ashley: that is all very depressing, charlie, thanks. >> if you have mba from harvard, get a job on floor of the stock exchange. [closing bell rings] ashley: dow off session lows. oil down today which hasn't helped the proceedings at all. there we go. take it away, david and melissa. neil: thank you very much. stocks ending the day down following oil which fell more than 4% and ending the day below $40 a barrel. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis and this is "after the bell." new at this hour -- neil: new information on the deadly terrorist attacks in brussels. a number of u.s. citizens currently remain unaccounted for in belgium including u.s. government and state department personnel. police discovering a suicide note on a laptop left in a garbage can believed to be written by one of the bombers. a desperate manhunt is underway for the man in white. authorities searching for

several others linked to the attacks that killed at least 30 people. left over 300 wounded with 61 still in intensive care. melissa. melissa: we have breaking news right now out of brussels. fox news is just learning the man who made bombs for both attacks in brussels and massacre in paris is dead. fox business's gerri willis is in the newsroom with the latest on this story. gerri, what can you tell us? >> melissa, that's right. fox news learned from forces. najim laachraoui who built bombs for yesterday's attack is dead. the same man's whose dna reportedly turned up on explosive belts use in the paris massacre in november. now the man on the left in this surveillance video, take a look at this, now time mouse picture at -- now famous picture at the brussels airport is one of the men who died yesterday. the man in the middle.

brahim el bakraoui is dead. the man on the right they don't know if he is on the run or they're trying to find him. he played a key role in recruiting attackers for isis. one other piece of breaking news you must hear from the associated press this afternoon, islamic state said it dispatched, hundreds, as many as 400 fighters trained to attack in europe. they are deploying interlocking terrorist cells. these folks have been trained in countries all over the middle east. and now they're coming to europe to create more of exactly the kind of confusion, horror, that you're seeing in these pictures right now. melissa. melissa: gerri willis thank you so much for that report. new details on the united states strategy against isis. despite numerous pledges of president obama to accelerate attacks against terrorist group,

american troops are dropping fewer bombs on the islamic state. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the latest on the story. what can you tell us? reporter: new strike data from the u.s. air force shows number of bombs dropped on by coalition planes on isis fell to eight-month low in february. this comes as president obama repeatedly pledged to accelerate the war against isis, to destroy the group. he was asked to respond to the brussels bombing while in argentina today. >> this is my number one priority. i've got a lot of things on my plate but my top priority is to defeat isil and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that has been take place around the world. reporter: but last month there were 36% fewer bombs dropped on isis compared to a november high in the air war. about 1000 fewer bombs according to air force statistics. one reason that fewer bombs have

been dropped is that last month the air force ordered its b 1 bombers back to their bases in the united states for maintenance. despite flying just 3% of the strike missions against isis the b-1 ones dropped 40% of the bombs. the air force plans to deploy b-52 bombers next month to pick up the pace. the spokesman in u.s. military described the drop in airstrikes as a lull. major ground operations have recently concluded so there is less enemy movement. as ground operations increase defend the pace of air operations will also increase. last night in fact the pentagon announced it conducted an airstrike against an al qaeda training camp in yemen. we now learned from a senior pentagon official between 50 and 70 al qaeda fighters were killed in the u.s. air strike involving manned fighter jets and drones. local report say the al qaeda trainees were hit as they lined up for dinner. melissa. melissa: wow, jennifer, thank you so much for that.

