republicans countered republican hate with policy in the senate, democrats work with a handful of republicans to draft a immigration reform bill and then we watched as speak bane other refused to allow a vote. to this day, a lot of times i'm certain if speak boehner had given it a vote it would have passed overwhelmingly. to his credit, president obama saw republican inertia on immigration reform and countered it with a series of executive actions and i appreciate it. the republican response was both alarming and disappointingly predictable. ted cruz and others tried to force a shut gown of the department of homeland security, came within minutes of that. all the time, donald trump was watching. watching. he saw rampant extremism con doped by republican leaders who were either too cowardly or power loss to do anything bit it. so when trump calls immigrants rapists rapists and murders he is doing what he learned from generations of conservatives. the republican party has become without question the party of trump. the question before us now is this. what does trump's rise say about the state o

he's expanding the republican party. he's bringing out people who are willing to cross party lines or get off the sidelines and cap the republican vote because they like him so much. so donald trump will be gate for the republican party up and down the ballot in november if he's the nominee. that competes directly with what everybody else thinks, which is, oh, my god, if donald trump is the republican nominee, republicans should just jump off -- >> the party as we know it will be -- >> forget it. there won't be a republican dog catcher in the country as long as trump is at the top of the ticket. both of this is things can't be true. i don't know how we find out which one is, but we have some stark numbers on the republican side. >> ask kornacki. >> hey, kornacki, what do we know about turnout tonight? >> on the flip side, we've been seeing it down on the democratic side since the last time they had one of these xet cannive primaries. that was 2008, what was clinton, that was obama. virginia, down 14%. vermont down 13%. m

when we asked republican voters, "do you feel betrayed by the republican party?" more than 50% of republican voters in these four states said yes, and that, of course, would signal outsiders are very much what the electorate on the republican side are looking for. >> reporter: nine out of 10 voters, in fact, today, on the republican side told us they were disappointed, even angry with the federal government. elaine, you're going to be leaving us now to join us with coverage on cbsn. what do you have ahead there. >> reporter: we will have more political analysis with our rock star panel, but the story of commandir scott kelly, who has been in space for 340 days is coming back to earth and we expect live pictures. scott. >> pelley: anthony, thank you, elaine, thank you. now we will go back to bob schieffer with our two political contributors, peggy noonan of the "wall street journal" and jamelle bouie of "slate" magazine. bob. >> reporter: i'll tell you, scott, i'm just trying to process what i just heard in the last few minutes. let's think about this. marco rubio

how can he unify the republican party with so much traditional republican resistance? >> i think that's a fair question. i think many in in the party are going through basically the five stages of grief and they're still in the denial stage. they never thought this would truly happen. i also think there's blame on the trump campaign, quite frankly. i think there are things they can do to add more gravitas, add more vision, put a few more people on the stage with him, not just always about donald trump, to show some of this unity. i think he has to do that in both rhetoric and actions as well as to become more of a visionary candidate, rather than just an argumentative candidate. >> john brabender, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>> much more to come in this one-hour edition of "the journal editorial report." hillary clinton's clean sweep has her looking for a general election and potential showdown with donald trump, but he may not be her biggest obstacle on the road to the white house. only flonase is approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congest

second -- >> so you're saying republican attack ads against the republican nominee? >> distancing ads. second, the republican party will have to rethink the business of having open primaries and caucuses. 7 of the 19 events so far have been closed, trump has lost five of them. so the question is, is this a hostile takeover of the republican party and the republicans have to think whether they have to go forward year after year vulnerable to this. >> all right. panel, we have to take a break here. when we come back, a new twist in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. what could it mean for her nomination? plus, what would you like to ask the panel about the fbi investigation of clinton's e-mails? twitter @foxnewssunday. air. (donkey sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. (elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, lip service. our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. give us a plan. this is what i came home for -- to work in t

