i am richard louis in fo yasmin vossoughian coming to you live from 30 rock and i am garrett haake an west palm beach, florida not far from mar-a-lago from where donald trump rock th political world today saying h was going to be arrested o tuesday. as i ve been noting throughout the day, though his own lega team says they haven t gotte any word that that i definitely going to happen the manhattan da has commented on trump s post, which h admits a striven by medi reports he has seen and heard. trump s pronouncement toda should not come as a surpris given just how much she ha been wrapping up the rhetori this past week our enemies are desperate t stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them and they know it ver strongly the radical left democrats are using their prosecutors to try and steal another election all right garrett, you will join us throughout this hour a we continue to talk about trum and his tweet or as his messag was put out on socia
voters when it comes to desantis an the trump, i don t think anything important to point ou when you go to, rallies we top trump supporters, a lot of these folks had desantis a their number two basically they would love to see it trump, desantis take it they will see a lot of them saying i think desantis is very weary of whether it s a caucus environment like iowa wher quite literally being a second choice is very important or as there is a lot of time left to kill before voting get started here the santa seems to calculate that going after trump doesn t make any sense he is going to keep a lo profile, keep doing hi cultural targets in a lot of eyes are on the florid legislator section this year obviously. hey jonathan, what do you make of what other candidate should do right now? how should they leverage the situation or just leave it alone? i don t know if it was su sue or georgia who s than ever get in the way of an imploding enemy but it is been militar and political strategy f
caucus. that s a little like a needle in a haystack. it s going to take intensive groundwork and both of them are really getting started on that front. we ll have to see. and of course the most important thing is that will be right before the florida primaries. so could be their last duel. organizing a caucus environment makes it more fun. robert? in the 2000 campaign senator john mccain came out of nowhere in new hampshire to win the primary. his adviser at the time was john weaver. now john weaver is advising ohio governor john kasich. and when he looks at kasich s play in new hampshire he thinks he s in a strong position. he draw huge crowds this week and few if any questions about donald trump. kasich s people talked to him late saturday. they believe he s drawing a different kind of crowd. people looking for someone besides bush but more center right establishment within the party. they think slow and steady like mccain in 2000 could win the race. nia? riding with biden 20
at the end of the day, ron paul didn t get done what he had to, which is to show he can win in a caucus environment. arthel: phil and debbie, it still ain t over yet, thank you very much for your insight. eric: two wins for mitt romney within two hours. getting 38% of the vote at cpac in washington and now 39% in this unofficial caucus poll in maine. let s now go back to portland, maine molly line. the reaction? you know you can actually hear some of it. when the big announcement was made, the former massachusetts governor mitt romney had won, thereof a big cheer. that s because a lot of romney supporters were here. ron paul was at his own event. the big cheer here if this room was for mitt romney who did garner the majority of the votes here. 39%. over 2,000 people voting for mitt romney.
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly