Cant let it happen. I was being hit by poke poke there is little rubio. Lie lyin ted cruz, ladies and gentlemen, lyin ted i started running nine months ago. Who would have thought i would be in first place. It was 17 people, then 15, then 12. Deirdre donald trump reaches the official number, he has the 1237 delegates needed for the republican president ial nomination according to associated press. This is risk reward, im deirdre bolton. Here is is just earlier. Newsflash that donald trump had won the nomination. North dakota, you brought us over the line, folks. I will always remember that. Deirdre donald trump will avoid a contested convention in cleveland this summer. Someone who knows a lot about the process, former governor and president ial candidate mike huckabee, with me now. Governor, great to see you back. Thank you, deirdre. Great to be with you. Deirdre so donald trump the nominee officially. Yes. Deirdre we knew he was but he has the magic number now. On to vp picks. We spoke a him bit about this before, Paul Manafort the person running the campaign, if he pick as woman or minority it would be pandering. Who should he pick. Needs to pick the person he is most comfortable with. He needs a partner in government. This is not just about winning election. People dont pick for Vice President to win or lose an election. Could be detriment or slight help. He needs to find someone who help him lead the country, borrow a term make America Great again. That ought to be the criteria. Not gender. Not race. Not ethnicity. Competence. That ought to be the criteria. Deirdre so governor, you have endorsed him, but i want to ask you, Paul Manafort said, well, vp, implied the vp may have more to do in a Trump Administration than in another one. He said well, this person will have to do everything donald trump doesnt want to do. I dont know what is on that list but who looks good . That is frankly a smart move because a person who is Vice President should be employed to do more than go to funerals of foreign dignitaries. Bill clinton used al gore in a way somewhat unprecedented. Dick cheneys was almost as some a people called him the shadow president. He had a lot to do with Foreign Policy and running and executing the war. So you have seen Vice President s use very effectively. I think that is a smart move on the thats what he does. Deirdre do names come to mind, you dont know if theyre on the short list but that makes sense to you. There are a lot of names. I hear people talk about Newt Gingrich and host of different folks, Jeff Sessions and others who have been early endorsers of trump. Ultimately has to be a person he is comfortable with and helps and doesnt in any way hurt. More importantly that when he makes that decision, that it is something that he can just rare back and say, this is terrific, whether people all jump in on it or not, the one thing i will tell you, a lot of people are speculating that they know something. One maxim ive learned in politics, people who know dont talk. People who talk dont know. Deirdre that seems like a pretty fair assessment. So i want to ask you since were talking about domestic politics here, president obama is doing the same thing from abroad. So here he is from the g7 summit. They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements but theyre rattled by them and for good reason because a lot of the proposals that he has made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that is required to keep america safe. Deirdre so as some say it is in poor taste for a significant president to comment on a candidate. Trump responded. He is a man who shouldnt be really, you know, airing his difficulties and he shouldnt be airing what he is airing where he is right now and i think that you are going to he see it stop pretty soon. Deirdre so, governor, what do you make first and foremost of the fact that president obama is talking about the our race . I think you keep family fights private and there he is in japan talking about our process here. He has such a great history of past eight years apologizing for everything america has ever done including our election process. That is not a surprise. I think two things i took away from obamas comments, number one, when he says foreign leaders are rattled. Name me one. Secondly, good, im glad theyre rattled. They need to be rattled. Time that america is strong again and donald trump represents something that ought to rattle the world and make them realize america is not going to be, you know, this woosey nation weve pretended we have been unobama. Real quickly, deirdre, the second thing he talks about donald trump is ignore rant, gee look at your smart diplomacy and your smart policies. How has that worked out for us . It has been a diss ister. Deirdre people often say that about Hillary Clinton as well, having Foreign Policy experience is good thing if it is good solid Foreign Policy, but if it is bad go with the inknown, you will not lose out. Absolutely, if youre wired wrong and as Obama Hillary both are in terms of their world view you can have a lost education, but there is difference between a person who is educated and a person who is smart. Both obama and hillary are very welleducated but when it comes to understanding how things really work, i would tell you, theyre not smart. Give me a smart person any day over somebody who just has a bunch degrees with enough degrees to be guilty of having a fever. I take that any day. Deirdre all right. That is our sound bite of the moment, thank you very much, governor huckabee. Thank you. Deirdre thank you for the time. Have a good holiday weekend. You too. Deirdre thank you very much. Well speaking of divisions, senator sanders and donald trump may debate one another. Here is what donald trump told jimmy kimmel last night. Heres the