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joining me now, dana milbank, maria teresa kumar, perry bacon jr. and michelle bernard. okay, guys, i have to start off with donald trump. you know, we do -- the president gave us the business at the white house correspondents' dinner for giving trump too much air time but there are sometimes when i feel like you have to hear him to believe it. there was a little bit of a controversy earlier this week that hillary clinton made a comment that she's used to dealing with men who are going off the reservation, quote unquote, using an offensive term. she got hit by deep native american outreach supportes of bernie sanders, a lot of people offended by it. the clinton campaign walked it back, apologized. this is donald trump reracking that story this morning on fox news in an interesting way. take a listen. >> she said i'm used to dealing with -- and what was the word, go ahead, she used a certain word. >> off the reservation. >> men that are off the reservation. i said to myself that's a horrible expression. now, if i would have used that expression maybe in the opposite form,

okay, you guys, the white house correspondents' dinner, i'm going to you, dana milbank as the official funniest member of our panel. give him a review. that's a lot of pressure. >> he aimed for that basketball hole and got nothing but fabric. >> that was good. >> yeah, i think he was terrific. okay, he doesn't write the speech, he just delivers. in the delivery you could see maybe he was kind of seeing some of those for the first time because he was laughing too. great speech. he has done that repeatedly in these environments. i think the whole spectacle is appalling, the way journalists suck up to the people we're supposed to be following, i boycott it. >> i only suck up to the celebrities so i except myself from your comment. jamal, one of the things that is great about the way the president delivers humor is that he's so delighted by his own jokes once he delivers them that he starts laughing. is he setting the bar so high that the next president literally has to bomb at their white house correspondents' dinner? >> i think in so many bways barack obama has set the bar so high for th

let's bring back our panel, april ryan, dana milbank and adolfo franco. trump makes these personal attacks? >> the way she has been responding is effective. i think the most important thing is he's going to label her as crooked hillary, already said that's what's he's going to do, like little marco, low energy jeb. i think the democrats need a label for donald, it should be dangerous donald, you don't want this guy's fingers on the nuclear button. the best defense is a strong offense there. it does appear that trump is going to try to run this. he ran a primary campaign based largely on sort of the white grievances and now it's going to be male grievances -- >> but april, does secretary clinton take the high road? does she go aggressively in offense like dana is saying and how far is too far? how does she energize her vote doing this? >> this is a whole interesting topic. i was there -- we were there during the monica lewinsky scandal. it's a fact and it happened and it's over. hillary clinton found her strength in that moment because she stayed. a lot of

dana milbank said he would eat comb if -- eat his donald trump won the nomination.s whole watching week as he has been trying to take the actual newsprint and he has been trying to take it at the washington post kitchen. he has done all these different dishes and on friday night, i was leaving and there was nothing left and that was such a great image. there was one bottle of trump wine that was sitting there opened. that's the image that represents the election. on the washington post website, if you want to see dana milbank eat his column that he wrote. his headline today "i ate my words about trunk -- about trump , but electing him would be a recipe for ruin. a caller from kentucky. if i go toeel like vote, i will be voting for bernie. not because i think he is wonderful but it will be a vote against hillary. host: do you remember if you voted in 2008? caller: i did not. host: do you have a question for robert costa? caller: it is more of a comment that question. i don't understand why romney and the other republicans are stirring the pot. they shouldme like get

dana milbank said if trump is the nominee he'll eat his column. i think i'll have him on the show tomorrow. >> why do people say this. it's like predicting the stock market. >> which is definitive predicts. what have you learned? >> well, there's been a hostile takeover of one of our political parties and one of the things that's amazing to me is that in some ways if you look at trump's issues he's returning the republican party to where it was in the 19th and early 20th century, a protection iist pro-infrastructure party. that's who the republicans used to be and taking them back to that and also in some cases a hateful party although the democrats were more hateful but we haven't had this kind of hate among one of our party's nominees in a very, very long time pitting people against each other this way. this is a major event in american political history that we're experiencing. >> what did you learn? >> i think two things one is that the big donors are not the kingmakers we thought they were. that campaign finance is not as much of an issue as

