scott joins us from houston with the look at the debate. this guys a liar. >> marco rubio had been avoiding strong attacks against the republican front runner for months. but on the stage in houston, that all changed. >> if he hadn't inherited $200 million, do you know where donald trump would be right now? >> this was the final debate before 600 delegates go up for grabs on super tuesday. ted cruz also went on the offensive against the billionaire turning a five-man debate into a three-man argument. >> every time anyone points at donald trump's actual record, what he said on actual television, donald yells liar, let me tell you something, falsely accusing someone of lying is itself a lie. >> trump offering an explanation as to why he hasn't released his tax returns which became a hot issue after mitt romney suggested the documents could contain a bomb shell. >> i will give my return. but i'm being audited now for two or three years. audit is finished. >> cruz shot back by saying if trump claims he's being audited that should add urgency to

jay gray joins us from houston. >> reporter: front runner trump travels to texas with growing meltum. >> we might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest. >> reporter: the rest of the republican field, desperately trying to show him down. >> three chief opponents have to run in their home states. >> reporter: the stake's -- marco rubio. of republicans do not want trump to be our tomorrow knee. >> we can't be fooled by p.s.barnum. the time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dan dancing bears has passed. >> reporter: but many warn the time for other g.o.p. candidates to drop a trump nomination is running out. >> you have the "washington post" with a stunning editorial about stopping trump. they feel there is urgency to stop trump and that would create some sort of historic rush towards them in the final days. >> reporter: history that either way will begin to play out when the republicans walk on to the stage at the university of houston in just a few hours. jay gray, nbc news. >> bernie sanders and hillary clinton will face off in south carolina on saturday. >> adam: app

joining us from houston, let me ask you about all the hurt we have seen in the energy sector. >> thet and most damaged sector is hitting first. it has been pretty much everywhere. when you look ahead, where are you seeing the most potential opportunities? m&at will be a terrific year because of the breadth and depth. consolidation, distress, integration, and portfolio deals. that is where companies are buying across segments powered by natural gas. there is more interest, so it should be a very exciting year. david: when you look at natural gas, you alluded to utilities. this is a section that has been hit fairly hard because of the warm weather. >> the so many different ways it can be used, we are exporting natural gas for the first time. the petrochemical complex obviously drives the gas powered fleet in this country. and ultimately can grow to a transportation field. to be part is going of a lot of m&a activity this year. are traditionally oil companies waking up to that? >> absolutely. we know from our client base where companies are traditionally oil-based or even of the of that

in my ask joe segment after the break judgement and our senior political correspondent joins us from houston to discuss presid >>> welcome back, everyone a question about traffic flow. sandy wrote in asking if anyone has looked into making virginia street one way through the midtown area. she says wider sidewalks, a bike lane and angled parking, she thinks it could be a good solution. it is an interesting idea. i checked with the traffic engineer for the city of reno and he says the feeling now is that virginia street works pretty well as two-way street. virginia street accommodates what they refer to as a.d. t. or average daily traffic. the two streets on either side of virginia street are one-way streets, sierra to the west and center street to the west and those streets see about 10,000 car as day. the problem is if you made virginia street one way, that is thousands of cars that would end up by diverted into the other side streets, so the city doesn't really view this as a solution at this time to any traffic issues downtown. the only exception to that is you might see parts of virginia

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he joins us from houston. mr. r, thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> does if look like the groundwork is being laid for this nationwide cessation of hostilities or is the last-minute frenzy we see trying to deliver the blow before there's a time out? >> i think establishing a cease-fire is highly problematic under the current circumstances. i wouldn't even call it a cessation of hostilities. i think what we have now are talks about a truce that could lead to a cease-fire. but the political agendas of the parties are so disparate and even conflicting that i'm highly skeptical an effective cease-fire on the ground could be achieved. >> we've had this report from medicines sans frontiers saying one of their hospitals was hit. they believe it was a deliberate act. does that fit in with a pattern of behavior, systemic attacks on syria's health care facilities? >> well, yes it does because we've seen this in the past. health facilities. medicines sans frontiers have been target ppd they're a great organizatio

