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he won iowa. this is marco rubio in minnesota, an anti-trump line if you will right down the middle of the country. but donald trump is winning here, ted cruz leading in maine. we talked about that. waiting for brian todd in kentucky, but at the moment the one we think we're close to, wolf, ted cruz 49% of the vote in the state of kansas, adding potentially to his list as he tries to make the case that is 43% of the vote in trying to make the case he is emerging as the primary alternative to donald trump. >> john king, thanks very much. cnn is ready for its first projection of the day. cnn, ted cruz is the winner of the kansas republican presidential caucuses. ted cruz picked up another win, this is his fifth win so far, ted cruz wins kansas, he's doing really well in all of the numbers coming in. let's share those numbers. here is the vote now. 43% of the vote in, ted krutz is ahead, 49% to donald trump 24.7%. marco rubio with 14.8%, john kasich only 9.9%. but ted cruz, with almost half of the vo

he's won 11 states so far going back to iowa. he didn't win iowa, but georgia, vermo vermont, virginia, alabama, massachusetts, tennessee, arkansas, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, tonight he wins louisiana. we're still waiting to see who's going to win in kentucky. that's donald trump. ted cruz, he's also won several states. let's show our viewers. well, there's marco rubio. we've got marco rubio first. the only state he's won so far, minnesota. nothing tonight, but he did win minnesota. let's take a look at ted cruz and see the states he's won so far. he's won iowa, ted cruz. let's see if we're going to get those up on the screen. iowa, oklahoma, texas, alaska, maine and kansas. that's ted cruz. let's take a look at the democratic side so far. here's what we have for our viewers on the democratic side. hillary clinton, she's also won 11 states -- louisiana, iowa, nevada, south carolina, alabama, arkansas, georgia, massachusetts, tennessee, texas and virginia. hillary clinton's wins so far. bernie sanders, he's won so far

. >> we've been hearing this since iowa, right before the iowa caucus. folks, deal with it. senator cruz has great chance of being the republican nominee. he can either win outright because the trump versus non-trump part is the growth opportunity. that's the one that's increasing now. look at the polls. mr. trump has had this backward attrition in his favorable rating among suburban women, married republican women, 71% of all women have an unfavorable opinion of him. if he's the nominee, i hope he can turn it around. until then he's sliding backwards. always deflecting as to the other candidates that just can't do well because states geographically don't look that way. recognize if mr. trump has never gotten over 50% in any contest, only ted cruz has, if he can't get over 50% in a two and a half person race, we have a real contest. who is going to give him an extra delegate when he gets to cleveland. >> wisconsin is the last stand, isn't it? >> i don't know that it's the last stand. donald trump either gets 1,237 delegates or he doesn't. wisconsin could very well be the dif

they were started in iowa and they felt like they were successful in iowa, but i'm told they couldn't find donors until now. as you were saying earlier it may be too late, but they're going to try. >> trump says he can expand the map. he's bringing people into the party who didn't vote republican before, but now the question is will he also at the same time be chasing people out of the party. >> yeah, and it's a good question with our panel. you heard what ted cruz was saying to wolf blitzer saying now is the time for everybody other than trump to kind of get together. when you hear that, what does that actually mean because they all think that means the other people have to get out. >> it's very hard to see. if you take yourself inside the psychology of the campaign for those who have worked on campaigns, everybody inside that campaign right now is not focussed on whether or not they should police the party, but instead it's how do we continue to get our guy elected. that's one of the most difficult parts of this, which is trying to show these campaigns that they somehow don't have a

. 51-year-old jane kelly, appellate judge for the circuit of iowa. this is someone jeffery tuben is talking about. supported by chuck grassley. >> he praised her in the past. >> unlikely to support her now. this president is expected to announce the selection in a couple weeks. facing strong opposition from the senate republicans. they say they will block any nomination the president sends up. >>> defense secretary ash carter coming out against the so-called back door to give the government access to encryption protection data. carter told the security experts, he wants common ground with privacy advocates over access to an encrypted iphone belonging to one of the san bernardino terror suspects. building a so-called back door into devices is not a realistic option. >>> the president goes to milwaukee to congratulate for an enrollment contest. not everyone celebrates. wisconsin is one of six states suing over the affordable care act. governor scott walker claims it is anything but affordable. >>> another scott. astronaut scott kelly was in space for a

