On trumps heels with 305. Leaving gop establishment favorite marco rubio lacking well behind. And trump has even more reason for optimism this morning, according to a brandnew nbc wall street journal marist poll, trump has a commanding 19point lead in the michigan primary. Michigan is one of four states where republicans will be choosing a nominee on tuesday. That follows puerto ricos republican primary, which takes place today. Senator rubios hoping to pick up a few more delegates in that contest. Now, he made a stop late last night in puerto rico where he addressed an audience of supporters in spanish. And today hes headed to idaho before the states republican primary on tuesday. Over in the democratic race, saturday was a good night for Bernie Sanders. He won the democratic caucuses in kansas and nebraska. But it was a slightly better night for Hillary Clinton in terms of delegates, at least. She prevailed in yesterdays only democratic primary in louisiana. Ending the night with 59
Starts right now. A very good day to you. We start this hour with the results of Super Saturday and another big day on the road to the white house and what a day for ted cruz, the republican candidate gained momentum in the hint that he is the Donald Trumps strongest challenger. Cruz won kansas and maine while trump took kentucky and Hillary Clinton maintained her lead in louisiana. Ted cruz called on republicans to rally around him to take on donald trump. He says his campaign is the partys only hope to win the white house in november, also pointing out a recent straw poll from the major comfortabletive conference known as cpac where cruz came in on top. By any measure, kansas and maine and the cpac National Conference of conservatives are all very different groups of voters, and to see strong, strong wins across the board is very encouraging, and i think what it represents is republicans coalescing, saying it would be a disaster for donald trump to be our nominee. And were going to s
155 on the gop side. Republican candidates spent the day and making a push for final votes to come in and we have Fox Team Coverage for you. Live in louisiana, polls will close and well go to molly line live in louis town. And we await the votes there. The counting is under way. 22 regional sites where republicans gathered to participate in caucusing and they are close now and counting is underway and well hear final results tonight. I hear officials expect to report record turn out and doubling or tripling the Previous Year participation. They printed 80000 ballot to just be safe and turn out was little more than 6000 people. And they initiated a history change this year and shifted from the not so distant past. And they could take a ballot and cast the vote for the white house. And then they leave. And one Party Official told me they easily will be the 2012 record, julie. What do voters there have to say today . It was a great busy day. We kicked off in the caucus location. It was bu
Has gone off like a proverbial bob inside this building. I dont have any access to special Insider Information about the story because i work here. I sort of wish i did. But we have spent a considerable portion of today trying to report out the details of this story. How it was handled. How big of a scandal this is. Weve been working on that today since this news broke this morning and well have our version of this story coming up in just a moment. Along with nbc news report stephanie gosk, who is aggressively reporting this story for nbc news. Again, with all of the awkwardness that comes from the fact that this is an nbc news story. Again, it is weird to report on a story that is directly about an organization that you are a part of, but when these things come up, thats what youve got to do. So weve got that story ahead. Our colleagues across town at cnn had to deal with their own iteration of this story today. A senior producer on jake tappers show was fired from cnn today for, quot
A block collapsing at a popular beach. Details hohn h details on how it happened and request next. Developing this morning, two big political stories. First, President Trump now considering a new choice for the director of National Intelligence after withdrawing from consideration one of the most vocal supporters in congress. Nbc news learned several republicans had conveyed concerns privately to the white house that texas republican congressman John Ratcliffe lacks experience to become the top spy chief. Heres the president addressing what is now the 35th time he has withdrawn a possible nomination. I felt that congressman ratcliffe was being treated very unfairly. I was reading the press. And i think i am a student of the press. I asked him, i said do you want to go through this for two or three months or would you want me to maybe do something else. He thought about it. I said its going to be s going. A lot of times you do a very good job. Not always. There is the large effort Publi