Santorum: GOP Establishment ‘Panicked’ over Trump

BARNICLE: “Trump’s effect on the process. He has had a devastating impact on the other candidates in the first half. It a two-half process, primaries and general. Where does Trump go in the second half if he’s the nominee of your party?”
SANTORUM: “It’s hard for me to figure. You’re asking someone to predict what Donald Trump would do —“
SCARBOROUGH: “What impact does he have on your [crosstalk] The fear of Trump has forced a lot of your former supporters to coalesce around one candidate —“
SANTORUM: “There is no question that a lot of conservative leaders, I'd call them the conservative establishment, is panicked because they don’t believe that Trump is solid on their issues. They’re looking for someone. And now as we approach the primaries, a lot of them have decided, well, here’s the guy that’s ahead right now and we’re going to coalesce behind him to stop Trump.”
SCARBOROUGH: “But if you proved fours years ago you were sitting at one, two, three, four percent at this point and you won Iowa. It too early to tell!”
SANTORUM: “It's too early to tell and I I’ve been making that point to a lot of leaders who actually called me and gave me the courtesy of telling me what they were going to do. I said let the people of Iowa decide. Let the voters decide. Why do you believe that’s your job to stand in here and weed the field out for the electorate? The people of Iowa actually spend more time analyzing these candidates, getting to know these candidates than most of the political leaders in Washington, D.C. do?"
SCARBOROUGH: “Can you still win?”
SANTORUM: “Absolutely.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Rick Santorum, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. Good to see you.”