Fournier: ‘There’s Only One Lane in This Race Right Now; It’s the Donald Trump Lane’

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STEELE: “I’m not going to sell the Trump/Rubio ticket just yet. I think that Donald Trump is going to look around and I think that there are some capable and just as viable selections and choices for him.“
SCARBOROUGH: “Why isn’t Rubio attacking Trump?” 
BRZEZINSKI: “Because he wants very much to be — ” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Why isn’t Trump attacking Rubio?” 
STEELE: “Well, because — that’s a good question all from the Trump to Rubio, because I think he’s — I’ve always said he needs to watch Rubio in that regard. But I don’t think Trump feels it’s necessary to do so just yet. Because he’s got a firewall and it’s called Cruz. So he doesn’t —” [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “But he’s killing Cruz every day.”
STEELE: “But even if — right. Cruz’s —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “I mean, now Donald Trump —“
STEELE: “But it’s systematic.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Donald Trump keeps attacking the guy in third place, instead of the guy who finished second in South Carolina, and now the guy that finished second in Nevada.”
FOURNIER: “Because it helps Trump to have three people in the race.” [crosstalk]
STEELE: “Yeah.”
FOURNIER: “Which is why Rubio and Trump —“ [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: “Why not attack Rubio?”
FOURNIER: “There’s only one lane in this race right now; it’s the Donald Trump lane. So, what my question is why don’t Rubio and Cruz realize that when you play ‘King of the Hill’ you go after the king. And when you realize that in this election — [crosstalk] — Donald Trump, whatever you think about him, has shown us how to communicate in this day in age, you omnipresent on Twitter, omnipresent on Facebook, you call [indecipherable] the TV shows, you speak in a colloquial common person way, and you go hard after your opponent. So why isn’t Rubio —” [crosstalk]