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Abortion is illegal should be punished. Remarks that were almost instantly condemned by the prochoice and prolife movements. The Trump Campaign walked back those remarks, but the damage had already been done. All of this comes just five days before the next big contest in campaign 2016. The battleground state of wisconsin this tuesday. And a brand new Fox Business Network poll shows ted cruz is now ahead of him by ten points. Tonight were joined by Charles Kraut hhammer krauthammer. But first we begin with trace gallagher. Reporter despite donald trump backing away from his pledge to support the eventual dpop nominee and not to run as an independent candidate, trump showed up at a meeting with rnc chairman Reince Priebus. Trump calling the meeting nice, but togetherness is not the best word to describe trumps effect on the gop this week. First came word his Campaign Manager was being charged for grabbing michelle fields. Trump stirred the pot more with controversial statements on National Security issues. First insisting he was against nuclear proliferation, then encouraging japan and south korea to get Nuclear Weapons. Trump also would not rule out using Nuclear Weapons in europe. His comments attracted bipartisan criticism. Listen. Its clear that he is really unprepared to be commander in chief, leader of the free world. It would be catastrophic were the United States to shift its position and indicate that we support somehow the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to additional countries. Reporter but trumps statement on abortion is what continues to make headlines today. Watch. Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a princele . The answer is, there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah. How long, ten months, ten years . I dont know. Reporter the Trump Campaign then tried to clarify by issuing two new statements, first saying the states should handle abortion issues, then saying Health Providers are the ones who should be punished. The clarifications did not placate either side or the gop rivals. Watch. That comment was wrong, and it really is the latest demonstration of how little donald has thought about any of the serious issues facing this country. Reporter you mentioned the fox business poll. A new wisconsin poll gives ted cruz a tenpoint lead in wisconsin, but it was taken before any of these controversies. Megyn . Trace, thank you. Following those remarks last night, it took less than 24 hours for a proHillary Clinton pac to use trumps words against him. Watch. You wouldnt have your job if you werent beautiful. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes, there has to be some form of punishment. Katrina pierson is National Spokesperson for the Trump Campaign. Good to see you again tonight. So the abortion remarks were so controversial that he was condemned by both sides almost instantly. There was no one defending him, no one. And he came out and did a full 180. To those who say mr. Trump misspeaks a lot, he said the war in afghanistan was a mistake, and said that was misspeaking. He said that obamacare, that he likes the mandate, and then said no, he misspoke there. He said women should be punished for abortion if abortion is ruled illegal. Now he says he misspoke there. What say you . I say when you are a political candidate for eight months, you are speaking off the cuff. Mr. Trump, thats one of his appeals that hes not a scripted politician. With regard to this specific account with abortion, mr. Trump did provide a statement two actually. At first, the media frenzy is trump called for a ban on abortion, which in fact he did not. That was the original statement about leaving it to the states. The second regard, he wanted to clarify he does not support punishing women for having an illegal abortion. Why did he say he did . What his critics say is it shows he hasnt thought the issue through, and this is not something that hes given any real consideration to. Well, his critics are going to say anything at this point. We know theres a fullblown antitrump movement going on. We know the fullblown main stream media as we saw with Chris Matthews. Everyone is out to try and stop donald trump from winning the nomination. Was the question unfair . No, not at all. Mr. Trump answered the question, he just answered it after Chris Matthews said, but for women, and he just said yes. Mr. Trump was speaking about the legality. This was a hypothetical context of something happening that was illegal. Mr. Trump was just reinstating yes, if something is illegal, they should be punished. Thats why he clarified for distinguishing the difference between the woman and the actual person committing the procedure that is not legal. Let me ask you about these polls that show trump has a 73 disapproval rating with women. 73 of american women disapprove of him. Mitt romney was viewed as unfavorable by 51 of women before the 2012 election. He lost with women, he only got 44 of their vote and he was killed in that election. So 51 unfavorable vote, he managed to get 44 of the voting for him. And he lost in an electoral landslide to barack obama. How is donald trump going to do better than that with a 73 disapproval rating . I think there are a couple of things. Mitt romney is not donald trump. At this point in time, donald trump has more votes than mitt romney did at this point. When you look at the national polls, everybody wants to talk about the headtoheads, as if there is a crystal ball. Ronald reagan was 23 points behind carter at this point in his general election. With regard to women, we saw this early on when mr. Trump entered the race that he had unfavorables with women. As people started to vote, the issues took over and of course, there is a negative perception out there. You now have republicans joining in the war on women bandwagon against mr. Trump. But were but theres a reason for that. They didnt just start that out of nothing. He did several things that led them to voice those concerns. Yes, absolutely right. Hes not politically correct. But i dont think that fits with the war on women. Mr. Trump has been very outspoken against men and women. Also with praise for men and women. Its just theres one aspect they want to focus on. Hes going to have six months to get out there this the main stream and show america who Hillary Clinton really is. Great to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks, megyn. Joining me now, mark theisen. Mark, what do you make of that . Well, basically what it is, what