that does it for us. thanks for watching. cnn tonight with don lemon starts now. two huge stories tonight. the investigation into the death of a legend and the battle for the white house on the eve of super tuesday. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. voters in five states head to the polls in a matter of hours and the gop is in turmoil over a cruz/kasich deal straight out of "the apprentice." >> lyin' ted announced that he can't win by himself. he cannot do it. you know he's a joker. he cannot do it. so he said let me form a partnership, which i call -- what do we call it? go ahead. go ahead. what do we call it?

it's called collusion, folks. >> i don't respond to donald trump. what are you kidding me? >> for those supporters of john kasich either here or at home, there may be issues on which we disagree, but more unites us. >> meanwhile the gloves are off for hillary clinton. >> when donald trump and ted cruz say some of the things they say, it's not only offensive. it can be dangerous. >> plus the prince investigation. what happened on his private plane? >> what's the nature of the emergency? what's the nature -- >> an unresponsive passenger. >> we have the latest details on that. also my exclusive interview with prince's muse. she saw a different side of the music legend, and she is speaking out right here tonight. we have a lot to get to in this broadcast in the next two hours, but i want to begin with cnn's

sara murray with the trump campaign in pennsylvania. good evening, sarah. you're at the trump rally tonight in pennsylvania where the republican front-runner just finished a day-long attack on the cruz/kasich alliance. what's the latest? what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. donald trump doesn't seem to be particularly threatened necessarily by this alliance. his campaign still feels like they're in a very strong position. but you know what donald trump is like when he is attacked, and he spent today just unloading on john kasich and ted cruz. take a listen to what he had to say tonight. >> so we had some big news today. you had lyin' ted and announce that he can't win by himself. he cannot do it. you know he's a joker. he cannot do it. so he said let me form a partnership, which i call -- what do we call it? go ahead. go ahead. what do we call it? let me form. it's called collusion, folks. it's called collusion.

>>. >> reporter: and this has been what it has been like with donald trump all days. he's called them loser, pathetic. he made fun of the way john kasich eats. and tonight he even said it's time for both of them to get out of the race because they have no path forward, and it's time for the party to unite behind trump. >> what do ted cruz and john kasich hope to get out of this, sarah? >> reporter: well, ted cruz is hoping for a win. he's hoping john kasich getting out of the race means that he can actually notch a victory in indiana. for john kasich, it's a little bit trickier. this is a campaign that is strained on resources, so it gives them a little bit of air cover, a little bit of time to maybe work on the delegates, on conference calls rather than be out there and campaigning. it also keeps them in the narrative. it sends a signal to kasich supporters that i will be in the race in may, in june. that's as important to them at this point than anything because what they really want is a contested convention and above all, what they want is to keep trump below 1,237 delegates.

>> i understand there is a reason you're outside this arena. why is that? >> reporter: so we are outside this arena, one, because donald trump's lease ended relatively early tonight because the circus is coming to town. over my right shoulder is a tent full of cages and potentially animals that will be headed inside for the circus. so unfortunately we couldn't show you the beautiful campaign rally inside. you're just getting this beautiful parking lot instead. >> i'll keep my mouth closed on that one. thank you very much, sara murray. now i want to bring in cnn's chief political correspondent dana bash, and cnn politics executive editor mark preston. why are you smiling? we're like the circus has already come to town. politics this season is crazy. >> no more elephants in the circus, though. >> dana, since you're out on the campaign trail, i want to ask you this. this idea of teaming up to stop trump, people find it a little odd, a little more than a month ago you told us the kasich team

was pushing for an alliance. they even got mitt romney to make a call. but then cruz didn't have any time for it. he couldn't be bothered. what changed since then? >> not just that he couldn't be bothered, don. more importantly, his campaign team thought it was a crazy idea because at the time, let's say a week ago, they thought that -- and they actually rightfully did still have a mathematical path to the nomination before the convention. that no longer exists, thanks in large part to the fact that right where you are in new york, ted cruz got zero delegates last tuesday. so new it is time for ted cruz to try to be more strategic, and that is why his campaign maggnar and the top aide to john kasich, that man's name is john weaver, trying desperately to get the cruz camp to do this long ago,

