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 white house again. this i

about "the washington post." "the washington post" seems to have a bone to pick with the rnc. they wrote their second editorial in a few days that think think the leaders need to stand up to trump. history will not look kindly on gop leadered who failed to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard bearer. >> i think "the washington post" completely misunderstands that's going on in america. the rnc's job is to be neutral in the race to ensure we have the resources necessary to help the nominee win in november. not to pick winners and losers. under the chairman, we've consolidated the calendar to make sure more voters have their voice heard. "the washington post" doesn't understand with people in washington don't agree with what the voters decided, we should undermine that. that's false. the voters choose. that's what's wrong with this country. 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 t

at this. >> 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. joining me is matt moore, the chairman of the south carolina republican party. that is a harsh ad. south carolina politics not for the faint of heart. attack ads on the air. there have been some dirty tricks in past campaigns. what do you expect over the next ten days? >> south carolina is a fascinating place, a long history 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. i hear it across the state. people are fru

this battle is a combination of seven or eight years of battles in washington between president obama and republicans. i think about mitch o colonel and others saying we must oppose this president in order to regain power and the presidency. there was a choice to be an abinstructionist position and this all comes to a head now, pin cal of some sort with the supreme court. all republicans are saying the opposite. >> the presidents are elected for four years. he's got about a quarter of his term left. that's a big chunk of time. >> i've heard people say he only has a few months. >> keep in mind this is not a retirement. this is a vacancy. the supreme court is not designed to function with an even number of justices. this is a time where in most of american history there would be a consensus that you can't leave the supreme court vacant for a year or two. >> should cable news be creating their constitutional graphics and getting music ready? >> i'm always for breaking news. sure. it's not going to bring the country or supreme court to a halt. it's going to be another constitution t

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, ted cruz had some g

cut deals in washington. and he's right, he's given hundreds of thousands to democrats. anyone who really cared about illegal immigration, wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. they wouldn't be funding harry reed and nancy pelosi and the gang of 8. when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you q say enough with the krupscorruption, let's stan the working men and washington, 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, georg

not barack obama. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. ♪ >>> a series of hearings on capitol hill this week were frightening, not for their partisanship, but for their substance about the threats the united states is confronted with today. the director of national intelligence told congress there's currently more terrorist safe havens in the world than any time in history. he called isis the number one terror threat. vincent stewart, the head of the defense agency went further saying in 2016 isis will probably attempt direct attacks on the united states and more attacks in europe. what should we take from this and what is to be done? joining me now in washington is michael chertoff, former secretary of homeland security and now the chairman of security firm. he is also an adviser to jeb bush. here with me in new york is peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "united states jihad," which was my book of the week last week. michael, tell us what you made of those hearings. one of the things i worr

pamela brown has the very latest for us from washington. >> well, good morning, christine and miguel. this is the first time president obama took questions following justice scalia's death and he took a tough stance saying the constitution is clear, both he and the senate have the responsibility of filling the supreme court vacancy. he says he expects republicans to consider any nominee he puts forward no matter what, that they have a job to do until they're voted out and he made the point that whoever he chooses will be so indisputably qualified that the republicans will look bad if they refuse to even consider that person. >> somebody who has an outstanding legal mind, somebody who cares deeply about our democracy and rule of law. there's not going to be any particular position on a particular issue that determines whether or not i nominate them, but i'm going to present somebody who indisputably is qualified for the seat, and any fair minded person, even somebody who disagreed with my politics would say would serve with honor and integrity on the court. >> he would not give any hi

. 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

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

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 president. ryan good morning. >> jim good m

. i'll see you tomorrow. 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 momentous night for senator bernie sanders

he is doing. >> i want the people at home to think about this. 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 ma

civil rights movement in the spotlight. sanders has talked about attending the 1963 march on washington. >> i was way, way back there, one of the several hundred thousand people who was here. >> reporter: but congressman john lewis, a civil rights leader and a clinton supporter downplayed sanders' history with the movement in comparison to the clintons. >> i never saw him. i never met him. was involved in the sit-ins, the freedom ride, the march on washington, the march from selma to montgomery and directed the voter education project for six years. but i met hillary clinton. a met president clinton. >> reporter: i spoke with the clinton campaign source today who says she's going to try to draw compelling contrasts on issues that she sees being of import to african-american and hispanic voters, namely that would be crime, immigration and guns. guns perhaps the area where there's the most clear contrast between sanders and clinton, wolf. >> very powerful statement from congressman john lewis there. thanks very much. let's go to jeff zeleny. jeff, you've been on the campaign trail with th

