. >> i like rachel. i actually like rachel. >> they like you. mr. trump, you are here right now at the nevada caucus, what's the plan going forward after tonight? what are you going to do? >> basically this crowd we're doing pretty well tonight. this is amazing. it's record setting stuff already and it just started, but i think we're going do very well. we have the scc coming up and hopefully we're going do very well. rachel, i appreciate your charts. i love looking at them. i don't like my picture that much, but that's okay. >> reporter: so to answer your question from earlier people did come back from that ordeal which was a completely bizarre experience to have that happen in the middle of a polling place which is a four hour process at this location and people did come back to their precincts -- it's strange to call a circular table a precinct. i want to talk to this man who was actually showing a map to people who walked in here pointing them to their precinct location. this feels like a chaotic pro

so rachel, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans. and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment. >> well, look, i have to just jump in here, because honestly, senator sanders is the only person who i think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. and i have to tell you that it is -- it is really quite -- really quite amusing to me. when you're on hold, your business is on hold. that's why comcast business doesn't leave you there. when you call, a small business expert will answer you in about 30 seconds. no annoying hold music. just a real person, real fast. whenever you need them. so your business can get back to business. sounds like my ride's ready. don't get stuck on hold. reach an expert fast. comcast business. built for business. ♪ light piano today i saw a giant. it had no arms, but it welcomed me. (crow cawing) it had no heart, but it was alive. (train wheels on tracks) it had no mouth, but it spo

>> yeah, i have fait, rachel, but it's going to take a lot of pressure. it's going to take an outside game and an inside game. that's why i complimented you because your coverage, a lot of people commented on it today, and by the way, rachel, i went out into the hall and met with some of the people and they were so happy that somebody was listening to them and people were crying. one lady got so upset when she heard at the way they had been duped and the fact they still had this bad water. she started crying and had to rush out of the hearing. so we're not going to let them down. we've got a whole cadre of people, thes republicans are are saying they're going to work with us and i'm saying, yeah, you know, show me, let's make this happen. and chairman chaffetz has said that he's working on getting the governor to washington, but, again, rachel, i do not want to have motion, emotion, and no results. i don't want this to be another katrina where people look back and say, oh, poor people from flint, and yet they are -- and our children are not made whole, th

"the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. >>> we're trying to keep everybody on their toes this year. skipping around. you might see us at any time. >> you never know. >> at some point we're going to be broadcasting from under people's beds. hey, it's time! thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this particular hour. it's nice to see you. if marco rubio or ted cruz goes all the way this year, either of them would make history as the first ever latino presidential candidate for a major political party. that would be a huge deal. had carly fiorina gone all the way this year, she and hillary cl[nton could each have been in contention to make history as the first female presidential candidate nominated by a major political party. you know, frankly, while we're on this train of thought, if donald trump goes all the way this year, he would be the first trump nominated for president by a major political party. there are lots of ways t

. >> i really appreciate that, rachel. thank you. >> part of the reason we're super happy to have you, you seem to understand things about nevada that are otherwise completely confounding. one of them that doesn't make sense is you can't apparently poll in nevada. why do we expect no significant amount of polling before these democratic caucuses? >> well, i think one of the reasons, maybe one of the main reasons you alluded to is we haven't been doing this real long. there is no sense of the caucus electorate in iowa, you have an seltzer who has been doing this for year and know who is going to caucus. new hampshire is a primary. you look at the turnout, very difficult to poll when you know the turnout will be low. it's been really incredibly low on the republican side. only 8% or so last time even though they had a record turnout where hillary clinton beat barack obama and lost in the delegate. it was a record caucus, 120,000 people. only 27% in the turnout. it was difficult to know that. let's add another wild card terri

