. >> joining us now, michael steel and stuart stevens. charlie, also with us. stuart stevens there's your former candidate there saying that he sees this path getting narrower. he's been on that path. he knows what it feels like. how narrow is it at this point? >> well, in a delegate sense only about 5% of the delegates have been chosen and you go this thing is still wide open. you have to look at the dynamic and the question that people keep asking is where is somebody going to beat donald trump and that ultimately is what this whole process is about. you have to win states. now you can lose a couple of states, pick up delegates and still do well, but you can't just keep coming in second and win through some sort of voting group. and i personally -- i've said this before -- believe that these candidates need to engage donald trump. i think that's the only way donald trump will be beaten. it's the only way that the obama campaign beat hillary clinton. i mean, let's remember in south carolina bill clinton in 0 '8 was reduced to saying he was not a racist. campai

right after this. ♪ mark: we're back with henry barbour and stuart stevens. d in a multi-pronk tactical assault. there was paid media. you sent surrogates to his advance. are you suggesting that taking trump on requires that kind of effort? stuart: is the only way to be trump. it is the only way to run a modern campaign. it is how you win races today. when robbie got trounced by the in south carolina, he didn't pretend that he won. he adjusted and the campaign and they put together a really good conference of plan. is a much easier candidate to beat ben newt gingrich. he response to everything. i have never seen a candidate where was so easy to get inside his head. i don't understand why these campaigns aren't having fun with teams going at donald trump. i can promise you, it is how you will take control of the race and get him responding to you. mark: what stuart says makes a lot of sense to me. henry: i think it is a given that he is going to win tonight. he's probably going to have a very good day on super tuesday as well. stuart and i have worked on some c

and stuart stevens. talk about donald trump and more after these messages. ♪ ♪ there are mark: plenty of questions remaining about the republican race but the big one is is donald trump stoppable? both worked on the romney campaign. stuart stevens joins us from quebec. and henry barbour who has endorsed rubio, he is in jackson. did you work on the romney campaign? henry barbour: i was a volunteer helper. mark: stuart, let me start with you. appraise the state of the race right now. talk to me about the other three guys. what are their chances? stewart: this is a straight up cage fight and whoever is the most aggressive contender taking on trump is the most likely to win. it is not very complicated. one guy is ahead and he has a bunch of votes. you have to go out there and tell people why you should have those votes and he shouldn't have them. i think this race has been the most peculiar where people of been competing to see the order that they could lose in. instead of trying to win. guess what, the guy

. >> rose: we continue with robert costas, stuart stevens, at that time trick hello and jonathan alter. >> where chris christie can turn himself into something real that can come out of new hampshire with sort of a strong showing. that will be huge. if called trump sort of ultimately kind of implodes on his own which i think is the bet of a lot of these republicans who aren't spending political capital to attack him, if you see trump come in a second or even a third, it's very hard to see the guy who says i'm winning i'm winning i'm winning build back from that. >> rose: weevening with peter s new book is called united states of jihad, investigating america's home grown terrorist. >> you're talking about wolves, people associated with foreign terrorist organizations, in a sense they're part of a virtual pack. when you get on-line and start looking at isis pop gran dahuk up with people around the world, there are hundreds of people with the same views around the world saying isis is great. >> rose: politics and home grown terrorism when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" h

stuart stevens from canada, thank you, sir. ben ginsburg, our delegate guru, appreciate it.ll ahead, we're going to hear from the trump campaign. donald trump's son, eric, will be here and we'll talk about all of this hand wringing going on inside the republican party and how his father is reacting to it. we'll be right back. ♪ he has a sharp wit. a winning smile. and no chance of getting an athletic scholarship. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. td ameritrade. hi i'm kristie. and i'm jess. and we are the bug chicks. we're a nano-business. windows 10 really helps us get the word out about how awesome bugs are. kids learn to be brave and curious and all kids speak the language of bug. "hey cortana, find my katydid video." oh! this is so good. if you're trying to teach a kid about a proboscis. just sketch it on the screen. i don't have a touch screen on my mac, i'm jealous of that. you put a big bug in a kids hands and change their world view. [ laugh ] everhas a number.olicy but not every insurance company understands the life behin

