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This is ridiculous. please do me a favor. let me win iowa. i refuse to say get your asses in gear. i will not say that. now, if i lose iowa, i will lever speak to you people again. >> oh, let's go to boulder, colorado, where debate preps are under way. with me is cnn political director and m.j. lee cc politics reporter. david, you're wondering what a second place trump would look like. now we know. my question to you is, how far is he going to go tonight on that stage? >> reporter: well, listen, obviously being on stage with the other candidates is different than being in front of all your sup...

I'm sure he wants to draw sharp contrast with his closest competitor, the guy now in number one, ben carson. >> how, m.j., i know you just published an article on cnn talking about how he will be forced to change his tactics in the debate, trump. how do you think he'll do it? >> reporter: well, i mean, the question is, can donald trump handle being not in first place anymore, as david just said? i think the question also is, is he going to take on ben carson in a way that he hasn't in the past debates? trump has really enjoyed going after some of the other candida4)'éju+$u)s& be on stage toni...

Brooke, also this is coming right in the middle of a very heated republican presidential campaign. swre a debate tonight. these things are linked, tied together. so the fortunes of the republicans winning the white house are connected to this vote. so a new moment. we'll see if it's the same old day for republicans here in washington. >> matt lewis of the "daily caller" is still with me. how do we know it's not the same old day to jeff zeleny's point. when will we know? what will be the litmus test, i suppose, whether or not congressman soon to be speaker ryan will be able to corral that massi...

We're expecting to hear from him shortly, brooke. >> i am sure there is a position ready to role. we'll take it. obviously we'll hear from the now speaker of the house. lit me just ask you this. do you have any color from behind the scenes or what's been happening there today? >> reporter: sure. a lot of members i was struck by, brooke, bringing their families in. young children were in the room when the voting was going on. paul ryan is a very popular member of the house of representatives, really on both sides of the aisle. republican and democrat. of course he came into the national spotlig...

Understand that the alternative, of course, is to see an opportunity for democrats to try to demagogue or divide the process. so i think that you'll see republicans come together. it won't certainly be a unanimous vote, but i think he will prevail handily tomorrow. >> reporter: but paul ryan said he would only do this job if he had the support of the full republican conference. do you think he actually has that? >> i do. i think that we all understand the moment in this country. we understand that we have a president that holds himself unconstrained to the strugs to the truth of his own words ...