. >> how surprised are you we woke up after nevada and everybody in washington said, oh, my this guy is most likely to be the next nominee? >> i didn't know thatç well, b i did know him and i think it's been most surprising to me to see somebody who was affable and was good company and, you know, had a reputation of being kind of bigger than life really traffic in a lot the prejudice and paranoia and some of the comments he's made which have been decisive and mean spirited, it doesn't quite fit with what i thought i knew about him. so i think it will be interesting to see what if he does get the nomination he decides to do with it, how he presents himself. but he has really been offensive and in many many respects surprising to those of us who did know him. >> meanwhile, "the new york times" editorial board which endorsed clinton is calling for her to release the transcripts of her paid wall street speeches. sentiments campaign rival bernie sanders agrees with. >> i have talked about the fact that hillary clinton has received many millions of dollars from wall street for her campai

who have shouldered the burden of seven years of washington deals run amok. 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. during the course of this campaign, people have asked heidi and me are you tired? i will admit it is 16, 18 hours a day, six, seven days a week. we are not tired at all. >> donald trump meantime began his day with a last minute appeal to get iowans out to caucus and his rally was interesting as always. >> i get a little notice in case you see it, the security guys -- we have wonderful security guys. they said, mr. trump there may be someone with tomatoes in the audience. if you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. just knock -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. >> in the end, trump's ground game fell short. one member of his iowa team tells nbc news that his events never had enough staffers to keep one the crowds and in some locati locations, the

when the washington lobbyists settled -- on other candidates in this race, when the media said a conservative cannot win, nationwide over 800,000 contributions poured in to tedcruz.org. >> well, precaucus polls showed donald trump in the lead so what happened? trump campaign insiders say both ted cruz and marco rubio had better ground games and it showed. while adding that second place means trump is a loser in iowa. after tracking easily the shortest speech of the season and appeared humbled. >> so on june 16th, when we started this journey, there was 17 candidates. i was told by everybody do not go to iowa. you could never finish veep in the top ten. and i said, but i have friends in iowa, i know a lot of people in iowa, i think they'll really like me, let's give it a shot. they said don't do i. i said i have to do it. and we finished second. and i want to tell you something. i'm just honored. i'm really honored. and i want to congratulate ted and i want to congratulate all of the incredible candidates. >> although even without taking the top spot, trump remains as confident as ever. >> we

i'm chris matthews in washington. it didn't take long for the political battle to start over filling justice scalia's seat. what is less than zero? the chances of obama successfully appointing a supreme court justice to replace scalia, within minutes of the justice's death. mitch mcconnell said in part, the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. senator chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee said given the huge divide in the country and this president above all others to use the court to circumvent congress, it only makes sense that we defer to the american people who will elect a new president to select the next supreme court justice. and senator ted cruz told chuck todd on "meet the press" he would stop any nominee at all from even being considered. >> doesn't the united states have an obligation to at least go through the process and have an up or down vote? >> not remotely. p

the group made the announcement at an event in washington, d.c. and congressman john lewis went after bernie sanders saying this is about the senator's involvement in the civil rights movement. take a listen. >> and i never saw him. i never met him. i would chair the student nonviolent coordinating committee for three years from 1963 to 1966. i was involved in the sit ins, the freedom right, the march on washington. the march in selma. and directed the voter project for six years. but i met hillary clinton. i met president clinton. >> a spokesman for the sanders campaign said bernie is a great admirer of congressman lewis. as he tries to make inroads amongst the african-american voters he got an endorsement from harry belafonte. and they intend to run that in south carolina. we'll show you a section of that coming up in "morning joe." >>> just out this morning a new ad that the clinton campaign will run statewide this weekend and it features a pastor who lost his wife and the mother -- in the mother emanuel church shooting. he praises her record o

if you ask me would i take anybody from washington, d.c. to come in here and run my business, no way. no way. because i got something to lose. they'd have nothing to lose. they're playing with our money. so i think some of them don't even care who we are out here. they want their power. they got their power, and they want their way. for iowa, not only for iowa, but for the national spotlight, as far as i'm concerned, this is about national security. providing our own fuel, and not buying from the people who want to hurt us. i made the statement to a senator from texas two years ago when i was in d.c., and i said i want america to be energy independent and he said, mr. good, that's a pipe dream if you ever think that's going to happen. and i said, as long as people like you are in charge, that's right. i think a lot of things that we're talking about now wouldn't be talked about in a normal election. but because we have some outsiders involved in the race, things are being talked about. and in my view no matter how much you love or hate dona

