daevyo. an f tcng amdawel e u ai xtuny. ratimuc) your media schedule that day. try to paint a picture for you folks. 5:45, 6:00, 6:30, 9:00, 10:00, cnn. is that the busiest press day you've ever had? >> absolutely. and you might ask me if i would ever do that again. >> would you ever do that again? >> yes! it was fantastic. [ laughter ] >> happy to do so. obviously -- high, high demand for her polling in the caucuses, and since then we had the iowa caucuses and just had the new hampshire primary. both had results we'll be talking about on this episode with some presidential candidates, some strategist that is you've never been before, as well as catch up with one of my favorite people, all that and more on another exciting episode

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a week ago were the iowa caucuses. talk about your poll in regards to the caucuses and what happened. >> well, i looked up those edamology of the word, caucus. it basically mean, impossible to know. while i've known that intellectually for a long time it all sort of played out. if you look at the caucus on paper you would say, well, there no way you could accurately poll that. it's a very small group of people. you can change your mind. you can register to vote on caucus day. you can be 17 on caucus day, and, oh, at our best we can accurately predict what people walk into the room intending to do, but things happen. so my conclusion was that it was donald trump to win. >> okay. >> oh, i'm sorry, donald trump

>> okay, yes, he did. >> and you know. that we kind of knew that the turnout was big on the democratic side, a very close race. and perhaps even a standard victory. that we saw coming. the extent with donald trump had not put a ground in place. in iowa we like a ground game, and you need to get people to show up. and by the way in the caucus room you need somebody who is designated to speak to on behalf of your campaign. and that's part of the agenda that a representative of the candidate will make a final -- there was no trump representative. >> oh, really? >> caucus 101, he failed. [ laughter ] >> failing. >> so we finished polling friday night, and those things, a lot of those things happened afterwards. so one more point -- in my

delivered the data i said, if you didn't look at the horserace you would say ted cruz is winning. there's an undergirding of support for him that the horse race didn't show. it showed donald trump with a solid lead, so i'm no longer the gold standard lady. [ laughter ]

welcome back to "roske on politics." here a java joe's. back to caucus results. there was a little bit of a -- this year. i think it's okay to say that on television, but you mentioned an interesting point. when it's this close is when it comes out. >> that's right. there's always messiness in almost everything that gets done, and you just never know it until something gets really close and the white hot spotlight is shown and the numbers come together. most of the time it doesn't

>> the democrat turnout for the caucuses was -- call it eyelid thin as close as you could get, basically. i chatted on the other side of the ticket -- [ indistinguishable ] i chatted with him at the fox debate that was here a week ago, but specifically about the caucuses. i have been shown to clip to some people, and they think it is the best defense of the iowa caucuses. >> we got more than one ticket out of this state. you know, third place is going to be very important. if you're in 11th place right now and you make a jump to fifth place you've got momentum. i think almost more important than who gets first is the fact of momentum, and do you have the momentum. we're not supposed to pick the

we're supposed to begin with an even-playing field and a neutral playing field where somebody like me is welcoming all of these candidates. i don't think in some ways iowa's role matters if we pick the evenn cial mom knee as -- nominee as much as we have given the united states a chance to look at these candidates. believing they're treat fairly and the rest of the country saying, thanks, iowa, you imid a good job. >> and finally you've been involved in iowa politics for a long time. it seems like the anti-caucus was it stronger or the way it is or is any of that criticism merited and what could iowans improve on? >> every four years someone wants what we've got.

run our caucuses tomorrow. the volunteers do. the taxpayers of iowa do not pay do that. >> i didn't know that. >> a primary in new hampshire, the new hampshire taxpayers pay for that election and the secretary of state for new hampshire runs that election. we run everything with volunteers. we've got close to a $1 million invested in this, and everybody is expected world class results working with an all volunteer force. there's a lot of states that like the idea of being first in the nation. be careful what you ask for because this is a difficult thing. what could iowans do better? show up at the polls tomorrow. i don't begrudge any of the states. i do believe, though, that on monday i think we're going to show the nation once again that

we're humble, and we appreciate the opportunity and we will give the country exactly what we want, and that is an equal

process. welcome back to "roske on politics." we're at java joe's in iowa. she's an amazing pollster, and you were on everything. you were on morning joe, cnn, you just did it all. do you enjoy doing that sort of thing? >> you know, you get into the rhythm of it. the trick is to have something fresh to say, so it's really, it's kind of a testament of how long you can stay on your game. we had a good time. >> -- [ indistinguishable ] the show has moved on from here. we just had the new hampshire primary, and i'm sure folks folks are wondering what i'm going to be doing. tomorrow i head to d.c. the next episode after that will be from las vegas for the caucuses on the 20th.

look forward to that. so, new hampshire, what do you think of this john kasich coming in second? >> isn't that interesting. i don't know yet, but i heard people saying, well, you know i have it narrowed down to three. it's hillary clinton, bernie sanders or john kasich, so there may have been -- >> you heard that, really? >> i did hear it. >> wow. >> and there may have been some movement out of the democratic side over to the republican side as a way of saying, it's this kind of politician that we're looking for, this kind who can work across. he's a credible politician, he's been a governor. he wants to work across the aisles. he was saying a lot of things that resonated to a very independent new hampshire and he earned it. >> during the town hall last night someone asked you what one event was that had a great impact on your life, and you told the story of your parents.

