can portray her as a typical politician, someone who you detest in a year when the electorate hates washington, certainly that's going to work to his advantage. the inspector general report is not done. the investigation is still ongoing. there will be presumably more developments. the issue is going to hound her until election day. >> this is part of why you see her right now pivoting away from the woman stuff. by all accounts, she should have been able to run as a grandmother this year, everybody trusts grandmothers, everybody loves grandmothers, she wants to do the best for her grandchild. but if you're a woman and everyone still thinks you're untrustworthy, that's not working for you, and you have to turn that in a different direction, you have to go after him about not only his trustworthiness about his readiness. >> absolutely right. she says he's a loose cannon, a bully, unpredictable. and to your point, maybe you don't trust me, but don't trust him more. >> so my question is really simple. if you have paid federal income tax, show us. some people say he doesn't want to show us because

you have the people speaking up to say they don't want washington to pick their candidates. they want a say. on the democratic side, bernie sanders has shown the people matter and the people can speak up and change the democratic establishment. hopefully that change is going forward and republicans elect someone sane. >> marco rubio won expectations. big win for ted cruz. can he keep that momentum in new hampshire? i'm not sure. hillary clinton may have won, but it would have been groundhog day all over for her in iowa although she won a tiny bit. donald trump is a loser today. >> maria. >> hillary clinton wins becoming the first woman to ever win an iowa caucus. bernie sanders did great. also a win. the democratic party wins. they are focusing on the issues that all americans care about. compared to republicans who will nominate somebody who is anti-woman or anti-latino. >> all right. ben. go. >> i'll say this. donald trump proves arrogance and cockiness does not win you the white house. ted cruz did better than anyone thought. marco rubio is a guy that has a little mo comi

voters obviously just detest washington. so if he does things as far as a typical politician, someone who says -- he says things that a normal politician won't say, people seem to like that. even if we think this is going to hurt him in a general election, there are folks that are laughing, thinking it's great that he's attacking her. >> people in america process things differently than we do here, that much we know. >>> coming up, new details from a state department report about hillary clinton's e-mails. >>> we'll share some words of tribute from our past three presidents. >> from our biggest cities to smallest towns, citizens have done what had to be done to advance the dream that began on the fourth of july. >> the long lasting tribute is all around us, a country where citizens have the right to worship as they want, to march for what they believe, and to say what they think. >> remember, it is their courage, their unselfishness, their devotion to duty that has sustained this country through all its trials and will susta

let's go back to wolf in washington. >> our political directors, you are looking at all the numbers. who showed up and what they won. >> he asked the voters as they showed up, what are you looking for in a candidate quality. this will help explain to everyone watching why ted cruz is where he is. take a look at this. among the voters that said i am looking for a candidate who shares my values, ted cruz is demolishing the field. 37% for cruz and 21% for rubio and 16% for carson and 7% for paul. that is 41% of the republican electorate. that was an important quality. when we asked about the quality of someone who can win, the electability question. rubio and 25% for trump and 22% for cruz and 2% for carly fiorina. not as many caucus goers looking for electability as for someone who shares their values. this quality, telling it like it is, that is the donald trump thing. that is what he is campaigning on. 67% of voters looking for a candidate who said i want someone who tells it like it is. only 15% of the republican caucus going electorate is looking for that quality. with four oust te

in both the new york times and washington post this morning, jim, senior african american from south carolina saying, don't take that for granted, mr. clinton. if he beats you, he can do well. >> yeah, i really don't agree that hillary hasn't made her case to voters. voters know, and they don't much like her. and i think that's hugely important. bernie sanders is not barack obama, but i think her weakness is underscored, that at this point, voters will take anybody over her. her campaign has gone out of it's way to not repeat the same mistakes of 2008. they hosted small meet and greets rather than the big rallies. they've tried to repackage her and make her warm and inviting, but you know, she's still not likable. and i think that her weaknesses in a general election despite the candidates on the republican side, who are inflicting their own wounds on themselves left and right, really shouldn't be underestimated. >> well, that's been an interesting one two. a week or two ago, he tried to play the car saying i don't need with a tour, her version of the 3:00 a.m. phone call if you will

king marched on washington unafraid to challenge the status quo to end racial profiling, take on police misconduct and take down a system that profits from mass imprisonment. >> there is no president who will fight harder to end institutional racism. >> this, to me, is the defining test of this race. because of where the calendar goes next. where you have either majorities or high pluralities of african-americans in the democratic electorate. if bernie sanders can break through and get a sizeable number, that means a longer race and a changed race. >> and the place to look when we get numbers out of south carolina is younger african-americans because the big question is going to be whether younger african-americans vote their race or their age. younger people have flocked to bernie sanders. and why wouldn't a younger african-american connect with his message the way a younger white person would? that's the argument that the sanders campaign is making. >> that's why you see people in the congressional black caucus come out and more aggressively support hillary clinton as they did last we

