content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this sunday on "close up," marco rubio hitting the campaign trail. . how he plans on running the new hampshire primary. close to five years after gabby giffords was shot at an event in arizona, her husband dedicated to reforming gun laws. how new hampshire plays into thank you for joining us. candidates have been in new hampshire for hundreds of days meeting candidates. there' s something about running for the highest office around the holidays, especially when you have your family with you. we sat down with marco rubio he was in new hampshire just before christmas. welcome back to new hampshire and good to see you. you' ve done a lot of events. you get a lot of applause. do you feel juiced after these things? sen rubio: one thing i enjoy his people are taking these seriously. they are there to be convinced and they are taking their decision seriously. i love that we have narrowed it down to five people. this is our chance to really right choice. we' re going to keep doing that. josh: jeanette, what is this ms. rubio: i enjoy coming here and m

by ted cruz and 14%. ben carson is 11%. marco rubio at 10%. jeb bush at 7%. trump across the categories doing extraordinarily well. he leads in best personality, best chance of winning the election best chance of changing , washington, he is seen at the strongest leader. he leads among men, women, college graduates, noncollege graduates, liberals, moderates, and conservatives. he is seen as the best that handling terrorism, which is ofnt and center in the minds american voters. today, the los angeles city shut down its entire school system after receiving threats. we will see what happens with that. since the last date, we have had paris, san bernardino, and the whole race has changed. national security is front and center. what are you expecting? mark: everybody will try to show that they are the strongest on national security. every time national security comes up, you can bet that people will strain to get in. they will try to project that they are the strongest. that has become the most dominating issue. ben carson was here a little while ago. i asked him, what is the big

trump some went to rubio. cruz got the lion's share there. it looks like evangelical voters really asserting themselves here. as they do in iowa, they make up the bulk of the republican caucus goers. if you look at what people say is their number one issue, most it's terrorism. lot to say the economy. those say that faith and values and religious matters are number one that's where cruz really has an enormous lead over trump that is the difference. >> dickerson: so, if cruz is pulling from evangelical taking them away from ben carson, what is happening to the trump vote is he staying solid? >> rock steady. you look at those same individuals again reinterviewed they stay with donald trump. and his -- >> dickerson: you've been interviewing them over a period of time. there's been challenge after challenge the donald trump that could knock them off but they're sticking with him. >> they stick with him. as you see in your focus groups and others, everybody says, donald trump said something controversial, he must go down. surely donald trump will go down. he doesn't go down. voters stay

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valentino. >>> senators ted cruz and marco rubio go after each other a day after rhetorically duking it out in a primetime debate. senator cruz joins us, in moments. this is "special report." >>> good evening, and welcome to washington, debate fallout on the campaign trail. while clearly fielding some incoming fire, donald trump was not the unquestioned center of attention in the republican presidential race. instead two men with strikingly similar resumÉs, senators ted cruz and marco rubio are playing up their differences. on two issues. i'll speak with senator cruz from los angeles next. first let's get up to the minute on debate reaction. here's chief political correspondent carl cameron. >> the day after the he final debate of the year, donald trump declared himself the winner and in arizona talked border security and immigration. >> illegal immigration has caused tremendous crime. has caused tremendous deaths. >> last night he defended his temporary ban on muslim immigrants. >> we're not talking about religion, we're talking about security. >> jeb bush tried to lead the

never against legalization? sure, bob. it is simple. i oppose amnesty. marco rubio supports amnesty. i oppose citizenship. marco rubio supports citizenship. i oppose legalization. marco rubio support legalization. i opposed to the gang of eight bill. marco rubio authored and led the unsuccessful fight to pass the gang of eight bill. if you go back to when marco rubio was running for senate in florida, he promised the men and women of lorna, he said, i will leave the fight against amnesty. i promised the minimum women of texas the exact same thing. will leavet me, i the fight against amnesty. , everyone had to choose which side of the line they stood on. senator rubio, unfortunately, made the decision not to honor the promises he made to the minute women who elected him. instead he decided to stand with chuck schumer and barack obama and hillary clinton and the big-money interests in tohington and lead the fight pass amnesty. i made the decision to stand with jeff sessions and steve king and the american people, to lead the fight to defeat the rubio-schumer amnesty bill. >> [indiscer

