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FOXNEWSW The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson April 8, 2016

I come to you from the only location in the country now where voting is actually underway. It began on april 5th here even though the primary isnt until may 3rd. This is one of those states where they let you vote all month. You can just come any day to a specific location, not your polling place. This is all in advance of the next two primaries which is famously in new york on april 19th. All the rest of the primaries on the 26th. Not until may 3rd here. You can vote any time between t. Wow. Okay. So what are the polls saying in the Hoosier State . Reporter this is an interesting question because, you know, there has been so much focus elsewhere there has not been a National Poll since, y the sign fell down. Since december. Donald trump had a slight lead at that time. This borders ohio, john kasichs home state. This has an evangelical component in indiana. Could potentially help ted cruz. Who knows what happens here. We havent had a poll yet. Actually kind of refreshing. I kind of like it when there isnt a poll. Well have to see. More of a mystery as the whole thing continues to play out. Oldfashioned. No doubt. Oldfashioned is good for some reason. Some 2016 president ial candidates are making a play for these unbound delegates now who could tip the scales one way or another in the republican nomination. Taking a look at states and u. S. Territories, they matter, too, with potential unbound delegates. Look at your screen here. Colorado has 37. North dakota, 28. Pennsylvania leads it all, they have 57. West virginia, 34. Wyoming, 29. Stay with me here. American samoa and guam each have 9 potential unbound delegates. Virgin islands has 5. Josh putnam is a delegate expert and Political Science expert at the university of georgia. Boy, do we need you today, josh. Ill see what i can do to help. Okay. Welcome to the real story for the first time. Lets talk about these unbound delegates. Theres been a lot of discussion about most of the delegates go to the convention in july in cleveland. They have to volt for who won that state. How do the unbound delegates work . Whether or not a delegate is bound or not bound. The list you just went through is the small number of unbound delegates that well have heading to cleveland later on. The rules are really open as to how they can behave between now and when the voting starts in cleveland in july. Right. Like super delegates on one side, pledge to one candidate. They can switch their vote to someone else once it gets to the convention. Were talking about small numbers here but not really because when you add all those up, those are 200 votes and it could be that those votes could decide who the gop nominee is. Absolutely. If donald trump comes into the Convention Just shy of 1237 mark, then even a small number of unbound delegates can make a difference in pushing him above that mark. All right. Lets take a look now. I want to go in on wyoming because there are 29 delegates headed to the convention. They must either declare which candidate they support or state that they are undeclared. Delegates are chosen at the april 16th state convention. The ballot list would be delegates and which candidate they support. Every state has their own rules so its tough even for us as news people to figure it all out. Its tough for even me to figure it out sometimes. You know, a few weeks ago the wyoming Republican Party held county conventions, elected 12 of the 29 telega delegates. Nine aligned to cruz, nine to trump, one to marco rubio, one undeclared. Those will be ratified at the state convention before and the remaining group of delegates, 14 of them will be selected there. Right. Early indications are that ted cruz will do quite well with that group of delegates as well. You had a good ground game with that. In this state the delegate has to list which president ial candidate theyre supporting. Yesterday out of pennsylvania, dont have to do that. People go to vote for the delegates, they have no idea who the heck theyre voting for. Lets go to West Virginia now. This is different. 31 of the 34 delegates will be elected on may 10th. Voters choose from trump, cruz, kasich. In addition to six candidates with suspended campaigns. Delegates can potentially become unbound. Explain that to all of us. How do they potentially become unbound . Like we saw with a state like illinois back in the middle of march, theyre directly elected on the ballots. Youre voting for potential delegate candidates. Those candidates unlike in pennsylvania are affiliated with a candidate in most cases. If as what we saw in illinois happens in West Virginia, then its very likely that most of those delegates are going to be affiliated with either trump, cruz, or kasich in the offhand chance that someone selects a rubio delegate, for instance, is elected there then, yes, that delegate candidate would be unbound heading into the convention in cleveland. See, this is why were glad there are people like you, josh. As i said at the beginning, stay with me here. Right. Right. This is complicated. These 200 delegates, theyll be chasing all over the place as long as those rules Committee People dont get first dibs on the media. Theyre also going to be chased. Thanks so much. We hope to have you back on the real story. Thank you, gretchen. Alan combs, kathryn with the national review. Kathryn, you have to have an mba at least to begin to try to understand. I its a states rights things, they can make their own rules, but try to keep up with it. Its absolutely crazy. No matter what they can do, the attitude thats made trump popular will still be there. Even if hes not the nominee, the gop finds a way around