♪ ♪ doves cry ♪ will the real donald trump please stand up. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews. as trump storms toward the nomination, can question republicans are asking is can he pivot. he boasted about his own polls. can he come across as presidential? according to the wall street, changes are taking place. he will deliver a policy speech on foreign policy. he will start using teleprompters on occasion and

hire a speech writer. the campaign is evolving and so am i. trump's senior advisor told nbc news that the campaign is moving to patch things up with the republican party. >> we're here to let them know that we're going to run a traditional campaign with them. we're the nominee of the republican party. it's going to be a trump brand of the party. we are republicans. we're running as team. >> some are skeptical. the journal's own editorial board wrote miracles happen. he did control his political id on tuesday night but mr. trump's inner hooligan never stays locked up for long. he refrained from using lying ted and he focused on the issue of jobs. let's watch this. >> we don't have much of race

anymore based on what i'm seeing on television. senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated. this country is great. we have such potential, bill. we're not using it. >> it didn't take long for the old trump to return. >> you look at a guy like kasich, he's never been hit by an ad because nobody cares, frankly. it's so true. we're going to beat crooked hillary. i watched her last night during her speech. i watched those two teleprompters out there. she goes we're going to cover from north to south to east to west. honestly, do you think this happens with lying ted cruz and then they start falling to sleep listening to this guy with dramatics. we will fight. we protect all of these foreign nations. we protect germany. we protect japan.

we protect south korea and saudi arabia. it's called the club for growth. you ever hear of these losers. do we like the media? >> no. >> do we hate the media? >> yes. >> michael steele is the former chairman of that party. the republican national committee. kelly conway is a republican pollster and president of a pro-cruz super pac. just a republican strategist. let's have some fun. tell me about donald trump. we're always told be who you are. they say just be yourself. who's the yourself here. >> the yourself is the person you have been seen for a year talking at podiums and rallies with no notes and no net. now, he's going to use a speech writer, teleprompters. they keep using the word traditional to explain the campaign changes. when voters hear and see the new team, they see establishment.

exactly what he has railed against. >> michael, if you see a trump rally and one of the 10,000 people that show up and he does a speech on foreign relations, you're going to be so mad. he wasn't there. >> he's not going to do that. we'll use that teleprompter and the speech writer. >> is it going to say lying ted? >> it may not. when he does like he's going to give policy speech on foreign policy, he'll use that. that will be the traditional tools. what you say the day afterwards when he was in front of his peeps and doing his thing, he was riffing and doing the live shot. >> i know people at home, a lot of people think you can't laugh at trump if you don't agree with him. that's not true. there's something comical about him. if you're disgusted with him, it's ridiculous. he just can't go i disapprove of

that. >> when he did the aiepec speech, he knocked it out of the park. >> he new yorked it out of the park. >> most of the party is moving towards trump because he will be inevitable. he's won the most delegates. he's winning state after state. none of us like it, but we're all trying to deal with it. >> on the today show this morning he explained why he couldn't act presidential so far in the race. he was being attacked by his opponents. everybody gets attacked. >> i felt i had to act back. it's easier for me to be presidential than for me to be doing what i've been doing for the last nine months. at the right time i will be so presidential, you'll be so

bored. you'll say can't he have a little bit more energy. i know when to be presidential. we have gotten used to something about trump. the hair, the whole look. there's a whole kind of aspect to it that isn't normal to us. they cheer him. >> they like him. the number up with words in branding and marketing is new. people like fresh and new. nobody confusing hillary clinton as fresh as new. nobody confuses a lot of republicans who ran as fresh and new. he's a shot of whiskey in a white wine spritzer political discourse. that's what sustained him.

he doesn't have a majority of republicans with him. he needs to repair his relationship with women. he was keeping pace with hillary clinton. >> the comment about abortion in. >> he had four positions on abortion in one day. i think that plus the riots and retweeting of heidi cruz. he can repair all that because in mid-december he was at his best. he took on bill and hillary clinton. the base loved it. the cruz voters loved it. >> his answers seemed to go against the grain of usual republican talking points. listen to this. >> the republican platform, every four years, has a

provision that states the right of the unborn child shall not be infringed. it makes no exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother. would you want to change the republican platform to include the exceptions you have? >> i would. >> do believe in raises taxes on the wealthy? >> i do, including myself. i do. >> he was asked about that new north carolina bathroom dispute. here is what he said about that. >> north carolina did something very strong and they're paying a big price. there's a lot of problems. i heard one of the best answers was from a commentator saying leaving it the way it is. people go. they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. there has been so little trouble. >> if caitlyn jenner would walk into trump tower, you would be

fine with her using any bathroom she chooses? >> that's correct. >> most people have gotten to ignore the platform. my hunch is, i don't want to be disrespectful of the views that we have here, i think these exceptions to the pro-life position are offered up not because they happen a lot but to suggest i'm not absolutely against it. it suggests to me an open mind a little bit. it's an important cue to voters why he's doing that now. >> the high language has been the place where most republicans have campaigned at. >> which is? >> exceptions for rape and incest. >> and life of the mother. >> life of the mother. the party has gone further. what trump is doing is smart politically. they are raising taxes on rich people.

