marco rubio! [applause] sen. rubio: thank you. first of all, i can't tell you how honored i am to have the support of your governor, because there are a lot of good people, we have a good field of candidates. look, none of our candidates is a socialist. none of our candidates is under fbi investigation. but i am honored that she chose to join our team, because she embodies for me everything i want the republican party and the conservative movement to be about. everything it is about. i have enjoyed being here in south carolina over the last 10 days. we spent a lot of time here, my family, as tourists. we drive up every summer to washington. it's always about the halfway point of that drive. we always stop and spend time here and money here, too, and we love being here. i have learned a lot about south carolina. i learned quickly, do not pick sides between usc and clemson. i have learned that the citadel is the finest military college in the world. and we learned what an inspiration south carolina is. you had a tough year, between

marco rubio! [applause] sen. rubio: thank you. first of all, i can't tell you how honored i am to have the support of your governor, because there are a lot of good people, we have a good field of candidates. none of our candidates is a socialist. none of our candidates is under fbi investigation. choseam honored that she to join our team, because she embodies for me everything i want the republican party and the conservative movement to be about. everything it is about. i have enjoyed being here in south carolina over the last 10 days. we spent a lot of time here, my family, as tourist. everyve up every son -- summer to washington. we always stop and spend time too, and weey here, love being here. i have learned a lot about south carolina. i learned quickly, do not pick sides between usc and clemson. i have learned this at the finest military college in the world. the sifted dell is the finest military college in the world. and we learned what an inspiration south carolina is. -- had a tough year, the between floods and tragedies

rubio -- >> jut one? >> just one, i promise. >> i'm going to improve on that. >> the night is still young. >> i will say, i agree about one thing. a week ago, we were writing rubio off. that he had slipped on this banana peel, that he had been exposed, x-ray of his soul showing he was a hollow man and he was -- he fought his way back. and it was a beautiful sight to see this new face of the republican party in the south winning over big crowds, whatever happens tonight, the fact that rubio is not an after thought is a testament to his character. >> i just want to read one tweet, as this is now the new normal, election coverage. a tweet coming from one of the republican candidates, donald trump. it says, "people, paren sees" pundits, now looks like a possible win. i would be happy with a one vote victory, parentheses pope. that does seem to be, jeffrey lure, setting the bar a little low. he's a one-vote victory for donald trump when he has been ahead by double digits in the polls. >> he's probably watching

assuming you like rubio but let's say rubio can't get it. who would be a better republican nominee, trump or cruz? >> i'm not going to take that. i can't answer that question. i don't know. >> who's more qualified to be commander in chief? >> i can't answer that. marco rubio clearly. and not by a little bit but by a long shot. look, i've spent hundreds of hours with this guy working on national security issues, fighting with the administration, working with the administration to craft policy on national security issues, on foreign relations issues. the other two guys aren't even close to where rubio is. >> he's doing amazingly well. >> he is. >> if he gets the nomination, you'll support him, right? >> i have always voted for republicans, so i will vote for republicans from now probably until i die. >> so if it's trump versus hillary clinton, you would vote for -- >> i will vote for republicans. >> trump. it's hard for you to utter those words. >> well, look, this fight has a long ways to go. >> not necessarily. if he does really well, trump,

>> rubio does not, i didn't think rubio won. i thought john kasich won and he has experience to back it up. john kasich and donald trump have ever balanced the budget. >> talking about policy issues and trump did not look like he belonged on that stage. he had an answer for nothing. >> let me answer another way. talking about trump is because he's someone that accomplished something. maybe rubio was the best orator tonight but can he accomplish things? >> look, trump looks like he's steam rolling. >> what it is about rubio that he did so well? >> to attack trump. >> you're saying he was negative? >> trump did not respond to him. >> i thought it was more knowledgeable about the issues. >> megyn, i want to pull a clip. it's not the same order i want to go. this is the exchange trump had, it was the second one we're going to do in this segment, about donald trump talking about having a business because it's perfectly appropriate. let us pray. >> you're going to claim you're the only one that listed this into the campaign that you a

rubio doing the same thing. i don't know this is going to work, because the entire point of ted cruz's appeal to the base is that they trust him more, not less than other washington politicians, and generally, other politicians. so i think they're trying to piece through the armor and trying to attack his strength. he doesn't have a weakness, that's his strength. the only real way to get something through. as one republican strategist, ted cruz is teflon with a base. nothing seems to stick. they're both trying it. rubio is going for second place here. he can ride a momentum. >> i thought there was a reasonable chance after the debate and his collapse in new hampshire, he was going to crumble into a ball and not be able to rise in south carolina. what do you think in. >> i wouldn't give them too much credit. i think it took them a long time. it took them 48 hours, even more, to figure out how to respond from that -- to that disastrous debate performance. by the time he gave his concession speech, he has figured o

