details from fox business blake burman. train a president obama said the bombings are another reminder that the world must unite to fight what he describes as the scourge of terrorism. >> .them praise of the american people are with the people of belgium. condemning these outrageous attacks against innocent people. we will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally, belgian and brain to justice those responsible. reporter: the president delivered his brief remarks in his visit to cuba not long after a baseball game along rall castro. presidential contenders ted cruz and john kasich were crying foul saying the president should have returned home. >> of a little surprised the president is going to a baseball game when i believe he showed -- had i been president i would've pressure may face it. reporter: turned washington house of representatives passed for a moment of silence on the hustler. security percussions were put in place all across the nation's capitol for law enforcement officials claim no credible thre

blake burman with us from wisconsin. with his take on the race we bring in somebody that knows the system so well, former house republican majority leader tom delay. congressman, welcome back. we're glad to have you. >> thank you, deirdre. deirdre: full disclosure for viewers you are supporting senator cruz. what do you tell his critics to say his appeal is not broad enough to beat hillary clinton if he were the nominee in the general? >> are you talking about cruz? deirdre: yes. >> cruz has an incredibly broad appeal with the republican base, with the tea party people. 60% of those voting in the republican primaries did not vote for trump and most of them voted for cruz. so, no, i think he has a strong appeal because he is smart, he understands the constitution. he is a man of faith. he make as incredible role model. so, no, i think some people just don't like him but they respect who he is, and what he stands for. deirdre: and you think they're going to get over it, even if they don't like it, him as a person for whate

my colleague blake burman is standing by with all the pre-primary jitters. blake? reporter. here we are in janesville wisconsin. donald trump rally, soon on his plane is relative. went to rally. then of course the corey lewandoski news came down which you heard of speak a little bit. defending his campaign manager in face of charges from jupiter, florida, of simple battery, misdemeanor for mr. lewandoski in state of florida. for corey lewandoski. incident happened back march 8th. we'll take you back to the primary night. donald trump had one of the press conference he has been happening in florida on primary nights. afterwards when trump left, he was approached by michelle fields then a reporter from breitbart. then that incident took place. new video showing why jupiter police ended up levying charges of simple battery. appears lewandoski might just have grabbed michelle fields though trump, his campaign has said that is the not case. they're standing by lewandoski. they believe he will be exonerated. donald trump sent out a series of tweets before the comments he just made

melissa: blake burman at the trump event.

liz: and to you, blake burman.t only makes tonight possibly an even bigger fireworks display, don't you think? >> yeah. 100%, liz. as i sit here and look at the camera, we've got where the detroit tigers play behind us. and i was thinking this is probably a fastball down the middle for marco rubio and ted cruz. they just have to be salivating for what mitt romney teed them up with earlier today. you might remember it was exactly one week ago today how time flies in this race. one week ago today that marco rubio did basically a 180 with his political campaign and started going directly after donald trump. he already told supporters last night in a fundraising e-mail essentially get ready for round two tonight. i want to read you just briefly the very first part of that fundraising e-mail that rubio sent last night. here it is. quote last week's debate i took on donald trump and won. i look forward to doing more of the same and once and for all exposing him for the con artist that he is. of course it's not just going

david: blake burman thank you very much. melissa: with five days before the voters in badger state hit the booths, talk show hosts are coming hard down on donald trump. jeff, you spent the day with w tmj. what did you learn there? reporter: i'm standing in front of the welcome to wisconsin sign but i don't think that applies to donald trump at least where conservative talk radio is concerned. indeed in the studios of w tmj charlie sykes is probably the best-known and most listened in to talk radio show host in the state. he is originator of the anybody but trump. never trump is the hashtag moniker. charlie sykes says in wisconsin they have done a hard job and tough job turning the state essentially from a blue state to a purple state through reasoned and thoughtful discussion. and donald trump runs right in the face of that. listen to what he told me about it. >> the conventional wisdom he is expanding the party. in fact he is actually shrinking the party. hillary clinton would not only win in a landslide, she would probably

nicole: let's go to blake burman covering the campaign in palm beach, florida. well, the trump name is on top of properties all across the state of florida in tuesday night it is set atop a scorecard for the republican primary in the sunshine state. donald trump when in florida in a landslide in the thick, all 99 delegates in the winner take all state. trump has led every single poll dating back to early august and sealed the deal with a resounding win tuesday night. he joked with supporters at his club in palm beach are he was able to overcome an aunt lot of negative advertisements. >> where television screens all over. everything is working beautifully. in a commercial comes on. the worst commercial. i'm with these wonderful people from cadillac in all this top executives say look over there. isn't the grass beautiful? well, don't watch. reporter: hillary clinton had a big win as well, just about doubling up sanderson florida. back to you in new york. lauren: thank you, blake burman. we also have jeff flock with the kasich campaign. the latest there. reporter:

