needed to win the nomination, after a couple of weekend primary wins. california joins five other states holding primaries tomorrow. we will have live coverage of her rally tonight on c-span. >> madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the united .tates

>> republican presidential candidate donald trump said today it was "inappropriate" for newt gingrich to demand he dropped the subject of an american judges and ethnicity and start acting like a potential leader of the united states. mr. trump says the judge cannot in the university lawsuits because his parents were born in mexico and mr. trump wants to build a wall along the border. joshhite house spokesman ernst had this to say about the issue. trump has made comments about one of the judges. i am wondering if you think those comments are racist. , i know thereok has been plenty of commentary on the presumptive republican .ominee's comments the presumptive republican nominee certainly does not seem

prompt people to offer an opinion about his comments. but i am going to resist the urge to do that. one observation about that. some who have weighed in with their opinions are republicans who have served in the united states senate, and they have had aboutointed things to say the impact his comments could have on the justice system in our country. i guess i would just point out that it's a little ironic for , wholicans in the senate say they have concerns about the republican presidential nominee's views as it relates to notes, to also say they are going to confirm any judges to

preserve the ability of the republican presidential nominee potentially make those appointments. that is certainly true at the , and it isrt level in evidence of the uncomfortable position republicans have tried to adopt when it comes to not doing their job regarding the supreme court. but it applies to federal judges as well. there are a variety of very well-qualified obama nominees to appellateboth the level and district level who would fill vacancies on courts that have declared judicial emergencies. this is not just the president declaring willy-nilly that he would like to fill vacancies. these are districts saying we need help in order to manage the , to prevent the kind of

backlog that would potentially , but republicans, even when faced with ofl-qualified nominees, some whom have earned the support of well-qualified republicans on the judiciary committee, blocking nominees is indefensible. >> he is a donald trump cheerleader, a trumpet. washington 10 days ago without doing his job on the -- zika virus so that he could stump for trump. it has become clear that mitch has no priority other than to stump for trump.

donald trump said a judge should be disqualified because of his mexican heritage. he said he would feel the same way if the judge were muslim. how did the republican leader respond? senator mcconnell repeatedly refused to call the attacks racist. this is the precise type of failure that gave rise to donald trump in the first place. senator mcconnell and all congressional republican leaders have never taken a stand against trump's rhetoric because the hate flowing from donald trump's mouth reflects the republican agenda for the last seven and a half years, the agenda senator mcconnell himself promoted. mcconnell andator the republicans have embraced the darkest elements of their

woman, anti-mexican, anti-immigrant, anti-muslim, anti-obama. by refusing to denounce trump's andck on a federal judge the racism it clearly connotes, it shows that senator mcconnell is a poster boy for the republican spinelessness that allow donald trump to become the nominee for president of the united states. this statement for months. are even some republicans joining me. consider this. the conservative blog "red state " said this. senator mcconnell chose a

coward's refuge, to support trump because he won the primary. public service announcement. a job someone cannot do because of his or her race is the literal definition of racism. newt gingrich called trump's comments inexcusable. but for his part, senator mcconnell is doubling down on campaign toonstop get republicans who have doubts to fall in line. some have called donald trump comparable to general dwight eisenhower. failedtrump is a

businessman who built to millions of americans out of their hard earned money. he won't release his tax returns . he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as president eisenhower who, among other things, integrated american schools. comparing eisenhower to trump? give us a break. donald trump is the converse of all leaders like eisenhower stood for. honor, fairness, decency. trump and mcconnell obviously do not. donald trump stands for hatred and division. some are reassuring everyone that donald trump would be fine. our leader extolled donald trump's intelligence.

that is how the republican leader spent last week. he was not leaving the party to zika, he wasead of leading the cheers to support donald trump. the opioid addiction is terrible. the republican is too busy being a trumpet for trump, and now that he has firmly entrenched himself in trumps corner, i cannot help but wonder how far his support extends. were donald trump's comments about the judge racist? mcconnell would not answer that question yesterday. he had numerous opportunities to. he has another opportunity today.

there are questions the republican leader needs to answer. does he believe a fellow judge should be disqualified -- federal judge should be disqualified because of his heritage? does he believe these attacks should be acceptable from a man who wants to lead the country? does he believe there should be a religious test? senator mcconnell police donald trump will make the right kind t appointments. does he truly believe donald trump is the right man to pick nominees to the supreme court? the republican leader defended donald trump's temperament, saying he would be fine as our leader. has called women pigs and dogs. is it fine when he calls immigrants rate best and murderers? when he urges

violence at rallies? these are not rhetorical questions. the republican leader has so fully embrace donald trump, that we are unclear where trump's platform ends and the senate republicans begins. he must explain why this is acceptable. the nation has a right to know how far senate republicans support of donald trump extends, and that starts with the republican leader, because now there does not appear to be any daylight between donald trump and senator mcconnell. i yield the floor. a stop intrump made california friday ahead of the primaryresidential tomorrow. he spoke shortly after his jet landed. this is just over an hour.

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mr. trump: this is amazing. redding, we love redding. thank you very much. i think it's 104 degrees. is everybody ok? if anyone not feeling well, come up here, we have plenty of water to share. this is hot out. i want to thank you all. they got some very bad news, the worst jobs report in 6 1/2 years

ok. it is going the wrong way. they are playing games. it's going the wrong way. they had a labor participation rate, it fell to 62.6%, which is one of the worst in many, many, many years. so we know what we're doing. we are going to turn it around and make america great again, bring back our jobs, bring back our jobs and bring it back fast. so you remember the 1237 and they said, maybe at the convention and i said we are going to reach it easy. who would have thought we reached it before hillary clinton. she can't close the deal. she can't close it. she's working hard and can't close it with bernie. good old bernie. we love our bernie.

i tell you what, what a mess she's in. and the people with bernie don't want to vote for her and they want to vote for trump. you saw that poll. because whether you like bernie or not, he's right about one thing, trade is a disaster for our country. one thing he is right about. the trade deals that our country makes is an absolute disaster. hello. look at all those people over there. this is crazy. wow! i wish these camera guys would spin it around. they are so dishonest, 100 something degrees out here to have this number of people. are we happy to be here? [cheers and applause] mr. trump: on june 7, you have to get out and vote, because you

know, we are setting records. we have already broken the record, in all fairness. i like that cap. he has the same cap i have on. hunters, the n.r.a., they gave me the endorsement. you saw that. great, great people. wayne and chris, they are great people. they gave me the earliest endorsement i think they have ever given to anybody. national rifle association. we are going to protect your 2nd amendment. we will protect your 2nd amendment. i love you, too. nice guy over there. big strong guy. i love you. so, look, we have had an incredible period of time june 16 we started and it's been an amazing ride. all over the world they are talking about it, it's a movement. they said they have never seen anything like it. the biggest crowds of anybody by far. the other night, bernie had 3,000 and i had 17,000. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: and they talked about me, donald trump made a speech, never mentioned the number of people and bernie has had a massive crowd of 3,000 people.