how well marco rubio did. we saw a little bit of a more into spective donald trump in this press conference today where he was sort of looking at how he did in iowa and saying, you know, maybe if he knew he had a shot at first place, he would have spent a little more time there, a little more money there, but that he is certainly not humiliated by that second-place finish. anderson? >> just before the rally, former senator scott brown endorsed trump, right? >> reporter: sorry, one more time? i couldn't quite hear you on that. >> scott brown endorsed trump? >> reporter: right. scott brown endorsed donald trump here. i think this is part of what donald trump has been talking about, sort of establishment republicans getting on his team, throwing their support behind him. trump has said he's been seeing this for weeks now. the question, i think, is if you continue to see more endorsements like this, now that we saw marco rubio's stronger than expected performance in iowa, that might give more of these establishmen

>> the clinton campaign is definitely afraid of rubio. >> they're all afraid of rubio, aren't they? rubio is a greased pig, you can't get your hands on the guy. >> the reason is, because for the obvious biographical details. he's young, attractive, hispanic senator. he could potentially bring the critical state of florida. >> he's obama reborn in terms of political talent. he can give a great speech on a dime. >> even though clinton -- >> he's very patriotic, too. i think a lot of people, everybody, finds that appealing. >> the question about rubio and the way he's different than obama is the hawkishness that he brings to the table is completely at odds with where obama was in 2008. so perhaps although the country is not at that part where we're talking -- >> i'm not sure they're aggressively hawkish into going into battle. they're hawkish how we treat prisoners of war. he said we get prisoners, we take them down to guantanamo and get the truth out of them. we have ways of making them talk. that's an old phrase. molly, thank you. you may be right, i may be wrong. i have to argue. sa

parko rubio. he is young, charismatic, stratteled both establishment and outsider lanes and talks about the future. he's a modern jfk to hillary clinton's richard nixon. >> what happens to the other guys at the bottom now? >> i think you'll see the herd get thinned out. >> when? >> next week. i think you lose all of the governors. >> the night of the new hampshire primary? >> yes. >> some will stick around but not that many. >> two men who often lead our political coverage will get the last word. stierwalt and kurtz i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara® your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may

i look at marco rubio, marco rubio told us to google donald trump, but i did one better. i googled him. and when i googled him, you know, he owes america and the gay community an apology. because it sounds like that he may have had a gay lifestyle in his past. >> what? >> he owes people an apology. >> no, lynnette. >> all you have to do is goog i will. >> lynnette. >> you'll see it. that's what is on google. you have to shall cautious when you tell people to google people. we don't know. so we'll say allegedly. he shouldn't have told people to google donald -- >> we did our own fact check, and we found donald trump did indeed hire workers from outside of the united states to work in his various hotels, in marco rubio -- mar-a-lago. >> he knows how create jobs, he hires people. that's who we need in our country. >> rochelle, donald trump says illegal immigrants, undocumented immigrants are taking americans jobs, but he is getting people from outside of the country and hiring them instead of americans. that doesn't bother you, rochelle. >> go ahead. whichever of you wants t

for the debate, i think marco rubio just needs to be marco rubio. you don't need to try to pretend to be somebody else. if you do pretend to be somebody else, you'll get called out on it. be the passionate conservative that talks from his heart and his soul and marco rubio will be doing just fine. >> do you believe he should start to go after donald trump to try to confront him more directly than he has? >> marco rubio's style is to be aspirational. i think he's got a very detailed plan. the most detailed plan i see out there in the field. if he gets hit, i think he'll hit back. i know in new hampshire to use a sports mess for, he threw a little bit of an intercept yoon. you can still go out and win the super bowl even though you throw an interception in the first quarter. he's going to be just fine. he talks from his heart, knows wlats what he believes. he's probably not going to throw the first punch but that second punch will be quite a punch to the gut, if he gets one. >> in terms of marco rubio has said that he is the most qualified in terms of

he did respond to some of marco rubio's attacks calling rubio "little rubio," "nasty," "lightweight," among other things. but this was the first time in the past couple of days that we have seen donald trump really on any way be on defense. for a good 10 or 15 minutes he had tho talk about trump university, one of the things that he's been sued over that rubio's been hitting him on and things like that. this was not the kind of trump that we saw a couple of weeks ago who was always an offense. >> we were certainly anticipating his speech because we had listened to senator marco rubio. he was in kennesaw, georgia, speaking to the crowd today. we saw him throwing punches like we haven't seen before. we were certainly anticipating donald trump coming out swinging. we saw a lot of the attacks against rubio coming from governor chris christie. governor chris christie hitting on rubio's record saying in total he's missed 68% of all committee meeting in the senate and he broke it down. he missed 60% of foreign relations committee hearings. >> it is a charge on rubio that's been going on for

