he said he was sort of okay with mitt romney, he could live with mitt romney if he had to, but he wanted everybody to know, this rick santorum guy, no. likable enough guy but he's the one candidate who adelson believed could not end up being president. >> i know rick, i like him, we're friendly, but i don't want him running my country. the problem with romney is and i've talked to romney many, many times, as recently as he was here in vegas for the caucuses a couple, few weeks ago. he's not the bold decision-maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to -- every time i talk to him, he says, well, let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. i'm in favor of newt gingrich because i like people who make decisions. he's a decision-maker. >> he's a decision-maker. mitt romney a little mealy mouth, i like newt better. but rick santorum, the exact quote, "i don't want him running my country." my country. so sheldon adelson picked newt gingrich and kept newt gingrich in the race well beyond his natural life span in that race at least in part to box out rick santoru

mitt romney could easily prove i am wrong by releasing his returns. i had some fun with him in print so it wasn't as if harry reid escaped unscathed. the only trouble is i don't think he carries what we write about him and he will say what he is going to say. we have time for one more question if anybody has a question, one more question. anybody? anybody? here we go. >> in the era of social media, can you give your opinion on how you think this has changed the way coverage goes on, to carry their own image in a way they didn't before because the media and other tools of communicating with different before we had social me and seems this has taken on an ever increasing components of what candidates are doing. >> one word. macaw, you can carry what you get out of donald trump is the classic example of someone using twitter. at the same time, you also have more people following you literally and figuratively, you also can be more easily caught doing something totally stupid. i wonder if in the end social media will reduce their cue manatee, they will be

so they looked at that and used mitt romney as a reverse play book and said what can we learn from thisded were romney didn't talk to the press that much and created a vacuum. they have jeb talking to the press all the time. he does a lot of interviews, he stops and answers questions. and they are trying to show the embrace the dorky side of him rather than cover it up. >> i don't think this is really about tactics. isn't this about he's burdened with the last name in a year of anti-elitism. >> absolutely. what i liked about ashley's piece is how it revealed the thinking of the bush campaign when they entered the race which is we are going to be the inevitable candidate. we will be the hillary clinton on the republican side. we will have the money and wow everybody. we will have the name, the brand and we are just going to intimidate people. the only person they seem to have intimidated was mitt romney. all the other people have stayed in and we have watched as not only the last name is hurting but as i believe the party has moved beyond bush years. >> what is funny is as of a month ago

when the supreme court in massachusetts legalize same-sex marriage in massachusetts, then when mitt romney -- to seek the republican, he became of pro-life, pro marriage traditionalist conservative. romney's biggest problem was lack of credibility on the positions he took when he ran for president, they did not believe him. jon: what is it that has donald trump leading the national polls? >> he has to position himself in three things. there it is -- he is opposing washington establishment of both parties that the nation rejects, secondly he is tough on illegal immigration, securing the border and articulated foreign policy against regime change in the middle east however as i said i think the national polls are not as important as local polls, polls in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, momentum means a great deal at the beginning of a presidential race. of trump loses iowa he has big problems. from wins on february 1st, you have to look at seriously the possibility that he could get the republican nomination, but iowa is a game changer either way. jon: what about the down ballot race

date did show one thing very distinct, 25% of the people were mormon. 88% voted for mitt romney. m curious to see, rubio is one of romney's favorite candidates. i wonder before nevada if ann romney, josh romney, some way romney is able to hint i don't love ted cruz, my guy is rubio. >> have you seen evidence where romney people are whispering like that? >> not yet. romney's people in the state and the guy who won the caucuses for rom n. overwhelmingly is running jeb bush's campaign. jeb bush's campaign is very well-organized here. but to what end? i think they're frustrated. >> right. so i think that's the problem. but there's not been a big presence yet of romney folks going to rubio. i do think, and perry said numbers accurately, a quarter of the turnout being mormon is going to matter if that's what it is, if they'll have the same enthusiasm when an actual mormon matter if that is what it is, if they have the same enthusiasm. that could be a huge percentage of the caucus turnout. they will get out there and vote and many are going to vote for marco rubio. >> when i was las vega

