it is friday, march 4th, 2016. welcome to "cbs this morning." blistering attacks dominate a vulgar gop debate. we ask donald trump about the backlash to his campaign. the wounded warrior project is losing support from big donors. new developments in a she lost her leg in the boston marathon bombing but that hasn't slowed her down. we will meet the woman preparing to run this year's race. we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. he referred to my hand of basketball, something else must be small. i guarantee you, there is no

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tumultuous days in republican party history debate.ith ait last night's tone was fiery, insulting, and at one point indecent. front-runner donald trump faced constant attacks from his main rivals and tough questions from the moderators. >> hanging over the debate was a scathing speech from mitt romney, the last gop nominee, who called trump a phony and a fraud. major garrett is outside the fox theater in detroit where he covered last night's debate. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the atmosphere was tense and the confrontation was battle lines have never been more sharply drawn. donald trump and his populace movement and a gop establishment personified by mitt romney. stakes high and nomination and future of the republican party

was on. >> he referred to. 11th republin debate started with a lewd response fromo new low that foreshadowed the brawl to come. >> this little guy has lied so much about my record. >> here we go! here we go! >> so much. >> it's a minor civil case. >> donald,rn lea not to interrupt. it's not complicated. count to ten, donald, count to ten. >> i have a policy question for you, sir. >> let's see if he answers it. >> i will. don't worry about it, marco. don't worry about it, little marco! >> gentlemen! gentlemen! >> reporter: a defensive trump dismissed lawsuits alleged he had conned students to attend his now defunct trump university easement he conned those people like he conned these people in

>> reporter: trump hammered full positions. >> l >>tting is the best by far of everybody. >> but, scaominee mitt romney. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> he failed miserably and it was an embarrassment to everybody, including the republican party. >> reporter: rebels marco rubio and ted cruz attacked relentlessly and asked the record for trump's off-the-record meeting with "the new york times." >> if tonight you tell new york city to release the audio they will do it and we can see what your true views are on

immigration. >> trump refused. >> i may have discussed somethintke flexible. >> reporter: cruz and rubio decl tared phatroofdeia donald, hard not to interrupt, but try. >> not what you said. >> breathe. >> lyin' ted. >> when they are done with the yoga, can i talk? >> i hope we don't see yoga on this stage. >> he is very flexible so you never know. >> even after that comauexhaust and noisy jousting, they allhe nominee even if that is donald trump. senator john mccain spoke

out romney finished his speech yesterday. he called umdeba the gop establishment pylon. to suddenly have romney and mccain coming after you? >> no, i didn't know mccain came after me. he better -- i'm sure -- >> reporter: ed he agreed with what romney did? >> oh, he did? well, that is not nice and he has to be very careful. >> reporter: why? >> i will -- he'll find out. but romney is a failed candidate. he made a fool out of himself. he should have beaten barack obama and he feels badly about it. the fact is mitt romney choked as bad as i've ever seen anybody choke other than marco rubio when he was grilled by chris christie, he choked. but i will tell you, mitt romney should have been president. he disappeared. he choked. something went wrong with him and i wasn't happy about it and neither are a lot of other people. >> reporter: does a conversation about trump university help you or hurt you? >> well, it's a smallea

they try and make this such a of deal. deals and doing tremendous work all over the d. big s, here is the th when you're talg about trump university, you're not talking about other things? >> i agree. they will take one deal or two deals and out of hundreds and hundreds of deals that you do and they will try to make you look bad. trump university, i'll end up winning that in court. as sure as you're standing there, i'll win that in court. i could settle but i'm not a s washington, moderator of "face the nation." you have the unleashing of all of these attacks against donald trump. will it, in fact, have a dent in his popularity or simply embolden his supporters deepen their own commitment? >> it's possible that it does both. it's possible it's both a thrnout mechanism for all of

disappointed with the establishment and it now looks ondeke theesep0 workers ing hids just a main topic in the debate last night and main part of rubio's attacks but now the main topic of super pac ads. do you think that might have a dent in -- >> well, it goes at his professionalism and his brand is in the middle of that so it might work a little bit better rather than some of these more childish attacks. it goes at competency and it goes to this thing of sort of saying one thing and doing another. marco rubio's argument this is a template what he will do for the voters but it gets in the weeds pretty quickly so i'm not sure it has

>> john, thereey a making. if they are saying he is going to ruin the country and ruin the >> well, thave rubio win in florida and to have kasich that would deny trump the delegates or start to deny him the delegates

cleveland in the convention and then hopefully they would be you, john. rist>> is defending his endorsement of donald trump. he has come under fire from establishment republicans for supporting the gop front-runner. he was mocked on social media for appearing distant during a trump victory speech on tuesday >> no, wasn't being held itting thinking, oh, my god, what have i done? i was sitting -- standing up there supporting the person who i believe is the best person to

remaining thursday that filed friend of the court briefs. they argue the court order tohr privacy. relatives of six attack victims and law enforcement groups filed their own brief opposing apple. new air strikes outside of damascus could threaten the partially cease-fire in sea. the week-old truce does not include isis. rebels backed by the united states are making gains against isis and holly williams just visited a town on the front lines in northeast syria. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. no truce here in northeastern syria. where the syrian democratic

u.s. have just launched a sian and arab kurdish alliance for the victory. this woman's son baz was just 20 when he was killed in al jadadi. if needed we will all fight agaiis

them for the lives of these amica's most . effective partner on the ground in syria. colonel taylor solo told us his fighters have been given a hundred tons of ammunition by the u.s.-led coalition the last six months and he said they have also asked for anti-tank missiles and machine guns. has the u.s. given you any of the weapons that you asked for? no, he told us. so far, all we have had are promises. one of the reasons the u.s. may be reluctant to give weapons to the syrian democratic forces is that they are accused of coordinating with russia and a longstanding truce with the syrian regime. but they fought courageously against isis and remain america's most important partner inside syria.

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diplo. >> i will be dancing! to pakistan which has nuclear and aasays against it. >> the moderators asked trump to explain other conflicting statements too. >> within one day, you reversed -- on the syrian refuges. >> you're right. let me explain. the first time the question had been put to me was early on and my campaign had just started. i was very much like, okay. by the time ien wt back and studied it and they were talking about bringing thousands and thousands, i changed my tune. so i'm a

supporter of the second assault weapons. >> i do not support the ban on assault. in terrati of and there always has to be some, you know, tug and pull and deal. you have to be able to have some flexibility, some negotiation. i may have discussed something like that with "the new york times" but i would never release off-the-record conversations. i don't think it's fair, frankly, to do that to anybody. >> how flexible are you on this issue? >> not very flexible. >> your campaign website, to this day, argues that more visas for highly skilled workers would, quote, decimate american workers. however, at the cnbc you spoke enthusiastically in favor much these visas. which is it? >> i'm changing. i'm changing. we need highly skilled people in this country. >> you are abandoning the position on your website? >> i'm changing it and -- the

talented people in this country. >> you're not your immigration policies you're really just playing to people'sn your book "or tart of the deal." >> i'm not. >> after the debate trump said it was not the one he was asked about last night. before the debate, the last two gop nominees denounced this year's front-runner. mitt romney said trump is a phony and a fraud. and, in a statement, senator john mccain called trump's national security views dangerous. major garrett asked trump about those attacks. >> reporter: still different fo mccain coming after you suddenly? >> i never knew mcc came >> reporter: he said he agreed with what romney did?ice and he be very careful. >> reporter: why? >> i will -- he'll find out. >> with us is

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