CBS’ Garrett: Report on Trump’s Health ‘Read More Like Satire than Science’

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ROSE: “Welcome to ‘CBS this morning.’ Nine presidential candidates are set for tonight’s prime time Republican debate of 2015. Donald Trump’s was interrupted by protesters. One man with the ‘Black Lives Matter movement’ scuffled with security threatening him.”
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UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Let him get out. Let him get out.”
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O’DONNELL: “Trump faces a different environment tonight and back to bashing his opponent, Ted Cruz, could face major questioning. Major Garrett, good morning.”
GARRETT: “Good morning. Donald Trump has been living a charmed political life, atop the polls, untouched by the mandarins of talk radio. No more. He has serious competition in Iowa and right wing wonder if Trump understands what it means to be a conservative.
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TRUMP: “I think tomorrow night, I think it will be big.”
GARRETT (voice-over): “Donald Trump rallied in Las Vegas Monday and early signs of political fatigue.”
TRUMP: “Who will attack Trump first? Will it be this one? You know, he’s taken down seven so far.”
GARRETT (voice-over): “Trump is down, trailing Texas Senator Ted Cruz. At Trump’s rally here, marred by protests, person league mayhem and Trumpians self satisfaction.”
TRUMP: “I’m doing a good job for the Republican Party. People are able get their votes out. And people may like this one or that one. That’s okay with me.”
GARRETT (voice-over): “Meanwhile, conservative talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin both question Trump’s decision to call Cruz a quote, ‘maniac’ for helping shut down the government in 2013.”
CRUZ: “There is no deal.”
LIMBAUGH: “That’s a huge mistake. Genuine conservative, even in the Republic field, would not go after Cruz is this way.”
GARRETT (voice-over): “Levin says Trump misunderstands the willingness of the GOP leaders.”
LEVIN: “I think my friend Donald Trump really screwed up this week. We despise the Republican establishment. That’s why amazingly there is so much energy behind the Trump campaign. How does he miss it?”
GARRETT (voice-over): “Cruz stayed out of the fray, saying he would avoid a debate confrontation with Trump.”
CRUZ (voice-over): “If others engage in personal attack, if they go down into the gutter, I have not responded in kind. I don’t intend to.”
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GARRETT: “Trump’s personal physician on Monday released a cursory report on Trump’s health, noting normal blood pressure but not much else. It did came with a declaration that read more like satire than science. Here is an excerpt. If elected, Mr. Trump will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. Charlie.”