he placed okay in new hampshire. you know, walking out of new hampshire, there was, you know, more than a few tickets. he could have easily cleared the field had he come in a strong second. he got mixed in with bush and rubio and right in the third tier if you will. the muddy third place finish. >> not a two-man race. south carolina is not a two-man race, but two-lane race. donald trump and ted cruz perhaps competing for that conservative, maybe more religious evangelical voter. then the establishment lane which narrowed as john kasich and jeb bush and marco rubio. i was surprised that jeb bush is still talking only about donald trump. listen to him last night. >> he attacked my mother for m campaigning for me. it is funny, actually. of course, they will campaign for me. they love me. i love them. i'm proud of being a bush. if donald trump wants to go after my brother, it will be helpful. >> jeb bush is talking about george w. bush who will campaign for him in south carolina. tom, the risk or reward for that decision

his main focus now, new hampshire. a new poll shows trump is holding his lead among republicans in the granite state. a battle for second emerging with marco rubio moving up in the polls. good morning, sunlen. >> reporter: good morning, michaela. donald trump is toning down his rhetoric, backing off attacking ted cruz and recalibrating a bit here on the ground in new hampshire to campaign in a much more traditional way. going into the nation's first primary next tuesday, the gop candidates are taking new hampshire by storm. >> february 9th you've got to get out and vote. no matter where you are, no matter how you feel. i don't give a damn. >> reporter: ramping up ground game, a lesson learned after second place in iowa. he fired up the crowd with one message. he's in it to win it. >> we're going to win on health care. we're going to win with the military. we're going to knock the [ bleep ] out of isis. >> reporter: the latest cnn poll shows trump maintaining his lead among granite state voteers. rubio surging to second

i have a second and two firsts and new hampshire was a blowout. this one was a mroeout. and, you know, i don't think -- i don't see if there's a convention. i think most of the smart people are saying there's not going to be a convention. interestingly, the one who is say there's going to be a convention, usually they are the pundits that have been wrong forever. the ones that have been wrong about me. not you, because you've been right about me, and i appreciate it. >> senator cruz says you attack him every day because you know he's the only one who can beat you. is that right? >> no, it's not right, but he's very talented. and certainly he could beat me, and so could marco and so could the others that are running. you know, crazier things happen in the world of politics. >> governor bush dropped out last night. he was once the front-runner, once expected to win the nomination. many would point to you as the primary reason his campaign sputtered. do you think by labeling him low energy and targeting him so quickly, do you think that's what did him in? >> i just don't kn

new hampshire, a couple of inches. by the time we get through tomorrow morning, maybe an additional inch or two at most. we still have those winter weather advisories out for all of maine including new hampshire, all of new hampshire in that, through tomorrow morning. that goes until the early morning hours of tomorrow. additional snowfall for today and tonight. we're looking at maybe 2 inches for the majority of the state, maybe southern sections, maybe a little more than that. 3 inches, maybe 4 tops. we're really not expecting much at all. the good news is, here's that system you're seeing right now, brooke, that's moving out. we have one right on its heels. that one's going to pass south of new hampshire, bring snow and rain to portions of the mid-atlantic by the time we head into tuesday. new hampshire, perfectly positioned right now. the storm moving out today. >> okay, jennifer gray, thank you very much. meantime, bill clinton, back on politics here, accusing backers of bernie sanders of sexist attacks on his wif

. >> let's talk about jeb bush after the new hampshire debate. those appear to be working well, coming in forth in new hampshire. i want you to hear what trump said about bush in tampa. >> see, he's bringing his brother in now. he tried the mother, who's a very nice lady, i'm sure. he tried the mother. that didn't work out so good. >> all right, steve. that's the sound bite bringing in to this narrative george w. bush was going to be on the campaign for his brother. is jeb bush a serious contender to win south carolina? i mean the latest polls, although they're several weeks old, have trump several points ahead. >> for him it's not just about winning. it's about surviving. right now he's at 11%. he needs to get his numbers up or he's not going to make it to the next win. >> do you think he can win in south carolina? >> personally i don't think he can but i don't think that's his major goal. his major goal is to get his numbers up high enough. he's in a primary with senator rubio and governor kasich. >> so let's talk about rubio. errol, after that

i was disappointed by what happened in new hampshire. and the lessons i applied to that disappointment came from sports. i used to play defensive back. i got beat from time to time on a pass play. you're going to if you are a corner back. you have to put that behind you because you have another play something up. you have to make up for it on the next play. i learned that lesson from athletics. for me, sports has been a way to instill life lessons in my children, particularly how to deal with failure, disappointment and how to work alongside other people to achieve a goal. >> with all we've learned about concussions, do you worry about your child? >> well, we try to make it as safe as we possibly can. football has inherent danger. so does competitive stunt cheerleading. my daughter used to do that. so does driving a car back and forth to work. so there's inherent risk in a lot of activity. i ultimately think football is an incredible sport. it teaches lessons, life lessons that i think are valuable. you can make the game safer. you can n