one has bush below rubio in case it. -- rubio and kasich. if jeb bush finishes fifth, , i doedly bush country not see how jeb bush continues his campaign. if he finishes fifth here, there is nowhere you can imagine him winning. i cannot imagine the other way around. mark: i don't think rubio can raise any money if he finishes behind bush. i think it's possible bush could surprise people. but if you look at the public polling and the momentum rubio has, it's going to be hard for bush to survive. he will have to finish at least closer or probably ahead of him. john: i will throw in one more thing. we have this nbc wall street journal national poll that has bush in sixth place with just 4%. that is below cruz, trump, rubio, kasich, and ben carson nationally. that is how tough it is for jeb. if there's anything the candidates agree on, it is their opposition to president obama nominating a supreme court justice before nine months from now. ted cruz is using a tv ad in south carolina to make the case that of all the republicans running, he alone

who knows for rubio. the cruz cam can pain has big institutional forces in a lot of states and they will continue on to the super tuesday march 1st primary battle. >> worth pointing out. donald trump wins evangelical 32 to ted cruz's 27. and steve hays. a b stoodard columnist for the hill and danna pirio and cohost of the five juan williams. okay, juan, boy, you can't take away the night for donald trump. this is a significant across the board, win even though it was not as pig as predicted. it is significant. >> i don't think it is that big of a difference in the numbers. he performed. >> no real clear politics said 14. and the latest poll had him up 22 points. >> no, what you are seeing is the difference between cruz, pumping up and therefore getting closer, megan and i think rubio got closer. no one thought they were going to be there. and to my mind that's the way i take it and the question going back to what brett is saying. if you are going forward, what is the strategy? and so who has the strategy.

marco rubio is alleging that donald trump is a con artist. i want to give marco rubio his due. that was awesome what he just did in that presser. he has exposed donald trump for the character that he is, and he speaks for a lot of conservatives, republicans like me who don't want to see him take ahold of the republican party. he has already swept up a lot of the tea party movement, exposed them as frauds i think because they're not committed to the values that we thought they were committed to. he is touching on a lot of things that are very sensitive to us right now. and also, it's fun to watch. finally, we have broken out of the mold, we're doing these talking points and don't connect with people. i think rubio was lose. he was effective. and he got a lot of laughing. so this needs to keep going. there is really a lot to this con artist idea, he is a deal maker, and you can't trust him. >> can i just say -- >> stand by. i do need to say, we're going to hear from donald trump. donald trump is holding a news conference. donald trump says he is about to make a big announcement.

john: sahil, talk about rubio. he is having the best week of any republican after horrible weekend right before the new hampshire primary. he has managed to turn it around, apparently. sahil: the nikki haley endorsement probably helps them. he is pulling very close to cruz. donald trump is running away with it, 19 points. no clear vulnerabilities and weaknesses. what rubio is trying to do, is tearing them down. trump is throwing a volley at cruz, calling him a liar liar liar. rubio is doing the same thing. i don't know if this is going to work. the entire point of ted cruz's appeal is that they trust him more, not less than other washington politicians. and generally other politicians. they are trying to pierce his armor and attack his strengths. it is a karl rove strategy. as one strategists said to me, cruz is teflon with the base. nothing seems to stick. this is something they are most trying. , if he can getio second place, he can rattle that momentum to nevada. john: did you expect marco rubio to be this resil

i'm leaning towards rubio. we need a young person that has young ideas, get rid of some of those phonies in wark and put in some new faces. all they do is take money and dislike social security. we don't even get a raise. they make $144,000 a year. get a million dollars for travel. while the social security people, they struggle to make ends meet. so you young people, you need to wise up, study your history. thank you. host: mckean, pennsylvania, also an independent there. steven. welcome. caller: hey, thank you very much. trump said it first. everybody else was the politician normal stuff that you hear that just brain-numbs your mind. you have no idea what they're talking about. we'll do this, we'll do that. trump said it first. in call cases they're responding to trump. and i'm a vietnam veteran and haven't voted for over 10 years cause i have been so, so, so angry, angry. you've got to address the issue. trump is addressing the issue. trump is addressing the issue. host: looking for comments on twitter too a

rubio. let's listen to this. ♪ >> thank you! thank you very much. thank you! thank you! thank you. >> marco, marco, marco! >> thank you. first of all, i want to begin by -- i want to begin by congratulating donald trump. we haven't had a changes to speak yet. he won here tonight. but after this tonight, this has become a three-person race, and we will win the nomination! i also a few moments ago got to see on television -- have not had a chance to speak to him yet, governor bush and his announcement. i have an incredible affection and admiration not just for governor bush, but for his family and for their service to our country. jeb bush has many things to be proud of. he is an extraordinary husband, he's an extraordinary father, he was the greatest governor in the history of florida. and i believe, and i pray that his service to our country has not yet ended. and i thank jeb bush for everything he did for the state of florida and for running a campaign based on ideas, and i pray for him a

