IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY AND SENATE DURING THE 2024 ELECTION. THE TWO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES WILL CAMPAIGN ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK AHEAD OF THE PRIMARY ON SATURDAY. CBS NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CAITLIN HUEY BURNS HAS BEEN FOLLOWING NIKKI HALEY. >> TRAILING DONALD TRUMP BY MORE THAN 30 POINTS IN HER HOME STATE, FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR NIKKI HALEY IS PLOWING ON. >> WE WANT TO CLOSE THAT GAP AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE TO SHOW THERE IS A PURPOSE. >> IN ORDER TO WIN THE NOMINATION, YOU HAVE TO WIN STATES, WHICH STATES CAN YOU WIN? >> WE ARE PLAYING ALL OF THEM, AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA, ONLY THREE STATES HAVE VOTED IT WE DO NOT ANOINT KINGS HERE. >> TIER SUPPORTERS WHO WANT TO SEE YOU GET TO THE NOMINATION, HOW EXACTLY DO YOU GET THERE? >> ONE STATE AT A TIME. IF I WERE TO GET OUT OF THE RACE NOW, IT WOULD BE THE LONGEST GENERAL ELECTION IN HISTORY, THE POLITICAL LEADER SAYING YOU SHOULD GET OUT, WHY? WHY SHOULD I GET OUT, DO WE NOT WANT STATES TO VOTE, LET'S LET THEM VOTE. >> A WIN WOULD GIVE TRUMP HIS FOURTH STATE VICTORY IN A ROW, FACING THE PROSPECT, HALEY IS FOCUSING ON THE FORMER PRESIDENTS MOUNTING LEGAL CHALLENGES. HIS POSTURE TOWARDS RUSSIA. >> I DON'T KNOW WHY HE KEEPS GETTING WEAK IN THE KNEES WHEN IT COMES TO RUSSIA, I WILL TELL YOU WHAT, RUSSIA IS NOT GETTING WEAK IN THE KNEES. >> TRUMP MADE HIS FIRST COMMENTS ABOUT THE DEATH OF RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ALEXEI NAVALNY AND A TRUE SOCIAL POST CONNECTING IT TO HIS OWN LEGAL WOES SAYING WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE. TRUMP RECEIVED A $355 MILLION FINE AND A CIVIL COURT CASE ON FRIDAY, AND OVER THE WEEKEND, HE TRIED TO RALLY SUPPORT AT A SNEAKER CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA WHERE HE UNVEILED A NEW LINE OF SHOES. >> IS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AUDIENCE THAN I'M USED TO, BUT I LOVE THIS AUDIENCE. >> WITH FIVE DAYS TO GO INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY, BUT THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WILL BE CAMPAIGNING IN THE SAME AREA. DONALD TRUMP WILL BE HOSTING A TOWN HALL ON NIKKI HALEY WILL BE DELIVERING A SPEECH ON THE STATE OF HER CAMPAIGN DEFYING CALLS FOR HER TO DROP OUT. JOHN? >> CAITLIN HUEY BURNS IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA THANK YOU. FROM WHAT, LET'S BRING IN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT MAJOR GARRETT, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE RESPONSE FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT TO THE DEATH OF OPPOSITION LEADER ALEXEI NAVALNY? >> IT TOOK A LONG WHILE FOR SOMETHING TO BE SAID BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT ABOUT THIS WORLD SHATTERING EVENT, ALEXEI NAVALNY'S DEATH IS THAT, PROTEST ALL OVER THE WORLD BECAUSE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT ALEXEI NAVALNY REPRESENTED WITHIN RUSSIA, AND GLOBALLY. THAT IS TO SAY SOMEONE WHO WAS A COURAGEOUS OPPOSITION FIGURE POISON ONCE, RETURNED TO RUSSIA KNOWING PREDICTING TO OUR COLLEAGUES AT 60 MINUTES THAT SOMEDAY HE WOULD BE KILLED BY THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IF HE WENT BACK TO RUSSIA TO LEAD THE OPPOSITION. THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT