he's got passion about not believing the amnesty. doing things the government is doing now. >> who believes immigration is the number one issue in campaign? this is happening in new hampshire. >> absolutely. >> you were shouting at the tv. why? >> well, immigration is taking away from us. i'm sorry. i want to see it stopped. my parents were immigrants. bring in legal immigrants but it's not helping our economy and there are ways to cutoff what is keeping them here. >> we're going to have a chance to talk about that. when we come back, we're going to discuss the debate don'ts. the things you should not be saying that upset our supporters and we're going to show you the worst debate response that we have ever tested. and they're laughing now. but it's not funny for the candidate. >> they seem like such nice people but have bad news for candidates. frank great to see you. in the days leading up to the debate, the big news was attacks on dr. ben carson. several media outlets tried to suggest he made up parts of his life story. but many o

the u.n. that was published in 2012 that called on shell to urgently take action to clean up these spills. amnestyed that the reason this situation has been allowed to persist ultimately is because the nigeria government they say is not doing enough to force shell to clean up these areas. they say that the government has failed to properly and adequately equip the main government agency that should be detecting the spills and should be putting pressure on the oil companies in the area. amnesty said one of the government's key agencies depends on shell for transportation to some of these spill sites, so how could they possibly come up with an independent report or finding. so a lot of pressure, a lot of anger within the community about these new findings and obviously a lot of pressure now will be on the nigeria government to act. >> absolutely. thank you. >>> police in frankfort have raided the headquartersover the german football association over an investigation into tax evasion, but questions are always being asked about the bidding process for the 2006 world cup. >> reporter: world football au

shell say they have done something clean up, but the findings today in the amnesty report point at something quite different. >> >>> the future for controversial oil pipeline from canada to the u.s. gulf coast is in doubt. the transcanada company believe the key stone pipeline asked the u.s. to suspend its review of the project. the white house says president obama will make a ruling before he leaves office. critics say the probable is bad for the environment, the $8 billion project has had little support from the obama administration. christopher sapped is an analyst on u.s.-canada relations. he says transcanada is trying to increase its chances of getting the pipeline approved. >> i think the project on the merits is a pretty strong one. the fear is that environmental activists who have focused on this pipeline so much will convince president obama to veto the pipeline. they have already convinced hillary clinton to come out against the pipeline. for the canadians waiting may increase their odds of getting a positive response from washington. >> fuel hasn't reached nepal from india for mor

they were passed in the administration as an amnesty. >> a lot of the presidential candidates are looking to get nominated and they always refer to him as the hero and they always fail to mention that if he was the main engineer which essentially offered amnesty i really don't remember the number of undocumented immigrants but essentially legalized all these people and. as i argue we have a vested interest in i'm trying to sell books about it but the 86 act. >> i found an interesting exchange at the end of the book. arthur sloss and -- and sure and then had about uniting america and you talk about that and the response from the professor at temple university and another interesting way. .. >> >> in his book. as a professor of african-american and studies

, the democratic candidates offer a better amnesty" a point driven home in last nights debate by senator ted cruza&"the democrats are laughing, because if republicans join democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose."im jeff barnd for all your political headlines, be sure to watch 'iowa in focus' with host kevin barry, this sunday morning at 9:30, only on fox 28 news. ground and pound -- still to come on fox 28 28what the voice of the hawkeyes -- gary dolphin -- feels the hawks must do against the gophers to come away with a win winplus -- time to tip -- the iowa men hit the court for real this time -- why they aren't taking gardner webb it's floyd week --- all week long in iowa city -- meanin the hawkeyes are focused on one thing -- the pipi-- you know the trophy that the hawks want back from the gophers -- who embarrassed them last season minnesota hung 51 on the scoreboard while shutting down iowa's run game -- allowing the hawks to rush h for just 84 yards -- and the voice of the hawkeyes knows that's what goldy and friends are going to try again

