Donald trump and nikki haley are in North Carolina today holding rallies this afternoon ahead of Super Tuesday as three states will be awarding delegates today in the g. O. P. Race. Welcome to fox news live, im molly line, welcome to my friend mike. Great to see you back in washington d. C. And im mike emanuel. Many wonder if tuesday will be haleys last topic. And President Trump has focused on a top issue for voters, the Southern Border where he and President Trump have held conferences this week. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason, 874 delegates up for grabs on tuesday, even though trump and biden are in their primaries, theyve focused on an election. And a poll is spelling Potential Problem for biden. That asked the voters if the election were today, who do you vote for, trump by five points. And the second aspect, asked registered hispanic voters the same question, that shows trump winning hispanics 4640 . Thats something to keep an eye on in the months ahead. And take a look at this graphic here, we talk about the delegate count as of this morning, it just changed. You need just over 1200 to secure the nomination, trump 140 delegates and nikki haley, 24 delegates. If you take a look at them campaigning. Both are going to be here in North Carolina today. Nikki haley in raleigh and donald trump over in greensboro. Nikki haley has been swatting down a third party ticket, no labels ticket. She doesnt want to have a democrat at her vp. Shes also saying she plans to stay in this race as long as she feels shes competitive and a swath of voters out here who dont want either trump or joe biden. As for trump hes in North Carolina fresh off his visit to the Southern Border and telling supporters if they come out for him on tuesday, feels that Super Tuesday could be a Knockout Blow to finally get Nikki Haley Out and he can focus solely on joe biden. And the same New York Times see answera poll showing nikki haley crushing joe biden by 10 points and her winning hispanic vote. And shes got two key endorsements from maine senator Susan Collins and alaska senator lisa murkowski. Bill melugin in Battle GroundNorth Carolina. Michigan holding a nomination of delegates today after former President Trump won 12 in the states primary election earlier this week. Brady trimble is live from grand rapids, michigan, with the latest update as this unfolds. Grady, do you were seeing the updates in realtime, molly. You mentioned that voters went to the polls in michigan earlier this week. Former President Trump won 12 delegates. They were divvied up proportionally, so that nikki haley got four delegates from michigan. Here at this Convention Today it sounds like the delegates from the michigan g. O. P. , as theyre voting in realtime, are overwhelmingly awarding delegates to former President Trump as they divvy up the lions share of the delegates that will help former President Trump potentially reach the nomination. I want to show you a live look inside one of the meeting rooms as i kind of explain how this process works because this split primary process is a little bit unusual. Right now, as we speak. Representatives from each of michigans 13 Congressional Districts are holding individual meetings where they will pick their preferred candidate. Each of the 13 districts will award three delegates for a total of 39. In fact, eight of those districts have already awarded 24, all of them going to former President Trump. I spoke with michigan g. O. P. Chair Pete Hoekstra today as he predicted a big win for trump today, but also on Super Tuesday, he says thats going to give him major momentum over haley in the next couple of days. I think shes got a real challenge now going into multiple states on a single day and creating an identity and a campaign. Now, i think the format, the structure and the timing all favor someone with a high degree of visibility and identity, which is former President Trump. Okay, so the delegates are ticking in in realtime here. And i know bill just showed a graphic with 140 for former President Trump, but because of the results of this convention so far its ticked up to 146 just in the last couple of minutes. As we await the results from the rest of the Congressional District meetings here at the g. O. P. Primary convention. The magic number to win the g. O. P. Nomination is 1,215. Former President Trumps Campaign Says they hope to have that locked up by mid march. So, just a couple of weeks from now. We should also point out that there are other contests and delegates up for grabs in missouri, idaho and d. C. This weekend, all before Super Tuesday. Molly. This politics and passion unfolding there. Thank you for bringing it to us and well be watching the numbers come in. Thank you. Mike. Molly, for more on the 2024 race, lets bring in our panel, forbes senior vp of public affairs, and gentlemen, welcome, great to have you. So nikki haley reported raising 12 million in february, shes in raleigh, North Carolina later this hour. It doesnt sound like shes going anywhere, does it, john . No, it doesnt. I have no idea who is giving her