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jackson and casey hunt, "the road warriors." ♪ welcome, we're so excited to be back together again off the trail for a short hour. hello, ladies. great to see you all. >> hey there. >> we're back together after what has been an extraordinary week in politics. it can only be described that way. donald trump has clinched the nomination and the highest ranking republican not supporting him, paul ryan. i have to go to you, katy, your thoughts? >> he's defied expectations, last man standing defight what everyone might have said. today paul ryan said he inherited the republican party. donald trump said, no, i've won the republican party! despite everything they did to stop him, right? >> when i started covering this race a year-plus ago the republicans talked about how this was the deepest bench that they had, they were so excited about the long list of

candidates every single one of them fell to donald trump and now we're in a position that one of the people running against him is saying i'm not voting in this election. lindsay graham said forget that and paul ryan set to chair the republican national convention not ready to get on board. >> and after wrapping up this incredible week on the campaign trail looking ahead to the generally election to what appears to be a fight between donald trump and probably hillary clinton and it's, like, go time we're hearing from the president, we're hearing from his administration, this campaign has really started in earnest. >> you talk about the fight coming up and i have to go back to ni to my old beat, i used to cover the white house and you brought up the president and he's made huge news, he said he'll not get out on to the campaign trail until the democratic race is over. today he incertained himself in a very big way. hey, i want to talk about the economy, and a lot of what he had to say had to do with donald trump. take a listen -- >> i want to emphasize we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. this is not entertainment. this is not a reality show.

this is a contest for the presidency of the united states. and what that means is that every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. >> so, we're getting a little bit of a preview of what we're going to see when president obama does, in fact, head out on to the campaign trail which i am told he is itching to do. on that's what my white house sources tell me. >> you can tell from the comments that he made. >> how does it reshape this race once he gets in? >> you'll see not only the fire from president obama but from members of his administration as we saw already today from john kerry who, by the way, doesn't always do this, come out onto the public platform into the public domain and call people barkers and the sideshow that the republican side has become.

he's probably going to love it. >> he'll love it, absolutely. he'll own some of it. you've heard him talk about the republican party and the convention specifically means a little bit more showbiz, there needs to be some excitement that people want to watch. and just yesterday he was saying that he's not going to reveal his vp until he gets to the -- to the convention which is a remarkable thing and it's certainly lends to the idea of is it going to be a reality show, is it like "the apprentice"? will you come up and get fired? is the vp going to get a rose? the campaign said that's certainly a possibility. i'm not sure how excited they were with that idea. he embraces it and he's owning it and, you know, they said in 2008 that president obama was the celebrity candidate. donald trump is really the celebtry candidate. >> speaking of the president and how they addressed this. i feel when i'm talking to democrats who are thinking of running against donald trump a lot of them sound like republicans that i talked to

when this race started and jeb bush was saying the voters will come to their senses. it's all going to be fine. this is not going to continue. >> the house is not on fire, look over there! >> we were talking about joe biden with new comments don't underestimate donald trump at their peril. i think that's smart on their part. >> one of the things the clinton campaign is doing is looking at the gop playbook from the primary and they're doing the opposite. they are taking the guy very seriously. they disagree with the democrats you're talking to because they realize that donald trump is touching so many people and exciting a part of the electorate. >> the quote from joe biden saying we all make a mistake if we don't take donald trump seriously, i think you are right, casey, you saw the shift several months in, okay, he's sticking around and not going anywhere. he got stronger and stronger and stronger. >> stages of grief you reported on. >> mitt romney two months ago