mike huckabee beat mitt romney by just over 10,000 votes. later, turnout is a little bit higher. romney, rick santorum, basically tied at 30,000 votes each. when you look at those numbers, what do you see? sasha: the conversations in these campaigns have been developing the projections of how many voters they turn out. you see a pretty steady constellation of voters who voted in 2008 and 2012. one of the questions this year is is there anyone who is going to expand the electorate through targeted contact? is it possible all of the attention we are seeing somewhat through polling, through debate management is going to help. but this is more of an art than a science. how much could it grow? what do you need to win in the expanded electorate? john: the premise of the rand paul campaign was he would change the electorate the way obama did. that is now the trump approach. is there anything trump would need to do to change the makeup and the size of the electorate? sasha: this is a big open question, what it takes to mobilize a nonvoter or infrequ

talking about whether there's a way for mitt romney to get in this race. >> stephen: mitt romney!ic down there right in the middle. look. jim, get him out of there. jim, jim, he's still in there. oh, that's a manila envelope. i can't tell. ( applause ) and mitt-- thank you, sir-- has been keeping conservative hopes alive with his cryptic cagey statements. >> would you run in 2016 under any circumstances? >> i'm not running. the answer is no. i put the chances somewhere between zero and nil. >> stephen: so there is a chance. but whoever the g.o.p. tries to draft, they'd better do it fast because, according to a former republican adviser, "you have thanksgiving, christmas, new year's, then iowa, and a week later, new hampshire. and it's going to be over in the blink of an eye." the blink of an eye! and ben carson's already halfway through that blink! ( cheers and applause ) wake up! wake up! wake up! wake up! i don't know how he did surgery. it must have been like marco polo. "try to get the brain to yell. get the brain louder. i can't see it." the republicans essentially have a wee

and on that trip, mitt romney said one of the strangest things he said during that entire campaign. he said something that day in michigan that's still to this day even looking back at it four years later, it still makes no sense. i have no idea what this means. >> i love being in michigan. everything seems right here. you know, i come back to michigan. the trees are the right height. the grass is the right color for this time of year.

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>> we all remember that tim pawlenty moment from 2012, where he had said something about mitt romney the day before and then got asked and basically whipped on it. and for cruz, this is so important, because so much of his candidacy is about authenticity and saying what he means. i'm a committed conservative, i'm not going to be waffling, i'm a truth teller. so this is now a recording of him. he can't walk away from the fact he said it. at the same time, he has been very smart in handling donald trump and knowing if he can draft off of his support for a while, that he could rise to this position. >> so we know that trump and cruz have had this bromance. and trump always says, i won't hit you until you hit me. or we should have the caveat, until you threaten me. he sees the cruz rise coming. listen to donald trump in iowa the other day. he knows that a lot of ted cruz's support in that state comes from the very conservative evangelical constituency. is donald trump just wanted to help them out with the bio. >> so i think we're going to do -- we're doing really well with the evangelica

four years ago mitt romney said russia was our biggest strategic enemy. president obama said he would reach out to adversarie adversa phone. could you understand why some would wonder for years russia has been our greatest adversary dealing with iran and syria and obviously, the actions. it would seem to be troubling to have putin praise you as he has and i understand your comments. tell me how you would work with him better to make us safer and perhaps make europe and the rest of the world safer. >> sure. look, i'm a deal maker. i make deals. really good deals. if you study what i've done, that's when i file my financials, people get it. i'm a deal person. sure, i could see if you want to be tough guys and everything, i could see russia being a big problem and mitt romney making that statement, frankly. i can also see russia being a big asset to our country and i think that's the way it's going to be. they're a powerful nation and they have a big military base and force and i think they can be a lot of good things happen with russia if we get along well

>> i just don't think it's an appropriate role for someone like paul ryan or mitt romney to play.rst votes are cast. that's probably right. there are candidates who know they have no chance and maybe this is a vanity campaign and it would benefit someone like jb jeb or marco rubio or ted cruz to when i had lild l down the field, but these national polls are silly and i don't think a good indication of where the polls are at. i think you have to get through a iowa and new hampshire to really know where these candidates stand. i mean i couldn't justify getting out before any votes are cast especially since these polls are just really unre unreliable. >> trump said something like if i win iowa, i run the table. meaning i will take them all. where is he -- is he reading something? does he have numbers i haven't seen? >> if iowa is seen as a potential difficulty for him, if he wins that, then i can see what he's saying because he is ahead in the polls in some of the these other places. once donald trump begins to gain a certain amount of momentum if they win two or three or four of the

