cheryl: your history with rick santorum is legendary, you are big supporters, you and your wife. he is about 2% or so, how long do you stand behind mr. santorum and why do you stand behind mr. santorum? >> the 2% isn't a lot better than iowa when he won iowa. you might want to put that into context. if you look at major issues our country is facing, what is the number one issue ahead of health care, education, immigration. what is it? the global jihad movement. one day it's al qaeda, then isis and boko haram, rick santorum is probably the only candidate of the 17 on the stages that is the isis magazine with the picture of him and calling him the enemy. the number one issue facing our country, he probably understands that more than anyone, and lindsey graham is plugged in there too as well, and rubio mentioned at a conference about the twelfth imam and the return of the emwadi why that is relevant to the bomb. secondly, what's most exciting, and i've been an underdog most of my life, when i came out of the agency, i had $1200 and blessed with 70 wonderful teammates that helped me g

politico.com reporting the day rick santorum who fox news is keeping out of the debate, rick santorum already is politically dead. his campaign manager, his iowa manager, top digital strategist, they have all left the rick santorum campaign and are going to try to work at a super pac instead and see if that works. maybe it will work. but it's never a good sign when your campaign manager leaves and the only statements are that there are no plans to replace him. fox news excluding rick perry from the debate, it looks like the perry campaign will start to die, too. larry sabado has already run the death knell. quote, the stakes are simply too high. if a candidate can't even make it to the debate stage, why would rational donors and volunteers continue giving money and time to what is apparently a lost cause. it's hard to look presidential languishing at home while your opponents are discussing foreign policy and national security on national television. that has already started for rick santorum who is out of the debate thanks to fox and whose campaign has apparently started to die becau

rick santorum, a republican candidate for president is on the soapbox. it looks like we have lost that signal as well. we will go back to hillary while we try to get that fixed. in iowa and our country to make life better for many millions of our fellow particularly, but not only people with disabilities. so that the continuing influence is how we need to work together, how we need to stand up and fight together. how we can get things done together. it really does set the challenge before us very clearly. tom, you and ruth have been great friends. we are so appreciated if of the years we had as colleagues. to fix ourwork signal problems and i were, we will show you part of today's washington journal with more about campaign 2016. host: in our last 40 minutes of the washington journal, our phones are open. we are talking about campaign 2016 and the early winners and losers. the republicans, democrats, independents, and outside the u.s. we want to hear your take about two has won the early part of the contest for 2016, or who has been the unexpected loser

not just -- rick santorum. >> i couldn't -- i actually had vacation days and gave them away because rick to me. [ light laughter ] >> seth: have you ever talked to him? have you ever had him on your show before? >> once. >> seth: once. >> yes. >> seth: now, this is going to happen between when we do this interview and when our show airs tonight. this will be something that people -- while we're talking right now they can go back and watch it. because it will have been on. how -- are you excited to talk to rick santorum? i mean, obviously, you two are going to be very far apart on everything. >> yes. yeah, everything. [ light laughter ] >> seth: and do you -- do you go into it hoping it is not contentious? hoping? what do you hope for? >> i want him to answer questions that i don't already know the answer to. >> seth: got it. >> so like, do you think that i should have the same civil rights that you have? no. [ light laughter ] okay, like i know what you're gonna say there. you know, like, do you think we should bomb iran? yes. there's a bunch of stuff i know how he's going to answer, but

i think it was clear what rick santorum's strategy is. the first thing he wants to try to do is to corral the most socially conservative people in the republican party. and that worked for him the last time around. it didn't seem to work for him here. in terms of your earlier question about those really tough questions thrown at these candidates. i'm all for tough candidates to questions in the debate. but i hope the people on the other stage get questions like that too. otherwise fox first picked a method that marginalized these people and then invited them in to be insulted. kind of odd. >> the questions the candidates faced were interesting. the questions so far. here's what they were questioned about. three questions on the economy. two on immigration, two on health care, seven on foreign policy or terrorism, and zero on hillary clinton, though the candidates brought her up on their own. do you think we'll see a similar breakdown tonight? and what do you make of it? >> i do. i think that there is an obsession with hillary clinton. the

