i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thanks so much for watching, and remember -- you can't take it with you. ement same for marc as well. charles: since that's the case, i'll withhold mine. i do endorse lou. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs am the republican establishment, gop elites tonight, upping their efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters and create a brokered convention. outside groups and campaigns reportedly are committing more than 9 million dollars to be spent specifically on ads in florida ahead of next tuesday's winner-take-all primary. but trump taking the high road and calling on republicans to unify behind his candidacy. >> if we embrace what's happening and if everybody came together instead of spending all this money on the ridiculous ads that frankly are wrong.

and they're just false ads. you know, it's terrible. if everybody came together, nobody could beat the republican party, we would walk into washington. we would literally have such a great election victory. lou: it appears there's going to be a development aimed at unity. trump about to win a big endorsement. sources telling fox news john roberts that dr. ben carson will endorse donald trump tomorrow morning at a campaign event in florida. adding to the good news, polls show trump on track to secure the nomination. a brand-new "washington post"-univision survey show trump leading in home state of florida, by seven points, 38-31 and other principal opponent senator ted cruz not posing much of a threat. cruz unveiled first senate endorsement, mike lee of utah. cruz and lee had a friendship

that goes back six years, they co-sponsored dozens of bills together and lee was the first sitting senator to endorse cruz running for the senate. so the bigger question is why didn't that endorsement come sooner? we take up 2016 politics with former trump adviser roger stone tonight. the weekly standard's -- excuse me, "national review"'s rich lowry and washington free beacon's elizabeth harrington. also tonight, the obama administration reportedly planning to blame iran for a cyberattack against a new york dam almost three years ago. what took so long? we'll ask former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, here tonight. top story, the fight for florida. as of right now donald trump has an average 15-point lead in the winner-take-all primary that awards 99 delegates next tuesday. if marco rubio does not win, he will have no other option but to quit the race.

so the stakes are high, as republicans meet for the twelfth debate of the primary season. fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron is in coral gables and has our report. >> reporter: thanks, lou, this could be the last debate of the primary season. if donald trump gets the majority of the delegates come tuesday. he may decide that he's done with debating until the general election. on tuesday, florida, ohio, north carolina, missouri, illinois and the northern marianna islands vote and 367 gop delegates are at stake. trump leads in every state but ohio where kasich has an edge. in florida, rubio's worked hard to get out the early and absentee vote. >> if those of who you haven't voted yet will leave and cast your early ballot. if we do what needs to be done, we are going to win this election, and i will owe it to you. >> reporter: the numbers overall are impressive if his supporters are driving that turnout. in ohio, where kasich said he'll win or drop out.

the latest tally of early and absentee votes combined, kasich is relentlessly positive and focused on issues. >> guys, we have a con artist as a front-runner in the republican party. >> reporter: rubio admits going to a name caller with trump was a mistake. >> not what i am, what my campaign is going to be about or ever will be about. >> do you regret that? >> i did, on the personal stuff. i'm not telling he didn't deserve it. that's not what i am and who i want to be. >> reporter: making a closing argument on behalf of rubio. >> in florida, a vote for cruz or kasich is a vote for trump. it's time to stop trump and elect a president we'll be proud of. marco rubio. >> reporter: at the debate site in rubio's hometown, the cruz campaign unveiled first endorsement from utah's mike lee. >> he is the only republican candidate who can defeat donald trump and who can defeat

hillary clinton, and i believe he will. >> reporter: cruz firing missiles at trump and rubio for about a month and is in second place behind trump overall. cruz says trump's support comes from low information voters who are angry. president obama weighed in on trump and the gop field during the white house visit suggesting there's a difference in tone but not substance. >> mr. trump might just be more provocative in terms of how he says, it but the actual positions aren't that different. >> reporter: new "washington post"-univision poll shows the race in florida closing. donald trump has a lead but that is well within the poll's 5% margin of error. cruz at 19% and kasich at 4. rubio has a shot at winning his home statement lou? lou: carl, thank you very much, carl cameron. turning to the democratic side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders set their sites on florida. clinton is confident she will take the sunshine state, but sanders upset win in michigan

