for more on paul's story, go to foxnews.com. ronald reagan wrote a love letter to nancy. he said, i more than love you. when you're gone, i'm waiting for you to return so i can start living again. tonight -- >> we are going to have i think a couple of good ones tomorrow i hope. let's see what happens. >> 2016 republican presidential candidates get ready to face off in a new round of key primary contests. gop front-runner donald trump is here tonight with reaction. >> we're the only campaign that can and will beat donald trump. >> also senator ted cruz declares himself trump's top rival for the republican nomination. texas senator also here to weigh in on this race. reaction to donald trump and hillary clinton squaring off in the fox news democratic town hall. "hannity" starts right here right now. welcome to "hannity." and tonight, the 2016 republican

presidential candidates are out in full force. this weekend, donald trump won the primaries in louisiana and kentucky and tomorrow four hr states holding republican con dess. one of those being the all-important state of michigan. nbc news/wall street journal" marrist poll shows that important state had donald trump ahead with 41% of the vote. senator cruz in second with 22% and senator rubio with 17%, kasich in fourth with 13%. a brand new monmouth university michigan poll shows trump on top and then cruz and rubio and here with reaction, republican presidential candidate donald trump. good to see you. there's a fox 2 poll with you up by 13. in the biggest state in tomorrow's contest. how do you feel about where you are in michigan? >> well, you just made me feel very good. i hadn't heard these numbers.

those numbers are really terrific. i love the people of michigan. i'm fighting hard for them. i'm talking about the car companies going out to mexico. i won't let it happen. we won't lose the industries anymore. we have been the foolish country for so long with this free trade but it's not free trade because it doesn't work. not working. you look at the deficits we have so i think michigan and the people of michigan know really they know that i'm going to protect them. they're great people. >> everyone says when you talk about this fighting for tougher trade deals and protectionist. i hear you're going to go in there, bang on the table and get better trade deals that will fix this imbalance, especially with countries like china and mexico. i don't hear -- i never heard you say the word protectionist not one time. >> not at all. >> what is your answer? >> not at all. they say it for their own reasons. look.

i love free trade, the concept of free trade, everything about it is good. i went to the wharton school of finance, smart trade, trade that's good for the united states. not just for the other countries and if you look at china and frankly vietnam now is doing a big number and you look at japan and india and mexico -- killing us at the border and killing us with trade. you look at ford. ford is building a $2.5 billion plant in mexico for cars, trucks and parts and has nothing to do with anything. i love free trade and we need leadership for real free trade. we have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing. the people of michigan and the people of our country, we have lost our industries. such a big chunk of our industries and jobs and i won't let that happen. it won't happen anymore, believe me. >> mr. trump, i would argue that this is a two-man race and unless rubio and kasich show

wins on the board, to me it's a two-man race. you said you want to go mono-a-monowith ted cruz. it's the question i'm frequently asked about you. as i go on social media, it seems to be a very strong trump contingent and people respect budging. strong supporters and ted cruz supporters. and there's a battle going on between you two. single most named criticism or question i get, tell me where donald trump is conservative. explain how he'll be conservative. i want to give you that opportunity to explain to people because no one ever asks you that. >> sure. i mean, i would like to do that. at the same time, i don't like labels, necessarily. a label doesn't mean very much. coming to conservative, i happen to be conservative. i'm very, very strong on energy independence as you know. i think that's the most conservative position. and i have the most conservative position on that. i'm very, very so-called

conservative on the military. i want it very, very strong military. i want to build up -- our military is totally depleted. taking care of the vets as part of that situation. nobody is more conservative coming to trade than i am. now, you can go and you can say, well, gee i'm not a free trader but i am but i'm also a free and smart trader and the united states gains something so i think you would agree. you have been dealing with me or a long time. >> i agree with you. i want better trade deals. >> smart trade. not just suck the jobs and money out of the system. looking at china done to us over 15 years, horrible. outrageous when they get away with it. we want to repeal and replace obamacare. we're going to. obamacare is a total disaster for this country. a total an complete disaster. we are going to come up with plans and there are lots of alternatives.

