i know that. watch for the cavs, seven games, watch for it, willie. >> steph curry born in akron, too. >> i didn't know that. >> he was, indeed, he was, indeed. good luck on tuesday. see you. appreciate it. our thanks to governor john kasich and to the lima pallet company and owner tracy sanchez for hosting us tonight. this is the place for politics on msnbc. have a great night. and good evening from msnbc headquarters in new york. i'm richard lui. this hour, right now, four live events. we will take you over the next 120 minutes after a busy morning, man who jumped a barrier in dayton, ohio, this morning is where the day started spooking the candidate and prompting secret service agents to surround donald trump. that individual has been

arrested. thomas di masimo charged by dayton police with disorderly conduct, inducing panic. the incident follows a dramatic scene in chicago last night. when trump canceled a planned rally after it was scheduled to begin citing security concerns there, between trump supporters and trump protesters. trump held two rallies today as we've been following where he was interrupted multiple times by protesters who he often mocked in response. he lamented last night's cancelation in chicago. take a listen. >> we cannot let our first amendment rights to be taken away from us, folks. we can't let it happen. we can't let it happen. we have a right to speak. i mean, we are law-abiding people. we're people that work very hard. we're people that have built this country and made this country great. and we're all together and we want to get along with everybody. but when they have organized professionally staged wise guys,

we've got to faight back, we've got to fight back. >> trump will be holding another rally in kansas city in about an hour from now. we'll go to that when it does happen. earlier today msnbc national reporter, tony, captured an intense verbal altercation at one of trump's rallies. >> go back to africa! [ bleep ]. if you're in africa first, go back to africa. if you're an african first, go back to africa. black lives don't matter to other inner city blacks so [ bleep ] you. [ bleep ] you. >> well, ahead of tuesday's potentially decisive contests in five states including winner take all contest in ohio and florida frumptrump's rivals hav increasing concerns about the front-runners. kasich saying today trump is getting close to disqualifying himself as a nominee and marco rubio comparing his rhetoric to that of a third-world strong

man. >> i still at this moment continue to intend to support the republican nominee, bullet but getting harder every day. >> nbc news's katy tur is at the trump rally in kansas city following the trump candidacy. katy, let's address what we were playing moments ago. that is one individual at a rally there talking about going back to africa. has that been a similar statement that you've heard throughout the day today? >> reporter: we have not heard that so far, specifically, something like that aggressive today in kansas city. there are protesters outside, but they don't number as many as we were seeing in cleveland and we were seeing in dayton, ohio. hold on one second. there's a not very friendly guy right there. anyway, not what we were seeing in dayton, ohio, certainly not what we were seeing in chicago last night. it has gotten intense a couple times outside but for the most part, the protesters and the

supporters are being kept very separate. there is a large police presence outside. right now the protesters are across the street and blocked by pretty much a line of security, a line of officers from where the supporters are. but that sort of rhetoric is the sort of rhetoric we've been hearing a lot on the campaign trail among donald trump supporters since day one, frankly. not all the time, not by everybody, but by certain smaller pockets of people who get very angry when somebody has come in and tried to disrupt up one of their rallies or disagreed own a policy issue. oftentimes they're not people who look like them who come in and try to stop it and a lot of minorities feel uncomfortable coming in trying to stand silently in protest or potentially even listen to donald trump because they don't feel like they're welcome. that is what some people are saying. let's be clear about that. others say that they don't feel that way at all and there are a lot of minority supporters for donald trump. i've spoken to a number of them.

dhi outnumber the caucasian supporters? no. it's not entirely fair to say this is going down racial lines although there is a certain degree of that. but it is fair to say that there's some real clash issues here. there are people who feel like they've been wronged and left behind by the government on both sides. and that sort of anger is coming to a head at these donald trump rallies because if he hasn't created this climate for it, he's certainly made it possible for people to feel safe, to speak what's on their minds at these rallies. that's exactly what they say, they think donald trump has made it okay for them to say what they've been thinking. richard? >> katy, thank you for that. as you were noting, somebody by your live location not making it easy this hour. we'll be getting back to you later in kansas city, missouri, for a rally with donald trump. katy tur, thanks for that. as youopped up on the lower right hand part of your screen, we're waiting for john kasich, ted cruz to come to the stage, he'll be in missouri at a

