news coverage live from brussels tonight. it's almost 1:00 in the morning in brussels. raids are continuing throughout this city. also in paris as they are in a frantic manhunt to try to prevent possible further attacks. they believe imminent attacks could be in the works from isis cells according to american intelligence. now our breaking news coverage continues with "ac 360." good evening. i'm john berman in for anderson. i want to go to the streets of brussels. live pictures right now. this is an ongoing operation over the last few minutes there's been a flurry of police action there. this is an apartment building on the streets of brussels. these are live pictures. this is happening in brussels. we're also told within the last few hours there's been a high level arrest just outside of paris. again, dual operations under way right now. a frenzy of activity. and there is much, much more. a very busy sobering night. first, i want to get to nick

paton walsh. he is in the schaerbeek section of brussels where this is under way. live pictures. nick, you are watching this as well. tell us what you are seeing, how long this has been going on and what exactly you're hearing from police officials. >> john, about two or three hours ago, police sealed off a substantial part of this schaerbeek area. that building you're seeing there, police officers confirmed that's the source of their interest here. locals report that in the past two hours or so, they saw police move in and then after a pause, they heard a bang, an explosion of some description. as you can see from the outside of that building, there is no discernible sign of damage to it. we've just seen a man in headto toe white forensic overalls come out. go to a nearby van, take out a to toolbox and head back in again. he's clearly working in the top

window of this building. armed police are in the streets all around it here. we've also seen what looked like to be a car taken away. the police were perhaps involved in that. we're not entirely clear if it's related to the investigation. there's been a substantial presence here. a vast amount of this street cordoned off and now the focus on that building there. as you know, john, there are substantial number of individuals sought here. three potentially and two arrests. six arrests in total in brussels at this stage. some said to be here in schaerbeek and some others in different parts of the capital itself. a night of heavy police activity, perhaps the largest number of detentions yet so far. and where we are here, this police focus concentrated on that particular building you're seeing there. >> live pictures right now of an ongoing police operation in schaerbeek in brussels.

nick paton walsh is watching this along with us. he's on the streets right next to where this is going on. nick, just tell me one more time. six arrests in brussels. any at this location right here? >> it is thought that some had occurred here. we have not seen them ourselves, but some of the reports link them to here. not entirely clear from officials exactly how many were arrested and what particular place but most reports suggest some detentions have occurred in the schaerbeek area which has been the previous area of focus. quite a substantial distance to where the two brothers involved in the brussels attack live. this house here we don't know who lived here. we don't know who they were after. there are forensic investigators working. i can see one in the top floor there. that's part of their interest. we've seen someone in the bottom floor, too, going through property inside. the front door periodically opens. the light switched on and off

and masked police as per usual standing around in the street out front. this police cordon has reduced back allowing locals back to their homes and much of the focus now has been that particular building. john? >> you are looking at live pictures from the schaerbeek neighborhood of brussels inside belgium. a man in some kind of forensic gear there, law enforcement officials looking for something obviously inside this apartment building. nick paton walsh is there. he's been watching this ongoing operation. it's been going on for a couple of hours. we're seeing our first pictures, live pictures from inside with this man obviously looking for something as he combs through this apartment. nick, give me a sense of this neighborhood. any known connection between the schaerbeek neighborhood and the known suicide attackers at the brussels airport and metro station? >> khalid el bakraoui and

ibrahim el bakraoui are connected to an apartment on the other side of this particular neighborhood. it's not known whether or not they had -- it is clear that the arrests that occurred tonight according to belgian interior ministry officials relate to the airport and the metro attacks. but as you know, john, this investigation every day seems to yield new things, new suspects, new warnings overlooked by the authorities. we simply don't know if this cell relates to two or three individuals we know are sought. the man in white in the cctv airport video. the man seen outside of the metro attack carrying a large package who possibly left, possibly went inside. we don't know his fate. or a man considered to be a accomplice of salah abdeslam known as abrini. there could be others who authorities are looking for as well. the relationship to all of this and this particular building

