When everybody discounted this candidacy, and now he is the presumptive nominee. Will you support him as the nominee . I dont understand why you wont answer the question. As a new chapter begins the challenge for the Clinton Campaign, theyre now fighting this battle on two fronts. If it turns out that hes unacceptable to women, unacceptable to latinos, that is going to split the republican. Hear the inside story from four journalists who have been on the campaign trail since day one. Katy tur, kristen welker, hallie jackson, and kasie hunt, the road warriors. And a very good afternoon to you and happy friday. Welcome to the road warriors. Were so excited to be back together again off the trail for a short hour. Hello, ladies, great to see you all. Hello. We are back together after what has been an extraordinary week in politics. It can only be described that way. Donald trump has clinched the nomination, and the highest ranking republican, not supporting him. Paul ryan. I have to go to
Edition of the road warriors. They say the third time is the charm. I want to introduce my friends who are here, kristen welker, kasie hunt, hallie jackson, and the lovely ari melber. Hello, hello. Nice to be here. Huge week on the campaign trail this week. Specifically yesterday, just so many twists and turns, lots of drama. I feel like the last time we were here and where we are today, its like another lifetime happened in the last seven days. These weeks feel like months. Exactly. They kind of do. We want to get to ari with breaking news, right . You cover donald trump, sometimes it feels like we all cover donald trump. I dont know if you guys ever feel that way. To some extent. [ laughter ] but katy and i worked on a story covering the fact that all the money hes spent on his campaigns has been organized as loans. He has until august to convert those and make them donations, or use the new money hes raising to pay himself back and his Campaign Aides had been up in the air about tha
That. In a minute youll hear the brash language he used in his still hidden Tax Information and exclusive news on his selffunded campaign. Ari has been working on it all day long. We first brought you this this morning, Donald Trumps campaigns decided to maybe use some of the money they are now using to pay back loans. I have this statement from donald trump say is have no intention of paying myself back for the nearly 50 million i have loaned the campaign. This money is a contribution made in order to make America Great again. Its signed donald j. Trump and i just received it. What that means is that donald j. Trump is saying he now has no intention of using any of the new funds to pay himself back. Legally he still has that option and i want to be clear the campaign has not converted any of that 35 35. 9 million you seen the screen it currently owes to donald trump, havent converted to it a donation. His aides now are saying to me they do intend to make that change. If they do it, go