which according to charles krauthammer could be a curse for 2016 candidates. we'll have much more on all of this in the hour ahead. but we begin tonight with a look at where things stand for the first two out of the gate senators rand paul and ted cruz. >> imagine in 2017 a new president signing legislation repealing every word of obamacare. imagine a president who says i will honor the constitution and under no circumstances will iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. [ cheers and applause ] imagine a president who says we will stand up and defeat radical islamic terrorism. [ cheers and applause ] i believe in you. i believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of america. and that is why today i am announcing that i'm running for president of the united states. 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[ cheers and applause ] >> chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and kirsten powers is a fox news political analyst and usa today columnist. welcome to you both. chris, where do we stand now with cruz and paul officially in this race? >> well, liberty lovers that's kind of a nice phrase right there. >> i'm a liberty lover. >> i'm a liberty lover. >> everybody loves liberty. lovely. so it turns out that ted cruz was smart to have gone early. he broke into an open field. he did it by surprise. if you recall it was, well it's a sunday, ted cruz -- well what's coming up and blamo ted cruz had his event at an event scheduled to take place at liberty university. he got in there, did it had a big crowd and caught the national press largely by surprise. rand paul telegraphed his moves weeks and weeks and weeks in advance. everybody knew he was coming so they were ready for him. >> was that a disadvantage then? how is that a disadvantage? >> substantial disadvantage because all of the 38,000 negative stories about rand paul that were going to be cued up, is he like his dad, is he mean does he not like lady reporters this, that and the other thing, all of those stories were cued up so that by the time he hit the door they were pouring down on his head and the press could follow him around for a couple days. ted cruz got to come out, say hi and run off to iowa. >> what do you think, kirsten? at this point has cruz -- obviously he seems to have had a smoother rollout than rand paul. >> definitely. i think as much as chris is right the media was sort of able to circle the wagons and be ready for him. some of these problems were created by rand paul. if he hadn't reacted the way he reacted to an interview with savannah guthrie where she was asking him some pretty basic questions, i think. she's not known as somebody who's particularly overly partisan or nasty. so i think that he stepped on his own story. in his own rollout he made the story not about what he's going to be as president but rather what's your problem with reporters, whether it's female or not i think is a little overblown. but why can't you answer these questions? why are you so testy? do you have a temperament problem? he invited that on himself. >> and he made that intentionally based on what he told me people like it when you press back on the reporters. so it may have been a strategy. you go online and of course rand paul has very vocal supporters online. >> yeah. >> who think they're going to beat you into submission in asking their candidate tough questions. which i have news for you, you are not. but, you know, he sort of made a statement thus far chris, which is this is what i stand for. i'm going to push back on media is unfair and there's a large segment of the population that will say bravo. >> well did you have any trouble when he pushed back with you? no, you were fine. i watched it. didn't seem like you were quaking. i think that for rand paul, yes there will be 27 narratives that will come up about this is bad or that's bad. in the end look, he's got to rely on his organization. he's got to rely on boots on the ground. a lot of people will march for him. i will promise you this, the thing that puts rand paul at the table, the reason he is going to be in this for the long haul the reason you'll see him when you welcome him to the debate stage is simply this. he's got the resources he's got the ground game and the ardent core of support that's going to keep him in this thing. >> does cruz have with $31 million in two week sns. >> he's got the jack. and he can live off the land because he can continue to raise small donations and go out there. both these guys are going to be dueling each other down to the end. >> what do you think is emerging here as between those two, kirsten? it seems like many on the left prefer rand paul to ted cruz just based on their foreign policy stances, although rand paul is sounding more and more hawkish these days. but just based on what something i read in "the washington post" it's called the right turn. they say paul and cruz seem like the coworkers from hell. they won't get along with others, lay blame at other people's feet, they grandstand but produce nothing of value, they are purveyors of doom. >> but other than that. >> once they get out of the republican base. >> well i find to me just from my