Top story china has deployed surface to air missiles in the welcome back everybody. South china sea. The move will raise tensions youre watching cnn newsroom. Further with neighboring countries locked in a lets get you caught up on territoriterritor the latest in the u. S. Territorial feud in the region. President ial race. President obama discussed the donald trump is brushing off president obamas prediction need to peacefully resolve about his chances of winning the white house. Mr. Obama said trump wont win issues in this disputed area. The presidency because its a we discuss the need to lower serious job, not a talk show or tensions including a halt to reality show and American Voters further rek mash and new are sensible. This man has done such a bad construction and millization of job, he has set us back so far disputed areas. And for him to say that is a lawful commerce should not be great compliment. Repeated. The u. S. Will continue to fly, republican president ial sale and op
Cheney, mr. Spock for the death of Justice Scalia at age 79. Which president ial candidate added tin foil to the proverbial hat . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news. Brandnew cnn polls laying out the state of the race in South Carolina as the republicans like to say, South Carolina picks president s. So if your name is donald j. Trump you might be grinning, four days before republicans vote in the palmetto state you have a big lead there. Hillary clinton also has a big lead, but with more than a week until South Carolina democrats flood the poll, so many undecided democrats, a sanders supporter, might, might see some evidence all is not yet lost. Dana bash with the poll numbers, ted cruz and jeb bush have been going after donald trump ever since his victory in new hampshire. But none of the attacks against him seem to have affected his standings of the polls in South Carolina. Not as of right now. This is a huge lead, to yoet qu the
Ronald reagan. He challenged gerald in 1976. Ford did win in 1976 and he went onto lose the general election to jimmy carter. The Republican Party by 1980 was of the general opinion that Ronald Reagan was due. Ronald reagan was next the line. He was the frontrunner. In 1980, things did not start well for governor reagan. The night before the Iowa Caucuses the republican candidates held an iowa debate. Ronald reagan decided to not show up for it. It was not just the last debate before iowa voted in 1980. It was the night before the caucuses. Front rrunner Ronald Reagan bl it off. On the following day Ronald Reagan stayed in california. He didnt show up in iowa. Maybe he was just taking it for granted. He was the frontrunner and expected to win. On the ground, in iowa, that year, something went wrong. Something really specific went wrong. Iowa Public Television went back to it recently. They did an autopsy of what happened there. A moment by moment reconstruction of what went so wrong an
Ronald reagan. He challenged gerald in 1976. Ford did win in 1976 and he went onto lose the general election to jimmy carter. The Republican Party by 1980 was of the general opinion that Ronald Reagan was due. Ronald reagan was next the line. He was the frontrunner. In 1980, things did not start well for governor reagan. The night before the Iowa Caucuses the republican candidates held an iowa debate. Ronald reagan decided to not show up for it. It was not just the last debate before iowa voted in 1980. It was the night before the caucuses. Frontrunner Ronald Reagan blew it off. On the following day Ronald Reagan stayed in california. He didnt show up in iowa. Maybe he was just taking it for granted. He was the frontrunner and expected to win. On the ground, in iowa, that year, something went wrong. Something really specific went wrong. Iowa Public Television went back to it recently. They did an autopsy of what happened there. A moment by moment reconstruction of what went so wrong an
Tells us china has deployed surfacetoair missiles. China has had a military presence here for more than a half century and yet some are interpreting this as quite a provocation and why . Because as we speak, president obama has been hosting leaders of the 12 nation group. These are Southeast Asian nations in california. The white house has been pushing a message hard. Its been arguing for all countries in the region to follow International Norms no matter how large or small and arguing against militarization of disputed islands in this region. Of particular concern is another set of islands with which china and the philippines claim and in particular the u. S. And some of these smaller countries have been looking with concern at really ambitious manmade Island Projects that china has been carrying out. Lets look close up at one of these islands. This is is a before shot. This is after china worked on it. Look at it. It built an entire island with an air strip with concerns that china c