the republican party started its nominating process with some 17th candidates. the parties held 15 primaries and caucus he and one candidate has won ten of them. the bill field gave wide choice of tendencies and thraifers and th flavors andthe guy who's won por weeks has never run for office and has what one might generously call an eclectic standpoint. republicans say they wouldn't be happy for donald trump to be the nominee but after waiting for weeks for donald trump to collapse of his own weight, the road from novelty act to favorite is paved with a lot of misescalation. here we are -- miscalculation, now the nontrump activists office holders and donors are saying, what do we do now? presidential candidate and new jersey governor chris christie got out of the race and threw his support behind the front runner. >> the single most important thing for republican party is to nominate the candidate that has the best to hundred against hillary clinton, i can guarantee you the one person hillary clinton and bill clinton don't want to see on the stage in november is

>> well i think republicans voted for donald trump in the republican primary. and i think that's --  >> oh democrats did too. >> oh a very small handful. i think part of this is that donald trump had certainly touched a nerve in american society and people are justifiably upset. he's also new to the political scene. people have some impression of donald trump from years past and they are getting a first new impression in the political arena. and a lot of republicans like what he's saying. now, if he's is nominee and even if he's not certainly for the next several month, our intention is to make very clear how bad his views, his record, and his outlook are for working people all across america. >> well i know you are concerned about democrats switching their party affiliation and voting for donald trump because you are rolling out these anti-trump ads to discourage your members from abandoning the democratic party. why did you do that before? >> what we're doing is encouraging our members to pay attention to his record, which is very much anti-union. 100% for r

front-runner in the republican party. >> if a person wants to be the nominee of the republican party, there can be no evasion and no games. they must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. this party does not prey on people's prejudices. >> marco rubio added one more criticism of trump. i want to play that, too. >> i don't want us to have a president that we constantly have to be explaining to our kids, look, i know that's what the president did, but you shouldn't do that. i don't want that. we actually had a president like that not long ago. it was real bad. >> but senator graham, all four of those individuals, you know what they've also pledged to do, support the nominee. >> support him, yeah, really. >> was that a mistake? >> i don't know. i'm going -- ask me if i'll support the nominee after the convention. they're in a spot where they have to be loyal to the party. >> do you? >> call me after the convention. i'm not going to say anything that person until after the convention. if donald trump's the nominee, the republican party will get killed, will get creamed, we'l

i'm a 1787 republican. my two questions are, people who don't know our history are doomed to repeat the same problems. a 10-year-old would have known this 100 years ago. in five words or less, why is the liberty bell called the liberty bell? number two is, in our constitution, what is the only form of government guaranteed, and why do you keep calling us a democracy since it's never mentioned? i would like to see if he knows the answers? >> why don't you reference a specific question to the supreme court before we get him to answer? >> caller: if he doesn't know the basic history of our country, his bias will be in how he reports what congress can do. if he doesn't know how our founders founded this country, he doesn't know how to ask the questions. if he doesn't know what a 10-year-old would have known 100 years ago, why should i believe anything he says? >> sure. i mean, i'm certainly aware of the distinction between direct democracy and republican democracy. i'm interested to hear from ed, you know, what

voted with republicans in the past. they are angry for the most part, that is the one common denominator. about the lack of movement in government, angry about terror, about illegal immigration and they're angry about the economy and donald trump has been telling them what he is going to do to fix it. he's knot a politician, not an inside guy, an outside guy. he says guess what, i can do what politicians can't do. and his statement is resonating. both establishment and nonestablishment republicans are going to have to throarn live with donallearn to livewith don. >> i was at a place where he invoked jfk and ronald reagan. you can't do it if marco rubio stays in the race. you were in a sad little room in miami when the rubio celebration, what happened to that campaign? >> ironically ali i was at the ronald reagan equestrian center. a rally for rubio family. invoking fdr and ronald reagan, whrea was doing was setting a little bit of distinction with the words of even democrats and, then went to morning in america, what ha

