sarah palin endorsing donald trump for president. we're expecting to hear from both soon at a rally in iowa. that's where our political reporter, sara murray, is now standing by. sarah, trump has been dropping hinted about it all day but it's now official. >> reporter: now it is official, right. this is something of a coup for donald trump. previously sarah palin said she liked cruz, liked trump, torn between the two. the fact that she went with trump is a big deal. it could potentially move voters are in iowa. here's why. if you are on the fence about donald trump's values, if you are maybe on the fence about how conservative he is, sarah palin burnishes is his chops on that front. they appeal to the same set of voters. they have cast themselves as outsiders and they have really worked to tap into these blue chloroformer democrats who turned to the -- they don't look at republican as people who reflect them. donald trump could not help but twist the knife a little bit. he dredged up an old quote from ted cruz talking about sarah pali

>> listen, i love sarah palin. sarah palin is fantastic.nd support, i wouldn't be in the senate today. so regardless what she decides to do in 2016, i will always remain a big, big fan of sarah palin. >> did she tell you she was gonna do this? >> what's your reaction to. [ inaudible ] >> what's happened in flint, michigan is an absolute travesty. it is a failure at every level of government, a failure of the city officials, a failure of the county officials, and the men and women of michigan have been betrayed. every american is entitled to have access to clean water. and to all the children who have been poisoned by government officials, by their negligence, by their ineptitude, it's heart-breaking. there needs to be accountability as to why dirty water, poisoned water was given to a community that did not deserve this. and we need to ensure that there's accountability to ensure clean water and clean air. and our prayers right now are with the people of flint, michigan, that the health consequences of this are not as long-lasting as many f

you certainly know sarah palin. i wonder what went through your mind as you watched her up in the stage last night and today, as well. >> she continues to garner a lot of attention wherever she goes and frankly, we haven't seen much of her on the national stage. so it was interesting that they packed the venue they did and timing. i thought it was smart on behalf of the trump campaign to turn her loose and obviously two days later we're still talking about it so it must be effective. >> i wanted to get your reaction from nicole wallace becoming palin's lahandler during the campaign. >> listen, i think sarah palin is interested in donald trump's career as a television star as she might be in his future as a politician. i think sarah palin squarely straddles the world of reality tv and the world of politics and i think zest problshe's interes replacing him in "the apprentice" or following him to washington. >> do you think palin has little desire to hold any office elected or appoint snd. >> she hasn't indicated an in

sarah palin. in a crowded race if you can take up so much oxygen, that helps. >> gloria, it's not just an endorsement. sarah palin has agreed to campaign with donald trump in the coming days. much more active support. >> she will be there to mobilize the republican base, to energize conservatives and evangelical voters who have had questions about donald trump, particularly ones raised by ted cruz and others. and so i think what she does is she commands the vast audiences. she mobilizes the voters and she's another celebrity. so, you have a star and another star. >> david, sarah palin did direct jabs at ted cruz, gave a shout out to rand paul. how much do you read into the fact that she didn't even mention cruz directly? obviously, palin/cruz had been allies up until now. she endorsed him and he credits her with helping him win the senate. >> there's no doubt she was a big help to him. he was trying to sort of preempt any attacks coming his way when he tweeted out recaller when there was speculati

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sarah palin. but donald trump is under attack right now from where? ted cruz say he's not a conservative. sarah palin, someone who has a great relationship with the conservative base say, of course, he's a conservative. the establishment is attacking donald trump saying he's not a republican. sarah palin who was the vice presidential nominee for the republican party and governor of alaska says of course he's a republican. i think most importantly, what does donald trump do that no other candidate can do? dominates the media on television, internet, social media. and who else in america if you're thinking about a big political figure who can do that? sarah palin. in a crowded race if you can take up so much oxygen, trust me, that helps. >> gloria, i mean, it's not just an endorsement. sarah palin agreed to campaign with donald trump the coming days which signals a much more active kind of support. >> yeah, she's going to be there to mobilize the republican base. to energize conservatives and evange

