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The stage it set for the financial presidential debate of 2015 in laughings on cnn. the leader of the pack, donald trump, will be front and center, and on either side of him this time, ben carson and ted cruz. the key caucus state of iowa, while carson's numbers still seem to be in freefall.traézmçde is the new jersey governor chris christie after he failed to qualify for the box innocence primetime debate last month. campaign carl cameron is in vegas and on scene. cruz is surging. what does this mean for tomorrow night? >> reporter: means that iowa is going to be very,dkidj importand tomorr...

That, you should go to the person who knows about the region, who can name the leaders, who isn't saying inflammatory statements about our allies all the time. trump is trying to make it, you should go to the person who is complete unconstrained and will say whatever he wants to this. >> benjy sarlin, thanks so much for being with us. donald trump leading the pack, now in the polls for 142 days he's been leading. for a closer look at his first-place standing and why there may be trouble in the early states, we'll turn to steve kornacki. >> we got an interesting situation developing in iowa. ...

States, is he the unstoppable force in the republican party? >> this is key, jon. he's topping the national polls for some months. but when he's topping early states and he's doing those incredible numbers in new hampshire and also strong in south carolina and nevada. he could take off like a jet engine. iowa might be different because it is a caucus state and he does best among the gop leaners and notes insly the gop core that show up to the caucus and possibly doesn't win iowa. i could see him taking new hampshire and moving ahead. i think jamie is right. as someone who covered american poli...

>> i know. and that poll particularly was with hispanics who trump has also gone after. two points i wanted to make. during obama's speech yesterday, donald trump was live tweeting the whole speech. and after the speech conclusion, we said the one thing that obama doesn't say was islamic radical terrorism. that's a phrase that when i've been with senator cruz he's said over and over again. when will obama say islamic radical terrorism. so just based on that, i would not think cruz would attack trump for this. and again, with the timing, i received this statement, this two-paragraph statement. ...

"new york times" -- harris: he tweeted out agreement. >> if they lost their credibility that was moment where they sealed the deal. harris: this came in from our d.c. team, producing team. rick santorum campaign is growing in iowa. they're adding staff members. as i was watching last night, i was wondering, as you move forward you will need to spend some of that cash now to get strong, if you did well last night. on that list, i would say marco rubio. who else would you add to that list? >> the whole bunch of them are about to face reality in iowa, particularly because it is very complicated c...