ms. fiorina: nice to see you. josh: this happened pretty quick, a couple weeks from the primary. ms. fiorina: i am really pleased. in another set of polls i am tired for 5th in new hampshire with a bunch of governors who have spent tens of millions of dollars and i have not spend a dime yet. i am more pleased by the robust ground game we have here. the number of great endorsements including our state chairman. not a single thought has been cast. the pundits have been wrong about this election from the very beginning. i am counting on the people in new hampshire to send me out of josh: how accurate is -- do you think the polls will be on election night? ms. fiorina: remember the election in kentucky last year, there was a gubernatorial election in kentucky. the polls, 24 hours before the election, where 17 points off. if polls were accurate, we would have already had it president hillary clinton and president rudy giuliani -- none of those things happen. when i know and what i think the people of new hampshire know is that the people of new hampshire have a very important responsibilit

ms. carly fiorina! cheers and applause] ms. fiorina: hi. great to see you all. thank you. good to see all that energy after lunch. have you ever noticed how politics kind of it covered like a sport these days? is like a gain. my team versus your team. who is up, who is down. maybe that is because politics is become an inside game. politicians have been playing it all their lives. we have people like hillary clinton who sit inside the system, raking in millions by selling access and influence. we have people like donald trump sitting outside the system making billions by buying up people like hillary clinton. that is the game, folks. that's been what's going on for a long time. the political establishment and crony capitalism. it's not a game most of us can play, unless you win powerball. the game is not working for us anymore. this has been a country of limitless possibility for me. i have traveled and lived and worked all over the world. i have done business and charity and policy work on every continent and virtually every country for decades. i am keenly aware that it i

ms. fiorina: i have no idea. (chuckling) >>ms. fiorina: i have no idea. and i see, i mean, i don't doubt that donald trump and ted cruz have support. that's not what i'm saying. what i am saying is that there are loads of people who don't answer pollster's calls. i'm one of 'em. maybe you are too. >>sabrina: i am. >>ms. fiorina: and so i don't know who they're callin'. but here's what i know. people appreciate that i'm not a politician. i'm not an insider. donald trump is the ultimate insider, by the way. he's not a politician, but he's a crony capitalist. he's made billions buying off politicians. people know we have to do something different. and they're looking for leadership that isn't afraid to challenge the system in washington d.c. and that's the leadership i offer. >>sabrina: so what's the strategy to win iowa? >>ms. fiorina: well, i don't need to win and i don't think gonna surprise. and i do think i'm gonna come out of here with the wind at my back. >>sabrina: mike huckabee, on the other hand, actually won in 2008, but this time, eh, havin' some

ms. fiorina: you didn't want to come along? really? mark: the daycare sent an email to parents and explained, we were simply invited to meet a presidential candidate and did not know the content of the press conference or even that a press conference was scheduled. to no one's surprise, the youngsters became a little distracting. ms. fiorina: this is most competition i've ever had. mark: and after 15 minutes chaperones pulled the kids off the stage. did you feel like they were kind >> definitely a photo op . somebody identified a group of kids. politics 101 to get some of that stuff, right? elizabeth: a spokeswoman for the campaign said fiorina was unavailable thursday but is speaking today at the march for life in washington, d.c. and , will likely address the situation with reporters then. shaina: fiorina does not make the top of the gop pack in the caucus-goers. 37% support. ted cruz in second with 26%. and ben carson in fourth with 6% support. on the democratic side, bernie sanders surged to an 8-point lead over hillary clinton. ma

ms. fiorina: i accept. [applause] ms. hank you, first of all, and to sacrifice and the sacrifice of your son. nation'staying on our honor when we do not honor and respect and care for and lift up those who serve and those who have served. there is no more heartbreaking, and raging, infuriating example of the professional political governmentn inept then how we deal with our veterans and how we deal with those have served. example of your power. let me tell you a brief story and then i will return to the specifics. remember when we learned about the scandal of the v.a.? veterans were dying before they had received an appointment. bureaucrats were cooking the books. the american people were so outraged. the citizens of this nation were outraged, you used your power. this political class moved. in three weeks, this congress passed a bill. a bipartisan bill that sealed through the senate, 99-1. the president signed it. it said you could fire the top 400 senior executives. sadly, we all moved on. the political class forgot abou

