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>> welcome back to "hardball." the pro-bush super pac right to rise is slamming marco rubio in a new ad in iowa today on rubio's missed voted in the senate. >> days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a top-secret briefing on the terrorist threat. marco rubio was missing. fund-raising in california instead. two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. and where was marco? fund-raising again in new orleans. over the last three years, rubio has missed important national security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. >> in response, rubio's s...

To be locking up stwbs new hampshire that will cull this field. and with christie, bush, and john kasich making the granite state the singular focus of their campaigns and rubio should he lose iowa, needing a top-tier finish, the fight to be the mainstream alternative to cruz or trump could end here. and michael, i'll come back to you on this. because you do see, whether it's christie and jeb bush piling up on marco rubio or whatever the divide of the day is, you do see this cannibalization among these candidates. does any of them have the upper hand? >> i guess rubio has the upper hand. he's ...

Slices of the pie. so what's left is what bush and rubio and christie and kasich have to fight over. they have no choice but to attack one another. if they attack trump, then even if it works and they eat into trump's support, that possibly goes to cruz. so they have to go after one another. >> not a pretty picture. sabrina, michael, and ginger are sticking with me. coming up, the possibility every political reporter dreams of and every republican fears. a brokered convention. the "hardball" roundtable weighs in, next. this is "hardball," the place for politics. mirrors. they show us all our p...

About not showing up for his job when jeb bush lefrled it against him. but long-term down the road, are you hearing on the campaign trail this could actually start to stick. >> this is an issue that seldom comes up on the campaign trail, especially many of the events in new hampshire and it's not a question that's asked of him save for one town hall every couple of weeks. but his components are trying to create this narrative that he has a thin record of accomplishment in the senate. and if you're chris christie or jeb bush, your entire message is that i'm a governor, i'm an experienced hand w...

Alternative who could then contest donald trump. but again, we aren't seeing that happen. we were just talking about the infighting going on between chris christie, jeb bush going after marco rubio. if anything they're showing less willingness to coalesce around one alternative. i don't think any of them believe they need to since they only have a marginal difference between them. that's the problem facing republicans. they don't know how to take on donald trump. >> therein lies the point, michael. where she says it doesn't seem likely, there's also no republican -- there's no alternative bein...