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President-elect? >> there was something a little lackluster about the whole skit especially being a cold open. the audience response wasn't as, you know, robust as it usually is. i think that has to do with this is no longs ger a joke but this is our president-elect. alec baldwin nailed it. he's so good as trump, but i don't know if he was holding back or if it was just maybe his own opinions. he's an outspoken hillary supporter. maybe he was feeling some type of way about playing the now president. >> but he got this job now to parody donald trump. he's in it. you know, i thought that was fun...

It's effectiveness measured by audience response. in this, the media becomes his partner, willingly or not. with that premise, do you think that the media should do anything differently? >> well, i think the media -- yes. let me say yes because they have done so much wrong to date. so it probably would auger for the future that the media be more open, more receptive, more -- less hostile, less resistant, which is not at all to say that they should be lap dogs in any way. but i think the story, the political story in this country has changed. i think they have missed it to date. and i think it'...

Cruz and somebody who has an understanding of the constitution. so that helps in his argument. >> maggie, do you see, when trump went after ted cruz in the past, rush limbaugh, mark levin, you know, powerful radio hosts basically said, back off. do you see that happening here or because we're, you know, we're less than a month away from iowa, do you see this escalating? >> i think we'll know more in the coming days. it is an interesting fact in the last couple of weeks, especially, months especially, the superpacs backing ted cruz made advertising investments on a lot of radio shows. they know...

Audience response but i think dana is right. cruz is walking a careful line. he doesn't want to get sucked in and trump is able to protect something in a way no other candidate has been able to. we've been talking about this for a day. trump made sure of that. it remains to be scene if trump will talk at his rally tomorrow but my guess is he will in someway or another and keeps going. it will be interesting to see what happens next week at the debate. >> good to have you on. still to come, more on guns in america. what happens to the guns police confiscate from criminals. police departments wa...

Obviously on fear and anger and a cultive personality buildup around the combativeness of the candidate ca himself. >> this is wallace country but he ran into one of the worst and one of the loudest protest demonstrations of his campaign so far. >> you've got some folks out here who know a lot of four-letter words. but there are two four lit are words they don't know. w-o-r-k-and soap. work and so. that was how george wallace campaigned for president in 1968. wallace finds attack on press and tv is a successful campaign tactic. sound familiar? "the ridicule and content mr. wallace expressed fo...