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In chief. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thank you very much for sharing your sunday morning. Well have an abbreviated program, just 30 minutes, so we can bring you some of the 9 11 events this morning. Hillary clinton and donald trump plan separate visits to ground zero this year. The 15th Anniversary falls 58 days before election day 2016. Clinton and trump both pulling tv ads for the day and promising no polit...

Know about whats left. >> john, how do you see marco rubio playing into all of this? he seems to be a candidate that has consistently played a long game, waiting for others to drop off. even if that may not actually happen? >> that may not happen until after new hampshire. part of the question for plmarc rubios lane in this race. hes been patient, but hes in a pretty distant third or fourth place, lumped with dr. carson. and you have trump and cruz at the top. the question in this race, really, ...

In iowa right now. he also adds in a significant party element. those are the two energetic bases of the republican party right now. if cruz gets a big win in iowa, what does trump do? does he go on to try to win new hampshire, or does he somehow fundamentally change the campaign? we have the evangelical tea party candidate in cruz. we have the disruptive outsider in donald trump, whos not really an ideological candidate, hes a disruptive force in the republican party. and will there be a mainst...

Care of to keep being reelected by strong margin which is hae has been despite misgivings from the conservative wing of the party. south carolina is a critical state for the conservative insurgents who are hoping to unseat some of the establishment front-runners like, say, jeb bush or perhaps scott walker. its traditionally been a state where a conservative can take a last stand against whoever is the more mainstream establishment candidate. if lindsey graham is here sucking up even 5% of the vo...