Its not my style or Donald Trumps style. But it is ted cruzs style. You go to his county conventions an you s and you see the guetactics. Living history. Bernie sanders taking on bill clinton and Hillary Clinton calling drug dealers back in the 90s super predators. What are your thoughts about what he says, senator sanders . Unacceptable. I think we all know what that term meant. In the context that it was said years ago. We know who they were talking about. Black people. Thats exactly right. Thats who it was. Bill clinton defends his out burst over the 1994 crime bill. I still think what i said was right. But i wish i had first said in the hope of being heard by her, youre right about this prison thing, weve got to do something about it. And snl swipe. The politics ahead of the new york primary. The new york city subway is the best way to get around. Its been a while. Is this working . Is this, ill just go in the Old Fashioned way. Ill take the cab. Cab is the best way to get around.
Hotel at the old post office. Now donald trump just came in through his motorcade. This is the Republican National committee a stones throw from the capital. This is on the day donald trump announced congressional Leadership Team headed up by the first members of congress who endorsed him. We have made calls to the rnc to ask what the purpose of this meeting is about. They have not returned our calls. They would not confirm the meeting was going to happen. It took us sitting out here for the last hour or so and making a visual eye contact. You cant miss that blonde hair in the back of the suv that just went around to the back. There are a lot of things to discuss between whatever rnc officials are in there and donald trump. He recently said he would break the pledge. Not necessarily support whoever the nominee would be. Theres been a lot of questions about that. Also saying to our own Chris Matthews that women should be penalized for abortion. Walked that back. Also dropping Nuclear Bo
Left until election day. Lets start with katy tur, shes covering the Trump Campaign from portland, maine, today. Trump expected at any moment. Reporter he is. This is what you could call reset number, gosh, i dont know 10 or 11, and day two of it all the this point. The gop says they have a sliver of hope that this message that donald trump needs to get on message has gotten through to him. Confidants, aids, donors, people close to donald trump, people within the party telling him hes trying to get away from the controversies and focusing on his message. I spoke to supporters here and i asked them if they think the controversies are starting to wear his support down. And although they said they were as supportive as ever, they did acknowledge hes starting to take a hit. I asked what advice they would give him and every Single Person i spoke to said please get back on message. They want him to talk about policy. The economy, job creation, National Security, less about the personal squab
I referred to is economic nationalism. The third, broadly, line of work is what is deconstruction of the administrative state, and if you [ cheers and applause ] and crossing a line, the president taking on the fbi again, as reports surface about conversations between the president s chief of staff and the bureau concerning the investigation into Campaign Contacts with russia. The latest pushback from the white house is just ahead. Good friday and thank goodness its friday. Im Peter Alexander in today for Andrea Mitchell in washington. Tale two of speeches. President trump at cpac with a lengthy address touting his policy priorities but not before a tenminute riff on his favorite president ial punching bag, the media. The media didnt think we would win. We are fighting the fake news. Its fake. Phony. Fake. Few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. They make up sources. Theyre very dishonest people. I called the fake ne
Conference to happen. Thank you very much. Well continue to monitor this story, but for now, ali and i are signing off. Thank you so much for watching this hour. Well hand it over to Andrea Mitchell with Andrea Mitchell reports. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, hidden figures. With nine days until a vote, the costs and benefits of the Republican Health care bill remain washingtons biggest mystery. Even to frustrated members of the group in charge of writing it. I havent seen the bill. And it has become increasingly apparent in the last few days that even though we thought we were going to be in charge of writing a bill, within this working group, it is not being written by us. So if youre frustrated by the lack of transparency in this process, i share your frustration. Seeing red. Homeland Security Officials reveal that 21 states were targets of cyberattacks in the 2016 election, leaving no doubt who was behind it. In 2016, the russian government at the direction of Vladimir Putin