No it wasnt. Your twitter account [ cheers and applause ] thank you. For the record it was well beyond Rosie Odonnell. Yes, im sure it was. Your twitter account has several desparjing comments about womens looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man that should be elected president. And how are you to handle Hillary Clinton who is likely to be the democratic nominee that you are part of the war on women . I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. Ive been [ applause ] ive been challenged by so many people and i dont frankly have time for total political correctness. Frankly, what i say and oftentimes its fun, its kidding, we have a good time. What i say is what i say. And honestly, megyn if you dont like it just minutes after the debate ended, donlds trump began criticizing that question and megyn kelly, many of his supporters found her question unfair and trump continuing critiquing the issue on msnbc today. I didnt say many of those things. They said something and they were getting out some words and i dont remember that on the apprentice. I dont know where they got some of these words, to be honest with you. He went onto say that hed have to check them out. Keeping them honest we did as well. She came to my wedding. She ate like a pig. Seriously, the wedding cake was like missing in action. The Rosie Odonnell insults which he admits to are pretty well known by now. That said when it comes to making disparaging remarks about other women other than Rosie Odonnell, there are many to choose from. When asked why necessary to comment on publisher Ariana Huffingtons looks, because shes a dog who wrongfully comments on me. He once sent her a picture of himself with the words face of a dog written on it. About bette mid ler, i refuse to say that because i always insist on being politically correct. And about Ariana Huffington unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision. As for a moment on the apprentice apprentice megyn kelly was referring to last night. Came in here got down on my knees and said i passionately want to do this. Im at this point the team chooser excuse me. You dropped to your knees . Yes. Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees. Donald trump on the apprentice. The woman she was speaking to said the thought trump was kidding and didnt even remember it. As for calling a woman a disgust disgusting animal we could not remember that particular reference. Trumps attorney said he did call a female attorney during a deposition disgusting because she says she wanted to pump her breast for milk in front of him for her child. But the word animal was apparently not used. Mr. Trump himself told cnns dana bash he might have said disgust or might have said something else. As i mentioned Trump Supporters took to twitter to criticize the way they felt the moderators treated donald trump. Earlier this morning he retweeted, quote, fox give low marks to bimbo megyn kelly. So while the question was largely accurate in substance, the Trump Campaign clearly feels it was unfair and not similar to any questions asked of other candidates on that stage. Joining us tonight, Michael Cohen, executive Vice President for the Trump Organization and special counsel to donald trump. Michael, its clear donald trump was not happy with certain parts of the debate particularly megyn kelly asking him about past comments on women. Why did he think that was unfair . You know look as of yesterday my understanding now that the fox debate ended up showing up Something Like 24 Million People watching that as opposed to 5 million the year before they really all came or i should say they viewed the segment yesterday in order to see what donald trump was going to say. And i think that the moderators really lost a great opportunity in order to allow mr. Trump to show exactly what he wanted to talk about, which is the economy, jobs immigration, reform et cetera. The things that people really wanted to hear from mr. Trump. They didnt really get that opportunity. Mostly because they decided to distract by talking about really what amounts to nonsense. But isnt the moderators job to press the candidates on a whole variety of topics not to just kind of tee up for what the candidates want to talk about . Well the answer is yes. But we should really be this is a gop president ial debate. This isnt talking about an old story about a feud that goes back years which has, you know a long history to it. Its just not president ial. And it didnt make any sense to at least the many many viewers that sent out tweets and emails and so on. It just didnt make any sense. In the past there have been questions raised about language that donald trump has used even during this race against other candidates. Im not talking about feuds with Rosie Odonnell and stuff like that but even in his response to last night he retweeted somebody who had tweeted calling megyn kelly a bimbo. Is that something that a president ial candidate should really be retweeting . It sounds like hes advocating that kind of language. You know i dont know if he read the full tweet. I dont know what his position was on it. Look president obama while sitting with putin made a comment using improper language. Nobody says anything. You know hes human. Hes not a politico. You know hes donald trump. But it does i mean for a president of the United States as president of the United States donald trump would be getting tough questions all the time. Is he going to be referencing, you know female reporters as bimbos or retweeting other peoples comments . I dont know. Anderson listen i dont know whether he tweeted it or somebody from the campaign retweeted it its irrelevant to be very honest with you. Whats really important here is that 24 Million People got a chance to see mr. Trump. They see that hes not taking any nonsense. And thats the type of things that we need in this country. We dont need to talk about individual whether it was rosie or megyn, it makes no difference. Whats important is how are we going to do Immigration Reform . How are we going to handle the economy . How are we going to create jobs . This is what 24 Million People viewed. The reason they went to view it is in order to hear how donald trump is going to with his tag line make America Great again. And they did not get that opportunity because there were questions asked to him that really were not for this debate. Michael cohen, good to have you on. Anderson always great to see you. Thank you. Bring in our chief political analyst, Gloria BorgerNational Tea Party leader and trump supporter amanda pierson. Amanda what do you make of what Michael Cohen said . I mean should a comment that donald trump made about Rosie Odonnell years ago, and others you know comments he made on twitter or on the apprentice, should that be raised in a republican primary debate . Of course it should. I stood up and cheered when megyn kelly asked that question. Mr. Cohen can come on and say hed rather talk about the issues. Well the purpose of a campaign is to prove that you have the character to become president of the United States. And when you demean a woman for asking a necessary question that voters want to hear about, that shows that you dont have the character to take that office. Katrina, i mean i know youre a trump supporter. Do you have any concerns that he just has a really thin skin . I mean weve had many president s and many folks in the white house who have had thin skins and often that over time causes real issues certainly for reporters and for many people. Do you have any concerns about that . Do you think those questions