let's begin in new hampshire. up first, two of the republican contenders holding duelling town hall events. jeb bush and donald trump getting their fair share of tough questions and getting a chance to take shots at each other. did either do anything to increase support for their political party? we have sara murray with more. >> reporter: good morning, christine. donald trump held the first town hall in derry, new hampshire. about 900 people peppered him with questions and hundreds of others in an overflow room. the questions ran the gamut. from immigration to illegal drug use to if he has too much hubrus to be president. on the top of the agenda was slamming his rival, jeb bush. he went after him for being a low energy candidate and then common core. >> have i gotten under jeb bush's skin? i tell you this, you mentioned the word skin. he said one of the dumber things i heard in politics when talking about iraq. that we, the united states, he said, have to show them that we have skin in the game. in order to go i

bernie sanders plus seven in state of new hampshire. vermont, beating in new hampshire. welcome number to see clinton iowa. even though bernie sanders is for single payer health care. liberals tend to look that. in iowa they're saying we like hillary clinton. she wins on energy policy as well. she has a gender gap. runs about even with bernie sanders among men. look at this. six in ten, iowa democratic women are voting for hillary clinton. gender gap. huge factor and the lead in iowa at the moment. >> do the polls point to trouble spots for hillary clinton in iowa? >> there are trouble spots for hillary. similar everywhere. 28%, a poll of iowa democrats. only 28% find her honest and trust worthy. that means 70% doevenlt as e-mail investigation goes on at justice department and capitol hill. that's a number to keep an eye on. only 40%. the empathy question. which politician most understands the problem facing people look you. 40%. back hillary clinton. even with bernie sanders. if there are weaknesses for hillary clinton it's on trust and empathy. anderson. >> john. thank

so i mean, now he's in new hampshire. i am very happy he's there because the questioners there, people show up with well craft, well researched questions and i'm not sure this broken record and entertainment routine, this spectacle, is going to sell when it comes down to town halls. >> jeffrey, i want to ask you. you look at the poll that came out today from cnn, it shows trump very competitive against hillary clinton, but when we look back to 2011 or 2007, they fade. rick perry in 2007, you look further back, when you look, michele bachmann, for instance, is it possible that bush is going to turn donald trump into the bachmann or perry of the 2016s? >> i think the answer is found in the description i heard from cnn a few minutes ago that there are 1500 people at donald trump's town hall and 200 at jeb bush's. right there i think is the essence of the answer being seen in the polls. >> jeffrey, we are watching the two duelling town halls. stay with us. this is a live picture of donald trump's town hall where the candidate

two people killed when a circus tent collapses in new hampshire. there were 100 people in the tent watching the circus when the powerful thunderstorm packing heavy winds. this man's 4-year-old son was badly injured by part of a tent. >> i believe it was a pole. it happened so fast. a pole. he took it to the upper side of his left eye in his forehead. cut him open pretty good. all i saw was blood when i looked down. >> officials are not releasing the names of the two people killed, but describes the victims as a young man and young girl. >>> a pentagon official says isis remains as strong as it was a year ago. citing a classified assessment. the official says the security forces in isis are in a stalemate. the good news the official says isis is no longer making rapid advances. >>> a new syrian force trained by the pentagon has suffered the first fatality. the fighter was killed friday with the clash with the al nusra front. that battle triggered the first air strike in defense of the syrian force. the program to train syrian rebels faced many chall

he's gone down in new hampshire. what's behind that. >> hope was a pretty good strategy for barack obama. remember that. >> i think new hampshire is a bit of a different story for donald trump, he's still leading in the polls, he's down six points from where he was in late july. and as dana was pointing out earlier, his loss is the gain of john kasich and carly fiorina. both of them had breakout performances at their respective debates. and i think they've taken a little oxygen out of the trump balloon in new hampshire. new hampshire's really different from iowa. couldn't be more different. you can have cross-over voters. independents can vote in a republican primary, that may be why someone like john kasich may be given a second look or a woman like carly fiorina. trump really doing well, do not understate that, but again there are others in the field in new hampshire and iowa, let me point out one more thing. 20% undecided in this poll in iowa, so there's still a lot of thinking and changing of votes that needs to

he's the host of new hampshire today ona m 610, wgir, something of a new hampshire player. mr. heath, thank you so much for being with us. really appreciate it. >> talking about my golf game, john? no, john and kate, great to be with you. >> i want to talk about someone who will not be there, donald trump. he wrote a letter to the publisher of the manchester union leader explaining why he wouldn't be there. he said knowing you as i do i feel it is unlikely i will be getting the endorsement from you and the union leader. i made a great fortune based on instinct and that, unfortunately, is my view. therefore and for other reasons including the fact that i feel there are too many people ontage to have a proper forum, i will not be attending. do you think his spirit will be there? >> i don't think donald trump will be a big part of the forum. i would be surprised if many bring him up at all. i intend to kind of have a trump-less forum talking about issues voters here in iowa and south carolina think are important and they want to hear answers to their questions. >> why trump-less?

