this? oh, yes, we are. thank you so much for joining us. set your dvr to record "outfront" so you can watch us any time. less than 12 hours until the voting starts on this super tuesday. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. with super tuesday voting just hours away for both parties the growing possibility that donald trump has a lock on the republican nomination and a growing fear among top republicans he presents a threat to the party's very existence. no exaggeration. that's what one u.s. senator told dana bash this afternoon. he does not think his party will survive this. dana says he is not alone. just think about that for a moment. a political party that's been around since 1854 might not be around after donald trump is through. tonight we have new polling that will only increase the anxiety for those who think donald trump is a sham. we'll tell you more about marco rubio's effort to head off a

trump rout. he blew out his voice. and we'll talk with the soft spoken melania trump about his tone and the way over the weekend he declined to disavow the support of a white supremacist leader. a busy two hours ahead starting with sara murray in valdosta, georgia, where a trump rally finished up a short time ago. it's been a tumultuous two days for this campaign. >> reporter: tumultuous may be an understatement. we're talking about just hours before voters head to the polls on super tuesday. and this was a day when donald trump had to explain why it took him so many times to disavow white supremacists and a former kkk leader. he had this awkward run-in with protesters and asked if they were mexican. it was a day where a photo journalist was slammed to the ground by a secret service agent. got into a physical altercation there. this is not the messaging that donald trump was hoping to go into super tuesday with. here in georgia he rallied a crowd of thousands. it was clearly a look ahead message. he said look ahead to tomorrow.

he wanted people to get out and vote. on his schedule tomorrow, he is looking ahead himself. he's going to be in ohio in florida. both states that do not vote until march 15th. you may notice they are both the home states of two other candidates who are still in this race. >> how is the trump campaign feeling ahead of super tuesday? >> reporter: they are feeling -- they are certainly feeling confident. they see the same public polling which shows them with very wide leads in a number of these states. and donald trump has said himself he really does want to try to beat ted cruz in texas which many people feel would be the death blow to senator cruz's campaign. they got burned in iowa. this is a lesson that sticks with them. one of the messages they give to their supporters and volunteers is you need to get rid of the public polls in your mind and assume we're running ten points behind. they are very aware of this anti-donald trump sentiment that there's a belief among party leaders the nominee should be anyone but trump.

they feel they are waking up every day running against that message. >> sara murray, thanks. marco rubio is yet to win a contest. remains behind in polling for his own state primary two weeks from now. he continues to hammer away at donald trump. phil mattingly joins us now. rubio fired back at the fact trump didn't immediately disavow the former kkk leader yesterday in that interview with jake tapper. what did he say? >> he's continued to attack on that interview. this feeds into the lines marco rubio has been deploying. just a few minutes ago at a rally in oklahoma city, getting a standing ovation for daurks vowing trump's comments and saying this would make him unelectable. it's a message he's been repeating across the south. take a listen. >> we cannot be a party that nominates someone who refuses to condemn white supremacists n the ku klux klan. by the way, not only is that wrong, it makes him unelectable.

how are we going to grow our party with a nominee that refuses to condemn the ku klux klan? don't tell me he doesn't know who the ku klux klan is. >> that last line from marco rubio, don't tell me he doesn't know who the ku klux klan is, that is saying this is intentional by donald trump. the s.e.c. primary and southern states and they are upset and ruffled by the fact he'd be willing to do this going into super tuesday. >> how does the rubio campaign feel ahead of tomorrow? do they think they'll win anywhere, which is ultimately what it boils down to? >> it's been the big question from donors. a big question from supporters. a big question from critics of his campaign. they don't expect any wins across states. they expect to play well and their big thing throughout super tuesday is these delegates are handed out proportionately. they want to pull raas many as they can. for the rubio campaign, it's all

about florida. 99 delegates, winner take all. and try to keep trump and ted cruz from getting as many as they can. >> phil mattingly, thanks. that new poll already showing trump leading in every race but texas tomorrow. our new cnn/orc national survey, if anything even more daunting for the stump -- the stop trump forces. john king breaks it down for us by the numbers. it's a national poll. the next challenge is 11 different states tomorrow on super tuesday. is there a message in the new numbers? >> yes, there's a huge message in the new numbers. it's a national poll before 11 states vote. on the one hand, don't even read national polls or pay any attention to them. but this one is worth looking at. donald trump sat 49% in our national poll among republicans. rubio 16%. cruz 15%, carson 10% and kasich 6%. whatever business you're in, whatever sport you play or competition it is, whether it's

