she seemed to look beyond iowa and new hampshire. draping herself in president obama is part of that. let's look at south carolina for one thing. the south carolina african-american poll with fox news, 82%. bernie sanders is at 11%. that is a big gaping difference. that explains why the clinton campaign is looking past iowa and new hampshire. two of the whitest states in the country. >> exactly. that is the hillary clinton campaign argument. iowa and new hampshire are set upper effe perfectly for sander. the clinton campaign has advantages everywhere else because the democratic electricorate. sanders argument last night was everyone else will like me when i win. he is seeing iowa and new hampshire to change everywhere. that's the worry if you are hillary clinton at this point. that iowa could snowball. the clinton campaign is not giving up on iowa. she will spend three days there this week. she definitely is looking to set up an if iowa and new hampshire go badly, what next scenario. she can lean on a stronger minority population in

. >> are we going to see sarah palin campaign with you beyond iowa? >> i think so, yes. i would like to have her do that she is very supportive person. she is very, very loyal person and i think the answer is yes. melissa: be sure to catch maria bartiromo's full interview with donald trump tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. david: more on that storm over the weekened. massive blizzard, paralyzing the east coast, shutting down the u.s. government. not everybody thinks that is a bad thing. federal, state, offices closed in the nation's capitol. d.c. will seek funding from fema to help pay for the snow cleanup. i thought they were all part of the same mix. at any rate, blake burman in washington, d.c. with the very latest. blake? reporter: now the story in washington, d.c. is about the cleanup. believe it or not because of some good weather, sunshine out, it feels like some of the snow has actually melted but as you can see here there is still a massive effort underway to get the city up and running once again. i was told by somebody within the city administrator's

students from all over the world to its campus - and sending its students out, to experience a world beyond iowa. cbs 2 news reporter joy howe is ve outside mount t rcy to tell us about its international impact. joy? karen, at a time when we hear so much about political telationships with countries that are strained or cky, this school is proving that best examples of diplomacy, just by being themselves. a campus that sits on a hill - is holding up an ideaanam: everybody y smiling and its just a warm welcome you've heard of iowa nice - but mount mercy, is expanding the idea - all the way around the world. aleksei: i knew where iowa was 01.56.21 60 internationa students have come *here - even more, have l lt here to trek across the globe. catharine: we just had a number of students who got back from belize 02.45.28 taylor: 01.30 we were able to build a house for a family o 7, 5 kids and 2 parents it was an amazing experience. is it scary? yes but worth it. nate: 01.02 it's a life-changing experience. leslie: this was so outside of my comfort zone and it was amazing. nate :40 "there's so many grea

university is welcoming world to its campus - and sending its students out, to experience a world beyond iowa. mount mercy university currently has about 60 internional students enrollll, and the school is sending even more abroad to visit other places across the globe. the school's international program has been picking up steam over the last few years, and staff members hope that continues. some of the students we spoke to call the programs "life-changing" and say they are so glad they stepped outside otheir comfort zones, to experience a world beyond the one they know. the first is that they all greet you warmly and maybe it's because of the culture differences - america is a multi-cultural country. in erica, there are so many different people from all over the world. you get to meet people from all over in just one state, so you get to experience their culture and you get to impart your culture if you'd like to learn more about t e international programsmsmount mercy offers, log onto our website. police officers paid a visit to a local school today, but for good cause. students at harding

the implications stretch far beyond iowa. sue sorden supported clinton last time and will again. but sees sanders big crowds and worries. >> i came and listened to bernie. i loved his ideas, but i don't know that they are very practical. i don't know that they could be implemented. i just think hillary has been around the political block a few times, and i feel more comfortable with her. >> reporter: how does this feel versus that? >> i'm always nervous. i'm always nervous when my candidates on a little shaky ground. i was very confident hillary was going to win eight years ago. >> jeff zeleny joins us now. you spent a lot of time covering things back here in 2008. how do things feel the same or different? >> hillary clinton has learned her lessons, or they say they have, from 2008. spent almost all year building an organization and they won't be surprised again. and bernie sanders is not barack obama. no question about it. but one thing that's changed is the power of social media. bernie sanders' big crowds are because he puts something on facebook and people come. the question

