stuart: i came on the show at 9:00 eastern time feeling why away, raring to go. i had a spike of energy. don't know where i got it from. i went to bed at 12:00 midnight. i was up all night with neil cavuto discussing the election and supertuesday. now i am tired out. neil: it sounds to me like you are applying, all little bit of whining. you were great last night, tired or not. we are focusing on where we stand in the contest if you count them on the republican side, we get 15 primaries and caucuses. donald trump is one candidate, ted cruz, marco rubio, one of them. john kasich and ben carson haven't won anything yet. hope springs eternal for them and for john kasich in these winner-take-all states like ohio. connell mcshane has the latest delegate counts and who has the

advantage? i have a good idea who won the republican side. >> reporter: not hard to figure out. lead for donald trump and on the democratic side for hillary clinton was solidified last night. we go first to the republicans for bored and when we look at these delegates the race is to 1,237 for the nomination and some of last night at the delegates are being added in that donald trump is above 300 at 316 with strong showing in many states. ted cruz be essentially did what he was going to do, he won in texas, two estates to get 226 and marco rubio in triple digits, everyone is pretty far down. when you look at the democrats we look at it in two ways, regular delegates or pledged delegates from the voting in the primaries and caucuses and by that measure, a little closer than it would appear.

544 pledged delegates. that comfortable lead for mrs. clinton turned into a gigantic advantage when you add on the democratic side superdelegates, and bernie sanders, 22. that means she's ever 1,000 total delegates, well on her way. the campaign continues, a gilmore drama and intrigue as we had seen. ted cruz had a strong showing with the wind here and in alaska and his strategy, he said as much himself, to say to his rivals, clear the field, let me go one on one with donald trump. one problem with that strategy, not one of those rivals has given any indication that he plans to go anywhere so with that ted cruz is back to the

campaign trail in kansas. marco rubio as the michigan appearance, donald trump appears to be at a lame below. neil: you were terrific last night. dealing with that craziness out there. maybe the inevitability of donald trump, over the last 24 to 48 hours, the pylon on donald trump, club for growth already warning any candidate against endorsing donald trump, then in nebraska, he cannot support donald trump, would look and try to recruit a third-party candidate. this very program, no way could he endorsed donald trump. he would sit out the election if donald trump was the nominee.

you have christie todd whitman saying she is ashamed of what chris christie is doing backing donald trump going so far as to say she -- shift donald trump for the nominee this republican governor would go for hillary clinton. paul ryan, this doesn't plan people's prejudices, a clear slap at donald trump. it is revolting behavior on a right like bush 43 deputy assistant and weekly standard. what donald trump was trying to say in a magnanimous gesture is can we let bygones be bygones? i don't know if it is an olive branch, but some of these folks were not acceptable. >> it is all little early for olive branchs, to get the nomination and trump tried to

act like a president last night, i don't think donald trump will be presidential. tomorrow night at the fox debate, he will be the typical donald trump. you will get pummels by ted cruz and marco rubio worse than what happened last time because this is the last stand. if you don't take on donald trump queue can't win florida for marco rubio, john kasich and ohio, trump will be the nominee and republicans have to accept it. neil: do you think they will? we are nowhere near it there. that nomination is a long way but it is going to get rough and nasty in the meantime. how does it go? >> i don't think there will be irreparable damage to the republican party. might be for the better. could turn out well for donald trump, but the actions are going to break off and you will be a messy messy long fight.

is an amazing phenomenon we are witnessing, the closer donald trump gets to the republican nomination, and he is obviously the closest, the further he gets to defeating hillary clinton because these are breaking up to the public. surely some republicans will walk back and nasty things they say about donald trump but almost certainly not everyone, they have been fighting it out with donald trump for a while. they would lose all credibility if they came back on what they said about donald trump, and all sorts of things that go against the interests of club for growth. i think we are witnessing a new reshaping of the republican party. it is fascinating. neil: do they risk looking like babies themselves? donald trump can say i have gone to this point without any of you

and i am doing just fine and you can't accept the fact that i am bringing new people into the party, new people who haven't voted before. if you don't like it, stuff it. that will probably be his reaction. what would be the fallout if that is the case? even john mccain said if he is the nominee i will support him and john mccain -- what do you make of that? >> what i make of it is if he wins fair and square, gets the 1237 he needs to seal up the nomination, he has got to do it. it is gone trump to reach out with more than one olive branch. he has enough to spread around and unite the party. will the party every night around from? no but they never are. this is the contentious race. the key for republicans is if you want to stay home it will spill over the u.s. senate and house seats state and local elections. scorched-earth policy is not in

the best interests of the gop. our job is to win elections and if we don't have that strategy we will be into this a while. neil: i will add this and i know this is apples and orangess but i remember distinctly the carter people in 1918 hoping, praying ronald reagan would be the nominee. they got nervous after george bush sr. won the iowa caucuses thinking he would be more difficult opponent, pitted against polls that showed they would swamp ronald reagan. even after the convention they were up by 20 points. they hoped it would be ronald reagan. fast forward to today, hillary clinton people hope that it will be donald trump may best by double digits in the latest polls even though that is 40 points, a few months ago but they think they can swamp him. what do you think? >> i agree with that up until week ago.

