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local, greasy spoon. well, i m sure they were excited to see him. some of them were, yes. some of them, maybe not. katy tur, thanks so much. as we ve been telling you today saw a flurry of new polls. i want to turn to steve kornacki to break it down. we have four new polls on the republican side. this one is from iowa, the headline here, donald trump back in the lead. the story for the last six weeks has been cruz overtaking trump in a lot of iowa polls, but this new one out just this afternoon from quinnipiac shows trump by only two points, but back ahead of ted cruz. obviously that s good news for donald trump. he s in second place in this other iowa poll, the nbc/maris poll, this is also probably good news for trump. why? because the story we thought we were looking at, we might be looking at was not just cruz taking the lead in iowa, but
opinion. he was so good about collaborating and teaching and helping other people along, including you. it really meant a lot to me. matt, so nice to have you with us. thanks so much for having me on. we ll miss him. yeah, we will. three weeks to iowa, switching gears, polls extremely tight, races for both republicans and democrats are tight. we ll head to des moines straight ahead. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us.
white house correspondent chris jansing. chris, how s it going to be different? reporter: it sets a high bar, right? usually, kate, these are an opportunity for presidents to late out here s what i m going to do legislateively and push for in the next year. that is not going to be this. the president did as they always do, ask a senior staff for recommendations. they laid him out for that. nothing for him rose to the level that he was going to make it the centerpiece of the speech and also about the political reality. this is a president in the last year of his presidency. a lot of the focus has turned to the 2016 candidates and he doesn t have a high personal popularity rating so instead, well, let him tell you exactly what he wants to do with this state of the union from a video posted by the white house. that s what makes america great. our capacity to change for the better. our ability to come together as one american family and pull
health care to republican governors, for heaven sakes. i don t think that s a good deal for america. i think it s a risky deal. and it could hurt more than help a lot of families. reporter: now the sanders campaign taking issue with that characterization. they say it s an oversimplification of bernie sanders health care plan, that his plan wouldn t necessarily put medicare and medicaid in the hands of governors. still, kate, bottom line, we are seeing the lines of attack really sharpen between these two candidates. and it s a preview of things to come. not only here tonight at the brown and black forum, but in the coming days in these key battleground states. kate? all right, kristin welker out in iowa, thank you. clinton also said while she respects her primary opponents, she wants voters ton when it comes to substantive policy issues, she is the stronger candidate. i have two very worthy opponents. people that i ve known, people