Being dedicated professional chroniclers of politics, we look at the traditions. The fire is coming so fast and furious that we cannot keep track of it. Trump had a twitter assault on ted cruz. How can ted cruz be an evangelical christian when he lies so much . Also, if ted cruz does not stop cleaning up his act, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. Cruz is under fire for having to pull this ad hitting marco rubio because it included a woman who was once in Good Standing in adult entertainment. Even softcore is too hard. Meanwhile, cruz is going after Hillary Clinton with the spoof of office space. Here is part of it. We paired it with the original scene so you can appreciate it. Damn, it feels good to be a clinton the clinton never needs to explain a real clinton knows veterans titles and hillary does not know what they do john mark, i think we all could appreciate that piece of work. My question to you is if that or any other punches are landing . Mark we are over a week away from the primary. We have seen some of those attacks and there are plenty more out there. It is hard with all these candidates. It is hard to break through. Donald trump has proven he is masterful at breaking through with his attacks. I think it is going to be hard, but i predicted by next wednesday, there will be a lot of attacks that will hurt at least one or two of these guys. John this office space ad is a cult classic. It is the case of that a reason for an ad like that is to cut through the clutter. There is so Much Negative advertising. That will get attention from people like us. It is too early to say. People are throwing punches of all kinds, trying to see what will land. We dont know what actually landed yet. I dont know what any of these things will. Mark something to land you have to have a cutting attack that is cleverly done. You have to have the victim kind of overreact or under react or do something that plays into it. Then you need some luck that it latches on and captures the imagination of voters. It will be a tall order. John i think you need something that is targeted in the sense that these candidates all know there is very clear slices of the South Carolina electorate. Is there an attack that would cut with a particular part of the electorate . That could be more telling. Mark there is always a lot of war metaphors used in politics, but the use has gone into hyperdrive every four years. Four out of the five leading republican candidates believe their path to victory includes becoming the dominant National Security candidate. Here is a little bit of how they have been trying to get contrast. The fact of the matter is jeb has no foreignpolicy experience. He was governor a long time ago. When you compare marco rubios experience of going to Committee Hearings once in a while, that is not foreignpolicy experience. These 50 young soldiers have a target on their back. I guarantee you general George Patton it would not have been 50. We went not be fighting for the rest of our lives. We would not have been over there for 15 years. 15 days, maybe, not 15 years. The next time a jihadist walks into a recruiting center in chattanooga, he will encounter the business end of firearms wielded by dozens of marines. We will have a president willing to utter the words radical islamic terrorism. Mark jeb bush is summoning the powers of the former commander in chief, george w. Bush to appear at a rally. That will be his first foray in Public Policy in quite some time. Who is the most potential by next saturday to be seen as the dominant commanderinchief candidate . John none of them have any foreignpolicy credentials. I think jeb bush because of his brother potentially could claim the mantle. And lindsey graham. I think ted cruz because of his rhetoric could potentially get there the way Newt Gingrich did in 2012. The others will be very hard. Mark i think trump is seen as strong and has proven in other states in polling and voting, voters see him as strong. The harder one is marco rubio. He talks about having the best experience and judgment. All of them are going for it hard. I will say cruz is taking the most heat because he has the libertarian streak. He voted against the defense bill. This is a huge battle. John he wanted to carpet bomb somebody. Mark the other thing i would say about bush other than lindsey graham, is he knows his foreignpolicy stuff. John i think bush may have it. Yesterday, we showed you in which South Carolina republicans recorded the sights and sounds of donald trump. Coughing up a storm. Cue trump last night in florida. Mr. Trump i will not use foul language. I will not do it. They are saying do it, do it. Im not. Even if it is not a bad word, if it is little off, they kill me. I will never do it again. I will never even copy something what they asked me to say. John will the donald actually be able to refrain from profanity . Why on earth is he claiming he will . Mark i think he will probably stay on the wagon decently for a while. He is a smart guy. He does in the south iowans and people in New Hampshire are more willing to except this. He can engage in Straight Talk and nonpolitical correctness in the south without using that language. Im quite certain that word would have hurt him in South Carolina. John it is a question of discipline. He is from queen so i dont know if he is capable. What could hurt him is the profanity ties into other things of his life and lifestyle. Multiple wives, things that are not uncommon in new york city. I think that picture could be damaging and not just in South Carolina, but the bible belt. You should try to do the easy thing. I dont know if he would be able to. Mark we will be right back with genderneutral debates. Highlights from last light in