. >> the states you have look dash are all must wins for the republicans florida wisconsin and ohio colorado why is wisconsin special? to make they have not one wisconsin except landslide victories but normally the state is blue but scott walker was elected 2010 input for a very divisive issue but it has paid a lot of dividends and one study just came out in march that showed the state and local governments paid $5 million over five years so they could stay away from layoffs to use the money wisely that is what republicans are talking about when they say trim government and regulation to make things work more efficiently so there is the message there for the wisconsin republicans to open up an electoral college votes better then colorado or new hampshire that is the key state for both parties because it says something about the reach of the national message if they take wisconsin out bin that resets bill whole rust belt show that strength that would be very difficult for a democrat to counter. >> what is your day job? >> times senior editor a duke twice a week podcast on politics and culture

host: stacy picked him up that here are all must wins for republicans when the president the, florida, wisconsin ohio, colorado. why wisconsin a special case? >> is interesting because republicans haven't won wisconsin. for us, ronald reagan won wisconsin twice in his election. normally this is a date that stays pretty blue. scott walker got it in 2010 in the afghan reforms or this is a very divisive issue in the state of wisconsin, but it's paid a lot of dividend. one study that just came out in late february showed the state and local governments had saved $5 billion over five years. that's the message people are talking about when they talk about trimming government regulation and making things work more efficiently. scott walker and the wisconsin republicans have opened a period that is 10 electoral college votes. that is better than colorado. that's certainly better than new hampshire. the electoral college vote is usually can edit a keith vote for parties to win because it says something about the reach of their national message. if republicans pick wisconsin out of the democrats and put i

, must-wins for the republicans -- >> guest: absolutely. >> host: -- to win the presidency; florida, wisconsin ohio, colorado. why is wisconsin a special case? >> guest: it's interesting, because, of course, republicans haven't won wisconsin except in huge landslide election victories. for instance, ronald reagan won wisconsin twice in his elections. normally, this is a state that stays pretty blue. scott walker got elected in 2010 and put in place the act x reforms. it's paid a lot of dividends. in fact, one study that just came out in march -- excuse me, late february, showed that the state and local governments have saved about $5 billion over five years thanks to the act x reforms. so they were a able to stay away from layoffs, they were able to use money wisely. that's the type of message, of course, that republicans are talking about usually when they're talking about trimming government and trimming regulations and making things work more efficiently. so there's an opening there for the republican message that scott walker and the wisconsin republicans have opened up. that's ten elector

new york, california, minnesota, maine, pennsylvania, virginia, ohio, michigan, florida, wisconsin. i mean, what are trump's biggest challenges and roadblocks in some of these states, and if he doesn't get overwhelming support, what's the base level vote percentage that trump would need in the blue states to beat hillary clinton in a general election? >> well, he's going to need to pick off a handful of those states in order to get the electoral college vote up to the point where he can win this thing outright and get to 270. and in trump's case, if you look at the hillary clinton campaign, that's as good of an indication of any where they see real threats from donald trump. they have begun to put resources in place like wisconsin. >> what are the rod blocks? >> pennsylvania. >> can you tell me some of the roadblocks that trump would face in some of the blue states. >> the roadblocks are going to be to convince democratic voters that he's not a wild right winger which i think would not be a difficult challenge for trump, especially because he is sort of socially liberal and does hav

make the government monopoly is fading as a monopoly because arizona indian a louisiana nevada florida wisconsin of states have school choice efforts and the other team argument is if you don't run everything able to organ harvesting all sorts of horror stories and people got scared. now there are enough people with enough experienced people realize that is nonsense to move to liberty at the state level. truly stupid things can only be done out of washington d.c.. you can i do obamacare in vermont alone. bad ideas, a truly bad ideas only come from obamacare at the national level where there is no competition and if everybody is suffering then the law knows what it was. john: technology? >> commission and then take on the taxis and require $100,000 to drive a taxi or the self-employed people to be the taxicab commissions. people decide i will be a small business personal but myself with airbnb. as the post office shrinks as people use e-mail and on-line sales have broken down with competition and. john: thank you. we're all better off with americans for tax reform. maybe we should be optimistic b

have picked and looked at are essentially must wins for the republicans to win the presidency, florida, wisconsinwhy is wisconsin a special case? >> republicans have not one wisconsin except into landslide victories, reagan won it twice in his election, but normally this is a state that stays pretty blue. scott walker got elected in 2010, in it's a very divisive issue in the state of wisconsin. but it is is paid a lot of dividends, in fact one that just came out in march or late february showed the state and the government's saved about $5 million over five years. so stay away from layoffs, they were able to use money wisely, that is that is the type of message that republicans are talking about usually what they're talking about trimming government and making things work more efficiently. there's nobody there for the republican message that scott walker and the wisconsin republicans have opened up. so that is better than colorado, that is certainly better than new hampshire, new hampshire is all elect oral college votes is considered a key state for both parties to win because it says something.

