they make better news headlines. >> you know, ben carson -- ben carson just -- >> can i just -- >> ben carson -- well, let me add this. ben carson just did an interview with katie couric and there are are a lot of questions to ben carson right now. he apparently told katie couric, if the media agrees to be nice, he'll release the person he tried to stab, the identity of the young man involved in the childhood knife incident. will that answer some questions that have gone his way? >> i don't know what he means by if the media agrees to be myself. there's no covenant like that in this business. he's running for president. he needs to get his gifted hands a little dirty. let me respond to what scottie is saying. i think she's right. we need to ask questions of ben carson about the veracity of his biography. it's the only thing we have to look at, his only record. but at the same time, if donald trump is frustrated by the lack of policy -- attention to policy, why is he doing a 95-minute performance art show on ben carson's belt buckle? it makes no sense. if donald trump is concerned about

ben carson, ben hogan bridge republican and we're spending time talking about ben carson. >> here is another example of somethi something, listen. >> even if all the media tries to shut you down, which they have tried very much to do with me but they can't because the good lord provided me with mechanisms like my syndicated column and fox news, we would be cuba if there were no fox news. >> now as you point out, i did work at fox for many years and i do have many friends there still who are excellent journalists, but i'm not sure that even they think that without their reporting that we would be cuba. you mean that if fox news didn't exist, we would be a communist country? >> no. again, there you go with sensationalism. you hope that somehow that will resonate with people who don't think for themself -- >> dr. carson, i actually am quoting you. >> more smart than you think they are. they snow exactly what i'm talking about. >> dr. carson, i'm not even quoting you. i'm playing your words. you are the person that said there are a lot of people stupid and without fox news we would be --

host: talking about ben carson's book. guest: he has written a number of these things in his book and some publications have reached out to some of his former classmates and other people who are involved in some of the claims he is making in order to corroborate the story. so far, they have not been successful in doing so. that is certainly something that ben carson's campaign is had to answer to. if a number of these people he claims to have these experiences with our and able to come forward and substantiate these claims, that is going to ultimately diminish his persona as being trustworthy and honest. i'm sure that reporters, myself included, are working diligently to ensure that some of these stories and concerns are addressed. it would help to cooperate -- to corroborate his stories that that's something we are not seeing so far. host: clinton township, michigan, line for democrats good morning. caller: ben carson said things about himself. he is promoting himself in a way. he should be questioned about that. why shou

ben carson. yes, now, ben carson isn't exactly a politician. and he himself says he doesn't know much about politics but he does have a plan for how to be a good president. >> i think the people who do the best are the ones who know how to utilize experts around them. >> trevor: well, that makes sense. you don't have to know everything if you can just surround yourself with experts. there's just one problem-- the experts ben carson surrounds himself with think that he's an idiot. >> ben carson under fire after reports he's failing on foreign policy. >> a "new york times" article quotes one of his national security advisers as saying carson can't get one iota of intelligent information about the middle east, and needed weekly briefings on foreign policy so "we can make him smart." ( laughter ) >> trevor: well, that's just obvious, people. of course, ben carson's advisers can't make him smart. you can't change his brain. that's a job for a neurosurgeon. ( laughter ) it's the same way your barber always has a ( bleep ) haircut. that's how it goes.

. >> ben carson is an enigma. had he wrote a book and in the book he said terrible things about himself. he said that he's pathological and that he's got basically pathological disease. he took a knife and he went after a friend and he lunged that knife into the stomach of his friends, but low and behold, it hit the belt. it hit the belt. and the knife broke. >> i have a belt. somebody hits me with a knife it moves this way. it moves that way. he hit the belt. anybody have a knife and want to try it on me? >> how stupid are the people of iowa? how stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap? >> with me now is cnn political commentator michael smerconish. i have been talking to so many people about this, but i have been waiting to hear from you. >> mutually assured destruction. mad in the cold war, it doesn't help him and it doesn't help ben carson either. it helps take both of them down. and by that i mean the issues he's raising, i think they are worthy issues for discussion. they are fan it's a cal