. >> 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 advisers gave him. when you're governor of a state, the memorized 30 second speech where you talk about how great america is at the end of it doesn't solve one problem for one person. they expect you to plow the snow. they expect you to get the schools open. >> christie your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago. you didn't even want to go back. they had to shame you into going back. and then you stayed there for 36 hours, and then you left and came back to campaign. those are the facts. here's the bottom line, this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not threw. >> there it is. the memorized 25-second speech. >> that's the reason why this campaign is so important. >> there it is, everybody. >> governor christie's attacks on marco rubio have gone from tough to blistering. and he framed saturday night as a

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this is to quote "morning joe's" joe scarborough in "the washington post." so is this how the party's abraham lincoln dies? what does this do to the gop? >> this is what the gop has been trying to get away from. when we got into this election they were looking at the autopsy from the last election saying we need to be more engaging of minorities, we need to be more open to other groups, people who don't traditionally vote republican and they've done the exact opposite. they've mored toward a very xenophobic, nativist territory with donald trump at the front. >> let's go over to the democrats, because bernie sanders is now coming out swinging at hillary clinton and swinging at trump. is this new strategy going to get him any more votes? >> he's really having some trouble looking towards super tuesday. doesn't look good for him. and i think just beating expectations may not be enough. there's a lot of delegates that are being handed out on tuesday and hillary clinton looks very strong to get a lot of them when they leave you know when they hit wednesday mornin

let's wrap up the week and talk about the big day ahead in south carolina with kevin robillard there in washington. good morning to you. let's get started with the day after here, we're talking about swirling politics with religion, trump versus the pope and even this cover from "the new york daily news." kind of pretty much says it all. how does this play into the bulletproofness and the unsinkableness of trump, there the daily news calls him the antichrist. >> trump has taken on everyone during this campaign. the pope gets added to the list of targets here. the one thing that trump could say in this case the pope kind of started it in this fight. but, you know, particularly in south carolina, which is coming up, this isn't going to hurt him. even, you know, a huge percentage of voters in south carolina are evangelicals. evangelicals tend to view catholicism in general with a lot of skepticism. so the fact he's in a fight with the pope isn't going to hurt him there. could it hurt him, you know, in states with larger catholic populations as things go down the line say louisiana or a lot of states

we have put washington on the run. and tonight's outcome is a victory for we the people. >> an adviser to cruz tweeting this photo of him calling donald trump last night to congratulate him on his victory. at the same time, cruz's campaign also rolled out this new video targeting trump. >> look, i got the trump action figure. >> no, way, it's huge. >> what does he do? >> he pretends to be a republican. [ laughter ] >> i like bailouts for the banks. >> too big to fail. >> i gave money to pelosi and reid and anthony weiner. >> hey, hillary i'll give you money to be my friend. >> that's a lousy house, i'm going to take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there. >> eminent domain! >> we wouldn't tolerate these values in our children. why would we want them in a president? >> earlier on when the votes were coming in last night, it looked like jeb bush might be able to move into the third place finish, but cruz did creep ahead of him. still, bush's tie for fourth came as something of a sigh of relief to his camp

politico's kevin robe alar is joining us from washington. you heard the undecideds. what do you think, did last night change voters' minds? >> it probably did in individual cases like those, but no big game changing moment that changes the race in any real way. it was the two of them repeating the talking points and you heard both of the two people saying they decided to vote for sanders or hillary. and so clearly they got the message out, but no big game changing moment that will sway voters from one side to the other. >> we'll see if there are game changing moments in the republican race. the attacks are stepping up on marco rubio, is that a big compliment to him? >> yeah, he's getting all the fire because he's sort of becoming the consensus establishment candidate. there's still a lot of establishment candidates left in the race. so all of them are trying to knock him down a peg and take his spot so he's going to get it from jeb bush and from chris christie. chris christie was hard on him yesterday. you will see it from john kasich. all of these guys are going to

