as bob dole alluded to, the truth telling.s more about bob dole sending a shot over everybody's bow if it is trump, then tremendous may be the type of nominee that could bring consensus and deal making. jon: are you surprised that a former presidential candidate like bob dole, the republican nominee for the 1996 election would say maybe donald trump could be my guy? >> yeah, i guess i am. what it really indicates is an aban document that rubio or one of the mainstream establishment candidates that have been fighting for that track in the party sort of giving up on one of them emerging. i think it's early to do that. i think new hampshire could still serve up whether it's rubio or christie or kasich. but i think looking -- the establishment doesn't like trump and they don't like cruz. but what's happened here is they are starting to say it's going to be between the two of them, we would be better off with trump. i would agree with that from a democratic stand point. i would much rather the strategists run against cruz. we have

does bob dole think establishment say diis a dirty ? office and say i'm joe from establishment. no. i don't know what the establishment is, except it means you've had experience. >> senator dole, how do you explain bernie sanders' success on the other side of the aisle? >> well, they don't like hillary. they don't trust her. they don't think she's honest. and everything she passes, she blames on republicans. and, bennie, i don't believe the democrats will nominate a socialist. he's going to give her a scare in iowa and new hampshire. i don't know where it goes from there. >> hey, i'm sensing a spring in your step. i'm thinking dole 2016. >> yeah, i thought if i got a little older i'd run again. >> hey, senator, may i say one other important thing to you. i recently had the experience of touring the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c. it's spectacular. i know that you still spend a lot of time there and that we have bob dole and others, but you're at the top of that list to thank for that national treasure. so, thank you for your s

bob dole yesterday explained why. he said donald trump is someone we can make a deal with, we can cut a deal, we can work with him. listen, if you're someone in this country who thinks we need more republicans in washington to cut a deal with the democrats to agree with harry reid and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, then you ought to vote for donald trump. >> and joining us now, rich lowry, the orchestrated effort to take down the billionaire and republican alex castellanos, campaign strategist to bob dole, george bush and mitt romney, who thought about blocking trump then had a change of heart. >> rich, is ted cruz correct with george, has donald trump become the establishment candidate? >> yeah, the reason, martha, we did this issue, we wanted 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 republicans hiding under their desk, f

bob dole does, but you know, he's yesterday's man.f you get somebody today from the so-called establishment. who endorses him, i think it becomes a flood. at that point the dam breaks and you will get a rush of other establishment figures. who will rally around him. and that could be the point at which he becomes inevitable as the nominee. >> why is it that no senator has stepped up to endorse ted cruz? not even his ally, jeff sessions as of yet on immigration? >> well i think the short answer is everybody who knows him in the senate hates him and i think hate is not, is not an exaggeration. the enmity which he wears on his sleeve as, with pride, is something that he's now, you could almost say cultivated. to make him a freshman senator with no particular record into a national figure rallying everybody against the washington cartel, you know republicans in the senate, in the house have been out there half of their lives, don't appreciate being called essentially traders to the cause of conservatives. and then you get antipathy and th

>> look, bob dole -- i'm proud to have his support. here's the deal, donald trump is not a conservative. you need a conservative to lead the conservative into the general election. he's not a conservative based on gun rights or abortion or taxes or spending or single-payer system for health care and you can't insult your way to the presidency as well. he views as a strength. and we're not going to win an election by prayingeying on people's angst. you have to get to 50. you do that with a solid conservative record with conservative ideas to cnge the course of direction in washington, d.c. >> do you think people will - -- do you think trump would work better with congress than cruz? >> all i know we need a president to work with congress that. that's what i pledged to do, to build consensus, to fix the taxes, the regulation that is a complete mess for our cotry. to begin to build a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy again, where america's leadership in the world creates peace and security. thosere the things that i talk about and it

senator bob dole the 1996 g.o.p.minee making big headlines by saying nominating senator ted cruz would be cataclysmic for the g.o.p. moments ago he called in to "on the record." he did not budge. he doubled down on those comments about senator cruz. >> senator dole, nice to talk to you sir. >> hey, greta. how are you doing? >> i'm doing very well. you had some tough words for senator ted cruz saying that if he is elected the party would suffer cataclysmic and wholesale losses and even called him extremist. is that how you feel? >> he is an extremist. do you ever hear him use the word republican? it's always the word conservative. and i always thought i was conservative, and i'm a chuck grassley republican. and senator cruz, i watch all the news and rarely hear him use the word republican. so he i think he is a republican in name only. my candidate is jeb bush, and remains my candidate, not supporting jeb bush but if it comes down as donald and ted cruz. i'm for donald trump. i think he has got a lot of ability. he ha

