Skip to main content

tv   Anderson Cooper 360  CNN  April 22, 2016 5:00pm-6:01pm PDT

5:00 pm
>> unbelievable. stunning, courageous thing. ac 360 starts now. i am in for anderson tonight. new details in the death of prince, mixed with the disbelief we're having this conversation at all. chuck d says it is hard to talk about his friend in the past tense. prince he says was the future. he was music. hear more from him in a moment as well as others who knew prince well. also speak with someone that saw prince twice in the last week of his life. begin with all we are learning about final days. late today they released details, very few, on the investigation, saying the autopsy is finished, but report including they say what, if any, drugs were in his system. that report might take weeks.
5:01 pm
the time line you'll see is also incomplete. it includes exclusive video, what could be the last video of prince alive. here is cnn's key undergoing law. >> i saw a gentleman riding a bike, noticed that it was prince. >> reporter: kelly collins, seeing what she and others say was their famous neighbor, couldn't resist recording, even though he indicated he didn't want to be filmed. >> i couldn't believe i was looking at him, after hearing he had just not been feeling well the day before. >> reporter: that video taken saturday just five days before prince's death. prince had not been feeling well for weeks. on april 7th, anxious fans in atlanta with tickets to see prince find two shows are postponed, saying he is ill, battling the flu. a week later, april 14th prince takes the stage in atlanta. the makeup concert, two shows, 80 minute sets. no sign of illness, he finished
5:02 pm
to a standing ovation. prince seems to relish the moment, tweeting i am transformed. the next day, april 15, prince is flying home to minneapolis. his private jet makes an unexpected detour, an emergency landing in moline, illinois. he doesn't stay long, instead finishing his flight back to minneapolis. the next day, saturday april 16th is when kelly collins sees prince on the bike ride. >> didn't look ill at all. >> he looked like prince, yeah, he looked really good. >> reporter: did anything appear wrong with his health? >> no, i was shocked to see him riding his bike after learning the day before, you know, his plane had landed and he wasn't doing well. >> reporter: the same day prince posts this announcement, impromptu dance party at his
5:03 pm
residence, paisley park. he has deejayed two dozen times went as a spectator to the gathering. prince speaks to the small crowd of 200 people for 20 minutes, he says. >> he addressed the crowd. he was like if you hear any news, give it a couple days before you say prayers. he was always healthy looking, energetic, you know, definitely a worker. he had that worker mentality. nothing is going to keep him down. i thought we're going to be seeing prince well into his 80s. >> reporter: the next day, prince tweets #feelingrejuvenated. feeling well enough he heads out to a local live music spot. he came here to dakota jazz club. he sat at this table. watched some live music, talked to the staff. they say nothing seemed out of
5:04 pm
the ordinary. >> he was here for that show tuesday. >> everything seemed fine and normal? >> like any other night when he would come. >> reporter: the sheriff's department says the next night, wednesday april 20th, prince is dropped off at his home at 8:00 p.m. spends the night alone. no one is concerned until the next morning when employees can't reach him. they find him collapsed in an elevator, then a panic call to 911. >> cpr started. >> 10, 4. cpr started. >> reporter: the cpr fails. he is pronounced dead at 10:07 thursday morning. there are big gaps in his last days. did he visit any doctors, did he take any prescriptions? >> that's part of the investigation, and that would be our normal protocol. >> any sense of the time line of the autopsy, when we might learn cause of death? >> reporter: what we heard from the sheriff's office is the
5:05 pm
autopsy is done, completed in four hours today. here's the important part, the results, the toxicology report. some further final details that might explain all of this won't be available for days, perhaps even weeks. what the sheriff's department is saying they'll talk to doctors, local pharmacies, medical history, start to pull some surveillance video if prince it visit some of the local areas here. >> thanks so much. our next guest saw prince on two occasions in the last week, has known him since early years. from the minneapolis star tribune and prince biographer, he joins us tonight. john you were at the party at paisley park this saturday that has received so much attention. what was that like? >> well, there had been all of this mystery about this plane
5:06 pm
emergency landing in illinois the night before. prince i think wanted to clear the air, show that he was alive and well, so he came on stage, said a few things, played chop sticks on a brand new piano. didn't seem anything out of the ordinary other than he said something that turned out to be sadly ironic, don't waste your prayers just yet. >> was that strange to hear from him or was that the type of thing he might say ordinarily. >> i think that was a typical cryptic prince remark, often saying things he may not evenow implying, his way of saying i'm okay, i'm alive and well. >> did he look well to you? did it seem like there were health issues he was dealing with? >> to me he looked the same, but i was further back. i talked to someone who was there who thought he looked pale, like someone suffering from the flu.
