i just ran into republican national committee spokesperson sean spicer here on the ground in des moines, and i said, you know, sean, is donald trump going to show up to this debate, and he said flatly no. he has talked to him many times today. donald trump's plan, as of now, is definitely not to show up to the debate despite what people are speculating on social media about some sort of late stage entry. it's really clear that trump and fox news have sort of reached the point of no return. the insults, barbs are escalating. now it seems that he elizabeth on that stage tomorrow night, and in so doing, he is trying to sort of control the narrative, steal the spotlight and away from the other candidates. whether that actually works or whether they benefit from not having him on stage remains to be seen. >> i'm going to speak to sean spicer later on this hour. thanks to you. how are donald trump's rivals out there reacting to his decision? senator ted cruz is challenging trump to a one-on-one debate. listen. >> we are effectively tied in the state of iowa. if he is unwilling to stand on the

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were they -- >> he's my son's boss, sean spicer, said the rules don't manned date you have to show up. . rules mandate you can't go to an unsanctioned debate. the last time around there were like three times as many debates. %-p. i just think it so unpredictable. i think ted cruz is still going to which tuesday night. i told donald trump that last week, off air. i could be wrong. i think donald trump is going to win new hampshire and south carolina is a jump ball. >> you had joe scarborough on and you asked him about being donald trump's running mate. what did he tell you? >> he didn't say no. but he later tweeted out "i say no." joe as got great media chops, he's got great florida ties, he's well known, he won't make any stupid mistakes, he's been vetted thoroughly in his media life. joe's going to get the call and be on the short list. he said "i rule it out" on twitter later. >> he'd have to give up his "cushy"msnbc job. >> he said he'd be willing to do anything to help the country. that was not no. it was not shermanesque. >> touche, you're right. thank you hugh. >> thank you. >>

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here to weigh in, sean spicer, republican national committee chief strategist. i say a plague on both your houses. i don't agree with the president or governor haley. i don't like it when politicians get along. when they get along they spend more of my money and waste a lot more of my money. what do you say about that? >> i agree with you on that but what governor haley is talking about is the tone. if buying off another side is, what it takes, that is not a good outcome for anyone in this country, that is what gets us $19 trillion in debt but i think tone and civility we engage is another thing. think i that is what governor haley is talking about. we can disagree without being disagreeable and name-calling. david: at same time you have to be tough. our next president could be a session alist. bernie sanders is running for president, he might win, who knows. if we compromise with socialist the best we get is welfare state and i don't want either one. >> no, agree with you. we have obamacare. can you imagine going further to the left of that? david: yes i can im

i heard from sean spicer at the rnc, he says the rnc will not intervene on this. each campaign ultimately makes their own decision. >> jeff kauffman, let me go to you, chairman of the iowa republican party. you're hearing from the national committee they're not going to intervene. what would trump's absence at this debate in iowa days before the iowa caucuses, what would the significance be in your state? >> first of all, you got to love iowa in january. there's always a surprise. you know, we have a lot of venues for these candidates to introduce their ideas, themselves, and continue the dialogue with iowans. the debate is one of those. i have to agree with the national party. the state party is going to be a part of a lot of these events but it's ultimately up to the campaigns and the ultimate arbiters of this are the people in iowa february 1st. there are a lot of unorthodox things about this campaign season and this caucus season. this is yet one of them and ultimately on february 1st, we're going to have some answers in terms of whether this was a good move o

connell: so from the rnc communications director sean spicer. he's with us as well from south carolina. it's good to see you, sean. any -- you know, from the party that you're telling me that bush or anybody just tone it down with all of this stuff or what? >> well, i think you've heard myself and cameron talk about the fact that we're big believers in reagan 11th commandment, we would love to see the candidates talk about their vision their solutions to america's problems and focus their attacks on hillary clinton and the democrats. connell: so much for that; right? >> exactly. but that doesn't mean that we don't try to continue to put them in the right direction i am not speaking of putting people in the right direction, what was the rnc's involvement in the speech that governor haley gave the other night in response to the state of the union? >> nothing. connell: nothing at all? didn't know about it or knew about it and just weren't involved? >> we -- all of the above. we -- the way that state of the union speeches work is that the house and s

>> look at the tweets from reince priebus, his spokesman, sean spicer. thap ecstatic saying with the speech saying she represents the future of the party and paul ryan, remember, the great establishment hope of the party invited her. what we are seeing here is big split of the republicans laid bare in the most stark way of the campaign. so potentially strategic by the sort of mainstream establishment branch of the republican party. does this show that division we have been talking about for a while now in the republican party? >> more so than in the past. the jeb bush verl sus trump. this is entirely different. nikki haley was a tea party heroine elected in 2010 representing the far right of the party. >> she was the cruz camp at the time. >> she was. the fact she is portrayed as the establishment person and trump to her right has really shown you how differently her persona has morphed over the course of years and also where basically where the center is for the republican party now. >> shawn trend wrote this this morning. i'm sure having haley dedicate

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connell: so from the rnc communications director sean spicer. he's with us as well from south carolina. it's good to see you, sean. any -- you know, from the party that you're telling me that bush or anybody just tone it down with all of this stuff or what? >> well, i think you've heard myself and cameron talk about the fact that we're big believers in reagan 11th commandment, we would love to see the candidates talk about their vision their solutions to america's problems and focus their attacks on hillary clinton and the democrats. connell: so much for that; right? >> exactly. but that doesn't mean that we don't try to continue to put them in the right direction i am not speaking of putting people in the right direction,