on election day in the state of iowa, we saw the largest turnout in the history of the iowa aucuses -- and we won landslide victory. [applause] sen. cruz: that was the beginning of a pattern we began to see. state after state, record turnouts for republicans. and dismal turnouts for dinner. -- and dismal turnouts for democrats. and that suggest the winds of coming.be a and then. on super tuesday, a major inflection point in this campaign. on super tuesday, once again turning on the tv, donald trumpsaid will sweep super tuesday. he is unstoppable. we, the media, have decided the republican nominee. his name is donald j. trump. he is a liberal democrat from new york slated to lose to hillary clinton. but once again, they forgot something. the people. on super tuesday, massage of the astonishment of the pundits -- we saw to the astonishment of the pundits, a tremendous victory in the state of oklahoma. [applause] victory in the state of alaska. [applause] sen. cruz: and then in my home we saw atexas, landslide victory in texas! [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: i have to tell you, that el

they had a venue all picked out in des moines, iowa. it was ahead of the iowa caucuses. they had a tv network that was set to broadcast the debate. they invited the republican candidates to be there. the candidates started saying no. they started rsvp'ing no. the reason they were offended by the whole process of this debate is they were offended by the person who news max chose to moderate the debate. the first campaigns to object were the campaigns of ron paul and john huntsman. ultimately mitt romney said the same thing. he said he wouldn't be there. rick perry and michelle bachmann opted out. they had to cancel because the moderator choice was to controversial to the republican candidates that it became impossible for them to host the debate. none of the candidates would agree to it. that's because the person news max chose to host that debate in iowa before the iowa caucuses was donald trump. it was in the 2012 campaign. they picked trump's campaign. ron paul said mr. trump's participation would contribute to an unwanted circus-like atmosphere. mr. trump said few peo

back to what happened in iowa, back at the beginning when carson was leaving iowa. he was going to florida to get a change of clothes and the ted cruz campaign e-mailed out to its supporters, hey, it looks like ben carson is dropping out. don't waste your vote on ben carson. vote for ted cruz. so tomorrow night, ted cruz respond to this. >> the name of politics is when a campaign is flailing, they attack and they attack other candidates and they attack their integrity. this particular e-mail apparently came from a volunteer in hawaii. not affiliated with the campaign. not working with the campaign. not under authorization for the campaign. we have over 200,000 volunteers across the country. i cannot control, nor do i want to control what 200,000 volunteers do. >> the cruz campaign went further to say that it has told this volunteer group to cease and desist sending out any more e-mails about. this clearly they're quite chagrinned about this but it does pay heavily into the narrative that donald trump has been spinning that ted cruz is a dishonest politician. >> ted

had he not gotten those iowa votes, i would have won iowa. i would have won everything. when he did voter violation on a form that looks like it came right out of a government agency, voter violation, and the only way you get rid of the violation is by going and voting for ted cruz. do you ever see this? people did that because they were afraid. it was terrible. it was a very fraudulent thing. he has done a lot of bad things. ben carson is a great guy. . thought that was a disgrace he said basically the ben carson is out of the race. come on, vote for me. one of those things. i do think this. i do think that ted is at least moving along ok, but marco -- how does he -- has to get out of the race. has to. despite what ted said -- ugh, do i want to run against just ted. that will be easy. go ahead. >> [inaudible] mr. trump: yeah. >> [inaudible] well, i have made it very, very strong. we have policy on it. i've said it very strongly. i think you know it. how many times do i have to say it? example,e -- as an what is my position on 900 different things? i said it 150 times. w

i am certainly not going to let it happen to the good people of iowa. some of the arguments we have heard are so asburd, they barely merit rebuttal. but my colleagues are under the impression that if they repeat something often enough, it magically becomes true. take a couple minutes. i have heard it said that the borg-kennedy episode somehow lends support to the notion that he senate should consider nomination during the middle of a presidential campaign. the argument is because justice kennedy was nominated in 1987 and confirmed in 1988, this disproves german violence argument -- this disproves chairman biden's argument. the only was this happened is because it was treated to an unprecedented and shameful smear campaign in 1987. those of us who were here remember it very well, in that brings me to another related point. it has been suggested that the democrats who were here in 1987 and 1991 and chairman biden in particular should be applied for how they handle the nominations. i will set aside the obvious notion that neither of those nominations occur

and jane kelly, an iowa judge the home state of the chairman. >> what they think will exert the most political pressure on me. >> reporter: republican lindsey graham admitted frustration with the partisanship in congress, but said that won't stop him from siding with his g.o.p. colleagues. >> we're setting a precedent here today, the republicans are, that in the last year, at least of a lame duck, eight-year term, i would say it's going to be a four-year term, that you are not going to fill the vacancy of the supreme court based on what we're doing here today. >> reporter: the president could announce the nominee any day now, but there are no signs of a bipartisan law anymore soon. >> reporter: the justice department with his response to apple over its refusal to unlock an iphone of the san bernardino shooter. apple has said helping the fbi could jeopardize privacy for millions of iphone users. >>> the fcc is producing new rules on how companies share internet data. it would make service providers report any data breaches. the proposal will be voted on at the end of the month. >>> a

to the good people of iowa. on the other hand democrats say it only fair to consider president obama's choice. >> i am appealing to the better agents of their nation. when there is a nominee, do as they have done in the past. give the nominee careful. meet with the nominee, ask the nominee questions. >> reporter: thursday's business meeting of the senate meeting turned into a forum to go on the record. no changes between republicans and democrats. the committee has the power to screen, block or ignore the president's nominee. >> the work of the committee, the congress, will be shame fully incomplete if the committee refuses to do that most important job of weighing supreme court nomination. we were given a job to do by the constitution of the united states, a job the american people want us to do, and the chairman of this committee is saying for the next year, it will not do its job. president obama used his appearance with the canadian prime minister to urge republicans to change his choice. i'm confident whoev

they're sometimes a little sketchy in their results like in the 2012 republican caucuses in iowa where three different winners were announced at three different times and at one point the party tried to get away with saying that they had no idea who had won and we should all just decide to perceive iowa as a tie that year. it was the great moment we accidentally captured live on camera at the caucuses in nevada this year when donald trump walked into the room during a republican caucus just outside las vegas and everybody in the room just left their ballots that they were filling out, they left their ballots on their little tables and ran over to see donald trump in the corner of the room. and who knows whatever happened to all those ballots and all those votes. caucuses are weird. caucuses are weird. they're a little sketchy. they are not official government-run elections. they're just events hosted by the party. and, frankly, sometimes the parties are nuts or incompetent and so sometimes the caucuses are bonkers. i don't want to get iowa or nevada or minnesota or colorado or alaska,

in missouri. >> first of all n iowa, it's not a question of a recount. in iowa we're going through the county process and the statewide process. so that process is under way in the final decision in terms of national delegates has not been made. but here is the truth. the media makes a big deal about, you know, winning missouri or winning illinois or winning michigan. we won michigan. secretary clinton won illinois and won missouri. you know what, you add them all together, there is no difference in delegates. what we're talking about, rachel, now is the number of delegates that we need. and what we proved in illinois and in missouri that what happened in michigan was not a fluke. we have real strength in the midwest and we have real strength, i think, as we head west in california and oregon and state of washington. the issues that are gaining us support in the midwest, for example, is the disastrous trade policies that have cost this country millions of decent paying jobs. i'm talking about nafta, trade relations with china and many others. workers in

i have a great deal of respect for my friend from iowa. his ability to lead the committee's majority. i also believe the right of each member of the committee to hold his or her views. i suspect there are some in this room who want to debate. one senator said, he likes a good scrap. let's have one. let's have a debate. after the president makes a nomination, let's have the kind of serious long detailed that we have had in the past. the last not forget, four justices who were nominated got bipartisan support to get on this court. the divisionspike we have. we are able to have serious hearings and come to a conclusion in a bipartisan way. i want to add one more thing. a hearing next week. a debate on a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. i'm happy to have it. we've been through that one before. post't ignore that this hearing is a convenient political cover for republicans backtracking off their promise to do a budget. i'm happy to have a debate. but i must say. before we start trying to edit the constitution, don't you thi