from the washington examiner, whether it's successful is missing the point. he's doing so on a platform of the republican party that would now exist in washington. joining me now is michael steele. i want to get your reaction to this amazing moment where trump went adversarial on the room. i've never seen in a debate before. it's a strange choice. take a listen. >> how tough is it take property from an elderly woman. >> let me talk. quiet. >> how tough is it? >> a lot of times. that's all his donors and special interests. the reason they're not loving me is i don't want their money. i don't want their money. i don't need their money. i'm the only one that can say that. >> the rnc claims that only 75 of 1,000 seats went to donors. that was a i welcome their hatred moment to quote fdr from donald trump. >> exactly. you see candidates go after the moderator and score the brownie points there. who would go after the audience? donald trump. particularly, when that audience is not his audience. for him it was a win win. he could go in and smack them around. a lot o

as new york city saw heavy rains strong enough to blow over this tractor-trailer on the george washington bridge out on long island a truck burst into flames as light poles were knocked down on top of it. this pickup truck is barely visible after skidding off the road and getting covered in snow in indiana. and a fire broke out after heavy winds and snow knocked down power lines in a back road in illinois. meteorologist bill karins will join us later in the show with the very latest forecast. >>> after winning nevada, donald trump continued to dig into ted cruz's evangelical base with a q&a session hosted by christian media mogul pat robertson. trump got his first congressional packing from new york's chris collins who previously backed jeb bush saying the donald has the guts and fortitude to reclaim outsourced jobs and take on isis and north korea. california's duncan hunter who recently made news by vaping at a hearing to make a point about e-cigarettes said he'd also support trump. but former gop nominee mitt romney warned that a blockbuster was on the way when trump releases his tax r

. >>> and meanwhile in washington, lindsey graham who is teeing off on the remaining field during the roast last night and one of his fellow senators in particular. >> you have come a long way in 72 years. 72 years ago, a woman could not be part of the american experience.ç if you don't vote, that's coming back in 2017. well, look how far you have come. the most dishonest person in america is a woman. who's about to be president. how could that be? my party is going [ bleep ] crazy. we don't win this election, when are we ever going to win one? that's not meant to be funny. a good republican would defend ted cruz after tonight. that ain't happening. [ laughter ] if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate, and the trial was in the senate, nobody could convict you. >> okay. >>> still ahead on "way too early," the johnny manziel domestic violence allegations are headed to a grand jury and much more on that mass shooting in kansas. nbc news has just confirmed tho gunman's name is cedric larry ford. former congresswoman gabby gifford said this is not the america we strive for. #hess

it's liberal. 43% of iowa democrats told the washington post they are socialists. god bless them. i'm happy to hear it. it wasn't a must win state. i think he did well enough with an almost win to get a little bit of momentum going. it's not the same as if he had won. it's all we would be talking about if she lost and he won is when does she drop out. we would. we heard a bit of that last night. how quickly does she have to drop out if she loses iowa. it's a tough state. she came in third in 2008. it's not just little league or t ball to say you did really well. she does get the trophy going forward. she did win. she also won -- i watched a little caucus in waterloo which is the most diverse city in iowa where john louis visited the other night. she took those ten delegates, waterloo, iowa looks more like the rest of the country than the rest of iowa does. she really does have a lot of advantages going forward. bernie is changing the narrative. i think he did himself a lot of good there. >> ben, charlie just referenced ethanol. to me, if there was was one unambiguous winner was te

and nbc's edward lawrence joins us from washington with more. good morning, edward. >> reporter: good morning, shannon. it seems like the heat has been turned up a notch. both sides republicans and democratic candidates are fighting to make new hampshire count. new hampshire's one of the smallest states in the nation. this week it's the center of national politics. >> i'm pretty excited about where we are. because i believe that people in new hampshire are going to make the right decision. >> reporter: republicans see a crack in donald trump's armor. he finished second in iowa to senator ted cruz. >> we are going to beat hillary clinton and it won't be by a flip of the coin. >> reporter: marco rubio surprised everyone, almost beating trump, finishing a close third. >> we've got the biggest vote ever in the history of a primary in iowa by like 60,000 people came out extra. i'm not going to say it was me, but believe me it was me. >> reporter: trump say he'll win new hampshire. they credit cruz's incredible ground game for the win in iowa. >> we'l