5:07 pm
>> the flu will do that to you. you also saw him this past tuesday at a jazz club in minneapolis. what was he doing there? did he look all right there? >> he was at the dakota jazz club in downtown minneapolis, seeing a performer by the name of liz wright who is a blues, soul gospel folk singer. he was sitting upstairs on the balcony in his private table where they pull the curtains around him. i ran into some of his people down below the restroom area, saw him after the concert, he stayed for the whole thing, walked out single file with all of the people in his entourage, had his cane over his shoulder with the usual prince attitude. looked the same as usual to me. >> you had a long relationship, prince is someone you dealt with for decades, you've written a lot about his albums, over last day dealing with such genius, there's been a lot of praise.
5:08 pm
he was so prolific, it was all great, but you wrote some reviews that didn't make him happy. >> my job is to give honest assessments, he didn't always agree with things i wrote, maybe thin skinned at times, if i wrote something negative it might upset him. there were times he had me banned from his downtown club, glam slam for awhile. he burned one of my reviews live on arsenio hall show, doused me with the squirt gun guitar at "purple rain" when i was sitting in the seventh row, that was more playful. but he respected me and read everything i wrote about him, even responded to some of the things i would say, not instantly. for instance, this will give you an idea of his humor, we did this long interview in denver and apropos nothing, in the middle of something he said, he referred to a line in the story seven months earlier where i suggested maybe he was wearing an afro wig.
5:09 pm
he turned to me, said that's no wig, that's my hair, and john, where did your hair go. we both burst out laughing, of course. >> hearing he had a sense of humor all day. if you burned the review, that's the -- >> he didn't know i was in the studio audience. the night after the grammys, i was in l.a. to cover it, i was in the arsenio hall audience. poked my friend next to, that's probably my review. i didn't know it at the time. >> congratulations on that. the ultimate sign of respect for a critic, john green, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> prince may have been a deeply private person but had a wide circle. as we have been learning, friends and admire remembers, van jones was all three. he joins us now along with rolling stone contributing editor david wild. van, we talked to sheila e. on new day, she said prince didn't
5:10 pm
know how to not work hard. he was constantly working. talk about the last few weeks. despite the fact he had a bad flu, he did the concert in atlanta, had the party saturday night. he was at the nightclub watching an act tuesday. does it surprise you he kept this pace up when he might have been ill? >> no, not really. i mean first of all, you have to remember that, you know, he was incredibly healthy guy, health conscious guy. if you go into paisley park, get your cheeseburger before you get there, because when you get there, it is going to be vegan vegetarian stuff and water and that's it. can't tell you how many cheese burgers i've gotten on my way to paisley. so but also people call it work. i don't think he saw it as work. he saw it as just expressing himself, the same way you and i might breathe r, debate the new.
