Hard conservative. anyway, thank you, matt schlapp. thank you, former congressman michele bachmann. you re always welcome. u.s. congressman steve king. although i don t think iowa s typical. coming up, america on edge. more and more americans are naming terrorism as their top issue for 2016, this as the threat in the los angeles public school system kept more than half a million kids at home in california. my question, what happens if the same people call tomorrow, the same people e-mail every day of the damned week. do you always run or do you hold? this is hardball, the place for politics. live from las vegas. a mess? i don t think what s that? snapshot from progressive. plug it in, and you can save on car insurance based on your good driving. you sell to me? no, it s free. you want to try? i try this if you try. not this. okay. da!
Cruz is making life miserable for the establishment and the media. and so i thought trump look, i thought he was going to try to turn him into a phoney or go after the goldman sachs stuff. trump misfired and i bet you he pulls back tonight on cruz because of this. he may try another shot tonight. anyway, thank you. thank you, chuck todd, as always, sir. thank you welcome michael steele. thank you, my friend, sue lowden out here for welcoming us so beautifully. and a reminder, come back to hardball at 11:00 eastern tonight when the debate is over. i think it s going to be hot. i disagree with everybody else. we re staying up late for two hours for reaction and analysis tonight. anyway, coming up right now, the trump phenomenon. he s hitting new highs in the polls and his controversial message is resonating with many on the right. three out of five republicans like what he s saying. we re going to ask michele bachmann and u.s. congressman steve king of iowa why trump is working t
Candidates to handle these issues. meanwhile, the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, of kentucky, issued this coded warning to his party this morning. it would be extremely helpful in holding the senate to carry purple states. and you can make your own conclusions about which candidates are most likely to carry purple states. matt schlapp, michele bachmann, the former u.s. congresswoman from minnesota, and steve king, a congressman from iowa. thank you all for joining us. what did you make of mitch mcconnell, congressman king, issuing kind of a warning. i don t think it was coded. he seemed to be warning his party members to not nominate certain people. what s he up to? i ve said this for some time, that we have the publishment wing of the party, we all should be in the big republican tent with the constitutional conservatives, but it s always the establishment that drives the wedge. that is mitch mcconnell getting out the wedge and the hammer and
What this is, santorum won by a handful of votes. romney won the nomination. romney didn t win the presidency. we can t speculate that santorum would have lost the presidency if the rest of the country would have followed iowa s recommendation with santorum. you can say the same thing are you betting on okay. are you betting either on santorum or huckabee, your previous iowa winners in this year s election? of course not. but here s what we need to be thinking about. iowa polls say cruz, national polls say trump. national polls are reflecting the national media that s flooded with all trump, all the time. you have to adjust for that and recognize that iowa and new hampshire will be independent and south carolina will listen to that recommendation. and i think that s a thread we need to watch throughout all of this. let me ask you all, i want to start with let me start with congressman bachmann, why do you think hannity and levin and rush limbaugh seem to be so pro-cruz? wha
Of the land. the supreme court have not arisen to the level of god. and president obama was never re-elected. we re going to win. just make no mistake about it. president obama is a one-term president. actually, none of that happened. but when you re michele bachmann, who cares about reality. santa! congresswoman bachmann, we ll miss you. that s all for now. have a happy holiday and great new year. the ed show is coming up next. good evening, americans and welcome to the ed show live from new york. let s get to work. we cannot have a society in which some dictator some place