gdp. as an example, gdp was 0 essentially for the last two quarters. if that ever happened in china you would have had a depression like nobody has ever seen. they go down to 7%, 8% and it's a national tragedy. we're at zero. we've lost our jobs. we've lost everything. we're losing everything. our jobs are gone. our businesses are being taken

the united states? >> education, obviously, plays a large role when it comes to jobs and the economy. the united states has long been falling behind others in the industrialized world. american students rank 27th out of 34 countries in math and 17th in reading. mr. trump, you've called the education standards known as common core a disaster. what are your specific objections to common core? >> education through washington, d.c. i don't want that. i want local education. i want the parents, and i want all of the teachers and i want everybody to get together around a school and to make education great. and it was very interesting. i was with dr. ben carson today, who is endorsing me, by the way, tomorrow morning, and he is -- we were talking. we spoke for over an hour on education. he has such a great handle on it. he wants competitive schools and a lot of different things that are terrific, including charter schools that the unions are fighting like crazy. but charter schools work...

respond? >> if you look back to iowa, ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit at the end. not full on, but he did change his view in the opens of maybe doing well. and you know, i think everybody knows that. it was a front page story all over the place, and he did make a change.