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 fingerprints leading back to the ted cruz campaign but they pointed back to his direction. congressman trey gowdy endorsed marco rubio. a fake facebook page showed he switched his endorsement from marco rubio to ted cruz. that was fake but that's south carolina. there was this gem put together by the ted cruz campaign ahead of the south carolina primary. it proports to show the real marco rubio. it's fake marco rubio photo shopped making it look like he was grinning like a goon and shaking hands with president obama when he was not. after south carolina, there was this video. it was not created by the ted cruz campaign. it was created and up loaded by the student newspaper at the university of pennsylvania. the tape shows marco rubio having a chance encounter with ted cruz folks, including ted cruz dad. the paper indicated that when marco rubio saw this young man rea

ted cruz. the voter who is say they are interested in voter who are as hell. the story lines are playing out very much. >> they reflect and these are actual votes right now with 32% of the votes. a lot more of the vote in on the democratic side. the south carolina senator will endorse marco rubio. that's a big deal. we saw a similar thing happening with barack obama in 2008 getting more endorsements and brings the total from senators from four on to five. it's a big deal. it underscores the idea that he is the establishment candidate and the face of the new republican party. he got about a 70 or 80% approval rating. this will be a big deal for him. >> the other side of the senator from south carolina. >> i don't know that there is any surprise. frankly he is performing where they said he would perform. to hear the analysis is to say wow, rubio is having a hell of a night. the way it helps them is going into new hampshire where tonight he is having an event. john kasich is having an event and th

ted cruz: thank you. ♪ ted cruz: thank you very much. >> thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ted cruz: thank you so much. thank you very much. >> god bless you. >> thank you so much. ♪ [inaudible] ♪ >> thank you so much. ted cruz: thank you. ♪ >> i just want to tell you i am very impressed. i am telling everybody. humbled. i am very what is your name? >> skylar. >> come on. niece. my go on the other side. ok. then i can be here behind skylar. weight -- wait, wait. get it with my camera too. ted cruz: thank you very much. thank you for your good questions. >> can i get a picture from a dad? thank you, sir. >> thank you so much. glad i could make it. ♪ thank you very much. ♪ ted cruz: good to see you again. thank you for being here. [inaudible] ted cruz: i gave it to my team. i do not know where it is. ♪ wrote to the white house coverage continues wednesday in new hampshire. at 4:00 eastern, john kasich speech to the new hampshire business form. at 6:00, we join jeb bush for a town hall in laconia. at 6:30, chris christie holds a town hall meeting in milford on c-span2. c-span's road to the wh

but ted cruz, ted cruz is ahead 28 to 24%. on the democratic side, look how close it is. 51%. 81% of the expected vote in right now on the democratic side. very, very close between hillary clinton and bernie sanders we don't know the outcome of that. it's looking good for ted cruz. donald trump and marco rubio battling it out right now. let's go over to john king. have you to give him some credit, he's doing weapon. >> you see this 99%. you may think the vote is all counted. we never know how many people are going to turn out. we're over 155,000 people and still votes to count. we're up to 93% in polk county. marco rubio winning polk county. that's a big deal. ted cruz is holding his lead. marco rubio is making a run at second place right now. you watch this play out. can he get there? let's see. you come out here. 99% of the vote. trump is winning you see how those margins play out. you're looking around to see what's left out there. less than half of the vote counted out here. mitt romney territory four years ago. let's watc

candidate running. >> i think ted cruz is a rock star. >> ted cruz is like the conservative consciousness in a senate that is callous. how about talking about the substantive issues? [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] me where i come from. ♪ ted cruz: god bless the great state of new hampshire. [applause] ted cruz: what a victory last night. [applause] two nights ago, i was watching tv and the stations with every pundit, and they said no way can ted cruz win this. it is impossible. the race is done. night, the men and women of iowa sent notice across this country, that this election is not going to be decided by the media. [applause] election isat this not going to be decided by the lobbyists and the washington cartel. [applause] ted cruz: that it is going to be decided by the grassroots, the men and women here in this room, be decided by the men and women across this country who take so seriously the responsibility. one of the things heidi and i have grown to love about hampshire, so love about iowa is both states take your responsibility seriously. y'all treat politics in new ha

