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Presidential rivals, trying to overtake donald trump in the polls. after a series of news stories saying rubio doesnt have much of a ground game in the early states, rubio is hitting three separate events in the hawkeye state today to tell us and the press otherwise. at one, he was asked about cruzs foreign policy. >> bottom line, the issues that we face, in each instance which senator cruz and others, not just him, have been given the choice between isolationism and the defense of our country, ...

>> and this country does face a threat posed by islamic. and i have come on the show and many other shows to talk about the constricting policy of having sarin gas and ethnic cleansing by the regimes of islam and russia are making the country less safe, and the problem is what anti-communists had in the cold war with joseph mccarthy is that crazy people who make accusations against including people of the u.s. armed services do a just d disservice to a legitimate cause. you need the muslims on o...

Ideology. the ideology is as strong as ever. >> right. >> given what just happened in san bernardino. what is your plan to defeat the ideology, sir? >> well, you start with the leaders -- you take down the caliphate. im convinced that the caliphate the size of indiana, if it were destroyed, it would be harder for -- >> we took down al qaeda and this just rose up, a new version of this, a new strain rose up. >> i can tell you this, that al qaeda has been placed on the run but not destroyed. isil ...

Liberal on military spending? can you can for unlimited military spending and say oh, im going to make the country safe? no, we need a safe country. but you know, we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined. >> anna marie, a real debate broke out there for a minute. >> its true. and you know whats funny for a party that sort of seems to have something against philosophers it was almost entirely a philosophical debate. >> yes. >> it wasnt really about whats actually happeni...

Can you be a conservative and be liberal on military spending? can you be for unlimited military spending and say im going to make the country safe? we need a safe country, but we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined. >> anna marie, a real debate broke out there for a minute. >> its true. for a party that seems to have something against philosophers, it was almost entirely a philosophical debate. it wasnt really about whats actually happening. its about the principle o...

Security. there are other things he could have said that rubio i think usually hits those opportunities, he didnt hit them last night as many times. >> charles? >> i was thinking exactly of that when i watched the debate. i wasnt under the colleagklieg, i wasnt sweating or thirsty. thats the obvious answer. reagans central plank was the military buld-up and it worked. it defeated the soviet union. they called off the cold war as a result. i do think that rand paul had his best night. and i give ...

Earlier this week as you may know, bashar al-assad made a surprise visit to moscow to thank vladimir putin for those airstrikes and what appears to be a show of defiance to the west and russias everett to become an e essential power broker in the region, have we lost our mojo? has russia and the rest of the world taking this seriously? >> the most important thing we have to debate, presidential candidates and others, should we be diplomatically engaged or should we diplomatically isolate ourselv...

Carolina, he has an economic plan on the table to return to 4% growth or so he says, ooh we simplify the tax code, whiting down seven or eight rates to three. so he can make the case, ive got a plan, or is it too little too late? what do you think? >> i dont think its too late, neil. i think that we are definitely at a crossroads. were writing a book right now. its not too late at all. we right on the crossroads, with we make the right decisions right now, maybe take a little bit of pain up fron...

Deport 12 million people? >> hundreds of billions of dollars. 12 million people the average cost of one is 12 and a half thousand dollars multiplied over 12 million it is $150 billion that is just to apprehend and transport to get them now. then how do you keep them out? that is another 300 billion and sold 700 billion al based over the course of 10 or 20 years it is the enormous. kennedy: we cannot bear that burden and that is why bernie sanders and trumped unison on to a similar bet what are t...

Way you get folks to change the way you move forward in this engagement not isolationism. really, as you think through cuban policies in the past it hasnt worked. thats what shes going to talk about today, the fact we have to move forward together because that is the only way well make a difference of whats going on in cuba whats going on with the cuban people and really how to bring people back together and how to create entrepreneurship. when you look at what happened in 2009 when we started o...