stoddard: rubio' s polling well. john kasich is a new threat. there is a possibility that could be a contested convention. at other surprise could be on the democratic side if a michigan electorate appears in ohio -- the same kind of appeal for senator sanders among democratic voters with a strong anti-trade message. fernando: do you think marco rubio is still viable in some scenarios? ms. stoddard: i think marco rubio is looking really damaged in the polling in florida. most of the polls -- one poll had an eight points behind donald trump. another, 20, 20 3 -- 18. that looks like a tough climb. i do not know if he is going to get out. his campaign says he is going to sometimes -- they in until florida. sometimes it sounds like he will stay in after florida. there is a lot of pressure to stop donald trump and also stop ted cruz. i think it makes the most sense in another year for someone like marco rubio to leave, try to preserve his path to a political governor in 2018. fernando: switching to hillary clinton, you have written about her legal pr

stoddard was interested in the contents of my file.ow what he was doing. >> after a few moments of reading, stoddard motions for another officer to come over. she continues her statement antonio, the defendant who was being sentenced for assaulting another inmate, notices the activity behind him but doesn't say anything. then, stoddard removes the document from the file and examines it. a potentially serious breach of attorney-client privilege. he instructs the other officer to go and make a copy of it. as that officer leaves, she turns around but is unaware of what they are doing with the document. >> i think he did give me like the, it's okay look, and i probably turned back. >> she resumes speaking to the judge who does not seem to see the officers taking the document either. but lozano finally brings the matter to the court's attention. >> i was shocked and surprised. i had to protect my client's rights and that's first and foremost, what i had to do, so that was my focus. >> she requests a sidebar to express her concern to the jud

stoddard, thank you for your peek into the future for us. i'm not sure it's a pretty peek.carolina tonight are searching for a shoplifter, a shoplifter who failed to look out for himself. he failed to look both ways as he ran from a store. the crook in question is there allegedly carrying 40 pounds of stolen meat. he looked behind him, he's looking hard and forgot to look in front of him, he didn't see the suv. that is a face plant world class. oh! >>> up next, foreign worker visas a hot-button issue during last night's debate. did anybody understand the issue? and, of course, it hit home for a former disney worker who testified on capitol hill. >> clearly remember going to the local church pumpkin sale, and having to tell the kids i couldn't buy any that year because my job, being turned over to a foreign worker. i started tong what kind of american i was becoming. ruining our country by take severance pay for training my foreign replacement? how many other americans would be affected by the same foreign worker that i trained. lou: tens of thousands precisely in that posit

stoddard, editor of the national review, fox news contributor, rich lowry. ourselves, as they say in texas, a barn burner. i got to use one of those, i've never been able to use one of those, we got it tonight. what do you think? >> yeah, i think it's going to be exciting either way. if kasich wins his first state and declares himself a real winner in this race, or if trump wins it, it's kind of surprising. looks like he's going to take florida, mr. trump, and it looks like the end of the line for senator rubio who's said all day he's going to go on to utah, but that's what they say before they end their campaigns usually. there could be, also, surprises from senator cruz, so this is a really interesting evening not to mention if there's some bernie sanders surprises along the way in ohio, illinois, missouri, other places. so it's -- i think the outcome, unless hillary and trump won everything, i guess that would even be surprising. so it's going to be an electrifying evening. lou: there's no way that we can escape a surprise and a few delights and perhaps a

stoddard and from the "bostonb viser.d out his supporters will show up to vote for somebody else. some of the people who voted yesterday, republicans would vote for a third party against him. >> the never trumps are never ever. and they are not going to come around. just like his supporters won't come around if is he pushed out. the never trumps are never come around. and they want someone else. and they are wig republican party to find somebody else. they also believe is he going to get beaten badly by hillary clinton. i don't agree with them. i actually think he can beat hillary clinton. is he terrible general election candidate and can't win in november. >> matt, i think the pro-trumps similarly are not going to vote for anybody going to vote for anybody else but donald?$5 he is not on that ticket i don't see them showing up in november to vote for anybody else the republican party puts up at this point. >> that's right. i agree. i think that it makes it awfully difficult depending whether the pro-trumps can,s outweigh

