all kinds of bad deals. the last thing we need in washington is someone who is going to focus on making a deal regardless of the outcome. >> i don't think that's what he's saying. >> i think what donald trump is saying he's someone who has staked his career on, quote, making deals. we've had deals coming out of washington that have taken the country in exactly the wrong direction. >> ron, ron, you can make deals as long as you make them in the right direction. >> this is a choice between someone who has been a, quote, conservative for about six months. versus someone who has been a reliable conservative and challenging the washington cartel and problems in both parties. that's what ted cruz is doing. that's the type of leadership that we need. >> ron, the exit polls, the cnn exit polls, out of new hampshire showed that those who voted in new hampshire who self-identified as quote/unquote very conservative gave the nod to donald trump over ted cruz by 12 points. i understand what you're saying, but the people

h went to washington surrounded by washington insiders and decided to turn his back on floridians like myself and support it. marco rubio was never my choice coming into 2016. i looked around the field and i looked at ted cruz as someone who's taken on the entire washington establishment and that's the guy i decided to go with. >> it's not like ted cruz had some long glorious career. i met him in 2000. he was solicitor general in texas for a long time. he did work in a private practice. you say marco rubio is a career politician. is ted cruz really that different? >> ted cruz has prior experience. rehn, when he graduated law school, he wanted to do a clerk ship. it's different than what marco rubio did. he graduated from high school, became a commission mer of miami, went on to be a rep at the florida house and the only reason he stopped doing that is he turned out. there was a lot of passion behind ted cruz. i think floridians like myself think we made a mistake in 2010 with marco rubio and we're not going to make the same mistake in 2016. there's a reason marco rubio is behind ted cr

could be 60s comfortably in washington where new york city makes it up to 63. even boston manages to get up to 50 above after nine below last sunday morning. long-range forecast this weekend into early to mid next week, really the entire country has the chance of being above average temperatures. seeing those conditions looks likely but watching showers pushing off. light snow showers around portions of lake erie and ontario this weekend. but this weekend how about 20 above average, ten above average. the southerly flow keeps it going. temperatures soar into the lower 50s and a little cooling by later next week. still, again, looking to be above average. >> thank you. we like above average. >> everyone's above average. >> here's an above average. congratulations to a german short-haired pointer named c.j. he's america's new top dog. the competition was ruf. coveted best in show at the westminster dog show. more than 27 countries took part in new york city. c.j. is the 3-year-old male, the third dog of his breed to take the top prize. >> congratulations. >> what

we have to do it in washington. third, we need entitlement reform, and we need to reform our social security system. i would repeal obama care and replace it with a consumer directed model that would -- in lieu of all the subsidies and taxes and all the mandates, we would shift all this away from washington, create state exchanges that are not coercive, and have catastrophic coverage be the norm. low premium, catastrophic coverage with preexisting conditions being the one standard that would be kept from obamacare in allowing your young adults, children to stay on your plan should you so desire, and give people that aren't receiving insurance through their company a $3100 tax credit. a refundable tax credit to allow them to purchase on exchanges, allow them to cross lines, allow them to pick the best plan for themselves and their families. this would be a far less costly way and would deal with these outyear costs of obamacare that are going to be devastating. similarly, medicare needs to have reforms and social sec

ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's tough stuff. of course ted cruz is not one to sit back and let that happen. he released this ad earlier tonight. >> look, i got the trump action figure. >> no way, it's huge. >> what does he do? >> he pretends to be a republican. >> bailouts for the banks. >> too big to fail. >> i gave money to pelosi, reid and anthony weiner. >> hey, hillary, i'll give you money to be my house. >> check out my house, mr. trump. >> that's a lousy house people going to take your house and park my limos there. >> we wouldn't tolerate these values in our children. why would we want these in a president? >> well, that is the most interesting interpretation of eminent domain i have ever seen. dana, we are now entering a truly new phase of campaign. anyone who thought it was negative before, well, you ever ain't seen nothing yet. >> that is definitely a memorable ad that ted cruz has up but i thought that the donald trump ad was particularly p potentially devastating but if you saw at the end he used the words "trust-ed