re rally with special guest heidi cruz. for now, let's go outside as katy was talks aboing about the ohio and joined by msnbc national reporter there in kansas city, specifically. talk about the energy. and make, if you can, a comparison of other spaces where we've seen, unfortunately, these sort of conflicts with supporters and, if you will, those who do not support the event or the speaker on location in this case, we're talking about donald trump? >> reporter: hey, chuck. here we are at downtown kansas city. i think what's quite fitting, this is main street right here. on one side of main street, see hundreds of protesters with signs, "love thy neighbor," "love thy hispanic neighbor," "dump trump." beneath the onning of the midland theater, you see

supporters of trump waiting to get in. folks with "make america great" hats, flags, chanting "usa, usa." one thing,cisively different compared to this event and st. louis or chicago, there's a nice police presence. police on each corner, police in the middle, a natural barricade with the street, main street again and cars lining the street. it's been peaceful so far. now, emotions are running high. you've heard this kind of vociferous chanting from one side. "i'm a mexican, i belong here." chanting. there's exuberankpuexuberance. the vitriol isn't there, raw emotion and anger we saw in st. louis and chicago. it was raining heavy earlier. folks are divided. protesters on this side of the street and this side of the street. emotions are high but doesn't

feel as raw. st. louis yesterday, you could feel it from the beginning as people were squaring up to literally fight each other, trying to break through barricades to get to each other, people being bloodied. so far it's been relatively peaceful. we did see one arrest. police are out here. a bomb-sniffing dog making sure everything's cool. police are taking heavy precautions especially after earlier when that incident at the earlier druonald trump rall someone appeared to jump on the stage. folks who have shown up, i mean, again, you can't see how far down the street, but the line for supporters goes all the way around the block and around the building, so pretty heavy presence, chuck. >> as we look at this, trymaine, it's a very inaccurate science to understand the complexion of the crowds that are there, but it has been said that at the donald trump rallies as of the last day or so that donald trump

has seen the most diverse crowd. what's your sense of that breakdown there where you're at, trymaine? >> reporter: i'll tell you what, that is actually pretty impressive. when you see there are many white folks out here. you have hispanics, black, white, young and old. it's not like what we saw a year and a half ago in ferguson and the black lives matter movement, alone. you see people with different interests, agendas coming together with the common cause of stopping donald trump. now you heard a few chants earlier for bernie sanders. so, again, a very diverse crowd here. much different than we've seen. >> yeah, absolutely. since you do bring that up, trymaine, since you were in ferguson, there in baltimore, that energy that was there in those two cities versus what we've seen within the last 24 hours, talk about how they compare and contrast those sorts of energies that you just described. >> reporter: well, i think it's kind of clear. when you're dealing with ferguson, you're dealing with baltimore, you're dealing with death. black death at the hands of police in particular. this is a different kind of

thing. now, the folks who have shown up here and at other rallies to protest, they don't like the d incindiary tone, keeping certain people, brown people out of this country. this is different. here, different groups coalescing around a common agenda to stop donald trump. again, if you take a walk down the line of protesters and see different colors and different signs, it's actually quite impressive. >> trymaine lee, msnbc national correspondent, right outside what will be a rally very, very soon held by donald trump, of course, we'll be going back to trymaine, back to katy tur who is inside, later on in the next hour or so. now, let's get to msnbc's tony tonyc decopal. earlier rallies were peaceful in comparison to what happened yesterday and the numbers were still great. what did you see?

>> reporter: well, we remained outside of the international exposition center in cleveland, ohio. it's a very different kind of neighborhood than chicago. there's not a student population. we're about a mile from the airport. freight trains are passing through. there is no community base here. it is an industrial zone. bugs bused in. trump supporters began lining up as early as 7:00 a.m. first conversation with them, very calm, peaceable. 11:00 a.m., protesters arrived and lined the driveway, people who wanted to drive into the parking lot had to pass through the gauntlet. as the day progressed, closer and closer to the 2:00 p.m. start time, the tensions rose and trump supporters were flipping the bird, making creative gestures i can't get into too deeply and the protesters as well were responding in kind calling trump a bigot, calling trump a racist. then the event begins, 2:00 p.m., all the crowd ushers in.

