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Of a trump turn around . A new cbs poll today showing trump leading senator ted cruz by 13 points nationally while a monmouth poll shows him with a 24point lead over the texas senator in pennsylvania. This as cruz turns his attention away from new york and the primary here where he is trailing to take his case national. Appearing on the tonight show with jimmy fallon this evening. Well discuss the change in cruzs tactics with Cruz National spokesman whos here live. Meanwhile, the democrats are prepping for tonights big debate. Hillary clinton spent the day away from the cameras preparing for the big night in brooklyn, but senator Bernie Sanders did just the op to to sit. He took his turn addressing the National Action Network Convention blasting hillary for taking money from the big banks. How sanders can turn his momentum into actual votes in new york. And dow 18,000 this our sights. Dow jones industrial average just about 80 points away from hitting that level. Were at 17,930. Yes, its a psychologically important number, but were watching it. Were less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. Liz and this breaking news, april is off the table due to this guy on your screen. That according to atlanta fed president Dennis Lockhart speaking at a cfa symposium in chicago. He ripped out the proverbial rug saying he no longer thinks an april rate hike is appropriate, but he still thinks june is a viable option, even took it a step further telling bloomberg there is room for the fed to hike two, maybe even three more times this year. But the markets which were seeing muted trade before lockharts little statement there are moving higher now, up about 21 points. Not even the highs of the session, but the s p is better by just about one and a half points, the nasdaq up by two. Im going to say this is not really aggressive trading. Still pretty muted. Mcdonalds is a dow component and not loving it. It may be higher on the stock charts, but protesters across the country are joining the fight for 15, targeting the Worlds Largest burger chain, mcdonalds, asking them youve got to pay your workers 15 an hour. The protesters are being joined by verizon workers as well as health care and educational professionals. We have shares of mcd which has hit alltime high after alltime high this just the past couple of weeks moving higher once again to 127. 43. To politics and how the tide has turned. What started off to be a cloudy month, thats how you could categorize it for the Trump Campaign, following his loss in the wisconsin primary, now seeing sunshine ahead of new yorks primary next tuesday. A florida prosecutor deciding not to prosecute Donald Trumps campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, for battery after a march runin with former reporter michelle fields. The decision comes as trump leads his republican rivals by double digits on his home turf of new york. Meanwhile, Debbie Wasserman schultz had some pretty harsh words for the republican frontrunner, telling fox business blake burman that she believes democrats, quote, have an excellent chance to take back the u. S. Senate from republican control in part thanks to what she believes will be an explosive, quote, divisive Republican National convention. Blake joins us live from fox business headquarters in new york. Good to have you here. Reporter good to be here. Liz she said democrats are ready to gain from the circus. Reporter yeah, thats right. We caught her yesterday at her office in washington d. C. Some of the pundits have started to move some of the down ballot races, those in the house and senate, a little bit more to the left. This is being viewed as the potential trumpcruz effect, the impact that either of those two could reach the top of the ticket. The dnc chairwoman told me they have been building up their Opposition Research folders against those two, and she had some very choice words for donald trump. Take a listen here. I mean, when youre potentially going to have one of the two choices for president of the United States be a misogynystic, vitriolic bigot who will not only bring the country down a path be of unconstitutional, wildly unacceptable policies, but also decimate our position in the world as a, you know, diplomatic leader that can bring nations together, thats a terrible prospect for the country. Reporter democrats feel as many as 60 congressional seats are now in play. They only are to win 30 to flip the house. The key quote there is in play. A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee told me no chance that happens. Republican organizers say Hillary Clinton hearse as the potential herself as the potential nominee for the democrats will bring about her own down ballot problems. She is a drag with, you know, independents, with whatever group of voters. I mean, thats going to make life tough for them. Reporter bottom line here, liz, seven more months to go until we get to november. Still a lot to shake out here at the top, down below, in between. But democrats are feeling pretty good about where they stand right now here in mid april. Liz every day, every primary, every vote