Let me go to Howie Jackson on i should be howie, sure. What do you think about tonights debate. What explains the behavior. Cruz was the most consistent taking shot after shot at barack obama. Irrespective of the topic. Going for the proisrael crowd. It makes sense. Most of what he did was going after the tea party people. He was working their hard right rail of the race. Like hes always done. I dont know what the strategy is. Is there enough for him to win the nomination way out on the hard right . Well, thats the bet hes making. By moving to the right of donald trump he can pick up that conservative support and try to bring together the socalled antitrump folks within the Republican Party. What was most striking about this. He nailed it when he talked about it was serious, it was substantive for the most part. Even donald trump himself acknowledged how civil the evening was. You didnt see at all what you saw last week which were insults right off the bat for the first 90 minutes, it was very focused on policy, education, trade, climate change, for example, cruz was the one who did draw those policy contrasts with donald trump. Who kept hitting democrats. You heard him say that phrase over the last seven years hes trying to make the case now that he is the best one to take on potentially Hillary Clinton or the democratic nominee in a general election. The question is, whether that case will stick against somebody like donald trump, the clear frontrunner. The other part, both of those candidate candidates framing this as a twoperson race and trump talked about that explicitly and cruz, as well. Marco rubio continuing to sort of insert himself into the conversation looking strong on that cuban answer in his hometown of miami, south florida. A good moment for him. As for the kasich campaign, an aide believes that nothing that happened tonight changed the trajectory of this race. Remember, were just five days out from that crucial florida primary. Yeah. Well see what happens. Lets go over to katy. Katy tur. I understand why he wants it to be a twoperson race. Why does trump want it a twoperson race . He agreed with that. I think donald trump wants it to get the field whittled down as much as it can. He believes he can beat ted cruz when it comes to a number of demographics including evangelicals and beat them on a number of occasion, somewhat conservative voters and moderate voters and believes if john kasich and if marco rubio drop out, that a good number of those supporters will, in fact, go to him. So, thats the thinking when it comes to donald trump. He also believes hes going to be able to get more delegates if those drop out and faster to get to the 1,237 number. It behooves him in a twoperson race but ted cruz is much has more depth on policy in it was a twoman race on a debate stage, it would be an interesting site to see him try to debate ted cruz on policy. So far he hasnt done particularly a good job of knowing a lot of details when it comes to policy. Hes just said over and over hell make deals when hes pressed on that stuff. But, for the most part i think he does believe he is a really good shot to take cruz out more quickly if it is a smaller race. Okay, lets talk about some of the sharper points. Over Foreign Policy. Lets start with that especially the deals with cuba opening up relates with cuba setting out embassies in both countries and iran, of course, the nuclear deal with them. Lets watch the fight begin here. What i want is i want a much better deal to be made. I do agree something should be should take place after 50 years its enough time, folks. But we have to make a good deal. We have to make a good deal. Senator rubio, i know you want to get in. Mr. Trump, are you saying if you were president , you would continue the diplomatic relations or would you reverse them . I would want to make a good deal. I would want to make a strong, solid good deal. There is an embassy that you would have to decide whether it would be open or whether you would close it. Which would it be . Havana. I would probably have the Embassy Closed until such time as a really good deal was made and struck. This exchange actually highlights a real choice for republican primary voters. When it comes to Foreign Policy, do you want to continue on the same basic trajectory as the last seven years of the obama Foreign Policy . When it comes to these deals, cuba and iran, they were negotiated by Hillary Clinton and john kerry. What he said right now is that he agrees in principle with what theyre doing. If ted was listening he would have heard me Say Something very similar. I said we would not do the deal unless it was going to be a very deal for us. His answer, if only someone smarter were in government things would be better. No, we dont just need smarter government in people, we need leaders protecting american interests. Robert, youve been exposed to this more than i can. I sympathize with you. I find cruz very hard to listen to. Hes relentless and he whines. He last this same angry edge to his voice, always to the hard