donald trump: maybe 21%.f i had a deal ready to be if i have a deal that will be done, and it is ready to be signed. 10%-5% --you said 20%. 25%-30%.ump: let's say john: that is low. if your president, i want to asked thing -- ask about the debt selling that ceiling -- debt ceiling. should republicans agreed to raise that or is there too much of a danger. donald trump: i would like to see that not happen. i think there is so much waste in washington. if they had people that knew how to cut and make deals with others. if you look at the trade deficits with all of these countries that we are rebuilding, we are rebuilding the world. we are rebuilding china. short-term, maybe it will happen. i would not be an easy one to do it. john: do you think it is worth a game of chicken. donald trump: it is worth the fight. honestly there is so much fat in washington. if you have the right people in there, you could cut it. you would not miss a thing. mark: you agree with republicans who say do not necessarily raise the debt

of donald trump forget to do.onald trump says he wants to make america great again, a good question for donald is when was the last time america was great. see what that does? it forces him to give a certain specificity about america's greatness like attaching dates to it. now he's not going to say america was great during the obama administration, so that sets the clock at least since the george w. bush administration, but that would include the iraq war, and he says he's opposed to that. so he doesn't want to pick the bush years or the 1990s, because hillary clinton's husband was president then. will he have to go back to the eisenhower administration? i don't know. you get the idea. to tonight's question for donald trump, and it is based on what he said in the debate when he was asked how he'd changed his mind from being a pro-choice supporter of r supporter of rowe versus wade. >> friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted, and it wasn't aborted, and that child today i

the reality is the only person who can take down donald trump is donald trump. from the past, it's been research, what do we have? the smoking gun. all of that doesn't apply. donald trump will have to say something so outrageous to the point where there really isn't any filter for there to be such an outcry from even his supporters. look, this is a game of whack-a-mole. there's donald trump and gop and conservatives. where is he snow inthey can't find him. >> you're right. the only person who can take down donald trump is donald trump. >> is there a front runner? if so, who is it, and will there be one before iowa? >> there is no front-runner in the race. no question about that, and here's why. liberals will disagree, but in the conservative community, if you will, this is kind of like the nba all-star team or at least, for example, magic johnson, michael jordan, all of these great, who's in your top five? there's a lot of great candidates. donald trump, you can make an argument, is kind of like the dennis rodman. what i mean, rodman, all-star, talented, great d

book at tripadvisor. >>> all eyes will be on donald trump, donald trump in tomorrow night's debate. joining me now is glor ya borger. i hope you guys are friends like the last two guests. >> yes. >> the moderators have been signaling that they're going to try to get trump to take them on. so what do you expect to see? >> well, i think there's going to be a little tug of war there. obviously, donald trump wants to look presidential. i think we heard that from him on "good morning america." i talked to a couple of campaigns that are going to be on the stage with him. they feel there's nothing in it for us to take him on. they're going to be ready with a couple of zingers if he takes them on. but they feel that they have to provide a contrast with donald trump. and, in providing that contrast, tell people why they should be president of the united states. but the journalists have a different role. the journalists, i would argue, and you've got three good journalists there, they are going to try and pin donald trump down on something called issued. and specifics. when it skom stos that,

you've heard donald trump say.ringing up all these important issues and everybody is saying my tone, my tone. i'm saying the right things. does tone matter in that situation? >> does tone matter meaning should somebody be respectful that there are questions and answers? >> or the way donald trump hand the situation. >> he got a little aggressive. he is donald trump. what do we expect? when someone challenges him in that manner, it did evolve into a more beneficial question for both sides. and i think the ramos supporters and trump support letters say, yeah, my guy did a really good job. and in the end, they got into some issues of deportation of gang members. criminal illegal aliens is something the administration has been talking about. not doing a very good job. but trump is trump. if you like trump, you like what you saw. if you don't, you find this unfathomable. you think the gop is having an out of body experience and you cannot make heads or tails out of it. >> i agree with that. do you think ben ferguson may

