and as we wait for the house, more about the iowa caucuses from this morning's washington journal. get ready to cauc catherine lucey joins us. let's begin with this poll from the des moines register some of the bloomberg political poll. donald trump is on top was 28%, followed by senator ted cruz at 23%, which slipped a little bit. senator marco rubio follows with 15%. dr. ben carson at 10%. withing it out, rand paul 5%. chris christie with 3%. the others with 2% or less. catherine lucey, what are your predictions for tonight on the republican side? guest: i think we have all learned not to make too many predictions for it obviously, donald trump has remained a leader for a very long time. looking into this pretty good, and ted cruz has lost some ground. i think the big questions we're waiting to see is the difference here between organization and momentum. donald trump has a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of excitement. there are a lot of people at his rallies who say they have never caucused before. ted cruz has invested heavily in a very strong traditional organization to turn people

i've been ose fights in in in washington. and we're in the foxhole we're fighting president obama and his policies and fighting pelosi and harry reid, sometimes we were fighting and rs of our own party leadership to do what's right for you. in that foxhole, you in around and see who is there with you. i can tell you there was one side that he senate was in every single fight with that was ted cruz. give my endorsement easy. from north rk carolina. i endorsed mark meadows for congress. endorsed ted cruz for president of the united states. thehen i was courted by all candidates in this race, i boxes.d checking the some of the candidates checked a lot of the boxes. they believe in jesus christ as savior, check. they believe in life and the sanctity of life from the minute conception forward, check. they believe in the constitution powers, check. of but ted cruz checks everyone of some with a then stood in bold because he up for life and said we should defund planned parent and shut down using the article one powers that we have

his research has been covered bay major media outlets such as nbc news, national public radio, and washington post and as of today c-span. professor bail earned his ph.d from harvard university in 2011 and his first mono graph which is projected on the screen is "terrified, the study of how antimuslim fringe organizations became main stream" and it was published by princeton in 2014. please join me in warmly elcoming professor chris bail. >> thank you for that very generous introduction and to the franklin center and islamic study center for hosting me. i'd like to begin my talk today by looking at some recent media headlines. probably most of you heard donald trump comment last month in which he claimed to have observed muslims in new jersey celebrating after the september 11 attack. despite widespread disbelief of this statement he doubled down and later called for a ban on all muslims entering the united states. his competitors were not too far off so ted cruz several days later made pointed comments that implied that most or even all muslims tacitly condone terrorism. marco rubio tried to

rumorsss: i had heard around washington that he might be thinking about it. so i went to see him in his office, and i said what do i hear? mr. presshe told me he was thint it. this was 2014. he was only thinking about it in realized that he had that the only way people will seriously take you seriously particular issue seriously -- or take your issue seriously as if you run for president. you can be a senator and give speeches, and nobody pays attention. if you are a presidential candidate, there is an are about that. these issues that he talks about should be front and center in this 2016 presidential primary. somebody had to do it. if somebody else did it, fine, but if nobody else did it he was thinking he might do it. the other person at the time they thought, would be elizabeth warren. had run, i'mwarren pretty confident to think that bernie sanders would have never run. at the first meeting, i suggest, i said if you are really serious , what you ought to do is get a group of people together have been involved in presidential campaigns, and before that i

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

king marched on washington unafraid to challenge the status quo to end racial profiling, take on police misconduct and take down a system that profits from mass imprisonment. >> there is no president who will fight harder to end institutional racism. >> this, to me, is the defining test of this race. because of where the calendar goes next. where you have either majorities or high pluralities of african-americans in the democratic electorate. if bernie sanders can break through and get a sizeable number, that means a longer race and a changed race. >> and the place to look when we get numbers out of south carolina is younger african-americans because the big question is going to be whether younger african-americans vote their race or their age. younger people have flocked to bernie sanders. and why wouldn't a younger african-american connect with his message the way a younger white person would? that's the argument that the sanders campaign is making. >> that's why you see people in the congressional black caucus come out and more aggressively support hillary clinton as they did last we

