new polling from iowa shows us half of republican primary voter there s have not made up their minds yet. polling out of new hampshire shows just one in three republican primary voters are locked in on who they plan to support. still lots of votes to move there. sarah murray, cnn, washington. well, u.s. presidential candidate rand paul says he will not take part in the next republican debate thursday in south carolina. the main event will feature ohio governor jon kasich, chris christie, marco rubio, donald trump, ted cruz, retired neurosurgeon ben carson and former florida governor jeb bush. carly fiorina and mike huckabee and rick santorum have been invited to the undercard debate. we do not believe anybody would characterize our campaign as anything other than first tier. we are going to be in the ballot on every state. and we just announced the other
prohibitive favorite. it s an awful high bar for her to meet to be a prohibitive favorite. i don t think she ever thought tre she was a prohibitive favorite. i think everything is coming down the aearth, settling in bu i don t think it s over. if hillary clinton was to lose new hampshire, is there any way you would possibly take another look at this race? no. first of all, even if hillary loses both, i haven t thought this through, it s a long way to go to the nomination. and you know, so it s one thing theoretically to win both of those. go to south carolina, it s going to be a pretty rough sledding down there for bernie and for and another guy who is in it. o malley. he s a qualified guy. this guy is a serious governor. you re closing the door. no, i don t think i don t
brutality, but that brutality brings security. the villagers will take security despite the fact that our girls can t go. to school. and that s why also officials in helmand province are warning it could fall to the taliban. thank you. coming up next, was it a message that went too far. the nra posting a photo showing bullets next to these photos of two new york lawmakers. some are calling this a vailed threat. we ll speak with one of them. also cruz attacks rubio, jeb bush taking on kasich, the political knives are out in a wave of new attack ads. why aren t any of them directed at the republican front runner? we ll discuss that, coming up. this is brad.
sound like the character james played in the godfather. he s not getting better. that s the problem. there isn t a lot there. i thought his counterpunch on kasich was terrific. he tied him to lehman brothers saying you used to be mr. nice guy not attacking anyone. what are you doing now? that sounded great. trump sounded reasonable opening immigration for high tech high skilled immigrants. sound good. what about ben carson? first time at center stage in this debate. more eyes on him. how did he do? normal low-key self. that s not necessarily bad for him. a lot of people are attracted to what they view as his common sense approach. i think his problem and we re seeing this again and again in debates and we saw it again that night is when faced with serious policy questions, he comes across as befuddled.
matters. i think it s inappropriate to attack. i don t think calling somebody out for their bad record or what they are doing is unpresidential or inappropriate. you saw the impact trump had on kasich with the lehman brother association. if you can t confront marco rubio, how are you going to confront vladimir putin? thank you all. we could go on forever. and we will. and we will. now in a stunning reversal, the obama administration says it will send u.s. special operators into syria on the ground. colonel ralph peters will explainmr what this means. also what this means for the upcoming presidential election. that and m