. >> that would be dana milbank of the "washington post."her people could have that meal as well. i say go to pundit remediation school. it's not that they were wrong about this or that candidate. they completely and totally misjudged the election and the anger and frustration that donald trump and to some extent bernie sanders have tapped into. be more cautious in making predictions because, you know what, it's on videotape. >> i would say, in everyone's defense, this has been an incredibly unusual election, and i don't think there was anyone except maybe donald trump on the day he announced who thought that it was going to turn out like this. i wonder if even melania knew. >> donald trump told me in our first interview last year that he thought he had a 15% to 20% chance of being the gop nominee. even he is surprised on some level. >> there you go! >> it's a crazy year but many stayed in denial too long as the evidence accumulated that trump was going to win the nomination. >> wonderful conclusion. we'll leave it there. you are so right. t

i think that the democrats, i think dana milbank of the "washington post" wrote yesterday that berniers has lit a spark that started a fire that he may not be able to put out. >> are you saying he's an arsonist? >> i think that's what a lot of democrats think. who would have thought that the situation would be reversed. that now you're talking about violence within the democratic conventions. you're talking about an inability to unify on the democrat side. while the republicans are actually pretty much feeling pretty good about themselves. not chb, not everybody. i'm looking at the nrms, she just needs to oig out a way to put him away. >> i think it's the "washington post," "new york times," mother jones, they're all now turning on bernie sanders. the left wing is going after sanders for fear of what dana is talking about, greg. that sanders is damaging and pulling down hillary clinton. >> well i don't think you need sand sanders to do that. if you look at clinton versus trump, there's a paradox. you look at the electoral states leaning towards clinton, you think there's no way that s

that's why dana milbank is eating his words. >> kate, you can roll the tape the first time i was on as a commentator on cnn. >> i'm going to look. keep going. sorry. >> i want to say on this, i think we have to distinguish here carefully between plan "a" and plan "b." for bernie sanders and his campaign team, plan "a" is still to win the nomination. this is a group of some staffers, some former staffers who are thinking about what happens after california assuming he doesn't win. and what they're saying is let's kick the political revolution, which is bernie's term, kick it off right then and there and the number one goal of the political revolution will be to organize to get a democrat in the white house, and to stop donald trump. it's a good plan "b," but plan "a" is still in existence. >> until it becomes plan "b." >> really quick on this -- >> go ahead. >> i was going to say really quickly on this though, i want to be clear in saying that the bernie sanders campaign has said repeatedly they have not seen this memo. and this is not something that they're endorsing at all. i would lo

here's "washington post" columnist dana milbank literally eating his words.predicted last october donald trump would never be the gop nominee. so this is what he gets. now, that is one way to follow-up on a faulty election forecast. here's another way. nate silver made a name for himself by using data to correctly predict 49 out of 50 states in 2008's general election and all 50 in 2012. he and 538 have predicted 52 of 57 states and various territories in this year's primary contests correctly. but many are saying he and his colleague the dropped the ball this year. that's partly because of this prediction that he made right here on cnn with anderson cooper last fall. >> do you put the chance of donald trump or ben carson actually getting the gop nomination around 5%. >> maybe about 5% each. somewhere around there. >> 5%. so i sat down with nate silver, editor and chief at 538.com, to ask him what happened. >> we were skeptical of trump's chances early on because he went against history. you'd seen a lot of candidates, newt gingrich, hermann cain, george wall

dionne, dana milbank and mark ka mark caputo. because this is a big florida story. we'll let "the washington post" cool its heels here for a minute. i just have and i don't think we'll be able to put it in chiron yet, the letter bernie sanders is sending out to his supporters weaponizing his fund-raising list. we do have it. crack political team here. sisters and brothers, it says, the political revolution is not just about electing a president, sisters and brothers. we need a congress with members who believe like bernie that we cannot change a corrupt system by taking its money. so let me introduce you to tim canova, a progressive challenger who is running against debbie wasserman schultz in primary. what does it mean that bernie sanders is now turning his $27 a pop fund-raising spigot against debbie wasserman schultz and for tim canova. >> tim canova raised $1 million since january and largely did that through bernie sanders' list. so what it means for tim canova and wasserman schultz is more money, more money, more money, and

