To deal with it under the law. Should abortion be punished . Well, people in certain parts of the Republican Party and conservative republicans would say, yes, they should be punished. What about you . I would say that its a very serious problem, and its a problem we have to decide on. Its very you are for banning it . Are you going to say put them in jail . The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes. Ten years . That i dont know. Why . You take positions on everything else. I do take positions on everything else. Its a very complicated position. Now at first to try to clean up those remarks his campaign put out a statement saying the matter should be left up to the states. Then not too long after that, trump did a complete 180 releasing a statement saying it would be the doctors who would be punished, not women. Now heres that statement. We can put that up. It says, quote, if congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal in the federal
Home states for john kasich and marco rubio. Do or die states for their campaigns. Like i said, tonights debate is big. Jim acosta is inside the debate hall with a preview. The last Republican Debate was knock down, drag out fight. What can we expect tonight . Im told Donald Trumps campaign is bracing for another onslaught of attacks. A close adviser to ted cruz just told me in the last several minutes expect the texas senator to attack donald trump on the plujs the real estate tycoon has asked his supporters to make in recent days calling that raising of hands at recent trump rallies, quote, disturbing. A Senior Adviser to marco rubio says the florida senator wont go after trump on a personal basis, no more wise cracks about trumps tanning methods and hand size, but the Rubio Campaign says everything else, just like trump university, is fair game. And with next tuesdays winner take all primaries in florida and ohio, this debate comes at a crucial time for all these candidates but part
Rugt here. But first, the nations current hopes and in some cases, yes, fe fears were all focus odd on one place in the american heartland tonig tonight. The state of indiana is going to vote in the primary tomorrow, and donald trump says that as far as he is concerned, if he wins there, it is over. The latest nbc wall street journal maris poll shows him leading ted cruz 39 to 34 , and the democratic race is tighter, Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders by 4 , and that within the polls margin of error. And on the gop side, there is an error of inevitability that is settling in among the registered voters who 84 say that trump is most likely to win the republican nomination, and trump and sanders are campaigning in indiana, and cruz is expected to take the stage any moment, and with e begin with the trump rally in south bend, and jim acosta is there, and what is the late sfes well, anderson, donald trump is on stage right now, and he is talking about the chance, and h h feels pretty g
We begin with donald trump shifting into general election mode like no candidate has. Seemingly shifting positions as he does, unnerving Global Markets with one statement and confusing people as he walks it back, setting conservatives with a flip flop, potentially alienating women with saying Hillary Clinton enabled her husbands infidelity. At the same time, he is scoring new endorsements and naming someone to manage transition from candidate trump to president trump. Sarah murray has the latest on a general election pivot thats making some heads spin. Thank you, thank you very much. Reporter donald trump may be the gop nominee, but hes already giving republicans anxiety. I know more about debt than practically anybody. I love debt. Reporter professing his love of debt, making policy proclamations when asked how he would manage debt payments, saying i would borrow knowing if the economy crashed, you could make a deal. Today, trump is trying to moderate that stance, telling cnn he would
Control of his cam paper message, laying out his position to defeat isis. We cannot let this evil continue. Reporter trump, looking to rebound from a rocky stretch and doubts about Hillary Clintons Foreign Policy. With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clintons policies launched isis on to the world stage. Things turned out really to be not so hot for our world and our country. Reporter even questioning whether shes physically fit to be commander in chief. She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on isis and all of the many adversaries we face. Reporter the billionaire businessman calling on the u. S. To abandon the attempts at nation building, saying its time to focus on fighting isis on all fronts. The gop nominee framing it as an id logical war going back to the day of george w. Bush as he called on the u. S. To team up with any ally to battle isis. We cannot choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies. Reporter flushing out the