understanding that two-thirds of these primary voters are strong conservatives. >> matt, the chairman of the american conservative union, always good to talk to you. thank you so much for taking the time. we'll see what the straw poll says, 5:00. >>> we're also awaiting preliminary results in kansas. doors close in just a few minutes at the caucus sites there. we've got the countdown clock at the bottom of the screen. coming up, what's at stake for the democrats today. >>> 29 past the hour. we are looking at what's happening on the republican side in kansas with 40 delegates at stake. this has stayed pretty consistent as we've gone to less11% in. ted cruz with double the number of votes that donald trump has. we should say caucuses have not been friendly to donald trump. he's only won one out of four so far and has no presence on the ground in kansas. nevertheless, even though all these states today don't have great polling, he has been ahead in polls so that would be huge if he loses, especially by that margin. on the democratic side, also a race that is too early to call. we're going to watch. we're just seeing the d

. >> the american conservative union hosts its annual political action conference. our live coverage continues friday at 1:15 eastern, with speeches by republican presidential candidates -- ohio governor john kasich and texas senator ted cruz. also, dr. ben carson. saturday morning, our coverage continues with donald trump and florida senator marco rubio. we will also bring you the results of the 2016 cp tonight on c-span, mitt romney gives a speech urging republicans to reject donald trump. mr. trump responds at a campaign rally in portland, maine. and house speaker paul ryan comments on the republican presidential race. later, some of today's conservative political action conference. today, the 2012 republican presidential nominee mitt romney gave a speech attacking the current republican front-runner donald trump, calling him a fraud and a con man. voters torimary support one of the other republicans on the ballot. his full remarks of the university of utah at salt lake

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. >> this is the american conservative union and so it's usually reserved for conservatives. >> reporter: john kasich still refuses to edge gauge ngage in the war of insults. >> we're going to win ohio and that's going to create a whole >> reporter: democrats on saturday tried to draw a distinction between their fight with that of the republicans. >> what we are seeing in the republican presidential process is like a sixth grade food fight that you see in a cafeteria and i would hope that most six graders would know that we don't perform like that. >> reporter: the last republican debate was compared to a sixth grade school yard fight. the presidential campaign unlike any other rolling uncensored towards the conventions. chris pallone, nbc news, new york. >>> "nightly news" will have much more at 6:30 and we'll have all of the results tonight at 11:00. >>> you can see here, just a bit more than a week and counting until transit workers threaten to walk off the job, a move that would leave more than 100,000 riders stranded. today, thousands took to those rally support. >> i've been a trai

. >> this is the american conservative union. it's usually reserved for conservatives. >> reporter: ohio john kasich still refuses to engage in the gop's war of insults. >> not going to the dark side. >> reporter: focussing on the one prize that could breathe new life in his bid for the nomination. >> we'll win in ohio and that will create a whole new ball game. >> reporter: democrats try to draw distinction between the tone of their nomination fight and the republicans. >> what we are seeing in the republican presidential process is like a sixth grade food fight you see in a cafeteria. and i would hope most sixth graders understand we don't behave like that. >> reporter: former president bill clinton, campaigning for his wife hillary in michigan compared the last republican debate to a sixth grade schoolyard fight. the presidential campaign unlike any other, rolling uncensored towards the conventions. chris pollone, nbc news, new york. >>> we'll have much more on the elections tonight at 11:00, plus mitt romney and actor kevin sp

. >> this is the american conservative union, and so, i mean, it's usually reserved for conservatives. >> reporter: ohio governor john kasich still refuses to engage in the gop's war of insults. focusing instead on the one prize that could breathe new life into his bid for the nomination. >> we're going to win ohio and that's going to create a whole new ball game. >> reporter: democrats saturday tried to draw distinctions between the tone of their nomination fight and the republicans. >> what we are seeing in the republican presidential process is like a sixth grade food fight that you'd see in a cafeteria. >> reporter: former president bill clinton campaigning for his wife, hillary, in michigan compared the last republican debate to a sixth grade schoolyard fight. the presidential campaign unlike any other rolling uncensored toward the conventions. chris pallone, nbc news, new york. >>> still to come at 5:00, troubles swimming upstream. why there are less salmon in california rivers this year. >>> a smash and grab at a north bay gun store, make that a supersmash. police say a band of

the grass roots. it doesn't need to be nasty. >> reporter: at a conservative rally. >> this is the american conservative union, and so it's usually reserved for conservatives. ( cheers and applause ) . >> reporter: but with his fate resting on winning his home state on march 15, the florida senator headed straight to jacksonville. >> the eyes of the nation are upon this great state. >> i know how to tackle these problems. >> reporter: while governor john kasich was in michigan, ahead of tuesday's primary there. on the democratic side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders were also looking past tonight's contests. >> when i heard about flint, i was just sick. >> reporter: with a debate sunday in flint, michigan, clinton was in detroit, meeting with a small group of african american pastors. >> she talks in vague terms. >> reporter: in ohio, sanders hit clinton on her plan for social security, but he saved his sharpest attacks for the g.o.p. the republican presidential process is like a is sixth grade food fight that you see in a cafeteria. >> reporter: tonight, will also be the first chance to see if the republican establishment sto

