Discuss unity and i like discussing unity, too. The frontrunner trying to wave off criticism over his comments on nukes, nato and abortion. Also Hillary Clinton lashing out. I am so sick of the Sanders Campaign lying about this. Sick of it. Now sanders supporters fight back. Plus president obama speaking soon about tamping down on nuclear materiels, and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Donald trump on the defense, or on the attack . The republican frontrunner goes behind closed doors with Party Leaders just days after breaking his unity pledge, and then igniting a firestorm with his abortion comments. Trump has since reversed course over whether a woman should be punished for having an illegal abortion, certainly not apologizing saying its the medias fault. Forgive me if i misspoke but this was a long, convoluted subject. We talked about catholicism, his religion, chris went back and forth about that, and this was a very long convoluted discussion which frankly they didnt want it on television, because it was too long. My stance was the same stance as Ronald Reagan and if, in fact, abortion was illegal, the person performing the act is responsible, not the woman. Live in hershey, pennsylvania, where john kasich holds an event next hour. Good morning. Good morning, carol. No shortage of controversial events for donald trump this week. No question about that, but taking a step back yesterday coming off the campaign for a series of meeting in washington, d. C. Most notely the meeting with the rnc focusing on delegates trying to secure enough to get the nomination before cleveland. If he doesnt do that, make sure hes not undercut when he gets to cleveland and also a call for unity hoping to mend broken bridges, perhaps, with the Republican National committee. Donald trump now trying to make nice with Party Leaders amid fallout from yet another political firestorm. Republican frontrunner in washington for a meeting with the chairman of the Republican National committee Reince Priebus. Behind closed doors are sources say discussion focused on delegate rules ahead of the convention, just days after trump and the other gop hopefuls backed out of their pledge to support the nominee. A very good meeting. We met with Reince Priebus and the staff, and theyre very good people. Very actually a terrific meeting, i think. And its really a unity meeting. Reporter trump huddling with Foreign Policy advisers at the site of his new hotel for a twohour private meeting as hi comments on Nuclear Proliferation continue to rile american allies. Nuclear weapons in south korea, and saudi arabia wants them to. Can i be honest . Going to happen anyway. Reporter trumps camp uncharacteristically quiet. On the defensive do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a prince jvlts ta the answer has to be not qualified for the oval office. I have to tell you as commander in chief and leader of the free world, you dont get doovers. Reporter Ohio Governor john kasich unleashing a pointed and specific attack on the frontrunner. The apportion controverborti nukes, getting rid of nato and having a Supreme Court justice whos going to investigate hillarys emails. I dont even know what hes talking about there . Reporter ted cruz sending out heiss wife heidi and Carly Fiorina attempting to underscore trumps difficulty with women voters. Carol, all of this coming a few days before the wisconsin primary. A primary that donald trump is seeing his numbers really in trouble. Ted cruz up by double digits now in consecutive polls in this state and, carol, im here in pennsylvania. One of the next prizes on the primary calendar, where john kasichs aides are saying what you saw yesterday, that pointed attack that came from him really breaking from how hes operated his campaign up to this point is only going to continue. So donald trump with problems in wisconsin and no question future attacks on the way when he gets here to pennsylvania. Carol . Let me ask you about that meeting that trump had with rnc leaders. Serve playing nice, but trump breaking that loyalty pledge could cost him delegates. Explain why. Reporter so, carol, the interesting thing here is in some different states the pledge was considered kind of a prerequisite for their delegates ending up backing him. Specifically Time Magazine breaking that South Carolina delegates not necessarily fond of donald trump would potentially consider unbinding because they decided to break the pledge. South carolina sources saying nothing in the works there is actually happening right now, but what this underscores here is that dnd sdnd really onald t photographal position. Theyre looking for any way to undercut him before the defense, if this pledge is one of the ways to do it they will look into that and one of the reasons donald trump, perhaps trying to meetings with rnc officials trying to put a stop on that long before it happens. Thank you. As trump backtracks an abortion comments, the backlash keeps on coming. You see a pretty picture wouldnt have your job if you werent beautiful. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . Yes or no as a principle . There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes. Has to be some form. Ominous music there, right . Heres that planned parenthood super pac dropped that ad. Donald trumps support among women is tanking. Favorability ratings the worst of all the remaining potential candidates. Talk with john avalon and jeffrey record. Welcome to you both. Hello, carol. Happy friday. Hello. Happy friday it is so jeffrey, how can mr. Trump win without women . Well, of course, he cant win without women. Carol what will happen here is if dnd onald trump or frankly anybody else wins the nomination we will get to a contest in the fall where there is two people. In the case of Hillary Clinton meeting apparently with the director of the fbi which is a really bad moment, she will have her own set of negatives. But the American People will then have to choose between two people, as they always do, and these candidates can have very high negatives, but eventually one of them becomes president. So you know, this is only april 1st. Im not worried about it. Okay. Not worried, but, john, one pollster told politico, historically i cant match anyone having worse numbers with women, pointing out never a candidate like mr. Trump. Heres an example what he was talking about. In 2012, when mitt romney carried white women by a 14 point margin, 56 to 42 still lost by four points overall and trump is doing hes not doing well among white women and certainly not among minority women. No. I mean, Donald Trumps numbers among women are abysmal as with hispanics and africanamericans and tough to cobble together a Winning Coalition if youve alienated large swaths and indeed majorities of the American People. We can rationalize how its going to come down to compared to a what situation in the fall, but donald trump has baggage he has added on to by his own misstatements, that makes his, it climbs steeper. Irony about