bush at $13.4 million and cruz with $12.2. chris christie, donald trump, and rand paul are trailing. donald trump is funding his own campaign so he is not as dependented. rand paul was on america s newsroom earlier saying he is not going anywhere. the leader don t indicate the winner. we should not exclude people who are not in the lead right now. i believe the leaders in the republican primary will not be those leading currently. jenna: we have a former communication director chris van hall and david valles, chairman of co-pack, on organization that raises money for the gop cana candidates. david, you are close to the issue. who do you think is at the most risk?
there is a lot of excitement at the small dollar grass root level. hillary clinton with $400,000. ben carson is doing a good job. there is a lot of excitement between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. i think if you look at the big picture, you have to be impressed with the excitement out there on the democratic side. and i think long-term, david mentioned a good point about the ground troops. what i think is interesting is the fact that jeb bush spent a good deal of money. his burn rate was almost 90% and he only has a handful of staffers in iowa and new hampshire and that is not good enough if he want to win in january and february. long-term i agree about the ground troops. i think it is important. we will see where the investments are made. we haven t started into campaign season where we will see the commercials and everything else. it will be interesting to see
where the money goes. david and greg, great to have you both. jenna: hillary clinton s close aid huma abedin is on capitol hill answering questions behind closed doors in front of the house select committee on benghazi. abedin has been a fixture at clinton s side for years. one committee member says abedin is being questioned about the events before, during and after the events on the attack of the con consolate. jenna: we will watch for anything out on that on capitol hill. breaking news on donald trump and his fight over the next republican debate. our media panel weighs in on this. have you seen something like this before? and crews battling a raging wild
attack at the tomb of joseph on the west bank. john is live with more in jerusalem. reporter: there has been clashes here in bethlehem in the west bank. the wall is to the right of the camera. the best west bank wall. is coming out and firing tear gas every once in a while. it goes out and has 30 tubes of fire of canisters and creates a smoke screen as the troops push forward to push the rioters back. this has been going on all day since we got here. every now and again we get a burst of wind that comes our way and pushes the tear gas toward us. it stings the high and burns the throat. what happened earlier was the rioters were much closer to us. they were right around those trash dumpsters and created their own smoke screen as they sling shot rocks. really large size ones and marbles at us. i got hit by a couple of those and they sting because they carry when they bounce and hit you in the leg. all of this escalated. this is just one of many clashes as the violence conti