perspective they're very different people. i understand that they're both, you know, sort of playing this insurgent role in the republican party. but they're very different. i see ted cruz as being much more of this tea party candidate who's very narrowly focused on that. and i see rand paul as being somebody who actually could have a broader appeal. ted cruz is not going to get one democratic vote right? and even with independents it's going to be difficult. rand paul is somebody who young people really like, i think there are democrats who like him. i personally like his foreign policy. i'm not saying i would necessarily vote for him, but i'm more in line with him whereas with ted cruz i don't feel i have anything to connect with him on. so they're very different. and as you know megyn, rand paul is the one that's pulling in these battleground states against hillary clinton better than anybody else. >> he is. i know. the latest matchups in colorado and iowa and virginia give him pretty good numbers although they're all -- cruz is pulling neck and neck with hillary clinton in colorado and iowa as well. in virginia she's got a ten-point lead according to the latest poll. let's talk for a minute about rubio because he's going to announce on monday. and what do you think he thought chris stirewalt when he saw hillary -- it's kind of rude. >> well -- >> oh you're doing monday? i'm doing sunday. >> exactly. she is definitely going to step on in a big way marco rubio's launch. and again, marco rubio had for many weeks in advance said something ahem, i don't know what is going to take place on this date certain in miami. now look, that's not good news for rubio in the sense that he will be denied some of the coverage. of course he'll be denied some of the negative coverage. but she will dampen his moment to some substantial degree. but i would say this, if anything le venns that for him and republicans if you could pick one republican candidate, if the republicans could pick one candidate who would be on stage as hillary clinton was leaving her berth and sailing out into the open waters, it would be marco rubio. he's young, he's hispanic, he's credible, he's new generation in excitement which she's not. >> well, we'll see whether she made the right decision. we're going to talk a little more about hillary later on in the hour. great to see you both. >> good to be here. >> you bet. >> this campaign has barely begun and there's already controversy about the candidates and the media. howie kurtz host of media buzz is here next on what to expect in the coming weeks. how is the press going to treat the hillary rollout? 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>> have you changed your opinion? >> that would be a better way to approach -- >> no no is iran still a threat. >> no, no you editorialized you say have your views changed instead of e editorializing -- >> in your short time in the senate you've developed a reputation as a guy who does not back down. will you bring that brand of no-compromise to the white house if you're elected? >> let me disagree with the premise. i've never said i won't compromise. >> your job as the politician is to give the answer you want to give and try to use your time on the national air waves to make your points right? people are accusing you now of being too thin-skinned. >> well, i think we could all get better. i mean, i'm not perfect. but the thing is that contentious interviews are not one-sided in a sense that, oh it's all my fault that this is a contentious interview. if people start out and basically start out with mischaracterizing your position and defend why you've changed your opinion when in reality the question should be did i change my opinion because on all three answers no i didn't change my position. >> how are you with that hard line conservative message going to appeal to moderates and independents? >> you know john, it's a funny thing when you work in the media that somehow you think it is a hard line. >> you don't think -- >> to present a positive, optimistic vision. >> howie kurtz, host of fox news media buzz. isn't it interesting to see it cut like that and see how each man handled reporters over the past couple of week sns. >> yeah the contrast between these two freshmen senators is something, megyn. let's start with ted cruz. he talks about how the media portray him as crazy, as if he has dynamite strapped to his chest. that's pretty funny. i mean he doesn't whine about his coverage. when the press went wild over this unfair and inaccurate story about he scared a 3-year-old girl by giving that speech in new hampshire about the world being on fire, he went on msnbc a day or two later saying he was being depicted as freddy krueger not appearing defensive. that's what you have to do in those situations. >> and yet rand paul, i understand he took a lot of hits. and you saw i pressed him too. but in his defense it must be very irritating, even for viewers at home to see somebody who they like who they think has a chance get questioned like that when there is not a chance that, you know, some in the mainstream media would have pressed barack obama like that you know, years ago. they see a double standard. >> and