release, quote, trump will be joined by 100 african-american evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the gop front-runner after a private meeting at trump tower. they clarified trump expects to pick up the endorsement of some leaders after meeting privately with them. after joining me with the latest to discuss all of this is cnn political reporter nia-malika henderson. why the change? we ve seen a lot of movement on this since that initial press release from donald trump. a lot of pastors have come out to say they don t stand with donald trump. they are not endorsing him. some, of course, will endorse him out of this meeting, but it seems like a lot went on over these past few days. one of the things that went on was, you know, a lot of publicity around this. and then some pushback from other pastors who, for instance, wrote a letter in ebony magazine
campaigning in florida. and on monday in new york his campaign says trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 african-american evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse him in a press conference after a private meeting at trump tower. the campaign hasn t released the names of those religious leaders yet, john. that will be interesting to see on monday. athena jones, thank you so much. let s talk about this with cnn political commentators amanda carpenter who once worked for ted cruz and maria cardona who once worked for hillary clinton. amanda, i want to start with you here. henry barberer, republican strategist great article in boston globe today about trump s support in new hampshire. you can t peel voters off of him with a crowbar. essentially saying the people who like trump like him just no matter what. well, it s the kind of thing that amazes all of us in the media that he can say things we don t know are totally true. and it comes down to the fact that he s