On the republican side, Party Officials this week calling for unity as they begin to come to terms with the reality of a trump nomination. Did the Trumps Campaign work. An autopsy now complete. There are many Unanswered Questions remaining. Well take you live to princes home, paisley park, as tributes to the rock legend continue to pour in. We begin this hour with donald trump who is hoping to rack up big wins on tuesday. If the margins are big enough, the path to the 1,237 delegates needed to lock down the nomination could be in sight. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in bridgeport, connecticut where trump will hold a rally this morning. Can we expect to see more of this disciplined donald . Reporter its interesting, francis. We saw that on tuesday night when he delivered that victory speech in new york. What were seeing on the campaign trail is the same speech, hitting ted cruz, calling him the lying ted. We expect to see much more of the same. Trump recently has started calling on his rivals,
September we will see if we can agree on a way to stabilize the individual insurance market. Senate republicans also criticizing the administrations shifting story about the president s role in crafting his sons misleading initial statement about the reason for the june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer. When you put out a misleading statement, its going to be hard to convince people to look at other things. Reporter the white house admitting tuesday that the president was involved. The president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information he had. Reporter contradicting repeated denials from the president s legal team. The president was president involved in the statement drafting. I wasnt involved in the statement drafting, nor was the president. The president didnt sign off on anything. Sarah sanders denying that President Trump personally dictated the deceptive statement and attempting to shift the narrative. Everyone wants to try to make this a story about misl
His story, he did so without having to backtrack completely on his earlier denials. They have never really tried to shoot this down. They think theyre just hoping people wont cover it. And its just a spectacular organization, trump world all the way through. Because whether its the white house where everything is chaos and a mess, or trying to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, they manage to mess that up in ways that you just couldnt see coming. You think there is probably a good way to do that, that they hadnt figured that out. And if anyone would know the good way to do that. You would expect the trump team would know the good way, the way that works. Theyd be the pros. Anyway, thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, a prominent member of the white house staff was actually found guilty of breaking the law today. And thats a sentence that you hear once a decade maybe, at best. Its supposed to be shocking. In the United States, its actually supposed to be earth shattering news that
Said. One of the big mysteries of it is why does donald trump never say a word about this . Why does he never deny anything that Stormy Daniels says about him, including today . And even the initial denials from the initial carefully worded denials from his lawyer were so full of holes that when he eventually completely changed his story, he did so without having to backtrack completely on his earlier denials. They have never really tried to shoot this down. They think theyre just hoping people wont cover it. And its just a spectacular organization, trump world all the way through. Because whether its the white house where everything is chaos and a mess, or trying to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, they manage to mess that up in ways that you just couldnt see coming. You think there is probably a good way to do that, that they hadnt figured that out. And if anyone would know the good way to do that. You would expect the trump team would know the good quayway, the way that works. The
Which as you pointed out the last time you were on, you dont really know where that comes from. I cant figure out what the 20 million what its really based on. Is that the normal kind of behavior of an attorney in a lawsuit . Im not a lawyer, so i dont know. Its 20 different violations. But the bottom line is, you know, i dont know where you think a threat is from here. I mean im from brooklyn. Thats not a threat. I hate to tell you. Okay. When an attorney talks to another attorney about a damages clause in a contract, and two attorneys are speaking to each other, thats not a threat. Thats just a legal discussion about a damages clause. Has michael go ahead. One thing i never understood is theres a signature line on the contract for, you know, dd, which is Donald Trumps pseudonym. Why didnt he sign . Okay. So the bottom line is you have a contract between ec, llc, and Stormy Daniels. So at the time when this was all going on, he could you know, there may have been a situation where mic