i tell you what, the press is so biased against us, but i believe we have the numbers. i really believe it. you know, they used to call it the silent majority, now i think we are going to call it the majority. in san jose, we had an amazing crowd. it was packed and it was incredible and at the basketball on, which is that area, the san francisco game, and we had some crowd. it was absolutely incredible. and it was a love fest inside, no problems whatsoever. we went on and spoke and had a good time for an hour and i said i want to get you guys so you could see the warriors, who won.

but i wanted to get them out and i said we don't want to get out. we had an amazing time. that was it and we wrapped up and everybody was cheering forever and they walked out and they get accosted by a bunch of thugs burning the american flag, burning the american flag. you know what they are? they're thugs. build that wall. you're right. [crowd chanting build that wall] mr. trump: we are going to build the wall, folks. don't even think about it. you saw -- i have a lot of endorsements and paul ryan just endorsed me and mitch mcconnell, but we have tremendous support. when you think that in the history of our party, more votes than anybody that has ever done this before.

think of it. more than dwight eisenhower. i mean he won the second war, more than ronald reagan who we all love, more than anybody and we have a lot of endorsements and very popular within the party and polls are coming out showing we are doing well and winning. the fox poll came out a few days ago and we are winning by flee points. we are beating hillary. did you see that phony speech she made yesterday. and people think, oh, did she speak well. she has a teleprompter here and there. do you notice, donald trump is a bad man. donald trump has a bad tone. we need a tough tone in this country. we don't need this kind of stuff anymore. she said, i don't like the tone of donald trump, that was a while ago. she said i don't like his tone. and i'm saying to myself, they are chopping off people's heads

and killing us at the border. our country's a mess. we have the worst jobs report in 6 1/2 years. our labor participation rate, you are talking about decades of a disaster. people are making less money now than they made 18 years ago and working harder. and i'm supposed to have a nice tone. hello, everybody. how's everything. we are going to bring back our jobs. we are going to take our country back. we are going to run it properly, folks. and you are going to be proud of your country again. and you know they do research. u.s.a. u.s.a. u.s.a. i like that. i like that. so california, good place. i'm going to play heavy in california.

i think we can win it. i mean we get crowds like this all over the place and didn't give you a hangar. they don't give hangars anymore. but it's amazing the kind of reception that we have. and every magazine and every newspaper whether they like us or not and i say folks, i'm a messenger. am i doing a good job? [cheers and applause] mr. trump: it's incredible what's happened. and people are saying it's the most incredible political phenomenon. one of the pundits told me the other day and said you know, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, the job you've done is so incredible. you came from nowhere and never did this before and fighting 17 governors and senators and professional politicians, i have been fighting them all my life and i like fighting, but you

have been fighting these people and week after week you are down to 16, you are down to 14, you are down to 9,, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. and they said it hasn't been anything like it. it doesn't matter whether we win or lose. it will be in the history books forever. they said it never happened. bill o'reilly the biggest single phenomenon. and i'm saying what the hell are we talking about? we have to win. we have to win. we didn't come this far to lose. we are going to play california because i think hillary is pathetic and should be in jail for what she did with her emails. she should be in jail.

she should be in jail for what she did with those emails. she wants to play a little tough. you know, she polls it, every word she said was polled. i don't have teleprompters. it's called up here and memory and called other things. and i speak from here and from the heart, ok, because that's what we need. and every single thing she said yesterday was polled and her people wrote it out and don't see the teleprompters. they said oh, they didn't know that. she's reading the script and read a line and phony audience. have the phony audience and the guy in the back going now and they clap. and these pundits -- if i ever did that, i would be run out of

town. vote but for hillary is ok. what she said was so many lies. like he wants japan to get nuclear weapons. i don't want them to get nuclear weapons. i want them to pay us the kind of money we have to have so we don't lose money protecting japan and germany and saudi arabia. we have to do this. and south korea. i mean we are protecting south korea from the maniac in the north and we're protecting them. he actually said -- you know they said would you mind having negotiations with north korea. no problem. who the hell cares. i'm not going there. but you have a negotiation. they said we will never talk. how stupid are these people? they have been selling our country down the tube. they have been spending money, who knows if the talks work, maybe they will, maybe they

won't. and putin said donald trump is a genius and next great leader of the united states. they wanted me to disavow what he said. how dare you call me a genius. how dare you call me a genius, vladimir. wouldn't it be nice we would get along with russia. i'm not talking about weakness. i know about negotiating. hillary clinton is a weak person. she is totally scripted. she is a thief and she should be in jail for what she did to our national security. i mean the only problem is i would like to run against her, if you want to know the truth. she should be. what she has done is terrible. so, look, we have -- i can't believe it. look at all the people out there trying to get in. look at those people. look at that.

look at all those people. they couldn't have pulled these fences a little bit further out? you don't want them to come in. you have enough people here. that's the way life works. life is vicious. so when we talk about the different attributes, you look at the word tone, but i'll use a different word, bernie sanders said that hillary clinton has bad judgment. she has bad judgment. we are in a cyberworld. this is now a cyberworld. russia is knocking us off. china is knocking us off. they are stealing so much. what china's doing with our intellectual property, stilling billions. we aren't doing anything about it, during her regime. you look at what's going on. here is hillary all louised up with a simple email system and asked why did she do it? i understand why she did it, because she's a thief. i get why she did it.

but talk about judgment, how do you have a president with that kind of bad judgment. she could have used the government stuff. she could have taken the government server, assume everyone is listening. every time i pick up a phone. you sue their ass off if they are and drop a little lawsuit on them and make them pay. but you know what? for her to do what she did puts our country at risk. she's secretary of state. she's got people like uma, anthony weiner, wife of anthony weiner, how would you like anthony weiner to be having these secrets. guess what, she tells anthony

weiner. i know anthony weiner. i don't want him knowing anything. and i never ever want him to tweet me. does anybody want him to tweet? she's married to anthony weiner and goes home -- that's the way life works. she goes home. who the hell wants that. this is not right. it's not right. general petraeus has suffered greatly and many people suffered far less than what hillary clinton did. to me, as the woman just said, but she got away with it. it looks like she got away with it -- unless i win. [cheers and applause] mr. trump: and everything will be fair, but we are going to have an attorney general and the attorney general is going to take a look and see, because you know there's a five year or six-year statute of limitations. so she really is running for some very important reasons for herself. look, when somebody does something so wrong as that, they have to pay the consequences.