that came from the ted cruz campaign, specifically it came from ted cruz's media adviser or campaign head majors named rick tyler. just moments ago a news conference happened during which ted cruz came to the microphones -- you heard carl cameron there. he said ted cruz is coming to the microphones and is going to be asking him questions about this who -- well, what dramaticd cruz. here it is. >> we are not a campaign that is going to question the faith of another candidate. even if it was true, our campaign should not have sent it. that's why i've asked for rick tyler's resignation, because the standard of conduct in this campaign have been made absolutely clear for every member of the campaign. and i understand that marco's campaign team believed it's politically advantageous to distract the topic from his own record, and they have a long record they've earned in south carolina of engaging in this kind of trickery and impugning the integrity of the opponents to distract the attention. we're going to stay focused on issues and substance and record, because i think that's what the me

he needs to be more, i think, focused in his criticism of ted cruz, but ted cruz can't get to marco rubio until he gets to donald trump and i don't think that is going to happen. i think ted cruz's campaign reached a high mark tonight. >> do you think trump is looking at rubio more now as a guy he's got to take out or cruz? >> trump must deal with cruz first but trump is mindful of the fact that rubio is coming up the side and winning the intermural competition to be the establishment candidate. so he has to deal with cruz and with rubio. >> about to get interesting. great to see you, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> the political probe from iowa predicted we can see the winners as early as 9:00 p.m. mark theissan and bill burton are here next with what that means for mrs. clinton and bernie sanders. bernie sanders. >> what iowa has begun tonight♪ [screaming] ♪ ♪ the bold nissan rogue, with intuitive all wheel drive. because winter needs a hero. now get a $199 per month lease on the 2016 nissan rogue. nissan. innovation that excites. >> i wish governor o'malley the best. h

he goes after ted cruz. or almost every campaign rally, goes after ted cruz, accuses ted cruz of pulling a fast one in iowa, and that was the reason why he was able to siphon votes away from ben carson and that was the reason why donald trump did not win the state of iowa. trump mentions that at just about every campaign rally. and when i was listening to that press conference that ted cruz was delivering, he was almost lawyerly going through all of these various accusations, because you not only hear them from the trump campaign, you have marco rubio almost echoing nearly word for word the exact same accusations against ted cruz. he's even going after ted cruz on ben carson. so i think that that is something that is clearly -- gotten under ted cruz's skin. and it is something that is working for donald trump at this point when you talk to donald trump supporters, they often point out, they don't like what ted cruz or they say they don't like. what they think ted cruz did in iowa. and you heard it during tha

ted cruz needs it. donald trump is going at ted cruz right there and ted cruz fighting back. let's pull this out. come back out to the map. why is this so important because if you take a look at this round one in iowa it went to ted cruz. a healthy evangelical population, especially in the caucus environment. south carolina is next. you can tell obviously it's a huge evangelical community, but most of march is down here. the color speaks for itself. this is evangelical bible belt for ted cruz who unlike huckabee and santorum who won iowa he has an organization, he has money. so now you have a essentially he goes at it with trump in south carolina. the question is kasich will come in with a little momentum. can he play here. the bush family now. this was critical to george bush after john mccain beat him. it will be interesting to see jeb bush on the road with his brother, but jeb bush can't afford to come in third or fourth again. he needs a break through moment. so the evangelicals are critical for ted cruz and a slice is important to marco rubio. >> remind our viewers what

donald trump now - updating ted cruz at 34%, ted cruz - sorry, rubio now at 22% in second place. ted cruz is at 17% at this point. jeb bush 12%. this is so crucial for jeb bush that he at least finish in third place. the others in the field, ben carson, john kasich up the rear, 7.7. ben carson is at 4.8%. a lot has been made about the so-called hunger games aspect of the south carolina race because one of these so-called establishment candidates is not going to be able to continue. the conventional wisdom has been wrong in the past, but given all the realities of modern campaigning particularly with regard to money, that some of these candidates are not going to last. lisa stark is at the ted cruz campaign and lisa you've been talking about the nature of the south carolina voting. you've been doing reporting over the last two days. it's a state where ignore anything will go. ted cruz has been accused of doctoring pictures, of marco rubio shaking hands with p.m. be that as it may. it has been a nasty back and forth, but sad to say it's somewhat typical of politics here in south ca

is ted cruz right that rubio just copying trump or is rubio right that ted cruz is dishonest? >> there is an easy way of understanding what marco rubio is doing right now. i have not seen the fliers. i will not speak to a flier i have not seen. when it is about the record, i don't think of it as a negative attack. when it gets personal and name calling, that's a problem. creating a contrast and defending your own record is what candidates do. this is for the highest job in politics in the world. we want to make sure that we understand each candidate, their strengths, their weaknesses, and where the contrast is. when there's false information placed out there, you have to rebuke that information. we're seeing marco rubio do that in his campaign. >> the bottom line is would you support donald trump if he's the nominee wholeheartedly and vocally? >> there's no doubt that any of our candidates on the right would do a better job as president of the united states than hillary clinton or bernie sanders. >> all right. i'll take that the bottom line is yes, but i understand the way you