that mitt romney gave that speech essentially urging the republican party to denounce donald trump but it took for march for them to come around, hey, we got to do something about this. >> i'm not sure they could have done anything to stop him and the reality is because you've seen it in person, when you go to a donald trump rally, there are 10,000 people or more there. >> right. >> and they have waited for hours in the rain, in the cold, to get in and to see him talk. and they pay attention that entire time and they stand for an hour. and oftentimes he's late so they're standing for four or five or six hours. we see people passing out at these things often. >> incredible. >> that's the kind of excitement he's creating that the republican leaders refuse to acknowledge. >> his big challenge is unifying the party. let's go back to that idea. let's listen to paul ryan who said he's not ready to endorse him -- >> i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. and i hope to, though, and i want to. but i think what is required is

that we unify this party. and i think the bulk of the burden on unifying the party will have to come from our presumptive nominee. i don't want to underplay what he accomplished. he needs to be congratulated. >> he needs to be congratulated, yeah, i mean, i just think watching him do that he's surprised people around him. his staff. very few people were expecting to hear that there's questions about how much he may have talked with mitt romney, for example, his former running mate before coming out and making a statement like that. certainly a sense that romney is definitely in this place that he, of course, telling, you know, a private meeting last night in washington that this was -- he was dismayed by this quite frankly. this is essentially the opposite of everything romney -- >> is ryan looking ahead to 2020? is he looking ahead to -- >> that's one theory. >> -- his own potential race down the line, his own candidacy and trying to say, maybe i shouldn't support donald trump now because he's not maybe the

greatest standard-bearer we've had and i might alienate minority support and if i don't and hillary becomes president am i well poised to get into office after three terms of democrats? >> and that may -- you know, there's talk that maybe that's part of the long-term plan but in the immediate future it seems like what speaker ryan is trying to do is give cover to all the elected officials who don't want to come out and support donald trump and you are seeing him, okay, do you go with paul ryan, do you get under his sort of umbrella, do you go with donald trump or to do what reince priebus is prying to do? he was asked whose party is it. is it donald trump's party? he said, it's the party's party. which is quite an odd statement to make if you think historically everyone talks about, you know, the nominee is the face and the leader of the party in question. for him to say that is relatively -- >> i think the challenge for donald trump and for the gp right now is they're weaker heading no a general election fight when they are so splintered and they've been having this debate within this

debate, well, whose job is it? is it paul ryan's job to unify the party? is it donald trump's? we know they're going to meet next week. >> they're meeting next wednesday and paul ryan said donald trump needs to do more to unify the party. what exactly does he need to do i'm not entirely sure. >> how does he do it? >> we were in west virginia last night and this is just as the paul ryan news was breaking just when he released his own statement saying he doesn't endorse speaker ryan's agenda "donald trump got on stage and instead of going after him he didn't mention paul ryan once. he held his fire on the party and the republicans and focused entirely laser focused on hillary clinton. and is already trying to take her done a notch. he may not want to have to deal with this party fight, but it's coming to him regardless. >> it's a little bit of breaking news for all of us here -- >> we love breaking news. >> as they work to kind of the party works to pull itself together, they're working on this joint fund raising

arrangement with the rnc. it looks like lou eisenberg is the chairman of that. he was a mitt romney bundler, and he's the current chairman of the republican national committee finance arm and he's, you know, worked in private equity and he ran the port authority. he's a sizable figure in republican fund raising and he's can close to trump for quite some time and both sides seem to be very happy about this. i think it's actually a significant potential step forward for trump. >> he will get support from fund-raisers and may be able to match hillary clinton? >> he's able to raise big dollars. >> a general election. >> very expensive. >> very expensive, that's right. i think what's interesting about that does donald trump working with the rnc moving more toward the center in some ways, does that undercut his very argument? which is that he is outside of all of this. >> the campaign says no. >> he's not a politician. >> the campaign says no. they say he self-funded the entire primary and you got to be realistic about winning the race

against hillary clinton and the billion dollars she's likely going to be spending on her side you're going to have to fund raise and they believe that argument will be effective. as you know he says that every time he gets on the stage. he said it last night so we'll see how they try to square away that argument. i'm not so sure it may go over as easily as they think. >> he needs bigwigs and one reasons why eisenberg and others like him can make the phone calls without donald trump being out in front of it. >> isn't that what he's done all along is being able to position himself where he needs to be? we'll come back after this week where we saw the deaths of a couple of campaigns and wntioned it in person and we'll talk about what it feels like when a campaign comes to a close and how you come back from that. stick around. i have a blog called "daddy doing work", it's funny that i've been in the news for being a dad. windows 10 is great because i need to keep organized. school, grocery shopping. my face can unlock this computer.

