>> thank you. that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts with steve in for rachel. thanks to you at home for joining us the next hour. rachel has the night off. this lovely spot is the town and county resort in san diego, california. this is where ted cruz moments from now is going to be holding a rally. the republican presidential candidate expected to take the stage in the next few minutes. this comes after a day of campaigning all around southern california. he had a rally this afternoon in a city of irvine. in one sense you might say this is pretty unremarkable. a presidential candidate is holding campaign events. he's doing it in a pretty big state. i guess that happens every day. you consider the candidate and you consider the place. we're talking about the state of california. now when you look at the delegate count in california, it's a rich prize. there's 172 delegates up for grabs.

this is a state that will not be holding the presidential primary for two more months until june 7th. that's the very last day of the 2016 republican primary race. that's when california is going to vote. there's not too many times when california has held the primary on the very last day. there's not too many times that california was able to make a difference in a republican presidential contest. you consider ted cruz. he's the ultra conservative candidate. that's who he has pitched his message too. also, cruz might pull it off. check out the latest poll in california. donald trump is ahead with 39% of the vote. it shows kasich in second but it's cruz. if you look at los angeles county, gigantic, los angeles

county with ten million people in that county, if you look there, ted cruz is actually running ahead of donald trump by 11 points in los angeles county. you think about how the delegates are given out in california. they are given out by congressional district. look at the number. it's about a third of all the districts in the state. ted cruz for every congressional district he wins in california, he gets three delegates for that. cruz could walk away from california with a hefty number of delegates even if he loses statewide. if the poll that we're seeing there is accurate about where his strength is. that's how the cruz campaign in the entire stop donald trump movement planned to prevent trump from hitting the magic number from getting 1,237 delegates. that's the magic number he needs to win the nomination on the

first ballot in cleveland and to avoid the contested convention that his opponents desperately want to bring about. in the week since ted cruz big win in wisconsin, this has largely become the accepted narrative. the idea that cruz will success with this plan. the stop trump movement will succeed with this plan. that donald trump is simply not going to be able to amass enough deegates that the republicans are heading to an open convention. an open convention where cruz or john kasich or maybe paul ryan or someone else. where anyone besides donald trump could be the republican nominee. that has become the conventional wisdom in the last week. what if that narrative is wrong. what if major assumption of ted cruz campaign, of the stop trump campaign, of the media's coverage, what if it's wrong? what if donald trump has a much better shot of getting to that number during the primary season

than everyone thinks. we'll tell you as something that could come as a surprise to donald trump's opponents. first, let's all agree there is plenty of evidence that the cruz campaign's delegate the jujitsu is working. there is louisiana. that's where trump beat cruz. the cruz campaign may have ma maneuvered to ten more delegates.a maneuvered to ten more delegates. and then there was this past weekend. there was a drama in the state of colorado. like north dakota, colorado held no primary. it held no caucus this year. all the delegates from colorado to the republican national convention were elected at a state convention and at congressional district caucuses. the trump operation was

absolutely no match for the cruz campaign in colorado. quote, colorado backers passed out flyers with an official campaign slate of 13 delegates and alternated accompanied by their three-digit number position. seven of the names, however, directed people to the wrong number. one delegate's name was misspelled. other candidates did not have errors on their slate. that was their organization or lack of organization at work in colorado. the result of that, it's pretty much what you'd expect. >> in colorado, a knock out for ted cruz. >> together we won all 21. >> an experienced ground game paying off sweeping all 21 delegates at the republican state convention. >> if we continue to stand united, we are going to win the general election. we're going to win the state of colorado. we're going to beat hillary clinton and we are going to turn

this country around. >> in race where every delegate counts, cruz aggressively courting support in virginia today, just three delegates up for grabs. >> i want to vote for a conservative. that's what i'm doing with ted cruz. with donald trump, it's a question mark. >> most predict the race will come down to june 7th and the final state, california. a whooping 172 delegates up for grabs. >> that's why tonight ted cruz is in san diego campaigning for a primary that's still two months away. he's trying to build up the support he will need at the congressional district level in the state of california to deny donald trump as many of that state's 172 delegates as he can. after the cruz campaign played the ace in the hole this weekend, the state of colorado, who he did there, he swept every single delegate. after that it looks more and

