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that was the chaotic scene at donald trump's last rally of the day last night in kansas city. and outside there were confrontations like this, crowds lining the street, people, police, police on horses, you can see the police appear to pepper spray the protesters. disruptions are becoming the new normal. yesterday a man tried to rush the podium as trump was speaking in ohio. the man was stopped by the secret service. in kansas city, trump called for protesters to be arrested. >> if they want to do this, i say to the rest of the room, because we're going to go strongly for your arrest, and i'm going to do this from now on, let's ruin -- they're going to ruin the rest of their lives if they want to do this, let them have a big arrest mark. they got arrested.

for whatever it is -- >> trump rivals are now speaking out about the wild scenes, saying he bears responsibility. >> donald trump has created a toxic environment. there is no place for a national leader to prey on the fears of people. >> he doesn't want to say anything to his supporters because he doesn't want to turn them off. he understands the reason why he are voting for him is because he tapped into this anger. >> responsibility begins and ends at the top. it is my hope that all of us can appeal to civility. >> but, athe least for now, those same rivals are sticking by their pledge to support trump if he gets the nomination. >> i still at this moment continue to intend to support the republican nominee. but, getting harder every day. >> you talk about the toxic atmosphere. >> yeah. >> is that disqualifying to be

the nominee of your party? >> you know, he's getting close to it, but i will tell you -- i said he's getting close to it. >> i committed at the outset. i will support the republican nominee, whoever it is. >> for his part, trump says he knows who to blame for the protests. supporters of bernie sanders. >> these other people, by the way, some represented bernie, our communist friend. with bernie, so he should really get up and say to his people, stop. stop. not me. stop. >> look it's a bernie person. it's a bernie. hello, bernie. hey, bernie, get your people in line, bernie! >> i caught up with sanders yesterday as he dashed from one campaign rally to another. we began by talking about his supporters protesting at the trump event. >> you are not in any way condoning or encouraging your

supporters to disrupt donald trump rallies, is that right? >> no, of course we're not. we have nothing to do with that protest. but what does concern me, al, is that a lot of the language coming from donald trump himself is almost condoning of violence. and as you know, just the other day, charges were brought against his own campaign manager for assaulting a female journalist. i think what you're seeing is trump kind of provoking violence in his supporters, and i hope he makes it very clear that in the united states of america, people can attend rallies, people can protest, and not be afraid of being beaten up or sucker punched, which is what we have seen on a number of occasions at trump rallies. >> but what he has made clear, senator sanders, is at a rally in ohio, he has called you out. he says you ought to tell your

supporters to stop coming and protesting at his rallies. what is your response? >> we have never, never once told anybody to do anything like that. you know, and i hesitate to stay this, you know, al, because you know, in a democracy, people have difference of opinions, and i have differences of opinions with donald trump, but the truth is, this guy really is a pathological liar. he says the first thing that comes to his mind. i guess he's referring to me as a communist. maybe he's getting a little bit nervous with the fact that in the last "wall street journal"/nbc poll we were 18 points ahead of him. we have been defeating nip double digits in almost every national poll and every statewide poll. so i think maybe we can expect to hear some more attacks from mr. trump. >> so you think that his attacks are strategic, because of the polls saying you're 18 points

ahead so you're saying that your campaign in no way directly or indirectly organized the protests against donald trump or his events? >> absolutely. that is absolutely correct. >> now, he even said on twitter he called the protesters thugs. which has all kind of connotations. what do you say to that? >> well, you know, here is a guy who is calling people who protest against him violent or thugs, while his campaign manager, as i just mentioned the other day, is now being charged with assaulting a female journalist, where he has time and again kind of referenced positive things about violence. you know, talking about the good old days or his desire to punch somebody in the head. we have never seen anything quite like this in modern american political history. look, i have been protested all of the time. i get protesters throughout my

political career. protested when i'm running for president. we don't go out beating up, our supporters don't go around beating up our opponents. we respect people's right to protest. and i think it's terribly important that trump tell his supporters that in america you don't go around beating up people who are protesting, or who have a different point of view. he's got to start changing his rhetoric, and not blame other people for the problems that he is causing. >> we'll have much more from my interview with bernie sanders in a few minutes. but today, everyone is bracing for more trump rallies. he has three planned today. let's bring in rick tyler, msnbc political analyst, and former national spokesperson for the ted cruz campaign. and ed rendell, the former democratic governor of pennsylvania and former head of the dnc.

