religious conservative voters and iowa and the republicans who are going to compete with him -- huckabee perry, gentle, santorum. -- jindal, santorum. he needs the religious conservative votes. that was his big bid today. john: decision on lynchburg was hugely symbolic. not at iowa. not in south carolina. not in texas. going there, broadcasting in the most blazing way possible, i am going for the evangelical voters. that is interesting. there are not a lot of jeb bush voters that are going to be swayed by ted cruz. probably not rand paul voters, although he went after those bases. the ones he is going to get are the ones he said. mark: he is a younger guy. for young voters who want strong foreign policy in his mode, but that libertarian streak on technological privacy -- i think he can get some of them. he has to cobble together a coalition that does not include establishment voters. that means he has to fish in every other pond available. john: that is true, but for most libertarian voters, you have to be libertarian on more things, and across the board on things like same-sex marriage and im

jeb bush, chris christie, ted cruz, mike huckabee, rick perry, rick santorum and scott walker are some of the gop vips here for the first ever ag summit. some candidates have laid out their vision on foreign policy. >> my parents corrected my bad behavior. they didn't encourage it by rewarding me with ice cream and candy every time i did something horrible. so when you have the iranians or cubans doing terrible things to their people, you don't give them ice cream and candy, for heaven's sakes. >> china has the opportunity for us to come in and do trade with them. i have been on multiple trade missions to china, just as terry has, and the relationship and building up there. i think there's the opportunity. what we see with china is they basically practice communism at night and capitalism in the daytime. >> reporter: iowans are about 11 months away from actually voting and on a sunny saturday it's been a packed house for much of the day wanting to hear directly from a number of the likely republican candidates, including early favorite, wisconsin governor scott walker. earlier, there w

jeb bush, chris christie, ted cruz mike huckabee rick perry rick santorum and scott walker among those speaking at the first iowa ag summit. walker the early favorite and well-known as neighboring governor. >> when you talk about immigration, you have to talk first and foremost about securing the are border. although i think it's a national security issue. i'm not a supporter of amnesty. i respect views on that but i'm not a sirpt ofupporter of amnesty. >> jeb bush trying to show voters he is a true conservative. bush also spoke about fixing our immigration system in a smart way. >> canada has more economic immigrants than we do and we're ten times their size. if we want to be young and dynamic and growing again where the debate isn't about who is taking from whom rather than having an expanding pie where opportunities exist for all of us. >> former texas governor rick perry also addressed this hot button issue and suggested an immigration plan without truly enforcing the border is a mistake. >> we go back to '86 when president reagan signed a piece of legislation and i think it's pret

mike huckabee, rick perry.'t think it's going to be too much different on either side of the aisle this go ground. i think in terms of who we have right now, hillary's experience and her being is woman is a powerf thing. >> let's talk about that for a second. who benefits the most from this? is it elizabeth warrenñ joe biden. who's going to benefit from this? >> controversy is bad for a party as a whole because you want people to unify especially as you go into a presidential election. especially when the obstacles are raising millions and millions of dollars. i think that any primary candidates might benefit from this. i don't think elizabeth warren is going to run. >> what do you think? if the democrats want the first female present, is that upside for elizabeth warren all this controversy? >> well, i mean i think it's interesting because warren and biden and hillary have all worked together over the course of time. there is this respectful trying to figure out who can potentially win the ticket. hillary is s

to each of the potential presidential contenders, jeb busch, chris christie, ted truz, mike huckabee, rick perry, mike santorum and scott walker are trying to make an impression. bush went after obama on his cuba policy just moments ago. >> there's no small business development, all the mythology built up with cuba the simple fact is it looks more like north korea than a country that is emerging towards a freer place. >> reporter: which are also looking for the unscripted moments and we had one earlier this morning with new jersey governor chris christie with a protester interrupting him. >> i'm glad to see that new jersey has come to iowa. how great is that? great to have you here. and i think you understand i'll deal with you the same way here as i deal with you in new jersey, my people follow me everywhere, bruce, it's fabulous. >> reporter: former has texas governor rick perry may be the most comfortable talking about agriculture issues after he and his father actually grew cotton. he also studied animal science at texas a & m. as others are making their first sbroe tux to iowa voters last n