i've been flooded with facebook messages from conservatives saying, yeah, go rand, and savannah guthrie was rude. first of all, while she may have talked over him and asked an overly long question, the basic question, why have you changed your position on x is such a fundamental campaign question that we all have it in our keyboards. but secondly, whether he scored points or not and whether he's justified or not, it doesn't matter. savannah guthrie's not running for anything. ted cruz -- excuse me, rand paul running for the president of the united states. and he made the entire week about what you asked him about, others asked him about, is he too testy, does he have a temperament problem. he had that shushing of kelly evans. by not diffusing it with humor or how you pivot to your substantive answer, you take a quick swipe -- >> can i say a word on the shushing? nobody should be shushing the interviewer and he copped to that. he seems genuinely contrite that he did that. but i just don't understand the people who jump to the fact that it was a woman. so what? what is the evidence that rand paul shushed kelly evans because she's a woman? maybe he perceived weakness. maybe he was irritated because she was doing this to him in the interview. and if you watch the whole thing she didn't give him a lot of opportunity to respond. and he lost his patience because he was irritated by the interviewer irregardless, irrespective of gender. >> there's zero evidence, but his defense i'm equally prickly with men and women not the best bumper sticker for a campaign. here's the thing, i think when voters watch these interviews they see how you deal with the media, even a hostile media, as a kind of proxy for the pressure you would face in the white house. so it's not just how you answer -- >> okay, i get that. but back to the double standard. are they going to do that to hillary clinton? i mean, really, do we expect hillary clinton to get a tough grilling interview on the "today" show? >> well if she doesn't, assuming that she provides some access to campaign which she'll probably walk through the democratic nomination, he's going to make our profession very, very bad. if there's a replay of the easy ride barack obama got in 2008, if hillary is treated as a celebrity candidate, not fully vetted the way we delight in doing with all these republican newcomers the media bias is going to be exposed. part of that is on hillary's side because there's a 25-year relationship of bruised feelings going back to when she was first lady. but the press has a responsibility here certainly to treat her fairly. >> but she -- there's a question about how they're going to handle her. she's no barack obama. i mean, he really charmed the press. and, you know, when they thought she was inevitable he came up and said oh no she's not. so i don't know, the same love affair with the mainstream media and hillary that there was with the mainstream media and barack obama. >> or even with bill clinton. and the answer is no. you saw that with the defensive press conference over the private e-mails at the state department. and even all the guessing games about what day what hour she would announce and how she was doing it, kind of a diss to the press doesn't know where to go, when to show up. so a dysfunctional relationship, you know plays itself out on both sides. but the press has a real responsibility here 27 republican candidates and basically hillary clinton to hold hillary clinton's feet to the fire, to do the same kind of investigative digging. if they don't, we will hear about it. >> i'll give you this thought to chew on as we say good-bye. the "new york times" on barack obama's announcement in 2007 on its front page, he's launching a journey rich with historic possibilities and symbolism speaking smoothly and comfortably mr. obama offered a generational call to arms. his candidacy is -- his campaign's less of a candidacy and more of a movement. "new york times" and ted cruz, he is seen by republicans and democrats as a divisive figure. and his tenure in washington marked by demagogue ri. just give you that to chew on. think about that. >> we shouldn't cover movements. we should cover human beings who want to attain high office. >> great to see you howie. >> same here megyn. by monday night we could have a field of four declared candidates for president. but what about the more than two dozen others who are being mentioned and who may very well run. that part of the story is just ahead. plus, what happens if we end up with a clinton-bush matchup? charles krauthammer on that. and what he thinks may surprise us. 