twitter. i need 30,000 followers. >> and a million dollars like carson got. let's keep talking about the debate. log on to "fox & friends first" facebook page right now to weigh in. #keeptalking. post debate coverage begins right now on "fox & friends." bye. good morning, it is thursday, september 17th, 2015. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. the gloves are off. donald trump and carly fiorina taking this jab and some said made her win the night. >> women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> what the donald trump said and did has everybody talking. >> then the donald went after jeb bush's brother, president george w. bush. >> as it relates to my brother, there's one thing i know for sure. he kept us safe. i don't know if you remember,

donald -- >> and it was the biggest applause line of the whole night. >> perhaps, but it wasn't all serious. >> i never attacked him on his looks and, believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there, that i can tell you. >> wow. the highlights. and there were a lot of them. and it just ended about ten minutes ago, the debate. live from the reagan library. we'll be there. let me just remind you in case you're quizzed later on the street, mornings are better with friends, these friends. well, even though the debate, if you could call it that, on another channel last night, the airplane was beautiful behind them all, we've

got the best coverage this morning. the post game show for the candidates who were on the stage last nightr ronald regan library, how they did. >> chris christie, donald trump, carly fiorina, marco rubio. send us questions so we can pose them straight from you. >> you'll see over the next three hours throughout the day. i think everybody on the stage had their moment. it wreaked of competence. everybody said, i know these issues. waiting for the moment. one thing clear, cnn wanted it. i want you -- >> split screen. >> tell me about you. >> we're going to share with you how frustrated you all were. we've heard about the format that cnn put forward. >> yes. it was terrible. we're going to talk about that in two minutes. the republican debate in the books. who stole the show at the seemy

valley at the ronald regan library. >> john roberts is live in simi valley, california, with the details. a late night, john. who came out with a win, a loss, and what's the overall tone today? >> a late night and early morning. steve bryan. i don't want to pick any winners and losers. my twitter account tends to blow up when i did that. let's talk about standout performances. you have to give that to carly fiorina. she brow beat cnn into changing the rules to allow her on stage. you played the moment zinged. she had the moment of the night when talking about plant parndhood. >> i dare hillary clinton, barack obama to watch these tapes, watch a fully formed fetus on the table. this is about the character of our nation. if we will not stand up and

force president obama to veto this bill, shame on us. >> you know, other people who don't care about their twitter accounts blowing up said that was the moment at which carly fiorina won the debate and certainly that is going to give her a huge pop in the numbers. people were expecting a big fight between donald trump and carly fiorina. they got it as well as a fight between donald trump and jeb bush. one of the surprises was the vigor at which donald trump went after senator rand paul right out of the box. paul gave back as good as he got it. at one point he did have to grudgingly agree with him. >> first of all, rand paul shouldn't be on this stage. he's number 11. he has 1% of the polls. how he got up there there's far too many people, anyway. >> i think there's a sophomore quality that is entertaining about mr. trump. i am worried. i am concerned about having him in charge of the nuclear weapons. >> i never attacked him on his looks and, believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right

there, that i can tell you. >> senator paul, i want to bring you in. where do you stand? >> i hate to say it but donald trump has a bit of a point here. >> donald trump has a bit of a point. what trump might not have known heading into the debate was rand paul spent an hour on the shooting range. paul told me at that shooting range he's going to keep attacking trump as a fake conservative. >> most of his adult life he's been a progressive democrat. he says he has changed now. how do you go through 66 years of your life, you get to be 66 and now we're supposed to believe he's a conservative? no. i think he's a fake. >> yeah. jeb bush is making the same point about trump's lack of conservative credentials. here's the strange thing about that. trump supporters don't seem to care. all they care about what he is saying now. >> thank you very much. to john's last point, if you liked donald trump going in, you probably liked him coming out.

he did have some funny lines. he did weather the the counter punches. i'll tell you what, he did get the most time. he got almost 19 minutes, then bush then fiorina. >> 40% of the questions were about donald trump so naturally they're going to be talking about him but the big winner as you get up, people are talking about, boy, carly fiorina, another washington outsider, did very well and the money sound bite is this one right here where she does not back down regarding something that donald trump said in "rolling stone." listen to this. >> in an interview last week in "rolling stone" magazine donald trump said the following about you. quote, look at that face. would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that, the face of our next president? >> you know, it's interesting to me. mr. trump said that he heard mr. bush very clearly and what mr. bush said. i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said.

>> i think you've got a beautiful face and i think she's a beautiful woman. >> a point for carly fiorina or more. it's amazing she's creeping up in the polls. she's been rising. she's still at 3% but i loved her courage when it came to standing up for all women who may be facing some sort of physical or appearance-like critique by fellows like donald trump. she made him back down and say something kind which was great. i loved her courage when it came to planned parenthood and the rights of the unborn. i thought she was great there. she showed great aptitude when it came to foreign policy. it was a good night for carly fiorina. >> i agree with you in almost every respect. you would think somebody who spent their life in business and in technology would faulter when it comes to foreign policy and say things like it's going to take me a while to get to know the leaders. show knows it. she ran for the senate before. she has the confidence and poison the stage. she has a very quick mind to come back.

>> she does. >> she thrives in that format where like a guy pooik like dr. ben carson, more of an intellectual, more of a best thinker, will never be the best debater on that stage. >> you just mentioned the top three people for a lot of people and they're all washington outsiders and so it was interesting. she's going to do very well in the snap polls. a lot of people said she'll do very well. who did not so well? cnn. it's not simply because fox had the last one and it was the most exciting presidential debate or joint appearance history in the world. there you go. that's it. the daily news. cnn the clown news network. why do they call it that? part of it has to do with the fact that the moderators simply lost control of the show and the candidates realized early they could roll jake tapper for more time. at some point some of the candidates had to actually take back the debate from the moderators. watch this.

>> while i'm as entertained by anyone about the history of donald's and carly's career, for the 55-year-old construction worker who doesn't have a job, can't fund his child's education, i have to tell you the truth, they could care less about yours. the middle class is getting plowed over by barack obama and hillary clinton. let's talk about those and stop this childish back and forth between the two of you. >> are you saying you have the knowledge to be the president that mr. trump does not have? >> you should ask him questions in detail about the foreign policy issues our president would confront. >> if i were sitting at home watching this back and forth, i'd be inclined to turn it off. >> the reason there was back and forth by design they had the split screen so jake tapper would say, okay, carly fiorina, you said this about marco rubio. marco rubio, you said this about john kasich.

tell them why they were wrong. the number one thing in the polls people want to know about is the economy. how much did they talk about that? barely. >> the first guest is going to be about the economy. i don't mean to cut you off, elisabeth. >> i don't mind. the only thing i would say is i was interested in how carly fiorina defended her record and i was interested in how donald trump defended his bankruptcy and i was fascinated by the fact that governor chris christie said it was about the people. he kept with that statement. >> that was a good strategy. >> a job, security. he was able to reshift focus back to the man and woman out there looking for a job. >> yes. >> maybe didn't have one, wanted some straight talk there. when you look at the breakdown of the debate, steve, you alluded to that earlier, 44% of cnn's questions were focused on the donald. 26 total questions involved

trump's name in it. 18 of those comparatively were questions where the other candidates were involved. is that a fair breakdown for the american people looking to choose somebody to lead this nation to force this in fighting didn't seem to do jus tows tis to the debate. >> when it comes to raising money on the republican side, the far away winner has been jeb bush. his performance, what did you think? his best sound bite was in response to something donald trump said regarding his brother. listen to this. >> your brother's administration gave us barack obama because it was such a disaster those last three months that abraham lincoln couldn't have been elected. >> you know what, as it relates to my brother, there's one thing i know for sure, he kept us safe. i don't know if you remember, donald. >> what i think is the worst kept secret at the reagan

library and most republicans is that 43 is actually popular. 6 1/2 years, a lot of things that were so bad people realize, well, we saw the flip side. look how that has worked out. >> right. >> i thought that jeb bush without being too defensive was right on the money. i think donald trump miscalculated that. entirely miss calculated as well as the follow-up that he had. >> for siblings across the nation, that fs a good moment. >> right. >> he didn't stop talking about my brother. he said, let's tell you what he did. he set up the whole infrastructure to take on al qae qaeda. >> he came across as a great family person in talking about national security there as it pertained to his brother and when he asked the donald to apologize to his wife. i thought those two moments you saw a personal family man in jeb bush as well. >> i think to ask him for the apology kind of backfired because he was asking him for an apology of a person who does not back down. he does not apologize. jeb bush didn't look so good

when he didn't apologize. >> i think he looked bad about not apologizing. >> i don't think donald trump meant to criticize. >> let's ask him today. >> he's coming on. carly fiorina's coming on. we've got lots of people to ask questions of as well. coming up, the two ceos on the stage last night sparred over who knows the most about business. >> i only say this, she can't run any of my companies. >> you ran up mountains of debt as well as losses using other people's money. >> but our next guest says only one of them would make the same mistakes as president obama. and one of the biggest stars of the night wasn't even on the stage. twitter lighting up wondering who's that hunk behind the moderator? this morning we've done some investigating. we know exactly who that is and we're going to tell you. ♪ ♪ 6 are you still getting heartburn flare-ups?

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. glad you're up. now let's talk about the economy because no one else has. it's still the number one issue for americans, but was there one candidate last night who had the best answer for how to fix it and could a candidate with a business background be best for that job? donald trump and carly fiorina face off over their ceo experiences. listen.

watch. >> she bought compact. it was a terrible deal. it led to the destruction of the companies. one of the other companies before that was lucent. carly was at lucent before that. that turned out to be a catastrophe. she can't run any of my companies. >> you ran up mountains of debt as well as other people's money and you were forced to file bankruptcy not once. >> i never filed for bankruptcy. >> not twice, four times. a record four times. why should we trust you with the finances of this nation. >> all right. let's open up this debate. economics professor for the university of maryland, peter maurici, peter, who shined on the economy. let's say we didn't talk much about the economy. go ahead. >> they didn't talk much about the substance of the issue carly fiorina rewrote history. she was a failed ceo at hewlett-packard. she made a number of bad deals. she didn't have a dysfunctional

relationship with the board. the board is just fine. they're getting along very well with meg whitman. on the other hand, donald trump, yeah, some of his companies went through bankruptcy, but over the past 20 years if you look at his record, he has a lot more money today than he did when he began. he's a deal maker. he gets on with people. carly is very aloof and cold. in many ways i see her like the republican barack obama. she's not going to get along with the democrats. >> you think that's necessary in order to have a stable economy, get along with the democrats. >> look at the way reagan would disarm tip o'neill and his ability to bring democrats in to get things done. remember, he worked with a democratic congress half the time -- with a democratic house, excuse me. i think that's extraordinarily important. carly likes to go after hillary clinton but they share something in common. they're both very good policy wonks. they know a lot of facts but they're very cold and distant. >> right. >> that will get you elected if you're a woman but it won't necessarily make you a good president. there's no humanity there.

