Week to make up their minds before tuesdays first in the nation president ial primary. Candidates are crisscrossing the state today and were here to bring it all to you. This morning were going to be seeing ted cruz, marco rubio, Hillary Clinton and according to the latest poll out this morning, all three of those candidates, i mentioned, have some work to do. On the republican side, donald trump has a commanding 24 point lead in New Hampshire, even combining support for cruz and rubio wont get you close to the billionaire businessman. Trump not the only republican in the state today. Sorry, is the only republican not in the state today. Hes taking his campaign to arkansas after finishing second in iowa. People didnt talk about my second place. They didnt talk about it as positively as they should have and yet with marco, who was more than 2,000 votes behind me, thats a lot of votes, by the way, they said, oh, hes surging, hes surging. Six weeks ago donald trump was saying every day that i was his friend, that he loved me, that i was terrific, that i was nice. And now im an anchor baby. This campaign isnt about personal insults. If they want to do that, thats fine. It will reflect on them, not on me. Im going to focus on the future of the United States of america. On the democratic side, polls in the twoperson race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton show sanders running away with it. He is up 61 to 32 here in New Hampshire. Despite that margin though, clinton says shes not giving up here where shes holding three events today. I am so thrilled that im coming to New Hampshire after winning iowa i can tell you, ive won and ive lost there. Its a lot better to win. If we reach out to our friends, our neighbors, our coworkers, if we bring out large numbers of people, we are going to win next tuesday. Were here at j. D. s tavern in manchester, New Hampshire. Im joined here by katie tur, alex and Kristen Welker is in derry. On the telephone this morning, our political director, mark, let me start with you. You just heard this breaking news with rand paul suspending his campaign, getting out of the race. I guess maybe not so shocking given his standing in iowa. Yeah. Not all that shocking, kate. It is worth noting that he finished in fifth place in the Iowa Caucuses on monday and that is a worse position than his father ended up getting in 2012. A lot of people forget this, but ron paul, his father, ended up finishing third in iowa, getting more than 20 of the vote back in 2012 and then he and ron paul got second place in New Hampshire, again, more than 20 . And rand paul was really struggling to energize his fathers libertarian constituency, and rand paul also really struggled in this Campaign Season dominated by donald trump. One thing that the paul family always kind of rend was the antiestablishment taking on the party was it was going to be hard to out trump donald trump on this issue. Rand paul failed to have the same kind of reception that his dad ended up getting in 2012, which honestly was a smaller field, not containing as many heavy weights. But rand paul one other thing worth noting, that rand paul has a senate contest. Hes up for reelection this year and after finishing in fifth in iowa he promptly thought it was important for him to get back and start preparing to hold on to his senate seat. And, mark, are you surprised that it comes this quickly . Theres been a lot of talk that not of the sort of underlings on the republican side would get out of the way until after the vote here in New Hampshire . Reporter yeah, you know, again, the timing sometimes is always a little bit surprising, kate. You know, covering a lot of these campaigns, sometimes you think these people get out a little bit too early. Sometimes you think they get out a little bit late but, again, i think its important to emphasize howell h well his fat ended up doing in New Hampshire. After rand paul ended up lagging his fathers performance in iowa, looked like that was going to be a similar situation in New Hampshire, he probably decided its time to leave and start focusing on his Senate Reelection campaign. Really the big question is who does this end up benefitting . Again, were not talking about a huge percentage. You have to think given that antiestablishment lane, that this does help at the margins donald trump and ted cruz where all of a sudden youre kind of boosting that antiestablishment percentage where in New Hampshire, you know, it is really striking, there is an establishment pileup between and among marco rubio, jeb bush, john kasich and Chris Christie. All right. Mark, stand by. Thanks so much. Let me turn to our panel. Weve added a chair here in New Hampshire. Hi, hallie. Hallie jackson is here, Alex Sykes Walt and katie tur. Youve covered rand paul. Youve been mostly lately on the Cruz Campaign. What do you make of him dropping out getting out of the way . The timing is interesting, kate. Were six days before a place where he could have been strong. He talked all the time about the liberty vote. Yesterday we hear yeah. Thats his wheel house. New hampshire is a place where he would be successful in doing that. You look at the latest polls he is in low single digits, 2 . So it seems like he saw the writing on the wall and his campaign realized that he simply was not going to be able to compete here. Its interesting. I didnt get a chance to listen to everything mark said. They moved the caucuses in kentucky so he could run for senate and president at the same time. This is i think significant and its going to potentially benefit somebody like a ted cruz. His campaign knows to compete here they have to consolidate not just the small Christian Conservative but also peel off the libertarian votes. They dont have to peel anymore. Ted cruz will be a natural fit. Is donald trump, is there any crossover between folks i think you can argue both ways. Donald trump has been the consummate outsider. Rand paul has had nice things to say about donald trump and his father. There is some ability for some supporters to peel off to donald trump. It could be ted cruz. The race is open. Donald trump is not to be Donald Trumps defender in this, but he is up by 24 points in this state, and really at this point it is his state to lose. I mean, he certainly is reeling from that loss in iowa even though it wasnt a bad showing by a firsttime candidate, he needs to do well in this state in order to have any momentum to move on. What weve seen is they seem like theyre spending a little bit more money here. He had a rally here last night and i saw more volunteers in the crowd. I asked him specifically though if hes going to change anything when it comes to his ground game, if he has any regrets for iowa. Lets take a listen to what he said. I think it could have been the debate. I think some people were disappointed that i didnt go in the debate. If i had it to do again i would have done the exact same thing, and the reason is, do you know why . Because i raised 6 million for the vets in one hour. So if i took a second place instead of a first place and could give the vets 6 million, ill do that all day long. Same subject though. And so basically when i asked him in this News Conference he had yesterday if he would do anything differently, he said no but, then again, last night on fox news he said he probably didnt have the greatest ground game in iowa. What we were hearing from some of the sources on the ground in iowa is they didnt have enough financial help from the national team, they didnt have enough support when it came to volunteers at their events. When we were here yesterday we saw a number of volunteers extra. They were canvassing the crowd asking them to do a walk and talk for donald trump. But a ground game has not been his strength and whether he loses the support because of that were going to have to wait and see. But if he does, that would just be such a major loss in the state. I can imagine the phone calls that are being made right now from the Trump Campaign, the Cruz Campaign working to see if they can get rand pauls support. I have new reaction from the Cruz Campaign. A text message from the campaign saying rand paul ran a good race and they are working hard to earn the support of the people who supported rand paul. What you would expect. Nothing earth shattering. Theyre cranking into high gear. Mark made this point, rand paul is in a tough race in kentucky. He did. Thats partly why the decision is being made. Because he needs to go back home if hes going keep his senate seat. He has to focus on that. Absolutely. This is his home turf. He doesnt want to give up his senate seat the way marco rubio did. He went through a lot of effort to get the rules changed so he could run for both. His fundamental problem was to deal with his dads legacy. He had to expand beyond what his dad did. He created a Major Movement and did well but nowhere near what you need to do to get the presidency. Big shoes. He wasnt able to do both and ended up splitting the baby, alienating people in both camps. Since i have you all here. Lets move back to the people you normally cover. Youve been talking about trump. Alex, youve been talking about Bernie Sanders. This is his state to win. Hes at 60 plus points in every recent poll tracking polls for the last couple of days here. Its his neighboring state. Can he lose New Hampshire . Is there any way . Well, obviously you want to be up in the polls, but theres also a down side that comes with it. So if in iowa his whole message was trying to spin a thyme bey little loss as an actual win, in New Hampshire its going to be spinning a win as an actual win and not just home state advantage which is what Hillary Clinton clinton and her campaign is trying to say. If that gap closes, thats going to look bad. If he doesnt put up the same kind of