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[ cheers and applause ] >> president bush was cheered at ground zero but heavily criticized for the war in iraq. in 2008 it was supposed to be bush handing the office back to clinton. hillary clinton was far and away the early favorite, until she failed to fend off the momentum of a senator from illinois. now nearly a quarter century later bush v. clinton is again a very real possibility, megyn. >> well we are told to expect hillary clinton's presidential announcement over the weekend. but already those who thought she might win this nomination unchallenged are starting to think again. and her possible challengers are speaking out. that's next. ed henry from the campaign trail when we come back. >> along life's way you get a chance to make millions of decisions. some of them are big like do you run for office? all these networks keep making different claims. it gets confusing. fastest, the strongest the most in-your-face-est. it sounds like some weird multiple choice test. yea, but do i pick a, b, or c. for me it's all of the above. i pick, like the best of everything. verizon. i didn't. i picked a. maybe c. and how'd that work out for you? 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>> you'll have to ask her. >> now you mentioned those policy meetings, and i'm told from sources she's been holding behind closed doors in recent days covered everything from the economy to isis. the reason is her advisers know she has not been on the campaign trail in a long time. they're worried she might be a little rusty, megyn. >> joining me now with more, leslie marshal who is a progressive radio talk show host and marc thiessen, former presidential speech writer for george w. bush. leslie, she's expected to announce on sunday. this sit. all the people who thought she wasn't going to run and there were some, are wrong. apparently she is. that's how it looks right now. what do you make of it? will she get a bump in the polls just from coming out and making the announcement? >> yes, i think she will. we've seen that from those in the gop that vi e have announced and i think we'll see that from more in the gop and possibly the democratic side that have announced and historically we see that. i expect a bump to her favorability, popularity and perhaps even trustworthyiness next week. >> which has taken a hit. as we discussed the other night. marc, is this the beginning of a new chapter for hillary clinton where the problems we've discussed over the past months will start to fade away? >> you mean is she going to get a reset? it didn't work with russia i don't think it's going to work with her campaign. i think democrats ought to be worried. hillary clinton seems to have all the pension for scandal that her husband had but without the political charm or talent to survive it. people were comforting themselves about the e-mail and clinton foundation by saying she's not bleeding, she has double digit lead over her republican rivals, she's doing fine. that's not true anymore. public polling shows she's plus-three over marco rubio which is basically statistically tied. and then the quinnipiac poll which shows in the battleground states that she's walker, paul and rubio lead her in colorado, paul leads her in iowa and pennsylvania, bush leads her in florida. and quinnipiac says it's not one or two candidates every republican is running tighter against her. this race is tightening very, very much. >> can you speak to that, leslie? when marc mentioned the charm factor i thought it was interesting the other day greg gutfeld called her utterly charmless. we played that sound bite going to break. watch this. watch. >> along life's way you get a chance to make millions of decisions. some of them are big like do you run for office? >> i mean is that like -- she's no bill clinton. >> oh no. she's not. and to be fair he's not running she is. and, you know, i don't want to be identified by my husband. and i'm sure she doesn't. but i have to say i do -- you know i've met her in person and i'm sure a number of people are watching have as well. she comes off very different in person. there's a warmth about her that we don't see with the media, which she seems to be uncomfortable with and not happy with. and that's got to change. i think we need to see a hillary clinton 2. i think she needs to find that fine line between margaret thatcher and the warmer, kinder hillary because she going one way or the other is going to lose some support from those that are still questioning whether or not they will give their support and vote for her. >> that is interesting. i actually think this is one of the many reasons she should sit down with yours truly for an interview. i think one-on-one it will be a very different dynamic between the two of us. >> i agree. >> viewers will see a different side of her. marc, rand paul has taken a beating for how he dealt with the press this week. he went into forums that might not be typically friendly to a republican. he sat with them. he took the questions. what will happen to hillary clinton? you know, i mean, how is she going to do when she sits down? >> well, according to barack obama she's plenty likable. so i guess if she sort of -- >> likable enough. >> likable enough. that's right. you know so she's likable enough. one-on-one doesn't come across on the screen. it's a challenge for her. i mean, you're right. rand paul he went and spoke at berkeley, he's gone into the other side to debate. i don't know how hillary clinton would do in that scenario. but i think you know ed made the point that they're worried about the fact that she's rusty. you know the book launch was an absolute disaster. her press conference on the e-ailgate was a disaster. maybe third time is a charm. i don't know. but