republicans voted to deport dreamers. republicans blocked an increase in the minimum wage. republicans blocked equal pay for women. republicans blocked efforts to do something about student loan debt. now republicans are blocking a nominee to the supreme court before that person's even been nominated. this is just a short list of what they have blocked. from this rhetoric to their actions, the republicans have set the trump standard. the republican party has long used islam to fearmonger. now donald trump is doing the same thing. the republican party has spent years railing against latinos and immigrants, trying to incite fear. congressman steve king called undocumented immigrants drug dealers. he described their bodies in a very negative, ugly way. now donald trump is saying the same thing. donald trump is the ultimate fulfillment of the republican party's legacy of obstruction and resentment. but to be frank, it's not only trump. senator cruz, senator rubio and ben carson are saying basically the same thing. maybe a little more subtle, but they're saying the same thing. after all, this is the same party, the repu

republican leaders adopted these positions as part of the platform. republicans countered republicanhate with policy in the senate, democrats work with a handful of republicans to draft a immigration reform bill and then we watched as speak bane other refused to allow a vote. to this day, a lot of times i'm certain if speak boehner had given it a vote it would have passed overwhelmingly. to his credit, president obama saw republican inertia on immigration reform and countered it with a series of executive actions and i appreciate it. the republican response was both alarming and disappointingly predictable. ted cruz and others tried to force a shut gown of the department of homeland security, came within minutes of that. all the time, donald trump was watching. watching. he saw rampant extremism con doped by republican leaders who were either too cowardly or power loss to do anything bit it. so when trump calls immigrants rapists rapists and murders he is doing what he learned from generations of conservatives. the republican party has become without question the party of trump. the

republican leaders kept repeating the big lie. if president obama supports it, it won't help you. like any lie, repeating this one got republicans deeper and deeper into it. republicans found that propping contradicted -- they started denying science, or any research that supported democratic policies. the big example, climate change. in the face of consensus worldwide, republicans say they don't believe in science. preventing gun violence is another example. in the wake of an epidemic of mass shootings, republicans reject common sense solutions like background checks. they claim that more guns is the answer. republican leaders even put a -- objective facts above the state of the economy. they claim that the unemployment rate is greater now than when president obama took office. this is sad. shocking.g, but not despite job growth and unemployment rate below 5%, republicans are telling millions of americans that president obama has been a disaster for the economy. one after another, facts were mowed down, tossed aside as one big lie. instead of engaging on policy, republicans told americans there was nothing to be done. what did they create? resentment. radical groups

republicans switch from a party-run caucus to a state-run primary, but the bottom line remains, less than 50,000 republicans voted in 2012. more than 200,000 republicanshat state last night. that said, as republican turnout keeps going nuts in this presidential primary, on the democratic side turnout continues to be down in almost all states. last night donald trump called that, quote, the single biggest story in politics today. he certainly wants it to be the single biggest story in politics specifically because he wants the republican party to believe that he is some sort of turnout machine who will help his party and not hurt his party in november. the question is is he right? and how can we tell? how can we tell? empirically how can we tell? joining us now is michael p. mcdonald at the university of florida. dr. mcdonald, thanks for your time tonight. thanks for being here. >> great to be with you. >> what does it mean for the general election as best as we can tell to have one party coming in underneath its turnout records and the other one breaking them in almost every state? >> a lot of comparisons are being made for the democratic party back t

republicans. if there was a unanimous consent request, democrats got something, and republicans got something. and i was well liked by the republicans because i will protected them. there is no one to work with anymore. they are afraid. they are afraid. what they'll do is democrat and republican will introduce a bill knowing it's not going to go anywhere. host: one last question. >> i wanted to see how concerned are you that democratic turnout in the presidential primary has been lower than republican turnout. you talked about doubling down on ideas, but how does that translate into votes? senator reid: it's something we can't ignore. but most pundits and political science believes that the massive turnouts have been as a within thehe rivalry republican party. with the democrats we had this thing going with hillary and bernie for a long time, but it was a love fest. criticize each other. had a little so back and forth. so there wasn't much interest in the democrats versus republicans. i think donald trump has brought people out that never voted before. and i think this should be a concern to the american people. host: thank you so m