instead he is getting in the mud with donald trump. get in the mud with donald trump. make it a reality show. guess what. donald trump is going to win. what i do think is good for everyone in the republican party. is the fact that republicans are expanding the map. the south is going to have more of a voice in this election. we never faced a more vulnerable democratic nominee potentially than hillary clinton. we have the chance to elect a strong conservative. the fact that everyone is going new states. recruiting more activists, more fund raising is a net good for the republican party that wants to win in 2016. >> jeffrey lord, waiting again. just moments away. probably less from donald trump take the podium and addressing this crowd there. you know, the crowd, there are people. we don't have an exact crowd count there. this is a stadium that seats 40,000 people. it's not full. i do want to pose this question as we are looking at this picture right now. does this show that donald trump doesn't have the advance staff that maybe he will get. it's not there right now. to

>> i'd have to say donald trump.e came out strong from the beginning and stayed strong throughout. >> runner-up? >> runner-up was surprising to me, chris christie, i think he connected better than anybody else except trump with the audience. it felt like a conversation, like he was honest and open and talking to us the audience. >> that was based on his body language? >> that was based on his body language. >> it certainly gives us something more to think about and watch for the next debate. cnn will be hosting the next gop debate september 16th at the ronald reagan presidential library. >>> several candidates have slammed donald trump over his comments on fox news host megyn kelly. one notably has not. ted cruz, why he is holding back next. it takes a lot of work... to run this business. but i really love it. . >> donald trump's criticism of fox news host megyn kelly escalated friday night. he added to his derogatory comments in an interview with our own dom lemon. those very remarks got him disinvited to the red st

were you fired by donald trump? >> no, not at all. >> zbh and let me say from the top that i have nothing but admiration and respect for donald trump. he's the one person with the independence to take on an entire corrupt political system. he's independent of the lobby t lobbyists, the special interests and those who block any real reform, i think in the 40 years i have been in american politics, i have never seen anything like the way he's zoomed to the top of the polls. he's a manhattan real estate developer and he's leading 15, other experienced applications, why? because he had a core message of taking on the system, fixing our broke immigration system. taking on china and mexico, redoing she's trade deals to bring jobs back to the country. he was a breath of fresh air. i resigned largely because i thought i was having no impact and the campaign has been diverted from those big picture issues that have catapulted trump to the number one issues in the polls to what i thought was counter productive. >> the camp sa

they knew him as donald trump the approximately air, donald trump who is the reality tv stars and the top of the polls. what kind of candidate was he, i don't think anyone was terribly impressed with what they saw last night. the folks who already supported him, they're probably still with him. the trump collapse is probably not going to happen, probably a slow leak from the tire. the people who were opposed to him are probably more opposed than ever. but that's its, oh my goodness. >> angela the fact that he's true to what he is, bombastic, and he's putting a different spin on what he thinks washington should look like. >> he doesn't hold back and honestly people like that . he is reflecting what is not a huge percentage of the republican party, but people are fed up and see the same thing over and over again and this guy is outrageous and clearly enjoying himself and we all went into last night talking about donald trump and here we are 24 hours later just about and still talking about donald trump. we have 460 days before the election and he also toasd out the third party possibili

trump. >> moments ago donald trump going on the record. >> donald trump, welcome. >> thank you. >> joining us now from his new york city headquarters is donald trump. >> i think the gop establishment is afraid of donald trump and i asked him why. >> joining us from his lavish headquarters in new york city is donald trump. >> hon and hon and hon and on. and if three months leading up to the first republican presidential debate on august 6, those three months donald trump appeared on fox news channel dozens of times. more than any other republican presidential candidate. donald trump any time, any place early morning on fox news, daytime on fox news, prime time on fox news, on set, on the phone from his lavish headquarters in new york. donald trump before the august 6 debate was a potted plant if fox news studio crew members kept finding new sunny places for. he was always there: i mean, ahead of getting into the race, right? donald trump was a celebrity but in terms of making the leap that he has made from celebrity to political candidate. no entity midwifed that process more effectively th