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mitt romney is who he is. he's taken companies and reduced them. and donald trump has sat there and, you know, told our members and that's what i care about this point, police officers, i'm not the head of the afl-cio. i'm head of the new england police benevolent association. i look after my members to ensure they have the best person to be endorsed. that's what we did collectively as a union. >> jerry flynn, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >>> chris hayes is up next. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> look at the way he's dealt with the senate. frankly, like a little bit of a maniac. >> donald trump continues to surge as his main competition appeals to conspiracy theorists. >> frank is a patriot. he loves this country. and he is clear-eyed about the incredible threat of radical islamic terrorism. >> tonight the fight on the right ahead of the debate. plus, why billionaires are having a hard time pushing their chosen candidates to the front of the pack. and is there any reason to believe donald trump's doctor's claim

it's where rick santorum technically won a squeaker against mitt romney.torum, of course, a catholic but very socially conservative catholic who appealed to evangelicals and makes sense to look at it as a major factor in iowa and i think what you have seen in iowa first ben carson ahead of donald trump and then ted cruz is evangelical voters liking carson and then to cruz and it is just not an ideal fit for trump who in spite of his claims occasionally is mostly a candidate of a more secular segment of the republican base. he is not winning churchgoers in large numbers and that's a problem for him in iowa. >> you know, it is real interesting. religion, you know, part of elections for a long, long time. but normally when candidates talk about faith it's subtle. dog whistle statements you make. buzz words to use. donald trump comes out and says things like i don't know if ted cruz is as evangelical as he says and ben carson being a seventh-day add sven tis. >> i'm presbyterian. that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. i mean seventh day ad

give my super pac your millions and i will use the money to get mitt romney elected president. as you probably know, that promise didn't pan out for karl rove or for that matter mitt romney and it led to an infamous and humiliating election night meltdown by rove live on fox news when he refused to accept fox news's own call that president obama had won the state of ohio and thus the presidency. >> do you believe that ohio has been settled? >> no, i don't. and look, if we are calling this on the basis of 74% of the vote being in and when 77% is in secretary of state website i've got the director of the ohio campaign for romney on the other end of the line refreshing the page every few seconds, i don't know what the outcome is going to be but you should -- we've got to be careful about calling things when we have like 991 votes separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote yet to count. even if they have made it on the basis of select precincts i'd be very cautious about intruding into this process. >> well, folks. >> after that you may remember fox news host megyn kel

he's got the -- sort of got what mitt romney wants. so he's in a good position to play the long game. and i do think he is probably -- i would predict he's going to win iowa. and then i don't know what mr. trump feels about that. and how he -- because he has always talked about the polls. what you have to realize is that all he talks about. if there's no polls to cite. when he can't keep saying, i'm winning, i'm winning, he's not talking about anything substantiative in there at all. all we're hearing about is, he's winning. so when he doesn't win, i don't know about what's left. >> john, how do you see marco rubio playing into all of this? he seems to be a candidate that has consistently played a long game, waiting for others to drop off. even if that may not actually happen? >> that may not happen until after new hampshire. part of the question for marco rubio's lane in this race. he's been patient, but he's in a pretty distant third or fourth place, lumped with dr. carson. and you have trump and cruz at the top. the question in this

i really believe that mitt romney was a better candidate and i thought i would never say that about romney'spaign superiority over anybody else. but, no, i think, again, it's not only just because of the rigors of the campaign itself, and not only because this is a particularly competitive campaign, but again, that he, like john kasich, seems to have, as i put it in the story, a wallet full of currency that has absolutely no value. and, you know, in today's campaign rhetoric. that he is a guy who can talk about how good he was in governance and people just don't seem interested in that. i think that if jeb bush knew that those would be the factors in play, no, he would not be running. >> robert draper, thank you for taking a few minutes. appreciate it. >> sure, my pleasure. >> and jamiel, robert, and eliana are staying with us. >>> up next in "the lid," trump keeps bashing the clintons, but will hillary take the bait? stay tuned. "sit" per roll. more "who's training who" per roll. bounty is two times more absorbent. so one roll of bounty can last longer than those bargain brands. so you get

