at this time in 2008, for example, rudy giuliani was leading the republican field by three points. and in 2004, howard dean was leading the democratic field by 15 points. and of course, dean went on to torpedo his campaign by doing this -- >> and then we're going to washington dc to take back the white house. yeah! [ laughter ] >> seth: that one moment killed dean's campaign. i mean, imagine, imagine if a candidate did something like that in 2016. >> ah, i don't know what i said. i don't remember. [ laughter ] >> seth: different time, i guess. so the polls showing trump in the lead for the last few months might not mean anything. in the end, all that matters is whether your supporters actually show up and vote on primary day. and in that department there's reason to be skeptical of trump's lead, too. for example, one trump supporter in iowa, recently told the "washington post," i will give him 100%. but when asked if that included going to the caucus to actually vote for trump, the man said, "we're gonna see. with kids and grandkids and all this, it's kind of hectic. we'll look int

that is what is going through the minds of establishment republicans. trump feels threatened by cruz and does not want the lead to go away. at 7:00 a.m., he has been tweeting about cruz's canadian >> it was revealed he had taken the first loan from his wife's employer, goldman sachs. now the times reporting this morning there was apparently a second loan. this from citibank. what does this mean for the narrative he has been weaving that he risked it all the and did not take out loans, but used all of his family savings. authenticity. that is something he is pushing. he is going up against the establishment and he was up against a wealthy opponent in texas. now that doesn't seem to match up. also, it quite frankly was never that believable. he is a princeton grad and harvard law grad. it is not a hard background and struggling when he ran for the senate in the first place. >> that's on the republican side. we turn to the democratic side. for the clinton campaign, this is clearly not, we can say what was expected with the race. bernie sanders really makin

the republican presidential candidate says his opponent donald trump is a product of the city's governor cuomo offensive, while mayor de blasio says they're hypocritical. a long awaited report has been released studying the impact for-hire vehicles like uber in the five boroughs. the city hall regulation, including on price surges, and calls for more worker protections. the number of substantiated reports of complaints against police officers skyrocketed last year. the civilian complaint review board shows a 70 percent jump in validated cases. and ben mcadoo is officially introduced as we'll have more on our top stories in a moment. we'll see rain develop tonight. temperatures are in the 40s and it's breezy. looking ahead: after early showers tomorrow, skies will be clearing for the afternoon. the high will be near 50. on sunday, iwill be mostly cldy and colderand for monday, we'll have a cold blast with strong winds, a high of just 32 and the chance of a snow shower. the hashtag "new york values" is trending on twitter -- thanks to a fiery debate between the top 2 gop candidates during

he was asked for his response to her comments voices" within the republican party. "first of all nikki said this afternoon, i'm a friend of hers, actually a close friend and wherever you are sitting nikki, i am a friend with friends . she did say there was anger, and i can say, oh i'm not angry. i'm very angry, because our country is being run horribly and i will gladly accept the mantle of anger." this was the last debate for the republicans before the iowa caucuses on february 1st. hundreds of people gathered at south carolina state university as bernie nders' campaign launched its hbcu tour. dr. cornell west, a civil rights activist, spoke at the event. he discussed topics such as tuition free universities and colleges as well as criminal justice reform. dr. west explained to the audience that he believed bernie sanders fits all the criteria to become the next president specifically because he cares about the longevity of hbcus. members of the audience say they enjoyed the "it t s great cornel west gave me some great key points about bernie sanders wanting to hel

one more sign the fault lines in the republican primary are becoming clear. just watch who's feuding with whom, it's not only trump versus cruz, but chris christie versus marco rubio. christie said rubio's too weak to be the party's nominee. >> that's the kind of person we want to put on the stage against hillary clinton? i don't think so. she'll pat him on the head and cut his heart out. >> reporter: but trump is firing the most poignant attacks with one eye on cruz he's not letting up on clinton. trump rarely mentions bernie sanders, but that could change tonight as he holds a rally in sanders' hometown of burlington, vermont. and, jake, you may be wondering why donald trump is in vermont at all. not exactly a republican heavy state, but vermont is one of those states that votes on march 1st. super tuesday here, so donald trump is already looking ahead past the first four contests of iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and nevada, to states like vermont. i can tell you when you talk to voters outside, i think this crowd tonight is going to be a mix of berni

then, the republican response by south carolina governor nikki haley. on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. our coverageer ,tarting at 11:00 p.m. eastern also live on c-span two. members ofar from congress with their reaction to the president's address. >> coming up next, coolge

