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Me. And a big night for Bernie Sanders who won some big victories in three caucus states on saturday. In state after state huge voter turnouts. Bernie sanders is with me live. And joining me for insight and analysis are members of the nbc campaign team, andrea mitchell, katy tur, Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker. Welcome to this special Easter Sunday edition of meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good Easter Sunday morning. It was a big saturday night by the way for Bernie Sanders. He will join me later in the show. Sanders swept the three caucuses in washington, alaska and hawaii, and he did so by huge margins. That said he still faces an uphill path to the nomination because Hillary Clinton still has that commanding overall delegate lead. But were going to start with whats been a strange week in the republican campaign, even strange t you might have expected the conversation to have been dominated by the isis terror attacks in brussels, which claimed the lives of 28 people including two americans, two we can identify, justin and stephanie schultz. They were married and had been living in brussels since 2014. But as donald trump has done countless times, he somehow or had it moved for him, the focus of the conversation away from terror in his own Foreign Policy weaknesses to an opponent. And this time the focus got turned to ted cruz. His first and natural resort is to go to sleaze and to go to slime. And one question americans are wondering all over this country is how low will donald go. A week that began with questions about Donald Trumps readiness to be commander in chief and a rush of establishment endorsements of ted cruz is ending with a dispute over this photo retweeted by trump to his 7 million twitter followers. Donald, youre a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. And a tab campaign believes that donald trump had planted. This National Inquirer story is garbage. It is a smear that has come from donald trump and his henchmen. Trump says he has nothing to do with it and blames cruz for a digital ad placed by an antitrump super pac targeting his wife in hopes of turning off utah voters. The charges and counter charges, insults and innuendo are just another day in this campaign dominated by donald trump. Other candidates have struggled to keep up. Donald, you know, is great at the oneliners. But hes a chaos candidate. Trump is a master of the chaos he creates, of insults that stick. Hostility works for some people. It doesnt work for everybody. And of creating a new story line when the old one is inconvenient or used up. Under scrutiny by religious conservatives in iowa, trump changed the subject to john mccain. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured, when rubio and cruz got the upper hand last month, rolled out Chris Christies endorsement within an hour. And this awkward appearance br the the Washington Post Editorial Board raised more questions about his readiness for the white house. This is about isis. You would not use a Tactical Nuclear weapon against isis . One thing, this is a good looking group of people, can i go around and find out who im talking to. Trump again shifted the conversation. Where he leads on issue. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Other candidates follow. Ted cruz is still trying to walk back a plan to, quote, patrol and secure muslim neighborhoods. If you have a neighborhood that is plagued by gang activity, it is standard and good Law Enforcement direct more resources. Its an echo effect that has trump to his own success and detriment setting the terms of the campaign debate. Yesterday i was joined by Ohio Governor and current republican president ial candidate john kasich. About the brussels attacks and why he thinks so many republicans who have voted in the primaries agree with calls from trump and cruz to not just ban muslims from entering the United States, but even introduce extra surveillance in muslim communities in america. I think when they see things it makes them very concerned and very nervous. And so its sort of a kneejerk, i think, chuck. But lets talk practically here. In order for us to have great human intelligence, i want the public to hear this, we are going to have to have intimate communication and coordination with our friends in the muslim community. There is no question about it. I mean, in order to find out about the radicalized friends and neighbors, or people that you may not even know at all who you observe doing things, this has to be a coordinated effort worldwide. One other thing i want to say, chuck, that is i think we ought to have a nato. Right now we think of nato as a military organization. I think it needs to involve itself in policing and in intelligence gathering because when we look at europe right now we find theres so many holes and an inability their ability to get their act together. But youve got a europe right now where every country feels as if its every country for themselves. I mean, we talk about well, yeah. We talk about the nativism in this country, you have in every european country right now similar pattern where theres distrust of their own allies. Theyre concerned about sharing their economic wealth with other less economically with more economically challenged countries. It seems like europes about to break apart. Well, look, either we hang together or we hang separately is really what the message from a good leader is. And, chuck, this is a