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course the big prize you can see there in red pennsylvania. we have seen big questions about how the contest will play out. 54 of the pennsylvania delegates are said to be unbound. republican front-runner donald trump is across the border in maryland where we are awaiting the start of a rally. we have live team coverage. kristen fischer covering the democrats. john roberts is frollowing the trump campaign in maryland. john? jon, good afternoon. donald trump expected to touch down here at the airport. people who thought it was donald trump arriving a little bit early. typically he tends to run late for the campaign events. by some analysis if he runs the table on tuesday this nominated contest could be all but over. there is a form of winner take all formula. if donald trump were to do as well as polls suggest he could have 1237 delegate majority within hrais gsp by the time it s all over he said his opponents don t have a chance. lying ted cruz, there is no way ....
good morning, everyone. welcome to this special edition, very, very special edition of early start. i m john berman on tape delay. a very special john berman this morning. i m christine romans. it is wednesday, april 27th. it s 3:00 a.m. in the east. that s our problem over herement a very big night for the presidential front-runners, but for donald trump an especially huge night. he swept all five states voting on tuesday, maryland, delaware, pennsylvania, connecticut, and rhode island. you can drive an acela train through all the states where he won, winning by more than 50% in all states. leap frogging to the election, all been declaring himself well, declaring himself the republican nominee for president. i consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely. [ cheers and applause ] senator cruz and governor kasich should really get out of the race. they have no path. they have no path to win, and honestly they should get out of the race, and we should hea ....
disrespectful and have hurt them, and for that i am tremendously sorry. dana: senator franken offering an apology expressing sorrow for his past behavior. doug mckelway at the white house, but first, mike emanuel on capitol hill. what more did senator franken say to reporters i? harris: good afternoon, dana. al franken continued his apologies, promised to be accountable. looking to regain the trust of his constituents. this is been a shock, and extremely humbling. i am embarrassed. i feel ashamed. what i am going to do, i am going to start my job. i m going to go back to work. speak of the key senator republican said get the ethics committee should do its work looking into the franken manner. we will see what the facts are. i don t think those are fact or republican. i think all this as difficult as it is in some respect for our society is really important. i think it will end up changing people s attitudes and changing our culture. al franken is asked if more ....
more short conversations that occur over the next few days as the president makes his final decision. but that he has wrapped up the formal interview process interviewing six judges monday and tuesday of this week. he spoke with one of them twice which accounts for the seven conversations that the white house was talking about earlier in the week. it was throwing us off a little bit. we didn t know if he had seven candidates or conversations. he had six candidates and seven conversations. i m told that judge raymond kethledge s stock is rising, an appellate judge appointed by president bush in 2000 , 51 years old. he could sit on the bench for three decades, a district constitutionalist. got his law degree at the university of michigan. not the typical harvard or yale pedigree. i m told by some there is a bit of concern his judicial record is a little light but he does appear to be a reliable conservative judge. also still in the running is bret kavanaugh from the d.c. ....
the white house. an important commitment made by north korean leader kim jong-un at the last month s summit with president trump is apparently being delivered upon. at the time he said his country was dismantling a major missile engine testing site. there has been no official announcement yet from pyongyang. new satellite photography indicates the regime is beginning to tear down facilities at a launch site in the northwestern part of the country including a missile engine firing stand as well as a gantry-like structure used to assembly rockets. bill: how much can we read from it, greg? at the very least experts are saying it s an important confidence-building measure towards denuclearization with north korea with caveats. there were no expert observers present, no way to verify what was happening and not dismantled there the actual launch pad and the site is used for liquid fuel missiles. more and more the regime is dependent on more mobile, faster to use solid fue ....