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, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks ande

he could have punted until trump came down to washington. a big part of this is paul ryan is trying to protect that house majority. we are now in a situation where donald trump's numbers are so terrible that he puts not only the senate in jeopardy for the republican party but the house as well. and i think one of the things that ryan is calculating is that he is giving other house republicans cover as they feel that they don't want to endorse donald trump that maybe that gives them a better chance of saving their seats. >> so he's saying, look, you have to do this if you want to save the republican party and if you want to save our majority, correct? >> i think he believes that he doesn't want everything to go down in the massive bonfire that is the trump candidacy. he wants there still to be a republican party in washington afterwards that can rebuild. he doesn't want a situation where the republicans have lost the senate, the house and essentially the supreme court all in one election. >> you looked pained. >> this is a candidate that has

they're really frustrated with washington. that's why you see the candidates who are from washington. it doesn't get mer washington than two senators running away from that record. marco rubio saying he doesn't want to be in the senate anymore, ted cruz staking himself as an anti-senate senator. there's no doubt they want someone from the outside. they get the sense they're frustrated and angry and donald trump has embodies that for them. >> you have to wonder what that means for those going forward in the senate and the house. voters are saying they're very angry with what they've done. interesting, marco rubio, there was one category that he did win and that was the category essentially people who think that he wanted experience, people who did want experience wanted marco rubio, and he hasn't been in this senate all that long even. >> yeah. you know, he paints himself as a 1-year conservative. that's a new part of his stump speech he's put in there in the past weeks. he kbos back to his time in the florida legislature as a

. >> i think we can rally the people in washington because i'm going to remind them that before we're republicans and democrats we're americas and we have an obligation to our children. >> we have something happening that actually makes the republican party probably the biggest political story anywhere in the world. everybody's writing about it all over europe, all over the world they're talking about it. millions of people are coming in to vote. >> only one campaign has beaten donald trump over and over and over again. not once, not twice, not three times, but nine times all across the country from alaska to main. >> let's bring in john king. missouri both of these contests it doesn't get much closer on the republican and democratic sides. >> 1,530 votes on the democratic side it's 1,600 and change. on the republican side hillary clinton pulled ahead. we told you we were waiting for the final votes to come in. they're in. they're in now and hillary clinton that's how she pulled ahead. in jackson county and the suburbs and st. louis county suburbs outside. i was looking because we had

when the washington lobbyists settled on other lobbyists in this race. when the media in one voice said a conservative cannot win, nationwide over 800,000 contributions poured in to tedcruz.org as courageous conservatives said, yes, we can. 800,000 contributions at tedcruz.org with an average contribution of $67. that is the power of the grassroots. but it's more than that. it's 12,000 volunteers here in the state of iowa. it's over 200,000 volunteers all across this great nation. you know, during the course of this campaign people have asked heidi and me are you tired? and i will admit it is 16, 18 hours a day, 6, 7 days a week. we are not tired at all. ♪ >> to the contrary, we are inspehred by each and every one of you. i leap out of bed every morning amazed that at a time when our country is in crisis, every one of us has the opportunity to stand and lead, that we have been put in a place of leadership. for such a time as this. >> all right, we're going to breakaway from ted cruz. there you see, hillary clinton and her husband and daughter. she's ab

cnn special coverage from washington, now begins. >>> we're counting down to two crucial contests in two states. >> both the democrats and the republicans have a lot on the line. >> announcer: it's a whole new climate in the presidential campaign with the first contests in the south and the west, the candidates are turning up the heat. >> it's not enough just to be against thing. >> they're throwing everything at me, except the kitchen sink. >> ted cruz, i think he's an unstable person. >> you noticed how rattled donald gets? boy, he really -- he lost. >> he is a liar. >> announcer: right now, in the democratic race, it's nevada's choice. hillary clinton, planning to look like a front-runner again, after her crushing loss to bernie sanders in new hampshire. it's the first battleground where minority voters could decide the winner. will they rally behind clinton and her her rebound? >> it's not whether you get knocked down that matters. it's whether you get back up! >> announcer: or will nevada feel the burn? >> a funny thing happened. the people became involved in the campaign. >> an