ted cruz's home state. look at this. this is a poll just out in the last day, ted cruz ahead by only eight points in his home state over donald trump. lawrence was talking about the idea of momentum, positive headlines coming out of wins like tonight, south carolina, wins like new hampshire for donald trump. we're going to see in the next week do the numbers move further in texas? not long ago the ted cruz campaign was looking at texas and at the magic number of 50% there because if you can win more than 50% in texas, you win every single one of the statewide delegates that's at stake. if you can break 50% in any congressional district, you win all the delegates in those congressional districts. the cruz campaign used to look at this state as one where they weren't only going to win, they were going to rack up a huge number of delegates. now the possibility that donald trump goes into ted cruz's backyard and gets a win outright next tuesday, it's impossible to see ted cruz going on if he can't win his home state. flip th

ted cruz, he put out push-pulls. >> no. they believe that donald trump ran the most unfair campaign. ted cruz was second. >> yeah, no, obviously donald trump was not running an unfair campaign. name for me one tactic that was in the media being reported on the part of donald trump running an unfair campaign. i don't think any of cuss name one thing donald trump did that was unfair. we might not like what he said about george w. bush with you nothing did he was unfair. i think it is this narrative of ted cruz holding up the bible. but then lying about policies, lying about rubio and the picture. i think that really struck evangelicals the wrong way. which is why you saw evangelicals break for trump. >> matt, nothing unfair for trump? >> i think we're getting a little carried away. i think we have some tactics from a campaign that were over the line. we'll see this from all the campaigns. i think ted cruz tried to make changes. i think everyone of them will try to push their competitors. they all want to win. there will be so

you say ted cruz understands part of it. you have endorsed ted cruz. he comes in tonight with donald trump and marco rubio criticizing his morality and ethics. >> this guy ted cruz is the single biggest liar i have ever dealt with in my life. i mean it. he will lie about anything. >> he's been lying. if you say something that's not true and you say it over and over again, then there's no other word for it. >> are these attacks having an impact? >> if you say something over and over again, it has an impact. it grew with marco rubio. ted cruz isn't a liar. if there's one person in this race who is telling the truth about washington, d.c. and about what needs to happen and has the intellect to be able to make a difference, it is ted cruz. listen, donald trump gives a whole new meaning to the word bombastic. that's fine. that's entertaining. the fact is we do need to hear the truth and we hear the truth from ted cruz. >> all right. you hear the truth from ted cruz. something changed for you yesterday. charges against you for abuse of power have been droppe

bill: ted cruz the big winner in iowa. marco rubio a third place showing is getting a lot of attention. his campaign is hoping to build momentum in new hampshire next tuesday. >> now the time has come for to us take our place and do what we must. and when i'm elected president of these great united states we'll do our part. bill: where i this race today? monica crowley, monica, where is this race as you size it up? ted cruz ran against the powerful ethanol lobby and won. as far as donald trump it's quite an incredible feat for someone who is not a professional politician to do this well. marco rubio exceeded expectations an does have momentum. fir he has to overcome ted cruz's momentum which is quite substantial, and also donald trump who is ahead by 20 point. i expect his lead to hold. so we have to overcome those challenges. marco rubio's challenges is to consolidate the donor class going forward. governor bush, kasich, christie. if he can get the establishment to coalesce behind hip, he could be quite formidable. bill:

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larimer: certainly the totals, obviously ted cruz, and thinking about ted cruz in context of what's happened over the last two caucus cycles is quite interesting. we had 2008 with mike huckabee, 2012 with rick santorum. most people say both of them the conservative he haveevangelical candidate winning, and it was interesting who came in third. we talk about marco rubio coming in just stiefr or six points behind ted cruz, but 14 points ahead of ben carson, who is in fourth place. going forward, there were questions about if another very socially conservative candidate won the iowa caucuses in 2016, what does that mean for the future of the caucuses? we had that candidate win tonight in ted cruz, but marco rubio finished a very close third, a surprising third place finish and iowa may not launch the next president in terms of the person who wins the caucuses, but it seems at first glance, the results from tonight are going to launch the campaign for marco rubio and if you're establishment candidates, this is a real blow to your campaign. chris christie, john case sick, jeb bush, they're lookin