politics, baseball, you sell products you don't want to let the other guy get ahead. donald trump is stretching his lead in the time the other candidates are facing pressure to catch up or drop out. the numbers are simply not good. even though it's a national poll. national poll means some people in these 11 super tuesday states are among those being polled. some in the states just to follow among those being polled. 78% of trump voters are locked in and definitely support him. only 57% of the voters who support the other state are definitely locked in. if you are trailing trump and trying to catch up, sure, if you are rubio you want kasich votes. you also need to get trump voters to switch sides and donald trump voters are locked in. it makes it harder as we go forward. >> if you are one of the others trying to defeat trump. what worries you in these numbers beyond his national lead. >> if you are ted cruz, let me give you a number that has you unhappy. choice for nominee among white evangelicals. why does that matter?

let me show you on the map where evangelicals live in america. the deeper the shading, the higher the number. most of super tuesday is played out below this line. tex aoklahoma, arkansas, tennessee, alabama. trump won in south carolina. this is supposed to be ted cruz's wheelhouse. evangelical america. donald trump leads 44 -- more than 2-1 over ted cruz among evangelicals. ted cruz doesn't like that number. let me show you one more number. one more number for our poll is donald trump is expanding his coalition. earlier in the campaign we talked about trump had a lot of support among those who did not have a college degree. he holds that support, 50%. 46% of republicans who do have a college degree say they support trump. that's a troubling number. and marco rubio and john kasich, traditional republicans win in the suburbs. virginia is on the ballot tomorrow. the suburbs just outside of where we are, a lot of highly

educated, college educated, masters degrees and the like. donald trump runs strong in those areas. >> fascinating numbers. >> let's go to our analysts' table. gloria borger and former top obama adviser david axelrod. the newest member of the cnn podcast family. sign up at cnn.com/podcast. and with us is nia-mallika henderson. numbers, 78% are firm in their donald trump commitment. that's an extraordinary number for this candidate. >> it's an extraordinary number. the 49% is an extraordinary number. conventional wisdom among establishment folks has been when the field winnows there will be an establishment on a white horse that rescues the field from donald trump. there's this broad coalition. also some numbers that i think if you are rubio should be troubling. this idea of there's a question about who is the candidate who

can bet handle the responsibilities of being commander in chief? trump wins that 48%. cruz at 17%. rubio 14%. he's now trying to be the anti-trump, but it isn't clear that even if he fires donald trump that people want to hire him. >> david is there anything, if you were one of those other candidates, or representing one of them, that you would take pleasure in in those numbers or be looking to chip away at? where is there -- >> not a masochist. i don't think there's a whole lot. one number that i found interesting, an even number of people percentagewise say that trump, rubio and cruz would be unacceptable to them. that's a change. there's growing acceptability of donald trump as the nominee among the party, even as the republican establishment frantically is trying to alert voters that he would be, as we heard earlier, the end of the party and a disaster in the fall.

buyers don't seem to be buying it. >> acceptability and inevitablity. >> some of the republican establishment is actually feeling the same way going trough the stages of grieve and they are finally sort of accepting trump to a degree. i spoke with a lot of them today. some of them were saying, all right, we just have to learn how to live with trump. that he's malleable. there are others who say we ought to disown him completely, like senator -- and say i can't support the party nominee. i'm not going to vote for hillary clinton but i can't support him. and then there's the third way which is the marco rubio campaign and other campaigns which are now looking for the sort of hail mary contested convention scenario. >> john, is there anything rubio or cruz do to stay viable tomorrow? coming in second in a lot of states is that enough? >> cruz has to win texas. let's go through super tuesday. if you bring up super tuesday, move this over. if donald trump wins them all, cruz is ahead in the late polls in texas. donald trump wins them all, he

opens up the delegate lead. for ted cruz, survival means winning your home state. we'll give second to trump and third to rubio. that's survival at stake. ted cruz hasn't said this publicly but if he doesn't win his home state, it's very hard to continue on. he would say he's the only candidate to beat domd trump twice. >> if donald trump wins the other ten states allocating republican delegates tomorrow, not only does he pull ahead in the delegate lead but it's just -- it just speaks for itself. this is why you have this debate in the republican establishment. some are saying we have no choice. we have to embrace him. the customer is always right. the customer is our voters. and then the debate about never trump. if you go forward from here, if donald trump keeps winning, look what happened. he starts to pull way ahead. this is dethe defining day. rubio has to win at home in florida. if rubio wins floridaed in trump comes in second, this is the defining day for rubio and