said, okay, now is the time. primarily because of the fact that it's now all about trying to stop donald trump before the convention. but also in the more immediate future, all about winning indiana in the short term. and that of course is a week from tomorrow and because it's a delegate-rich state in that it's winner take all, and so that is why the cruz campaign really is focused on the short term there. the fact that they got the kasich camp to not campaign actively there, they thought was a pretty big win for them. >> mark, what does this mean? you know strategy. will this strategy work? >> listen, i think that it's probably a little bit too late right now. i also think, don, at this point i think both candidates have failed to exert the urgency needed in order for this plan to come together. we saw today john kasich and ted cruz come out, and they didn't give a full-throated endorsement to this plan. we saw paper last night on a sunday night, late on a sunday night, and this morning you

would have expected these two candidates to come out and say for the good of the party, for the good of the country, we need to get behind that. we didn't see that today. there's only 15 contests left. five of them are gone tomorrow tonight. ten from there. as dana was noting, donald trump did very well in new york. he's going to do very well tomorrow night. i wonder if it's too late. >> and you know donald trump had a lot to say about it because he spent the day blasting his rivals as pathetic and desperate. john kasich disagrees. here he is. >> the trump people are very desperate. they're very fearful that we're going to end up in an open convention. i've been saying it for two months as you've known. i've been on ac 360. i've been saying all along nobody is going to have enough delegates. we'll get to the conventions and the delegates will look at who they would like tow see as president. remember of the ten republican contested conventions, seven times the person going in there didn't have the majority of the delegates. it's the way it works. >> does john kasich have a real chance at the convention, mark?

>> i think that was a train wreck interview. i didn't understand what john kasich was trying to say there. he should have come on, and he should have said, listen, let us take this fight to the convention and let the republican party decide who the nominee is going to be if there isn't 1,237. >> a train wreck of an interview? >> i didn't understand what john kasich was trying to convey in that interview. i mean if he's going to -- if you're going to come out and do an interview like that, you want to try to build support for the plan that you're selling, and he did not do that. >> and if you don't know as someone who's really savvy when it comes to politics what he's saying. >> i don't know how savvy i am. >> dana, do you agree with that? >> i mean who am i to argue with my friend, mark preston. >> he just said his message wasn't clear because -- >> in all seriousness, i do in that this deal was clearly -- and he we know from our reporting -- was absolutely something that was pushed by not necessarily the candidate

himself but his strategist because, you know, the candidate is off doing his retail thing, and he's not, you know, kind of the tactical strategist that maybe a ted cruz is or other candidates. and that's, you know, john kasich's charm. >> but dana, let me ask you this. >> just quickly finish my thought in that i think to mark's point, you know, even before this interview happened, john kasich today on the campaign trail said, well, you know, it's not like i'm not going to ask people for votes in indiana. so it definitely was a bit of a mixed message based on the big splash that the campaigns hoped to -- >> i didn't mean to cut you off there. i wanted you to just sort of -- i wanted to capitalize on what you were saying at the moment because donald trump is saying that this is collusion, right? >> yes. >> and that these -- is it okay for these camps to be working this closely together? >> yes. sure, why not?

look, they're actually not colluding in that they're not sharing resources to our knowledge. they're not sharing polling. they're not -- you know, they're not doing that. what they are doing is saying, i'm going to go this way. you're going to go that way because this is the best terrain for me and that's the best terrain for you. you have on that map up there, which is important to note, it's really at this point the deal is for three contested, may 3rd, may 17th, and june 7th in new mexico. an open question is what happens in california also on june 7th, which is a very complicated, very diverse, very expensive state, whether they're going to continue that. then in my sense in talking to sources involved in this is that a lot depends on how successful this is for ted cruz in indiana a week from tuesday. >> mark, i want to ask you with that said, according to this deal, senator cruz is going to one-on-one with trump in the indiana primary on may 3rd. mr. trump leads now by eight

points. so what does it say if ted cruz does win indiana? is this a game-changer if he does? >> well, it is amazing because at this point right now, i think that it is donald trump's to lose. if ted cruz is able to go into indiana and he is able to win statewide, which would allow him half of the delegates on the table, 27 of those, and then he is able to then pick up because of those big wins, he would pick up perhaps another 20, 18 or 20 delegates, the discussion will be donald trump can be stopped. but right now, it appears that donald trump has someone behind his back. and to dana's point too, we should note the campaign strategists for both campaigns are both very smart gentlemen. they knew what they were doing. it just didn't seem like they had the candidates fully on board for what they were trying to do. and make no mistake about it. had these two campaigns not decided to move forward and do something like this, the game was over for them. so they had to do something. >> yeah. >> the question is was it too late? >> thank you very much, mark.

