campaign analysts, alex jaffy has been covering ben carson. ali, i m going to start with you. everybody expects the front-runner but has his campaign said anything about policy substance he ll deliver tonight? well, the campaign said he s brushing up on foreign policy and he did give an address last night on the u.s.s. iowa to a veteran s group and did touch upon making our military strong, making it so strong people will respect us and we won t eventually have to use it. but in terms of what kacie said earlier, we ll see fireworks on the stage. donald trump is no stranger to trading soundbyte barbs with republican rival candidates. but in the new physical setting, it prevents a different environment for him. whether he can flail his arms as he s known to do and could hit a candidate. we just heard how close they will be, but that really presents a whole other element to trading of the barbs he s so accustomed to.
presidential in this kind of difficult circumstance. that s probably the better way to do it rather than attacking trump in a way that might be forgotten three hours later. and meanwhile, later. who do you think is the most at-risk for not being around the next time, october 28th, friends at cnbc have the next debate. that by that point, most likely, everybody can fit on one stage. that s right. they haven t said if they will have an undercard debate and this could be the last to see. of the folks on the stage tonight, the s george pataki, very low in the polls, former govern nor of new york. lindsay graham is lower than him, a sitting senator and the message of foreign policy gloom and doom hasn t caught on either and then santorum, toured all 99 counties in iowa and sort of still way behind in iowa and i would think of the four of them probably wouldn t be jindal. he has a little bit of momentum in iowa. other three in risk of dropping
hospitals. and you re going to get the greatest service of any veterans in any country because you deserve it. and that s going to be that s going to be broken down into something that s going to be very special. right now, and you know it, we have illegal immigrants that are treated better by far than our veterans. that s not going to happen anymore. it s not going to happen. so joel, i just really appreciate it. so unexpected to be here as an honor. they don t build ships like this anymore, folks. you know? we don t do them this way anymore. i actually said, what about re-commissioning? look at this thing. the largest guns in the world. most powerful guns. i learned a lot about the iowa. iowa is a great place for a lot of reasons. you know the
conventional terms where you weigh the arguments and you balance them. he had a weak debate in the sense of, yes, teenie weenie energy. and the same with scott walker. he has got to defend himself and he has got to prepare. i assume bush has one zinger prepared and will be waiting for him. goldman said the key to acting is sin variety. if you can fake that you have got it made. they have all got to go out and pretend to be something. i don t think there is any precedent that i can think of other than carson in the last debate where a man radically improved his standing in the debate. people have hurt themselves. carson s closing statement seemed to have done the job for them. there is a trump, fiorina dynamic here because that s personal and because she is new and he is the son around which all the other planets revolve. something is about to change. the club for growth is buying a million dollars worth of tv time in iowa. that s a lot of time in iowa, simply to attack
establishment candidates or elected official candidates take control of the race back from those people. cnbc s john harwood. 7:03 in the morning for you in simi valley, california. thanks for being with me, john. in the run-up to tonight s debate, donald trump talked up the u.s. military while aboard the uss iowa declaring himself on the side of veterans 100%. one key talking point, strong, albeit vague promise to fix the long wait times and improved veterans health care. we re going to create a whole new system. we re going to take this system apart and if they re not doing the job, the veterans are going to go to private doctors, private hospitals, public hospitals. and you re going to get the greatest service of any veterans in any country because you deserve it. we have illegal immigrants that are treated better, by far, than our veterans. that s not going to happen anymore. it s not going to happen. restitired army colonel jack