♪ mark: good evening. on the show tonight, we're talking about donald trump's very troubled run and what it means for the 2016 presidential race and there is no better place to begin that talk to looking at the latest numbers from our bloomberg national politics poll. yesterday, we showed you hillary clinton leading in a head-to-head matchup. the numbers released today are no better for the republican presumptive nominee. 66% of likely voters said they had an unfavorable view of donald trump.

abc news has that number a little higher at 70%. when we asked voters if they would ever consider voting for trump, 55% said never. these polls add to what has been of negative headlines for donald trump, the state of his campaign, response to the orlando massacre, and ongoing war with news organizations. if you work for the trunk campaign blushes say, it has not been a very good day to sit by the tele. >> the latest trump comments have republican leaders swarming. >> do they spell trouble for trump? new bloomberg poll shows a major decline for donald trump, now trailing hillary clinton nationally by double digits but that is not the worst part for donald trump. an overwhelming 55% of those polled say they could never vote for donald trump, as well as 63% of women say they could never support him. >> he pulled it recently came

out shows donald trump with a 70% unfavorable rating. has evere -- nobody gotten elected president of the united states with a 70% unfavorable rating. >> people don't like what they are hearing and have started to turn against him. >> then there is trump's latest fight with members of the media. >> the trend is what has really got to be troubling for donald trump. >> there has been a lot of controversy. the trend here is what is really troubling for donald trump and as we say, it is been controversial. >> you know happy top republicans paul ryan and mitch mcconnell agreeing with barack obama and hillary clinton about his comments. >> what do you believe is going through paul ryan's mind now? mark: that is some bad information flow for the republican. donald trump seems to realize he is a man somewhat alone on an island.

in a rally, he made it clear being alone on that island is a ok with him. >> the republicans, honestly, folks, our leaders have to get tougher. this is too tough to do it alone. but you know what, i think i will be forced to. i think i will be forced to. our leaders have to get a lot tougher, and be quiet, please, be quiet, don't talk, just be quiet. they have to get tougher, sharper. they have to get smarter. we have to have republicans did -- stick together or let me just do it by myself. i will do very well, i will do very well, ok? mark: based on our poll and donald trump's attitude, how big are his troubles? john: they are pretty big. they are pretty big. i think that reaction today is maybe the deepest trouble of all. you and i hear from people every day on twitter and other places, who cast around dispersions on

trump and say he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. that display right there, the notion that you can go it alone and become president of the united states as the nominee of the republican party was no help from anybody, all me, it is all going to be me is not in touch with reality. not being in touch with reality makes it hard to win a presidential race. isk: i do not care how one sympathetic, he has lost a lot of new cycles in a row at a time when hillary clinton has to deal with her e-mail problem, bad job numbers, he is losing cycles. republicans are noticing. people are going to make a snap judgment that the race is over and that trump cannot fight back but there is a lot of time, but where he is now is in a very bad place in nothing he has done this week, halfway through the week has turned things around. john: let's be clear.

we started polling trumps 's numbers a year ago, very bad numbers, very bad numbers, and he improved them. he improved them in the context of a nomination fight where there were questions about his temperament among voters, but not his basic policy stances. the republicans basically agreed with him was a lot of things. now you are in this general election contest, much bigger electorate, many available voters are not on trump's side. they are trying to figure it out. the things he has said and done have, i think, there is a good case to make, that they may have turned those people off possibly permanently. mark: he turned things around when he was running against an overmatched field. now he is running against two people, hillary clinton and barack obama who can command the stage just as much as he can. he has a big problem. john: he has a very big problem. donald trump's dubious week mate -- may be even more dire than national poll numbers suggest.

