jackson lee of texas. the chair: the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. ms. jackson lee: i restate my earlier premise that science is the work of the 21st century because when you are innovative and do research you create jobs and opportunities. this amendment establishes that basic research is in the national interests of the united states. let me suggest to you that with all of the universities that we have in this country, when i travel, i always hear individuals seeking to come to be taught in american institutions of education -- of higher education. it is because of the creative thought and the research that is done whether in medicine or all the forms of science, technology because we have a free-flowing basis upon which people can think and invent, i want that to continue and i want the national science foundation to be the cornstone of that. i have in my hand why declining research threatens u.s. innovation deficit. i ask unanimous co

of texas, and as a woman who lives in texas. texas state law h.b. 2 has led to the closure of more than 20 abortion facilities in the state, taking the number, the total number of providers from 40 to 19. its true purpose, to take every woman's right to -- to take away women's rights to make their own health care decisions and it couldn't be more blatant. again, to take away every woman's right. the right to choose. no one stands on this floor tonight to promote and coddle an abortion but we do stand on the floor to protect a woman's right to choose her health and her sacred right of making such decisions with her god, her family, and her physician. where does h.b. 2 and other bills have the right to interfere with that? let me also cite for you a u.n. working group concluded that women in the united states inexplicably lag behind international human rights, pointing to data research on political representation and economic and social rights and health and safety protections, experts of the u.n. working group boldly acknowledge

let's get to the texas voters. we want to start off with one of the top stories of the day, choosing a successor for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. "the washington post" is reporting that the white house is vetting -- this is something harry reid floated today, centrist republican nevada governor brian sandoval as a potential nominee. president obama said he hopes the senate will consider his nominee once he makes his choice. republicans meantime on the judiciary committee yesterday said they want to wait on any hearings until after the election. bob, tell us your question. >> mr. cruz, during the past seven years, we have witnessed an unprecedented disrespect, disregard of the constitution. >> yes. >> with the passing of justice scalia recently, a lot of folks are worried about the fundamental principles of our country. what our country was founded on being in jeopardy. what would you do in order to restore faith in the high court's ability to uphold our constitutional rights? >> bob, thank you for

he is the texas senator. he's supposed to poll over 50 in his own state. >> they only get two -- >> with him declining, there's going to be movement in the next week in texas. it can only be in one direction at this point. >> i do think there will be some movement, but the early voting in texas is so much to cruz's benefit. they're going to close that on friday at about 55% of republican primary -- will have already voted so that's so much -- >> more than half will have voted in -- >> yes, they will have voted already. that's really to cruz's advantage -- >> rubio's great detriment, rubio was going to get anything there, rubio is getting the late moving -- >> cruz has good campaign organization. i don't think trump will completely sweep texas, but things are not looking good for ted cruz right now. >> 20,000 volunteers is nothing to sneeze at. you're right. if you can't put it away and take all the delegates there, that's my official response. >> once again, we are forced to conduct business. >> another break

let's get to the texas voters. we want to start off with one of the top stories of the day, choosing a successor for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. "the washington post" is reporting that the white house is vetting -- this is something harry reid floated today, centrist republican nevada governor brian sandoval as a potential nominee. president obama said he hopes the senate will consider his nominee once he makes his choice. republicans meantime on the judiciary committee yesterday said they want to wait on any hearings until after the election. bob, tell us your question. >> mr. cruz, during the past seven years, we have witnessed an unprecedented disrespect, disregard of the constitution. >> yes. >> with the passing of justice scalia recently, a lot of folks are worried about the fundamental principles of our country. what our country was founded on being in jeopardy. what would you do in order to restore faith in the high court's ability to uphold our constitutional rights? >> bob, thank you for

in texas, if we do not split the hispanic vote, you could lose texas and its 38 electeral votes and i think marco rubio and others will make the point you can't have a candidate that shuts down the hispanic vote. >> it was a small sample size. he did win the latino vote. >> 8%. >> i'm just saying it's out there. >> and you're seeing ted cruz move more towards donald trump on the issue of deportations of the illegal immigrants. >> and let's not go away thinking donald trump can win all of these hispanic voters. this is not going to make in -- >> they didn't vote against him though. >> a, they're hispanic republicans and 8%, guys. it's like 2500 votes. this is not going to bode well for a national election or even be a forecaster. >> mathanks so much. >>> and everybody, the five remaining republican candidates will meet head-to-head in the next gop debate tomorrow night in houston, texas. wolf blitzer will be nominating. this is a cnn moderated presidential debate. at 8:30 p.m. >>> trump will speak after his big win in nevada. and you saw it behind steve, that's tomorrow night. >>> plus

