12 million Illegal Immigrants in the u. S. And to temporarily ban all muslims from entering the country have only strengthened his grip on first place. So, today, the National Review, a conservative bible, published a special issue focused solely on taking down trump. 22 pundits wrote poison pen essays on why they think trump is a danger to their cause. Naturally, trump immediately fired National Review is a dying paper. Its circulation is way down. Not very many people read it anymore. I mean, people dont even think about the National Review. So i guess they want to get a little publicity. Thats a dying paper. Really, i mean, pretty much, i guess pretty much of a dead paper. And some political observers have saying . S ; this attack will actually help the donald. National review could do more to help donald trump than to put out an issue like this. Its like an inkind campaign conviction for the establishment to attack trump. It helps him with his people. If its where trump wants to be, it reinforces his message. Joining us now with reaction from nashville, trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes from the Tea Party News network and from washington matt slapp a republican strategist who worked with president george w. Bush. Scottie nell, was this a smart thing for National Review to do . Absolutely not. This is a part of their track record of going against honest conservatives. In 2012 they went out against Newt Gingrich and declared mitt romney their poster boy and then actually back when reagan was running they actually attacked reagan saying that he didnt have what appeared to be a president ial psona. This is exactly why the Republican Party continues to lose, eric. There is no stsd uqt y they sit there and try to throw missiles and then they dont follow up. And where were all of these folks when we were trying to fight for conservative principles within congress, Like Fighting obamacare, when ted cruz stood up there. I didnt remember all of these folks uniting together to push the pr message. It died the next day. In fact, some of these might have even criticized him. So im all for unification. This was just a bad idea. And its going to back fire and unfortunately its going to effect the whole entire conservative movement. Not just the 22 people that put their name on this. Im scratching my head. We are 10 days out from iowa. What is the purpose of this . Is this a hail mary pass or do they believe that this is a welltimed takedown of trump . First of all, these are conservative luminaires. These are a group of people who collectively have fought every bit of the obama agenda. Lets give them their due. A lot of them were cruz supporters. Support other candidates. Yes, they are taking trump on ideologically and questions they have on conservative policy. Lets face it. A lot of these folks have signed up with other candidates. I was actually asked to sign on to this manifesto too as chairman of the american conservative. I didnt do it. Why didnt i do it . Because i would rather get donald trump in a better place on the issues that im concerned about. So you were askedfzc to write a piece to join the 22 pundits that wrote with the National Review . Thats right. You turned them down because, why . It would be too divisive. I turned them down because i think donald trump is saying a lot of things that need to be said is and i think he is going to take on a lot of these people and i dont see why thats a bad thing. There are areas where people have questions about what he will do. Do you think it was a mistake for the National Review to do this then. Yeah. Obviously if i would have endorsed it i would have signed on to it i didnt sign on to it because i worry exactly what was just said that i worry that this will just be a cause for division. At the end of this process, if we dont unite every single voter on the center right, we will not win. Its imperative that would he be able to pull together again. I will bring in scottie now and let you respond after that matt. Is this going to end up helping donald trump then . I think this is absolutely. We are seeing it already help donald trump. People are are identifying the folks who they perceive to be the wolves in cheaps clothing. I agree with you. There are a lot of great patriots and friends on this list. Thats why im stretching my head. Why would you go up against the number one person. Celebrating that we have two conservatives leading these polls. Awakened. What these folks have done is sit there and isolated the people who follow donald trump and the majority of them are good conservatives. Its also can i add this matt though. Im trying to dissect this a little bit. Look at the National Review and some of the names on that list. Very prominent conservatives. Lets call it establishment type on the right there. Is a mix. There is glenn becks. There is the dana and then there is also rich lowry, et cetera. And the list goes on and on. Its almost; [uxn like donald trump has made a case for himself being an outsider. This puts him outside the d. C. Corridor. Maybe that will end up helping him. Maybe. I think, look, ilso for donald trump, and for his supporters, i think its very fair that prominent conservatives like ed mease are saying we want to know more about where you are on a whole range of issues. It gives donald trump yet another opportunity to listen to to these critiques and continue to make it really clear where he is encore issues. He has done a great job on isis. He has been very clear on immigration. He has been very clear on how he wants to take on washington. If prominent people like he had mease want to have more questions answered. He should answer them. So far he is doing a good job answering them. He8bu has done a good enough job for people like ann coulter and now sarah palin, three wonderful conservatives to endorse him. Thats right. So you have to wonder is there maybe Something Else going on . Maybe these types of journalists and i will agree a lot of the online journalists have been coddled by d. C. Politicians before. Mr. Trump does not do that im more interested in the grass roots and people and talking to them than talking to you journalists. You come along for the ride and actually report. Maybe thats more of what we are seeing here. If donald trump happens to be the nominee going forward, are these people on this list obligated to defend conservatism and will they have to push away from the g. O. P. Nominee then . Thats the fear i have, which is i havent read this edition yet, but i will. Any language that somehow and i you have read it from other conservative journalists that they would never support donald trump. What they are saying and everybody ought to hear my words. What they are saying is they would support Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders to be the next president of the United States. And if they say that i think they lose all credibility. We have to get behind the nominee of the Republican Party if we tore stop this onslot of socialism and collectism and the destruction of our Constitutional Order that we have seen under an obama presidency. It must stop. And im going to support the republican nominee no matter who he or she is. Scottie, one of the issues that rich lowry brought up he thought there was a potential for donald trump to be bought off by special interests. Thats been one of the pillars of his campaign so far that he cant be bought. Your final thoughts . Thats completely a joke considering he is the one writing the checks while all these politicians have been accepting them. Who would you rather have in leadership the one leading this country, the one that wrote it and cannot be controlled or the one that is controlled by the guy writing the checks . He we8io5v . ;mcw3will leave t there, scottie and matt, thank you very much. Next up on this special edition of the oreilly factor. Donald trump and ted cruz releasing vicious new attack ads against each other. Does either land a knockout blow . We will debate it in a moment. Iall across the state belthe economy is growing,day. With creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today at business. Ny. Gov youre down with crestor. Alright now theres a way you can get crestor for 3. Adding crestor, along with diet, lowers bad cholesterol. 