. >> my name is kaylie hegwood, and i live in stockton, iowa. oh, yay! that one was good, that one was good! and i am ten years old, and i live with my mother and my brother, tyler, and he is 12 years old. i don't think we're a rich family, but i think, like, we're kind of a poor family. i'm hungry. >> (laughing): i knew you were going to say that as soon as you.. you're going to have to wait now, sis. i'm just starving. we don't get the three meals a day, like breakfast, lunch and then dinner. when i feel just, like, hungry, i just like feel like i'm so, like, sad and all droopy, and then i'll feel, like, weak, and then some in the mornings i'll be, like, so starving, but then i'll be like, "i need some food!" but then, like, i'll get, like, but then i don't think of food and then i'll just think of something else and then i'll not be hungry anymore. >> there's good days and bad days. sometimes when we have cereal, we don't have milk. we have to eat it dry. sometimes we don't have cereal and we have milk. it's often, like, switch and swap. sometimes, li

she is from iowa, the home state of snoot judiciary committee grassley. he has said he won't hold nomination hearings for anyone the president nominates this time around. >>> maryland will hear the case of several officers in the death of freddie gray, deciding whether one officer cab forced to testify against colleagues. his trial ended in a hung jury. prosecutors want him to testify against two other officers. former baltimore city prosecutor said the case against all the officers is in limbo in my the appeal is decided. >> the state i think is really now on a slippery slope and the dominos are rolling not necessarily in their favor, anytime you have to have an appeal. the state didn't anticipate a mistrial. that is no fault of theirs, because mistrials are so repair, they wanted officer porter to have his trial first and then regardless of what happens, whether there was a conviction, which they hoped for or whether this was an acquittal, he would have been free without any issues of jeopardy or any issues of self incrimination to testify against the o

ron paul wins 21 of 25 delegates elected in iowa. the reason we have primaries and caucuses technically is to win delegates who then themselves vote to pick a nominee at the party's national convention. the ron paul campaign won a lot of delegates in 2012. they did that in iowa. they did that across the country. the trick is, they just figured out a way to do that without actually winning the primaries and the caucuses. the ron paul campaign in 2012 they ran a whole shadow campaign to get delegates for ron paul after the vote in multiple states but before the convention. and that is the same thing that is going on right now in republican politics again. this time it's not ron paul. this time this is the strategy that the rest of the republican party is trying to organize against donald trump right now. it's just that ron paul is the one who showed them all how to do it. when the ron paul campaign did it, it did not end well in a lot of places. take a look at what happened in louisiana, for example. ron paul lost the louisiana primary

. >> reporter: that's chuck grassley from iowa. democrats say that the nominee should get a vetting process, even if they are not confirmed, they should at least have hearings, and we heard diane feinstein point out that there have been 14 justices confirmed in presidential election years. >> so i am appealing to the better angels of your nature. when there is a nominee, do as we have done in the past. give the nominee careful consideration. meet with the nominee. ask the nominee questions. hold a hearing, and then hold a vote, both here and on the floor. vote no if you want. but let's have the fair process that is our tradition. that's our job, and we should do it. >> reporter: senator feinstein says that in 100 years, no nominee has been denied at least a looking into. democrats and republicans totally divided on this issue, richelle. >> the president actually spoke about this, this morning. what did he have to say? >> reporter: yeah, he is siding with democrats, no surprise there. the president urging republicans to take a look

ohio, pennsylvania, illinois, wisconsin, new hampshire, florida, and iowa. democrats are already tieing republican legislators to trump. >> trump is the republican party's frank enstein. republicans spent last eight years stoking a fire of resentment and hatred building trump piece by piece. >> if they choose to separate from trump, campaigners say they have options. >> what means for down ticket races is they have to aggressively define who they are as individual candidates because the wave at the top is probably not coming. >> reporter: trump continues to tract first time voters and win primaries convincingly. he's also won endorsements from a republican senator, two governors and a handful of house members. bret? >> rich, thanks. >>> hillary clinton is sitting on a big lead in delegates after super tuesday. she won seven states and americancy mowa. bernie sanders took four. clinton is way ahead in the numbers games. she has 595 regular delegates and 457 super delegates. sanders has 405 delegates and 22 super delegates. chief white house correspondent ed h