if ted cruz wins in texas, he's the senator from texas. of course he should win texas. marco rubio should carry florida. john kasich should carry ohio. if you can't carry your own state, you're not going to be much use as a presidential candidate outside of your state. >> amanda, as we mentioned, cruz leading in texas. trump, though, leading in virginia, leading in florida, other key states, in march. if you were cruz, do you focus all your time and all your resources in texas over the next few days? because as jeffrey just said, if he wins, some people say, okay, well, he should have won this state, or do you try to make gains elsewhere? >> sure. texas clearly has always, before donald trump started doing so well, was always a key part of ted cruz's march for a southern strategy. this was a map that was built really for ted cruz, nobody anticipated what donald trump is going to do. clearly, cruz is going to make a play there. he's made no bones about it. he said, next week is very important for the campaign. the thing that's important for tonight and march 1st is build

please, texas, let's win texas. i want to win texas! [ cheers and applause ] >> but i was called by the border patrol, and these people are incredible. and they want to do their job. they really want to do their job. that's why they call me. and they said would it be possible for you to come to texas, to laredo? and i said, well, i think so, yeah. i said, fine, i'll do it. i went to laredo and i went to some of the top border patrol folks. they are just incredible, smart, tough, great people. and by the way, you know who else are great people? our police are great people! [ cheers and applause ] >> they're being abused. our police are being abused! our police are incredible people! in fact, i just took pictures backstage. what a group of people you have. they're incredible people. iç just want to -- we have to t out the plug every once in a while, because one bad incident, whether it's a mistake or somebody was just a bad apple, and it's played for weeks and weeks on the news, and the thousands and tens of thousands of great jobs that

texas finished strong. connor lammert knocking down the three. that gave texas the lead. they had a 22-0 run late in the ballgame to win by 15. javan felix and isaiah taylor doing a terrific job playing downhill and getting to the free-throw line for texas. >> greg: texas a winner by the score of 76-63. meanwhile, seth, arizona on the road at utah running into a red-shot runnin' utes team. >> seth: a really good game. freshman for arizona trier had 23. gabe york. childers, where are you? old school reference. >> clark: i was at that game. >> seth: first time since 1998 the utes defeat arizona and nobody stormed the court. nobody got hurt. really good team, utah. watch them. your top four in the country. >> clark: i have five fighting for the number four seeds. michigan state -- kansas, villanova clearly on the number one line for me, xavier, michigan state, north carolina, two of those three i think will end up on the one line. >> seth: we have a result to come today in charlottesville but right now virginia even though they're lower than north carolina in the a.c.c. stan

texas is split. but in florida and ohio, if trump won either of those he would sit out the sitting governor and senator from those states. >> trump's detractors said his support tops out at 30 or 40 percent. and if the other candidates would consolidate in to one that person will have the remainder of the nontrump vote and maybe 60 percent. and larry told us earlier that he didn't necessarily agree with that. he said it could graveitate some to trump. what to you think? >> that narrative, his support is 30 or 35 percent of the republican electorate, he got 46 and almost an outright majority in nevada. that seems to put the lie to that. and i agree with sabato, i wont assume ted cruz gets out. and it would switch to rubio and kasich. trump is doing well with christian evangelical. i think a lot of cruz' support it would go to trump. there is no indication they are getting out. kasich is in until march 15th. and so is rubio. and if cruz wins texas he will press ahead and you have a split plus ben carso

not just here in texas, but around texas. the african-american vote, female votes, but certainly, we know the value if a candidate can rally these key blocks. the national association of latino officials projects 13.1 million latino voters will cast the ballot. the presidential election is up from 11.2 million him when you hear donald trump say he's won the votes in nevada and he will win the hispanic vote, what's your reaction to that? >> well, you know, donald trump makes bombbassic claims. if you look at the numbers, the country feels like we need somebody who is more positive. everybody understands there is frustration and anger on both sides they don't want a president. somebody in the presidency who will be bombbast tobacco people. i heard since donald trump entered the race, so many latinoings said they will vote for the first time. now donald trump has gotten closer to winning the republican nomination. i have been approached by folks who said if he wins the nomination these are spannic republicans, they'll vote for h

