ben carson's wife. we heard she made up to the caucus site to make the case people should caucus for her husband and instead of being able to make her pitch she had to spend her allotted time to convince everybody that ben carson was still in the race, that he doesn't dropping out because they'd been told he was dropping out. ben carson convened reporters at the national press club to go off on ted cruz about this but he did so in his own quiet ben carson way. >> it's obvious there were people in his organization not only knew about it but who carried it out, who executed it. so, you know, we have to look at the obvious things that are going on. >> dr. carson, do you think it obviously affected the result, your result in iowa? what you're describing? >> i think it did, yes. i was getting a lot of intelligence from a lot of different places saying that i was going to do extraordinarily well, and i do think it affected that. there was one instance where my wife went to a caucus and my representative had a

on ben carson and vote for ted cruz. he's taking a leave of absence from this campaign. thank you. bye. >> this is going to be an entry in the textbook where they teach bad kids with good grades the dark art of political dirty tricks. this is nasty. this is a nasty dirty trick from ted cruz. he got caught. because he's ted cruz, he doesn't have a friend in the world in republican political circles so nobody is giving him a hand up or excuse. he's got caught. the question is, is this going to go down in history as sort of just dirty tricks as usual? there does seem to be a legitimate enmouse toward ted cruz on some other issues as well from the people he's running against. particularly on this, on this thing he did with telling his supporters that ben carson was out of race, wow do republicans seem mad at him about this. what is the best context for understanding whether this something like this really coul like this could hurt ted cruz or whether it will be seen as politics as usual? >> i know who to ask that question an

the ben carson campaign laid off 50 people t. carley fiorina campaign, what i can tell you is they have a really cute carley red rv, which i saw today in the flesh. i saw nit manchester, new hampshire. that's the picture i took with my phone. that's a sign she is still running. she at least has an rv. she is now definitively will be excluded from the next republican debate. she will not be at the kids' table for the debate because there is no kids' table this time. it will be seven republican candidates on stage and those seven will not include her. so that does not bode well for her in this race. the race has shrunk already on the republican side this week. they seem poised to shrink again very soon. now on the democratic side, these are getting super unpredictable. you know what tracking polls are? they are a different kind of poll altogether. tracking polls, what they do is they fool a group of people with a similar makeup of every single day. they keep polk them to see how their views change over time, day-by-day. so 7 news i

doctor ben carson says dirty tricks swayed caucus goers not to vote for him. congressman steve king sent out this tweet... "carson looks like he is out. iowans need to know before they vote. most will go to cruz, i hope." king says the tweet references a c-n-n report saying carson would take a break following the caucuses. candidates usually go straight to new hampshire...which holds it primary a week after iowa's caucuses. carson's campaign manager tried to knock down the rumors on caucus night...as voting was jason wisneski says he witnessed the spreading rumors first hand at an altoona precinct. i made the case for ben carson and then i sat down and then the cruz speaker went up and ended his speech with saying that ben carson was dropping out of the race and that they shouldnt waste their vote on him, they should vote for cruz instead.' congressman king has since tweeted, "i respect ben carson and regret any miscommunications." ted cruz's campaign has also apologized for spreading false information about ben carson. some of iowa's blood centers think that

ben carson: absolutely. >> good luck. this? i get you to sign dr. ben carson: absolutely. i am going to have to use one of these. >> your wife signed that one. can i get a picture? dr. ben carson: yes. hi, how are you. absolutely. >> it just knocking on some doors. dr. ben carson: i appreciated. thank you. all right. ok. >> we have to shake cancer. >> how are you? dr. ben carson: nice to meet you. >> i totally think that anybody who does -- chatter] t >> i cleared my schedule for this. [indiscernible] carson: thank you. [indistinct chatter] >> it will make my day. >> thank you very much. [laughter] chatter] t [indistinct chatter] announcer: on the next washington journal, a correspondent has the latest from new hampshire as the new hampshire primary approaches. at saint anselm college, we recap saturday night's republican debate. speaker of the house talks about why she is supporting hillary clinton for president. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation. that i sawhe things throughout this entire timeline was that most of the founding fathers a