and on the republican side they have some what of a better record. but based on the polls, and obviously things can change, and they can change quickly in iowa, and there can be surprises. but based on the polls as they are right now, marco rubio is not number one, or number two or even number three in a lot of them. >> woodruff: you see this endorsement thing. we talk about every three or four years. >> a lot of it is how this impacts the people doing the endorsing. chuck grassley, for example, is up for re-election this year. he doesn't have a serious race am but if you were at all concerned about a primary challenge, you have to make sure that you are touching every single republican voter out there. especially those who might not have been engaged before. joan yeerch-- joanie ernst is not up this next year but she was elected on a tea party enthusiasm. she qunt afford to alienate any part of it. so it is as much about covering their own political tail as it is about showing support for somebody else. >> woodruff: and in the last few seconds, as w

republican frontrunner donald trump squared off with surging rival ted cruz at the latest gop presidential debate last night. cruz brought up new york city as he questioned trump's conservativcredentials. trump defended the city, and wondered if cruz can even be president since he was born in canada. four of the teenagers arrested in connection with an alleged gang rape in brooklyn have been released, though they still face charges. prosecutors had to let them out of jail because an indictment has not yet been filed. investigators are still collecting evidence in the case. the number of substantiated complaints against city cops took a major jump in 2015. the civilian complaint review board says more video evidence is one of the reasons it was able to validate 70 percent more complaints last year than in 2014. and ben mcadoo is set to meet reporters today for the first time since being named the new head coach of the giants. conference live this morning. good morning. it's friday, janaury 15th. lewis dodley will be along in a moment. warmer conditions today with increasing clouds. temperat

the bad and good news of rising republicans. the bart train operator using a therapy dog to do his job and some say that may not be such a good idea at 5:00 on abc7 news. now, friday's "purr-fect" pet and mike has a new friend. >> a new friend who has been with us for a while. >> emily is back, we call her mom back, congratulations. you had a dog that was going do come but got adopted so now we have this little guy, lenny. alone any is a-year-old a chihuahua terrier mix. transferred to us a couple of weeks ago from an overcrowded shelter and he is in our adopt program so he is at training class, working on "sit," and "down," and "touch." he he is jacked up to go play with the students in the audience. other days? cats? kids? >> we have a lot small dogs, ten chihuahua mixes and through valentine's day we have cat adoptions that have been paid for by a sweetheart of a donor. >> what a bonus. you have great volunteers and angel donors. there are plenty of animals there. calm humane society, the marin humane society. >> for all of u

haley's history with ethics allegations and republicans by house speaker j lucas. the senate had ignored ethics altogether. the house passed 12 individual ethics bills and one big ethics reform package over to the senate but none of the pieces half past onto haley's desperate one of the issues brought up last night was independent investigation of lawmakers who are accused of wrongdoing. legislation will look to change the current committees made up of lawmakers and independent investigators. >> these loans have a way of sticking things. i hope we have an opportunity to take up sources of income. i would like to do hundred independent investigation. i would like to do a third-party committee. this governor spend a little bit of time trying to call the senate out on ethics reform and the things that he is asking for done herself. >> democrats say they hope to pass some bills on ethics and saving on roads and education very >>> yesterday unc law school hosted a lecture with the pros and cons of body cameras for a professor who was once a law enforcement led the lectu

more on the republican debate. one establishment candidate is this really coming down to two guys we have been talking about? trump and cruz. . plus bernie has momentum. the burn is working. hillary is on the attack. there is a lot of noise whether elizabeth warren might endorse either of these candidates, maybe hillary. that would make a lot of difference. the field is shrinking. seven candidates are going to the big stage. only three took part in the happy hour debate. rand paul wasn't among them. he refused to sit at the little kids table. we will give him the big table tonight. and finally the hosts with all due respect join us tonight. after the debate back to msnbc. two hour edition of "hardball" with highlights, analysis of the 2016 race coming up here. watch us at 11:00 on to 1:00 a.m. eastern. this is "hardball," place for politics. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. they don't wor

you are a former republican senator. some of your colleagues on the campaign trail have talked about the threat of islamic states in terms of carpet bombing the middle east, taking the oil. what do you think of the republican candidates' solutions for what is happening with the islamic state? firstagel: let's take the solution offered by one of the republican candidate. -- republican candidates. that is insane. katty: the idea of carpet bombing? sec. hagel: if you follow that to the next steps, you would destroy the entire middle east. we are on our way to seeing that now, the destruction of the middle east, and structure, refugees, suffering, and killing. then you are locked in proxy wars with the russians, the withs, and others interests in the area. i give president obama credit -- he has not allowed the united states to get caught in down drafts of crises. that is difficult for president of the united states. everyone wants the united states in -- you need to be here, more boots on the ground, more military. i told t