all eyes are on the republican leaders who are telling trump to be quiet today, notably paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. they are laboring to protect their party's majority in the house and senate. neither of those leaders as he eded donald trump's advice to be quiet. they are critical of his rhetoric and both dodge questions about him yesterday, making it clear they will not weigh in on the presidential race every time when the presumptive republican nominee says something controversial. we decided to call the main sources of donald trump's travails, the three d's. data, especially private polling and the donors, those big dollar backers who stand largely on the sidelines and then there is the ongoing dissension within donald trump's campaign. let's start with the first d. what data beyond poll numbers, what kind of private poll numbers are spooking

republicans? mark: there was a time when they said donald trump may win or may not, but we will get a lot of donations and we will support our majorities. now they are beginning to see with trump's national numbers affecting down ballot races, they will pull a law during the next week and see how this is going to affect things. the minute they think that donald will cost them their majority, there view of the world will change dramatically. now it might become a reality. if it becomes a reality before the convention, i believe mitch mcconnell and paul ryan could move to do that. john: change the rules. we are hearing a lot about talk. it has gone in waves, the donald trump movement and what you would have to do to stop them. whether it can happen or not, we don't know, but there are a lot of people talking about it. the trouble for republicans is that if they embrace donald trump, they are worried about getting dragged down.

if they distance themselves, which a lot of them have, they still are seen as being dragged down. that's why it leads a lot of people to start thinking what unthinkableise be for resell or five weeks out. out or five weeks out. mark: can they win it down ballot victory if they lose estate? there's 25-30 seats max at play , no. they will bring some races into play that no one is thinking about. john: 50-44, survivable. , say goodbye to the majorities. the second d.to what is going on with the donor class? john: it seems to me that there

are two different categories, republican donors who got on the donald trump bandwagon reluctantly and now are having a lot of second thoughts about it and are not enthused and are worried, worried, worried. then there are those who were sufficiently concerned before that did not get on the bandwagon. none of them have any plans to join up with the trump forces anytime in the foreseeable future. mark: some of the donors have been charmed by donald trump, they like him and are not trying to stand up to him. there is a group of people that were hoping to use the leverage of the donors, but trump gave a that thest tuesday donors would be happy with. they are freaked out by his lack of discipline and the inability of others to have influence over his behavior. the donor class will not give to down ballot races if they think it is a lost cause, so they are now currently feeling as negatively about trump as a

group, not as everyone but overall is anybody in the party. john: that just feeds back into the thing we talked about at the beginning. it is the mcconnell-ryan conundrum. in a situation where donors think that donald trump will lose, but survivable in the house and senate, they will take all the money and give it to these down ballot races. if they start to see this is the titanic or the lusitania, they would just sit there on their wallets, and that becomes part of a negative cycle that makes losing the house and senate more likely. mark: based on what trump is only done, assuming he makes no additional mistakes, i think when bernie sanders is out of the race, you will see prominent republican donors raising money for hillary clinton. john: the third d, dissension. we have had a lot of reports. how much of that is playing in his current woes? mark: it's a big problem. all campaigns got the rough spots.

smart campaigns reach out. you saw when the clinton campaign was having trouble. get that that letters to put on wetters put on some diapers, put some plastic sheeting on the bed if they wet the bed. the trunk campaign is in confusion in disarray right now. that disarray is freaking people out because when a campaign is going to turbulence, you want to see some stability, some comedy, some cohesiveness. this is frustrating people. john: the two most influential people in donald trump's world, if you talk to their friends, none of them will say to you, look you in your eye and say, my guy is running the show. none of them. no one knows. no matter who you side with, no one confidently asserts who is

running the campaign at this most of them won't even say point. there really is a campaign. those of their friends. mark: if the donald trump campaign could reassured mitch mcconnell and paul ryan that we will pick a great running may come have a great convention, that would settle people down, but the confusion within the campaign is not giving people confident that they will hit those marks on those big moments. john: they could not stop him from doing some of the damage, and who is going to stop them? week of the orlando attacks, democrats are gearing up for another big fight over cap -- gun-control safety. we will talk more about what happened in the senate today with a filibuster after this quick word from our sponsors. ♪

