joining us today, "wall street journal" columnist, kim strassel, ben domenech is publisher of the federalist, easy sez the editor of vo g.com and ed o'keefe covers politics for the "washington post". >> finally voting is going to happen. >> finally. >> dickerson: what are we going to learn even? >> maybe the million dollars question or the billion dollar question because it is donald trufer is what marriage was talking about, does he have an operation out there? are the people who are lining up for five hours to get tickets, are they devoted celeb watchers or are they devoted caucus goardz? and if he, it is particularly numbers out this week where people had they, has the campaign contacted you and who. >> they say they have been contacted by the cruz campaign, even by the bush campaign, by the rubio campaign, not so many people said that trump had reached out to them. >> dickerson: they are all reaching out to him, though. >> yes, they are. >> dickerson: ezra, what do you make, what are you looking for out of iowa? >> i am actually watching rubio, we know it is going to be trump or cruz run

kim strassel, thank you for joining us at the table this morning. >>> washington's biggest newspaper is blasting bernie sanders this morning. "the washington post" editorial running a, quote, fiction-filled campaign. it labels the vermont senator as not a brave truth-teller and aany other politicians. sanders and hillary clinton are making campaign stops today if n s is there. good morning, nancy. >> reporter: good morning. that editorial primarily took issue with sanders plans to government. they say he has not adequately explained how he would pay for all of that. it's the same case clinton has been making, but it doesn't seem to bother hisanother thousand of them showed up for him last night. >> i give you bernie sanders. >> reporter: stumping with susan sarandon in masonted clinton for leaving the state. >> my opponent is not in iowa she is raising money fromadelphia investment firm. frankly, i would rather be here with you.ders had just returned from his own trip to washington for a 45-minute sit-down with the president. >> we talked about the mexican issues. we talkedcy. we tal

. >>> "wall street journal" kim strassel is with us. she writes a column that appears weekly in the newspaper and pleased to have you. welcome. >> nice to be here. >> could this be a big mistake for donald trump? >> i think it is. this is the key moment for iowa voters. they are tuned in. they are paying a lot of attention to this one debate, back on the number of debates so there is a lot of focus on this one. we know 4 out of 10 of those voters still say they could change their minds. donald trump is going to be up on that stage and all of his going to be leveling charges at him and he will be not be there. >> do you think there will be an empty chair? >> i think a possibility. >> fox and rnc said they won't have an empty podium there. do you think, as karl rove made the point in "wall street journal" today, it could be enough to blow his lead, that it is a small enough lead in iowa that can could be the margin of difference? >> the problem is we don't really know what his lead is. his real lead. the number one question that everyone