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

i know a lot of politicians in washington. good guys and bad guys. i know liars in washington. but i will tell you, i know ted cruz. he is not a liar. his honesty is impeccable. his integrity is unshakable. and the last thing, you cannot beat a democrat with a democrat. if you think you are going to beat hillary clinton with somebody else who is for amnesty , because while ted cruz was saying we've got to build a wall, while ted cruz was saying you are not doing the gang of eight bill, donald trump was meeting with dreamers. donald trump was telling mitt romney he is too tough on mexico. he is saying these things now to get elected. but between planned parenthood and all the other things he's said he's going to do, you cannot beat a democrat with a democrat. he will lose in the general. for the first time since 1920, we have a true constitutionalist, somebody who will stand on that constitution, for the first time since 1920. if we don't forget our principles, if we as conservatives all across america realize this guy means what he says and says what he means, this guy is quite

establishment and the washington cartel. a candidate who has been dismissed outright by the media, some polls had him 15 to 20 points behind, but you refused to let the establishment and the cartel and the media do your thinking for you, you refused to let them tell you how to vote. you wanted a candidate who didn't adopt his positions because of the latest opinion polls. but instead because of a deep and underlying conservative philosophy that grounded him so that he knew exactly what he believed, exactly what the principles were that built this reat nation. so tonight i want to say to the people of new hampshire, thank you for what you did 36 years ago. thank you for giving america and the world, and, yes, history itself, our 40th president of the united states, ronald wilson eagan. and i ask the people of new hampshire and the people of south carolina and the people of nevada and the people of the super tuesday states on march 1, to each of you do not listen to our words. do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but

he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and then he's offered what he believes is a rather simple remedies. that is something that's really resonating right now. >> but a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe that he could do it. >> that all of these people misjudged the pundits pm they misjudged the anger of the american people. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the frontrunners right now, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015. what do they have in common? they're the outsiders. and they have close to 60 and 70% in some places. and marco rubio now wears the establishment proudly. and the idea you can beat trump from the left, senator rubio himself was asked tell us which state you'll win and he said i'll win florida on march 15th. ladies and gentlemen, by march 15th, 50% of the delegates will have voted. he's skipping the first four contests 0-4, he's not going to win anything on super tuesday, according to mr. rub io himself and he may win florida. i think cruz has a much better chance of winning te

you can go with washington dealmakers. [boos] or we can stand together with a proven, consistent, constitutional conservative and bring back morning in america. [applause] [chanting "ted"] sen. cruz: each of you is amazing, and together we will win the republican nomination. we will beat the democrats in november. [applause] and we will restore this last, best hope of mankind that is the united states of america. thank you, and god bless! [no audio] [applause] ♪ [indiscernible chatter] >> ohio governor john kasich finished fifth south carolina primary. the governor was in massachusetts as the results were announced, campaigning there in advance of that state's primary on tuesday. he spoke to supporters at a campaign event in wakefield. this is about 10 minutes. [applause] [applause] gov. kasich: ladies and gentlemen, you know, it took us a while to decide whether i would run for president of the united states. a lot of people said, he will never get in the race. then on july 21, with my wife, my great wife karen and my d

. >> for months the republican establishment in washington and elsewhere was convinced that donald trump was going to implode, there was no way his popularity could last, he was saying outrageous things, surely this was going to end and for months you and i have been speaking about this and i have seen no evidence that he can be stopped, that he won't get the nomination. i hope that the republican establishment is realizing that this man is here to stay and they need to rekon with him. >> they probably are. they're trying to at least and i think part of the reason why they're quite concerned tonight is because all of their potential candidates who are if had that cluster for second and third place, it was sort of a circular firing squad. >> john kasich was twice -- donald trump beat him, 16% to 35%. >> voters wanted somebody from outside the establishment, outside politics and that's what they chose. >> wolf, back to you. >> thanks very much. it wasn't close. 50,000 votes he beat kasich in new hampshire. donald trump by 50,000 votes and they're still counting the votes. 91% of the vote i