ben carson accusing the cruz campaign of playing dirty tricks. >> ben carson slammed the cruz campaign. spreading rumors that carson was dropping out. >> this is my favorite story of the week this. is crazy. on the day of the caucus in the middle of voting ben carson can decided to leave washington. ted cruz and his minions took it upon themselves to tell people carson was dropping out and they should vote for cruz. the problem was carson was not dropping out. he was doing this. >> the cnn report said carson was taking time off the trail. he was going home to get fresh clothes. [laughing] >> trevor: you know, we are going to get to ted cruz being a dick. for a second, can we acknowledge hour weird this is. the biggest night of the campaign, and ben carson decides to fly half way across the country to get fresh clothes. [laughing] >> trevor: i have so many questions. does the midwest not have laundromats. can you not get fresh clothes in washington. is this something that ben carson does all the time. he's in the middle of surplg ry hand me -- oh, sorry. i have a little blood on my clot

ben carson: absolutely. >> good luck. this? i get you to sign dr. ben carson: absolutely. i am going to have to use one of these. >> your wife signed that one. can i get a picture? dr. ben carson: yes. hi, how are you. absolutely. >> it just knocking on some doors. dr. ben carson: i appreciated. thank you. all right. ok. >> we have to shake cancer. >> how are you? dr. ben carson: nice to meet you. >> i totally think that anybody who does -- chatter] t >> i cleared my schedule for this. [indiscernible] carson: thank you. [indistinct chatter] >> it will make my day. >> thank you very much. [laughter] chatter] t [indistinct chatter] now a look at some of the campaign ads. >> it takes a lot of courage to run for president especially if you're a nonpolitician, which i am proud to say i am a nonpolitician. but the journey has been an interesting one and fascinating. i have met so many great people. so many people that want to be a part of government and want to do such wonderful things for our country. america has been great to me. i want to be great to america. i want to do som

he said that ben carson who is a fantastic guy dropped out of the race during the caucus. they should probably throw him out of iowa because i don't think that he did is disgrace. it is a disgrace to the electoral process. >> i wake up and laugh each day a latest thing that donald has tweeted because he is losing it. weerlyable to wake up and if he were president would have nuked denmark. >> last night in the abc debate he was booed by donors while mixing it up with jeb public and chris christie taunting marco rubio. >> how tough is it --. >> a last times --. >> taking property from an elderly woman? >> quiet. >> boo. boo. boo. >> that is all the door knows and special interests out there. >> this negligence that barack obama doesn't know what he is doing is not true. >> there it is. the memorized 25 second speech. >> this it is, everyone. >> gyp us in manchester is tucker karl long, and co-host of fox and friends weekend, and a.b. stoddard, and polly -- molly ball. >> i look at the pundits and two headlines "rubio chokes," and "rubio crashed and buns." he had tough exchan

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carson, an angry ben carson. >> this is ben carson angry, this is ben carson happy. >> i feel like i should requested the words "on the inside." but from cruz's standpoint, look, he got the big win. he got his dream in iowa. he won it out there. has this affected him, do you think, on the republican side? do you think republicans are looking at this and saying this is a dirty trick or do you think they're looking and saying hey, fair's fair, it's overblown, it's not a big deal. >> i think if ben carson could really hammer that argument home, it would be really effective. as you just said, we're watching this interview and ben carson is still pretty even keeled even if he's very angry maybe on the inside about it. what i would be looking for tonight in the debate is whether he makes a big issue out of it when most americans are watching. i'm not sure how many americans are following this tit for tat over something that happened in iowa and so many of us are focused on what's about to happen here in new hampshire in this primary. >> so rubio, look, the targets on rubio's back everybody

ben carson not leaving the race. a lot of ted cruz races say, he's got to get out, because they think ben carson is pulling directly from him. >> i can see why they think is that, and more importantly, they have to convince ben carson of that if they have any hope for him leaving the race for that reason. there is going to be a certain momentum that is going to be lead toward -- when we talk about the delegate counts after super tuesday and get through 12 additional states and the thresholds come in, and if you come in without 20%, you get nothing, and so at some point that logic may nudge him towards the exits. i don't believe that he ever thought that he was, as somebody who used to be the frontrunner and very popular with the evangelicals, dr. cashson would say ted cruz took voepts from me, not the other way around. >> and louis, when you are weighing n is that are reality? is it still conventional wisdom that ben carson is pulling votes from ted cruz? >> yeah, i think it is, although, they have been fu fugting --