david. neil: all the presidential candidate say they have a strategy for defeating isis but will any of these strategies work? here is ted cruz on fox news this morning defending his suggestion that we carpet bomb isis headquarters in raqqa, syria. >> take out their command-and-control facilities. take out infrastructure. take out communication. take out transportation. we take out refineries. take out their troops. we use overwhelming air power. neil: now fox news military analyst general jack keane. i know you can't talk about specific plans by specific candidates. you don't want to get involved in that dog fight. a number about people are calling for carpet bombing of areas in raqqa, in and around raqqa where we know isis has a lot of its headquarters. could you do that without unacceptable civilian damage? >> well, no, absolutely not. carpet bombing with the 20th

century technique designed when prosecution of war was totally different. we made war against germany not only to defeat their military but roosevelt and churchhill made a very tough strategic decision to make war against the german people so that they would never give rise to the kind of idealogical movement that naziism was, that led to so many million deaths, close to 100 million. in the 21st century we would never prosecute a war like that. we tried to protect civilians from the instruments of war as best we can. we don't need to use so-called dumb bombs like we did in world war ii. we have precision guided munitions and we use those very surgeally to take out targets. the problem we have, this is not a nation-state that has infrastructure that we saw initially in afghanistan with the taliban or in kosovo, in

yugoslavia, the former serbia today, or that we saw in iraq in baghdad. neil: right. >> where you have the entire facilities of an infrastructure. this state, even though they call itself, is actually hiding in among the people. so that kind of bombing has no utility. only precision-guided bombing. what we could do is make the bombing more effective, david, and what many of us argued for, actually put people on the ground to assist targeting those bombs. david: isn't that what we did in afghanistan? >> we did. iraqi army, other militia forces to target the enemy, enemy and did it very, very effectively because they could see the targets and they controlled the bombs, protect civilian

casualties, protech friendlies. we are not doing that. david: yeah. >> in any significant way in iraq and even less so in syria. david: on the contrary as you heard from jennifer griffin we've been cutting back our bombing raids. president obama keeps saying isis, while he is out to defeat isis, he says it does not pose an existential threat to the united states or the west in general. what do you think about that? >> well, first of all the president said, as we saw in the introduction, that isil, the defeat of isis is his number one priority. i would hate to see what a much lower priority is if this is his number one because i guarranty you, whether we have a democratic president or a republican president takes office in january 2017, when they asked the question what is it going to take from the pentagon to defeat isis, they will get a campaign plan that will actually, absolutely bring down that safe haven in syria, which is the genesis of what is

happening in europe right before our eyes. you have to shut it down just like we shut down the safe haven in afghanistan. otherwise isis becomes more ambitious, more lethal, more highly-skilled, more glamorized, recruits more and continues to grow as an organization as it is. we need to shut it down and we have the capability with our allies in the region certainly to do that. and military knows how to do it. david: yet, we have to wait until january 2016 for that to happen, right? >> absolutely. this president is going to keep using that rhetoric but will never put the resources in place to accept the degree of risk to do that. it is not going to happen, david. david: gin jack keane, pleasure to have you on, general. thank you very much. >> good talking to you. melissa: for the latest on the scene in brussels, let's go to fox news's mike tobin standing by live. mike? reporter: melissa, people are

not intimidated into staying in their houses despite information about the associated press that the islamic state dispatched hundreds of fighters across europe and they're ready to strike. belgium has security level at highest, level four. the prosecutor saying a very real threat still exists. >> translator: the investigation is carried out by the technical and scientific police together with numerous experts are ongoing at various crime scenes and will continue for many hours, perhaps days. reporter: a part of the investigation, security video which captured three people who took part in the airport attack. to the far left is an individual who blew himself up. he has been now identified according to sources, najim laachraoui. according to sources he was chiefbomb-maker, at least one of the bomb-makers. far right, light coat, that individual's bomb did not detonate. that individual is still at large. unidentified.

the guy in the middle is ibrahim el backpack, he blew himself. the his brother, khalid detonated his bomb in the metro. he killed at least 20 people. the people that know the bakraoui brothers say they have heavy rap sheets. they participated in organized crime. they kicked ibrahim bakraoui out of his country and warned individuals that man had radicalized. in brussels a tip from cab driver led police to neighborhood heavily populated with immigrants. they found 30 pounds of the explosive tatp. that is most common explosive in homemade bombs. they found chemicals, detonators and suitcase full of nails, sadly one of most common construction methods we see for homemade bombs. melissa: such a beautiful city, that is shame. thank you, mike for that report.

