move forward and say he's the nominee? obviously when he gets the 1237. i'm hopeful he will have a big night tonight and i think the same in theny. i don't think kasich is going to do well in connecticut and rhode island. charles: all right, we'll see. coverage all night long. new york, keep it here. lou: a big evening. two hours to go until the polls close in new york! good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. a critical night for donald trump who needs to offset recent losses to ted cruz and north dakota, colorado and wyoming states that held conventions instead of primaries. they're actually voting in new york today. if trump wins, 50% of the statewide vote he would very well win all of new york's 95 delegates, that would give him a lot of momentum ahead of five key primaries in the northeast and mid-atlantic next tuesday. senator cruz and governor kasich know trump is expecting

a big win on his home turf, so they spent the day, stumping for votes in pennsylvania, which votes next week. new york is also a coveted prize on the democratic side for hillary clinton. she's looking to beat back a surging bernie sanders, aides to the vermont senator have been downplaying, however, expectations over recent days. cite the state's closed primary that doesn't allow independents to join in the vote. we'll have the best primary coverage for you anywhere tonight. among our guests, former reagan white house political director ed rollins. pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the "new york post," michael goodwin. washington times opinion editor monica crowley and republican strategist tony sayegh. donald trump looking at a likely win here tonight in new york, but also looking ahead. the republican front-runner ordering a major campaign

shake-up ahead of the upcoming primaries and the must win state such as indiana and california. fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron with our report. >> reporter: thanks, lou. if donald trump is going to clinch the republican nomination before the actual convention in july, he knows he needs a blowout win here in his home state of new york. at new york city's central synagogue, republican presidential front-runner donald trump cast a ballot for himself, confident of a big victory in his home state tonight? a great honor for new york, new york is a special place. make america great again. >> reporter: trump is trying to make his campaign better too after months of criticism his team is ill-prepared. recently hired manager paul manafort and scott reilly are the new shot callers in california, that vote in may and june.

stewart jolly resigned yesterday. corey lewandowski remains. new regime is staffing up and hired gop election lawyer bill mcginley to lock up the 1237 delegates required for the nomination. trump makes no bones about a shake-up. >> when you bring other people in, i see people's feelings get hurt, and i don't know most of these people. they're field people, but frankly, you know, we're in a position where we'd like to close it out. >> reporter: in new york, the billionaire led ted cruz and ohio governor john kasich with more than 50% in recent polls. a majority is key in new york's 95 delegate contest. a statewide winner with more than 50% takes 14 at-large delegates, the other 81 from the congressional districts, each winner-take-all if the winner takes 50%. trump hopes to pick up a dozen delegates, cruz is downplaying expectations and could have a

rough night in trump's home state. he ended his state run. he slammed john kasich and ted cruz for mocking new york values. trump's fans are so ardent, they'll overlook he mentioned a convenience store instead of the first responders. >> i was down there and watched our police and firemen at 7-eleven after the world trade center came down. >> reporter: new york city second, between 11:00 and 12:00. new york has one-tenth of the rest of the empire state and after that a good idea before midnight about the margin of trump's win. no doubt he'll be victorious, the question is how much, lou? . lou: carl cameron, thank you. on the democratic side, the closed new york primary is something of an uphill battle as a result of bernie sanders. he's relied on independents to drive much of his recent winning streaks. hillary clinton will likely

walk away a winner tonight, but if she wins by a narrow margin, it would be hard to make the case that sanders is no longer a viable candidate. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry with our report. >> how's it going? >> reporter: strolling the streets of manhattan, bernie sanders poured cold water on talk of a clinton coronation tonight. >> we're feeling very good. there is a large voter turnout ahead of three million people not being able to participate we're going to do just fine. >> reporter: sanders referring to the fact new york is not an open primary so independents cannot vote in the democratic race. something hillary clinton is hoping will help her win expressing confidence as she was joined by her husband, former president bill clinton at a polling place near her home in chappaqua. >> it feels great. >> reporte she focused on canvassing every corner of her