rick, let me go to you first. you've been in politics a long time. have you ever seen anything like we've seen in the last 48 hours? >> morning, reverend. no, i haven't. this is a really quite disturbing. you know, we look around the dploeb, the reason, you know, power has changed is sometimes you see the parliament burning. and we've always had a peaceful transition of power. and these protests are -- and these -- it was a protest and reaction to them, look people can protest. they have no right to rush the stage. donald trump has a right to speak, and others have a right to protest. but they should do it in a civil way. the violence that we've seen is really very dispushing. i don't think it's very representative of the republican party. at least i hope so. >> now, governor, do you think that all of this will affect tuesday's election? we have five states that are critical in terms of the selection process for both parties. do you think this will affect the voting on tuesday?

>> yeah, i think it will. i think it will add some points to john kasich's total in ohio. i think it will help ted cruz perhaps in north carolina and missouri. but, what's happening is, over time, all of these things are starting to pile up. and they will begin to have an effect on mr. trump. particularly when he gets in a one-on-one race, either in the republican primaries against ted cruz, or in the general election. it -- it's becomes baggage and the more baggage you have, the harder it is to sustain your momentum. so i think it's a real danger for the trump campaign. and i think the one smart thing they did was cansing the rally in chicago. because that, to me, seemed like a tinderbox. and you'll remember, reverend, very well, the protests outside of the democratic convention in chicago in 1968, and the

overreaction to the protests, the beating of the protesters, that was probably why hubert humphrey lost the election in the fall to richard nixon. he lost very narrowly. i think yes, this will have an effect. it will have a slight effect on tuesday but over the course of time this stuff is going to pile up. >> rick, you know, some are saying that this may galvanize trump supporters. do you agree it will hurt him? and if it does not hurt him, will it hurt the gop brand? particularly if he's the nominee? >> it already is hurting the gop brand. and i do think it will galvanize his supporters. it's sort of unfortunate. a lot of these people have never been involved before, trump says that, people who never voted before. people are very frustrated and they can take out their truss frags by voting for the candidate they want. but these violent outbursts and the way these rallies are going is not very good. but what we have to remember is, is most people in the republican party in this primary process do not support donald trump and i think the governor is right.

if it were a one-on-one, say cruz versus trump, i think cruz would beat him handily. and in particular, where if everybody is saying cruz wouldn't do well like in the northeastern states i think cruz would actually do well in those states because those states tend to vote for establishment republicans, so that's new york, connecticut, these kinds of states, and some of these larger, california. when they -- but trump is not establishment. nor is ted cruz. but, i think given the choice between ted cruz and donald trump, you would see ted cruz do very well in these more moderate states. >> governor, you know, at some of the rallies people some of the protesters, not all and not even from what we could measure the majority of but some were yelling senator bernie sanders name, had on t-shirts, supporting him, and now trump has said these are his supporters that are doing this, and as you saw, i caught up with him yesterday and he denied it.

is this going to hurt sanders if he's seen as the other side to this, and could it in some very inadvertent way help secretary clinton? >> well, it's possible, rev. but i don't think so. i think people understand that senator sanders wouldn't countenance any of this. his supporters are passionate. the thing we've got going in this election is two phenomenons. the passionate nature of the trump supporters, the republican primary. and the passionate nature of the sanders supporters in the democratic primary. and that tends, when people are that passionate, that tends to create friction. i don't think that the sanders people went to the trump rally trying to create trouble for donald trump. he just went to protest, and be heard. and mr. trump is wrong about one thing. yes, if a protester rushes the stage and tries to do harm to a

candidate, or if a protester starts hitting or pushing people around, they're subject to arrest. but if all they are is there protesting, they can be removed because they're disturbing other people. but they can't be charged with a crime. and the two young african-americans who are being taken out of a trump rally two or three days ago, and then -- doing nothing but being removed from the rally, and then that man leaned over and gave the guy a good shot, an impressive shot actually for a 78-year-old guy, but the -- the -- the -- the crime there is the person who hit the protester. >> right. >> that's the person who's going to get the criminal record. and mr. trump is wrong. look, if protesters come in, and any of us who've held off, or run for office, have been subject to protesters. what i would do -- >> i've been a protester, and i know the rules. you're right. and -- >> absolutely. >> and i continue to be a protester on issues. but i think i would disagree with you about that shot. it was a sucker punch.

