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That. in 2008, one of the reasons pollsters got it wrong in iowa is they underestimated the turnout surge and barack obama was able to drive that up. >> lets talk about how they differ. polling position this early in the race. >> look, if you look at the polls where beto orourke is, hes in fourth and fifth in iowa nationally. in 2008, barack obama came out of nowhere is not true. he was behind hillary clinton in the polls, but he was a strong second. he was polling 20%. beto orourke, only 5%. >>...

Polling out there right now. no one really wakes up in the morning except for donald trump and his fan boys and says we have to build a wall. they look at the border as a different kind of security problem and with different and more effective ways that are out there. nobody wants to look at this, at this problem and say -- in the senate and say, oh, god, i have to go out and defend an $8 billion recapitulation of the entire think that we shut down the government for. that cost the president pol...

Government for. it wacost us polling position. none of that makes sense in terms of moving the political ball in the senate. those guys are in the same spot they were on the $1.37 billion that ended up passing for fencing and repairs in the prior shutdown bill. its not going to go anywhere. its just the president rage tweeting as he likes to do. >> rick wilson, a political pro. he is an author and he is a per scope and twitter enthusiast. we love all of it. thank you so much for coming on our br...

When i looked inside these numbers, its almost this is a proxy for trump at this point. looks like the approval rating for trump. the gender gap looks like the trump gender gap. if you can get trump-typo larization, then you can get him confirmed. >> right. and the question is also what that means for november. if you get trumps help, obviously the president is unpopular. so you probably dont want to polarize on his approval rating. that might be better than some of the alternatives available to...

Who are saying he is not standing up for the workers, he is backing the president at any cost in this ongoing tariff feud. he tweeted about it yesterday and said, i want harley-davidson to pros tper in business witnes. do what is best. no tariffs as soon as possible. could this backfire? >> what a balancing act theyre trying -- they dont want to alienate the trump base while recognizing swing voters are on the side of harley-davidson. scott walker has in my opinion the toughest re-election campa...

Central america is really aimed at getting the core trump supporter out to the ballot box come november. >> how did he organize that caravan? just kidding. the optics of that is perfect for him. anyway, on sunday, trump tweeted, quote, just got recent poll. much higher than president obama at same time. well, much more has been accomplished. its unclear which poll the president is referring to. but "the new york times" reports that trumps campaign manager for his reelection bid, brad parscale ha...

Country. he did not apologize for planting his toes in the stand. >> the governor is allowed to go to his residences. ill tell you this, i want last month, a week ago today, that no matter what happens we were coming here as a family this weekend. this is where we live. >> reporter: i know his chief of staff responded earlier saying the optics simply does not look good. i believe he back pedaled on that question, and then today when the question was asked, he said, well, you know, he was wearing...

It makes me wonder, from your perspective, youve been on the inside. just recently now on the outside, who are you most impressed with? >> well, i mean, if you look at whats really happening out there, i mean, all youve got to do is compare the size of everyones rallies. and thats really a demonstration of grass-roots support, right? donald trump is having 10,000, 12,000 people show up at rallies. a lot of these guys are having five or six people show up at their events in iowa. theres just not ...

Its perfectly okay for the government to make sure that we check out the facebook post of somebody who wants to emigratekd comb through it to find out if somebody is posting anti-american jihadist language on it. >> absolutely. governor, this is certainly part of the conversation youll have in iowa over the next month with the caucuses coming on february 1st. you won the caucuses in 2008. rick santorum won them in 2012. this year at the top of the polls are donald trump and ted cruz currently wi...

Presenting something that is so, you know, large and overtaking in terms of the dialogue here, that takes off on its own. bill: well, surprised mary ann started off citing women are the reason the obama campaign are using this message when it is clearly women that have made this now a race that is leaning strongly in favor of governor romney. president obamas once double-digit lead among women is narrowed down in some polls to four points, some polls six. significant enough where now you see mit...