When was last time a major party member frontrunner was publicly bashed by a former standardbearer . This is happening hours before tonights big fox news debate. Were all over story, what it means for trumps candidacy and what it means for future of the white house. Not just the Republican Party in chaos now. Hillary clintons email scandal is growing worse for the frontrunner. Her aide that set up the private server, brian pagliano, has been granted immunity. Reports are Hillary Clinton is interviewed by fbi next couple weeks. Could be she might be headed for criminal indictment. Looking more and more likely. First want to go back to the showdown between donald trump and mitt romney as we wait for donald trump to take to the stage there in portland, maine. We have breaking analysis from ford oconnell, republican strategist. And capri cafaro. Ford, he was supposed to speak at 1 30. Here it is 31 minutes later. Were still great waiting. Everyone knows were waiting. All the cable stations broadcasting trump sign live from portland, maine. Is this another smart strategy getting his name out there, drumming up interest, keeping everybody waiting on edge of their seats waiting to see what he says about mitt romney. Start with romney. This is weak sister attempt by mitt romney. Too little too late, doesnt change trajectory in the race. His supporters will relish in this. Let me say something. This is the biggest mistake Republican Party made or at least candidates want to be nominees other than trump. They failed to define trump before trump could define himself. They ignored him he is run away freight train. Neil trish i agree with you. Well get to that in a second. Humor me here. Were waiting for him. Effect tiffly really been able to use the media to his advantage in a way i think is pretty much unprecedented. Think about all the media experts out there, advising all these candidates. They cant figure it out in the way that he singlehandedly has managed to do. [inaudible] trish absolutely. The is media professional. Quick to remind everyone he is the author of the art of the deal. If anything the man understands is how to communicate with the public. Youre right, that is why it is so great for ratings and why donald trump is bringing so many new people into the electorate. Trish he really is. He understands how to connect with people. That is something certainly mitt romney obviously didnt do very well since he lost to barack obama in 2012 and lost to john mccain in 2008. Trish i want to get to that. Mitt romney, this is back to earlier point, ford, again, looking at the governor of maine coming forward to welcome donald trump. You think about mitt romney and how he had such a huge opportunity and clearly failed. He never connected with people in the way that were seeing donald trump do that now. Now could be relate to. Making more money than mitt romney. Seems like average joe. People are saying they get what he is saying. That is why he will get democrats in places like ohio to vote for him. Trish that is interesting. Coming from a democrat, everyone. Capri cafaro. You think he will bring in democrats dont like hillary and establishment . I dont dont think is it just about establishment but Donald Trumps demographic. Look at lesser educated, white, in particularly like the industrial midwest. Trish got all the bluecollar democrats. Immigration, these issues are resonating with former reagan democrats. I think he has opportunity. If i can say one really quick thing about mitt romney. News flash, here is another rich guy who didnt want to release his tax returns and he lost. I dont see credibility he brings to the table. I agree with trish mitt romney doesnt have a lot of credibility right now but the way, he got up there was almost though as he was speaking for the entire party, trying to be socalled conscience of the party. From that part of the party if donald trump becomes nominee. If donald trump becomes the nominee they will have to unify behind him. I agree with Rupert Murdoch who said it would be insane not to unify behind donald trump if he is indeed the nominee. If you dont, guess what . Hillary clinton will walk in the front door of the white house that is the worst thing that can happen for Republican Party. Warring factions want their guy to win. Donald trump is ahead. If he secures 1237. He is doing it legitimately. He is doing it legitimately. Exactly. He is winning on his own you know. The attacks that mitt delivered today, marco rubio did before super tuesday and didnt do anything to change the outcome. Trish capri, as democrat yourself you want clearly your nominee which is looking more likely Hillary Clinton to win the oval office. Who would you campaign against. Who is easier to campaign against. Ted cruz. Ted cruz is most unlikeable person in the field. If ted cruz is nominee, he is so unlikeable, so unapproachable, i think it would be very easy to run against ted cruz and be successful. I dont think he will have crossover appeal with democrats like donald trump would. A lot of democrats say great, bring on donald trump he is misogynous, he is this and that. I disagree with that i think donald trump out of this field along with john kasich who i think obviously not looking for him to become nominee either of those individuals, kasich and trump would be most difficult. Cruz to lesser extent would be easier. Capri, to your point trish i want to share with you something mitt romney said. Im going to paraphrase here. Started quoting john adams. Democracies are always at risk of effectively committing suicide. Suggesting that we would be as country committing suicide as democracy if we elect donald trump. I think in some way the electorate feels like our democracy committed suicide via crony capitalism and benefits erelate and not helping middle class enough. And to me, i think voters are presented ahead of romney . Capri, capri. Voters are step ahead of romney. Here is what is very tough for establishment side and social con irv tiffs of the. Party is changing before their eyes quite some time. Ignored it in terms of their own interest. That is what donald trump is beneficial. His media i. Q. Is out of einstein. Leveraging animosity to the Republican Party to his advantage and leveraged it to the white house. Trish howie