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My all-star panel back with me for analysis, Basil Smikle, I mean New York State Democratic Party and Political Strategist, Mark Serrano.

All right, first I want to deal with this Carson news, Mark. And I will clarify that he is not officially calling it quits. But, heck it sure sounds like it. If he’s saying something like I don’t see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary result. And as such, I have decided not to attend the Fox News GOP Presidential Debate tomorrow night in Detroit.

If he is not in the game, where does he’s supporters migrate to?

SERRANO: They go to Trump and now largely going go to Trump, because I believe that Ben Carson will endorse Trump. There is no way he’ll endorse Ted Cruz after what happened in Iowa. And I believe he sees the push and the momentum going in Trump’s direction.

I think he is going to want to be a part of this movement. He is the part of the outsider movements. And, so I believe it is the natural place from the go. It will be the natural place for his voters to go. And I think Ben Carson will lead that way.

REGAN: So, percentage wise, I mean, how much will that mean for Donald Trump. Does that really help to give him the edge over Cruz and every other state and really provide him with that winner takes all ability in some of the upcoming contest?

SERRANO: If you take a look at the results yesterday, Ben Carson did anywhere from 3 per cent to 10 per cent in some states. So there are going to be some races where that percentage will make a significant enough difference. Or, will prevent some of the other candidates like a Rubio from meeting a threshold where there might be proportional shares of delegates. It’s the delegate count that ultimately is going to matter.

REGAN: All right. So, as you said at the top of the show, in your view it’s pretty inevitable now that Donald Trump will be the Republican voter’s choice for the nominee. But we know he’s not the establishment’s choice. I mean, one of the things, Basil, that puzzles me, is where the heck was the establishment, you know, three months ago, five months ago when they have the opportunity to go after him in stage and they didn’t really take it. Now, they’re coming out of the woodwork and they’re going to nuts. It’s a little late.

SMIKLE: Well, they were little nervous. Number one, I don’t think they really know what to do with him. You know, he was picking up a lot of traction but, you know, do you go out and attack him and fear .

REGAN: Yes.

SMIKLE: . alienating?

REGAN: No. You do.

SMIKLE: Well, you do. You do know.

REGAN: I mean, if you don’t want him there.

SMIKLE: Absolutely, I would have done that.

REGAN: Now?

SMIKLE: But you — but they waited, waited, waited, thinking that they will going to and to alienate a huge trunk of their basin. Guess what? They absolutely did .

REGAN: They did.

SMIKLE: . and now they’re gone.

REGAN: It this is more evidence, Mark Serrano, of ineptitude. I mean, and look at the last eight years, I mean, people are frustrated with the establishment Republicans because of the last eight years and all that President Obama has been able to do with them in play.

SERRANO: Like Hillary Clinton, the GOP elite’s are part of the problem so they can’t possibly understand the solution.

SMIKLE: Wow, how’d you do it?

SERRANO: You know, and if you take a look — and you take a look, Trish, at the Democrat .

REGAN: Well, she’s in establishment Democrat.

SMIKLE: How’d you go with Hillary?

REGAN: She is — but she is a politician. She has been there .

SERRANO: Look, you take a look .

REGAN: . she’s part of the Washington inside crowd. Go ahead Mark.

SERRANO: Take a look at the Democrats. And if you listen to them, you know, you’d think that they weren’t in charge of the White House for eight years. They — they’re counting on general amnesia.

You know, they look at the American voter and hoping that the voters are going to be like Drew Barrymore in “50 First Dates,” like she won’t remember. But truthfully, the voters are actually going to be more like Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.” And they’re going to — she going to stew that bunny on the stove. That’s what voters are really like.

SMIKLE: How does it get to that? How did we go to that stew a bunny on the stove?

REGAN: I — we’re going to leave that aside for now. What I want to know is what’s going to happen to the Republican Party? Do you think that, you know, Mitt Romney is going to come out and, you know, basically say, here are my flags, they were here, you can come with me or you can go there.

I mean, what is it that’s going to happen? Are they going to fragment themselves so badly that they wind up putting Hillary Clinton in the White House, Mark?

SERRANO: No way. The party is going to be bigger. It’s going to be better. Look, this is a huge year for Republicans and the Democrats, like the Republicans many times have in the past are putting up a tired old .

REGAN: All right.

SERRANO: . establishment candidate and that’s what’s going to mean .