bush, (r) presidential candidate) our message is one that resonates beyond iowa (vice president al gore) to the people of iowa, thank you. -- bush, versus gore. but mike huckabee won here in 2008, while eventual republican nominee john mccain came in fourth. and rick santorum edged mitt romney in 2012. and with home-state senator tom harkin running in 1992, bill clinton only registered single-digit support. (dennis goldford, drake university political science professor) iowa does not pick the president. iowa doesn't even necessarily pick the party nominee. what iowa does is reveal unexpected strengths and unexpected weaknesses in the campaigns. with a mere six electoral votes in the general election, caucus day will pretty much end iowa's 20- 16 stardom. it may also mean the end for some campaigns. but it's just the beginning of the process, of choosing the next president of the united states. in des moines, iowa, i'm karin caifa. straight ahead in healthbeat 4: we'll go along on a journey with one local doctor as he gives out free medical advice and also leads a group to better health.

but mika, we move beyond iowa. cruz has to win iowa. trump doesn't have to win iowa. if he does, it's over. but you move on to new hampshire and south carolina and we get some new polls in there, too, that seems to be even worse news for the field. >> we'll show you that. but to let you know, donald trump spent the night i believe in a holiday inn express in sioux city, iowa. >> "good mattress." >> good mattress, clean. >> yeah. >> can you imagine if this was mitt romney. i don't know, everything he does is backwards. >> mitt romney spent a lot of nights at holiday inns, too. >> but he had a car elevator and we went crazy. the world is upside down. let's go to new hampshire. donald trump more than doubles ted cruz there. 31% to 14% in the fox news poll. >> wow. >> rubio at 13%. kasich at 9%. jeb bush and chris christie at 7%. the cbs/yougov poll finds trump doubling cruise in new hampshire, rubio at 14%, kasich at 10%. in the latest reuters poll, trump nearly quadruples his opposition. 41% to cruz's 11%. carson at 10%, bush at 9%, rubio at 7%. >> let's hold that up fo

i think it will have to play out beyond iowa. iowa's only the first of 50, 51 votes here in then when we get to the convention then the territory vote. >> shouldn't that be a dagger to watch donald trump get up there and say five times i'm pro-choice. >> when huckabee prevailed and santorum prevailed, they were filling of the conservative hole in the market. this year we have a spectacular field of candidates. there's a lot more opportunity to see that support spread around. that plays a role that we haven't seen before. we will see how the abortion issue as people become educated on it in iowa plays. i think it is important in iowa. perhaps more so than in some other states. how that plays out, i think will play a significant role in the outcome next monday night. >> i want to ask you one more question about abortion. ted cruz led the fight or wanted to lead the fight to defund planned parenthood in the wake of those videos released. today a grand jury in houston, which was impanelled to i vest gait wrong doing by planned parenth

period and that is something that weighs heavily on the minds of iowans, but doesn't carry too far beyond iowa, it does? >> rep. king: no, not too far beyondndowa. it might go as far as the corn belt, but here's the distinction. the message delivered for two months was ted cruz was for eliminating the rff necessarily and that's not true. he -- iimmediately, and that's not true. he introduced a piece of a broader energy bill, and in that bill, it steps down the rff over fiefrs years. it expires at the end of five years anyway, so the question is as it would be stepped down under the cruz plan, do we have more market access under the cruz plan and ted cruz would eliminate the 10% blend wall, allow us to sell e-25 or e-30 and those things give us an opportunity to sell more ethanol that we're selling today. someone whobuilt more than half the ethanol plants in iowa estimates it would increase the masht share by 60%. i think the governor and the industry needs to stop, take a deep%breath, and listen. we have a presidential candidate whom i've worked with on this issue, the immigration issue and ot

my strong suspicion is he's probably looking ahead to new hampshire and beyond iowa. last two guys who won iowa came out and supported the ethanol subjects does. but they didn't win the elect. i could lose iowa but i could hold to my conservative credentials. >> that what you easy when oil was $145 a barrel. john: it make less sense now. we are going to run out of oil but now we are not. energy analyst jerry taylor -- taylor says if you are not willing to sacrifice children to the corn gowd won't get out of the high what primary. >> if you have a president who understands what the difference is maybe they won't be hung out to dry, that this is a transition. john: i trust the betting od. trump 66%, cruz 29% in iowa. >> branstad says they won't let the distribution come into play. they were complaining on the reform hated gasoline. john: the pollution argument is fascinating. they said this pollutes less. we have to truck it here and all that create pollution. but once government start subsidizing things, they never stop. >> you need a budget sequester. you need to cut e

