Lose control, and at times, resembling brawl with ugly insults flying. When you honor the promise made and say enough with the corruption, the cronyism lets stand for the working people. If you want to be liked in washington that is not a good attribute for a president. He said today, im quoting him, he said im in the going to pay for that quote effing wall. How are you going to make them pay for the wall . I will, and the wall just got ten feet taller, believe me. You tell me about this guy. This is what were going to have to this is a guy inherited 200 million. If you hadnt, do you know where hed be . Selling watches. That is so wrong. I think that is the way the Republican Party thinks. We dont pick and choose winners and losers. Were compassionate. But real compassion is providing people with a ladder of opportunity to climb up from a state of dependence and become part of the fabric of america. When we emphasize that, i think well attract everything. We have energy, Financial Services and it. We just got Cloud Computing in the mid west. Do you know what . Because were balanced budgets, were strong, were job friendly. We dont raise taxes. If we have a president that does that in america, well get the Economic Growth and that is what this country needs, jobs, jobs, jobs, period. In moments well go to frank luntz and his texas Republican Focus Group to get their take on the evening. They were watching the debate and we were reporting in realtime. We have a powerful line up for the night. Chris stirewalt, mark theissan and ben shapiro. We begin with Charles Krauthammer, author of things that matter now out in paper back. The dust up of the night was between rub yes and trump. They had an exchange on health care and there seemed to be an oppositi opposition bazooka. If you builds the wall like he built trump towers hell be using illegal labor to do it. Go online and google it. The second thing about the trade war, i dont understand, your ties in the clothes you make is in mexico and china. Youre going to start a trade war against your own ties. Do you know what . They devalue their currency. Well, then make them in america. You dont know a thing about business. No. Make them in america. They devalue their currencies. They devalue their currencies to such an extent that our businesses can not compete with them. That is why you make them in china and russia. You dont know anything about it. You dont know anything about bankrupt in court. And you dont know anything about going to university. There are people borrowing 36,000 to go to Trump University and theyre suing him now. 36,000 to go to university. That is a fake school. Do you know what they got . A cut out of donald trump. I want to move on. They did a very good job. I won most of the lawsuit. Most of the lawsuit . Excuse me. Am i allowed to respond sth. Youve been responding. No. I havent. Hes talking through the whole thing. Heres the guy that buys a house for 179,000, sells it to a lobbyist who is probably here for for 380,000 then, legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. Here is a guy that inherited 200 million. If he hadnt inherited he would be selling watches and ipads. No. No. I mean that had to be one of the mostdynamic, feisty back and forths we have seen. Ali would have called it the rumble in the jungle. That is going to make the guinness book of world records. Its clear that rubio, he emptied the entire airplane of its load of ammunition. It was everything he had within a few minutes. Look. For what is interesting is that cruz came in after that, and he supported rubio on some of the charges on Trump University. As a result you got a two on one, which is inherently unfair, but that is the way it is right now because rubio and cruz understood that what they have been doing up until now, which is attacking each other in all previous debates and ads in that had been in order to emerge as the one guy against trump was undermining them both. That trump was running away with it, that if they did not attack trump now, bring him down now, it would be over no matter who emerged as a main challenger. And they stayed off of each other. Exactly. There were light taps but that didnt count this, was a two on one of a kind weve really never seen. In the end i think its clear. Rubio came out on top. Cruz, a fairly close second. Trump had his worst debate, i thought, because when it became a substantive debate he was exposed in a way that had not not happened in the past. Google for Trump University, through the roof. Marco rubio wanted people to google the polish workers thing, they didnt listen. Theyre like Trump University . Fraud . What . Charles, great to see you. We get data on these in our mailboxes. Here with more reaction, frank luntz and his group of texas voters. Were going to do something different. Weve been having this great discussion while you guys have been talking in washington. Tell me, who run the debate . How many of you are going to support rubio . That is a strong picture. What i dont understand is that youve been talking about trump for ten minutes. Why is trump dominating the conversation . Because hes polarizing. People are afraid of him. Hes an unknown quantity for a lot of people and hes not a politician. You dont buy it . Hes the only one who accomplished anything. You want to go with two more freshman senators . Why is it rubio won, why are you talking about trump . Rubio does not, i didnt think rubio won. I thought john kasich won and he has experience to back it up. John kasich and donald trump have ever balanced the budget. Talking about policy issues and trump did not look like he belonged on that stage. He had an answer for nothing. Let me answer another way. Talking about trump is because hes someone that accomplished something. Maybe rubio was the best