dana, before you go we did have ed rollins, the republican strategist -- famed republican strategist -- in this last hour say that ben carson's campaign is all but finished. you know, his finance chairman had had to resign, there were some questions about handling finances. you hearing anything about that on the ground? >> well, and yet, liz, you know, conventional wisdom would tell you that, but last quarter he raised $23 million. that's a significant sum. and a lot of it was from people that he had found on the internet and that like him. and remember, you can do really well all across the nation with high poll numbers, but the only thing that matters at the beginning is can you win iowa or new hampshire. and dr. carson still has some bases of support there. liz: we shall see. dana, so good to see you. we'll see you later. dana perino, "the five" co-host. we are now less than three hours away from that first debate of 2016 with iowa just 18 days away. that means it will be one of the lasting impressions voters will have before they make their vote. we're joined now by somebody who

republican presidential hopeful ted cruz is challenging trump to a one-on-one debate any time between now and the iowa caucuses. according to a cnn/orc poll, cruz is trump's closest competition. nationwide, trump continues to dominate the polls taking 41% of senator cruz comes in second with 19% among those voters. but with the polls continuing to shift, it is important to remember that your vote does matter. >> every vote counts, right? and on the other side of the political spectrum, time is running out to make sure your voice is heard. the deadline to register to vote in the south carolina democratic presidential preference primary is today. >> law enforcement is hoping new video will help jump-start their search for three suspected thieves. >> take a look, the kershaw county sheriff's office and elgin police say this duo is believed to be responsible for stealing items from multiple unlocked cars between 2:00 and 5:00 monday morning. authorities say the men stole purses, wallets and guns. protests of an oregon wildlife refuge has taken a deadly turn. protester lavoy finicum was sh

several republican presidential are speaking at today's event. donald trump, rick santorum, and carly fiorina are all talking about where they stand on renewable fuels like biodiesell and ethanol. the stop in altoona is one of several for carly fiorina todada the former h-p ceo spopo in waverly earlier this morning at the act education forum at wartburg college in waverly. she focused on education, while also trying to appeal to voters as an "outsider candidate." on the democratic side, senator bernie sanders spoke at a rally in western iowa this morning. he was at the fort opera house in fort dodge. recent polls show the vermont senator r d former secretary of state hillary clinton are in a tight race in iowa. but a new n-b-c news-wall street journal poll found clinton with a commanding lead nationally. sanders says he would be the best option for democrats to win in the general election in november. " " today sanders will also undererod, and sioux city.. less than two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, the two top republican contenders in iowa a

you decide '16 the stage is set for thursday's next round of republican presidential debates. but one guy you won't see on it...is kentucky senator rand paul... the 7 hopefuls that did make the cut...are donald trump, ben carson, senators ted cruz and marco rubio, chris christie...ohio governor john kasich and former governor jeb bush. senator paul...says he doesn't deserve to be on the undercard.... we think it's a rotten thing to do to try and designate which candidates have a chance and don't, and so we will not participate in anything that's not first-tier." carly fiorina also missed the cut...joning mike huckabee and rick santorum on the undercard thursday night. m-l-b dot com is reporting that the reds have signed 21-year old cuban shortstop alfredo deal.... he was named the rookie of the year down there...and is known for his glove....and experts say he could end up moving to 2nd base. the reds have not made any official word on the deal. still ahead... how a thief picked the right day to steal a snake from a pet store... and apple is giving us a look at what's ahead wi

republicans on the campaign trail have railed against the president's plan. texas -- or -- presidential candidate president obama is once again going to abuse his power. florida -- or -- presidential candidate when i'm elected president, on the first day, behind my desk, those orders are gone. obama's proposals to ramp up mental health care and add hundreds of f-b-i and a-t-f agents to better enforce current laws and focus on background checks, will all require millions in funding-- which must be secured by congress. and surrounded by families and victims from mass shootings, the president made an emotional plea. and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. gallagher. >> pam: since president obama took office. hitting a new high in 2015. according to federal data. gun sales peaked in december after mass shootings in pairs and san bernardino. a previous peak came in just after the newtown massacre in december 2012. more people applied for

first, though, the republicans enter the home stretch in iowa and new hampshire. their next debate will be in iowa on january 28th, the thursday before the caucuses. >> woodruff: with that backdrop, it's the perfect time to turn to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. welcome, gentlemen. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: so, mark, what do you make of that debate last night? >> trump, cruz, no question about it. more than anything else, i got a sense of how dominant donald trump has been in setting the terms of the debate in both parties in 2016. i mean, candidates in both parties, maybe not bernie sanders, but virtually everybody else, is responding or reacting to. we saw marco rubio doing sort of a feisty, aggressive -- not a knock-off donald trump but sort of a vairiation of it. then ted cruz's first unforced error of the season by his new york, new york. he gave a great opening which he took advantage of. (coughing) >> woodruff: why don't you take a sip of water and let me turn

all that money does offshore, the democrats and republicans want it. this is been going on for three and half years and they can get together. they have no leader. everyone wants that, even republicans. we want money brought back into the country. the reason they can't get it done is no leadership. it's one thing if they are opposed -- somebody wants obamacare and somebody doesn't. is a logjam. here is something with a want the money to command and they can't -- come in and they can't get it done. there is total gridlock in washington. i doub -- a guy like ted cruz can never get it done. it's never going to happen. you need to me that can we win deal and get things done. -- wheel and deal and get things done. all of obama does now is signed executive orders. he can't get it -- boom. executive order. they will say -- here is an executive order. in five years, don't worry, i'm playing golf. remember ronald reagan and tip o'neill when the country was running good. they got along and you got congress. these doing an executive order on the second amendment.