money, as a democrat im happy shes staying in the race and keeping 40 of Republican Voters saying theyll not vote for donald trump. I dont think thats a good sign for him in the general. I do think, you know, shes staying in to prove a point. She has a message she wants to get out there and i think, you know, shes hoping she can be an alternative for donald trump if he gets convicted of a crime and shes the only one with a delegate. Right now shed be the only candidate in the race other than trump who has any delegates. Ryan, were looking ahead to Super Tuesday. If youre on team haley, whats the goal . The goal can only be a Convention Play at this point. You know, after today in michigan and idaho and missouri and Super Tuesday coming up, i think the march is on for President Trump to secure the nomination and that window is closing very quickly for nikki haley. To former President Trumps influence on the Republican Party. You had chairman mark green saying hes not going to run for reelection and A Change Of Heart after the former president encouraging him. What do you make of the former president s i am fl influence. He controls the Republican Party, gets to dictate what the vote is on the floor, tells people how to vote ap put his daughterinlaw at the head of the rnc, hes bragging hes the one that overturned Abortion Rights with the dobson, and ivf after Tammy Duckworth to protect it throughout the country. And donald trump and others opposed that and he has full control of the party. Congressman green says hell stick around after being encouraged to do so and pushing steve danes to be the next republican leader in the senate. Lets play the sound bite from the former president and ill get you to react to it. People were surprised by it, but its going to be its all going to work out and were going to end up with a great leader. What about the former president s influence at this stage. Former President Trump, hes earned the right to dictate what happens inside of republican politics. I will tell you having worked in the senate for nearly 15 years and having a firsthand look with members like roger wicker and john barrasso, the senate is high risk Retail Politics at its finest and its going to, now, while a relationship with President Trump is going to be really important, as equally important, its going to be legislative experience, you know, conservative bona fides, and a deep knowledge of senate procedure. Youre both former senate guys. I want you to briefly talk about the mcconnell legacy in the Republican Party and leading the senate. Mcconnell is probably one of the most influence figures in the last 40 years of politics. His hands in everything from Campaign Finances to judges, to taxes. He controlled the senate and worked it magically. I disagreed with almost everything he did, but he was a Masterful Tactician in the senate. I know he probably doesnt like it known, but he always had an open door policy, even for democrats. A lot of my former bosses walked in and would regularly meet with him. Hell go down as a historic figure. Ryan . Yeah, beyond the legacy of reshaping the federal judiciary, one of his outstanding accomplishments, i think, for conservatives was to protect the legislative filibuster from being obliterated by Senate Democrats a few years ago and that has really helped us out in terms of protecting against the Biden Administration. Ryan taylor, jonathan kott. Gentlemen, thank you very much. President biden and former President Trump making separate trips to the border thursday to address the migrant crisis, blaming each other for the massive surge. This, as Border Security, quickly becomes a top election issue. Griff jenkins is live from mission, texas with the latest on this, always breaking news for us, griff, to you. Griff hey, molly. Its the top issue. Gallup poll says 28 are worried about immigration, we saw that in new hampshire, south carolina, and perhaps why we had the duelling president ial visits. President biden went to brownsville, texas, given a tour with the chief of the Border Patrol, jason owens, and the sector chief, while in eagle pass, some 300 miles away, former President Trump was escorted by Texas Governor abbott and brandon judd, head of the Border Patrol council union. Around the same time, each traded jabs at each other. Listen here. What i would say to mr. Trump, instead of Playing Politics with the issue, instead of telling members of congress to block this, join me or ill join you and Tell Congress to pass this Border Security bill. The United States is being overrun by the biden migrant crime. Its a new form of vicious violation to our country. Its migrant crime. We call it biden migrant crime. And speaking of crime, molly, look at this, brand new, exclusive footage just a few hours ago, our cameras over in eagle pass where mr. Trump was, our cameras capturing a smuggling operation. There were two smugglers, both of these women were the smugglers. Officials say that they were from out of state and there were three migrants, they ran, but were apprehended. Now, let me just make a note about the