♪ mark: after the orlando shooting on sunday, talk immediately turned to the potential effects it may have on america was a war on terror lgbt , rights, and gun control. as the reach has unfolded, it is the battle over guns that has received the most attention. on monday night, a handful of victims walked out. today, donald trump tweeted "i will be meeting with the nra, who has endorsed me, that not allowing people on the terrorist watch list or the no-fly list to buy guns." meanwhile, senate democrats led by chris murphy spent the afternoon filibustering a spending bill and an attempt to add amendments that would close the gun show loophole and prevent people on the no-fly list from buying guns. here is murphy talking about the

new town elementary school shooting that occurred in his state in 2012. >> as someone who represents the community of sandy hook, which is still grieving today, i will stand on this floor and talk about our experience in sandy hook, orlando's experience, the need to come together on this issue of making sure that dangerous people who have designs on mass murder don't get dangerous weapons as long as i can so that we can give time to try to figure out a path forward. john: vice president biden is expected to deliver a speech in sandy hook tonight. my question as we take this all in, is whether this is just another temporary skirmish in the gun-control battle or potentially a leading indicator of meaningful change when it comes to gun rights. mark: i think it is a pretty big moment. i don't want to overstate it. you now have democrats in congress being pretty

aggressive. i'm not sure what the donald trump tweet means entirely, but it does suggest that if hillary clinton wins the white house, democrats take the senate, and if they into the house majority, then hillary clinton has a chance to pass gun-control measures and that would be quite different than the predecessor, her democratic predecessor to start the administration that way. john: i think that is true. we were talking about that earlier this week. some things could fall into place that would change the calculus. it is also the case that mitch mcconnell came out yesterday and made some comments, i've never heard mcconnell saying that he would be open to considering gun-control change. i think it is not impossible. it is a low probability, but not impossible, that on a couple of these issues, particularly no-fly, we could get actual legislation passed on this in the next few weeks. it is possible. mark: i think you can get it through the senate, but not the house.

getting it through the senate would be a big win. what i am saying is, i do not think anything will pass until next year if at all, but there is a chance that democrats will push this for momentum. john: i think that is right. i think you will see hillary clinton leading the charge. this is a different issue than it has been for 20 years now. mark: even donald trump's allies have now admitted that the presumptive gop nominee has had a not so stellar month. hillary clinton's campaign could choose to sit back and wait and watch while their opponents self-destructs. instead, clinton has been pretty aggressive. she has gone to battleground states and kept the pressure on her republican arrival. she did it again today while talking about national security and virginia. ms. clinton: so not one of donald trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in orlando. it is just more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and

totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. mark: so clinton said in an interview in which she talked about a speech she will give next week, staying on the offensive with trump and the economy, saying he is unfit. what can she do to take advantage aggressively of donald trump's current problems? john: i think she is doing it. you saw it yesterday. if i was a democratic master strategist and i could coordinate everything, i would have hillary clinton and barack obama on a series of issues hammering trump, doing it in tandem, and going after every policy issue, turning it into a character issue. the way trump has been behaving lately, if he reacts this way on some new things, that will give them plenty of fodder. her performance continues to be so much better than it was. no more shouting, confident discussion of trump. the second is focusing on data,

having her campaign ready to build operations the donald trump can't match. that could be worth several points in a close race. finally, republicans, supporting republicans now that sanders is easing out of the race, trying to be able to time the announcement of support. this will be a backbreaking thing and will get a ton of attention. john: there has been a month of advertising in battleground states almost unanswered by donald trump. while donald trump has been taking his long turn in the barrel, it's hard to imagine the five months between now and november will go without hillary clinton having a few bad weeks of her own. in public polls, her negatives are not as bad as donald trump but still pretty high. 54% of voters in our bloomberg politics poll have an unfavorable view of the

