Well, what i mean by that is it almost shouldnt have been done. You know, i really dont even know what i mean because that was a long time ago. Who knows what was in my head. I think that it wasnt done correctly in retrospect it shouldnt have been done at all. It was sort of, you know, it was done. We dropped bombs. Now, if you look back, actually that was probably the correct way of doing it, not going in and not upsetting giving them a lesson or not. I think senior actually did a pretty good job of what he was doing. He went in, he taught them a lesson. What happened is he was taunted because Saddam Hussein was saying we drove back the americans, the ugly americans were driven back, the power of iraq, the power. Well, we werent driven back, he just decided not general and others said lets not go in. If you look at my conversation with howard, were very good friends, different than what you hear on the radio, but were very good friends. Dont forget i was a real estate man and businessman. That was the first time i think that question was ever even asked of me. That was long before the war took place. That was many, many months before the war took place. And you could see by my answer i wasnt exactly thrilled. Joe scar borough released a point yesterday a tweet saying trump is right, look what he just said. You have to take a look at that. But regardless the war in iraq was a disaster. It was probably the worst thing, if you look at the middle east now, all started because of that horrible decision to go into iraq. And you know what we end up with . Nothing. We spent 2 trillion. We have thousands and thousands of lives killed. Just thousands carnage. And we have wounded warriors, who i love all over the place, right, and we have nothing and iran is now taking over iraq. Many decades and now theyre finally taking over iraq. As we sit here theyre taking over iraq. We get nothing. Let me give you one more issue where you sort of went counter to what is perceived as republican orthodox and that is the issue of israeli and the palestinians. You said wednesday you wanted to be neutral in that dispute. Explain what neutral means because some heard that in the proisraeli community and thinks, oh, hes going to be antiisrael. Explain what you mean by neutral. No. Im very proisrael. In fact, i was the head of the israeli day parade a number of years ago, i did a commercial for netanyahu when he was getted elected asked me to do a commercial for him, i did a commercial for him. I am. But i dont want to be look, the hardest thing to do is that in terms of deal, if youre a deal person, right, the ultimate deal is that deal. Israel, palestine, if youre going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with hatred, and i have to say its mostly on the one side, not on the other side, but theyre taught hatred. I say this, if im going to be president , id rather be in a position because i will try the best i can. And im a very good dealmaker. Believe me. To try and solve that puzzle. Youre not going to solve it if youre going to be on one side or another. Everyone understands that. If im going to solve the problem, i want to go in with a clean slate otherwise youre never going to get the cooperation of the other side. So thats all im saying. Donald trump, im going to leave it there. Again, congratulations on your big win. Stay safe on the trail. Well be watching on tuesday. Thank you. Thank you very much. You got it. All right. Im joined now by the man who came in second last night, senator marco rubio of florida. Senator rubio, welcome back to meet the press, sir. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. You got it. Okay. Sorry about that. Let me start with how you feel about this win this second place finish last night. You had every major endorsement you still finished a distant second in South Carolina. How do you look at this as a positive and not a negative . Because 65 of the people voted yesterday and about 70 of republicans around the country have said we want someone other than donald trump to be our nominee. The problem is that vote was still divided even last night among five other people or four other people. Narrowing even more. And as it narrows and continues to narrow, were going to continue to gain. So it was a very unusual year. You usually dont have five campaigns operating fulltime in process. Three states in. But i feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter alternative to donald trump vote is going to coalesce around us and we have to make the work to make that happen, but we feel good about that. The issue i think all republicans have had going up against donald trump whether its been jeb bush, ted cruz, well, you say hes not a real republican on this issue. Im sure you heard my interview with him. He doesnt have a lot of traditional republican stances on issues, and yet hes still winning. How do you ever winover his voters . Yeah. Well a couple things happen, number one hell Say Something over the top and you guys in the press will decide lets not cover anything and focus on the outrage of statement. Hes been very good at dominating that. And in an 11 person or 15 person field it crowded a lot of people out. Thats going to become harder to do. The second point i would make is washington and they have a right to be. Thats why i ran in 2010 by the way. And its because i didnt want my next u. S. Senator to be someone who was going to go up have been doing. Our argument is its okay to angry and upset at washington, but anger alone is not enough. You deserve a nominee who tells you exactly heres what were going to do and outlines that. So you know what youre getting. So theres some level of accountability here. So my campaign