ben carson. >> ben carson is going to go back to florida to his home. regardless of how he does tonight here in iowa, going there for several days and then afterwards he's not going to go to south carolina, not going to go to new hampshire, he's coming to washington, d.c. >> very unusual. >> very unusual. >> to be announcing that you're going home to rest for a few days, not going on to the next site. >> if you want to be president of the united states you don't go home to florida. that is bottom line. end of the story. >> rick tyler, why don't you walk us through? you're in the cruz campaign. >> sure. >> some are saying that, well, you guys went out there and said ben carson is dropping out. is that true? >> no. look. it's a legitimate news story, sean. we reported it to the campaign important new developments in the campaign and so the idea that dr. carson would not leave iowa and go right -- go right to florida instead of going to new hampshire, south carolina, this's a legitimate news story and something we shared and never said or speculated nor di

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christie. >> ben carson? >> ben carson right there. >> kasich? >> bush. carson. >> over here. >> cruz. where's he at? >> trump? >> cruz. >> cruz. rubio. trump. >> huckabee. rubio. >> carson. rubio. christie. >> trump. >> carson. >> carson, right here. >> christie. >> ben carson. >> christie? >> right there. >> carson. >> christie. right there? >> trump. rubio. carson. carson. donald trump. trump? >> christie. rubio. >> carson. >> right here, carson. >> christie. >> cruz. >> trump. >> cruz. jeb bush. >> rubio. >> rubio. >> right here. >> christie. >> rand paul. >> rand paul. >> paul's up here. right here. >> huckabee. >> donald trump. >> kasich. >> kasich's over right here. >> cruz. >> christie. rubio. donald trump. >> rubio. >> marco rubio. all right. let's get started. >> let's check and make sure they're all the same. chri christie's good. >> kasich. >> ben carson there. >> marco's good. >> huckabee's good. >> should have grabbed bush. it's quicker. >> cruz is good. >> let's start at the top and work our way down. okay. we got bush. >> right here. >> co

ben carson because of how much respect and admiration he has for ben carson. he said, listen, if my campaign did something that was out of bounds, i want to apologize for that up front. you know these campaigns are hypersensitive, especially to information that's going to sway and help their candidate. this is politics. it is a full contact sport. when a news organization like cnn puts out credible information from credible reporters like dana bash and jake tapper, people are going to run with it. >> they did not ever say he was dropping out of the race. that's crucial. saying his campaign may be in trouble or this is an unusual thing to do is very different than saying he's out of the race. you agree with that? >> but when i talked about this on the radio program last night with steve, it's very clear that these guys are signaling ben carson is getting out of the race. they don't say it, but they are signaling a serious candidate does not go to florida instead of going to new hampshire. >> all right. bob, thank you very much. thank you for talking about this

campaign was doing in that ben carson was going back home. we can read those tweets for you, i think. effectively what he says is carson won't go to new hampshire or south carolina, but will head to florida for some r&r. ben carson's campaign tells me he plans to stay in the race beyond iowa no matter how the results are tonight. folks, ben carson is making a brief stop in florida tonight. his campaign says he'll be back on the campaign trail by wednesday. obviously nothing in the reporting there that says that ben carson is dropping out of the race or has any intention to make an announcement. >> he had a tweet. he says he plans on staying in the race no matter what the results are. then he waited an hour. guys, i made it very clear. i'm going to make it clear again he's not getting out of the race. what is cnn saying now? >> so in the interim, the ted cruz campaign comes out with its statement, which sends a message to its supporters indicating a major announcement is coming. carson is getting off the campaign trail, effectively telling the

ben carson, he's not black, ben carson, do you pass the black test? >> you know, i grew up in detroit and i grew up in boston. and boston, we lived in the ghetto. >> trevor: excuse me, you grew up in a what? a gitto? a gitto? that sounds like a french person saying cat in spanish. what is that. what kind of black person says gitto. mother [bleep] i'm straight out of comp-ton. really? really? (applause) that makes you more black. oh, and let's go, what about your childhood stories, dr. carson. do they prove your blackness. >> i remember once a fella hit me with a peb el. it didn't hurt but i was incensed that he would dare hit me with a peb el. and i picked up a large rock, hurled it at his face, broke his glasses. >> trevor: get the [bleep] out of here! are you kidding me? peb els? there are no peb els in the hood. what, did you skip them on the kreeng that ran through malcolm x boulevard? there's no peb els in the hood, there's bricks, that's it you know this started as a joke but now i'm really starting to wonder if ben carson actually is black. >>

