what was your favorite moment from tonight's debate. fundamental me at megyn kelly, tell me what you think. thanks for watching, everyone. this is "the kelly file," sean hannity up next live. >> thanks, megyn. this is a fox news alert. the 2016 republican presidential candidates went head to head during the second gop debate at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. here are some of the best moments from that night. >> what i am far and away greater than an entertainer is a businessman. that's the kind 0 mindset this country needs. >> just because he says it doesn't make it true. fist of all, rand paul shouldn't be on this stage. he's number 11 and he's only 1% in the polls and how he got up

here i don't know. >> i'm not here to fight with jeb bush. >> i think there is a quality about mr. push. >> i never attacked him on his looks p. >> he wanted casino gambling in florida. >> yes, you did. >> totally false. >> if i were sitting at home watching this back and forth, i'd be inclined to turn it off. people at home across this country want to know what we will do to fix this place. >> i didn't want to -- >> you did not take -- >> more energy tonight. i like that. >> why should we trust you? for you to manage this any differently than you managed the finances of your casino. >> we don't want to hear about your career, back and forth. you're both successful people. congratulations. you know who's not successful? the middle class in this country getting plowed over by barack obama and hilary clinton. >> and author of the brand new

book, "a disgrease to the profession" and we will go through each candidate, the four of us and we will give your assessment how they did. mark steyn, we'll start with the number one man in the polls, mr. trump. >> i don't think he had a great night in the sense of a breakout night. he had a night that will not do anything to dent his rise. >> no harm no foul. >> exactly. if the object was to knock out trump, this isn't going to do t it? >> peter johnson. >> i was there the whole night. not a strong night for donald trump. not a terrible night but didn't really excel. it was carly fiorini's night, she was knockout, really. >> steve hayes, you're not a trump fan. we'll get to that in a second. >> no. not a trump fan. he was very active and involved in the first few exchanges and

sort of disappeared when the debate turned towards substance both on foreign and domestic policy and i think he looked weak in absentia. >> i think mark is right on this, no harm no foul. going into this debate he knew he was going to be the number one target. he was kind of prepared. like ben carson. i don't think ben carson spends a lot of time preparing for debate, not his style or format. i don't think donald trump feels this is the most important thing in the world. >> the interesting question was the one about autism which was designed to make trump look like a lunatic who disregards science. in fact, trump gave a surprisi g surprisingly thoughtful response after which dr. paul and dr. carson essentially accepted trump's framing of the issue. that's a perfect example how when you least expect it, trump

can make the weirdest stuff work for him. that is a very good example of what he's got no other candidate has. >> if we use the drudge flash poll nearly 400,000 people voted on it, it was accurate last tile. trump by a landslide, his numbers went up significantly. tonight, number 1 by 60% on the poll. i wouldn't discount that. >> i wouldn't discount it at all. he's winning with the people to a great extent. if he has performance after performance like this, i think it makes it difficult for him to sustain the candidacy. he needs to know who the military advisories are and it's fine to say i will be the most mill tar ristic person and we will be strong. if he can't point to a single person to give him advice even though he says i will be relying on the best team in america, who

is that best team? i think he did okay but over time it become as difficult sell. ? you want more substance, how i interpret that. >> i've always supported his ability to move forward. when a lot of people were tra trashing him, i'm saying, hey, go donald trump. we need that in this country. we still need that because the people will make the determination. if he's going to come to these deba debates, come prepared and use the intelligence he does have. i know it. he's one of the smartest guys i have ever met. i think he will bring capacity, if he's elected to that office people don't expect. he needs to show the goods. >> sean, i think that's a reasonable point. the first point peter made there. you think he needs to have more substance and needs to be able to speak about syria in something more than two sentences. maybe the people watch at home don't need a tret tis on syria and better understanding on all the different groups involved.