one of them 50-year-old mark stoddard killed in bradenton. he was armed with a knife when he was shot at his home. deputies were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance. his wife says he had been drinking and threatened to harm himself. after being placed on routine leave, the deputy is now back on the job. we posted a link to the interactive map on abcactionnews.com. >>> cheerful testimony from erin andrews continued today in it follows the release of a video shot through her nashville hotel room peephole back in 2008 that shows her naked. jason lamb shows how that changed old habits for andrews. >> for the second day, jurors listened to dramatic testimony from erin andrews about the impact stemming from the release of that online video. impacts she says she still feels even today. >> i think the thing that has really hit home for me and hurts me the worse is when girls, high school, college, they tweet me and they say i want to be erin andrews except for the marriott stalker thing. and i can't control that. and that's every day. >>

stoddard and from the daily beast jack kucinich.jackie, he wasn't a hostage. >> when you watched that press conference, he did not look comfortable. not only that he got a lot of backlash not only from all those newspapers in new jersey but meg whitman the co-chair of his campaign. >> hit him hard. >> hit him really hard. i can't even imagine the phone call he is getting that we don't know about. so he has been criticized from all sides at this point. so he had to come out and defend himself. what did we expect him to say? >> he didn't waiver at all. he was quite strong when he came out today, a.b. >> well, he wants to defend his decision and rationalize his choices. but there is long-standing feeling in the party that he got up in 2012 to give the keynote address at the republican convention for romney and spoke about himself thehe entire time. someone said today probably on twitter, you know, that he is romney today than he did in nominating speech. that was the feeling about chris christie. he certainly gave donald trump some and

singled indicated columnist george will, laura ingram, amy stoddard, and charles krauthammer. welcome to all of you. george, i'll start with you. the president had planned the trip. for you, is there a difference between his obligations with cuba and argentina as far as packing up and coming home? >> it is different because there should not have been there in the first place. the workplace violence as he calls it at ft. hood is part of his general pose of superior understanding. furthermore, it goes to immediately the default position. if we don't continue with whatever we're doing, then terrorists will be reassured. so if we don't tango, the terrorists have won. it is a familiar call. then he brings out the idea that more people die in swimming pool accidents than ic nonsecond wit. if do i these things that my schedule will be changed, every time there is a terrorist attack, it will happen frequently because terrorism is so frequent. which is it? i have to say on the terror issue, he tried to resist it numerous times and it became clear he was super uncomfortable. she wanted

. >> let's bring in amy stoddard. you listen to hillary clinton's speech as it continues on in the evening, she's basically accusing him of fear mongering. it looked like that is something that may have pushed some people to vote for donald trump in arizona. >> we've seen her on the last several nights get past not having to deal with bernie sanders and get excited about solar panels. this is a woman contemplating unpredictability of donald trump's appeal. she's to say we're the best country, our best days are still ahead. and knowing that people are so afraid and i think she probably in september as two nominees doing far better than him in a policy debate. but that is not what the voters are asking for. and she knows she's going into unknown waters facing off in this heat. >> donald trump is closing in on potentially 50% in arizona. we don't know how the rest of the 35% of the precincts are going to come in but he's at 46% now. characterize what this means for trump going forward. >> she's able to get over 50% for t

let's walk through the scenarios with amy stoddard.hristopher bedford is editor-in-chief at the news foundation. christopher, you have been watching this date for some time. tell us why. >> i have. a year ago my friend said put this date on your cell phone. if there is no nominee chosen tonight we are in for a long slog. it turns out that's true. no one will be able to pull ahead. the best case scenario for donald trump would be 0 clear the table. but a lot of the votes have been cast. with the early voters. for marco rubio it doesn't work well for him. when 1.1 million people in florida cast their votes, bush and carson were still in the race. so a lot of candidates were still in the race. in ohio it may work in favor of kasich because early voters did favor him. jon: the early polling that's been taken doesn't necessarily reflect balance lots that have already been cast. we could be in for surprises tonight. >> we could. interesting thing marco rubio is clinging to, in previous contests he received more of the late-breaking trump tha