with a funeral held on saturday in washington. scalia's courtroom chair was draped in black yesterday in me more yum. the partisan battle over replacing him continues to up fold. during an iowa radio interview, senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley who's in charge of the confirmation hearings said i would wait until the nominee is made before i make decisions. but grassley said he's not open to a confirmation hearing. yesterday, president obama challenged senate republicans to rise above day to day politics. >> this will be the opportunity for senators to do their job. your job doesn't stop until you're voted out or until your term expires. i intend to do my job between now and january 20th of 2017. i expect them to do their job as well. >> and nbc's tracie potts is in washington and tracie, now we have president obama taking direct aim at the republicans. >> reporter: exactly. you know, sometimes we forget that he taught constitutional law. his argument here that this is not a partisan issue, democrats and republican

win the general election and take on the washington establishment. and in keeping with the state's late breaking tradition, 43% of south carolina voters say they either have not made up their minds or could still be persuaded to support someone other than their first choice. however, a majority of trump supports and cruz supporters say say not with us, we are locked in. >>> after being threatened with a lawsuit, ted cruz has a singular message, yeah, bring it on. during a news conference yesterday, cruz read from a cease and desist letter his campaign received from a lawyer for trump and they're demanding that the cruz campaign stop playing the ad you're seeing right here because it shows part of a 1999 "meet the press" interview where trump said at the time he was very pro-choice. cruz insists he'll keep playing it on tv and dared trump to bring on that suit. >> to mr. trump, you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life. even in the annals of frivolous lawsuits, this takes the cake. so donald, i would encourage you if you

. >> together we have sent the message that will echo from wall street to washington, from maine to california. that is what the political revolution is about. >> sanders will be in new york city this morning for a breakfast meeting with reverend al sharpton at harlem's famed sylvia's restaurant. clinton's aspirations ride on winning the minority vote in nevada and south carolina, a demographic she has polled highly. clinton got a 23-point lead over sanders among likely caucusgoers. her firewall is well intact, according to the nbc news/"wall street journal"/marist poll she leads sanders there by a wide margin. >>> happening overnight, nbc news reports that the clinton campaign will bring on jennifer o'malley dillon, the former deputy campaign manager for president obama's 2012 re-election campaign. >>> a dire warning from top u.s. intelligence officials on capitol hill tuesday where director of national intelligence james clapper told lawmakers he could not recall a time with more diverse and array of challenges and crises. clapper discussed isis which he called the preeminent global terroris

when he got to washington, somebody said to him, well, what do you uniquely bring to washington? and he stopped and he said, well, i guess arithmetic. we're going to make it add up for the american people again, and at the end of eight years, it did. we had 23 million new jobs, but more importantly, incomes went up for everybody. not just those at the top. middle class families, working families, more people were lifted out of poverty than at any time in recent american history. this is not in the far past. we can do this again, my friends! but what happened? well, back came the republicans. back came trickle-down economics. back came cutting taxes on the wealthy, getting out of the way of corporations. the single best photo of what happened on wall street later is the picture taken of the man president bush put in charge of wall street, the fcc commissioner. he's standing there grinning with a chain saw in his hands, and a big stack of regulations. well, they did a heck of a job. they turned away from what was happening in the financial markets, and the mortgage markets, and we

back in washington, robert costa joins us, msnbc analyst as well. the republican party's reacting now to the news of trump's dominance in different ways. for some they are pushing resistance. henry barber, the nephew of hallie barber, a member of the republican national committee said, after trump has won in new hampshire and south carolina, republicans are crazy and are about to blow the white house if we don't rally to stop him, close quote. marco rubio made the case for why the party needed to nominate him. >> we can't win. if we nominate someone, if we nominate someone that half of the republican party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to november. we will never win that way. i don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. if we nominate someone that 40% to 50% of our party can't stand, we are going to lose. >> katy, i don't know what all these guys are thinking, but he sounded desperate. we've got a leak in the dike, we've got to stop this thing. >> which is the case right now.