this is the main entrance behind me, the west entrance. thousands of trump supporters go in. some protesters enter with the supporters and, of course, they're ejected. we're following a pattern when it comes to trump campaign events. afterwards, things got testy. the altercation happened over my shoulder. a core group of black lives matter protesters were surrou surrounded by trump supporters, the verbal exchange that's more heated than i've seen or heard happened right before me. >> tony, that was a good get in terms of what we played earlier as we see the altercation, unfortunate use of language you had to witness and gathered for us. thank you so much, tony there for us at a previous rally point of donald trump. i want to take you to one of the live events we're covering on this saturday for you. cleveland, ohio, where secretary hillary clinton holding a town hall event. let's stop by and listen to her. >> to not only protect voting rights but advance and enhance access to the ballot? >> well, i'm going to do

everything i can starting with supporting president obama's right urn tnder the constitutio nominate a successor to justice scalia. [ applause ] and working with as many people as we can muster to put pressure on the republican senate to receive and act on that nomination because the question's absolutely right, i was in the senate when we passed a reauthorization of the voting rights act by 98-0. it was totally bipartisan. it went to president george w. bush who signed it and then certain republicans and right-wingers challenged it. and when it got to the court, it was gutted. opening the door to all these actions that we are seeing take

place. it was, in my view, a very wrong decision, and the consequences have been serious. so we've got to get justices on the supreme court who understand it is more important to protect a person's right to vote than a corporation's right to buy an election which they seem not to understand the difference. and then we've got to try to reauthorize the voting rights act. i know that's something congresswoman fudge is concerned about and it's something stephanie tubs-jones and i worked on. we held a hearing in cleveland in 2005 to hear about all the abuses that went on because we knew we had to gather evidence to make sure we stopped folks from violating the voting rights act then the supreme court goes

and basically opens the door to violations. and i don't know what part of democracy all these republican governors and legislators are afraid of, but they're sure trying to constrict the electorate. and we've got to fight against that. and that means not only turning out on tuesday, which, of course, i hope you all will, but turning out to vote for legislators and governors and county commissioners and local elected officials and secretaries of state and others who have an influence over the vote in ohio and in elsewhere. i got to just finish with this one story. yeah? do you want -- oh. i was asked to go to alabama to speak to the alabama democratic conference, and i was down there shortly after the governor of alabama, the legislator and the governor had restricted voting and said you could only register

at motor vehicle departments, have a photo i.d., making it very cumbersome. right before i arrived, they passed a budget which closed the motor vehicle departments in the majority black counties. so i got down there and i was talking to the folks i know and the friends i've had over years and they were just beside themselves, so, you know, basically i just called them out. i said, there is no basis whatsoever to shutting down those motor vehicle departments. and the governor says, well, had nothing to do with where they were shut down, it only had to do with budget considerations. so i said to them, you know, i lived 18 wonderful years in arkansas, and i learned a lot and one thing i learned is an old saying, "if you find a turtle on a fence post, it did not get there by accident," right? it was not an accident. they shut down. and then they began to have to

open them up because people really rose up. we got to rise up against these voting restrictions. we got to open a big effort here to get that changed, so as president i'm going to appoint supreme court justices who have the right idea about what to do, ending citizens united and going back and revisiting the voting rights act and all the evidence that shows we still need it. >> as you can see, there are a whole lot of questions. we didn't talk about foreclosure. we did not talk about a whole host of things. if president, would you come back and spend a day in this city talking with families, talking with those who are challenged, ex-offenders, spend the day with us so we can share with you more stories and hear more about how your presidency can impact this community? would you do that? >> yes, i will. i tell you, what i see as my primary responsibility, if i am so fortunate enough to be president, is to stand up for,

fight for, make a difference in the lives of struggling and striving americans. and that requires, you got to listen. you know, i just don't -- i think we're talking at each other. we're not listening and we're not learning. we're not respecting the experiences that people have. and so, yes, i will come back, congresswoman. i'll come back and we'll listen and we'll learn and we'll come with ideas and we'll test them against the realities of people's lives. but i can't do any of that if you don't come out and vote for me on tuesday. i'll tell you. we got to get moving here. and we got to keep the white house in democratic hands because there is no doubt in my mind what will happen if we don't. so, thank you so much. >> ladies and gentlemen, madam secretary hillary clinton.