donald trump said about abortion is something that no conservative would say. But its something that a liberal pretending to be a prolife conservative would say. Its like when he say two corinthians instead of second corinthians. He said in that interview with Chris Matthews, this is a direct quote, conservative republicans would say yes, they should be punished. No, they would not say that. And what donald trump does is because he doesnt understand what conservatives think or what prolifers think, he repeats the liberal caricature of conservatism and he says it because he thinks that is what conservatives want to hear. But its what liberals and democrats want to hear, because they want to run against the caricatures of conservatives, they want to run against the republican that wants to put women in jail. So he doesnt understand the issues. So hes saying things that are utterly silly. Lets talk about the women issue. Katrina accurately points out that mr. Trump was doing poorly with women for a while in his campaign, then his numbers with women went up considerably. And now theyre in a freefall. The question is whether he can stop the freefall and turn the numbers around with that. Your thoughts . For years democrats have been trying to wage this war on women with republicans thing. Every time donald trump opens his mouth he feeds that narrative. Its not just this comment, when you say did you want to put women in jail for having apportions, they take that as antiwomen. But its not just this one comment. As you showed at the beginning of this segment, he tweeted out that horrible picture of heidi cruz. He made fun of Carly Fiorinas face. He said, this is a quote from a tweet, if Hillary Clinton cant satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy america . Thats from the future president of the United States . And then his sick obsession with you. The comments he was tweeting out calling you a liar and crazy and a bimbo. Now with michelle fields. Every time he tweets or opens his mouth, he says something that alienates women. And this is not what republicans need. Republicans are prowomen. Donald trump presents a caricature of conservatism that liberals are trying to project. Mark, thanks for being here. Thanks, megyn. So what does this all mean in this election . The university of virginia Politics Team took all of the data and dropped it into a hypothetical trump versus clinton. As of today, the results gave clinton a solid win by a margin of 156 electoral votes. They predict it will be a landslide for Hillary Clinton. Joining me now, larry sabadeau. You start your piece with saying Everyone Wants to say its going to be close. Your prediction is it would not be close. Well, you used the right phrase, megyn. You said as of today. We also said in that piece that we have to deal with reality as it exists. The best indications that we have and theres some Research Suggesting that right about now the outlines of the general election returns start emerging. So there is some substance to this. However, its inevitable that were going to revise this. It will revolve over time. New circumstances. You can think of a load of things that would change to a certain degree. Change the dynamics. That can lower your poll numbers. Ive never seen it happen before, but im assuming. Yeah, it could change the poll numbers. A recession, a terrorist act. All kinds of an indictment of a particular candidate. Not to mention any names. On the other hand, trumps numbers, as we just discussed with a core group of american voters, which is half the population of women, are going in the wrong direction for him. And its not like they dont know him. Hes got 100 name recognition. Exactly right. You see, when youre unknown, you can really manipulate poll numbers. When you have name i. D. Approaching 100 as both Hillary Clinton and donald trump do, it becomes much more difficult to change perceptions. Thats why we pick them. They are the frontrunners. And theyre the two best known by far. What about the theory that he has energized a section of the electorate, white male voters in particular, that weve never seen before, and that these people are going to make up whatever deficits he may have with minorities, women, et cetera in megyn, he absolutely has energized that segment. You mentioned women, minority and white women and they tend to be antitrump. He has energized minority voters and increasingly they seem to be antitrump and finally, dont forget about college educated, graduate educated, professionally trained white voters. They also have tended to be antitrump. Theyre energized by trump. So hes gaining some votes in one sector and hes losing them in other sectors. But he has six months if he turns this thing around. A lot can change. To change the opinions of him. Hes a master of messaging. Larry, great to see you. Thanks, megyn. Now the trump critics are suggesting maybe he peaked. Maybe that was it. But before jumping on that bandwagon, you will want to hear what Charles Krauthammer has to say, next. Plus, donald trump met with the rnc chair today to talk about uniting the Republican Party and rich lowery and former senator scott brown are here on what appears to be a very divided gop at the moment. Plus, brian will join us to report on how the state department decided to tweet about spring break oh, boy and assigning women, i guess, numbers . Maybe it was the guys who were getting rated and how it went very wrong. Girls, stop that dont let dust and allergies get between you and lifes beautiful moments. With flonase allergy relief, they wont. Most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Flonase changes everything. Checking my free credit score at credit karma. Whens the last time you checked yours . Your credit. Is fly arent you curious what it is right now . Still poppin and lockin credit karma, get your free score now. Well be with you shortly. Yeah right. Xerox Predictive Analytics help companies provide a better and faster customer experience. Hello mr. Kent. Can i rebook your flight . Im here Customer Care can work better. With xerox. Wait im here mr. Kent . gasp shark diving xerox personalized employee portals help Companies Make benefits simple and accessible. From anywhere. Hula dancing . Cliff jumping Human Resources can work better. With xerox. Breaking tonight. New polls just out from Fox Business Network give ted cruz a tenpoint lead in wisconsin. Whats more, this is the second poll in a week showing donald trump taking a hit with women voters. Now some political writers are starting to ask whether the