texas is such a large state that oftentimes legislation that is passed out of texas has an impact on the rest of the nation. and it does seem that much of the discriminatory laws regarding redistricting, regarding voter suppression, like the voter i.d. bill, sadly has emanated from our state. mr. speaker, let me tell you just how bad it is in our state. this is going to be really hard for some people to believe. but in the state of texas, if a young person on a college campus were to, you know, find themselves, their freshman year lost on campus or if they were to find themselves in a little bit of trouble on campus they would be able to show their student i.d. to the proper law enforcement official who is a police officer, recognized by the state of texas, on the campus, to identify themselves and that i.d. works for them to be able to legally identify themselves. but in the state of texas today that same young person would not be able to show that same student i.d. at the voting place, at the voting booth, to be able to cast the vote. but you bring your concealed handgun license in

please, texas. let's win texas. i want to win texas. [ cheering ] i was called by the border control. these people are incredible. and they want to do the job. they said, would it be possible for you to come to texas to laredo. i said, yes, i'll do it. i went to laredo and i met with a lot of the border patrol folks and some of the top people. man, they are just incredible. smart, touch, great people. you know who are great people? our police are great people. they're being abused. our police are being abused. our police are incredible people. in fact, i just took people backstage. they're incredible people. i just want to -- we have to put out the plug, everyone, throughout. one bad incident, whether it's a mistake or somebody was just a bad apple, and it's played for weeks and weeks on the news. the thousands and tens of thousands of great jobs they do, they don't get appreciated. so let's hear it for the police. so i'm in laredo. we want to stop the drugs from pouring across. we're going to stop the drugs. this i

old after texas? >> well, home states are not a given. marco rubio is getting destroyed in every poll in his home state right now. so just because it's your home state it's not a given. they have to be happy with the job you've done. ted cruz has done in washington what he told texans he would do, that's fight the establishment, try to rip obamacare out by the roots and defeat am necessar am he has done and only he has done among the three candidates leading in this race. >> a lot of political insiders would say if the gop does actually want to beat trump, that you don't want to see other gop insiders, establishment candidates like marco rubio i guess might mops each other in order to beat the top. in other words, ted cruz and marco rubio. do you think we might be seeing some sort of unity between these two? we saw in the last debate the two of them sort of ganging up on trump together instead of ganging up on each other, marco rubio even thinking that he made donald trump almost pee his pants. the tw

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austin, texas. >>> good evening from austin, texas. just over 36 hours until polls open here and across 11 other states. it is shaping up to be a pivotal night for so many campaigns. with the clock running down, the republican race took on a mean edge today. ted cruz and marco rubio attacking donald trump over everything from his taxes to his business connections to foreign policy. and trump was on defense, especially when it came to an interview this morning in which trump was asked about a supporter who used to be the grand wizard of the ku klux klan. >> reporter: today's firestorm was not over what donald trump did, but what he didn't do. >> just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke. >> reporter: failing to disavow david duke in this interview. >> would you say unequivocally you condemn them and don't want their support? >> i have to look at the group. i don't know what group you're talking about. >> the ku klux klan. >> reporter: duke is not formally endorsed the gop frontru

among them, the state of texas. our friend jacob soberoff is in ft. worth, texas. ft. worth, a long time ago was a cow town, way before it became the dallas/ft. worth metroplex. but there's an old vestige of the old west out there in ft. worth, jacob? >> reporter: yes, sir, brian. greetings from the historic ft. worth stockyards here in tarrant, texas. this is the largest urban red county in texas. and not just because of that, but also for political nerds like myself and rachel and kornacki and others of us out there, it is a bellweather of what happens in texas as a whole. if you look at 2008 and 2012, what happen has statewide in tarrant county. to the historic coliseum, we talked to people at the championship rodeo to see who is going to win, hometown ted cruz or donald trump who is surging out here. take a look at what they had to say. who are you leaning towards? >> right now i'm still leaning towards trump. >> reporter: donald trump, huh? over your hometown guy of ted cruz. >> yeah, i've been a businessman for 25 years and think washington needs somebody to take