david: heightened security among the nation in major cities, l.a., chicago, in the wake of the deadly bombings in brussels. melissa: terrorist attack shaking up the race for the white house. you can bet donald trump has something to say about it. >> you have radical islamic terrorist all over the place. it is not going to be the end. we'll have it over here too. we're allowing thousands of people to come here, sean. we have no paperwork, no idea where they are, who they are, where they come from. melissa: fox news media analyst howard kurtz sounds off on that next. david: trump and ted cruz scoring major victories in arizona and utah but which candidate performs best against hillary clinton in november? the answer coming up. your path to retirement... may not always be clear. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. for over 7years, investors have relied on our disciplined approach to find long term value. so wherever your retirement journey takes you,

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think, melissa, this would play to her strength. she gave a speech today, rather subdued speech talked about forming a national encryption commission and cooperating melissa: what a great idea. >> made some proposals but not dramatic sound bites. melissa: doesn't inspire a lot of people necessarily. i thought it was interesting. morning shows go out and they like ask the candidates to call in. this is all happening instantaneously. trump, apparently watching. he calls in instantly. hillary clinton originally wouldn't. but then i guess maybe her folks saw trump calling in. all of sudden she is on the phone as well. does that work for her? is that a smart move? i guess she kind of got jump on it if trump is going to do it. what is your take? >> she belatedly got into the game. when "the today show" finished interview with trump, matt lauer said we invited hillary clinton

but she declined. suddenly the 9:00 a.m. hour she to the on the phone that was smart for her. ted cruz was on 19 shows today making rounds in new york. he has gotten into some hot water talking about police patrolling muslim communities to prevent them from becoming radicalized, invoking new york police program under mayor bloomberg that now has gotten some blowback from the current police commissioner, bill bratton. so everybody with wants to sound tough in the wake of these attacks. of course, you know, our hearts go out to what happened to the victims in brussels. there is fear in this country this could happen in many places but it is a difficult problem to solve unless you want to send troops which no one this side of lindsey graham seems to want to do. melissa: right but everyone wants to look tough except the president who is doing the wave in cuba, right? >> you know, i'm not that critical of president obama for going to the baseball game and staying in cuba, rather than

interrupting the trip, but, his first reaction was 50 seconds, i counted them, six sentences of a prepared speech. melissa: right. >> mouthing obligatory we're outraged and stand with our allies. i thought this was as tone deaf as his initial tepid response to the paris massacre which he and white house admitted was out of touch with people's concerns. i was surprised to see him going down that road again. he clearly doesn't want to escalate it to major issue or escalate it militarily to isis. melissa: indulge me for a moment. making cment about when americans were, just amazing. howard kurtz. thanks for your expertise. david: that is great point. the way he started that was clearly insulting. law enforcement ramping up security here at home as the manhunt continues in brussels. a lot coming up. donald trump firing back at

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david: stepping up security at home. police and countersecurity teams increasing presence all over the country following the deadly attack in brussels. fox news's rick leventhal at penn station in new york city with very latest. rick, what is happening there? >> well, david, one of nypd critical response commands heavy weapons team is positioned in front of penn station and madison square garden, the world's most famous arena. they're not here because of specific incident or threat but a show of force. perhaps comfort to new yorkers who know the city is prime target and continue to hear about awful attacks overseas. these guys are swat-trained, heavily armed. along with hercules and torch teams, their primary assignment

is preempt or disrupt terrorist operations in the city. they're often posted on subway platforms and subway stations below ground. they're also doing bag checks. counterterrorism teams doing bag checks at many subway stations on random basis. they're ready to role anytime, anywhere. they do respond to major incidents. rest of the time is extent in situations like this, david. positioned in high-profile areas. they're visible to the public. acting as deterrents and a way to send a message to anyone who might be thinking about doing anything wrong. david: i'm seeing a lot more police dogs. am i alone in? is that happening all over the city? >> no, you're absolutely right. there are dozens of k-9 teams spread out across the city. many are there to apprehend suspects and in some cases search for cadaver. there are explosive detection k-9 teams, many them across the city and are attached to the hercules and tore of teams. they are sniffing out explosives in large crowds or in bags or in