on one end, the outsider world of sarah palin, the other end of bob dole, an establishment creature, trying to paint donald trump as establishment. >> well, i think, tamron, when you see the establishment people saying, as senator dole said and senator branstad and others have said, anybody but cruz, if i'm a conservative, i'm saying, who else but cruz? this is what the problem is. senator cruz is not painting anything on anybody. it's the establishment who are saying that donald trump is a guy we can deal with. donald trump is a guy that's supported -- >> other than senator -- >> go ahead. >> -- other than bob dole, who in the establishment has said that donald trump is a part of their team? i know you cited the governor of iowa, hugely popular branstad, but he is not seen as an insider even though he's served for many years, people still in that state revere him and see him as a quote, unquote, straight shooter here. other than bob dole, who in the establishment has wrapped their arms around donald trump? >> well, i think you're seeing people who are moving toward mr. trump. look, t

bush says or what bob dole says. >> right. it galvanizes his base. >>> in this election, hillary clinton polling behind sanders in iowa and new hampshire. quickly, what does this tell us about democratic voters? >> i think it says very little about democratic voters. it says more about the two candidates themselves. many voters just don't really connect with hillary clinton. they don't like her. but they love what bernie sanders is saying about taking on the establishment. >> yes. even if he calls himself a socialist. erin mcpike, thank you. >> thanks. >>> just ahead the heartwarming video of preemie twins that's been shared online by millions. >>> plus snowed under. it didn't stop a driver from taking a spin. details up next. olay total effects a skin transformation that rivals the leading department store moisturizer. revives skin to fight 7 signs of aging. with olay, you age less, so you can be ageless. olay. ageless. you know the symptoms when they start. abdominal pain. urgent diarrhea. now there's prescription xifaxan. x

bob dole lost an election. we've been told by the hard right that we're tired of squishy mainstream republicans who keep losing elections like bob dole. >> you're not conservative enough. >> there's a hypocrisy there. >> the person we haven't talked about is rubio. and all the attacked ads. he's being attacked more than a port-a-potty at a chili festival. he's the only one in real clear politi, who can beat hillary. when you summarize the polling. clinton best beats trump. bush is slightly better, loses to trump. cruz, slightly ahead of clinton. but the one that's really threatening everybody is rubio. so he's just sitting back and in his nice little boots and waiting for the smoke to clear. >> getting beat up by bush and -- >> yeah. yeah. >> they want to move into his lane. >> they want his boots. >> the establishment lane. the establishment lane would have thought to be we're just waiting now, let those two, trump and cruz go at it but nobody -- >> cruz said, cruz said in fact rubio has no path to victory. he

and i think what bob dole said actually is accurate.ity to sit around the table and make the deal. he is, my fear about trump, if he could do it, i know he'd be able to do it for a year, maybe two. he just seems like myself and others i know like, all right, i was president for two years, now i want to go do something else. i mean, but i don't think the establishment has a choice, andrea. who's their choice right now? unless something happens in iowa or new hampshire or south carolina that really changes the landscape like rubio pops or christie pops or something. andrea: well, harris, it was almost starting to, i think, backfire on the establish. s because the longer they waited, they had to come around. harris: well, it made them look awfully disingenuous about winning. you say you want to have your front runner in the media, and here he is like every minute of the day, yet you're not really out front supporting members of the establishment. but i think the critical words that i read that bob dole said were the fact that donald trump

the bob doles don't like me. because they don't like me. >> well, i still have a lot of friends in iowa. they've gotten a little older but still have a lot of friends. i'm a conservative. as i said, i'm a grassroots conservative. i don't -- during my 28-plus years in the senate i had a strong conservative record but that's not good enough for ted cruz who wants us to be on the far, far right. there are some people out there, what's he going to do if he's elected? he's going to cost us wholesale losses in the congress and governors and state legislatures. >> how do you know? one of the things he brought up does bob dole really prefer a donald trump to me, that he thinks i will be more disruptive than a donald trump? you say what? >> i want to reiterate my candidate is the best qualified in the group, jeb bush. rump and cruz, i would vote for trump. i think he's a negotiator. he knows many members of congress. in fact, he contributed democrats and republicans. he's worked for democrats and republicans more than i c