is about this. Challenges right now in this country. But were also optimistic about the future, but only if we do a few things. And im going to tell you exactly what those things are. And thats a big difference in this campaign between mr. Trumps campaign and mine. I think thats going to begin to matter a lot more now because there are less people in the race and more time to Pay Attention to some of that. Look, throughout the week it was clear a lot of campaigns thought you had momentum, a lot of campaigns were going after you. Heres one attack ad that cruz put up on immigration. I want to play a snipit of it and get a reaction from you on the other side. We know we have to deal with the 11 Million People that are here illegally. We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that senator rubio put forward i think is a great place to start. They still have to qualify for it. Passing a background check. Passed a background check. Pay a penalty. Pay a fine. Paying taxes. Start paying taxes. It wont be a quick process. That is a long path. But it will be a fair process. But i do think its fair. Couldnt see the ad as we played it, im sure youve heard it and seen reference, what part of that ad is not true . It doesnt matter. The point first of all people didnt care about it. This is now an attack going on in state after state and people have processed and understand its a serious issue that needs to be solved. Number two, i could put the exact same ad on about ted cruz. Ted cruz said he wanted to find a compromise, ted cruz said he wanted to bring 11 Million People out of the shadows. Ted cruz said that he wanted Immigration Reform to pass. Heres the bottom line, i tried to solve a very difficult issue. And we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a senate controlled by harry reid at the time. And then send it over to the house and have them, conservatives, make it even better. It didnt work out because the house never took it up. And so now its very clear that the only way forward is going to be to do it in pieces beginning by securing our border. Thats what well do. When im president , the senate bills not going to be what were operating off of. Its going to begin by focusing on securing our border first and and until you do that, youre not going to be able to do anything else. All right. I got to talk process. You woke up in tennessee this morning. That tells me thats a little bit of a tell, thats a state obviously you think you can win on super tuesday. Where else do you win on super tuesday . Now its about winning. You havent won yet. You got to win somewhere. It is. Well, i think first of all as we understand all these states award delegates differently. So we have a different strategy for each of these states depending how they award delegates. When we get into the winner take all states, in march, big chunks of delegates, thats where you need to win states and i feel very good about where were going to be by then. Im not going to reveal to you our Campaign Play book but were going to be in a lot of different places, im in tennessee, be in arkansas, nevada, were going to contest and work very hard for those caucuses on tuesday and keep moving forward in a bunch of other places. We have a national campaign. And i feel great about it especially after last night. All right. Senator marco rubio, im going to leave it there. Stay safe on the trail. Race overq,d next 23 days. Yes, sir. Thank you. Now to the democratic race and a close but crucial victory for Hillary Clinton in nevada yesterday. And a big blow for my next guest, senator Bernie Sanders. Welcome back to meet the press, senator. Good to be with you. Let me start with something you said on friday. You said on friday it could be 10, 20, 30 years from now people will look back at what happened in nevada and say this was the beginning of the Political Revolution. Obviously the results didnt turn out the way you thought. What happened, sir . Well, what happened is over the last five weeks, chuck, we came from 25 points down to five points down. As i understand it we actually won the latino vote yesterday, which is a big breakthrough for us. But the voter turnout was not as high as i had wanted. And what ive said over and over again, we will do well when young people, when working class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. Had wanted to bring out a large turnout. You know at the last minute there were reports that harry reid and the Culinary Union were working to try to beef upturnout in places where Hillary Clinton was going to do well including right there on the strip in las vegas. Do you think that made a difference . Its hard to say. What i do know is, chuck, our message of a rigged economy in which people in nevada and around the country are working longer hours for low wages, why almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 , ill tell you something else, this issue of a corrupt Campaign Finance system where big money interest in wall street trying to buy elections, those are the issues that are resonating. Again, i wish we had had a larger voter turnout. By the way, we did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people. Remember, we were taking on a candidate who ran in 2008. She knew nevada a lot better than we did. She had the names of a lot of so im proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously i wish we could have done a little bit better. But at the end of the day i think she gets 19 delegates, we get 15 delegates. We move on to the next state. It was interesting listening to her victory speech last night. I want to play a clip of it because i may sound familiar to you. Here it is. Wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. Its