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I think trump would be fine with going one-on-one. >> i agree with you 100%. i think for partly the reason of the first question, if you are marco rubio you come in second in new hampshire you are most likely going to consolidate the establishment vote. the guy who consolidates the establishment vote is a huge threat. if you are trump and you keep the vote from consolidating you are in a good place. if i'm trump i would rather fight with one guy and have it be ted cruz. a guy who has not been the leader for the whole year. trump is better in that situation by far. >> ted cruz could finish seco...

Themselves and consolidate that establishment vote and take a shot at donald trump running first in new hampshire and with that kind of competition, you see this gamesmanship. >> yeah. chris christie said about the attacks, another day at the ranch for him. steve, thank you, sir. two developing stories this hour. the armed protest earls of a federal building holds a press conference detailing the demands to end the siege. we'll take you to oregon next. and then in another unfolding story, developments out of california. the friend of the san bernardino shooters in court. we take you to the c...

The beast. look at the land. that's trufr land. >> telt r tell me if you're kasich or christie. >> that's not. >> we're all talking about new hampshire. look at the day after new hampshire. my god, if all goes south and when it goes south, that is trump land, right. >> there's also another problem. all of the things for 2015 is the campaigned vote total of trump, cruz, carson, fiorina is well over 50%. if you consolidate all the britishment vote, there might not be enough establishment vote to win this year. >> only in new hampshire is the nonconservative vote approaching over 50 percent. that...

>> the interesting thing, a lot of establishment candidates are not expected to win are spending time on the ground in iowa. why are they doing that? they want to make sure who ever wins iowa and right now they think it would be donald trump or ted cruz doesn't run away with it. and the other thing that they are trying to do is, they want to consolidate the establishment vote. the lane, ted cruz is talking about. if they can consolidate that support, only one can come out in new hampshire. >> bush and rubio and christie campaigns, they think there is anywhere from 25 or 35 percent of the elect...

New hampshire for being absent from that state. boston globe recently pointed out gop activists are grumbling he has fewer staff members and endorsements and has made fewer campaign appearances in the state. compare that to another candidate competing for the establishment vote, chris christie ie who has spent the last four months working to warm the chill hearts of early state voters in iowa and new hampshire. today he took a direct swing at rubio. >> only in washington could you have the guts to stand up and say i'm against something that you have a vote to vote no on and not go and put out ...