5:11 pm
that's how he saw writing and engaging with the world. all the great ones, remember michael jackson had the flu, still went out there, helped win a championship. the great ones play through that kind of thing, and he did not want to let his fans down. when he had to reschedule atlanta, he was very upset. he wanted to go back. glad he was able to go back. i am not surprised about anything this guy does or did. >> david, seems there's no halfway. there was no halfway for prince. first album way back when, he wrote and sang the songs, played every instrument, producing was so important to him every step of the way. there were no half measures for prince. >> i remember talking to one of his engineers that worked with him on diamonds and pearls that said he was the hardest working man in show business, no disrespect to any other icons who had that title, and i think the end came when prince called on christmas day, let's get to
5:12 pm
work, and he wanted the night or christmas dinner off. and prince didn't. there were no breaks for prince. i think he had endless creativity. >> one of the things i read, one of the reasons he played the music, no one was willing to wake up as early he was to do the work to make all of the albums. he was the one sleeping three hours. you worked with him on things beyond music. wasn't just music that kept him moving, he was passionate about so many issues. >> yeah. i mean, i think people see him as a musician. i try to say he was a genius. he had a deep well of genius, music was the only thing complicated enough, magical enough to express it. that genius showed up as a humanitarian. he was the principal architect behind yes, we code, getting kids ready for silicon valley jobs. major philanthropist around green for all, getting solar
5:13 pm
panels to poor communities. he was an incredible humanitarian but didn't want that known. he would give out money anonymously. people across the country have programs with prince's money, they don't even know they have prince's money. he said i have had enough attention. i don't want attention. what i want is for us to lift up those people that need attention. he was an incredibly passionate person. he was also a news junkie. sometimes i would get off the air and i hate to see a phone number coming from minnesota, because he was going to let me know in one or two funny to him lines what i had gotten wrong that night. >> i have my mom, you have prince, van jones. >> by the way, i'm wearing these glasses because i ordered these glasses, was going to surprise them, wear them on the air, they're circular like his glasses. they arrived finally at my house yesterday, the day he died.
5:14 pm
so i'm wearing these glasses, i was going to surprise him. i guess he is watching from a different place. >> that's a tribute there. david, it is interesting. the hits were all written a long time ago, but he changed what he was doing in some ways, right? he put more emphasis on performing and doing other things musically when maybe the writing wasn't as commercially successful as it had been. >> i think elton john told me that great artists have a purple patch, period they can do no wrong. the best like stevie wonder and prince have a few. for prince, i think the cnn, i had been part of the '60s, '70s, the '80s is coming up, truth is prince owned the '80s and the '90s and 21st century, hard to compete with what he did. no one could compete with those hits, not even prince in a way. but i'm shocked by when you go back through the body of work, he did great work all the way
5:15 pm
through. just was -- you can only be new, only be the fresh prince once. >> he was prince and will be prince forever. david wild, van jones, thank you so much. just ahead for us, think you've got talent? public enemy chuck d on an artist nobody could forget. >> prince was getting down, we was in the audience, pointed at flaf a and i, said come on, let's jam. we got on stage and jammed. you know, he's a master. belgian . they say that in life,
5:16 pm
we shouldn't sweat the small stuff. but when you're building a mercedes-benz, there really is no small stuff. every decision... every component... is an integral part of what makes the 2016 c-class one of our most sophisticated cars ever. because when you're setting a new benchmark for refinement, it is the small stuff... that makes the biggest impression. the 2016 c-class. see your authorized dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing
5:17 pm
if you misplace your you can use freeze it to prevent new purchases on your account in seconds. and once you find it, you can switch it right on again. you're back! freeze it from discover. get it at discover.com. what backache? what sore wrist? what headache? advil makes pain a distant memory. nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil.
5:18 pm
5:19 pm
♪ ♪ let's go crazy. the cast of broadway's "hamilton" last night paying tribute to prince. and in cities they'll be screening "purple rain," and tower bells will ring out with prince songs. that should be something. one performer that can speak to the many musical faces of prince, chuck d who joins us tonight. chuck d, first of all, we're so sorry for the loss of your friend. yesterday i know when you learned that prince had died,
5:20 pm
you tweeted it was like earth is missing a note which is a lovely thing to write, first of all. what went through your mind when you heard he had died? >> how, why, like everybody was asking. a little surreal. we are at a point people like prince, probably the main dude in music for the last 30 years could do it all. the giant of our time is a guy like prince. and when he transitions on, everybody feels it, he is at the top of the list. significant, very significant in our lives, you know. >> i know you had the opportunity to collaborate on an album in 1999. go figure. not the opportunity but the honor.
