The 11 leading candidates for president are at their podiums. Anything could happen over the next few hours. I think we are in fact the a team. We even have our own mr. T who doesnt mind saying youre a fool. Rand paul shouldnt even be on this stage. Hes number 11. Hes got 1 in the polls. His visceral response to attack people on their appearance, my goodness that happened in junior high. Donald trump said the following about you, quote, look at that face, would anyone vote for that . I think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. Trump said. Mr. Trump, we dont need an apprentice in the white house, we have one right now. If i were sitting at home and watching this back and forth, id be inclined to turn it off. I am a republican in new jersey. I wake up every morning as an outsider. I, in no way, am willing to get into bed with special Interest Groups or lick the boots of billionaires. You wanted casino gambling in florida. Yes, you did. You wanted it and you didnt get it because i was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. These are extraordinarily dangerous times we live in and the next president of the United States better be someone who understands these issues and has good judgment about them. I didnt want to go into iraq and i fought it. Your brother and your brothers administration gave us barack obama. As it relates to my breother theres one thing i know for sure, he kept us safe. Heres the problem, were fighting with each other up here. We agree. Lets ask Hillary Clinton. Shes the real opponent. Shes the real problem. If you want to stump a democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of mrs. Clinton. Ever ready. Its very high energy, donald. Mr. Trump. Humble. All right. Lets break down some of those highlights. Joining us here, our senior political analyst ron brown steen. Our cnn political commentators dan pfeiffer, ana navarro and jeffrey heard. The two also battled over their shared areas of expertise business. Lets listen to this. I led hewlettpackard through a very difficult time. The Worst Technology recession in 25 years. She cant run any of my companies, that i can tell you. You ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses, using other peoples money and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice i never filed for bankruptcy. Four times. I made over 10 billion. All right. Ron, who got the better of those exchanges between fiorina and trump . I think on the appearance exchange, clearly fiorina who delivered kind of an understated retort that was more powerful because it was understated. On the business side, i think it was more of a case of mutually assured destruction. They both pointed to vulnerabilities in the other and neither, i think, has heard the last of the arguments that were raised last night about their business career. I think Chris Christie got the best of that debate. That exchange. At some point, he be interjects and says, okay, kids, enough. Youre both really, really rich. Thats great for you. Now, lets go and talk policy. The problem with that, anna, is Carly Fiorina also said they were like the politicians and the insiders were like fish and water. They didnt know they were in water. It was very fascinating to hear Chris Christie chastise them talking about their record in the private sector but hes always about touting his record as elected official. It was a Good Exchange for him in the sense he seemed witty, but hes swimming upstream. This is an outsiders moment and hes making an insiders argument. I think fiorina was great in this debate. She took advantage of her moment. What i think trump exposed because he certainly read her Opposition Research file very closely, is if she were the nominee, she has romneystyle vulnerables in her Business Record any democrat would exploit. I know you like your good friend jeb bush, friendly with rubio. A lot of commentators suggesting this was not necessarily trumps best night. I assume you agree with that . She doesnt think trump has any good nights. Actually, i have to say i thought that moment where he said, where he came out of character, and it was almost like, you know, acknowledging its all an act. And said his secret service name would be humble. Hilarious. When he had that low five exchange. Because you know jeb bush is 64 so i think high fiving jeb can be difficult. I think that was refreshing. I think it was a nice moment. Perhaps one of the better moments for trump who did not have a good night. He went for stretches of time that were beyond 30 minutes without talking. Might be the first time in his life although all the people who took nearly three hours of that debate, he got the most air time. Got the most questions. Almost 20 minutes or so compared to everyone else who was just a little bit lower. Listen to this. Ill play a little sound bite for you, jeffrey. Know you support trump. Heres a little comment from jeb bush about his brother. Your brother and your brothers administration gave us barack obama, because it was such a disaster those last three months that Abraham Lincoln couldnt have been elected. You know what, as it relates to my brother, theres one thing i know for sure, he kept us safe. On behalf of the military that is watching, the active duty military that are at the end of the spear, what kind of commander in chief is jeb bush going to be and who are the advisers that are new to your team . If youre looking at republican advisers, you have to go to the last two administrations that happen to be 41 and 43. So is that a problem, his Top National Security advisers would be former advisers to his father and his brother . Heres the problem with this. Within the Republican Party, if you notice the other day, he pulled his shirt open to reveal a reagan bush tshirt. There was always i was in that campaign. There was always a little bit of attention there between the reaganites and the bushies. Now its a first cousin to the outsiderinsider situation. And the problem is, within the Republican Party, there are significant numbers of people who george w. Bush did keep us safe, but on domestic spending and a whole lot of domestic issues, no child left behind, expanding the government, theyre furious about. And he wound up his presidency with 22 of the popularity and thats been a problem for republicans ever since. In the end, i think most of the Campaign Still believe there will be one finalist in this race from the center right establishment lane and one finalist from the more populous conservative lane. Although bush has to engage with trump because the difficulty in doing so has hurt his overall image, in the end, hes not running against trump today. Hes running more against casey, kasich, whereas trump is more in the pool of santorum, who has more at risk if hold on because i want to get to this clip. You were the political director during the reagan white house, years. You served under president obama. And Hillary Clinton and president obama were obviously attacked by at lot of these republican candidates last night. Listen to the new jersey governor Chris Christie. We lost friends that day. We went to the funerals. I will tell you what those people wanted and what they deserved was for america to answer back against what had been done to them. And i support what president did at that time. Im as entertained as anyone by this personal back and forth