tomorrow in new hampshire hillary clinton will be laying out her college affordability plan. there's a lot of anticipation ahead of this. her competitors governor o'malley and senator sanders have already laid out plans for this. and the question from the left really is whether her plan will be sort of a big, bold idea that really gets at it. she's under a lot of pressure from her left flank in order to come up with some big risk government solutions to big problems like this. so we'll see what she has to say. >> nice. any time candidates talk about policy, agree or disagree, policy debates are good debates. >> for her this is sort of her sweet spot, not talking about e-mail, talking about policy. >> jeff zeleny? >> we've heard a lot of talk about hillary clinton and donald trump. this week we actually could see them at least in the same environment, the iowa state fair. it starts on thursday in des moines. and they're both perhaps going to be there at the end of the weekend. but the iowa state fair is one of those many venues where politicians go to test their mettle. the de

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struggling in new hampshire. she will be grateful for iowa numbers. >> why is she doing better in iowa than new hampshire? >> democrats compare her and bernie sanders. they like her on the big issues. 11 point advantage. 36% advantage on health care. a big advantage over bernie sanders on foreign policy. big advantage over bernie sanders on energy policy. if you move here, very important, she runs about even with bernie sanders about men. but gets 58% of democratic women. huge edge, gender gap in favor of hillary clinton. >> what about trustworthiness? >> a warning sign for hillary clinton. if you look at this. 28%, democrats find her honest and trustworthy. watch the numbers as the e-mail investigation continues at the justice department and on capitol hill. a warning sign. only 40%, empathy question -- does she understand problems facing people look me? 40% give that to hillary clinton. tie with bernie sanders. if there are warning signs on trust and empathy. >> talk more about implications of our panel of demo

new hampshire officials couldn't determine how sunday died. and this raised alarms. >> one of their initial concerns was to make sure there was not the importation into the u.s. of some exotic disease that could have been transmitted by sunday or her family into the u.s. >> all members of the family were thoroughly tested. everyone was perfectly healthy. but then results came back from an extensive test on sunday's blood. analysts were shocked by what they found. her blood contained unusually large amounts of lead. 392 micrograms per deciliter, 40 times the lethal level for a child. >> high level for us might be 50 or 60. i think we may have even had a 70 or 80 over the years that i've done inspections. but a 392 was just absolutely off the charts for us. >> lead kills by attaching itself to red blood cells. this takes oxygen out of the blood and starves the brain. sunday's official cause of death was lead poisoning. the first such case in the u.s. in more than a decade. >> the family seemed to be having trouble grasping what had happened. one

he's working to win over the center right crowd in new hampshire because in new hampshire you can get the new hampshire votes and filaffiliat. he can use that as a springboard. it's a risky move but it's one that makes the most sense to him because that's who he is. george w. bush, passionate, conservative, but john mccain, sort of edgy, tell it like it is. as you all know, that can play well. the danger for kasich, is he walks the very line of edgy and toes it and you're kind of worried that maybe at some point if a voter gets in his face, it may not be pretty. >> up next, joe biden, al gore? maybe it's better to ask which prominent democrats are not looking at hillary clinton's poll numbers and then taking a second look at the 2016 race. first, though, politicians say and eat the darndest things especially if you're aet the state fair especially chowing down something fried. that's a way to make nice with the iowa voters. >> it's the best pork chop on a stick i've ever hachltd it's really, rt good. >> one more bite. >> that was a snickers bar done the right way. making your own way

sanders leads hillary clinton in a new poll from new hampshire. trump is at the top of the republican field in national polls. not surprisingly he took aim after a sanders rally was taken over by activists. >> i would never give up my microphone. i thought that was disgusting. that showed such weakness. the way he was taken away by two young women. the microphone. they just took the whole place over. that will never happen with me. i don't know if i'll do the fighting myself or if other people will. that was a disgrace. i felt badly for him. but it showed he's weak. he's getting thes biest crowds and i'm getting the biggest crowds. we're the two getting the crowds. believe me, that won't happen to trump. >> well, let's bring in cnn politics senior reporter steven collins in and senior political reporter nia-malika henderson. nia, i mean, what do you make of these comments. >> it's hilarious. i don't know if i believe donald trump that he felt badly for bernie sanders when that black lives matter crowd -- protest movement took over his rally but sa

let's begin with politics in new hampshire. two republican presidential contenders holding town hall events nine miles apart. donald trump and jeb bush in new hampshire getting their fair share of tough questions and taking the chance to take shots at each other. did either do anything to gain support in the republican party? cnn political reporter sara murray has more from new hampshire. >> reporter: good morning, christine. donald trump held the first official town hall since becoming a candidate in derry, new hampshire. it drew a big roucrowd. hundreds of others in the overflow room. questions from immigration to illegal drug use to if he has too much hubrus to be president. he was slamming his rival jeb bush. he went after him for being a low energy candidate and on common core and having a small crowd at a nearby town hall. >> have i gotten under jeb bush's skin? i don't know. i will tell you this, you mention the word skin. he said the other day one of the dumber things i heard in politi politics. when talking about iraq.