texas and iowa. and has probably a better place finishes in some of these other states tonight than marco rubio. >> he can. this is the existential dilemma for republicans. marco rubio is inarguably the most electable republican candidate in a general. he cannot prove that to anyone yet because he's won nowhere. ted cruz, i would argue, is less electable -- >> it's a hard argument to make that you're the most electable -- >> favorables and matchups, you know, that -- >> i'm the best athlete i've ever seen -- >> you've never won. >> -- except i can't actually lift anything or run. >> ted cruz -- no, exactly right. ted cruz who has some primary wins, i would argue, is less electable than donald trump in a general election. so if you've been making the argument for anyone but trump, the news that ted cruz finally might be honing in on donald trump is not great news. >> yeah, i got to say, you look thrilled tonight. >> i'm loving this. i've never been happier. >> first of all, on the republican side, we

let's talk for example back in iowa the first primary. when i went to iowa and campaigned against ethanol mandates, everyone said that was political suicide. you can't take on ethanol in iowa. and my opponents on this stage not only didn't do the same. they attacked me and even promised to expand corporate welfare. if we're going to stop bankrupting our kids and grandkids, you have to be willing to take on the lobbyist which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying these are the programs i'll eliminate. >> mr. trump, would you like to respond? >> if you look back to iowa, ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit at the end. not full on, but he did change his view in the opens of maybe doing well. and you know, i think everybody knows that. it was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change. >> senator cruz? >> listen, if you are fed up with washington, the question you ought to be asking is who is willing to take on washington? it's easy to have language, i'm fed up with t

let's talk for example back in iowa the first primary. when i went to iowa and campaigned against ethanol mandates, everyone said that was political suicide. you can't take on ethanol in iowa. and my opponents on this stage not only didn't do the same. they attacked me and even promised to expand corporate welfare. if we're going to stop bankrupting our kids and grandkids, you have to be willing to take on the lobbyist which means not just some fanciful waste, fraud and abuse but specifying these are the programs i'll eliminate. >> mr. trump, would you like to respond? >> if you look back to iowa, ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit at the end. not full on, but he did change his view in the hopes of maybe doing well. and you know, i think everybody knows that. it was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change. >> senator cruz? >> listen, if you are fed up with washington, the question you ought to be asking is who is willing to take on washington? it's easy to have language, i'm fed up with t

iowa, new hampshire, massachusetts, so she lost new hampshire, she won iowa barely, she won massachusetts in a very close contest, those are the only states where the white vote was 68% or higher. we're seeing what the threshold is for her and what that means for states upcoming is no doubt something they will look at. >> let's look at the republican case. donald trump did well tonight. we'll see how well the others do when it comes it the delegate split. in michigan now, 9.2%, goose egg tonight for marco rubio, which when you're already down in the delegates, way behind ted cruz and donald trump and you're trying to get momentum into florida, that's not helpful. >> this is devastatingly bad, these two states for marco rubio. there's still idaho and hawaii tonight. this is just brutal. these are the big delegate prizes of the night. to not just be in fourth but to be below the threshold, they're going to have a tough time making an argument. again, he gets a pass just like john kasich gets a pass to their home state. they get to make that battle. but it just puts all the more pressure on

iowa is a primary. that is a state where ted cruz could do well but trump employs thousands of people in hawaii, he says. there's little polling in hawaii. it's hard to know how it will go. it is a momentum gain if somebody picks it up. the real battles are michigan and idaho. that will tell you if rubio has momentum or will cruz take the win. >> your article was one of the first curtain raisers that set the world on fire when it said the establishment is panicked that donald trump will get the nomination and half coming to terms with it, as well. that was two weeks ago now. is that still the case? >> yes, it is. an incredible sense of alarm. what if we nominate trump. i think whats has changed in the last two weeks is there is real juice to the anti-trump effort that didn't exist. at the beginning of the month and certainly at the beginning of the primary process. real money spent against trump and rubio. there are rough stuff on trump university, his use of profanity and the question is it too late. e

i think it's interesting that she made a very big splash with donald trump in iowa and she hasn't been on the australtrail him since. >> she did a few states after that and then went back home. it is interesting. but also we haven't really seen anybody who has endorsed donald trump or anyone really for that matter stay with him throughout, the interesting exception being chris christie stepping out and introducing donald trump almost as if he were donald trump's vice president so. >> she was pretty entuesday arrestic to donald trump. >> for anybody wondering if she got a position with the donald trump administration, she should she would like to be the secretary of energy and then close the department of energy. >> donald trump has a slight lead in alaska. this is the last contest of the night. it's a very republican state. it's only voted for a democrat once and that was in 1964. >> i don't think any question, the question is what happens tonight and donald trump is looking pretty good. it's a caucus system, it takes a while. as you watch it, if you assume it stays with donald trump,

