Tomorrow night well have Charles Krauthammer and anderson cooper. Yes, from cnn. Is coming over here to the kelly file. Set your dvr right now. Well explain tomorrow. Tonight, donald trump stakes his claim on the republican nomination. As far as im concerned, its over. These two guys cannot win. And senator ted cruz makes a huge announcement. If i am nominated to be president of the United States, i will run on a ticket with Vice President ial nominee, Carly Fiorina. Newt gingrich is here tonight to react to all of it. And then all eyes are now on indiana in the battle for the Hoosier State. Last night was Donald Trumps night. Today is indianas day. Herman cain and dr. Benjamin carson, theyre here to waeigh n on the 2016 race. Plus donald trump unveils his Foreign Policy agenda in a major speech. And then theres isis. Their days are numbered. Hannity starts right here, right now. Welcome to hannity. Now, donald trump is one step closer toward securing the republican nomination after sweeping all five races last night in a battle for the east, in midatlantic, and tonight the republican candidates are descending on the state of indiana where 57 very important delegates are now up for grabs on the gop side. Donald trump was in the Hoosier State earlier today campaigning with legendary basketball coach, the one and only bobby knight. Take a look. You know, normally they come out, they introduce trump. Here im coming out and going to introduce bobby knight, okay . And they talk about, you know, he isnt president ial. I dont know what the hell that means. I think the most important thing in the world is that we vote for the best man there is for this job, and youve already met him. We had a big, big, big night last night. We had five, five. Oh, were going to build that wall and you know whos going to pay for that wall . And earlier today senator ted cruz made a big announcement announcing that Carly Fiorina would be his choice for Vice President if he should win the nomination. Watch this. Carly is a Vice President ial nominee who i believe is superbly skilled, superbly gifted at helping unite this party, bring us together so we stand united as well. This fight is far more than about a ticket, this fight is about far more than ted cruz and Carly Fiorina, this is a fight for all of us. For our party, for our future. For our childrens future. Here now with reaction, the author of the New York Times bestseller duplicity former
speaker of the house, Fox News ContributorNewt Gingrich. Mr. Speaker, good to see you. Big day today. Good to see you. It is a big day. Actually im talking to you from purdue where im also involved in giving a talk and seeing whats happening in indiana. All right. Lets talk about indiana. Lets start with ted cruzs announcement. Carly fiorina. I thought carly, by the way, was a great candidate. She aggressively was able to prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton. I think stronger than some of her male counterparts. Does this help ted cruz . Oh, i think at the margin it might help him. Carly fiorina is a very smart person. She understands technology and the evolution of the modern world probably as well as anybody running for president in either party. I thought she was very effective on the debate stage. You know, this is a little bit parallel to what Ronald Reagan tried in 1976 when he was trailing gerald ford and so he announced his Vice President ial
choice. Didnt happen to work. But it was, again, throwing a hail mary pass at the last moment of the game. I think cruz by doing this is a little daring you know, if you lose five states, you come back the next day and announce your Vice President ial nominee, may not be the best timing. You can understand why. Hes got to shake the game up and this is a serious effort to try to shake up the game because if it keeps going the way it is now, he will lose and trump will be the nominee. Lets talk about Donald Trumps reaction in a town hall earlier today with our colleague and friend, greta van susteren. He was asked about this move by ted cruz. Heres what he said. Well, i think its really a waste of time, honestly. I think that i think it should be over. If indiana treats us right, were going to make America Great again. Were going to get rid of these politicians and were going to do the right job. I just think its so early in the process. You have to first get the nomination. Heres a guy picking a Vice President ial candidate. He has zero chance. He has no path. Its sort of crazy. So i think its well, it gets him in the news cycle because hes been totally taken out. He had a horrible day yesterday and he came in third, meaning third out of three. Most of the time. Most of the i guess four out of five, he was third, and he picked up no delegates and, you know, major states like pennsylvania, like maryland, were talking about big stuff, and connecticut. He came in, he got nothing, and i think he wanted to something to get out of that negative cycle. In that sense, it was probably good for him but people will not like it. The trump delegate count is at 950. Let me ask you this question, but it also seems remember, he won 17 bound delegates in pennsylvania, but there were 54 unbound delegates. My analysis today gets him at least 40 more of the 54 available. So it brings him very close to