coming up with plans far less expensive. better for the people and the country. i'm certainly very conservative coming to education. we are getting rid of common core, we will have education at a local level. there's so many different things and really very conservative getting right down to it. i don't like even -- >> axis -- >> cut taxes. my plan, larry cud low, a fantastic guy, i think likes my plan the most. cutting taxes about the most and, you know, we're the highest taxed nation in the world. our middle class is just reeling from the taxes. and you know, the you think about it, the middle class and the workers of this country who built the country, they haven't had a raise in 12 years. they're making less now actually to be even worse about it, they're making less now than 12 years ago. i'm in mississippi right now. i have a group of 8,000 people going to speak to and the people came up to me just a little whiling a saying we're making less money now than we made eight and ten and 12 years ago. that should n't be.

that's not true with a lot of other countries. it shouldn't be. >> median income down thousands of dollars, millions more in poverty, food stamps and out of the labor force. >> right. >> it's kind of amazing to me people don't hear it and i'm trying to explain to people because i think there's some people saying they're going to pick up the toys and go home if their guy doesn't win an you want energy independent. hillary doesn't want that. strong on the military. straight out of reagan's playbook. trade when you mentioned. obamacare. you also said when you gave the specifics you support health care savings accounts. that's on the website right now. >> 100%. 100%. so simple. so good. so much less expensive. it's much better. you can have your plan. you really have an asset. you can go anywhere with it. you know? beyond state lines. do whatever you want with it. you know? it's just so much better. and you know what? it gives medium the incentive to negotiate because it's theirs. not dealing with government

bureaucrats. it's theirs, their money. they want to spend as little as possiblement they walk in and give me everything under the kitchen sink. they have an incentive to spend wisely. the health care savings accounts are such a good thing, such a good idea. you have liked it for years. >> i have. >> long before i real. >> knew too much about it. and then, you know, i started looking and it was always amazing to me that the politicians didn't -- they hardly even considered it when they were talking about obamacare. and -- >> between energy -- >> just a disaster. >> between energy independence, the repatriated money to bring back money they had parked overseas, that would be highly taxed to bring it back, those two things i think would go a long way to economy, creating millions of jobs and spending less. i think i'm pulling you in on the penny plan in areas outside the military. >> yeah. well, i like the concept of the penny plan. not for the military. because the military we have to

build up. we can save more than a penny probably most cases looking at it. it's a pretty good plan. and it's a pretty simple plan. and, you know, it's something i think in some cases a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers then you get to fraud, waste and abuse. the fraud and the waste and abuse and everybody agrees to solve that problem but it's, you know, mind boggling the kind of numbers so we can get our budgets in place. one thing we really have to take care of, you know, the health care is less money and much better health care. >> let me ask this. >> so you understand -- >> yeah. i don't want to interrupt you but, you know, you can also add to the list i guess you're conservative on immigration, the issue of people, refugees coming into the country. >> well, i'm the most conservative, yeah. sure. >> when your opponents say you're not conservative, why don't you say all that to them? i watched you in debates and i'm just curious why you haven't just said i'm conservative here,

here, here, and here. >> i don't know. i think you're given 30 seconds, an answer in 30 seconds and the crazy debates and, you know, according to drudge and all the people that do the polls, ridiculous, mr. trump, explain why you're conservative. you have 19 seconds left. okay? and again, i like -- >> i don't mean to laugh but it's true. >> i know. it is true. you have 19 seconds to speak. i'll tell you what. i'll tell you that like obamacare is an example. it's going to die of its own weight but we have to kill it sooner. in '17 it's so astronomical and expensive and look at the labor force, sean, where people have part time jobs, people that never had a part time job in their lives, people that have worked for a company 20 and 30 years are working for the same company as a part timer. because of obamacare. because of the basic advantages of doing that for an employer. there are so many problems that we have that we can straighten out so simply.

but no. i'm a conservative. i would say that you just said it best. right now. because who's better than me on the border and immigration? sheriff joe, he's -- his definition is best and the toughest. he called up. he said you're the right guy, the toughest guy for it. that's a pretty good thing. >> we have to take a break. i want to ask you about mitt romney said in the brokered convention idea and john kasich said is exciting. i think it's a bad idea. we'll have more with donald trump right after this break. quick programming note, this wednesday we'll be interviewing trump for the hour in fayetteville, north carolina, at the crown center arena in front of a crowd. if you want to be there and if you live in and around the area, go over to hannity.com right now for details. sign up for the event and hope to see you in fayetteville two days from now. eat.