. >> the republican presidential candidate was booed in south carolina. the crowd wasn't happy donald trump criticized ted cruz for not revealing bank loans. >>> trump called cruz out for embracing new york liberalism and his reaction to 9/11. he said the senator criticized new york and the people of new york. meanwhile the senator suggested trump isn't a serious candidate. >> i think in terms of a commander in chief we ought to have someone who isn't springing out of bed to tweet in a frantic response to the latest polls. >> well, cruz took an off-handed jab at trump after getting stuck in an elevator for three minutes yesterday. he said, all right. well, who put donald trump in charge of the elevate jeer coming up, they were one of the most popular gifts. now there's fewer places you can ride them. the new spots hover boards are being banned. >>> six women, montgomery county, and a whole lot of drama. how a new television show is >>> 6:09. five more birds have tested for bird flu. they're still trying to determine how many birds are affected on the nine

then a choice between a dark republican party or a native republican party. or somebody who wants to open up the company. somebody who said yesterday's candidate wants to take us back to yesterday. you would have a generational -- the video you showed of the clinton rally i thought was so powerful. i thought that rally looked old. it felt old. it felt lifeless. bernie sanders, i agree with matthew. >> we're talking about trump's chances. i think a lot of -- look back, we're going to look back at this one and, again, see a media malpractice. that led our media to give him obsessive coverage, click, ratings, and -- look at tissue he's a right wing -- >> there's no question he is leading. here's the question i have. i have interviewed him 20 times since june. he's been asked every single tough question. he's had every single attack come at him. he's done things that would drive other candidates out of the race, in a heart beat, but it hasn't happened to him. why? >> if you want to -- we talk about bernie sanders out of sync with the majority. which i believe he'

do you think the republicans can seize this year and win? >> i think we can unite behind one candidate if that candidate is willing to get behind an agenda that the american people want, not one that's manufactured in washington, d.c. lou: let's -- i think that we've got a pretty good indication that the american people are not manufacturing a candidate. >> i agree. lou: thank you so much, good to be with you. up next, the president's latest misstep, what he did next. it's a beauty. >>> up next, mike huckabee and carly fiorina, the candidates from tonight's first debate will join us in just moments. we're live from north charleston, south carolina. stay with us. we're coming right back. lou: president obama apparently forgot where he was today during a town hall in baton rouge. listen. >> when i ran for office in 2007, 2008, i did not say, yes, i can. i said -- >> yes, we can! >> yes, we can. god bless new orleans, god bless america. lou: new orleans? he's visiting louisiana as part of the post state of the union road tour this week. this is

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as we just heard, a new front opened up in this battle of the republican party. david, up this iconic magazine of the conservative movement going after donald trump saying he's a menace to conservatism, he's coming back. where is this headed? >> the split is interesting. it's between people who are more iideal logically minded and roge minded. the ideological is going with trump. the rogue minded are suspicious of trump because he's all over the place. it's breaking down on that line. the talk show folks are more trump than the print folks. that's the breakdown. i happen to think that in voters' minds the last four years have made republicans less conservative. the economic stress and crisis made them any i want somebody on my side and are a little more willing to tolerate government than they were, say, ten years ago, and they're willing to tolerate a little more chaos than ten years ago. so ideology versus chaos, i think chaos wins. >> woodruff: good for donald trump. how do you see this? >> i think breakdown would be the operative word and there is a division

republican presidential hopeful dr. ben carson was back on the campaign trail today. he took some time off after one of his campaign staffers was killed in a crash in iowa. 25-year-old braden joplin died tuesday after the van he was in flipped over on an icy road and was hit by another vehicle. carson started off by telling everyone about joplin. >> you know, he was such an he cared so much about what was going to happen to our nation, what was going to happen to the next generation. >> jessica: three other carson taf members were also in that van, they are all recovering tonight. >> marie: news 3 is your place for politics, can you count on us for complete coverage of the 2016 presidential race. read more about the candidates and see what they're up to right now on news3lv.com, or on any of our social media platforms. just search ksnv news 3 las vegas or follow us on twitter. right now thousands of people are being impacted by a major storm hitting the east coast. >> jessica: this is a live look at the snow that is about to hit the capital right in the bulls eye. ahe