little bit of a different illustration, but in our state whenever we have a difficulty somewhere, st i have told them all that we Work Together to solve a problem. We cant have silos. We just have to Work Together. That is what the president of the United States needs to communicate to our allies around the world. And frankly its got to include our friends in the arab muslim community. We cannot beat this unless we do this, strengthen ourselves militarily, destroy isis and begin to have a message out there particularly by the muslim imams about the fact that this is not tolerable. This is murder and its not acceptable in our civilization. You were pretty critical of the president for not cutting short his trip in cuba and immediately coming back to washington. Should he do that after every single terrorist attack . Because he also shares your belief that you cant overreact to every incident or you unnerve the public. Well, look, i would say, chuck, when you have an attack in the heart of europe, and you have this kind of slaughter, if i were president im just telling you what i baseball game in cuba. I would have come home. I would have called all the world leaders. I would have gathered my intelligence and military experts. And i would have sent them to europe to sit down to assess our vulnerabilities. I mean, im not overreacting here, but you also cant underundunde underreact. When somebody says we ought to ban all muslims coming in, that is a statement its not based in reality. I dont know even how you would do it. Secondly, we cant be out there aggravating the very people whose cooperation we need. But in terms of the president in cuba, dont go to a baseball game after this happened. You come home. All right. Let me ask a politics question. Ted cruzs campaign is repeatedly called for you to get out. Saying a vote for you is a vote for donald trump. Now, we went through this last week. If you thought your position in this race strengthened trump, would you get out . Chuck, im beating hillary by 11 points. Im the only one that can win in the fall. And as you noticed the narrative over the last week has been what is wrong kasichs the guy that can win the general. Some people have said kasich would be the best president. Get out for what . If id gotten out trump would be the nominee, he would have won ohio. And frankly, well win some districts in wisconsin. We will move to pennsylvania where im basically in a statistical tie with trump. And when we go to new york and everywhere else, were going to pick up delegates. Its absurd. Its absurd. You know, if you really want, let them consolidate behind me because frankly im the one that can win in the fall. And im the one that can get the crossover vote. This campaign happy easter. There you go. The Campaign Tone has been every time you think weve hit a low it goes lower. Youve based your whole campaign on not participating in that. So i get that. I know thats going to be one part of your answer. But can ted cruz or donald trump do something about this . Is this all a trump effect . What do you make of this . Well, first of all, chuck, families have i mean, you cannot get this these attacks on families. And if this becomes the order of the day, what kind of people are we going to have in the future that are going to run for Public Office . Theres got to be some rules. And theres got to be something that gets set there, some decency. And, frankly, chuck, at the end of the day, you know, what we need to do is we need to have programs to lift people and not diminish people. Thats what were seeing a lot of happening. But look, its a long way to cleveland. Lets see what happens. Youre still committed to supporting donald trump if hes the nominee . Were going to look at it every single day. Well see what happens. We got a long way to go. I dont want to project hell be the nominee. I dont think he will be. If he is i review it every day. Thats all i can tell you. Sounds like its more hesitance every day. I said what i said, chuck. Im done talking about the subject. Fair enough. How about that . An campaign correspondents here in studio. One of the few brief days thanks to easter we can get you here to washington. Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, Hallie Jackson covering the white house, Kristen Welker covering the beat and katy tur on the donald trump beat. Welcome all. Sorry im sucking up holiday time, but i appreciate it. Obviously a bizarre week, andrea, in so many ways. But i want to go because what i think could have been the story of the week was this unbelievable Editorial Board interview that donald trump did with the Washington Post. Let me play a longer excerpt of it and get you to respond. If you could substantially reduce the risk of harm to ground troops, would you use a battlefield Nuclear Weapon to take out isis . I dont want to use i dont want to start the process of nuclear. Remember, one thing that everybody has said, im counterpuncher. Rub yoio hit me, bush hit me, w i said low energy, hes a low energy individual. He hit me first. By the way, spent 18 million worth of negative ads on me. This is about isis. You would not use by the way, could i do one thing . This is a very good looking group of people. Can i go around and so i know who the hell im talking to. By the way, folks know, so then everybody around the room introduced themselves, subject got changed. Exactly. He cannot stick to a subject. When he doesnt know something, he changes the subject and makes it all about himself. National security is very