just look at republican hispanics. there's not tons of hispanics in the republican party. he already has 60% negatives with republican hispanics. it's going to be very tough for any nominee to do better than romney, against hillary clinton. he's going to do worse. >> we ran the numbers using the exit polls from 2012 in ohio and wisconsin, just on the white vote. and assuming all things were equal, and here's wisconsin first, trump would have to increase the romney share by 5 percentage points, go from 51% of the white vote, which by the way, romney got and still lost the state. 56% of the white vote is what trump would need to flip it. in ohio, to flip ohio, he would have to move the romney white vote number from 57% to 61%. this assumes that the non-white vote doesn't move at all. this seems like an impossibility. >> i'm not sure it is an impossibility. i think it's a very difficult task. but he is an asymmetrical he is so unconventional, we've never seen anything like it. when you began the program today, you said looking back from 2007 the rise of the movement that led

, and to the country, how republicans might try to deny donald trump the republican presidential nomination at their party's convention even if mr. trump continues to win the most states and the most delegates. so we've got that live interview ahead tonight, plus much more. it's a big show. >>> but before we can get to all that, we are, as you can tell, by the fact that i'm still at the election desk, we are still under the benevolent panumbra of last night's super tuesday contests including the one result that came in latest of all on super tuesday, came in so late even i had gone to bed. finally. and that was the result from alaska where the winner of the alaska republican caucuses turns out to have been ted cruz. ted cruz. he won another one. he won alaska. last night there were nine primaries and two caucuses for each party. on the democratic side, both caucus states minnesota and colorado went for bernie sanders. his campaign had expected to win both of those caucus states and they did. on the republican side, it was a bit of a surprise result. on a night where donald trump basically m

that i'm more upset with the republicans and democrats as formerly elected republican because barack obama has kept more of the promises than republicans said. republicans have done nothing of what they said they would do. i'm sympathetic to people who have turned to donald trump and burn it to the ground, i think he is the flaw-vessel to do that and will turn on those people, not when he has power and turn on the people. >> host: do you try the fix the system within? >> guest: conservatives are going to have to go over there. 't want to support a liberal who supports planned parenthood and universal social health care. i do want to support hillary clinton, either. it is a vote for hillary clinton or big -- or hillary clinton's big donor, donald trump. bill from connecticut. democrat line. caller: i just wanted to voice my concern in regard to the republican debate that i saw last night. the stage last night was rubio uz and trump was an embarrassment to the country. i think if this is the way we are going to run our nation, we have bigger problems ahead of us. this is an issue that

the republicans go willy nilly. the fact that the conservatism movement that only '72 with jimmy carter, '76 with carter, maybe a little bit with mcgovern in '72 while you had an insurgency. >> charlie, speaking of '64, nominated barely goldwater, that's also to me the best sort of historical marker for what we might see in cleveland insofar as you have a takeover essentially the party by a certain wing of it and the other wing rejects it. here is nelson rockefeller on the floor in '64 basically ripping the face off the guy who is going to be the nominee. take a listen. >> there is no place in this republican party for those who would infiltrate its ranks, distort its aims and convert it into a cloak of apparent respectability for a dangerous extremism. >> you can hear him being booed and he doesn't name goldwater, everyone understood, charlie, what he was talking about. >> well, it was a wild convention. i have talked to people who -- i mean, if donald trump does, as he's flirted with his whole campaign, turns his

talking about a republican. the democrats supported all of that, and the campaign ads are already being made. >> it's also extraordinary, when you think about mitt romney got an endorse by donald trump just four years ago. that's very different from saying well, he did not earn his business. he inherited it. mitt romney never addressed his previous comments praising donald trump. republicans are in agreement for the most part that donald trump is simply unacceptable. that he must be contained. so the question is do you contain him by defeating him or do you contain him by trying to work and influence him. >> some will point out 5 million people have gone to the polls and cast their ballot. so is this the republican establishment that is upset or the republican electorate. >> there are some members of both who have chosen the idea we must defeat him. for example, ronald reagan's education secretary has already said i'm used to being the moral scold, but trump is winning fair and square so why should the nominatio