presumptive democratic nominee, while 55% said the same thing in the abc news washington post survey. knowing what we know, let's flip this coin around. what are the things that could likely happen that would send hillary clinton into the barrel? either her own barrel or along with donald trump? mark: the biggest threat to her is the press favoring trump. i thought and a general election that might be a big advantage. banning the washington post from his events and behaving the way he has on a variety of issues that offend sensibilities, chances are lower that her winning streak will end anytime soon. obviously, her e-mail controversy and the fbi investigation is potential to put her in the barrel. another could be a scandal involving the clintons are clinton foundation. then a gaffe of huge proportions , but i will say she hates being in the barrel. john: she has not been gaffe in

much lately. mark: i'm sure it will happen, but i'm not sure it will happen before the convention. they have been careful and aggressive. john: the e-mail thing, i can't help but find some sympathy or sense of agreement with those who yesterday seeing the data breach revealed that russian hackers had gotten into the dnc computer system as raising a huge red flag around hillary clinton's e-mail. we wondered if that server has been secure or not. the fact that the dnc's computer was breached raises the question of whether her's was breached. we do not know. if you are asking what can send back into the barrel if that turned out to be true and something was compromise, that would put her back in the barrel again. mark: up next, a hillary clinton supporter walked into a studio to talk about donald trump. that is not the beginning of a joke. rather, it is our next segment. be right back. ♪

♪ mark: joining us now is the former democratic congressman from tennessee and hillary clinton supporter, harold ford, and in santa barbara california the strategist, fred davis. thank you for coming. i want to start with the big 30,000 foot question, first to you, fred. is the press overstating the current donald trump or to commence or are things pretty bad? >> it hasn't been his best week or best couple of weeks. i think we would all agree on that. what is being overstated is that this is going to last forever. i think they will get their act together.

i think orient paul will eventually work together fine and he will be the nominee and come out of the convention a much stronger little party than you see right now. mark: if hillary clinton said to you, what should i be worried about? what should she be worried about? >> i think she's handled this week low. she is had to do two things, not allow donald trump to dominate every news cycle and she is getting her message out. , she was able to engage president obama very early, whether he is worried about legacy or achievement, she got the president in midseason form in june. i did not expect to see him at this level of involvement and that's aggressive level until july. mark: is there anything she should be worried about now? >> i think this will be a long race. i do not view this as, this is

not a decisive week. it has been a very good week, but as donald trump has proven, he is resilient and his supporters, we continue to read data are so many of his supporters continue to stand with him. it is early. she has the advantage, but this is going to be a long race. for anyone in the clinton campaign to believe that this one week will decide this, it is misguided. mark: stay with us. we will come back for more from our bloomberg politics national poll, where we ask likely voters who they think the nominee s should take as their running mates. we will talk about those names and more deep inside the data on trump and clinton right after this. ♪

♪ john: we are back with republican media consultant and a very handsome man, fred davis.

also the former tennessee congressman and marginally less handsome man, harold ford. thank you for sticking around. i want to ask fred -- we did this bloomberg politics national poll and one of the things we asked the respondents was who were there picks for the party nominees. the list of potential running mate, want to give you the top four. newt gingrich at 29%, our guru -- marco rubio at 24% john , kasich at 18% and chris christie at 9%. what do you think of the idea of newt gingrich as donald trump's running mate? fred: i think his strength is as the chairman of the board, the guy who gets out and gets to use the bully pulpit all over america. he needs someone who is an operating officer of that list. of course, i'm prejudice as well but i would say john kasich at

the top of my list as someone who has proven he can get things done on both sides of the aisle while donnell is out being -- donald is out the donald. john: do you think he would pick the gig if you are offered it? fred: i don't think he would. i wish you would. we have not talked about it. i think he made his peace with his run for presidency and is happy to be back in ohio. mark: democrats would be completely afraid of newt gingrich got on the ticket. i think there would be six or seven marriages on that ticket. >> i agree with fred's characterization of newt. he is a very smart guy. i think fred is right about the kind of need donald trump has and it is unclear of newt gingrich would fit that role. mark: we asked about potential running mates for hillary clinton. elizabeth warren was a top choice for democrats. cory booker, 17%.