noticeable, especially to your ears and mine. Absolutely. And this was a week where he could have gone after president obama, arguably. Theres a lot happening and the president has some vulnerabilities. So does Hillary Clinton. Instead hes all over the lot. And then the New York Times do an interview with him, a 90minute interview and its in todays paper and online. And the transcript, if you read the transcript online, he would cancel defen japan and south korea against north korea. He doesnt mind, he would be okay if japan and south korea go nuclear. American policy for decades since world war ii has been trying to keep nukes out of that arena. He would stop importing oil from saudi arabia if they dont pay more for their defense. We need oil. We are not energy independent. We rely on oil still. Sure. For our daily needs. He is completely all over the lot on iran he complained that iran isnt buying our planes. It had to be pointed out to him that iran is still under sanctions and cannot buy american planes. He thinks north korea and iran are the biggest trading partners when north koreas biggest trading partner is china. He is completely uneducated about any part of the world. And, katy, it is clear. You cover this campaign every day. There isnt a big team around him, is there . You dont see no. You dont see these Foreign Policy advisers and now telling New York Times some are under told me first, he learns a lot of things from the shows and i guess hes going to hire a Foreign Policy team based on people that are appearing on various shows. But you dont see them out with donald trump at all. Were not seeing them very much on the tv circuit, as you mentioned. Its unclear how many conversations hes had with them. Weve made phone calls, all of these people. Very few of them have gotten back to us and given us a flushed out idea of what is going on. And how he learns how he learns and whether hes taking it all in. Yeah. I dare say that the Washington Post audio excerpt will come back to haunt him in the general election, especially if hes going up against somebody like Hillary Clinton who is so well versed when it comes to Foreign Policy. The other thing that really struck out at me was he didnt understand the function of u. S. Bases around the world, the basic function of why they are there. And these are things that when they get flushed out could hurt him. The question is will he be able to change the conversation, as hes been doing this entire time. Go ahead, kristen. Chuck, a lot of Top Republicans say this is a chance for donaldru president ial, to give a big Foreign Policy speech like Hillary Clinton did. She instead took the ball, ran with it, went on offense when it comes to Foreign Policy. And really hit donald trump and ted cruz on a whole host of very traditionally. She did it very traditionally the way you would expect a president ial candidate to do. But then the tone got completely changed. I want to sort of move. And, hallie, this all came in cruz world a little bit, you know, my this escalated quickly. Yeah. But i guess sort of what happened here . And how did this go from this, i guess, a super pacs digital ad got turned into what it got turned into. Right. Look at the progression of what you noted weve seen this week tuesday were talking about this terror attack and candidates responses to it, were talking about the tabloid cover thats out there. I think this shows donald trump is able to shift the conversation with a single tweet. And the tweet that came out retweeting this image of heidi cruz next to st stunning to the Cruz Campaign. I think ted cruz was stunned and very emotional about this even before you started talking about the inquirer story. One of the things ted cruz hit on he seems a little rehearsed, inauthentic, thats a knock against him. Right now, hes emotional, mad and showing it. Speaking of showing it, let me show you. Youve asked him twice, two days in a row, about this idea, can you still support trump if hes the nominee. It was interesting to watch him from thursday to friday. So will you support him as the nominee . Im going to beat him for the nomination. Thats not an answer to the question, senator. I am answering the question. Donald trump will not be the nominee. Hes leading right now. You just looked in the camera and said hes a coward. Donald trump will not be the nominee. I dont make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family. So an evolving movement. By hes having a hesitance. I put together a montage of him on the show. You can watch him hesitate. So on this where john kasich has moved and shifted that same way, do you think cruz will ever go all the way . Thats a good question. I think youre seeing him lay the groundwork over the last 48 hours. You saw that moment on thursday where he didnt say he wopt support donald trump, but he also didnt say what hes been saying for months now which is affirmatively, yes, i have made a commitment, i have made a pledge to support somebody and i keep my promises. Remember that is fundamental to ted cruzs campaign on every issue, consistent and keeps promises. Yesterday you saw him say i dont make a habit of supporting people who attack my family. And yesterday this tweet, donald trump is not a republican. Not donald trump is not a conservative, donald trump is not a republican. Which maybe opens the door to going back on that pledge. But it is, andrea, final thing what was amazing, trump is from the lbj handbook. He basically said, i hope that storys not true, but also trying to