kurtz, host of mediabuzz joining conversation with capri and ford. We wait for donald trump to come to the podium. Governor of maine addressing crowd, one of Donald Trumps early supporters. You heard reports, the guy has media i. Q. Of einstein. He is playing effectively right into the sweet spot of the American Voter in that he has got, mitt romney coming out, establishment guy saying horrible things. In many ways plus bolster support. We are bringing up banner headlines awaiting donald trump remarks, in response to mitt romney. We pretty much know what he is going to say. Begged for my endorsement four years ago. Heres the thing. A lot of people think we in the media created donald trump. The fact he brilliantly manipulates each news cycle, even negative coverage of donald trump works to his advantage. We have mitt romney, icon, face of the establishment Republican Party, effectively coming in late in the game with a speech with words like phony and fraud and misogynist trying to deny the nomination to the guy who won 10 out of 15 states, tells you why the race is trish here we are. Well listen in to donald trump responding to mitt romneys attacks on him earlier today, live from portland, maine. Have fun. [cheering] thank you, thank you so much. What a turnout. What a turnout. [cheering] wow. Thank you. I want to thank paul. Ill tell you, i love tough people. You need tough people and he is a tough cookie. [cheering] when we got his endorsement we were thrilled, i will tell you that. He is a great guy. You know, i was doing a little bit of a thing called the debate [shouting] get him out, please. [cheering] get him out. What are they doing, right . What is the purpose. What is it . Get as Little Television time i guess. You know, i was going to the debate, i was going directly in from florida. Im down in florida. Were campaigning. Were doing really well in florida. Campaigning against a guy that has the worst voting record in the history of the state of florida named rubio. Hes, i call him lightweight. He is lightweight. But, got the worst record in the history florida. I dont know i should do well there. Lets hope i do well there. I love florida. I was going to detroit and i said to my people, i have to stop in maine. I felt, i just had to stop in maine. [cheering] so i wouldnt say it is very direct route, would you say . Instead of going this way, i went this way and that way and thats good. Im so glad. To put this in incredible soldout crowd, you have thousands of people outside, to put this crowd together in period of what, 24 hours . [cheering] and maine is amazing. Maine is one of the most beautiful places on earth. People dont realize how large your land mass is. I was talking to paul. As large as all of new england, when you think of it. Some piece of land. Can i buy some . Can i buy some . [cheering] so you know ive been watching with great interest as we get to you know down the line, weve had some amazing results. Right nearby with New Hampshire, it was amazing, incredible thing. Every single time i went to New Hampshire whenever i met with people, say number one problem, number one problem, heroin. Number one problem. And i would say how is that possible . You look at these beautiful fields and beautiful little roads and everything is so beautiful. And it was number one problem. And it comes from our southern border and were going to close up that border and were going to build a wall and were going to stop the drugs from coming in, believe me. [cheering] were going to stop. People will come into our country but going to come in legally. They will come in legally. But were going to solve the problem. But you know i watch these pundits, when i first started my wife melania and i came down the escalator, right, and i first started and it was and i amazing thing. We have to do something because we have people who dont know what theyre doing. They dont know what theyre doing in running our country. I got some of that today. Just hearing some of these things, but they dont know what theyre doing. We have to do it. It takes guts to run for president. Im not a politician. Im not a politician. No tack all action, nothing gets done. Some things. I watched pundits, they said, trump, i dont know, we have some great talent running. Im trying to figure out where, where . Whats the talent . Whats the talent. You come down and you do it and you Start Talking about trade and you see what happens with trade. Trade has been such a disaster. But the pundits all said, i came out at 3 , first one. My wife said you know if you run youre going to win but you actually have to run. You cant say you will run, they wont poll it, even if you do poll it people will say you will not run. If you run you will win. She is my pollster. I pay her less money. She is better than the pollsters. You know what happened, i started at three, the first day, i was at three, which i wasnt exactly thrilled about. Then it went up to six, went up to 12, went up to 18. It kept going up. Every time i went up the pundits would say he has plateaued. He plateaued. He will always get six. That is six solid group. Then i went up to 12. You know that is a solid group. Then i went up to 24, they said, dont forget that is with 17 people. We had 17 people. 24 with 17 people is pretty good. We went up to 24, they said well, that is the max. Canned be anymore. We went up to 28, 32. Cnn came out with a poll, trump 49. Nationally. Thats high. [cheering] and, you know im very proud of it because this is not a plateau. This is movement. We have a movement going on, folks. Time magazine did a story, recently, couple of weeks ago, talking about whats going on and they have never seen anything like it. People have never seen it they say, i dont think im exaggerating this at all, i dont want to exaggerate, many of the great writers of which there are very few because the media is among the most dishonest people i ever dealt with but they said, they said that in the history of this country there has never been anything like this, whats happening. We were in huntsville, alabama, the other day. We had 35,000 people, 35,000 people. We went to arkansas, which you saw we won. Is that another one. Aye yi yi. Get him out. Get him out. [shouting] they just dont stop. All right. Get him out. Thank