john: with all due respect to scott walker, that hold back down thing? not so much. scott walker of wisconsin, the union chris seder is dropping out of the presidential race. walker's campaign says the main ise -- the main colbert money. front runner in iowa, now out of the race, what happened to him?

scott: you ride to the polls, you raise more money, you publicize how much money you ,aise, you get to the debates you rise in the polls. he did the opposite. worsening poll numbers, worsening fundraising, and horrible candidate performance. ours i believe a friend of , mississippi former governor, likes to say the good get better and the bad gets worse. there is no doubt it has been bad for scott walker for a while . once you are in that downward spiral it is hard to get out of it. we think of politics as political athleticism, are you able to play in the major league cf can you think back on 2008 when people thought mitt romney on paper was going to be the nominee. skills.have the

scott walker is in that same mold. great on paper, not great actually out there. just didn't have what it took to play at a big league level. scott: he did poorly in the first and had to do better in the second. walker gettingt inconsistent answers, not showing growth as a candidate. he could try to power through here. with the imperative to not get around is fundraising. having traveled to get other people to donate to walker. he was having trouble convincing his current fundraisers he needed to shake of his team. -- hadp had sunk some sunk so much. mark: they saw the polls going down and couldn't use a strategy to deter that.

he could have either play the establishment or played the antiestablishment game. when they decided they were going for the antiestablishment group, that is putting -- that put him in donald trump's crosshairs. scott: the final thing i will say is he has not only fallen to 10th place in iowa, he doesn't have traction in any other states. walker getting out of the race for others. room going forward, what is the impact on the other candidates of the race now? john: the bottom line is he was still in oh well. having a potential iowa caucus winner out of the race -- still in iowa.

having a potential iowa caucus winner out of the race is good. people like mike huckabee and ben carson. and people like donald trump. anybody who stood a chance in winning in iowa now has one potential rival out of their way. mark: a lot of walker supporters drizzled when i lumped him him with the established candidates get even know he was running for the to the right i still believed in the end in iowa his past success was with a lot of establishment votes. that vote is totally up for grasping at marco rubio doesn't improve their, if chris christie doesn't improve, i always -- is up for grasp. if marco rubio doesn't improve their, if chris christie doesn't improve their, it is wide open for an established figure. bush is competing there. most of the tension is not on the establishment side, it is on the evangelical side and antiestablishment side.

john: who knows what made up ling of belinda supporters out there. some of them were attracted to him for their antiestablishment tough on immigration stance, some of the things they put forward, something things on the northeast corner of the state. might have been establishment voters of the kind you were talking about. any electoral impact whatsoever of walker getting out, they do it in that one state and one state only. you can count supporters outside of iowa. them members of the ricketts family, a few others. those people are up for grabs others are bet the try to lock up their financial support. even jeb bush, who could stand to gain more money off of lockers carcass.

john: that is another win. coming up, donald trump's campaign manager on walker dropping out and much more. that, the other news, carter muslim thing.

john: law scott walker was dropping out a couple of other things were percolating. , still not apologizing for saying this weekend that a muslim should not be president. here is the original sound bite from carson on sunday's meet the press. then: i would not advocate putting a muslim in charge of this nation. some of his supporters and

staffers are fuzzing up the issue but he is not apologizing. how big of a problem is this for john carson? -- for ben carson? vaguest critique anybody can launch against ben carson is he is not qualified to be president because he doesn't know enough about the office, he doesn't have really sound policy and political views. this shows a stunning ignorance in the constitution of the united states where there is a famous clause that says there will be no religious test for the presidency and what ben carson is saying pretty his muslim is him is inconsistent with holding the office of the presidency, which is in direct contradiction with the constitution. i think that opens the door to the larger critique of him not being as someone who is up to the task of unifying the oval office.

mark: i don't see an unbecoming the nominee without substantial support. i also think the republican youy responding to this, have some candidates not respond it all. some have repudiated what carson has said. it is seen as blue mystic and welcoming and tolerant. good about nothing the party having this discussion. whetherated discussion, he is a muslim or not a muslim, all of this act to the republican party that has to grow, has to be bigger, has to be more clusive. they don't want to have this conversation, it is no good for them. mark: this turns the press against carson.

john: donald trump is still in first place. look at this change. she is up to 15%, ahead of carson now. trump lost eight percentage points between those two polls. they are both outsiders with business can -- business credentials. trump tried to dismiss the newest threat from this run -- from his front-runner status. learn what she did, she lost to barbara boxer in a landslide. she got absolutely decimated. >> why is she searching now? >> she has a good line of pitter patter.

she says the same thing over and over and over. a lot of the people didn't hear it in the debate. it is almost robotic. john: how big a threat does carly fiorina postage on -- pose to donald trump? just her pole standing but how she matches up with donald trump, and she appears to be unafraid of him. i think she poses almost as big a threat as anybody else. john: he has a strong argument to make. and others who want to criticize her tenure on hp, they have strong cases to make. barbara boxer made that case race to no senate carly fiorina is the

non-populist, non-native of business experience. that gives her an inroad with a certain establishment photo that even donald trump does not have. mark: the boxer thing was a general election in california. we are talking about a republican nomination with a much different electorate. let's see how she does within the context of the republican party running on her record. clinton is now backing in some good reviews from her performance at the new hampshire state party convention over the sunday shower first appearance since 2001 on face the nation. kicks off a health care plan rollout this week, is in the new cnn poll on the democratic side, where she has widened her lead

