if we could. sure. donald is great at the one-liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he d be a chaos president. i know what i don t know. i know what i don t know. i would seek out, as i have, the best advice that exists. i won t get my information from the shows. i don t know if that s saturday morning or sunday morning. i don t know which one. here s what the washington post said. yes, his forms was a stet up from previous debate struggles but bush needed to somehow score a knock-out purge and he didn t get one. title of the article said it was jeb s last stand and he failed. what s your reaction to that? these people are trying to write a narrative for it last month and they won t back away in spite of overwhelming evidence that jeb is in this race to win. what s that evidence, al? well, look. there are two things that republican voters are looking for. one is who can keep us safe, and two, who can best stand up to hillary clinton. yesterday s back and forth with
debate and we got to its two biggest topics, terrorism and trump. over the next two hours, candidates would go after each other like we hadn t seen yet. one major takeaway a feisty jeb bush repeatedly going after front-runner donald trump. donald is great at the one-liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he d be a chaos president. he would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. it s been a total disaster. nobody cares. and frankly, i m the most solid person up here. i built a tremendous company. and all i want to do is make america great again. but those two weren t the only source of friction on stage. senators ted cruz and marco rubio went head-to-head four separate times on issues like terrorism, surveillance and immigration. but going in the question everyone was asking, how would the unofficial truce between
the answer a definitive yes to both. donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he d be a chaos president. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. it s been a total disaster. nobody cares. reporter: jeb bush taking it to donald trump not just once donald, you re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. that s not going to happen. reporter: not just twice if i m president, i ll be a commander in chief, not an agitator in chief or divider in chief. reporter: at least three times and maybe, just maybe, getting under his skin. you re never going to be president of the united states by insulting your way to the presidency. you re real tough. i m the 40, you re at 3, so far i m doing better. doesn t matter. reporter: that was one battle. another between ted cruz and marco rubio on several fronts. domestic surveillance.
reporter: to throw down or not to throw down. the answer a definitive yes to both. donald is great at the one liners. but he s a chaos candidate. he d be a chaos president. he s failed in this campaign. it s been awe total disaster. nobody cares. reporter: jeb bush taking it to donald trump not just once donald, you re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. that s not going to happen. reporter: not just twice if i m president, i ll be a commander in chief, not an agitator in chief or divider in chief. reporter: but at least three times and maybe, just maybe, getting under his skin. you re never going to be president of the united states. you re real tough. i m at 42 and you re at 3. doesn t matter. so far i m doing better. doesn t matter. so far i m doing better. reporter: that was just one