that is run ultimately -- roger ailes has nothing to do with that. that's a statement at some level about where they're at. >>ore mainstream. it was -- they gave donald trump an -- i think a fabulous opportunity in this interview to reach out to the women voters. he is scared he might possibly have lost forever. >> and who he requires to have any prayer in this election. >> absolutely. >> that's the group he needs to change their minds. >> there's the reason to do it on the network rather that on fox news channel because fox news channel he's speaking to the choir. >> i find it's a bemusing spectacle of the cascade of all the republicans institutions and conservative movement institutions falling in line behind donald trump. because this whole idea like we should fight them everywhere, like give me a break. >> i think you should say most of the institutions, not all. he's actually behind what you would expect for a normal nominee. you have three members of the senate saying they won't support him in the general election which is small fraction of the

murdochg to make rupert and roger ailes, they don't have all of the power in the world, that is my intentand this is my means of doing it -- mark: based on the totality of what i know, that is what i think is his thinking. this are so many things in situation that are unprecedented and to have him go to a rally and have him attack fox news and have people boo fox news. charlie: it helps people think that the establishment had let them down. his -- mark:hat and i think his general strength is standing up to fox news, that conveyed strength. madeie: the argument is that he has got a long way to go and democrats are really because they are confident in latinos, the young, and that burden is too much and whatever he gained in terms of white males is not enough. in the primaries and on one-on-one, he did better in places like greenwich. demographicss a and the electoral college. to 70, 271. he has got to do better than that. 271.0, you have got to do better than that. white do well with married women? can he reach out to these other groups? it is the strongest anchor, the strongest foundation,

that he was willing to make roger ailes and rupert murdoch dance to his tune. and it showed-- . >> rose: you have heard him talk like that, i am gonna make rupert murdoch and roger ailes who think they've got all the power in the worlds, they don't have any power over me. that's what i am going to do. that is my intent and here's the means of doing it. >> based on the totality of what i know, i'm confident that was his thinking. and extraordinary spectacle. he has created so many moments in this campaign already that are unprecedented and extraordinary, to go to a rally, a hugely attended rally of the republican frontrunner, have him attack fox news and have people boo fox news. >> rose: because he was part of something that they believed in which is that the government and the establishment had let them down. >> the big institutions like fox news are against the people and part of the problem. >> yeah. and i think that his general, if he had to pick a single trait that has helped him so far, it's strength. and standing up to fox news, conveys strength. and i'm

roger ailes was a principal advisor to george bush.enjoying see his company, receiving letters from him -- but at the same time, to the point being made here, coarseness in american politics is not new. jon: it is forever hyperbolic, and it will be forever hyperbolic, because evy moment feels so fraught. backdon't think we look with -- obviously, we have to beware looking back nostalgically. but at the same time, we should not be fearful and look back to say, this was a moment where congressman george herbert walker bush, when he was presenting the seventh district from houston, two years under lyndon johnson, two years under richard nixon, he voted with lyndon johnson 52% of the time. fromne today, a republican texas voting with barack obama 52% of the time. the absence of bipartisanship, too. that has really been lost. even if you go back recently, to ronald reagan, ronald reagan and tip o'neill. ronald reagan was prepared to compromise. donald trump has said that's what he will be, that he is a transactional human being. jon: do you

rupert murdoch and roger ailes have turned fox news into donald trump. 247.rish: you see, it is our fault. when you do not like the message, you just lame the messenger. somehow this is a big conspiracy against you. joining me now is how -- howie kurts. >> they do not like him. it is all because you want trump to be the nominee so he can lose to hillary. to say that the fox news channel wants don on trump so he can lose to hillary just is not passed the test. trish: talk about conspiracy theory. he has some rough coverage in the last couple days. why? he bound the polls in indiana. doing certain things that are seen as desperate. carly fio three night meal. calling donald trump a serial commander. it helps him explain why, supposedly we are helping donald trump. trish: donald trump gets lots and lots of coverage. then again, donald trump won five races last tuesday. we talk about momentum. momentum is an incredibly important day. yes, you will generate a lot of coverage. they go hand-in-hand. the media is covering donald trump. >> donald trump has gotten a lo