but it's really between ted cruz and ben carson. i was in des moines -- >> interesting. >> -- on monday night. i saw chris moody's tweet. the conversation initially was what is ben carson doing? by the end of the night and the morning, the conversation was, what is ted cruz and his campaign doing? it hurts him because it knocks him off message. it knocks him with ben carson supporters, but it also says anybody who's worked on campaigns can talk about the volunteer who knocks over opponents' signs. that's not serious. this is serious. and it looks to be with so many iterations of it to be coordinated. and for ted cruz, his real challenge is he's past the point of where they can get out in front of this. they've got to get this behind them, and that won't be easy. >> chris, let me ask you because you haven't actually talked about your reporting from that night before now. this information you reported exclusively, this actually came from the carson campaign, didn't it? >> yeah, brian. let me give you a tick-tock about what happened th

christie. >> ben carson? >> ben carson right there. >> kasich? >> bush. carson. >> over here. >> cruz. where's he at? >> trump? >> cruz. >> cruz. rubio. trump. >> huckabee. rubio. >> carson. rubio. christie. >> trump. >> carson. >> carson, right here. >> christie. >> ben carson. >> christie? >> right there. >> carson. >> christie. right there? >> trump. rubio. carson. carson. donald trump. trump? >> christie. rubio. >> carson. >> right here, carson. >> christie. >> cruz. >> trump. >> cruz. jeb bush. >> rubio. >> rubio. >> right here. >> christie. >> rand paul. >> rand paul. >> paul's up here. right here. >> huckabee. >> donald trump. >> kasich. >> kasich's over -- right here. >> cruz. >> christie. rubio. donald trump. >> rubio. >> marco rubio. ñ let's get started. >> let's check and make sure they're all the same. christie's good. >> kasich. >> ben carson there. >> marco's good. >> huckabee's good. >> should have grabbed bush. it's quicker. >> cruz is good. >> are we all through? >> are you going to count them off? >> let's start at the top and work our

he is extremely high positive. >> but ben carson in general. >> ben carson said he's not looking for a job, as you know. as you know, i have very strong feelings about this whole issue of the president being able to nominate someone to the bench. if the republicans decide to shut down the process, not hold hearings, you know what? we will litigate that in the fall, but i think the president has every right to fulfill his constitutional only and duties as well. >> and i think that's basically what ben carson said tonight. >> agreed. >> it was a little muddled, but i think when you decipher it. >> and rubio said he wouldn't nominate, come on, he would. >> president reagan -- >> speaking of the perfect segue, because you, david gergen said where is tom foreman, where's the fact checker? >> tom foreman is up right after the break. >> is he in the studio tonight? >>> certainly heard a lot from ted cruz and marco rubio and ben carson. here by popular demand of this panel, the dream panel and by viewers, social media everywhere with a reality check. what do you have for us? >> ben carson ca

it's important that you tell any ben carson voters that they for tonight not vote for ben carson and vote for ted cruz. he is taking a leave. thank you. >> hello, this cruz campaign with breaking news, dr. ben carson will be planning to suspend his campaign. thank you and good night. that was the ted cruz campaign in iowa the night of the iowa caucuses where they won the iowa caucus. we now know that part of the way they tried to win was by tricking ben carson supporters into thinking their candidate had quit so they could stay home or the they still wanted to come out, they could flip to ted cruz instead. that was just brutal. they tried to down play it. it was a big time dirty trick. on friday before the south carolina primary, south carolina senator lindsey graham was campaigning with jeb bush. he was asked his opinion of ben carson. he said ben carson is the world's nicest man and if ted cruz made ben carson mad, you ought to think long and hard about ted cruz. that's the reputation he earned and he kept running the same way once he moved onto south carolina. very few things had

ben carson, a very good dr. ben carson, a very good person, he left 4 i think that's something that is really very serious. now, i know the one situation is now being investigated by authorities in iowa, the voter violation form. that's being under serious investigation. i think they should probably throw him out of iowa because i don't think what -- what he did is a disgrace. it's a disgrace to the electoral process to be honest with you, greta. >> is your strategy in new hampshire any different from your strategy in iowa? >> well, it's similar in the sense that we have tremendous meetings. i like to have small meetings but we have thousands of people show up. we have tremendous turnout. you saw that last night. it was amazing. every time i go -- tomorrow as an example i have four or five different events. they're all pretty large events because a lot of people want to come. we had something a week ago where we had thousands of people and other candidates were there a day or two before. and they had like 44 peo