ms. fiorina: i come from the world you do. not the political world. we know that actions speak louder than words. character is a matter of what they do, not by what they say. we know that talk is cheap and that results matter. do you know you go from secretary to ceo? you produce results. over and over and over. you do what you say you are going to do. you ask people to hold you accountable. hold me accountable for this and together we can get this done and solve these problems. now, you might not admit of your -- have made up your mind who you want to support but in your heart of hearts you cannot wait to see me today hillary clinton. [applause] ms. fiorina: you know it is true. i know. it is true. you know why it is true? because you know i'm going to win. you know i'm going to win. [applause] and winning is actually very important. mrs. clinton has escaped prosecution more times than el chapo. perhaps sean penn should interview her. the truth is she is not going to be held accountable until we have a fearless fighter who will face her down on that

ms. fiorina: thank you for your service. [applause] >> i spent 10 years as an army combat i spent a year in baghdad, policing iraqis with sometimes little tactics. now i see police here at home using those same tactics with the same weapons and the same equipment i use on black communities here at home. what we are due to end the militarization of police and stop cops from killing everyday americans? [applause]

ms. fiorina: it looks like they had a fun time last night. marcus: fiorina was short and to the point. people we spoke with were more pointed in their opinions. >> i think trump is probably super happy he got it. i think it helped him. it difinitely didn't hurt him. >> i think it's a pretty smart move on his part. >> the endorsement i don't think , is that big of deal. marcus: those who are fans of trump's blunt straight to the point style think this endorsement could go a long way toward sealing the republican nomination for president. >> i think it is a good move. my cup -- my husband is out in was so excited. he thinks that a great move for the two of them. marcus: while admitting the endorsement is news not everyone >> sarah palin has may have lost favor in a lot of things and donald trump is a little bit out there. marcus: back in 2010, palin endorsed fiorina, then a republican california senate candidate. steve? steve: a new poll just out today shows that democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is in trouble in new hampshire. vermont senator bernie sanders now leads cli

ms. fiorina: i come from the world you do. not the political world. we know that actions speak louder than words. character is a matter of what they do, not by what they say. we know that talk is cheap and that results matter. do you know you go from secretary to ceo? you produce results. over and over and over. you do what you say you are going to do. you ask people to hold you accountable. hold me accountable for this and together we can get this done and solve these problems. now, you might not admit of your -- have made up your mind who you want to support but in your heart of hearts you cannot wait to see me today hillary clinton. [applause] ms. fiorina: you know it is true. i know. it is true. you know why it is true? because you know i'm going to win. you know i'm going to win. [applause] and winning is actually very important. mrs. clinton has escaped prosecution more times than el chapo. perhaps sean penn should interview her. the truth is she is not going to be held accountable until we have a fearless fighter who will face her down on that

ms. fiorina: i will never ask for your vote or your support because i'm a woman. fernando: but like most candidates, she's doing the math. that's because statistically, women are more likely to show up to vote on election day than men. and for many women, politics is >> the issues of access to family planning and contraception, that is incredibly important to me in this election. >> i think economic security, certainly, health, education are things that i put at the top of my list. fernando: page gardner is an expert on female voters. page: the top issues of concern for women voters are really economic issues, particularly unmarried women. they are on their own. they are struggling to make ends meet. fernando: struggling, and even more so this year, they're angry. >> i think they are spending way to much time dissing the other side rather than coming up with ideas that are going to work for the majority of americans. page: they are angry about the dysfunction, they're angry about the lack of washington to be able to get things done to improve their lives. it's rea

