tonight, i'm bill o'reilly. the spin stops right here. we're definitely looking out. breaking tonight, the polls just closed in nebraska and we can now say donald trump is the big winner in his quest to build up the delegate count. today, voters in nebraska and west virginia headed to the polls. donald trump winning big in both states. of course he was the only major candidate on the ballot so it was kind of expected. it was a different story on the democratic side. where only west virginia counts for them. front-runner hillary clinton suffering yet another loss. to democratic socialist bernie sanders. now, you may recall west virginia has been hit hard by coal's decline and folks did not take kindly to clinton's

suggestion she would put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business. this is not the end of mrs. clinton's problems. new polling indicates her likely matchup with donald trump may be tighter than previously thought. she has a big problem with male voters. we'll have more on that just a little later in the hour. plus, we'll be joined by brit hume in moments. we begin tonight with west virginia's favorite son, our fox news digital politics editor who tracking polling as it comes in. he is over there by the decision desk. apparently they thought it would be more exciting if we could see him with computers behind him. i take you to chris to tell us what we should glean from the polling tonight. >> the reality tonight for hillary clinton is this, we could probably go ahead and make the call on the west virginia general election vote. she'd get beat bad. i mean really bad.

half of the democrats said they wouldn't vote for her. those are the democrats. what this tells us is when it comes to white voters, and west virginia is the perfect core sample of white working class voters in america. when it companies to these voters, especially among men, it is a disaster. you made reference to those polls in ohio, pennsylvania, florida, that shows the same thing. the gender gap is as much as ten points higher than it was the last time around. mitt romney losing women by substantial numbers. hillary clinton doing horribly with male voters. this is battle of the sexes. also, white voters big for trump. minority voters as little as 14%. so this is tough stuff. >> don't you find that interesting, though. she is struggling so mightily with the men and trump to struggle with the women. somebody who watches elections,

how does that play out? >> well, here's the deal. generally speaking, women vote at a greater frequency then men. the numbers aren't a huge difference. if you had to pick one gender, it would be women. the issue here basically is this. if you -- this cannot persist. it will not persist that you can have such a wide delta. a national discussion is getting ready to take place. it's going to take place in a lot of homes. it's going to take place between a lot of husbands and a lot of wives about, okay, i want him, you want her, i'm right, you're wrong. they'll go back and forth about that stuff. it's going to happen on bt air waves, it's going to happen around the country. if a chasm of this magnitude were to persist, enormous chasm, you better believe we would be in for a deeply fractured country. >> is there any reason to watch trump continue in, you know, states like west virginia tonight, oregon coming up? do we care what happens in those states now? we know he's got it. >> no, we don't.

whatever mitt romney -- in the end, here's the amazing thing. donald trump had about the same share as the primary vote of both mitt romney and john mccain when the race ended about 40%. >> he got it before the race ended? >> no, the race has ended. after indiana when it was kaput and the last guy -- ted cruz said i might run if we click our heels together three times and everybody in nebraska says i'm the guy. give me a break. when it was over, after indiana, and they all dropped out, they had the same share. now, he had some things going against him, particularly that nobody's ever gotten more votes against him in a republican primary than him. he did about as well as romney, about as well as mccain. the situation around him looks very different than it did for those two. >> in what way? >> in the fact that he's facing these chasms. >> yeah, right. there was not this strong objection from women, from hispanics, from young people and

so on that at least exist right now. chris, great to see you. for the clinton campaign, tonight's results in west va v are a far cry from 2008, watch. >> thank you, may god bless you and god bless america. >> that's mrs. clinton from eight years ago delivering her victory speech after beating then senator barack obama by a 41-point margin. what a different story tonight. it may be revealing a big problem for mrs. clinton in her matchup against donald trump. our fox news senior political analyst. it's incredible when you think back. you forget about how badly she crushed become obama and could not manage to squeak out a win tonight. what does it tell you? >> well, it is this night, in more than one respect, is all about her weakness as a candidate, her weakness, surprising weakness, despite the odds now in her favor among democrats. the new polling out today in the three battleground states you