not sure, 15% and julian castro, 12%. elizabeth warren obviously the top choice for democrats. i believe there is no chance hillary clinton would pick her, but that suggests pretty popular support. harold: mrs. clinton has indicated she would keep an open mind. i do not know senator warren very well. she clearly early on had the most effective critique of donald trump, followed with an equally impressive one. i know cory booker. he could certainly help relations in the congress. i don't know secretary castro, but i do know tim kaine and sherrod brown who would bring a lot to the ticket geographically that we did not have a stronger in the primary. john: i'm going to ask you to do something that is not going to make you comfortable. who do you think would be the best vice presidential pick for hillary clinton?

you named a bunch of people that would be good, but who would be the best? harold: all of those would be good. but the challenges, who helps her when and who helps her the most of the constituencies? i think tim kaine -- i think those three guys bring a lot to the table. mark: we asked about the republican brand in our poll. 32% said they had a favorable view of the republican brand. is donald trump helping or hurting the republican brand right now? fred: i think he's changing the republican brand. it remains to be seen whether it is helping or hurting. it is probably hurting this week. of course, it is hurting a little bit. in the long run, i am of the feeling he is bringing new people and new excitement to the republican party that has but a little confused through the primary process and i think there is a clarity there and whether the establishment likes

the clarity or not, we will see how it turns out, but i think it is a possible positive. john: does this not worry you today? we played earlier in the show donald trump saying today i may have to go it alone here. if i have to do this on my own, i will do it on my own. republican leaders should just be quiet, he said. let me get on with the business of running for president, i can do this on my own. is that a sensible strategy or way of looking at the world when you are a major party nominee? fred: it probably would not have been my advice to him. [laughter] >> you know what it is like in that seat and with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, people that are very sharp, good, establishment politicians nipping at your heels, what you going to do? donald trump is not the type to sit back and say, yes, yes, let me fall in line. that is not what people like him. he is out there fighting for his every breath and i think he will continue to do that and i think

that is part of his unusual popularity. mark: if you were sitting in the senate committee and they said senator, if donald trump is at the top of the ticket, you will lose the top of the majority. what would you advise he do? fred: i would say we need to change that dynamic and get on board. i agree with harold. i think hillary and obama has made a great tag team this week, and the democrat, nobody is overly elated in america about donald trump or hillary clinton. their negatives are too high. but the democrats have done a far better job of coalescing behind her and moving forward. i think it's about time for republicans to do the same . i will probably get 1000 phone calls from that after the show is over but that would be my advice. mark: in an interview, secretary clinton refused to commit to

keeping debbie wasserman schultz as the chair after she becomes the official nominee. what are the politics of that answer? harold: i've said repeatedly i think the chairwoman made things messier than it should have been. she had every right to profess her support for mrs. clinton but as a party chair, i think there is some credence to what bernie sanders was saying. if we reach a point where the only way we are able to keep harmony at the convention is for debbie wasserman schultz not to be the chairwoman and for someone else to run the convention, electing hillary clinton is the most important thing the democratic party should be focused on. i do not have any issues with what mrs. clinton is saying. john: i'm going to ask you to put in like you are the chief advisers to bernie sanders right now. what would you tell him to do? from his own point of view? harold: to begin to draft a speech and talk about income inequality and how you raise these issues and how you resolve

these issues. you had your battle with mrs. clinton and she won fairly a look forward to working with her. i would cite two or three instances where you worked with her in the senate and let's move forward and make clear we are heading to this convention unified. it appears there will continue to be fishers with the republicans. what we need to do is not only entered the convention unified but leave it even stronger. john: fred davis, great man, harold ford, adequate man. [laughter] john: you are both fantastic. we love having you on the show. coming up, we will have more from our bloomberg politics national poll. if you are watching in washington dc, you can listen to us on the radio radio. we will be right back. ♪