he needs to be more, i think, focused in his criticism of ted cruz, but ted cruz can't get to marco rubio until he gets to donald trump and i don't think that is going to happen. i think ted cruz's campaign reached a high mark tonight. >> do you think trump is looking at rubio more now as a guy he's got to take out or cruz? >> trump must deal with cruz first but trump is mindful of the fact that rubio is coming up the side and winning the intermural competition to be the establishment candidate. so he has to deal with cruz and with rubio. >> about to get interesting. great to see you, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> the political probe from iowa predicted we can see the winners as early as 9:00 p.m. mark theissan and bill burton are here next with what that means for mrs. clinton and bernie sanders. >> what iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution. in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like i

ted cruz won the iowa caucuses. this after donald trump told us we were going to be sick of winning. >> donald trump, i'll quote him tonight from one of his tweets when he says, no one ever remembers who comes in second place. well tonight, everyone remembers who came in second place. and that's donald trump. and when you put the expectations pr where he did, the whole week, people have been talking about, ted cruz is in trouble. and the front page of the newspapers, after the debate. were saying how brilliant donald trump was to skip that debate. and everyone went after ted cruz. an now, ted cruz is in trouble. i said this about iowa before. it's proof last time with santorum. iowa voters don't like to be told what they're going to do on caucus night. and i kept saying it all week long. you are underestimating the mote voters of iowa. you're underestimating the voters there. they didn't buy 2 corinthiancor. they liked ted cruz and marco rubio. and if you're ted cruz, you may have focused on donald trump and the war

shows ted cruz at 29% and trump at 28%. what is ted cruz's path to victory? al hunt: i think it is a little bit different although they want to both stay in for a while if you want to be trump. here's the ted cruz path. it is even harder to rubio's. he has to win texas but he can't win it by 29 to 28. he needs to win big. he's got a win a bunch of those delegates. if you get more than 50% in any congressional district you get all the delegates. then he has to be competitive in the south. he has to finish at least a strong second and maybe be trump and one or two places. come out of super tuesday delegate wise about even with trump. he could use his vaunted targeting operation. more sophisticated than some of the others. where can he win delegates. not statewide but district by district. he has invested a lot in the south. he needs to come out of super tuesday where people are no longer saying he is a dead man walking. be saying heds to is the strongest non-trump candidate. and a person is john kasich. he did not compete for a nevada. he was in gulfport missis

his problem with ted cruz. he basically has unsheathed every attack he had on ted cruz and ted cruz is being attacked by other people, and yet he did not beat him. i think trump has to wonder, if this is a race where ted cruz is a finalist and trump is a finalist, how does he take on ted cruz? our polls show that i will republicans cared a lot more loans thanruz's bank the fact that he could be prime minister of canada. john: we talked about this last night, one of the things that trump had done was discombobulated ted cruz. it was clear for about 10 days he did. histhen he gathered composure and closed strong in iowa, despite the fact that most people thought he wouldn't. to win a one-on-one or three-person race with ted cruz, donald trump is going to have to spend money. how much money does donald trump really want to spend to compete in primaries across the south? mark: i am not sure that ted cruz was as discombobulated as you think he was. john: all right, we will talk about that. marco rubio pushing out a

ted cruz was first. donald trump finished second, but the real big showing of the night and probably what donald trump is most upset about is that marco rubio finished right on his heels. it was a very strong third place finish for marco rubio. just a short time ago, we heard from both rubio and donald trump. donald trump: we will go on to get the republican nomination and we will go on to easely the hell they throw up there. iowa we love you and thank you. ted cruz: tonight here in iowa, after seven years of barack obama, we are not waiting any longer to take our country back! phil: we are still watching the ted cruz campaign headquarters, people want to hear from ted cruz tonight. he is taking his time coming down to declare the victory. he is the clear winner. on the democratic side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders still entirely too close to call even at this hour in this state, we're talking less than a percentage point right now. remember, there are 1,600 plus precincts in this state, 99 counts.

what are you hearing from folks about what gave ted cruz the edge tonight? >> the evangelical voters coming through for ted cruz on you look at some of these first- time goers 46% for first-time goers and this turnout tonight. that's up from 38% back in 2012. and it's interesting. you guys were just talking about marco rubio. we followed him around iowa the last few days we spend a lot of time on the road and he has this relaxed and upbeat and confident manner and a lot of these town halls and taking questions. he was relaxed and joking and has to feel good about where he sits right now. basically he's almost tied with donald trump in iowa. now we have to look at the democratic race as a virtual tie between clinton and sanders. the clinton campaign has a little bit of dij@ vu as they think back to 2008, they have to think they had their ground game they did not want to make any mistakes and they have to be feeling not as good as a razor thin margin between clinton and sanders at this point. >> is this the finish, that the sanders team needed? >> , certainly.

