amanda, talk about the ground game. cruz seems to have been playing kind of a long, a long war strategy, a long game strategy. he s been, you know, campaigning a lot in the south. how strong of a ground game does he have? listen. he s known that this is probably going to be a longer race just due to the nature of having so many contestants in the field. you can t count on just winning iowa and getting slingshot moment that will take you through the three states. it s probably going to come down to the super tuesday. so he s been visiting a lot of places like georgia. he s got a strong support network in texas and the other southern states. he is prepared to go the distance through february, into the month of march, where i think other candidates are looking for momentum from the early states. we ve seen the last two cycles. you can win iowa. that s great. it s a good start. it hasn t meant anything the two previous cycles. although, i think this is a little bit different. many peop
whether that plays out in a different way, i don t know. general hertling, the so-called commander in chief test is not only about what happens in the battle field, but also, here at home. i know you feel strongly about bowe bergdahl being brought into this campaign, particularly about what donald trump has been saying. indeed. and i think lindsey graham, senator graham got a little fired up about that in the undercard debate. and basically said, hey, as the president and i would even expand that and say, even as a candidate, you can t say those kind of things. and the reason why is, it s not just the verbocity and what s being say, but it affects the trial. i could see the lawyers coming up and saying, our client can t get a fair trial, because if there s anybody on the jury who s a trump supporter, they ve heard donald trump say, the guy should be found guilty and executed. so it s something we in the military call command influence. and you can haven t it in a military trial.
the first police officer charged in the death of freddie gray, who suffered a broken neck in police custody. baltimore on edge tonight. people took to the streets, along with an especially heavy police presence. gray s family is among those appealing for calm. so are baltimore authorities and so far, calm has prevailed. i want to check in with brian todd who is in baltimore for us tonight. what are you seeing where you are, brian? reporter: anderson, this has been a pivotal moment for the city and so far things have been pretty peaceful. this is an example of what you re seeing in the city of baltimore tonight. behind my, three unmarked police vans full of officers. police trying to maintain a visible presence here, but not an overbearing, not an overwhelming presence. they are, in several streets here, patrolling around kind of subtly, just walking the streets, and hanging around, waiting for any possible protests to happen. this is we re walking the route now where there was a pr
point. they talk about isis propaganda, isis talks about a gray zone. they see themselves as representing a kind of radical, in their view, pure version of islam. then there s the infidels and that gray zone of people in the middle. they re trying to make sure there s no gray zone. right. often it s the moderates that get attacked first by these groups, because they don t want there to be this gray zone. they want it to be black and white, them or us. and if you think about it right now, the war against isis, the vast majority of the people die rg muslim, but the vast majority of people who are fighting are muslim. the kurds, the turks, whoever is going out there, the sunni arabs, there are virtually no americans, christians, non-muslims in the fight. it s moderate muslims, trying to take on the radicals. and what we should be doing, it seems to me, is supporting those people, encouraging them and making them feel, no, you represent what we see as the world of islam, not isis. it
just implode. that, obviously, hasn t happened. in that group, where rubio is, you ve got chris christie, who had a pretty good debate right now, hasn t been able to gain any traction nationally, but is doing well in new hampshire. and i thought jeb bush was all of a sudden much more relevant, at least on that debate stage. he certainly got a lot of money. perhaps he is able to camp out in new hampshire and gain some traction there. i think rubio s problem, he s great on that debate stage. but sort of the rubio surge has yet to happen, at least in polls. and if you talk to folks, his ground game certainly isn t as good as ted cruz s is. so you wonder where he starts to play. is it nevada. he does look a little strong in new hampshire. but he s got to figure out where he is able to make his stand. it really is, i think, all about the identity he s tried to carve out, which is to be everything to everybody. which is a really tough thing to do, to be a kind of bridge between sort of the t