nicole: thank you, blake burman. lauren: hillary clinton like you to bounce back following big losses in hawaii, alaska and washington over the weekend. she campaigned today and now jeff flock has the latest. reporter: you are looking at the grassroots effort for bernie sanders. these are two volunteers throughout canvassing the streets of milwaukee, wisconsin. this is a big battleground, potentially favorable voters to whom you could then produce vendors. maybe more than the liberal enclave of madison for sanders. maybe more than the conservative middleground areas to the west of the state for hillary clinton. but there's a real battleground up for grabs. two volunteers, one named ben, another named dave from st. peter's or, florida traveling around one of them is south carolina knocking on doors, too. this is the way the campaign gets out of scope. this should point out senator sanders will be here in wisconsin a little bit later today. in addition, hillary clinton was here yesterday and will be here again today. d

blake burman there. some call carson and trump "the odd couple". there is this past history of insults. dr. carson addressed the issue. >> we buried the hatchet. that was political stuff and you know, that happens in american politics, the politics of personal destruction, all that. it is not something that i particularly believe in or anything that i get involved in. deirdre: for their take what this endorsement means for tuesday and beyond, my political power panel is here. lisa booth, founder of high noon strategies. democratic pollster jessica tarlov. welcome to you both. lisa, how much does carson's endorsement help trump? you heard my colleague say it is not really a game-changer but it moves the needle slightly. do you agree with that? >> i agree with blake's assessment. the endorsements this election cycle have not met as much as they have previously. as blake pointed out sarah palin endorsed donald trump. he did not carry alaska. marco rubio has recipient of most endorsements from sitting governors and representatives. that has not done en

fox business' blake burman has been speaking to farmers in wisconsin. blake, dying to know the sentiment on the ground. i'm sure they care less about the issue and more what's going on with economy, commodities and farming situation? >> reporter: that's exactly right, liz, and i should note we're at the 56th annual wps farm show. this is an agriculture convention or summit i guess you could say for folks, we're in oshkosh, eastern part of the state. take a walk with me. this is the last couple hours of the convention here of this show, the crowds have thinned out. this has been packed throughout the day. talking to a the love the folks here, many vendors, everything from financing to farming, whatever has to do with agriculture as we walk on through. here's what's so interesting, liz, many of the people told us they are absolutely paying attention to what is going on in wisconsin with the race and what's going on nationally with the race as well. they tell us that they plan on voting on tuesday. many of them who we spoke with, but a lot of them yet at l

blake burman, thanks a lot.re just 35 minutes or so away from the first polls closing in ohio and north carolina, so what can we expect? back with us, senator scott brown, mike shields and gina lowden. we talked in the beginning of the show, three potential scenarios. which one do you think we'll see tonight? >> look, i think trump is going to win florida. that's the way that it looks right now, and i think marco will continue on in some capacity in the campaign because he represents -- his campaign has sort of turned into something else. he's turned into the protest against trump vote within the republican party. and so whether or not he then throws his support to kasich or to cruz or whether he stays in, i think that there's a group of republicans that are upset with having trump as their nominee, and there's a candidate that sort of represents that. but i think it looks like from the exit polls that trump is going to win. i think it's too close to call in ohio. the next really big set of votes are not until a

blake burman, appreciate it. >>> breaking tech stories making headlines today.iro with today's tech minute. adam? >> reporter: there's a report that an israeli firm is helping the fbi unlock the san bernardino terrorist iphone. the company is called celebrate is a provider of mobile forensic software. the justice department was supposed to go to court against apple tuesday but the trial was postponed. the government backed off after they said they may have figured out a way to crack the phone without apple helping. celebrate officials declined comment. >>> uber will pay you to hack into the software. they're asking hackers to find weaknesses in computer communications systems, in return cash bounties. the concept of bug bounties nothing new. how mainstream firms look to outside help hackers to protect the system. >>> google's cloud business, home depot is moving data to the company's cloud. that's a victory for google as it tries to gain traction with more traditional firms. back to you. ashley: appreciate that. another day of primaries come and gone. donald tru

we bring in blake burman on the ground, we've got dueling polls here.her way, what's kasich's plan? >> reporter: well, there's the political x there's the message, liz. john case cantic earlier today was talking about how he wants to gain some momentum here out of michigan, what momentum exactly is, we'll see tomorrow whether that's a win as one poll might suggest -- though it might be an outlier -- or if it's a strong second or third. from here he wants to go on and win ohio. many people view that as a must. but he's also been talking up illinois and pennsylvania, though i would add those are winner-take-all states, so finishing second or third does nothing. you've got to win those states. as far as the message goes, we are here in grosse point woods at a private high school. kasich, as we've with heard for weeks now, is basically trying to argue that he is the adult in the room standing of the last four presidential candidates on the republican side. at this high school, he began probably the first 10, 12 minutes of his speech speaking to those who ca