it was not a fair shot. >> no, no, no. it wasn't a fair shot. but i was amazed that a 78-year-old could hit that hard. and by the way, give the young man a lot of credit for restraint. >> yes, he did. >> he didn't get up and start fighting back. he knew what he was there for, to peacefully protest. >> yep. all right. rick tyler, ed rendell, thank you both this morning for being with us. still ahead, more of my interview with bernie sanders, why he's failing to attract more minority voters, and what he'll try to do about it. plus i talk to the senator who may -- who may be, according to many, hillary clinton's running mate. and president obama reacts to the claim that he should be blamed for donald trump. >> i have been blamed by republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their

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away from the chaos we're seeing at the trump rallies, there's a rough race going on in the democratic pot. with five states up for grabs on tuesday, we are watching that carefully. in part two of my interview with sanders, we talked about his match-up with clinton. and how he's laying out differences from her in these upcoming states. on tuesday you have primaries in five states. right there in chicago,

illinois, your campaign began running ads around the laquan mcdonald case. as you know i've been for years dealing with police reform matters. so it caught my eye particularly. are you in some ways, with these ads, targeting mayor rahm emanuel, who many of us felt did not, at best, deal with this case properly? and by inference tying him to your opponent in the primary, hillary clinton? >> well, let me just answer that in a couple of ways. first of all, i am in illinois right now. we had a great rally last night in summit, illinois. we had 9,000 people out. and al, i am sensing the same kind of energy and momentum that we had in michigan last week where we surprised everybody by winning a victory. and i'm feeling good about the five states that are coming up. now, in terms of illinois, i

have to tell you, i think that when you have a mayor who has paid back wall street hundreds of millions of dollars for very questi questionable -- very transactions between wall street and the chicago school system, while at the time same shutting down 50 schools, and laying off large numbers of teachers, yeah, i think you got a mayor who's on the wrong side of history, and is doing -- and is performing not the way a serious mayor should perform. and if hillary clinton touts him, rahm emanuel, as one of her strong supporters, which she does, he's one of the mayor's most prominently displayed in supporting her, well i think emanuel is doing a good job and hillary clinton will have to tell the people of chicago and illinois how she feels about,

number one, his response to the school crisis. and number two, his response to the mcdonald situation, as well. >> now, you won -- you won michigan, a lot of emphasis on free trade. a lot of emphasis on nafta, and moving jobs overseas. big issues that were behind your win in michigan. is this how you're campaigning in illinois, ohio, north carolina, florida, and missouri, going in to this tuesday? >> well, people in the midwest, and people throughout this country, want to know why it is that the middle class continues to disappear. why people are working longer hours for lower wages, and almost all new wealth and income is going to the top 1%. and in the midst of understanding why that's happening, you've got to look at these disastrous trade policies. i knew from day one, way back in the early 1990s, that nafta was

going to be a disaster for american workers. and later that permanent normal trade relations with china was going to be a disaster. american workers should not be forced to compete against desperate people abroad who are forced to work the starvation wages. we want to uplift poor people around the world. but you can do that without destroying the middle class of this country. i have opposed all of these trade agreements. hillary clinton has supported virtually all of them. that is a major difference in terms of our views on economics, i want corporate america to invest in this country, not in china. apay erntly she has a different point of view in terms of trade. so is that an issue we're going to be highlighting? absolutely. when millions of workers have lost their jobs in this country because of disastrous trade policies, when we are seeing a race to the bottom, where wages are going down in manufacturing, in many parts of this country,

you bet that i'm going to make that a major bone of contention, and a disagreement that hillary clinton and i have. >> as we talk about trade, as we talk about wall street, as we talk about finance, in the black and latino community, even if things are brought down in terms of some of these issues, if we lose the case of affirmative action, their fear as i travel around the country and talk to people, is but how do we get equality? what does this have to do with us? you got 30% of the black vote in michigan. better than you did in the south, but still less than the third mrs. clinton got twice as many. what do you say to black and latino voters who you need to support you in november if you're the nominee, and certainly you will need this tuesday, what do you say will be their particular way of dealing with racial inequality in the fight about income inequality?

