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That's one of the questions we'll be asking him. can he turn these big rallies into caucus goers and take iowa? >> a question among many. from iowa, thank you very much. want to bring in msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. of course, we are seeing trump versus clintons. also seeing more attacks within the ranks of the gop and the contenders there, especially when it comes to marco rubio and jeb bush and superpac adds there. tell us a little bit more about that. >> all the attention on donald trump, the republican front-runner, a little on ted cruz, given him certainly a run ...

With no clear political philosophy and no deeper understanding of the important and serious role of president of the united states than one of the goons he lets rough up protesters in his crowd. so yeah, some tough words here, but not all together unsurprising. remember, this is a newspaper that endorsed the more establishment candidate, chris christie, in new hampshire last month. that gave christie a little bit of a boost in new hampshire. so it wouldn't come as any sort of shock to donald trump that the paper would now be taking aim at him after it took some more subtle swipes at candidates...

New hampshire. you have those so-called establishment candidate, whether it's jeb bush or chris christie being championed by the union leader or marco rubio picking up endorsements. right now they are all getting 10%, 12% each. they are all basically tied far back. the main beneficiary of that is donald trump. >> certainly we will see with the clock ticking. five weeks left before iowa, then trey gowdy campaigning with marco rubio expected tomorrow. a lot to watch. steve and robert, to both of you, we will certainly talk later on. thank you. donald trump's remarks about the former president ...

Watched with bated breath. >> what is so weird about marco's nativest attack is it goes for everything he stood against in politics. america is a land of opportunity. but here in the age of trump, instead of being marco, he's trying to channel trump. >> well, here's the problem for him. he's probably not going to win in either state. iowa or new hampshire. then what happens to him? christie will end up as the establishment candidate. cruz is going to probably win iowa, i would guess because he has the religious right and that is a built-in organization for him. then you get south and i think i...

Something to back somebody else, if he got out on the campaign trail in new hampshire it could make a real difference. >> let's bring in kelly o'donnell who has covered senator lindsey graham on the campaign trail as well as on capitol hill. she joins us from hawaii. kelly, how much of an impact going forward will lindsey graham's endorsement of a candidate have? how could that affect any of the kind of commentary we're hearing in terms of an establishment candidate? is it even a significant endorsement? we know numerically he doesn't really have strong poll numbers, but, again, he takes pride...