ron regan joins us live in the newsroom. ron, you have been talk with political experts. >> i spoke with dr. michael bowen at john carroll university who has written extensively on the republican party and conventions. >> is the republican party headed to a breakup? >> well, it certainly appears that way. >> political experts say this year's republican candidates are taking a long history of party factions and dissent to a new level. >> but we've never seen really before, the fights have always been between established republicans who have different views. we've never seen someone come in from the outside and, for lack of a better term, disrupt the party. >> it's setting up for a fight here in cleveland at that time convention. >> a brokered convention is looking a lot, based on the super tuesday results with rubio picking up some delegates and a state and cruz winning three states, a brokered convention is looking a lot more likely. >> reporter: a brokered convention that could have serious consequences for republicans in th

federal first lady will be laid to rest next to her late husband, presidential ron donald regan.he will lie if repose for public visitation tomorrow and thursday. she died of heart failure at her home in los angeles on sunday. >> a week after super tuesday, another round of voting in key states set for today. stehpanie explains how the primary caucuses up the an testimony. for the front up areers trying to set themselves apart. >> a big voting day a step closer to knowing which candidate is the nominee. atime for another face off at polls in battleground states. >> hillary clinton telling the crowd she wants to be the small business president to help folk get ahead but needs their votes. ought soon are i could become your nominee the more i can begin to town our attention to the republicans. >> bernie sanders is not going anywhere. >> if there is a large voter turn out we will win. >> the contest in idaho, mississippi and hawaii, the big prize today is michigan where donald trump and hillary clinton have double digit lead on their competition much trump in mississippi at a rally

ron junior. i am trish regan. welcome to the intelligence report. form override -- former rival. the candidates banning some of those insults. instead, embracing the issue. we have all of that covered for you coming up over the next hour. first, i want to go back to nancy reagan's funeral. chief of staff. he joins me now with a look back at who she was. a pretty remarkable lady who was deeply in love with her husband. >> hi, trish. how are you today. i was just saying how much nancy reagan loved her husband. >> that was obvious from day one. she was there early in the campaign process and never left. we will hear from a number of dignitaries. also hearing what if ronald reagan's love to nancy, he used to write to her whenever they were apart. what is your most favorite moment of the white house? >> a state dinner for the president of italy. afterwards, we went into the ballroom and everyone was dancing. dancing with nancy in a way that he could only dance with her. they were truly in love. the president did not want to let him cut in. [laughter] finally, trish, he let him cut in.

regan to nancy reagan. the eulogies will be given by first tom brokaw, the former "nbc nightly news" writer, ron reagan and patti davis will speak. when ronald regan was diagnosed with aflts in the '90s, they reconciled. at the time of nancy reagan's death they were very close. the celebrity list is very long from mr. t to tom celek and of course the former first ladies along with michelle obama will also be on hand. gretchen. >> we will look forward to that. trace, thank you. >>> defense attorney said he was attacked at the santa than courthouse in southern california. he claims an investigator with the da's office was behind that horrific bruise. james crawford saying the incident started when the investigator told him defense attorneys are sleazy and can't be trusted. he said he didn't throw a punch but wound up with that black eye and a bloodied shirt after his face was slammed into a bench. a juror in the building snapped a picture on the floor. the da's office says it is cooperating with the police. they're calling crawford's account one sided and simile not zwru one of the biggest duties for the nex

if you happened to ron into the ghost of don regan some time, you can just ask him.ou run into her in the hereafter. when joan's husband died, he was on the east coast and joan could not, for some reason, could not get the coroner to release his body so he could come home to the west coast. joan's a comedian. she didn't know who to call. who do you call to pull strings like this, to get something like that done? well, she was acquainted with my mother but they weren't great friends yet. nevertheless, she bucked up her courage and called the white house and got my mother on the phone. joan's husband's body was on the next plane out of town to the west coast. and joan became my mother's buddy for the rest of her life. i see the faces of many friends here today. people who have known and loved my mother for years. but most of my mother's buddies are gone now. she's among the last of her cohort. the old gang. her generation. and now she is truly with them. if my mother had one great talent, i think it was that she knew how to love and she loved one man more than the worl