debate with all the candidates live, live from detroit, at 9:00 eastern time. that's right here on the fox news channelment thank you for being part of "the real story." here's gregg is no for shep today. >> time for a new round in the we'll -- the billionaire looks to lock up the nomination, and a former nominee is trying to knock him off track. >> hearings what i know. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> mitt is a failed candidate. he failed. >> and so a little love lost and n this moment a few years back. but are mitt romney's views relevant now and willdqziñg have any effect on the republican race? plus, potential problem for ted cruz, judge hearing arguments whether the texas senator is really a natural born citizen and eligibility to be president.

how this could shake out. problems of her own. the department of justice cutting a deal to give immune one of her former staffers. so what sort of secrets might be spilled? all the days news in this hour hello, i'm gregg jarrett in for shep. first, the claim that donald a man who lost his own white house bid, not qvñ twice. the 2012 g.o.p. nominee, mitt romney, tearing into donald trump todayed a you expect. the billionaire firingu÷ç right back and all of it adding drama debate tonight, right here on, the fox news channel. mitt romney started the speech saying he is not entering the x-rays is not backing any specific candidate. instead romney just stuck it to

donald trump. and said trump is treating the american public like suckers. >> this is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss. here's what i know. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> of course that's very different from what romney said four years ago when he was the nominee back then. he stood on stage with donald trump, smiling as he got the billionaires endorsement, and listen to what romney today said about trump's business skills and then compare that to romney's remarks back in 2012. >> his bankruptcies have crushed small businesses, and the men and women who work for them. he inherited his business. he didn't create it. >> donald trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how an economy works to create jobs to create jobs for the american people.

>> getting whiplash? for his part donald trump waste nothing time punching right back and doing it in typical trump style.3 >> he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said, m.i.t., drop to yourr=úé% knees. he would have dropped to his knees. he was begging. he was begging me, and did you see how -- he said, oh, i'm not big like him. a great businessman and all that stuff. since then i've done much better. >> drop to your knees. what do you make of that? then the question of whether romney's attacks will do anything to dent his support. analysts say romney is a symbol of the establishment, the g.o.p. insiders whose trump supporter cannot stand in another slam unlikely to silence trump supporters, mexico is out with its first official response to trump's promise to make that country pay for a border wall. the mexican treasury secretary saying today, quote,

emphatically and categorically, mexico will under no circumstance pay for the wall that mr. trump is proposing. trump's responded to paragraph claims of that plan with higher. carl cameron is light at the site of -- live at the site of the debate. and trump ramped up his counterattack. trying to bemer presidential or did it work out that way? >> reporter: mitt romney laid should judge mr. trump by how he responds to the romney speech today. and trump basically answered the question. he at one point during his remarks said that his wife, encouraged him to start acting more presidential, and she suggested that he did a fairly good job of hearing presidential during his acceptance speech news conference on super tuesday. and mr. trump went on to say that, no, when you're attacked, you have to hit back. and so against the advice of his

wife, against the advice of supporters, including jeff sessions who said he needed to be very specific and clear and denouncing hate speech, hate groups can the kkk and david duke. he didn't. he went right after mitt romney and called him names, called him a lightweight,ññ choke artist. denigrated mr. romney's business success against his own. so, trump does what trump does. attacks the attacker and hits back harder than they hit in the first place. >> and spent most of the time complimenting himself, and then talked bat couple of issues, for example, trade and the economy as well. >> sure. as he does in all of his rallies, he talks about how he has great friends in china but china is killing the u.s. and he would essentially put tariffs on goods from other countries to rebalance the trade deficit the u.s. has and critics pointed out those tariffs go on the u.s.