kasich. if kasich doesn't win his home state he'd get out. rubio hasn't said it, but if he doesn't win, it's hard to see how he continues on. for somebody to take their state. if they all stay in and start splitting states they can't catch trump. the only way is to get a one on one and then you'd have to run the board. you'd have to essentially hold donald trump to no states or one or two small states. and even then, you might not clinch the nomination. the republican establishment is now hoping and praying that somebody can keep donald trump from reaching the majority, 1237. if you look at the map right now, this is not only tilted in trump's favor. it's heavily tilted in trump's favor. >> beyond the numbers, marco rubio's strategy, do you think it's making any headway against donald trump? all the rhetoric that's been thrown around, it's like a real housewives reunion episaid, spray tans and makeup and little hands and you know what else that means. it's incredible. does it work? >> we don't know.

my question is this. if your target are upper educated, upscale republican voters which we're told they are for marco rubio, are they impressed with what he's been doing the last few days? i have some real doubts on this. one thing about the map. that's the perfect map for donald trump. the best outcome for him tomorrow would to be take everything but texas and keep ted cruz in the race for a few more weeks because for donald trump, the more the merrier. >> a lot more ahead. we're also going to talktoour commentators. you'll hear what one republican u.s. senator said on camera about what he'd do if it comes down hillary clinton versus donald j. trump in november. and a wide-ranging conversation with the former slovenian fashion model who could become america's next first lady, melania trump.

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we're talking super tuesday. the possibility that will turn out super for trump but maybe not for the party. hunter thompson titled his classic act of the 1972 election, fear and loathing on the campaign trail. tonight among the gop, the fear and loathing is real and it's directed toward donald trump. you now have republicans not just going on the record opposing him but going on camera. on "the lead" with jake tapper,

they confronted him with the choice of donald trump or hillary clinton. >> those are the two front-runners, and it looks as though they are likely to be the nominees. i understand you reject the premise. given that most people know those two are the front-runners, what's would you do? >> i'm not going to vote for hillary clinton. given what we know about donald trump, i can't vote for him. i have taken an oath to preserve the constitution. if those are the two major party nominees, i'd have to look for a third party option. >> back with the panel joining us, republican strategist ana navarro, angela rye, also a trump supporter and conservative columnist mcenany and bakari sellers. a third choice. this doesn't obviously translate into anything that's going to

get somebody elected, or does it? >> who? they've thrown around the name of michael bloomberg. he's been polling his name out there. until there's a third choice it's theoretical. i think a lot of folks are going to have to cross that bridge when they get there, when we get there. for a lot of us, the idea of voting for trump is just -- >> okay. i got it. mckayla. if i was a trump supporter listening to this talk and hearing the hand wringing and complaining, i would -- if anything, it would harden my support for donald trump. >> i definitely think it has that effect. focus groups found it consolidates the support. i'd argue this whole notion of no one getting behind trump san opinion of the political class. when you look at the cnn poll that came out, just 27% said they wouldn't vote for trump. the same number said they wouldn't vote for rubio or cruz. this is an opinion among the

political class because donald trump poses a problem to their interest. he's not in bed with lobbyists. >> the flip side of that, and you are also a republican, is if he is the gop nominee, he is obviously bringing a lot of people out. there's a lot of enthusiasm among his supporters. support among his supporters is calcified. they are saying they'll vote for donald trump come hell or high water. the other side of that is, stop the hand wringing and just get on board and possibly win the presidency. >> there is such a think as conviction and principle. it might sound strange and corny. some still hold on to those notions. i think that donald trump has said and done some things throughout his campaign that bother some of us to the point we cannot imagine voting for him. that being said, you are right. he's also bringing an entirely new universe of voters into the tent and into vote for him.