faced big anti-establishment republican voter turnout and fiesty anti-establishment challenges on republican primary nights in their states this year. at least five republican members of congress just in those two states alone as donald trump and ted cruz came in first and second and second and first in those two states. but all of those old republican incumbents with seats in congress, they all did just fine, they all beat their primary challengers. nobody's getting run out on a rail at least so far in the republican party. that said, there was a little tremor in republican land last night in kentucky. kentucky held their republican caucus on saturday. turnout was big. kentucky republicans went big for donald trump in that kentucky presidential caucus. kentucky has the last democratic-held state legislative house in the south. republicans looked at that big turnout in their caucus this weekend, enthusiasm they saw kentucky republicans show for donald trump, and they expressed great hope that would translate into republicans taking over to the kentucky house, because last night there were four special elections in the kentucky led legislature. republicans w

republicans. they have been avoided or nominated by republican presidents. we are going to blame president obama because the republicans dominated by republican presidents are bringing down the approval of the u.s. supreme court? according to my dear friend from iowa, he is saying president obama should be blamed for what those republicans on the supreme court did. this is alice in wonderland. this is alice in wonderland. i don't care what happens to president obama has to get blamed for it. if we have a hurricane or something, must be president obama's fault. but this is as far a stretch as i've ever heard, that was the supreme court goes down in approval rating because of the five members -- [phone ringing] -- i apologize for that. because of the five members of the supreme court. i apologize. i'm sure president obama is going to get blamed for that. but if the approval rating of the court goes down because of the five republicans who constituted the majority of it, is about as far-fetched as alice in wonderland to blame president obama for it. let's talk about facts. i like to talk about facts. in the way democrats

and here we sit march of 2016 as rich put it black versus white, democrat versus republican, republican versus republican. >> test. test. >> yeah, 76 is a kwon tes tant. if donald and i come in and we're neck-and-neck, then that's actually how a convention operates. now, i don't think we need to do that. my object is simple. we're going to get to 12367 delegates. we're going to keep that coming. [ applause ] >> i want to ask you, i go on twitter, i go on facebook, i go on social media. passionins are high right now. i've got to tell you. they're extremely passionate about you. and you've got the great mark levin. okay. can ted cruz win the general election. and people like mitch mcconnell, how do you work with him if he's the senate majority. those are the two issues that i read the most. >> let's take the first one in general. what is abundantly clear, if donald trump is our nomination, we get killed in the general election. you look at poll after poll after poll, hillary wollops -- those very same polls, poll after poll after poll, show me beating hillary kwlin ton, head-to-head. and if you look at the

republicans have promised to block anyone the president nominates. they say the seed should be filled by the next president. florida's governor is urging all republicans to support donald strong -- trump. what heling for an into describes as republican on republican violence. in brazil, a new turn in the corruption investigation. the former president will join the current president as chief of staff. charges,s criminal joining the cabinet makes it more difficult to prosecute him.

republicans. >> republicans rioting against republicans? they'll be throwing their golf bags at each other. >> the cleveland police have bought riot gear. >> but was not because of an intraparty -- >> i see. always blame the liberals. trump is not calling on liberals to riot. he is calling on his supporters. >> he is not saying riot. >> he didn't call on anyone to riot. he said he thinks there could be riots. >> who would do such a thing? >> i don't know. >> first of all, for the record, there's not going to be that at th are contested convention. after last night when rubio got out after a thorough trumping, thumping of the field last night by trump, the delegate match was very, very strong in his favor to earn at leaf the 1237 or more. take it forward. >> let me say -- >> let's do throwback thursday. what's black, white and read all over? a newspaper. the headline was something like this. half the remaining -- >> here's the deal. >> the "wall street journal," they're completely wrong on this one. they're 48% of the delegates have been won

