thank you very much. appreciate it. trump did more than talk about immigration in his interview with chuck todd which you can watch online by the way. just google meet the press and trump explained why he could meet hillary clinton in the general election. that is, he says, if she survives that long. i m the one person that s going to beat her. i think she may not be able to run to be honest because this e-mail thing is a horrible thing. general petraeus s life is destroyed and he did 5% of what she did. assuming she s able to run which would be absolutely to me a miracle at this point, i will all right. joining me is jeff kauffman, chair of the iowa republican party. jeff, nice to see you here with trump leading in the polls nationally and in iowa. many are calling this defying political gravity. can we sustain this and win iowa? i think anything goes at this point. there are so many things that are unique about this caucus cycle in the state. having 17 people, not having
on doors and connecting with voters. but the folks at the top of this poll, mitt romney, herman cain, have spent the least amount of time in iowa. how do we explain that? i think first with mitt romney, we can t forget he s been an incredible sum of resources here just four years ago, so it s not like he was starting from scratch this caucus cycle. he maintains that reservoir of support from last time. i suspect we ll see more of governor romney here before january 23rd. with respect to herman cain, we saw him here a number of times before the straw poll. we haven t seen him here in the last month or so, but we saw him here a lot last summer and spring when he started building relationships with the tea party and people who weren t active in politics. thanks for sticking archound here, guys. do these numbers surprise you? do they surprise you, mark? the numbers that surprise me is the softness of all the