stand for the man i believe was raised for this hour, ted cruz. >> and then ted cruz walked out. ted cruz more than any other candidate is sill sft race, maybe more than anybody else who even tried to run this year. ted cruz is running as a religious conservative, an overtly religious campaign for president. anybody can do that. it has led to a little adventures with the issue of religious tolerance or religious intolerance, depending on your world view. you might remember a few months ago, senator cruz with a pastor used that same event to argue repeatedly anybody bound to to be a homosexual in this country should be executed for that sin. this was just not like something the pastor had been known to say in the past in other venues. that's what he said at the event where he interviewed ted cruz. >> yes, leviticus 20:13 calls for the death penalty for homosexuals. yes, roman's chapter 1 versus 32 the apostle paul does say that homosexuals are worthy of death. his words, not mine! and i am not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ. and i am not ashamed of the truth of the word of

than ted cruz was. and we see this evening that the percentage of voters in the south carolina republican party calling themselves born-again or evangelical, was higher than we have seen in recent years, 73%, and it looked as though many of them were going for donald trump. >> yeah. and i think, you know, this is ted cruz was hitting donald trump on that tremendously. i was with cruz in south carolina where he took on donald trump because trump was threatening to sue him over an ad that he ran, which used trump's own words in which he said in 1999 to tim russert that he was very pro choice. remember that? and cruz was just hammering away at trump. with evangelical voters. saying, look, he's not what you think he is. he doesn't share you're values. he was quote, once, very pro choice. this is something you need to pay attention to. and the question we'll be looking at tonight is whether cruz made enough in roads here with this huge number of evangelical voters to catapult himself to number two and how cl

ted cruz is huddled with staff. we know he was eating with his staff earlier tonight, but of course nerve racking finish yet to be announced tonight. >> will relevaall right. let's check in with john king at at magic wall. i suppose you'll be able to tell me how donald trump pulled this off. >> can i ask you a question, do you remember who came in second in the daytona 500? never mind. let's look very early results so far and obviously clark county if you were with us the other day with the democrats it's more than 7 on -- 70% of the population, washington county in the western part of the state, trump at 34 there. it's the second largest county. if you look at the results this is the western part of the state. this is where you would expect ted cruz if he is getting your traditional evangelical voter, you would expect votes here, but right now it's filling in all donald trump. we watched this in south carolina and we saw it in new hampshire, 42, 23, 22 so like the other night it looks like this where we will be spe

now, this year, here's ted cruz. these are the latest financial figures disclosed by each of the republican candidates and their respective superpacs. senator ted cruz sitting on $50 million, that's more than mitt romney had in 2012. that's double what any of the other candidates have with the exception of jeb bush. that's it. so, yes, senator cruz is a really, really hard right religious conservative who just won iowa, but he is a different kind of cat than the usual really hard right religious conservatives who just want iowa then they peter out soon thereafter. on the strength of money, alone, and money is not everything, just ask jeb bush, but on the strength of money, alone, it may be fair to expect ted cruz to be a more formidable challenger for the rest of the primary than other iowa winners have been in the recent past. so, yes, common wisdom's told us the winner of iowa won't win the nomination but this time around, buyer beware. joining now is robert costa, national political reporter for the "washington po

even the ted cruz was the winner. now ted cruz has come in third in new hampshire. is there any sense of frustration that he is not getting more credit for that? haley: absolutely. is more like a chip on the shoulder. they never expected given that they believe the media is against them that they would get a lot of attention for a third-place finish. they pointed out that that is kind of unexpected for them. new hampshire is not a state where you would've thought they would've played well. the campaign is feeling confident of where they are going in south carolina. you can probably see heidi crews over my shoulder. being a surrogate for him. ted cruz will be back in this state tomorrow. pushing forward and doing a number of things. talking about their organization. they have just opened a second ted cruz camp to put in additional volunteers. adding to the 9800 total so far. doing twice 5000 phone calls. they are feeling good about the organization. this big wallm is called donald trump that could stop the right in their tracks. after seeing a little bit of a pause o