here is unclear at this stage. a neighbor is now looking around the corner of his curtain from one particular edge. the focus of investigators, a man i saw come down here in white forensic overalwals with orange vest is in that top floor. possibly a bedroom. maybe they are looking for dna. a lot of attention on that upper floor. we don't know if this whole building belonged to one group or family or whether it's divided into separate flats. a lot of focus on that top floor. >> nick paton walsh in the schaerbeek neighborhood. you are looking at live pictures of this operation. a man in forensic gear, we can see them in the white suit with the orange vest going through the apartment looking for something. maybe dna. we're not exactly sure. this as we know there have been six arrests in the last few hours of brussels connected to some kind of anti-terror operations. we do not know if there were arrests made at this very

apartment. we'll keep our eye on the activity here because it is ongoing. and we are seeing these very interesting pictures. we'll get back here live as soon as there are developments. in the meantime, there is activity tonight in france as well. just outside paris, what authorities are calling a high level arrest in a plot they say was in the advanced stages. joining us with the latest from france, erin mcloughlin. there was a raid north of paris. what are we learning? >> that's right, john. that police raid we understand is still ongoing. the situation is still fluid. now earlier today, authorities here say they conducted a key arrest of a high-level operative believed to have been connected to that plot. following his arrest, they conducted a raid in a suburb to the west of paris. the bomb squad was deployed. an apartment building in that

suburb was emptied out. now that raid is still under way. no word yet if authorities there have found explosives. no word on the exact nature, the details of this plot that authorities say was very serious and they believe now foiled. >> erin mclaughlin. what they are looking at are live pictures of brussels, the schaerbeek neighborhood where there's an ongoing operation in brufrl going through an apartment complex. two guys going through that apartment looking for what, we are not sure. why that's happening in brussels, erin, you are in paris where there was an arrest earlier of someone planning what we were told was an imminent terror operation. and i understand that french authorities say there's no tangible link to the arrest they made tonight and the attacks in november in paris or the attacks earlier this week in brussels. they say this was a totally separate terror investigation. is that right?

>> that's right, john. what they are saying is the individual that they arrested earlier today, as well as a number of other individuals yet to be identified, they say they have been under surveillance for weeks. the interior minister of france tonight announcing that they believe that this plot was not connected to the attacks in belgium. he made no mention, however, of the attacks that happened in paris back in november. but what tonight's raids really do seem to illustrate is the nature of the persistent threat facing france and how serious authorities are taking this threat. after all, we know that u.s. and european intelligence officials have warned europe of the possibility of further isis attacks. further isis plots. we certainly know that isis has threatened as much. >> erin mclaughlin on the arrests made in paris in an operation not connected to

brussels. no tangible link to what happened in brussels. we'll check back in with you. on the other side of the screen, live pictures from brussels, the schaerbeek neighborhood where there's an ongoing operation in an apartment building. police outside the building. there's a lot of activity going on inside the building as well with officials scouring one apartment on an upper floor. we're going to keep our eye on that throughout the evening because there do appear to be things being carried out of that building right now. we'll keep our eye on that over the next few minutes. all this is happening with intelligence pointing to isis plans already in place for more attacks and possibly soon. the u.s. staat department travel alert was our first indication this was going pop tonight there are no indications. pamela brown has been working her sources and joins us now. pamela, these terror plots in the works. what more are you learning? >> investigators are aware of

multiple additional isis plots in europe, possibly linked to the paris and brussels networks. the plots are in various stages of planning so the concern is that some of them are imminent. the belief is there are dozens if not more potential and known isis operatives still in europe with ties to these attackers. officials have collected intelligence indicating those people right now are working to launch further terrorist attacks. there are multiple threat streams, intelligence services are tracking, but they are essentially overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it. and there was a high level of concern tonight another attack is going to happen in the near future based on this intelligence. and just the fact it's so relatively easy for these isis operatives, many of them trained in syria to launch these attacks. case in point after the attacks, some of the operatives remained in europe and then went on to launch the brussels attack. they see that trend continuing.