milwaukee after this. Mark the great debate moments mark the great debate moments of Hillary Clinton. A handful of soundbites that stand out namely the time rick lazio walked up to her with a pledge and then Barack Obamas classic of you are likable enough, hillary from 2008. Last night, it seems Bernie Sanders got dangerously close to making the did he go too far highlight reel . Mr. Sanders secretary of state for four years, you have a bit of a streak. That is a low blow. Do senators have a right to disagree with the president . Have you . I suspect you havent. Mark given that the Clinton Campaign recently played the sexism card against sanders, including the time we talked about shouting. Why are they playing the sexism card today . John it is a little tricky. They got hammered the last time they did it and it was bogus. I think they are little gun shy. The truth is i think sanders is cranky, condescending, obamalike. They dont quite get you all the way to sexism. In this instance, there were other attacks. There are so many other things to attack them on last night. Mark i think the Madeleine Albright comment could come into play. That would have been taking a risk. I have to say, even leaving gender aside, sanders was pretty caustic. Im not sure over the longterm that is his best bet. He still struggles to smile, seemed gracious, seem like someone who has a human connection. John i thought sanders was tired last night. I think they both seemed tired at the beginning. By the end, it seems to get more heated. She maintained composure any kind of let his irritation show. It did not kind of explode but he has to watch that. Mark the other thing about the moments was i think Hillary Clinton handled them well. She could have in those instances made more of those moments and tried to exploit them in the instance. She did not. Im not saying they were up there with you are likable enough, they were pretty costly. John you can see these two candidates are getting to the place where candidates get. They do not like each other and bernie does not like her now. It is starting to show on the edges. If you are a reporter, you are used to getting spammed with statements and press release forms. Last night, the clinton and Sanders Campaigns pumped out fast checks faster than chocolates on a conveyor belt. Today, there were more press releases from the clinton side on the commanderinchief gap and passed criticisms of the obama leadership. Team sanders fired back at clinton on her positions on unaccompanied minors for super pacs and her wall street support. It was not that long ago when both sides in this race said this campaign would never ever possibly be negative. Now that it is fiction, it has been dispelled, what accounts for this explosion of fact checking, surrogate attacks and driveby press releases . Mark clinton is still trying to find frames. They are trying to attack and get their people out there and take advantage of surrogates. On the sanders side, theyre pugilistic. If you punch us, we will punch you back. Both sides are in this childish spiral that everything is a huge outrage, horror. John they are both pugilistic and highly moralistic. They get on their high horse. Yesterday, because of that fuselage we talked about from africanamerican surrogates against senator sanders, they have their backs up going into the debate and the debate got them or spun up. The clintons will always happily dive in. That is how it is. Today, the bad news hillary herald, it turns out last fall the state department opened an inquiry in the Clinton Foundation during the time Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. The state department will release 550 more of her emails this weekend. Three, this week, the fbi formally confirmed its investigation into Hillary Clintons email server. Does this drip, drip, drip we have experienced this week, is this incremental noise or a different phase of peril . Mark i think for most people it is just noise. It is hard to differentiate. The problem is the omnipresence of this means if Bernie Sanders wins nevada, does better than she does in other contests, the fact that this could break at any minute, there could be a confluence of Major Development that could be very perilous for her. John one of the biggest things she will have to rely on to win is the superdelegate. The establishment having confidence that she is a better nominee. The establishment confidence in her, that is the biggest thing that makes people nervous about making her the nominee. That is bad for. Nothing happened this week that made it worse, but there is something out there that could be a big problem. Mark with the possible exception of bill clinton, not one superdelegate could say either they are for sanders or we need somebody else. John what happened in vegas New York Times reporter adam nagourney, after this. John our first guest comes from my old west coast stomping grounds, los angeles, california. It is adam nagourney. He is now back from a reporting trip to las vegas which is kind of like my reporting trips to vegas. I know what happens. He is going to talk about what he learned about the democratic race in nevada. Adam, give us an overview. I want to hear about what you ate. How are the nevada caucuses shaping up . Adam on the democratic side if we were to have this conversation six months ago, it is not that big of a race. Clinton will probably win iowa. It is way out in the west and nobody wants to go, but this is a very contested race after a loss in iowa, getting thumped in New Hampshire. This is her way to test if she is back on track but it is also a place where she has been popular. Bernie sanders will try to expand his appeal. It is a much more diverse audience. It is a fairly new