ben carson. the new co-front runner in the republican race will be smack dab in the middle of it all tonight, alongside donald trump at that big debate out in milwaukee. carson also heading into tonight, facing criticism over stories he told about his past. the carson's campaign is not missing an opportunity to fundraise off of all of the controversy. in an e-mail to supporters today, saying, quote, the media's double standard is incredible, but even worse is their viciousness and blatant disregard for the truth. the media is now going off the rails and we need the resources to fight back 24/7. carson's rivals are taking note, too. >> i heard him this morning say, he's been more scrutinized than anybody in this race. that's unfair. is he kidding? >> i'm thinking, pal, you ain't seen nothing yet. >> if you try to hit your mother over the head with a hammer, your poll numbers go up. i never saw anything like it. >> all of this coming with carson locked in a statistical tie with donald trump, atop t

ben carson. (laughter) yes, he may be a neurosurgeon and a presidential candidate, but he dropped a new track and it's dope. >> this campaign add running several cities. ♪ vote and support ben carson ♪ for our next president it'd be awesome ♪ >> america became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility -- >> trevor: whoo! damn! yeah, he gets it. (laughter) that is the best rap about personal responsibility since j.d.'s 99 problems about my fico score and won. but being a rap star is about your street cred. that's why ben carson spent his life telling everyone how hard he used to be. >> a as teenager, i would go out to people with rocks, bricks, baseball bats and hammers. >> carson describes punching a classmate with a lock in his hand. >> a teenager angered me. i had a large camping knife and tried to stab him in the abdomen. unfortunately, under his clothing, he had on large

he likes to raise the questions about ben carson. >> the thing about donald trump and ben carson dynamic they are more friendly than any of the other rivals. campaign manager n carson's campaign manager get along and there has been talk of a truck and ben carson tick contempt. >> how much does it help you or him that you are able to get him on the phone which is not true for most newspaper reporters? >> a different situation reporting on donald trump's campaign he is accessible in a way that most politicians are not accessible. he sees the benefit of having his voice in a step rather than a spokesperson and that is a different situation than anyone else you deal with. >> on tuesday of this week, there is a news conference at trump tower and i asked donald trump a few goes. he was ripping on everyone, going after cnbc and had a lot to say about the other republican rivals. we will look at that and then ask you a few questions on the other side. >> ben carson is weak on immigration and wants to get rid of medicare. my jeb impression? i don't want to do that, i don't like showing a person s

ben carson raised $3.5 million in the last week based on this controversy. i don't think this is going to hurt him at all in the polls. what it may do is allow some of his opponents to attack him but that may not end up making a difference. >> let's say ben carson goes on to win the republican nomination. don't that mean hillary clinton get a pass on honesty and sweating? >> if ben carson gets nomination, hillary clinton will be measuring the curtains in the white house. she would beat him on so many levels, honesty and integrity doesn't matter. it is a problem when you have any segment of the u.s. population that is going to be voting that doesn't care about the honesty and integrity of the candidates, whether that's hillary clinton on benghazi, hillary clinton on anything in her past, donald trump or ben carson, we have to expect honesty and integrity in our candidates. when we are giving up our rights as dedicated american citizens and voters. >> one of the referees in all of this will be the media in terms of how to than debate. does this help the candid

ben carson 2016 and support ben carson for our next president and be awesome ♪ >> reporter: there is a prevalent consensus here. what did you think of the music first of all? >> i thought it was a little corny. definitely a little corny. >> reporter: do you like the mus music? >> it's corny but funny. ♪ if we get america back on track we got to vote ben carson ♪ >> reporter: corny doesn't mean it won't work. she likes hillary clinton as of now but. >> reporter: does it make you think i'll take another look at you ben carson, is that enough to do it hearing that? >> yeah, it's catching. i'll go and look him up after that. funny. who is this guy? >> reporter: others feel it doesn't work at all. >> it is stereotypical like we all listen to rap. >> reporter: this will radio spot make you do more investigating? >> no. >> reporter: how come? >> i would like to hear him say positive things when he's in a debate and things i feel is well thought out in a debate. radio ad isn't going to change my opinion. >> reporter: this moore house student says bernie sanders or hillary clinton for him