he backed rubio. this is where it hasn't happened for rubio. king to come out for the guy. >> not the kind of ruthless leadership here. harry reid rules the democratic party with an iron fist. sandoval is not that kind of guy. he doesn't want to get down into the muck with the party stuff. tonight he goes and finally he caucuses for marco rubio. and then says, but this isn't an endorsement. that makes absolutely no sense sense of course. he doesn't want to get into it. you have this party here. you saw what the electorate was like from the entrance polls. it's like 83% very conservative or somewhat conservative. >> check that across the country. the unwillingness of the party establishment like you -- you're establishment -- to really get in there in the down and dirty with trump. the top guys, the governors for example, won't come out and say this guy must not be the nominee. they simply go out and quietly nebishly vote. but they don't say no way to this guy. >> sandoval wouldn't do that. he's not that kind of guy. he wants to sit up there act

>> rubio does not, i didn't think rubio won. i thought john kasich won and he has experience to back it up. john kasich and donald trump have ever balanced the budget. >> talking about policy issues and trump did not look like he belonged on that stage. he had an answer for nothing. >> let me answer another way. talking about trump is because he's someone that accomplished something. maybe rubio was the best orator tonight but can he accomplish things? >> look, trump looks like he's steam rolling. >> what it is about rubio that he did so well? >> to attack trump. >> you're saying he was negative? >> trump did not respond to him. >> i thought it was more knowledgeable about the issues. >> megyn, i want to pull a clip. it's not the same order i want to go. this is the exchange trump had, it was the second one we're going to do in this segment, about donald trump talking about having a business because it's perfectly appropriate. let us pray. >> you're going to claim you're the only one that listed this into the campaign that you a

rubio came in second. it was basically tie with cruz 22% each. >> in democratic caucuss in nevada hel hill with 53%. bernie sanders 47%. and hillary clinton 53%. we start with republicans in his victory speech donald trump thanked supporters and emphasized his now famous cam pain slogan. >> but, the people are so incredible that i have been saying make america great again and it's going to be greater than ever before. that's the kind of potential we have. greater than ever before. so, so, i want to thank everybody i love you all south carolina we you. >> with this victory in south carolina the question now is can anyone or anything stop donald trump? listen, if you win new hampshire and you win south carolina, history shows you win the gop nomination. will it happen. >> history has never seen anything quite like this right. i thought about this for sure and he deserves credit and with how many people are still in the race it's hard to say that it is a definite. it certainly is looking like i it. >> it's ru

so is marco rubio. marco rubio is from a different generation, from a different upbringing than jeb bush. he was raised in the streets of las vegas and the streets of west miami, florida. i can tell you that's not a place where you play nice the entire time. i think marco showed last night that he is very capable of handling a punch. very capable of getting under donald trump's skin. i will tell that you donald trump is very savvy. when the narrative was nothing but rubio won the debate. rubio got under donald trump's skin today, donald trump turned it around and threw out the chris christie endorsement and turned around the entire media narrative for the rest of the day. the guy knows how to play the media. he knows how to play the game. i think in marco he will find a. more even match for this back and forth. it is a little sad, i must also say, to see the gop primary deteriorate into a contest where we are talking about sweating, choking, hig and wetting your pants. >> pretty amazing, i must say. rub

the problem is if rubio's fighting, then rubio is not being rubio. it is like going to an eagles concert and they refuse to play "hotel california." what rubio does is the eloquent rhetoric. he did not get to that. >> it did he establish it as a two-man race? trump stayed away from the personal invective he likes and talked about the best guy for the job. is a two-man race enough? >> i think in the eyes of the donors for rubio, it looked like a two hi-man race. i think ted cruz did fine. for the performance he needed, he did well. >> he was teaming up. maeve reston is to young to know the malachi crunch. >> they didn't crunch him. >> they tried. they tried. maeve was right. donald trump wasn't taken down last night. >> he wasn't taken down. we will have to see what happens with the headlines today and what others think of it. ted cruz, i don't think he had a great night. i don't think he had a terrible night. to maeve's point. if you are a dondeedoner and yo to put your money behind. >> the best you can hope for is fight to a draw. if you can fight h

rubio? >> there's a sense among many of his prifls his support in new hampshire is soft. they have ground organizations that can inch up their number in the final days. and they think, as much as they're going to take on rubio, trump is a target as well. >> david, who do you see as being the center of the action tonight? >> i think you feel the level of desperation rising. it is like a circular firing squad. like a quenin tarantino movie. everybody is pointing a gun at somebody else, not sure who is pointing it at them. and i saw chris christie this afternoon at a town hall meeting. and boy, did he try to rip the hide off rubio. i thought it was his pre game addition for what would happen tonight. the interesting thing is whether trump will stand back and let everybody else doing that. we saw ted cruz and rubio doing that. they're inching up into that 9%, 10% range. only one of them can get that reasonable suburban vote. so will either one of them try to make at least a strong sharp comparis

