good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. will nothing stop this man? will there be a reckoning after rampaging over rivals. donald trump is doing it numerically and tops the field nationally. nothing he says seems as important as what he says with sheer downtown attitude. he sticks it to the political insider, they gulp and the country giggles like people have been waiting a long time for people to run it through the bloated statements of status quo while we list and enjoy the sound of the air blowing out of him. michelle bernard, president of the bernard center and robert costa, the reporter with the washington post. when it comes to the field, trump towers above it all. trump is jumping to second place in iowa, two points behind wisconsin governor scott walker.

in new hampshire, trump is in first place with a seven-point lead over jeb bush and kasich is in fourth place. these polls were taken before and after trump's statements and had no impact, the statements on his standing in iowa but did knock down in new hampshire. trump is on top, average of five national polls has trump leading jeb bush and leads scott walker by seven and everyone else by double digits. howard, i guess we're going into that debate next wednesday, it's just about a week off from now. this guy doesn't seem to face the reckoning yet taking on john mccain no problem. taking on everybody, no problem. it seems like he wants to fight everybody next wednesday night. >> chris, this early in the campaign, which is a campaign going full blast next thursday night, you'll see the first big moment that nobody could have anticipated. a guy who came out of nowhere, who is basically dominating not only the polls but the

conversation, who seized the sense of distrust and anger in politics, in the republican party and for now embodies it and he's the guy for whom all the other candidates are aiming and for whom he is the biggest challenge -- >> will they shoot? >> they have no choice but to shoot and if they shoot right and strong, it will be a big thing. >> robert, you got insight. >> you may want to take a shot. remember the line from the wire, you come at the king you best not miss. those candidates know there is an opportunity to challenge trump. >> what do you hear? >> if you take him on, that become as story, the battle with trump and if you're lower, perry, gram, someone struggling for political oxygen, you have to take the shot and get attention. >> he wants to win in iowa. if he wins in iowa and knocks off walker, he's the neighboring state from wisconsin, knock him off, win in iowa, go to new

hampshire and all you have to do is beat bush there. i can see a root now to early success. >> absolutely. but also, i mean, there is a root to early success and we can see why people like him. he fights back. he has no shame about saying i'm rich. he has no shame -- >> the money that a lot of people would like to have. >> he goes after democrats, republicans, journals, there is a path. herman cane was on fire at this point years ago -- >> okay, okay, this -- >> he burnt out. i believe it. >> you think he's hermann -- >> i don't think he's hermann cane but entertaining as hermann cane and do you really seriously believe there is a path to seeing a president -- >> i do. i do now. >> i don't. >> he's a hot knife through butter that's been left out for a week. >> what happens when you got one person -- >> we're not there. >> i'll tell you what, how he gets there, knocks off walker to win the western conference.

he becomes the chief right wing candidate and then goes on and faces somebody like kasich or bush or a guy and that is when the real reckoning occurs. >> we're examining -- >> i would bet on the right wing. >> we're examining him from the inside out, from politics out. trump from the outside that's society, the in and the few things about him. first of all, he knows how to ride waves and deal with the hostile media. he's done it in new york which makes the press core look like puppies compared to the ones in new york city. he is saying i'm not against government, i'm for social security and medicare. i'm not against wall street. i want everybody to be me. it's the politics of personality and he's saying i want everybody -- >> he also says -- >> you're sit income a barroom, route 40, who are you rooting for?

>> trump. they want a celebrity candidate. i caught up with trump's campaign, the candidate, he's loving this debate sitting up in the 757 plane reading article after article and relishing the moment. >> we only have one moment here. do women my top producer here things women don't like his style. they think it's brash and too much, whatever you want to call it, dismiss sieve. what do you think about women. regular white guys, white guys are rooting for him. >> he's -- >> he's sort of anti intellectual and women are taking the race seriously and think people will have problems because he's not telling us what he'll do for the country other than i want everybody to be rich and i want to be better than everyone else. >> i wouldn't if i were him, either. [ laughter ] >> one of scott walker's

fundraisers getting nasty with trump, not name dumb dumb, aka trump in the national polls. trump got wind over those comments over the weekend and didn't hold back. he slammed walker himself at a rally in iowa. >> today i read this horrible statement from his fundraiser about trump. i said oh, finally, i can attack. [ laughter ] >> finally. wisconsin is doing terribly. the roads are a disaster because they can't afford to rebuild them. i wrote this down but i don't need it because i have a good memory but they projected a $1 billion surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion. the schools are a disaster. he was totally in favor of common core. >> this is why you don't want to go after him. he has your dossier. >> not only that, he's attacking