she put our nation in difficulty. did you see her i.t. specialist, he's taking the fifth. the word is he's ratting her out like you wouldn't believe it, but they want to try and favor, that's not the way the government is supposed to work. they aren't supposed to be trying to save her but supposed to be doing the right thing. but the press never lets up and it never follows that story. it never follows the real story. so do you remember in iowa, i made a speech. and i said let's raise some money for our vets. and i figured we would raise half a million, two million. we end up raising almost $6 million. and i got bad publicity. can you imagine? this can only happen to me. i have more calls and more emails and more tweets at --

#realdonaldtrump. cnn and fox says donald trump, i'm sitting there tweeting, cnn and fox says donald trump, i'm sitting there tweeting, donald trump has issued a major statement. you know we have like almost 9 million on twitter. and similar number on facebook. on instagram, a million and a half and soon going to be 20 million people. that's like owning the "new york times" without the lawsuits. and then they say, you shouldn't -- my opponents, they have three people, they said you shouldn't use your twitter. i say why? i said like in golf, a hitter, don't use your driver. we use anything you have to do to win. we are going to win.

we are going to win. we raise almost $6 million and the dishonest press, and they are so dishonest, not all of them but many of them, they are so dishonest, if i would have done nothing, it would have been fine. i said let's raise some money for the vets. i'm glad i did it. i got more thank u.s. from the vets. we gave to many, many groups. they wake up and get $100,000 in the mail, $250,000. one of them got $1.1 million and they are great. they are great people and they appreciated it. but they put the negative spin on everything. no matter what we do -- you know it's funny. the "new york times" puts me on -- medic. medic. you just take it easy, darling. it's hot out here, right.

right over here, medic. right over here. thank you. we love you. we love you. some of these people got here five, six hours ago. [applause] [crowd chanting trump] mr. trump: she ok? we want to make sure she's ok. she was here for five hours, they say. five hours, some of them here for seven, eight hours. we love you. are you ok, honey? give her a hand everybody. give her a hand.

[applause] mr. trump: that's great. she's tougher than all of us. and look at the medics and the police, what a great job they do, right? [applause] mr. trump: e.m.t.'s. give them a hand, by the way. great job. thank you, darling. she looks like she's in good shape. thank you very much. that's true, the police, the medics, firemen and the job they do and aren't appreciated. they are going to be appreciated, folks. is she good? everything good? that's good. that's good. thank you, honey. so we're going to do things that haven't been done in a long time.

we are going to start winning again. we don't win anymore. we don't win anymore. even a report that you see, it was like a bombshell expected 100,000 jobs, 38,000 jobs. they are bad jobs. people say we don't have good jobs. our good jobs are moving to mexico along with the companies that are moving there. they are moving to china where china is making all our products and devaluing their currency. i had a meeting today and must have had 50 chinese people. people from china or formerly from china. and cnn was there, jake tapper was there and we had an amazing time and john dickerson, also a good guy, he was there from cbs and they looked outside and said who are all those people. they are endorsing trump. and nobody could believe it.

and i don't believe the chinese government and i don't blame the next can government. i want our government to be smart. i want our government to get away with the kind of things they get away with. but we have leaders that don't have a clue. and hillary clinton's at the top of the list. she's incompetent. let's face it. first of all, she's always got problems, whitewater, impeachment, lie, he didn't have sex with that woman. two months later, he's well, he didn't. he's -- these are lying people. we don't need another four years of the clintons. it's a mess. what were going to do is have a strong temperament. i don't like his temperament. i don't like his tall.

i have a temperament for winning. were going to start winning for you. temperament is very important. we need strength. i guess they do polls. they say how can we get donald trump? i have the greatest temperament that there is in the temperament this country needs at this time. i could slough it off and say i have a wonderful temperament. but let me tell you, i have a tough temperament. my temperament is totally controlled, i built an unbelievable company, i did so many great things. i just came in and read about a school where the clintons are involved where they gotten $16 million and it's a scam.

why aren't they being sued? it is a big story. temperament is an important word. we need toughness in tone. we need toughness in temperament. i really mean this. i think that hillary clinton is unfit to lead our country, certainly at this time. i think she is unfit. she does not have what it takes. you will go through four more years. i call her obama lite. i think it's going to be at least as bad, and maybe worse. think of what i said. they are scamming us with cyber. we are living in a cyber world. here she is all screwed up with her e-mails. she does not know what the hell is going on. it's a mess. you talk about composure, temperament, all these things. who would be so stupid to do what she did with her e-mails?

i mean, who would be so stupid? so, we are going to turn this country around. we are going to do things that are going to make you proud of your president, but more importantly, so proud of your country again. i deal with all these countries. i have so many deals. they laughed. they laugh at us. they say, what is going on? they don't believe it. even the people from china this morning. you'll see, i think it will be on cnn. they will say, mr. trump is right. they cannot believe what they get away with. i have the largest bank in the world from china, the largest bank in the world, massive bank, a tenant and one of my buildings. i know the people. they are sort of friends of mine. they tell me, we don't believe

we get away with it. i don't know if they know i will be revealing this, but they say, we can't believe we get away with it. so we are going to turn it around. now, a couple of things. we need strong borders. we need that or we don't have a strong country. 16,500 border patrol agents endorsing, first time they have ever endorsed a presidential candidate. what a perfect group to ask, as opposed to some consultant that wants to suck you dry with fees. they know less than that beautiful woman standing there. all they know is how to get fees. i said, let me ask you, how important is the wall? not that i'm going back, because i am not, but i feel better about it because they say mr. trump is vital, especially in terms of stopping the drug traffic going to the borders.

you ever seen the wall they have? they take a pogo stick and go right over the wall. they actually build a ramp and they go over with a car loaded with drugs. not going to be any ramps with my wall. it will be a serious wall. it will be a real deal wall. it will be way up there. it will be a big, beautiful wall. and you know what? someday they may name it after trump, but i would rather have a statue in washington, d.c. so look, we are going to build that wall. mexico is going to pay for that wall. we have a $58 billion trade deficit with mexico. $58 billion. that does not include the drugs pouring across the border, and yet we have companies moving into mexico. they just took the world golf championship out of miami and

brought it into mexico. the people of miami are furious. they brought it into mexico. they signed like a six-year deal with mexico. they take everything. they take everything, because we allow it to happen. we are not going to allow it. we won indiana big. remember, that was going to be a firewall. it was a firewall. it was a firewall for me. i won in a landslide. thank you bobby knight. others, by the way. we had incredible support. so many people came out. and they supported me. i knew i was going to win indiana. they kept saying we are going to win indiana. let me tell you what i think. i think, and let say ted cruz one, he would not be here right now. let's say somebody else one. they would not be here right now. they always give up in california as a republican because they say you can't win. i think we can win. i think we can win.

