Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Dont forget friday special 10 oclock p. M. You dont want to miss it set the dvr. Here comes greta. Dj this is a fox news alert. Republican frontrunner donald trump is holding a surprise meeting with the chairman of the Republican National committee. Happened right here in washington. On the record will take you inside that meeting. Reince priebus is here. Here is what donald trump told the Oreilly Factor about that closed door meeting. It was a very good meeting. We met with Reince Priebus and the staff they are very good people. Actually a terrific meeting i think. Its really a unity meeting. We are leading by a lot. We have far and away the most delegates. Millions and millions of votes more than anybody else than ted has than, you know, kasich has. And we really, i think they want it to really discuss,
you any, unity and i like discussing unity, too. Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus joins us, good evening, sir. Hi, greta. How would you describe that meeting with donald trump today . I dont think that was far off. First of tall wasnt a surprise meeting. I night ruin the fun. When was it scheduled. Days ago. That sounds like a little bit of a surprise. I hate to ruin the fun. When a can dot says im going to come in town have meetings want to stop by and say hello . No problem. Lets check with the schedule it worked out. The team came over and we ha good meeting and we talked a little bit about the process and convention. We did talk about unity and working together and making sure that when we go to cleveland and come out of cleveland that were working in the same direction. And part of that is just talking more and making sure that we have got open channels of communication. Pretty normal stuff, actually. You have got three candidates who in the past couple days seem to say, some overtly that he will back out of the pledge to
support the candidate in the event someone is named wins the nomination. Did you talk to him today about whether he would keep his pledge . Well, look, again, i dont want to sound hike a broken record about spoiling all the fun. Im really not going to talk about what i talked about. I cant have meetings with candidates if im going to turn around and talk about what we talked about. But, again. Ask it generally is that a problem . All three candidates are now it seems like you are trying to herd cats at this point. Heres the issue. We are going in to potentially, we dont know for sure, but potentially an open convention. So the candidates, i think, are going to posture a little bit as far as what theyre willing to do and who they are willing to support and who theyre not. People are counting noses. This selection of delegates is becoming very intense. We are not just talking about the allocation of delegates, who states. After that happens, the actual selection of who is sitting in those chairs, and what candidates are now, you know, portraying out for the public to listen to is, you know, i think, a bit of
posturing. Im not really worried about, in regard to supporting the eventual nominee or the party. They have all agree to do that by virtue, in one case, signing our data agreement. They are not going to get the data and the tools of the rnc and run to be our nominee and tell me that theyre not going to support the party. It doesnt work that way. They are running to be the nominee of our party. Our party is our party exists. And one of them is going to be our nominee. Looking at wisconsin coming up on tuesday, your home state, my home state. If donald trump doesnt win that state, you have looked at the math out into the future . Is it possible, lets say he ran the table after that and won everything. We have 1237 . Its possible. Its just like anything for any of these candidates. The more states you dont win. But kasich is out to get the 1237 . And he has admitted that but if no one gets to the
majority, then you are going to end up in a case where you have an open convention either in the first, second, third, or who knows how many ballots. Cruz and trump can. Trump can still . Ted cruz and donald trump can still get to the magic number beforehe cleveland. And we could have a presumptive nominee before cleveland. Thats right. I have got a twitter poll here. Versus, this is your chance at home to vote. After the convention, will the Republican Party be unified . Tweet yes or no using greta your live twitter votes threat the show. Its division sometimes is more fun but, believe moorks unity, the impossible is always possible with unit. There is no question. The convention. Tell us for planning purposes, it is a, quote, open, contested brokered, would it last longer than we expect . No its just going to be those days . No. Its going to be put to bed. We will put whatever systems in place. We have meetings, however long we need to have them in
order to make sure that we not only have a nominee both for president and remember there is a separate vote for Vice President as well that no one is talking about that. But there is another vote for Vice President. And then, on wednesday and thursday, were going to have a program and there is going to be convention with, obviously our nominee to be concluded on thursday night. You have got tom healing to do. Voters here a little bit. Early on in the polls, they are not so persuaded. Oh, well. Early in the show. Mr. Chairman, always nice to see you. Well be watching wisconsin on tuesday. You bet. You can see Donald Trumps complete interview tonight on the Oreilly Factor tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. 1[ brand new poll numbers just released with days before the wisconsin primary a new Fox Business Network poll a new poll has senator ted cruz with a 10 point lead. Senator cruz getting a 42 of the vote, donald trump 10 points behind with 32 and Governor John Kasich in third place with 19 . The on the record Political Panel is here from