ben carson is on facebook and ben carson has people communicating with voters in iowa one-on-one and there's a groundswell that we don't necessarily see sitting here in new york or washington. >> sure. i think donald trump and ben carson have a larger network of grass roots support on the ground than some of the other candidate like a jeb bush per se. ted cruz does for that matter as well. go back to how this goes with the debate controversy. i think one of the saddest things about the cnbc debate is that donald trump and ben carson weren't pressed on their economic plans as the two front-runners of the republican party. that's a debate that conservative voters wanted to see happen, and the longer that these two guys aren't really questioned about the policy or what their policies, are some of them haven't really fully unveiled plans yet, the longer they will coast and that's not good for anybody. >> gloria, where are we on this debate thing? >> where are we? >> what does this tell us? to me it tells you have 14 candidates with 14 separate age days and want to do their own thing and

ben carson, and story, i refer to as yale story. which he recalled, being tested in a psychology class, what are the latest developments? >> buzzfeed broke a story that web site, just minutes ago, confirming carson's accounts by talking to yale journalists who were active at the time, it may be carson got some of the details wrong, that is forgivable given 40 years later but his account checks out, this goes to how shameful the rush has been to declare this man a liar. on the basis of very limited media reporting that has not established he lie about anything, this has been a campaign of character assasination. lou: i will ask our producers to try to come up with that piece of sound. over week in a reporter. one of the most vicious, hostile attacks i heard in the form of a question from a reporter, you know a long time in my career. if we could find that. and thanks rich for -- i'm told here looking for it right now. let me turn to you, ebony. this dr. carson's right. >> look, we were talk before the break, you can say a lot about h

ben carson and this network? >> a lot of times as conservatives, we feel like members of the media want to attack or destroy us. and i think he feels that way now. as far as the accuracy of cnn and the reporting of the story, i haven't kept track of the tick tock and i think that's up to his campaign and cnn to go through. i think that conservatives feel there's an attack mode from the media when it comes to conservative and republican candidates. >> let me tell you something face-to-face that i've said relative to the rnc and see if you differ. i have seen this take-on-media mentality plays very well with the base. it could help you win the iowa caulk bus but it bodes poorly when you're trying to win over independents in a general election. so when ben carson won't answer some of the questions put to him by cnn saying is this garbage or a pack of lies, he's only delaying the inevitable. but i don't see someone like that trying to defeat hillary clinton. am i wrong? >> wait a second, look. you look at hillary cli

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ben carson. specifically, whether some of the details some of the accounts of his life story written about in his book, are completely true, or as some have claimed at least, a little bit emwill be i should carson pushed back greatly the last couple days as you know, he has risen to the top of the polls with that always comes vetting, and increased scrutiny of who ever rises to the top carson says at this point it has reached the level of unfair and over the top. >> there have never seen this before many other people, who are politically experiencinged tell me they've never seen it before either. >> you don't think bill clinton, or the president, with his birth certificate people -- >> not oi. >> refuse to believe. >> not even close. >> so, where do you think is going on why you? >> because i am a threat. >> to? >> uh -- pro agreesive movement, he will be surrounded by a stage full of he conservatives tomorrow front and center with donald trump, around them will be rubio and cruifiorina bush, 7:0

ben carson's favorability ratings are so high. >> you are talking about marco rubio, jeb bush, ben carson, ted cruz has been a very consistent factor in all these debates. he gets his moment, liss message out, sometimes rehearsed. you know what he is going to say. he delivers. >> reporter: absolutely. ted cruz, college debate champion at princeton. he kind of pulled out those moves last fight as he had has in predebats. he is well polished. last night he differed that and a little more. there was a little popularism in what he was talking about especially immigration. that was interesting. ted cruz is trying to stake-out a lot of different lanes in the primary. going after the libertarians, the eadvantage gel cals and the tea party base. last night when there was a little debate between marco rubio and rand paul over foreign policy you know ted cruz stepped in and kind of took the middle of the road approach the non-interventionist and palm and neo-conservative foreigners policy that marco rubio embodied. >> it's fascinating watching him on the stage, you see the wheels, you see him decid

