E. T. Phone home. [ soft music ] when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. It looks like a massive victory and looks like we win all 57 delegates. Together we left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got, but the voters chose another path. We are suspending our campaign. Ted cruz, i dont know if he likes me or doesnt like me, but
he is one h eachell of a compet i understand Hillary Clinton thinks this campaign is over, ive got some bad news for her. Wow. What a night. Donald trump has not officially won the nomination but this morning nbc news is calling him the likely republican nominee. The republican frontrunner won his seventh straight state last night claiming 53 of the vote in indiana. Knockout blow to senator ted cruz who promptly suspended his campaign for the white house. John kasich still clinging to his highly unlikely if not impossible president ial bid. Bernie sanders walked away the winner in indiana taking 53 of the vote to beat Hillary Clinton. Still hillary has a commanding lead in delegates. The former first lady appears poised to ultimately lock down the nomination even losing states in a prolonged and
possibly damaging battle. Good morning, everybody. Wow. How are you doing today . I am one step closer to a pickup truck. You got it. Wen may 4th. Pickup truck, right. We can call it your presumptive pickup truck. A brand yet, a color . Features . I was thinking sort of a little off shoot of a truck, fj cruisers. Shes a quad ra ponic. I was suggesting 1999 trooper. They flip over. Didnt they get recalled . They got recalled but i kept mine. The kids love it. Flip us, daddy, flip us. He better start thinking when hes going to roll up to 30
rock. With us on set managing editor of bloomberg, cohost airs 6 00 p. M. , john, former Communications Director up all night. You had an early night, up by 11 11 00. Senior political director and White House Correspondent sam stein. Whats wrong with him . What were you guys talking boult with trucks and stuff . I couldnt follow that at all . Long time ago. Back back in the ancient days. June. Beginning july. Mike barnicle shook his head and derisively said hes not going to win. I said ill bet you a pickup truck. He wrote it down on a piece of paper. I thought it was lopsided, barnicle agreed to give you a truck if trump won the nomination but you had nothing. I would say there was consideration. There was 1. Now, anyway, lets get to news and well pick out the color of the truck later. Birthday. Thank you very much. Willie geist. Mika an i go backtoback, heroes after the show. Unbelievable leads up to Cinco De Mayo. Lets not talk about that. Ted cruz supporters put all their chips on indiana, 6 million on ads spent in support of him or against trump. Can we just stop right there. Less pause. Look at those numbers. Nicole, i will say it again, so many takeaway from 2016. Even if trump loses 50 states, campaigning forever, 30 second ad, dead on arrival. This is sort of a cycle about the graveyard of all things that will never be again. Giant spinning staffs. You saw yesterday trump is his own research man, his own sort of media presence. To say that this is sort of a cycle where someone from the outside won is to vastly under state all that never mika and i go out and speak, i know you do, too. A lot of young journalism students will say what do you have to do. Mika will say, its pretty easy, all you have to do is write, shoot, be on camera, basically
do everything. Youre going to be a one person band and have a vision. Shell say that to the young journalist, the days of carrying around 30 journalists, its over. It just happened in politics 2016. Those days over. Were going to find a lot more sort of do it yourself, one man, one woman. I think thats true. But can someone who is not donald trump do what happened this time . If you dont have his celebrity, hisable to draw the eyes of the media to you every day. If youre some guy who is an outsider, politician look at Bernie Sanders. Im not saying he got the votes but he got the eyeballs. I think its about skill sets. In a strange way bernie has the skill sets that donald has. They seize on the message, they seize on the vision and they go. Despite spending by the way, trump will be
with us in about 15 minutes. The last minute endorsement from government mike pence. Well, that wasnt really an norm. The striking of an alliance with john kasich. That wasnt really an alliance. Naming Carly Fiorina his running mate. Cruz found himself announcing the end of his campaign over gasps from the crowd. From the beginning, i said i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight, im sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed. Together we left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got, but the voters chose another path. And so with a heavy heart but
with boundless optimism for the longterm future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign. Hear me now, i am not suspending our fight for liberty. Just so you understand, ted cruz, i dont know if he likes me or if he doesnt like me, but he is one hell of a competitor. Hes a tough, smart guy. He has got an amazing future. Hes got an amazing future. I want to congratulate ted. I know how tough it is. Its tough. Ive had some moments where it was not looking so good, and its not a great feeling. So i understand how ted feels, and heidi, and their whole beautiful family. I want to just say, though, one
tough competitor. Lets break this down a little bit. Willie, first of all, lets answer the question. Does ted cruz like him or not. No. Do you think heidi might like him a little bit . No. The kids, two kids. Dad. Dad probably doesnt like him today. Donald trump does that. He did that with marco rubio. Twelve hours earlier he was accusing ted cruzs father of being in on the assassination of john f. Kennedy. Then he says hes a tough guy, tough competitor. Once he dispatches with you, youre a good guy. Sharp turn. That is a sharp turn, sam stein. I dont know ted cruz will go, you accused my father of assassinating jfk so you were nice to me in your speech, so thats okay. It was ridiculous he brought
up the john f. Kennedy stuff. Thats what it is. On the back of it, it does raise important questions. How does someone like ted cruz who spent yesterday calling donald trump everything in the book, philanderer, liar, not president ial, how do you turn around and go about supporting someone in the general election. Thats a general problem donald trump does have to deal with as he becomes the presumptive nominee. I dont think so. You dont. Im just going to be nice the day after hes thrown in the towel but i dont think people are turning to ted cruz on where they are going to go. Could be wrong. Unlike marco rubio, we know ted cruz has a future in politics. Really . I say marco, marco may choose not to come around again. Ted cruz will be around in
politics. What everybody doesnt understand, its not about donald trump, its bought that massive, conservative populist wing of the party that elected guys like me in 94 and electing republicans in 2010 and 2014 ted cruz cant piss off. What is he going to do, sit on the sidelines while Hillary Clinton gets elected in ted cruz will have to come around at some point if he want a future in politics. Thats a reality. You can sit on the sidelines. You cant do that to 60 of the republican vote in primaries, if you want a future in politics. This marks the beginning of people have to be intellectually honest about what never trump means. Its been thrown around a lot, never trump hashtag, i would never vote for trump. The people who halfheartedly endorsed cruz because they could never see trump. Now that means they are for
hillary. It becomes curtain number one, donald trump, republican nominee, or curtain number two. Whats the choice . Theres conscientious objection. In that category stand up and say nolo contendere. Im saying, john, i completely understand those people who could do that for an honorable reason saying i cant vote for a guy who just 10 years ago was for partial birth abortions, five years ago giving money to Hillary Clinton. I totally under that. Anybody that wants a future in the Republican Party, forget about donald trump, hes gone. 50 of the populist that go out and decide who will win primaries across the country, they are still going to be around. Thats why ted cruz im saying dont you think ted cruz has to figure out how to get to donald trump. I dont know. In this sense, look, you could
argue whether this was wise or not wise. What has happened Donald Trumps nomination is, as you point out, hes the nominee of the Republican Party did he fact facfac fact de facto. Ted cruz is the big loser. Lets defined conservative movement. Conservative movement defined by washington conservatives and wall street journal editorial page. And and social conservative activists. Here is the thing. There is a fusion Ronald Reagan got where you were able to pull together populists and wall street journal editorial page. Quite frankly successful republican candidates have been doing will i did it. I told people. I read the wall street journal page in 94, listened to wish
limbaugh, fused it together. You do not have to choose this type of conservative or this. Nicole, thats what they are doing this year. With little success. Republicans have always run and lived in fear of the social conservative activist. They were delta decisive loss. Donald trump does not talk their talk, does not pander to their issues. Hes good on gun but doesnt know the language of the culture, i think there is a question mark, wall street journal page but grass root social conservative groups who do not have a dog in the fight now. Well play it later. After what ted cruz said yesterday afternoon about donald trump, thats going to be a hard thing to come back from. He was losing i agree. Also i think the Bigger Picture, the beginning of the massive pivot we saw last night. Everyone talking about Donald Trumps countenance, mood. This is the beginning of a
massive pivot. If you look at his words and listen to his tonight, get ready for the new donald trump. Pivot. Conservatives will be angrier. Youll see more of a pivot on issue. Willie, if youre a conservative, youre thinking, let me get this straight. Weve got two new yorkers and two democrats running for president this year. If youre a traditional conservative, pretty bleak. One of the candidates donated to the other one, a republican in the past given the democrat path century. Were making a difference between conservatives but a lot of people dont think hes a conservative at all, not a conservative period. He wont vote for the guy. They need to calm down and let things play out. Still ahead on morpgz morning joe, winner of republican primary donald trump joins us live for his first interview after indiana. What are his plans to unite gop. Talked a little about that last night. Well go deeper. Hes next on morning joe. But i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy for my studio. And that unlimited 2 cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. Thats huge for my bottom line. Whats in your wallet . Is caringing because covering heals faster. For a bandage that moves with you and stays on all day, cover with a bandaid brand flexible fabric adhesive bandage. Shoshow me more like this. E. Show me previously watched. Whats recommended for me. X1 makes it easy to find what you love. Call or go online and switch to x1. Only with xfinity. E. T. Phone home. [ soft music ] when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. This has been an amazing evening. I didnt expect this. I didnt expect it. What ted did was really a brave thing to do and a great thing to do, because we want to bring unity to the Republican Party. We have to bring unity. Its so much easier if we have it. Were going after Hillary Clinton. She will not be a great president. She will not be a good president. She will be a poor president. She doesnt understand trade. Her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world the wbr id wbr11820 single worst trade deal ever done. Its called nafta. Joining us now, the winner of last nights primary in indiana, now the likely nominee for the Republican Party donald trump. Donald, congratulations. Congratulations. Hey, donald, why dont you just b