>> thank withdrew. >> hillary clinton finishing a town hall in cleveland, ohio, one of the big gets this coming tuesday. over 1,000 delegates at stake on this tuesday. being the only second largest delegate total that is at stage since super tuesday. from there, john kasich, he's in ohio. governor john kasich just taking a stage for the town hall event. let's stop by and listen to him. >> because we started this wholewhole e effort back in 2010 and when i came into ohio, you might recall, i don't know if you remember the numbers but we got 350,000 ohio jobs. families -- i mean, 350,000 families that one day dad or mom walked home into the house, sat with the family and said, i'm out of work. now, i know what that means because, you know, i grew up in

a town that was really pretty much like mansfield. it was a blue collar democrat town where if the wind blew the wrong way, people found themselves out of work. and you might recall, i know you've heard this over the years that my father carried mail on his back. and his father was a coal miner. and i'll tell you something about my grandfather. my grandfather would go down in the mine and he would work all day and then he would think, i got a pretty good haul here, it's going to be a pretty good day's pay. you know what they'd tell him? well, you dug too much pete and not enough coal, you'll get about half of what you were going to get. and my grandfather had no one that he could appeal to. no one that he could say, you know, you're taking advantage of me, you're not treating me fairly. he ended up dying of black lung and as he was getting older, he was losing his eyesight. but he never lost hope and he gave an inspiration, a lot of hope to his kids who grew up,

one of whom happened to be my dad. and my father was very involved in the community. the way we all need to be in america today. and when a boy -- when the son scored a touchdown on friday night, did i see st. pete's has got a -- who did i see was going to have a big football game? when somebody scored a touchdown, my dad would celebrate. when the daughter sang a solo in the choir, my dad would celebrate. and when somebody lost somebody in the family, my dad would cry. and he was involved in what was happening on that mail route that he handled for 29 years. and my mother and father, you know, lost their lives to a drunk driver and people stood outside that funeral home and told me about how much my dad had meant to them. really important lesson. my mother, i'm still trying to check this out to make sure it's true, but my mom was one of

four. her mother could barely speak english, and as a kid, we believe she is the only one in the family, two brothers and a sister, and my mom. my mom was the only one to get out of the eighth grade. and she walked across a little footbridge over a railroad track to go get her high school diploma. and she was, by the way, very smart, very opinionated. i like to say she was a radio talk show pioneer. when somebody on the radio would say something mir, my mother wo yell at the radio and it's just the way it was and how we grew up. what was most important is i learned in that community what it meant to have work. what it really meant to have a job. that's what it was really about. and when we played ball, you know, we'd go up the schoolyard and my buddies would come up and i could tell something was wrong. when i reflect back, it was

because somebody had lost a job. and they would turn around, a couple weeks later, maybe a month later, they'd be happy. you know what it was? somebody had found a job, sir. and we began to realize how important it was to be able to work, to be able to live our god-given purpose. all of my political career, it's always been to fight, frankly, for those that don't have any power. because my mother didn't have any power. my father didn't have any power. the people in mckees rocks did. and sometimes people take advantage of them. kind of what sometimes happens in mansfield, hasn't it? because it has never been really easy. it's always been something we have to work at here in mansfield. but i want you to know that being a congressman, and i worked to balance the budget, you heard pat, our great friend and congressmans, talking about it. i reason i wanted to balance the

budget because i knew when we balanced the budget, we'd have more success, more economic success and we did because when job creators know that the ground is safe, the ground is secure, they'll create jobs. and then coming into ohio, the situation here was that 350,000 down, but i want to tell you what i really heard that really burned me up. i went to new york and in new york, they have the credit rating agencies. these are people that determine your credit worthiness. you know what they told me? ohio's dead. oh, it's done. it's just, you know, there's no way to rebuild that state. and, frankly, we're going to have to downgrade the credit. in other words, we're going to rip up your credit card and give you one where you can buy less. and we're going keep an eye on you and watch you. and i looked at those folks, i'll never forget it, and i said, you just give me a little bit of time. just give me a chance because nothing keeps ohio down.

nothing. we have just missed the right formula. [ applause ] so you might remember when i was first elected governor, that first year, remember, it was, like, who is this guy? who is this governor, right? i mean, what's he doing? but folks, in my lifetime, when you hire me, you're hiring a ceo. i'm not going to spend my time taking polls. i'm not going to spend my time having focus groups. and i'll tell you another thing. i'm not going to worry about being re-elected because it's my job to give everybody a chance to rise. just like my mom and dad told me, make the world a little bit better place, johnny, for the fact that you were there. and i've remembered that all my lifetime. if you talk to that congressman

that was here, he'll tell you that he watched me do this all of my career and one day he walked in to see me and he said, you know, i've caught the fever, i'm going to leave and i'm going to run for the legislature. and i thought to myself, he was such a valuable aide, such a valuable guy, i wish i hadn't taken him to my speeches and he could still work here for a while, but i knew that it was the best thing. and then he became a congressman. because i think doing the right things becomes contagious. bringing people together becomes contagious. and so after that first year, we began to see the light. some people thought we needed to raise your taxes, that the way to get ohio out of this mess was to just turn around and take more money out of your pocket. how would you like that? we could just keep taking it and spending it and taking it and spending it. i said, no, no. we have a restaurant and you have no customers, you don't raise your prices. right?

