ted cruz: thank you. >> we are all working together. ted cruz: thank you. ted cruz: what is your name? >> stella. ted cruz: thank you for being here. >> let's get a picture. ted cruz: here, is that your camera? [inaudible] [crowd noise] >> thank you. ted cruz: thank you, sir. let's do it together. >> [indiscernible] >> my wife lives in dallas. i am on the road. can we get a selfie? thank you so much. ted cruz: what year were you at yale? >> 2010. where's the best place, in your argument, where can you look that up? ted cruz: go to our website, tedcruz.org. we have a link there called the proven record. if you look under religious liberty we have a whole lot of links. good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you. ted cruz: what is your name? >> jana. ted cruz: thank you for being here. do you want your picture? >> yes. ted cruz: thank you. thank you for being here. god bless you. thank you very much. what is your name? >> paul. this is my first time voting. ted cruz: thank you for being here. we can do a picture if you want, do you want a selfie? thank

he is not a fan of ted cruz. en if mccain does believe if cruz is a natural born citizen, he will not say that and let it play out. i think that is what is going to happen. we will see what shakes out. >> nice to see you, jeremy. thanks for getting up early. >>> new skepticism over north korea's claim of the hydrogen bomb test. president obama called south korea's president to say they need to stiffen the sanctions. one official tells cnn the air force will likely send a sniffer plane to sample air in the atmosphere. we have latest from cnn's paula hancoc hancocks. >> reporter: john, there are japanese sniffer planes in the area. they have not found anything. we understand that japan, china and south korea all saying they detected no radiation since the nuclear test. one said there may not been any radiation in the air. they could not find any particles in the atmosphere to be able to test to pinpoint what the nuclear test was. it could be the same this time. the north koreans are getting better at shielding the n

donald trump versus ted cruz has occurred. until now he has held his tongue when it comes to donald trump. here's the back-and-forth between the two top arrivals in the last 24 hours. cruz: he may shift in his new rallies to playing new york new york because donald comes from new york and he embodies new york values and the donald seems to be a little bit rattled. donald trump: if you're a citizen of canada and your born in canada there is a real question. a lot of people say you have to be born on the land. not just professor laurence tribe of harvard. a big article in the washington post said the same thing. trump is relying on ultra-left-wing law professors to make this argument. the same professors he is relying on are major supporters for hillary clinton. donald trump: not a lot of evangelicals come out of cuba. cruz: when some is attacking your faith that means they're getting really nervous. donald trump: i am beating ted cruz a lot with evangelicals. i will do very well in iowa. i like ted cruz. but he's got a basic pro

iowa is tailor-made for ted cruz. i mean, this is a state where 56% of voters last time around on the republican side were christian evangelicals. one of cruz's most popular surrogates in this state is a dad, a minister. and so, as i talked to donald trump as he was going on into "morning joe" this morning, you know, he's feeling and his campaign is feeling confident and maybe even a tiny bit surprises about the way things are going in iowa. if it happens that he comes tantalizingly close or wins here, it really will throw once again politics on its head as we know it. this is a state that thrives on person-to-person contact. he hadn't been in iowa for 11 days when he came to ottumwa. he's something like 12th in the number of appearances that he has made in this state. and yet, you can see, this was a very last-minute add. and the place is packed. it goes all the way back to the doors. and they like their odds right now. they say they've got a ground game, in spite of the fact, as you saw a big article in "the new york

donald trump is calling into question ted cruz's eligibility to be president because ted cruz was born in canada to a cuban father and an american mother. in an interview with "the washington post," trump says that should make gop voters think twice about voting for cruz. he's quoted as saying this. "republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question, do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years? that'd be a big problem." trump ought said this to new hampshire affiliate nh1. >> people are worried that if he weren't born in this country, which he wasn't, he was born in canada, and he actually had a canadian passport along with a u.s. passport until just recently. i mean, like within the last couple of years. so i don't know what it all means. >> so what does ted cruz have to say about all this? well, he literally says these charges have jumped the shark. and he literally tweeted a link to this youtube video of fonzie jumping the shark on "happy days." thank goodness he made it. cruz has a live event in just a few minutes in iowa. will he push this respons