parades, for example, or trashcans, that sort of thing. they're training more vapor wake dogs. they are specifically at this taught to sniff out explosives and vapors on people, by trailing behind them. nypd graduated eight more of vapor wake dogs today. the dogs are capable of sniffing out tatp. nicknamed the mother of satan. the new weapon of choice for terrorists overseas. if he smells it and get close and follow the person down the street. that is how the handler knows that person is suspicious suspect and may have something in the bag. stop them, potentially search them as well. david: god bless those dogs. i love those animals. rick leventhal. good to see you. >> sure. melissa: republican race coming off a big night of western contests. we're break down where candidates stand on fight for delegates. david: also feud between donald trump and ted cruz, now it is getting even more personal. the candidates attacking each

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people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions. reporter: only moments after ryan made that call for civility, it was broken. senate minoritier harry reid spokesman fired off a statement, saying that speaker ryan is speech filing on the deck of titanic. running a do-nothing congress and supporting trump. he has not endorsed trump. three times criticizing trump's speech and language. it pales to the depth which two leading presidential candidate sunk on twitter. trump accused cruz of disrespecting his wife melania. lyin' ted cruz used a picture of the medical loon yaw from a "gq" shoot. be careful. i will talk about your wife. donald, it you try to attack heidi, you're more of a coward

than i thought. cruz continues to gain momentum, securing endorsements of more and more mainstream republicans who used to reject him including jeb bush who called ted cruz a principled conservative. new quinnepiac poll has him as 14 point lied. if john kasich drops out of the race, cruz still trails by nine points. david: more on the feud over the wives coming up here. doug mckelway, thank you very much. melissa? melissa: after scoring winner-take-all state of arizona trump has total of 19 state wins. he was not only win ir. despite cruz's 40 delegate sweep in utah the fight for delegates remains essentially unchanged. trump has to win 53% of the remaining delegate to win the nomination. lee carter, gop communications strategist and rebecca berg, "real clear politics" national political reporter. we gave you the numbers. i care about the numbers.

i'm a bit of a math girl. i said that before on the show. ted cruz needs to win more than 82% of the delegates that are left. john kasich needs to win 111% of the delegates that are left. in other words totally impossible for him. does that, i mean, by cruz and kasich staying at this point, all they're trying to do is deny trump the requisite number. does that mean, both of them are helping hillary clinton? lee, what do you think? >> i don't think they're helping hillary clinton at this point. i do think they're trying to hurt donald trump. i do believe too that ted cruz thinks there is still a path forward. i think that he, he believes it. and he is going out there every day. he is waking up every morning and telling himself that and still convincing his voters there is a path forward. kasich, i'm not exactly sure what he is doing. i'm not sure. there are folks out there who are saying he is just trying to prevent cruz from getting it. in fact maybe kasich and trump will be a pair and they will be running mates. who knows. melissa: rebecca, what do you think?

what do you make of the delegate math so far? if i had to get up and go out on the campaign trail and knew i had to win 111% what is left in order to win it would be pretty tough to get out of bed. >> the argument kasich was making today actually on the campaign trail was actually it helps republicans who don't want trump to be nominee to have him in the race. his argument he can win in states moving forward where ted cruz won't be able to. for example, states like pennsylvania, state has we think about more moderate states on the primary calendar. so his argument he is doing republican as service by staying in and that his candidacy at this point makes it more likely they will make it to a contested convention. now cruz's allies are making the opposite argument. melissa: right. >> we heard mitt romney say yesterday in statement or yesterday in a statement prior to the utah primary, a vote for john kasich at this point is a vote for donald trump. there is is did agreement in the republican party on that. melissa: yeah, without question. meanwhile donald trump widening

