share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an e-mail or go to our website -- strangeinheritance.com. hopefully answers come from it. appreciate your expertise and appreciate you watching the show. now here's lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. donald trump's campaign now says they've clinched the republican nom. an internal campaign memo says advisers are projecting trump will win more than 1400 delegates on the first round of balloting at the cleveland convention in july. their confidence comes after trump trounced his rivals in new york last night. he took more than 60% of the votes, 89 delegates in all. listen to trump as he claimed victory. >> we're going to be really -- i mean, legitimately, so great

again, and i just can't wait. so we don't have much of a race anymore, based on what i'm seeing on television. senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated. [cheers and applause] . lou: as it turns out, he wasn't just about, he was mathematically eliminated. senator cruz. trump turning his attention to the five states along the northeast corridor that will vote next tuesday. trump set to take the stage at a campaign rally in berlin, maryland, this very hour, and we'll be going to that podium when he takes the stage. and i'll take up the republican race with conservative republican commentator best-selling author pat buchanan, i couldn't be more delighted to have m join us tonight. you're going to enjoy him. important night as well for the democrats and hillary clinton who beat bernie sanders by 16 points in her adopted home statement clinton's commanding win allows her to declare,

quote, victory is in sight. and president obama snubbed by the saudis as he landed in riyadh for meetings with king saulman. saulman decide not to greet our president at the airport, as is custom. a follow report what led to the insolence and insult before the meetings begin. ed rollins, former ambassador to the united nations john bolton among our guests tonight. top story, donald trump celebrating a huge victory in home state of new york. the republican front-runner is now the only candidate with a mathematical chance of reaching 1237 delegates required to secure the nomination. backed by a new campaign team and holding a wide lead over the competition, trump may be considered all but unstoppable. fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron with our report.

>> we had a great night last night in new york. >> reporter: celebrating a new york primary landslide in indiana, donald trump argued now all but impossible for texas senator ted cruz and ohio governor john kasich to win a majority of delegates before the convention. trump carried more than 60% of new york's vote and all but one of the 27 congressional districts. kasich got 25% of new york's statewide vote. won a single congressional district for a total of 4. before flying to florida to work republican national committee members before the july nominating convention in cleveland, he spoke to the "washington post" on facebook live. >> nobody is going to have enough delegates, so we're going to end up at a convention where we're going to have open convention. >> reporter: cruz only got 14% of the vote and blanked in the delegate chase, like kasich, his only hope is to block trump from getting the 1237 delegates for the nomination before and during the convention.

cruz courted the rnc's 168 members in florida too admitting he can no longer reach a majority of delegates before the convention and argue neither will trump. >> i'm not going to reach 1237 and donald trump is not going to reach 1237. we're going to arrive in cleveland with me having a ton of delegates and donald having a ton of delegates, and at that point it is going to be a battle to see who can earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people. >> reporter: trump has growing momentum. next tuesday, several blue northeastern states vote, pennsylvania, maryland, delaware, connecticut and rhode island and trump leads the polls. all five states proportionately, kasich is hoping to pick up delegates, too. then a string of red states, ana and montana, trump playing to win in indiana and knock cruz back further. >> indiana has lost one in five manufacturing jobs since china

joined the world trade organization, 2002. ted cruz supports chinese currency cheating. >> reporter: trump's new team wants him to take speeches and campaign to a new level but not halted the insults. >> here's lyin' ted, he lies. >> reporter: indiana votes in two weeks and trump today met with governor mike pence, he's been attacking for a year and a half. trump continues to trash the rnc for running a rigged and corrupt system while restructured team of veteran washington insiders are aggressively trying work it, lou? lou: carl, imagine that. working it is only beginning. 91 delegates for trump, a near total sweep. carl cameron reporting for us. on the democratic side hillary clinton winning big in new york last night but bernie sanders insists he still has a shot at the nomination. clinton trying to leverage momentum, but some say sanders

unrelenting attacks may have done irreparable damages to her chances to winning the general election. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry with our report. >> secretary hillary clinton. >> reporter: while her opponent took the day off, hillary clinton today immediately moved onto the next big battleground of pennsylvania. just hours after delivering a near knockout blow to bernie sanders in new york, and coming as close as she ever has to saying the nomination battle that started last april is over. >> the race for the democratic nomination is in the homestretch and victory is in sight. >> reporter: while sanders went home to vermont to recharge his batteries, aides saying he will not reassess the campaign until after pennsylvania and the other four contests next tuesday, and the candidate himself sought to discredit clinton's big win when he grumbled about new york's closed primary barring sanders friendly voters.

