successful starbucks in trump tower. maybe we should boycott starbucks. i don t know. seriously. i don t care. i will tell you, lots of big things, lots of little things. call this anything you want. if i become president, we re going to be saying merry christmas again. that i can tell you. that i can tell you. joe, let me ask you a question. it s 12 minutes after 6:00 in the morning here. donald trump has been on our program now for nearly 4 1/2 minutes. no wonder he doesn t have to buy any commercial time. no wonder. gene robinson, we ve been saying since august this was going to go away. this was going away. it s now every time we run a clip like that, i always look at the headline and so what s today? we re in the middle of november now. we ve been saying this will go away in august, september, october. we re in the middle of november. we re now i said in the beginning of september, okay,
to just those two incidences and i agree with you. we re saying the same thing. what else is there? there has to be more here. i think that not lack of understanding but the lack of doing something more to signal to the students that i m talking about the president that he understood where they were coming from and that they needed to have answers. i m wondering what more is there? by the way, that s what we re all wondering, willie. that s what i ve been wondering for three days and the question i put out on the table. should a university president and chancellor of a university be run out before there is there are discussions. before there is debate. before it s taken up. before there s due process. do you just have a college football team i mean, if a math class decided to go out on strike, they would still be there. again, it seems to me academic
obviously draw your own conclusions. this process is good for our democracy. it s not easy to run for president. it shouldn t be. and people when they make public comments are going to have their claims scrutinized even if their claims about their own biography and that s part of the process. doris, yesterday john meacham took us back to thomas jefferson and how negative people went on him. can you go farther back than that? there s no question that in the 19th and 18th century the partisan arguments against each other claiming each others were murderers and things were worse than now. it wasn t spread across a television screen. it wasn t in our living rooms. it would be your own partisan newspaper that you re reading. you don t have to read the other guy s newspaper. there s something about the level and tone of what s going on in this campaign. i agree with you, joe. i heard you say before where have we come in a country if we
people got their heads around that. along comes ben carson. i defy you to tell me who has their head around that at this point. it s really crazy. i guess i m going to have to make up stories about stabbing people. maybe i ll get more page views on my column. it is bizarre. it s not i cannot imagine the republican party just kind of saying it was just a dream, right, that half of the republican party that rejected the establishment wake up and say nobody shot j.r. and it s all a dream and we re going to get in line behind jeb bush. i don t see that happening. joe, quick question. donald s comment about he out rates hillary in the ratings. on one hand seems absurd but
would be so happy. this is the only election in history where you re better off if you stabbed somebody. what are we coming to? well, that, of course, is the question of the hour. let s go to chris jansing in milwaukee. chris, yet another interesting republican debate tonight. eight candidates instead of ten. still won t be enough time to talk about the big issues of the day. belt buckles, stabbings, hammers over the heads, starbuck cups. a lot to digest. what are you hearing in milwaukee about the strategy tonight? well, i can tell you that ben carson and his team are pretty excited about the polls you showed. south carolina in particular even though it s close. they re up 13 points. donald trump is down three. they ll go to south carolina later this week. but there s no doubt he goes in as somebody who is a much bigger