Nikki Haley on The Story with Martha MacCallum (FULL)

We are now four days away from the South Carolina primary. Former governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley trailing former president Trump in her home state by about 30 points depending on which polls you look at. That is the poll from Suffolk, that's the new one, Suffolk USA Today that just came out. Haley made a big speech today at noon. She says she is not dropping out no matter what happens in South Carolina on Saturday. I'm campaigning every day until the last person votes because I believe in a better America and a brighter future for our kids. Nothing good in life comes easy. I'm willing to take the cuts, the bruises and the name calling because the only way you get to the blessing is by going through the pain. Here's former president Trump in South Carolina Today ahead of his town hall with Laura Ingram here on Fox. There was a Haley town hall on Sunday with John Roberts. Here's what he had to say when he landed. Nikki Haley will run as a no labels candidate. Thank you press. She has not had enough though. She is here today. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley joins us now. Thank you very much ambassador and governor. Good to have you with us today. You heard a lot of that talk after this speech that you gave this afternoon which was defiant. No matter what happens on Saturday you are in this race and planning to stay in it. It raised a lot of questions from people about whether or not you would ever consider any sort of third party race because you said you don't want it to be either of those two guys. My focus right now is running in a Republican primary. It always has been. I have never talked to the no labels people. That's not anything that I've been focused on. What I've been focused on is what we're going to do to change the course of what's happening in our country. If you look at what our kids have been through just over the past few years, they've been through COVID. They worry about the debt that government is in and how that's going to affect them. They worry about if they're going to be able to afford a home. They worry about where they're going to get a job. They're fearful of wars around the world. All they have felt is chaos and anger all around them. We have got to do this to right the ship for them. We've got to start getting things back on track to where they don't have these stresses. Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a country where we could actually have dinner with our family and not have a fight? Or if we could go to work and say what we thought and not worry about being demoted? Getting rid of this division and hate is hugely important. We can be tough on the issues. We can strongly disagree on issues. But we can't do it with two candidates who literally just hate on the other side and encourage their supporters to hate on the other side. It's not normal. None of this is normal and it should never be normal in America. We have the chance to change that. You said at the top of that my focus right now is running in the Republican primary. You talked a lot today about a new future for the country. I'm just wondering, based on what's out there, the Trump team says they're going to hit 12-15 for the Republican nomination by mid-March. Who knows if they can do that? You're going to be hanging in there through Super Tuesday. I know you hope to do well in those states. But are you opening that door to at least considering that maybe there's another route for you? No, I haven't. That's not anything I've looked at. That's not anything I'm thinking about. What I can tell you is just because the Trump team says it doesn't mean anything. They said that we weren't going to make it through Iowa and we were one percent away from second place. They said we were 30 points down in New Hampshire. We ended up being with 43 percent of the vote. So it doesn't matter to me what they say about South Carolina or Super Tuesday states. What matters to me is what the American people are saying. And you can look at the crowds we have in South Carolina, hundreds of people wherever we go. They are tired of the chaos and the noise. They're tired of what Joe Biden is doing in terms of having an open border and not stopping the people from trying to come in. They're tired of all this corporate social welfare that that Joe Biden's giving out. They're tired of the chaos that Trump continues to give and the fact that all he ever talks about is himself. They're worried about their future. They're worried about their kids' future. They want to start talking about debt and education and closing our border and preventing wars. They don't want to talk about these two men just puffing up their chest, talking about how they're going to hate the other side. That's not what wins elections and that's not what builds in America's future. So, you know, in terms of the former president talking about himself, he did that when he raised this question about what he thought about the killing of Alexei Navalny, which I know is a situation that you have watched very closely in Russia. And it's not just about the tragic death that he suffered. It's about the implications of Putin's plans for other people. There are two Americans that are being held. Put that back up again. He said the sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what's happening in our country. It is a slow, steady progression with crooked, radical left politicians and prosecutors and judges. What do you think about that, Governor? That just makes my point. It's amazing that here's a hero who challenged Putin, lost his life because of it. This is on the heels of Trump saying that he would encourage Putin to invade any NATO countries that didn't pull their weight. And now the only comment he's going to make about Navalny is not hitting Putin for murdering him, not praising Navalny for fighting the corruption that was happening in Russia. But instead, he's going to compare himself to Navalny and the victim that he is in his court cases. That is my point. He is so distracted. He is so focused on himself. And America can't go through this. We won't survive it. He's going to spend this entire year in a courtroom. There is a reason Biden and the Democrats so desperately want Trump to be the candidate for the Republican Party. It's because they know they can beat him. They beat him multiple times over and over again. We need to start saying, what does it take to win? Because we can't fix this country if we don't win. And look at any of the polls. It shows that. And that's why he's going back to exactly what he does, where he makes this all about himself. This has to start being about the American people. Just really quickly, I know you have to go, but what would you do as president if you look at this Navalny situation, you look at Putin making some more advances in Ukraine, and President Biden has said, oh, well, there'll be real ramifications if anything happens to Navalny. If you were if it was President Haley, what would the consequences be for Putin of this action? Well, the first thing is you solidify your alliance with NATO and let Putin know that the second phase we should be seizing Russian assets and giving that money to Ukraine so that they can further fight the war and do better with that. And then you go and you add more countries to your alliance. Yes, we ask them to pull their own weight and do that. But the best thing we can do is continue to support Ukraine with the equipment and ammunition they need to win, because that's the best thing that puts Putin on his heels. So that's not what you want to do when you go and you have Trump saying, go ahead and invade them. It's been a 75 year success story that we've had with NATO. Putin's been intimidated by that alliance. China's been intimidated by that alliance. And Trump just put us all in danger by going and exposing that. Well, it's an area where you have a sharp contrast. So we'll look forward to seeing what voters what's on their minds, how they vote. We'll be covering all of it. Live coverage all day Saturday of the South Carolina primary. Former governor, former ambassador Nikki Haley and current candidate for the Republican Party nomination. Thank you for being here today. Good to see you, as always. Thanks. Go to Nikki Haley dot com and join us.