leading in iowa and new hampshire and taking shots at his rivals. but don't just take my word for it. i want you to listen to a few of donald's words in first-run michigan. ♪ you can have your dream ♪ you're the best around ♪ nothing's ever going to keep you down ♪ ♪ you're the best around ♪ nothing's ever going to keep you down ♪ >> thank you all so much. we're going to have a little fun tonight. we're going to talk about some terrible things, but we'll have fun, anyway. we have carolyn kennedy in japanment i saw her on "60 minutes." they said how did you get the job? well, i went to the white house -- this is pretty much how it is. i went to the white house and i was looking for a job. and i said do you think i could do something for the administration. and they said oh, how would you like to be ambassador to japan? and she said really? so ford is building a $2.5 billion plan, right, in mexico. so they're building it in mexico. it's so big, they'll make the parts, the trucks and i actually gave them a good idea. why don't we just let

and the thing to remember about new hampshire is that they love outsiders in new hampshire. they love anti-establishment candidates, candidates who will talk about d.c. as if d.c. were the problem, candidates who are sort of the underdogs and not necessarily the establishment and top tier candidates or you wouldn't assume to be. so donald trump and bernie sanders, it doesn't seem on the surface level that they have a lot in common. but they actually do. you listen to the way they talk about their issues and the way that they talk to voters. and they're casting themselves as the true outsiders. they're not happy with the political elite. so it's not actually surprising to see them getting this early boost in a state like new hampshire. >> let's look at the sanders lead now in new hampshire. throw it back up there. sanders at 44%, clinton at 37%, nia, overtaking clinton for the very first time. what does that tell you or what does that tell the clinton campaign, i guess? >> they've got a race on their hands and that's what they've always believed. i don't know that they though

with new polls out tonight showing him leading in new hampshire and for the first time, also ahead in iowa, mr. trump appeared to be at ease. he told reporters covering the spraenl the poll number prove him right and he left the door open to running as an independent if the party does not treat him in his view fairly. after that, he turned to the large and vocal crowd who assembled and waited much of the day. here's a sample of the news conference leading up to it. >> ladies and gentlemen, president of the united states! donald j. trump! >> we're going to do very well with the hispanic vote, with the women vote, if you look at nevada. they did the poll and i'm leading in the hispanic vote. i create jobs. i will be creating a tremendous number of jobs. i think we'll do great. the women's health issues, i'm for that. i cherish women. i hope that i will be the republican nominee. that's the best way to win. i'm going to keep the door open on the other. if i'm be treated fairly. it doesn't mean well, it means fairly. if i'm not treated fairly, we'll see what happens. >> then you have the

also leading in the polls is trump and in the state of new hampshire. he skipped the forum last night. you didn't hear the candidates really taking anytime blasting the donald. instead, they held their fire for hillary clinton. >> i'm fluent in clinton speak. you want me to clinton speak. you want me to translate, jack? when bill said i didn't have sex with that woman. he did. when she says, i'll tell you about building the pipeline when i get to be president. means she won't. when she says trust me you got all the e-mails you need. we haven't scratched the surface. i understand this crowd. >> reporter: you have it. harsh words for hillary clinton from senator lindsay graham. this was not a debate. it was a forum where candidates were asked questions in a one-on-one setting over several minutes. it gave them a chance to practice their policy positions in a concise manner. donald trump says he doesn't see how you can quote artificially prepare for something like a debate. it doesn't sound like he is spending a lot of time rehearsing which should make thu

but first, sara murray is live in new hampshire. tell us about the unusual town hall that donald trump had. >> reporter: good morning, alyson. it seems like the trump campaign was trolling the jeb bush campaign a little bit by adding their town hall later. the reason it was such a fiery evening is jeb bush's new strategy when it comes to donald trump taking him on face to face. take a look. step aside, manny and floyd, jeb bush and donald trump are taking over the ring. in a night of dueling town halls in new hampshire, just 15 miles apart and within an hour of each other, both republican presidential candidates threw jabs. >> i don't see how he's electable. jeb bush is a low energy person. for him to get things done is hard. he's very low energy. >> mr. trump doesn't have a proven conservative record. he was a democrat longer in the last decade than he was a republican. >> reporter: bush set the date for his town hall first. and his crowd of about 200 got walloped by trump's 1200. >> we have a lot of people outside, hundreds and hu