over bernie sanders. is hillary clinton now getting her mojo back? mojo,i'm not sure about and i'm not sure whether she could qualify for that term in the classic austin power sense. the penny finally dropped out that campaign. they knew they had to get her to a different place. she is in a different place. i don't think her problems have gone away by any stretch of the imagination. but she is handling them a little bit better, measurably better, but only a little bit better than she was at the worst of it two weeks ago. mark: for sunday show appearance since 2011. there is no doubt she has had some good new cycles. i think the strategy of having

her answer the e-mail questions over and over will work for a wild until her congressional appearance on this stuff. when she has good news cycles, it is easy to see how it is. she has such a big hole in the nomination. on the other hand i think the races frozen just a bit. john: i'm one have to see her put together a string of good new cycles. more than three or four days. i feel though she on track. again you had to be happier with where she is today than you were two weeks ago or a month ago. donald trump's can paint manager -- doldrums campaign manager is next after this.

cory, thank you for joining the

show. with scottaking news walker's decision to drop out of this race. what does this mean for your campaign for mr. donald trump? people continue to listen to someone who is a noncareer politician. most polls indicate people want an outsider, someone without a lot of elected experience. this is another indication that the government is broken. john: he has not called scott walker on the phone. he told reporters he is planning to give him a call. how much of a threat that he see scott walker over the course of the campaign and how has that changed? corey: i think many people thought he was going to be the clear frontrunner in the state of ohio what. his campaign did not perform as well in iowa as i'm sure he hoped it would be.

at the onset he was a person who was someone we thought we need to watch. the governor walker's message was not resonating and his number is defined accordingly. john: let's bring in mark. mark: do you think trump statements toward scott walker played a role in scott walker having to drop out of the race. corey: mr. trump is someone who doesn't get attacked. when he gets attacked he counter punches. as to trump was waiting for mr. walker to attack him and then mr. trump started to remind people of the bad fiscal climate that the state of wisconsin is in. i think the people in the state of philo weren't as familiar with that as the way mr. trump could have mentioned that here. john: have do you think his departure has affected the race? indication that career politicians have run on a record trying to say they have been successful in politics.

john: how does it affect the race than a? corey: he didn't have much of a basin new hampshire. you will see those individuals who are supporting scott walker. john: let's talk about carly fiorina. yours said ms. fiorina had a good life of pitter patter. you look at her and it is robotic. can you flesh out those criticisms and explain what he means by that. gives the same stump speech wherever she goes. her first phone call will be to benjamin netanyahu. that is fine. what you really want to do is take the opportunity to take a look at her record with -- her record as chief executive officer.

there have been a number of criticisms levied during her at that time. hp continued to lay off people. that is not a record of success. john: mr. trump has gone into trouble about making that gone into trouble by making one --ment that appeared sexist got into trouble by making one comment that appeared sexist. that may be opening him up to some criticism? looking at the political correctness people are tired of. nobody is calling for carly fiorina to apologize. she has made disparaging statements about barbara boxer's hair. you can't have it both ways. arena want to be in the everything is fair game. people treated her the way she should be treated. she should be treated as an

equal. i think that is what you will expect moving forward. trump's first in the polls by it he has been first in almost every state poll for weeks now. a lot of people say the way he is going to come down as he is and you fall to second and mr. trump won't be a look to handle that. do you expect to stay first the hallway? corey: i think running wire to wire is a very difficult project. you look at the poll today, he actually increased his lead two points from before the debate. carly fiorina is behind him on that. mark: do you expect to stay first the hallway? corey: is hardest day -- hard to say. the electorate is a finicky thing, make sure we have the right ideas and right messaging. what you will see as mr. trumps -- plan on how individuals

that will continue to use -- to keep us in first place. i think mr. trump has a proven record of being a success, whether it is real estate, reality television, we are in this for the long haul. i think you can expect us to be in cleveland by july. you have these two candidates in first and second place. which of those two is a greater threat? corey: i don't look at it that way. john: you have to consider one of the two of them a stronger candidates. corey: he is going to be beholden to those donors. john: you consider jeb bush a bigger threat than donald trump that either carly fiorina or ben carson? they: i think he is

possibility to continue. person whose money makes a big difference. mark: tell us the single when he is most misunderstood by his detractors. corey: he is not a detail oriented person. it is exactly the opposite of that. ton you have the opportunity talk to him one-on-one or in a small environment, he is detailed oriented. i think you will see more and more of that. john: we know this question -- --e i suggested barack obama someone's adjusted barack obama was a muslim area -- someone

suggested barack obama was a muslim. me flirting with some things that have gotten trump in trouble in the past. why does he persist in trying to raise these doubts about president obama when he knows they are just going to create a huge storm of controversy. or howi think you remove that question came to be, he is being criticized for not cutting someone off halfway through, taking the microphone away as as john mccainy did. he's been criticized for not saying stuff. john: i think if he said sorry, you're wrong, he's not a muslim would have sufficed. corey: and to the question that was asked, which was an answer about training camps.

john: he said we have a muslim in the my -- muslim in the white house. would you believe that? corey: he said some people have alluded to that. a point of discussion for significant period of time. he said some people have said that. john: your view is that he has conviction that barack obama is a trip that is a christian. -- barack obama is a christian. corey: that's for barack obama to determine and not to question mr. trumps faith. no one came to his defense last night when they called him a communist or a terrorist or a hypocrite. didn't say, let's stop this right now must support. doubt donald no trump is capable of defending himself. corey lewandowski. thank you very much.

we'll be right back.

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