jane timm joins us now.rning. >> good morning. >> we just saw some amazing tributes coming in for the former first lady. and do you think that mrs. reagan's passing will have any impact on the gop candidates? i mean this has been quite an uncivil gop season. what do you think it's going to do? >> you really have to wonder if ronald reagan would recognize his own party these days. i mean, the hostility and these debates or lack thereof. crude jokes and this -- ronald reagan raised taxes. ronald reagan compromised. ronald reagan did a lot of things his party now says they're not a big fan of. we saw maybe six months ago the first early debate at the reagan library in front of his air force one, i think the party has come a long way since then, since reagan and since that debate. >> not quite ronald reagan style, we do know that. let's move on to michigan. we had the democratic debate last night and of course the voting is coming up in michigan, and bernie sanders, how did he do in the debate? do you think it's

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. >> msnbc's jane timm has been following the events from cpac. jane, explain, did rubio's speech score him any points among these voters? how did it resonate? >> reporter: absolutely, i think he did very well today. he was incredibly well received. i would say he had the best response of any candidate who spoke including ted cruz and this is sort of ted cruz's crowd. this is people who identify as very conservative. the people who we see in exit polls go predominantly for ted cruz and the very people that marco rubio needs to pull to his team if he's going to get the second place slot and be the candidate to go up against donald trump. of course, donald trump was an easy target here for him. there were a lot of digs, some subtle, some not so at the gop front-runner because he didn't show up and he really frustrated a lot of conservatives who said, you know, we wanted to see him. we may not agree with him but he wanted him to show up in front of this group of thousands of conservatives, many young, the people who knock on doors and buoy the conserv

. >> msnbc political reporter jane timm is here. >> good morning. >> those are going to be collectors know. >> if you put those up on ebay those are gone in no time flat. i want to go over to the war of words over the wives, donald trump/ted cruz, it's gotten so nasty. almost sounds like they're headed to the ok corral. >> i mean this is another completely invented controversy. >> i wanted to ask you that, because people are saying is it all for show? >> i mean, it certainly looks like it about earned media. this ad was never done by ted cruz or anyone supporting ted cruz. it was done by somebody who was opposing donald trump. this ad of melania using a nude photo shoot she had done when she was a model. sort of smearing her a little bit, but it wasn't about ted cruz. there are people who are aligned with ted cruz and donald trump used it to blame ted cruz for this. and just sort of get into this attack on his wife. >> so do you think this is real though? it almost seems like comedy. i mean, i see what they're talking about, i see the points on both sides here. the fact that we have p

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. >> and i am joined now by msnbc political reporter jane timm to talk about politics.this anti-trump campaign has really seemed to be playing into trump's hand in the past, right? so what if -- just what if the establishment, the very people that his supporters dislike embrace donald trump, could that work against him? >> as you say, donald trump's sort of appeal he's fighting the status quo, but there are people who don't like trump. he's a very divisive character. he won't get everybody. that guy still doesn't like me, you know? >> he'll call you out. if he thinks you don't like him. >> he's still campaigning against jeb bush. but what keeps that image going. he'll keep that image going until he gets into office if he does. >> it's interesting as to how this plays out. we have time but it's getting heated. let's shift to cuba. how big of a deal that president obama is there? >> this is a big deal. a historic move. republicans will noisily campaign against how horrible this is, a lot of people do remember the very oppressive regime. but i think they're looking to do f

getting a lot in today because we've got to make time for msnbc political reporter jane timm.to see you today. >> good morning. >> okay, so president obama, on this historic trip in cuba right now, he touches down, and donald trump says, you know what? raul castro was not there, you should have turned that plane around and headed right back. i mean, is this something that voters want to hear? or is this the kind of talk that they fear? >> you know, it's an easy rally. it throws some read meat to the base. everyone likes to complain about obama when you're running for a nomination but i think the obama administration has made it pretty clear that they're appealing to the people of cuba and it's not about style for them. it's about promoting democracy through appealing to the actual people. >> i know but sometimes it, when donald trump speaks, the things that he says, and granted he is speaking to his crowd and a lot of them love this, but to others, and they hear that, they think that is not presidential in any form or fashion. >> it can be messy -- >> to seen have that mentali