admit to everybody you never saw this coming. Seriously, you have to be surprised yourself at how this played out. Well, im happy how it played out. We had 17 people. That was a lot of people. Some people said it was the finest group of talent ever assembled by any party at any time. I was watching that before i announced, and i said, wow, what am i doing. It was talent. Some were very talented quite frankly. It worked out this way so im happy about it. You brutalized a lot of them. Jeb bush, low energy. Ted cruz, lyin ted cruz. We can go down the list. How do you know, especially after yesterday, how do you get ted cruz to support you. Yesterday you were talking about
Lee Harvey Oswald. How do you unite the party today . Ive gotten a lot of calls from people who were far more brutal than ted was. I said to them, how can you do that after what i said. They said, dont worry about. Its not a problem. They are politicians. Its talk. Ive had calls ill have to tell you about them, calls really wanting to get on immediately. This was a week ago or two weeks ago. Do you care if ted cruz endorses you. I think it would be nice. Ive been saying for a long time that theres some people i almost dont want their endorsement, republicans, because it was too rough and they were too nasty. I dont think its going to matter frankly. Its going to be me. I am a republican. Ill do a good job. Ill do a great job on trade and the economy and bringing jobs back. Ill do great on the military. What do you say about george
well, he ran a column that said its conservatives duty you win all 50 states. George is a loser of hes a dour guy. Very few people listen to him. I never want to support hes been writing these columns for a year, every since i announced. You know, i had a runin with him, i didnt want to go to one of his speeches at mar largo. I find him to be a dull person, dull. I never thought i would be in politics or run for office. I said, i just dont want to go. He wanted me to go. It was one of those things. He never forgot it. Hes a nasty guy, a very nasty
guy. Nobody reads him. He has no influence. If he had influence, i wouldnt be talking to you, joe. Lets face it, the guy writes a bad column every time he writes a column. I dont know how often he writes them, i dont really know. Others, grout hammer, all he does is bash me. He wanted the war. He talked about trump is tough, hell have a fast trigger. Ill have the slowest trigger. Ill prepared the military. The great irony, mika, weve said this before. Were actually going into the general election where we have the democratic candidate thats going to support intervention ist more than the republican nominee. Seems that way. I watched him last night, talking about trump may be quick
temperamentally. Hes the one pushing for years the war in iraq, which was a total disaster and i didnt want to do it. As a civilian i was totally against it. It was one of the worst decisions in the history of our country, by the way, perhaps the worst. They talk about me with temperament. We need a strong temperament right now. The world is laughing at us. We need a very strong temperament. Lets look ahead, the general asked Andrea Mitchell if you were qualified to be commander in chief. Well, hes given no indication he understands the gravity of the decisions that go with being commander in chief. That will be a big part of my campaign. At some point, hes going to have to be held to the standard we hold to somebody running for commander in chief. What is it you know . What is it youve done in what is it youre proposing to do commander in chief . So far we havent seen any of that. Weve seen a the lo of rhetoric, insults. Hes an equal opportunity insulter. But when it comes down to making this really important decision, its been my experience people in our country say to themselves, wait a minute, what do i think is the best choice . The best choice for me, my family, my jobs, my income, my future. And i think absent some major change in how he is presenting himself and what he is saying, thats going to be a pretty high bar for him to get over. So donald, she did not mince words, whats your response . Its just words, just another politician talking. Bernie sanders said about Hillary Clinton shes got poor judgment. He also said shes unqualified. I wont even go there. Bernie sanders said shes got poor judgment, and she does. Look at the email scandal. She shouldnt even be allowed to run. You know that, joe knows that, and Everybody Knows that shes only being protected by the
democrats. She should not be allowed to run in the election. She should suffer like other people have suffered who have done far less than she has. You look at so many, i wont even mention names anymore. You look at so many people who have done far less than her, the same subject matter, and its been a horror show. Here she is running for president like nothing happened. She shouldnt even be allowed to run. You know that. Hey, donald, its willie. Congratulations on your win again last night. Thank you. I want to ask you a couple of questions about some issues youve raised during this campaign. A lot of people think youve said some things to win the Republican Party and you dont believe and could change as you go to a general. Do you still believe muslims should be banned from entering the country until we figure out whats doing on, as i said. We have to be very vigilant, find out whats going on. We have major, major problems. Nobody wants to talk about it. We have a president that wont mention radical islamic
terrorism, he wont mention it. Even though its obvious terrible things are happening. We have to be extremely careful, vigilant. Yes, we have to find out what the hell is going on. The general election, assuming you make that, youll raise another issue. I dont know if it hurts me. I dont care if it hurts me. Im doing the right thing when i do this. Whether its muslim or anything else, i have to do the right thing. Thats the way ive been guided. When joe said its a little bit surprising, and i did see last night the first time in the history of our country where this has happened, where really a civilian in the truest sense got the nomination of a major party. Ive been guided by common sense, by whats right. You see whats happening. We have to be careful. Were allowing thousands of people to come into our country, thousands and thousands of people being placed all over the country that frankly nobody
knows who they are. They dont have documentation in many cases. In most cases. We dont know what were doing. Lets see what happens. This could be a very serious problem for the future. If you look at whats happening all over europe, with the migration. Look at whats happening. Its terrible what they have done to some of these countries of they are going to destroy they are destroying europe. Im not going to let that happen to the United States. As we go to the general, proposal for muslim ban stands. What about what you told Chris Matthews a few weeks ago that women who get abortions should be punished. Do you still believe that to be. He was asking just a question in theory. I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. That was done, i guess it was theoretically. He was asking a rhetorical question and i gave an answer. People from academic standpoint
and answered rhetorically said that answer was unbelievable academic afterwards. Of course not. I said that afterwards. Everybody understands that. So donald, there are two family Members Around the set that are very happy this morning. My brother is extraordinarily happy. Hes a great guy, by the way. George brutalized me for nine months whenever i criticized you. And nicole actually had to top going home for a while, her parents. I got a tweet last night when i asked about republicans for hillary, they start hate tweeting me. What about democrats for donald trump. Ill ask you about democrats for donald trump because that is how, sir, i think you see you could remake the map. I want to ask you about something you said last night. You said i love winning with the women. The media gives you short
shrift. You dont need to with all women but married women. You need to turn around dismal poll numbers with the kinds of women you need to bring around. Ening ole, thank you, say hello to your parents. I really appreciate them. You just made your day. Ill tell you what, we do have tremendous numbers of democrats. You see that in the open runs. We have tremendous numbers of democrats who have voted for me. In fact, new york, which is closed, they are saying some of the people in the polling booths interviewed by local television, they said all the year weve been here, one 25 years, the other 40 years at the booth, most incredible thing ive seen, people came in democrats, we want to vote for donald trump. You werent allowed to do that. They were saying hundreds and hundreds of people were coming in that were registered democrats that wanted to vote for donald trump. They said they have never seen that and make of them have been working in the polling booth 40
years. As far as women are concerned, they want to see strength in our military. They want to see strength for our border. They want to see the country protected. We have a military thats being decimated. We have a military that is totally ill prepared, and in many cases ill equipped. When general left six months ago, he said never has our military been so ill prepared or something to that effect. I will tell you, women wan to see strength, a strong military. They want someone steady. I see women voters see you shoot from the hip in a way that makes them nervous. Actually i dont shoot from the hip . No . I dont shoot from the hip. I will say this, the recent victories in pennsylvania, new york, all over, maryland, kailuakona, all up and down,
one after another, i was so strong with women. I won women every single time by massive majorities. In fact, very close to the men. Supposedly im doing extremely well with men. Much, much better than hillary. Thats her weakness. Im doing really well with the men. I was doing well in the last seven or eight states. I was doing just as well, in one case better with women. They want to see a secure country. Im going to do better. Im going to bring jobs back. Hillary doesnt know anything about jobs. Her husband signed nafta. Nafta is the single worst economic thing thats happened to this country that i can think of. It sucked the jobs and sucked the money right out of our country. Were going to make big changes. John heilemann, youre next. John heilemann, again, this is a remarkable general election where youre going to have a republican nominee more populist
on trade and more of a populist on intervention, military intervention than the democratic nominee. You talk about like the obama people say, the deck is being reshuffled. Well see how that shakes out but i want to ask a question. Good morning, donald. Good morning. Youre heading down an election by most reckoning going to cost a billion dollars in the campaign. Youve been proud about being selffunded. You have people talking about pro trump super pacs. As you head into the general election are you going to welcome the support of super pacs. First of all, ed rollins has been tremendous. We talked about kraut hammer, they have problems, george well
that nobody listens to or reads. Im going to be making a decision over the next week. The question is, i do love selffunding. I dont want anything for myself. We do need money for the party. The party will come together. I dont think its imperative the entire party come together. I dont want everybody. I dont even want certain people that were extraordinarily let them go their own way. Let them wait eight years or 16 years, i think were going to have a Great Success against probably hillary because the system is totally rigged against bernie, totally rigged against him. So probably were going to have hillary. And i will make a decision fairly soon as to that. Do i want to sell a couple of buildings and selffund . I dont know that i want to do that necessarily but i really wont be asking for money for myself, ill be asking money for the party. Really, its something were going to start on right away. I got a call last night from
Reince Priebus. Its something were going to start on now. Willie has an important question. Before you go, i know youve got to run, we confirmed at nbc news your campaign started to vet Vice President ial candidates. Who are the names youre looking at . Its too soon. I just dont want to do it. I think a lot of people are talking about certain names, certainly those are the names were thinking of. Can you give us one or two. I think i will say i probably will go the political route. I have the business, lets call it talents. I think ill probably go political route, somebody that can help me with legislation, somebody that can get things passed. Somebody thats been friends with senators and congressman, so we dont have to go the executive order route as much as obama did, where he cant get anything approved so he just keeps signing executive orders. But more than likely, i would go the political route. So not a general. A lot of people proposed a