they are looking for someone that can help donald trump as he gets to washington as this outsider. >> sara murray with the trump campaign in new york, new york. dana, they can say they are just going to pick the best candidate but there are always other considerations including gender, including race and ethnicity and one imagines with an electret this divided right now, they are taking other things into account. >> i mean, in someways we kind of hope so, right? because as david garrigan has been saying earlier and this is true, this is the first real presidential decision. the first decision that a candidate makes that shows how they would approach other big decisions and obviously a huge personnel decision. but one of the many, many, many things that is different about the trump process than any other candidate previously is that for the most part, if somebody was being thought about for v.p., they would say yes, sign me up. show me which way to go. and, you know, at this point because people are still trying to figure out who he is and which way he'll go, you're seeing people rule

. >> greetings from washington. i want to thank all of you for your work to root out corruption. >> enormous amounts of money have flowed to the clintons, from foreign governments, foreign financiers and businesses. >> oh, yeah, i got to pay off bills. >> before we had to worry about money from wall street and big labor, now we have to worry about it coming from around the world and infecting our politics. with the clintons, nothing is sacred. everything is for sale. >> jeff zeleny, the clnts have been dealing with opposition research and with barbs from the right for a long time. the question is what scares them? is this the type of thing that scares them? is this different than the e-mails? >> i think this does not scare them as much as some of the unknowns. . is all known. we know what's in peter sweitzert's book. this say movie playing to a different audience. the general election audience may not be entirely familiar with that so they're going to get more of an airing of that. i think the thing that worries the

ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's tough stuff. of course ted cruz is not one to sit back and let that happen. he released this ad earlier tonight. >> look, i got the trump action figure. >> no way, it's huge. >> what does he do? >> he pretends to be a republican. >> bailouts for the banks. >> too big to fail. >> i gave money to pelosi, reid and anthony weiner. >> hey, hillary, i'll give you money to be my house. >> check out my house, mr. trump. >> that's a lousy house people going to take your house and park my limos there. >> we wouldn't tolerate these values in our children. why would we want these in a president? >> well, that is the most interesting interpretation of eminent domain i have ever seen. dana, we are now entering a truly new phase of campaign. anyone who thought it was negative before, well, you ever ain't seen nothing yet. >> that is definitely a memorable ad that ted cruz has up but i thought that the donald trump ad was particularly p potentially devastating but if you saw at the end he used the words "trust-ed

it's becoming evident and "washington post" reporting on it as well. focusing on a 15 state pathway to the electoral college win and we've heard of these pathways before. virginia in there. michigan in there. understand that they're a battleground but california and new york are among that list. and i want to ask you who has been through many an election if that is a republican strategy that can work. >> first, ashleigh. let me ask you a question. there is a picture of you on twitter that suggests you in your '80s punk rock glory. can all of us? >> it's blank. that's a good thing. it does show you. there he goes again. i am old and i've been through a bunch of elections and i know the republicans usually look at california and new york and say you're not going to get those ones. spend your money and time to get the ones you can get and then the ones you're not so sure you can get. what about that strategy? i need to hear it from you who knows politics more than anyone. >> i think that states like michigan and pennsylvania, needs to go after those and m

veterans it taking part in, but mixed in was also a lot of the just average ordinary passers by this washington, d.c. for the memorial day weekend. and donald trump not only talked about his support for veterans and reforming the v.a., but he also talked about trade, he talked about getting a better deal in other countries for protection. and he also took a few jabs at hillary clinton as you would expect. >> all right. scott, thanks. appreciate your time. >>> ahead, at least four dead, three missing in flooding across parts of texas and kansas. mandatory evacuations going on at this very hour. we will bring you that live report up next. talking about these days is how good their coverage is. but only one network is giving you more than just great coverage. t-mobile! only t-mobile's lets you stream video and music - for free! not only that, but we doubled our lte coverage in the last year. that's right! our coverage now stacks up with anybody. including verizon and at&t. so now you can get rid of the other guys and get great coverage from t-mobile. we got you covered. and we won't stop! [ "dream