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the strongest words you used against donald trump yet. today feels different for you, so i'm going to ask you a question and you're going to say i sound like a broken record -- >> you sound like a broken record. someone else have a question? >> senator -- >> you've asked one already. you've asked already. >> do you support him as the nominee? >> what about the judgment -- >> if you say he's a liar -- if you say he's a pathology liar -- >> you've asked one already. >> why not definitively say it? >> ted cruz the day he dropped out of his campaign not saying definitively whether he would endorse or support donald trump were he to become the republican nominee and hours later cruz gave that concession speech that stunned frankly the crowd inside

the room. we were just talking about this during the break and people were saying do you think he's going to drop out and he did so -- >> what was it like being the bearer of bad news to the supporters? >> it was rough. there were gasps. >> you could hear the gasps. >> you don't want to be the messenger for that in person. >> having covered the cruz campaign for so long that day we were at a his final campaign stop and you can tell the vibe. you can kind of get a sense of, hey, maybe they are going to drop out. it turns out as we'd been reporting there was a call that happened on monday night. they were looking at where their internal data was in indiana and it was the make-or-break state and they saw the writing on the wall and when it became clear he would not pull out a surprise victory the decision was made to get out. for the candidate it's incredibly emotional moment.

you saw that emotion on his face and heidi cruz's face she was emotional that day. 12 hours later i was in the car with my producer driving to ohio where john kasich was then dropping out of the race for what was an incredibly motion moment as well. >> campaign killer. >> the grim reaper. >> people underestimate how emotional it is for the candidate and their family. >> especially for the family. >> i was there when rick santorum lost his senate race and i remember his family and his children crying. talk about the emotion a little bit. because you sensed it a little bit that day, it was different. >> a couple of things happened that kind of made your antenna go up. heidi cruz and ted cruz were walking into this event and fontainiously came upon this group of fifth graders at an elementary group across the street and they shook hands and high-fiving and mrs. cruz was crying. she was visibly touched and i asked her about it when she was getting in the car to leave and i said what was that. sometimes the kids can see the truth that adults cannot see and

as she got into the car she started to choke up. and cruz also you saw in that exchange -- listen, his campaign dogged by that question for weeks and he was frustrated with that question. >> for months. >> march we had a similar exchange where he again sort of refused -- >> and the debate stage they were at it. >> the trump folks -- i folk with some republicans who said they had gotten a call that day. they had a sense. but for the outside public a lot of people didn't think that's what was going to happen. >> casey and i were talking about it and there were some questions. but what i was told by people in the room with donald trump as those returns came down and as ted cruz bowed out, i was told he was surprised and they were not expecting it. they had heard rumors. they had maybe thought. but i think ultimately they didn't necessarily believe that he was going to drop out at that moment, especially because john kasich hadn't and john kasich was doing so much worse. but when you saw donald trump walk out and take the podium in

the lobby of his building in manhattan, and give an -- a weird i guess victory speech. you could see it on his face. that this realization that, oh, wow, i'm the republican nominee. he had a look that i have never seen him -- i never have seen before. having almost like -- i mean, i don't know. but it was almost as if what have i gotten myself into. that is my pure speculation, but that is -- that is the feeling i got when i was watching him and some of the other reporters as well. >> i think it's -- i think it's a really weighty moment for any person to be in that shoes. i was talking to one source who described the moment the following morning where someone said to donald trump up in his office, hey, you're one of two people that's going to be the next president of the united states of america. and that he was taken aback in many ways and that it's not really something that until it actually is upon you, you really spend time think? ing about. >> this was a protest campaign