♪ mark: joining us to talk more about our bloomberg top politics national poll, our colleague john mccormick who has dug , through the numbers. you can read his stories on bloomberg politics.com. he is in our chicago bureau. talk about this issue of brand we asked fred davis about. it obviously creates the environment of this election. guest: i think this poll offers some concrete evidence that donald trump is not doing anything positive for the republican brand right now. discussed, maybe only about one third of americans view the republican brand in a favorable way and that's the lowest level we have recorded in a bloomberg poll since the polls inception in 2009.

mark: how is the democratic brand doing? guest: much better. not great, but about half of americans view the democratic party in a favorable light. that sets up the contours for this race both at the presidential level and congressional races and down ballot races etc. john: i am asking you to go beyond the confines of the poll. track numbery the in this poll -- 68% say the country is on the wrong track. it didn't stop barack obama from getting reelected in 2012, but it is a strange thing to me that the wrong track number is that high and barack obama's approval rating is well over 50%. how do we reconcile those realities? guest: it is a start contrast -- stark contrast and it seems like an environment donald trump

could take advantage of, that so many americans think america is headed in the wrong direction. that is the highest number we've recorded going back to 2010 and 2009. it is an atmosphere where a challenger to the incumbent party would have an advantage. at the same time, we also asked people about their economic and personal situation in life, and for the first time since we started asking the question in 2010, a majority of americans say they are better off and feel better off than they did at the peak of the recession in early 2009. people personally are feeling better about their situation and ly heldre is a very wide belief that the country is headed in the wrong direction. mark: the bulk of this poll was done before the orlando massacre, but some of it was done after. the data is going to be a little bit mixed. what were the top issues for

voters in our survey? guest: jobs and the economy are almost always the top issue people list when we give them a choice to pick from. that was about a fifth of the electorate, americans said jobs and the economy was the top issue. when you combine terrorism and i says, the number approaches and surpasses jobs and the economy, slightly. we did see a tick up in those numbers following the terrorist attack in orlando. we will see how this plays out over the coming weeks, but initially people are at a heightened level of concern when it comes to terrorism, as would be expected. john: we just talked with fred davis and harold ford about the vice presidential element of this poll. for me if i look at the numbers, , potential running mates were trump and clinton, the fact that 15% of democratic voters say they are not sure who hillary clinton's running mate should be

is sort of striking given that it suggests there's a little thinness on the democratic bench when she serves to cast about and think about who she should put on the ticket. talk about that a little bit. guest: about one third of the people supporting clinton think she should pick elizabeth warren as a running mate as i am sure you have discussed. one question we did not ask about was bernie sanders, and while it seems highly unlikely that she would pick sanders as a running mate, again, if we had had them on the list, i am sure he would have gotten a large share of the vote as well. we put people on the list that we thought were the most probable possibilities. not that any of us know very well how this will play out. really only the two presidential candidates have a good field who they will be picking. mark: we've asked about the clinton controversies and which ones bothered the voters the most. i think about this as good news. 50% say they were bothered by the her wall street speeches. 45% say e-mail server.

you have to assume a lot of those are republicans and about half of the country or less seems to me that shows, those numbers could be a lot higher than they are in that it -- and i think that is basically good news for her. what do you think? >> on the e-mail issue, there is a certain amount of fatigue, being talked about for so long and so much. unless a major development a lot of think americans are saying it has been discussed. republicans view it as a huge issue and some independents will, but in the broad electorate, when we look at the entire scope of who's going to vote in this election, it does not seem to be a massive issue. john: good to see you. you have been with secretary clinton for a wild -- a while now. everything about this show, and