mark: in our lineup tonight donald trump, the event without donald trump and then donald trump again in an interview later on in the show. the big event with donald trump front and center, fox news's debate. turns out the criteria to determine which candidates would make the cut were not all that controversial. all the polls had the same top 10. john kasich, chris christie brought up the rear appearing to edge out rick perry and the donald tops every leaderboard insight. mark how do we end up here? mark: the top ten average, you will see basically the same group. no one from the bottom. carly fiorina said she would fight her way in. john kasich went from zero to three or four or five depending on the poll in a way that was quite strategic and tactical and smart and he gets on the stage which for him is a huge deal. john: and the big loser apparently, rick perry who did a lot of stuff to try to get himself in the national news from attacking donald trump informal settings a cancer and conservatism to making funny jokes about him all kinds of stuff to breakthrough yet he kept slipping

donald trump: i would say hello. >> [indiscernible] donald trump: say again? >> [indiscernible] being trump: well, we are ripped off by anybody in the world, china, mexico, and mexico is sort of becoming the new china in terms of trade. , nabisco is moving to mexico. i mean, give me a break. so we have to reverse that. we need jobs in our country. we are better than other countries and we are going to take jobs back from china and japan and we are going to make our country great again and that to me, that is the challenge. it is not going to be that difficult. i spoke to carl icon, he is a great negotiator -- carl great he is a negotiator, and he will work with me. we are a great country and we will come out on top every single time. and that is what we need. thank you. [applause] >> you talked about jeb bush being a puppet -- donald trump: well, jeb bush is a puppet to his donors. i know this. he's got lobbyists. he'd try to make this statement the other day and he said, skin in the game. he said, the united states has to prove to iraq that we have skin in th

that is what donald trump does. approvingly wrote that the number one thing you hear when you ask any republican about donald trump is this, he fights. , eric erickson wrote that while he would not vote for him unless he became the nominee , donald trump is a nontraditional candidate running a nontraditional campaign and kicking the asses of traditional campaign consultants. they can make a political argument beyond calling everyone terrific or stupid. yet with donald trump dominating media coverage they are not getting the hearing they deserve and mr. trump was guarantee gop debate -- defeat next year if you ran as a third-party spoiler. mr. erickson claims to be embarrassed. donald trump had this to say about eric erickson. in atlanta people were angry at eric erickson. caller: good morning. whenld like to say that they said that hillary clinton lie., they all everyone of them. when that reporter asked s far,, she went back way looking for things to aggravate him, instead of looking at the issues. they didn't do t

donald trump dominating. trump by many accounts, including his own, the big winner in the first presidential debate. he has been in a fighting mood all day long. taking on anyone who dared to question him. trump and his campaign posting and reposting increasingly hostile tweets toward his critics. to the host network, he said this. fox news, you should be ashamed of yourself. i got you the highest debate ratings in your history and you say nothing but bad. to a pollster who said voters didn't like trump's performance, he is a local class slob who came to my office looking for consulting work and i had zero interest. he made it clear who he thought won the debate trump wins gop debate. candidates who were trying to talk about anything but trump today could not escape him. jeb bush in an interview compared him to barak obama. >> language that divides us -- this reminds me of barak obama, not as a candidate but as president. all he does is push people that don't agree with him down to make his side look better.

why is donald trump punching down?e he probably knows that he's on the wrong side of this, as well. if he's smart, he knows it. you know, i just -- i think he just flailing at anything and anything that gets hinl attention, he'll do it. and if he gets to call out jeb, that gets him attention and he's willing to do it. he's not a serious candidate. it's all about the show. he's a promoter. he doesn't have any real ideas and the ideas he has now weren't the real ideas that he had even five years ago. this is a guy that doesn't know where he stands, doesn't nope what he believes in. he can't win in a general election. >> but then answer -- >> he's not going to win the primary. it is august before this whole election. >> connie, i've got to ask you this. many people -- most people would not even be discussing jeb bush if donald trump, quite honestly, was not attacking him. so my question, again, is why is he focused on jeb bush? >> because he knows that jeb bush is a threat. he knows that jeb bush has the brain and has the