pretty clear she has ratcheted up her rhetoric on wall street because of your candidacy. Do you see that as a victory of sorts . That youve got her trying chuck, chuck compare your message. Were looking into copyright issues here. Those are our words. Well, obviously i think what the secretary has recognize edd is the American People are extremely angry about the power of wall street, the greed, the illegal by the way, the fact that when a kid gets picked up with marijuana, that kid gets a police record, wall street executives destroy the economy, theres no prosecution against them. The American People understand that we need real change in this country. In my view a Political Revolution which says to the people on top, you know what, you guys cant have it all. Its interesting the guy who had the biggest super pac of all time had to drop out of the race. Jeb bush outspent everybody. He arguably had more special interest supporting his candidacy. Isnt sort of the people already overturning Citizens United . Isnt your message and donald trump whove done this without super pacs, isnt this already resonating . No well, in some ways it is. But i think, you know, if you look at jeb bushs campaign its more than just money. Its the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff. But let me give you an example. Understand it, chuck, more contributions from people than Hillary Clinton has. But shes now going into the super pac that she has which comes from wall street and very wealthy individuals. She will be outspending us in the next number of weeks precisely because of that super pac. Do these things matter . Yes, they do. Where are you going to win next . Youve got you cant just come close. Youre right, you came close in nevada. But to win you got to win. And super tuesday, can you win a majority of the delegates on super tuesday . You dont have to win a majority of the states, but you need to win a majority of the delegates if youre going to win this thing. Right. Well, were studying that issue very closely as to where we allocate our resources and allocate my time. I think we have a good shot in colorado. A good shot in minnesota. A good shot in massachusetts. I think we are looking pretty good in oklahoma. Last poll i saw my own state of vermont had us at 80 . So i think we got a shot to win and i think we will surprise people in some other states as well. Dont you have to beat her in a place like texas or virginia or tennessee . A big state to say, you know what, i can win this nomination. I cant just come close. Dont you have to do that . No, youre right. Look, at the end of the day what youre saying is true, you need delegates. As you know these are state by state proportional delegation delegates go out. Were looking hard at michigan. We think we have a pretty good shot at parts of texas. So trust me, we are focusing very hard on trying to get as many delegates as we can. But let me also say this. We are in this race to the convention. I think we got some states coming down the pike that were going to do very, very well in. I think, you know, if you look at national polling, our support is growing. So we think, chuck, we have come a very, very long way. I think the first time i was on your show we were probably at 5 were moving, were making progress. All right, Bernie Sanders, i know youre in South Carolina this morning, but this race Goes National in a hurry. Thanks for coming on. Stay safe on the trail, sir. Thank you. And when we come back, how will ted cruz respond to another third place finish . He joins me next. Welcome to the world 2116, you can fly across town in minutes or across the globe in under an hour. Whole communities are livingon mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. In less than a century, boeingtook the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and beyond. And if you thought that was amazing, sure am. My staff could use your help staying in touch with customers. At t can help you stay connected. Am i seeing double . No maam. 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You talk about people that lies, this is ted cruz. This is the biggest liar ive ever seen. That was going to be my second question, but im going to go there, you heard it there, three different candidates have accused you of being a liar. A third one out of three South Carolina voters thought you were has all of this hurt you . Has it stuck . Oh, listen, chuck, we saw with both donald trump and marco rubio that their response whenever you point to anything in their record is just to yell liar, liar, liar, and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach from the very beginning of this Campaign Starting a year ago is that i will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates. I will sing their praises. Ill sing donalds praises and marcos praises and everybody elses praises. But im going to keep the focus on substance and records. And theres a reason why they scream liar. Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they dont like their records because their records are inconsistent with what theyre running on. You know, donald trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a tv ad that consistented edconsisted almost entirely of his own words on television. People what he said on national tv. I think voters are smarter than that. Senator, im going to play that press conference clip to you because to me contrasts from what you just said. Here it is. Donald has had a long career of using gret wealth and power trying to bully others. Whenever anyone points to their actual record, the response of both donald trump and marco rubio is to yell the word liar. Whenever anyone do