as the washington examiner points out 1.2 million people voted in republican primaries and caucuses so far. that's up 24% from 2012. these contrasting trends in voter turn out between democrats and republicans should not concern bernie sanders but could be a warning to the entire democratic party. are democrats suffering from enthusiasm gap and will that haunt them in november. joy, there's a bunch of ways you can read this data. what is your read of this so far? >> there's a couple ways to read it. one way is the shadow reelect phenomenon where democrats already have the white house. they are not motivated to take back the white house. they believe a lot of democratic voters assume hillary clinton will be the nominee, don't feel any urgency to go out and do anything about this. they may come back in the fall. the danger for bernie sanders is in that presumption is whether he has an actual chance of being the nominee meaning there's less nomination thinking he isn't going to win any way. the people northeast motivated to make a change are a small minority of the democrat party who want

maybe vermont, california, oregon, washington state. not too many. >> he gets the left coast but not the east coast. >> i don't think he gets the east coast. he doesn't get ohio or pennsylvania. i'm not sure if he gets new york or new jersey. >> a man without a party. he's not part of the establishment. if he wins tonight, will be republican establishment come to grips with him and say we got to live with this guy? >> if he wins tonight, it's very difficult to see the scenario where he loses. what state does donald trump lose next? he wins tonight, he has a commanding lead in the state of new hampshire. he's a commanding lead in nevada. he has a commanding lead in south carolina. setting himself up to the winner take all states come super tuesday and after. i think the republican leaders look at the potential of a cruz nomination. look at ted cruz and they see somebody who gets 140 electoral votes. leads to a loss of senate and a loss of house. they look at donald trump and see someone with the potential to expand the pool to be able to

." >>> good evening, i'm chris mathews back in washington. that reference i made to bernie, that's at the university of chicago, the whole hour, starting at 8:00 tomorrow night, the college tour, which we've always loved. he'll be leading the way. five days before super tuesday, we'll be at the university of chicago with senator bernie sanders. meanwhile, last night in nevada, donald trump scored a big win, of course, with record turnout in that state. trump got 46% of the vote. his biggest percentage so far. close to 50 now. three straight contests ahead of super tuesday, which is unbelievable coming tuesday. this morning, he picked up two u.s. congressional endorsements, chris collins of new york, and duncan. meanwhile, super tuesday states, is donald trump completing his hostile takeover, the republican party, that's our question tonight. is it over? trump celebrated his victory last night in las vegas, and promised a lot of winning for the country if he is elected. >> we weren't expected a couple of months ago, we weren't expected to win

hollywood and washington have more in common than you think. yesterday, secretary of state kerry discussed perceptions of america around the world and ways to combat the p.r. campaign the islamic state is pushing. now, the secretary tweeted in an image of the meeting after adding great convo with l.a. studio execs. good to hear their perspectives. this is not the first time that washington has consulted with hollywood. back in 2001 more than a dozen writers and directors met with pentagon advisers on what could happen next following the 9/11 attacks. >>> now, it turns out in monday, in los angeles, paul mccartney was denied access to a late night grammy party. you see mccartney appearing to speak with a bouncer at the door to the nightclub. apparently the place of the rapper tyga's vip party. after several minutes sir paul walks away with beck. they're appearing to be in shock. mccartney seems to mutter how vip do we got to get? now, a representative for the club says that the singer was not denied access because realized he was looking for a l

. >> both of us got to washington. but we made very, very different decisions. it was the rubio, schumer. >> three minutes to name one accomplishment of senator rubio. one, just one. >> and mother knows best. jeb bush gets some help from the woman who knows him best. >> it's wonderful to be here. to be with the world's nicest man. >> do you think he's going to win? >> you're darn right. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in new hampshire with hillary clinton, surrounding herself later this hour with a host of women senators and governors. national leaders as well to help recover women voters. one reason why hillary clinton was so aggressive against bernie sanders in last night's msnbc debate. >> let's talk about the issues. let's talk about the issues that divide us. >> clinton and sanders in their most combative debate yet. >> secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans. >> the debate quickly exploded in a fiery clash over her ties to wall street. hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees, and his demands f