>> well, it will resonate beyond iowa, but i have trouble thinking you can get elected president of theby being angry at people. which is why i think bernie is a better candidate than donald trump, because donald trump is outrageous and in your face and says things that are blatantly racist and bernie sanders does not do that. so, this is going to be fascinating. i think hillary's going to win. and as you know, i'm supporting hillary and i think she's going to win tomorrow. but, you know, bernie is a very interesting candidate because he gives a message that a lot of people agree with, no matter where they are in the political spectrum. >> do you think we can look at this as sort of a trend, a reaction to the obama campaigns, also an outsider effort, also based on trying to change the status quo? >> no. i think bernie's crowd -- i know that there's a thing, he's got all these young people and all this stuff. bernie's crowd is older, white, especially men, although he's doing well with women that are 45, who are angry because they've lost their jobs and they felt the squeeze and they don

let's look beyond iowa and new hampshire. ot forget you will have real rank-and-file democrats, not the independent, and at the polls showing more socialist than capitalist in iowa. we love when you come in because we love how spirited you are. ton: do you have any reason think bernie sanders is not physically fit to be president of the united states? david: no, i do not. fitness a physical test. david brock, thanks for coming in. coming up, robert gates, after this. ♪ there is water gate, the famous gate around the white house and of course there is robert gates, former secretary of defense and the author of this, his new book, his third book. a passion for leadership, lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. us isn the studio with secretary gates. thanks for coming in. let's talk about leadership. how did you learn to become a leader? trip -- boys in boy scout troop 522 in wichita, kansas. there's nothing to teach leaders -- leadership skills than trying to get a bunch of 12 and 13 euros to get some -- t

bush, (r) presidential candidate) our message is one that resonates beyond iowa (vice president al gore) to the people of iowa, thank you. -- bush, versus gore. but mike huckabee won here in 2008, while eventual republican nominee john mccain came in fourth. and rick santorum edged mitt romney in 2012. and with home-statat sesetor tom harkin nning in 1992, bill l clinton only registered single- digit support. (dennis goldford, drake university political science professor) iowa does not pick the president. iowa doesn't even necessarily pick the party nominee. what iowa does is reveal unexpected strengths and unexpected weaknesses in the campaigns. with a mere six electoral votes in the general election, caucus day will pretty much end iowa's 20-16 stardom. it may also mean the end for some campaigns. but it's juju the beginning of the process, of choosing the next president of the united states. in des moines, iowa, i'm karin caifa. " " " lukas: coming up.... mysterious boxes have popped up in san francisco... but what are they for? stay tuned to find out. lukas: and....the latest on the

areas of western iowa could be in store for 8-12" of snow when its all over. beyond the early week winter storm, central iowa dries out while temperatures tumble into the single digits at night and teens and 20s for daytime highs. enjoy your sunday evening! local 5 meteorologist james peterson caucus monday should be dry and quiet during the daytime hours. temperatures will be mild as well in upper 30s. monday night after 6pm in southern iowa and closer to midnight in the metro, the winter snow storm should by knocking on our door. we should start with a little rain/snow mix, then light snow overnight. 1-2" possible by morning. the snow will last through the day on tuesday, tuesday night, and wrap up wednesday morning. there will be strong winds associated with the moderate to heavy snowfall reducing visibility to near whiteout conditions at areas in the state, can expect over a half foot of snow. areas of western iowa could be in store for 8-12" of snow when its all over. beyond the early week winter storm, central iowa dries out while temperatures tumble into the s

that's an issue that's going to go long beyond iowa here. that's going to carry over into the november election in how the united states is run and whether we stand up for ourselves in the world. >> thank you both very much. >>> next, rubio, you heard him there. is he on the rise? john king next on whether marco rubio has a path at this moment all the way to the nomination. the state department refusing to release e-mails from hillary clinton. why? because they are top secret. top secret e-mails. how will this effect the campaign in these final hours? sarah palin's daughter weighs in on this. >> you rock and rollers and holy rollers pushing stroller pro-bowler with an abscess molar. when my doctor told me i have age-related macular degeneration, amd we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression. and everywhere i look... i'm reminded to stick to my plan. including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula that the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the risk of progres