but here's the basic point, rachel. the other strategy other than what you mentioned is simply this. i actually think it's good that governor cakasich and senator cz are staying in the race. governor kasich can win ohio which is a winner take all state. and senator cruz is likely to win in texas and win the majority of the delegates. i think it's very probable at this point that donald trump will have more delegates than any other single candidate. but i also think it's probable he will not have 50% of the delegates. that brings us to the convention in cleveland in july. with trump having the most delegates but not having the majority. so we could go for the first time since 1948 to a second ballot or even a third ballot where i can assure you that trump will not be the nominee because the people who are supporting other candidates are united in one thing which is, again, what donald trump would mean to the future of the party and to senatorial candidates. i mean, there's some great u.s. senators who i greatly admire. p

thank you chuck todd and rachel maddow. back in the spin room we have the folks who run the campaigns. we have the hillary clinton campaign chairman and the senior advisor to the sanders campaign. let me start with john and this question i thought hillary clinton tonight was very prepared like she was that first debate. she answered a lot of questions that the opponent had raised before, she nailed it with that line about cherry picking and setting sanders up as kind of like the cranky guy. i thought she had great homework there and she showed it. >> well, i think she was great across the board really. i thought she demonstrated that she could do all aspects of the job of president. she had a very clear set of ideas about what she was for, not just what she was against. she dominated the national security part of the debate. i thought that was the weakest part of p senator sanders' performance. >> did you bother -- that you had to wait for foreign policy for an hour? >> i think the voters will make a judgment about how impo

i'm glad that you see a face there because you know what, rachel? that's reality every single day of people's lives. and the mortgage crisis and how financial institutions targeted and exploited latinos and african-americans so that they could prosper even more on the backs of hard working people and no one really has a face to that crisis. i'm so glad. finally, they saw the faces of those affected in places not just like iowa and new hampshire. so yeah, i think they're also reacting to what they were feeling and sensing in this room. >> and you know, the thing that was so important about those interactions you're describing, those people able to talk to the candidates face to face today at your forum, they were speaking in detail about policies that they didn't want platitudes on. they wanted direct answers. so it was great you guys let the people in the audience does follow-ups because they would get the nice politically correct stump speech answer but time and time again from the audience, the people would say no, but how are you going to get tha

a perspective from rachel maddow. pl plap: rachel maddow had another big first. she got to do it. we'll see what it was, next. pair by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. advil pain relievers are used by more households than any other leading brand. to treat their aches and pains more people reach for advil. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. >>> as the secretary knows, you put titles on ads and you send them out. there was no word that said those newspapers had endorsed her. >> do you want 30 seconds on this issue? >> no. >> with that, we'll take a break. >> all right. i'm biassed. i admit i thought that last night's debate was the best debate of the cycle so far. it was a combination of having just two candidates go head to head and to moderators who artfully moved things along and got out of the way to allow frank exchanges between the candidates. one of those moderators, rachel maddow. >> thank you for saying that. >> i did a snap chat after the first commercial break where i was like, oh. what just happened? were you e

the rachel maddow show starts now from las vegas. good evening. >>> has won the nevada republican caucuses. in its current it ration where nevada is an important early state and goes right after south carolina and has this incredibly influential role in the republicans choosing their nominee, in the entire history of nevada, only one person has ever won. that guy is mitt romney. the first time the nevada caucuses were held in 2008, mitt romney not only won here, he won by a mile. he came in with 51% of the vote. second place was a very distant ron paul. ron paul came in second with only 14% of the vote. awkwardly even though ron paul only got 14% of the vote, that was enough to give ron paul supporters a tow hold that they used that year to hijack the nominating prosays and take over the party to a point where the whole nevada state republican convention was shut down and replaced with a back room conference call where they picked their delegates instead. it should have been a sign. we should have known with that first contest in 200

i'm glad that you see a face there because you know what, rachel? that's reality every single day of people's lives. and the mortgage crisis and how financial institutions targeted and exploited latinos and african-americans so that they could prosper even more on the backs of hard working people and no one really has a face to that crisis. i'm so glad. finally, they saw the faces of those affected in places not just like iowa and new hampshire. so yeah, i think they're also reacting to what they were feeling and sensing in this room. >> and you know, the thing that was so important about those interactions you're describing, those people able to talk to the candidates face to face today at your forum, they were speaking in detail about policies that they didn't want platitudes on. they wanted direct answers. so it was great you guys let the people in the audience does follow-ups because they would get the nice politically correct stump speech answer but time and time again from the audience, the people would say no, but how are you going to get tha