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live from america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. good evening. former mayor bloomberg announcing he won't run on a third party ticket. in an editorial he says he doesn't think he would be able to win the 270 votes needed to win the presidency. and says he fears his candidacy could have prevented any candidate from winning a majority of the votes. the pentagon says a weekend air strike killing more than 150 fighters at a training camp of al shabab in somalia. the funeral for former first lady nancy reagan will be friday in simi valley, california.

mrs. reagan will lie in repose for public visitation wednesday and thursday. the former first lady died sunday. he was 94 years old. that's a look at news. i'm kelly wright. now back to "hannity." welcome back. we continue now with candidate donald trump. all right. before i get to the brokered convention, you campaign had a brand new ad today. florida is a big state. you're leading there. must win for marco. let's roll this ad. >> corrupt marco rubio has spent years defrauding the people of florida. as a legislator, he flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling his house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist. he used the republican party's credit card to pave his driveway and to live it up to las vegas. when he got caught he said he used the wrong credit card but he used the same republican card

for six flights between miami and tallahassee. and then billed the state for the same airline tickets and pocketed the cash until once again he got caught. on top of it all, rubio's been a total no-show in the u.s. senate with the worst voting record of all. marco rubio. another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician. >> mr. trump, respond to that ad. why is that important? i read that they're going to put $25 million or more in ads against you so it's pretty brutal in florida. >> well, i think it's important because i've been hearing about it for years. jeb bush brought it up at the debate and doing it very well and then all of a sudden i don't know what happened but he was shot down and jeb should have kept going with that. he brought up the credit card situation. he brought up some other things about marco.

he had this hanging over his head for a listening time. i live in florida practically. it's a second home. i have a lot of businesses there, i employ thousands and thousands of poem. i own trump national doral with the big golf tournament and won we adam scott yesterday. i have been hearing about his credit card problems so long, what he did with the republican party. you had people doing the checking, accounting people and other people, i mean, they were devastated that nothing was done with rubio because of what he did. and, you know, it says it in the ad. maybe he can prove otherwise. a total non-show senator. he was elected to be a senator and he is all over the country. he is not voting. he is not voting. this is beyond just the electoral. you know, the election stuff. he doesn't go to the united states senate. i must say, if i were a united states senator i would be so

honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of florida. i think the people of florida fed up. i don't think he can -- i may be wrong but i don't think he can be elected dogcatcher in florida. i have so many -- you know, i'm in florida all the time. i just left florida to come to mississippi. i'm going back to florida. i'll tell you what. the people in florida think that he's literally defrauded them because you look at what he does. he never goes and votes. never over there. he has one of the worst of records of voting in history. >> 18 of the 20 contests now won by outsiders, insurgents. you have won the overwhelming majority of them. ted cruz's in second place. and, you know, marco won minnesota and puerto rico yesterday. okay. fair enough. but the establishment has thrown all the pmoney and i assume ten of millions more against you and an equation emerging, prevent, keep the guys in. let's push rubio in florida, push kasich in ohio, john kasich

says that's exciting to have a brokered convention. that seems to me to be designed to stop you or ted cruz. whoever has more delegates at the end of this, not making 1,237, why do i believe that's purposely done to stop you? do you not see it that way? >> well, i think you're right. it is designed to stop somebody, maybe it's me because i have won more than ted has won but ted is certainly in second place and ted is doing very, very poorly. i will tell you it's for some reason. one of the biggest story in all of politics, worldwide, in this country, for decades is what's happened with the republican party. do you know that people coming out to vote are up 50%, 60%? >> massive. massive. >> over 100% -- >> why. >> i'll take full credit for that. i'm taking 100% credit. >> i don't doubt that's a big part of it but any -- >> do you know that this is the biggest story in all of

