mark halperin. >> i agree.e the night. i think the three people that had the best nights, jeb bush probably had his best debate, playing more for new hampshire than for iowa and i think both senator rubio and senator cruz were fine, but neither of them had their best night and neither of them really stepped up and sort of asserted themselves as in a trumpless university i am king of the hill. they were all fine but i think it's a nonevent and i think trump showed that he can take risks and not just survive but thrive. >> he is a -- the mechanics of his producing the entire night were masterful. >> interestingly enough i thought rubio and cruz, rubio on the rise in a lot of polls, i thought they had their worst night last night. i don't think it's a close call on either one of them. i mean, it didn't matter in the after debate because every single frank luntz focus group since 1924 has had marco rubio winning. cokie roberts, i was wondering what's your take away? >> i think the winner of the debate itself was me

to restore prosperity, to deal with these human issues, to make us as safe as possible. >> so mark halperinnton back in front of a new hampshire audience. deja vu all over again as yogi would have said. >> well, this is a guy who even rusty and warming up and i think we recognize he wasn't at his absolute best today as he gets used to the campaign trail, he is still a very formidable force for her. a lot of the questions about whether he overshadows her or about any controversies within the democratic electorate are largely put aside and as a fund-raiser and surrogate, both bill and chelsea clinton over the next couple weeks i think are going to be powerful forces within the democratic electorate. >> chris cillizza, what about donald trump taking on bill clinton and raising all the issues of his past infidelities and trying to make that a campaign issue against his wife? does that work? >> well, you know, mark laid out rightly the benefits of having bill clinton on your side. wasn't perfect today, but he's still a really gifted communicator and i think he sells her prime selling point, whic

mark: i'm mark halperin. d "with all due respect" to marco rubio, you are a shoe in. ♪ mark: double knot and velcro those babies, tonight we are going for a ride. i am here at a jeb bush campaign event in south carolina. first in the nation, first in the south. we will start with the controversy that is already well-worn, but it is the shoebio crisis. on the surface, this is about the high-heeled boots marco rubio wore in new hampshire on sunday, as have gotten a ton of attention since then. rubio's response to the subsequent media controversy says much about the current status and future prospects of his candidacy. for the unfamiliar, here is a quick catch-up. i do mean quick. >> marco rubio's shoes. a reporter for the new york times sent the photo of his footwear in new hampshire. he called them seriously fashionable, 248 retweets. rick tyler, the communications director for ted cruz said a vote for marco rubio is a vote for high-heeled booties. carly fiorina squeezed in with a shot of her own bit red a judg

. >> it's a problem of her own making, mark halperin.f you talk to people on wall street, they feel comfortable with hillary clinton as president. they feel she's pragmatic, not the populist that some of her rhetoric suggested she is. they feel like if she's elected president, they're going to be just fine. >> well, there's a comfort level there and bernie sanders is taking advantage of that every time somebody from wall street says exactly what you just said, sanders uses that as leverage. president obama -- there was an article in the "new york times" president obama got a lot of attention a attention about he and his aides seem to be tilting towards hillary clinton. other democratic voices in the party, joe biden speaking out in a way that seemed to tilt towards sanders. elizabeth warren same thing. so bernie sanders is not alone in this fight. he is doing a very skillful job of kind of consolidating not just the passion for change but the anti-clinton sentiment that exists in certain parts of the parties and he is proving to be a mor

we still have mark halperin with us. i was watching your show last night, as i always do, with all due respect, and some discussion was, yes, he's neck in neck with hillary clinton, but are his voters, is his core support too concentrated? without getting too deep in the weeds about how the caucus process works, he has college towns locked down. >> are they going to show up at the polls? >> or is it too many people in one place in one precinct and he wins those precincts and hillary clinton cleans up around the rest of the state? how do you see that shaking out, mark? >> his campaign has been aware of that from the beginning and they're trying to get college students to not caucus in the three main college towns in this state now go home to caucus to spread the support around, to take advantage of the caucus rules. i find his supporters to be at those events for all the right reasons. the reason you want someone to come to your event if you're bernie sanders is you believe in his agenda, you want to see his vision of ame

