A productive conversation about the state of the race. Meeting and phone conversations with candidates and their campaigns are common, and will increase as we get closer to november. I just bet they do get more common. But the rnc is also signaling it may be preparing for a brokered convention. Theyve launched a new website, its called Convention Facts dot gop, it lays out the partys rules for nominating a president ial candidate. Also tonight, brand new fox business polls on the state of the race in wisconsin. Ill have the numbers for you here in just moments. And well take a deep dive into Trumps Campaign schedule. Trump promised to campaign in wisconsin every day until next tuesdays primary. Wisconsin is very important. Its becoming more and more important. We can get there, we have a movement going on this. Is so important whats happening now, and im here for the week, and ive got a lot of stops. Lou a lot of stops and one of them out of town. Trump spent the day in washington meeting with the rnc as i said, and his Foreign Policy advisers, other private meetings as well. In fact, trump wont return to wisconsin until saturday. Well talk about whether thats too little too late with former Reagan White House political director ed rollins. Former president ial candidate governor Mike Huckabee are guests here tonight. Also fox news military analyst general jack keane will be joining us. Breaking news, brand new fox Business News poll out on the state of the race in wisconsin. Ted cruz holding a strong lead in wisconsin, holding 42 of likely republican voters. And in the Fox Business Network poll, trump trails at 32 , kasich in third place, 19 . Donald trump struggling to win over female conservatives, hes a full 19 points behind ted cruz, but hes also well ahead of kasich. Trump does best with independent voters in wisconsin. He holds an 11point lead over cruz and kasich who tie at 26 . And trump holds a huge advantage in states voting after wisconsin. In his home state of new york, the republican frontrunner leads kasich by 37 points. That, the real clear politics average. Trump holding a strong lead in pennsylvania and connecticut ahead of their primaries, april 26. Joining me now to go through some of these numbers and more, former Reagan White House political director, republican strategist ed rollins, nice to have you. Nice to be with you. What do you make of the numbers first in wisconsin. Wisconsin is key, winner take all in the sense that you win each Congressional District, eight Congressional Districts, three delegates, you win the district, you win that. So his campaigning in all lou winner take most. Ends up winner taking each Congressional District, 24 and another 18, whoever takes the state takes those. You could blank trump if you do it correctly or he could pick up a Congressional District or two. Lou you seem to be discounting him as possibly winning . I dont think hes going to win, this poll matches several other polls. That doesnt mean hes not going to win in new york and plenty of other places. Just wisconsin . This may deny him the majority at this point in time. If cruz runs the table here, trump and cruz have a majority of the delegates combined. Lou right. A majority of the delegates can block any rules, and the rules are chosen by a rules committee two, from each state, put rules out, vote the rules up or down, and the rules can be as presently states if you dont get a majority in eight states you cant be nominated. John kasich would not be nominated. Lou you think they can prevent the socalled rule 40 b eliminated by the rules committee. Prevent it or put it in. If theyre smart, if they have a majority of the delegates, they should control that process, i would be very surprised if they didnt attempt to do that right from the beginning. Lou what about the idea this is all orchestrated by the Republican National committee, the gop elites and establishment to move everyone into these increasingly narrow channels where they cant get a majority, cant get the 1237 delegates, and open the opportunity for congressman paul ryan of wisconsin to step in. If they do that, not only blow up the party, probably lose the senate. Definitely lose the presidency and paul ryan loses speakership. So my sense is that would be a very foolish strategy. Lou foolish . We got you, but now want to go to the next level. Is there anything in their behavior that suggests that foolish would stop them . Yes, i think at this point in time, they know theyve got a bronco by the horns and going to get bucked bigtime if theyre not careful here. I think trump, kasich and cruz control this process because theyre still in it. The only guy who may play a little bit is rubio who has delegates. Lou i love the fact hes asking to keep control of his delegates. Why would they accede to that request . You get on control your delegates until they release them for the first ballot. If the state where he won says they have to stick with him for one ballot or two ballots, he gets to keep them. Lou he gets to keep them through one . What can he do with that . Keep somebody else or make a deal. The truth of the matter is if this goes to a second ballot, goes to a third ballot, they are all opened up and anybody can win after that. As we look at numbers to see how well trump is doing with independents, its striking. And it really does speak to his ability, if he can get to the general to be an attractive candidate against hillary clinton. We dont want president ial contests unless we take a majority of independents. The history of george w. Bush, the history of any of our candidates. What