that's also smart. >> on rich people. >> why is what he says seems to be important in the northeast where you have people who are pro-life but have these exceptions? >> i think it's to send a signal. >> i think it's also what he believes. he's been very public. i've heard it from him privately he was pro-choice for a long time or didn't think about it that much. a friend was pregnant unexpectedly and she kept the baby so he became pro-life. let me say this, i hope the republican nominee takes the opportunity to have a two-way conversation on abortion. the democratic platform is ridiculously extreme. talk about no exceptions. it's abortion any one, any time, in where. i hope somebody has the guts to at least ask hillary clinton. how about late term abortion. how about pain capable fetal

pain abortion. >> ted cruz was quick to comment. let's watch that. >> donald agreed with hillary clinton and barack obama for attacking north carolina for passing the bathroom ordinance. he said he thought men should be able to go into the girl's bathroom if they want to. let me ask you, have we gone stark raving nuts? this is the political correctness. this is basic common sense. >> it would cause a stir. if you obey this north carolina, you're causing confusion. if you come across to most people who don't pay that much attention as a female or male and go to the bathroom that seems to fit, that would be okay

to most people. they would say yeah. this is why i think it's a strange law. why do people come up with laws that will create confusion and disorder? >> these laws are playing to a particular idea or perception about transgender individuals. they're playing to that. what ted cruz is doing is a little bit of same thing. playing to that. he's in fredricks, maryland. it would play well there. he wouldn't have that in prince george's county or baltimore. that's what donald trump has done on abortion and issue like this. trying to move the party back to where it once was. >> i think he's doing to miss the mark with that. thank you. it's great to have you on. >> thank you. >> you're a hard get. coming up, hillary clinton's on pace right now to win the democratic nomination and now the vice presidential running

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enough to keep wall street in check. let's hear her. >> president obama led the effort to pass the dodd-frank bill. that is the law. this is our nineth debate. in the prior eight debates, i have said we have a law. you don't just say we're upset about this. i'm upset about it. you don't just say go break them up. you have a law because we're a nation of laws. >> earlier this month sanders opponents knew how he would break up the banks after he struggled to come up with a clear answer in an interview with the new york daily news. here is how sanders clarified his answer on morning joe. >> you do it in a couple of ways. use section 121 of the dodd-frank legislation. with my legislation that i've introduced says that the secretary of the treasury will have the authority to investigate and determine which

banks pose risks to our economy. >> joining me is barney frank of massachusetts. let me ask you about your -- what is too big to fail mean to you? what is we got to break up the big banks mean in policy terms? >> i'm not sure what break up the big banks mean. there's a contradiction. it's much more reasonable than his kind of rallying. he said we got to break them up. they're too big. it's a key problem. he doesn't say how big is too big. you can't say we're going to break them up so none of them are bigger than they should be if you can't tell me what they should be. the key mistake is this. this problem is not the size of the financial institution, it's the size of the debts they run up. that's what cause the problem in 2008. institutions not the biggest, aig and lehman brothers got more

debt than they could pay off. we have approached that in the law in three ways. today's wall street journal, hardly fan of the bill acknowledges talking about goldman sachs that the law is working. the kind of risky deals they made, they can't make anymore. >> what do you think of crowd, i'm watching those young people they're not probably financial experts. i'm not one. they cheer like mad when he says let's break up the big banks. it's an applause line. the that about the danger of a bank causing a 2008 coming again on just anger against big economic power in the hands of the few? isn't that what he's arguing? >> it's not big economic power in the hands of the few because they don't have a great deal of

economic power. we're saying is you can't use your own money. you're there to serve other people and serve them. what you have is first of all, understandable resentimement wh i shared. secondly, they are the most visible symbols of the increased inequality we have had. that's a tough issue to deal with. it has to take specific ways. we have severely limited the ability to run up debts they can't pay off. they can't make the bad bets. they have to have money to stand behind it. they have to submit these living wills. they have to tell how they would break themselves up if things got bad. the regulators can say you