cruz preempted announcement today with a tweet, say, i love sarah palin. without her support i wouldn't be in the senate. regardless of what she does in 2016 i will always be a big fan. after tonight's event, deirdre, tonight's event in an hour, deirdre, palin will join trump at another event in iowa tomorrow before traveling with him to tulsa, oklahoma for a campaign rally. deirdre: peter barnes, thank you so much. reminder, just in fact backing up what peter just said, we're expecting a formal announcement at 6:00 p.m. so we will bring you to iowa as soon as that event starts. >>> in the meantime my political power panel is here. democratic strategist, tamara holder. tamara, great to see you. great to have you. sarah palin as peter was just mentioning, i will go down the list, fiscally respected as far as being modest. she is all for small government. she is staunchly pro-life and a trusted conservative. this is a coup for donald trump, right? >> you know, i don't know. i would say that he is playing russian roulette with this. it has nothing to do with m

any minute now, sarah palin with him. they're supposed to be roughly 50 minutes ago. figure that out and then also dive deep on whether or not palin is actually going to help the republican front-runner secure iowa. and then we go to new hampshire and the new poll there showing that bernie sanders has the largest lead he's ever had over hillary clinton. looking at what else that poll has to say. that's the next hour. marie callender starts her fettucini with chicken and broccoli with tender white meat chicken and freshly-made pasta mixed in an alfredo sauce made-from-scratch. because she knows that the most comforting thing about comfort food, is who you're sharing it with. marie callender's. it's time to savor. i've been blind since birth. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. learn about non-24 by calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. >>> hi, everybody. good afternoon. i'm thomas roberts. we start this hour with breaking news. we have been watching the markets today and it's a dramatic drop from wall street wher

senate today if it were not for governor sarah palin. she is fearless, she is principled, she is courageous, and she is a mama grizzly. that was ted cruz after he was in the u.s. senate. and here's sarah palin saying the feeling was mutual. >> ted cruz represents the positive change that we need. he represents that change and that is why you see the disgusting attacks thrown at him. >> but another cruz relationship soured today. cruz spokesman rick tyler tried to get ahead of the news by saying a trump endorsement would impune palin's conservative cred. bristol palin responded, after hearing what cruz is now saying about my nom in a negative, knee-jerk reaction, makes me hope my mom does endorse trump. iowa, of course, is do or die, i think for the cruz campaign. and the key to iowa is the v evangelical vote. for now at least cruz is still following that track with garnering nearly 33% of the vote for himself. but cruz's no good, very bad day has turned into a pile-on. a super pac supporting marco rubio released a new ad, hammering cruz

gallup released this polling data the day after sarah palin was announced. look at the headline "palin unknown to most americans." but she quickly became very, very very famous. and she initially became very popular. she gave that roll licking well received speech at the republican convention, that was the lipstick on a pig speech. remember? she was in huge demand at republican campaign events. she was all over magazine covers at the time. there was this huge clamor and tons of interest in her. everything was going great and then she started doing interviews. >> do you agree with the bush doctrine? >> in what respect, charlie? >> the bush -- what do you temperature it to be? >> his world view? >> no, the bush doctrine enunciated in september, 2002, before the iraq war. >> that was governor palin's first interview as a vice presidential candidate. didn't go well. she would do okay when she was interviewed in friendly territory like right wing talk radio or the fox news channel but anytime they let her out of that bubble, it went badly. >> i was curious, what n

chaos follows sarah palin. we seen this play out again and again and such a mismatch of the direction that donald trump may want to go where sarah palin has been in the past and the cruz campaign would love this drive this is asking the question of what kind of republican is donald trump? sarah palin has stood for these things. the tea party stood for things against the babailouts. donald trump can talk about how he'll take on special interest but no, we're going to increase the ethanol mandate in iowa -- >> capitol -- >> he was very effective today in criticizing cruz for setting the birther thing aside but the -- okay. that's a big thing to set aside. >> sarah palin should answer that. >> yeah, on the senator whose bought and sold by goldman sachs and the loans and the -- i mean, he keep -- that's his new thing now and he'll keep harping on it to make cruz look like an establishment person. >> the problem is that cruz can't be the establishment opponent to donald trump because the establishment hates ted cruz

there has long been chatter of a sarah palin-trump endorsement. after all, their politics overlap and they have similar attention grabbing styles and they seem to like each other. back in 2011, at a pizzeria, amid rumors of a palin presidential campaign, trump left the door open to running as her vice president. >> she didn't ask me. she came up as a friend and she is a terrific woman. >> reporter: earlier in the campaign trump has no kind words for senator john mccain who picked sarah palin to be his running mate, catapulting here because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> reporter: despised by the elite and adored by the disaffected she could be a fit for cruz. in fact, she endorsed his 2012 senate run and he credited her with his win. >> i love sarah palin. sarah palin is fantastic. without her friendship and support, i wouldn't be in the senate today. >> this just might be the kind of move that excites someone that supports donald trump but wasn't sure if they would go out and caucus on a cold night. >> reporter: it all sp

