naval vessel. we ll bring you some of that. dana bash, thank you, david axelrod, jeffrey, amanda carpenter. a lot ahead. we re on for two hours tonight. sara murray reported at the top trump critics say he only offers applause lines, steps onto an old battleship tonight. he s expected to lay out his view in greater detail. we ll see if that actually comes to pass. and we ll see if he s actually met by protesters. several have already shown up. later with that new polling that shows ben carson on the move, does a food debate performance or even a bad one move the numbers at this time in the race? some of the answers may not be what you expect so be prb prepa to be surprised ahead.
thing in this debate. so it depends on what your objectives are and which lane you re competing in. it is interesting, amanda, because i mean, to david s point, so many of these candidates have had their messages eclipsed by donald trump in all of this. so i can understand david saying some of them just want to kind of get a couple lines in about who they are and defining themselves in front of this large audience. yeah, at the same time i think playing it safe is a bad strategy. what voters like about donald trump is he s fighting, no matter what the issue is he s fighting on something. when you play it safe, look at what what happened to scott walker. he s completely imploded. i think it s because he hasn t been active on so many issues. what i think will make a breakout star in this debate is someone who puts the infighting aside and somehow rises above to a leadership level, someone who like newt gingrich in previous debates who can say i agree with candidate x, y, and z and as
narrowing, there s going to be more expected of him. it s going to be him versus let s just assume hypothetically him versus candidate x, they re going to have to duke it out more specifically on issues and i think the voters are really going to at that point demand more. i think. having said that, to your question about sort of the outsider issue, maybe it was jeffrey s. jeffrey was talking about. it s kind of unbelievable that even someone like scott walker who s not a washington insider, he s never worked in washington, but he s a career politician. right. the idea he can t get traction on the i fought the fight and i ve won the fight in the midwest, you know, that he can t get traction on that says a lot about, i think, that the desire it s not just about outsider versus insider. it s about a new perspective. somebody who s not a career politician. and that obviously is what s driving this. expected to speak with the - backdrop of a decommissioned
should stumble tomorrow night, it s not necessarily to jeb s advantage. it s probably to ben carson s advantage. it s probably to carly fiorina s advantage because there are several debates playing out on that stage tomorrow night. not just one debate. and in the end, i believe there will be an establishment candidate. and it might be jeb, or it might be kasich or it might be chris christie, and there will be one of the mavericks. a ben carson, a carly, or a donald trump. and that s the way this thing s is. jeffrey? i actually used to share michael s opinion it was going to be one of each. now i m not so sure. you think it might be a dr. carson and a trump? correct. correct. i think all the passion is right there. and these other folks, and i think in that same cbs poll, 37% had decided and there was 60%, something like that, i mean, a good percentage that hadn t decided but i have this feeling that they re going to be gravitating to one of the other three. we ve seen this ki
humility, fear of the lord. i don t get that impression with him. ben carson, you look at his faith and i think you re not going to find so much. what am i supposed to call the guy, too? donald? i mean? should point out dr. carson basically apologized for making those comments and said he didn t want to get into a fight with trump. trump said he doesn t want to hit first but if he s attacked, watch out. where does that leave his rivals tomorrow night? what should the strategy be standing next to him on the stage? joini ining me now, anna navarr jeffrey, michael smerconish. anna, for jeb bush and the others, how do you deal with trump tomorrow? you can break down the field into three different segments, right? those who want to get close to trump, that would be people like ted cruz, those who want to be neutral and just kind of stay off the radar, chris christie falls in that category. and nose who have been taking