. >>> hello i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is jam-packed. we're only two weeks and one day away the from the iowa caucuses. and on today's show, the parge players on both sides of the presidential race, hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and donald trump, all coming up. . just hours, the democratic candidates are going to face each other down at their debate in charleston, south carolina, and they have plenty of new material with clinton and sanders both lobbying fresh lines of attack against the other this week. meanwhile, breaking news this morning, senior administration official telling cnn that the plane carrying three of the previously detained americans freed by iran yesterday, has taken off from teheran. the men released as part of a swap with iran including washington post journalist jason rezaian, and christian pastor, saeed, they are spending a couple days at a u.s. military hospital in germany for medical evaluation before coming home. fourth american was not on the plane. he decided to stay in iran, following his release. this deal

let's go to wolf blitzer in washington. >> we are watching. ted cruz maintaining the lead over donald trump and marco rubio with an impressive 30 and ben carson fourth with 10%. only 7% of the republican caucus sites. 25% of the caucus sites reporting and maintaining her lead. 53% to 47% for bernie sanders. not doing so well. uncommitted the same number. hillary clinton doing well so far. about a quarter of that vote now in on the democratic side. let's go back to jake and dana for more. >> thanks, wolf. >> in our own jeff, he is in des moines at sanders's campaign headquarters. we just spoke with him. what did he have to say? >> weus

that battle expanded to include conservatives gathering in washington to plot a trump takedown. but a ted cruz/john kasich unity ticket, a contested convention and of drafting paul ryan to replace him. there was that and also this. republican lawmakers who openly deeply and comprehensively detest senator cruz are now beginning to endorse him. dana bash has the latest on all of that. she joins us now. let's talk about this closed door conservative meeting today. >> i just got off the phone with somebody who was part of that meeting. there were about 30 people there. these were leaders in the conservative movement both on the social conservative side and the fiscally conservative side. and the discussion was, as you said

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does i say a washington insider, someone to make the washington folks, party establishment, more comfortable with his candidacy, or does he pick someone who could deal with his vulnerabilities on foreign policy and being a commander in chief particularly when this foreign policy shall such a big issue. could it be pence, gingrich, michael flynn, former retired general. we'll see. i don't think anyone knows but donald trump. >> some of the political pros are worried about a general. trump likes generals. the political pros in the campaign think it reinforces those who say he is an authoritarian kind of person. by the last time we checked general flynn was a democrat. i assume because conservatives have so many questions about trump, on that one, it might cause issues among conservatives. what will it tell us about trump? you make a key point. trump said he wants washington experience but one of the debates is if your whole brand is being an outsider. come into washington and flip the table, tip all the cards, do you want somebody? >> what trump has been saying he wants an insider because he's

i wonder why he's going to the state of washington? because you know what? republicans don't win it but we're going to win it. that's why i'm here. that's why i'm here. [ applause ] and this love affair began about three months ago when i came up here and we had record crowds, two events, massive, massive crowds. i said why don't the republicans win that state? i think we're going to win washington state. so that's the story. that's why i'm here. that's why i'm here. i don't know if you saw it but poll numbers came in today that are phenomenal. we're leading in florida, we're leading in north carolina. we're leading on a national basis. los angeles times, we're two or three points up. we're doing really well, folks. it's all coming together. when you see crowds like this, people fully understand why. i will tell you. thank you. so we are going to have a great victory for the people, people. remember. for the people. it's going to be a victory for every citizen whose voice has not been heard and that's a lot of people. it will be a win

>> "washington post" and monkey did a poll in august. one surprise in that poll texas was competitive. went back in last week and 15 battleground states. texas is still competitive. not saying that donald trump is going to lose texas, but what's happened in that lone star state is a surprise to everybody and there's other polling confirming it. >> if it stays that way, the republican party will have quite the autopsy. maeve? >> to that point, looking at huge booms in latino registration, particularly in swing states. we want to know what's happening in 2016. looking beyond that to races in 2017, 2018. where, for example, in california you have so many latinos angry at trump that they're registering and actually could make a huge difference in the governor's race there. it's going to be interesting to watch that trend, and in states like texas as well. >> domino effect of 2016 carries on to the next cycle. >> and senate race in california in two years. here for a debate, remiss didn't remember also in the middle of a big congress' battleg