>> look, historically, new hampshire and iowa new hampshire has been the best terrain for the insurgent, socially liberal candidates like bernie sanders that draw support from white liberals. hillary clinton is ahead in all the polls among minority voters and the democratic primary. once gets past iowa and new hampshire, virtually all white, those advantages will come into play. look back through democratic history, gene mccarthy, gary hart, and bill bradlee, new hampshire is often very promising terrain for these kinds of candidates. hillary clinton will probably face a challenge all the way through in new hampshire. from bernie sanders. if he can't get over the top there, it is likely to deflate quickly. if he does he faces the challenge with minority voters shef she cannot dismiss new hampshire. >> in iowa, good news for hillary clinton. well ahead of bernie sanders. 50% to 31% over him. doing especially well among women. 58% to 26% over sanders. that's crucial for her not just in iowa but in states beyond. >> it is. in states beyond and in the general election. women are going to be

cnn will carry the e dent from new hampshire, carry it live. also tonight, a new interview with donald trump predicting the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails will be in his word "devastating" to her campaign. our exclusive poll shows trump trails hillary clinton by six points if they were in a face-off in a general election today. this as hillary clinton's unfavorable ratings hit a 14-year high and the race for the democratic nomination tightens. i will ask clinton spokesman, clinton campaign spokesman, brian falen, about all this and more standing by live. our correspondents and analysts, are standing by to cover all the news breaking right now. first let's go to our political reporter, sara murray joining us from new hampshire. sara, set the scene for ous on donald trump's first townhall as a presidential candidate? >> sure, well voters have started trickling in. pumping up the country music here. getting people ready for donald trump. they're expecting a big crowd tonight. the campaign tells us they have 1,500 rsvp's for this event

the key primary state of new hampshire. jeff zaleny has the details. >> reporter: bernie sanders is front-page news today. vaulting over hillary clinton in new hampshire. his populous cry is catching on. >> we have a message to the billionaire class. and that message is, you can't have it all. >> reporter: and his candidacy is taking off. for the first time, a new frankly pierce university poll shows him with a seven-point edge over clinton. all this as clinton faces new questions about the private e-mail server she used as secretary of state. she agreed to surrender it to the justice department. it's given sanders an opening to be a potential spoiler of the 2016 campaign and east not alone. >> president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> reporter: republicans have one of their own. in iowa, donald trump is leading the pack. our cnn poll shows with ben carson in second place. these spoilers are upending the race, sending establishment stars like clinton and jeb bush to the back burner for now. >> jeb and hillary on t

actually now trailing in a couple polls in new hampshire. i would pay more attention to the early state polls where there's an actual campaign going on than in the national polls. the national polls tend to lag the early state polls by several -- by a week or two weeks, so i think that we are not making too much of it in that clinton has some serious problems, but polling right now is no way indicative of what voters will do in february or when the actual votes start to be counted. >> all right. andy smith, director of the university of new hampshire survey center. thank you for being with me. congratulations on your new book. appreciate it, sir. >> thank you very much. >>> still to come here in the "newsroom," a senator calling out his congressional colleagues saying they need to do more after the violent murder of these two journalists. he'll join me live next. you tuck here... you tuck there. if you're a toe tucker... because of toenail fungus, ask your doctor now about prescription kerydin. used daily, kerydin drops may kill the fungus a

a new poll in new hampshire has bernie sanders leading by seven points. now as the e-mail server is turned over, the question is whether there is anything on it and whether anything will put this controversy to rest with so many investigations still ongoing. >>> donald trump meanwhile back on the campaign trail and back on the attack, the gop front runner with choice words for his republican and democratic rivals. cnn political reporter sarah murray is live with that report. >> reporter: donald trump is still on top and despite these controversies, these fights with megyn kelly, it just does not seem to be hurting him, at least here in michigan. let's take a look. >> announcer: our next president of the united states, donald trump. >> reporter: a raucus crowd. >> we'll have funny way. >> reporter: for donald trump it was another day on top of the polls. trump taking the lead in iowa, drawing 17% support in a new suffolk university poll, five points ahead of his nearest rival, scott walker. in new hampshire trump once again ahead of the pack, leading jeb b

iowa and new hampshire are determined to go first. new hampshire even has a law that allows the secretary of state in that state to put the primary in the year prior to the presidential election. so, that they can remain first. how do you beat that? >> has the -- i guess the attention on national polls, because of the necessary weed-out of candidates for these debates, especially on the gop side, has that impacted the importance of iowa this time around? i mean, you see candidates all over the country not day after day in iowa as they have been in previous cycles? >> i think the debates have had an impact, because fox in the prior debate and cnn in the coming september debate, are using national polls, not iowa and new hampshire polls. therefore, the candidates gain a lot by getting national publicity and traveling and campaigning all over the country, not just in those two small, very unrepresentative first states. >> all right. we'll be standing by for the 12th of never, larry sabato, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >

top, three, four. >> i would say, coming out of new hampshire, iowa, new hampshire, i would say it will probably be rubio, bush, trump and walker. and then, the nice thing about that it won't have lindsay graham in the pack. they go to south carolina where nobody can get any headway everybody committed themselves off to lindsay graham. that dog is not going to hunt too long. that's what i would say there. and democratic side. two people are going to come out of new hampshire. and, right now, my guess would be, hillary clinton and sanders. front-runners have not been able to run wire to wire in first place. they stumble. stuc people like my guy, mondale. stumbled. came back. got the nomination. bill clinton, same thing. for the two, trump and hillary to run wire to wire they're going to have a problem. some where they're going to trip. >> basketball beckel, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. my pleasure. nice to be with you, don. >> good to be with you as well. >> want to take a trip to massachusetts. >> why don't we go to colorado? okay. if you say so, bob. happy friday. thank yo

>> lou arand paul spent three d here in new hampshire. he spent those days criticizing you. >> rand paul you have to understand is a disaster in the polls. he is a disaster on military and defense. he is getting decimated by everybody. and other than giving him a lot of money for an eye center at his request -- he asked me, could i have money? i said, absolutely. i thought it was worthwhile. i gave him a lot of money for an eye center, which is hypocritical when you think of it. but other than giving him a tremendous amount of money for his eye center, which i'm happy about, frankly, because i'm sure they do good work, i hope they do good work, he is doing so badly that he figures he has to attack trump because i'm leading by a lot everywhere. i don't mind. i think he's -- he is never going to make it. never going to make it. can't make it. got the wrong message. i mean, this is not a time to be weak on dense. okay? i'm the opposite. i want to make our military so strong, so powerful, so great that nobody is going to mess with us. i want

and donald trump speaking in new hampshire. traveling to iowa tomorrow where he assembled a serious campaign operation. talked first to reporters. here he is now speaking to an overflow crowd in a high school in the beach town of hampton. >> -- can i do that? women, am i allowed to fight back? am i allowed? been a little nasty to me. i promise i'd wouldn't say it. i promised i wouldn't say -- that she ran hewlett parked into the ground. i said i will not say it. that her stock value tanked. and that she laid off tens of thousand of people. and she got viciously fired. i said i will not say that. and that she then went out and ran against barbara boxer, for the united states senate in california, and it is a race that should have been won, and she lost in a landslide. and i said i will not say that. okay? all right? so i am not going to say it. so our country has tremendous potential. we have to take back our jobs from china and all of the other people. we have to renegotiate our trade deals by getting people like carl icon and

he's been in iowa, in new hampshire. it is very new york based. and yet, he is able to, however he does it. capture the company. he has defied the laws of political gravity. this campaign will go down in history as a phenomenon and i expect my children one day in a polysci class. >> my gut tell me, let's do this. >> vex the way he runs the organization. top down. there is input from other people. no one person can do everything. a friend of mine from michigan called me up and he said to me something very interesting. when he sits in his window and he was talking for all people in michigan. and we see the politicians going down the street. in his mine, the politicians are looking at poverty. they're at trouble. they're looking at tough issues they're going to have to handle. when donald trump is driving, the same person sitting in the window. they see donald trump's feeling is opportunity and hope. it is a totally different mindset. >> you're saying there is an aspirational feeling that people link into. >> yes. >> i want to ask but something rand

she is in derry, new hampshire. dana, you sat down with governor kasich, i spoke with him on sunday on "state of the union." we spoke about illegal immigration, and you pressed him on that. >> reporter: that's right. there's so many questions to unpack and obviously a lot of differences within the republican parties. i did ask him about that. here's what we talked about. >> imgrace, you talked about granting citizenship to ultimately some undocumented -- no, i didn't say that. >> you said i'm not closed to it. explain where your position is. i would prefer for them to be legalized once we find out who they are, because i think they contribute a lot to america. they're hard workers, god-fears, family-oriented. if they committed a crime, they have to be deported or put in prison. i don't favor citizenship. as i teach my kids, you don't jump the line to get into a taylor swift concert. >> uleaving the door open. >> let me be clear, i don't favor it and i'm not sure we would ever have to do that. let's mate citizenship

that was the new hampshire state fire marshal talking about that terrible tent collapse in new hampshire. a father and daughter were killed. we'll have much more to come in the hours to come on cnn. >>> let's talk politics. just two days left until the first republican debate. some of the candidates still don't know if they will make it on stage, at least on the prime time stage, and while the final roster won't be announced until 5:00 p.m. eastern today, a new cnn poll of polls might provide some clues. of course, donald trump, the clear front-runner leading his closest rivals jeb bush and scott walker by double digits. rounding out the possible top ten, beb carson mike huckabee ted cruz rand paul marco rubio, and john kasich but before the big face-off a kinder gentler contest in new hampshire where most of the field took part in a forum last night. sort of a preview for all of us. cnn political reporter sara marie joins us to talk about that preview. donald trump was absent. the candidates didn't mention him but they mentioned hk eded hillary clinton a lot. >> i'm fluent in clinton sp

