Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe hosted Donald Trump for an hour-long interview in Charleston, South Carolina, where they peppered the GOP presidential candidate with questions and fielded a few queries from the audience.
The event was broadcast the same time as the first part of a GOP town hall, which aired on CNN and featured Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Trump will appear on tomorrow night's installment alongside Jeb Bush and John Kasich.
Throughout the night, the co-hosts occasionally put some pressure on Trump -- Scarborough tripped him up a little bit on his thoughts on the war in Iraq -- but, for the most part, they went easy on the frontrunner.
So what, exactly, did they talk about? Well, maybe it's easier to approach from the angle of what they didn't talk about.
Christian, Muslim, immigration, and terrorism go completely unmentioned while war, money, health care, and China all got more than 10 mentions. Gay marriage and abortion -- two major social issues for Conservative voters -- were never brought up either.
And Ronald Reagan got more mentions than either Mexico or ISIS.
As for more immediate current events, the hosts did get Trump to talk about his thoughts on Apple's resistance to giving the FBI help cracking an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.
Trump criticizes @Apple, @tim_cook for resisting FBI request to crack San Bernardino shooter's phone pic.twitter.com/3PFkqHCM8R— Mashable News (@MashableNews) February 18, 2016
And as for the general election, Brzezinski caught Trump off-guard when she described a candidate that Trump thought was him. Instead, she was describing Bernie Sanders.
Mika describes a candidate.
Trump thinks it's him.
It's actually @BernieSanders.https://t.co/pJUg0MOVyQ— Mashable News (@MashableNews) February 18, 2016