there is the real recognition, you saw this with a lot of people close to obama and his political advisers morning the party be careful, this donald trump guy is nothing you have ever seen before. he says things that might take out another candidate, but he is doing extraordinarily well and he will be hard to beat and they have come around to realizing there is a

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worse without that but it is just me. gerri willis has been looking into this very issue with exit polling. what did you find out? >> the florida senators prepared by voters, they decide in the last couple days who to vote for or go for. look at virginia where marco rubio came in a close second. marco rubio was the choice of 38%, donald trump 18%, he leads in that category and in arkansas marco rubio was chosen by 39% of the late deciders, and he is leading and when it comes to the issue of running an unfair campaign it is donald trump paying the price and also ted cruz. voters believe those are really unfair making unfair attacks despite the fact marco rubio hit back hard at donald trump. look at virginia, 44%, ted cruz

34%, arkansas looking at those numbers now, 45% for donald trump, ted cruz 29%, marco rubio 10%, paying the price for these attacks, like being unfair in any way. neil: and the popular vote, and ted cruz and marco rubio in the popular vote trailing on donald trump but again, to make a quick snap reaction, this kurt marco rubio. i am not so sure. a campaign spokesperson, what do you make of that? many are second-guessing within the senator went too far to the degrees it he did. spray on makeup and everything else. do you think he would have done

better had he lowered that a little bit or not? >> marco rubio is competing to win all 50 states and as you point area he is breaking with late decided voters so we will have a strong debate tomorrow night. we will head into the weekend picking up more momentum and looking at march 15th where in florida he will take home a strong win. he has competed there before. i am very confident. neil: all over the map with 3 you read the palm beach post or not, they have in stills double-digit. >> polls said donald trump would be test in virginia by double digits and he had a strong run for his money. marco has always been an underdog, the one candidate competing to win in all 50 states and he will bring home florida. you can count on that. neil: what he quit?

>> marco has a strong campaign as you look at the matt moving 4. lot of states like virginia last night, definitely more favorable for us and by ted cruz at the county had a bad night last night. neil: he did? ted cruz did not have a bad night. >> he did this was supposed to sweep the sec primary, the most favorable light he was ever going to have the neil: he did pick up three states, four day. >> he said he was going to win south carolina and the sec and he is never going to have an environment like that. neil: let's get to this. is intrigued me. even if marco rubio were to lose his own state he would fight on. >> marco believes donald trump is bad for the party, doesn't think he can be the person who leads the party. neil: what if he is? if donald trump does get the nomination? >> marco rubio will be the

nominee. neil: get into my imaginary world. if donald trump does get it, knowing what the senator has said about donald trump is a con artist could he ever endorse him? >> i won't accept that premise which marco rubio will be the nominee. he will stay in the race as long as it takes to get rid of this con artist. doesn't think he is the guy who can be our party. marco rubio and donald trump are the only ones with pathways and marco rubio will shine in the debate and the decided voters will come away. stuart: thank you very much, marco rubio campaign spokesperson. if you are thinking the senator would pack it up if he loses, think again. the race will go on. by the way john kasich of ohio said that ohio's winner-take-all primary is happening, he loses that, he will pack up and call it a day. meanwhile we told you a little

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neil: show you something fascinating. the breakdown in the democratic race, hillary clinton did a good job yesterday, got a lot of states. bernie sanders picked up a few too with the conventional delegate mass looks like this, 544 delegates to bernie sanders's 349. there are these so-called superdelegates. add them in, look what we have. more than 1,000 delegates for hillary clinton, swamping bernie sanders's 371. who are these superdelegates?

about 715 in the democratic party, 20 are governors, 46 i democratic senators, 436 dnc members including chairs and vice chair is of each state's democratic party and others. that is how you get to that. among those superdelegates, the congressman from texas, how are you doing? >> of pleasure to be with you. neil: i know you are not necessarily committed as a superdelegate for hillary clinton to vote for her. there were superdelegates the last go around originally with hillary clinton who moved across to then senator obama up. that does give hillary clinton a formidable edge, doesn't it? >> yes it does. i was committed to her in 2008, didn't switch over to barack obama. i am committed to hillary clinton now.

neil: i can see, congressman, if you have superdelegates, recognize governors, democratic governors, democratic congressman, i am not keen that they could artificially put a candidate over the top but what gives me the heebie-jeebies, 436 of the superdelegates are dnc party types. -- what do you think? >> basically when the rules were written they were trying to find a balance to make sure no special interests or changes would come in and sweep over the party so they decided to find some balance. it might not be perfect but it is something that has worked for the democratic party. neil: don't you find it word you need the balance? why can't it just be the vote, and delegates awarded proportionally? this is like cream on the high.