adopted new york state. >> i love new york, this is a joy to be here all over the state. >> reporter: in fact, clinton invested so much time here, anything less than a decisive win could show she really is feeling the bern, even if clinton cleans up, the longer than expected primary may have taken a heavy toll on her for the general election with all-important independent voters. a new "wall street journal/nbc news poll" finding 20% of independent voters have a positive view of clinton, a drop of 15 points since january. with sanders swearing off any slams over the e-mail controversy, top democrats privately believe he's doing further damage to her shaky numbers on trustworthiness with a barrage of attacks on wall street ties which continued today. >> we don't represent corporate america. to hell with their money. we don't need it. >> reporter: sanders has jumped ahead to pennsylvania, one of five states voting next tuesday. is outspending clinton on the

airwaves in pennsylvania and connecticut. 10-1 in rhode island and running ads in indiana and oregon ahead of contests in may. that may not matter if clinton wins big now. >> i think in the end, it's a good day for senator clinton. >> reporter: if bernie sanders false short by a few points he can try the expectations game, he needs to win big in order to catch up in the delegate game. lou? lou: thank you very much, ed henry reporting. new york city's controller saying he will audit the city's board of elections because of all of the problems voting in new york city, he called some of that voting disorganized and chaotic. some polling places not opening on time, others, machines, voting machines, broken down. an audit about to begin. breaking news tonight, we're getting new exit poll information showing what new york voters are thinking on this day of voting.

fox business reporter jo ling kent at our virtual studio. good evening, jo, what can you tell us? >> good evening. lou. brand-new fox poll exit data coming out right now. 70% of republicans in this new york primary say they will support a candidate who gets the most votes if there's no one to get the majority in time for the convention. you can take a look here. 72% of republicans say it should be the candidate who gets the most votes in the primary process, only 25% think it should be the person with who the delegates think is best. let's flip over to the democratic side of the primary, lot of democrats out voting in new york state. what we see is among democratic voters, 65% say that if hillary clinton is the nominee, they will definitely vote for her in november. now, if you look at senator sanders, you see also a large majority saying the exact same thing about him. if he's the nominee, 59% of

democrats polled in the exit polls support him. if you see a unification among both candidates in november for the democrats as they vote in the new york state primary, that is not necessarily the case on the republican side, certainly more fractured on that end of things. lou? lou: jo, thank you very much. jo ling kent. we'll be hearing much more from her throughout the evening. we'll be right back with much more on this election day. stay with us. donald trump orders a major shake-up of his campaign organization. some staffers grumbling about the changes. >> when you bring other people in, i could see people, their feelings get a little hurt. lou: will the shake-up in trump's sharp increase in campaign advertising be a winning strategy? we take it up with ed rollins, michael goodwin, they join me next, stay with us, we're coming right back. ♪

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. lou: donald trump heavily favored to win the new york primary, despite spending very little money in the state. trump spent only $67,000 on paid ads. the kasich and cruz campaigns along with super pacs spending just about half a million dollars apiece. the cost for a democratic

victory considerably higher, the bernie sanders campaign spending 5.6 million in new york. hillary clinton's campaign spending about 3 million. joining us former reagan white house political director, republican strategist ed rollins. good to have you here. and pulitzer prize-winning columnist, new york post, michael goodwin, both fox news contributors. good to have you as always. let's start with the idea that donald trump has to win 50% to have this be a victory. what do you think? >> i think at the end of the night it will be decided by not just the percentage but the actual delegates, and that will be the real test here for him. if he can get somewhere out of 80 or 85 even out of 95, ed said he might get them all, i think that will be a very strong night for him. i was struck by the lack of ads against him which we saw in other states. it's very expensive to advertise in new york, i think he benefitted from fewer attack ads here. lou: and this is, of course, a

state, a media capital, as michael says, you got to spend a lot of money. >> i don't know where you could spend $67,000 and get an ad in new york. [laughter] >> even cable is much more than that. amazing. it continues to show the tremendous momentum that he has from free media, but the other two did, too. sanders and hillary did. i think kasich had a minimal effort here and i think cruz had even less of an effort, but it's trump's state and he's done very, very well, he's going to have a great night. lou: 50%, you get the at-large, you've got to win the congressional district to get the bonus, the three. how do you think it's going to break out for trump? >> i think way over 80. i would not be shocked if i got up tomorrow morning and he won all of them. lou: and what we're looking at now is a complete reversal of