>> what i say is that we started this campaign at 3% in the polls. we were doing terrible with blacks, whites, and latinos with everybody. we have come a long, long way, al, in closing that gap. i believe that in nevada my understanding is we won the latino vote. i think we did very, very well in colorado. i think, among young people, we are doing very well in the latino community. and in the african-american community. serious problem remains with older people, whether they're black, latino or white. but we're doing much, much better. i think our message to the african-american community, check out our record on criminal justice. nobody has a stronger record and a stronger agenda in fighting against police brutality and in the need for police department reform. what i have said over and over again is that if a police officer breaks the law, like any

other public official, that officer must be held accountable. we need to demilitarize our local police departments. we need to make sure the police departments look like the communities they serve in terms of their diversity. what we are also doing is having a very strong economic message. i'm the candidate talking about raising minimum wage to $15 an hour. i'm the candidate talking about creating 13 million decent paying jobs, we're building our infrastructure. pay equity for women. making sure that we address the crisis with high rates of youth unemployment in the african-american and latino community. this is a campaign to bring people together, to end institutional racism, to end the embarrassment of the united states having more people in jail than any other country. if i'm elected president, we're going to make real progress on all of those issues.

>> senator bernie sanders. thank you so much for joining us this weekend. >> thank you. hillary clinton is hoping to avoid another michigan on tuesday. i'll talk one-on-one with the senator some are saying could be her running mate. plus, donald trump's divisive rallies, are they tearing the republican party apart? we'll ask our panel. (vo) you can check on them. you can worry about them. you can even choose a car for them. (mom) honey, are you ok? (child) i'm ok. (announcer vo) love. (mom) we're ok. (announcer vo) it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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she wants to avoid another upset like bernie sanders pulled in michigan. before senator brown jetted off to campaign for clinton. i talked to him about whether she should be worried about the state. >> of course you're concerned in every state as secretary clinton moves state to state. she knows this is a race. but i think you start with a couple things, reverend sharp n sharpton. one is she's the most qualified person running. maybe that doesn't matter much this year. fundamentally by the general election it will. she's the most qualified person to run for president in my lifetime. second, she's devoted her life to fighting for issues that you fought for your while life, early childhood education, health care, helping provide opportunities to working class and poor people and working class people and middle income people. i think that will continue to highlight that in ohio. i feel good about her race here. i feel good that she will be the nominee. i feel good how both candidates, frankly, have held themselves

well, particularly contrasted with the republican debates, which have looked, frankly, pretty embarrassing to a lot of americans, and to the whole world. >> now, independents are allowed to vote in the democratic primaries in michigan, which is what is the basis of the victory by senator sanders. he won a huge portion of the independent votes, though mrs. clinton won among the democrats. are you concerned about independents doing the same in ohio? because you have an open primary there, just like michigan? >> we have legal an open primary. i think there's less tradition in ohio of people switching over from republican to democrat or democrat and taking a republican ballot. >> polls say that sanders, among very liberal voters, he got 59% of the vote in michigan among

very liberal voters. clinton only got 41%. so the very liberal, progressive voter seems to be going overwhelmingly for sanders. is that a concern? >> at least progressive voters but i don't totally -- hillary clinton is a good progressive. i've known her for 25 years. i've admired what she's done. i understand bernie's tone and rhetoric is more attractive to progressives, especially on trade, especially on taxes, talk about millionaires and billionaires. but i also know and i helped write some of the pro programs that she's talking about in her campaign i know that on trade and on enforcement and rules of origin, on autos, on issues like taxation, on outsourcing of jobs, i know that -- and on wall street reform hillary clinton's going to do the right thing. >> my colleague chuck todd had another idea on how hillary clinton might reach some progressive voters and get them