my colleague blake burman is there. he is in west salem, wisconsin.lake, we know wisconsin is basically a winner-take-all state but what is the tone there like now? reporter: pretty much a hybrid winner-take-all, deirdre. whoever wins the state as a whole, the other 24 by congressional districts, eight congressional districts, three delegates a pop. as you mentioned we're in west salem. that is two hours north and west of madison, outside of the town of lacrosse. we were at a town hall here a little while ago for john kasich and in the sense of those congressional districts, his campaign made some news a little while ago saying that they are moving some of their advertising dollars out of certain districts and into others. the thinking there, potentially being that kasich might have a better chance in certain districts and not others. so that is where they will move their money. but because of that that had some wondering whether or not kasich and his campaign had enough money and the ohio governor insisted he had enough cash. >> we put our resources

blake burman. thank you so much for that. david? neil: yet another wild weekend for the race for the gop nomination here is where the republican can stand right now. donald trump leading the pack with384 delegates after winning kentucky and louisiana. ted cruz not far behind. he had wins in kansas and maine. connell mcshane with what is ahead, connell? reporter: perspective on the numbers where we are and where we need to go. i look at how long ago rum trump is not nomination. magic jumper 1237. he is basically a third of the way there. what does he need to do, anybody else need to do this get there. of remaining delegates out, with trump at 384 he would have to win 54%, a little more than half of remaining delegates. cruz would have to win 60%. rubio has a tall task. he with have to win nearly 70% of the remaining delegates. kasich would have to win 3/4. blake was talking about state of michigan. a lot of people are focused on it, for the sake of delegate math, we have a lot of math to do, 554 republican delegates at stake between

blake burman, thanks for that. david. david: more on this, with five days before the florida republican primary senator rubio wants to put an end to reports he is dropping out of the race. take a listen. >> that is 100% categorically false. i have never discussed dropping without with anyone on my time or anyone on the planet earth, or anyone on any planet for that matter. i'm not dropping out of this race. i'm only one that can beat donald trump in florida. every poll would say that. david: but recent polls show rubio is struggling to woo voters n reese rally, look at this, supporters filled one end zone of a football stadium. ed rollins, former reagan political director and fox news political analyst. does rubio have any chance winning florida? >> no, absolutely not. he is way behind in the fox poll. he has been behind for substantial period of time. it is expensive state. 10 media markets. all he could hope so some of the outside groups beating up on the front-runner will have some impact but so far they haven't. david

blake burman, thank you so much. appreciate it. let's carry it on talking about this. joining me now democratic instruct him not to answer numika and republican strategist ford o'connell. ford, let me go to you first. okay. you're a republican strategist. i think severing going on. what a slap in the face to donald trump and large number of people who have gone out and voted for him. like the establishment completely deaf to what the people are saying on the republican side. what would you say? >> i would absolutely agree with you. donald trump is really bringing in new people into the party. he's running the table. he's driving up the vote. i will say this. the reality of the situation is either donald trump gets to 1237 delegates outright or we do go to a contested convention, which is a 50/50 proposition. understand that trump has to win 56% of the remaining delegates and believe it or not, the state's lined. well for him. starting next tuesday, he could win seven to eight states and all of this discussion could be mute. >> all right, let me bring you to the other s

fox business's blake burman son the campaign trail. famed university of virginia professor larry saba on why the stakes have never been higher but we start with our own blake burman in charlotte, north carolina. hi, blake. reporter: hi, david. four candidates left but two former presidential candidates grabbed some headlines earlier today. let's start with carly fiorina because she gave a surprise endorsement to ted cruz and the timing and location of this probably not coincidental as it happened in florida, specifically in miami when cruz was at an event there. as we know that is the home state and the hometown of marco rubio. but it was fiorina in miami today, trying to convince republicans there to coalesce around cruz. speaking of florida, speaking of miami, jeb bush reemerged again today as well. we can now tell you he will be speaking in the coming days with john kasich, rubio and cruz, notably absent there, of course is donald trump. many people are wondering as bush dropped out race would he and potentially he might endorse his

blake burman with breaking news on yet another dirty tricks e-mail tied to senator ted cruz.s in north carolina. and ed henry live at clinton headquarters in clear f cleveland. but first to michigan, tonight's biggest prize for both the democrats and republicans and perhaps donald trump's next major test. while he has enjoyed double-digit leads in the state, polling seems to indicate a late surge by ohio governor john kasich. michigan voters lock -- flocking to the polls where jeff flock is standing by in grand rapids. right, jeff? what's the sentiment on the ground? >> reporter: absolutely. well, you know, they thought this was going to be one of the busiest polling stations in grand rapids. it hasn't really been so today, and turnout's big. if it's big, it's a boost for trump and sanders. if it's not, perhaps it's a help to the others. you report the surge by kasich, we've talked on the ground to people, it's anecdotal, but late breakers according to the polls too seem to be headed kasich's way. talked to voters about why that might be. they say they want somebody who's not