phenomenon in nevada. We dont really trust any of the polls. Being out there, it seems to me this is a very, much more close election than we would have thought. One of the signs of it is there is a lot of energy for sanders. You guys were seeing in New Hampshire and iowa. Mark when people think about this electorate, they think about unions, hispanic voters. Where are sanders opportunities to do better than he was poised to do a few months ago . Adam i would worry about younger hispanic voters. And i know the sanders people are focusing on them. He probably will do better in the northern part of the state where obama did well. I think where i would be looking is that. The other thing is nevada is one of those states where the same day registration as there is in iowa, which makes it harder to figure out what the electorate is. It is making the clinton people very nervous. In 2008, 30,000 people showed up. Clinton might have won the popular vote narrowly, but obama won the delegate count. One of the things that are making the clinton people nervous is the possibility that all this energy out there that we are seeing is going to show up at the polls, the caucus sites. John one of the last times we were out there for the democratic debate in october, we talked to john ralston about what Bernie Sanders had in terms of. Ground operations he said nothing back in october. Now we spoke to tad devine, and he says he has more people that Hillary Clinton. Does sanders have a real ground operation there . Can it go toe to toe with the clinton operation . Adam the fact of the matter is clinton is on the ground here in nevada six months longer than him. She has more experience, more organization you need to do to get ready for these kind of caucuses. The clinton people are not saying how many people they have. Sanders says they have 90 fulltime people, more volunteers. I accept that they have more volunteers. I went to a debate i went to a sanders site and then to a clinton site. Sanders side was packed with people, even younger people. The clinton side was older. I believe categorically there are more bodies on the ground. It is not a matter of having the bodies, it is a matter of having the kind of organization of knowing what to do on the finding the right people. That is harder to do from the outside. Im sure he knows numbers but we really dont know. The Actual Campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton ran the state in 2008 for the campaign and has a real interest in making sure that he gets what will be the first solid win for his candid in the cycle. Mark bill clinton has a big relationship with New Hampshire. He has a pretty rich relationship with that state. How much do you expect to see him and how much influence will he have over hispanic and union voters . Adam one of the things Hillary Clinton has going for her is bill clinton. He is out here all the time. He golfs here a lot. When i went inside, i did go and see bill clinton at an event. There were people lined up for hours waiting to see him. There is Something Else to remember about nevada its a very transient state. People keep moving in and out. The voter population today is a lot different than 2008. I would not assume there is a connection to bill clinton. I think that is really the big question. John you can vote on the casino floors. Does bill clinton have more influence at the bellagio or the las vegas suburbs . Adam the suburbs. There was a big fight about this last night because the culinary workers, which represented a lot of the workers on the strip where the caucuses were held at casinos where people were working and go caucus. Clinton supporters tried to get that turned out unsuccessfully. Bill clinton really brought it. I think you will see more of bill clinton in the suburbs than the floor of the bellagio. John that is almost impossible to believe. That will not be true for you. You are a big consumer of delicious substances. Thank you. Up next, a clinton surrogate and a sanders surrogate. If youre watching us in washington, d. C. , you can listen to us on bloomberg 99. 1 fm. We will be right back. Mark joining us now, two democrats not unfamiliar to Television Viewers our guest representing Bernie Sanders and gregory meeks, representative of Hillary Clinton. Thank you for joining us, congressman. Congressman, we will start with you. There is some dispute the tween the two campaigns. What is the Clinton Campaign view on Bernie Sanders record on civil rights . Guest john lewis has spoken on it. Bernie says he was there. That was fine. He was not as prominence. I had no idea as he was out there during the Civil Rights Movement, and thats good. What has his record been . Even if you voted right, where have you been mark are you saying you do not know if he has been a leader or he is not a leader . Representative meeks im saying he has voted, may be voted be right way, but i do not know what the time when he has caucused with the Congressional Black Caucus on issues going into the streets, and things of that nature, and that has not happened until recently. Historically, we have always had a partner in Hillary Clinton. She has been out there and out front, trying to help get democrats elected, africanamerican democrats, because it makes a difference in governing and politics and achieving what we tried to achieve for the constituency we try to represent. John just name one or two dove areas of policy that matter to africanamericans one or two areas of policy that matter to africanamericans where senator sanders and secretary clinton have a difference . Representative meeks i have been in congress for 18 years, and i served on a committee, and i do not believe he has had that kind of reach. I do think he has voted the right