and 2.2 more conservatives voted for mitt romney than john mccain. you're right, 59% of the white vote went for mitt romney. 59% went for george w. bush. and 2004, 59% or thereabouts, in 1988. and in 1984, but what mckinley looked at was the changing demography of the country in which there were increasing numbers of catholic industrial workers, particularly in our big cities, in the midwest. and people who were not from the historic places we've got immigration before. we had for decades had immigration coming primarily from the british isles, scotland, and from new places. scandinav scandinavia, from the ukraine, belarus, spain and portugal. and mckinley was smart enough to say my party's only going to you win if i can draw those people into my coalition. he got 37% more votes than his president d predecessor. >> i don't see that -- mckinley was the first candidate to openly campaign for the black vote. where is the outreach? -- you say trump and to a lesser extent cruz. i don't see it happening with these candidates? >> well, remember, he's done t

the last chapter of my book, the one guy with the twenty-year fantastic record on immigration is mitt romney very disappointed when he criticized donald trump. my new hero. [laughter] >> when romney comes in on the hank hang glider -- >> i'm thinking people will see that debate and they'll think oh man, romney was the best we ever had. if it is jeb bush or rubio, i'm not saying this in an angry or threatening way, you would have to vote for rubio or rather for hillary. they are so objective, their sole objective is to open the border and pass amnesty. at least with hillary she wants to socialize any other industries that haven't been socialized she wants to lose wars for us abroad peerage she wants to take your children away and make abortion mandatory. gay marriage mandatory perhaps. there are a lot of items on her agenda where job and rubio single-mindedly focused on opening the border and passing amnesty. if trump is in the nominee, if it's rubio, i hope he does run as a third party candidates like and make it clear what my vote is about. >> in 2014 a lot of people voted about this topic.

and on that trip, mitt romney said one of the strangest things he said during that entire campaign.hing that day in michigan that's still to this day even looking back at it four years later, it still makes no sense. i have no idea what this means. >> i love being in michigan. everythingms

mitt romney in 2012 was in trouble for binders full of women, and 47% of people. when you think about what those two soundbites were, compared to all of the crap because that's what it is, we have received from this republican plate of candidates, it's completely different and a lot ballgame, and i think that they're in a lot of trouble come the general. >> i want to thank my guests. angela, bruce, and jeannie, great to see you all again. and i'll be back in a moment with a final thought on what i watched last night and what i saw. stay with us. it's "inside story". and send us your thoughts on twitter and aj "inside story" a.m., or follow me and get in touch at ray suarez news. or visit our facebook page and tell us what you think of the republican slate of candidates in the wake of last night's debate. we would love to hear from you. >> when someone is beating you in an election, it probably makes sense to try to figure out why. donald trump, even with his sagging support in iowa and the surge of ted cruz, is miles ahead of the republican field nationwide among

i don't know if mitt romney had run this year if he would be in first place right now.w this, he was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run is because he decided someone was unbeatable and that someone was jeb bush. that is the most political. intimidated out by jeb bush. >> when you look at that debate stage, mitt romney could have dominated it maybe. the question is how would he handle trump? how does a gentleman line romney handle -- >> worst political move of the year? >> i think you can almost throw a dart at anything that rahm emanuel did in the last two years. i think the entire handling of the laquan mcdonald case and allowing the settlement to go through without comment and saying he never saw the video which mismanaged the situation. it's not only going to hurt his potential political future but he is also now going to hit anita alvarez and i think rahm emanuel is defunkt as a surrogate for hillary clinton. >> he is in a tough spot. >> worst political move of the year? >> the rnc chairman when he signed the note with donald trump saying he is

now he's having such a i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. hello.n' to you from jim-bob's kitchen, a really fantastic diner outside aiken, south carolina. as i said, it's really a fantastic place. it really is. and i enjoy it very much. it's super. i'm down here to bring my presidential campaign to the people of this great state. they definitely connect with me on a human level, and don't find me weird at all. say, did everyone see that broncos-steelers game last sunday? wasn't that something? and how about the way that tim tebow was slinging the pigskin down the field. you know, i'll bet you dollars to doughnuts the broncos give my beloved patriots quite a run for their money on the gridiron tomorrow. let me tell you, i'll be watching that game along with my five human sons, and my expectation is that i will enjoy it very, very much. what's that? it's being played tonight? that's wonderful news. the fact is, the whole family and i love to watch sporting events on television of a weekend. so normal are we. i'll tell you this. it sure beats doing sat

in 2012, when mitt romney lost to president obama, he lost latino voters by 44 points.oked at that, 44 points, and the republican party leaders said never again can we do that badly among latinos and think of winning the white house. well, there is donald trump right now sitting at 42% behind basically exactly where mitt romney was. so that is in all of this the most troubling sign for the republican party. >> steve, thank you very much. i want to bring in katrina pearson, spokeswoman for the donald trump campaign. thanks for being with me. >> great fto see you. >> let's talk about the latest numbers. and i guess the positive on all this this, 71% of republicans think that donald trump is not being insulting. he's actually speaking out and speaking his mind out. is that what you think will carry trump through the primaries? >> i think it's a little bit more than that, but republicans are the best ones to decide who best represents them. but i also think that methodology is extremely important when be looking at these polls, particularly the msnbc poll. when we talk abou

