Well bring you our brandnew poll, both donald trump and ben carson joins us live. We begin with that security lockdown in europes capital, subways and stores closed, events canceled, americans warned to stay indoors. Because of an imminent terror threat. Our chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz is on the scene in brussels with the latest. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, george. The lockdown is visible everywhere you go here in brussels, the imminent threat on everyones mind, and belgian Officials Say the lockdown may continue through monday, since, they say, terrorists are looking at places here where they could inflict mass casualties. Its unsettling here in brussels this morning, a usually bustling European Capital paralyzed. Soldiers patrolling streets. The u. S. Embassy ordering americans here to shelter in place. A parisstyle attack is what theyre expecting, the threat deemed serious and imminent. But on the second day of the high alert, tourists were milling around. Usually lively grand plaza. Christmas tree. Armored vehicle. Its not normal, you know. Reporter local police were offering assurances. We need to have support from the army, so everything is secure here in brussels. Reporter in neighboring france, officials are still looking for clues after the suspected planner of the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud, was killed in a shootout on wednesday. And the manhunt growing for the worlds most wanted man, the eighth paris terrorist. Salah abdeslam, Authorities Say he drove to belgium. The lawyer for his companions telling abc news, he looked angry and was possibly wearing a suicide belt. Meanwhile, the survivors in paris still haunted, the lead singer of the American Band performing at the bataclan talked to vice news. A great reason why so many were killed is because so many people wouldnt leave their friends. Reporter the spector of the jihadist threat is also rising in mali, where al qaeda is claiming credit for that deadly hotel siege. An american survivor telling his harrowing story to abcs alex marquardt. You already resigned yourself to the fact that you were dead. Yeah, basically. They never looked, they were shooting, the shells were hitting me. They never looked. Reporter from africa, to europe, to the front line in the front against isis, this week we were in iraq, where isis holds huge swaths of territory, but the kurds have had some success in pushing isis back. With help from american advisers, but the threat is still enormous. The kurdish fighters have taken up positions all around kirkuk, this soldier has his eye on isis. Meanwhile, this morning, in asia, president obama insisting that destroying isis is a realistic goal. The most powerful tool we have to fight isis is, to say that were not afraid. So, martha, you have spent this week on both fronts, which is at least a twofront war . Reporter it really is, george, when you go into iraq and you see the continuing air strikes and we were in the command center where theyre conducting those air strikes under pretty strict rules of engagement. Well have to keep our eye on that and see whether they loosen those rules of engagement. But here in brussels, the transition wasnt that difficult, because you have soldiers all over the street, you have armored personnel carriers as we saw. Kind of like being in iraq. Also here, were in a small square, just across from me is the home of where the missing terrorist used to live, and here, i talked to some people on the streets today, including a 15yearold girl, and i asked her what its like to live in this neighborhood. She said yes, we do have some terrorists in the neighborhood but were not all terrorists, were frightened ourselves of whats happening. Were going to turn now to the political fallout from these terrorist attacks. Our new poll shows that Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead on the democratic side but Bernie Sanders has gained nine points since joe biden decided hes not running and donald trump leads over ben careson. Followed by ted cruz and jeb bush. Donald trump joins us live after this report from jon karl. Reporter the president was half a world away in asia this week, but it seemed like he was on the campaign trail, repeatedly slamming republicans who want to keep syrian refuges out of the United States. Apparently theyre scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States as part of our tradition of compassion. Reporter back in washington, his own party was defying him. Nearly four dozen House Democrats joining republicans voting to stop admitting Syrian Refugees until the government can certify they pose no threat. More than half the countrys governors have vowed to keep Syrian Refugees out of their states. The president said the refugees are thoroughly vetted. And pose no more threat than tourists. With two of the paris terrorists now suspected of sneaking into france as refugees, one using this doctored passport, Security Fears have soared. Our new poll shows a majority now oppose to taking in refugees. The threat says terrorism is second to economy. 