lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. let's go now to chicago. we want to show you what is going on there. this is the venue. it is the university of illinois at chicago's university village neighborhood. it's a pavilion, and what you are looking at inside are a number of protesters. we don't have an exact count, who have moved into the pavilion, and outside, hundreds, as many as 700 is the number that we heard at last count, who are demonstrating against donald trump. it is far from certain exactly who they're representing. certainly, they are opposed to donald trump. among them we're told will be some 180 members of the faculty of the university of illinois at chicago, who are displeased that donald trump would even dare to be on an institution like the university where apparently the idea of free expression is no longer prevalent or in any way valued. we're four days right now from donald trump potentially securing his grip on the republican presidential nomination, and it seems to me that in all likelihood. if we can go back to the pictures.

now the man himself, lou dobbs next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. the gop establishment tonight is playing a very dangerous game as they have made stopping donald trump a number one priority of their party. these are the same gop elites who have screwed up and lost two presidential elections in a row. and today, a secretive group of republican operatives and conservative leaders met for some five hours in washington. they were there talking about ways to deny voters who want donald trump to be the nominee. this group of conservatives led by red state founder erick erickson sound like ideological suicide platoon as they reportedly are considering a number of strategies, including a third party conservative run for the white house. trump, to this point has outwitted his opposition, outmaneuvered them for months, both republicans and democrats. super pacs have reportedly wasted more than $200 million attacking failed republican candidates that include scott walker, jeb bush, chris christie, marco rubio, and at the same time, voters have made it increas

lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. donald trump confronting his critics who say he's weak on world affairs. delivering his biggest foreign policy speech to date. trump just moments ago outlining his foreign policy vision before the country's leading pro israel group apec. >> my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with iran. [cheers and applause] i have been in business a long time. i know deal making. and let me tell you. this deal is catastrophic. for america, for israel, and for the whole of the middle east. lou: trump also meeting with senior republicans less than 24 hours before the next primaries and caucuses. 98 delegates at stake in tomorrow's elections. the theme of today's meeting, party unity. in the closed door meeting, congressman will be here shortly. also republican leaders fiercely oppose to donal donald trump's candidacy preparing 100 day campaign they say to try to rip their presidential nomination from him. and the talk of a third party candidate grows in washington. >> if he's the

lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. it's midnight in belgium where a massive manhunt is under way for a suspected terrorist who fled the brussels airport after the explosives he was carrying failed to detonate. intelligence agencies are now racing to learn more about the radical islamist terrorist cell responsible for yesterday's horrific attack. >>> donald trump's lead in the republican race for the white house narrowing in one poll. a brand-new "fox news poll" shows trump still in the top spot as he's been for nine months with 41% support among republican primary voters, but cruz is within striking distance just three points behind at 38%. trump leading in the delegate race, bringing his total number of delegates to 739. 60% of the 1237 needed to secure the republican nomination. but the republican establishment still intent on trying to bring down trump. house speaker paul ryan, who never misses an opportunity to criticize trump, today delivered a veiled rebuke of the republican front-runner. >> our political discour

now lou dobbs with jeff. next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. republican presidential candidates are battling it out for votes on the eve of super tuesday. senator marco rubio launching intensely personal attacks against donald trump who isn't afraid one bit to hit back. >> he's always calling me little marco. and i'll admit. the guy's taller man they, like, 6'2", which is why i don't understand why his hands are like the size of someone 5'2"? have you seen his hands? they're like this. and you know what they say about men with small hands. you can't trust them. you can't trust them. >> in florida where he comes from, this guy couldn't be elected dogcatcher right now if he ran. because he's like a machine. a robot. you wind him up, and he talks. it's like a robot. we call him the robot. well, we call him the lightweight. but we call him the lightweight robot. lou: well, it is clear that the presidential debate dialogue is elevating. the attacks on trump whatever they are aren't working. the republican front-runner today boasting about stunning n