this is the microsoft cloud. >>> we are back in new hampshire live at the foundry restaurant in new hampshire. several people close to the campaign acknowledge that bill clinton has not been happy with his wife's campaign. this comes before an expected loss in the new hampshire primary tomorrow. the latest poll shows bernie sanders with a commanding lead of 26 points over clinton. that has actually increased. it is three points higher than it was just a few days ago. the frustration from the former president has been visible on the campaign trail. he's attacked bernie sanders calling him the chain of quote, all things small and all things big. >> the hotter this election gets, the more i wish i were just a former president and just for a few months not the spouse of the next one because i have to be careful what i say. >> what is going on inside the clinton campaign? >> i thin first and foremost there's a sense they miscalculated the energy behind bernie sanders. months ago they thought he was an interesting candidate who had the energy of the party behind him, but they did not he had the ene

i'll tell you, in new hampshire, we call vermont upside-down new hampshire. i don't think there's a lot of -- i don't give that a lot of credence. he's tapped into something. in new hampshire we have the second highest student loan debt in the country. students from new hampshire pay the highest amount, the biggest tuition for a state school anywhere and here comes bernie sanders who says, we want to make public college free, and he trauk talks about getting big money out of politics. this is a state to win an election house seat. he's hit a nerve here in new hampshire. >> on the republican side, donald trump is way ahead of marco rubio and ted cruz. what do you see there? >> yeah. i think that's going to be an incredible battle. i think there will probably be about four tickets out of new hampshire. and you'll probably see trump getting one of those, cruz getting another and then i'm really going to be watching to see who gets the other two tickets. is it kasich? is it bush? is it christie? rubio? so the race is really up for grabs. even with the trump polls

new hampshire he outperformed polls there and the similarity between this state and new hampshire as ron knows, it'sf t effectively the state. you can show up to vote today because lots of trump support comes from outside the party structure and so these are the states that are good for donald trump. >> it may actually benefit because the democrats next week and some of those potentially democratic voters that wanted to get in on the action will get in on the action today and not wait a week to do that. let me come to you with ted cruz. you wrote about this possibly being the alamo for ted cruz and this is a state with two-thirds of the voters identify themselves as conservative christians. he's up against marco rubio. >> absolutely. how great is the south carolina republican primary, one of the most compelling weeks in american politics and picked the winner every time except one. ted cruz has the most at stake. ted cruz is lopsidedly depending on evangelical voters. in new hampshire he won 8% that are not e vvangelicals, if he h a disappointing showing, i think it would suggest tha

he finished fifth in new hampshire. going to south carolina. >> i'll try to stifle amy laughter going forward. >> rubio is talking about all the accounted candidates, but also donald trump. >> donald trump has zero foreign policy experience. negotiating a hotel deal in a foreign country is not foreign policy experience. >> i think he thinks a lot about it. it's like an academic thinks about it without walking the ground someplace. you really don't have any experience. and i think if you go over and try to do business in foreign countries, and i've done that, i think you learn a lot about what's going on in those countries. you have to learn the culture and what's inside of the things. you can't get started in business in a lot of areas unless you're aware of what's going on. i think you have incites as a business person that you wouldn't get sitting in a committee room in the senate. >> real quick, you think donald trump has more foreign policy chops than rubio? >> i do. i think you can read a briefing book and get smar

you also wonder in new hampshire, hillary clinton left new hampshire to go to flint. maybe bernie sanders should have done the same thing. he eventually made it to flint. but i do think it is the specter of him just doing well with white voters is in some ways not a good look for him. >> he did attack hillary clinton last night in the middle of his speech or near the end. you can see he's tired. that's not a criticism. this is the point where you have to do ten states where all the candidates are getting tired. but early on in the speech he said something that made me think maybe he was starting to process this. let's listen to bernie sanders reacting. >> what this campaign is about -- and it's not easy -- is trying to force discussion on issues that congress chooses not to talk about and media chooses not to talk about. >> now, he did go on to say, i'll need your help after i win the presidency, and he did go on and we'll talk about this later in the program, to criticize her about somie issues. there he kind of almost got it. >> that stood out to me a lot because go

some were saying he won new hampshire because he's from a neighboring state. but in nevada, it's a dead heat again. >> yes, absolutely. i agree we have a race here in the democratic primary. bernie sanders is making ground. he has strong grass roots support. i'm excited on the democratic side of things we've been able to so far avoid the game of whack-a-mole that republicans have been playing in tearing each other down instead of building up the american citizens. >> i want to talk about black voters here in south carolina. not a game of whack-a-mole. you've got two now. it's a little more gentile, although it has gotten tougher. when we look at the black vote here in south carolina, which is crucial, right now hillary clinton is 65%. sanders only at 28%. he needs to change that. why is he not gaining traction with black voters? >> i disagree. i think bernie sanders is gaining traction with black voters. what you're going to see is that he has far more support than the numbers indicate. bernie sanders is working. his supporters are working. you have to keep in