and sarah palin was the original. and yesterday america found the old cable, plugged it in, and guess what, it still works. >> he's from the private sector, not a politician. can i get a hallelujah. >> hallelujah. >> where in the private sector you actually have to balance budgeted to prioritize, to keep the main thing, the main thing. and he knows the main thing of president is to keep us safe economicically and militarily. he knows the main thing. and he knows how to lead the charge. so troops, hang in there, because help's on the way because he, better than anyone, isn't he known for being able to command, fire! (laughter). >> trevor: what? that is amazing! she's all over the place. like it's not even human. it's like the only thing sarah palin hates more than obama is punk yaition. nobody is-- like it is almost like she a malfunctioning robot, maybe, or the troop, or the commander, or boy, or e it is like a bag of scrabble tiles that grew a body and came to life. it's so randomment and whatever she is, she is happ

we like sarah palin. when it comes down to the iowa caucuses a week from monday night, the iowa voter rs very independent and savvy and usually don't let people tell them who to vote for. they're assessing the candidates and i would say with ted cruz being in first or second place with over 50% of the iowa caucus goers, he's in great shape to perform on february 1st. we know this race is going to go down to the wire and i think people are going to be drawn the ted cruz. >> what do you think, gloria, it was when it came down to it for sarah palin that made her choose donald trump over ted cruz, given that she's endorsed ted cruz so publicly last time around when he ran for senate? >> it's hard to say. maybe because ted cruz complains about washington and he's in washington. maybe the fact he's in the united states senate. i think she likes ted cruz an awful lot and i don't think she's going to go out there and say ted cruz is a terrible guy. >> which she didn't do. she didn't go after ted cruz specifically

i love sarah palin. sarah palin is fantastic. without her friendship and supporor i wouldn't be in the senate today. >> repororr: jeb bush was less plomatic during a fox news appearance. >> i respect donald trump. i don't think sarah palin has the ideas to keep us safe. >> reporter: on the democratic side, hillary clinton picked up the key endorsement of the human rights campaign, the nation's largest lgbt rights group. rival bernie sanders had his comeback. >> we are the only on the democratic side not to have a super pact and i'm proud of it. a strong lead over sanders nationally but latest polls show sanders is beating her in iowa. now clinton will return to iowa today. she is expected to spend four days in the state this week versus just one in new hampshire. back to sarah palin's endorsement of donald trump. it came on the same day palin's son trac was charged with assault and possessing a weapon while intoxicated in connection with an incident involving his girlfriend monday night. the palin family attorney declined to comm

back to sarah palin's endorsement of donald trump. it came on the same day trac her son was charged with assault and possessing a weapon while intoxicated in connection with an incident involving his girlfriend monday night. the palin family attorney declined to comment on the case. >> don champion here in new york, thank you. coming up on "cbs this morning," we will have more on sarah palin's endorsement of donald trump trump. >>> hillary clinton campaign is some of her e-mails found at her home was higher security clearance than to the secret. some contained information on highly sensitive programs. the clinton campaign says these were not classified when they were sent or received. >>> ben carson, temporarily, suspended his campaign after a volunteer died following a car accident. a van carrying three carson volunteers and a paid staffer in western iowa flipped on its side on an icy road and hit another vehicle yesterday morning. yesterday afternoon. the others were treated at a nearby hospital. >>> to international news now. at lea

sarah palin: are you ready for a commander in chief?e you ready for a commander in chief that will lead our warriors do their job and cake isis' ass? it was not so much a speech as a series of small explosions -- taking aim at the president, sure, but also the republican establishment. sarah palin: you are sounding angry is what we are hearing. you are right we are angry. playing up a donald trump as the outsider. sarah palin: he is from the private sector. can i get a hallelujah? in the private sector you have to balance budgets and prioritize. past 2-year sarah palin has been absent from the political front line, concentrating on being a reality. she is still a darling of the tea party right and the evangelical party. in iowa, that matters. she is gaffe-prone, as we saw when she ran for vice president eight years ago. i love hockey moms. the difference between hockey moms and pitbulls? lipstick. jon: there is often a slip. sarah palin: you can see russia from land in alaska. the danger is while sarah palin may help to win over the rig

