Kicking off the gop debate before the Iowa Caucuses just a sevenminute drive from where trump is holding his event. Trump is boycotting the fox news debate because of what he claims was unfair treatment by fox host megyn kelly. Before Donald Trumps rise the notion that a gop frontrunner could defy fox news would have been unthinkable. Trump has chosen to pick a fight with the most powerful figure on the right. Hes starting with his role on Richard Nixons campaign has crafted it in his on domineering image. In trump, ales appears to have met his match, a bully more brutal than he is. Consider what played out lanigh on fox news when bill asked donald trump over and over, begging to reconsider his debate boycott. Despite him having agreed not to make the request. Will you just consider, i want you to consider, think about it, i might come back. Forgive, go forward, answer the questions, look out for the folks. Just want you to consider it. I told you up front, i said dont ask me that ques
Second screen experience. Search fox news debate on goggle any time in the next two hours to access exclusive content. You can see the campaigns respond to the debate in realtime and you can weigh in by voting on the tompics being discussed. Just go to google. Com. Google sees political searches spike during televised president ial debates, no surprise there. But they spike by more than 440 on average, as voters across america seek to learn more about whats happening on the live debate stage. Seven candidates are on that stage tonight. Their position on the stage determined by their standing in the latest national polls. As well as polls in iowa and new hampshire. And here they are. Texas senator ted cruz. [ applause ] florida senator marco rubio. [ applause ] dr. Ben carson. [ applause ] former Florida Governor jeb bush. [ applause ] new jersey governor chris christie. [ applause ] Ohio Governor john kasich. [ applause ] and kentucky senator rand paul. [ applause ] apparently iowa is
Against west, Iranian State tv showing off an underground missile depot. In it missiles the u. S. Believes are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Must not have been covered by the deal. This comes just days after iran shot a rocket dangerously close to a u. S. Warship. As we reported on the show last night, despite the end of the afghanistan war, remember we were told its over. No more combat. Our troops are engaged in an increasingly dangerous operation there. Just yesterday one soldier was killed. Others were injured. And our fighters even surrounded by the enemy at one point. Until a team managed to rescue them. The taliban now controls more territory than at any time since 2001. All the gains given back. Then the crisis in syria. Today an Associated Press report suggesting that the Obama Administration feels the best regime change there wont come before 2017. More than five years after president obama called on president assad to leave power. President obama will leave power bef
It . Were going to keep that conversation going tonight to try to get answers from people on both sides of this debate. Im glad you joined us tonight. Its going to be a great conversation all around here. President barack obama answering his critics tonight. A gun executive, a sheriff, a rape survivor and a widow among them. I want to bring in Anderson Cooper who moderated that and had great questions. Anderson, im so glad that youre here. It was an emotional hour. The president tried to speak to his critics in the audience and to the nra who chose not to come. Lets listen. For the gun owners who are in attendance here. My suspicion is that you had to go through a background check. And it didnt prevent you from getting a weapon. And the notion that you should have to do that but there are a whole bunch of folks who are less responsible than you who dont have to do it doesnt make much sense. Part of the reason i welcomed this opportunity by cnn to have a good discussion and debate about
Orly taitz is on the case. He said he had a birth certificate. So why wouldnt you provide it . When all in starts right now. Good evening. From new york. Im chris hayes. Last nights debate made painfully clear what has slowly been dawning on the Republican Party. Just over two weeks until the iowa caucuses. Donald trump is setting the terms of the race. He is the man to beat. And to the extent that anyone else in the field can stop him, the only one putting up a real fight is the one candidate the establishment seems to like even less than donald trump. Ted cruz, who last night went head to head with trump for the very first time. New polling out yesterday shows exactly what the stewards of the gops electoral chances have to be worried about. In a threeway race between trump, cruz, and establishment favorite marco rubio, rubio finishes third while trump and cruz get a combined 71 of republican support. That was pretty much the dynamic on stage last night, with trump and cruz trading sh