dana, thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> and don, you can interrupt me anytime. you know that. >> you were going there. i just wanted to ask you about the collusion because he's been using that word all day, saying if you do it in business, you go to jail. but in politics, it's fine. >> absolutely. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> good night. >> make sure you stay with cnn all day for coverage of the crucial primaries in five states tomorrow. voters going to the polls in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, and rhode island. and we're going to be covering all the angles for you on cnn. when we come back, can anything bring the gop together after this campaign? plus, why donald trump is very, very upset about john kasich and pancakes. >> did you ever see a man eat like this? i've never -- i'm always working with my son. little, tiny pieces, baron. little, tiny pieces. this guy is shoving pancakes -- i never saw anything like it. it's pouring out of his mouth, and the cameras are on him. i don't know. look, that's not presidential, i

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hoover here as well. i got three smart ladies here, so let's see if i can live up to your expectations of me in my questioning. so i'm going to ask you about this alliance between you first, kelly anne, because john kasich and ted cruz. this alliance, shall we say, that donald trump is calling collusion. is this fair game? >> of course it's fair game. >> are they playing by the rules here in. >> absolutely. it's completely transparent. donald trump's tax returns aren't. i'd like to see those be transparent. this was done in the light of day and basically it affects three states oregon and new mexico that mr. kasich, governor kasich will i guess now go and campaign in, and indiana, where ted cruz is far ahead of john kasich in a three-way race and which is a very important state. it's winner take all by congressional district. >> he's saying to unify the party, both of them should quit. that would be the unifying strategy. that's what donald trump says. >> i'm sure he would like them to quit because he should have had this nomination wrapped up at least a month ago. i think instead of worrying about them and insulting them as

lying ted and john kasich who eats like a slob and everything else that was said today which was fairly unpresidential. if he wasn't poired about them, why not just ignore these people who he thinks aren't actual competitors. >> is this collusion as he said? >> of course this is not collusion. >> he said in business if you did this, you would go to jail. >> i mean if you take the wod collusion, there's this implication that there's fraudulent, under the table illegal activity happening here and the whole point the rnc is trying to make is everything is open and transparent and people are adults. they can make their own decisions. look, donald trump is the art of the deal guy, right? his job as the front-runner is to consolidate support around it. go make your deals, donald. instead you've got cruz and kasich that are making the deals, not trump. >> does it sort of -- i don't want to say reek, or smell of desperation a little bit? >> desperation? like this is for the presidency. they're running for the presidency, right? this is all fair game, and it's above board. it's nobody's buying votes. this isn't like negative or

illegal activity. it's like donald trump should be -- >> go ahead. just quickly. >> may i just add that look what happened again this weekend for like the fourth consecutive weekend, what did cruz and his team do? they went into states where they were awarding delegates and grabbed the delegates. they're winning the delegates. so if this were a last-ditch desperate attempt, they wouldn't be spending their weekends trying to grab delegates. by the way, i think it's been completely misrepresented as a last ditch effort to stop trump. it's the continuation of trying to become the republican nominee. >> okay. so in that, though, it's interesting because only one of them can become the republican nominee, but they're working together. so what's really behind it? kayly, is this cruz/kasich divide and conquer strategy going to work? >> no, it's not. it definitely is desperation because last week senator cruz said he wouldn't coordinate with kasich. that's not on the table. this week he is. what changed between last week and this week. trump won new york by over 50%. he's going to win tomorrow by over 20%. ted cruz just pulled out of the