consumer who the cost of their goods would go up. >> carl cameron, live in detroit where the debate will happen tonight on the fox news channel. the question remainsers will mitt romney's comments make any difference to voters? a gerri willis hit he street test find out. >> that's right. we hit the streets to find out reactions. listen to what people said. >> whatever mitt has to say about trump doesn't change my opinion about him at all. me permanently i think trump is a breath of fresh air. >> the governor had his shot with his nomination back in '12b he's not going sway my vote one way or the other. >> with mitt romney coming out after he was in the last election and trying to crucify somebody in this election is ridiculous. >> i have to tell you, people did not like being told how topñ

vote. from anybody, don't think. it felt like more from the establishment. >> what is she response from people who don't like donald trump. >> they also didn't want to be told what to say or think or how to vote. one of them telling me that mitt's character, his personality is like sand paper. >> gerri, thank you. let's bring into the conversation carol lee. white house child support for the online online online -- white house correspondent for the wall street downin 2012, the economy as abysmal, obama's ratings were worst but romney lost considerably. does he have any cred among republican voters? >> i think that's the question, that how he did in the general election aside, hedjgf]2 was not beloved by republican primary voters to begin with, and so you hear his -- what he said today, it's like he is speaking to

people who already agree with him and they're going to continue to agree with him and not going to change anybody's mind who is thinking about or already supporting donaldg5$zti. >> let's talk about the supporters, they're so invested so devout, and entrenched. nothing is going to change their mind. almost true what donald trump bragged about. i could go out to fifth avenue and shoot somebody and my supporters don't care. >> uh-huh. he has managed -- his argument, too that he has been making today in response to mitt that he is really fan expanded the party and brought in all this knewêç voters and the republican establishment is being ungrateful. there's truth in that. he has energized the republican base in a way that they haven't seen and certainly they didn't see in 2012. >> let's talk about tonight's debate. it is in michigan. there are 59 delegates at stake and they vote on tuesday so a

lot is at stake. there appears to be a concerted effort among major republican voters and mainstream republicans to stop 'donalddonad trump. >> oh, yeah. there's a big effort. whether or not it's too late is the million dollar question. but there's a big effort within the establishment to try to stop donald trump, and initially it was this idea, somebody in the party -- can everybody rally around a single candidate. whether ted cruz or marco rubio and now you're hearing this idea that the fractured field is good because if you keep the field fractured, it will keep donald trump from getting the delegates he needs and they can battle it out at the convention. >> in michigan, i was looking at the latest polls out there. trump is at 33% but if you add in cruz, rubio and kashich collectively, the antitrump vote is a lot larger than the trump

vote. let me talk to you about the tone that may occur tonight. it went off the rails in the last g.o.p. debate. but "the new york times" seems to think it may be different now. they said, quote, trump was weirdly low key at his victory press conference tuesday night. he was still combative and presented incoherent policies but maybe he switched into his version of presidential mode. what do you think? change of tone? >> well, you might see a change of tone in donald trump but, like you said, i don't think he's going to back down, and particular -- marco rubio made clear already he is going for the jugular, and i think one thing that will bed@ interesting to watch tonight is what head cruz does. he is closer to trump in terms of the number of delegates and with rubio going, there's not much of a path. it's hard to see a path for rubio in the -- winning various primaries. and so his strategy is to keep

trump from getting the delegates he needs. so it will be interesting to see q13 jju)sl he go after trume it to rubio to do that? maybe he thinks it's not in his best interests. >> our colleague, chris wallaces the debate will be most substantive yet, but given the chronic visit treeol -- vitreol and the caustic debate, that's going to be a tough challenge. >> you see the language and rhetoric. it's interesting because the rhetoric has really gotten more coarse, particularly from marco rubio, and at the same time you're seeing this shift in donald trump, a little bit. he still donald trump -- to being -- trying to be more presidential and toning it down, and the other thing is it's the smallest field. so, give each of them a lot of time. >> then there's john kashich, who has tried to set himself

above the verbal fray. he doesn't engage in the sort of vicious insults and attacks. he says it's unpresidential, it's doing a disservice to the american voter. he is not going to change his tune. >> no. and it wouldn't make sense for him to because there's no space for -- he would just be trying to outdo what everybody is it already doing. his brand is this more moderate, measured tone, kind of candidate, and his supporters, well, not nearly as many as donald trump or ted cruz or marco rubio, that's obviously what they find appealing in him. >> just not john kashich. there's no question about that. carol lee, "wall street journal" white house correspondent good to see you. >> thank you. >> the next republican debate tonight. brett[3 baier, megyn kelly and chris wallace the moderators tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern time.