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news have turned fox news into the donald trump network. 24/7. rupert murdoch is used to picking world leaders in australia and united kingdom, returning tabloids. we're seeing it here at home and consequences for this nation. deirdre: my political power panel is here. republican strategist ford o'connell. democratic national committee member nomiki konst. welcome to you both. some say cruz is showing desperation, swinging at any and all, what is your take? >> he absolutely is. this is do-or-die moment for him. if he loses indiana it will be psychological dagger because it is signal trump momentum is not confined to geographic northeast, it is expanding all over the math. if you're republican or conservative, if all else fails scream about bias in mainstream media. that is all you have left. one thing conservatives don't like is mainstream media. ted cruz got a lot lot of love from rush limbaugh and mark levine. that is disingenuous. deirdre: i don't know that i heard that said before so i'm glad you made it. nomiki, want to bring you in implying

>> yes, i mean, i can't -- you know, my boss, our boss, roger ailes has always told me don't go chasing audience. you can't program your show that way, who will i bring in, who will i alienate. it leads to compromised journalistic choices. so my goal for the past year has been to live up to that promise i made in the only statement i've made publicly about the trump attacks which was that i would continue to cover him without fear or favor. and i understood the risks of that because if you really do cover trump that way he does tend to attack you, especially if your name is megyn kelly. and i understood that some of his voters, some of his fans and some of our viewers might not like that and certainly i heard from them. and i understand that. they love him. they wanted him to win, they didn't want anybody, least of all a journalist, getting in the way or doing anything or offering coverage that might not reflect well on him or might impede his path. but that's for them to worry about. my job is to worry p something very different which is, you know, maintaining my integrity, maintaining

. >> amid all of the shouting here, i can hear the tears of disappointment from guys like roger ailesit could have been a super bowl-sized event. >> huge. >> tana? >> i do know mr. trump wanted $10 million to go towards charity. perhaps the charity wasn't coming forward, no one wanted to do it for charity. i don't know. mr. trump is in california and i'm in iowa. i have not had this conversation with him but i know when he's asked to do things like this, debate on other things and he says i'll give the money towards a charity, bring the money on, if that could possibly be it. i do not know, once again. what i was going to say to van, mr. trump has done nothing but had a strategy and the strategy has won. so when i say if mr. trump decided not to do this, i'm talking about a strategy to debate bernie sanders. that is his choice. he's still in the running to be the next president of the united states and maybe he decided this would not be good for him. i'm not at liberty to share with you all why he's not doing that. >> quick thought, s.e., was this a total misopportunity? >> completely

roger ailes has given me this powerful platform at 9:00 p.m. on fnc. maybe that accelerated to some extent the exposure that i had. but i don't give him the credit for that, to be pore fektly honest. as far as the year goes, this is part of what i was trying to get at. the truth is when trump comes after you, it's not just trump. any of us, we're in news, we're used to people saying nasty things about us. it's what happens with the supporters. not all of them. you know most of them are god-loving americans who are home like yes, would you help me out for the love of god. but some are not that way. and some take to like serious threats. and i have three young kids and i don't have secret service following me around. and so that piece of it has been very dark. and you know i'm hoping that that's all over now. >> you brought up a good point about you and doug, closer together, the whole family, because you guys bonded together to kind of take on the world. which i thought was nice. >> i think doug should run for office. doug -- honestly, he's -- just as d

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news have turned fox news into the donald trump network 24/7. rupert murdoch is used to picking world leaders in australia and the united kingdom, running tabloids. we're seeing it here at home and the consequences for this nation. the race is decided. you have no choice, you're stuck between donald trump or hillary clinton, either one of which is a horrific choice for this country. i will say the cynicism, donald is playing on the cynicism and lets the media play that he cannot be beat. the people of indiana and hoosiers can prove that wrong. the country is depending on indiana. if indiana does not act, this country could well plunge into the abyss. i don't believe that's who we are. we are not a proud boastful self-centered mean-spirited h e hateful bullying nation. you want to understand donald trump, look no further than the interview he did a few months ago in iowa, when he was asked a very simple question. when's the last time you asked god for forgiveness? and donald trump said, he had never asked god for forgiveness for anything. i want

