Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told reporters onboard his private jet Tuesday that he plans to spend at least $2 million a week on advertising in early voting states.
When a reporter noted that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has spent $40 million already, Trump offered a correction.
"He hasn't spent $40 million – he's wasted $40 million," Trump said. "That's a big difference. So I'm going to be doing big ads in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and they will be very substantial and I think they're very well done."
Issues will include border security, trade, the Islamic State (ISIS) and national security, he said.
One reporter asked Trump if his call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration would extend to other changes since one of the San Bernardino shooters was a radicalized American citizen.
"Would you suspend any other constitutional rights of Muslim Americans? Gun ownership, anything like that?" the reporter asked.
Trump said he would "look very seriously" at American Muslims who are becoming radicalized.
"They're using our Internet system better than we do, and we're the ones that invented it," Trump said. "And I'd certainly get all of the geniuses there in Silicon Valley together and we will put a stop to a lot of the things going on where young impressionable people are becoming radicalized."
Referencing neighbors of the San Bernardino couple who were suspicious, but didn't report them for fear of being tagged racist or politically incorrect, Trump said people have to be encouraged to make the right move.
"We have to have people turn them in," he said. "People knew they had pipe bombs all over their floor. They had like 20 pipe bombs all over the apartment. People saw it. Why didn't they turn them in? … Something is going wrong and we'll get to the bottom of it.
On other issues, Trump said:
• It would be fair for opponents to attack him on personal indescretions just as he has attacked former President Bill Clinton. "And Hillary brought up the whole thing with sexism, and all I did was reverse it on her because she got a major problem right in her house. So if she wants to do that, we're going to go right after the president, the ex-president, and we'll see how it all comes out. And I feel very confident that it will come out very well for us."
• He has worked with Democrats and liberals in the past because it was right for his company. "I'm a conservative Republican, and in many ways I'm very conservative. But I had an obligation to my company and to my employees and to my family to get along. So I was able to get along with Clinton, I was able to get along with virtually every politician you can imagine. And when I went to Washington and when I needed something, I got it."
• He believes those who are showing up at his Iowa rallies will end up also casting caucus votes for him. "I really think those people, I think all of those people and even those who weren't at the rally, their friends, I think they will come out and caucus and we'll have a very big victory. But we'll have to see."
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