Transcripts For CNNW Wolf 20160226

Going forward. I intend to be a resource in any way i can be for him. And i have absolute confidence in the ability to get in there and fix the problems that plague america. [ inaudible ] well, i think i told you about 12 times yesterday, my taxes for many years have been under audit. And for some reason, i have a lot of rich friends. They never been audited. Im audited every year i think for 12 years. Many of those audits have been finished. But we have some left. And until such time as the audit is finished by the irs, i think y routine, i wont release. Go ahead. How do you feel about the recent [ inaudible ] i didnt know he endorsemented. David duke endorsed me . I disavow. Okay . Yes . [ inaudible ] the wall just got ten feet higher. I gave it to you yesterday. He used foul language. And if i used that language, chris can tell you. Can you imagine . Terrible. Using that language, it would be a mayor scandal and five times more. It was disgraceful the way he went about saying it and mexico will pay for the wall. The wall will be built and the other people will never get done and mexico will pay for the wall and the reason is very simple. 58 we have right now 58 million in trade deficits. The wall is a fraction of that. Well get the wall done and mexico will pay for it. Yes . Go ahead. Okay. Dont get nervous. Dont get nervous. Dont worry about it. Not a big deal. [ inaudible ] i think a lot. Good question. I like it. Thank you. I think a lot. People are angry, upset. Upset by whats going on with the economy. Theyre upset by trade. Theyre upset by virtually everything. Nothing good happens with us. We dont win anymore. Nothing good happens. So there is a very angry group of people out there and theyre not angry people but angry at whens happening to our country. Yes . Go ahead. Stay with me. Well get you jobs. I meet college students. They get out, work hard. They put debt up to the neck and then they cant get a job when they graduate. Because the jobs we have are all bad jobs. Not created good jobs. Theyre going off the country. Out of our country. Pfizer is leaving and moving to ireland. Its disgraceful. Well get them jobs. Yes. Go ahead. [ inaudible ] governor christie [ inaudible ] how did you know i was talking about mr. Trump . What, by the way, i mean, listen. I think you watched the act senator rubio putting on over the last several of weeks and now part of his talking points to try to be entertaining and smile a lot. You know, listen. It is one act after another. We dont need anymore of these washington acts. The acts to get rid of are washington, d. C. Acts and as a governor of a state capital i said we dont need somebody from washington, d. C. What i said in that campaign was the problem is washington, d. C. And we dont need washington politicians to fix it. And so when you look at whos remaining on the stage, no question this is the person who will go to washington, d. C. And be able to absolutely turn the place around. We dont need anymore washington politicians, especially some who have only been there for a term and never shown up for work to tell us how to run the United States government. And so, i absolutely believe that donald trump is the best person on that stage to be president of the United States. By the way, there was a period of time i was running against him. He knew i wanted to beat him. He wanted to beat me. We had open conversations about that. But that part of this is over. And then you have to say to yourself as a good, loyal, american who is the best person to stop Hillary Clinton from ever getting inside the white house again. This is the best person to do that. Turn away from the amateur acts, from washington, d. C. And turn to a professional, long leader. Thats who this man is. [ inaudible ] yes. [ inaudible ] no. What my intent for being here today is to say to anyone whos willing to listen, not just members of the rga or donors but to the American People, that you need a strong, tough leader to restore americas greatness. And this is the best person to do that. And so whatever message anybody else wants to take from that, they can take whatever message they like but you know people do best with me if they just listen. They listen to what i say. I dont send smoke signals. What im doing today is im endorsing the person i believe is the best person to defeat Hillary Clinton and restore american jobs, restore american prestige around the world. And restore the faith and confidence of the American People again in the fact we are an exceptional and great nation. [ inaudible ] mitt romney, to donald trump . Theyre very different fellows. [ inaudible ] i think we have a great shotmeshot. I think people are liking me a lot. I have many friends in texas. Many, many friends. Im here a lot. I think we have a really good chance. Looking at South Carolina, that was supposed to be cruzs stronhold. That was a stronghold. Win that easily. I won by is it 22 points . I won in a landslide. I wonevangelicals, the men, the women, the military. Same thing in nevada. We came in. We won every category including by the way hispanics. So, you know, it was supposed to be a stronghold. He was supposed to do great there. He lost by a lot. I think i should have a really good chance of texas. I see the bloomberg poll came out and massive leads in every state. Doing very well in texas. Emerson poll came out. Tied or effectively tied. I think well do well here. Im here now. I will be here. I would love to get texas because of my relationship to texas, so many friends. Okay . [ inaudible ] hes desperate. Hes a desperate guy. Im watching him over the last number of he is not president ial material. That i can tell you. Doesnt have the demeanor. He is a nervous nellie. I watch him, you know, backstage. Hes a mess. The guys a total mess. And, you know, i joked recently. Can you imagine putin sitting there waiting for a meeting and rubio walks in and totally drenched . I have never seen a human being sweat like this man sweats. So i dont think hes a president ial. I dont think hes of president ial caliber. I dont think he has the demeanor. I dont think he does very well and a mess because in florida which he abandoned, by the way, i love florida. Ive invested hundreds of of millions of dollars. I own doral, many clubs and Trump International and one of the best in the country. I own many. And a lot of real estate in miami and a lot of people. I have im a major investor in miami. One of the biggest. Frankly, the people of florida like me. But for me to go in to florida and have like a 20point lead over the sitting senator, but remember, the sitting senator abandoned florida. He left florida. He was supposed to be he defrauded florida. The people defrauded because they elected him as a young senator. He goes there and before he sits down starts running for president. Hes not the right guy in my opinion. I think hes got the absolute wrong temperament to be president. Go ahead, katy. [ inaudible ] he did speculate my Vice President ial candidate. Now its obvious hes not going to be. I never had it in mind. I dont think he has the right temperament. I watched chris do a number on him. Never seen a meltdown like that in my life. Its interesting about people who choke. Im a good athlete. I have watched people choke over the years and once a choker, always a choker. It never, ever changes. The guy that misses the kick, misses the kick. When he misses the first one, you got to get rid of him. Doesnt work. Once a choker, always a choker. And that was one of the epic meltdowns. He didnt know where he was. I thought he was going to die. Good going, chris. Mr. Trump . Mr. Trump . Mr. Trump . A poul running mate . Hes got the tall en. You know . We didnt talk about it. We did not talk about it. Certainly has a lot of talent. Katy . The irs said theres nothing precluding you in their rules i dont want to do it until its done. What about we talk about establishment. Its very unfair that for many, many years ive been audited. I have many, many friends that are very rich people and they never they have never been audited. I was with somebody the other day, a very rich guy. I said how often are you audited . He said audited . He didnt know what i was talking about. I have many, many rich friends. Almost all of them never audited. Why am i audited every single year . So im just going to put you people to rest. Until my audit is finished, very simple, you wont see anything. When its finished, you will see it. I wont complicate things by doing it. Put yourself in my position. Why is it that every single year talking about beyond barack obama, but every year in his term, also, every single year im audited. Not fair. I will tell you. Why would you not appease them and release a i cant tell you why. Why would you not i cant tell you why. I cant tell you why. All i can say is many, many people very, very wealthy not audited. What about a past return . One thing that [ inaudible ] yeah. [ inaudible ] yeah. Which is [ inaudible ] which is totally wrong. Totally wrong. He said i got 200 million from my father. I wish. I wish. I got a very, very small loan from my father. Many years ago. I built that into a massive empire. And i paid my father back that loan. And by the way, i was telling chris, chris was telling me because he understands it. My father left me some money. Not nothing like the numbers you heard. But by that time, it was many, many years later when my father passed away. My father more than anything else, i learned a lot from my father. But for this guy, this lightweight, i call him a lightweight. Because he is. To say 200 million. The first call i got last night from my sister. And then i got a call from my brother. And they said, wow. How does he say that . Thats not true. They understand. You know . We have five in the family. And they said, so, in other words anything also would be split up. But she called. She said, boy, was that untrue. And its really a shame. Ill tell you where they got it. The New York Times wrote, you know, i call it the failing the New York Times because it is a totally failing paper. With some really inaccurate reporting and purposely inaccuratement out of their way and trying to make a correction prior to the story, they dont want to do it. They made a statement about it. I dont know where they got it but the number is wrong by a factor of hundreds. By a fortune. I got a small loan. Started a business and its now worth billions and billions and billions of dollars. And if i ever wanted to sell the assets i have, trump tower, the bank of america building in san francisco, big chunk, 1290 avenue of the americas. Some of the best land in the country. Doral country club. Scotland, open of the open championship. Referred to the british open sometimes. My property would sell for numbers like nobody would believe. I have among the best properties anywhere in the world. [ inaudible ] i think its unfair a guy says my father gave me 200 million. If you knew brooklyn, okay, in the early 1980s and you understand this, chris, if you knew brooklyn in the early 1980s and the 1970s, there wasnt 200 