i do think there's a benefit to understanding how the process works in washington. much as we all think it needs to change, and i think that, one of the things i hear the most as i travel around new hampshire is why can't you guys just work together to deal with the problems facing the country. we need somebody who understands how to reach across the aisle. i think hillary has that. she has that history. that's what she did in the senate. it's what she ditd in the white house. it's what she did as secretary of state. >> the argument on the other side is we have this structure problem that's grown up in american politics. it's not just you guys. >> in the depths of the worth great depression could barely get more than two or three votes for a stimulus bill. >> when the united states was threatened by hitler in world war ii, one vote is what it took to pass the draft. it was just one vote to make that pass so that we could actually build the resources we needed to go fight to save the free world. i think this idea it's going to be overwhelming and easy is not right. >

national correspondent washington bureau chief for buzzfeed. when you're picking a president of the united states, everybody has to endorse up. no super president or chairman of the board to point down and say pick this guy. how do you endorse up? whether you're al sharpton or congressional black caucus. how do you tell to vote for somebody. endorsements matter for president? >> they do in the sense that particularly for african-american voters, there is still a core of the black vote that is largely, you know, not entirely, but that is very much influenced by religious leaders, by the church. that voter who is in a certain demographic, meaning, black voters over 40 who do still believe in the influence of the civil rights move and reverend al sharpton is that second generation, so i think there is still something to be said for endorsements. they do still feel they have something to say. now, by the way, the entire sort of weight of the black political class endorsed hillary clinton last time and that didn't way voters at all. they went with o

>> joining me now, david weigel who covers national politics for the "washington post." i first met you nine years ago and you were the guy covering rand paul, libertarian movement, ron paul revolution. you covered ron paul and rand paul for nine years. why did this not work out? >> think a place that sells really good sandwiches and tries to sell chinese food and pasta. he's trying to be too many people. he didn't have the interest in carrying that off. he thought he could add to his father's coalition. what he learned very wickly and couldn't really undo, if you try to add or change anything to the pure libertarian message, people bolt and don't trust you anymore. >> right, because ron paul actually did much better. he had his bloc, 15% to 20% of the electrate he superserved. rand came from that world obviously and thought he could give a libertarianism light that didn't work. >> he wasn't the america first alternate right person that ron paul was. every time he ran, had pat buchanan-ish views on race in the past and didn't hurt him when it came to foreign policy. peop

"the washington post" saying she cruised to victory over bernie sanders. this is, in many ways, the speech she's been raring to give as she accepted -- claimed victory in iowa before it was certain. went on to defeat in new hampshire. the campaign trail has not been what the clinton campaign anticipated or expected as recently as six months ago. but tonight, to great excitement and a great introduction by congressman clyburn, she came out and was eventually able to do somewhat is very, very difficult with an election night. big crowds, she brought them to silence. you could hear a pin drop. she brought the throttle all the way back and feathered the prop and she was talking about the black lives matter movement. so big night for her tonight. and our director of elections has passed on word to us that this margin of victory could be truly sweeping and could be north of 40 points when all the votes are counted. we've got 20% in, rachel, and this is a big victory. >> this is only one in five votes count sod far. only 20% in, so there's no reason to extrapolat

talking about people commuting back up to washington. talking about a big trump victory and now they're in nevada for tomorrow and he's got huge polling advantages in nevada where he has big business interest as well. is it old to suggest there's a republican establishment that can unite behind one or another candidate now behind trump, kathleen? >> it doesn't seem like he can be beaten at this point because he not only has all these poll figures in his favor but he has the momentum. it's not only moving with him but ahead of him. ted cruz and marco rubio need to both attack donald trump. there's an emotional feel he's on their team which is another joke. what they can do is make a very clear case how donald trump has crushed the little man on his way to larger and taller monuments to himself. that's the case that can be made and should be made in the next few days. >> they seem to be going after each other. >> i know rubio wants it, i'm sorr sorr sorry. go ahead. >> i would also say that trump is not gone past 40%. he's in the 30s. you

not only has trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like the new york times and washington post, but he's turning it back on the c conservative media who started it in first place. trump seemed to have undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the fox news brand among republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new survey. after being asked about his tax returns at last night's debate he dodged the question by insultinged to moderator using fox news's favorite method of taunting, ratings. >> a year ago you told me on my radio show, the audio in the transcript are out there on you tube that you would release your tax returns. >> true. >> are you going back on your commitment? >> first of all, very few people listen to your radio show, which happens to be true. check out the ratings. >> david, you've covered roger wo has run f who has run fox news since the inception. no response. no one watches you. your ratings are terrible. stick your finger in your ear. >> you would say the student has become the master but dona