republican perspective. he's expanded the republican base. the republican turnout is up by so much, while democratic -- >> several state >> changing the form of the electorate is one of the rare skills of a rare politician. barack obama did it, for example. george bush did it in ohio in 2004. to essentially win the election. donald trump is doing it this time. that is of note to all the senators and representatives in contested districts. so that's the plus on donald trump. if he has to expand that electorate by talking about, or not repudiating the kkk and david duke, that's a very different calculation. and so that's why tonight's event with chris christie in the background and all the american flags, when you see a lot of american flags behind a republican candidate, that screams presidential in republican talk. >> ben, i want to -- i feel like i want to take a bicturef you, because you are exactly and the only person to answer this question that has become central to the entire country's understanding of the trump phenomenon. people really think there's

republicans said this isn't our party and they started to leave. the last thing the gold water campaign did is set off a purge. whether the republicans took over, they purged the liberal republicans. we forget there were liberal republicans. they were gone. and then slowly they purged most of the moderates out of the party. so republican leaders wonder why talk of ted cruz has been so strong is because most people who would have been more liberal republicans are no longer republicans. >> host: you describe in the book listening to ronald reagan give a speech in support of barry gold water. a time for choosing. you said you were electrified that night. >> guest: right? we saw ronald reagan as the guy who would lead conservatives out of the forest. you saw this guy delivering goldwater's basic message but had the capacity to reach many people. there are two politicians, two recent politicians, who made careers on one speech. reagan in 1964 where from that moment on conservatives identified him as their leader. and barack obama with the 2004 convention speech. i write in the book what each was doing with their big speech. reagan was really trying to define a conservative opposed to

republicans overtime. we forget there were a lot of liberal republicans. then slowly they purged most of the moderates out of the party. if the republican leaders wonder why trump and ted cruz have been so strong this year it's because most of the people are no longer republicans. that was all set off by goldwater. >> i come back to you ej because i think you describe in the book listening to ronald reagan give a speech in support of barry goldwater. a time for choosing. you told him you were electrified by that speech. i was a 12-year-old conservatives sitting there with my dad and i had the experience that night of millions of conservatives where we saw this guy, ronald reagan as the guy who would lead conservatives out of the wilderness. every conservative knew that goldwater was about to get clobbered. here you saw this guy who could deliver his basic message in a way that seemed to have the capacity to reach lots and lots of other people. i note in the book that one of the fascinating historical points is that there were two politicians who made their careers on one speech. reagan in 1964 where from that moment on had been identifi

republican party embodies everything about the republicans party. he is established he served in office he is very sober and very articulate. he has all sorts of policy plans the roots -- the republican establishment is under threat is under threats of the republican party exists so republicans win elected office that we have seen over the course of the past two years that it's become less and less necessary for republicans to leverage the party to win office. donald trump is the best example of that. donald trump didn't need the party to win the presidency if he wins the presidency. he used the party and to use the parties mechanisms to get nominated but he doesn't need them and that puts the republican party in a tough position because he is not a tenable to them. if he gets elected president and there's a senate nomination or a house nomination he can just endorse whoever he wants to. it doesn't have to go with the party structure and his endorsement could mean more. i think that romney personally feels as though this is a threat to what has worked for in politics and i think he's doing what he can to try to throw obstacles between trump and the nomination. >> host: one sentence f

republicans, not republicans that watched that debate yesterday are feeling today disappointed, are feeling today distraught by just how low the level of discourse has dipped in the midst of this democratic process. and i think all of us regardless of who we may support should today call on those republican candidates and say enough is enough. you are running for president of

republican primary. you can't do my that is dominated 24 hours of news coverage for months and two factors to look at. one, there are many more candidates on the republican side than on the democratic side. and when clinton says she has more raw voters, that is true. but the other thing, you have to question trump or any republican candidates are pulling the votes from? democrats or independents. trump is attracting new people to the party and primaries, but he is pulling them from republican voters who vote in general elections as opposed to primaries and not expanding the votes. >> that's not true. you saw 20000 independent voters in massachusetts and 50,000 in a state of pennsylvania reregister as republicans. and many seasoned voices in the democratic party do and i give them credit. you cannot underestimate donald trump. the former governor of pennsylvania said trump will put pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin in play because he does add, while you are add there are people in the northeast and republicans in the new york and in other cities who don't like trump, he's going to add more presumably in the working white class kind of voters that you find in the swing states that we have not won in years since 1998 in some cases. it does change the math. and donald trump, some on the left are doing is wrong. i cr

republicans. the race characterized as too early to call. donald trump leads for the republicans in mississippi. ted cruz is in second place. kasich and rubio, quote, trail far behind. th h