right. Always the cheap shot at president obama, always, always, always playing to the tea party. Theres no theres no lift in it. Theres no hope in it. Its just this grinding negativity towards anyone hes competing with. Please tell me what im missing. Hes making an ideological case. He believes theres a path ahead in this race by viewing to the right, by appealing to Movement Conservative activists who may still have suspicions about trump. I think, chris, no heat tonight in miami was right but it was certainly an informative night on Foreign Policy those clips you just played show there is a rupture in the republican consensus on Foreign Policy. The hawkish consensus is fading among Trump Supporters on dos o domestic policy. Lets talk about that. The two communities people seem to be pandering to are working to everyone, people concerned about israel and south florida. We all understand that. And thats a very legitimate pitch and another equally, you know, appropriate thing to do in politics. What did you make of the rejectionist thing on cuba which i understand it. We know the history of fidel castro, a bad guy and put missiles in his country aimed at new york, not just trying to defend his country but aiming at us and joining the cold world against us threatening us back in 62, we know that mystery. What is the game for being do you think trump sees room there for negotiation . Is that what he sees and take somewhere middle position between Obamas Administration and the hard right position perhaps of the older Cuban Community here . Ive spoken to trump about this on numerous occasions and trump not only sees an opportunity for a deal when it comes to cuba but departs from the traditional republican view that no kind of deal or no kind of agreements can be cut with the cuban government. I think hes looking toward the general election when he makes this kind of case. He sees the Public Opinion polls and see the opinion changing and rubio coming out of south florida. Cuban heritage. More of that traditional republican mold from the cold war. And what was rubio i mean cruzs position . I couldnt figure that . What is cruzs position on cuba . Cruz is more on the conservative side. The emphasis on human rights when it comes to cuba. We see cruz and recent days talking about his biography, his fathers journey, i think cruz tonight was trying to reach out not only to cubanamericans but working class conservatives and trying to cut into trumps coalition. Proisrael. I thought interesting that donald trump tonight howard, let me talk about the general politics. The whole night. I want to talk about a couple of things, first of all trump seemed to act like a republican tonight. He was really trying to say were all in this together and even used that old line of the Democrat Party, not as an adjective but the noun acting like a clubhouse republican. I thought that was interesting. Across the board he seemed to be playing the old dean smith four corner offense. Lets slow the game down, freeze the ball. I dont want anybody to score any points tonight. That seemed to be his approach. Your thoughts. A few. First of all, yes, this was donald trump imagining what acting president ial would look like, okay. And acting like the leader of the Republican Party which hes now asserting that he is. And as a general matter on substance, except for cuba, except for attacks about israel and iran and so forth, on the big picture, they were playing on Donald Trumps turf. As donald trump has defined it throughout this republican primary season. On trade, on radical islam, on jobs, on anger in the electorate. On all those big picture things, theyre all playing in Donald Trumps turf which is why he looked the way he did. They did score points on him, on israel, on iran, on cuba. By the way i thought marco rubio, where was that marco the marco rubio we saw tonight, is the marco rubio that the wise guys in washington thought could sell to the country. That was by far his best performance. When you look at donald trump, you have to understand that he doesnt think long term. He thinks of the immediate objective and he thinks of business. The immediate objective in terms of the primary strategy is that is that he is trying to avoid a situation where marco rubio wins the florida primary. And i think he was glad to engage with ted cruz as much as he did and the reason why donald trump said that its a twoman race with ted cruz is because donald trump wants to margin marginalize marco rubio because he wants to every vote for cruz in florida is a vote against rubio. Its a vote against rubio and a vote for trump winner the winner take all primary. Thats why he was i see. Saying its a twoman race with cruz. Trump only thinks of the immediate objective ahead. As far as relations with cuba he thinks like a hotel guy. All the guys in florida are saying let us in there well build hotels in havana. Thats what is motivating donald trump on cuba. Wow. Let me bring in curtis here. You know, because i was looking at some of the language tonight, like i talked about how