Trump pleads with FBI to go after Clinton for email scandal 'Please FBI, please go after Hillary. I wanna run against Bernie!' Trump hollers at N.H. rally.

Donald Trump on Monday pleaded, with slight jest, for the FBI to go after Hillary Clinton for exclusively using a private email server which she was secretary of state, declaring that he would rather run against Bernie Sanders in the general election.

Less than a month before the New Hampshire primary and exactly three weeks before Iowans head to the caucus, a more subdued but no less forceful Trump spoke and took questions for nearly an hour in Windham, New Hampshire, hitting his usual campaign lines about having Mexico pay for a wall between the U.S. and making winners out of the American people once more.


Clinton wasn't Trump's only target on Monday. He again went after Ted Cruz, who is locked in a dead heat with Trump in the latest Iowa poll, saying the Texas senator should get a declaratory judgment that he is eligible for the presidency because he was born in Canada. Cruz, who has said that the legal case for his eligibility is clear-cut based on his mother's U.S. birth, released his mother's birth certificate on Friday.

"If you get the nomination, you can't have the person that gets the nomination be sued like Hillary might be sued," Trump said, in reference to an ongoing FBI investigation into the unusual email set-up that Clinton and her staff maintained.

Trump returned to the subject during the question-and-answer session, remarking that he had no explanation for Clinton's private server other than "greed."

“There is no answer to what she did. You know the amazing thing, other than greed, there was no — what’s she doing?" he asked. "You just use what you’re supposed to use, and you assume people are listening. Who the hell cares? And then you do what you have to do. All this for what? It’s greed. It’s really just greed in its own way. All she had to do was just do what she was supposed to do.”

As he told his audiences last week on Sanders' home turf, Trump remarked that he would "love to run against Bernie," recalling the time Black Lives Matter protesters took the microphone from Sanders at an event in Seattle last August.

"He walked back like a little puppy. This is gonna be our president," Trump said. "I would love—please FBI, please go after Hillary. I wanna run against Bernie!"

For his part, Sanders also told supporters last week that he would "love, love love" to run against the Manhattan businessman.

Running against Clinton, Trump continued, "would be fine."

"You know, honestly, I’ll take anybody," he said, citing his large crowds and how Sanders' crowds are second but are much less than his.

When a questioner asked him his opinion on former President Bill Clinton campaigning for his wife, Trump declined to get personal this time. "So far, it's not working out so well. So far, it's not. Hey, look, I wish him the best. I wish him the best. But it's not been working out very well. He had some major issues," the candidate remarked. Trump had emphasized the former president's past history with women as a frequent and recent pressure point as Clinton's campaign lobbed charges of sexism in his direction.

Unlike past events in which protesters and hecklers interrupted Trump on multiple occasions, a lone heckler accounted for the only pause in the proceedings. As Trump discussed his call for a safe zone for refugees fleeing the Islamic State in Syria, a voice could be heard shouting, "This is boring! This is boring. Tell some jokes..."

Trump, pausing, smiled at the heckler before continuing. "So, very important, it's very important," Trump said, before directing security to remove the man, who was apparently shouting that he loved him.

Clearly not in a joke-telling mood, Trump told the audience that there was "nothing funny about him."

"He said he wants jokes. There's nothing funny about this," he scolded the heckler. "This is so serious. Out. Out. Out. Out. Get out of here."

"He says he loves me," Trump grinned, as his supporters serenaded the interloper with the chorus of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."