politicians worldwide? and people talk about it. but they don't talk about -- this is such a great thing for the republican party an instead of dividing and fighting, we should take advantage of it. you know who the people are coming out to vote? democrats and independents. they're coming out by the millions. we have millions, 5 million people coming out to vote out of nowhere. it's never happened before. i've been on the cover of "time" magazine i think four times now. i'm on this week also. four times now in the last few months and a lot of it is because of this. they have never seen this happen before. >> listen. >> instead of the republicans fighting, sean, they should say, this is a blessing. >> yeah. i agree. all right. we'll see you wednesday, by the way, in north carolina. >> good. >> we're doing an hour show in front of a crowd and appreciate you being with us. part of the best coverage. if you want to be there, go to hannity.com to find out the details. sign up and be in the audience. fayetteville, two days from now. also tonight, hillary clinton and bernie sanders took

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helping you pursue it, is ours. t-i-a-a. tomorrow's election day. mississippi is a battleground. let me tell you. the men and women -- >> we're with you, ted. >> the men and women here across the state are in the position to decide this outcome. i'm going to ask each of you not just to come out tomorrow but to pick up the phone and call five people, call ten people. call your friends, family, neighbors and say this election matters. it matters to me. it matters to my kids and my grand kids. >> texas senator ted cruz had two big win this is past saturday, the republican contests in kansas and maine and joining us, now, the man himself, 2016 republican presidential candidate senator ted cruz. senator, we spent the time on iowa, new hampshire, north carolina, nevada and then, boom,

it is like you're not aware that three days of contests and then more contests. very difficult, speeds up exponentially. how do you feel where you are right now in terms of delegate count and a path to the nomination? >> well, sean, it is great to be with you. thank you. we have had an incredible week and the momentum of the campaign keeps growing and growing. you know, it started a week ago on super tuesday. super tuesday was simply a tidal wave of support for our campaign locking down wins an i cross the country and then this saturday this momentum increased. we won two states outright. kansas with a landslide. nearly 50% of the vote and maine with a terrific win there. and then in louisiana and kentucky and louisiana we tied donald trump for the delegate outcome and ended up coming out with a dead heat. he narrowly edged us out in kentucky but we are seeing the continue woiation of the procesm

the field. we started a year ago with 17 candidates. more and more the forces that do not want to see donald trump as our nominee and donald go head to head with hillary and lose as he does in just about every poll, more and more republicans are unifying behind our campaign because we have got to win, got beat hillary and turn this country around and bring back the jobs and opportunity that have been so sorely lacking under barack obama. >> senator, to me, as the outsider looking in, i see a two-man race right now. unless senator rub yes or governor kasich shows serious growth in a couple of weeks, to me it's a two-man race. >> yeah. >> and reading social media, it's trump, anti-trump forces. donald trump wants a one on one race with you and you say you want one with him. it seems the establishment won't allow that to happen. is that a fair analysis? >> well, listen. i think the other candidates in

this race, good people and they love their country. they love their country more than their own personal ambition. they're going to have to look at the race and see if they have a path ahead. and if they don't have a realistic path ahead to winning the nomination, it is time to consider coming together and uniting. at this point, donald and i in the delegate count, fewer than 100 separate us. we have over 300 delegates. we are very close. momentum is with us. we are the only campaign that has beaten donald repeatedly, not once or twice but now seven times. and we're the only campaign that can and will beat donald trump and so the process we're seeing, you know, i would invite supporters of jeb bush or chris christie or carly fiorina or ben carson or marco rubio or john kasich to come together and unite. that's what's been happening, why we're winning these races and i invite folks to unite. we welcome you on our team and

we are going to win this nomination and go on to win the general. >> i heard your comments about a brokered convention. i interviewed at cpac governor kasich saying, oh, a brokered convention would be exciting. why do i think that a brokered convention, if neither you or donald trump get to the magic number of 1,237, why do i believe that in that environment knowing how the establish. feels about both of you for different reasons that it would be to stop you guys and give it to somebody else, mitt romney, well, i can't say no if somebody asks you to be on the ballot at that point? it seems that's an effort spelled out by governor romney. that's troubling to me because that would -- >> yeah. >> -- usurp the will of the people if the person with the most delegate doesn't get the nomination, why do i suspect shenanigans in the back room? >> sean, you're exactly right. listen. these visions of a brokered