he is simply not going to be able to do it once supertuesday comes around, this map goes beyond iowa and new hampshire and starnes going south but hopeful sign for sanders last night as he was in birmingham, deep south, he had 7,000 people. who would have thought a 74-year-old white senator from vermont would get over 7,000 people in birmingham. he has momentum. trish: women are a critical demographic for her to hit. how is she pairing with younger women compared to bernie sanders? >> that is a problem. a mm-hmm win in broadly especially older women hillary clinton is doing well but among female millennials, there was the usa today poll week or so ago, it should bernie sanders was doing surprisingly well, leading hillary clinton among female millennials. that is the huge problem because across the board men, women, if they are young these college students turn out for barack obama, they're going to bernie sanders that is a key part of the obama coalition. trish: i imagine feeling a little disillusioned after the last seven years. thank you. stocks erasing all of their gains today, sp

. >> i would like to have sarah palin beyond iowa.s a loyal person and i think the answer is yes. charles: tomorrow 7:00 a.m. on fox business. another billionaire, michael bloomberg dropping a lot of hints he may run for president. could bloomberg actually win as an independent? we'll discuss it next. these are the hands that build the machines, the machines that sort, stack and seal. these are the hands that keep private information private. these are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. these are the hands that dig for opportunity, identify patterns, and uncover risk. these are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. charles: michael bloomberg rocking the political vote this weekend by saying he's preparing for an independent run for president. the former mayor of new york city thinks he's got a shot and mostly if he's look at a sanders, trump sort of thing. he thinks he will pull everything out and has a path count middle. but donald trump says he would welcome bloomberg's competition. he's very oppos

somebody who admitted he i particularly to african-american latino voters because when it gets beyond iowampshire, thenmkz clinton camp believes they have a firewall with african-americanqñ voters. >> you're in new hampshire right now. hillary clinton is in iowa. debate bernie sanders roll out his health care ideas on the heels of him criticizing. what is it about bernie sanders and heck think that hillary clinton hopes to reveal of whatever she is doing? >> reporter: what she is trying to do is say the health plan as a singing payer plan is too far left, will cost too much money. this problem for hillary clinton there is a lot of people in the democratic primary who like the plan in a general election would be far more unpopular. nonetheless, in this prime carry campaign she is hitting sanders hard. >> i know senator sanders, cares about covering more people, as i do, but rather than build on the progress we've made he wants to start over from crash with a whole new system. now in theory, there's a lot to like about some of hisçñ:"z id, but in theory isn't enough. a president has to deli

hampshire, and questioning whether or not they have enough troops on the ground for the ground game beyond iowapshire. we'll get to that in a moment. for now, just in the last few moments cnn revealed a new poll in iowa that suggests bernie sanders has an eight-point lead. that would be major development because the last big poll out of iowa showed bernie sanders gaping grounds but down two points, a dead heat. if this poll says he is up, it assaults momentum on -- it suggests momentum on the sanders side. hillary clinton in addition to her husband -- hillary clinton in iowa today. look at the cnn poll from a couple of days ago here in new hampshire. very interesting. suggested 027-point sanders lead over clinton. clinton campaign says, this an outlier, no other poll here in new hampshire suggested that bi. but again, any point about iowa, whether it's 27, 15, there's a sanders lead here. poll after poll showing that, and the second number on the screen, in this cnn-dmur poll, it shows the -- hillary clinton over 60%, good news for her, but bernie sanders, 91% favorability among democrats in th

so it might change the dynamic and may impact beyond iowa. >> i have been on this program many times defending mr. trump. but there is a culmination that happens as everyone starts to get serious about the choices they make. you have this culmination of an attitude that begins to feel uncomfortable. i think that's one of the issues we are facing here. >> one of the things no one has explored is this conversion experience donald trump had from the pro abortion, pro hillary, friend of nancy pelosi to becoming a diehard conservative. i want to know, how did that happen? help us understand how you went from this point to this point in such a short amount of time. i think the average voter in iowa want to know the say thing. charles: we'll talk about the evangelical situation because that's a centerpiece of what will work in iowa and get the next gop person candidate in the white house. back to what happening right now on the ground in iowa. there is a mad dash, a mad scramble. again, ultimately, if this tilts iowa to ted cruz, if this does make a difference, people and historians will lo