stoddard, associate editor of the hill.cal commentator amanda carpenter who used to serve as communications director for senator cruz. happy friday. a.b., let me begin you with here on this whole notion of the unity ticket. at this the meeting behind closed doors, apparently this unit ticket would be ted cruz and john kasich. what is the logic of how these two could actually stop trump? >> well, look, i don't think that they can win more delegates than donald trump going forward, but they might be able to stop him from reaching 1,237 before the convention. they're already in a kind of unity ticket because they're not criticizing each other. you hear cruz say he's the only one who can stop trump but they're not attacking each other because they know they're better off with each other in the race. they'll amass more delegates combined than if one of them it was try to go against trump and they'll make it more possible that he's stopped before the convention. but both of them have only one path and that is contested convention

singled indicated columnist george will, laura ingram, amy stoddard, and charles krauthammer.come to all of you. george, i'll start with you. the president had planned the trip. for you, is there a difference between his obligations with cuba and argentina as far as packing up and coming home? >> it is different because there should not have been there in the first place. the workplace violence as he calls it at ft. hood is part of his general pose of superior understanding. furthermore, it goes to immediately the default position. if we don't continue with whatever we're doing, then terrorists will be reassured. so if we don't tango, the terrorists have won. it is a familiar call. then he brings out the idea that more people die in swimming pool accidents than ic nonsecond wit. if do i these things that my schedule will be changed, every time there is a terrorist attack, it will happen frequently because terrorism is so frequent. which is it? i have to say on the terror issue, he tried to resist it numerous times and it became clear he was super uncomfortable. she wanted us t

. >> joining me now is chris stirewalt and amy stoddard. all right, stirewalt, we've been focused on super tuesday, super tuesday ii, even michigan. what's happening tomorrow, that's a lot of delegates. trump has about 300. cruz has got in the 200s. rubio has about 100. this could have a real impact. >> not only does it have an impact in terms of what is promising to be a long, grinding grind to get to the requisite number, to get a majority of delegates to win outright for donald trump or conversely for them to try to stop him, it is a numbers game. but it's also a time of the enormous conflagration of a trash pile that we saw on the stage from the republican candidates in the face of some very expert questioning from some people. the party is pulling its hair out and freaking out. is it changing? are republicans changing their mind? are things going to be different? is donald trump in trouble? are the rest of them going to fall away? this is our first test after that enormous debate to see where things are going. >> especially because the

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friends in the group here and thanks of course to ray, my co-author, and i need to recognize sam stoddard who is research assistant and all purpose analyst and friend working on this paper. extremely helpful, we couldn't have done it without you. it is chaos out there. both in the campaign and on capitol hill. ray and i don't need to belabor that point. what we decided we would do is go out there in the country and look for a non-we could actually turn still connected with something that would reduce the amount of sheer chaos and frustration. we think we have found such a knob and we think it is hidden in plain view. we think it is time to refocus and this is actually low hanging fruit. there's a lot that can be done with bipartisan support that isn't very difficult and that would make significant event -- significant inroads. we did a bunch of things. we sent a survey to all 100 democratic and state democratic hardy's and got back 56 of those in time to use, which is quite a lot. comparede per -- we the results with earlier surveys. we also interviewed 15 state party executive directors

