Trump Warns Clinton: "Be Careful"
BOLDUAN: Tonight, Donald Trump warning Hillary Clinton in a tweet posted just this evening. Trump writes this -- "Hillary, when you complain about a pension for sexism, who are you referring to? I have great respect for women. Be careful." And this is the second warning from Trump just today towards Clinton after Clinton called him out for sexism, bigotry and hateful speech. Dana Bash has the latest in this growing back and forth.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going to win so much in so many different ways that you're going to get tired.</s>DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For a candidate who loves winning, this will be a very Merry Christmas.</s>TRUMP: I'm only kidding, we'll never get tired of winning, right?</s>BASH: Donald Trump is so far ahead in CNN/ORC's new national poll, he has more support than the next three GOP candidates combined, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio. His leads are even bigger on the question of voter's confidence in him to deal with key issues, the economy, fighting ISIS and illegal immigration. But the best news for Trump may be that Republicans are settling into the idea of him as a formidable candidate to take the White House. Forty six percent say they think Republican chances are better with Trump at the top of the ticket of eight point since August.</s>TRUMP: I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about. Now, it's too disgusting.</s>BASH: That is Trump's war of words with the Democrats frontrunner is getting harder. Hillary Clinton told the Des Moines Register that Trump has a quote, "Penchant for sexism."</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he's using to divide people. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign.</s>BASH: Trump responded, Trump style on Twitter saying, be careful Hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card. And on his use of a Yiddish word for a certain part of the male anatomy to describe Clinton's 2008 loss to Barack Obama --</s>TRUMP: She got schlonged. She lost.</s>BASH: Trump pushed back from the idea that he meant anything vulgar, insisting "schlonged" is a common political term tweeting, "When I said that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by Obama, it meant got beaten badly. The media knows this, often used word in politics."</s>BASH: I've been covering politics for a long time now. I can't recall hearing that word in any political context. But Kate, maybe I missed it. Regardless, this fact between Trump and Clinton, it only helps each other's constituencies because they need them at this age that they gain as parties basis. They are the ones who are going to start voting in Iowa in just about a month and a half.</s>BOLDUAN: It does seem that now there is a new word added to our political dictionary. Thank you very, very much.</s>BASH: Thank you.</s>BOLDUAN: Dana, it's great to see you. Thanks. OUTFRONT tonight, Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson and the founder of the pro-Clinton Super PAC "Correct the Record," David Brock. Guys, it's great to see you. Thanks so much.</s>DAVID BROCK, FOUNDER, "CORRECT THE RECORD," A PRO-CLINTON SUPER PAC: Thank you.</s>KATRINA PIERSON, DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN SPOKESWOMAN: Hi, Kate.</s>BOLDUAN: Nice to see you. Katrina, two tweets now -- not just one, two tweets coming from Trump today, both of them warning Clinton in a various ways but he says, both times, be careful. What is Donald Trump warning Hillary Clinton about?</s>PIERSON: Well, I think it's pretty obvious by now that Donald Trump will be the only Republican candidate that would be willing to take Hillary on, head-on. And what he's referring to is very simple. You know, no one really complained in 2011 when he used the exact same exact word to describe a woman winning an election cycle, with a Congressional race actually. And so, all of a sudden it's horrible. But Hillary Clinton has some nerve to talk about the war on women and the bigotry towards women when she has a serious problem in her husband.</s>BOLDUAN: David Brock, Bill Clinton, he's being brought in.</s>BROCK: Look, let's just start by saying, you know, let's not talk about Hillary Clinton for a minute. What are the Republican say about Donald Trump? Unhinged proto-fascist. The "Wall Street Journal" editorial page today says, he has a pathology and narcissistic personality. That's why he admires Putin who is also a narcissistic strong men. So, I think the question is, what kind of a man -- let's forget the pardonship -- what kind of man insults, threatens, and degrades women not just Hillary, Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina. I'll tell you what kind of a man that is? That is somebody who is frightened, who is insecure and is a woos who has to act like a bully to make him feel like he's a big man. And I'll tell you what we're not going to be bullied in this campaign.</s>BOLDUAN: Katrina?</s>PIERSON: Well, let's distinguish between the people he's talking about, the quote-unquote, "Republican establishment" who happens to be losing handedly right now. And what's interesting about this, this notion of being bullied is, I mean, I can think of quite a few women that have been bullied by Hillary Clinton to hide her husband's misogynist sexist secret. So we can actually go there but the thing about Hillary is, she does need to be very careful. Because in the new CNN poll, it shows that not only Donald Trump, but Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are statistically tied with women. This is a campaign that was not going to run on the issues. Hillary was going to try to run this way on being a woman and it's failing.</s>BOLDUAN: David, I want to tell you, I know you lost audio for just a second there, David. But again and again, this is the warning, the be careful that's coming from Donald Trump, we're hearing it from Katrina. They are going to take on Bill Clinton.