So you have a whole vegas night ahead of you. To go out thereto chaching. And you look like youre having too much fun. Im coming out to vegas tomorrow and the first thing im going to want to know when i get there is what did you do last night. So save your story for tomorrow. It involves a roll of pennies, i can tell you right now. Im sure it will. Thank you, rachel. Well on the eve of the nevada caucus, ted cruz fired his most valuable player for tweeting something that wasnt accurate while donald trump and marco rubio continue to call ted cruz a liar. I asked for rick tylers resignation. One of his top aids fired after spreading misinformation about marco rubio. Wasted no time jumping on cruz, tweet nothing dirty tricks. I cant take it anymore. Basic manners are gone from politics, what is with it with these ding dongs . Youre not sure that marco rubio is eligible for president . I dont know. Ive never looked a it, george, honest will be we ive never looked at it. Were going to support whoever the nominee is. Donald trump, yes, donald trump is now the clear front runner to win the republican nomination, can you believe that . You could say that trump is the candidate fox friends admit it. Its just like when you have a bad dream, except this is real and will probably ruin your life. We have to vote for another president. No whats the secret . Shes going. Just keep moving. Were glad to have you here. Today, one day before the Republican Caucus, ted cruz fired his Communications Director to prove what a clean and honorable campaign hes running. Yesterday a staffer from our campaign sent out a tweet that tweeted a news story that propurted to candidate marco rubio saying something about the bible. The news story was false. That staffer dleelted the tweet, apologized, and pulled it down. I investigated what happened this morning. And this morning, i asked for rick tylers resignation. I had made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity. That has been how we conducted it from day one. It is why when other campaigns attack us personally impugn my integrity or character, i dont respond in kind. The tweet that rick tyler sent out quoted marco rubio saying there are not many answers in the bible when in fact marco rubio said Something Like all the answers are in the bible. Rick tyler apologized to marco rubio on facebook saying i assumed wrongly that the story was correct according to to the cruz staffer. The senator made a friendly and appropriate remark. Marco rubio, certainly doesnt think firing rick tyler was enough. Whos going to be fired when ted cruz is president . Because this campaign now has repeatedly done things they have to apologize for and no ones ever held accountable. Whos going to be held accountable for making up this video . For lying about ben carson . Who was held accountable for robocalls and who was held accountable for the commercials on televisioning that they had to pull down . Of course donald trump who spends most zday loved every bit of this. And the series of tweets donald trump said, wow, ted cruz falsely suggested marco rubio mocked the bible and he was just forced to fire his Communications Director. More dirty tricks. And ted cruz has now apologized to marco rubio and ben carson for fraud and dirty tricks. No wonder he has lost evangelical support. And then ted cruz should be disqualified from his fraudulent win in iowa, weak rnc and relationship leadership probably wont let this the happen. Sad. Joining us now, tom davis, former congressman from virginia. Hes the state chairman for john kasichs president ial campaign now. Also with us, david from, and john walstone, the host of walstone live on pbs magazine. John walstone, its hard to pretend that theres much suspense about whos going to come in first in nevada. Looks like Donald Trumps going to win in a landslide. And the private data indicates that hes in the 40s. Which would really be a landslide, but again, you know, this is a caucus, its a caucus run by an organization, the state Republican Party that is totally dysfunctional. And took two and a half days to count 33,000 votes four years ago, and its on a tuesday night with different start times. So who knows whos going to actually turn out . But donald trump even as we speak, lawrence, is having a huge rally, huge, with where the line started at 1 00 for a 7 00 rally. I think his people are going to go caucus. And i think its going to be an ugly night with rubio and cruz again boasting about who finished in second place. Tom davis, marco rubio could have maybe won South Carolina if jeb bush was out and threw his support to rubio, if john kasich was out and threw his support to rubio. How much pressure is there for john kasich to throw his support to rubio . Well, they put pressure, but its not going to happen. Look, these are front ended to be in deep red states. Except for New Hampshire where john kasich was second. Iowa caucus, South Carolina, conservative stayed, nevadas caucus. You go to super tuesday, mostly southern, but you do have vermont and massachusetts in there. We need to get to the states where were going to perform well. Illinois, michigan, ohio, just because its front ended in a map, its not good for us doesnt mean you should pull out. Weve only had four states in at this point. And i think we deserve a shot at