if you look at the results in texas it's hard to say frankly because texas is always loaded toward the back half of the calendar n. 2012 it was pretty much done when mitt romney won just about ever county, over 250 counties. in 2008 this is a better comparison. mccain won the state. huckaby did well in north texas, eastern part of the state this. right here is harris county. that's houston. that's where ted cruz grew up. i expect him to do very well in these places of texas. and that's going to give him his best shot n. oklahoma meanwhile, you see these counties that are blue that went for huckabee? that same year those voters went for huckabee in oklahoma as well. perhaps this is where he could get some energy. as we stated earlier, he needs it. >> interesting, they moved up the primary because they wanted the nominee to be clearer this time around. now it could be working in reverse fashion for some of the candidates. let's talk about trump. of course he is very high in the polls. mane people think he is going to get the nomination. how do rubio and cruz potentially do that as well?

. >> reporter: texas governor greg abbott. >> the state of texas has an opportunity to play a texas-sized role in this primary. >> reporter: but cruz is now facing a flood of new questions and today was defensive about his path forward. >> i'm curious how many reporters asked marco rubio after losing four states in a row, so when do you drop out when you haven't won a state. to win, you've got to win states. you've got to win delegates. >> reporter: beneath the surface, there are some warning signs for campaign. the wind hasn't been at his back since his iowa win last month. he only placed third last night. after third place finishes in south carolina and new hampshire and there have been stumbles, a staff shakeup. cruz firing his communications director for distributing a false video about marco rubio and a growing awareness that the label liar -- >> he is the single biggest liar i've ever met in my life. >> reporter: -- could be starting to have impact. his core base of support showing some cracks. trump beating him among evangelicals in south carolina. on the ground in his home state o

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we'll begin with heidi zhou castro in texas. texas is extremely important for the republicans. to begin with, 155 delegates. but is this a make or break state for ted cruz? >> that's what most observers are saying, del. ted cruz is leading in the polls in his home state of texas ahead of donald trump by about 13 points. but trump has advantage in all the other super tuesday states. ted cruz knows he's in the fight for his political life here in texas. now a rally for ted cruz is just letting out behind me. i have to say comparing the size of this crowd to what i saw at donald trump's rally last friday, this is about five times smaller. also the make up of the crowd very different. not quite as unbridled enthusiasm, slightly older crowd. the same crowd that in the past would have supported greg abbott or rick perry here in texas. so ted cruz taking aim at donald trump knowing that's his competition to beat, attacking trump for his record on the second amendment. >> i'll point out to you my two leading competitors have both previously supported banning guns. donald trump supporte

. >>> on this episode of death row stories, a brutal murder in texas. >> he went crazy. he started shooting all over the place. >> lands a 17-year-old offender on death row. >> young people were committing very adult crimes. >> but with questionable evidence -- >> there's no guns. there's no blood dna, nothing. >> and a death sentence looming. a d.a. has doubts. >> i was horrified by what i saw. >> and a boy's life hangs in the balance. >> evil people. i'm never going to change if they should be executed. >> there's a body in the water. >> people proclaim their innocence. in this case, there are a number of things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs. let the truth fall where it may. ♪ >>> on the south side of san antonio, texas, late on a fall evening in 1984, a murder was about to take place. >> the neighborhood was very tough. you know, there are street gangs all over the place. people talk about the mexican mafia. >> in a small half-built house slept tw

texas, 26. the argument from cruz and rubio's people again and again, as well, if you lump their numbers together you see that donald trump is sitting on a fleurty and there are a lot of other republicans that dis50 degree. but in your view as an expert on the way voters break, is that likely to happen? >> well, first of all, sure, in theory if you lump the nontrump candidates they beat trump. that's the nearry and here's the reality. there are still candidates in the race right now. look, ari, i think there is something in politics called momentum that you can't really poll. and i don't think given the dynamics of this race, with mrmr. mr. trump, and then these new allegations by senator cruz, i'm not sure that everything works out in a linear fashion in the fort coming weeks that cruise and rubio hopes it will be. i think the issue right now is, for better or worse on the republican side, donald trump is setting the narrative. and i think in politics, if you are the person setting the narrativ