jep bush, chris christie, ted cruz mike huckabee, rick perry, rick santorum and scott walker are allsuggests they believe this event is important and they want to make a good early impression. several other potential contenders weighed in our nation's immigration problem. >> canada has more economic immigrants than we do and we're ten times their size. if we want to be young and dynamic and growing again where the debate isn't about who's taking from whom rather than have an expanding pie where opportunities exist for all of us. >> if you're coming because you hear there is free food free driver's license you might even get to vote, and we'll also give you a free education and free health care, then i think we need to say do you know what, it may not be a good fit. >> reporter: the democrat in the room if you will has been former secretary of state hillary clinton who is a likely presidential candidate on the other side. texas senator ted cruz took this swipe at her personal e-mail scandal -- >> the allegations that have been raised against hillary clinton appear very serious and on

there's governor huckabee, governor perry, dr.n perhaps ohio's john kasich, a long list of people. the democrats, a narrower field and, again, in my opinion hess talent. hillary is the front runner oh, yeah, there's plenty of political talent there, but is that the kind of political talent america needs in the white house? the boston globe wants senator elizabeth warren to oppose hillary not because ms. warren has great talent but because hillary's scandals may doom her candidacy. as for senator warren's ideas since when has socialism been a winning idea in america? then there's martin o'malley, former governor of maryland. his job was taken by a republican in maryland. and let's not forget vice president biden, apparently willing to throw his hat in the ring. republicans must be hoping fervently for a biden gaffe-prone candidacy. no when it comes to bench strength the republicans have it the democrats do not. maybe after eight years of the most left-wing president of all time, endless failure has brought out the talent on the oth

everybody else rick perry chris christie mike huckabee who didn't to go cpac i think those guys, rick santorum have to fight their way in to say we are going to be finalists in this contest. >> dickerson: anybody in the republican field look like a real threat to the democrats to the democrat? >> i've said before, that if jeb bush makes it to the nomination and it's a big if, i think that he would be formidable i think on all of the issues that right now republicans are hugely vulnerable on including stance on immigration including their ability to reach out to growing demographics that they know they need to in order to reach the white house, jeb bush has a history, his family has history of being able to do that well. but i just don't see it happening at the moment. i do think did he well at cpac he looked better than what people anticipated and handled it well. but i don't know that this is for sure it's not a done deal because the conservatives again are going to continue caucusing on immigration and common core. >> dickerson: kevin peggy mentioned test driving the car. there was

but mike huckabee is next followed by rand paul marco rubio, ted cruz, scott walker and rick perry. finish can out the field, rick santorum. and lindsey graham. and governor huckabee joins us now from destin, florida. let me ask the ox question. are you going to run? >> well, bob decision hasn't been made. i've been saying it's going to be this spring. it's still snowing in boston. give me a few more weeks. but i'll make an announcement relatively soon. >> schieffer: it's clear that ted cruz is going after what you consider your base, that is conservative christians. tell me why you can represent them better than he can. >> well, my base is beyond just evangelical. a lot of people perceive that. certainly important part of the base that i enjoy back in 2008 but i think that untold secret that a lot of supportive, i anticipate that i will have is the working class blue collar people who grew up a lot like i did. not blue blood built blue collar. there's a real sense in the republican party that there's no one speaking not only to them but speaking for them. if someone can capture both

