as we all know, donald trump has defied political convention. >> the pope is being told donald trump is not a nice person. donald trump is a nice person and i'm a very good christian. >> donald trump is at the center of the story. other candidates who want to get their message out are being

>> reporter: in massachusetts john kasich said donald trump must explain. >> donald trump refused to disassociate himself and condemn another white supremacists. reporte >> reporter: ted cruz took to twitter. we should all agree racism is wrong. kkk is abhorrent. trump also picked up the endorsement of alabama senator jeff sessions in what can only be a blow to cruz's campaign. >> indeed. thank you so much, major. >>> in the democratic race race, hillary clinton carries the momentum into super tuesday. the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll finds clinton has a battlegroun states, georgia, virginia, and texas. clinton scored a decisive win this weekend. she beat bernie sanders by a landslide in saturday's south carolina race.y >> reporter: she is leading by 20 points in virginia in our ne of battleground tracker. that's one of two states that she's visiting. the poll numbers help to explaingly cli why increasingly clinton is turning her attention away from bernie sanders training her fire on the republican candidates. >> i want to debate whoever they they put up because here's

are the only campaign that has beaten donald trump and we are the only candidate that can beat donald trump. if you look at the super tuesday states, we are running neck and neck with donald in states all across super tuesday and so it is my hope that all of the republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with hillary clinton on a host of issues, who has a very similar record, is not the path to victory and if we come together and if conservatives stant together, we will have a great night on tuesday. >> you can see much more of john's interview with ted cruz on "face the nation" here on cbs. john's guests will also include donald trump and senator bernie sanders. >>> after five years of blood shed, the first cease-fire since the civil war in syria began is under way as of midnight local time. any way, is keeping his word. >> elizabeth palmer reporting from damascus, syria, thanks. >>> the votes are still being counted this morning in iran's parliamentary elections. more than 50 million people were friday. a high turnout was expected. early results show that refor

he slammed donald trump. but he said he'd back him if he's nominated. >>> we showed you how donald trump's rivals pressed him at last night's debate on releasing his tax returns. trump said the federal government is keeping him from doing so. his opponents claim he has something to hide. julianna goldman digs into trump's money. >> if he released his tax returns, it would show his income, how much he's paying in taxes, how much he's giving away and to what charities. he says he can't. >> i was the first one to file a financial disclosure. you don't learn anything about somebody's wealth a tax return. >> reporter: donald trump says the internal revenue service is keeping him from releasing his tax returns. audited every year, 12 years. >> the only reason you're not releasing him is he's afraid he will get hit. >> reporter: there's no rule preventing trump from releasing him whether he's being audited or not. >> i give a lot of money to people and charities and everything. i love people. i think i'm a nice pers

a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. every time he is asked about his taxes, he dodges and delays and says, well, we are working on it. >> reporter: the tax issue tripped up romney's white house bid but trump said he feels no pressure to release his returns at all. >> my returns are extremely complex and i'll make a determination at the right time. i'm in no rush to do it. nobody has been bringing it up except for mitt romney. >> reporter: a gop field advantages trump as the rest of the candidates are scrambling to dull that edge, but no one appears to be willing to give up their smaller share of support. >> once this race begins to narrow a little bit you'll see more of that support consolidating. >> reporter: but the three candidates yet to win aren't dropping out. marco rubio finished second in south carolina and nevada. >> we are not going to allow the conservative movement to be defined by a nominee who isn't a conservative. >> reporter: john kasich has back-to-back fifth place finishes. >> we are not stopping and i

>> you've known donald trump for a long time. >> yes. >> what is it about donald trump that you think has connected in 2016. >> charlie, i don't think he knew how angry people were about not just congress but the president as well. so he tapped into something that i think was more profound than and every time i've interviewed him throughout this process, he always says the same thing, come on, aren't you a little bit surprised? i would always say, yes, yes. listen, if somebody told you eight years ago that a first term senator, african-american from illinois was going to take on the clinton machine and beat them you would have said, yeah, right. this is way more surprising than that. >> here's the point, too. it is within his dna the ability to capitalize on the anger. >> yes. and i'll tell you something else he does. it's been interesting to watch. he will find your weakest point and attack it. okay? and he'll listen to three hours and he'll seize on the one thing he can use. when hillary clinton called him sexist. he put her husband into play at warp speed. and when jeb bush thought