scientists rachel carson published "silent spring" arguing that pesticides like ddt were also deadly to birds, fish and humans. silent spring became a national best seller. >> cbs reports "the silent spring "by rachel carson. >> they aired an one-hour documentary on rachel carson. >> can anybody believe that they can lay down poison on the earth without making it unfit for all life. >> the epa would fight for tougher regulations of ddt. joni mitchell's iconic song talked about ddt. it wasn't until epa banned widespread use of ddt in the united states, but over the neck two decades the united states would export hundreds of tons of ddt to the developing world. john terrett, al jazeera. >> a former owner of a company involved in a chemical spill in west virginia will be sentenced today. that spill tainted the water supply for 300,000 people. former freedom industries owner face as year in prison. he's one of six people who pleaded guilty to charges related to that spill. 7500 gallons of the cleaning chemical spilled into the elk river. >>> the family of a black teenage fatally shot by

rachel madyson maddow, here she is, embracing the democrats. your thoughts? >> my thought was, i have never seen a moderator do that, that i remember, and, people say about her she is an extremely warm personable person and there is the kind of thing she z when we are involved in the debate, we journalists, we are ating a bit like the players in a trial before the court of public opinion. advocates play a certain role, whatever their relationship with each other and with a judge outside the courtroom is set aside and their professional discipline comes into play and you maintain a certain proper distance and the people you cover especially in a debate were when she runs up and hugs these people after, it conveys the impression whether fairly or not, that she plaintiffs them both and things the democrats are wonderful. >> i will not hug you after this signature president based on that. >> i wrote not mind if you did. >> i thought rachel maddox did a great job, and it was a mistake to pair her with a moderator of "meet the press." and the e-mail

he's a hugger, like rachel. she says, i'm a hugger. she sent out this tweet saying -- there it is -- >> i have trouble believing that. is it just me? >> it's a little hard to imagine her in an embrace with ted cruz. but putting that aside, i'm less troubled by the hug than a larger question. but first, rachel maddow is smart, passionate, she knows the issues. he's a rhodes scholar. she ended on a polite note, but she should not have been on that stage. nbc put her in a terrible position -- >> why? >> because she is an unabashed liberal commentator, sitting next to chuck todd. i think journalist should question the candidates in these high stakes debates. >> okay. but hew hewitt was there at cnn. the rnc pushed these organizations to put a conservative out there on the stage. fox news said you don't get to tell us who is going to moderate our debate. a position fox news has maintained. but some of the news organizations, said fine, we have somebody that is not a straight news person out here asking questions, who cares? >> i don't think

the rachel maddow show starts right now in another bigger, quieter room. good evening. >> awkwardly very near by but also separate. >> yes. >> pretty much how it goes from here on out. >> take it away. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour from what is our fancy election headquarters here in downtown manchester, new hampshire. i'm not sure how any of this stuff works yet. let's give it a go. up north in conway, new hampshire, it's about two hours north of where we are tonight in manchester, up in conway, they have a paper called the conway daily sun. every four years candidates trek

listen, you asked exactly the right questions there, rachel. i actually asked for those figures from the pollster. i never got an answer. listen, it's a very small sample. it's 250 or so folks. they don't even have enough in those cohorts to have the numbers in there. it shows hillary clinton with a slight lead. i think it's 46-44 among white voters. there's no racial breakdowns. we don't know what the hispanic breakdown is in that poll. and as you mentioned, the gender breakdowns are weird too. so it's a very small sample. however, i will say, and i was on the last time you went through your extensive mockery of that free beacon poll, what's really interesting about those two polls is they essentially showed the same thing. >> right. >> what they showed is a trend. and i think whether it's a one-point race or whether it's a five-point race, i think both campaigns think that the race is close enough that it's going to depend on what kind of new voters come, what the racial breakdown is on caucus day on saturday. the race is close, whether it's