the gentleman from texas is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. marchant: i rise to claim time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. marchant: the goal of the debt management and fiscal responsibility sact to create a sound process -- act is to create a sound process, considering the federal debt limit. this amendment is not focused on that goal. instead it asks for the administration to speculate about unrelated and impractical issues such as projection of wages at various percent aisles. instead we -- percentiles. instead we should be spending time on coming up with a credible solution to slow the trajectory of our debt. i oppose this amendment and ask that members vote no. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. chairman. again, you know, the bill overall is a push to continue to deal only with austerity as a plausible budgetary policy for this country. and we can see what that austerity only

iowa state with a monster game at home against texas. see if the cyclones could take down the horns later in sports. james: and i'll have your forecast next. weatherrate the independent weather experts " james/wx wall we have another "clipper" type system coming in from the nw and it has prompted a winter weather advisory for much of northern, eastern and central iowa through sunday morning. snow will start up after 6 pm saturday night and continue off and on into early sunday morning. right now, it looks like the metro could get about 2-4" while heavier amounts of 3-6" will be possible north and east of us. most of the snow should be done by noon sunday. cloudy with highs close to average in the low 30s. it should be a nice enough afternoon for the kids to go out and play in the newly fallen snow! warmer weather will finally start to take shape over the midwest and iowa next week with some 40s likely by the end of the week! have a great weekend! local 5 meteorologist james peterson (weather wrap) and it has prompted a winter weather adv

abuse of power charges related to his time as texas governor. this mugshot was taken in august 2014. the governor made sure to take a handsome mugshot with a big smile. and he actually turned that arraignment that day into a big happy political event. he had cheering supporters outside the courthouse. he gave kind of a simultaneously triumphant and defiant speech from the courthouse steps. afterwards, he invited reporters to go out to ice cream with them after his arraignment. i'm not kidding. rick perry put the happiest possible spin on his felony criminal indictment. but it still did seem to just kind of linger on like an old cooking smell you can't quite get out of the kitchen even when you open the windows. as 2014 turned to 2015 and he tried to mount his second run for president, this indictment thing just hung around. it had to be mentioned by anybody who talked about him for any length of time. that run for president didn't last all that long. governor perry made basically no impression other than the indictment thing and some favorable r

they are hoping that they can beat him of course in texas. but ted cruz has long made super tuesday the centerpiece of his campaign. his view is, look, i'm going to captivate the southern states i'm going to get all the votes. but the reality is once he gets past this and we get deeper into the calendar you are going to move to a lot more states that are not as favorable to a candidate like ted cruz. >>> turns out the first case of zika virus transmitted threw sexual contact has now been reported in oregon. what this could mean for our fight against zika now and what we can all do to protect ourselves. the ds are here to fill us in, "sunday housecall" is next. (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you

tiene que ganar florida como cruz tiene que ganar texas. si no pueden ganar su propio estado, va a estar difÍcil. las encuestas que cruz estÁ dlan taer tera en su estado en texas. pero en la florida estÁ por debajo de donald trump. >>> muy por debajo. y vienen 11 primarias el primero de marzo y ahÍ se va a ver, quien, si realmente hay una oportunidad, porque cruz le toca texas el lunes si no gana cruz en texas y marco rubio en florida esto se acabÓ y severa muy rÁpido en marzo. >>> y seÑor nÚÑez, vamos a hablar del impacto de anoche para el partido demÓcrata. hill clinton gana con 74% del voto mÁs del 80% del voto pfroamericano. yaaes una situaciÓn donde hillary clinton. tiene poco que demostrar para ser la lÍder o bernie sanders puede darle batalla. >>> la victoria ayer para la secretaria clinton fue abrumadora, aÚn no ha ganado la nominaciÓn, hay que recordar que bernie sanders tambiÉn estÁ llevando a cabo una campaÑa muy eficaz recaudando fondos mÁs que la secretaria clinton y al mismo tiempo, tiene una organizaciÓn m

the cruz campaign is not calling texas do-or-die. but rather they say they plan to do well there on tuesday. another home state poll came in today, quinnepiac university. it released it is florida reading and shows marco rubio has significant ground to gain on donald trump. rubio said yesterday he feels he will win florida, and rubio campaign is pushing back hard on that poll. top advisor todd harris tweeting, media needs he to chill. the florida q poll numbers are way wrong. we are going to win florida, period, take it to the bank. first up though, for these candidates, tackling the debate tonight in texas. back to you in new york. david: okay, if they don't win florida it's a problem. thank you very much, blake. >> either he is not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or not paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets or to the disabled like he has been telling us he's been doing. melissa: mitt romney, warning there may be a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. the gop f