>> peter, we're going to get donald trump's tax plan within three weeks. part of it is he's going to raise taxes on the hedge funds and those operators. how do you feel about that? what will that do to the economy? >> i think that's a very good thing to do. the hedge fund operators getting a good deal on the taxes, paying half as much on their income. >> well, are they really? they're borrowing bank's money to take the risk. they're not putting a whole lot of money in. i don't think they're terribly good to the economy, they treat the economy like a monopoly game. peter, we'll have you back when the tax plans get released. always great to talk to you. thanks so much. >> take care. coming up straight ahead, donald trump wasn't at the happy hour debate. that was the pre-debate. he was the main event. he's not a conservative. he's not a liberal. he's not a republican. he's not an independent. he believes in donald trump. >> let me say this flat out, donald trump is unfit to be president. >> more on that next.

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captive by the taliban was punishment enough. meanwhile, sparks fly as four republicans square off in the happy hour debate. it was just before last night's main show at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >> it was excellent and substantive. peter doocy is live with a look. peter. >> the early debate in the shadow of a retired air force 1 was as intimate a setting as you'll see in the early primary season but those four couldn't help talk about somebody who was not even there, donald trump. >> he is not a conservative. he is not a liberal. he's not a republican. he's not an independent. he believes in donald trump. >> let me say this flat out, donald trump is unfit to be president. >> then the low polling politicians turned on each other to argue about whether or not a county clerk like kim davis of kentucky was right to put faith over job. >> an elected official can't say

that i'm not going to follow that law if it conflicts with my beliefs. i think she should have been fired and if she had worked for me, i would have fired her. >> i would argue that what the supreme court did is against the natural laws, god's law and we have every obligation to stand in opposition to it. >> america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america. >> but the line of the night belongs to lindsey graham who turned just about every topic into a warning about radical islam but later joked that things would get done in d.c. if elected officials socialized the way reagan and tip o'neill famously did. >> that's the first thing i'm going to do as president. we going to drink more. >> so even though those four didn't make it to primetime, they got a lot more face time than anybody in the debate. >> i think, peter, it helps to have an audience. the last time they had the debate they had no audience.

this time they could play off of them. >> peter, how is that trending, if elected america will drink more? have you looked at the poll? >> hashtag. >> hashtag that. >> the people who are drunk in d.c. are the people who are always drunk in d.c. >> hasn't moved at all. >> telling it like it is. peter doocy, thank you for that. it's nice to have some levity. >> lindsey graham was great. >> he was. >> listen, he actually defended the u.s. senate and the house and that was the number one target. it wasn't hillary clinton, it wasn't barack obama, it was the republicans in the house and the senate and then you had lindsey graham on one side and governor kasich on the other side saying we don't have a choice because you need 60 votes and then you need 67 over at the president's veto. >> so really they were attacking the system because of the way washington works isn't right. >> right. >> no wonder washington is

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i never attacked anyone's looks, and believe me there's plenty of subject matter right there, that i can tell you. >> i know he didn't say anything bad about me, i'm sure he was talking about other guys. >> i didn't want to -- >> excuse me one second. >> no. >> more energy tonight. i like that. >> i do give energy and that's why. if they get their news in spanish, i want them to hear that directly from me, not from a translator at univision. >> the issue occurred in 2003. i suggested to president bush that he not go to war, okay? so i just want that on the record. >> 40 years ago i smoked marijuana and i admit it. i'm sure that other people might have done it and may not want to say it in front of 25 million people. my mom's not happy that i just did. >> i think you're going to see a big impact on us. >> dr. carson, you just heard his medical take.

>> he's an okay doctor. >> i'm never ready, donald. it's very high energy. >> i think he was a little angry with that low five. i'm not sure. >> got some energy in that. a little bit later we're going to talk about autism. donald trump did not do that badly when it comes to this but, steve, you were very interested. >> a lot of voters want to know who is going to keep america safe and strong. joining us now we have formulated a political panel. lee carter and carl hig by, a former navy s.e.a.l. god bless you all. you all stayed up through the three hour debate. >> and we're here now. >> it's an hour or two long?

>> yes. kind of like nascar. >> so we're going to ask you the winners and the losers regarding national affairs, foreign affairs. jillian, let's start with you. your winner is? >> carly fiorina by leaps and bounds. i thought she packed more substantive punch into one sentence than most of the other candidates got in the whole evening. she gets huge, huge credit for that pointing out some of our most important allies like the kurds, the juror dadiane i -- j. >> you also liked marco rubio when he said this? >> first of all, i have an understanding of what russia and putin is doing? it's straightforward. he is trying to replace us as the single most power broker in the middle east. >> he's your runner up. >> he's my runner up. where carly fiorina has the nuance, he has a big mac crow picture vision that most of the american people get it. last night he presented it very

concisely. i think that that's going to really pick up some momentum for him. we haven't seen him step out and do that, say here's my agenda, soup to nuts. he did a great job of that. >> lee, your winner when it comes to foreign affairs is? another carly fiorina. >> i totally agree with you. i think she schooled everybody on stage. she looked like she did her homework but she was confident. she was unshakeable. she gave answers that you could follow and understand. her depth of knowledge was clear. >> some critics this morning are saying i wish she would have smiled. she was a little on the cold side. >> you know, there's no question. she needs to soften up. that's something a lot of female leaders need. it's not something you would say about trump? i don't think he's very, very warm. people aren't saying he needs to warm up, but i do think that she needs to be a little bit softer, approachable so people feel like they'll be comfortable with her. >> when they were talking about one thing she changed the topic so that she was going to connect

planned parenthood with iran. how is she going to do that? like this. >> anna, i'd like to link these two issues, both of which are incredibly important, iran and planned parenthood. one has something to do with the defense of this nation. the other has something to do with the defense of the character of this nation. you have not heard a plan about iran from any politician up here. >> god. when she first started doing this i was like, this is the biggest jujitsu move ever. what she did was brilliant. i mean, she was able to say the character of the nation, the security of this nation is important to conservatives. she did a beautiful job. she went into detail. she owned it. she laid out her plan for iran. i think she did a wonderful job for that. >> carl, your winner again? >> carly again. i think she is a powerhouse. she has continued to impress me. when she first came into the race i said, what is she doing here? she has articulated her stances.

she has been forceful, aggressive. i think her putin comment was absolutely on point. i think the way she is planning to go about doing whatever she wants to do as far as our foreign policy. whoever her debate coach is, give them a raise. >> somebody else who had some interesting things to say about afghanistan, foreign policy, ben carson on the need for intellect. listen to this. >> i have no argument with having a strong leader and to be aggressive where aggression is needed, but it's not needed in every circumstance. there is a time when you can use your inlt lekt to come up with other ways to do things and i think that's what we have to start thinking about. >> jillian, he really had a calm reasoned approach to everything. >> he did. with this quote and some others on foreign policy. my criticism of him would really be that there's a lot of style and not a lot of substance to back up what he's talking about, right? he's saying sometimes i'd be aggressive, sometimes i wouldn't. sometimes i'd choose diplomacy,

sometimes i'd choose military intervention. that's great as a political scientist. what are you going to do as the commander in chief of the armed forces. >> leigh, after the debate it looked like dr. carson was right on the heels of drumpt. after that performance last night what happens to dr. carson? >> he's a political outsider. people like his total contrasting approach to trump but he was a snoozer last night. talk about low energy. >> 15 minute signal where we all thought he went to bed. he didn't say anything. >> i think he was going into that debate really strong position. i don't think people came out of it saying i'm really excited about ben carson. >> but as evidenced by your paddles right there, the three of you are very excited about carly fiorina. >> absolutely. >> she, by the way, will be joining us a little bit later on and so is chris christie and donald trump. >> great panel. thank you very much. >> thank you. it is 21 minutes before the top of the hour. heather's got the headlines on

thursday. >> hi, steve. good morning to you all. couple other things going on this morning. the the sheriff's sergeant is identified as one of the 18 people who died in one of the devastating flash floods. steve arthur is his name. he was one of six who was killed when the water swept through zion national park. rescuers still searching for his wife. the hunt is still on for a 6-year-old boy who was inside another car that day that was washed away. among the dead, three sisters and their nine young children. well, anthony weiner out of a job again accord to go today's new york post. the disgraced former congressman has been let go after two short months on the job. the reason for that, apparently his presence and that past sexting scandal was just too much of a distraction for other employees and clients. now weiner says he plans to launch his own p.r. firm. and it wasn't just the people on the stage getting the attention at last night's debate. take a look at this guy over the

shoulder of the debate moderator. one woman tweeted this about that young man. quote, the hotty behind jake tapper at the republican debate makes politics worth watching. this woman wants a date tweeting to the gray suited guy behind jake tapper, hit me up, cutie. who is this guy? 24-year-old l.a. based actor, director greg caruso. he's the son of a millionaire real estate developer and republican donor. hillary clinton taking her campaign to the "tonight show" last night to debate serious issues like the kardashians and donald trump's hair. watch this. >> are you talking about bernie sanders? i hate to say this, but i think he's losing his hair. >> at least he doesn't have this one strand that he twirls over his head like a soft serve at dairy queen. >> aw. i love the gold phone though.

fallon did ask hillary about that e-mail scandal to which she said the critics are honestly starting to hurt her feelings. she went on to praise the kardashians. >> those darn critics hurting my feelings. >> i know, right? i'll send you a text. >> heather, thank you for that. coming up, you know, it's constitution day, today is, so which candidate has the best plan to protect america's rights and shrink the new government. judge napolitano, this is a subject near and dear to his heart. >> he reads the constitution every day. >> so sad. >> social media reacting to the debate in real time. we are tracking the hottest searches. we woke up clayton to do this.

from immigration to taxes, the candidates took on a range of topics on last night's main stage. >> i spend my days defending the constitution and the rights. i think there's nothing more important than understanding that the constitution restrains government not the people. we'll be operating under a tax system that eliminates the irs. people wouldn't be punished for their work and what they produced. >> one of the things we must recognize is that this country is of, for, and by the people and it's really time that the government get out of the way and let the people be the ones who decides how they want to run their country. >> as we discuss the debate, we're also observing constitution day. which candidate laid out the plans while upholding the constitution and standing for smaller government. >> fox news judicial commentator is dr. ben napolitano.