trump is now saying Democrat Party but hes hes not running as a maverick but a republican. Hes a party guy. The other line was and this is really marco rubio working for i guess the Jewish Community in southern florida when he says, judean samaria, youre not talking twostate solution but israel continuing to occupy or hold those disputed territories. Its likud language and very legitimate but it sends a very hawkish statement. Forget about a twostate. We aint going to give it up because its part of greater israel. Thats of historic fact. With those a lot were saying rubio was pandering to Sheldon Adelson hes been pandering to that guy for six months. Anyway, trump, theres the hot stuff. There was some hot stuff because of whatss been going on. Donald trump standing by his antimuslim comments which basically muslims, per se, are haters of america and the west. Lets watch that. I meet a lot of them. Do you want to clarify the comment. Ive been watching the debate and talking about radical islamic trim or radical islam but i will tell you theres something going on that maybe you dont know about and maybe a lot of other people dont know about but theres tremendous hatred. I know a lot of people find appeal in the things donald says because he says what people wish they could say. The president cant say anything he wants. It has consequence. Marco talks about consequence. Weve had a lot including airplanes flying into the world trade center, pentagon and could have been the white house. There have been a lot of problems. Now, you can say what you want and you can be politically correct if you want. I dont want to be so politically correct. I like to solve problems. We have a serious, serious problem of hate. There is tremendous hate. There is tremendous hate where large portions of a group of people, islam, large portions want to use very, very harsh means. Katy tur, what is the constituency for the moderate royce of marco rubio . We heard it on the issue of islam and dangers of terrorism as a distinctive question and not to lump all islamic people or muslims into that category of enemy. What does he win on that . He must believe hes going to win on it . Ask me that one more time. Trump takes the extreme trump takes the ludicrous position because muslims are born in the islamic faith is that theyre haters. We know thats not true, 1. 5 trillion people, a billion people rather and, of course, but marco rubio takes the much more nuanced position which is theres some a real problem in that community, that world community, but there are a lot of people on our side and so did cruz take that position. Whats the gain in moderation in a party that seems to be very polarized on that issue . Tlgs doesnt look like there is a gain when it comes the gain is is if they do get the nomination, theyll be able to work with foreign leaders essentially and coming off more president ial and trying to remain the adults in the room but donald trump is repeatedly, quote unquote telling it like it is and the fact of the matter is, the majority of voters out there that have voted so far for donald trump have also agreed with this idea of a muslim ban, this idea that theyre dangerous and coming into the United States potentially to hurt us and hear that at the rallies as well. Telling it like it is and what Republican Voters are feeling and the majority of americans said they believe something along those lines in earlier polling so hes right on the nose with that. The issue is not necessarily getting or winning the primary with that sort of rhett wick, but its winning the general election and then if you get into the white house, having to work with foreign powers. Its that stuff that follows you around and unclear how donald trump is going to be able to shake that off if he gets the general and then needs to essential try to work with people from around the world and work with democrats and those who dont necessarily agree with him. But right now this is what he needs to say to win the republican primary and howard was completely right about that. He sees the next obstacle and next fight in front of him and thats the one hes trying to win and will deal with the rest when he needs to. Well, that was the all general grand strategy be a battle winger and rubio is right in terms of consequences like this fellow could go punch somebody at a rally because they thought they were acting on the impulses of donald trump or the theme of donald trump, you look around the world and the islamic world especially look at the knifings going on in israel today because people believe that the government of israel will grab go up there and take the temple mount up there on top there. And just a rumor like that gets People Killed so consequences are real. Well get back to that. Howie jackson and katy tur will be checking back with the spin room when we come back. Howard, robert and curtis are staying with us and well have much more to come on tonights Republican Debate. 