. ted since marco rubio and cruz sparred over immigration, attacks, kept up pushing out quotes and videos from ted cruz's past showing him as inconsistent and hypocritical on whether undocumented immigrants might ever attain legal status. ted cruz is rolling out this new tv ad in iowa. >> securing our borders and stopping illegal immigration is a matter of national security. so hardhy i've fought to defeat president obama and his gang of eight. their plan would have given president obama the authority to admit syrian refugees, including terrorist. that is just wrong. we need to discover ronald reagan's strategy, we win and they lose. john: do you think ted cruz and his campaign are doing enough in the face of this marco rubio offensive on immigration? mark: they are not. the perception is marco rubio is doing well there. ted cruz is soaking up his base. the ted cruz people believe that marco rubiohat being part of the gang of eight will be worse than anything they pinned on ted cruz so far. when the marcong rubio people might regret making this an issue. substance, on the the merit

sunshine and highs back in the low 30s. his big bus had six iowa stops today. what marco rubio told me about critics who say he should have republican presidential candidate marco rubio spent his day in six iowa towns, including pella, newton and boone. rubio's making his iowa push...with just about five weeks left until the caucuses. but he's facing criticism for missing so much time in his day job...as a united states senator from florida. govtrack data show all of this campaigning makes rubio miss more votes than any other senator. rubio's missed 35 percent of the senate votes... kentucky senator rand paul...who's also running for president...has missed six percent. i rode along with rubio on his campaign today and asked him..in retrospect...whether he should have resigned his seat in the senate...since rubio...14:28 no. 1457...to the american people."? rubio's rival...texas senator ted cruz...has missed nearly one in four votes taken by the senate this year. fellow republican candidate jeb bush making a shift again in his campaign in iowa. the des moines register reports the bus

of the exchanges between ted cruz and marco rubio. they fought on the issues and largely fair. although i might disagree with the characterizations. but the immigration, military intervention, surveillance, those are the things that we have to sort through, through the lens of marco rubio and ted cruz you saw that beginning to happen. you could see the field coming down to those two. we got a look at what that might look like. >> and exchanges between rand paul and chris christie. >> and governor christie touched on it where he said if you are listening to these senators your ey eyes glaze over. what donald trump and governor christie were doing were delivering a message and the others were debating in a senorial fashion. the other folks are lost in the weeds. that said i think it was a great debate. i like to hear the weeds of policy stuff. i like to go through it and like to hear them do it. and one thing i would say about paul and the families, if you recall in the early 1980s, mr. gaddafi blew up a west german distech and killed a number of american servicemen. president r

. >> what's your name? >> juan rubio. >> 766399. >> injuries. >> right there to the nose. >> redness -- >> redness around the ear. it's all good. >> i don't have a statement. >> the report will read that juan rubio, currently in jail on charges including aggravated robbery, to which he has pled not guilty, was on his way to the recreation yard when he stopped for a drink of water. corporal odegaard then instructed him to hurry along. >> he turned, threw the water at me, struck me several times in the left side of my face. as he was striking me and i was defending myself, i was trying to deploy my taser. my second officer came running out here to assist. the whole thing lasted three to four seconds. >> three to four seconds that will have lasting repercussions for rubio. >> put your hands on top of your head. you understand? if you resist, rubio, you will be tased. do you understand me? >> yes, sir. >> by assaulting an officer, rubio has not only broken the law. he has also violated a bylaw of the mexican mafia, the gang to which prison officials say he belongs. >> the mexican mafia h

from holding back from hitting on ted cruz. marco rubio decided to take an entirely different strategy. he continued to hit those topics today in an e-mail to donors. rubio continued to trend on fox news. >> all this tough talk, ted up there saying he will destroy isis, anyone can say that, but what are you going to do it with? when you support a budget like he does that cuts defense spending, when you vote against every defense spending bill before you, how can you argue that the bill that pays for the military, how can you stand there and say that? i will destroy isis but i won't pay for it or support it. john: mark, the read on this between those two guys was that it was a draw. today there is still a draw, but more negative about rubio than cruz. i ask you on the basis of that performance last night in the assessment of it, what is rubio currently thinking? what is his current theory about how he can get past trump and cruz? mark: by being the last establishment candidate standing will still playing the game. christie is dead because if he rises up there will be too many negatives