he's previously won in iowa. what do you make of -- is donald trump the presumptive nominee at this point? >> absolutely not. the good news for ted cruz whippiwhic winning those states shows conservatives uniting against donald trump live to fight another day. at this point in the race, if it is a cruz/trump race, we have to throw out the dynamic that it's conservative versus establishment. essentially you have two outsiders in donald trump and ted cruz. you can double down with trump with, a guy who is going to have a bigger, more out of control government because you like brute power and you want to stick it to the liberals or you can have a more appropriate reaction with ted cruz, a guy who has made his whole career agui abiding by the constitutional limits of government, both things are a reaction to the obama administration. i don't know what direction we go but at this point i think the establishment lane has collapsed. it's over. it's where we go next. >> restoring things to a proper order is a very hard s

i think ted cruz absolutely ran a great campaign in iowa. didn't do anything wrong but carson is heartsick about it. he wanted to bin that state and cruz won it. he hasn't gotten over the fact and so is going to donald trump. i don't any it makes a lot of sense given donald trump's positions, the fact he's insulted ben carson so brutally, but it's a decision that carson made. >> and ask you that question. so donald trump at one time called ben carson pathological. now he's embracing him. what changed? >> well, i think it speaks very much to the trueness they're not going along with egos, putting the people above their own egos and what's happening along the campaign trail. we've seen the conservative movement. people who fought side by side to get good people elected many these candidates having to tear at each other, and so i know that in the future we're going to fight together regardless what happens this year. i hope we will. this i think is a good step towards unifying the conservative base, not only for this presidential fights but the

. >> we've been hearing this since iowa, right before the iowa caucus. folks, deal with it. senator cruz has great chance of being the republican nominee. he can either win outright because the trump versus non-trump part is the growth opportunity. that's the one that's increasing now. look at the polls. mr. trump has had this backward attrition in his favorable rating among suburban women, married republican women, 71% of all women have an unfavorable opinion of him. if he's the nominee, i hope he can turn it around. until then he's sliding backwards. always deflecting as to the other candidates that just can't do well because states geographically don't look that way. recognize if mr. trump has never gotten over 50% in any contest, only ted cruz has, if he can't get over 50% in a two and a half person race, we have a real contest. who is going to give him an extra extradelegate when he gets to cleveland. >> wisconsin is the last stand, isn't it? >> i don't know that it's the last stand. donald trump either gets 1,237 delegates or he doesn't. wisconsin could very well be th

since iowa and new hampshire, what you've seen is their inability to basically win in states that has a very diverse electorate. and what i mean by diverse, particularly women of color. if you look at polls that do matter and exit polls, she's doing extremely well with women of color between the ages of 50 and 65. so the challenge, particularly, for bernie sanders' campaign in florida and ohio, which you're absolutely right, is going to be two big states. she's leading in every single state that we're going to have on our super third tuesday as we are calling it, is bernie's ineffectiveness to basically be able to back his rhetoric up with policy decisions and policy votes that appeals to hispanic americans. this is the same bernie sanders that did not actually support true comprehensive immigration reform when he was actually voting. so that's the challenge and something that hispanic voters are going to be paying close attention to. >>> stay with me for attention to the primarieprimaries. that is all day tuesday right here on cnn. >>> speaking of politics. many of you are sounding o

as george mcgovern's campaign manager he was the one that put the focus on iowa and created it as the institution. a lot spent in des moines. >> there has to be a way to keep the excitement around the turnout that the caucuses create. the other thing in addition to the messiness, i find problematic about caucusing, is that voting is a deeply private and personal experience. when you are submitting yourself to the pressures of your neighbors, trying to sort of convince you or persuade you, i don't think that's the best way to go in and make an independent vote in a way that you feel protected. you feel secure about it. so i would like to go back to sort of the privacy and personal experience that voting should be. >> what do you say -- i keep getting back to the one voter who made a clear statement in alaska, he said i'm out here because i want to make sure that donald trump does not win. does that concern you? >> it doesn't. donald trump brings out a lot of passions, some are strongly against him but some are strongly for him. and it's not just among republicans, we are seeing democra

