republicans are walking away from him. donald trump is going to respond. listen, i am hoping they can find a way to at least work together somehow, because to me the other larger issues are more important. again, if you are in donald trump's position and you find it appears that the party is walking away from you, he probably felt he had no -- knowing him, he felt he had no alternative but to respond and show that he is the independent candidate that the establishment has gone against him. this proves what he has been saying all along. i am hoping that in the next few days cooler heads can prevail on both sides. >> he needs to expand beyond his base, and it seems like he almost is embracing a strategy that's going to keep him with only 39%, 40% of the electorate backing him. >> well, again, i think after the debate is when he felt he was going to try to expand. obviously the tape knocked him back last week, understandably. he come out of the debate he thought in good shape. when he tried to expand his base monday and tuesday of this week,