Guest: Former Gov. Sarah Palin


Trump has signaled he is open to making changes to his controversial plan to conduct large-scale deportations if elected president.

Former Alaska Governor joined guest host Eric Bolling for reaction.

"Well, candidate Trump didn't garner a lot of enthusiastic support by being soft on anything but by having a steel spine in doing what he knows that the majority of Americans want, and that is to put a stop to illegal immigration," Palin said. "Donald Trump understands that enforcing the laws and building that wall are paramount to what the will of the people is and thank God he is still preaching that because, if he were not, then there would be a huge erosion of support."

Guest: Karl Rove


Donald Trump is calling Hillary Clinton a "bigot" and Clinton is accusing Trump of promoting "racists lies."

The Factor brought in Karl Rove for analysis.

"Neither one of them are helping themselves in my opinion by taking this tone," Rove said.

"Trump should not have called her a bigot," Rove continued. "It's fine to say she is going to be focused on rewarding her donors and her consultants and her lackeys and so forth and her policies are not going to advance the cause of African-Americans, Latinos who are working class Americans. But it's another thing to call her a bigot. In politics you always want to have people come to their own conclusion. If that's the conclusion that he wanted them to come to, then describe the specifics and let the people come to their own conclusions."

Rove then discussed Hillary's attempts to associate Trump with white supremacist groups.

"Hillary Clinton is just gone beyond the edge here on this," Rove said. "This is lunacy. No candidate should be held responsible for the random comments of anonymous supporters whom they have never met and never done anything."

Guest: Austan Goolsbee


Austan Goolsbee came on The Factor to say that Trump's most recent strategy is to try to make people forget many of the positions he took in the primary.

"Donald Trump is trying to do this because he is trying to get attention," Goolsbee said. "He is trying to take the focus off of him .... put the rainbow wig on and put on the Groucho Marx glasses and pretend like the guy who talked about Muslims, who talked about immigration, who talked about women, who talked about Hispanics, minorities, that other guy from the primaries we don't know what happened to that guy. This is a new Trump."

Guests: Tom Fitton & Julian Epstein
With new "pay to play" allegations swirling, the Clintons are on the defensive with Bill Clinton now outlining major changes to the foundation if Hillary is elected. We'll debate what this means for Hillary's campaign with Democratic Strategist Julian Epstein and Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton.

Guest: Frank Luntz


Frank Luntz used a focus group in Philadelphia to find out which statements by each presidential candidate upset voters this most.

Hillary's was when she told CBS News's Scott Pelley, "I've always tried to" when asked if she always told the truth.

"We have done hours and hours, probably now about 30 hours worth of speeches of the candidates. And another 500 ads, and that is the worst response we have ever tested," Luntz said.

Trump upset voters when a Muslim father who lost his son in Iraq asked Trump what sacrifices he has made for the country.

"I think I've made a lot of sacrifices," Trump said. "I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs. I think."

"I'm sorry, but creating jobs in New York City from the Trump Tower is not the same sacrifice" as losing a son in battle," Luntz said.

Guests: Chris Wilson & Jack Kingston


Will Trump hurt himself with voters for saying he is considering "softening" his immigration proposals?

"I understand what the Trump campaign is trying to do," Chris Wilson, a senior adviser to the Cruz campaign, told The Factor. "They're trying to soften the rhetoric. They're trying to pivot for a general election, and I get that."

Wilson said that Trump's plan was bound to upset Republican voters, but that overall, "politically it's probably a smart thing for him to do."

Jack Kingston, a former GOP congressman from Georgia, disputed whether Trump was really changing his positions.

"He has been pretty consistent about a wall, a wall, a wall. So I don't think he's backing off of that whatsoever," Kingston said. "Number two, on amnesty, he's saying no amnesty. So, but -- he is also saying, let's do this in a humane and orderly way. So he wants to get the bad actors out."

Guest: Dana Perino
Trump and his campaign are making the hard sell to minority and women voters that he has something to offer them.

Dan Perino offered her analysis.

"I think that in some ways that people said this before that perhaps what Kellyanne Conway is doing is this trying to convince college- educated white women, which have usually voted GOP, but have gone against Donald Trump in the last several months, trying to convince them that, you know, he is not the cruel man that you think that he is, that he does have better policy ideas than Hillary Clinton," Perino said. "But then again, I think that it's a little bit like whistling past a graveyard. On Latinos in particular, there's just some raw numbers that they have to look at."