convention are the fevered fantasies of the washington establishment, of the lobbyists so dismayed because they keep, each of their favorite candidates keeps losing. they have candidates they want and the voters don't want them. they want someone to stand up to the bipartisan corruption of washington, someone who will stand with the people and you're right. if the party insiders try to subvert the will of the people and pick their own favorite candidate who hasn't earned the votes of the people, it will be a disaster. rightfully people will rise up outraged. let me tell you right now, sean. it ain't going to happen. here's what's going to happen. the field is continuing to narrow. head to head, not only do we beat donald trump but we beat donald trump resoundingly. donald as a hard ceiling of 35% to 40%. that's why we won kansas overwhelmingly. that's why we won maine. that's why we won alaska and oklahoma. that's why we won texas

overwhelmingly. because donald has a hard ceiling on the support that he can get and head to head we're not headed to a brokered convention. we are headed to a win to 1,237 delegates and that entails republicans uniting. >> i know you have your issues with donald. he has his issues with you. you have gone back and forth now and the voters will decide. but when you think about it, because i kind of view you as an insurgent outsider. you're hated by the establishment. he's an outsider. you know, just by fact he's not in politics. so 18 out of 20 contests, senator, have been won by outsiders. and the establishment is throwing money here, there and everywhere and not working. what are they not getting in the process? they seem to be out of touch with where the voters are. what are they not understanding? i would argue that they caused this. >> well, look, sean. you're exactly right that the

voters want an outsider. fed up, furious with washington. i disagree that donald trump is not an outsider. he is pretending to be an outsider but in donald's own words, seven months ago he was the establishment. donald trump has been supporting the washington establishment, the washington corruption for four decades. supporting jimmy carter over ronald reagan. he supported harry reid and chuck schumer and joe biden, john kerry over george w. bush and he contributed multiple times to hillary clinton's presidential campaign. so to all the folks at home who are donald trump supporters who are furious with washington, i get that. but donald has been funding and supporting everything you're furious about. the gang of eight amnesty bill, donald supported five of the eight. i led the opposition to the gang of eight amnesty bill an defeated it in the u.s. congress. so the people want someone who

will stand up to washington. donald trump has not only never stood up to washington but funded their corruption. and you know at the last debate, sean, donald said he'll be, quote, flexible. we know flexible is d.c. code word for they're getting ready to stick it to you because when you're flexible, donald will cut a deal that favors wall street and big business and leaves the working man out in the cold. >> how do you feel about tomorrow? for example, you have michigan and mississippi, two big states. idaho and hawaii. how well are you planning to do tomorrow? >> look. i hope we do very well tomorrow. we are campaigning hard. we were in idaho two days ago. had incredible support and enthusiasm about idaho. i think we are at a strong position right now. i'm in mississippi. we have tremendous excitement here in mississippi. later tonight, i'm going to be in michigan. we have a huge rally planned in michigan. hawaii i'm hopeful will continue

the see what we have been seeing which is conservatives uniting and coming together. if you want someone that kept his word, you know, when we had the super tuesday victory in texas, it was particularly meaningful because the people of texas know me best, my heart. they're the ones that i made promises to five years ago when i ran for senate. i promised the people of texas, if you elect me i will fight with every breath in my body to stop obamacare, stop amnesty, to stop this debt that's bankrupting our kids and grand kids, bring back jobs and economic growth and defend religious freedom and the second amendment. the reason we won by landslide in texas with the biggest turnout ever is because the men and women of texas know i kept my word, i did what i said i'll do. that's why i believe republicans are uniting behind our campaign. >> we'll come back with more 2016 republican president candidate ted cruz and then reaction to the fox news democratic town hall.