let's head now to jane timm in national harbor. another good morning to you. how big a deal is trump's cancelation because he would have been the opening speaker in 20 minutes or so. >> yeah, if trump had kept his commitment this room would have been packed behind me. you're just starting to see early birds fill in for some early panels and then later we'll have the first key note at 11:30. that's a late morning for cpac here. i think people are pretty disappointed. this really isn't trump's main base but these are the people who bowie the conservative movement, 365 days of the year. they really wanted the front-runner of their party to come and answer their questions. and as we know organizers tell us those questions were something the campaign disagreed on with organizers, maybe he didn't want to answer the questions and didn't want to face organizers the way they wanted to be faced. >> all right. so that is the big deal. he says it was a scheduling conflict. but do we know when that rally was scheduled in wichita, kansas? wasn't that a late schedule? >> it

. >> msnbc's jane timm at cpac. appreciate it. >>> on the campaign trail it's nonstop with a schedule that can be grueling and the frantic pace taking a toll on marco rubio. take a listen to what he told his folks at the rally. >> my voice sound okay? i'm holding on to it, barely. i'm trying to cut my words. i'm like a pitcher on a pitch count, you know? i usually am much louder. but i'm hurting. all right. >> all right. so retail politics takes its toll and certainly can do that on a voice for some. joining us now, tallahassee correspondent for the associated press, brendan farrington, political pollster and analyst and host at news radio 610, wiod for miami. and former state representative anna reef as logan of florida, a republican in office but switched her party affiliation to democrat back in 2014. it's great to have all three of you with me. rubio says he's hurting. we can hear it in his voice. but florida is really make or break for his campaign. he swears he can win it here. but polling starts this weekend.

msnbc's jane timm and "usa today" washington correspondent paul singer. talking about it, when donald trump is talking about rape uses and criminals in mexico, and you see this crescendoed if i can make a verb into this, was last night inevitable given the credit rick rhetoric of donald trump? >> if nothing else, inevitable given the tone of the entire election so far. in this case donald trump gets to do this moneying what he's already done, put out a tweet saying basically, we have been the aggrieved party here. we had freedom of speech shut down by unruly thugs. that really plays very much into donald trump's message that there is a section of the american population that is being silenced. and i think -- i'm not blaming trump for any of this necessarily. the point being that his message is about sort of the silenced majority as he would call it speaking out, a kind of eruption from the grassroots. there is a sense of that that is a very passionate kind of yawp that in crowds can become violent. i think it was essentially inevitable, particularly over

nbc's jane timm. >>> as voters weigh in today, kansas, kentucky, louisiana, alaska and maine the gopes have scattered around the country to make last-minute pitches to supporters. john kasich had a campaign event in traverse city, michigan. michigan which holds its primary a tuesday is vital for kasich and other candidates who hope to pick up momentum ahead of the big march 15th primaries in ohio, florida, illinois, missouri and north carolina. >>> and back with me right now in memphis tennessee is elise jordan and from d.c. robert traynham. let's talk about michigan and what it could mean for some of the candidates. elise, kasich needs to do well here. the midwestern primaries are built in a sense for kasich if he's ever going to make a move. is there any chance he has traction in here or kansas or any of the other midwestern states? >> i think there's definitely a chance that kasich has a strong showing in michigan. his campaign has pointed out and rightfully so the states that kasich are going to do best in are the states that are following, you know, last week's super tuesday. ka

i want to talk to my colleague jane timm who is back in new york on this. o desire to get out of the race. so this might be a surprise for some. >> this is a pretty big turnaround. just this morning his aides were telling me he was in debate prep, and now they're telling me he won't be going to that debate and he tells costa he doesn't see a path forward. there was no clear path forward. his campaign was very freely admitting that yesterday, that they don't see a path to win, they don't see a path to get enough delegates to make a dent in this race. their supporters wanted him in the race and they wanted to live up to those supporters' desires. but as we've seen in this race, there is a very big difference between someone's facebook fans and their actual voters. i think carson is clearly coming to the table that there really is not a path that's going to get him through this. >> okay, but jane, also, from your piece, there is a report that there are folks, elders within the campaign, that approached him about running for marco rubio's seat. true? >> his camp