. >> reporter: so we've heard rick perry and mike huckabee talking with about immigration while obviouslyiculture is huge in iowa, bottom line is they're getting a chance to weigh in on a lot of issues to show their range on a variety of topics. leland? >> mike, is there one candidate facinging a the lot more fresh pressure than others. you have people who become front-runners quickly, not necessarily ready for prime time time. all of a sudden they're at an event like this and everybody is focused on them. >> reporter: well, i think there's two guys you're looking at now facing ton of pressure though it is very, very early in the process. wisconsin governor scott walker has gotten off to a really fast start here in iowa as a neighboring governor somebody they know well and somebody they seem to leak soike so far. jeb bush is building an organization but has to sell iowa voters that he is conservative enough for them. and bush talked about fixing our immigration system. >> canada has more economic immigrants than we do and we're ten times their size. if we want to be young and dynamic and

probably has a lot of competition for it when you have other candidates like ben carson mike huckabee governor rick perrythat cruisez is speaking to today. he is out first, that's the advantage. but only as much advantage until the next guy announces. we will see. this will be an important day for him, but it is more important to see how much progress he has made with these type of voters with this movement two weeks, three months from now. >> "the wall street journal shows him eighth in potential hopefuls. what are some of the biggest challenges, david was referring to a few of them. what are the big ones? >> one of his big challenges, can he raise the money. the other challenge, can he be able to get backing from his party. you mention ted cruz isn't the kind of person who looks to get endorsements from people but endorsements from sitting, elected members of congress governors, best predictor, indicator if somebody gets the nomination because the party unites around you. his challenge even if he takes off in the polls, does he have a lot of friends to keep him in that position or does the party want t

we have jeb bush, marco rubio, scott walker, chris christie, rick perry bobby jindal, carly fiorina, john kasich, mike huckabee, ted cruz rand paul, mike pence, rick santorum, ben carson. and probably a handful of others who may be watching right now saying, i'm thinking about doing that, too. it's what i love about the political process. we just don't know who it will be and why politics are so complicated but really so simple, too. about the only thing we can say for sure right now is we just don't know. and that's what keeps me so, so interested. you can find my take every day on my facebook page and at foxnews.com foxnews.com. >>> coming up on "the real story" today tragic, tragic news about that little boy, the death of that boy shot and killed by a cleveland police officer. but guess what? who the city says is to blame for tamaritamir rice's death. >>> and more about jihadii john more on his past ties to alleged jihadists. we'll ask the family of steven sotloff, one of the american beheaded by isis, what they think we need to do to actually finally catch that guy. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fift

huckabee is likely to run again. marco rubio wants a piece of that space. rick perry wants a piece of that space.f it. scott walker. it's a crowded field right now. challenge for senator cruz and one of the reasons he decided to get ahead of everyone else is to be the breakaway candidate and raise more money. that's why he wanted kids to text that number. you text that number you're on his list. then you get fund-raising appeals and the like. he's trying to break away in a crowded field where at the moment he's lagging. one challenge is proving he's a candidate for president, not just for ted cruz rand paul gets in two weeks and marco rubio after that republicans for six years have said look at president obama. a freshman senator. he wasn't ready to be president. my question is will the republican electorate when you have a governor walker governor bush governor perry, maybe governor kasich will the republican electorate go to a freshman senator after many people in their party spent the last six years saying that was a mistake? >> peter, i want to ask you that very question. cruz is a freshman s

huckabee lives there. >> ben carson. >> ben carson lives there. >> see, everybody's making a good decision, move to florida. you could all move there, would be all right with me. >> you're obviously close to rick perry, as you mentioned. you're close to bobby jindal. >> yeah. >> what are you looking for in a 2016 candidate? >> i think the biggest issue we have as a country is the same as we had in florida when i got elected. it's all about jobs. we can't have a country that has higher corporate taxes, more regulation and anti-business attitude and think we're going to get jobs. if you're -- all these companies are competing globally. think about it. we don't care where they're headquartered. so we've got to elect somebody that says, my primary job is jobs. and we're going to figure out how to limit the growth of government. they've got to figure out how to cut corporate taxes, cut individual taxes, reduce regulation. we can't have more and more and more onerous regulations on our companies. take something as simple as obamacare and what we've done to our companies. you buy produce, right? you can buy florida produce or you can buy mexican produce. by the way, by federal law you're supposed to know w