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Has been on the dissent in the polls. >> he raises questions? >> yeah, and totally distracts that campaign from their core message. earlier this week, ted cruz put out an ad, a pretty effective ad on an issue that a lot of people care about in iowa where the first caucus is. immigration. ted cruz hasn't answered any questions and hasn't had a chance to aggressively drive that message to a lot of voters. he's been on the defensive and talking about a canadian citizenship and whether he's even eligible to be the president. now, it's, i believe, a false attack. there's not much substance to it bu...

To get iran to the bargaining table on the nuclear deal. and with cuba, ending a decades-long stalemate. >> the president believes we don't only negotiate with our friends and partners. sometimes we have to engage with part countries we don't see eye to eye with. >> the syrian effort was limited and failed to gain momentum and while the administration's core message that assad must go, never wavered, some believe the covert communications may have failed his sense of legitimacy. >> they grossly underestimated what bashar al assad is all about and the strength of his regime. because of that the...

Efforts of taking trump down. >> peter, to scottie's point with regard to the poll and you have the majority of americans who are fearful. you also say republicans won't abandon trump because of this increased focus, because of what's happened here of course in paris. terrorism is dominating headlines globally, domestically. explain that. some believe trump's ratings might actually change with this increase risk in terror. >> right. i think trump's core message is that somehow he can build some kind of wall, real or metaphor cal, between the united states and the dangerous things in the world,...

Be part of this country and have work visases are to be allowed to stay here and work legally they can get into a legal line and don't get in in front of anybody else. >> i also want to shift gears and ask about isis. obviously the news out of beirut today are those twin bombings. isis is claiming at least responsibility for that. i know senator paul sort of rose to -- he got his reputation, i should say, on noninterventionism, the platform of noninterventionism. seeing overwhelming support among republicans for troops for boots on the ground in iraq and in syria. i wonder if that core message...

From trump's core message, that h we is an outsider, he's not beholden to anybody, and he can be a force for change in politics. what's interesting though, thomas, is that stone is a long-time political operative. this guy has a big long history. he has nixon tattooed on his back. and when he says that it's just getting too distracting, it's just getting too ridiculous, if you will, that's got to say a lot, doesn't it? >> i think it definitely says that there is more to come as we continue to all lose sight of the political shore together on the trump boat. nbc's katy tur, thanks so much. so...