million. That i can tell you. I have brothers and sisters. But the first call from my sister and then from my brother late at night. And all he wanted to do is say, why are they allowed to say that . Hes a liar. Hes a liar. Used to call ted cruz a liar. Now ill also call marco rubio. Actually mentioned some companies and some of those companies are very successful companies. He said they closed. I sold some. I sold like for instance, Miss Universe for a lot of money. Got a lot of money for it. I sold others and the Water Company he mentioned, i think the wine company. I have the biggest vineyard on the east coast. [ inaudible ] i make vodka all for my clubs because i have many clubs and we make vodka for the clubs. He said it is closed. It is not closed. [ inaudible ] go ahead. Go ahead. Does this make pledge [ inaudible ] well, no. I think about it. I would certainly look about it. If it didnt work out for me, chris would understand this. Im going back into what i do. I dont need to do this. This is something im doing because we are going to make America Great again and politicians are not going to do that. These politicians and i know the people on the stage. Theyre not going to do it. Marco rubio is a lightweight. He doesnt have the talent. He doesnt have the temperament. He can never make us great. I have a question for governor christie. Can you tell write off the money that you were using for your campaign, do you know if you can write that off . No. What governor christie, can i ask you a question . You as you said are a former federal prosecutor. Is there a position in the cabinet that you would be interested in, attorney general . Something like that . Would you like to be his running mate . I am the governor of the state of new jersey until january 19th of 2018. And i have every expectation to fulfill the end of my term and then make money like trump in private life. If you were offered a position, would you take it . I havent been offered any position. And i dont speculate on those kind of things. I have a term of office until january 19th, 2018. I intend to fulfill my term and then like i said go off to the private sector and finally beat my wife one year in our marriage, we have been married 30 years in march, one time before i die to make more money in a year than she did. Thats my goal after january 19th of 2018. She has talent. Thank you, everybody. We have thousands i have to go. We have thousands and thousands of people outside. You will be very impressed. Thank you all. Thank you very much, everybody. All right. So there you have donald trump getting a big endorsement from Chris Christie, the governor of new jersey. Welcoming view earls in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. We want to apologize. The technical difficulties, you could hear donald trump and Chris Christie well. We had technical problems with the video. But you got the gist and fully understand, very surprise announcement today in this republican race for president of the United States. The new jersey governor Chris Christie now throwing his support behind donald trump. Heres what christie said a few minutes ago. The best person to beat Hillary Clinton in november on that stage last night hes undoubtedly donald trump. And so, i am thrilled to be here this morning to lend my support. I will lend my support between now and november in every way that i can for donald to make it a Better Campaign than its already been and to do whatever he needs to do to make the country everything we want it to be for our children and grandchildren. He is a good friend, a strong and resolute leader and he is someone who is going to lead the Republican Party to victory in november over Hillary Clinton which is the single most important thing we can do. All right. Lets get some assessments of this dramatic development. Congressman kissinger of illino illino illinois is joining us. Ken kucchnelli and joining us from nashville, tennessee, a surrogate for usa radio networks. Mark preston to you. This is a potentially tremendous development for donald trump. It is. On a couple of levels, not surprising that Chris Christie endorses donald trump. Look at whos left in the field, not backing marco rubio. He is not a ted cruz supporter. I think looking at john kasich up in ohio and realized he doesnt have a path to victory and not ben carson. But at the very end of that news conference, interesting, asked to serve in the cabinet, asked to be the vp. Obviously very hard question to answer and he dodged it but ill tell you what. If you watch that today, it looked like a ticket to me. Lets get some reaction from the three campaigns. Adam, we all remember the Chris Christie battled with your candidate marco rubio. Yeah. He was pretty tough on marco rubio. Right now, your reaction to this endorsement. Look. Everything donald trump says is childish and seemed like in this. Im surprised with Chris Christie and jockeying for position in the administration and will have to explain, you know, trump support for the 9 11 truther stance that bush responsible for 9 11. For his admiration of Vladimir Putin and lack of details how to destroy isis. So im actually very surprised to get behind a guy that has no detail on foreign policy. And runs a Campaign Just on emotion and not based on actual logic. Lets get reaction. Wolf, this is a republican in Chris Christie from the left edge of the Republican Party was never embraced by conservatives or ordinary republicans. Endorsing a person that joined the left edge of the Republican Party, never really been endorsed by