america great again. so this ad if you haven t seen it it s everything we ve come to expect from donald. it s understated, thoughtful. it says trump will cut the head off isis, it doubles down on his plan to ban muslims from coming in to the country. trump is still the front-runner among republicans. we re finally in the election year. things are still very much up for grabs. only thing we know at this point about the republican nomination is that we shouldn t let steve harvey announce the winner. he had a great idea. these guys are in front of me. hold on a second. these guys that feel like they can go take over federal buildings, we have a great idea. why don t we send the chicago police department out there. right? see how they handle them. just send them out. again, like i said i m wondering, i m sorry if you re a black guy, right,
there? ted cruz smooth. it s going to be a fascinating race to tend in iowa. i thought that an was pretty effective. it was? the ad of not. we have a very tight race in iowa. okay. if you turn the sound down on an ad you can t understand it that ad i would have no clue what that ad before. stay with us. tomorrow morning joe the two surprises that define the political season. donald trump and bernie sanders join the show. the outsiders join us. up next, one year ago mitt romney told jeb bush it would be quote very difficult for him to post up against hillary clinton. now the former governor from florida joins us to explain why he s the only candidate who really can. jeb bush, live on morning morni next. your path to retirement.
that s just a weird ad. that s not going to connect with anybody. i m so glad you said that. it s a weird ad. it won t connect. whoever did that ad for you ted thank them and have them do another one. get your money back. show that picture of marco sweating like he did and how marco was the gang of eight. joining us now from des moines i put that one up with jon huntsman first ad the dude riding a motorcycle across america. i remember it. what was it about peter fonda. joining us now from des moines, iowa, nbc news correspondent hallie jackson. you spent time with ted cruz yesterday as he kicked off his iowa bus tour. polls show he s leading in the state. what is he doing solidify his front-runner status there? reporter: he s barn storming the state. look what happened 6 1/2 hours ago here in iowa he was at a diner at about 11:30 at night
it s a big contrast. ted cruz is out with a new ad entitled invasion. it will begin running statewide in new hampshire tomorrow. here s an exclusive first look at the ad. i understand that when mainstream media covers immigration it doesn t often see it as an economic issue. but i can tell you it is a very personal economic issue. and i will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the rio grande or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press then we would see stories about the economic calamity that s befalling our nation. if i m elected president, we will trip tell border patrol, we will build a wall that works, we will secure the border.
with 125 people that showed up to see him in the middle of the state. he s trying to rally these folks. trying prove he s not taking their support for granted and doing sign a way that s big, visible, getting a lot of media attention and coming out and saying i might be leading in the polls, i want to you come out. i got the money and organization. he ran that ad and there s a line in there from ted cruz where he talks about wanting to build a border wall. this is something even though we ve seen ted cruz and donald trump in this detant in the last six months, you haven t seen ted cruz go after trump. he did on that wall issue he also raised some eyebrows when he talked about evangelicals coming out of cuba. ted cruz father is cuban. i asked him about this in our interview on his bus yesterday. listen. at what point do you start to draw those distinctions with