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About voting records and personal hoyt. i don't think this is one that senator ted cruz needs to spent a lot of time worrying about it. i might be happy if everybody was worried about my birth and where i was because it might take the heat off the fact i veer on the ethanol issue which is so important to iowa. >> but beyond iowa, you don't want questions raised about this and people just as they're getting interested in you ask then someone tells you, some doubt as to whether he was a natural born american, even though you put that to rest very eloquently, it's really about future voters, righ...

Why do you think he is bringing this up now? >> i think it's problematic. i think it's a legitimate issue in the sense that we know the democrats are going to use it in the fall. let's get it out of the way now. the problem is, trump's real strength in my opinion is to get people excited about what america is, it's a positive message that says i know what it can be and how to get there. and that's what they resonate with. for him to go on cruz over and over again you can overplay that hand. >> he says it was brought up in a washington post interview. but i'm surprised he is responding consider...

Of analysts think that the ethanol issue is overstated. there are interested parties who care about this sector and would like a government subsidy. within the conservative movement his appeal to free market on energy is a pretty powerful thing. i suspect it is by lobbiests and he says by lobbiests, democrats and the media. >> how much of a sense do you have just from spending this time with him so far of the cruz operation out there? everybody says he has the best organization in the state and one of the key elements to why people are putting him as almost the prohibitive front runner. how mu...

Time in iowa and following issues there, i'm not convinced that the ethanol issue is quite what it used to be. because commodity prices have skyrocketed. farm prices are high. farmers are doing pretty well. they don't need the ethanol market as much as they did. so t. paw may be pushing a little bit of an open door there. that's probably more about ethanol than our viewers want to know. new hampshire is the place where the rest of the field is going to try to knock off mitt romney. he's the weakest front runner in modern times. most recent polls he's running 32%. in 2000 george w. bush was 60 ...

Mitt romney is going to semiskip iowa. if he wins he'll take credit. if he loses, he'll say i didn't really play there. your candidate, t. paw has to win iowa and obviously thinks he's capable of winning iowa. and probably thinks he's going to win iowa which is one reason he was willing to take on the ethanol issue. let me say having spent a lot of time in iowa and following issues there, i'm not convinced that the ethanol issue is quite what it used to be. because commodity prices have skyrocketed. farm prices are high. farmers are doing pretty well. they don't need the ethanol market as much...