back here, what you think? bill: we will have your coverage and get kansas, maine, kentucky, you've got a caucus in nebraska all happening for you. go. martha: we will rack up some delegates tomorrow night you go you never know who could win. bill: until nine, back to your cot. martha: leavitt under the desk happening now starts now. . jon: now we know what that desk is really for your help it was a motor city melee, a flurry of personal insults at times threatening to derail last night gop debate in detroit. good friday to you the weekend is almost here. i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee and many of those attacks putting donald trump on the hot seat for the frontrunner forced to defend his record on everything against allegations of fraud from reported secret tapes with

the new york times editorial board. this is each of his rivals try to present themselves as the establishment's best hope to defeat him. >> you wrote me off but guess what? it's now march madness and we're heading up north to mike turk, okay? let me tell you this. i willwin ohio. the . >> this little guy has lied so much about my record. >> there we go pick up. >> i've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. >> there's a difference between flex ability and telling people whatever you need to say to get them to do what you want them to do. >> the real, artist is senator marco rubio. the people in florida wouldn't elect him dogcatcher. >> donald, please i know it's hard but brief. a brief account you can do it. you can breathe i know it's hard but just . >> when they're done with the yoga can i ask a question?

i hope we don't see yoga on this stage. >> he's very flexible so you never know. jenna: not mistake i guess that sums it up your march madness and indeed the lake berman reporting with the wrapup. john hasek might be onto something blake. reporter: yeah, there was a lot going on. john kasich was even saying this morning that he thinks this might be all the way to the convention. donald trump was literally fending off attacks from both sides on one side to his right with marco rubio, the other side was ted cruz the truth try to paint trump as a one-time democrat who had unwavering support for hillary clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign. rubio kept going back to the line he's used over the last eight days calling trump a con artist or scammer. one example he kept circling back to us trump university.

>> you know what they got in these courses? if you can pull off the pillow. when they finally real life what a scam it was they asked for their money back and you refuse? reporter: donald trump was back at it again. he's already been out on the campaign trail. he was an hour and a half north of us in the city of warren, a suburb of detroit and it took him just minutes to get tomarco rubio. >> little marco , little marco. [applause] do you know that in florida they hate little marco rubio so much because of the fact that he never votes. he never shows up to vote. so when you think, actually i'll use a word he uses. he has conned the people of florida into voting for him and i'll tell you what. they are angry because he never showed. he has the worst voting record in all of florida. he has the worst voting record

in the united states senate. reporter: both rubio and cruz have events in the upcoming minutes. we will see their responses shortly. jenna: we are seeing on right now. we want to go straight to senator ted cruz was holding a rally in university of maine. he's giving an impromptu news conference answering questions. let's go ahead and get in there. >> they don't understand. they pick who they want the nominee to be and there's one detail that can't get the votes fromthe people. in my view , a brokered convention eight going to happen and if the washington dealmakers tried to steal the nomination from the people i think it would be a disaster. it would cause a revolt. instead, the answer is simple. we've got to win this nomination. 1237 delegates is what it takes

to be the republican nominee. if you look at where we are and delegates right now, fewer than 100delegates separate donald trump and me . i'm the only candidate that has the delegate count, that has the state wins, that is in a position to do beat donald trump and if you want to be donald the way to do it is come together behind this campaign and that's what we are working hard to do. >> well, last night was really striking. all of us are used to political candidates who run to the right in the primaries then run to the center in the general elections. with one of these reasons they are frustrated because they make promises to get the nomination and probably go to washington and break all those promises.normally a politician waits until the general election to do it. last night donald trump started galloping to the center before the primaries were over. donald trump repeatedly emphasized flexibility, that he will be flexible on every principle, every issue he will

be flexible. in that, he echoed what he reportedly said to the new york times editorial board that everything he said on immigration, that's really been dollars signature issue, apparently he told the new york times editorial board that everything he said on immigration doesn't mean. he's not going to build a wall, he's not going to deport anyone. on the debate stage last night changed his view. suddenly he's now for expanding h1b to take away american jobs. and one of the more stunning moments of the bait was when he turned to marco rubio and donald trump said marco, i agree with you. the flexibility you showed in negotiating with democrats in the gang of eight amnesty. you want to talk about a stunning moment on the debate stage where donald trump is saying he agrees with marco rubio and the democrats on the gang of eight amnesty bill. is that good flexibility? on one level that shouldn't be surprising because donald trump funded the gang of eight.

