attacks. not the blunt force over the head. it s that low-level insination. is to bring out his father. he could be an effective tool to back any of those attacks. he is from cuba. interesting how the whole thing will develop. the washington post robert costas is with us now. he just interviewed donald trump before his campaign rally up in massachusetts where katy tur is. what have you got for us? what do you know about this big ad campaign. it s saying what he says on the stump, but doing it with paying for it by $1.25 million this week just in iowa. is he going to try to knock off
iowa. trump has to be careful how he uses that. he s obviously trying to get at the immigration issue and cruz base and the evangelical community. that s what he s trying to do. we ll see how it works. okay. thank you very much, david yepsen. hallie jackson covering the campaign of ted cruz and robert costas. president obama goes it alone announcing executive actions on gun safety reforms. he is doing it today. it is sure to trigger fire from the right. and can you explain why you recommend synthetic over cedar? super food? is that a real thing? it s a great school, but is it the right one for her? is this really any better than the one you got last year? if we consolidate suppliers, what s the savings there? so should we go with the 467 horsepower? .or is a 423 enough? good question. you ask a lot of good questions.
he ll quickly cut the head off isis and take their oil. he ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall in our southern border that mexico will pay for. the footage used to show mexicans crossing the southern border of the united states was actually filmed by an italian television network in morocco in north africa. trump s campaign manager told nbc, no expletive, we can t say what he said. it s not the mexican border, but that is what our country is going to look like. this was 1,000% on purpose. they put out a more official statement. robert, why didn t they use all kinds of footage which is available from our network and elsewhere that has watched people running across our southern border from mexico? why would they choose to use the other picture from morocco? why would you do it on purpose?
backstage. the ad campaign has gotten a lot of attention in the press and thinks it can control this message on the air waves. let s take a look at it. hang in there, robert. it all comes with this debut of this tv ad of the campaign. the first one trump s ever paid for highlighting his policies on immigration and terrorism, including his controversial proposed muslim ban set to run in iowa and new hampshire starting tomorrow. here s a clip. the politicians can pretend it s something else but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. that s yes is calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the united states until we can figure out what s going on. he ll quickly cut the head off isis and take their oil. he ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall in our southern border that mexico will pay for. the footage used to show mexicans crossing the southern
he is from cuba. interesting how the whole thing will develop. the washington post robert costas is with us now. he just interviewed donald trump before his campaign rally up in massachusetts where katy tur is. what have you got for us? what do you know about this big ad campaign. it s saying what he says on the stump, but doing it with paying for it by $1.25 million this week just in iowa. is he going to try to knock off cruz in iowa? is that what s going on here? he thinks he can close the gap with cruz in iowa. he thinks iowa is in sight. his strategy is to get a big bounce out of iowa and sweep it to new hampshire and south carolina. he s been reviewing ads the past 24 hours. he was in high spirits