in washington, she has voted 90% of the hers time. she has repeatedly voted for deep cuts in pell grants which would make college more extensive for new hampshire students and voting against young people's ability to refinance their students loans. she voted to turn medicare into a voucher program while protecting social security from benefit cuts. while it comes to our environment, she has repeatedly sign account koch brothers while our beautiful natural resources and places pay the price. she has fought to protect tax breaks for big oil and just recently she was once again the only new england senator to oppose critical clean water protections. she voted against the ipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. and she even opposes closing the loophole that allows known and suspected terrorists to buy guns and explosives. he has voted repeatedly to defund planned parenthood and sports allowing employers to deny women coverage for birth control and preventive care. and she has said and these are her words that she cer

people are vermont sent moo to washington as an independent nap is true. but, on the other hand, when i was in the house for 16 years, i caucused can democrats. in the senate for nine years caucused with the democrats of course and i was elected pi the democrats to be chair of the veterans committee three years ago, which viechl proud of and now am i ranking member on. budget committee. i am running for president as a democrat. let me be frank. i do want to see major changes in the democratic party. i want to see working people and young people come into the party in a way that doesn't exist now. and you know what? i want a 50-state strategy so the democratic party is not just the party of 25 states. >> john can i go, is that realistic and can you be a progressive independent? >> independence are a plurality in the state. they can vote in either primary. you just to show up. we get past this, we're getting into many more states where you have closed primaries. not only do you get more la teen i don -- latinos and african-american. if you look at the pollin

and in a town like washington, d.c. that's become increasingly partisan he's a man that's always had deep and enduring friendships on both sides of the political aisle. he can see the good and the valuable and the funny and the fun and the interesting in everyone. and you know, he was -- he had a tremendous wit. just a tremendous wit. >> tremendous wit. memories from paul cappuccio, a former clerk and very good friend of justice scalia. our thanks to him. later this week cnn will host two republican presidential town hall events in south carolina ahead of the primary there. all six republican candidates will participate. marco rubio, ted cruz, ben carson will appear on wednesday night. donald trump, jeb bush, john kasich will appear thursday night. both town halls hosted by our very own anderson cooper. they both begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the town halls will give south carolina voters the opportunity to question directly the candidates and of course the passing of supreme court justice scalia will be addressed as

i don't live in washington d.c. i live in wisconsin so i'm very close to i think what the average, every day republican primary voter looks like and thinks about and i think that there was never an appetite for jeb bush from the beginning. it was -- the idea was that, you know, it sounded good on paper and looked good in a big play book that they put together and they thought they could just really raise a lot of money and create an appetite for it. i think the good news for america sadly for jeb bush is that this proves that money does not buy elections. he had more money than god and he could not convince more than 6% of whatever primary he was in to vote for him. so i think in a sense we can all be happy that elections cannot be bought in the united states. they're really the voice of the people that have to be listened to and i would say from the beginning that there never was on the ground in the base in the grass roots an appetite for a jeb bush campaign. >> we have to leave it right there. thanks so much to b

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

we have people in washington that don't care right now. their argument is i don't want to deal with the issue hank just raised because i might lose my next election so we will figure it out but just not now. it has been happening for way too long. one of the reasons it's happening is because the federal government has nothing to stop it from spending money. they can keep printing money and borrowing money, but not forever. the have been doing that for a long time under both parties. under this president, he has grown the debt more than every other president before him combined. the other thing that is driving it is that in less than five years, 83% of our budget 83% of the federal budget will be made up of four things. medicare, medicaid, social security, and the interest on the debt. that means with the other 17% we're going to have to fund our roads, and our safety net programs, and the u.s. military, and everything else the government does. that's not sustainable. that's a debt crisis. let me tell you what's going to happen. the people

that we got it going on in washington, d.c. between government and politicians and media executives isn't working for us anymore. i'm frustrated, fed up. we can solve our problems and heal our wounds but we can't unless we remember who we are. ours was intended to be a citizen government. i am running for the presidency because i think it is time to restore power where it belongs, back in the hands of the citizens of this great nation. i think it is time. we have to take our future back, our politics and government back. i'm running because citizens, people of new hampshire, it is time. we must take our country back. [applause] i want to tell you a little story if i may about your power restore yourst poor -- your power and i will as president. remember the scandal in the ba --va 18 months ago? we learned veterans were dying waiting for appointments and bureaucrats were cooking the books to cover it up. the citizens of this nation were so horrified that you flexed her muscles, use drug power, flooded congress with protest. cong

