something else? last question. politics can be ugly. the washington post cartoon going after your daughters was one of the ugliest things in this campaign cycle. did you get the proper apology? and where do you stand with that? well, look, now, the post hasn t apologized, you re right. they had a cartoonist who did a cartoon making fun of my two little girls. caroline is 7 and catherine is 5. that wasn t fun. attacking 7 and 5-year-old girls, that s disgusting. that s despicable. it really was. it wasn t fun over christmas sitting down with my daughters and explaining to them that they had been drawn in a newspaper as dancing monkeys. and you know, all of us were taught when we were in kindergarten don t pick on 5-year-old little girls, yet somehow the washington post can t figure that out. you know what it did, sean? it revealed their true colors, which is they re willing to attack children because they hate conservatives so much. i was glad the post pulled the cartoon.
hannity starts right here, right now. with the iowa caucuses only four weeks away candidates on both sides of the aisle are pounding the campaign trail. earlier today ted cruz officially kicked off his six-day bus tour in the hawkeye state. the cruising to caucus tour. the man himself, 2016 republican presidential hopeful, texas senator ted cruz. senator, how s the tour going? looks like you got a big crowd behind you now? sean, good evening. it s great to be with you. yes, it s incredible. we re on the first day of a six-day barnstorming tour through the state of iowa. we re doing 28 counties in six days. we started in boone, then in carroll and now in guthrie county. the energy, the enthusiasm we re seeing on the ground has been incredible. what we re seeing all across iowa and really all across the country is we re seeing conservatives coming together,
so these things come and go. in a primary, people don t have a loyalty to a party to hold them to a candidate. they can move pretty fast back and forth. and i think howard dean, for example, might have won iowa in 1984, i mean, in 2004, if the election had been four days or five days earlier. people can suddenly decide to start moving, but you have to say both cruz and trump have been doing remarkably well. cruz coming up steadily. trump having been dominant now for six months since he announced on june 16th. hose folks who say, yeah, but it s all going to change. and i m kind of curious why they think it s going to change. we ve never seen, sean, an election where 24 million people look at a debate over a year before the general election. it s unbelievable. the level of interest is astonishing. i can tell you from my perspective as a conservative, i
gun issue is that you don t like what he s doing. even if the idea that if somehow there s a democratic congress and he did this with a democratic congress that you would be supporting it? i don t think so, sean. what do you think, dana? i find his whole stance to be entirely inconsistent. it s hard to take seriously this president who has all this rhetoric about gun control when just this past november, this department of justice decided to go ahead with its early release program of thousands of felons, many of whom were violent, some of whom had additional firearms charges convictions for this. these are repeat offenders. and this is the biggest driver of gun homicides. you have repeat offenders, gang violence. it seems inconsistent to me. i can t take it seriously. he s such a hypocrite in the sense of what s gone on in chicago with the illegal guns on the street. why doesn t he do executive orders about the shooting of our young kids, our young minorities
next four or eight years? it s bigger than that. because every campaign this is what the democratic playbook is. republicans are racist, republicans are sexist. poor mitt romney, the most decent guy you ll ever meet. sean, i m a registered democrat. you know that. i don t feel that way. thank you. mitt romney was accused of a war on women for having women s resumes in a binder. and they tried to do the same thing to donald trump and we actually talked about it and i spoke with it on many different programs. donald trump is not a misogynist. when it wasn t chic to have a women build a high-rise, a skyscraper, donald trump was the first. he pays women as much if not more than men in similar positions. you get paid much less. i don t deserve it. let s be honest. what does this country need? we need a dealmaker. and donald trump is a natural dealmaker. i have been in the office and in rooms with mr. trump when we re