we've been focusing so much on iowa and new hampshire, but beyond that, you know, march 1st really notay. >> no, it's not, and a lot of people say that's where she'll pick up steam if she loses iowa and new hampshire because they're so liberal that bernie sanders has a better chance there. but, you know, it leads to bigger question which is what happens in the generalit's between donald and hillary. if it is between donald and hillary, some people in the hillary campaign say, great, bring it on. can you imagine a match-up in a debate, for example, between donald and hillary? talking about benghazi, remember how mitt dropped the ball on benghazi during his debate with president obama? imagine if there was a question about benghazi in the debate between hillary and donald. do you think he'd drop the ball? no way, no how. sandra: she's been debating her own candidates in her own party, let alone -- >> right. well, bernie dropped the ball on the e-mails, of course. harris: that's actually turned out to be a problem for her which is one of the reasons she agreed to do this town hall the nig

. >> is he looking beyond iowa right now because we're showing our viewers the latest cnn poll of polls not doing well in iowa. is he focussing in mostly on new hampshire? >> well, no. right now he is on the road here in iowa. as you said, he has three stops today. he is going to be here right through the caucuses, and then it's on to new hampshire. >> the olden days they used to say there were tree tickets out of iowa. do you buy that? >> well, i think we're going to see a number of different -- there's a number of different contests going on here. i think we're going to do better than expected, and then it's on to new hampshire and then south carolina, and then the march 1 states. >> he tries to establish himself as the so-called establishment candidate fighting cruz, fighting donald trump. is that the way he sees it? >> absolutely not. i think that he has always been a disrupter, an innovator. he took on the interests in tallahassee, turned the state government of florida upside down, and that's what he intends to do in washington d.c. he is pushing for a strong message of conservati

a fight that goes way beyond iowa less than two weeks from today.n. >> reporter: bernie sanders looking south, including here in birmingham, alabama to try to put a hole in hillary clinton's southern firewall. he's been trying to attract support from african american voters for key for the success of a democrat. just anecdotally looking at his rally last night it was over 7,000 strong as we understand it. but it was predominantly and overwhelmingly a white crowd that he did bring in. in the meantime hillary clinton in iowa saying that she is the more electable of the two is bernie sanders here stressing boldness and big change. >> i have the front row seat as to what it takes to be in that caldron. >> well guess what, that inevitab inevitable candidate ain't to inevitable today. >> the campaign still emphasizing they have a lot of confidence but talking to a bernie sanders aide allison, they said that clinton's southern firewall is nonsense. i don't think the clinton campaign feels that way. we'll see in the coming weeks. >> we're seal right now. jo

beyond the early week winter storm, central iowa dries out while temperatures tumble into the single digits at night and teens and 20s for daytime highs. nikki also coming up on local five news at six... local five cruises with ted cruz. hear what the republican candidate had to say about his competitors nikki and of course... we're about 48 hours away from the iowa caucus. we'll preview monday night's main event. nikki and --- a cutting edge look at a different way to choose the caucus leader. an old fashioned duel.... " local 5 news at 6 in hd starts now. we are iowa" nikki: good evening. welcome to local 5 news, i'm nikki davidson. glad you're with us tonight. nikki: beautiful weather today.... but it's not going to stay that way... there is a winter storm coming... meterologist bree sullivan is standing by with a look at what the forecast looks like for early next week... bree? nikki: thanks bree. switching to thanks bree. switching to politics now. nikki: as monday night the final push to sway voters their way. we had a chance to sit down with one of those candidates. local 5's

his well-funded super pac made it possible for him to stay in the race beyond iowa and new hampshire, after losing both states. shaina: coming up on kcci at x: 30, another overnight fire. the struggles crews faced fighting the fire. plus, how the small town of boxholm is doing this morning after losing four in a house fire. there are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. one says it's okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. my plan -- break up the big banks, close the tax loopholes, then we can expand health care to all, and provide universal college education. will they like me? no. will they begin to play by the rules if i'm president? you better believe it. shaina: right now on kcci, early morning fires. the weekend fire that turned deadly, killing a mother and three children. how the small town is reacting this morning. plus, an early morning garage fire. how the chilly conditions make fighting fires a difficult task. elizabeth: and the democrats go head to head, tackling the tough issues while tackling each other. how they squared off last