so we are going after california. we are going after the state of washington. we are going after places that no other republican goes after because we have a little bit of a tighter path. we have a few states where if we do not win them, it is over. whereas democrats can lose numerous states and they win. we have a tighter path. i am not your typical person. costa mesa, 31,000 people. they hardly showed that. that was the day the kid was breaking the police car. he was probably not arrested. sheriff joe arpaio, who is tougher at the border than that? between that and the border patrol, but sheriff joe totally endorses me. nobody tougher than sheriff joe. i saw this. they had a couple of people protesting. they put them in jail and a couple of seconds.

that is the way it has to be done. we need strengthen our country. i see it. and then this democrat mayor gets up and says, i think it was donald trump. you know what i say? when we have a protester inside, which is not very often, i say be very gentle, please don't hurt him, take care of him. if he wants to shout -- if he punches you in the face, smile as your nose is pouring blood out of it. be very, very nice. we had a case where we had an african-american guy, who is a fan of mine, great fan, great guy. i want to find out what is going on with him. look at my african-american over here. are you the greatest? you know what i'm talking about? ok. so we had an african-american guy at one of the rallies a month ago.

he is sitting there behaving. we had protesters inside the arena dressed in a ku klux klan outfit, ok? they are running around dressed as ku klux klan. the place is booing and booing. this african-american gets up, and man, he slugs these guys. he slugs them. by that time, their hat was off because it got ripped off as they were running up the stairs, but this guy, a great guy, i think he was a military guy for a long time. he slugged his guy wearing the ku klux klan outfit, but by the time he got up to the top, you could not see it was a ku klux klan outfit. so when the african-american coldcocked this guy, this guide did not know what happened, everybody thought the african-american was against me, and it was the opposite. he was his great guy, military guy. we have tremendous

african-american support. i'm going to bring jobs back to our country. we are going to bring jobs back. but when the sleazy people, these dishonest people, who never show the crowd, they never show the crowd, when they show that event, it made it look like the white guy was on my side. the african-american guy said, i had enough. and nobody is going to run through an arena like that, and they reversed it, and it is a disgrace, ok? let me tell you while we are on the subject, we are going to bring jobs back to this country. we need our jobs. we are going to make it very expensive for companies to fire everybody and leave. you know, your area has lost one

in three manufacturing jobs over a fairly short time. that is a lot of manufacturing jobs. your crime rate is way the hell up. when i go to connecticut, landslide. maryland, landslide. rhode island, landslide. delaware, landslide. the week before that we had new york, super landslide. they know me in new york. we have three people running. i got 62%. i won so much that people could not believe it. way above projections, i knew i was going to win. even for you, with the people who know me do best, they give me a tremendous vote of confidence, and we won it. then you have these guys, donald trump is not at 50%. i have 12 people running against me in some of these states, right? ever notice that? here is a guy, mr. trump will not run.

this is the finest field of talent ever assembled in the history of the republican party. that was before i ran. i listen to krauthammer say this is the finest group of talent ever assembled in the history of the republican party. i looked at my wife and said, maybe i should not run. except krauthammer does not know what he's talking about. he is overpaid. he was the big one for the war. go into the war. go into iraq. fight like hell. lose thousands of lives. it's been $2 trillion. you know what we got? nothing. you know what we did? we gave iraq to iran. with that being said, we are going to build our military so powerful, so strong, nobody is going to mess with us. our military is to pleaded. did you see those things on fox

and cnn where they had a sort of documentary on what is going on with our flyers, right? we have these great airmen. what is going on with our equipment? our f-16s, f-18s, they have the fighters, but they don't have parts, so they go into a plane graveyard where they dump the old planes and they are stealing parts for our fighter jets. and they are stealing parts from museums, they are going in and taking parts because they want to be able to continue to fly. this is the united states. can you imagine them doing that? and then they spoke to these young pilots, these great guys, and said, well, what do you think? they are leaving. as soon as their term is up, they are leaving. they remember how great it was 15 years ago when they started. this is the united states, folks, and we are never going to be doing that kind of thing

again if i am president, i tell you right now. i tell you right now. so we have a lot of things to do and we are going to do things the right way. hillary clinton is not a talented person. she is not a natural. she was not meant for this job. she is greedy. she is greedy as hell but, she does not have the talent for the job. she is not a natural for the job, and she is just not a natural talent. honestly, folks, look, beyond me, if you choose a hillary clinton, this country is going to die. it is going to die. she is not respected by other countries. as an example, when i said japan, look, we may have to walk, but japan, you have to pay up. you have to pay up. and if they don't pay up, we have to walk. and you know what? they will have to defend themselves. that's ok. that's ok.

what i'm saying is that they will have to defend themselves. right now, we have to defend them from north korea. if anything happens, we have to defend them. i say this to everybody, we defend them, but if we get attacked, japan does not have to help us. now think of it. that is our deal. sergeant bergdahl, we get bergdahl and they get five of the killers. i call him the five-for-one president. it was the same with the iran deal. we should not have even started negotiation and till we got those prisoners back. and not once did this stiff. he is a total stiff, john kerry, not once did he get up from the bargaining table and say, sorry, folks, you take care of yourself. leave the room. double up the sanctions. they would have called him

within 24 hours. he gave up every single point. and by the way, the biggest loser in that deal aside from us is israel. israel is beside themselves over that deal. that deal is a disaster for israel and the middle east, because you will have countries now start to arm up and arm up big. it is a disaster. this is the president we have. i believe that hillary clinton is going to be worse than obama, ok? i believe she has less talent than obama. she has less natural ability than obama. and i'm not saying that he has much, because he doesn't. he has an agenda, folks. nobody could be so stupid and make deals like this guy is making. remember this. remember this. obama has been talking lately, talking about donald trump, and normally i would not want to attack the president. i would not want to say bad. i would rather not.

but once he speaks, like bill clinton, he started speaking. now he has been very quiet lately, very quiet. you know what? he started speaking. once the attacks, we are allowed. he will go out and campaign for hillary. by the way, he doesn't like hillary, and hillary hates obama, you know that? she has hated him for years. obama called bill clinton a racist. bill clinton hates obama. he hates obama. hates him. the biggest surprise to me is that he made the speech at the convention for him. honestly, because he hates obama. hillary clinton can't stand obama, but now hillary will do anything he says. you know why? she does not want to go to jail. you notice? all of a sudden they were going

to disassociate themselves with the president. all of a sudden anything he wants, she will do, because it seems -- let's take the word "seems" out. they are protecting her from going to jail. and she does not want to anger the president by saying, i disagree with you on this trade, so she agrees with just about every single thing that he wants to do. yes, sir. no, sir. i think she should start calling him sir, ok? and that is what is happening, folks. we are going to have a whole different thing. remember this about obama. i always thought one thing, i never thought he'd be a good president. i thought he was going to bring the country together. i thought he was going to be a good cheerleader. he has been a disaster cheerleader. no, no, i know what e said. it's, you know, hey, a lot of people say that, by the way, but i thought it would bring the country together.