numbers that he looks like he has now, thats not going to look good. He has to make it look like its an actual win that people came out and supported him for president , not just because hes next door and this is a foregone conclusion. He was asked about this on the today show this morning, about his strategy moving forward. I think we have that clip we can play. Hillary clinton won New Hampshire in 2008. She has a very strong organization. Her husband ran two campaigns there. I understand that, senator. Given what the circumstances are right now, would anything less than a resounding victory in New Hampshire be disappointing for you . Matt, thats just media talk, you know. Every state you go to thats what the media says. What happens in iowa . What happens in New Hampshire . Its very important to us. We want to win it. There you have it. I mean, he is going to say that clinton won here, that bill clinton was the comeback kid. This is really the state that gave both of them their shot to the presidency. Right. It didnt take Hillary Clinton all the way there, but it did keep her alive. Well see if we can get to that all about managing expectations. Hosts saturday night live. Bernie sanders will make an appearance. We joke about it, but that is such his strength right now is sanders has got the snl viewers, right . Hes got the young people. He does, yeah. Trump has some of them, too. He has some of them. Trumps support kind of crosses a lot of boundaries, but i think with the Bernie Sanders stuff, especially the young kids watching snl, seeing larry david are amused by that. Im not so young and i was amused by it. Im just saying. They were inspired by it. Its kind of the exact opposite of what we saw of sarah palin which is more of a making fun of and not laughing with. Ted cruz today, set up where hes at today and i mean, he dashed off to South Carolina last night. And then back again to New Hampshire late last night. Have you slept at all . I did, thank you. You know, hes got a lot of events today, both retail stops and the town halls. The campaign, i spoke with an aide last night who said they are expecting big crowds here because ted cruz in New Hampshire, given its not a state where you think he would do well can attract that 18 to 23 of the sort of very conservative evangelical vote here. You look at somebody, i think its interesting like a Mike Huckabee in 2008, he basically barely campaigned then yet still pulled in 11 or 12 of the vote in New Hampshire which then was nowhere what you needed to beat the people who got 37 , but given that the establishment lane is so split right now, everybody is sort of in that 10, 12, 8 range. Something like a 14 could end up putting ted cruz in a position where not that he would beat donald trump whos dominating right now in New Hampshire but to at least play. Lets check in on the other democratic candidate. Nbcs candidate Kristen Welker is in derry, New Hampshire. Thats where Hillary Clinton will be in the next hour. We hope to go to that live. Set up the sort of state of play for Hillary Clinton right now . Reporter kate, i heard you talking about the expectations game with alex and thats exactly the game that the Clinton Campaign is playing as well. You hear that in her comments. She said im taking on senator Bernie Sanders whos next door in neighboring vermont. They have been stressing that this is going to be a tough state for them to win. Theyve really been trying to lower expectations. At the same time, it is all hands on deck here. The Clinton Campaign bringing in hard top surrogates, former president bill clinton, gabby giffords, mark kelly. Its more than that, kate. They are bringing in everyone from clinton world to help volunteer and build up the ground game so when it comes time for voters to vote theyre getting them to the polls and getting clinton supporters to the polls. The other part of the strategy to close the gap in New Hampshire has to do with her message. She has been increasingly stressing her progressive credentials. Clearly an acknowledgment that that is resonating for the Democratic Party right now. It could play a big role right here in New Hampshire where you have a lot of independents. You talk about relationships with New Hampshire. Obviously Bernie Sanders from neighboring vermont but as alex pointed out, the clintons have a very special relationship with New Hampshire as well. This is where in 1992 bill clinton declared that he was the comeback kid and this is the state that revived secretary clintons chances for the white house in 2008. So theres a blueprint for this, kate. She was behind barack obama after the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 and she came back and overtook him for a win. The question is, can she do it again this time around . Kate . All right. Kristen welker following the Clinton Campaign. We had mark murray on the phone, katie tur, hallie jackson. Alex seitz. Thank you all. Its so great to see you in person. We dont get to see each other all the time. Tomorrow night, Rachel Maddow and chuck todd will moderate a debate. Its thursday, 9 00 p. M. Eastern, 6 00 p. M. Pacific right here on msnbc. Despite his second place showing in iowa, donald trump says that is not bad for a rookie. Heres what he had to say on morning joe. I think that i did well there. I think that i came in second place. A strong second place. I was told always that i could not do well in iowa. I was told, dont go to iowa. I said, what are you talking about . They said, its not your place, dont go there. I said, i know people there. I think ill do well. And i went there. I started in tenth place and went there. I came in, i ended up in second place. I guess there was a poll that came out that had me winning it by four or five points, a pretty close poll, but i came in second place. And, you know, im happy with that. Its interesting that marco came in third place and they said its one of the great victories in the history of politics. And i said, well, how come if he came in third place and i came in substantially better at second place, why isnt mine one of the great victories in the history of politics . And they said, no, no, his is, yours isnt. I said, thats wonderful. I didnt understand that. You know, i came in second place. You know, i was satisfied. I think probably its a place i could have won if i really went there more and did a little more work there. You know, i was i was satisfied with it. Youve obviously risen on the personality of your personality and big crowds. Ted cruz rose on his organization. Hes had people working for months and months getting out to the precincts making sure the voters came out. Do you feel in some ways you need to have a little bit more of a conventional campaign, which is to say more organization on the ground Going Forward and more of a team working on those things. I think we could have used a better ground game, a term i wasnt familiar with. When you hear ground game, you say, what the hell is that . Now i am familiar with it. I think in retrospect we should have had a better ground game. I would have funded a better ground game but, you know, people told me my ground game was fine. And i think by most standards standards it was. Dont forget, in the history of iowa, i got the most votes other than one person, ted, i got the most votes in the history of iowa for the republican primary and caucus. I got a tremendous amount of votes. Nobody came close. You know, so thats in history other than the one person. So there was a lot of action. We had, i think, 50 or 60,000 people more voted than the last time, which is tremendous. I think ill take some of that credit. There was a lot of spirit. I think i brought something to the republicans and actually ted had said this and other people have said this, that, you know, i had brought something. A lot of people. A lot more eye balls are going in looking at what were doing. And the crowds are much bigger. I think the crowds are bigger for everyone. The crowds are very big. Moving on to New Hampshire, what did you learn. Its complicated. You think everything is fine. Its not like you walk in and you vote and you walk out. You know, youre in and out in ten minutes or two minutes. The caucus system is a complex system that i was never familiar with. Dont forget, joe, im doing this for the first time. Right. Im like a rookie and im learning fast. And i do learn fast. And i think were doing you know, i think we did really well. Hey, look, there were many governors and many senators in iowa that would have loved to have had the second place finish. That was donald trump. Donald trump this morning on morning joe. Ted cruz riding high following his victory in iowa, but he faces an even tougher task here in New Hampshire where polls have him far behind donald trump. Joining me now former New Hampshire senator bob smith, cochair for ted cruzs Campaign Team here in New Hampshire. Nice to see you, senator. Good morning, kate. Thanks for being here bright and early. Apologize for the wardrobe. This is New Hampshire. What are you going to do . Its cold out there. Were lucky to be inside. Let me ask you about the breaking news this morning, rand paul dropping out, suspending his campaign technically. What do you make of that . And is ted cruz on the phone already trying to see if maybe he can get an endorsement . First of all, let me say rand paul and his dad ron paul were two of the staunchest defenders of liberty in the history of the republic. He has a lot of followers in New Hampshire, and i think theyll have to make their own mind up but i think if they really take a hard look at whos out there defending liberty and defending New Hampshire values against the washington establishment, the washington cartel, i think not only rand paul followers, but i think conservatives consistently consistent