stuart stevens is a columnist from "the daily beast."was a top advisor to mitt romney's presidential campaign in 2012. patrick healy is a national political correspondent for "the new york times." jonathan alter is an msnbc analyst and daily beast columnist. i am pleased to have all of them this evening. i begin with robert costa. ert: charlie. charlie: how do you see this the night before they vote? robert: great to be with you. think back to pat buchanan's campaign. he ran as a populist treat someone against illegal immigration. of that.eing echoes a sense that this is a working-class state. the buchanan coalition seems to be coming back together. he has a large lead. his campaign manager hails from here. charlie: stuart stevens, somebody said to me they thought john kasich won the debate. donald trump did lose, and marco rubio had a good debate except for three minutes. how did you see it? stuart: i think they were playing two different crowds. john kasich is playing two independents. he is trying to get people who may vote as indepen

also with us, "hardball's" chris matthews, jennifer horn and former romney advisor stuart stevens on where this race will ultimately be decided. >>> up next, barack obama installed a basketball court at the white house. will bernie sanders be using it? >> and by the way he's making these. i'm sorry, that's not automatic. i saw this last night. >> this is what he did right after he won. >> automatic. >> before he spoke. >> i'm sorry, come on. >> kasie hunt was there. >> that was a per if ekt shfect >> when we come back, listen to bernie, his victory speech last night as we go to break. >> together we have sent the message that will echo from wall street to washington, from maine to california. [ cheers and applause ] and that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super pacs. [ cheers and applause ] at ally bank, no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like grandkids equals free tech support. oh, look at you, so great to see you! none of this works. come on in. dad, yoh no,

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john: stuart stevens, great to have you here. when we come back, jeb versus marco. can also listen to us at bloomberg 99.1 fm. ♪ ♪ the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voice mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. make your business phone mobile with voice mobility. comcast business. built for business. ladies, welcome. so your candidate had a rough night saturday by some accounts. >> by some. the big question is has it hurt him? you're an interested party but talking to people, talking to the campaign do you think that performance might impact him? >> i don't. i spent a lot of time talking to friends of mine in new hampshire. i've lived here for 40 years. i've been around voters of new hampshire all that time. i realize that there is a big fascination with this by the press but i don't

john: stuart stevens, great to have you here. when we come back, jeb versus marco. can also listen to us at bloomberg 99.1 fm. ♪ >> joining us now two very interested parties in this primary. a relatively new supporter of marco rubio and long-time republican activist here in new hampshire. also joining us a former adviser to george w. bush. and john mccain. who is backing jeb bush. ladies, welcome. so your candidate had a rough night saturday by some accounts. >> by some. the big question is has it hurt him? you're an interested party but talking to people, talking to the campaign do you think that him? mance might impact >> i don't. i spent a lot of time talking to friends of mine in new hampshire. 've lived here for 40 years. i've been around voters of new hampshire all that time. i realize that there is a big fascination with this by the press but i don't think it had the impact on the people i'm talking to. >> there is a new cnn tracking poll the campaign is touting showing senator rubio basically unchanged. how well do you think he can do? can he finish first,

joining me now, mark tiesen, stuart stevens, and charles hurt, a political columnist with "the washington times." gentlemen, welcome. so let's just start with that last bit, the dustup between trump and the pope which is artificial in many ways, because a reporter decided to make his own assertions about trump's position, dangle it in front of the pope and the pope says i give him the benefit of the doubt. now trump's calling his behavior disgraceful and says a leader, a leader would never question a man's faith, but i give you the following, and then i'll let you take it from there, mark. watch. >> no leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith. i'm presbyterian. that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. i mean, 7th day adventists, i don't know about. i just don't know about. just remember this, you got to remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of cuba, okay? i think he's going to go down. a guy can't be -- i'm a christian. and i -- [ applause ] but ted holds

my next guest is stuart stevens, former mitt romney campaign strategist.thinks the rubio campaign needs to change its campaign and soon. i know you like marco rubio, nothing against him. but how is he messing it up? >> well, look, as you say, i'm a great marco rubio fan. i just think that you have to post up against a guy who is winning. and i think a message about the party is not a very compelling message to most people. most people who vote republican primary, they don't care about the party, they care about nar lives. i think that donald trump has laid out a series of economic proposals that would have devastating impact on jobs and these crazy foreign policy ideas that would put america at reisk. he needs to talk about that. he needs to talk about what it's going to mean if donald trump were president. >> the first report on that, major financial donors who don't like trump are not going to give money to an anti-trump campaign, because they're worried that they will get hit. just yesterday, we warn marlene ricketts, a big republican donor, "better be

