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MILWAUKEE – Republican presidential hopefuls met Tuesday night at the Milwaukee Theatre for their fourth debate of the election season.
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Here are the five memorable moments from the latest face-off, hosted by Fox Business:
1. Carson fires back about questions surrounding his life story. When Neil Cavuto asked neurosurgeon Ben Carson to weigh in on the recent media scrutiny of his past, Carson opened with a joke.
“Well, first of all, thank you for not asking me what I said in the 10th grade,” Carson said to laughter and applause. “I appreciate that.”
He continued, “The fact of the matter is, you know, we should vet all candidates. I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that out there as truth.”
He then tore into Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s response to Benghazi.
“When I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video – where I came from, they call that a lie,” Carson said.
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2. Paul, Rubio spar over national defense. In what Facebook dubbed the “top social moment of the debate,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio clashed over their tax plans – specifically on the issue of military spending.
The spat started when Paul said Rubio’s plan “for $1 trillion in new military spending” seemed “not very conservative.”
“I know that Rand is a committed isolationist. I’m not,” Rubio hit back. “I believe the world is a stronger and better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.”
But Paul wasn’t buying it. “You cannot be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for,” he said.
Paul later added, “I want a strong national defense, but I don’t want us to be bankrupt.”
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3. Cruz doubles down on cutting the Department of Commerce. When Texas Sen. Ted Cruz discussed his tax plan, he tried to name five agencies he would cut. But something didn’t add up.
“Today, we rolled out a spending plan – $500 billion in specific cuts, five major agencies that I would eliminate: the IRS, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce and HUD,” he said.
Turns out, that’s just four agencies; he listed the Department of Commerce twice. According to Cruz’s website, the elusive fifth agency is the Department of Education.
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4. Kasich, Bush slam Trump’s immigration plan. Real estate mogul Donald Trump again outlined his views on illegal immigration – but some of the other candidates weren’t impressed.
“We are a country of laws,” Trump said. “We need borders. We will have a wall. The wall will be built. The wall will be successful. And if you think walls don’t work, all you have to do is ask Israel. The wall works, believe me.”
Trump then defended his plan to deport illegal immigrants.
“We either have a country or we don’t have a country,” Trump said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich quickly fired back.
“If people think that we are going to ship 11 million people who are law-abiding, who are in this country, and somehow pick them up at their house and ship them out of Mexico, think about the families,” Kasich said. “Think about the children.”
Kasich later added, “It’s a silly argument. It’s not an adult argument.”
Trump retorted, “All I can say is you’re lucky in Ohio that you struck oil.”
Meanwhile, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush chimed in, saying Trump’s plan “is just not possible.”
“They are doing high-fives in the Clinton campaign when they hear this,” Bush said.
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5. Fiorina jabs at Trump after Vladimir Putin comment. After the businessman said he and the Russian president were “stablemates” for a “60 Minutes” interview, Trump added that he would support Putin’s intervention in Syria.
“If Putin wants to go and knock the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, 100 percent, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it,” Trump said.
Fiorina replied, “Mr. Trump ought to know we should not speak to people from a position of weakness.”
She added, “I have met [Putin] as well – not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting. One of the reasons I said I wouldn’t be talking to Vladimir Putin right now is because we are speaking to him in a position of weakness brought on by this administration.”
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