and in a town like washington, d.c. that's become increasingly partisan he's a man that's always had deep and enduring friendships on both sides of the political aisle. he can see the good and the valuable and the funny and the fun and the interesting in everyone. and you know, he was -- he had a tremendous wit. just a tremendous wit. >> tremendous wit. memories from paul cappuccio, a former clerk and very good friend of justice scalia. our thanks to him. later this week cnn will host two republican presidential town hall events in south carolina ahead of the primary there. all six republican candidates will participate. marco rubio, ted cruz, ben carson will appear on wednesday night. donald trump, jeb bush, john kasich will appear thursday night. both town halls hosted by our very own anderson cooper. they both begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the town halls will give south carolina voters the opportunity to question directly the candidates and of course the passing of supreme court justice scalia will be addressed as

on education, on welfare, reforming those programs, getting the money and power out of washington. and that's just a fact. again, when you have a record, you have an enormous advantage. that's why he's done so well in the past few weeks, because when you carry your message to 106 town hall meetings, you understand what voters are concerned about, but you also have real ideas, real vision, that resonates with them. so it's been a great campaign. of course, with 12 candidates, you can always find someone who hates john kasich, but the fact is he is the right kind of leader for the country right now. >> all right. i have to leave it there. john, thanks for stopping by. >> still to come in the news room, john kasich and the power of the undecided voter in new hampshire. will his gamble pay off on this primary day? we'll talk more about that, next. see see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that i won't stop. until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for mod

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the entire republican leadership in washington, d.c. was with him. and everything i knew about politics said there was no path forward. but it didn't matter to me at the time because i believed deeply that if america continued on the road that the new president put us on, we would lose the things that made it a special country, and the place to change the history of my family. you fast forward seven years to this moment, things have only gotten worse. we have only gotten further and further away from the principles that made america the greatest nation in all of human history. and it brings us to this moment in our history now. the election of 2016 is no longer simply a choice between political parties or even ideology. the fundamental question before america right now is what kind of country is this going to be in the 21st century? the thing that i always enjoy about cpac is the incredible number of young people that come to these, younger americans. and by younger, i mean anyone under 44. although i feel 45 this week because i had the flu, but anyw

in the campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and wall street. we all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics. that starts with appointing a new justice to the supreme court who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. and we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. no bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. but if we listen to the voices of flint and ferguson, if we open our hearts to the families of coal country and indian country, if we listen to the hopes and heartaches of hardworking people across america, it's clear there is so much more to be done. the truth is, we aren't a single issue country. we need more than a plan for the big banks. the middle class needs a raise! and we need more jobs! we need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, jobs that provide dignity and a future. we can do it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. we can do it with new investments in manufacturin

someone who is going to bring a new sensibility to washington and that is donald trump. that is where we are and the fact that that is happening right now, after everything that this season has brought us, given where he came from, where even he says he was considered a joke on june 16th when he announced, now it's almost impossible to see unless something crazy happens which has happened this year, but it's almost impossible to see him not getting that magic 1,237 and in cleveland him being the person that the republicans nominate as their presidential candidate. >> let's underline this one more time. with senator ted cruz with drawing, that's it. john kasich who remains in the race was running fourth in a three man race. he's now running fourth in a two man race because he's behind a marco rubio and ted cruz so that's not a serious challenge. donald trump who has never run for office before, a man who has offended the sensibilities of the republican establishment and millions of americans from every strike whether latino or muslim or others, is now the republican nomin

you have people sitting in new york or washington making decisions that don't reflect so much of what's happening in this great country. >> the people decide what stories are on the front page and tend to make more money. certainly, there's lots of decision makers in the new york to d.c. region are making more and may not be entirely connect to the struggles other americans face. i think that's what you're touching on. >> bernie sanders is tapping into the very passion, anger, anxieties trump is. he didn't because two months before trump went down the escalator, bernie sanders appealed to the media and said can we do some serious coverage here and not descend into soap opera or trivia or world wide wa wars. >> what's powerful is he was able to rise up despite the lack of attention. they're going to say new traditional media, we're going to get what we want. we're going to raise issues we want to hear. >> this is a fascinating moment to talk. let's have everybody stick around here. stand by for me and we're going to come back later in the hour. we're going to spend time talking to two ke