now in studio with us is the "washington post" columnist dana milbank. >> good to see you, peter. >> a laundry list of promises donald trump has made, many of which he is backtracking on in some form. i want to get your take. one of the headlines out today from "the washington post" is about the fact the last time donald trump, as the "post" reports, made his income tax returns public, it proved that he paid zero taxes to the federal government. may give some indication why this audit strategy is the one he's employing. >> yeah, it may be. 15 months ago, peter, he said he would certainly release his tax returns in this situation. now, we don't know the reason, but this might be one possible clue as to why he wouldn't release it. he's done a remarkable candidate of the candidate of the common man speaking up for the little guy. when they find out that he's worth billions and he's paying not a cent, that would be a problem. >> one of the real challenges is the challenge of pinning down, as tom brokaw would tell us, he said, peter, words matter. with this candidate it's hard to pin him

david: "washington post" columnist dana milbank wrote at beginning of election season vowing that ifublican nomination he would eat the piece he wrote about that. melissa: making good on promise. having readers vote how he should prepare the newspaper. david: would every reporter did the same. would be a lot of paper eating. "risk & reward" starts right now. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who is going to i pa are to the wall? >> mexico! >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> we're not, i am not going to pay for that [bleep] wall. i am not. he should know that. i'm not going to apologize. deirdre: that was before. now the former president of the mexico is doing a 180, apologizing and inviting donald trump to mexico. this is "risk & reward." i'm deirdre bolton. vin sent day fox is my guest. he will join me in a few moments. i will ask him why he is changing his tone. donald trump campaign, senior

dana milbank, elise jordan, appreciate you both being with us. >>> a promising note for you, in our nexthour, andrea will interview donald trump's convention manager, paul manafort. he's a person we've heard a lot about over the last couple of weeks. that's happening next on msnbc at noon eastern, only right here. >>> up next in this hour we turn to the democratic race. hillary clinton campaigning in california again today but that's after a bit of a rough go yesterday. some even interrupting her speech. clinton's focus still squarely on donald trump. we'll take a look at what she's staying saving and the republican front-runner's impact on the democratic primary. >>> also ahead, a new claim that former penn state football coach joe paterno new about a child sex abuse allegation against jerry sandusky as par back as 40 years ago. what the paterno family is saying. and also this. >> you can hear the cheers. those coming after a spacex rocket successfully landed, as you saw right there, on a floating platform at sea. several previous attempts had gone down in flames. coming up, we'll speak

dana milbank promised last year he would eat his column if donald trump won the republican nomination his words, or in this case 749 words, he ate them. nouns, verbs, ink, paper, all in an eight-course meal. a d.c. chef did the cooking and i have to say the meal, doesn't that look delicious. dana joins us live to tell us how many times he got up in the night. good morning. >> hey, carol. >> was it good? >> the night, no, not so much, but the meal itself tasted just fine. you know, and for your viewers who are considering eating newspaper at home, i recommend grinding it very finely. it's a texture issue. the taste of the news print is actually just fine, particularly in a nice falafel or a dumpling. >> i was watching your facebook post of the whole thing and you said your worry was if you just eat the paper it would turn into that spitball kind of thing and be gluey -- >> i yeah. i felt like i was back in third grade but this time it's like the teacher caught you and you had to swallow it, but we did have the wine to make it a little easier. >> how was the trump wine? >> let's just sa

. >> i want to join dana milba -- milbank to eat his piece of paper.ald trump would fade out and flame away. i don't think america is even prepared for what we will see in terms of this coming election. >> i remember the first tuesday night you were not willing to say one way or the other. you said it is crazy i won't say. >> it is so crazy that i think a touch of humility is overdue. >> are we looking to you now for the touch of humility? >> teasing. >> i am not sure you were. >> i am not saying that many would agree with you. i am not sure i said hillary doesn't need independence. if she will rep replicate the obama model he was able to succeed while losing independence. i think she will fail in replicating that. the point ellen is making is they will not be galvanized. they don't trust her and like her and find her authentic. the larger problem it will pose for clinton is the republican grassroots, the republican kind of populous, is getting the candidate they want. the democratic ruling party is getting the candidate they want. there will be some l