ben carson's -- dr. ben carson's alma mater, yale, not only african-american students, taunts and racially offensive remarks but the university not doing enough to bring more african-american faculty and counseling services to campus. now, dr. carson, your campaign has sent out an e-mail and internet, you feel like some of this as being in your words infantile and this is not the right way to bring change. what do you mean? >> well, and i mean, we have to prepare people for life and the real world. when you get out in the real world, there is not little safe zones you go to when you feel someone has offended you. that is probably the wrong path to take. what we really should be teaching people is, you know, how do you cope with individuals who are treating you the wrong way. how do you engage in dialogue? how do you help them to see the error of their ways? a lot of times commit people sit down and have a discussion, not nearly as far apart from each other as they think they are. and that surfs a much be

ben carson. >> i know both well. donald has been a friend for 25 years and i respect him enormously. i know ben quite well. i have played golf with him. i will tell you about ben. me the contrary whatever he wrote i believe is absolutely 100 percent true. this is a man of great integrity. tremendous accomplishment. my wife is in the medical field. she is a nurse. shoe knew ben long before i did. he was the most preeminent by far the most preeminent surgeon for doing plain surgery on children. people would come to him from all over the world. i believe what he wrote back then when he wasn't running for office ask absolutely true. what it demonstrates is how a man can change over a period of time i have changed over period of time. so has everyone else. i think this is something that's going to help ben carson because i think it's going to turn out to be the fact that he is tell the sleuth truth. so[fabsolute truth. >> i am well aware the media is on thin ice with the american people. i'm trying to figure out if we are

new polls suggest that carson is doing well in the south and donald trump is going after ben carson questioning a lot of what ben carson wrote in his book "gifted hands" so many years ago, questions about his own violent youth that carson essentially describes but has been questioned because reporters haven't been able to verify it. trump is using this to really question carson's fitness for office. watch. >> it's a tough thing. i mean, he writes a book where he went after his mother, wanted to hit her in the head with a hammer, hitting a friend in the face with a lock with a padlock hard in the face, stabbing somebody, only to be broken up by a belt buckle, which if you know belt buckles they turn and twist. i don't think they're going to stop a knife with the force of a strong man. you know, when he writes that he has pathological disease in a book, now, he obviously wrote this book prior to thinking about running for office, i assume, but he said he has pathological disease. >> reporter: carson in turn says that this is all a product of a media smear e. says what he wrote in the book was tru

ben carson and this network? >> a lot of times as conservatives, we feel like members of the media want to attack or destroy us. he feels that way now. as far as the accuracy of cnn and the reporting of the story i can't help up with the ticktock and i think that's up to his campaign to go through. i think that conservatives feel there's an attack mode from the media when it comes to conservative and republican candidates. >> let me tell you something that i've come face-to-face to relative to the rnc. i have seen this take-on-media mentality can help you with the base. but it bodes poorly when you're trying to win over voter it's in general election. so when ben carson won't answer some of the questions put to him by cnn saying is this garbage or a pack of lies. he's also avoiding the inevitable. but i don't see someone like that trying to defeat hillary clinton, am i wrong? you look at hillary clinton with the e-mail scandal, benghazi, the level of attacks that they've had had on the media. when hillary clinton

ben carson. some people think of him as kind of a square because they picture him as a surgeon and they haven't seen him getting down like that. >> it's perfect. it will help him immensely not only by the people who were effected by the mcdonald's's commercials in the 80s that's going to get them back on board because it's 9 same type of energy and certain people will say i like him now because this is clearly nonsense. maybe he's just trying to be funny. and i like a comedian. i feel like his campaign said trump says crazy nonexcepsense don't we get weird. >> already people adding it to their workout play list and love-making play list. you would not be scared going into a bedroom and hearing that on a stereo. >> i know we're laughing at it but it's a pretty good tune. >> it's a good beat. >> this is rap for people who hate rap. actually it's good for him. in the general he's going to have to obviously get his beats is better. >> what young urban voter is he trying to target in the republic prim