democrat side or the republican side. on the other hand, i think people are persuaded by someone who is capable of talking and thinking on their feet. and they compare the various candidates, 14, 15, 16 republican candidates, and they're making judgments about who is the one who is most likely to be able to handle a difficult presidential campaign against the other party. >> i mentioned the bush family. i have to ask you about a recent book, a biography authorized on 41, george h.w. bush. he had things to say about you and your time as secretary of defense for his son. he said, quote, i think he served the president badly. i don't like what he did and i think it hurt the president, having his iron-ass view of everything. there's a lack of humility. a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. comments? >> no, we were never close. he was to the manner born and i wasn't. we were never close, so i guess it didn't surprise me. >> let me ask you -- >> i was amazed that he said what he said when he said it, because i didn't thin

the republicans sixth debate of the campaign. the debate will be televised by fox business network. >>> tonight, ted cruz will likely be answering questions about a campaign loan he failed to report on fund-raising documents. $1 million in loans helped finance his senate campaign in 2012. part of the borrowed money came from goldman sachs where his wife is an employee. "the new york times" said the loan was obtained from goldman sachs and citibank. cruz said it was an inadvertent filing error. >> we borrowed against the stocks and assets we had under ordinary terms, and so those loans had been disclosed over and over and over again on multiple filings. >> a cruz spokesman said the loans were disclosed later in separate personal financial reports. >>> we will discuss tonight's republican debate and other political goings on with bob schieffer who retired in june following a 46-year here at >>> the pentagon is trying to figure out how ten american sailors ended up in iranian waters. the sailors were captured tuesday after their boa

. >> trump staffers turned away anyone who said they did not support the republican front-runner last night. the event was held in burlington sanders. trump asked the crowd what they candidate. >> we all like bernie. do we like bernie? tax. he wants to tax you at 90%. you don't like him. i wasn't sure. i had to feel that out. >>> trump said he would low to run again sanders and sanders said he love to take on trump as well and pointed to recent poll match-up. >> major announcement involving nbc and whdh tv. nbc saying it will not renew network affiliation with our station and dan hausle reports storm for tv viewers in the boston area. >> it will be the last time. some of your favorite nbc programs may be disappearing from your tv screens is now that network announce plan to end relationship with whdh tv at the end of this year. station owner said he's fighting to keep that from happening. >>> we intend to contest nbc's plans. nbc's plan tv divorce could violate an agreement comcast made with the fcc when the cable giant bought nbc five years ago. comcast promised to make sure people c

on the campaign trail, another day, another positive poll for republican donald trump. 34%. his biggest lead yet in new hampshire. ted cruz is a distant second at 14% followed by a slightly surging jeb bush, tied with marco rubio at 10%. >>> on her first full day as trump supporter in chief, sarah palin was at last -- was a last-minute no show at a morning rally in iowa and rejoined the campaign later in tulsa where she talked about war veterans and problems adjusting to civilian life alluding to her son track adjust calling it the elephant in the room. >> i can certainly relate with ramifications of some ptsd and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with. it is now or never for the sake of america's finest that we have that commander in chief who al respect them. >> no word yet from the trump campaign why palin missed that earlier event in iowa. >> hillary clinton didn't waste any time using an image of trump and palin hoping to fire up her supporters. the question this morning is, will that be enough to surpass the surging bernie sanders? here's abc's cecili

donald trump is escalating his attacks on his republican rivals ted cruz. meantime, another prom nngt republican is suggesting that issue is worth looking into. peter alexander is following the republicans this morning. good morning. >> good morning. so now it is arizona senator john mccain siding with trump and cruz is pushing back. america's birther in chief, donald trump trying to fuel doubts about whether ted cruz born in canada is eligible to be born in the u.s. >> how do you run against the democrat, whoever it may be and you have this hanging over your head if they bring a lut very. >> but trum specific now finding an unlikely ally in a recent target, john mccain. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. >> the party's 2008 nominee, himself born in the panama canal zone, a u.s. territory. >> that's different from being born on foreign soil. so i think there is a question. i am not a constitutional scholar on that but i think it's worth looking into. i don't think it's illegitimate to look into it. >> while trump dominates nationally, a former iowa

bolling. >> drumroll everybody. 86% feel a republican will win. 14% think a democrat will maintain the office. no surprise. >> no surprise. no surprise there. i mean it sounds good to me because i want to put the callhite house and someone to answer on the other end. >> you have 2 1/2 minutes left to e-mail us twitter us facebook us instagram us do everything. can we take the shot here? >> let me take it wide. >> wide shot. new york city times square. happy new year. >> we have shawn, kyle. >> our producer and kyle our assistant producer. >> my wife adrian. >> taylor and seth. >> recently engaged. >> someone's lost jesse. we're going to get him back over. where's kennedy? where's jesse? we're trying to find them. >> we want to thank as well hair and makeup! absolutely. anthony, javier did an incredible job. thank you all for choosing fox news channel and making us number one. >> happy 2016 everybody! >> happy new year! >> i love it. we love it. to everybody out there, rick leventhal did a terrific job. outstanding job. >> it was great hearing from all the 2016 candidates. well most of