good for donald trump for embracing that. i think it sends a very strong signal to the american public that, you know what, it's okay to have nice things, it's okay to work hard in order to achieve things. that's where i think maybe part of mitt romney's mistake was. he didn't embrace his success. and he was a very successful businessman. >> and jonas, who does not want their name on a big building or a bottle of wine or a golf course? >> well, or a chopper. look, i want to say -- >> he was going to give kids ride -- he wants to give kids rides in the chopper at the iowa state fair. >> embrace my wealth, donald trump. there can be too much of a good thing. the royalty of france embraced their wealth. the czars embraced their wealth. there's a responsibility to be the billionaire with taking it down a notch with the public because that's how you lead to rising socialism. i would say the bernie sanders poll numbers are going up in proportion to trump because although many americans like wealth and think it's a success, many oth

not that donald. the donald. >> i was fantastic. were huge. >> reporter: we are not just talking professional comedians like kyle dunnigan. >> ghandi? loser. mother teresa? idiot. jesus christ? hippy loser. >> comedians can't resist doing trump. >> rosie is a loser. >> reporter: even rand paul made a lame effort at imitation. >> i must be smart. i'm rich. >> reporter: while actor brian cranston. barely bothered with the voice. >> i actually like his candor. you're an idiot. i'm a winner you're a loser. >> reporter: one of the impressions helped fuel the rez rosie/donald feud. >> impersonators have posted how to videos. >> you always see those bottom teeth. the bottom front teeth. he's always. >> reporter: some limit themselves off to the donald's face. >> max, make your donald trump face. >> reporter: the donald doesn't seem to mind being imitated. he has even mentioned a couple impersonators he find funny. for instance, daryl hammond. >> i will tell you who would be a loser on any team, the sass squatch, rosie o'donnell. >> i am so

who is behind the curtain of donald trump? are the people he is going to rely on to bring to government? who are the people he rely on now, the experts. he talks about experts he talked to. he doesn't give names. he doesn't give specifics. and here's the problem, eric. if donald trump build a building the way he is building a presidential race. it will be 100 stories tall and no windows and no elevators. he has to have the infrastructure as you would building a building and a foundation of building a campaign. a presidential campaign is one of the largest start-up businesses in the world. >> i don't know what that means. >> but donald trump doesn't have -- you should know what it means, ann. you need boots on the ground. >> i mean about the building of no windows. i'm not really good on the met for issue but i do know people -- >> -- there is nothing there there in the infrastructure of his campaign. >> would you call on me instead of point position me. >> window. >> i have no idea. you are absolutely right on the policies. i

we saw, robert, a minute ago donald trump working a much more relaxed, joking donald trump, cracking liners with the press corps. he moves over to this other room, familiar themes, trade, china and currency devaluation. you're talking about him maybe turning a corner. is that what you're seeing there? >> he's at ease. he made news. he's going to make famed investor carl icahn, sending signals about his cabinet, about the people he would surround himself with as president. this is someone making calls to carl icahn and thinking about his administration, who sees it as a viable reality rather than just some kind of dream like it may have been a few months ago. >> michael, i guess they called ross perot a generation ago the first populist billionaire. here is donald trump talking about teaming up with carl icahn and his appeal is populist. >> it is an amazing combination of forces that this billionaire has the effect on people that in focus group after focus group and poll after poll their response when it comes to donald trump, he's like me. he's one of us. and so to the extent that, a

why not take on donald trump?know, i know hillary clinton and all of our candidates are focused on making sure that people understand where her priorities are, where democratic values are and drawing a contrast. like i said democrats are for increasing the minimum wage. republicans are opposed. democrats -- any of our candidates are for equal pay for equal work. republicans, like jeb bush have dismissed it. jeb bush didn't know what the paycheck fairness act was. you have guys like chris christie who actually vetoed equal pay legislation. when it comes to the economics, middle class economics that are going to be what this election turns on the contrast could not be more clear. it will be on full display tonight. >> let me ask you about the democratic debates. you announced the dates for the six debates today. republicans are holding nine. i bring that up only because one of your candidates martin o'malley is not happy about the debates for the democratic primary. his top strategist says this is like facilitating