orator tonight but can he accomplish things . Look, trump looks like hes steam rolling. What it is about rubio that he did so well . To attack trump. Youre saying he was negative . Trump did not respond to him. I thought it was more knowledgeable about the issues. Megyn, i want to pull a clip. Its not the same order i want to go. This is the exchange trump had, it was the second one were going to do in this segment, about donald trump talking about having a business because its perfectly appropriate. Let us pray. Youre going to claim youre the only one that listed this into the campaign that you acknowledge youre the only person fine forward hiring people to work on your projects illegally. I am the only one on the stage who hired people. You havent hired anyone. And i hired tens of thousands of people over my job. You hired nobody. So what is it . The job of president is not to hire people. I want to know is he going to create the environment . If he can, he can have my vote. Ben . Rubio is a great orator. It was Like Student Council president tonight. Didnt we just elect an orator. Rubio is charming with a boyish face, all american boy. Boy. He zinged trump. Trump is doing what everybody says. The lawn guys are the cheapest lawns you hire. You hire a mechanical prob robot. This time he was more personable. And that is why rubio tonight to me was able to reach out there. I want to show you the other segment. Marco rubio talked about the constitutionality was one of the highest moments of the debate. They used dials to react on a second by second basis. No matter how sympathetic we may be to a cause, we cannot violate the constitution of the United States the way this president does on a regular basis. Wait. Why is that so powerful to you . Because when someone wins an election, they pass through congress and it becomes law that is one thing. Its another thing if you break the constitution, youre breaking the law. Its not just wrong, its illegal and immoral. So barack obama wanted to fundamentally change america. That is what i feel trump would do in the reverse. He wants to be friends with everybody. Were not going to have a war until we come back in a few minutes. This is one of the mostboisterious groups. And we have one of the funniest groups in the process. What does this mean for the debate in detroit next week . Bret baier is back with answers on that. And well have what they thought were the best moments and why rubios performance may not translate into votes next week. Well have to see. Everyone is dumb, youre going to make America Great again, were going to win, win, win, and the line is around the street. Every night, same thing. Want to get their hands on. 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Complete allergy relief or incomplete. Let your eyes decide. Flonase. 61 changes everything. Think of it as a seven seat for an action packed thriller. [ rock music throughout ] [ engine starting ] [ tire screech ] [ car engines roar ] [ pit crew audio ] when youre a fan its never just one thing, its everything. Introducing nascar on xfinity x1, get live race stats right on your tv. Change the way you experience nascar with xfinity x1. I got along with everybody. You get along with nobody. You dont have one republican senator and you worked with them every day of your life though you skipped a lot of time. You dont have one republican senator backing you. You dont have the endorsement and you work with these people. You should be ashamed of yourself. That is donald trump scoring points in one of several fierce exchanges with senator cruz. My comoderator next week is with me now, bret baier. What did you think . I think the cnn bell got a work out tonight. I think we may have to have a bell next week. Listen, its great to see them go back and forth. I think rubio and cruz both scored points against donald trump. You wonder why it took ten debates to get to this point. I thought trump had moments where he struck back and his supporters will be very loyal. Im sure snap polls will say he won the debate but he took shots tonight. I think john kasich made a couple points and frankly, i thought that he absorbed the Chris Christie line about how great it is to be governor. The one exchange between trump and cruz on who can beat hillary and who is going to win is getting a lot of attention. Lets watch it. The corruption of the clinton foundation. The fact she had ceos from Foreign Companies giving her money while shes secretary of state. The next republican needs to make the case but would say to donald, gosh, i gave too, and we cant nominate someone who loses to Hillary Clinton in november. Talking about the polls, im beating him awfully badly in the polls. But youre not beating hillary. If i cant beat her, youre really going to get killed. Arent you . Therein lies the problems for ted cruz. I will say the average does have cruz beating Hillary Clinton and so he has ground to stand on in his electability case, especially on the fraud case involving Trump University about being, testifying in july i think was a mement for cruz. Trump has great shoot back right then when the audience is clapping that gives him sound bytes. I do think the audience was split and whoever was the velocaraptor crying out is right who is the screamer . She was loud and into the debate. She was into it. I dont know if we should be rooting for her to be in detroit. Bret and i will be with you on march 3. Great to see you. Good night. As Charles Krauthammer mentioned, senator cruz put on his prosecutor hat with this exchange with donald trump. Donald, true or false, you said the government should pay for everyones health care . Not once. You never said, did you say if you want people to die on the streets, if you dont support socialized health care you have no heart . Nobody