>> one person who is definitely not running so he says, mitt romney, once again squashing rumors of antion floor comebag saying "please let me know who is doing that and i'll have a word with them. i'm not running." he loves it. >>> we showed you willer ifril as george w. bush earlier but that wasn't the only political humor "snl" had to offer starting with senator ted cruz. >> i'm not afraid to take a stand on this. when i heard donald trump's comments on muslims, i said, wow. >> and we're talking wow like, that's crazy or wow, like that's a good idea? >> exactly. >> this guy trump is a clown, okay, he's a total joke. the last thing anyone wants is some loud mouthed bully from the tri-state area who hurls insults at people like a fat-headed jabroni. >> you think we should hit isis head on? >> that's right, head on, which is always also the first rule of brain surgery, always leave the head on. >> that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> joining me from washington, olivia nutzi, mr.itical correspond wept "the daily beast." thanks for being here, good morning. >> good morn

hello, i'm mitt romney.me in my den, where i'm relaxing and not appearing ill at ease. say, did everyone see that super bowl last sunday? wasn't that a humdinger? as a regular person who's just like you in every way, i enjoyed it a great deal. and i thought the players from the respective football teams each gave it their all. it's a shame my beloved patriots had to lose, though-- unless you were rooting for the giants, in which case, i didn't just say that. anyway, tonight i'd like to take a few minutes to talk about my presidential campaign and let you know how we're doing as we proceed to our inevitable nomination. this past tuesday, we had three primary elections

this is crazy with all due respect to mitt romney. we appreciate him running for the presidency last time. are we going to erase the 47% remark, the binders of women? we are going to relitigate 2012 and 2016 when what has 2016 been all about? the placement of electability, who might be able to lead? the establishment is on its back. >> not been able to break through. they don't get the rallies. they don't get movement in the early states in the polls even if they spend money. with all due respect to mitt romney and loyalists is that the best we can do? >> when do we get to the running of the primaries? we can't build crowds. if it is cruz -- or is it going to be trump? i think those two will be the contestants in the south? >> if you do it by delegate counts it is cruz. if you do it by wins it may or may not be cruz. >> give me your scenario for victory in your mind. >> not at all. we think that he -- instead of running ad after ad after ad and spend all that money with the consultants, 15% people on the undgrowe have eight people in

today, republicans are trying to turn hillary into mitt romney. now, romney lost in 2012 because on the important issue in that election, the economy, his policies offered nothing to the struggling middle class. even if he had offered a more populist platform, no one would have believed it. voters perceived voters perceived romney as personally lacking empathy for his fellow american. romney could have come out for actual literal socialism and he still would have been the guy who like to fire people, the guy who attacked 47% of american people were takers living off the american government. the guy with the guy with the car elevator in his house. the republican concedes that hillary is running to strengthen middle-class families, platform that speaks to democratic primary voters but to general electric. one that the gop, the gop, four years later still cannot compete with. so their strategy is about disqualified hillary personally as a personal messenger of these popular ideas. they they want us to think that hillary cannot be trusted as a vessel

we saw that last time around with mitt romney. so it's likely that they are gonna have trouble attracting point. and so you cannot win in this country demographically if your appeal is to white voters only. >> we saw the report this week that the republican national committee higher-ups were having a secret dinner or whatever it was. maybe it wasn't so secret, 'cause people found out about it. talking about this very possibility, that there's a bifurcated or a divided convention this summer. tell me what that means -- a divided convention, a brokered convention. they're denying that that's what they were talking about. it came up, but so what that would mean is in order to win the nomination, you have to get the majority of the delegates. if you go into that convention and, on the first ballot, you don't have a majority of delegates, you are technically in a brokered convention. and that means that you're gonna to second, third, fourth, fifth ballots, and many of those delegates, depending on state laws, will be up for grabs. and