more like every single remaining contest in this race is going to count. ted cruz may have the upper hand, at least, when it comes to organizing for the delegate fight. donald trump for his part is none too happy about this turn of events. >> we've got a corrupt system. it's not right. we're supposed to be a democracy. we're supposed to be, you vote and the vote means something. all right. you vote, and the vote means something. >> okay. that's what happened in colorado over the weekend. if colorado was the cruz campaign's ace in the hole, if it was their secret weapon, well donald trump may have a secret weapon of his own. let's take a look at what's going on. we're talking about unbound delegates. they're the three agents until the convention. even if they say they will honor the will of the voters. these are people who will be three agents at the convention. let's take you through what

we're talking about. this is where the republican race stands now in terms of delegates. donald trump is in the lead. ted cruz is drawing closer thanks to colorado and a few other places. the magic number, 1237. let's take a look at what's coming up. we know new york is next. donald trump's home state. there's 95 delegates up for grabs. there's a good chance donald trump will take the lions share of that. what gets interesting is what happens after new york. a week after new york, you have the mid-atlantic states. say donald trump came this with 850 delegates. he has an opportunity in these states. delaware is a winner take all. he has some opportunities here to add up a lot of delegates fast. we're his ace in the hole could be, the secret weapon that nobody is talk about right now could be in the state of pennsylvania. if the number looks a little confusing your screen, that's the key to all of this.

17. 17 is the number of delegates you get if you win the state. they'll have primary. it's the other 54, who are the wild card. those 54 are unbound delegates. that's what we're talking about. they will run as individual. individual names on the ballot. they run on the ballot. they get elected to be delegates at the convention. the conventional wisdom on this, based on what happened in north dakota, based on what happened in colorado is this is trouble for donald trump. sure he could win the 17 statewide delegate, but the 54 unbound are the ones where the cruz campaign and the stop trump forces could have an advantage because of organizing and because of the trump campaign's lack of organizing. we're seeing something very interesting out of state of pennsylvania. consider this. there's a newspaper there, the pittsburgh tribune review.

they did a survey of all the candidates. there's almost 170 of them who are running to be unbound delegates in pennsylvania. they asked who will you vote for? what will you do? this is what they said? the majority of them who responded, 66 said they will vote for the candidate who gets the most votes in their district. they will honor the will of the voters. they won't vote their on conscious. may will do what the voters do in their primary. of that 18, a number said they would factor in how the district votes. if the district votes for candidate x in the primary, they would factor that in of who they will vote for at the convention. 20 of them did say they were cruz supporters. the same number said they were trump supporters. also a bun mp, no response. a bid of a wild card. 18 is 84.

there's only about 170 are are running. over 100 said they are for trump or for the candidate who wins that district or at least consider who wins the district. now consider this. keep that in mind. that's what the delegates are saying. what are the polls saying in pennsylvania now? the polls are saying, this is brand new poll, the polls are saying donald trump has a huge advantage in pennsylvania. he is more than doubling up right now be second place candidate in pennsylvania, john kasich. cruz running this third place. you have delegates. you have people running for the unbound delegate slots in pennsylvania. some are republican leaders. you have members of congress. republican members of congress who are running in the districts to be delegates at the convention. i will go to the convention and honor what you do. they are not locked in.

they can say that now and make the commitment. they are unbound delegates. they will remain unbound until the convention. theoretically, they could still join a stop trump movement. they are making commitments to republicans. in many cases to their constituents, their republican constituents in pennsylvania that they will honor their will in the primary. if this poll is any indication, donald trump could be on his way to a massive victory in the pennsylvania primary. it's possible, but it's hard to see. it gets hard to see if donald trump scores this kind of victory, all those candidates for delegate who say they will honor, it's hard to see in the face of a trump land slide they would back out of a commitment like that. this raises the possibility, so many people have been looking at pennsylvania saying he could get the 17, but the real story is how many of those unbound, how many of those 54 unbound

delegates is he going to lose? what we're seeing, now that we're starting to get read on the psychology is donald trump can run up a big number in the primary on april 26th, he could get the lion's share of the unbound delegates. that changes the math completely in this republican race. think about what we just said there. if he gets the lion's share it would bring him to 850. without the unbound delegates from pennsylvania from the mid-atlantic states he could get up to about 950. take a look at this. if you add in, if he came out april 25th with 950 and add it in. say he got 50 of the unbound, now he is sitting at 1,000. where else could he pick them up? new jersey is a winner take all state. west virginia looks like a big trump state. he could take most of those.