live in new hampshire. listen, this is precisely why the bush camps and especially chris christie camps have been hammering him. these are stump speech after stump speech after stump speech, right? >> a lot of candidates do some similar tacts. that's certainly fair and something we point out in the story we wrote about this situation. ted cruz stay on his message. even chris christie replicated the same jokes. none of them do it really to the extent marco rubio does. they is relentlessly on message. very disciplined, very cautious and very repetitive candidate. because he believes his message is working. now, of course, there are two ways to look at it. people say we want a candidate who's very cautious who will not make mistakes. when rubio's on the campaign trail, one of the things he said is i will not embarrass you. because he sticks really close to his topics. even in media interviews, he really falls back to his stump speech. during republican debates he does. he limits availabilities on the campaign

thank you for that, jeff, in new hampshire. the national race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders is tightening up to a brand new national poll just out today. it shows, look at this, hillary clinton at 44%. bernie sanders at 42%. national polls conducted before the iowa caucus is including this one. showed hillary clinton with an enormous lead over bernie sanders nationwide, but according to the new poll, this university poll, it has dramatically narrowed within the margin of error. 44%, 42%. 11% undecided. debbie awayserman-schultz is joining us as well from new hampshire. congresswoman, what do you make of this new national poll? sfroo well, i'll leave that to the pundits, wolf, to analyze what the national polls mean. we're focused at the democratic party to make sure that we can get ready for whoever our nominee is at the end of the nominating contest and make sure it's very clear that stark contrast between either one of our candidates and the entire field of republican right wingers? sflo we need to make sure that

we talked aboutew hampshire. we talked about donald trump also came under attack from jeb bush on an issue that matters, eminent domain. listen. >> what donald trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in new york city. that is downright wrong. and here is problem. the problem. >> all right -- >> -- it was to tear down -- >> he wants to be a tough. >> it was to tear down a elderly woman's property. >> and the woman ultimately did not want too do that? i walked away. >> and that is not true. >> joining me now. mark people noticed a few things last night. explain why the issue of eminent domain matters to voters. >> eminent domain basically means if you are a conservative t federal government coming in and taking your property. very basic, very simple. this is an issue going up here in new hampshire up around the northern pass. it's caused a lot of people to be passionate about it. and the whole idea of live free or die that. means something here. so for conservat

we want people to know that in new hampshire. >> okay, so in new hampshire, we've heard this from senator lindsay gram who endorsed jeb bush, by the way, saying if rubio beats him badly in new hampshire, jeb is toast. toast. would you agree with that? >> i think it would be a bad night for us. >> new hampshire is a place where bush needs to perform well. nobody is denying that bush needs to perform well. he's polling second in the polls. i've been on the ground there with him. there is momentum moving his way. people are starting to look for a leader. they're moving out of the entertainment phase of this campaign -- >> i know there are a lot of polls out there. bottom line, if he does not have a strong night, would you jump ship? >> i would never jump ship. i don't think you jump ship from your friends or people you're supporting. i think if the citizens of new hampshire are looking for a leader with a proven record who can unite our party and conservatives, they will find that person in governor jeb bush. >> let me play some sound. this is jeb bush campaigning in new hampshire. >> i thin

>> well, i think new hampshire tells us that this is the year of the outsiders. the question is, is bernie sanders going to be seen more as somebody who stirs up a lot of trouble and makes a name for himself in history and fades away? i think hillary clinton is looking strong. donald trump is the phenomena of 2015 and continues in 2016. he gets up the angry language all the time. he has a 2-1 sedge going on in south carolina right now. >> six candidates, much higher rated. probably 12-13 million viewers last night verses 8 million for the broadcast the other day. let me ask you your atlanta cover story. it's about your trip across the country. you say can america put itself back together? with that in mind, when you watch the debates, does it sound like an entirely different america than the one you travel to? >> it does. what impresses me as we travel around is the disconnect between era and national politics where there's no room for compromise and one party is saying they had rather the supreme court not function for the next year and they lose influence there

coming third in iowa, second in new hampshire, and win in south carolina. now that's looking like a very steep road. his campaign is being very tight lipped about how they're prepping for tonight. but you saw rubio come out on new hampshire primary night and say this will never happen again. tonight will be a test of that. >> absolutely. also tonight, m.j., dr. ben carson is saying he's going to mix things up a little bit. >> yeah. we also forget that ben carson is going to be on the debate stage because we're not really talking about him very much at this point in the race. we saw him climb in the polls briefly. he was even ahead of donald trump at one point in the national polls. he was doing very well in iowa and that was because he was appealing to conservatives and the evangelicals in the state of iowa. however, i think because questions have been raised about his ability to tackle foreign policy issues and talk about national security issues, you know, in the middle of the paris attack, the san bernardino attacks, when people really voters here really