begin this evening with a conversation about politics in iowa an new hampshire and we talk to mark halperin and john hellemann. >> there is already something of a panic going on right now in the democratic establishment given the way secretary clinton has been flipping in the last couple of weeks but there are be a full scale four alarm panic that goes on in the democratic establishment if she loses the first two and there will be people who start asking questions about john kerry, about joe biden, about al gore, about elizabeth warren. those names will all be mentioned in the wake if she loses the firs two. >> rose: we continue this evening with david martin, chief national security correspondent for cbs news talking about covering the pentagon and the relationship between the pentagon and the white house. >> the white house felt that the pentagon was leading them down the trail to another vietnam-like quagmire. and on the pentagon side of the river, all the players have changed since thenment but it's still basically the same people at the white house. so i think the white house is always

i want to go to my friend mark halperin to take the interview in his own direction. rk, where are you? looking at then schedules of secretary clinton, senator sanders, the kinds of talking to, what is a tell you about the demography or geography in the last week? kathie: well, i think hillary clinton is making a hard pitch to younger women. i think we are seeing that with some of the groups she is meeting with and talking to, which is interesting. young women are not necessarily really heavy voters. they are not reliable in getting their.ying to push i think what bernie sanders is doing and needs to do is make sure that people see him around the state, not just in college towns. we got him, for example, on the east coast of iowa, and clinton in places like that. that is important. you can't afford to run the board in a college town. you have to have support statewide. hil, as you talk to people i deal with people in both candidates, i wonder if you are sensing anything in the body language. are the equally relaxed completely confident, equally upset? how would you com

mark: i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to marco rubio, you are a shoe in. ♪ tonight, we are going for bush'sf a lineup for jeb campaign event in south carolina. we will start with the controversy that is already well-worned but might require a little bit of explaining. crisis.e shoebia on the surface, this is about the high-heeled boots marco rubio wore in new hampshire on sunday which got a lot of attention. rubio's response to the subsequent media controversy says much about the current status and future prospects of his candidacy. for the unfamiliar, here is a quick catch-up. >> marco rubio's shoes. a reporter for the new york times sent the photo of his footwear in new hampshire. rick tyler, the key medications director for ted cruz -- a vote for marco rubio, is a vote for high-heeled booties. stories appeared on several outlets. finally, rubio had an up and called the fascination of his feet crazy. he wants to talk about real issues. the boots may make a comeback pretty soon. stay tuned. today, se

managing editor of bloomberg politics, mark halperin and president and ceo walter. n. >> i gave a b plus to bernie sanders and b to hillary clinton. she acted in some ways like the underdog. she's the heavy favorite to be the democratic nominee. bernie sanders, you see it in the polling and on the ground in iowa and new hampshire it's been his game plan to win those two states and see where he is. he displayed himself last night. he's more confident than he's ever been and her campaign is still struggling for a strategy in the final two weeks. >> you know, probably the most con ten, part of the debate came when the question turned to wall street reform and bernie sanders actually was asked a question on how he would differ from the issue on wall street reform to hillary clinton. this is how it went. >> first differences, i don't take money from big banks. i don't get personal speaking fees from goldman and sachs. >> where we disagree is the comments senator sanders made that don't just effect me. but he's criticized president obama from taking donations from wall str

mark halperin, this is probably the fourth or fifth state poll we've shone over the past two da days. do we have a redistribution of the establishment vote? are people giving up on marco saying hey, you know what, maybe we need to go back to our first choice? >> they're not giving up on him but there's an incredible equalization in new hampshire and some extent nationally. >> marco is losing. he's losing four points here. he was losing in the florida poll three or four points other candidates seem to be going up. we are seeing marco rubio in every poll going down. i'm not picking on him. i'm asking you. you're in new hampshire on the ground, why is this guy losing support? >> well, in part because i think the other three establishment candidates are all moving up. they're all beating each other up and rubio has taken a fair amount of beating including by ted cruz. rubio is the odds on favor to finish third in iowa and at this point here in new hampshire and the states that follow, while rubio may have lost a little bit, the great thing is equalization. all of them are fighting hard an