mentioned earlier suggest she is far weaker as a general election candidate in those key states than one might have imagined against donald trump. that's your story tonight. i think it has a lot to do, megan, with the economy in west virginia, that is to say the west virginia piece of this does, because the coal industry has had a rocky history over a very long period of time. boom and bust cycles. and now of course you have this concerted effort on the part of the obama administration to basically put coal out of business. when hillary clinton made that comment, we're going to be putting a lot of coal companies out of business, she was speaking the truth. >> and she didn't mean to say that? >> well, she didn't -- what she said is it was robbed of the context, which she was promising a big job changing program and other aid for displaced miners. the problem is a lot of these people who wrote in the coal

mines -- i wrote a book about the industry years ago. it's not that they love the job, it's hard work, but they are wedded to their region and coal has been a way of life in those appalachian regions for a long time. and what they all sense is the -- what's needed is to get the regulatory boot off the neck of that industry. it's pretty clear with her interest in the green companies is not about to do that. that's why the statement is so revealing. not because it was a falsehood but because it was true and it made it clear she's not going to change anything, she's simply going to try to apply some kind of assistance to the people in the region. >> meanwhile, sanders continues to burn. he's not out of it yet. he continues to win. what does that do to her campaign? >> first of all, it's embarrassing. it makes it difficult for her to make the turn i know she would like to make toward mounting the attacks i'm sure are coming on

donald trump. donald trump, as has been noted by many people, is a target-rich environment, many things he has said and done that are quite controversial, and would be presumably offensive to segments she would like to appeal to. but as long as he's nipping at her heels and beating her various place, it exposes her weakness, exposes the fact that she hasn't got the base of her party sewed up, which you need to do to win elections, and it keeps her focused on something she'd rather not have to focus on. >> the so republicans like to have bernie in this race. any chance the democrat, after all the talk of the republicans having a contested convention, any chance the democrats are facing that? >> looks like her delegate lead because of the presence of the superdelegates and their overwhelming support for he republicans don't really have superdelegates, the democrats have that. she's got a prohibitive lead. and it would be, you know, a bolt of lightning were that to begin to slip away from her and

him to win so big everywhere he accumulated. the democrats, all these states, are proportion nall representation. you can win a state handily but the person you beat gets as many delegates as you do. i think it's impossible for him to catch up at this point. there still continues to be this race and she's not won it. >> what we saw between trump and clinton yesterday. trump's language about women in the past. and hillary, meantime, is saying i'm not going to respond. he can say what he wants to about me, women, whatever, and i'm just going to run my campaign, she says. can she possibly maintain that with him bringing up all the stuff bill clinton did that a lot of these young voters are hearing for the first time? can she maintain the "i'm not

going to comment on it", you know, defense? >> well, look at the options. if she wants to engage in it -- she can counterattack trump it seems to me by highlighting the things he said about women, the number marriages, his bragging about exploits and all the rest, she could do that. what she can't defend -- she can't deny the idea that bill clinton was kind of a horn dog and long had that reputation and was carrying on with women while he was in the white house. i mean, that's true. and he got impeached for lying about it, for lying to a grand jury about it. i can understand why she didn't want to feed that story. >> she can just see the general election debate where she tries to say something about trump's language and he keeps responding horn dog, horn dog. it's going to be interesting. great to see you. >> thanks, megyn. two of his former opponents

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i signed a pledge to support the nominee and i intend to do that. i don't want hillary clinton to be president of the united states. i don't want her to win this election. on the other hand, as i said, i have defined differences with the current -- the presumptive nominee of the republican party. like millions of republicans, you try to reconcile those two things. i intend to live up to the pledge we made. >> that was marco rubio in his first interview since ending his campaign doing a delicate dance around the question of whether he will pull the lever for donald trump. senator rubio isn't the only also ran sending mixed messages. both rubio and cruz were suggesting they will continue to support their party while tiptoeing around the specific