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Thats next tuesday it has the potential to sway voters in florida and ohio, the two big ones next tuesday. Back with robert costa of the Washington Post and Howard Fineman of the Washington Post and curtis of the l. A. Times. Robert, i thought we would get news tonight. You had the break on that story, the scoop that dr. Carson whats he going to do, endorse trump tomorrow . Tomorrow, maralago. Why did he not bring it up tonight . Did he mention it tonight . He did mention it tonight. We scooped it and then he mentioned it. They were trying to have a surprise press conference on friday at maralago and all came together this morning. Carson has been fuming about senator cruz ever since iowa, feels like he was wronged. The campaign mishandled it and trump has been building a rapport with carson behind the scene, phone call after phone call, the trump way and finally met today in maralago. Carson has his own home in West Palm Beach and quietly met for over an hour and people familiar with the situation and carson said im with you, lets have an outsider be the nominee. Wow, moments ago donald trump came through the spin room and stopped in katy turs camera. Lets listen. Like you did tonight . I think it was a great debate. Very happy with it. Talk to me, why is ben carsons endorsement so important . Liked by everybody. Great guy. Wonderful thing to have it and well do something tomorrow in palm beach with ben. Mr. Trump, what role would dr. Carson have in your campaign and potentially in your administration. He is an amazing guy loved by everybody, respected by everybody and well talk about it tomorrow 9 00 at maralago. Did you seem to go out of your way to be more president ial, change the tone . I thought the tone was very well. I give everybody credit. I thought the tone was really good. It wasnt provocative and it was a great debate. Can i ask you something that didnt come up. Ted cruz really went after your voters in an interview wiand sa they are not well informed. What do you think of that ask. I actually saw that but actually if you look at the exit polls my voters, i won in virtually every place where i won for the most part with every place, bus my voters are both at the highest level and also middle, but, you know, he was really wrong about it because i also have the most educated voter. I think you saw that in the various polls so we have a great we have pretty much, hey, i won with women, i won with men. I won with highly educated. I won with less than highly educated. I won with just about every group. I won with evangelicals which is a very big thing. Lets talk about the fund raises. You remarked youre not sure if youll take the rnc money something i havent talked about. Do you lose that ground no, i dont think. Its much different because its a general election and have the party doing things but its just something i havent thought about. I may do that but for the primaries im doing it 100 and putting up a lot of money and i hope its respected by the voters because im putting up a tremendous amount of money whereas the politicians are gets it all from special interests so i hope its respected. Thank you. Howard, let me ask you about the strategy of trump, to slow the ball down to even freeze the ball tonight in basketball terms. That would be based upon his belief that the polls are really good in florida. Theres a 23point spread in one but a sevenpoint spread in another. Pretty close to play with. Just sit on the ball. What do you think his strategy is talking about florida, florida, florida, florida. Florida specific. I think his strategy was to engage with ted cruz when ted cruz engaged him but to do it in a, quote, president ial way. And to agree with ted cruz that it was a twoman race. Thus, editing rubio out of the scene and trying to take momentum away from rubio because as we were saying before, any vote for cruz in florida helps donald trump because cruz is not going to win florida. Theres no way cruz can win florida. All he can do is slow down marco rubio. And i think trumps strategy was to do it that way, rather than to directly attack marco rubio and make marco rubio the central focus. That was the narrow strategy for florida tonight. Okay, we have to go right now to Howie Jackson with Governor John Kasich in the spin room. Chris, and ill be honest given our performance at the last debates governor kasich fold me to give him the earpiece. Let me ask a couple. Donald trump and ted cruz framing this as a twoman race. Purposefully leaving you and marco rubio out of the equation. Is that a Fair Assessment of where this race is right now . No, but we have half the delegates to go. Not a Fair Assessment but thats what you want to do. Remember, it was somebody else saying its a twoman race the other way. These things are changing all the time and, you know, im going to be fortunate enough to win ohio and its going to be a whole new ball game but, you know, everybody is trying to shrink it even smaller and but i think its a silly argument. It seems we saw more civil debate than what we saw last week. I guess its what ive been calling more. I