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news have turned fox news into the donald trump network. 24/7. rupert murdoch is used to picking world leaders in australia and the united kingdom, running tabloids and we're seeing it here at home with the consequences for this nation. that comment border line conspiratorial, saying this man coming in from australia and the uk affecting our election here and that the media did want donald trump to become the nominee of the gop. >> i don't know that they were concerned about whether or not he would be the nominee. i think it was just a matter of he creates ratings. there were plenty of networks that were able to charge more for advertising when he was in a debate, but i want to address the idea that we were all missing in action when obamacare came around, when the stimulus came around. i don't know about anybody else, but i was out there marching with the tea party in 2009 and 2010. i was out there on the ground in 2012 and in 2014. i've been fighting the left and fighting obama ever since i've been able to have a voice at all on these issues. s

our boss roger ailes who has been there to steady the ship, i thought maybe i should do this or maybe. he helped me talk it through, and asked is this best course. i have my executive producer tom lowell how love like a brother who has has been there saying let's take a breath. helped make up commitment after the debate, continue to cover trump without fear or favor. i challenge everybody on "kelly file" team speak up, if you see the ship leaning one way or other. it has been challenging year. sandra: we want to show one more clip while we're at it. >> you seem to stay angry for months. >> yeah. >> was that real or was that strategy? >> well, i'm a real person. i don't say, oh, gee i'm angry tonight but tomorrow you're my best friend. see i do have a theory when somebody does it -- this could happen again with us, it could be, even during this particular interview. i have great respect for you you were able to call me and say let's get together and let's talk. to me i would not have done that. i don't say that as, you know, as positive. i think it is negative for me. you walk into tru

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news turned fox news into the donald trump network. 24/7. reporter: all right. so you can tell there, that mr. cruz is certainly the man who is trailing in the polls. trump taking it all in throughout the day, fighting back at times. put a statement out as a matter of fact, where he call cruz unhinged. with today's ridiculous outburst what i've been saying for a long time, ted cruz does not have temperment to be president of the united states. so much for the pivot to the general election. back and forth continues between these two, david, we think we'll see mr. trump at 9:00 at trump tower. david: for all the craziness, obscure reference to lee harvey oswald. who knows what is coming tomorrow. >> that kind of started whole thing. david: on "fox & friends." thank you, connell. >> here with what to expect from the republican primary, fred barnes, "weekly standard" executive editor. early voting records, fred, already showing record turnout. that is a good thing. more people are enpaged than ever before, who do you think that favors? >> probab

he went after rupert murdoch and he went after roger ailes.xecutives have made a decision to get behind donald trump. rup rupert murdoch and roger ailes have turned fox news into the donald trump network, 24/7. now, ruper murdoch is used to picking world leaders in australia and the united kingdom, running tabloids, and we're seeing it here at home. well the consequence is for this nation. >> it's incredible because in the past cruz has gone after the media, it's worked for him. never really gone after fox news like that before. >> he was looking at the polls, the same polls we were all looking at and saying, look, it looks like i'm going to lose indiana, and i have to win indiana. so he went after fox news. he tried to make the case that, look, there is a republican establishment that's sort of in bed with the larger washington establishment. fox news represents that. if you're a true -- if you value the sort of conservative ideals that i stand for, you'll rally behind me, and you'll realize that they're the enemy. it was a last-ditch effort,

murdochg to make rupert and roger ailes, who think they have all the power, they don't have power withe. that is what i'm going to do. what i know, i'm confident that was part of his thinking. it was an extraordinary spectacle. he has created so many moments already that are unprecedented, to go to a rally, usually attended rally as the front runner, have him attack fox news and have people boo fox news. charlie: because he was part of something people believe in, that the government and establishment let them down. mark: the big institutions, that they are against the people. charlie: yes. and i think his general -- if you had to pick a single trait that has helped him so far, it is strength. mark: and standing up to fox news 10 days. i'm confident he saw it that way. charlie: and belittling his opponents conveyed strength? mark: sure. charlie: the argument is made he has a long way to go, and democrats are confident because that, latinos, the young, that burden is too much. and whatever he gains in terms of white males is not enough. i recognize in the later primaries, one-on-one he