lead over gop pack, the billionaire businessman soaring above his rivals with 43% of the vote. when it comes to head-to-head match up, ohio governor john kasich is the only republican that beats hillary clinton and bernie sanders in november. all according to a new "quinnepiac poll." lee, let me start with you. i never know what to make of these polls. sometimes people say, this is sort of a general poll that doesn't mean a lot. when it comes to the actually election day, it is about the electoral college. it is not a general across the country election. so this doesn't necessarily tell you that much. how much do you think? what credence do you give polls like this one? >> not much. we're so far away. we haven't even started the general election. i do think, there are some things we can look at but one thing i would say is this. we are, we've seen the front-runners, everybody criticized their front-runners for so long we know so many of their flaws it is not surprising they're not going to be winning against hillary clinton right now.

kasich is sort of a golden child still. he is unscathed in many ways. not sure pries he would beat hillary clinton in a poll right now. we haven't seen the worst. we haven't seen the real election, the matchup between them. so i'm not surprised at this point. we haven't, you know, i think that there is a long way to go. if you think about it, june 15th, which isn't that long ago, june 15th they said jeb bush would have beat hillary clinton handily. look where he is today. melissa: right. that's true. >> we're a long way out. melissa: rebecca, how much credence do you give polls like this one? >> lee makes a good point, that john kasich is relatively untested. he is sitting in the background, not getting much attention or not threatening front-runners in this stage. he has not been target of negative advertising or ted cruz or donald trump or being target earlier in the campaign like jeb bush or marco rubio. he hasn't been subjected to sort of scrutiny that might affect his poll numbers in that sort of matchup.

one point i would make, the point john kasich is making this shows he is electable in general election. this is basically his whole claim to his candidacy at this point. that he is the republican best positioned to move forward to face hillary clinton but then the problem for john kasich is, that part of that polling shows that he is a more moderate republican candidate. so he is attracting democratic vote, independent votes. doesn't really help him in republican primary. you have to survive the primary to get the matchup. melissa: he has to win 111% of what is left. there is that hurdle. >> he is talking about a contested convention. melissa: i was being a little sarcastic. thankthank you, david. david: tough to get 117% of anything. ted cruz sees larger message in voters because of his victory in utah. >> our first path is to win 1237 path before the convention. we have a path doing so. yesterday was big step. as long as republicans unite

behind our campaign we will beat donald trump. david: cruz took home 40 delegates despite glitches in the attempted online voting and caucus sites overwhelmed by high voter turnout. of course that happened in arizona. we have utah's gop chair. thanks for coming in. you spearheaded this online voting process. some in the industry, in the technology industry say it is a bad idea. here is what "wired" magazine says about it. while companies like smart matic, that is one you used may take every possible security precaution they can, it is impossible to secure the laptop, smartphones and other personal devices that voters will use to vote online. and your response? >> well, i mean i can accept that like it is impossible not to have any kind of a voter fraud when we have humans processing the ballots at the county clerks offices throughout the nation. there is nothing that is 100% foolproof but what i do reject this double-standard somehow

online voting has to be 100% foolproof when our traditional vote something not 100% foolproof. david: right. >> we need to have a little bit of fairness here. david: but their point is, if you get one written ballot wrong, that is one ballot wrong. whereas in online voting, you can get a whole slew, hundreds of computers can be collected into a some kind of malfunction? >> well, we have, what we did, in our system, everyone that cast a ballot, received a receipt. print it other email to themselves. on the receipt showed who they voted for and unique receipt number. take the receipt number enter it into the system anytime to verify the person they voted for which shows on the receipt is person showing up in the system. so every voter can verify their vote, james, let me talk about something a little more troubling. get you to react to it. "the drudge report" earlier today was linking to a site

posting from folks who claimed to have seen some very serious irregularities at some of the caucuses. here is what one of them said. no apparent controls, no credential checks, no i.d. checks and ballots handed around like napkins. the utah vote was complete sham and cost trump 40 delegates. have you seen more of these or is this planted by somebody or what? >> this is presidential politics. those who are not winning of course will have to justify why they're not winning. so what they're saying, i would ask your viewers to measure the reputation of the citizens of utah against presidential campaign who is planting stories. we have a reputation -- david: by the way do you have any evidence that these stories were planted by a campaign? >> well, i mean, well that is a fair point. i am going to most likely source. who else has something to gain.