conservatives, good conservatives who have been conservative throughout their history their voting history will be for senator cruz. Why do you think it didnt work out for rand paul . Weve been talking about it. He didnt get a lot of traction. Certainly didnt get as much traction as his father did. Some people have pointed to Foreign Policy in an era when everyone is concerned about terrorism. Hes an isolationist. Its tough analyze another guys campaign. Ive been working with senator cruz for about a year. There are a lot of good candidates in there who are good conservatives, defenders of liberty. You know, iowa has a tendency to winnow people out. It just didnt happen. But hes a great man. Hes a Great American and i believe that his people will come will come hopefully will come to us. I would just say some may be looking at donald trump. I heard that in your previous segment, but, you know, Donald Trumps position on Eminent Domain private people taking private property is a huge issue for libertarians and libertyminded people. So if youre looking at donald trump i like how you just got that in there. Well, its a fact. Lets talk about ted cruz and the results in iowa. The last two republicans to win iowa, rick santorum, Mike Huckabee, could not replicate that here in New Hampshire. Right. They had trouble, quite frankly, the evangelical vote doesnt exist here the way it does in iowa. How is ted cruz going to capture enough votes here in the live free or die state . I think first of all senator cruz is running on New Hampshire values, against the cartel in washington. All of the things that conservatives here stand for, believe in, he represents. You know, whether its against planned parenthood, against amnesty, against illegal immigration and, you know, lower taxes, lower spending, growth, all of those things are New Hampshire values. The second point which is a little more logistical. The very same organization, the very same tenants of that organization that won in iowa the ground game, if you will. The ground game, you took the words right out of my mouth, are on the ground here. Ive been involved in it now for nine months and i can tell you its a good its a great ground game. The best ive ever seen. Have you moved the apparatus from iowa or these are people here all the time . These are our people here but its the same technology, if you will, the identifying voters, finding out who our voters are and talking to them one on one. Phone zbluf camp cruz here in you New Hampshire . Its out here. Im a believer. Ive been involved in politics here for 30 years and i can tell you that this is the best Campaign Organization ive ever seen. Former senator bob smith, always good to see you. Good to see you. I feel like im back in New Hampshire now that youre here. Welcome back. From the Cruz Campaign. Thanks for your time this morning. Were expecting to hear from rand paul. Well bring that to you live. 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Theyre all hoping to win over Granite State voters in the nations first primary vote next tuesday. God bless the great state of New Hampshire. Were bringing all of that energy, all of that excitement, all that determination right here to New Hampshire where were going to work hard up until the primary next week. My goal from the beginning was to come to New Hampshire and to really, really do very well. Thats what were going to do next tuesday. Astounded the world and now in New Hampshire were going to astound the world again. And its another busy day for the candidates as they crisscross the state in the hopes of winning over undecided voters. Lets start by looking at the new poll today showing donald trump with a sizeable lead over his rivals despite the fact that hes not even in the state today. Hes in arkansas. We learned that in iowa it was all about the ground game. We were just talking about that with ted cruzs representative. Can he maintain a lead here if hes not always here in the state . Well, it makes it a lot harder, certainly. In polls hes leading by double digits. Marco rubio jumped up because of iowa. Exactly. It gives momentum to people like rubio. He came out of iowa with all of the momentum with all of this talk you hear even on capitol hill representative Pete Sessions was talking about perhaps switching his vote from bush to rubio. Theres a lot more endorsement talk. A lot more establishment consolidation talk. But then on the inverse of that, trump really has to prove himself here and hes not here to do it. But he is coming back to be fair. He was here last night and he drew a sizeable crowd. It was sort of the old school trump that we saw last night again. Not the sober, you know, i came in second but the im here, im back. Ground game wise, and i hate that i keep using that term, but do they have have they learned from iowa and will the Trump Campaign be able to get out more of a vote here . It remains to be seen. Thats really crucial here. When i was at iowa at his events there you saw you would go he never actually asked for their vote. Hes such the nontraditional politician. He never once said please go out and caulk tus for me. This time around hes learning in that sense. He did say go out and vote for me this time around. The question is are they registering voters . Are they getting pledge cards signed . Are they getting Contact Information and following up for them . That takes a lot of effort and staff and state. That little stuff matters. Yeah. Theres a lot of speculation about some of the other republicans here and that this may be a do or die state. Were talking about for jeb bush, for john kasich, maybe even for Chris Christie who came in tenth in iowa although he would say hes doing very well here in New Hampshire. Is this a do or die for them . Certainly it is for jeb bush i think and Chris Christie. Chris christie particularly because hes staked so much on this state, right . So he got the endorsement of the union leader which is the biggest paper in the state. He seems to be the establishment pick here. Hes not doing well. Hes behind jeb in polls. He spent so much of the last week out of state. He had that huge storm in new jersey which, you know, he had to go back to new jersey to do the cleanup for. Then he actually went to iowa. I think it was a bad gamble because he thought he could knock jeb bush out in iowa and jeb actually ended up beating him in iowa. Now hes here, he lost that whole week of campaigning in New Hampshire and he didnt knock out jeb bush. So i think its tough for him. Its going to be interesting. Kay newton small, great to see you again. Great to see you. Were also expecting to hear from rand paul at any moment after announcing this morning his campaign acknowledging he would drop out of the race. 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His campaign really trying to make that argument in that it is now a threeperson race on the republican side between him, donald trump, and ted cruz. In a town hall meeting last night he really tried to make the case that he was best positioned to take on Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. Of course, that has made him a target for the socalled establishment candidates like jeb bush, Chris Christie and john kasich. Yesterday Chris Christie especially took him head on calling him the boy in the bubble and saying that this was not a Student Council election. I spoke with marco rubio yesterday and here was his response to that attack. Reporter today Chris Christie called you the boy in the bubble. Those are some strong words for christie. Hes had a i think its been a tough couple of days for chris and some of the other guys. Theyre not doing well. Some people react badly sometimes to adversity. Look, this campaign isnt about personal insults. If they want to do that, thats fine. It will reflect on them, not on me. Im going to focus on the future of the United States of america. Reporter of course, the Rubio Campaign trying to ride that momentum from that strong third place finish in iowa. The campaign announcing today so far his campaign has raised 2 million since the Iowa Caucuses. Kate . All right. Gabe gutierrez, thanks so much. Coming up, were going to tackle the emotional topic of addiction. Its a problem plaguing new england towns. Im going to talk to a mother whos watched her son battle six years of addiction. Hes now clean, shes now an advocate. She wants to hear what the president ial candidates are going to change. To shut everybody else up about me quitting smoking. I was going to give it a try, but i didnt really think it was going to really happen. After one week of chantix, i knew i could quit. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix definitely helped reduce my urge to smoke. 