Back against attacks that threaten to sink the campaign before it really gets off to that general election start. Donald trump changing his tone from bombastic i went to the Wharton School of finance, a great student, build a fortune. Reporter to everyday american. I view myself as a person that like everybody else is fighting for survival. Thats all i view myself as, and i really view myself now as somewhat of a messenger. Reporter as the antitrump movement is struggling to find a figurehead, unable to entice a candidate to join the fray with a thirdparty run. A thirdparty candidacy would be viewed as a silly thing and i dont think its appropriate. Reporter john kasich, Ohio Governor and former president ial candidate telling cnn he wont take the plunge. I gave it my best where i am and i just think running third party doesnt feel right. I think its not constructive. Reporter billionaire mark cuban also contacted about a possible run, also in the no column. Its impossible for it to work. Not enough time to get on ballots, hurdles too great, a ridiculous effort, so i passed. Reporter for conservatives a very real effort with a very small window to get it off the ground. They need a candidate. Donor commitments. And they need a legal pathway. One that includes tens of thousands of signatures just to qualify for ballot access. All as deadlines loom, or in the case of texas, have already passed. Meanwhile, trump is battling with the New York Times via twitter over their front page article about his inappropriate behavior with women. Trumps attorney leaving the door open to filing suit. I think that is a distinct possibility. Reporter the times standing by their story. Our goal was to pull back and say, how does he interact in the office with someone who hes dating or trying to date . And that was the purpose of our story. Reporter guys, traditionally a candidate see a negative story and try to get it off the front page as quickly as possible. Donald trump taking the opposite tact, an unconventional attack on the times from an unconventional candidate. Interesting to see if he keeps that going, not willing to let a story that could be damaging to his candidatesy just go. Chris . All right. So trump is going to have an ongoing battle with himself. The democrats are battling each other. Oregon and kentucky today holding primaries. Bernie sanders hoping to hold off Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state keeps her eye on the general with her super pac kicking off a 6 Million Ad Campaign tomorrow and guess who it targets . Donald trump. Lets bring in cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns. Joe, what do you know . Reporter chris, Hillary Clinton is clearly the frontrunner in the race for the democratic nomination, but a string of wins by Bernie Sanders leaves her with an appearance of vulnerability with democratic voters. To try to break the sanders string of victories, the Clinton Campaign has zeroed in with almost a dozen stops in the state of kentucky, which votes today, and shes been using her husband, the former president , whos won elections there before as a big selling point, suggesting hell have a role in steering the economy, if shes elected. At the same time, she continues to hammer away at donald trump, and overnight she got a little help from the priorities usa super pac which just rolled out new advertising focusing on trumps treatment of women. Listen. You know, you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever. Does she have a good body . No. Does she have a fat ass . Absolutely. You like girls 51 come up to where. If ivanka was my daughter perhaps i would be dating her. Its very hard to be a 10. You can tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is hoping the oregon voters with their strong tradition of voting for progressive candidates will give him another big victory today. Sanders continues to set his sights, though, on the state of california, and its primary, which comes on june 7th. In fact, sanders Election Night rally this evening is scheduled to occur in los angeles county. Alisyn . Joe, thanks for all of that. Voting in parts of kentucky now under way. The polls in the eastern portion of the state are already open, and cnns brin gingrass is live in louisville with the latest. Hows it looking there . Brin . Reporter chris said it, joe said it. Bernie sanders has been on a bit of a streak and Hillary Clinton putting a lot of focus here in kentucky, making 11 Campaign Stops and really wanting to win this state tonight where 55 delegates are at stake. Behind me the second doors opened up. A lot of voters coming in. About a dozen or so lining up ready to cast their ballots, and 2,600 registered democrats, registered here at this particular polling location, and weve talked to the supervisor here who says, yes, they usually see high turnout, and if history tells anything, theyve had high turnout in past years. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton faced barack obama half of the states registered democrats actually came out to vote. They are certainly expecting some bit of lines here, and well see how the day turns out. Chris and alisyn . All right, brynn. Looking first at returns to the state of the gop. Keep Phil Mattingly here and bring in big shots. Cnn senior contributor for the daily caller mr. Matt louis. Washington bureau chief, jackie kucinich. Phil, check the box quickly with this headline. An interesting point you made. Usually a bad story, try to move past it. Not this time, but thats not so much because of the story but because of trumps, what . We a perceived ability to point his finger back at the times saying its a hit piece, not journalism . Yes. Donald trump wants to make it a fight about a negative story thinking he can shift it from the natural facts from a deep New York Times investigation ov over the course of six weeks to a story about the media trying to take him down. No question about it, this is a strategy that has worked flawlessly almost throughout the primary. Almost 40 people mentioned in the piece, one comes out turns the story. Turns the flaretive. New york times reporters on tv defending the story. Thats unusual. And i think, look, once he got one, one individual in the story, he was able to take that and go with it. You saw him use that in his attacks throughout the day, yet its not normal. And i think the question, and i get nervous bouncing this off republican, does he shift the narrative and end up winning that fight . Even people supporters more or less of donald trump just arent so sure yet that this is the best idea, but no question about it. His supporters are riled up and rallying around him and maybe thats all he wants. Right. Jackie, when you talk to voters, look at your twitter feed, they think this is exhibit a of the New York Times and their bias. There was the woman who dated trump, who, you know, the whole piece starts by him asks her to put on a bikini. She wasnt offended. She was flattered. Thats not how they spun it. Doesnt he win this round . But its not about his supporter its anymore. Its about expanding his supporters, independents, bringing democrats over sick of watching their candidates fighting. To phils point, talking to republican operatives yesterday as well. They are saying we are still on tv talking about donald trump and women. That is not good for us. Why speculate . When we have one of the men in the mix right in the boxes in front of