fan the flames. Hey, look, the National Enquirer got it right on and then throws in lying ted cruz. This is sort of make him deny it type of lbj thing. Right. Exactly. As katys been reporting he has a very close relationship with the people of National Enquirer. Theres more evidence that ties trump to planting the story than there is to the story itself tying anything to cruz. Like, i hope this is not true. And then tell me everything about it. It has been a remarkable, extraordinary period and as i say at a time when he should be vulnerable on Foreign Policy. The audio, this the Washington Post thing. Were going to have to move on here. The audio to this the Washington Post thing if it ever got legs could he get the nominati coming up the latest from brussels after the horrific isis terror attacks. And key we were born 100 years ago into a new american century. Born with a hunger to fly and a passion to build something better. And what an amazing time its been, decade after decade of innovation, inspiration and wonder. So, we say thank you america for a century of trust, for the privilege of flying higher and higher, together. And to connect us with thes twonderment of nature. With the tiger image, the saliva coming off and you got this turning. Thats why i need this kind of resolution and computing power. Being able to use a pen like this on the screen directly with the image, it just gives me a different relationship to it and i cant do that on my mac. This is brilliant for me. Welcome back. Its been reported this morning that the syrian army has retaken the historic city of palmyra but the cities of baghdad and brussels still reeling after isis suicide bombings this weekend. This Morning Church services have been taking place on Easter Sunday to remember the 28 victims of the attacks on the citys subway system and airport. But brussels is still on edge. A peace rally that was scheduled for today had to be canceled due to security concerns. Lets check in with keir simmons in brussels with the latest. I understand a new arrest this morning in connection with the brussels bombing. Tell us about it. Reporter hey, chuck, good morning. Thats right. This is an International Manhunt for suspects. This Morning Police saying that they have arrested an algerian man in italy. Hes accused of producing documents for three of the terrorists involved in paris and brussels. Charges against a number of suspects including one they call terrorist assassination, chuck, roughly translates to terrorist murderer. We are learning too about the various victims of the dead. They say that they came from eight different countries. The injured from 19 nationalities, chuck. And among the killed the belgian ambassador to the u. N. Who also spent time as the u. S. As the belgium ambassador to the u. S. And justin and stephanie schultz, two americans whose family for days simply didnt know where they were, were looking for them, finally they got that terrible news. And they say that that couple were really enjoying their time here in europe going around seeing the sights. Terrible news, as you mentioned, there is real tension on the streets. You can see behind me the army still on the streets as we learn that by targeting this city isis effectively targeted an International City and would have known that they would have killed people from many, many parts of the world. Now made it a global reach. Now, it seems as if theres obviously some connection between the paris attacks late last year and what happened this week. But a friday, there was a big arrest in the paris attacks having to do with Salah Abdelsalam and an arrest made in belgium. Reporter right. Did it trigger the acceleration of the terrorist attack that took place in brussels, basically within 72 hours of the arrest . Right. Its a good question. And another point too, they put out an arrest warrant for a man called Najim Laachraoui who turned out to be a suicide bomber at the airport. Chuck, remember too in the days before the attack there was reports that Salah Abdelsalam was talking to the police and that he was telling them that there might be another attack. Now, it is now emerged officials saying here that he was not saying that during interrogation. So i think there will be some questions, chuck. There are already questions about what Intelligence Services here knew and whether they could prevent an attack. But also they will be wondering as the days go by whether some of the publicity that came out, some of the things that cell to act and whether or not that was completely wise, chuck. Keir, thanks very much. So for more on this im joined by our chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel just returned from brussels and Michael Lichter now with the National Security company litos. Welcome to you all. Michael, i want to go to you on this last point. The connection here, the arrest of Salah Abdelsalam on friday, basically less than 72 hours later this attack happens. There seems to be something here that connects these two incidents. I think almost certainly, chuck. And this likely shows a serious tactical failing by the belgians. When we arrested someone in the u. S. Or anywhere else, the first thing you always go for, the only thing youre focused onto start is what other attacks might be coming. And it looks at least from the outside that that did not occur. But theres a second more strategic piece here which is really striking. This is the First Time Since 9 11 that we have had a cell network in the west conduct an attack and