one official said there's not that calm between storms like we're used to seeing. >> any specific information on what countries may be targeted or what types of places may be at the highest level of risk? >> we're learning more about that based on intelligence. the concern is really focused on belgium, france, germany, spain and the uk. and the belief is that the isis operatives will target run of the mill everyday places people go to like restaurants, metro stops and tourist sites which i think you saw that reflected in that state department alert. one big question is why haven't these plots been disrupted. there's a couple of reasons. some of the information coming in is too fragmentary. they don't have enough information, enough specific information to thwart them. and also investigators may be trying to gather more intelligence about who these people may be talking to and that kind of thing. and sources also stress the situation with these plots is very fluid and can change

quickly depending on the opportunity for these operatives, some who have been trained in iraq and syria, sent back to europe with a single goal of killing westerners. >> we're looking at live pictures of an ongoing operation in brussels in the schaerbeek neighborhood. this is an apartment building there. police outside this building for some time and now inside this building, scouring an upper level apartment. we saw people in forensic ou outfits going over the curtains a moment ago. going through the walls. we're not sure what they are looking for. we'll keep our eye on that throughout the evening. pamela brown, thank you very much. when we left you last night, there was only one fugitive in brussels that we knew about. we had a picture of him from the airport. the guy we've seen in the picture, the one in the hat. now we're learning there's another fugitive as well. clarissa ward is in brussels with more on that. a second person, a second

fugitive. this one may have played a role in the subway attack. what are you learning? >> that's right, john. as our viewers look at these pictures, let's remind them of who is still at large. who are the primary focuses of this massive manhunt that is still unfolding? as you said correctly, the third airport bomber who did not detonate his suitcase full of extremely powerful explosives. the man in the white jacket with the hat and glasses and apparent attempt possibly to disguise his facial features. he is still at large. police have not released any information as to his identity. today belgian authorities revealing they are looking for another man who may have -- who was likely involved with the metro bombing. images were seen of him on surveillance video apparently carrying some type of a large bag outside the metro station

near khalid bakraoui, the other bomber. so far they have not released any more information about these men. they haven't even released the imamg outside the metro station to essentially alert the public to who this man may be, who they should be looking out for to possibly elicit some tips. we've noticed a shift with belgian authorities keeping very tight lipped. you are seeing those pictures of them, this raid going on in a brussels suburb. we don't know what the focus of that raid is. we don't know exactly what it is that led them to there. you're seeing images almost reminiscent of some of the raids in paris after the big raid in saint-denis where abdelhamid abaaoud was ultimately killed. and after that we saw these forensic experts going through, poring over every single detail,

looking for dna evidence, looking for clues. looking for possibly elements of explosives. we know many of these raids have netted large amounts of these crudely homemade bombs with the tnt explosive. really trying to work out exactly what belgian officials may have found in these apartments. it's certainly fair to say they are under an enormous amount of pressure, john. a lot of people here wanting to hold authorities accountable. we've heard, of course earlier today the interior minister actually offered his resignation. the prime minister declined. but certainly people here want to see justice for what has happened, john. >> indeed they do. clarissa ward, thanks. next, more on our breaking news. new information that paul cruickshank just obtained about the ongoing terror raids in brussels, including i knowledge the one you're looking at. where three of the suspects were

arrested tonight, where they were caught and what they may have been up to. he joins us along with the rest of the panel on that and the possibility that isis plans may include bombing -- may include building a radioactive dirty bomb. also, after what happened in brussels, i'm going to speak to one of new york's top police officers on what's being done to keep this city's subway system safe. stay with us. seems like we've hit a road block.