as expected, clinton returned fire in wisconsin saying this about the republican senator from iowa. >> senator chuck grassley, the head of the judiciary committee, could hold a hearing tomorrow if he wanted. but he says we should wait for a new president because and i quote, the american people shouldn't be denied a voice. well, as one of the more than 65 million americans who voted to re-elect barack obama, i'd say my voice is being ignored right now because of their obstructionism. >>> last night, president obama chose the dias of one of the most prestigious places of journalism. while speaking at the toner awards dinner, he called on the fourth estate to hold themselves to the higher standard and while taking some responsibility for the divisive culture in american politics, he called on american companies to invest back in the good and not dumb down the news. >> if i say the world is round and someone else says it's flat, that's worth reporting but you might also want to report on a bunch of scientific evidence that seems to support the notion that the world is round. a job well d

that buzzer beat to the second around northern iowa into march madness. happy guys right there. in new york city on saturday an historic night for yale university. yale wins the ivy league championship on the road against columbia, 71-55. the big head line, the team earned its first ncaa tournament bid since 1962. okay, like that was during the kennedy administration. president kennedy, of course, probably didn't like that because he was a harvard man from cambridge. anyway, let's get a check on weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> you know one of those teams will be the cinderella. >> i know. it's so fun. i love march madness. it's awesome. >> it's fun. root for the little guy. >> yep. >> the weather over the weekend was really nasty in california. had the big storm go through saturday night into sunday. that storm's going to cause problems. this is not that storm. this is another storm going through california. the wet weather is appreciated, snowing at the high elevations. this will pass through los angeles as we go throughout your morning rush hour, so one of t

ohio, pennsylvania, illinois, wisconsin, new hampshire, florida, and iowa. democrats are already tieing republican legislators to trump. >> trump is the republican party's frank enstein. republicans spent last eight years stoking a fire of resentment and hatred building trump piece by piece. >> if they choose to separate from trump, campaigners say they have options. >> what means for down ticket races is they have to aggressively define who they are as individual candidates because the wave at the top is probably not coming. >> reporter: trump continues to tract first time voters and win primaries convincingly. he's also won endorsements from a republican senator, two governors and a handful of house members. bret? >> rich, thanks. >>> hillary clinton is sitting on a big lead in delegates after super tuesday. she won seven states and americancy mowa. bernie sanders took four. clinton is way ahead in the numbers games. she has 595 regular delegates and 457 super delegates. sanders has 405 delegates and 22 super delegates. chief white house correspondent ed h

we said if he won iowa he would run the board. you and me. if he didn't win iowa he would win new hampshire. south carolina was home field advantage. after that he would be even stronger in the sec primaries. we all said trump is strongest in the south. we've been saying that for six months. what is so remarkable is this republican party that set up the debates, that set up the front-loaded process, that set up the winner-take-all states, were working around the clock to get the most establishment figure they could locked down as early as possible, and everything they did has played right into donald j. trump's hands. >> they made a process such that someone could be the nominee quickly, and now he may lock up the nomination. look, watch mitt romney, watch paul ryan, watch john kasich. those three guys i think hold the key to any possibility, any possibility, that trump isn't the de facto nominee in two weeks. >> what can they do? >> i think, if kasich wins ohio and everyone else is out of the race and a one on one, a true one on one, john ka

the des moines register having to break it to iowa voters, even though the iowa caucuses were supposedly won and a few days later they were a tie, in the end, des moines register columnist had to tell her readers, actually, you want to know who won? it was ron paul. here was fox news at the time, ron paul wins 21 of 25 delegates elected in iowa. the reason we have primaries and caucuses is to wyndel gather who then themselves vote to pick a party nominee at the convention t. ron paul campaign won a lot of delegates in 2012. they did that in i, what across the country. the trick is, they fixed out a way to do that without winning the primaries and the caucuses t. ron paul campaign in 2012, they ran a whole shadow campaign to get delegates for ron paul. after the vote if multiple states, but before the convention. that is the same thing that is going on right now in republican politics again. this time it's not ron paul. this time, this is the strategy the rest of the republican party is trying to organize against donald trump right now. it's just that ron paul is the one that showed them