only ted cruz could make donald trump seem warmer and fuzzier. t what comes out of his mouth matches what comes out of trump's mouth. cruz is more articulate with it. the amazing thing is these two people who both of their sense of values is demonizing immigrants and lesbians or women's issues or planned parent hood, whatever it is, their entire campaign has been about creating divisions and antagoni antagonism. the fact that these two are now so far ahead of other candidates is really amazing and you know, i think democrats are sort of sitting back thinking my god, you know, running against right one of them are going to show america the most stark choice on values, on what real values are. >> now, scotty, donald trump wasn't the only person taking on ted cruz last night. marco rubio helped out in that venture for sure. his long list of attacks came late in the debate. here's a little taste. >> ted cruz, you use to say you supported doubling the number of green cards, now you say you're against it. you use to support a 500% increase in the number

ted cruz: thank you. ♪ [indiscernible] ted cruz: thank you very much.discernible] ted cruz: a little bit of time. don't forget to sign. [laughter] >> thank you so much. >> can you take my picture with him? thanks so much. thank you. ted cruz: what is your name? >> [indiscernible] we get a lot of shadows here. >> thank you very much are being here. -- for being here. [indiscernible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ted cruz: it is a flat out lie. i have always supported it. >> i think that would help the whole system. ted cruz: thank you very much. it is my birthday. how are you doing sir? >> thank you. ted cruz: very detailed immigration plan on our website. thank you, thank you. >> mr. cruz, that second chronicle verse, [indiscernible] feel -- thank you very much. god bless you. >> a real pleasure to have you. it is great to have you here, senator. [indiscernible] nice to meet you. picture? take a thank you. >> i am going to be here all week. can we

just this week, ted cruz was asked during a town hall about this issue. the cruz campaign wanting to put this issue to bed. they feel like they have, but clearly it's resonating in some sense, the poll shows some movement. people are a bit concerned about it. it shows these lines of attack that donald trump keeps bringing to the campaign trail are working in some sense. the cruz campaign responding to the attack by donald trump, laying into donald trump, calling him the s.s. new york values. this is the key part of that closing message in iowa when talking about standing up to donald trump, trying to paint him as someone that's not in line with iowa values, john. >> very hard to be the man in the middle. sunlen surfer fatty. he's talking about donald trump, saying that anger is not enough, but marco rubio as he likes to do is talking a lot about hillary clinton. >> there's a reason why hillary clinton and her super pacs pend more time attacking me than any republican -- because they don't run against me, but i can't wait to run against her. the next presid

ted cruz: thank you. ♪ ted cruz: thank you very much.ernible] ted cruz: thank you very much. >> thank you so much. ted cruz: a little bit of time. don't forget to sign. [laughter] >> thank you so much. >> can you take my picture with him? thanks so much. >> thank you. ted cruz: what is your name? >> we get a lot of shadows here. >> thank you very much for being [indiscernible] [crowd noise] ted cruz: it is a flat out lie. i have always supported it. >> i think that would help the whole system. ted cruz: thank you very much. >> it is my birthday.

>>amanda: do you think what he said about ted cruz could be detrimental to ted cruz's campaign? >>craig: well, it's not good. you know, terry branstad's a iowa politics and beyond. >>amanda: mmhmm. >>craig: and we saw the amount of attention those comments made. so any time you have a real, um, (chuckling) >>craig: a governor, any governor of an early primary state saying what he did about senator cruz i don't t tnk it's, i don't think it's great. but this is a caucus, not a primary so it is a much smaller election, more conservative. so it might not have as big of a, of an impact as it would in say a primary race. >>amanda: mmhmm. >>sabrina: now do you think that steve king's comments later calling this de-endorsement of ted cruz an inadvertent endorsement for donald trump is true? >>craig: i don't think that's true. i, i think that's maybe reading a little too much into this. i can see how the comments politically might t lp donald trump in i ia, but i don't think that it's a de facto endorsement of, of donald trump. >>amanda: so since the branstad comment there have actually