the chairman of the american conservative union says that the hopelessly fractured. what is your view on the health of the republican party? >> if you look across this country we're having record turn out. we have 70% more people coming out in this republican primary we're up 70%. there's no question that enthusiasm gap we're crushing the democrats. we're beating them on money, beating them on mechanics and i like our chances. we're prepared to beat hillary clinton. >> dickerson: we got a situation the speaker house calling out the front runner on the questions of bigotry, the front runner is attacking the governor of south carolina who gave recommend play cannery sons that's tough stuff. >> it is tough stuff. i don't think there's anything wrong with drama and intrigue. we've got plenty of that. there's no question abut that. the key, though, is can you come -- get to a nominee, come together and then take it to the democrats. i think that we'll get there. i'm confident that we will. we've got more republicans elected today since 1900 but we do need to learn how to

family, when you have jeb bush's friend and former mentor for marco rubio used to run the american conservative union. the table was set for marco rubio. what has happened to your party, robert, when sort of the scion has so little traction even in his home state? >> well, truth be told, joy, i don't recognize the party right now. my party right now is going through a major civil war. understandably so. there's a lot of people out there that are so frustrated and so angry, they've been lied to by the supreme court justices, they've been lied to on public policy issues as relates to the fiscal health of our country. and they have every right to be upset and angry. but they are throwing the baby out with tbathwater here. and if you look at the math with the general election and hillary clinton were the democratic nominee, it's very difficult to conceivably see donald trump winning in ohio and florida in the general election and colorado and virginia and so forth. people have every right to be angry and they have every right to vote for whomever they want to vote for especially the anti-establish candid

. >> the american conservative union held its annual conference known as cpac this week in maryland. tor ted cruz was among the president of candidates who spoke at the event. he was also voted as the top choice in a straw poll that was ordered on by -- that was voted on by attendees. this is 40 minutes. ♪ [cheers] sen. cruz: god bless cpac. [cheers] trump is skipping cpac. [boos] megynk somebody told him kelly was going to be here. [laughter] or even worse, he was told there were conservatives that were going to be here. [cheers] or even worse, he was told there were libertarians that were going to be here. or even worse, they were told there were young people that were going to be here. [cheers] you have a degree from trump university. [laughter] "trump"] [boos] sen. cruz: the men and women here are a grassroots army. [cheers] the men and women here love liberty. dire asme tell you, as things are, people are waking up all over this country. and help is on the way. [cheers] this election is going to be about three things. security.rty, and [cheers] let's start with jobs. about making

. >>> the american conservative union hosts its annual conservative political action conference. our three-day cpac coverage continues live friday afternoon at 1:15 eastern with speeches by republican presidential candidates, john kasich and ted cruz. also, dr. ben carson. then on saturday morning at 10:00, our coverage continues with donald trump and live at 11:35 a.m. eastern with florida senator marco rubio. we will also bring you the results of the 2016 cpac straw poll. for our complete schedule, go to cspan.org. >>> president obama was in milwaukee thursday to promote his health care law. he said 20 million people have gained coverage since he signed it back in 2010. the president was introduced by a wisconsin resident who credits the health care law with saving his life after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. this is half an hour. >> good afternoon. my name is brent brown. in june i wrote the president a letter about my story but it is so much more than some kid, and my story is not mine alone. i am here to represent those who do not have a voice, the people who i

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the american conservative union and our conservative movement is growing stronger. ding new voices. and you know what we're prepared for? we are prepared for the obama exit. [cheers and applause] exit. i'll tell you one thing that we're not prepared for, i'm not prepared for, i'm not prepared for bill clinton with too much time on his hands -- [laughter] hanging around the white house near those white house interns. [laughter] i'm not prepared for that. [applause] and i'm not prepared to see queen hillary on the throne where she likes to keep her servers. [laughter] think about it. [applause] look at all the young people around us. look at 'em. they tell us that young people are not conservatives. [applause] look around you. these are the grandchildren of the reagan revolution. [cheers and applause] tell me something, grandchildren of the reagan revolution, do you feel the bern? >> no! >> i bet you want jobs. you want to experience the earn. [laughter] [applause] but it's not just about the college kids, tests also about the young -- it's also about the young and the