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we're teaming up with facebook to give you the latest real-time info, including the issues people are talking about. shannon breen is in detroit where the debate will be held. how can you track things over time? >> reporter: this is an interesting tool. unlike a formal poll or survey, what this does is look into the conversations that people are having on facebook and measures the volume. one of the interesting timelines is on issues that people are talking about. you can put this into motion and see over time what they've been discussing, and you'll notice some spikes here. watch here as you can see in early november, we saw a -- issues in -- this is right around the time of the shootings in paris. if we let this timeline go you can see the spike again in early december, the same topics popping up. that's around the date of the san bernardino shootings. so, it vary much captures the conversation. what issues potential voters are talking about the most, as we can track them overtime. it's reallyf3"p[] interesting td

we can use it live tonight as well. >> it's fascinating. shannon, so, what and who is kind of hot right now? >> so we have another great+u>[l called heat maps. let's look at the candidates and check them out. start with donald trump. this is measuring conversation over the last 30 days, these windows here, and not necessarily negative or positive. just who is driving the most conversation. start with donald trump and take his heat map. he covers the entire country with that intensity. the dark red. it's not surprising because whether people love him or hate him they're always talking about him. so at e let's look at the man in second place when it comes to the number of primary contes and caucus wins. ted cruz, much different map with a big concentration of texas, of course, his home state, and you can see iowa, where just a month ago he won the caucuses there, a bit of an update based on polling so a lot of conversation about him as well there. and if you look at the issues, religion is one of the top

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ted cruz claims he's the only person in a position to republican presidential nomination. at this very moment a judge in new york is hearing arguments on whether cruz is even eligible to run for president. cruz, as you only know by now,

united states. and not one whose competency to be a president is called into president, if he is the president. >> attorneys for cruz noded noted similar lawsuits have been tossed united states in other states, arguing this should be an easy case for the judge. >> the federal law at the time. at the time that senator cruz the language is black letter. born an american citizen. >> for his part the judge questioning whether he, the judge, even has the authority to rule on federal law regarding the eligibility of presidential candidates because this is a

state court judge. doug burn is on the fox news deck, former federal prosecutor. can a state court judge rule on a federal law. >> a very significant question, and i thought, wait a minute. isn't this purely a question of and number two, it's interesting because even if this were in a federal court, a federal court could say, wait a minute two things, this isn't even -- it's political question, essentially, which should be resolved in congress, and number two, it's not ripe. because the point is you can't be president -- i'm not trying can't run forao&0fo president. a court would say if he wins, and is president elect, bring me the case. >> the constitution it's actually congress -- >> exactly -- >> -- that makes the decision on president. the senate, not judges, although the supreme court in the 2000 case -- >> right. >> so, we showed the constitution. you got to be a natural born citizen to be president.

article 1 says, congress will define what that means and they did it in 1790. look at it on the screen. quote: the children of citizens of the united states that may be born beyond sea or out of the limits of the united states shall be considered as natural born citizens. now, later, congress added a residency requirement for the parent, but ted cruz's mother easily satisfies that. so isn't i true there's really no issue? >> the weight of legal and historical authority is squarely on the side of ted cruz being eligiblek%órt[under these definitional semantic formulations. the other side argues that, to be a congressman or senator, representative or senator, you have to be a citizen. that means either you're a citizen immediately or naturalized. so where it says natural born

citizen the argument is that must mean something more. that's the argument. again, the legal academy, legal scholars, law professors, all the majority of them all say, this is essentially a nonissue. >> the two plaintiffs in the new york case, are rather unbelievably arguing that cruz is not a citizen under common law, which, as you know, is english law derived from custom and judicial precedent. common law is utterly irrelevant and meaningless when there is a specific statute passed by congress and signed by the president. >> i totally agree with what. what happens now is you get into the practical academia cal chris -- calculus. one woman wrote in the "washington post" saying he i9hw ineligible, and the a constitutional scholar from harvard law school sauce it's ebite baseball. no. i read the article by paul clement and another scholar and they laid it out clearly.