david: supposition on your part? you don't have evidence? >> just like it is supposition that these ballots were being handed out like napkins. so my point simply is this. let's step away from who may have done what and i would just simply put the reputation of the citizens of utah against anyone. we're known for integrity and character and family values. so i will let that stand on its own. david: fair enough. until we have more evidence on one side or the other we have to leave that at that. james, thank you very much. appreciate you coming on. >> thank you. david: melissa. melissa: terror strikes the heart of europe and donald trump is calling for action so how would the donald respond to terrorists as president? we'll ask walid phares, foreign policy advisor to the candidate. he is also a fox news contributor. he joins us next. when heartburn hits

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the heat for his handling of the brussels bombings. the presidential candidates are fronting, are pointing fingers to void in u.s. leadership in the wake of another attack. what would a possible president trump do? here is walid phares, trump's foreign policy advisor and a fox news contributor. we know overall what his attitude is. a lot of people are looking for specifics. you're someone advising him on exactly that. tell us what would be his first phone call? >> well, first of all there has to be a new vision. what is working now is not going to work anymore. what has been working so far is not working. melissa: clearly. >> there need to be three directions. numb per one we need better coordination among each other within the west. transatlantic coordination, transcontinental coordination. europe has 27, 28 homeland security department the they need to get together and help them. they need to work together. that is number one. number two, as was mentioned already, we need a coalition of

arab countries. this is a, b, c. we need arab force helping us on the ground. without taking down isis in raqqa and mosul without help of kurds it will -- melissa: let me stop you there. who would you tell him to call first in both of those situations? >> first he has to be in the white house, that is number one. once there he would have to be briefed by not outside advisors but ain't sis who have the information. once he assesses situation he will have to start making phone calls to europe and to the region and bring everybody together to finish off this isis business. melissa: okay. then what would have him do from there? >> well, the long-term problem is not just going to defeat isis on the ground. it will be all the cells penetrating europe in great numbers and us here in the united states and canada and australia. that has to be a long-term war of ideas, making sure we have with us enough ngos and people that will push back against these extremist ideas.

that can only be done if we win battle against ices is on the ground in syria and iraq. melissa: general jack keane made a great point, someone like you said, sort of organize forces against isis and stand up to them. >> yeah. melissa: that involves a lot of things. it is not just military force but also putting forth the political philosophy, the moral philosophy. putting it together, getting other people behind it and standing up and doing it. you think donald trump is the kind of guy that can build a group like that? >> look in his profession how many he built. how many towers and businesses. i'm not expert but i can see as simple citizen. if he transfers that knowledge with help of advisors, if he is winner, with agencies we have enough resources to for new manager to take over, i do believe that. melissa: walid, thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. david: one group is trying to stop donald trump and they want amazon to step in. the women's organization, ultraviolet, calling on the

company to stop sales of the gop front-runner's line of menswear. deirdre bolton joining us now with more details. this is kind of interesting. >> yeah, so david, this group called ultraviolet, they have about 36,000 signatures just since last week and they have written to amazon and to the ceo jeff bezos saying you should dump trump. those are their words. i am quoting that. reject racism, sexism, and xenophobia. so just for some context here, this isn't the only retailer faced let's say a challenge being associated with a brand. you may remember that macy's stopped after 11 years carrying trump items. the menswear line. basically saying that if hillary rodham clinton had a handbag collection they wouldn't carry that either. david: yeah. i guess he is getting used to all of this. deirdre.

see you at top of the hour for "risk & reward." melissa: donald trump threatening to spill the beans on ted cruz's wife. >> he put an ad. you leave family out of it, right? you leave family out of it, quite frankly wives. come after me, come after anybody else. leave wives out of it, you know?