and i do think that there are some members of the republican party, like me, who just cannot come to grips with it. but i think there are members of the republican establishment who are coming to grips with it. today we saw that in valdosta. brian france, the owner of nascar endorsed him. he was one of the major donors for mitt romney. he is a guy that every single republican candidate has heavily courted. he's stayed on the sidelines until today. and to my surprise, this is also a guy who led nascar in calling for the lowering of the confederate flag in south carolina, who has spoken up in favor of gay rights, who has spoken up against the kentucky law. and yet today he was on that stage endorsing donald trump which talks about a couple of things. first of all, that new york donor beltway. they all know donald trump. they may not think he was the best candidate but they all know him and have a relationship. they also see him as having a

path to victory. and, third, they think they can make a deal with him. >> angela, it's interesting. there were a lot of democrats early on who were kind of chomping at the bit to have donald trump be the gop nominee to go against probably hillary clinton. do you still feel that excitement over that prospect, or do you now see donald trump as a more formidable candidate, more formidable foe as a democrat? >> right now i'm not afraid of donald trump. i think to quote cory booker from an earlier segment today, he said bring it on. i whole heartedly agree with that. here's why. the type of voter that donald trump is turning out is the exact type of voter that when barack obama was elected in 2008 we wanted to stay home. now that voter if they did stay home is angry and feels frustrate and left out of what america is becoming, which i think is a beautiful thing. a blacker and browner america, more inclusive.

we're seeing these folks frustrated, angry and we're seeing all type of hatred and vitriolic speech coming from his mouth and his supporters' mouth. >> we've been seeing in primaries and caucuses, much more than on the democratic side. >> and we have seen that. one thing i have to caution and tell my democratic friends in the words of aaron rodgers to r-e-l-a-x. we saw where george bush, the republicans had more than 3 million more voters in that primary than democrats had but al gore won the popular vote. we know what happened. al gore won the popular vote. democrats can't do primaries well. there's not as much excitement on our side. we've all watched these debates which have been highly televised train wrecks. it's been exciting. you can't take your eyes off of it. i think that there are a lot of democrats like myself who want to take on that hatred, who want to take on that bigotry.

donald trump and p.o.w.s. donald trump and hispanics and muslims and now donald trump and the kkk. and i think everyone in this room can disavow the kkk if asked on the first notion. i want to beat back that hate and vitriol. democrats are excited about the possibility but not as easy as we once thought. >> domd trunald trump is sayingd a faulty ear piece. >> he said back to jake tapper, david duke. he said -- what do you mean by white supremacist, white supremacy. >> clearly heard the name. >> what he's doing is strategic. they -- he's not dumb at all. this was the same week that in tomorrow he's taking on seven southern states. one of them the founding place of the kkk. >> kayleigh, you believe the ear piece? >> not believing the ear piece is saying donald trump is a liar. >> i think he's a liar.

>> he's day vowed david duke four times prior to this. >> but the thing i just don't understand about the ear piece thing is he clearly said i don't know david duke or believe i've ever met him. i'd have to look into him. two days later he disavowed david duke. when he was thinking of running with the reform party he called david duke a bigot and racist. why would he say in that interview he didn't know who david duke was. clearly his ear piece was working enough to hear the name david duke and know -- >> i believe his ear piece went out, but i don't believe donald trump is a racist. and most of america does not believe he's a racist or sexist. "the new york post" came out with an article showing him beating hillary clinton in democrat new york. most of america does not believe this man say racist. that's a heavy charge. if you are going to levy that charge you need big facts to back it up. >> do you think this kkk kerfuffle does impact anything or like so many other things where we've seen something the chattering classes talk about on

tv but it doesn't translate? >> i don't think it's going to affect people who are solid trump supporters. and what we've seen in all the polling is that if you are for trump, you are for trump no matter what. you have been there and you will remain there. where it could affect people is around the margins, i think. >> and getting out democrats to come to vote. >> in general election -- >> one at a time. david -- >> every time somebody says that donald trump just said something that is disqualifying, i now have more billions than he claims to have. >> i want to hear you describe how you feel about that whole thing about how you react to donald trump. that was -- i want to see that tape later. every reaction, every action in politics creates a reaction. i do think donald trump is going to encourage people to come to the polls in the fall as he has in the primary if he's the