, and one person shows up at the event for rick santorum.g his crowd as he goes, two people showed up for >> larry: tonightly, mayor deblasio tries to crack down on topless women in times square. thanks, mr. mayor, but can we get people to stop pooping on the street first? (laughter) subway's jared fogle will plead guilty to sex with minors and will go away for 5 to 12 years. (audience reacts) come on! please give this man something 18 years and over! (laughter) and write-in candidate deez nuts is polling third behind hillary clinton and donald trump in iowa. (cheers and applause) well, he can't be any worse than well, he can't be any worse than these nuts! let me get deez nuts in the chair. it's the "the nightly show"! captioning sponsored by comedy central ♪ >> larry: thank you very much! welcome to "the nightly show." thank you very much! thank you so much. i appreciate it. we have such great crowds, so energetic. i really appreciate it. i'm larry wilmore. so you're correct. amazing how you got that right. it's time. it's time to find out

rick santorum is comparing undocumented parents to bank robbers.aking yesterday, santorum said quote, it's like someone that robs a bank because they want to feed their family. >>> jon stewart left the show but has a large fan base. on change.org, 130,000 signed a petition asking he moderate a presidential debate. >>> trump held a 27-year-old bald eagle named uncle sam for his interview with "time" magazine. he said trump would put on a blue lander steel gaze and do the photo for every interview. >> rachel maddow talked about trump being president and enjoying the job. >> maybe he could be elected and outsource it to somebody. like china will do it for $3 it turns out. >> that's a good deal. >> exactly. >> first lady was on jimmy kimmell last night to talk about a healthy eating initiative. kimmel seemed confused about her campaign. >>>i couldn't be more excited about the new campaign called efv. >> eat your f'n vegetables. >> what was that? it is isn't. i think you might be confused. >> i think you actually might be a little confused. but you're t

he's no rick santorum. that doesn't seem to bother southern whites who are mostly baptist and religious. doesn't bother them he's lived in new york and manhattan, sin city as far as most of them are concerned up there with those ethnic people. doesn't bother them. the fact he's a new york we are the "new yorker" brashness doesn't seem to bother them. is there anything cultural he has in common with the people in those stands tonight? anything? >> i think joy hit on it. he's speaking to the sense of cultural anxiety about the rise of the obama coalition in the last few years, this nostalgia for ronald reagan, make america great again, that's a call back to ronald reagan right there and he shares their absolute disgust with and contempt for the republican party establishment in major political institutions in this country today and when he goes up there and calls out, for instance, the bush family by name, when he calls the iraq war one of the biggest mistakes in american history, he's talking in a way that n

rick santorum can run his race and done always trump can run his race. >> and, you know, i want to talk about the iowa state fair and the soapbox because we know that donald trump won't be there. we've also read that jim gilmore will not be. rand paul as well. do republicans in iowa see that as a snub if the candidates don't give them the 20 minutes back and forth? >> only if the candidates have a prior history of not talking to them. you know, jim gilmore, you know, he hasn't been here very often. he's going to have to come here and introduce himself to iowans. he wants to compete. rand paul has been here plenty. he'll be here again. hillary clinton on the other hand has been running a race where she is staying behind closed doors and not being open with the press so iowans might hold it against her. >> all right. let's listen to what donald trump said about jeb bush and talk about his campaign there in iowa. listen. >> but jeb bush has $114 million. what's he going to do with it? he'll start hitting me with ads i guess, you know, at some point he has to because he's going down the tub

