Trump Holds GOP Lead In New National Poll
COOPER: The view from the road tonight in northern Virginia. Brian Todd on the way to an overturned truck, a very dangerous situation. Obviously, if you don't have to be out tonight, please stay inside. We'll update you on all of it shortly. There is more breaking news tonight. A brand-new Fox News national poll shows Donald Trump holding onto the lead over his Republican opponents. The new poll has Trump at 34 percent against nationally and Ted Cruz in second with 22 percent followed by Marco Rubio with 11 percent. Now, the rest of the field is in single digits. At the same time Trump is railing against "the National Review." The magazine, the conservative magazine is the subject of his latest twitter rant calling it a quote "failed publication." The reason for his ire is plain to see on the cover, a special issue of "the National Review" that just came out. The headline simply "against Trump." Inside the magazine, there is a scorching editorial that calls Trump a threat to conservatism. The issue also features essays from 22 voices comments conservative voices each detailing why Trump they believe is a menace. I'm joined by two of those voices. Syndicated columnist</s>MICHAEL MEDVED, CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST: Between Cruz and Trump with a gun to my head, I would vote for Trump. I think Cruz is even worse. And for some of the same reasons. But Trump brings all kinds of baggage of his own. What I meant there is that Trump is no one's classic idea who is a conservative of what a conservative should be. Our conservative heroes are people like Reagan or Jack Kemp or William F. Buckley, founder of "the National Review."</s>MEDVED: Trump is a guy of a tremendous inherited wealth who has a reputation for being bullying, and vulgar, and crude, and materialistic, and negative which is exactly what liberals have been saying against conservatives for all these years. I don't think we should be giving the left a great big gift, by confirming all of their worst stereo types of what it means to be on the right.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Sam, I want you to be able to respond because we know where Donald Trump stands on this. The twitted out earlier, "The late great William f. Buckley would be ashamed of what happened to his prize, the dying National Review." I mean, are you worried this coalition of conservatives could hurt Donald Trump at the polls?</s>SAM CLOVIS, CO-CHAIR/POLICY ADVISER TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Absolutely not. I read all of the articles in there and Mike and Nona are people that I've had a great deal of respect for over the years.</s>MONA: Thank you.</s>CLOVIS: I've read a lot of their material. And I think that what we saw here and I was a bit amused to be honest. I felt like it was a bunch of 10-year-olds stomping their feet because they couldn't get their way. I mean, Donald Trump is not like any politician we've had in this country in history. And this is the thing I think most people are struggling with. And I don't blame them. I don't blame people who have been conservative warriors out there for all of these years, that Michael and Mona are right there with them. I don't blame them for looking at this and saying, "This isn't like anything I've ever seen, therefore I don't understand it, therefore it must be bad". That seems to be the logic that's here. And I think what is really troubling to me and I don't mean this as any admonition at all, is that I cannot believe that we have so many people that are so out of touch with what's going on in this country. And I would just advice anybody who has written an article for the National Review and particularly in those 22 articles that were published, to go to a Donald Trump rally and look and see what you see there. You're not seeing anything like we've ever seen before in the history of this country. And I just wish people would take time to get out there and do their homework, get down there and get in touch with what's going on in this country. People are angry. People are upset.</s>COOPER: Mona ...</s>CLOVIS: And there's a reason they are upset, is because conservatives have not advanced the ball one inch since Ronald Reagan was president.</s>COOPER: Mona, let me ask you to respond to that. Is this something you simply just don't understand and therefore have labeled bad?</s>MONA CHAREN, CONTRIBUTOR NATIONAL REVIEW: This is a turning point for the Republican Party and for the conservative movement, why? Because in response to the Obama presidency, you know, the greatest sin of the Obama presidency was really the executive over reach, the expansion of the powers of the state and in particular, the powers of the executive. And what does Donald Trump promise? He promises that he will do exactly the same thing, but except for a different constituency. That is the exact opposite of what conservatism should and does and has stood for. We stood for limited government. We stood for modesty about the power of the state and adherence to constitutional limits on the power of the executive. And Donald Trump alas seems to be utterly unfamiliar with that whole tradition.</s>CLOVIS: Mona, I would like to respond to that because I really think that what is interesting here is that I've been out there for 30 years myself. I've been out there fighting. I served in the military, I become just rabid conservative and I'm an orthodox conservative. I'm Russell Kirk consecutive. So I understand the principles and all of the things that are going on here. But what success have we had in limiting government? Donald Trump made it for good.</s>MEDVED: Let me answer that.</s>CLOVIS: Donald Trump has made the pronouncements, that he will bring the executive branch back inside the constitution. How does that sound like a person who is going to be a dictator?</s>MEDVED: I'll what it sounds like ...</s>CHAREN: Actually, he has ...</s>COOPER: Michael, go ahead and answer.</s>MEDVED: It's not a question of being a dictator. It's a question of favoring big government solutions, which Donald Trump does. When he talks about creating a deportation force to deport 11 million Americans that is a huge expansion of government.</s>CLOVIS: Not 11 million Americans, Mike. It's not 11 million Americans. (Crosstalk)</s>MEDVED: It's 11 million people - but how will you do that without growing government? When you talk about creating a trade war and interfering with free trade, that is a big government solution. It is not a conservative solution. I don't want President Clinton. I don't want President Sanders, I want a Republican president next time and Donald Trump is one of our worst bets for achieving that goal.</s>CLOVIS: That's your opinion, mike. I'll tell you right now that's fine with you. You can be there. But let's look at the vote count on February 1st and then let's look at the vote count on February 9th. And then on -- when we get to South Carolina and then to Nevada and then onward, let's check the vote count, let's see what the score is then.</s>MEDVED: And it's exactly that vote count that we're hoping to influence.</s>COOPER: Sam Clovis, Michael Medved, Mona Charen, I appreciate all your ...</s>CLOVIS: I still like you guys.</s>MEDVED: I like you, too, Sam.</s>CHAREN: We like you too.</s>COOPER: Still a lot of love in the room. Coming up, we'll the latest on the massive winter storm that has more 85 million people in his past this weekend when "360" Continues.