he was asked a specific question about syria and gave a two sentence answer and answered the question and kind of punted and followed immediately by marco rubio i thought gave a very detailed and thoughtful answer and by carly fiorina, another outsider not sitting on the senate intelligence committee who also gave a detailed thou t thoughtful answer. by comparison he didn't look as good as they did on those issues and details. >> let's go to carly. i put out the question on my twitter feed. a lot of people think it was a big night for her. brit humes suggested as much. he has a good political eye. what are your thoughts? >> i think this is like when people say rubio had a good night last time around. carly is this person in narrow political debate terms won the debate. i'm not sure whether that makes a lot of difference on the ground in iowa and new

hampshire. maybe it will get her a couple of points and go from 6 to 8 points? >> you don't see dramatic movement? >> i think carly's performance was objectively strong in narrow conventional political debate terms. i don't think it's a game cha e changer in the sense that frank's focus group did. >> i'm sticking with mark steyn, i agree as well. i think in debate terms it was a magnificent performance. if i had a suggestion, a little more warmth would be helpful. she's knowledge, meticulous, does her home work, do you say it's game changer? >> i don't know if it's a game changer but changes the landscape. let me tell you about the room tonight. the response was electric for her at a bunch of points. there was a hush especially when she was talking about specifics, specifics with regard to iran, specifics with regard to russia

and specifics with regard to how many brigades we have in terms of or military. americans are looking for solutions but they're also looking for capacity for reasonable judgments. in some ways she's not margaret thatcher, she's not british and there can be kind of a cold quality about her sometimes. she did display a passion and did display sensitivity and did talk about becoming a ceo from becoming a secretary. i think her participation nit moves her higher and higher. let's see what the numbers are. but trump may have won in the flash poll but she was helped big-time tonight. >> let's move on a little bit, steve. i might have a disagreement with marco rubio. he came off giving intelligent substantive answers with a certain gravitas and knowledge base that's impressive that's a person i know.

ted cruz i thought in similar moments as well. your thoughts on them? >> i think that's right. rubio had a good night. if you believe this is going to be a long contest, at the end people will take a long look at somebody who's offered substantive answers, rubio certainly bolstered his case to be that candidate tonight. he offered details and personal stories and warmth. he offered optimism about the country in a way people will find very appealing. i thought ted cruz had a pretty good night tonight. he didn't win the exchange on the question of justice roberts that he had with jeb bush. it should be an area ted cruz did very well. i thought jeb bush bested him on that in part because rubio had boosted the candidates nomination of justice roberts. >> can we all agree on one thing? 11 people in three hours, it is too long, too many people on the stage and too many -- you said

this about that. you said that about this. they wanted to turn it into wwe. do we all agree on that? >> e this 11-1 debate and four on the others. they should have five or six at the most with a star table. >> peter. >> it was kind of cnn's version of "saw," put everybody in the room and hope they would kill each other, a couples therapy, instead of asking a policy question they should be asking what's your policy on this? do you believe this or believe that? you believe this and they don't agree with you and you -- tell them why you're not lousy. do you want to destroy the republican party? is that a legitimate way to have a debate? three hours of this with 11 people. >> i felt people disappeared for 20 minutes at a time. where did that person go? >> it was disturbing. i think someone got off the stage and went to the men's room

and ladies room and you wouldn't even know. how long could it go on and how much destruction can you do of the republican party? make everybody hate each other, make the people hate all the candidates, make all of them lie to each other and then if they don't fight, there's something wrong with them. >> sean, you know more about tv than i ever will. i think from a television perspective you want the candidates to engage one another and cnn made no secret of the fact they wanted the candidates to exchange with each other, go after each other, to answer the criticisms that have been made on the campaign trail. >> nobody wants to watch a three hour -- >> it was way too much. it was too much of that. >> i don't want to watch a three hour debate. mark's right. put the top five or six in the ninth debate and everyone else goes to the other one. >> sean, when the host becomes the playground tattletale and s says, do you know what he said about you? do you know what she said about

you? oh, yeah. what do you say? you want to hit him? >> and ben carson who doesn't say any mean stuff about anybody, so he's not even present in this debate. he could have actually -- as you say, he couldn't just go to the bathroom for 20 minutes, could have flown to canada and won the canadian election and returned to the debate for his farewell message. >> i think you're right. >> we'll take a break and coming up you will hear from the candidates themselves. we check in with scott walker, rand paul, john kasich, mike hub ca bee a ca -- huckabee and much more straight ahead.