[applause] [cheering] ♪ ♪ will >> from washington journal, this is 10 minutes. this. before getting more calls, derek fumbledk -- wallbank lirc -- from bloomberg joins us about these numbers. is this a three man race as marco rubio says? caller: senator rubio has a vested interest in this three-man race. a large bulwark of his campaign strategy has been to consolidate what you would call an establishment lane. making sure all the republican comes behind him and that is not just people, that is money as well. his campaign fund-raising has not been phenomenal recently. there is indications right now as jeb bush dropped out that some of his top finance people are giving marco rubio a serious look. we are going to watch in the coming days to see if there is a --exxit is -- exit is udus. that is what they are hoping for after a second-place finish in south carolina. host: don't these donors ask when these candidates come to them ok, which state are you going to win? caller: it has to be the question. host: what is the answer? posing -- i have been asking this since august.

for more, go to cnn.com and read my washington post column this week. let's get started. >>> let's get right to the big stories from around the world with tom. tom, welcome. >> good to be with you. >> let me ask you first this bit of news about president obama going to cuba. he's already being hammered on the campaign trail by some trubs. is it a good idea or naive? >> that's a great idea. go down and engage with the people. show them the best of america, their economic model. whoever in your audience is afraid of cuba, please have them raise their hand. i'm not afraid of cuba. it's well past time that we ended our isolation of cuba. it's a lab test that utterly failed. the more we engage them, the more we'll enhance the move. >> is there any out here? >> i've been thinking about this issue. i've been quiet weary to get involved because i didn't see a path going forward and certainly deeply concerned about the hu n humanitarian dimension. syria has spilled out so many refugees they're destabilizing the states around like turkey, jordan, lebanon. at the

. >> cnn washington correspondent, joe johns. i think i heard your voice in that room, joe. what was he doing the morning after the cnn town hall? >> reporter: well, for one thing i think he was just making his appearance felt here in south carolina. there has been this running narrative in the pall meadow state that bernie sanders has been writing off south carolina because hillary clinton has such a big lead in the polls and that has been sort of spurred by her strong support in the african american community. sanders, this morning saying he has not been writing off south carolina but also tipping his hat to the idea that he might have to worry about doing better in some other states. listen. >> we came to south carolina and if you look at the polls we were like 7, 8, 9% in the ebolapolls. we were 60/70 points behind. we have picked up a lot of support and closed the gap very significantly. but this from day one was going to be a very difficult state for us. we're not writing off south carolina. >> so, if you look at his schedule, it tells a slightly different story. after

watch washington journal starting at 7 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >> tuesday, house republican policy chair luke messer of indiana speaks at the national press club about governorni ing. watch his remarks live tuesday 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. tuesday, tennessee senator lamar alexander, chairman of the education committee, talks about the new education law and how it differs from no child left behind. we are live from the cato institute at noon eastern on c-span. >> during campaign 2016, c-span takes you on the road to the white house as we follow the candidates on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> republican presidential candidate donald trump held a news conference in south carolina monday at the local town hall. this is 40 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome. i see some non-natives. everybody is coming here all the time. nobody is leaving. we are happy to have you here. donald trump needs no introduction. we are delighted he's here and he is all yours. mr. trump. mr. trump: hello, everybody. any questions? >> why

well, washington, d.c., may start doing just that. after murders in the nation's capital went up 54% last year, the city council recently voted for a crime bill that includes a provision to give money to those who are most likely to commit acts of violence. >> all those in favor of the amendment in the nature of a substitute, say aye. >> 200 people per year could receive payments in conjunction with mentorship and therapy. criticism of the proposal has been witherring, as you might imagine, and the bill is not certain to go through, but here is a really crazy part. another city has run a similar program for several years paying out tens of thousands of dollars, and it appears to be working. in 2007 the bay area city of richmond, california, was the ninth most dangerous city in the united states. things were so bad, the city officials thought about asking the national guard to be sent in. instead, they created the office of neighborhood safety, a new department, separate from law enforcement, that would focus on reaching out to the com