specifically, with bob dole and the iowa governor. we really see ted cruz almost shift into his comfort zone where he is as a candidate and really try to hold this up as a badge of honor, proof, basically, in essence, that he thinks he's the anti-establishment candidate of this gop cycle. touting tonight that they've raised a lot of money, $700,000 since the iowa governor's attack yesterday, holding it up as the establishment wing of the party being in panic mode. here's what he said moments ago here in hollis. >> and we're seeing something remarkable happening here in this republican primary. right now, the washington establishment is abandoning marco rubio. they've made the assessment that marco can't run this race and the washington establishment is rushing over to support donald trump. we're seeing that happen every day and mr. trump is welcoming the support of the washington establishment. indeed, mr. trump said that they should support him because he said ted wouldn't go along to get along. he won't make deals with the democrats

but specifically on bob dole's takedown that coupled with the iowa poll.ve seen ted cruz shift into his comfort zone as a candidate, someone that can argue this is proof he is the real anti establishment and republican in this race. here is how he responded here earlier tonight. >> and we're seeing something remarkable happening in this republican primary. right now, the washington establishment is abandoning marco rubio. they made the assessment that marco can't win this race. and the washington establishment is rushing over to support donald trump. we're seeing that happen every day and mr. trump is welcoming the support of the washington establishment and indeed mr. trump said that they should support him because he said ted won't go along to get along. he won't make deals with the democrats. well, i don't think there are a lot of republicans that think the problem with republican leadership is that they're unwilling to make deals with the democrats. the problem with republican leadership is they make deals on everything. they surrender at the outset. t

bush. 1996 and 19 88, bob dole. what percentage of the iowa population shows up? it varies tremendously. republican on the side is usually a little bit less than on democrats. in 2012 and 2008, republicans had approximately 125,000. this is about 600,000 republicans, rounding here. number in the the state. basically 2012 was a record turnout and so had 2008.

the iowa governor and now bob dole. here's how ted cruz responded in new hampshire. >> right now the washington establishment is abandoning marco rubio. they made assessment that marco cannot win this race. the washington establishment is rushing over to support donald trump. we're seeing that happen every day. mr. trump is welcoming the support of the washington establishment and indeed, mr. trump said they should support him because he said ted won't go along to get along. he won't make deal was the democrats. >> reporter: there you saw ted cruz really try to cleverly tie both marco rubio and donald trump in the same hit to the republican establishment wing of the party. this is a comfort zone for ted cruz. one i think will continue to see him argue on the campaign trail holding himself up and hits against him up as proof he is the anti-establishment candidate among the republicans. john and christine. >> thank you for that. sarah palin surprising many when she linked her son's arrest this week on domestic violence ch

like bob dole. hugh: he is interesting.e is not the guy i'm looking to for the latest developments on twitter and facebook and social media. [laughter] hugh: i will you right now that ted cruz has the best social media network of all the candidates. it is a deep web and it touches on people. his folks will show up on monday night. charlie: so that is why he will win in iowa. he will have troops on the ground with enthusiasm. hugh: yes, you don't get to argue nine times before the supreme court before you are lucky. i have one law partner who is eight former federal judge and he has argued there once. you get there because you are really good at he skill set that is useful. charlie: john roberts was the same way before he became late chief justice. it is a small group of people who argue in front of united states. he is among the smartest people i have ever met. he has difficulty not showing that. but bob dole doesn't like the fact that he showed up and he didn't sit down and be quiet. he explained that he came to town and m

and bob dole. i remember when nobody liked bob dole. dole doesn't like ted cruz. >> this is a sophie's choice for the republican establishment. >> a lot of people are saying i have to hold my nose and go with one of these guys. there are republicans holding out hope that marco rubio will be able to bridge that, have one foot in the establishment and one foot in the tea party and be able to work it out. but right now it doesn't work that way. but things change overnight. >> i like that you clarified two things. he said it was two corinthians and tony perkins wrote that. and he looked uncomfortable because he didn't know that sarah palin's speech would be that long. >> i thought he was -- he was wearing a full coat, too. he looked uncomfortable being in the background. he is not a good presidential spouse. >> he's not a guy that is a second number two on the stage. >> absolutely. >> thank you, goloria borger. >>> next up, a hero, a person who changed my life. i filed my taxes online at h&r block for $9.99. oh, that's super reasonable. wha