congressional republicans are not sticking it to be much meaningful substance in the address. >> the president isisni going to talk about the future and try to paint a rosy picture. for one does not exist but would love to hear from the president is a real pain to defeat isil. >> we could expect to hear more and that charlotte the president's remarks in south carolina governoror nikki haley delivers the gop response. washington, gary tenney, fox news. >> it is no fee for the fearful. >> to come tonight, how a man pet store without being noticed. ok, the typical bacon cheeseburger is all bacon. but what if you sneak in some serious cheese... here. gouda, gruyere and swiss all connect with fresh cooked bacon and boom wendy' s new gouda bacon cheeseburger. and finish it off with bacon fondue fries, >> this range theft in a picture caught on camera. he took us they can put it down his pants. >> he's lucky it wasn't feeding day. beating days monday and they're very hungry. the theft happened on a sunday here goes the guy. this was the first time he was seen with the woman he was there. he

the republican front runner pushing all the buttons. >> the politicians can pretend it's something else but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. >> as former president bill clinton gets ready to hit the trail solo. and the candidate toned the messages with the iowa caucuses less than a month away. the most armed anti government protesters on day three of their siege of a federal building in oregon. vowing to stay put until their commands are met. the fbi hoping for a peaceful end to the stand off. we're live at the scene. boiling point, saudi arabia severs ties are iran giving its diplomats just hours to leave their country. as tensions rise over the execution of an iranian. the first images of a cargo ship that sank after the captain sailed it right intoty category four hurricane it was built to survive. no sign of the 33 crew on board or the black box that could solve the month old mystery today on monday, january 4th, 2016. >> nbc news, this is today with matt louer, and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning everyone. welcome to today

the republican base is upset. have a house majority, won the senate majority in midterms last time, 31 governorships and don't think they're getting conservative leadership. part because you have a democrat in the white house but why you have trump and others talking to the republican base saying why do we keep winning but not getting what we want? a big part of the dynamic. >> john, what happens with that calculation if donald trump runs as a third-party candidate as he sometimes threatens to to? >> what would be his signature animal? >> if you look at the data, donald trump is a third-party candidate. the data today as we enter the year and again, if we learned anything in 2015 to remember in 2016 is things change and we live in a volatile environment. look at the date taye today. donald trump is a third-party candidate hurts the republican party and you can almost guarantee a democratic victory. almost. how does that play out? people come out to vote for trump as an independent they're still voting for house an

the republican kaemtss squared off in the mock fox business news debate. any time candidates' poll numbers fell below 3%, this happened. >> oh, this is exciting. we have confirmation that chris christie has just dipped below 3% in the national polls. >> a great. come on. come on. oh, come on. >> he got danced off. the skit also addressed the recent back-and-forth between donald trump and ted cruz and you know new york values definitely came up. >> absolutely. the "daily news" headline was there. tom, we've got conservationals. >> we'll be dancing in snow flurries, but no accumulate. don't worry about it. just wet roads. welcome. how you doin'? good how are you? so today you're gonna choose a mobile office. you can choose this chevy silverado which offers built in 4g lte wi-fi. or you can choose this ford f-150, which doesn't offer wi-fi. but to make up for it, we added a trailer, a satellite antenna, and dolores. hey fellas! (group laughter) what? so, which one do you want? i pick the chevy. definitely. or, get this dependable silverado all star edition wi

the two top contenders on the republican side both are doing that. let's listen. >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. [ applause ] i would just bomb those suckers. and that's right, i'd blow up the b the pipe, i'd blow up every sing the inch. there will be nothing left. >> we will carpet bomb them into o livon. i don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we're going to find out. >> so everyone is talking about using force. compromise is seen as weak. what do you make of this talk? >> well, i think, first of all, it's -- carpet bombing, making the sand glow, so on, frankly, that's not the way you accomplish military objectives. it probably wouldn't be successful. i mean, it's not like they have masked military formations that are all just going to sit there and wait for the bombers to come over. these problems are more sophisticated, more complex, more difficult than some of this debate and some of this dialogue conveys to the american people. i think this is a tough, long slog that we'