any idea how senator rubio would have voted had he voted today and why didn't he? i don't know where he is. >> well, i do not know. i am not my brother's keeper. he was not in the senate, so i imagine he was somewhere raising funds or doing something else other than standing up against the washington cartel. >> how do you think he would have voted? >> no idea. >> none at all. >> that would be a question you'd have to ask him, but he didn't vote today. >> you and senator rubio have had a little bit of a spat recently over immigration. let me ask you one very narrow question. you can start on this. there are 11 to 12 million people illegally here in this country. what would you do with those 11 or 12 million people? you were asked at the debate, what would you do with them? >> i would enforce the law. what does federal law say? if you apprehend someone here illegally, you deport them. >> you would do a round up of 12 million people? >> if we crossed into another country, china, germany or france or mexico, they would deport us. why do american laws deserve less respect than our countri

strenuous terms they have on planned parenthood. marco rubio has still not commented. there is a price to pay silence and democrats have criticized him. but it suggests how complicated the co-mingling of the two issues are. john: according to all public polling, planned parenthood is one of the most popular institutions in america. i think it is the most popular institution. this emboldened democrats hillary clinton, and others, to side with planned parenthood. it will make it much harder and complicated for republicans, who thought they had a winning issue here, to exploit it. mark: particularly if you look at the biographies of the victims. john: including a cop. all right, donald trump celebrated his thanksgiving this year with a three-course meal of campaign flaps. he was going to be endorsed by 100 black pastors. many of those pastors just thought they were coming to a meeting with the donald and had no intention of endorsing him and said so. now the entree. trump has been doubling down on the controversial claims that he saw "thousands of muslims in new jersey celebrating after 9/11

there is marco rubio, jeb bush, carly fiorina, chris christie, john kasich and rand paul. as we said, donald trump is out in front. way out in front in some cases in national polls. the cnn poll of polls shows him at 33%. ted cruz in second place. marco rubio in third. in some polls, as i said, trump holds an even bigger lead. including this from monmouth university. trump at 41%. 27 points ahead of his closest rival. that would be ted cruz. this is one of many things that trump was bragging about at the raucous rally in las vegas. cnn's sara murray inside that loud hall. >> reporter: good morning, john. hours before the cnn debate campaigning here in las vegas last night, donald trump approached ted cruz with kid gloves. he could not help but mention the poll shows him far ahead. leading 41% to ted cruz's 14%. >> i heard today when they announced the poll. 41 to 14. i like cruz. good guy. here's how they announced. cruz surging. so what i heard is, this was on television, cruz surging. i said i don't know. that's sounds bad to me. coming up, cruz surging. then they said the monmouth

33%. ted cruz is now in second place in the poll of polls. marco rubio in third. trump ahead by double digits in most national polling. including this one from monmouth university has trump at 41%, 27 points ahead of ted cruz. this was just one of many things that trump was bragging about at a raucous rally here in las vegas overnight. cnn's sara murray brings us the latest on that. >> reporter: good morning, john. hours before the cnn debate, campaigning here in las vegas, nevada, donald trump approached ted cruz with kid gloves. he could not help but mention a monmouth university poll has him ahead. 41%. >> i heard today when they announced the poll. 41 to 14. here is how they announced. cruz surging. so what i heard is, this was on television, cruz surging. i said that sounds bad to me. coming up, cruz surging. then they say the monmouth poll was just done. trump 41. cruz, 14. i said what's going on. >> reporter: and there have been sharper elbows with trump and cruz, trump brought none of that last night. we will have to see if that carries over to the debate stage. donald t

bush, and then a tie for the bronze between rubio and cruz. carly fiorina had a good night. i brought your shirt tonight. she went after hillary more than anyone else, but i think chris christie did himself the most good last night. >> you had strong reaction. you were supposed to give me that t shirt, and you didn't. >> i brought it and you were gone. >> why does he have a hillary clinton t shirt? >> thank you very much. hugh had strong reaction after one question last night. listen to this. >> so you are okay with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians? it's like -- [ crowd booing ] >> you got it. >> can you be as ruthless as churchill was in prosecutoring the war against the nazis? >> ruthless is not the word i would use but tough, ret lose, understanding the problems, and understanding that the job of the president of the united states is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done. >> so hugh, what brought that on? what prompted that question? >> dr. carson is much loved because of his national day of prayer breakf