shows the race is far from over. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry with the report. >> reporter: hillary clinton in tampa today fighting for the 248 delegates up for grabs in florida tuesday, and talking tough how she can beat any republican in the race. >> people ask me all the time, who do i want to run against? that's not for me to decide, but given what they've all said, i will take any one of them. >> reporter: bernie sanders made clear he's far from done, and before bracketing clinton here in tampa, raced to the university of florida for a big rally with his base of young people. >> now i know that florida is big football country, right? [cheers] >> reporter: clinton, who is sacked in michigan earlier this week was hit hard in a debate on univision last night. >> if you get indicted will you drop out. >> for goodness, i'm not going to answer, that is not going to happen. >> reporter: the one-year

anniversary of clinton's news conference at united nations, defending use of private server memorialized in the new video by the super pac america rising. >> i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. >> reporter: several top democrats led by senator dianne feinstein came to clinton's defense with, a letter to the inspectors general for the state department and the intelligence community suggesting they have been biased in criticism. the letter charging, quote, a number of allegations about the classification of specific e-mails appear to have been reached in error and contained inaccuracies. yet in a preview of line of attack in the general election, the republican national committee is filing two lawsuits, demanding access to more clinton records. including all text and blackberry messages sent and received while secretary of state. the clinton camp calls the rnc lawsuits frivolous. though the candidate may be in hot water with the democratic national committee.

this photo obtained by fox suggests clinton was mingling with aides during last night's break. that's a no-no. jennifer palmieri downplayed it. >> i'm not aware of that. >> reporter: aides are not supposed to appear helping prep candidates. >> that would be a clear violation of dnc rules. >> reporter: a large rally for sanders trying make up ground on clinton who has a double-digit lead in the critical state. lou? lou: ed, thank you, ed henry. critics are blasting president obama for taking years to hold accountable iran in a 2013 cyberattack against a new york dam. new reports out today say the justice department will charge five iranians with that cyberattack in the coming days. but republican senator steve danes of montana says it's, quote, down right shameful it took three years to denounce iran while the united states

set at the same negotiating table. iranian hackers were not able to take control of the dam system, or were able to probe its defenses. and a potential breakthrough in the war against the islamic state. sky news reporting it has acquired a stolen memory stick of documents. the documents identify 22,000 radical islamists. the digital files contain a goldmine of data including names, addresses, phone numbers, family contacts. u.s. officials say they are aware of the reported cache of information but reached no conclusions about the authenticity about the documents or the names contained therein. we're coming right back. we have a lot more. stay with us. rubio may be in denial, but he's got a lot of optimism. >> i honestly don't believe donald trump is the nominee. i continue believe to it's going to be me.

it's going to have to start in florida. lou: donald trump trying knock out rubio and the gop establishment trying to knock out trump. and this young boy's about to have the shock of a lifetime. the video for you right after the video for you right after th

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lou: ben carson, who last week suspended his campaign for the republican presidential nomination, now planning it appears to endorse donald trump tomorrow morning. sources tell fox news senior national correspondent john roberts that a 9:00 a.m. news conference has been called. the endorsement reportedly finalized today after a carson-trump meeting at trump's mara lago club, and appearing on fox news radio, carson hinted he is leaning toward a candidate and spoke highly of trump. joining us staff writer for the washington free beacon, elizabeth harrington. good to have you with us. editor of the "national review," rich lowry. good to have you with us, rich. >> hi, lou. lou: start with you, elizabeth, and the idea of the carson nomination -- endorsement, rather. your thoughts. will it be significantly helpful to trump? >> i don't think it's going to be that significant.

i think most of carson's supporters already went to trump after he got out of the race. it's interesting that just last fall trump was asking whether carson was a pathological liar, or a violent criminal? apparently none of this matters to him, and from the statements he said to fox news radio, it sounds like, you know, he's just a showman on the outside, but like when you talk to him in person, he's a completely different guy and must get along with him well. i don't think it will have that much effect because the supporters already went to trump. it will give trump more media attention in case he has a bad debate tonight. lou: the fact is we all did notice, hillary clinton did go to work for the man she fought tooth and nail in 2008. not an anomaly in our country's political history. >> that's the way politics works. every endorsement at the margins is validating for donald trump and helps him and this will obviously drive some news tomorrow morning.

