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that 24 million people got a chance to see mr. trump. they see that he's not taking any nonsense. and that's the type of things that we need in this country. we don't need to talk about individual whether it was rosie or megyn, it makes no difference. what's important is how are we going to do immigration reform? how are we going to handle the economy? how are we going to create jobs? this is what 24 million people viewed. the reason they went to view it is in order to hear how donald trump is going to with his tag line make america great again. and they did not get that opportunity because there were questions asked to him that really were not for this debate. >> michael cohen, good to have you on. >> anderson always great to see you. thank you. bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger national tea party leader and trump supporter amanda pierson.
very first national debate on that stage in that element. so i'm going to give him a pass for this first one and see how things develop. and i do i agree, i think the question was relevant. however, mr. trump is an entertainer. "the apprentice" is a television show. most of what goes on there is scripted and for ratings. everybody that does television knows that. you didn't hear anybody calling ronald reagan a wife beater just because he appeared in a movie where he was beating up a woman. so i think it was pulled out of context, and maybe shouldn't have been in this particular debate which i believe should have been a debate about policy. so these individuals could introduce themselves to 24 million people. >> when trump retweets someone calling megyn kelly a bimbo, as a supporter of his, do you think that's acceptable of someone who wants to be president? >> well i give no weight to twitter. and most of the time when you're out there going through those feeds, tweeting and retweeting might see something you like and maybe it was an accident. who knows at this point. he didn't say he did it on purpose. i've done it before myself.
s nchtsz we've been talking a lot about what the candidates said during last night's republican presidential debate. but it's not just words that matter or how a candidate speaks. in some cases body language experts say can be even more crucial than what comes out of somebody's mouth. gary tuchman watched the debate with an expert in body language. nick morgan works with people to try to improve communications skills. gary asked him what stood out last night. >> we look to the body to let us know what your emotion is your true feeling is underlying the content. >> raise your hand now if you won't make that pledge tonight. >> so he raises his hands, moves his hands to the side he smiles nods his head. what does that tell you? >> he's opening up there. which means he's saying in effect trust me i'm open i'm not trying to put one over on
amanda what do you make of what michael cohen said? i mean should a comment that donald trump made about rosie o'donnell years ago, and others you know comments he made on twitter or on "the apprentice," should that be raised in a republican primary debate? >> of course it should. i stood up and cheered when megyn kelly asked that question. mr. cohen can come on and say he'd rather talk about the issues. well the purpose of a campaign is to prove that you have the character to become president of the united states. and when you demean a woman for asking a necessary question that voters want to hear about, that shows that you don't have the character to take that office. >> katrina, i mean i know you're a trump supporter. do you have any concerns that he just has a really thin skin? i mean we've had many presidents and many folks in the white house who have had thin skins and often that over time causes real issues certainly for reporters and for many people. do you have any concerns about that? do you think those questions were appropriate? >> i don't have any concerns. i mean this was mr. trump's
distract by talking about really what amounts to nonsense. >> but isn't the moderator's job to press the candidates on a whole variety of topics not to just kind of tee up for what the candidates want to talk about? >> well the answer is yes. but we should really be -- this is a gop presidential debate. this isn't talking about an old story about a feud that goes back years which has, you know a long history to it. it's just not presidential. and it didn't make any sense to at least the many many viewers that sent out tweets and e-mails and so on. it just didn't make any sense. >> in the past there have been questions raised about language that donald trump has used even during this race against other candidates. i'm not talking about feuds with rosie o'donnell and stuff like that but even in his response to last night he retweeted
ignored, experts say. because what it holds may be the truth. >> i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. >> reporter: jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> i don't know what to do with my hands now. thanks for joining us everybody. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight keeping them honest with the debate donald trump and the controversy over questions he was asked about his past comments about some women. a record 24 million people watched him and nine other republicans on that stage last night in cleveland. eight times more viewers than the first debate of the 2012 campaign. and there's no denying a lot of that viewership was because donald trump was on that stage. here's the exchange between meghan kelly and trump that continues to reverberate today. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs dogs slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell.
and over and over again 62 times, america. yeah. it was so big in this debate we had to knock down the wall just to get it into the studio. anderson. >> tom, thanks. let's dig deeper with our panel, jeffrey lord served as white house political director for ronlds reagan and contributing or american spectator. also ari fleischer. unfair moderators were the toughest on him, the fact he did get more air time than anyone else his name mentioned more than anyone else do you think it's fair for him to complain? >> well, you know, anderson i'll be honest with you here i'm not sure it matters what he thinks. i think it matters what america thinks. and i'll just give you some an anecdote anecdote. i don't have enough data that i feel i need to sort of make a call here but i was on a radio show a conservative radio show in birmingham alabama this
to megyn kelly, you know maybe i shouldn't be so nice to you, or something to that effect that a lot of women are going to kind of say, whoa that offends me. >> and a lot of women went on facebook and defended him as well. there's a viral video right now with two black women on his side. so it goes both ways. >> i'm sure there are. and people who like donald trump will probably say this was okay this was just donald trump. but people who are deciding you know we're at the beginning of this campaign a lot of people are deciding. and they look at that and makes women in particular sort of scratch their heads. >> well there's certainly a long way to go in this campaign. it's as everyone says it's a marathon not a sprint. we'll see where things go especially to your point of the next debate. gloria katrina, great to have you on. amanda as well. quick note if you want to hear more from donald trump himself, stay with cnn. he's calling in with don lemon 9:00 p.m. eastern time. much more on the debate ahead
kidding, we have a good time. what i say is what i say. and honestly, megyn if you don't like it -- >> just minutes after the debate ended, donlds trump began criticizing that question and megyn kelly, many of his supporters found her question unfair and trump continuing critiquing the issue on msnbc today. >> i didn't say many of those things. they said something and they were getting out some words and i don't remember that on the apprentice. i don't know where they got some of these words, to be honest with you. >> he went onto say that he'd have to check them out. keeping them honest we did as well. >> she came to my wedding. she ate like a pig. seriously, the wedding cake was like missing in action. >> the rosie o'donnell insults which he admits to are pretty well known by now. that said when it comes to making disparaging remarks about
i know how hard our crews work for our customers. i want them to know that they do have a safe and reliable system. together, we're building a better california. donald trump has made it clear he's not happy about some of the questions he was asked about last night, but there are a couple things he can't complain about. as the front runner he had the best position on the stage, the center spot. he was hard to miss in many of the shots. he also got the lion's share of the spotlight because he talked the most. tom foreman tonight breaks it down for us. tom. >> hey, anderson. a lot of republicans were worried donald trump would suck all the oxygen out of the room in this debate. and he sure did chew up some minutes. look at this analysis by "the washington post." ten and a half minutes of talking time for trump during the course of this debate. the nearest competitor bush with 8:47. most of the others only got six