is this turning off new hampshire voters? >> look brooke it's not my job to speak on behalf of candidates or campaigns. >> you're talking to voters. >> well here in new hampshire, forums are very very important. it's important not just that you take the voters seriously, it's not about pandering, it's about earning the vote of the american voters starting in iowa new hampshire, south carolina. tonight is an important part of that and we're excited that the candidates will be here to speak to the people directly of new hampshire. >> lou, one of my first thoughts when i read about this this could benefit donald trump by not being there because of the anticipation just continues to mount for when he is center stage thursday. >> certainly. and mr. trump has been in new hampshire a number of times and he has certainly reached out to the people of new hampshire. and i think the polls certainly substantiate that fact. i think we have a good seven months before the primary and there will be plenty of time for mr. trump to be in new h

he was at the top of the pack but scott walker was lead lgd in iowa, second in new hampshire. people thought wait a minute, watch this guy. four years ago another midwestern governor tim pawlenty was viewed is he going to be the guy who gets mitt romney and then he dries up? >> one thing we have to remember about scott walker is even though he's been leading a lot of these polls and he's had good showings in iowa, new hampshire, he is still relatively unknown nationally. if people know anything about him, they know about the fight against the unions in wisconsin, which is very popular with republicans. but people don't know much else about him. they don't know how he's going to perform on the big stage. they don't know a lot about his other policy positions, particularly on foreign policy. so i think he perhaps more than any other candidate has the most to gain, and also the most to lose in this first debate. >> jeb bush has been off the bike for a dozen years. it will be interesting to see. he has the strategy, he views this as sure trump is bigger than mikell bachmann or her

trump heads to iowa after this big rally in new hampshire. that is where he took shots at most of his rivals, including jeb bush. listen. >> one of the reasons i've done so well in the polls is because everyone knows, i'm not going to be controlled. i'm going to do what is right for the country. no lobbyists -- i have all of these -- i know them all. i've hired many of them over the years. they are very good but when they give $1 million or $5 million to jeb bush they have total control over him. he will do like a puppet whatever they say. >> we will have much more on trump and what he said about his specific policy roleout next hour. >>> plus, a live report from the iowa state fair. >>> we have got to get to breaking news overnight in china. new fire shot thick smoke into the air over this factory. the one that was rocked by a massive explosion earlier this week. wednesday's blast killed 85 people, injured more than 700. . as for the blast that happened overnight, no new injuries have been reported. >>> new details as vice president joe bide

this morning, news that sanders has dethroned hillary clinton in new hampshire after trailing her by double digits back in march. for republicans, donald trump shows no signs of slowing down despite controversy over the party's debate. that donald also leading the pack in a new hampshire poll as he gains steam in iowa. in michigan last night, trump expressed confidence about his chances to win the nomination. >> i think we're going to do very well with a lot of votes. we'll do very well with the hispanic votes and with the women vote. if you look at -- in nevada, they did the poll and i'm leading in the hispanic vote because i create jobs and i will be creating tremendous numbers of jobs. i think we're going to do great. >> we'll see. nia malika henderson joins me now. what does this all mean? >> we're so far out from election day and obviously the start next year of actual voting when people go into the voting booth and decide who they're pulling the lever for. these are good numbers for trump, just sort of superficially. but if you look deep into them, there are signs of trouble, p

as we saw last night the new hampshire debate everybody just gets a little bit. so it will be an interesting night. >> it will be. we'll watch along with you. governor granholm that you can so much. donald trump is getting a taste of his own medicine. the presidential candidates phone number posted on the internet for everyone to see. it's a move that comes roughly two weeks after trump gave out senator lindsey graham's number at a rally in south carolina. graham you may recall responded by releasing this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ that video had been seen millions of times online. it's created buzz for graham he's trailing trump in every poll. coming up who's behind the latest phone number stunt plus trump's somewhat surprising reaction, next. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. ju

