meeting with sheldon adelson billionaire megagop donor, an interesting meeting for trump because he doesn t want think money, he doesn t want any big outside donors like this. trump also didn t have very far to travel. he tweeted earlier he s staying at his hotel, trump international. he s looking forward to a good debate tonight. he hopes he s treated fairly. sarah, thanks very much. focus of tonight s cnn debate, of course, national security. with america on edge after the bloody attack in san bernardino, there was a new scare today as we told you about in los angeles where the school system, with more than 650,000 kids, was shutdown after what officials called electronic threat. justice reporter evan perez has the latest on that. reporter: the reaction to this e-mail threat really does tell you a little bit about the atmosphere there in over in the west coast in california in the aftermath of the san bernardino attack. but you know, we have taken a look at the message.
the decision maker. now we know that the fbi is investigating, they want to know who is sending messages. these are not uncommon, as you know, chris, for school districts and for universities to get these. some of them react like los angeles did, some react the way new york did but they just have to take it as each example so comes. no question they re not uncommon, evan perez, thank you very much. too common. the fear is very real. people are erring on the side of safety. that s what brings into short focus this debate here tonight. donald trump, once again national front-runner, but ted cruz is surging and not just in iowa. some polls do show him taking the lead here, which some expected, but not in this fashion. so let s turn to the national spokesman for the cruz campaign, rick tyler, good to have you, with anderson and me here. going into tonight, big part of the intrigue, how will senator
all these postings but the question is if they had done some searching it appears out they would not have been able to find these postings because they had a privacy setting that would not allow the general public to see it and it does really add to the questions of what can the state department do and what can homeland security do to make sure that people getting these visas are not coming here to harm americans. there s also a maryland man who has been on terror-related charges. what are you learning about that, evan? his name is mohammed ashana ri and the fbi has been looking at him for months after they realized he received money from egypt from an isis operative. he was able to get $887 transferred to him via paypal and other means. you know, we ve had probably more than five dozen of these isis supporter arrests in the
we have new details about the investigation into the san bernardino terror attack and what led fbi dive teams to that nearby lake where so far they haven t found anything. cnn justice reporter evan perez is working the story for us. evan, i know you re getting new information. what are you learning? you know, brianna, one of the things that happens after terrorist attacks like this certainly people start asking what if. in this case what if the u.s. government, homeland security and state department, had they been able to look at social media of tashfeen malik before she was able to get this fiancee visa and come to the united states this year, what if they had checked, they slight found, for instance, she was posting on social media about her support forgy happen for jihad. she was using the social media account but had a privacy setting so only her closest friends could she what she was post and was using a pseudonym and now investigators have found
past year alone in this country, but it s very rare and certainly this is the first one that i can think of where the allegation is that this person was getting money sent from overseas and the question is what was that money going to in the fbi says that it s possible that this person was planning on carrying out a terrorist attack here in the country and the money was intended to help fund that attack or he was planning on traveling, part of what they are investigating here. charged with material support of terrorism and giving false statements to the fbi. brianna? evan perez in washington, thank you so much. president obama went to the pentagon to meet with his national security council about his strategy to confront isis and this terrorist threat. it s facing sharp criticism and also public waning confidence. i want to go to correspondent jim acosta. no changes afoot here, jim. this is perhaps more about