they said, by donald trump. d you begin to see over the course of the next month and a half leading up to today that there was this extraordinary phenomenon going on within the far american right, which is, for the first time in five years, really since the decline of the tea party, they feel their moment has returned. there is a populous moment and donald trump is their standard-bearer. >> rose: who is "we"? it's a combination of loosely-organized entities. some are what we could describe as white nationalists, some anti-immigration activists, some border vigilantes. it is a proudly fierce crowd. this is a crowd that believes the united states is under threat culturally and economically from immigration. they believe that if we continue on the course we are now that the country is at risk and they've believed for a long time that republican party has not gone far enough on dealing with immigration and we've seen for the last months that donald trump has adopted an unprecedented array of options for immigration

>> donald trump.to end it today, tomorrow the next day, because it has become a joke. although now i'm not going to lie, i'm kind of enjoying watching him implode. it's going to be a very fun explosion to watch happen. >> marc? >> george pataki. know why? because half the audience right now is saying who's george pataki? there's no reason for him to be in the race. >> he was the first one to call out donald trump. >> of course he was. because he has nothing to lose. the problem is there are a bunch of candidates in the republican field who are vying for spots not only on the ticket but for tv shows, vying for book tours, for opportunities to raise their speaking fees with bases. for me that undermines the spirit of this. everybody has a right to be in the race but if i'm somebody like pataki i bail out now and go back to whatever i was doing. >> ben, who did the most on thursday in the gop debate to improve their chances? who was the shining light? >> i'll give you two. marco rubio and chris christie.

and i saw donald trump all over the place.aid to myself, i live in massachusetts, the republicans basically do a fly-by, they don't even kid massachusetts. very rarely does a republican win massachusetts i think the last one was ronald reagan. i said to myself why don't i bring this guy to massachusetts, bring together some people, and listen to him. up close and personal. suss him out and see if he is for real. one thing led to another. what i thought was going to be about a 150 people turned over to, almost 2,000 people. >> so, listen, do you feel that some sort of, you say you just saw him on television, right? was there some sort of kinship that you felt? did you think he was saying the right thing? or just because you saw him on every channel. explain that to me. >> well i am a business guy. i have been a fan of donald trump's since the '80s. i mean what business guy isn't a fan of donald trump? stow, it real stow -- so to get a person that is in the news all the time, and is running for president, why not bring him to a

not donald trump. they're the problem.ld trump is the solution. >> one thing i found very interesting to hear him say tonight, and it seems effective, certainly to the crowd tonight. him talking about his own personal business experiences of. whether it was someone in florida or the post office in washington. he said all these people wanted to build it. i went down there, i punched and i punched and i got it. i think people respond tom. >> absolutely. why would they not? donald trump is the quintessential deal maker. possibly the best deal maker in the history of this country. what is america looking for? they're looking for job security. they're looking for a good life. they're looking to leave something better for their children than they have right now. without someone like donald trump, we won't have it. >> we'll see how the message holds up. thank you. >> when we come back, what is driving? some of them waited all day for a chance to see donald trump speak there. >> they gave it a big beautiful renewal. 28 shows. i th

>> well, a typical day for the donald trump campaign. donald trump began the day in a renewed feud with fox news moderator megyn kelly and ended the day by having jorge ramos thrown out of his press conference. >> who's next? yeah, please. >> excuse me, sit down. you weren't called. sit down. sit down. sit down. go ahead. >> no, you don't. you haven't been called. go back to univision. go ahead. >> you can not deport 11 million people -- go ahead. sit down, please. you weren't called. [ inaudible ] yes, go ahead. hi. yes. >> joining us now is kasie hunt, msnbc political correspondent who was at that press conference. kasie, what was it like in the room as jorge ramos was escorted out? >> it was definitely a tense moment. i think the sense was that this is a journalist who's the anchor of one of the largest, if not often the largest spanish language broadcast every night. he's well known in the hispanic and latino communities in the u.s. he's somebody who has interviewed the president and asked him tough questions, frankly. to have him es