lou: you know, i think it's interesting to see dr. carson supporting. there couldn't be two personalities at greater variance in national politics. now what is to me interesting is paul ryan and playing the tot seems, elizabeth, to get attention about the idea he would be available for a draft saying he is available for a draft. a consistent washington theme, isn't it? >> i don't think he's interested in it. if you remember last fall as well, he insisted he did not want to be speaker. that's interesting too. lou: he's made a good career about not wanting to do things. >> right. and yeah, who knows, i don't know what the strategy will be but if trump is in the lead and the establishment types want to go after a brokered convention, i definitely think paul ryan's name would be up there for people to nomname.

we'll see what happens. lou: surely, rich, the gop elites, the establishment would not want a brokered convention. they'd rather see voters enfranchised, will expressed. i can't imagine these tall pillars of a democratic constitutional republic wanting to avoid the wiffle the people, could you? >> yeah, it would be much better if somebody gets the majority of the delegates, 1237 and better if a conservative candidate does it rather than donald trump. lou: wait a minute, what makes you think conservatives have a majority view in this country? we are watching donald trump gather independents and democrats, for years now. how many years have the republicans blown elections? since 2008. and they say they want somebody who is cross over, reach out, broaden the tent. and first sign that somebody is doing so, a powerful sign as you know, a million votes more

than romney had at this point in his nomination year. what's the problem? what is the problem? >> if you look at trajectory on delegates, probably not going to get there. really not going to get there if he loses one of ohio and florida. seems rubio is going to have a very slender chance of winning florida so ohio is important. i wonder if tonight trump will hit john kasich. one of the strengths kasich has had throughout the process is gets to cast the message for his voters without anyone else paying attention to him. in the latest polls, seems as if he's ticked ahead in ohio. lou: ticking ahead, and it would be sort of surprising if the favorite son were not to be moving ahead. he's got 79% popularity there, at least among republicans. so as we wrap this upon uted

cruz gets endorsement from mike lee. isn't that a little like, i don't know, tonto endorsing the lone ranger? what do you think, elizabeth? >> i don't think it's going to have that big of effect. i think the only thing -- lou: you're not going to deal with the lone ranger, are you? >> run this lone ranger analogy. i couldn't do it. it's up to you! [laughter]. >> i'm going to stay away from that one. i think it just shows that nobody is really going to endorse rubio at this point. they're all going towards cruz. they think he's the best shot to go one on one. that would be the smart decision. lou: all of them would be defined as mike lee, i think, at this point, in terms of senators? >> mike lee is a great principled conservative, validating for ted cruz and a sign of more endorsements to come in the coming days and weeks. lou: conservatives divine so

much from one single development involving one lone conservative. rich lowry, thanks for being with us. elizabeth harrington, thank you so much. be sure to vote in our poll tonight -- i can't believe that of our establishment. our elites, who surely look to our welfare and protect us from all this. not this time. cast your vote on twitter at lou dobbs news, "like" me on facebook, follow me on instagram at "lou dobbs tonight." links to everything, loudobbs.com. an extraordinary, an extraordinary video, arizona police releasing a video of a terrifying hit and run. a gray chevrolet, as you saw there hits this 8-year-old boy who is crossing the street and this is horrible.

the boy suffered luckily only minor injuries as he was knocked to the ground. police are asking for the public's help in identifying that truck and its driver, and that's why they released the video. up next, when is the republican establishment going to learn that the more they attack poor defenseless donald trump, the stronger he becomes?e is gone. have you noticed that? wouldn't that be nice for our country? everybody. when i'm being attacked viciously, i mean, jeb was vicious, they were all very vicious, and they're all gone. lou: well, the bushes aren't gone and they have tentacles reaching into all sorts of areas. many with, well, unkind, unkind thoughts about donald trump and may well attack him. that's the subject of my commentary tonight. and shocking video capturing the moment a sinkhole

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. lou: a few thoughts now on the republican establishment, which is only upping its efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters and create a brokered convention. nearly $30 million in total ad money has been spent by outside groups attacking donald trump, according to fec records. that is more than all the other candidates, both republicans and democrats combined, and why the establishment, the gop elites? well, they're frightened, scared to death, that they will lose power and money that their comfortable lives for the first time will be unthinkably in upheaval. that's why more than $11 million is targeting the republican front-runner this month alone. another $30 million may be

spent as the establishment tries to take down trump in florida and ohio. why donald trump? because he's the only candidate neither party who is a professional politician. neither one can corrupt the entire culture that washington has become and stayed for the past 20 years. the not standing for anti-trump surge is amazing. trump is giving as good as he gets in the hotly fought campaign. last night during an interview with sean hannity, trump took aim at those trying to crush his voters and candidacy, including that secret con-fab of congressional leaders, billionaires, tech gurus and establishment leaders at sea island. >> these are people who are taking advantage of our country. these are people they know many of them. and all flying in because they don't want to have strong borders. they want stuff flowing across the borders.