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so, rachel, yes, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans who are not that enamored with the establishment but i am very proud to have people like keith ellison in the house. the co-chairman of the house progressive caucus. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me because they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have also worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise

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so, rachel, yes, secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans who are not that enamored with the establishment but i am very proud to have people like keith ellison in the house. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me was a they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don

i'd like to interview him. >> that will be the end of the world before that hams. >> rachel, rachel, how are you? >> nice to see you, governor. >> reporter: good to see you. i came all the way here to get you. >> you bite the crap out of me for years, you expect me to voluntarily come on your program. >> reporter: you love the back and forth. >> with a lot of people. not with you. what do you have today? >> reporter: i'm not trying to beat the difference out of you. what's the different questions in a new jersey town haul and a new hampshire town hall. >> in new jersey, it's state based. here it's a different set. in new jersey, you are talking pensions and talking about law enforcement and you are talking k to 12 education in a much more granular way than you are in a national form. there are differences, like, listen, let's try the difference between iowa, new hampshire and new jersey. i have to give you a range. so, iowans are very laid back. iowans sit there with their arms folded across their chest most of the time, barely kind of nod at you. you don't get any feed feedp mary pa

>>> good evening, i'm lawrence o'donnell, rachel maddow is here tonight to get in her last word about the voting here in new hampshire. it starts in exactly two hours. >> here we come. >> maureen sanders and donald trump -- bernie sanders and donald trump pop the polls. >> this is our sort of final lovefest. >> this is a crazy, crazy race on the republican side. [ applause ] >> of all people, you'd never expect ben carson to fall asleep at the wheel. >> the great marco malfunction. >> you took a lot of criticism saturday night. >> this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he's doing is untrue. >> there he is, the memorized speech. >> this is great for people that cover politics, not voters. >> gut instinct where you finish tomorrow in. >> i don't know. i think we will good evening roach expectations. >> he provides out his mother. >> trump, loser. >> oh my god. >> this country needs a political revolution. >> it sound like socialism to me. >> democratic socialism. >> eh, what's the difference? >> huge difference. >> huge? >> huge. ♪ >> they're holding their leads in new hampsh

aleve pm for a better am. >>> rachel. how are you? >> good to see you. >> i couldn't get you in new york. >> you beat the crap out of me for years. you expect me to voluntarily come on your program. >> i expect you to. you love the back and forth. >> with a lot of people. maybe not for you. what do you have for today? >> what's the difference between a new hampshire town hall and a new jersey town hall? what's the different kind of questions you get and the different interactions? >> it become a totally different issue tset to deal with. you're talking about pensions and law enforcement and talking about k to 12 education than in national forum. there's also differences like, let's try to difference between iowa and new hampshire and new jersey. io iowans are very laid back. they sit there were their arms folded across their chest. barely kind of nod at you. you don't get any feed off the audience at all. we're sitting in iowa town halls, i couldn't tell you if i was doing well, poorly or somewhere in between. new hampshire, more moti

"the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. now. "the rachel maddow show" starts now in its regular hour. good evening, rachel. >>> we're trying to keep everybody on their toes this year. skipping around. you might see us at any time. >> you never know. >> at some point we're going to be broadcasting from under people's beds. hey, it's time! thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this particular hour. it's nice to see you. if marco rubio or ted cruz goes all the way this year, either of them would make history as the first ever latino presidential candidate for a major political party. that would be a huge deal. had carly fiorina gone all the way this year, she and hillary cl[nton could each have been in contention to make history as the first female presidential candidate nominated by a major political party. you know, frankly, while we're on this train of thought, if donald trump goes all the way this year, he would be the first trump nominated for president by a major political party.