. >> senator, president johnson supporters say you don't have a chance in new hampshire and you'll be lucky to get 10% of the vote. what do you say about that? >> well, i don't know. the people supporting me said we'll do better than that. >> one democrat, senator eugene mccarthy -- >> eugene mccarthy does something that's taboo. he comes out against a sitting president from the same party. >> mccarthy came in from left field. he was not thought of in the front rank of presidential contenders. but there was a great deal of frustration and even despair among the young. eugene mccarthy gave them hope. >> how many volunteers for senate mccarthy? >> i'm ready to vote in the primary. >> from nbc news election central in manchester, new hampshire, this is the news. >> if mccarthy gets as much as 30% of the vote or more against an incumbent president, he can legitimately claim an important victory. >> mccarthy didn't win the new hampshire primary. but he took enough votes that it scared lyndon. he got 42% of the vote. but mccarthy was a nothing, an upstart. if mccarthy could draw blood, john

in new hampshire we have one-third millennials. in the latest survey, almost 90% are out for bernie sanders. and the other thing that we haven't seen yet is the impact of women. you know, they still have excitement -- >> why is there no -- first woman to ever win the iowa caucuses? >> i think it's still dormant. but my daughters -- i mean, the reason they haven't picked between hillary and bernie is because they're so excited about the idea of the first woman president. so i think this debate will still play out. the campaign hasn't found a way to speak in a way that's convincing. >> it's happened all over the world, including in countries in pakistan, where you think what woman wouldn't be viable. and in a way. it's sort of too little too late. although i think at some point there will be a sense if it become imminent that we're going to have the first woman president and women will get excited and some men will get excited about that. >> i think it's exciting. there are people, women in the nation, supporting hillary clinton. but

bush gets hammered in new hampshire, consolidates the race by winning. his father had done the same thing when he ran. here you have donald trump who sounds, as jeb bush said, like michael moore. he is someone who said he is pro-choice in every respect. and he is a big front-runner in south carolina. you're jeb bush, great you have your brother and he is the best is surrogate you can have. it maybe ups your game a little bit. but he is far down in the polls. whatever happens, he has to split the vote with kasich and rubio. >> here's the case that donald trump is making. let's play it. >> i had to say i'm sorry. >> the world trade center came down, the greatest attack in history. you had the war, which was a big mistake. few people would say the war in iraq was a positive. you had him saying all sorts of things on the aircraft when the war was essentially over. guess what, not over. >> i'm going to save david gregory from himself. he will not be able to answer without slipping into his impersonation of him. the war was not just a mistake, it was an intent

a lot of evangelical voters in south carolina as opposed to new hampshire, where trump won. where are they lining up? >> it is absolutely counter to everything you and i learned in politics. the evangelicals are not going for the guy who is one of them. they're going for donald trump. look at that. to me, this the most stunning number in this entire poll. 42% of evangelicals, who as you said, a huge portion of the republican electorate in south carolina, they are going for trump. ted cruz has only 23%. >> astounding, son of an evangelical preacher. turn to the democrats, if you're in hillary clinton's campaign, feel pretty good, dive beneath just the overall horse race there. what's in there that makes the clinton people feel good on this poll? >> the clinton people, they've been calling south carolina their fire wall, and it looks like, at this point, it still could be, that's overall, 56% say they support hillary clinton, 38% bernie sanders. but to your point, let look at another reason, two reasons why she should be pretty happy now. more than 50% of the democratic vote i

we saw the importance of the debate before new hampshire when marco rubio didn't have a good night. and that clearly affected the trajectory of his campaign. how high do you think the stakes are this evening? >> i think it's kind of impossible to overstate them at this point, jake. look, this is the biggest moment ahead of super tuesday, to slow down donald trump and for marco rubio and ted cruz to prove that they're an alternative. look, we also have to remember that john kasich is going to be on this stage tonight. he's heading into the march 1st states, much like marco rubio, not well-positioned to win any number of them. so he's going to go on stage tonight and try to beat back the narrative that marco is the only guy who can take on donald trump. the campaign just tells me they picked up another billionaire backer from california. they're hoping they can craft this narrative they are still in it. but the reality is, one of these candidates is going to have to prove that they can one, take on donald trump and beat him. and two, that they can actually win in these states and not

win. >> thank you, new hampshire! >> reporter: the fight for the first-of-the-south primary will likely hinge on support from african-american voters who make up over half the democratic electorate in the state. clinton lost african-americans in south carolina to president obama in 2008. >> thank you, south carolina! >> reporter: but monday, another president will be in south carolina, george w. bush, wanting to lift his brother, jeb's, campaign. i'm mary maloney reporting. >>> a former top official with the obama administration says hillary clinton should pull out of the presidential race. as the fbi investigates her use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. lieutenant general michael flynn is the former head of the defense intelligence agency. he spoke earlier with our jake tapper. >> i feel very strongly about this. number one -- and there's really two reasons why i believe this. number one, the severity of the leaks of the classified material, so this special access program, the top-secret,