states because he's doing so poorly in the northeast corridor, perhaps because of the new york values comment. so this is desperation. but the problem is the voters aren't going to buy it because they realize that they're being used as pawns in the establishment chess game. ted cruz is now officially with the establishment, firmly putting his foot down with john kasich in the never trump movement. he's part of the establishment. the voters don't like it. they don't like to be manipulated. >> i saw you guys laughing, but this has been so much like -- this election has been so much about the non-establishment, right don't you think this is just going to energize trump voters? no? >> it could, but there aren't 55 -- there aren't 50% plus one of them in indiana, in new mexico, in oregon, even in california. that's the whole point here, don. as i said many times on your show before, there's trump and then there's non-trump, and currently in most states including the ones that we've mentioned, the non-trump portion of the electorate is over 50%. if you can consolidate that into one person, then at least you have a buy nary show.

>> that's such a flawed argument because -- >> because? >> by your logic, kelly anne, then ted cruz winning 30% means there's a 70% never cruz movement. that's completely absurd to say that in a 17-person race, he hasn't gotten over 50% in some states. the other 60% is somehow against him. by your own logic, 70% is against your logic. so there's a 70 pr -- >> kayleigh, we're talking about moving forward. >> no. your argument -- >> there are no never kasich movements. >> it's a logical fallacy. >> okay. well then why don't you have the nomination wrapped up yet? what happened? you've been the front-runner -- not you, him. >> he's going to have the nomination wrapped up. he was in a 17-person race. by the way, he's won a greater percentage of the delegates and the popular votes -- >> but he has the smallest delta of popular vote to delegate percentage. he has about 37% of the popular vote and 42% of the delegates so

far. >> go ahead, margaret. >> look, to kayleigh's point, if the point is unifying and the point is moving forward, donald trump could just get kasich's supporters, he's have his 140-plus, he's be almost 1,000. he'd be approaching -- or the rubio delegates. the point is he needs to start unifying the party instead of accusing other people of collusion. and that's -- i mean that's the -- you know, he may have sort of this bully pulpit and he has the celebrity factor, but he's got to prove he can actually be a unifier. >> there's no interest in unifying the party when you're insulting reince priebus, when you're saying delegates can be bribed and they're in a rigged game and a corrupt system and making fun of the way john kasich eats. this is unifying the party? >> to donald trump's credit, he called out colorado for not having a vote, and then what do we find last week, which is wasn't reported anywhere. last week colorado comes out and says, okay, we're going to allow the people to vote next time. so donald trump has a point when he fights for the people because he actually ends up empowering

the people. that's evidenced by colorado now allowing the people to vote next time. >> why did nobody show up at the convention on the weekend? >> stick around, everyone. when we come back, why ted cruz might be considering one of his rivals as a running mate. we're going to tell you who it might be, next. open up a lot of. tough on grease...yet gentle. dawn helps open... something even bigger. go to facebook.com, dawn saves wildlife. you're all set to book a flight using your airline credit card miles. and surprise! those seats sometimes cost a ridiculous number of miles, making it really hard to book the flight you want. luckily, there's a better way... with the capital one venture card. with venture, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. and when you're ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any airline, then use your miles to cover the cost. now you're getting somewhere. what's in your wallet?

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five states vote in tomorrow's super tuesday primaries just hours away. back with me now, kayleigh

mcenany, kelly anne conway and margaret hoover. kelly, you first and then we'll move on from this alliance so to speak. donald trump isn't happy about cruz and kasich joining forces and he went after the way kasich eats today. >> if you look at kasich, i don't think he knows what -- you know, did you see him? he has the news conference all the time when he's eating. i have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion. i'm always telling my young son, baron, i'm saying -- and i'm always with my kids, all of them, i'd say, children, small, little bites. small. this guy takes a pancake, and he's shoving it in his mouth. it's disgusting. do you want that for your president? i don't think so. he's eating today, stuffing. i never saw. bites this big. he's pushing it in with his -- i never saw a guy eat like this. i told my son, he was watching. he said, daddy, look.

i said, don't watch. little bites. little bites. >> all right. so we're all laughing. obviously he wouldn't be happy, but is this really the best way to attack kasich? kayleigh? >> look, i think it's -- i don't think he's thinking this is going to be, you know, the end of kasich. i think it's just a fun antic he does with his audience. you know, cruz, the other week, talked about running over donald trump if his car was in reverse on a late night comedy show and everyone laughed. people do funny things. i don't think he's using this as a way to take down kasich. it's just a fun thing with the audience. >> it's like he's running to be entertainer in chief. even all of us up here watching it, we're laughing. it's okay, great, we're laughing. but then you sort of stop in your tracks and you think, wait, but we're not talking about anything serious. we're not talking about how we're going to defend foreign policy. how we're going to make america's economy grow. that's the problem with the republican side right now.