how about if you and i were partners and i said, hey, we don't have anybody coming to our restaurant, i have a great idea, let's just raise the prices. how do you think that would go? so i said we have to cut the prices, we have to lower the taxes, we have to control the overhead. and frankly, we got to change the menu. so where are we today? well, we were down those 350,000 jobs. and now we are up over 400,000 jobs. 400,000 families who are doing better in ohio. [ applause ] our budget is balanced and we were $8 billion in the hole, 20% of our operating budget, and now we have a $2 billion surplus which sends a message all across america and by the way, all across the world that ohio's open for business. and, you remember those people

in new york who told me that we were dead? they're singing a little different tune now, ladies and gentlemen, because they know ohio's back and they know we're growing, they know we're profitable. they know that we're rising. and i've got to tell you, you know, how does this work? how does it work? well, i mean, i've learned over the years exactly how it does work. you have to have common sense regulations. you know, the entities that employ us increasingly are the small businesses. now, you know, gorman rupp is pretty good sized but i kind of think about them as a small business in a way. they certainly started that way and they've grown and got stronger and stronger. but you ask jeff gorman, is he here? how do you like all those regulations, jeff? is that helping you out?

>> get rid of them, john. [ applause ] you know, i've been here before, but i was so proud to pull up here with that big g.r., gorman rupp pumps. did you see how big it was and all the people that come to work here? give him a great round of applause for what he and his family ahave done. [ applause ] so he just shakes his head when the government comes in and pounds him and they say, well, we got another rule, another regulation, another form, more red tape, more this, more hassle. am i right, jeff? and he calls me. i say, well, jeff, i'm not president. he said, "yet." okay? the fact is we can regulate these folks to death.

so, you know, i'll tell you what i propose. for one year, we're going to freeze all federal regulations except for health and safety so our small businesspeople can flourish and hire our families. okay? number one. [ applause ] number two, pat, any regulation more than $100 million, you're going to vote on it in the congress and if you don't like it, you'll reject it because the people that should make the laws are the ones who are elected, not the ones who are unelected that sit at their desk and try to tell us what to do out here. [ applause ] and i'll tell you, i have a vice president, i will have a vice president. i don't know if it will be a man or a woman, but whoever it is, they're going to spend their time undoing all the regulations that are choking our ability to grow and have a strong economy

and hire our family. that's what they're going to do. now they actually go to funerals. i'll actually give the vice president something to do, okay? [ applause ] and i wanted to create a people's court. they told me, no, judge wapner already has a people's court. i said, here's what i want to do. i want to have an independent entity that sits right next to the bureaucrats so jeff, you can go to somebody who's on your side, not going into the bureaucracy to get them to help you, we'll have somebody that will fight for you. so judge wapner, move over, because we're coming to create a people's court in the federal government so we can be heard. the people. now, let me talk a little bit about taxes. you know, our corporate taxes, you wonder why corporations are leaving america? because their taxes are so darn high and they can move their corporate headquarters somewhere

else and cut their taxes in three-quarters. what are we doing? we want these corporations to stay here. and then whenever they do leave, and they make profits overseas, they pay taxes and then we say, oh, when you come back to america, we'll tax you again. 40%. what do you think of that? how many times do you want to pay taxes, ma'am? you probably don't want to pay them at all. i agree with you. but here's the fact. let them bring their profits home and stop double taxing them. lower the corporate rate and give jeff gorman an incentive to build more equipment in here so our workers can have more productivity and higher wages. let's bring the corporations back to america. [ applause ] what's interesting, folks, is yesterday -- was it yesterday? i can't remember. we were down in dayton. you can't believe this. you can believe it. you know how some of these candidates talk about how all the jobs are going to china?