omar joins us live from houston with what may have been a most entertaining debate yet. omar? swings at each other over immigration and foreign-policy and the supreme court added some times got into some heated exchanges with marco rubio and tran24. >> i know you are embarrassed but keep fighting, keep swinging. >>reporter: the candidates fine for second place turned their sights on front-runner donald trump fired right back. >> you are the only person on the stage ever to be fine for illegally. >>reporter: trump criticized ted cruz for not having support in the senate. to make you don't have supportive one republican senator brady should be ashamed of yourself. see mcdonald, if you want to be like in washington, that's not a good attribute for the president. >>reporter: this was the last of a before super tuesday. and probably the last time. all five candidates share the stage. the lower polling candidates took less contentious positions. ben carson on immigration. and john kasich on religious liberty versus same-sex marriage. >> if you're in the business of commerce, conduct

omar joins us live from houston omar? >>reporter: the candidates took swings at each other over immigration and foreign-policy and the supreme court added some times got into some heated exchanges with marco rubio and tran24. >> i know you are embarrassed but keep fighting, keep swinging. >>reporter: the candidates fine for second place turned their sights on front-runner donald trump fired right back. >> you are the only person on the stage ever to be fine for putting people on your jobs >>reporter: trump criticized ted cruz for not having support in the senate. to make you don't have supportive one republican senator brady should be ashamed of yourself. see mcdonald, if you want to be like in washington, that's not a good attribute for the president. of a before super tuesday. and probably the last time. all five candidates share the stage. the lower polling candidates took less contentious positions. ben carson on immigration. and john kasich on religious liberty versus same-sex marriage. >> if you're in the business o

he joins us from houston. have you noticed any change in companies working to build a terminal as prices have fallen? >> we still have the same applications pending before us. sixave certificated facilities. our nine pending and 13 that are prefiling.ing -- so far, no one has left the queue. alix: do you expect all of these facilities, if approved, to get built? >> that is the big question. ultimately, the driver there will be the global market for lng. doe has the authority to approve the export license for lng, as a commodity. there is divided authority here. alix: indeed. part of the issue is these exports are coming online as demand is coming off a bit, as we get more elegy demand from al australia. how do you see this playing out over the next 4-5 years in the global market? >> that is the big question. , demand has slumped in asia, with the japanese nuclear fleet coming back online , and with the economic slowdown in china. you have softer demand. you have more supply. supply coming from australia, malay

he's joining us live from houston. thanks very much for joining us. how critically important is a win for senator cruz tomorrow? if he were to lose would it be over? >> he will win texas tomorrow, wolf. i don't set expectations but i can assure you he will win texas. i've talked to probably 4,000 people over the last month or so in speeches around the state and everywhere there's solid support for ted here. wolf, here's the key. if donald trump is to be defeated, it has to be a two-man race between ted cruz, not marco rubio or anyone else, but ted cruz and donald trump. our polling and other polling shows that if ted were out of the race 75% of ted cruz voter goes to donald trump. so if ted were to be out of the race and there's this big movement, wolf, from the establishment for marco or john kasich, what they don't understand or don't want to actually believe is that if that were to happen they actually hand it to donald trump on a silver platter when you take 75% of the cruz support. the only person who can defeat donald trump is ted cruz. and the

our ryan nobles and joining us live from houston, the site of the showdown. this is a big night and could be a turning point in the race. right? >> reporter: i mean, it could be denise. you know, the opponents to donald trump have all been attempting to edge each other out and to become the alternative to donald trump and have been doing it by beating each other up. donald trump will finally become the target. >> reporter: tonight in houston republican presidential candidates know what's at stake. good week in the world of politics. >> super tuesday i am convinced will be the most important day in the election cycle. >> reporter: it could be the last chance candidates have to address super tuesday voters on a national stage. donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz, john kasich will face off in a highly anticipated debate so far this election season. so far, will rubio and cruz go after each other or focus attacks squarely on trump. >> people have not done well against me. so far everybody that's attacked me has gone down. >> reporter: on tuesday 11 states will ho

john hendren joining us live from houston, texas, and you are covering that conference, amongst oil leadersind of strategies are they talking about here? >> reporter: well, they are long-term strategies. they all know there's no short-term fix. oil prices are at about $30 a barrel. what they are talking about now is some kind of freeze -- doing something to halt production, but that's just a handful of countries, and of course you have got the increase in oil from american shale producers and from iran, which now that sanctions have lifted is adding oil on to the market. so there's a real glut of oil on the market as we speak right now, the saudi arabia oil ministry is talking about saudi arabia's response. he has been fairly criticized for continuing to pump saudi oil. saudi arabia has strong cash reserves so they can handle a time like this, but other countries, russia, venezuela, are not able to do that. they need to keep pumping, and that's what the american producers are doing as well. so getting control of the oil supply has been a very serious problem. we had a forecast by the intern