when articulate with your crude language the disgust that the voters feel with washington, you win the voters' trust and they stick with you through the ups and downs in your candidacy. >> that's how a billionaire from new york, a land lord, a real estate developer, as people keep saying, thrice married, as cast himself in a character in a springstein song. we'll make a last song. who is with me? i'm out here on the edge of town. who is with me? >> right. that's why his supporters, all these other candidates would lose support. we would rush to our tracking polls the morning after if jeb bush or marco rubio said these things. he dimmed 16 points. trump said these things and he goes on the next morning. finally, us dumb pundits, we finally say, he did terribly but his numbers will go up. we figured it out more recently. what he has is the most important thing in politics. he has the commitment and the intensity of his supporters and they will stay with him through ups and downs. i think if he were anybody else, we would be talking about him on his way to clinching the nomination. >> and

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this is a socialist who caucuses with the democrats in washington. our anger, after all, fueled because our politics are broken and nothing gets done. how is he ever going to get anything done? >> brian, the system is rigged. i 100% agree with senator sanders on that and what people crave for them is somebody to fight for them. the working class and the middle class is wanting somebody to focus in on them. that's what sanders has been doing all his life. to the point of your question, how to get something done. even if a democrat wins today or tomorrow, the house and the senate remains the same. it will be hard for any democrat to get anything done and that's why this is not just about the 2016 election but really about 2018 and for the next president of the united states to work very hard to make sure they have tails so people running for the house of representatives and running for the senate so then we can get a senate and a house who can work with the next president of the united states of america. this is what this is about. so senator sanders h

. >> all right, "washington post" newsroom. we'll have to take a pause. >> we'll do it. >> all right, ruth, chris, jennifer, i appreciate it. we'll be back monday, "mtp daily" sunday, meet the press on your local nbc station and coming up right now, "with all due respect." >>> i'm john helemann. >> and i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to everything else. >> texas, i'm here to proudly say i'm endorsing donald trump for president of the united states. >>> dallas texas, where everything, including endorsements is bigger. this has been a very dramatic day on the campaign trail. where to start? how about with this huge and surprising endorsement, former new jersey, christieç todd wittman, backing donald trump. fort worth, announced his own new jersey endorsement, governor chris christie. why would a high profile member of the establishment throw his support now behind donald j. trump. here is how christie explained his decision. >> i am proud to be here to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. we sat down

available and taken care of, but also that people realize that they have this treasure right there in washington, d.c. >> all right. now, running the library of congress, the nation's library, seems like a pretty noncontroversial position, right? wrong. librarian of congress oversees the u.s. copyright office and a big proponent of information being free and equally available to everyone. not surprisingly, then, here's how the recording industry association of america responded to the news of her nomination. "it is worth noting the library of congress and the u.s. copyright office have been mutually respectful of each other's area of expertise. we hope new librarian will continue that respect for the copyright's office expertise and recommendations to congress." in other words, stay in your own lane. her predecessor has been described as a technophobe. hayden was an outspoken opponent of the patriot act. presumably much like president obama's eventual pick for the supreme court, her confirmation will only be the first in a series of battles. we'll talk about that other battle, the one to fill th

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they don't want bureaucrats in washington telling them how to educate their children. we spend as a nation more for education per pupil than any other nation in the world. not even close. more per pupil, second place doesn't even exist, it is so different. 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 heam. it's not going to happen anymore, folks. not going to happen. we are going to build our military which i thank because a number of the people came down. 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, everybody that is in the know want. we're not buying

katy tur has to cover the guy, ralston live is at msnbc political analyst, and back from washington, yes, the former chair of the republican party when it was a normal political party, michael steele. the former chair of the former republican party. also an msnbc political analyst. caucus site, msnbc jacob soborof. you're already in position. we'll get the reality. john, something happened this weekend, starting here on saturday night. something is going on. not here, but out in south carolina. all of a sudden, trump is unstoppable, if you listen to all the nervousness. the titanic is sinking. >> as i've told you, nevada is ground zero. the -- >> what i was -- >> i know what you're talking about. listen, trump is going to win nevada. it's going to be a bad night for the antiestablishment. >> it's going to be bad for. >> exactly. i talked to one of the key advisors, who predicted, predicted that his guy would finish in second, 25 points behind trump tonight. and they thought, well, at least we're going to get second place. how do you argue. >> that's not second place. >> marco rubio c