she has a very high barre to meet right now with her campaign launch whether she can do better than se has in the past. >> leslie, what do you think of the bush-clinton matchup possibility and whether the risk of seeming like yesterday's news for her? >> well quite frankly she does have experience, which some of the gop contenders are newbies out of washington. she's viewed as a washington insider. a lot of people may think she is old, but there's a newness in her gender quite frankly. and that will appeal to some females. >> i'm talking about charles krauthammer and the question whether even jeb bush a bush-clinton matchup, who did that that's what people say sometimes. >> but some of the people i think, some republicans we want to change what happened back in '92. and we'd like to see a bush win. they both have a name recognition chrks is huge when people vote. they both can raise have a lot of money and can raise a lot of money, which is also essential to the amount of money being spent on campaigns. and they both have experience. as for being rusty she's had a lot of time and she's done this before and the clintons certainly know how to win, how to lose and how to come back and win again as we have seen with the former president. >> uh-huh. great to see you both. thank you. >> thanks megyn. >> thank you, megyn. just ahead, charles krauthammer explains what he calls the curse of the senators. plus, who will cross the starting line of the race next? 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"the kelly file" special with 2016 presidential race. we're starting to see a more intense look at the rest of the field since the teams quietest earliest in the game can enjoy the most staying power. joining me fox news contributor and alan coems. rubio goes on monday and seems like this wave of governors will come some time late may, early june, early summer, rich. does that give them an advantage or disadvantage? >> i don't know. i don't think the timing is that important unless you're a ted cruz and went first. he took advantage of that vacuum. rubio, the timing they're hoping it works for him that hillary will do a very minimalist announcement. if she goes that way will be in part because she really has trouble lighting up a room. and the rubio people think he's going to hit it out of the park at this event and do a big thing that shows how natural he is as a performer. and then will have a cascade of all the rest of these candidates in coming weeks where, you know, two months from now we're just going to be sick of presidential announcements. >> i don't think we are. >> you can't get enough. >> but who's still in? alan, let me ask you from a democrat's perspective. who is still in on the republican side as far as you can see, walker obviously. >> walker's got to announce. i like the way he said cascade of donors. that's a good way to put it. doesn't matter when you announce as long as you're not announceing in the pack of everybody else. cruz was smart to go first. hillary clinton is one of the few democrats. but you want to announce at a time when you've got some space to yourself. so i don't think you necessarily have to do it early, but you don't want to be in the same news cycle as almost every other candidate. you want your own news cycle. i think that's the way to announce a candidacy. >> you've got walker, bush chris christie, let's talk about those three. those are three governors, rich. are they very much in it including christie. >> christie is one that hasn't been part of the talk. he's bit of an afterthought. i don't think bridgegate hurt him per se but it created doubts and unease among insiders about what else might be there. >> but his speaking of face-to-face retail campaigning, he's one of those people you sit across from him and he's very dynamic. >> this is true. >> he wins people over. >> he's very talented. he's a good retail politician. that could work for him in new hampshire. but i think it's a mistake for him to rely entirely on personality. he needs an agenda. he needs something that makes him new and different besides just that big personality in the room. >> how about our former colleague mike huckabee alan? >> who? oh. >> alan come on. >> it's a joke, it's a joke. i love mike. >> did he steal your coffee? >> no no i like mike very much. i just don't see him as a viable contender for 2016. i mean, i think he certainly appeals to a slice of the evangelical right, but i'm not sure he's got an appeal that's broad enough. you know i think the republicans should really consider that i don't hear enough in the conversation is john kasich the governor of ohio also a former colleague of ours here. i think he's a very likable guy smart guy, done well in what is a swing state and a state that republicans really need. >> very relatable. >> he's someone to look at. but so far he hasn't been getting a lot of the press coverage. >> that's true. >> what do you think, rich on balance does the bush name help or hurt jeb bush more? >> it helps in that it's a brand within the republican party that big donors especially trust. so these donor who is are looking for safe harbor and someone who's not as populous and quote/unquote crazy as some of