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marco rubio in iowa. >> about immigration or are you making a larger charge about ted honest and truthful? >> there are multiple issues. dickerson: jeb bush seems to have found his place by stepping up his attacks on donald trump. will it be enough to revive his campaign? we talked to him in new hampshire. >> someone needs to call him out. >> dickerson: we'll hear from focus group of muslims about donald trump. plus we'll have political from our battleground tracker. all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. democrats held a spirited debate last night in new hampshire sparred on the issues of wall street reform, foreign policy and health care. our new cbs news battleground tracker shows that haak is 5 1/4 points behind bernie sanders in the state of of new hampshire on prepare kay can side with 2%. kid trusses follows with 14. marco rubio at 1 and chris christie moved up into fourth place with 11%. the rest of the field is in single digits. during the iowa, it's senator ted cruz who some has taken th

smaller number, that's how marco rubio is doing with tea party voters in south carolina. that is pretty bad for him. of all these numerical representations, which stands for you the most? mark: i am lonely voice in saying that ben carson can have a second act. what stands out is ben carson is holding on to some support. he is around 12 or 14 in these polls. to beat donald trump, the person in the best position is ted cruz. ben carson will need to collapse even more, because that is where ted cruz can find his additional votes. as long as carson is holding onto double digits, it is harder for ted cruz to get to trump. john: there is a man, haley barbour said good gets better and bad gets worse. i think ben carson is caught in the bad it's worth scenario -- gets worse scenario. if you turn it around, it makes my case for why carson is done. he doesn't just have to get over trump. he has to get over ted cruz, too. mark: what stands out for me is that haley barbour also said that in politics things are never as good or bad as they seem. ben carson has not collapsed. what stands out to me is

. ♪ on the show tonight, cruz's polls, rubio's trolls, and kasich's goals. first, trump's role. since we last discussed trump versus clinton, he escalated his hits on clinton last night in walker, michigan. he had choice words for the democratic front runner that has been the talk of the political world all day. mr. trump: she is terrible. donald trump is on video and isis is using him on the video to recruit. it turned out to be a lie. she is a liar. it turned out to the a lie. where did hillary go? they have to start the debate without her, phase two. i know where she went. it is disgusting. i don't want to talk about it. hillary, that is not a president. everything that has been involved with hillary has been lawsuits. she was favorite to win. favored to win. mark: did i mention oy vey? this morning, mr. trump kept it up on an interview with "fox and friends." mr. trump: she lied and she got caught in one of her lies. one of her people said there was no video. she lies so much. whether it is her trips being shot down and it turned out it did not happen. whitewater was a total lie.

follows with 14. marco rubio at 1 and chris christie moved up into fourth place with 11%. single digits. during the iowa, it's senator ted cruz who some has taken the lead with 40% support. donald trump is at 31. marco rubio at 12 and ben carson plummeted down to 6%. rest of the field 2% or below. friday we traveled to iowa and met up with marco rubio, w w asked him abut his escalating battle ted cruz. senator, what street this debate between you and senator cruz about on immigration? >> well, ted was much -- in fact was supporter legalizing people that were in this country illegally, he was during the debate he was after the debate. he made it clear multiplpl occasions that he was against citizenship but open to legalization. and then for weeks now on campaign trail he's refuses to answer that question until the other night where he said that he did not intend to legalize people. again trying to find himself some wiggle room. so the bottom line, there isn't him and i on how to approach immigration. that was the point i was trying to make, this is serious issue that needs to be fronted,

