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The president. i heard david gergin talking about the worst 100 days he has seen a president have. it's not a difficult segue from what we just heard happening at berkeley and what i heard david gergin saying with our president. -- about our president. there is a negative attack against the right. not even the right. he's our president. >> there is a lot of what i call presumptive negativity. always lying in weight to deny the president the credit he's due. 8 -- 28 laws signed in by this president, more than obama and bush. executive orders and can ports at a two-year high. you have the nation...

It's great to see you all. thanks for joining me. david, 24 million people watched the debate last night. donald trump sure seemed to make it must-see tv. when you get to what he said, did the debate help or hurt him with voters? what do you think? >> there's certainly two sides to this. he deserves an enormous amount of credit for electrifying the republican race. he drove that 24 million people to the -- to watch this. so all 17 candidates yesterday had a chance to audition before massive audiences they would never have seen had it not been for trump. that's a plus, especially for those that...

Money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate campaign. >> reporter: it was marco rubio who urged republicans to choose a candidate who can take on the real opponent. >> how is hillary clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? how is she going to lecture me about student loans? i owed over $100,000 four years ago. >> reporter: the republicans i talked to today in the early voting states iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, including several who were open to supporting trump, said they can't get over the fact he wouldn't pledge to back the republican nominee. t...

As 2,000 inspectors. terms of how many inspectors qualified, certified inspectors are actually available right now, how many are we talking about? >> worldwide there is a far smaller number. look, the way around this and it's actually one we've used before in iraq is you insist that the syrians go in and do the heavy lifting of counting, moving the chemical weapons around and you as inspectors stand a little bit back in protective gear, i hope, and you observe that. you use their manpower. the syrians, if this deal is to work at all, the syrians have to cooperate by providing the inspectors fi...

Battleship. it's what our capabilities. >> the reason i call it an apology tour, you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and saudi arabia and turkey and iraq. by the way, they noticed you skipped israel. in those nations and arabic tv you said america had been did he miss i have and derisive. america has not dictated to other nations. we have freed other nations from dictatorships. >> let's start with his performance in that debate. how did the media react? >> there were several on the liberal side who thought he was condescending. i think the media wall that has been defending the p...