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Kind of pick up stuff in south carolina or elsewhere. where do they see the lane for themselves that they are sticking with it? >> you have to view the republican field, anderson in two columns. there's the anti-government populist right and then there's the center right governing conservatives, bush, rubio, kasich, to some degree governor christie is in that governing conservative category. carson obviously, trump, and then ted cruz is in that other column. you would think huckabee in there i guess as well, and so the real guy to watch in my view is ted cruz. he had a good night tonight. he h...

Attack on the media and also an attack on jeb bush, this idea that someone had told him that it was a good idea to make this attack that was purely political. >> john. >> ladies first. >> i think it kind of shakesperean what's going on between these two folks, right? jeb was the mentor to marco rubio. rubio tells the truth when he says somebody told you that it would be good for you to attack me. jeb is not natural when he attacks. there's something kind of awkward about it. you know, the french workweek line was canned, planned, whatever, and he's really not good at delivering those attacks. ...

>> he stole all my lines. i want to make sure i'm lokd locked in. i think it was a kasich night. i think it was definitely a night for ted cruz to display those princeton debate skills that we always heard that he had, but we frankly hadn't seen them. i also concur that it was a bad night for jeb bush because like kasich he tried to step out, but rubio confronted him and that punch just did not land, and the counterattack did, so marco rubio had a good night. john kasich had a good night. ted cruz had a good night. jeb had the worst night. >> let's play that exchange between marco rubio and je...

>> reporter: one thing for you to think that and another thing for to you say it publicly the way you did tonight. i think that that was the thargt rubio is making that it's just politically motivated because, you know, this has to be a moment for you to break out. >> i'm going to break out by campaigning hard in new hampshire, iowa, in south carolina where we have the best ground game and i'm going to go there tonight and tomorrow morning. heading off to new hampshire. i'm going to win this the old-fashioned way, the way that party nominees always win it. >> reporter: your friend and mine ana...

Competing for a lot of the same money and a lot of florida donors friends with both of them going to jeb first but they are saying come on, governor, you're the front-runner and show us the fight to be in this. he's had to make the rubio is obama argument, why do we want to send another freshman senator to washington. he's not ready to be president. that could be a stronger argument. republicans have argued for the past seven years that obama wasn't ready for the job. rubio's attendance issue may well be a factor in the campaign but in the debate tonight game, set, match. >> and i want to brin...