a lot of them vote republican but are uncomfortable with the republican party. >> they don't like the establishment, they don't like the trade deals or the softer stance on immigration. >> or other issues maybe. >> three weeks ago lindsey graham, who now says he's going to hold a fund-raiser for cruz. three weeks ago graham joked if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate and the trial is at the senate, no one would convict you. this is where we are in the republican party now. >> i was actually surprised that graham came out for cruz. i've never seen two words used so much together as cruz and detest. that is pretty much where his colleagues feel about him. now he feels like he's the only possible alternative in terms of boating trump but he was running as an outsider and talk about burn get house down. he was ready to burn the house down to run as an outsider. now that people have to coalesce around him. >> you say that the substantive case against donald trump has not been made. what do you mean? i've seen a lot of attacks on donald trump. >> we know what all the issues are, b

in none of the five states that voted did a majority of republican primary voters, republican primary voters, say that donald trump was honest and trustworthy. on that score, he was worse off with republicans than hillary clinton was with democrats, and that was supposed to be her area of greatest weakness. also in the exit polls, in every state that voted except for florida, at least two in five republican primary voters said they'd consider a third-party candidate. so while this is not slowing down trump in the near term, he is taking on water in a meaningful way that has republicans outside his campaign really deeply concerned about a general election. >> chris moody, you're there -- >> go ahead. >> can i just add one more point to what alex just said? he's also day by day by day providing more fodder to the anti-trump effort that hillary clinton will inevitably make against him in the general election. i mean he's just giving them fuel for attack ads, and the republicans haven't been successful in turning his, you know, what he's done into attack ads, but certainly the hillary cli

let's look at republicans first. a third of republicans told us the economy was their top issue. government spending came in second at 28%. among those who made the economy their top issue, look at huh they broke. donald trump got most of these voters. 36%. marco rubio, 25%. the economy playing for donald trump. >> the economy the top issue among democratic voters. there you see, 38% saying the most important. followed by income inequality at 27%. now, of those democratic voters who said that the economy and jobs are most important. 62% of those voters went to hillary clinton. 36% went to bernie sanders. particularly interesting because of course senator sanders made income inequality and economy signature issues. >> as donald trump pointed out, the median income of americans has declined since the last presidential election. >> elaine, anthony, thank you very much. we will go to bob schieffer who is with our two cbs news political contributors, peggy noonan, and jamaal buoy. >> if i was writing a press release for the mainstream traditional republicans, the washington republican

i know there are some republicans who doubt that the current republican frontrunner has that ability. but they would certain lino better than i do. when it comes to the raw turnout numbers, the not surprising to me that there were more republicans who showed up at the polls because there are more republicans in the states that had elections ast night. we're talking about oklahoma, texas, georgia, alabama, tennessee, these are all states with sizable republican voting populations. the democratic states involved were quite a bit smaller. vermont, for example. it's not surprising know that the overall numbers are tilted in favor of republicans. that's why i singled out states like virginia and minnesota. where the democratic candidates, in the case of minnesota, both democratic candidates got more support than any of the republicans that were on the ballot. and in virginia, you saw that the leading vote getter of any of the candidates that were on the ballot was a democrat. and that's significant because anybody who shows up at the polls can choose either a democratic or a republican bal

the top of the republican polls. and no candidate or controversy has been able to topple him. >> they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. >> reporter: he has taken aim at mexican immigrants. >> they're rapists, some i assume are good people. >> reporter: he criticized senator john mccain. >> he is a war hero because he was captured the i look people who weren't captured. hate to till you. >> reporter: battled with journalist megyn kelly. >> you call women you don't like, fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account. >> only rosie o'donnell. >> reporter: every time talking heads swore his run was over. >> i dent know what i said. i don't remember. >> hoi canw can you succeed when you say things like senate. >> how can you become president, you can't, saying things like that. >> every time they were wrong. >> i saw the destruction of a presidential. >> the more outrageous he is the more republican voters he gets >> reporter: even in december when trump proposed this. >> for a total complet