embraced by conservatives. We had another half hour Donald Trump Press Conference without any new substance whatsoever. It was literally i answered that and that. We heard the wall but not one other bit of substance and much like last nights debate where its all hyperbole and no details. Ted cruz exposed that effectively last night. Ted cruz, or endorsed marco rubio we would have had extensive live coverage of that, as well. The plus is its a news event. Its a news event. Thats what they were doing. Scotty, you support donald trump. What was your reaction . I was shockingly surprised and happy. Listen. Any marcomentum or whatever you call it coming from last nights debate stopped right now as im sure marco shop stopped in the tracks of whatever he was trying to do at this point. Look at it. What we have seen this week is strength. You saw now we have governor christie a strong man and had been criticized for and rudy julgiuliani saying im consulti with mr. Trump and huckabees daughter joining the trump team and seeing the circle of strength of consultants around mr. Trump because they realize that when like governor christie said, it is who can beat the Hillary Clinton democrat machine and starting to fire up. As well as who can continue to build and grow america and make it great again so im actually very happy that this is happening. Well, are republicans beginning to coalesce around donald trump . Not at all. If this is a sign of strength, i mean, if, you know, donald trump yelling and screaming and making fun of people sweating despite his own sweatstache while doing it, if thats strength, maybe a Fourth Grade Student Council election thats strength. Strength is uniting the conservative movement, a country behind a mission an explaining americas mission. I have yet to see donald trump do that and i see marco rubio do that every time he speaks so maybe the emotion of donald trump is bringing the folks in, some of them calculating a job in an administration. But this is not a sign of strength. Wolf, last night you hear the declarations and by scotty here declaring to beat Hillary Clinton. Chris christie said the same thing. Ted cruz made the case for all the evidence of why he can. The tax returns isnt about what mitt romney said. It is about openness when our whole side is hammering Hillary Clinton about hiding speeches of Goldman Sachs and emails and heres donald trump hiding this material which he is perfectly able to release and he doesnt, and in the real clear politics set of polls that was referenced by ted cruz last night, ted is beating hillary all of 2016 and donald trump has not. We have to take a quick break and you wanted to weigh in quickly . Just very quickly, one, what is interesting is seeing ted cruz and marco rubio actually come together and saw it on the debate stage last night to some extent. The clock is very short right now for marco rubio or ted cruz to make a run at donald trump. And if donald trump is a nominee, thes an incredible amount of pressure on the republican establishment and the conservative wing of the party to come together and get behind him or write off the nominee. Thats the problem for republicans. Texas, biggest prize on super tuesday, next tuesday. Its very close right now between not necessarily marco rubio but texas senator ted cruz and donald trump in texas. We are watching that closely. Scot scotty, stand by. Well continue the assessment. To the viewers, donald trump just received the endorsement of the new jersey governor Chris Christie. They just finished up a joint news conference. Well assess that. What it means for the race for the white house. Well be right back. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. And so would her presidency. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid what theyre worth. Whos held back by student debt or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our country cant reach its potential. Unless we all do. Together. A stronger country. Man mr. Mucus tore do you work, with you. Ing . Its taco tuesday. Man youre not coming. I took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. Im good all day. [announcer ] mucinex keeps working. Not 4, not 6, but 12 hours. Lets end this breaking news in the president ial race here in the United States. The new jersey governor Chris Christie joined the Trump Campaign. Christie dropped out after a disappointing fin initial in the New Hampshire primary and resurfaced in ft. Worth, texas, with the billionaire. Also, we have the numbers on last nights cnn gop debate, more than 14. 5 Million Viewers tuned in last night. Once again, Scotty Hughes is joining us, chief Political Correspondent for usa radio network, a Trump Campaign surrogate. Illinois congressman kinzinger. Ken cuccinelli and executive editor mark preston. Mark, how werent are these endorsements in general in this campaign which is pretty extraordinary, i must say . Im not actually a big believer in endorsements, actually, help a candidate win a campaign but certain moments in a campaign where think ire crucial and critical and i think this is one of those moments. And its because of two reasons. One, you have a short clock right now for marco rubio or ted cruz to try to take over the lead for the republican president ial nomination. Going to super tuesday, so many delegates on the table. And then we are going to roll in to march 15th of a winner take all. The clock is short and Chris Christie gives a little bit of validity to Donald Trumps campaign. Sating governor. He has won twice now and ran for president and had to drop out a few weeks ago and i think that from a valid standpoint at a time of a lot of talk about the republican establishment to push back against donald trump, Chris Christie is part of the establishment. Scotty, a marco rubio who really went on the offensive against donald trump last night as did ted cruz, he spoke this morning and he continued to ridicule donald trump. Listen to this. You want to have a little fun . All right. What does donald trump do when things go wrong . He takes to twitter. 