i'm not coming -- this has nothing to do with -- >> but simple -- passed law that is one sentence law. >> it's crystal clear, gregg, and that donald trump's only point that is valid, the supreme court of the united states has not squarely ruled on this, but any legal scholar is going to say, that he is going prevail on this. >> even harvard law professor tribe, that you pointed out, if you actually read the column that tribe wrote, which i did several times, he agrees that cruz is a citizen eligible to be president. he just makes this sort of round-about argument if you believe cruz's judicial philosophy you might -- >> says if he is really an originalist, it's ironic because >> right. donald trump is misinterpreting what he said. >> yes. >> good to see you. word hillary clinton could soon be facing questions from the fbi over e-mails from when

she was secretary of state. so what happens if clinton gets indicted? all the chaos on the republican side is nk/2c6)hñ compared to wt the dems would be dealing with. i take pictures of sunrises.

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did not. doug mckelway is live in washington. tell us what the timing of this might mean? >> reporter: the one thing we can infer from the palling lee an know immunity is the fbi is following ordinary investigative techniques, interviewing from the bottom of the pyramid, but pagliano is also in some respects the foundation of this pyramid. he worked for clinton's 2008 campaign, followed her to the state department and set up the private home server in her house. last december the state department told the senate it could not find backup copies of e-mails sent by pagliano. while the "washington "washingt" reported there's no evidence that grand jury has been convenes. judge napolitano suggests one may already be empanelled. >> a federal judge would only grant immunity for a witness to testify. a grand jury was already hearing evidence. so if a grand jury is hearing evidence, the evidence was

obtained by the fbi and delivered to the justice department. the justice department decided it's going to indict something. >> congratulatesry herridge immunity for a long time. sodless i not a new development. >> any response from the clinton campaign? >> it told the "washington post" this morning that it is pleased pagliano has agreed to immunity for his testimony. a choice spokesman said as we have said since last summer secretary clinton has beenfqr@hw cooperating with the department of justice's inquiry, including to meet with them to assist#ow:t efforts if needed. donald trump said in his post super tuesday press conference said what hillary clinton did with her server was, quote, wrong, and other people who have done far less have paid a very big price. >> doug, thank you very much. let's bring in heidi presbola, a senior reporter for "usa today." only a federal judge can grant

immunity and the fed would only want it if pagliano had something really valuable or increme -- incriminating to say and got it through a proper preview, sits down with him behind closed doors and says off the record here's what i know. so this is shaping up, is it not, to be something far more serious than a security review, which is what hillary clinton calls it? >> i think we knew a few weeks ago it was more than a security review, and the fbi acknowledged there wars a law enforcement component to this. what we still don't know(qç rigt now is whether she personally is a target of that or one of her aides. either way it doesn't look good. but we also don't know yet if it's going to lead to an actual indictment. and if itself does, then i think q+12 issue. right? 7íllwñ over. the super delegates wouldrtf%l

from her. he pledged delegates might feel obligated to support herf!fgç d then all peel off, too, and the democrats, like you teased at the top, would be -- you think there's disarray on the g.o.p. side. you'd see a total meltdown on then democratic side. that's all a lot of ifs. the only people who not what is actually going on inside the fbi investigation is the fbi. and so that you have two thresholds, the burden of proof here. they havet"&5tl to prove that is classified information at the time that she sent it. not just that it was classified post. and the secondly that she knew at the time when she was sending it that it was classified. >> pagliano is he one who allegedly diverted classified material from the secure state department server to hillary clinton's unsecured server in her own home so, what, the question has to be, did she know about it? did she approve it?

did she direct it? disshe give you her password and so forth? all of those things would be trouble for her. >> this is -- of course. but i2hink this is -- we're not inside the investigation but i think this is not as clearcut -- a lot of times they're parallels made to the petraeus case where he said on a tape recording this is highly classified stuff. this -- we don't know what evidence they're working with. but unless they have something on a tape recording like that, we're just going to have to wait and see what the actual -- >> another question is, who told you to wipe that server clean, assuming he did it, because that is obstruction of justice, arguably, and ac%-!û9 of myriad other laws, also, what do you know about the framework of a conspiracy to keep all of this secret? another relevant question? >> yeah. all different potential avenues they could be going down with

this investigation, but the fact that we're now -- the news itu this is that hillary clinton herself could be called or one of her aides, does mean that hopefully we're starting to get to the end of this process and that hopefully there will be an answer to this at least before the convention. >> i want to pick up on something you said earlier about brokered convention, other nothing in the constitution that says somebody indicted for crimes account be president of the -- can't be president of the united states, but as a practical matter she would likely have to bow out in your judgment, and then it doesn't necessarily benefit bernie sanders. it could be somebody like joe cuomo, the list going on and on. >> i don't think it would be bernie sanders. i think that there would be somebody like joe biden would step up or cuomo or maybe -- >> patrick could be another. >> yeah. but i think -- again, we have to wait and see what comes out --