>> i think it was a positive for donald trump. i mean, jorge ramos knew better and knew -- >> agree. >> if he were to step out, he planned this and went out and -- it wasn't even questions. he was throwing out figures, if you can't deport these millions of people. he's incredibly passionate about this issue but at the end of the day, what happened here was that donald trump was not frazzled and didn't back down and actually, i thought jorge ramos looked like a fool. it will be interesting to see how the spanish language media spins this around tomorrow. i'll read and update you. >> i want to ask you, the other conflict here is between donald trump not in the latino population on immigration question but with fox news and you heard the candidate there certainly not backing down and in fact, doubling down saying he wants a reply, apology from megyn kelly. is this good for donald trump to battle with a conservative news channel? >> sure, the problem fox news has is the conservative news audience after that debate thought megyn kelly

let donald trump be donald trump. one of the other things i would say, anderson one of the problems jep sjeb bush may have and others, the reagan-bush divide between the reagan wing and moderate represented by the bushes. curious to see if that surfaces here tonight, by name here people identifying with ronald reagan or the bush wing. >> anderson don't forget tonight, the candidate with the most debate practice is mike huckabee. he did well in the republican debates. back in the bygone years. he is a bible-thumping evangelical feeling type of candidate. so i, if i was donald trump. i would watch out for mike huckabee. jeb bush is going to sit there and try not to harm anybody or let any one harm him. but i think mike huckabee is the one that is going to try to land a couple jabs. >> notably both of them have television experience. >> no doubt about that. 50 minutes away. we will be live two hours after the debate is over. soon as it is done. come of on back. we'll got to full analysis. if you missed debate. jeffrey lo

arantxa: donald trump ha dicho que los hispanos votaran por Él para presidente.os rechazan sus propuestas. lourdes nos explica quÉ opinan de Él y de otros candidatos. lourdes: los hispanos tienen una opiniÓn muy negativa de donald trump pero esto no afecta al resto de los aspirantes republicanos concluye una nueva encuesta. 65% de los hispanos tiene una opiniÓn desfavorable de donald trump. >> donald trump, que no me ha gustado como se ha expresado de los hispanos. peor de los mexicanos lourdes: entre los hispanos tiene la peor aprobaciÓn, -51%. obviamente es una advertencia. >> quizÁ no hay una postura tan desfavorable del resto porque no estÁn en la prensa todo el tiempo como estÁ el seÑor donald trump. pero muchos de ellos han esbozado posturas similares. lourdes: serÍa un error para el partido republicano pensar que esto no va tener efectos a largo plazo. segÚn esta encuesta la mayorÍa de los hispanos reconoce dos republicanos, ocho de cada 10 tiene una opiniÓn de donald trump y seis de cada 10 tiene una opiniÓn de bush. jeff bush encabeza la presidencia del

the front runner now very much donald trump. let's listen to him in dairy, new hampshire. >> totally. and those people, i mean, actually they do like me, those people, they're friends of mine in many cases, some are enemies, some are terrible people, but i know them all. i see the hamptons, on fifth avenue, park avenue, all these great locations they're having parties. when a guy gives a million dollars and much more than that, some give much more, do you think they're talking about like nothing? they're talking turkey, talking lots of different things. and with me i don't need anybody's money. i don't want anybody's money. with that being said, i have to say people are sending in money. one woman sent in $7.24. and you know what, she wrote me a two-page letter and i read it. the guys that want to give me a million, who cares. i know these guys, they're not good people. some of them are okay. but the woman writes me a beautiful letter how she wants to see our country, she's 84 years old, wants to see our country, another sent me

i'm donald trump. in the republican party now. >> is there a danger that, this is all happening so early in the primary process, and it is heated up to such a degree, such intense interest, it's already, you know there is this, negativity going back and forth. is there a danger it is too much too soon? >> well, now that we are in the debate season, it is really important to start drawing those distinctions. voters are beginning to tune in more. i think in places like iowa, new hampshire. they're actually at an elevated level of interest with the voters. i think we are close to that time where, drawing a distinction between you and the other candidates is very important. you know, alex talked rule of thumb in politics. particularly in debates if you are not on offense, you are losing. and i think many of these candidates, you are starting to see that rule of thumb in campaign start to emerge. >> go ahead. >> just going to say, anderson, that, four years ago all most to the say, we were in ames iowa, iow