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anti-terror operations unfolding tonight. live pictures of them in fact. also new information about these raids unfolding across the city of brussels. major operations we are now just learning details about. this is one location in schaerbeek, a neighborhood in brussels. the other location truly chilling. three suspects taken into custody right outside a major government office. now the backdrop to all of this is intelligence suggesting the brussels bombings were part of a larger isis plan. joining us now, former cia officer bob baer, intelligence and security analyst, also juliet te who was homeland security adviser for the commonwealth of massachusetts and terrorism analyst paul cruickshank, editor in chief of the ctc sentinel the combating

terrorism center at west point. this is happening in schaerbeek. you have information about what we're seeing and also information this is part of what is going on that is much, much bigger. >> what's you are seeing on the screen is part, only part of a major counterterrorism operation. at least three locations in brussels. this information coming from the belgian federal prosecutors' office briefing belgian media. there is a helicopter that has been involved in this. the army has been brought in at this location in schaerbeek to reinforce their efforts. belgian special intervention commandos have been involved as well. and so far, six people have been brought into custody. it appears possibly one at this location that it's not absolutely clear yet. two in jet, a northwestern

district of brussels, but the most sort of stunning development of all potentially is the rest of three men in a vehicle outside the belgian federal prosecutor's offices at the heart of brussels. not clear what they were doing there, but as part of this counterterror operation they've arrested three people in a vehicle outside the belgian federal prosecutor's office. why were they there? they are not telling us at this point. we do not know the circumstances, but it certainly raises all sorts of questions why three people would be arrested in a counterterrorism operation right outside a major government building in brussels. >> not just a major government building. the belgian federal prosecutor's office. this is the office, the leading edge in the counterterror battle and in the investigation into the terror attacks at the airport and subway station. >> they are leading the charge against this cell.

the cell they are worried may strike again. so very interesting indeed, three men who have been arrested in this counterterrorism operation. were they just acting suspiciously. were they arrested out of abundance of cautious or something more sinister going on here? we don't know. it's the middle of the night. they're keeping their cards very close right now. >> about 1:30 in the morning in belgium right now. 1:30 in the morning as you are looking at these pictures in the schaerbeek neighborhood in brussels, separate from the arrests outside the federal prosecutor's office. bob baer, we've been looking at these pictures for some time. men in these forensic outfits scouring the drapes, looking like they are going over the walls. you've been watching this along with us. any sense of what they are doing exactly inside this building? >> well, since the bombing of the metro and airport, clearly the belgians had to change tactics. they are trying to break the

momentum of the islamic state. they are adjusting their tactics appropriately. you hit a build, collect intelligence, move on to the next one. visit the usual suspects. and just to really interrupt any planning. and i'm sure that there is something being planned. and they are also looking for people that are doing casing because the islamic state cases targets before they hit them. it's the only proper way to do it. they are out looking for that. this was really, truly, in so many ways a wake-up call for the belgians that's they are at war in their own capital, and the gloves are off. preventive detention. going around the constitution doesn't matter but they have to react and they are. >> at a basic level, they are looking for traces of explosives, perhaps dna that would lead them to identities of people planning future attacks? >> yes. they are looking for any evidence to keep these people in jail whether it's explosives or, you know, gun powder or dna or finger prints.

anything they have to hold them. they have to keep these people out of circulation, or they will attack again. i think that's fairly clear based on the state department warning, raids in france and general chatter in the air. the islamic state is on the offensive. they are upset about losing territory in iraq and syria, and they will strike back at europe. it's an assumption everybody is working off of. >> juliette you agree. this is the belgian officials, the investigators trying to get on the offensive, trying to get out ahead of what may be being planned right now. >> that's absolutely right. just picking up on what bob said. this is what we call a sweep. who knows if something will result from what we're seeing on air right now. and there will be lots more of them. they are going to be what's call overbroad. they are going to just try to find people or evidence that may