>> i liked the three sound bites. today is a little history lesson. in 1789 was the day that the constitution became effective by its language when 9 of the 13 colonies ratified it and it became the law of the land. today is when the ninth state -- ninth colony did it and they became states. >> who do you see on that stage right now? >> here's the thing. the fundamental question in my view in this election is the purpose of the constitution to unleash the government? to right any wrong and regulate any behavior and tax any event or is the purpose of the constitution to restrain the government to just those areas in the constitution that the federal government is allowed to regulate? there's only 17 of them. only rand paul and to some extent ben carson and mike huckabee were even willing to address this issue. the rest of them, we know them, some are friends of ours, some are friends of mine acted as if the federal government had no limits to it. >> when it came to drug use,

marijuana? >> right. >> governor christie wants to break into people's homes if they're smoking marijuana in their basement in a state where it's legal. that's an abuse of power and the federal government shouldn't be involved in that. one of the beauties of the states and the federal system we have is that the states can be experiments of liberty. colorado and washington want to experiment with the marijuana, they ought to be able to do it and be the federal government should stay out of the way. if you like it, go to colorado. if you don't, go to new jersey. >> the tenth amendment made its way on to that stage. >> yeah. and i was happy to hear that debate about the tenth amendment. the tenth amendment says this constitution delegates specific powers to the federal government whampt it doesn't delegate to them it keeps in the states. most of the government in the united states is run by the states and not by the federal government. you wouldn't have known that to have listened to them last night. i was very happy to hear rand paul remind people that civil

liberties have to be defended. your right to speak, your right to worship, travel. >> andrew napolitano, love your analysis. >> good to be with you. coming up, the candidate with the biggest target on his back had to be donald trump. did the front-runner stay ahead of the attacks? trump's former senior adviser roger stone reacts. social media was on fire last night during the debate of course. we are tracking the hottest searches in trending topics. they're coming your way.

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round two. the gop presidential hopefuls faced off last night and while we may have to wait to see how their performances will affect them in the polls we can look into social media for an immediate reaction. here to break down the response is "fox & friends" weekend co-host layton morris. twitter was afire. >> twitter was afire and google was afire. we have to wait about a week or so until we can see the reaction. you can go to google last night. the most searched for candidate in the first debate, lindsey graham lit up social media last night. people wanted to find out more about lindsey graham. but interestingly, when people do these google searches, it's not lindsey graham's stance on iran. it's how tall is lindsey graham. >> it is so weird. >> it's not is lindsey graham -- >> because of the question that he asked about having president obama be more sociable.

>> we'll drink more. >> that was actually one of the search terms. lindsey graham drinking habits. but still, at least for the candidates this is a good sign that they're getting their message out there. people are interacting to find out more about them. >> did anybody google where is jim gilmore? >> that didn't really come up. >> jim gilmore did tweet a lot last night. >> he did. >> let's look at the google spike. this is how people ranked from their most searched candidates and their search from the first debate. so take a look at this. donald trump came out once again on top. so in the last debate he was first in this debate. he was first. for people searching for him. carly fiorina, of course, wasn't in that main debate last time. she came in two. so rocketed, i mean like a huge rocket for carly fiorina from that first search to there. and then jeb bush third. he came in a little bit better than he did the last time for search results. >> you know it's interesting. definitely reflected the time in which they had to speak because trump was number one. number two was jeb bush number three and governor huckabee got the least amount of time and he's last in terms of search.

>> right. >> how did twitter receive the candidates? >> twitter, it was fascinating to watch and see this thread of carly fiorina. carly fiorina did well in search results and she was the most well received on twitter as well. carly fiorina doing really well. last time around you will remember marco rubio did really well on twitter as well. once again, rubio came in second there and john kasich, who even made a remark during the debate not wanting to answer questions about hillary clinton directly, said he wanted to be more well received. he wanted to get his message out there, connect with people. really people were searching for him on twitter to find out more about john kasich last night. >> i didn't know it was possible to be well received on the internet. because i don't even know what that feeling is like. >> but if you look at the mention during the debate -- >> people sitting there on their devices commenting about trump's comments. trump fame in first with the most comments, whether they agree with him or disagree, we can parse that a little bit later. but 139,000 mentions for donald trump and carly fiorina came in

second, bush third. >> regarding the google searches and bush. how many of them were bush pot views. that was one of his funny lines in the back half -- >> how many times -- >> we saw a huge spike coming up next hour we're going to show you some of the google spikes on specific search terms. one of them, i mean, was -- google exploded last night for jeb bush on that comment about apologizing to his mom for the pot use. so we'll show you that spike. you're not going to believe it a little bit later. but you can look and see how many people are following you and whether or not you get a spike and this was a big moment for carly fiorina. not only did she do well on twitter. she was very well searched for on google. she gained the most followers last night, 31,000 followers, and that's up from earlier this morning when we reported about an hour ago. >> this is what they added just last night? >> just last night. >> incredible. >> that's important because, i heard yesterday a story about how you'll now be able to contribute to a candidate on twitter. >> right. and think about social advertising, being able to

connect directly. we don't know how much of this will connect with audiences funneling money. but the moment last night when carly fiorina responded to the attack about her face has everyone talking. this was one of the big moments from carly fiorina last night. listen. >> donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that the face of our next president? >> i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> that was the big comment most searched for spike for carly fiorina last night. >> big night for her. >> you're coming back a little bit later? >> we'll have all sorts of information coming up next hour. >> sounds like you're bragging a little bit. >> we're going to google clayton morris. >> your speaks later. >> give him some followers. >> so far he's got nine. >> still ahead two more hours of "fox & friends." chris christie joins us, donald trump joins us, marco rubio joins us and carly fiorina joins us. put down that remote.

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but the fighting didn't always involve only republicans. >> and the question is, who is going to prosecute hillary clinton? i think it's time to put a former federal prosecutor on the same stage as hillary clinton. >> that former federal fr prosecutor, the current governor of new jersey, chris christie, joins us straight ahead, live from new york. and live from new york city, and simi valley, california, you're watching "fox & friends" for thursday. ♪ i'll be taking care of business every day ♪ ♪ taking care of business ♪ >> and then there were just 11. just like that. >> good morning. >> they marched out, and after three hours, some of them were leaning but it was a tough

night. and it's going to be a big morning because look who we have booked for today. >> fresh off that stage we have governor chris christie, donald trump, and carly fiorina in the next hour. senator marco rubio, as well. we want you to send us your questions for the candidates so that we can pose them to them this morning. >> that's right. >> e-mail us. >> keep it -- keep in mind, carly fiorina wasn't even supposed to be on the stage, but cnn changed their formulation, and then they expanded the stage, and so she -- they had 11 instead of 10, and as it turns out, according to a lot of you who are writing this morning, you really like what she had to say. >> yeah, but she's not the only one. there was a lot of other people that broke through. and i saw my personal opinion governor christie. i thought governor christie was sensational. and i will say this, special credit to donald trump and ben carson for helping get her on the stage. >> mm-hmm. >> because she actually cited them to say thank you after she was included. >> and because of that what a night she had. fox news senior national correspondent john roberts was

there. and he's joining us now live from simi valley, california, this morning. john, what's to come after this debate? and what were the thoughts last night? >> well, another big republican debate coming up in greenville, south carolina, on friday, which none of these candidates on the stage last night will attend and we'll see what happens over the course of the next 24 hours. clear that a lot of people did themselves a world of good on that stage last night. you'll be talking to carly fiorina so i'll leave much of that to you. clearly the host network opened the debate trying to provoke a fight. it got what it was looking for. sharp back and forth between jeb bush and donald trump and carly fiorina. something a bit surprising was the vigor was with donald trump lashed out at kentucky senator rand paul. the two of them have been trading insults on the campaign trail over the last few months. but trump went after paul unprovoked. watch what transpired over the course of the night. >> first of all, rand paul shouldn't even be on this stage. he's number 11. he's got 1% in the polls.

and how he got up here, there's far too many people -- anyway. i think really there's a sophomoric quality that is entertaining about mr. trump. but i am worried. i'm very concerned about having him in charge of the nuclear weapons. >> i never attacked him on his looks, and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there. that i can tell you. senator paul i want to bring you in. where do you stand on the issue of birthright citizenship? >> i hate to say it but donald trump has a bit of a point here. >> rand paul actually had to agree with donald trump at one point during the debate. you know, paul had been gunning for donald trump all the way since yesterday morning. his first event of the day was at a shooting range where he spent about an hour there just down the hill from the reagan library here in simi valley. paul told me at that shooting range that he's making it his mission to expose donald trump as a fake conservative. >> i think he's a fake conservative. you know, he's been for obamacare. he's been for the government stimulus. he's been for taking private property from small owners and

giving them to large corporations. i don't think anything about his platform is conservative. >> paul has been getting some help making that point from jeb bush and the club for growth which just launched a million dollar ad buy for trump in the state of iowa. the interesting thing is none of trump's supporters seem to care about his past record. they only care about what he's talking about right now and really seem to like that. just before we go, here's a photo of rand paul from that shooting range with the simi valley version of charlie's angels, i guess you could say, and the instructor to his left. one thing we should say, brian, elisabeth and steve is i watched them and those ladies can shoot. >> thank you for that. certainly rand paul had guns blazing verbally when it came to donald trump last night at the debate. not only him. carly fiorina. everyone is talking about her this morning. had a huge night. one moment that stole the show, and i happened to be in my car driving back home after an event at school, to hear this. and i heard it on the radio,

when she took down planned parenthood, in a way that was absolutely brilliant. and she did it with a dare to president obama, and hillary clinton. listen to this. >> as regards planned parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, i dare hillary clinton, barack obama, to watch these tapes. watch a fully formed fetus, on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain. this is about the character of our nation. and if we will not stand up and force president obama to veto this bill, shame on us. >> and that was a huge night. but it brought the other subject which ended the first debate and was in the middle of this debate about the republican congress in the crosshairs. the question is, do you shut down the government because of that horrific video, which democrats refuse to acknowledge, or even say that they saw,

including the president, says he hasn't seen any of it, so do you shut down the government for that reason, or do you have a better chance to have a republican in the white house? >> that was a big moment for her. she had the most positive reaction just heard from clayton morris on social media. that may have been why. >> there are two snap polls or surveys on the drudge report a couple hundred -- about half a million people have resmonded who won, donald trump, according to 60% of the people responded. donald trump came in first. followed by carly fiorina. that's great for her. she is at 16. he's at 60. "time" magazine did a poll, trump is at 67, carly now number two at 13. marco rubio, rand paul and ben carson now at 3. jeb bush did not make that top five right there. his job last night was to try to go after donald trump. and try to get something to stick. did it work? you be the judge. >> the one guy that had some