military leader. Well, its something i thought of, and theres one person i think is very good. I really want to i think more likely im inclined to go speaking of general, i think one of my strengths one of my strengths is economy and jobs. Were going to make great trade deals. Were going to reverse it. Right now were a laughingstock all over the world with the dumb deals we make. One of my really great strengths will be the military, will be getting us out and winning and getting us out of the mess were in in the middle east. Were up to almost 4 trillion of spending and thousands and thousands of lives, more importantly. But i think it will be end up being a strength. So well see what happens. Donald, congratulations on what even your sharpest detractors would have to call a truly historic run, unprecedented in our lifetime. Its really incredible. Congratulations. Thank you very much, joe. Thank you, mika. All right. Well see wbrid wbr22260 you soon. Really, lets just stop for a second. We were hammering with questions. But really, lets just stop for a second. An incredible, historic run. Nothing like it, willie. Imagine a year ago right now may 4th, 2015. There were whispers he might run. Everyone said to promote the apprentice, a stunt, an act. Hell never do it. I think everyone had the moment where we had last night, where we saw him up there at the podium, Reince Priebus the head of the Republican Party say hes the presumptive nominee. Wow, it happened. Part of our daily lives, used to him being in it. Donald trump, a guy who has been in our lives, celebrity, real estate developer, loudmouth guy is one step away from the white house. Its unbelievable. Even when we were saying from day one he could do it, still, last night you just sat there and went wow. Never really a moment other than the night of wisconsin in doubt. His dominance was the one consistent story week after week after week. So this might have been a revelation or surprise to those of us who covered it. The voters were never particularly ambivalent about it. Someone said he cant beat hillary, can he . She loves Hillary Clinton. I said, weve been wrong every step of the way. So everybody has got to calm down and let the story play out. There were 17 republican candidates who were sure he could not win. Seventeen. Up next were going to break down what we just heard in the interview and more. By the way, bernie, big win last night. man ah i forgot to record
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here is the bottom line. He shut down the government. Hes everything that people dont want ultimately. Its all right, champ. Why . I am warm. Is it warm in here . Are you all right . How are you doing . Sam, so anyway. I was going to say something, getting on in years. Ted cruz, isnt it extraordinary how cruz did achieve by sheer will power and force in the organization . Yeah, he was the most organized candidate. He raised a lot of money. He proved himself able to be campaigning. Im on team mika here, you have to be actually liked to win votes. That was his big problem. People didnt like him. I think there would have been a more viable wait a second. He would have done better. People in manhattan and washington, d. C. , didnt like him. He won like how many states did the guy win . Eleven. How many states have you and i won combined . Twelve. Okay. That is true. Maybe together were more likable than ted cruz. As people got to know him eleven states, that aint nothing, thats pretty huge. Thats not nothing. Somebody likes him. He basically matched what ted santorum did. Thats good. Im thinking and saying he was an able campaigner, ran a really good campaign, incredible infrastructure, went further than a lot of people thought. In the end what tripped him up is people dont like him. Mika, saying that just isnt kind. Im sorry. When you lose the Huffington Post and youre a conservative, youve lost it all. Morning joe lost america when you lost sam stein. Youre talking about how campaigns changed forever. The most shocking thing to me, ted cruz is the only person who seems to give a damn about organization. He had the best organization, the best people around him. You know what, it all starts at the top. You and i both know that a campaign reflects the person at the top. Ted cruz wouldnt have won 11 states unless ted cruz wasnt extraordinarily focused. Its completely tied to why he got out last night. He is his own best political strategist. Im sure it was his call entirely to get out last night because he saw there was no path forward. I will say he deserves a lot of credit for what he did behind the scenes. He was successful at lining up more delegates than trump for the second ballot. The reason thaet ended up hurtig him, though, trump turned it into part of his message. Even when he was winning he was losing. A lot of talk after cruzs speech he was positioning himself for 2020. To mikas point, what changes four years from,000 . What makes him more likable, more of a mainstream candidate . Nothing. Stop it. He runs against trudeau. Who knows . How will he conduct himself when he gets back to the senate . How will he conduct himself with the rest of the campaign . He was unsuccessful in the senate. This guy got in in 2012. Just stop. I think it was 12. I dont know. I cant believe i dont know. I think it was 12. I think he came in a couple years after marco. Look how quickly he progressed. I have to say he knew what his niche was. He won 11 states. He won 2012. Four years later the guy is next in line when we run in 20. I bet he goes back to the senate and i bet he starts making friends. Now he can engage in the long play. Let me know when that
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hit in the face with his elbow. Twice. Lets say it was an inadvertent elbow. Not a lifetime for television movie. The internet washington senior Political Editor and correspondent sam stein. Sam stein, how are you, sam . Good to see you. Man, that was a shot to the face. That did look painful. That was tough. Been through enough in this campaign with donald trump to get the elbow from her husband. His speech was interesting. He didnt mention donald trump. He didnt show magnanimity, is that the word . Thats good. Didnt show Lee Harvey Oswald. He said given all the terrible things he said yesterday about donald trump he still wont say i wont support him as the nominee. Is there a chance ted cruz comes around and gets behind its going to happen. Of course it is. The other thing cruz didnt talk about was the Republican Party. He talked about the movement. He was talking to the conservative movement, which he assumes to lead now as the last orthodox conservative standing. Look, ted cruz well have ted cruz to kick around for a while. Cruz wille around for smite make time. Hes not really going anywhere. Hes going to endorse donald trump, because hes going to be around for a long time. If youre not running again, you dont have to endorse him. Of course senator rubio has been fairly quiet. Hes in an undisclosed location somewhere. Even rubio has come around. Rubio is now talking about hell support trump if hes the nominee. Just for a second here. Are you going to bring up some boring historical parallel
here. I am. Abraham lincoln. Okay. Mainstream. Five years ago willie and i were calling donald trump the Abraham Lincoln of our time. John fremont. That was for you. Hes such a flirt. I tell you. Works very well in the tapioca line at nursing homes. Get medical devices out. We dont want to hear you know what, if we want word pictures. Donny deutsch now. Thats it. Im retiring. Lincoln, theodore roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, bob dole, George Herbert walker bush, george w. Bush, donald trump is now the nominee of the party that gave the party this number of people. Ive been trying to think of
a historical parallel ive gone through in mind for nominees. Talked about Wendell Willkie before in 44, came out of nowhere. He was beloved on wall street. It was a very easy transition. Has anybody come out of nowhere like this . I certainly cant think about it in the 20th century, can you think of anybody in political history in the United States of america, Something Like this. Whats the parallel . Whats make this analogy proof, if you think about it like i do, usually they start strong this is what i thought would happen. They start strong within the party system but end up outside the. Whether strom thurmond, ross perot. Buchanan. Roosevelt did this with huey
long. Was he responsible for shooting him . Donald trump has a picture. He tries to take some of the elements, calm the supporters down. We must tame these fellows is what fdr said. No one could contain trump. So we saw this before. This is like the hijacking of an airplane but the passengers are for the hijacker. Cheering, the pilot is going whats going on. Gene, i was struck took a while to get to the last part. The best part, worth the buildup. Thats what the ladies said. Worth the build up. Its a slow build up but really worth it. This is good tapioca. Get asked gene robinson, though, when youre listening to trump and he goes back to nafta he was talking about nafta like it was 1992, 1994, he is going straight we have seen this before. This is ripping a page from pat
buchanans playbook and ross perots playbook. Its populist, to the left of clinton. I think we said yesterday, hes going to run to the left of Hillary Clinton on a number of issues. On war, on trade. War and trade. He will certainly be to the left of her and he will portray her as a tool of the system that is rigged against you and me. So in order to yes, joe . Im just stretching out. Directing traffic. I was going to say yes, donald trump came out of nowhere politically but certainly not culturally. He arrives in this moment where everybody is sick of politicians. He has 100 name id, hes got money. He can fill this void. It was perfect storm in culture and he steps into it. Intellectual elites in washington and boston. I dont think thats true. Surprised, i dont think intellectual elites are. I think the comfortable, wherever they are, are surprised that the economic anger was so deep and so close to the surface. If youre on the right side of the economic equation. I will say first year of morning joe, my dad said this, he did. Donald trump will get the nomination. Economic inequality, how it will bubble over. He even talked about rioting. Oh, my god, why would you say that, hes losing it. Look where we are. Look how angry everybody is. Look who the presumptive nominee is. That didnt come out of nowhere. The thing so maddening to trumps critics, there are so many inconsistencies. Populist, working class americans are flocking to a guy who has said wages are too high. We cant be competitive because wages are too high. There are so many inconsistencies. Again, i think trump has figured out and i will say it again,
its strength. Its all strength. I had a guy who is really involved in florida politic, a mover and shaker. He said the most remarkable thing is barack obama has defined both partys races this year, Bernie Sanders and donald trump. We talked about paris, post paris, obama seen as weak, donald trump that was his define moment. It was grabbing a mic in nashua, it was a perceived weak response from an american president. We learned months and months and months ago these seeming conflicts in his position or lack of policy details didnt matter to people going out and voting. They were voting for the idea of his strength, the idea of what he could do for them. Concept of his brand, make America Great again. The economic populist, donald trump is a billionaire who lives on fifth avenue in an apartment literally made out of gold. Better than anybody in washington. Look at fdr. There was so much anger against the republican establishment. Thats what i find fascinating. It wasnt just anger against president obama. It was anger against republican establishment. Washington, go ahead. Both establishment. Fascinating, went to nafta last night. Remember, 1993 when clinton is trying to pass it, he invites carter, ford, bush 41 to the white house. Big east room ceremony and clinton divisive baby boom figure trying to bring in the old guard to show. Thats exactly why trump was winning. There was bipartisan, 40year Economic Trend where wages have not gone up. People feel that a promise was made to them about American Life and it has not been honored. Again and again. Again and again. Both parties. Thats why the general election is not a foregone
