Two biggest races in american Politics Today is taking the stage tonight. Donald trump is about to speak at a Campaign Rally in massachusetts. Hillary clinton is here in des moines holding a town hall. Katy tur joins us from trumps rally in massachusetts. First donald trump has launched an assault on the clintons in interviews with fox, cbs and cnn, trump went after Hillary Clintons husband. Shes got a problem. She is married to a person thats a serious abuser. I mean at the highest level. Shes not an innocent victim. She was the one that would go along with him in this whole game that they play. She is not like the innocent person sitting by the side with tears in her eyes. Im the only one willing to talk about his problems. I mean, what he did and what he has gone through, i think is frankly terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card. Shes got one of the great women abusers of all time sitting at her house. I dont care about Monica Lewinsky other than i think hillary was an enabler and a lot of things happened that were obviously very seedy. He was impeached, for heavens sake. Trumps attacks came as candidate clinton brought bill clinton into the campaign for the first time. Here is what he told nbcs Andrea Mitchell while working the rope line up in New Hampshire after a rally there for hillary. How do you feel about the kind of Campaign Donald trump is running, sir . The republicans will have to decide who is going to be nominated. How i feel is only relevant. We are trying to win a primary. Thank you. Here is what Hillary Clinton told crowds here in iowa when she was asked to respond to one of trumps attacks. Ive adopted a new years resolution. Im going to let him live in his alternative reality and im not going to respond. Katy tur, thats interesting because it seems like trump responded to the charge that he had a penchant for sexism. Those were the words used by secretary clinton. Now the clintons decided enough, i guess, of this back and forth. They are not continuing the volleying here. I dont think they are going to be able to ignore it as long as they want to ignore it. Jeb bush tried to ignore trump, marco rubio, john kasich. The problem is they may not directly respond to him, but reporters continue to ask them about this when they are on rope lines, they have media availabilities. So they cant quite avoid responding to them even if they would like to. Hes just so cloud. He has such a platform right now. He gets National Media attention. Hes out there tweeting to more than 5 million followers. Those are resonating across the social media sphere for their outrageousness at some points. They are not going to be able to ignore him as much as they may want to. This is in some ways a sore point for them, a weakness for them, the idea bill clinton is not as much of an asset as Hillary Clinton may want him to be, bringing up his past infidelities, past problems, bringing the Clinton Foundation into it and the money they take for speeches. The questioning what ties they have. They have to respond at some point. How does this fit into trump and what hes up to with a paid Media Campaign in iowa . Does it look like hes trying to win iowa now . Hes not going to let cruz win one then he comes back in New Hampshire. I think that hes trying to win iowa certainly. His ground game in iowa is formidable. He has Chuck Laudner who drove Rick Santorum around the state and essentially to the win. They know iowa politics. To count trump out would be unwise. Ted cruz got the endorsement of the family leader and all the evangelicals out there. Donald trump may still want to win iowa and may be trying to win iowa. He is trying to lay the ground work for a potential loss saying the media is hyping it up too much. If he does lose by a couple of points, hell take it in stride and move on to the next state. Whether that will work for him remains to be seen. He has been campaigning on being a winner. If he loses iowa, he is in iowa a loser out there. How that will change his position in the mind of his supporters, well have to find out. I dont think it will be that big of a deal if he loses iowa. I think if he loses a couple of points, he will be fine. He does know it will be a hard state to take away from ted cruz. Thank you so much, katy tur. Hillary clinton was heckled during a rally in New Hampshire this weekend by a republican state representative who told reporters she wanted to ask hillary about allegations against her husband. It was quite a scene. Lets watch it. Im not going to take your question because other people have been yes. Right there well bring you a microphone. Here you go. There you go. Okay. Let me see. Right back there. This man right there. Here we go. Right there. You are very rude. Im not going to ever call on you. Thank you. Heidi przybilla, in this question. If Hillary Clinton takes a shot at trump and says hes got a penchant for sexism, he goes after bill clinton. Then the clintons apparently had this strategy they are going to let it go at that. Does that mean they made a mistake going after trump that way . He is calling Hillary Clinton an enabler. I never heard anybody say anything like that about her. This is personal, and i would think over the line that she is an enabler of her husband. What do you think of this . This is personal. How can trump walk back and say thats campaigning. Its not a mistake. If you remember the origination of all this was over Hillary Clinton criticizing crumb over isis and his counterpunch was to go after Hillary Clinton about her bathroom break and the schlonging comment. If you ask about the Clintons Campaign approach, they made clear they are not going to respond to specific attacks and get in the mud on Monica Lewinsky or any women of bill clintons past. They are going to comment on his tactics. Bill clinton did that today. You played back the clip of Andrea Mitchell. There were later comments he made insinuating donald trump is trying to change the narrative, steal the election, what have you. Part of their strategy is also to have other people point out, which im surprised hasnt been pointed out yet, here is donald trump trying to make the argument im not the sexist. Bill clinton is the sexist. In so doing, he is making an inherently sexist argument that hillary is to blame for her husbands infidelities. You are starting to see women from all political stripes speak out on this. Its something i dont think sits very well with all women. Let me go to David Drucker on that. The decision to bring clinton into the campaign was interesting. To do it in the beginning of the year. Was it considered to be a helpful, bringing a bit of joy to the campaign . Clinton is a happy warrior. Hillary is more of