don't want to have taxation when countries treat us unfairly because they benefit from that. lou: when they try to disenfranchise millions of voters and subvert the will of the people. trump received broad support so far. won -- and the monumental arrogance of romney, the gop elites those who met at sea island, it's unprecedented in presidential election history, going after the front-runner in this manner. will the republican elites stop trump? will there be a brokered convention? my hope is voters who are engaged and intensely so in this election will go and go in droves to the polls next tuesday. vote against the establishment in droves. and send an unmistakable

message to the party elites. the gop establishment that doesn't even blush at the obvious effort to disenfranchise voters. the little helpers of the elite including their candidates. you know what the message is that will likely resonate next tuesday. so vote, vote eagerly, energetically, vote, vote, vote! now our quotation of the evening on disenfranchising voters, particularly trump voters threatened by the elites. so our quotation tonight is from a man who didn't like disenfranchisement of this sort or any other kind. franklin d. roosevelt. so i have a little addendum to

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. lou: our next guest detailing the connection between senator ted cruz and the bush writing today, quote, ted cruz is the ultimate insider, former top bush 41 policy aide and globalist, my ivy leaguer and establishment insider. there is no better example of this than calgary ted's actions surrounding the big wall street banks and their secret funding of political ascension. joining us the author of those remarks, former donald trump

campaign adviser roger stone, political consultant who worked for president's nixon and reagan, author of the book jeb and the bush crime family. that's a lot of work to describe you in just brief, roger, good to have you with us. >> great to be here. lou: ted cruz and the bush family, supposed to be a big announcement there as well tomorrow in the case of ted cruz. what do you suspect that will be? it will be a perhaps jeb bush endorsement of senator cruz? >> i think it's ironic that while donald trump is being endorsed by ben carson, ted cruz is actually putting out a press release announcing that he's being endorsed by neil bush who's defrauding of an s&l cost taxpayers 1.5 billion dollars. this is like being endorsed by bernie madoff. lou: better than that, rodger, neil is the cochairman of the finance arm of the campaign.

>> precisely. so i think what this means is the battle lines are drawn. in other words, mitt romney spilled the beans when he said ted cruz is among those acceptable as a nominee. so you have romney waiting in the rings in the bull pen all made up. paul ryan essentially advertising his availability by saying he's not available. have you ted cruz happy to be the -- take a brokered convention. you've got marco rubio who probably doesn't make the finals as a possible nominee because he loses florida. the establishment is playing a many handed game. but the bottom line is stop donald trump short on the first ballot, and then on the subsequent ballot. lou: and left out of the lineup, i will let anyone come up with the nouns that are appropriate, the list that you enunciated. john kasich.

>> he would be excited to see a brokered convention. lou: i would be too if i were running and had only 40 delegates. >> yeah, look, the "new york times" reported this two sundays ago, two of the campaigns have power point presentations about how the brokered convention would work. ted cruz said he'd be happy to be crowned by the king makers. so there is an all-out stop trump effort. this is very reminiscent of 1964 when the goldwater revolution overtook the republican party, the establishment waited too long and unloaded on goldwater in the end and couldn't stop him from the nomination. lou: or 76 with reagan and ford or 1980 in the lead-up and 1980, of course, ted kennedy and president carter. it's extraordinary to see what we're witnessing here. the results are never good, though, and this establishment

seems to be utterly bereft of any sense of consequence or history. >> no, the consultant class, the lobbyist class are apoplectic about a president that can't be bought and bullied. a president not beholden to the current wall street money structure, and therefore a president who couldn't be guided at all through special influence money or influence peddling. they're petrified about it. what do we get? the same thing to goldwater, he's a fascist, a bigot, he is a hater, mentally unstable. he's going to start a war. those things weren't true of barry goldwater, they're not true of donald trump. lou: basically the claims against ronald reagan in 1980, he was styled as if he had never been a governor, never been an executive, as if he had an itchy trigger finger on america's nuclear arsenal and war was assured said all of