5:21 pm
i swear, you know, i was recording a cut called "undisputed", and i knocked out vocals, we went back and forth in exchange, i swear to god, he told me to wait in the lobby. i was looking through the window like a kid, it was like he was fixing a salad. i been in studios, been around every musician you can name of note and i had never seen a dude that it was like his second nature, third nature just to he was and is music. i had the honor and privilege to befriend him on stage and studio and just, you know, kicking it in a person to person type thing. it was an honor. >> i am glad you talked about his talent because i'm obsessed with his musical skills. how good was he?
5:22 pm
>> he could do it all. in ball they talk about michael jordan can do it all, in music, prince, when he had that guitar, nobody could mess with him. nobody could mess with him. one man dynamo. when it came down to putting it down on stage, conceptual, nobody could mess with him. and he had the ability to be revolutionary in technology and boldness and daring and also saying the things publicly, politically that artists seem to shy away from. in the past 20, 25 years, he was going at it. prince at a drop of a dime, if he wanted to play any arena, any stadium, he could fill it, pack it, not only fill it, pack it, but satisfy them.
5:23 pm
lot of people get people through the door, but can you send them home awe struck? can you put the a-w-e, and did the after party, too. >> two and three times a night. he performed with public enemy, were you on stage with public enemy and prince, i think we have a picture of it. what was that like? >> we happened to perform with prince. prince was in australia, melbourne. rod laver arena. he was getting down. pointed at flava and i, said come on stage and jam. we got on stage and jam. he is a master. when the master calls. >> we talked to sheila e. this morning and she said prince wouldn't want people to mourn today, he would want people to celebrate, to dance, to party. some ways we have been hearing his music the last 24 hours, you
5:24 pm
can't help but dance. >> i think one of the things is celebrate people while they're here. he didn't make music to fit in any category. he didn't make music to fit into any industry structure and busted it up with being better and being the greatest any time. and then telling you about it. it was no hype, you know what i mean. the dude was the deal. the dude was the deal. latest was sitting down at the piano and playing. talk music, i write songs, i write music, that dude was music. with prince it is hard to mimic. he was everything in one, one dude, you know. dynamo. i don't think anybody can compare to him. nothing compares to you, prince. >> chuck d, thank you so much for your time. we are so sorry for your loss. >> no, it is our loss, the world's loss, not a personal
5:25 pm
thing. i'm pretty sure he would be clear to tell everybody that. >> thanks, chuck d. >> thank you. >> more coming up including epic fights in the industry and the legacy he left as a businessman. later, hear the trump campaign behind closed door pitch to top party members in a trump that they're seeing and voting for won't be the trump they get if he wins the nomination. but the specialists at ford like to show off their strengths: 13 name brands. all backed by our low price tire guarantee. yeah, we're strong when it comes to tires. right now during the big tire event, get a $120 rebate by mail on four select tires. schwarzkopf presents hair in 30 minutes? our most caring color collection: keratin color with keratin-care-complex. formulated for full gray coverage
5:26 pm
and up to 80% less hair breakage. ready to rejuvenate your hair? keratin color. from schwarzkopf. perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. >>yup... now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? >>no. your insurance rates go through the roof. your perfect record doesn't get you anything. >>anything. perfect! for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an accident, our claim centers are available to assist you 24/7. for a free quote, call liberty mutual at switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $509 call today at
5:27 pm
see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. (pilot talking to tower on radio) once you get out here... there's just one direction... forward. one time: now. and there's just o sound. you and us... together. telling the world... we're coming for you.