." >> "and we're going to defy the amnesty." see, because when the guatemalan... the guatemalan army basically could dictate... the un peace accords basically dictates the terms of the peace agreement, right? and among the things that they insist on is that there's going to be an amnesty. in other words, of the 200,000 or more murdered civilians in the war, the vast majority of them killed in the 1980s... >> hinojosa: 200,000 people. >> civilians killed. they say there can be no criminal prosecutions or investigations, right, of these countless tens of thousands of homicides. it was basically one of those horrendous... you know, the 20th, late 20th... the 20th century invention, almost of making the civilian population bear the brunt of the fatalities, you know, in a war against insurgency. that was taken to a real extreme in guatemala for so many reasons, part of them i'm sure, you know, a kind of genocidal rage and desire to sort of cleanse the country of these sort of... >> hinojosa: so the catholic church, through gerardi...

, the democratic offer better amnesty. >> point made last night by ted cruz democrats are laughing because if republicans join democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. >> on cpitol hill, i'm jeff barn reporting. jonathan: the country that wants to use crocodiles as prison guards. >> and a robot in grocery stores how it could eliminate jobs in the state? that is co jonathan: i don't know why but i love this story. alison: do you, too? jonathan: if an indonesia official gets his way hungry crocodiles will work at prison guards. the guards can take a break. this is what they do if they want to sneak out. the head of the nation antinarcotics availability said i am going to build a prison surrounded by crocodiles. he is so serious he checked out possible recruits to get the biggest and the baddest at their game. alison: so they have to go through training and boot camp. jonathan: absolutely. alison: well, from crocodiles to this. watch out. you may have to share the aisle of the grocery with a robot. jonathan: no. alison: yeah. they recreated a robot to tr

amnesty. and i am the only candidate standing on that debate stage who has never supported amnesty. >> cruz cast himself as a conservative insurgent with a record to prove it. and is taking aim at rubio, jeb bush, john kasich, chris christie and other who is argue a path to legal status is more compassionate than deportation. >> there are a lots of republican politicians listening to the elites who believe it is really compassionate to support amnesty. it's bad for the working men and women of this country. >> but moments later, rick santorum, who considers himself the gop's champion of blue collar workers filed in new hampshire and called out cruz. >> the guy who was just in here, makes big speeches about you know, how tough he's going to be on illegal immigration. in the gang of seven, in the gang of eight bill he offered an amendment. his amendment allowed people to stay here in this country indefinitely. >> people will have to be deported, but we also have to be realistically with the fact we have 12 million or 13 million people. >> lindsey graham supports the immigration reforms that cruz a

and so it was that injunction, that blocking of the president's amnesty that went up on appeal to the fifth circuit, and they upheld judge hannon's opinion. first, 26 states, over half the states participated in this litigation against the president's order, and they were found to have legal standing -- important event in the process. and then the court found this critical legal fact. they found that the states who were objecting to the president's order were likely to succeed in the final court ruling and on appeal. they found that it would likely succeed. and they noted, referring to the secretary of homeland security, this: the fifth circuit said -- quote -- "at its core, this case is about the secretary's decision to change the immigration classification of millions of illegal aliens on a class-wide basis." close quote. it went on to say, the court did, dapa, that's the amnesty program the president was initiating, dapa would make 4.3 million otherwise removable aliens eligible for lawful presence, employment authorization and associated benefits, and we must be guided by -- to a

are laughing, because if republicans join democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. e mainstream media covers immigration, it's often an economic issue. but i can tell you for the millions of americans at home watching this, it is a very personal economic issue. and i will tell you, the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the rio grande. or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the woodrow wilson bridges in the press. >> what he was saying was reflected in john king's polling numbers, 40% or something. and then right behind that was illegal immigration. we've seen poll where is that's in iowa. the two issues are intertwined. they're not separate issues. they're together. that's why he makes such an impact with it. precisely because he's so crystal clear. >> we have a country that's becoming more diverse each election. the republican candidate has to get something in order of 40% of the hispanic vote to win the election. george w. bush got 44%, mitt romney got 27%. we're mo