those politically. watching the same thing with trump. this is the year of the outsider. everyone has agreed upon that amongst the commentariate and here we are, and only one outsider in the entire cast of candidates in either party, and that name is donald trump. why is that so difficult for everyone to, in the elites at least, to understand why the american people are moving toward him and in the democratic party, bernie sanders of late? >> yeah, i think the rise of trump is repudiation of 30 years of failed policies. whether it is bush, clinton, bush, obama, whoever is next, the policies remain the same and left us economically broke, they put us in the giant disadvantage of trade. immigration policies have made our streets unsafe. adventurous foreign policies

cost us blood and treasure with nothing to show for it. the voters are fed up. ted cruz has skillfully tried to sound like an outsider, but when your campaign is funded by $2 million secret sweetheart loans from wall street banks, and you lie about it, saying that you traded in your wife's retirement in order to fund your campaign, it just demonstrates he is the wall street candidate. he is an insider, as he was in his long association with the bushes. lou: well, roger, we always appreciate your observation. great to talk with you. have a great evening and we'll talk again soon. >> lou, thanks for having me. lou: shocking video out of china. a bus pulling into the bus station and as it does, it is swallowed by a massive sinkhole. the driver, two passengers were stuck inside that bus, in the sinkhole for 40 minutes. later taken to the hospital. the driver was treated for serious head injuries,

unfortunately. and up next, we're going to take up the issue of why are people in the elites so excited and anxious right now? donald trump for his party still refuses to yield to the pc police, stay with us. >> i think islam hates us. there's something, there's something there that's a tremendous hatred there. there's a tremendous hatred. we have to get to the bottom of it. there's a tremendous hatred, and we have to be very vigilant, have to be very careful, and we can't allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the united states. lou: ambassador john bolton weighing in on that and more, and we'll ask him how to assess anderson cooper's body language during that conversation. stay with us, we

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. lou: joining us tonight, form u.s. ambassador to the united nations, american enterprise institute senior fellow, john bolton, fox news contributor. john, great to have you with us. let's start with iran. two missile launches, basically saying the hell with the united states, the hell with the agreements, and we've got $100 billion and we're happy about it and mr. obama, you're a fool. what do you think?

>> that's about right. i think it demonstrates the contempt they hold us in and justifiably on their part when you consider the agreement, they would argue that the missile launches do not violate the deal, and i have to say the way the deal is written, given the weakness of our secretary of state as principal negotiator supports their claim. the deal says only they shouldn't be engaged in ballistic missile development designed to be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. you know, as the iranians have told us. lou: little toy plastic parachutes? what is their purpose? >> weather and communications satellites, they told us. this they told john kerry this and he believes them. the iranians would argue since we don't have a nuclear weapons program, obviously our ballistic missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons. no problem. and if you see the administration express outrage? this is part of a long pattern

we're going to see through the end of the obama administration. iran will do whatever it wants and suffer no penalty. lou: this may be the longest 315 days in the history of american politics. it is amazing what we are watching, provocation from north korea. a pathetic dance of insincerity from the chinese in constraining north korea. we have the iranians. i mean, please. at some point we have to say enough is enough. this president has it give us at least mercy, mr. president, mercy. can we do that? >> i wouldn't get your hopes up, and you put your finger on an important point here that it's not just an isolated case of iran scorning their obligations or dealings with the united states. all of our adversaries know exactly how many days are left in the obama administration. they don't know any better than we do who will win in november but will use the time remaining

while obama is in the white house to their advantage, so my projection is the pace and the scope of the crises we face are only going to increase in the next 10 months. lou: i went to turn to donald trump today. he said something in an interview with anderson cooper earlier that i found interesting because i hadn't heard anyone construct the relationship between islam and the united states in quite this way when he said he believes islam hates us. and it went onto explain his thinking. but i was taken by that, and i wanted to get your reaction as a person who understands deeply the relationship between radical islamists and their aggression against the west? >> well, i think it's an overstatement, and one he doesn't need to make. i think the way to understand the radical islamist threat that we face, and it is a real threat, it is an ideology that is extremely hostile to the

west, but i don't think it's shared by every muslim. king abdullah of jordan put his finger on, it observation he makes repeatedly that what's happening is a civil war within islam, and that's a formulation that also puts the lie to barack obama's often repeated statement that isis is not islamic or the radicals are not real muslims. king abdullah, who is one of the descendents of the hashemite kings understands islam, and i think his formulation is right. if what trump is saying is that the radical ideology is a threat to the united states, that's something he would find tony blair in agreement with. lou: not many of us would turn to tony blair for agreement corroboration. >> showing the breadth and the insight. lou: and your warm and generous heart.