5:28 pm
announcer: ifis the staying awake part...y [train horn blares] sleep train has your ticket to a better night's sleep. with a 100 night low price guarantee, sleep train's love your mattress money back guarantee, same day delivery, plus helpful advice from the sleep experts, it's no wonder more than a million people fall asleep each night on a sleep train mattress! ♪ sleep train [train horn] ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ i'm a customer relationship i'm roy gmanager.ith pg&e. anderson valley brewing company is definitely a leader in the adoption of energy efficiency. pg&e is a strong supporter of solar energy. we focus on helping our customers understand it and be able to apply it in the best way possible. not only is it good for the environment, it's good for the businesses' bottom line. these are our neighbors. these are the people that we work with. that matters to me. i have three children that are going to grow up here
5:29 pm
and i want them to be able to enjoy all the things that i was able to enjoy. together, we're building a better california. way before taylor swift took on apple, prince was taking on the record companies. starting his career, he fought to make music on his own terms. it wasn't easy, there were contract fights, copyright battles, famously, the name change. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: he burst on the music scene as a teenager in the late '70s. from the beginning, rebelled against the industry. prince turned down his first contract offer because he wouldn't have creative control. beyond his musical genius he was also known for his unyielding defense of the rights to his
5:30 pm
art, his music. >> i don't consider it proper that my creations belong to someone else. i can go up to a little kid on the street and say do you know that i don't own "purple rain," and they're appalled by that. ♪ purple rain, purple rain. >> reporter: his semi autobiographical movie mirrored the success of the companion album in 1984. like so many musicians, prince didn't own the rights to his music, not even his name. >> it was a seering injury for him. he said hold on a second. my mother named me prince. how can a corporation say i can't use the name my mother gave me. >> reporter: in the early '90s he went to war with warner brothers in a public way, writing the word slave on his cheek during performances and for meetings with warner executives. >> he led the way for artists to feel like they could speak back to record companies, say what they wanted. it wasn't so much money, he
5:31 pm
wanted to speak out as an artist, have control over his own work. >> i think once i started writing slave on my face, i pretty much knew the outcome. you have to understand that that word on one's face pretty much changes the dynamic of any meeting you're in when they see it. >> how did people react when they did see it? >> well, the record company didn't really say too much. >> reporter: the battle with the label so intense, prince eventually changed his name to a symbol, impossible to pronounce. fans for a time referred to him as the artist formerly known as prince. >> was the name change how to have control over the art and who he was? >> whether they were symbolic actions, because prince was eccentric, whether they were actual legal ways to try to get around to get out of his contract isn't really clear. >> reporter: about two years ago, prince and warner brothers
5:32 pm
finally settled their differences, he returned to the label after some 18 years. while financial terms were not disclosed, prince regained ownership of his catalog and his name, but still battled the industry he called exploit i have. last summer prince withdrew music from all streaming services, except jay-z streaming service title. ♪ ♪ it isn't clear who will control the artist's vast collection of music, published and unpublished. what is clear, through the legal battle, name changes, his music thankfully lives on. jason carroll, cnn, new york. >> what a le7gacy. joining me, senior writer from rolling stone, you interviewed him, and the interview will be published in an upcoming rolling stone. why do you think he had such a
5:33 pm
bad relationship with the labels? >> his desire for control and freedom. i think he wanted to have complete control over not just his music but his artistic life. when to record, when to release. that was the essence of it. it was also he wanted to be the only one making these decisions. >> and sasha, that control extended beyond the recording studio, too, when he was performing, he wanted control over the venue, control over the concert hall, control over everything. >> absolutely true. definitely. >> to the point i was reading you were saying at one point he took 100% of the receipts for every venue he performed in? >> this happened recently, i'm not sure how many shows it applied to, i definitely ended up at a show in downtown manhattan which i didn't even believe was happening, i couldn't -- why didn't i know
5:34 pm
