discussion. the burden of being a front-runner. as you say, you set the agenda on some big issues, certainly you brought immigration into the fore in a way it hadn t been before. you could argue you did that about how to deal with radical islamism. you ll be taking the heat when you set the agenda, aren t you? i don t think there was ever a burden to be a front-runner. i d like to have that burden for the rest of my life. it s a great honor, having the center podium is a great honor to me. i want to make sure we got something right. you were asked, will you promise to honor basically the pledge that you ll stick with the party no matter what. you said yes. look, number one i m in first place, not by a little bit, by a lot. you saw the polls that came out today. washington post, abc, it s been amazing. monmouth came out with one that was 41 to 14 or 15. number one, the i m the front-runner. i ve really gotten to respect so many of the people in the party that i didn t know on
i m the only one. only one. i m self-funding my campaign. these other guys, you know, they re getting millions and millions of dollars from people i know. i have one guy came and wanted to give me money. honestly, i can t take it. i don t want to do it. i can t take it. which is for me to not take money, my whole money i ve been taking, taking. now i m like, what am i doing? i said what are you going to do? i don t want your money. he said, i ve got to go someplace else. they are like gamblers. but you like me best. i like you best, but i m going to go someplace else. they want to be part. who is more mean? i gave millions to these guys. nobody knows the system better than me. i knew it from the other side. don t forget, i was the fair-haired boy. i was the establishment they would come to me, i would give them money. i would write check to senators,
fair-haired boy. i was the establishment they would come to me, i would give them money. i would write check to senators, whatever the max. don t come to my office. anybody that s a u.s. senator and calls me, we ll send you a campaign contribution. you foe what? i ll tell you something, in the end, the people that give these millions of dollars to these horrible corrupt pacs, they re corrupt. they totally control bush, rubio i won t say cruz because he s been nice to me. he s got to hit me first. once he hits me, i promise you. i promise you. i ve been nice to christie but he hit me today. i don t know. he s a friend of mine, but he s not doing well in the polls and he really hit me today. he hated this. yet, he said anybody could come. look at some of the statements from the past. he really hit me on the whole
i ve been in politics all my what more should we be doing? life. i ve been doing politics all my life. i think he gave us a great in europe, i ve made a fortune dealing with china. big picture view. i ve made a lot of money dealing it was a heldful hearing. all over the world. he said a number of great ideal in politics all over the things. i came to the conclusion about a world. if you look at, you know, year ago, this is something politics and the united states, senator mccain had been a i know most of these guys. i know them from the other side. i know them as a contributor. i use to be the fair headed boy. advocating for a long time. trying to establish a safe haven now i m sort of an outsider. four months ago i was the fair would not be easy and we would have to muse military assets to haired boy. they would come over and do whatever i wanted them to do. protect people s safety. we re going to continue to see they would ask for contributions millions of people, there s all the t
and say hello to ro san that and greg. okay? great people. i want to be treated like everybody else. i was always the fair haired boy. nobody knows the system. i was on the other side. i was the fair haired person. once i ran, i was a little bit of an outsider because i was running. i wasn t supposed to run. i m in businessman that people have given me great credit as being a great businessman and not supposed to be running for office. the fact is that our country is being killed on trade by china, by japan, by mexico. both at the border and on trade. and i m not knocking those countries. they ink their leaders are much, much smarter than our leaders. they re absolutely killing us. china, taking our jobs, taking our money, taking our base and think of this. we owe china $1.4 trillion. we re paying them interest. we owe japan with all of the cars coming in the same amount.