Ready to back trump. What hes saying is, look, i want to get there. I think i will get there, but i want to talk to donald trump, and i want to work with him. Reporter priebus, trying to explain why ryan and some in the Republican Party are so reluctant to back their new standard bearer. For some people, an endorsement is a full embrace, and so for some people it takes a little bit of time to get to a full embrace. Reporter the chairman, not promising 100 of the party will fall in line, but optimistic that there wont be a contested convention come july. The platform of our party will be written in cleveland, and i think youre going to get another very conservative platform out of our party. Reporter but not so fast. Trump firing back at ryan in a statement saying im not ready to support speaker ryans agenda. You know why its never trump . Because im going to stop the gravy train for all of these consultants and people. Reporter ryan making clear his focus is on one thing. Protecting th
Starts right now. Good evening. Im chris hayes and tonight it is all over. Literally in one sense perhaps melt forricly in another. After starting with a crowded field of 17 candidates including current and former governors hailed as the best group of gop president ial hopefuls in a generation at least the Republican Party has chosen its nominee for the office of president of the United States. Reality star who has been married three times filed for four chapter 11 bankruptcies, declines to denounce the kkk and first launched his political career by promoting a Conspiracy Theory that the nations first black president was a secret kenyan. A man who as some of the most prominent members of the party have said shows almost no interest in or qualifications for addressing the high stake policy questions. Donald trump is now the presumptive nominee of one of this countrys two Major Political parties, an outcome completely and entirely without historical precedent. Today john kasich officiall
Back to you, tom. Not without antribution, right . It is a new show called drunk tank, it is joanne nosuchunsky. If you have seen him you know he needs a grip. Fox news contributor. She spent two weeks doing shows in scraw pan and she really stood out. And he looks like he is good at sifting brandy or coning old ladies out of their inheritance. And then there was one. Yes, andrew wk of the party party is now the only candidate still challenging donald trump. On tuesday night ted cruz ended his president ial bid with the shocking revelation that his father killed jfk. I dont know. It was in the paper. Im just saying. Trump winning inned yn winning indiana may have been a factor. Cruz bowed out with grace. It ended with a hug. Thats good. One candidate remains, the pre Presumptive Republican nominee, donald trump and he joins us now by phone. Mr. Trump, congrats on your huge victory last night. Tom, i have to tell you i am so happy to be the nominee. It is absolutely fantastic. We should
In organizing his general election campaign. In moments, we will speak about Election Strategy with Paul Manafort, one of Donald Trumps top political jat t strategists. But we begin tonight with our chief Political Correspondent carl cameron reporting tonight from washington. Carl . Thanks, megyn. Trump is not only the presumptive nominee hes now uncontested. Instead of focusing on the last nine contests he can get to work on winning the general election in november. The latest National Poll by cnn nrc taken before last night shows trump trailing clinton by double digits. Trump knows the Clinton Campaign is already organizing to attack him in key swing states so trump aides have let it be known theyre getting calls from veteran gop operatives around the country who say they are ready to get on the socalled trump train. Trumps tapped ben carson to vet potentialitentiality projects a expected to announce his choice shortly before the july convention in cleveland. Hes been arguing for mor
Nonsense. You know what, women understand it better than anybody. And watch how well i do with women when it counts, when the election comes. Watch how well. Im going to let him run his campaign however he chooses. Im going to run my campaign. It is a very, very busy night tonight. Were going to begin with some breaking news. The newest web video from Hillary Clintons super pac. S cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash is here. Trump has been scathing in his attacks against clinton, calling her an enabler. Tonight a group called correct the record, a pro Clinton Super pac put out this web video. Look at it. Because nobody respects women more than donald trump. She came to my wedding. She ate like a pig. Seriously, the wedding cake was it was like missing in action. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat ass, absolutely. I just dont respect her as a journalist. I dont think shes very good. I think shes highly overrated. But when i came out, you could see there was bloo