who cares. i would say it won t be like an evening in paradise for me. reporter: after a speech that went on for nearly an hour and interrupted by protests and trump tried to cast himself as toughest on national security. he left that with cheering fans. back to you, john. thanks, sara murray for that. you heard donald trump talking about it. he knows his newest foe in the race is ted cruz. his newest next doing neighbor on the stage. the texas senator surging in polls and jumping out in front in some iowa polls. you can see cnn s poll of polls in iowa with ted cruz with a two point advantage. new hampshire is a different story. in the poll of polls there, donald trump is out in front. it is marco rubio in second place in new hampshire. ted cruz and marco rubio have their own problems.
we will see if that carries over to the debate stage. tonight, donald trump was not sticking his head in the sand. we are watching television before we are hearing all of the announcers saying, who will take on trump tonight? who will hit him hardest? yeah, i would say bring them on. who cares? what difference does it make? i would say this will not be an evening in paradise for me. do we agree? reporter: after a speech that went on for an hour and trump tried to cast himself toughest on national security, that is how he left it. a crowd of cheering fans. back to you, john. that was overnight here in las vegas. sara murray in the loud room. what does it all mean? joining me now to figure it out is mark preston. the executive editor for cnn polit
with us. and i know that sarah, he was late there getting, and are the there are cheering fans, but what was the holdup? well, we with waiting for the helicopter to land, and it circled around the arena a couple of times before finally touching down. trump spoke to the crowd there, and he is offering the charn ride on the helicopter, and then he came in to address the crowd. he has touched on a number of top picks including attacks on the fellow competitors, and he has touched on the attacks in paris saying if there had been more people with guns a couple of good guys with guns, he said, in that theater that the outcome would have been much different, and right now, he is focusing on the latest controversial remarks of mimicking a times reporter that suffers from the chronic condition that limits the movement, and trump is saying
we re seeing differing accounts of fatalities. i m not going to mention any other numbers at this point, because we certainly don t know right now how accurate any of these reports are. but what we know based on eyewitness accounts, are a shooting in one part of the capital, the 10th, arrondissement and separately, explosions heard outside the stadium where a france/germany match was being played. two explosions, we ve heard. people inside the stadium heard two explosions inside the stadium, loud enough to be heard over cheering fans. and the french president evacuated from that stadium, we presume, out of an abundance of caution. and at this point, no confirmation of what this is. there is no one confirming any report of terrorism or any terrorist group taking credit for any of this. so we re not sure what we have
friday reported a shoot-out in a paris restaurant, an explosion in a bar near a paris stadium. it was unclear if the events were linked. bfm television reports there were several dead in the restaurant shooting. in the 10th, aron deez mont, two officials confirmed the shooting, but had no information about casualties. also late friday, two explosions were heard outside the national stadium in paris during what they call a friendly, france/germany soccer match. a police official confirmed one explosion in a bar near the stadium. it s unclear whether there are casualties. an associated press reporter heard two explosions loud enough to penetrate the sounds of cheering fans. sirens were immediately heard.