and sarah palin picks sides. is clearly a part of the celebrity circus wing of the republican party which may, in fact, be the biggest wing. >> okay. so the curious thing this morning, ben, and you heard sara murray reporting it, we all expected sarah palin to appear with donald trump in iowa, but suddenly she's not. is there anything to that, you think, ben? >> i mean, sarah palin -- >> ben, i want ben. wait, wait. ben. >> oh, i thought you said van, sorry. >> if you're sarah palin, and this was a very simple move, it was probably donald trump saying, i'm in trouble in iowa. i've got to figure out a way to come back. i'm going to pick sarah palin. and then i'm going to let her come out on stage. and her people that love sarah palin are obsessed with palin. the same people that love trump are obsessed with trump. that's probably his biggest asset for him right now. i don't know why. she may have wanted to go back, for all i know, in alaska. her son's in trouble with the law. she want to go back and deal with part

what would that mean if sarah palin now endorsed donald trump? >> if sarah endorses donald trump, it would be good for trump. i like sarah palin. i traveled the country with her. i appreciate her and her family very much. john wayne and sarah palin can't save donald trump from being crazy. if he's the nominee of our party, we're going to get creamed. he has an 81% disapproval rating with hispanics. he alienated young women. his stand on banning all muslims puts our war plans in jeopardy. i can't stress enough, if you don't like me or jeb bush, fine. make sure we win an election we can't afford to lose. dishonest is what hillary clinton is perceived as, beats crazy. donald trump's ideas domestically and internationally are really bizarre. >> you have said when you talked to cate, you said your wing of the republican party to some extent, you know, has crumbled. sarah palin is sort of the other wing. so what would a palin endorsement do for donald trump? >> i think it helps him in this regard. i'm not so sure it gets him a lot of new voters. probab

sarah palin is fantastic. without her friendship and support i wouldn't be in the senate today. >> reporter: it all spelled bad news for cruz as iowa governor terry branstad took the texas senator to task for his lack of support for renewable fuels. important to iowa farmers. now with iowa less than two weeks away, and polls showing trump neck and neck with cruz, palin's official endorsement could be crucial. katy tur, nbc news, ames, iowa. >>> less than 24 hours before, the announcement, palin's 26-year-old son track was arrested on misdemeanor domestic violence charges. court documents state that track and his girlfriend were arguing for most of the day when he allegedly hit her in the head with a closed fist, sending her to the ground, where he then kicked her in the knee. palin then allegedly threw his girlfriend's cell phone. she retrieved the phone and ran inside the house where palin allegedly pulled an ar-15 rifle on her, saying, quote, do you think i won't do it? palin was arraigned and released after

that is the body language with donald trump and sarah palin. particularly the first event where palin gave her official endorsement. some people said trump looked unfortunau uncomfortable behind her. don lemon asked him about it. >> you did seem to be uncomfo uncomfortab uncomfortable. am i wrong? were you uncomfortable there? >> no, not at all. i was there. i didn't know it would be quite that long. she made a beautiful, very good speech. i was very happy. i would have normally left the stage and let her speak. i thought it would be nice if i was there. i thought it would be disrespectful to her if i left the stage. i wasn't uncomfortable at all. >> the one sentene that jumped out was i didn't know it would be so long. >> you know what is funny about this, there are few people who can rival star power to the right. he brought the one person who can yank away the spotlight like. that the first day he had her out, she pulls away the spotlight. she owns it. this is sarah palin we're talking about. you know, this is no small endorsement. you have t

governor in 2009, sarah palin worked as a political -- as alaska governor in 2009, since then, sarah palin has worked as a political pundit . she is a polarizing figure amongst the party as a whole. genie: there has been another big loss in the arts world. italian cinema lost one of its reats with the death of ettore scola. directed "special day" and "we loved each other so much." scola, the filmmaker, who has died at the age of 84, films comedies with a subversive edge. than the 1977 film "a special day," starring sophia laurent, which denounced the persecution of homosexuals under miscellany. -- under mussolini. >> all aspects of fascism -- >> the established his career as a screenwriter, including the 1963 hit. he carved an imprint for himself as a filmmaker, winning the best director afford -- the best inector award at cannes 1986. a one-time member of the italian communist party, he used his knowledge of left-wing groups in films such as "we love each other so much," which charted the postwar fortunes of three partisans. centered on the 16th.e of louis the his last film of the d