ms. fiorina: but you see, the people of new hampshire you take , your first in the nation primary responsibilites very seriously, and you showed up. in living rooms and dining rooms and diners. and you listened. tom: fiorina has events planned for tomorrow in derry, raymond, and bow. also in hollis tonight kentucky senator rand paul. the republican presidential candidate held a town hall meeting at the lawrence barn. his campaign says it was standing-room only. paul has a full agenda for tomorrow, with stops planned in londonderry, manchester, newport, hanover, and concord. this year marks the 100th nation primary. this sunday at 4:00, join us for an encore presentation of our special look at the history of the primary in the granite state. you can also stream it on line at wmur.com, or our mobile app. ski resorts say this long weekend is a perfect time to head to the slopes. after a disappointing december, both pats peak and crotched mountain are hoping for snow tonight and a busy holiday weekend. let' s go to stephanie woods who is live in bennington tonight where midnight madness is in full ef

ms. fiorina: i think term limits are a great idea. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> listen to all our political coverage online. we're going to leave this here to take you live now to new hampshire for a town hall meeting with ohio governor and republican presidential candidate, john kasich. mr. kasich: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i should also begin by both embarrassing and welcoming my wife and daughter to the town hall meeting. i do that because if i don't, my mother will find out about it and she won't talk to me. i first got to know john kasich 1996, when i was elected to congress, representing exeter in the first district in new hampshire. i was assigned to the budget committee. he was the chairman. and from the first day i

ms. fiorina: thank you for your service and sacrifice and heroism. who hast in this race consistently gone after hillary clinton from day one? carly fiorina. and i will keep doing that. i cannot speak for the rest of the republican party. all i can do is control my own behavior but you have watched debate after debate after debate, take our fight to where the fight has to go. let me say one other thing to you. i have a bunch of interviews right after this. i want to use the v.a. as an example of how much power you have, but also as an example of why we cannot settle for what we are settling for any more. you remember the scandal in v.a. in arizona, where we learned veterans had died waiting for an appointment and ?ureaucrats cooked the books we were so outraged as citizens of this great nation that we flooded congress with tweets and posts and e-mails and phone calls. because of the enormous pressure from the citizens of the great nation, this do-nothing congress acted in three weeks record time. a bill throughout of the house and passed the senate 99

ms. fiorina: until you open every military and every nuclear facility to real anytime anywhere inspections by our people, not yours, we the united states of america will make it as difficult as possible for you to move money. stephanie: florida senator marco rubio held a town hall in concord friday. he stressed the importance of electing a conservative to the white house who will reform veterans' health care. mr. rubio: a year and a half ago, i passed a law and the president signed this law, that said you can fire any senior executive at the va who isn' t doing a good job. let me just tell you, you are likelier to win the powerball than you are to be fired from stephanie: but don' campaign season to slow down just yet. endorsement from planned parenthood on sunday while donald trump will hold a town hall in windham monday. live in the studio stephanie woods wmur news 9. tom: the group open democracy is crying foul after a rare move nixed a bill calling for a constitutional amendment on campaign spending. new hampshire reformers won a big victory when the house voted 156-152 to pass sb 136

ms. fiorina: it is why i have rolled out my blueprint. it is not the only things we must do, but it is the first and most important. we can get it done together. i am putting it in writing, calling it a blueprint, because i want you to hold me accountable. i am used to ring held accountable will stop i come -- heldused to being accountable. byeople's character is known what they do, not by what they say. we know that talk is cheap and results matter. do you know how you go from secretary to ceo? you produce results over it over. you do what you say you are going to do. youask people to hold accountable. together we can have this done and solve these problems. now, you may not have read up your mind to you want to support. but you cannot wait to see me debate hillary clinton in your heart of hearts. applause] you know it is true, you know it is true. i know. i know. it is true. do you know white is true, ladies and gentlemen? as you know i am going to win. you know i am going to win. and, winning is actually very important. mrs. clinton ha