marco rubio. marco rubio. rand paul. marco rubio. marco rubio. marco rubio. marco rubio. governor christie. jeb bush. marco rubio. rand paul. marco rubio. marco rubio. marco rubio. rubio. marco rubio. donald trump. chris christie. rand paul. rubio. >> we hesitate to jump in here like golf announcers. let's state the obvious. something as basic and organic as folded pieces of paper in an organic u.s. mail paper while everyone who has watched a device is watching it being tallied up. it's from here that the voters in iowa, those who cared enough to go out and caucus can send a message that's heard not just around the political country but around the world. let's given where we stand given the fact this is very early on tonight. this is the republican side. again, pay attention to the percentage of the vote in. as you saw, republicans do one person, one vote. it's raw vote. having said that with 5% reporting, it's a cruz, trump, rubio race. those are the top three in a crowded republican field. to the democrats. again, our terminology is important. we have gone from too earl

ted cruz and marco rubio. rubio with a slight lead. what we are told is to them, not all that surprising. marco rubio spent a lot of time in this district and joked he was running for mayor. that looks like it might pay off. these are unofficial and not indicative of how it will go. very tight between marco rubio. jake. >> we have about half the vote in where marco rubio was taking a lead in that precinct. it looks as though he will come in third this evening. marco rubio having a strong showing. he just edged ahead of ben carson in the polls at the end of does. he is going to have a good night there. he has a 19% with about 28% of the vote in. let's go to greenfield, iowa. jim is at another republican caucus. this is one where i believe donald trump has taken the lead. what's going on in greenfield? >> as we are standing here, they are announcing the final results of this precinct. there five precincts in this high school here. we are giving a snapshot. 28% to donald trump. 26% to rubio and him coming in second and ted cruz at 21%. we

the debate stage marco rubio the real marco rubio? >> i think the marco we saw last night, the young dynamic energetic candidate that many people have been waiting to see for a long time. he took the fight to trump which he prosecuted him not just on his flip-flops on policy but his business record as a con man. someone who claims to be for work americans but built his empire on the backs of people who weren't here legally, on projects that resulted in bankruptcies. that is the effective line of attack. he's narrowed at least in the press today this to a two-person race which is what his campaign wants heading into super tuesday. >> alex, when you look at all of this, and you look at all the back and forth and the fact that ben carson and john kasich have not been mentioned once all day. no one is talking to them. there's a lot of talk about some people having to get out of this race, to narrow it down, either before super tuesday or the day after. what do you foresee happening? >> it all goes to the point you made about cruz having b

rubio: thank you father, i appreciate it. >> nice to meet you. sen. rubio: likewise. thank you for being here. [indiscernible chatting] sen. rubio: good to see you, thanks for being here. thank you. it? >> my son and daughter gave their lives to this country. i'm supporting you. john stevens knows who i am. sen. rubio: thank you for being here. thank you for being here. sen. rubio: thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. stay energized. sen. rubio: good to see you, nice to meet you. >> thank you, senator, good luck. >> he taught me everything i know and i'm going to vote for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you for coming. thank you so much for being here. thanks a lot. thank you so much. i appreciate you coming. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. nice to meet you. thank you so much. >> good luck to you. >> my daughter is knocking on doors for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. [indiscernible chatting] sen. rubio: i need your help up th

rubio. i do think that rubio does have a chance. he has to collect the bush vote, the kasich vote, he's got to put that together with his own vote. he has to hope that trump will knock off cruz and it will be enough votes left. i thought lawrence put it very well, that so far trump is a minority candidate with a very low ceiling. the ceiling maybe is 35%, 38%, something like that. i don't think it's well over 40%. so by that arithmetic, whoever comes out as the other republican candidate at the end of this whole fight, whether it's at the convention or the later primaries, in the big states, i think it's going to be rubio. the reason i talk rubio up much, i think he can win a general election. i don't know if trump can. >> the problem for the democrats is, people don't look at steve's green state and see it as a 35% state. they see it as a sweep for donald trump. >> especially if he wins all the delegates for winning and then he wins all the delegates from all seven congressional districts around that state. that is just a commandin

it's rubio! >> reporter: now trump did answer one of rubio's attacks from last night just a few moments ago insisting he did not get $200 million from his father. trump said it was $1 million and he paid it back, anderson. >> jim, the christie endorsement today, it certainly seems like a win-win for trump and christie himself. >> reporter: absolutely. that's right. there's sort of the straight talk duo right now. perhaps a preview of a presidential/vice presidential ticket later on. chris christie just introduced trump in oklahoma city saying rubio -- saying to rubio, your campaign is almost over, buddy. and you are right. just last month, christie warned voters in new hampshire if trump is the nominee, hillary clinton will win in november. so chris christie has had tough things to say about donald trump, but that's all in the past. we should point out this endorsement was quite a secret this week. trump and christie aides say the endorsement was worked out yesterday at trump tower in manhattan.

