. >> michael steele choosing the second to last. martin o'malley. >> i got a lot of vp potential. >> this game has to be devilish. i'm going go with number six. >> joy reed makes a satanic play at work. >> i think he will run and do very well in iowa. >> or not. michael steele is in the lead with 6,900 points. jess mcintosh only a hundred points behind. >>> something the media missed last night. don't go anywhere. well what if i told you that peanuts can work for you? while you guys are busy napping, peanuts are delivering 7 grams of protein and 6 essential nutrients right to your mouth. you ever see a peanut take a day off? no. peanuts don't even get casual khaki fridays. because peanuts take their job seriously. so unless you want a life of skimming wifi off the neighbors, you'll harness the hardworking power of the peanut. (cheering) we heard you got a job as a developer!!!!! its official, i work for ge!! what? wow... yeah! okay... guys, i'll be writing a new language for machines so planes, trains, even hospitals can work better

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former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. senior national correspondent for bloomberg "businessweek" josh green. senior editor at the daily caller, jamie weinstein. in manchester, new hampshire, mark halperin and in new york, senior political columnist in for the fournier along with willie, joel, and me. >>> let's go to new hampshire with mark halperin and a new tracking poll. mark, what are you expecting to see on the ground today? yesterday it was trump v cruz. what do we have today? >> well, the republican race now is the campaigns -- other campaigns who were polling claim trump's lead isn't that big anymore. they see a big undecided. they can see rubio is doing well, enjoying the big mo out of iowa, drawing enthusiastic crowds and the question is can anyone get a bead on him? bush has been trying, trump continues to focus on cruz but the question, i think -- the two questions are is trump going to come down, is rubio going up or is somebody like kasich or bush or christie going to taken a opportunity for these campaigns t

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 of people have claimed since the debate he did win. it says something this race. you touched on it coming into this segment

michael steele fresh off a bernie sanders new hampshire victory has 7,800 points but our lead with the donald trump whammy pick is jess mcintosh with 7900 points. 272 days to go until election day, that's right, 272, it's still anyone's game including joy reid's because tomorrow former democratic senator jim webb and one of joy reid's draft picks will announce whether he will launch an independent bid for the white house. now the question becomes can jim webb save joy reid? when you've got a house full of guests on the way and a cold with sinus pressure, you need fast relief. alka-seltzer plus severe sinus congestion and cough liquid gels rush relief to your tough symptoms. to put you back in control. [doorbell] woman: coming! alka-seltzer plus sinus. >>> last night, donald trump won new hampshire and along with that win came a raft of commentary about its significance. but as crazy as last night was, we have seen something like this happen before. exactly 20 years ago. >> having rolled a live hand grenade into the living room of the republican party, rebel pat buchanan today taunted t

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i agree with michael steele, if this had been earlier, all theened a dates have vulnerabilities. this is the biggest vulnerability any of the major candidates have but they're bringing it up pretty late in the process. what the bush people will tell you and the kasich people will say, if rubio becomes the top establishment finisher here, that type of ad and maybe that specific ad will run often in the upcoming states and make rubio vulnerable on the hottest button in the party right now. >>> all right, coming up, more on the holy war that broke out between the pope and donald trump. you're watching "morning joe" live from the holy city, charleston, south carolina. [ applause ] think of it as a seven seat theater... for an action packed thriller. (vo) what'scorn? dog food's first ingredient? wheat? in purina one true instinct grain free, real chicken is always #1. no corn, wheat or soy. support your active dog's whole body health with purina one. then smash it into a tree.ch on a perfect car, your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on the

i'm pretty blown away that, as michael steele said, anybody that knows the state of south carolina knows it's three states. and when i started seeing trump winning greenville, spartanburg, i just sat there going, oh, my god. everything we have ever known about republican politics has just been turned on its head by a guy who supported hillary clinton eight years ago. >> with all due respect to what all y'all have said so far i think you've understated both trump's achievements to date and his commanding position right now. it's a crazy cycle. something could change but trump has now proven he's anything but a regional candidate. he couldn't find electorates more different within the republican context than new hampshire and south carolina. you look not just at the exit poll but at the upcoming math. the fact that you still have three other candidates who think they're the ones who can stop trump. trump, i think, at this point would probably win every state on super tuesday. not just accumulating delegates but more momentum. none of the candidates, even cruz, have the ability to spend mon

michael steele, thanks for your tonight. let me start with you. you've been following the rubio campaign. i've been skeptical of the rubio campaigns spin. you talk about the establishment. i think it's more abundant because of jeb bush. there's aennti-trump folks that will not go quietly. >> that's a good argument. one of the things they benefitted from is not marco rubio was able to bounce back from new hampshire and that proved not to be a fatal blow but ted cruz underwhelmed over there. they feel confident that ted cruz is in a position of, not claw his way back but he's the one struggling at this point in time. >> they were separated. >> right. >> the issue is, the reason i bring that up is say marco rubio's campaign succeeds in squeezing ted cruz out. a lot of them will go to donald trump and then there's the john kasich factor. he's playing the role of spoiler now. you look at michigan and he's polling ahead of marco rubio. >> and ohio. this idea the consolidation at this point is enough to carry marco rubio into a position of winning, there

i have. >> michael steel. >> i have. >> except for michael steel. >> i know what you're saying. i've been seeing the same promises. i've been seeing the same ads. if somebody who is voted republican in every presidential election has been as turned off with my party in washington as i have, this is no surprise. >> this is scaring people, it really is. i went and got my haircut yesterday and there were -- everybody in that beauty parlor was from someplace else, right? they're american citizens -- >> right. >> -- but they're from someplace else and they're scared to death. they're scared for their children. they think something really awful is happening in this country. >> you mean because of donald trump? >> because of donald trump. >> i will say if you had gotten your haircut in a different part of town everybody would have been excited. >> i understand. >> i'm serious. i get my haircut in the same neighborhoods as you do. i'm not casting aspersions. also, mika and i are surprised, ron fournier, when we go across the country. this happened to you when you went to michigan. you w