the daily beast Jackie Kucinich and from the Weekly Standard daniel hell per. Jackie, donald trump that pretty much mirrors the Marquette University poll yesterday with 10 point lead for ted cruz. What do you think . Ted cruz has a huge ace in his favor in wisconsin. And that is conservative talk radio. We know Charlie Sikes interview this week. Mark belling another conservative radio host there hugely antitrump. And as a result, these listeners, conservative listeners are hearing bad things about trump every single day. Its clearly starting to ein cruzs favor. Daniel . Something also he has the conservative republican Governor Scott walker in his camp. He is popular in showing that conservative reforms are working. He just got on board. Just recently walker. He left the race, walker said im going to run against lets all unite against donald trump. So, although he just joined the race, he did start
unifying the republican or some elements of the conservative movement against donald trump. And i think thats its sort of been in the works for a long enough period of time have an effect. Lets state the obvious. If donald trump pulls out a miracle and wins wisconsin, i think we are this talk about contested convention is over. Then ted cruz if trump wins wisconsin you think its over for ted cruz . Pretty much. Obviously there could be some technical in some of the math it would be very hard. But, if ted cruz is able to win, especially in convincing manner. If these poll numbers hold up. Or if the gap wydens or whatever, i think thats very big for ted cruz. I think it shows donald trump is problematic. Obviously the math is still in his favor over anybody else right now. But it could show, you know, greta, this is. Any favors in the last 24 or 48 hours. Terrible week. His interview with Chris Matthews last night or two nights ago was damaging to say the least, particularly
on the issue of abortion. Thats not an issue that conservatives are like how do i feel . They know how they feel. And donald trump really went far afield on that topic. Trump is going to do a town hall with us on sunday. 10 points is a big lead for cruz, assuming that these two polls are correct polls and not like they are close. Those two polls. Do you think that this could have any impact at town hall with wisconsin voters . I mean, this is a chance to reach them. H with, right. I think is he going to have some tough questions from them and howubwp he handles those questions and what answers he gives to these people because he doesnt know what theyre going to ask is really going to be telling, whether this actually makes up the points that he lost that remains to be seen, trump has defied political gravity in the past. He certainly has done that jackie and daniel if you will both stick around. According to the polls senator ted cruz does have that commanding lead in wisconsin. Is he not letting up. His wife heidi is on the trail in wisconsin. And just a short time ago on the records Griff Jenkins caught up with
mrs. Cruz. Griff is life in wausau, wisconsin. Griff . Were literally on the campaign trail following the campaign bus as the senator surges. As you mentioned his wife heidi cruz and former president ial candidate Carly Fiorina barn storming the state. I caught up early with heidi, here is what she had to say. Your husband is surging by more than 10 pointsm5 g in wisconsin. Why is he doing so well . Well, you know, people ask me all the time how were doing and how this campaign is doing, and we have run the exact same strategy today as we did at the very beginning of the campaign. There is one person, the questions that i get is not surprised at all how well ted is doing and thats me. Because i have known him better than anybody else. I have known him 16 years. Ted is principled. He is courageous and he cares about people. He cares about doing what the voters have elected him to do. Thats why he surging here in wisconsin. Earlier in the day, we were at a pizza joint, greta, in appleton where carlie and heidi talking to
voters. We asked those voters who they were3 supporting for president. Here is some of what they had to say. I am leaning towards one candidate. It is ted cruz. It is great to be back in wisconsin. Definitely ted cruz. Definitely cruz. Have you decided how are supporting for county . Yes. Ted cruz. Why ted cruz . I want obamacare out, out. Its killing us. We will repeal every word of obamacare. Im torn between donald trump and ted cruz right now. And if they dont stop bickering like two little kids, the namecalling, its getting very embarrassing. Count to 10, donald, count to 10. I might go third party because you have got to vote for what you believe. Otherwise, you will never get what you want. I am voting for ted cruz because he will not violate the constitution. I love ted cruz. I will just stop there. God bless the great state
of wisconsin. Have you decided how are supporting and why . Im leaning more toward donald trump but im open right now. One thing i like about trump is that he is not a politician. Do we love wisconsin . One of the things i like about cruz is his integrity. He has a lot of values. As opposed to donald trump, i believe that ted cruz is a constitutional conservative. I feel much more comfortable with ted cruz selecting Supreme Court justices and i feel more strongly that hell follow the constitution. And when we come back in just mother break, greta, we will let you go on the bus and speak with former president ial candidate carlie happening here. Greta . Griff, thank you. Developing right now, the Obama Administration is about to transfer more gitmo detainees. Fox News National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is here. Whats going on. Next round of gitmo transfers, greta, were told will begin next weekend with