the test for sanders tomorrow in michigan and illinois and iowa next week. if he's going to prove he's a candidate for the nomination, he has to win at least one of them and show my economic message sells in the industrial midwest in states that have a diverse population. he needs to do that. if he doesn't do that, the question is where does bernie sanders head? the issue is after new hampshire they thought they were going to win nevada and had a chance. his supporters are revved up. how each manages the relationship with the other and their supporters will be critical. if hillary clinton wins the nomination, she needs those supporters. >> we got to take a break. >>> clinton/sanders face off on the debate stage in just a few days. can you imagine keeping that schedule? tune in, cnn airs the univision democratic debate live from miami wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. of course, watch "ac 360" right before the debate and post debate coverage as well. just ahead, a new warning about isis from britain's top official. comes on the heels of what trum says he would

iowa because of what was seen as dirty tricks. we have carson's super pack chair on cruz saying some people are so angry at cruz they could spit nails. they wouldn't support him if he were the last guy on earth after what he did to us. and part of what they kid of course you had a hand in that. you had a tweet in that that suggested carson was out of the race. people looked at that as the dirty trick. do you think you got a little bit of gain in the moment but it is going to cost you now? >> in the end i trust the voters and i trust them to be objective. go to my website. we have a timeline on that and a narrative that tells the whole story. ted cruz knew nothing about it. there was no information provided out of the cruz campaign essentially anything other than the copy and paste or objective forward of information that came out of the news media. and what i nut was subjective. >> a smart move given that cnn did not report what the cruz campaign said he did. >> and i'll take issue with that and neither did steve king. >> steve ki

something that he struggled through in iowa, and he lost iowa. he really didn't even know a ground game meant in many of the inn interviews, and a bigger issue when it comes to ground game in a general election. a lot of criticism he does not know what he is doing, and people don't want to join that campaign, because it could, you know, ultimately end up black listing them if he doesn't prevail. guys, stand by, because that live picture is still up with donald trump and we want to see if anything is changing on super tuesday, if his message in ohio of all places is different all the way along. he is out there at the airport. at some point, the big trump plane will land and the candidate will come out and speak. coming up next, so many delegates up for grabs today, big wins by trump and clinton, would seal the deal, you would think, right? but don't count on it. there is something called delegate map that muddies up those waters a whole lot. so quick lesson coming up in the delegate allotment, and how other guys can still survive. up next are thee

former georgia governor jimmy carter did extremely well. >> the iowa caucus was something no one ever paid attention to. but carter and his team said, hey, if we go and we win, the media is going to treat us look a serious political front-runner. >> mr. carter is also deeply religious. he praise in public and speaks openly about his religious beliefs. >> carter was a person who you thought would lead america to some kind of spiritual redemption. which at the time we really needed. >> nothing has happened to night to change the feeling that jimmy of coronation in madison square garden. [ applause ] >> the battle for the republican nomination turned out to be really close. it was close enough to make the ford people's fingernails sweat. gerald ford got the nomination. >> when ford was nominated, reagan's supporters staged a demonstration on the convention floor. and it went on and on and on and on. >> by the end of that convention, it's clear that gerald ford may be the nominee, ronald reagan won the hearts and mind of conservatives. >> reagan did great damage to ford. look at the poll

. >> we saw it in iowa. walk about his speech in iowa and didn't know what happened, you thought he won the race. >> every rubio speech, when i take the oath of office or give my first state of the union, you have to win a primary. first, there's a spin out there, i think, of a lot of media caught on to the clinton campaign, this is it for bernie sanders. poor bernie. >> we started hearing that after south carolina. >> right. look, south carolina, walloped and he's the first to admit but it not going to be over tonight. bernie will win vermont. he's still in. he's got $42 million. final point, he's got a role model to follow. hillary clinton in 2008, just keep chugging and rolling up delegates. >> more to talk about with the panelists. let's go back to wolf. >> thanks, anderson. more exit polling to release as well. david chalian, he's here, together with our team. they've been crunching all of the data as it comes in. we'll share that information for you after a quick break. jessica: dear freshpet, when i r

well, if you don't lose iowa, you'd better drop out. he wins iowa. >> suited to his strengths? . >> then rubio should endorse him and help him campaign in those states. there's a great idea. >> there's one idea i'm sure cruz would endorse. you've mentioned someone else hitting the campaign trail today that we haven't discussed in the last hour maybe. mitt romney, he's hitting the campaign trail with john kasich. what's the bep fit there? what's the impact? >> first of all, he's kund putt his money where his mouth is, kind of. >> kind of? >> there was a big dramatic speech where he said if you believed in me in 2012, help me stop donald trump. he's been clear about that. he's even encouraged some strategic voting. we'll see what his reception is. there's a lot of people, this talk about he ran a disastrous campaign, i remember it differently. there was genuine feeling toward him toward the end by leaders of the conservative movement. we'll see if he still has some staying power. if there is some fond memories, if there's something left of an organization on the ground that might