>> almost 30% of the eligible voters or three million new yorkers were unable to vote because they had registered as independents. >> reporter: sanders underlying frustration is one of many signs of trouble ahead for democrats unifying in the general election. >> we have seen it's not enough to diagnose problems. you have to explain how you'd actually solve the problem! >> reporter: while a clinton aide said to politico that sanders had his butt kicked. adding i hope this convinces bernie to tone it down, if not, bleep him. what peeves clinton is sanders attacks on wall street ties are making it worse than ever. a new nbc poll found clinton has hit a new record. 56% of voters have negative feelings toward her. 32% have a positive view. sanders is showing no signs of backing off the attacks, ahead of the democratic convention in philadelphia in july, top aides

may be in denial about their ability to peel off the votes of party bosses known as super delegates. >> extremely unlikely either candidate will have the requisite number of pledge delegates to get to the number, right? it's going to be an election determined by the super delegates. >> reporter: except among all delegates, pledged and super, clinton is leading sanders 19 1930. >> sanders has to secure more than 70% of the remaining delegates which is basically mission impossible. lou? lou: ed, thank you very much. ed henry reporting. president obama receiving a chili reception from saudi arabia as he landed in the capital of riyadh. his fourth visit to the kingdom. president obama was greeted at the airport but not by king saulman as is customary but the lower ranking governor of riyadh.

when the president did sit down with the king, the meeting lasted two hours, twice as long as usual. mr. obama spending a light of time reassuring the saudis who are deeply opposed to his deal with iran. it is something the president acknowledged last night on pbs. >> we did have a significant difference on the iran nuclear deal. they exploited it after we explained why this was the best path for us making sure iran did not obtain a nuclear weapon. lou: that's news that the saudis now support that deal. the saudis are threatening financial retaliation if congress passes a bill that would allow the saudi government to be responsible for any role it might have had in the september 11th attacks. the cosponsor of the legislation is john cornyn of texas.

senator cornyn says the 28 pages of a congressional report that allegedly outline saudi arabia's role should be declassified and made public. >> attitude is let the chips fall where they may. let's bring justice to the victims and the families of the 9/11 families and deter to the extent we can terrorist attacks on our own soil. lou: and the obama administration disagrees with the senator despite having once pledged to be the most transparent and open administration in history. u.s. officials have uncovered a new drug tunnel connecting mexico to california. ventilated with electricity is the third found in march. 16 people have been arrested charged with crimes involving drugs and yes construction of that tunnel.

the discovery bolstering the case for the trump claims, which he says, as president, he would straighten out forthwith. we're coming right back with much, much more, stay with us. a huge hometown victory moves trump closer to the presidential nomination. >> thank you, everybody. andthank you new york. we love new york. we love new york. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. lou: ed rollins, tammy bruce and pat buchanan among our guests tonight. they're coming up. and this daredevil is about to test his hoverboard high to test his hoverboard high above dubai. every year, the amount of data your enterprise uses goes up. smart devices are up. cloud is up. analytics is up. seems like everything is up except your budget. introducing comcast business enterprise solutions. with a different kind of network