you. Byebye. Byebye. Terrible. Incredible. Now you know you can be nice, but if youre nice, they would say youre so soft. Then you can be vicious, get out of here. Then they say you were too harsh. I have developed, please get him out. [cheering] its incredible. I love you too. I love you too. I love you too. [cheering] and by the way, you know, im selffunding my campaign. Putting up all my money. But you have to do, all i want. I dont want your money. I just want one thing, your vote on saturday. Get out and vote. [cheering] dont forget i did that big long turn, slightly long, it is a big turn. So you can get out to vote, okay . Thats least you can do. [cheering] thank you. Thank you, very much. So, our country and our time is make America Great again. And over the last little while i met so many people. Thousands and thousands of people. Like this, were confined by size of the room. It is packed but the size of room. Thousands and thousands of great americans. I have more confidence in this country now than i ever have had before. I have seen, millions of people, really, because when you get 35, 40,000 people for rallies, and we have by far the biggest rallies, i will say that. Bernie is second, he is second but he is distant second but he second. I have to give him credit for that. But we have, by far, biggest, i say by far the most people. This country has unbelievable people that love our country. Just remember that. [cheering] and i want to see the day, in nottoodistant future when apple makes their iphones in this country and not in china and all of these other places. [cheering] now, i heard, and i saw just a little bit of it, but i heard that mitt romney made a fairly long speech. [booing] and i mean honestly, i will address it quickly because it is irrelevant. Look, mitt is a failed candidate. He failed. He failed horribly. The third [cheering] he failed badly. That was a race, i have to say, folks that should have been won. That was a race that absolutely should have been won. And i dont know what happened to him. He disappeared. He disappeared. I wasnt happy about it, ill be honest i am not a fan barack obama and that was a race that i backed mitt romney. I backed him. You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, mitt, drop to your knees, he would have dropped to his knees. He was begging. He was begging me, and did you see how great, he said im not big like him or great businessman, all that stuff. Since then, i have done much better and now he tries to demean. Well talk about that in a second. Mitt was thinking about running again. He ran a horrible campaign. It was a campaign that should have never been lost. Youre running against a failed president. Came up with the 41 . He demeaned 47 of the people in our country, right . Famous 41 . Once 47 . Once that was said, a lot of people thought it was over for him. Then the last month 1 2 he disappeared. And i called his people, i said you have to do yourself a favor. Obama, say what you want, he was on jay leno, on david letterman, all over the place, last three or four weeks. Mitt was looking for zoning for a nineqargha raj or something in california, right . What is he doing . Who cares about a garage. Youre running for president mitt was disaster as a candidate. So what happened, it was very strong, and if press goes back, they will see it, when i heard he was running again, and i wasnt sure he was going tock running, but i was very, very strong to mitt, publicly. I didnt want to talk to him. I was so disappoint in him because he let us down. He let us down. One thing you lose and work and work and go, he let us down. He should have won. Something happened to him. He went away. He was gone. He was horrible in the third debate. It was a horrible, something happened. I dont know what happened. Make some day he will write a book. His campaign guy was terrible campaign manager, stuart stevens, always on television knocking everybody. The guy ran one of the worst campaigns in the history of the modern politics. Mitt ran, probably worstrun most people have seen. Most people thought that the republican candidate would win. So when mitt started raising his head a few month ago, i was very strong. I said, mitt romney should not run. He is a choke artist. I said it very strongly. I wanted to keep him in. Then jeb bush actually convinced mitt not to run. Can you imagine, jeb, jeb sold him. Jeb, he is a good salesman. Now that he is out, i say jeb is good salesman right . He is highenergy salesman. Mitt was afraid of jeb, because he was afraid jeb would get the money and jeb would get the whatever. I was not afraid. I wasnt afraid of jeb, i can tell you that. What happened jeb bush convinced mitt not to run. Mitt was going to run. It was going to be third attempt. Second one being one of great catastrophes. First one just didnt happen that is okay but the second was a catastrophe. What happened is he went to see jeb he had him convince he had money he would run and mitt chickened out. The real reason he chickened out, it wasnt jeb, it was me. I said if you remember mitt was all set to run. I know this from people close to him. I think he probably still has desire maybe at convention to get some kind of a thing. Hillary clinton will destroy him in the election. Assuming she is allowed to run, assuming she is not arrested for the email situation [cheering] which is so terrible. Which is so terrible. I mean, so terrible. Lets assume that the democrats are going to protect her. Lets assume that i will be running against hillary. And i really want to, i would love to run against hillary. [cheering] by the way, we have numerous polls show me beating her esly. And i havent seen started on her yet other than four weeks ago i did. She called me sexist. And i hit her with the husband and that was last time i ever heard the word sexist. That was it. [cheering] they had a rough weekend. That was a rough weekend. Bill was not happy. I guarranty you dont ever say that to him again. Say it to somebody else. Not to trump. That was a rough, rough weekend they had. But mitt was going to run assure as youre standing here, sorry we didnt get you seats, too many people. He was going to run, and i was very, very angry that he was going to run. I didnt know i was going to be doing this but i felt i wa