republican icon bob dole warned of cataclismic worries for the party. he had an interview with our very own don lemon. >> he did not have one senator stick up for him recently because he is a real problem with running because he was born in canada. he was born in canada and he was a citizen of canada until 15 months ago. he didn't know about his loans. he didn't know about goldman sachs. he didn't know he was a citizen of canada and now he's running for president. >> republican voters want a conservative. they don't want a deal maker who has written checks and supported hillary clinton and mitch mcconnell and john boehner and chuck schumer. they want a reagan conservative. >> trump and palin were together with trump calling her a very special, wonderful person. cnn's sunlen serfaty has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump and sarah palin hitting the campaign trail rallying supporters at christian university oral roberts. >> we got a red head from the big red apple running for president and yet, the gop machine all of a

within the last 48 hours alone, former senator and presidential candidate bob dole, iowa senator chuck grassley, iowa governor terry bra terry bran stead, they've all come out against cruz. how is the cruz campaign, the senator specifically, responding? >> well, it's really interesting, wolf, ted cruz is really holding this up almost as a badge of honor, browardly, you know, using this criticism from republican establishment wing of the party. really holding it up as evidence to voters he is the anti-establishment candidate, the one to choose, as saying this is a sign the establishment is in full panic mode and touting this has really gal vannized his supporters who done eight money to his campaign. thie they've been fund-raising over these attacks. they raised $700,000 this week alone since this pile-on has started. this is where ted cruz finds his comfort, really directing fire at the establishment. as we've been with him all week here in new hampshire, has managed to really knock him off his message. he's been having to respond to questions about this criticism, rather than focus on

. >> rose: but ted cruz scares a lot of republicans like bob dole and others. >> bob dole is interesting, god bless bob dole, he's an american hero but not a guy i'm looking to for the latest developments on twitter, snapchat and social media. and so i tell you right now, ted cruz has got the best social media network of all. candidates developed, it's a deep, deep web. a lot of touches on people. his folks will show up on monday night. >> rose: so that's why he will win in iowa because it's monday night and will have the troops on the ground with the enthusiasm to come to the meetks. >> yup. >> and he makes an argument. you don't get to argue nine times before the supreme court because you're lucky. i've got one law partner who has been to the supreme court one time and he's a former federal judge, steven larson. you don't get there nine times because you're lucky. you get there because you're really good at a skill set that is useful right now in a primary campaign. >> rose: john roberts was the same way before he became a justice an chief justice. >> yes. when he was over at hogan, an

the poll comes as bob dole, the g.o.p. residents 1996 presidential nominee, is telling "the new york times" that the wholesale losses of the party would be cat click. -- class chris mick and that donald trump is a dealmaker. >> what bosh dole is saying is the one guy that shares heck out of us is cruz because cruz actually will stand with the american people against the career politicians in both parties. >> at this hour, donald trump is scheduled to make at least his second appearance of the day the las vegas, speaking in the familiar setting of a major hotel and casino, south point. former president bill clinton is stumping four his -- for his wife, hillary clinton in las vegas. there you see donald trump taking the stage in las vegas. we'll keep you posted on what he has to say. don't forget iowa, where the caucuses are just 11 days away and the real clear politics average of major reliable polls shows misters crump and cruz sprayedded by a point and a half. >> we will keep our eye on the events in las vegas. see if he

that is being celebrated by cruz - as proof of his own outsider status presidential candidate "what bob dole is effectively saying and the establishment is saying is the one guy that scares the heck out of us is cruz." that's sunlen serfaty reporting. a new super pac is spending about 45 thousand dollars to send negative mailers about donald trump to potential iowa voters. columbia city leaders were among hundreds of mayors from across the country invited to the white house today. president obama spoke to the u.s. conference of mayors in the east room, recognizing them for their service. mayor steve benjamin and columbia police chief skip were in attendance to discuss the president's task force for policing the task force aims to help departments implement best practices for crime reduction and improve relationships with the community. "i think that we have seen our cities take leadership and we have seen transformations of communities across this country... and when cities are strong, the states that they're in are strong. and when cities are strong, america's strong." the columbia police d