to start with. this was not something that they believed had much of a shot. i was speaking -- >> this is someone who never held elected office before. >> right. and speaking with his campaign staff -- >> he was frustrated with not being taken seriously. >> speaking to his campaign staff early on in june and july and they gave this maybe, maybe a 10% shot of going through. and as it got on, you could see them get more confident. but the reality is, nobody expects it until it is upon them. one of two people. that is a scary realization. >> when a year ago he was one of 17 and he was at, like, 1% in our polling for a shot to potentially end up with the nomination. again, and again, you've seen 16 republicans now defeated by donald trump and they're all waking up that next day. >> dropping like flies. >> what ted cruz and john kasich did, wake up and say, okay, the campaign is over and donald trump is the nominee,

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"road warriors" to bring you a little bit of breaking news from a candidate i actually spent quite a bit of time with on the road. jeb bush former presidential candidate, former governor of florida who obviously dropped out earlier in this race said he will vote neither for donald trump nor hillary clinton. we'll read you a little bit of his statement. he said he congratulates donald trump on securing his place as the republican party's presumptive nominee and that there's no doubt he successfully tapped into a deep sense of anger and frustration that so many americans are clearly feeling. but then he goes to say that the -- it's an office that goes beyond politics. it requires great fortitude and humility and a temperament. then he says, quote, donald trump has not demonstrated the temperament or strength of character. he has not displayed a respect for the constitution and he is not a consistent conservative. these are all reasons why i cannot support his candidacy. pretty remarkable statement there from jeb bush, of course,

he blindsided by donald trump probably more than anyone else in this race. i mean, over $100 million raised into that super pac to support him all of it for naught. >> it's amazing seeing him coming out and saying he's not going to support him. the candidates standing on the debate stage and railing against donald trump and at the end saying i will support him if he's the ultimate nominee. will ted cruz come out and support him? >> this is the question. jeb bush when he was in the race said we're the only ones taking on donald trump right now when ted cruz was embracing donald trump and you weren't seeing those kind of attacks. the question now is exactly that. jeb bush today, lindsay graham today and paul ryan yesterday. do you to start to see more and more people say i can come out against donald trump the presumptive nominee and still be okay in the party. who now joins this side? >> you also have mitt romney and the former president bushes saying they are not attending the convention. this is just stunning.

republican party very splintered and, steve, we've been talking about this. whose job is it to unify the party? how much does it weaken trump? >> i wonder how much it weakens him when you consider his appeal has been that he's the outsider. he's the one the establishment is scared of. i mean -- >> his supporters don't like jeb bush. >> he does need to expand on what he has. >> are there any voters behind the politicians? >> that's what you just exposed. >> are any people backing him up? >> he exposed the limits of jeb bush's appeal. and started as the front-runner and ended up here. >> here's the thing -- we should say hi. >> hello, road warriors. >> welcome to the not-road. >> specifically because what is the electoral map going to look like? for donald trump he doesn't necessarily need the republican establishment at this moment to support him? he has a ton of -- millions of voters as he likes to say. but will it be enough to change the map? >> he starts out as the

underdog, i think we can put it up on the scpreenle. this is the map from 2012. romney, obama, i don't know if it's up. romney the red states and obama the blue states. for trump there's two possibilities. he's got to flip -- he's got to try to hold those romney states. get to 206 and trying to get to 270. you start in florida, we've learned that election after election. could he do it in florida? that would get him a good chunk. to trump they look to the rust belt. pennsylvania comes to state maybe trump would have more apeople there. pennsylvania, ohio if you want to broadly define rust belt. a state like iowa. >> what about minnesota and michigan? reince priebus talked about it. >> when i start to look at it, i was thinking michigan at first, too, and when you run the numbers you realize if trump flipped michigan, it would take a lot but if he did it means