there, he's attacking not from the tea party angle on this, part of the skill and experience of trump is he's running at these guys from different angles at the same time. >> hold up. >> criticizing walker for deficit spending. >> here is the genius in what he's doing. >> you like him? you like him now? >> this is the genius in him, every single person has come to him at some point in time begging for money and if he says they are coming to for money and advice, i can do better than all of them. >> he has surveillance tapes. trump went after walker after taking questions from reporters. >> he was up in my office four months ago, five months ago giving me an award and i like scott walker. he's a nice guy. but today one of his people hit me. i said why is he doing that? the person is a stupid person, but why is he doing that? >> most of the politicians are so careful, so many people

working don't say this and that and he sounds like it's coming out of his id. >> i spent a day with him on the plane. listed politician after politician with trump and he went, he went after every single one of them. he has, he does have a great memory. don't doubt that. he remembers every meeting he's had and he'll call you out. he is willing to take anybody on. that's why the reticent to take him on in the debate. if you're scott walker and you got to win iowa, you mess with trump, you take away your state. >> he remembers every gift he's given somebody. >> another thing is he's not reticent about attacking from every angle. if the weakness of scott walker is the roads are crappy, he'll attack him with no id logical compunction. >> he doesn't have to play defense. >> trump never streaks from a fight with the press. last week the des moines

register ran something saying it's time for donald trump to drop out of the race for president of the united states. what did trump do? denied the newspaper press deterribles. >> actually the des moines register is standing outside, too. [ cheers ] [ laughter ] >> it's a super liberal rag not respected around here. when they start writing accurately, they are welcome, but they purposely write incredibly inaccurate stories so they can come but have to sit with everybody else. [ laughter ] >> genius in the first one, respected around here is iowa talking in the newspaper circulation zone. no special breaks and the people love that. >> a big part of the anger of the people at the grass roots of the republican party is the so-called main stream media, big media and he's tapping into that

directly. he has the visibility to be able to tell those people too bad. i'm going to make news whether you're cover ever covering it or not and if i have to buy time, i'll buy time. >> speaking of which -- i got the key question, if he does well in the early outing, you can start, michelle. one of the first big three. new hampshire, south carolina. he's in the running going into march. if you have to spend money because you're all over the place, super tuesday and got a big fight, just write the checks to keep up with the money machine. will he spent time is the question. >> right now it looks like this is, i'm someone who still can't fathom this is a real campaign and about anything other than ratings. right now, though, at this moment in time he looks like he's serious. he really wants it. >> will he write the check? >> he will write the check. >> he's got a campaign manager that comes from the koch brothers network, and trump is

doing these things with ballot access but not spending money on ads. if he starts to stabilize in the poll. >> if he has $10 billion he can rip off and spend. >> he has a plane, advanced advisors. he's not spending money on ads. >> you don't know if he'll do it. >> he doesn't want to spend his money. >> trump watches -- >> bushes on the money. >> that's what bush's bet is, i have the organization. >> here is trump, he's going to carry it as far as he can without spending much money. that's the way he runs the business. he doesn't buy investments. so he's going to do that as far as he can, his day of reckoning is down the road maybe a few months. >> with himself? how much money is he willing to spend? >> yes, because after bragging how rich he is -- >> if he has to spend his own money. >> i don't think he'll walk away from the winnable. thank you-all. great panel. coming up, the right wing is throwing the kitchen sink into a

tank. while mike huckabee's reference to the hole cast is far from the only attack the obama administration is facing. >> ted cruz called mitch mccann l a liar on the floor of the united states senate, a liar. hillary clinton's war room is on high alert after the reports on e-mails, the question from me is what is it about? let me finish with the chance this country's republican voters are a revolt this is "hardball," the place for politics.