>> he's building a hotel in washington, if that's what you count as a washington deal maker. i disagree with ted cruz. right now it's a one-man race and unless the other two guys can figure out together or separately how to get in there and disrupt donald trump it's going to be a one-man race for the next several months. >> it may be ted cruz doesn't have long for this race. a new poll out today from texas of likely texas gop primary voters, ted cruz at 29, donald trump at 28, marco rubio at 25. those top three are all basically tied within the margin of era of that poll, that could not be worse news for ted cruz in a poll right now. >> i think it's probably why he rode out the governor. i think if you don't win your home state your out of the race. you got to win. he's got to win texas just as marco rubio has to win florida, just as john kasich has to win ohio. it's just a threshold level of being seen as a creditable candidate. i don't buy this whole theory that we're going to wait until we get someone one-on-one and that person is going to beat donald trump. it makes no se

we go to tracie potts in washington. >> reporter: good morning. we heard more of that at a late night rally from donald trump. looking forward to today, the nevada caucuses. they have got 30 delegates up for grabs and this is really the first state where the gop is going to compete with the large latino population. >> the men and women in this room have a national bully pulpit. >> reporter: a final late night push to win nevada. >> this guy is sick. there's something wrong with this guy. >> reporter: the latest poll shows donald trump with a 16 point lead over ted cruz. >> the establishment of the republican party is waking up to the fact that within a couple weeks, donald trump could be unstoppable. >> reporter: not all voters are convinced. >> i just think he's turned this whole thing into the circus. >> reporter: and marco rubio is hoping to score here. >> we can't win if we nominate someone that half of the republican party hates. >> i don't know what makes anyone believe that donald trump's supporters are going to peel off of him and go to so

it comes on the heel of the pretty intense one-on-one debate we watched last night, which as the "washington post" notes, was, quote, far more intense and far more personal than it has been in the previous face-offs reflecting how close the race has become. one of the biggest clashes came over clinton's ties to wall street. >> being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super pac that raises $15 million from wall street. >> i just absolutely reject that, senator. and i really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. and enough is enough. if you've got something to say, say it. directly. but you will not find that i ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that i ever received. i think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks. and let's talk -- let's talk about the issues. >> now that exchange highlighting the scrutiny clinton is facing over paid speeches she made to goldman sachs and other groups. chuck todd pressed her on whether she would make the transcripts fr

>> well, washington. >> good afternoon. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. over immigration and social security clashed over the issues with the obama presidency and the legacy. with bernie sanders taking offense to the latest line of clinton attacks. >> i think we have been an ally. have you ever disagreed with a president? i suspect you may have. >> calling the president weak, calling him a disappointment and calling several times that he should have a primary opponent when he ran for reelection in 2012, you know, i think further than saying we have our disagreements. >> one of us ran against barack obama. i was not that candidate. >> alex seitz-wald joins me now. you've been covering hillary clinton going back. what do you make of the debate? >> a new tone to her. it's been striking, much hotter and calmer this time around, and i think that reflect it is larger message. she's the adult. she's the realistic one in the room and lets sanders be hotter and more passionate, but i think that bit you played, it's an issue that was brewing for a while and had it

. >> clinton responded in a statement to the "washington post" that reads in part, i was talking about the impact violence crimes was having on communities. i shouldn't have used those words. i wouldn't use them today. like the entirety of the democratic party, has changed in 20 years. she now embraces the language of reform, but the legacy of bill clinton's policies continue to be debated throughout the campaign. press conference in south carolina yesterday, senator bernie sanders appeared to attack hillary clinton for another controversial piece of her husband's presidency, welfare reform bill. >> what welfare reform did in my view was to go after some of the weakest and most vulnerable people in this country. and during that period, i spoke out against so-called welfare reform. secretary clinton at that time had a very different position on welfare reform strongly supported it. and worked hard to roundup votes for its passage. >> coming up, we'll talk to a former member of the clinton administration about bill clinton's legacy and the problems it created in the 2016 race. (patrick 1