. >> the amnesty. they argue the state programs that have been modestly successful or more so, picked up taxpayers but already on the federal tax rolls. something like 97%. what is your response to that? >> my response is that the irs itself says that tax compliance is now at 81% in this country. obviously, there's no way that state will pick up people who decide they will pay state taxes but not federal taxes. one in five taxpayers aren't paying. on the 20% noncompliance. that is a very, very big amount of money. the federal revenue enforcement, we can give them -- >> is that your current estimate what you can get from this? >> i think we can do more than that. the dorgan task force estimated 35 billion thereafter. >> pretty well challenged. weren't there a lot of controversy. >> i don't think the figures -- those are quite conservative. no amnesty. i would do amnesty as part of it. that's just the beginning. the figures we have on that are about 10 billion. there was an analysis done. recent study do

because if republicans join democrats on the party of amnesty, we will lose. [ applause ] . >> and, inderstand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn't often see it as an economic issue, but can i tell you for a million of americans at home watching this, it is a very personal economic issue. and i will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the rio grand, or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press. [ applause ] >> what he's saying there is what was reflected in john king's polling numbers. when they turn to donald trump, they gave him 40 %, something, and then right behind that was illegal immigration, and we've seen polls where that's in iowa. so the two issues are intertwined. they're not separate issues. they're together. and i think that's why he makes such an impact with it, and because he's so crystal clear on this. that's what they're looking for. >> can we have a reality check? >> i'm about to give one. >> one sec. david. >> we have a

quite frankly, the sound bite keeps saying amnesty. no one is talking about amnesty. they're saying let's fix the system and get it done the right way. cruz understands in order to win the primary, he has to be as extreme as possible, but that doesn't mean he's going to win the white house. and what rubio understands is that he actually has his eyes set on winning that white house. so he has to figure out how to thread the needle very carefully. listen to him where he says, i do believe that some people are going to have to be deported. i think most people realize that. but what cruz is trying to do is he's trying to get himself as close to the extreme -- who usually votes during the primaries? the base does. the most right of the republican party. but when you poll republicans and independents, they actually do believe we should have a pathway to citizenship. we're talking about a unique voter, but not all republican voters. >> howard dean, can ted cruz really believe his math on this thing? >> this has nothing to do with math. this is a fact-free zone. >> to the poin

if the republican party nominates a candidate who supports amnesty along with hillary clinton we wille the general election. >> well, later in the day, laura ingraham questioned cruz about rubio's past immigration support. >> refresh our memory about the enforcement amendments that were offered and summarily defeated. one, i think jeff sessions proposed, did rubio support any of those amendments? >> he opposed every single one of them. >> he basically says now he has heard the concerns and the people are not where their thinking was, i guess that is what he is saying. >> you know, look, it's not like people were quiet in sharing their concerns. >> well, rand paul discussed rubio today. >> what i objected to with marco is that he has blocked all conservative ideas. there was basically a secret deal between marco and chuck schumer to exclude all conservative amendments on the immigration deal. when he got together with chuck schumer on the immigration deal, i knew this fix was in, he was not going to allow conservative immigration. >> fredericka, impressive voices are coming from the ri

and i am the only candidate standing on that debate stage who has never supported amnesty and, in facto led the fight to defeat amnesty in congress. >> joining me live, nbc news senior political editor mark murray. there's a lot to talk about here. obviously you have a division as to what senator cruz says is amnesty. jeb bush has described it obviously as something different. at one point marco rubio was part of a comprehensive immigration plan, and then you have the outlier of donald trump and this plan that he would fashion off of eisenhower which is in itself the details obviously now being revealed to those who may not have known and trump not being clear on what his plan is. a lot of moving parts. but what is to make of the overall impact this will have on the gop? >> yeah, tamr, i think this is going to be the biggest issue that's going to define this race from now up until the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary in early february. we, of course, saw this big immigration debate, and what you end up doing with the 11 million undocumented immigrants kickoff when donald trump f

the capitol. >> reporter: this all right by amnesty focuses on four oil spills. ay that the impact of all of this has been devastating on communities in the region, especially in the areas of the economy. of course you can imagine people in the area rely heavily on farming and access to fresh water to clean air and clean land. what al-maliki -- amnesty are saying is that the impact of the spills have had a devastating effect, and shell has failed to implementment the finding of the united nations report published in 2011 in which companies like shell were told that they must clean up these areas. shell say they have done some cleanup, but the findings today in the amnesty report point to something quite different. >>> parents in nigeria say a lack of funding is damaging the quality of free public education. with more than 10 million children out of school, experts are predicting a crisis in the years to come. >> reporter: like many girls her age, her dream is to be a doctor. she came to this private school to chase that dream, because her parents can afford it. >>

