joining me snow steve schmidt. are you anticipating people coming after rubio from both sides tonight? absolutely. marco rubio is on the rise. we are moving into the stage of the race where the candidates are conscious of it. the person who benefits by ben carson going down in the race is ted cruz who doesn t have much room to grow outside of carson coming down. trump is effective when he s fighting from his right to his left against these establishment candidates. you will see him tonight. two big departures from republican orthodoxy will challenge interests and you will hear him challenge the free
is raising the question of whether hillary clinton is giving democrats a fair shot in 2016. critics say she s freezing the democratic presidential field as she waits to decide whether to run. but supporters say it s just the opposite. quote, the former first lady is shielding other prospective democratic contenders from months of attacks and scrutiny they would probably face without her in the picture. joining me snow, washington bureau sheaf for the sun times, lynn sweet, and politics editor shira center. good morning, ladies. good morning. let s start with the president s focus on women and you don t have to look far to figure out why he s doing it. so the latest nbc/wall street journal poll shows republicans have a one-point lead on a congressional generic ballot, but trailing among women, lynn, by 11 points. that s the same margin they lost women voters in the 2012 presidential race. what does president obama think he can do to help democrats with women in 2016? 2014, sorry.
problems lingering from the storms that we ve seen across the country this week, first in the southeast and in the north part of the country. let s go over to the severe weather center. chad has been watching it. i still see a map, that dark purple, which tells me snow. the snow s over, but here are the totals. wilmington, 36 inches of snow. i don t care if that s powder or anything, that s still three feet. bigger than a golden retriever. that s up there. and they are still digging out from that. it s part of a coastal low that spun around. we can call it kind of a nor easter, but it didn t come up from the southeast. we ll have more on this coming up in the 2:00 hour, ali. chad, thanks very much. i want to go back to tucson, arizona, to the church where we are expecting the funeral to begin in about an hour and a half. christina green, that is the flag. let me tell you about that flag, that s the national 9/11 flag, it will be flying over the funeral today. it was destroyed in
hard-line stance on abortion. will either cruz or bush take on rubio? joining me snow steve schmidt. are you anticipating people coming after rubio from both sides tonight? absolutely. marco rubio is on the rise. we are moving into the stage of the race where the candidates are conscious of it. the person who benefits by ben carson going down in the race is ted cruz who doesn t have much room to grow outside of carson coming down. trump is effective when he s fighting from his right to his left against these establishment candidates. you will see him tonight.