Intelligence Vote News Today

To be front and center at tonights republican presidential debate. joining me now to break down other issues to watch for at the showdown in las vegas, host and correspondent steve kornacki. steve? >> kate, obviously, we can expect national security as you say to be a major issue, major point of emphasis tonight, but also, the question is, how are the candidates going to use that issue and others to draw contrast, try to draw distinctions with each other? we thought wed give you a guide do a few...

Basically the phone bill, not the content of your conversations, your e-mails, anything like, that just your phone bill. only 16 people in the u.s. government could look at it and only if they got a court order from a fisa court to look at those phone records. and they retain them for a significant period of time. under this new law, we are trusting the phone companies to hold those records and all of these phone companies have different period of times when they hold it. some will hold it for 1...

To be president. >> why not? >> because i dont think he has the right temperament. i dont think hes got the right judgment. >> whats wrong with his temperament? >> look at the way hes dealt with the senate going in there like a -- frankly, like a little bit of a maniac. never going to get things done that way. >> trump is just the late toast take aim at cruz. heres marco rubio on "meet the press" criticizing cruz on the views of security. >> not just the intelligence vote. he talks tough on some...

Foreign policy. >> it wasnt just the intelligence vote. he talks tough on some of these issues. for example, hes going to carpet bomb isis, but the only budget hes ever voted for in his time in the senate is a budget that cut defense spending, by more than barack obama poses we cut it. some of the isolationist policies, he seems to side with the isolationists. >> reporter: and chris christie will be back on the prime time debate stage tomorrow night having been relegated to the second tier in th...

Iowa, but up 12 points nationally. in the new poll from nbc news and the "wall street journal." that puts him just a few points behind donald trump. cruz and the partys front-runner have mostly been friendly. however, this weekend, trump took a few shots at his new challenger. >> i dont think hes qualified to be president. >> why not? >> because i dont think he has the right temperament. i dont think hes got the right judgment. >> whats wrong with his temperament? >> you look at the way hes deal...

Is he wrong but others that argue that are wrong. we had a program that allowed us to collect the phone records. basically the phone bill, not the content of your conversations, your e-mails, anything like, that just your phone bill. only 16 people in the u.s. government could look at it and only if they got a court order from a fisa court to look at those phone records. and they retain them for a significant period of time. under this new law, we are trusting the phone companies to hold those r...

>> i believe it is for all the candidates. in the case of senator cruz my argument is it wasnt just the intelligence vote. he talks tough on some of these issues, for example hes going to carpet bomb isis, but the only budget hes ever voted for in his time in the senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than barack obama proposes we cut it. he voted against the defense authorization act every year that it came up, and that is the bill and i assume if he voted against it he would veto...