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joining me on the phone is nbc's benjy sarlin.s interesting to me to listen to the themes that jeb bush is pressing today, saying we don't want to roll the dice on somebody who's untested. he's trying to sell experience here. i'm wondering how much experience matters to a republican electorate that seems so enamored with outsider candidates right now. and also when he presses this experience theme, he's reminding voters how long he's been on the political stage. he was governor of florida, 10, 20 years ago, almost. >> exactly. the big problem for jeb bush and it's been this way the entire campaign, that his experience and family connections are a double-edged sword, but at the same time, they're what keep him trapped in this kind of establishment view, to many republicans, and when they really seem to want something else, even something radically different like ben carson or donald trump with no experience at all. jeb bush talked about how he was an agent of change in florida and presented his record as someone who showed up and s

. >> benji, open that door right now! >> cruise takes on one incredible stunt after another, including an underwater sequence that is literally breathtaking. >> you have to get through 12 feet of concrete and 70,000 gallons of pressurized water without any metal. >> no oxygen tanks. [ inhales deeply ] >> these scenes are challenging for the actor and the filmmakers. >> underwater photography is extraordinarily difficult and time consuming. it's dangerous. it's slow. >> the crew built a huge filming tank, and each shot was carefully planned so they knew what it was going to take to capture the underwater action. we realized very quickly that tom was going to have to be holding his breath for a very long time. >> normally in underwater sequences, people hold their breath for 10 seconds, 15 seconds max. so, i had to prove to everyone that it was actually safe. >> cruise and his co-star rebecca ferguson went through military-style training. >> basically what i'm doing is taking tom and rebecca through a breath-hold special op

benji political reporter with msnbc. candy carson the wife of our speaker. [applause] thomas, a washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune in the vice president of the national press club next a george washington professor and former president of the national press club. kevin, the managing editor of the "washington post" gabriel, the national political correspondent for "politico". jasmine, the correspondent for the kuwaiti news agency agency, and the director for strategic communications for the data quality campaign. [applause] i also want to welcome our other guests in the room today and our c-span and public radio audiences. also those watching the live stream bed you can follow the action on twitter. #npclive the purpose our speaker today has never served in congress or as the governor of a state or in any elected office of any kind. he did tell me -- [applause] he did tell me he was elected to the yale board but that is as close as it comes to any public office. this is one of the reasons his supporters say they want him to be the next preside

benji political reporter for msnbc, candy carson the wife of our speaker. thomas bird the correspondent for the salt lake tribune and vice president of the national press club. george washington university professor and former president of the national press club. kevin merritt of the managing editor of the "washington post." gabriel, the national political correspondent for politico, yaz mean is the correspondent for the news agency as the director for strategic of the strategic communications for the data quality campaign. [applause] i also want to welcome our other guests in the room today in our c-span public radio audiences. i want to welcome the audience watching the live stream on the website press.org and doctor use the hash tag #npclive. while the speaker has never served in congress with the governor of the state or any elected office of any kind he did tell me he was elected and that gets applause he did tell me he was elected to the office and that is the closest it comes to being elected any kind of public office and this is one of the reasons

is on, i gotta get my girl do you see the rays coming from my eye, what could you be a friend that benji man that's breaking them down me and my white short shorts and i can't seek a lot, any canine will do i'm figuring that's why they call me faithful, cause i'm a man of the land, when they see me they do who let the dogs out who let the dogs out who let the dogs out who let the dogs out >> 2015. let's go. >> if the cops going in, they'll shut us down there ain't no way we're going back who let the dogs out who let the dogs out who let the dogs out >> here we go. turn it up. >> that's how you throw a party. who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. he went to public schools, then college, where the work fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. won election and praise as one of america's best mayors. in congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. now he's taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by over a million contributions, tackling climate change to create clean-energy jobs, fighting for li