indiana is a bit of a wild card. say he loses indiana. trump wins a couple of congressional districts. say cruz wins these states. trump is shut out. he looks pretty good in new mexico. he gets half the delegates. that could put him at 1102. california, very, very tough to read california. a huge wild card. say the polls are right. we don't know how the break down goes. beginning the unbound delegates from pennsylvania could make for donald trump. this is a huge wild card to

think of as we go forward. what will those unbound d delegates who get elected, what will they do? they could be the difference between an open convention and donald trump putting this thing away for good on june 7th. on paper this could with shaping up as trump's secret weapon, but is it? joining us now is congressman charlie dent. thanks for joining us. let me ask you, if donald trump wins your state the way this poll suggests he's on course to do right now, do you expect that will happen? the unbound delegates will say the people have spoken. we honor that. we're going to vote for trump. >> that's a mixed bag. i spoken to unbound delegates and not many seem to be sympathetic to donald trump. you mentioned 14 would be bound.

two of the national committee people. one is the chairman one of those have committed to kasich. the unbound, anything can happen there. i'm actually looking at the second ballot. i believe a lot of those folks are going to end up wanting to vote for the candidate with the best chance to win this presidential election. >> isn't there an argument to be made. what do you think of the argument that honor the will of the voters, at least on the first ballot of the convention. if the voters of pennsylvania, if the voters in the districts of these unbound delegates are for trump, is there an obligation to listen to that and to go along with it on the first ballot? >> no, they're not obligated. they are free to exercise their judgment however they choose to do it. i expect some will honor that vote. other, i suspect, will not. again, where i live, many of the

delegates who are running, have not been very sympathetic to donald trump. i can see that in my area. i'm not sure which poll you just cited with trump having -- >> this is the fox news poll that came out yesterday. >> okay. there was an f and m poll showed it 33, 30, 20 with trump and kasich. i think pennsylvania is very much in play. john kasich will do well. he's the only republican candidate that is above water. not under water in terms of favorability rating. i think a lot of delegates are

smart people and they want to win. they see him as the only electable republican in the field. i think they will enter their thinking. >> i take your point. we'll see where the polls shake out. what is the argument. if this is land slide, for anybody, if kasich wins this, what is the argument for an unbound delegate disregarding a landslide. what's the argument for not honoring that voice in. >> i understand the delegates will be under tremendous treasure to honor the vote of whatever the primary voters say. i think they know that donald trump, given his unfavorability

rating, it seems he has no path to winning a general election. these delegates, their job is to nominate the most electable, the most electable republican of good character. that's going to be their job. they're going to take that very seriously when the time comes. i agree, they will be under tremendous pressure. they will be under tremendous pressure to support who the voters decide. >> thanks for the time. appreciate it. >> thank you. when flattery doesn't get you anywhere but a little bribery does. that's ahead. ♪ ♪

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he first came up short in a bitter fight. it was a fight over delegates and played out at the 1976 republican convention. reagan challenging president gerald ford with a real chance of knocking him off. reagan came to the convention in kansas city that summer trailing ford in the delegate count, but the margin was small. meaning there was plenty of

opportunity there for reagan, if he could just pick off a hand full of delegates. if we could do that he could swing the convention away from ford, away from the sitting president and could walk away with the republican nomination. all that power in the hand of those republican convention delegates. it made each one of them very, very important to both candidates. >> as soon as reagan left his hotel this morning, he began running into ford supporters. it was a coordinatd campaign by some ford workers. reagan continued to visit state delegation searching for new delegates. when he arrived he found that three of that state's four uncommitteds were meeting with ford. a ford spokesman said it was a coincidence but he wasn't sorry. >> there was a dirty trick yesterday. ford said a reagan backer tried to bribe several delegates for