it, they say it will destroy the gop, that attitude wont just be there but it will be worse. Theyve already felt slapped around like the establishment. It will be a final slap in the face. Even though its so complicated, throw that all aside. Whats underlying is still going to be there no matter what. Interesting point, allen, because trump has been very successful in saying to his supporters, these rules, theyre not playing by the rules. Since its so complicated hes been simplistic in his message. He doesnt care about rules. The rules are crazy for both parties. They are. You have super delegates on the left and this on the right. You have a situation where they changed it where you had to win eight states to be considered to stop ron paul. They keep changing the rules. Weve learned, allen, the democrats do it, too. Absolutely. Its very undemocratic to run it this way. You feel your vote doesnt count. We asked a question yesterday, does the peoples vote count or is it up to the delegates . Thats murky. It counts if you go to vote in the primary. Listen to lindsey graham. Hes making it more complicated by saying, there could be somebody else. Im trying to get us the most viable nominee for 2016 that could win without destroying the party. I think trump destroys the party. If you parachute somebody in and try to ignore millions of votes, youre going to destroy this party. The likelihood that the Party Leaders are going to try to, in your words, parachute someone else in. That would be a disaster. Trump is a disaster, one, i dont believe hes a republican. His policies are bad for the country. Would paul ryan be a good candidate . Paul ryan would be a great candidate. He should run. Parachuting somebody in. This sounds like an action flick. Absolutely. The never trump people are going to stay never trump. Theyre going to band in the gop if hes the nominee. The trump people certainly arent going to abandon trump. Theyre going to be very angry. This is why were angry about the establishment. They dont care about us. We wanted this, theyre doing that. Alan is over there laughing. Let me tell you something, you could have the same thing at the dnc convention. Hillarys not very popular. Shes more popular than donald trump. Barely. Shes with Bernie Sanders. If youre doing that poorly with Bernie Sanders, whether youre winning or not, thats embarrassing. The Republican Party is screwed either way. If trump wins, the Republican Party, people will be upset about it. Its really messed up. If he doesnt win, youve got all a bunch of Trump Supporters that are upcity set. Either way its a difficult time for the Republican Party. Thats donald trump that did that. Governor kasich is taking a shot. Some say he would have a steep learning curve as president. Hell have to figure out the first 100 days trying to figure out where the bathrooms are. Trying to figure out where the bathrooms are for the first 100 days. Then you have kasichs Campaign Director saying this. Wisconsin showed us we are going to an open convention, there is no doubt about that. The reason trump and cruz are trying to push us out, they know we can win an open convention. Is he right, kathryn . Perhaps. Again, that attitude will still be there. Its funny that was kasichs insult. Like kasich, a lot to like about him. He doesnt even know anything about the white house. Thats why people like trump because they want someone from no, they want somebody from the outside. Hes making trumps point for him by saying he has no idea how politics works. Yeah, exactly. Thats what people like. You have the two top candidates. Neither can win a general election. Thats why the party is apoplectic. He talks about new york values, hell lose new york. Whats that anyway . Neither trump or cruz can win the election. In a head to head matchup trump has won those in spite of Hillary Clinton. He led Hillary Clinton by 13 points. Yeah, theres no reason to think bernie voters would automatically go to hillary either. Good point. If shes the nominee. You both have great points. Have a great weekend. Thanks. Massive drug bust. This is 14 tons of cocaine. Whats the street value of all of that . Have you ever thought of that . And where the coast guard says it all came from. And is pope francis getting caught up in the middle of the democratic race . Bernie sanders got an invite to the vatican . But will he actually meet with the pope . Our own ed henry, scoop, has all the details next. Will you be meeting with pope francis . That is not yet clear. It is something that i very much would like to do. The popes schedule is determined by the vatican, but i would certainly be enthusiastic about that. At your core. 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It happened last month. The drugs have an estimated street value of 400 million. Back to politics now. Hillary clinton doing the buffalo shuffle. Didnt know there was such a thing. Making the rounds in western new york today while Bernie Sanders takes over brooklyn again and gets an invite now, kind of, from pope francis. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry following both campaigns. Ed, you have details about whether or not Bernie Sanders got an actual invite to sit down with the pope at the vatican. What was it really . Its interesting. Sanders is saying hes going to the vatican next friday. Theres a debate next thursday in brooklyn so after that hes heading to the vatican for a conference on the economy. He says hell go back to the campaign trail a week from saturday. This is very interesting. Pope francis did not issue the invite. I was told by a senior vatican source i was speaking to. Bloomberg is quoting another vatican official saying Bernie Sanders invited himself, this was a breach of protocol in the middle of a president ial campaign. The vatican official said, thats not true. Sanders did not invite himself. He was invited by a monseigneur who is holding this event on the economy. Its interesting because Bernie Sanders earlier was talking about how he and pope francis see eye to eye on a lot of issues. Pope francis, to my mind, has been an extraordinary leader in making the world conscious of the levels of the wealth inequality that exists on our planet. They obviously do not see eye to eye on a lot of other issues like abortion though. Youre already seeing on social media pro life catholics saying its a bad idea to be invited. Thats why they told me its highly unlikely there will be a one on one meeting between Bernie Sanders and the pope. Actually from a pr point of view, pretty smart move by Bernie Sanders. Pretty smart. A lot of people like the pope. Hillary clinton on defense over her email server. Now shes lashing out in a way to antagonize the fbi when they decide whether or not to recommend an indictment. Whats the scoop on that . She was on the nbc today show this morning. She said theres not even a remote chance, she said, that she will face any legal action over her emails. Whats fascinating about that, number one, is the fbi is still in the middle of this investigation so agents there working on this might be interested to hear that she believes theres not even a remote chance that shell face charges and then when matt lauer pressed her on republicans he said hoping shes hauled away in handcuffs, heres what she said. I know they live in that world of fantasy and hope because theyve got a mess on their hands on the republican side. That is not going to happen. There is not even the remotest chance that is going to happen. So obviously shes pushing back hard. They are very anxious in the Clinton Campaign to get this fbi probe behind them. Well see how it plays out. Have a great weekend, ed. Have a great weekend. Its been two full years since the phoenix va medical scandal broke, can you believe that, two years . Theyre back under the microscope. New allegations now. Well talk to one of the original whistle blowers at the va. Do you think hes back at his job . Plus, a new poll shows the republicans are less likely to show the election process is working the way it should. Heres my question of the day. Do you think the election process is working the way that it should . Tweet me gretchencarlson. Use therealstory. This is the buffalo shuffle. Michael mcdonald. Youre right where i want you to be tired of working for peanuts . Well what if i told you that peanuts can work for you . Thats right. Im talking full time delivery of 7 grams of protein and 6 essential nutrients. Ever see a peanut take a day off . I dont think so. Harness the hardworking power of the peanut. When they thought they should westart saving for retirement. Le then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. This gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us arent prepared for retirement. Just start as early as you can. Its going to pay off in the future. If we all start saving a little more today, well all be better prepared tomorrow. Prudential. Bring your challenges. Welcome back to the real story. Hard to believe its been two years since the va scandal rocked the nation. Some of our veterans are still not getting medical care in a timely fashion. An analysis by usa today used information from va hospitals worldwide. Supervisors told schedulers to manipulate wait time in at least seven states, lied about length of wait time. Two dozen staffers have been disciplined. Nearly 500,000 veterans waited more than a month for an appoint. Brandon coleman joins me. Its great to have you on the real story to get the real story. What was your job in phoenix and what has happened since you decided to tell the truth . Thanks for having me, gretchen. Im employed as an addiction therapist at the phoenix va hospital. I came forward to the office and my personal records were being rifled through by employees, co workers. Right after i came forward the director sent me home on a trumped up charge saying i threatened another employee. I was sent home on january 15th, 2015. I met one on one and ive done a lot to bring these issues to light. I sit home and the taxpayers continue to pay my salary for doing nothing more wrong than telling the truth. Thats all ive done. Wow. Brandon, did you ever imagine that this whole thing would mushroom into this whole National Problem or did you just think it was happening at the phoenix va . You know, at first, gretchen, thats a good question. I thought it was happening only at the phoenix va. I belong to a group of the va Truth Tellers. There are a few of us Truth Tellers who testified to some of these fine people on the hill in d. C. And have gotten to know them pretty well. Its hemmiappening all over the place. Were not all lying. Were all telling the truth. The va is failing to take action with wait time manipulation. I think whats so confounding to those of us in the media and to the average person out there watching this right now, were two years since we found out about this and we have a new person in charge of the va. We thought that meant these problems would be fixed and low and behold not much has been done, brandon. I agree with you. I met with secretary macdonald one on one. I told him the problems in phoenix. That was in march of 2015. On your station i called out Hillary Clinton last october when i said, hey, mrs. Clinton, if you want to tour any va facility in the united states, im your guy, i will meet you on my dime at any facility you choose because she called these isolated incidents. Irstand by that with any political candidate. This is not a democratic issu

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