Gop elites have a new plan to stop donald trump. We can lose in 2016. We probably will. Will they lose the white house to save the party . Also, playing to fear with terror everyseas, pundits sink to a new low here at home. Obama is a radical left, in many ways the first antiamerican president. Hillary clinton could be considered a Founding Member of isis. And showdown for the senate. Fighting against people like mr. Van holland who want to trade job. Miss edwards was dead last among democrats. Well talk to both candidates in the toughest primary race in congress. All that, plus a very personal week of attacks in the gop. And a big apology from speaker ryan. Politics nation with al sharpton starts right now. Good morning. Im al sharpton. On this easter morning, just days after bombings in europe, fears of terror are dividing america along religious and political lines. Many think 2016 will be a National Security election. With voters looking first at who they want to be commander in ch
Welcome to the lead. Im john berman in for jake today. Breaking news in our world lead. A Major Development in the brussels terror attacks. The man suspected of building the bombs that tore through paris in november and brussels yesterday, he may in fact be dead. Cnn has learned that Najim Laachraoui is believed to have been one of the two suicide bombers who blew themselves up at the Brussels Airport killing at least ten people, injuring dozens more. This comes as the search is intensifying for this unidentified third terror suspect who failed to detonate his suitcase bomb inside the airport terminal. Cnn has people on the ground in the belgium capital. Lets start with the development over the last few minutes, word from belgian officials that laachraoui, the bomb maker, may be dead. Reporter belgian and french officials are telling cnn that they believe Najim Laachraoui, the man implicated in building the bombs that were detonated in the paris attacks is dead. Bell began counterterro
Coming hours if any of them will be released. Right now authorities think there were five men now involved in tuesdays blast, including a second bomber at the metro station. All of this as intelligence points to isis getting ready for more attacks and soon. Senior International Correspondent joins me with more. Lots of activity overnight european time. Does that suggest there are more plots in the planning . Reporter it certainly suggests that theyre trying to root out this Extensive Network an yes absolutely the fear is that there might be multiple plots that are in the works. Lets get to the arrests first of all here in brussels. Actually it was across the country there was six arrests in total. Quite a few of them happened right in front of the federal prosecutors office, which is very unusual. We had another two arrests in the city and one in yetta, another part just outside of brussels. So a number of those arrests, we dont know who they are or why they were arrested. The prosecut
Laachraoui. The other man on the left isnt known to authorities and they believe hes still on the run. The death toll remains at 31 this hour. They confirm two americans are among the dead, but their identities have not been confirmed. A new yorkbased brother and sister are among those killed, alexander and sasha pinkowski, both dutch nationals. Secretary of defense says he was a finance minister who overah saul t oversaw all the funding for isis operations. The removal of this isil leader will hamper the ability to conduct operations both inside and outside of iraq and syria. Reporter lets start with nbcs keir simmons. Obviously another operation happened today. Lets talk about what was behind it, do you know . The most important thing we know is the belgian prosecutor say the two people arrested that you were talking about are connected to that attack in paris. Extreme, really, between paris, between belgium, and you can see the connection building. Anyone suggesting there wasnt a co
Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod, and this is a western edition of the broadcast. The road to the president ial nomination runs through wisconsin next tuesday with both parties holding primaries. For republicans, 42 delegates are on the line. For democrats, 96 delegates are at stake, including 10 superdelegates. Wisconsin will not make or break any of the candidates, but a loss could signal a rockier road ahead for republican frontrunner donald trump. Heres julianna goldman. Reporter donald trump crisscrossed wisconsin today trying to rebound from one of the toughest weeks of his otmpaign. Im not doing well because orbody knows my my message. G reporter with polls showing trump losing ground ahead of hxt weeks primary, hes ammering ted cruz and john kasich on trade. Were being drained of our manufacturing and our jobs. Were being drained like were children. Reporter and defending himself over his shifting statements on abortion nobody has greater respect for women than donald trump