>> look at the electoral college and the popular vote. why not get rid of the electoral college and go on the popular vote? there have been elections like al gore got more votes than bush did but the electoral college gave it to bullish. neil: i am for jumping the electoral college. might have made sense in the early days but we forgot to move on. i am getting distracted on that. i want to get your sense on the fact that bernie sanders picked up as many states as he did. a lot of people thought hillary clinton would put him away last night. she obviously took the lead but he isn't going anywhere. he raised $40 million, she presumably raise $30 million. he is not going anywhere. love fear among some in your party is it is going to keep her hard left and she won't be able to get back to the middle.

what do you think? >> that is happening to that possibility, could happen on the republicans side. they have been moving far right. undemocratic side, bernie sanders has a way of going to the far left. he is not a democrat, he is a socialist. i can understand how primary candidates are pushed far right and far left. my hope for the democrats is we go back to the middle and i hope the republicans go back to the middle of this summer when we have the national convention. that has a way of moderating both the nominee is whether it is democrat or republican nominee. neil: what do you think your party fears the most? we hear that they salivate at the prospect of donald trump, others are worried. >> donald trump will be the easiest candidate to beat, you

had marco rubio and bush and john kasich and other folks who were moderate. we have seen that the republicans have underestimated donald trump and i will be one of the first democrats to say don't underestimate donald trump. we are seeing what he is doing to the republican primary and i think for any democrat to think that he is going to be the easiest targets, he does have a little teflon skin on him. neil: thank you. don't take anything for granted. >> thank you. neil: always good chatting with you. carl icahn, donald trump always talks him up, very interesting read on this establishment revolt against donald trump and i think it goes something like this. grow up! after this.

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council. one of them, carl icahn who phoned in to fox business supertuesday coverage and the inevitable question came up, what role would you play in net from administration? >> i told you from the beginning, maybe in the background. i will be happy to talk to donald, discuss different problems with him. i am certainly not going to get into it but i do believe donald is what the country needs at this time and what washington needs at this time. you have to get away, that is what the people are saying, you have to get away from this gridlock and bureaucracy that we have an inch i think donald will accomplish that. neil: what did you make of donald trump's remarks to the

press, a message to the paul ryans, mitch mcconnells, we can get along here, or we can't. >> it is a no-brainer. you have to build a consensus in washington. we have to do things. to say you don't need fiscal stimulus at certain times in any economy is ridiculous. you know, i just don't quite understand, we keep talking about the fact that the government should do nothing, is almost the same. at certain times you need the government. donald is the consensus builder and is a conservative, he is the republican, you finally have the people of the republican party and i lean to the right, i have been a republican for many years, but i am certainly right

in between because i am completely upset with the way the republicans are acting police saying that now all you wake up and build a super pac, to fight donald trump, the first time people in the party have come together and speaking out and voting in big numbers and now you have the establishment saying -- it is like the last days before the french revolution. it is sort of insane. neil: donald trump seems to be saying you even get along or go along and i am wondering what message that is sending or that the leadership gives up this type of battle, they are the establishment. >> i really don't think in all respects, he is reaching out saying let's all get together and get this thing moving.

neil: they are desisting that overture. >> i think they are and i think that is crazy. there is establishment in the door of the one reason or another, 0.1%, let's face it. a lot of the money has been made, we have to consider hubris, you have people in new york, a great deal of money, some legitimately, talking about anything criminal but there has been a great deal of luck and donald is speaking out saying we have to do something, helped the little guy, not even the little guy, you see what goes on in the board room of america, with many exceptions you have a lot of mediocre ceos making hundreds of millions of dollars for doing a mediocre job and donald is saying we have to change the rules, we have to have real

elections in corporate america too, these are the people trying to join against him. i think he is absolutely has touched a nerve. it is time the republican party coalesce. donald is a consensus builder, let's get hillary clinton and i think hillary clinton if she was elected would be a horrible decision for america. i listened to her speak and she keeps talking about the fact that we have to do something for the little guy, where has she been for 20 years? she says we have to do some thing for veterans, where was she in benghazi? it is in sane. i am a like donald, i tell that as it is. i feel hopefully we can do something to save our economy. i talked a number of times about the problems we have and we have

a lot of problems, we have the schizophrenic market that goes up and down like a yo-yo. i think we have -- building a strong military is very important. neil: i will give you credit, long before trump had become a force of nature you said he would. he would touch a nerve. >> always believed you need someone like donald trump who would touch a nerve and get something done, completely absurd is that now the republican party and the leaders, establishments, now a stand against them and this is what they want. tell me who else could even touch him. neil: i wonder how chris christie is feeling this morning after the time he spent standing behind donald trump plasm ag, social media has gone wild.