HAPPENED, FOR TWO DAYS OR MORE, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS GLOBAL EVENT, WHEN HE DID SAY SOMETHING, HE TRIED TO MAKE HIMSELF A ALEXEI NAVALNY FIGURE, SOMEONE WHO'S BEING ROUGHED UP BY THE GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE, PROBABLY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN THIS CAMPAIGN SAYING PRESIDENT BIDEN IS LIKE VLADIMIR PUTIN, HE OFTEN SAYS PROVEN IS SMART, AGGRESSIVE, A STRONG LEADER, WORDS AND PHRASES HE NEVER APPLIES TO THE CURRENT SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRYING TO UNRAVEL THAT INCONSISTENCY IS UP TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND HIS SUPPORTERS, IT IS A LONG PERIOD OF TIME FOR NOTHING TO BE SAID AND IT ALSO COMES IN THE SHADOW OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT ON THIS PROGRAM LAST WEEK, REMARKS WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT SAYING RUSSIA COULD DO WHATEVER IT WANTED. THE ALEXEI NAVALNY DEATH MAY VERY WELL FALL UNDER THAT CATEGORY. >> NIKKI HALEY HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS RESPONSE, AND MENTIONED THAT TRUMP OMITTED ANYTHING ABOUT PUTIN'S HISTORY OF POLITICAL SUPPRESSION, AS A WAY TO MAKE THE CASE SHE WOULD BE BETTER ABLE TO HANDLE THESE KINDS OF GLOBAL ISSUES. DO YOU THINK THAT MATTERS AT ALL IN THE RACE THAT SHE'S COMPETING IN? >> IT WOULD MATTER MORE IF THERE WAS A SINGLE OTHER REPUBLICAN NOT NAMED NIKKI HALEY SAYING THEY WERE TOO ALARMED BY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RHETORIC OR LACK OF COMMENTARY ABOUT ALEXEI NAVALNY'S DEATH, THERE REALLY ARE NOT, NIKKI HALEY IS ESSENTIALLY BY HERSELF TRAILING BADLY IN SOUTH CAROLINA, IF SHE LOSES AS EVERY SINGLE POLE SUGGEST THAT PROBABLY LOSES HANDLEY, THAT WILL BE FOUR LOSSES IN A ROW, NO ONE HAS CAPTURED A PARTY NOMINATION AFTER LOSING FOUR IN A ROW, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HALEY AND TRUMP COULD GET LARGER AS SUPER TUESDAY GETS CLOSER, WHEN NIKKI HALEY NEEDS IS SOME REPUBLICAN SAYING YES, WE MAY NOT SUPPORT YOU BUT WE ARE AS ALARMED AS YOU ARE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR APPROACH TO THIS VERY IMPORTANT GLOBAL ISSUE THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS TAKING, SHE'S FINDING SCARCE NUMBERS OF ALLIES. >> AN EXTRA ORDINARY DISTANCE FOR A PARTY TO TRAVEL THAT ONCE DEFINED ITSELF BY SUPPORTING THE SMALLEST FREEDOM FIGHTER IN THE SMALLEST COUNTRY TRYING TO STAND UP AS A SINGLE PERSON EVEN AGAINST RUSSIA, SPEAKING OF DISTANCE THAT THE PARTY HAS TRAVELED, SENATOR TIM SCOTT OF SOUTH CAROLINA WAS ON TWO OF SUNDAY SHOWS INCLUDING FACE THE NATION AND REFUSE TO ANSWER WHETHER IF YOU ARE IN MIKE PENCE'S POSITION AS TO CERTIFY THE VOTES IN 2020, WHETHER HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO. HE CALLED IT A HYPOTHETICAL. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT WITH RESPECT TO WHAT ONE CAN AND CANNOT SAY IN DONALD TRUMP'S OR PUBLICAN PARTY NOW? >> YOU CANNOT SAY IF YOU WANT TO BE IN THE TRUMP INNER CIRCLE AND THERE ARE CERTAINLY INDICATIONS THAT SENATOR TIM SCOTT WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE SHOULD HE SECURE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINATION, YOU CANNOT SAY THE ELECTION WAS NOT STOLEN , YOU CANNOT SAY MIKE PENCE DID THE RIGHT THING, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP DISAGREES EVEN THOUGH CONSTITUTIONALLY AS A MATTER FACT, LAW AND VERIFIED NUMBERS BOTH ARE TWO --