stop the next terrorism attack, and they will figure out who they have under custody. i want to pick up on something paul said about the arrest in front of the ministry. abdeslam captured on friday is being held in belgium, in the ministry -- not in the ministry, but they have jurisdiction over him. in the last couple of hours, he -- his lawyers have said he's no longer going to fight extradition and now wants to go to paris. that is a complete turn around from what happened before. what he was saying before the terror attacks. so it's not just that it's a mip stree of justice dealing with the belgium attacks. they have in custody the man we all think, his arrest essentially triggered this series of arrests both on tuesday and the arrest and sweeps that we're seeing now. >> paul cruickshank, what about salah abdeslam and the idea he no longer wants to waive extradition and is apparently not cooperating or talking to those questions him in any way. >> he was never cooperating,

belgian officials believe. they believe he not only knew about this attack but was going to be part of a bigger attack they were planning for days or weeks ahead. but the part of the cell which wasn't neutralized, which wasn't with salah abdeslam accelerated their plans, officials believe. abdeslam would have known about these plans because he was in that safehouse with the overall commander of the paris attacks and the brussels attacks. the overall commander of the entire operation. he wouldn't have known about what was going to happen. whatever he told belgian officials, belgian interrogators and did admit to be a stadium bomber. whatever he told wasn't information that allowed them to save lives. >> bob baer, any use, salah abdeslam, if he isn't talking, of what use is he right now? >> i don't think he's of any

use. i agree with paul. he didn't reveal this plot in advance. the airport, the metro. he's a believer, in spite of his not blowing himself up in paris. and he's not going to cooperate with police. the belgians and french don't torture. i don't think torture works anyhow. he believes in the cause and he's going to keep his mouth shut and spend his time in jail for the rest of his life not talking. so he was never any use. i totally agree with paul as a source to prevent an attack. >> juliette, bob, paul, stick around. what you are looking at is an ongoing operation. 1:30 a.m. local time in brussels right now. this is an apartment building. police have been on the scene for several hours. these forensic operators have been going through this apartment scouring the walls, scouring the drapes looking for what, we are not sure. we'll discuss more right after this. urface... no one speed... no one way of driving on each and every road.

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locations in brussels. one you are looking at now is in schaerbeek. separately, there were three arrests outside the headquarters in belgium federal prosecutor's office. three arrests outside that federal prosecutor's office. the federal prosecutor has been leading the counterterror investigation and operation since the attacks on the airport and metro station. three arrests there. also three separate arrests e s elsewhere in the city, including one in this building or at least in this neighborhood. it's after 1:30 in the morning in brussels right now. so the operations going on literally all night. we're joined by our panel of security and intelligence experts, juliette, you are looking at this right now. this is the investigators. this is the counterterrorism operators now trying to get out ahead of the terrorists who we understand are planning more attacks. >> and they have to base everything on that assumption.

they know there are at least two men involved with tuesday's attacks who they don't know where they are. there's no way that a network like that doesn't have other pieces, other people involved that are supporting them. so for people looking at this, this is typically how it works. they found a location. people outside protecting neighbors, a bit of an evacuation going on. people inside in protective gear for obvious reasons. we don't know what kind of explosives will be in there. pictures, everything else are being taken. what we don't know and always have to be careful of is in big sweeps luke this, particularly in urban settings, there are going to be a lot of false-positives. a number of apartment houses. some will come to fruition, others will not. this one at 1:30 in the morning looks pretty serious but it could be in 12 hours or 14 hours we learn this was not the place that they were hoping for. and there are going to be these throughout the city.

