will caucus with the democrats on the republican side. we have governor nicki hailey, congressman paul ryan, marco rubio, former governor jeb bush and soon to be former senator jim demint joining me now. our end of the year gaggle. msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com chris, msnbc contribute and political etd tore for the greater.com harry bacon, steph cutter was on president obama s lee election campaign, and henry madden was an aid viesor for mitt romney s campaign. happy new year. we asked all of you to pick. i threw out my dozen, and all of you i asked you to pick two that you were going to again, we re not going to do the 2016 conversation now, but we ll do it in a few minutes. chris moving on. of my dozen, who were the two that you are thinking, 2013? i m a little nerdy and focused on, you know, down ballot races. i did pick michael bennett, the
important to point out there. joining me this morning, strategist debbi ding l, and harry bacon. a poll shows romney has narrowed this gap. a third of voters saying they can still change their mind. but when you look at the demographics of ohio, 79% making less than $100,000 a year. santorum seems to have the advantage when it comes to that demographic. romney and santorum so different when it comes to how people look at them and their financial background. which one has to take ohio? i think it means a lot to both of them. you have had momentum shifts back and forth. you re going to see a pretty big map. in ohio, even though it s not the one with the most delegates,
it will be tough to get all of these folks out of here in $35 minute. a lot of politicking going on here in the palmetto state. gee, what a surprise. we ll keep a camera trained on you. thank you so much, ron. let s get a fwit more on south carolina, home to several regions all with their own identities. here are three counties to watch today and why. first up, green vm county, the state s most populous and strongly rng. the county had the most votes in the 2008 primary. second, lexington county, near the state capital, home to conservative fwerm communibedro communities. then charleston county, home to the second biggest city and large military presence n. 2008, john mccain doubled romney s votes here. more twists in the race, i m joined by msnbc contributor and political editor for the grio, harry bacon. good morning, guys. good morning. perry, i m going to get to
did dems or clinton also pay russians? where are hidden and smashed dnc servers. where are crooked hillary e-mails. what a mess. with that, i ll throw it back to you. thanks for tossing that hot potato back in our lap, joe. that will take a half-an-hour for us to fact check but we ll start right now. let s bring in reporter chris aliz za and harry bacon. great to have both of you. let s dispense for a moment with the factual errors that were in those different presidential tweets and let s get to perry first. the president brought up hillary clinton three times yesterday and he is tweeting about her this morning so obviously he s staging a diversion. i guess the question is, is it working? just think about how many times president obama brought up mitt romney in 2013 or george w. bush brought up john kerry in
wednesday, and i was home recovering from the exhaustion of the funeral. so i hadn t really watched the news until last night. and i m i m not talking to the president now. i m sorry. after what he said about my child and it s not that i saw somebody else s tweets about him. i saw an actual clip of him as a press conference equating the protestors like ms. heyer, with the kkk and the white supremacists. with us to share reporting and insights, julie pace of the associated press, jonathan martin of the new york times, harry bacon of 538 and karen demergs of the washington post. to spain in a moment. the latest on the terrorist investigations one american confirmed to be among the 14 killed. and president trump headed to camp david meeting with his national security team and trying to settle a fierce debate about u.s. troop levels in afghanistan.