campaign communicated with the russian government in the koergs of this campaign, what will you do? senator franken, i m not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i didn t did not have communications with the russians. and i m unable to comment on it. since then it came out that he had actually met with the russian ambassador twice although he said he did so in his capacity as a senator and not a campaign surrogate. president trump even went on to say that, sessions, quote, could have stated his response more accurately. sessions yesterday amended his remarks to the committee saying that his answer was correct and that he, quote, did not mention communications he had with the russian ambassador over the years because the question did not ask about them. what s your response, sir? that s a ridiculous response. it s not a clarification at all. of course, the question didn t ask about the russian ambassador. i didn
rattled. there is a lot of embarrassment. it was poorly produced to be honest and the fact some moderators didn t have the quotes to back up what they were saying so if they were challenged on the quotes, i m not sure where that is from and several segments later, let s go back to what we were talking about ten minutes ago, which doesn t work. absolutely, and as we heard last night, tom foreman last night after the debate was over, what trump had claimed said, you know, to the questioner, we don t know what you re talking about, i never said that and right there on his website and it was easily checkable but the woman asking the question or the reporter asking the question didn t wasn t prepared. i thought they lost control of i felt that they weren t coordinated among themselves so they were talking among themselves. candidates talking among themselves and got very, very messy as well as i think they had legitimate question about whether in fact the same kind of
know, to the questioner we don t know what you re talking about, i never said that and then right there on his website. it was easily checkable but the woman asking the question, the reporter asking the question didn t you know, wasn t prepared. i think they lost control of the debate. i felt that they weren t coordinated among themselves so they were talking among themselves, the candidates were talking among themselves and it got very, very messy, as well as i think they had a legitimate question as to whether in fact the same type of question had been put to the democratic candidates as to the republican candidates. so it s going to put a lot of pressure on the moderators in the next debate. they did have 14 million viewers watching. still, by far, extraordinary numbers. thanks to donald trump, many, many more people are watching the debates and commercial time costs $250,000. cnbc said it was the most
bring in cnn s athena jones. what s the latest? reporter: trump is not backing down, not apologizing on any way. on cbs last night he was asked again about that man at his town hall who said the president was a muslim, that america has a muslim problem and who advocated getting rid of muslims. trump said the man s question didn t necessarily mean he was a bigot. take a listen to what else he had to say. i don t have to defend president obama. he s not going to defend me. i love the muslims. i have many, many friends. i can say there are no problems with the muslims. there s no terrorism, no anything. they didn t knock down the world trade center. to the best of my knowledge, the people who knocked down the world trade center, they didn t fly back to sweden. trump is standing his ground there. a lot of his supporters agree with what he s saying. meanwhile, ben carson who said sunday he wouldn t advocate having a muslim in the white house is now shifting his position. take a listen
cbs. in response to a question about the man at his town hall who said president obama was a muslim, that america had a muslim problem and who advocated getting rid of muslims, trump said the man s question didn t mean he was a bigot. take a listen to what else he had to say. i don t have to defend president obama. he s not going to defend me. i love the muslims. i have many, many friends. i can say there are no problems with the muslims. there s no terrorism, no anything. they didn t knock down the world trade center. to the best of my knowledge, the people who knocked down the world trade center, they didn t fly back to sweden. the people supporting him agree with what he s saying. by the way, trump is also not answering questions about whether president obama is a muslim. meanwhile, ben carson who said sunday he wouldn t advocate having a muslim in the white house is now shifting his position. take a listen. i said that anybody who