special interests that i know of, that tried to get me to change my views on something, that was generous and gave me money was donald trump. he wanted casino gambling in florida. >> i did -- >> yes, you did. >> totally false. >> you wanted it and you didn't get it. >> i would have gotten it. >> proposed casino 2k3w578bleing before, during and after. and i'm not going to be bought by anybody. >> i promise if i wanted it, i would have gotten it. >> no, you got hillary clinton to go to your wedding. >> that's true. >> because you gave her money. maybe it worked for hillary clinton. it doesn't work for anybody on this stage. >> jeb, i'm a businessman. i got along with clinton. i got along with everybody. that was my job to get along with people. >> but the simple fact is. >> excuse me one second. >> no. the simple fact is donald -- >> more energy tonight. i like that. >> they went back and forth here. i actually do want to find out, did he actually give a few million dollars to try to get casinos into florida? interesting you should ask. there's an account on foxnews.com about fact checking it. and what it said was that jeb

bush said you tried to change your -- to get -- casino gambling in to florida, and gave him money to do it. and trump said that that was not true. apparently the trump organization did have a lobbyist, did give some money to the florida gop. but it is not clear whether or not mr. trump actually approached bush directly on the casino matter. that is not clear. we can ask donald trump about that when he joins us in about 20 minutes. >> let us know what you think about that as well. in addition, who do you think was the biggest loser coming out of last night? many of you thought it was cnn. and here's why. 44% of cnn's questions focused on the donald. 26 total questions had donald trump's name in it. and 18 of those questions were asked to the other candidates. >> i do say -- >> aly weighted there. >> but the thing is i don't necessarily have a problem with donald trump getting more questions, because he is leading by about 20 points. he is the most intriguing.

he does get the most air time. and you do want to give the other candidates a chance to answer because it's one of their chief complaints is you keep putting donald trump on, not anybody else. >> but the other candidates were getting frustrated all these questions are about donald trump, trying to get a fight with donald trump. and eventually they had to take over the show. from jake. watch. >> while i'm as entertained as anyone by this personal back and forth about the history of donald and carly's career, for the 55-year-old construction worker out in that audience tonight who doesn't have a job, who can't fund his child's education, i got to tell you the truth, they could care less about your careers. they care about theirs. the middle class in this country is getting plowed over by barack obama and hillary clinton. let's start talking those issues tonight and stop this childish back and forth between the two of you. >> now are you saying that you haven't -- that the knowledge to be the president that mr. trump does not have? >> well, you should ask some questions in detail about the foreign policy issues a president will confront.

>> if i were sitting at home and watching this back and forth i'd be inclined to turn it off. i don't know, i think a lot of people -- >> actually i didn't have a problem with the back and forth. some of it was allout baiting to get two people to start fighting. >> but marco rubio did not go directly at donald trump. he said this about his knowledge about foreign affairs he chose to answer specifically. if you watch that and wanted to pick up somebody that really was conversing in a deep opinions and deep knowledge of the area it's hard to find anybody more impressive than marco rubio last night. i mean you could see he has a seat on the foreign relations committee. i thought it was his weakness, though, is when asked about his terrible record of showing up for votes in the senate of then saying nothing ever gets done there. excuse me, that's your job. >> i thought that cnn had a terrible format. i thought it was boring. i thought it was about an hour too long eventually. we asked you what you thought. donna said this on facebook, cnn's debate was designed to create division amongst the gop. >> certainly felt that way.

diane on twitter saying this, that's debating? it's creating spirited discussion. it was fair. that's how you see what the candidates really believe. >> and there was something else somebody had to say but i totally forgot it. steve, could you grab the daily news? figured it out. >> this is -- this is what the daily news, the new york "daily news" said. this is not "the new york post," the clown news network. so they made that opinion in the middle of the night. it was three hours. >> and what they say right there is tv hosts can't control republican's petty slugfest. >> that was one of the problems. because somebody would make a comment and they'd go, hey jake. and somebody else, i'd like to talk about that. he let them do it. they lost control. all right coming up, donald trump the number one target on the big stage last night, did his responses help or hurt his chances? trump's former senior adviser roger stone reacts next. >> and while the country watched the candidates slug it out? where was hillary clinton, you ask? >> when you think about it, you could just sort of throw your head into the future, and you

could have the white house renamed the trump house. >> oh, we found her goofing off with jimmy fallon? >> are they really going to rename the white house? >> yes.

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the republican candidates found a common target at the debate last night, and it wasn't hillary clinton. it was the donald. >> do we want someone with that kind of character, that kind of careless language, to be negotiating with putin? >> mr. trump we don't need an apprentice in the white house. we don't need an apprentice in the white house, we have one right now. >> the one guy that had some special interests that i know of, that tried to get me to change my views on something, that was generous and gave me money, was donald trump. >> you ran up mountains of debt as well as losses using other people's money, and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once -- >> i never filed for bankruptcy. >> -- not twice. four times. a record four times. >> well donald trump's former senior adviser roger stone joins us live in the studio today. what did you think about last night? >> it's always tough 10 on 1 but trump went in the giant and came

out the giant. i thought you saw slightly kinder and jendler trump. he knew when to advance, he knew when to retreat, when to engage, when not to engage. i was very happy with his performance. i thought he did great. >> i thought he did better this time than the last time. >> it was more give and take. but he had so much incoming to deal with. look, they're attacking him because he's the front-runner. i think that his lack of political polish and his colloquialisms continues to work for him. he talks like regular people talk. not like blow-dried, talking pointed, poll tested politicians. >> he had to be ready for carly fiorina. and she had some zingers at him. >> she did. although i think she came across as a little shrill and icy. does this woman ever smile? i don't think she smiled once in the debate, three hours. >> what about jeb? jeb was ready with that you came to me and asked me about trying to get casino gambling in florida. >> having been directly involve effort by trump to export casino

gaming in florida happened under lawton chiles not under jeb bush. jeb bush's position was so well known under the campaign that trump's efforts ceased under the previous governor. mallory horne, hired to do that was a democrat close to lawton chiles, jeb's predecessor. >> you're saying trump was right? >> trump was absolutely correct. >> what did you think about this kind of format where they were set up to make a fight and 40-some percent of the questions were at trump so it was a fight with trump. >> there's no question trump was targeted by cnn. i think the format was devised to go after the front-runner and to have, you know, fireworks. and they certainly had them. >> what does he do in the polls after this? >> i think he's going to continue to gain in the polls. people like the fact that trump is unscripted, unhandled, and genuine. >> all right roger stone. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> by the way, donald trump is going to be joining us just about ten minutes from right now. >> great. >> while the other candidates badled each other, governor chris christie had another target in mind. >> i didn't want to -- did

excuse me one second. >> no. the simple fact is donald you will not take -- >> more energy tonight, i like that. >> interesting governor chris christie joins us next, live. and take a close look at this picture of the candidates. experts say it could predict who gets the nomination. we're going to explain what it means.

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at 23 minutes after the top of the hour time for your news by the numbers. the debate edition, 32, that's the number of times hillary clinton's name came up during the debate. jeb bush, chris christie and

carly fiorina focused the most times on the democrats. 18. that's how many minutes donald trump spoke last night. he was the candidate that spoke the longest. and finally 6'3". donald trump and jeb bush are the tallest republican candidates. candidate heights were some of the most googled questions last night during the debate. according to history the taller presidential candidates almost always win. >> really? >> happy to be in a police lineup. >> governor chris christie having a breakout moment at last night's debate. he turned heads, scolding donald trump and carly fiorina on behalf of the middle class. watch. >> while i'm as entertained as anyone by this personal back and forth about the history of donald and carly's career, for the 55-year-old construction worker out in that audience tonight who doesn't have a job, who can't fund his child's education, i've got to tell you the truth, they could care less about your careers. they care about theirs. >> joining us now is 2016 presidential candidate governor chris christie. governor, thank you for joining

us this morning. you know a lot of americans want to thank you for actually taking the reins on that debate, which seemed out of control and not serving the voters to get the information out of the potential candidates there. so, governor, how out-of-control was it? >> well, good morning, elisabeth. let me just say this. it's something i've learned on the campaign trail the last few months. no one in either party is sufficiently talking about and addressing the issues of really beaten-down, angry, middle-class voters. i sat and listened to that back and forth last night with carly and donald comparing their resumes and how much money they've each made or lost for each other and for their companies, and i just felt like i had to jump in and say listen, this is not about you. we need to be talking about the concerns of real folks out there. and what we're going to do for them if we get to be president of the united states. and so, i was glad to be able to kind of call an end to the food fight last night. because it was really getting kind of boring and tedious, i'm sure, for the folks on the other side of the camera. >> one thing that was clear to me, when you had your introduction and you said i want

the cameras on the people in the audience, because that's what this is about. all your comments, that seemed to be the theme. at what point during your -- during this campaign, did you realize that had to be the theme for you to break through? >> well, brian, what i was talking about was what i've heard and felt from the 22 town hall meetings i've done in new hampshire. which is people really feel like these candidates are talking too much about themselves, and not enough about the people that they want to serve. and so we need to be out there talking about their concerns, and their problems. you know, their kids are loaded with student debt. they're having trouble paying their bills. they feel like they've suffered from the worst economic recession recovery since world war ii. and they feel like this president is acting lawlessly and his secretary of state, former secretary of state, hillary clinton, caught the same disease. they want us talking about them and their concerns. and not about each other. and that's what i tried to bring to the debate last night. >> and speaking of the former

secretary of state, you are looking at ultimately her down the road when you said this -- >> the question is, who's going to prosecute hillary clinton? the obama white house seems to have no interest. the justice department seems to have no interest. i think it's time to put a former federal prosecutor on the same stage with hillary clinton and i will prosecute her during those debates on that stage for the record that we're talking about here. >> you made it very clear, governor, you think there's some criminality involved in what was going on with her secret home-brewed e-mail servers situation? >> well, listen, i think there's real, real serious questions that need to be investigated, and ultimately prosecuted, i think, regarding her handling of classified information. david petraeus was prosecuted for it, sandy berger was prosecuted for it. hillary clinton is not above the law. but you know this, absolutely true, steve, that there's a lawlessness to this administration. you don't want to enforce the immigration laws in cities, you

have sanctuary cities across the country. the president will look the other way. i want to make it clear to the voters this morning, with president chris christie sanctuary cities will end at the beginning of this administration. and we will enforce the law, whether it's marijuana laws across the country, or whether it's this, we'll enforce the law and hillary clinton should be held to the same standard. and by the way, she should be transparent about it, too, and answer questions which she's unwilling to do. >> she's going to be on "face the nation" sunday. >> governor we have an incredible viewer -- >> we'll see if she answers it. >> we have the privilege of bringing you a question from michael, what is your stance on the second amendment, governor? >> well, listen, what i've said all along is that what we should be doing regarding guns in america is focusing on criminals. we spend too much time in politics, folks in washington in particular, focused on law abiding citizens who want these guns to protect themselves, to hunt, and to collect. we need to focus on the

criminals. and when i was u.s. attorney for seven years in new jersey, we did a record number of gun cases against criminals. they're not going through background checks. they're not buying these things in gun shops. they're buying them off the street in the black market and using them to commit crimes. we take those criminals off the street, we're going to lower our crime rate and also make it safer for folks who are law abiding citizens to own guns. i'm a strong sporter of the second amendment for the law abiding citizens. but for criminals in this country you need a former federal prosecutor in the oval office who understands that he needs an attorney general who is going to make sure that those folks are taken off the street. and i'll do that. >> you debated for three hours. just gets off the stage, goes to the spin room, gets 90 minutes of sleep and is back with us in the morning. no one can doubt your endurance, governor christie. good job. >> thank you for having me on, guys. look forward to seeing you back in new york. >> you got it. >> all right. next up, live from new york, last night jeb bush out in california got a huge applause for this line.

