asked point blank whether she believes a man can become a woman. but she did not directly answer it. instead offered that, quote: people can live any way they want once they are over the age of 18. congressman donalds, haley has been floated as a potential v.p. pick perhaps to satisfy the business community that's worried about donald trump. does this kill her chances for that? >> i think. so look, there is a lot of answers that nikki haley has not been clear on. you know, she kind of muddles through them. when she guess dinged she comes back. a man is a man is a man. i know the people in the lgbtq community ain't going to be happy with what i said those are the facts. born with xy chromosomes you keep them to the day that you die. the problem is for nikki haley she is trying to please everybody all the time. that's not gonna work especially in the veepstakes. let's be clear. >> laura: there is going to be pressure to name her as vice president if she comes in a strong number two as there was with reagan when he took bush.
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ask george h.w. bush about being a good foreign policy president. i guess in iowa right now among republicans, foreign policy is just not on their mind, is it? >> no. i mean, the extent it is on anybody's mind, there's the part of the party in this party, the democratic party, and those that cater to it want to retreat from the world stage. they have the isolationist tendency. we see it in both parties. when it pops up in domestic politics, we see it. but you're right, it is a thankless part of being president of the united states. you basically get no political credit for all the things, as you made that list, because there is a presumption on the part of a lot of americans that that's what america's role should be in the world. creating peace through strength, keeping markets open, doing those things, it's, like, "thank you very much. what have you done for me lately
words and it gave president bush, any president the right to go to war without coming back to congress. and that was wrong then, and we have to repeal those authorizations. i call for a cease-fire -- make no mistakes, i condemned also hamas and the terrorist attacks. and i said very clearly that israel deserves security and peace and needs to really address terrorism and hamas. also, i said that killing around 23,000 civilians, many women and children, and creating a humanitarian catastrophe, that's wrong. you do not find a pathway to peace and security through killing innocent civilians. and so, i called for a cease-fire. the only pathway to, hopefully,
1980, you had someone in ronald reagan presumed himself to be ao automatic nominee, he skipped debated and assumed he would win in iowa, he had a narrow win for bush. then but to new hampshire and reagan with his seminol moment of you know i am paying for this microphone, he paid to sponsor that debate. and he crushed hw there was no looking back. >> he learned hispanic-american heri his lesson. >> this time, for hail haley and desantis they have to hope trump made a similar miscalculation, i don't think they did, then do a better job of working with the mo -- >> bottom line the ground game matters in iowa. really, iowa is all about momentum, if you can win iowa that give you momentum, election is already so far
not win iowa, it matters but not as much as people think it matters. it mattered for barack obama. >> he came in second, can we show that graphic. bush in 80 surprised everyone to beat reagan. he was not party nominee, and i actually, was covering that. i was a young wi whipper smallsnapper reporter in kansas. mitt romney was nominee and ted cruz in 2016. and who was the n nominee, donald trump. we continue now, ben what to we 11 from iowa and what is applicable about that
1980, you had someone in ronald reagan presumed himself to be a automatic nominee, he skipped debated and assumed he would win in iowa, he had a narrow win for bush. then but to new hampshire and reagan with his seminol moment of you know i am paying for this microphone, he paid to sponsor that debate. and he crushed hw there was no looking back. >> he learned hispanic-ame his lesson. >> this time, for ha haley and desantis they have to hope trump made a similar miscalculation, i don't think they did, then do a better job of working with the mo -- >> bottom line the ground game matters in iowa. really, iowa is all about momentum, if you can win iowa that give you momentum, election is already so far
not win iowa, it matters but not as much as people think it matters. it mattered for barack obama. >> he came in second, can we show that graphic. bush in 80 surprised everyone to beat reagan. he was not party nominee, and i actually, was covering that. i was a young winne whipper small cappsnapper reporter in kansas. mitt romney was nominee and ted cruz in 2016. and who was the noo nominee, donald trump. we continue now, ben what to we 11 from iowa and what is applicable about that election rat to general
but you have ground game versus momentum. we're going to see, especially with this weather, whether haley's momentum converting some democrats and independents into polls and voters i've talked to, can see desantis and the conservative caucus we used to think of as the base of the republican party, a base that is now dominated by the conservative populists that are supporting donald trump. >> all right. david drucker, thank you so much. >> thank you, david. >> i love the way you framed that. i'm going to go to chris about it, but it is ground game versus momentum. i mean, chris, he just puts it perfectly. you and i both know, adrienne certainly knows it, anybody that has been in politics knows, there's nothing like what george h.w. bush called big mo, you know, big momentum. you know, people just sense when