but why not take ted cruz at his word? well, i think the only reason we're talking about this right now, kate, is because senator cruz responded to a report that donald trump brought this up to begin with in which he did not and donald trump is not the only one that has those concerns now that the question has been asked. it's been republicans. and amanda knows this. donald trump does take senator cruz on his word, as you just heard on "wolf" today. he hopes it's not going to be an issue. however, there are democrats out there talking about this issue. >> but he didn't say -- his specific answer to wolf, when wolf asked him if he believed that ted cruz was a natural-born citizen, he said, i don't know. >> well, exactly. he's not a supreme court justice. people have asked for there to be a ruling on this. donald trump doesn't know. he says he wants to believe him and take him on his word. he hopes this does not come up. i'm not quite sure how this is translating that donald trump doesn't believe ted cruz. >> amanda, is that

like this is a punch in the gut for ted cruz. ted cruz is somebody that sarah palin endorsed. lin, trump, they all appeal to the same wing of the party. i'm really ticked off and i'm tired of the establishment wing of the party these days. she is sort of one of those people that represents them. so this does sting for ted cruz. >> what's the underside, meaning what's the risk? >> the risk is general election stuff. sarah palin is a divisive, polarizing person. but this is primary politics, and right now you can't worry about the general until you get through the primary. and by the way, her track record in primaries, say what you will, her track record is primaries is pretty good. she has been -- she creates a buzz when she comes in in multi candidate primaries. created a buzz for ted cruz and nikki haley -- i can go down the list. when she does these things and she spends time helping, she can help. >> and now the question kate snow's been asking since we got the word of your confirmation of this, what are they thinking in the rubio camp tonight? what are they thinking in the

that's why you see marco rubio lying, outright lying about ted cruz's immigration record. you can't attack him. he has hundred on the right side of every political issue. >> let's stick with cruz now and trump. here is more of cruz's response. >> well, i tweeted out a response to donald trump's raising questions about my natural-born citizenship. it was a link to fonzi jumping the shark and i think i'm going to let my response stick with that tweet. one of the things that media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from donald trump or me or anyone else, let's focus on the issues that matter. >> that was a great pivot, mercedes, that he brings it back to the media when it is donald trump and it's also donald trump and some republicans question the president's citizenship, the same rule that apply to ted cruz apply to -- would apply to barack obama in 2008 or 2012. his mother was born here in the united states even if he was born in another country he is eligible. why is ted cruz doing this pivot blaming it on the media and the democrats. is he afra

how am i going to attack ted cruz? s the line he has settled on, the canadian thing, or do you think he's going to shift off that and go on to other anti-cruz topics? jenna: for now, it seems to be working. we were all waiting for him to go there. one of my colleagues overheard ted cruz's wife at an event telling a supporter that they were expecting trump to go after ted cruz on this. we've been waiting for this to happen, and no one was quite sure how it's going to go over. he kind of started off throwing the idea out there, and in the last couple days, we have seen him ramp it up, hit it hard. when i talked to people in the audiences afterwards, they kind of agree with him. this is a question. there are things about ted cruz they didn't know. for as long as this is resonating, he's going to keep with it. when he finds something he seems to resonate, he just keeps hammering. john: like a dog on the bone. mark: trump has tacked some of his opponents "low-energy." he has incredible stamina for a man his age or anybody. a

we're talking about ted cruz.ughter) (applause) the canadian-born texas senator whose country of birth was never a problem until now. >> senator ted cruz, did you know he was born in canada? so cushionly i constitutionallye allowed to be president? >> ted cruz battles back questions of his eligibility to serve as president. (bleep). >> trevor: this is insane! you have to understand, i didn't know this could happen to republicans as well! right? i thought republicans are the ones who do this and not the ones who get it done to them. this is like hearing someone roofied bill cosby! it's like me finding that out. "ooooo i'm about to black out with the darkness and the daawwww." (laughter) so this is a weird new issue in the campaign. all of the campaign has weird issues. it traces back to patient zero. (laughter) now, just so you know, the great majority of experts agree that ted cruz is eligible to be president of america because his mom was an american citizen. so there wasn't a real concern. but the genius of dona