you helped craft by rick santorum.ey graham who said, i think it sucks when asked about your rules. so, what do you say, how can you leave a guy like rick santorum out of the first debate? >> first of all, we wanted to do a few things, jonathan, you got to go back to the beginning. number one, we're not having a 23-debate circus, okay, we cut the debates to nine. we didn't want to have extremely liberal moderators conducting the debates. so we had some say over the moderators. now, what people have to understand, i'm not going to bore people to death on this, the federal election commission has rules. this airtime right now, your company controls it. i don't get to tell you who put on your corporate air time, and so there are some things that we don't control. now, that being said, cnn and fox have agreed that every candidate, all 17, are going to participate in debate night. so, we're proud of the fact that everyone running is going to have an opportunity. and the reality is, it might be a little bit harsh, you can't

rick santorum called it preposterous, saying, quote: other candidates were more positive. rly releasing a statement saying this: and rick parry tweeted: >>> the fbi is now looking into hillary clinton's use of a private email server. her attorney says clinton and her team are actively cooperating with the investigation. last week the fbi reportedly contacted the denver-based company that managed the system. a federal intelligence inspector general had referred the issue to the justice department. >>> hundreds of protesters have hit the streets in jordan, they are upset over the u.n.'s relief and work agency making big cuts impacting tens of thousands of palestinian refugees. >> reporter: protesters here at the headquarters in ammon, are calling on the international community to shoulder the responsible to help these refugees, because [ inaudible ] this year is facing a severe budget shortfall of $101 million. this shortfall is tlenting to delay the start of the new academic year at schools across the region. if funding is not received in the next ten days, they may be force

they didn't get to vote on principle for their candidate, who may have been rick santorum or rickingkabee and they didn't get a republican in the white house. they're a little tired of being told by folks like me or jeb ush about, that this guy, this guy you love, happens to be donald trump right now, is electable. they're sick of that. i don't know if it's trump, or they're wedded to the idea i'm going to get something out of this election, no matter what. >> really quickly, on immigration, on choice, on foreign policy, on issue after issue, republicans are all in the same place that trump is, it's just that trump says it in the most offensive of terms. >> sodium pentithal moment right now, which candidate do you fear the most? which do you want hillary to face the least? >> i think if you consider that democrats are going to have a problem putting together the exact same coalition as president obama, and we may have have trouble with voters in the midwest and northeast. i think that on paper, a scott walker or john kasich, or someone like that could be real trouble in the general e

former senator rick santorum had a bright moment. he spoke personally and effectively when he was asked about immigration and how specifically he would handle deporting undocumented adults who have kids who were american citizens. watch how he does this. this is why it's worth taking rick santorum despite all the reasons you don't. >> what would you say to a child born and raised in america who could see their family broken apart by your policy? >> my father was born in italy and shortly after he was born my grandfather emigrated to this country. under the laws of this country he wasn't allowed to be with his father for seven years. spent the first seven years of his life in fascist italy. i asked my dad after i found out about this and i said didn't you resent america for not letting you be with your father in those formative and very threatening years? you know what he said to me? america was worth the wait >> rick santorum also had a bright moment tonight. the donald trump question, they essentially phrased it to all these candida

rick santorum is scheduled for noon. .incoln chafee speaks then bernie sanders gives remarks at 3:00. the headline, trump plans a grand entrance. he will arrived by helicopter for his afternoon at the iowa state grounds. it will land in a field near the fairgrounds as reporters watch. he will step up to the microphones and open up to press questions. then he will proceed into the fair for meet and greet, he will be seeing the butter cow. he is skeletal to arrive tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.. get a chance to see him live this evening as well in just under 10 minutes. he is scheduled to speak in hampton, new hampshire. live coverage of that when he meantime,ad in the martin o'malley talking with fairgoers. martin o'malley: we need to restore competition. we have seen a concentration of corporate power across our economy. it runs counter to the inclusive economy. iowa, theree in were about a dozen packing houses. farmers have become more productive. .nother only for packing houses fair competition is not only a right and just pre-it is best for growth and allowing people to earn a living wage.