this is what major investigation looks like when you have pieces still at large. >> bob baer, is your sense they are likely to be looking for specific people or ties to specific people or just casting as wide of a net as possible? >> i think they are casting as wide a net as possible. they are on a steep learning curve. i look at their vests. they have soft armor. in this situation where people have kalashnikovs, you need ceramic plates. the belgians are learning about guerrilla war feas we speak. they're going to be narrowing down the hunt. this could be a lot of false-positives, a lot of angry people going to have their doors knocked down. very time consuming going into these places. you have to go slowly. they are looking for rigged bombs in these places. all sorts of things behind these doors they have to worry about. i think these raids will go on for a long time before they can root out this network which seems to get bigger by the day. >> any sense if the officials

there suspect the fugitives they are looking for are in brussels? salah abdeslam hiding in plain sight in the neighborhood he grew up in. do they think they are hiding in the neighborhoods they've lived comfortably for some time or get out of brussels? >> they say this operation was aimed at the people linked, they believe, to this attack in brussels. not clear whether they've been able to arrest key suspects, people who played a key role in the operation or not but there are six arrests, and that's just so far tonight. there may be more arrests later tonight. this is a very large operation right across brussels. we understand now that there were no arrests at this location in schaerbeek. these are searchers. but as bob baer was pointing out, they have to take a lot of precautions when they go in and

do these searches. if you rewind to last week, to last tuesday, they had intelligence about an address they believed was linked to the paris attacks. but they were not expecting anybody to be inside. when they went in, they found salah abdeslam and two other gunmen opening fire on them as they tried to get in. several belgian and french police officers were wounded. luckily none lost their lives. they got into a firefight. a belgian police sniper managed to take out the senior terrorist inside, mohamed belkaid, but after of abdeslam and his accomplice managed to get away over the roofs, and it took another three days before they arrested them. and all of that accelerated these attack plans. sometimes when authorities go and make these arrests, that's can have the effect of accelerating attack plans because these cells believe that they are about to get arrested. >> paul cruickshank, bob baer and juliette kayyem stand by.

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retweeted this screen shot of heidi next to melania saying the images are worth a thousand words. >> real men don't bully women. that's an action of weakness, an action of fear. it's an action of a small and petty man who is intimidated by strong women. >> reporter: megyn kelly, a regular trump target, also joining the fray with a one-word tweet to donald trump. >> seriously? >> reporter: cruz today blasting trump for bringing his wife into the middle of their campaign showdown. >> let me be absolutely clear. our spouses and our children are off bounds. it is not acceptable for a big, loud new york bully to attack my wife. >> reporter: the attacks were first sparked by a facebook ad from an anti-trump superpac, not the cruz campaign, that used an old modeling photo of melania

posing nude. trump still suggests his rival was involved. >> i think it's disgusting. >> reporter: the sharp personal attacks eclipsing discussions over national security now emerging as a flash point between the 2016 candidates on both sides in the wake of the brussels terror attacks. tonight hillary clinton angling for a symbolic contrast sitting down with muslim leaders in california. the democratic front-runner blasting her gop rivals for pursuing policies she says will only sow division. >> cannot allow our nation to be pitting groups of people against one another. we cannot give in to panic and fear. it's not in keeping with our values. >> reporter: this comes as a brand-new cnn/orc poll shows if trump and clinton face off in a general election, 56% of voters

believe that clinton will win compared with 42% who think trump will. and while clinton also has an edge when it comes to who would be a better commander in chief and who is more in touch with the middle class, she and trump are tied on the question of who is a stronger leader. sunlen serfaty, cnn, janesville, wisconsin. joining us now, usa radio network political commentator scottie nell hughes who supports donald trump and tara set mayer, former communications director for dana rohrbacher. scottie, ted cruz called donald trump a sniveling coward for taking shots at heidi cruz. do you think donald trump went too far here? that retweet, is that too much? >> let me say this. it's good to know that chivalry is not done within the gop. both men have stood up for their wufs. that speaks very well about how the gop feels about women. i don't always have to agree with everything mr. trump does. i never want to encourage

anybody to base their comments or base any hate or negativity on looks, superficial looks. in this case, i don't think it was the best approach for mr. trump. but we need to put the blame where it belongs. it belongs on this make america awesome pac who has caused this grand canyon between these two candidates. it's not a -- i don't think it's a coincidence. i think this is based on the fact that last week there were rumors the cruz dell gatss and trump delegates were getting together and coming up with a plan to make sure if we went into a brokered convention that nobody else's name would be able to be brought from the floor. it scared the fire out of the establishment folks who said we need to make sure these two groups hate each other. i thinking this is going to continue if we see that we'll go toward a brokered convention. >> somewhere in there scottie said she didn't like the fact donald trump did that retweet comparing his wife to heidi cruz. she also said the people going after donald trump started it. does it matter who started it?