jenna: new drama over tomorrow s republican debate. jon: the front runner says he will not participate. he won't donald trump will not participate in the debate where megyn kelly will be a moderator. this is at a crucial time five days from the iowa caucuses. trump and senator ted cruz appear locked in a close two man race. joining as political analyst ed rollins, former white house adviser to president reagan and longtime strategist for business and political leaders, take you back to 1980 in iowa. you were working on the campaign and ronald reagan decided to forgo. >> skip iowa. that is a foolish mistake, he underestimated george bush, who came back and barely won but he won and made it more competitive reese. >> take us forward to last night and trump's decision to bow out. >> he will pay heavy price for it. there are a lot of attacks on him this past week, a lot of paid media attacks. he made his campaign -- dominated cable television. this is 24 million people will watch this, the last impression people will have before iowa, he i

the people in my party, the conservative republican group of people you know well. we're more forward and want to strengthen up. the world is looking to kill us and blow us up. we have a lot of problems. for the most part, people would not be on the rand paul side of the equation. there's a big faction that feels look, we have to get our house in order. we understand it. i think we can do both. i'm very much into the military. i want to bring back jabs and make great trade deals and i want to bring the commerce back to our country. look at caterpillar stock and some of the countries. other companies are absolutely killing them. we have to bring our jobs back and we can have both. >> coming up, ted cruz sits down with joe for a wide ranging conversation. why he's accusing marco rubio of knowingly running false adds against him. that is next on morning joe. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! >>> welcome back to morning joe. ted cruz has mixed words when it comes to dealing with the islamic state. the republican who is vowed to make t

the governor's office and republican lawmakers say e-s-a's are constitutional.. but members of the executive branch have publically been at odds about how to prove it. ((patrick walker)) should parents be allowed to use public school funding to pay for a private education? it's been a hotly-debated topic. ((adriana martinez: "our education system is in complete disarray, and we need to get back on track on this, there's no way that taking out public money is going to do this." alan stock: "here's where i totally disagree, because i agree that the idea is to fund education first, it's not taking money out of education, it's putting money into another aspect of education.")) ((patrick walker)) more than four thousand parents have signed up for the program. payouts were to begin in february... on hold... saying it does in fact divert funding from public schools. lt. announced he had filed a lawsuit against the state on behalf of two parents... asking a judge to declare the educational savings account program constitutional. the purpose... to ensure the parents would

. >> reporter: the republican race for the white house, two distinct plot lines are emerging. trump and cruz are battling for supremacy in iowa. john kasich may enter that ring but for now he's on the outside, looking in. >> what is going to happen is the other side will bring a suit. >> reporter: in reno, nevada, donald trump warned that ted cruz's birth in canada to an american mother makes him a bad election gamble. >> now he is a natural born citizen? some people say, i don't know. honestly? who the hell knows? >> reporter: trump has been birther badgering cruz for nearly a week. compelling the cruz campaign to release his mother's u.s. birth certificate and the candidate to deliver this passionate response. >> by virtue of being born, was never naturalized. it was the process of being born that made me a citizen. those are the facts. the law is quite clear. >> reporter: cruz said some candidates, meaning trump, can't handle the more substantive debate. >> they want to, instead, encourage the good people of the media to go down rabbit trails and enengage in circus side sho

. >>> now they square off tonight for the republican debate. ted cruz and donald trump are expected to spar, he has questioned his eligibility to run being that he was born in canada, and cruz attacked trump's foreign policy credentials, one of the last before the iowa caucuses. >>> it's getting wider not because the wealthiest people are bringing in more money, according to census data, pay for the poorest of americans have not recovered since the recession. it actually fell in 2014 even as the economy got stronger, the biggest gap is the housing market with the poorest americans forced to use most of their income to pay their rent or their mortgage. and wall street, this is what investors like to see, green arrows across the board, the dow up 227 points and nasdaq up 89 and s&p 500 up 31.5. >>> and former police commissioner charles ramsey landed another new job at drexel university. taking on a newly created fellowship geared toward urban revitalization, and earlier this week as we told you ramsey began working as a consultant for the police

he ignores his republican rivals and takes aim at hillary clinton. he outline his proposals to temporarily keep muslims from entering the u.s. and he talks and build that wall on the southern border. meanwhile, president bill clinton is hitting the campaign trail today in new hampshire. wall street has bad news. after stocks dodged in china investors worried about a manufacturing slowdown in china and worried about tensions in the middle east after saudi arabia executed a shiite cler rick. >>> the fbi has taken over the control of the standoff in oregon. anti-government militia members are in several buildings on the refuge. the protest stems from two ranchers convicted of arson on federal land. >>> well, an emotional rescue caught on police body cam. a video showing an albuquerque police officer finding a 3-year-old girl who had been abandoned in a parking lot by a thief who stole her mother's car. the little girl is thankfully okay. police are searching for the two men caught on surveillance video at a nearby supermarket. >>> well, one of the most