want to ask. Is that resonating with your rivals . Well, i think that people do i dont think they want all the namecalling. I think, you know, talking about record is fair game but they want to hear they want the race to be elevated and i think most people are going to like the fact that it was a much more of a policy discussion and very little back and forth in terms of the personal stuff. There wasnt any tonight. Did you feel you had an opportunity to explain where you differ on policy from donald trump, from ted cruz . Well, i mean, look, the biggest thing for me ive already achieved these things. People are talking in theory about what they might do. Look, the strongest card for me is experience, record and vision. And thas ae whts whats i talk and shifting power to people and where they work to solve the problems in washington. Thats what i want to say and, look, im getting good crowds, raising lots of money, winning ohio and rising everywhere. No question ive been on a significant upswing. On Foreign Policy did you believe there was a divide between where the Republican Party and where it is going . No, i think i represented a pretty traditional approach to Foreign Policy, but thats based on experience. I didnt feel that at all. I mean, again, its a matter of experience. Its a matter what youve seen in your lifetime and how you conduct u. S. Foreign policy. I didnt i mean i dont know. I dont even think about it that way. On two topics that came up fairly frequently israel and cuba, where do you think you were the strongest when it comes to those topics . Well, i think i was strong on virtually all the foreign position issues whether it was china, whether it was ukraine, russia, israel, isis, i mean, i dont think i picked one over the other. It seemed you were fired up over tiananmen square. We had a tank that was moving at a young student that got in front of it. It was a picture seen around the world so many time, what the chinese, they butchered their own people. Unbelievably terrible situation. So donald trump was wrong. Im saying what i say. You play the sound bite. Make sure you put me up there. Chris wants a question for you. Let me ask about youve learned through experience. In Foreign Policy do you think that the bush, the george w. Bush strategy of going into iraq was smart in terms of what we should do in the future or did we learn a lesson there . Reporter on Foreign Policy chris is asking if the george w. Bush policy of going into iraq was what we should be doing, where we should be going . And, chris, im paraphrasing. No, i mean, look, if there werent weapons of mass destruction, we shouldnt have gone. We went the first time to push saddam out of kuwait. We had a Great Coalition of people and it worked but ive never believed in getting in the middle of civil wars. We went into iraq because they said we had the intelligence that saddam had a weapon of mass destruction, but im not a civil war getting in the middle of civil wars or getting into one in syria directly or in favor of the syria war, getting in a civil war in lebanon where i voted actually against all the republicans on that one, but i think the first gulf war was right. The second one, it was bad intelligence, if there hadnt been that kind of intelligence theres no way i would have been in favor of going and, frankly, we need to start thinking seriously about what were going to do in afghanistan over time now. We got to get serious about that. Governor, thanks so much. Now i got to let you go. Appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by. Governor kasich talking about policy, talking about war he sees his path to a nomination. Hes been clear it would potentially have to go to a contested convention. If he stays in the race, ohio so key and five days away. Talk about florida where we are now but for kasich, hes got to do well in his home state and believes that he will. The campaign feels confident in where their numbers are, but theres a question mark about Donald Trumps strength in ohio, whether donald trump can beat john kasich and if he does thats thank you so much. Let me go to howard first. Howard and then robert quickly. A couple minutes each. Tell me how you look at it now, the score card, you have to have a score card. If trump wins florida, if he wins ohio next week, he wins both, the daily double and gets them both does that mean were looking at a guy that could get the requisite number of delegates . Yes, if he wins both because theyre winner take all primaries, thats a lot of delegates, all he has to do is win by one vote in each state and gets them all and give him a substantial lead and i think it puts him on a path to where hell have to get, i think, still have to get about half of all the rest of the delegates to get the 1,237 but im not convinced that hes going to do it. I think at this point i think hell probably get close. And im not sure that hes going to have the requisite number. I think he understands, hes beginning to understand that if hes going to wrap it up via the primary system, a whole lot