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and it was the lock of the draw. >> >> nobody is going -- and don't travel around the country with him. he could help a lot and addressing them and if they go and address there will be problems that some of them, will be problems for years to come. neil: a lot of others, he is trained to the wrong train. pretty bad with those analogies. what do you make of it? they are offended by that a you know another former governor in new jersey. i can not support from.

>> i don't see setting out an election. that is what too many people have been doing and it got us to this place. it and see voting for donald trump. neil: she would think about voting for hillary clinton over donald trump. >> hillary has been a friend of mine for some time as has donald trump. neil: are you surprised by the trump phenomenon? >> yes. i know him, i have always liked him. i never thought this would happen. could be a shift in american politics. neil: what has happened to the american republican party. i'm bringing far more new

people. and we lose women and all that. who is right? >> hard to tell who is right. something you seldom have an american history could realign them. you could have a different change in who is republican or democrat. what we used to call reagan democrats that were for reagan but team back to the democratic party after that. a lot of republicans have whatever reason, we can support this candidate. there could be a shift and where it comes out in the end i don't know. we get two candidates with a lot of negatives and we need somebody elected next time klystron and we can trust. stuart: donald trump and hillary clinton. the lease negative. >> there are people who say they will never vote for donald trump

or never vote for hillary clinton. neil: what i can see, you are very congenial, very gentlemanly in reaching across the aisle but i saw a marco rubio spokesman and marco rubio himself, it all you have been saying the last few days is the guy is a con man, makeup and all arrest, to be fair, he started it. i understand that. but it is hard for guy like that to go back and say i support the guy i call the con man. >> is bringing the country together behind you. we divided most bitterly. neil: a party like that with reagan, was divided and against him and trying to for a sitting president, darn near full the off. four years later he storms through the primaries that the

establishment i do remember at the time didn't flip over to superconservative users. george bush sr. they got over that. the victor was nothing like it is today. >> ronald reagan could bring people together. very seldom known, genuinely nice person, if somebody could smooth things over and bring people together it was ronald reagan. he worked for democrats and republicans in congress and got a lot done. neil: 30 plus years, and making deals. 80% is better than no law that all. he was pragmatic when push came to shove. >> one thing you can say about donald trump everything he has ever done is quality, whether it is his buildings, ice rink in new york, whatever, everything is quality and to do that.

i suspect if he would be successful, he would bring very good people. neil: look at those taxes and releasing taxes, paul ryan making the comments. and packing donald trump, a lot of confusion. also big party chieftains saying you are not our cup of tea. >> we could have some realignment here. this is a difficult time. neil: donald trump's way of saying that along with me or get away from me. he wants people to join him. neil: where did they go?

>> could have is getting narrower. >> i don't see ted cruz -- >> 226 delegates, rubio is 106. he is a ways back. but they have to win in marco rubio's case, have to win the home state. he really does. >> psychologically there is no other way. winner-take-all, it is -- neil: no wins at all. for donald trump it is music to his ear. >> it is. he likes it. that is the way it is. neil: chris christie could be trump's running the? >> probably not. they are from the northeast, neighboring states. diane: after last night. >> i wish him well and i think he is giving back to the state

and 3 person damage and do a good job but that is in the future. neil: real pleasure. the gentleman to the core, bygone days. a lot more coming up including the president's latest war on coal. he is not done not by a long shot. stick around. 12.5 points, no revolution in the markets, supertuesday last night.

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about life and death. >> and in ohio, we are 200 feet, and a lot of minds shutdown, people who work here say it is because of the war on coal waged by the obama administration. the president has been pretty clear, >> in 2008, he was running for his first term, made it pretty plain and clear he was going to hurt the coal industry really bad. >> in some ways if we look, 20, 30,000 jobs lost over the course of the obama administration, it

has accelerated in the past year, the worry about your job? >> i worry about it every day. you leave work on a friday afternoon and wonder if you are coming back next week. >> reporter: this might be an idle is not good. it is not just the obama administration as i show you here. these are bolts up here that holds this hill up so it doesn't fall on us and it might look like what is going on there, but it is fairly safe. i will leave you with a picture of coal consumption. that is the other piece of this. natural gas is almost outstripping coal as a source for electric generation. we are giving voice to the minors, the folks in this industry, some tough stuff ahead of them. neil: i thought the coal industry responded to the president early on, this is much

cleaner than it used to the, the fuel generated, the utilities that brought on coal, much cleaner. is that falling on deaf ears or not clean enough for what? >> apparently these guys to talk to them, this whole group has been giving as 84 and a lot of these new regulations don't make sense, they just got it in for the coal industry. the administration thinks it is old technology and they want to get rid of it and make it hard for them even though is indeed much cleaner now. neil: thank you very much. after last night, is donald from a unifier? the guy who is going to bring the party together, he was there, he had good things to say about ted cruz. only one little comment about marco rubio. maybe this is a sign donald trump is changing his tune. is can linkone by it? after this.