. >> in pensacola, florida managing editor of bloomberg politics, mark halperin. >> i do want to talk to mark briefly. >> really briefly because ge is leaving connecticut and bernie sanders and hillary clinton are neck and neck in iowa so go ahead, quick. you have 20 seconds. i was in the stages of the unbelievable presidential race in early november. i saw reagan come to pence cola twi -- pensacola in 1980 and saw the crowds. i guess seeing it in your own hometown, i can't believe i'm saying this. i don't get it. it's nothing i saw with reagan, bush or any other candidate. what i saw last night. >> it's not one of the biggest i've been to but one of the biggest i've been to. people have always wanted to come see him and joe, the biggest thing in pensacola in a long time but that's true in the northeast when he appears in massachusetts and the south. trump does not have every advantage in the world but there's no other candidate in any race in either party. >> so my friend called me up at 10:00 in the morning yesterday morning and said people were already lined up around the civic cen

sot: mark halperin, nbc news / bloomberg, political analyst relationship with goldman sachs, there is no worse brand name for the populous of the republican party than that" nats born in the usa donald trump ....who's playing born in the usa at his rallies to mock cruz being born in canada... is calling the cruz finance story a very big thing sot: donald trump :53-:59 "i know nothing about it. but i hear it's a very big thing. i hope he solves it. i think he's a nice solved." for months but at the center of seven debaters tonight, can the texas senator stay nice, with trump using the birth issue and now finances? sot: matt lewis, the daily caller 1:10-1:17 "if there is a debate question and ted cruz sort of demurs and refuses to say anything critical about donald trump now i think he'll look kind of weak" and time is running out for damage control --- reporter live tag --- this debate site is not far from the church in charleston where nine died last summer. mass shootings, guns, race, isis and the economy could be issues here but all eyes will be on trump and cruz i'm steve handelsma

mark halperin and john heilemann are in new hampshire.are the managing editors of bloomberg politics and the cohost of "with all due respect." tell me where hillary clinton stands today in new hampshire, and what she can do to change that dynamic? >> well, she's well behind. you know, there's a poll out this week that showed her 30 behind. no one thinks that's where she is, but she is behind. iowa has gotten worse for her as well. she has to do i think three things at once. he has to stop sanders' momentum. she needs to started having good news days and a closing argument that's a positive one and a negative one. she's in trouble in both those states. if she loses either numerically or in terms of perception, both iowa and new hampshire, there's not a political analyst in the world who can tell you just how hard that will be for her going forward but it will be hard. >> rose: that seems to go against what i've read before, that she's built a firewall in the south, starting with south carolina. >> well, i think, charlie, the problem is, th

mark halperin, let's move back to the debate.last night on your report card you've not done before. you gave out an a, a-minus. >> the performances have been strong. >> question for the candidate? >> votings is going to start in two weeks and all across the country they're going to come. you found a lot of support. you've got a lot of undecided voters in iowa and across the country. >> i think we're going to do well here. we have a tremendous group of voters going to vote. you know by a long shot they're the most loyal. we have people who say you can do anything. i say i love my people. i do love my people. i thought cruz hurt himself last night badly. he looked very stridant, to me. i think you're wrong about that. people are not going to like him based on the list. i can tell you one thing if you live in new york you're not going to like him. he gave up about 20 million votes. >> a lot, if you're believing what you're going to vote. they live paycheck to paycheck. >> true. what can you tell them about a trump presidency that wo

mark halperin and john heilemann are hosting. donald trump will be one of their guests.an see the interview at 5:00 new york time on bloomberg television. france, britain, united states asking for emergency meeting of the united nations security onncil, wanting the attack syrian towns lifted so people can get humanitarian aid. said a teacher was swept away by an avalanche in police custody, investigation opened for involuntary manslaughter charges. three people killed at the ski resort, to students, and the third was a ukrainian skier. nasa awarded contracts to three companies to hold cargo to the international space station, orbital 80 k, and atrra nobody won the bids -- k, sera nevada won the bids. stated an attack in indonesia happen inside a starbucks. as far as we know, the attack occurred near a starbucks in jakarta, five attackers and two others killed, 20 injured. i am mark compton -- crumpton. recapt: let's get quick on markets, energy and health care shares leading a rebound, dow climbing to 27 points, the 227est game -- climbing in somethe biggest gain time. s