donald trump on the attack against ted cruz. tonight raising questions about whether cruz can even run for president. in an interview with "the washington post," trump raised the issue of cruz being born in canada and called it a, quote, big problem. he went on to say, it would be a very precarious one for republicans because he would be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. you don't want to be running and have that kind of thing hanging over your head. cruz quickly responded in a very interesting way. his tweet featuring a clip from "happy days" where fonzi jumped the shark. trump is across the country in another key state about to rally supporters in claremont, new hampshire. this comes as several plun candidates launched attack ads. ads that curiously failed to take aim at the leader of the pack mr. trump. sarah is out front with the trump campaign. what is in line with this new attack? >> reporter: it's interesting to see donald trump going of a ted cruz like this, questioning whether he can be pres

with ted cruz, there's a personal animosity. b dole, for example -- i love bob dole -- but cruz led the charge basically against the disabilities treaty that meant a great deal to bob dole. so this is personal between many people in the establishment and ted cruz. it's not about pragmatic politics. >> tom davis, i have last year's list of the republican establishment here in front of me. and your name is under the d's. i don't have the updated version where donald trump is now your leader. can you guide us through what's happening here and where you expect this to be after iowa? you've got the national review here where their only mission, it seems, as of now, the only thing they care about is stop trump. and then we see everything else that's going on in this campaign, the very personal back and forth now between ted cruz and donald trump. where does this go? >> first of all, i don't think the national review folks really get this. this is really an anti-establishment revolt on the part of grassroots republicans and "national re

ted cruz is nightmare number two. so they're going to jump on this thing because they want to bring ted cruz down. and i think that you're going to see a lot of that coming back. it's interesting to see how ted cruz handles it. >> based on what you said in your book, some people will either blame you or thank you for the trump phenomenon. thank you very much, governor. >> my pleasure. >>> we are back with that breaking news at the top of the hour out of paris where police shot and killed a man armed with a knife outside a police station. all of it unfolding exactly one year after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. now, french officials say the man shouted "god is great" in arabic and the paris prosecutor says that the man was carrying a paper with an isis flag on it. the incident is being investigated as possible terrorism. now, cell phone video obtained, this is the video, obtained by the associated press shows the scene immediately after that man was shot. police appear to be searching his body, then retreat after discove

tonight ted cruz, mite have to explain some undisclosed loans the new york times as we mentioned says this cruz financed his 2012 senate run in part with loan loans reaminp to $1 million. the other was from city bank. he did not disclose either loan. a spokes man did say the fail man was inarriver tent. she is covering the campaign, and she is in charleston south carolina tonight. what is his campaign, what is ted cruz campaign talking, what are they saying about these loans? >> great to be with you, their point is twofold, first they say that while the particular loans may not have appeared in specific if you see reports they were disclosed in other ways. personal disclosure, the other thing they say if there was a mistake. so you detect any change, in the clinton campaign, as a result of donald trump's attack, and now these articles and these revelations are may on the defensive. is going to reveal a lot about that, and certainly as ted cruz has residenten in the polls he has also seen with that, a number of attacks coming whether it's from to bal trump, or marco rubio, and you know

he doesn't want to turn off any of the ted cruz supporters by coming out against ted cruz. i will also say that donald trump is not going necessarily to do this without being prompted. he's had this cease-fire with ted cruz this entire time. he doesn't want to tread on it for fear of losing mutual supporters. >> that is interesting. we've seen in the past even rush limbaugh express region disappointment when donald trump has taken on ted cruz. but if you listen to trump's words, he's his own man and he is willing to take on anyone who opposes what he's saying. how does he i guess navigate these waters particularly when you look at the polling out of iowa and cruz's potential success there. >> well, he's going to try and navigate it very gently. when he does come out against ted cruz, he doesn't always use his name but it is clear who he is talking about. he says he's stealing my ideas. i have the border wall idea first. i had these ideas for immigration reform first. now ted cruz is just copying me, trying to show that he is a version of him, maybe donald trump-light. that