not just this show has been all bad for donald trump and all good for hillary clinton. how are people around her feeling about the state of the race? guest: i think they are feeling pretty good. they are seeing over the last couple of weeks born out exactly what a were saying when the tide was shifting in donald trump's favor, back when he seemed like a winner and people were talking about his rust belt strategy and the ways he is going to change the electorate. they were arguing the fundamentals are with us. you will see this change once democrats, home and bernie sanders gets out of the race and the party unifies and you are seeing that happen. privately, clinton feels the events of the last week have served to mitigate some of her weaknesses or what were perceived as potential weaknesses, namely, precautions. . that has been portrayed as political calculation in the wake of this election cycle has gone. especially for republicans who

ran against trump, that did not seem to work. i think now the way things have played out after orlando, they feel like precautions is turning into a strength which is a big deal. mark: quickly talk about , secretary clinton in this issue of debbie wasserman beingz, is she just cautious or there's -- or is there a possibility she would consider removing her? guest: i get the sense they don't want to do anything now to put a foot wrong with bernie sanders. i think they are trying to be careful around that, but i will say i was surprised by how far she went in saying she wants a new party. she used the word "new" to suggest how she once democrats to move forward. that suggests they could be serious about this and at the end of the day, they want bernie sanders to pull back and i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that debbie wasserman schultz becomes a

casualty of that. mark: up next, we will talk about donald trump's war against the media and his black listing of the "washington post" right after this. ♪

♪ john: our next guest wrote his latest column about donald trump and he's hoping this will be able to get him credentials to trump's campaign events after he announced he was banning the washington post from his rallying -- rallies. he published a story that came out yesterday on his role as the media punisher in chief.

thank you for coming on the show. he is with us here. tell us about these encounters you have been having with donald trump. >> i will tell you, i have been covering politics not as long as you gentlemen but quite a long time, and i have never had a situation like this for you: say, what is the strategy, what is the thinking, let me call to the pollster or your strategy person and they say, no, mr. trump will call you momentarily and there he is on the phone. mark: this is a hard thing for the press, but the "washington post" is absolutely now part of the story. in your sense from talking to trump about this, do get the sense that he appreciates the balance of freedom of the press that is going on here or is he just unapologetically view this as, i can kick anyone out of these events because they are private? i think it is somewhat in between. it is unapologetic. he told me the "new york times" might be next on his list.

if they are not being fair, and i do not know what -- like what they are writing and i think it is an accurate, then i have the right to cut them off as a candidate. he is just trying to intimidate people. i know some of his supporters like it, but isn't this an attempt to intimidate reporters from writing negative stories? >> all of my experience as a reporter would say yes, but with donald trump, i never know because he definitely seems to be, there's some emotion involved in he seems to get angry and it seems genuine at the same time, but also he may be a showman. i do not know. john: you asked him whether he would impose similar kinds of bans if he were elected president. trump came back and says that is different from me taking something away. i'm taking something away where i am representing the nation. i do not really understand the quotes.

saying, iat he was will be different when i'm president. he said these were events held on private property, etc. etc. do you have any sense that we should leave him that he would only be a different person and would not try to intimate the press? >> what's the line in the stock commercials -- past performance is not indicative of future results? [laughter] john: jim cramer, welcome to the set. >> is he around? you guys have a story today where republicans in the senate say we thought after he was the present nominee that he would change his behavior, but they did not. that is a case where he said he was going to get so presidential we would not believe it and he did that -- did not. what he meant to say is i'm representing the nation, not myself. mark: would you like to see other news organizations say if we are in solidarity, we won't cover you?

>> i thought about that when i wrote the column, and i guess i sort of don't. , let the have solitary post cover him and we should all make a lot of noise about it, but at the same time, we cannot cut off covering the presumed nominee of one of the two major parties or any major party. if a third-party candidate shows up, you have to cover him. if our credentials are taken away, so be it. i support the post personally. mark: do you subscribe? >> i do subscribe. john: do you think donald trump is any sense that when he threatens jeff bezos that he may be over the line? >> i think it's chilling. i told him that and that's why i titled the column "brrr." john: thanks for stopping by. we will be right back. ♪

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