REGAN: Basil, your thoughts?

SERRANO: . Republican through.

SMIKLE: So, this is what the Republicans do, right? They decided that they couldn’t control Donald Trump so they’ll just take credit for him.

The reality is that .

SERRANO: OK.

SMIKLE: . when Donald Trump .

REGAN: No, but they’re not taking credit for him. They’re not.

SMIKLE: They’re trying to .

REGAN: They’re — no, no, they don’t want it, I mean this is what .

SMIKLE: They’re trying to know by saying that the Republicans are responsible for the turnout. The Republicans aren’t responsible for the turnout. Donald Trump is .

REGAN: Oh yeah.

SMIKLE: . responsible for turnout.

SERRANO: Oh no.

SMIKLE: And I would say this.

SERRANO: Obama .

SMIKLE: And I would think I would say this.

SERRANO: Obama is responsible for the turnout.

SMIKLE: And I would say this .

REGAN: Oh, might as well just, you know .

SMIKLE: . with the Republicans are trying .

REGAN: . share the love.

SMIKLE: . were apparently going to do, with Republicans are probably going to do, they’re going to put — throw a lot of money in support behind .

REGAN: All right.

SMIKLE: . Marco Rubio .

REGAN: I going to run, guys.

SMIKLE: . they have to be the future of the party.

REGAN: Thank you so much. Good to have you here, Basil and Mark, always appreciate your analysis.

SERRANO: Thanks Trish.

REGAN: Coming up, former presidential candidate and businessman, Herman Cain, is going to be joining us. He says establishment Republicans, you know, they need to get over it and just support the front runner, Donald Trump, going to ask him about it.

Next.

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REGAN: Former presidential candidate, businessman and Fox News contributor, Herman Cain, now with a tough message to his fellow Republicans. “Get over it,” he says and get behind Donald Trump. Mr. Cain joins me now.

It doesn’t sound like they’re listening to you, though, right now, Herman, that you got Mitt Romney coming out tomorrow making some kind of speech. What do you anticipate is going to be part of that?

HERMAN CAIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I anticipate that Mitt will probably come out and endorse Marco Rubio because he’s already sent a couple of signals that he is supporting Rubio, one, when he threw that grenade out there unsubstantiated about Trump’s tax returns. And so, he probably is going to do a formal endorsement on Marco Rubio.

However, that’s not going to cause people to stop voting for Donald Trump. And let me just clarify something, Trish. Whoever the nominee is should be supported by all of the Republican Party, all of the conservatives or whatever label do you want. It looks now like it now like it might be Donald Trump, but he may not necessarily get it because there’s still a long way to go.

My beef with the establishment is all of this anti-Trump stuff, all that does is it divides the party. Get over it and say you will support the nominee. That’s my point because is going to hurt the party.

REGAN: Well, you know, you want to do what the voters want, right? You want to represent what the American people are telling you .

CAIN: Yes.

REGAN: . they want and need. But, what surprises me and I’ve been saying this throughout, Herman, is that they had an opportunity. They had an opportunity months ago to try and take down Donald Trump. And now, all of a sudden, it’s going into the high gear. I mean, where were they? Why is it just now that they’re moving so actively?

CAIN: Months ago, the establishment felt that he would eventually flame out. Well, surprise, he didn’t flame out. He got stronger and stronger and stronger. Why? Because he connected with a lot of the American people who decide that, you know, I think want something different.

Someone who we believe will shake up the establishment and that’s what’s driving this Trump phenomenon. It is for real. And now, all of a sudden, they will panic and say, now, what we did — what do we do?

I can tell you what they ought to do. They all to say, we will support the eventual nominee whether it’s Trump .

REGAN: Which is what you said you will do.

CAIN: . or whoever gets it. That’s exactly right. I’ll support .

REGAN: You’re not making any endorsement .

CAIN: . whoever this nominee.

REGAN: . you’re just going to go with whoever .

CAIN: No.

REGAN: . the voters choose.

CAIN: Exactly, because the people are speaking. And one of the — as one of your previous guest pointed out, one of the problem under the Republican Party, generally speaking, is that they don’t listen to the people.

And if people were saying, we are tired of you, not listening to us, even with who we think the nominee ought to be.

REGAN: Yeah. They got all listen up. All right, Herman Cain, thank you so much. Good to see you sir.

CAIN: Thank you Trish.