when asked, he changed the subject. >> ted cruz, not just ted cruz but those who support him have beenmering you when it comes to your previous views on late-term abortion. >> i'm hammering him on his views where he was born. he's very week -- >> you said to my colleague just recently, dana bash. you said i don't want to talk about that when asked about your previous support for late-term abortion. >> everybody knows -- i am pro-life. everybody knows i'm pro-life. he knows i'm pro-life. ted cruz also took a commercial -- wait a minute. ted cruz took a commercial that i ripped down an old lady's house. they have the bulldozers. they say he destroyed it because of eminent domain, which is very important because you wouldn't have roads or schools. >> can you explain -- >> wait a minute. the house was never ripped down. she didn't want to do it. ultimately, i said let's -- >> i'm asking you this -- >> this is my question. >> briann await. he did a big commercial and said -- >> what does it have to do with wanting to talk about this issue of late-term abortion. >> it has a lot to do with it

he will not attend and that puts ted cruz front and center in prime time. he center seat as bret baier would say. martha: taking a look at lineup on the stage. four more candidates take the stage at 7:00 p.m. eastern for the first debate of the evening and there they are and bill and i will be moderating that this evening. bret baier plays a very key role in the moderator as prime time debates. good morning to you, bret. how do you feel? >> i feel good. i think a waterfall at the set a really good thing. martha: you like that? >> i say we suggest it for new york. martha: carry it around with us everywhere we go. >> soothes. bill: feels like florida. martha: fall version of "america's newsroom." good to see you, sir. it is interesting to see ted cruz in the center podium. we have not seen that in the previous debates tonight. so what are you looking for, what is the preview? >> the preview is listen, we're going to cover as you know, same broad topics. there are a lot of things to talk about. there are things that haven't been talked about before. the key thi

ted cruz was born in canada.of people watching the debate said ted cruz got the better end of that discussion with donald trump. is that your view, andy? do you think this is asked and answered, done as an issue? >> i think the fact we keep talking about it seven days in, ten days in now shows there is something here and a lawsuit filed this week against ted cruz in which this issue is going to go potentially to the supreme court and there is a cloud hanging over ted cruz' head. look, the guy was born in calgary, canada and the idea this is subtle law is correct. we can go so far back to the 1975 naturalization act which i think the supreme court will look at to show ted cruz is not qualified to be president more over 25% of republican voters think this is a very serious issue which potentially disqualifies ted cruz, so i honestly just feel bad for steve king here who has put all of his hopes in ted cruz when this guy may not be -- >> not if i get time to rebut, you don't. >> you have that time, go for it. >> it'

ted cruz is ahead.o donald trump's 22% and maggie, of course, the question is, can he turn out people -- can trump or cruz turn out people to caucus? it's what they call the ground game. here's some reporting from your newspaper, "the new york times." it says one volunteer leader enlisted by donald trump to turn out iowa voter has yet to knock on a single door or make a phone call. another is a 9/11 truther with a website claiming that the 9/11 attacks were a government conspiracy. what do we know about his ground game? >> the beliefs of the people who should be door knocking are less than whether they're door knocking at all. tripp gabriel has come up with issues, several said later they never heard from the campaign. that is a problem. one of the ways you do -- there's two issues with getting out the vote, persuasion. trump has done pretty well with that argument. get out the vote is not what take place on the day of the caucuses. >> this is experience. this is where experience comes in. that you have

donald trump and ted cruz have gone to total war. today, cruz is calling trump rattled.a presidential candidate. a fraud for mocking new york while grabbing a huge loan from goldman sachs. he also says he has a nasty personality and can't get deals

not ted cruz. not ted cruz. you can trust ted cruz. and why? he does not just talk the talk. but he walks the walk. and that is what we need. [applause] now it is my honor and privilege ,o introduce our next speaker jason jones, who is a national cochair for pro-lifers for cruz. please welcome, jason. [applause] jason: i live in honolulu, hawaii, i am a filmmaker out of los angeles. there is no place in the world i would rather be than right here in iowa. [applause] i will tell you why, at 17 years old, as a young private and army, my high school girlfriend' found out she was pregnant. as a young man, i committed myself to one thing, which was being full legal protection for the child in the womb. that inspired me to become a film maker to inspire the heart of america. i don't know if you have seen my .'lm, "bella there is nothing more powerful than art, and that is law. we so privileged to live in the united states of america. we are so pillaged to live in a constitutional -- privileged to live in a constitutional republic. you are so privileged to live in iowa. what a privi

ted cruz: thank you very uch. ted cruz: very detailed immigration plan on our website. you, thank you. >> mr. cruz, that second chronicle verse, inaudible] i feel -- thank you very uch. ted cruz: god bless you. >> a real pleasure to have you. >> it is great to have you here, senator.