well, down in dayton, we were able to get the chinese to invest a half a billion dollars in an old auto plant and we have over 1,000 workers, it's on its way growing to 2,000 because we recruited them and we told the chinese, you start investing here, we're not going to tolerate you taking our stuff, we expect you to come here. and guess what, they're here in dayton, ohio, and helping 1,000 families to be able to do well. [ applause ] so the corporate taxes have to come down and how about if we just simplify our tax code? and bring the rates down like ronald reagan did. okay? and by the way, was there ever a better couple than president reagan and his wife, nancy? you know what she did for him? she's a very smart woman, but she knew who was for heron

her ronny and against her ronny. let me tell you something, you didn't want to be on the list who was not for ronny, okay? you don't want to be on her list, either, believe me, because she's my best supporter and the woman i love to the ends of the earth, my wife, karen. [ applause ] and then finally, how about if we get a roadmap to a balanced budget? and let me tell you that included in that is to take the welfare programs and ship them back to ohio so we don't have to ask permission of anybody in washington to design a welfare program that does this, that helps those who can't help themselves, but begins to say to those who know how to help themselves that you need to do it, because it's a sin not to help people who need help, but it's equally a sin to continue to help somebody that needs to learn how to help themselves. okay? [ applause ]

and we're going to move education back here. we don't need anybody in washington. they don't even know what the time zone is in ohio, to try to run our schools. let's run our schools where we live. right at the school board level. [ applause ] but let me also tell you in that regard, these kids have to be trained for the jobs of today and tomorrow. not at the jobs of yesterday. and we need to have an education system that gets kids excited about learning by giving them real-world experience. and i'm going to tell you -- [ applause ] this company requires great precision. so you're a kid in school and you got a knack, a little young woman who's got a knack for math.

let her come out here and spend a few hours, four or five or six hours a week with jeff gorman. and let him tell her about how important math is in building this company. and see, all of a sudden it will come from something that's theoretical to something that's real and she will get to see his home, his car, his family, and all the sudden, the lights will go on. we need to turn our kids on in education and that's why it's so important we bring the programs back here, and by the way, aren't you glad that we created vocational education in the seventh grade so that everybody doesn't have to have a future in college? i don't know about you, but my plumber makes more than any

lawyer i know, he's always at my house. anyway, move education. we're going to move transportation. and programs for the poor and health care and also job training so we can job train the people that we know they should be in ohio. now, register all that, federal regs, lower taxes, balanced budget, and i'm going to give you a couple more things to think about. you come home to america as a combat veteran and you're going to get health care anywhere you want it, you're not going to wait in line for somebody give you permission to take care of yourself. [ applause ] and you don't know this, but in ohio, when you come home, if you drove a truck from kandahar to kabul, afghanistan, we actually think you could probably drive a truck from mansfield to cleveland. we're not going to make you take a test to get a license.

we're giving you your license. and we're going to encourage you to use that license. and we're going to give you credit at the colleges and the universities for what you did in the military. and let's face it, the v.a. has to be significantly changed and run by somebody who we all respect in america. and i will tell you this, at the end of the day, there should be no veteran who doesn't get health care, no veteran who is homeless, and no veteran who is unemployed in the united states of america. they deserve our support. [ applause ] and by the way, we're going to fix the border, too. it's important for us to be able to control the border and get this issue behind us so that we're not tearing each other apart here h thin this country. it's important to get that done. and for social security, we'll save it. we can save social security, and i'll tell you, we will have is

so 18-year-olds will also believe they have a better chance of seeing a social security check than a ufo by the time they retire, okay? [ applause ] now, i have to go overseas and visit our friends and tell them that we will have their back. and we will rebuild our military because we need to have the strongest military on the face of the earth. now, all these things -- all these things i've just mentioned to you, they're going to be bundled up in a package that's going to be called shock and awe, and i will send this package to the united states congress for approval in the first 100 days of a new administration. there will be no waiting. no waiting. [ applause ]

and by the way, i'm going to collect the phone numbers of every mom and dad who has a son and daughter in congress, going to call mom on her birthday, call her son or daughter in the congress and say, don't you mess with that president, i like him. and let me tell you a couple other things. number one, you want to solve these problems and get these jobs going? it's a moral purpose, rebuild our military. i tell you how we get it done. i don't care whether we are republicans or democrats, the first thing we are is we're americans and we need to put being an american ahead of anything else. [ applause ] and finally, finally before i take some questions, you know how you all were wondering when you watched some of those debates, how come they don't call on kasich? do you ever wonder that? why doesn't he get any time? why is it when i put on the news i never see him?