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>> our party is expanding. take a look at the primary states where i have one. x number to a much larger number. i would love to see the republican party and everyone get together and unified. nobody, nobody that will beat us. take a look at chris christie right behind him. do not get me started on that. peter barnes. which party is more jazzed? sometimes you can tell by who is showing up. >> that is right. let's take a look at voter turnout. the numbers are just striking. let's start with the democrats.

way down versus 2008. massachusetts down 5%. virginia. georgia. tennessee down. oklahoma down 22%. let's look at the republican turnout. more than double in virginia. 35% in georgia. up 21% and oklahoma. so far, this cycle compared to 2008, 3 million more republicans , 3 million fewer democrats. analysts say, for the republican side, simply more candidates, more excitement, more energy. of course, donald trump getting a lot of folks excited. candidates come paying themselves to devote more money and time to getting them out.

neil. neil: that democratic comparison was from 2008. i am sure you have argued. it is hard to compete with that. >> well, democrats are actually saying, two reporters, last month, the low turnout among democrats. we only have two candidates so far. the field has been narrowed to two. republicans, you know, have one doesn't insula these contests. obviously, in 2008, there was one for barack obama. neil: thank you very much. back to donald trump.

he is doing a lot better than almost anyone thought. he has 110 primaries under caucuses. obviously, doctor carson winning the contest. is this beginning to change the behavior of donald trump? sounding more presidential. a little after 9:30 p.m. sounding a little bit or graceful. only calling marco rubio little marcoux once. what do we do about that? he always kind of comes out. he comes out a little more calmly. he did not come in first place

in iowa. i thought to myself, will this guy become more presidential. back to twitter. back to rallies. sometimes a victory speech. he has a different effect in the arena. >> you can answer me this one. the press conference. what ever it was. it looked like he was telegraphing something. what he had with governor christie when he went out and endorsed him. that did change the opinion where marco rubio was gaining a good game of steam. that stopped that. this opposition was, maybe there is another big endorsement. what happens. do you know what happened? >> it was wild to see.

marco rubio have that phenomenal debate performance. trump practically put an end to it. everyone was just watching a trump rally for the next hour and a half. the governors and the senators. they are not necessarily friends. it seemed, i spoke with him. i don't think he will. >> other big endorsements are coming. everyone likes to follow a winner. do you see that happening? >> wiehl partied the way it was maybe 10 or 20 years ago. he will create something of a new party. it is independent.

more literary republicans. the northeast chris christie's. also coming towards donald trump. what happens if he wins new york. he has upstate new york on lock. that would totally change the path to victory. more donald trump principles. winning 11 nation. you never know. thank you very, very much. good chatting. >> we do know this much. yesterday's performances. very little reason for marco rubio. he did pick up a state. minnesota. john kasich. even with some close performances in vermont, for

example. that is not the case. one in his own state of ohio. if he does when not, he is not going. it never once they've been, donald trump, is he the guy? our own charlie gasparino. you committed to knowing thus far. i want everybody in, don't i? >> absolutely. better off to bring everybody in. i think that there is talk for separating the party. they need to temper ace if this is new. they need to get on board in two weeks.

just from talking people the day after, my sources are a lot of the guys on the donald trump nonestablishment winning. number one thought, you need to get down to one candidate. a lot of this proportional stuff. we will fight into the convention. that magic number which keeps escaping me. 1237. at that convention, engaging world war. i kind of think that it will be the latter. here is why. among the pacs now, there will be an effort to do what they were planning to do back in august. a major anti-trump. that is now coming near. that is on the runway right now.

purely out of fear. they were afraid of going after trump. obviously, that did not work. i will say this, one thing i hear from these folks, we have to get with the program. it is quite the opposite. people still saying that we cannot associate ourselves with a guys whose instinct, david duke. >> just coming into us now. we are just getting word that meant romney plans to make a major announcement for the 26 campaign. that would be tomorrow in utah. we do not know what that is about. the former republican presidential candidate told me that he thinks that donald trump should release his tax returns

and that there is a bombshell in there. he did not specify what kind of bombshell we thought. he thinks that, obviously, donald trump should do the same. i do not know what he will say or what he plans to do. what do we make of this. >> i do not know. i do not want to interrupt the great charlie. neil, i will ask you. what is on the cusp? all last night he denied the whole success of last night on your show. i was very disappointed last night. >> well, you are not the only one. this announcement, what do you think it could be? >> i think that it is rubio, neil. based on what i know, putting out a story last week.

the night by the rubio people. that meant romney would endorse him. the endorsement never came. >> would that endorsement make any difference? >> i think that he will endorse them. whether it works or not, it gets into what i am talking about. if they really want to dislodge trump, the conservative movement or the republican party or playing some wild game where they are going to take him out at the convention. >> a preview of last week. paul ryan on the prejudice comments. obviously aimed at donald trump. saying there's there is no room for that at the republican party. something is going on here. what do you think it is? >> i think that romney will weigh in with the establishment side and endorse marco.