lou: u.s. briefly locked down after a man drew a gun then pointed it at officers at capitol visitor center,. suspect identified larry dawson, shot by police officers, taken into custody, fox news obtained court document show this october last year, dawson was charged with assaulting a police officer on capitol grounds and failed to show up for a enough court appear an, he wrote a letter saying he is exempt from the law because he and i prophet from god. lou: congressman tom moreno is joining us now. a member of several key committees. he also endorses donald trump for president. i want to -- my pleasure. lou: i want to turn to first brussels terrorist attacks, your relationship with nato, and involvement in foreign affairs. ted cruz said that donald trump of the calling for disillusion of nato, i never heard donald trump say, that have you? >> no, i have not, his statement we should rethink nato. but he said we should not stop being a part of nato. i'm vice president of nato parliamently assemb

lou dobbs is next. . lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs.his election season has been something of a circus to many observers. the latest side show about as crazy as it gets. police in jupiter, florida today charging trump campaign manager corey lewandowski with misdemeanor battery for allegedly grabbing a reporter working at the time for breitbart news, the reporter, michelle fields. the reporter showed a police officer her arm from bruising what appeared to be several finger marks indicating a type of injury. the officer releasing video that shows lewandowski grabbing fields as she walked alongside trump, which is what you see on the screen. trump says look at the video, there is nothing there. in fact, trump says he may have a case himself against fields for touching him. >> corey is a fine person. i looked at the tape. the tapes were supplied by me and conclusive. a lot of people are looking and saying how can anybody be charged? if you look at her, she's grabbing at me, and he's acting as an intermediary and trying to block her from doi

lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. speculation running rampant tonight after donald trump held a surprise sitdown with the republican national committee chairman. that meeting comes two days after trump abandoned the rnc pledge to support whoever is to be the nominee, by both accounts. the meeting went well. trump tweeted, quote -- the chairman and mr. trump had a productive conversation about the state of the race. meeting and phone conversations with candidates and their campaigns are common, and will increase as we get closer to november. i just bet they do get more common. but the rnc is also signaling it may be preparing for a brokered convention. they've launched a new website, it's called convention facts dot gop, it lays out the party's rules for nominating a presidential candidate. also tonight, brand new fox business polls on the state of the race in wisconsin. i'll have the numbers for you here in just moments. and we'll take a deep dive into trump's campaign schedule. trump promised to campaign in wisconsin

lou: good evening, i'm lou dobbs. the republican party establishment is waging war against donald trump. today he made it clear he will defend himself and his supporters and that the gop elite will not win if they persist. trump warned the republican party leaders, donors and others to back off the war they had begun and as he put it, to treat them fairly. the republican frontrunner speaking to a large crowd in cadillac, michigan. he warned the gop if he's forced to leave the republican party, he would certainly take with him hims of voters who came into the party to support him. >> the biggest story in all of politic is what's happening to the republican party and i'm getting zero credit for it. they are not coming in for little marco, that i can tell you. millions of people are coming to vote. millions and millions of people are coming to vote for the republicans and joining the republican party because of me. because of me. and if i ever left, they would go aware as fast as i would, they would go away. lou: ted cru

now lou dobbs. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs.onald trump is halfway to the nomination. one has fewer delegates than senator marco rubio who suspended his campaign last night. he now has 673 delegates and is ahead in the vote count in missouri. trump leads by two tenths of a percent. sen. crews has a week to decide whether to insist on a recount. his 1st and is only when come all of which increases the likelihood of a contested gop presidential convention this summer. >> we will when before getting to the convention, but if we didn't and if we are 20 votes short or a hundred short and we are at 1100 and someone else's at five or 400. i don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. he would have riots. lou: riots. trump now needs more than half of all the remaining delegates. it is a high bar. favored to win an upcoming state. setting his sights on hillary clinton. >> a tough pass. 132 delegates. crews would need to an 80 percent of all remaining delegates. well, he may have 175 delegates last night, but the only way

