Supposed to start at noon local time. There was supposed to be a Candidate Press Conference Ahead of time. Even with the incredibly tight schedules that the campaigns and candidates have to run, the Cruz Campaign had to blow up its schedule and keep all thoeds those people waiting. All the people are waiting. All the reporters are waiting for the press conference. Everything got pushed. Everything got left waiting because the candidate and a bunch of his top staffers were holed up in the parking lot of the ymca dealing with a crisis or causing a crisis. That was going on at the ymca 15 miles away. A control room in mid town manhattan was dialed in for ted Cruz Campaign manager. Hes a nice guy. Hes the only person that would give us the time of day. He wouldnt always give us a comment, but he was always nice about it. While this ymca parking lot huddle was under way this las vegas, National Campaign spokesman nick tyler was dialed in to do a live interview with kate snow. Minutes before
Candidates have to run, the Cruz Campaign had to blow up its schedule and keep all thoeds peop those people waiting. All the people are waiting. All the reporters are waiting for the press conference. Everything got pushed. Everything got left waiting because the candidate and a bunch of his top staffers were holed up in the parking lot of the ymca dealing with a crisis or causing a crisis. That was going on at the ymca 15 miles away. A control room in mid town manhattan was dialed in for ted Cruz Campaign manager. Hes a nice guy. Hes the only person that would give us the time of day. He wouldnt always give us a comment, but he was always nice about it. While this ymca parking lot huddle was under way this las vegas, National Campaign spokesman nick tyler was dialed in to do a live interview with kate snow. Minutes before the interview was due to go live, rick tyler, the National Spokesman for the ted Cruz Campaign, he got up and walked out. No explanation. No notice, just left. Gone.
Take a look at this. Our new nbc news wall street journal marist poll shows clinton now holds a sizable lead in new york ahead of Bernie Sanders. Double digits now. 14 points. Now, lets look at the republican side. Donald trump now has 54 points, thats a 33point lead over john kasich, who is in second with numbers like this, its possible that trump could walk away next week with all of the states 95 delegates. Now, hes counting to continuing to ral against the delegate process after losing dozens of delegates to ted cruz in colorado this weekend. This is what trump told supporters at his rally last night. Its a very sick system. Ill tell you what. Maybe in addition to winning, maybe well clean up the system so that in future years we can have an honest contest. We might be able to clean up this dirty, rotten, disgusting system. Now, factor this into the latest. Rnc chairman Reince Priebus tweeted this out. Quote, the rules were set last year. Nothing mysterious, nothing new. The rules
Continues to demonstrate his contempt for the nomination process. Rnc Communications Director will join me this hour and respond to trumps accusations that the system is, quote, rigged and well have his reaction to the breaking news from capitol hill. This afternoon, House Speaker paul ryan will speak to the press pouring ice water on weeks of speculation that he might be gearing up to join the president ial race. We have a lot to unpack this hour. Our msnbc Political Team is covering this jam packed political calendar on the ground and across the state. I want to begin with the breaking news. The House Speaker, paul ryan announcement, luke, that hes officially not going to be making a run for the white house. The white house with fallout from the Panama Papers and sort of the cameron let up from the discussion. Im wondering if you can just tell me whether or not the white house is following that and what we should expect the president to defend . Josherne ernest saying he wi leave it
Knew them all along. Tensions between trump and Republican Leaders, this is a story that is not going away. Also on the agenda his words were new york values. Take a look at this scorn on his face when he said it. Am i right . For donald trump there may be no place like home. Ted cruz falling behind even john kasich in new polling this morning out of new york with donald trump pulling in big numbers in his home state. The key question today for trump, can he get above 50 in all 27 Congressional Districts in this state in if he does he walks away with every single delegate, all 95 of them. And some promising news for donald trump this morning. Also Hillary Clinton looking like she may be able to stop Bernie Sanders in his winning streak in her home state. Were going to dive into all of that in just a moment. Also rounding out the agenda this morning, the frenzy over a potential contested Republican Convention, but a Surprising New number today could knock the wind out of the stop trump