the other elements in the party, feel very safe with jeb. but i do think it's a drag generally with the rest of the electorate because we just -- we've been there before. and i just think for republicans it should probably be a turn the page election. and jeb bush doesm, hey, i'm fresh and different. >> alan any concerns about the fact that rubio comes right after hillary now in the juxtaposition somebody we've known for a long time and our last panel was saying fresh face newbie. >> something could get a lot of air in the media if republicans take advantage of rubio a fresh face and appeals to hispanics based on his background new fresh face, younger, i would say republicans could go with that as a narrative at least during this part of the campaign. >> dynamic speaker though i don't know, one-on-one i don't know rubio if he's as good. one-on-one interview, i don't know if he's quite as strong as when he's out there behind the podium commanding a stage. all of these candidates have their strengths and weaknesses. up next, charles no pictures of trucks pulling boats. no photos of men working on ranches. just a ram 1500 ecodiesel that gets the best fuel economy of any half-ton pickup. get more facts at ramtrucks.com female announcer: get three years interest-free financing on brand name mattress sets. plus, get free delivery, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. sleep train's interest free for 3 event is on now! ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ the field will likely have doubled by monday. all four candidates current or former senators. but syndicated columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer explained to us earlier that could spell trouble for the contenders. listen. all right charles, rand is in. ted cruz is in. rubio's about to get in. so where do you think things stand? how have they done so far? >> well, we're waiting of course for rubio to jump in. the one thing that the unfortunate characteristic that the three of them share is they are all first-term senators. and we have an unfortunate experience with the current president who is the same. so i think that works against all of them. i don't think it's fatal by any means, but you have a little bit of an advantage if you're a former governor or a current governor, which is why i think right now the front runners in the polls at the top are jeb bush who was a successful governor in florida and scott walker of wisconsin who's taken on the unions, prevailed, won three re-elections and in fact five if you count the two proxy elections. so i think you have to have them in the top tier. and my announcement -- >> let me ask you before you get to that. >> sure. go ahead. >> rand paul gave us a preview of how he's going to respond to that this week by saying governors are not always what they're cracked up to be. does anyone remember jimmy carter, he said. >> well i also remember ronald reagan. so, you know, jimmy carter, it's not as if that is going to guarantee a successful presidency. but i just think, you know, people in any election you're sort of reacting to the last president. it's inevitable. you know, after eisenhower who was successful people wanted young vigorous because he was old, had a couple of heart attacks. there's always a reaction against what you just had. and i just think that's just one factor working against them. but again it's not insurmountable at all. >> in the top tier in your view you've got walker jeb bush, marco rubio. and then in the next tier beneath them you put who? cruz, rand paul, anybody else? >> cruz, rand paul, huckabee. and as an outsider, i mean outside chance, chris christie. i think of those four you are likely to get one who's catapulted into the top tier. the way huckabee with the way he performed in the debates in '08 ended up in the top tier. so i think there could be one more entry to the top tier likely coming out of that pool. >> not ben carson? because he polls pretty well. >> i'm afraid he's a good man, he's a great doctor, he's a great patriot. but it is impossible to go from citizen to president overnight unless you won the second world war likeizene eisenhower. >> it's a pretty high barr sglerks and it hasn't been matched. i know he's a popular guy. >> we'll be right back. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. thanks for watching everybody. go to facebook.com/thekellyfile and follow me on twitter twitter @megynkelly. let me know of your thoughts of hillary clinton live from america's news headquarters, i'm patricia stark. people in the small northern illinois town of fair dale morning two tornado virkts tonight. the two women in their 60s were friends. one twister touched down in the area. it was rated an ef-4 tornado. it was capable of winds of 200 miles per hour. a second man charged in connection with a foiled plot in fort riley, kansas. earlier friday the fbi arrested 20-year-old john booker, jr when he was trying to arm a 1,000 pound bomb outside the army post. oim patricia stark. you are watching the most powerful name in news. fox news channel. welcome to "hannity." tonight sources tell fox news that hillary rodham clinton will announce she's running for president this weekend.