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welcome back to "hannity." we continue now with 2016 republican presidential candidate texas senator ted cruz. senator, walk us through your path to 1,237. a lot of people, at least your opponents arguing, let me just say that, that your better states behind you. they keep repeating that. tell us what states you think you can win as you move forward that get you to that magic number. >> well, you're right. my opponents say that but they keep not winning states. there are two candidate that is have more than 300 delegates. that's donald trump and me. we continue to amass delegates by state. donald has a hard ceiling of 35%

to 40%. head to head we beat him and we will state after state after state head to head because republicans want a real conservative. they don't want a candidate who supported jimmy carter andhillhill and john kerry. they want someone to repeal obamacare and i'll tell you republicans are not interested in someone like donald trump who promises to be flexible on immigration who tells "the new york times" editorial board he doesn't mean what he says about enforcing the immigration laws. we want someone that stands with the people and not with the corruption of washington and that's why the support for our campaign keeps growing and growing. >> a thing that frustrated me as a conservative over the many years is for a republican to win, they've got to run the table. they got to win florida, ohio, north carolina, virginia, new hampshire, iowa, new mexico, you know, maybe colorado, nevada. it's a very -- it seems to be a more narrow path. historically it's been that way. through the bush years it was

that way. do you think you can change the electoral map? >> absolutely yes. this is a campaign designed to change the electoral map. number one, we have to bring conservatives back to the polls and we are doing that. we are winning these states with record turnouts. we won the state of kansas with more votes just for our campaign than the entire primary field last cycle came out. we won with record turnouts in alaska, maine and texas and oklahoma. we are seeing record turnouts and it's bringing conservatives back but it's also reagan democrats, it's the blue collar, working class, the men and women with callouss on the hands who are right now divided between donald trump and me. we're bringing more and more of them over to us. we're also earning the votes of young people. and, sean, it is real simple. if i'm elected president, we are going to repeal obamacare. adopt a simple flat tax. aboli abolish, the irs, end amnesty. pull back the epa and

bureaucrats and see jobs explode. wages going up. young people coming out of school with two, three, four job offers. >> i hope the colleagues in washington go with you. they're disappointing, senator. very disappointing. >> that is true but there is nothing like a mandate from the people to focus minds in washington and we will come out just like the reagan revolution in 1980 with a mandate from the people. >> i understand you have a special guest next to you that endorsed you, mississippi governor with you, is that correct? >> senator. >> governor. >> that is indeed. >> sean, how are you? >> i'm good. welcome to the program. >> i'm great. >> why did you wait so long? >> you know, this is a difficult decision for a lot of us. we know candidates in there and coming down to true conservative, as i am, ted cruz, senator ted cruz exemplified that. went to washington, did what he

said he would do. mississippi is all about economic development. and the first thing we have to do and i know he'll do as president of the united states, i have to do as governor, protect the people. against threats both foreign and domestic. and as you hear ted cruz a great passion talk about isil and isis and defeating them. i believe him. i believe he's going to washington and do what he's done because he's done that before. >> all right. thank you, governor, for being with us. senator, i think we are putting together a one-hour town hall with you. later this week and hopefully we can get that worked out and look forward to seeing you. i'm glad you're feeling with better, sir. >> thank you, sean. god bless and everyone in mississippi, michigan, idaho and hawaii, come out and vote tomorrow. come join our team. let's stand together and turn the country around. >> all right. senator ted cruz on the campaign trail, thank you. when we come back, we'll have reaction to tonight's fox news democratic town hall. that and more as we continue on

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welcome back to "hannity." earlier tonight, 2016 democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton and bernie sanders, they participated in a town hall here on fox news with bret bair. here's some highlights. >> neither you nor your lawyers

apprised that you are a target of the investigation. isn't that true? >> absolutely true. >> have you or your lawyers been apprised that any members of your current or former staff are targets of the investigation? >> absolutely not. the state department has a process for determining what is or isn't classified. if they determine it is, they mark it as classified. >> who decides? >> the state department. >> what about you typing an e-mail? >> no. the state department decides. nothing i sent or received marked classified. >> i believe that we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition free. there has been a massive transfer of wealth from the working class and the middle class to the top one tenth of 1%. >> joining us now monica crowley and tv host dr. gina loudon with us. good to see you both. >> hi, sean. >> good to see you. >> i have seen enough of both of they will. bottom line is everything is free. everything is free.