. >> if republicans join democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the rio grande. or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press. and i will say for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we're tired of being told it's anti-immigrant. it's offensive. i am the son of an immigrant who came legally from cuba to seek the american dream. and we can embrace legal immigrations while believing in the rule of law. >> joining us with reaction, the man himself. 2016 republican presidential candidate texas senator ted cruz. i thought you had a huge night last night. congratulations to you. let's go to the number one poll-tested line of the night was that line on immigration that you used. you're tired of it. we're being told we're anti-immigrant. it's offensive. explain more. >> well, sean, thank you. it's great to be with you. you know, i have to say

listen. >> it is not complicated that on the fight over amnesty in congress, the gang of eight bill that was the brainchild of chuck schumer and president obama would have granted amnesty to 12 million people here illegally. that i stood with the american people and led the fight to defeat it in the united states congress. >> it is not complicated he said where i stood. also not complicated who did not stand there. he is speaking directly about marco rubio, jeremy. >> of course. this is classic ted cruz where he highlight what is he has done without talking about opponents. he is clearly drawing a contrast here. if you know as the narrative currently pointing to maybe we could see a fight with marco rubio and ted cruz for the nomination, the issue of immigration is probably going to be central to that debate. that's largely a factor of the fact that immigration has become so central in the republican nomination process. largely because of donald trump. he has brought this issue to the floor. it would have been a big issue, but he magmatized it. >> let's be clear. donald trump wants to bu

and i am the only candidate who has never supported amnesty. >> reporter:onald trump would argue with that and turns out the rick sanatorium who won the caucus, when he failed and called out mr. cruz. watch. >> a guy just in here makes big passionate speeches of how tough he will be on illegal immigration. but in the gang of eight bill, he offered a bill, and said under his amendment, which, which he wants to pass and he said repeatedly, i am for this bill passing with his amendment. that would allow people to stay here in this country indefinitely. >> reporter: you have rick sanatorium suggesting he would deport those 11 million. and trump saying the same thing and sanatorium questions whether cruz really moans that when he said he would do that. >> thanks. >>> potential disaster playing out in the skies over new york city and dallas. laser beams from the ground aimed at airplanes and news helicopters thousands of feet in the air. rick, we are getting the first look at the video of the laser? >> reporter: we'll see that in a moment and i spoke to a nypd ch

the gang of eight, they fought tooth and nail to try to jam this amnesty down the american people's throat. >> rubio had an attack of his own ready today, pointing out that cruz had also once supported a position dangerously close to a conservative to derisively call amnesty. >> when a senate bill was proposed, he proposed legal izing people that were here illegally. he proposed giving them work permits. if you look at it, i don't think our positions are dramatically different. >> rubio's campaign also circulated a video of cruz in 2013, pushing an amendment that would have eliminated the path to citizenship but would have allowed a legal status for undocumented immigrants. >> i don't want immigration reform to fail. i want immigration reform to pass. and so i would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and that allows those who are here illegally to come in and out of the shadows, then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come

rubio fought hard for the amnesty legislation. senator cruz was always against it. etween reporting periods. how much money are the cruz super pac's sitting on in the banks? kellyanne: we have ample but not unlimited resources. i plan to spend every penny of it. mark: is it more than $60 million? kellyanne: no comment. john: "ample but not unlimited. i'm going to use that in other contexts as we move forward. kellyanne conway, thank you for being here. next, why you should not be surprised by what president obama has been saying about isis since the paris attacks. ♪ >> this crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. mark: that was, of course, president george w. bush, talking tough about taking on terrorism. how president obama's rhetoric has differed. taning us, margaret colin -- lev. explain what you think president obama and john kerry are trying to demonstrate in their rhetoric since paris. president obama is obviously not