planned parenthood attacking donald trump few candidates in recent history have been as kind to planned parenthood saying they do some good things compared to certainly the people competing against ted cruz and john kasich. Theres a pileon made of selfinflicted scandals on the part the donald and you cant spin it away. A huge, huge problem when it comes to the full spectrum of american voters. Jeffrey, i heard what you say, Hillary Clinton has baggage of her own and i agree. She has serious baggage. Right . Look at the numbers. In the trump clinton matchup, 16 points ahead, clinton, among women. Led among women by 19 points in a fox news poll and 27 points in a cnn orc poll. Daunting numbers, jeffrey. Yeah. Carol, i go back, i mentioned this before, but i go back to this december 1979 gallup poll that had jimmy carter beating reagan 62 to 33 . The numbers about ronald range, women and Everything Else were abysmal. So bad carters poster pat codell said he was salivating over the data. Of course, a year later Ronald Reagan carried 44 states. Things change dramatically. By the next time you and i talk, whenever that is, this situation will have changed seven times over. So thats why im skeptical about this kind of things. Seven times over, john . You think . Yeah, yeah. Look, no. You cant just sort of use, say reagans invoke saint reagan as a disinfectant cloth every time your candidate gets in trouble. There are fundamental differences, many, many between trump and Ronald Reagan. One, reagan a twotime governor of california, treated women consistently with respect and focused on building the big tent of the republican party. None of which are things donald trump has any aptitude or experience or thats just not true, john. It appears. No. And you just cant you just cant invoke saint reagan every time to deflect and distract from real fundamental problems your candidates got. Especially frankly with regard to women while running against Hillary Clinton who would, of course, be the first female nominee of a major politic party. Not incidental. Thats fundamental. Jeffrey, last word . I remember what they called the gender gap with Ronald Reagan. He wan doing well among women. He couldnt win. That was the argument then. This is decades ago. Im simply saying practicalities for these arguments. I have to leave it there. John avalon, jeffrey lord, thanks for being here. Talk about jobs, shall we . Another strong month. The Labor Department releasing the march jobs report. Christine romans has all the numbers. Good morning. Good morning. Another solid month here. So lets go through the number, carol. 215,000, 215, net new jobs created in mot. Unemployment ticked up to 5 . Still near this eightyear low. Ill explain in a moment why it went up. Wage growth, 2. 3 , small rebound, but you like to see that stronger. Why did the Unemployment Rate go up if you had so many new jobs . Because people came into the labor market, carol. Almost 400,000 people came out of the shadows off the sidelines, and into the labor market. People come and go all the time, about 400 though net new people into the labor market and the Labor Force Participation rate that little blip on the right one coming up a little bit. The chart right here that when you hear people like donald trump say, a 42 Unemployment Rate, looking at that. The people elbowed out or retiger out of the labor market. That went up a little because people are starting to come back in. Where are the jobs gains . Retail, construction. Thats a sign of strength in the housing market. 25 of American Housing markets are at record highs again. Strength in the housing market. Health care, look at manufacturing. The worst month for manufacturing that i can see in years. This will be a topic on the campaign trail. As you know, the loss of factory jobs, loss of manufacturing jobs is a real story line in your money, your vote this year. Closely watch that. Let me give you some context perspective. Always important when talking about the jobs market. Its so important to everyone. 2009, that terrible year, it has been steady and consistent jobs growth on average since then, carol. Okay. I like that graph. I like looking at the glass half full. I like hearing people are coming into the labor market. Really digging into why were so many manufacturing jobs lost in the month . Curious. Curious. Rite youre right. Part of election 2016. Yes. Thank you so much, christine romans. Still to come in the newsroom, united against the danger of Nuclear Weapons. And the donald trump bombshell that has some allies speaking out in alarm. Let me talk to you about retirement. A 401 k is the most sound way to go. Lets talk asset allocation. Sure. You seem knowledgeable, professional. Would you trust me as your Financial Advisor . I would. I would indeed. Well, lets be clear here. Im actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] [laughs] no way i have no Financial Experience at all. That really is you . If theyre not a cfp pro, you just dont know. Find a certified Financial Planner professional whos thoroughly vetted at letsmakeaplan. Org. Cfp work with the highest standard. North korea holds a new missile test launching a shortrange rocket into the sea and sending a message to washington. This mornings launch comes just hours after president obama met with his counterparts from japan and south korea. The leaders agreed to Work Together to halt north koreas development of its missile and nuclear programs. More than 50 countries are taking part in a Nuclear Summit at the white house. Speaking of japan and south korea, theyre also in agreement on another Nuclear Issue. Their balking and donald trump suggestion u. S. Troops pulled from their country and replaced with Nuclear Weapons. Both voicing grave concern with the idea. The white house quickly knocking to down. It would be catastrophic were the United States to shift its position and indicate that we support somehow the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to additional countries. It also flies in the face of decades of Bipartisan National Security doctrine. Cnns athena jones live at the white house with more on this. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. So north Koreas Nuclear ambitions and its provocations a big topic of the day yesterday and a longerterm promoting a denuclear asian of the peninsula. On the subject of isis, a special session talking about the threats posed by terror groups like isis and, of course, the goals keeping any nuclear tooe materiels or radiological too m materiels out of the hands of terrorists. Listen to what french president hollande said after that meeting. Obviously a subject were deeply concerned about. Making sure nuclear materiels dont fall into the hands of terrorist and in the wake of the tragedy in paris we have not only great urgency around the Nuclear Issue but eliminating generally the scourge of terrorism. So that will be a big topic at this important meeting this afternoon. 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