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he had better hope after falling to ted cruz in the iowa caucuses, trump is trying to protect a big lead in new hampshire, 18 points, but this was all before the iowa roadblock. now trump admits his decision to skip the final debate may have hurt him there, but he says he is proud of his second place finish. one poll came out that said i was leading by four or five points. the headlines were trump comes in second! he s humiliated! there were 17 people when we started. now you have 11. i come in second. i m not humiliated. trump says new hampshire is a better fit for his kind of campaign, and that is where cnn s sara murray joins us from a trump rally. reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump may have delivered a gracious concession speech in iowa, but back on the campaign trail in new hampshire, all bets were off. last night he tore into ted cruz, suggesting the texas senator is running a dirty campaign. that s after cruz campaign aides told iowa ....
few look at the next three candidates, ted cruz in second place. . . . . . . . . . the democratic front runner talked in an interview. though she refused to address his comments directly. listen. i really support the tone of this campaign and the inflammato ininflammatory rhetoric he is using to divide people. reporter: now trump for his part tweeting overnight, quote, when i said hillary clinton slot shlonged by obama, it meant, beaten badly. the media knows this, often used word if politics. not sure how to fact check that assertion at this point. chris. maybe it s more common if you give it a different accent in french, maybe then it s more common. okay. we are joining now by cnn political director david callahan an senior contributor for the daily caller, matt lewis, author of the new book too dumb to fail. let s put it up one more time. this is interesting to see the progress or lack thereof. the candidates have made. donald trump far and away again the le ....
states, they will no longer be sought by the united states through interpol as well. all of this seen as what the iranians described as a goodwill gesture. it gives the u.s. a list they gave the u.s. a list of iranians they wanted released. the u.s. rejected, by the way, releasing anyone accused of violence or direct terrorism, as part of this prisoner swap. let s bring in our global affairs correspondent, elise labott. elise, what more are we learning about this fifth american, that s the latest development? reporter: well, two americans, we didn t know about, wolf. this nosratoliah khoshawi, who was detained in the last year, and also this matthew trevithchick, a young student we didn t know anything about this person. this student, not part of those large large errs conversations that t place over the last 14 months between u.s. and iranian officials. that was about the four americans in exchange for seven iranian nationals. but we understand from u.s. officials ....
he s on the run and authorities think his mom is by his side. how far can they run? a closer look at the massive manhunt under way. hello, everyone, i m kate bolduan. i m john berman. brand-new national poll numbers that paint a picture of the national race and a picture that might leave a trump troubled and a cruz krooning. in this new quinnipiac poll trump is still on top but cruz is surging, just four points behind the front-runner. everyone else, way back. that s right, my friend. rubio down to 12%, carson at 10%, christie at 6% and bush with 4%. senior washington correspondent joe johns is taking a closer look at all these numbers. so, joe, what does it all mean? reporter: it s one poll. it is a national poll. it still shows donald trump leading and also shows the cruz campaign is running strong right now. polls show the lead has stretched to new heights, with some saying more than 40% of republicans support him. quinnipiac s national polling has consistent ....
reports of a top syrian rebel leader killed in an airstrike. who he was, what this means to the war on isis. your new day starts right now. happy saturday to you. i m kristi paul. i m errol barnett in for vict victor black well. we want to deal with this unrelenting weather the region hit by a tornadoes outbreak earlier this week, now, look at these pictures we re getting in. drenched with double digit rain totals. terrible flooding in some parts. we re talking 14 million people today facing new severe threats. more than 22 million tomorrow overnight the death toll from this week s tornado disaster did go up. at least 15 people are now confirmed dead. dozens more are injured. good morning, kristi, some of the states battered by this brutal string of storms the last couple days hit hard again overnight. we are talking mississippi, georgia, tennessee and alabama to those states affected. reporter: severe weather batters southern states, parts of alabama, at le ....