she can't bring the country together. it's not there. he's divided the country. wealthy, eight less than wealthy, white, black, he has been the great divider. he has been a terrible president. hillary clinton will be worse, believe me. she will be worse. she is going to be worse. she has a chance of being far worse. look at the libya deal. look at it. you know it's among the finest oils in the world, right? it is one of the fine oils in the world. you know what? isis has it. i met with the fiancee of the ambassador who was killed. yesterday, she is supporting trump, a very nice woman, and she tells me stories about hillary that are unbelievable, unbelievable, horrible stories about hillary. i said, are you sure that you are supporting me?

i thought she would be on the democrat side. she said, i am supporting you, but she told me stories about hillary that are horrible, horrible. she said the ambassador was like a great guy. what they went through was supposed to be beyond comprehension, including the other three young people. and remember the ads, the phony ads with hillary, who do you want answering your phone at 3:00 in the morning. she was sleeping. she was sleeping. she was sound asleep, or who knows, but she did not answer the phone. i say she was sleeping. i say she was sleeping, because she has no energy. i say she was sleeping, all right? you know, i say was a terrible thing. and benghazi has never really been picked up like it should be picked up because the president never picked it up. it is an honor you are here in this kind of heat. i know a number of you went down. i love you all. you're going to be so happy and so proud. you have to go out on june 7. you have got to go out.

you have got to vote. because we are sending a mandate. we already won, and we are now ahead by millions and millions above the people that came in second. i won't even tell you who it is. we are ahead by millions. the bigger mandate we have, the stronger the movement will be. and most important, get everyone of your friends, and in november, you have to vote. i will be back. i will be back. in november, in november, you have to go and vote. let me just tell you, we are going to start winning again. we are going to win with our military. and we are going to knock the hell out of isis. because we have no choice. and it's going to go a lot faster and a lot easier than people understand. we are going to knock the hell out of them. we are going to have strong borders. we will have the wall. we will be proud of our country again.

we will get rid of common core and bring education locally. we are going to repeal obama care. 60%, think of it, in texas, 60% blue cross blue shield. 60. it's going to be worse for other sections. and don't let them take that november 1 announcement and make it december, because that alone will destroy their chances of winning the presidency. remember, don't let that happen, because they're trying to do it. they want to have a later announcement date. so we are going to start winning with so many different elements of life and our country. we will save our second amendment. hillary clinton wants to abolish it. she wants to abolish our second amendment. we are going to save our second amendment. we are going to win. we are going to win at every single level. i joke, i joke, and i have fun, but it is not a joke when we are

going to win, win, win. we are going to win so much, three or four friends, great friends in the audience, and i say they're going to come see me at the white house, mr. president, sir, we are winning too much. the people of california don't want to win so damn much, mr. president. please stop this winning. we are not used to it as a country. we are used to losing all the time. we can handle it. i'm going to say, i'm sorry. we are going to win, win, win. we are going to win with trade. we are going to win with military. we are going to win by getting rid of obamacare and replacing it. we are going to win at the border. we are going to get the wall. we are going to let people come into the country, and they're going to come legally. we are going to win so much and we are going to make america great again. i say greater than ever before.

remember this, folks. america first. we don't put america first. we have these horrible, horrible trade negotiators. i actually think they are not as stupid as people think. i think they want to help everybody else. they want to help everybody but our country. we are going to have a policy of america first, make america great again. we will do it. get out on the seventh and vote, and boy, you better vote in november. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you. we love you. thank you. ♪

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question night c-span's road to the white house coverage continues with a hillary clinton campaign rally in california. she will speak to voters and supporters in long beach. rally at 9:00at eastern here on c-span.

campaign news out of wyoming today, state delegates and bernie sanders borders have filed a petition challenging the apportionment of state delegates to the democratic national convention in philadelphia starting july 25. the states for super delegates pledged to support hillary clinton, which gave her an 11-7 delegate advantage, despite bernie sanders winning the state's popular vote. if the petition is successful, wyoming could get you are voting delegates overall due to a possible breach in state party rules. according to a sanders national delegate, the ratio could change , giving him to do percent of wyoming delegates. -- 57% of wyoming delegates. i live coverage of the presidential race continues tuesday night with primaries in six states.

california, montana, new jersey, new mexico, and north and south dakota. next more different vision for our country than the one between of democrats for progress, for prosperity, for fairness and opportunity, then the presumptive nominee on the republican side. >> we are going to win on education, no more common core, bring it down, we want it local. .e are going to win with health we are going to win at the border. we're going to win at trade. >> we've got to redefine what politics means in america. we need people from coast-to-coast standing up, fighting back and demanding a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%. >> join us live it not :00 p.m.

results,or election candidate speeches, and your reaction. we will look ahead at the fall battleground states. taking you on the road to the white house, on c-span, c-span radio, and www.c-span.org. >> coming up in just over an hour, remarks from national security advisor susan rice and several others at this year's american jewish committee global for them. starts live at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the 30-year-old electronic medications privacy act requires the government to get a warrant to search e-mail that is less than 100 80 days old, written before most americans used e-mail and cloud storage. congress now wants to expand protection to those forms of personal data. the house passed the e-mail privacy act in april in the senate is now considering legislation.

the legislative counsel for the aclu and brian porter have different perspectives on the legislation. by a technology reporter for the morning consult. >> unfortunately our laws that govern when you can access digital content have not been updated since 1986. please have to get a warrant before the angst like e-mail or private facebook messages. >> from the investigating and law enforcement feel, that is not -- or main concern is to make sure electronic communications are provided with the same level of protection, not an extra level of protection, beyond what you would expect in your home. eastern tonight at 8:00 on c-span two. >> joining us is debra lee james. thank you for being with us.

tom and richard. we appreciate your time today. i want to begin with the comments of the president last thursday at the air force graduation ceremony. he said when you look at the world guided by clear i assessment based on assessment, fact, and judgment, was at a clear reference to donald trump? >> i took him and his word literally, that is facts and evidence and what's really going on today. on the one hand he added out that we are a prosperous nation, that we are in the eyes of the , those who always wished you in the late us, those in other countries and that certainly has been my experience as we have traveled around, but we still have some challenges and we need to remain focused on those challenges.

