a way is not so, so confident that they are going to get a vote to pass this. you asked how confident and he talked about hope and he talked about this our last best chance to do this. we ve heard those things from congress before. the reality is, they would not have punted the measure to next week if hay had the votes. i find it hard to believe they will get the votes. he pointed out the citizenship issue and 1.8 potential daca recipients that could get citizenship. those are things that conservatives will have a hard time with. dew disagree the way he characterized what was in there? it is lengthy and i read parts of it. there are different perspective in people trying to figure out. is it 1.8 or potentially higher
did bother them and we re talking here about a contest that s going to be likely decided on the slimmest of margins. if you look back at 2012, especially 100 votes, less than 100 votes separated mitt romney from santorum and you re talking about roughly 125,000 people who show up at the polls so these kinds of little dings, not only the citizenship issue and eligibility issue as i think it s probably going to be a settled matter in the minds of most voters, youed a that to this attack. do you think senator cruz attack about new york values will resonate with rural conservatives in iowa? well, you know, in truth, anderson, i didn t think it would go very far because donald trump is such a known commodity and, you know, there is a lot of glamor attached to this, not unlike jfk and when he first
victory lap on the eve of the debate tomorrow in south carolina. is there a sense you get from the trump campaign that the gloves are off and will stay off because every time trump and cruz had a chance to go after each other on a debate stage, they shied away from that. reporter: anderson, the gloves are off and then back on again and i believe at the debate tomorrow night we will see a similar thing. donald trump has not shown in any of the debates he is interested in being the aggressor unless someone comes after him first. so i do not expect that he will talk about the citizen ship issue unless he s asked about it. but i cannot fathom he would not be asked that and i m actually watching ted cruz. is he going to try and engage donald trump? there is no question in iowa this is having some effect here. ted cruz dropped from some ten points to now only having a four-point lead over donald trump. i think the gloves will stay on unless donald trump is provoked and then as we ve seen
i believe you saw the players vote as to whether or not they liked these changes to the matrix with their dollars. we ve never seen excitement. we ve never seen sales like this. we don t anticipate making any changes in the near future. now, we re back to start at just a paltry $40 million. that s nothing to sneeze at, gary. we ll see what the next roll takes us. we ll see what the next roll takes. you we ll hopefully hear when you know about the jackpot winners. please let us know if you do hear anything. gary grief, as i ve renamed him the dreammaker, alisyn. check this for me. i will. the citizenship issue not the only issue facing ted cruz. we re learning that he failed to disclose hundreds of thousanding us of loans while in senate.
donald trump has not shown in any of the debates he is interested in being the aggressor unless someone comes after him first. so i do not expect that he will talk about the citizen ship issue unless he s asked about it. but i cannot fathom he would not be asked that and i m actually watching ted cruz. is he going to try and engage donald trump? there is no question in iowa this is having some effect here. ted cruz dropped from some ten points to now only having a four-point lead over donald trump. i think the gloves will stay on unless donald trump is provoked and then as we ve seen time and time again, he s more than willing to punch back. anderson? jeff zeleny, thanks. what is interesting to hear is how different voices within the party, republican party are dealing with this. the party famously did a post motor mortem after their 2011 defeat. joining us, chief strategist and communications director for the rnc and top romney 2012 strategists steward stevens.