Restaurant owned by an israeli. Was the nowdead attacker inspired by terrorists . Plus, another terrifying turn for the zika virus. Three deaths now possibly linked to the illness known for causing birth defects in newborns. Could this epidemic seriously threaten the olympics . Could it seriously threaten the United States . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Republicans are preparing for their next debate tomorrow night in greenville, South Carolina. Judging from the barrage of insults, tweets and attack ads, it aint going to be dainty and thats just the way they like their politics in the palmetto state. Marco rubio going after all of his rivals. Dump and ted cruz escalating their tussel. Trump talking about suing cruz. As if that arent enough an erotic film actress now in the mix. Sunlen serfaty is live in greenville. Trump is tweeting he might sue cruz over questions over his citizenship. How is the Cruz Campaign responding . Reporter jake, the Cruz Campaign is basically trying to downplay this, calling it another trumper tantrum. Ted cruz and three other of his republican candidates are here today to make their pitch directly to evangelical voters at bob Jones University. Donald trump is not here but hes still very much in the mix from afar. Donald trumps pledge to stay above the fray in South Carolina shortlived. Trump blasting rival ted cruz on twitter, writing, quote, if ted cruz doesnt clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. The new offensive coming after showing off a lighter touch last night in louisiana. Even autographing actual babies and suggesting he was ready to go positive. I wont use foul language. Im just not going to do it. Im not going to do it. Theyre all saying do it, do it. No, im not. Reporter but trump couldnt stay out of the allout fight breaking out in the South Carolina trenches. Theres nothing conservative about giving money to the clintons. Theres nothing conservative about donald trump. Reporter the air waves plastered with negative ads. Ted cruz voted to undermine our National Defense and weaken our ability to track terrorists. Reporter the attacks between the candidates flying back and forth with a dizzying pace. Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time. Reporter but that ad backfiring on cruz. His campaign is pulling it off the air after it was revealed that actress is also an adult film star. Cruzs team is refocusing today with a new ad directing fire instead at Hillary Clinton in a spoof of the movie office space. Many of the candidates today speaking at the conservative Christian BobJones University in South Carolina, making a big pitch to woo coveted evangelical voters. I do not believe that you put your faith in a lockbox when youre in public life and say, well, thats only for my private matters. Thats just not that is totally wrong. Reporter jockeying over who has the most conservative credentials. You disagree with people on the definition of marriage, they call you a hater and the bigot. Reporter ted cruz trying to cast his rivals as out of touch with the conservative base over the supreme courts decision legalizing samesex marriage. Seeing my two leading competitors in the republican primary both publicly say following that decision that the decision is the settled law of the land, we must accept it, surrender, and move on. Ive got to say those are word for word the talking points of barack obama. Reporter and back on Donald Trumps potential threat of a potential lawsuit against ted cruz, the Cruz Communications director, rick tyler, saying trump needs to go back to the timeout chair, think about his choices, adding thats what you do to any 3yearold. Jake. Sunlen serfaty in greenville, thank you so much. Coming up, well speak live with the actress at the center of that ad controversy with ted cruz. Turning to the democrats now, if you went to sleep for eight years and then woke up and turned on the tv, last night wouldnt have really seemed rather weird for you. If the first thing you turned on after waking up was a democratic debate, because Hillary Clinton who weight years ago was questioning then senator obamas readiness to lead, last night she was doing everything she could to make herself look like president obamas bff. Joe johns is in demark, South Carolina, where Hillary Clinton just wrapped up a speech to voters there. Joe, clinton had president obamas very high Favorability Ratings among black voters very much in mind likely when she took on sanders when it came to his loyalty to the president last night. Reporter thats pretty clear, jake. The president s Approval Ratings and the Africanamerican Community across the country run between 80 and 90 . If this event at a poor School District here is any indication, if last nights debate is any indication, the Clinton Campaign is planning to get a lot of mileage out of those Approval Ratings in a state where the africanamerican vote is so critical. Hillary clinton pitching South Carolina voters today on why shes best suited to be the democratic nominee. Im going to go after every single barrier that stands in the way of what americans can do. Reporter the Clinton Campaign is hoping the palmetto state can help slow Bernie Sanders momentum following his big New Hampshire win on tuesday. Thank you, New Hampshire. Reporter the fight for the first in the south primary will likely hinge on support from africanamerican voters, who make up over half the democratic electorate in the state. Clinton lost africanamericans in South Carolina to president obama by nearly 60 points in 2008. Thank you, South Carolina reporter with the president still held in high regard by africanamericans and democrats nationwide, both candidates are working hard to show their support for him, including in thursday nights debate in milwaukee. President obama and i are friends. I think president obama has set a great example. Reporter clinton is trying to drive a wedge between sanders and president obama. The kind of criticism that weve heard from senator sanders about our president i expect from republicans. I do not expect from someone running for the democratic nomination to succeed president obama. That is madam secretary, that is a low blow. Reporter with sanders returning the favor. One of us ran against barack obama. I was not that candidate. Reporter sanders also targeting clinton over wall street contributions to her super pac. 15 million from wall street. Reporter barack obama. Reporter clinton said president obamas super pac took money also but that did not influence his presidency. Lets not imply that either president obama or myself would in any way not take on any vested interest, whether its wall street or Drug Companies or insurance companies. Reporter but sanders refused to let clinton off the hook. People arent dumb. Why in gods name does wall street make Huge Campaign contributions . I guess just for the fun of it. They want to throw money around. Reporter when it comes to reining in wall street, clinton said she and sanders share a similar view but her agenda goes beyond that one issue. I am not a single issue candidate and i do not believe we live in a single issue country. Reporter secretary clinton goes from here to a political dinner in minneapolis tonight. Bernie sanders will also be there and then its on to las vegas on saturday. Jake. Joe johns, thanks so much. Lets talk about the democrats. Joining me now, Bernie Sanders supporter bill press and c. In n political commentator, Foreign Policy director for Hillary Clintons 2008 campaign and current Hillary Clinton supporter, nera tanden. You heard Hillary Clinton say im not a single issue candidate and dont believe we live in a single issue country, a clear shot at sanders. Your thoughts . Its also a clear talking point of the Clinton Campaign, lets be honest. I heard it about five times last night from people who were speaking on behalf of senator clinton and its simply not true. Hillary is a great candidate and knows a lot about the issues. Bernie sanders is a great candidate. What they mean when they say that, all bernie talks about is wall street. Again, jake, not true. Bernie does talk about wall street very tough. He also talks about education, Free Community college. He talks about universal health care. He talks about reforming police departments. He talks about sentencing reform. He talks about cleaning up the Campaign Contributions system. A whole range of candidates of issues, rather, on some which the two candidates agree and some that they dont. Its just a bogus talking point. Nera, i want to give you an opportunity to respond to a criticism weve heard on cnn which has to do with the fact that Hillary Clinton when she pitches herself to voters, shes pitching herself because of her readiness, because of her experience, but the question then becomes is she talking about herself too much versus the voters. I and me versus we and us. We actually did an analysis and we looked at how many times on the New Hampshire speeches the two candidates used i and me versus we and us. Bernie sanders used we or us twice as much as he said i or me and Hillary Clinton it was the exact opposite. I or me 44 times versus 21 we or us. This is just one set of speeches, not a comprehensive analysis. The reason is because of her pitch about her experience, but is that a problem, do you think . Well, i think in this context i have to say we generally look at women and how theyre talking about some of these issues a little differently. When you talk about the republican candidates, theyre often talking about i, me, because youre talking about what youre going to do as president. But i hear the point that this really needs to be a mission about what shes going to do as president. She has to work on making sure everyone feels part of that. Her language can shift a little bit on that point. But i think i always get a little anxious about these kind of comparisons because we ask questions about women, about whether theyre talking about themselves too much. Last night senator sanders kind of called her on saying when she said, you know, as president ill do. He called her on that and i thought in a kind of harsh way. And really what she was saying was republican candidates, male candidates say that all the time, when im president ill do this. Certainly she would stack up well with some of the other republicans, im sure, especially mr. Trump. But bill, how about that. Neera brought up a moment a lot of people thought wasnt a great moment, youre not president yet, secretary clinton. Did you think that was a little rough, maybe the race is getting to him a little bit . Ill be honest, when she said i forget how she phrased it. When im in the white house. I thought maybe she should have said if im lucky enough to get there and i think bernie was a little sassy on bernies part. On reflection he probably wishes he hadnt said it. It reminded me and im sure a lot of us of then barack obama when he said youre likeable enough, hillary. I remember that. Yeah, you do. That hurt him, but at the same time he was elected president , so not a fatal mistake. But unfortunate remark id say. Neera, a Strong Performance for secretary clinton last night, do you think . Obviously youre a fan. I mean im biased, right. I think there was a Strong Performance. I think they were both pretty strong. I do think that the real issue in this race Going Forward is senator obama senator sanders oh, my lord senator sanders. A flashback. Senate sanders has a strong critique. He does talk about a different set of issues but the real strong critique he has is about inequality. In the debate Going Forward we want to talk about rising inequality but other challenges the country faces. I think hillary did a great job saying we have issues of systemic inequality that affects us on race, racial inequality, gender inequality and having a conversation about all of these issues is vital. To be continued, thanks so much. Appreciate it both of you. 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How did you hear about it . What did you think . Well, i was pretty shocked. I shot this ad a couple of months ago. I think as soon as it ran before i even knew it was running, i received a telephone call on my cell phone from a media outlet asking me about my reaction to it being pulled. So did i not i not only knew that it had run but i didnt even know that it had been pulled yet. It was pretty shocking to be honest with you. Just like what . The Cruz Campaign says that they cast the ad in an open casting call and they say you were not properly vetted. How did you get involved in the ad . Is this just a gig or were you a cruz supporter . It was a gig, but i absolutely, when i got the copy of what the campaign was going to be about, i knew that it was supporting a republican candidate, which is definitely what im doing. And i thought the writing was smart, i thought it was snappy. I did not know who it was for. But i do identify myself as a conservative republican so i knew that it was something i could get behind and support. Thats interesting. Now, the Cruz Campaign, to play devils advocate here, theyre making a big play for conservative evangelicals, especially in South Carolina, and i guess their mind set is that those voters might not approve of some of the movies youve been in before. Can you see their point of view on that or is it unfair . No, i can see their point of view, and i think that one of the discussions, a hot topic right now in this great country that we love, the United States of america, is the right to free speech. So i think that i have a right to get here and tell my view about it and explain to people who might be interested who i am, what i stand for and they absolutely have the right to have the beliefs that they have. Now, you are, from what i understand, a conservative christian, youre a republican, youre from texas. I dont want to be rude because im not the one judging here, but obviously the Cruz Campaign felt that there was something untoward, something inappropriate about what youve done before you did this ad. Is that unchristian for them to have done . I dont think its unchristian. I think this is politics as usual. It was done in a snap moment. Someone has got to make a decision and sometimes its just better to take it down. From what i have heard they are reevaluating the rest of the campaign. Ive actually gotten a lot of support on the right from a lot of people that think the ted Cruz Campaign might have acted hastily. Hey, this is also the type of person who might be voting in this race. You know, its not just the white male christian guntoting people, its people like me