you have to have is 90 of the republicans, and his problem right now is republican women, 47 say theyll never vote for him under any circumstances. He somehow has to get the base back, and hes losing among women in wisconsin. Lou you know, one of the people who has big problems is paul ryan himself. Hes got net, net unfavorables. We also look at mitch mcconnell. Hes got terrible net unfavorables. I dont see why, since we witnessed trump correct his unfavorables to a margin, a significant margin. But, nonetheless, just a margin, why could he not do that with women or whatever. He has to work on it. He needs to focus how do i bring women back into the fold. Lou your question whether he can focus, adapt and change his direction. He better, that has to be a strategy. Strategy every day has to be how do you solidify the base and get people back into the game. Lou you know what people didnt notice today . People didnt notice that donald trump wasnt out talking. Well show you more images, hes in big old black suvs, running around town, meeting with the National Security, his National Security advisers, meeting with the rnc. This is good stuff. Good stuff. Thats the positive stuff. Seven, eight months into a campaign, you expect a candidate to be pretty up on substance, and he needs to do that, work on that. Lou reload as they say. Right. Lou thanks so much. Ed rollins, as always, great to have you here. The fbi today announced it will help an arkansas prosecutor unlock an iphone 6 and ipod that may contain evidence in a murder case. Those devices belong to two teenagers accused of killing a couple in conway, arkansas. This Development Comes two days after the fbi acknowledged publicly it had cracked the iphone of one used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, what we dont know is whether the fbi will try to get into the devices in arkansas the same way the device from San Bernardino. Either way, its not good Public Relations for apple to have the federal government easily cracking their clients iphones, while apple is begging the fbi to tell them how they did it. Not a good day for tim cook and apple and their iphones, which seemingly, the whole world uses. Turning back to president ial politics, weve noticed a double standard when it comes to how senator ted cruz and donald trump are covered by the mainstream media. Apparently its okay for cruz to joke about violence against donald trump, listen to this cruz on jimmy kimmel last night. I dislike obamas policies more. I see. But donald is a unique individual. [laughter] will say i was watching the early part of the show, and if i were in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw donald in the backup camera [laughter] im not confident which pedal i would push. Lou cruzs comments havent generated an iota of controversy or outrage, but these did. The people, my people are so smart, and you know what else they say about my people, the polls, they say i have the most loyal people. Did you see that . Where i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot people and wouldnt lose people. Its incredible. Lou both men obviously joking. Two very different reactions by the mainstream media. Did i say mainstream liberal media . Were coming right back with much more, stay with us. Donald trump moving on from his abortion comments to supporters standing strong. I dont think he was prepared, i dont think he saw that one coming. It was a messup but to say he hasnt thought through the abortion issue is a stretch. Lou governor Mike Huckabee on trumps latest comments, meeting with the rnc and the campaign ahead here next. And this stuntmans fearless cliff dive leaves little room for error. Little room for error. Well have the exhilarating at ally bank, no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like bill splitting equals nitpicking. But i only had a salad. It was a buffalo chicken salad. Salad. You cant breathed. Through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. 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Cabins are filling up fast, so come on, relive the era you remember so well. The flower power cruise, february 27th, 2017. Let your freak flag fly. Dont miss the grooviest trip at sea. Lou planned parenthood action and pro team usa teamed up, launched an ad attacking donald trump as dangerous for women. Pretty picture you drew there. You wouldnt have your job if you werent beautiful. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . Yes or no, is it principleed . Has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes, has to be some form. Lou im guessing donald trump may take back some of the nice things he said about the services of planned parenthood. The ad will be running in swing states such as florida and ohio as well as the nations capital. Next guest says trumps remarks on abortion were terrible but the media made the issue much bigger than it truly is. Joining us former governor of arkansas, former republican president ial candidate Mike Huckabee. Governor, great to have you here. Whats your reaction when you watch that planned parenthood ad, attack ad, that we just put up . Its just exactly what you would expect them to do, theyre going to go after something trump said that he later walked back, and as i said, when he first said that, well, yeah there should be punishment for the woman. It was terrible he said that, but he fixed it, he recanted from that, and yet, you would never believe that he made a mistake and fixed it. A democrat can Say Something ridiculous and it may take them weeks or maybe they never fix it and never get the kind of