questions of whether that means they will actually vote for donald trump. and cruz added an even deeper wrinkle in an interview with glenn beck, suggesting he may be leaving the door open to getting back in the race if he does well in the nebraska primary. watch. >> if there is a path to victory, we launched this campaign intending to win. the reason we suspended the race last week is with indiana's loss, i didn't see a viable path to victory. if that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly. >> chief washington correspondent james rosen has more, james. >> good evening. in his first appearance at his senate office since february, ted cruz returned to what he called, with a touch of carcass sel sarcasm, the welcoming embrace of washington. he has no plan to release his delegates and no real plan to

re-enter the race. as he had a light-hearted interview with glenn beck earlier in the day. >> we're not going to win nebraska today. there should be no mystery, no excitement in that. we've withdrawn from the campaign. it's in the hands of the voters. if circumstances change, we will always assess the changed circumstances but i appreciate the eagerness and excitement of all the folks in the media to see me back in the ring. >> also making a splashy return to the capital, marco rubio talking foreign policy. the florida senator holding on to his delegates. even as he rejected trump's rhetoric about the u.s. paying too much to defend regional allies. >> i don't necessarily disagree that sometimes our efforts on behalf of others is disproportional. we also have to understand that

we have benefited from this arrangement economically, politically, geopolitically, even domestically. if you think about what it would look like if united states has not been engaged in japan's efforts to rebuild. >> the deadline to file the slate of delegates for california primary. cruz's state director told us it was to keep faith with supporters. >> james, thank you. joining me, herman kane, a former gop presidential candidate, fox news contributor, author of "the right problems." great to see you, thanks for being here. what do you think of this ted cruz business? he said, i knew i wasn't going to win nebraska. is this guy thinking about get back in, do you think? >> i don't think so. he's throwing a handful of mud in the water. it was already murky enough with

this whole never trump movement. now ted cruz has just muddied the waters even more. here's the other significant thing about him saying that, alluding to it. i understand he wants to try to give his supporters a little bit of hope. but this further divides the republican party and ted cruz, like marco rubio, said they will support the ultimate nominee. marco rubio just said that he would. ted cruz is muddying the water and going back on his word. that's not going to get him a path to victory and it's not going to set well with the voters. >> how does, you know, ted cruz even attempt to work this out with trump or vice versa? ted cruz, last we heard, on supporting trump, he said, i'm not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife. then trump attacked ted cruz's father, suggesting he was in on the jfk assassination. so that happened. so who reaches out to whom?

>> well, i think that donald trump has shown, he will sit down and talk with anyone, even if he has differences with him. as long as ted cruz says he's not going to support him, he's not going to do this and he's not going to say he's willing to sit down, then i think -- >> he didn't go that far. mitt romney didn't go that far. >> right. now, let's look at the meeting that's supposed to take place on thursday as an example. donald trump welcomed the meeting with ryan and priebus. he said, no, i'm not going to talk. no, he's willing to talk. but as long as cruz keeps saying i'm not going to support the nominee, the presumptive nominee is now donald trump, that way he's digging in his heels and continuing to throw mud. when ted cruz suspended his campaign, i thought it was the first step on his part to help

healing the republican party. now, he has stepped back in terms of helping to heal the republican party. >> what does trump need to do to heal? the victor is normally the one who reaps out to those who have been defeated and say all right, let's get together, to be the gracious winner and try to get those people in the polls. i don't know what he's going to do about mitt romney. saying, quote, i wish we had better choices. i don't know what the republican party is going to do about that, right. >> we started with 17 choices. we now have one. what are they looking for. died on a cross 2,000 years ago. i keep trying to get that message over to him. trump issued an olive branch in his indiana victory speech. when he commented on how tough a competitor ted cruz is.

he didn't bash cruz. he didn't bring up any of the old laundry. he said complimentary things about cruz. now i think he's extending an olive branch. now cruz has done just the opposite. i'm not going to support trump. i'm not going to do this. if there's a path to victory, he may consider it. i think that further divides the republican party. >> herman kane, great to see you. >> thank you, megan. explosive details in the claim that facebook is doing things behind the scenes to hurt conservatives. and to promote liberal causes. we have news on this. we'll bring it to you. plus, quinnipiac released a stunning poll today on trump versus clinton in three key swing states, key to the election in november. our superstar panel has a new look at what it means. it's why i've been so concerned about the reckless talk coming from donald trump. maybe say maybe he doesn't really mean it.