then it survives to fight another day and launch another attack. And this is after four months of intensive investigation. This has never happened in any other incident. Were usually able to eliminate that cell . Thats right. We never gotten back to the planners all the time in pakistan or somalia. Sure. But the cell in the west to be able to do this whether it was london or madrid. You were always able to destroy. We saw it and destroyed it. Here four months after intense investigation across western europe they had another attack. Richard the cell was able to reconstitute itself, attract new members and attack again. Youre talking tactical failure, strategic failure, intelligence failure. I was told something quite startling, richard, im guessing youve heard this before. He said the quickest path to get information around europeans is to tell the americans. If france and belgium couldnt coordinate on dealing with this, if those two countries that share some of their populous coordinate, how does the rest of europe do it . There were so many intelligence failures on this and it makes one wonder how many more intelligence failures are there going to be. Look what happened with one of the chief suspects. He was arrested in turkey while trying to sneak into syria, presumably to fight with isis. The turks say they deported him. Shared this information with European Partners and he still got out and was able to become one of the major attackers. It seems like the dam has been broken for a problem that has been building up for a long time. 7,000 thats the number youre herie inine inine ining well, 7,000 foreign fighters gone to fight with isis and maybe 1,500 or so have come back. And it seems that europe doesnt know where they are and isnt talking to other isnt sharing that information. Im going to ask a question i cant believe im saying, is brussels a safe haven for europe is a safe haven. Because what the European Union has created is wonderful for the Free Movement of people and goods and commerce, but its terrible from a security perspecti perspective. So the borderless Society Still has very much bordered, isolated Intelligence Services. And those countries have to come up with multilateral sharing arrangements amongst Law Enforcement intelligence that dont exist today. I want to play a quick clip, richard, of your interview you had with john kerry, secretary of state. You pressed him on this. It was an amazing nonanswer from him. Let me play it. Do you think europe has a handle on the level of the isis infiltration here . Europes done a lot. And particularly the government of belgium has done a lot. I mean, before this event took place they had already had our foreign fighter surge team here a month ago. They are the ones who apprehended Salah Abdelsalam. That may or may not have initiated this richard, he tried everything he could do to praise. He wouldnt and yet behind the scenes you cant find an american analyst that says this is on belgium. I spoke to people as this was as this crisis was unfolding who were pulling their hair out. That the belgian authorities were not on top of the situation. Hes coming there as a diplomatic mission, he wants to praise. But it seems like there were many, many failures. In this country, for example we were talking about this earlier, if youre in one state and you drive across the state line, and lets say the cops are chasing you from North Carolina to south carolina, theyre still going to be chasing you once you get to North Carolina. Right. That is not the case in europe. The intelligence stops. Stops at the border. At the border. Its like a 1950s system where if you get across the state line youre scot free. Youre safe. Its interesting, theyre trying to go borderless in europe, these things and yet what were seeing in this country, ted cruz calling for surveillance of muslim communities, the nypd commissioner bratton saying thats crazy, does a whole New York Daily News oped this morning in todays daily news chastisining cruz for this. And yet this morning in brussels antiimmigrant protests. This nationalism is on the rise in europe too, and that will make your job and the Intelligence Community that much harder. Thats absolutely right. Intelligence and Law Enforcement have to partner with these communities. If these communities feel alienated, whether its in brussels or boston, these are these are antiimmigration protests just a few minutes ago in brussels. Thats my biggest fear. That means theyre not going to cooperate. Theyre not going to report to people theyre being radicalized, theyre not going to field internal parts of communities. We dont have these ghettos t anyway, toif leai have to leave there. Back to the political race. Big wins for Bernie Sanders last night. Hillary clinton still has a commanding lead in the delegate count. I will ask him what changed yesterday and does it help his path to the nomination. And later, Donald Trumps trouble with the future belongs to the fast. And to help you accelerate, weve created a new company. 