look at it is this, dana. every republican, especially running in these big trump states, they want the president to come. and, the other thing about texas you know, texas is one of the most important money raising states for republican and conservative coffers. so i think the president going to texas makes sense for a lot of reasons. i would throf see the photo of ted cruz and donald trump arm in arm. it s what the party needs. i m going to like it. dana: all right. adrienne. what about you? do you think texas is fool s gold for texas or are you getting closer? one of the reasons why beto o rourke is closing the gap in this race he is going to every single county rather he has gone to every single county in texas. many are rural counties who have not heard from a democrat in ages. he is having real conversations with the voters. also important to keep in mind that he has outraised ted cruz. and this is also ground zero for child separation. so having trump go in to a stated that
they keep saying no because he gets to keep punching them in public which means he is still fighting this issue. and they ain t getting a wall. so he needs to keep signaling. not only for democrats in races like in virginia, but it s also very much an mating issue for republicans as we saw in his election. very quick question, nia. dnc money raising in october, not great. $3.9 million. is this a warning sign for democrats? i think what s really happening on the democratic side is money is flooding into candidates. every democratic challenger or lots of democratic challengers are out rasing republican incumbents in the house. that s happening in the senate. so i think you should look at total money raised and it seems pretty equal if not head a little more for the democrats. thanks so much. he was brainwashed by isis and took bullets for its warped caliphate and he was just 12 years old at the time. now this young boy is talking to cnn about his road back from a terror nightma
him as he was playing and can t tell what you pointers he was giving tiger woods on his golf game, but as i said, he s expected back any minute for high-level meeting we re told by the transition team. not exactly sure who he s meeting with or if we might expect some christmas announcements in terms of who he might be appointing to his cabinet, but we will be keeping an eye on that, jim. a letter from vladimir putin and golf with tiger woods. quite a day. boris before the president-elect went golfing he fired off tweets over his son eric s decision to end money raising for miss charity. what can you tell us about that? reporter: yes. he sent out the streak of tweets you mentioned dating back to yesterday. the latest ones were about the eric trump foundation and how his son had ultimately decided to stop raising money for the foundation, because of the potential for conflicts of interest to cloud a potential role for him in the trump
they ve been putting them out so we can start to analyze a little bit of what s going on on the republican side. you mentioned ben carson. ben carson s campaign has said for the third quarter of the year, the months of july, august and september, for the most recent three months, they raised $20 million. look at that. right now, that would be the most that any of the republican candidates have raised. we have question marks, donald trump, they haven t put in it estimates out. he s probably not raising as much as the others because he s funding a lot of this himself. but a lot of question marks about what his portals show. the $20 million from ben carson, a lot higher than people were expecting. one catch comes with that, his burn rate, what they call a burn rate is very high. that s, if you re spending a lot of the money that you take in in the same period. one of the things that ben carson spends a lot of money on is raising money. direct mail appeals. they spend a lot of money raisin
the field. he is going to have to eventually prove that he has what it takes to build a real presidential campaign. if you look at what he is doing in terms of money raising. he has only raised 1. the $9 million. i think $1.8 million of that was a lone loan to himself is. not building email lists and getting donor donations. for that reason i don t see a long term viable candidacy for donald trump. we did a number of polls here unofficially last weekend we had thousands and thousands of people writing in last weekend saying initially they were skeptical. as donald started talking more and more about the issues that were effecting them, most concerning for them around the dinner table that they started to pay attention and now they are starting to support him. so, this talk, him being out there in the media showing his policies, having him in front of the microphone is really helping him. it is. well and again, the biggest thing he talks about in any of his interviews is the fact