while we wait for bernie sanders coming up at at 3:00, we will show you rick santorum from earlier. [applause] santorum: thank you. thank you very much. i apologize for being a few minutes late, but i was at a conference and we are going to fight planned parenthood. [applause] gov. santorum: i was very, very proud to be the only presidential candidate to talk about how we have to defund planned parenthood. we have to talk about the reality of what planned parenthood is about. and ive seen those videos know this because i wrote the law, but planned parenthood as it was described by those doctors in those videos provides abortions. are harvesting the babies' organs for research and other nefarious things. planned parenthood needs to be defunded. planned parenthood is breaking the law, the federal law, and it needs to be prosecuted under federal law. [applause] gov. santorum: you're asking why because i am village person in washington, d.c. who can get things done. provided leadership on the issue of life, on the issue of marriage. i want to talk about the partial-birth abortion statute

. >> this past week, republican candidate rick santorum stoked that fire, criticizing ted cruz for his stance on visas for foreign workers. fact or fiction. sam brock has details. >> things are heating up in the republican primary. >> their priorities are profits and power. >> and the gloves are coming off when it comes to immigration. rick santorum took a jab within his own party, calling out ted cruz. >> this is in stark contrast with other republicans, particularly, again, ted cruz, who seeks to increase h1bs five fold. >> speez visas are a hot topic, burning up immigration talk. where does senator cruz line up on this issue? santorum is right. cruz does support increasing h1bs by 500%, but that fact needs some fleshing out. federal law caps the number at 65,000 a year, with some exceptions. but the demand, foreign applications were at 124,000 in 20 phren. then they almost doubled to 233,000 in 2016. senator cruz was part of a group of senators trying to get ahead on this issue. he filed an amendment to the much talked about immigration bill two years ago, beefing up h1bs to 325,000

>> just a couple minutes of rick santorum. we will show you his remarks at the des moines register's soapbox at the iowa state fair later in its entirety in our program schedule. we want to open our phone lines to get what you are thinking about what you are seeing from the candidates in iowa as elsewhere. the numbers are on your screen. us ourse, you can tweet a message oneave our facebook page. lincoln chafee will be on the soapbox. hopefully we can bring that to you. we are keeping our cameras on hillary clinton, who is at the state fair today. this tweet is from the former senator who endorsed clinton on thursday night to join her at the iowa state fair today. he is accompanied hillary clinton as she makes the rounds. donald trump is heading to the state fair this afternoon. he tweeted earlier that he was in the plane going to the iowa state fair. hopefully giving helicopter rides to some of the kids. let's go to the phones. in edwards, missouri. go ahead. been watchinge everything on the state fair. that if people, are no

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donald trump and senator rick santorum are going to be the big names today.r? >> well, i have mostly been to events so far for other candidates. even those folks who have attended them aren't quite yet committed. they are still looking around. they have told me with with 17 g.o.p. candidates there is a lot to choose from and they still have a lot of time. but everyone i have talked to has said to me that donald trump would not be their first choice and most of them have also said he that he would not be their second choice. though they would support him if he were the g.o.p. nominee. >> jeb bush yesterday said he is not really impressed with donald trump. and when asked whether or not he would be worried whether or not the helicopter would fly in, he said this. and hillary clinton also not impressed. take a listen. >> it's a long haul. not just in iowa, across the board. this is -- we're just at the beginning of this. people, a majority of iowaians haven't even begun to consider who they are going to support. i'm not distracted by o my gosh this week, somethi

rick santorum. and the only woman currently in the race for the g-o-p.carly fiorina. >> pam:ahead at eight. >> pam:meet the deputies being hailed as heroes after they pulled a man out of his car, moments before it got smashed by a train. >> grant: it will be interesting. it will certainly be theater with that no-trump, is nothing but a performer. he became a star with the practice could it he says this does not get the republican vote he will run as an independent. so >> pam:, we will see what happened on thursday night. >> pam: plus. >> pam: new video of a tense confrontation between a police officer and north bay man. triggering controversy. >> pam: and next. >> pam: the surprising way a former stanford student. obtained the firearm used killed his girlfriend and himself. >> reporter: you can see shot flames shooting up into a perfect when i drove bluster that i could not see anything it's like night and day full sun guest today with the containment plan from 12% up to 20%. the mother is a factor, is much cooler atlantic ashley pushing some of the smok