pac's. >> they are corrupt. they are totally controlled. bush and rubio and i won't say cruz, because he has been very nice. he has got to hit me first. once he hits me, i promise you -- [laughter] cruz-trump they told has been in place for month, but it is growing increasingly fragile. in the long run, do you think his strategy of going lightly on donald trump will pay off? he is happyk the the detente has lasted. we have one poll showing that cruz is ahead in iowa. if he is willing to lose iowa, he probably likes the detente. in the end, trump doesn't think you will lose the nomination to cruz. in the end, the only way this'll pay off as if ted cruz becomes the nominee and donald trump eventually collapses. if that doesn't happen it will not have paid off. iowa is the kink in the plan here. mark: it will be very hard for cruz to strike first. iowa,if ted cruz wins in donald trump may regret not having gone after him. cruz wills him there, regret having taken the approach he has taken. mark: right now, they are both happy. they both think they can win, so i think the detente will las

rubio did quite well. chris christie had a pretty good performance. you have seen his numbers jump up. but i don't think it was a game changer. i don't think we'll see a major shift in the polls. i don't think that carson had a good night. he has been in a free fall. we're going to see trump stay on top and cruz going to stay on top or at least be a close second if not on top in iowa. >> not enough to affect bush in either way? >> by far it was his best performance. but honestly, that's not saying much. he had really poor performances in the first four. he was good last night. he took on trump. trump had a good comeback with basically saying scoreboard i'm up 42-3 on you. bush said it doesn't matter but it does matter of course. bush had a good night but you wonder if it is too late for bush. donors are getting nervous. he has to do very well in new hampshire. he is not doing well in new hampshire. we're going into the holidays. it's hard to make another move. but a good night for bush. you just wonder, can he make this huge political comeback? he has a long way to go. >> the sharpest

traditional candidates, among the rubio, christie, bush. that will help them going forward if one of them gets 10%, 15%. >> here's the other thing, when we talk about the field expanding and universe expabding in 20008, barack obama had an intensive data organization as well. >> that's right. >> one thing to say i'm at a pizza ranch or the guy who organized saner to run's win in 2012, he does not have, as far as we know, data-driven targeted operation to find those people who have not turned out before. >> who does have the best organization? i mean, is it cruz? >> trump's organization is better than people think, that's always the line you hear. >> yep. >> and frankly what i've seen. >> yep. >> but it doesn't seem to be the way a winning caucus campaign would look like. >> we'll have to see. it's different. i've sat down with chuck lauder in who ran santorum's caucus campaign. he said the people in a walmart parking lot, not necessarily people in churches, but as a people who may have moved to iowa who are disengaged from politics. and that's where the trump campaign has been solici

on new years day. it's not an award... but some political insiders say marco rubio won the g-o-p debate last night. and he was up bright and early this morning to get back on the campaign trail. coming up...where he met with iowans...and the somber tone he took with the discussion. plus...it's a first in nearly a decade. the increase the federal reserve implemented today...and some of the things it'll impact. plus...it's a unique holiday concert that you won't see anywhere else. hear the performance and find out why there is more to this choir it was a late night for the republican presidential candidates at the debate in las vegas. one thing for for sure...marco rubio didn't get much shut eye. that's because by nine o'clock this morning he had already made his way to iowa. some insiders are calling rubio one of the winners of the main stage event. but he didn't have much of a celebratory mood this morning in ankeny. that's where our political director dave price caught up with him... dave? this was a somber speech. the crowd clapped when rubio was introduced at the beginning of

something that needs to be done besides just cutting the funding? sen. rubio: the only way to get rid of obama care is to pass a law that repeals it. when i'm president, i will sign that law. we can get around the filibuster in the senate. we can repeal it the same way they passed it. with a process called reconciliation, you don't need to know all the legalese a use in washington. we will have a majority in the house and senate that will pass it and i will sign it and obamacare will be gone. then every american will be given the opportunity to buy any insurance they want from across state lines. whether it's a refundable tax credit or money from your employer that you don't pay taxes on, you will be able to use it to pay for health insurance the way you want to pay for it. some people want a health savings account. others want catastrophic coverage. they can buy it from any company in america that will sell it to them. it will be better for you and better or america. >> as president marco rubio, which i would like to see, how are we going to balance approximately soon to be $20 trillion