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the author of "the disgrease to the profession" and -- disgrace to the profession. ben carson has really been ri rising in the polls. my take on ben carson, this is not his format, you're right, he doesn't say a bad thing about anybody. his pacing, his cadence is not meant for a debate. i don't think he gets hurt, i don't think he gets helped. >> no. i think in a sense he sits apart from the debate process. he turns up. sits there for a couple of hours. i assume, you know, during the 45 minutes nobody asked him anything he's like scrolling on his smartphone and doing -- >> maybe -- >> maybe operating on members of the audience. we don't know. he's irrelevant to the debate process. >> but he's a mentally likable, extremely intelligent.

i think there's a reason for his rise in the polls. i don't think he helps himself tonight because i don't think he -- this is no what he does. >> you know, his answer, his answer on his mother, for example, he's one of 20 -- his mother was one of 24 children who got married at the age of 13. that's the kind of economic mobility. so your mother got married at the age of 13, one in 24 children from an historically discriminated against group and you're running for president. that's the kind of economic mobility -- that's the american dream. the question is, the question is whether people can still do what ben carson does or whether as truchl says, the american dream is dead. that answer from carson was good. >> what do you say? i thought in this first debate, moments make debates not whole debate. he had a great moment at the end of the first debate, what do you think? >> i don't think he had great moments but had a good moment.

i think he writinbrings a brags and stability and thoughtfulness and agree he will not set the world on fire with his rhetoric. there is a calmness about him and stability that i think is very endearing and i think is very good for the republican party especially in this field and some of the elements you have in this field. this is an outsider truly an outsider one that's looking to participate and bring his wisdom to politics in america. i think he will be in this race for a time to come and could rise. >> let's talk about governors, former governor bush, steve, governor kasich, governor walker, thoughts about them tonight. >> i didn't think this was a great night for the governors with the exception for chris christie. christie did pretty well, distinguished himself and jumped into several exchanges and redefined other exchanges. he had a good beginning, right?

>> i thought governor walker had a very good beginning, very strong and he sort of disappeared. this goes to what you were s saying a moment ago you get these long stretches candidates who have changed the dynamic of an 11 person debate one moment are absent the next moment an sometimes gone as long as half hour 45 minutes. sort of an odd dynamic. i don't think governor bush -- i don't think he killed himself tonight or did himself many favors and didn't come out on top of many exchanges other than the one i mentioned with ted cruz and doesn't seem commanding in a way you would expect jeb bush to seem commanding. john kasich i thought had a good debate the first time around didn't stand up much this time. he seemed to be straining to make his points try doing hard and i don't think it worked for him tonight. >> he surprised me -- i will talk to him here about a couple of his answers -- the refugee

issue and iranian deal he wouldn't rip up right away, that surprised me. i agree with christie. is that enough to put him in the top tier. interestingly ted cruz's and frank luntz's focus group, they loved him. >> they had a great night when they got to him. i think scott walker had a terrible night. he had a tiny amount of airtime less than ted cruz. >> don't you think he came out of the gate strong? >> i think he came out better than last time but invisible for long stretches. he's supposed to be the establishment candidate. he has to be there. i thought the same thing with bush. when bush actually directly challenged trump about bush's wife, you can't bring that up unless you're prepared to actually, you know, slug the other guy in the kisser or either literally or

metaphorically. if you're going to do that, you're taking a gamble and force trump to back down. when carly fiorina did it and trump said, you're a beautiful chick, baby? >> that was funny. trump made me laugh out loud a number of times. >> she did a great exchange and you're a great broad, that's fine. >> i thought trump bested her on the issue of hewlett-packard. i thought he got the better of that, the issue of four businesses out of hundreds and hundreds. it didn't resonate to me. >> that was an interesting moment. that's where this debate has gone. you're talking about two people who have never been elected to town clerk in any job, any elected position anywhere. snow christie comes in with a better line. rand paul and mike huckabee. we're running out of time.

>> i thought they did pretty well and didn't hurt themselves. i think it was a do or die night for governor bush and i think he kept the candidacy alive to fight another day. he did stand up for his wife. he's not going to punch donald trump. you can't beat donald trump in an exchange mono to mono, hard to do that. he was effective to explain who he was and opportunity to say what he had done in the state of florida and score points with other candidates in terms of correcting them on facts. i think it was a good night for most folks on the stage. >> will there be a big shift in the polls? >> i don't think there will be a big shift in this polls. it may rise a little bit for donald trump. >> thank you, guys, all for s y staying up late with us. we still have a birthd on hannity.

