On ground democratic strategist chuck roach that as well. Chuck rocha. This is happy, senator cruz in his element from the birdseye view. Agree. Everyone is cheering. Trump is not here. I think he is enjoying that. Seeing complete nonestablishment guy here getting that support. Deirdre okay. Chuck as far as what is going on with the race, we know that donald trump chose not to go to cpac. So to kats point, ted cruz is getting more speaking time and more oxygen. Where is the way forward in your view for the gop candidates . Look theyre all trying to catch donald. Up until now they have been like a bunch of small children throwing rocks as at a train goes by. Aint nothing they can do to stop it. As political consultant you have to think what does donald trump have to gain or lose by dissing folks at cpac . He continues to buck the system. Most people who run in republican primary would never dream of skipping cpac but donald trump has done things all along myself as political consultant would be crazy and selfdestructive and disrupt his entire campaign. Every time he comes out bigger and better. I believe this will be another instance. Deirdre kat. Im not surprised he is not here. I will be surprised if he was here. People will say if he says anything about he would not be here. What is going to say . Why isnt he there . Deirdre why isnt he there . That question will loom. He regretted not participating in the debate in iowa. This is obviously different format but he is choosing to be absent which in fact is strong statement. What you think of dr. Ben carson. I wrote two days ago, i wrote down the quote exactly, he didnt see a political path forward. He already land ad job as National Chair of my faith votes. Do you think when he speaks shortly we will hear he is stepping out, kat . Absolutely. There really isnt a path forward. He has to step out. You know what . I really like ben carson but there is no particular reason he should be president. He has a lot of other things he could be doing and really well. Likeable guy. I will miss him. Missed him in the last debate. He needs to drop out to let votes go other places. I think he realized that. He must have. The sources are telling fox news, as weve been speculating that dr. Ben carson is expected to say he is suspending the campaign this afternoon either in his speech at cpac or at the press conference, q a session afterwards. So, chuck, to kats point, if dr. Ben carson drops out, how does this change the race . I dont think it changes it immensely. I think people expected him to run out of vigor and fire eventually. I think that deirdre who gets his votes, chuck . I think a certain point of those votes go between cruz and trump. I think his followers are more conservative, to the trump point i think they were more christian. To the trump point, believe it or not wanted somebody who was outsider and not a politician. That is donald trump lock, stock and barrel. Deirdre speaking of donald trump, earlier today he made a comment on the former president ial candidate mitt romney. Mitt romney as you know was on with neil cavuto earlier here is Donald Trumps comment on mitt romney. I dont like mitt romney. I hate people that think theyre hot stuff and theyre nothing. He is disloyal guy. He is elitest. I dont consider him elite. I dont consider him elite because im much richer than he is. Deirdre couple terms to define here. Elitist. Idea of being a conservative, not a true conservative. Kat, did mitt romneys speech help or hurt any of the candidates . I dont think it did any good for what it was intending to do. It helps trump perhaps. It certainly didnt hurt him because mitt romney represent exactly what people are wanting to rebel against, establishment guy. Not to mention that he why he would be criticizing someone elses campaign. Almost anybody could have given a speech like that have impact he wanted to have. The worst person to give a speech like that. Deirdre many people say he didnt endorse anybody, left the feel and anybody listening to him potentially very confused. Chuck on point who is conservative and who is not, why did donald trump skip this event . I think he skipped it to say exactly what his followers want to hear. Ive been doing campaigns a long time, what i would be telling donald trump to say im going to have conversation with voters. Im going to kansas where we have election coming day. I will head down to orlando, a state winnertakeall, march 15th, 16th, excuse me. I need you. Instead of going to washington elite with son curve tiff politicians im conservative. That is why theyre sporting him now. People sick and tired of being sick and tired. They want to hear that message and worked for him so far. Why abandon whats been working . Deirdre why brandon what has been working. Part of that is certain amount of vulgarity to be honest. He responded last night to marco rubios small hands attack. This is during the debate. Listen in. He hit my hands, nobody has hit my hands. Never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands . [shouting] he referred to my hands if theyre small, Something Else must be small. I guarranty you there is no problem, i guaranty it. Okay. Deirdre some saying it was a schoolyard dustup. More than a president ial contest. Cat, your take . My mouth was hanging open when i heard that i felt like i was watching people arguing in frat house instead after president ial debate. Every time i think it cant get worse, discourse cant get lower, something happens to make it even worse. It is pathetic. That is not issues that matter to me, hand size is not why im going to vote or not vote for a candidate. Deirdre not particularly president ial. Deirdre all right, stay with me, kat and chuck. Sources telling fox news that ben carson is expected to say he is suspending his campaign during this afternoon at his speech at cpac or question and answer question with journalists afterwards. Were waiting for dr. Carson to begin speaking. Well bring you there live. You can see ted cruz still on stage there with our own sean hannity in a q a, informal q a lesson. Former nixon speechwriter ben stein is speaking out, donald trump is dangerously misinformed. Find out why he is saying that. Two decades after o. J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend with a knife, a knife has been found on the grounds of his former home. It is being dna tested. Well bring you the results. Last nights debate got so heated, ted cruzs top spokesperson from cpac is with us next. 