governor kerry was my guest today the most underestimated with rick santorum for scott walker said to be the past come up with a name for the future. watch out he has been around the track and has done this before he made mistakes and can improve the is not running after back surgery he does shoot coyotes and he is a texan and if not for them we would have negative job growth over the last six and a half years he will remind you of that into the key is really good. he has glasses just like mine. [laughter] marco rubio was described the hottest commodity the flavor of the month. hot white? f never seen a more gifted orator i'll look at the back of the room the wait staff comes out. y? this happens with ted cruz also because they see their son or daughter at the front of the room because his father worked the back if you have never interviewed someone you know, how impressive this is i have done many long interviews was and rubio instant and total command and recall of which i asked the never has notes and is never at all laws he shares this with ted cruz and amazing eloquence and depth

joining me now to talk about his plan, rick santorum, pennsylvania senator and 2016 republican presidentialdate. great to have you with us. let's talk about your plan to deal with isis. >> the plan is really to do exactly what needs to be done to eliminate their calaphate. they're gaining ground, not losing ground. cutting off the oil would be great, all the things the candidates are talking about. but you have to take ground. we're not doing that. that's because we don't fund the kurds, who are willing to take back some of the ground. we don't directly fund them. >> would your solution be arming the kurds or to put troops on the ground? >> more. we also need to fund the jordanians. jordan is overrun by refugees. they would like more military aid to engage in the fight, and we're not providing it to them. >> to a lot of americans sitting here, a lot of folks probably don't have a big stomach for putting a lot of americans on the ground. how many are you thinking about under your plan? >> it's a combination of, again, funding the indigenous forces there, the iraqi, kurds, jordanians as well

>> yes. >> i think this is hard for rick santorum. he won ten primaries last time. he was the guy who came in second. it's bitter to not be on the main stage. by the same token you understand this and everybody in tv does which is a debate in the end is a television show. it has to work. with ten people on the stage which is the most that ever had at one of these debates even with ten, you're not going to get as much interactions that the voters would like. >> you make a great point there. let's look at the polls that were used to determine who would be on the main stage not the new nbc wall street journal poll that came out and that would have made the difference with governor kasich making the stage there. do you believe that hurts him, helps him? does rick perry have a valid criticism here? >> i think there are very valid criticisms over how you choose these polls. the number one valid concern is that filtering the people you talk to to actually, their likelihood to vote in a republican primary is the biggest change in these polls. these polls are all over the ma

rick perry and rick santorum. candidates sharping their attack lines. >> if this deal goes through, the obama administration will become quite literally the world's leading finesier of radical islamic terrorism. >> reporter: are they ready to tangle with trump who's surged to top of the poll by winning some passionate fans. >> he's successful. i want to be a billionaire. >> tell me what you think a trump presidency would look like sf. >> a presidency of hope. >> reporter: some analysts like fivethirtyeight nate silver says this might be as far as trump goes. >> trump will tout his top-line numbers and say, i have 20% of the base. but, in the end, 20% is not enough and when half of your own party dislikes you don't have very much room to grow from that 20%. >> jon, one of trump's main talking points is he'll win the presidency. he'll beat hillary clinton. clinton has a double-digit lead over trump. >> thanks tom. >>> let's get straight to the gop front-runner donald trump who joins us by the phone. thank you for jo

