Good evening. Im chuck todd here in miami on the campus of Florida International university. Got to give a little shoutout here to the panthers. Thank you, panthers. Si site of our exclusive town hall with marco rubio which will air tonight in full at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Rubio made a major statement about his future if trump wins the nomination. Ill have a preview for you in just a moment. We have a busy hour ahead of us. Rubios campaign is on lifesupport after another wild night in this nominating contest. Trump had the perfect night. Sanders pulled off a dramatic upset. And hold on to your hats, we are now less than one week from those doordie contests, super duper tuesday, florida and ohio. Lets dive in. We begin with the Biggest Surprise of last night, the impact of which could echo through next weeks primaries. In michigan, polls had Bernie Sanders down double digits to Hillary Clinton, but he pulled off a dramatic upset, beating her 5048. Yes, sanders gained some muchneeded momen
U. S. Built facilities. And welcome to miami. The stage is set for the first democratic primary debate. Immigration is one of the big issues the candidates will confront. Welcome to tuesday. As if miami cant be more hot and humid, it is. Thank you, miami, feels like home. It is mtp daily. I am chuck todd in miami where it is hotter than usual ahead of the first democratic debate which kicks off tomorrow night on the stage. We begin tonight with breaking news on an issue dominating the political conversation nationally, the humanitarian crisis having to do with the migrants coming over the southern border. Amid reports of terrible, unsafe, unsanitary conditions at facilities that are housing Migrant Children, the Trump Administration border chief, the acting customs and Border Protection commissioner john sanders, is stepping down after two months on the job. Again, he was acting because his boss is the acting Homeland Security secretary. You need a score card to keep up with the tempor
pakistan and the patriot act and on this biggest travel day, two storm systems make wreak havoc. i m luke russert. newt gingrich goes off script backing a kinder, gentler immigration policy and gets slammed by his rivals in return. the party that says it s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter of a century and i m prepared to take the heat for saying let s be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship, but by finding a way to create legality. mark hurry is nbc s deputy political director. thanks for being on. interesting debate last night. gingrich seemed to take this stance of we won t have amnesty, does newt s ability to be a good debater kind of help him in this helm that he can maybe explain his position or is this very toxic? we re going to see and probably have an answer the next week or so on this. this was something that really tripped up rick perry. looked like his
pakistan and the patriot act and on this biggest travel day, two storm systems make wreak havoc. i m luke russert. newt gingrich goes off script backing a kinder, gentler immigration policy and gets slammed by his rivals in return. the party that says it s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter of a century and i m prepared to take the heat for saying let s be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship, but by finding a way to create legality. mark hurry is nbc s deputy political director. thanks for being on. interesting debate last night. gingrich seemed to take this stance of we won t have amnesty, does newt s ability to be a good debater kind of help him in this helm that he can maybe explain his position or is this very toxic? we re going to see and probably have an answer the next week or so on this. this was something that really tripped up rick perry. looked like his
back in the 1980s. i think those types of thoughtful conversations with america, rather than trying to scare seniors like you re doing and other people, it s time to have a legitimate conversation in this country about how to fix that program. governor, the term ponzi scheme is what scared seniors, number one. number two, suggesting that social security should no longer be a federal program and return to the states and unconstitutional is like wise frightening. there are a lot of very bright people who agree with you. that s your view. i happen to have a different one. i think social security is an essential program that we should change the we are funding it to make sure it you said if people did it in the private sector it would be called criminal. that s in your book. yeah. what i said was , governor perry, you have to quote me correctly. what i said was congress taking money out of the social security trust fund is like criminal and that is and it s wrong. well