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FOXNEWSW Americas News HQ February 28, 2016

Hes going to join us here live. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. Im shannon bream. Nice to be with you im leland vittert. Thanks for spending your sunday with us. The gloves are off and the brass knuckles on as voters in about a dozen states head to the polls in less than 48 hours. At stake the biggest single day delegate haul of the election calendar. Marco rubio says even if he doesnt win a super tuesday contest, hes going to keep pounding away at donald trump and he will participate in a number of events today including one in virginia. We have Fox Team Coverage from the campaign trail. Covering the nomination race on the democratic side mike emanuel in nashville, tennessee, awaiting Hillary Clinton, she will have a rally there a little later. Coming off her big win in South Carolina. We begin, though, with chief Political Correspondent carl cameron in alabama covering the republican race. Hi, carl. Reporter leland, you were saying its brass knuckles. Theres a different type of attire and it would be a hood. Were talking about the kkk, the ku klux klan on the president ial campaign trail today. Donald trump this morning on one of the sunday shows was asked if he would disavow the comments praiseful from david duke, the former grand wizard who said it would be an act of treesen against ones heritage to not vote for donald trump. Here is what happened when donald trump was asked whether or not he would disavow the support and praise from the former grand wizard of the kkk, david duke. How do you feel about the recent endorsement from david duke . I didnt even know he endorsed me. David duke endorsed me. Okay. All right. I disavow. Okay . Okay. Reporter well, that was last friday. Two days ago. Obviously mr. Trump was asked about david duke and he disavowed. Similarly, back in 2000 when donald trump was talking about running on the Reform Party Ticket he also denounced david duke. He put together a statement when he made his decision not to run in the reform party and it said in part i understand david duke has decided to join the reform party to support the candidacy of pat buchanan so the reform party includes a clans man, a neo nazi and a communist. This is not a company i wish to keep. That was in 2000. Now, this was this morning, donald trump again having disavowed him on friday and several years ago refusing to do so today. Listen. I dont know what group youre talking about. You wouldnt want me to condemn a group that i know nothing about. Id have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups i will do research on them and certainly i would disavow if i thought there was something wrong. Reporter he chose not to do that in morning and a firestorm erupted. There have been a series of tweets, john kasich says there is no room for hate groups in america in one of his tweets, ted cruz just a short while ago tweeted and said, really sad, at real donald trump, youre better than this. We should agree racism is wrong, kkk is abhorrent and now mr. Trump has added a tweet which goes back and uses the friday dis a vowel that he said albeit brief, notwithstanding his refusal to do so this morning. Really quite remarkable, shannon. Remarkable indeed. Very interesting. Carl, thank you so much. By the way, a decisive win in South Carolina is giving Hillary Clinton momentum heading into super tuesday. Shes hoping to deliver a knockout punch to Bernie Sanders who appears to be at a disadvantage. Sanders admits to being, quote, decimated last night but says he is looking to the future. Senior Political Correspondent mike emanuel is in nashville, tennessee. Mike, is there still a race . Reporter well, Hillary Clinton is trying to end it as soon as possible, shannon. So Hillary Clinton is investing time here in tennessee today hoping for a sweep across the south on super tuesday. Hillary clinton visited two churches in memphis today and is on her way here to nashville on this her Third Campaign visit to the volunteer state in cycle. Clinton reiterated america has never stopped being great but the job now is to make america whole. She continues thanking the voters of South Carolina for putting their faith in her and last night took a swipe at her viral senator Bernie Sanders. America isnt a singleissue country, my friends. We need more than a plan for the biggest banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more good jobs. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders has not campaigned in tennessee, instead he will invest his time in oklahoma and colorado, trying to bounce back from South Carolina. We got decimated, decimated. The only positive thing for us is we won the 29 years of age and younger vote and that was good, but we got killed. Reporter his concern now is making sure he does not get killed on super tuesday. Bottom line, Hillary Clinton is trying to wrap this up as quickly as possible and trying to show a lot of strength across the south. Shannon. Mike, i have to say its kind of refreshing to have a candidate not spinning it. I just owned it and now they move on. We know youre out there on the trail to see what happens next. Thank you, mike. Africanamericans in South Carolina broke for clinton 86 to 14. If those margins hold it would be nearly impossible for Bernie Sanders to win some of the key states come tuesday. Susan joins you now. As shannon noted mr. Sanders isnt spinning this. He called it decimated down in the south. Does it matter in terms of how badly he lost South