numbers. We can show you the president ial visits went to some of the least trafficked areas. You can see of the more than 7,000 apprehensions in the last 24 hours, that the tucson sector led with more than 1800. San diego followed second with over 1200, but in the Rio Grande Valley where we are, just 350, del rio barely over 300. Now, when President Biden was in brownsville, i did ask him if he bore any responsibility, molly, for the death of laken riley, the uga Student Slain by allegedly a venezuelan migrant illegally in the country. The president chose not to answer. It seemed as though he did hear you. Thank you, griff, interesting to hear the shift where the numbers are going most recently. Thank you, griff. Mike . Molly, family, friends and classmates gathered yesterday to remember laken riley, the 22yearold Nursing Student who was brutally murder you had on ugas campus allegedly at the hands of an illegal migrants. Madison scarpino has more on the service. Hi, mike, yesterday was a dreary day in rileys hometown of woodstock, georgia. More than a week after the Nursing Student was murdered on ugas campus, people who live around athens are still extremely upset and on edge. She did everything right. It really is just a tragic situation. I hope that we make some effective changes. Hundreds of family and friends came to Woodstock City Church to honor riley at the private service. Rileys obituary says her smile was infectious and she spread joy everywhere she went. A few days ago, rileys mother shared a memory from her former teacher. It was a Writing Project Riley did in first grade about what she wanted to do in the future. Riley wrote, when i grow up, i want to be a nurse. The corps know in athens says that riley died from Blunt Force Trauma to the head. The suspect, owe hey jose ibarra say that he dragged her and it was a crime of opportunity. Usually when you get to level of passion and violence, often dealing with a situation where the two are known to each other, a deep grudge, a domestic or Something Like that. This seems to be coming from a place of extraordinary violence and yet, it doesnt seem to have been spurred by anything that the victim did. Which is very troubling. And rileys death is bringing up a lot of questions and frustrations about how the city of athens and the country handle illegal immigration. Ice says ibarra came to the u. S. Illegally in 2022. A few days ago, protesters repeatedly interrupted the athens mayor during a news conference. The mayor made it clear that athens is not a sanctuary city, protesters screamed liar and justice for laken and calls for him to resign. President trump said he spoke with laken rileys devastated parents. The accused killers brother will be in federal court on monday on fraud charges. He was arrested during rileys Death Investigation for having a fake green card. Back to you. Madison scarpino in athens, molly. For more on the crisis at the border, former n. Y. P. D. Inspector, and a former dhs deputy Chief Of Staff under President Trump joining me now. Thank you for giving us a little bit of time on this saturday afternoon. We appreciate it. Laura, i want to start with youment when we look at laken rileys death, preventible in the aspect when we look at policies across the country and so many sanctuary jurisdictions, whether its cities or counties that have policies that dont allow the local authorities to work with federal components, to work with ice, and to, in this case, ibarra appears to be falling into that group. This is someone that had been in contact with Law Enforcement multiple times and yet remained in the country. I want to get your thoughts on these policies, the fact that there are in so many jurisdictions, cities, counties, across the country and weve seen in particular, a result here thats been tragic. Yes, unfortunately, this is a Textbook Case what happens with Sanctuary Policies and its entirely preventible. State and local Law Enforcement should absolutely be working with ice when they request detainers that criminal aliens be held in detention until ice can come pick them up and remove them. If ice is making those requests, state and local authorities should take those very seriously and cooperate with them. Paul, you just wrote a piece for on fox news. Com, people can read it, talking about this case. What happened with laken riley and what this and a lot of the questions that have been raised. So i really want to get your take on this as well, your thoughts. So to try to go beyond the obvious, im a little suspicious of the fact that ice was so willing to immediately put out that he was here illegally and then since then has gone to no comment route. They wont answer me, ive got numerous inquiries into them and i dont know anybody else who has been able to get any clarity on exactly the route that jose ibarra took to laken riley. I bring this up, venezuela is one of the protected status nations. Thats a Policy Initiative thats a creature of the Biden Administration that all but walks certain people from certain nations into this country, as long as theyre sponsor