>> well, you know, donald trump is donald trump, number one.nteresting dynamic going on here with fox and the conservative base, if you will. i happen to be -- and i think i mentioned this whether i was wiyou guys. i happened to be on a talk show in alabama the day after that debate. and i asked the host in birmingham, what's up with your audience on this? and his answer was, they were really mad at fox and mad at megyn kelly. one of the other things i noticed, when hillary clinton was on fox a year earlier to hype her book, she sat down and the conservative audience out there took fox to task for not being tough with hillary clinton. they let hillary clinton escape and go after donald trump. that's an interesting dynamic. donald trump is no dummy when it comes to this kind of a thing. >> does gender have a role here? when people say, oh, it's w because it's a woman, the trump people would say no it's because she attacked me in an unfair way. >> she didn't attack him. he attacked her. >> he said she was not treating him with respect on her show

donald trump is.e has made the bar so high to get over that there is plenty of room for the canned dididates t shot. see what happens. respond the. this the normal course of discourse in a primary. i think it is fine. >> rand paul attacking donald trump's kids. i have to say i was stung by that. >> not, not the wisest course for him. a good rule in politics is don't stand in front of the tsunami. and right now, donald trump is that. rick perry did that. he took on donald trump couple weeks age and he marginalized himself right out of the first debate. let the tsunami pass. and then try to pick, take the energy from trump and use it to fuel your campaign. tur turn the anger into action. not a productive course. he is saying donald trump is the fake outsider. i'm the real one. chris christie attack bush. that's establishment, i'm anti-establishment. i'm donald trump. that's the race in the republican party now. >> is there a danger that, this is all happening so early in the primary process, and it is h

i know democrats keep saying that all hispanics hate donald trump, but i actually like donald trump.at he's not a career politician who is trying to climb the political ladder. he's not trying to get money from big donors he's not going and kissing up to all of the rich people asking them for money. i like that. and he's talking about issues like immigration, which is what americans care about. but the gop class does not want to talk about. the establishment does not want to talk about that issue. he's making that an issue and forcing other candidates to talk about something they don't want to. >> and let's stay on money for a second. right now, a lot of candidates are in california being wined and dined by some big money donors and maybe that's part of the problem with the process. >> well the process has always had that and it's always going to have that. money is going to talk. money is what they have to spend for ads. they have to spend that for when they go on the road. they have to do all that. and he's fortunate that he doesn't have to in the sense he's got his own money. and

they want donald trump. so he is the number one choice of republican voters, he's also the number two choice of republican voters. like what do you want for lunch today? ham sandwich? okay. whoever doesn't want a ham sandwich, what do you want? okay, ham sandwich. it's amazing. if you can't have your first choice, who do you want? donald trump. this led to the excellent succinct headline at wonkette.com today. "republicans want trump, and if not him, then maybe trump would do." [ laughter ] and because it's wonkette they explain in their own inimitable wonkette way. "as this point, people are simply barking trump, trump, trump, trump" at anything a pollster asked. he was also named americans' favorite flavor of ice cream, americans' pick to win the world series and american's method of contraception. donald trump wins everything, which is amazing. i think it's because i've been away i'm coming that the with fresh eyes. people are wondering why other people aren't getting press? it's amazing donald trump is w

another twist in the donald trump saga. the billionaire facing a backlash over his latest comments and just a short time ago he released a new statement fighting back. meanwhile, are any other messages getting out from the big red state conservative gathering? >>> at odds on iran. leading democrat chuck schumer and the white house. will the deal survive? >>> it's high noon in the east 9:00 a.m. out west. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." donald trump's campaign released this statement saying in part "mr. trump made megyn kelly look really bad. she was a mess with her anger and totally caught off guard. mr. trump said blood was coming out of her eyes and whatever meaning nose but wanted to move on to more important topics. only a deviant would think anything else." trump was disinvited from the red state gathering event happening right now in atlanta as a result of his original comments last night. the host of the conference addressing the issue just a short time ago. >> i think it was inappropriate. i really think it wa