66 him right here. Lets read some. Youll have fun. All right. Number one. Heres the first one. Lightweight marco rubio was working hard last night. This is true. The problem is he is a chalker. And once a chalker always a choker. I guess thats what he meant to say. He spelled choker. Choker. He called me mr. Meltdown. Let me tell you something, last night in the debate in a break, two of the breaks, he went backstage and having a meltdown. First he had this little makeup thing applying like makeup around the mustache because he had a sweat mustache and then asked for a full length mirror. I dont know why because the podium goes up to here. Maybe to make sure his pants werent wet. I dont know. Then, not one tweet, three tweets misspell words so badly. I reach two conclusions. Number one, thats how they spell those words at the Wharton School of business where he went. Or, number two, just like trump tower, he must have hired a Foreign Worker to do his own tweets. [ cheers ] all right . So, guys, we have a con artist as the frontrunner in the Republican Party. All right. Scotty, i want to get your reaction. For months holding back but last night no holding back and you see its continuing today. Yeah. You have to wonder what actually flipped him out . What made this change . It comes to the point that i think you realize because he had very little delegates and support. Only way that he has a chance in the nomination to cause chaos in the Republican Party and have a brokered Convention Going to the rnc. Only way and were about to suffer through seven more months of that type of low blows there. That remind me about my life at the Sorority House because thats the way that sisters sometimes talk to each other but i go to the people that actually have to trust this man who know the man the most and go to florida and a reason he is leading him 4428. I think because like around lake okeechobee people feel like theyre left, betrayed by marco rubios ties to big sugar seeing the waters polluted and marco rubios done nothing about it or maybe nose within the florida Republican Party believing that somehow speaker of the house rubio got a personal charges mixed up with the campaign charges and just, you know, wrote a check back later on once he was caught. The people of florida know marco rubio because i guess he spent more time there than washington, d. C. Voting and representing them. So i just have to wonder right now Going Forward on this, senator rubio, welcome to the big game. If you want to sit there and play with the big boys, be prepared. The low blows like this morning get a few laugh lines and maybe a snl skit. I love it. Trump people offended because of what are called low blows. p. Secondly, a minor percent of what trump yesterday, sweating, whatever. I mean, childish. Fourth grade. And then to see his tweets, what that is showing is not just that he cant spell which is important and reacts so emotionally and angry and shakes like a fourth grader. He has to just blast stuff out on twitter. Have a real discussion about this not talking about, you know, rubios sweating but then getting angry and people do what you do. Trump okay. I gave you the facts. Answer that. Trumps businesses have failed. He cant take it. Four. He just throws back childish insults. Funny. Why is he doing hold on, scot scotty. Why is donald trump doing so amazingly well . Won decisively last three contests. Theres something about the tone people are attracted to. They feel disaffected and angry and bombastically standing up with the pronouncements but when people realize trump cant be the nominee, a majority of republicans and realize that and we have consolidation i hope and think it will be behind marco rubio and see that the months we had was a bad dream. Ken, is the clock ticking, though . Time may be running out. Clocks always ticking, wolf. Always ticking and, you know, ted won off the top. Well win next tuesday. I dont know whether texas . No, no, no. Somewhere between 11 and 1 state ice how many . I dont have that kind of insight scoop but where this is the day that we have invested the most time in that ted spent the most time in. Hell perform well next tuesday and hes going to go on in this election and i dont know cand candidly, i dont know if marco can. You have to have won a state. So far iowa. And lets see out of four. See what happens on tuesday as you point out 11 contests including cruzs home state of texas. Cruz went on the offensive against trump today, as well. Just like marco rubio. Listen to this. I think donald trump had a tough night. I think we saw last night on issue after issue after issue donalds positions are identical to hillary. For those 65 of republicans that say donalds not the right guy, i would encourage everyone here in tennessee, everyone across super tuesday, if you dont want to see donald trump as the nominee, we need to unite and the candidate who is running neck and neck with donald in the states across super tuesday is me. Let me tell you what i like about that. Its focusing on issues that tie to hillary. No