out of the eight members, donald gave contributions to five of them, over $50,000. but it was still stunning for a candidate who pretends to be opposed to illegal immigration, for him to say on that debate stage and there was another moment that not many folks in the media picked up on. when donald was asked about his foreign-policy. and they said who do you listen to on foreign-policy? the very first name out of his mouth was richard house. most americans have no idea who that is but the dc establishment does. richard house is the president of the council on foreign relations.he is a lifelong liberal he is someone who has advised hillary clinton and the state department. what does it say about you that donald trump and hillary clinton listen to the same advisor? look, on one level is not surprising. donald trump is someone who

supported jimmy carter over ronald reagan. donald trump is someone supported john kerry over george w. bush. he is someone who contributed four times to the hillary clinton presidential campaign in 2008. but for him to admit the first day you listen to on foreign-policy is the president of the council on foreign relations, a liberal hillary clinton acolyte is afairly extraordinary admission . and i will say this. let me speak for a minute to the donald trump supporters. i get that people are angry. we are so frustrated. we're so furious because we've been lied to. we've been my two over and over again. but donald trump embodies that washington corruption we are angry about. the answer to that corruption is not to go with someone who's been funding liberal democrats for four decades, who's been enmeshed in that corruption. and it's worth underscoring, donald is telling us he will

betray us on everything he's campaigning on. when donald trump stood on that debate stage and said over and over you've got to be flexible, flexible is washington codeword that he's going to stick it to the people. that's what washington politicians said when they are being flexible. what it means is the rich and powerful are going to get taken care of just like donald trump supported obama, bailouts and parks. and the working men and women, flex ability means trump is going to the rich and powerful and the poor get left behind and in maine i'm encouraged by e support we have. i'm encouraged by the support we have from conservatives. i'm encouraged by the support we have from libertarians. liberty movement that believes passionately in the constitution and bill of rights. i've spent my whole life

fighting to defend the constitution and bill of rights. donald trump told everyone in the last two debate that when it comes to the bill of rights, when it comes to the constitution he willbe flexible. he will negotiate . two debates ago he lectured me ted, you've got to be willing to negotiate and compromise with harry reid and chuck schumer on the supreme court points. let me be clear to the men and women of maine. there are areas where compromise is appropriate if you are talking about marginal tax rates you can reach a middle ground and negotiate a question like that. but there are other areas that should not be up or compromise. the constitution and bill of rights should not be up for compromise and i will tell the men and women of maine i will not compromise away your religious liberty. i will not compromise away your second amendment right to keep and bear arms. the constitution and bill of rights are not up for negotiation and when donald trump tells you that he will cut a deal with harry reid and chuck schumer on scalia's

replacement the inevitable conclusion of that deal will be that he would nominate a liberal activist to the court. who would take away ourfreedom of speech, take away our religious liberty, take away our right to keep and bear arms . and we need to defend our rights, not give them away to yet another washington liberal. >> . [inaudible question] jenna: ted cruz i had a rally in maine, an idea of what he will talk about as we go through the next weeks. we expect them to stay in the race. he says he's the one that can go ahead and beat donald trump having one of few states. we have a few states coming up this weekend. then there's tuesday of next week which is michigan then on to florida on march 15. ted cruz hitting trump for he says funding the corruption that so many people are angry about in washington dc.