question from bernie. He asked, Hillary Clinton backed out of, Hillary Clinton backed out of an agreement to debate me in california before the june 7th primary. Right. Are you prepared to debate major issues facing our largest state and country before the california primary . Yes i am. How much is he going to pay me . When we did the republican debates, fox had 24 Million People. Largest in the history of cable television. We would have such high ratings and i think i should give, take the money, give it to some worthy charity, okay . If it was done for charity, you would agree to do that . If we pay a nice sum for a charity i would love to do that. [cheers and applause] Deirdre Sanders responded with this tweet. Game on, i look forward to debating donald trump in california before the june 7th primary. Former Senior Advisor to president reagan, protrump superpac member ed rollins is with me now. Also superstar. We have to put that under,. How are you doing. Deirdre what do you make of the fact that Hillary Clinton refused a debate oneonone with senator sanders both in the same party which is a usual event before the california primary, but senator sanders is saying about trump, sure, lets do it . Sanders is not afraid of anything. Sanders is obviously the most popular democrat in the country today. Runs very well against any of our cast of characters. Hillary doesnt. Hillary has no momentum. Basically she made the smart move from political perspective but she basically will not take advantage of another opportunity to debate the differences between two right before the california primary . She may lose the california primary. If she does, very close today in poll last night, 2point differential. She will limp into the convention. She may be the nominee, is the nominee im sure, but at end of the day she has no momentum. Deirdre without passion. No passion. This was perfect opportunity for her to stand with senator sanders. Here is the difference between the two of them. Deirdre you think donald trump and senator sanders it would make both of them look good. For example, if hillary refused and two gentlemen do a debate, she looks bad because she doesnt have a seat at table on the platform, it makes senator sanders elevated right . Absolutely. And it will totally dominate the media for the week of the california pro primary. She can not break through that i predict if sanders does it, does all right which is not easy against trump he may well end up winner in california. Deirdre you mentioned tight poll. Show viewer statistics as far as clinton and sanders go. California does have progressive pockets. He could do it. It is unlikely it seems but he could do it. To be perfectly honest running his campaign originally calfornian would rather have him in his position than her. She is establishment candidate who is not doing very well. She doesnt have very passionate following. He has very passionate following. Obviously california unique liberal state i think he can do very well. Those are good numbers for him. I think he could win this thing. Deirdre what if, this is really xfactor oddball, became senator sanders versus donald trump in november, maybe something happens with the fbi investigation, with hillarys emails, just factor in an xfactor here, who would win, sanders polls today indicate sanders would i dont believe that at all. First of all, you get sanders out and look at things he is for, very advanced tax system, a lot of very socialistic views that are kind of an opposition candidate at this point in time. When you look at him as serious candidate, put spotlight on him i think trump win crush him. Deirdre trump started out arguably as opposition candidate but he is working in, apparently he had a food phone call with House Speaker paul ryan last night. So eventually this will be a party behind him 100 . I was there day he announced, being perfectly honest look many others i didnt think he had a chance. We had strong field including governor huckabee. Week by week evolved to be pretty significant candidate and now nominee. I think he will be much stronger candidate in the fall than anybody anticipates. Deirdre good to see you. Ed rollins. Good to see you. Deirdre ed rollins, former advisor to president reagan and member after protrump superpac. Later this hour, space going there may get easier and cheaper. At least part of elon musks vision for his Space Transport company spacex. Multiple attempts started startn january 2015. The Company Successfully landed two rockets in the atlantic last go months. Five total this year. Launch is expected to take place 30 minutes time. Well bring it to you if it happens. There is new leakedded audio raising questions about Katie Courics documentary, deceptive editing is what is being examined here as far as issue of gun control goes. When we come back, a progun guest interviewed by the person who leaked video. Fox business, painting exclusive video of socialist venezuela unraveling. Citizens pictured here. You can see raiding a truck, looking in garbage for food. Economist and author ben stein with me next. You do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. Maybe you shouldve done more research on them. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. Liberty mutual insurance. charge music you wouldnt hire an organist without hearing them first. Charge so why would you invest without checking brokercheck . Check your broker with brokercheck. Deirdre these are exclusive to fox business. These video clips, hair roying scenes from seeingist venezuela. There is food shortage, forcing hungry and impoverished venezuelans to raid trucks. Youre looking at exclusive video. People are diving in dumpsters for trash looking for food. Some hospitals are out of medicine. The president declared a state of emergency as the country faces social, political and economic collapse. Author and noted economist ben stein is with me now. Great to see you. Glad to be here. Deirdre venezuelas socialist dream is collapsing. Most medium, Large Companies were seized, put into state hands, bureaucratic and inefficient at best. Even businesses apparently left alone faced regulation every single step of their operation. To what extent is this regulation part a cautionary tale for the u. S. . It is all cautionary tale trying to interfere with the basic laws of supply and demand. Countries with Free Enterprise and private persons and private corporations making decisions about supply and demand tend to do very well. Those run by state fiat tend not to do very well. The real question, why did this happen in venezuela and not cuba which is run with even more of an iron hand, even more disregard for markets . And i think venezuela made the mistake of trying to institute dictatorial socialist economic policies without being willing to enforce a thorough going police state. Deirdre im glad you brought that up. Venezuela before this particular moment, before essentially the leaders ruined it was a pretty wealthy country. They have tons of oil. They were actually running prior to the past 10 years, pretty well on that energy resource. The u. S. Is a big importer. Venezuela was the most prosperous large country in south america t was marvel of progress. A giant Monkey Wrench was thrown in the spokes of bicycle by socialists and communists. Cuba trying to make trouble every step of the way. Turns out the whole thing will fall apart unless you have a iron dictatorial grip which venezuelans dont seem to be in the mood to have. Their government is not tough enough and mean enough to have it. Thank god for that. Cautionary lesson for defying Free Enterprise and defying the laws of supply and demand. Deirdre i heard essentially they talk about Economic Warfare and building in cia conspiracy to blame for some or almost all of this but seems like a coup is a possibility. I want to ask you though, speaking of governments relationship with business, some american ceos are blasting senator sanders. We all know that senator sanders describes himself as a democratic socialist but ge, verizon, goldman sachs, they are saying that socialist views will hurt the u. S. Economy. In fact disney ceo bob iger, he made comments after sanders spoke. We want to play those and then i want to tell you about igers Facebook Post. Im probably only politician to come to anaheim and say this i use disney, not just to pick on disney but as an example of what we are talking about when we talk about a rigged economy. Deirdre so in a Facebook Post iger wrote back to Bernie Sanders, we created 11,000 new jobs at disneyland in the past decade. Our company has created 18,000 in the u. S. In the last five years. How many jobs have you created . What have you contributed to the u. S. Economy . So, ben, what do you make of igers comments . Obviously he was annoyed and pushed back and with facts. He is totally right. Disney has been a boom company. A Company People are begging to work for. One of the main things that sanders said you pay your employees very poorly and yet you charge these enormous prices. Yes, and eventually the people who work there and are paid poorly work their way up are paid quite well, enjoy their jobs very, very much and move into the executive suite at some point to make real money. Meanwhile provides americans with a great deal of amusement and fund. It is interesting, no communist country has anything like disney world or disneyland or Knotts Berry Farm or anything of those things. All the fun in life comes from capitalist countries because they better understand human psyche and understand what people want to see and do. Disneyland is not oppressive country. Cuba is oppressive country. Those are oppressive couldnttries. Those are ones Bernie Sanders likes. Disneyland is fun country. Deirdre bin, let me ask you the ceo of ge weighing in, jeff immelt, furious because sanders said ge is destroying the moral fabric of america. Happens if senator sanders goes further somehow in the political process than we all anticipate that he will . How would even relate to businessmen . I dont even know understand what he is talking about when he says that, the moral fabric of america is based upon selfreliance and chance to make something of yourself, make something from your family by your hard work, creativity, imagination and discipline. What is he talking about . Talking about more free stuff and the ability of students to repudiate their debts. He doesnt promise anything that will make america grow at all. All he promises take from the rich, take from people who have been successful, give it to people who are unsuccessful. He is promoting another venezuela in the United States of america. I mean he is not a unique, interesting figure. He is an old socialist crank who you can see see see million of on the sidewalks in new york talking to themselves rummaging through the trash cans. He is not interesting figure, it is amazing got this car. Deirdre i think he will take offense at crank part. You will probably hear from him. He is not my friend anyway. Deirdre ben stein, im glad youre our friend. Glad you are here. Author and economist ben stein. Thank you. Deirdre we want to let you you know how disney and ge closed. S p five one closed lower. If you look at nasdaq, higher. Disney just quick check, were showing you yeartodate as well. You can see ge in fact, down. Disney down as well. Those are yeartodate figures. There is new leaked audio raising questions about Katie Courics documentary. Deceptive editing is the charge. One of the progun guests that was interviewed by couric is with us. 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