i agree with charlie on the pacs. investments getting together to go with trump. i know that there are christie finance people that are backing trump. large private donors on board with donald. i cannot get into any specifics. pete paul are worried about protecting the brand. whatever your differences. would you back? >> i will back whoever is the republican nominee based on 50 states and all the voters and

all the delegates have expected. imed they are. i think that it will be a better long-term solution for this country. >> ray washburn. more news is coming. we are told by john roberts, romney not making an endorsement. talking about the republican parties or action. continuing. donald trump. the establishment, for lack of a better. who knows. john, if that is the case, that would open up big wounds. >> it absolutely would. you are having people that are in and a trap mindset. living in a digital world.

>> back in the 1960s, let's be real clear. the head of the national view put his foot down and said that there are certain things. the republican party stands. one of the things that he ousted. any notion that he associate ourselves. people that like david duke. why are we having this discussion now? this is a discussion that we are having right now. it is outrageous that we should be talking about david duke. >> why are you constantly on. when i hear david duke, just stop making excuses for him.

>> do you think that donald trump is a racist? >> neil, no, i do not. i was with a prominent team owner that was a business partner with mister trump. i was with several major executives that worked with mister trump. i had never heard or even experienced being around him. >> charlie. charlie. neil: we can argue all day. i want to thank you both. the big news here seems to be that may romney has inserted himself back into this race. exactly how much he is worth.

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neil: we do not know what is on his mind. making a national address from utah. on the 2016 presidential race. we can only surmise. it will not be about an endorsement of any sort.

joining us on the phone right now. very influential figure in the republican party. broadsides with this news. what do you think it could be? >> with romney, i don't know. all of the experts and london's missing a big story. the big story is the american people saying we have had enough. democrats and republicans. nobody is listening to us. a peaceful revolution. who the hell would have thought that donald trump in may of this past year would be where he is today. i would have told you were nuts. they miscalculated the anger and the concerned of the american people. they are fed up. they are fed up with the system.

they are fed up with the sunday morning shows. all of this stuff now does not matter. look at the numbers. the republican party establishment, the meant romney's and the paul ryan's and others, expressing the reservations. >> they are one vote each. i could give aid dam less what they think and care. has anybody thought about middle class in america? how they have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. now, you have income inequality. >> they are getting worse and worse and worse.

>> the parties said donald trump is the con man. he is not the guide. >> i did not hear the republican party. >> , on. the gop does not prey on people's prejudices. he is not us. i would sooner support hillary clinton. >> one of those people -- any of those people could have. only be official spokesman for the republican party. >> he is a nominee.

>> absolutely. >> they will not support him. do not worry about it. the american people are operating. look at the numbers. look at the way voters are coming out. part of the process for the last 25 years. people are now disgusted with it. i would be worried about them. the establishment is not in trouble. with every bit of energy that i've got. neil: case it does not win his home state of ohio. his talking about leaving if he does not. >> as he left the race?

neil: no, i am asking. think of the plight of the american people. this is what all of these people on television have. neil: i strongly disagree with you here at we were the first show. listen to me. the media should not joke or dismiss it. they, obviously feel differently. they feel that he is the wrong messenger. >> i did not say that. those people in the party, appointed the american people. the point where they are saying enough.

we are witnessing right now. a peaceful revolution. they have not been around in years. neil: destroying the brand. >> no. what the hal is the plan. jeb bush. i guess that he would be the brand. $110 million a year ago. spent in new hampshire. 19,000 tv ads in new hampshire. guess what. he paid $1400 had to drop out. it is not about money anymore. this is what people are missing. stop listening to the people. the so-called experts and leaders. the leaders used to be the

american people. >> i think that john kasich is my guy. >> i think that you are in denial. >> do i need a hug? i give you one every time i see you. neil: thank you very much. we will see how this works out. that is the state of the republican party. ♪

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neil: could you support donald trump if he were nominee? >> he is nominee, absolutely. neil: what do you think of those in the party who say he is nominee they won't support him? >> i don't worry about it. guess what? the american people are operating over their noise. look at number, neil! look the way voters are coming out! neil: i feel vulnerable when a

billionaire is yelling at me. but i'm okay. i'm okay. ken langone, saying look, you have to acknowledge the phenomena is donald trump even though for now he is supporting kasich. indicating that if kasich doesn't go very far, donald trump. he will support him. we're getting this on heels of address planned by mitt romney, former presidential candidate tomorrow in utah. what he will say, we don't know. we're told not to endorse anyone. maybe he runs himself or maybe just talks about donald trump's tax returns. any way, i'm sure democrats would love the division if that is going on within the party. julie roginsky can more on that. julie, what do you think of democrats who say we're salivating at prospect of donald trump being the republican nominee because we think we can trounce him? >> before i answer that, are you going to stop at lowe's now. i'm worried about safety at home depot going forward. neil: definitely not home depot. i were andy, stop at neither.