david: well, the trump-cruz feud entered into very personal phase with the cruz political action committee posting this revealing picture of donald trump's wife. this is from an old "gq" cover, with a message, meet melania trump, your next first lady or you could vote for ted cruz on tuesday. where does the new campaign go from here? lee carter, rebecca burke are back with us. rebecca, trump responded very

quickly after the photo of melania. that photo has been around a long time. nothing new. trump responded with this tweet, lie inch ted cruz use ad picture of melania from "gq" in his ad. be careful lyin' ted or i will spill "the beebs" on his wife. what beans on his wife? >> unclear what beans he is referring to. this is sort of an escalation in this campaign already been pretty much the most ferocious. what is interesting ted cruz himself never went to the extent ump ingeting donald trump's wife response to this ad by an outside group decided that he would himself not leaving this to anyone else, but the candidate himself would target ted cruz's wife heidi, which is very, very interesting. there has been a bit of a backlash, but also enabled donald trump to shift the conversation from him losing in utah last night, and allowed him to really take control of this

news cycle again. so it hasn't been completely at his disadvantage. david: we have to remember, it was a cruz political action committee that put out the first picture. it wasn't a trump political action committee or anybody like that. then cruz responded to donald trump's tweet with the following comments. >> if donald wants to get in a character fight he is better off sticking with me because heidi is way out of his league. it reveals a lot about character, reveals a lot about class, that donald's instinct is to try to attack my wife and sully her. david: but again it was a cruz pac that attacked donald's wife first, lee. >> so here's the deal. the thing that think is so fascinating about watching that response, it sounded great. sounded like a response from the movies. in fact it was a response from the movies because if you remember the american president with michael douglas, that is the same exact line that michael douglas used when he was responding to his opponent who was named bob. if you want to go after me, that's fine.

don't go after sydney ellen wade, she is way out of your league. david: cruz lifted that line from a movie, you think. >> i think so. not first time i heard him do that. it's a well-written movie. it's a script. david: lee, final comment, the fact outside of utah, i don't know if we can put up that picture again, we muted part of that picture, but medical melans gorgeous woman. this was done before she was married and on the cover. "gq." does this hurt donald trump? i think it helps him in california and new york. >> we see the rules do not apply to donald trump. they're showing -- donald trump is on cover of "playboy" magazine himself. they are showing all kinds of things. people have been afraid to run for politics. i've been married before. skeletons in my closet. trump has all kind of skeletons in his closet. he is not running from them. he is running towards them. david: ladies we have to leave it at this. who knows where the campaign is going next.

melissa: isn't that the truth donald trump loves a lot of things but you might not realize how many things go around. >> i leave hopping around. i love the way they twist and turn. i love potatoes. i love that sign. ♪

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>> i love my protesters. >> i love this guy over here. i love women, they love me i love them. i love my wife. i love great generals. i love wounded warriors. i love china. i love mexico. i love the mexican people. i love hispanics. i love saudis. i love evangelicals. i love the mormons. melissa: jimmy kimmel's super cut of what donald trump loves. david: he doesn't love anything today, at least. tomorrow the things that he loves he may hate. we could probably do another version of that with hate instead of love. melissa: yeah? >> i would think so.

he hate as lot of stuff as well as loving a lot of stuff. melissa: he is passionate. unclear. we'll see. time will tell without question. david: that does it for us. "risk & reward" starts right now deirdre: there is a massive manhunt and you way for the one terrorist lo is believed to be at large. a group of at least three killed 31 innocent citizens and injured 270 more. there are also new reports coming in that the islamic state has dispatched hundreds of fighters who are trained to kill as many people as possible in europe. this is "risk & reward." i'm deirdre bolton. the number of injured americans from yesterday's attack in brussels is rising. there are 12 confirmed cases. several americans are still missing. secretary of state john kerry will travel to brussels this friday to formally express condolences on behalf of the u.s. with me now, mike tobin from brussels. mike, what is e