benjy sarlin, he's political reporter for msnbc. candy carson, she's the wife of our speaker. [applause] thomas burr, he's the washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune and he is the vice-president of the national press club. myron belkind. he's a george washington university professor and former president of the national press club. kevin merida, he's the managing editor of the washington post. gabriel debenedetti, he is the national political correspondent for politico. yasmine el-sabawi, she's the correspondent for the kuwait news agency. and dakarai aarons, he's director of strategic communications for the data quality campaign. [applause] i also want to welcome our other guests in the room today and our cspan and public radio audiences. i want to welcome our audiences watching the live stream on our website press.org. and you can also follow the action on twitter. use the hashtag npclive. that's hashtag npclive. well our speaker today has never served in congress or as the served in congress or as the served in congress or as theserved in congress or as thetheser

joining me now, msnbc political reporter benjy sarlin who has been following cruz and writing about himow and the headline is how ted cruz could win the gop nomination. so how could he win the gop nomination? >> this poll just confirms what the ted cruz campaign has been saying for a while, which is that they've been quietly trying to lay the ground work for a big ted cruz surge late in the race, taking over iowa and also be prepared to win later on. there's a lot of attention paid to the flashy candidates, but they're spending their time quietly laying the ground work of superior fund-raising. they've raised more money than anyone except carson. they have an app that's competitive, by signing up more volunteers, they think they're in a good position to capitalize when some of the flashy candidates start to lose momentum. >> steve kornacki was here and was showing us the numbers of evangelicals in iowa. is he going door to door? what is it that's getting people excited about ted cruz? >> ted cruz sees himself as having outsider credibility like donald trump or ben carson, but also has m

as benji was outlining for us.untruths, and the question is, why haven't folks said, hey you are lying on this, and this of course go into the intent, doesn't it? at to the moment, trump doesn't seem to be seeing too much fallout from it still. reconstructing how the facts don't bear this out. what's interesting is how extraordinarily this does not seem to affect his popularity. there's that old saw about the more popular you are. the more coverage you get. bill cosby got a lot of negative attention but that did not help hiss popularity. in so many contexts that even got him fired from the apprentice and the tv contests and it doesn't seem to affect hiss poll numbers. >> robert our panel is here with us as well, we would like to pipe in. >> i think actually this might finally, richard, start to bring in -- it's not going to collapse entirely, because there's 15, 20, 25% of republican voters who are going to vote for him regardless. but in terms of a ceiling on his supports, it's one thing in the republican party to

. >> msnbc's benji sarlin with more on this.tial importance of the story from carson's biography and why so many people don't understand his willingness to try to shrug this off as if it's not worthy of more questioning. >> that's right. this is a latest story now looking into carson's biography. this one with west point's more potentially explosive. there's an inherent absurdity of a candidate grilled about whether he made up being a violent psychopath as a youth. there's something funny about this in terms of the legs of it. fabricating a west point scholarship is another deal. ben carson's camp, though, made a case and not a terrible one that politico oversold things a little bit with this story. they say that they never admitted to fabricated anything. their explanation of what happened is that it was more a misinterpretation of what constitutes a scholarship offer, that his understanding from meeting with rotc officials, meeting with general westmoreland is telling him to get in. but if you read the wording of gifted hands,

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benji political reporter for msnbc. candy carson, the wife of our speaker.rr, the washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune and the vice president of the national press club. myron come a george washington university professor and former president of the national press club. kevin america the managing editor of the "washington post." gabriel, the national political correspondent for politico. the correspondent for the kuwait news agency. the director of strategic communications for the data quality campaign. [applause] .. he did tell me that he was elected to the yale board, so there's an elected office, but that's as close as it comes to being elected to any kind of public office. and this is one of the reasons dr. ben carson's supporters say they want him to be the next president. he's not part of the washington establishment that so many fault for gridlock and ineffectiveness. so far on the campaign trail he's separated himself from better-funded candidates with the political experience that he lacks. recent polling has dr. carson running second