interesting fact in the last couple of weeks, especially, months especially, the superpacs backing ted cruz made advertising investments on a lot of radio shows. they know these are cruz backers and given cruz antibodies when issues have come up but there are a lot of people that also like trump within this audience. i'm not so sure you'll see trump criticized quite the psalm way. we're entering a different period. some of it will matter on the audience response but i think dana is right. cruz is walking a careful line. on the one hand, he doesn't want to get sucked into this. and on the other, trump is able to project something in a way that no other candidate has been able to. we've been talking about this for a day. trump made sure of that. it remains to be scene if trump will talk at his rally tomorrow but my guess is he will in someway or another and keeps it going. it will be interesting to see what happens next week at the debate. maggie haberman good to have you on, dana bash as well. good to have you on. still to come, more on guns in america. what happens to the guns police confis

donald trump was busy on twitter today attacking ted cruz. ted cruz is a nervous wreck. he is making reckless charges, not caring for the truth. his poll numbers are way down. "cruz going down fast in recent polls. dropping like a rock. lies never work." that was my favorite. of course, donald trump's stream of consciousness pathological lying has actually worked quite well for him, pushing him to the top of the republican polls. but it also means that most people in the media seem to my everything donald trump says is a complete lie and completely ignorable but trump has gotten some support from constitutional scholars for raising doubts about whether ted cruz fits the definition of natural-born citizen as it appears once in the constitution as a qualification for president. >> he's got a problem with his canadian birth. he was born in canada. it's a real question. and as you know, lawrence tribe from harvard and many other lawyers are saying he can't do what he's doing, he's not allowed to run. and you have some lawyers that say definitively he cannot run >> is that why

he attacked ted cruz. he said ted cruz is running a deceitful campaign, said it in sioux city, iowa, a conservative part of the state, where ted cruz is drawing support, and donald trump is drawing a lot of support, and really shows how much ted cruz is on marco rubio's mind in the final days. he believes, rubio campaign believes if they have a strong third place finish, they can take it to new hampshire and make the case they can be the alternative to donald trump. if ted cruz does not end up in first place, they believe this will be a death nail to the campaign. cruz campaign believes they can sustain a loss in iowa, they're trying to lower expectations, saying we have the money to last weeks and weeks and weeks on end, but if he doesn't win here, where does he win next? >> marco rubio on the stump now, i think he is talking ted cruz. let's listen. >> they always do it at the last minute. i am not complaining. >> you have to speak more clearly for me. >> we have to unify the party in a serious way. this

donald trump hammering ted cruz on his, quote, canada problem. uz, of course, was born in canada and renounced his citizenship only in 2014. >> ted cruz is a problem. he's got a problem. whether you like it or not, ted has to figure it out. >> trump's comments that you see there at a new hampshire rally today come as the new poll shows his lead growing in that state. 32% of likely gop primary voters support him in new hampshire, up from 26% in november. that's a huge surge. but it's what is happening in iowa that is driving trump's assault on cruz. a poll today there showing cruz and trump in a statistical dead heat. trump now at 31% to cruz's 29. will the issue pay off for donald trump? that's the crucial question tonight. sara murray is "outfront." does trump's campaign think these attacks on ted cruz actually working or not? >> it's clear the campaign knows that they have to go after cruz to widen their lead in iowa but it seems like they are almost throwing anything they can at cruz hoping that it will stick. one thing is clear, though, donald

no mention of ted cruz. glaringly absent considering how hard trump has been going after cruz lately. >> he's a nasty guy. nobody likes him. nobody in congress likes him. nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. >> reporter: now trump is getting blowback from conservatives who are influential with gop voters. like sean hannity. >> in the case of trump, you know, why are you going after ted cruz when ted cruz is loved by the same group of people that you're trying to go after? outsiders. >> reporter: another conservative talk radio voice, mark levin went even further, warning trump to cut the crap with his attacks against cruz or he will lose lots of conservatives as supporters. it was one thing when trump went after lindsey graham. >> you know what that is zero. zero! >> reporter: or the ultimate establishment republican, jeb bush. >> so you have a governor who has got very low energy, named bush. >> reporter: some say attacking ted cruz trusted by conservatives for picking fights with washington