but, now let's look at the republican voters, because among republican voters, there's a deep discontent with government. nine out of 10 republican voters federal government, and that includes 45% who said they're angry. and that anger among republicans extends to their own party. 57% of g.o.p. voters said they feel betrayed by republican politicians. and that sentiment could favor an outsider like donald trump, scott. >> pelley: anthony mason with the exit poll information tonight. anthony, thank you very much. a new york appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed against donald trump and his trump university, a former investors. new new york's attorney general accuse of school of defrauding thousands of students. another election-year battle centers on the vacancy for the supreme court. senate republicans want to leave president. well, today, the current minds. here's chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: the meeting with republican senate leadershipship >> thank you, guys, come on. >> thank you. >> reporter: minority leader harry reid. >> at least meet with the

everything is republicans voting for republicans. no independents, no conservative democrats crossing over. so, this is conservatism at its best within the party and that conservative activist are voting for who they want and so far tonight it's cruz. >> heather, explain to me what the cruz appeal is for people who don't get it. i think i get the trump appeal and the kasich appeal and rubio appeal. cruz. is it just hard right? >> the basic faur furry at the republican party is the rigged sort of corrupt political system. >> economy is getting better. >> it's actually at the republican leadership. that the republican leadership has basically in their minds have been able to stop president obama from, you know, stepping out his front door. right. progressives would say republicans have been unbelievably obstructionist. but at the base of the republican party, there is this sense that they keep electing people on a wave and they're not st stopping the president from doing anything. that anger at the republican leadership is what ted cru

boone county republicans will vote at florence baptist church on mt. zion road.all of kenton county's republicans will vote at summit view school in independence. all campbell county republicans will vote school. one polling place in each county. only republicans. democrats will vote in kentucky's primary may 17th. spread the word. most people haven't a clue. is this the first you're hearing about this? yeah. i didn't have any idea about that. that's different. that's interesting. haven't you heard anything about the kentucky republican presidential caucus? no, i haven't. it's this saturday. okay.regular primaries have very low turnout. this could be a new low.based on the volume that we have here it may get 5 percent 6 percent. but not sure it will even hit that mark.at least the results should be easy to count. in news. 3 for more information, go to the kentucky republican party's website.we have a link on local12-dot-com. now here's bob with a local 12 traffic alert. 3 3 hundreds of 3 kids in the tri-state got a special prescription for good health.

that hasn't happened to republican party in many decades. i think we'll be more inclusive, more yunified. i think we're going to win in november. >> the unifier. the expander. donald trump says republicans should love the idea of him at the top of the ticket. he says it's him who's turning out record numbers in all of these states. not only is he donald trump going to win, the republican party as a whole will win up and down the ballot because of him and these new voters drawn to the lamp of liberty that's donald trump. the repeating narrative that says if he's in nominee then he will definitely lose the general election and republicans are doomed thanks to they too will have an r next to their name on the ballot that looks like the r next to the name donald trump who will lose. that narrative, the beltway believes it. that's why the effort to elect senators this year said the party nominating trump would hang in albatross around the necks of republican senators. that's why senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has given senators his bles

you know paul it seems as if the republicans are really pinning their hopes on a republican win in the 2016 race for the white house. they know that the risk is that hillary clinton may win it and appoint somebody who is far younger far more to the left than merrick garland is. paul. >> they are placing their bets now, john terret in washington, thank you. >>> the political world and rest of us will all be hearing the name merrick garland, in the next few months pfn who i. who is he? david schuster has the story. >> raised in the midwest, merrick garland may as well have been issued from central casting. garland practice corporate law at arnold and porter one of the nation's most respected firms. he became a partner after only four years and four years after that he ditched wealth and prestige to join the justice department as an entry-level federal prosecutor. >> it was the sense of responsibility to serve the community instilled by my parents that led me to leave my law firm to become a line prosecutor in 1989. >> president clinton appointed garland to the federal bench. jewish and m