the silver went to jeb bush and there was a tie for bronze between marco rubio and ted cruz. i was in the green room with carly fiorina. she had a good night. she is the only one to bring up the person i can't talk about on your show. she went after hillary more than anyone else. but chris christie did himself the most good last night. >> let's continue on with that. you had strong reaction. you were supposed to give me that t-shirt and you didn't. >> i want to know why he has a hillary t-shirt. >> thank you very much. hugh, you had strong reactions after one question last night. >> so you are okay with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians? it's like -- >> you got it. you got it. >> that is what war -- can you be as ruthless as churchill was? >> ruthless is not necessarily the word i would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are and understanding that the job of the president of the united states is to protect the people of this country and do what is necessary in order to get it done. >> what prompted that question? >> dr. carson is much

point. the poll finds a five-point drop for senator marco rubio. and ben carson falling six point to 10%. no other candidates gets above 6%. >> let's look at these numbers first. nick, obviously, we have been talking about it around the table for about a week now. this person starting to move towards a two-person race between trump and cruz. that battle between rubio and cruz at least right now going into the new year ted cruz wanted in a big way and this poll suggests marco rubio, the big loser. >> also the establishment that we've been talking about for months and months and months. the establishment lane. it is awfully narrow. it is not a very big lane. the anti-establishment lane that cruz and trump is in is huge. over half the party. >> you add ben carson's ten percentage points and up 60%. almost two out of three republican voters now are anti-establishment. this whole idea that we'll cobble together jeb's numbers and kasich and you may get 20 out of that. >> seems pretty weak right now. on the other hand, it is narrowing in that lane. there are fewer candidates and lindsey gra

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, marco rubio, ben carson, jeb bush, rand paul, and kasich. but the real story of the night was the show down between gop front runners donald trump and ted cruz. trailing mr. cruz in the caucus state of iowa mr. trump went on the offense. who was the most aggressive? >> i think rand paul was most aggressive. chris christie saying this guy is going to lead us into world war iii. i think there were aggressive folks as well. the key question is the real division in the republican over syria which would involve the united states shooting down syrian planes and shooting down jeb bush is there, chris christie is there, kasich is there and one of the others is there. and trump and cruz are very much for keeping assad in power and not letting isis get there. so you have a tremendous division in foreign policy in the republican party that really revealed itself in an excellent and exciting debate. >> if rand paul wasn't there you wouldn't have had the doveish side if you will. i don't think the debate changed the shape of the race, but i think it does clarify where some of the candidates ar

colleague got some time to talk to ted cruz who went to the farthest he is gone so far in attacking rubio. >> with libya, president obama and hillary clinton led the effort to topple gadhafi. they led the nato bombings against qaddafi. you asked about senator rubio. senator rubio emphatically supported hillary clinton and toppling qadhafi a in libya. i think that made no sense. in syria, obama and hillary clinton and senator rubio are repeating the same as stakes -- the same mistakes they made in libya. mark: we will talk more about that conversation later. for now, ted cruz is hitting rubio from the left and the right in terms of the politics and policies of this. has he threaded the needle between nonintervention and neoconservative? >> that clip that we played is reflective of what his comments are more broadly. if you read those comments, that can be rand paul. i get that he is trying to thread the needle of trying to be strong but right now i was , struck by this interview and by previous things he said. about how far into the restraint corner, noninterventionist corner he is putting

to stick to the substance. >> marco rubio is painting him as an isolationist. >> he's not an isolationist and nobody believes he's an isolationist. ted cruz is a conservative. the polls, the des moines register show more voters in iowa see ted cruz as their commander in chief. they say he has the right temperament and the most favorability rating. a lot of surprises that come out of the poll that veterans the establishment in washington befuddled. >> you have been playing a long ground game. >> yes. >> you've been preparing for this. when you look at most recent polls for those people still supporting dr. carson, their second choice is ted cruz. there's a lot of people who still could go to the ted cruz camp. what do you think has been working best for you? i mean everyone says you have a great ground game in iowa, even in south carolina, and other southern states. >> we've been working hard in iowa. 3800 volunteers, 170,000 nationally. our people want to be found. they want a conservative to lead and they see that in ted cruz. we've got all 99 county chairs named, a lot of h