openness. We talked about it on taxes. Supporting the intervention in libya. Big mistake. Donald denied it last night and that was false. All right. Hold up for a moment. Single payer health care. Again, one after another. Lets beat him on substance. Ted cruz, consistent conservative to do this. Chris christie is speaking at that donald trump rally. Just endorsed donald trump. I want to listen in briefly. And donald trump is just the man to do it America Needs someone to make doesnt get within ten miles of the white house donald trump can do it America Needs someone whos going to make sure that when we give our word around the world that americas word means business. Donald trump is just the man to do it. And heres what we dont need. We dont need another washington politician in the white house, do we . Do we need a first term United States senator in the white house . Do we need a united stes senator from florida who doesnt show up for work . Let me tell you something, marco rubio. President of the United States is not a noshow job like you treated the United States senate. Simple fact is that. America wants strong, tough leadership. Americas tired of being walked on. Americas tired of being treated second class around the world. We need a first class president and we are going to have it in donald trump. And all the political pundits and all the chattering class of washington, d. C. Want to tell you youre wrong. The American People, we the people are right. And we the people are supporting donald j. Trump. [ cheers and applause ] now, listen. Texas has a big role to play on tuesday. Is texas going to be Trump Country . [ cheers ] are you going to send a message to the washington, d. C. Establishment that you are tired of their failing the American People . Well, ill be right clear with you. I joined this campaign because i care deeply about our country. I love our children. I want the best for your children, as well. And we need to have a leader who will stand up for the American People first, not the rest of the world first. America first. Donald trump is that man. [ cheers ] and last night, last night you just saw one strong man on that stage and that was donald trump. So texas, you got a big job to do. You have a really big job to do. I am proud and happy to be part of this team. I want texas to be Trump Country on tuesday. And so, so ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and my privilege to introduce the next president of the United States, donald trump all right. That was a rousing endorsement from Chris Christie. Donald trump up on the stage now. Were going to listen briefly in to what he has to say. Obviously, very pleased. Lets get some quick reaction, though, from some of the rivals before donald trump is about to speak. Stand by for a moment. We love you, folks. We love you. We love you. Its a movement. Its a movement. Its really a movement. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] well, i want to thank everybody. I have to start by thanking governor Chris Christie because [ cheers ] i was telling the press a little while ago, everybody was really surprised. Sort of a shocker. We kept it secret. Chris and i met the other day. He said this whole thing, he called it the same thing. Donald, i have never seen anything like this it. Its a movement. Ive never seen anything like this so we shook hands and i said, lets keep it as a secret for the people in texas. Lets do it. [ cheers and applause ] and when we walked in to that press room, they went, whoa. And then we walk in and you people went, whoa. So its really good. With all the people, we have a lot of endorsements happening. It is amazing number one place for a long period of time, the endorsements are coming in but the one i was happy with is this one right here. Chris, thank you. We love you, man. So we had a debate last night. No, i have to say because i dont hear it from pundits as much. Some of the pundits are honest and say trump won the debate and trump did well. Some of the people are so dishonest. Its incredible. On the online polls with hundreds of thousands of people voting, we won every Single Online poll. [ cheers ] we won drudge who, by the way, a fantastic guy. Won the online polls. This means so much to me. Somebody says, what does that mean . Hundreds of thousands of people calling in, believe me, i cant have my secretary calling in for a couple of extras. So that was an honor. Its been an honor and we have been winning those polls literally from the first debate. Obviously, something is going very good in the debates because the big poll is really the polls that are coming out. In texas, they just came out with a poll that were effectively tied. The emerson poll. And i have so many friends in texas. We are we are loaded up with friends in texas. And i think i think were going to surprise a lot of people. I tell you. We are going to surprise a lot of people. And its going to be great. So, ill talk a little bit about the competition. Then well talk about our borders which we will build the wall and it will be it will be a great wall. And can you only imagine your expresident of mexico vincente fox you see, thats the way other countries are used to talking to the United States. No more. No more. He couldnt belief that somebody would say, mexico has to do something. And by the way, its that way with japan. Its that way with india. Its that way with china. Its that way with vietnam. A new one coming along. They want to be treated with tremendous respect. Even though they dont treat us with respect. Its going to change, folk. Its going to change. Not going to be this way anymore. So he dropped the fbomb and i said to myself, can you imagine if i said that . And nobody mentioned it. Not a big deal. Not a big deal. For him, its okay. I wouldnt use that. I would not go there, by the way. But when he did it, it was absolutely fine because thats the way it is. Double standards. But heres the story. Were being ripped on trade by every nation that we do business with in the world. We are going to become so good. We are going to negotiate so strong and so tough. We are not going to have a 58 billion trade deficit with mexico. Were not going to have a 500 billion trade deficit with china. 