conclusion because of the embodiesments of 40 years. People think the system is rigged, rigged on trade. Bill clinton campaigns against china, talks about human rights abuses in china. He gets elected. He goes and talks to george h. W. Bush before hes inaugurated. They come out and suddenly hes making overtures to china three years after tiananmen square. It always happens. Its the same thing with the military. Dangerous year to be part of the establishment. Lets get to holly. First we spoke to frontrunner donald trump in his first interview since winning indiana last night. We asked donald about his turn to the general election, how he plans to unify the Republican Party and if he even wants the endorsement of ted cruz. You brutalized a lot of them. Jeb bush, low energy. Ted cruz, lyin ted cruz. How do you now, especially after yesterday, how do you get people like ted cruz to endorse you and
unite this party. Youre talking about uniting the party. Even yesterday you talk about Lee Harvey Oswald. How do you turn around and unite the party today . Well, ive gotten a lot of calls from people that were far more brutal than ted was, and they want to join the team. In fact, i said to them, how can you do that after what you said . They said, dont worry about it, thats not a problem, because they are politicians. Its talk. Ive had calls ill have to tell you about them, calls really wanting to get on immediately. This was as of a week ago, even two weeks ago when it looked like were doing well. Do you care if ted cruz endorses you. I think it would be nice. Ive been saying for some time, there are some people i almost dont want their endorsement, i really dont. It was too rough. They were too nasty. I dont think its going to matter, frankly. Its going to be me. I am a republican and ill do a good job. Joining us from indiana, nbc news correspondent hallie jackson. Hallie, what a story youve been covering. Reporter yeah, 13 months, you know, came to an end last night in this sort of really emotional moment. A lot of people in the crowd were crying. You heard the reaction when cruz announced he was suspending his campaign. People in the room were surprised to hear thats what he was doing. I had one gentleman turn to me during the speech and said, i think he might be dropping out. We had already reported he was i said to the gentleman. Ted cruz not above the fold. Decisive, donald trump, his family. Ted cruz down below hugging his running mate Carly Fiorina as he moves to the next thing. Hes in houston today spending some time to his family and then heads back to the senate. This place where hes hated, where hes considered one of the most hated men in congress. He doesnt have a lot of friends. Thats whats next for him. What you heard in his speech,
his concession speech was this sort of soaring and optimistic tone as cruz tried to, i guess, keep hope alive if there is to be another president ial rundown the road. His more immediate future is in washington, d. C. What happened for cruz overall, indiana was tough for him. He tried to portray this as a headtohead matchup between himself and donald trump for months. He had been talking about getting it down to this twoman race and could not pull it out in indiana. Thats why you saw the writing on the wall for him. The trump wall was too much for him to overcome. You talk about whether he wants his endorsement. Its interesting, i hadnt heard that sound bite saying it would be nice to get the endorsement. Cruz is now de facto leader of conservative movement, grassroots movement. So if he is able to throw his support behind trump, that could give trump a boost among people
who backed people like ben carson and didnt shift over to donald trump. Will he endorse donald trump . He hasnt said he wouldnt. Hes had every opportunity to say whether he definitively would or not, so the door is open for him. Hallie, thank you very much. Does it matter if he endorses him . Yeah, it does. Donald trump right now, we talked about this, Donald Trumps unfavorability rating is in the 60s but thats going to help . You start uniting republicans, get them on your side, more of them on your side. The 60s go down to 50s. At the very least you can say, well, my favorability rating is no worse than Hillary Clintons. You go down the list of fallen republican candidates, i was looking it up this morning, rick perry who said donald trump was a cancer in conservatism now says hell support donald trump. Bobby jindal whole riff attacking donald trump. Eventually he went to marco rubio starting to come around. These guys who were vaporized by
donald trump, attacked in such a personal way eventually do come around to him. When you call somebody a pathological liar. He called rubio things, too. This is what cruz called trump yesterday. You know, so when you do that, how do you turn around and say, but, hes the next president ial candidate. Which is why people hate politics. But sam stein, they will get there and cruz will get there. The dividing line here is if you want to run in a republican primary in the future, you are not going to be seen as somebody who is sitting on your hands to let Hillary Clinton get elected and appoint three people to the United States supreme court. People what month are we in here . People can moan on may 4th all they want to but october 4th, novemb october 30th, november 1st, it changes. It always changes. There will be some holdouts, no doubt about it. But if youre cruz, youre going
to support him. I agree with 95 of this. I do think theres a possibility of george romney, Barry Goldwater, somebody calculates make a political bet to be on the opposite side of trump, the idea the Republican Party might tilt back towards the middle a little bit here. I wouldnt be surprised if you have a problem in an official not launching a third party run but speaking out forcefully against their own party nominee. I want to back up a little bit when youre talking about contradictions in donald trump. I think not just contradictions that befuddle his opponents and bemused and frustrated his critics. He was sort of appearing in unreality. For instance, during the sbr view just with you guys he spoke about the opposition with iraq war when we know demonstrably, thats not true. He supported the iraq war. No one figured out how to call
him out on that unreality. Sam stein, youre right. There are inconsistency. He said the war started, and ive said this time and again, he said the week the war started that it was doing to be a mess. He certainly said that ahead of Hillary Clinton certainly ahead of Hillary Clinton. And every other republican he was running against. Thats true. But he was on Howard Sterns show, asked about the war and said, yeah, i guess i support it. He goes around and says hes been against it from the beginning, thats just a flat out lie and unreality. No one has figured out how to hold him accountable for that, whether in the media or his republican opponents. I think thats a credit to trump in some respects. I will say when that buzzfeed clip came out with howard stern, he was confronted on this show, another show, i was on that same day and asked about it. He gives a round about answer. Turns out voters didnt care about the contradiction. They didnt care about a lot of the contradictions with trump. Okay. What i found early on is people dont care about your biography. They just dont. A lot of them dont care about your past. I was sort of running as a 29yearold with no biography. They dont care about your past. They care about their future. They will always say, i dont care what you did over the past 20 years, what are you going to do for me next year. And clearly for working class voters and a lot of middle class, upper class voters, they decided trump was going to give them a Better Future than 16 other republicans. Right. The old durability of the Clinton Family is based on that. Dont stop thinking about tomorrow. Bill clinton has tested that in every conceivable way. But they do understand the politics of tomorrow. So the question rhetorically for her is can she not allow trump to get inside her head to some
extent the way, to sams point. Its going to be for anybody who has done this for 30 minutes, hes an uncontrollable phenomena and it drives them crazy. Ill say one thing following up on what sam said, i learned this speaking of parallel between the clintons and trump. I learned this on government reform and oversight very early on. People would come in, the clintons we just found out they did this. Wed look at it and go, oh, my god, nobody can get away with that. Wed hold hearings. Their lawyers would come. They would lie. They would lie so clearly that everybody was laughing in the entire room except the witness. Everybody knew they were lying. Livingstone guy, hillary connection, he came in and he lied through his teeth for three hours in the hearing. Everybody laughed because the lying was so obvious. People talk about monica lewinsky, thats nothing compared to selling Missile Technology to china when the state department, the pentagon, nsa, everybody says, do not sell it. Even though the guy that is getting the profits is top daughter to dnc. Its bad for national security. I can give 1,000 things. I learned they keep the scandals coming so fast and it comes at you, its like drinking out of a fire hydrant. I learned from the clintons, if youre going to have scandals, rack up a lot of them. If youre going to have inconsistencies, rack up a lot of them. If youre going to have lies, lie nonstop and your critics cant keep up with you. Oh, my god, i dont know where to begin with this. I dont know where to begin with this. In 1995, by 1997 i was commenting on this, about bill clinton. You guys can say whatever you want to say, hes going to get away with it because people tune
us out. The same thing, gene, is happening to donald trump. You say inconsistency. Yeah, great, of course hes inconsistent. People did tune you guys out on clinton and the same thing could happen with trump. It could happen. Well see. You know, i think we all have to be convinced that the appeal he demonstrated in the primaries extends to the broader electorate. I have to be shown specifically that he doesnt galvanize the latino vote into a pretty powerful antitrump weapon. I dont see how he gets above mitt romneys 27 with the latino vote. If he cant do that, how does he win . How do the numbers work. Now, we should all be
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during ohio primary, it sounded like i said something differently about coal miner jobs. To put it plainly, i misspoke. Its one reason why i took this trip, to say that directly to the people affected, to make sure you know where i stand because i would never disrespect the people here. Were going to get those miners back to work. Ill tell you what, were going to get those miners back to work. Were not going to be Hillary Clinton, and i watched her three or four weeks ago when she was talking about the miners as if they were just numbers. She was talking about she will let the mines close and they will never work again. Let me tell you, the miners in West Virginia and pennsylvania, which was so great to me last week, and ohio and all over, they are going to start to work again. Believe me. Youre going to be proud again to be miners. Donald trump hitting hillary
clinton after she again explained her comments about putting coal miners and companies out of business. Joining us nbc news special tom brock ow. Host of npt daley chuck todd. Try to put this in perspective, there is no perspective, donald trump. I think its a defining moment in politics for now when you add up the bottom line. Here is a guy who is not an elected officer, the only one in the race, used his own money, defined all the conconventional wisdom on what to say on the campaign trail. A lot not true, very provocative. Nonetheless, people chose him in part because it is a total rejection of the political establishment as it now stands. Thats an ominous sign for Hillary Clinton who is a product of that political establishment. Whatever else you think about him, fact is he won with votes. He didnt win by cheating and he spent his own money. That has a big impact out there. Its going to be interesting, to put it mildly at this point. We said chuck todd, the day he came down the escalator, we said the more the media underestimates him, the more they mock him and ridicule him, the more powerful he is. As tom said, everybody wants to say this is what caused it, it was the media that elected him on cnn that put him on too much or morning joe, no, we wish we were that powerful. Tom just said it, it was the voters. And the establishment in washington, d. C. , was clueless to this. In the political establishment a year ago. They didnt want to believe the party had changed. Thats clearly what happened. A Political Party is not defined by its leadership, its defined by the people that choose to be members of it. Guess what, we found out the Republican Party is quite