bob smith also for ted cruz and ted cruz supporters.enator, thanks to you. >> those who say ted cruz who doesn't win iowa, it's over for him. why aren't you in iowa today? >> well, i'm in iowa, on air. we have a big race coming up here in new hampshire in a few days as well and look, i know that -- i've been in iowa many times. i ran for president there myself in the late '90s. i know they have good conservative folks. to do what he say he was going to do and that's senator as well. >> i feel i'mwell, as we chat this evening. going back to the rubio campaign. they have worries about the new ads from the candidate you're spo supporting saying the reason ted cruz is putting out the ads because he knows marco rubio is putting it on him. >> let me respectfully disagree. i think the reason the ads are out is because marco rubio is misrepresenting his record. he was part of this group called the gang of eight which everybody heard about in the senate to push for the opportunity to get immigrants illegally into this country and amnesty for ill

i will give ted cruz credit. cruz is not flailing, not showing weakness or discombobulation in the face of donald trump. he is holding up, but losing right now. equally as interesting is clinton versus sanders. team hillary is still trying to put the brakes on the bernie momentum. not clear if it is working quite yet. a new poll in new hampshire shows sanders with a healthy 50% to 41% lead. what could close that gap? maybe both clintons going after sanders. bill clinton's we after bernie sanders last night, talking about how mad sanders is compared to hillary clinton. today, the candidate herself suggested a sanders' presidency would not build effectively on an obama presidency, as she says she would do. john, where are we on how the clintons are doing? john: that is a foreign policy ad out today, the notion she could do all aspects of the job and he does not like to talk about foreign policy. there is an argument there. the strongest card is not about bernie sanders being a socialist, but that he is not really a

for example, ted cruz, anyone who has ever worked with ted cruz or lived with ted cruz or met ted cruzlike ted cruz. >> the "wall street journal" ran a scathing article against chris by calling him a phony. of bob dole called ted cruz an extremist upon >> corrin hatch, dan coates, and john cornyn saying a cruz presidency would be detrimental to the country. >> and those are his friends. ( laughter ) everybody hates cruz. it's so bad, that when the pope visited congress, he was there, like, "peace be with you. peace be with you. peace-- oh, ted. go to hell, ( bleep ). and peace be with you. and peace be with you. ( applause ) now, on the other side of the coin-- ( laughter ) conservative thought leaders like rick perry, glenn beck, and the "national review," well, they just hate donald trump. >> trump is not a committed conservative. >> donald trump, i really truly, believe is a very dangerous man. >> the "national review" came out against trump featuring 22 conservative voices. they wrote, "donald trump is a menace to american conservatism who would take the work of generations and tra

ted cruz' campaign spokesman will join us tonight to answer donald trump's personal attacks on ted cruz and we will take up the debate between hillary clinton and bernie sanders over health care. >> tom brady was framed. and i have it on good authority that hillary clinton did it. >> the truth is he's a nasty guy. >> it seems donald has a lot of nervous energy. >> donald trump calls you nasty, hated by everybody. is he right? >> he's a nasty guy. nobody likes him. >> look, donald seems rattled. >> my good friend cruz. >> nobody in congress likes him. >> ted cruz was born in canada. he can't be president. >> clearly i'm not canadian. canadians are well liked. i am not. >> whatever you want to say, cruz is not a nasty guy. >> it's not a good thing for the country. very nasty guy. >> i think this man is crazy. >> his words are not comical. his words are not funny. his words are poisonous. >> isis needs donald trump and donald trump needs isis. >> you have a socialist and you have hillary. >> president obama has led our country out of the great recession. >> 2008 i did my best to see what h

endorsed jeb bush said today that he thinks donald trump would do better in a general election than ted cruz. senator dole said with cruz as the nominee, hillary clinton would, quote, win in a waltz and that the republican party would suffer cataclysmic and wholesale losses. ted cruz has attacked senator dole along with john mccain and mitt romney for failing to win the presidency when they were republican nominees. and so the race for the republican presidential nomination has become everything you could ask for in a donald trump-driven reality show. political apprentice. two teams who have never done this before trying to get the republican presidential nomination for a candida. on team trump, we have sarah palin, hulk hogan and lou farigno. and on team cruz we have glenn beck and the duck dynasty guy. joining us now, anne geurin, wendy davis, and michael steele, former rnc chairman and nbc political analyst. inform this reality show we have. >> got on your side of the campaign, who's your money on. >> i still think trump has a little bit more of an edge here. you know, sarendorsements asi