welcome back to the soap box stage rick santorum. mr. santorum: thank you. i apologize for being two minutes late but i came from a rally at the state capitol. to defund planned parenthood. i was proud to be the only presidential candidate up there talking about how we have to defund planned parenthood. talking about the reality of what planned parenthood is doing. videos, andat those i know this because i wrote the law. what they are doing and was described in the videos, partial-birth abortion. those were done in this case to so theythe vital organs can harvest the baby's organs for research and otherness various things. -- other nefarious things. planned parenthood is breaking the law. we need someone in washington who can get done. we have gotten things done. partiald about the birth abortion statute. important piece of legislation. said.s. supreme court banning partial-birth abortion was unconstitutional. most people when they have a court decision that is against what they believe, they do what most republican candidates do. it is the law of the land a

when people say here comes rick santorum running for president again.e broke through last time will be the reason again. there is no one fighting for working men and women in the country. the people you had on today talk about small business. i think small business is the engine to drive things. but just saying a rising tide lifts all boats everybody is going to be fine. everybody isn't find because millions of americans have holes in their boats. we have to make sure we have an economy working for everybody and the happy talk about growth, growth, growth. i put forth a plan that i call the 2020 perfect vision for america, a fair flat tax. it's 20%. it's on business. we allow expending. we will create an economic growth but we are also doing things to focus in on what i believe is the important sector of the economy that creates -- the sector of the economy that will create opportunities for people to rise. the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree who are not doing well in the economy are seeing wages flat line. when ronald reagan took off t

please join me in giving a welcome to the national press club senator rick santorum. [applause] mr. santorum: thank you jerry and jonathan, i appreciate this opportunity. i am as many of you know the son of an italian immigrant, my father's journey to america rescued him from a childhood as a brown shirt and must -- mussolini core and from being a called in the warmer seen. -- war machine. it was not as easy as boarding a ship and coming to america. my time speaking grandfather came to america to flee the new fascist regime in 1923 in spite of the emergency quota act of 1921 that limited italian immigrants to a few thousand italians a year. it turns out that my grandfather's hometown in italy was part of austria before world war i and my grandfather was considered an austrian by the american government. he was able to come but not able to bring his italian children with him. in 1930 he became a citizen after working most of that time in the coal mines of southwestern pennsylvania. he was able to unite his family in america. when my father told me about his family story and journey to

which is how people like rick santorum and mike huckabee won the 2012 and 2008 caucuses here in iowa. bush hasn't done that. this is a swing state. and the general election, it's purple. in iowa, only about 120,000 republican also show up for the caucus, and that will be a record. when you consider that there is nearly i 4 million people here, there are an awful lot of republican moderates who will not be participating in the caucuses who may well be jeb bush supporters. the drim marks the riddle, and in his own words, the problem, is whether or not jeb bush can, quote: lose the primary or potentially in this case the caucus and then still manage to win the general. he has been testing that question virtually every week with his arguments over common core and immigration and now, the question comes, when he comes here to the fair today, jeb bush had a fine showing. it was a huge sacrum of -- scrum of supporters. he got questions about immigration. the one thing he got more than anything was questions about trump. karl, before we lose you i only have about a minute or so. talk to us ab

one of the them is rick santorum.lts this early should have been a deciding factor. here is what he told chris cuomo this morning. >> you can complain about how the rnc is doing it how fox is doing it in this first debate, but at the end of the day the polls do matter and you're not doing that well in the polls and neither is the group that's at 5:00 instead of at 9:00 and shouldn't that be relevant in deciding who is on and when if at all. >> well chris, if two weeks before the iowa caucuses i was at 2% in the national polls and i won the iowa caucuses and went on to win ten other states. it's not a predictor of anything. it's not a national race. it's a state-by-state race. again, that's what i'm focused on. >> joining me now from cleveland, john brabender, a senior vis for rick santorum's 2012 campaign and a republican political consultant. glad to see you. glad you're here. >> glad i can be here. thank you for having me on. >> thanks for being here. so i heard what rick santorum said. on the other hand donald trum