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Washington state another big win 73 for him. In hawaii he won by a smaller margin, 42 points, 71 . So big wins in all three states. Sanders picked up so far 46 of the delegates that have been allocated from last night. Clinton has 14. However, clinton still has an overall commanding lead in the delegate count, 1672 to sanders 994. That does include superdelegates in our count by the way. On the allocated pledge delegates her lead is smr. From vermont. Senator, good morning, sir. Welcome back to meet the press. Thank you very much, chuck. So you got the size of victories you need last night. Going forward you got to continue to win by margins like this to catch up to Hillary Clinton. Can you win 60 of the vote or more in wisconsin, in pennsylvania, in new york, in maryland . How does this success in caucuses translate to primaries . Well, our calculations are that in fact we can win the pledge delegates. And at a time when we have the momentum, we have won five out of the six last contests in landslide fashion. In all of the National Polling that i have seen we are beating donald trump by much greater margins than is secretary clinton. We started this campaign at 3 , the polls 60 points behind clinton, now in the last poll i think now the super delegates are beginning to look at which democratic candidate is in the best place to defeat donald trump. I think some of them are beginning to understand its Bernie Sanders. So thats your case at this point, right . If you cant win, do you think you should be the nominee . If you dont win a majority of the pledged delegates, do you think the super delegates should decide who the nominee is . Well, im not going to speculate. I think we can win the pledge delegates. And i think if we continue the momentum we have right now, we will. And the reason is, ill tell you, the issues that we are talking about, a corrupt Campaign Finance system, the disappearance of the american middle class, the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality, the need to deal boldly with climate change. Kids graduating college 50,000 in debt. Chuck, those are the issues that the American People want to hear discussed and want to see acted upon. I want to talk about how the two of you bring this together once a nominee is decided. I noticed some change at your rallies over the last couple of weeks. I want to play some excerpts here. Theres a lot of booing of Hillary Clinton going on. Take a listen. She voted for the wall. [ audience booing ] what she has done is established a number of super pacs, her largest one recently reported raising 25 million from [ audience booing ] secretary clinton has given speeches on wall street behind closed doors for 225,000 a speech. [ audience booing ] whats interesting has been your reaction to the booing. You had no reaction there, but heres what you did over a month ago when booing started about Hillary Clinton at your rallies. One of the areas where my opponent, secretary clinton, and i have a strong [ audience booing ] no, no, i respect secretary clinton. We can have differences. Now, according to our folks, the last time you chastised your supporters for booing Hillary Clinton was on february 23rd. Now you dont do that. Any reason . No, no reason at all. You know, every day we are in a different position here. I respect secretary clinton. I dont want our supporters to be booing her. But there are real differences of opinion. And one of the differences is that she has raised 15 million from wall street. We have raised 6 million individual contributions averaging 27 a piece. People respond the way they respond. But what we are trying to do in this campaign is to differentiate our positions from secretary clinton on the war in iraq, on fracking, on how we raise money. That is what the American People want to hear. And by the way, one other nt that as we go into new york state, secretary clintons home state, that we will have a debate new york city, upstate, wherever, on the important issues facing new york and in fact the country. Are you worried she wont debate you anymore . Yeah, i do have a little bit of concern about that. But i certainly would like to see a debate in new york state. Very quickly, in a web interview last week you seemed to set some parameters of some things of demands you would have of Hillary Clinton if she were the nominee, that she would support medicare for all, single payer, 15 minimum wage, Free Public College and that thats what it would take to earn your support and your supporters support, is that correct . No. You wont support her as the nominee . No, i think thats a misinterpretation of what i said. Those are my views. And i think those are the positions that are imperative that we move forward toward for the betterment of the middle class and this country. But youll support her if she doesnt share your views on that . I did not say that. I did not say that. I did say that its absurd we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people paid family and medical leave. We have got to change that. Theres no is there conditions for you to support her . Right now i am running to become president of the United States. And i hope very much, chuck, that youll be asking her that question. I understand that. And i will the next time i have her, but are there conditions for your support of her if shes the nominee . Its too early to talk about that. Right now we have a lot of momentum. Were focusing on wisconsin, new york state. We have a path to victory. We are going to win this nomination process. 