we will see if his message resonates and we will watch his rally for other news. in the meantime we will get more news now. jon: you heard ted cruz say he thinks a brokered convention which some have been talking about on the republican side would be a very bad idea. was there a winner in last night's debate? did any of those four gentlemen on the stage change minds? and could change the trajectory of this racetrack mark for more on the republican talk let's bring in john hart, gop strategist and the editor opportunity list marjorie clifton is also with us . she watches from the other side of the window. she's a former consultant to the obama campaign and the principal at clifton consulting. simple question.who won? john, you first. >> i think the other three candidates besides trump one. if trump was trying to consolidate the vote i think he did that with his jokes about his manhood which were kind of a disgrace. i wondered if he is trying to start this after hours with

that performance but you just heard from ted cruz and it's really important because we are approaching what i would call the closing argument stage of this campaign, that if the other three candidates don't gain traction in the next 11 days for some of these win or take all primaries start it's going to be difficult to prevent donald trump from running away with domination and i think he's stoppable and what ted cruz outlined is a series of arguments that have not really fully been leveled effectively at donald trump ye . so over the next 10 days or 11 days you will see marco rubio make the same argument.ted cruz, john kasich and they did that last night effectively in the debate. each of them in different ways with trump university, with trump's inability to have his budget numbers add up and the moderators did a fantastic job bringing those issues to the surface. here's the core issue. trump is saying he's a non-politician but the fact is who will tell people what they

want to hear to get elected. jon: marjorie, give us your take. you here representing the democratic view. who won the debate? >> no one who had their children watching on because you had to cover their ears half the time and explain what these jokes were. it's everything you tell your children not to do so that was unpleasant but i agree. trump has less than half the delegates right nowso again, the other candidates , there is a window. there is still a shock for them to get their delegates in and largely this debate was about dismantling trump's position, his platform, his viability. the biggest challenge came when they asked whether they would stand by trump were even nominee and all of them said yes we would. counter to what happened when mitt romney came out strongly saying trump was not a suitable candidate as well as john mccain. while they were trying to discredit him they said we will stand by him. that's where i think there is a

primary fisher happening in the republican party is where does the establishment go and is the energy coming by the voter base about antiestablishment and it's a problem. it's a challenge. jon: there are fissures in the party, we saw them yesterday exhibited in mitt romney's speech. matthew from the washington free beacon took a look at the debate and wrote this. he says there was no winner at the debate. there was certainly a loser, the gop. it started this election cycle in a strong position and is now on the precipice of nominating a political neophyte, a caricature of everything the liberals hate against republicans whose unfavorable ratings are skyhigh and loses to hillary clinton in practically every poll. john, what you think about that? >> i think matt makes a great point. conservatives from my perspective, i spent a lot of times working for john hoover is one of the most effective and conservative members who understood the nature of

compromise, that there are bad deals and good deals to make and he had the wisdom to see the difference. so did president reagan. i've seen conservatives essentially take over the republican party and i think that's a good thing so my criticism of trump is that trump is not a threat to the quote establishment. he's a threat to all the games conservatives have made overthe past 15 or 20 years , to get rid of earmarks, reduce the size of government and that's why i see trump as such a threat where the country is right now. not just the republican party but the country. jon: let me throw you one of your statement that marjorie. conservatives have taken over the republican party. why is donald trump leading the republican race? >> conservatives asked trump not to run as third party and run as republican. that is know what has become dumping tethered to him and not in a good way. i agree absolutely with everything john was in. there is a benefit to balance in the country and not having the strong platform, not having a strong republican candidate

and one that it's a compromise that is bad for everybody. that's what our democracy was built on and my concern has more to do with what it's doing to the balance of the country and we have a strong speaker in paul ryan so how is this going to play out? we tethered, the republican party has tethered themselves to trump by making him sign that led now the other candidates are saying the same and i think that's the downfal . jon: it is going to be a fascinating few days ahead as we head into the weekend primaries and caucuses. marjorie clifton, john hart, thank you. jenna: we have real news to get to today as well. this headline certainly is one we have to note today. north korea is declaring its readiness to use its nuclear weapons. leader kim jong bordering his military on standby or nuclear strikes at anytime . us officials say there's no evidence the country is prepared to deploy any such weapons. joining us now, angel analyst and author the of the book the