now here is lou. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs.slamic state today struck at the center of europe, carrying out suicide attacks in brussels. attacks began 8:00 a.m. brussels time. two explosions went off close to the american airlines check-in desk at brussels airport. about an hour later another blast went off on subway station in heart of brussels near the headquarters of the european union. islamic state claimed responsibility for those bombings that claimed lives of 34 people and injured more than 200 others including nine americans. an intense manhunt is now underway in europe. police searching for the man as you see there, in that light coat and black hat on the right of your screen. witnesses say that he fled the brussels international airport after the deadly explosions. today's attacks carried out four days after the arrest of a key suspect in last year's paris terrorist attacks. salah abdeslam now in does ski following a police raid friday also in brussels. american cities including new york, los angeles and washington, th

now lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. a dramatic raid in the jihadi capital of europe and the arrest of one of the world's most wanted terrorists. we'll have the latest developments from belgium on the climax to what has been a europewide four month long manhunt for islamic state terrorists. >>> donald trump and family are under more than political attack. the new york police department is investigating a suspicious package sent to the home of donald trump's son eric, and the notorious hacker group anonymous declared total war on trump. already releasing some of his personal information. meanwhile the usual political anti-trump forces are intensifying attacks with just a few days to go before the next primary elections in utah and arizona. trump leads the polls in arizona and the prospect of trump widening his delegate lead has pushed party elites into a full-blown hand wringing agita if not outright panic. house speaker ryan flew to florida to meet with a group of anti-trump big money donors in palm beach. the meeting wa

lou: i am lou dobbs, washington cartel, republican establishment, and one of their leading tools and hinge men in reversal of historic proportions, mitt romney, who lost presidency in 2012 to a president who could hardly have had a worse record or been a weak are candidate, today decided to take on the role of a tax dog in 2016 presidential election. but he attacked republican front runner, instead of leading democratic candidate. romney did help further explosthe workings of washington cartel, republican alliance among establishment, marco rubio and romney it was all apparent in the scathing attack against trump, strikingly similar to the rubio attack. >> there is evidence that mr. trump is a conman, a fan. >> he is a con artist. >> he inherited his business. >> he inherited $200 million. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> what he did to the students at trump university. lou: trump returned fire at a rally in maine. >> mitt was thinking about running again, he ran a horrible campaign, a campaign that should have never been lost, you are running against a failed president, high

lou dobbs. >> good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. establishment republican gop elites and the donor class desperate after their efforts to stop donald trump last night just crumbled. trump won seven states, enough delegates that will be more difficult than ever for the establishment gop to stop him. senator ted cruz also had a good night winning three states, his home state of texas, oklahoma, and alaska. senator marco rubio did win finally the minnesota caucus, which means trump leads in the delegate count with 319 to cruz's 226 and rubio's 110. trump last night reached out to republicans who try to take him down. >> we are going to be a much bigger party. and you can see that happening. we're going to be a much bigger party. our party is expanding. and all you have to do is take a look at the primary states where i've won and just look where we've gone from x-number to a much larger number. that hasn't happened to the republican party in many, many decades. so i think we're going to be more inclusive. i think we're going to be more

lou? lou: jo ling kent, thank you very much.ll be going back to jo ling for more as we get more information from the exit polling. >>> joining me political reporter for real clear politics, rebecca bird, and editor of the "national review," rich lowry, rich, great to have you here. rebecca, any surprise for you in those demographics, those numbers that we're breaking down in the exit polling that jo ling just presented? >> well, some of the early exits are surprising for me in virginia and vermont, lou, where we have john kasich in a tight race with donald trump up in vermont, and in virginia, a tight race unfolding between marco rubio and donald trump. if they are able to come close to beating him or overcome him in either of the states, it's going to punch a hole in the narrative that donald trump is unstoppable and he'll be having people ask a lot of questions about what they did there that worked? . lou: you think two states would make the difference? >> it could, because right now donald trump is sort of like a runaway trai

i do endorse lou. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs am the republican establishment, gop elites tonight, upping their efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters and create a brokered convention. outside groups and campaigns reportedly are committing more than 9 million dollars to be spent specifically on ads in florida ahead of next tuesday's winner-take-all primary. but trump taking the high road and calling on republicans to unify behind his candidacy. >> if we embrace what's happening and if everybody came together instead of spending all this money on the ridiculous ads that frankly are wrong. and they're just false ads. you know, it's terrible. if everybody came together, nobody could beat the republican party, we would walk into washington. we would literally have such a great election victory. lou: it appears there's going to be a development aimed at unity. trump about to win a big endorsement. sources telling fox news john roberts that dr. ben carson will endorse donald trump tomorrow morning at a campaign even

