. >> back with us, maria treecee kumar, josh barro and jonathan alter. i want to play one more piece of this, where he actually says he knows more about the iran deal than anybody. and listen to the audience reaction to that. >> i've studied this issue in great detail, i would say, actually, greater, by far, than anybody else. [ laughter ] believe me. oh, believe me. and it's a bad deal. >> maria terese, there he is in a room where 15,000 people know more about the iran deal than he does, and they actually laughed at him when he said that. >> right. well, i think the problem right now we're having is that we have a reality tv star as a front-runner for the republican party who has never been able to actually provide us with nuance policy prescription. you basically do that and juxtapose hillary clinton, who is not only able to talk about nuance, but also talk about the personal relationship she has with israel, with israeli leaders, and also is basically telling the jewish community, saying we actually have to tone down the temperature, because what this

. >> back with us, maria treecee kumar, josh barro and jonathan alter. i want to play one more piece of this, where he actually says he knows more about the iran deal than anybody. and listen to the audience reaction to that. >> i've studied this issue in great detail, i would say, actually, greater, by far, than anybody else. [ laughter ] believe me. oh, believe me. and it's a bad deal. >> maria terese, there he is in a room where 15,000 people know more about the iran deal than he does, and they actually laughed at him when he said that. >> right. well, i think the problem right now we're having is that we have a reality tv star as a front-runner for the republican party who has never been able to actually provide us with nuance policy prescription. you basically do that and juxtapose hillary clinton, who is not only able to talk about nuance, but also talk about the personal relationship she has with israel, with israeli leaders, and also is basically telling the jewish community, saying we actually have to tone down the temperature, because what this

back with me right now, msnbc contributor, josh barro joining me. also betty woodruff, politics reporter at "the daily beast." josh, as that has been happening and as we're waiting for that event to start, finishing in the last hour was governor john kasich in ohio making his plea, making his last case, if you will, for the all-important 159 delegates at stake. it's a winner take all there. it's his own state. he's the governor there. and as we listened to him last hour, it would seem that he had the texture, as i was describing before, a fabric, if you will, of a candidate that in me other cycle sounds like it would be right off of a movie script, if you can say that, because, you know, coming from an immigrant family, he lost both of his parents to a tragic accident, a blue-collar upbringing. he was speaking at a manufacturing plant, a plant that makes water pumps, josh, that basically run all of our sewage systems around the country. a state that has gone through many states of evolution, shall we say, when it comes to the move from manufacturing

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if he puts up a really solid margin like that, it will continue

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if he puts up

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points.

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. with us this morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if he puts up a really solid margin like that, it will continue the margins he had on super

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if he pu

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc c ws contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of thth 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as we when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be w wching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the have trump ahead anywhere from 12 to 20 points. if he puts up

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i think so. kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere fro

josh barro is a senior editor at "business insider" as well as an nbc news contributor. always good to have you both with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> as we look at what's happening today, we ran through at the top of the show the five states where voters will be making their voices heard today. trump won 7 of the 11 contests on super tuesday but traditionally has not done as well when it comes to a caucus versus a primary. there's only one primary today. is there a window here today for a marco rubio, a ted cruz, a john kasich somewhere? >> i thiso kansas is a state that should be demographically favorable for either marco rubio or for ted cruz. and as you note, auctions are more difficult to vote in, donald trump is more reliant on weekly attached voters, it's easier to get them out in primary. that said, polling shows trump ahead in kansas. what i'll be watching is, is trump able to win in kansas in a way he couldn't win in iowa, minnesota or oklahoma? and looking at louisiana, the one primary state, the polls have trump ahead anywhere from 12

josh barro is with "business insider" and "daily beast's" olivia nutzi. in this political story of the day, the trump/cruz showdown it feels unprecedented at this level, so how are we to judge the potential outcome? what is your sense of the winners and losers here? >> yeah, well, this certainly seems unprecedented. someone was asking, can this campaign get any stupider? and i'm sure the answer to that is yes. we've got like 32 weeks left. >> yeah. >> i don't know. i mean, this seems like it ought to be really embarrassing for donald trump. he's out there fanning completely unsubstantiated rumors. the state he put out where he said i don't know if the "national enquirer" story is true, but they were right about john edwards. that said, i think his strategy in part is to just get these ideas floating out there around ted cruz, regardless of whether they have any truth to them. i mean, this is a guy who spent years going around asking questions about the president's birth certificate and was he born in kenya. and i think as ted cruz tries to consolidate the

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and josh barro,r insight this morning. >>> meantime, police in los angeles are scouring a new piece of potential evidence today possibly connected to o.j. on friday, l.a. police revealed that a knife had been found buried on simpson's former property and was not turned over until recently. possibly be the murder weapon? nbc's steve patterson is outside o.j.'s former home with more on what police are saying about that knife. steve, good morning.y, craig, good morning to you. so, the officer who originally received that knife decided to leading a lot of people to ask, why? well, i spoke to his attorney, who said his client tried toing. >> o.j. simpson is inside the car. >> reporter: it's back, all the drama from the o.j. simpson >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> reporter: the case already back in pop culture. the new ten-part fx miniseriestting big ratings. >> we need to bring in johnnie cochran and we need to do it now. >> no. >> reporter: now once again, the story in real-life headlines. the latest chapter, the a knife found years ago on the land where simpson once lived. >> so

and josh barro, appreciate your insight this morning. >>> meantime, police in los angeles are scouring a new piece of potential evidence today possibly connected to o.j. simpson. on friday, l.a. police revealed that a knife had been found buried on simpson's former until recently. could it possibly be the murder weapon? nbc's steve patterson is outside o.j.'s former home with more on what police are saying about that knife. steve, good morning. >> reporter: hey, craig, good morning to you. so, the officer who originally received that knife decided to keep it for several years bef re turning it over to the lapd, leading a lot of people to ask, why? wengll, i spoke to his attorney, who said his client tried to do the right thing. >> o.j. simpson is inside the car. >> reporter: it's back, all the drama from the o.j. simpson saga. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> reporter: the case already back in pop culture. the new ten-part fx miniseries getting big ratings. >> we need to bring in johnnie cochran and we need to do it now. >> no. >> reporter: now once again, the story in real-li