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voted did a majority of republican primary voters, republican primary voters, say that donald trump was honest and trustworthy. on that score, he was worse off with republicans than hillary clinton was with democrats, and that was supposed to be her area of greatest weakness. also in the exit polls, in every state that voted except for florida, at least two in five republican primary voters said they'd consider a third-party candidate. so while this is not slowing down trump in the near term, he is taking on water in a meaningful way that has republicans outside his campaign really deeply concerned about a general election. >> chris moody, you're there -- >> go ahead. >> can i just add one more point to what alex just said? he's also day by day by day providing more fodder to the anti-trump effort that hillary clinton will inevitably make against him in the general election. i mean he's just giving them fuel for attack ads, and the republicans haven't been successful in turning his, you know, what he's done into attack ads, but certainly the hillary clinton campaign is going to make a concerted effort to do so in the general election should they run against

polls show the governor and republican front runner donald trump locked in a dead heat over ohio and its 66 republican delegates republican front runner donald trump. today's pancake breakfast- held by the northeast hamilton county republican club- is just one part of busy weekend for kasich. after this, kasich will move on to town hall meetings in heath, just outside columbus and in mansfield. and he has a full schedule of town hall events around the state ending with an election eve rally at westerville central high school. that's in the columbus suburb kasich calls home. many people looking to a win in ohio as a critical determing factor in whether or not kasich's campaign has a realistic path to the white house... part of the larger question as to whether any republican candidate can take doors open here today at 8. the event starts at 9. more than 600 tickets have been sold and even more are expected to show up this morning.reporting live in swilley..9 on your side. if want to avoid the lines on primary day.. or can't get to the polls then... you can cast your ballot today and tomorrow at county board of elections. t

republicans say if trump and hillary clinton are the nominees they'll consider a third-party candidate. you don't just see this in the numbers. it's right there in the turning you see when republicans are asked if they'll vote for trump. >> you're a republican? >> that's right. >> if donald trump is the republican nominee are you going to vote for him. >> i'm not going to answer. >> could you support him? >> i've never voted for a democrat for president. i don't intend to start now. like a lot of people i'm watching to see what's going to happen by the time we get to that convention. >> i'm not saying i would vote for hillary clinton by any chance. i'm saying i don't know what i would do if trump became the nominee. >> joining me american enter prize institute co author of it's worse than it was about extremism in the republican party. this is something that you've been shouting about the fact that the republican party is veerg in directional that's anonlus and unstasable. your reaction to watching today the party attempting to get behind ted cruz to stave off donald trump. >> you have to look with bafflement and wonderment at a party that is car reasoning completely off the tracks with a self inflected wound. you're right about ted cruz. i

republicaning republican delegates. keep dreaming. it ain't going to happen. john kasich, he's a nice guy but no path to the nomination. i say to myself, self, why would republicans try to sabotage their own front-runner and risk a democrat winning the white house? i keep coming up with the same answer. the republican establishment elected officials and party leaders are in bed with the democrats. hillary win, nothing's lost for them. it's business as usual. the lobbyist keep their offices on k street. the pharmaceutical companies keep paying them. the unions keep adding to their pensions and the lawmakers get their re-election bribes. i mean contributions. while we the underclass have to work three jobs and wrack up debt our children will have to pay for generations. they predict trump cannot win the general election. if not, pray tell, why does he keep winning the primary and drawing crowds like we've never seen in american history. an election note primmer. trump already has 678 delegates. he needs 1237 to win. now, he's won six close and 13 open primaries and caucuses. one where independents and democrats vote. why is this important? it tells you that trump i