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Joining us now with reaction from houston, rick tyler, Communications Director for the Cruz Campaign and from dallas, trump spokesperson katrina pearson. I will start with you, rick. Pretty scathing ad the immigration issue he goes after ted cruz, donald trump does. Yeah, except for everything in that ad has already been repudiated before the ad was put out. Everybody knows that ted cruz was against the gang of eight. Marco rubio had been for the gang of 8. By the way, donald trump was for amnesty in 2013. He even tweeted out himself that, you know, we need Border Security first and then we can do amnesty second is. So he is on record saying he i think this ad is designed to cover his position which is proamnesty. Nobody believes ted cruz is ever for amnesty. He has never uttered a single statement to to say he was for amnesty. He fought the gang of eight andg put in that bill to make sure the gang of eight wouldnt pass it was so as amnesty bill and Speaker Boehner wouldnt take it up which is why we defeated the gang of 8. That was one of the moments in the Cruz Campaign where the the candidate really looked like he was stumbling a little bit for words. A rarity he has run a very effective campaign. A rarity but the Trump Campaign picked that up. I think the ad speaks for itself, eric. When it comes to illegal immigration there is no question that donald trump is leading on the issue. Particularly with cruzs support of expansion of hb 1 visas and green cards which is detrimental to american jobs in this country. To the cruz ad, i would like to point out that that ad is so misleading considering Eminent Domain abuse. The ad features a woman supposedly losing her property which she didnt. That woman kept her home. I will say that everyone isg that is in support of the Keystone Pipeline like senator cruz there had been a grandmother right here in her home state of texas who last a farm to that corporation which is not beholden to the United States its in canada. Maybe rick can explain that one. It has been one of the criticisms going after donald trump on imminent domain, conserving want the Keystone Pipeline. Frankly that thing couldnt be built without Eminent Domain. We are not talking about the Keystone Pipeline or highways or bridges. What we are talking about is a casino parking lot that was for limousines to pull up to the parking lot and a widow in Atlantic City lost her home over Eminent Domain. She did not lose her home. But this is just typical of donald trump. Donald trump has been for tarp. He has been for stimulus. He has been for amnesty. He has been for partial birth abortion. He has been for progay marriage. It just goes on and on and on and all all of a sudden right on the eve of this elections we have what he would like to you believe is the road to damascus conversionu2tkc conservatism. Which is why it 2 prominent Movement Conservatives including brent bozell who is the nephew of william f. Buckley, including call thomas, glenn beck, dana loesch all wrote that in their own various ways of why donald trump is not a conservative. Not only is he not a conservative. He wasnt even a republican. He gave endless cash to rahm immanuel. Clinton, mostly cloudy, anthony weiner. Endless. Andrew cuomo, the Democratic Party, the list goes on and on. I get it. Are you getting the difference here. But to ricks point, its interestinglnnn. R how he talks about someone who also was a former raging liberal who became conservative thats now telling everybody else what it means to be a conservative. But i will say they can continue to focus on positions or ideas or beliefs that he may have had 15, maybe 20 years ago. What matters is today. I will remind rick that just 15, 20 years ago, ted cruz was still a canadian citizen. Donald trump wants to fight for this country and he wants to make America Great again. And if we want to sit here and talk about the past, we can do that but i dont think he wants to. You guys are throwing me a bunch of Campaign Rhetoric back and for the. I love thejh; . 7[ . cc[mcc deba. Rick, i want to ask you this. Ted cruz went after donald trump at the last fbn debate. It was a turning point. Up until that moment they had a ceasefire going on. Ted cruz went after him. Was that a mistake . No, it wasnt a mistake. Donald trump had said he had not gone after us and then he did this passive aggressive, you know, im not really concerned with the fact that ted cruz is born in canada it doesnt bother me my goodness and then he goes on and on and on about it. That was designed to be an attack. Then he within a couple days it escalated to ted cruz qualified to be president. He should step aside. What happened was donald trump got punched in the nose after his attack. And, you know, so he it was a good hit because he deserved it so, and, you know, bullies can be stood up to. When he he stood up to he backed down. Thats what happened. The4sf whole country had backlash after that debate. The whole country backlashed against ted cruz. That was not a slap in the face. Was donald trump waiting for ted cruz take that so as he points out counter punch . No, donald trump is not the political calculator here. He is not the one trying to manipulate people into believing other things. Is just being who he is. This did not even start to happen until senator cruz went after from trump. Mr. Trump has kept his word. He is not going to go after on the eligibility, rick, it was the Cruz Campaign that went after donald trump in a tweet that started this0fn whole discussion. Y, mr. Trump is definitely going to fight back if you come after him. Go ahead, rick. Do you want to respond to it . Yeah. Look, donald trump, for most of his had life, has been a liberal progressive views that are based on new york values. Those are not my words those are his words from a meet nothing has changed other than he wants to be the republican nominee for president. He is not a conservative. He is not reliable. He is not dependable. We dont know what he would do. And in washington the art of the deal is a euphemism for you are going to get screwed. We have to leave it there and rick. Next on the rundown, brand new polling and what it really says about the race for the white house. Well be right back with that. To cover by sundown. Well be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. 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