an end for the republican on republican violence. it's time for us to begin coming together. we've had vigorous primary. donald trump won with 46% of the republican vote, beating home state senator, marco rubio, who was away down at 27%. a thumping in other words in trump's, well, visiting role there. we'll be right back. the gillette mach 3 turbo still feels better after 10 shaves than a disposable on it's first. mach 3 blades have twice the coatings. for a closer shave with zero redness. get an incredible experience shave after shave after shave. gillette. the best a man can get. >>> this is another super tuesday for our campaign. thank you, florida. thank you, north carolina. thank you, ohio. we are moving closer to securing the democratic party nomination, and winning this election in november. >> welcome back to "hardball," that was hillary clinton, of course, last night claiming victory in florida, north carolina and ohio. it got even better. she also swept the entire evening, one expected victories in illinois and missouri, where she is also the apparent winner. her st

mamaied women, when they side with the republicans, republicans win. george w. bush was able to narrow the gender gap. that's how he won in 2004. mitt romney and john mccain were that's in part how they lost in '08 and '12. if trump can foot in narrow the gender gap, he will have a very hard time winning. >> conversation earlier about, about whether she will stand up and go, i could be the first woman president. that has not been played out there in a large way. >> no, and i don't that that has turned out to be that compelling of a reason for females to vote for hillary clinton. i don't think they're necessarily making that assessment. there doesn't seem to be that excitement about that issue alone. there are a lot of reasons why women may want to vote for hillary clinton, but the fact of her femaleness does not appear to be the main driver. >> it seems to me though, if she gets to the general election, that the potential for a historic moment kind of dawns on everybody. it becomes more real. and i think that does become an element of the campaign, even. she doe

and i think it's disastrous for the republican party. it's either hurt it badly with cruz as the nominee. or potentially split it with trump as the nominee. th i hillary clinton. >> dickerson: molly, the establishment push against donald trump, isn't that exacerbating the very thing that caused trim top rise in the first place which is the sense that the establishment was out of touch with people in the party and the conservative movement? >> that's why. as mike said, this party is falling apart. because you did have an establishment that was so profoundly out of touch with a lot of the voters and base of the party that they completely failed to take seriously the candidacy of trump and the anger that he was tapping. there was feeling that this was a joke, there was so much denial that this was a real thing. you now have a front runner who won majority of states, the majority of delegates, pretty far down the calendar and normally that would be to a sort of bandwagon affect, everybody would be getting on board. other than chris christie,

republican candidates put squabbles aside. discussing immigration, social security and more >>> caught on tape, a trump supporter charged for sucker punching a protestor, and building a relationship with canada's prime minister. the meetings, state dinner and differences the two nations have. we have to get ahead of the curve, fighting the zika virus in texas, inside the health clinic at the forefront of the battle >>> we begin tonight with a republican debate unlike any other during this campaign season. the yelling and name calling that characterised many of the previous nights gave way to a respectful discussion of the issues. al jazeera's michael shure is in miami. donald trump promised to be more presidential. was the gen tilty tonight a surprise? >> i don't know, with that promise coming, maybe it was. it felt like a democratic debate because of the tone. it's a little cooler. the airconditioning better tonight. and the fact that these people are here talking to each other in that tone almost seemed as if they got togeth

a look at the republican side of things. among nontrump voters on super tuesday in the gop side, fully 74%, nearly three-quarters, told us they would not be satisfied with donald trump as their nominee. so a deep khasm in the republican party. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we will wrap up the results of super tuesday and discuss the growing divide in the republican party. morning news, we will speak one-on-one with "face the nation" host john dickerson and get his impression on the race for the white house. >>> and, later, astronaut scott kelly touches down on earth after a historic trip in space. this is the "cbs morning news." with the benefits of our probiotic yogurt. new activia fruit fusion, with the exclusive probiotic bifidus regularis. delicious and good for you. new activia fruit fusion. hi i'm kristie. and i'm jess. and we are the bug chicks. we're a nano-business. windows 10 really helps us get the word out about how awesome bugs are. kids learn to be brave and curious and all kids speak the language of bug