i'm dana bash filling in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is waking up to an election year. with just 29 days until the first votes are cast, the race is speeding toward a conclusion and the republican frontrunner donald trump has his sights set squarely on hillary clinton. >> they've created isis. hillary clinton created isis with obama. created with obama. this comes after the debut of a new terrorist recruiting video by al qaeda affiliate al shabaab that features trump. >> yesterday america was the land of slavery, segregation, lynching, and ku klux klan. tomorrow it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps. >> so remember this, so listen, donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the united states. until representatives can figure out what the [ expletive ] is going on. >> the rest will eventually turn against its muslim citizens. >> joining me now is republican presidential candidate carly fiorina. good morning. happy new year to you. let's start with that video. >> good morning. >> good mo

when you cut taxes by $5 billion and you grow over 400,000 jobs, that is a record that i can take to washington. >> if you add it up, kasich, bush, christie, put carly fiorina in there, even though she's an outside establishment voters, and marco rubio, donald trump would be in the rear-view mirror. but you have this cluster. >> and for kasich, the question is -- he may do well here, but where is he going to do well afterwards? it's hard to see him doing well in south carolina or the super tuesday states. and he does not have the kind of organization that he's built that could actually compete for a national campaign. that is the one thing that jeb does have going for him, while he has burned through a lot of money -- >> it's why ted cruz's campaign is quietly cheering for jeb bush. the ultimate representative of the establishment. but cruz's folks are cheering for jeb here in new hampshire because they want jeb, and more importantly, they want jeb's super pac to keep going to south carolina and keeping its fire on marco. >> we know there are a lot of evangelical tea party members in the south.

i want to thank the president of the american nurses' association and the president of washington state nurses' association for endorsing me today. i am so proud to be endorsed by the nurses of america. and i want to thank all of the elected officials who are here with us. i particularly want to pay tribute to this great high school, a great, great high school. you know, raniar beach is not only the champion of basketball, it's the champion of the international bacularete and the great results that the students are getting. it makes me so proud to know what this school is accomplishing and i will tell you if i'm so fortunate enough to be your president, i want to be a partner with principals and teachers and students and families like the ones here at the beach. [cheers and applause] >> i'm also very grateful to all of our volunteers who are working to hard in this campaign across this great state and you're knocking down barriers, you're building ladders of opportunity, you're helping us make the point that this campaign is about both growing and sharing the promise of america. we are

because all the money in washington and all the lobbyists in washington wanted amnesty. if you look at the special interest, amnesty, they it's its great, it's cheap labor. and, by the way, the way we won these fights is that i stood up and tried to shine a light on them, shine attention on them and empower the american people. rubio/schumer amnesty passed. it was headed to the house it pass. john boehner intended to take it up, pass it with all the democrats and a handful of republicans, roll over about 200 house republicans. and i stood with jeff sessions and steve king and we took the case to the american people and what happened is millions of american people rose up, lit up the phones to congress and said don't do this and we dedee feated the rubio/schumer amnesty bill in the house. in the world of washington, that's considered unlikable. when republican leadership -- i wrote a book last year called "a time for truth "oup. the opening chapter desights the inside story whachd on the debt ceiling, where republican leadership wanted to make it easier for harry reid to

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typical politician. 70% of voters voted for an outsider candidate or someone who has never been in washington. they're tired of politicians. jeb bush says he's tired of politics too, but he's the stereotypical politician, so it's a confusing ad. >> do you think that was effective? >> i think it was very effective. one of the very best i've seen. this has nothing to do with political correctness. what donald trump said about john mccain and p.o.w.s, that's what turned me at that moment. i think this man is unfit. i think he's going to win new hampshire because there isn't enough time to cut into his lead. they're all fighting for second place. but frankly, that stuff isn't going to sell anymore now that voters are looking at these candidates more carefully and more closely. i think the ad is very effective and could cause some problems for donald trump. >> i'm wondering if you're looking at the outcome of iowa -- you saw that ad with jeb bush. the other candidates are saying hey, maybe we can slay the dragon. is it going to make a dent in donald trump's armor? >> the reason the result in iowa