ambassador john bolton, thank you. >> thank you so much. lou: a man in north dakota took his stunt to new heights. scaling the largest television tower and he is doing this, he did this, he's arrived, without a safety harness! he also battled 50-mile-an-hour winds making his 1500 foot ascent to the top of that antenna. he says he completed the climb to help conquer -- when people say things like this, ladies and gentlemen, i've got to be candid with you, i think they're nuts. to conquer his fear of heights. he climbs 1500 feet up. he had great confidence in his ability to conquer fear of heights before he started. i'll leave it to the psychiatrist to figure that one out. and meanwhile, great video, don't we, and a story to tell. donald trump says he can't wait to focus on the general election. >> i was hit only once by hillary, that was four weeks ago, and we haven't heard from her since.

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lou: chris plante, radio show host and fox news contributor. this is starting to look uglier by the day. who will persevere and who will fail? >> to me it will be trump. i'm not a republican. but trump is doing something as you pointed out earlier in the show tonight not many other republican candidates have been able to do, get the democratic appeal if you need to take over in a general election. i'm baffled. the republicans finally have a candidate who can do the thing john mccain and mitt romney couldn't do, and they seem insist end on taking him down. another forces of the universe are arraying against donald trump.

there is a beat coming for him -- there is a beast coming for him. it will be like jason and the argonauts. but there are great -- i'm not kidding, there are great and powerful forces coming to take him down. look for coalitions to be created. ted cruz is emerging as the frontrunner on the non-trump camp. dose migrate over to ted cruz? does everybody gather behind ted cruz? and if that becomes the case, can donald trump survive that? >> i have a question for chris. i hear you. strong conservatives have a problem with donald trump. but you look at 46,000 democrats registering as republicans to vote in pennsylvania.

they are not going to vote for ted cruz. >> donald trump is a force of nature and the republican party is rolling the dice on all kinds of levels. can donald trump beat hillary clinton? i think so. she is a terrible, awful candidate. lou: donald trump has outsmarted the establishment, the republican party and every one of the candidates to this point. does he have the capacity to take it to the next level which you assure us is headed toward us? the real issue here is the american people and what we'll tolerate. and if we find we tolerate brokered convention and in your face power pole particulars that the power structure is flying without simply going out and voting, then game over anyway.

i believe the stakes are so high this time, if we are over for this political bare nudge result -- >> chicanery. lou: i'm worried about in your face power pole particulars saying to hell with you. every one of these candidates is saying we don't need sovereign secure borders. we don't have any business managing our immigration system. we can run trade deficits in perpetuity whether it's external trade or whether it's a national debt that's $19 trillion. that seems to be the stakes. >> what you are talking about, the brokered convention scenario, not that different on the left with the superdelegate that usurps voters. it happens that way. that's why certain people don't vote. i'm a lawyer by trade.

so many of my legal colleagues don't even vote. not because they don't love america? but because they think their vote doesn't matter. lou: you think of that, a lot of people died for that right fan they can't get their disappointed butts out of the chairs and get down to the chairs, it's darwinian. >> voting is clearly a duty. you mentioned the convention, potentially brokered or contested. if donald trump gets 1,237 delegates and the republican party tries to take it away from him, their village will burn. lou: i think it may not just be a metaphor you are drawing from, chris plant. this is the most exciting presidential primary season in our experience.

and in our online poll, 85% of saw say gop he athletes are assuring trump's victory by conspiring and attack him relentlessly. we'll see you here tomorrow. good night from new york. [♪] kennedy: happy to have you. i'm watching regrets watch over presidential back runner marco rubio like flotsam and jetsam in the miami river. marco rubio carried so much confidence and money into the race. his attacks on trump have backfired and the anvil is pulling him mercilessley to the bottom of the back.