when we asked republican voters, "do you feel betrayed by the republican party?" more than 50% of republican voters in these four states said yes, and that, of course, would signal outsiders are very much what the electorate on the republican side are looking for. >> reporter: nine out of 10 voters, in fact, today, on the republican side told us they were disappointed, even angry with the federal government. elaine, you're going to be leaving us now to join us with coverage on cbsn. what do you have ahead there. >> reporter: we will have more political analysis with our rock star panel, but the story of commandir scott kelly, who has been in space for 340 days is coming back to earth and we expect live pictures. >> reporter: later on cbsn. scott. >> pelley: anthony, thank you, elaine, thank you. now we will go back to bob schieffer with our two political the "wall street journal" and jamelle bouie of "slate" magazine. bob. >> reporter: i'll tell you, scott, i'm just trying to process what i just heard in the last few minutes. let's think about this. marco rubio says that it will destroy the

republicans, i think they undermine their own credibility. if you look, there have been 23 republican primaries and caucuses. not one of them has trumped got got arity. -- trump majority. had 70% ofem, he has republicansg against him. this is not the republican party, but there is some force out there that is angry, they are outraged about something. who knows what. it is dangerous. amy: there are more republicans coming out to vote than ever before. still, that is only something like 17%. he is getting less than half of that. democrats are also out. less than 12% of democrats are coming out to vote in primaries. mr. edwards: part of it is that hillary does not generate as much as enthusiasm. keep -- theave to fact that donald trump -- he is winning because he has all of these people running against him and they are defining -- dividing up the vote. the overwhelming majority in state after state cannot stand donald trump. when people try to say this is republicans, republicans brought this on themselves, that is nonsense. donald trump is a standalone, scary dude. he really is. amy: did you know him? mr. edwards: are you kidding me? i try to be more careful about the people i associate with. not aloned

that's what identifies them as extremists and why republicans, republicans in the senate are breaking apart over this. yet, what if republicans in the senate been doing since the very day that barack obama was sworn in. they have given in to their extremists. they have nursed their extremists along so there's been fights and delays over the basic things that happen in government. the president tries to get his team out. starting this 2012, after he had been reelected by five million votes. we all come back and first thing that happens is the republicans in the senate want to shut it down. they don't want anybody to go forward to be the head of the nlrb. why? they are trying to shut it down. they don't want anybody appointed to the head of consumer protection financial bureau to function. they don't want a secretary of labor. they don't want anybody confirmed over the environmental protection agency. they don't want the president of the united states to be able to fill any, any of the three vacancies then on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. the second most important court in the united states. they want to leave dozens of am

republican party. a lot of people onered if the republican party destroyed itself? how can donald trump destroyed the republican party when he's bringing in new voters in the party? record- breaking republican turn out in a 2016 primary and maybe donald trump is breathing life back in the republican party. will the republicans unight or splinter or lose to hillary clinton. joining me to discuss the co-host of outnumber. president of high noon strategy and host of redeye. and democratic strat yift and richard fowler and certainly not last and least. jessica. and andandrea. there are republicans that care more about saving the republican party than the party. >> it is not the party. it is saving their golf and steaks in the capitol grill and saving their power and existness. the establishment made big money. jesse, this is a big business. think of the lobbyist that will not be able to lobby donald trump the way they could an establishment candidate and they are fighting hard for their own relevance. when president obama said it is not me, he's right. it is the republicans that got themselves in the mess. they nom

republican but changed the party. take a listen. >> i used to be a republican. republicans made up my mind, many years ago. n. they decided to be the racist party. >> reporter: listen. the keys of this state, as you mentioned, hillary clinton and bernie sanders locked in a very tight race. now on the republican side. the rules are if you get 50% of the vote plus one vote, you take all the delegates. 52 delegates. for the republican candidates not donald trump and if john kasich wins in ohio, it is possible that republicans could have a contested convention on their hands in july. we'll talk about that scenario with ohio's lieutenant governor right after this. you're watching msnbc live, from the urban farmer restaurant in cleveland, ohio. when you think about success, what does it look like? is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she deserves? is it finally witnessing all the artistic wonders of the natural world? whatever your definition of success is, helping you pursue it, is ours. t-i-a-a. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on

