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Those things -- >> welcome to "morning joe." doris is with us. we have mark halperin and mark barnacle and "the washington post" eugene robinson and joining the conversation presidential historian doris kearns goodwin. great to have you on board. the numbers are multipling. have you seen this? yesterday we had two polls. now it's four showing donald trump behind ben carson in iowa. the monmouth university poll of the aye republican caucus conducted from thursday to sunday shows trump trailing ben carson by 14 points. the poll had carson and trump tied in august. senators ted cruz and marco rub...

Mark barnacle john capehart as well, general, talk about the fight against isis knocked groups oak, the bombs from above. what's going on? >> i think the general who oversees this is to keep the different lines of effort ongoing for our nation moving forward at about the same pace there is a train and equip force on the ground and there is of course a diplomatic effort. the intent is to keep it all in balance and not create more opportunity for more dissension on the ground. >> you have a lot of people that said you couldn't win the wars from above. what's the situation if isis? against isis? ...

This city on the banks of the alabama river, gave birth to a movement that changed this nation forever. our country will never, ever be the same because of that happened on this bridge. swhak a weekend in selma. incredible group, including some republicans and a former president showing up to mark the day. good morning, everyone. itis monday, march 9th. we have mark barnacle and school of public affairs rk dor yan. and ron. good to have you all this morning. >> how it was weekend? >> running around after teenagers all weekend. how about yours? good to be here. >> how was your weekend, willie?

Of the barbs going back and forth, knowing that actually -- at some point that same person is going to be standing on the stage next to them, endorsing them, so sure, i think there is absolutely an awareness. i think the challenge, i will say, on the republican side this time, more so than we saw on the democratic side last time, it has been that the range of differences and the range of issues that have been talked about from rick santorum to newt gingrich to mitt romney for a variety of reasons, i think mostly because of the various republican parties, i think that's where a little more of t...

>> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> the other important thing to remember is that wisconsin in 1905 passed the strongest civil service protection in the country. we have just cause for tirmination and discipline. those are all things that continue to protect workers' rights in the state, that have nothing to do with the contract. they'll continue long after we make these changes. >> okay. mark barnacle? >> governor, with regard to the pension and health care givebacks that we've read about in the press, as you've indicated, you just said that they have not told me that directly. have you asked anyone d...