melissa: blake burman at the trump event. a lot of headlines to say the least. you have a lot of ground to cover for us. get started. reporter: all right, melissa, i'll try. if i get 75% of it i think we're covered. so we are in janesville as you mentioned. donald trump is set to hold a rally here in paul ryan's hometown in front of about 1000 people or so here inside of a hotel. this was supposed to be the headline today for trump, getting here to wisconsin. he is the third of three candidates to finally get here. however his campaign was more than sidetracked today when his campaign manager corey lewandowski, police in jupiter, florida, southeastern part of the state, would be charged with simple battery, a misdemeanor in state of florida for incident dating back to march 8th. was that night trump picked up several state during that primary day. there was an incident involving then breitbart reporter michelle fields which she states she was grabbed by lewandowski. there is new video suggests might be the case. hence charges from jupiter police. however trump s

thanks so much, blake burman in miami. want to bring in michael warren, staff writer at "the weekly standard." good to see you, sir. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. maria: your take on growing violence at donald trump rallies. trump is saying most of the protesters coming from bernie sanders, a claim that sanders denies. listen to this. >> a lot of them come from bernie sanders, whether he wants to say it or not. if he says no he is lying. bernie sanders, they have sanders signs all over the place and made by the same people that make the regular bernie sanders signs. they're professionally made. >> to say that we organized that totally untrue. mr. trump i think is getting very nervous. he is catching on to the fact that the american people do not support a candidate like trump whose verbiage, whose language, whose rhetoric incites violence. maria: michael, good morning to you. what is your take on all of this? >> i think donald trump is definitely wrong when he says that bernie sanders campaign is sending these peopl

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blake burman in detroit right now, the seat of tonight's big debate. certainly this will come up tonight. reporter: yeah, one would think so, neil. whether it's moderators asking trying to get a response or if it is candidates going there and bringing it up themselves as avenue to attack trump. one would think this is layup for marco rubio and for ted cruz as they have, rubio starting last week and cruz for weeks now going after donald trump but john kasich might be a different story. as we saw last week in the debate, really in debates past but especially last week field narrowed, he played nice with donald trump and so too trump with kasich. kasich got to the debate venue here i believe a few minutes ago. before that he held a, availability with reporters, basically a press conference with reporters only and and he said he doesn't feel that calling trump names is kind of way to go here, the way to take down trump. so i think you might be able to read into that as far as it goes for at least case i can tonight, if -- kasich tonight, if it is lobbed ou

blake burman, not just the establishment against almost trump. key figures in the blacklist matter movement grabbing up as donald trump was nomination, expect riots everywhere. pro bernie sanders group move on.org making headlines, threatening to have the largest civil disobedience action of the century against the republican front runner. and then there is this week on the streets of new york city trying to bring people together to take them down outside of hunter college. younger people also trying to do just that. democratic strategist jessica tarlow with national review reporter. first you have this closed-door meeting. thanks so much for joining us. then you have the establishment republicans coming up with the spending to figure out how to take down trump. and now you have these protests. what do you make of this? >> well, they should've started sooner people were going to try and take on donald trump, but no one took him seriously. i don't think there's any stopping him now. he's right that dominates him the most about obese. either way, t

neil: all right, buddy.thank yoe burman. we're getting scant details about this meeting, why at a law firm apart from being on capitol hill, all needlesome details, probably, but it was organized by republican senator jeff sessions. remember, he was among the first senators, so-called establishment senators to say donald trump is my guy. he has a tough time convincing others. mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, is not leaving kentucky for this. remember, the senate's in the middle of a two-week spring break. obviously, this will require a great deal of gamesmanship on the part of mr. trump to assuage concern some of those members may have about his candidacy. with us now is alex pappas and gianna caldwell. what does donald trump have to do at this gathering? >> i think this is a very crucial moment for donald trump. just last week there was a group of conservatives that were going around and talking about, you know, even the option of a third party scenario the if donald trump gets the nomination, and they would get behi

blake burman is joining us live. everyone is going against what happened against the nomination.that? >> good morning to you. it started on an interesting know what donald trump defending the sizes 10 and then he took it. it ended up with some political substance. ted cruz, marco rubio, if indeed donald trump is the presumptive nominee and a couple weeks or a couple of months. would they support them? >> can you definitively say you will support the republican nominee is donald jay trump. >> i will support the republican nominee. >> yes, i gave my word that i would. >> sometimes it makes it hard, but i will support whoever is the republican nominee for president. >> interesting because it had ted cruz the last several weeks dating donald trump has a closet liberal and marco rubio saint trump is a con artist, yet they say it trumpets the nominee they would support them. nicole: play, first about thank you are standing up in the foyer is in detroit. donald trump last night said he could be flexible. tell us more about that. >> flexible was the word of the night. he was asked by meg