about the history of donald and carlys career. For the 55yearold construction worker out in that audience tonight who doesnt have a job, who cant fund his childs education, i got to tell you the truth, they could care less about your careers. The question is, whos going to prosecute Hillary Clinton. The Obama White House seems to have in interest. The Justice Department seems to have no interest. I think its time to put a former federal prosecutor on stage with Hillary Clinton and i will prosecute her during those debates. I want you to respond to that. Chris christie exposes the entire fallacy of the public argument. The people responsible for 9 11 were not in iraq. This was the greatest strategic mistake in this century from the american government. So he is in the same challenge everyone else is. I would say also the idea that Chris Christie delivers his lines well, but the answer is Hillary Clinton did all these things wrong, im going to show her on the debate stage, is not a compelling answer from him. He says hell go after her on the debate stage. Im sure every republican will do that. And will prosecute her during those debates, if he gets the republican which is unlikely it might be more compelling to republicans that might meet your eye. I was struck that three separate candidates last night criticized the decision to go into iraq, trump, paul and carson. All criticized it. Kind of it was one of many issues where we heard notes that we dont usually hear in the republican president ial debate. Raising the minimum wage. Criminal justice reform. Fiorina and several others leftism all right, we have much more to discussion. Hillary clinton will be my live guest later today in the situation room, 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Well get her reaction to whats been said about her last night. Well have much more analysis. And what happened here at the Ronald Reagan president ial library last night, including much more on dr. Ben carson. His calm, noncombative demeanor, his handshake with donald trump. 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I think thats what we have to start thinking about. There is no question that a lot of these problems we have been talking about in terms of the International Situation is because we are weak. Its because our navy is so small. Its because our air force is incapable of doing the same things it did a few years ago. So what do you think . As you point out, three of those republican candidates actually last night were bragging about the fact they opposed the war in iraq in 2003 . Carson is not an in your face presence. He is really almost counterprogramming to most of the rest of the field. Hes cool where certainly many of them, like trump, are hot. Its striking because his demeanor and his message are very much at odds. He is calm, cool and collected. Its a pretty ideological message. Last night reversing himself somewhat and saying if somebody could show him a feasible way to deport 11 Million People, he would look at it. This kind of contrast has been working for him. Im not sure in the long run it projects enough kind of president ial vigor and strength. But well see. I think you interviewed him and he said, you know, let carson be carson. Weve seen him be true to character consistently. This has a lot of appeal to a lot of folks. Hes doing very well in the polls. Scott walker not so well in the polls right now. The wisconsin governor. He was doing well. Especially in neighboring iowa. His numbers have gone down. He did have a few zingers at donald trump. Listen to this. Mr. Trump, we dont need an apprentice in the white house. We have one right now. He told us all the things he wanted to hear in 2008. We need someone who can actually get the job done. Were you surprised he went after the man you liked, donald trump, directly like that . No. I mean, i thought, if youre going to stay alive this is one of the things they had to do. I mean, i bet they worked on that line for weeks. You know, so he delivered it. I dont think its going to help him very much in the polls. Scott walker, hes a great guy. Hes a good governor. But, once again, we have this outsider insider situation. And, as amazing as it is to be the governor of wisconsin or any governor is seen in that sort of contextual fashion. His problem is he is more deflated than the balls the new England Patriots uhoh he has made so many mistakes. Hes flipflopped on positions. He hasnt been forceful. And these debates, now twice, you know, two debates, hes been painted on the wall. I mean, you know fades into the drapes. Hes a class a player who cant make it in the major leagues. His campaign is over i think. Were only and you start to read today about some of his donors saying theyre getting antsy and theyre look at other you think hes going to be the next to drop out . I think he has some super pac money so he can hang in there for a while. I think his chance of being the nominee is long past now. If you remember, some are already saying he can be the tim pawlenty, the former minnesota governor who dropped out even before has a very good job, a lot of money maybe thats part of the problem. A sound bite from marco rubio. Hes getting good reviews on this day after. Listen to this. My grandfather instilled in me the belief that i was blessed to live in the one society in all of Human History where even i, the son of a bartender and a maid, could be anything i was willing to work hard to achieve. He taught me that in spanish because it was the language he was comfortable in. I do give interviews in spanish. Heres why. Because i believe Free Enterprise and limited government is the best way for people trying to achieve upward mome mobility. I want them to hear that directly from me, not from a translator at univision. Jeffrey, youre a guy who donald trump says speak english, this is the United States. Hes told bush, dont speak spanish. The question has become here about the assimilation. Great, speak as many languages as you want. Personally, i think americans should speak two or three or four. But the fact of the matter is, were an englishspeaking nation. And if were going to start doing this, then what about the irish, what about the germans . To sort of try and say were going to inject this culture and its going to reign supreme over American Culture making the argument reign supreme we all come here and try to assimilate. Thats not what jorge ramos says. I loved this answer from marco. It tells you when you get personal, it works in a debate. It worked for Carly Fiorina when she spoke about her stepdaughters death. It worked for marco when he talked about his grandfather who was a huge influence in his life. I think it tells you something about how those candidates were shaped. The exchanges about spanish i think are a reminder to all of us this is not just about the republican president ial primary. The ultimate goal is to win back the white house for the Republican Party. Which we should remind has lost the popular vote in five of the last six president ial elections. They need to find a way to get over the top. The risk in the debate, whether it is inappropriate to really speak spanish in public, he wasnt talking about public documents, is something that has overtones for at least no Mandarin Chinese was spoken this year. The idea the republicans in heading into 2016 election would be debating