>> when i hear people say that ted cruz has to carry texas, he's the senator from texas. when i hear them say marco rubio has to carry florida. if john kasich can't carry ohio. all three of them -- >> it's over. >> if they do carry those, it will keep going on. >> but let's not forget, the big opportunity for all this to come up is tomorrow at the debate. i think mitt romney was doing everything to throw some material out there because at the end of the day, i doubt that mitt romney wants to see donald trump become the nominee. i see this as a form of helping, get some people to look into it, put trump on something. >> but he didn't endorse. maybe he thought his endorsement wouldn't actually help marco rubio. >> it probably wouldn't have. >> i want to thank our panel. tune in tomorrow night when the republican candidates face off in the last debate before super tuesday. wolf blitzer is moderating the debate here in houston tomorrow night, 8:30 eastern on cnn. we'll be leading up into the debate. i'll be joining us at 8:00. >>> a new endorsement for hillary clinton and a l

the chair: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: the chairman says this bill came out with strong support and was relevant. the vote in the committee, it s many, many months ago, was strictly partisan. this is a diversion. it was marked up at the same time as that pay china first bill. anybody remember? that irresponsible legislation that came to the floor that was passed by the republicans and died the death legislatively it deserved. so here we are with this bill, part of a two-package bill, that is also going nowhere but it's worse than that because it's really a diversion, a diversion from what we really should be talking about. it requires the treasury department to provide to congress information on the debt limit that we already receive. distracting from republicans' repeated recklessness about default and reinforcing the false belief that the debt limit is a tool for managing the

so very confident about texas and also we know that we're going to do well on super tuesday beyond texas. as we move forward. marco rubio is a candidate with the problem. he doesn't have a pathway to victory. he doesn't have any states which he expects to win until florida, which is bizarre. because florida by the time the ballots are counted in florida, 60% of the delegates will already be gone. that's not a pathway to victory. we're bullish on the path that we're on. and the fact that texas is coming up quick. >> well, let me just ask you again. i'll go at this from a different angle. george bush's supporters have resoundingly been flocking to marco rubio, not necessarily to ted cruz. and george bush's supporters are numerous in the state of texas, as is george bush money -- or jeb bush, i beg your pardon. as is jeb bush's money. bush country, you can't deny that. and then you have the whole hispanic vote, too. and many of the rubio meetings and rallies have had a heavier influence of hispanics in their audiences than your candidate, ted cruz. that's got to be a concern. >> well, a cou

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if someone actually hits 50% in texas, that's the threshold by which all of the delegates in texas would go to one candidate. ted cruz has been campaigning significantly there, and i'm not saying that he would be able to do that but i think that's one of the far-fetched hopes of his campaign he can do that in terms of delegate mass, donald trump is owning the field in a place like south carolina where rubio's campaign was bragging about a second place finish, trump still took all 50 delegates. so you have a lot of delegates on the field, and particularly in texas where 155 are in play for republicans. that's a significant battleground where before that 50% threshold, you see delegates doled out based on performance. >> your party leader is usually your nominee can the last nominee for the republicans what mitt romney. mitt romney seems to be coming out at the antidonald but i haven't heard much from anybody else, aside from, say -- well, that's about it, really. lindsey graham, i guess. >> i think that mitt romney was a polarizing figure in republican circles. people believed after 2012

please, texas, let's win texas. i want to win texas. i was called by the boarder patrol and these people are incredible and they want to do the job. that's why they called me and said would it be possible for you to come to texas to lerado and i said i think so, fine, i'll do. i went and method with a lot of the boarder patrol folks and the top people and man, they are just incredible, smart tough, great people. our police are incredible people. in fact, i just took some backstage, what a group of people. we have to put out to plug everyone. one bad incident, whether it's a mistake or somebody was just a bad apple and has played for weeks and weeks on the news and the thousands and tens of thousands of great jobs they do, they don't get appreciated. let's hear it for the police. so i'm in laredo and they tell me they want to stop it. we're goi drugs and it's going to be a real wall. and i'm the only one that knows how to build it. these guys have no clue. politicians all talk, n