obviously raised invective, right no definitely raised indirect sieve. look, i think democrats would be insane not to take donald trump seriously. i don't think he is a joke. i haven't thought he was a joke for some time. some of his positions are a joke to me personally. he proven to be incredibly shrewd politician. incredibly adept to pinpoint weaknesses in his opponents you see every time he goes after little marco or calls ted cruz a liar. neil: how would he go after hillary clinton? how would you advise hillary clinton to counter whatever he would do? >> certainly not in the business of giving him advice going after her, but my advice to her take him seriously and i think they are. you should probably, if i were hillary talk about his positions anathema to vast majority of voters, not just democratic voters, certainly independent voters even some republican voters. people like ben sasse, governor of nebraska, excuse me. senator from nebraska, and charlie baker governor from

massachusetts whose state overwhelmingly voted in republican primary for donald trump both saying they will never under any circumstances vote for donald trump, that says to me she has inroads she can make, not just -- neil: or maybe they're the one who is are clueless when 20,000 former democrats become republicans and vote for donald trump. >> of course. that is a concern as well. look -- neil: maybe leadership that has got to get it? >> you know what i think is fascinate something that donald trump is creation of the so-called leadership. back in 2008 john mccain, whom obviously donald trump is anathema these days put sarah palin on ticket. next year and year after that, you had rise of tea party which leadership in washington exploited android all the way to the -- and used them. when they quote rice up against masters, dr. frank ken stein's monster is come alove and dr. frankenstein can't control them.

they start ranting and raving. mitt romney is harnessing that. mitt romney -- back if 2012. he has his own indication to it. neil: thank you very much. >> stay safe at home depot, my friend. neil: i will. if only i was handy. governor mike huckabee will weigh in on this. remember governor huckabee said to mitt romney's demands candidates release tax returns, don't bother. what does he now think of planned announcement, what every it is by mitt romney? we'll ask him. he is next. seminole ♪.

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neil: carl to that point, that is donald trump, you either get along or go along here. >> i think he's sort of reaching out saying hey, let's all get together and let's get this thing moving. neil: they're resisting that overture. that is fairly clear. >> yeah, i think they are. i think that's crazy. neil: all right. what does mike huckabee think of, former presidential candidate, former arkansas governor, mitt romney inserted his name into the race. demanding candidates turn over tax returns. this week making major announcement, we have no idea, from utah on state of this race. governor, what do you think? >> maybe he will give out his tax returns again just for old times sake. i don't know. i can't imagine, maybe he will say that he has been, maybe

misjudging this contest and maybe we just let the voters decide and then all republicans come together, whoever the nominee is, whether it's trump or rubio, cruz, kasich or carson, and we just get behind him and beat hillary. maybe that is what he is going to say. that is what i hope he will say. i doubt it, that is what i would love for him to say tomorrow. neil: very early on you would be saying you were not nasty, even when you're candidate in the debates talking about donald trump. you raised some differences obviously, but elevated to the level of marco rubio calling him a con man or paul ryan talking about prejudicial statements, obviously, directing them at donald trump, mitch mcconnell, secretly we're told getting word out, go ahead and criticize trump, fine by me, there does seem for lack of a better tomorrow a establishment outcry against donald trump. what do you think about all that? >> well it is true. what is amazing to me the

establishment nice don't get it the reason donald trump is doing so well because the establishment has done so poorly for america. they ruined this country. we worked hard too get them elected. i speak as somebody that went to 37 states in 2014 helping them get to the senate majority, thinking maybe they will go and work on fighting obamacare and stupid things like the iranian deal that they will go in there and stand up against obama's illegal immigration, unconstitutional actions, and, my gosh, nothing changes. and neil, the reason is because the same donor class that feeds republicans feeds the democrats, nothing changes. and, those folks at the carrier plant in indianapolis, who on video found out their jobs were going to mexico, nobody is working for them. and so whether or not they want to believe it, they are the problem. the reason donald trump is

getting a lot of votes because those folks standing on feet on the concrete floor, they believe he will fight for them more than the establishment will. i don't know why they don't get that message. neil: some say they like the message, agree with the message thaw outline. they say donald trump is not the messenger. >> well then, i was saying that. they certainly didn't get behind me. rick santorum was saying that. they didn't get behind rick. help me understand. they still want to go with can diets who are the corporately-funded candidate because they can control them. neil is this is about control. this is about power. and one of the things, rightly or wrongly, that donald trump represents is a level of independence that scares the britches off these guys. they don't know what he will do. and, i think that worries them the most. it is not that really are afraid he will do something crazy with the launch codes. i think they think that he might do something very bold that doesn't have their tacit approval and it doesn't satisfy

the donor class. i say this regularly. three magic words of politics, follow the money. and follow the money see that the same donors give to democrats, give to republicans things don't change. that is what people are upset about. we're in the midst of a revolution. and we ought to be grad that this is revolution that is likely going to be bloodless. it is going to be decided by ballots, not by bullets. that's a good thing, neil. but by golly there needs to be some wake-up in the washington, d.c. and people understand that the reason that candidates like trump and or bernie sanders are doing as well as they are is because people are fed up with the institutions of government and the orthodoxy after conservatism that has cost a lot of working people their jobs. neil: that is very well-put. i copied every line you said. i will use it as mine now, governor. very good seeing you again, sir. >> thank you, neil. great to be with you.