blake burman with the clinton campaign joins us now.orter: yet another successful night for hillary clinton issue when the the majority of super tuesday states further cementing her the does the democratic front runner. her victory rally took place in miami, said she looks forward to florida in a couple weeks for potentially the crucial general elections state. she made no mention of bernie sanders other than to congratulate him while taking direct aim at donald trump and republicans. >> it is clear tonight that the stakes in this election have never been higher. and the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has never been lower. trying to divide america between us and them is wrong and we are not going to let it work. lauren: sanders picked up the couples dates as well. clinton further padded her delegate count. back to you in new york. nicole: coming up, we will break down the super tuesday exit polls had half the voters saying they are angry at the federal government. more details for you. u.s. astronaut got kelley returns a feat

blake burman with highlights good morning to you. was no doubt about it life is good, as the front-runner in these races donald trump is just that, right now, the one exception though could be what we saw here last night, a debate where you only get four people on the stage and donald trump was the focus of this throughout. despite that, though, he was taking what you could almost read into as potentially a long-term view as he was somewhat inching more and more and more towards potentially the center as talking bb flexibility last night, that when is marco rubio jumped in and called him out. >> i have a very -- >> i have never seen a successful person who wasn't flexibility who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility you have to have a certain degree of flexibility. >> there is a difference between flexibility, and telling people whatever you think you. >> they had say to get them to do what you want them to do, that is what donald has done throughout his career. >> well ted cruz jumped in fracas as well trying to pit donald tru

blake burman, when you've?>> hi, there, neil, yeah, john kasich is the last one standing here on the republican side here in michigan. making three stops today. the last much which here at gross point, basically a suburb detroit and the others are around detroit area as well, 20 and 30 minutes south of the. and strikes a little bit ironic that a governor from ohio is trying to rely here on the state of michigan. but that is indeed what john kasich is doing here. hoping to pull out a victory in michigan or at least close the gap on donald trump tomorrow. you mention polls. there was one out just about 30, 40 minutes ago. comes from mo university and trump getting 36% of support from michigan, and cruz and kasich in the 20s, marco rubio not meeting that threshold of 15 pest. however, i would also point out that if you dig deeper into those numbers, on thursday and any, this poll was taken over four days. on thursday and friday, trump was at 39% and kasich at 17. if you take saturday and sunday, it is trump at 32

blake burman on that. >> protesters nothing new atrium trump evens but this was a different scene todaybegin this event.

blake burman at his headquarters in north carolina. blake, what does senator ted cruz have to do tonight? reporter: well, interestingly enough, deirdre, we are here in north carolina. it is not one of those four states that you just talked about that are in play tonight. the cruz campaign is looking ahead really of tonight. north carolina is one of the states coming up on march 15th, which is the day many people feel one way or another could break this campaign open for ted cruz or for any of the other three candidates in this race. north carolina is awarded proportionately on, next tuesday. it is not winner-take-all like florida, home to marco rubio, ohio, home to governor john kasich. so you could finish second here and pick up some delegates not like in florida or ohio. cruz is making two stops here in north carolina today. he said the polling looks good and he feels confident. >> north carolina is tremendously important. north carolina is a bellwether state. we have an incredible team here in north carolina. i'll tell you it is nec

blake burman working that story in washington, d.c.ou, sir. >>> the airport in brussels will stay closed tomorrow and perhaps longer than that. that's the word from the airport ceo who says crews still need to evaluate the damage in the terminal. that is affecting hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers. u.s. airlines, including delta, united, and american, among those cancelling or rerouting flights. all of them released statements saying the safety of customers and employees is their top priority. adding to the chaos, lots of people are having trouble getting in touch with friends and relatives. networks can get jammed when so many people try to use the phones at the same time. officials with local wireless carriers are telling everyone to use text messages and social media if their calls cannot go through. >>> our coverage continues in a moment. the bombing in brussels and what's next. we'll talk to a former u.s. ambassador to belgium who says the terrorists today are sending a message. what is that message and how do we rea

blake burman on that. >> protesters nothing new atrium trump evens but this was a different scene today in missouri and st. louis, there was protester after protester after protester, to begin this event. donald trump having to stop as they were escorted out, one after the other, and at one point, really even several points, he seemed to be very, very frustrated. >> missouri, i can't believe this. i can't believe this. okay, thank you. thank you. shout shout -- can i be honed honest with you? it adds to the flavor. >> trump has taken some criticism in the last week or so after a protester at an event this week was sucker-punched on his way out. trump taking criticism for the atmosphere and how things are handled at these eventes. last night at the cnn debate trump was somewhat unapologetic for the atmosphere at those events, but today he was very cognizant to let people know who were watching this event, outside observers, things were in control. take a listen. >> i think i set a record with these wise guys. but we were nice, press. see the press, we were necessary. everything was nice.

blake burman is standing by in detroit with preview of main event. go ahead, blake. >> david, good afternoon to you from snowy downtown detroit. we're five hours away from the latest republican presidential debate, appropriately behind me at the fox theater here in downtown. only four candidates will be on that stage tonight. we are down to donald trump, marco rubio, ted cruz and john kasich. they will battle it out. trump held a rally, nowhere near here earlier today. he was in the state of maine. he kind of gave a hint as to how hopes to approach tonight saying that his wife told him to act presidential. he plans on doing just that. however, he also said those plans are likely to get interrupted. >> my wife called just before she said, darling, would you please react presidentially? be presidential. i like presidential but if somebody hits me i will hit them back harder. reporter: one of the candidates not likely to engage in any of this is john kasich. he told reporters earlier today, that he doesn't think calling donald trump names really solves

let's go to blake burman who joins us live with all the details.lake. >> hi, there, charles, yeah, this is a distraction here on election day that the cruz campaign probably would rather not deal with. let me show you the e-mail in question. it was sent out yesterday from the group ted cruz hawaii.org. and you can see on the top there it says wasted vote, big trouble for marco rubio. advisors tell him to drop out at cites that the cnn report pushed back hard saying it is a lie and fabrication. well, the cruz campaign today said they had nothing to do with that group out in hawaii and the lawyers told that group to essentially back off. here is how ted cruz himself defended himself when he spoke with megyn kelly earlier. >> this particular e-mail apparently came from a volunteer in hawaii, not necessarily aided with the campaign. not working for the campaign. not under aughtization for the campaign. we have over 200,000 volunteers across the country. i cannot control nor do i want to control what 200,000 volunteers do. now, the rubio campaign saying

fox business's blake burman has the details. blake. reporter: merrick garland is beginning to make his case in washington but thus far just with democrats. he visited with harry reid and patrick leahy. democrats are calling for full and fair confirmation process. chuck schumer believes things are meeting in the right direction. some republicans will at least meet with garland. >> we're seeing cracks on the republican side. five or six members have agreed already to meet with the nominee. and i think what happened is they saw how stellar the nominee was. reporter: republicans in the senate maintain the confirmation process should and will be left to the next president, which they hope will be the republican nominee. >> let the people decide whoever wins the election in 2016 for the presidency. i believe it will be a republican, but whoever wins that election, that person should make the nomination to the supreme court. reporter: however one possibility being floated is confirming garland after the election but before congress leaves for

fox business's blake burman, on the trail with senator cruz in charlotte, north carolina.what is latest with this one, blake? reporter: another election day headache that cruz campaign would probably not be dealing with. let me show you the email at send center of this all. this is sent by the ted cruz hawaii.org. words wasted vote. big drudge for marco rubio. advisors tell him to drop out. circles back to the cnn report which the rubio campaign has said is false. is 100% not true. that rubio might be dropping out, before florida. cruz, the campaign says, look, we have nothing to do with this group in hawaii. they are pushing back on this saying that this didn't come from them. their lawyers stepped in and got involved with this. ted cruz sat down with megyn kelly a little while ago and was asked about this very email. >> this particular email apparently came from a volunteer in hawaii, not affiliated with the campaign. not working for the campaign. not under authorization from the campaign. we have a over 200,000 volunteers across the country. i can not control, nor do i

blake burman is there live? janesville with the latest for us. >> reporter: hi there, trish.ig story this day involving the donald trump campaign has nothing to do with trump himself, rather his campaign manager, corey lewandowski, who was charged in the state of florida earlier today for an incident back on march 8th in jupiter, a night that donald trump had been, won some of the primaries all across the country, and his campaign manager, lewandowski, got into an incident involving michelle fields, a then-breitbart reporter. he's been charmed with simple battery, that is a misdemeanor. they released new video involving the incident in question which shows fields walking right alongside lewandowski and trump and at a certain point, fields appears to have been grabbed by lewandowski, thus, the simple charge. the trump campaign is standing by lewandowski, trish, and trump is expected to arrive here in janesville, as you mentioned, the home of the house speaker, paul ryan, at a big event here today. i'll just show you around here briefly. trish: please do. >> protesters are expe