coming collapse of china and has written extensively on north korea. what you think of the stress? >> the threats are serious because he also talked about using these weapons in a preemptive way. a lot of people say well, this is a reaction to the un sanctions which were the set put in place on wednesday. some say the joint us korea military drills. i think this is an indication of problems inside the regime itself. you got kim jong un fighting with the top brass. he's executed two, perhaps three four-star generals in the last 13 months so i think this is an indication of turmoil inside the country. why would it be turned on us? if that is indeed happening internally inside the country? kim jong un is in an increasingly weak position inside the regime so what needs to do is have something which is good regime politics in north korea and unfortunately

that is attacking the united states and south korea which are considered to be mortal enemies. at some point if he really is in danger of losing power he very well may decide limited incursion into south carolina or some terrorist event would be the biggest way to bolster his position inside a failing regime. that is the real risk going forward. one other thing about this. these threats, these incidents are coming at shorter intervals which are indicating extreme distress inside the government. jenna: worth noting because we've been watching north korea since the start of the year and the tests that have taken place. in the meantime gordon, we're watching this whole situation with china moving more military items if you will to these disputed islands in the south china sea. we are sending our navy to the area, to these disputed islands to make sure we ensure there is freedom of movement in the

ocean there in the seas. what do you think our moves should be when it comes to north korea? and how does the situation with china and our focus their impact what we do next? >> we have always look at china and really to solve the north korea problem for us. this was policy going back to 2003 at the start of the six party talks but we got to governments moving in the wrong directions at the same time. it's a problem. with regard to north korea, we should be working much more closely not with china but with south korea and japan. south korea has taken the lead in imposing coercive measures on north korea, especially the closing of the industrial park early last month. that result in $120 million less income on north korea and that means $120 million less missiles and fewer nuclear weapons. that's a good thing and i think we need to get on board with south korea's president and work with her very closely. jenna: we will see if that's what we do over the next several days. thank you so much. >> thank you.

jon: fox has confirmed now that a buried knife has been found on what used to be o.j. simpson's estate. there are many questions about when that knife was found. it could have been a decade or more ago. the house that was on that property was torn down in 1998. reportedly one of the construction workers involved found a knife so that could be perhaps old evidence but it is being tested by the lapd. we will have more on that in just a moment. also, it has been more than a year since whitney houston's daughter was found face down in a bathtub. now authorities are releasing the official cause of bobby christina's death. but one major question remains unanswered. also, the one time standardbearer says this year's

republican presidential race has reached a new low. our neil caputo sits down with mitt romney to ask about the future of his party and his battle with donald trump. you know you will want to hear more about that.

his domestic policies would lead to recession. his foreign policies would make america and the world less safe. >> he was a failed candidate. he should have beaten president obama very easily. he failed miserably and it was an embarrassment to everybody including the republican party.

jenna: some of the drama that played out over the last several days. the presidential nominee trading blows with today's front-runner. mitt romney trying to throw a wrench into donald trump's campaign and drum up support for a candidate he thinks would have a better shot at beating hillary clinton in november. could governor romney and selfie that person? neil cavuto sat down with romney moments ago. you know him as the senior vice president of foxbusiness news anchor and overall good guy. neil, really it's worth pointing out that you were the one that had the first interview with mitt romney as he entered the fray and talk to you about donald trump. since then we've seen this whole evolution so what did you learn today from your conversation? >> he's on a path, no doubt about it. some say he's like a storm in norman. it was last week he first raised this issue on our show talking about donald trump, he said there's some facts we don't know. donald trump says there's nothing in those that would be the bombshell mitt romney said would be in there but just then he followed up saying this guy isn't as rich as he says. probably doesn't get nearly as much to charity. there's no proof of that and we

waited for trump to respond but the bottom line is jenna that he does not feel as the former republican standardbearer that donald trump would be a proper standardbearer. it's not just his language, it's his tone. it's the fact he doesn't espouse pretty much any of the republican values whether you are talking about terrace or what he says would be a punishing tax code and one that would not move the ball forward. basically he's saying of donald trump he's not us, guys. that has not gone down well with the party many of whom are skeptical even of mister romney's motives here. it's something i brought up at that interview a few moments ago in which i raise the prospect of a brokered convention and maybe what's in it for governor romney. take a look. >> you don't want donald trump to be the nominee. he said everyone to go support the candidates out there. john hasek in ohio and marco rubio in florida. that we should wish for a brokered convention. >> i'd rather see someone besides donald trump become the nominee out right on the first