frontrunner may have peaked in his support. Charge me now, fox news contribute tore and author of things that matter, dr. Charles krauthammer. Charles, good to see you. Thats the question, whether i know others have said it many times, but whether you believe we have seen a trump peak, and the momentum is shifting in this race. Well, look, ive said it many times and i was wrong every single time. We heard the expression peak trump about as often as weve heard peak oil in the last 50 years and oil is gushing all over the world. So look, i think it is likely he recovers. But if there is going to be one series of incidents happening together, as weve seen in this week, that would actually stop his momentum and actually put a question mark in his some of supporters, this would be it. This was a terrible week. Theres something about the abortion question. Its not just that it will alienate a lot of particularly suburban, moderate just right of center women that i think is a constituency he has been able to hang on to, to some extent. But its a deeper question. People like me who have been accused of being an elitist intellectual snob has said he doesnt know anything, that his policy credentials are one inch deep, and on a ton of issues he doesnt seem to know whats going on. We, of course, have been denounced as an elitist establishment. Fine. People say who cares if he doesnt know about hezbollah or qods, thats stuff he can learn about in half an hour. But abortion is the central issue of the conservative movement in terms of social issues. It is a deep one that anybody involved has thought through. The fact that he could give such an answer, which is so far afield from what the prolife people and the movement think tells you a, that hes not actually thought it through. And i think it might raise doubts in his supporters who have stuck through him through all the other incidents and gaffes, to say if he hasnt thought through this, this central issue, what has he thought through on other issues . And what does he actually know about the other issues that we have ignored up until now . What do you make of the poll numbers when it comes to where he stands . 67 of the country has an unfavorable view of him. Three quarters of women, 2 3 of independents, 80 of young adults, 85 of hispanics, nearly half of republicans have an unfavorable view of him. The only thing that you can say is if hes not able to change these numbers, say he becomes the nominee, he will lose in a landslide. I know people talk about he will put certain of the mid western states in place where reagan democrats will come back. Yes, but this cannot outweight a demographic tsunami. And weve seen some within the Trump Supporters starting to openly voice concerns about him. And some more open minded to ted cruz and start to complain more about trumps behavior. Even ann coulter was complaining about his tweet about heidi cruzs looks, comparing her unfavorably to his own wife. And the question is, whether you think trumps behavior in the past week is behind some of that softening we appear to be seeing among some supporters arwhether its Something Else that theyre just starting to have general doubts about the man theyve been backing. When ann coulter calls you mental, youve got a problem. And i say that as a retired psychiatrist. Although you could argue that they cancel two negatives cancel each other out. But theres a lot of trepidation. I think the abortion question and all the other stuff that went on, the charges of the assault of his Campaign Manager and trumps furious defense of his and essentially insulting the woman who was involved, the fact that as ann coulter has pointed out, hes mocking the looks of his opponents wife. And doing all this at once, it makes people think after the temperament issue, as to the knowledge issue and to the seriousness issue, in my view thats been around for nine months. So as an observer, im surprised it took this long. Do you still think the sanders thing is a mirage or is there something going on . Its a real phenomena. But the whole thing is cooked against him, with all those establishment figures who are going to be the super delegates, the ones who are not elected, the math is almost impossible. I think he will be a force. He will be a figure. He will speak at the convention, and he will leave a legacy. For example, i could see him as a way of making peace, he would have to, because hillary is going to need his supporters, particularly the young, he could say here is who i want as the Trump Campaign<\/a> walked back those remarks, but the damage had already been done. All of this comes just five days before the next big contest in campaign 2016. The battleground state of wisconsin this tuesday. And a brand new Fox Business Network<\/a> poll shows ted cruz is now ahead of him by ten points. Tonight were joined by Charles Kraut<\/a> hhammer krauthammer. But first we begin with trace gallagher. Reporter despite donald trump backing away from his pledge to support the eventual dpop nominee and not to run as an independent candidate, trump showed up at a meeting with rnc chairman Reince Priebus<\/a>. Trump calling the meeting nice, but togetherness is not the best word to describe trumps effect on the gop this week. First came word his Campaign Manager<\/a> was being charged for grabbing michelle fields. Trump stirred the pot more with controversial statements on National Security<\/a> issues. First insisting he was against nuclear proliferation, then encouraging japan and south korea to get Nuclear Weapons<\/a>. Trump also would not rule out using Nuclear Weapons<\/a> in europe. His comments attracted bipartisan criticism. Listen. Its clear that he is really unprepared to be commander in chief, leader of the free world. It would be catastrophic were the United States<\/a> to shift its position and indicate that we support somehow the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons<\/a> to additional countries. Reporter but trumps statement on abortion is what continues to make headlines today. Watch. Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a princele . The answer is, there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah. How long, ten months, ten years . I dont know. Reporter the Trump Campaign<\/a> then tried to clarify by issuing two new statements, first saying the states should handle abortion issues, then saying Health Providers<\/a> are the ones who should be punished. The clarifications did not placate either side or the gop rivals. Watch. That comment was wrong, and it really is the latest demonstration of how little donald has thought about any of the serious issues facing this country. Reporter you mentioned the fox business poll. A new wisconsin poll gives ted cruz a tenpoint lead in wisconsin, but it was taken before any of these controversies. Megyn . Trace, thank you. Following those remarks last night, it took less than 24 hours for a proHillary Clinton<\/a> pac to use trumps words against him. Watch. You wouldnt have your job if you werent beautiful. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes, there has to be some form of punishment. Katrina pierson is National Spokesperson<\/a> for the Trump Campaign<\/a>. Good to see you again tonight. So the abortion remarks were so controversial that he was condemned by both sides almost instantly. There was no one defending him, no one. And he came out and did a full 180. To those who say mr. Trump misspeaks a lot, he said the war in afghanistan was a mistake, and said that was misspeaking. He said that obamacare, that he likes the mandate, and then said no, he misspoke there. He said women should be punished for abortion if abortion is ruled illegal. Now he says he misspoke there. What say you . I say when you are a political candidate for eight months, you are speaking off the cuff. Mr. Trump, thats one of his appeals that hes not a scripted politician. With regard to this specific account with abortion, mr. Trump did provide a statement two actually. At first, the media frenzy is trump called for a ban on abortion, which in fact he did not. That was the original statement about leaving it to the states. The second regard, he wanted to clarify he does not support punishing women for having an illegal abortion. Why did he say he did . What his critics say is it shows he hasnt thought the issue through, and this is not something that hes given any real consideration to. Well, his critics are going to say anything at this point. We know theres a fullblown antitrump movement going on. We know the fullblown main stream media as we saw with Chris Matthews<\/a>. Everyone is out to try and stop donald trump from winning the nomination. Was the question unfair . No, not at all. Mr. Trump answered the question, he just answered it after Chris Matthews<\/a> said, but for women, and he just said yes. Mr. Trump was speaking about the legality. This was a hypothetical context of something happening that was illegal. Mr. Trump was just reinstating yes, if something is illegal, they should be punished. Thats why he clarified for distinguishing the difference between the woman and the actual person committing the procedure that is not legal. Let me ask you about these polls that show trump has a 73 disapproval rating with women. 73 of american women disapprove of him. Mitt romney was viewed as unfavorable by 51 of women before the 2012 election. He lost with women, he only got 44 of their vote and he was killed in that election. So 51 unfavorable vote, he managed to get 44 of the voting for him. And he lost in an electoral landslide to barack obama. How is donald trump going to do better than that with a 73 disapproval rating . I think there are a couple of things. Mitt romney is not donald trump. At this point in time, donald trump has more votes than mitt romney did at this point. When you look at the national polls, everybody wants to talk about the headtoheads, as if there is a crystal ball. Ronald reagan was 23 points behind carter at this point in his general election. With regard to women, we saw this early on when mr. Trump entered the race that he had unfavorables with women. As people started to vote, the issues took over and of course, there is a negative perception out there. You now have republicans joining in the war on women bandwagon against mr. Trump. But were but theres a reason for that. They didnt just start that out of nothing. He did several things that led them to voice those concerns. Yes, absolutely right. Hes not politically correct. But i dont think that fits with the war on women. Mr. Trump has been very outspoken against men and women. Also with praise for men and women. Its just theres one aspect they want to focus on. Hes going to have six months to get out there this the main stream and show america who Hillary Clinton<\/a> really is. Great to see you. Thanks for being here. Thanks, megyn. Joining me now, mark theisen. Mark, what do you make of that . Well, basically what it is, what donald trump said about abortion is something that no conservative would say. But its something that a liberal pretending to be a prolife conservative would say. Its like when he say two corinthians instead of second corinthians. He said in that interview with Chris Matthews<\/a>, this is a direct quote, conservative republicans would say yes, they should be punished. No, they would not say that. And what donald trump does is because he doesnt understand what conservatives think or what prolifers think, he repeats the liberal caricature of conservatism and he says it because he thinks that is what conservatives want to hear. But its what liberals and democrats want to hear, because they want to run against the caricatures of conservatives, they want to run against the republican that wants to put women in jail. So he doesnt understand the issues. So hes saying things that are utterly silly. Lets talk about the women issue. Katrina accurately points out that mr. Trump was doing poorly with women for a while in his campaign, then his numbers with women went up considerably. And now theyre in a freefall. The question is whether he can stop the freefall and turn the numbers around with that. Your thoughts . For years democrats have been trying to wage this war on women with republicans thing. Every time donald trump opens his mouth he feeds that narrative. Its not just this comment, when you say did you want to put women in jail for having apportions, they take that as antiwomen. But its not just this one comment. As you showed at the beginning of this segment, he tweeted out that horrible picture of heidi cruz. He made fun of Carly Fiorinas<\/a> face. He said, this is a quote from a tweet, if Hillary Clinton<\/a> cant satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy america . Thats from the future president of the United States<\/a> . And then his sick obsession with you. The comments he was tweeting out calling you a liar and crazy and a bimbo. Now with michelle fields. Every time he tweets or opens his mouth, he says something that alienates women. And this is not what republicans need. Republicans are prowomen. Donald trump presents a