i know my good friend from iowa said mow this effort is directed at him. i would say it is really not about him or any one of us. it is about the constitution which is a lot more important than any one of us. the oath that the president took to uphold the constitution, which requires him to nominate somebody when there is a vacancy, and requires us to exercise our advice and consent in voting yes or no. but we cannot sit here in close door meetings and agree with just part of the committee while we will vote maybe. the american people want us to do our job. we are paid to do our job. voting maybe is not an option. senator grassley, we have been friends for a long time. i hope while we disagree we will continue to work together in the legislation and oversight matters as well as nominations and he is correct. we have sponsored a lot of leahy-grassley and grassley-leahy. we try to do that in the best tradition of the senate. he is a man who embodies those traditions and the courtesy of this body and something that is unfortunately sometimes lacking. but thos

on election day in the state of iowa, we saw the largest turnout in the history of the iowa caucuses -- and we won a landslide victory. [applause] sen. cruz: that was the beginning of a pattern we began to see. state after state, record turnouts for republicans. and dismal turnouts for democrats. and that suggest the winds of change be a coming. and then on super tuesday, a major inflection point in this campaign. on super tuesday, once again turning on the tv, every pundit said donald trump will sweep super tuesday. he is unstoppable. he is unstoppable. we, the media, have decided the republican nominee. his name is donald j. trump. he is a liberal democrat from new york slated to lose to hillary clinton. but once again, they forgot something. the people. on super tuesday we saw, to the astonishment of the pundits, a tremendous victory in the state of oklahoma. [applause] a tremendous victory in the state of alaska. [applause] sen. cruz: and then in my home state of texas, we saw a landslide victory in texas! [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: i have to tell you, that election was par

talk to a young dentist in iowa, graduated dental school, $400,000 in debt. talked to a young man in iowa, left college after two years, $60,000 in debt. talked to a guy in nevada -- this is incredible -- he's 35 -- 55 years old and has been paying off student debt for 25 years. he is more in debt today than when he started. [booing] sen. sanders: here is what this campaign is about is thinking outside of the box, thinking outside of the status quo. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: do not accept the status quo, do not accept crazy reality. it is crazy -- everybody tells young people in this country education is important. everybody says "get all the education you can." everybody says we live in a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce possible. why then are we punishing people for getting an education? [cheers and applause] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie. sen. sanders: again, what i beg of you and of the american people, take a step back and look at the crazy things that go on in this country. this country today is the wealth

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

they're sometimes a little sketchy in their results like in the 2012 republican caucuses in iowa where three different winners were announced at three different times and at one point the party tried to get away with saying that they had no idea who had won and we should all just decide toer be soo er bperceivee that year. it was the great moment we accidentally captured live on camera at the caucuses in nevada this year when donald trump walked into the room during a republican caucus just outside las vegas and everybody in the room just left their ballots that they were filling out, they left their ballots on their little tables and ran over to see donald trump in the corner of the room. and who knows whatever happened to all those ballots and all those votes. caucuses are weird. caucuses are weird. they're a little sketchy. they are not official government-run elections. they're just events hosted by the party. and, frankly, sometimes the parties are nuts or incompetent and so sometimes the caucuses are bonkers. i don't want to get iowa or nevada or minnesota or colorado or alaska,

talked to a young man in iowa, left college after two years, $60,000 in debt. talked to a guy in nevada -- this is incredible -- he is 55 years old and has been paying off student debt for 25 years. he is more in debt today than when he started. [booing] sen. sanders: here is what this campaign is about is thinking outside of the box, thinking outside of the status quo. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: do not accept the status quo. do not accept crazy reality. it is crazy -- everybody tells young people in this country education is important. everybody says "get all the education you can." everybody says we live in a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce possible. why then are we punishing people for getting an education? [cheers and applause] >> [chanting "bernie!"] sen. sanders: again, what i beg of you and of the american people, take a step back and look at the crazy things that go on in this country. this country today is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. nobody knows it because almost all of the income and we