ballot. >> but what if that doesn't happen. >> but if that doesn't happen that i'd like to see an open convention where there is more give and take between the candidates and someone else besides donald trump becomes the nominee. >> you know what lindsey graham said about that governor, he says abrokered convention wouldn't be fair to trump and he would leave and he would have a right to leave . >> if he wants to leave that's fine. everyone has a right to do whatever they want to do but in the convention, let's say donald trump had 40 percent of the delegates and theother guys have 30 percenteach . what does that give us? that's 100 percent soak in a case like that , that's the present that don't want donald trump and totally appropriate for them. let's say they get together, form a ticket. that's how politics works. people don't have to be afraid of real politics. >> i'm going to put rubio on it or i might put ted cruz on it. >> if those guys go along with it that's the right to do it. x you'd be fine with that

ticket? i'm not going to support donald trump as a candidate. >> would you vote for hillary clinton. >> i'm not going to vote for hillary clinton that's for sure. >> mitt romney the 2012 presidential candidate stated out? i will either vote for a conservative who runs or iwill write in a name as a conservative but . >> that would prevent the republican nominee for most likely getting in. >> i cannot in good conscience vote for a person who has been as degrading and disruptive and unhinged as i've seen donald trump be. >> you'd be in so doing electing hillary clinton. >> i'm going to do with my conscience what i believe is right for the country and what i can live with as an individual and the elements i've laid out about donald trump, his economic plans will cause a recession. his foreign policy plan would cause us to be less safe and in more danger and his personal temperament is of such a nature that it would keep america from being b&.

>> andrew jackson was an ill tempered president. >> it's been a while and i probably would not have been wild about that. donald trump is a no phenomenon. >> he says that you are testing the waters yourself this election year. and theprospect of his entering the race . did you pause? >> what was the phrase that ted cruz said last night about donald trump's association with truth? it's a tenuous association with truth. i looked at this race back in january. it was unimaginable to me that donald trump would even enter the race and if he did b. >> but if you knew then what you know now. >> it wasn't donald trump my point is i didn't think he would become the powerhouse he is. i was wrong. >> so we never know. what we do know is that he's on a path and there are a lot of robo calls going out in utah

and other states targeting mitt romney, not donald trump or the position he's taken. jenna: it's one thing to be on the warpath and obviously mitt romney doesn't like donald trump. got it. but why not be more specific about an alternative? what was your sense of that? >> he said he didn't want to take sides yet. he felt that by inserting himself there he would give an unfair advantage or disadvantage to one side or the other. he has hinted that after the winner take all primaries he might lead to one candidate or the other skeptics are saying he wants a brokered convention and one that might turn to him. he denies that but it's interesting that he feels very strongly that it cannot be donald trump. he feels it's on moral grounds that he is not of the moral caliber to be president. jenna: can't wait to see her interview.

neil, thank you very much. we will watch the entire interview today. new on the foxbusiness network. watch it again 4 pm today on your world of course. john? jon: we heard all about that week, fingers, the crowded rally but have the media focus too much on the superficial regarding donald trump and missed the actual news? our media panel on that coming up popular smartphones. no matter how you hang out, share every minute of it. buy one get one free on our most popular smartphones. and right now, get up to $650 in credits per line to help you switch to at&t. the seven news alert.

