Joining me now, gloria borger, David Chalian and jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent. So David Chalian, this is the first poll taken since our Republican Debate, the last chance to perhaps change anything heading into the christmas holidays. If anything has changed, its that trump has gone up and the rest of the field has faded. Right. This is proof that donald trump emerged from our debate unscathed, right . So he now has got more than double the support of his closest competitor, ted cruz, and that is just a huge position for trump to be in as you go into this holiday pause. Thats now the framework for the home stretch of the Campaign Leading up to the iowa caucuses. Ted cruz, obviously, has gone way up, his commanderinchief numbers have gotten better there but this story is still all donald trump right now. And the trend line for trump is actually increasing, too. Hes up and keeps on going up. Gloria borger, ted cruz, as david said, up a little bit. Marco rubio actually dow
Sanders from all voter data, including their own when the dnc found out about it last night. Sanders threatened a federal lawsuit. It didnt come to that. Their access was restored. Live in manchester, New Hampshire where the debate will get under way in one hour. It is also where sanders has a slight edge over clinton. If i didnt confuse people enough, can you walk us through why this voter data is so critic critical . Well, the voting data is critical because while all the campaigns have the same access to the overall voter list that the Democratic National committee has in terms of names, addresses, that sort of thing, each of these individual campaigns are spending a lot of time on the ground in these early states or on the phone, for instance, making contact with these voters to determine whether they are like to go support their candidates. Clinton campaign, for instance, will rank by someone who is likely to come out and caucus for her in iowa on that cold night, february 1st. Or
Stunning. Now the networks top talent is out after more than 20 years. But have we seen the last of the factor host and what does this mean for the Republican Party in the age of donald trump . In into. Plus, super bowl champs honored at the white house by their number one fan but it looks like the feeling is not entirely mutual. I want you to compare this visit to the past visit from 2015 to todays photo. I will talk to one patriot who boycotted todays visit. First, wendy walsh and Brian Stelter and an attorney for a former plaintiff against oreilly. Brian, lets start with the news here. Youve been keeping a close eye on this story. The murdochs who own fox two weeks ago commissioned an investigation from a law firm and wendy walsh made a phone call to fox reporting what she says was harassment by oreilly. As a result of her phone call, an investigation took place. We dont know exactly what the murdochs found but it was enough to push oreilly out. He wont say goodbye. He wont be back.
Stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im niamalika henderson. John king has the day off. Breaking 12 days of silence, President Trump weighs in on the senate race in alabama. Hes backing the republican roy moore despite the multiple allegations involving moores past conduct with young women. Roy moore deny it is. What about the women . By the way, he did say total denial. And i do have to say, 40 years is a long time. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. 40 years is a long time. Moore does deny the claims and his campaign wasted no time in using trumps words for fundraising. And beyond that, moore says he doesnt even know the women who have come forward with accusations. I did not know these two women. So you definitely didnt know Beverly Nelson . I didnt know Beverly Nelson or leigh corfman. I never engaged in Sexual Misconduct with anybody. You have to understand, i was deputy distinct attorney and then the circuit judge. I go by the law.
And is anybody dead after a woman was sucked out of the jet. A new chilling audio coming up. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with politics lead and two media tours for two different nemesis is of trump. James comey is continuing to promote his book as it hits shelves officially today. A source close to President Trump tells cnn that it is the criminal investigation into his lawyer Michael Cohen and not james comeys book that is most of the source of his dark mood these days. As Stormy Daniels tells her story again, this time daniels revealing this sketch of the man she said threatened her back in 2011. Allegedly telling her to, quote, leave mr. Trump alone. While Stormy Danielss lawyer Michael Avenatti who insisted Michael Cohen will flip on President Trump. He will join me in a moment. But first lets go to athena jones with more on the story. This was the first time daniels talked about the president s claim that he did not know anything about the payment, 130,000 to Sto