500 billion. Not going to happen. We are not going to be billions of dollars behind with japan and we are going to talk about that in a second. But lets talk about our lightweight senator from florida whos losing big in the polls. [ cheers ] so, i heard he was on television saying negative things. I see him. It all started about three or four weeks in New Hampshire which i won. I love the people of New Hampshire. We won it big. We won it big. And we won South Carolina. Big, big, big. In all fairness, that was going to be your senators place. He was going to win it. He said hell win South Carolina and i won women, men, evangelicals, military, vets. I won everything. We won every category. And we won with hispanics i love the hispanics. Because people that are in our country legally, they dont want our jobs taken away and they dont want their jobs taken away and im going to bring a lot of jobs back to this country. Remember that. But i saw with rubio, i saw and hes a nervous wreck because heres a guy no. Basket case. Heres a guy you ought to see him, see him backstage. He was putting on makeup with a trowel. Like no. I dont want to say that. I will not say that he was trying to cover up his ears. I will not say that. No. He was just trying to cover up he was just trying to cover up the sweat that pours never saw did you ever see a guy sweat like this . So, a number of weeks ago we were in New Hampshire and chris was just so wild. What he did. One of the great prosecutions i have ever seen. And im standing in the middle. Which, by the way, ive been for every middle debate. The middle. I said to cnn, im in the middle all the time and i say to these networks, cnn in this case, so im in the middle number one. You announce me at number one . Oh no. Really, good. Who knows youre in the middle. Big deal, right . But i watch chris take a man apart and i looked at him and honestly i thought he was going to die. Rubio. He was so scared like a little frightened puppy. And he kept saying the obama phrase over and over. So then i heard it once. And i said, thats fine. Big deal . Im standing here. Hes right here. Chris is over here. And chris was sort of cool because he was like this. I could dont that. You know . I want to stand up straight. I dont know. But this looked like perry mason. Thats what it was. And chris started going into him. So he said the obama phrase once. I was fine. Twice. I said, he just said that. That was strange. But thats okay. Right . Twice. And then a third time. And i said, it was like a robot. And then a fourth time and a fifth time. I said this guys cracking up on us. And he was sweating so badly i have never seen anything like it. It looked like he just jumped into a Swimming Pool with his clothing on. Ive never and i said to myself, we have tough people to negotiate with. We have putin. We have the chinese. We have wars that were in that we are by the way were going to build up the military and knock out isis. [ cheers ] were going to knock out isis fast. Remember the great days. General george patton. General douglas macarthur. Do you think they would even be thinking about isis . By the time they pick up the telephone, its over. What is wrong . You know, we dont win anymore and were getting to that. I have to finish with this clown over here. So i watch this and i thought something bad was going to happen to him. He got through it, but barely. I was almost going to go over and hold him up. Now, think of this, think of this. So we have putin and putins going to meet our president and lets assume its marco. [ crowd booing ] lets assume its marco. Now, i agree with you, we dont want him, boo boo. And putins sitting there waiting for a kill. And he knows all about marco because when they put marco on to refute president obamas speech, do you remember that catastrophe . And hes like this, and we will, ah, i need water, help me, i need water. This on live television. This total choke artist is refusing you know, i tell you, you know about sports, i love sports, we love sports, were athletes. So you notice in sports almost always true, when youre a choke artist, youre always a choke artist. It doesnt really change. You know, sadly the guy that misses the kick and the coach says, im going to give him another chance. Unfortunateally, the following year, he misses the kick again. So choke artists, they choke, they choke. So whats going to happen is we look at this and he goes in to see putin and he walks in and hes soaking wet and putin looks at him and goes whats wrong with this guy, this is going to be easy pickings, and believe me, it will be. But ill never forget the scene. Then were going to go to Something Else thats actually more interesting. Just remember this, remember this. Really, really weak on illegal immigration marco. Totally in favor of amnesty. Totally. Totally in favor of amnesty. Totally in favor. So hes getting the thing. Hes doing