their votes for sums as high as $2500. we have the large majority of the uncommitted delegates to the republican convention and i'm at a table now of a group of people of virginia. i want to talk to two or three of them. >> i'm going to wait until tomorrow night. i want to talk with mr. reagan, which i did not get to yesterday. >> you talked to the president. >> i went to the white house on a chartered plane and talked to mr. ford up at the white house. >> reagan may have had the movie star appeal going for him, but president ford won out in no small part because of the trappings he could offer to all those delegates. flights aboard air force one, cocktails at the white house and even a state dinner with queen elizabeth. reagan's card was his hollywood connections. he tried to lure them with john wayne and jimmy stewart. it didn't quite work out. ford prevailed and lost to

carter in fall. 40 years later trump could be set to plunge into the same kind of delegate war. one governed by few rules about what can be offered in exchange for the support of the uncommitted. on sunday, trump's new convention manager said the campaign will do everything within legal and ethical bounds to win them over. >> what is fair game in getting a delegate is paying for their convention cost. is it golf club memberships. what's fair and unfair in this. what's ethical and unethical? >> there's law and then ethics. i'm not going to get into what tactics is used. >> advisors to trump say they haven't ruled out entertaining delegates or paying their travel cost. they are not offering seats on trump force one. one avisor can't give them

100,000 there are. how far can you go to win support for a republican delegate? taking a look at that issue in today's washington post, under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. an individual donor is mermted to give a delegate unlimbed sums to support his or her to go to the convention. thanks for being here. translate what i just read into layman's term for me and anyone else who is a little confused by all this. if you're the trump campaign and you get to the end of the primary process and you're 40 delegates short and you need to win over delegates, where's the line? what can you do? >> there's not been a lot of testing of the rules since they were issued in the 1980s.

the campaign has a lot of purview to pay expenses. there's not really any standard set. several attorneys said they think it would be fine to fly delegates for an all expense paid weekend. there is going to be a lot of testing of these rules which haven't really gotten scrutiny in 40 years now. >> that's what i keep thinking of. i'm thinking of the morning of june 8th. a bunch of these unbound delegates getting a phone call saying how would you like to come down to florida. if you're anybody who wants to stop donald trump, any rumblings of planning? >> everyone is playing this very close to the vest. they don't want to give away their strategy. part of this is the attorneys are furiously setting up on the rules.

i found a lot of people weren't familiar with the regulations that do exist. one real wild card that could come into play in this campaign that couldn't have been a case, for example, in 1976, is that individual donors can give unlimited sums to delegates and in some cases would never have to report those contributions if they weren't making them. that actually leaves room for a lot of behind the scenes goodies being thrown the way of delegates that we might not ever know about. >> talk about a throw back. that's something the laws and procedure for everyone to see. this would be a throw back to a different era. if this is the fight you're in over the summer these fights are supposed to be about grand things, policy ideas, vision for the country.

who has the better agenda. if it look likes a bidding war they are getting into that's not going to reflect well on anyone. >> and especially not in this year. you do not want to be caught making a deal handing delegates some goodie to get their vote. i think the backlash would be enormous. i think there's any expectation of some sort of systematic effort to woo delegates with cash or gifts. we see the potential for bad actors to play in this game and influence some delegates at the margins. i think the campaigns are very well aware that if any kind of deal was made that would look unseemly and that came to light that could really have a lot of blow back for them. i expect we'll see efforts to be fairly transparent about this and not only that, the delegates we spoke with took a lot of um bridge at the idea they could be bought off. i think people will have to be

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we have a big up date on a story we've been following closely on this show. it concerns one of the great washington d.c. scandals. the d.c. madam case goes back ten years to 2006 to an escort agency with some exclusive customers. the woman running the prostitution ring killed herself back in 2008. recently, her lawyer has been fighting to release previously unseen phone records from the d.c. escort service. he says it could affect the 2016 presidential race. today, that lawyer, montgomery sibley gave us a glimpse of what is in the sealed documents. he lists the name of 174