the pie. Lets listen to what ted cruz said today about donald trump and why he doesnt believe Donald Trumps going to be president. What that means for this campaign. Lets listen to this. I believe that donald trump will not be our nominee. But the only way to beat him is for conservatives to unite behind our campaign. If other candidates devote all of their time and energy to attacking us, to engage in personal slurs and attacks, it is possible they could weaken us to a sufficient extent if they hand donald trump the nomination. That is a possibility. I hope that it doesnt happen. David, is that possibility a real prediction that they will weaken ted cruz to the point where donald trump will be the nominee . That seems to be Donald Trumps plan. Judging by his activity, i mean, while everybody keeps insisting that marco rubio is the theoretical front runner that the theory of donald trump seems to be he wants to be in a twoman race with marco rubio. Much more than he wants to be in a twoman race with ted cruz. Thats why ted cruz is the next man he wants off the island. Lets listen to what rubio said today about trump. If we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, were going to be fighting against each other all the way to november. We will never win that way. We can i dont care how much you may think theyre funny or how interesting they may sound, if we nominate someone that 40 to 50 of the party cant stand, we are going to lose. John, there he is campaigning against trump, but hes afraid to actually mention his name. Well, i think hes afraid to take him on for obvious reasons, lawrence. You should see whats going on here in nevada. Its just a rubio, cruz slug fest out here. You played some of the clips. Trump, i think trumps theory in the case is very, very simple, is these guys are all going to stay in. Cruz and rubio, theyre both have their ways they think they have a past for the nomination. Kasich you just heard from the congressman isnt going anywhere, even ben carson is hanging around. And ben carson had a big rally here today in nevada. I think he may do better than people think tomorrow which is bad for cruz and rubio, obviously. And so, i think trump could win by a huge margin. Again, lawrence, this caucus is very difficult to predict. The democrats had 20 to 25 turnout on saturday, the republicans will be lucky, i mean lucky to get half of that. Lets look at the latest nbc news poll on Donald Trumps favorability. His unfavorable is 59 . His favorable, 28 . Tom davis, your party now has a front runner for the nomination with a 59 unfavorable. Why isnt john kasich going straight at that 59 unfavorable every day and hammering away at donald trump . Well, i think he hammers away at electability, just look at the map. States where john kasich is going to produce well, they come later in the cycle. This is front ended at this point to disadvantage candidates like kasich. As we get to super tuesday, youll have massachusetts, vermont, parts of virginia, parts of tennessee where i think he can do well. Remember, in South Carolina, rubio spent like 11 or 12 million and had the whole establishment with him. Came out with no delegates to speak of. These are, at this the point, proportionate delegates. So i dont think theres a need for everybody to come together behind one candidate yet if they want to stop trump. They can wait until march 15th is when you get the winner take all races and if this hasnt gelled by that point, its going to be straight ahead for trump. David, do you agree with that . Is narge 15th still the spot where it might be public to stop trump . Its going to come up earlier than that. I mean, before march 13th. Republican party will have picked nearly a third of all the delegates. Theres close to half. So, it is this is going to be march 1st is really decision moment. If march 1st is as big a day for trump as it now looks, i dont know how he gets stopped. So this is like, its a collective action problem. Right . These candidates needed to seek theyre difference. Theyre each convinced they have that unique thing. And we in the media are weirdly the most convinced about the weakest of the candidates. We are most certain that marco rubio is strong, but yet hes really the weakest for this reason. The central issue, the last time were on the central issue was obamacare. And the Republican Party was against it, and somehow they nominate the man who was intellectual father, mitt romney who designed the same plan in massachusetts, or very similar. This time around, the central issue in the race is immigration for republicans. Marco rubio is the most strongly identified candidate with the position on immigration that republicans reject. So he, its hard for me to see how he goes anywhere. And yet, he is the one whos constantly calling on all of the others to drop out. Marco rubio has conservative talk radio hammering that point against him all day, every day. That hes in the wrong place and has been in the wrong place on immigration. Yeah, and davids right, i mean, he has been running away from the gang of eight, hes been doing revisionist history on the gang of eight. Hes changed his explanation on that. Thats a very weak position. And trump eventually, if it ever came down to trump and rubio. Imagine what would happen there, lawrence, in that matchup, and