the speech. I notice hes live television. You just dont see it. I mean, nikki haley did it last time and she was good. At least she wasnt sweating like that, she was, like, fine. She did say were angry people. When i was at the debate, they asked me about it, are you and your people angry . No, i was supposed to say no, were not angry, were thrilled with the iran deal, were thrilled with all of the problems. Were thrilled with our education is terrible, with obamacare, which is terrible, no, were not angry at all. But they asked me the question and i said yeah, were really angry, we are. And were not angry people. Ill just finish off with confidence. And then out of nowhere, he goes, on live television, heres our response, he choked. Hes a choker. He choked with chris. I watched it both times. But the one time im right next to him, and i looked at the puddle on the ground and i said, what is that, what is it . I wanted to know, what is that . But this time, this wise guy, this lightweight, is going over and all of a sudden, he goes like this, remember . I said, where is he . And then he comes back with water. And honestly, waters fine, but it should be in a glass. Hes got the label of the company here. And hes drinking honestly, ive never seen anything like it. Ive never seen anything like it. So we are going to beat guys like that. See, its guys like this and hes a nasty guy. I called him a nasty little guy but i wouldnt say that because hes a nasty guy. And we dont need nasty. We dont need nasty. Honestly, theres no place for it. You know, theres no place. He said specifics on obamacare. Let me tell you something, were going to knock out obamacare. Remember this, when we get the Insurance Companies who are taking care of all these people. Im selffunding my campaign. Im putting up my own money. So when the Insurance Companies come to me by the way, theyre making a fortune. In texas, theres a practical monopoly. Because companies arent allowed to come in very easily. They practically candidate come in. They said, oh, be more specific. I dont have to be specific. Whats going to happen is youre going to create open bidding by getting rid of the borders around each state and the lines, restrictive lines around each state. You are going to have so much competition. Youre going to have so much bidding, that you cant really say its one plan, you can have hundreds of different options. Youre going to have hundreds different plans. Its going to be so beautiful. And youre going to pay far less money. Far less money. I want to just mention senator cruz. I thought he was better. Last night, i thought the deal of the night was when i looked over to rubio, and i said you remember, and we dont want jokers in the administration. I said, youre a joker and youre a liar. I have had a lot of difficulties with ted because he does lie, you know, ive dealt with much tougher. A guy like rubio is a baby but a guy like ted is tougher i well tell you, hes tougher, and hes smarter. Ted is actually smarter. Hes a smarter person than rubio. But i deal with people. Last night, it was mentioned by the way, it was mentioned, my father gave me 200 million. Oh, i wish. I wish. You know, first thing i did, get back, get a call from my sister whos a fantastic person, then i get a call from my brother whos a fantastic person. They said, hey, donald, thats not true, why did they say that . And he copied it you know, you have the failing New York Times. Its a failing newspaper. I hate to tell you. Like seriously failing. They wrote an article, they put something in, about 200 million. Believe me, i got very, very little. And i built it into many, many, many billions dollars and im very proud of it. I just think i just think we have to correct we just have to correct the record. Thank you. I love you. Thank you. Its rubio. [ cheers ] i spend a lot of time in laredo, texas. Right on the border. I was invited by the border guards. By the way, i got endorsed, talking about chris, by sheriff joe aparedo. The one thing you know about sheriff joe, hes the toughest guy on the border. Theres no games to be played with sheriff joe. Who puts pink you know what on his people that are there illegally. Sheriff joe does not play games. Everybody wanted his endorsement. The toughest one on the border was endorsed by sheriff joe. And i think its incredible. Unbelievable people. They said mr. Trump. I was running, i was doing very well. Practically number one. And now we have big leagues. Please, texas. Lets win texas. I want to win texas. [ cheering ] i was called by the border control. These people are incredible. And they want to do the job. They said, would it be possible for you to come to texas to laredo. I said, yes, ill do it. I went to laredo and i met with a lot of the Border Patrol folks and some of the top people. Man, they are just incredible. Smart, touch, great people. You know who are great people . Our police are great people. Theyre being abused. Our police are being abused. Our police are incredible people. In fact, i just took people backstage. Theyre incredible people. I just want to we have to put out the plug, everyone, throughout. One bad incident, whether its a mistake or somebody was just a bad apple, and its played for weeks and weeks on the news. The thousands and tens of thousands of great jobs they do, they dont get appreciated. So lets hear it for the police. So im in laredo. We want to stop the drugs from pouring across. Were going to stop the drugs. This is going to be a real war. This is not going to be a toy war. These guys, they have no clue