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this is an issue that's important in this race. just because he says it doesn't make it true. the facts are the facts. we balanced a 3$3.6 billion budget deficit and did it by t cutting taxes 4$4.7 billion to help working families and small business owners and senior citizens and it's about time

people in america took note of this. if you want somebody to take on special interests in washington you yourself said you're part of it, we need someone to take up on behalf of average americans. i'm the one that's taken that on and will do that as your next president. >> welcome back to hannity. that was wisconsin good afternoon scott walker responding to attacks leveled by donald trump. he joins us in the spin room. thank you for joining us. he's saying one thing and you're saying another thing. i guess we have to get to the bottom line of it. is there a deficit in wisconsin at all? >> not at all. i had a balanced budget since i've blei i've been in the office. he's using talking points. we balanced a 3$3.6 billion deficit and fixed it. our schools are better, finances are great. we have a rainy day fund 160 times bigger than when we took

office and one of only a few fully funded. our finances are in great shape. the problem is you have some candidates that will say and do about anything. we don't need and apprentice in this white house. we need somebody who's been t t tested and i've been tested unlike anybody else on that stage tonight. >> you came out of the box very strong tonight and i found myself frustrated because i w t wanted to hear more from you and mark doe and other candidates. with 11 people it has to be very frustrating you get a few minutes and disappear for 25 minutes. is that hard? >> right. i think you're absolutely right. one thing people took away, a lot of great candidates up there and a lot of great ideas. i'd love to work with them. a lot of good people to put in a cabinet up there. bottom line if you want to live a life free of threat of radical islamic terrorism and government small enough to succeed or too

big to fail if you want someone who can succeed under similar circumstances why you don't want an apprentice like in the white house. not someone who's never been te tested. you know we've been tested unlike any in this race. my hope is we continue to get chances to make that case. >> i liked your appearance on iran tonight and i'm a little surprised some people on that stage actually said they would not tear that deal up on day one. i can name a dozen things that the iranians got as they were preaching death to america and chanting that and saying the destruction of israel is non-negotiable. i can't think of one thing the united states gets out of this deal, not one. >> i joked about it which it wasn't funny. i'd love to play cards with barack obama. the way his administration did this deal he folds on everything. i'll do a deal on iran, our terms, give up nuclear infrastructure and disclose your

nuclear facilities including the underground fortified facility and get rid of your behavior, stop the destructive activities that will be done when lifting the sanctions. if you're not ready to do that on day one i don't think you're ready to be president on day one. >> let me ask you about the format, the moderator saying you said this about this person and you said this, fight it out, like they wanted a wwe smackdown and full cage match. what was your reaction? do you like it? not like it int? productive? not productive? >> there was a lot of substantive questions i'll give them that but the questions around one particular candidate that a lot of people are talking about left a lot of the candidates out from having a chance to talk about things. i hope people will tune in, while that makes for great

television, in the end we want someone that's been tested taking on the union bosses and special interests in washington and got results and did it without compromising our conservative principles. if that's what you want from your next president, i'm your candidate, who you should vote for. coming up on a special edition of hannity. >> this is an example of some who want to isolate us and not be engaged. we do need to be engaged with russia. we don't give them a free pass but we do need to be engaged and did throughout the cold war and not to would be a big mistake. coming up next governor john kasich and former governor mike huckabee as this late edition of hannity continues.

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should we continue to talk with iran? yes. should we cut up the agreement immedia immediately? that absurd. wouldn't you want to know if they complied. i will vote against the agreement because i don't think there's significant leverage. it doesn't mean i will immedi e immediately look at the agreement and see whether or not iran has complied. the same goes with china. i don't think we need to be rash, i don't think we need to be reckless and we need to leave lines of communication open. also, we talk about whether we should be engaged in the world or disengaged in the world. this is an example of some who want to isolate us and not be engaged. we do need to be engaged with russia. doesn't mean we give them a free pass or china a free pass. to be engaged means we talk and did throughout the cold war and would be a mistake not to. >> that was presidential 2016

candidate, rand paul. and he joins us with much more. good to see you. feel good about tonight? >> yeah, i do. i think it was a good debate and mixed it up pretty well. i think you will see a reshuffling of things and think we're done with the dog and pony show and think you will see a realignment of numbers after this. you went at it with trump a little bit and said there's a sophomoric quality to trump and he responded back why are you in this debate, not the earlier debate and plenty of subject matter as it relates to looks, et cetera. you don't like that at all. is that what you don't like about him specifically? >> i think it was kind of funny because it was a complete non-sec qui tore. we were talking about the iranian agreement and all of a sudden he goes off with some diatribe about me. i think it's wearing thin and

what he said about carly fiorina is wearing thin and people are tired of it. why i'm predicting there will be realignment of this and reshuffling and the mother nature bl and the american people say don't we want someone who is in charge of the nuclear arsenal. >> tell me how this shakes out, he reshuffling begins with who, who is the big winner? >> sean, i can't do all your work for you and can't tell you the polls? >> you were on stage. you don't have a perception from that close venue? >> look, i've already given you big news, sean, there will be a reshuffling. i think i did very well bringing my message out in the people who believe in the libertarian conservative message will hear my message and i think our numbers will solidify.