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This is not just heroin, although that is an extraordinary phenomena of people converting from opiates to heroin. Its what ive learned in my 24 visits to New Hampshire, that its a serious problem here. We need a comprehensive strategy to deal with this. One New Hampshire family shared their story with us, very personal experience with the struggle. Susan Allen Samuels son joe was addicted to heroin for six years. He overdosed and ended up in the hospital at least three times. He says the hardest part is all the friends hes lost. You know, not all of my friends are gone, but my Close Friends that i had throughout the years. I had a best friend, you know, through middle school, through high school and then after high school, all dead. Theyre all gone. The really Close Friends that ive lost cut pretty deep. You think about your friends a lot . Quite a bit. A lot of Close Friends. I see that thats hard. Whats hard about it . Call from ha its clearly preventible. Not wanting to die in their 20s . No. Thats tough stuff. Now in the lead up to the next primary next week, susan and joe are listening to what the candidates have to say about the drug epidemic sweeping through their state and how candidates plan to help families like theirs. With me now is Susan Allen Sam mu el, agreed to get up early in the morning and come out here. Susan, its nice to see you again. We spent some time with you out on the campaign trail. Your family has been through so much. Youve got six kids. Youve got 12 grandkids. Yeah, i do. Youre doing so much better now, we should point out, that joe is sober now for a couple of years and doing really well. I have my son back. You have your son back. A lot of families dont though. I think people dont realize outside of this region how difficult this is here. I mean, this is touching everyone. Joe said every one of his Close Friends from high school, theyre gone. Every single one of them, and i was close to some of them, too. This is a live free or die state, and quite frankly were not living free. Were sending our kids out of state. Were sending them to the streets. Theyre going to jail. And mostly theyre dying. Sending them out of state for treatment. For treatment. Its not appropriate treatment. Why is that . Is there just a severe lack of places to go for help . Lack of treatment. Lack of insurance that covers treatment. Waiting too long for treatment. Nobody should have to wait six weeks for a medical crisis, and its at least six weeks, and thats if you can get a bed if you have insurance. The number of lives lost here in the state of New Hampshire is just startling. I want to show a graph that we found to illustrate that. This is the spike in deaths from overdoses since 2011. So thats 385 last year, but look at how that line goes up be over the last four years. Why here . People dont understand why in these beautiful idyllic little communities, you live in this pretty picturesque town with farmhouses. Why not . Because there is no treatment. We treat every other medical condition, and it is a biological disease, and it can be treated. We treat it like its a moral or a character flaw and we respond by putting people in jail or allowing them to die. We are 49th in this country for treatment. Theres something really wrong with that picture. And has it become such a trend up here that young people get involved and it doesnt seem like that big of a deal for them to take heroin . I dont have a good answer for that. Its available and its cheap. They dont start with heroin. Nobody starts with heroin. Nobody gets up in the morning and says, i think im going to shoot up some heroin today. They start with prescription pills. Easily available but not so much anymore. Heroins cheap. Its available. Yeah. Ive had so many people tell me that thats the path that they took, they were using prescription drugs and they got those are really expensive. A tablet can be 80 and then you switch to heroin because its cheap. Heroin isnt new. Its not the only issue we have. Right now its whats killing our kids and family members . What are candidates missing . They clearly know theres a problem here. So what are they going to do about it . When are they going to put their money we need to stop talking about it and do something about it. Our kids are dieing while we keep having conversations about it. What about parity . We dont treat it equal to any other medical condition . What are they doing about it . I havent heard them say what theyre going to do about it yet. They all acknowledge its a problem. They acknowledge its happened in their own families. Its different for them. They have resources that we dont have. Sorry, but they do. The candidates . The candidates. Who have had family because they have talked about their families. Absolutely. And im sorry for their families. No family should have to deal with an issue like this. No family should have to suffer through even if you dont lose your child to an overdose or death, you lose your child for a long time. Hope they come back. Are you still going and seeing the candidates . We followed you to a couple of different jeb bush, Hillary Clinton. Youre trying to see as many as you can before tuesday. Well, im supposed to be going to the other to see bill clinton tonight but im really kind of torn with whats going on with hillary and bernie because i havent really heard him say anything. So youre still making up your mind as a voter . I havent decided. Im leaning a certain way but i havent decided. Its up to them to make me decide. Susan allen samuel, we respect your choice to talk about this out loud. Its not easy. It should be easy and thank you for letting me talk. It should be a conversation. Should be. Thank you so much. Thank you. We should mention that ill have more on the story of susans town and the struggle the whole town is dealing with on nbc nightly news tonight. All eyes on the state of New Hampshire, first in the nation primary to nominate the candidates for president of the United States. Up next, well talk about why this small state has unique significance. Youre watching the place for politics, msnbc. two text tones now . text tone excuse me. phone tone again . Be right back. Always running to the bathroom because your bladder is calling the shots . text tone you may have oab. Enough of this. Were going to the doctor. Take charge and ask your doctor about myrbetriq. Thats myrbetriq, the first and only treatment. In its class for oab symptoms of urgency. Frequency, and leakage. Myrbetriq mirabegron may increase blood pressure. Tell your doctor right away if you have trouble emptying your bladder, or have a weak urine stream. 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First of all, i think rand is someone i disagree with on a lot of issues. But he actually believes strongly in what he stands for, and i respect that. Hes a true believer on issues of limited government and liberty issues. I respect him for it. I thought he ran a good race. Hes going to run for reelection to the senate. I support him in that endeavor. Do you stand to pick up any of his support . We would love to have anybodys support. Well work hard to earn the support of some of the people helping him. We had some policy disagreements, but by and large, the one thing i respect about rand is hes a true believer in what he stands for. The Liberty Movement needs to be part of the conservative republican coalition. We would welcome them in. Absolutely. Are you asking for his endorsement . Do you plan to ask him directly for his endorsement . Sure, i would love to have rands support. I havent spoken to him. This happened while i was here. I also know hes now going to focus on the Senate Reelection in kentucky. Thats some sound we just got in here at msnbc. Thats marco rubio reacting to the news that rand paul will be suspending his campaign. By the way, were waiting for rand paul himself to make a statement from capitol hill. As soon as that happens, well bring that to you as well. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary. The second half of the onetwo punch that kicks off the president ial race. It could also be the punch that knocks out one or two candidates out of the race. For the last 40 years, every president ial nominee but one had a victory in iowa or New Hampshire before winning the nomination. The outlier was 1992 who five democrats won the early contest before bill clinton took control on super tuesday. Donte has been studying the states primary for 15 years or more now. Nice to see you in person. You could say that iowa doesnt always necessarily predict who is going to be the nominee. New hampshire maybe doesnt always either, knbut the two ar as we said, someone usually wins one or the other. How important is New Hampshire . New hampshire republicans represent the moderate alternative to iowa. Iowa, you have lots of religious conservatives, lots of social conservatives. New hampshire republicans, not especially religious. Much more moderate to somewhat conservative in their outlook. They present kind of a balance to iowa, and often choose a different sort of candidate than iowa chooses. Look at Mike Huckabee, rick santorum. Neither did well here. What about on the democratic side . You have Bernie Sanders, the next door neighbor. But if you had to describe the democratic voter in New Hampshire . A bit more moderate than your iowa caucusgoer. Lots of liberal democrats here, but a bigger presence of moderates. Also, they tend to be more prosperous. Lots of wealthy, suburban cou e couples living in the southern tier. Those are the folks who commute into boston. Lots of voters down there like that. You have written about your comparison between the average New Hampshire voter, republican, and the average republican nationwide. You said, were going to put this on the screen. New hampshire republicans are generally more moderate, equally hawkish on Foreign Policy, much less religious, much less socially conservative, more open to maverick candidates. Thats the one i want to ask you about. Does that mean donald trump has a great opening here . He does because he has been so much an antielite type of candidate. And basically, sticking a stick in the eye of the party elite and saying, youre all bad. Youre no good. So forth. Another person is john kasich to watch. Hes building a more bipartisan maverick message which is reminiscent a bit of john mccain. I notice his numbers today in the tracking poll are down just a couple. Its ephemeral, not necessarily a predictor, but he has been having a good couple weeks here. You said that New Hampshire polling has been stable for months now, but in years past, we have seen big swings at the last minute. Do you expect that could happen before next tuesday. I expect the unexpected spaulsh on the republican side. There are so many candidates to choose from. One fewer today, but still a lot. Republicans have not made up their mind. Theres a lot of voters with three or four candidates on their minds, not just, on the democratic side, its much simpler, bernie or hillary. Republicans, much more difficult. A lot of choices. Absolutely. Thats what makes it fun . Thank you so much for being with us. Appreciate it. We have sabig hour coming up here on msnbc. Were Just Moments Away from the start of the two town halls here in New Hampshire. Senator ted cruz, senator marco rubio in pitsfield. 