i have heard people supporting trump make the comparison to barack obama in iowa and the total number of par tis paints almost doubled in iowa and you guys picked up on that. that s right. we picked up on it. nobody could believe it at the time and then it turned out to be true. we are using the same method. same method of august when trump led our poll. so, to the extent we are not introducing any change that would have biassed in a particular way. so tell us when s behind the cruz surge then. i guess from your last poll to the new one at 31% in first place now, that s a record for you guys and haven t seen a 21-point jump like that before. when s the key to ted cruz s surge in iowa? that s right. unprecedented in the caucus polling. what i observe is putting together the pieces of a puzzle and things are starting to coa les.
really going to fight then or are they going to say, obama s still president. i m in the camp that says, walk away from this, and let obama care strangle itself and strangle the democrats. you guys ganged up on me in the green room? no, no, no, i i m saying there is a time to stand on principle and fight but don t fight over the debt ceiling. i think is this is getting so out of control. 50 million americans on food stamps lower labor par tis rates since 1978. i think we re losing the country. and a president who is setting a precedent for any major law, he can decide to change it at will through politics and what charles krauthammer is talking about is a passion and concern about the country that i think is deeper than the obama team realizes and any democrats realize and it s why, i think, republicans are in a better position.
really going to fight then or are they going to say, obama s still president. i m in the camp that says, walk away from this, and let obama care strangle itself and strangle the democrats. you guys ganged up on me in the green room? no, no, no, i i m saying there is a time to stand on principle and fight but don t fight over the debt ceiling. i think is this is getting so out of control. 50 million americans on food stamps lower labor par tis rates since 1978. i think we re losing the country. and a president who is setting a precedent for any major law, he can decide to change it at will through politics and what charles krauthammer is talking about is a passion and concern about the country that i think is deeper than the obama team realizes and any democrats realize and it s why, i think, republicans are in a better position.
general in this country. so the media is paying attention and that s exactly what he wants. in addition, you talked about scott walker. the same scott walker that was trying to totally obliterate labor unions. you also think about rick scott who is responsible for voter suppression efforts in florida. their party is going in the wrong direction in terms of trying to grow its base. it s shrinking because there are only so many white males that continue to grow the gop base. the rest of america doesn understand or care about this. it s not karl rove s party ad groups to par tis pat in these ad campaigns. it doesn t make you more real vant. your message is wrong. you noticed that, huh? let me ask you this. i ve got to go. not all of this helps them because look at the fact that the civil war has not helped them in their struggle.
instrumental in mubarak s fall by their decision not to open fire at apex of the original protests, well, that very same military is now being accused of being the equivalent of mubarak and preventing the very freedoms that they seemed to be helping the protesters defend just a few months ago. our next guest in the only witnessed the revolution and helped to explain it to us as it broke out, she also continued to par tis pase pate as a journalist in the ongoing developments and in that process and encountered a level of brutality that it is very hard for any of us to really comprehe comprehend. an egyptian-born journalist, a friend of this show who walked us into this experience just a few months ago, said she was recently detained, sexually assaulted and had her arm broken, along with, i understand, a couple other bones. walk us through the story, mona, and and context tour