of diplomacy is going to have to happen before the convention. He cant afford to let it go to cleveland unresolved. So, if he gets close to the 1237 which i think hell have a chance to do if he wins ohio and florida he has to do a lot more dealmaking and one thing you saw tonight is a certain amount of care and caution on peoples parts not to burn whatever rickety bridges are left between these people because theres going to be dealmaking to be done down the road. Robert costa, do you see him dealing with another candidate . I mean hes brought in the losers on his side like Chris Christie and ben carson. Can he bring in someone whos won some delegates to help meet the quota, to meet the majority . He talks about cutting deals all the time. The thing to understand about the Trump Campaign hes not running as an ideological candidate as a movement candidate. So when it comes to his politics hes malleable and i think he could build a coalition. I spoke to roger stone his longtime associate that said hes getting ready for a cleveland floor fight. Stone is already getting ready. They believe trump needs to be organized, you know, in a real way should this become some sort of contested convention and for trump right now he has friendly relations with carson as we know and christie but cordial with john kasich and spoke highly of john kasich in the past and so well have to see how trump tries to reach out. Is roger still part of his operation is roger stone part of his operation right now, robert . Hes not hes part of his orbit. Yeah, part of the or not. Hes not part of the organization right now. As a matter of fact, theres concern among the friends of donald trump that he isnt preparing because he does take one battle at a time, that they dont have any concept of what tracking delegates, what knowing delegates, what wooing delegates, care and feeding of delegates not to mention floor tactics are all about. What trump is best at is phone calls among the candidates and i think robert makes a really good point. I cant remember very many times at all where trump has directly taken on john kasich. Can you . I cant. I cant and i think thats interesting. I think thats a deal to be made, a positive deal to be made with no scar tissue in the way of it. I want to bring in curtis lee. Who won tonight . I dont know. It was a good debate for marco rubio. Rubio, it was good for him so was that a mistake in trump being so careful . Did he leave the door open for somebody else to give the bugle boy positive speech that trump rubio we saw trump focused on the general. He mentioned democrats a lot, Hillary Clinton and hes kind of trying to stay above the fray it seemed like tonight and focus on capturing the nomination. I mean rubio had a good debate performance but is it too little too late after last weeks performance . I wonder who will get the headlines. Thanks, curtis and robert costa back there and Howard Fineman. Ill check back with you later on the show. Much more ahead on gops fight in miami. 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Well be very vigilant and have to be and have such a massive number of people all the time. 25,000, 30,000 people routinely and for the most part the police are there. The police do an incredible job and its not my security people, its the police from whatever city it is or town it is and theyve really done a great job. In this case it was the police also. One last question on the story of your Campaign Manager cory and Michelle Fields, i know you heard what tom llamas said. She may have made it up. The Washington Post reporter reported it and saw it. Do you think hes making it up as well. I dont know anything about it. I heard about it a little while ago for the first time. Cory is an incredible guy. I dont think he would ever do a thing like that and we were surrounded because i believe i was in the middle of a lot of secret agents and they all said they never saw anything and these are very honorable guy, theyre fantastic people and there were a lot of them and nobody saw anything and to the best of my knowledge theres no pictures and you had your cameras there. There were hundreds and hundreds of cameras because it was a major press announcement over my victories that night so they had a lot of cameras there. I mean, if somebody went down there would be pictures. Everybody has pictures. Breitbart is asking for an apology. You had a Good Relationship with that media company. Have you spoken with them . I like breitbart but you can never apologize unless youre wrong. If i found out to the other degree, i would certainly apologize, but people tell me, ive spoken to secret Service Agents and they said nothing happened. She posted a photo of bruises. How did they get there . I dont know. Do you know how they got there. Im saying whats being reported and alleged. You tell me how they got there. I have secret Service Agents all over and cameras all over. Nobody saw it happen. Nobody complained. And i know this guy and hes a fantastic guy. If it comes to light something happened, are you going