ms. fiorina arguing that taxes need to be lower in order to make us more competitive, and rick santorum,saying the breakdown in our family unit that we've seen over the last several decades in america is really to blame for a lot of the economic problems that our country now faces. it was, i can tell you, an honor to be there and to be given the opportunity to ask questions on behalf of all of you. we had a cordial, substantive discussion, and it was lively. at times, very lively. the audience, i can tell you, they were definitely engaged. watch in this. >> the president has just issued an executive order to expand the gun laws and background checks, and none of you on stage agree with this. but recent polls show the majority of americans are in favor of universal background checks. [inaudible conversations] >> not in this room. >> and we all believe poll data all the time, don't we? [laughter] [cheers and applause] [laughter] trish: okay. so the audience didn't agree with those polls there in south carolina, but, you know, look, bottom line it was a lot of fun and an important conversat

ms. fiorina: all right, we brought some young, very young caucus-goers. come on, they're all applauding for you. come on up. elizabeth: carly fiorina was speaking at the greater des moines botanical gardens on wednesday with a group of four-year-old and five-year-olds on stage with her. during the 15 minutes the kids were in the room, fiorina was standing in front of a giant picture of an unborn fetus, talking about her support for the unborn child protection act and the controversy surrounding planned parenthood's late-term abortions and harvesting of fetal tissue. >> i said, did you talk about babies? and he said, how did you know? he was paying attention enough to know about that and i just don't know beyond that what else he took in. elizabeth: fiorina's deputy campaign manager sent a statement to kcci, explaining the candidate had run into the kids in the botanical gardens, and added, "i guess the kids must have thought she was pretty neat because then their teachers and parents and the kids all followed carly into the event." fiorina did not do well

ms. fiorina was on the early panel. >> that's true. iowa has always historically been hard to poll. you that much but b. what's actually going to happen in the caucus there. >> we will know monday. i have got one more question on the other side. bernie sanders, apparently and the press is writing this. this bernie doesn't talk to me anymore. we used to be really tight, bernie and i. eating ben and jerry's. >> does he owe you milk shakes? >> he doesn't owe me milk shakes. >> want some of those milk shakes. i love milk shakes. >> we have more in the milk shake deal with bernie goldberg. go negative on hillary clinton. okay. if you were running bernie sanders' campaign would you have him go negative on mrs. clinton? >> i wouldn't. now, it's not a secret. i support hillary clinton and not bernie sanders. i think if bernie sanders goes negative it's kind of about trump. it goes against who he is supposed to be. he is a very positive feeling candidate. he has got very passionate supporters. if he starts coming out and looking less like a regular politician throwing elbows to get ahead, i

ms. fiorina.k the federal government by 30% in the next two years and those jobs will not be filled and you dual it through retirement. your critics would argued that's when you did at hewlett packard when 30,000 people lost their jobs. if it did not work at hp why would it work at the federal government. >> first of all i haven't said that. in the process of examining every dollar, cutting any dollar, and moving every dollar we happen to know in this vast federal bureaucracy we have about 260,000 federal government employees who are going to retire. and we shouldn't replace them. secondly, at hewlett packard, as you know, the people of iowa know. this we went through a tough time. the wors7 technology recession in 2 5 years a great company called gateway use to do be here in iowa. they didn't make the tough calls necessary to save all those jobs and so they lost every one of those jobs. yes, i have had to make some tough calls. we saved 80,000 jobs. we went on to grow to 160,000 jobs. and, frankl

ms. fiorina's tweet is very telling in the state of her campaign because there's been so much negative attention for her support for the iowa hawkeyes, she hasn't caught on in iowa. >> looking at the others, ben carson, we had news over the weekend, jeb bush we had over the last week, as with we now move into this first weekend, this first month of 2016, in the final winnowing period? >> i spent a lot of time with ben carson in the last week and i spoke to his advisors in the last week. massive resignations in the carson campaign. in the last four weeks before the voting begins, it's not only a winnowing process, but you have to have the money to stay in the race, graham got out, with we may see more people get out in the next few days. if you don't have the resources to have a protracted fight, you might want to get out. >> you were sitting with dr. carson, now that he's gotten rid of three of his lieutenants and now removing some others from the bench. >> he spoke about his frustration with his own staff, he said i'm a calm guy, and my staff wants me to be more combative, they want me to be a