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his delegate count tonight with win. bernie sanders hit hillary clinton handily in the state of west virginia. we got brand-new polls out of three key swing states. so even though clinton is now beating trump, there are ideas about the idea that clinton could win easily against the new york business man. >> it's a quinnipiac poll. three of the most important battleground states, florida, pennsylvania and ohio. the numbers here, the quinnipiac poll found in florida hillary clinton beats donald trump by 43% to 42%. that is within the margin of error. it's literally dead even. pennsylvania, she leads him by the state margin. when we go to the state of ohio, we talk about ohio being so important, take a look at this, donald trump ahead 43% to 39%.

a four-point split. to break it down further, she has a substantial lead among women. he has an equal if not greater lead among men and they both pretty much split independent. so you couldn't have a race that's tighter than that. now what do polls mean six months ahead of the election? not a whole bunch because so much can change between now and november. it's important for donald trump. you had a lot of those big republican donors sitting on the fence thinking this guy is going to get blown out in november the say became goldwater got blown out in 1964. this is an indication, maybe that assumption is incorrect and at this point in the race, it looks like he's got at least an even, if not better than even, shot to beat her in november. again, a lot can happen between now and november. one of the big things that can happen is this meeting with paul ryan on thursday. i talked with the trump campaign manager earlier tonight and he

says the two of them still have a lot in common in terms of creating jobs, fixing the economy and lowering tax. does he expect speaker ryan is going to come out after that thursday meeting and say i wholeheartedly throw my support behind trump? not necessarily. he did say he thinks meeting is going to go well. so there's a chance the two of them will come out of there saying we have points of agreement which would be a strong signal to conservatives in the republican party that maybe trump is not the type of person that they think he is, at least if speaker ryan can get behind him to some degree. >> john roberts, thank you. here with more, the publisher of the federalist. monica crowley. and the white house senior advise under president bill clinton and democratic strategist. let me ask you, you haven't been a huge supporter of trump's. what do you make of these polls? >> i think they indicate trump has a path to beating hillary clinton. another sign if he doubled down

on his appeal to rust belt voters who are less economically conservative than a lot of other voters within the republican party, he absolutely has a path to making ohio, pennsylvania, perhaps michigan competitive states. bernie sanders, you will remember, won by a significant margin. maybe the split on the democratic side is going to be a more significant problem for clinton. you saw the win in west virginia tonight by sanders. we had all these questions about the republican side. maybe it's the democrats who are going to have a bigger problem when it comes to the actual divide. >> are you surprised it is this tight in ohio, florida and pennsylvania? at least according to this one poll? >> i'm not surprised because those are the most competitive state. that's why they're called battleground states. i do think that polling at this point in the election doesn't really matter very much because most voters have not really tuned into the election and, in fact, now, there are a lot of

polls that show hillary clinton winning in these states and there is also the poll of polls, shows her about seven points ahead of mr. trump nationally, which of course would be a blow out. but, listen, i think it's clear, you know, we've all underestimated donald trump during this primary season and i think this is going to be a very tough and competitive race. but i think when people focus on the issues and focus on the kinds of things that mr. trump has said and the kinds of crazy things he stands for, that hillary clinton will be the clear victor. >> the thing is, monica, it may come down largely to what kind of campaigns they run. and the question is whether hillary clinton is a good campaigner. >> yeah, and i think that she has a proven track record of not being a effective campaigner. i think that's causing discomfort for a lot of democrats. she can't call on her husband, who's been out there and used sort of judiciously by the