different than the one paul ryan and bill crystal think it is. It just is. And whether its mostly a ton of different ways people are going to look at this. This is a rejection of republican, conservative economic philosophy. This is a rejection of this, a rejection of that. Theres going to be little bits of truth to all of it. What trump was able to do, he took over the party in his own terms. He didnt have to he didnt have to sort of deal with anybody else, accept any other prepares, he created his own premise. So what is it that is a remarkable thing. He did it on his own terms. We were in New Hampshire when he uttered a word to the crowd that would have obliterated the campaign of any other republican. Absolutely. Hes taken positions on planned parenthood that would have obliterated the campaign of any other republicans. Hes had inconsistencieses that
would have obliterated the campaign of any other republicans and whats that line of 90 miles an hour. Nobody stops you when youre going 90 miles an hour. The question is, maybe we dont know the answer. Maybe this is something thats evolving tom brokaw at the moment. What is the party right now . Ted cruz was trying to define the parameters of his conservative agenda, other candidates tried. They are all gone. What is the Party Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of, how would you define it. At the moment, its whatever donald trump says it is. Hes the big leader of the party at the moment playing against all the conventional rules like we talked about. A whole lot of senators are getting up looking in the mirror. Six months ago they are saying i could be president , now they are saying, how do i get a Reality Television show. You covered a guy in 66, Ronald Reagan, that was on a tv show that had 20 million viewers
from 55, 56 to 62. That was a big advantage for him, obviously. But hed also been involved in the party structure. He made a great speech for Barry Goldwater in 64. He was very active in california politic, getting ready to run for governor at the time with a very smart team around him, spencer, out there keeping track of all this. Its not exactly the same. You cannot also diminish the importance of the culture we live. It is a celebrity culture. You cant diminish the impact of the digital universe, the twittering he did and others did as well. That played a whole other kind of constituency that wouldnt become accustomed to it. Willie, im finally getting around to seeing this guy in a starring role in the people
versus o. J. Simpson. I looked at that and makes you gasp going back to 94 saying that changed our culture. Just like that changed our culture, that like this changes our political culture, right . I think so. The one thing Ronald Reagan had that trump didnt have, a way station in california. Some pretty Major Political experience. Trump went right from the apprentice to one step away from the white house. Made a point, Hillary Clinton should be careful, if youre betting money maybe you bet on her at this moment. If elections are about change, as they have been in the past, shes not change and he is. Right now this is an interesting contrast that the two are going to set up. Youre going to have Hillary Clinton, probably borrowing a play from obama playbook, identity, constituency politics, target this Demographic Group in this region of this state. Here in colorado, Northern Virginia chuck, didnt obama show us in 8and 12, that wins general elections. No doubt. Thats how the campaign its not going to be prose. Its not going to be trump is going to run a total gut election, not some conventional way. The thing Hillary Clinton has to be careful of, shes a terrible gut politician. They tried to show it was interesting, an attempt for clinton to do something uncomfortable for her. Go back to a place where shes not very popular and sort of confront it and deal with it. That was a really good moment, wasnt it, chuck . Really good. If she can do more of it. That was out of her comfort zone. She normally never likes to do stuff like that. No. But she has thats one
thing, to make sure she can beat trump, shes got to be able to do more things than that. By wait, did you notice who was flanked to her right. Brown. Thats not an accident. Were now entering second half, completely different first half. Getting the nomination is one thing. Now were talking about the white house. Were talking about the presidency. Were talking about the most powerful office in the world. Honestly, donald trump owes the country more than just incredible, amazing, im doing really well. We need to know more about, in fact, what he does have in mind when he talks. A thing that would also be helpful to see his tax returns. Lots of luck with that. Thank you for being with us tom brokaw and chuck todd. By the way, have you seen the people versus o. J. Yet . I havent seen my portions of it. The bronco scene, youre the star. Its pretty incredible. Ill tell you one quick Johnny Cochran story, if i can. Alex . Is that okay . Are you going to cut off tom brokaw. Going crazy in the control room. 1956 first arrived and went to work for nbc in los angeles, 26 years old. There was something called the little watts, a man named leonard detwiler shot by cops as he was rushing his child to the hospital to deliver a baby. By the way, cochran told that story in people versus o. J. And the town went up again. I was assigned to it, in the thick of it, down at the courthouse when this white rollsroyce pulls up to the courthouse. Out steps this hand some africanamerican man with a lot of gold jewelry and white suit and points at me. He said, young mr. Brokaw ive been watching you on television every night. You and i are going to be good friends. My name is Johnny Cochran. That was my introduction to him. Thats how you met willie, white rollsroyce. Stayed that way until when the o. J. Murder happened, when that murder case was being filed against him, i called cochran and i said, i want you on our team. I know you cant be here a long time because hes obviously going to come find you. Okay, brother, he said, ill be there as long as i can be. Two weeks later he called and said the juice has called. Ive got to go. Worth it. Tom brokaw, thank you. Well be right back. Thank you, tom. Jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive
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some of the most incredible competitors that i have ever competed against right here on the Republican Party. Absolutely. Absolutely. Someone very close to me thinks its more than that. 50 50. Indiana voters. Hold on a second. We have breaking news. So you went to see hamilton again last night. Whats wrong with you . Was it incredible . The level of talent displayed for three hours on a stage in broadway is literally in comprehensible. 16 tony nominations. Record breaking. Mark halperin said it was a staggering work of genius. Yes. Everybody thats gone. Kate went to see it and was just completely blown away. The most jaded people i know in new york say ive heard all the hype. Then they go, oh, my god, what did i just see. The impact it had without going
too deep into it, my kids know every word to the show, we have the album, we havent seen the show. She had a project on founding fathers. Thomas jefferson had an afro in his picture because she knows Thomas Jefferson as this actor davide diggs as hamilton. Were coming back from a school event and kate last night is just chewing at me for having a Thomas Jeffersonlike picture in the house. I mean, Thomas Jefferson, i guess in hamilton, he is the bad guy. Actually able to talk about the founding fathers, jefferson verse hamilton versus im just. I dont know what to say. Like today, real battles. Unbelievable. I will not name them because i have a feeling they might get retribution, but i sent two
members of my family to hamilton. They had to be blown away. They didnt like it. Ive never met anybody that didnt like it. Thats the first time ive heard that. Seriously. No, they didnt like it. The second half was really slow. Im trying to comprehend. I dont want to disparage. Spent a lot of money on the tickets. I went on this thing called stub hub. Stub hub. The impact of the primaries they had a hold on perspective parties. According to exit polling, 56 of Republican Voters said the election divided their party compared to democrats 73 said the primary energized their party. With us now, ladies and gentlemen veteran columnist. Lets all rise. Mike barnicle now preside over nbc political analyst and
former chairman of the Republican National committee, michael steele. 50 50 that trump wins. Why . Because, i think theres a vein that he has really figured out how to tap into that cuts across all the sides. You look at pennsylvania, its in place. You look at states, big blue wall, democrats always had an advantage in president ial elections. The question republicans ask, which states can we get to take away . Which ones can we take . This may ab year you can look seriously at some of these states that become available for gop, colorado, pennsylvania, et cetera. Now, were a long way from that. But im just saying the way the country is setting itself up, the mood is being exposed in democrat and republican primaries, this is a nice free fall this fall. Its a 50 50 race. Michael, how does he turn
around the math, his unfavorable 65, women, minorities, young voters, all those things mitt romney didnt get. They said if we dont get them next time where you now have two people going headtohead. The partys reset, the campaigns reset, the voters reset. They look at the race differently than they do when theres 17 people on the stage trying to get a sound bite in. The reality is donald trump has to do some homework. Hes got to do further changing. Hes beginning to make the pivot, hes making the turn and needs to complete the turn. He just cant halfstep it and fall back into a rift and think thats it. He has to show people, i think tom brokaw and you put your fingers on it, hes got to move in a direction to show the voters hes ready to be president. One other thing, this remember 2008 . These were similar headlines in 2008, the death of the Republican Party, its all over, lets bury it, theyre gone. I inherited that party along with a lot of hard workers out there. And folks, it didnt two years later the republicans storm back. We take the congress, we take governorships and legislatures. The reality of it is, it is about messages, messengers. Donald trump has the presumptive party to take it back to some of the arguments we used to make. Theres one other Aspect Holding up that paper that really has come into factor in this election cycle. And it is that, in a sense, the death of the power of the media. The media no longer matters. Donald trump can and has said these outrageous things. No editorials 30second ads dont matter. They dont matter. Nothing you do. Endorsements dont matter. Well, hes selffunded. Its a waste of money. It all didnt matter this time around. And there are some extremely refreshing aspects to this. But why . Why do you think it didnt matter . Well, its not everyone thinks that the media did it,
this and that, how about because people are angry and want something different. Try this, 1999, off the top of my head, impeachment, 2000, the election recount. 2001, failed failed intel on 9 11. 2002, enron and worldcom. 2003, failed wmmds. Twroo 2005, katrina. I can literally do it every year. It is 16 years of successful governmental failures. Absolutely. Not doing better anymore than us. Thats the bottom line right there. And donald trump does sell a brand that says our kids should do better than us. Were going to make America Great again. In that vain, people really, truly, do not think theres anybody in washington, in the establishment, any way connected to washington who can do that for them. And, by the way, you know,