your face. Brother lewis. When you look at this as a struggling conservative to find anden identity amongst yourselves, what do you think about this situation with trump . Is he presenting himself as the crusader against the norm, taking on the big shots like the New York Times . Or is he just getting tangled up in his own feet . I think hes i would say 35iking lemonade out of a lemon. I do think the problem with the New York Times story is that it confirms what we already suspect about donald trump based on things hes done and said over the years including the megyn kelly thing, including what he said about Carly Fiorina and what he says on howard stern. The story itself i think is bad. What trump has done, though, i think is good. Its good for him. Its good politics and actually i think republicans are happy with this part of are donald trump, because there is a sense that the New York Times, the mainstream media, will always turn against the republican candidate, and, you know, beat them over the head. Now trump is paying a bit of jujitsu against them. As a result of some of these temperament questions, there are a handful of republicans, maybe more, certainly in congress, that are speaking out and saying that they have not yet been able to get their arms around donald trump as their nominee. Read a couple portions of what some are saying. This is from congressman charlie dent. My colleagues ive spoken with all have serious reservations. Congressman pompeo. A lot of his policies dont comport with my vision how i represent kansas. Im hopeful over time hell do better. And another, we honestly dont have enough detail to know. So theyre taking to speaking out, reported on this, bill, and thats a big deal. What theyre doing is telling the truth. Right . They have reservations. They have reservations on policy, on tone, and you just listed three house members who all have reelection in november right now. I think the three members you listed off i think most interestingly are actually all probably in safe seats, but theyre looking at their colleagues. Theyre looking at their constituents, hearing from constituents when they go home who dont like the tone that donald trump has taken, dont like the message donald trump has taken and not what he was saying at the end tracks with what weve ladder from paul ryan. Not just tone, its policy. Donald trumps policy hes laid out diverge greatly from what a lot of conservatives run their elections and campaigns on and worked their years in congress on. Its only natural these people would have reservations based on that fact. Their fix, pretty obvious. They can be upset but hes who they have and this third party thing doesnt make sense from any angle. Almost wasted energy for them at this point, unless its going to push trump to be somethingdif. Now the proof of performance in terms of the knocks on him personally are clear enough that were seeing the first ad from a super pac supporting Hillary Clinton. The one begala works for and putting out as a first salvo against trump. Here it is. Would you cut off our planneded parenthood, yes, i would. You know, you could see blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . Yes or no, as a principle . The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah. There has to be some form. Jackie . Effective . I mean, weve already seen ads like this. Trump use using trumps own words against him. I think thats what well see over and over again. We saw it a little from democrats and from republicans in the primary, and i think you should expect more of this, and as long as he keeps doing interviews and talking theyre going to have more fodder until he really does kind of bring it back and restrain himself. Matt, you wrote a book about this, about strategic problems. This is something a little deeper, though, right . You can negotiate anything thats going to wind up being a policy matter, but ideals are things that especially conservatives want locked in. How does this play . Right. I mean, so so donald trump is not an orthodox conservative, but there are also character issues which i think are even more important, and i think republicans right now, you know, everybody is selfinterested to a certain degree, and people are making a calculation like, is he going to win . And if he doesnt win, am i better off being for him or against him . 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Try new rhinocort® allergy spray. Muddle no more® Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders still battling it out with primaries in kentucky and oregon, and other big battles brewing that have Party Officials worried. Bringing back in our panel. Jackie kucinich what will happen today in oregon and kentucky . You know, interesting. Were not looking at a lot of polling in either of those states in respect oregon, one poll Hillary Clinton looked very much ahead. Demographically oregon is a better place, its very white. Its very liberal, which tended to be a really good place for Bernie Sanders. Now, kentucky, clinton has engaged there. Youve seen her doing a lot more events. Shes not seeding it like she may have other states that shes lost recently, and the interesting thing is how much shes been talking up bill clinton. Theres a reason for that. Hes very popular in kentucky, and particularly with white men who typically have been a bit of a weakness for Hillary Clinton this cycle. We do have a moment of that. So lets play what she has said about what her husbands role would be. My husband, who im going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, because you know he knows how to do it. Thank you. You said bill clinton would head up the would he be in your cabinet . Okay. So, matt, how are we to interpret what bill clintons role would be, and is that winning for voters . Well, hes obviously very popular in kentucky and in a lot of places, and i think he looked back to the 1990s in hindsight, things were pretty darn good, and even in light of donald trump being the republican nominee, its hard to make the character charge against bill clinton. So its understandable why she brings him up. Its still not clear exactly what he would be doing as the first dude in the white house, and even if he would be living at the white house. So he wouldntbelivingatthe white house . I think there is question whether or not he would. At least i saw that the other day, but i would love to know a little more. You actually have a past president who was in the white house for eight years. It would be fascinating to find out how he could actually serve a little more details about that. No real rulebook, right . Phil, trying to figure out, how do you use the former president . How much of a liability . When is he a liability . What do they do with him . I dont think he could be a secretary . Right . In president ial succession, remote but i dont know about another term. Thats not the real question. The real question, whats the plus minus. From trumps perspective, we see he thinks clinton is very important, wants to talk about him a lot. What do you hear about balancing here . Im ig treeged by the idea of the campaign sitting in a many radio, what do we do with bill clinton . We can use bill clinton . No question, bill clinton will be attacked. Donald trump has shown attacking bill clinton on his transgressions in office, before and after in office is going to a key component of his attack line. Bill clinton within the Democratic Part