the middle east. go after isis with bombing. you have kasich, christie, bush and rubio on the other side. what does this tell you about republican foreign policy? >> this is a divide, a split that's long been in the making. you can see there's always been a weighi iwing of the republica that believes the best policy is staying away from these where there is no good outcome. the bebadebate happened in vega. you heard that if you just leave the middle east alone, it will let you alone. the vegas rule applies. what happens there stays there. what you hear from people like governor christie and senator rubio is an understanding that simply staying away isn't going to help us because these problems end up haunting us as they are haunting the europeans with a refugee crisis and rise and spread of isis. it's not really an option for american foreign policy to say let the middle east burn each other out and it would leave us untouched. >> you heard it from senator cruz in particular and donald trump is sort of there. you can bomb isis and that will take care of it and that will be enough. c

a graphic we can put up in order. we have john kasich, carly fiorina, marco rubio, ben carson, trump, ted cruz, jeb bush, and corpus christi and rand paul. this is a return to the main prime time stage for chris christie. you'll remember he had low poll numbers that kept him out of the debate on fox business news. that second tier debate, one that's happening earlier at 6:00 p.m., that's going to be george pataki, mike huckabee, rick santorum, and lindsey graham. so a big production on tuesday night. 17 cameras. there's going to be an invite-only audience of about 1,400 people filling this theater. as you mentioned, john, a lot is at stake here. this is the last opportunity these candidates have to try and make a strong impression on voters heading into the holiday season when a lot of them tune out. it could be one of the most important debates of the year, so we'll be watching to see who hits whom on national security and who has a breakthrough performance that could give their candidate and their campaign new life. john? >> absolutely. the timing here is crucial. athena jon

aboard marco rubio's presidential campaign bus as it made its way across iowa. the bus made six iowa stops today. rubio...a florida senator...has faced criticism for missing more than a third of the votes in the senate this year as he runs for president. we asked his wife what she makes of critics who claim rubio's more focused on the next job...rather than the one taxpayers pay him to do now. rubio....1515 no. marco's 1532...fast as you can." senator rubio told us he's congress does isn't meaningful or is already predetermined...wit hout his vote. the democrats are also pounding the pavement... bernie sanders meeting with voters at a packed town hall in keokuk this afternoon. he says his campaign is gaining momentum in the early voting states.. and he's ready to spring a major upset in the race. sanders is polling second to hillary clinton... who will be in iowa next week.. fellow democrat martin o'malley is also on the ground in iowa... he wen't door knocking today in beaverdale... with son william by his side. o'malley knocked on 12 doors... three people answered. channel 13's and

you have kasich, christie, bush and rubio on the other side. what does it tell you about republican foreign policy? >> well, that is divide, a split that's a long time in the making. there is always a wing of the republican party that believe it is best policy is staying away from these con florida immigrations where there seems to be no good outcome. there is an irony that the debate happened in vegas. what you heard from guys like trump and paul is an idea that you just leave the middle east alone and it will let you alone. that the vegas rule applies. what happens there stays there. what you were hearing from governor christie, senator marco rubio is an understanding that simply staying away isn't going to help us. these problems end up haunting us as they haunt the europeans with the refugee crisis, with a rise and spread of isis. so it's really not an option for american foreign policile to say, okay, let the middle east burn itself out and it will leave us untouched. >> the idea is you heard it from senator cruz in particular. donald trump is there. you can bomb isis. you can

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target tomorrow night. and not just for trump. senator marco rubio is drawing attention to cruz' voting record. a accusing him of being weak on national security. >> i guess my point is each time he's had to choose between strong national defense and the isolationist tendencies in american politics he seems to side with the isolationists. >> reporter: he hopes to convince voters he's more electable. in a hypothetical head to head match- match-up, hillary clinton crushes trump 50% to 40%. she's 48% to 45% over cruz. but a different story for marco rubio. he leads her 48% to 45%. and that is the underlying question in this entire campaign. which republican is best positioned to beat hillary clinton or whichever democrat happens to win the nomination? that's what worries some republican leaders in the party establishment, is donald trump strong enough to take on hillary clinton in the general election? it's one of the questions that may be answered at the debate on tuesday night. >> jeff zeleny, cnn, las vegas. >>> throughout this gop primary there has been a lot of talk about a ci