REGAN: All right, coming up everyone, our own Jeff Flock is going to be joining us from an Ohio coal mine, he’s somewhere there. You can check out Jeff, maybe amongst the lineup.

The coal industry, you know, it’s really been challenge to spend decimated by President Obama’s administration and by environmentalist who have shed thousands of good paying jobs from this industry.

My intel next on how that’s what helps fuel to rise of Donald Trump. Stay with us, Jeff Flock, joining from Ohio, Intel, back in two.

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REGAN: OK. Let’s check these markets for you here. We got a stock market as the trading up just fairly, fairly at seven points fair after being in the red quite a bit for today’s session. Investors are looking with some direction here ahead of the Biggie, this right is down to fourth.

All right, oil today closing the day, you can see up, three quarters over of a percentage point. Typically, that would actually provide more optimism in the market, not just today.

You know, investors are hoping that oil producers, all around the world will be cutting their output after energy information administration, the energy information administration report are bigger than expected increases in inventory level.

Meanwhile, crude prices affecting ExxonMobil. Let’s take a quick look at the stock here. The energy giant is saying that’s going to cut capital spending, 25 per cent this year.

Probably not in great shape, it helps from Trump. We’ll back to that, after this.

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REGAN: Can President Obama’s war on coal has utterly decimated the coal industry leading the bankruptcies and job losses all across the United States of America.

Well, we sent Jeff Flock out to Ohio to a mine there to talk to the workers about their futures.

I mean, these miners have had a really tough go of it. Jeff, what are they telling you? And how did this effect? Who they’re going to vote for?

JEFF FLOCK, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK REPORTER: Well, it’s very important because, Trish, you know, the Ohio primary is just around the corner, that’s going to put a focus on coal awaited hasn’t.

Today, that’s just what we are doing, focusing on coal. This, by the way, about 200 feet below the surface of Ohio Coal country.

And take a look at by, I just kicked this a little bit. Yeah, can I do that? You know, it was soft before. That’s coal in there. There you go, it’s on the ground. That’s what coal looks like when you mine it.

I want to give voice to the miners literally, Steve Stewart, a mine foreman here of a mine that’s been shut down because of the situation.

How does this impact? How are you going to vote? You tell me, you’re going to vote like your job depends on it because it does.

STEVE STEWART, COAL COUNTRY MINER FOREMAN: That’s for sure, I’m definitely vote Republican.

The administration we’ve had in office and to get, you know, has just devastated our coal industry. Risk , but mining my employer used to have over 1,200 people working for him.

Today, we have less than 600, with a sister mine of ours right here in Ohio, just laying off 15 more people formerly like a month ago.

FLOCK: You look at those jobs numbers and we have them, you’re going down about almost 30,000 jobs since the Obama administration took office have got the Ohio Coal Association here.

Look at bankruptcies. Trish mentioned bankruptcies across the industry, ArchCoal, the Walter, Alpha, where does this stop?

CHRISTIAN PALCH, OHIO MINING ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT: Well, we don’t know where it’s going to stop, but we know that we hope we can add some good relief from a new administration that we’re going to see in Washington. And we know that’s not going to come with President Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.

So, we’re going to stop the bankruptcies and start creating jobs and allow these miners to get back to work, producing a full born to live energy. We’re going to need a change in Washington.

FLOCK: Yeah, real quick. You got a choice for president Steve?

STEWART: Oh, definitely Republican. I’m for any Republican we got it right now.

FLOCK: OK, very good. You’ve been under a lot of pressure here, I’ll tell you. And a lot of jobs lost, Trish. They’re hoping for better times.

REGAN: Yeah, understandably. Thank you so much Jeff. Really interesting and good to hear from those guys themselves, you know, it’s good to be able to connect the faces and the names and the people of what happened in the Coal industry has shed nearly 30,000 jobs since President Obama took office.

And as we just saw in Jeff’s report, environmentalists and a governments war on coal has just decimated this industry.

You saw Jeff there in Ohio, which is coal country and you have lots of bankruptcies and lots of job losses there and throughout the country. I mean, not just in the Coal industry, but through everything.

I mean, is there any coincidence that Ohio is prime pro-Trump territory, I mean you’ve got to — Trump seen this incredible rise. Well so many middle-class jobs have just disappeared and he seems to be this expression of real anger and real economic pain. And we talked about a lot before here. He’s this voice of the working class, this voice for people who have seen their jobs disappear. Move overseas.