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but five minutes away in downtown valdosta, republicans are feeling much differently. >> i would not vote for donald trump because i would not vote for p.t. barnum. >> reporter: she'll be voting republican on super tuesday but is afraid like many in the republican establishment that donald trump could wreck the gop. >> i think it's keeping more qualified candidates from rising to the top. it's dwiding the party and dividing our nation. >> reporter: you hear similar sentiments from republicans in the downtown coffee shop. what do you think of donald trump? >> i think he is arrogant and not what our country needs. >> the president needs to be someone who is respectful and will not call women ugly or insult someone. >> reporter: you hear it from republicans in the hard ware store. the store owner cast his ballot in early voting. you want to tell me who you voted for? >> no, i'd rather not tell you but i can tell you who i didn't

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we haven't heard a lot from melania trump. she may start taking a larger role but her main focus is taking care of her son and isn't thinking about making speeches just yet. i sat down for a rare interview with melania. we'll have more of the interview in the next hour of "360." right now, here's part one of our conversation. when you first came down the escalator, when your husband first announced, what was going through your mind? were you excited? >> yes, we were excited. i was excited. i was just looking forward to it. i didn't know what he would say. i didn't know the speech. but we were all excited. and it was exciting time actually. and it's a lot of guts to have to do that kind of stuff. >> has your opinion -- i read an article, an interview you did back in with "talk" magazine in

like 2000 or 1999 where you said politics is a business. has your opinion of politics changed in the last couple of months watching it so closely? >> oh, yes, of course. i follow it from a to z. i know exactly what's going on. and, of course, it changes. it's many, many years ago, like, what, 20 years ago almost. so, yes, it changed a lot. >> what do you think of the campaign so far? in the last couple of days there's been all these fights between rubio saying all these things about your husband. what do you think of the tone of it? >> i think it's more desperate tone because my husband is leading in the polls. so he wants to attack in very low manner way. and it's kind of -- we expected that. >> you expected? >> yeah. i have a thick skin. >> it doesn't bother you? >> it doesn't bother me. it's very nasty, but i have a

thick skin. i can handle it. >> your husband has been criticized for sometimes his tone on the campaign trail. one thing he said to me is as president, campaigning is one thing. as president he'd have a different tone if he was actually in the white house. do you think he can have a different tone? >> yes. >> is there another side to him? >> yes, he can have a different tone. he really can have a different tone. to build the empire and business that he built, you cannot always use that's kind of a tone. and he can really change. i know him, and he could really change the words and the tone. and -- but he is who he is. and he's following and people agree with him because they are tired of washington and politicians in washington. they don't do much. and he is a doer. he does things and he's not just talking it. he will have things done for the states, for america, for

american people. >> you watch a lot of news. >> yes. >> he watches a lot of news and is tweeting. do you ever get bothered -- he must be up late tweeting, watching television. do you get bothered by that? >> i don't get bothered by it. we are both very independent. he let me be who i am. >> you don't try to change him? >> i don't try to change him. he's an adult. he knows the consequences. so i let him be who he is. i give him my opinions many, many times. >> you do? >> yes. i don't agree with everything what he says, but that is normal. i'm my own person. i tell him what i think. i'm standing very strong on the ground on my two feet, and i'm my own person and i think that's very important in the relationship. >> do you -- can you say something where you disagreed with him on? >> oh, many things. some language, of course. >> language? >> yes. some language -- >> language you hear him using? >> especially, i was in new

hampshire when the woman was shouting out the inappropriate word, and i was there and i'm thinking like don't repeat it, in my head, for him. don't repeat it. just don't see it because the next day, media, all they will talk is about that. but he repeated it. the momentum, he goes with the flow, he goes with the people. they having fun. everybody were cheering. and, you know, he said it and the next day, but he repeated the word. that was not his word. >> so he heard from you about that? >> yeah, i told him that. and he did it. as i said, he's an adult. >> it does seem like a lot of -- "the wall street journal" did a piece about the way he makes decisions. it was really interesting. i talked to him about it. he makes a lot of decisions from his gut and instincts. >> he does. and he is who he is. he speaks from the heart. and i think it's very important. he doesn't lie. he is who he is.