if you look at the race, we have beaten donald in iowa, in texas, resoundingly, oklahoma, alaska, and minnesota. no other campaign has done that. so, for anyone who wants to stop donald trump, it is abundantly clear that we're the only campaign to do it. donald has over 300 delegates and i have 200. if you want to beat donald, come with us. >> last question. the focus group is negative on the negative tone. they don't like the sniping. what would you say to those people? they're feeling dejected about that tonight. >> i very much agree. donald and marco were getting personal, nasty and talking about body parts and making profane jokes. i haven't done that. i don't intend to do that. i think there is a big difference between insults and going into the gutter. and focusing on issues and substance. and let me make a final point here. >> i got to go. >> donald said he agreed with marco rubio's decision to be flexible and negotiate the gang of eight bill. it is code for he is getting ready to break his word and that ought to be a warning sign to voters. >> well, the debate took an unexpect

and i know my good friend from iowa has said somehow this effort is directed at him. i'd say it's really not about him or any one of us. it's about the constitution, which is a lot more important than any one of us. the president took hold of the constitution which requires him to -- it requires us toed a provides our -- and consent. but we can't sit here in closed door meetings and agree which is part of this committee that we are going to vote maybe. the american people want us to do our job. every single day we are paid to do our job. voting is not an option. i say to the chairman, senator grassley, we have been friends for a very long time. and i hope while we agree on this we will continue. on oversight matters, it's absolutely correct. a lot of leahy grassroots legislation has gone through here and we try to do that in the best tradition of the senate. he is a man who embodies those traditions and something that unfortunately is sometimes lacking. but those of us who have been here for a while appreciate it. so i was disappointed two weeks ago when the majority

what we saw in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina, in particular, were the early stages of the trump phenomenon that drew evangelicals into the issues. to more economic argument. now that's settled out, the cruz effect is taking hold. they are now going back home to that port. it's a safe place to go back to. i think there's some truth to that. >> the final part is an organization. he's got no organization. that's been true from the beginning. when you're contesting in states like kansas and maine. people forget, barack obama ran up that delegate lead in places like north and south dakota and iowa. there were small caucuses and primaries that they organized the heck out of. cruz is playing that role this time around. >> he is. the caucuses are killer in this primary process because a lot of folks who don't get the totality of the process and understand this is about delegates, tend to not play their much. those who do, like barack obama did in '08, and cruz is doing now will reap the benefits of that and given that now we're in space where you're going to have a closed primary/

she had a slow start basically tying him in iowa. she had big wins yesterday. >> definitely a huge day for clinton. for sanders' supporters, this is exactly where -- this is what they love, a sliver of hope. a sliver of hope is what drives the sanders base. delegates aren't there. the states aren't there. but the money keeps pouring in. that's why candidates stay in. they only drop out of races when they run out of money. for a sanders' base, i can see him wanting to stay in and wanting to donate for a while. >> fox news exit polls come in overnight showing how angry voters are to government and sanders speaks directly to that. assuming hillary clinton is the nominee, next question is, who is the republican that is best to go up against her to win? >> sounds like trump. i mean, trump is -- >> the polls would show that he actually does the worst against her. >> we'll see that when we get to that point. look what he's doing. look what he did in virginia. he is driving record turnout, bringing out independents. he's bringing out somebod

they areor from iowa, now trying another tactic. the ask, what's difference, what difference does it make if the court has eight or nine members? [laughter] no, i'm serious. remember, they said they were not going to fill any vacancy is on the circuit court of appeals in the district for four years. that is not a constitutional court. the supreme court is. clear for folks who may be listening at home. you students-- and all know this -- what happens at the supreme court makes significant difference in the everyday life of the american people. one gives the power to congress to fix the number of justices. 1866, the number one asked and waned between five and -- the number waxed and waned between five and 10. in 1869, the congress passed a law setting the court size at nine and that law has not been changed since. in 1992, i said on the floor of the senate, it was pointed out to me or for me, that it was no big deal for the court to go through a period of periodits because the would not last that long. but i don't believe anybody in t