they were running those ads back in october in iowa. conservatives have been criticizing trump for a long time. he had the national review big cover coming out. >> they said they couldn't get a lot of money after iowa. they thought it was effective in iowa but afterwards not a lot of interest. >> the establishment guys like mitt romney who are complaining and panicking and planning for a brokered convention. all their money has been on the sidelines. where is karl rove? the koch brothers are sitting out of thus. >> if i'm like kayleigh, if i was a trump supporter, and i'm not taking sides in any of this, but if i am a supporter of donald trump, i'd be offended that you have all these people piling on, and if anything, it would make me want to support this candidate more vigorously. >> that's why focus groups have found when they feed trump supporters negative ads for two hours it only serves to embolden their support. and some of the undecided voters are even pushed over to the other side. >> he's a known quantity. >> it's hard to redef

>> if you look back to iowa, ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit at the end. not full on, but he did change his view in the opens of maybe doing well. and you know, i think everybody knows that. it was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change.

the iowa caucuses were a defining days. there's a series of defining days. >> this isli like indiana jones the last crew saiusade. >> it doesn't end after today. even if trump sweeps everything and everybody has to acknowledge he's the nominee, the this fight in the republican party doesn't stop happening. the resistant to trump, that doesn't immediately go away, and there's going to be a process of conflict and maybe reconciliation or maybe not. >> so it doesn't stop for one guy on this panel, that's barry. barry, who is involved with the delegate wrangling for the trump campaign. if john kasich wins in ohio, maybe cruz does well in missouri and illinois, then barry, you will be fighting for delegatings. i want to know what you're doing right now to get them in line. how much is the operation up and running? tell us what's going on? >> we have a fairly robust operation up and running in south carolina this weekend. this is our first big chore. we're going to go across the country and make sure that our delegates get their

i was in iowa for him two weeks ago. i like what he says. i believe he's going to follow through on his promises, especially on the illegal immigration situation that's facing our nation and has been here for years and years. nobody wants to do anything about it. all you hear is talk from the politicians. so maybe at least this time around something like be done about it. but in any event, if he doesn't get elected, which i'm sure he will, at least he opened the door to start talking about it. every candidate running for president has to talk about it. and so now we're back talking about illegal immigration on this cycle. so i have to thank him for keeping the interest going on this illegal immigration problem. >> all the candidates certainly are talking about it. and bernie sanders was in flagstaff recently, and he talked about you. he said, it's easy for bullies like sheriff arpaio to pick on people that have no power. if i'm elected president, the president of the united states does have power, watch out your joe. what is your reaction to

people thought he was going to win iowa. he happens to still be the governor of wisconsin and indicated maybe he'll get involved. when he got out he took a shot at donald trump so it's safe to say he will not be for donald trump. most of the cw in this campaign would tell you well the establish doesn't work, endorsements don't work. could scott walker help? >> part of the problem for scott walker is he's not very popular anymore. so having gone away. scramble to catch up since he has gotten back. he has indicated he may or may not endorse. i don't get any strong signals, there's nobody in the race he's dieing to get on board with and that's part of the problem is that the nontrump choices are seen not just by walker but by a lot of people as so fatally flawed that it's hard to want to jump in with both feet so i think this is very much in the air and we're going to learn a lot from the results. >> the more interesting voice in wisconsin is paul ryan that has come out quite forcefully in trying to set up a counter narrative t

to me well, we do well in caucus states when we have nine months to organize a caucus state like in iowa and nevada. we can make a stand when we have all of that time. but what is it the natural appeal of bernie sanders to a core part of the base that she remains unable to dig into? i think a little of that gets exposed today. again, the math is on her side. i'm not saying that the nomination is completely threatened but i think these outside victories that we're seeing he potentially may have not only gives him momentum but starts to just raise some questions about where are her deficiencies she needs to shore up in the party. >> what you'll hear from the clinton campaign when you ask them about this and what if she wins the nomination but she is only ahead by 100 delegates is nobody talks about that when it comes to barack obama and his 2008.ry over hillary clion in she almost won, came very close to winning, if things had gone differently in michigan and florida perhaps she would have been the nominee. but that's not how it turned out. and in any case, no body said or few people, mayb