two detainees going to undisclosed country in africa. In january the pentagon conducted a bulk transfer of 10 detainees at once. The largest transfer to date. This one which involves about a dozen prisoners cant happen all at once because the pentagon is required by law to notify congress 30 days before any transfers. Capitol hill sources tell me that period has not elapsed yet for this latest round of transfers. The first notification went to congress in early march and the second one in the middle of this month. Among those slated for release, a 27yearold yemeni who has been on a Hunger Strike since 2007. The pentagon does not publicly acknowledge gitmo transfers until after they occur. 91 are remaining. 35 are scheduled to be transferred. Currently the 91 who are still at the naval base in guantanamo bay, cuba, of those remaining 35 are cleared for transfer to countries overseas. The pentagon says the rest are too dangerous to release overseas. Ina startling revelation
days ago the pentagons point man for gitmo said that some of the detainees transferred from the prison have, in fact, rejoined the fight and worse. How many lives have been lost by those terrorists who went back to their terrorist activity . Unfortunately, there have been americans who have died. Right. Only 5 of key takenees who have been released from returned to the battlefield during the obama that administration. Pentagon officials dont believe those detainees are among those who have killed americans. Greta. Okay, general. I know that the pentagon uses a term transfer and everybody uses the word transfer. I think transfer from one Detention Center and go to another Detention Center. These people are being transferred to a country. They are not going to Detention Centers. They are being monitored, supervised for a poured of time and then they go free, right . Each country has we dont know how closely they are going to watch these detainees once they are there. They are not going from as
you mention one prison to another prison. They are going to a loose arrangement where they will basically be free and the country that is taking over responsibility for them will be responsible for watching them. Like a Halfway House . Thank you. And former Homeland Security secretary former pennsylvania governor tom ridge is here to go on the record. Good evening, sir. Hello, greta. What do you think of these gitmo transfers. Would you use the word transfer. No. I dont like the word i dont think we need to close dewitt mow. I put it into a larger context, greta. This is one more call in this administration where politics is more important than security. Think of the litany of decisions or nondecisions so far. Most of the troops out of afghanistan, lets not keep any in iraq. Lets go after assad, but lets not go after him and then let reset with russia and let them try to take out the antiassad forces. Lets armcn the terrorist organizations in the region to iran, lets close gitmo it seems to me if you think
of that litany and add it all up, isis has gone from jay vee to pretty barbaric varsity. One more Public Policy failure, Foreign Policy failure that secretary clinton is going to have to embrace. As we go farther down the list of the detainees as we go towards the number zero, were going it keeps getting more dangerous each time. Right . We are we are the most dangerous ones are still there and we keep president obama is whittling away transferring or i think releasing. I feel strongly that we have no reason to close gitmo. The president talks about its been a stain on the United States and the rule of law. They are not criminals. They are terrorists. We have every reason to keep gitmo open. The balance the world has been concerned about guantanamo not because of the location, they just wanted america to have some kind of adjudication system. We finally began to do that i had some friends that wereec6e involved in the initial interrogation down there. They said some of those individuals should never be off that base iraq. 7zn others were in the wrong place at the whole time. Im against the whole closing of gitmo. There are other opportunities to take isis fighters and put them some place and not in our prisons. National security, in terms of the throw republican candidates. Yes. Who do you think the strongest in your view on National Security . Well, full transparency, right . There is only one proven leader that spent some time armed forces, spent some time budget issues, actually a proven leader with budgets, budgets, et cetera, et cetera. John kasich. I think the country is frankly right now getting to the point where they have trump fatigue. They are tired of the circus. Tired of the insults and his campaign, frankly being more about the donald than the american people. I think you see those numbers in wisconsin. Ted cruz is going up. John kasichs is going up. The only serious person in that room. The only adult. The only one with proven performance i like john kasich. You left senator ted cruz out of this discussion. I beg your pardon. I said you left ted cruz out of that discussion. I favor john kasich. Does he not have the experience. Is he a freshman senator. We already have one of those in the white house without any experience. We have seen somebody in the white house without any Foreign Policy experience whats happened. Spent 18 years in congress a long time ago. You dealt with the Armed Services committee and dealt with a variety of military issues and dealt with the Budget Associated with those issues. Thats a much stronger background than hanging around in the senate for four years. Do you think that governor kasich has a chance at the nomination, still has a chance . Well, i think until the final votes are counted, until somebody gets to 1237, all three candidates have a chance. Why has he not had the traction that donald trump has had and senator ted cruz has had. Part of the reason is we had a narrow 17gw candidate