i would like to take a minute to discuss an issue in iowa that is affecting many of our levee districts across the missouri river as it relates to accreditation. accreditation and certification of river levee is desirable for community. it ultimately affects the affordability of their flood insurance rates. understand the fema involvement is to accept certification provided by a arty seeking accreditation on levy, on a flood insurance rate map as providing 100 your protection. the cost of the certification is ofating havoc for a number these communities in my state. my question on this is number one, in fema's eyes, how is a rural community with almost no in my particular area in southwest iowa, we have just a handful of families that live in these levee districts and they are supposed to pay for a million dollar valuation by a professional engineer. this is not good news for a number of these families. i don't know how they can reasonably accomplish accreditation when it's so expensive for these families. why is it that fema has different levee certification standards than the army cor

idaho fits that pattern a little bit, even iowa fits that pattern. while it's same day voter registration, it's only open to republicans. that's the pattern for cruz. the problem for cruz is he has not demonstrated an ability to go -- he's a better funded version of santorum and huckab e huckabee. if he pulled off something like that next tuesday, that's a big deal. he needs to find a place to win next tuesday. north carolina he can pick off a lot of places. illinois and missouri i think he's going to spend time in. he needs to win missouri should be right for him. there's a reason the university of missouri joined the scc. it's cultural. >> can we talk about cruz's shot in florida? there's been noise about cruz making this entrance into the florida market. people are seeing that as a psyche-out move for marco rubio, if marco rubio does as bad as he did tonight, does cruz have any shot of doing anything in florida? >> all he does it hand it to trump. >> he's kicking rubio while he's done. the whole point is to just bash rubio and keep him from winnin

going into iowa. every pundit says on every show trump was going to win. we won an overwhelming title wave landmark victory. [cheers and applause] then on super tuesday. super tuesday donald was supposed to sweep all over the country. we won a tremendous victory in oklahoma. we won a tremendous victory in alaska. [cheers and applause] and we won a landslide, historic turnout victory in my home state of texas. [cheers and applause] and then let's go to super saturday. super saturday was supposed to be a great day for donald trump. the pundits, those experts who say we don't have a path, they said donald was going to sweep all four states. he had a decisive lead everywhere. well, it's interesting. kansas, the day of the kansas caucuses, marco rubio had spent the whole day campaigning in kansas. that morning, donald and i were both at the same kansas caucus site. we spoke back to back to the same group of voters. all of the pundits had predicted donald was going to win kansas. not only did we win, but we won with a landslide nearly 50% of the vote in kansas.

on election day in the state of iowa, we saw the largest turnout in the history of the iowa caucuses -- and we won a landslide victory. [applause] sen. cruz: that was the beginning of a pattern we began to see. state after state, record turnouts for republicans. and dismal turnouts for democrats. and that suggest the winds of change be a coming. and then on super tuesday, a major inflection point in this campaign. on super tuesday, once again turning on the tv, every pundit said donald trump will sweep super tuesday. he is unstoppable. we, the media, have decided the republican nominee. his name is donald j. trump. he is a liberal democrat from new york slated to lose to hillary clinton. but once again, they forgot something. the people. on super tuesday we saw, to the astonishment of the pundits, a tremendous victory in the state of oklahoma. [applause] a tremendous victory in the state of alaska. [applause] sen. cruz: and then in my home state of texas, we saw a landslide victory in texas. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: i have to tell you, that election was particularly meaningfu

a dentist in iowa, $400,000 in debt. a guy in nevada has been paying off his student debt for 25 years. more -- more in debt today than he was when he took out that loan. now, what we have got to understand, and we got to think outside of the box. everybody here knows that education and learning is inherent in being a human being. right? \[cheers and applause] clearly the goal of america is to make sure that all of our people get all of the education that they need and they want. that's not a radical idea. we should not be punishing people for getting an education. we should be rewarding them. \[applause] and that is why i've introduced legislation and will make happen as president to do three things. number one, in the year 2016, public education cannot just consist of first grade through 12th grade. that was a great idea historically. the world has changed. today, today, in many respects, a college degree is the equivalent of what high school degree was 50 years ago. you know, 50 years ago, somebody had a high school d

