destroy isis, we re going to blow them up, we re going to make the sand glow. that s easy to say whachlt are you going to do it with? reporter: in california cruz returned fire. senator rubio s campaign understands that if conservatives continue to unite, they don t have a path to victory. and so their only hope is to try to launch false attacks. and unfortunately that s something they ve been doing more and more. reporter: the two freshmen senators are tangling over immigration and national security. giving a preview of where the race is heading. where there was a battle over amnesty and some chose, like senator rubio, to stand with barack obama and chuck schumer and support a massive amnesty plan. as far as ted s record i m always puzzled by his attack on this issue. ted, you support legalizing people in this country illegally. it took chris krchristie to break up exchanges like this saying he has the executive experience necessary to be president. if your eyes are glaz
for now, thomas roberts with these new numbers out. back to you. all right. brian, thank you very much, sir. i appreciate it. yes, we will have the remarks of janet yellen coming up. but we turn attention to republican politics, the race for 2016 and the white house. want to show you live shots from arizona and new hampshire. campaign events, one for donald trump. on the right, marco rubio. they re going to begin shortly. now, both today trying to frame tuesday night s debate as a win. each one for their campaigns. both receiving positive marks and taking nicks in the process. it was earlier today that marco rubio was stumping in iowa and continued the attack on ted cruz condemning cruz s tough sounding rhetoric against isis not consistent with the voting record. take a listen. everyone on the stage talks tough. it s easy to stand here this morning and say we re going to utterly destroy isis, blow them up, make the sand glow. and it s easy to say. what will you do it with?
comes down to it he will get after ted cruz, my feeling is to challenge the notion that ted cruz is really an outsider, really a force from outside. that ted cruz is backed by big wall street money. his wife works at goldman sachs, he is a senator of the united states. even though he doesn t want to admit it half the time. he works at a big firm on wall street. he is a debater, i think trump is going to have to take on cruz. he may not do it full bore in iowa but if cruz wins iowa then you talk about making the sand glow. that is what donald trump is going to do heading into new hampshire. because trump absolutely has to win new hampshire. and on and on and if he loses iowa he absolutely has to win new hampshire. and i think that is a guy who still feels had he has not put the pedal to the metal at all
one of the stories, it s a big story in conservative media in this country, are the rules of engagement concerning the air strikes that are under way against the islamic state in the bombing and raqqah. enormous number of air missions returned with their ordinance under the wing of the plane because the target list is not approved at a political level. not so different than the vietnam war. so what ted cruz is doing is he s signaling to a republican audience, listening to conservative media that he will kill the fighters of the islamic state. but that is proportional. that is not talking about wholesale regime change or cultural change in these countries. although i don t know that ronald reagan would ever say he wants to make the sand glow. no, in a tempered statement of the commander-in-chief for sure. anyway, was impressed tonight with that debate. i think one of you guy, reporter, it may have been you, michael, that suggested the real debate tonight was going to be between cr
didn t necessary deploy it tonight. can i just add though, you know, to howard s point, one of the stories, it s a big story in conservative media in this country, are the rules of engagement concerning the air strikes that are under way against the islamic state and the bombing of raqqah. enormous number of air missions return with their ordinance under the wing of the plane because the target list is not approved at a political level, not so different than the vietnam war. and so when ted cruz is doing that, he s signaling to a republican audience, listening to conservative media, that he will kill the fighters of the islamic state. but that is proportional, that is not talking about wholesale regime change or culture change in these countries. although i don t know that ronald reagan would ever say he wanted to make the sand glow. in a tempered statement. in a tempered statement. in commander and chief for sure. impressed with the debate.