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>> rachel? >> this is the continuous question i think you will have forever. you know, i think i'm right in the midst of this past year has been incredible. we've seen incredible growth. we went from a california-based program to a program that's distributed almost $5 million in medicine, enough for 80,000 people. that's awesome. but i spend pretty much all of my time trying to grow that business. and i think to some extent, you have to really -- this is where it gets difficult. you have to learn when to trim and really maintain focus. we get inquiries from the other countries who want to use our software. and we've had to make some strategic decisions and say, hey, we don't -- we're a five-person team, we don't have the bandwidth right now to work in europe or south america. that's not where we're at. i think, you can carve out some time in your own personal schedule to, you know, really carve out a couple of hours a week. setting up a time, a dedicated time for you to work on kind of these out of the box ideas, and these partnerships which maybe will go nowh

. >> tomorrow night at this hour,ly join rachel and brian williams for the live coverage of the republican caucus in nevada. >>> place your bets. trump or the resistance. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews out in las vegas. i've been here a while. republicans woke up sunday with a reality, donald trump the front-runner for the party's nomination. celebrating his big win in south carolina. here he is. >> we won with everything. we won with women. i love the women. we won with evangelicals. like unbelievable. we won with the military. we won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated, but we won with everything. tall people, short people, skinny people, fat people. every time they do polls, like cnn did a big poll, when it comes to security, when it comes to isis, when it comes to the military, every single category i'm leading by a lot. the only category i do badly in is my personality. and that's okay. who cares. and you know what? you want to know something? i'm a better person than the people i'm running against. >> i've never heard anybody talk a

. >> i'm sorry, rachel and chuck were awesome. i don't usually start with something like that, but that was the best debate i've seen this cycle. >> they let the players play. >> it was not about them. they asked questions, they went back, they asked follow-up and then they let the candidates talk and the candidates, willie, both brought their a-game. >> they did and the one on one format, which we haven't seen in this election cycle, you're reminded this is what a debate is supposed to look like, not 10 people shouting at each other on the stage. chuck and rachel -- i say this as a complement -- you forget they were there. >> they weren't needy, they were fantastic. you see in other debates where the moderators become the story. this was about the candidates. hillary clinton and bernie sanders faced often in the candidates'-only debate in new hampshire before votes are cast. in some of their most contentious exchanges of the campaign thus far, the two sparred over who best embodies progressive values. what it means to be a part o

rachel maddow starts now. >>> happy weekend. you deserve the time off. >> thank you. >> thanks do you at home for joining us this hour. we have a big show tonight. happy friday. the next contest in the democratic race for president is in nevada. looks like something might be about to happen in nevada that's not happened anywhere else in the race so far. it's really big, really important news for bernie sanders in particular. we've got that story exclusively ahead tonight. the contest on the republican side, the next contest is not in nevada. it's in south carolina. a new poll out today from the augusta chronicle has donald trump with a giant 17-point lead in state of south carolina. then bunched relatively close together behind the front-runner are ted cruz, marco rubio and jeb bush. hey, jeb bush polling in double digits. that must feel nice and weird given how he's been doing overall in the race. the bush family does have a special knack for winning in south carolina. both jeb bush's father and hoolr brother have won the south

eastern with brian williams and rachel maddow. all in with chris hayes starts now. >>> tonight on all in. >> we're going to build a wall and who's going to pay for that wall in. >> culture wars heets up in nevada as we get preliminary reports of massive turn out for republicans. >> dishonesty can knock out a poll very quickly. that's the only wap we lose. >> donald trump goes for three in a row. we'll go live to the caucuses. republicans sign their names on the plot to stop obama's supreme court pick. the unprecedented letter signed by republican senatorers

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rachel maddow starts now. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. new polling came out tonight showing in the south carolina presidential primary, the republican front-runner, his lead is up to 17 points in south carolina. less than a week out from that contest. the next democratic contest is in nevada. there's not likely to be any significant polling in nevada. the next democratic race for which we've got a significant amount of polling is in south carolina. the latest polling out in that race tonight again from ppp, shows the front-runner for the democratic nomination hillary clinton also has a very significant lead in south carolina. her lead in south carolina now 21 points. let's take a 50,000 foot view. since last july there's been dozens of polls on the republican nomination and democratic nomination. in all but two of the republican polls, dating back to last summer, domnald trump has been n the lead. on the democratic side, in every single one of the national polls taken in this race, actually, every single poll, not yjust to last summer, th