>> what if it's not human being look who is indicted but -- hillary clinton who is indicted but one or more of close top staffers. >> that's when it gets sticky and ugly. even if it's not her who is being indicted, if it's someone very close to her, what kind of stink does that put on the candidate herself? because what we have seen in the polls so far is that this e-mail controversy has done a lot to hurt her with republicans andwsa republican-leaning independents, but with democrats, they've been a little bit more resistant to having this be the thing&2any6t affects their opinion of her in terms of truth justness but if you a had someone who is close to her charged with a crime, it's not clear that she should step down because of that, and yet i think you would have a lot of democrats saying, wait, this i our nominee. >> the stink would be severe, heidi, good to see you. thank you very much. >> you, too. >> bernie sanders has managed to

upset some people in romania of all places. he criticized internet speed in the to united states tweeting, quote, today living in buick arrest, romania, have access to much faster internet than the u.s. it's unacceptable and must chen. we twittedder user from romania said why is it unacceptable? sounds like you're entitled to being better than everyone else and very disrespectful. romanian travel agency offered sanders free plane tickets to come over and experience our great internet. the travel agent said sanders could tweet as much as he wanted and even bring a friend. wouldn't that be interesting. not just mitt who is taking direct aim at donald trump. some other high-profile republicans speak can at a conservative conference and making it abundantly clear how they feel about the party's front-runner. we'll take you there live next.

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an unusual beginning to what is one of the most important gatherings for the g.o.p. candidates. cpac. it kicked off today with some high profile republicans taking veiled shots at their party's front-runner, donald trump. to the speakers included formal presidential candidate ricksn/n. >> yeah. this -- a lot of fear and anxiety in washington but a lot of people in america who are cheering boastless someone sounds right. i don't think is but someone sounds right. they're on their side. >> the former pennsylvania senator went ton say he is supporting marco rubio for president. which ed son is like of cpac in maryland. how did other republicans reference donald trump today,.íç rich? >> reporter: only by slogan

today. nebraska senator criticized donald trump saying he refused to vote for him. he spoke and said, quote, we do not need someone to breathe spire in washington. he -- fire in washington. he said we need someone to breath passion into our children to make america great again, and a big concern among a number of republicans that donald trump is going to hurt other republican candidates,"]yt talking about te running for the house and state and local races that you have wisconsin governor scott walker here saying, regardless of who the republican nominee is, conservatives must go out and vote. >> i just want to remind you that no matter what you think about what is happening in the presidential election, you can't give up. we need your happen in the states. we're -- now help in the states. we're depending on you at the state and local level. >> paul ryan was here earlier today and spoke, did not mention donald trump at all, wasn't asked about donald trump. earlier this week he criticized

trump for not immediately rejecting the sponsorship of a white supremacist. >> did any of the speakers today come out in support of donald trump? >> well, not specifically. a number of the conferencegoers here are spotters of donald trump and ted cruz and marco rubio and other republican candidates. we spoke with the chairman of thek(çç american conservative u, the group that puts on cpac, and he says regardless of who the nominee is, conservatives must get behind him. >> we're going to have a nominee and they have to ask do you support the nominee or turn they clinton for eight years. that's that simple. >> we'll hear from the republican candidates including trump on saturday. >> rich, thank you very much. do you need a job? well, michigan's got plenty of them. too many in fact. just ahead, why employers there