donald trump joins mark halperin and john heilemann on "with all due respect" at 6:00 p.m. eastern. rachel maddow sits down with hillary clinton at 9:00 p.m. eastern. finds out what's next for her campaign. and at 11:00 p.m., chris matthews will have post debate highlights and analysis. >>> new revelations about drug lord el chapo's time on the run. newly released text messages show the cartel kingpin's apparent infatuation with a mexican soap opera actress. it's the same actress who helped arrange el chapo's secret interview with actor sean penn. nbc's jacob rascon has details. >> reporter: it plays like the telenovela that made kate del castillo famous. a larger than life cartel leader on the run, seemingly smitten with a mexican mega star. planning secret meetings in the mountains. in a series of text messages intercepted by the mexican government, joaquin el chapo guszman reaches out to tell castillo. i am very eager to meet and become great friends. you are the best in the world. i will take care of absolutely everything. it's so moving that you say you will take care of me, de

. -- i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann. with all due respect to joe biden, it is nice to have you back. greetings from pasadena, california. on the show tonight, the president's last hurrah, and gop escalation. first, corey seeger on the rise -- bernie sanders on the rise. he is leading in new hampshire and in iowa. 14% in a monmouth poll and 5% in a iowa poll. shade joe biden hours and a past 24 stunning ratcheting up of rhetoric by clinton and her daughter, chelsea, on the campaign trail today, and there's only one conclusion -- the prospect of a sanders sweep states in thewo nomination process is that real. at a campaign event today, she cranked things up to 11. >> do not talk to me about standing up to corporate interests. i have the scars to show for it. i am proud of every single one of them. we have a big difference over guns. i think it is a telling difference. if you're going to go around saying you stand up to special interests, stand up for the most powerful special interests, the gun lobby. roll medicare, medica

mark: and i'm mark halperin. "with all due respect" to north korea, your latest claim is kim jong un-believable. ♪ mark: on our playlist tonight, "you have a friend in me." but first, "o, canada," the tune donald trump is sort of humming about ted cruz. in an interview with the washington post, the paper asked him about the white house eligibility of cruz, who was born not in the u.s., the land of our neighbors to the north. trump responded by saying that other people have raised that concern about cruz. while he did not make the claim himself, he also did not take the opportunity to swat it down. trump repeated it in an interview that aired today. >> there is a legal mind on the conservative side that has been saying that he has concerns that ted cruz may not be qualified to be president of the united states because of where he was born. something you have talked about before with barack obama. something i suspect we will be hearing about in the next couple weeks. is there any validity to those claims? mr. trump:

. >> mark halperin is with us. gentlemen, good morning. they join us from iowa. >> good morning, erica. >> let's start off with the e-mails. mark, i know you were saying yesterday on "morning joe" there is a lot of chatter among fbi agents. what are you hearing could come down the line? >> well, look, what is going on with secretary clinton is involving not just her, but staff. we know the people at the fbi and justice department are looking at it not as a criminal investigation, but question whether because of the private server, she handled everything correctly. this disclosure will heighten to interview members of her staff and secretary clinton. it doesn't mean she will be indicted, but from a political point of view it is she is called to talk to the fbi, while fighting for the presidency, it will happen into concerns that kristen welker's piece that it does matter to voters. >> john, is this something we are talking about or is this something that voters in iowa or voters in new hampshire or voters in south carolina, is this something

mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann. with all respect to caucus-goers him up away your phones, stop texting candidates, and experience the caucus, for god sakes. ♪ john: we are here again bloomberg politics mission control at downtown des moines marriott. roughly 72 hours before iowans kick off the 2016 election season. today, a dozen residential candidates stand out against the cornfield in every corner of the state. -- not counting the army of surrogates. do point, rapids to it was a day of rallies. you stand up and fight for me, i will fight for you as hard as i can. >> the 20th century was not just as good, it was a new american century. >> i am going to go all the way. >> when i sit in the chair of the oval office for the first time january 15, i will spin around because you may be president. christie: yes, we can transform this country and we have the potential of all this great country has. sanders: if you are looking for someone that has a background for people, i hope you will caucus for me at 7:00 p.m. on monda