>> it's working for him, though? >> you got to keep it on that. >> kelly anne, let's look forward to tomorrow, the races. maryland, pennsylvania, rhode island, connecticut. >> not looking forward to tomorrow. >> you're not looking forward? delaware. it looks like a pretty good night for donald trump. that's why you're not looking forward in. >> you always have that baked in the cake. you have to look at the map and be realistic about where your best chances are. i think the whole northeast is much more hospitable to its hometown hero, mr. trump. he did well in new york. he'll do well tomorrow. john kasich will pick up some delegates. then we start going to these, like you said, winner take all and the congressional district, indiana and then nebraska. you've got some very different states. you've got nebraska, south dakota, montana, oregon, washington, and the big prize in california. after tomorrow, there's still about 600 and some delegates to be awarded, and that's why everyone is still in it. >> i mean kelly anne -- >> i'm looking at your face. >> it's like my dear friend, kelly anne -- >> here it comes.

you know it's coming. >> we know this is increasingly impossible for ted cruz and it's a convention fight. he can maybe do well -- i mean indiana is really like the last best sort of hold for him to make a stand and to try to defeat donald trump. if he can't do it in indiana, then, you know, your fingers are crossed that you can have a convention battle. >> if you can, then what? >> then you are still on track to have a convention fight, but that's what this is looking like. >> let's talk about ted cruz vetting potential v.p. candidates. carly fiorina is supposedly at the top of the list. >> it's really interesting much it's hard to understand what carly fiorina brings to the table in this rationally or this logic. i'm sure he's thinking, well, she's a woman. and mitt romney lost the female vote by 12 percentage points so maybe he could make up some of the difference there. but we know that women voters and we say this all the time as republican women voters, just because there's a woman on the ticket, doesn't mean women vote for that. ask millennial women if they're voting for hillary clinton. heck no.

by like 29% they're not. so, you know, gender doesn't sort sort of coalesce -- >> looking forward to indiana, that he's trying to put some oxygen into the indiana contest by saying, you know, i'm considering a woman? >> i think he's considering several people actually. i would imagine. i can't talk to them. i'm on the super pac. but i imagine they're vetting several different people. who wouldn't want carly fiorina on their team and ted cruz has her on the team. she's so active for him now. let's give carly fiorina her due. if hillary clinton is the democratic nominee and talk about a rigged system, it looks like bernie sanders and all his efforts will be for naught over there. having a strong woman like carly fiorina who is willing to go after hillary clinton full square, that's a huge benefit. she's a successful businesswoman. what it does is i think what happened today is that cruz and kasich and really cruz, who got the better end of the cruz/kasich deal plus vetting

v.p., it was a position of strength and you can't get a lot of news cycles back from donald trump and today was one of those days. >> carly fiorina is just as qualified as the next person, right? she's a very qualified woman. she ran for president and did okay. but isn't this sort of putting the cart before the horse because i mean, kayleigh what you doink? ted cruz is not doing so well yet he's vetting possible v.p. candidates? what in the world is going on here? >> yeah, you know he's trying to get back in the news, don. you saw last week where, you know, donald trump won new york. tomorrow he's going to do well. the narrative is becoming donald trump is the presumptive nominee. so ted cruz is making, you know, his best effort to get in the news either via, you know, this kasich alliance or via naming a v.p. candidate. but he's way ahead of himself. i mean donald trump is going to wrap this up. i don't think that he's going to be ever in a position to name a v.p., but i will say that carly fiorina is an excellent pick if he was going to pick one. she's not a fan of my candidate, but i have to give her her due. she's an outsider.