caricature of conservatism that liberals are trying to project. Mark, thanks for being here. Thanks, megyn. So what does this all mean in this election . The university of virginia Politics Team<\/a> took all of the data and dropped it into a hypothetical trump versus clinton. As of today, the results gave clinton a solid win by a margin of 156 electoral votes. They predict it will be a landslide for Hillary Clinton<\/a>. Joining me now, larry sabadeau. You start your piece with saying Everyone Wants<\/a> to say its going to be close. Your prediction is it would not be close. Well, you used the right phrase, megyn. You said as of today. We also said in that piece that we have to deal with reality as it exists. The best indications that we have and theres some Research Suggesting<\/a> that right about now the outlines of the general election returns start emerging. So there is some substance to this. However, its inevitable that were going to revise this. It will revolve over time. New circumstances. You can think of a load of things that would change to a certain degree. Change the dynamics. That can lower your poll numbers. Ive never seen it happen before, but im assuming. Yeah, it could change the poll numbers. A recession, a terrorist act. All kinds of an indictment of a particular candidate. Not to mention any names. On the other hand, trumps numbers, as we just discussed with a core group of american voters, which is half the population of women, are going in the wrong direction for him. And its not like they dont know him. Hes got 100 name recognition. Exactly right. You see, when youre unknown, you can really manipulate poll numbers. When you have name i. D. Approaching 100 as both Hillary Clinton<\/a> and donald trump do, it becomes much more difficult to change perceptions. Thats why we pick them. They are the frontrunners. And theyre the two best known by far. What about the theory that he has energized a section of the electorate, white male voters in particular, that weve never seen before, and that these people are going to make up whatever deficits he may have with minorities, women, et cetera in megyn, he absolutely has energized that segment. You mentioned women, minority and white women and they tend to be antitrump. He has energized minority voters and increasingly they seem to be antitrump and finally, dont forget about college educated, graduate educated, professionally trained white voters. They also have tended to be antitrump. Theyre energized by trump. So hes gaining some votes in one sector and hes losing them in other sectors. But he has six months if he turns this thing around. A lot can change. To change the opinions of him. Hes a master of messaging. Larry, great to see you. Thanks, megyn. Now the trump critics are suggesting maybe he peaked. Maybe that was it. But before jumping on that bandwagon, you will want to hear what Charles Kraut<\/a>hammer has to say, next. Plus, donald trump met with the rnc chair today to talk about uniting the Republican Party<\/a> and rich lowery and former senator scott brown are here on what appears to be a very divided gop at the moment. Plus, brian will join us to report on how the state department decided to tweet about spring break oh, boy and assigning women, i guess, numbers . Maybe it was the guys who were getting rated and how it went very wrong. Girls, stop that dont let dust and allergies get between you and lifes beautiful moments. With flonase allergy relief, they wont. Most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Flonase changes everything. Checking my free credit score at credit karma. Whens the last time you checked yours . Your credit. Is fly arent you curious what it is right now . Still poppin and lockin credit karma, get your free score now. Well be with you shortly. Yeah right. Xerox Predictive Analytics<\/a> help companies provide a better and faster customer experience. Hello mr. Kent. Can i rebook your flight . Im here Customer Care<\/a> can work better. With xerox. Wait im here mr. Kent . gasp shark diving xerox personalized employee portals help Companies Make<\/a> benefits simple and accessible. From anywhere. Hula dancing . Cliff jumping Human Resources<\/a> can work better. With xerox. Breaking tonight. New polls just out from Fox Business Network<\/a> give ted cruz a tenpoint lead in wisconsin. Whats more, this is the second poll in a week showing donald trump taking a hit with women voters. Now some political writers are starting to ask whether the frontrunner may have peaked in his support. Charge me now, fox news contribute tore and author of things that matter, dr. Charles krauthammer. Charles, good to see you. Thats the question, whether i know others have said it many times, but whether you believe we have seen a trump peak, and the momentum is shifting in this race. Well, look, ive said it many times and i was wrong every single time. We heard the expression peak trump about as often as weve heard peak oil in the last 50 years and oil is gushing all over the world. So look, i think it is likely he recovers. But if there is going to be one series of incidents happening together, as weve seen in this week, that would actually stop his momentum and actually put a question mark in his some of supporters, this would be it. This was a terrible week. Theres something about the abortion question. Its not just that it will alienate a lot of particularly suburban, moderate just right of center women that i think is a constituency he has been able to hang on to, to some extent. But its a deeper question. People like me who have been accused of being an elitist intellectual snob has said he doesnt know anything, that his policy credentials are one inch deep, and on a ton of issues he doesnt seem to know whats going on. We, of course, have been denounced as an elitist establishment. Fine. People say who cares if he doesnt know about hezbollah or qods, thats stuff he can learn about in half an hour. But abortion is the central issue of the conservative movement in terms of social issues. It is a deep one that anybody involved has thought through. The fact that he could give such an answer, which is so far afield from what the prolife people and the movement think tells you a, that hes not actually thought it through. And i think it might raise doubts in his supporters who have stuck through him through all the other incidents and gaffes, to say if he hasnt thought through this, this central issue, what has he thought through on other issues . And what does he actually know about the other issues that we have ignored up until now . What do you make of the poll numbers when it comes to where he stands . 