i think there will be a rejumbling of all the numbers and will be a grand new race next week. >> we'll see if that prediction comes through. one of the surprises of the night and during the negotiations with iran you said you wouldn't shut the door. don't you think there have to be some pre-conditions to dealing with the number one state sponsor of terror saying the destruction of israel is non-negotiable, death to america. don't we need to say recognize israel, stop chanting death to america and being a state sponsor of terrorism and then we can talk? i would have those three conditions myself. >> that's one of the reasons why i'm voting against the agreement. i don't think they're sincere or changing their behavior. one of the things that josh ernst, the president's press secretary said, they're going to continue to commit terrorism. you're right. i don't think they're adequately changing their behavior or moving in any kind of good

direction. that's why my no vote on the agreement. the reason i said it's immature and rash to say i will cut it up on day one, we can't control there will be an agreement for a year and a half. it would be a mistake of us not at least look and see if iran is going to comply. >> i have to break here. would you demand those three conditions i mentioned, recognition of israel, stop state sponsor of terrorism and stop chanting death to america? shouldn't they be basic conditions for any discussion? >> i think the only way we would believe they're really going to comply if they really want to be the community of nations they would recognize israel and release their political prisoners, all of that, yes. that's when you could have a real bona fide agreement. i don't want to rule out negotiations and don't want to say i would immediately tear up the agreement because there is a chance maybe they will comply. >> senator, thanks for taking time tonight. we appreciate you being with us. thank you.

coming up next tonight right here on hannity. >> sitting at home watching this back and forth, i'd be inclined to turn it off. people at home want to know across this country, they want to know what we're going to do to fix this place. >> ohio governor john kasich joins us from the spin room and former governor mike huckabee. ♪

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he joins us in the spin room. >> i think there were moments i would have tuned out, too, if it wasn't my job. they were looking for a catfight most of the time, governor, you weren't going to be part of that. >> i wanted to let people know what my record is, how i've been able to fight and balance the budget in washington and get it done and cut taxes and grow jobs, the same in ohio, balan balancing budget and cutting taxes, strengthening our credit. all those things i want to talk about. a lot of the rest of it is just periphery to me. >> two issues that have come up i surprisingly find myself in street agreement with you tonight. one came up tonight, about the iranian deal. i was surprised by your answer you wouldn't rip up the agreement on day one for these reasons, during the negotiations and since the deal has been done they were chanting death to america. they said during negotiations the destruction of israel is

non-negotiable. shouldn't it be a precondition they recognize israel, stop chanting death to america and stop being a number one sponsor to state terrorism before we ever sit down with them? i don't trust these people. there have to be pre-conditions or i don't see any purpose sitting down with people like that. >> let me be clear. i think i was the second time i came back on all of it. i would never have done this agreement. most of our allies have signed up to it. i think we have to hold iran accountable. if you are like i am, which thinks that they're going to be breaking this agreement we should slap on the sanctions, get our friends to slap them on. >> they have 1$150 billion. >> no. they start funding these radical groups that's another grounds to slap on the sanctions. i don't support them giving any money to hamas or hezbollah. the other thing is if we have the intelligence, which i believe we will, according to

some of the intelligence experts at the highest levels, and we think they're assembling a nuclear weapon the military option is absolutely on the table, sean. all i'm saying we don't know what things will be like in 18 months. we can say everything we want to say. at the end of the day, if any of those things get violated we go back to sanctions and on the moral high ground to talk to our allies about working with us. i don't like this deal at all. don't agree with it. >> they will get it up front almost from day one and that scares me. we will deal with that in another time. >> sean -- okay. >> the second -- >> i was going to say if they get the money and determine they're doing anything to help hezbollah and hamas by using that money i will pull out of the deal right away. i don't want anybody to be confused how strongly i feel about this. >> the other issue we now have our national intelligence director and state department saying isis and al qaeda will