>> bob dole is an honorable man, he's a war hero. he served honorably, and we respect bob dole.ctfully disagree. you don't have to make friends in washington and -- the whole point of washington, the reason they say that ted cruz doesn't get along with washington, it's actually the opposite. if you look at all the quotes there's lots of people in washington who call ted cruz names. you can't find a quote where ted cruz calls any of them names. they are upset because he went to washington and didn't drink the kool-aid and not there to get invited to the cocktail parties. he's there to do what he said he'd do and that's what you can count on as ted cruz going to washington as president of the united states. he would lead the country with a vision to right the ship. and what happens in a constitutional republic, if you get people on board, they will put pressure on members of congress. that's how we got welfare reform and that's how ronald reagan governed. the members want to stay in power and if you have a vision and they don't do what the voters want, the voters side with someone

bob dole, for example -- i love bob dole -- but cruz led the charge basically against the disabilitiesreaty that meant a great deal to bob dole. so this is personal between many people in the establishment and ted cruz. it's not about pragmatic politics. >> tom davis, i have last year's list of the republican establishment here in front of me. and your name is under the d's. i don't have the updated version where donald trump is now your leader. can you guide us through what's happening here and where you expect this to be after iowa? you've got the national review here where their only mission, it seems, as of now, the only thing they care about is stop trump. and then we see everything else that's going on in this campaign, the very personal back and forth now between ted cruz and donald trump. where does this go? >> first of all, i don't think the national review folks really get this. this is really an anti-establishment revolt on the part of grassroots republicans and "national review" is the conservative establishment. when donald trump went after megyn kelly at fox news, it didn

bob dole is for jeb bush. he's not for donald trump. he's for jeb bush.ormous respect for bob dole but, in fact, he is the ultimate establishment insider. he had his crack at the presidency. he did it his way and he lost and i might add, he did it the way that establishment republicans that run for president always lose. he's not alone in this. he was senator mccain, governor romney, gerald ford. you can go back to the 1940s. we have to sound more like moderates and democrats to get elected and then they get their way and lose. ronald reagan was and posed to that. trump is opposed to that and i would say ted cruz is opposed to that. >> i would note bob dole said donald trump would be better than ted cruz who he described as an extremist but not an endorsement for donald trump. thanks to both of you. >>> "outfront" next, donald trump's problem with 2 corinthians. the man who trump says is behind the mistake. >>> and hillary clinton on whether republicans are really ready to vote for a socialist. >> i know a number of democrats, people who i highly respect

bob dole a lovely man but many happened be to be right. in 2008 a lot of democrats said barack obama one-term senator. not a lot of accomplishment. gives a great speech. we're not so sure. so we voted for hillary clinton and created this knockdown, dragout fight to the nomination that everyone argues made barack obama a better candidate and helped elect him president. >> we spent six days in new hampshire covering town hall john casic ncluding and bush. they've been posted. we're live today with hillary linton in new hampshire this jan. follow our coverage. our guest is kevin land again the chief correspondent. the first of the nation primary, new hampshire. donald joining us from port arthur, texas. good morning. caller: hello. i sure enjoy c-span and it gives you a chance to see that the people out there are just not informed of what's going on. they just don't get it. i'm a democrat but i didn't vote for barack obama. barack obama was like you said a one-time senator. he didn't have the experience, he didn't have the know how. look wher

. >> bob dole's at it again.et me tell you what he said today in another interview with michael smerconish. he said, i don't think ted is a republican. he's a conservative extremist. and he adds, if it comes down to cruz and trump, i'm a big trump support. do you think the more dole talks against cruz, that that helps cruz or hurts him? >> well, i mean, ted is running against institutional washington. and bob dole, personifies institutional washington. it's what ted calls the washington cartel. i think you ask a good question. and i think bob dole plays in to the campaign that ted has been running since march. i mean, this is not a new turn for him. this is what he's been doing all along. and one of ted's strengths is his consistent conservatism. and bob dole doesn't like that. >> will iowa voters -- >> -- reagan either. >> will iowa voters believe trump's an insider? >> they -- he's not an insider, but he's been dealing with all of them, including on the democratic side, donating repeatedly. what they won't beli

and tonight, bob dole with tough words aimed at cruz as well? bob dole, former senator, and onetime republican presidential extremist. the losses for the republican party would be cataclysmic. he's supporting jeb bush, but says he would pick trump over cruz any day. david? >> tom llamas, thank you. >>> on the democratic side, it was just hours before hillary clinton was using an image of trump and palin side by side to fire up her supporters. but would it work? cecilia vega, also in iowa tonight. >> are you ready for a commander-in-chief? >> reporter: tonight, the clinton campaign hoping to raise big bucks from that big endorsement. sending out this plea saying, donate to make sure this is nothing more than a bad "snl" skit come to life. >> hey, how are you? >> reporter: for hillary clinton, it is no laughing matter. lead yet in new hampshire. today bill clinton right there assessing the damage. >> we're on a home field disadvantage here. >> reporter: the implication, sanders, from neighboring vermont, has a leg up in the granite state. >> you'v