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VAN SUSTEREN: So you called him?

M. TRUMP: Yes.

VAN SUSTEREN: He didn’t call you?

M. TRUMP: Well, at first, when we met, I didn’t give him my number. He was with a date. So, I told him give me your number and I will call you. I wanted to see what kind of number he would give me, business, or home. If he would give me a business number, I’m not a girl doing business with him. Why we give me a business number? So he gave me all of them. And when I came back, I said give me your number. I promise I will call you. I came back after the photo shoot and I called him.

VAN SUSTEREN: And so then you went out on a date?

M. TRUMP: We went on a date and we had a great time.

VAN SUSTEREN: Where did you go?

M. TRUMP: We went to Roomba. It was a place in New York, downtown. It was a fun place and we stayed for quite a long time, and had a great chemistry.

VAN SUSTEREN: Did you think maybe there is a possibility with this guy? You know, you might want to marry him later or was that way too soon?

M. TRUMP: Way too soon. You need to know somebody. You need to spend time with the person. And you don’t know yet in such quick time. You cannot know oh, I’m marrying a person or not, especially the known person as he was. It’s very different when you are dating celebrity or if you are dating somebody unknown.

VAN SUSTEREN: It was several years later before you got married.

M. TRUMP: Yes.

VAN SUSTEREN: How many years.

M. TRUMP: We were together like — before we got married, it was seven years we know each other.

VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have a nickname for him?

M. TRUMP: No.

VAN SUSTEREN: No nickname.

M. TRUMP: No.

VAN SUSTEREN: Does he have one for you?

M. TRUMP: No. We don’t have nicknames.

VAN SUSTEREN: So he asked you to marry you. Where were you when he asked to marry you?

M. TRUMP: It was a gala in New York. We were both dressed, and he asked me to marry me.

VAN SUSTEREN: No hesitation?

M. TRUMP: No. But I was — I knew a little bit that he might propose sooner or later. And you know, of course, no hesitation. We were together for so long. We know each other. We were very compatible. We like the same things. We are very independent. We gave each other space as well. So he does what he wants to do and he loves to do. And I do what I love to do. That was my decision, not to go on the campaign because I said I want to be a parent to my child. And he completely agreed with that. And I said I would be there when I can be there, and support him 1100 per cent every day all the time.

VAN SUSTEREN: You got married down in Florida.

M. TRUMP: Yes, in Palm Beach, in the church.

VAN SUSTEREN: And Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the president was there.

M. TRUMP: Yes, they were there.

VAN SUSTEREN: What are your thoughts about that?

M. TRUMP: Well, now is a different time. That was in 2005, it was a different time. We were private citizens. He was not running for the office, as he said. He was friends and get along with many, many people. So I don’t see anything wrong with that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Have you ever socialized with them besides the wedding with the Clintons?

M. TRUMP: No, no.

VAN SUSTEREN: Any thoughts about Secretary Clinton as his opponent?

M. TRUMP: Well, now, we will see where it’s getting into. So we will see. I know my husband is strong, tough, great leader, and he will do what the country needs.

VAN SUSTEREN: So it’s going to get probably pretty rugged, I imagine, between of two of them, if they were both the candidates.

M. TRUMP: Yes, we will see.

VAN SUSTEREN: And that’s OK with you?

M. TRUMP: That’s OK with me. It’s nothing personal. It’s all business.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: And ever wondered what a billionaire’s penthouse looks like? Well, wonder no more. Melania Trump takes you on a tour. That’s next.

Plus, her husband Donald Trump won 7 of 11 states on Super Tuesday. Can anyone stop Trump? That’s coming up.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Melania Trump takes you inside the Trump Penthouse on Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: Before he decided to run for president, what was your day like? I mean, what time did Donald get home from work?

M. TRUMP: Normally he goes in the office, in the morning, wakes up very early, goes to the office. And he is back by 7:00. So we try to have a dinner together.

VAN SUSTEREN: He doesn’t drink, right?

M. TRUMP: He doesn’t drink.

VAN SUSTEREN: And your son is how old?

M. TRUMP: He will be 10 soon.

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is the disciplinarian, you or Donald?

M. TRUMP: I am. I’m raising my child. Here, we team all the time. I’m raising him. I’m teaching him values and morals. And preparing him for adult life because one day, he will have wings as we say, and he will fly on his own. And I just wanted to raise him the right way. I don’t want nanny raising him. So he needs a parent at home.

