This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The republican candidates for president will be back on the campaign trail this morning talking to voter ahead of weekend contests in five states in puerto rico. Last night, they traded barbs in a fire rye debate. We are live outside the fox theater in detroit where the debate took place last night. There were some below the belt hits. Youre right. Donald trump was on the hot seat for a full two hours last night, getting hammered not only by the other candidates but by the fox moderators on everything from his character to his business deal ins and things turned ugly very quickly. He referred to my hands, if theyre small, Something Else must be small. I guarantee you theres no problem, i guarantee it. Front runner donald trump was on defense thursday night, standing up for his manhood, his policies and his business decisions. He has spent a career convincing americans that hes something that hes not in exchange for the
Nova scotia welcoming americans if the election does not go their way . [laughter] president obama and to the great credit of their people, canadians from British Columbia to New Brunswick have so far rejected the idea of building a wall to keep out your southern neighbors. [laughter] we appreciate that. We can be unruly, i know. But on a serious note, this visit reminds us of what we love about canada. The solidarity shown by the canadians after 9 11 when they welcomed stranded american travelers into their homes, the courage of your Service Members standing with us in afghanistan and now in iraq, and the compassion of the canadian people welcoming refugees, and the Prime Minister himself who told those refugees, you are safe at home now. Justin, we also see canadas spirit and your mothers brave advocacy in Mental Health care , and i want to give a special welcome to Margaret Trudeau tonight. [applause] president obama and we see canadas spirit in sophie, a champion of women and girls
A deep debate over civil rights and a vietnam that felt like it was going to rip apart at the seams. In the 1970s, we had a president lie, and was going to be in peach from office if he did not resign and scandal. We had hostages in iran, and were helpless to do anything about it. The soviet union was encroaching on us. They were not just in cuba and nicaragua, but el salvador. When have we ever had easy . Went has there ever been a generation of americans that face new challenges, no struggles, no danger, and no problem. The answer is there has never been such a time. It has always been hard. You know why . It is hard to be special. It is hard to be exceptional. That is what this country is. It is exceptional and special. [applause] it is exceptional and special because we have a political process governed by constitution that allows us to work through all the problems that i just described. Without another civil war, without violence in the street, but being able to go to the ballot
I had a great experience early on. I bought it with my father and it worked out well. I ran the job myself. I was very young. I bought it for this and i sold it for this. It is like getting a home run your first time at bat. I always have a great feeling for ohio. The people are amazing people. [crowd cheers] mr. Trump i dont know if the media is getting this. We have a full hanger. This is a big hangar. We figured the crowd would be ok. We have so many thousands of people extra we had to put them in the runway. They never want to capture that. It is fantastic. Lets address it. I love you too. Amazing. This is amazing. Lets address yesterday. So, look. We had a tremendous rally in chicago planned. 25,000 people. The arena was seeding 11,000. We registered more than 25,000. [crowd cheers] thats ok. You are loyal but thats ok. It was very interesting. These were great people like yourselves. People that want to make America Great again. That is all it is. They were pouring into the arena
As the crowd is here. [chanting] january 1st, 53 Million People in the u. S. Had been talking about the election on facebook. Tonight, there are just four candidates on the stage. Their position has been determined by their standing in an average of the five most recent National Polls as recognized by fox news and conducted and released by march 1st. Here they are. Businessman donald trump. [cheers and applause] texas senator ted cruz. [cheers and applause] florida senator marco rubio. [cheers and applause] and Ohio Governor john kasich. [cheers and applause] tonights rules are simple. Up to 60 seconds for each answer. 30 seconds for each followup response. And if a candidate goes over the allotted time, you will hear this. [bell] so pleasant. We have a big crowd here. And while we expect the audience to be enthusiastic and responsive at times. And they have already been. We also expect them to it be respectful and we want the candidates to get their full time so somewhere between a li