attention that donald trump has received. Its very unique. Lou contrast that to the treatment in the media, for example, hillary clinton, i mean, its extraordinary. Think about president obama talking about 57 states. Hardly a mention by the national media. So with the double standard, hes waging a battle against all, all quarters in our society and our body politic, isnt he . Well, he really is. And its interesting that Chris Matthews will just press donald trump to the wall over that part of abortion. I want to know when is he going to ask hillary does she really believe that late term partialbirth abortion is morally okay . That right up until the very moment of birth, it would be okay to abort the baby. That is a position that is way to the left of most of the people who consider themselves to be proabortion. They dont go as far as hillary. Why hasnt anyone pressed her on that . Im waiting to see Chris Matthews have that conversation with hillary. Lou thats going to be quite a wait, as you well know. Trump naming his National Security team, moving Chris Collins and congressman Duncan Hunter into his legislative cochairs. What more does he need to do to get himself on the, if you will, the path to righteousness, show people he is leading now and not being reactive to first of all, i dont understand why he sits down and bothers to talk with the matthews and all of these leftwing hosts who are going to do him absolutely nothing fair . Youve made a very important point, lou. Donald trump has been willing to take on whether its msnbc, or any of the networks, he will sit down, talk to people that he knows arent friendly to him. He went on the wisconsin Radio Station with a host who had nothing good to say about him, but he went on anyway. He never gets credit for that. Hillary clinton goes 117 days without holding a News Conference and she never gets in trouble for it. So you asked the question, what could he do . Frankly, not a thing, because there are people who arent interested in what he says or does. Theyre just scared to death he might be the nominee and might win, and for those in the washington political inner circle, that means that their unabashed play party would be over. Lou your best counsel to donald trump at this point, a few days away now from wisconsin, getting ready to move into far more friendly trump country, if you will, new york, all of the eastern states, nearly all of them. Well, he hasnt called and asked for it, my advice to him would simply be talk about your vision for the country. Dont let people get you down into the tit for tat stuff. Theres no winning there. But focus on what caused people to support you, and that is your focus on immigration and jobs and the way the economy has mistreated a lot of the working class people of this country, and when he sticks to that, you know, it doesnt matter what people say about him. Lou and, you know, his use of america first, that resonates with me. How about you, governor . It does. Look, i wished it didnt resonate so well with people. Id like to have been the frontrunner, instead of sitting in a chair talking to you tonight. Lou youd have still been talking to me, im sure, governor. I would have, absolutely. Not as somebody commenting on other people running. Lou i got you. I have to hand it to him, hes done a masterful job of connecting with the frustration in america because they say the orthodox conservatives, the orthodox republicans, and what that has done for them, its taken their paychecks, pensions, futures, and everything, their hopes and dreams for their children, and theyre ready for something completely different, and you really cant blame them when you look at whats happened at the hands of the political establishment. Lou governor, always good to have you with us, appreciate it. Governor Mike Huckabee. Thank you, lou. Lou good to see you. Breaking news now, california governor jerry brown will sign a bill creating the nations highest statewide minimum wage, 15 an hour by 2022. California lawmakers today approved the hike, that will happen over the course of the next six years. Brown signs it monday in los angeles. Be sure to vote in our poll tonight because mercifully he isnt one. Like to hear from you, cast your vote on twitter links to everything, loudobbs. Com. Incredible video out of france tonight, a daredevil wearing a wingsuit, this is never, never without a thrill. Took a flying leap off a french cliff, straight through, two antennas, as if just jumping isnt enough. These guys, theyre well beyond me, the video is selected as a finalist for the gopro awards. Thats a good idea. Last years winner walked away with a 20,000 prize. Up next, donald trump less than happy with the Republican National committee. I call it bad politics when somebody goes in and wins the election and gets less delegates than the guy that lost . I dont think thats right. Lou so will they come together in the grand ol party . Well have a few thoughts about that in my commentary tonight. Were coming right back. Stay with us. When you think about success, what does it look like . Is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student . Is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves . Is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the Natural World . Whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. Tiaa. Lou a few thoughts now on donald Trumps Campaign, five days until voters in wisconsin go to the polls. 42 delegates up for grabs, and trump is trailing cruz now by ten point, according to the two most recent polls. The latest the new Fox Business Network poll. Just yes