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welcome back to "hardball." the rhetoric for the nuclear deal with iran is heated but comments from mike huckabee related to a hole cast took it to a new level. >> this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he would trust the iranians and take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the

oven. >> president obama responded today at a press conference in ethiopia. >> the particular comments of mr. huckabee are, i think, part of a general pattern that we've seen that is, would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. we've had a sitting senator call john kerry ponchous pilot. we had a sitting senator that is running for president significant just that i'm the leading state sponsor of terrorism. these are leaders in the republican party. >> late today, mike huckabee appeared on fox news and said he would not apologize. >> if we don't take seriously

the threats of iran, then god help us all. the last time it's chamberlain all over again. we trust everyone will do the right thing. three times i've been there, i've stood at the oven door and for the president to say the options are have a war or take the deal that got nothing. we didn't get hostages out. we didn't get a concussion they would stop the rhetoric about wanting to wipe israel off or stop chanting death to america. we got nothing. >> joining me right now is the whitney sherman, a lead negotiator of the iran deal, madam secretary, thanks for being with us. the great thing about israel, you can debate. there is a country that takes different positions. this guy is accusing anybody that disagrees of being a hitler right.

>> it's quite depressing and sad because these are serious issues, these are serious threats and actually, governor huckabee should listen his words. he said we should take the threats seriously and that's what president obama secretary kerry, have done. take them seriously and make sure iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon. that's what we've got and important here. >> what do you make of the opposition? people like mike, the foreign ambassador of israel, if you vote against it you're not doing belut american interests. threat out united states and the wildness, worst thought hellish predicts, phrases like that amaze me. what are they talking about? >> what they are talking about and what is serious is people are concerned about what iran is doing in the middle east, activities, instability. the state sponsorship of terrorism but imagine an iran

with a nuclear weapon, how much more power it would project, what a deterrent it would be. so we don't want iran to have a nuclear weapon and that's what we have to be about. what i wish people would do is stop the high sounding rhetoric, the good five second sound byte that might work well on tv and talk about the facts because this deal stops all the pathways to material for a nuclear weapon. >> as the president mentioned, governor huckabee's comments are part of a again real pattern, right wing opponents going to extreme lengths to villainize it. this isn't diplomacy, this is appeasement and others warned of dire consequences, as well. let's listen. >> it's a matter of months until we see a situation where other people feel they have to defend themselves by requiring their capability and that will put us closer to actual use of nuclear

weapons than we've been at any time since world war ii. >> it is catastrophic if it goes through it will result in funding terrorism. it will endanger the lives of americans. it will endanger israel. >> you've created a possible death sentence for israel. this is a deck collar ration of war against sunni arabs. this is a dangerous irresponsible step i've ever seen in the history of watching the mideast. >> this deal is fundamentally flawed. i believe it weakens the national security and makes the world a dangerous place. >> president obama gave away the story of the iranians to a group of people who have been chanting death to america. this was negotiated so badly you wouldn't let this president buy a car for you at a car dealership. >> i notice the opponents pulled back from pushing for bombing iran. we heard that all the time and senator mccain, we certainly a patriot would be out there saying bomb, bomb iran, now part

of strategic debating, what is the alternative? if it's not to have to blow up the facilities, what is their alternative? i don't know what it is. do you? is there an alternative? >> i don't see an alternative that i've heard that makes any sense. that's what the president said. some people said keep sanctioning them to death but quite frankly, we were able to negotiate this deal because all of the world and the p 5 plus one, the five, six countries working with us wanted to do this deal, came together to agree to this deal. if we unilaterally pull out of it because congress votes it down, we can't sustain a presidential veto, the rest of the world -- >> i will be the tough guy here. was the problem, you couldn't get tougher with the deal, was the problem you couldn't keep allies together to keep it tougher. >> our deal was tough. >> what would you have to have done. >> it would have been able to do

something the bush administration couldn't do and that is to say iran couldn't enrich uranium at all or have a civil nuclear program and the bush administration that tried that and willing to give normalization return, we're not willing to give normalization relations got turned down by iran. the real breakthrough here was to say like other countries around the world, there could be a very limited, very constricted, highly intrusive monitoring and verification regime to make sure that this was really a peaceful new clear program. this intrusive monitoring is going to go on for not just ten years, 15 years, not just 20 years, not just 25 years but for the lifetime -- >> will it be safe to immigrate to israel after the deal as before? >> i believe so. no president has backed israel security more than president obama. every president has built on the last president and we have the whole other package ready to discuss with prime minister

netanyahu as soon as he's ready. i have to tell you, chris, throughout the negotiation and two years israeli experts at the working level with the approval out prime minister have helped me, helped my team, have helped secretary kerry by providing their expertise, their know how, very knowledgeable, tough, validate ideas so i'm appreciative of the expertise and sorry at the end of the day they made the choice. >> do we have the firepower if this falls through to use military action to blow up facilities? >> of course we do. iran knows how to do the entire nuclear fuel cycle. you can't bomb away knowledge. the sanctions got iran to the table but never got rid of the program. >> my argument for the deal is that if you get three, if you blow up everything over there and back in three years, here you have ten. >> at least. >> thank you, thanks for your service to the country. up next, we go to ethiopia, donald carrying his message

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welcome back to "hardball." president obama was received to kenya like a long, lost son. those who wanted to derail the president's political career said he was born in kenya. the president joked about that one. >> i suspect some of my critics back home are suggesting i'm back here to look for my birth certificate. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> that is not the case. >> still got that smile. in 2011, it was birther in chief donald trump that tried to make the accusation stick.