>> i think, well, i think ted cruz will win texas. >> ted cruz will? >> i think ted cruz will win texas. how many delegates is he going to get relative to donald trump. even if ted wins texas, donald trump could get a lot of delegates out of texas and not change the ball game. >> cruz has been taughting the fact that is he the only one na can beat hillary clinton. but he has kept it close, trump has, in a hypothetical matchup against her in the three latest polls, i think we have some of those numbers. who would be the toughest for the democrats? >> i like our odds against any of them. any time the democrats are watching the republican debates and turning it into a drinking game, where they use the word liar, and wait to see who is going to interrupt each other next, it's probably a good year for democrats. >> on the other hand, bernie sanders wins by wider margins against trump in two of the three latest polls. what's your ideal matchup. >> fortunately, i think it's interesting in terms of him wanting, not caring about which candidate is -- wins the p

we talked about donald trump, ted cruz and marco rubio but ted cruz takes the evangelical vote, went to 99 counties. what makes him the winner tonight? we may have lost their. >> i am here. it looks like ted cruz did what he thought we would, evangelicals, he carries them easily, very conservative voters, got 43% of that vote, regional lead, what was interesting if you look at the issue break down, ted cruz did very well among people who fought terrorism was the most important issue and held his own on people who thought immigration was the most important issue. >> population in iowa would go for those being important issues. what would you make of marco rubio complete the surging, surprise third-place finish in iowa. >> talking about marco momentum, the last few days got 29% and carried that, one third of voters decided the last few days he is number one choice there and i would sense the surprising third finish, none of the other establishment candidates did very well. there may be some incentive to coalesce around marco rubio, maybe some for senator marco rubio we will see but cer

it's ted cruz's campaign. everything that comes from it is a direct reflection of him and his leadership on the campaign. he says inform caucus goers of this news. the news was inaccurate. why doesn't he say i'm sorry it shouldn't have never been sent. he's blaming it on cnn's reporting. why not just a pure apology? >> erin, the report that was read at the beginning of this segment of tonight's forecast was a fairly lengthy report. we live in a 140 character world where tweets are going out. there's a tweet going on out be cnn. there's a screen shot by cnn. you're minutes before the iowa caucuses. if a candidate says he's not going to new hampshire or south carolina, that is big news. so campaigns are hyper active. again i believe ted cruz has taken responsibility for this. i think the reason it remains a story today is because donald trump lost the iowa kcaucuses. i used to coach. they blame it on other people. i think american people are going to have a higher standard than that. >> bob, thank you very much.

ted cruz and donald trump. ted cruz is perhaps the most hated republican in washington by his own party and donald trump the ultimate outsider. bad news that you have two people at the top and a fourth ben carson coming in there as well who has no political experience, again the republican party's looking for their antedote, their closing behind, now it looks like trump, cruz and rubio. john. >> if you put cruz and drurchl and ben carson together, so-called outers, you've got abig portion of the polling in iowa. >> 65% wanted soabl who was either hated by the establishment and hated in the senate or two political candidates no political experience. that's why the republican leaders and the party apparatus are so nervous about the direction and anger that the republican party has. >> by the way ben carson is going to florida getting ready to leave iowa i guess after he saw the results. or maybe he planned it already. >> where a lot of people go to die, john. >> or have fun. >> or from campaigns, too. >> you had

we give ted cruz texas here. looking for other states, the rubio people -- this is it hypothetical, the rubio people say they'll win minnesota. let's give it to them. even that if rubio wins that donald trump starting to pull away. so you look at the end of the night, maybe a couple much other states, but this is the state of the republican race right now. donald trump has won three of the first four states. in any past campaign people are saying that's unstoppable. if you have a continued race like tonight, nobody goes after trump, the trump campaign feels strongly that maybe they'll lose texas on super tuesday, they're going to compete, but maybe they'll lose texas, but they believe by next tuesday night we're going to be talking about a big donald trump lead in the delegate. >>> all right. john king on cnn a little earlier. don't go away. we will hear from cnn's political panel next about what they think the future holds for donald trump, marco rubio and ted cruz. our live coverage of the nevada caucuses conti

>> ted cruz. i think he would make a wonderful president. >> nobody is responsible for their own endorsers. nobody can be held accountable for the thoughts and actions of people who like them. you can't control who likes you. if you're senator cruz, and you put this up on your website, proudly embracing that endorsement from ted nugent, showing off, campaigning that you are the choice for president of ted nugent then you do kind of own this. just like you own the guy who said that god sent hitler to kill all the jews because you campaigned on his endorsement too. just like you own it when the guy says every gay person in america should be executed. you attended the event. you shared stage with him. you did not have to do that. there's always some level of controversy around issues like this particularly around the time of the south carolina primary. ted cruz is shooting the moon on this stuff. i don't know how long it will be before the beltway notices this pattern and realizes it might be a real