VAN SUSTEREN: And you have some pictures, actually.

M. TRUMP: Yes. He was three weeks’ old and so — and then, here it was like almost like a year. And we have a few pictures.

VAN SUSTEREN: Are you tough?

M. TRUMP: Yes, I’m tough.

VAN SUSTEREN: You are a tough parent?

M. TRUMP: I’m fair. I’m fair. I let him be who he is. He is my child. But I don’t want to change him. He is who he is. And I try to give him traditions, and values, and morals into his life, but I don’t try to change him. I like that he has his own yes and his own no.

VAN SUSTEREN: There is a perception by some that Donald has got a rough reputation with women. That he has rough language with women. I don’t know how else to say it. What do you have to say to that?

M. TRUMP: I would say he treats equally everybody. If you are a woman, you are a man, he treats everybody equally. And he will tell you what is on his heart. And he will tell you what he thinks. He doesn’t hold back. And he is real. He is a real person.

VAN SUSTEREN: Is he funny?

M. TRUMP: He is funny. He has a great sense of humour. He likes to have a good time. He loves to get together with family and friends.

VAN SUSTEREN: What annoys him? What’s he got mad about? What does he like?

M. TRUMP: Stupidity.

VAN SUSTEREN: Really? Like what?

(CROSSTALK)

M. TRUMP: If something is not done the right way. And especially if you tell somebody and they don’t just do it, and he gets — he likes to be the right things done and he just doesn’t like it. He doesn’t like somebody who is not competent to do it.

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is more likely to apologize first in a fight, you or Donald?

M. TRUMP: We don’t have fights.

VAN SUSTEREN: You never had a fight?

M. TRUMP: No.

VAN SUSTEREN: Never have an argument?

M. TRUMP: We don’t have fights.

VAN SUSTEREN: You don’t disagree on things?

M. TRUMP: We disagree. But that’s OK. That’s very good in the relationship. I’m my own — with my own brains, he is with his own brains.

VAN SUSTEREN: It never gets heated.

M. TRUMP: No, no.

(CROSSTALK)

VAN SUSTEREN: You have never had an argument?

M. TRUMP: No. I tell him my way. And he accepts that and I tell him, you know, what I think and he is the same. He thinks what he thinks.

(CROSSTALK)

VAN SUSTEREN: Argue a little bit. I will tell you.

(CROSSTALK)

VAN SUSTEREN: So these are great pictures. This is your son.

M. TRUMP: He is Barron. And this is for the Halloween three years ago. This is on my wedding night. And at home. And Barron and Donald going for baseball.

(CROSSTALK)

M. TRUMP: This is Donald’s dad, Fred.

VAN SUSTEREN: Is that Donald with him?

M. TRUMP: Yes, that’s Donald when he graduated.

VAN SUSTEREN: Wow.

M. TRUMP: And his mother is right here.

VAN SUSTEREN: And, of course, there he is on the cover of the magazine.

M. TRUMP: Yeah. These are my parents, my mom and dad.

VAN SUSTEREN: Are your parents still living?

M. TRUMP: Yeah, they are here. They are here a lot. Yes. Yes. They love to spend time with my son and he loves them. And now, it’s a perfect age, too. They are very close together.

VAN SUSTEREN: And, of course, it helps with all the travelling, too.

M. TRUMP: Yes, of course. Of course.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: Just a note to all of you at home, the spouses of many of the candidates have appeared right here On The Record, and we have requested interviews with all of them since this race got started. There is also much more of my interview with Melania Trump. That’s coming soon on the Fox News Channel.

And is Donald Trump unstoppable? What would the other candidates have to do to overtake Trump? Can they? That’s next.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are going to make America great again, folks. We’re going to make it great again.

I know how he hard worked, actually. So I congratulate Ted Cruz on that win. It was an excellent win.

I know it was a tough night for Marco Rubio. It was a tough night. He worked hard. He spent a lot of money. He is a lightweight as I said many times before.

We are going to make our military bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And nobody, nobody, nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Well, that was Donald Trump as you know. And it was after yesterday’s Super Tuesday victories. And as Trump continues to wrack up wins and delegates, is he unstoppable? The On The Record political panel is here from the Washington Post Philip Bump and from the Wall Street Journal John Bussey. John, first to you, all the pundits last summer said he would be gone in a second.