talks. senator marco rubio was an exclusive guest of chuck on sunday's "meet the press." part of their conversation focused on national security and fighting isis. here's a brand-new part of that interview. it's not been seen on television. >> you've used the phrase class of civilizations. president bush went out of his way to say, don't call it a clash of civilizations. do you regret that phrase? >> no. if you interpret that phrase as meaning world war with islam and all muslims, it's not what i'm saying, and it's ridiculous. >> that's what isis might do, take your phrase and say, aha, see, the americans want a clash of civilizations. >> they may warp anything we say. but it's a clash between isis, their vision of the future and what they're promising, this global caliphate, in which everyone must agree with their theology or die. and the rest of the world, who refuse to live under those rules. it's a war between us, the peace and freedom-loving people of this planet and this radical ideology that's taken root not only in isis, but al qaeda and the other groups in the region. it

. ally. how can the u.s. help its new partners on the ground? cruz versus rubio. they have all scores to settle and now the battle for second place in the republican campaign is turning into an all-out war between the two senators. and putin's pick. russia's president is full of praise for republican front-runner donald trump who's also tossed some compliments putin's way. do the two share similar views on leadership? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> the breaking news more than two weeks after the san bernardino attack and just days after the bodies of the husband and wife terrorists were buried, the childhood friend of one of the killers is now under arrest on multiple charges including material support for terrorism. officials say enrique marquez has admitted to building pipe bombs in the past with syed farook and giving him the rifles later used in the massacre. meantime, investigators probing the terror attacks now believe the terrorists used encrypted apps to hide their plot. and we're learning two of the attackers and mastermin

they were supporting lindsey graham. biggest beneficiaries of this our guys like rubio and probably john kasich and chris christie. put about the state senator graham represents. although the southern states expect to benefit, graham himself was aligned with a lot of the candidates. they are the ones likely to benefit. >> will kind of reaction did announcementm's have for those on capitol hill and those watching the race. daniel: you have to remember that he never really polled very well. there was a sense this was inevitable. he ran an issue based campaign. to necessarily really win, but to move the an isolationist view on foreign policy. host: what role does graham envisioned for himself now that he has stepped away? daniel: mostly a someone who can wield the endorsement. impact who can make an on the south carolina republican primary. it doesn't look like this will end anytime soon. a south carolina endorsement like his would be very valuable. that is there any chance his dropping out might motivate others on the republican card to stop their campaigns? daniel: i really doubt it.

to senator rubio after that and ask him. >> i think, to me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me. >> senator rubio, do you have a response? >> i do. first, let's explain to people at home what the triad is. maybe a lot of people haven't heard that terminology before. >> reporter: there was another sensitive moment during the debate when senator rubio seemed to imply that senator cruz had revealed classified details about government phone surveillance programs. we learned today that the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, senator richard burr, will not be investigating any statements from the republican debate. anderson? >> jim, thanks very much. perspective now on what voters expect in a candidate, or for that matter, commander in chief. joining us, "washington post" syndicated columnist and conservative, kathleen parker. also, carl bernstein, a "washington post" legend. and retired army lieutenant governor, mark hertling. you heard the report there. does it matter whether donald trump knows what the nuclear triad refers to? >> well,

bucks. but bush has done nothing but move backward this year. marco rubio and his super pac, they have spent $20 million. rubio is looking for the kind of traction that trump and cruz have. the campaign started with everyone saying money matter more than ever. that billionaire donors would pick presidential winners and losers that citizens united had redefined campaigning. well, here we are and so far, money has mattered very little in this race. so why has spending had an almost inverse relationship with support in the polls? no doubt media attention is a factor. trump has spent little of his own money, but he hasn't been absent from the air waves. he finds ways to get on television and blankets social media with personal media and clips that cost him nothing to post. he does it by relying on talking points kind of language you see from more seasoned language. to a lesser degree for now, cruz has achieved the same effect, but all without the kind of free media time that trump thrives on. the establishment endorsements are a pretty good predictor of who will get the nomination, and rig