she's someone who consistently in debates brought it back to hillary clinton, made this about the general election. she would be a great surrogate. >> margaret, i want to ask you this. we've been talking a lot about governor kasich while he's out on the campaign trail back in his home state. you know, this horrific execution-style murder of eight members of the same family. marijuana grow operations were supposedly found at some of the sites. it's unclear if it's related, but the residents in that county are on edge. the county sheriff is cautioning surviving family members that they may still be in the crosshairs. so do you think that he should have made more out of it, should have responded more out of this? should we hear more from him? >> kasich should have gone to deal with the crisis at home? >> yeah. >> i mean he is a governor. he's the governor of a state and he has only won one of many, many contests, 44 contests now. but, look, i would imagine he will go home and do it. he's got a major opportunity tomorrow to demonstrate that he can be more than just really the

third wheel of a presidential campaign. so it's, you know, hard and he does have very high favorabilities in his state. i don't think his state feels he has left his state -- >> he did say justice will be delivered on this. thank you. >> thank you, appreciate it. coming up, the last days of prince. what investigators are learning about his final week as fans and friends of the superstar mourn his death. g. we'll be with you shortly. yeah right... xerox predictive analytics help companies provide a better and faster customer experience. hello mr. kent. can i rebook your flight? i'm here! customer care can work better. with xerox. wait i'm here! mr. kent? (gasp) shark diving! xerox personalized employee portals help companies make benefits simple and accessible... from anywhere. hula dancing? cliff jumping! human resources can work better. with xerox.

friends, family and fans mourning the loss of prince tonight as investigators learn more about what happened during the final days of his life.

cnn kyung lah is at paisley park. >> reporter: don, the sheriff's department had promised that this investigation would be extensive. it would be far-reaching, reaching beyond minneapolis, looking at an emergency landing that prince's private jet made in illinois. it happened on april 15th. prince was flying back here to minneapolis. he was ill aboard the plane. that plane made a rapid descent emergency landing, dropping 45,000 feet in 17 minutes. cnn obtained the 911 call shortly after the plane landed. the patient aboard described as, quote, unresponsive. >> what's the nature of the emergency? what's the nature -- >> an unresponsive passenger. >> do you know male, female? he told me unresponsive passenger. >> it was around this time police was seen at an atlanta convert walking with a cane. there were multiple reports that prince needed hip surgery. now, prince was a jehovah's witness, those religious

teachings forbid jehovah's witnesses receive blood tra transfusions. members of his congregation say it had nothing to do with his death. >> nobody said he couldn't get surgery. absolutely not. i heard that rumor out there too. we're not anti-medicine. in fact, we go out of our way to try to find the best medical care that we can. >> reporter: the autopsy is complete, but the results are not expected for weeks. don. >> kyung, thank you very much. appreciate that. i want to bring in now van jones. van is a good friend of prince, and it's good to have you here. how are you doing? okay today? >> i've been up and down but more up today than down, which is good. >> i was worried about you last week. a lot of people were. we got a lot of praise for speaking out, saying what you said last week. so thank you for that, for being so -- >> thanks for the opportunity. >> so there you are. i love seeing you laugh because there you are with prince. i believe this was on "the view" a couple years ago and then you

attended a private memorial service this weekend at paisley park. what can you tell us about it? >> well, first of all, i can just say that there were, you know, thousands of fans that were on the outside, and they were incredibly respectful. nobody was trying to rush in. the police were there just more to give directions than to maintain order. and that was really, really powerful for the family to see the love and the respect of the fans for, you know, their need to get together and to grieve. about 20 people, 20 of us who you know played different very close roles. i also want to say that is not the last time that we're going to celebrate his life. his life is going to be celebrated. the jehovah's witnesses are going to have an opportunity to do something more public, and then there will be at some point a much, much more public celebration. but this was just a very simple thing for family members and very, very close friends. and it was -- it was heartbreaking. >> the family honored many of the fans who were, you know, at this tribute to prince outside paisley park by giving out

