out in front. he s under performed by all counts. he s at 5% in the polls. head under performed in that last debate. his whole idea of himself is he is aggressively normal. that doesn t work particularly in this field. i m sure it works in politics more. he recites them three times in the last four years. he s taken on the union. people want more than that. people want a sense he has charisma. he is thinking if you are boring that equals charisma. it doesn t really. he was the flavor of the month in may and june. he was going to be the guy that could bridge the gap between center right republicans and social conservatives and tea party republicans and he made a decision to dive way right to try and win the iowa caucuses and so now he s faced with the situation where people don t really know who he is. it s a bad place to be. carly fiorina, she is the only one to graduate from the i
will then create millions more refugees, and we re in some very difficult times because of this president s failed leadership. you know, senator, the candidates are not expected to advocate maybe with the exception of your friend lindsey graham for boots on the ground. donald trump has been vague on this particular issue. he was on the uss iowa yesterday. some thought he would spell out his military plans. he did not, he just said he would make us a great military feared by all again. did not offer specifics. does that bother you? well, i think it s up to him and for people to judge, but i think the american people deserve from every one of those candidates how are they going to get this situation turned around? it s a matter of time, neil, before one of these people of isis comes to the united states and commits an act of terror. i mean, there s too many of them that are being indoctrinated. 2,000 a month are coming from europe into iraq and syria. i mean, it s just a matter of
we ve been told to expect specifics on national security. we have not hard any. it s a standard speech. if we hear specifics from donald trump we ll turn it around and get those to you. he hasn t gone into detail on his religious beliefs and some of what he s said, some have called irreverent. he says he s polling well with evangelical christians. the question is will that actually translate into real support from voters? more on that now from our randi kaye. reporter: seven iowa republicans all evangelical christians. when it comes to choosing a candidate does your faith and beliefs come first? yes. reporter: only one in our group is sure he s voting trump. the relationship mr. trump has with god is between him and god. i am not the one here to judge. reporter: others in the group don t agree. one of the biggest issues, trump has never asked for forgiveness
discriminated against because of his muslim faith. the stage is set and the candidates are arriving for tonight s debate at the reagan library in simi valley, california. but the real test tonight will be how the candidates perform on the issues. yesterday donald trump gave a preview on how he will handle questions about his national security policy in a speech aboard the uss iowa in los angeles. we re going to come out with some plans in a very short time. we re going to be building up our military. we re going to make our military so big and so strong and so great. and it will be so powerful that i don t think we re ever going to have to use it. nobody s going to mess with us. that i can tell you. joining me now from the site of tonight s debate, cnbc chief washington correspondent, john harwood. john, thanks for joining us. i want to talk a little bit about some specifics. not a lot of specifics from donald trump. you heard him say that he s
leader. well, i m not calling him a supreme leader, but he said the other day. we were told there would be some specifics on foreign poichlts i haven t heard them so far. donald trump aboard the uss iowa. we will take a short break and update you when we come back on protests nearby. bring us your aching