donald trump leads the republican caucuses. ted cruz shook up his campaign monday forcing communications director rick tyler to resign. he shared a video on social media. it falsely showed marco rubio dismissing the bible. rubio said the video was nothing new for the cruz campaign. >> it's incredibly disturbing. you have to be seeing this now. it's every single day something comes out of the cruz campaign that's deceptive and untrue and in this case goes after my faith. >> ted cruz says he holds his campaign to the highest standards of integrity. his spokesman made a grave error in judgment. cruz spoke about immigration, saying he plans to go further than his rivals. >>> we will know the day someone overstays their visa and be able apprehend them and send them home. .biggest difference between donald trump, marco rubio and myself is that both donald trump and marco rubio would allow those 12 million people to become u.s. citizens. donald says once he deports them he'd let them back in as citizens. i will not. >> donald trump ha

donald trump swept a victory as voter turnout set a record. marco rubio edge out ted cruz for second place by just over 1,000 votes. jeb bush's third disappointing finish in a row marks the end of his presidential bid. he suspendeds had campaign before all the votes were counted. "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan is a cbs news contributor, writing extensively about the 2016 race. good morning. >> good morning, guys. yay, it's monday! >> yes. we love monday. >> it was tough to see jeb bush on the stage pull out of the race. what do you think that says about where we are now? >> oh, my gosh, it says a million things. this was a candidacy that i was skeptical of actually from the beginning. it didn't seem to me that jeb was the answer to any question the republican base was asking. of people in politics who think we've got the money, we've got the money, we're going to blow you away. he had the money. he didn't blow anybody away. they think we can buy up all the talent, all the advisers, consultants, we're going to kill you. he had all

donald trump has the lead in a new poll in south carolina. primary. but the survey shows senator ted cruz closing in on trump. >> major garrett is in charleston, you interviewed donald trump yesterday. he makes a lot of bold claims. he would get things done where washington? >> reporter: yes, we asked him about what his bedeviled most american president? the fact you're the most powerful man in the world doesn't necessarily mean you can get things done rapidly. and congress can warning you and bureaucracies are slow moving. trump said i've dealt with politicians my entire life and i always get what i want. i said can you give me an example? ed here is one. there are trillions of dollars of corporate assets, part offshore in american because those american companies don't want to pay high corporate income taxes. a man who overpromises on the campaign trail which it comes to presidential power and the speed they can be used trump is, again, overpromising. >> major what is at stake for everyone not named trump in south carolina? he needs to do well here.

as we all know, donald trump has defied political convention. >> the pope is being told donald trump is not a nice person. donald trump is a nice person and i'm a very good christian. >> donald trump is at the center of the story. other candidates who want to get their message out are being blocked by the coverage of this. >> nevada will have these candidates apale with minority voters. immigration was at the heart of a town hall. >>> memorial service begins two days of public mourning for justice scalia. this service where the justices and his former law clerks. popular tourist activity in hawaii. this particular flight turned into a disaster. >>> i'm doing this to my customers. how many people died in san bernadinerdino had iphones in their pockets? they are customers, too. >> adele's performance didn't sound too bad, she was given the chance to redeem herself. >> jeb bush has swapped out his glasses for contacts because he wants to look cool and dr. ben carson is also trying new eyewear to make him seem more energetic. >> this morning's "eye opener at 8" is presented by nationwide

. >> donald trump has a big lead here, and a team of lawyers he says is ready to sue top rival ted cruz. not once, but twice. >> national polls give us a little bit better of a sense as the contests get bigger but we basically right now the game is in south carolina. >> the lawyers are digging in, sources say the tech giant is ready to fight this all the way to the supreme court. >> president obama's decision to

." >>> ted cruz dares donald trump to sue him over an attack ad. we reveal the results of a new national cbs news poll. >>> google backs rival apple in its fight against the fbi over unlocking a terrorist's cell phone. >>> and seven marathon on seven continents in seven days. a single mom who is the first american woman to complete this daunting challenge. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >>> this has not been a typical race by any sense and i don't think anyone is surprised that donald is threatening to sue people. he has done that most of his adult life. >> slugging it out in south >> he doesn't have one republican endorsement from the senate. think of it. hard to believe. >> i like that. >> president obama is planning a trip to cuba next month. he'll be the first sitting president to make a state visit to cuba in nearly 90 years. >>> hollywood presbyterian medical center attacked by hackers. >> the hospital paid $17,000 in ransom. >> they know who is behind a deadly explosion. >> turkey's prime