we talked to you in new hampshire. we talked about religion. you said your spirituality is that we are all in this together. explain to people what, in your head and in your heart, motivates that togetherness? is there a higher power? is there a higher intelligence? what do you believe in? >> this is what i believe. every great religion in the world, christianity, judaism, islam, buddhism, essentially comes down to do unto others as you would like them to do unto you. and what i have believed in my whole life, i believed it when i was a 22-year-old kid getting arrested in chicago fighting sessi segregation. i believed it my whole life that we are in this together. not words. the truth is at some level when you hurt, when your children hurt, i hurt. i hurt. and when my kids hurt, you hurt. and it's very easy to turn our backs on kids who are hungry or veterans who are sleeping out on the street and we can develop a psyche, a psychology which says i don't have to worry about them, going to worry about myself, i need to make another $5 billion. bu

scenic new hampshire politically very important new hampshire. that is where all eyes are tonight as we tick off the days to the first presidential primary of 2016. where the seven top polling republican candidates are getting ready to take the stage in the final debate tonight before tuesday's primary. here's a look at who debates tonight. front runner donald trump in the center, senators ted cruz and marco rubio flanking him. trying to cut into his considerable lead not only in new hampshire but nationwide. my friend brooke baldwin is live for us in manchester tonight. brooke? >> reporter: hello, poppy harlow. last time we chatted last weekend it was iowa, this weekend all eyes on new hampshire a couple days away from the first in the nation primary. listen, i love being out and about and covering politics and talking to smart political minds. looking at someone you're about to see in a minute looking at me very funny. new hampshire could technically belong to any one of the seven top republican candidates because about a third of the state's r

we're live from derry, new hampshire, tonight. about 35 minutes from now, i'll be moderating a cnn democratic town hall at derry oprahhouse. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will be taking questions from the audience. with just six days to go until new hampshire's primary, the campaign trail, well, it looks like a freeway. here's what the day was like for marco rubio. four town halls, in four different cities. that's just one candidate. rick santorum had droppeded out of the race today, endorsed his former rival rubio. after his strong showing in iowa, senator rubio is facing sharper attacks from other rivals, who worry he may be widening his appeal even as he dodges the labels others may be trying to pin on him. gary tuchman reports. >> reporter: marco rubio entering an overheated jam-packed room to the sounds of ac/dc, not exactly establishment music. from a man who is increasingly being mentioned a as gop establishment candidate. >> if you vote for me and i am our nominee, i will unite the conservative movement and the republ

new hampshire has been so good to me and my family and i love campaigning in new hampshire. i love this process. so you're going to have to put up with me. i'm going to be going around the state, going to as many events as i can, answering as many questions, trying to talk about what i am offering. i really believe that we have a chance to build on the progress we've made and to get results for people, to get the economy producing more good jobs, to get incomes rising again. that's my goal. i will not raise middle class taxes because the middle class hasn't even yet recovered from the great recession. we're going to stick with the affordable care act, we're going to make it work, get early childhood education, affordable college and pay down student debt. a lot of the agenda that is important to our country, particularly to young people and we're going to defend our rights. we're going to defend a woman's right to make her own health care decisions, we're going to defend planned parenthood, we're going to defend marriage inequality and end discrimination and take on the gun

they weren't there in new hampshire. i don't think they can take them for granted in south carolina either. >> i remember hearing in 2008 everybody thought hispanics were not going to vote for the african-american and guess what they did. so i think we can't see everything through the spectrum of race, gender or color. >> black voters are very sophisticated. they don't look at a candidate and say well i've known you for 20 years and therefore i like you. but they also read and look at the issues. they have conversations as you saw in the beauty parlor. you didn't see it in the restaurant. there's no question that the african-american voters are going to pay close attention and they're going to make a decision based on what they're saying to them now. >> like tonight, we know what they're doing to say now. bernie is going to say i don't like wall street. hillary is going to say i do like barack obama. i think her message going to south carolina is a little bit better. >> i'm not questioning liking barack obama, but i will

