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top diplomats from more than a dozen countries dealing with what s been described as a, quote, bleak global environment. and it s the situation in syria and the european refugee crisis that are overshadowing their talks. the meetings come just days after ministers from the united states, from russia and other nations all announced that they ve agreed to a pause in the fighting in syria to take effect in a week. but there are fears that at least two issues will scuttle any lasting peace in that nation. the continued russian airstrikes on aleppo and the insistence by the syrian president, bashar al assad, that he would continue fighting enemies that he deems terrorists. let s get the very latest from munich. our cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson, is live for us this hour. nic, good to have you with us. so there s so many issues that are playing out in the world. what is the mood there among leaders in munich? reporter: well, there s concern about this p ....
retired lieutenant. thank you for being with us. a new cold war, was the headline. when you look at this and when you argue that medvedev was putting out in the open what u.s. officials have been saying for a while. the tension between u.s. and russia at a number of points. in syria it started nout ukraine, the sanction against russia over the annexation of crimea in ukraine have hurt. and this has been going on in the back ground. it s also been going on verbally. u.s. officials over the past year and a half have called russia publicly an existial threat. now for the russians to answer with their own war of words not surprising but it have to point out, we don t have nuclear weapons pointed at each other s cat talls. so it s not truly a cold war. no, it s a very important distinction to make, absolutely. given so many newspaper headlines will read this come tomorrow morning. general, to you. let s listen to what nato s top commander general breedlove said in respon ....
cruz. he said, quote, if he doesn t clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. cruz returned fire. my approach consistently has been i m not going to respond in kind. he can launch insults however much he wants. there is a reason donald engages in attacks, because it s all a smoke screen to hide from his record. now, last night donald trump held a rally with thousands of supporters. take a look here. cnn s jim acosta is here. trump did keep his promise on thursday when he vowed to stop using vulgarities on the campaign trail but he still went on the attack, hitting one of his favorite targets, jeb bush, insisting the former florida governor is unable to negotiate with adversaries. here s what he had to say. oh, jeb. jeb. he s asleep. he s asleep at the wheel, folks. no, seriously. can you imagine jeb negotiating with china? cruz fired back at trump saying the real estate tycoon s com ....
let s talk more about what we can expect from tonight s republican debate in south carolina with cnn political commentator, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza, and mj lee, director at the center for politics at the university of virginia larry sab dough, and politics editor at the root.com, jason johnson. good to see all of you. see if i can do good traffic copping here. mj, you first. ted cruz releasing an ad attacking trump using the word sleeze. listen. trump bang rolled politicians to steam role the little guy, a pattern of sleeze stretching back decades. so much for being more positive, mj. yeah, not seeing a lot of that around here just a week from the south carolina primary. this is because donald trump and ted cruz both badly want to win this state. first southern primary of the 2016 race. look, they ve had tensions brewing awhile. this is crunch time. they each have one victory under their belt. they want to show they re the anti-esta ....
today s threat of litigation from you guessed it, donald trump, who was in tampa, florida tonight at a rally. on twitter today, trump issued an you will may tum to ted cruz. jim acosta is now live. what is the mood like there so far? trump promising a shift in tone to be more positive and more attacks including a lawsuit threat. . well, that s right, jim. a few moments ago, donald trump on stage at this rally said his campaign is a message about love and he s the messenger. not a lot of love on the campaign trail. as you mentioned there s the tweet that trump sent out earlier this afternoon in which he threatens to take ted cruz to court if the texas senator does not cease negative attack ads and other sorts of dirty tricks he s accusing ted cruz of carrying out in south carolina. he has been retweeting his supporters questioning the texas senator s canadian birth. so far at this point, jim, donald trump has not mentioned ted cruz yet. he has gone after jeb bush at o ....