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. >> stuart stevens, the three network threat.hows on showtime, bloomberg and right here on msnbc. john, the three lane theory, stewart has talked about it, saying that this is something that people are believeing in, without everyday. >> it's destroying many earthquake. >> it's destroying america. is there, is there a three lane situation on the republican side? or is swurt wright right to say republicans have not made a mistake in going after donald trump? because he has his own unsaleable lane. >> stewart may be right. the republicans are not violating the way. there is sleer e clearly a stream set up. there is another set of more conservative grass roots populist evangelical candidates and then there's trump. >> he's had a really interestingly echeck lick ideological spectrum that's escorted him everywhere he's gone. it may be true, if there were a strong man in the republican party, somebody that had enough dexterity and ideological breadth they can take trump down. so far anybody n has been swatted away. there is a part of t

stuart stevens was on in the last hour. i was reading a lot of his tweets last night. he was saying if you are marco rubio, it's not enough to have this one debate performance where you go after donald trump. if that's what you are going to do, you have to do that every single day. kevin madden was saying this as well. this is what you have to do every single day from now on as long as this race lasts. you have to have press conferences in front of failed trump businesses. you have to have press conferences with people who are suing trump for trump university. you have to have this sustained barrage. >> it does. and it doesn't -- it's not -- can't just come from marco rubio because he's not going to get enough press to generate the momentum. it really needs to be a broader and larger effort which is i think what you are starting to see. you are starting to see the outside money come behind some of these complaints to get some of these individuals who are harmed by trump university on camera telling the story. victim to camera. in a way that was quite damaging for mitt

. >> his top strategist, stuart stevens, is in "the new york times" this morning taking a shot at your campaign. he's saying -- it's crazy that nobody else is trying to win but trump. rubio is not going after the person who is winning. i've never seen a campaign that seems as satisfied to not go after the leader. is it time to take on mr. trump directly? >> this is not an election like others up to this point. as i said, you know, 70% of the vote. so we had a very unusual circumstance. i had one superpac that spent $40 million going after me. you can only take on so many people at one time. this is not about going after donald trump. it isn't. people want to obsess about that. this election is about who is best capable of uniting the republican party -- >> he is the front-runner. >> it's about who is the most capable -- he's the front-runner when you have seven people running. 70% of republicans nationally have basically said, we're not voting for donald trump. when that vote is being divided up between several people, of course he's the front-runner. once the number narrows, we'll be

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. >> got it, steven, thank you for joining us and condolences. stuart varney, take it away. stuart: and bernie loses and trump wins, and stocks go up. start with very good news for wall street about a half hour from now, stocks will continue last week's strong performance. oil is up. there are predictions of good economic growth this year, that's all good for stocks and, yes, bernie did lose and trump did win and stocks are up. we will discuss any connection. there's also this, the republican establishment lost. trump is on a roll. the democrat establishment won, hillary clinton may also be starting to roll. however, the word indictment has not been forgotten. an interesting item from hillary's e-mails turns out she was reluctant to leave her hampton's vacation to attend a meeting on libya which has now become a hot bed of isis. welcome to a brand new week. politics and markets right outfront again. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> oh, don't you love it? you're looking at a monday morning opening bell rally. of course, we're looking for reasons, that's what we do a

. >> got it, steven, thank you for joining us and condolences. stuart varney, take it away. and trump wins, and stocks go up. start with very good news for wall street about a half hour from now, stocks will continue last week's strong performance. oil is up. there are predictions of good economic growth this year, that's all good for stocks and, yes, bernie did lose and trump did win and stocks are up. we will discuss any connection. there's also this, the republican establishment lost. trump is on a roll.

you talked to mitt romney's top strategist, mitch stevens, and he said trump wouldn't win a thing, is he having a good day today? >> yeah, i think stuartrgument -- and this was the argument of the establishment sort of from the time donald trump rose until last night, was that this ultimately wasn't going to be borne out. yes, it's a flir tatation with , yes, it went longer than we expected, but when people go to the ballot box and actually vote that trump wouldn't do as well. i've been on the side of sort of dismissing this as wishful thinking, which frankly, kate, there was part of that. they wanted this to be true, so they said it was going to be true. i just listened toal al lly tal about trump. he should have won, we expected him to win, polling showed he would win. i think he expected to win iowa. he didn't, and he came in a distant second, really, to ted cruz. that doesn't mean he still is not a major factor in this race. he's clearly the favorite that new hampshire has today. >> and history shows us the winner of the caucuses in iowa often doesn't become president of the united states. >> no non-incumbent candidate running for