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Assessment? what are you hearing about his ability to win? >> let me be overly granular. depends by what you mean by winning? winning the general election? i'm not sure. winning the iowa caucuses, probably. you take a look at these individual races out there and the map, there's a very good chance that ben carson could win iowa. here's why. iowa has a large evangelical base and michele bachmann and some of the other hard right social conservatives have won that state in the past or have come very close in 2008 and 2012. then transition into new hampshire and south carolina and the question bec...

>> a big threat he says to hillary clinton and the secular progressive movement. along with all the new scrutiny comes abigger press corps. one has a foetso spread describing the maryland home as a temple to himself, including a painting of the candidate with jesus. ben carson expects a lot more questions and he'll get some of them tuesday at the next republican debate. he told me he's scheduled just a half a day of prep, adding life is preparation. just another way that this is an unconventional candidacy. >> thank you, chris jansing. joining me is betty woodrun for the daily beast and jona...

>> yesterday donald trump and ben carson threatened to pull out of the debate unless there's changes in the format. the two candidates insist that the debate be shortened to two hours. they demand candidates give opening and closing statements. trump and carson describe their demands as reasonable format changes. cnbc said they have not done opening and closing statements in past debates and will take the candidates views on the formats into consideration as they finalize their structure. i think they should. last night trump said the network is motivated by profit. >> they've sold out all the...

You have to be fore given by by god and he says nothing. >> in 2011 at this point rick santorum was 3%. i think there's a couple of interesting things about this. one, to hue hewitt's question, carson has a mix. they want that free. the other thing is that their philosophy is we're going to let the candidate be who he is. that authenticity comes through and jeb bush, on the campaign trail this week talked about how he was advised to lose the glasses. that's where his campaign is. he said i can't see without my glasses. >> that's a problem. hue hewiue it, there's irony th

More this is the first day that mika and i have heard from representatives from both parties. this is the first week that people have said set back and said, oh, my god. >> this is the reuters poll that came out late yesterday. has donald trump at 31 and ben carson at 21, everyone else in single digits. >> just put it up a there for a second, gene, and just brett it in. >> i also happened to run into a couple senior republicans last night, who you think had moved