charlie: there was much talk about ben carson's biography. has that subsided? >> it has tapered off. it will never completely subside , because ben carson's biography is a crucial part of what he brings to the table. find some things very admirable about ben carson's biography. they are drawn to it. so a candidate who is not driven entirely by his biography, but largely, sees that as a source of strength, will always have to deal with his biography. subsidenever completely, but it has tapered off. the one thing that ben carson ,as done is blame the messenger that is the message that tends to work with republicans, the media is the supposed aggressor or enemy in these presidential campaigns. ben carson has effectively turned that around to make the media as much of the issue as the holes in his berkeley -- his biography, which were not substantial. no one doubts that ben carson rose from poverty, had a tough existence, went to yell, succeeded, became a world renowned new row surgeon. not the whole biography itself. charlie: finally, let me turn to immigration. t

ben carson. virtually tied within the poll's margin of error. ted cruz and marco rubio tied for third and bush and the rest of the candidates in single digits. after filing trump escalated his attacks on rubio, bush and in particular, ben carson. >> ben carson does not have the aptitude to bring jobs back. does not have the aptitude toe deal with china, japan, mexico and any other country you can name. just doesn't have it. >> trump is reraising questions about both rubio's past financial struggles and using a credit card from the republican party of florida, for what some consider lavish expenses when he was speaker of the house. >> marco rubio, all you have to do is chuck on what happened when he was running things with his credit cards. >> he also announced plans to begin his tv and radio ad blitz with a warning to those attacking him. >> if they hit me they'll get smacked like they never got smacked before. >> i'm going to be very positive. we're doing ads, they'll be announced tomorrow somet

so ben carson didn't need to have any fireworks. he didn't need to take big shots at anybody and accomplish all of that while staying out or above the fray depending on which way you look at it. >> what about donald trump. he complained about carley fiorina butting in. it gao got booed. he cut kasich down, booed.n >> his hand movements are interesting. >> it seems to me he gave his support, what they want to see, they already don't like donald trump is there i think so, too. i think there is a possibility he could have increased his appeal. aside from that real testy exchange with kasich. donald trump didn't give you the same druch that you sea on the campaign stump, which is to say that on the campaign stump, donald trump is constantly fired up. leveling personal barbs, whether it's ben carson who he didn't address last night. he didn't go after him at all. so it's really interesting to see him do that, attack ben carson, marco rubio. didn't call marco rubio a he - lightweight, frevenlths donald trump is focused on showing voters h

ben carson. >> i know both well. donald has been a friend for 25 years and i respect him enormously. i know ben quite well. i have played golf with him. i will tell you about ben. Ñ honest me the contrary whatever he wrote i believe is absolutely 100 percent true. this is a man of great integrity. tremendous accomplishment. my wife is in the medical field. she is a nurse. shoe knew ben long before i did. he was the most preeminent by far the most preeminent surgeon for doing plain surgery on children. people would come to him from all over the world. i believe what he wrote back then when he wasn't running for office ask absolutely true. what it demonstrates is how a man can change over a period of time i have changed over period of time. so has everyone else. i think this is something that's going to help ben carson because i think it's going to turn out to be the fact that he is tell the sleuth truth. so[fabsolute truth. >> i am well aware the media is on thin ice with the american people. i'm trying to figure out

. >>> donald trump doubles down, talking about ben carson and a pathological temper. plus the donald gets specific about fighting isis. >> i would just bomb those suckers and blow up the pipes. i'd blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. >>> and acquittal for a good fella that leaves no convictions for one of the biggest cash heists in u.s. history. >>> plus breezy blasts around the nation. as wild winds whip up waves in michigan. and much, much more on a busy friday, "first look" starts right now. >>> good morning, thanks for being with us. i'm shannon mulaire. we start with breaking news overnight. a u.s. airstrike targeted the notorious isis terrorist known as jihadi john. the pentagon says the drone attack happened last night in northern syria, in the isis stronghold of raqqah. jihadi john is a kuwaiti-born british militant seen in a number of isis propaganda videos that show the execution of westerners. right now a senior u.s. counterterrorism official tells nbc news there's, quote, no definitive proof yet that he was killed. nbc seas keir simmons