lou? lou: wow. that's significant.leadership of the republican party and the behavior, really, of the establishment, its donor class. by the way, the cheers you heard as jo ling was reporting on those numbers about tells it like it is, that was none other than rich lowry. [laughter] he couldn't contain himself. jo ling, thanks so much. we appreciate it. >>> up next here, it's still too early to project a winner in ohio or north carolina, but we are counting down to the next poll closures in florida, illinois and missouri. just about 21 minutes away. also marco rubio, once touted by "time" magazine as the savior of the republican party, but if he doesn't win florida, he may lose savior status, and his campaign may be at an end. what went wrong? we take that up and much, much more here. stay with us, we're coming right back. when you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves? is it fin

lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. belgian investigators now believe there may be two suspects at large connected to tuesday's terrorist attack in brussels. one suspect fled the airport. authorities have now released a sketch of the second man who was reportedly seen carrying a large bag and walking with a terrorist who blew himself up at the molbeak subway station. anti-terrorist raids in brussels. six more people arrested. all of that under way amid rising criticism of the belgian government's failure to prevent the terrorist attacks. the two brothers named as suicide bombers reportedly listed as terror threats in u.s. databases. i'll be taking up the radical islamist terrorist threat with general jack keane tonight. >>> also tonight, the ted cruz rivalry getting increasingly personal and nasty with attacks on donald trump. cruz today attacked trump for retweeting an unflattering image of his wife, heidi, after cruz gant exchange with a super pac attack on the donald's wife melania. >> i don't get angry often, but yo

lou: oh, boy.tions you shouldn't ask, usually they're the ones to which you should know the answers. >> correct. lou: joining us tonight kimberly, she is cohost of the five all great american. great to have you here. >> great to be here today and great job today on outnumbere. lou: it was a lot of fun to be with the ladies and talk a little politics. i want to go to now first ben carson. since he endorsed donald trump has acquired a gift of elegance -- i mean if we may. here is dr. ben carson, and i would like to get your reaction. >> if the protesters continue with their tactics, there is a real possibility of escalation. because those who are the victims of them have two choices. they can submit to them and meekly just do whatever those protesters want them to do, or they can fight back. and if they decide to fight back, there could be an escalation. lou: dr. ben carson. i mean that's about as forthrightly as you can put it; right? >> i love ben carson with a beach ball shot. it's just, like, wow

in the meantime, here's the man thims, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. six days until tuesday's winner take most wisconsin primary and the latest poll puts ted cruz well ahead of donald trump. a brand-new market university poll shows cruz leading trump by ten points in the race for the 42 delegates. the polls show cruz 40% support compared to trump's 30 and kasich 21%. a week of mixed emotions and swings for trump who monday celebrated the birth of another grandson and yesterday his campaign manager charged with misdemeanor simple battery, and today trump generating controversy for these comments on abortion. >> do you believe -- do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, is it principleed? . >> the answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah, some form. >> ten days, ten years, what? >> i don't know. >> why not? you take positions on everything else. >> do i take positions on everything else, it's a complicated position. lou: trump has walked back his comments saying the abortion provider would face punish

lou? lou: carl, thank you very much. carl cameron reporting. >>> on the democratic side, there are 96 delegates at stake in wisconsin tuesday, but hillary clinton has her sights set on the big state of new york, which votes in mid-april, almost 300 democratic delegates at stake. clinton is now campaigning in her adopted home state and using the opportunity to slam her competition. ed henry is with her and has our report. >> reporter: hillary clinton is nervous enough about her adopted state that almost one month before the new york primary, she's already running a little scared. campaigning today to bakery in harlem with congressman charlie rangel. >> it's a joy to be campaigning in new york, and so we're going to cover the city. we're going to cover the suburbs. we're going to cover upstate. >> reporter: and packing the world-famous apollo theatre ahead of the april 19th primary to slam bernie sanders' revolution as simply unrealistic. >> my opponent and i share many of the same goals. so