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

washington establishment. will not be chosen by the lobbyists. but will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people. the american people. tonight, thanks to the incredible hard work of everyone gathered here, of courageous conservatives across the state. to put in perspective, your incredible victory that you have won tonight. that is the most votes ever cast for any republican primary winner. [ crowd chanting ] >> tonight is a victory for millions of americans, who have shouldered the burden of seven years of washington deals run amok. tonight is a victory for every american who's watched in display as career politicians in washington in both parties refuse to listen and too often fail to keep their commitments to the people. tonight is a victory for every american who understands that after we survive eight long years of the obama presidency, that no one personality can right the wrongs done by washington. the millions who understand that it is a commitment to the constitution to our shared insistence that we

have any information. then we went to the metropolitan police in washington, d.c., and they were familiar with a store in potomac, maryland, and the name of the store was poch, p-o-c-h hardware. >> investigators speak to the hardware store owner. they post a flyer at the hardware store of the victims. they only put four of the victims on the flyer because one was so badly injured. >> at that point we didn't know how to proceed in that area, and myself and the agent returned back to north carolina. >> one thing that i've learned firsthand unequivocally, it only takes one small tip to break open a case. the public is the biggest resource that law enforcement has. and in this case, a good citizen did the right thing and really drew attention to that little house in bethesda, maryland. >> the neighbors said they hadn't seen the family in a week, and the papers and mail were backing up. normally the family would actually tell the neighbors that they were going out of town, they were going somewhere. >> i received a call on the police radio, i was working that beat, and they told me to

humility. we need bridges between us if we're going to fix the problems in washington because all they could have have walls and we need to get the problems solved. >> this is clara smith, she's undecided but she's leaning towards you, governor. >> oh, good. make the question easy. >> republicans receive a bd rap for being uninterested in the working poor. i'm a republican. i have a heart for them. what would you as president do to help people out that are working two and three jobs that can barely feed their children at home? >> the one thing we want to make sure is that they have health care, right? that's a critical part for the working poor. look, it all gets down to training and skills. and one of the things that we have to recognize in this country today is we have to have lifelong learning and we have to keep training ourselves for the jobs that exist today and the jobs that exist tomorrow. but i've got to tell you, when you think about these working poor, especially if it's a woman and her husband walked out on her, she's got a couple kids, we've got to look at the child care,

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 know want. we're not buying equipment that sells b

of heavy snow, but it will snow across washington, philadelphia and new york. just a couple of inches, not going to hurt as much at 20 below zero they saw in spots of this region. >> 20 below zero. i think i'll pass on that. thank you so much. >>> sunday marked valentine's day around the world in many places, and many people took that opportunity to celebrate their love. take a look at this massive light rose garden in hong kong. it served as the picturesque backdrop for couples taking selfies. it is made up of 25,000 l.e.d.

experience to help you with congress and help you once you're in washington if you get there? >> yes. the answer is yes. i would not do -- i'm very political and i've been political and you've known me for a long time. but i would absolutely not need another business person. i'll have many business people, i mean, some of the greats. carl icahn endorsed me. many of them endorsed me, the best ones. >> you'd want someone with congressional experience -- >> i'd want someone with political skill because that's where i would really want that. dealing with congress, et cetera. i also think in terms of vice president, the key is, who would be a great president. if something should happen, who would be a great president? that has to be the first. but i'd really want somebody that would be in the world of politics in that case. i will keep it going really beautifully, but i like the concept of politics. not 100%, but i think i like the concept of having somebody that's in the world of politics for that position. >> donald trump, again, congratulations on last night. >> thank you, anderson. >>

because the republicans are so determined here in washington to not even -- never mind give whoever the nominee is hearings, but even have meetings. >> the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell announcing no hearings and they doesn't wan't have a nominee come up for a meeting. >> i think it's a huge risk. i'm well aware of the old statement by then senator biden in his capacity of senate judiciary chairman, that was june. there was no a vacancy then on the supreme court of the united states. i think it shows a level of confidence. it's the fourth straight contest where passion seems to be on the side of the gop. it a very big risk for republicans, while thumping their chests and saying we are the constitutionalists, we're are not going to give an audience to your nominee to fill justice scalia's -- >> i think that is on both sides of the aisle. we always say in elections be, you hear candidates say the supreme court is at stake, we have to vote -- it never happens. i think the supreme court because of what the senate has done, because of the nature of this particular pick being the s