ben carson accuses ted cruz of playing dirty tricks on caucus night... what one carson supporter says happened at his precinct last night... making history.. a big first last night.. how one caucus goer.. who remembers a time when women couldn't even vote... feels about the historic moment.. from who h-d iowa's high definition leader..this is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 presidential candidate"so as i stand here tonight, breathing a big sigh of relief, thank you iowa!" today.. the democratic party winner of the iowa caucuses.. defeating her opponent, bernie sanders by a razor thin margin.. good evening. i'm lynn melling. thank you for joining us tonight. we'll get to caucus results and updates in just a moment.. but first.. a blizzard warning is in effect tonight for folks north and west of the metro.. that's on top of the snow that shut down schools across the state today. let's go straight to meteorologist brett mcintyre the snow meant the morning commute in the metro was slow going... between six o'clock this morning, and 2- 30 this afternoon

time now is x:xx --- jaw dropping, unbelievable comments from ben carson. some people calling him racist this morning. hear what he said, in minutes. also how'd you like to fly on this plane? it could happen. an explanation straigh begin our climb back up to the 70s! sunny skies will be common along with winds light and switching directions throughout the day. high temperatures will range between 67 and 72 degrees. mostly sunny skies and light winds continue through the work week high temperatures move continue through the work week and into the weekend. high temperatures move into the mid 70s by thursday and by friday, highs are expected in the upper 70s and lower 80s. there is a weak disturbance that will be monitored closely throughout the next several days but the only affect it has on the valley would be a strong breeze while the republicans may have been center stage here in nevada.. the democratic presidential candidates take the stage in carolina. during cnn's town hall vermont senator bernie sanders went after his rival hillary clinton for not rele

ben carson at 8%. jeb bush at 5. joining us this morning is winner that have debate at least according to our poll. florida senator marco rubio, what was it like on the stage for you? seemed raucous. >> it was interesting debate. i think it's the smallest stage we've had now with six people. more time for everyone to speak, it happened on the night that justice scalia left us and passed away i thought that added some somber seriousness to the beginning of the debate. then get into some of the differences. when donald and jeb going at it ted a little bit as well it was a little different from the other debates i think. the crowd was pretty involved, too. >> dickerson: you called senator cruz a liar. >> well, he's lying. obviously in the last couple weeks he has really exhibited this very troubling tendency to say things that aren't true, just making things up. this week alone had to pull an ad because it didn't tell the truth about my position about sank could you ware cities. lied about my position on marriage and pl

john kasich and ben carson bringing up the rear. michael: just about five percentage points, still to early to count between second ted cruz. the key things to watch, obviously second and third, and that is a decisive margin of victory right now. let us see that holds throughout the night. carol: it will be interesting to see where the votes came from. here is a look at voting from palmetto middle school in williamston. michael: right over our shoulders, election officials reported some troubles. some of the machines simply were not working. the reported a low number of election volunteers. carol: corey davis is live and local in greenville county. how long were those lines? corey: people did not have to wait long at all her at riverside high schoole. the poll workers just starting to clean up. there was a large turnout here. more than 575 voters. that is about 25% of registered voters in this precinct. look at this video. the crowd was steady throughout the day. poll workers says the voter primaries in the past, where they have see

this guy lied about ben carson when he took votes away from ben carson in iowa. and he just continues. and today, we had robo calls

ben carson didn't get a lot of time. he was talking about how to pick judges and based upon the fruit salad of life. other times saying could someone please attack me? >> that is striking. and we're watching that and almost like there is a three-person race. and some say it should be. >> looking at what is coming there is a number of do or die situations for these candidates. and in arkansas, alabama, others making up the rest of super tuesday, trump is favored and likely to have a big day. there is a big race on the 8th in michigan. that is a state john kasich will have to do well in in order to get to the 15th. we get the first two winner take all states. and rubio needs to score well on super tuesday, too. >> thank you, carl. just moments ago, i spoke with donald trump from that same spin room in houston. >> well, donald trump big texas shootout, you're in the middle there. tell us, sir, what you think. how did you do tonight? >> i enjoyed it and i knew it was going to happen. they're very, very far down in the polls.