JOHN BUSSEY, WALL STREET JOURNAL: A lot of pundits including a lot of reporters thought that this was a passing affair. But, in fact, he is here. And he is a reflection of disgruntlement in the electorate. And I wonder, every time that you see a figure in Washington or a politician who has been around for a while coming out against Donald Trump. You know, Paul Ryan criticizing him about the David Duke affair, and Mitt Romney being tough on him, whether that in fact empowers Donald Trump. Because they reflect what the voter is trying to project.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, the Pope even had a little problem with Donald Trump. Who would have guessed that? Philip.

PHILIP BUMP, WASHINGTON POST: Yeah, I know. I think that’s exactly right. I think the question that — we have come to this point, right, where the establishment has been pushing back. And they were like us for a long time, oh, it’s never going to happen, it’s never going to happen. And they have gone too far. Now, they are faced with this prospect of a nominee who blatantly rejects them, who they spent all this time building institutional power in the Republican Party. He needs none of that. He doesn’t need them at all, and hasn’t needed them the entire time. And so, yes, Mitt Romney coming out tomorrow and criticizing Donald Trump. I’m not sure where the overlap is between people who want to listen to Donald Trump and listen to Mitt Romney, if it exists at all.

VAN SUSTEREN: You know, that brings up I think a problem that the New York Times has because — and Governor Mitt Romney is going to speak tomorrow has tweeted about this. He says Trump should authorize New York Times to release the transcript of editorial board interview, which is off-the- record. All the candidates do it with all the newspapers. And Romney does that. And obviously, I mean, I don’t know, but I think the New York Times — it looks pretty bad in this because how did they — how did this even get out?

BUSSEY: The voter doesn’t care. The voter doesn’t care.

(CROSSTALK)

VAN SUSTEREN: Does the New York Times care?

BUMP: Yeah. At this point, the voter looks at anything that is attack on Donald Trump, and sees in it an attack on the very path it sees to finally being enfranchised. It looks back on Washington over the last, you know, several years, and see the paralysis that seized Washington. And it wants none of it any longer. So what’s going to happen between now and Election Day? The GOP is going to be trying to figure out, what is it? Are we a party that’s going to support Donald Trump or are we a party that’s going to split from Donald Trump and be successful in that split?

(CROSSTALK)

BUMP: This is an incredible divergence.

VAN SUSTEREN: And I really don’t understand Governor Mitt Romney. Because is he is not asking. I assume that other candidates had off-the-record interviews with the editorial board of the New York Times. But he is only zeroing in on Trump. And he is making an innuendo that he seems to know something, which is stunning to me, too, because I never thought Governor Mitt Romney would get sort of dirty like that.

BUSSEY: Yeah, something switched where he thought it would be up to him to take on Donald Trump on behalf of the establishment. A lot of folks thought there wasn’t enough being done to challenge Donald Trump. Clearly, someone got to Mitt Romney and he assumed that mantel. I don’t know to the point that was made that it will be successful. I don’t know, you know. What they need to do is figure out how they can keep Trump from getting these delegates. I don’t think Mitt Romney is the way to do that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Thank you gentlemen both very much. And coming up, I will tell you who is indecent in my off-the-record next.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Let’s all go off-the-record. Sometimes people are greedy or just plain dumb. Neither is good. Case in point. I read in the New York Times yesterday that the Federal Medicare program and private health insurers waste about $3 billion a year by buying and then throwing out large amounts of incredibly expensive cancer medicines. Why? Well, the drugs come in vials containing too much medicine for one patient. So once the patient gets the needed dose, the rest of the expensive drug in the vial is thrown out.

Yes, wasteful and incredibly expensive and cruel to very sick people, some facing possible death from illness. No one should have to pay thousands for extra drugs that they don’t use just because of the packaging. And there is a very simple and kind solution. Drug makers could use small vials with smaller quantities of the cancer drugs. Problem solved. That’s how it’s done in Europe. So why not here in the U.S.A.?

Well, the ugly answer is there is big money in cancer drugs and people with cancer, they will do anything to try to save their lives, even pay for what they do not need. Shame on those drug manufacturers. And shame on our government for not protecting the American people this way. It’s indecent. And that’s my off-the-record comment tonight.

Live twitter voting results on your screen right now. Should Governor Romney inject himself into the 2016 GOP battle, 89 per cent say no, 11 per cent say yes. That’s all for now. We’ll see you again tomorrow night right here at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Good night from New York City.

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