donald trump saying that ted cruz stole iowa based on fraud committed by one ted cruz. where is the evidence of fraud? what is he getting at? is this just about winning over ben carson supporters? scottie? >> this could have ended yesterday. all ben carson asked ted cruz to do is come out and publicly apologize and admit it and hold your people accountable for those people who spread these rumors. we heard ben carson say that his wife was standing at the polling place and ted cruz spokesperson got up in front of her and said that ben carson was going to be stepping out of the race and welcomed his support. she said, no, he isn't. my husband is still in. it all happened 30 minutes before the iowa caucus began and you cannot sit there and say that there wasn't some sort of collaboration between the different groups. and yet, all we hear is this private phone call happen from ted cruz to dr. carson. there's been no accountability and it's not just about this issue. this is exactly what is wrong with politics today. this is a reflection of a bigger issue. the president does

jeff duncan is a ted cruz supporter, he will be joining us to talk about whether he thinks ted cruz can make this happen in nevada the democratic race is as tight as can be as fox news polls show bernie sanders with his first national league of the campaign holding un. clinton in for another upset. we have team coverage of all the 2016 news. connell mcshane is in south carolina and peter barnes in las vegas with the latest. president obama and the first lady expected to pay their respects for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia this afternoon. we will have live pictures when the president arrives from the supreme court and people talk with our experts about how the nomination process is going to play out after antonin scalia is laid to rest tomorrow. we are watching the markets, wall street is still on track for its best week of the year, dow jones industrials down 63, we are at 16,350 but markets holding on. we are an hour to the closing bell. i am cheryl casone in for liz claman, let's start the countdown. ♪ best week ever? at least for 2016, major u.s. indices, you are lo

it it was very important the message that ted cruz had for them. and after his victory, ted cruz took his victory lap. >> tonight is a victory for the grassroots. [cheers and applause] tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across iowa and all across this great nation. >> reporter: and a victory for a very strong ground game. that leaves him above donald trump, trump, who skipped the republican debate, campaigned throughout the state throughout the weekend. still finishing second and he says he still is the front runner. >> we will go on to get the republican nomination, and we will go on to easily beat hillary or bernie or whoever the hell they throw up there. iowa, we love you. we thank you. >> reporter: and senator marco rubio, as many political observers say, seizing control of what they call the establishment lane of the republican nominating process. and marco rubio, just one percentage point behind trump, finishing third, noted his strong performance. >> they told me we had no chance because my hair waechbts gray enough, and my bo

seemed to get more attention from ted cruz, even though ted cruz had one iowa. in third,uz has come done very well in new hampshire. any sense of frustration in ted cruz world that he is not getting credit for that? reporter: absolutely. it is sort of a frustration like a chip on his shoulder. they never expected, given the media is against him, to get a lot of credit for a third-place finish. they feel good. unexpected, given new venture is not a state where they would have played well. it campaign is feeling well is going. you can probably see heidi crews over his shoulder. she is in his place speaking tonight, a surrogate for him. crews will be back in the state tomorrow, pushing for a few new things. they have pulled in the iowa director, a number of iowa staffers. they have opened a second ted cruz camp to put in additional volunteers, adding to the 9000 total. they are doing phone calls, door to door. the big problem in south carolina is donald trump, a good start them right in their tracks. they've seen a little bit of a pause on the policy attack of ted

ted cruz. saying he was a liar. saying he was being dishonest with the new attack that ted cruz is coming out with. recalling a moment that donald trump had. when he told "60 minutes" that he supported universal health care. ted cruz is saying if you like obamacare, if you like hillary care, you're going to like trump care. that set trump off when he call cruz a liar. donald trump was having fun in council bluffs earlier today when he suggested that perhaps the republicans in iowa aren't always good at picking an eventual president. here's a little bit of what he had to say. >> you have a lousy record. 16 years and you haven't picked a winner. please pick a winner this time, okay? i'm going to win. 16 years. you can't go another four years, you got to just get it done, get it done right. we're going to win. >> that's why donald trump is pulling out all the stops in the last 24 hours before almost before these results are going to be tall idea up. he's had jerry falwell junior out on the campaign trail all day today,

and nothing that ted cruz said today was new. nothing was mind-blowing or headlining, except what is headlining this morning is the fact that cruz has some major issues across the country, but in south carolina. and is losing in most polls. and when you sit there and go through all the points that ted cruz makes about him supporting democrats or that he's pro choice, well, one minor issue. that's not the truth. because mr. trump has supported democrats and republicans, including ted cruz back in 2014 when he contributed, maxed out $5500 to ted cruz's super pac for a senate campaign. it's amazing the details that ted cruz is choosing to point out that are convenient to his story. like i said, there was nothing new in that press conference that he has not tried to sell before. and people are calling out every fact for the falsehood and the truth of everything he said. >> one more reminder for our viewers that at the top of the hour, we're going to get a response to ted cruz from the trump campaign manager. i want to go to phil matt