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When it comes to the fithings you love,. You want more. Love romance . Get lost in every embrace. Into sports . Follow every pitch, every play and every win. Change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. Deirdre breaking news, sources are telling fox news that dr. Ben carson is expected to say that he is suspending his campaign this afternoon, either at cpac, during his speech, or with questions and answers with the journalists afterwards. Much staffers from dr. Ben carsons team have apparently been told they will be receiving their last paycheck on march 31st. We are waiting for him to speak at any moment where he may officially suspend his campaign. You do recall two days ago he said he didnt see a political path forward. Speaking of the race, tons of fiery comments traded last night, all four candidates were in the mix. He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are think small hands . Donald trump mocked ebb with personal attacks. Does anybody ever deserve to be attacked that way, is donald trump. Dont other we are about it little marco. Lets hear about it, big don. Dont worry about it, little marco. Stop fighting. Is this dewait you want to play out during the general election. Breathe, breathe, breathe. You can do it. Lying ted. I know its hard, i know its hard but just when theyre done with yoga, can i answer a question. Guess what, it is march madness and wering up to the place, my turf, okay. Deirdre frontrunner donald trump announcing earlier would not participate in cpac. Here is what his spokesperson said on countdown to the closing bell. He is the candidate that had more press conference than anyone. He is the one that takes the tough questions. He goes to the debates, knowing that the moderators and his opponents are going to dog pile on him. Mr. Trump is not speaking at cpac this year because we have an election tomorrow. Deirdre Cruz NationalCampaign Spokesperson ron nehring is with me now from cpac. Ron, senator cruz looked great up there. He seemed at ease, more in his element except for last night in some other contests. This is his crowd, right . Oh, it sure is. Ted cruz is at center of conservative movement that is at the center of the Republican Party. This was a tremendous address here today. Then with sean hannity coming out for q a, really, really tremendous response. I was stunned by the volume and standing ovation that he received. I can understand why donald trump didnt want to be in this room. He should have been here. He should have kept his commitment. But he is not. Ted cruz owns this crowd here at cpac. Deirdre do you think that is why donald trump decided not to go . He thought that ted cruz would suck up all the oxygen . Im not in a position to psychoanalyze donald trump. Im not sure anyone really is but ted cruz made clear he thinks that people should keep their commitments. Donald trump should have kept his commitment to the organizers. He knew the election was taking place, was running for office. As of earlier today he was still confirmed speaker. He should have let speaker know. Give them the courtesy of letting them to know he was going to come. Causes a lot of logistical problems for organizers who have done a tremendous job putting this event together. Deirdre speaking of low gist cool difficulties, subject of New York Times off the record tape came up last night during the debate. Here is what some of the candidates had to say about it. Let me say that on the issue of the off the record, that is not up to the New York Times, that is up to you, donald. If you tell the New York Times to release audio they can do it. We will see what your true views are on immigration. Had a meeting with New York Times, things were at their suggestion and my suggestion. I think being off the record is very, very powerful thing. I will say this, these three gentlemen have gone off record many times with reporters and they want to honor. I will always honor it. I will say in terms of immigration, almost anything else, there always has to be some, tug and pull and deal. Sometimes you ask for more than you want and you negotiate down to the point. Deirdre do you think donald trump should release those tapes . It could be from the New York Times. It could be from donald trump them self. You heard marco rubio saying, donald, this is up to you . Yeah i think this is really important question because really goes to what nomination process is all about. Producing a nominee for the Republican Party is only part of it. The other part of it is making sure we have candidate who is wellvetted by the voters and making sure that voters have complete information about our candidates before they cast their ballots. Donald trump is keeping his tax returns secret, with very, very sketchy excuse that theyre all being audited. He could produce the letter from the irs indicating he is being audited and still release certain Financial Data for those years where he is not being audited. He refuses to do that. For the tape, release the secret tape that the New York Times. He has the ability to release, cause that tape to be released. He wont do it. It begs question as to why. Deirdre ron, we thank you. Ron nehring with me, Cruz National spokesperson. Dr. Ben carson