in iowa, ben was doing really well and i was. ted cruz said that ben carson just quit the race and the voting was not close to ending. right after the race ended, he called him and apologized. give me a break. i don't know if ben has forgotten that were forgiven that. ben endorsed me a couple of days ago. you know who else endorsed me was sheriff joe. you know you are tough on the borders if he endorses you. we have sheriff joe. we have sarah palin who endorsed. jerry falwell, jr. from liberty university -- so great. he really helped me with evangelicals. we go to south carolina and that is going to be ted cruz country. that is lying ted cruz country. we go and everybody says he is going to win. who wins? trump. who gets the military, the vets -- because when they are leaving, they do the polls. i won with the military, the vets, evangelicals, everybody. i won with women, men. i won with highly educated. i won with less than highly educated. we won with every single category. it has been great. same thing with nevada. i win with

he finished third in iowa. he gave a speech like he won. and the press played along with that spin. his people remember him saying this 3-2-1 strategy, third in iowa, second in new hampshire, first in south carolina and he was drilled the no one said, when are you get out and they should have been i saying it then. in the last weekend, it has been rough. but it has been a nation ride. >> in the cnn story with rubio racing across town, cnn stood by the story and said they relied on multiple unnamed advisors but never called the rubio campaign for airing senatorring copycat stories s that a problem? >> yes. yes. it is. the use of anonymous sources to washington is a huge issue. in this case, there was one source anonymous and we did not know if it was a campaign official. the bigger problem and the griefance of the rubio campaign, they were not contacted. that is not acceptable. you need to contact someone when they are the subject of the story to provide a response. >> in the half minute left, is there too much media focus on the things that trump said, get him out of here, and weste

>> when you look at the demographics of the state and the politics of the state, its like iowa. ted cruz did well in iowa, and there should be a lot of that here. ted cruz exceeds expectations. cruz is in california doing fundraising and then going to north dakota for the state convention, and coming back here for a push in wisconsin. donald trump is going to be here all week, and he sees it as his opportunity to start vanquishing ted cruz in this race. >> the tie votes are rare on the supreme court, but today's even split is magnified each more because of the vacancy left by the death of justice antonin scalia. the organized labor n. the case that threatened to cripple the union's ability to collect fees. aljazeera's lisa stark is joining me from washington d.c., and tell me more about this decision. >> this is the case of the california teacher's association and what's called fair share dues, and a teacher who doesn't want to join the union has to pay for the dues of the union, because they're going to benefit for the contract that's negotiated. a number of teachers sued becau

come this summer, all of a sudden, they went out and voted out in iowa when it's cold, all went out and voted and picked perhaps donald trump as the leading candidate. then they're told no, that's now how it works. it's sort of iran, where the moolahs get to have the final say. the democracy is a democracy. the second or third guy really wins because somehow a coalition and ganged up and said no, we're going to pick rubio or cruz. i don't think that's going to sell. i think trump will walk right out the door. >> i respectfully disagree, if i might interject. >> i'm not sure that's going to work or effective. you look at the stop trump organization. they haven't been active in a significant way. trump is steam rolling through the primaries. i talked to a lot of republican leaders. they're worried if they go too hard against trump, the white working class voters who are turning out in record numbers in the primary and caucuses, will they show up in november if they feel they've been wronged and their candidate was pushed aside at a convention. a lot of discussion at the highest levels of

going into iowa. every pundit says on every show trump was going to win. we won an overwhelming title wave landmark victory. [cheers and applause] then on super tuesday. super tuesday donald was supposed to sweep all over the country. we won a tremendous victory in oklahoma. we won a tremendous victory in alaska. [cheers and applause] and we won a landslide, historic turnout victory in my home state of texas. [cheers and applause] and then let's go to super saturday. super saturday was supposed to be a great day for donald trump. the pundits, those experts who say we don't have a path, they said donald was going to sweep all four states. he had a decisive lead everywhere. well, it's interesting. kansas, the day of the kansas caucuses, marco rubio had spent the whole day campaigning in kansas. that morning, donald and i were both at the same kansas caucus site. we spoke back to back to the same group of voters. all of the pundits had predicted donald was going to win kansas. not only did we win, but we won with a landslide nearly 50% of the vote in kansas.