he's flipping a lot of other states, too. pennsylvania is in a class closer than michigan, michigan more, like, a ten-point gap and pennsylvania sort of half that. pennsylvania's one the electorate is aging a little bit and fewer college degrees. >> donald trump's campaign is focusing on white working class voters and when it comes to the women gap that we talked about and the minority gap even the campaign has said that they're going to try and mitigate the minority gap and mitigate the female gap by focusing on older white women voters. are there enough older women white voters and working class white voters in this country for him to come out and overtake hillary? >> it gets hard to see it. when i start to think about what strategy could put trump in the white house i think of the strategy that gone him the republican nomination and it was almost this improvisational strategy. it's not like they came out with the 1,800 page playbook that they just executed. he kind of made it up as he went along and he discovered from his instincts, his read of the

populace spirit of the republican where the masses were. you think does donald trump have a shot in the fall, a lot of people don't realize he started out in the republican race a year ago when he got in the week he got in, 1%. 1%. in nearly 70% of republicans said they wouldn't even consider voting for him. >> but doesn't trump put some states in play for the democrats potentially? rive been ta democratic officials are feeling good about a florida or north carolina and you see the clinton campaign aggressively courting latinos particularly yesterday after you had trump tweeting out that picture of him about a taco bowl which a lot of latinos were offended by. you can expect to see a lot more of that. >> if you look at the primary campaign that donald trump ran if that's how it plays with people and how people read his campaign in the fall, then, all of those states back in play. i guess my point is he showed he has this instinctive side that kind of invented a strategy and it got republicans who looked at

him at this time last year and said i will never vote for that guy it got them to vote for him. the question is i see hes had to do "x," "y," and "z," does he appeal to the electorate differently and will they overlook what happened in the primary? >> are his instincts good enough. i remember the reason the republicans were concerned with donald trump in the beginning and covering mitt romney who courted donald trump aggressively but donald trump robo-calls in michigan, they had an understanding that he really appealed to a segment of that lek for rat and it's not clear to me and i think this tweet we were talking about with the taco bowls is eveld idence of this d he have instincts to general out for the general election? for the clinton campaign do it in a way that does ignite passion and doesn't feel like they're using the building blocks of demographics. i think democrats tried to run that playbook in 2014 in the midterm elections. they tried to paint every republican as unacceptable in

particular to women and the reality was it didn't work. republicans fielded good candidates and it didn't work for democrats i don't know if it will work this time around or not. >> it's an important question critical to unifying the party is senator sanders if secretary clinton does clinch the nomination rallying his younger is you forters who have said, by the way, they're not going to support trump at this time. and also president obama will be critical rallying the obama coalition. >> is there going to come a point for bernie sanders will get enough pressure that he'll have to support hillary clinton? is he holding out for something? is there a sense in the bernie sanders campaign that they are doing donald trump's work for him? >> two points i'll make. one i think he wants to have some type of impact over the party's plat form. and then i talked to democrats and this is so fascinating who say, look, it's important that he stays until the end because that's the only way he's going to get his supporters on board with secretary clinton.

they want to see this fight finished and if they do they'll feel as though something were taken away from him, that he didn't fight the full fight. we'll have to see how it plays out but that's the argument coming from his campaign at the moment. >> which is remarkable and i'll say this last thing before we go. donald trump has a unique ability to read a room and to become a chameleon and mimic that room and i would never underestimate him for that i sound like a broken record when i say that but he really can. >> you've seen it. >> and we're seeing it now taking a live look at the donald trump rally set to begin in a little bit in omaha. when we come back with the "road warriors" we'll look at what goes into the behind-the-scenes work to get something like that pulled off. stick around.