will die on the streets if im president. Let me talk. Explain the plan, please. My plan is simple. I will not. Were going to have private health care. We performed Fact Checking over mr. Trump and you can be the judge to see whether senator cruz was accurate, watch. Everybody has got to be covered. Universal health care . Im going to take care of everybody. Who pays for it . The government is going to pay for it. For single payer, it works in canada and works well in scotland. It would have worked well at an age youre talking about here. We have a powerful panel for you tonight. Chris stire walt and dana perino, mark theissan and it great to see you all. Stirewalt . I have to tell you, desperation is a gift, the gift it gives is willingness. And tonight, marco rubio and ted cruz were willing to take on trump. I think they largely succeeded. I think when they forced donald trump into a position where he said hed release his tax returns after done being audited which i think will stand out, stand as a unique moment in debate history. But they became willing because they became desperate and i think they succeeded. That is the question, dana. To what effect, right . Well, i, when you played that clip of cruz, it was almost at the end you want to say the prosecution rests. And youre right. The people can decide. Here is the thing, though. Donald trump has done okay in previous debates and gone on to win elections, subsequent elections in new hampshire, South Carolina and nevada. So i dont know how much of this debate performance will affect him. I will say if youre looking for a little bit of snap in your noodle, as judge stirewalt explained to me. We saw rubio out there. You know like a prize fighter just jabbing and bouncing and smiling. Seemed to be enjoying it. What was his goal . He had to have been pulling away trumps core support. Charles said he was letting hay makers and also, just crosses and upper cuts. Just a pummelling. The first half was just marco rubio versus donald trump. What was he doing . 35 of the electorate is for donald trump. He was not going for those people. He was going for 65 who want someone other than donald trump. And if you think about it, after South Carolina, after nevada, there were millions who were despondent that donald trump is inevitable and what marco rubio did is looking and say finally someone landed a glove on this guy andrew blood from donald trump. When . What was the draw blood moment . Well, you played a litany of opposition research. I think the real moment is before that, when he kept trying to get him to talk about his health care plan. What is your plan . What is your plan . What is your plan . Trump kept saying the line, the line around the state. What else . He exposed him as being empty soup. And so i think there is just, it wasnt just one moment, but a serieses of moments and a lot of people said that is the guy that can take on donald trump. I think it was targeted though he wasnt hitting ted cruz it was kind of targeted at ted cruzs supporters. We heard some reports that he may be needing to reassess whether he needs to make a difference decision because theyre considering marco rubio. Howie, a lot of times we look at the debates, even last week, right, february 13th trump was angry and said mean things about george w. Bush like he lied to start a war. And people said but he only grew in support, and how. Youve seen a misunderstanding of this man by the american electorate and the pundits. And we might have seen it here. He had bad moments but as marco rubio through the kitchen sink at him and wrench and screwdriver, it had a programmed quality at times. And rubio, you hired polish workers, trump, you never hired anybody. And rubio, you used daddys money. And trump, nobody likes you. They talked over each other, and then, i think some of it cancelled itself out. Chris, once again tonight we heard donald trump that sounded very much like hes long past these guys and running for general election. He was reaching out to democrats im assuming, doubling down on how great planned parenthood is, we have that here, watch it. As far as planned parenthood is concerned, im prolife. Im against abortion having to do with planned parenthood but millions of women cervical cancer, Breast Cancer are helped by planned parenthood. So you can say whatever you want. But they have millions of women going through planned parenthood that are helped greatly. And i wont fund it. I would defund it because of the abortion factor what they say it is 3 . I dont know what percentage but i would defund it. But millions of women are helped by planned parenthood. Your thoughts, chris . I wont sleep on marco rubio. He has a week to do okay next week and three weeks until this is over if trump keeps rolling. But i wont sleep on marco rubio. Looking at the general is election, if youre trump, but jeb bush, he cut him into ribbons and sent him home. If you remember that moment if marco rubio said to trump if you hadnt inherited 200 million, youd be selling watches in manhattan. Theyre putting out on the website, watches for sale, trying to keep this going. Ill ask you one last question, do you think that the rubio response that charles is talking about where he was ripping back on trump for repeating himself, you know, donald trump said you had a devastating moment in that debate and rubio turned and and said you repeat things all the time, win, win, win. Did it stop that attack on rubio . I think that marco rubio had already done that because that is what youre talking about, that happened in new hampshire. He recovered and rebounded in South Carolina and held that into nevada. Now, hes able to use it as a sharp elbow. On planned parenthood, i think Donald Trumps answer was very good. Planned parenthood has about a 70 Approval Rating<