texas finished strong. connor lammert knocking down the three. that gave texas the lead. they had a 22-0 run late in the ballgame to win by 15. javan felix and isaiah taylor doing a terrific job playing downhill and getting to the free-throw line for texas. >> greg: texas a winner by the score of 76-63. meanwhile, seth, arizona on the road at utah running into a red-shot runnin' utes team. >> seth: a really good game. freshman for arizona trier had 23. gabe york. childers, where are you? old school reference. >> seth: first time since 1998 the utes defeat arizona and nobody got hurt. really good team, utah. watch them. >> greg: oklahoma a loser. your top four in the country. >> clark: i have five fighting for the number four seeds. michigan state -- kansas, villanova clearly on the number one line for me, xavier, michigan state, north carolina, two of those three i think will end up on the one line. >> seth: we have a result to come today in charlottesville but right now virginia even though they're lower than north carolina in the a.c.c. standings would be above north ca

where is ted cruz in the polls in texas? is he making headway >> well, there's a new statewide poll out tonight from the university of houston. that poll shows ted cruz 15 points ahead of donald trump. i should point out only about 400 voters were included in that poll but here's what's interesting. 19% of those polled say they are still undecided. i guess we'll have to watch the cnn republican debate tomorrow night to try and make up their minds. we hear donald trump saying he'd like to win texas. he also expects to see ted cruz go way, way down in texas. those are his words. we'll see what's happens come super tuesday. >> randi, thanks. tune in tomorrow night when the republicans meet here at the university of houston. wolf blitzer will be moderating the republican presidential debate starting at 8:30 eastern. join us here at 8:00 p.m. for the run-up to the debate. >>> you may not recognize this man. not a household name. it's being floated as a potential nominee for the supreme court justice. he's a republican. how will t

texas is always a different state. texas loves anything that's texas despite whatever shortcomings. but i think he will do great. when you look at the rest of super tuesday, i don't think it's even close. remember, he won in south carolina, where he wasn't supposed to. he's winning with evangelicals, winning with hispanics. he likes to joke he's winning with tall people, short people, skinny people, fat people. >> let's talk about women. will he win with women? >> he will. when you talk about a real track record with women, they like to say he's mysogenist. that's nonsense. that interview from howard stern, that's news as opposed to having fun with a friend and they try to paint him in a ngt way. in 1982, 35 years ago, long before there was ever any type of talk about women doing this and women doing that, like we have today, he had a woman in charge of building trump tower. in new york city. in charge of construction. in the early '80s. it's unheard of. know what he's about? he's about merit. if you are the right person for the job. >> tell me why there is so much establishment res

[applause] >> i love coming to texas. i love being in texas. to me, texas is the living and breathing embodiment of american exceptionalism. it is a confident and successful society. and i so admire the moxie, swagger and bravado of texas and the steadfast refusal to enter the embrace the world that we now occupy and for that reason texas is a model for the entire world to follow. texas is to america what america is to the world. it is a guiding light. it is the idea that we should turn to whenever we seek guidance or counsel and that's why on the tenth of july, 2013 when the former governor rick perry appointed me an honorary texan, it was one of the greatest days that i ever had. ladies and gentlemen, i am here at the moment on a book tour, retake in america, crushing political correctness is a book for anybody that loves america and hates political correctness. and i look forward to sharing with you a lot about that book and its content today. i want to thank a lot of people that made this event possible. i want to thank the wonderful staff

>> texas just hasn't been that relevant in primary campaigns. we're usually too late and pretty bitter about it. this time texas is to the all-- to the allly relevant and it's very much like a national campaign. there are 20 media markets, typically in the past when you win a campaign you get on a private plane and bolt from place to place. here they are heading up the local markets in dallas, and houston and just trying to make their case. donald trump has a big rally in fort worth texas on friday, competing with marco rubio in dallas. it's all penned around this debate tomorrow night. and the rest are bolting on to the other states and trying to hit up the rest of the march 1s primary. >> as we saw in nevada, lots of conversation about the latino vote. how big a factor is that in the democratic primary, especially. well, on the republican primaries t doesn't matter which primary in texas. >> republicans say that the latino vote is consequently, that there are plenty of hispanics who are business owners and religiously conservative so there is