67 of the country has an unfavorable view of him. Three quarters of women, 2 3 of independents, 80 of young adults, 85 of hispanics, nearly half of republicans have an unfavorable view of him. The only thing that you can say is if hes not able to change these numbers, say he becomes the nominee, he will lose in a landslide. I know people talk about he will put certain of the mid western states in place where reagan democrats will come back. Yes, but this cannot outweight a demographic tsunami. And weve seen some within the Trump Supporters<\/a> starting to openly voice concerns about him. And some more open minded to ted cruz and start to complain more about trumps behavior. Even ann coulter was complaining about his tweet about heidi cruzs looks, comparing her unfavorably to his own wife. And the question is, whether you think trumps behavior in the past week is behind some of that softening we appear to be seeing among some supporters arwhether its Something Else<\/a> that theyre just starting to have general doubts about the man theyve been backing. When ann coulter calls you mental, youve got a problem. And i say that as a retired psychiatrist. Although you could argue that they cancel two negatives cancel each other out. But theres a lot of trepidation. I think the abortion question and all the other stuff that went on, the charges of the assault of his Campaign Manager<\/a> and trumps furious defense of his and essentially insulting the woman who was involved, the fact that as ann coulter has pointed out, hes mocking the looks of his opponents wife. And doing all this at once, it makes people think after the temperament issue, as to the knowledge issue and to the seriousness issue, in my view thats been around for nine months. So as an observer, im surprised it took this long. Do you still think the sanders thing is a mirage or is there something going on . Its a real phenomena. But the whole thing is cooked against him, with all those establishment figures who are going to be the super delegates, the ones who are not elected, the math is almost impossible. I think he will be a force. He will be a figure. He will speak at the convention, and he will leave a legacy. For example, i could see him as a way of making peace, he would have to, because hillary is going to need his supporters, particularly the young, he could say here is who i want as the Vice President<\/a>. Somebody who would carry on his legacy. So hes important. Hes made himself important. But hes not going to be the nominee. And he better not, because i still have no money on him. Charles, always a pleasure. Thank you. Late today, donald trump met with the rnc to talk about uniting the Republican Party<\/a>. 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You can look at the network as a whole, where we are having issues within a family of anchors over this stuff. You can look at the party. So its every area where theres conservatism, there is strife. Joining me now to disit, National Review<\/a> editor, rich lowery and former massachusetts senator scott brown. Rich, do you believe the call for unity now in the Republican Party<\/a> will be heeded to matter who is the nominee . I doubt it. This is a party that is at war with itself. Donald trump is incredibly a polarizing figure, and has done nothing to make it better. Usually at this stage, a frontrunner, for a major partys nomination, begins to unite the party. What have beseen from donald trump the last two weeks . He has threatened and mocked ted cruzs wife, and then said the other night incredibly that he doesnt want ted cruzs support. That is insane. Senator, do you think that this party can unite behind donald trump . Because the latest polls show, just 38 of republicans believe the party would unite behind trump if he becomes the nominee. Then well have Bernie Sanders<\/a> or Hillary Clinton<\/a> as president. And with that goes the loss of the ambassador, the loss of a cabinet position, the potential loss of the Vice President<\/a> if the senate is gridlocked. People have to look themselves in the mirror and say, hmm, i would rather have that than not supporting donald trump. Megyn, im a Glass Half Full<\/a> kind of guy. I want us to find that common bond and thats going to be a lot of healing, no doubt. This has been one of the most amazing elections i participated in, and ive run 20 of them. Ive never seen anything like it, where the conservatives and the establishment are attacking the frontrunner. Hes getting it from all sides. The people who are left arent talking to each other. And giving it, too. Whats happening in the Republican Party<\/a> right now is another layer to this. Real acrimony is developing between sides. Those who support donald trump and whose who are part of the never trump movement. And the party, they use words like unforgivable now when they talk about the other side. Its deep and hard to see how its going to get papered over. Every single objective indicator, every single poll weve seen in recent weeks shows that the most likely way to get president hillary is to nominate donald trump for president. His supporters say his numbers will go up once he starts on her. Well see. But 70 of women disapprove of him. It doesnt matter how many people on the right who write opeds and all the rest of it say they will or wont support trump. It wont matter if 70 of women in this country are convinced that this guy is a disaster for them. And every single day, hes doing something to make it worse. If he wants the unify the party and begin to take steps that way, apologize to heidi cruz and michelle fields. Go and learn something about policy so youre not embarrassed by Chris Matthews<\/a> asking a basic question. Those are the sort of things donald trump has shown no capability of doing and no willingness to do. What about it, senator . You look at the latest poll, three quarters of women view him unfavorably. 