he made the case that he and his rival were not so different on this issue of amnesty and immigration>> when the senate bill was proposed, he proposed legalizing people that were here illegally. he proposed giving them work permits. he has supported a massive expansion of the green cards. he supported a massive increase program.1b if you look at it, i don't think our positions are dramatically different. mark: despite what he said, there are some differences. rubio made news in another way today. he went on fox news and made a -- it clear that some people who were in the country illegally would have to be deported before there can be a talk of additional immigration. john in this fight over , immigration, if ahead towards a showdown, who has the upper hand? john: i think ted cruz has the upper hand. his position is clearer, and more consistent with what we think we know about these guys. ted cruz is not a member of the gang of eight. marco rubio was a member of the gang of eight. we will discuss all the intricacies of amendments in a stuff that rubio is counter-claiming by ted cruz is

. >> when chuck schumer and barack obama joined with establishment republicans in pushing the massive amnesty plan, gang of eight bill, i joined side by side with senator jeff sessions, we led the fight to defeat amnesty. >> it's a direct knock, of course, on rubio's co-authorship on that bipartisan immigration bill. rand paul doesn't think rubio should get off easily either. >> when marco got together and made a secret deal with chuck schumer to block all amendments, i knew really he was not going to allow any conservative immigration reform. >> rick santorum entered the fray. but he's going after cruz. and he says cruz, his attacks on rubio, are actually out of line. here's why -- >> he wants to double the number of legal immigrants in the country, increase 500% the number of h1b visas in country. to sound as he did how tough he is on the issue of illegal immigration when he says i want the gang of eight bill to pass. >> rubio climbed in with a similar critique. ted is a supporter of legalizing people in country illegally. in fact, when the senate bill was proposed, he proposed legalizing p

that is the core of the amnesty argument and the amnesty divide that ted cruz doesn't support and thats to support. >> donald trump, let's get to the sound calling for the deportation of 11 million people. he's what he said this this morning. >> you're going to have a deportation force. you're going to do it humanely and, frankly, you have some excellent people. some fantastic people that have been here for a long period of time. don't forget that you have millions of people that are waiting in line to come into this country and they are waiting to come in legally. >> so i think a lot of americans believe maybe somehow that he would be able to deport all these people. how would he then compare to a rubio plan? >> rubio has been circumspent on this lately. but in the past, he has fallen into the category of the people we heard on the stage in the debate the other night who disagrees with donald trump, with jeb bush, with john kasich who said it's nuts. it's just not doable. but, look, the bottom line is rewind back to june when donald trump announced his candidacy. this is the issue tha

it doesn't close it. >>> and the obama administration needs a plan that bars military trials and indefinitely trials, and amnestynternational urging the white house to accommodate the detaines who have been held at guantanamo bay prison. >>> three men are facing charges for what has been described as the largest security breach in u.s. history. the prosecutors says the men were involved in a huge data breach affecting jpmorgan chase along with several large newspapers. >>> there is tension on the campus of yale university. students marches over what they say is a culture of racial insensitively. john henry smith has more. >> reporter: hundreds of students march to protest what they call racial intolerance on yale's campus. they had demands. >> getting more faculty of color on campus. getting people of color into the mental health and counseling system. >> reporter: tensions began rising last summer when some students pushed to change the name of the calhoun college. he was a u.s. senator in the 1800s and one of the nation's biggest proponents of slavery. then late last month there were confrontations over the un

