but with ted cruz, you know, he is -- i've gotten along with him very nicely and i very cutely said it -- it was very well accepted, because he said nice things about me. when people say nice things about me, i think i generally reciprocate, and i was being little bit cute and it got a big laugh and that was the end of that, yeah. >> okay. look, let me ask you about something joe said here the other day after the debate, when he saw your behavior with senator cruz on stage. joe said there's an inside deal between these guys, whether it's a direct deal or an indirect deal, donald and senator cruz have decided not to go after each other because that's in their political interests. is that true? >> well, it's not true, but we got along very well prior to the debate. we're standing up. we didn't talk about this, we didn't do that, but i mean, we did speak, not about this, not about let's get along. it wasn't like that but we got along very nicely. and i really didn't know what to expect. look, i went out on that stage, and if i would have believed all of the pundits, most of whom