and that's what'd if is them as extremists and why republicans -- republicans in the senate are breaking apart over this. and what if republicans in t the -- and what have the republicans been doing since the very day that barack obama was sworn in? they have given in give in their extremists and they have nursed their extremists along. there have been fights and delays in government. >>> now to the raging floods in the death. the states of emergencies have been declared in louisiana and mississippi. thousands of families have been evacuated as relentless rain has overwhelmed cities and towns and more than 20 inches in some areas. in monroe, louisiana, fish were even spotted -- look there. they were spotted swimming along sidewalks. and we'll check in with your weekend forecast. that's still ahead. >>> the president and first lady hosted justin trudeau and his wife. they greeted the counterparts from the north. they included canadian celebrities like michael f. fox and actor mike myers and "snl" creator lorne michaels. later, president obama toasted the friendship between the neighbors and prime minister trudeau said we're more

republican party wants to represent? >> the republican party wants to win. >> at all costs. >> they would prefer that donald trump do it in a more classic -- a classy fashion, but again, if donald trump can bring new voters to the republicananks, there are a number of republicans who say let's try to influence him over the rest of this campaign, as opposed to going for the jugular. >> 15 seconds left, did what happen today move the needle for any candidate? >> no. it might help marco rubio or john kasich, but donald trump is still beating marco rubio by double digits. he is still beating john kasich in ohio according to some polls. a lot of republicans are wise to recognize there is no way to stop him, all we can do is influence him. >> more on donald trump and the republican party tonight. and more news straight ahead. >> we are dying and sorry. >>> frustration and despair among refugees trapped on the greek side of the border with macedonia. ♪ >>> hello from me david foster, you are watching al jazeera live from london. also in this program, north korea launches six missiles into the sea hours after the u.n. approves tough new sanctions. >>> a new piece of debris which could be from me missing flight

republican -- intra-republican fight. the incumbent senator, thad cochran, was fighting for his life against an insurgent republican, so republicanst somebody like donald trump with that kind of message is winning. what is our exit polling telling us about exactly how trump won? >> let's first start talking an the evangelical voters we talked about before. take a look at this. trump wins them. 45% of evangelical voters in mississippi go for trump. 40% for cruz. we looked at the nonevangelical voters and he wins them overwhelmingly. this was 76 % of the electorate and wins them by five points. now take a look at this. the angry electorate we told you how angry the electorate was before, 40% say they're angry. trump wins them going away. 57% to cruz's 33% to rubio at 6%. and then how about the 58% of voters who want an outsider? this is trump's base, basically. 65% of them want trump. 27% want cruz. 4%, rubio. you know, for ted cruz who made his entire time in washington with the label, outsider, he is not winning that outsider vote. nearly six in ten voters who went to the polls want an outsider and trump wins them by 40 points, he

republican state in the past. if you have elected a republican governor or senator there are bonus delegates awarded to states that have won well as far as their republican share of the vote in the past. there's a formula aspect of this that allows every state to get a certain amount and bonus if they have done well as a republican state in the past. >> is that fair? >> of course it is fair. >> even though they are a bigger state gets fewer delegates. that is an excellent explanation for a complex set of rules, by the way. >> it is relative -- look, i think one of the things -- again, there's an element like the house and senate, an element of fairness. each state starts with ten. they get, if they are bigger, they have additional congressional districts they get awarded those and based on the performance, which is a way to ensure that states that are electing republicans get rewarded but size alone doesn't dictate how many republicans are in the state. north carolina that has a republican governor and senator and outperformed illinois in the past, granted, they have elected governor and great senator. it is trending the right way. we have to recognize t