when rick santorum's daughter got ill the first call i got was from katy asking how is she?re is the respect for one another because we're the same party and if we're not going to be, we will not win in 2016. >> katy, let me ask you. it's interesting, dave and "the washington post" was looking at the comments from pre vevis sayg they are trying to kill him with kindness. he's all over tmap. one day he's saying jeb bush couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag and saying he's a great guy. the idea being if you say just a few nice things about trump, you can make all the difference in terms of what he fires back with. >> well, i mean, borrow a line from mitt romneyromney, this ai bean bag. i don't think it's preevis' job to say a candidate can or cannot be involved in a debate. trump is a legitimate candidate that has support from a corner, small corner of the republican party and he has a right to be there. it's the job of the other candidates to put a message forward that won't start to overshadow that and that will happen. trump is sort of capped out of the 20% area. h

and in "blue collar conservatives," presidential candidate rick santorum argues the republican party must focus on the working class in order to retake the white house. businessman donald trump has written several books, in "time to get tough," he criticizes the obama administration and outlines his vision to to further american prosperity. more presidential candidates with books include wisconsin governor scott walker. in "unintimidated," he argues republicans must offer bold solutions and have the courage to implement them. and former virginia senator james wen looks back on -- webb looks back on his time serving in the military and the senate in "i heard my country calling." vice president joe biden may announce his candidacy. in "promises to keep," he looks back on his career in politics, and finally new jersey chris christie and former governors martin o'malley and jim gilmore have announced their candidacies but haven't released books. >> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> well, right now i'm finishing frank by b

this week, rick santorum threw heavy blows on that heavy issue. who is telling the truth? reality check is coming up next. froreplics othessuf imgraon.th f >>> from republicans on the issue of immigration. this week rick san tor yum criticized both candidates. >> they claim fact or fiction? we have details in tonight's reality check. >> things are heating up in the republican primary. >> their priorities and power. >> they are coming off when they come to immigration. rick santorum took a jab at the party calling out ted cruz in a national press club. >> this is a stark contrast with other republicans including ted who seeks to increase h 1 b five fold. >> h 1 b visas for specialized labor like tech workers are a hot topic. where does he lineup on the issue? he does support increasing h 1 b by 500%. that needs flushing out. federal law taps the number of 65,000 a year with some exceptions, but the demand? foreign applications were at 124,000 in 2014 and almost doubled to 233,000 in 2015. senator cruz was part of a group trying to get ahead on this issue. they filed an amend

rick perry and santorum did not make the cut. they are among the candidates being trumped in the polls. >> two days before the represent debate and by nearly every measure, all of the gop candidates are in rough shape except for donald trump. >> i will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. >> the latest poll suggestion trump is widening his lead among republican voters from 18% last month to 26% now. he's 11 points ahead of his nearest competitor, jeb bush and 17 points ahead of wisconsin governor scott walker. while the polls say more republicans disapprove of trump than approve all of his top chem pelt tories on that count of also underwater. on monday night most of the field spoke as a policy forum in new hampshire. >> 71% of federal spending is between entitlements and debt service. >> trump skimmed the event calling it boring and insignificant. hours later, he generated headlines with an attack on democratic hillary clinton. he hammered her top aid for being married to disgraced former congressman anthony wie

i'm thinking of ted cruz, rick santorum and the like. that is a hug -- >> that is a huge open question. i do not see trump going the distance as a republican nominee. generally people got out of the race as they run out of money. that is probably not going to be the issue for him. he could continue as an independent. he could draw strongly for a democratic nominee. if he is not going to be the nominee, which once people get those are in the actual voting, it seems unlikely he will represent the party, the republican party is really searching or the soul. do they go for someone more establishment like a bush, someone considered an outsider like a walker, or someone who has been trying to go hard right like ted cruz? olivia: let's cross party. vice president running for president mean for hillary clinton? >> i don't think it will mean anything at all, really. i think it is a purely media concocted phenomenon. there is absolutely no rationale whatsoever for joe biden candidacy seriously does not draw a group of supporters that hillary clint