. >> keep every rotten, dangerous >> christie gifting attacked by republicans here not named trump. he is pushing back. saying jeb bush had cushy time as governor and unfit for rigors of the white house. he told "the washington post" responding to a slew of negative ads from a super pac supporting rubio that rubio cannot slam his way to the white house. hi, anne. how are you doing? hi, evelyn. i know it's been a difficult time since your mom passed away. yeah. i miss her a lot, but i'm okay. wow. that was fast. this is the check i've been waiting for. mom had a guaranteed acceptance life insurance policy through the colonial penn program, and this will really help with the cost of her final expenses. is it affordable? it costs less than 35 cents a day-- that's pretty of a postage stamp. so, you said it was guaranteed acceptance? yes. it's for people ages 50 to 85. there's no medical exam or health questions. you can't be turned down because of your health. it fit right into mom's budget and gave her added peace of mind. you should give them a call man: are you between the ages of 50

for republicans over on capitol hill. evidence was seen a guy who was stabbing republicans in the back at a critical time for them. more than that, i think the other issue is there is maybe a better candidate, somebody who folks thought would be the unifying candidate and still has the chance to be that. that's marco rubio. is he certainly looking like he is trying to be the establishment to get the establishment folks who are going to three from other establishment candace when when -- candidates when they drop ow he was the initial tea party candidate. there is a chance he can recapture that unifying message. >> 30 seconds left. carly fiorina says she is going to use technology to fight national security. that's one of the new things we hear from any of these candidates. >> that's new but the other problem is it's hard to break through when you still got this many candidates into the race. and i would go back to marco rubio and a the fact that he is probably the best bridge candidate for the establishment to get behind.

she even lumped him in with some other republican rivals. let's listen. >> how many of you watched that hearing before the house committee on benghazi? yeah. 11 hours hillary was before that committee. is there anybody here who thinks that anybody else in this race, republican or democrat, could have done what hillary did? no! not donald trump. >> no. >> not ted cruz. >> no. >> and not bernie sanders. >> no! >> reporter: but even lumping bernie sanders in that string of names there, donald trump and ted cruz, democrats are taking a bit of a risk here. one senior clinton adviser i talked to earlier today said hillary clinton is going to be sort of judicious in how much she directly confronts bernie sanders. he has a lot of supporters, a lot of followers and backers particularly in new hampshire. but, jake, the clinton full operation, the full democratic establishment is going to descend on iowa this weekend. she has surrogates campaigning across the state on her behalf. so we'll watch to see exactly what they're saying specifically about that

>> all right so that was what that news crew got with regard to anything trump, republicans, otherwise. let's bring in political commentator michael smerconish, who hosts "smerconish" on cnn saturday mornings and chief political correspondent dana bash. happy election year. michael smerconish, listening to bill clinton when he was speaking there at that college in new hampshire, you know, didn't mention the "t" word as in donald trump, we're wondering how he would do that. you heard his vague-ish response to the reporter from abc. are you surprised he didn't have sharper elbows, say anything more forceful with regard to trump? >> no, i think the dance is not to utter his name if that can be avoided but to keep him very much in the camera lens. i think it's good for trump and good for clinton and here's how. every time we talk about hillary and donald trump in the same breath we're cementing this perception that trump wants us to cement that he ultimately is the republican nominee and you can see the two on the same stage. we're not talking about hillary and marco or hillary and jeb. fr

it also opens the possibility -- republican side. we may well good into that convention not knowing who their candidate is. what happens on the democratic side, i guess hillary clinton is going to get the nomination, but i don't know. great time and not everybody who come back. most of the time they don't get to come back but it was universal when we heard you were back. applause all around. so glad you're back at the table. >> thank you, guys. >>> hollywood's biggest morning is getting under way later in this broadcast. will leonardo dicaprio finally we will >>> he created a number one album in england and now he is nominated for three grammys. meet the rocker on being the verge of the next american sensation. >> you had a lot of confidence about this. no? >> yeah. >> reporter: ya? >> i know i shouldn't win. i'm being very british because it's not necessarily cool, like, i'm just -- i enjoy it so much. anthony mason is ahead here on "cbs this morning." i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. my psoriatic arthritis caused joint pain. just li

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but i still think he could win even as a republican. as pete adequately pointed out, it's not about conservativism. it's not because he's reflecting conservative values. this question about sarah palin abandoning her conservative principles to support trump. i think she abandoned them the minute she quit her job as governor of alaska where she was going to effect change. no surprise there for me. of course she's going to chase the guy who is the clear front-runner. >> the trailer to the shooting star. andrew, good to see you. it's been a long time. >> good to see you. it's been too long. >> what do you make of this republican race so far? you're a political mind. >> honestly, you know what, i think we have a difference of opinion, but that's fine. i'm going to support whoever backs el chapo. that's really what i go for. he's a go-getter. i'm waiting for his extradition to america and then he'll speak on behalf of cruz or rubio. >> you're a one-issue voter. >> i'm a one-issue voter. >> el chapo did call donald trump his amigo. >> he did?