over the weekend -- clinton seemed more focused on highlighting differences between her and republicans. republican candidate ben carson was also in hampton roads today. he spoke at regent university as part of the presidential candidates forum. carson touched on a number of issues including moving people away from government dependence and his concerns about the president s use of executive orders - saying they need to be reviewed and get rid of 99.9 percent of them. here )s what he said when asked, what people in hampton roads should know were going to be extremely supportive of military, if you dont get military right, the rest of it really doesnt matter some at the event said they were already strong supporter )s of carson )s -- others said this event helped make up their minds. we have video from all of the candidates ) visits on wtkr dot com. and tune in to wtkr dot com - and newschannel three for complete coverage of tomorrow s all- important primary. we )ll bring you the results as soon as they come in. now let s get you to chief meteorologist patrick rockey with a look at what we can expec

one republican i talked to yesterday said it's almost as if donald trump is running a third-party campaign from within the republican party. these are note necessarily traditional republican voters. they're folks republicans would love to have but there's really little reason to give them any indication they would stick around. the same the other way around if it is donald trump at the top of the ticket, you'veing see runs finding a third-party option, a protest vote, some go do hillary clinton, some will just throw up their arms and stay home. >> zeke mill are from "time." fascinating times good to see you. >> thank you. >> again, the tweet from donald trump, just a couple minutes old: just had a very nice meeting with reince priebus and the g.o.p. looking forward to bringing the party together, and it will happen. a lot more politics ahead. you know donald trump is all about business, he says, but some of the billionaire's comments may have some of america's largest companies rethinking their support of the republican convention. we'll get details on that and bernie sanders and hillary clinton each have strong ties to new york, obviously, and today each is trying to mak

republican side, those outsider candidates a year long, democrats like their leader, republicans are not happy with their leaders in washington. donald trump, t@d cruz doing well. >> yep, i mean, democrats are happy with theirdemocratic republicans are unhappy with the democratic president and decided over the last few years to be very unhappy about republican leaders as well. it was a good tuesday for donald trump. he's the leader in the race, no question, he'll have attend of the day, about 250 delegates ted cruz and marco rubio, between them, will have won about 320 delegates. hillary clinton is pretty comfortably ahead. this race, there are two possible paths, trump winning or trump not winnnng and ending up with a brokered or contested convention. everything depends on two weeks from tonight. if he wins florida and ohio, it's probably over. if he loses bot of them, we're probably going to a contested convention. if he wins one and loses one, hard to tell. last 4 hours in this never trump, stop trump movement in both of those states. >> up to this point, the arguments against donald trump have all failed, the arguments that he's not conservative tonight, he doesn't have the temperament enough to be president he's not actuall

colorado, the republicans are in such disarray and it's so chaotic there, that in colorado, the republican party cancelled their caucus. so the only delegates going to the convention on the republican side are superdelegates. that's how much disarray is going on on the republican side. we had more voters in nevada in our caucus than they had in theirs. and then if you lack at the states in which there was a les competitive contest between our two candidates on our side, that's where the turnout dropped and where there was a more competitive contest in those states, we had nearly the so we're very, very pleased with our turnout and our confident that we're going to have success in november as a result. >> last night dan pfeiffer, former top senior advisor to president obama, worked on the obama campaign back in 2008, he was blunt, he said the democrats worry more about having to run against donald trump than, for example, running against ted cruz, do you agree with him on that? >> i don't. i mean, really, we have watched the trumpification of the republican party, he has an absolute chokehold on the republican party and is barreli barreli barreling towards the republican nomination,

>> the republican party -- if the republican party is a gumbo, the rue of that is the republican party and the core of that is the ku klux klan. >> the leaders of the republican party are disavowing anything to do with the ku klux klan. are they saying that because they have to? or do you think that they believe that? couldn't you give them some credit for that, at least? >> because they're also thinking about starting a new party. i feel like they're saying i fell like they're saying there's nothing we can do other than reconvene somewhere else. >> is this a surprise to them? was this an epiphany that they realize somehow their party is out of control when it comes to these issues, addressing issues in the ku klux klan? and it sounds like to you you believe that wow, where did this come from? >> it came from the first four years of barack obama's presidency. president barack obama where they allowed donald trump to demand the president show his birth certificate and they just stood by and went maybe he's not born here. they allowed that to happen. how would we know? hawaii, we don't k