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lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. voters in four states tonight casting their ballots, idaho, michigan, mississippi holding primaries, hawaii holding republican caucuses. we expect to have the results soon after. republican front-runner donald trump is expected to do well in several of those states. his goal is to widen his lead, of course, over senator ted cruz and perhaps to deliver a fatal blow to senator marco rubio. political analysts also want to know how trump performs in michigan? the biggest prize tonight, 59 delegates there. and trump has consistently been leading in michigan by various, various numbers. but, nonetheless, michigan's son mitt romney has been doing everything he can to slow momentum and indeed stop trump altogether. senator ted cruz coming off two big wins in kansas and maine over the weekend but winning michigan could be difficult for the texas senator, and the state has the second largest delegates up tonight. 40 of them. and senator rubio focused on a make-or-break primary in home state of

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lou: understood, and agreed. let me turn to this exchange of tweets, the cruz pac, super pac, i shouldn't say that, they are actually just anti-trump, they say, led by liz mayer, former deputy campaign director for mitt romney, sending a vicious, to me, a vicious attack on you, and reaching to your wife, then the exchange with you and senator cruz, an exchange of threats, if you will, an extraordinary display. are you going to continue -- and i've heard you answer this 100 times with probably a hundred different people. seems to me, this is one which when wives are brought into this, it requires a different approach altogether. i want your thoughts in how you're going to proceed and what you think the standard should be? >> i'm glad you asked me the question, i thought it was terrible. first of all it's "gq" magazine, a nice mainstream magazine, a good magazine, they had my wife on the cover. my wife was a very, very successful model, really successful. beautiful woman and all, and she did a shoot for gq, i think

your thoughts on lou? >> i love thai lou. he is a point guard. he no what it takes -- he knows what it takes to take the cavaliers where they want to go. >> lebron james was all over the place. only 31 minutes. i love when he doesn't have to play the whole game. today, lebron james ends up at 27 points. do you think lebron james is getting to the next level? >> he is efficient. that's lebron james. like i said, he started off going to the basket and it opened up so he was able to go three for four for the three- pointer. he is still the best basketball player in the nba. >> do you expect him to turn it up to the next level of playoffs? we have been watching him. i'm not saying lebron james is bored with the regular season, but maybe fans are looking at this and the players are like let's just get through the regular season. what you think is mindset is right now? >> to get through the regular season. he knows when to turn it up, it's really time to play. not to say he doesn't give it all every night but it's another level. >> let's catch up on ka

lou: is that right? it's not you know donald trump's home state but every other golf course there is his so he does have a distinct advantage. but what you make of that and what message it sends marco rubio if he does fight on? what do you think? lou: i personally neil cannot imagine he could take things from here. it would be bad for him. the arithmetic does not work for him and he would look like nothing less than the show with the establishment gop to do so trying as hard as they can to stop trump. i think it would look bad. i think this is a man who knows he has been whipped and he shows it in every public appearance. there is no need to continue this kind of pain for anyone. it is inhumane in fact so i can see it happening for the senator be on tomorrow. neil: so you think he goes on to fight another day. lou dobbs thank you very much. i do want to go to karl cheney and rubio headquarters in miami. they hoped this would be like a michigan phenomenon where the polls would miss it and what looked like

lou: congressman, lou dobbs.e one who is getting up on his high horse and condemning the rhetoric from unmentioned folks referring indeed to donald trump but of the same time he wants to set the agenda for the republican party rather ambitiously so when in the world are folks in the house going to tell him that's not your job and it's not the agenda we want to? >> he already does that. the members of my class in the two classes after me we made it clear that we will legislate from the bottom up and there are more than half of us and i want to make this very clear. we took one speaker out and we can take another speaker out. i don't think that's going to be the need. paul speaks very clearly -- neil: one goes in the others could follow. lou: we don't want you to take what neil has said in fighting a policy discussion in marginal tax rates. neil: congressman thank you very much. very good having you. everyone is coalescing around this guy trump now. kennedy: or reminds me of being in los angeles when the lakers mak