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I have a lifetime of experience. So i know how important that is. At ally bank, no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like vacations equal getting carried away. More proactive selling. What do you think michal . I agree. Lets get out there. Lets meet these people. Im kate snow. Were here in manchester, New Hampshire this morning on the ground with the candidates as we near the nations first president ial primary. Any minute now, were expecting to hear from kentucky senator rand paul. Just about an hour ago, he announced hes dropping out of the president ial race. That decision coming after he finished fifth place in mondays Iowa Caucuses. The republicans still in the race are already clamoring for his support. Sources tell our Kelly Odonnell the senator is considering making an endorsement, but its not expected to come this week. Speaking of Kelly Odonnell, shes here with us. Hallie jackson is here with us. Nbcs katy tur is with us. All here in j. D. s tavern. Thank you for coming in so early. Let me start with you, kelly, since we already mention led yo. There may be an endorsement coming . Rand paul wants to be a player. If he couldnt get there himself, he wants to transfer some of the issues and voters he has in a place he thinks makes sense. His advisers are telling me hes thinking about that. To do an endorsement this week could have a potential impact on the outcome tuesday. Dont expect that. The other thing people not following it closely may not realize is hes up for reelection to the senate seat. Theres a clickical moment for him to decide where can he be most effective. He felt he has made an impact in the senate. If its not going his way to get the nomination, he doesnt want to mess with that contest in kentucky. Doesnt want to lose the power he has. You cover capitol hill day in and day out. You know senator rand paul. A lot of time with him, yes. You just caught up with john kasich. We talked to the hi governor who is betting a lot on New Hampshire and has really an interesting tack where katy has been following the tornado of trump with all the negativity, john kasich is trying to bring sunshine to the race. At the same time, hes always gaming out what his opponents look like. We talked about pauls exit with the ohio governor. Im surprised hes getting out. I like rand paul. Good guy. And best of luck in his Senate Reelection. Im really surprised. Im taken aback. Taken aback. Taken aback. I think thats because theyre all looking to see what the numbers told them from ohio. And they all are looking to grab on to voters iowa. Im from ohio. I interviewed the ohio governor. When you look at that, he has potential to get some of those voters. And the next question i asked him was about that sort of libertarian streak here. And john kasich talked about the things that have really fueled the rand paul campaign. Criminal justice reform, being concerned about privacy with respect to the government surveillance. Things where john kasich would look to make maybe some of the same points and attract some of those voters. Everybody is trying to attract those voters. By the way, every time we go away from the wide shot, youre all on your phones because people are texting you and emailing you right now from the campaigns and sources you talk to. What are they saying . Theres a sense, kelly makes a great point about the endorsement and when that might come. Rand paul has 2 , 3 of the vote. Thats not going to make a huge difference here, but what he does have thats important is grassroots activists and supporters on the ground. So the sense that im getting is probably the majority of them will end up with ted cruz. The rest will be split between trump and marco rubio, potentially. Thats where youre going to see a lot of that support go. The other part to talk about with rand paul is what his departure from the race means as far as Foreign Policy. He has been the voice that has been a counterbalance to the hawkish interventionest policy. Even though he probably wouldnt have won that argument on paper, he did at least give a presence to those within the Republican Party who felt their views werent necessarily represented by the rest of the field. Hes definitely not a hawk. Not a get in there and take on, carpet bombing. Carpet bombing an entire city is not going to appeal to a rand paul supporter. Im guessing the trump folks say theyre going to get them. Theyre not grabbing for it in the way that some of the other people in this state are because theyre doing so well here. Theyre 24 points up. When you talk about crossover, what the Trump Campaign has that is beneficial when it comes to the rand paul supporters and platform is this idea of liberty abroad. We cant be the worlds policemen. We should let them take care of themselves and deal with our issues that are back here domestically. I think theres a really big crossover between rand paul and donald trump. The supporters thinking we do too much overseas, we get involved too much, we try to solve everybodys problems are a more natural fit when it comes to donald trump. Does he need all those supporters . Not necessarily. Is he fighting for all of them . Not necessarily. Hes much more focused on ted cruz at the moment. Saying he committed fraud essentially in iowa and the election should be nullified or take place again because of this carson mailer. Has he been tweeting again this morning . Yes, he has. Get out of here. Trumps preferred method. What is his message this morning . Basically what he is saying is going hard after cruz. We thought maybe he would let up on cruz after iowa, because he might end up going after rubio more considering how strongly rubio performed in iowa, but thats not the case. This seems much more personal. This is personal at this point. Its a series of tweets this morning. We are closer to canada. Thats a good point. On another note. Yeah. What hes saying is that between the voter violation mailer and between the Cruz Campaign telling people that ben carson was going to florida, insinuating he was dropping out of the race, what they did is tried to change the minds of voters in a very dishonest way. What they have done is what hes claiming is fraud. He said that based on the fraud committed by senator ted cruz in the iowa caucus either a new election should take place or cruz results need to be nullified. He thinks all those supporters of ben carson who were told ben carson was essentially dropping out went to ted cruz unfairly. The two points would be, number one, they have said all they did was tell their supporters what ben carson was already saying. The other part is donald trump tweeted earlier this week that cruz was under investigation in iowa for the voting violation mailer. Hes not actually under violation. The secretary of state in iowa didnt like it hat all. You can draw your own conclusions. This is a mailer dirty politics. It happens all the time. It accused voters of not showing up to vote. A social pressure. Exactly. Im not sure you can say either donald trump or ted cruz has run a completely fair and above the Board Campaign in a lot of ways. I think this is dirty politics. I think both of them are trying to get the support they need to get. I think you can be very critical on both sides. Especially with donald trump and certainly with ted cruz in some ways, but donald trump has said a lot of outrageous things. Hes offended a lot of people. The question is, if he gets past New Hampshire and goes to the nomination, thats a big if right now, much more so than it was last week. How is he going to win over support in the general election . How is he going to win over the moderates or people he might have offended . What is he going to say to appeal them . Will he be able to erase everything in the past six, seven, eight, nine months. How long has it been . Something like that. 100 years. That hes done that really hasnt gone over well with a lot of folks in this country. There was a poll out a few month ago. Im sure we didnt do another one, that said 50 of americans said they would be embarrassed to call donald trump their president. Of all americans. And chipping away at the cruz credibility by attacking his tactics is just another way to try to say he is not someone that voters should trust, and trust is a big part of the cruz sort of message. And so for trump, it makes sense to keep hitting every little point he can against cruz. One of the big appealing things about donald trump and his supporters is that he is speaking and saying things that nobody else says. Hes saying it in a way that no one else says. He doesnt sound like a politician. Of everybody on the stage, rand paul excluded because he didnt necessarily sound much like a politician. Donald trump owns that line. He owned that lane. Everybody else sounds a little more rehearsed. Hallie jackson, katy tur, Kelly Odonnell. We could sit here and talk all day. Kristen welker is waiting in derry, New Hampshire, where were going to see hik hib in about a half hour from now, right, kristen . Thats right. Shes going to take the stage here. We expect shes going to be fired up. She shaz delivered some of her most fired up speeches we have heard in recent days. Thats in part because i think shes getting more comfortable being a candidate. Also because she knows shes facing a