trump is just saying exactly what the base wants to hear about immigration and even cruz, although rubio tried to muddy cruz a little bit on immigration, i think that if its rubio, the argument, david is making is correct in the sense of what is his argument. Where is he showing strength . He gives victory speeches when it finishes in third place. I think he has to start win, and theres no sign that thats going to happen. Lawrence. Tom, go ahead. March 1st is important for ted cruz because thats highs texas primary. Lets see how he performs there against trump. If he doesnt win that. I think that knocks him out at this point. And rubio has the 15th in florida. If he doesnt, thats winner take all. If he doesnt win that, hes out of it. There are a lot of contingencies and a long way to go. Tom, when we come back, i want to the ask you, if it does get done like as you tried to outline. If it gets down to trump versus kasich, exactly what that fights going to look like. Stay with us. Coming up, Bernie Sanders now thinks that hes winning, and youll hear him explain what he mines by that. And later, a very special last word tonight from the simpsons, who this time are talking politics. The simpsons as you have never heard them right here on the last word. I take pictures of sunrises, but with my back pain i couldnt sleep and get up in time. Then i found aleve pm. Aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. Im back. Aleve pm for a better am. Its intelligent drive is msystems. Ng. Paradigmshifting. Its technologyfilled cabin. Jawdropping. Its performance. Breathtaking. Its selfparking. And selfbraking. Showstopping. The allnew glc. Mercedesbenz resets the bar for the luxury suv. Starting at 38,950. 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No. No. I am pro choice in every respect. We cannot trust donald trump with these serious decisions. Were back with john, tom, and david. David, the trump threat to sue over this ad because it actually uses donald trump saying what donald trump thought is certainly the craziest lawsuit trump has proposed so far, but he continues in his objections to the ad to draw attention to him. He draws attention to it, and it points to something important in the politics and months ahead. You know, theres a lot of loose talk about Michael Bloomberg may be entering the independent race candidate. But, a much more likely scenario it seems to me if donald trump should emerge as a republican nominee. At this the point, Hillary Clinton is pro choice. And another candidate, donald trump who arrived at a pro life position not very credibly very, very recently. And the substantial prolife community in the United States which has dominated the republican process since 1980 is going to be out in the cold. And the question is going, is there going to be a space for a third party run by a convinced pro life candidate . So thats going to be a fourth party run if you have Mike Bloomberg i dont think hell do it. Tom davis, do you see that opening . This doesnt strike me from where i sit, is that different from mitt romneys switch in abortion politics . And it seems to me, and i understood it that the antiabortion forces care what you think now. And, they all believe in religious conversion, they all believe in religious changes of minds. And its not really shocking to them the notion that someone might actually change his mind or her mind about abortion. It had no affect in South Carolina. Which is a state you would have expected to have some. So no, i think trump has rewritten the wrul rules in term was what candidates previously said, previously contributed to and can get away with. You asked me about kasich and trump db. Lets go to that. Just a second, lawrence. Get to that. Two arguments, one is that case sick a person with a very substitute record in Public Policy and balancing budgets, creating jobs, et cetera, versus talking about him. But secondly, you dont just have the presidency at stake this november, with the presidency goes the senate and the Supreme Court. You basically have 80 , and putting a candidate up with 59 negative is not a way to win the presidency. Its a way to jeopardize your Senate Majority and if you lose the supreme, you lose the court for a decade. That works for governor kasich or either of the other two candidates one on one. In the one on one polls that have been run, trump loses one on one to rubio by 16 points and loses one on one to cruz by 16 points. And in the current version, he comes out ahead of john kasich. Do you think if tom davis theory of the case holds and we see those other two fall away and we eventually do get through a day when its one on one with john kasich that that dynamic would be different than those polls would then obviously have to take on a whole new version of themselves to make sense in that new context. Well, i think what the congressman said, lawrence, first is the most important thing that he said which is that donald trump is rewritten all of the rules. All the rules that we all thought we understood about president ial campaigns and politics and what would hurt a candidate and what wouldnt hurt a candidate are gone. And so we dont know whats going to happen. You know, trumps support is much broader than i think people understood, if you look at the polling, hes drawing some moderates,