ben carson. who is leading in the polls? ben carson. he has depth and breadth. it's not just -- doesn't appear to be a bubble right now. could be in three months but right now, it looks pretty -- it looks like a pretty substantial way to call him a front-runner. >> when you look at those likability, those net positives in his polling, and you look at the flipside in hillary clinton's, that's the one warning sign for her, if she were to become the nominee. she's an overwhelming favorite among democrats but as a general election nominee she has a net negative. >> we carefully timed this poll to be right before and right after her benghazi testimony. she improved among democrats and simultaneously got worse among independents. that's what -- that was the -- you're looking for a benghazi effect. here she strengthened her hold on the democratic nomination and at the same time, showed more vulnerability with the middle of the electorate. that to me only should add to the warning signs. on one hand, democrats are very comfortable with how she handledself and what she d

that's what ben carson will try to continue to talk about. he did in fact transform himself from this young man who had some violent tendencies to someone who found god and that's something that will play really well with evangelical voters in iowa where he is now leading. it is interesting to see. some questions raised. there should be some questions raised. these are legitimate questions. we will see the direction that fox business picks. >> also at the rally, trump taking on starbucks for the design of the holiday cup or not a holiday cup. listen to donald trump. >> i have won of the most successful starbucks in trump tower. maybe we should boycott starbucks. seriously. i don't care. by the way, that's the end of that lease, but who cares. who cares. today, a big story. starbucks is taking merry christmas off. i will tell you. lots of big things. lots of little things. you can call this anything you want. if i become president, we will all be saying merry christmas n aga again. i can tell you. >> the war on christmas plays in the donald tr

. >> the old ben carson is nyquil. >> the media is getting under his skin. >> ben carson said he didn't embellish. he called the guy bob. he said that is a literary device people have used. there were many, many fabricated passages. he is just a great author. >> that's because obama is a democrat. and the liberal media has an agenda. are we right? i don't know if it is a smear campaign. be happy. that's why people are looking into your past. we are going back to years and years ago. we should be remembering what he said, i don't know, this year, 12 months ago. he said going to prison makes you gay. does no one remember that? >> but he has had other things since then so he covered those things. >> pome are now digging into the past. let's focus on the current candidates. hillary clinton, a candidate who has the fbi looking into her past. >> the biggest lier inr@ politics. >> i never use my private e-mail for government business. a lie. >> i was going to try to dpet the panel to go -- to get the panel to go after hillary. >> i thought she would be smart when she bumped her head in 2012 .

ben carson is learning that, including religion. and i think that if you look at all the stories that will be written by, you know, the mainstream media is not monolithic. i want to say that again so your viewers know that. it's a hard concept, but there are going to be many stories written on faith because so much of the ben carson phenomenon and his popularity is driven by faith-based communities. and they deserve and will get coverage and explanation just as mitt romney ran for president, we learned a lot, very substantially, about his mormon faith. jon: go ahead. >> and good for our learning curve. >> sorry. i think the complaint among many republicans and conservatives is that equal time is not applied to the democratic candidates. for example be, hillary clinton claims to be a methodist, but i doubt seriously if anybody is going to delve into her faith. and going back to the wesley brothers, the founders of modern-day methodism, and the reason for that, i believe, is her alleged feint comports pretty much -- faith comports pre

calling ben carson his opponent patholog pathological. he wrote a book and in the book he said terrible things about himself. he said that he's pathological and that he's got basically pathological disease. if you're a child molester, there's no cure. they can't stop you. pathological, there's no cure. he said he went after the mother with a hammer. he wanted to hit her on the head, or he hit her on the head or he wanted to hit her on the head. i said, wow, that's tough. so, he went after his mother. this is in his book. this isn't me. i'm just trying to save you the cost of a book. so, he's a pathological, damaged, temper. >> arding to "the washington post" the republican establishment is so worried about trump possibly becoming the nominee, they're pushing for mitt romney. sunlen -- to you, what's the mood in orlando? >> reporter: carol, i think the elephant in the room is very clearly this new and renewed feud between donald trump and ben carson. certainly, this dynamic of the sharp personal turn the race has turned to in the last 24 h