defending sarah palin. that's what i thought what was so important about tonight. when she said, the establishment doesn't like donald trump, it was look like, it doesn't like me. >> here's sarah palin taking shots at the republican party itself. which tells you where this campaign's at. >> we need someone new who has the power and is in the position to bust up that establishment, to make things great again. it's part of the problem. his candidacy, which is a movement, it's a force, it's a strategy. they're attacking their own front-runner. for the gop establishment, to be coming after donald trump's supporters, even, with accusations that are so false, they are so busted, the way that this thing works. >> this is going right back at the republican party, the reince priebus crowd and all those people who seem like they're just dying, they don't control this thing anymore. >> it brings into the circle a lot of folks who have kind of been looking at this peripherally. some of ted cruz's supporters. some are s

the democratic messaging strategy against ernst was painting her against sarah palin. r her and she is a much respected member of the senate. palin's track record is successful. guy she endorseside another u.s. senator. i thinkkfáaople in the national media are going to embarrassingly under estimate how beneficial this is for trump and how much of a loss it is for cruz. >> what's the impact? she made it very evident governor palin that there is a big divide in the republican party. sheíí specifically talks about antiestablishment or the establishment g.o.p. i mean, she is drawing a line right down the middle of that. >> you sort of have a divide between the antiestablishment wing of the party in this cruz-trump matchup. we all sort of thought there would be an establishment candidate rising at this point. some people still believe it could be marco rubio. the polling doesn't bear that out. the3iyf$sáá that out. we are 13 days out and it is increasingly looking like a trump/cruz race and palin is a value day or two -- valid validator for trump. nobody talk about jeb or m

>> are there any still sarah palin true believers? >> you can start there then. >> her star power has greatly diminished. i just don't get the sense that the draw is there like it was in the early obama years. i do think you're right. i think there's a strategic reason she attached her herself to donald trump and she craves that type of attention? i watched how much the rhetoric has changed. i watched when she was stumping for john mccain, and we were all very alarmed at what was happening at her specific rallies. i look back at that. i look and it's almost quantity. what we witnessed in 2008 specifically .really wasn't as alarming as what we're seeing now. i think he highlighted something that sorch has been underanalyzed in trumpism. trumpism has trumped chen eyche. when was the last time we had cheney come out and tell us how to think about foreign policy? let's listen to palin on foreign policy tonight. >> let me say something really positive about one of those individuals, rand paul. i'm going to tell you about that libertarian s

sarah palin expected to follow shortly. and tom, the big question, is palin expected to hit the campaign trail for trump? >> reporter: she will, david. we know that she'll be campaigning with donald trump tomorrow here in iowa. and then both of them fly together to tulsa, oklahoma. in the past, sarah palin has worked very hard for the candidate she's endorsed. now, that said, a palin drama and there's no difference right now. just last night, we learned that sarah palin's 26-year-old son, track palin, was arrested in a domestic violence incident. palin or trump camps. david? >> tom llamas, thank you. >>> meantime, on the democratic side tonight, a breaking the eye-opening new poll out of new hampshire tonight. bernie sanders beating hillary clinton by 27 points there. his biggest margin over clinton in any new hampshire poyet. new hampshire has been good to secretary clinton before, but the snims between these two candidates now being replaced by sharp words on the trail. with iowa and new hampshire coming quickly. abc's cec

sarah palin is fantastic. without her friendship and support, i wouldn't be in the senate today. >> this just might be the kind of move that excites someone that supports donald trump but wasn't sure if they would go out and caucus on a cold night. >> reporter: it all spelled bad news for cruz as terry branstad took the texas senator to task today for lack of support for renewable fuels. important to iowa farmers. >> i believe it would be a big mistake for iowa to support him. and know he is ahead in the polls but the only poll that counts is the one they take on caucus night. >> reporter: now with iowa less than two weeks away and polls showing trump neck and neck with cruz, the endorsement could be crucial. katy tur, ames, iowa. >>> this is peterson alexander. an outspoken media magnet. sarah palin burst on to the national stage in 2008. >> they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull -- lipstick. >> reporter: with her informal folksy style she gave voice to a growing movement of conservatives