haven't done a good enough job. if all else fails that i understand go out of business, they fail. it would be illegal for any federal official to advance think money to one of those constituti institutions to pay the debts without dissolving them and secretary of treasury is mandated to cover anything laid out from financial institutions. >> thank you so much. barney frank, one of the names this the dodd-frank bill. thank you to your contributions. sanders has been arguing he, not clinton would perform better than the republican candidate in november. here is sanders today with andrea mitchell. >> if after june 7th, after california, if you don't have a majority, if she has a majority and more of the popular vote, would you then concede, endorse her the way she did of barack

obama? >> if we do not have a majority, i think it's going to be hard for us to win. the only fact that i think remains uncertain is if we continue to be running significantly stronger than she is against donald trump or whoever the republican nominee will be. i think that's a factor. >> david corning points out sanders has yet to face a true negative ad campaign aimed at destroying his public image. were he to be the democratic nominee he would be confronted with hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads designed to rip him apart. he's a self-proclaimed socialist. i'm joined by tad divine. two questions that are both related. if sanders believes he's a stronger candidate to beat trump or cruz in the fall, then he can do just about anything to get the nomination in terms of morality. if has to be the one to save the

center left or the left then he has to do some tough stuff. your views. >> i think he's a stronger candidate than hillary for a lot of reasons. he can attract support from independents and she can't. she won in new york. independents can't vote. he can do something she can't do with the voting population. he can bring young people into the process the way barack obama did in 2008. those two factors bringing if large numbers is the reason he's a strong candidate. >> he's arguing hillary has been pummelled for having the wrong glasses, hairdo. she's been hits since she was in

national limelig the limelight. can bernie take the shots? what about the center right and the right when they start hearing the suburbs, this guy is coming to get your money? >> they launched the most vicious, negative campaign. not just in that state but in america. the worst you've seen. you know what it did, we lost no vote. we never ran a negative ad against the guy. he not only survived it, he thrived on it. the same will be true here. on november 19th last year he gave a speech describing his political philosophy. this isn't a state secret. >> the name is out there. >> two words is going to defeat him. it's going to happen. >> i'm going to give a broader

statement. the other guy that does well in terms of a net positive is john kasich. they have not been the main target of all the vicious attack lines. trump attacks his opponents. he doesn't attack kasich. >> hillary doesn't attack bernie. >> the fact that bernie is honest about his political philosophy is one of the great proof points of his candidacy. i don't think it will hurt him at all. we'd love to talk about it. >> we may not find out. thank you. connecticut governor is coming here just days ahead of his state's primary. that's coming up next tuesday too. tomorrow night, you got to watch this. join me for an in-depth look at hillary clinton in my documentary, "it takes a country." that's friday night here on msnbc. one crest 3d white smile...

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promises i can't keep. i'm here to tell you i will use every single minute of every day if i'm so fortunate enough to be your president looking for ways that we can save lives. that we can change the gun culture. it's just too easy for people to reach for a gun to solve their problems. >> welcome back. that was hillary clinton earlier today campaigning up in connecticut from day one of her presidential campaign. clinton has slammed american's easy access to guns. bernie sanders has taken a more moderate position on gun control. andrea mitchell hit back against clinton's criticism of him on guns. >> i would ask secretary clinton to tell us all about the legislation that she introduced when she was a member of the united states senate on gun reform on gun safety. ask why way back in 2008 when

she was running against senator obama, he referred her to as annie oakley because she criticized him to not being sensitive to second amendment needs. >> what do you make of that comeback by sanders that hillary clinton has not been active on the gun state of the issue as a legislatu legislature? >> hogwash. he wants to cover the fact he voted against the brady bill five separate times. i think the most difficult thing he has to explain is why you can't just sue a gun company. if you can sue any other company in america, why can't you sue a gun company? let me tell you the result. we know we can manufacture guns that 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds could not shoot. if people could resort to the courts for the sale of guns that 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds can shoot and kill their baby sister, mother, father, then we wouldn't have those guns being sold in our

country any longer. he's in essence given protection to an industry that's designed to kill people. connecticut has a long history in armaments. i understand that. we also have a long history in pharmaceuticals. we have an industry that spends billions of dollars to make lives and save lives. you can sue them if they make a mistake. how come we can't sue a gun company? >> i think senator sanders said if we do this in the broad way you described, sending a gun to a criminal or likely criminal that you would kill the manufacturing business of making guns. you'd kill it because nobody could take that liability. >> hogwash again. every industry has evolved except for this industry. when someone wants to introduce a gun into this country that can't be fired by someone other than the owner and they try to sell it at the gun store, you know what happens, people stop going to that gun store because people will boycott that store because the nra tells them the

boycott it. because they don't want safer gun technology in the united states because it undercuts their argument. >> do you think it's fair for hillary clinton to run her ad which is powerful, about what happened in sandy, with the terrible shooting up there and not run it in pennsylvania? >> i would run the ad. >> in pennsylvania? >> i would run it in pennsylvania, philadelphia. sure. it's the number one thing that the nra wants to make sure doesn't happen. >> if you're seen as anti-gun in pennsylvania, this goes back to joe clark when he lost in '68, you're dead in pennsylvania. >> we have republicans who supported universal background checks in pennsylvania. they're still holding office.