it's interesting in iowa for voters to say i'm deciding between trump and sanders. there is a rationale there for what they're saying. >> until we can move median family income, this is going to continue. bernie sanders is going to look like a chairman at goldman sachs in 10 or 20 years. donald trump is going to look likechavez. but there is a difference. there's an enormous difference, aside from my distaste for trump's style of politics. republicans are at war with their own party. they hate their establishment. democrats like their establishment. never happened before. they love the president. they love hillary. they love bernie. they love nancy pelosi. >> when it gets down to the two front-runners in each party? >> it's the general election. right now, trump is bringing new people in. he's increasing turnout. sanders and hillary are not in my party. that's what i said last week. that's keeping me up at night. but we have a secret weapon that will boost turnout to record levels, and his name is donald j. trump. maybe bernie and hillary aren't doing it right, but

ted cruz proving number one as he did in iowa in a caucus state his organization is very good at using data to identify the supporters an turn them out. an impressive win. we won't have the exact numbers until later because as i said it's done by district. it looks like cruz will get at least half of the 40 delegates at stake in kansas, which helps him in what case he is trying to make. let's switch maps again as we wait for results. the case ted cruz is trying to make is, i'm the guy closest to donald trump in the delegates. if we come in here and give him kansas, let me move forward to saturday. if we give him kansas and in this scenario if he holds the lead in maine, let's give cruz first place in maine and trump second place and third place here. that didn't work out. there we go. if that holds, roughly like that, 35% or so, ted cruz again we're still waiting on louisiana and kentucky. on this map, they're assigned to trump because he led in the polls. at the end of the night if they hold up, louisiana for trump, kentucky for trump but cruz wins kansas and maine he may be able to s

in iowa, the turnout was high. i think one of the goals of our campaign is to revitalize american democracy, to make sure that working people and young people know that when they participate in the political process, they have real power that, in fact, we can take on and defeat the billionaire class. so i don't agree with you. i think within the democratic primaries, not in every instance, but in many of the states, we are seeing our numbers higher than in 2008 when barack obama ran an unbelievable campaign, and his numbers were off the charts. in some states, we're actually seeing higher turnouts than in 2008. >> for, i want to ask you about something that was in the news this week. a former hillary clinton staffer who helped set up her private e-mail server accepted immunity and will talk to federal investigators. i know you've said that the american people are sick about hearing about secretary clinton's e-mails, but does this development concern you? >> well, as i have said, dana, we are going to focus on the i

if they're on this side, means doing it, you see less -- >> reporter: a chilly day on the campus of iowa state university, in room 225, professor douglas gent teele addresses his graduate students. >> that's led people to believe maybe only certain time types of people are vulnerable. >> reporter: they are here to study how media affects behave are and the impact of technology and video games. genteel is one of the world's leading researchers on video games, and all that can come with them, including addiction. >> even back in the 1990s, parents were talking about their kids being addicted to games, and i thought, that can't be true. i thought, all thf mean is, my kid spends a lot of time playing and i don't understand why. and it turns out i was wrong. >> reporter: genteel's research shows roughly 5.8% of kids gaming in united states show signs of addiction. across the world, he found similar numbers. >> one of the things we know that is a risk factor for addiction is access. so with greater access, we're going to see the problem probably increasing. how do we deal with that? >> reporte

we all remember in iowa, as she had a difficult time. she barely won in the state of iowa, in the caucuses there. tonight was a moment of celebration for her because she was able to show he has a national coalition behind her. >> m.j., stick with us. let's bring in the rest of the panel. josh rogan in washington for us. dylan byers, cnn senior reporter for media and politics. and in los angeles, maeve reston, political reporter. and ron brownstein, cnn editor for "the atlantic." m.j. with us, as well. if you look at the events of today, it shows the focus where this race moves next. john kasich, he is in michigan. marco rubio, he's going to be in michigan. ted cruz, he's going to be in kansas. and bernie sanders, he is going to be in michigan, as well. so quickly, with every one of the primaries, super tuesday is over. >> you have 28 states voting. more than half of the states will be registering here. and it becomes a powerful force. to disrupt donald trump, one thing that can change the dynamic of the race would be the party leadership