in the campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and wall street. we all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics. that starts with appointing a new justice to the supreme court who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. and we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. no bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. but if we listen to the voices of flint and ferguson, if we open our hearts to the families of coal country and indian country, if we listen to the hopes and heartaches of hardworking people across america, it's clear there is so much more to be done. the truth is, we aren't a single issue country. we need more than a plan for the big banks. the middle class needs a raise! and we need more jobs! we need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, jobs that provide dignity and a future. we can do it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. we can do it with new investments in manufacturin

he went to washington being a supporter of term limits in washington. he became a firm supporter of term limits not only for members of congress but also for justices on the supreme court. it is good to have a healthy turnover and new talent coming forward. part of the solution here lies in us, the voters. there is a tendency for us not to look past pandering. we have candidates at say i'm against the lyrical correctness -- political correctness and think the alternative they want to show people's insult and obscenity's rather than saying politically correction allows even republican -- or compels even republican candidates to say that they want young women to be drafted into the military. we saw that during the debate on saturday. that was nothing more than political correction rather than thoughtful analysis of a change that would be bad for america. we have to be a lot more sophisticated. we can't have a bernie sanders that says things are bad so therefore i will to take from others and give to you. we have to ask ourselves, what caused this. what in

on education, on welfare, reforming those programs, getting the money and power out of washington. and that's just a fact. again, when you have a record, you have an enormous advantage. that's why he's done so well in the past few weeks, because when you carry your message to 106 town hall meetings, you understand what voters are concerned about, but you also have real ideas, real vision, that resonates with them. so it's been a great campaign. of course, with 12 candidates, you can always find someone who hates john kasich, but the fact is he is the right kind of leader for the country right now. >> all right. i have to leave it there. john, thanks for stopping by. >> still to come in the news room, john kasich and the power of the undecided voter in new hampshire. will his gamble pay off on this primary day? we'll talk more about that, next. see see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that i won't stop. until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for mod

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

and it did not come from washington. washington despised ronald reagan. by the way, do you know which candidate will take on washington? just ask yourself the question, who is washington attacking? revolution came from the american people, and it turned to this country around. why am i so optimistic? isause the same thing happening again. all across this country, people are waking up, and let me tell you. nevada has a powerful voice in that. we are 30 hours away from the nevada caucuses. , nevada has a voice. now, listen. historically, not that many people come out. last cycle, it was 32,000 people came to the caucuses. that means every one of you has a voice where you are speaking for hundreds if not thousands if not millions of courageous conservatives across this country when you come out tomorrow night and cast your vote. and so, if you agree with me that it is now or never, that the stakes have never been higher, that we are standing at the edge of a cliff staring down, and if we keep going the we risk doing, irreparable damage to the greatest countr

so washington, d.c. looked down to the textile capital of the world and all of a sudden government contracts came funneling into this area asking the mental illness here to begin producing for the war effort initially for our allies and then of course for the united states as well. >> and on american history tv. >> we're standing right here. this was a nasty spot. hard to believe now looking at it, one of the best parks in the country but this really was a very depressed, nasty place. it's a great story of how a ommunity can get behind a park and start to appreciate and cherish its river and its waterfalls again. > watch the c-span cities tour saturday. sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span-3. he c-span city's tour. republican presidential candidate jeb bush talks with supporters in columbia, south carolina. during his remarks he outlined his plans to improve the military, schools, and the department of veterans affairs. . i'm here on behalf of governor jeb bush. i retired from the na

and there's a lot of frustration about the idea that washington is not listening to people and their every dave concerns. donald trump's candidacy for many of these voters has become a vehicle for those frustrations. and he has talked about it, whether it's been about the economy, whether it's been about immigration, whether it's national security. he has not offered real substantive positions, but instead he has offered clarity. he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and offered really simple recommend dips. >> a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe he could it it, that he to have more substance, that the people in the republican party misjudged the anger of the people. >> and they really shouldn't have. >> absolutely. >> go ahead, kellyanne. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the front-runners, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015, what do they all have in common? they were the outsiders challenging the establishment. so cruz and trump are still doing that as the outsiders and they have a coal

