"As you may have heard, Ted Cruz and John Kasich are working together, trying to deny Donald Trump the delegates he needs to win the Republican nomination outright. Tomorrow Trump is expected to dominate the primaries in the northeast. So by Wednesday he could be close to 1,000 delegates, leaving him a bit more than 200 delegates short of winning the nod. But now Kasich says he will not campaign in Indiana, leaving Cruz to go one-on-one with Trump. In kind, Cruz says he will not campaign in New Mexico and Oregon, so Kasich will take on Trump in those states. That could deny Trump some delegates, especially in Indiana, a winner-take-all state. The Real Clear Politics average in Indiana has Trump at 39%, Cruz 33% and Kasich 19%. So if some Kasich voters go to Cruz, he could defeat Mr. Trump. Trump is sneering at his competition, calling his rivals 'pathetic.' Talking Points believes there is nothing wrong with Cruz and Kasich banding together. Sometimes politics is intense, and that is the only way to deny Trump the delegates. On the other side, I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will be very close to winning the nomination outright. If he arrives in Cleveland and is denied, all hell will break loose. The beneficiary of all of this is Hillary Clinton, who is locked in a tight battle with Bernie Sanders in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Mrs. Clinton is well ahead in Pennsylvania. But she does not have to worry about the Democratic establishment, which is firmly on her side, understanding that Bernie Sanders and his socialist philosophy would run into big trouble in a general election. But the Republican establishment is not in favor of Trump, and that's why the GOP is in such chaos. He may be unstoppable, but anything could happen in Cleveland."

The Factor was joined by FNC's Brit Hume, who analyzed the Cruz-Kasich alliance. "The fly in this ointment," he theorized, "is that for the strategy to work Cruz would have to get the lion's share of the potential Kasich voters in order to overtake Trump. That could happen, but it's not definite, and that's the risk of the strategy. And in the Western states if Kasich is campaigning on his own and Cruz drops out, a lot of those votes might go to Trump. So the strategy could backfire and Trump has a base that will not desert him no matter what." The Factor concluded, "The anti-Trump movement has been subsiding somewhat and Donald Trump will clean up tomorrow."

Senator Bernie Sanders and other leftists frequently claim that the economy is 'rigged' to favor the rich over the poor. Dr. Charles Krauthammer put that hypothesis on his couch and found it flawed. "The word 'rigged' implies some kind of conscious will on the part of those who control the economy to put down the poor," he said. "But I do think that a large percentage of what determines whether you are poor or not depends on the human lottery, who your parents are and where you are born. If you were born in the United States, you won the lottery, but if you were born to a poor single mother without a man in the family you lost the lottery. So to some extent it's true that your life chances are out of your hands to a large extent." The Factor stressed the importance of education, saying, "Public schools have to lay out a pathway to little children and say this is what you have to overcome and here's how to do it."

Despite the fact that the rise in the prison population has correlated with a steep drop in crime, President Obama repeatedly grouses that America imprisons too many people. The Factor asked criminal defense attorney Andell Brown why he believes the rate of violent crime declined beginning in the early 1990s. "The crime drop began two years before the 1994 crime bill," Brown declared, "so we know the crime bill was not responsible. The bigger picture is that the crime bill didn't just take 'bad guys' off the streets, it also took a lot of non-violent drug offenders off the street and locked them up for long periods of time. Violent crimes deserve stiff penalties, but crimes like trespassing do not." Brown also contended that anti-crime policies like stop-and-frisk are inherently discriminatory, saying, "They were stopping people based on their demographics, especially black and Latino people."

The Factor asked Juan Williams and Kennedy whether American children are adversely affected by negative stories about Prince, Beyoncé and other celebrities. "They are so bombarded with these images and stories," Kennedy said, "and it's sad but not shocking. Part of the sadness is that we mourn the loss of a simpler time, and with more information comes a more complex society. But kids may be better today than we give them credit for." Williams suggested that many entertainers are damaging the most vulnerable young people. "I worry tremendously about family breakdown and the negative images that contribute to young people who don't have strong families. I'm especially concerned about young black girls and the images of sexuality. Celebrities are behaving in sometimes very tawdry ways."

Jesse Watters headed to New York's Central Park and asked some young people what they expect from the government. Here's what some of them recommended: "We need health care" ... "Free vasectomies" ... "Massage therapy is good for certain conditions" ... "Free college tuition" ... "Treadmills, bicycles" ... "Milk, eggs, bacon" ... "Caesar salad is good" ... "A glass of wine" ... "Free self-defense classes" ... "Free yoga or mind-body-spirit kind of tools."

The Factor welcomed former Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, who opined on the young Americans who expect so much free stuff. "I've never been a big fan of socialism," Goolsbee began, "but I get the sense you don't want these people getting free air to breathe. That group of people is not representative of the students I teach, who work hard. But going to college is a lot more expensive than it was, and so I don't see how you can dispute the ideas that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are putting forward about affordable college." The Factor responded, "I'm not opposed to college loans, but I don't think we owe anybody a college education."

Kristin Weber, Atlanta, GA: "Bill, your discussion with Ms. Powers was absurd. Just as a gun sits on a table, so does a joint or injection. If someone chooses to use drugs, that's their problem - not the state's."

Steve, Arizona: "Bill, my daughter is a heroin addict now living in Mexico. Her life is a shambles, and I dread the day I will get the call."

Dave, Canada: "I am an addict, and drugs are destroying my body. Dealers know that, but don't care."

An appeals court has ruled that the NFL is within its rights to suspend New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who is accused of ordering footballs deflated. The NFL would be wise to cut its four-game suspension in half - let Brady sit out two games and be done with it all.