>> lou arand paul spent three d here in new hampshire. he spent those days criticizing you. >> rand paul you have to understand is a disaster in the polls. he is a disaster on military and defense. he is getting decimated by everybody. and other than giving him a lot of money for an eye center at his request -- he asked me, could i have money? i said, absolutely. i thought it was worthwhile. i gave him a lot of money for an eye center, which is hypocritical when you think of it. but other than giving him a tremendous amount of money for his eye center, which i'm happy about, frankly, because i'm sure they do good work, i hope they do good work, he is doing so badly that he figures he has to attack trump because i'm leading by a lot everywhere. i don't mind. i think he's -- he is never going to make it. never going to

paul's cool in concord, new hampshire. the girl, now 16 says owen la brie asked her on a date as part of a camp tuesday -- where 08der boys get together with younger students just before graduation. the girl, who was 15 at the time, sell he sexually assaulted her during her meeting with him. she said she told the court i didn't kick other scream or push, but i said no. i said no three times in that moment i don't know how i could have made it any more clear. the teenage girl, who is not being identified because she's a minor, did did exchange electronics message, where she called him an angel when asked about that message, she says -- it says you're quite an angel yourself, but would you mind keeping the events of the night to yourself? she went on to explain it was almost like i was sticking to a script that he was offering. when asked why she continued to respond to his messages, she said i thought it would be rude to ignore it or it would cause him to approach me again. i was afraid of him coming after me again or comin

that's according to a new wmru poll out of new hampshire. that they're separated by six points hillary clinton and bernie sanders. who would have ever thought that? >> there's clearly an appetite in the democratic party for a candidate who is blunter than hillary clinton. i think his support in new hampshire over estimated how strong a threat he is over all. new hampshire is a neighboring state to vermont where he's from. it's also an overwhelmingly white state. bernie sanders is doing well amongst white liberals. as you move beyond iowa and new hampshire to nevada where there are a lot of latino voters and south carolina where there are a lot of african american voters that's where i think bernie sanders is going to have trouble. >>> still to come in the "newsroom" hot and dry conditions continue to fuel the fires in northern california. we'll take you there next. did you know that meeting your daily protein needs actually helps to support your muscle health? boost® high protein nutritional drink can help you get the protein you need. each

new hampshire, as well. his controversial blood comment about megyn kelly led some to believe they had alienated women voters and they wouldn't rally around him anymore. here's what trump had to say about them. >> i will be great on women's health issues. i cherish women. i will be great on women's health issues. believe me. >> in the meantime, trump is once again refusing, refusing to rule out a third party bid for the white house. i spoke last hour with cnn political analyst ron brownstein about the possibility of him running as an independent. listen. in the sense if he chose to run as a third party candidate he would be an enormous challenge for the push can party. his support is concentrated on the elements of white america, particularly blue collar white america. those are the voters that have become the corner stone of. it is hard to imagine any republican nominee being able to survive, i think, a donald trump third party candidacy. it's not easy to do. it's very difficult to get on the ballot in all

new hampshire is even more white than that. large part of hillary clinton's base, at least at this point, is a diverse base, looks more like the democratic party. i saw one bernie sanders report among african-americans he was at 2%. a lot of people didn't know about him yet, hadn't become familiar with him and maybe that will change over time. but you have to put that in the context of where these early caucuses and primaries are. >> okay. well you -- >> that said, you know, yes, the, you know, there is a bit of a media thumb on the scale. >> okay. so you say that there -- i want to jump in here. you say that we can't expect hillary clinton to win every primary caucus. but if bernie sanders wins the first and the second, those aren't just two contests, he wins the first two, it turns the entire race on its head, doesn't it? >> i don't think so. unless you have other viabe candidates in the case. that doesn't mean bernie won't do well in subsequent races. but march is our biggest primary month for democrats. half of those primar

in new hampshire you have chris christie, he's all in in new hampshire. john kasich seems to be the one taking hold there because of his appeal to the live and let live -- i mean, you heard him talk about gay marriage and the fact he just attended a same-sex marriage wedding in iowa that probably won't play well because there are a lot of conservative voters. >> but in new hampshire -- >> in the live and let live place of new hampshire, he does. >> he's blanketing the airwaves in new hampshire and has folks like sununu backing his campaign. he did well in the debate. >> so we know mike huckabee is taking a dip but rick perry out today we learned his campaign is having serious problems, that might be an understatement. >> not paying his advisors, that's never a good sign when you can't pay your staff. it looks like someone threw him a lifeline, somebody put in $100,000, a sugar daddy after the reports his campaign was listening but where does he go forward from here? in a state like south carolina you think he would do well. he wasn't able to get the fiori

go to new hampshire. smart voters. we are spending more and more time there talking to men and women. he's at 24%. the reason why, bush to weak i don't believe him. walker? who? trump checks all the boxes for them. he's not a politician. he feels why i'm angry. he's successful and rich. i bet he can get it done. you can't tell me there's no chance. >> chris tharks is real. the question is whether the floor and the ceiling are far enough apart. as i said before many of the things trump says and does that make him appear an unconventional politician and more atrack toif the voters see doubts among establishment republicans and whether he is a nominee much less a president. his favorables are moving in the right direction. i think the key question really is for him, if you want to be a voice of protest, that's one thing. if you want to be a serious contender, eventually tough get up to 40%, 45% of the state that is matter next february and march. to do that you have to convince a broader circle than he's talking to that h