54 disapprove of the president s handling of terrorism altogether. On the campaign trail, ben carson came under fire. For comparing the screening of refugees to protecting children from rabid dogs. If theres a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you probably not going to assume something good about that dog and youre probably going to put your children out of the way. It doesnt mean that you hate all dogs. Reporter and donald trump spoke a furor when reporter asked him if he would support a database to track muslims in the United States . There should be a lot of systems beyond databases. We should have a lot of systems and today you can do it. How do you get them to register . Just good management. Reporter under fire from fellow republicans, trump said the database he wants is just for Syrian Refugees. I want database for those people coming in, i want surveillance if we have to, i want surveillance of certain mosques, okay. And jon karl joins us now. More results of that poll, which has been remarkably steady. Through major controversies and national debates. Just look at the numbers since september, marco rubio has gone up ever so slightly, bush down. But for donald trump and ben carson, the numbers are virtually unchanged, and consider this, it was our poll in july that first put donald trump as the frontrunner and no matter what he has said, or what others have said about him, he has not budged from the frontrunner since then. You showed that tough numbers for president obama on terrorism, these terror attacks starting to transform this race. If you look at those numbers, george, the lowest approval for the handling of terrorism for president obama. On the republican side, though, look who the Republican Voters trust to handle terrorism, donald trump. Lets bring in mr. Trump right now. He joins us on the phone. You just heard those numbers, donald trump. Is the nomination now yours to lose . I dont know. I dont think about that. I think about the date, february 1st, thats iowa and then we have new hampshire. Were doing great in both pla places. I think im leading in every state. But were doing really well. I was happy to hear your numbers. Im not surprised. People are tired, theyre sick and tired of incompetence and sick and tired of stupid people leading them. The deals they make, whether its trade or dealing with isis. Everything is wrong. I was after the oil. I said attack the oil, i have been telling you that for two years, attack the oil. They didnt do it. Isis became wealthy with the oil. Now theyre starting to attack the oil. You stirred up those comments with the database, are you now ruling out a database on all muslims . No, not at all. I want a database for the refugees that, if they come into the country, we have no idea who these people are, when the Syrian Refugees start pouring into this country, we dont know if theyre isis or a trojan horse, i definitely want a database and other checks and balances. We have no idea whos being sent in here. This could be the great trojan horse of all time. Probably not. When they come in. When i look at the migration and the lines and i see all strong, very powerfullooking men, theyre men, and i see very few women and children, theres something strange going on. When you see whats happening in europe, lot of bad things are happening in europe. Just ask the folks that live in germany. Lot of bad things are happening. But statistics do show george, we want to be vigilant. We have to be vigilant and we have to call it radical islamic terror. We have a president that wont even issue the term. When the syrians come in, or if theyre going to come in, we have to be very, very vigilant and a database would be fine for them and a watch list is fine. We have to watch and see. They should not come in, by the way, they should not be allowed in. Just for the record, though, the statistics do show majority of the refugees coming in are women and children. You also told yahoo news, we have to do things that are unthinkable a year ago. Do you think we should bring back enhanced interrogation like waterboarding . Well, we have to be strong. They dont use waterboarding. They used chopping off peoples heads. And they put people in cages and they drown them in the ocean. Ened were talking about waterboarding. We have i would bring it back, yes, i would bring it back. I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what theyre doing us. What they did to james foley, thats a whole different level. I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation. You also said we have to consider closing mosques. Jeb bush called that a sign of weakness. Well, jeb bush is a weak person, that has been defined very strongly. I mean, jeb bush is a weak person i call him a lowenergy person. You can call him anything you want. Jeb is a person that will not a solve a problem like this. You have very, very tough people that youre dealing with, they only understand strength, they dont understand weakness. Somebody like jeb, and others that are running against me and, by the way, Hillary Clinton is another one, hillary is a person who doesnt have the strength or the stamina in my opinion to be president. She doesnt have strength or stamina, shes not a Strong Enough person to be president. What would be your criteria to close a mosque . Were dealing with very, very strong people and you need strength and you need stamina. Hillary does not have that. What would be your criteria to closing mosque . Your top priority would be to preserve and protect liberties, is that only for christians . What are your criteria . I dont want to close mosques. I want to surveil mosques. We were doing in new york city for a while all mosques . Well, i do there are certain hotspots, and let me tell you, the people that are involved in those mosques, they know who the bad ones are and the good ones, but they dont talk, and we have to surveil the mosques. We were doing it until de blasio closed them up in new york city. We were doing it recently. We have to surveil the mosques. We were learning a lot and they were stopping problems and potential problems by learning what was happening. Hey, look, i dont want to close up mosques but things happen where you have to use strong measures