. -- marco rubio. the audio us not clear but there are subtitles and they quote rubio has telling somebody he won't find any answers in the holy book. rubio aides said he actually said all the answerser in the bible. enough the cruz staffer is apologizing. >> i posted in haste. i should not have done it. it's apologized to marco rubio and the campaign, and posted that on my facebook and shared it on twitter and i'm saying it here. it was a mistake and i would not knowingly post something i knew to be false. >> but you can't put toothpaste back in tube. today marco rubio blast the cruz campaign and said he was actually praising the bike. >> talk about the va, where people who aren't doing their job need to be fired. who is going to be fired when ted cruz is president in this campaign now has repeatedly done things they have to apologize for. >> rubio is talking aboutkÑmo"p, and without jeb bush to beat up, donald trump is now targeting marco rubio. trump retweeted a supporter who questions rubio's citi

to work for rubio right now. it's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out in these, on march 1st and through march 15th. >> will there be a lot of pressure on kasich to get out? >> i think there will be and i'm not sure it will be effective directly getting him out but there is indirect research. we can see it in nevada. if you're john kasich and you say i'm going to focus on michigan and make an attempt in georgia but wait until the 8th of march, when i do something in michigan and 15th of march, you may self select out of the case. i would be surprised tonight if those two men together john kasich and ben carson equal 8% of the vote tonight. there is a selection process. i want to pick up something joe said. joe is right. there is dynamics in the caucus. take a look at the iowa caucus. iowa caucus is won by berpy sanders over hillary clinton. why? because he represents the insurgent strain. this is a caucus much smaller turn out, things like an active group of angry people can dominate an angry a

support to rubio, if john kasich was out and threw his support to rubio. how much pressure is there for john kasich to throw his support to rubio? >> well, they put pressure, but it's not going to happen. look, these are front ended to be in deep red states. except for new hampshire where john kasich was second. iowa caucus, south carolina, conservative stayed, nevada's caucus. you go to super tuesday, mostly southern, but you do have vermont and massachusetts in there. we need to get to the states where we're going to perform well. illinois, michigan, ohio, just because it's front ended in a map, it's not good for us doesn't mean you should pull out. we've only had four states in at this point. and i think we deserve a shot at the pie. >> let's listen to what ted cruz said today about donald trump and why he doesn't believe donald trump's going to be president. what that means for this campaign. let's listen to this. >> i believe that donald trump will not be our nominee. but the only way to beat him is for conservatives to unite behind our campaign. if o

parko rubio. he is young, charismatic, stratteled both establishment and outsider lanes and talks about the future. he's a modern jfk to hillary clinton's richard nixon. >> what happens to the other guys at the bottom now? >> i think you'll see the herd get thinned out. >> when? >> next week. i think you lose all of the governors. >> the night of the new hampshire primary? >> yes. >> some will stick around but not that many. >> two men who often lead our political coverage will get the last word. stierwalt and kurtz are next on the road to new hampshire. terror here at home. it's time for a tested and proven leader who won't try to contain isis. jeb bush has a plan... to destroy them. and keep america safe. jeb bush: the united states should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out isis with overwhelming force. announcer: tested and proven leadership matters. jeb bush. right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. with heart failure, danger is always on the rise. tes

. >> if it's trump 34, rubio 18, bush 13, can rubio call that a win? >> rubio will call that a win. >> can he be believed at that point? >> the press is primed to believe him. >> he has laid down a marker, which is his so-called third, second, first strategy. third in iowa, second in new hampshire, first someplace else. he hasn't figured out where yet. if he finishes second, he can say hey, i'm right on schedule and he has a ticket out of new hampshire. >> the concern is do too many tickets get issued by new hampshire? rubio wants a clear shot, basically can i beat donald trump in new hampshire and marginalize him and get a clear shot at krusz, versus like if bush does okay, if even christie does okay and they all say i'm sticking around for more, that's advantage trump. >> it's also potentially advantage for one of those other governors, getting the lane that rubio wants. some is going to depend on what the margin is. if rubio is ahead of the governors by seven or eight points, it's good for me. >> i think he needs clear separation. e.j., what do you

ted cruz slightly ahead of marco rubio, 22.1%. to 21% for rubio. jeb bush is in fourth place right now, slightly ahead of john kasich, 8.5% to 8% for john kasich. dr. ben carson in sixth place, 6.5%. but it's a third of the vote, that's a significant number right now. you see this battle for second place between cruz and rubio. they have been going back and forth. let's go over to john king. john, significant numbers right now. we know trump is the big winner. it's interesting who is going to wind up in second place. >> let's focus on the winner for a secretary. the dark red is donald trump, winning along the coast military bases, retirees, moderate republicans. he's winning across the state and up here in the evangelical heartland of south carolina. essentially, donald trump is winning everywhere. as we saw in new hampshire, across the board now. where is this red? the center part of the state, richland county, columbia, the state capitol, rubio ahead 28 to 23%. ted cruz third place there. this is a mainstream establishment area. lube oleading rig

