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11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. right now in new york city, former president donald trump inside the courtroom at closing arguments in his $250 million civil fraud trial. just hours after police responded to a bomb threat at the judge's home. meanwhile, on the campaign trail, nikki haley and ron desantis traded insults during last night's gop debate in the battle for second place. >> you're invisible in new hampshire. you're invisible in south carolina. you're in fifth place. >> she's got this problem with ballistic podiatry, shooting herself in the foo...

The brash billionaire holding a rally in new hampshire this morning after taking aim at ben carson who made controversial comments comparing abortion to slavery. we have team coverage beginning with joe johns, he is live in new hampshire for trump's morning event. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alison. donald trump is getting a very early start in new hampshire. a crowd already gathering to see him this morning. he does have his work cut out for him, quite frankly, trailing dr. ben carson in the state of iowa. over the weekend, trump started leveling attacks as you said. listen ...

To eat, what we can put in our school cafeterias. >> leave us alone, get off our back. >> we don't need a nanny state. >> michelle obama's focus here is misplaced. instead of going through the federal government, why suspect she encouraging parents to pack them a lunch. >> why wouldn't you want to raise your own kids when michelle obama will do it for you? >> conservatives have been leveling attacks at michelle o'back for years fighting efforts for healthier kids to limit the amount of sugar, salt and fat. this week we saw the first lady punch right back. she came out swinging at an event on t...

His campaign dug up opposition research. they aired ads on tv and radio. i've been covering this race for quite a while. i spent time with matt bevin. he spent a lot of time on the stump defending charges mcconnell was leveling at him on the air and he didn't do a very good job of leveling attacks at senator mcconnell. if you talk to his campaign, they'll say they tested whether or not the attack that mcconnell was too liberal was one that would stick and that just didn't register at all and that was bevin's main argument he was not conservative. i think for most people who covered him for a l...

So are all of these, you are a democrat, gop intraparty negative attacks only helping president obama? >> yes, they are. for one thing as you said there was a bit of inaccuracies but that is why there are so many happening in south carolina right now. the bigger problem with gingrich making these attacks on romney the idea is that republicans are the ones who are laying the groundwork for democrats to make the same attack against romney in the fall. i think that is the issue they have less the attacks on free enterprise. >> gregg: it's not just newt gingrich that is leveling attacks. rick perr...