to do something about it . Will there be some sort of punishment . Supposing it comes to light nothing happened, will you apologize. Im not reporting anything that i saw personally. Im reporting what Michelle Fields is reporting. You apologize to him if it turns out nothing happened. I wont apologize but ill report nothing happened. Mr. Trump, what do you say robert costa, im just watching donald trump leaving katy tur behind and heading to robert costa but im not sure we have a mike there. Donald trump, of course, dismissing basically this issue until he gets more information and said, anyway last night an africanamerican man at a trump rally was sucker pumped by an attendee in north carolina. You can see it on the picture according to the sheriff, quite a dramatic picture. According to the Sheriffs Department he was being escorted from the event because of a disruption when it occurred. Another video shows the vic was pushed to the ground by deputies soon after being punched. Police say they did not see it take place and arrested John Franklin mcgrew, the guy that threw the punch and charged him with assault. Apparently a 78yearold man and joining me is omarosa and francesca chambers of the daily mail. What do you make of the tone of these rallies . We can show all the clips of trump hyping up the audience. In the old days i wish we could still punch the guy, you know, dont let them wear their coats. Let them freeze outside. There is an awful lot of taunting and leading the crowd in taunting. How many people, say 5,000 at an event. How many of that 5,000 do you expect would get it that its rhetoric were talking about here, its not an urge to physical violence . Is this good, tough, maybe over the top political rhetoric, rhetoric. You dont punch somebody but 1 in 5,000 as is often the case often gets another message and have different brain soup and having a bad night. They may have had all different attitude coming in the room but triggered one could argue by what they heard at the event and punch the guy. What do you make of it . You cant control 5,000. You cant control them but its interesting that no one is covering the protesters at hillarys rallies or kasichs rallies. Has anyone been slugged. Black lives matter and this guy is a part of black lives matter and theyre prepared for any environment they go into to make their point. Someone getting slugged, sucker punched in the face. There was hostile moments at the au center in atlanta when Hillary Clinton was there speaks, there was a large group of black live matter protesters who were jostled around, pushed around by security, who were handled and i dont think that was covered. Any Hillary Clinton people do that donald cant be responsible for every Single Person that comes to his rally. But we also have to cover the fact this is not the only candidate that has protesters at their rallies. Its not about protesters. Its whatsing about done to protesters. What do you mean whats being done to protesters. You have the right to assemble and free speech. You also have the do you have the right to slug a guy you have a right to go into a closed private event and you get what is coming to you. I do not whats coming to you . If you go into an environment where youre interrupting 13, 14 times. Do you expect a hug or kumbaya. Listen, these protesters know what theyre getting at this point and seen how protesters are not given a pass and allowed to take over these events. If you go to a donald trump rally heres a news flash you judge this. Show the tapes are great. Were not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do. They would be carried out on a stretcher, folks. I would like to punch him in the face, ill tell you. What do you make of that . Hes a new yorker. What do you want him to say . Do you think hes from kansas. Hes from new york. Did you see the guys hes not going to be pushed around, chris. Do you think its already to incite that behavior. Hes not inciting explain where you are on this. You say you cant control the crowd. You cant. Its impossible. Theres 30,000 people in that room. Youre close to him. Why doesnt he go and say to a crowd, as he hold hands and sing kumbaya. Ive seen civil rights protesters that the leaders know and say to them dont make us look bad and leaders, marshals say, lets keep it good today. Happened in ferguson. Did it happen in baltimore . Why doesnt trump say to the crowd, now, dont do something that will make us look bad . Why doesnt he say that . He will say to 30,000 people, everybody behave, hold hands and kumbaya. If you come into my church and you interrupt my sermon there are deacons that will take you down and handle you much more rough than this 78yearold man. You dont have a problem with this guy and what he did . What i have problem with is this lopsided coverage of protesters at Donald Trumps events as opposed to hillary, kasich, rubio, cruz, theyre all there. You believe your point is, omarosa, i want to finish on this point everybody is behaving pretty much the same way. If you come and intercorrupt Chris