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columnist tammy bruce. great to have you here. start with you, ed, give you all the credit in the world. edcalled the race in new york and did so early. >> i missed the twelfth congressional district in the upper east side, he missed that. lou: isn't that amazing? >> he swept the state without spending any money. lou: stunning to look at. everyone was playing expectations games. by the way, the trump, the cruz, well not so much the cruz, the cruz people just wanted out of the state. your reaction to it? >> look, i think that this is not necessarily a surprise, we've seen this is what -- look, when he started winning evangelicals, the bells should have been going off around the country. mr. trump has affected every section, women, gays, black, white, different economic frameworks. the evangelicals, atheists, because we have one thing in

common, we care about the future, we want a job we can be proud of. we want our children to have jobs. want the nonsense to stop. we've given them 15 years since september 11th to get security done. it's not done. a man who is 20 or 30% chance that something right might happen and he will be best with the economy and the jobs. this is the wake-up call and i don't think you can deny it anymore. lou: well, tammy, i'd say -- you sound effusive, by golly. >> i'm partisan for the united states. i've had many favorites that have not included mr. trump. but if this is where people are going, i'm getting an education of the nature what's important to them, and damn it, we know he's going to have to deliver. there's no way he's not going to if he's elected. lou: by the way, i applaud effusiveness, i would rather see effusiveness than the retiscence. >> i'm italian. lou: than for whatever reason,

the rnc. tammy lays out the panorama of possibilities for everyone in the country. there is reince priebus, paul ryan and the rnc going we've got rules, damn it! what are we going to do here, ed? >> continue the process here and trump certainly has momentum. a tremendous victory and he'll have a big victory next tuesday. we call the osella caucuses, the marylands, the connecticuts, the delawares, he's going to do well in all of those. two spots, one is indiana, not enough data to really know. lou: in his credit, his in indiana and he's got mike pence, he's got his hand clasped saying i'm donald trump. >> that's important, remember that's the one state that swung back and forth. lou: definitively a battleground state. >> it is a battleground state.

an important state. and california is the alamo. at the end of the day, he gets enough votes there to get the nomination or he doesn't, and no one else has a chance, he's the only one who has a chance, everyone else stopped them. lou: the turning point in the campaign. they're talking 1400 delegates by the time they get to convention, and that one vote as paul manafort says, they need one ballot. >> that's all they have to do. if it goes to the second ballot, what they did didn't work. they have to. at the same time, you saw in the speech last night even, 7 1/2 minutes long. talked about jobs and the economy. called senator cruz senator cruz, there is a different approach, but a warning to senator cruz, they've been in california for a year, but donald trump's team is putting tens of millions of dollars into television ads for the state. that is new, which means it will be a more controlled, more consistent message that you can't get when you get the free media from rallies.

>> maybe he'll lose the strategy since he's had free media. >> it will be a combination, i don't think he's going to give up one or another. he's going to add into the messaging. i think that will work in california. lou: ed, you get to call california? >> the conservatives that are left in the republican party which is all that's left have pretty much been for cruz. it's a trench warfare and i'm not predicting any way, shape, or form cruz is going to win california but he may deny -- i'll get close further down the road here, but i am saying next week, add to the trump momentum. after that, i think he's got -- lou: five states next tuesday, interesting to see, and by the way, trump favored in every one of them at this point. >> remember pennsylvania has 52 that are not pledged delegates. lou: 54. >> that's going to be a game all the way to the convention. >> a little bit of the private club of the g.o.p.

>> can't get over that. ed rollins, great call in new york, look forward to the next one. tammy bruce, good to be with you. breaking news, the death toll from the historic flooding in houston has risen to 8. more than a thousand homes damaged by the torrential downpours and flooding that hit the region. the national weather service now says an inch of rain fell today as well. the water level remains very high. 18 inches fell monday alone. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. and the question is -- we want to hear from you. and if you -- whatever you decide is what we'll do, right here. so make your vote count at lou dobbs on twitter. follow me on -- if you thought riding a

