the day the president announced the plan to close the guantanamo bay detention center, senator tom roberts released a video of himself krurchling up the plan and throwing it into a trash bin. it's standard that a republican congress and republican president will disagree or democratdem it does feel increasingly like decorum is being thrown completely out of the window and you have to wonder is it sort of the trump effect and does it end up serving the trump narrative that nothing gets done in washington and at the same time he gets stronger. let me bring in the panel on this one. jamal simmons, cofounder of crate.com and matthew, editor of the washington free beacon and contributing editor of the the weekly daily standard. i want to start with you on this. do you feel as if the republicans are drawing these tougher lines, that it's a response to sort of trumps out there feeling as if they have to get tougher? >> my first reaction to your intro there is, chuck, it's not like republicans have been particularly cooperative with obama over the last seven years. >> there's a line. >> i don't kn

ism -- i know we still have robert costa here in the spin room. how are you doing, robert? >> doing good. we also have aaron and elise. starting with you, robert, the mood here generally about who won and what matters in south carolina? >> reporter: here in the spin room a lot of the establishment candidates, more of the mainstream republicans feel they had an opening tonight. their argument in the spin room was donald trump was running against the republican party, running against the policies and views, especially on foreign policy that that have become the center of the policy over the last decade. they say especially in a state like social security that gives a rubio or bush or anyone else like a john kasich to move forward and the trump people feel pretty confident, too. they think they established themselves as someone a little counter and -- >> gabe, i don't want to add to the urgency of the moment. but i understand you guys are going to be kicked out of there at some point? the spinning must stop? is that right? >> yes, that's right. the spin room is quickly clearin

and like in 2000, you'll hear a lot of scalia, a lot of clarence thomas, not as much of john roberts, who has annoyed conservatives by defending obamacare now twice. so i think you'll hear from that. i will be interested to watch tonight, ted cruz, a justice -- a clerk on the supreme court. so tonight is the one time where in terms of these candidates, he is much more versed on legal issues than the other candidates. i think this is a night for him to show that and to really speak more eloquently about the issues. >> you make such an interesting point. what you're saying is it's not just where people stand, and from what we can tell, the entire leadership of the republican party within a few hours has taken the same position. it's not just so much where they stand on that, but who knows what? you make the point that ted cruz who has done well so far, is by any stretch the best lawyer on the stage, the most practiced legal mind. he already has that reputation. he had an exchange with donald trump about who was going to take advice on who on constitutional issues when the eligibility is

and this morning, chief justice john roberts noted that scalia authored 282 majority opinions. in echoing scalia's own sarcastic humor, roberts drew laughter in the court when he said his colleague was known, occasionally, to dissent. he'll be remembered as one of the court east most vocal justices. we'll have much more on the fight over the future of the high court, that's ahead. incredible bladder protection from always discreet that lets you move like you mean it now comes with an incredible promise. the always discreet double your money back guarantee. always discreet is for bladder leaks and it's drier than poise. try it. we're so confident you'll love it, we'll give you double your money back if you don't. incredible bladder protection. double your money back guarantee. that's always discreet. >>> hey! >> how are you? >> fine. >> so nice to see you. >> oh, my goodness! >> i want to be like you when i grow up. >> that is 106-year-old virginia mclauren, meeting with the president and first lady at the white house as part of black history month. you see so much negativity in

. >> let me bring from tonight's panel, correspondent and casey, robert costa, msnbc, and james, an old pal of mine, veteran of covering new hampshire. you're veteran. >> i look like 14. >> third or fourth, fifth new hampshire primary. your eyebrows raised when you heard dr. carson's answer about cruz and accountability and fraudulent caucuses win perhaps. >> here's the bottom line. this is the first time candidate. okay, and we're talking about issues that related to iowa and i'm not dismissing them, but he's not here in new hampshire. he's still apparently folding his clothes in florida or doing press conferences in washington. this campaign is not about hinl. it's about the people. he's not up here talking about the issues that involve him. he is talking about issues that happened in iowa. in fact, when would he saw the first news that cruz, he was going to go to florida, he was going to take his voters, i don't know now. >> fast from you, sneak in a break, trump is trying to make this an issue. why now? why not hit cruz later on this? is he going to be a factor? >> carson's attack o

i want to ask you to react, i was a little surprised to see, this was senator pat roberts' reaction to the president's plan, let me show it to you. >> this is what i think of the president's plan to send terrorists to the united states. >> i understand the sentiment, but when did we get to the point where we disagree with something and we have to make a viral video, like, to say, i so disagree with it, i want to make -- you know, i'm going to throw it away, doesn't his plan at least deserve a hearing, even if you don't like it? >> you know, chuck, i'm sure the video is great and i'm sure it's lovely, i couldn't see it. what was he doing? >> fair enough. he took the paper, wadded it up, threw it in a trash can and said, that's what i think of the president's plan. and it just seemed a little un-senatorial. it seems like no matter what you think of the plan, he submitted it, shouldn't it be the obligation of the u.s. senate to at least consider it and say, you know what, we don't like it. but i feel like we have no lines anymore in decorum. >> yeah, perhaps, but perhaps, chuck, if you we

the court now, i'm thinking of people like kamala harris in california, i'm thinking of people like robert wilkins on the d.c. circuit. there is a slew of people -- i want to say that, you know, we have to do that. but i want to also give condolences to former supreme court justice, how much he meant to us. he came to harvard many times, he's a graduate of harvard. there's a series in his honor. and i think the reality is, nobody will be able to take the office if they don't have, in a sense, some of the values that justice scalia made clear. and i think that -- >> can i just ask you, though, in terms of this political battle we're seeing play out, the republicans are saying the white house has no business in obstructing a nominee that the president puts forward, but i'm asking if the president, as a senator, participating in a filibuster against a dually elected president's nominee to the supreme court, did the president not help lay the groundwork for the republicans obstructing him on this? >> he might have. but the constitution is the controlling document. and everybody has to follow t