fox business's blake burman joins with us the latest on the campaign trail. blake. reporter: hi, there, melissa. in what many feel ask quite possibly one of the most unusual presidential elections in recent memory we had one of those yet again unusual days here on this friday. we'll start marco rubio. rubio as we know in the last couple days trying to convince voters in florida, his home state he needs to win, a vote for john kasich or vote for ted cruz is essentially a vote for donald trump. that was pretty much spun right back to him earlier today as john kasich is trying to hold his ground in ohio. so rubio and his campaign was asked what does that mean for people that want to vote for you in ohio. is that essentially a vote for donald trump? rubio says if the intention for his supporters to stop trump by voting for kasich, essentially voting for somebody else other than him, he would respect that. >> clearly john kasich is, has a better chance of winning ohio than i do. i suspect a voter in ohio that doesn't want donald trump to win ohio may very well conclude t

fox's blake burman at the rally with this one. blake? reporter: donald trump in middle of a whole lot of news here in the state of wisconsin. he is behind me right now on stage for a town hall in appleton but there was, this is second stop of the day for donald trump. before this he was north of us. in between he held a town hall of sorts with msnbc and there was an exchange back and forth with donald trump and with chris matthews, of course one the anchors over there at msnbc. and he, the exchange was about abortion and whether or not banning abortions and what kind of punishment should there be if any. donald trump said if abortions were made illegal there should be some form of punishment for women who end up breaking the law though he did not say exactly what kind of punishment, how long that should be. afterwards the trump campaign sent out a statement, as you can see trump is on stage right now but he sent out a statement and i will read that to you, quote, the issue sun clear and should be put back into the states for determine na

blake burman live at the new trump hotel in washington, d.c. where you can see the billionaire candidate keeps saying i'm going to leave the podium, but he's still up there, although the press is starting to leave now. what jumps out at you here? >> reporter: yeah, donald trump was just putting a sales job on there a little while ago, he's now going to lead the media on a tour of the old post office, trump international d.c. here in a few months. this was a big day in washington, really only the middle of it for donald trump. it started off earlier this morning just down the road here, fittingly enough, down pennsylvania avenue. hook a left onto constitution, and that gets you to the jones day law firm, and that is where trump held a meeting with about two dozen people, we were told, highly influential republicans here in d.c. including some lawmakers. maybe a meeting that donald trump might not have gotten a month or two ago, but now that he keeps on racking up state after state, he is certainly grabbing the attention, it is safe to say, of fo

first of all, next to see me is ark ry burman. he's a political correspondent for the nation and he has written articles in a variety of outlets with magazines, rolling stones and new york times and you may have heard him, someone heard him on mpr. sitting next to him is john nichols, john is -- is coming back to the festival. he was here last year and i was able to be a moderator for his panel too. john is correspondent, reporter, rather, and a writer with many, many publications and the one we will be discussing today, people get ready, you may have heard of the song and this is essential very provocative book about where we are in the democracy. lastly, samara clark. >> you got it. >> she coached me on how to pronounce the name. assistant professor here at the university of arizona and the college that i graduated back in, you know, some year. [laughter] and it was a time of great excitement and it was particularly exciting because it was like being in vietnam war. she will be one of the three panelists today. so a little bit a

maria: big numbers, blake thank you very much blake burman this morning in wisconsin, ahead of the primaryg its examination of hillary clinton's e-mails fbi with justice department prosecutors will reportedly soon conduct interviews with hillary clinton and key aides to determine whether criminal charges should be filed, against the former secretary of state. joining me from democratic presidential candidate hillary rodham clinton spore bob kerrey thanks for joining us. >> nice to see. >> you seems an important moment in this time, because on one hand, hillary clinton can say, yes, i will speak to you yes, i will explain it all, what happened. with me having my own server, or no, i am not going to speak to you my lawyer says, this might incriminate me important election year, both are not good. >> no never good to have fbi in pegs of your serv-- in positn of your investor even if not running for president running for president not good to have it going on in this particular case i do think a very difficult time to explain why you put a investor in your home my own view of it is, case you d

florida delegation for grabs, 66 in ohio, 99 florida, both are you winner take all states, blake burmane ground polls open about on a hour. reporter: good morning to you, five states across the country in play, among them, the biggest of them, is florida, 99 delegates here, there are so many headlines heading into the voting among them the is a atmosphere going on at donald trump's rallies in the last month and weeks but specifically in the last days and how protesters have been treated there, trump made three stops yesterday, ohio, north carolina and florida. and as we saw here in florida, at the protests did not stop. >> i didn't know this happened in tampa! i love tampa! i didn't know this happened, all right. they will go home they will go home to their mom soon. >> trump was joined on trail, in tampa by former alaska governor former vice presidential candidate sarah palin wade in on protesters did not mince words. >> what we don't have time for is all that petty stuff that has been going on, with these quote/unquote protesters. . reporter: critics have been allowed as well, saying

