with the political panel today, a i want to bring in political commentators donna brazile and alex castellanos. and donna, if you look at the numbers for secretary clinton, and beyond the headline figures tlshg is data in here worrisome, and maybe more worrisome for hillary clinton as to how committed voters are as to sanders and clinton. and how many of them say they are committed, and for sanders, the democrats view him favorably 70%, and 73% for hillary clinton, and how wor risome are these polls as we get closer? >> well, as someone who has been in many, many political battles, a campaign should worry about every time a poll comes out, but don't stop focusing on the real goal, and that is to commitment to the people of iowa and new hampshire to the people who go out the vote. and these polls give you and indication that there is a weakness in the brand or the operation, and perhaps, they can figure out how to make sure to close the gap, but i have to say this about bernie sanders, he has found a sweet spot in the democratic coalition. there is a hunger for someone with the passion, and the

i'm joined by alex castellanos, who has worked on campaigns for the biggest names in the gop including the bushes, jeb and george w. mitt romney, here's ben ginsburg, former counsel to the bush campaigns and the scott walker campaign. the panel is here but let me start with you, alex. the week began with alex castellanos, famed republican consultant is briefing donors looking for people to start -- to buy into your anti-trump ad campaign and yet you found no takers. >> no takers. it's too confusing this year for the establishment. it's getting late in the game. if you disqualify trump, you could help ted cruz. the establishment doesn't want that. if you disqualify cruz, you could help trump. so a lot of the establishment is just sitting on the sidelines and i think the moment to go after either has passed. >> it's too late? >> it's too late. and it just -- it -- two-thirds of the party is in one of those guy's pocket. one-third is in the establishment lane. that doesn't auger well for the establishment going forward beyond new hampshire. >> ben, here's what i don't understand. all the

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the week began with alex castellanos, famed republican consultant is briefing donors looking for people to start -- to buy into your anti-trump ad campaign and yet you found no takers. >> no takers. it's too confusing this year for the establishment. it's getting late in the game. if you disqualify trump, you could help ted cruz. the establishment doesn't want that. if you disqualify cruz, you could help trump. so a lot of the establishment is just sitting on the sidelines and i think the moment to go after eitheras passed. >> it's too late? >> it's too late. guy's pocket. establishment lane. that doesn't auger well for the beyond new hampshire. understand. all the establishment guys began the week by beating each other, laying off cruz and trump. maybe now they'll find out trump wants to take cruz on and that might make them happy but it seems beating each other up is no way to help each other. >> it's a demolition dur biand they know one will survive, has to survive, so they have to climb over their brothers' back before they can manage to take on trump or cruz. >> let me bring in the

joining us now, rich lowry, the orchestrated effort to take dow the billionaire and republican alex castellanos, campaign strategist too bob dole, george bush and mitt romney, who thought about blocking trump >> rich, is ted cruz correct there, you saw that interview with george, has donald trump become the establishment candidate? >> yeah, the reason, martha, we did this issue, we wantmd to make two issues. number one, donald trump is not a conservative. and two, we wanted to make the point, not the so-called establishment that's opposing trump, in fact, as we speak, you have elements of the political accomplishment among republicansns hiding under their desk, figuring out how they can co-op or deal with donald trump. we want to win this election. we want to do it with a consecutive and we think we can. >> rich, you wrote this morning, this is what national review exists to do, to plant the flag for conservativism, have you missed your chance, has trump >> i object the notion because he's at 30% at the polls. this thing is effectively over. look, w knew we could get a lot of blowback from this

with me, alex castellanos, founder of new republican.org. democratic strategist and cnn political commentator van jones. national political columnist for yahoo! news matt bai and alex stewart. alex, i want to start with you, i saw you furiously taking notes during that interview, what do you make of that? >> i think the good doctor's campaign needs a doctor. and that's important for a couple of reasons. he was the cap on ted cruz. and as he's diminished cruz's unleashed. not very healthy for the republican party. but carson is still the sole of the republican party. he's kind of the moral and spiritual leader. that's an important thing. but once consumers buy a product, take it home, try it, and then decide, not happy with it, put it back on the shelf, they're not likely to go back and buy it again. it's going to be very hard for dr. carson medically revive your campaign. you were the communications director for mike huckabee, you stepped down. >> ben carson has had a tremendous record. he had a phenomenal start in the presidential campaign,