</s>BROCK: Right. Let them take on Bill Clinton. Look, this is not a democratic problem. It's a Republican problem. You have a Republican, front-runner, it is sad and pathetic, who not only insults women, is a racist who talks about Mexican immigrants as rapists, who is stoking Islamophobia which is helping the terrorists who want to kill us. This is a really dangerous situation and it's a terrible problem for the Republican Party. Because Donald Trump, at the end of the day, is an opportunist, he doesn't care about the Republican Party. To him, it's just a casino.</s>BOLDUAN: Actually, a Liberal problem, Erin. Because what you have on Hillary Clinton's side are a bunch of people including women, liberal women who want to run around talking about the war on women, they want to burn their bras, they complain about equal pay and being treated as men, and the second thing they get criticized for anything, they start acting like nine-year-old little girls. So, let's be serious.</s>BROCK: It's terrible to advocate for equal pay, isn't it?</s>BOLDUAN: Here's the one thing guys --</s>PIERSON: It's about policy instead of going around trying to call somebody, sexist, racism, misogynist.</s>BROCK: We're not calling. It's what it is.</s>BOLDUAN: I actually want to ask you something.</s>BROCK: Don't tell me it's politically correct. It's just decent not to walk around saying racist and sexists things.</s>BOLDUAN: David, you're doing a very good job speaking for Hillary Clinton. But let me ask you about this --</s>BROCK: Sure.</s>BOLDUAN: In your response coming from Hillary Clinton --</s>BROCK: Yes.</s>BOLDUAN: First, you had the campaign was silent. Then you have the Clinton campaign official who sent out a tweet saying, we're not going to respond. Fast forward no time at all, almost the same day. Hillary Clinton did respond in that very emotional way. What is the change? What is the decision behind that strategy if she's not afraid to take Bill -- Bill Clinton, pardon me -- if she's not afraid to take Donald Trump on, what was behind that strategy towards the response?</s>BROCK: Honestly, I don't know. But I'll just say that the things that were said the other night, I was watching live. They were so shocking that the first thing you would say is, I'm not going to dignify it. But then, look, he's the Republican front-runner. Your own poll shows that today. He's surging on the basis of a radicalized Republican base and he is giving voice to their bigotry. And so someone needs to call that out. And I'm glad Hillary Clinton is doing it and we're going to continue to do it because certainly the Republicans, who are his opponents, are too weak to really do the job.</s>BOLDUAN: Here's the thing to both of you. Neither Hillary Clinton among her base of women -- she doesn't have a problem with women in her base. Donald Trump also doing very well with women in the Republican base. So in terms of the primary, this doesn't hurt either of these candidates. But what about if they make it to the General, Katrina? You can see the war on women that has been a somewhat successful charge in the past against Republicans. Is that a problem for the Trump campaign and in the general?</s>PIERSON: Well, Kate, I think you're right. This was a problem in the past mainly because any other Republican would be the quiet, soft person and not want to push back against the Liberals or even the media, for that matter. That's why this is very different. And just like I stated in the CNN poll, they are statistically tied right now with women. So, I don't think this is going to be an issue for Mr. Trump and, and more importantly, when we're looking at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, we have very big policy differences, number one. Number two, we're talking about moving forward. We're not going to be stuck in the '60s. Every time a Republican says anything Kate, it's either racist or bigoted if they don't like it and it's not just going to work on the Trump campaign.</s>BOLDUAN: David, are you guys outdated?</s>BROCK: Certainly not. In fact, the retrograde misogyny that we see from Donald Trump shows who really is outdated here. So, look, you know, this is a Republican fight. You know, we don't have any say over who the Republicans nominee. If they want to nominate Donald trump, go right ahead and do it. But they are going to alienate that he already has alienated substantial parts of the country. He's put our country in danger which, in my mind, is a disqualifier for being a commander-in-chief. But if the Republicans wanted to go down that road, if they really hate their leadership and their establishment and what the party stands for, don't talk to me about policy for instance. Donald Trump has repudiated Republican ideology on foreign policy.</s>BOLDUAN: Absolutely.</s>BROCK: And on economic policy. So we're seeing an implosion of the Republican Party right before our eyes.</s>BOLDUAN: I'll tell you guys, listen, this ends up --</s>PIERSON: Donald Trump's policies are very different and Hillary Clinton oversaw the growth of ISIS and she also armed ISIS. She's the one who put the country in danger.</s>BROCK: Yes, he's a real, big, tough man with</s>ISIS. BOLDUAN: Let me point just this out.</s>BROCK: Yes.</s>BOLDUAN: If this does become a general election matchup between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I think this is a perfect example of how just lively that debate is going to be. Katrina, David, thanks so much. Great to see you, guys. Thank you.</s>BROCK: Look forward to it, Kate. Thank you.</s>PIERSON: Thanks, Kate.</s>BOLDUAN: OUTFRONT for us next, Ted Cruz is slamming the media for a cartoon about his daughters. So why is he using the very same image then to raise money? Also this ahead, more breaking news, new information about the two Muslim families barred from boarding a flight for their U.S. vacation. Was it profiling? We'll be right back.