Love that opening. Good evening. Im chris matthews. Donald trumps final opponent, john kasich suspended his campaign this evening bringing to a close the republican race for the white house. Its over. Donald trump, a reality tv star and businessman from new york with no political background is the new standard bearer of the Republican Party, like it or not. With that reality comes a moment of truth for the Republican Party itself. Can they back him . A growing list of republicans are saying yes, they can. Governor nikki haley of south carolina. Mike huckabee. Senator Susan Collins of maine. A spokeswoman for senator john mccain told nbc, as john mccain said he will support the nominee of the Republican Party who is now presumptively donald trump. Hes opposed to the continuation of failed policies of president obama that will occur under pill ri clinton and have led to a world more volatile and less safe than any time since world war ii. Theres also a number of activists who say they re
The poch alongside sethwear who has muscullar dystrophy. The two are inacceptable and they included the photoin the yearbook. Fox report is next. Tonight, the gop is in uncharted waters. The presumptive nominee at odds with big names in his own party. This is the fox report. Tonight trump is Campaign Nothing Washington State shrugging off the high profile republicans that will not vote for him and taking swoip at former primary rivals. Jeb bush is not an honorable person and Lindsay Graham is not honorable. When you sign a pledge it is supposed to mean something. The good nows is, that most everybody has indorsed me other
than paul ryan. I dont know what went wrong there. Trump and ryan will have a chance to mend fences. Ryan said he was not ready to endorse trump. Dan springer live in the donald trump rally in washington. Reporter donald trump is about to take the stage. I have watched his speeches and havent seen him trying to unify the party and seem ises like he will get the Party
Donald Trump Doubles down on his immigration stance. But opens the door to gun reform. This is special report. Association, to talk about keeping people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns. The nra opposes such legislation. But also backs the gop presumptive nominee. Senior National Correspondent john roberts reports tonight on what could be a true test of leadership. Some people love me. My problem is they love me or hate me. Under withering fire from democrats and republicans following his comments on the orlando massacre. Donald trump wouldnt back down an inch. Insisting doing the same old thing when it comes to terrorism isnt working. We have to stop on a temporary basis at least, we have to stop people from pouring into our country we have to stop it. Until we find out what the hell is going on. President obama and Hillary Clinton are battering trump for what they call divisive, inappropriate rhetoric. Obama angrily ridiculing obamas criticism. Trump firing back that it make
Who looked fantastic tonight. That dress was killing. Apparently matthews liked it, too. We will be back at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Ted cruz suspended his president ial campaign. The texas senator saying hes calling it quits since theres no longer a path to victory. Rnc chair Reince Priebus tonight tweeted that trump is now the presumptive gop nominee. We will try to get senator cruzs remarks in a moment. In his victory speech, donald trump seemed ready to make amends with the party. I want to thank and congratulate the Republican National committee and Reince Priebus, who i just spoke to. Hes doing a tremendous job. Its not an easy job. He had 17 egos and now i guess hes down to one. So donald trump is adding at least 50 more delegates to his total, putting him 190 shy of clinching the republican nomination. On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders scoring a late primary season win over Hillary Clinton. He couldnt win with a big enough margin to keep clinton from collecting delegates. The f
Shoppers making a run. Dont go away. Craig morgan is getting ready to perform right behind us in the all american summer Concert Series. Fox friends starts right now. Have a good weekend. Bye bye. Good morning to you and your family. Its friday. You made it. It is june 17th. Im Ainsley Earhardt are. Did you see this . Meat loaf collapsing on stage overnight in the middle of a performance . Fans capturing that frightening moment on video. The breaking news on his condition coming in. Stung new developments in the orlando terror attack investigation. A Gun Store Owner who tried to warn the feds something wasnt right. Did it twice. This is odd having that conversation and asking for body armor. New questions this morning about whether an attack could
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