let s talk more about what we can expect from tonight s republican debate in south carolina with cnn political commentator, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza, and mj lee, director at the center for politics at the university of virginia larry sab dough, and politics editor at the root.com, jason johnson. good to see all of you. see if i can do good traffic copping here. mj, you first. ted cruz releasing an ad attacking trump using the word sleeze. listen. trump bang rolled politicians to steam role the little guy, a pattern of sleeze stretching back decades. so much for being more positive, mj. yeah, not seeing a lot of that around here just a week from the south carolina primary. this is because donald trump and ted cruz both badly want to win this state. first southern primary of the 2016 race. look, they ve had tensions brewing awhile. this is crunch time. they each have one victory under their belt. they want to show they re the anti-establishm
today s threat of litigation from you guessed it, donald trump, who was in tampa, florida tonight at a rally. on twitter today, trump issued an you will may tum to ted cruz. jim acosta is now live. what is the mood like there so far? trump promising a shift in tone to be more positive and more attacks including a lawsuit threat. . well, that s right, jim. a few moments ago, donald trump on stage at this rally said his campaign is a message about love and he s the messenger. not a lot of love on the campaign trail. as you mentioned there s the tweet that trump sent out earlier this afternoon in which he threatens to take ted cruz to court if the texas senator does not cease negative attack ads and other sorts of dirty tricks he s accusing ted cruz of carrying out in south carolina. he has been retweeting his supporters questioning the texas senator s canadian birth. so far at this point, jim, donald trump has not mentioned ted cruz yet. he has gone after jeb bush at one poi
right up until boris nemtsov was killed outside the kremlin, his friend alexei navalny had been leafletting with him for a march they were due to lead against bird flu tin in moscow together. they d been planning for this big rally due to happen the morning after boris got killed. ultimately it turned into a funeral march and ultimately they wouldn t even let alexei go to boris proper funeral. they locked him up and held him on charges of illegal leafleing on the day boris had his funeral and was buried. well now as we have talked about before on this show, alexei navalny, the survivor of that friendship, he is running for president of russia against vladimir putin. they have election this is time next year and putin and his government, they do keep finding ways to put alexei in jail. the most recent rabbit they pulled out of a hat was they had him convicted on embezzlement charges against a state-run russian company, something having to do with timber futures? nobody believ
intelligence. in other words, he is among the members of congress who share in the secrets of our country, and one of those looking into russia s involvement in the presidential election. well, first of all, congressman, your reaction to these dual stories in this one area, and how do you think this will affect the conversation tomorrow, the scope, or the extent of your work? well, good evening, brian, yes. you know, the breaking story on the fact that the obama administration apparently worked very hard to preserve evidence and the work that had been done by them and the intelligence community at the time is actually a very good thing for the american people. i will tell you, i and many of my former my current colleagues were very concerned that with the transition of the administration, particularly if there was the possibility that this would be a difficult political issue for the new administration, or if they had something to hide, they re in charge now. so we worrie
killed outside the kremlin, his friend alexei navalny had been leafletting with him for a march they were due to lead against putin in moscow together. they d been planning for this big rally due to happen the morning after boris got killed. ultimately it turned into a funeral march and ultimately they wouldn t even let alexei go to boris proper funeral. they locked him up and held him on charges of illegal leafletting on the day boris had his funeral and was buried. well, now as we have talked about before on this show, alexei navalny, the survivor of that friendship, he is running for president of russia against vladimir putin. they have elections this time next year and putin and his government, they do keep finding ways to put alexei in jail. the most recent rabbit they pulled out of a hat was they had him convicted on embezzlement charges against a state-run russian company, something having to do with timber futures? nobody believes it was a real case but it was a real