donald trump has just left the battleship. he was expected to talk national security, and for the first time talked some specifics. he did not. he did, however, draw plenty of protests from members of the latino community, about 200 or so we were told are outside. let s quickly go to sara sidner who s among the crowd. sara? reporter: anderson, yes, the protesters moved a bit near the uss iowa getting as close as than kcan. the two black cars trump will be getting in at some point. some people donated about $1,000 to the group that was putting on this event, veterans for a strong america. and you ll see that the protesters have been able to move quite close and as trump was speaking they were booing, they were yelling out different messages to him hoping that he could hear them because they say california is a state that has more immigrants than any other state in this country and that
it. not reassert his brand as a moderate. here s a danger, i think this is true, authenticity is the watch word. what he can t do is distort himself and try and be what he s not. yeah, exactly. make that flanders popular. ted cruz, he s got the second largest amount of super pack donations over bush over $37 million. he is only polling at 7%. david, what dunk he needs to do? he s chosen a different path. he is hanging around. he wants to be the alternative to trump if trump blows up. but he s got another concern i think. he wants to do well in iowa. carson is doing very well with social conservatives there. it s a big target for cruz. i wouldn t be surprised in some way he challenged carson tomorrow night. interesting. mike huckabee has been the most
listen to this. i think the burden is on him to prove to the american people quite frankly that he has a foreign policy that makes sense. last night i listened to that and it was just i don t know what you would describe that speech on the u.s.s. iowa, but not a foreign policy speech. also learning from insiders in his campaign that we can expect one line of attack from lindsey graham to play off of the fact they say of donald trump has said it was to meet the press in terms of where he gets his foreign policy from, he watches the shows. you can expect watching tv that to be a line of attack. also other contenders within the santorum campaign, you can expect they re also to pose questions in this first debate in order to hopefully get that question asked in the main event. kind of saying, wolf, well here s a question i would have for those who aren t here right now. you could expect you might see some of that coming up in half an hour. all right. we ll be watching together wi
what about a trump cruise ticket. you re saying donald trump is going to be the vice president on that? i d love to see it. that s my dream team. i can dream big. anthony, people that don t know you, you re very influential in republican circles. big money maker, very influential in the romney camp. now you hooked up with scott walker. it s still early. reminding me on fox business, that s a great reminder to everyone, but what happened? what is going on? i mean, it s one thing to drop, but this is like a road runner free fall here. well, but if you look at other campaigns, other presidential cycles, neil, john mccain had this situation. so you get these ups and downs, you get a dating system that goes on in the summer. now we re getting danny zucco sandra dee dating is going to be over as we go into the fall. governor walker will be there. you re not reporting this. in iowa he has super high
hillary. thank you. reporter: gejeanne moos. are we not doing the talent portion? reporter: cnn, new york. thank you for joining us tonight. i m jim sciutto. be sure to watch the republican presidential debate tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. eastern, that is right here on cnn. and right now, a.c. 360 starts right here. good evening, thanks for joining us. we are at the reagan library in simi valley just outside los angeles. this time tomorrow night, on a stage that we built 45 feet in the air, to be at eye level with president reagan s old air force one, 11 republican candidates will try to outshine their setting and each other. two of those 11, donald trump and dr. ben carson, have risen greatly since the first debate. one quietly, the other not so much. in about an hour, donald trump, in fact, will speak from the deck of the old battleship iowa not far from the port of los angeles and may also face protesters, about 100 there already. cnn s sarah murray is there.