Nikki Haley fires back at 'lying' Trump ahead of NH primary: 'American people deserve the truth'

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley joined "Fox & Friends" Friday to respond to former President Trump's attacks on her agenda and criticism she is "too moderate." Trump has repeatedly attacked Haley's positions on Social Security and Medicare leading up to Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

HALEY TURNS UP THE HEAT ON TRUMP AS SHE TRIES TO CLOSE THE GAP IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY

NIKKI HALEY: [Trump's] going out and saying I want to cut Social Security. I've never once said I want to cut Social Security. And everybody's talking about the fact. ‘Is she a conservative?’ I want you – Ainsley, you've known me a long time. How am I not conservative? I was a Tea Party governor. I passed voter ID, I passed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country, I cut taxes, I passed tort reform. We paid down our debt. I went to the U.N., we cut $1 billion. Just because the media says it, because Donald Trump says it, it's wrong. We've got to start telling the truth. And the problem with Donald Trump and Joe Biden is they think if they tell Americans something, that it's the truth. But the problem is both of these guys are lying to the American people, and the American people deserve the truth.

I am not going to do anything that's not going to be tough on the border, because I passed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country. I'm going to be hard on China. And he wasn't hard on China. He praised President Xi a dozen times after China gave us COVID. There are multiple instances that we need to start asking Donald Trump the questions and stop taking what he's saying to be golden, because I've never once said I was going to cut Social Security. But he said he was going to raise the retirement age of Social