companies, government agencies and os from which phone calls were placed to the escort service while it was in business. names of the organizations are included as part of a new lawsuit that mr. sibley has filed with washington, d.c. district court. he alleges that a court gag order violates his first amendment rights. the organizations listed in the latest filings are not accused of any wrong doing. right now we have no indication as to why people from these groups would be calling into the d.c. madam's escort service. the list includes tons of government agencies including the fbi, the irs, the state department, the u.s. coast guard, the postal service. even for whatever reason the u.s. forest service. other organizations include the archdiocese of washington, the embassy of japan, johns hopkins university and several large companies and law firms. so far, none of the groups appear to have any obvious

connections to current presidential candidates. as to the larger questions about the name of individual people on the list, he's still waiting to hear about an application he's filed with the u.s. supreme court. chief justice john roberts denied the first question but he's resubmitted the application with justice clarence thomas. even if the court doesn't rule in his favor, it might only be a matter of time before he releases them. he said i'm not releasing any individual names dot, dot, dot yet. watch this space.

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night, authorities rushed a 30-year-old shooting victim to the hospital. today they are making arrests for his murder. black leaders are calling such violence plerk's number one civil rights problem. many said the problem is not the the crime bill calls for more police and prisons. they should teach respect for life and the dignity of others. >> is that going to stop the crime problem next year? the answer is no. will it put us on a course to bring about real and meaningful change on a long determine basis, the answer is yes. >> housing secretary said the administration is trying to create more jobs but most said president clinton hasn't done enough. >> i have not seen him propose anything with the priority that he did balancing the deficit or dealing with the deficit this terms of urban policy. so far this administration resembles an old james brown record. talking loud and saying nothing.

>> in theory, at least, those leaders were supposed to be on board with the crime bill. that's what the whether i know on the white house wanted. the percentage of african-americans who listed crime and violence as the number one problem facing the country spiked from 8% to over 28%. that just in the course of a year. it was supposed to be a direct answer to that. something all americans were nervous about but something being felt acutely in lower income, heavily black inner cities. many saw were deal breakers embedded in that bill. the crime bill made its way through congress and in september of 1994, president bill clinton signed it into law. to this day, many blame that law for the rise and incarceration rates over the years since then

among minorities and the clintons have renounced parts of the law. it continues to haunt them politically. just last week clinton was interrupted over the 1994 law. bernie sanders who voted for that bill back in 1994, excoriated clinton. he called it unacceptable. yesterday hillary clinton tried to clarify her husband's remarks on television would you tell us denouning him outright. they spent the weekend campaigning at churches in black communities throughout new york city. in terms of polling in new york, hillary clinton is anywhere between 12 and 18 points ahead of bernie sanders putting her in prime position. will this newly pronounced dust up over a decade's old law stop her momentum in this state. is it enough to give bernie sanders an edge? joining us now is the reverend

al sharpton host of politics nation on sundays at 8:00 a.m. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> we have you back in 1994 being against this from the start. among black political leaders there was a divide. is it fair right now in a era where violent crime is so low and much more attention being paid to incarceration to judge them from something over 22 years ago when the crime rate was high? >> i think it's fair to raise the issue because many of us that were opposed and as you correctly state, some were not, said that was the problem we had. also you have in that bill, that many of us who are very concerned about was the death penalty which had the racial disproportion of more blacks on death row.

i think it's a legitimate issue. what i think you raised in the lead in is that the reality is both candidates, senator sanders voted for it and the president and then first lady, secretary clinton, pushed it. in many ways it's a legitimate issue to raise but both candidates have to say that they were in support of the bill that inadvertently led to sochl what we feared. >> we say that president clinton has renounced some of the bill. that's the aspect he talks about. at the same time, there's the fact that the violent crime rate has dropped so much over the last 20 years. the assault weapons ban lasted for 20 years. the violence against women act that originated with this bill. he had $14 billion in this bill to pay for 100,000 police officers on the street.

are we losing sight of the crime bill doing some good things to bring the crime rate down? >> i don't think anyone is questioning where there might have been good aspects. what we're raising is that the things that we were concerned about ended up being correct. many of us were attacked saying how could you be against this when we were clearly part of the movement to say crack a problem and fiegtding crack. now that you have had people's lives disrupted wrongly, you've had families torn apart and the president and the attorney general holder behind him, attorney general loretta lynch have instructed them to not go nor long sentences on non-violent crimes.