of washington that your advisers are now telling you to run against president johnson this year. >> i have no plans. i have no plans to change the statement i've already made. >> senator? >> the assumption among the kennedy intimates was that lbj was totally unbeatable in 1968. and bobby would run in 1972. >> the anti-war movement needed a leader and it fell to eugene mccarthy. >> very nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> senator, president johnson supporters say you don't have a chance in new hampshire and you'll be lucky to get 10% of the vote. what do you say about that? >> well, i don't know. the people supporting me said we'll do better than that. >> one democrat, senator eugene mccarthy -- >> eugene mccarthy does something that's taboo. he comes out against a sitting president from the same party. >> mccarthy came in from left field. he was not thought of in the front rank of presidential contenders. but there was a great deal of frustration and even despair among the young. eugene mccarthy gave them hope. >> how many volunteers for senate mccarthy? >> i'm ready to vo

ever day and not for the washington bosses. and i'll tell you, as i travel the state, democrats tell me, i didn't vote for you, but you're doing what you said you would do, and as president, i will do the same. >> mr. trump? >> thank you. my whole theme is make america great again. we don't win anymore as a country. we don't win with trade. we don't win with the military, isis, we can't even knock out isis, and we will, believe me. we will. we don't win in any capacity with health care. we have terrible health care. obamacare is going to be repealed and replaced. we just don't win. you look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese. everybody pours in. we're going to make a great country again. we're going to start winning again. we're going to win a lot. it's going to be a big difference, believe me. it's going to be a big, big difference. >> thank you very much. it's now time to begin questions. voters in the first four states have spoken, and mr. trump has emerged as the front-runner, but in five days, the candidates will face their biggest test yet, super tuesday, when nearly half o

. >>> hello. i'm dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is steeling for a fight. the sudden death of supreme court justice antonin scalia sent an already tense presidential race into overdrive. and the political drama played out live on television last night just moments before the start of a republican debate, president obama vowed to fill justice scalia's seat. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. >> but within minutes, the gop candidates on the debate stage demanded that the senate block any potential nominee. >> i think it's up to mitch mcconnell and everybody else to stop it. it's called delay, delay, delay. >> a partisan showdown that will certainly play out on the campaign trail. we are going to look at this from every angle this morning. but first, two of the candidates on that debate stage are here. we'll get to jeb bush in a moment. but first, marco rubio who had a

from near death. >>> i want to go to senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny following the hillary campaign. what is in store for today? >> reporter: there's no question that the democratic rivals are looking towards the town hall in derry. hillary is trying to come back a little bit in new hampshire, trying to persuade these voters to look at her record and that moment with gabby giffords is just like it was in iowa. i'm talking soft here because you can see that on stage behind me she's on stage behind me. as we go forward, there's a back and forth going on between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. she's trying to say that she has a progressive record for years. bernie sanders questioned that last night. he said some days she's a progressive. so right now this exchange is going on back and forth on twitter and that will definitely be a central part of their conversation tonight at the town hall meeting in derry. >> all right. jeff zeleny, we appreciate that. thanks. >> thanks, jeff. >>> coming up for us, the polls in new hampshire show that bernie sanders right now has

be a fair playing field for everybody. i intend to remove the barriers from washington which will allow the american energy market to expand, to create high paying jobs and to jump-start the american economy. [ applause ] >> this is julie hershey, she is president of a local nonprofit and is committed to voting for you. so don't blow it. >> i don't think he can. >> okay. >> senator cruz, thank you for taking my question. in order to prevent future controversy and possible litigation, will you please justify constitutionally your legal right to be president of the united states as it relates to your natural born status. >> sure, i'm happy to do that, julie, thank you for the question. the law under the constitution and federal law has been clear from the very first days of the republic. the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. for anyone to be president, they have to be a natural born president. if you or i travel abroad and we have a child overseas that child is a u.s. citizen by virtue of birth. that is true, if you have service members who travel abroad