here is republican senator jeff lake. >> i think republicans are fully justified in doing doing. waiting. but if we happen to lose the election, then i think we ought to push him through quickly if we can. >> senator, is jeff lake wrong? >> yeah, i think so. look, barack obama calling judge -- this judge a moderate doesn't make him a moderate. this judge would move the court dramatically to the left. he's enthusiastically supported by moveon.org. i don't think they would be signing up and have all this enthusiasm about a liberal judge. the principle is the same. whether it's before the election or after the election. the principle is the american people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this supreme court nominee. >> so, final question. just to make it clear. you're saying no consider -- no consideration of judge garland by this congress even if hillary clinton wins the election? no consideration by this congress? you're going to stand firm on session? >> yeah. i can't imagine that a republican majority in the united states senate would want t

and republicans convene in cleveland this summer. ted cruz is licking his wounds and marco rubio, of course, is out a whole new landscape, as we said. democrat hillary clinton got four, possibly five states last night. in the meantime, the current president did what all presidents do that senate republicans citing principle and precedent say this president should not do, unleash a new supreme court nominee. two main story lines. one big night. we begin with cnn's phil mattingly with the big developments today after donald trump's big wins. >> reporter: after a dominant performance last night, donald trump started today with something of a threat talking to cnn's "new day," trump warning if he keeps his sizeable delegate lead and republican leaders turn to a different nominee -- >> if we're 100 short and we're at 1100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400, because we're way ahead of everybody, i don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. i think you'd have riots. >> reporter: just days after his rivals criticized him for

not a single republican voted with us. not a single republican. republicans voted to deport dreamers. republicans blocked an increase in the minimum wage. republicans blocked equal pay for women. republicans blocked efforts to do something about student loan debt. now republicans are blocking a nominee to the supreme court before that person's even been nominated. this is just a short list of what they have blocked. from this rhetoric to their actions, the republicans have set the trump standard. the republican party has long used islam to fearmonger. now donald trump is doing the same thing. the republican party has spent years railing against latinos and immigrants, trying to incite fear. congressman steve king called undocumented immigrants drug dealers. he described their bodies in a very negative, ugly way. now donald trump is saying the same thing. donald trump is the ultimate fulfillment of the republican party's legacy of obstruction and resentment. but to be frank, it's not only trump. senator cruz, senator rubio and ben carson are saying

nominee. >> i've always been a republican, my father was, his father was, the whole family is a republican family. i voted for dwight eisenhower, and i voted for nixon the last time. but when we come to senator goldwater, we're up against a very different kind of a man. this man scares me. >> the roots of the donald this time on the program. my guests are with me, and bruce, i think that the difference s. [ audio difficulties ] >> they just validate. and again, he is the guy who is not the one that i should be for, and the other thing that trump is doing that's really important, he's starting at what i would like to call political first base. one of the things that my party never does very well, we march out to the voters and say we have great policy prescriptions for you. we would like to give you a tax cut. and we don't start with the problem. and trump is holding up a mirror to the problem that we're describing, and saying that thing that you feel is real. and i get it. and i'll stand up for it, and i'll be strong about t the voters appreciate it. and there's a movement going on with th

i hope republicans will embrace it. reporter: trump did not call for senator marco rubio florida to drop out of the race saying the decision after last night with beat up to him. back to you in new york. lauren: peter barnes in jupiter, florida. nicole: senator cruz sitting down with fox news making kelley talking about a potential convention. >> a contested convention is a different thing. no one gets 1237 and got two front runners had reagan and ford battled it out. that is the conventions are for. if you fight between the candidates who affirm the votes of the people in the delegates at the convention who have been elected to do that, that is that the system works. that is perfectly appropriate. i don't think when it got me there. nicole: tune into the kelley filed for the full interview. megyn kelly is holding a town hall event with marco rubio and it starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern time on fox news channel. don't miss it. lauren: democratic national committee debbie wasserman schultz was on the kelley filed last night