more than 20 years after the so-called trial of the century, yet one more twist in the o.j. simpson drama. we learned that los angeles police are examining a knife found buried on the property that o.j. simpson used to own. ever since the brutal murders of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman in the summer of 1994 police have been searching or a murder weapon. we don't know if there's a connection but those are the facts. correspondent jonathan hunt has the details live from los angeles. the six seams is at the o.j. simpson story wasn't bizarre enough and other extraordinary twist. the lapd confirming directly to us at fox news they are indeed looking at this knife. it is a buck knife. it was apparently found on the site that o.j. simpson owned at the time of the murders. the new owners have that property demolished. the knife was apparently found by a construction worker around the time or possibly just before the demolition and according to the reporting of dmz, that construction worker

handed the knife to an lapd, that he found on the street outside the property. what did that copy with it? he kept it quietly and secretly. he did not handed over to his employers at the end lapd. he kept it. in late january apparently he retired, mentioned the knife to a former colleague. that holly went straight to his superiors. they demanded thereturn of this knife and as i say, it is now being tested .obviously for any kind of blood or any other dna evidence. a couple of things here. there have been false leads before in terms of finding the weapon that killed nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman on june 12, 1994. they led to nothing. a question that will be asked of course by a lot of people is if it really was there on the property how on earth did the cops miss it? skeptics would say it wasn't exactly the most efficient

lease investigation in the first place and then the legal point of course. because o.j. simpson was found not guilty of the murders at the criminal trial, the investigation is legally still open so cops can keep investigating but the bigger point here of course is that o.j. simpson was found not guilty. he could not be tried again. whatever evidence is showing up because of the double jeopardy law but this is a major development, possibly in this ongoing almost 22-year-old saga. we will keep you posted on every detail. we are expecting to hear more from the lapd shortly. we are told they will be making some sort of remark at some sort of news conference at the top of the hour and about 25 minutes. we will keep you up-to-date on all the details. >> thank you.

jenna: an argument that more visas for highly skilled workers would quote decimate american workers. at the cnbc debate he spoke enthusiastically in favor of these pieces. which is it? >> i'm changing. we need highly skilled people in this country and if we can't do it we will get them in but , and we you need in silicon valley, we absolutely have to have. we do need highly skilled and one of the biggest problems we have as people go to the best colleges. they go to harvard, stanford, wharton. as soon as they are finished they get shoved out. they want to stay in this country.they want to stay here desperately. they're not able to stay here. for that purpose we have to be able to keep the brainpower in this country. >> still you are abandoning the position on your website. >> i'm changing it and i'm softening the position because we have to have talented people in this country. jon: fox news getting high

marks from critics for strong questions like that in the debate but there's been a lot of criticism that the mainstream media this election cycle have failed to take donald trump seriously enough and therefore failing to properly vet him as a candidate. is that fair criticism or sour grapes? let's talk about it with our media panel. judy miller, an investigative reporter and often. helen ratner, bureau chief for talk media news. both fox news contributors. ellen, do you first. having media done their due diligence on tall trump? >> not at all and it was not before last night with fox news channel that people even the numbers whether it be trump university or other issues and confronted him. the media has written donald trump off as this buffoon that but they haven't looked clearly or dummy articles and research that was necessary. i'm sure judy is going to back me up on this. jon: what you say judy? >> absolutely. it's extraordinary. i think in the beginning as

mitt romney said, he didn't take donald trump seriously as a potential candidate. certainly not as a front-runner but once it became clear that trump was gathering steam you needed to go look at the assertions that he had made about his own business career. my family is in the hotel business and was in the hotel business in las vegas and i can tell you you cannot do business in las vegas in those days when he's been doing this business without dealing with some mob related companies and many reporters have delved into this and found that to be true. we had a book by wayne barrett in 1992 which made that claim. we had tim o'brien in 2005 in another book saying that donald trump isn't even worth billions, he's worth between 150 and250 million. how is it possible this man may get the republican nomination? we don't know how much he's worth. the media has failed to investigate him , absolutely right. jon: mitt romney went into that

news conference or speech yesterday ellen and said these are all the reasons he doesn't think donald trump is worthy of the republican nomination. is all of that, i mean is that stuff the media should have looked into before now? >> of course the media should have looked into it and the media has sort of written him off. he didn't think he was going to get anywhere. they didn't think he was going to be the front-runner or the trump card as the case maybe so what they did is they just didn't pay any attention. now they've got to and frankly i think fox news started a trend last night. jon: there are also questions about the new york times and the editorial board. this interview that supposedly donald trump gave them off the record. that was a big topic of discussion last night duty. what you say your former employer about whether or not that information, that tape should be released. >> as you know i'm a strong believer in protecting sources and newspapers and newspaper reporters have to have off the