, we're sick of washington. that is why they rejected jeb bush so quickly. there is no doubt about it, he has a teflon-type quality. a lot of things he said would have killed the careers of other politicians. trump thrives on controversy. he's not politically correct. the time is right for trump on the republican side. is it the right time for him in the general election? remains to be seen, don. >> van, why do you think that trump voters at least last night didn't seem to care if he had disavowed or not? maybe it was too new in the news cycle. maybe it just doesn't matter to them. >> i agree that some of them maybe it didn't matter and they made other choices. i think you have some pain in the country morning downwardly mobile variety voters. they feel we don't have a naacp to speak for us, we don't have a champion. we're out here, we're getting pummelled every day economically -- >> and donald trump is that champion. >> they look maybe he can be our champion. you have a lot of downwardly mobile white voters th

it was disappointing to republicans in washington. i spoke to two senior republican official who hoped that new hampshire would almost narrow the republican field and a party would able to quickly coalesce behind an alternative to donald trump and that alternative being marco rubio. we saw a wave of support come his way after iowa. but what the real fear is now in republican circles is this fight for are the establishment lane, the fight to be the donald trump alternative is going to last weeks and weeks and weeks. what did this mean for the bush and rubio campaigns going forward? they don't believe -- neither of them believe that john kasich present as serious threat in south carolina given that the electorate there is much more conservative than john kasich, who ran as a much more moderate candidate. both of them see each other as their biggest threat going forward. expect the race between bush and rubio to get much more intense in the come beiing weeks and wh that does for the fight against donald trump really throws that in disarr

that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors -- >> the bottom line, this notion that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing -- >> there it is. there it is. memorized 25-second speech. there is is t is, everybody. >> here's the response. i think anyone who believes that barack obama isn't doing what he is doing on purpose doesn't understand what we are dealing with here. this is a president, this is a president who is trying to change this country. >> oh, boy. hard to come back from this. and the boston herald ran with it. choke. it takes you back to the drinking of the water moment. >> yeah. i mean, we're chattering a lot about this. but when you look at the google search trends, 538 did an article about this. actual viewers spike -- the interest spiked when he talked about his pro life position. that was two, three times as many hits as when this exchange was going on. so may

the general election because the most p populous counties in virginia, those populous counties near washington d.c. tend to lean democratic. same for the counties in and around richmond, virginia. plus the counties in the tide water area, they tend to lean democratic. in 2012 president obama was able to beat romney. in 2008 obama beat mccain. virginia a real microcosm of how the country votes. blue collar voters in the central and southern part of the state. it really is a diverse voting population here. that's why we're paying so much attention to polling stations like this one. we've seen a lot of people come through here this morning. it's going to be a pretty steady flow until the polls close. >> all right. thanks for the mini political science lesson. much appreciated it. reporting live in virginia. despite the virginia governor calling the state clinton country, clinton is still working the crowds and leaving nothing to chance. virginia is a swing state. and come november, things could be different in a clinton versus trump race. let's talk about that with douglas wilder. he was also the

american people, want to talk about the clinton corruption, changing washington. why can't he dispolice himsecip to not take the bait. >> can't let it go. feels he's wrong but can't let it go. you heard a little kellyanne interjecting, it's not excusing what i said. you heard that. >> relatively disciplined trump. the fact that was the most newsworthy bit from that interview is thin for the outrages we've come to expect when he's really off the cuff. the fact is he can't just avoid doing himself harm turning this thing around. he has ho become a completely different person and win over people who don't like him and interviews like that don't accomplish that. >> and sometimes when he speaks, clearly a guy who's never run for office anymore and charming and appealing to voters in ways he doesn't speak the language of washington but sometimes speaks as if you're saying the 1940s and '50s called want their candidate back. donald trump talking about the problems in america's inner cities. >> we're going to work on our ghettos, so that you take a look what's going on wh

it is rare, we look at both races and we speak the three least-spoken words in washington, i don't know. so you look at this as a classic case in both races. and let's start with the republicans. passion versus organization. that's a cliche that's often used, but i think it's very true in this case. if you're in iowa on the ground, there's no question trump gets the big crowds. trump is intriguing people. democrats are at his rallies, independents, people never voted in a caucus. ted cruz has the traditional iowa evangelicals, the home-schoolers, a huge and sophisticated organization. who's going to win? >> you know, when you talk to trump supporters, they'll even tell you if they don't know if people are going to show up. there are people volunteering for phone banking or volunteering to take lists and they're not getting any lists. you're absolutely right. it is nontraditional, and trump may be relying on his celebrity to get people out. when you look at some of the cross-tabs, 71% of trump supporters say their minds are made up and they're going with their guy. again, we'll have to s