couple ofmake a references to isolationism and donald trump has talked about that. >> he didn't mention donald trump or anyone in particular. that's why i took him word for word. i think there have been presidents throughout the years you have counsel that we have to be an engaged united states on the world front, that isolationism is not a good choice for us at this point in time, and has not been a good choice for us in decades. i took it as a reinforcing principle. >> i would like to talk about the fight against isis. give us an update on how that fight is going and whether or not the air force has acquired assets it needs to process -- prosecute that fight? >> i would say the fight is proceeding at face. we said from the beginning this would be a fight that would take years to prosecute.

as you point out, we in the air force have been in the lead, but we are not the only ones. it's a joint fight, a coalition fight, and the air campaign is one where we need partners on the ground. with all that said, if you look back to years ago we have collectively retaken 30%-40% of the territory back from isil. whoell as the foot soldiers taken out command and control post. we taken out sources of revenue. weare making progress, but will continue to need those partners on the ground and ultimately we need a political solution in this part of the world. >> but you also need more equipment. for more a requirement bombs because you were running through stockpiles. >> you are right, and we need to replenish those, which we are in the process of doing. with respect to the number of people, i am an advocate that we need to increase our numbers of

people in the air force. we are stepping up to the plate and getting the mission done, but we are to cloying people over and over again in a frequent way -- we are deploying gradually we need to build up our airstrikes. people,e issue of more 317,000e we will have airmen by the end of 2017. the pentagon and the administration have resisted more money because of the way it is being provided to the wartime account. you have readiness concerns with the air force. why resist congress when they say here is more money to improve your readiness and get more people? >> first of all, i really appreciate the sentiment and i

-- from people in congress who believe we need to improve our readiness and modernization, so the sentiment i think is exactly in the right place. my concern is that anything that could undermine the bipartisan budget agreement could possibly return us to the days where we would lurch toward a government shutdown and ultimately not get things done. we need our bills to be passed on time, that is by the first of october, and ultimately we need to focus on listening to the frustration which will return to us in fiscal year 2018 if congress does not lift it. we really need to get that lifted soon and not go right down to the wire if at all possible. those are the top things to me. increases will be in wartime spending which are not bound by the budget caps. so why not do it that way?

there is an approach, and i'm not a next bird on this, but if there is an approach to accelerate some of our needs in terms of manpower and readiness and modernization, but without undermining the bipartisan budget agreement, i'm certainly very interested in that. but if we lurch toward government shutdown and the government ceases to work, then that to me is far worse. i would rather do it gradually and not undermine what is a bipartisan agreement. >> were talking about the threat from isis or isil. the defense secretary said were facing out only a dual threat from terrorism but also from china. he said he's building -- china is building what he described as wall. >> china's actions, they are testing in certain areas.

these are matters of concern to the united states and with respect to what's going on in the south china these are matters of concern to the united states. with respect to what is going on in the south china sea, multiple officials have said repeatedly we will continue to fly and protect our rights under international loss. there is a lot of the world's trade that goes through the south china sea. it is really to all of the countries' benefits that this is opened and governed by international law. steve: what is china's end game? sec. james: you would have to ask them. i know what they say, and i know what international law says. we are prepared to adhere to that international law and protect our rights. there are many countries in the region that agree with us. tom: i would like to follow up on the south china sea. your head of air combat command told me that he expects the chinese to establish an air defense identification zone over the south china sea requiring violence from other countries to identify themselves before they fly into the space, which is international airspace.

how are your pilots repaired to deal? will they respect that? sec. james: first of all, on behalf of the pilots, our pilots are trained and perform in professional airmanship ways. that is to say we put focus on training and i have confidence in our pilots. with respect to how the united states would approach such a zone, it is my belief that -- we have already said this, we would not recognize such a zone. we would continue to fly, in a professional way, within the confines of international law. richard: that sounds like it could generate conflict if the chinese are demanding that you identify yourself and you do not recognize the zone. isn't that a recipe for conflict? sec. james: what is a recipe for more conflict is declaring such

zones in the first place. i come back to the professionalism of our airmen. i have complete confidence in that. if i'm not mistaken china also declared at one time an air defense zone in east china sea. it was within one day or two days we did exercise our rights under international law and flew a b-52 mission through it. i come back to that we are steadfast behind international law and professionalism in the air. those are the 2 bedrock points. richard: what you describe as the high-end fight against a foe like china or russia, only half of the air force's combat forces are ready. is the air force ready for a conflict against china when it is engaged against isil? sec. james: not as ready as i would like to see. we do not want a war with china, or anyone else. our job is to be prepared and to

call it out if we need additional resources or policy adjustments. i have been vocal, saying i'm not comfortable and our top commanders are not comfortable that we are fully ready in the case of such a high-end fight. what we need to do is to invest properly to get ourselves ready for the high-end fight. part of that investment needs to be in the gradual buildup of our people. we need more people, because being globally engaged in so many different parts of the world, you cannot be in two places at the same time with the same human being. we do need to build up our forces. we also need to plug holes in the maintenance arena, in the cyber security world, and in the important world of our remotely piloted aircraft. richard: would you estimate that cost, and how much time will it take? sec. james: we're looking at

over the next several years building up a total of about 8000 to 10,000 additional people would do a great deal of help for the united states air force. richard: is there a price tag? sec. james: it would be in the hundreds of millions, to possibly over $1 billion over time. steve: do you think women should be required to register for the draft? sec. james: i think women should register for the selective service. i see no reason not to. this is a timely debate and people have differences of opinion. there are people who say we do not need a selective service approach at all, because it has been years since the draft. my vote as an american, my opinion as an american, is that we should have a selective service. it is an insurance policy. i think women should register, just as i think young men should register. steve: any sense to what congress will do? sec. james: it is too close to

call. it is in play in both houses of congress. we will have to wait to see how it goes. tom: you have spoken about how you believe transgender troop should be able to serve openly in the military. that policy has been in development inside the pentagon. can you tell us when you expect that policy to be approved and the ban withdrawn? sec. james: i think the review on the transgender policy should be complete in the next few months. my best guess. it is proceeding. these are somewhat complex issues. by the way, i'm certain the policy is going to change. i'm certain the transgenders will be allowed to serve in a more open way. we're trying to get the specific policy matters underneath the umbrella policy matter so that we do it correctly and roll it

out correctly. so if there's training required, we have that in place. so we explain to commanders and troops how we will proceed. i would expect it in the next few months. tom: are there strong objections in the uniformed service? that there is reaction against allowing transgender troops to serve openly? sec. james: there are differing opinions. i think the piece of this, the one under the greatest review and discussion at the moment is the accession of new people that are transgender. how do we approach that? that is the final piece we are trying to get right. richard: another issue in the house and senate is a larger pay raise for the troops then the administration proposes.