where this was before. this was day which he's shaken up his campaign. coming off a lot of nonsense that trailed him and beset his campaign, you know, the nonsense with corey lewandowski, his campaign manager, and here he is on the verge of a huge victory. >> i would make two points. i thought he did two things very well. first of all, the not demoting lewandowski while that court case was going on. i think was a sign of strength and loyalty for him. i think it was a real virtue the way he handle. that and secondly to shake up the campaign on a good news day for him probably is a way that that doesn't get a lot of attention which is probably good for him also, because it suggests a changing of things and people want to know what was going on and why there might be back biting. i think he made two swift moves in the last two weeks. >> to that point, ronald reagan

fired john seers, charlie block and jim lake in 1980 on the day of the new hampshire primary. he shook up his campaign and turned it around and moved forward. lou: early days. >> early days. the way they did, this every campaign has disarray in it, they have professionals that know what they're doing. we'll see. plus he's going to spend money. lou: and he is going to spend money announcing he'll spend more over the next month two, months, than he spent in any months of the campaign so far, talking about throwing in $20 million for campaign advertising. and you have to suspect a lot of that is going to go to california, right? >> you would think so. look, i think these are all good moves. these are moves that speak to a certain level of maturity in the campaign, to a recognition that it's there for the taking, if only he plays it right. so i think all of these things are good signs for donald trump. >> i think more and more people are getting comfortable with the in fact, he is not just the

front-runner but could very easily be the nominee. still an effort to stop him and quieter than it was a few weeks ago. i think it's still his game. he still has the ball and can run with it, in the foreseeable races, pennsylvania, delaware, ahead, he should do well. if i was cruz people, i wouldn't give up at any point. at the end of the day, he's going to get momentum. lou: momentum to 1237? >> certainly possible, and i think to a certain extent, a big night like, this all of a sudden this is the media show, there is nothing else competing with it. >> to that point, lou, quickly, the new york exit polling showed that some 70% think the person with the most votes should get the nomination rather where they have the majority or not, which conforms --. lou: reince priebus's 47 went away, 72 according to the exit polls.

whoever has the most votes which is what trump is saying gets the nomination. >> the polls show 70 to 75% of republicans believe it. lou: i get a kick out of the reaction of trump to reince priebus, you know, well, debriefing the republican conference on capitol hill today, telling the house republicans, that you know, rules are rules and all of that. at the same time, paul ryan comes out and says, reince is doing a good job, fellow wisconsin, member of the wisconsin media. what does trump say? he has not made a determination yet, said mr. trump, about mr. priebus's future with the rnc. >> the only issue i take again, and i don't mean to be arguing with you every single night. lou: how many night? 20 years? >> the law, the law by the rnc said you have to have the

majority of delegates as a democrat or republican to be the nominee of the party. lou: as you know, no one is more law abiding or respectful of the status quo than i. >> i understand. lou: you betcha. ed rollins, michael goodwin, thank you for being here. appreciate it. follow me on twitter -- links to everything found at loudobbs.com. tomorrow night ed rollins and i will take up that argument. up next, speaker paul ryan says he fully backs rnc chairman reince priebus. donald trump doesn't feel exactly the same way. i'll be joined by fox news' andrea tanteros next. floods of biblical proportions paralyzing texas, houston going through a nightmare. we'll have a full report for you next.

. lou: rnc chairman reince priebus today met with house republicans trying to push back against trump's attacks on the process being rigged. trump says he hasn't made, as he put it, the determination to keep priebus in place if he wins the nomination. speaker ryan boosting his buddy standing by chairman priebus. >> reince is an extremely favorably, i am pleased such a meticulous attorney is the head of the rnc, because he is making sure that the rules are the rules that we follow the rules. lou: i get it. i think he was saying something about following rules there, right? while many are focused on the influence that ryan could have on the convention as speaker, it's important not to forget the influence trump could have on ryan's future as well. ryan's agenda facing trouble because he's been presumptuous enough to suggest his agenda should be priority rather than

that of the nominee and the convention itself, by the way, recently failing to move a budget. joining us andrea tanteros, the co-host of "outnumbered" and author of the book, tied up in knots. it is available next week, and we are so early. >> you are. early is on time, and on time is late. lou: i like the attitude. and i like the cover of that book. >> thank you. it's the iconic wonder woman power pose, that was my inspiration for this. and your viewers would love to know a piece of advice that you gave me is in that book, they have to get it. especially women in the workplace. great advice. lou: thank you very much, great to see. >> you great to see you. lou: your reaction to -- let's start to the election here in new york, this primary, 95 delegates and trump looks like he's in for a big win tonight. what do you expect?