Carolina going into tuesday . I think the numbers matter. First of all, he did win the under 30 crowd, but if you look at the africanamerican vote, Hillary Clinton won almost 90 of those voters. If that trend continues as we go into the super tuesday state he could end up getting really clobbered and she could sew this thing up because almost 40 of those voters are nonwhite coming up in these next dozen or so states. So its going to be tough for him to win and she could rack up enough delegates to be at least 100 ahead of him in the count and if you do the math and its a lot of math because its almost 3,000 delegates that have to be dold out between now and the nomination but he would have to win 60 of the remaining delegates in order to win the nomination after super tuesday if predictions turn out with hillary winning big on tuesday. That doesnt give him a viable path to the nomination. The question will be after super tuesday what, if any, path does sanders have going forward. What, if any, path and also the issue if the clintons continue to sew up the super delegates. One continuing thing happened this morning, the congresswoman from hawaii went on meet the press and resigned from the dnc so she can do this. I am resigning from the dnc so that i can support Bernie Sanders for president. Id like to tell you why. As a veteran and as a soldier ive seen firsthand the true cost of war. I served in a medical unit during my first deployment where every single day i saw firsthand the very high human cost of that war. I see it in my friends who now a decade after weve come home are still struggling to get out of a black hole. I think its most important for us as we look at our choices as to who our next commander in chief will be is to recognize the necessity to have a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment, who looks beyond the consequences, who looks at the consequences of the actions that they are looking to take before they take those actions. Does this move the needle at all, susan . Look, sanders has a lot of enthusiastic support, he is still drawing huge crowds, still has a lot of money, enough to keep him going beyond super tuesday if he chooses to do so even if he is way behind in the delegate count. I think that she represents a group of people who really feel they dont want an establishment candidate to win the nomination. There are a lot of people who feel that way. Its just a question of strategy. How can they win the delegates the way it was set up. Its in clintons favor and that is sanders biggest problem. He has the money, the young people behind him and big crowds showing up, a lot of enthusiasm. Its just the math. The math is not working in his favor. He doesnt have nearly as much support on capitol hill as Hillary Clinton has, but he has some, but he wont win that super delegate count you just talked b those are the elected officials. Its not stacked in his favor. She is a voice among those who feel that an establishment candidate is not who they need this one. One of the big things that Hillary Clinton has on her side is bill clinton who has been out campaigning and so much of an issue was made back in 2008 in terms of is Hillary Clinton an asset or liability out on the trail. So far he has been both as weve seen him in new hampshire, weve seen him in South Carolina. Check out this sound bite from yesterday that raised a lot of eyebrows. Benghazi, they were killed and your wife tried to cover it u up. Go ahead. Those four lives, those four american lives. If someone lost their grandchild, son, brother did you serve . Yes, i was a marine. Bill clinton went on to tell him to sit down and shut up so he could answer the question. As we look at it, susan, how is this going to play out as bill clinton sort of ends up speaking to larger and larger audiences conceivably things get nastier and nastier . Bill clinton was both a help and hindrance to Hillary Clinton in 2008 those of us who followed both of them around on the campaign trail occasionally said things that offended minority voters who help Hillary Clinton in 2008, there were a few occasions when that happened and i expect we will see things happen along the way like what we saw yesterday, but overall i feel like he is a help to her and he is a help to any establishment democrat. He really helped president obama sew up a reelection in 2012 by getting on stage at the convention and defending his presidency and i think he will do the same for Hillary Clinton. He is still amongst democrats a very popular figure and overall hes great on the campaign trail, but things like that show you that there are vulnerabilities in the Clinton Campaign having to do with benghazi and other issues and thats going to come up to always making her vulnerable as we go forward. We will see how those vulnerabilities play out. Bernie sanders so far hasnt tried to exploit them especially when it comes to benghazi. Susan from the washington examiner, thank you, maam. All right. We are of course less than two days out from super tuesday. 