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welcome back. the g.o.p. candidate taking the age in detroit for the fox news facebook debate. the economic crisis hit michigan particularly hard, leaving a great many people out of work. now the state has the opposite problem, not enough workers. take a look at the unemployment rate since 2007 before the crisis in june of 2009, it hit a high of almost 15% but now it's about the same as theúvy-agñ nal average,oríó around 5%, and economist says some industries are struggling to fill jobs. matt finn is live with more. matt, michigan is hurting for skilled workers.

it seems hard to believe or. >> reporter: it does. we hear so much about unemployment and when you think of michigan you think of rusted plants and people looking for work, but the modern reality now is that work is looking for people. the state of michigan has some 130,000 positions it can't fill. part of the problem came with the economic downturn in 2008, about 90,000 people left when jobs were scarce. now as construction is booming, 75% of the work force is retiring. couple that with the fact that many high school grads go right to college and don't think about the trades. construction companies are all looking to fill what is called the skills gap. now in michigan the trades themselves are encouraging trade schools, apprenticeships and journeyman programs, and they say they have a long way to go. >> make sure our young folks understand where these career they go through the traditional advance and post secondary tracts tracts or apprenticeships and on

the job training models or boot camps, they understand where the jobs and industries of growth are and they know how to access them. >> adding to the problem. contractors bid higher on projects because they don't have the adequate labor pool to finish the jobs. >> matt, we have seen this trend before, right? and how is this playing into the presidential campaign? >> we have seen it before. i covered stories in las vegas where once the economy turned ripped there, there was a shortage of skilled workers, and how this has been playing into the$xmç campaign, marco rubio bn advocating for an overhaul of the education system and strongly encouraged that not all students have to go to a four-year college. a student can attend a trade school and go into the work force without a mountain of debt. so the solution and the candidates will argue that ultimately you have to get inside the minds of these young students and let them know that there are other alternatives to a four-year degree.

>> matt finn, thank you very much. the astronaut who wrapped up near lay year in space is now back home in houston, texas, and guess what, a couple of inches shorter than when he left. scott kelly!djqii7 spent 340 dan space. he is talking with dr. jill biden, vice-president joe biden's wife. and while he was up there, nasa teams on earth studied his identical twin, mark, on the ground. one of the findings so far, scott came home two inches taller. it's because gravity come presses the discs in your spine. it's true. i used to be seven feet. since there's no gravity in space scott kelly actually group. without gravity, bones and muscles can weaken and the question scientists need to-and-how best to deal with all of thatful not withstanding the physical risks' of a year in

space he says it was deep privilege for him to serve his country and there's plenty to come from the space program. >> this mission is the latest achievement in our country's space program but not the last. there will be more. it's in our dna of our counsel troy explore, and we -- our country to explore and we must never stop. >> nasa planning to use the research for eventual human missions to mars which would last at least two years minimum. we'll be right back with a look at landmark day in modern communication and it happened on this day in history. i love life, so i like to live it healthy... i like to make it fun! a lot of clients become like family. that's the reason that i work for gnc for 25 years. what can help you live a healthier life? just ask. we make it simple. gnc. came out today thousands of people to run the race for retirement. so we asked them...

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expert says they're from around 1909. the family found seven of them. officials say they thought÷ogl5y 15 existed. experts are calling it one of the greatest discoveries ever in the history of card collecting in a paper bag. start digging, my mom threw mine out. thanks, mom. on this daylzoñ in 1919, pol workers took to the skies to deliver the first ever international air mail. decade earlier the u.s. government tried to use a balloon, didn't work. when the post office began delivering mail by a plane it got off to dangerous start. many of the first pilots died in weather. they came up with rules to make air mail delivery safer after postal workers started flying around the globe 97 years ago today. and that's going to do it for me. i'm gregg jarrett in for shepard

smith. most of the day. down arrows, but look at it now, making a recovery of 41 points. neil cavuto is next. >> i know it's not presidential. in fact my wife called and said, darling, would you please act presidentially? be presidential lick the other night when you had all those victories. i said, but i have incoming. when you have incoming you can't be too presidential. i said i have incoming. >> and what does donald trump do when he has incoming? take a look. >> you can see how loyal he is. he was begging for my endorsement if could have said, mitt, drop to your knees. he would have dropped to his knees. he was begging. mitt is a failed candidate. he failed. he failed horribly. and mitt is indeed a choke