Trump: ‘The Laws Are Set Now on Abortion ... Until They’re Changed’

Donald Trump, after suggesting on Wednesday that women who have abortions "should be punished,"now says abortion should remain legal. 

"The laws are set now on abortion and that's the way they're going to remain until they're changed," Trump said in an interview with CBS's John Dickerson, which airs Sunday. "I think it would've been better if it were up to the states. But right now, the laws are set....At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."

Despite believe abortion should remain legal, Trump also said abortion is murder. "I don't disagree" that abortion is murder he told Dickerson.

After the interview, Trump's communications manager, Hope Hicks, clarified that Trump didn't mean abortion laws should remain as is. "Mr. Trump gave an accurate account of the law as it is today and made clear it must stay that way now --until he is President," she said. "Then he will change the law through his judicial appointments and allow the states to protect the unborn. There is nothing new or different here."