move by the white house to help donald trump to some degree because democrats in washington at least fear marco rubio more than they do donald trump. at the same time, who would have thought that donald trump would be atop the republican polls? certainly not barack obama when he mocked him at the 2011 white house correspondents' dinner. it's been an unpredictable year. democrats are nervous trump is going to advance to the final two and never know what's going to happen in a general election. >> bob, do you think the president president is surprise ed donald trump's standings in the poll? >> yes. let's keep in mind here, nobody else has been very effective at taking him on. particularly on the substance, the gravitas you need to be president of the united states. who better than the president to say that? at this point when it gets down to three people running, obama is not going to be as harmful to the third person in the race. somebody has to point this out. he has the bully pulpit. he should do it. he's not an unpopular president, about 50/50. it's not going to help the pr r

to washington, d.c. to destruct or turn the capital on its ear. who knows how to make it work? who knows the underpinnings of washington, d.c. well enough? senator cruz is it. if you want to see power devo e devolved out of washington, d.c., these governors empowered to do the things they know they can do and respecting the tenth amendment, then ted cruz without a doubt is the individual on the stage that can do that. has the commitment, has the intellect, and has the know-how to make it happen. >> when you were governor, you welcomed then president vicente fox to the governor's mansion. the former president said something today that some people think is going to be mana for trump. here's how he said it. >> i'm not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. he should pay for it. >> the thing that makes me chuckle about that is he accepted the premise, as if it is going to be there, who is going to pay for it. >> i sethe border can be secure. it doesn't take a physical wall. it takes a virtual wall. that's with technology and boots on the ground. the issue is not whether there's going to

trump at 27%. 57% voting and for people to be established with the republican party in washington, d.c. the voters so far saying the republican party in washington, we don't care what you think. >> the numbers come in. you have 25% on the republican side. you have 54% of the vote here. 51%. >> it's extraordinary to see. bernie sanders, 48%. bill bradley 35%. that was considered a receiveful showing. he may not win tonight, but the idea that you have gotten the people powered model, remember. no big donor and no super pac. the model going all the way to the finish line. with no big thing. this is of the model. the bill bradley model lost every single thing. that's not what they did. god bless martin o'malley. he gets close to that. this will go on and it will be for new hampshire. if hillary can't survive, there is no rebel yon. >> 56% of democrats in the entrance polls say they want to continue the policies. >> two different parties. >> they have gotten in at this point. you were talking about that. that being clear, there is a huge discontent within the party and the establishment doe

some fuel to the fire of what's rising between moscow and washington. >> to see that the soviets were building nuclear weapons, missiles. we were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u2. >> i'm bill fox, in new york. a single-engine u.s. air force plane was missing not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains of southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, kruschev announced that an american u2 spy plane had been shot down in the soviet union. >> kruschev made the wreckage a public exhibition. to the soviet union, this wreckage was a national cause. national outrage over the violation of soviet boundaries. >> and so, out comes the cover story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa a u2 research plane, piloted by a civilian, has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower said, no, that didn't happen. et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap by kruschev. >> the soviet leader said not only did they shoot down the plane, they had the pilot. >> francis gary powers, an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances. and in a way

and calls to grow him are growing louder tonight. the washington post editorial board calling on trump -- tonight, two mainstream republicans, a congressman from donald trump's home state, both of them are outfront. one of them endorsed trump today. the other backing rubio and says trump is a terrible move. i'm going to speak to them both in just a moment, but jim aacosa is outfront in las vegas. trump is celebrating today. >> reporter: absolutely, erin. he's still celebrating. he's predicting more wins next week on super tuesday. even though he only has a fraction of the delegates at this point, trump is sounding like he's already measuring the drapes in the oval office. donald trump's first campaign event after his win in nevada says it all. >> thank you, everybody. >> reporter: eyeing the bible belt states up for grabs on tuesday next week trump appealed to christian conservatives by sitting down with pat robertson. trump talked about forgiveness, perhaps even for rival ted cruz. >> i can forgive somebody for things that were said that were lies. i have to be a good person today, at

vast bureaucracy that has become our government in washington, d.c., all of these things aren't working for us any more. they are working for themselves. and if you ever doubted the game was rigged, look at what is going on on that debate stage tonight. sorry, i thought votes counted in elections. sorry. i thought delegates counted in elections. sorry, i thought the people in new hampshire had a responsibility to vote and pick presidents, but apparently, the media establishment, the political establishment have decided they know better than you. i will not falter. i will never stop fighting and neither can you. i will never stop fighting because what we are fighting for is incredible kri important. we are fighting for our politics now. we are fighting for our government to take it back. we are fighting for our future and our country and that is why i'm running for president. that is why you have to stand with me and fight with me and vote for me. i will never stop fighting and neither can you. you know, we used to think about this as a nation of limitless possibility. we used to be cert