>> i think he's in for a very good night and have a good couple of weeks. pennsylvania is a very good state for him as well, so he's going to have the momentum going into california. i don't think that trump cares that much, what's coming out of the speaker of the house's office, and i don't think he cares what's coming out of the rnc. look, he needs the establishment at some point, not right now. as you pointed out, the base, the same base rallying behind trump is furious with speaker ryan. a man who didn't want the job to begin with. couldn't get the support of that omnibus bill and he shouldn't have. and voters don't forget that. they elected republicans with a big majority in the house and skaunderred that power. lou: i think it's important for everyone to realize the reason the base is upset and the conservatives, the freedom caucus and a good many of the entire conference is ryan makes a deal with obama that he can't deliver on.

and that is really quite amazing. >> it is, and it also plays into trump's message which is they're all in collusion, right? and that's why bernie sanders is doing so well. the establishment isn't republican or democrat. they're all in it together and they're all in it for the goodies and the power and the money, and i think that that just plays into trump's message. lou: to hear him attacking the rnc, the republican establishment as reince priebus and others say you got to play by the rules, 1237, and looking at poll after poll showing that most voters want whoever has the largest number of delegates, if they can't reach a majority, 1237, to get the nomination, which is what trump has been saying from jump street. >> and i think, lou, that mitch mcconnell played into trump's hand as well. when he came out and said he was optimistic that the convention can go to a second ballot, why would the senate majority leader be optimistic

that there can be blood on the floor at the convention, he should not want infighting, he's walking it back now. that only helped trump. he's excited about the fact the party is fractured. lou: when you look at this dispassionately and objectively, to hear paul ryan interject himself into the presidential race, critical, specifically of trump, attacking him often not by name, which makes him look even more to me, it is -- he doesn't look good, in acting in that manner. reince priebus taking on trump, the convention, the rules committee coming out saying we make the rules and some of the members saying, you know, we decide who the nominee will be. you unwashed who have voted for mr. trump will have to try and try again better somehow. it's outrageous. >> it's outrageous but only benefits donald trump.

he can say, look, see? the establishment that's failed you, the establishment that put up the loser candidates is against me. they're not getting the will of the people done or the republican base done, so elect me, i can get it done. i don't think the party has learned its less an, still they're trying to meddle and defeat him. corporations are supposedly backing out of the convention because they fear donald trump. why would he care about that? it's the dumbest story in the world. lou: you can almost feel the entire editorial board of the "new york times" convulsing with pity and sympathy for mr. trump. what must have motivated them to do the story. >> such a switch for them. lou: great to see you. much luck with the book. tied up in knot, andrea tantaros, we recommend the book highly. thanks for being here. >> thanks, lou. lou: texas governor rick abbott declaring a state of disaster

after severe flooding. flooding forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. thousands more home owners have no elect. houston residents told to stay off the roads tonight. i mean the flooding is extraordinary, and obviously, record rainfall. we're coming right back with much more. stay with us. over the most recent primaries, hillary clinton is running 0 for 7, but tonight she's banking on a big win. bernie sanders not making it easy. >> i have challenged secretary clinton, and challenged her, and challenged her. lou: new york democrats may tell the country we're actually ready for a socialist in the white house, or maybe another clinton. which is worse? we take it up with monica crowley and mike gallagher here next. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ the all-new audi a4, with available virtual cockpit.

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enough it he could persuade the uncommitted delegates he'd need to get the victory on the first ballot. lou: joining us now, washington times online editor monica crowley. most of the mike gallagher show, mike gallagher, both fox news contributors. i'm smiling as i listen to him, he still doesn't have any energy. the man doesn't have energy and won't say who he wants out even as he complains about both kasich and cruz being, in monica? >> i'm sorry. >> no, no, it's true. i hear, that he's a decent man, i voted for him, but honestly no one cares what he thinks. country has moved on. the party is deeply fractured, the conservative movement was never invested in mitt romney. nobody cares. lou: why is he so filled with hate, mike? >> bizarre, he suffered from a chronic case of a lack of self-awareness. in the case of kasich or cruz it's like governor romney flipped a coin and landed on its edge, he can't decide. he goes back and forth.

every single time he says something in this particular cycle, i get buried with people calling my radio show saying please. stop! go away, we don't care, and he doesn't have awareness. >> he had his chance, speaking for the republican establishment, right? in the past he says -- lou: the represented elites of the republican party. >> the underrepresented and the underprivileged. he is giving voice to them. they have plenty of voices, and mitt romney feels compelled to have an influence on the course of events and he's literally irrelevant. lou: two more nice guys, paul ryan and reince priebus. what are they doing? they lost their shot. they lost their shot and they cannot keep -- like his ticket mate. ryan has to go after trump rather than try to be collegial and embrace what is happening?