>> as it relates to my brother, there's one thing i know for sure, he kept us safe. i don't know if you remember -- so did donald trump go too far in attacking jeb's brother? mr. trump joins us live, next. >> plus the most talked about moments of the night like the hand shakes and high fives that didn't quite work. low five, high five, fist pump, i don't know. >> it was awkward.

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spanish. i want them to hear that directly from me. not from a translator at univision. >> the issue occurred in 2003. i suggested to president bush that he not go to war. okay? so i just want that on the record. >> 40 years ago i smoked marijuana and i admit it. i'm sure other people might have done it and may not want to say it in front of 25 million people. my mom's not happy that i just did. >> i think you're going to see a big impact. >> dr. carson you just heard his medical take. >> he's an okay doctor. >> eveready, it's very high energy, donald. >> eveready was the answer to the question, what would your secret service name be and jeb bush said eveready and donald trump said, humble humble.

donald trump joins us live this morning. i believe you're back in new york city, right? >> i just got back. >> all right. >> how did you get a flight? >> well, that was not too difficult. but we just actually we just landed. and i just walked through the door about two minutes ago. i grabbed the phone, because i was on your wonderful show that i love so much. and here we are. >> we're thankful that you're here mr. trump. last night it seemed like it was all about you. 44% of cnn's questions focused right at you. and it seems as though it was about pitting the candidates directly against you. what did you think of that? >> well, it was a little bit like vince mcmahon with the wwe for awhile. i said, you know, wow. and other of the candidates were complaining that they didn't get any room. they didn't get any time. which is true. a lot of them didn't really get to speak hardly. and it just -- i see your chart up there, 44%. wow. that's a lot. it felt like that. it actually felt like that. and i guess the other problem, the biggest problem i had was three hours is too long. three hours for a debate is too long. it's ridiculous actually. who wants to even watch.

i'm just telling you i'm standing there for three hours. how about the people at home watching? "gone with the wind" is 3 hours 20 minutes, right? and that's a super long movie. i think three hours is too long. >> in fairness to you, you tweeted out even before the debate you said, i cannot believe this is going to be 2 hours 45 minutes. it ended up being three. >> you know, brian, it was supposed to be two hours. and that's okay. that's a long debate, too, by the way. two hours is a long time. but two hours is maximum acceptable time. and it was -- then all of a sudden they sold all the commercials, they got a record number, the highest number they've ever gotten, and they needed more room. so they just made it longer. it had nothing to do with the politics. it was the fact that they sold out, and how do you get more? and i thought that was unfair. i found out about it two days ago and i said this is ridiculous. >> you had 19% of the air time compared to the low, that was top, the next was bush with 15. walker is the lowest with 8 1/2 minutes. just did a snap poll 60% of people said you won.

"time" magazine did a snap poll 67% said you won. >> great. >> so this is strong for you. however, i was surprised for this. when you opened up, you went right down thene, and said to rand paul, i don't even know what he's doing here he's got 1% of the vote. why did you think that was important? >> because he had told everybody he's coming after me. and frankly, he was very nice after that. but he had told everybody that he's coming after me and he was really strong, and you know, strong about it. and i guess i probably hit first. he was sort of coming after me before i made that statement by the way. you saw that was the gate up. but i did hit him hard. and i felt like i had to, and frankly, after that we got along very well. >> yeah. some -- somebody else who is going after you was jeb bush. you had a comment about his brother, and that led to his biggest applause line of the night. we're going to play it for folks who did not see it. listen to this. >> your brother's administration gave us barack obama, because it

was such a disaster those last three months that abraham lincoln couldn't have been elected. >> you know what? as it relates to my brother there's one thing i know for sure, he kept us safe. i don't know if you remember -- >> he tried to come after you on casino gambling, and some other stuff that didn't work so much. but that resonated. >> it did. it was a good line. i thought it was a very good line. i thought my line before it was very good, too. but you know, because when the economy crashed it would have been very hard for a republican to have won. hence the use of the great abraham lincoln. but it was an amazing evening. it was too long. and there were some problems there. i think it was just, you know, they certainly used trump a lot. and i understand it's actually a great compliment if you think about it. >> it was ten on one. >> i know. >> mr. trump -- >> it would go down, elisabeth they'd go down the line. trump said this. trump said that. anything i said. it was a little bit wild.

i said, boy i hope i'm wide awake tonight because this is going to be interesting. >> they have not been able to get you to apologize yet for anything and everyone is sort of aiming to do that, sir. mr. trump, the day after when you look back at that moment with jeb bush saying would you apologize to my wife klum ba did you have any second thought about that at all, a little bit? >> no, i said she's a very nice woman and a very wonderful woman and i said that. i thought that would be helpful to say but i didn't want to apologize because i really did nothing wrong. this had to do with the illegal immigration. and i did nothing wrong. i believe strongly in apology. apologizing. i don't mind apologizing, elisabeth. but, you know, if you do something wrong you apologize. it really was proven that i did nothing wrong here. so it was a little bit tough. it might have been easier, oh, i apologize but i want to tell you that would have been the head line if i did that. that would have been a big head line even in your show. >> real quick, when there was a break, there seemed to be so much tension between you and jeb. when there was a break and we weren't -- we were in commercial, what was it like?

>> the funny thing was, we were tough on each other and yet there wasn't a lot of tension during the breaks. i guess we just say it's politics. but i had a couple of people, including rand paul, you would have thought it would be like tremendous tension. and there was very little tension. i was a little bit surprised myself. you know, we had long breaks, because they had lots of commercials, as you know. there were four or five-minute breaks. and i was getting along great with jeb and everybody else. i actually get along pretty well with everybody back there. so, you know, there may have seemed that, but -- and there was tension during the actual questioning. but there wasn't a lot of tension during the break and i was a little surprised at that. tonight i'm going up to new hampshire. we have 4,000 people. it's going to be great. i'm having a lot of fun with this. >> donald trump, just off his performance last night in the ronald reagan library, where his 757 is bigger than the former air force one. mr. trump, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> thank you. >> well, thank you. thank you for showing those

great poll numbers. that was great. i didn't even know that. >> it was okay. >> thank you very much. >> all right. >> bye-bye. >> 19 minutes now before the top of the hour. heather's got some other news on this thursday. >> some big news expected today from the fed possibly today. the federal reserve must decide whether or not to raise interest rates. raising rates could push up borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. if they do raise rates it would be the first time since 2006. so we'll be watching that one throughout the day. well he raised the alarm for bringing his homemade clock to school. but now this ninth grader is winning time with the president? 14-year-old ahmed mohammed was arrested over his engineering project, because some teachers thought his clock was a bomb that he brought to school. but our president knew the difference, and invited the young man to astronomy night at the white house next month. the president said cool clock ahmed i want to bring it to the white house. we should inspire more kids like you to like science.

>> so i guess everyone knows i'm the person who built the clock. thank you all for helping me. i would have never got this far if it wasn't for you guys. >> mohamed was not charged some believe he was targeted because he's a muslim. where was hillary clinton last night? she was taking on trump on the tonight show watch this. >> it's really up to the voters to decide. when you think about it you can throw your head into the future, and you could have the white house renamed the trump house. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> and you could have dr. carson doing surgery in the basement. >> yeah, okay. we could make it all work. >> not sure what that's about the basement. fallon went on to ask clinton about the e-mail scandal and she joked about it. said the critics are starting to hurt her feelings. and those are your headlines. >> so just lay off. >> yeah. >> enough. >> enough with the illegal server in the basement.

>> enough about that. >> you mean like wipe clean all the questions? >> don't stop you're hurting her feelings. >> my fault. >> all right. straight ahead many say this is carly fiorina's moment last night. >> women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> carly fiorina joins us live next. ♪ have you ever thought, "i could never do that"?

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three years. >> i think she understands what's going on in the middle east. many say that carly fiorina won last night's debate, and has the momentum going forward. >> joining us right now 2016 presidential candidate carly fiorina. mrs. fiorina, thank you very much for joining us. how do you feel this morning? there are so many people out there who said, you know, i hadn't really seen her and i was impressed with what she had to say. >> well, good morning to all of you. you know, that's true. a lot of people hadn't seen me. in fact, going in to the debate last night, still, about half the country had never heard my name, didn't know i was running for president. so this was a huge opportunity for me to continue to introduce myself to the american people. and what i'm finding honestly is, if people hear me, if they see me, if they understand who i am and what i would do, they tend to be supportive, and so i was really pleased with last night. >> and you found civility and strength on that stage, particularly when you took on donald trump. we're going to show everybody that moment right now.

>> donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that, the face of our next president? >> i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> you had the most positive results across social media. people definitely responding to that. carly, how do you walk the line between being that strong woman and also being compassionate enough? she needs toe smile more. she needs to be stronger. how do you walk that tight rope right now as a woman? >> well, you know, i also talked about the fact that we lost our younger daughter to addiction. i think what the american people want to see is who you really are. and not every occasion calls for a smile, honestly. it doesn't call for a smile when you're talking about the dangers that we face in the world. whether it's the middle east, or from vladimir putin. it doesn't call for a smile when we're talking about very serious

issues that impact people's lives. but, of course, people want to know your whole personality. you don't get that opportunity in 15 minutes. but i hope a lot of american people learned a little bit more about me last night. who i am. what i believe. what i would do. >> you went from the second stage to the third most -- getting the third most time on the main stage. here's a question from one of our viewers. they say this for you, carly. what is your economic plan to get control of what will be in excess of a $20 trillion deficit when president obama leaves office? how do you do that? >> well, only two things we can do to reduce our debts and deficits. grow the economy, and cut spending. grow the economy and cut spending. the good news is, if we cut spending in the right way, we help to grow the economy. so example, we have a 73,000 page tax code today that is crushing small businesses. small businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs in

this country, and employ half the people. so if we take a 73,000 page tax code and make it three pages, we're not only reducing the number of people necessary at the irs by a lot but we're also lifting the weight of government off of small businesses back. the truth is, there is so much opportunity to cut spending in washington, d.c. it just never gets done. and this is why people are tired of politicians. and tired of politics. they know the system is broken. we talk about tax reform just to stay with that example, we talk about it every election cycle. and yet, it never happened. >> never. >> this is why people say i'm sick of politics. i want a leader who will challenge the status quo, who will produce results, and who will solve festering problems. >> all right. >> that is what i offer the people of the united states. leadership. >> all right. carly fiorina, a washington outsider joining us from california today. carly, thank you very much. >> thank you, carly. >> congratulations on a good

show last night. >> thanks so much. >> she added over 30,000 followers on twitter. the most talked about moment of the night on social media. only here. >> how could you not go to war? i just want that on the record. and a lot of people are very much --

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to know about experience. so lindsey graham was getting spikes on immigration, on experience. then when he talked about obama needs to drink more with dignitaries and other members of congress. lindsey graham getting huge spikes across the early debate. the second debate, this is where we saw two major spikes. look at this. jeb bush defending his wife around immigration. a huge spike there. then fiorina search term spiked when she was defending her record as ceo of hewlett-packard against chris christie, and donald trump. huge spikes for carly fiorina. people went online to actually learn more about her record. >> i am surprised to see this because trump barely registers. so he had the most searches but he wasn't spiking. >> he didn't have big spikes. but he did have huge dwighter mentions in commentary last night. he crushed it on twitter. look at donald trump on twitter, 139,000 mentions, good and bad. carly fiorina also did really well on twitter coming in second and jeb bush third. by the way, the fifth most

searched for term for jeb bush last night was is he related to george bush. think about that. >> that's scary. >> people still don't know that he's related to george w. bush. >> and these are americans? >> these are americans. >> wow, good job. >> the candidates last night that added the most followers. carly fiorina came out with 30,000 followers last night on twitter. just after the debate. ben carson, 29,000. rubio, 10,000. and bush 8,000. remember, though, donald trump has millions of followers. >> it's hard to make a dent there. >> all right. good job, clayton. coming up next, wait a second. what would you like to do? >> we have some viewer comments. people also thought on social media, we don't have time for them. but cnn let the thing get a little too out of hand last night. >> you just summarized every -- >> every comment. >> i have like 30 viewer comments saying that. i summarized it with one. >> we have a big hour ahead. do you approve it so far? >> so far. >> senator marco rubio live.

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good morning to you. today is thursday, september 18th. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. carly fiorina trumped donald on debate night. with this. >> donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that the face of our next president. >> i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> and she didn't stop there, delivering a stunning dare to president obama and hillary clinton. strong night for her. >> meanwhile the biggest loser in last night's debate may have been cnn. the moderators lost control time after time, forcing some

candidates eventually to step in and take over. >> the middle class is getting plowed over by barack obama and hillary clinton. let's start talking about those issues tonight and stop this childish back and forth between the two of them. >> i want to get -- >> you didn't like the way cnn ran the show. your comments poured in. we'll share some of them shortly. >> and nearly half of last night's debate dedicated to donald trump. how do other candidates feel about that? senator marco rubio is here and i believe that will be our first question. but don't tell him. i want him to be surprised. mornings are better with friends. well, good morning folks. if you're just waking up it's 8:00 here in new york city, 5:00 out west. last night was the big show. we all watched. did you? >> yeah. i mean, as you looked up and down the aisle i don't think anyone could walk away saying it

was term. no one really destroyed themselves. i think overall the first thing that stand out, people were talking about carly fiorina and donald trump and governor scott walker did not emerge with the big win that i think he needed to reverse the momentum. >> quite trackly -- >> governor christie might have. >> the intent of trying to pit one candidate against another was exhausting as a mother. >> what do you mean? >> after a day of sort of breaking up debates -- >> fights? >> at home, to have to watch that with their intention of just bringing them face-to-face to just fight with one another seems exhausting. >> it was exhausting. that's one of your complaints you're going to hear about in a moment. >> right now fax news senior national correspondent john roberts was at the debate. he was live. he got up a couple hours ago. he's exhausted. yet he's about to file a thorough and comprehensive report on the festivities last night. >> good morning, steve, elisabeth and brian. there is no exhausted in politics. you just go, and you keep on going. like jeb bush said his secret

service name would be you got to be eveready in this game. you can talk about who won and who lost last night's debate. the performance of the night belonged to carly fiorina. she really had a lot riding on last night. she had fought very hard embarrassing cnn into changing the rules to get her on. she needed to hit a home run. but like pedro alvarez she hit it out of the park. showing broad command over all of the big issues, foreign policy, the economy, social issues. and she had perhaps what was the moment of the night when she took on the issue of planned parenthood. listen. >> i dare hillary clinton, barack obama to watch these tapes. watch a fully formed fetus, on the table, this is about the character of our nation. and if we will not stand up and force president obama to veto this bill, shame on us. >> that is a moment that no doubt will really vault her in the polls. there was also a sharp back and

forth between miss fiorina and donald trump. trump mocked her over the -- then he made that comment about her face. watch this interaction. >> you know, it's interesting to me, mr. trump said that he heard mr. bush very clearly. and what mr. bush said. i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> i think she's got a beautiful face and i think she's a beautiful woman. >> that split screen really kind of says it all, doesn't it? wow if looks could kill. carly told me she was very pleased with her performance. she says she is a fighter. certainly she fought hard to get on that big stage last night. probably one of the most important things that she has ever done in her career. i wouldn't be surprised based on her performance last night to see her either near, close to or in double digits in the next round of polling. so i would assume that she's probably going to move up the ladder as a result of what

happened here at the reagan library last night. elisabeth, steve, brian? >> john, thank you very much. john just mentioned the split screen. going in we told you yesterday morning that cnn was going to try to give people a fight. they used a split screen so they would say hey candidate "a" you said this about candidate "b." candidate "b" tell them why they're wrong about that. half their questions were about donald trump so there's a lot of back and forth between donald trump and carly fiorina, and their business biographies. at some point the other nine people on the stage had had it up to here with all about them, here's chris christie talking about taking back the debate and talking about what's important for the people watching. >> i sat and listened to that bang and forth last night with carly and donald comparing the resumes and how much money they've each made or lost for each other and for their companies. and i just felt like i had to jump in and say, listen, this is not about you. we need to be talking about the concerns of real folks out there and what we're going to do for them if we get to be president of the united states.

and so i was glad to be able to kind of call an end to the food fight last night because it was really getting kind of boring. >> yeah. and between those two, as between jeb bush and donald trump, too. for awhile i felt bad for the other people on the stage. because it was just those. >> you know who came up strongly, with good reason, carly fiorina, we had a chance to speak with her going. she had courage, compassion, confidence and civility and today we asked her about being a woman on that stage and still sometimes being unknown. she's at 3% right now. >> i think what the american people want to see is who you really are. and not every occasion calls for a smile, honestly. it doesn't call for a smile when you're talking about the dangers that we face in the world. whether it's the middle east, or from vladimir putin. it doesn't call for a smile when we're talking about very serious issues that impact people's lives. but of course, people want to know your whole personality.

you don't get that opportunity in 15 minutes. but i hope a lot of american people learned a little bit more about knee last night, who i am, what i believe, what i would do. >> and brian, you just did with clayton morris, so many people while they're watching her typing in on social media learning more. keep in mind, according to cnn's original criterion she would not have been on the stage last night. but at the last minute they changed everything and now a lot of people got a look at her. john roberts mentioned the polls. there were a couple of snap polls, drudge right now says who won? 60% say trump. 16% say carly fiorina. so she's in second place there. she's also in second place in a "time" magazine poll. trump is at 67%. carly is at 13%. >> she had the most positive -- >> she did herself some good last night. >> she had the most positive social media response. added 30,000 followers. >> i understand what governor christie means about the middle

class person, 55 years old wants to know whether they're going to get a job or raise. i get that. personally i wanted to see carly fiorina defend her record to donald trump and vice remembers is abecause they have been talking at each other on that and the four bankruptcies you n spin that positively that donald trump is involved in, he said it wasn't personal just that individual project. and why carly fiorina was ousted as ceo. i wanted to see both those two go back and forth. i thought that was one of the highlights for me as a viewer. >> i love when carly courageously dared president obama and hillary clinton to watch the planned parenthood videos. i thought that was one of the most powerful moments of the night right there. because it was a courageous statement, a heartfelt statement. you learned exactly who she was right there. to aim it not at those next to her, her republican counterparts, but at the leader of our free country right now, president barack obama and hillary clinton right now, to actually take a stand on that. a strong one, in fact, was a strong redirection i thought.