ben carson. jamil smith, you have been writing a lot about ben carson. talked about his biography and the controversy around it. thes interesting to see "wall street journal" local behind ben carson because they had one of the most damming reports concerning untruths not only in his biography "gifted hands," but in speeches he is given over the years. it is all part of painting this picture of ben carson as somebody who has achieved amazing the wonderful things, achieved the american dream when in fact -- amy: from detroit and poverty to being a leading researcher in this country. that's exactly. it is part of the lien of the legend of ben carson, which he has put in danger, frankly, by running for president. you see a man who has achieved great things in the medical field, but is now trying to take his legend to another level by running for president. whether it is to sell books or when the white house, i can't say for certain. i'm not inside the man's head. amy: both donald trump and ben carson are on book tours. >> what you see is it is sort of like t

ben carson is coming after the media. it is most aggressive stance and he says he has nothing to prove and he will not provide any additional information about the gaps in his personal matter. >> leave it to donald trump to stir the pot. fresh off "saturday night live" hosting gig, trump says he is alarmed by carson's stories of violent childhood. he insists this could spell the end of his rival. let's bring in suzanne malveaux. she is live in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. they want to get some things out before the the debate. for carson, it is defense to offense regarding stories of his past. rubio is providing information on his finances and trump, getting in digs for both of them hoping hoping their troubles will stick. >> reporter: dr. ben's carson's attacks on the media infence infencefying, unleashing a verbal firestorm. >> show me somebody who is 100% accurate at everything they say. >> you said this when you were in kindergarten. give me a break. >> reporter: politico and "the wall

to ben carson's what i believe is ben carson's core of support, evangelicals and we're talking about iowa in iowa, i don't think it hurts him with them. you know, there are dramatic convergence and there is the moment when you accept christ and your lord and savior. this is a core belief of a lot of people who are the core supporters of ben carson. but to others who may be shopping around and may want an outsider and think carson say great guy and like what they heard of him. it might have impact on them. you might say hold it, if his story is shaky. >> yeah. i don't disagree with that, gene. here you have donald trump trying, i think we all agree more like a presidential candidate and less like some guy whose off his rocker. >> he's confident. >> he's confident. but to suddenly turn and do a 180 and accelerate in the other direction back toward these deeply personal. i agree with you. i don't think it hurts carson among his core. i worry, i don't worry at all. i think it might hurt trump among. >> no, it doesn't change. why does that hurt trump and saying john mccain -- it's the sam

donald trump versus ben carson, ben carson versus the media, jeb bush versus marco rube whynd as the rest of the republican candidates looking to stand out somehow from all of that in tonight's gop debates on the fox business network. ahead, how the candidates are each attacking each other and why trump is again bringing up carson's past. how carson is getting backup from a former classmate. a report that jeb bush's buddies plan to pour tens of millions of dollars into helping him attack marco rubio and how rubio is using bush's own words against him. >>> i'll speak live with the debate moderor

ben carson is now in first place. he is your new national front-runner, at least according to our poll. donald trump behind him at 23%. rubio and cruz, the only others to hit double digits. keep in mind, most of this poll was actually conducted before that debate last week. so it's rubio who got some great reviews, cruz who seemed to have a really good movement. if they're going to get traction out of that debate, not necessarily going to pop up in this poll. so right now, carson in first, trump in second. everyone else chasing them. we asked the question, though, at this same point in the most recent republican presidential primary races, where do those races stand. look back in 2012, herman chaai was out the front. john mccain in third place. on that herman cain, something to keep in mind. a lot of people compare herman ca cain. trump has been at or near the top for more than three months now. already he's proven more durable than herman cain. now let's take a look at the democratic side. this is the new poll an thi

ben carson hard personally is not going to go over well with the people that like ben carson who also might like him, as well. for him to regain the lead, donald trump has to come off as a mature candidate. >> ben carson actually holding a press availability right now, katy. let's take a moment and listen to him answering questions of reporters. well, i think we are having some trouble with the audio there. as soon as we get that audio restored