>> no, it doesn't matter who started it. and the fact is that superpacs are going to do what they do. it was a nice pivot for scottie to get off the subject because it is indefensible. i as a woman, as a stepmother to two young girls who are 11 and 9 who get bullied in school because of how they look. they get called ugly, you look different, and we hear we have a presidential candidate that has a history -- this isn't the first time he's done this. let's hold donald trump accountable for his own actions and words. he did not -- this is standing up to his -- standing up for his wife? chivalrous? by him objectifying his own wife and comparing her to somebody else's wife, what she looks like? this is a man who is superficial, who has made terribly derogatory statements about women his entire career. this is a woman who went through a divorce in public, here in new york. i remember. i'm from here. who was bragging about his

sexual pleasure with his mistress and demeaning his wife of his -- the mother of his children. this is the man that scottie hughes is supporting and making excuses for every single week because he continues to do these kinds of things. how do i explain to my 9-year-old and 11-year-old stepdaughters a man that calls women fat pigs, talks about having a nice piece of blank on his arm. doesn't matter what people say about you. that calls people like megyn kelly bimbos. if this is the man you support and make excuses for in the presidential election, there is no excuse for this. >> that's deserves a response. we're going to get it from scottie right after the break. er with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d.

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>> go for it. >> i do respect your passion and hope you are ready to show that same passion against hillary clinton, regardless of who our nominee will be that you'll be able to use that. i like being on the same team as you because you bring up some excellent points. that being said, this campaign has come down to actions and policy versus words. and people that want to take out mr. trump try to focus on his words to distract from the actions and the policies that he puts out there. actions that we need right now when we're $19 trillion in debt, have a porous border and need leadership and security when it comes to -- >> scottie, scottie, you are being critical for people listening to what he says? paying attention to what donald trump actually says? does what a candidate say matter? >> well, it does -- >> what he's done. it's actually good. that's the reason he's winning in the polls. he's demonstrated you can sit there and focus on his words. you might like some of the things he's saying or not like. i'm in that same boat. that being said, going forward

you have to look at what he is going to do for this country. i'm sorry, when i look at my daughter, i'm going to say it doesn't matter what a man says to you. you don't need to base yourself and your actions baseod it. be your own self whether it's the president of the united states or your own mother. you to what you want and what you think is right. >> then you're a hypocrite supporting someone who has a pattern of behavior -- >> i am going to create my own path regardless. and you look at him -- >> it's more than what he said. what has he done for women -- >> what's he done to women? i just told you what he did -- >> those are words. what's are his actions? he has more females -- >> he cheated very publicly on his life. stay with a man who cheats on them because you should? this is -- >> it's funny that his ex-wives are -- >> i'm speaking factual truth about things he's said and done and you are in denial because you never answered the question

about how you can support him. >> ted cruz called donald trump a sniveling coward. do you think if trump gets the nomination cruz would give him his endorsement? >> it's about integrity and -- >> hillary has that? >> no, she doesn't either, but -- >> that's what you get. >> donald trump is supposed to be representing my party and he does not. i have more principle and character than to put party unity over to support someone that is this despicable when it comes to women and other things. >> hillary clinton's -- >> -- selling this to the american people and you are falling for it. >> leaves a lot more to discuss in the next hour and in the weeks and months ahead. thachb thanks so much. donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich will take questions in a republican town hall in milwaukee moderated by anderson cooper this coming tuesday, 8:00

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