record conversations with candidates and policymakers in order to get at the truth. however, when the issue of his flip-flopping of saying one thing to an audience and the the opposite to another becomes a campaign issue, at that point donald trump has to ask the new york times to take those conversations off the record and the times should at some point reveal what it was that donald trump says. this has gone beyond, once this conversation becomes a news item in and of itself, the times as to own up to its own role in this. jon: is there some guilt regarding both parties here ellen? is it not just donald trump? have the media done their due diligence on the democratic side as well? >> i think they have certainly with bernie sanders. i'm not sure how much they've done with hillary clinton.

is popped up from time to time but i don't think anybody's really put it together and i'm actually, i'm here in new orleans and i'm excited to hear what donald trump has to say today at 5 pm new orleans time. it will be interesting how he comments on what happened last night. >> at a certain point when you get as walter shapiro said in 10 presidential races he's never seen the concentration on a single candidate. the time has come to do some investigative hard-nosed reporting on both candidates, both frontrunners. jon: we will see if it happens. judy miller, ellen ratner. thanks both. jenna: the previous candidate marco rubio's tangent today where the caucus for kansas will be held tomorrow and there's a handful of delegates there. he is speaking on terrorism now. we want to listen in for a moment. marco rubio in kansas. >> our allies are ones we can count on again. let me tell you. [applause] i don't think there's an ally that said more mistreated under this president and the state of israel. israel, israel is not just

another country. israel was created for a special purpose. as a homeland for the jewish people in the aftermath of the holocaust. israel would be the only pro-american and free enterprise democracy in the unite entire middle east. basically if more countries in the middle east were like israel, free enterprise, pro-american democracy, our foreign policy would be a lot simpler but there's only one and today our president treated the prime minister of israel with less respect than what he often gives the ayatollah in around. the front-runner in this race, donald trump has said that he is going to be an influence when it comes to israel. that when it comes to palestinians, i want you to know i am going to take sides. we are going to be on israel's side. [applause] >> marco rubio holding a rally today in kansas as a lot of the candidates are in different places. you saw ted cruz in maine,

donald trump in michigan trying to get out ahead of some of the voting we will see tomorrow. kansas is one of those states. in the meantime, donald trump is taking a lot of what he calls incoming attacks from members of his own party and according to reports in the next two weeks before the primary in florida are only going to get more intense. mitt romney, john mccain, his fellow candidates as you saw there with marco rubio and hillary clinton all trying to derail donald trump's chances at the presidency but he remains the front-runner as any measure. the strategy against trump raises interesting questions about the role the party should play when it comes to selecting a candidate. in fact this was a role examined in the rnc autopsy reportreleased after the 2012 election with values for how the gop should behave to get a different result . for more on this, longtime strategist, ed rollins joins us. flipping through this report because it's fascinating to see these observations and i want

to read on observation that i came across that i thought would be particularly poignant to talk about. the rnc rights, based upon our experiences in recent elections we understand and believe that voters were given choices will ultimately make better decisions than any outside group, individual set of operatives or activists. that's very clear. why are so many republicans not eating this advice it seems? >> the bottom line is trump is not going by their rules that we've set by the state parties and national policies and winning these delegates. he didn't write the rules. he basically is playing by them as the other candidates are and so far he has more delegates and has one more victories. last time this went forward was 40 years ago when reagan challenged ford who was the incoming president at that point it came down to the convention. neither had a majority. if the president had a few more votes he had one more primaries and it came down to a vote differential. reagan lost by 117 votes. if they didn't mess with it at

that point in time with the incoming president gerald ford they shouldn't do it today. if donald trump wins this fair and square then the party has the choice of supporting him or not supporting him as romney said on your show earlier but at the end of the day he is going to be the nominee of his party i believe and everybody needs to either run with him or if they don't like what he's saying today, try to advise him on what the philosophy is and develop more policy for him but you can't say the rules don't count and i've never seen anything quite like this in the sense that the last two nominees, mccain and romney. a lot of people didn't like either two of those but they were the nominees,people voted for them and i would hope that this point that republicans will support whoever the nominee is whether trump . jenna: i want to read one more line as relates to what you are saying. washington should not try to dictatecandidate choices. voters will ultimately decide .