>> there's a whiff of desperation to the way they're behaving. like they cannot figure out why people are voting the way they're voting and can't stand it. and just as governor romney is sort of the de facto spokesperson for the establishment, these establishment guys can't get out of the way of themselves, and they're tone deaf. they don't hear what the american people happen to be saying right now and can't figure it out. >> two things, you are right, mike, i agree that they can't figure it out. they can't wrap their minds around the trump phenomena and what the grassroots support is trying to say about donald trump. they're fearful of what they understand. while they dislike ted cruz because they made him look bad, they fear donald trump, he's going to smash the existing order and gravy trains will be over, and so they don't get it and they're afraid of it at the same time. lou: two things happening here, and i think you're exactly right.

two things happening with the trump campaign and the candidate. he has very quietly and without fanfare, he's adapted, he's adjusted his message, his tone over the last couple of weeks and contemporaneously, he reorganizes his campaign management deftly. and this is exactly what people who have been supporting him would have expected of a man with his leadership? >> the natural revolution of the front-running candidacy. critics are more desperate, he's putting the pieces together in a way one would expect at this point. one of the wild card factors of donald trump is will he play by any rules? now he's starting to play by the front-running status rules. >> so miraculous what this man has achieved. whether you agree with him or not, support him or not. a one-man band operation since last june. he's the republican front-runner but realizes

there's got to be a natural maturation to the candidacy and the campaign. lou: messages are all still in place. a wall. fair trade. america first. but at the same time, he is moving, managing his organization forward from the entrepreneurial stage if you will, to an organizational and corporate stage, i don't mean that in a negative way. he's organizing. >> tonight could be a fascinating study. if cruz can strip away his delegates, it's a tougher haul. if not, it's his to lose. lou: kasich is second, cruz is running third. >> true. lou: did i detect a certain bias? >> no, i'm gop neutral. lou: that's what they call me, mr. neutrality. good seeing you. >> appreciate it. lou: up next, donald trump says the republican primary system is rigged against him. >> they give them trips.

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. lou: joining me now, presidential historian former senior adviser to ron paul's 2012 presidential campaign, doug weed joins us now. i just want to say, first of all, great to have you here. >> thank you. lou: mention the fact that you did work for the bush administration as well. it's an honor. i want to talk to you about, first, your reaction to what is a working journalist to me seems like the most exciting primary campaign season i have ever witnessed, and i started back, i'm going to say this very quickly, in 1976, covering a fellow by the name of ronald reagan, and the republican convention. what do you think? >> yeah.

i've been a part of ten presidential campaigns where i've actually been on staff, paid. couple of them were winners. most of them losers, and never seen anything quite like this. but i tend to think most of these tend to get resolved before the first ballot. i know everybody swears it's not going to be, but they tend to be resolved. lou: you've got a hostile rnc, you've got a hostile speaker of the house, and i mean hostile toward the man calling it a rigged system. no one outside of washington is arguing with the man. trump's got it right. it's rigged against him and it is animated. the establishment is animated against his candidacy and the millions of voters who he -- who are supporting him. what lies in store when we get to the rules committee a week before the convention? what happens when we get to the formation before fundamental

committees that will be running the convention? >> well, the big one, the one you're all going to be talking about on television for weeks when you get there is the credentials committee. because in 2012 you had a reverse, the insiders controlling the convention and you had a ron paul insurgency. ron paul was the stealth delegate like ted cruz, doing what the establishment is doing today so he could arrive at the convention and get his name nominated. when he got there, the establishment put it down by seizing control of the credentials committee and simply removing his delegates off the floor. they bodily carried them off the floor, and trump could do that. lou: and who did the establishment put in control of the credentials committee? >> i don't remember the details of that. the rules committee was john sununu.