. >> joining us now from houston co-creator and co-host of the circus on -- i'm so glad you are on. i said i love this. like a documentary that follows the campaigns you are right up to the minute. stuff will happen on saturday night or sunday morning and it's appearing on the show. tellm% me, you get aamazing access behind the scenes access, back stage, who is a genuine candidate and who is not? >> well, thanks for having me on, eric. so this is a realtime documentary and a big part of what we are doing is trying to pull back the curtain and show what these candidates are like behind the scenes when the cameras are off and when they're not having talking points or speeches and show the human dimension of these people, what's interesting is they are interesting characters because lots of characters in their orbits like their families and staff and some of the journalists covering the campaign that are just as interesting. so i would say actually two of the most interesting people that we have talked to so far in the circus have been jane sanders and donald trump jr. i just talked to

. >> joining us now from houston, texas, is rick tyler, he's the national spokes marshalltown for the cruz campaign. thanks for joining us. very quickly on this threat that donald trump says he's very close to actually going to court, filing a lawsuit, questioning whether senator cruz is even eligible to run for president. what's your reaction to this threat? >> well, he is eligible, i think all of his colleagues agree. there's only one way to become a citizen of the united states, you're either natural born or naturalized. and since he wasn't naturalized and he has an american government than his government recognizes him as a natural born citizen. he can file a lawsuit, he'll just look foolish. >> are you preparing for that lawsuit? in other words as the campaign hired lawyers to defend his assertion that he is technically, legally eligible under the constitution to run for president? >> we're prepared for anything. we have in-house council. of course we are, but we don't think it'll have any standing. >> you don't think he does have standing? >> no. >> because trump says, as a chal

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senator cruz had tense exchanges tonight and earlier tonight, he joined us from the spin room in houston. >> senator ted cruz, welcome. what a debate tonight. a lot of fighting going back and forth. how did you come out? >> i think it was a terrific night. you know? there was a lot of clarity tonight. just five days from super tuesday. and i think what became clear is that donald trump is not the right candidate to go head to head with hillary clinton. on policy issue his position is identical to hillary. whether supporting planned parenthood and whether supporting the tarp bail out or on foreign policy or toppling of the government in libya and supporting john kerry and astonishingly saying he would be neutral between israel and palestini palestinians. i don't think that is the right candidate to go head to head with democrats and i think trump's new york liberal views were exposed to the watchers. >> i want to go into policy issues. a lot of fighting going back and forth. did you expect that? >> there was a lot of fighting. donald recognizes the only candidate that can beat him is me.

scott mclean joins us now from the iversity of houston. "just a few precious days before super tuesday... the epicenter of the republican nomination race tonight will be texas. thth's where the five g-o-p hopefuls left in the race will meet for a debate in houston. the big question now -- can anyone stop donald trump? the front runner says he'll be ready thursday night. "we'll be totally prepared, people have not done very well against me so far everyone who has attacked me has gone down." marco rubio has been attacking trump -- something that won't likely stop on the debate stage: actually allud to obamacare are pretty good" (boo) then there's ted cruz -- who has faced tough questions after failing to consolidate evangelical support in nevada and especially in south carolina. the texas senator thinks he's being treated unfairly. "i'm curious how many reporters ask marco rubio after losing four states in a row, so when do you drop out?" rounding out the debate stage -- john kasich and ben carson -- who still believe they have a way forward

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michael shure in houston >>> joining us from philadelphia. former white house aid to george h.w. bush who was at the debate and is senior vice president of elected face. good to see you, joe. marco rubio and cruz had been going after each other before tonight. tonight it was certainly a focus on attacking trump. they were out to show the emperor has no clothes, trying to get trump to, you know, actually put some meat behind his policies. how effective do you think they were? >> well, i think they both were articulate. worked hard to make their points. they may have thrown strong punches. i didn't see a knockout. to dethrone the champ, you have to knock him out. i didn't see it happening. he played - that is he, donald trump, played to his audience, which doesn't like politicians, they like him. saying he knows politicians, and you can't trust any of them, that's why he's running. he kind of deflected a lot of blows with good counterpunches. no doubt about it. he called ted cruz a liar. and - i am sure he'll lie to you again and again in the next few days. >>> didn't rubio rattle