>> iowa and new hampshire were as favorable states as you could draw for the sanders campaign. they're very liberal and have young and white democratic electorates. once we get to the south and the more diverse democratic states, it was a bigger challenge for sanders. sanders always had to prove he could expand his own coalition to winning more nonwhite voters, to doing well with african-americans. at least mayking inroads with te constituents. in south carolina, he got wiped out. if he doesn't make inroads by next week, the game is over for the bernie sanders campaign. >> there are certainly those that would want to trip up hillary clinton. i mean, from the emails to benghazi and now this speech transcripts, he still talked about that. is there anything that he can say or that can happen that could trip her up at this point on her way to getting more delegates? >> look, hillary clinton is her own worst enemy. she certainly improved her stump speech. she sounded more empathtic in her victory speech tonight in south carolina. but it's really -- her issue is in the general electi

i was disappointed by what happened in new hampshire. and the lessons i applied to that disappointment came from sports. i used to play defensive back. i got beat from time to time on a pass play. you're going to if you are a corner back. you have to put that behind you because you have another play something up. i learned that lesson from athletics. for me, sports has been a way to instill life lessons in my children, particularly how to deal with failure, disapontement and how to work alongside other people to achieve a goal. >> with all we've learned about concussions, do you worry about your child? >> well, we try to make it as safe as we possibly can. football has inherent danger. so does competitive stunt cheerleading. so does driving a car back and forth to work. i ultimately think football is an incredible sport. it teaches lessons, life lessons that i think are valuable. you can make the game safer. you can never make it entirely safe. and so you do spend a lot of time coaching kids how to properly tackle, not use your head. ver

new hampshire, check. south carolina check. nevada check. with a donald trump nomination looking more and more realistic, the pressure for other candidates to win big on super tuesday even higher. as they say, everything is big in texas. including the number of delegates. look at the map. those are all the super tuesday states. texas with a whopping 155 delegates up for grabs, delegates that home said senator ted cruz has called the crown jewel of the primary season. let's talk more about all of this and the math and how it all adds up. gideon resnick withes a reporter with the daily beast. today he will be playing the role of delegate mathematician. your lucky day, sir. i want to tick through these. first of all finish this stenls for me ted cruz survives super tees if he does what? >> i guess the idea now is if he wins texas. >> that's all he has to do? >> it seems sort of like sad that it's not a foregone conclusion anymore that he is going to get his home state. but in terms of the delegates, he could get much much closer to trump obviou

you go to new hampshire, the first thing they talk about is heroin and drugs pouring in. and you wouldn't think this beautiful place, beautiful with the trees and the roads and the countryside. the biggest problem is heroin. and it's such a shame to see it. they're pouring in from the southern border. so i'm talking about great security, a wall that can absolutely be built, and i'll build it on time, on budget, it will be a very high wall, a great wall, it will be paid for by canada, by the way. maybe i'll get canada to pay. it's going to be paid for by mexico. the problem with canada, you're talking about a massively long piece. a boarder that would be about four times longer. it would be very, very hard to do. and it is not our biggest problem. i don't care what anybody says. it's not our big problem. our problem is not only people coming in and in many cases the wrong people, it's the tremendous amount of drugs that are coming in. [ applause ] >> i want to talk to you, senator rubio about puerto rico. as you know, puerto rico is in the midst of financial collapse, unab

down to earth and i can only tell you, he has now won, came in a close second in iowa, and won new hampshire and south carolina, and nevada, overwhelmingly. i mean at some point, we have to stop and think, why are people responding to donald trump. it's not just because of his insults. when he says things like this, they see a blunt honesty, instead of a phoniness that a lot of pol fish shans have. when marco rubio talks about these things, and being a con artist, i mean, this is the man from the gang of eight. i mean, a lot of people see this kind of thing, it's just political talk and this is what gets us into trouble in the first place. >> but i think last night, marco rubio did more than insult donald trump, he threw a lot of fact his way. >> to answer your question, no, donald trump is not anything like ronald reagan. he wasn't a hypocrite bully of the conservative movement, which is what donald trump is. donald trump has been misleading people all of this time with this rhetoric and insults and showmanship. he has tapped into anger with the american people, that's true. but i don't kno

to corey lewandowski's point, he knows new hampshire very well. he's worked in new hampshire. he's been up there a couple election cycles. new hampshire -- iowa is built for ted cruz. it does have the evangelical base. new hampshire is built for donald trump in the sense you do have blue collar republicans. suburbanites people who moved up from massachusetts to escape the taxes in massachusetts. the republicans who moved up there. new hampshire does have a great constituency for donald trump. it's a former more industrial state. the rivers go through the mill towns. he can make the case about china, about immigration and will have a very receptive audience. the question for me is he going to play the blue collar lane or get caught looking to his right and have a fight? you can find conservative libertarian voters in new hampshire. does he look right and compete there or look at the romney map? if you look at the romney map, more mainstream moderate republicans, you have rubio, kasich, christie, and bush all between 10 and 15 points right now and carly fiorina getting a chunk o