1,000. Is that now unbeatable in your opinion . Well, i dont know that its totally unbeatable. Again, everybodys allowed to play out the game, whether its basketball and youre in the last seconds of the fourth quarter, or its football and youre right down to the end of the game. You still get to play. And the team thats behind still gets its atbat in the ninth inning. But the fact is trump is way ahead. Probably better than a 90 likelihood hes going to be the nominee now. And i think you find that there are people who analyze this every single day who are reaching a conclusion, he overperformed yesterday, he got at least 40 more delegates than he needed to be on track to get the nomination. If he wins indiana, it is for all practical purposes over because at that point, hell have closed out anybody else being able to stop him. And i think even if he only gets a third of the delegates in indiana, he is still on track to
get the nomination. Yeah. Lets talk about so many people have said they want to see donald trump a little more president ial. He gave a Foreign Policy speech today. Serious, significant speech. Heres part of it. Get your reaction. And then theres isis. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered. I wont tell them where and i wont tell them how. We have to be unpredictable. And we have to be unpredictable starting now. But theyre going to be gone. Isis will be gone if im elected president. And theyll be gone quickly. They will be gone very, very quickly. He also talked about china. He talked about russia. He talked about radical islam. He talked about building up our nations military, taking care of our veterans. It was long. It was substantive. A relationship with israel and other countries. What were your thoughts on it . Well, i read the speech on
the way out here, and i saw part of it at the airport waiting for the plane, and first of all, i thought on television he looked president ial. He looked serious. He looked controlled. And overall, i thought it was a good presentation. The speech, itself, is a very serious speech. I think youre going to find it ridiculed by some of the washington establishment. In part because it challenges so many of their assumptions. But i think his challenges are pretty useful. He has a very bold view of russia and china. Something which will startle all of the traditional, you know, antirussia, antichinese mantra, but what hes saying is pretty straightforward which is the first stage ought to be is there a way to get to a relationship that is friendlier rather than more hostile . Now thats kind of the opposite of what people would be expecting him to say a year ago and tells you hes been thinking about the u. S. role in the world and how do you end this cycle now running for 15 years
of us losing young men and women in wars that dont get won, dont accomplish anything, and leave us, frankly, a weaker country and a country thats mired down in a number of places you know. And i think hes trying to wrestle with that. Its a very complicated issue. Its frustrating to me when 5,000 americans get killed, iraq, afghanistan, many thousands more injured. They win mosul, fallujah, ramadi, tikrit, then we give back the land and isis takes it over or 58,000 people in vietnam are killed and then we pull out because because all of these wars then get argued through the prism of washington politics. We dont fight these wars to win them anymore. I dont think we can risk american treasure and lose that treasure Going Forward any further. Do you . Well, thats part of what trump said on that topic is exactly what reagan said in 81 81 2, called at that time
the weinberger doctrine, you dont go to war unless youre going to win. If you do go to war, you go to war with overwhelming force. Hes clearly sending a very clear signal hes going to rebuild the American Military which it desperately needs. His report on the decline in the size of the military, the size of the navy, the size of the air force, how old some of our equipment is. All those things are i think very, very solid and i think youre going to see somebody here who wants to complicated for the news media and the washington elites to understand, he wants to rebuild american strength to minimize the need to use it on the grounds that if youre overwhelmingly powerful, people dont come and play with you. Thats the reagan doctrine. They recognize youre going to win. Yeah. Thats the reagan doctrine. Well come back and continue more with Newt Gingrich after the break. Also coming up, donald trump surpasses mitt romneys vote total from 2012 and there are still contests left in this 2016 president ial race. A full report. And later dr. Ben carson and