no energy independence. we'll sing kumbaya and the world will like us. everything is free. that's the message. >> when's interesting to watch in terms of mrs. clinton is difficulty of navigating the modern democratic party. ideologically she is on the radical left. she is with the radicals in the party. >> right. >> but she saw her husband move the democratic party back to the center. it was a pragmatic, moderate party under bill clinton and won twice. >> bernie scared her. didn't he? >> remember, less about bernie than about barack obama. this democratic party, where she is trying to get the until nation, is barack obama's democratic party. it's no longer bill clinton's democratic party. >> well said. >> so she's trying to navigate the radical left where obama and most of the party are and bernie sanders has a movement and the moderates where she saw really helped her husband win. >> i don't see moderation in her. two things, trying to outflank bernie in some ways and then the

second thing, monica's right, she's wrapping her arms so tight around obama saying, please don't let loretta lynch indict me, please stop this pain and misery from i think they're pro behind the scenes to see if there were a hillary clinton presidency to see barack obama's supreme court nominee, for example. >> do you think it could be a -- >> of course i think that. how can you not think that? >> well, hillary wins -- >> she may have offered him something because she wants his anointing. she needed it in the beginning. she was unprepared for this. the dnc has a big problem here. all the media wants to talk about are the problems on the g.o.p. side. what happens when bernie's supporters don't have any place to go? >> how do we interpret the

enthusiasm gap? republicans up 30% 40%, 50%? >> well, the republican side we have an exciting race, right? we have donald trump, we have senator ted cruz, representing pure conservatism. we've got marco rubio. and more of the establishment. >> who is more electable? trump or cruz? >> i don't know. very to play the answer to that if we get to a two man race. if it is donald trump versus cruz, we can decide when might be more electable. i think they both have strengths going into a general. we're talking about all of the excitement on the g.o.p. side. wait until drama breaks on the democratic side. you and i talked about this. i put out this theory where i do think there is a negotiation going on between barack obama and hillary.

but i think the fbi probe is the most important one on of all. >> all the evidence of this guy getting an agreement to testify tells me one, they've got a grand jury in place, and two, she's in trouble because by any objective discerning measure she's committed multiple felonies. now, does the fbi director send a criminal recommendation along with findings in this investigation? okay. if they don't indict, that means he'll resign and a group will resign and they'll leak anything anyway. >> it's the dnc imploding here. the focus is what's happening on the republican side but the real drama, that is going to play out and unanswered, it's all about hillary. and that is why it's going to be fun going forward. >> the question i asked monica.

>> between trump and cruz? >> i have to say the way i see donald trump fight and win against hillary when she tried to dust off bill and donald trump cut her off at the quick, sean. >> his argument is that he puts states in play that ted cruz doesn't. >> there are two things going on. one, style, one, substance. to your point about substance, yes. i think donald trump might have the ability to put states like new york and michigan into play. they'd be lost to democrats otherwise. and he's a street fighter. >> what about new jersey? >> can he win new jersey, pennsylvania? he might, remember, ted cruz is running a more traditional kind of campaign. >> and i think also, i also think as bernie starts to fade out, it has to happen.

>> bernie is done. >> how many of his voters are going to swallow a hillary clinton nomination? >> right now, the anger between trump and cruz people is palpable. and some point there is going to be a winner and loser here. >> unless they join together and that could be -- >> i heard that three times today. >> unity ticket. >> unity ticket. >> insurgent ticket. >> yes. >> conservatives have won, sean. >> insurgents have won. >> we have a break. we have more hannity and a special tribute to mrs. reagan who died over the weekend. straight ahead. and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. complete allergy relief or incomplete. let your eyes decide. flonase changes everything. on top of your health?ay ahh... ahh... cigna customers have plan choices and tools to take control. so they're more engaged, with fewer high health risks

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>> welcome back to "hab -- hannity." mrs. reagan passed away at the age of 94.

she'll remember for her unwaivering love and support of her husband, ronald reagan. the family is in our thoughts and prayers. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. special. don't miss it. welcome to a special edition of special report, i'm bret baier coming to you from the gem theater in downtown detroit. in just a moment, the first of two democratic candidates will take the stage at this town hall. we'll check the stories making headlines today. >> bloomberg will not run for president. he cannot take the risk that his candidacy could lead to the election of donald trump or ted cruz. he calls trump div