purple boxes. tell us about it. >> well, you know, they wanted to do something, and, you know, they had cds. they had little gifts and stuff and they came out and physically passed out to the thousands of people who were out there, you know. and on the inside it was really -- it was the opposite. it was somber. it was sober. the lights were dim. you know, paisley park is a massive facility. and, you know, it was like two or three air hangars, big. and everything dim, quiet, totally the opposite of what it usually is. and playing a lot of music. but the one song that was not played was "purple rain." i think had that song been played, i don't think people -- people would still be there on the floor. i don't think anybody would have made it out. so literally they played almost every prince song, but they did not play "purple rain." >> let's talk about this investigation, van. you just heard from kyung lah reporting on some of the speculation about prince's

health before he died. his fans of course want to know what happened. everybody wants to know what happened to him. is there anything you can share with us? >> look, everything will come out in due course. one of the great things about this is the level of professionalism from the police department, the sheriffs, the coroners. they want to get everything right. they want to put it together. i've been very satisfied and the family has been very satisfied no leaks, no preliminary this. it's all going to come out all at one time, and then everybody will have their questions answered. but in the meantime, we want to respect that process. let for once, in the history of hollywood entertainment, a professional, fair, no-leaks process go forward. and everything will be revealed in time. >> so you have said that -- you said it on this program last week. like if you went around saying that you knew prince, right, then you weren't going to know him for very long because he didn't like that. so we're seeing a lot of people -- well, i shouldn't say a lot of people. some people who hadn't been -- you know, he hadn't worked with for a long time or hadn't been in his life for a long time and now they're coming forward. what can you tell us about that? we're hearing from them.

>> you know, the think what people want to remember, think about prince as sort of like a seven-layer cake, you know. the different times, there were different people, there were different sounds, different relationships, and everybody can speak authentically to their layer of their cake. i was with him for ten years. i can't speak about the 20 years ago and 30 years ago. so it's very important to hear from those voices from the past, which what's been noticeable is that the more recent set has been very, very quiet. you're the first person to score an interview with one of the leaders of the new prince entourage and set of proteges. i believe demaris is going to be. >> right after you. >> she represents an incredible set, you know, third eye girl, you know, josh, all these incredible people. so i think it's good that we may finally now hear from the people who were with him over the past three, four, five years as well as the people who were there before. >> i want to ask you about the minnesota twins tonight. they are doing a purple for

prince, #purple for prince with each player walking out to bat to their favorite prince song. prince and minneapolis shared their own sort of love story, didn't they? >> absolutely because most people including myself, you grew up in a small town. i grew up in jackson, tennessee. you get the heck out of there as soon as you can. not prince. he built that incredible facility, and i do hope that paisley park becomes like a graceland like we have in memphis for elvis presley where people can go and see. if you've ever been in there, it changes your life, don. you should have a passport. you are leaving america. you are leaving known space and time when you go in there, and you can see why this place created so much music. why people loved to go there and record and produce. it's got a magic to it. and, you know, he built it right outside of minneapolis. he didn't go to hollywood. he didn't go to new york. so there's a special relationship that little town

has. they see him as a neighbor. he can go to the store. he can go to the walgreens. he can ride his bicycle, whatever he wants to do because people understand this is just our neighbor. this is our friend. and his church is literally right across the street from paisley park. so it's -- he has a one syllable name that's going on seven couldn't nenlts and yet he lives in this little small town. >> van, thank you. really appreciate it. see you soon. >> thank you, don. one syllable. when we come right back, prince's muse speaks out tonight in an exclusive interview. don't go anywhere. i'm in vests and as a vested investor in vests, i invest with e*trade, where investors can investigate and invest in vests... or not in vests. this is my retirement. retiring retired tires. and i never get tired of it.

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his close friend. thank you for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> you're a beautiful young lady. we were talking on the break. i've heard so much about you from van, who is your -- >> godfather. >> he said he adopted you because prince is not hear to take care of you any longer. when you hear that tribute, it was amazing. do you think prince knew what he meant to the world? >> he did. i think that one of the things about him that really made me love him is that his reward for anything he did was in his giving. he understood that he was giving, but he didn't want anything back from it or for it. and i think that with him, he knew so much. and every one of us who was in his life, he spent his life making sure we knew what he knew so that we could pass it on. >> what do you think of the reaction? >> wow. i was at paisley park this weekend and seeing the fans, you