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. lou: a few thoughts now on the games, some of the games, played by republican leaders and the gop establishment. speaker paul ryan, who i really like, i think he's a really likable fella. he just happens to belong in both camps and unable to control himself. ryan infuriating house republicans with a spending bill that would raise the deficit offending many by reaching deals with president obama before reaching deals with gop house members or letting them know what's going on, and then injecting himself

into presidential politics attacking donald trump, and then making his first late-night tv appearance, and playing cute with stephen colbert. >> let me say it in clear english. no. okay, how about clear german? nine. >> clear russian? nyet. you seem to know a lot of foreign languages. that international experience will come in handy if you decide to accept the republican nomination today. [ applause ] >> late show appearance not a particularly bright move by the speaker, annoying just about everybody except mr. obama and the democrat. and ryan's appearance certainly didn't help him offset his gravitas deficit. some might think he appeared a drivel silly and the speaker always lacking a sense of proportion, as yesterday he

rather transparently tried to boost the beleaguered chairman of the rnc, reince priebus invited him to capitol hill to brief house republicans on the delegate process, declaring that priebus has received, well, an extremely favorable warm reception by the house. ryan also adding he is so pleased that someone like priebus is in charge of the rnc making sure the rules are followed. you can only imagine donald trump's delight as he listens to such tripe. all ryan accomplished is to leave everyone shake their heads at his naivete and some might say his boldness and understanding better that speaker ryan wasn't ready in any way for that job he didn't seek but he now holds. meanwhile as counterpart in the senate, majority leader mitch mcconnell trying meekly to walk back his anti-trump remarks saying he spoke as he put it inartfully, they talk like that

in the senate, you know? when he said he was increasingly optimistic that there will be a second ballot at the convention. he's decided that was probably too much. with all these so-called leaders lacking an obvious tact, constraint, intellect, vision, gravitas, depth and character, it is no wonder that donald trump unsettles them so profoundly and if the gop loses seats in the house or the senate, it will clearly be the fault of their fatuous leaders and many of the threatened seats will survive, in fact, will be on the strong coattails of the true leader who has yet to be welcomed by the week. now our quotation of the evening from p.j. o'rourke who said -- in my opinion, if i may say,

the two parties, it seems to me, have a lot in common with each other, don't you think? we're coming right back. stay with us. trump wins big in new york, and again hits the rnc. >> but nobody can take an election away with the way they're doing it in the republican party. lou: will the gop elites fight trump to the end? rnc committeeman evans joins us on that. and among our guests adviser to three presidents, conservative author pat buchanan coming right up. and this gymnastics coach is about to steal the show with

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we are going to beat her so badly, it's going to be something -- [cheers] it's going to be something that you're going to watch and really enjoy watching. look, hey, folks, to a large extent we have to build a military, do so many different thing. we'll go over them. we're going to build our military so strong, so powerful, nobody is going to mess with us, right? [cheers] nobody. she's not going to do that. i watched her last night -- >> we're going to stay with donald trump here for a few minutes. at the same time, i want to bring in, and by the way, they're in maryland, he's in a small venue, we're told 5,000 people, sitting outside of it, in a line wanting to get in. he draws a crowd as frankly i

haven't seen too many candidates who come close to him in that regard. but anyway, we're going to be watching to see what he has to say on some of the issues of the day as he decides them to be, but joining us is randy evans, a member of the rnc rules committee. a former senior adviser for newt gingrich and his presidential campaign, and it's great to have you back with us, randy. >> thanks, lou. lou: it's kind of fun to see donald trump there engaging all of those people, while at the same time, down in florida, you guys are meeting, you're having your spring meeting and we're riveted with the possibilities that you guys come up with another new unique way to either interject yourself into the contest or whether or not your chairman will continue his hostility toward donald trump. but what's the tone there? what are you people up to?

>> i think there are some people who actually would do anything but trump. but the consensus is to leave the rules in place. the rules committee will meet tomorrow from 2:00 to 4:00, i expect no changes on the floor and things will stay as is. but lou you are exactly right, there are some of our colleagues who are adamant that donald trump's not the one. what i don't understand is why they can't see what the rest of us see, that is the huge crowds. americans believing in him and believing in making america great again. i'm not sure what's wrong with that message. lou: frankly, randy, as you and i discussed. i cannot first of all imagine what suddenly has bitten certain members whether it's paul ryan, whether it's reince priebus, members of the rules committee as you suggest, and we'll leave them nameless at this point. what they don't see is five million more folks than are

