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Nov. 8, 2015, 3:30 PM GMT / Updated Nov. 8, 2015, 6:56 PM GMT By Sally Bronston

Fresh off his "Saturday Night Live" hosting gig, Donald Trump joined NBC’s "Meet the Press" Sunday morning to react to news that Ben Carson may have embellished parts of his life story, including his violent youth and other anecdotes from his writing.

"I feel badly for Ben, I’ve gotten to like Ben, it’s a tough thing," Trump said, adding that Carson is "going to have to explain a lot of things away: the scholarship situation, the dinner with (General William) Westmoreland when Westmoreland wasn’t there."

Trump also rejected Carson’s theory the Egyptian pyramids were built to hold grain.

And on whether he thinks Carson’s rising poll numbers are a threat to his campaign, Trump responded, "I think everyone’s a threat to me, I look at all of these people, I like a lot of them, I respect a lot of them — I think everybody’s a threat."