Poll: Carson Closes in On Trump
COSTELLO: As the Democrats finished their very first debate, this morning, a FOX News poll finds that the GOP race is getting a lot tighter. In fact, Ben Carson has narrowed the lead down to just one point with support for Carson nearly doubling in the last two months. CNN's Athena Jones joins us with more on that. I'm awaiting Trump's reaction as we speak, Athena.</s>ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you may not be surprised. He's already reacted. Good morning, Carol. But I've got to tell you, there are a few interesting points in that poll. You saw Ted Cruz is now in third place. He's the only other candidate in double digits, at least in this poll. And then Carly Fiorina only at 5 percent, that shows or suggests she hasn't really been able to capitalize on her post-debate momentum after CNN's debate in Simi Valley in September. So, that's interesting. But, of course, the most interesting of those numbers is that Ben Carson figure, only a one percentage point gap there between him and Trump. This is at least the second poll that has shown Carson really creeping up on Donald Trump, nipping at hit heels. And as you mentioned he gained a lot. In the previous poll, he was only at 12 percent, the previous FOX poll. So, he gained 11 points between August and now. And take a listen to how Donald Trump reacted to these latest numbers and what he says his plan might be now going forward. Go ahead and play that.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (via telephone): Probably at some point, yes, which I actually look forward to doing. I can't do it though. He's been so nice to me, George. I can't do it.</s>GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS: What's the number one issue for you to take him on?</s>TRUMP: Well, I think there's a lot of issues. But one of them would be experience. I mean, Ben is a doctor and that's what he's been doing, and the question is, is he capable of negotiating with China and Russia and Iran and all of the things you have to do? And, you know, there will be a lot of things but I think at this moment I'm not going to go into them. There will be a lot of things having to do with capacity, having to do with experience.</s>JONES: So, Trump there was talking about how he's now going to have to go after his now chief rival Ben Carson now that he's creeping up on him in the polls. I mean, in recent weeks, they have really held their fire against each other. Trump even defended Carson last week over his comments about the Oregon school shooting. But now, Trump is saying, look, I'm going to have to attack him and he's signaling very clearly what areas he'll try to attack Dr. Carson on -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: So, I'm taking bets when that will exactly bin to happen. You can join in the pool later, Athena. Thanks so much.</s>JONES: Thanks.</s>COSTELLO: And a reminder to tune in for a CNN exclusive, a one-on-one interview with Ivanka Trump. She's set to join "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper, and "OUTFRONT" with Erin Burnett today, 4:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN. Sometimes, it's what's not said that speaks volumes.</s>MARTIN O'MALLEY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Instead, we can talk about affordable college, making college debt free and all of the issue, which is why -- and I see the chair of the DNC here, look how glad we are actually to be talking about the issues that matter most to people around their kitchen table.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So, O'Malley may be talking. But Hillary Clinton is the one getting her point across. Classic move, showing not just that Clinton agrees with her opponent, but she's making them agree with her as well. How you asked? Well, let's bring in body language expert and author of "The Power of Body Language", Tonya Reiman. Welcome back, Tonya.</s>TONYA REIMAN, BODY LANGUAGE EXPERT: Thank you for having me.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So, let's start with Hillary's manic nodding.</s>REIMAN: Right, yes.</s>COSTELLO: What does that mean?</s>REIMAN: So, typically, if I'm talking to you and I do this, what's going to happen? You're going to nod.</s>COSTELLO: I'm nodding right now, right?</s>REIMAN: Exactly. So, what does that is it actually gets you more along the lines of believing what I'm saying. If you're nodding, internally, your brain is saying, hey, yes, that's right, because I'm nodding yes. So, she does this and it's a technique that well- polished politicians can do in order to get more people on their side, especially the undecided voters.</s>COSTELLO: So, and any movement from the candidate who's not talking will direct your attention, right?</s>REIMAN: Exactly. You want to agree because you are constantly nodded your head with her. And she does it really well.