joining me, amy stoddard. jackie kusinic, and ryan williams, used to be spokesman for romney when he served as governor of massachusetts. welcome to all of you. ryan, let's chat about your former bo. can we talk about this speech tomorrow? tell me what you know. >> well, i don't expect governor romney make an endorsement or announce a candidacy. he has made secret that donald trump, he thinks, is an absolute disaster, somebody who would destroy the party, somebody who has been a con man throughout his career, said one thing and done another. i think he has been good about that. he has been trolling donald trump with suites tweets, i think you will hear it in person during the speech. >> he has been trolling him indeed on twid quitter with the tax return and other thing. but my question to you gloria borger, this speech wasn't on the books for a while. it is a sudden speech. why now? why not two weeks ago? why not two months ago ryan. >> i haven't talked to the governor? i'm not sure about the timing of the spe

stoddard, associate editor at the hill, and cnn political director david chalian. first, you heard what cruz was saying kasich saying, with regard to those delegates. who's right? >> they don't disagree, they're both right in what they're saying. it is true that john kasich would need more than 100% of the delegates remaining in order to become the nominee outright before the convention, getting to that magic number of 1,237, 50% plus one, a true majority, but as kasich stated if kasich wins ohio, it is quite possible this thing goes on potentially as a three-man race if rubio ends up getting out, if he does indeed lose florida. and nobody gets to 1,237 before the convention and it goes to a contested convention. what cruz and kasich are saying are actually not at odds with each other, they're just try to push their best spin forward to win votes tomorrow. >> a.b., let's go down a couple different narratives. what happens if john kasich were to win his home state of ohio tomorrow? then what? >> well, i think he's going to say it's resetting the race. you might actu

joining us now is the amy stoddard from washington.at's true. that's largely the argument republicans are making about the contested convention. because they think that he's going to be a terrible general election candidate against hillary. i'm not saying that that cruz or kasich -- they poll better against hillary than donald trump. kasich who's doing the worst in the delegate polls the best against hillary. and those numbers could change over months. i'm not saying he will beat hillary, but he certainly can. >> it seems like -- really, two likelihoods, either a trump/hillary race would result in a massive blowout for donald trump or redraws the map that maybe he beats her by a point or two. you think that's what could happen? >> i mean to start with, this is a path of voters with, knob matter what trump says with an anomaly of numbers and the nevada caucuses that at a margin of, you know, 10% or something, it was an anomaly, he's doing terribly with african american and hispanic voters. will he get some? he certainly will. and he wil

stoddard. your thoughts on the acceptance speech and victory tonight? just i got to get in and get out really quickly, nice funny, happy. definitely have his campaign manager there and give him a shout-out as he's never done before to affirm i guess his loyaldy dyty to him and really did the usual, the polls are up. i've broken 50%. people don't understand. i'm unstoppable. i thought it was the right thing to do. he didn't want to open up avenues of controversy or negative discussions about protesters or anything. just keep it short and sweet. talk about how grateful he was for the victories. it is going to be an interesting next couple of weeks. i mean this -- this is a moment and i think trump knows where the party's going to have to decide whether or not they're going to you know hitch a ride with cruz or kasich. the kasich people will make a huge argument that he has the best numbers against hillary. the best experience and on and on and very uncomfortable time for the republicans who are never trump, never trump. and so it's an unsettled thing wher

. >> want to bring in charles hurt along with amy stoddard, welcome, and let's start with you, amy? staggering and he's won many, many states on many, many nights, he came out and pivoted just like hillary clinton tonight for general election saying he's going to unify the party but for some comments he was trying to strike a tone that we haven't heard from him yet, holding a press conference, you know, being open to questions from reporters, just disavowing the david duke, kkk stuff and trying to move on. it's a little weird we thought maybe rick scott, the governor of florida might be there to endorse him and that turned out not to be true. but there is another side of the story tonight which is you have marco rubio who won minnesota caucuses vowing to go on as an under dog, kasich pressuring rubio to get out of the race and everyone saying all three of them, that it's a delegate slog. i think the person under the most pressure from the party to hang in is rubio, but can he win florida two weeks from tonight? that looks like a hard mountain to climb. it looks like ted cruz won tex