campaigning for his wife in new hampshire. criticism of the sanders' campaign and its supporters. >>> donald trump against the field. will new hampshire bring him his first victory in the presidential race and is he ready to tone it all down? >>> and the broncos with a stunning victory over the panthers in super bowl 50. we are breaking down the big moments in the game and halftime. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman live in manchester, new hampshire. it is monday, 4:00 a.m. in the east. it is one day before the first in the nation primary here in new hampshire. this morning, a new line of attack from someone not running. bill clinton turning heads speaking more directly, more pointedly about bernie sanders and his supporters than he ever has. this is a real shift from the former president, until now, has spoken about hillary clinton's record and experience. listen. >> if you are not for us, "the boston globe" and "the portsmouth newspaper" they are all for the establishment. bernie took wha

going beyond new hampshire. we believe we have the resources we need here but we're also building the resources for the future. in other words, this is a campaign that's built to last. it's always been a campaign underestimated. people didn't think i'd get in. didn't think i'd make the debates or get to new hampshire. it's all happening because we're like the little engine that can. >> it's always good to talk to you, sir. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> governor john kasich. just ahead, jeb bush pulled out a secret weapon tonight, his mom, barbara bush. at 90 years old, as popular as ever. more on that ahead. wallow seven people. seven. i just wish one of those people could have been mrs. johnson. [dog bark] trust me, we're dealing with a higher intelligence here. ♪ the all-new audi q7 is here. ♪ ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. i fil

it worked for you in new hampshire. you say, oh, here we go again, but we haven't seen polls for a while. new ones in south carolina. do you think your message is working enough? do you think you could win south carolina? are you being undercounted again? >> no. when i say here we go again, i mean predict how you're going to do. i know. i'm going to be a scrappy candidate. we're connecting down here. there's no question about it. where i'm going to finish, i don't know, but we're in south carolina. we're going to be in the deep south. i'm going to go to virginia, michigan. wait until we get to the midwest. it's just not a one play thing. it's going to be do your best here and move to the rest of country. you know, i feel really great about things. that's what i was saying about here we go again. i'm not like mohammad ali. i can't predict what round somebody is going to go down in. >> i was looking through the calendar today. we've got day after day, state after state. on super tuesday there's only one midwestern state v

she won in iowa lost in new hampshire. cnn projects she will be the winner in the nevada democratic caucuses. i want to go to jeff at the bernie sanders campaign. more subdued i take it there, jeff. >> reporter: no doubt about it wolf. when that projection was made here a few moments ago the few people who are gathered here behind me booed at the suggestion that hillary clinton won nevada. but win this she did. this is a decisive win. had it not gone that way there would have been a lot of questions about the strength of her campaign. she did win this race so now she is going forward, of course this is not going to stop this democratic race at all. the sanders campaign believes that the tightness of the race here shows that he can appeal to latino voters and african-american voters but there is no doubt about it this provides something of a reset on this campaign and i talked to one clintoned adviser, they said this resets the race and puts confidence back and is going to put a bounce back in her step. so this is definitel

you saw what happened in iowa and new hampshire. in iowa, clinton won, but barely won by razor-thin margins. in new hampshire, sanders blew her out, and i think that many people did not expect hillary clinton to have such a tough campaign, and a lot of people didn't expect bernie sanders to become such a cult phenomenon and a durable and popular candidate, and i think heading into south carolina, a state hillary clinton and her allies a long time views add her firewall don't want to take chances and want to make sure as they see sanders raising money, doing outreach to african-american voters here and really laying down the groundwork, they don't want to get beaten at a game they know she should be able to win. >> you have ben jealous ahead backing sanders. very influential voice in the african-american voice and the black caucus is backing hillary. i wonder do you think this new influx of cash for clinton from this super pac might backfire on her in south carolina? because sanders could use this and say, there again is her big mone

because certainly you saw there is a huge win for persony sanders in new hampshire. returning that favor if you will. what she wants to do is show that she has a big enough margin in. for him to find a pathway to the nomination. and a lot of that they think hangs on tonight here in south carolina. our latest poll has the spread between hillary clinton and bernie sanders at 18 points so you can see really what he's contending with. hillary clinton would be very happy if she could best that number, poppy. >> absolutely. brianna, thank you so much there at one of the hillary campaign headquarters here in columbia. we have a big, big show ahead for you tonight as the results start to roll in. some of the issues. this is a state who has backed hillary clinton, extraordinarily well the african-american vote. one issue where she still struggles with sanders is honest and trustworthy. let's pull up the numbers, show them to our viewers. there is a wide divide with so many more people believing nationally that sanders 87% they believe he's honest and trustworthy, only 65% for

tomorrow in new hampshire, he has a totally different fight and focus. rubio will focus on jeb bush and christie and john kasich. >> as of today, it is iowa. we are watching the forecast. you may get snow there, john. thanks, john. >>> other news, three dangerous inmates who escaped from the california jail cell, they are now back behind bars. the details on their capture are really interesting. we have that next. off script. so if i wanna go to jersey and check out shotsy tuccerelli's portfolio, what's it to you? or i'm a scottish mason whose assets are made of stone like me heart. papa! you're no son of mine! or perhaps it's time to seize the day. don't just see opportunity, seize it! (applause) this woman... this cancer patient... christine... living her life... loving her family. moments made possible in part by the breakthrough science of advanced genomic testing. after christine exhausted the standard treatment options for her disease, doctors working with the center for advanced individual medicine at cancer treatment centers of america suggested