>> sure. it wasn't all intense moments, however. there were some light ones. we put together a little montage of those we want you to watch them right now. >> it's not -- >> we promise. >> they did happen. >> how about the strong low five. >> now watch. >> i never attacked him on his looks. and believe me, there's plenty of subject matter right there. that i can tell you. >> i know ben doesn't think that about me. i'm sure he's talking about one of the other guys. >> but the simple fact is -- >> excuse me one second. >> no. >> the simple fact is, donald -- >> more energy tonight. i like that. >> and i do give interviews in spanish. here's why. if they get their news in spanish i want them to hear that directly from me not from a translator at univision. >> the issue occurred in 2003, i suggested to president bush that he not go to war, okay. so i just want that on the record. >> 40 years ago i smoked marijuana. and i admit it.

i'm sure other people might have done it and may not want to say it in front of 25 million people. my mom's not happy that i just did. >> i think you're going to see a big impact on our kids. >> dr. carson you just heard his medical take. >> he's an okay doctor. >> eveready. it's very high energy, donald. >> you think donald trump is getting to them when they both wrote to reverse their barbs and went at him in a playful way. you know den carson was called an okay doctor by donald trump. you also know jeb bush was a low energy candidate. i believe if he gets the nomination his biggest assist will come from donald trump. >> if jeb bush gets -- >> because donald trump is making him a better candidate. even though he doesn't believe it right now the low energy, seems happy on the trail.

jeb bush seems to be on some level responding. >> he's a reluctant boxer. he doesn't want to get into a fight. he doubles down on civility at all times but when pushed to the point, when it comes to defending his wife and his brother when it comes to national security he got in there. and that low five i thought was a little aggressive. >> we had done trump on with us about half an hour ago. we asked him to his reaction of the three hour telecast on cnn, he said it was too long. according to him it was supposed to be two hours but cnn some so many ads at astronomical rates they tacked on another hour and that's why everyone is going to have a super tall vente. >> you know why it gets under the skin? he knowles the ratings are high which is because of the phenomenon that is donald trump and they're making money off it andize n izhe's not. >> donald trump taking over half the overall time in last night's

debate. did other candidates like marco rubio feel like they got a fair shake? we're going to talk to him. the senator is here to answer that and your e-mail if you got one from marco rubio, e-mail us right now friends@foxnews.com. >> look at that face. straight ahead.

the highlight of last night's debate, carly fiorina's takedown of donald trump. >> donald trump said the following about you. quote, look at that face. would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that the face of our next president? >> i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> donald trump followed up she's a beautiful woman then they went to break. how did trump do? what about the other candidates? joining us with their expertise jake townsend, we also have former presidential debate coach bret o'donnell. bret is currently coaching senator lindsey graham. whatever you did last night lindsey graham was fantastic and he was funny. let's talk about the bigger stage with 11 people on it. first carly fiorina. i think both of you guys agree she was strong, correct?

>> absolutely strong. she exceeded expectations last night. she fought her way in to that debate. she was absolutely superb, articulate, she had great presence, she actually looked like she knew what she was talking about in every response she gave. >> bret? >> yeah, i couldn't agree more. i think the big moment that everybody was waiting for last night was how carly would respond when confronted directly with the trump face comment. and she hit it out of the park. i mean, donald trump, his comment back to her that she was a beautiful woman, seemed, you know, trite and wasn't very well received, and quite frankly, she got the better of him last night. >> i want to bring you to another time. you're only an expert in a certain amount of areas we all know that. so donald trump decided to go into an area where he's on the record with a doctor to his immediate right and that is autism as it relates to vaccines. listen.

>> i'm in favor of vaccines. do them over a longer period of time, same amount. >> thank you. >> but just in little sections. >> dr. carson? >> i think you're going to have -- i think you're going to see a big impact on autism. >> dr. carson took it from there. first off, jay, your reaction to the topic, and his defense of his beliefs? >> i think if i needed medical advice, i'd go to a doctor, not mr. trump. and i think the audience would probably have the same reaction. he looked the same way on foreign policy. he was very, very tentative in most of his answers last night. he overgeneralized. and he hurt himself compared to rubio who knew exactly what i was talking about. and carly who was very articulate. donald trump suffered last night and it wasn't just carly's putdown of him. he did not have the kind of substance that other candidates had. >> right. very similar things they said last time he ended up even going up ten points. brett your feeling about that

exchange? i'll give you mine real quick. i was shocked to see ben carson almost came along to donald trump's point of view on that in spacing out the vaccines. >> you know, i think that's true. i think the substance of the issue wasn't the real news out of that. i think it was ben carson did not want to attack donald trump. but on, you know, i agree with jay that trump on a lot of issues looked very, very, very thin. i think that's why lindsey graham did so well in the first debate is he looked very deep on foreign policy, trump's not able to do that kind of discussion on any of the issues, and that's why even though he dominated in talk time on some of the more substantive issues, you saw trump sitting on the sideline for many of those discussions. >> right. even though he topped out at 19 minutes, and pulling up the rear was rand paul with 10 1/2. and then -- excuse me, walker with 8 1/2 followed by mike huckabee. guys, great debate. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> great debate on the debates. all right 19 minutes after the

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educators who know quality public schools make a better california for all of us. all right now a quick look at some of the best viral moments of last night's debates. social media goes crazy for the guy sitting behind the debate moderator. that's jake tapper in the front. the guy in the back labeled by some gop hotty. and one woman even pleaded for a

date tweeting, quote to the gray-suited man behind jake tapper. hit me up, cutie. so who is the cutie? 24-year-old greg caruso an l.a. based actor and director and son of a millionaire real estate developer as well. that's him right there. and donald trump commented on carly fiorina's face. what about these donald trump faces? >> he said he wouldn't want, quote, such a hothead with his finger on the nuclear code. you, as well have raised concerns about mr. trump. >> this vine video going viral, joking that the front-runner went through all the faces of an ee moej ji, all four of them, in seven seconds. >> that's a record. >> hilarious. >> all right elisabeth. >> thank you. cnn dubbed by many as the biggest loser in last night's debate, perhaps due to the moderator's questionable strategy. forcing the candidates to pick fights. >> mr. trump has repeatedly said

that the $100 million you've raised for your campaign makes you a puppet for your donors. are you? would you feel comfortable with donald trump's finger on the nuclear code? is governor walker right? governor christie tell dr. carson is that a fair description of you. several people on the stage who disagree with you, governor bush for example, says that clerk is swrn to uphold the law. is governor bush on the wrong side of the criminalization of christianity? >> were those questions fair? peter johnson jr. spent the night in the spin room and got a chance to ask the candidates themselves. good morning to you, peter. >> i did spend the night. i was in the debate and i was in the spin room and it was sort of cnn's version of saw meets family therapy. they were going out of their way to have these family candidates attack and hate each other and have the american people maybe hate them. and so i had an opportunity to speak to a bunch of the candidates last night about the technique that they were exposed

to on cnn. and they were pretty straightforward about it. >> and the republican party win by pitting people against each other and by insulting each other? >> i don't think that most americans think that's productive. >> i think it got better. the beginning of it was too much back and forth. >> i think it did bring out some substantive differences. some of it was petty. >> they were hoping for a bloodbath and that didn't occur. i'm kind of proud of my colleagues for not completely falling for it. i actually liked the fox format better. >> peter, dr. carson, as i heard, went on to explain to you that he wished he had more time. listen to this. >> i thought the format was not optimal. i would like to see more time. maybe two minutes so that you can actually get something that even resembles a real thought out. because that's the kind of thing

that i think is very helpful to the people. >> what an incredible look behind the scenes there, peter. >> absolutely. and you know, it was a disjointed debeat on the debate. they were kind of all over the place. but i think the focus was how do we get people to fight about trump? how do we be kind of the tattletale, the schoolyard tattletale and said, oh, this one said about you, what do you say about that? this one said about you, what do you say about that? we also had an opportunity to speak to rand paul about the debate last night. and he was attacked right up front by donald trump at the beginning of the debate. let's hear what he had to say. >> i think the question about whether donald trump could be a commander in chief was a good question, because frankly, i think a person who hurls insults like a seventh grader may not be mature enough to be the commander in chief. i think he'd be the worst nominee we could have and we'd lose in a landslide. so i really hope that the

american public will say, you know what? there's a lot of choices, let's look for another one. >> wow. you were right there in the thick of it. what was the overall tone when you emerged with the candidates? what would you say? you know in terms of who won this debate? i think carly fiorina won this debate hands down. i think she was on fire. i think she had rationality. she had passion. she had answers to a lot of the questions. the american people, i think, are looking for specific solutions. so on iran. on russia. on building up a strong military. on responding to some of the criticisms about her, including personal attacks, i think she came across as a superb candidate and i think we'll be looking more at her. trump's number also stay the same. maybe go up a little bit. carly's are going to jump up a lot more i think. interesting night. but a strange night for cnn. >> it was a game changer for some on that stage namely carly

fiorina. we thank you for your work in the spin room through the late night being with us early here on "fox & friends." peter johnson jr., see you when you get back. >> happy to be here always. >> senator marco rubio's moment of the night. why americans should speak spanish. he's here live next. and, disgraced congressman an thenny weiner out of a job again? don't worry, he has a plan. wait until you hear what it is. we're going to tell you. i accept i'm not 22. i accept i'm not the rower i used to be. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib,

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i want to tell you a story about someone that didn't speak english that well. it was my grandfather. he came to this country in the 1960s escaping cuba and he lived with us growing up. and my grandfather loved america. he understood what was so special about this country. he loved ronald reagan. he would be very proud of the fact that we're here this evening. my grandfather instilled in me the belief that i was blessed to live in the one society of all of human history, where even i the sun of a bartender and a maid could aspire to have anything and be anything that i was willing to work hard to achieve. >> marco rubio last night at the ronald reagan library out in simi valley. and we've got the senator joining us from california this morning. senator, good morning to you. you did a great job. >> good morning. >> how did you feel about the format, though, where cnn set it up as all trump, all the time, kind of a food fight, where everybody's yelling at each other? >> well, you saw hints of that from the beginning, and i saw

some of the promos, and it looked like they were promoting a pay-per-view boxing match. once the thing started you could see clearly early on it was going to be one of these things where if you wanted more time to speak you were going to have to interrupt somebody and jump in. so as the thing worked and people started doing more of that. but the format was the format. no matter what happens you've got to do the best you can in the time allotted to communicate your message. we can disagree about the format. we can like it or unlike it or basically come back later and analyze it. but the key is, each of these are an opportunity for us to aspire to the highest office in the land, to tell people who we are and what we would do if they gave us a chance to be president. and that's what i try to do at all of these debates. yesterday was just the second one. i've done a series of these and we'll be at it again in six or seven weeks. >> senator one thing he did remarkably well is the reminder of that time and carved your way in when it came to speaking spanish. we're going to let everybody hear what some are saying was your most powerful moment of the night.

