Very conservative financially, although i must tell you, if you look at my company right now, very little debt and a tremendous cash flow. I filed my papers and everyones like, its a great company. Its not a bat bottom line. No, its a great bottom line. A great company. Some of the greatest real estate assets in the world. I say that because, frankly, i talk about it because thats what people need. 19 trillion in debt, you need somebody with a certain mentality, but i would say ive evolved and you and i talk about it a lot with ronald reagan. Ronald reagan was a liberal, pretty liberal democrat and evolved into a fairly he wasnt the most conservative person, but he evolved into a republican who was fairly conservative. I will say this, i think that i have very much evolved, but if you look at my real conservative credentials, i dont think the word is that important. They say hes not a true conservative. Jeb and others were saying, he is not a true conservative. Because, you know, and t
Welcome to 2016 republican president ial candidate donald trump. Good to see you. Grab a seat. You are a great guy. This is a very enthusiastic crowd. Boy, some crowd. I agree. I agree. Its god to see you. Congratulations. Thank you. Everyone went to congratulate him on the big South Carolina win . Con garage ligss. Good feeling. Good feeling. You know, ive been now on the radio for almost 30 years. It is my 20th year on the fox news channel. Been through a lot of president ial elections. South carolinas always harsh. Right. We call it a blood sport. With that said, do you think at the end of this process all, when all is said and done you become the nominee, are you getting along with jeb bush and marco rubio and ted cruz . I think so. You know, we have to be yourself. Not nice things have taken place over the last little while. South carolina was rough. I was having commercials made about myself that wasnt me. I dont mind bad commercials but at least let it be bad. I have one on las
Pushing the theory without any evidence or recent historical precedent that the electoral results will be rigged. Trumps running mate, mike pence, trying to tone down the rhetoric saying trump doesnt mean literal electoral rigging. We will accept the results of the election. The American People are tired of the obvious bias in the National Media. Thats where this sense of a rigged election goes here. Reporter but trump undercutting that very message only minutes later tweeting explicitly that the election is, absolutely being rigged at many polling places. This part of a Trump Twitter storm that included multiple personal attacks against House Speaker paul ryan. Ryan pushing back on trumps rigged election theory. A spokeswoman telling cnn, the speaker is fully confident the election will be carried out with integrity. Hillary clintons running mate tim kaine calling on more republicans to speak out against trumps allegations. He started to make wild claims. Kind of scorched earth claims
And never able to be comparably replaced. A lot to discuss. Lets start with Ron Brownstein joining me now. Ron, oh, my dear friend, ron, tell me lets start with the statues and the tweet for the president. Why is the president why does the president want to make this about statues, confederate statues . Hes trying to blur two lines here. First, he is suggesting that the violence in charlottesville is fundamentally about the statues as if they came from the deep southern culture. It was a pretext for a rally that was about expressing White Nationalist views. Jews will not replace us. Its not a slogan of the confederacy. Second, he is also, you know, he is trying to do a second line saying there is no difference between robert e. Lee and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they owned slaves. Robert e. Lee and Stonewall Jackson led a rebellion against the United States. They took up arms against the government. They were treasonous. George washington and Thomas Jefferson built
Drums former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and his Business Partner are pleading not guilty to conspiracy and a whole lot of other chargers. As a story operating on many levels, legal and political. Lets pick it up with our chief National Correspondent ed henry, who joins us. You have got some breaking news. To speak it income interesting, shannon. All the evening i have been talking to some of the president s top advisors, trying to get a handle on what is happening inside the white house. Of course the president is not happy. Hes been watching the tv coverage. His advisors are scoffing at a New Washington post report, quoting anonymous officials are saying about these developments, the walls are closing in, everyone is freaking out. Not so, according to several trump advisors, including when i just spoke to. His lawyer inside the white house who said of this Washington Post report, this is farcical. A, where are the walls . B, the president is focused on preparing for serious diplom