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how will i attack ted cruz if i have to. this the line he is settled on, the canadian thing or do you think he will shift off that and go on to other anti-cruz topics. >> for now it seems to be working. we were bracing waiting for him to go there. one of my colleagues actually overheard ted cruz's wife at an event telling a supporter that they were expecting trump to go after ted cruz on this. everyone was waiting on this to happen. no one was sure how it was going to go over. you know, he kind of started off just throwing the idea out there and then the last couple of days we have seen him really ramp it up, really hit it hard. when i talk to people in the audiences afterwards they kind of agree with him that this is a question, that there are things about ted cruz that they didn't know. i think for as long as this is resonating he is going to keep with it. when he finds something that seems to resonate he keeps hammering. >> like a dog on a bone. so trump has tagged some opponents low energy. he has extraordinary stamina f

ted cruz was born in canada. and he returned at 4 years old. in the law there's only two ways to become a u.s. citizen. one is you are naturally born citizen and that is you are born to an american parent which ted cruz was or you were naturalized. ted cruz was not naturalized so he is a natural born citizen. that's the definition of a natural born citizen. that's off the table. laurence tribe also agrees that ted cruz is a natural born citizen even though he pretends to -- >> no, just to be clear, laurence tribe believes, just to give you credit, laurence tribe

you still harbor doubts about ted cruz? te is jeb bush and i wish i could see him more on fox today. we have a number of good candidates who are republicans and we have cruz who i don't think is the republican, extreme conservative. there's no one like him in the senate. no one likes him in the senate. always trying to shut down the government twice and cost millions of dollars and put a lot of federal workers out of work for days. i don't really believe the people in iowa are extreme conservatives. they' i consider myself a conservative. i was reagan's leader for four years, bush 41's leader for four years. i had the top number three support for reagan and for 41. i was a participate in the senate. now i'm a senate watcher. i see ted cruz cutting down the government, not having one senator, not a single senator out of 54, come to his support, i doubt that he's a republican. i know he can't run as an extreme conservative, so he has to -- he's the rhino. he's the republican in name only. >> you know, senator, what he's been d

if he can still win iowa, what does it say about ted cruz? >> the trend line in polls haven't been great for cruz. he'll be able to say because of that he can treat a win as if it's a massive come back and roll into the south after that. i don't expect him to do great in new hampshire. >> i was driving last night from pella to an event last night. and it was if we survive this onslaught it's going to be the best comeback. and to maggie's point, at the start of the month a two-point win for cruz would have been pretty good. a two-point win for cruz now is going to look better given everything that has comen out. >> trump has $800,000 of negative ads running against cruz now. >> he's doing seven or eight stops a day here. they are effectively trump surrogates now. they want to stop ted. >> one of the things cruz has in the favor is the evangelical favors. this is put out saying it's our sacred duty. how political are the pastors for cruz in the pulpit today. they are furious donald trump is getting so much evangelical support. in is pastor josep

because they so don't like ted cruz. that trump ends up being their choice. >> many in the establishment, you talk to the strategist, they don't like cruz or trump. the strategist type say we'd rather have cruz because even though we think he's to the right, he's predictable, and we can plan a campaign. with the money guy, they don't like cruz are the elected guys. you also look at down ticket implications for a ted cruz or a donald trump, and you know, i think people, the unpredictability worries people about trump saying something in october that just annihilates the rest of the late for the republicans. >> it's also true that the establishment figures don't hate cruz or trump enough to yet co.less around any one candidate. . you look at lindsey graham, he comes out and he goes for jeb bush. marco rubio is standing there, looking like he's the most likely to come out as an establishment figure, but there has been no coalescing. >> we know trump proves it for real, will there be a single establishment alternative? iowa w