into texas politics. there were eyebrows raised about why governor abbott didn't endorse ted cruz earlier given that relationship, but remember, there were a lot of members in this race who had ties to texas, so maybe they were worried about stepping on toes or sending the wrong message when it comes to loyalty, for example. but governor abbott today expected to come out in full endorsement of cruz. it's a get for him for super tuesday week. i can't stress just how important it is for cruz to be able to win texas, his home state, a place where he's gotten about three times as many volunteers as other states. but he feels good, he feels good about the ground in his own state. governor abbott's endorsement could potentially help in that regar regard. ari? >> hallie, i also want to ask you about looking last night, ted cruz seemed to try to strike a tougher, even more combative tone with donald trump, mixed with some levity. people noticed his sort of mike meyers-austin powers history there, don't call me a

texas finished strong. connor lammert knocking down the three. that gave texas the lead. they had a 22-0 run late in the ballgame to win by 15. javan felix and isaiah taylor doing a terrific job playing downhill and getting to the free-throw line for texas. >> greg: texas a winner by the score of 76-63. meanwhile, seth, arizona on the road at utah running into a red-shot runnin' utes team. >> seth: a really good game. freshman for arizona trier had 23. gabe york. childers, where are you? old school reference. >> clark: i was at that game. >> seth: first time since 1998 the utes defeat arizona and nobody stormed the court. nobody got hurt. really good watch them. >> greg: oklahoma a loser. your top four in the country. >> clark: i have five fighting for the number four seeds. michigan state -- kansas, villanova clearly on the number one line for me, xavier, michigan state, north carolina, two of those three i think will end up on the one line. >> seth: we have a result to come today in charlottesville but right now virginia even though they're lower than north carolina in

texas is always a different state. texas loves anything that's texas despite whatever shortcomings. but i think he will do great. when you look at the rest of super tuesday, i don't think it's even close. remember, he won in south carolina, where he wasn't supposed to. he's winning with evangelicals, winning with hispanics. he likes to joke he's winning with tall people, short people, skinny people, fat people. >> let's talk about women. will he win with women? >> he will. when you talk about a real track record with women, they like to say he's mysogenist. that's nonsense. that interview from howard stern, that's news as opposed to having fun with a friend and they try to paint him in a ngt way. in 1982, 35 years ago, long before there was ever any type of talk about women doing this and women doing that, like we have today, he had a woman in charge of building trump tower. in new york city. in charge of construction. in the early '80s. it's unheard of. know what he's about? he's about merit. if you are the right person for the job. >> tell me why there is so much establishment res

desde houston texas pedro rojas univisiÓn. marÍa: la batalla con rubio no es la Única batalla de palabras que libra donald trump en estos dÍas, tambiÉn lo estÁ haciendo con el ex presidente de mÉxico vicente fox. declaraciones de vicente fox encendieron los Ánimos de donald trump. ana: todo empezÓ con la entrevista exclusiva que jorge ramos le hizo en exclusiva al expresidente vicente fox, y le pregunto por donald trump quien ha insultado a mÉxico y a los mexicanos. vicente fox: es un fanfarrÓn resumido e ignorante, no tiene idea lo que sentarse en la silla de la presidencia de los estados unidos, es una falta de respeto. seguirÁn falso o profeta, seguirlo al desierto es peligrosÍsimo. ana: pero lo que mÁs encendiÓ el enfrentamiento de donald trump vs fox fue esto. jorge: el dice que mÉxico va pagar por ese muro. ( hablen inglÉs ) ana: trump dijo que fox tiene que disculparse, y el ex presidente de mÉxico le contestÓ. ( hablan inglÉs ) " Él pidiÓ que me disculpara, yo no me voy a disculpar por todas las co

texas finished strong. connor lammert knocking down the three. that gave texas the lead. they had a 22-0 run late in the ballgame to win by 15. javan felix and isaiah taylor doing a terrific job playing downhill and getting to the free-throw line for texas. >> greg: texas a winner by the score of 76-63. meanwhile, seth, arizona on the road at utah running into a red-shot runnin' utes team. >> seth: a really good game. freshman for arizona trier had 23. gabe york. childers, where are you? old school reference. >> clark: i was at that game. >> seth: first time since 1998 the utes defeat arizona and really good team, utah. watch them. >> greg: oklahoma a loser. your top four in the country. >> clark: i have five fighting for the number four seeds. michigan state -- kansas, villanova clearly on the number one line for me, xavier, michigan state, north carolina, two of those three i think will end up on the one line. >> seth: we have a result to come today in charlottesville but right now virginia even though they're lower than north carolina in the a.c.c. standings would be a