i mean, roger ailes was a principal advisor to george bush. >> sure. >> i love him, knowing to see him in the last-- and enjoyed his company, have received letters from him. but at the same time, to the point that was being made here, the course of american politics is not new. >> no. and i think it's forever hyperbolic and will be forever hyperbolic because every moment feels so frawt. and so i don't think we look back with-- obviously we have to be aware of not looking back nostalgicically. but at the same time we should not be fearful to look back and say this was a moment where congressman george herbert walker bush when he was representing the seventh, from 1957 to 1971 had two years under lyndon johnson and two years under richard nixon. he voted with lyndon johnson 52 percent of the time. imagine today a republican from texas voting with barack obama 52% of the time. >> you mean like the republican senator, like ted cruz. >> exactly. >> you know. >> but that's the-- that's the absence of bipartisanship too. >> right. >> you know, they do yearn for it. that has really been lost.

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news have turned fox news into the donald trump network. 24/7.> cruz had been making this charles about tv news in general and brought in fox just before the indiana primary. what do you make of what he said? >> ted cruz's very first fundraising e-mail went against the liberal media and that was a tactic for him from beginning to end. i see this as a book end. to the substance of it, i mean, it's a little crazy considering you just have to read megyn kelly's twitter feed to know this is not the pro trump network. there are some trump friendly anchors on this network, no doubt about it, but at the end of the day this is not trump news network. >> there is a lot of trump critics on this network. >> that's right. >> megyn kelly and donald trump have made peace. >>> the coverage of cruz in the final ten days i would say, gayle, was very rough, he was called desperate, even in news stories, real gland err remember stuff, but he was losing. do you think it was fair or unfair the way he was portrayed at the end? >> unfair. it's like the michael due kak

rupert murdoch and roger ailes at fox news have turned fox news into the donald trump network.rupert murdoch is used to picking world leaders in australia and the united kingdom running tabloids, and we're seeing it here at home with the consequences for this nation. media executives are trying to convince hoosiers, trying to convince americans, the race is decided. you have no choice. you are stuck between donald trump or hillary clinton, either one of which is a horrific choice for this country. and i will say the cynicism -- and donald is playing on the cynicism. he lets the media echo he cannot be beat. hoosiers can prove that wrong. the people of indiana can prove that wrong, and the country is depending on indiana. if indiana does not act, this country could well plunge into the abyss. i don't believe that's who we are. we are not a proud, bothfastful self-centered, mean spirited, hateful, bullying nation. if you want to understand donald trump, look no further than the interview he did a few months ago in iowa when he was asked a very simple question -- when is the last

>> i think it's hard to say that ten months ago, roger ailes, the chief of fox news, and donald trump and megyn kelly sat down in a room and said, all right, let's see how we can further all of our careers. now, that said, everyone has benefited from this. i don't think megyn kelly particularly enjoys the amount of, you know, like threats she's received from donald trump's core supporters. but her career has skyrocketed. she's in a position now where she can be angling for a barbara walters or oprah winfrey type position, and donald trump has benefited because he's going to be the nominee of the republican party. so it's sort of hard to -- i'll tell you this as a media reporter to have been covering this for nine or ten months and every time donald trump sends out a tweet or fox news responds, the feud is kicking up again when really they're playing off each other and building each other up. >> trump was asked effectively what this all would mean if indeed he didn't go ahead and win this race. i want you to take a listen to what he said because i thought it was interesting. >> if i do

maria: and of course roger ailes came here come the start of fox news channel, ratings off the chart.oing it again with the business network. >> father left when they formed msnbc which is the channel he was developing in doubt than two and a lack and he was very upset about that. going over here to create fox was sort of a natural ending of that. maria: it really was. d.c. bigger changes for the overall industry five years now? >> i think there is a great place for life television and news, information, sport and there is going to be a tremendous amount of individual viewing by third of streaming or whether it is on demand for all kinds of other things. that's the world with a van for the next number of years. maria: i want to congratulate you on what you and your wife suzanne have been able to do with autism speaks. he moved the needle, made the awareness up and center. thank you very much. bob wright, good to see you, sir. thanks so much. new developments on the deadly plane crash in mississippi. starbucks profit chain out back in many forms. how many fewer calories the coveted dri