raised this n nominee mitt romney said that is no >>> florida senator march he ko rubio is with us now from houston. senator, good morning.g. >> did someone hit the panic button last night? >> well, i don't know what i can just tell thaw aabout to take over the republican party xt conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it. look at the report you guys just did. donald trump had no answers lastf health care. if you listen to that report that led into this the media is pumping him up as some sort of unstoppable force.consistently fighting for the working people he says and he has a stick to working people for 35 years. if any other candidate in this race had his record there will be nonstopbut, unfortunately he is pumped up because many the in the media with a buy oos know he is easy to beat in the general election.top to it now and no way we will allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement and donald trump is a con art i- >> what do youment would look like, senator? >> it would be chaos. no one knows but it would look probably like the positions he has helds. on many of thes

use your phone. it's not just security, it's defense. bae systems. >>> and welcome back to our special live from houston, texas tonight. with us now -- [ applause ] republican presidential candidate governor john kasich. governor, great to see you again. i want to get to this issue, which a lot of our voters raised. since senator rand paul left the race, the libertarian voters have been looking around for which candidates best match them. the next voter is one of those rand paul voters. rusty says he's still undecided and would like to hear from all the candidates on this one. rusty, go ahead. >> thank you so much for taking my question. the question is, there doesn't seem to be a champion of liberty left in the race in some of our minds. why should liberty republicans vote for you in the primary and also in the general? >> well, look, the first thing is, i've always believed in small government. i was talking about balancing the federal budget why we shrunk the government. the same thing in my state where we have the lowest number of state employees in 30 years. but i've always believed that we need to transfer power,

. >> joining us from houston republican governor of texas greg abbott.senator ted cruz for president. mike barnicle and yahoo's bianna golodryga still with us as well. >> what other than geography led you to endorse senator ted cruz? >> well, as you were kind of pointing out there ted is someone that i've known for 13 years, ted and i worked side-by-side for more than five years when i was the attorney general of texas and he was my solicitor general. unlike so many people who cast a vote for president who are trying to glean whatever they can from whatever they say on tv or in their speeches or whatever, i have seen ted cruz behind the scenes. i know his thought process, i know the way he goes about thinking his way through challenges, i know his heart, i know his commitment. i know that what he does in his official political actions is what he feels in his heart. and that's why i know that ted cruz is the right person to vote for if what you believe in are solid conservative principles. >> governor, we also had a lot of people that have worked with sen

that us to face with the candidates from houston, texas. every time.ast hour, you heard from texas senator ted cruz and ohio governor john kasich. this hour, a chance to ask the questions to florida senator marco rubio and dr. ben carson. rubio last night fin initialled second and the message today, majority of gop voters still don't want trump as

senator cruz had tense exchanges tonight and earlier tonight, he joined us from the spin room in houston. >> senator ted cruz, welcome. what a debate tonight. a lot of fighting going back and forth. how did you come out? >> i think it was a terrific night. you know? there was a lot of clarity tonight. just five days from super tuesday. and i think what became clear is that donald trump is not the right candidate to go head to head with hillary clinton. on policy issue his position is identical to hillary. whether supporting planned parenthood and whether supporting the tarp bail out or on foreign policy or toppling of the government in libya and supporting john kerry and astonishingly saying he would be neutral between israel and palestini palestinians. i don't think that is the right candidate to go head to head with democrats and i think trump's new york liberal views were exposed to the watchers. >> i want to go into policy issues. a lot of fighting going back and forth. did you expect that? >> there was a lot of fighting. donald recognizes the only candidate that can beat him is me.

. >> marco rubio is with us now from houston. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> did someone hit the panic button last night? >> i don't know what you're talking about. i can tell you that a con artist is about to take over the republican party and the conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it. look at the report you guys just did. donald trump had no answers on the issue of healthcare. if you listen to that report that led into this, the media is pumping him up as some sort of unstoppable force. he has a record of sticking it if any other candidate in this race had his record, there would be nonstop reporting on it. we're going to put a stop to it now. there is no way we are going to allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement and donald trump is a con artist. >> what do you think a trump government would look like? >> it could be chaos. no one knows, but it would look like the positions he's held for all these years on many of these issues. he is wholly unprepared to be president of the united