were appropriate . I dont have any concerns. I mean this was mr. Trumps very First National debate on that stage in that element. So im going to give him a pass for this first one and see how things develop. And i do i agree, i think the question was relevant. However, mr. Trump is an entertainer. The apprentice is a television show. Most of what goes on there is scripted and for ratings. Everybody that does television knows that. You didnt hear anybody calling Ronald Reagan a wife beater just because he appeared in a movie where he was beating up a woman. So i think it was pulled out of context, and maybe shouldnt have been in this particular debate which i believe should have been a debate about policy. So these individuals could introduce themselves to 24 Million People. When trump retweets someone calling megyn kelly a bimbo, as a supporter of his, do you think thats acceptable of someone who wants to be president . Well i give no weight to twitter. And most of the time when youre out there going through those feeds, tweeting and retweeting might see something you like and maybe it was an accident. Who knows at this point. He didnt say he did it on purpose. Ive done it before myself. So i dont really give too much credence to twitter at this point. Gloria can i just jump in here . Yeah. They said retweet happened hours ago and the fact cohen came on the show and said he didnt know how it happened you have to suspend belief in order to think thats true. He has to figure out, frankly the fact that this may be the first statement trump hasnt owned and hasnt defended may tell you even he knows hes in trouble. Gloria its twitter. We should be talking about moving forward and policies that are going to effect the country, not twitter. But its his tweets. Gloria one of the things you pointed out is that none of the candidates spoke out last night to condemn trumps comments. Do you think Carly Fiorina, who were going to talk to in a moment on this show had been on that stage that things might have been different . I do. I think it was notable for example that rand paul was kind of itching to go after donald trump on surveillance issues. But when it came to this question nobody sort of stepped in and said you know i think those comments are not things that you would think would come from a president of the United States. Nobody did that. I would argue and be interesting to see what Carly Fiorina says to you, anderson but i would argue that if she had been on that stage that she would have found that pretty hard to resist. That you know those words coming from somebody who you are voting for who will be the person to decide whether you send your children to war, its the most personal vote you make for president of the United States. I guarantee you that a woman standing there would have felt the need to actually Say Something about it. Amanda what about that . Do you think he has the temperament to be president of the United States . Absolutely not. And his actions in the past 24 hours have prove that to be true. I mean we have to be able to win the womens vote. And just think, cnn did a poll last month before this debate even happened that showed Hillary Clinton was beating him with the female vote by 28 points. That is only going to improve in her favor if he keeps this up. Katrina the numbers also show this. They dont need women to vote. They need the base to vote. Mitt romney lost because republicans didnt vote. What we really saw last night 24 Million People saw mr. Trump go after a woman, meaning hes probably the only one thats going to have the guts to go after Hillary Clinton. One of the reasons mitt romney lost is because barack obama won women by 11 points. Republicans need to convince more suburban married women who can vote republican convince more of them that they ought to vote republican. And i would argue if youre sitting at home on the couch and youre a woman and youre watching donald trump and you watch the question from megyn kelly and then you heard him say to megyn kelly, you know maybe i shouldnt be so nice to you, or something to that effect that a lot of women are going to kind of say, whoa that offends me. And a lot of women went on facebook and defended him as well. Theres a viral video right now with two black women on his side. So it goes both ways. Im sure there are. And people who like donald trump will probably say this was okay this was just donald trump. But people who are deciding you know were at the beginning of this campaign a lot of people are deciding. And they look at that and makes women in particular sort of scratch their heads. Well theres certainly a long way to go in this campaign. Its as everyone says its a marathon not a sprint. Well see where things go especially to your point of the next debate. Gloria katrina, great to have you on. Amanda as well. Quick note if you want to hear more from donald trump himself, stay with cnn. Hes calling in with don lemon 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Much more on the debate ahead including how well the other candidates made use of their time on the stage. And a look at what their body language was saying as they talked and as they listened. 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The first one would be to my good friend b. B. Netanyahu to reassure him well stand with israel. We have to undo a whole set of things that president obama has done to get at the heart of his disrespect and disregard for too many americans. Heres the thing that i would Ask Donald Trump in all seriousness. He is the partys front runner right now and good for him. Since he has changed his mind on amnesty, on health care and on abortion i would just ask what are the principles by which he will govern. Hillary clinton lies about benghazi she lies about emails, she is still defending planned parenthood, and she is still her partys front runner. We need a nominee who is going to throw every punch, not pull punches. And someone who cannot stumble before he even gets into the ring. Only someone who will challenge the status quo of washington, d. C. Can lead the resurgence of this great nation. I will do that. Carly fiorina is the former ceo of hewlett packard. I spoke to her earlier tonight. Carly, first of all, congratulations on basically what everybody considers to be a stellar performance in the early debate. Do you think its going to be enough to vault you into the top tier for the next debate . Well well see. You know National Polls measure name id. In state polls i have been in the top ten for some time but National Polls measure among other things name id. Im not a professional politician. Im not a celebrity. And so i started out with the lowest name id in the field. That may be changing after last night. But, you know a campaign isnt going to get won or lost by whos in which debate. I think it will get won or lost by doing the hard work of campaigning day after day after day, which is what im doing. Donald trump has been saying that in the debate last night megyn kelly was unfair nasty, unprofessional. Hes continued to say this on twitter and elsewhere. Even retweeted somebody elses tweet saying she was a bimbo. Im wondering what you make of how he was treated, in particular him going after her and his response to her question about comments on women . You know i think that megyn kelly and all the other moderators actually did a really good job in both debates. I think they were asking each candidate what they considered to be tough but fair questions. And i think megyn kellys questions were tough but fair. Certainly in your debate even a lot of the mode