the people in washington are public servants. we haven't had enough of that. donald trump, greaet to have you in one of the greatest cities in the whole world. maybe more phd's per capita than any place in the country. people all over the world are investing here and hiring people. i am proud to have you with us. god bless. [applause] donald trump: that is so great. you know? he is an incredible guy. [cheering] thank you, get him out of here will you. [applause] [cheering] never fails. the cameras follow that and they know how many people are here. take a look. unbelievable. [applause] 32,000 people. we can't get them all in. fire department, let them in. got thousands of people over there. all right. that is the first time that senator sessions ever endorsed a person running for president. that could be a big deal. we've had some interesting times. "time" magazine did a cover story that this is a movement. i am just a messenger. this is a movement. we're going to take our country back. there has never been a time when we've made so many decisions and been so

let's go back to wolf in washington. >> our political directors, you are looking at all the numbers. who showed up and what they won. >> he asked the voters as they showed up, what are you looking for in a candidate quality. this will help explain to everyone watching why ted cruz is where he is. take a look at this. among the voters that said i am looking for a candidate who shares my values, ted cruz is demolishing the field. 37% for cruz and 21% for rubio and 16% for carson and 7% for paul. that is 41% of the republican electorate. that was an important quality. when we asked about the quality of someone who can win, the electability question. rubio and 25% for trump and 22% for cruz and 2% for carly fiorina. not as many caucus goers looking for electability as for someone who shares their values. this quality, telling it like it is, that is the donald trump thing. that is what he is campaigning on. 67% of voters looking for a candidate who said i want someone who tells it like it is. only 15% of the republican caucus going electorate is looking for that quality. with four oust te

. >> the washington cartel in full terror that the conservative grass roots are rising up. >> we won. we won. >>> of course plenty to cheer about for trump supporters after winning the south carolina primary with 32.5% of the vote, trump is now the unrivalled front runner among the republican candidates. marco rubio edging out second place over ted cruz. >> well for the democrat, a crucial win for hillary clinton, blunting that rise of bernie sanders, a so called nevada firewall held up, helping to ease anxiety among her supporters. more in a moment but we're going to start with donald trump's commanding victory in south carolina. and the now shrinking republican field. cnn's senior political reporter manu raju joins us from south carolina. the trump campaign must be motivated ae but move to the south on march 1st. >> a very encouraging victory here. this is ha man who has never run for office before. and taking two of the first three primary states is such a resounding manner really gives him a head of steam into nevada where he's a heavy favorite to win the caucuses there on tuesday

. >>> he h >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington. both leading candidates picked up wins and the night's biggest wins will all be right here. first up, donald trump, who sealed a diecisive victory in south carolina, ten points ahead of his closest rivals, marco rubio and ted cruz, who battled for the second-place trophy with rubio ultimately winning it by a nose. in nevada, hillary clinton winning a hard-fought race against bernie sanders. both of them will be here shortly. but first, let's get right to donald trump, who basked in his big win. >> there's nothing easy about running for president, i can tell you. it's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. when you win, it's beautiful. >> and the winner of the south carolina republican primary, donald trump, joins us right now. mr. trump, congratulations on your victory. what do you think this means for the race going forward? are you unstoppable? >> well, certainly you can be stopped. i'm dealing with very talented people. they're politicians, they're senators and

clinton: in the campaign, you read a lot about washington and wall street. we also want to get unaccountable money out of politics, which starts with appointing a new supreme justice to the court. [applause] sec. clinton: who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. and we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to threaten mainstreet again. no executives should be too powerful for jail. if we listen to the voices of flint, and ferguson, if we open our hearts to the families, if we listened to the openhearted of hard-working people across america, it is clear there is so much more to be done. the truth is, we are not a single issue country. [applause] sec. clinton: we need more than eight plan for a bank, the middle class needs a raise. we need more jobs. we need jobs that can't be outsourced, jobs of dignity and a future. we can do this by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. we can do this with new infrastructure, and clean energy, especially here in nevada. [applause]