>> on friday trump announced he is cancelling his annual speech at cpac, the american conservative union who hosts the conference tweeted very disappointed donald trump decided to drop out of cpac. it sends a clear message to conservatives. the other four candidates are planning to attend. joining us from cpac is the special forces officer ben collins. ben, can you hear me? >> i certainly can hear you. >> with all that's happened with romney and the other establishment figures uniting against the front runner, is there a sense that things are divided at cpac? >> i think there is a sense of things divided. it goes to tell you things are divided among the republican party and they have been divided in the republican party for a longtime. we have part of the party that lives and breathes in washington, d.c. and you have everyday america, the disappearing middle class. tell the town in colorado who lost a coal mine they are angry voters. people are scared. there is a real sense of the finally coming to the fore here and a lot of the establishment candidates are having a hard time. there is a

. >> this is the american conservative union. >> reporter: ohio governor john kasich still refuses to engage in the war of insults, focusing instead on the one prize that could breathe new life into his bid. create a new ball game. >> reporter: democrats tried to draw distinction between the tone of their fight and the republicans. >> what we're seeing in the republican presidential process is like a 6th grade food fight that you see in a cafeteria. >> reporter: former president bill clinton campaigning for his wife in michigan compared the last republican debate to a 6th grade school yard fight. presidential campaign unlike any other, rolling uncensored. >> clinton will take the center stage of the democratic debate in flint, michigan. >>> talking peanut allergies. >> they're growing. big problem in the u.s. >> coming up, the unconventional wisdom that problem of dangerous peanut in the battle against a growing problem of dangerous peanut allergies in children. new research could give new hope to parents of high risk kids. it found exposing children early, very early on, may help the

. >> the american conservative union runs cpac. the chairman says conservatives must support the republican nominee. >> we'll have a nominee and they'll have decide, do you turn the radical policies to hillary clinton for eight more years? >> some of these are going for trump. >> i think a lot of people are so upset. they're grasping on to the man on the whitehurst. we've been doing that since george washington. >> a good way to do it is to listen to his speaking. senator ted cruz and kasich came will address cpac tomorrow. >> rich, thank you. >>> a major development in the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. the justice department has granted immunity to a man who has a lot of answers about the e-mail scandal. >> reporter: brian who took the fifth before the benghazi committee work as a state department i.t. specialist. on the side, set up and maintained then secretary of state hillary clinton's personal server. fox news independently confirmed the report that pagliano struck a deal and was interviewed by the fbi. >> it is confirmation

. >> the american conservative union runs cpac. the chairman said trump with drew because he addition agrees the format. >> it senls a message. to those who spent a lot of money to be in the nation's capital. to fill up the largest room in our nation's capital to not show up. it is a mistake and i'm disappointed and his opponents took advantage of his absence. >> if you don't want donald to be our nominee, come join us. we welcome you on our team. we're building a broad coalition of lovers of liberty who believe in the constitution. >> it appears there will be no trump address here. he is an ever present force in conference discussions. his sizable delegate lead in the republican presidential primary. debate over his credentials and the 2012 gop conservatism. >> did you hear mitt romney's speech yesterday? okay. >> ohio governor john kasich again refused to mention the front-runner. >> let me ask you. do you like a positive campaign instead of negative? huh? >> saying it wasn't going to happen. ben carson says he is leaving the camp

. >> the american conservative union organizers of cpac also attacked trump stating we are very disappointed donald trump has decided at the last minute to drop out of cpac. senator marco rubio felt the fire of conservatives just a few weeks ago. when it was unclear if he was going to attend. and various right wing media outlets roasted the senator for stalling on a commitment. rubio is now slated to speak saturday. ohio governor john kasich steered clear of the side show. instead, predicting internal fighting and a lack of consensus among the gop will go all the way to the convention. >> let's go through your scenario if you think it's going to be a broken convention. >> i do. >> sean, it has to be done fairly. >> but cruz says a fair brokered convention is impossible. >> any time you hear someone talking about a brokered convention it is the washington establishment in a fevered frenzy. they're really frustrated because all of their chosen candidates all the golden children, the voters keep rejecting. >> reporter: a darling of the conservative movement retired neurosurgeon ben carson annou

. >> reporter: the american conservative union, organizers of cpac, also attacked trump. stating, we're very disappointed that donald trump has decided at the last minute to drop out of cpac. this comes at a critical time in our movement's history. he sends a clear message to grassroots conservatives. senator marco rubio felt the fire from them a few weeks ago, when it was unclear, and various media rose to the commitments. rubio is speaking on saturday. john kasich steered clear of the sideshow, instead predicting internal fighting and a lack of consensus among the gop will go all the way to the convention. >> let's go through a scenario. do you think that it's going to be an appropriate convention? >> i do. it has to be done fairly. >> but cruz says a fair, brokered convention is not possible. >> any time you hear somebody talking about a brokered convention, it's the washington establishment in a fevered frenzy. they're really frustrated because all of their chosen candidates, all of golden children, the voters keep rejecting. >> a darling of the conservative movement,

