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You probably saw it, the trump tower in central park. it was going bust. we found trump. gave him some sweat equity, he fixed it in record time. and we walked away with $170 million from a wrecked building. so, i mean, he gets things done. now, now whether or not -- im not here endorsing him. im just saying he is a doer. theres no question about it. he gets things done. >> let me ask you about another ceo on that stage getting a lot of attention. carly fiorina, of course, was the ceo of hp. your...

Purchase with money from hps highly successful printer business. when she met resistance within hp, she pushed through and got the deal anyway but at a terrible price. profits plummeted and even when they started rising again, they lagged behind competitors. hp stock value dropped by half. 30,000 workers were laid off and less than six years after she took control, fiorina was fired. wall street had little faith and on news of the dismissal hp stock jumped up 7%. >> her business record and recor...

Joey jackson and bringing in something that just came into cnn. >> oh. >> and wait until you hear what the ceo of vw is saying, the chief executive martin winter corn has released this apology and full-on apology and in part -- millions of people all over the world trust our brands, our cars, and our technology. i am deeply sorry we have broken this trust. i would like to make a formal apology to our customers and to the authorities aed on the the general public for this misk misconduct. it does...

Lagged behind competitors. hp stock value dropped by half. 30,000 workers were laid off and less than six years after she took control, fiorina was fired. wall street had little faith and on news of the dismissal hp stock jumped up 7%. >> her business record and record as an executive is pretty bad. this was a merger that was not well-executed or orchestrated. she was taking a big pay package at the time cutting people. >> reporter: fiorinas severance package worth $42 million fueled the anger a...

The stock value declined 52%. she dismissed him at the cnn debate as a clinton had-ite. but andrew ross, one of the most admired financial writers in the country with the times, but andrew ross is the one who called this out and said it puzzles those of us in the financial press why the political media, and i think thats a guy like me, dont ask questions of her about her hp track record. i think this is going to be a lot of scrutiny on that now. >> as we see with your score card at the end of th...

Oversaw compaq and hp went into a tail spin, losing half its stock value and laying off 30,000 workers. >> the company is a disaster and continues to be a disaster. they still havent recovered. >> by 2005, fiorina was very publicly and painfully fired. she stole 60 minutes about it. >> almost as if they meant to take you down a pig or two, that kind of thing. >> well, if that was their intent, they certainly succeeded in that. >> for wall street, it wasnt personal. it was business. >> as soon as...

About hp. carly fiorina was the head of the tech company in 1999. no woman had ever risen to such heights in american business. >> we are not losing revenue as a result of this merger. >> reporter: but the headlines were even bigger when she oversaw the mega purchase of compaq and hp went into a tailspin, losing half of its stock value, laying off 30,000 workers. >> the company is a disaster and continues to be a disaster. they still havent recovered. >> reporter: by 2005, fiorina was fired. alt...

Carly was a little nasty to me. careful, carly. she ran hewlett-packard into the ground. her stock value tanked, that she l laid off tens of thousands of people, and she got viciously fired. >> and some are firing right back at him. >> i think all the bravado and the youre stupid kind of language, it doesnt really get us anywhere, but it also makes you think that imperiousness that hes just going to say, im donald trump and therefore it is so. >> its not clear to me that donald trump is a republ...

The ground. i said i will not say it. that her stock value tanked. and that she laid off tens of thousand of people. and she got viciously fired. i said i will not say that. and that she then went out and ran against barbara boxer, for the united states senate in california, and it is a race that should have been won, and she lost in a landslide. and i said i will not say that. okay? all right? so i am not going to say it. so our country has tremendous potential. we have to take back our jobs fr...

She ran hewlett-packard into the ground. i said, i will not say it. that her stock value tanked. that she laid off tens of thousands of people. and she got viciously fired. i said, i will not say that. >> thats donald trump just moments ago in hampton, new hampshire, talking about carly fiorina. fact check, largely true, basically about her record at hewlett-packard. joining me now, michelle goldberg from the nation and paul pierce, politics blogger for esquire.com, in iowa, of course, in clear ...