the wall street journal, she says she sees the republican party shattering over this. you see that? obviously you saw different outcomes four years ago but what are we watching? >> i see a very disturbing process here and i think to a certain extent i've never seen a debate last night at and i've never seen a front-runner ever disparage his fellow candidates and call them the kind of names trump has but needless to say he is tapping into a certain element of the party that keeps voting for him and i don't think anybody last night in spite of three people having good debate and i think trump did not have a good debate i think trump is going to gain more votes as the process goes through. the other thing the file artie has done is create these winner take all as opposed to proportional. there are 13 winner take all and 13 more of the 26th are winner take most which youget five more votes or one more vote than the other candidates . maybe if you had proportional like the democrats had you could drag this thing all the way.

jenna: ironically the party had a role in creating what could be trump's victory if he wins florida for example or ohio which is something we will be watching. >> on a boat in florida and he gets 99 delegates. one more vote in ohio 66 so the winner take all basically changes the whole dynamic and not for the good. minutes but you've been an insider before and we're seeing this divide between those insiders and what voters are saying, what they're really feeling at times it feels patronizing and a little disrespectful from some of the pundits talking about what they think is best for the country when the voters have spoken. what you about this contrast? >> democracy is an imperfect process and right now this is the process and with people choosing the candidates they want for a reality of voters and that's the way it should be. jenna: interesting. this report released threes years ago to the day but we have no better to look at. we will see you brandon.

jon: a new alzheimer's drug has been tested successfully on humans. how it could prevent and possibly even reversed that terrible disease will

jon: you know you're going to want to stick around for outnumbered at the top of the hour. xander and harris, what you have? must the to be as last night debate as candidates turn their fire solely on donald trump, hammering him on every single issue. how did he do and will their attacks finally stick to him and not them? we discussed plus mitt romney also piling on, laying out the establishment and to defeat the donald. is a brokered convention really the answer or could it backfire with voters? and one elite university banning energy drinks from campus stores.

all to reduce high-risk sex. really? all that plus a hashtag one lucky guy on outnumbered, top of the hour the one we will be watching. jenna: the new drug that attacks alzheimer's disease in a new way has now found a fee on humans. known as c 31 it's the first drone that not only may prevent alzheimer's but also reverse it. doctor siegel vice from new york with more. >> over 5 million people currently suffer from alzheimer's dementia in the united states. the numbers growing rapidly. loved ones spend about 18 billion hours, 18 billion hours caring for people with alzheimer's and other images in 2014 according to the alzheimer's association statistics. there are no effective treatments to offer but doctor frank longo chief of neurology at stanford and head of the new neurosciences institute may change all that.

he is currently at the forefront of cutting edge alzheimer's research. previous focus to prevent the membrane from filling with the donkey beta-amyloid and proteins have been largely unsuccessful but a new drug developed by longo works differently and he has already been found to be safe in humans. >> this counteracts or prevents the degeneration of the nerve cells in the brain so that we prevent the loss of their connections with each other and therefore prevent the loss of cognition problems like memory loss >> the pill, 11 and 831 not only appears to prevent alzheimer's jenna but it also appears to reverse some of its most devastating effects . >> we think because our drug addresses such powerful and fundamental events inside that nerve cell that we have a good shot of stopping or slowing or reversing this process, even in the most advanced stages where the patient already has dementia.

>> so this new medicine, jenna, doctor longo says he is working on a growth factor for patients with alzheimer's which is guarding human trials as well. these pioneering treatments will likely make it into the doctor's office in the next 7 to 8 years. jenna: thank you very much. we will be back with more.

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