clinton campaign but not -- he's not the powerhouse that he once was. think what's surprising for a lot of people, taking a look at particularly the battleground numbers, is the fact that it's tightened so quickly. i would just say to keep in mind that donald trump has been in a sprawling republican primary. that's the race he's been waging now for the last, what, ten months or so. now that it's switching to a general election campaign, and he is training his political fire on plclinton and the democrats more broadly, that's why you see numbers tighten. i think she'll see a continuing shift in those numbers, now that we've moved into a new space of the campaign. >> the problem is his record is his record. and that he threw a lot of sharp elbows over the past nine, ten months, and there's a record of them. >> there's a record of them. it's going to be used against him in a general election. it's a pretty fiery record. a lot of pretty crazy quotes and things were said over the course of this primary campaign. the fact of the matter is is he

was able to dispatch what the other 16 republican candidates and on the democratic side, granted, it's not quite as appealing to see the equivalents arguing over what makes a nice piece of fish but it is the sort of situation that is a real conflict over the issues, over ideological things that matter to democratic voters. i feel like in this context, as mean as this primary may have been on the republican side, the divide within the democratic side may turn out to be more significant because it has to do with those issues you were talking about before, that are very divisive within the democratic coalition. >> what's going to be really ugly is if she emerges as the nominee and goes head to head with trump. we are getting brand-new exit polling. donald trump he won big tonight in nebraska and west virginia. the voters continue to be receptive to his message. these are from west virginia. two-thirds think trade takes jobs away from american workers. about half feel betrayaled by republican party politicians.

nearly half angry with the federal government. we've seen this over and over again. as a result of this, a lot of these voters want to change and for them that candidate is trump. numbers in nebraska look similar. sanders won west virginia. and you can see how. he had support from the usual groups, young people, independents. women, seniors. look at these. 71% with young voters, sanders gets. 52% of women he's winning. and on and on it goes. so let me go back to the panel. richard, the democrats are not uni united. they are not united. does it worry you? >> i think we will be united and i think you have to look at the facts. those exit polls from west virginia and nebraska are interesting. west virginia and nebraska are hardly representative of the country. i would dispute the notion that hillary clinton is not a good candidate. she was elected twice as senator

of new york, she almost won the democratic nomination, she's about to secure -- >> the point is, she can get -- hill hiary and trump, as they'r fighting each other -- i guess it's weird with trump, you never know. >> listen, i think though, it's going to be a tough campaign. it's going to be very competitive. the choice is going to be so clear for voters, what you want to take a risky chance, someone like trump who's all over the place. who suggested that, you know, his policy experience consists of going to the miss america pageant in moscow. i know we've underestimated him before. i think when the country is focused on this, what it means

for the country, the choice is going to be clear. >> there are a lot of world leaders there. you're being too tough on him. >> you know what's interesting, even at this late date, neither one of the front-runners has locked down their bases. so donald trump is now in a position of reassuring conservatives. trying to get the republican party united behind him. mrs. clinton has also not locked down her base. her base is with bernie sanders. let me just finish my point. mrs. clinton has the serious problem of her base is now with the other guy who remains in the race. even more importantly, mrs. clinton has been on the national scene for something like 30 years and she has serious challenges. the majority of the american people find her dishonest and untrustworthy. she has a huge mountain to climb. especially running against the candidate who doesn't care she's a clinton and doesn't care she's a woman, and has thrown the rule book out. she's going to face a race unlike anything -- >> go ahead, richard. >> i just think we have to look

at the facts, right. bernie sanders has said he will support the democratic nominee and he will do everything in his power and campaign his heart out for the democratic nominee in order to prevent donald trump from becoming president. i think the democrats are already a lot more unified than the republicans. and i think the choice will be clear. >> go ahead, ben. >> i think the choice is between candidates who represent change and candidates who represent the status quo. the reason there's so much energy behind bernie sanders and there's been so much energy behind donald trump is because people are angry about the status quo. there is no better candidate to represent the status quo than hillary clinton and that's going to be a problem for her. >> the redevelop is against the bipartisan ruling class. so you see the populous revolt happening with bernie sanders on the left and with donald trump on the right. >> i think there's a lot about hillary clinton that does not represent the status quo. first and foremost, we will be electing the first female president of our country --

>> okay, she's going to have to do better than that. it's not just going to be the woman thing. we all know that. great to see you all. and that is a good thing for women because it's not just your gender that gets you in or keeps you out hopefully. up next, former facebook employees claim the site is going out of its way to prevent conservative stories from getting attention and tonight conservatives are firing back. howie kurtz joins us on that. plus, the belgian-owned company that owns budweiser has decided to do away with one of the best-known brand names in america. really, is this true? the story behind that just ahead. my school reunion's coming fast.

