the whole world is watching. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. even after a full-scale assault on donald trump from some of the most prominent voices across the spectrum of republican politics, the grand old party and conservative movement are nipding there s no off switch for the frankenstein they have created. following his performance at the first republican debate last week, many commentators declared for the second time as many weeks the beginning of the end for the trump crowd. at least three polls show trump keeping a firm grip on his front runner status. reuters/imsos poll and an iowa poll finding trump leading at 19% with ben carson and scott walker tied for second at 12%. an online nbc news poll shows
learned today. inside the trump campaign, there is a belief that roger ales was given an order to kill off donald trump in the debate to help jeb bush. we don t know yet if that s true. that is the belief that s taken hold inside the trump campaign. without a doubt trump did days questions that were decidedly more pointed than any of the other republicans i ve got to say, decidedly more pointed but also seemed like you ve got to guy running for president, the front-runner, pointed questions seem appropriate. exactly. that makes sense. but that is bat leave inside the trump campaign. roger ailes needs donald trump. just look at the ratings. 24 million people. that s the hilarious thing. trump gets up there, mckay, and says, it would have been 2 million if not for me. i don t think it would have been 2 million, but trump owns a significant 24 million is just a bonkers number for something this early. yeah. i remember when i was flying into cleveland, i literally heard peopl
megyn kelly coming as government is considering a shutdown to defund plant parenthood and as they move right on women s issues. marco raub i don t s contention that he never supported an abortion ban exception for victims of rape and incest. at a campaign stop in new hampshire hillary clinton called out trump and some of trump s republican rivals. what a lot of the men on that stage and that debate said was offensive. and i want people to understand, if you just focus on maybe the biggest showman on the stage, you lose the thread here. i want to point out there s really not that much difference in the policies that they are proposing when it comes to america women. joining me msnbc contributor, host of the majority report podcast, democratic political strad gist, tara goodell, once a contestant on the apprentice hosted by donald trump. i think this is a fascinating
is saying. this is particularly true on immigration. the thing that michael was referring to is, you said you guys we had an exchange talking about the debate comes, they re going to press him on immigration. they re going to press him on his comments about mexican people. zero, nothing. no one went after him for it. in fact, the opposite, they all were basically competing i said the reason they can t go after him is their policies line up with his perfectly. and the only thing that was surprising is that marco rubio, going back and forth on who s going to build the biggest wall, said his will be subterranean. and that s basically it. the winning bid. he s going to put his wall in the ground, deep, i don t know how deep, but that s the problem is that there s this hasn t been the republican voters have been trained that policy is just rhetoric. that you can get a better deal with iran just by talking tough. as if that means something. that means nothing. and so they
point which is that trump thing has obscured the fact that in that debate particularly on this issue, women s choice, scott walker and marco rubio adopted stances to the right of any republican nominee in recent memory, including george w. bush. no exceptions for rape and incest. that is something that we may not be looking at now, but that s now on the record, it s going to be an issue later. absolutely. it s 100% going to be an issue later. i think one of the things that s happening because donald trump hillary clinton made this point very well. because donald trump is getting all the attention, what s not being talked about is not donald trump may be saying extreme things but republicans are doing extreme things. so if you look at take paul ryan. he was proposing legislation to redefine rape, to change the way rape is defined, to make it a looser definition of rape, a violent act. a lot of what republicans are doing to me aren t very