When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today donald trump made the rounds in washington and the elites of his party tried desperately to come to terms with the reality that, yes, donald trump is their presumptive president ial nominee. Trump arrived at the Republican National Committee Just before 9 00 a. M. To meet first with of course House Speaker paul ryan, the most powerful republican in the country, who in an unprecedented move last week announced he was not ready to back trump for president. It was a chaotic scene outside the meeting with protesters at one point trying to deliver a cardboard coffin to the rnc. Inside the trump ryan meeting chaperoned by rnc head ryan priebus, the man with the unepveeable job of trying to hold the party together. Kevin mccarthy, a trump delegate, and the rest of the trump leadership joined the house meeting. Trump then travel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee where he get with gop senate leaders. P
Statement saying this. There is a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall and we are totally commit today working together to achieve that goal. Later the speaker, paul ry addressed the media. I was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump today. I do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified to bridge the gaps and differences. So from here we will go deeper into the policy areas to see where that common groupd is and how we can make sure we are operating off the same principles. This is our first meeting. I was very encouraged but this is a process. It take as little time. You dont put it together in 45 minutes. So hat is why we had a very good start to a process and how we unify. Trump met with the entire House Republican Leadership Team and sat down with Senate Republicans to talk policy and politics. He is at a washington, d. C. Law firm having more meetings before he heads back to new york. Lets talk about all the days events and
Hotel at the old post office. Now donald trump just came in through his motorcade. This is the Republican National committee a stones throw from the capital. This is on the day donald trump announced congressional Leadership Team headed up by the first members of congress who endorsed him. We have made calls to the rnc to ask what the purpose of this meeting is about. They have not returned our calls. They would not confirm the meeting was going to happen. It took us sitting out here for the last hour or so and making a visual eye contact. You cant miss that blonde hair in the back of the suv that just went around to the back. There are a lot of things to discuss between whatever rnc officials are in there and donald trump. He recently said he would break the pledge. Not necessarily support whoever the nominee would be. Theres been a lot of questions about that. Also saying to our own Chris Matthews that women should be penalized for abortion. Walked that back. Also dropping Nuclear Bo
Party. Running meate or running awa . Its growing and some saying no thanks. Can he manage to find the insider to join him in the run for the whitehouse . Were going to take you aboard a nuclear you power attack as the u. S. Navy gears up to face growing russian threats under water. Then a massive once in a generation gathering of the communist elite. Is he going to carry out a nuclear test. Im wolf woblitzer, and youre the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Our breaking news is the highest ranking older paul ryan says that he is not ready to support Donald Trumps candidacy just two days after naming him the nominee. Ryan tell us our own jake tapper that im not there right now. The party first needs to come together and trump bares most of the burden for were that. Many are not there either. Bush 41 and 43 will not attend the convention. Several trump running mates said no thanks and some antitrump republicans are weighing a third party effort. In an aggressive move and buzzing
Them for treating him unfairly. That was the reason, anyway, that donald trump used for essentially tearing up his pledge to support nip who wins the nomination. No word yet on what happened in that meeting. Meanwhile, it seems Republican National Committee Officials are becoming more and more convinced that nobody will score the delegates needed for that nomination. The rnc Just Launched this brand new Convention Facts web site. It has all sorts of information on how an open convention works. Thats what theyre calling it. Contested, not open. Something looking more and more likely. The rnc meeting is one of Donald Trumps sitdown today. Earlier he met with a Foreign Policy team, after he made headlines blasting the general have no cocoon venges convention and the rules of war and then didnt rule out using Nuclear Weapons in europe and said women should face punishment for having abortions if the u. S. Ever outlaws the procedure. Both pro choice and pro life groups blasted the comment.