. he starts right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, so-called political outsiders turning the presidential race upside down. a brash billionaire businessman and reality tv star is, a 74-year-old self-declared democratic socialist both winning very big in the first primary election of the 2016 campaign. senator bernie sanders trouncing hillary clinton 60% to 38% in new hampshire primary. on the republican side donald trump took 35% of the vote, ohio governor john kasich finished second with 16%. followed by senator ted cruz, former florida governor jeb bush and senator marco rubio. trump told cheering supporters he'll fix the country's problems, including the economy and creating jobs. >> if we had 5% unemployment, do you really think we'd have these gatherings? forgetting about security, forgetting about isis which, by the way, we're going to knock the hell out of isis, we're going to knock the hell out of them and it's g

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. he's not going to go to new hampshire. 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 break

has moderated meet the press and wrote a book about faith. david joins me now from washington. i want today start with jeb bush. there was so much expectations and predictions that he would be the candidates to be in this race. we collected the media say two years ago when talking about jeb bush running. >> well, i think a couple of things. bush proved not to be a good candidate and not someone who was able to read the moment and adjust. not someone who was able to take on donald trump very effectively. it took time for him to build up to taking on. then frankly to little effect. you think about the race and how it was shaping up and the first part of 2015. this was suppose to be a clinton bush contest. there w . >> people have strong memories of the disappointing parts of his administration and that do you think that settled jeb all along? >> i think that's a part of the ferment in the republican party that goes back a long time. i think this is a real kind of reordering going on in the party after the years of george w. bush. i think people don't remember as much that it was un

old-fashioned texas demolition derby. at a washington press dinner lynn city graham said this about republicans. >> my party is going [ bleep ] crazy. >> the president insists -- >> i'm going to do my job. >> reporter: -- in a political climate that's explosive and battle-scar. sometimes these fights are like entertainment. but don't forget, we're dealing with the biggest issues affecting this country. it would be a first if the senate refuses to hold hearings for president obama's supreme court nominee and could affect decisions for decades and on gitmo, if the president decides to take executive action which the white house is still not ruling out, that could just spark a bigger firestorm with legal action already being threatened. christi? >> hey, michelle. thank you very much. >>> even though president obama obviously had a bit of a industriesful week, he did manage to take time to relax. belting out a tune, channeling his inner ray charles. ♪ hey ho ♪ hey ♪ ♪ hey ♪ ho ♪ now jake gets purina cat chow naturals indoor a nutritious formula for indoor cats with no artifi

daily caller and has predicted correctly in iowa and new hampshire. also washington political columnist dana milbank. thank you for being here. some fascinating pieces you've had recently, especially one you wrote in the past week or so about jeb bush. you talked about his strong showing in new hampshire. the title of your piece, jeb bush is still not dead. do you feel like that today? >> well, popy, but the question is, when you try to make a forecast in a race as crazy as this. think of this, the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination is in a fight with the pope right now so it is completely perilous to make any prediction. jeb bush came out of new hampshire with a pulse. it looked like marco rubio had weakened and this was going to be a chance for bush to get back in the game. if we believe the polls, he hasn't quite pulled that off and rubio has rebounded to some exte extent. it's hard to tell, kasich, rubio, bush, but it is clear there's not going to be more than three tickets out of south carolina right now. there's no way to spin a fourth place finish i

washington. if you're going to have a problem with them, what are you going to say to them as president to get them on board so we can get legislation passed? >> it's a great question, robert, thank you for asking it. the reason why that is is simple. it's not that i speak with ak lack of civility or respect. you've seen in this presidential campaign as other os insult me or impugn my integrity, i don't respond in kind. i have not attacked or inassaulted my colleagues in the senate, democratic or republican. i'll tell you why they say ted is unlikable in washington. because i'm actually honoring the commitments that i made to the men and women who elected me. for example, on planned parenthood, i led the fight for to us use the budgetary power of congress to stop giving $500 million to planned parenthood. the republican leadership wanted to have a show vote, lose the show vote and then fund all of obama's agenda including planned parenthood. what's unlikable is when you stand up and say how about we do what we said we would do. when i stood up and led the fight against the rub