real challenge from Bernie Sanders, who of course, came very close to her in iowa. The strategy for winning New Hampshire, kate, is really threefold. One, the Clinton Campaign lowering expectations. Okay. Sorry. Ive lost my ability to hear you guys. Thanks so much. Tomorrow night, by the way, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will go oneonone in the msnbc democratic debate. Chuck todd, Rachel Maddow, will moderate the debate from the university of New Hampshire right here in durham, New Hampshire. Thats thursday night, 9 00 p. M. Eastern, right here on msnbc. Donald trump hitting senator cruz hard on several issues ahead of the New Hampshire primary. One of them is an old favorite for trump, the fact that cruz was born in canada. We just mentioned it a minute ago. Trump says cruz will be challenged on whether hes a natural born citizen, a requi requirement to become president. Lets go to msnbc chief Legal Correspondent ari melber for a closer look at that line of attack and whether its working. Nice to see you in New Hampshire, kate. This is something that has come up before, but were talking about it again because donald trump is talking about it. Also goes to a big question people have politically, how does donald trump handle being a loser, a loser coming out of iowa. Although he argued he has plenty of good news to look forward to. Lets hear from donald trump himself. Starts out talking about the ben carson and ted cruz exchange and allegations that werent exactly accurate. He gets later in the comment into the issue we have been discussing. Lets take a listen. By that time, theyre all gone. The election is over. What kind of people do we have running for office . No, its honestly really, really dishonest. I think i know why. You know why . Because he was born in canada. Was. Happens to be a problem, folks. That happens you watch. The democrats, they have already said theyre going to what we bleeped there is part of what trump said, kate, is theyre going to he projects the democrats are going to sue cruzs bleep off. Now, i want to be clear. This has continued well into today. Just in the past hour or so, donald trump taking to twitter. Let me read one of these comments. He says, look, ted cruz didnt win iowa. He stole it. That is why all the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad. And then theres a later tweet, kate, now where hes basically saying, donald trump, as of this hour, that the iowa results should somehow be thrown out or there should be a new election. So, lets talk through it here. Legally, thats not how it works. You dont challenge caucus results in america through tweets. And politically, hes obviously trying to get everybody going. Hes trying to get us going, you and me talking about it. That is the trump way. Because he wants to create controversy. The real question is, when you look at some of these attacks on ted cruzs citizenship, the question we started with, or on challenging election results, does that endear donald trump to republican primary votes . Ill show you one more data point in the iowa results. We had exit polls. Only 15 of people said they were bothered cruz was born outside of the United States. In other words, the vast majority of core republicans voting this week in iowa didnt care. Indeed, that number was lower than trumps total, which would suggest hes not Winning People over with this, kate. All right. Ari melber back in new york, thanks so much. So much ahead this hour. Were where much of the action is in president ial politics, in New Hampshire. Ted cruz, marco rubio, holding town halls. Plus, Hillary Clinton narrowly winning in iowa, but Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly grabbing the youth vote. Well look at how dpar that will carry him up next, live on msnbc from manchester. 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Theyre concerned about institutional racism, theyre concerned about a broken criminal justice system. Theyre very engaged on the issue of Climate Change and the need to transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel, and obviously, theres the economic reason. Look, these young people for the first time in the modern history of america are looking at a situation where they may have a lower standard of living than their parents while almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 . Theyre smart. N they see that. They want to see an economy that works for all, not just the billionaire class. So bill clinton said that, you know, youre addressing these issues by giving emotionally satisfying promises to people. Echoing other claims that some of your promises are fantastical and they actually cant ever be carried out. I asked senator tom harkin in iowa, what was Hillary Clintons message . The first thing he said to me was that she can win. And insinuating youre unelectable. Given these claims from the opposing campaign, could you please respond . Are you electable . Sure. Let me respond in two ways. Tell me why it is utopian, tell me why it is impractical that the United States do what every other major country on earth is doing, guaranteeing health care to all people. Were the odd guys out. Number two, tell me why it is impractical to say that with massive wealth and income inequality, the rich and large corporations should start paying their fair share of taxes. Why is it impractical to say that when our infrastructure is crumbling, we should rebuild our infrastructure and create 13 million jobs . I dont think these ideas are impactical. What they are is saying, yeah, to make these kinds of changes, we are going to have to stand up to wall street, to corporate america, to the Large Campaign donors who are not particularly concerned about the needs of the middle class. I think the American People are ready to do that. In terms of electability, let me say two things. Number one, look at the polls. Polls go up and down, i know it. But if you compare Bernie Sanders versus Hillary Clinton in opposition to donald trump in most of the national polls, im doing better. In battleground states like iowa, New Hampshire, and wisconsin, im doing better. Most importantly, democrats win when there is a large voter turnout. Republicans win when theres a low voter turnout. I believe that our campaign is creating the kind of excitement among working people, among young people, to create that large voter turnout that enables us to win up and down the line. And those young voters could prove key for sanders, as he plots his path forward. Looking ahead to the New Hampshire primary here on tuesday and beyond that. This is a large group of potential voters. There are more than 80 million millennials in the United States, and every day nearly 12,000 americans turn 18. Joining me now is the political and field director of rock the vote, sarah adello. The largest nonprofit and Nonpartisan Organization in the country trying to drive youth to the polls. Let me ask you first about Bernie Sanders. Over the weekend, he was out there with vampire weekend, one of my favorite bands. I know im not the demographic here, but what is the appeal . He was millennials. Whats the appeal . I think theres a few things happening with a candidate like Bernie Sanders. Hes talking about the economy time and again. If you look at polling of young people, five years to now, the number one issue is always the economy. Why . Because young people have really high rates of unemployment, higher rates of poverty, their wages are stagnant. They have student debt. So you know, Bernie Sanders talking about these issues, this number one issue for young people is resonating. People want a better life for themselves and their families. Looks like its working so far. Lets talk about New Hampshire a little bit, and look at the numbers. Back in 2012, in the states republican primary, 12 of the voters were between the ages of 18 and 29. 12 . In the last democratic primary in New Hampshire here in 2008, 18 of the voters were 18 to 29. I mean, i guess you could look at it glass half full, glass half empty. Those are decent numbers but not maybe as good as they could be. Whats going to happen this time . Right now, if you look at what happened in iowa, you had more young republicans turn out than ever previously in a caucus. You still had really solid numbers of Young Democrats that were caucusing as well. Young people are excited about this election. I think question is, are candidates across the political spectrum reaching out to them and talking about the issues that are important to them. Theyll turn out, but we need candidates engaging with nem. What do you do to try to get people to come out in a nonpartisan way . What are you doing on the ground here in New Hampshire . Were looking to always partner with organizations to meet young people where they are. We have partners and trying to do a lot of outreach via radio to meet young people who maybe are involved in Different College campus environments, for example. We have our website, rockthevote. Com where were doing online voter registration. We launched a Big Partnership today, corporate Civic Responsibility partnership, to make sure that corporations that young people are engaging with, whether its things like twitter or nielsen, are actively trying to make sure young people are registered and voting. So from nonprofit partners to corporate partners, were always trying to reach out, to reach young people where they are to make sure theyre excited about participating in this election. Sarah, with rock the street, thanks for being with us. Thank you so much. We still have a lot of ground to cover before the general election. But already, the republican candidates are taking their shots at Hillary Clinton. Perhaps none more vocally than donald trump. Hillary is the worst. Look, easily, shes the worst secretary of state