let's not go too far. i know you know philadelphia better than i do. it's large percentage of the democratic vote on a primary day. you can talk about gun safety. no one wants to see a child kill their mother in walmart. >> it's so tough. it's a tough tight. >> it is tough. >> you're on the right side. i think it's a good fight. i look at the culture and it's always resistant to this. there's something in the country that's cowboy still. it's just cow by about suboy ab. >> we do have to change the culture. let's stop the culture that says we're really depressed, suicidal. let's take him to a gun range and get him happy again. that's the wrong way to think about this.

let's make guns stored safely in homes. let's make guns that can't be fired by anyone but the owner. that's how you make america safer. >> the only letter i wrote to a congressman was after bobby was killed in '68. please support gun control. that's a long time ago and we keep trying. up next, global reaction to donald trump. how the world leaders are reacting. are they really that scared and have this thing about america? roundtable is coming up right now. you're watching hardball, the place for politics. trane test r heating and cooling systems so reliable. if there's a breaking point, we'll find it. it's hard to stop a trane.

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for musical icon prince who passed away earlier today at the age of 57. the president calling him one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time. the star was found dead at his home called paisley park in minnesota. the cause is under investigation. blake mccoy is standing by outside prince's home. what's the latest there? >> good evening. you need look no further than right here to know what prince meant to this community and this country. the people have been getting off work and coming by paisley park which was his recording studio. they have been bringing their little ones. it was 9:45 this morning that authorities got the call that prince was unresponsive in an elevator here. he was declared dead just after 10:00 a.m. we don't know a cause of death just yet. we do know that there are been

reports that prince had the flu over the last several weeks. his plane made an emergency landing last friday so he could seek medical attention. an autopsy is being done tomorrow. authorities are moving very quickly here to wrap up this investigation. they say there's no sign of foul play but they want to learn a cause of death and give people closure. this community is being hit hard by this. prince was born in minneapolis and when he reached super stardom, he could have gone anywhere and chose to keep his roots in minnesota. it was minnesota's favorite son. you're seeing that here tonight. in fact, it's raining a bit. it's been raining off and on. i've been seeing a lot of minnesotans posting this is purple rain falling in the land of prince. >> sad day for music. thanks. now back to "hardball." welcome back.

president obama is trying to reassure world leaders that donald trump will be defeated if he's the republican nominee. according to politico, his assurances aren't working. trump terrifying world leaders and become the starting point for what feels like every government to government meetings. world leaders are seeking explanations from obama and vice president joe biden, secretary of state john kerry, defense secretary ash carter and trade representative michael froman on down. everybody wants to know about trump and not to be afraid of him. american ambassadors are asking what they are supposed to say about trump. obama hears fears that he's developed a speech meant to ease their nerves. president obama spoke about his discussion with world leaders earlier this month. >> i'm getting questions from foreign leaders about some of

the wackier suggestions that are being made. we have big issues around the world. people expect the president of the united states and the elected officials in this country to treat these problems seriously, to put forward policies that have been examined, analyzed, effective where unintended consequences are taken into account. they don't expect half baked notions coming out of the white house. >> i'm joined right now by hardball round table. bob, what do you make of this? >> well -- >> do you believe world leaders are worried about this guy, trump? >> i think everyone is scratching their real hard but the story in politico didn't

support itself. >> this is the washington post, one of its fearless leaders describing what they think of politico. >> politico is great. >> do you think there's a world leader tenor about trump? >> putting aside the question of whether this story was popularly sourced, i've heard from u.s. officials they are getting lots of questions and concerned especially from world leaders who may not be familiar with our electoral system who may look at this and think trump won't be elected. i think there's concern. i think there's concern that trump either would change some fundamental policies that have been bipartisan for decades or he doesn't know what the policies are now and still kind of wanders into making statements that strike foreign leaders as being dangerous. >> he wouldn't roll out when i