i'm brianna keilar in washington. meet you back in an hour. "smerconish" starts right now. >>> i'm michael smerconish, so it begins, 2016 a year in which we'll elect a new american president is finally here. not even the skies over the historic rose bowl were immune from the name-calling yesterday. >>> and what would happen to someone in your workplace if they sent an office e-mail like this? that's what some prosecutors and judges have done in my home state of pennsylvania where we call it it porn game. >>> plus, this weekend, we begin to say good-bye to "downton abbey." the show's creator lord julian fellowes will be here

this is the china shop, washington, d.c., they want to send the bull in and break everything. >> if you talk to voters, i talk to a woman when i was in iowa, and she said, she felt that donald trump was crazy. might get us into another world war. but she liked him anyway. as john said, he was a disrupter. it's amazing. a lot of these trump advocators, can make sort of a separation, with all of these things that they don't necessarily -- >> i think donald trump is to religion what ben carson is to foreign policy to a certain degree. he kind of tried to study up to say i love evangelicals, i'm like you. i get you, just the way ben carson -- >> let me wiki them. let me do a little google search. somehow it doesn't on that particular front, it doesn't come across as authentic. we saw it in randy kay's piece. before this voter. >> leading the polls. among evangelicals. >>> a lot more to talk about. we're going to look at a number of things. democratic bat until iowa, by the numbers guide coming up next. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes f

here in washington d.c., republican friends of mine are in angst. it's like an inverse choice. they don't want trump and they don't want cruz and they're trying to decide which is the lesser of evils. it's a moment of hand ringing for them. neither happens to be the establishment's preference, but there are arguments for and against them. >> so scotty wins. you can have both. >> i like it. mr. trump is not on a diet. he can have his cake and eat it too. it's okay. >> i can't, unfortunately. >> i can't either. >> thanks, guys. ahead for us, new fallout after facing voters in a town hall in iowa sanders making some big statements about what he'd do in auchs. >> plus, three inmates missing after a daring escape. a former prisoner joins us live on what he says is unheard of in this case. today people are coming out to the nation's capital to support an important cause that can change the way you live for years to come. how can you help? by giving a little more, to yourself. i am running for my future. people sometimes forget to help themselves. the cause is retirement, and today th

i'll challenge the republican establishment, i'll change washington, not many like me. rare is the candidate to say vote for me because they don't like me. but that's the appeal. >> cruz's appeal supposed to be he was the genuine, pure bred conservative and he thought that in this election cycle that was going to be popular, that was the key to his success, which is he didn't compromise, he didn't work with others, he was disliked, you know, in washington. and as it turns out, people don't really care about how conservative someone like donald trump is. they care more that he tells it like it is, right? they care -- they see him as the truth teller in this, the political incorrect candidate who represents that betrayal they talk about, and their anxiety. they believe he can provide problems -- solutions that nobody else could. >> the high level of betrayal maggie was talking about. what it does suggest is, i'm not sure who is the outsider, who is the insider anymore, but cruz is the outsider, but the sense of betrayal sends a message to the party. you go to a brokered c

and there's a lot of frustration about the idea that washington is not listening to people and their every dave concerns. donald trump's candidacy for many of these voters has become a vehicle for those frustrations. and he has talked about it, whether it's been about the economy, whether it's been about immigration, whether it's national security. he has not offered real substantive positions, but instead he has offered clarity. he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and offered really simple recommend dips. >> a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe he could it it, that he to have more substance, that the people in the republican party misjudged the anger of the people. >> and they really shouldn't have. >> absolutely. >> go ahead, kellyanne. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the front-runners, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015, what do they all have in common? they were the outsiders challenging the establishment. so cruz and trump are still doing that as the outsiders and they have a coal

in this campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and about wall street. now, senator sanders and i both want to get secret unaccountable money out of politics, and let's remember, let's remember, citizens united, one of the worst supreme court decisions in our country's history, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign. a right-wing organization took aim at me and ended up damaging our entire democracy. so, yes, you're not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me. we also agree -- we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to once again threaten main street, and i will fight to rein in wall street, and you know what, i know how to do it. so when i tell you no bank could be too big to fail and no executive too powerful to jail, you can count on it. now, the real differences in this race are truly over how do we create a future of prosperity, opportunity, and security for all of us? we need to build a growth and fairness economy with higher wages and more good-paying jobs includin