ashley parker sh great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for stopping by. ahead, president obama in cuba today. why so little advance coverage of such a controversial trip? up next, how the media cover candidates who despise each other but suddenly proclaim mute aol admiration when it's time for an endorsement. >>> first the candidates savage each other and then they hug each other. they say this is business as usual in presidential politics. so what if they actually hate each other? >> i am not surprised that graham came after cruz. i have never seen two words used so much together as cruz and detest. hence, lindsey graham's, you know, bizarre marriage now with ted cruz. i actually think that in some ways it is awkward to me watching it. just a couple weeks ago chris christie in that last debate said a vote for trump is a vote for hillary clinton. >> lindsey graham had a bend over backwards in backing ted cruz after indulge about a violent fantasy about his colleague. >> if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate and the trial is in the senate, nobody

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ashley parker this is low rent stuff, but two front runter slamming each other how could journalists resist? >> exactly. it became part of the discussion and they are going back-and-forth and it is a little fun and salacious. >> you admit it is fun. >> i admit it is fun, and it speaks to senator ted cruz, to character and it speak to what voters are looking for and i was at a focus group in st. louis and among those who did not lover donald trump they mentioned it was not substantive but style. this is something that helped the voters make the stylistic impression of this is something you want in office or not. what you is more important for the press? donald trump coming to the defense of his wife, blaming ted cruz for $300 ads that had nothing to do where the ted cruz campaign or ted cruz with a sound bait we have seen 10,000 times calling donald trump sniveling coward? >> i disagree and say the coverage is not fun and that it demonstrates warfare by donald trump and you have the things the media can report, the three thin --. >> you are embarrassed? >> i am disheartened. the media

(cheers and applause) >> larry: here is the things journalist ashley parker in a "new york times" articleut the type he people she met following trump around. she said "the 71-year-old woman i talked to before the new orleans rally in told me nothing short of trump shooting my daughter in the street and my grandchildren would dissuade her from voting for him." >> well, i think that statement says a lot more about how she feels about her daughter. (laughter) >> you don't know their problems, larry. >> larry: yeah, i know. i mean, i don't know. i think it's definitely a sad time in america. you think about even his line where he says "make america great again," i kind of want to know what he means by that. >> larry: he means make america 1955 again. >> i think so. i mean, look, i love where i was born, but i would never want to go back to where my grandmother or great grandmother lived. >> larry: no. that time was not actually good for any of us sitting at this table. >> think about the guy that punched that kid. he's 78, right? so he was -- >> larry: 1955 was awesome for him. >> yeah. that

mike bender and ashley parker. guys, how big a deal is this?n trump now for a while. how does this rate compared to other trump flaps? >> this is a potential flap, but it rates higher because it has to do with women. he said, you can already see how the democrats are going to go after him, how it could down ballot republicans, hillary clinton immediately tweeted that this was horrific. i say it rates higher. john: you have covered republicans and democrats; you've been doing a fair amount of trump. that was your take on that event we were just at? >> i thought he was low-energy, too. i have not seen him ask the crowd to sit down. he didn't take any questions. he didn't seem to have the same emotion that he usually does. john: is your sense -- we can read the wind and weather. does he feel like he will win the state? he used to be confident, that he but he doesn't feel that way to me now. >> i think will be a tough day for him. he pays a ton of attention to the polls, and there was a bad poll for him. he seemed a philosophical, contemplative moo

joining me, dale trotter, commentator that writes for "the daily caller" on the hill and ashley parker and a co-host of "outnumbered." ashley, ordinarily i would say, wow, there is really low stuff. but the two frontrunners slamming each other, how can journalists resist? >> exactly. it became part of the discussion and they're going back and forth. i think it is a little salacious and a little fun. but it also sort of speaks -- >> you admit that it's fun? >> i admit that it's fun, not good for democrat sishgs but fun. and, you know, also sort of speaks to as senator cruz said, it speaks to character and what voters are looking for. i was at a focus group in st. louis and among those who didn't love donald trump, one of the things they mngsed it is wasn't substantive. it was stylistic. this helps voters make that stylistic impression of this is someone we want in the oval office. >> which is the more important story among the competing themes for the press? trump's bringing to the defense of his wife, blaming cruz for a $300 ad that had nothing to do with the cruz campaign or cruz with

i will said, i read a new york times piece, it might have been by ashley parker, talking about the difference of trump people. everyone she talk would to is unfailingly polite and kind, and was almost struck by how unfailingly polite the trump supporters. that's why i'm making your point here, the trump supporters that i've seen at the rallies, i gist guess ashley reported, polite for the most part. there are some bad seeds in every rally. but this does all go to the candidate, saying punch him in the face -- >> i love it when the protesters come out. i love the protesters. >> and the things he says about the press, which again, one of the things that amped up, is when the time magazine was put in a choke hold and thrown to the ground. the other thing is when the alleged incident happened with corey lewandowski, marco rubio made the point that if someone accused his campaign manager, he would be out of the race. i think that's probably right. many other candidates, if they were accused of such a thing, proff proven, unproven, it would be a scandal, it would be a problem. all of these things c

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. >> we have ashley parker coopts for "new york times" would has covered a number of the trump rallies. you write a piece saying you first felt unsafe at a trump event a couple of weeks ago in new orleans. was it unnerving? >> just covering trump is not like covering a typical politician. it is a rally that the energy bill very tense from the beginning. there was an almost constant stream of protesters mannered out and fighting with the crowd and the crowd was turning on them. you see protesters at other events but not at that level or intensity. it was striking. >> was it unnerving for you personally? >> it was. a little. as a reporter you are trying to figure out, where do i want to be when this breaks out and how will we cover this and what is the best position. >> you warned your editors that someone is going to be seriously hurt at a rally. or worse. should you have written that story? could you have? >> we, before chicago, we did write a version of that story where we talked about the role of the protesters at donald trump rallies and the increasing intensity and what it is like

their insights, mary katherine hamm of "the federalist," cnn's jeff zeleny, cnn's manu raju and ashley parker of "the new york times." just two good wins for ted cruz, or are those victories and tight margins in kentucky and louisiana evidence of a suddenly weaker donald trump? in trademark trump style, he thinks not. >> i want to congratulate ted on maine and on kansas. and he should do well in maine because it's very close to canada, let's face it. >> he should do well in maine because it's very close to canada. yeah. you know, he is who he is at this point. but the big conversation among conservatives is, you know, cruz had a good day. splits it in terms of the wins. trump -- they sort of split the delegates. cruz might pick up ground in the delegate chase. is donald trump weaker or did cruz just have an okay night? >> i think he is a bit weaker. i think you saw in the very end, the close from ted cruz, especially in louisiana, it should worry trump moving forward. he closed very well. and i think maine should worry trump a little bit as well. it's an odd state demographically for cruz to

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ashley has the latest. >> reporter: we know the driver of the stolen car, 25-year-old jamal parker is in critical condition now. we know both those officers are expected to be ok. here you can see central avenue has opened back up behind me but take a look at this video, this is just a little while ago as those cars are being towed away. the crash. in the daylight you can see that officer's truck smashed. the irony here, these officers were part of a task force set up to stop young people from stealing cars. they were out on the call about another stolen car when this stolen car t-boned them. all the passengers in the stolen car are facing minor injuries but youngest girl in st. pete police chief says car theft is a major issue in our area. >> the tampa bay area has an issue of this. we all got together to address this problem. thank god we're doing something to try to curb this but until we get people to remember to take their keys out and lock their cars we will still be trying to catch the guys and gals that are stealing cars. >> reporter: we know the car was stolen a few days ago from a house on 27th s