when somebody living in western pennsylvania, hears all the smart guys on tv saying, you know what . Youve got to get the smart guys that went to yale, that went to harvard, that went to columbia, im not being antiintellectual, but when they say youre stupid in you dont vote for the smart guys, theyve got it wrong. They just got it wrong. A guy from eureka college, theres a reason hes the last republican. Real quickly, his real opponent this fall, barack obama. Barack obama is eagerly looking forward to campaigning against donald trump. And the more he campaigns against him the more he helps him. Yes, that remains to be seen. If he wants to hurt donald trump, he should just golf. He really should just stay on the golf course. Because he does not want to defend this Foreign Policy because he will help elect donald trump. Okay. Well see. Michael steele well see. Mike barnacle, thank you. Im still waiting. Do you think obama against i think obama will play a pivotal role. If he wants to play that, but joes right, it hurts. We have two more hours. Youre going to worn wait until hes the actual nominee. 1237. Okay. Then 1,238 . Ribbon ceremony. Out in the parking lot. I wish. Still ahead, Hillary Clinton will pivot to the general, but Bernie Sanders just wont let that happen. Why he says hes helping the party staying in the race. And m. Which provided for their every financial need. And then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. But with their Raymond James financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. And they danced. See what a Raymond James advisor can do for you. Mary buys a little lamb. One of millions of orders on this companys servers. Accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. But with Cyber Threats on the rise, marys data could be under attack. With the help of the at t network, a network that senses and mitigates Cyber Threats, their Critical Data is safer than ever. Giving them the agility to be open secure. Because no one knows like at t. So alex, lets go to alex for a second, what did you think of hamilton . It is impossible not to be at awe in the work of literature work performance. Its incredible to know one person who that and how they perform it, its unbelievable. Ive heard the same thing. A staggering accomplishment. Coming up next, our conversation with a likely president ial republican nominee. Presumptive. He just came over and put his hand right on my shoulder. Donald trump, very presumptive. What . Right . I did that. Remember the weird hug . I mean, jon meacham has freaked me out with this does he want the endorsement of ted cruz now that hes out of the race . It was an inside joke between me and him, dont worry about it. What is he looking for in a running mate . That and much more on the next hour of morning joe. [female narrator] you listen when your body says im tired. Or, im hungry. What if your body said Something Else might be wrong . Gynecologic cancers cervical, ovarian and uterine cancers have symptoms. So pay attention. If your body says something may be wrong. Please listen if it goes on for two weeks, see a doctor, it may be nothing but find out. Learn the symptoms. Get the inside knowledge about gynecologic cancers. You live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works. In one week. With the. Fastest retinol formula available. Its clinically proven to work on fine lines and. Even deep wrinkles. One week . That definitely works rapid wrinkle repair. And for dark spots, rapid tone repair. Neutrogena®. See whats possible. Jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive
it really looks like a massive victory. And it looks like we win all 57 delegates. Together we left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got. But the voters chose another path. We are suspending our campaign. Ted cruz, i dont know if he likes me or if he doesnt like me, but he is one hell of a
competitor. I understand that secretary clinton thinks that this campaign is over. Ive got some bad news for her. Wow. What a night. Donald trump has not officially won the republican nomination. But this morning nbc news is calling him the likely republican nominee. The republican frontrunner won his seventh straight state last night. Claiming 53 of the vote in indiana. It was a knockout blow to senator ted cruz who promptly suspended his campaign for the white house. John kasich, however, still clinging to his highly unlikely if not impossible president ial bid. Bernie sanders, meanwhile, walked away the winner in indiana taking 53 of the vote to beat Hillary Clinton. Still, hillary has a commanding lead in delegates. And the former first lady appears posed to ultimately knock down the nomination even while losing states in a prolonged and could be possibly damaging primary, mika. Good morning, how are you doing today . Well, im one step closer to a pickup truck. Because it is wednesday, may 4th. Shes got to get that pickup truck, right . You can call it your presumptive pickup truck. Have you got a brand yet . A color . Features . I was thinking a sort of little offshoot of a truck, the fj cruiser, i love those. Those are nice, right . The souped up one. She needs a punked sound in there. I was suggesting like an old 1989 azuzu trooper. Didnt those get recalled . I kept mine. Listen, the kids would love it saying, flip us. He better start thinking about when hes going to roll up to 30 rock in that thing. With us onset, managing editor
of Bloomberg Politics and cohost with all due respects is john you were with us all night last night, right . Yes. Until 11 00. It felt later than that but yes. What were you guys talking about with trucks and stuff . I was not following that at all. A long time ago back in the day back in the ancient days. It was in june, beginning in july, Mike Barnacle shook his head and said hes not going to win the nomination. Meaning donald trump. Yes. And mika bet him. I said ill bet you a pickup truck that he will. We shook on it and we wrote it down on a piece of paper that jen has. I actually love the nature of
this bed. I thought it was slightly more lopsided. You said barnacle would give you a truck but you bet him nothing. Well, thats not my fault. Clearly ann is in charge of negotiations. Ann is probably not happy. Lets get to news. Well pick out the color of the truck later. Yeah. By the way, happy belated birthday. Thank you very much. Mika and i go back to back, may 2nd, may 3rd. So we have a weeklong celebration. Its amazing, its a week of heroes after the show. Leads right up to Cinco De Mayo on thursday. Lets not talk about that. Okay, so, ted cruz and supporters put all their chips on indiana with 6 million spent on ads in support of him or against trump. But despite can we just stop right there . Lets pause. Im serious, look at those numbers. Nicole, i will say it again, there are so many takeaways from
2016. This will even if trump loses 50 states, campaigning has changed forever. The 30second ad dead on arrival. Yeah. I mean, there is like, this is sort of a cycle about the grave yard of all thing that is will never be again, right . Giant spinning staffs, you know, as you saw yesterday, not too much success, trump is his own research man, sort of media presence. He doesnt have a lot of paid to say that if this is sort of a cycle where just someone from the outside won is to vastly understate all that will never be the same in politics. Well never be the same again. Willie, we have been saying for some time, mika and i go out to speak, i know you do, too, a lot of young journalism will say, what do you have to do . And mika says, its pretty easy, all you have to do is be able to write, shoot, be on camera, basically do everything. Youre going to be a oneperson
band. And have a vision. And shell say that to young journalists. The days of carrying around 30 cameramen following its over. It just happened in politics in 2016. Those days are over. And well find a lot more doityourself one man, one woman. I think that is true, but can someone who is not donald trump do what happened this time . In other words, if you dont have his celebrity, if you dont have his charisma, his ability to draw the eyes of the media to you every day, if youre some guy who is a, quote, outsider or regular politician, youre not going to get the following. Look at Bernie Sanders. Im not saying he got the votes, but he got the eyeballs. I think its about its about skillsets. Yeah. And in a strange way, bernie has the skill sets that donald has that he sees on the message and the vision. And they go. And the lastminute endorsement from governor mike pence, that wasnt really an endorsement. The striking of an alliance with
john kasich. That was not an alliance. And naming Carly Fiorina. Cruz found himself announcing the end of his campaign over gasps from the crowd. From the beginning, ive said that i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight im sorry to say no it appears that path has been foreclosed. Together we left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got. But the voters chose another path. And so, with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the longterm future of our nation,
we are suspending our campaign. But hear me now, i am not suspending our fight for liberty. Just so you understand, ted cruz, i dont know if he likes me or if he doesnt like me, but hes one hell of a competitor. Hes a tough, smart guy. And he has got an amazing future. Hes got an amazing future. So i want to congratulate ted. I know how tough it is, its tough. Its tough. Ive had some moments where it was not looking so good. And its not a great feeling. And so i understand how ted feels. And heidi and their whole beautiful family. And i want to just say, though, that one tough competitor. So lets break this down a little bit. Willie, first of all, lets answer the question, does ted
cruz like him or not . No. No, he probably does not. Do you think heidi might like him a lot . The kids . No. Dad . Dad especially probably doesnt like him today. Donald trump does that. Remember, he did that with marco rubio. He becomes magnanimous. 12 hours earlier he was accusing ted cruzs father of being in on the assassination of john f. Kennedy and then says hes a great guy, tough competitor. Once he dispatches with you, its fine. Youre a good guy. Its a shortterm. Its a shortterm, sam stein. I dont know ted cruz will go, okay, you accuse my father of assassinating jfk but you were nice to me in the speech for five seconds so im on your side. It was ridiculous that he brought up the john f. Kennedy stuff. Lets just call it what it was. But on the back end of it, it does raise important questions, how does someone like ted cruz who spent yesterday calling donald trump every name in the
book, philanderer, liar, pathological, all the things you dont do in the course of a president ial campaign, how does a guy like that turn around and somehow go about supporting donald trump when the general election happens . Thats a general problem donald trump does have to continue to deal with as he becomes a presumptive nominee. I dont think so. You dont . I dont think ted is just going to be nice the day after hes thrown in the towel. But i dont think think people are turning to ted cruz for advice on where to go. But i could be wrong. Ive said this before, nicole, unlike marco rubio, we know ted cruz has a future in politics. Really . In republican politics. I say marco he may never come back again. But ted cruz is going to be around in politics. And the thing that everybody thinks donald trump doesnt understand, its not about donald trump but its about that massive conservative populist
wing in the party that elected guys like me in 94 and have been electing republicans in 2010 and 2014, that quite frankly ted cruz cant piss off. So what is he going to do, sit on the sidelines while donald trump gets elected . No, ted cruz has to come around at some point if he wants a future in republican politics. Thats a reality. The trump people can sit on the sidelines all you want. You cant piss off 60 of the vote in republican primaries. You just cant if you want a future in politics. Right. And this marks the beginning of sort of i think people have to be more intellectually honest on what trump means. Its been thrown around a lot, really for the last nine months, never trump, nevertrump, i would never vote for trump. People who halfheartedly endorsed cruz because they could never see trump. But now they are for hillary. So it becomes curtain number one, donald trump. Or curtain number two. I dont know what is the third choice . Well, in this category, some may not vote. Exactly. And im saying, john, i completely understand those people who could do that for an honorable reason saying, i cant vote for a guy who just ten years ago was for partial birth abortions and five years ago was giving money to Hillary Clinton. I totally understand that. Im talking about ted cruz and anybody that wants a future in the Republican Party. Perfect about donald trump, if he loses, hes gone. But the 50 , 60 of the populist that goes out to decide who wins the republican primaries across the country, they are still going to be around. And that is why ted cruz dont you think ted cruz has to figure out how to get to donald trump . Well, i dont know. In this sense, you could argue whether this is wise or not wise. What has happened with the Donald Trumps nomination is, as you point out, hes the number