tell that story real quick because it really struck me last night. >> well, it's not a story that i really like to broadcast. my parents were killed by a drunk driver, and it forced me to examine my whole life and my relationship with the lord, and it's fundamentally changed me in positive ways and it really gives me credibility to really understand people who go through terrible traj -- traj gees. -- my parents didn't die in vain, their son got to be a better man.

i've always been a strong -- it didn't change any of my decision making. what it really did was just make me a more sensitive to the problems that other people have, and secondly i have a greater perspective, in my opinion, because i know there's a life yet to come. and i have a sense of what's expected of me, so it's more personal than it has anything to do with being an elected official or -- so i wouldn't say that, but i think it -- look, i mean, why would i even talk about it now because some people who are watching have lost a spouse, have lost a child, are going through some really painful things, and i've always found, and everybody has to find their way, but i've always found

many perspective and when you know that there is a power greater than us that's in control it gives you a certain perspective. as i said last night, it doesn't take away the pain. it just may give you a little perspective, and my message is, get it out and the sun will come up. if you ever kind of were somebody that was a faithful person, whatever religion you're in, this is a time to try to rely on that. and if you don't even have it, if you've lost it for many

back. governor john kasich second in new hampshire as you probably know. trump and sanders won gop. sanders won by 50,000 votes. >> and his margin with younger

in iowa. >> unbelievable. so congratulations to donald trump and bernie sanders on their new hampshire win, but, again, we're going to be heading down to nevada for their caucus. they also have a caucus. you said you got a phone call? >> i did. i got a call from a las vegas reporter wondering about why nobody was polling in nevada ahead of the caucuses like they were polling in iowa before our caucuses, so we had a walk through of how many people actually show up. it's tiny. it's a very small group of people who show up for the caucuses. they've only been doing it since 2008, so they don't have the culture that's there. it's a big state. it's a very diverse state. in terms of the proportions of citizens old enough to vote it's kind of a little lopsided, so as a pollster you look at all of this and you say, hm, so i need

segment of people. they just -- it's just not pollable. >> wow, well there you go. learn something on the show. welcome back to "roske on politics." happy to be chatting with governor gillmore. how was the debate tonight? >> i think it went well. i think i had the opportunity to get my message out. much more importantly, talking about the key issues, this international crisis that we're facing with the terrorist organizations with the challenges we're seeing from russia, china, north korea, iran. i'm the only one who has the real credentials to deal with that. and i'm the only fact i'm the only veteran in the race, and i care about these veterans issues. i'm a board member of the national rifle association, and i feel really the bottom of my heart. i was able to get those rights out. >> i believe you mention inside

for veterans you were not going to attend. >> if you're going to be president of the united states you don't go over to another person's event that is in conflict with the debate process. i think he should be coming to the debate. i suspect maybe he will. >> how have you enjoyed participating in the iowa caucus process? >> well, i love iowa, and i campaigned in iowa in 2008 quite substantially, and i made the decision to put my resources into new hampshire, so i don't expect to show in iowa, but i appreciate the opportunity to be here and part of this forum tonight in iowa. >> so you've definitely been focused on new hampshire. how are your efforts turning out there, sir? >> i think we're making progress there. we're now for the first time beginning to reach out to a large number of people in new hampshire, but, look, the iowa process is very vital if i had had $5 million i would have participated in both. we chose new hampshire, but it doesn't reduce my admiration of the people of iowa.

during your debate, had this process with two debates going on during his cycle last time he wouldn't have won the iowa caucuses. what do you think about there being two debate stages? >> i think the format has been awful. >> oh, okay. you talking about the -- >> the undercard and main event. >> i think it's awful, it's gross and unfair, and here's why. >> people who get poll numbers get on the stage. it's unfair, and it's wrong and subjects the whole process of the nomination of the president for the manipulation of the establishment of press so, it's wrong. it could be easily resolved. take the 12 candidates and do two different forums if you chose to do six each, and it would have been fine, but the press chose the candidates that they wanted the most. they set the standards that way and it's very unfair, and it's bad for the people of the united states. >> if you were to reach the oval office what would be your key

>> the international crisis that we're facing today. the first thing we'll call the prime minister of canada and great britain and understand they have allies in the white house. i'm the only veteran in this race. and third i would deal with this culture that the president is setting up to try to remove guns from the american people because i think that it ill defines the individuality of the american people. the law and the constitution trusts the united states to have firearm rights to try to remove that diminishes the rights and a quality and citizenship of the people of the united states. >> thanks for chatting, sir. we're going to take a quick

don't go anywhere. thank you for watching another star-studded episode of "roske on politics." next week i'll be in d.c. with the great team over at roll call and a bunch more stuff, and the week following that a show from the nevada caucuses, excited about that.

as far as we just had the iowa caucuses, the new hampshire primary, any big surprises for you? >> no, this is only getting more exciting. if you love politics, regardless of what's happening as soon as it's exciting you're in. >> you know, people -- you must like sports. personally, i don't necessarily. politics has enough of the sports, horse racing to it and it's a very important thing. very happy you're watching the show. happy to have this opportunity to bring folks like anne to your tv. thanks for watching another episode of "roske on politics," thank you. >> my pleasure. >> and hope to see you right back here same time next week.

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