Matthews an hardball security guys will drag you out of the studio. Who will slug you . That guy behind the camera might slug you. Ive known him. To francesca. Francesca, a sense of this as a reporter, what do we make of this because, you know, i dont believe in direct causality but when somebody has given speeches saying i wish you could still slug guys like this and someone does, 1 of 5,000 that heard it wrong and reacted. What are your thoughts . Thats exactly, chris, what trumps critics are arguing. You played a lot of clips where he was clearly suggesting that he didnt have a problem with what was taking place in the audience. On the other hand if you listen to what he just told katy tur he seemed regretful about what had happened and clearly trying to correct that behavior. But to speak to omarosas point about what happens at Hillary Clinton rally, Bernie Sanders rallies i typically cover the democrats and i have seen that kind of behavior go down out of Hillary Clinton really or a Bernie Sanders rally. Sure, it gets fiery especially at the sanders rallies. A lot of booing for Hillary Clinton quite often but however no one ever when ive been at those rallies been punched. Okay. Thank you, francesca for that insight but let me its called reporting. Theres big tension and high tension right now in this race. And Everyone Wants donald trump to be this kinder gentler guy. Hes from brooklyn. Hes not from kansas so youll get eye different personality than you get from a kasich. He is a tough leader with a vision for this country and he will be the republican nominee because hes not afraid to state what most people have been looking for in this country. Do you expect more of this behavior . I expect that there are going to be one out of 30,000 people who may not behave properly but donald trump is not responsible for the behavior of 30,000 people. This was one guy out of 30,000, chris. Youre his spokesperson youre his surrogate. I accept your words as a value i really talk about his policy position than one guy at a rally. A lot of talk about trade and immigration position. But were talking about one guy. And we watched two hours of it. You come on. Well talk about this because he was asked about it, as well. Thank you, omarosa. Thank you, chris. Smgd you can ask yourself questions and a lot easier for you. Terrible for me. Francesca chamber, thanks for that. Well hear from ted cruz from the spin room. Hes still there and this is a special, hardball live for tonights Republican Debate in miami. Technology. Technology. Say, have you seen all the Amazing Technology in geicos mobile app . Mobile app . Look. Electronic id cards, emergency roadside service, i can even submit a claim. Wow. Yep, geicos mobile app works like a charm. Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Start with a specialist. Start with a team of experts who treat only cancer. Every stage. Every day. The evolution of cancer care is here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com experts. Appointments available now. 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Both you and donald trump frame this as a twoman race. Explain why you think it is a twoman race when theres two other on the stage fighting as hard as you are. Its simple math to be the republican nominee you got to get to 1,237. Theres only two with any math mad cal path to get there. I have 360 delegates. Donald has roughly 100 more. No one else is remotely close and why in state after state, we are seeing republicans unifying behind our campaign. People supporting john kasich or ben carson or Carly Fiorina or rand paul or other people are unifying behind our campaign. If you want to beat donald trump, the only campaign that has done so, eight different times is our campaign. You talk about donald trump. There was a moment when he was asked about some of the incidents that have happened at his events including one that happened last night, someone arrested after sucker pumping a protester. You were asked about this and it seemed as though you pivoted. Whats your take on the tone from what were seeing from rallies like donald trump . My answer was, what i am troubled with, it should be about the people. Not about us or the candidates. With obama its always about him. Its not about the people. Thats why im confused. Are you blaming the president for this violent tone . No, im saying that donald trump is very much like president obama in that its all about him. You know, the example i pointed to is his having thousands of people at rallies raise their hands and pledge their support of donald trump. Listen, in america we dont pledge our support to men. We pledge allegiance to the flag. We pledge our support of the constitution but we dont pledge our allegiance to men and its backwards this. Say job interview. I am pledging my support to you and to the American People and donalds approach, it is very much like barack obamas. It is the approach, frankly, of a king or queen to his subjects pledge your support to me. 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