and on that trip, mitt romney said one of the strangest things he said during that entire campaign. he said something that day in michigan that's still to this day even looking back at it four years later, it still makes no sense. i have no idea what this means. >> i love being in michigan. everything seems right here. you know, i come back to michigan. the trees are the right height. the grass is the right color for this time of year. you know, kind of a brownish greenish sort of thing. it just feels right. >> the trees are the right height. congratulations, michigan. you have just suffered the most inexplicable parent compliment any major party presidential nominee has ever paid to any individual state. i come back here, the trees are the right height. and maybe it is just michigan. maybe michigan brings this out in presidential candidates. michigan is where michael dukakis in 1988 agreed to put on world's worst choice for a helmet as he rode around in a tank at a general dynamics plant in michigan looking to all the world like a giant baby and a jetson. that was michigan, too. bu

somebody like we will never support mitt romney or john mccain they will stay home instead of boat.o regardless of who wins the election, do you think the establishment has been keyed into the anchor of the working class voter in the party? caller: no. they have not and with those five stages of grief one of the early ones is denial that is the reaction to the approach on immigration is denial. eventually the establishment republican party will have to come to grips with this. it is the anchor of working-class and dependents or democrats. if you do not have a college degree in this country you will see the end, stagnate or decline. it is fueling anger among working-class voters that is the same phenomenon as overseas and leaders sanders leads across the world need to come to grips with the idea that everyone is a citizen regardless of educational background and the government needs to take the people who are suffering that is the working class anger otherwise they will continue to lose the presidency. >> host: this morning inside the opinion page that other candidates should support

i backed mitt romney and he lost. this time i said, i'm doing it myself. we're going to win. [applause] but, there is an establishment out there. it is a real establishment. real people. there are people that are used to having their little puppets all over the place. there are people who are used to giving donations and having control. they are people that may call me, i will treat them with respect, but i will not be doing bad things if it is bad for the country. i will not let ford will they plant in mexico if i can keep it in michigan. [applause] mr. trump: i'm not going to let the car companies and nabisco and all of these people and all of these companies -- i am all for free trade and i think it is great. i am for it. it has to be smart trade. i will not let them move to mexico and sell things without tax or anything. we lose our jobs and our factories and they go over here and make it and we let them come through. how does that help us, folks? i went to the best business school in the world, believe me, it does not help us. trust me. we will not make is like that anym

coming up, mitt romney is leading the establishment charge to stop trump. as richard nixon said if ever you hear a stop movement bet on x. jeb bush is on the ropes right now. he is taking what may be his last shot. will this be jeb 's ticket or will it be his exit strategy? and the round table is here tonight. we have three top reporters. jeb bush's exit strategy. let me finish with a tale of two cities. this is "hardball," place for politics. our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. call us or your advisor... t. rowe price. invest with confidence. trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax constipated? use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax, designed for dependable relief >>> bernie sanders presidential campaign filed suit against the democratic national committee accusing the party of trying to undermine its campaign. nbc news learned four s

we had the -- you're right, 59% of the white vote went for mitt romney. 59% of it went for george w. bush and in 2004, 59% or there abouts but what mckinley looked at is changing country and increasing numbers of catholic industrial workers particularly in big cities in the midwest and people who were not from the historic places we got immigration before. we had for decades had immigration from england, scotland, wales, ireland and we had increasing amounts of immigration from new places, southern europe, from spain and portugal and mckinley said my party is only going to be able to win if i can draw the people into my coalition. he got 37% more votes than his predecessor. >> respectfully, i don't see the out reach taking place today. mckinley as you document was the first candidate to openly go campaign for black vote. where is the out reach? you say everybody but trump and cruise, i don't see it happening with these other candidates. >> michael, first of all, remember, he does this out reach in the year of the general election after he's largely secured the nomination. so there is

this is not where we want john mccain or mitt romney to win. let bring it together.was it a meeting of the minding or do you think they met and said, all right, buddy, do you think that could have happened? >> i think it could have. i have no reason to believe that or facts to support that but there was some change between the dynamic from two days prior to then. what happened? could have been a meeting or a meeting of the minds. i'm not sure. >> does anyone else weigh in on that? >> i'm all for it. a trump-cruz ticket is something i want to announce tonight as a democrat endorse. it's a terrific idea. and by the way. i think -- hillary clinton can't win this presidential race, the republicans can lose it. you talk about a fast way to do it, you put that ticket out. >> what the case is that the cruz people fully believe that trump is going to implode and they want to make sure that they're there to pick up the people from the trump train on to the cruz train. so they're going to place very nice with trump because they truly believe this is going to happen. >> and so