washington is preparing to do battle over the replacement. now we want to bring in cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and the author of "making a case, the art of persuading judges." how are you doing, brian? you doing okay? >> i'm holding up. it's a difficult time. >> sorry for your loss. you collaborated with justice scalia but also were a close friend. talk about that friendship. what was he like? >> we were together 12 days in the last three weeks. we spent 14 hours a day together in singapore and hong kong. justice scalia was, i think, undoubtedly the most famous judge in the english speaking world. as we would walk through a mall in hong kong, he'd be recognized several times. and he always wore it very lightly. if anything, he engaged in a little bit of self-mockery. but he was a humble man. and i found that in working on my two books with him. he was very deferential to my point of view, surprisingly. i hadn't expected that at all. ten years ago when we began our collaboration, i did not know the man well at all and thought he mi

we will start to see that snow come to an end midday for places like washington, d.c. and new york city. it will stick around from providence to boston. that is where we anticipate greater snowfall totals in excess of 6 to 8 inches of snow. look out portland, maine. you have possibility of hefty snowfall totals for you. eastern sections of maine picking up to a foot of snow. the national weather service has issued winter storm warnings for much of massachusetts and rhode island and connecticut. that includes long island with winter weather advisories for new york city. look what's coming for the first part of next week. arctic blast of air to the eastern half of the u.s. including new york city. a brief warm up this weekend, but monday and tuesday and look at chicago by monday, only high of 29. bundle up. >>> thank you. the u.n. ruling that julian assange is being unjustly detained in london. he has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy for years. what's he going to do now? we're live next. >>> breaking news this morning. a u.n. human rights body ruled that wikileaks

let's go back to the election center in washington, d.c. wolf blitzer has breaking news. >> we have a key race alert on the democratic side. right now, 1% of the vote is in. these are actual votes. the first votes that have been reported, bernie sanders ahead by 252 votes over hillary clinton. 58%-38%. no votes reported on the republican side. once again, this is very, very early. these are the first real votes. let's go over to john king. show us what's going on in merrimack. this is significant potentially, john. you're familiar with this area. >> let's go back to 2008. let me show you where we're talking about. south of manchester. in the 2008 race in the democratic primary, merrimack is right up here, just above your south of manchester, north of nashua. about 2% of the state population. she narrowly won in the 2008 race. nashua is important to secretary clinton tonight. hudson over here. again, 2% of the state population. an area she did very well with blue collar traditional democrats and suburbanites. wolf, as jake just noted, it's k

they're really frustrated with washington. that's why you see the candidates who are from washington. it doesn't get mer washington than two senators running away from that record. marco rubio saying he doesn't want to be in the senate anymore, ted cruz staking himself as an anti-senate senator. there's no doubt they want someone from the outside. they get the sense they're frustrated and angry and donald trump has embodies that for them. >> you have to wonder what that means for those going forward in the senate and the house. voters are saying they're very angry with what they've done. interesting, marco rubio, there was one category that he did win and that was the category essentially people who think that he wanted experience, people who did want experience wanted marco rubio, and he hasn't been in this senate all that long even. >> yeah. you know, he paints himself as a 1-year conservative. that's a new part of his stump speech he's put in there in the past weeks. he kbos back to his time in the florida legislature as a

your colleagues in washington. if you are going to have a problem with them, what are you going to say to them as president to get them on board so that we can get legislation passed? >> it's a great question, robert, thank you for asking it. >> let me focus on two levels, let me explain how we actually change the direction in washington. it's not that i speak with a lack of civility or respect, you have seen in the presidential campaign as other people insult me, i don't respond in kind. the bible talks about if someone treats you unkindly, repay them with kindness. it's like keeping coals on the top of their head. that is the standard i have tried to follow. i have not attacked my colleagues in the senate, democrat or republican. even if i disagree with them on the issues i'll tell you why they say ted is unlikable in washington. because i'm actually honoring the commitments that i made to the women and men who elected me. for example, on planned parenthood, i used the fight with the budgetary congress to stop gi

