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we begin tonight with the fear dominating the headlines. los angeles area schools closed today in response to what officials said was a credible threat of violence. it is the latest in a string of events at home and abroad that have americans focused on national security. in fact, 40% name national security and terrorism as their top issues for the federal government to address in the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll. all of this, of course, happening against the backdrop that the gop presidential candidates will hold for their final debate of 2015. nine candidates set to square off on the main stage tonight. less than seven weeks to go now before the iowa caucuses. this will be the first republican debate since the terror attacks in paris, also the shooting spree by a radicalized couple in san bernardino. the candidates are expected to focus heavily on national security issues. donald trump will once again be standing at the center podium. he holds a 27-point ....
To, as kasie was talking about, those lines on meta data. weh ll see a little bit of that matchup there. good to have you with us tonight, halley, thanks. i want to bring in now steve katniss. you wrote an article about the two fights to watch for tonight in the debate. two of those include donald trump, perhaps not surprising to a lot of people at home. right, absolutely. i think he s going to be the main featured attraction. the big question is, does ted cruz, basically trump s biggest threat right now, retaliate when trump inevitably whacks him? i think trump has been signaling in recent days that he is going to go after ted cruz. he did it at a rally in iowa on friday. he did it again on sunday talk shows is, on sunday. the question is, how does cruz respond, because cruz has been calibrating playing nice with trump recently, because he eventually wants to have those ....