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to all the other candidates here in iowa, today, yet again, it is all about the donald. happy donald trump did what day, sports fans. iowa caucus mission control, the downtown des moines marriott. the world is still in a frothy lather after donald trump's announcement yesterday that he does not intend to take part in the foxnews debate here tomorrow. donald makes his decision from a position of strength, according to a brand new online poll with our partners at purple strategies. he leaves the field with 34%, trailed by marco rubio at 14% and ted cruz at 12%. one bit of not so good news -- and that is a-- lot of voters -- say they could still change their mind. you can find the full results at bloomb bloombergpolitics.com. rush limbaugh said "in this business, when the media calls, you answers, and when the immediate wants you, you go." trump is so far outside this game, the rules. he's never been a player. from an altogether different perspective, even josh e

mark: i am mark halperin. there is only one ticket that matters tonight.e show tonight, trumpapalooze and trumparoo. we are outside the base center arena in pensacola. donald trump is holding a massive rally tonight. very mellow -- barry manilow has a concert in the next couple weeks. right now, it's all about the

. -- i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann.e respect to joe biden, it is nice to have you back. greetings from pasadena, california. on the show tonight, the president's last hurrah, and gop escalation. first, corey seeger on the rise -- bernie sanders on the rise. he is leading in new hampshire and in iowa. he is up

he will be a with mark halperin and john heilemann on with all due respect.l news 24 hours a day powered by our 2400 journalists and more than 150 news bureaus around the world. david: let's look at today's biggest movers. copper climbing 1.5%, the most in two weeks after 10 intervened in its stock market. andinum and zinc also gain oil dropped to a two-week low on speculation that the government report showed u.s. crude inventories slide last week. the nation's biggest fossil fuel trade group delivered a state of energy -- about the keystone xl pipeline. he expressed a lot of disappointment that the obama administration did not let that go through. about energy infrastructure at a time when this country needs to be building more pipelines to transport oil and gas across the country. more broadly, he took game at some administration policies. aim at some administration policies. he cited upcoming mandates on methane emissions, things of that nature. david: that is what's in the report. , this write in your piece administration has been fairly kind to oil and

where does this put people like mark halperin and john heller men, who have become the face of bloombergolitics as they talk about the potential of their boss, former new york mayor michael bloomberg, running for president? annie: that is a good question. it has been a question for reporters working at that outlet a while. at city hall, there was a bloomberg reporter that covered him the entire time he was there. it is often an awkward thing to have your paycheck cut by the person you are covering. i do not think it is a situation any journalist wants to be in. [indiscernible] a memo was put out, saying anything referring to his potential run has to go through standards. she had a quote saying, we have a holding stories that should cover many eventualities. a holding story. that holding story is, clinton confident there will be no need for bloomberg to run. so, it seems like the message from the media site of his operations is, we are going to play down -- this is part of why am talking about i don't know if they wanted it, now. the media side seems to be downplaying that this is actuall

the managing editor of bloomberg politics, mark halperin.bernie sanders of vermont. great to have you. >> it's great to have you here. >> you've been working it. my god! you're tireless. >> we're off to nevada in a few minutes. >> are you really? okay. i want to just touch on where we began here. you talk about wall street, breaking up the big banks. how would you do that if you had to? >> you have the secretary of treasury ascertain which banks have the potential of being too big to fail, which banks, if they got into trouble, could bring down much of the economy. you ascertain which banks are in that position, and in fact you break them up. >> senator, that's most of the big banks now. too big to fail has gotten even bigger now. >> that's right, joe. that's a very important point. people don't know this. we bailed out the large banks because they were too big to fail. three out of the four largest are significantly larger than when we bailed them out. not only that, not only is there a danger of more risk in bailouts the danger is the conc