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being the former republican presidential standard-bearer that is his right whether the party will respond or care, is anyone's guest. charles payne here to pick apart this and some other issues. what do you think it is about? >> i, my speculation goes in two areas. one to your point, sort of the elder statesman of the party, maybe coming in saying, picking up on that conciliatory tone that donald trump had last night, saying hey, guys, we've got to figure this out. we don't want to fracture ourselves. a couple weeks ago, hillary looked like she would be in tooth and nail fight with bernie sanders. now looks like she will win this thing in a walk. they will start to really galvanize. her support will galvanize around her. all things republicans do to teach other, that will be cutting that right away. anything more, particularly mean-spirited things, more egregious things, more really salacious, sort of innuendo, it will be all fodder for general election and maybe, maybe romney sees this and he is afraid of

it. neil: you think romney thinks, and he is deeply religious man -- >> that is one angle. neil: maybe i don't like the reaction to my tax form demands, that it is being read, that i am being divisive, do you think he will dial it back? >> i don't think he will point a finger but amongst contestants themselves, fighting over nomination, some things being said. neil: so many republicans charles, have said, there is no doubting donald trump phenomenon. i can't get behind the guy. >> i don't know if i ever seen sitting senator, senator, by the way this guy is tea party guy. neil: talking about nebraska's benn sasse? >> i think other thing people are missing, a lot of people who love donald trump is that his opposition is not just the quote, establishment. i think there are two avenues of opposition. of course there is the establishment, donor class you guys were just talking about but there are also conservatives, the guy who started hobby lobby. he is not an establishment guy. she is are guys who are saying

against my core principles. you're telling me, i'm a christian. i believe certain things, whether regarding divorce, whether regarding -- neil: step out of the election. just wouldn't vote at all. >> this -- neil: tea party is it going to be huge or what? >> we don't know. won't go away. some of these things being said right now, we'll see them again, but hillary clinton advertisement. i wonder if mitt is worried about that. maybe the exact opposite. maybe he takes the tax thing to another degree. by the way, we found this, this and this corroborates idea you're hiding something in your taxes. that is why it is a so amazing. neil: sorry, we're going to talk about so much else. this has become front and burner story. tonight on your show at 6:00 p.m., making money, but it is wild stuff. super tuesday is over. what if i told you the fallout has only just begun? stick around.

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republicans can possibly win? all these extra voters who have come out in those primaries flooding to the polls. >> the people are voting. people want trump. >> he has appeal that republican national committee, the republican establishment isn't going to be able to ignore after tonight. >> want somebody that can beat hillary. tell me who else in that party can even touch him? you have to get away from this gridlock and bureaucracy that we have and i think donald will accomplish that. neil: we do want to go to cruz headquarters in stafford, texas. >> behind me we have music going from a local band, market junction. i glad they sent me, neil, you cavuto would stick out at a place like this. neil: like you don't, mcshane. that should go well. >> watching cnn, watching fox people and watching msnbc people too. see i'm becoming diplomatic. neil: they're running table, that is hillary clinton.

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new jersey and trump from manhattan standing on the stage. their tone has to be a little different than ronald reagan. neil: [laughter]. you say you have a problem with those from new jersey? still not comfortable making a call from vermont, even when we get up to 9% of the precincts reporting they will not call it. everyone has called this race. nickelodeon called this race. "national geographic" called this race. mtv has called this race. we're not. donald trump has won vermont. it doesn't end because we have, of course this weekend, kentucky, louisiana, maine, nebraska. caucuses and primary as lot more coming up between the winner-take-all states. >> what day is that? neil: that would be saturday. that's pretty sad. i know basketball analogy. fun.

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's back there does seem, for lack of a better term, an establishment outcry with donald trump. >> is true. the establishment guys do not get it. the establishment has done so poorly for america.

they have ruined this country. neil: whatever is on mitt romney's mind, going with the flow. he is also saying, you know, stop trying to stop the guy. what ever. >> the republican establishment is ringing in his hands. and unstoppable donald trump. former presidential candidate mitt romney. a major address on the state of the 2016 collections. a huge critic from the front runner donald trump. is the establishment starting to panic? no doubt about it. donald trump had a heck of a night winning there. a bit more presidential. >> i am a unifier.