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new developments on a bombshell report alleging that facebook selectively chooses what is trend on its site based on political bias against conservatives. tonight, facing mounting pressure to account for its methods. first, trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom with the report. >> the trending box appears in the facebook homepage with an ever changing list of popular stories. facebook has not explained how those stories are chosen except to say algorithms scan what's trending on the web and a team of so-called news curators check to see if the stories are news. a former curator says the trending feature is suppressing stories about news conservatives and promoting progressive stories like things like black

lives matter hash tag, in other words, manipulating what we see. for the record, is a hillary clinton campaign donor, denies the allegations, saying, quote, there are rigorous guide lines in place for the review team to ensure consistency. these guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. it turns out facebook has enormous influence on the news we consume. according to pew research, 61% of 18-year-olds to 33-year-olds or millennials get more of their political news from facebook than any other source. it is also a primary news outlet for 40% of baby boomers. now south dakota republican senator john thune has sent a letter to facebook ceo zuckerberg wanting answers about how the company chooses its trending topics and whether facebook is using an objective algorithm. facebook is now reviewing that letter. >> thank you. joining me now, the host of

"media buzz" here on fox news, howard kurtz. if this is true, it's deeply troubling. the allegation from this former anonymous worker is if the news was trending and it had to do with mitt romney, rand paul, c pac, glenn beck, drudge report, things like that, if it was trending, pursuant to the algorithm, they would take it out of the trending column. and if news regarding things like black lives matter or syria was not trending, they would move it in. so they would actively manipulate the data. >> these allegations, megan, really strike at the heart of facebook as a neutral platform. to hear journalists were hired by facebook to fiddle with the formulas, not all of them, perhaps some with anti-conservative bias, it really amounts to cooking the digital books. if true. and this is a massive public company that depends on its users to post a lot of personal

information. if it loses that trust, it's got a big problem. >> according to this whistleblower who's anonymous at this point, so we haven't been able to check this person's credibility, but the report is they provided, they kept records of the manipulation and provided them. but they're saying stories covered by conservative outlets like brightbart washington examiner news max that were trending were excluded unless mainstream sites like the "new york times," bbc and cnn covered the same stories. think of what that does. what that does in a presidential race, right, if ted cruz is trending but he can't get trending on facebook because it's being too dominated by others who are sucking up the oxygen. people would cull the information. >> some are calling this trend-ghazi. the fact you need some kind of

mainstream media stamp of approval. even these sources who spoke to the tech site, they don't say there's any top-down management directive about this but it is important for ou veers to know for example zuckerberg openly supports president obama on immigration policy, that he gave a speech last month pretty openly ripping donald trump and that facebook employees, some of them an internal survey, asked this question what should facebook's responsibility be to present president trump in 2017. >> he may have answered that by saying no responsibility, we stay out of politics? >> it tells you something about the sentiment within facebook. people are entitled to their opinions, but this is not just . this is the giant social network that basically tells us it doesn't -- >> but what do you make of -- i mean, senator thune wants them to account for their trending possess. which you tell me, does that

cross a line? >> well, as troubling as these allegations are to me, i don't want the government in this. if any united states senator demanded for information about how to you make your editorial decisions to the new york times, to cbs, to fox news, i think there would be an upuproar, because, you know, this is not the business of the government. i think facebook should investigate all this. i think facebook owes the public a better explanation but i'm not sure it should be the subject of a federal government investigation. >> to their credit, they say, look, no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, our guidelines require the members allow all points of view. we've seen the allegations that folks did not honor the intent of the guidelines. we take the allegations seriously. we're continuing to investigate. so i feel like we'll see more facebook on this. they're going to have to let us know what happened. >> i want to see an aggressive investigation. >> nice, good to see you.

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