when he did not show up for the debate in iowa, a lot of -- >> this is the 14th debate, i think? >> 13th, i believe. >> i don't know, i lost count around ten, but anyway, i don't think it matters much, to tell you the truth. you and i have discussed this, but you know, none of these debates have moved numbers. everybody knows who they're voting for on the republican side these days. the undecides are very small, you know, it's kind of an exercise in futility, if you will, and so, you know, i would rather hearing his foreign policy speech in front of a pac, very frankly. >> p barry not concerned, we'll mark you down in the nonconcerned category. >>> hillary clinton at least on 4 for 4, maybe 5 for 5, and not a lot of people saw this coming. it looks like she might win all five. what changed after michigan. she lost michigan. what changed? >> she was greatly outspent in michigan. the sanders campaign put a lot of time, money and effort into michigan, and it paid off. he does not have and did not have the resources to do something equivalent in ohio, though he did make an earnest, h

i mean to be frank, they've been in utter chaos since iowa, and certainly since new hampshire. but now they're getting down to a point where, you know, they've got kasich, which is their last worst hope. he has no chance of getting the delegates necessary to win the nomination, and so they're sort of left between the devil they know and the devil they don't know. the devil they know, of course, is ted cruz, who is someone who many members of the gop establishment can't even stomach. and then they have donald trump, who, you know, i think for many -- not just members of the republican establishment but for many americans, they don't really know what he would do when in office. they don't even know what he would do if he became the nominee of the party. so i think there's a lot of fear and trepidation among the republican establishment tonight. they don't have a clear horse to bet on. it's not clear who would step in for them at a contested convention or an open convention as kasich likes to call it. and, yes, kasich won ohio, but that's his home state. he's a two-term governor t

i'm also told that chuck grassley of iowa also on the ballot is facing heat from democrats and he's starting to complain at a minimum that he's not getting enough cover from his republicans. >> this is the genius of the garland pick. not only is he imminently qualified as a judicial mind, i think that's fact. that's there. viewers can dispute that, but whatever. he's a brilliant legal mind. if you were at the white house and you're thinking, we need to find a guy who ticks off or causes trouble for mark kirk, kelly ayotte, rob portman and what the heck, chuck grassley, you found it because he's the chairman of the judiciary committee. he's up for re-election. iowans will not tolerate this. already there's been an editorial page -- essays about this saying just hold a hearing. you know who else probably wants a hearing? ted cruz. he's a member of the judiciary committee. what better than to go back to washington and quiz the guy that he'd like to block and earn some free air time in the process? so i suspect there will at least be a hearing. whether he gets a vote before the election, though,

after they felt that they did a pretty good job against donald trump on the air in iowa. he didn't win iowa, but he won everything after that. but they couldn't get donors on board. now that everybody can see what is happening, anybody who doesn't understand it is probably living under a rock, they were able to get a group of, again, about 50 donors, people who were supporting chris christie, jeb bush, scott walker, and others on this call tonight. they didn't get firm commitments, but a lot of interest and a plan was presented on how they feel that they can still stop donald trump, but even the people who i'm talking to who are involved in this effort realize it's going to take nothing short of a miracle to do that because it is so late. >> it's very late. of course, even if they get $100 million to do it, anderson, nobody has yet found the silver bullet, no one knows how to take down donald trump. >> right, there's no evidence that there is a way at this point. paul begala, you work for a pro-hillary clinton superpac. does this surprise you? do you think it actually can

because if he had not gotten the ben carson votes, i would have won iowa. i would have won everything. so, no, ted cruz was -- and what he did, frankly, when he did voter violation on a form that looked like it came right out of a government agency, voter violation -- and the only way you get rid of the violation, essentially, is by going and voting for ted cruz. have you ever seen this? and people did that because they were afraid. it was terrible. it was a very fraudulent thing. and he's done a lot of bad things. so, ben carson's a great guy. he is a great, great guy, and i thought that was a disgrace, what he did to -- he said, basically, that ben carson's out of the race, come on, vote for me. and he knew what was happening. so, one of those things. but i do think this, i do think that ted is at least moving along okay, but marco has to get out of the race, has to. because despite what ted said, oh, do i want to run against just ted. that will be easy. okay, david, go ahead. [ inaudible question ] >> all over the map, especially regarding your position

she was ahead in iowa. she's now ahead by average of 11 points. it's not that she's won over a ton of voters. that's that donald trump has alienated a ton of voters needed to win the general election. which is why the republican convention was never opposed to donald trump. they were going to accommodate him and appease him. i argued with senators and they said they could do well. now they're shuttering and they're seeing trump could hurt them at the top of the ticket. that could change. i don't know if voters care about that. i think the dynamic could change a little bit as people look up at polls and see cruz is trailing hillary clinton by three or four points. kasich is ahead of hillary clinton. the republican party is not in terrible shape. hillary clinton is not a strong democratic candidate. the problem is donald trump. >> alex, there's an interesting thing that is going on in terms of strategy. not having to do with -- we were talking about strategic voting, now it's about how to block donald trump from 1237. others have done fascinating re