pnow looking beyond iowa, and pbeyond the next few days, olling has shown that sarah alin's favorability be rating pdropped significantly across pnation since 2008. pand you can make an argument pthat an in general an election pmatch up this may do him no pfavor. pbut we're not talking about pthen. phe has long way to go if he even pgets there. phe now has a laser focus and peagle eye on iowa. pthat's why he brought in sarah alin. p>> you're right trump steps to pthe side rarely. pso sanders is ahead of clinton pin new hampshire. pwhat does that mean for the pdemocratic nomination? e sanders to pdo well maybe even win new phampshire because it's pneighboring state. pbut nearly 30 points up, that's pwhat we're seeing in the new pwmur and the cnn if that's not pan oh outlier. pa bernie sanders is running up pscore that much it has the pability to change and effect and pgive them a bounce in other pstates as well. pthough clinton lead currentsly pin south you look sanders pdrawing some 17 thousand people pin birmingham, alabama she otentially could vulnerable pthere as well. pthat's why cli

pyou looked beyond iowa and pbeyond republican race you see olling that shows sarah palin psupport has cratered across the pnation since 2008. pi don't think her endorsement pthat. pbut we're talking about here and pnow surely helps. pand now we hear that the iowa prepublican governor is telling eople in his state to vote for panybody but ted cruz. pwhen did he say it yesterday pone-2 punch bet that coordinated pyou have trump picking sarah alin he's not officially icking up governor of iowa you phave governor of iowa saying not pcruz. pdon't go in this direction. premember, with charlie crist pwhen he was republican governor psaid he wouldn't endorse last pminute that changed whole pdirection of the bay it was ptrending romney and suddenly pwith endorsement of mccain in pflorida from popular republican pgovernor here we have a big pchange in florida same can hold ptrue for state of iowa. pyou have a popular republican pgovernor sending signals that at pleast can give a lot of voters prepublican voters some pause. pand maybe question their support pof cruz. p>> let's talk about democra

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line - a high voltage overhead line that would harness wind energy from northwest iowa and send it into illinois and beyond. 21:42 bobby - it affects 1500 farmers in iowa and it's a decision that affects 10,000 acres of iowa farmland. it's a huge decision that has bipartisan support. legislators will be making sure that the companies involved their power to take public use... known as emminent domain. rock island clean line has tried, but i-u-b didn't allow it. and lawamkers were paying attention. attempting to do not only skirts our laws but it skirst the u.s. amanda i talked to the spokes person for the iowa utilities board today... he said until specific legislation comes out regarding the pipeline, or emminent domain, there's no comment. if you're wondering when a decision will be made about either of these projects... there's no definite answer. according to iowa code the iowa utilities board isn't under any sort of deadline to make a decision... they are still looking through all of the evidence that has been filed. amanda/bam we are iowa. stephanie/1shot: statehouse this morning -- a speech by the i

something tomorrow to at least have a strong enough showing that will keep his campaign moving forward beyond iowa into new hampshire and onward? i think those are three things we should be looking for tomorrow when they take the stage here at drake university. >> absolutely. 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn hosted by chris cuomo. you will be there, mark preston. busy man, thank you for taking the time. >> thanks, poppy. >>> now to a possible shake-up that would make this presidential race a little more crowded, certainly interesting. sources telling us at cnn former mork city mayor michael bloomberg is considering an independent run at president particularly if it looks like a general matchup between sanders and either will trump or cruz. trump and sanders already weighing in. >> i'd love to have him come in. i love the twecompetition. >> my reaction is that there will be -- if donald trump wins and mr. bloomberg gets in, you're going to have ftwo multibillionaires running for president of the united states against me. and i think the american people do not want to see our nation move toward an olig

and they may yet still be heard from as we move beyond iowa and new hampshire. >> this is going to breaknto a three-way race at some point. we are waiting for donald trump to speak to reporters. we'll take that live when it happens also. another hillary versus bernie debate without hillary or bernie. but representatives of their campaign will be here. ercedes-b. it's got small-ability and big-ability. towing-ability and stowing-ability. rack-ability and hvac-ability. it's fully customizable and sized just right to give you cupcake-ability, entourage-ability... ...garage-ability and even afford-ability. starting at $28,950. available in cargo or passenger. from mercedes-benz. ♪ ♪ grow old with me ♪ let us share what we see ♪ just you and i ♪ ♪ grow old with me ♪ let us share what we see ♪ and oh the best it could be ♪ just you and i ♪ a flood could ever happen. the reality is, floods do happen. protect what matters. get flood insurance. visit floodsmart.gov/flood to learn more. >> we're standing by at a trump prez conference where anything could happen. later we'll have a bernie versus hi