about it, it was prince, but it was true. i came up to the door of the venue with three friends, i write about music, i would love to see this. i don't really know if i'm on the list. guy at the door said we're not making any money. they let the four of us in. saw this amazing show, most of his proteges, he came out at one point, let us in, they said we're not making any money, he is taking all receipts. i kind of dug that. and the fact that prince could have a show and was almost like many things he did, you wouldn't believe it. why didn't you know about it. why wasn't it full. it was a great show. >> and brian, you go back to the original battle with warner brothers, in some ways it is so profound, part of the battle was warner brothers wouldn't put out as much music as he wanted. he was making more music than they were willing to put out. >> way more. the truth is it goes back, everyone associated it to the '90s, but sign of the times
5:35 pm
album, he wanted that to be another album worth of music, triple album, they didn't want it. back then he started to clash. he wanted to -- he had a torent of music he wanted to put out. at one point in the '90s, how about an album every six months. they were like absolutely not. that's where it started to get bad. >> it is interesting. you talk about this, too. you say yes, prince was bursting with music but after he split from warner brothers some of that music didn't measure up. maybe warner brothers was right in restraining him some, at least in terms of commercial success. >> in terms of commercial success, yeah. most warner stuff didn't do as well, there are great songs in the catalog like "black sweat" and "guitar." one thing that makes me think of kanye west and life of pablo
5:36 pm
records and changing his mind where he wants to put it, prince had a changing relationship with every aspect of the record industry and internet. he opened up his own website in 2001, closed in 2006. even with title, one record with title, then let apple music have the second one, hit and run phase two. that's the only prince record you can buy on apple. at every stage he was trying to figure out where would he have the most control, where would he be treated best. never quite made up his mind, feels like kanye, figuring out what to do with his album. >> thanks so much. just ahead, the secret recordings giving donald trump rivals new ammunition. what his new adviser told the rnc big wigs behind closed doors. d and driven. it's perceptive enough to detect other vehicles on the road. it's been shaken and pummeled. it's innovative enough to brake by itself, park itself and help you steer.
5:37 pm
it's been in the rain... and dragged through the mud. the 2016 gle. it's where brains meet brawn. lease the gle350 for $599 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer.
5:38 pm
mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be under attack. with the help of the at&t network, a network that senses and mitigates cyber threats, their critical data is safer than ever. giving them the agility to be open & secure. because no one knows & like at&t.
5:39 pm
5:40 pm
a busy weekend of campaigning for the presidential candidates. five northeastern states have primaries tuesday. those aren't the only votes in play. the battle of republican delegates are shifting into overdrive. a leaked recording sparking new controversy. donald trump's new chief campaign honcho was recorded
5:41 pm
speaking candidly at the republican national committee spring meeting. thought his words might stay behind closed doors. instead have given rivals new ammunition. jim acosta has the latest. >> go ahead, what the hell. let's have some fun. >> reporter: with donald trump closing in on the gop nomination. >> i was hit really, really hard. if i didn't hit them back really, really harder, i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: one of his top advisers, paul manafort spent part of the week wooing party officials. making the case there's more to the real estate tycoon than his brash image on the stump. >> he is talking about kinds of things he is talking on the stump, he is projecting an image for that purpose, and you'll start to see come together in the course of the next several months. >> reporter: in the recording, manafort is heard behind closed doors, explaining to rnc leaders much of trump's super heated
5:42 pm
rhetoric which has savaged the delegate process in recent days. >> it is a crooked system. >> reporter: will cool to the right temperature over time. >> donald's campaign is now run by a washington lobbyist who has been a lobbyist 40 years. >> reporter: ted cruz seized on the remarks as evidence the man that dubbed him lying ted. >> if it is lying ted cruz, lying ted. lying ted cruz. >> reporter: is telling whoppers of his own. >> they were meeting in florida with party leaders, saying in their words, all of this is just a show. that he doesn't believe anything he's saying, he's just trying to fool gullible voters and he is not going to do any of it, not going to build a wall, not going to deport anyone. he is telling us he is lying to
5:43 pm
us. >> reporter: cruz is arguing trump is already betraying conservatives on controversial state bathroom laws that aim to bar transgender people from using the restroom of their choice. >> couple months ago donald trump told us he could be the most politically correct person on earth, but we are beginning to see what that looks like. >> reporter: trump counters that cruz and kasich are wasting voters' time as they no longer have a shot outside contested convention. >> there's no path to victory. they should both get out. >> reporter: caught in the crossfire, reince priebus called on the gop to look past the bitter primary season and stand united. >> i know our candidates are going to try to say some things to attract attention. that's part of politics. we all need to get behind the nominee. >> reporter: some top republicans aren't sure they can take what trump is dishing out. paul manafort was telling gop members don't worry, trump is a