right now it's time for the rachel maddow show. >>> that was great. that was the hardball college tour town hall complete with a brass band onset. chris matthews with democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders, live from the university of chicago's institute of politics. this is a live shot right now with that event having just wrapped up. i'm rachel maddow back in new york. we do not have a brass band. that was a remarkable event. there's a lot going on in news and politics tonight. on the political side, bryan sandoval has taken his name out of contention for the supreme court nominee. a whole new raft of polling has come out. donald trump continues to dominate the field. the rest of the republican field has now started amongst themselves inn earnest as to wh ought the quit. on the democratic side of the race we did have this remarkable, long forum town hall with bernie sanders who is safe to say back to being the underdog, but one who is fighting really hard and has a lot of resoiurces and support o his side. bernie sanders taking questions f

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >>> good evening, chris, from across the state. thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are also live from new hampshire tonight. we're in durham, new hampshire, at the site of tomorrow night's big democratic debate. the first one-on-one face-off between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. which is going to be here live starting at exactly thistime tomorrow night on msnbc. we're going to have more details on that coming up in tonight's show. if you're thinking didn't rachel say this time last night she didn't know if it was happening? that's true. it's happening. i've got the details for you ahead. >>> but before we get to those details, i do actually have legit breaking news hot off the presses. what i have in my hot little hand here is the first, the first new national poll in the presidential race since the iowa caucuses. this is a poll on the republican side. it was done by ppp. again, first national poll of the race for the republican nomination since iowa.

>> rachel tonight we have mark langley from kept, washington arc former public defender, a pro cancer survivor and he used to work right here at msnbc.com right here in the day. please meet mark. >> mark,s very noise to meet you. you see how he played that game of a guy introducing a guy from kent. >> impressive. >> does it look different than when you were here? in there the media village never changes, does it? >> i don't know what you mean. all right. >> emmore rer katherine. set up cardboard villages. >> we like to think we are a higher grade of cardboard, much better vigils in the neighborhood if you know what i mean. we're super happy to have you here. >> thank you. >> i'll tell you how this works. if you get two of the three questions we give you toon. you get two right, you will win this worthless piece of junk. >> oh, yeah, rachel maddow schak shaker. >> extra credit. >> this velvetine black cape which apparently we borrowed from stevie knicks. i don't know, it was in our office. here it is. >> yeah. mark. i'm sorry about that. we'll have it cleaned before we send it to you i

. >> hey rachel, it's 7:00 p.m. in vegas, and you have now just finished work. so you have a whole vegas night ahead of you. to go out thereto -- >> cha-ching. >> and you look like you're having too much fun. i'm coming out to vegas tomorrow and the first thing i'm going to want to know when i get there is what did you do last night. so save your story for tomorrow. >> it involves a roll of pennies, i can tell you right now. >> i'm sure it will. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well on the eve of the nevada caucus, ted cruz fired his most valuable player for tweeting something that wasn't accurate while donald trump and marco rubio continue to call ted cruz a liar. >> i asked for rick tyler's resignation. >> one of his top aids fired after spreading misinformation about marco rubio. >> wasted no time jumping on cruz, tweet nothing dirty tricks. >> i can't take it anymore. basic manners are gone from politics, what is with it with these ding dongs? >> you're not sure that marco rubio is eligible for president? >> i don't know. i've never looked a it, george, honest will

appreciate having you here. >> rachel, it's my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> there hasn't been a ton of polling in the democratic race in massachusetts or the republican race in massachusetts thus far. should we take it to mean that massachusetts is hard to poll or one of the places that's hard to predict or just a matter that not many people have taken a look yet? >> yeah, i think it's the latter. there's so much attention leading up to the new hampshire primary and it's just poll after poll after poll looking at new hampshire, and now the attention is focusing on the states that follow new hampshire. as you suggested, this is one of the first polls of massachusetts. i think the last poll we had was back in november. it showed bernie sanders about 25 points behind hillary clinton. you can look at this poll and say it doesn't look so good for bernie sanders. the sanders people will spin it and say, we'd like it to be better. we have come a long way since november. >> okay. one of the things that stuck out to me, which looked like go