voting in the republican primaries than the democrats who outnumber them by registration. that's because of the man they're look at on the screen. >> it's impossible to understand. you have a coach that's winning games. he's putting people in the seats. energizing the crowd. he's doing everything that you would ever ask him to do, and yet, you're right. there are those who say let's change the rules mid stream. slow them down, try to stop it, and i think the latest strategy, lou, it really is, is to create a stalemate convention, which is a convention where we don't have a nominee by the end of the week so we reconvene with unbound delegates. i don't believe that's going to happen. i think after new york and after next tuesday, you're going to see the trump train try to pick up speed. lou: that's what i was going to ask you, randy. if it's not clear that the trump train, as it's called, is rolling with greater momentum than ever, i don't know what it

would take, as you suggest, next tuesday is super tuesday, with the five contests. it looks to me like there may not -- the campaign, the trump campaign may not be overstating the 1400 delegates. >> they're well on their way to achieving the 1237. i do expect, i do expect all of the anti-trump folks to do in indiana what they did in wisconsin which is to rally and say, you know, this is a bridge here, we're going to try to block the bridge and make it all or nothing. it's hard to stop a train with that speed, coming out of new york. into the northeast and heading toward california. lou: as we've discussed for ten months now, it is the year of the outsider, and there's only one outsider remaining in the contest who has a chance of winning the nomination, and his

name is donald trump. >> yeah, i think the announcement by ap today that ted cruz could not mathematically win was a major blow to the campaign. i've been there with newt gingrich. moment they tell you that you can't mathematically win, the money dries up. what you'll start to see is all the insiders who have been insiders for decades who want to stay an insider will jump on the only train headed inside, and that's the donald trump train. lou: randy evans, good of you to take part of your time down there, the busy spring meetings of the rnc. we'll be watching very carefully tomorrow. thank you very much, randy. >> thank you, lou. lou: thank you. a gymnastics coach being praised for quick thinking and reflexes. a young gymnast slipped from the uneven bars as you see here. he dove into place during her warm-up routine and saved her as she fell head first.

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great to have you here, ambassador. the royal family decided to stiff president obama when he got to riyadh sending out the governor of riyadh instead of king salman. is there any insult that is too much for this president? >> maybe their copying the cubans who didn't send out the castro brothers to greet him. i think it's a mark of obviously the dissatisfaction the saudis feel given what obama has done on iran. there are a lot of issues between us and saudi arabia. if obama went to israel, who do you think bibi netanyahu would send to the meeting. the president is telling npr that the saudis are now on board with his iranian deal. >> yeah. lou: that's stunning. >> of course they're not on board. they acknowledge the reality that the deals there and that obama plans to enforce it.

obama said in response to a question that the saudis need to learn to share the region with iran. that's like telling the poles, share the region with nazi germany or share it with soviet russia in their view. i think it's at best an extraordinarily naive view, more likely pernicious. lou: and suggest to the french that perhaps they could use their streets for parades. >> plant flowers on them. get used to it. lou: is there any -- this man has gone beyond strange. he's gone into absurdity itself, and people are just shaking their heads. yet no one wants to say anything. >> they're afraid of the consequences if they do. and what i hear from people, our friends around the world is they just want to get to january 20, 2017 and get past this from their perspective, anything else would be better. there would be some demonstration of american

strength with almost any successor. lou: do you think anyone in the white house notices that everyone else is holding their breath here. >> they're making a mockery. they think the president is retired already. which has its benefits by the way. >> i was going to say, you could get a lot of support for that particular petition. it's always great to have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: ambassador john bolton, thanks for being with us. up next, donald trump says the delegate game is rigged. rnc is rigged. it's time to fix it, and he's just the fella to do that. we take up the crooked system and the folks who are pulling the levers. i'll be talking with conservative author, best-selling author pat buchanan here next. stay with us.

