Ignored, experts say. because what it holds may be the truth. i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. reporter: jean casarez, cnn, new york. i don t know what to do with my hands now. thanks for joining us everybody. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight keeping them honest with the debate donald trump and the controversy over questions he was asked about his past comments about some women. a record 24 million people watched him and nine other republicans on that stage last night in cleveland. eight times more viewers than the first debate of the 2012 campaign. and there s no denying a lot of that viewership was because donald trump was on that stage. here s the exchange between meghan kelly and trump that continues to reverberate today. you ve called women you don t like fat pigs dogs slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account only rosie o donnell.
And over and over again 62 times, america. yeah. it was so big in this debate we had to knock down the wall just to get it into the studio. anderson. tom, thanks. let s dig deeper with our panel, jeffrey lord served as white house political director for ronlds reagan and contributing or american spectator. also ari fleischer. unfair moderators were the toughest on him, the fact he did get more air time than anyone else his name mentioned more than anyone else do you think it s fair for him to complain? well, you know, anderson i ll be honest with you here i m not sure it matters what he thinks. i think it matters what america thinks. and i ll just give you some an anecdote anecdote. i don t have enough data that i feel i need to sort of make a call here but i was on a radio show a conservative radio show in birmingham alabama this
To megyn kelly, you know maybe i shouldn t be so nice to you, or something to that effect that a lot of women are going to kind of say, whoa that offends me. and a lot of women went on facebook and defended him as well. there s a viral video right now with two black women on his side. so it goes both ways. i m sure there are. and people who like donald trump will probably say this was okay this was just donald trump. but people who are deciding you know we re at the beginning of this campaign a lot of people are deciding. and they look at that and makes women in particular sort of scratch their heads. well there s certainly a long way to go in this campaign. it s as everyone says it s a marathon not a sprint. we ll see where things go especially to your point of the next debate. gloria katrina, great to have you on. amanda as well. quick note if you want to hear more from donald trump himself, stay with cnn. he s calling in with don lemon 9:00 p.m. eastern time. much more on the
Kidding, we have a good time. what i say is what i say. and honestly, megyn if you don t like it just minutes after the debate ended, donlds trump began criticizing that question and megyn kelly, many of his supporters found her question unfair and trump continuing critiquing the issue on msnbc today. i didn t say many of those things. they said something and they were getting out some words and i don t remember that on the apprentice. i don t know where they got some of these words, to be honest with you. he went onto say that he d have to check them out. keeping them honest we did as well. she came to my wedding. she ate like a pig. seriously, the wedding cake was like missing in action. the rosie o donnell insults which he admits to are pretty well known by now. that said when it comes to making disparaging remarks about
I know how hard our crews work for our customers. i want them to know that they do have a safe and reliable system. together, we re building a better california. donald trump has made it clear he s not happy about some of the questions he was asked about last night, but there are a couple things he can t complain about. as the front runner he had the best position on the stage, the center spot. he was hard to miss in many of the shots. he also got the lion s share of the spotlight because he talked the most. tom foreman tonight breaks it down for us. tom. hey, anderson. a lot of republicans were worried donald trump would suck all the oxygen out of the room in this debate. and he sure did chew up some minutes. look at this analysis by the washington post. ten and a half minutes of talking time for trump during the course of this debate. the nearest competitor bush with 8:47. most of the others only got six