mr. clinton or bernie sanders if they are successful or on the republican side saying what are they going to do about it. because the bad sides of the crime bill have led to some things that need to be delt with like holder and lynch have begun dealing with. we're not hearing that commitment. i think it's right to raise the question from '94, but raise it in the context what will you do about the long standing bad affects from the bill that have a large incarceration rate and families torn apart. you can't just walk by that. this is a major concern today in our community. crime down, but you have incarcerated people for non-violent offenses. you still have a lot of the elements in there that were negative. no one is saying that we don't want the see crime curbed and kept down because we're the victims. we don't want to be the victims of mass incarceration and people serving a long time.

you have people with crack convictions getting mandatory getting long term sentences and people with loose cocaine getting nothing. >> they passed it after the top nba draft pick died. people point to that. they point to the rockerfeller drug. the impact of the '94 crime bill is way overstated. >> we fought all of th. that is why we were so sensitive in '94 as you saw that debate. we can go through the debate of '94, and we should. since the affects that we feared and raised have now taken toll, and we've seen people unjustly destroyed. we're not saying let people walk

away with nothing. we're talking about mandatory, long term sentences on non-violent offenses. what are you going to do about it? with all that we have heard in the last few weeks and months about this debate, we still don't have candidates saying this is my commitment in terms of who i would appoint as attorney general and what i would want to see my justice department do. we need a substantive answer to real life problem of mass incarceration. >> all right. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. re, we ce stacked these tires. or put them on a rack. but the specialists at ford like to show off their strengths: 13 name brands. all backed by our low price tire guarantee. yeah, we're strong when it comes to tires. right now during the big tire event, get a $120 rebate by mail on four select tires.

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the other day just before easter a group of youngsters in the u.k. were partaking in an easter egg hunt when they found themselves suddenly in the middle of a police chase. they spotted two men fleeing a building. and in order to help a police helicopter overhead find the bad guys, they formed this, a human arrow, pointing the chopper in the right direction. the burglars were caught. the stolen goods were recovered. and police even landed in the field near the kids to thank them in person. that story is a contender for the best version of getting help from above that we have heard all year. but today we actually got another one. an incredible story. and it starts in micronesia. that's in the western pacific. micronesia as a place spans nearly 3 million square miles of the pacific ocean. it includes more than 2,000 islands, some of them home to as few as 50 people. micronesia the region is home to several countries including one called the federated states of micronesia. and it is there inside the

frailtied states of micronesia in the vast, vast, vastness of the pacific ocean that our second incredible story happened. the red dot you're looking at there on your screen, that is where we think the deserted island of fanadik is located. it is so small it barely showed up on maps. but on that small island of fanadik a plane flying by spotted this sign. "help." on monday night three men boarded a small skiff, planning on taking that boat to a plane to make their way home. but their boat capsized in the night, forcing them to swim two miles in the dark to the nearest island. and that was the deserted island of fanadik. when they didn't show up for their flight, the coast guard was alerted. the search began. the men cobbled together a smoke signal and they helped to spell out the word "help" on the beach with -- they used palm fronds for letters. searchers from above first saw the smoke signal then the plea for help from the beach. after three days on the island all three men are in good health. they have returned to their families. and that right there, that is

why i do not like to go on planes. or boats. or even easter egg hunts. but if i'm ever lost on any of them, i will know to go ahead and write out "help" all caps. that does it for us tonight. rachel's going to be back tomorrow night. i will see you tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. and now it's over to lawrence o'donnell for "the last word." good evening to you, lawrence. >> hey, steve. we have breaking news from reince priebus. he's reminding the candidates that the rules were not made last week, they were actually made last year for delegate collection. >> they need that reminder, definitely. >> they need that reminder. thanks, steve. >> all right. >> as i said, reince priebus has just released a sort of angry tweet. i mean, it's as angry as reince gets. he said, "the rules were set last year. nothing mysterious. nothing new. the rules have not changed. the rules are the same. nothing different." that's reince. howard dean and jim hightower are going to be here tonight for hillary clinton versus bernie sanders discussion. and donald trump seems to have figured out that he has