exit polls in new hampshire and south carolina showed voters don't rank immigration as one of their top concerns and most voters in both states, republican voters actually favor path for legalization for immigrants. so it seems this is a bizarre strategy if he's trying to expand his support in the republican base but he does seem like he's trying to match donald trump in the hopes he soars in the polls. >> dooubl he's righ you believe? >> i believe voters are really looking for a candidate who's extremely tough on the issue of immigration, then they may have already found themselves in donald trump's camp and may not be willing to switch now. i don't believe this is a wise strategy either. i thought for a while that ted cruz would be trying to talk tough on the issue of immigration during the republican primary and then would pivot to the center back towards a position he held in 2013, a path to legalization during the general election should he take the nomination so he could broaden his appeal with the general electorate. but these comments last night seem to make it impossible now fo

bush going to new hampshire this week? >> not new hampshire. barbara bush, his mother, former first lady barbara bush, will be appearing with him thursday night at a town hall and some events on friday. after new hampshire, south carolina, where george w. bush was very strong, that's where they want him to come in. >> stand by. more to discuss. once again, awaiting donald trump's first news conference since the second place finish in iowa. my one-on-one interview with hillary clinton coming up as well. it takes a lot of work... to run this business. but i really love it. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost® to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay strong. stay active with boost®. performance... ...reimagined. style... ...reinvented. sop

keane, new hampshire, thanks. as hillary clinton declares herself the winner in iowa, bernie sanders, you heard, said, talking about his campaign, said we're going to have a to look a little more thoroughly about the election results in iowa. for his -- let's talk about this and more. welcome to all of you. >> good morning. >> so ron, i'll start with you. the des moines rental ster reports coin tosses were held in six precincts to award delegates. the paper says clinton won each toss. any chance that this could develop into something bigger? >> i have a feeling they are not going to push it too far. but last time the republicans couldn't count. this time the democrats. you would think at least they could do is count the votes. i think it is really disappointing. iowa did answer two big questions but at least two more still to be determined. bernie sanders dominance among young voters is very real and he's not just a wine track candidate. meaning not just dependent on --. very positive signs for him. on the other h

rubio has come in now and is almost the underdog in new hampshire, and i think is he giving new hampshire voters a chance to empower their votes. they don't just have to rubber stamp anything, and those governors, i think, are in a tough place because it increasingly looks like they're not going to be able to win. if they start to attack marco rubio and bring him down, had they probably will, it's going to look selfish and self-serving. more about power than about helping the republican party succeed. marco rubio actually needs to be tested. he is a young candidate. a lot of people see him as charismatic, but immature, and a good test with weather aiing a d storm in new hampshire might have given voters a chance to maybe this guy is strong enough and mature enough to lead. that's what might come out of new hampshire. a rubio, cruz, donald trump dynamic. >> let's look at the other possibilities here, and that's all the others. i want you to weigh in and just take your dem hat off for a minute. what are we going to see going forward with carson, fiorina, paul, santorum? why are these people

this is new hampshire. the state that she won eight years ago, that delivered bill clinton to the white house in 1992. they're putting out a memo tonight calling it the way forward. campaign manager robby mook is putting out this memo saying the rest is yet to come and saying this nomination will be won in march and they lay out in very detailed strategy how they can win this nomination in march because it's a delegate fight and they are right in saying that some 56% of the delegates will be awarded in march, but this is a moral blow to their campaign. this is a reset for their campaign. it is hard to overestimate the changes and just the structural decisions they will make going forward, but they are getting out in front of this and they will be conceding tonight as soon as the clintons get here, as soon as all their supporters get into this arena tonight, jake. >> and jeff, you know, we have, of course, heard all of the spin, all the expectations in the days and weeks leading up to this that, of course, t

look at these long lines, both in hudson, new hampshire, as well as merrimack, new hampshire. people have less than an hour to go ahead and vote. we're awaiting the first real votes coming in right now. i want to go quickly to brian todd in hudson, new hampshire. brian, this is right near nashua. set the scene for us. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. dynamic turnout here in hudson. bob and i are going to move along the line. let's go, bob. this line extends about 60 feet out the door. it's been doing that for a couple of hours. it could break its record. about 9,000 voters came here in 2012. about the same in 2008. they think they've got a good shot to eclipse that. as of an hour ago, more than 7,000 had been here. these lines are out the door. here's an update from the moderator of this precinct. he said if you're in the line here, even way out the door by 8:00 when the polls close, you're going to get in and vote. look at this line of cars over here. it extends at least six blocks back. at one point it extended about a mile back. the moderator just told me a short time ago t