It’s been challenging, especially challenging for white working-class men in their 30’s and 40’s. These are their prime working years.

And you know, labour force participation in this group, it’s falling from 96 per cent back in 1968 to 79 per cent in 2015. I mean, that’s really a huge drop and, you know, it comes with all kinds of consequences.

We have seen along-side that dropped in the white middle-class working male population, also a dropped in marriage rates. You’ve also seen now that 41 per cent of babies are being born to single mothers.

So, it shows you how the economic challenges are also being met with real social challenges. This is part of what Trump is talking about. This is part of what he’s trying to appeal to and successfully so people who realized that their future, their livelihood, their families, all depends on our economy.

It’s been a challenging eight years and this seems to be the results of it. And the Republicans, the establishments Republicans, for whatever reason have missed this. You hear Andrea Tantaros talking about this in the beginning in the show. You heard Mark Serrano also saying the same thing. Herman Cain, saying the same thing.

You know, they somehow missed what America is really feeling. And this is to impart the results of missing that for so long.

That’s today’s intel. We’re going to take a quick break and we’re going to be back with more as we watch the markets that’s barely hanging on right now.

We’ll see you back here in two.

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REGAN: All right. And now the Super Tuesday is all wrapped up. The Republican candidates are looking ahead to the Fox News debate, tomorrow night in Detroit.

We got word moments ago that Ben Carson will not participate. He said in a memo to everyone that he does not see a path forward to the nomination and as such he will not be participating.

Well, the candidates will be debating of course on stage and campaigning across the State of Michigan ahead of the state, March 8th primary.

I want to go to Mike Tobin right now, who’s joining us from Detroit, Michigan with the preview. Mike?

MIKE TOBIN, FOX BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: And that is the big news. It will be down one candidate here. Governor John Kasich has indicated that he will stick it out, at least through March 15, for the Ohio primary.

But it’s hard to tell exactly what the Michigan voters want to hear from the candidates out here when they do have their debate tomorrow night on the Fox News Channel.

They are angry. They’re frustrated with the government that does not seem to improve their life but taxes and imposes regulations. Therefore, they’re looking to that antiestablishment candidate.

What they say they don’t want is a continuation of the insults.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It’s childlike. Very childlike. I think they need to grow up and be more mature.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it’s just comically stupid. I think it disrupts the electorate and I think it disrupts whoever is going to come out of this group.

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TOBIN: Now, next Tuesday, the number of states are up for grabs, including Michigan with the biggest price of delegates, 59 delegates. Therefore making the debate here very relevant.

Live at the Fox News Channel, 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Back to you..

REGAN: We’ll be watching. Thanks so much, Mike.

All right …

TOBIN: Yes.

REGAN: … so what does Donald Trump do tomorrow? And you know, we’re all going to be tuning in to see just exactly how he’s going to handle questions.

Boris Epshteyn, Republican Strategists, joins me right now with — on how he would advise Donald Trump tomorrow night.

What would you tell him? I mean, if the questions are hard, and you can expect that they will be. I mean, the questions will be substantive and challenging. How is he going to respond?

BORIS EPSHTEYN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Well, he should do. What he will do, is he will going into detail on certain things that he’s proposing. He will talk more about immigration. He will talk more about healthcare. He will give a nuance answers as he has on Planned Parenthood, on healthcare, on not letting people die in streets.

REGAN: So, you don’t think he puts up the dukes and comes out and tries to get into a sparring match?

EPSHTEYN: If Marco Rubio continues this childish game he’s been playing, which fits him so terribly. This is so bad for Marco Rubio and not just for this nomination contest but he’s already lost. He’s bad for the future. He’s not running for reelection in the Senate. What are you going to do for the next four, hopefully eight years?

REGAN: Wow, it’ll be an interesting night. We can wait to see it.

EPSHTEYN: Absolutely.

REGAN: So make sure you tune in to Fox tomorrow night. Boris, thank you so much.

EPSHTEYN: Of course, thank you.

REGAN: Good to have you here.

I’ll be right back.

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REGAN: All right, everyone, make sure you join us, it’s going to be another rocking Saturday night. This Saturday, 7:00 p.m. Eastern. I’ll be joining Neil and Lou as we look at Louisiana’s primary, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska caucuses. You do not want to miss it.

Liz Claman, over to you.

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