. >>> president weighed in with his prediction that donald trump will not win the white house

some of them have been fueled by comments from donald trump. jan crawford is at the supreme court showing how confusion and lingering doubts got trump's attention. >> reporter: well, yeah. these theories, charlie, really started shortly after scalia's death. despite clarifications from the owner of the ranch and the judge that declared scalia dead, they are still getting traction. >> they say they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow. >> reporter: for the second time this week, donald trump expressed conceptism how justice scalia died. the suggestion that scalia may have been a victim of foul play took whole in part because a state judge declared scalia dead over the phone, something that is allowed by texas law. scalia's family said it did not want an autopsy for the 79-year-old justice who had a history of chronic health problems. >> it's time to stop being so naive, folks. >> reporter: but the conspiracy theories kicked into high gear after the owner of the ranch where scalia died told a texas pillow o

. >> the bush brothers took veiled jabs at donald trump. trump reminded voters of the 9/11 attacks and the former president's decision to evade iraq. major garrett is in charleston with a look at this personal primary battle. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. biggest, most enthusiastic crowd jeb bush has seen in south carolina. the upbeat rally cannot reverse his fortunes here, he's still running a distance third or fourth but it did take the edge off a nasty day of primary politicking. >> i think the voters should vote for the candidate who's got the most opinionated mother. >> former president george w. bush came to south carolina on a rescue mission for brother jeb. >> in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room. >> george bush made a mistake. >> reporter: recent attacks by gop front-runner donald trump on the former president's 9/11 leadership had jeb playing defense. >> he didn't know that 9/11 was going to happen. but he rolled up his sleeves and he inspired us. >> why do you mention jeb bus

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>> donald learned -- donald, adults learn not to interrupt each other. >> yeah, yeah, you're an adult. >> this is just nuts. okay. geez ohman. >> reporter: even though trump has a commanding lead, he is taking nothing for granted here in south carolina, campaigning across the state up until saturday's primary with multiple events each day and today his first press conference since before the new hampshire primaries. >> thank you, major. good job on saturday as well and face the nation host john dickerson served as the moderator for saturday's debate. he is in washington. john, good morning. great job as well on saturday. boy, it was nasty. pretty vicious. i guess the bottom line is how much of this does it have an impact on the results in south carolina? >> yeah, they didn't follow the scalia model of being friends with people with whom you disagree. the debate will probably sharpen obviously people's views about the candidates, but i think there's still some time before that vote for things to settle out differently. i think what came out of the debate is probably that already believ

donald trump earned the no pinocchios. kessler wrote, quote, frankly, it's really not interesting to fact-check the donald. >> i saw people getting together and in fairly large numbers, celebrating as the world trade center was coming down. >> reporter: also on the list of their biggest pinocchios of 2015? president obama. >> keystone is for canadian oil to send that down to the gulf. it bypasses the u.s. >> reporter: politicians are paying attention. >> media fact checkers are not fair and impartial. they are liberal editorial journalists. >> reporter: kessler say politicians or their staffs even try to negotiate a better rating. but some just blink. senator rob portman and senator amy klobachar because of my fact check they would be closer in the future. >> reporter: at least 80 active fact checking sites now span the u.s. and the world, according to the duke reporters' lab in january helped launch an archive of u.s. political tv ads waiting to be vetted. the pulitzer prize winning politico.com has its own rating, pants

rolling out this minute-long ad here. >> yes, it's donald trump. it's you and your cronies and government. and and ant trump supper pack is distributing what they're calling a voter's guide, switching political parties and ask can we trust donald trump to stand strong on key conservative issues. >> it's bare knuckle politics and it's been that way a long time. >> reporter: chip is in south carolina where a local paper has set up a website to track underhanded tactics. >> this is for the long haul and if you come out of this primary and you're doing well, you can handle it on the national stage. that is part of it. it's a testing ground. debates, jeb bush has been the most aggressive in taking on trump. that is expected to change tomorrow night. former president george w. bush will campaign with him on monday. >>> we have inside the peace center, john dickerson, a moderator for tomorrow night's debate and kim strassel will be one of the panelists. good morning. >> let me begin with the republicans and talk about the fights within the gop taking plac