or youre going to see buildings coming down. You want to keep terror watch list. Under current law, individuals under the watch list have been allowed to buy guns and explosives, are you okay with that . We have to have a watch list, and if that watch list has somebody, you know, we have the laws right now, we have the laws already on the books, Second Amendment of guns. Im a really big proponent of the Second Amendment. Ill give you an example, if in paris some of those people, if you had some of those people had guns, you wouldnt have had the horror show that you had but why should somebody on the watch list have a gun . People are on a watch list, people are sick, you have already this is already covered in the legislation that we already have, george under current law, people on the watch list are allowed to buy guns. Listen, george, if we have an enemy of state, i dont want to give him anything, i want to have him in jail. Thats what i want. I want to have him . Jail. But if those people in paris had guns in that room it would have been a shootout and very few people would have been hurt by comparison to number were hurt. Yes or no, should someone on the terror watch list be allowed to buy a gun . If somebody is on a watch list and enemy of state, i would keep him away, absolutely. You raised some eyebrows with comments you made at your latest rally relating to 9 11. I want to show them. Hey, i watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down and i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down, thousands of people were cheering. You know, the police say that didnt happen at all. Those rumors have been on the internet for some time. Did you misspeak yesterday . I saw it. You saw it with your own eyes . There were people who were cheering on the other side of jersey, where you have large arab populations, they were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. But there were people cheering as those buildings came down. That tells you something. It was well covered at the time, george. I know they dont like to talk about it. There were people over in new jersey watching it, heavy arab population. They were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good. The police say they didnt happen. I wouldnt to move on. Rivals have pounced on your database comments. A superpac supporting john kasich launched this attack ad against you. On the job training doesnt work. Benghazi, beheadings, paris. Our lives depend on a commander in chief with experience who understands the world. Clear implication is that you dont, what is your response to that ad . John kasich is going nowhere, he was at the head of lehman, one of the top people at lehman, hes going nowhere. Anybody who does an ad against me will be hit ten times. Look, they want to do it because im leading. You just came out with the poll that says im leading. Because people are sick and tired of stupid and incompetent people leading our nation. We have incompetent people, when president obama stands up and says isis is contained and, then a few hours later you have one of the most horrible attacks, and you have 300 people laying in the hospital, many of them dying, we have no idea, then he wants to take in people who have no documentation, no paperwork, no anything, from syria on the migration, people are going to come pouring in, and the number he wants is much higher than 10,000. Ive heard its 200,000. Thats the real number he wants. I have even heard 250,000. We have a president that doesnt know what hes doing. We have a president , george, whos totally incompetent. That number is our refugees, but finally, that superpac is not alone. Frontpage story in the wall street journal talks about gop operatives promising to launch a Guerrilla Campaign against trump. Theyre going to have the first attempt to unite donors from rival camps into single antitrump force. If that happens, are you going to reconsider an independent run if they try to take you out . Well see what happens. It will be very interesting, but im leading every poll a lot. I resonate with the people. I had 10,000 people yesterday, every place i go, if crowds smaller than 10,000 its like a small crowd for me. Nobody else can get 200. I mean jeb bush and these guys, kasich, if he speaks, if he gets 20 people in a room its a lot of room. I get crowds of 6,000, 10,000, 20,000, i had a 35,000 crowd in alabama. Well, im going to have to see what happens. Ill see what happens. I have to be treated fairly. I have to be treated fairly. If im treated fairly im fine. All i want to do is a level playing field. I think people are surprised that, you know, their politicians and they have been doing this stuff all their lives. I have been a job producer, i have done fabulous developments all over the world. I have made a lot of money. Thats the kind of thinking we need in office, thats the kind of thinking we need in washington. And thats why people are resonating with me. They know theres a great level of competence. We have a great level of incompetence right now in washington. Frankly, we have a lot of incompetent politicians running for office. And they dont understand, how can an outsider be doing so well within the party. When i was a contributor, i know more about contributions than anybody. I contributed at the top of the line. But now, all of a sudden, im somebody theyre a little bit, i guess, they cant understand whats happening. But whats happening is very simple. People want competence now. Theyre tired of incompetent people. Its as simple as that. Mr. Trump, thanks for your time this morning. Thank you very much. Up next, ben carson. 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