washington needs when i call -- washington needs to stop these problems. it needs when i call an agent of change. it is clear to me that in order to shake up the status quo, and cross boundaries to get things done, that change agent is somebody who is here tonight to see all of you. what, you need to be an outsider to be a change agent. i believe it takes someone who has had a private sector job, run a business, and assigned the front of the paycheck to get things done. to actually create jobs. i am looking forward to that person having new and different ideas in order to reduce and eliminate our $19 trillion national debt. deficit, getllar that economic engine going against a we can be leaders in the world stage. get our fiscal and financial house in order. to me, there's only one person that can do that. that is donald trump. [applause] >> i have been a republican tent i was 18 years old. for ronald reagan because he was the person who told me that when my mom and never married and divorced four times each and my mom was working her tail off to put a roo

cnn special coverage from washington, now begins. >>> we're counting down to two crucial contests in two states. >> both the democrats and the republicans have a lot on the line. >> announcer: it's a whole new climate in the presidential campaign with the first contests in the south and the west, the candidates are turning up the heat. >> it's not enough just to be against thing. >> they're throwing everything at me, except the kitchen sink. >> ted cruz, i think he's an unstable person. >> you noticed how rattled donald gets? boy, he really -- he lost. >> he is a liar. >> announcer: right now, in the democratic race, it's nevada's choice. hillary clinton, planning to look like a front-runner again, after her crushing loss to bernie sanders in new hampshire. it's the first battleground where minority voters could decide the winner. will they rally behind clinton and her her rebound? >> it's not whether you get knocked down that matters. it's whether you get back up! >> announcer: or will nevada feel the burn? >> a funny thing happened. the people became involved in the campaign. >> an

politics editor with you washington examiner. i want to show our viewers what the governor nikki haley had to say when she endorsed marco rubio yesterday. [video clip] >> we have good people in this race. we have good people running for president. i thank them today for their sacrifice and they're willing to serve to honor this great country and make her better. but my job was to find the person i thought could do it the best. i wanted somebody with fight my wanted somebody with passion, i wanted somebody who had conviction to do the right thing. i wanted somebody humble enough that remembers that you work for all the people. i wanted somebody who was going to go and show my parents that the best this vision they ever made for their children was coming to america. made.t decision they ever [applause] every day is a great day in south carolina. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen come if we elect marco rubio come every day will be a great day in america. [applause] help me welcome the next president of the united states, let's go t

, washington despised ronald reagan. do you want to know which candidate will take on washington? just ask the simple question, who is washington attacking? revolution came from the american people, and it turned this country around. why am i so optimistic? because the same thing is happening again. all across this country people are waking up. nevada has aou, powerful voice in that process. away from thes nevada caucuses. tomorrow night nevada has a voice. historically not that many people come out. last cycle 32,000 people came to the caucus. everyone of you has a voice where you are speaking for ifdreds, if not house and's, not millions of courageous conservatives across this country when you come out tomorrow night and cast your votes. and so if you agree with me that it is now or never, that the stakes have never been higher, that we are standing at the edge of a cliff staring down, and if we keep going the same direction , we risk doing irreparable damage to the greatest country in the history of the world. and i w

and that's the kind of leadership we now need in washington, d.c. i don't know about you, but i'm really kind of tired of politicians that blame their predecessors. i have a personal feeling about this just having watched it kind of for a while. in my place to you, when i'm president of the united states, i will not blame barack obama for a single thing because the day i'm sworn into office, it's on my watch. whatever it is. [applause] >> the second story is, the story in a world where strength is measured by the volume of your voice these days or how profane you can be or how you insult somebody. this is a story of real strength. and it's the story of a leader that listens first and learns along the way. what i've learned in my life experience is the greatest insights i get is when i'm not talking. when i'm listening. and i decided as a governor that i would create a system where i could listen to people. there is a lot of discussion about emails these days. go to jebemails.com and there are 30,000 emails. you can get them if you want. they are all

on washington journal three journalists from politico. john harris will talk about the creation of politico. kristin roberts will discuss the big stories. alex eisenstadt will answer questions about republican candidates. joined the discussion tomorrow morning. tennessee senator lamar alexander will talk about the new education law and how it differs from no child left behind.