he doesn't hide anything. and people -- they are connecting to that. they really connect with him and they know what he will do for the country. he's self-funding. he is his own person. he will not -- donors, lobbyists, nobody can buy him. and the american people, they -- i guess they got smart, and they know that he will work for them. >> when you see him on television, you watch interviews he does, even if you aren't with him, i assume you'll watch interviews he does. do you give him comments about what you think of the interviews, how it went? >> yes, after we always talk. we talk many, many times a day. yes, i do. >> i'm sure you know there was an interview yesterday where jake tapper was asking him about david duke, disavowing him, the kkk, and he didn't disavow. he had done it previously,

several days before n he's put out a statement -- >> he disavowed many times. he disavowed press conference on friday. so i don't know why media needs to ask him so many times, because he disavowed. >> when you saw that interview, did you think that's going to be a problem? >> i don't think so because they were asking him about the groups, and he said i don't know about the groups, what you are talking about, the groups. so he disavowed, many, many times. so media just bringing up, bringing up all the time. >> when you hear people saying he's racist, hearing him say he's anti-immigrant -- >> no, he's not. he's not racist. he's not anti-immigrant. he wants to keep america safe. he wants to have illegal immigrants taken care of that they will not be in the country, that they don't pay taxes, that they are criminals, and that they are not good for america.

he wants -- he was talking about the illegal immigration, not about everybody. >> as an immigrant yourself, we talked about that from slovenia, what was it about america that drew you here and made you want to come to america? >> i lived in slovenia when i was a child. and i went to milan in paris for modeling career. and i had a very successful modeling career, and i came to the united states to new york in 1996. and just the energy of new york, the opportunities, different world, different culture, it really attracted me. i did very well here, and i stayed here. >> as somebody who came to this country sort of wanting to be part of america, obviously, ultimately become a citizen, do you understand the drive that brings other immigrants here, legally and illegally?

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welcome back. super tuesday just hours away. the democrats will face off in 11 states. coming off her side against a landslide victory. she's wrapping up a rally in norfolk, virginia. the polls opening in both states just hours from now. bernie sanders began the day in minnesota. he's ending it in massachusetts where he just wrapped up a rally as well. his campaign said he's raised more than $41 million this month

alone. he is vowing to stay in for the long haul. jeff zeleny has the latest. >> massachusetts is right in the middle of it. and i need your help. >> reporter: hillary clinton is riding a wave. hoping her south carolina landslide becomes an even bigger super tuesday victory lap. >> i will work as hard as i can every single day. i will get up and go to work for you and fight for you. >> reporter: the delegate fight with bernie sanders will go on. but a strong finish could make clinton all but unstoppable. at least mathematically. politically it's a long race ahead. >> if i were grading some of those republicans, you remember the little box that used to be on your kids' report cards? play well with others? i'd have to put a big no. democracy requires that we play well with others. >> reporter: she is steadily shifting her focus from sanders

to republicans. one in particular. >> yes, i don't think america has ever stopped being great. what we need to do now is make america whole. >> reporter: in battleground virginia, the early outlines of a potential general election fight starting today. >> bernie sanders is over. unless he gets indicted. >> reporter: sanders isn't sugarcoating his blowout in south carolina. >> we got decimated, george. we got decimated. >> reporter: but he says the race is just getting started. he's drawing big clouds from oklahoma to colorado to minnesota with thousands of supporters answering his call for a political revolution. and he's making it clear he's far from finished with clinton. >> we are listening to the american people, and their pain and their needs rather than hustling all over the country collecting millions of dollars from the 1%. >> reporter: a new cnn/orc poll today shows a majority of democrats across the country favor clinton, 55% to 38% over

sanders. but it also shows warning signs. 59% say sanders is more honest and trustworthy compared to 36% who say clinton is. >> hello, virginia! hello, george mason. >> reporter: tonight in virginia, clinton sounded like she had the general election on her mind. >> because at some point you can't just say whatever pops into your head if you want to be the president of the united states of america. people around the world actually listen to what people running for president say. >> jeff joins us now. sanders is getting some high-profile endorsements. >> one was a big surprise. the hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard. she said because of his judgment. he'd make a better commander in chief. this is one of the arguments the clinton campaign makes all the time that she'd be the better

commander in chief. this is a compelling argument. she also had to step down as vice chair of the dnc to do this. a very interesting endorsement. one endorsement that didn't happen was elizabeth warren. just a few hours before the massachusetts primary. she's decided to not weigh in on this. the clinton campaign was worried she'd jump in for bernie sanders. but there are 41 million reasons the clinton command is still watching bernie sanders. all that's money he raised in february. incredible amount of money. >> as we all know from him, in small donations by and large. >> $27. >> so i've heard. much more ahead tonight on $360. i'll talk to governor kasich who is under growing pressure from his party to drop out of the race. some say he's tilting at windmills, but he is not giving up.

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