. >> but beyond iowa, you don't want questions raised about this and people just as they're getting interesteden someone tells you, some doubt as to whether he was a natural born american, even though you put that to rest very eloquently, it's really about future voters, right? >> perhaps. remember, president obama finally took the bait from donald trump. he -- donald trump pound ode it enough and got enough people behind him with the wind behind -- there were newspaper articles announcing in hawai'i president obama's birth back in whatever year it was, 1956 or. 62 or wherever. there were newspaper articles but there was enough pounding about and it a lot of people in the media were there to talk about it enough so that finally president obama took the bait and went occupant and got his long form birth certificate, these things happen. all the time. i don't know what ted cruz will do but like i said, maybe senator ted cruz likes this. i'd rather be arguing about this issue i've i'm running for office than the other issues he has to confront. >> well,s aus say, keep pursuing this legal thing. y

i -- does it matter beyond iowa? >> yeah. it's very vital to american politics. to your point, i understand getting up in front of a room full of evangelicals -- intimidating but come on this is not donal donald trump's first flub about christianity. we not only got the two corinthians but him talking about communion in a disrespectful way. >> double your tithes. that's what i say. charles: well, here's the thing, though. we know it's important, there's a lot of different constituencies out there. but does trump now in your opinion clean it up or move on? >> i think he should just move it on. and let me say something about the citizenship issue. donald trump is doing ted cruz a favor by bringing up the question of his citizenship and eligibility to run for president now. let's not have an -- >> it's so nice of him to do that. >> it's so nice of him. >> not tunistic at all. charles: that's what you get in the super bowl. >> but ted cruz who will overcome it just like john mccain did. charles: fantastic stuff. thanks a lot. well, on the other end of the ledger, we

it is hard to say whether this will hurt him in iowa but i think beyond iowa, it doesn't hurt him.t reinforce this is image of him as a gutsy street fighter. >> charlie? >> i'm not sure we know. i'm not sure we'll ever know. if he intended it to go this far. it could be a little like world war i. you start out with a littlejevo a sudden you have the world on fire. i think it is hard for him to back down. i don't think he is afraid of you as the moderator. i think maybe late in the process, he realize this is could be a way for him to avoid incoming from ted cruz. cruz is the one who has the most at stake. i'm sure if trump had been there, or the initial planning was for cruz to go in with everything he had. to drop all the ordinary nance. for him, iowa is the stage. if he doesn't succeed in winning iowa or coming very close, it is hard to see how he proceeds to a victory. if he does win, it affects him in new hampshire, south carolina, elsewhere. this was his opportunity for mano y mano. for trump, it is a win/win. he doesn't to have face cruz. he would probably lose, i think. he d

the implications stretch far beyond iowa. >> i think it makes it a real horse race. and i think it will energize people all over the country who think, as i did in 2008, that obama can't win so let me go for somebody else. >> reporter: clinton supporters hope this campaign has a different ending. >> it is very similar, but this time hillary is going to come out on top. i'm confident of that. i love bernie sanders. i love a lot of things he says. but i think hillary is the one that's going to win. >> reporter: jake, that is the interesting dynamic in this race. the voter, sue right there summed it up pretty well. she is a hillary clinton supporter and likes bernie sanders just fine but hillary clinton is the one needed to get the job done. but the sanders campaign are asking their supporters to believe, so we'll see if president obama putting his thumb on the scale today influences any of the sanders' supporters decisions. >> jeff zeleny live, thanks so much. let's turn to the republican race, which is also as tight as a particular. ted cruz says it represents new yor

i think usually, three candidates can progress out beyond iowa.is time. but eventually, i mean jeb, huckabee, santorum kasich, i think eventually they're all going to fall away. rubio will have the chance to challenge both cruz and trump. that's my gut. but we'll see. gerri: got a long way to go yet. >> we do. gerri: both of you will be back. thank you craig and keith. thank you so much. >> thanks very much. gerri: thank you. up next, shocking new report says robots, robots will take your job. latest on automated disruptors and what the government plans to do about it. jeff flock is in indiana hunting for the lowest priced gas in the country. what have you found, jeff? reporter: found this one behind me at 1.51. is it possible, gerri to have gas prices get too low? i submit it is possible. i will explain why that is in just a moment. i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go strai