install state directors and field operations teams in a number of states including pennsylvania, florida, wisconsin mentioned california. they are beginning to build out their campaign operation to a number of traditionally blue states because donald trump says he is going to make a big play in california. he is going to make a big play in new york. states that traditionally lean democratic but he feels if he pursues strong enough and if he campaigns there that he can pull off a win in november. >> another one to talk about, paul ryan not endorsing trump. is there any sense how damaging if at all this is and what do you think the delay is and how long will it take? will he endorse him ultimately? >> i think he probably will. i don't know that it really matters to donald trump whether or not paul ryan does this. donald trump needs to have republicans consolidate. we have seen that happen over the course of the past week or two which is a large part of the reason why he is -- paul ryan i think is stuck in a weird position where a lot of people in the republican establishment are skeptical and frustra

florida, wisconsiwisconsi n, ohio, colorado. >> of course, republicans have a won wisconsin accepting huge landslide election victories. for example, ronald reagan won twice in his election. normally this is a state that stays pretty blue. scott walker got a lack did in 2010 and clinton plays the reforms come a very divisive issue in this state of wisconsin, but it's paid a lot of dividends. one study that just came out in march -- late february showed that the state and local governments have saved about $5 billion over five years. so we were able to stay away from laos. they were able to use money wisely. that's the type of message republicans are talking about. usually when they talk about trimming government and trimming regulations and making things work more efficiently. so there's an opening for the republican message that scott walker and the wisconsin republicans have opened up. that's electoral college votes. that is better than colorado. certainly better than new hampshire. the electoral college votes usually considered a pretty key state for both parties to win because it

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illinois, florida, wisconsin, those are all very difficult seats.e's up -- particularly amongst the minorities and the hispanics, what hillary was able to do in the primaries was create this minority coalition. it was strong in the african-american and hispanic groups. if that's the case, you're looking at colorado, arizona, nevada, florida. in the summer what we'll be looking at is the voter registration drives, like your guest said earlier with the asian-americans. that's the key to the organization on the ground. there's a chance that we see numbers in a state like arizona could flip and send john mccain home. >> i want to go to some of the exit polls out of indiana where they showed trump struggling with white men and white independents, although hillary clinton is having a tougher time with those groups there in indiana, and throughout the country in other groups like millennials. does clinton stand a chance of winning over these key groups if sanders fails to convince his supporters to back her in the general election? >> it's an interesting q

wisconsin. working class voters could rally around the businessman and help him land 283 electoral votes. >>> scenario number two, he could win floridaso, he nets 228 electoral votes. on the next map we see trump winning new hampshire instead of iowa. he did there as you recall in the primaries. it could also help him to get to 280. in the next scenario, we see a win for him in wisconsin. now, remember, cruz won wisconsin big, but republican governor scott walker is a strong force and anwin could help trump end up with 276 and the last one "the post" called the close shave. trump 270 and clinton 2668. how would that happen? the map shows trump winning ohio and florida, plus virginia and new hampshire, and it's happened before. this is basically how george w. bush won in 2000. >>> knocks news alert as we await a hillary clinton campaign event with women and families in the d.c. subbush of stoneridge, virginia. this coming after donald trump went after her calling her an enabler of former president bill clinton's abuse of women. mike emanuel live in stoneridge. why is she there? didn't she already win the primary there? >> no question

that could bring additional flooding, severe storms possible not only from texas but parts of wisconsin, floridatively low threat today, even isolated torpids will continue to be possible. otherwise across the eastern u.s., dealing with a lot of tropical moisture making things muggy out there. the forecast to continue but most of the heavy rain concentrated across portions of north carolina over the next few days, several inches of rain in the forecast. temperatures will be heating up across the nation specially out west. lauren: thank you, maria molina. nicole: coming down we will run down morning action before we hand it over to mornings with maria. oil gaining, gold pulls back it's more than a network. it's how you stay connected. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you get an industry leading broadband network and cloud and hosting services. centurylink. your link to what's next. father, and athlete because a kidney transplant gave him a second chance at life, made possible by an organ donor. imagine what you could make possible. learn more and sign up as a donor. go to orga