rubio: thank you father, i appreciate it. >> nice to meet you. sen. rubio: likewise. thank you for being here. [indiscernible chatting] sen. rubio: good to see you, thanks for being here. thank you. it? >> my son and daughter gave their lives to this country. i'm supporting you. john stevens knows who i am. sen. rubio: thank you for being here. thank you for being here. >> that's a lot of notes. sen. rubio: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much. stay energized. sen. rubio: good to see you, nice to meet you. >> thank you, senator, good luck. >> he taught me everything i know and i'm going to vote for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you for coming. thank you so much for being here. thanks a lot. thank you so much. i appreciate you coming. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you, good luck. sen. rubio: thank you so much. nice to meet you. thank you so much. >> good luck to you. >> my daughter is knocking on doors for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. [in

marco rubio at 23%. donald trump predicted was going to win the iowa caucuses, look at that, 99% of the vote in. ted cruz at 28%. marco rubio nipping at his heels at 23%. a very strong showing for rubio. and a very strong showing for ted cruz. >> absolutely and you know, the expectations game is so true, but especially for someone like donald trump, who's all about winning. and he even said he put his heart on his sleeve in the past couple days saying. i really need to win here, i want to win here. he was kind of joking about the fact he was only five points up in the latest poll. this is a new phenomenon for somebody like donald trump. the character that is donald trump to not be able to say i'm a winner. i wonder how much of a psychological effect that's going to have on him. >> i want to correct something i said before. above him on the top right. you raise an excellent point. one of the stars of the election so far has been donald trump. he's so good at branding himself as a winner, who will make ame

rubio: thank you father, i appreciate it. >> nice to meet you. sen. rubio: likewise. thank you for being here. [indiscernible chatting] sen. rubio: good to see you, thanks for being here. thank you. it? >> my son and daughter gave their lives to this country. i'm supporting you. john stevens knows who i am. sen. rubio: thank you for being here. thank you for being here. >> that's a lot of notes. sen. rubio: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much. stay energized. sen. rubio: good to see you, nice to meet you. >> thank you, senator, good luck. >> he taught me everything i know and i'm going to vote for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you so much. sen. rubio: thank you for coming. thank you so much for being here. thanks a lot. thank you so much. i appreciate you coming. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you, good luck. sen. rubio: thank you so much. nice to meet you. thank you so much. >> good luck to you. >> my daughter is knocking on doors for you. sen. rubio: thank you so much. [in

. >> i'm moving towards rubio. i am very impressed with senator rubio and the understanding when he speaks that he's giving americans the importance of this election. >> joining us now, frank luntz, who is ceo of luntz global and author of "what americans really want, really." frank, the focus group gets it, predicting a surge in marco rubio's momentum and that's what we saw last night. >> yeah, and in fact, megyn, i apologize for this, but this is what iowa has left me. the other thing that we saw was the organization. that's where ted cruz had the advantage. donald trump had significant support. but if you were supporting ted cruz, you came out and voted. let's see how that works for new hampshire. i believe that donald trump's lead is so significant that no matter what happens in the debate on saturday, trump will still be the winner. the battle is for second place. marco rubio is in perfect position, because new hampshire voters are economic voters, whereas iowa voters were social voters. ted cruz is going to h

i'll say marco rubio. why not? >> got to be someone in the political class from a swing state. >> it won't be any of those things because he hasn't done anything in the playbook so far. i think he's one candidate i don't want to run against because there is no playbook for donald trump. everybody else, they're conventional candidates. >> he has evolved. i watched him grow. he has absolutely grown. he's a smart man. anyway, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back. feel a cold sore coming on? only abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. it penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells.. don't tough it out, knock it out, fast. abreva. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my anc

co-chair of marco rubio's campaign. wall is a senior vice president for government affairs, that's lobbying at goldman sachs. the firm's most recent disclosure forms show they spent $742,000 in the last quarter of 2014 lobbying congress on issues specifically including dodd frank which joe frank did every quarter since the law was signed five years ago. then there's rubio's national finance chairman, wayne berman, senior executive for the blackstone group, who paid millions in fines. blackstone ceo 7 schwartzman, blackstone has two lobbyists working for them, both, on the forms where they disclose their lobbying activity, blackstone's two lobbying firms don't say anything more specific than financial services. even though those same lobbying firms do disclose specifics including dodd frank on forms disclosing work they do for other clients and blackstone used to have lobbyists who disclosed those specifics. just last year, go other lobbying firms disclosed lobbying congress for blackstone against dodd frank specifically