blake burman joining us live in detroit. blake, we may have to break into your live report on this. start to talk to us about just how contentious tonight might get. >> well, you know, heather, they called for snow here in detroit today. i think you can see they got that just right. there is any sort of a forecast for tonight for what's going to happen inside the fox theater, i think attacks is a 100% bet, insults most likely as well. you might remember it was exactly one week ago, one week ago thursday when marco rubio essentially did a 180 with his campaign when he started attacking donald trump going right after him at that debate last week. well, rubio has already promised his supporters in a fundraising e-mail last night that tonight would be round two. i want to read you real quick the very top line of that e-mail. rubio saying, and i'm quoting here, at last week's debate i took on donald trump and won. he goes on to say, i look forward to doing more of the same and once and for all exp e exposing him for the con artist he is. rubio and trump will be joined by ted cruz and joh

. >> blake burman, thank you very much. someone as these primaries begin to ramp up and we get towards the finish line. politics reporter caitlyn hughley burn out how will they deal within the party because everyone is looking insane at least i know i can speak for myself. it seems really in hindsight. the gop nominee and everyone who ran for that spot should support the eventual nominee. >> you can argue the rnc brought this on themselves. remember how big of a spectacle that donald trump sighting of the pledge was last summer. what i think is so notable now is ted cruz and john kasich backing away from the pledge. just a couple weeks ago ted cruz is still in testing that he would support the eventual nominee. the question becomes heading into cleveland, how does this party possibly unite around an eventual nominee when you have two other candidates saying they couldn't afford the front runner of the party right now. >> the interesting thing is they all have different reasons to integrate, different rationales for not supp

blake burman what is he trying to do to up the establishment ante. blake? you're exactly right. mitt romney making rope bow calls on behalf of john kasich and marco rubio today, as you know, he has said, in the past, as recent as last week when he held the news conference about the state of the 2016 race in which he suggested, as he just talked about with you there, essentially how to get to brokered convention. and that was, as romney described it, for marco rubio to win florida, winner-take-all, 99 dell -- delegates. john kasich, in ohio, winner-take-all and support ted cruz in states where cruz leads. rubio picked up on that and took a step further than any candidates had since mitt romney essentially laid out the gameplan about five days ago. rubio is entrenched in florida. he told supporters there that a vote for kasich or cruz is a essentially a vote for trump. take a listen. >> here in florida if you vote for john kasich or ted cruz you're voting for donald trump. i'm only one that can beat him in florida. i'm only one that can stop him here. reporte

blake burman in miami with the latest from there. reporter: hi there. back and forth during this entire election cycle it renewed again today the club for growth, which built the south is a progrowth organization. they back conservative candidates. now they have released what is amounted to a blanket statement out there for candidates running for office saying essentially a few in doors donald trump, that could be a major factor whether we the club for growth decide to support you. you might wonder why does that matter. some candidates often amount to money. one of course is the fuel are invited to a logical candidates. now these candidates might have to make the decision, do we end up endorsing donald trump likely seen in the last couple of days, or do we back off potentially saving some support for an endorsement on around for the club for growth. the club for growth just about as nature of a decision as they could make possibly when it amounts to whether or not to support a candidate. meantime on capitol hill, paul ryan injected himself once again in

blake burman in miami with the very latest and now the sunshine state is faring. sir. >> hi, neil, yeah, that's a good way to put it. marco rubio is indeed fighting for his political future. it was in 2010 that he carried the state and his senate race with 50% of the vote and a three-person race. now it is a four-person race and the numbers show that rubio is nowhere near there and not really even approaching donald trump in this winner take allstate. 99 delegates. the latest polling came out just a little while ago from university. let me show you the numbers real quick. it has trump all the way up at 44%. rubio trailing by 17 points at 27. there have been a slew of polls here. and about the last 24 to 48 hours or so in florida. and this kind of fits with the theme. rubio trailing in the high teens, either low 20s. the real clear politics.com polling average has rubio down 18 this poll 17. today rubio is going to be all up and down the state of florida. he is starting in the northern part of the state. will be driving down, making four stops. ending his day here

blake burman on what's going on with the meet and greet. hi, blake. >> hi, there, neil.ast for today, it's going to be a busy afternoon for merrick garland, the supreme court nominee will be meeting with harry reed and the top democrat on the senate committee patrick. those are a couple hours from now. as we've been seeing here for days on all sides on this debate including david petraeus sat down with anthony scaramucci. take a look at this. >> this is an individual with a established track record, and it's going to be an interesting debate. >> do you think this could perhaps tip it, and we break the partisan struggle in washington by getting up a person with him nominated to supreme court? or do you think we're going to be still at loggerheads with one another? >> well, one would hope so, and i think the voters are sending a message. and the question is whether those in washington are going to get that message or not. if not, you're going to see the establishment outflanked again and again and again until i think it realizes what the american people want the folks who