seems to count. Blake, thank you for bringing us that interview. The road is not that smooth for the democrats east. Senator Bernie Sanders today skewering not donald trump, but rival Hillary Clinton and her ties to big money as he made his case to black voters just a few hours ago. This all ahead of the big faceoff tonight in brooklyn for the tenth democratic president ial debate. If you think, and i dont mean to be disrespectful here, that you can run for office, have a super pac and raise tens of millions of dollars from wealthy special interests and then go out and talk on the bug money interests the big money interests and protect working families, well, if you think that, youve got a very good candidate out there. But it is not Bernie Sanders. Liz lets bring in ellis henny can and tammy bruce, a conservative radio host. Gang, look, right now al sharpton for many people out there is the representation of the black community, and he has said Bernie Sanders is not resonating. What do you think, ellis . Well, its a little more complicated than al speaking for everyone, but hes kind of got a point. Bernies having trouble connecting with black and latino voters, other minorities as well. Its an area where hillary really has romped and no end in sight. Liz yeah, but i think, tammy, she doesnt own it entirely, does she. She doesnt. And i think if you just look at the rally from last night, 27,000 people coming up for Bernie Sanders in this state. Liz those are donald trump crowds. Ill tell you, even bigger than donald trump crowds. Those are barack obama crowds. And i recall that it was very famous at the time when it happened in 2008 where hillary was again guaranteed, but we suddenly started seeing even super delegates beginning to defect to barack obama because of the enthusiasm, because he suddenly became possible as someone who could win. I dont think thats going to happen this time because this is a time where Bernie Sanders, i think even the Democratic Party realizes that he really cant win a general election. Nobodys really focused on him. But its interesting, i dont even know if mr. Sanders thought that he would get this far with this kind of popularity. Liz lets get to that and whether he can get the nomination, general election. Ellis, look, everybodys a delegate mathematician nowadays. [laughter] the cab driver down on sixth avenue is a delegate mathematician, but Bernie Sanders wife is joining that crowd, and she said this morning that Hillary Clinton doesnt necessarily have the delegate numbers to get that nomination. Is that just, i guess, pie in the sky, or does she make a point here . Well, im not sure that jane sanders is a neutral mathematician on this topic. Possible, sure. But hillarys really got to mess up tonight, really may be the last chance she has to mess up new york in the next couple of primaries. Im not counting on it, but i guess its possible. Liz let me get to this Corey Lewandowski issue that finally was buttoned up in the last hour where you saw the florida prosecutor come out and say we are not going to prosecute the Trump Campaign spokesperson, you know, in the situation with michelle fields, the breitbart reporter, where he allegedly grabbed her arm and was just a little too physical and rough there. Tammy, does this clear some air and help donald trump then charge forward . The choices hes made in the last month with bringing on like the exscott Walker Campaign manager, the new Convention Manager says he already was moving on about when this happened. Mr. Lewandowskis position clearly has changed. Hes got these other very big personalities. This indicates that mr. Trumps already adapting. I have to tell you, regardless now that we know what the criminal dynamic is, she still, of course, can sue personally on a civil man or. But the issues always been not necessarily the problem, but the coverup effectively, his denying ever even seeing her or touching her. So so thats a separate liz that didnt help, did it . That didnt help. And yet i think were finding that mr. Trump perhaps realized that his campaign as a whole needed to change, the attitude needed to change. This event was part of the problem, and i think that hes already moved on from it. Liz ellis, dont want to give short shrift to john kasich. I know your newspaper, newsday, hasnt endorsed a candidate. That comes sunday . Sunday. Liz New York Daily News today put kasich on the cover, the guy. Barrons a couple of weeks ago said john kasich is the man thats best for business, for money, etc. , etc. Where do you think he stands in all of this . Hes number two at least in new york ahead of the primary. Yeah. And id sure love it if newspaperren doorsments swayed newspaper endorsements swayed elections. Listen, i think hes probably going to come in second, but its all trump, trump and more trump in new york. And if i may add, i think endorsements, in fact, at this point hurt. This is a season where people on both sides are reject what they see as the establishment, that includes media. So if its the New York Times or the daily news, people are going to say, meh, we are now making the decision. Weve given up to other people in the past, we have