2 3 of independents, 80 of young adults, 85 of hispanics, nearly half of republicans view donald trump unfavorably. Overall, a 67 unfavorable rating in the country. You can throw the stats out all over the place, i get it. Im surprised theyre not worse with all the attacks hes been getting from every side. There are six months to go and its critically important he meet with people like he did today. One of the biggest things that ive heard when i speak to former colleagues, they want to meet him and get to know him. Theyre relying on sound bites and stats that youre pushing forth. I think there is an opportunity, and that will depend on who he chooses as Vice President<\/a>. Senator how about apologizing to heidi cruz . Rich, with all due respect, i dont agree with what he did, okay . Should he apologize . If you think it was wrong and youre a supporter of his weve heard that criticize before, why doesnt he just apologize when hes wrong . Every human being makes mistakes. I have, both of you have. Why not apologize . If i could answer the question. He did obviously put a statement out regarding his misspeak and his error with regard to the abortion issue. Ive already been on record with that issue with heidi cruz and other issues. That being said, thats one of the things people like about him is he has the hes not a politician. Hes not a seasoned guy like ted and marco and everybody else who has been participating in this process. [ overlapping speakers ] rich, with respect, i know what your position is on the guy, and thats great. But you have a choice after this is over. You can either support the nominee [ overlapping speakers ] okay, dont talk over each other, please. The difference between me and you, rich, is i in fact will support the nominee for the benefit of our party and you wont. Rich, go. Lets nominate ted cruz, unite around him. He wont embarrass us. He actually knows things. Chris matthews could spend hours hammering away at ted cruz and he would never have a blank look and take a wild guess at what the right answer is on a Public Policy<\/a> issue thats been contended for decades. That would never happen with ted cruz. Great to see you both. Im not sensing unity, but its still early. Coming up, when College Students<\/a> complained they felt threatened by seeing a protrump message in chalk, like this one, look what it says, vote trump. The school took action. Brian kilmeade will show you what happened since then. 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Developing tonight, now reports the fbis criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton<\/a>s private email server may be nearing completion. Agen are preparing to interview her and ed henry just filed this report. Megyn, as Hillary Clinton<\/a> hits speed bumps with Bernie Sanders<\/a>, but continues to rack up those delegates, the last major hurdle to her getting the nomination really is this fbi probe. Clinton vowed at the beginning there was no classified information on her personal server. Since then, hundreds of classified emails have been found, though she maintains they were not marked classified. The fbi is sorting that out and now there are indications this is getting closer to a resolution. Its such a serious case that dozens of fbi agents are working on it and the fbi director has been personally involved getting briefings almost every day and hes known as a straight shooter. Attorney general Loretta Lynch<\/a> said shes waiting for the fbi to give her a criminal referral or not, but theres skepticism whether a Democrat Justice Department<\/a> would move forward with an indictment. Clinton aide brian fallon told me the fbi has not requested an interview with clinton but they are eager to cooperate and will do to if requested. What aides in general hate more than anything is unknowns and this is hanging over the campaign as a great unknown, what some are dubbed the comey primary. Ed, thank you. For more, were joined by andy mccarthy. So james comey, you know him, you say hes a straight shooter and hes going to present mrs. Clinton is what you say are three bad options. What are they . Either she testifies in the grand jury, which is not a good option because she doesnt get to bring her lawyer in for the questioning. She submits to the questioning by the fbi, which can be used to develop leads in the case against her, but at least she gets to have her lawyer there with her to have the conversation, or she takes the fifth, which legally is probably good advice that a lawyer would give her, but politically its suicide. So what do you think shes going to do . I think shell meet with the fbi. With the lawyer . Yeah. Because it gives them a sense of what the fbis case is and what the governments case is overall. She gets to process it with the lawyer, if she has trouble in the middle of the interview, the lawyer can jump in and sort of delay and help her get through it. What should we glean from the fact that they want to interview her . Well, you always want to interview the lead defendant, especially in a case where they have to prove whether she was reckless in the way that she designed this Communication System<\/a> or if there was willfulness involved. If its a state of mind thing, you always want to sit down with the person. Their guidelines basically say that if a subject or target of an investigation wants to come in and testify, that they should allow that to happen. Now, i think shes pub luckily saying she wants to do that, because what is her alternative . She has to say that. But as long as thats the position shes taking, i invite her in to speak. Do you think an indictment could possibly come down . I have a hard time believing that Loretta Lynch<\/a> will pull the trigger. But on the other hand, if they wanted to whitewash the case, theres no reason that there would be an investigation. The fbi basically is part of the justice department. If they didnt want this investigation to be happening, they could have stopped it from the beginning. Now, comey may have ranted and raved and they may have had to put up with that. But a lot of the stuff thats happened here could not happen, like the giving of immunity to this guy who ran the Communication System<\/a>, the email server. You need a prosecutor to grant immunity. The fbi doesnt have authority to do that. The doj clearly working with the fbi to some extent here, so you cant rule it out. I dont know that well necessarily get a decision. I could see her just sitting on it. Andy, thank you, sir. Thanks, megyn. I thought i married an italian. Did the ancestrydna to find out im only 16 italian. So i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. This is my ancestor who i didnt know about. [so i use quickbooks and run mye entire business from the cloud. I keep an eye on sales and expenses from anywhere. Even down here in the dark i can still see were having a great month. And celebrate accordingly. I run on quickbooks. Thats how i own it. So strap yourselves in businefor action flo e know. Small business edition. 