republicans view, if we nominate donald trump it will be a disaster for republicans and a disaster for the country and what i think we saw tonight and i hope we'll see inhe days to come is republicans unifying and coming together, we welcome supporters for other candidates coalition a team to ensure that the republican nominee -- >> senator -- that's what you're calling for, but marco rubio is staying in the race, john kasich is staying in the race and ben carson is staying in the race. >> george, every candidate will have to reflect on where the race is, they'll have to give it prayerful consideration. what is clear, if the race remains divided, donald trump's path to the nomination is much more likely, but if we unify, head to head, our campaign beats donald trump soundly. everyone concerned about the best interest of the republican party, if donald trump is the nominee, your former boss hillary clinton becomes the president, in all likelihood the republicans lose the house and we lose the supreme court for our kids and grand kids. i hope that republicans instead together, let's unite behind the only campaign that's beaten donald trump three times across the country. >> if donald

republicans on a normal night. they said, as of 4:00 p.m., it was three to one republicans. 73% republicans, driven largely by democrats that are crossing over. it would sound, at first glance, that may be good news for donald trump. of course, he has deep roots with white working class voters, a large population in the state. but chris reports that the interviews there suggest this is largely anti-trump voters trying to support john kasich, their home-state governor. chuck, back to you. >> peter, well, we shall see. that's an interesting development, if it's true. meanwhile, that also could be a help to bernie sanders. that's why we're not 100% clear on where all of this is going. now let's go to texas. why texas? they're not voting today, but it's where ted cruz is holding his watch party tonight. and where he'll be -- he'll be quietly rooting for kasich to pick up those 66 ohio delegates that are not trump. cruz could be a dark horse tonight. he's got a chance to pull off victories in missouri and they've been focusing hard on north carolina and he's been competitive in illinois. so, who knows? he's been -- he could

republican party. it will split the republican party. he will fight to the end. this is epic. >> what do you think? >> real open question, if trump coes and march 15, takes primaries, and he is the nominee, presumptive one. republicans like marco rubio they said these things they have to fall behind him or reject him. if they reject him, then they have to say to themselves, they're forfeiting the white house now. the more important thing here is to prevent a trump takeover of the republican party and prevent a destruction of conservative movement, conservatism. >> you know, i heard today from republican leaders, senior people in washington, who say they're now hoping for an open convention. how long has it been since you have heard leaders of either party say, what we really want is an open convention. they want to sew it before they get to it. >> yes, party leaders exist so that they can continue themselves and have a certain amount of predictability, stability built into the system. they don't want an open convention. they all call it a brokered that's because they still have the illusion that they will be the brokers. i'm not sure that's so. this thing i think, if it goes to the convention, if it goes to the floo

republicans. house republicans. >> referencing that. >> any potential, the democratic nominee. great opportunity. despite the issues. backfired somewhat. >> what we are about his economic and national security. make decisions that help grow the economy as we reduce the deficit. in terms of our national security, homeland security, neighborhood security, protecting and defending the american people, that is what the campaign is about. zero, my gosh, felt like i was in the movie casablanca. can you believe someone is associating himself with the statement of these kinds of white supremacist groups? and my sentiment is i do not think what trump and the others are saying is a reflection of republicans a large. we are not taken by the house republicans. the association with potential right wing groups, number of times against to remove the flag from the capitol. and then my resolution, they want to associate themselves with the foot soldiers of selma and all of the rhetoric you can drum up and go to selma last year for the 50th anniversary to disassociate themselves from any attempt to pass a voting rights act. if they are sincere about honoring the bridge to the ballot the selma was coming give us a vote on the voting rights act. .. >> other than little children and don't even some of them speak the language. >> hillary clinton's campaign is saying the delegate count makes it impossible for bernie sanders to get the vote. do you agree? >> the republicans have to take the time to make their nomination and the voices will be heard from the democrats and those who vote accurate. i have a great deal of respect for the voice of the american people. 35 states have not voted yet and i thi