to -- get them to maybe come her way. let me show you what he said. >> she is going to have to worry about it for her running mate. i put sherrod brown now front of the list, front of the line because she's going to need somebody that appeals to the sanders wing of the party. he's a connector. he just knows how to connect to folks. he's got that gravely voice. >> is there a possibility of a clinton/brown ticket? >> there is no possibility. i know that people say this all the time. i literally have no interest. i love what i'm doing. i love fighting for earned income tax credit, for what we're trying to do in housing in my state. against bad trade agreements. i will continue to fight on those issues in ohio, i don't want any other office. i feel lucky that i get the privilege of serving in the senate. so the answer is no and i actually mean it. unlike most politicians who say they don't want to be vice president. >> let's look at the republican

side, because you've said the gop's dog whistle politics on race and gender helped create donald trump. elaborate on that. >> well, for decades, or at least for years, republican politicians have been dog whistling about race. then they're shocked when donald trump starts barking. and it's -- he, you know, the difference between donald trump, and the rest of them, is tone and volume and personality, plus donald trump has done actually the right thing on trade policy. he's saying, at least in my mind, the right thing on trade policy and entitlements. he breaks with the established wall street corporate wing of the party by opposing bad trade agreements, and by standing up for social security beneficia beneficiari beneficiaries. but, underneath all that there is a tone of hate speech, and dog whistles about race or barking about race that makes

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we want to get along with everybody, and we can get along with people. we're going to unify the country. our president has divided this country so badly.

he has been a -- i call him the great divider. >> donald trump, after days of violence and chaos at his rallies, accusing president obama of being divisive. other republicans are even suggesting the president himself is somehow to blame for all the turmoil at the trump events. >> barack obama has used divisive language, as well. i will admit he hasn't called on people in the crowd to beat people up. but he has divided americans up among, you know, class warfare and things of this nature. >> president obama responded to claims like that. take a look. >> i have been blamed by republicans for a lot of things, but, being blamed for their primaries, and who they're selecting for the party, is novel.

what you're seeing within the republican party is, to some degree, all those efforts over a course of time creating an environment where somebody like a donald trump can thrive. >> joining me now is our political panel, robert trainem, msnbc contributor and former bush/cheney senior adviser. political strategist angela rye, and jane newton small from "time" magazine. thank you all for being here. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> so, robert, who is to blame for donald trump? >> i think it's a circular firing squad. the president does have a point. the republican party, my party, has created donald trump. this was fuelled a lot by a couple of years ago by the whole birther movement that donald trump clearly articulated, clearly pushed, clearly tack

advantage of a couple of years ago and the republican party did not dial that back. the preality is that the president is american, the reality is that the president is not muslim. and the reality is that the president is just as american as just you and i but donald trump fuelled that fear and also fuelled that ignorance, if you will, a couple of years ago, and the republican party did nothing to dial it back. however, and i think we're conflating the two here, the president is also, and he said this during his state of the union address, that he's alluded to this in a couple of post-press interviews where he could have done a better job of reaching across the aisle and working with republicans on a number of issues. so both sides are frustrated. both sides are partly to blame for this hyperpartisan atmosphere. but let's be very clear, donald trump is guilty here. >> wait a minute, robert. you cannot compare questioning someone's birthplace, questioning someone's religion, in many ways saying that people

of a certain des scent are rapist or whether someone should have reached across the aisle for some partisan unity on certain issues. you're mixing, in my opinion, apples and oranges there. >> is that to me, rev? >> well, i'm saying to jane, because robert seemed to be trying to compare -- let me tell you why i say that, if you look at a video posted by a reporter, our reporter tony decopal of a confrontation with a trump reporter. this is not about bipartisanism. >> go back to africa! [ bleep ] if you're an african, go back to africa. go back to africa. >> go back to europe. go back to europe. >> -- other inner city blacks [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> so, jay, i mean, go back to africa is not reaching across