>> his people in the united states don't know what hospital, his relatives don't know what hospital. the fact is, if he wasn't born in this country, he shouldn't be the president of the united states. >> the political dirt ball in this country didn't start yesterday. >> it's been interesting when you look at what's happened with mr. trump when he's made some of the remarks that, for example, challenge the heroism of mr. mccain, somebody that endured torture and conducted himself with patriotism, the republican party is shocked. i recognize when outrageous statements are made about me that a lot of the same people who are outraged when they are made about mr. mccain were pretty quiet. >> joining me right now chris

jansing. do they get this thing in africa, some of the strangest people out there saying the president was actually born in kenya and shouldn't be president because of it. >> reporter: well, they know the issue, chris, at least the small circle of people that talked to and particularly in kenya, they would take the suggest that somehow the president was dishonest. he's got an 80% approval rating there of people who think he wants to do right in the country. they know his story. they know where his father came from and what he did and his grandfather did. for them it's not an issue. it didn't make headlines. what is interesting is they know about donald trump and small sample, not scientific but often treated in a very joking way and tonight, the president went to see the bones of lucy, the most famous fossil, and so he's

talking to the ethiopian and making a point and paused and said even donald trump. the president got a good laugh out of that. >> the irony as we descend from africa, the human race does, the same sex issue, we have our cultural evolutions over here as we know of rather rapidly towards same sex rights and same-sex marriage, in fact, in the courts. how is that going over when he travels with that cultural output there in africa? >> he's taking it carefully. in senegal and brought up the same-sex issue, he got a tremendous amount of push back and the lead up to this trip, there were african leaders making all sorts of suggests to him he shouldn't bring it up, don't talk about it. a short time ago i spoke to a

couple senior white house officials who have been with him in the meetings with the leaders and he said he also brought it up very respectfully there but i think it's worth noting, chris, when he went into that stadium yesterday with all those kenya people so crazy about him, it got only a passing mention. he knows that there are cultural issues here, religious issues that make this a very difficult push for him or anyone else who wants to push lgbt under the umbrella of human rights. it will be a slow process. they are closer to the leaders in africa than president obama, however popular he might be here. >> chris jansing in africa. up next, ted cruz calls mitch mcconnell a liar. you're watching "hardball" the place for politics.

we now know that when the majority leader looks us in the

eyes and makes an explicit commitment, he's willing to say things he knows are false. >> welcome back to hardball. ted cruz in a war in establishing over it started friday when cruise the republican senator and candidate for president called his colleague the boss, mitch mcconnell a liar. cruz said he struck a deal and told him otherwise. here is cruz. >> the majority leader looked at me and said there is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal. what we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every republican senator but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie. >> a lie, he's called the republican leader of his caucus a liar despiting the allegation in the special session yesterday on sunday, senator mcconnell said he didn't need a deal to allow the measure to advance.

>> when there is overwhelming bipartisan support for an idea, even if i oppose it, it doesn't require some special deal to see a vote occur on that measure. >> cruz' charged earned him a strong rebuke accusing him of grand standing for the benefit of his presidential campaign. >> regrettably in recent times the senate floor is a forum for pat messages and a tool to advance personal ambitions and a venn view to promote campaigns and the senate floor has become a place where senator haves singled out colleagues by name to attack them in personal terms and impugn their character in disregard of senate rules. >> cruz slammed his party on twitter.

it reads there is a profound disappointment among the american people and we keep getting leaders that don't do anything they promised. it's time to change that and break the washington cartel. i'm joined by michael, ann garron and richard. i want to start with this. to me it's theater. >> theater. >> street theater. the purpose is to compete with donald trump. this guy wants to be donald trump's successor on the wild right. you know, building a future by calling the leader a liar. that's about getting out of there quickly like next year in the presidential election. >> i think you're right. they are fighting to be the next donald trump but too bad nobody can bead the donald. donald has a plane, ted cruz doesn't. donald has money, ted cruz doesn't. >> something is at steak, called the united states congress. those words should be taken down. you don't talk about a guy or girl's motives.

