you re saying because of the evolution of how terrorists are carrying out their activities, that perhaps the changes, whether it be immigration, whether it be homeland security, fbi, all those changes are going to have to come even more readily? years can not pass, but it ha to be a matter of days or weeks where changes have to take place? exactly right, fredricka. here s the challenge. when we actually look at the time frame of most of these terrorists, although not in the san bernardino case, they are going online, becoming radicalized, planning their attacks, purchasing weapons, and then launching attacks in months. so we can t be, you know, analyzing this for two or three years about whether we should start to look at social media. we are our runlway from a government position is very, very short given how short it is now for people to become radicalized. you re exactly right that we have to become more nimble because certainly those who would attack are much more nimble than w
how can they convince us the u.s. will be in better hands and safer hands and cut off the kind of threat so many people are anxious about today? so in the past, as you well know, ted cruz and marco rubio have both distinguished themselves as smooth debaters, they know their stuff. ted cruz is very smart, very crafty. he s run a very smart campaign in iowa. but now that the spotlight is on him, his opponents say he s too arrogant, he doesn t work well within the system. people will start pushing him on those issues a lot more has suddenly become, as i say, the man to watch. what about donald trump? what do you think he does differently if anything? we talk about cruz vaulting into first place. trump s numbers have inched up in iowa, in the des moines register poll, gone up in the nbc news/washington journal poll. nothing has slipped as far as he s concerned. do you think he changes anything tuesday night? i think he s under more
i think she s exactly right that they are evenly matched. it comes down to pure debating skills, though, ted cruz is really without peer in american politics. off guy who s been in front of the supreme court umpteen million times and won umpteen million and two. he s very, very tough to debate. i do think that really on rubio now. we came out of that last debate, it was rubio, rubio, rubio. it was like ted cruz wasn t even there. now you come back. this flip, it s reversed. rubio has got to figure out a way to assert himself that, listen, if you re trying to leave trump toll safer water, leading ben carson to safer water, i m the safe guy. i know how to keep you safe. not this guy. if he can figure out a way to do it, he could pull it off. but to go he to head with ted cruz, who you know is going to be meticulously well prepared, who s going to have this place ready to go, dangerous for rubio, but he has to do it. i disagree. i think ted cruz was vizable in
this is where it all happens, the venetian las vegas, the site of the last republican primary debate of 2015. it is only here on cnn. it is such an important moment in this campaign. the first debate after the attacks in paris, the first debate since the attacks in san bernardino, and national security will be the focus here on tuesday. as for the debate stage itself in the venetian theater behind me, donald trump will be center stage on the main stage, but this time, ted cruz will be standing right next to him. this is the first time cruz has moved to the center shift based on the polling like this one from the des moines register out this weekend that shows ted cruz moving into first place by a lot, a ten-point lead over donald trump in iowa. nationwide druch is still out