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For comparison mitt romneys favorable rating was only five points under water before the 2012 election. Five. Trump even has a 41 negative rating among republican women. So lets continue to put this issue in context. In 2012 president obama beat romney by 11 points n. A hyin a hypothetical with Hillary Clinton she beats six times by that much. What about white women typically count on in winning contest, romney beat obama among white women 56 to 42. But trump would lose white women to clinton 48 to 38 remarkable 24 point swing among that group. From a plus 14 to a minus 10, why is this important . Trump is going to have to drive up the vote among whites to win. How do you do that when you lose roughly half of the white vote by margins like this . Finally, lets look at where elections are won and lost these days. The suburbs, clinton beat trump among beats trump among suburban women by a whopping 30 points, 60 to 30. That makes trump vulnerable in key states with large suburban populations. Think, northern virginia, philadelphia, cleveland, orlando and denver all in states president obama won in 2012 largely because of significant gender gap with romney. But now, adding charlotte, North Carolina, atlanta, georgia, and phoenix, arizona, these states were all lost by obama. They could be won by clinton if she wins by margins with women against donald trump. Republicans are used to having a gender gap to deal with, but right now this gender canyon, maybe a gender grand canyon. After the break, inside the gop plot to take the nomination away from donald trump at the convention, even if he wins the most states and most music plays hi im kristie and im jess. And we are the bug chicks. We are a nanobusiness. Windows 10 really helps us get the word out about how awesome bugs are. Kids learn to be brave and curious and all kids speak the language of bug. 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If trump fails to win that majority on the first ballot, these are people who will promise to dump trump on the second ballot. And then theres an effort underway to mobilize zombie delegates. These are delegates pledged to candidates who have dropped out of the race. They could switch their vote over to someone else in the race, maybe even on the first ballot. Maybe its cruz, maybe its trump. So to discuss all of this im joined by our resident zombie expert, republican delegate guru who served of Course Campaign in 2000 and mitt romneys lawyer in 2012. So the Zombie Apocalypse will hit cleveland. We have free agent delegates and zombie delegates. I want to talk about free agent delegates first. We have donald trump already this morning angry about this. Louisiana, he wins the primary big, he should get lions share of delegates. The Cruz Campaign claims they are going to have more delegates out of louisiana, a state they lost, than trump. How did they do it . Explain. The way they managed to do it is that 44 of the 56 states and territories give the candidates no role in choosing who the delegates who the individuals are. Who the individuals are. So a wellorganized campaign will go into all these state conventions and state executive Committee Meetings and manage to get supporters of theirs. Theyll be bound on the first ballot to the winner of their state primary, but not for any of the procedural rules issues and not for the second ballot. All right. Theyt now lets talk about zombie delegates. I want to put up a graphic here. There are a group of unbound delegates. We know theyre always going to be over about a hundred weve done the math here. Over 100 of them. Theres another 175 of the zombie delegates, these are people mostly marco rubio delegates out of virginia and minnesota. But a handful of carson, maybe one or two jeb bushes. What is their role in all of this . Well, their role in all of this is almost the equivalent of the democrat super delegate. In other words, they can be for whatever candidate they want. So, for example, the campaigns will be very aggressive in going to the state conventions where these unbound delegates are selected. Youre going to have three tests coming right up in the first three weeks. Youre going to have fargo, north dakota. Yeah. Youre going to have colorado springs, colorado. And then youre going to have casper, wyoming. There you go. So there are three great places to go to see how ew because its the cruz and Trump Campaigns. The Cruz Campaign seems to know everything about this process. They are incredibly well organized when it comes to sort of this ontheground microtargeting data kind of thing when it comes to these delegates. This is something the campaign did successfully in iowa, right . Drill down to know the voters. So theyre going to know the delegates likes and dislikes, right . Certainly those 344 and probably all of them that are going. The campaign has said they are not just focusing on the races to come, but looking back at the races that have already happened in order to make sure they lock down these delegate states. This is a real priority for them. Watch north dakota, watch colorado. You also have south carolina. Katy, i got to ask, the Trump Campaign doesnt like this narrative that they dont know what theyre doing. Absolutely. So they do have a team in place, about a dozen people. Their delegate convention team. And they are going out and theyre trying to convince delegates to get on their side. Their internal projections say theyre going to get to who knows where theyre getting it from, but thats what theyre saying. If they dont get that they believe they have a real opportunity especially in that 40day window between the last primary and convention to go and woo these unbound delegates by negotiating for whatever they want. And there are no rules. They said this. As we know. And hes a negotiator. Hes a deal maker. These delegates have a mind of their own. I want to play a quick interview we did with a gop delegate