are there any quantifiable consequences like we saw out of iowa when he skipped that last debate? >> you know, victor, given the state of the race and that donald trump is on such a roll, i'm not sure this is going to have any effect at all. the fact of the matter is he's gone to kansas as manu was saying. he is trying to mine votes. had this been a year ago perhaps the narrative would have been drawn that donald trump wasn't a conservative or trying to get the conservative vote, but at this point we've clearly seen with the numbers he's been able to draw out in states down in the south as well out in the west and, of course, up in the northeast, that, in fact, he is the prohippive front-runner at this point and it's going to take a lot from ted cruz or for marco rubio to try to knock him off from that position. >> all right. so let's talk about ted cruz in this aggressive plan, the strategy to keep rubio from winning his home state. of course, many believe if rubio does not win florida's 99 winner-take-all delegates mathematically and perceptually, that could be the end of his ca

i was in iowa, new hampshire. i go for the debates. and when i can, i'm there. >> any speech-making if your future? >> we don't know yet. not thinking about that yet. >> always fascinating to hear from the spouses. that is a different window into what, you know, the candidate is like. >> and she's going to surprise a lot of people. people know her mainly for her beauty and being married to trump. she has a lot going on in her own life. i've been around for her a long time. so i think that people will be pleasantly surprised. especially by what she's saying there about what the world needs right now. >> absolutely. so we'll play for of that and also more super tuesday coverage ahead let's get o right to it. >> i will never allow a con artist to take control of the party of lijen and reagan. >> this guy couldn't be elected dog catcher right now. >> you can't be a president of the united states and insulting all of our neighbors. >> are you from mexico. >> we're not electing class president or class clown. >> they have been after me for 2

iowa t heart of the mid west. alaska. western, independent-minded state. his home state of texas which is southern but western. and oklahoma bordering the mid west and the south. i would argue that senator cruz's support is fairly broad. and his focus right now is not on well, what is going to happen at the convention? what's going to happen two months down the road but what's going to happen tomorrow and the next day. he's out there fighting on substance each and every day. >> so let's go back to mark preston's theory. and i want to address this to you, mike. >> there are rumors that mitt romney is going to jump in the race. romney has not endorsed anyone. he's tweeting up a storm. do you think he will? >> who knows. if you are going to go to a convention where the front runner doesn't have 50% of the delegate, the delegates at that convention are going to choose who the nominee is. they are the republican party. it is their convention. and they are going to have the ability to put names into the nomination. there are some rules where you have to have won

and ben carson thinks ted cruz stole the election from him in iowa. tw very different points of motivation. last night in the debate it was very different. you want to hear what matters, the policies. you got it with jake tapper all night long keeping a stepped hand. we got to talk to donald trump right after the debate. controversial reports about islam and violence at his events. here's what he had to say. >> i thought it was a very elegant debate. i thought it was very substantive. i thought your folks did a great job. i thought it was very fair. we needed this kind of debate. we needed this kind of tone. i'm glad it took place tonight. >> do you think it plays to your advantage? >> i think so. look, the other is the other. if somebody hits, you hit back. that's true in life. it's true in running countries. it's true in running businesses. everybody did a good job. >> what would happen if it were you versus ted cruz one on one? listen to go him make the case and you on your own, how is your confidence level? >> i think it would go very well. we're

iowa generated 53%, higher turnout, in this caucus season than any other time in our history. when we bring in that many people and we start to see the coalitions that are out there and the number of people, first-time voters, all these other factors, i think it really gets to the point where the math starts to go against the other candidates. they just can't -- they can't come to that. i think that's really been the issue. i don't know whether that's a vulnerability or -- >> that was a diplomatic answer. >> thank you. >> what about texas? >> texas is going to be a close-run thing. i think -- but i do think what's important here is what david brought out the proportionality. we're going to pick up delegates there. if we win those congressional districts, we can win 13, 15, maybe 20 of those congressional districts. may not win the popular vote but we can win those districts. that give us a chance to break even or even come up on top in the delegate count. that's the way the math works. >> i'm just fascinated by the symbolism that is the lone star state. donna brazile, on the d