cruz. >> bad news for ted cruz. however, once ben carson gets out, the question is, where do the votes go? i suspect some will go to cruz. >> dr. carson staying in, kasich staying in. you heard marco rubio say from his perspective, it's a three-man race right now. >> that's what he wants to say and you could make the case that trump, rubio, cruz, get tickets out of south carolina. jeb bush is suspended. you were talking about john kasich, his campaign says he's in. they see a path down the road. but there will be a lot of pressure on governor kasich. if you focus on these three, number one, we're not absolutely certain about second place yet. marco rubio would like nothing more than to come in ahead of ted cruz in a state built for ted cruz. if you look at the evangelicals, look at the recent tea party history. this is a state built for ted cruz. if rubio even if it's by a couple hundred votes, the moral victory of coming in ahead of ted cruz, they will put out. but let's just stop for a minute. talking about number

ted cruz needs a victory. he did win iowa, but ted cruz won the next three. ted cruz makes the case he is the only candidate who's beaten donald trump. that's a fact. but trump has won the next three since then and won the next two quite divisively, south carolina and nevada. so cruz needs to win. in an odd way, it's an interesting dynamic. donald trump almost wants ted cruz to win texas. if donald trump can win everything else, if cruz wins texas, he'll stay in the race. if you're marco rubio, you might want to try to knock ted cruz down some tonight. it's an odd game of pool and chess, but if you're marco rubio, you want cruz to lose texas. so rubio's not going to win texas. so then do you want to -- if you take cruz down -- if you're marco rubio, you actually want donald trump to have a great next tuesday, so that cruz is gone when you get to florida, the tuesday after -- two tuesdays after that. that's the problem for marco rubio. it's, you know, they're all in this game now where they're so far behind, they're trying come up with these fantasy football s

tell me about ted cruz. tell me, what is going on with ted cruz? you is been a lot reporting on, tracking. what is going on with that guy? eliana: i think he is in a difficult position because he is being hammered from above and below. he is hammered by donald trump, who has not stopped calling him a liar, and hammered from below by marco rubio. i think his message is getting a little bit drowned out because he has a bad habit of not being able to let anybody else have the last word so his message is getting a little bit overshadowed by his attempts to respond to the attacks on him by trump. he held a press conference today responding. and i think he is not quite getting his message out. he is getting caught up in responding and being on defense. john: i noticed today he started talking about donald trump sued him or filed a suit against him for maybe not being able to run for president because of canadian origins and that he would be guilty of filing a frivolous lawsuit and that anyone who signed on would be sanctioned by the court. and i thought,

in third place was ted cruz. a press conference and speaking houston, where he earned the nod of his old friend texas governor greg abbott. ted cruz compared the race with a circus. sundays, 8:00 p.m. on showtime. sen. cruz: we can't be fooled by pt barnum. [applause] the time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing bears is passed. [applause] now is the time for texans to stand together. mark: cruz talked about how happy he was back to be in texas, but texas may not be the saving grace that he needs. and you pull out today, cruz and trump are basically tied. it shows ted cruz at 29% and trump at 28%. al, you said before something that not everyone agreed with, but i do want you to talk about it. what is ted cruz's path to victory, and is it good for him if rubio stays in the race, or does he not have the same situation rubio has? al: i think it is a little bit different, although they want to both stay in for a while if you want to be trump. here's the ted cruz path. it is even harder to rubio's. he has

ted cruz, 27%. if those hold, that is the second state in a row where he's losing evangelicals, ted cruz is, to donald trump. >> let's go further. south carolina was the state where ted cruz was supposed to have a big victory, command evangelicals and project his strength into super tuesday where there is going to be a huge population of evangelicals, better than half in more than half of the states. for donald trump to have pulled off two in a row is a very, very important statement. it says that evangelicals are not single issue voters. they're american voters who want a winner and someone strong. by a 2-1 margin, it looks like they're picking trump over cruz. >> carl, thank you. >> just looking at the polls here is another one for you. satisfied, but not enthusiastic. and that enthusiastic. and among g.o.p. voters in nevada, one is enthusiastic. >> oh. >> one. >> it's that bud light guy. >> we're just getting started here. people in nevada wrap up caucuses. we'll see another record turn out, or w