rick santorum will be in new york city to address an audience. >>> an attorney for hillary clinton now confirming her personal server was wiped clean before it was turned over to the fbi. the acknowledgment comes in a letter from the chairman of the homeland security committee. clinton's campaign says there was information now classified. it was not classified at the time it was received according to her campaign. in one case, e-mail is marked sensitive, but unclassified. the other case is the material contains no marking. the clinton campaign trying to focus on the 2016 race and possibility of an expanding field with the calls of joe biden to enter the race. >> hillary clinton herself and everybody affiliated with her campaign has deep respect for vice president joe biden. there are a number of people on the campaign who worked for him directly on her campaign. there is deep respect for him. he has earned the opportunity to take his time and make a decision. we are just going to continue to operate our campaign in the way we always have which is to presume we will have a competitive r

starting at noon on saturday, republican rick santorum at noon followed by democrats lincoln chafee and editor bernie sanders, and on sunday afternoon, republican than carson at 5:00 and george pataki at 5:30. campaign 2016, taking you on the road to the white house. of theer: tonight, part conference with remarks from liberal activist, discussing how to elect more democrats to local office. former ohio state senator nina turner also looked at 2014 voter turnout and why it was so low. here is that now. >> last year was the lowest voter turnout in our country in 70 years. now, think about what was happening in the united states of america. we were busy with a war, called war, so 70 years. so people are opting out because they do not believe that folks who will be elect space really give a -- about them. i will keep it pg.

joining me is a senior strategist for rick santorum, rick wilson, republican strategist, and a presidentialrian. good evening to you, gentlemen. i said earlier, i never thought i would be glued to my television on a friday night watching donald trump and here we are. so, john, you know what, you are a campaign guy. you are advising rick santorum who was on cnn earlier today. you know how challenging is it, for santorum, and anyone, if, if they're running against a donald trump? >> it's challenging for all of them. because if nothing else donald trump is, is entertaining. we like watching him. he makes us laugh. the question is should he be president? if you, i'm a republican consultant. if i was running the democrats and you gave me ellen degeres, i could get her the democrat nomination over hillary because she idea logically fits who they are, funny to watch and so forth. not the same as saying he should be president. the other problem he is difficult to attack. we saw that when rand paul, rick perry, lindsey graham tried it. it backfired. this is very challenging for candidates. >> he did

joining me is a senior strategist for rick santorum, rick wilson, republican strategist, and a presidentialtorian. good evening to you, gentlemen. i said earlier, i never thought i would be glued to my television on a friday night watching donald trump and here we are. so, john, you know what, you are a campaign guy. you are advising rick santorum who was on cnn earlier today. you know how challenging is it, for santorum, and anyone, if, if they're running against a donald trump? >> it's challenging for all of them. because if nothing else donald trump is, is entertaining. we like watching him. he makes us laugh. the question is should he be president? if you, i'm a republican consultant. if i was running the democrats and you gave me ellen degeres, i could get her the democrat nomination over hillary because she idea logically fits who they are, funny to watch and so forth. not the same as saying he should be president. the other problem he is difficult to attack. we saw that when rand paul, rick perry, lindsey graham tried it. it backfired. this is very challenging for candidates. >> he d

rick santorum will be in washington, d.c. to address an audience and take questions at the national press club. >>> an attorney for hillary clinton confirming her personal e-mail server was wiped clean before turning over to the fbi. this comes in a letter to the chairman of the homeland security committee. there was information on the server now considered classified. that information was not classified at the time it was received. that is according to the campaign, which is pointing to a fox news report to make its case. in one case, it is sensitive, but unclassified. in the other case, the material contains no marking. with calls growing for joe biden to enter the race, a spokesperson says he would be a welcome addition. >> hillary clinton herself and everybody with her campaign has deep respect and admiration for joe biden. a number of people on the campaign worked for him directly. there is deep admiration and respect for him. he has more than earned the opportunity to take his time and make a decision and we are just go