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i don't like this mike. whoever the hell brought this mike system don't get this [ bleep ] put it in i tell you. these people. no, this mike is terrible. the stupid mike keeps popping. do you hear that, george? don't pay him. don't pay him. >> donald trump did not like that mike in case you didn't get that from that. >> poor george. >> he didn't pay for the microphone. >> and the george is speaking about is the head of donald trump's advance, he's a lovely man. also of greek heritage like myself and he's in charge of getting this set up which is a herculean undertaking on that note we have our own live in los angeles. >> speaking of hercules. >> speaking of hercules. to talk about what it takes to go into a political event. jacob, you were on an advanced team. tell us what it's like. >> reporter: yeah. sure was, katy.

i miss you guys back in new york but i also miss very much regular food which is why i've been spending a lot of time in grand central market here in downtown los angeles picking up all kinds of goodies, my wife and son were with us on the last leg new york, pennsylvania and indiana and the fridge was empty when we got down. as a former advance man, one of the political aides that goes out and sets up these events, i worked for mayor bloomberg and he gave me one of the best lessons about political advance that i've ever heard and he said in a little bit more of a profane way but he said when i started jake, don't screw it up and that's the key to these things. you heard donald trump going after whoever set up that faulty microphone and one of the things i wanted to do because i sympathize with the people you guys spent so much time with a lot more than i do frankly at all of these campaign events that put them together and show what goes on behind the scenes at these events and it's easier when the candidates come to your hometown like hillary clinton did yesterday in l.a.

i rolled out of bed and i went over to her event and i did a little behind the scenes. take a look. all of these people are in line to see hillary clinton in east los angeles. we call ourselves the road warriors but the true road warriors are the people that put on the events for the cam feigns day after day and city after city and state after state and i know that because i was one. everything you see has been meticulously planned from the blue drapery behind the podium to the giant american flag to the people sitting behind where hillary clinton will be delivering remarks. they have to represent the diversity of the city of los angeles where she is. normally when you come to these things the cameras are pointed that quay, but let me turn the cameras this way. this is the press riser and cameras from every network are here and feeding on the air live and nbc news has the sticker for his position. and one things you'll see are little pins and the secret service gives out to allow people to be in the so-called bubble. the audio guy has one on right now.

is that a secret service pin you got on? no comment. another sign of a relatively good road warrior advanced team they keep the press penned in. we don't get to talk to normal people out here. how's it going out there? >> just fine. >> reporter: we don't get to come out there. is it as fun as it looks? >> absolutely. >> reporter: see, it's as fun as it looks. all right! this is when all the hard work pays off. ladies and gentlemen, it is game time! what an incredible job that these people have, guys, as i walk through grand central market in downtown l.a., i want to ask you guys -- wexler's deli, very delicious. you have a good pastrami but we've got a good one here, too. what are the good stories about the advance? nobody wanted to talk to me on camera. you got to organize them through the cam feign even if you want to show what's going on behind the scenes.

any good crazy advance stories from you? >> i have really good ones. i'm not sure i can relay them on camera, but the trump advance team i will say this the trump advance team is full of handsdown some of the coolest people i have ever met and they have played some funny practical jokes on some of our embeds. i can't get into it. maybe at some point. >> one overriding theme for the advanced staff they are always up against the clock, right? and so whether it is with wrangling the press or getting to the next event, they're working rapid pace and often that means that we are rushing around packing up, getting into a press van, racing to the next event with them. and there's some stress involved with that you might say. >> i have to say they are some of the most underappreciated people. i look at the cruz campaign and because of how they had set up the way they two campaign the media, the press, often didn't find out about our next stop until hours before that stop was going to happen the night before the next day. you're sitting in some place and you're going we're -- but the advance folks have to go in and