out of north dakota. Heres what he said, ben. I want to get you to respond. Well, heres another thing thats not very well understood. The priority of rules and authority in the Republican Party is the convention first. The convention is the highest authority. And so the Convention Rules govern everything. Ahh, the Convention Rules. Guess what, we dont have Convention Rules yet, do we . No, we do not. Thats the point of this donald trump doesnt yet understand. They must be passed by each convention for that convent hogans out there who have great ideas of their own on what can be done. This is going to be madness. Im going to have to stop there, sneak in one more break. End game time in less than a minute. More on the battle for the womens vote if it is a trumpclinton contest. Coming up, meet the press end game brought to you by if everyone carpooled just one day a week, we could reduce traffic by 20 . With fewer cars on the road, we might reduce our commute time and our carbon footprint. Do your part and share a ride this week. The more you know. Meet the press end game is brought to you by boeing. Building the future one century at a time. End game time. Panelist is here. Weve been pingponging a lot. I know you have a lot of andrea, whats been interesting is the Clinton Campaign for months has been trying to galvanize her candidacy as a huge step for women in politics. Havent had much success. No. And yet theyve got donald trump. Donald trump is the gift that keeps on giving to the Clinton Campaign. Because everything that he says and every insult and every perceived insult only adds to womens i mean, what the Clinton Campaign is now looking towards in a general election is republican suburban women, those are the target voters. Kristen, voters are they embracing the idea of running against trump or just dealing with it . Theyre dealing with it and trying to determine what his achilles heel is going to be. This womens issue they think it is . A part of that. Also his controversial comments about muslims, for example. Their biggest challenge is to figure out what to do with all of this material. Obama campaign has the 47 comments . They didnt just roll it out all at once. They allowed the media to sort of take aim at it first and then you saw this very measured rollout. I think thats going to be one of the big challenges. And someone said something very smart to me, which is they also have to be careful not to throw everything at him all at once. Because the messaging gets lost. Well, this was its funny about that, katy. Because i think thats the lesson. Yeah. If Hillary Clinton sat down with marco rubio, with jeb bush, ben carson and say, okay, what did you do wrong, what advice would you give me . Dont assume all of its she has the ability to be monday morning quarterback here. She can see everything theyve done wrong and learn from it. But the Trump Campaign is excited to go against Hillary Clinton. They do believe that she has a lot of faults. They do believe that shes vulnerable. And theyre not so worried about this gender gap right now. They keep saying over and over again that donald trump has worked well with women in the past. They have ivanka trump on their side to help mitt game some of but they also believe that white men are going to be the ones that are going to come out to vote for him. And they believe theyre going to turn out new voters and mitigate some of the women losses. He just rolled out incompetent hillary as the nickname of lying ted and well, hes vulnerable on Foreign Policy. And the more she hugs president obama, which she is doing now and not distinguishing herself from him, the more she is vulnerable on everything going wrong if things are going wrong like donald trump is a master at repackaging himself. He doesnt have to win women voters, he just has to close the gap. I guess what were learning is the Trump Campaign thinks, all of our vulnerabilities, say Hillary Clinton, united Republican Party. The Clinton Campaign believes at the end of the day, how do i motivate voters . Donald trump. They need each other. In this strange way and yet we are still not through the primary because you have people like john kasich and ted cruz going im going to beat hillary, all this we can look ahead about how the two would play off each other but in reality youre going to see ted cruz and john kasich use these same perceived vulnerabilities when it comes to donald trump and women to take him down in july. I want to pause for a moment. Do you realize there are technically more days ahead in the primary contest between now and june 7th than there have been in the contests that have been held so far . Dont say that. Thats exciting. We are not even yet at the calendar halftime. Unlike the ncaa tournament, our march madness goes onto april and may and june. Yeah, but the wildcats beat kansas. All right. We shall see. Thats all for today. Have a very happy easter. Well be back next week because no matter what the holiday is, if its sunday, its meet the press. Coming up on early today, targeting christians, mainly women and children, an Easter Sunday suicide bomber kills 59 and injures 300. Clash in brussels. A rightwing group of demonstrators are dispersed with Water Cannons after a terr attack. Pope francis delivers an easter message denouncing terror. Plus, your ncaa final four headed for houston, the battle between ted cruz and donald trump heats up, and spring has sprung on this easter. Early today starts right now. 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