mark: and i'm mark halperin.due respect" to north korea, your latest claim is kim jong un-believable. ♪ tonight,our playlist you have a friend in me. tuneirst, "o, canada" the donald trump is sort of humming about ted cruz. in an interview with the washington post, the paper asked him about the white house eligibility of

and mark halperin says trump is like a tapeworm invading the body of the republican party. adding trump has hair like tinsel on a discarded christmas tree. and dismissing "the national review" entirely is donald trump. >> the circulation is way down. not very many people read it anymore. i guess they want a little more publicity. it is pretty much a dead paper. >> and tonight, the publisher of "the national review" saying the republican committee has disinvited the magazine as a role from the february 25th debate here on cnn. the republican national convention cited a special edition of the magazine as the reason. the paper is calling it a quote small price to pay for speaking the truth about the donald. >>> in the meantime, ten days to go to the iowa caucuses. and 30% of likely caucus goers say they are behind trump. there is a caveat to the numbers. if you factor in people who attend the caucus in 2012, ted cruz actually takes a narrow lead. that lead is very much within the poll's margin of error. sara marurray has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump took

mark: and i'm mark halperin. and with all due respect there is a new sweater in town.rom our bloomberg politics studio. four days until the iowa caucuses. and there is a new early state pull out today in iowa for donald trump leading with 32%, of eight point for the same poll earlier this month. senator ted cruz is in second. marco

mark: i'm mark halperin.spect to marco rubio, you are a shoe in. ♪ tonight, we are going for bush'sf a lineup for jeb campaign event in south carolina. we will start with the controversy that is already well-worned but might require a little bit of explaining. crisis.e shoebia on the surface, this is about the high-el

mark halperin made a fine observation that donald trump's brand is strength. that's not a political or partisan brand so by facing down the fox press release -- it really wasn't about megyn kelly -- >> megyn kelly was part of it. he was going to show up until then he went ballistic. out and- >> it withere's a good argument going ballistic. i've got two more of them and i would be upset if someone sent out a press release the night before if i put in 72, 96, a week's worth of preparation on question sets and order and rehearsal and all of a sudden someone writes press rea lease that sends lthe leader out the back door. i wouldn't do that. but someone screwed at fox. >> speaking of fox and bill o'reilly, more of the interview. take a listen. >> we've had six debates so far. every online poll said i've won every one, especially the last one, with the new york values, which was horrible what ted cruz said. but the democrats are all finished with their debates. they had six. they were hidden behind football games and every other thing. they're all finished with the

all of that after the mark: i'm a mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. respect" both to mother nature and barry manilow -- ♪ looks like we made it john: happy week before the iowa caucuses. a big hawkeye state hello from our new home for the next week. the bloomberg politics "with all due respect" studio at the downtown area. seven days until democrats and republicans kick off election season with the iowa caucuses.

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mark: and i'm mark halperin. respect" to north korea, your latest claim is kim jong un-believable. ♪ mark: on our playlist tonight, "you have a friend in me." but first, "o, canada," the tune donald trump is sort of humming about ted cruz. in an interview with the washington post, the paper asked him about the white house eligibility of cruz, who was born not in the u.s., the land of our neighbors to the north.

. ♪ mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann.ue respect" both to mother nature and barry manilow -- ♪ looks like we made it john: happy week before the iowa caucuses. a big hawkeye state hello from our new home for the next week. the bloomberg politics "with all due respect" studio at the des moines downtown marriott. there are only seven days until democrats and republicans kick off election season with the iowa caucuses. we will be following every second of the closing arguments, th

mark: and i'm mark halperin. and with all due respect there is a new sweater in town. hello again from our bloomberg politics studio. four days until the iowa caucuses. and there is a new early state pull out today in iowa for donald trump leading with 32%, of eight point for the same poll earlier this month. senator ted cruz is in second. five.rubio in third, up other polls show trump leading in new hampshire and south carolina. that is the statistical prelude to tonight's republican presidential candidate debate, here in des moines at the iowa event center. is notknow, donald trump planning to be at this foxnews debate. he is holding his own competing event to raise money for veterans. we will talk about that in a minute. the other white house hopefuls will have a high-stakes evening of cuts, thrusts, and hail marys. what are you looking for? john: i am looking for how many different types of weapons are deployed against ted cruz, and how many cut, lacerate, or bruise him. he will be the target on stage tonight as the cold front runner. everyone will try to take it d

