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and months. what s your sense, who do you think will break through, there things get more combative tomorrow night? it s like a knesset debate. only way to get more interesting if jeffrey probst shows up and survivor breaks out. ready for jake to blow the whistle and go at each other and that will make for a very, very interesting couple of hours tomorrow. donald trump, as you well know,ccused you of got ya questioning when you asked him specific questions on national security foreign policies about to deliver a major speech on national security in a couple of hours. how do you think that dynamic will play out tomorrow night? well, i ve talked to donald trump since then and we re good. he did mishear quds, kurds, that s a problem that happens with transmission. he didn t know the difference between hamas and hezbollah.
whether it s at the speech tonight or on the debate stage. wolf? we ll see how he does. thanks very much for that, sara murray. while donald trump s big brash personality certainly is gaining him lots of attention, dr. ben carson is quietly closing the gap. joining us now is dr. carson s campaign manager, barry bennett. thanks very much for joining us. let s talk about what s going on, your candidate surging, to use that word in the polls. new cbs news/ new york times poll, jumped, what, 17 percentage points nationally ll among republican primary voters since last month alone in the early state of new hampshire. he rocketed 5% before the first debate to 17%. today, just getting ready for this debate. he was quiet in the last debate, you know. do you really expect him to engage the others on stage this time? walk us through his strategy. ben is going to be ben and doned is going to be donald.
$100 to $1,000 if you want the premium seats. if you re a member of the military, however, you get in for free. wolf? and this has been a major cause on donald trump s part, raising money for u.s. military veterans. stand by for his big speech on national security. let s get more on what s going on. joining us the communications director sean spicer. thanks very much for joining us. you can t help but i saw you smiling during a lot of those clips we aired of donald trump and the others. this has been pretty exciting so far. this is amazing. this debate will be truly exciting. you see the level of enthusiasm building up for this. the number of tweets over 2 million people tweeting leading up to this debate which is a huge increase over the last debate. the excitement continues to grow. the number of people that are going to tune in i expect will be equal or around what we saw the last time because people are excited about what s happening
trump is about to deliver a national security speech from the deck of a former battleship, the uss iowa now a museum here in southern california, where he may test out some of the lines for tomorrow night s debate. now trump is facing increased competition from the famed neurosurgeon dr. ben carson who surged in a new nationwide poll of republicans. it shows him up from 6% to 23% just four points behind trump nationwide among republicans, but the numbers for jeb bush are much more troubling. that same poll shows him far behind, tied for third place. now a super pac backing the former florida governor is spending $24 million on ads in key states hoping to boost bush s ratings right now. cnn s john berman begins our coverage right now. what s happening with the republican candidates on this, the eve of this huge debate? wolf, last-second