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Its happening at Emory University<\/a> where someone starting writing trump for president signs in chalk. Before long some students were complaining that just the words made them feel threatened. Brian kilmeade is our original and occasional roving reporter on the Campus Security<\/a> beat. At least for the first story. So the words and they could not function at the mere sight of a protrump writing. There was a time when you didnt write chalk on steps in school. I thought that was the story. The fact that one candidate is written there, trump 2016, i had no idea would be perceived as intimidation. 40 students got together and petitioned. They said they were outraged and theyre in pain because of the quote, because of trump 2016. As if swastika or kkk hood. Its just flatout unbelievable. Jim wagner seems to have caved. The University President<\/a>. Jim wagner, University President<\/a> , he now has a series of things hes going to adjust to. He is going to have a retreat. A racial retreat. Hes going to have structured opportunities because some of the students are protrump . Listen to me, hes going to have structured opportunities for difficult dialogue. Thats your b block, difficult dialogue. And a full process, institutional difficult reviews and address social injustice. Unbelievable this is happening. Theyd be better off making the students sit next to each other and yell mean things to each other. Thats what you node eed to getd to to function in the world. Thats the america we grew up in. Why are you all of a sudden yelling at me . Im trying to toughen you up. Thank you very much. It is the alumni stood up and wrote a big thing, theyre embarrassed with the way emery is going. Im with you. Emery. Alumni, i should say. State Department Spring<\/a> break. The state department is rating women . Theyre guilty of trying to be clever and cool and turned themselves in. How . Essentially they said this, in a message to spring breakers who are no longer welcome in panama city thanks to ains lele airhart. They tweeted out this, if youre a ten in the u. S. , youre not a ten overseas. Theyre worried about americans this is a state department tweet. No a 10 in the u. S. , then not a 10 overseas. Talking about how beautiful you are. What is that supposed to mean, if youre ugly here, youre ugly there. Dont let somebodys beer goggles fool you into thinking what does it mean . A scenario, youre at a bar, you dont usually in america get much action but suddenly youre in london, a woman walks up to you, shes quite attractive and all of a sudden you guy her expensive drinks or she says hey, heres cute, heres some luggage. If she gives you luggage, you think, i must be hot. That luggage is lined with coke and youre going to get arrested. Oh boy. Buy my knockoff stereo, get afsed for trying to buy knockoff equipment. If youre not hot here, youre not hot there. They have since apologized and they say just dont buy hot women drinks if youre not hot and said its sexist, they shouldnt be clever. Its so clever it made you wonder is this real . Yeah. And everyone tweeted in response. They apologized for being inappropriate. Okay. How about an egypt air flight was, you know, we thought it was being hijacked. As it turns out it was a fake suicide belt. For a while there they thought it was real. What did some guy do . As a viewer of fox friends we covered it as a real hijacking. When its diverted and they say its a bomb on board, call me gullible. This is egypt air flight 181. The guy is on there. He wanted to get the attention of his exwife. Instead of emailing or texting her, he thought hed take the plane. One guy on there still on board, from england, 26 years old and has the coveted job of health and safety inspected auditor. He decides in the middle of this tense moment theres video out there, its truly not that great to go up to the hijacker, get a Flight Attendant<\/a> to translate, see if i can have a picture with him. Before he knew it was fake. What the heck. 26yearold safety inspector auditor sits there with the hijacker o who stops and takes a picture with him with the body bomb fully in display and goes back to his seat and calls his mom. His mom said, whatever you do, dont call attention to yourself. I didnt tell her i took a picture of the hijacker. You want to know my thoughts . America thinks their social media feed is more important than the network they try it get on. He wants to be star of instagram rather than survive a hijacking. Hes crazy. As i see it, he has the last laugh. His instincts were dead on. It wasnt real. It was going to become a big story. Nobody got hurt. Great. Good for him. Hes on the cover of every newspaper from the daily mail to the new york post. Ponytail girl got in a lot of trouble. Tell us why. Heres the deal. This woman had a ponytail flipped over the back of the seat. Youre about to see the picture. Its blocking the tv screen. This is so wrong. A reporter from the boston globe says this person is not moving the ponytail. So rude. This picture goes viral. As everyone cant believe and marveled at how oblivious this woman is. Im not a ponytail wearer. I didnt know you cant feel the ponytail. You can feel the ponytail. Shes lucky that all of a sudden she has hair like this. The boston globe reporter said i feel so sad, i write Great Stories<\/a> thats supposed to reveal things and one photo gets more traction its happened to all of us. America likes the trivial. Well, and honestly, like, the coar coarsening of our culture. Ponytail girl. Sweep it around the side. Around the side is the way to go when you have that long soviet hotness. Soviet hotness . Thats what i call it. You watch the americans the greatest show on television. Right. Thats how the lead character wears her hair over here. I was thinking pocahontas. I needed to lose 10 pounds and didnt want to dye it so i wore it this way. Welcome back from vacation. Welcome back from vacation. Youve been gone, like a heres the plan. You want a family and a career, but most of the time you feel like youre trying to wrangle a hurricane. The rest of the time, theyre asleep. Then one day, hr schedules a meeting with you out of the blue. And its the worst 19 minutes of your career. But you dont sweat it because you and your advisor have prepared for this. And when the best offer means youre moving to the middle of nowhere, the boys say they hate the idea. But you pretend its not so bad. And years later at thanksgiving, when one of them says what hes thankful for most, is this house, you realize you didnt plan for any of this you wouldnt have done it any other way. 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