they hate washington, they want to send someone to washington to punish washington. i agree that the next president is always a reaction to the previous president. i think there's voters who are going in the wrong direction saying obama did all these bad things, i want our guy to do it on our side. >> even in those exit polls shares my values was at 30% in terms of what people wanted, but all the other things were much more and donald trump won in all of those. he tells it like it is. change. >> look, there are -- >> and in the other -- >> his base -- his base now he's expanding out from it, but his base is noneducated college whites, who feel disdained by eleets who he is punchs ing in e face and that's what is going on here. >> by the way, donald trump is about to come out we're told at any moment. >> he won college. >> i agree with that. >> he won with white collar voters. >> those are the voters that rubio is going after. >> i think there's a band wagon effect. one of the things on can win, rubio won that category again tonight. donald trump was not that far behi

i've done it in washington, i've done it in ohio. i hope you've noticed i do have the foreign policy experience, and working with some of the great minds to develop the confidence, the firmness and toughness and the ability to bring people together. i hop you all think about giving me your vote. i would appreciate it very much. i tell you, we won't have to spend time figuring what we're going to do. i will hit the ground running and we will get america moving again. thank you all very much. >> senator rubio. >> thank you for having us tonight. you know, this campaign has come a long way. it was just a few months ago there were 15 or 11 us on the stage and now the votes are starting to count. we incredible decision to make, not just about the direction of america but the identity of our party and conservative movement. the time for games is oaf. had you a lot of choices to make and i'm asking to get mind me, go on our web site and join you are effort, marcorubio.com so we can bring an end to this silliness and luniness. >> senator cru

he's going to come to washington, d.c. and he's going to do that because the national prayer breakfast is on thursday. that's where he got himself on the political map attending that prayer breakfast and giving it to president obama at the time. he became a hero among conservatives and evangelicals especially. >> very unusual. >> very unusual. >> to be announcing you're going to go home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. he's going to be coming out and speaking at 9:15 local and 10:15 eastern to go home and get ahead of the storm. >> if you want to be president of the united states, you don't go home to florida. that's bottom line. if you want to signal to your supporters that you want it, that you're hungry for it, you've got to be out there doing it too. he's not doing it. it's very unusual. >> very unusual news that cnn has just learned. chris moody breaking the story. wolf, back to you in washington. >> very significant. we're standing by right at the top of the hour for the first time. we're going

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it will be held in washington, d.c.'s basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception, it is one of the largest churches in the world. make sure to stay with cnn for special live coverage of the mass. coverage begins this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> now, president obama won't be attending the service, but the first family and members of congress honored the late justice on friday as he laid in repose inside the supreme court. cnn's pamela brown was there. >> well, amara, more than 3,000 people have showed up to pay their respects to justice scalia, including the first family. not everyone here today shared his conservative ideology, but they say they came here to pay tribute to him because he was such an influential judge on the high court and dedicated 30 years of his life to service. president obama and the first lady arrived to pay their respects to justice antonin scalia. the first couple paused at the flag draped casket as scalia's former clerks stood guard, one of his clerks jameson jones. >> ju

the establishment in your state is out to get me, the establishment in washington. donald trump is fighting the big voices people don't like especially grassroots republicans. he's fighting president obama, fighting the republican establishment. nickki haley is popular in the states. that might require a bit more calibration for mr. trump to let it go and focus on his voters sometimes he can't resist. >> gleoria, to be clear, george w. bush is no longer on the trail for his brother, is he? >> reporter: no, i think it was a big showing and whether he'll come back out again, we deon't know, but his mother is going to be out on the trail so it continues to be kind of a family thing. >> gloria, thank you, john king as well. >>> just ahead, republicans on the attack as the south carolina approaches. will the republicans get tougher? that's next. >>> on the democratic side, bernie sanders and hillary clinton vie for the crucial african-american vote. e... ...reinvented. sophistication... ...redefined. introducing the all-new lexus rx and rx hybrid. agile handling. availab