lou: john sununu was wielding immense power, the convention committee, the credentials committee, conspiring against ron paul specifically. rule 40-b as a result of all of that, and this time the question is does 40-b survive the rules committee, convention rules committee, in the week before the convention. >> now they don't want it to. lou: oh. >> they want to open it up and allow someone to be nominated on the floor. that's the dream. that's the -- lou: but the issue is whether it will happen? will trump, if he proceeds as he is right now, have sufficient power within that committee because it's made up of the delegates, will he have the power to forestall that effort by the establishment that doesn't seem to be losing any of its antipathy by donald trump and his candidacy? >> i think that's why they've

got paul manafort in there. interesting. i think lewandowski was great. he did a great job. have you credit trump to be smart enough to say i need a convention genius and brought in manafort. lou: you're going to need a lot of geniuses before it is over. >> can he take over the credentials committee and remove some of the ted cruz delegates? lou: what's the bet? >> i think they win it on the first ballot. trump, unless he makes a big mistake in the media, something he says or does that becomes a critical snowflake that breaks the branch in the next few weeks, i think they'll win it on the first ballot. lou: it's going to be interesting and early test of how he's doing in the midst of all of this is he's been managing this campaign. that's really what this is, managing the campaign. the likes of which we've never seen before. ron paul looked like he was managing ibm by comparison to what trump has done here.

he is, if you will, the independent running a lean organization, getting a lot done? >> he's rewritten the rules when. i worked for george h.w. bush, it was a 45 second answer, we would grill him with roger ailes work. trump has reduced it to two words. lyin' ted or crooked hillary, or little marco. reduced it to two words. lou: in his own case, he's pretty strong on one brand and always been a branding genius. that's one word there, and that's trump of course. >> he's been underestimated pretty big. lou: isn't it amazing? >> i underestimated him. i have to admit it. lou: did you really? >> it's interesting to see. lou: one of the few savants honest enough to say that. doug wead, great to have you here, come back.

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lou: let's start with who do you think will have the biggest win in new york? will it be hillary clinton? donald trump? or their opponents? >> i think we'll have trump have a big night and hillary will have a bigger night than we expect. >> i agree on the trump side. he will get 80 of the 95 delegates up for grabs. i think bernie sanders does have some strength. we had a primary in new york for governors. she got a third of the vote against andrew cuomo.

you will see bernie sanders do well. i think he has a better night than people expect. lou: even though the closed pry mayor doesn't have the independent that have been giving him a boost. >> we have a progressive part of the democratic party alive and well in new york and they are going for bernie sanders, not hillary clinton. lou: peter king reacting to the prospect that ted cruz might win new york's primary. listen to the dynamics the congressman expresses here. >> i'm not endorsing ted cruz. i think i would take cyanide if he ever got the nomination. lou: that's a little strong even by new york standard.

he went on to say donald trump may win but he voted for john kasich. >> i think maybe he took a page out of the book of donald trump's lessons on communication. >> i'm going to miss peter king when he take cyanide. it's ironic. where donald trump has not had a lot of establishment support, he has a large part of the establishment here in new york state. most county chairs i have worked with the past few decade. they are reminding me to go out and vote for donald trump. i think peter king is the exception, not the rule. >> early on trump said he could put new york in play. is he that strong in this state that he could do that. whatstone tony is expressing here, the folks that have to

bring in the voters are on his side. i think he would bring pennsylvania and maybe michigan in play. connecticut i think has a chance. lou: i had to play that. it's the opportunity to predict that. >> i have been wrong before, lou. as we all have. lou: but we don't like to admit that on television. let me go to sanders. are you predicting an outright upset here? >> no, i'm saying he could possibly hold hillary to an under double digit lead which will be bad for her. lou: and for trump, a big night? >> i think so, yeah. lou: tony, thank you so much. our elect kofnl continues at the top of the hour with fox

business' neil cavuto. the polls about to close in new york just seconds away from 8:00. and neil cavuto. you will want to stay right where you are. good night. [♪] noun fox business network coverage of the new york primary. here is neil cavuto. neil: it's a beautiful night. it could be a beautiful night for the frontrunners. 95 delegates up for grabs on the republican side and 247 for the democrats. the expectation is both of the frontrunners come into this race needing a little civility. donald trump after getting