that was the debate where a lot of people mitt romney -- think mitt romney knocked the president out.rybody hoped he would come back and i remember the president saying that he does not lose twice. and he did not. he came back very well in the debate and the third debate. those helped cushion his lead. he was right. john: awesome. that is true. we will stay right here. last one. >> we have the big may 2 fight coming up between floyd mayweather -- floyd mayweather, undefeated, and manny pacquiao, also one of the best boxers of his time. this is a fight folks have been waiting for for quite a while. guess,to say if i had to i think it will be floyd. john: that is a safe call. >> this is projected to have the most pay-per-view buys of any fight in history. and the biggest gate in las vegas. mayweather will end up making about $100 million. john: is that higher than your salary? we asked your staff, what do you love? you love boxing. julian castro, thank you so much. we will get you to sign these boxing gloves. he knows where to sign them, too. look at that. mark: we will be right back. ♪

that's mitt romney. jeb bush also weighing in quickly, saying "a true freedom-loving conservative wouldn't be flattered by praise from a despot like putin #cha #chaoscandida #chaoscandidate." we'll see how the comments go over in the wake of donald trump saying this. finally, new numbers on the republican side, up there in new hampshire. same franklin pierce poll this morning. donald trump more than a 2-1 lead over ted cruz, his nearest rival. so, clearly in first place there. but the real story is rubio, christie, bush, you've called in the establishment canned daudidd the votes evenly divided among the three of them. the challenge for the establishment if they want to stop trump in new hampshire, those three have to coalesce, those voters, around one of those kond dates. you add those numbers together, it's enough to beat trump. divided like that, tamron, trump leads big. >> steve, thank you. within the hour, ted cruz will address supporters in virginia, the latest stop in his so-called take off with t

they say what the party nominates more establishment types, like bob dole or john mccain, mitt romney, those candidates lose. and it sounds compelling. but there's an alternate history. one that begins not with reagan, but with the drubbing that a very conservative, barry goldwater took in 1964. this school of thought says that today, even reagan himself couldn't get nominated in a party dominated by tea party freedom caucus types. mccain, romney, they didn't lose because they were insufficiently conservative. but because of the contortions that were demanded of them by evangelical christians and other social conservatives in primary and caucus season. maybe if romney had run as the reasonable republican who governed the bluest state in the nation, instead of as i severe conservative, he could have beaten obama. instead, his many flip flops made him damaged goods in the general. so what's the answer? probably that no experiment will finally settle the debate, because neither side would accept the outcome. if cruz is nominated and loses badly to clinton, conservatives will blame the me

they were not running behind mitt romney. they could not identify with mitt romney in many ways and rally them in the same way. i said this early on, for some of these people, and we heard it, michael, from the focus group months ago in new hampshire, they saw donald trump as someone who could help them get rich, almost like the casino brand that bears his name. when you go into a casino, it is not usually filled -- especial will i in atlantic city -- with billionaires. it is people hoping they have a shot somehow and they see that trump brand, michael, as their shot. >> they do. and when you have a working class, blue-collar mom say that he's one of us, referring to a billionaire as "one of us," that tells you a lot. and it really goes to the core of what aen mates that voter to latch on to him. it's not just the tough talk. it's the entire story. this is a guy that they can identify with who took something and turned it into something more and that's part of their dream. so when you pull all of it together, i think donald t

>> keep an eye on mitt romney. romney-ryan at the convention is the way the party would go.hey would say america, you were wrong, we will give you a second chance. charlie: thank you mark, john, nancy, bob, evan, and michael. i have learned a lot. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ ♪ our guest is nancy pelosi, the congresswoman from the 12th congressional district of california, and the democratic leader of the house of representatives. she has been the democratic leader for the past 13 years. she was the first woman in italian american to lead her party. we are pleased to have you here. rep. pelosi: my pleasure. >> let's talk about the spending bill. what is going to happen? rep. pelosi: we are hopeful we can reach a compromise, but we are at a place where there is much more work to be done. what a spending bill like this -- but a spending bill like this, there are a large number of democrats in the house to veto such a bill, it puts us all at the table. right now, the bill is problematic because republicans listutting every wish of the tea party -- we respect the fact that