millions and millions of people are coming to vote for the republicans and joining the republican party because of me. because of me. and if i ever left, they would go aware as fast as i would, they would go away. lou: ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich said they would back trump if he were to become the republican nominee. but mitt romney declared he will not. he was back attacking trump and trump firing right back. >> i can't sit by. what am i going to say when my grandkids say what did due to stop trump. >> romney, this poor gave is so confused -- this poor guy is so confused. i watched him yesterday. the internet is exploding. what's he doing? he's making a fool out of himself. >> trimmers holding a rall -- trump is holding a rally in new orleans and we'll be going there live when it happens. we'll be talking to the first congressman to endorse trump. what is all of this conflict portend for the republican party? a potential bombshell in the trial of the 20th searchturey, los angeles police confirming that homicide investigators are examining a knife sounds years ago on that prop

is yesterday 59% of the republican voters were anti the republican establishment in washington. the new polls you have here, 63% of republican voters are against the republican establishment in washington. this guy has tapped right into that. the republican establishment, the elites are doing every single thing that can take him out and it's not even putting a dent -- it's like shooting out of a bb gun and he's shooting back with a bazooka. >> fascinating state last night, michigan -- they are all fascinating but the results particular in michigan. in michigan an upset win by senator bernie sanders. every poll had hillary clinton ahead of bernie sanders. john kasich's folks, the governor of ohio, his folks were telling us he's going to win in michigan. trump wins and they both are on this message and that is the working man and woman and the american family are middle class and the threat that the establishments of both political parties, democrat and republican, pose to those folks and those messages carrying the day for both of those candidates. what do you make of it? >> the

now, one woman, anita, never voted republican in her life. she is old school italian, italian women's club. she said her father would be rolling over in his grave if he knew she was voting for a republican this time, and she voted for trump. another guy said are you a democratic. he said not any more. now, some of the neighbors around here are really appalled that their friends and family are going to the trump side. one man we spoke to said if he becomes president, i'm considering finland as my new home, possibly costa rica. >> people take their politics seriously. what happened to youngstown, ohio, the steel business was so serious, made its way into a bruce springsteen song and it's been trying to bounce back ever since. you see there on your screen, peter alexander. he is in baria, ohio, waiting for the appearance of john kasich, and the question is, will he be a victorial candidate, having won his home state? >> well, the band is just taking a break, which either indicates they're expecting a long night of celebrating or a long night unt

republicans are dissatisfied with the way that republicans are running things in washington d.c. this is exhibit a. setting aside your partisan affiliation, there is no question that what republicans are vowing to do in their treatment of chief judge garland is totally unfair. let's just have a hearing. let's just do what the senate has always done, give him a hearing, give him a fair up or down vote, and if you disagree, vote no. but at least have the courage of your convictions to take a vote. >> i want to clear up two quick things on different topics. one is on the e-mail investigation. i know you've been asked about this a couple times, but when you were first asked about the investigation you said what i know is that some officials over there at justice have said that she, hillary clinton, is not a target of the investigation. you're now saying that that was not based on anything d.o.j. told you? >> that was based clearly on what the department of justice had told a bunch of reporters. so my quote was there, what we all know about the situation. when i said we, i mean all of

so that's going on the republican side. senator clinton is i think to her credit i think in the past ten days or so has started talking about the fact that she's not a natural candidate and i think that's going to in an interesting way go a long way toward helping her. the electorate is as unhappy as it has been and even more so since 1992 which we forget but which was a rough year. buchanan challenging george bush, perot19% and clunltd elected with 43 percent of the vote which is what richard nixon got in 1978. when you have a president coming in the winner of a general election at a 43% number then it's a sign of a deeply unhappy republic and i think we are deeply unhappy right now. >> rose: the implication of that for general election al. >> that it's going to be a race to the bottom. it's going to be a very very negative campaign. the nbc "wall street journal" poll of last week had donald trump at 25% poddive, 59% negative. you have to go back to richard nixon impeachment days to find that kind of 34 pointedg gap. i thi