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Manu, thank you for joining us. rubio's campaign releasing an ad on national security. that's a topic he's been hammering home for months and hitting ted cruz on for weeks. what did he have to say today? >> reporter: what he's been saying is that, look, ted cruz voted for a surveillance law that gutted the national security agency, the ability to collect bulk data. he believes that's a way to distinguish himself from ted cruz on this national security issue. it's interesting, when rubio talks to voters, he does not cite ted cruz by name, he does not cite donald trump by name. but when he's ask...

Taking incoming. and the question is will those vulnerabilities that daunted people earlier come back and will christie be deflated as a result of these ads. >> rubio also battling it out with senator ted cruz. take a listen to how a super pac backing cruz is going after rubio. ♪ >> i know i have a debate but i've got to get this fantasy football thing right. okay. >> david, i'll be honest. i kind of scratched my head when i saw this one. rubio just having a light moment for a fake ad he had done about fantasy football. what's the point of this ad? >> i think you have to put it in context, j...

Intelligence programs. i'm in favor of expanding them. this country cannot afford a president that's not going to reverse the direction barack obama has taken our country. we can't have a president that is for expanding obamacare. these are serious policy disputes and there's nothing in those ads that's inaccurate, it's the truth. >> reporter: now that last comment was a reference to the super pac that -- rubio's super pac that released two ads cre t criticizing chris christie calling him president obama's favorite republican. it shows a war he's mounting against ted cruz in iowa, to prevent c...

Cruz came back with an ad on national security, and the suggestion is that rubio is too young to be commander in chief, that cruz is the serious guy who can be commander in chief. so i view this as a response spot as much as an attack spot. >> all right, david axelrod, thank you so much. good to see you as always. >> great to see you. more on our politics lead right now. senator bernie sanders today delivering a fiery populist speech about reform wall street. he billed it as a big policy address. he accused big banks of greed, fraud, dishonesty and arrogance. he suggested hillary clinton was...