rick klein has the latest.ood morning to you. >> reporter: reena and kendis, a fierce war of words erupting over isis and what to do about syrian refugees who want to come to the united states. president obama taking the rare step of fully engaging the republicans who want his job. ted cruz going so far to challenge president obama to say those same words to his face. >> i would encourage you, mr. president, come back and insult me to my face. >> reporter: and donald trump as donald trump does, not backing down in any way. >> what obama's doing is incredible. if you watch that news conference the other day, i mean, he was primarily angry at the press anat the republicans. it didn't look like he was angry at the people, the savages, that did all the destruction and rued those lives and killed all those people. he was more angry at the press and the republicans than he was at the people that did this horrible act. pretty sad. >> reporter: all in all notes from some political figures. this is a somber time for the

stoddard, abc news political director rick klein. rick, first to you. your thoughts?ese are individual incidents obviously. each one of these campuses have their own back stories i think you are seeing a through line here of people that are upset about things and do expect this action. and i think one of the ironies of this is that people are expressing express ft amendment right but they are often limiting someone else's first amendment right that's the danger here. whatever the merits of the individual cases that you have a political correctness that goes a little too far in shut be down speech before it can start. what you are seeing on campuses, this is a cross section of society. you put 18, 19, 20-year-olds. you have hurtful and hateful things said that's how the world works. >> it's sort of interesting, a.b., i thought in the beginning this was about racism. i thought i was going to to hear a whole litany of events that the faculty has turned their back on. i find out, look, racism is horrible, sexism is horrible, antisemitism is horrible. all these things. but

jackie kucinich and abc news political director rick klein.agining governor chris christie enormously disappointed tonight. >> this is a big blow, i think, to his campaign. we will have the smaller stage of only 8. mike huckabee also missing the cut and going toai be on the under card. that under card to have form two former iowa winters of huckabee and santorum in addition to chris christie that is a lot of fire power. that's where you want to to be be the biggest ratings and most attention. signal for better or worse about what the first tier of serious contenders is. >> jackie? >> you know, i think probably the biggest fear for someone like huckabee or someone like chris christie is that the other networks aren't going to want to expand this again. you are not going to want to have 10 people on stage when fox business had eight. it's going to be a challenge to get back up into that debate. we haven't seen anyone do it since carlie fiorina. it will be interesting especially because christie has really been saying some things that have gotten

>> our thanks to rick klein there. >>> the fierce debate over syrian refugees is playing out across the nation. the mayor of roanoke, virginia, set off a firestorm of criticism after he favorably compared the rejection of the syrians to the internment of japanese-americans after pearl harbor. but in connecticut, the governor there is welcoming a syrian family after officials in indiana objected to the refugees being settled there. >>> two people are dead after a helicopter crashed and caught fire in southern california. the chopper was within inches of landing at an airport north of san diego when it began spinning out of control. seconds later, it broke apart, hit the ground in a cloud of smoke and flames. fire crews doused flames quickly. both people on board were killed. >>> now some extreme weather. two flight attendants on an american airlines flight out of plane encountered turbulence. it returned to o'hare airport. the passengers stayed in chicago and will travel to england a little later on today. that incident followed the deadly storms that moved through the northwest and othe

rick scott one of 27 governs saying no to syrian refugees. the left calls that racist and inhumane well governor will join us shortly. hillary's top aid calls her con feuded. ed kleinrote a book about hillary is coming up next as well with a comment on this confusion, quote, back in two minutes. .. stuart: we will take you to the floor of the united states senate where senators will observe a moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attack. we will take you there when the moment of silence begins. we have a dead flat market for this tuesday morning. the dow industrials are up 5 points, there is action in the oil market, an indicator of where stocks are going to go, we are at $41 a barrel, moments ago we were at $40 a barrel, interesting question. do we did below $40. if we do we watch out for the stock market, it will probably come down. as for walmart higher profits, stock is up 2.5%, maybe they are avoiding the retail ice age we have been talking about. same story with home depot, profits are up, sales looking good and that stock is up 3%. have news for you and the terror front. russia says it wants to help france fight isis. france and the rest of the