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Quinnipiac university that trump has the best chance to be the eventual nominee with 70% saying yes. msnbc's steve kornacki is here with more about the state of the republican race, especially when you add donald trump talking about closing mosques, cheering after 9/11, i.d. cards and data bases for muslims, somehow he's still floating to the top. >> it's really interesting. i think a lot of people looked at the attacks in paris, looked at the new emphasis in the race for president on foreign policy, on national security, on terrorism, a lot of people looked at that and said maybe that's not g...

Muslims special i.d. cards listing their religion and potentially creating a database to track all muslims living in the u.s. [ inaudible ] >> there should be a lot of systems beyond databases. we should have a lot of systems. today, you can do it. but right now, we have to have a border. we have to have strength, we have to have a wall, and we cannot let what's happening to this country happen. >> reporter: the gop front-runner today tweeting he didn't suggest a database, but still not dismissing the idea as some of trump's rivals have done. >> we don't need division in america. we need to be...

More serious about national security than trump has been. that said, you heard the crowd reaction. trump is still doing well and is atop the nbc news/survey monkey online poll that came out within the last 24 hours. that was conducted after the paris attacks. >> you mentioned ben carson said he may support some surveillance on mosques but when it comes to some of the other comments about databases potentially on refugees, how are those sitting with some of the other republican candidates? >> reporter: we've heard condemnation coming from people like jeb bush, for example, who said he thinks it...

Destabilizing event that's understandably has americans kind of questioning everything we're doing and whether we are buttoned up as we need to be in security, but when you look at the extreme comments that we are seeing on closing mosques and even though donald trump pulled back without completely renouncing the idea of data bases, he's talked about closing mosques, even before the attack, ben carson said that it would, you know, he did not believe a muslim should be president. what you are seeing, we have to see this reaction to the terrorist attack of this continuation of the argument going...

Rhetoric has gone too far. >> listen, i'm a big fan of donald trump's, but i'm not a fan of government registries of american citizens. the first amendment protects religious liberty. >> you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people, and that's just wrong. i don't care about campaigns. it's manipulating people's angst and their fears. that's not strength. that's weakness. >> joining me now, david frump, senior editor at "the atlantic" and former george w. bush economic speech writer and msnbc political analyst joan walsh. david, let me start with you, because donald trump h...