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1237 by early june and today was a giant step forward. we think we'll have another great week next week but more importantly what you saw, we saw a record turnout in new york and a record turnout in a primary that everybody knew donald trump is going to win. lou: a great point and leaked internal memorandum trying to trump campaign is now predicting trouble secure 1400 delegates to take the nomination on the first ballot in cleveland. joining us now pat buchanan. he's been a senior adviser to three presidents twice a candidate for the republican presidential nomination himself. he's a nationally syndicated columnist and in between all about one of the country's leading best-selling authors. pat is great to have you with us. >> to talk with you again lou. lou: would start with a victory by donald trump the new york. paul manafort talking about 1400 is their protection.

i wouldn't suggest there's any marketing out that you think that's a realistic number? >> it sounds to me like a little bit of -- and it's a signal to all the delegates saying in effect look fellows get aboard this train. this train is leaving the station make sure you are on it but i do think the possibility exists that donald trump could take this thing pretty handily over the first ballot. 1400 is a little bit out of the range for me. lou: 141300. these become workable numbers. abstract the can talk about the party itself. i've never seen the party and i have covered conventions from 76 forward. i have never seen a party take on their front-runner the way the elites of the g.o.p. have taken on donald trump. have you? >> no, i have not and to a

degree some of the elites in 1964 did this when goldwater was taken and is agency were taking the party away from him and i think this same thing obtains here lou. these elites see and it trump run for the nomination a successful run and eclipse him taking over the party, him moving in a new direction on trade deals, him securing the borders with no amnesty and even an interventional of the world military interventions in the neocons favor there may be no war. i think they'll see their attendant. they all see their agenda canceled. lou: you mentioned the neocons. it's a surprise here to me the strongest surprise of all has been the evangelical base, the religious conservatives in this country who are embracing donald trump as the neocons react in

fear and rejection of the anticipation of a trump agenda. others are embracing and a new balance is being if you will projected by the trump candidacy. >> i think the evangelicals are showing a measure of sophistication here. look everyone agrees the country is in real trouble. trump would have you say has dynamism and energy about him and he's going to deal with things. i think what they are saying is look we trust trump not because we believe he's a social conservative or evangelical christian that we think he will do what's and his interest in the party centrists and we believe in what he says. he will put scalia type fellows on the supreme court i think it's a sophisticated response by the party evangelicals. lou: you talk in your most recent column about -- do you believe the elites are going to

at least at some point come to their senses and say and acknowledge the front-runner and begin a healing process and move towards unity? >> i think the elites are almost out of the game lou. i think the real challenge and the only challenge is to drop chomp -- if trump has the most victories in the most states in the most delegates and millions more votes than anyone else in the biggest crowds ever in the party then turns and says now we resent to america our winner, our nominee ted cruz, i think that is not really for the credible for the party to say at that point but i think the elites really, they have been feeble here. washington d.c. they seem to have no control. we talk about the establishment. it's a battle between trump and cruz, i don't know what cruz is saying that he never seems to me

to have been a beloved figure on capitol hill. lou: that is what they call the times description on capitol hill. let me turn now to the agenda. you have paul ryan, the speaker who will be running the convention as is traditional but i have never seen a speaker interject himself into the race, attack a candidate and simultaneously say he's going to put forward an agenda that will compete with that of the nominee. this is unheard of especially when that nominee is bringing in millions and millions of people into that -- that has been woefully attended over the course of the two previous election cycles. >> you are right about what trump has done. he has brought people into the republican primaries by the millions and millions that have the largest turnout i think they have ever had in any primary in

state after state and you know i would really admonish paul ryan to take a look at one example. back in 1964 when goldwater won the nomination rockefeller and the goodbye and good look, two people went out for goldwater all of over the country here. richard nixon and ronald reagan. the future belong to them for standing by someone. they knew he was going down in defeat -- down to defeat an adorable defeat. if i were paul ryan i would say look i'm going to support the nominee of his party because i'm the leader of the forces on capitol hill. lou: it's good to have you here. come back soon. always good to talk to you. >> good to talk to my friend. lou: pat buchanan. that's it for us tonight. take serving with us. steve forbes and katrina among our guests tomorrow.

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