the aisle for some bipartisan unity. >> no, reverend sharpton, indeed. the republican party for years has been sort of stroking -- stoking this anger amongst the base. and a lot of it is racial, some of it is economic, some of it is, you know, political, as well. but i mean this anger that they have courted and they've really sought out and you've seen it not just in this election but in elections past, it's sort of like bull that they've been riding and they rode the bull to some success. they got the championship, and the house representatives in the senate but it's a little bit of a faustian bargain. now that you've ridden the bull you're still in the ring with this bull that's enraged, and really angry, and it's going to take it out on somebody. it's going to kill somebody. and you're trapped in this ring with this bull. i think it's sort of a really bad deal that they've made. and you know, we'll see what happens here. but the fact of the matter is that donald trump is their party's frontrunner. and the fact that none of the

establishment really likes that or really wants to see it is really something of their own making. >> and angela, we've not really heard republicans very aggressively denounce this. you know, i had a lot of disagreements with the mccain/palin campaign. but mccain did eventually take a very firm stance and say wait a minute, you can't do this. they have seemingly allowed this to fester, and here we are. >> yes, here we are. and i think most interesting to me is that so many people say, well donald trump doesn't really believe this. he's going to change his tune when it comes time for the general. donald trump, you probably know this better than me, but his history is rooted in this. this didn't start with him calling president obama a muslim. or him stoking the birther movement that it already really started in. he just became the spokesperson. or him calling for the president's harvard transcript. this started with a full page ad

of the central park five. before that it started with his housing discrimination case for violating the fair housing act when he built his apartment building in the '70s. so these are the types of things that exist that that make up the very foundation of who donald trump is, and so we shouldn't be surprised, not only by the rhetoric, but the party also has to say they have to be accountable for this type of violence, this type of bigotry, and this type of racism. it's time to call it what it is. >> robin, where's the leadership? i'm not talking about reaching across the aisle to let's find common ground on legislation. i'm talking about when you have people questioning the birthplace of a president that clearly was born where he was born. when you have people at rallies talking about go back to africa, when you're calling mexicans rapists, when you say islam hates america. where's the leadership denouncing this, robert? >> i don't disagree with you, rev. we've been pretty quiet on the republican side.

unfortunately on us issue. but let me go back because i think this is very, very important. you have paul ryan who came out just two weeks ago. he did a national press conference denouncing donald trump and the kkk. i hope you have that tape because he was very clear about that. you have michael steele the former chair of the republican party also speaking about this. i have been on this network for many months speaking out against this. so you have some people -- you also have marco rubio much to his chagrin, who obviously went out with this. you also have jeb bush who also was talking about this back in august during the whole entire comments about donald trump with the mexican-americans. so there have been some republican establishment individuals who were running for president, who are running for president, who are currently in house leadership who have said enough is enough, donald trump. this is not the republican party, you don't speak for us, skut it out, or dial it back. so there have been some leadership to be completely fail. >> michael steele was on the show last week here, and did -- and paul ryan did make a strong statement, but is it too late as

they allowed this to grow, because we're talking about this birther movement for years. >> yes, and they're speaking out of both sides of their mouth. so the same michael steele that they're putting out here now is the same michael steele that the party fired, i think it had everything to do with his blackness. this is the same party who just mentioned marco rubio. marco rubio in that same press conference said this was also president obama's fault. if you're speaking out of both sides of your mouth that's not real leadership and is also very confusing to a very angry base. >> jay, thank you for joining us. jay newton-small, robert trayn h ham and angela rye. thank you up for your time this morning. cells. and if you have afib-an irregular heartbeat that may put you at five times greater risk of stroke they can pool together in the heart, forming a clot that can break free and travel upstream to the brain, where it can block blood flow and cause a stroke. but if you have afib that's

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bernie doesn't inspire. it's a little group that want a free lunch. that's all it is. >> that was donald trump on saturday, after the unrest in chicago. he had a chance to tone down his rhetoric. but he didn't do it. he decided if anything to keep going the same way. my mother used to tell me, when she would counsel me, you can't plant orange seeds and grow apples. it was her way of explaining the biblical passage that a man's sows he shall reap. you can't keep planting the seeds of discord, planting the seeds of division, planting ugly seeds, and not expect them to grow. i don't agree with any violence. i don't agree with stopping people from their right to assemble. but protests, and standing up, is an american right. it should be done with dignity. it should be done nonviolently.

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