so, question for sanders is can he broaden his appeal beyond iowa and new hampshire. >> they brought up all of the issues. let's roll the clip of obama care. >> now there are things we can do to improve it, but to tear it up and start over again, pushing our country back into that kind of a contentious debate, i think is wrong direction. >> we're not going to tear up the affordable care act. i helped write it. but we are going to move on top of that, to a health care for all. >> i will tell you what, doug, she really embraced the policies of the obama administration, and did not runaway from it. one point i heard columnist say if she hugs president obama anymore, and more tightly, michelle obama will have to intervene. >> reporter: you have to consider venue here as well. this is a debate response ordinary by congressional black caucus which is still very supportive of president obama. president is certainly very popular in that circle. so she knew her audience there she's threading the needle on health care. bernie sanders supports nationalized health care which is something that th

trying to send a message that he wants to try to do at least some of what barack obama did and go beyond iowand win support in some of these liberal caucus states. >> hillary clinton is in iowa tonight, but she is headed back to the east coast tomorrow, so what's her campaign saying about that? >> reporter: she is, john. she'll be campaigning in iowa in the morning but then she has a date in philadelphia with jon bon jovi. she'll be attending a fund-raiser there tomorrow night. it's one of the essential things, of course, she needs, money to keep her campaign afloat. it's clear that whatever happens in iowa, whatever happens in new hampshire, this campaign is going to continue longer than anyone on her campaign thought, so she needs to do fund-raising. john, one sign she wants to get back to iowa, she knows she needs to, she canceled fund-raisers in new york city on thursday and she'll be flying back to iowa to campaign. and it's not just her, bill clinton will be there throughout the weekend as well. i can tell you, john, neither of the clintons draw crowds like this. it is one of the bigges

he says hillary clinton needs to focus more beyond iowa and new hampshire. cording to politico every day. >> every day. >> my thought is, they're focusing on every part of the united states. yes, their focus on iowa and new hampshire because they're coming up. they're immediate. they're right in front of them. but there's no doubt that the clinton campaign is focused on the long-term because they believe they'll be there for the long term. obviously, some are focused more on iowa and new hampshire because they're not sure they're going to be this longer. >> congressman, it's great to have you here. you may be with us here all weekend. >> might get snowed in. >> i have an extra bedroom. you can stay at the apartment because you might not want to go back to d.c. right now. >> he laughs and clearly says, i'm out of here. >> i laugh because i shouldn't give an answer to that invitation. >> all about the party. thank you, congressman. >> thank you. >>> ahead for us, an important programming note for you, monday night in iowa, bernie sanders, hillary clinton, marti

he's broadening a little bit perhaps looking beyond iowa wanting to not just be in that anti-establishment -- >> before we go, sire waltirewa you had to predict who's going to win iowa, if you had to? >> this debate is going to be a big, bang, boom. >> i forgot there's a debate first. >> this whole sucker is going to rerack on thursday evening because the stakes are high and the losers, as some people would say, in this race, know that they're facing the double elimination round and people are going to act crazy, unpredictable things are going to happen. it's going to get weird in there. this race will look totally different, i promise, on friday, than it does today. >> can't wait. we are all very psyched for thursday night. we are ready. and looking forward to it. guys, great to see you. >> same here. >> you bet. >> see you both in des moines. >>> up next in a "kelly file" exclusive, the story behind a key presidential endorsement from one of the most well-known conservatives in the united states. >> the time for silliness and reality show tactics is past. it's been fun. >> glenn beck is

i don't think this was a choice that was going to go much beyond iowa. don't think you're going to see her used throughout the entire campaign. i think this was a get in early on this one, need too win iowa, if i win iowa, i'm going to be very hard to stop. look, that's one of the things about this. if he does win iowa, it is going to be incredibly hard to stop donald trump on the way to the nomination, minus there being some insane scandal. so it was a smart political move for the short term. does it alienate people long term or in the general? i think it certainly can, but i think donald trump's pretty good at snowing when it shelve somebody and he'll use her when he needs her and put her at the back of his plane when he doesn't. >> errol, you wrote a fascinating piece on cnn.com about this potential run for president by former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. he has reportedly, according to sources telling cnn, really seriously considering a run. if it looks like bernie sanders will be the nominee against donald trump or ted cruz. here's part of