in a matter of hours put together some sort of campaign rally setup. get the people there so it's not an empty room and it's herk herculean. >> reporter: i want to tell you -- >> jacob, go ahead. >> reporter: all right, all right. i'm here in no man's land in los angeles. you guys in the news heard of los angeles? it's a great city. i want to say one thing about it -- >> i was just there yesterday. >> reporter: okay. i know you were here, in fairness. one thing i want to say about good advance work, two, actually, the all? er the room the better the event looks. and the other thing it's not frankly, yes, they're good to us, a lot of time it's adversarial situations you want to get the bite and you want to talk to the candidate and you want to be right up next to them as they are here ordering their food and the advance team job is

to keep them away. did you ever get into it with the advance people? >> i'm sorry i'll add this in and it's all yours. but the trump advance team they've got to not only play advance with the press and keep us back in our press pen, which is not fun, but also play advance with the crowds and often times they're the ones that are helping drag out protesters. >> rowdy crowds. >> protesters will refuse to leave and are trying to hold back supporters and the protesters and make sure it doesn't become a more heated situation which is herk hercule. >> if you do your job right, no one notices. everything looks great and it's the mistakes that get pushed out in the press. i remember covering a romney event in florence, south carolina, midway through the primary and the room that they had picked was way too big for the crowd that showed up. almost no one came and you'll remember romney eventually lost south carolina to newt gingrich. >> that's a crisis if you're an

advanced person. >> it's huge crisis. what they did is drive the romney bus into the background of this tiny event to try to put the few people they had in front of the bus and, you know, the whole place smelled like exhaust. all the reporters were laughing. and you're right about the staff it actually as a reporter the people that you often get to know the best when you're traveling. >> because you're drinking with them afterwards. >> it's a hard day. >> naturally adversarial just because the goals are inherently different sometimes. >> right. >> i don't know, the advanced people are never the people we get into it with when it comes to the campaign. >> i had squabbles most recently over chairs and not being enough of them and i have to say the advanced people have stepped up and brought more chairs it's definitely a back-and-forth. jacob, thank you for that report, that was awesome, out there in l.a., which we have all vismt e visited. we'll be back after a quick break and we'll anxious some of your questions from social media.

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last flight of the night 9:00 eastern time wheels down in ohio after midnight. welcome back to "road warriors." you just saw a little bit of a

glimpse of what it is like on the road. that was the charter plane that bernie sanders flew around the country and still is flying around the country day in and day out four and five states in a day. one of the things we know people are pretty curious what life is like on the road for so long. i just got a tweet from someone who said who was listening to the last segment a shout-out to the airline pilots and flight attendants. shout-out to air charter team. >> undoubtedly. >> absolutely. >> we've collected some additional questions from some of our viewers. alexander asks us, how do you deal with the constant time zone changes. i have to tell you this is the bane of my existence. i am so bad at calculating what time it actually is. i stay on east coast time. >> i stay on east coast time. >> all the time. >> i keep my computer on east coast. i keep the rental car on east coast and the phones we switch to local. i like to know what it is local. >> how does it work out?

>> it can be a confusing life, for example, i was telling katy during the break there was a moment this week when it can be a lot. you are traveling a lot. you're in different places and time zones in indiana there are two in one state. so i booked our flights to new york from indianapolis which would be great if i was in indianapolis. i was in ohio and i had just forgotten. on the way to the airport i thought, oh, my gosh. >> this means you might need to change your system. >> i keep it on east coast time all the time and i was in l.a. yesterday and i arrived early and i could actually have dinner, go out to dinner and see a friend, nope, it's 10:00 on the east coast. >> the worst is arizona i have to say because they don't do daylight saving time unlike the rest of the country. >> it's a pain in the butt. >> can we talk about alexander? >> dennis. >> dennis. >> our favorite question? >> which is where was the best food on the campaign and he