one person in the Republican Party right now. The conservative movement is the biggest loser in the nomination fight. So does ted cruz decide hold on a second, lets define conservative movement. The conservative movement as defined by washington conservatives and the wall street journal editorial page. By the way, heres the thing social conservative activists, but theres a fusion Ronald Reagan got where you were able to pull together populists and the wall street editorial paper, which quite frankly are successful for republican candidates. I did it. I read the wall street editorial page in 94 and listened to rush limbaugh. Fused it together to get 62 of the vote. I mean, to choose on this type of conservative or this type of conservative, nicole, thats what they have been doing this year. If you look at the last two president ial races with little success, but i agree with what
youre saying. I think that the republicans that run and live in fear of the social conservative activists, they were dealt a decisive loss. I mean, donald trump does not talk their talk. Hes not pandering to their issues. Hes good on guns but doesnt know the language of the culture of life. Theres a question mark because the wall street editorial page and the National Grassroots social conservative groups who do not have a dog in the fight now. Well, well play it later, but after what ted cruz said yesterday afternoon about donald trump, thats going to be a hard thing to climb back from. He was losing it. The press conference earlier in the morning, yeah, i agree. Also the Bigger Picture here is the beginning of the massive pivot toward the general election that we saw last night. Everyone was talk about Donald Trumps countenance, his mood, his whatever. This was the beginning of the massive pivot. If you listen to his words and look at his tone, get ready for the new donald trump. By the way, you will also see pivot, the conservatives will be
angrier because more of them will pivot on issues. And, willie, if youre a conservative, you think, let me get this straight, weve got two new yorkers and two democrats running for president this year. Youre a conservative if youre a traditional conservative, pretty bleak. One of the candidates who actually gave and donateded to the other one, the republicans in the past have given a little cozy there. But were making distinges between conservatives and there are those, but a lot of people dont think hes a conservative at all, hes one or the other, hes just not a conservative period and wont vote for the guy. Still ahead, a special extended edition of morning joe. We get to go on and on. John, why does she say that to you . Later this morning, Bernie Sanders notches another win. We are joined by White House Correspondent Chris Jansing to
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still ahead on morning joe, violence flares up in iraq. A navy s. E. A. L. Is killed in an isis attack. Plus, after a defiant day on the trail, well talk to rick tyler about the postscript on the campaign. Also, our wideranging interview this morning with donald trump. In canada . No, the campaign of ted cruz with all its pauses. His first win in indiana. Youre watching morning joe. You live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. No, youre not yogonna watch it tch it we cant let you download on the goooooo youll just have to miss it yeah, youll just have to miss it we cant let you download. Uh, no thanks. I have x1 from xfinity so. Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. Joining us now, the winner of last nights primary in indiana, now the likely nominee for the Republican Party, donald trump. Donald, congratulations. Congratulations. Good morning. Donald, why dont you just admit to everybody that you never saw this coming. I mean, seriously, you have to be surprised yourself at how this played out. Well, im happy about the way it played out. I mean, i was against we had 17 people, so that was a lot of people. Some people said it was the finest group of talent ever assembled by any party at any time. I was watching that before i
announced and said, wow, what am i doing . And it was talent. I mean, some were very talented, quite frankly, but it worked out this way and im very happy about it. You brutalized a lot of them. Jeb bush, low energy, ted cruz, lyin ted cruz, we can go down the list. How do you know after yesterday get people like ted cruz to endorse you and unite this party . You talk about uniting the party, even yesterday you were talking about Lee Harvey Oswald, so how do you unite the party today . Well, ive gotten a lot of calls far from where ted was and said, i want to join your team. I said, how can you do that . They said, dont worry about it, its not a problem, because theyre politicians. So ive had calls, calls really
wanting to get on immediately. This was as of a week ago or two weeks ago when it was looking well. Do you care if ted cruz endorses you . Well, i think it would be nice. Ive been saying for a long time that theres some people that i almost dont want their endorsement, republicans, i really dont, because it was too rough. And they were too nasty. I dont think its going to matter, frankly. Its going to be me and i am a republican. And ill do a good job. Ill do a great job on trade and on the economy, on jobs, bringing jobs back, and thats ill do great in the military. What do you say about george will . He wrote a column this morning saying its the conservatives duty to make sure you lose all 50 states. What do you say to george will . George is a major loser. Hes a downward guy, nobody watches him, very few people listen for him. Its over for him and i never wanted his support. Hes been writing these columns for a year, ever since i
announced, and i had a runin with him when i was in civilian life. I didnt want to go to one of his speeches. He made a speech and i find him to be a very boring person. Hes boring and dull. And i didnt go to the speech. You know, there was no reason, i never thought i would be in politics and never thought i would be running. This was ten years ago. Testifi he was giving the speech and i said, i just dont want to go and he wanted me to go. It was one of those things, i had Something Else to do and didnt go. He never forgot it. And hes a nasty guy. Its a very nasty guy. But i have to tell you this, nobody he has no influence. If he had influence, i wouldnt be talking to you right now, joe. The guy writes a bad column every time he writes a column. I dont really know how often he writes them, i dont really know, but the other thing you mentioned, there are some others, look at krauthammer, all he does is bash me. He wanted the war. He talks about, oh, well, trump is tough and he may have a fast trigger on nuclear. Let me tell you, i have the slowest trigger there is. But ill prepare our nuclear because were not even prepared. But im the slowest trigger. Actually, donald, the great irony is and we have seen this before, we actually are going to go into a general election where you have the democratic candidate thats going to support intervention in the policies more than the republican nominee. It seem that is way. Well, folks, think of this, a guy like krauthammer, i watched him last night, he was saying trump could be quick temperam t temperamentally, he was pushing for the war in iraq and i didnt want to do it. As a civilian i was totally against it and it was one of the worst decisions in the history of our country, by the way, perhaps the worst. And they talk about me with temperament. We need a strong temperament right now. The world is laughing at us. We need a very strong temperament. So lets look ahead to the
general yesterday, Andrea Mitchell asked Hillary Clinton if she thought you were unqualified for commander in chief. This is what she said. Hes given no indication that he understands the responsibilities that go with commander and chief. And thats a big part of my campaign. At some point hes going to be held to the standard we hold anybody running for president and commander in chief. What is it you know . What is it youve done . What is it you are proposing to do as president and commander in chief . So far we have not seen any of that. We have seen a lot of rhetoric, we have seen a lot of insults, hes an equal opportunity insulter, but when it comes down to making this really important decision, its been my experience that people in our country say to themselves, wait a minute, what do i think is the best choice . The best choice for me, for my family, for my jobs, my income, my future . And i think that absent some
major change in how he is presenting himself and what he is saying, thats going to be a pretty high bar for him to get over. Donald, she did not mince words. What is your response . It is just words. Just another politician talking. Look, Bernie Sanders said about Hillary Clinton, shes got poor judgment. He also said, by the way, shes unqualified, but i wont go there. But Bernie Sanders said that shes got poor judgment. And she does. You look at the email scandals, she shouldnt even be allowed to run. You know that, joe knows that and Everybody Knows that. Shes only being protected by the democrats. She should not be allowed to run in the election. She should not be she should suffer like other people have suffered who have done far less than she has. You look at so many i wont mention names anymore, but you look at so many people that have done far less than her on the same subject matter and its been a horror show. And here she is running for
president like nothing happened. She shouldnt even be allowed to run, you know that. Donald, its willie, congratulations on your win last night. Thank you. I want to ask you a couple questions about some issues you raised during this campaign. A lot of people think youve said some things to win votes in a republican primary that maybe you dont believe. And you could change as you go to a general. Do you still believe that muslims should be banned from enter the country until we figure out what is going on as youve said . We have to be very vigilant and find out exactly what is going on. We have some major, major problems and nobody wants to talk about it. We have a president that wont mention the term radical islamic terrorism. He wont mention it even though its obvious terrible things are happening and we have to be extremely careful. And we have to be vigilant, yes, we have to find out what the hell is going on. So that proposal stands for the general election, assuming you make it that far, youll raise that issue . I dont know if it hurts me or not, i dont know if it hurts me. I dont care if it hurts me. Im doing the right thing when i do this, whether it is muslim or Something Else, i mean, i have to do the right thing. And that is the way ive been guided. Thats the way when joe said, its a little bit surprising, i did see last night this is the first time in the history of our country where this has happened where really a civilian in the truest sense has got the nomination of a major party. And ive been guided by common sense, by whats right, and you see whats happening. And we have to be careful. I mean, were allowing thousands of people to come into our country, thousands and thousands of people being placed all over the country that, frankly, nobody knows who they are. They dont have documentation in many cases. And in most cases. And we dont know what were doing. So lets see what happens. This could be a very serious problem for the future. And if you look at whats happening all over europe with the migration and look at whats happening all over this country, they are going to destroy
they are destroying europe. Im not going to let that happen in the United States. So as we go to the general, the proposal for the muslim ban stands. Do you still believe those who get abortions should be punished . He was asking me a question in theory. I talked about it from that standpoint, of course not. That was done he said, i guess theoretically, but he was asking me a rhetorical question and i gave an answer. And by the way, people are from an academic standpoint and asked rhetorically, people said, that answer was an unbelievable academic answer. But, of course not. And i said that afterwards. Everybody understands that. So, donald, there are two family Members Around the set that are very happy this morning. My brother is extraordinary happy. Who is a great guy, by the way. George brutalized me for nine