interviewed him using nuclear weapons in europe. most leaders don't talk about nuclear weapons. he did. >> he questioned the value of nato. he's made comments that are pretty unusual. i would say, my guess is donald trump, world leaders are afraid of them. he probably likes this story. he might bring it up tomorrow. it's the kind of thing he likes. >> to say they are terrified. when barack obama was elected, talk to world leaders and they say who is this guy? what's he doing to do? what are his failures? it's natural. you're mystified about the american political system. >> if you look at our history like the french, nobody wants to believe we're so parallel to french. we don't have right wing governments. we don't go right or hard left. we generally go to that true

north like the french do. we're a middle class country. we tend to be in the middle. why would they think we're doing this? >> the question is there's something going on with trump. it's bigger than those of us in this little bubble in washington understand. i was talking to ceos the other day, how much are for trump. it was four. they walk out and say i'm really for trump but i don't dare raise my hand in that group. >> i think there's a lot of republican women who say i won't raise my hand and cross the aisle and go to hillary. >> that's the core that trump that struck with the american public on issues when he says build a wall, ban all muslims. what good is nato to us? he's gotten a -- there's a

receptive attitude for it. >> it's nationalism. >> a lot of european countries are more liberal than we are. they didn't like george w. bush. it seems much more radical on some issues. >> i want to lighten this up as we close. what is this talk up in the boston globe, the main gist is elizabeth warren is this play to be hillary's running mate. >> i don't think so. maybe our own senator is on the short list. it's hard to picture. they don't really like each other. they don't have a relationship with each other. putting another woman on the ticket when you're the first woman elected president. i'm not sure it does what you want to do in your choice for running mate. >> maybe bernie sanders. i think not. >> i'm with you. we're all guessing here. i think it's tim cane. i think he makes perfect sense. the round table is sticking with us. these people will tell me something i don't know.

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against a formidable foe, rudy giuliani. it showed real guts. he critics would have loved it if she lost. in may the former new york mayor dropped out due to medical problems. >> this is not the right time for he to run for office. >> a little known republican congressman from long island ran against hillary clinton. in a debate he got aggressive. >> i want your signature because i think everybody wants to see you signing something you said you're for. >> it's dangerous to get physically aggressive in appearance toward a female politician if that politician is as shrewd as clinton. if trump is smart he'll watch the tape of that debate. she won that election when rick tried to crowd her. >> you'll love it. that's 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night. we'll be right back.

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let me finish tonight with this. there's lots of talk right now about what a contested convention would look like. you know, with candidates battling each other for delegates right up there in the arena. the last time either party went through something like that with a live balloting with none of the delegates pledged ahead of

time was 1956, the year a hesitant edadlai stevenson, havg won the democratic nomination, declared he wouldn't pick a vice presidential nominee, he'd leave to it the delegates. he made the announcement 11:00 thursday night, the balloting was set for friday afternoon. the man who made the most of it was a young senator from massachusetts, john f. kennedy. as at this point o'neal recalls jack went to chicago prepared for lightning to strike. first ballot kennedy trailed the tennessee senator 483 delegates to 304. al gore senior earned 178. new york's robert wag they are 162. hubert humphrey 134. no can't dade had a majority are. second ballot kennedy started to gain. arkansas shifted to kennedy, then new york. texas proudly cast its vet -- for the fighting senator who wears the scars of battle. it was lyndon johnson. then as bobby kennedy would

charge, something fishy happened. speaker sam rue burn who was chairing the convention refused to recognize the delegation shifting to kennedy, instead, he called on oklahoma which went to another. from there the tide turned. minnesota, tennessee, missouri, all went to him. kennedy now saw his moment in one of those iconic moves that marked his career. he started pushing his way through the convention floor, arriving at the podium, he grandly conceded the race. and that impulsive race to the podium made kennedy a hero, made him look the victim to fellow catholics, who saw bias in what had happened. to them it was another case of prejudiced politicians killing the chances of a catholic who dared to reach too high. instead of going down on a losing ticket that fall, kennedy would loom thereafter as the front-runner for 1960. he would not have done better, he could not have done better, that afternoon in chicago if he'd wired the entire episode himself. and that's the legacy of the last contested political

convention of either party. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. join us again tomorrow at 7:00 eastern for "hardball" and tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern for our premiere of our documentary on hillary clinton, "it takes a country." "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> people go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. >> a culture war erupts on the right. >> have we gone stark raving nuts? >> tonight donald trump and ted cruz come out on opposite ends of legalized discrimination. as the nba reveals plans to move the all-star game from north carolina. today's change in tone for bernie sanders. >> look, if we do not have a majority, i think it's going to be very hard for us to win. >> the death of a music