. >> i'm the only candidate standing on that debate stage who has never supported amnesty and, in fact, who led the fight to defeat amnesty in congress. >> reporter: on the democratic side, the stakes are hide for bernie sanders and martin o'malley as they good into saturday's debate in iowa. polls show hillary clinton far ahead of both contenders in the race. most democratic voters believe trump would be the hardest to beat come november. now, sanders did pick up a key endorsement thursday. he secured the support of the 200,000 member american postal workers union. it is the largest labor union to back him. a big boost he needs going into tomorrow night's debate. >> don champion in new york, thank you. >>> "face the nation" john dickerson will moderate the democratic debate and we will talk to him coming up on "cbs this morning." you can watch the debate on cbs saturday night at 9:00, 8:00 central. >>> coming up on the "morning news." murder investigation. police in indianapolis track down clues in the killing of a pregnant pastor's wife. >>> later, a mobster's bait. a verdict in a no

and the first decision of the argentinian congress was to declare null the self-amnesty adopted by the army to protect themselves. so open the way to justice. and then in '84 we have, one of the first truth commission collecting information, exposing what happened. and crowning on this process was the juntas trial when i was a deputy prosecutor. and for six months, we have, 800 witness in public hearings explaining what happened. and that change my country. i never could convince my mother of what happened in my country. when i was conducting investigations, i was going to have lunch in the house of my mother. and she was trying to convince me to stop. she would say, "no. general videla's a nice guy. " he looked like my father, because my grandfather was a general. so my mother was thinking he's a good man. and you're doing a big mistake. and i, i was tryin' to explain to her. and she'd say, "no. " but then when the trial start and my mother start to listen to witness. >> she call me and say, "i still love general videla. but you are right. he has to go to jail. " the trial is more tha

today as ted cruz registered for the new hampshire primary, he called the what rubio now wants amnesty. >> and if the republican party nominates a candidate who supports amnesty, along with hillary clinton, he will lose the general election. >> reporter: meanwhile, ben carson got hit with new questions. associated press reporting carson is a business partner of a pittsburgh dentist convicted of insurance fraud, but not imprisoned after carson vouched for him. i will continue to stand by him, said carson in a statement, that is what real friend dozen. a frontrunner in the spotlight along with a strong challenger. sop the next republican debate scheduled for december 15th in nevada. >>> pill problems leading to a lawsuit. more than 100 women are suing the maker of a birth control pill, alleging incorrect packaging led to unwanted pregnancy. some of the plaintiffs in this case are asking the drug maker to pay for the cost of delivering and raising their children. our elizabeth noreika is here with more. >> reporter: yeah, kim. these women are asking for ms of dollars in damage. the lawsui

just a few hours left before the deadline explores in a controversial arms amnesty in burundi and theas warned opposements they will face extraordinary police action if they do not surrender their weapons. one man has died after police fought protesters in kashmir during a visit by india's prime minister and several people arrested during the protest rally and kashmir is a muslim majority state and india leader is a hindu nationalist and correspondent was at the protest. >> reporter: police confronted protesters before the morning rally. almost as soon as the black flags and balloons appeared on this small neighborhood street police whooped in and contained the protesters even as some tried to run and they want self determination on whether india administered kashmir should remain with india, or pakistan or be independent. local politician and protest organizer was taken away by police along with some of his supporters. >> translator: al jazeera interviewed him the day before the visit and said the expected announcement of economic aid won't subdue the conflict in kashmir. >> this is

, and in fact, who led the fight to defeat amnesty in congress. >> on mocrat being side, the steaks are high for bernie sanders and martin o'malley as they go into saturday's debate in iowa. polls show hillary clinton far ahead of both contenders in the race, most democratic voters believe trump would be the hardest to beat come november. >> don champion, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >>> and once again, the democrats debate tomorrow night in des moines, iowa, "face the nation"'s john dickerson will be the moderator there, starts at 9:00 right here on cbs-3. >>> coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news", see the unusual reason why police pulled over a self-driving car. plus: another sign that winter is coming, right? the ice skating rink at dilworth park opens today, loverly site there. we will show you what's new this year, when you head to the ring. >> also, are you addicted to rates looking up facebook feed, how quitting the social networking site could actually make you happier. justin? >> good morning, waking to up dry conditions, but now the