administration proposes 1.6%, the house and senate are proposing for 2.1%. can you describe the overall effect financially? it turns out to be a lot of money. does it put more money in an enlisting member and sergeant's pockets, or not? sec. james: these are all relatively modest increases. the difference between 1.6 or 2.1 are small pay raises. the key thing is we want to make sure military pay continues to go up. we have to do better in terms of comparability. we have to have military pay in the aggregate be as good or better than similarly situated people in civilian life. a military compensation in the 1980's was behind, not comparable to the civilian sector.

now it is. now we have close parity for most of the skill levels and most of the jobs. there are exceptions, but for the most part we are comparable and have to keep it that way. the other thing we have to do is to make sure we have balance between people and compensation. their training and readiness. we have to look at the future and modernize. all of these accounts are important and we have to strike a reasonable balance. richard: when you speak to the airmen, is the issue of pay a big one? do they care between 1.6 and 2.1? sec. james: as i speak to airmen, the biggest concern that they asked me about is, what does the future likely hold? are we likely to have decreasing numbers in the air force? are we likely to have involuntary separations? are we likely to grow? will i and my family have a

precious degree of increased ability in the future? this is the number one source of questioning i take. not so much the difference between 1.6% or 2.1%. there is a level of reassurance they feel when they realize that at least pay will go up modestly. steve: what do you tell them? sec. james: for as long as i'm secretary of the air force i will continue to advocate strongly that we want the stability. we want to grow the air force. it will not be huge growth. maybe 8000 to 10,000 people, but that will contribute to readiness. it will contribute to a more reasonable degree of deployment, so people do not have to deploy over and over. i've made it clear that that is my top priority and i will do my best to deliver. steve: opiates and heroin are a growing epidemic and they are

playing a larger role in tracking down vessels bringing drugs into the u.s. can you talk about that? sec. james: i returned from latin america about six weeks ago. this was a theme we talked about quite a bit. latin america does not get the attention that the middle east gets, with good reason. obviously, we do not have a shooting war we are involved in in latin america. our neighbors to the south do not get the attention of other parts of the world, yet they have serious problems -- including drugs that flow across to our border. the question in my mind, and we will try to do better, is how do we use our training assets and dollars to put those aircraft and assets in latin america, get the training value for our people, and at the same time perform missions contributing to the counter drug operations. a double bang for the buck.

tom: what is an example? what sort of aircraft have been involved? sec. james: i will give you one that was timely when i was down there. periodically, we use our b-52s on training missions so the pilots and crew can exercise different aspects of their complete portfolio of responsibilities that they might not get in the fight against isil. we sent a b-52 through the caribbean to perform some of these duties that they needed to practice on. while they were out, they spied a drug vessel -- what they thought was a drug vessel. the idea was that they were calling in an asset from the coast guard to make an arrest. as it so happens, the coast

guard vessel was too far away. the b-52 went back and flew as low as they could fly over the drug vessel, whereupon the smugglers panicked and through the drugs overboard, destroying the drugs. that is one example of how many hundreds of kilos of cocaine that did not reach u.s. shores on that day. by doing those missions, particularly when you can spot things on the ground and call-in law enforcement, this is a double bang or your training buck. richard: in hiroshima, president obama urged a nuclear-free world and a reduction in weapons stockpiles. at the same time, the defense department outlined $1 trillion over the next three decades to modernize the nuclear triad. how do you square those two things? a call for a reduction in weapons, and modernizing our

arsenal? sec. james: the way i look at it, richard, our nuclear deterrence policy generally has worked for the united states and kept the ultimate peace for 60 or 70 years. i do not believe we should change horses midstream. in order to have the nuclear deterrence carry forth into the decades to come, even though we all aspire for nuclear-free world, it is unlikely in my lifetime we will achieve it. deterrence needs to remain strong. it needs to be modern and credible. if your potential adversaries believe you won't do it, can't do it, or isn't modern enough to do it, it isn't much of a deterrent value. modernizing is part of keeping peace in decades to come. it is taxpayer-dollar-involved, but we have to figure out how to

fund it because it has worked for 60 or 70 years. there are nuclear powers, and more want to become nuclear powers, and we have to protect ourselves. richard: as the president looks back at his eight years in the white house, if you were to write the first paragraph of what he said on the military and american foreign policy, what would it be? sec. james: i'm a big supporter of the president. i think he has advanced the ball for our country in the areas of trade, important treaties, the military -- he has taken a very judicious approach. he takes the commitment of force abroad in putting young men and women in harm's way very seriously. he has made a very big effort to learn from the mistakes and missteps of the past to think through if we are going to commit forces what the day after looks like.

he has done it judiciously and put a premium on doing it with and through our partners around the world. so we go as a team. we don't go alone whenever possible. i think he has done a great job advancing the ball in many ways. tom: i want to touch on diversity, which you have made a priority. why is it important to you to have a more diverse air force? a lot of the senior officers are white men. why is it important, and what are you doing to achieve a more diverse force? sec. james: i am of the opinion that the war for talent is going to get harder. therefore, we have to recruit from the widest pool possible. when we get fantastic people in the door, we have to develop and retain them. that means we have to advance them through the force. having diversity is important

for the quality of our people and the quality of our thinking. meaning innovation, i'm convinced, comes from different people from different backgrounds that approach problems differently. that is part of diversity as well. that is why it is important. we have specific initiatives we have put forth that we are tracking, that we will track over time that are designed to increase the number of women and minorities, people from different that grounds. backgrounds, period, that are advancing through the force on the enlisting and officer side. it has to do with innovation. richard: a transparency question. there is a standoff between the air force and the senate armed services committee against the b-21. they want developments over the contract and the air force has

declined to give them to the committee so far. why has the air force not given that information to the committee? is there concern over the overall number becoming public? sec. james: we have provided those details. we have provided dozens of briefings to the 4 defense committees, individual members, and staff. we have provided the contract value, which is classified. though specific details have been provided to all 4 committees. we are prepared to go back over and over again. the reason some of these things are in the classified world, and some things are in the classified world in a well-established way that congress provides oversight to the department of defense on those classified programs. the b-21 is being handled in the same way. the people that need to know do know. we will give them updates as things progress and as they

