on the main stage after a one-night engagement in the undercard debate. he could be a big factor tonight. he knows how to control this type of event. number three, they will get 75 seconds, candidates get 75 seconds to answer the questions, they will get 30 seconds to respond if they re named by someone else, rebuttal, if you will, 30 seconds. they both get opening and closing statements as well. the candidates could get a chance to set the tone early on. finally this space, this is the venetian theater. a theater built for phantom of the opera to come to las vegas. seats 1400 people. phantom ran six years here. this is a space that knows drama, maybe nothing like tonight unless they start singing. all right, john, let us know if there s prefight trash talking that we need to know about as candidates take the stage. ted cruz is not going to like hearing himself described as moving to the center. he says he is the man on the right lane and he s going to
looking for a big night. carly fiorina. she has a couple of events here in nevada tomorrow. then she heads to iowa this weekend for a swing. this will be the eighth weekend in a row she has campaigned in iowa. fiorina is polling right now about 2% in the hawkeye state. the action begins here at 6:00 p.m. eastern inside the venetian theater. that is the undercard debate and then at 8:30, the nine candidates only here on cnn. what a night it will be. that, of course, the republican side of the race. hillary clinton running for the democratic nomination. she is slamming her top republican rivals for a lot of things. one of them is positions on immigration. the frontrunner for the democrats talked about marco rubio describing his views out of step with most americans. she blasted donald trump without
my time is off. it s beautiful here. reporter: yeah, you like it? yeah. you come here, you lose money in this casino that helps the republican party in israel, so come here and lose. i hear donald trump is meeting with sheldon addelson today. what do you think of that? i think sheldon will do a lot of listening. here s a question for you. you re going to be on the undercard debate. you ve said you don t think that s a very fair setup. how do you break out of the undercard debate and get onto the main stage? i think what i said four months ago about national security, i ve been more right than wrong. events have proven me right. hopefully over time the closer we get to voting, people turn back and say that lindsey graham seems to know what he s talking about. tonight gives me a chance to make my case that the events have proved me right and my critics wrong and there s a way forward to prevent another 9/11 but we ve got to change our strategy, so i m going to really focus on
don t partake of kool-aid have been making that prediction for a very long time. all right. thanks so much. we ll be watching with you. reminder, you can see tonight s republican presidential debate right here on cnn, the undercard debate starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern followed by prime time debate. follow me on facebook, twitter, jake tapper, tweet the show the lead. i m jake tapper. i turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever?
searches, how quick we reak. these are all dirnt possibilities, but at the end of the day, i think that nypd with their expertise and look aing at this e-mail have determined this particular e-mail, at least on the surface of the e-mail in and of itself, is not a threat. thanks for your expertise. just a few hours ago before tonight s big debate, here s a look at the final lineup. total of ten candidates pull ng enough support in the polls to make it on to the prime time stage in vegas. there they are. well, before that, viewers can watch the remaining candidates during an undercard debate. 6:00 p.m. eastern time. there are the candidates for that lineup. kentucky senator and 2016 republican presidential candidate rand paul made the cut for the prime time event this time and he joins me now live from vegas. senator, great to have you on the real story. would love to get your take on what we saw unfolding in los angeles today and how terrorism is front and center in this minds of pres