5:44 pm
fraud. the gop has the chance to put the controversy behind them with a big primary coming up tuesday. jim acosta, cnn, harrington, delaware. >> thanks to jim. two new polls show donald trump with leads in two states in the next two months. polls from fox news have trump at 41% in indiana, 8 points ahead of ted cruz, john kasich at 16%. in california, trump has a bigger lead, 49%, 27 points ahead of ted cruz, john kasich down at 20. joining me now, former attorney general of virginia, leading the delegate wrangling for the cruz team. great to have you with us. comments from paul manafort, cruz team is all over him. why? >> you heard the quote of third party, not someone from our campaign. one of the rnc members, delegates down there saying he is saying don't worry about the
5:45 pm
crazy stuff you're hearing come out of his mouth because he is a fraud. that's supposed to be good. don't worry about all this stuff, he doesn't really mean it. this is playing into the worst cynicism people have about politics and ted has made a living politically of doing what he says he's going to do. and that has made him sometimes unpopular in the corridors of power. he stuck to what he said. he brought economic growth and opportunity, freedom and security that's attracting an enormous grass roots following. they know he's going to do that. now you have trump saying don't worry about these things, his campaign manager saying don't worry about things i'm saying, i don't really mean it. so we can move on together. >> all politicians, ken, have been accused of saying different things to different audiences, including ted cruz on the issue of gay marriage, mike huckabee
5:46 pm
went after him and said ted cruz says one thing at a manhattan fund-raiser, another at a church. >> ted has been consistent. when he ran for u.s. senate, he staked out positions, not all of which were popular. he went to washington and fought for those positions, including protecting marriage. he continued to do that on the campaign trail for president. he is the only candidate. donald trump has been all over the map on this. >> there was the manhattan fund-raiser, he was quoted saying overturning the supreme court on gay marriage would not be one of his top priorities. again, the issue is whether or not he said something different than what he is doing. >> fact of the matter, a president doesn't overturn supreme court rulings. you don't spend time looking how to overturn a supreme court ruling. he is better prepared than any republican in my lifetime to pick good, reliable supreme court justices that protect the constitution and return rights
5:47 pm
back to the states, like the right to write marriage laws, which is where they existed in the states for the history of this country until last summer. >> i know you feel strongly about him and his campaign in general, why you're working hard to line up delegates now. two new polls from fox news are interesting. if donald trump has big leads in indiana and california, if he wins those two states, all the work you do to line up delegates for a second or third vote ballot at the convention might not matter. he might not get to 1237. >> couple weeks before wisconsin, polls people were showed on television showed ted cruz down by a lot, he won by a lot. you take them for what they're worth. we press ahead, keep working. we have a great grass roots game. good support from people, real people making phone calls, talking to neighbors because they believe in ted's vision for economic growth, that he can defend it, explain it, debate it
5:48 pm
for freedom and security, and he is the only candidate left in the race who can win the nomination and beat hillary clinton. that's a message that really resonates with republicans. >> great to talk to you. thanks so much. >> good to be with you, john. next, we return to the prince story, yet another side of his legacy. let's say none of the candidates, republican or democratic, have the kind of fashion sense prince did. his unique style when 360 continues. er cedar? "super food?" is that a real thing? it's a great school, but is it the right one for her? is this really any better than the one you got last year? if we consolidate suppliers, what's the savings there? so should we go with the 467 horsepower? ...or is a 423 enough? good question. you ask a lot of good questions... i think we should move you into our new fund. sure... ok. but are you asking enough about how your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab.
5:49 pm
if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. otezla may increase the risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. side effects may include diarrhea, nausea, upper respiratory tract infection, and headache.
5:50 pm
tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. ask your dermatologist about otezla today. otezla. show more of you. i'vand i'm doing just fine. allergies. claritin provides 24-hour relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 allergens. yeah, over 200 allergens! with claritin my allergies don't come between me and victory. live claritin clear.
