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permanently. a day from the third republican debate, it is all happening on cnbc in boulder, colorado. dr. ben carson will walk to the podium tomorrow night at the new front-runner according to cbs news and the new york times with him five points ahead of donald trump now in second place. regardless, it s the first national poll since july that has someone other than the donald in first. trump s attacks on carson ratcheted up as carson s appeal grown. most recently, taking the lead in four successive iowa caucus polls. today on morning joe, trump hit dr. carson on abortion and here on the topic of medicare. ben wants to knock out medicare. i heard that over the weekend. abolish medicare. and i think, you know, abolishing medicare, i don t think you re going to get away with that one. it s actually a program that s worked. so it s a program that some people love, actually. so joining me from boulder, colorado, nbc news correspondent halle jackson, with me political
last week when that army major, sergeant major, was killed in that operation. really is very nuanced language that we re using here. absolutely. we will continue to watch this. thank you. appreciate it. chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. now we are moving on to talk about the one day, that s all that s left until the third republican debate on our sister network, cnbc. the grand old party has a new front-runner, ben carson leading the pack with 26% according to the new york times and cbs news. the first time since july that donald trump has not led nationally. he s now in second place on the right. the poll comes as four different polls show trump losing his lead to carson among iowa caucus goers. this morning trump appeared on msnbc s morning joe via telephone where he continued his line of attack against dr. carson, this time on the subject of abortion which carson got himself in a bit of trouble with on meet the press this weekend. ben was he was pro-ab
know him personally but that s what i have been told and all of a sudden he s so hard on abortion under no circumstances virtually can there be exceptions, and you say well, how does that happen, where you re pro and not long ago, by the way, then all of a sudden you can t even have exceptions. so that s an unusual stance and i think people will look at that. msnbc s kasey hunt and cnbc s sharon epperson come to us from boulder, colorado, the site of tomorrow s debate. great to see you. i want to start with you, sharon, because the debate will be focused on the economy but will there be a shift with the major headlines we are seeing for military policy for iraq and syria and also about women s reproductive rights, as donald trump brings up? is there going to be a time for question and answer on that? well, i think there s been a lot of discussion about that and we are definitely listening to that as you just played. what we re focused on on the cnbc debate is the economy as you tal