beat rubio a second time. christie beat rubio a second time. >> first of all, let me agree with chris entirely. he could never be too cynical in this business, but even i who spent time was shocked by this. i don't think it's that big a deal. frankly, chris christie was very popular in the party as we saw before. secondly, you know, trump now has kind of a little bit of a mixed message. on one hand, non-politician, on the other hand, he has flipped things around. it is a half day story, maybe. >> symbolically, endorsement is over rated, except you can have timing of it, can matter. the timing of it couldn't have been better for trump or worst for rubio. >> so trump's timing is also good. >> the fifth stage of grief, acceptance, doesn't this open the door. >> a lot of nonacceptance still happening. >> i hear you. >> when i saw it, and this goes to jennifer's point about backlash, but i don't think that will happen. i think donald trump is close to nominee. at the same time, the thing that occurred to me most is

my biggest surprise was rubio. rubio only won five counties but they were the five most populus counties. in return donald trump beat him by less than 1,000 votes and won 45 counties. when you are smart and organize in the right way in iowa you can have the results like bernie sanders had and marco rubio. >> something else that counted in iowa, the evangelicals and which candidate won on that front. this according to the fox news entrance polls white evangeli l evangelicals cruz winning 33 percent rubio and trump tied with 21 percent. carson some surprised this only at 12 percent. >> i think what we saw is some of the carson evangelicals move to cruz. i think there's a real sgliegs when you know your guy is not going to make it you want to have an impact when you see something else happening at the top. where he saw people pull away from dr. carson to to ted cruz. it was a sign ted cruz had a lot of millennials. rand paul. i think rand paul voters and dr. carson voters are ted cruz's voters. that's why we will see

what rubio did to trump is what christie did to rubio. it hurt rubio, but it didn't help christie, and this may not help rubio nearly as much as it kind of cut into trump. >> that's interesting, for texas. how about nationally? ross, when you look at this nationally speaking. is it a big deal? we talk about chris christie. could he be the first of others to step in and say, donald trump is going to be our guy, we might as well own it, we might as well back him. >> you're in a funnel and you're eventually going to get down to two. the race now in some ways is between cruz and rubio. which one of you is going to be the non-trump candidate? at the moment it looks like rubio. he's doing better in more of the states -- >> based on last night. >> well, based on last night and he seems to be doing better in most of the states on march 1st. today is the last day of the voting here in texas. he might change some minds. >> he's got lots of voters in texas who are lining up today and havaç been the last couple weeks. >> the last day of early voting

so i think tonight rubio -- that's rubio's window. if rubio can kick that door down and hammer trump on that. we'll see, maybe he will change the paradigm for himself. charles: let's bring in tammy. nothing has stuck. if my mind if you are going for the gusto. rubio opened this up. he sent this email out to all the reporters and it's starting to leak in. >> when donald trump skipped that debate he lost iowa. if he's perceived as mock or ridiculing the voter by being hypocritical or by thinking first of himself and not presenting things truthfully, because he's supposed to be telling it like it is. if it can be shown he doesn't, that's the kind of thing that's inspiring people. that could have an impact. but i do think rubio has to go after trump because the new florida poll where he's so far behind. if you can be president of the united states, both rubio and cruz have got to show they can deal with mr. trump. if they can't, they don't deserve of to be in the white house. charles: what about ted cruz? i think he's wasting a lot of tim

trump, cruz, rubio. the other candidates as we are saying are well behind the top three and to round out the top three, gabe gutierrez covering the rubio campaign effort also in columbia. >> reporter: hey there, brian. the rubio campaign says they're very excited. they've been trying to bounce back from the devastating fifth-place finish in new hampshire, now they're hoping for a strong finish here. one campaign aide telling me that the finish in the top tier here would be a huge comeback. now the rubio campaign secured several major endorsements in this state including senator tim scott and perhaps most importantly governor nikki haley. together, they campaigned throughout the state over the last few days as the new faces of conservatism. now, the rubio campaign hopes as more republican candidates drop out that the gop will coalesce around one candidate, they hope it's marco rubio, to take on donald trump. now, the big question right now is where rubio will finish in relation to ted cruz and donald trum

so you've got marco rubio, 24.1%, ted cruz, 23.5%, 6,000 votes for marco rubio, 5,800 ted cruz. look at this dominance of donald trump, 42.4%. donald trump has sent out a tweet that said thank you nevada. trump touted his entrance poll numbers listing all the groups he won including latino voters. jim acosta has more from vegas. >> reporter: despite trump's attacks on marco rubio and ted cruz he barely mentioned them here. he says he will grow stronger as other candidates drop out. he touted his support among hispanic voters. >> we won the evangelicals, we won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated and we won with poorly educated. i love the poorly educated. we're the smartest people, we're the most loyal people and you know what i really am happy about it because i've been saying it for a long time, 46% with the hispanics, 46%, number one with hispanics. >> reporter: next trump will focus on the super tuesday states that will have their say next week. his next stops virginia, texas, georgia and arkansas. he's posting a big presence in all of those states. cnn