you don't say somebody is no good or call them liars. there is a reason why they call mr. gentle man from this and gentle lady from that. >> you saw the shock from republicans when this started to unfold. they couldn't believe ted cruz was saying what he was saying about mitch mcconnell and there was backlash. that does not come without cost. they shut him down on the senate floor on sunday and they will continue to shut him down. >> he's tapping into anger among republicans, not independents. >> not building a few number in the senate. >> anyway, lover of politics and advice and we'll move and senator shunned by the majority, let's watch this scene. >> tolerate prejudice and

anything. that's what this is for but you've dishonored us. >> mr. bender of california. >> no, what i did was for the good of the country. >> fortunately, our country always manages to survive patriots like you. you could introduce a resolution but we don't want the tired am mission whatever it was so we let you stay if you want to. >> wow, ann, press lovers of the senate in the glory days in the movies, he fits, this is like cruz trying to play the bad guy. >> yeah, i mean, cruz is trying here to, he knows what he's doing. he's punching mcconnell in the nose for a reason. the theory is that plays well with exactly the voters he's

trying to talk to. >> he's calling him a liar. i never -- i'm sorry, i have never seen a guy call a senator, senate lead a liar. you don't say sorry, let's be buddies and have lunch. it's over there. >> mcconnell is going to have a long memory. again, shut him down on sunday and he'll continue to do that if he sees. >> richard, back to your point this is another way to beat donald trump. it's on tv. maybe the battle is on the tube and he's getting on the tube, using the senate, you know, to get him on television, which is to get him back public so when cruz sees donald trump flaming out, he steps into his place. >> this is inside baseball. we care about it within the beltway. outside the beltway, people don't care. >> don't use phrases like inside the beltway here because you won't be inside the show again. this is one of my favorites,

respond to this, there is something unsalingly about cruz following trump around like a lost puppy hoping to get leftovers when he finally flames out and i think that's what cruise is doing here, ann. >> that's funny but true. he would like to be the inheriter of this national wave of anger that is fueling trump and he's betting that trump will flame out at some point. he's also really, really trying to get in and make as you were he's part of the first debate, which has got ground rules that might exclude him if he's not, if he doesn't start pulling better. >> by numbers -- >> he'll make the debate but chris, chris, do you think that ted cruz is really bothered by this? >> no. >> do you think that upsets him? >> no, there are rules. there are rules and he's broken them. >> and he said something about kemp and a bunch of guys and a huge story and the other side won that fight. they won. asleep because they are supposed

to stop this. >> cruz' base -- >> like a referee in an nba game. >> cruz' base in texas will be with him. >> that's commentary. i shut you down. out shoot me here? >> no need to out shout. two different ways to operate in the senate, operate as a younger senate, make coalitions and partnerships or be like ted cruz and you'll be the whining kid in the corner. >> so you're progressive. >> the round table is staying with us. back to the outrageous comments from mike huckabee about the door to the holocaust, the nuclear deal with iran will take israelis and march them to the door to the oven. nice terminology there, huckabee, and this is "hardball" a place for politics. ne of those bargain paper towels. but the roll just disappeared. bounty is 2x more absorbent so one roll lasts longer. bounty. the long lasting quicker picker upper.

skeptical about a possible third party domination should trump not win as a republican. here is what pribus had to say. >> i don't see that happening. i think everyone understands that if hillary clinton is going to get beat, he's going to get beat by a republican. >> i don't know what that means. trump can run. for trump's lead in the polls, he believes the billionaire is touching a chord with americans frustrated with washington. we'll be right back.

back with me, the round table. i want to get back to mike huckabee's over the top critique of iran. many made comparisons to the holocaust but huckabee took it to a new low. >> this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he's so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> you know, i don't get it. the great thing is i have been there not many times but in israel they are open to debate. you can be at peace now with the crowd.