months. Whenever i criticized you. And nicole had to stop going home for a while. Last night i got a tweet last night when i asked about republicans for hillary, they start hate tweeting me. What about democrats for donald trump . When asking about democrats for donald trump, that is how, sir, you think you could remake the map. Also, you said i love winning with women. And i think the media you dont need to win with all women but do need to narrow the gap among all women. And i wonder what issue is your entry point in beginning to turn around what are pretty dismal poll numbers with the kinds of women you do need to bring around. Well, first of all, nicole, thank you. Say hello to your parents and i appreciate them. You just made their day. We do have tremendous numbers of democrats. Youve seen that in the open runs. We have tremendous numbers of
democrats that have voted for me. And, in fact, new york, which is closed, they were just saying some of the people who work at the polling booths that were interviewed by local television, they said in all the years we have been here, one word, for 25 years, what worked for 40 years at the booths, the most incredible thing ive ever seen was that people who came in, democrats, they kept saying, we want to vote for donald trump. We want to vote how do you do that . You were not allowed to do that, but hundreds and hundreds of people were coming in that were registered democrats that wanted to vote for donald trump. And they said they have never seen that and some of them have been working in the polling booths for 40 years. As far as women are concerned, they want to see strength in our military, they want to see strength for our border, they want to see our country protected. We have a military thats being decimated. We have a military that is totally illprepared and in many cases illequipped. When the general left recently six, seven months ago, he said
never has our military been so illprepared or something to that effect. And i know women want to see strength. They want to see a strong military. They want someone steady, though. I think women voters sometimes see you shoot from the hip in a way that makes them nervous. They want more steadiness. I dont shoot from the hip. No . I dont shoot from the hip. And i will say this, the reason race the recent victories i had in pennsylvania and new york and all over maryland, connecticut, all up and down, i mean, just one after another, i was so strong with women. I won women every single time by massive majorities. In fact, very close to the men. Now, supposedly i did extremely well with men, much, much better than hillary, thats her weakness, but im doing really well with the men. I was doing just as well in the
last seven or eight states. I was doing just as well. In one case i think even better with women. So they want to see a secure country. Im going to do it much better. Im also going to bring jobs back. Hillary doesnt know anything about jobs. Her husband signed nafta. Nafta is the single worst economic thing thats happened to this country in my opinion that i can think of and it just sucked the jobs and sucked the money right out of our country. Donald trump, thank you very much. So you just heard trump talking about not wanting the endorsements of some of his own party. Still to come, the feeling is mutual for a lot of republicans. Where do party stall worts turn . At ally bank, no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like grandkids equals free tech support. Oh, look at you, so great to see you none of this works. Come on in. Until one of you clipst da food truck. Then your rates go through the roof. Perfect. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. Liberty mutual insurance. Is caringing because covering heals faster. For a bandage that moves with you and stays on all day, cover with a bandaid brand flexible fabric adhesive bandage. My wife and i are now participating in your mutual fund. We invested in your fund to help us pay for a College Education for our son. Weve enclosed a picture of our son so that you can get a sense there are real people out here trusting you with their hardearned money. At fidelity, we dont just manage money, we manage peoples money. 42 past the hour, some republicans began shifting their focus to a trumpled general election yesterday. Longtime gop strategist and Ronald Reagans 1984 campaign manager, ed rollins, announced he will lead a protrump super pac. Rollins met with the advisors said, im not ready to roll over and let Hillary Clinton be president. Meanwhile, a former cruz supporter issued a Statement Last night, i will support donald trump to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president of these United States. He now has the responsibility and certainly the ability to unite this grand old party and go on to victory. And senator john mccain told nbc he thinks trump is going to be the nominee. Adding that he is ready to assist trump on Foreign Policy, quote, i would advise anyone who
asks. But there are those who are not satisfied with the choice of the republican electorate beginning with mccains closest allies. Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, any doubt left trump is completely unhinged . His assertion ted cruzs father was associated with Lee Harvey Oswald should remove all doubt. If we nominate trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. And mark salter posted, the gop is going to nominate for president a guy who reads the National Inquirer and thinks its on the level. Im with her. A reference to the prohillary slog slogan. And former republican governor Charlie Crist tweeted, trust me, its never too late to join the democrats. Lets bring in kasie hunt and mark ginsberg. Ben, you had a fascinating
question to ted cruz, why wouldnt he let the conservative revolt against trump at the convention . And if not cruz, why wouldnt somebody step up . We have seen it before. Yeah, i think it is interesting, there have been so many classic republican platform fights in past years. Nominating me decided to ignore the platform yet we have had the fights. Donald trump is taking some positions that are different from republican orthodoxy where a true conservative can step up at the convention and really make the case for conservative principles into the future. By suspending his campaign, ted cruz becomes a guest at the convention, at Donald Trumps convention, instead of being the one to lead the charge. Kasie, we have started to see it in some of the statements that the the desire to defeat
Hillary Clinton may be so great that the never trump crowd just wont be able to gain traction moving forward. I think the question is how do the dominos fall . Do people start to say, oh, yes, i was never trump until hillary said this terrible thing that i cant possibly stomach. But i do think that, and my question between now and cleveland and potentially beyond, its possible that donald trump could put some of these rust bell states in play. The map could look different than we expect. But it could also be true the underlying negatives really hold up and they put people like john mccain, hes in a tough position because arizona obviously seems like a very nice, good place for trump, but hes probably running against a woman. Is that going to make it a swing state, those ads like what we saw in that Arkansas Senate race, all of the things donald trump has said about women, john mccain also told me on the phone hes still not going to the convention. Hell support the nominee but wont show up. And if there is a schism between Mitch Mcconnell trying to hang on to the senate and the
convention, what they are doing on the president ial side, thats a fascinating story for the future of the party as a whole. But at the end of the day, Mike Barnacle, the party has too much to lose, the senate, the house, the governorships, could be having an inner party fight moving forward. Im not saying Everyone Needs to be excited about trump, but if the party is fighting itself in september and october, youll have people like kelly ayotte, rob portman, rob johnson, fighting for their lives in the senate. Everybody needs to be united for republicans if you are in the party. Theres no doubt this will be paramount nor the Republican Party survival in the shortterm this fall. But getting back to the convention, do you think there would be a platform fight over specific issues given trumps stance on some, which is not the normal gop stance on some issues . The history of Republican Conventions is that the people who care about their issues go to the convention to be able to talk about those issues. Where are those people, though . Well im saying, where were they in the primary fight . And because they used to determine republican nominees. Yeah, but weve all talked about how jump is expanding the traditional republican electorate and primaries. Yeah. So who those people are are the people who are traditionally becoming delegates. Remember, threequarters of the delegates are chosen without any input from the candidates. They are the local party officials. They are the grassroots activists. They are the people still going to the convention who have cared about the platform. I wonder if people like paul singer, for instance, maybe trump actually helps Senate Candidates like paul singer who might says im not giving a dime to donald trump but will doubledown on kelly ayotte and double down on ryan johnson and double down on keeping the Republican Senate and the republican house. Right. And whether those Senate Candidates need to run with the
top of the ticket or by themselves will determine in part whether its a party at war with itself. And who actually manages to fund all those efforts is going to be pretty interesting to watch. Will the Republican National committee will able to raise ticketwide money, which so far has not been terribly successful at . Or will this become the individual senate and house races with their Party Committees funding the effort . Yeah, i mean, the rnc is out of money, they are going to need for the senate side. And they are going to need people like that. And i think the people ive talked to on the never trump movement, who say im Never Working for him and people on twitter burning the republican registration cards, if they have a place, too its saving the senate. They will go work and raise money for people trying to save the senate. I will say, the thing i learned in 94 when i had a democratic opponent that was supposed to whip me, but he spent his entire time running
against bill clinton, you run against the top of the ticket, youre dead. You just do. Thats not a protrump thing. We have seen it time and time again. Where youve had candidates trying to run away from the top of the ticket, it just never works and will be a mess. Everybody stay. Still ahead this morning over . Did you say over . Nothing is over until we decide it is was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor . Hell no germans . Forget it, hes rolling. It aint over now. Because when the going gets tough the tough get going who is with me . Lets go come on one of the great movies of our time. Caddyshack. I never saw it. Dont say that. Oh what . She is canadian. After winning indiana, the Sanders Campaign has a clear message to Hillary Clintons campaign. Its not over well bring in nbcs Chris Jansing coming to Sanders Campaign. Keep it right here. This might look like a zerogravity drop. But its actually a triumph of predictive analytics. Because of optum. Through Population Health data,
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a check on the markets with sarah eisen. Job growth slow in the month of april. Thats the latest from adp, which is a snapshot coming out two days before the Big Government report on friday. But what this report showed is only 156,000 jobs were created in the private sector. Thats less by 2,000 that economists were looking for. Small businesses did their part on hiring but the big businesses really pulled off, that could signal what is happening over the upcoming president ial elections. Headwinds from europe and china showing slower growth. Well show you other numbers on friday. And a business story today, adidas is looking to sell off the taylormade Golf Equipment business. They bought taylormade in the late 90s. But tailormade has seen slumping
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