chuck todd tweeted that it felt more like an interview than a debate. what do you make of that analysis? >> what happened last night were two things. we saw the exchanges with trump and cruz and rubio and cruz and others, but also there were a lot of sub stan tirch questions asked. and in some areas, there was not a lot of back and forth, which may have led toed todd seeing s as sort of an interview. this was a fox business debate. some of the more conservative members say, look, we don't want to hear them arguing. we want to hear them talking about the issue. in fact, a lot of people, not just conservatives have said that. when you look forward to iowa, these are people who get involved in their caucuses. they want to know details about the candidates. not just whether they can talk about, but what they believe. >> probably one of the more controversial statements from last night, i want to play a piece of sound the moment senator cruz insulted donald trump calling him a new yorker. >> he said, look, i'm from new york. that's what we believe. those are

chuck todd tweeted that too. >> some of the candidates took up more time.n ben carson who's much more reserved jumped in and said, hey, wait a minute. my name was called, and i get my minute and a half and ben carson said, hey, you said that and that applies to me. there were times they were fighting to get their word in. even though we narrowed the field, seven people is a lot on the stage to try to get substantive answers on a number of issues in just a couple of hoyers. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill. thank you. >>> now to the three hopefuls you didn't see on the main event. the candidates did not attack each other. instead they focused on hillary clinton and president obama and insisted iran, isis, and guns are flawed. >>> hillary clinton appearing on "the tonight show" last night where jimmy fallon gave her a faux job interview for the presidency. >> how did you hear about the position? >> fourth grade social studies. >> their conversation wasn't all jokes though. clinton said all the candidates have a tough task ahead of them. >> and it really d

chuck todd tweeted one thing we've learned about cruz, he seem -- >> that's not consistent conservative tichl, that's political calculation. >> ohio governor john kasich saying that anyone on that stage could beat bernie sanders and you're going to hear from senator sanders in just a little bit. there's a lot of buzz surrounding his tweets during the debate. >>> plus, what hillary clinton has to say about the debate when tracie potts joins us at 5:30. >>> right now a look at the nbc/wall street journal poll that came out before the debate. trump at 33%. cruz at a distant 20%. rubio at 13%. jeb bush and chris christie are tied at 5%. >>> another tear roar attack in somalia targeted this morning. i'm erika gonzalez at the live devg wchl're learned heavily armed fighters with al shabaab have taken an attack on peacekeepers. this began as a suicide bomb and followed by heavy fighting. we're told fieing still going on inside that base. back to you. >>> now to that isis terror attack in indonesia. we told you seven people including five attackers died in the explosion you see there as well as

in a tweet "meet the press's" chuck todd said, quote, some conservatives not happy with haley' rece sponges. too soft and politically charged. >>> tracie potts will talk about what the president did not include in last night's address and why it matters to you. >>> right now we are waiting for the release of ten american sailors after the iran military captured them and their boats. iran's army chief though now saying the sailors and vessels will be freed soon but that this should be a lesson to the u.s. an state tv reporting that the two navy boats were seized after one drifted into iranian waters. officials saying that the boat mall functioned and iran has realized that it was, indeed, a mistake. aaron? >>> today the second man charged in the murder of an american university graduate student will be in court. matthew slonsky was shot outside the shaw-howard metro station last september. he wasn't the intended target there. 19-year-old andre dudley is charged with second degree murder. 19-year-old marcus king is charged in slonsky's death. >>> details about a fire inside a bethesda apartme

in a tweet, meet the press host chuck todd said immigration tied some candidates in knots, especially ted cruz and marco rubio. >> we both made the identical promises, but when we came to washington, we made a different choice. marco made the choice to go to the direction of the major donors, support amnesty because he thought it was politically advantageous. >> the truth is, ted, throughout the campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything to get votes. >> in terms of of speaking time, jeb bush finished third behind rubio and cruz. nbc news analysts say rubio was doing well ahead of the exchanges over immigration. >> the only budget that ted ever voted for is a budget that rand paul sponsored that brags about cutting defense spending. >> trump held a separate fundraiser for veterans instead of taking part in the debate. his name was the most searched in every single state. >>> as mentioned, the iowa caucuses are set for monday night. i'm headed to des moines this weekend. i wanted to take you inside the caucuses a bit this morning. these are essentially neighborhood meetings th

tweeted out video of the popular sitcom character fonzie jumping the shark. that's a pop culture reference for when someone has just gone too far. >> let's pick up on in chuck todd. raising the birther argument like he did with president obama, is this a sign that trump sees cruz as a real threat here? >> absolutely. cruz has taken off in iowa. it is his state to lose. and the question is, how big could his victory be? and if cruz gets momentum, some people argue they are fishing from the same boating pond. you know what, there's not a lot to this, lester. it all depends on what you define as natural born. but guess what? before anybody would have any standing to challenge ted cruz's citizen, ability to be president, he'd have to actually be president for you to have standing, so i think this is a moot point. >> chuck saadtodd, thank you. trump is not only the front runner, he's women and among white the evangelicals. >> reporter: a campaign rally in des moines, but not for a cabinet. in franklin graham's words it's a campaign for god. minutes earlier, graham wasn't sure who would show in the cold on a tuesday. more like 2500 to kick off his 50-state tour to con

tweeted with excitement, omg. now to the where. it is miami. "meet the press" is out with an original documentary on that city's unique politics, presented by none other than native son, chuck toddwatch it on nbcnews.com/meetthepress. the when, today, it is a week from sunday, super bowl 50 between the carolina panthers and the denver broncos, your 2016 tie-in to the big game? well, broncos' quarterback, peyton manning, he has given the maximum possible donation to jeb bush's presidential campaign. and yesterday, to get to the super bowl, he defeated donald trump's favorite quarterback, tom brady of the new england patriots. and finally, one more. tom brady in the why tonight. ohio governor john kasich was talking about corporate boards limiting ceo pay on the trail in new hampshire today, and then he let this remark slip. >> here's the thing we can't do. in my opinion. we can't develop a bitterness to somebody else that does well. which you ought to be squawking about is, how much money is brady making? i watched the game, i saw the game, and it, geez, oh, man. >> oh, come on, don't put that all on brady. here's why that matters. candidates don't necessarily have to pander to v