the donald, long lines and big crowds. his fans are loving it, keeping him atop the polls and forcing all of his rivals to respond. >> it's entertainment. it's all entertainment. he's having the time of his life. it's entertainment. it is all entertainment. i think he is having the time of his life. >> okay, here is something, iowa voters don't see every day. 24 carat gold plated seatbelts and handles inside of an aircraft. that's right. that is reportedly what is a board trump's chopper. the flights we're told are going to take place outside the fairground, parking lot with the donald expected to join some passengers in the 12-seater. not saying this is going to attract voters or caucus goers, certainly, kate some more attention. >> absolutely. >> attention that will attract. great to see you. thank you so much. >> you too. >> out front next, iowa state fair, why it can be such a make or break stop on the road to the white house. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. isn't it time to let the real you shine thro

yes 21 questions for donald trump.tay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "the browning of america" by olmeca. the video for their song was made in collaboration with puente vision and the national day laborers organizing network. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman and juan gonzalez. juan: to talk by about republican presidential front runner donald trump, we are joined by pulitzer prize-winning journalist david cay johnston am a who has covered trump off and on for 27 years. he recently wrote an article for national memo titled "21 questions for donald trump." amy: is an investigative reporter previously with "the new york times." he's currently a columnist for al jazeera america as well as a contributing writer at newsweek. his latest book is, "divided. the perils of our growing inequality." he has been covering donald trump for various publications for decades. -- you have been covering donald trump for more than 30 years. can you talk about who donald trump is? >> he is no

. >>> tonight in new hampshire, it was donald trump versus jeb bush and it's now donald trump versus4-year-old irish girl that he has never heard of and you have never heard of. >> i'm not going anywhere, folks. >> you are talking about trump, right? [ laughter ] >> you can mention his name. >> we do not speak his name. >> jeb bush and donald trump are on a near collision course in new hampshire. >> jebs right down the street they are sleeping. they are sleeping now. >> he takes every opportunity he can to spar with jeb bush. >> jeb bush is a low-energy person. >> i am the tortoise in the race. >> ask you ask a positive question. see if it is possible. >> he is like a lion tamer. whipping them in to action sfwlchlt trump clearly has talent. >> everyone out there is hanging on his every word. >> he is bigger than the republican party. >> if you are on the hard right you get no attention this summer. >> i was on jury duty. did you see it. >> first time someone didn't have to act like racist or sexist to get out of jury duty. >>> tonight, donald trump and jeb bush held town hall events

donald trump grasps that. donald trump has elevated the issue.e made it very clear he is not for putting nuclear bombs in the hand of the ayatollah. >> so, congresswoman. >> the agreement says within ten years they will have access to nuclear bombs. that's something that donald trump is not in agreement with. >> you are sounding like a supporter now? do you support him? would you support him if he is the nominee? >> of course i would support him if he was the nominee. absolutely. what i saw last night were 17 great candidates. any of whom would be fully capable and competent of occupying the oval office. they all were outstanding. that's what the millenials i watched with. they didn't really see anyone who couldn't handle the job. they had various favorites obviously because some candidates were stronger than others. but they really had a very favorable reaction to beth debates. i think it is unfortunate that the first debate did not have a live audience. i think that would have helped. it was a little flat because there wasn't a live audience re

now, donald trump versus megyn kelly.k through the brief history of the last 20 hours. she came back from vacation, did her talk show, and apparently she had a big audience including mr. trump, who tweeted and retweeted a sharknado of criticism. all aimed at kelly. trump also quoted some guy who called kelly a bimbo. that got 850 retweets. today the fox news team went on twitter and defended kelly. the head fox news said, although he rarely apologizes, he pointed out he won the prestigious corn kernel poll. if the on track to beat them again? john: what was very striking today was the way in which not just roger fired back, but the way in which a lot of people in fox news on twitter, using very similar language. kristen powers, dana perino, a lot of people all saying, this must stop to trump. which you didn't have before. it feels like there was a directive that went out. we get the collectivity of corporate foxnews and on-air foxnews, they are all being marshaled to rise up. that is more of a problem, that could be -- in