you can have different points of view. disagree with the netanyahu approach without people accusing you of being a nazi. what is it about our culture? we can't discuss the middle east without these references? >> this is a special case for huckabee. he's appealing to what he thinks is a base at home. >> evangelical christians. >> absolutely. also the money people, too. >> in that trex, too. >> absolutely. he ends up being more pro israeli than the israelis. to your point they are having a debate about this. >> what do you think, mike? >> huckabee -- this doesn't have anything to do with donald trump. he's not trying to outtrump trump. this is who he is and how he talks. i read his book last year. it's full of lines -- not quite like this. not holocaust lines but unbelievable screens about obama, hillary clinton,

democrats, jerry brown, everything under the sun. >> what moves this guy? he's like a rastafarian talking about ethiopia. israeli has strengths and weaknds. it is not perfection land. >> he leads holy land tours. this is a big teal. >> you're right. i read about that. >> he's into it but the problem -- >> why comments about hitler? >> he truly believes it. >> okay. >> it's unpress den shall but he believes it. >> this is a tough one. ten years better than nothing. better than back at it in three years. that's an argument. another argument don't trust no matter what they do. we can say we are trying to verify. it's an argument. why the arm fwed don discussion? >> i agree. >> if there wasn't a deal they would be doing it. >> i think mike huckabee is wrong. this deal slows town their ability to develop a nuclear weapon.

>> what's huckabee's deal? >> he doesn't have a deal. >> the deal is to bomb iran. >> that doesn't work. >> once the deal goes down the doors open. big fight over how fast do we go to war? >> the deal won't go town. he'll have -- >> the president has the votes. >> he has the votes. >> 46 in the house? >> got it. >> do you know something i don't know? >> i do. >> report. 34 votes in the senate? >> i think he has the votes. both chambers. at least one. >> good monday for me. on the campaign trail there was push back to the huckabee comment. hillary clinton jumped into the argument. >> comments like these are offensive and they have no place in our political dialogue. i'm disappointed and i'm really offended personally.

this steps over the line. it should be repudiated by every person of good faith and concern. >> jeb bush also went after huckabee and said he should tone down the rhetoric. >> i have been to israel, not as many times as mike huckabee, who i respect. but the use of that kind of language is just wrong. this is not the way we are going to win leks. that's not how we are going to solve problems. unfortunately, i'm not sure why he felt compelled to say it. having said that, this is a bad deal. i can see why people are angry. >> i think the eastern conference of the republican party made up of people like him, kasich, christie and walker. they see government as a responsibility. the other side sees it as a haeng for radical action, complaint, resurrection, insurrection almost. jeb still talks like that and the other guys are competing for

the other flag. >> you say it play out in the primary now. he has two wings and you have trump -- >> absolutely. >> eastern division regular normal people. western tuition, look out. >> they put scott walker in the wrong place. >> i think he wants to be considered an alternative to bush, not that guy. the other guy looks your way. sees him as a threat on the right. i think richard a welcome guest here. when we return, let me finish with this country's republican voters are in revolt. shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list now it is. we're making hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. you don't have to be a member to buy their services directly at angieslist.com but members save more on special offers.

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let me finish tonight with the potent chance that this country's republican voters are in revolt. look at the latest national polling. the average of five national polls. look how the gop establishment is doing now how the right wing is doing. not a contest. jeb bush at 14%. one vote in 7. scott walker, one in nine. chris christie 3 in a hundred. rick perry 2 in a hundred. that adds up to 30%. three in ten republicans nationwide. count the chunk of republicans being grabbed by the tea party types. 18% for trump. 16% for rubeo, paul, huckabee and cruz. 5% for dr. ben carson. 49% for the rebels. what this suggests is when this thing winnows out the winner of

the establishment league will have 30% of the vote total. the winner of the hard conservatives will have 50%. it's not even close. i don't see how the party that's pushing for these guys on the hard right are going to get excited by a ticket led by bush, walker, christie or perry. that strikes me as weak beer for the red hots. especially after they have had a few months of swigging the 100% proof of donald trump. based on the numbers there are more red hots than moderate establishment types. donald trump didn't light the fire. it was already burning when he got here. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. tonight on "all in" -- >> we would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> huckabee compares obama to hitler as the race to get on the 2016 debate stage takes on an uglier tone.

>> maybe this is an effort to push mr. trump out of the headlines. it's not the kind of leadership that's needed for america right now. >> then the polls show support among republicans for donald trump's position on immigration while jeb bush makes his case in spanish. [ speaking spanish ] plus the new york times backing off an explosive report on hillary clinton and her state department e-mails. >> the facts are clear. i didn't send nor receive anything that was classified at the time. >> and a remarkable article in new york magazine as 35 of bill cosby's accuse rs come forward. >> he was calculating, manipulative. he knew exactly what he was toing. >> "all in" starts now. fweeng from new york. i'm chris hey. an explosion of outrage and backlash against a republican presidential candidate. for once his name isn't donald trump.