48 hours until the polls open and the president ial campaigns are turning up the heat on each other. Our Political Panel is going to weigh in on the march 1st primaries coming up a little bit later in the show, plus 2 00 p. M. Eastern, you dont want to miss this, Chris Wallace talks with republican front runner donald trump and the two men hoping to overtake him, senator ted cruz, senator marco rubio. They have some very choice and strong words, some fireworks in at least one interview. Keep it right here on fox news all sunday afternoon. Fox news sunday coming up after the show. On tuesday top gop Senate Leaders are scheduled to take part in a meeting with president obama regarding a Supreme Court reese placement for the late justice antonin scalia. Will they stand by their promise to refuse to act on any nominee and should they . Joining us to talk about that gop senator tom to then of arkansas. Great to have you here today. Great to be on with you. Theres so many things i want to talk to you about but lets start with that scotus nomination. Do you see any gone senators willing to have a hearing, have a vote of any kind . No, shannon, i dont. First off let me say this about Justice Scalia, he was a great jurist, american and great man. Whoever ends up taking that seat on the Supreme Court will not replace Justice Scalia, he is irreplaceable, they broke the mold when they made him. Now, on the process to fill that seat we think the American People deserve a say in this. Every four years American People get a say on who will control the white house and the congress. Thgs a great occasion in which they will also have a say in who controls the Supreme Court. We think we should let the American People with a he in on who should make that appointment. How do you respond to critics who say its the president s prerogative to no, maam nalter someone and the senate should consider that individual . In 2014 the people had a say, this he said stop, they want nod more of the overreach from barack obama and they nominated a Republican Senate. They did not elect a Republican Senate to create a new Supreme Court that will rubber stamp the obama agenda, particularly in light of the fact in 2013 the Senate Democrats broke the rules of the senate, specifically to pack the courts of washington, d. C. So president obamas executive actions wouldnt receive appropriate review. Thats another reason why we think its important the American People have a say here. Are you worried at all about political backlash in this decision if the white house Hillary Clinton, if she is the eventual nominee out on the campaign trail saying the obstructionist gop is shutting down washington, you have to elect me so i can appoint someone to the Supreme Court and get it done. No, i think Hillary Clinton should be worried about political backlash. Justice scalia was the deciding vote and wrote the opinion on the case that recognized what the constitution plainly says, all americans have the right to keep and bear minds, defend him or herself and their families. Those issues will be at stake on the election trial this fall. This week the president laid out how he plans on closing down gitmo. You are a veteran who has fought overseas with regard to a lot of the individuals and issues that are tied up in gitmo. He also talked about the fact that there is a plan to bring some people here at least he wants to do that. There has been bipartisan opposition to that. Your response . Widespread bipartisan opposition. Over 90 votes every year in the senate for the last seven years. We dont need to bring hardened terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. Thats all that are left there. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is refusing to weigh in and approve the transfer of some of these detainees to other countries. We dont need to bring these hardened terrorists to the United States and thats why federal law has prohibited it and just this week attorney general lynch and the nominee to be the general counsel of the department of defense say that federal law prohibits this kind of action. I would expect military officers to refuse to bring any detainees to the United States as federal law prohibits. Also bipartisan support in the senate for a criminal Justice Reform measure, youre opposing it at least in some measure, why . I think theres things we can do to reform our criminal Justice System but we have to look at the details. We could reform your prison system so prison isnt dangerous to Corrections Officers or people who are in prison. We could do a lot of work to focus on rehabilitation and redemption of prisoners because if you dont get life without parole or death then you are going to be back on the streets and we should try to get those people back on the right side of the law. I think we should address the overcriminal zags of private conduct in this society. I dont think that we should let hardened violent felons back on to the streets because inevitably they will commit heinous crimes. A federal prisoner who benefited if Early Release from previous guidelines brutally stabbed and murdered his exgirlfriend and her two small children. Im afraid we will see that kind of thing again if we go forward with the legislation as its written. If we make sure that it doesnt let violent felons back on the street that might be a possible path forward for legislation. Are you confident it could be amended or tweaked in a way that it could eastern your vote . It is possible. We will have to look at the details. There are very few people in the federal prison system who are not hardened drug dealers and traffickers. People who, you know, got arrested for just carrying a dime bag of marijuana or an individual sized dose of heroin or cocaine, they generally dont get in federal prison. In arkansas they really dont get in state prison, either. For those very rare cases in which there is a manifest injustice, my case would be thats why we have a president ial pardon. The first republican president Abraham Lincoln was the most merciful and char

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