they didn t talk about a particular thing. they said the media generally, it was a targeting of the they don t mean fox, probably. what they see as the liberal media. it was really dramatic. and it was effective, and it was set up by how the questions were presented to them right out of the box. where they were personalized, where their character was somewhat under assault. you didn t have the straight-up policy question about your tax plan does this. how do you justify it? it was, well, you seem a little crazy in the tax plan you put out there. people sort of resented that right out of the box. they set the moment, the stage for what would come later. for all of them, they had that moment and they took it carefully. they did it smartly. and it was effective. you can do the whole plays to the base, but i would bet you it resonated with a lot more people than just the base. steve. we live in a time where trust has collapsed in every institution in the country. not just the polit
here s christie getting in a final jab at the media. let s watch. we have a government involved in fantasy football? wait a second. we have $19 trillion in debt. we have people out of work, we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and we re talking about fantasy football? will you stop? please stop. okay, steve. fire away. well, he couldn t be more right about that. but it was right at the end of a two-hour debate. it was right at the end of a two-hour debate, but the crowd loved it, ate it up. he s fundamentally right. when you look at the problems the country is facing, when you look at the channels globally, we re talking about fantasy football here. so chris christie, i think you saw today for the first time in the campaign, you saw chris christie s star power unleashed. you saw why chris christie became a national phenomenal. i think chris christie did a lot
candidate stardom, i m not sure he can continue to support his poll numbers. i don t think hispanics looked like rapists tonight, they looked like great debaters, which is astounding when you look at trump. michael, steve and lawrence are sticking with me. and coming up, senator rand paul is going to join us here, fresh off the debate stage. this is hardball a place for politics live in the spin room from boulder, colorado, in the republican presidential debate. i don t see a lot of weakness on the stage, quite frankly. i see weakness on the three people left on the democratic stage. i see a socialist, an isolationist and a pessimist. and for the sake of me, i can t figure out which one is which. h. like limiting where you earn bonus cash back. why put up with that? but the quicksilver card from capital one likes to keep it simple. real simple. i m talking easy like-a- walk-in-the-park, nothing-to-worry-about, man-that-feels-good simple.
fantasy football? will you stop? please stop. okay, steve. fire away. well, he couldn t be more right about that. but it was right at the end of a two-hour debate. it was right at the end of a two-hour debate, but the crowd loved it, ate it up. he s fundamentally right. when you look at the problems the country is facing, when you look at the channels globally, we re talking about fantasy football here. so chris christie, i think you saw today for the first time in the campaign, you saw chris christie s star power unleashed. you saw why chris christie became a national phenomenal. i think chris christie did a lot of good tonight. i think that before this is over, chris christie is going to get a hard second look by a lot of these republican primary voters, probably in the state of new hampshire. are you telling me that chris christie has a problem with free media? this guy s entire career was built up on the fact that he gave the hard shoulder to a call-in radio host named ga
the moderators for challenging ben carson too hard on questions about his relationship to a nutritional supplement company. it is absolutely absurd to say that i had any kind of a relationship with them. do i take the product? yes. i think it s a good product. to be fair, you were on the home page of their website with the logo over their shoulder. if somebody put me on their home page they did it without my permission. does that not speak to your vetting process or judgment in any way? [ booing ] see, they know. okay. who landed the best blows tonight. who came out unscathed? chuck todd, steve schmitz and michael steele, the former chair