in the history of our country. By the way, i love the concept. I love, love, love having a woman president. Cant be her. Shes horrible. Shes horrible. I will demand an apology from hillary, okay . You can be the messenger. I will demand an apology from hillary. She should apologize. She lies about emails. She lies about whitewater, she lies about everything. She will be a disaster as president of the United States. For her part, clinton has tried not to react too much to trumps attacks directly, but this week, politico reports shes already plotting how she will go after trump and how her top officials are accelerating plans to take him on, and politicos glenn thrush wrote that article. Here hes here with me. She has been staying sort of above the fray. She keeps saying im not going to go there. He can say all he wants, make comments about me, but im not going to go there. Is she just waiting for the right time to go at him . It is funny. You know, donald trump is actually copying marco rubio here, which is an interesting shift in the dynamic. In iowa, rubio really rose on the strength of these really direct, pointed attacks against Hillary Clinton. He started saying she was disqualified because of the email stuff. My reporting showed that late last year, the Clinton Campaign and the dnc spent about 170,000, gave it to david brock, her hitman, research director, who is outside of the campaign, to put together a buck on trump. The attacks on trump by the clinton folks will be across the board, but a lot of it will be a lot of the mitt romney type stuff. How did his business hurt little people. A briefing book. It exists. Its currently being compiled. You write that the Clinton Campaign found in november a subsidiary of the Democratic National committee paid american bridge 144,000 for research services. That was devoted almost entirely to building a trump book, and other clips that could be used for future attacks. This has been going on for a while. By the way, can you imagine how big a job that is . The trump book will be as big as the trump tower, right . Hes got a long history. You have to cherry pick what theyre going to find. In the course of writing the article, i got a lot of emails from people and phone calls saying different ways to attack him. Attacking him on business might not be the way to go. I think the problem with attacking trump if youre the clinton folks is hes a lot nastier than she is and she doesnt like engaging in those attacks. The favorability, trump is seen as unfavably by most americans, but clinton favorability isnt much better. I think we can throw it up on the screen. 42 have a favorable view of clinton. 51 unfavorable. 34 with an favorable view of trump, 58 unfavorablunfavorabl. Will her ratings go down further if she goes on the attack . Is that the danger for her . I dont think so. I think those numbers are a little deceiving. She has a hard ceiling in terms of support, and trump is starting to begin to lose altitude. Everything has been thrown out the window now. If i suspect a lot of people are going to start in the republican primary are going to start going after trump heavier. When rubio starts to train his fire on trump, his negatives are going to go up. I would give her a slight advantage. Youre right, her negatives are off the chart, too. How long does she wait before deploying this . Is she holding her fire for now, and what triggers this book . Thats the interesting thing about the piece. There was a feeling theyre waiting too long. These sorts of attacks youre seeing them making are hurting her against Bernie Sanders. The real strategists on the campaign are bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill clinton along with john podesta have been very frustrated, im told, that they didnt hit sanders earlier, and theyre the force behind pushing the trump attack earlier. Bill clinton was at an event last night, and Andrea Mitchell talked to him, and he got more aggressive on Bernie Sanders. Kudos to andrea who was up for like 48 hours. Always. I think he will be the tip of the spear against this. And remember, the minute bill clinton took the trail in december, donald trump started in with all the 1990s allegations about abuse. Yeah. Glen, great to see you. Thanks for being here. Politicos glen thrush. A live look where Hillary Clinton is about to hold a get out the vote rally in derry. That event and much more live from manchester, New Hampshire, when we come back. 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I know that john kasich talked with our Kelly Odonnell about that. Where does that leave the race . Rand had a smaller polling number than most of the other candidates, but theyre great supporters. Theyre enthusiastic. I talked to a couple today. One of the things about john kasich they love is the fact that he has the skills. Hes got the leadership ability to rein in our fiscal spending, to cut taxes, balance a budget, get us back on the right track financially and economically, and rands a great fiscal conservative. His supporters understand the importance of that fiscal conservatism, thats what john kasich has brought to the race from day one. There was an editorial in the Columbus Dispatch the other day. Your hometown ohio newspaper, saying New Hampshire is do or die for governor kasich. Do you agree . Well, i think thats newspaper headline writer getting a little bit flamboyant. Is it important . Sure. Look, its do or die for many if not all of these candidates. A poor showing here makes it really difficult to move on. If donald trump fails to win iowa, fails to win new hampsh e hampshire, his campaign is probably over. There are other candidates, john kasich among them, that a strong showing, second or third place, will really catapult them further to national prominent. John kasich got into the race later. People didnt think he would be able to raise the finances, get on the debate stage, but his record in ohio, the fact that he knows how to get this job done, doesnt need on the job training, and nobody has the fiscal credentials of cutting taxes and balancing budgets that he has, that has set him apart and put him in a secondplace position going into the final week here in New Hampshire. Let me ask this. Marco rubio has gotten a bump and momentum out of iowa, his thirdplace finish. How do you compete, if youre in the same lane, so to speak, in the establishment lane, how does john kasich win over voters who might be thinking about marco rubio . Sure, well see what iowa does to the numbers in New Hampshire. It rarely has a very big impact. The second thing i would offer as an observation is you may think theres an establishment lane and an antiestablishment lane. John kasich has said time and again, maybe establishment, antiestablishment, but also a john kasich lane. He has incredibly broad support and appeal across the entire republican electorate. Because of the fiscal record i talked about. Thats what people at the end of the day are focused on. Job creation, the insecurity created by stagnant wages, and the fact that weve got 19 trillion in debt hanging over our heads. These are things john kasich knows how to fix. Hes got a vision for balancing the budget and cutting taxes and taking power and money out of washington, and giving it back to the states, cities, and towns. That resonates across the entire republican spectrum. So look, thats how you build a coalition that succeeds in New Hampshire and i think if youre worrying about a candidate of the day, then youre making a mistake, because a couple months ago, the candidate of the day was ben carson. Then it was carly fiorina, and then it was Chris Christie. All the while, john kasich has focused on that economic message of revitalizing americas strength and economy, and hes risen steadily in the polls here in New Hampshire, and i think thats a great sign. The last thing i would offer is that its been done on a campaign town to town, person to person, over 100 town Hall Meetings here in New Hampshire where he listens, answers questions, and voters walk out with a great feeling about his positive, optimistic vision of getting the country back on track. Senator, i cant let you go without asking you about one last thing. A amcampaign promise where he said he would reunite pink floyd if he became president of the United States. Its a great promise. Hey, you know, you have to shoot for the moon. You know, i know David Gilmore and roger waters are not the best of friends, but if you dont have vision thats putting it mildly. If you dont have vision, you cant lead. John kasich has vision. No one can deny that. All right. Former senator john sununu, great to see you. Thank you. Tomorrow night, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, just to remind you one more time, are going to go oneonone in the msnbc democratic debate. Its all come together. Chuck todd, Rachel Maddow, will moderate the debate from the university of New Hampshire durham, thursday, 9 00 p. M. Eastern, 6 00 p. M. Pacific, right here on msnbc. Hope youll tune in for that. A live look at henniker, New Hampshire, where ted cruz is on stage for a town hall. Lets listen in. Saw a former governor of california coming to all the media saying this guy cant win. With all of the media saying this guy is too far to the right. Hes too conservative. And besides, the media told New Hampshire, hes 15 to 20 points behind in the polls. And yet, they took a look at the candidates. Examined their records, and said were tired of candidates who havent walked the walk. We dont want then, woosh, its gone. I swear i saw it swallow seven people. Seven. I just wish one of those people could have been mrs. Johnson. [dog bark] trust me, were dealing with a higher intelligence here. The allnew audi q7 is here. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. 