ms. fiorina: good afternoon. , jeannie. it is so inspiring to see so many great pro-life, pro-woman advocates out here on a chilly afternoon. it's not quite as cold as iowa or new hampshire, i have to tell you. still, it's inspiring to see all of you out here with sonoma get snowmaggedon bearing down on us. even that cannot stop us from rallying for a cause that is oh important. in less than a year, there will be a new president in the white house. president will have the pickme responsibility to up to four supreme court justices who will decide issues of life and religious liberty. we forcedecide whether taxpayers to fund the political arm of the abortion industry, ,hether we as a nation believe as the democrat platform says, that a life is not a life until it leaves the hospital. yes, that is the democrat a life is not a life until it's born, and they call us extreme. it is democrats, the pro-abortion industry that is extreme. the next president of the united states will have a lot to say about whether a baby only a month

ms. fiorina. he told cnn he would not accept the invitation to participate.e does not view himself as a second-tier candidate. jarrod up next in lyndhurst, virginia. independent line. concernedm really with the things that are happening in this country. i worked for a defense contractor in the 1990's. i saw a decline in the services being provided to this country. contractors were not even based in america. hopefully our country is going admit how bad things really are so we can try to fix them. it is sad, but true that we will have to. host: gregory from state college, pennsylvania. republican line. caller: thank you. i would like to commend the president for striking a or what we cante expect to hear tonight. ,specially after last year which was a watershed year. reconstruction dominated by zeal. morenot think of anything symbolic of a wall than what the republican congress is presenting after all this time. i can see the emergence of a new america, which is more inclusive. colombia, puerto rico, cuba. these lines that artificial are nothing more than canno

ms. fiorina, thanks for being with us. >> good morning.llary clinton doesn't like spending time with bill clinton? >> well, look, i think bill and hillary clinton have worked together to amass power their entire lives. and they've also spent a fair amount of their time, particularly mrs. clinton, avoiding prosecution. i think she's avoided prosecution more times than el chapo. so i guess sean penn is waiting to interview her, as well. >> that -- that's great. first off i'd like to bring you to another element. you also knew who was in the other debate, and it was the front-runner, donald trump. you took him on, as well. let's listen. >> we need to be very clear-eyed now about who are our allies, and who are our adversaries. in the fight against isis, saudi arabia is our ally. iran is our adversary. and despite donald trump's bromance with vladimir putin, vladimir putin and russia are our adversaries. we cannot -- we cannot outsource leadership in the middle east to iran and russia. we must stand and lead. >> when you see two hits like that

ms. fiorina: that's part of returning power to the people. so, you know what, the things that president obama put forward in his executive order about background checks actually failed in congress on a bipartisan basis twice. so if it's really true that the american people are all fired up about this, then let's go get laws passed. but it is not the role of the president to say, i just don't like this law, so i'm going to do something different. that's called lawlessness. just as his immigration executive orders have been lawless. he's not the only president who has abused the power of the presidency. but, part of returning to a citizen government is remembering what the president's job is, and what the legislature's job is. and by the way, we have kind of a good blueprint for that, too it's called the constitution, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] ms. fiorina: let's enforce the laws we have. questioner: my name is michelle lamborn. pleasure to meet you. you've spoken a number of times about citizen government and putting the power back into

ms. fiorina: well, i don't need to win and i don't think gonna surprise. and i do think i'm gonna come out of here with the wind at my back. >>sabrina: mike huckabee, on the other hand, actually won in 2008, but this time, eh, havin' some troubles. >>amanda: he's hoping for that undecided vote. >>sabrina: so i wanna talk about what's going on in iowa. how are you feeling? we're not very many days away from the caucuses. >>mr. huckabee: we are very close to the caucus, but the interesting thing nobody's voted yet. and all these people out on the east coast who sit there in their well-lit studios