know. normally when someone passes in your life, it's you and your close knit circle who has to deal with it. and this time it was me and the world. and it's definitely been something to see. i'm so grateful for the love that people are showing and that they're going to continue to show, i hope. and, yeah. >> so we know what a muse is like a creative inspiration. but what do you think? was that a friendship? was it romantic? did you just inspire him creatively? define that for us. >> prince is one of my best friends. i met him back in 2011 -- 2010. i met him and he didn't know i was a dancer. and about a year later, i was at an after-party with him, and i was kind of just going off, and he asked me to go on tour with him in australia. i thought he was joking. so i left it alone. and three weeks before the tour happened, he asked me again. and three days later, i was in

chan hassen in rehearsal, and i've been going strong with the camp ever since. but it really is inspiring to know that someone who didn't know much about you had so much trust in you. >> how so? >> prince let me be me. i'm a model. i work in an industry where i'm constantly having to change and be someone else for my work. i was myself all the time. prince is hilarious. i'm a very sarcastic, funny person. we spent most of our time cracking up and laughing and just really enjoying life. but i think it's a true testament to the fact that he really takes from the people around him, and he did that every single day from his band to just everybody in his life. >> so when did you last speak to him? >> last week. yeah, i spoke to him -- i spoke to him last week sunday, and the last conversation we had, i was telling him he needed to take a

vacation. yeah. and, you know, it's been tough. >> why did you think that? was he working too hard? >> no. i just think i heard the news of the plane landing, and that's the first thing that i thought. you know, i think it's important that a lot of these big superstars have people who actually care about them around them. and he was my friend. he was actually my friend. regardless of the touring and the dancing and whatever i did work-wise, he was my friend. and i was concerned and, you know, you need those people around you to remind you that sometimes you've got to take a break. >> everyone is talking about his health. did you know anything about his health? did he have a hip problem? >> i didn't -- honestly i didn't know anything. he's a very private person, and i think that in a time like this especially, anybody who does know anything or anybody who did know anything, i think it's going to be up to us to really keep his privacy private, you know. so at this point i really didn't know. i know he was battling the flu a couple weeks ago. i did know that. he did tell me that.

>> what again? >> he was battling the flu. so i did know that, and that's about it. >> how did he sound? >> normal. i was with him -- he with did two aftershows at avenue here in new york about a month ago for his book-signing party, and he was fine. >> i want you to take a look. there's a selfie. we're going to put this selfie up. what do you think of when you look at yourself? >> you know, it's funny. prince didn't allow anybody to have cell phones around him, and that day we were in paris, and he asked me where my phone was. i said, okay. i have my phone. he said, let's take a picture. i said, are you sure? you're positive? you're positive you want to take this photo? and we take the picture. he says, post it. what do you mean post it? i said are you sure? are you sure i can post it? so i posted it, and it's funny because i went around telling everybody, hey, guys, prince let me take a photo. but that's the kind of person he was. i think that what people really need to know is that in the past couple years, prince began doing what he wanted to do.

this man fought his entire career to get to a place where he could do what he wanted to do. when i first met him, he said i want a band with 12 horns players. he got a band with 12 horns players. he said, i really want to make rock music. i want to have a rock band. he got a rock band. he got third eye girl. it was inspiring watching him going from wanting to do these things to finally doing everything he wanted to do. >> this is a question that having dealt with, you know, the loss of a loved one, you always wonder like in the last conversation, did you -- you know, what could i have said? what could i have done? did you get to say everything you wanted to say to -- you know what i mean? >> you know, i think -- i think prince knew how much i loved him. you know, if i could tell him something right now, it would probably be in the form of a joke because that's how we spoke.

but my message would be a message from him to everybody else to really understand that you have to give. you have to. if you have a gift, you have to give. and especially from my generation right now, we're in a really, really, really testy times. but he made sure every person in his life that influenced him was influenced by him. so yeah. >> thank you, damaris. >> thanks for having me. >> it's a pleasure meeting you. you take care. >> i will. when we come back, the rumors and the reality, the making of beyonce's "lemonade," and what it all really means. ♪ i'm terrible at golf. he is. people say i'm getting better.

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