wish. the reason it is important we keep these things classified is that we want to provide enough information to the public at large, but not so much that our adversaries, who perhaps do not mean us well, can piece together bits and pieces of information and make deductions about size, weight, and power. certain contract details could unexpectedly provide those details. this is the secret sauce of the united states, and we feel it is in the way to go. the people in congress that need to know, do no. -- know. steve: you were with the president when the thunderbirds flew overhead for the air force graduation ceremony. one of the planes crashed with the pilot ejecting safely. what do you know? sec. james: the details are sketchy. after the thunderbird demonstration was complete, and the thunderbirds were getting close to landing, thunderbird 6, the sixth aircraft, was having

difficulty coming in and approaching the landing area. the pilot, because he is a fantastic pilot, took measures to avoid buildings and homes. and was able to eject from the aircraft before it faced down in an open field. the pilot was able to walk under his own power after the incident. he was nevertheless taken to the hospital for observation and checking. the whole matter will go into an accident investigation board, the standard procedure. it will take a couple of months to get fully to the bottom of what happened. our pilot ejected and we avoided albums on the ground and

innocent loss of life here the president was able to see the pilot before he was taken to the hospital. steve: deborah lee james. thank you for joining us on "newsmakers." sec. james: thank you for having me. steve: we continue our conversation with tom vanden brook and richard lardner. let me begin on some of the social issues that the air force secretary touched on. what is your take away? tom: we were just speaking that she is one of the most senior officials to talk about the need for women, or her desire to have them sign up for the selective service for the draft. that is a significant departure from what we have heard from other officials. it is significant to note that she anticipates the ban on transgender troops serving openly to be relaxed or withdrawn later this summer. steve: part of the overall debate we will see in congress over the defense authorization act, what are you looking at?

richard: that is a big issue. in the house, they had it in the bill, and it was taken out at the last minute and never made it to the floor. it is in the senate version. there are social conservatives opposed to this. ted cruz, mike lee, they offered an amendment to have it taken out. they don't want it to happen. the odds for a draft are very remote. this is a social touchstone. it is a threshold this country has never crossed. we have never had women register for the draft. you may hear congress say "yes, they need to." it is an important milestone for that reason. steve: senate republicans have been critical of democrats for slow-walking the act. will we see action this week?

richard: i think so. they're planning to have voted on one of the first amendment on monday evening at 5:30. we will see. right before the break, harry reid, the democratic leader, held up the bill. he is upset over the lack of funding for zika and other domestic programs. we will have to see. the plan as they will move forward with it on monday. steve: we talked about isis and the south china sea. the role of the air force in trying to combat drugs in this country. where do you see the air force moving ahead in the long game, the long picture, with regard to america's overall defense? tom: well, depending on who is the next president, right? there is than a real reluctance to commit ground troops to any sort of combat. where does that leave you? planesailing in the cnn that ships sailing --ships

sailing in the sea and airplanes during the most fighting. i don't see there will be a diminishedment in the need to play decisions. steve: and the president's legacy with regard to the military is what, richard? richard: next come in that there is a readiness crisis. the budget instability, the inability to work out a long-term budget with republicans in congress has kind of stymied the effort to modernize the armed forces. steve: give you the last word. tom: 150,000 troops deployed when he took office from around 15,000 when he leaves. richard, to both of you, your questions, thank you very much for being with us. "road to the white house" coverage continues

tonight with the hillary clinton campaign rally in california. she will be speaking to voters and supporters in a long beach. see tonight's campaign event live at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. minutes, susan rice and several others will be speaking at the american jewish committee global forum. that event starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. up until then, discussion on donald trump and his influence on the republican party. it is from today's "washington journal." feldman is the chief political correspondent for the christian science monitor. recently, she took on the question of who the republicans are with donald trump as the standardbearer. one question at the top of the story -- is he rupturing or reinventing the gop? could it be a bit of vote?

absolutely, the answer for right now is that he is rupturing. massive split in the party particularly with republican leaders who very tentatively and unenthusiastically have endorsed him in the name of our to unity and in the name of defeating hillary clinton who they say would be worse. they would be the first wet knowledge that we don't exactly know what we would get with him will trump. there in lies the existing question of where this party is going. it is wandering now and is in the wilderness. if donald trump wins, it is his party and he can reinvent it. loses, maybe they can go back to the way they were but probably not. this primary season has been a huge wake-up call for the party. host: now that he is the percent of nominee, what is his strategy for uniting the party and is he interested in making sure every

person in the party is united behind him? >> guest: given his recent comments come it doesn't look like he is into uniting. he pushed the nomination effectively and made nasty comments about the let tina turner of mexico -- the latina governor of mexico. party leaders are distancing themselves as much as they can from him. his style is to keep doing what he has been doing because if he says it, it's working. he is going after hillary without really changing the tone of his rhetoric area that makes party leaders nervous. host: and yet paul ryan indoors tim last week. 85% of republicans are ready to back donald trump as their nominee. is it working? guest: it's working sort of.

donald trump needs to win more than just republicans. the republicans are a small minority of the national electorate area he needs to bring in people who are not quite sure where they stand. there are not a lot of people who are truly undecided or truly independent. most independent voters lean one way or the other. hiseeds to really change own and his style very soon. otherwise, as we saw with the hillary clinton speech last which was a takedown of donald trump, she will go after him and define him as somebody who does not have the temperament to be president. host: we are inviting our viewers to join in as we talk about the recent story with the christian science monitor. the headline is -- who are the republicans now?

there is a picture of donald trump at the top of the story. these are the phone numbers we will take your calls for the next 40 minutes or so. take on thet your david french potential candidacy and coming out late yesterday and saying he will not be the standard bearer for the never trump movement. guest: it has utterly failed. they tried hard to get a namebrand republican to step lowered and run as an independent candidate. they tried to get mitt romney and the senator from who pet has been opposed to trump but none of them are willing to do it. william kristol from the weekly standard went to a colleague, david french who said he would think about and has decided not to. even of david french had decided

to do it, it is highly unlikely that he could have made any kind of dent whatsoever. the amount of money you need to run for president is prohibitive as an independent candidate. also to get valid access. you need to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures and all 50 states. it was already too late. host: bill kristol wrote last night after the announcement from david french -- you agree? is the path still open for an independent candidate? >> we have one and he is gary johnson the libertarian nominee. he is polling at 7% on average. in general election polls. halfwayhe is about

between donald trump and clinton in terms of policy. it's very difficult for him to win any states but he could mostinly, if he holds onto of what he is getting now, he could deny somebody. johnson have a home in the republican party before donald trump? was there a place for his views? guest: yes, he's a fiscal conservative and liberal on social issues and i used to be called a liberal republican. about who feel strongly those for gary johnson, legalization of drugs is his top issue, the party does not stand for that. he was governor of new mexico as a republican but has been a libertarian pretty much ever since. host: we are taking your calls.