wants specific names of places. >> i have a whole list. >> you have the entire list. i would defer to you. >> i have a whole list. you can add. fig in charleston which is the world's best. >> most of the res strawrnts are in charleston. >> charleston you get the homemade pasta and it will blow your mind, the gnocchi. homegrown in atlanta where you will have the chicken biscuit. the comfit chicken biscuit is incredible. look on my twitter. it is a fried piece of chicken covered in sausage gravy and it will give you a heart attack but it will be worth it. hominy grill in charleston. >> excellent choice. >> great for breakfast. they have crawfish beignebeigne. >> and the best sushi in the world is in new york. luka in des moines, iowa. >> let me pick up on des moines, 801 steakhouse, the classic and

then i have to go memphis. i went to a barbecue restaurant in memphis, central, incredible. is it on your list? >> it's on my list. >> i feel part of our job as reporters and i really mean this is to taste the local cuisine, you have to be careful about it and not do too much tasting. >> you're from philadelphia, i had tony luke's cheesesteak for breakfast and it was great. >> beef jerky from a gas station because i feel like we're always -- >> no! >> no. >> halle! >> really? >> we're going to talk after the show. >> take my tips and start getting some of these spots. try to make it happen. >> my thing is pirate's booty. >> you love pirate's booty. family size bag all for myself. >> in addition to the eating question i get that a lot. the other one is when do you sleep and how do you sleep. >> we don't really sleep. >> and dave wanted to know what the least amount of sleep you

had before going on camera. >> an hour. >> an hour. >> definitely. >> it depends how you count it. i flew overnight with bernie sanders from new hampshire. we landed on the tarmac and we asked him are you going to dispute the results. it was a "blair witch" style video shot on my iphone. they put it on the "today" show and i did "morning joe" and i think i took a nap but i don't remember. >> essential zero the first couple of states when you fly the iowa to new hampshire where you are doing that turnaround. >> i'm still not getting any sleep. are you sleeping fowl? i get, like, four hours maybe. >> on the tuesdays where we have votes we're often on air until 1:00 a.m. in the morning. >> yeah. >> and then you're up again just a few hours later so it's not as though it was just in the beginning with iowa and new hampshire that was i think one of the toughest turnarounds. >> undoubtedly. >> shout-out to our makeup artists. >> shout-out to the makeup in general. >> makeup period. thank you. >> my biggest challenge is try

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taking a look now some behind-the-scenes photos the other road warriors that don't get quite as much. the embeds. the men and women with the campaigns every single day every single stop. we talk about time zone changes and different towns, yeah, but these guys are out there every single day doing it. we'll do a quick round robin and final thoughts. i think for me it's the pivot to

the general election. it's donald trump likely hillary clinton. the fight that is brewing for the next six months. >> yeah. i think i'll be watching to see how hillary clinton deals with this double fight that she has on her hands right now. senator sanders, donald trump, and she's got to figure out how to allocate her resources and her time, by the way. >> it will get ugly and donald trump alluded to bill clinton's sexual infidelities last night and that's an indication how nasty this campaign will get. >> and you can imagine what hillary clinton is thinking that she is likely running against, is running against donald trump in this general election, how personal it will be. he was so successful with all the nicknames he replied to republicans. crooked hillary seems to be where this is going next. >> a lot of people still reeling from the fact that donald trump locked this up earlier than secretary clinton did. so, we are going to go back out on the road, ladies, after what was just a fantastic conversation. this was so much fun and we'll

continue to watch this historical race and follow all of the twists and turns and surprises and that we're going to wrap it up, but before we do we want to say a very happy mother's day to all of our mothers who we are dubbing today the real warriors. >> in addition to the embeds. >> in addition to the embeds. >> exactly. >> hi, mom. >> hi, mom. >> happy mother's day. thanks for joining us on this saturday afternoon. it's 3:00 p.m. on the east coast, noon out west. this hour we're keeping our eye on spokane, washington, where donald trump is expected to speak at a rally moments from now. washington holds its republican primary later this month, but trump the presumptive republican nominee is clearly looking ahead to a general election face-off with hillary clinton. on the campaign trail in oregon he attacked clinton for her husband former president bill clinton's pasti discretions, take a listen. >> nobody in this