trump. >> donald had a good night last night. now new hampshire is a good state. for a liberal republican. >> he doesn't have any policy positions. he tells you what he's going to do but he won't tell you how he's going to do it. >> he's not been tested. he's a talented guy. and he is an entertaining person. unless you are a woman. unless you're hispanic. unless you're a p.o.w. unless you're a disabled person. it's really entertaining. but if you're not, it's downright divisive and ugly and mean-spirited. >> donald trump hit back at a rally in south carolina. but he also took shots at bernie sanders and hillary clinton. >> honestly, women don't like her, men don't like her. take a look at what's happening to her. a guy that nobody ever heard of literally is beating her so bodyly. i don't know. i honestly, i talk about hillary, i honestly don't know if hillary's going to be running. this guy sanders is up ranting and raving like a lunatic. but, you know, he won. but i was there. i saw it. and i'm shocked. you know, because he's so

donald trump and bernie sanders hampshire primary. but the results are shaking up the presidential race, especially for republicans. trump finished far ahead of the gop field with 35%. a big surprise with john kasich finishing second with 16% ahead of ted cruz, jeb bush and marco rubio. bernie sanders swamped hillary clinton in the democratic primary. sanders got 60% of the vote, clinton received 38%. >> donald trump will be here in studio 57. we also talked with john kasich and jeb bush about the results. john dickerson, nancy cordes and major garrett are all out on the campaign trail in new hampshire. we begin with major who was at trump's victory rally last night. good morning. >> good morning. the republican primary matters here because historically it's been a launching pad and therefore, the presidency. donald trump won going away, a sellableing a coalition that would be the envy of any republican president who came the size of any republican challenging facing him now. >> oh, wow! wow! wow, wow, wow! >> reporter: donald trump's

the electorate in iowa was more favorable to ted cruz than donald trump. in new hampshire, things are looking much better for trump. the electorate here is closer to the one he likes. >> it looks like it's the race for second that has intensified, where many expectations are set. >> well, yes, it's the race to be the alternative to trump and cruz. did marco rubio take a hit because of his difficult debate performance? those three governors who have all been gunning at him, did they take him down or if rubio shows up and does better in the polls, then he can say i took all of this incoming fire and i survived and, therefore, really i am the alternative to trump and cruz. >> do we know anything about that, though, before we hear the response of the voters in terms of polling? rubio didn't take as much damage as a lot of people might have thought he did. but boy we know that the polling in new hampshire as it is often the case with a lot of polling everywhere, you have to be careful about it. we have to wait for the voters. >> could this be a big night for jo

donald trump has also derided jeb for asking his quote, unquote, mommy for help. should jeb bush's 90-year-old mother barbara bush be off >> i haven't seen that mailer and second of all, it's not from my campaign. we're now at a stage where i've had close to $35 million of attack ads run against me, many from jeb bush's super pac. we're down to the final moments here. i have tremendous respect for the bush family. i have respect for jeb, no matter what happens in this campaign, i'll continue to have admiration, respect and affection for him. this election is not about him or his family. it's about america, the future of our country and what kind of country this is going to be in the 21st century, what kind of nation we're going to leave for our children. that's what i'm going to

donald trump, you're the loser! >> how would you respond to that? >> it just shows you how they lie. i never called john mccain a loser. as you know. i like john and supported him and i call him a loser because he got caught, to a certain extent. him a loser. so he has lied when he made that up. leo, i don't know. i don't know julio is. so he is making some other name, probably an american hero, and he made that up. >> another p.o.w. >> the look at the fact -- yeah, but i just don't know him, charlie, and i never made a comment about him and i never said that about john mccain. jeb is a loser. he spent $110 million so far and toward the bottom of the pack and going nowhere. the only thing he does is attack me. he thinks if he attacks me, that is going to show he is tough. but every time he attacks me, he melts like butter. is just a guy -- i mean, it's really sad. every time i see an ad about myself, it's him spending a lot of money of special interest money. he spends money from the lobbyists and special interests to attack me. look. i don't see hi

