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New campaign in all 99 iowa counties. >> carl cameron live in detroit tonight, thank you. and later, well hear from mike huckabee, my interview with him in our contender series, coming up. on the democratic side hillary clinton remains way out in front according to the polls. but question persists about the clintons money making and their foundation. mike emanuel has former bill clinton playing defense from halfway around the world. >> reporter: in africa former president bill clinton defended...

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The "washington post" robert costa showing supporters of rands paul crashing cruzs event. did you hear them? and how tough is it going to be a fight between cruz and paul? >> reporter: i didnt hear them but we could see them from where we are here. they were sitting right down in front of the stage. you saw a little bit of that grainy tweet, a group of red t-shirts that we could see. one was clapping during the speech. i think youll see cruz and paul going to the matt each other quite a bit over...

Yes, they had heavy legal bills and a lot to pay off but they also had a lot of income coming in as a former president and former first lady. this has tripped her up before and this will be a challenge for her going forward how to sell herself as a champion of the middle class. >> exactly. and how to be real on the real story as well. she wants to highlight her time as secretary of state but thats also facing some scrutiny because there wasnt any mention of foreign policy, was there? >> well int...

Race is like saying hawaii is also in the lead to win the title for best state that is also a pacific island. its the only one. yes, shes winning. its the wrong question to be asking. on the republican side, though, there is definitely a real race, a race that is getting more interesting by the day. but one in which some surprising candidates are also having what appear to be some growing pains, as they get closer to actually declaring theyre candidates and they have to build up their presidenti...

>> the senator for kentucky might just be the candidate who ends up winning this thing. >> hes got the organization on the ground right now. hes in all 50 states. >> its time for a new president. >> rand paul! rand paul! >> well he got the message, hes running against washington. thats means hillary clinton. im joined by two of the best front page political reporters in the business, robert costa, national political reporter for "washington post," and nick, political reporter for "the new york t...

Presidency this year does not totally seem like it is ready for primetime. that said, maybe it doesnt need to be. the expectation for rick perry are pretty low. he washed out spectacularly when he ran a high-profile campaign in 2012. his manner on the stump, i think more so now after a lot of coaching than even in 2012 his manner on the stump can be cringe worthy. i dont mean it in a mean way but as a point of political analysis. governor perry is trying to establish his foreign policy in videos...

Coaching can at times be cink worthy. he is using fake tv interviews and giving away pizza to students. i think no one is taking him too seriously this year as a contender. his campaign team, the good folks at rick pac, and the rest of them, because no one is taking him in a seriously, the folks in his political world so far have been pretty successful at getting the national press to ignore this historic part of his presidency. so far they have been able to pass off that he just has

Huge economic and pr disaster for his state. and now half tried to get himself out of it and his state is still reeling. nobody quite understands anything that mike pence says anymore. mike pence might have been a contender before last week, but no longer potentially running. other than those two guys, though, everybody else in that set of pictures, thats basically the whole republican presidential field for 2016. ted cruz jeb bush ben carson mike huckabee bobby jindal marco rubio, rick santorum...