. >> what you said is right, the democrats are laughing, because if the republicans join the party of amnesty like the democrats, we will lose. i understand when the mainstream media covers immigration, it does not see it as an economic issue, but i can tell you that for mill kwons of americans a alt home watching this, it is a very personal economic issue. -- millions of americans at home watching, this it is a very personal economic issue. >> and now sh, the political commentators s.e. cup, and she is a conservative, and donna brazile is a democrat, and both very important observers for us, and there is a clear split of immigration reform among the presidential presidential candidates and would bit the trump side or the side that jeb bush has or that john kasich has, and which is more likely to attract the republican caucusgoers and the primary votes in the upcoming primary? >> well w people in milwaukee applauded for the john kasich and jeb bush prescription, as well as the ted cruz prescription. >> and not for donald trump? >> no, they didn't go for the donald trump, and he did not effect

cruz talking about if we join the democrats on amnesty we will lose. the party that is still, i think, whoever wins that debate is going to have a dig determinant in how the party does next year. i think it is going to be the critical issue in terms of picking the nominee. i think rubio and cruz did well last night. i agree with ed. i think jeb bush, if he comes back and stabilizes and starts the move, i think we might look back from last night and say it started last night. i think we might agree with did better and looked like he was getting to the message he was comfortable with delivering and had some umph behind it. he dragged at the end. >> i think joe touches on something important here, ed. it is where is your party on the issue of immigration and will your candidate be the person who wants to build the wall or the person who believes that, you know, you have to be compassionate toward these families. and that is, i think you are right, joe, the deciding factor. >> i would argue building the wall is the more sealable position. i am not advocatin

was the brainchild of chuck schumer and barack obama, that would have granted amnesty to 12 million ere illegally, that i stood with the american people and led the fight. >> amnesty, amnesty, amnesty. ted cruz pushing that narrative hard against marco rubio, from operatives i have spoken to they say if this becomes a two person race, expect ted cruz to go down that path as much as possible. >> let me say it's early to say it's going to come down to two of them. there's a hong way to go and we have a lot of candidates. if it did, this is one of the issues that would distinguish them. they were on opposite sides when you had the gang of eight coming up with that reform package. senator rubio has tried to really distance himself from that. he talks mostly about enforcement, not about dealing with the 11 or 12 million people who are here without papers now. but it would be one of the differences between them. it would be one of the ways in which they would be very different general election candidates, because senator cruz would stake out a position in great contrast to where the democr

. >> and if the republican party nominates a candidate who supports amnesty along with hillary clinton we will lose the general election. >> reporter: meanwhile, ben carson got hit with new questions. associated press reporting carson is a business partner with a pittsburgh dentist convicted of insurance fraud and not imprisoned after carson vouched for him. i will continue to stand by him said carson in a statement. that is what real friends do. a front-runner in the spotlight, along with a strong challenger. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >>> just in from adam tuss, our transportation reporter an all-clear has been given after reports of a suspicious vehicle near the u.s. capitol. those roads will be opening soon. >>> still ahead, a mother murdered in her home. now new evidence reveals why she was living in fear in the days before her death. >>> trouble with transportation, but that's not all. we'll tell you about the growing complaints from the woman who was struggling to find a way to get her special needs son to school. >>> and a powerful st

the new hampshire primary... he called what rubio now wants: amnesty (sot sen. ted cruz / (r) presidential candidate :45- :52) "and if the republican party nominates a candidate who supports amnesty, along with the general election." meanwhile ben carson got hit with new questions. associated press reporting: carson is a business partner of al costa, a pittsburgh dentist convicted of insurance fraud but not for him. ( graphic - take full -------------in/out -------1:05-1:12) carson statement on al costa "i ... will continue to stand by him. at is what real friends do." i ... will continue to stand by him. said carson in a statement that is what real friends do." a frontrunner... in the spotlight along with a strong challenger audio outcue: i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >> (matt) it's the first day of semi- final play in the iowa high school football playoffs. (sheila) three siouxland teams are playing in cedar falls. sportsfource is on the road at the uni-dome. that's where we find ktiv's mark freund. we're about 30 minutes away from the class 3a se

