russian business connections of russ tillerson. some people said let s wait and see. he may bring a different perspective. obvious trump likes rich business people and works well with them. let s try it. i don t know. i m not sure. reporter: this trump supporter is pretty sure. i think he ll be good. reporter: does it bother you he has a strong connections to russia? not in a way he is connected with the business. i think that s it. reporter: can he be a diplomat and be an honest broker with a country like russia when he s so close to russia? i think he can. reporter: why? because he s a smart businessman just like trump is. 31,000 people. reporter: anderson, donald trump is speaking now for about 35 minutes. he hasn t yet mentioned russia or hacking, but he has talked about his secretary of state nominee.
way, now is the chance to get the idea of america back. did you do anything exciting or interesting this morning to prepare? i had a great breakfast of cold pizza and diet coke. i m happy to be here. campaign breakfast. that sounds like a square meal. so interesting how they ve all been how does he stay so thin? diet coke! i m sorry. you were going to say something. make your point about him. my point is i think i would rather be bobby jindal tonight than be rand paul or chris christie. because? because they re getting a lot of attention, four of them, for 90 minutes on that stage. there is a carly fiorina opportunity. who will have the fiorina moment. by the way, if he says something outrageous about trump, you know, it could bleed into the next debate. absolutely. it certainly could become fodder for that. but on the stage, this is what i was talking about, is that it s intimate. these are not sort of people who are going to stand up and go,
how he likes this setup. he likes the i intimacy of the seats. he ll be able to see his wife in one the first rows. he wants to bring this audience into it. he s a people person so he does if you notice, a lot of times when he s talking or if people applaud him, he nods his head. he s always he acknowledges that group. acknowledges that group. that s something that works very strongly for him. i think what you will also see in this debate, as i said, is he ll bring it back around to his record. i think what you saw in the first debate is he answered the question but didn t use the time to then say, now, this is how it compares to my record. it s a record that plays very well with the voters out there. so telling that story becomes very important. does he jump in, though, knowing that we would be talking about it the next day and go after trump initially or wait to be attacked? because trump may not waste his time on a scott walker. well, i don t know that trump is going t
heard from watching your show and others is there s probably going to be a lot of back-and-forth with trump on the stage. but, no, i think he has a record that he s a problem solver. he gets to the core of the issues. he has fought and won on those issues and kind of moved them forward, keeping his conservative credentials in terms of fighting those issues. and i think he s going to tell that story and show how it connects on moving the country forward. that s something trump can t do. i think it s more important he tell the story than draw the contrast of trump. final. in te question. in terms of raising money, how are you all doing? i think the campaign is doing fine. one of the ques you always ask in a campaign, are you overrunning your supply line? are do you doing more places than you should be? it s very interesting. kind of the spring and summer, everybody is window shopping. in the fall they start going into the store and trying on different pieces. that s when you really
it. yeah. you ve got to have your game face on. it s just really interesting the way these sort of insider candidates as they ve been classified are sliding down and you see fiorina and carson rising up there with trump. and perhaps overtaking trump at some point soon. perhaps. we don t know yet. also in the same poll eight out of tin americans want change in washington. it s a theme we ve heard before. for you two who have been on the inside for these candidates, four hours out, what are they doing right now? well, you know, speaking for govern governor romney, this was a time when he really just sort of looked to decompress and spend time with his family. he wasn t trying to cram his brain full of more information. he was really just trying to kind of not think about the debate. but to athena s comments, you know, the campaign isn t going to be decided tonight, but in some cases this is when candidates fall. this is when rick perry really