i showed the tweets -- what corey lewendowski said, i never touched you. in fact, i've never even met you. >> because based on what michelle fields described, i'm sure he thought, wait a second, that never happened. who is this person saying i grabbed her and almost threw her to the ground? he probably didn't link it to this incident, obviously. >> what happens when the presidential candidate himself weighs in, there's a lot of backlash. we talked a lot during the obama administration about how he should be careful about weighing in on cases like trayvon martin and ferguson, because there can be significant backlash against the target. michelle fields is 28 years old, and i don't know that she's got somebody protecting her as mr. trump comments forcefully about her. you know her. what is she going through tonight? >> i think michelle is having a tough time. i was texting just before this. i've been encouraging michelle to come on tv. she's being lied about by mr. trump and the rest of the trump campaign. one of the reasons she didn't want to do this is she

donald trump this morning also continuing to defend his campaign manager, core corey lewendowsky. he was charged with battery after an incident with breitbart report er michelle fields. trump is addressing all of this on the "today" show just a short time ago. we're going to play for you what he had to say in just a minute. first, let's head out to the campaign trail. we have kelly o'donnell with donald trump. he's going to have an event at 11:00. that's where corey was charged yesterday. halli je jackson. kelly, let's start with you. donald trump signed it last september. he said, i can't imagine anything that would make me tear it up. now he's tearing it up. it's not just donald trump either, kelly, it sounds like. >>. >> reporter: that's right. the other candidates who have watched him become the front-runner and criticism and attention and difficult things that he has said that pose problems for the republican party, people peeling away. we know the premise would ensure that there would ultimately be party unity but also to try to blund a blunt any attempt for donald trump. th

donald trump is standing by his campaign manager, who is charged with battery, corey lewendowski, and aljazeera's david schuster reports. >> corey, good job, corey. good job. >> reporter: it was just two weeks ago, after the initial complaint, when donald trump publicly thanked his campaign manager. on tuesday, the jupiter police department charged corey lun gdowski with battery. and released this video. it appears to show reporter, michelle fields, on the top with a tape recorder, trying to ask trump another question, and lun gdowski appears to stop and grab her. other video also caught part of the intersection. fields insisted that she had been manhandled and she tweeted a photo of bruises on her arm. >> this has to be, aside from my father's death, the worst experience i've gone through. >> on the airplane, trump said that the criminal charges charge is absurd. >> the news conference is over, and it was done and finished, and she was running up and grabbing and asking questions, and she wasn't supposed to do that. and i told him, you should never settle this case, you should go all

corey lewendowski, charged with battery. trump, speaking wednesday in wisconsin, where some polls suggest that he's trailing ted cruz. >> when they go to kasich, what would you do? i would fire him. they go to ted cruz, i would fire him. folks, if you're president, you need someone who is going to be loyal to the country and yourselves. >> reporter: they sent donald trump a letter, wednesday, calling for lewendowski to be fired for inexcusable and unprofessional behavior. >> at the bottom of the hour, donald trump's controversial statements, though they same to have ailiated some conservative voters, we'll bring you bun couple at 7:30 eastern time. >>> charges last name be filed on two police officers for the shooting death of jam arp clark. bisi onile-ere, how is the state reacting to this? >> good evening, tony, a lot of people that i talked to, the prosecutor's decision, there are several rallies scheduled tonight by civil rights groups that pushed for federal charges to be filed against those police officers. one of thos

this is where corey lewendowsky came and met with officers. he's in court on may 4th.meanor right now. we've been speaking to legal experts and saying simply based on the facts right now, there is all sorts of corroborating evidence. there was audio, the videotape that you've now seen that police says shows corey lewendowsky grabbing her and a reporter from the post who saw this. traditional battery is something that's pursued between two private citizens perhaps after a bar fight. this is the campaign manager for the front-runner on the republican side for president. defense attorneys say perhaps the best defense for core corey lewendowsky would be that he was trying to defend his boss. the defense of others, that he believed that this reporter was aggressively reaching out, trying to touch as donald trump said himself, that she grabbed me twice. so that's where things stabbed at this time right now in this case. lewendowsky's side says he's absolutely innocent. >> thank you. >>> former ted cruz campaign communications director, now msnbc political contributor fortuna

>> reporter: trump navigated around a tumultuous day tuesday after his campaign manager corey all allow lewendowsky. >> she fell to the ground. >> reporter: democratic front-runner hillary clinton said the incident speaks volume. >> he is like a political arsonist. he has set some fires and then people have acted in ways that i think deplorable. >> reporter: her rival bernie sanders is make ago hard play for wisconsin's 96 delegates. the two candidates and "face the nation" moderator john dickerson about the latest trump flare-up. >>> discrimination is quickly becoming a key issue in the north carolina governor's race. the democratic challenger, attorney general roy cooper, says he wents defend a state law opponents say discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. cooper calls the law a national embarrassment. >> the threats to our economy will grow even darker the longer this law stays in effect. it will also cause a flood of litigation. >> reporter: there were protests against the law in raleigh last yit. republican governor pat mccorey says cooper is inventing for politica

>> reporter: trump navigated around a tumultuous day tuesday after his campaign manager corey all allow lewendowsky. >> she fell to the ground. >> reporter: democratic front-runner hillary clinton said the incident speaks volume. >> he is like a political arsonist. he has set some fires and then people have acted in ways that i think deplorable. >> reporter: her rival bernie sanders is make ago hard play for wisconsin's 96 delegates. the two candidates also agreed on another debate next month ahead of the new york primary. and in the latest polls, clinton still holds a double-digit lead over sanders in her home state of new york. clinton is also trying to drum up support with a rally planned at the world famous apollo theater in harlem tomorrow. >> thank you, don champion in new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we will talk to cbs news political director and "face the nation" moderator john dickerson about the latest trump flare-up. >>> discrimination is quickly becoming a key issue in the north carolina governor's race. the democratic challenger, attorney general roy cooper, says he went