you know why? because i represent you. i represent ohio. and i want you to know i will never take the low road to the highest office in the land. i will run a positive campaign and i will raise the bar in our country. [ applause ] and i will never create a toxic atmosphere where people show up at political events and fight with one another. we need to bring our country together to solve these problems and when we do, remembering that we're americans before we're republicans or democrats, the rest of this century will be youthful and fresh and innovative and exciting. and these kids will look at us and they will thank us for what

we've done. one final point. hire me, i'll go be president, okay? i'll get this agenda through. but, you know, you don't really think, because i know you don't really think, that the spirit of our country depends on a president or a senator or a congressman or a legislator. you don't think that, do you? you know, when i grew up as a kid in pittsburgh, our hero wasn't the president. our hero was roberto clemente the great baseball player who played right field. and i only saw my mother cry a couple times. and one of the times i saw her cry was when she came into my bedroom to tell me that roberto clemente had been killed in a plane crash on his way to nicaragua to help people who were victims of an earthquake. you see, he was what we admired.

strong, excellent, fun, worked through injuries, complained once in a while, but just did everything he could possibly do. you see, the spirit of our country, it's in you, man. it's in me, too, when i live in westerville next to my neighbors. it's in you. the spirit of our country is not in some politician that's going to come galloping into mansfield to fix all of our problems. they should do their job. the spirit of our country is what we believe. what we believe. and i want to tell you that i believe that we were all given a purpose by the lord. some young people here today. tonight. in fact, a lot of people showing up at these rallies. you're made special. did you know that? no one's ever been like you. has anybody ever told you this? no one has ever been like you and no one will ever be like you again.

you're special. and you are put on this earth to do something special. you were put on this earth to be a source of good. you were put on this earth to live a life a little bit bigger than yourself. you were put on this earth to be a healer in whatever way you can, whether you become a teacher, whether you're a nurse, whether you're a doctor. or maybe when somebody's being bullied, you stand up for those kids that are being bullied and you invite them into the group. you see, we're never too old to change the world. we have to believe that because that's what makes such a great difference in the spirit of our country. we have to believe that. and we want to believe it. and i believe that it's true. so i'll go ahead take care of my job and if i run into trouble, i'll call you. but let's lift the people of

this community, of our neighborhoods, and let's strengthen our families because that is where the spirit of america resides, in us. you agree? so let's go do it. okay? thank you. >> governor john kasich there giving it his all. this is it, as many observers are watching for the governor, presidential candidate on the republican side, he tries to, this last run as he heads up to tease's vote in ohio take it over the top. a recent poll from fox news showing that could be the case right now. candidate john kasich moving higher up by five points according to that poll. the same time, showing a little bit about the fabric, the texture of who he is as a candidate, a message as he's been saying, he doesn't get often the opportunity to describe. we'll get back to, of course, john kasich as he's on the road in ohio leading up to this tuesday's vote. we're awaiting a trump rally as well in kansas city, missouri. watch the screen on the bottom right there.

we'll go to that when that does happen. for now, we're going to fit in a quick break for you. on the other side, is this rubio's last stand as we take a look at florida? the other big get on tuesday. the senator stumping for support in his own backyard ahead of tuesday's primary. if he falls short there, the gop contender is making it clear here that he's torn over whether he could support a trump candidacy. >> it's called chaos. it's called anarchy. that's what we're careening toward in our political process. if this continues, this nation will rip apart at the seams and we'll be incapable of solving any of the major issues that we have. equals nitpicking. but i only had a salad. it was a buffalo chicken salad. salad.

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and welcome back to msnbc, the place for politics. today donald trump remaining opponents for the gop nomination were responding to the most

recent outbreaks of violence at trump rallies. senator marco rubio was the most clearly uncomfortable when asked whether he would still support trump as republican nominee. >> do you support him as a nominee if he's the nominee? >> i don't know. i mean, i already talked about fact that i think hillary clinton would be terrible for this country, but the fact that you're even asking me that question, i still at this moment continue to intend to support the republican nominee, but getting harder every day. >> not only marco rubio, governor john kasich who just finished speaking there in mansfield, ohio, suggesting that trump does bear some responsibility for the outbreaks of violence recently. >> donald trump has created a toxic environment, and a toxic environment has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence. there is no place for this. there is no place for a national leader to prey on the fears of

people who live in our great country. >> now, senator ted cruz is maintaining he would still support trump if he is the nominee. >> i think it is also true that any campaign, responsibility begins and ends at the top. and it is my hope that all of us can appeal to civility. i committed at the outset, i will support the republican nominee, whoever it is. >> joining me now is msnbc contributor josh barrow. josh, you've been watching this as it developed over the last 24 hours but, of course, this question about will they support the nominee regardless of who that is has been a question as trump has been trending and reaching the top of the polls over the last half year. where do you think this leaves the republican party right now as you see the consternation from the other non-trump candidates? >> yeah, well i think something really important happened this week because this question's been asked for a long time. >> right. >> and candidates even though they don't love the question have said, yes, i'll support