he has lost ground in new hampshire and polling at 24% and now 18%. in iowa 55% of those who watch the debate are less comfortable with him as a candidate as dana was pointing out. are these troubling signs to you? >> i don't think so. i think there is along way, josh is right about one thing there is a long way to go here. the fact is he's still ahead. he is ahead in all of these different polls. he takes punch after punch after punch. he keeps popping back up. i really don't think this is a sign of anything other than, you know, there might have been a person here or there that was upset about this or that with a debate but i really don't think that this is, you know, something that he has to worry about. you know, the american people get this or a lot -- let's put it this way, the republican consit wtit weit web -- constit it and the last go round by fox news and look at this and say there they go again basically and rally to the guy, whoever that might be. >> gloria, what do you think? is it a big nothing burger that he's leading in these states o

new hampshire, i believe, goes back to 1920. i think they have been more influential at other times, because first of all you had a fewer number of primaries and caucuses. in 1968, there were only 17 primaries. in 2016 there are going to be about 40. so there are more contests, more states to campaign in and most of all a heck of a lot more money thanks to super packs so that candidates can last well beyond iowa and new hampshire as we march through the states. >> interesting. okay. so andy, i know you're a new hampshire guy. but i'm going to ask you about iowa. how much does it matter? >> iowa, i think, is important in the nomination process, but not so much on the republican side. historically there hasn't been a single nonincouple wakunonincum who's won both the iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary. but that said, i agree with larry. this early on, any polls are just in no way predictive of what's going to happen in the election. >> you know, you're both having said that, it makes me kind of guilty like telling our vie

he is now third in the polls in new hampshire. his brand of moderate conservatism resonating with voters. >> you sound like a democrat sometimes. >> i tell you something that's really weird about all this. i balance more budgets than about anybody walking on the face of the earth. i'm kind of kidding, but i've done that. i've cut taxes. i'm for school choice. we're getting at the problem of higher education costs. and somehow because i care about people or i care about the environment, that that makes me something other than a conservative. i think republicans allowed themselves to be put in a box, like if i care about people -- some lady whispered to me when i walked out of the town hall, thanks for caring about people. to me it's giving everybody a chance to be successful. that's how reagan was. that's common sense. >> hillary clinton met yesterday in new hampshire with some black lives matter protesters. i don't know if you saw bernie sanders had a disruption in one of his events because of protesters. martin o'malley apologize

i talked to foekdz in early state iowa new new hampshire, south carolina. one of the things they say about donald trump's campaign. one person said they doubt he would be on the ballot in new hampshire come voting time. used word like cotton candy. also talked about the kind of people that he is drawing to his events events. they say these people are kind of gawking at the donald trump show. that there is not a lot of grassroots commitment there. there is not the kind of infrastructure that you would have to appoint him in iowa's 99 counties or new hampshire. he doesn't have that presence on the ground. that kind of enthusiasm organic enthusiasm in many ways that a lot of the other candidates have at early stage. that's why there is still some doubt. >> all this talk whether vice president biden will jump into the primary. the clinton campaign saying they're not concerned. do you think that is really true? >> yeah, i do think it's true. that's sort of their official line. sort of their unofficial sort of off the record on the background line. also the loon

hampshire, i'm winning big in new hampshire, winning big in iowa, winning big -- they're incredible people. winning big in iowa, winning big all over the place. georgia just came out and the national polls i'm winning by double digits. then you ask why are these people -- >> i didn't mean your opponents, i meant conservative activists, people like erick erickson. >> so where does the trump campaign go from here? i want to bring in a republican strategist and the executive director of the accountability project and a democratic political strategist. both of you in new york. good to see you. >> good to see you as well. >> so trump says he's being misunderstood, his words are being taken out of context but at the same time he says, you know what, everybody loves him and the numbers reflect that. he hasn't taken a real hit thus far. so what is happening here? how is it he continues to be able to kind of control the message and -- >> well, he's not. >> and control the attention. >> that's a lot of questions right there. first of all, we have not seen any numbers since the debate and sinc

bernie sanders surging in the polls in new hampshire. another early voting state for the primaries how much is he hurting the hillary clinton campaign and how much is hillary clinton hurting the hillary clinton campaign here? >> they are playing on each other. bernie sanders is drawing enormous crowds, 28, 30 thousand people in august of the off yeempl i don't understand what is going on but i don't pretend towns how democrats think. there is a poll that came out and it showed him leading hillary clinton in new hampshire. that's not something the clintons wanted. mrs. clinton is embroilted in this business about her bale mails when she was the secretary of state. today it was announced they have to turn over the server, the machine to the fbi. the weight of this stuff is causing people to think of whether or not she can, she can sustain herself. it's turned in to -- i'm not sure it is a horse race because no one believes bernie sanders will be the nominee but it is interesting to make her work for it harder. >> great to speak to you. tha