a disaster. Were not going to care about that so much. Liz tammy, ellis, thank you so much for weighing in. So much happening and, by the way, much more on the 2016 race coming up in just a few minutes. Cruz National Spokesman ron marrying is with us live. Maying is with us live. Ted cruz is really looking to california right now. Closing bell, 48 minutes away. American Airlines Flying high among the leaders on the s p 500 today, but look at this, american is joined in the friendly skies by jetblue, southwest and united. All of them can thank delta after that airline reported percent than expected profits today. All green on the screen, up more than 13 . Up next, kobe bryant scores big for the lakers in the nba and his grand goodbye. His impact on the business of basketball. What he revealed in his only postgame interview with jim gray. Jim is with us next on countdown. No words can describe how i feel about you guys. And thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. God, i love you guys. 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Before kobe bryant even took the court last night, social media was ablaze. Why . Because of that guy, flea, the bass guitarist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers came out to pay the national anthem. Thats right, kobes last game was kicked off by the hendrixlike solo, not by a singer. Well, the hatest came out in full force, criticizing the unusual performance, but it doesnt take long for kobe to silence those critics. He scored a massive 60 points during his farewell game. Kobe saying his goodbye toss a swooning crowd at the Staples Center, wrapping up 20 years in the nba. But, oh, yeah, the Golden State Warriors were not to be outdone by kobe. That team made history by becoming the first team to win 73 games in a season. The warriors beat the Memphis Grizzlies 125104 breaking what many considered to be an unmatchable mark set 20 years ago by Michael Jordans chicago bulls. By the way, the dueling games were a ratings victory last night for espn. Kobes farewell combined with the warriors gave espn and the nba the highest regular season ratings since 2010 when lebron james had his first game with the miami heat. Now yesterday on the show we also reported that the nba is tet is set to approve advertisements on jerseys, so we slapped a fox business logo on a jersey and asked you guys where you stand with that. That fired you up. Seth tweeted terrible, terrible idea. This is not fifa. Of course, soccer. They slap all kinds of ads over it. Wayne agreed tweeting liz, no way. Hashtag cheesy. And trump foot tweeted ive never wanted to buy m and ms or buy a can of dupont paint because ads are plastered all over nascars. Pointless. Hey, look, connect with me on social media lizclaman. All of our sites are here. Now, this kobe story, absolutely huge. And fox news jim gray was on hand for kobe bryants magical night. He talked to the lakers star right after his final game. Kobe, are you sure after a 60point performance and a massive comeback that you want to leave . Yep. [laughter] i feel really comfortable with it, you know . Im happy to be able to, you know, end my career on this type of note. I am very comfortable with my decision. Youve been in this uniform now for about an hour and a half after the game. Yeah. How tough will it be to take it off knowing its the last time . Its amazing putting it on for the love last time, and its going to be really strange knowing im never going to wear this jersey ever again. Its hard, last sunday game we had, our sunday whites, taking it off the for the last time, now this, its hard, man. What are you going to miss the most . The process of it, you know . The training of it, the preparing for games, you know, the preparing for, you know, the top players in the league, right . Coming together with my teammates and figuring out what those strategies are, you know, seeing them maximize their potential. Those things are the things that im going to miss the most. You describe for me this outpouring . You have taken a journey from being loved now but coming from being hated and motivated by that hate to now everybody wanting to embrace you . Its been a beautiful journey, you know . Its, you know, i think its, you know, i think its, you stay true to who you are, you stay true to the process, stay true to the craft, i think people will respect that. And ive certainly respected them, because they stay true, you know . Coming to san antonio, boo, you know . [laughter] you suck, right . And all those things in boston sacramento. Its such a Mutual Respect x. After all of these years, we can both take the blinders off and say we appreciate each other. How do you want to be remembered . You know, i said a long time ago when i was 15 years old, i made a promise to myself and said at the end of my career, i want people to think of me as a talented overachiever, that i was blessed with talent, but that i worked as if i had none. And if i could be remembered that way, that would, that would be pretty good. Liz jim gray is with us now. You nabbed that, you were the only one to get that interview right after. Look, great interview, historic night for th