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After claimingvictsry in the Iowa Caucuses, the democratic frontrunner is holding a get out the vote event in derry, New Hampshire, just six days to go before the states primary here. The latest poll shows clinton has her work cut out for her. Shes trailing Bernie Sanders here by 29 points. Joining me now is senior spokesperson for the Hillary Clinton campaign, karen finney. Nice to see you. Great to see you, kate. So tell me about the strategy now. Here we are, one day after getting back from iowa. Focusing in on New Hampshire. The secretary has said shes not giving up on the state despite the poll numbers were talking about. How do you win it . You know, New Hampshire obviously has a special place in hillarys heart, and the way you win it is the same way we won iowa. That is to go out, like shes doing today. Shes got, i think its three events today. In addition to a town hall tonight. And your debate tomorrow night. And you, you know, make your case to the voters. I mean, hillary wants this to be a contest of ideas. She and senator sanders certainly, there are differences, and its important to talk about the differences, but the values we share as democrats and progressives are much closer than what the republicans are offering. So part of it is reminding people whats at stake in this election, what the republicans want to do. And they certainly help us a little bit with that as theyre out there talking about what they would do. And then also talk about how to get it done. You know, one of the things that we have seen, and i think we saw, frankly, in iowa, is that people, it resonates with people, this idea that we have big things left to do in terms of getting to universal coverage, when we talk about things like equal pay. So as we look to do those things, how are we going to get them done . People trust hillary to be the person who can get it done. Last september, we were looking up some of the quotes from Hillary Clinton. She said she gets accused of being a moderate and a centrist. This was last fall. Now shes calling herself a progressive. It seems like its on purpose. Which one is she . Well, shes a progressive, as she has said, who likes to get things done. I guess its interesting because i think some of the issues that shes talking about, i remember back in the 90s when i first started working for her, and she had already been working on issues around children and families for years. When she was talking about, in the 90s, when people were talking about things like equal pay, that was considered a pretty lefty idea. Its still a progressive idea because we know the republicans absolutely oppose it. But i think more of a mainstream of americans actually agree with it. So look, she is a progressive who has fought for progressive values her whole life, when it comes to protecting a womans right to choose and protecting womens rights to make our own decision about our bodies, when it talks about the Voting Rights act and the things we know need to get done to protect the Voting Rights act now that the Supreme Court has gutted it. These are big things. These are big progressive goals. And we need a fighter. Thats what shes going to be talking about. Our entrance poll from mondays caucuses showed Bernie Sanders had this huge lead among young voters. 70point lead among voters 17 to 29. If Hillary Clinton becomes the eventual nominee and is going into a general election, how worried are you those folks just dont show up, the young people dont show up, because they were sanders fans . Look, heres what i hope. Certainly, were very pleased that hillary, if you take a look at that obama coalition. Hillary has strength with women, with africanamericans and latinos. Obviously, we want to bring in young people. I have been getting a lot of traffic on my personal twitter feed from young women saying, hey, the media is not covering our support for hillary. What do we do about it . So i think there is support for hillary among young people, but to your question, well keep fighting for their votes. As hillary has said, were not taking anything for granted. And part of what we will do is remind young people, and really, college aged people and young kids have the most at stake in this election because were talking about their future. When we talk about things like Climate Change and talk about womens rights and we talk about health care, we know for a fact that the republicans want to strip away all of that. Immigration reform, raising incomes. They want to go back to trickledown economics. College affordability being another big issue. So we know the republicans dont want to do that either. A lot of it will be a matter of essentially what were doing now, but certainly i think the contrast will be even sharper to remind people, heres whats at stake in this election and heres whats at stake for your future. These are the things that hillary wants to do to fight to protect those things. Karen finney with the Clinton Campaign, thanks so much. A reminder, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, will face off oneonone for the first time just the two of them on stage, headtohead in their one and only debate before the New Hampshire primary, right here, tomorrow night. Youre not going to want to miss this. Tomorrow night, 9 00 p. M. Eastern on msnbc. 6 00 pacific time. Up next, another gop candidate speaking with nbc news from New Hampshire. Senator marco rubio on his plan to use his momentum to capitalize in New Hampshire. Itco because you could save hundreds on Car Insurance. Ah, perfect. Valet parking. Evening, sir. 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He was new, different. And there was almost no difference between them on the issues. There are dramatic differences here. You dont think Bernie Sanders is barack obama . No, no. No, i dont. Barack obama is not Bernie Sanders. Lets not play cheap games here. Lets not try to play games here. You have been there, seen it. Thats why were laughing, because we both covered the clinton s for so many years. I used to be at a competing network. We used to try to get in at the same time. I guess it was an even match, but you know how tough it is. Hes saying something there that he hes going a little further, wouldnt you say, than he has been . In fact, in the other moment, he was, i think, really trying to go after Bernie Sanders. I was asking why are young people flocking to Bernie Sanders and not Hillary Clinton. 8414. This is the big entrance poll revelation. We saw it on the road, but it was so dramatic in the iowa results. This is what he had to say. Why are young voters going for sanders . Do you understand what the dynamic is in. Absolutely. System is rigged against you. Vote for me. Ill break out the big banks, tax the billionaires and give you free college, cut the cost of health care. End of story. So, hes basically characterizing what Bernie Sanders is saying in a shorthanded way and saying, their view is that these are easy slogans. Theyre sound bites, but that they are not backed up by facts. Theyre almost saying going back all the way to Walter Mondale in that primary, wheres the beef . Easy to make promises, but you cant actually do the things. The fact is their campaign has to fault itself, and theyre having crisis meetings over this, as to why they have not been able to penetrate that, why they have not been able to do what they claim at least and show his solutions are easy, but you know, where are the facts to back it up . You and i both remember in 2008, i think there was a moment where they said were going to unleash bill clinton. Maybe thats not the word they used, but were going to let him go, go after barack obama. Didnt work out so great. Will they allow him to kind of make be the attack dog . Well, he has to be the validator for her. That hes done very well. He comes before these audiences and its very effective, even when his speech is a little rambling sometimes. He says i was with her i have been with her all along. I can tell you she has been for children, for families, for women. You know, her whole life. Hes great at that. He said she has more experience than anyone who has ever run for president , other than an incumbent president. Hes great at that. What he doesnt do is modulate the attack things so well. Hes going to South Carolina tonight. Thats going to be a big test. They are really seeing South Carolina and the other states, which unlike iowa, New Hampshire, have larger minority populations. 65 of the vote there is africanamerican. And she has to do well with democratic primary votes. Those are mustwins. Must wins. The last time he did that, he was off message, and thats when he was accused of being insensitive, being racially insensitive. Jim cliborn and other powerful leaders turned and endorsed obama, and the rest is history. Great to see you in person. Nice to be up here in new hampshi hampshire. Msnbc is home to the only oneonone debate before the New Hampshire debate. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders facing off, head to head. Thats going to be tomorrow night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, 6 00 pacific, right here on msnbc. 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We have it all covered for you from New Hampshire with our team in place. Several cities, Kristen Welker is in derry with the Clinton Campaign. Alex seitzwald is in manchester. Hallie jackson is covering ted cruz. Gabe gutierrez with marco rubio, and katy tur is right here with me in manchester as well. Back to the breaking news i mentioned this morning. The Bernie Sanders campaign, a lot of headline said there. The senator confirmed on morning joe he will take part in the big debate that will be hosted on msnbc tomorrow night, moderated by chuck todd and Rachel Maddow. Listen to what he said. Are young