talked to ben carson, told him if i had known... would not have said anything." stephanie:

ben carson needs to drop out. ben carson needs to drop out. he's not only damaging himself, he potentially damaging the field, maybe other people will see that and pressure him to do so. >> what do you think, dana? obviously you're not going to take a position whether or not he should drop out but hearing calls for him and even governor kasich to drop out? >> yes, more calls from people like amanda but it's a much more dangerous prospect for that to happen from within the campaigns. we saw that was sort of the beginning of the narrative on the cruz campaign, suggesting that he wants ben carson to drop out. but, there's no question that there is a very, very strong feeling among anyone but trump republican caucus, which is pretty large, especially here in washington, they need to start consolidating and doing it fast. but ben carson done seem to care very much. more importantly, john kasich doesn't. >> i blame donald trump, i do. first, brain dead comment from a brain surgeon to say something like this, african-americans have all kind of experi

ben carson. his campaign started with strong pull numbers late last year, but he came up last in the south carolina primary. allyson: dr. ben carson made up his mind to stay in the race. allyson: mike mccormick followed his campaign from greenville and talks about his motivation to continue his bid for the white house. >> not the outcome dr. ben carson wanted from the primary. still, a huge crowd, and dr. chris saying that is the enthusiasm he found at the precincts he visited. on tuesday, he told us no matter what happened, he was staying in it. he is keeping his word, telling the crowd tonight, we will take america back. dr. ben carson staying in the race. geoff: there was only one candidate not watching the results in south carolina. that was john kasich. allyson: instead, he focused on the states getting ready to vote on super tuesday. he started the day in vermont. then traveled to massachusetts he discussed the fact that he didn't spend the day in south carolina. >> we were there only about

like ben carson. ben carson got a phone call two hours after the election. overturn theshould election based on what ted cruz did because he was so dishonest. if they had a strong leader in iowa in terms of the republican jeff is a good guy but perhaps he is not strong. what ted cruz did is a fraud. what they should do is overturn that election. one more question. how about you in the back. he would not be on my short list. good luck everybody. the rnc is in default. that means the other side can do what they have to do. they get all the tickets to special interests that represented ted cruz and marco rubio. they had all the tickets. they walked on stage and the placement crazy. i had my wife and my kids. i don't have donors. i don't have special interests. have any of that. we have warned them twice. they don't listen. the rnc is controlled by the special interests. establishmentshe . not good for the republic and party. they have lost so much for so long. thank you all very much. i appreciate it. 2016, c-spanpaign takes you on the road to the white house.

ben carson might be dropping out. >> he insulted ben carson by doing what he did to ben carson. that was a disgrace. >> reporter: on the day of the caucuses, the cruz campaign sending supporters this e-mail, stating the press is reporting that carson is taking time off after iowa and making a big announcement next week. it goes on to say, please inform any carson caucus-goers of this news and urge them to caucus for ted cruz. >> what he did is unthinkable. he said the man has just left the race and he said it during the caucus. >> reporter: carson today saying the cruz move cost him votes, describing what happened when his wife candy showed up at a caucus location. >> my wife went to a caucus and the cruz representative had spoken and told people that i was, in fact, not going to be and she obviously disabused him of that notion. >> reporter: cruz has now apologied to carson, but stands by his campaign's actions. will you fire or suspend anyone in your campaign for putting out misinformation? >> no, we're not going to scapegoat anybody. and i would note that the news story that

john kasich and ben carson have avoided all that. a few minutes ago i asked ben carson why he's not joining the fray. >> i actually believe people in south carolina like people across the country eventually will start saying you know what, this is way too important in the election for us to be concerned with circus antics. the cruise campaign forced to take down an attack add against marco rubio. the actress who appears in it was an adult film star. not exactly in keeping but with the sort of payments that the cruz campaign is trying to portray here particularly. >> right. we have dr. ben carson coming up in a few moments. hillary clinton and bernie sanders. this time it took place the wisconsin. the stakes were high after just days bernie sanders left new hampshire with a decisive victory over the former secreta secretary of state. mike, what are the candidates up to today? >> well, gretchen, it's back on the campaign trail. hillary clinton left milwaukee on her way to a town hall. a super pact supporting, clinton has incrested $5 m