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governor john kasich who racked up 3. 7 million votes. If you look at the total, 2016 republican contests won, trump has a big advantage with 26 victories compared to cruzs 11 and kasichs 1. That was his home state of ohio. And then there is this interesting figure, sean. If we look at this from a historical perspective, trump is on pace to set the republican record for total votes won. Hes already surpassed mitt romneys 2012 primary and caucus total of 9. 8 million votes and there are still ten races to go including california and, of course, that one is massive. Sean, well keep a close eye on this story and get back to you. All right, heather. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Back with reaction is former speaker of the house, Fox News ContributorNewt Gingrich. Thats an amazing figure. 2016 gop turnout up 6 0 . Democratic turnout depressed down 20 to 30 . You got to interpret that if youre a republican that theres a wide open field for them to
win a general election but hillary often outperforms in the hypothetical matchups. Why . Well, i mean, first of all i think in the short run, the countrys had, you know, a long time, 24 years, to get used to Hillary Clinton. She has a base in the Democratic Party thats very stable. Theyre going to vote for her under almost any circumstance. And trump is still both largely unknown and largely shaped by the news media. So if youre an independent or a weak democrat, you havent been part of the republican primary process, all of your understanding of trump comes as mediated through the news media who are not exactly his friends. The question is, if you look at exactly what you just said, heres a guy who is bringing lots of new people into the party. Hes bringing people in who are switching, by the way, from democrat to republican to vote in the republican primary. We have every evidence that theres a continued increase in interest in what hes doing. And im always amazed at all these folks who have been consistently wrong for a year. Every stage for a year theyve underestimated trump. They now tell us about the general election. My advice is he will run a different general election than any of us can imagine. Just as he has run a different primary than any of us could have imagined. And i sort of wait to see how trump solves these problems before i assume that folks who dont have a clue are the right ones to tell us whats going to happen. You know, you actually made a lot of news last night when you were on the program and you said get over it as it relates to the establish the. A couple stories out there, the house i actually found this pretty funny. This was in the washington examiner. Some house conservatives warning trump to keep their promises. Well, isnt that one of the problems weve had is House Republicans did not keep their promises, they didnt theyve shown no willingness to fight president obama and stop his agenda, use the power of the purse or repeal the parts of obamacare they could or stop
executive amnesty . Didnt they kind of cause that themselves . Who are they to lecture . Well, look, i think, again, there are factions in the House Republican party who have a digit different approaches to these things. The Freedom Caucus sees itself as a very hardline group. I think what will be a surprise to everybody is that trump wants to get things done and wants to move toward making washington governable again. I suspect hes going to actually be a pretty reliable partner with paul ryan in trying to think through what can we do to get back to a balanced budget, what can we do to protect americas interests, how do we rebuild the American Military . A point he said in passing today, how do we fix the Veterans Administration which is a corrupt disaster . I think hes going to be very aggressive about moving on these kind of issues, and i think hell find the large part of the House Republican party very eager to work and frankly a good number of senators will find that they have things they can
do with trump that they may not have expected. You know, i want to talk strategically, tactically. Whoever the nominee is, in the case of trump, he made the statement that he would hes ready to hit the hillary scandal encyclopedia, crooked hillary. Is that the best strategy . Well, i think its an inevitable strategy because between the clinton foundation, the clinton Interest Groups, the various businesses and governments that have tried to manipulate the state department, her total failure to use her emails in a professional way, fitting national security, i mean, theres so much you know, think of hillary as sort of this mound of scandals of various kinds. You can hardly ignore them. But i think theres a bigger issue. Hillary is the personification of the bureaucratic welfare state that has failed. My hope is that trump is going to decide to take this same aggressiveness, the same boldness, the same energy that
hes used in the republican primary and go into places like south side chicago, go into baltimore, go into places where you can draw a real contrast and ask people, do you really want to keep the same failures in charge ruining your lives, ruining your neighborhoods, crippling your ch