a trudge, not as delightful as bill clinton is as a campaigner. Was it to bring joy into the campaign . If so, is that going to work . Bill clinton is one of the more natural communicators and happy, quite frankly, talented campaigners weve seen. Hillary isnt very good at it. You bring bill clinton in now because you want to check the box and not take the primary for granted. If she can use bill clinton properly, and its delicate because hes not just the expresident , hes her husband, then he can be a major asset. It is dicey because she wants to be her own person. This is where the first spout to be a former president. Its tricky for her than when he ran. Remember that famous line, two for the price of one. He had to make clear, im the only president. Its reverse for her but trickier. For donald trump, ive been following politics as well as anybody out there including all you guys, i never heard anybody go after Hillary Clinton say she is an enabler. Nobody blamed her for monica she was shocked by monica and i believe that story she had no idea Something Like that was going on in the white house. She was hurt by it. People could see the hurt in her face. Why would this trump guy say somehow she was in cahoots with this mess . I dont get that as a reasonably honest statement. His supporters dont see her as a human figure. They see her as somebody that is devisive. They see her as the enemy almost. They are not going to vote for her or feel sorry for her. You brang her name up here at his rallies, they say hillary for jail time. They are vitriolic about her. The humanity she may have shown, the shock, sadness, isnt in the top of their memory. Now theres a lot of anger and devisiveness he is playing off of. Donald trump, i dont think you should be surprised. He is willing to go there when nobody else is going there we saw it with a proposed muslim ban and calling secretary state jo john kerry a putz. Calling for the execution of bowe bergdahl. He says things nobody else will say. Calling john mccain not a war hero. The idea he has gone too far or not something you should say doesnt hold water with trump. Hes willing to go there when no one else is. His supporters dont mind it. Heidi, women will react to this in what way . I do believe anyone who covered that whole situation in 98, left, right or center, knew Hillary Clinton was shocked by it. Knew she was overwhelmed by the horror of the whole thing. Humiliated. Of course she came back strong and showed her resolve and campaigned for Chuck Schumer and built out her own political career. Nobody i ever heard has ever said see was an enabler of Monica Lewinsky. Its beyond indecent. Look at Hillary Clinton over the lifetime of her career when her Approval Ratings were the highest. They peaked when she was secretary of state. Another time when they were high was when she was going through all of that because like you said, people really believed that she was a woman who had been betrayed by her husband in the most public of ways. The sympathy meter went up for her. I think trump has to be very careful here over the long haul if he is going to make this a continuing theme. He is facing a quandary, frankly. His whole campaign has been built around and skyrocketed off personal attacks. Jeb is low testosterone, rubio is sweaty. He tried it on hillary with the bathroom break comments which some of his own supporters thought wasnt tasteful and it didnt work effectively. He is struggling. He made personal attacks on bill clinton. If he makes it into a general election, he has to find a way to attack her on issues. It doesnt work as well as it does against his republican male competitors. By the way, to make the point clear here, it wasnt sympathy for hillary. The way she showed her strength after that whole incident and the way she put herself together, dealt with the situation, carried on as a partisan and came on as much more of an independent political figure than she had been before. A lot of strength was shown there. Thank you, heidi przybilla. Thank you, David Drucker. More with you next time. Hardball has the first interview of 2016 with Hillary Clinton. We want to know what you want to ask us. Tweet us using the hashtag hrconhardball or send us your questions via facebook. Facebook. Com hardball. The allout battle for iowa. Ted cruz has the edge for now. Trumps on the attack as we said against the senator from texas. He thinks he can beat cruz in iowa. Could trump be out to take cruz out early in this campaign . If he knocks him out in iowa, cruz is in real trouble. President obama making good on his promise to act on gun safety with or without congress. His big move today has sparked a big fight from the right. 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He said, we will bill the wall. First time i heard him say it. My wife said, look, hes been copying what youve been saying a long period of time. Ted cruz is trying to step up his whole game on amnesty and illegal immigration because it was weak. Trump was asked about his past statements, questioning whether evangelicals like cruz can come from cuba. Heres trump. When you say about senator cruz not too many evangelicals come out of cuba, what does that mean . Well, it just means cuba, generally speaking, is a catholic country and you dont equate evangelicals with cuba. I dont. I think of evangelicals, and i have, i guess i am, im presbyterian. Youre not questioning, as far as you know he could be more devout than you are . Its possible. Im not questioning it. I say it in a somewhat smiling manner, but theres a little truth to it. Today nbcs Hallie Jackson asked cruz about that attack. Take a look at what he said then. Oh, listen, politicians behave a certain way when theyre panicking and they engage in personal attacks. Thats human nature. I understand that. Im not going to get drawn into that muck. Im going to keep the focus on the issues that matter. The reason everyones attacking us because conservatives are uniting. That scares them. Im joined by Hallie Jackson as well as director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and former Political Editor of the des moines register. Halle, that interview there. The use of the word panic is interesting. Does he think he can than spin that word into reality . Somehow trump is panicked by ted cruz . Well, i think maybe the spin the cruz campaign, and frankly other campaign was want to talk about here in iowa is maybe donald trump is panicked. Lets look at what weve seen in the past. He is losing in the polls here. He looks poised to not win. What has trump talked about . He said if i lose by a couple of points, people are going to say its a big deal. 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