>> are you saying that you haven't -- the knowledge to be the president, that mr. trump does not have? >> you should ask some questions in detail about the foreign policies that our president will confront. because you better be able to lead our country on the first day. not six months from now. not a year from now, on the first day in office. >> that was actually another exchange there. so two impact moments that you had, senator rubio, there, the first saying look, i want someone to be able to understand straight from me why -- when i'm speaking spanish, what's important in this country, the moment we just saw right there, that exchange, and that double box split screen, what were you trying to get across there? >> well, there's no more important obligation of the presidency than to keep the country safe. i mean the president doesn't run the economy. we have those people talking about how many jobs they created when they held this office or that office. government doesn't create jobs outside of government. the jobs are created by the private sector. the job of policymakers is to create an environment where the private sector creates jobs. but national security is a

responsibility of the presidency. being commander in chief is the most important job of a president. and our next president on their very first day in office could very well face a global threat. our enemies aren't going to take a two-week honeymoon period and wait for the united states' president to catch up. they're going to expect you to be ready. our country has a right to expect you to be ready on the very first day and it is important that our candidates for office have taken this seriously as they prepared to run. >> they try to get you to fight with donald trump because he was not able to answer your questions on a series of things that you're an expert at because you're on the foreign relations committee in the that. i thought you were extraordinary last night, but the one area in which i think you're vulnerable and i thought your answer was questionable, was your reasons for not showing up for more votes in the senate, because you don't feel like you're getting anything done. is that adequate for the people that put you there? >> no, i've never missed a vote where my vote would make a difference. i've flown across this country to be at votes. just before this debate we had a

vote on iran and then we had to fly six hours across the country to land here at midnight for a debated next day. when there's a vote that's meaningful and serious we are there and doing my job. my job is a lot more about voting an things that aren't going to change the outcome. it's about constituent service and all sorts of other things that we're involved in doing. here was my broader point. there's a reason why i chose not to run for re-election and i'm running for president. the reason is because after a very short time in washington, it became apparent to me two things. number one, the political class in washington, d.c., in both parties, are completely out of touch with what's happening in our country. from the debt, to people struggling pay check to pay check, to insecurity around the world, and i realized number two, that the only way we are really going to be able to change that is to elect someone to the presidency. so when i miss a vote in washington it's not because i'm out playing golf. it's not because i'm out vacationing or at home watching television. if i miss a vote it's because i'm not running for president. because i want to lead this country and tackle the issues that washington and the senate are unable to tackle, primarily

because we don't have a president that will -- that will sign or support the meaningful changes that our country needs. >> all right. marco rubio, joining us after the big debate last night. thank you very much. by the way, senator, i thought it was real funny in your opening 30 seconds when you were talking about how you were out in the desert, and you had your water handy. very nearby. good advice. >> exactly. if anyone knows the importance of water, it's me, right? >> right. >> marco rubio. one of the candidates who could be looking at i bump after that debate. senator rubio, thanks so much. all right it 22 minutes before the top of the hour there's in other news today. isn't there, heather? >> that's right. let's start out with bowe bergdahl big day for him today. being held captive by the taliban was punishment enough. that's what his attorneys are expected to argue at his initial court appearance today. the army will begin its article 32 hearing to figure out whether or not the alleged desert remember stand trial.

bergdahl's attorneys say that that hearing will provide a lot more insight into why he left his post in afghanistan back in 2009. well, a comedian caught in a disgusting lie for years and years. his name is steve ranna and he claimed he escaped the world trade center south tower on 9/11. turns out he was never there. the actors in the league, that's a program and he admitted he made it all up when "the new york times" confronted him earlier this week. tweeting quote i don't know why i said this. this was inexcusable. i'm truly, truly sorry. anthony weiner back on the unemployment lane. the disgraced former congressman has been let go from his most recent pr job after just two months there. the reason? his presence and past sexting scandal was simply too much of a distraction to other employees at the firm. now weiner plans to launch his own pr firm we understand. well her poll numbers continue to plummet. hillary clinton taking her

campaign to the tonight show last night. one of the big topics, donald trump's hair. watch. >> i don't know. i think it is real hair. he never let me touch it. >> you want to touch mine? >> of course. >> sure. go ahead. >> it's real. it's real. it's real. >> all right. there you go. there was also some talk about her policies, the kardashians, and the e-mail scandal. she joked about that. she said all the criticism of it is starting to hurt her feelings. hmm. and those are your headlines. and she went on to say how great she felt the kardashians were. >> we don't want to hurt her feelings on the e-mail scandal. >> that about sums it up. >> the fbi really should be considering her feelings as they continue their investigation. >> let's back off. meanwhile coming up, should america use muscle or might to fight terrorists? >> there is a time when you can use your intellect to come up with other ways to do things.

and i think that's what we have to start thinking about. >> dr. ben carson's comments last night setting off a huge national debate on security. so who got it right? our panel of vets here again this morning. good morning. >> and forget the debate. this chart may predict who will be the next president. we'll explain.

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there. and finally, 6'3". donald trump and jeb bush are the tallest republican candidates. candidates' heights were some of the most googled questions last night, believe it or not. according to history the taller presidential candidates almost always wins. steve? >> thank you very much, elisabeth. so, no one on last night's debate stage has served in our military in the 8:00 program. but they do have a plan for the military. listen to this. >> we make it great again. we build up our military. we take care of our vets. >> the first thing we need to do is to stop the craziness of the sequester. rebuild our military. >> we need to care for our veterans, those 307,000 of them aren't dying waiting for health care. >> i want the men and women at home to know if i am commander in chief i will only send you into harm's way when our national security is at risk. >> the first war was a mistake and i'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to iraq.

>> so after last nature's performance, who will wind up with the vet vote? here to discuss this our panel of vets, carl higby a former navy s.e.a.l. kieron lalo is a new york assembly man and retired infant infantryman and new york co-chair of carly fiorina for america. and a retired marine corps captain. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> carl who did you like last night? >> close tie i'm still a trump guy through and through because i think he demonstrates the executive decisiveness in order to put troops on the ground if necessary and make the tough decisions. i give carly a close second. >> you hadn't really seen much at carly. >> i think her stance on how to deal with putin was well executed, flawless, and her debate coach is awesome. >> music to your ears? >> i love it. >> what was it about carly's performance last night, and she was on our program about an hour and a half ago and said this was a good opportunity because a lot

of people never heard of me, never seen me before. >> i think she was the first person to utter the word veteran. she had some real specifics. 300,000 veterans dying waiting for care. she had a plan, a soft plan for iran. we could unilaterally make it very difficult for the iranians to move around money. which woo squeeze them and that's a way of dealing with them in a peaceful way. >> you mention she had a plan. here is a sound bite from last night where miss fiorina talks about her military plan. >> we need the strongest military on the face of the planet, and everyone has to know it. and specifically what that means is we need about 50 army brigades, we need about 36 marine battalions, we need somewhere between 300, and 350, naval ships. we need to upgrade every leg of the nuclear triad. we need to reform the department of defense. >> thank you. >> we need, as well, to invest in our military technology. >> we're going to turn to domestic issues. >> and we need to care for our

veterans, so 307,000 of them aren't dying waiting for health care. >> thank you. >> jake, let her finish talking. >> yeah. >> all right. katie? >> definitely jeb. i think he's done a really good job of laying out a plan. i think he'd be a strong advocate for veterans. on the foreign policy front he committed last night. he committed to re-establishing american leadership on the world stage. he's got rebuilding the military. and i think i personally want a president who is not necessarily going to exercise force the first time but we need to have the commitment to, you know, building up our military so that we can react if called upon. >> all right. none of you selected ben carson as your favorite. however, he had a great sound bite last night that a lot of people are talking about, where sometimes maybe we should think before we use muscle, and use our heads. listen to this. >> i have no argument with having a strong leader. and to be aggressive where aggression is needed.

but it's not needed in every circumstance. there is a time when can you use your intellect to come up with other ways to do things and i think that's what we have to start thinking about. >> he's right about that. carl, you say your east favorite of the candidates is now? >> rand paul. >> why? >> i just don't think he's willing to do anything that, you know, is required to overthrow a violent middle east, and to ben carson's point yes, there are times when you need to use intellect. at this point in time, you have a region that is chanting death to america and iran. you have radical islam going rampant in iraq and syria. we need force. >> your least favorite? >> i think trump was unprepared. that makes him my least favorite. he doesn't have any specifics. he says after i get elected i'll figure it out. that's not the way you go to a job interview. >> katie? >> trump, i don't think he has the ability to actually have power at home to make things better for vets or abroad diplomatically.

>> thank you all for staying up really late last night watreall. >> long one. >> all right straight ahead. did you notice the biggest target during the happy hour debate, the early one, wasn't even there? >> he's not a conservative. he is not a liberal. he's not a democrat. he's not a republican. he's not an independent. he believes in donald trump. >> let me say this flat-out, donald trump is unfit to be president. >> but, for one of these candidates, the destroy donald strategy actually worked. wait until you hear who's pulling ahead in some overnight polls. but first let's check in with bill hemmer. >> good looking airplane there. huh steve? >> no kidding. >> we'll talk live with jeb bush. scott walker is live on our show as well. rand paul and rick santorum we'll talk to them about their performance last night. did this election take a dramatic turn or was it only a slight bend in the road? what about the format as a viewer? did you like it? or was your head on a swivel? the next two hours are stacked. we'll kick it off in ten

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republicans square off in a happy hour earlier debate ahead of last night's main show. >> peter doocy is live in washington with all the details. good morning to you, peter. >> good morning, elisabeth and brian and since there were only four people on the stage at that early debate, everybody got a lot of face time. and they are all toward the bottom of the polls. but, some used the platform to attack number one. >> he's not a conservative. he is not a liberal. he's not a democrat. he's not a republican. he's not an independent. he believes in donald trump. >> let me say this flat-out, donald trump is unfit to be president. >> but those four attacked each other, too, in the most heated

disagreement was about kim davis, and whether the kentucky clerk was right to place her faith over her job. >> an elected official can't say that i'm not going to follow that law if it conflicts with my beliefs. i think she should have been fired and if she had worked for me i would have fired her. >> i would argue that what the supreme court did is against the natural law, it's against god's law and we have every obligation to stand in opposition to it. >> america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america. >> senator lindsey graham stuck to his guns turning just about every answer into a warning about terror threats. but it wasn't all serious. and graham said that if he was president, he'd start having lawmakers over after hours. like reagan did. >> that's the first thing i'm going to do as president. we're going to drink more. >> so now we wait to see if any of them did well enough to jump to the main stage in place of the top 11 candidates who maybe

didn't have a great second debate. back to you. >> peter, is that the reason they called it the happy hour debate? was because lindsey graham wanted them to drink more in washington? >> i don't think they started drinking before the debate. but i guess we could ask. we could see who's plugged in today. >> good idea. >> thank you very much. >> all right. >> he had criticism for being a little staid, a little bit -- >> lindsey graham? >> and yesterday he really was loose. >> all right. >> when we come back, a closer look at this face. or faces.

he said he wouldn't want, quote, such a hothead with his finger on the nuclear code. you, as well -- >> chances are this vine video is going to pop up on your facebook feed today. donald trump expressing all four

faces of an emoji in seven seconds. >> a record. today is constitution today, celebrated by joining the conversation on twitter #constitutionday. >> and for once abide by it. >> right. >> thanks for joining us today. see you back here tomorrow. bill: here we go. 9:00 a.m. here in new york. the second republican debate in the books. three hours of questions. three hours of answers, three hours of insults. who were the winners and who frankly was not. it will be attracted two hours. hope you stayed up late last night. how you doing? three hours in high heels last night. martha: i decided it to be best to cancel the last 20 minutes in the morning.