donald trump leads the latest polls, marco rubio is gaining with ted cruz behind. the rest of the now reduced field is there, too. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the question here is as still pm as it is startling. can donald trump hold a lead the last few months hovered between 15 and 20 points. days ago it was conceivable. favor trump. marco rubio and kasich are closing in, with ted cruz and jeb bush not far behind, bush pulling out all the stops, brought in his lost best campaign asset. barbara bush, a 90-year-old political matery arch who needs no introduction appears for the first time for son jeb. >> her son was the president and her next son. >> reporter: and at this stage of his underwelming campaign, jeb bush can no longer afford to distance himself from the family name. >> vote for jeb. >> diner visits are a tradition, so is canvassing for votes, especially in the snow. donald trump supporters from new york and connecticut rushed to new hampshire as the campaign franticly frantically cut in half. trump cancelled his new hampshire event du

a new poll out this morning shows donald trump still leads the field there with 30% but marco rubio has jumped into second place with 17%. ted cruz is third. followed by john kasich and jeb bush. major garrett is at rubio's campaign office in manchester, new hampshire. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. two polls in 24 hours show republican, marco rubio, up seven in one survey, six in another. judging by all of the attacks rubio faced since arriving in iowa, you know other republicans believe rubio is rising. everyone else is either standing still or losing ground. and with only four days to go before the new hampshire primary, pressure is mounting. and cracks and temperament are forming. >> we are going to knock the [ bleep ] out of isis. i don't give a damn. they are ripping the [ bleep ] out of the sea. you can tell them to go [ muted ] themselves. >> reporter: a profane, but nevertheless funny donald trump energized a standing room only crowd on thursday night, after cramming four mix and mingle events into a single day. >> fit was the most frenetic pace of his whole ca

there are no people like donald trump. there is only donald trump. the greatest lie donald trump ever told is he was happy being second in iowa. now i don't believe him. up till now, everything in retrospect seems true compared to the enormity of that lie. >> i don't know if you saw like 7:14 a.m. yesterday he said he was going to be more statesman-like, you know, and then 90 minutes later, he was on his -- with what ted cruz is calling his twitter tantrum. >> well, a statement like that for trump is he's only going to follow -- >> trumper tantrum. >> does he remind you anything of the man from the colbert report? >> yeah, yeah. donald trump feels like my old character, who the old idea behind the colbert report was truthiness. if you just say it with enough conviction and emotion, it's truer than if it's factually correct. and that's really great. because an audience just wants to be emotionally moved and trump is great at moving an audience. plus, he's got $10 billion to back it up. you know the whole thing about citizens united is that money equal

>>> donald trump admits he may have made a mistake skipping that last gop debate. and we'll talk to bernie sanders about his call for a political revolution. >>> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >>> tornado on the ground. >> oh, god, house is gone. >> the water tower. >> tornadoes tear across the south. >> blizzard-like conditions >> you drive like lightning, you crash like thunder. >> an explosion tore a hole in a jetliner over somalia. >> no confirmation. >> in the race for the white house, the presidential campaigns are in high gear and focusing on new hampshire. >> new hampshire will have to decide who can go toe to toe with the republicans to make sure they don't wreck us again! >> kentucky senator rand paul will suspend his campaign for the presidency. >> he came in a distance fifth in iowa. >> threatening new developments as the zika virus continues to spread. >> an american in texas contracted the virus through sexual contact. >> quick action as one of their players was caught up in a prostitution stin

let's talk about donald trump. he told you on sunday he does what does a second place win for him mean now? >> nothing will deliver humility faster than a loss. i think what it means for him is he has to come back and come back strong in new hampshire. and this will be a test to see if those voters remember how durable they were, he would do all kinds of things people thought would hurt him and it hasn't hurt him so far among a certain group of voters, his voters. how durable is that to an actual loss? that's what we'll see over the next week. we'll have to see who goes after whom here in what is going to be a massive circular firing squad. >> what does it say about voters and the mood in 2016, john, some are saying that the conservatives are saying this is an anti-government vote on the part of conservatives. on the part of democrats it's an anti-1%, anti-wall street vote. >> that's true, certainly on the democratic side, both bernie sanders and hillary clinton made that pitch. in iowa sanders won more of the that

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