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann.l due respect to all the other candidates here in iowa, today, yet again, it is all about the donald. happy donald trump did what day, sports fans. iowa caucus mission control, the downtown des moines marriott. the world is still in a frothy lather after donald trump's announcement yesterday that he does

mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann.h all due respect to joe biden, it is nice to have you back. greetings from pasadena, california. on the show tonight, the president's last hurrah, and gop escalation. but first, bernie sanders on the rise. he his first election cycle, is leaving hillary clinton in major polls in new hampshire and in iowa. he is up 14% in a monmouth poll

mark: i am mark halperin. there is only one ticket that matters tonight. on the show tonight, trumpapalooze and trumparoo. we are outside the base center arena in pensacola. donald trump is holding a massive rally tonight. very mellow -- barry manilow has a concert in the next couple weeks. right now, it's all about the republican candidate. we've talked to trump supporters as they arrived all day. we will have that later in the show. first, our bloomberg politics iowa poll shows ted cruz and donald trump leading the pack in the hawkeyes they. --hawkeye state. our has gone up 6% from december poll. trump is up 1%. a long-awaited development in the race between trump and cruise has occurred. until now, he has held his tongue when it comes to donald trump, but that detente is over as john predicted it would be,. here is the back-and-forth between the top gop rivals in the last 24 hours. >> what is he getting at there? >> i think he may shift in his new rallies to playing "new york, new york." he embodies new york values. the donald seems to be rattled. >> wh

. >> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john helemann. >> iowa caucus goers, put away the phones, pay attention to the candidates and experience the caucuses for god's sake. >>> happy friday, sports fans. we're here, mission control, downtown des moines marriott, roughly 72 hours before eiowa kicks it off. cornfields, every corner of the state, holding 42 events, not counting the army of surrogates they dispatched from the trail. sioux city, rally cries. >> if you stand up for me monday night, i will stand up and fight for you as hard as i can for the next four years. >> the 21st century wasn't as good as the 20th certain tree. it was better. there is what we can do better. >> you send me with a win to my back, i'm going to go all the way. >> when i sit in the oval office in january 2017, i won't say gee whiz -- >> we stand up together, yes. we can transform this country. and yes, we can fulfill the potential. this great country has. >> if you're looking for someone with a servant's heart and a backbone and heart for people, i hope you'll caucus for me at 7:00 a.m., excuse me, don't go at 7:00

. ♪ >> i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann.due respect to all the other candidates here in iowa, today, yet again, it is all about the donald. john: happy donald trump did what day, sports fans. iowa caucus mission control, the downtown des moines marriott. lee political world is still in a frothy lather after donald trump's announcement yesterday that he does not intend to take part in the foxnews debate here tomorrow.

. >>> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann. >> with all due respect to donald trump i'm not just a president, i'm a member. good evening from the water street cafe in new hampshire and happy national hugging day sports fans. mark? who is definitely not hugging, donald trump and ted cruz. these numbers are just out from cnn, donald trump leads cruz 37 to 26. last night cruz tried out a new live attack on trump claiming he has the support of the dreaded washington establishment. this morning cruz tied trump to amnesty by sending a 2-year-old tweet from the donald. cruz opened up the arsenal. >> the language he is saying on the campaign trail does not match how he lived the first 60 years of his life. the first 60 years of his life he supported partial birth abortion. now he claims to be pro life. as a voter i have seen enough people, enough candidates, enough politicians say things on the campaign trail that they didn't follow through on that when everyone of his campaign promises is directly opposite where his record was that is troubling. >> on the counter attack, trump with snar