. ♪ lou: joining us the chairman of the american conservative union matt schlapp and tammy bruce, foxistening to some of the guests we had on this broadcast. lou: it seems to me they are saying, i haven't got a job. the middle class has shrunk. i can't get a good full-time job. my pay is the same as it was 12 years ago. to suggest that republican party is some sort of -- youhave to be willing to endure the pain of others rather than you're own -- rather than your own, it's disgusting. >> in a fundraiser mitt romney was putting himself out there to be the cleveland choice. i think it's repugnant. should the republican party listen to the market? the market is the voters. lou: and paul ryan and john kasich who hasn't got a chance in the world but he wants to play the role of spoiler. >> mitt romney is fascinating. he didn't even even territory arena because his judgment was so poor in believing jeb bush would be the anointed one. i have been impressed with the romneys up until this point. his commentary about foreign wives has been very disappointing. but it's also exciting. the people

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joining me now, the chairman of the american conservative union, matt schlapp, and investigative reporterminer, sarah westwood. sarah, you're -- i wish i could say we've got a bunch of states, but we're sort of stuck in virginia for the republicans. we're waiting to kind of work this through. your thoughts on what you've seen so far in both the clinton and trump victories. >> well, the clinton victory is not much of a surprise. her friend, governor terry mcauliffe, helped deliver that state for her. but on the republican side, it's really important to watch where those returns are coming from, because we only have about 1% of returns in right now. virginia's a politically diverse state. the southern part of the state votes different hi than the northern part of the state, the suburbs. washington d.c. is literally the establishment's backyard. if that's where the returns are coming in from right now, fairfax county and that area, it's no surprise that rubio is neck and neck with trump. it's when we start to count votes in the rest of the state, we'll see how it's really going to shake out.

>> yeah, i mean, this is the american conservative union. it is usually reserved for conservatives. this matters. i mean, either the ideas behind conservatism matter or they do not. if they do not, that's fine, but i believe they do. it is not enough to say vote for me because i am angrier, over the top, i will say and do things that nobody else will do, i get that anger and frustration, i really do. but i said this before, it is not a coincidence, there are a plethora of young conservative leaders in their 40s and 50s, myself, ted cruz, rand paul, scott walker, susan a martinez, nikki haley, paul ryan. why? why are there so many young conservatives now serving our country? i'll tell you why, we grew up in the era of reagan. he looked and acted nothing like donald trump. and look at the democrats. who is the young and up and coming democrat? bernie sanders. >> senator, let me ask you a question about that, though. i asked ted cruz about that this week. you're stepping up rhetoric big time against donald trump on the question of whether or not he is a true conservative, you started th

conservative. one of the important differences for republican primary voters to understand is we know marco rubio is a conservative. has a 98% rating with the american conservative unione day donald trump says he's pro-choice, the next pro-life, yet he's giving money to planned parenthood which funds abortions. >> ifill: let me ask you both about whether this means -- the big discussion here and around the country is whether the republican party is splitting apart. can you see, kris kobach, a way that donald trump goes to the convention, plays by the rules of this party, and units the party, as he said last night he would? >> you know, i think it is going to happen because, at the end of the day, although there is grousing among some of the moneyed establishment interests and some people in the rnc, but not all, ultimately, if you have this many voters saying overwhelmingly, yeah, we like trump, which is what's happening and you will see more when you get to the winner stake all states where the delegates are overwhelmingly in his corner, i can't see any way at the rnc, the republican establishment, however you define it l say we're going to find a way to derail the t

i mean, this is the american conservative union. and so, i mean, it's usually reserved for conservatives. [ cheers and applause ] but this matters. i mean, look. either the ideas behind conservatism matter or they do not. and if they do not, then it's fine. but i believe they do. it is not enough to say vote for me because i'm angrier and over the top, and i'm going to do and say things no one else is going to do. i get that anger and frustration, i really do. it is not a coincidence that there are a plethora of young conservative leaders in this country in their 40s and 50s, myself, ted cruz, rand paul, scott walker, susana martinez, nikki haley, paul ryan. why? why? why are there so many young conservatives now serving our country? i'll tell you why. because we grew up in the era of reagan. and ronald reagan looked and acted nothing like donald trump. [ cheers and applause ] >> you're stepping up the rhetoric big time against donald trump on the question of whether or not he is a true conservative. you started doing that at cnn's d

. >>> the american conservative union hosts its annual conservative political action conference.our three-day c-pac coverage begins on friday at 4:10 p.m. also, dr. ben carson and then on saturday morning at 10:00, our coverage continues with donald trump and live at 11:30 a.m. eastern with florida governor marco rubio. we'll bring you the results of the cpac straw poll. for our complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here's some of the programs to watch for this weekend. on saturday night at 10:00 eastern. >> the first sentence of the book is the history of american conservativism is a story of disappointmentnd