</s>COSTELLO: Interesting. OK. So you also notice that Mrs. Clinton gave a certain kind of smile during her answer to a Benghazi question. Let's watch that moment.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR/DEBATE MODERATOR: Secretary Clinton, you are going to be testifying before Congress next week about your e- mails. For the last eight months, you haven't been able to put this issue behind you. You dismissed it. You joked about it. You called it a mistake. What does that say about your ability to handle far more challenging crises as president?</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I've taken responsibility for it. I did say it was a mistake. What I did was allowed by State Department but it wasn't the best choice.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So, she's pretty much smiling in different ways throughout.</s>REIMAN: But, you know, it's not even just a smile. It's kind of tight mouth. In addition to that, though, it's the extended eye closure that you note there. When she's being ask about this, if you see her blink is slow. So, she keeps her eyes closed more than just a new beats. And we do that to block out the visual stimulus. We don't want to hear it. We don't want to see it, and if we don't see it, we can pretend it's not happening. So, that's really another thing to help us, that protects us. So, we have that and in addition that smile, that tight mouthed smile and moving her body back in forth, which is like a shift in position to begin with. And so, here, you can see that there was a great deal of discomfort and that tight mouthed smile just gives it away.</s>COSTELLO: That's so fascinating.</s>REIMAN: Yes.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So, you also mentioned Bernie Sanders face right after he shook hands with Hillary Clinton.</s>REIMAN: Yes, that was classic.</s>COSTELLO: So, let's talk about that moment.</s>SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Enough of the e- mails. Let's talk about the real issues facing America.</s>CLINTON: Thank you, Bernie.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So what do you see in that exchange.</s>REIMAN: OK. So first of all did you say that shake? It was a little awkward it was kind of like a chopping. But in addition to that, after that, Bernie then smiles. But if you watch slowly the smile turns into a slight look of contempt on the one side of his mouth, a slight look of contempt. Almost like OK. Did help her? Did I want to help her? What was the goal there? So, that was an interesting facial expression coming from him.</s>COSTELLO: Oh, I love that.</s>REIMAN: Yes.</s>COSTELLO: And you also mentioned that Hillary Clinton was no nodding through the whole thing.</s>REIMAN: Of course, she's a bobble head so that everyone will agree with her.</s>COSTELLO: OK. Let's talk about Lincoln -- poor Lincoln Chafee.</s>REIMAN: Poor Lincoln Chafee, yes.</s>COSTELLO: Let's talk about him. He actually bounces when he answers questions. Let's watch.</s>LINCOLN CHAFEE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: As we look ahead, if you are going to make those poor adjustment calls at critical time in our history, we just finished with the Vietnam era and getting back into another quagmire. If you are looking ahead and you sort of looking at someone who made that poor decision in 2002 to go into Iraq, when there was no real evidence of weapons of the mass destruction in Iraq -- I know because I did my homework.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So, was he on his tippy toes? I mean --</s>REIMAN: So, what happens is when we feel powerful, we tend to bounce up, right? IT gives us that little boost of energy. We're taller, we're bigger, we're more in control. But he's more like dancing. So, he swerves and moves. And he moves too much. And when he's answering his questions, he's kind of spinning himself in circles. So, even here when he was trying to make a significant point, you can't take him serious.</s>COSTELLO: Interesting. Oh I wish we could go on for forever.</s>REIMAN: We saw that with Webb. We saw that with Webb as well, just as a clear point, when he was talking about his opponent in Vietnam, the guy who couldn't be there because he was apparently no longer around. But you saw that pride. And he did a very large bounce when he talked about this enemy. So, that's again, that pride, hey, I'm big and I'm tall, that's what we do to be the alpha.</s>COSTELLO: And he had excellent posture throughout.</s>REIMAN: He's a military man.</s>COSTELLO: He's a marine, right?</s>REIMAN: Yes, that's right, excellent posture.</s>COSTELLO: Tonya Reiman, thanks so much. It was a lot of fun.</s>REIMAN: Thank you.</s>COSTELLO: Still to come in the</s>NEWSROOM: Black Lives Matter was on the lips of most of the Democrat candidates last night. But did anyone on the stage really connect with minority voters?