infiltrate the refugee population. you seem to think that to me is too high a risk. if our intelligence community says that, why do we take anybody into this country knowing that that also comes along with them? >> sean, if our intelligence community tells us it's not safe, then we shouldn't do it. i just want to make sure that the door is open for us to take a look at people who are in distress, who are not part of any of that terrorism or extremism. if that's the case we shouldn't take them in. i'm suggesting to you that, look, if things come out and they say there's no way to certify -- we don't want to take people into our country who could be radicals. >> in other words, you would be open and has been stated publicly, you would support other ways to help the refugees or again refugees? >> yeah. sometimes people make stateme statements. we have to make sure what

they're saying is solid and they say, look, we shouldn't do it. if they say we shouldn't do it i'm not for doing it. >> the people that said it by the way you have a lebanese official warning the prime minister of great britain, the national director of intelligen intelligence, jaipgsjaipgs -- j clapper and john kirby. congratulations on the debate tonight and appreciate you being with us. >> thanks, sean, see you again soon, i hope. i'm not here to fight with jeb or fight with anybody else. i am here to fight for somebody who is a county clerk elected under the kentucky constitution. >> up next, governor mike huckabee will join us when we return on this late edition.

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i'm not here to fight with jeb or fight with anybody else but i am here to fight for somebody who is a county clerk elected under the kentucky constitution that 75% of the people of that state voted for that said marriage was between a man and a woman. the supreme court in a very very divided decision decided out of thin air they were just going to redefine marriage. it's a decision the other justices said they didn't have and there wasn't a constitutional shred of capacity for them to do it. i thought everybody here passed ninth grade civics. the courts cannot legislate. >> that was former governor mike huckabee during tonight's gop debate. i liked that exchange you had with governor jeb bush, your comment that we're criminalizing christianity and standing by. i actually agree with you because the job description of kim davis changed, it was altered and shifted and this

goes against her deeply held religious conviction and conscience. i think you're right in saying so. were you happy with governor bush's response to you about accommodation? >> i think he understands there's got to be accommodation. we have accommodated nadal hasan the' fort issued shooter and the gitmo detainees, modificatioama much we accommodate them and we say a kentucky clerk who is following the only law she has in front of her. the supreme court issued a ruling but nobody from the other two branches have implemented that law. we just allowed ourselves to fall and surrender to judicial tierney. i think this is the biggest issue for the next president. will you actually exercise the power of the executive branch or

just let the judiciary run the whole country. >> you had a particularly strong issue on iran. this is the survival of western civilization. i agree with you, too, the iranians will treat this agreement like toilet paper they already have indicated they will do and we're not listening to them. >> we're not listening to it. this is a deal that makes no sense whatsoever. it is a deal made with a bunch of mad men who have consistently for 36 years vowed they would wipe israel off the face of the map and bring death to america and they never changed that rhetoric. you don't make a deal and you don't help load a gun that is pointed to your own head. that's what this deal does, sean. >> one other thing you said, not one of us on this stage tonight is a socialist or under investigation like hilary clinton. we're the a team. you said you put everybody in the administration. what did you think of the format where the moderators said you said this about him and you said

this about her and she said this about you? it seemed they wanted a fight. you weren't going to go there is that helpful? not helpful. it wasn't helpful to me because my fight is not with the other republicans on the stage. those are my team members. we all want to be a quarterback but i want to be a quarterback because i play a better game not because i can break somebody's leg on the stage with me. everybody on that stage every day of the week and twice on sunday would be a better president than any of the democrats running on their side. i don't want to get into a sp spitting war with the other republicans because quite fra frankly i wasn't kidding, i think most every republican not only on that stage but the stage before every one of them are qualified to be in an administration and should be considered for that. >> governor huckabee, good to see you, appreciate your time. thanks for being with us. that's all the time we have left

this evening. thank you for being with us. we'll be back at 10:00 eastern tomorrow night and debate and interviews and joined by don't trump, jeb bush and chris christie and other candidates. we hope you will be back tomorrow night. thanks for being with us. hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching for us tonight for the factor's analysis of the second republican debate. we have a strong line up for you and asking our guests tonight, to grade the debaters a-f. the cnn moderators made the debate very personal. time after time, trump said this. how do you respond, governor bush? or rand paul? or ben carson?