taking the podium well listen in. Thank you, thank you. Absolutely delighted to be here. My wife and sons and their daughters are there. Thank you. [cheering] i want to thank you, i want to thank all the people who have worked so incredibly hard on my campaign. The volunteers, one young man, braden joplin, who even lost his life for something that they believed in with such fervor. And, it is an experience that i will never forget. Interestingly enough a lot of people said to me, you know, in order to really make it in this cycle, you have to be loud and boisterous and you have to be willing to attack people and you know, interestingly enough i used to be like that. [laughter] there was a time when i was particularly in, jr. High School Junior high school and in high school. I could come up with some stuff that would really embarass people and the people who are running today, boy, i could come up with some stuff, let me tell you. But you know what . I left that stuff in high school. You know. [cheers and applause] you know the things that affect us now are so incredibly important. And, one of the things thats going on in our nation ive noticed as i traveled around, wonderful americans every place, every part of our country. But so many of them are angry and are afraid. And the problem when youre angry and afraid is that you tend to make bad decisions when youre angry and youre afraid. What we have to do now is sort of calm down use amazing intellect god has given us. Brain. Billions and billions of neurons remembers everything you have ever seen. Remembers everything you ever heard. Process two million bits of information in one 2nd. There is reason he gave us Something Like that. So that we can extract information from the past and process it and project it into the future. And think rationally and logically, instead of just react ing. Dont need to have much of a developed brain to simply react, to react in fear. Animals can do that. Lizards can do that we are human beings. We must really start to think about right now in america what we need is leadership. [applause] many people, many people have said, who are you going to endorse . Well, let me tell you exactly, let me tell you exactly the criteria when one should use when utilizing that brain. If were talking about somebody who is going to lead america and the world, you need somebody who has demonstrated significant accomplishment in their life. Number one. You also need somebody whose ideals and policies are clear and easy to find with your intellect you carnival wait them. You need to look how they treat others and how they treat their family, because thats how theyre going to treat the American People. We need to see what have they done for america, someone who wants to lead this nation, should in fact, have demonstrated in their life that they are trying to improve life for people in america. We should also look at people they work with, who are those people . How do they, what do those people have to say and how have they been able to collaborate with people to get things done. All those are very important factors. Somebody who can check the box with all of those will make incredible leader. Also somebody who is ethical. What we need in america right now is trickledown ethics. Very important that we get that. [applause] conservatives should not be ashamed of capitalism. Weve had those who tried to make it sound like a bad word. [applause] it is not a bad word. It has produced the highest standard of living anybody has ever known but what we must do as conservatives is to make sure that we couple capitalism with compassion. That will be a winning formula for us. Recognize that in this couldnttry we have 330 million people. Sounds like a lot of people but compare that with china, 1. 4 billion. India 1. 1 billion. It means we need to develop all of our people. We cant afford to have 20 plus of our people not graduating from high school in technological age. We can not afford to have 5 of the worlds population and 25 of the inmates. We need to look at a government that has policies that destroys families rather than pulling Families Together because you need that family unit in order to strengthen america. [applause] our pillars of strength, our faith and your family. As those things are being eroded, you see what is happening to our nation. We the people have to be the ones who really push these things. The government is not pushing it. The government, they dont understand what compassion is. They think patting somebody on the head, saying there, there, you poor little thing i will take care of ail your needs is compassion. That is just the opposite of compassion. That is making people dependent on the system that is the worst thing you can do to anybody. [applause] so what we must concentrate on is the path, the bridge, that allows people to move out of the state of dependency, and become part of the strength and fabric of this country. That is how we come strong as a nation. Fewer people we have to pull along, more people that become part of a productive side of america, the better life will be for everybody. That is what we have to keep in mind. [applause] we must recognize, we the American People are not each others enemies. You know, its, i think, nefarious group of individuals who are making every attempt to divide us as americans, and what we must begin to really concentrate on is having conversations with each other and talking through our differences, finding resolutions. A reason we have these amazing brains. If were fighting each other the time, it makes it excessively easy for those who are really all our enemies, the radical islamic terrorists who want to destroy us. We need to understand that. [applause] why would we make their job easier for them by trying to destroy ourselves . We need to identified those people in our society who are always trying to splinter us too