all of washington preparing to do battle over the supreme court. what will all of this mean in novemb november? we'll talk about politics with hue hue et. a veteran of the white house council, council office who also served two attorneys general. my goodness! i've gotten that out. i'm also very jealous you're in california this evening. hue straight to it. valentine's weekend is over. no love lost between cruz and trump. here's what happened on saturday night. look at this. >> this guy will say anything. nasty guy. i know why he doesn't have one endorsement from any of miss colleagues. >> pick from the buffet there. >> it is fairly remarkable to see donald defending ben after he compared him to a child molester. donald has a weird pattern. when you point to his own record he screams "liar, liar" liar." >> was it me or do you think saturday night was nastier than before? new high new low? >> new level of intensity. i will say this. three polls came out today allegedly taken on sunday, a bad polling day, but nevertheless, the day after the debate. do

let's go to wolf blitzer in washington. >> we are watching. ted cruz maintaining the lead over donald trump and marco rubio with an impressive 30 and ben carson fourth with 10%. only 7% of the republican caucus sites. 25% of the caucus sites reporting and maintaining her lead. 53% to 47% for bernie sanders. not doing so well. uncommitted the same number. hillary clinton doing well so far. about a quarter of that vote now in on the democratic side. let's go back to jake and dana for more. >> thanks, wolf. >> in our own jeff, he is in des moines at sanders's campaign headquarters. we just spoke with him. what did he have to say? >> weus

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

up is the democratic line, washington, d.c. you are on the air. to doug fromon battle creek, michigan, on the republican line. hi, how are you doing, great to be on your show. i have been in politics before i was able to vote. one of the first presidents of the hand of was richard milhouse next and. nixon. - that my dad was going to vote for him and i said i think my dad is a democrat. he gave me a sour look but i still like the guy. family, we have spent, indian, american indian, and we have filipino all mixed together so we were never raised in any sort of -- with any sort of racial views toward other people. to detroitoduced us which was a melting pot. you have the jewish culture there you have to know a few .ebrew words to say shalom and the type of thing he grew up with and to us was to be sympathetic, understanding, and open-minded and what is going on around you. was that no one is right just because of their race. i consider myself a republican. i was told i am an eisenhower republican a long time ago. then i was told i was a moderate repu

it is budget season in washington. we'll talk with her and figure out what is going on with this federal project. first, our newsmakers program the veteransith affairs committee chair. johnny isakson's. republican from georgia. here is a little bit of what he had to say. this program airs on sunday. >> senator sanders served before me. he proposed some things that were good. we are not as active as we should have been. the arizona issue took place during his watch. we did not respond at that time. it was a response later on. of the nominee donald trump i do not know that he has served in the military. i think he is regurgitating a lot of what he reads in the press. i would never criticize the press while i am doing an interview. a lot of things that are reported that came around before i came along. the v.a. is making substantial changes. they are addressing the concerns that took place in denver and atlanta. one by one, we're correcting those things. when you see the accountability legislation we're doing in the sprin

washington journal is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. [applause] >> every election cycle, we are reminded how important it is for citizens to be informed. to track thee way government as it happens. >> there are a lot of c-span fans, and my colleagues are going to say, i saw you on c-span. >> there is so much more c-span does to make sure people outside the beltway know what is going on inside it. >> republican presidential candidate ted cruz talked about addiction and recovery in new hampshire on thursday. advocates for recovery programs took hard. included elected officials from vermont and florida. this is two hours. [mingling] >> if you could all take your seats, we are going to get started in a few minutes. thank you so much for joining us today at our new hampshire roundtable discussion on the addiction epidemic. i am be executive director of the addiction policies forum. i would like to thank our amazing cohosts that have helped put this together,

i am reluctant to send the money to washington to have it sent back to me. sometimes we get too many strings attached to it as opposed to keeping the money at home and doing what we need to do at a local level. governor mcauliffe: let me mention sequestration. this was a piece of legislation that was so onerous that it would never pass. and ithat -- it passed has created such problems at the state level. recipient number of of military funds, and indecision that went around that and congress' inability to figure out what they would do has been crippling to the northern virginia economy. the congress has pushed it off for two years, but you know the percent of debt to gdp in two years, we will be back in the situation. we have to begin to think long term. we need leadership decisions to grow the country. >> hopefully, governor, you will find this a timely question. our second governor, thomas jefferson, and now terry mcauliffe. how could you honestly ever -- and i have two years ago. i am just warming up. we got our economy back. have two qualified united sta