5:51 pm
schwarzkopf presents a model's hair is the ultimate test for care. essence ultime omega repair, with rich omega oil. it repairs hair deep inside. 10 times stronger hair. 90 percent less breakage. omega repair, developed with claudia schiffer, from schwarzkopf. twell what if i told you that peanuts can work for you? that's right. i'm talking full time delivery of 7 grams of protein and 6 essential nutrients. ever see a peanut take a day off? i don't think so. harness the hardworking power of the peanut.
5:52 pm
legions of fans are trying to deal with the fact he is gone. music wasn't the only canvas for his creativity. he was a fashion virtuoso, just as the music he made defined genres, so did his fashion statements. here is randi kaye. >> reporter: on the cover of his self titled album in 1979, prince appeared bare chested with big, loose hair. that look didn't last long. in 1980 with the release of the album "dirty mind" he donned
5:53 pm
skimpy briefs. then a victorian inspired look, including pattern silks with color, countless ruffled neck lines. >> he was someone you couldn't nail down the style. lace one day, tunics the other. >> reporter: by the time "purple rain" was released in june, 1984, prince hit the purple phase. often pair td with low cut blouses and lace and crazy patterns. the purple one as he was often called lived up to the nickname. and when he wasn't in purple around that same time, he was likely in lace, head to toe lace suits, high collared lace shirts and gloves. by the time 1981 came along, the
5:54 pm
color was yellow. who could forget this one from his hit "get off." this was perhaps one of his most outrageous outfits. >> he took a lot of fashion risks. butt cheeks were out. we saw that. then even at the super bowl. >> reporter: more often than not, prince stuck to one color. at the mtv music awards, electric blue. years later, at the people's choice, all white, even white heels. the singer reportedly favored cuban heels because women liked them. >> all his shoes were almost of them covered in the same fabric as his trouser, it was a seamless line to make him seem taller, but he could do things in those shoes. >> reporter: prince also used fashion to make a statement. in 1993, prince dropped his own name and went by a symbol, which
5:55 pm
combined the male and female signs. the statement of gender carried over to stage costumes, even his guitar which was also shaped like the symbol. he had more conservative looks, too, gangster style pinstripe suits and if he doras, power suits like this red hot one he wore to the 2008 grammy awards. he also later discovered gold and lots of it. he wore gold sequins head to toe at this madison square garden concert in 2011, and more gold at the 2015 american music awards. vogue magazine wrote when it comes to merging music and fashion, creating a mystique through style, nobody does it better than the ever elusive prince. that held true to the day he died. >> randi kaye joins us now. prince was able to create personas through his clothes. >> oh, yeah, absolutely, john.
5:56 pm
sometimes it was about what he was wearing, other times about what he was not wearing, like on the cover of the album "love sexy" he wore nothing, going for a naughty, sexy look. that was a trend its own. this was a guy proud of how he looked, had great abs, he made abs trendy long before britney, miley, he would wear half shirts that would expose his abs and stomach, and super tight low cut pants. as many have said, john, he found a way whether through trench coats or gangster glam to make us all take notice and we're still taking notice. >> michaela angela davis said he could wear a midriff and steal your girl. >> he could pull anything off. >> thanks so much. we'll be right back.
5:57 pm
5:58 pm
life as spokesbox is great. people love me for saving them over half a grand when they switch to progressive. so i'm dabbling in new ventures. it was board-game night with the dalai lama. great guy. terrible player. ♪ go paperless ♪ don't stress, girl ♪ i got the discounts that you need ♪ it's a balancing act, but i got to give the people what they want -- more box. any words for the critics? what can i say? critties gonna neg. [ applause ] the what?! [ laughs ]
5:59 pm
6:00 pm
time for cnn tonight with don lemon. we are following two big stories, the search for clues to what killed prince, and the race for the white house. this is cnn tonight, i am don lemon. investigators are trying to piece together last days of the man we knew as the purple one. >> people that are close to him will be gathering medical records,