epic, as his legacy. joining me now with more on all this is our cnn washington correspondent, joe, if i can ask you, just we lost a supreme court justice this weekend, any word on funeral arrangements with the memorial service will be. what are we learning today? >> reporter: not so far. and i have checked just recently. it's taking them a little time to get information out. i can tell you, we do not that justice scalia was a devout catholic. he attended mass at a church in falls church, virginia. and so, you would expect or you would think there would be a church service. as well, there have been services for justices here at the court. in fact, in 2005, there was memorial service inside the great hall here at the supreme court. and one of the palm bearers in fact happens to be the chief justice of the supreme court right now. we're waiting to hear details of how elaborate this process will be, and when it's going to occur, jim. >> now on the legal side of things, of course, very busy, it is in session now. what becomes of the current cases before the court? will they go on as schedu

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 correspondent jake tapper and cnn senior analyst jeffrey toobin. scalia's biographer also joins u

now from washington to talk more about the race for the white house is cnn political analyst josh roggin. he's also a columnist for bloomberg view. thank you so much for being with us. so pretty incredible win for donald trump. he seems unstoppable at this point. is there any way he wouldn't be the republican nominee given his wins in new hampshire and south carolina? >> well, if history is any guide, he definitely has the inside track. in modern history there hasn't been a republican candidate who has won new hampshire and south carolina and not gone on to be the nominee. that being said, this is a year unlike any other. now there's a resettling of the republican field with the exit of jeb bush. there's a consolidation of the establishment support and money around marco rubio. as we head into the next contest, which is nevada in a couple of days, and then the mar 1 super tuesday primaries, there will be a changing of all of the strategies of these campaigns in accordance with those new realities. but still you won't see all the candidates go after trump. there's still a battle to

sanders. >> together, we can transform america. >> two washington veterans. >> if that's the kind of revolution he's talking about, i'm worried, folks. >> who will prevail in a state that dashed clinton's presidential hopes before? >> guess what. that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today. >> now it's time for voters to finally have their say. >> you get the first chance to decide who should be the next president of the united states. >> in one of the most unpredictable campaigns of our time. >> this is a strange election, isn't it? >> iowa is choosing. the world is watching. and this night will change the course of the 2016 campaign. >> right now, iowans are gathering across the street for the lead-off contest in a presidential race that's breaking all the rules. we want to welcome in our viewers from the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. 11 republicans and 3 democrats in two very dramatic battles tonight to the score the first wins of the 2016 campaign. we're less than an hour away from the start of the caucuses and the first clues about the outcome

washington d.c. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wrer are you watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >> we start in iowa where voters are just hours away from casting the fist votes in the presidential election. the candidates are making a final push across the state right now with each one trying to get in the last word in their own way. >> hello, iowa. it's great to be here. he will be unbelievable. >> i will always seek to make you proud, that you will always be proud of the fact that you caucused for me. >> i hope you will go. i hope you will stand up for me. i hope you will fight for me. >> together we will win the iowa caucuses. we will win the nomination, and we will win the general election. we will defeat hillary clinton. >> this is a campaign of the people by the people and for the people. >> voter turnout will be the telling statistic today with gatherings in more than 1,600 locations for each party across the state. there's democrats and republicans making the choice. the first choice but not the last word. on the republican side, the leader of the polls headi

. this weekend with one tragic event, the landscape of washington politics has changed. the balance of influence in the american judicial branch changed. and the men and women elbowing to be the next u.s. president got a huge issue. the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia. condolences to his family turned to ice-cold politics when arguments began flying from all directions about who will replace him and whether president obama stands a chance of getting a replacement through senate confirmation. the republicans currently in control of the senate saying no way. urging the president not to even try to get a nominee through. they want to take their chances in the election in the fall and the possibility that a republican president could then name a new justice. president obama on the other hand, promising to honor his constitutional responsibility, and put forward a nominee. his words -- in due time. cnn supreme court reporter arian devogue is with me now, a litigator with a lot of experience inside the supreme court and a lawyer with experience with the supreme court bar. when