i am the only candidate standing on that debate stage who has never supported amnesty. reporter: one candidate who was not on the prime time debate stage the other night also filed his paperwork in the granite state. former senator rick santorum took this swipe at cruz. >> guy who was just in here, makes big passionate speeches about, how tough he will be on illegal immigration. yet in the gang of seven, the "gang of eight" bill he offered his ammendment allowed people to stay here in this country indefinitely. reporter: today florida senator marco rubio said some illegals will need to be deported and government will have to deal realistically with 12 or 13 million illegal folks in this country. the american people are watching to make sure the law is being enforced. >> you have to prove to people illegal immigration sunday control. you have to show them you're actually enforcing the law. you have to prove to them it is working. you have to modernize the legal immigration to make it merit based and not family based anymore. reporter: next stop for the republican candidat

the gop base. he talked about amnesty. he tied it to wage stagnation. that's something that especially iowa caucusgoers are going to hear. >> there's a question before the debate as to whether or not the moderators would bring up the discrepancies in ben carson's narrative about his past. they did. they ask eed do you think this affecting your trustworthiness. let me play for you ben carson's response. >> the fact of the matter is, you know, we should vet all candidates. i have no problem with being vetted. what i do have a problem with is being lied about. and then putting that out there as truth. >> now, ron, the moderators did not press him on who's lying? who exactly has said any lies. he's equating questions with lies. >> right. when you're in a primary debate, first to go to chris's point, a lot of the real differences are between the parties and many of issues, whether it was minimum wage or taxes or ben carson's biography would be much more of a flash point if you were talking about a general election context where there's a real, you know, there

the gang of eight, they fought tooth and nail to try to jam this amnesty down the american people's throat. >> rubio said yesterday that cruz was rewriting history while his campaign circulated a clip of the senator advocating to give legal status to the undocumented back in 2013. >> ted is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally. in fact, when the senate bill was proposed, he proposed legalizing people that were here illegally. he proposed giving them work permits. if you look at it, i don't think our positions are dramatically different. >> i don't want immigration reform to fail. i want immigration reform to pass. and so i would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass commonsense immigration reform, that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows, then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come together. >> cruz now says that he supported the amendment to expose democrats' unwillingness to compromise. >>>

. >> if republicans join the democrats as the party of amnesty. we will lose. >> the u.s. should not get bogged down in syria. >> we are not going to be the world's policemen but we sure as heck better be the world's leader. >> deep differences between the candidates. >> strongest military on the face of the planet and everyone has know it. >> i want a strong national defense but i don't want us to be bankrupt. >> we can't even have an economy if we're not safe. >> ben carson defending claims about his past. >> i have no problem with being vetted. what i do have a problem with is being lied about. >> this debate largely stuck to the issues. with middle candidates grabbing much of the spotlight. >> they also focused on the middle class. minimum wage. trump and carson both said they would not raise the minimum wage. next debate up in about the month, december 15th in nevada. >> thank you. >>> now more of last night's most talked about moments. take a look. >> well first of all, thank you for not asking me what i said in the tenth grade. i appreciate that. >> we will have a w

>> in particular, we've seen marco rubio's campaign trying very much to blur the record. >> how do you define amnestyi consider it to be forgiving the law-breaking of those who come here illegally and having no consequences and in particular, a path to legalization. >> is that also amnesty, sir, a path to legalization, sir? >> he wants to separate himself from marco rubio, his answer still isn't cut and dry. kasie hunt joins us live. kasie, if you will, decode this one for us. this battle breaking out between cruz and rubio. cruz wants everyone to think rubio is soft on immigration. why didn't he want to go down that road with you with all those questions today? >> well, steve, i think what you're starting to see play out here is this tussle for conservative voters, the conservative base, the conservative media, between senator rubio and senator cruz. it's bubbling to the forefront as cruz rises in the polls and becomes the up and coming potential iowa front-runner just behind donald trump. so there's a lot of focus from each camp on the other one, with rubio going after cruz for his vote against tha