him, whoever the nominee is, up until this week. i think it started with the incident with trump's campaign manager and that reporter, michelle fields, whose arm he grabbed and forcibly pulled away leaving bruises on her. then you had the punch at the trump rally and the guy who punched the protester saying next time i might have to kill him. what happened at the friday chicago rally. i think these people are afraid that trump will plunge the united states into civil disorder and i think that is overcoming issues of partisanship. it's becoming as marco rubio says harder every day to defiend the idea that this guy would be a better president. >> josh, will this effect those candidates, john kasich and marco rubio, at the moment showing a little bit of question as to whether they will support their own party's nominee? will that hurt them as we move into tuesday? that's really the practical matter at hand. >> i don't know. i mean, it depends on the profile of the voter. i mean, the problem is they are trying to attract away people who are thinking about voting for donald trump. so if you're somebody who thinks that trump is at least worthy of consideration for the republican nomination, you're probably not

going to react well when marco rubio or john kasich says that they won't support somebody like that. on the other hand, you have a lot of republican voters who are horrified by the idea of donald trump as a nominee and kasich and yub row arubio are trying t consolidate the voters. consolidate the anti-trump vote as much as possible. i think that may well work for kasich in ohio, unlikery to work for marco rubio in florida. certainly if they stay in the race after this, you know, when you think back to the summer, the question for donald trump was are you a loyal republic an who can commit to support the nominee? it is a liability in general. >> josh, the question might be as we've seen the digit seasons as you are so well encapsulating for us right now, are we shifting to another season? this violence we have seen over the last couple of days and a new crescendo? is this going to be the modus operandi for the gop going bard if trump atop the

polls? >> i've said for a long time if trump ends up being the nominee, most republicans will fall if line behind them. he won't have been their choice but will decide the best thing for the party is to be united. i no longer think that's true. a lot of republicans have decided there's simply no way they can support donald trump. some will support hillary, some will sit on their hands. maybe there will be a third-party candidacy, though it's very hard to get on ballots. i think after this week it's going to be impossible for trump to consolidate the whole gop establishment. >> josh, thanks for being with us this evening. you are going to be with us the next hour and half or so as we wait for others as they hold their campaign rallies leading up to the second biggest get when it comes to delegates on super tuesday. joining us, kristen welker, nbc news white house correspondent, following the hillary clinton campaign on the campaign bus en route to youngstown, ohio, where clinton will hold an event later tonight. hillary clinton just finishing a town hall, finishing with a lot of support, a lot of people glad to hear her messages there.

>> reporter: absolutely. hey there, richard, good evening. that's right. secretary clinton just wrapped up an event in cleveland, an african-american church, courting african-american voters. obviously a critical voting bloc in ohio which is an important state for her to win on tuesday. the democrats locked in an increasingly competitive race but richard, today they were unified for a brief moment when they both took aim at donald trump. they accused him, blamed his heated rhetoric for stoking those protests outside of his rally that eventually got canceled in chicago on friday. take a listen to what they both had to say. >> the ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from donald trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong and it's dangerous. if you play with matches, you're going to start a fire you can't control.

that's not leadership. that's political arson. >> what our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways encouraged violence. when he talks about, you know, things -- i wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head. what do you think that says to his supporters? >> reporter: now, of course, trump is a popular target for clinton as sanders, but today we heard some of the strongest language yet from these two candidates against the gop front-runner. back to the democratic race, just a little bit more of a scene setter, we just wrapped up that event in cleveland. we're now heading to youngstown. secretary clinton will have had three events today. she's stepping up her pace as we get closer to these important votes on tuesday. and you can probably see the road behind me. i'm here with the rest of the

press as we head to that event in youngstown where she's expected to talk about trade and call for stiffer trade regulations for automakers. in the wake of sands eers asurpe victory in michigan, this state, illinois, missouri, looking increasingly competitive. clinton campaign lowering expectations for these states but there no doubt it is important for her to win a state like ohio. she won this state back in 2008 and she would lose some momentum. the clinton campaign arguing, though, if she were to win florida and north carolina, she could walk away with more delegates, but senator sanders continues to raise millions of dollars online, so if he has a strong showing on tuesday, he would likely push this through the spring and maybe even the convention. richard? >> nbc's kristen welker reporting. on the road there for us in the campaign bus. we'll, of course, be touching base with you later, as well are going to be watching and following hillary clinton as she has another event later this next hour. speaking of which, we are

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