counties and swing states of 2004 so we are looking at places like florida, virginia, ohio north carolina in hampshire colorado and wisconsin because of the changes that have occurred there is a great opportunity to find of good they are the reason why republicans win the statewide elections they lost touch with the voters. >> go to hamilton county ohio who are some of the voters they have lost? and the camel to county is interesting because it has a net population and loss. the challenges are more about growth from other parts of the country the their native predilections. it is one where they have a significant population so those who have the economic mobility but they don't work than high-priced firms or to put food on the table and they have an opportunity to make a case or what their issues are but the problem that you have with the republican party at one point was one of the most republican parties and a republican state. hamilton county was a very read county over the last two presidential elections one of the reasons the republicans will message -- message the economy with the ideological and philosophical that th

pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, new hampshire, illinois are all states where republicans need to keep the senator in order to have a majority in the senate for the next cycle. >> and if trump gets the nomination, do you go silent? what do you do? >> we work really hard to make sure he doesn't get the nomination and i think ted cruz has a good chance to win tomorrow in indiana and that will put him on a path to win. i can tell you this. we won't support hillary clinton. but we'll probably focus on those senate and house races. the second thing that george will pointed out. they'll need protect what they have in the house and the senate. >> extraordinary moment with ted cruz walking right up to trump supporters and engaging with them despite them first hurling insults at them and it was fascinating to watch. >> reporter: and remember that on the campaign trail, lawrence, cruz has engaged with protesters before. this seemed an ink blot test for how you view ted cruz. supporters saw someone who engaged in what they saw as a respectful and civil manner. trooied to convince them to come to

the threat extending across the florida panhandle and as far north as wisconsin. in the eastern u.s. we have been dealing with a lot of moisture. you can see the rain still coming down out here. several inches of rain still possible across eastern parts of north carolina over the next few days. abby and heather? >> hoping everyone stays safe. maria molina thanks for that. >>> breaking details. the suspected gunmen and army accused of a deadly rampage may be suffering from ptsd. they are trying to figure out what caused him to open fire. he served four tours in afghanistan. his father believes this is really a ptsd thing. he moved from california to texas to live in a p compound saying this wasn't my son. police are questioning another man armed at the scene. he may have been trying to stop the shooting. garza allege he had loiped fire in an auto shop killing a customer and shooting a car and police vehicle. six people were hurt including two police officers. >>> he is considered so dangerous the fbi added him to their top ten most wanted list. this morning the man

florida, colorado, virginia, wisconsin, all listed as toss-ups, now all recategorized as lean democrat also some solid red states like indiana, missouri, and one congressional district in nebraska, now not necessarily so red. also the first one on that list, arizona, arizona no longer a likely red state. now it's just a lean red state. it's in arizona where republican senator john mccain has been explaining why he told a fund-raising crowd last month that nominating donald trump would really hurt his hopes for getting re-electre-elected. >> have no doubt that if it is donald trump at the top of the ticket, here in arizona with over 30% of the vote being the hispanic vote, have no doubt that this may be the race of my life. >> the audio published by politico this morning. senator mccain got asked about that right away. you think donald trump is going to hurt you and other senate campaigns across the country? in true life-long politician form, senator mccain downplayed it. >> you said at that donor meeting that donald trump is really hurting your campaign -- >> no, i didn't say that. i d

there are a lot of states like florida and virginia and wisconsin and others where people may not likeillary clinton. we know she is not trustworthy. but they will be very cautious, in some cases scared to put somebody in oval office in control of the nuclear codes that acts way donald trump does. proposes policies in terms of pulling out of nato and letting the asia-pacific go nuclear. you know, that is going to make a lot of people uneasy. it is right line of attack for hillary clinton. people don't really warm to her. they don't really love her. but what she can offer if she gets through the email controversy is competent and stability and she can actually run to the right of him on foreign policy matters which can help her with some sort of soft republicans and swing voters. so i think it is the right move for her because fits her and potentially gets to some of his biggest weaknesses. jon: donald trump answered back with charges of his own this morning on "fox & friends." here is what he had to say about hillary clinton. >> i hear hillary has got nothing but problems. hillary want

we've got florida, colorado, pennsylvania and wisconsin.e traditionally toss-up states now leaning for the democrats. solid red states like indiana, missouri, nebraska, no longer solid and arizona just sort of leaning red. dave, was any of this surprising to you as you were putting together this new map? >> well, if you have a lead in national polling of the kind that hillary clinton does, these states are not toss-up states anymore. if you have as high unfavorability with latinos and african-americans as donald trump has, you're not going to be able to win colorado or virginia in this kind of climate. i really think this race will come down to five states. that's florida, ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire and iowa. and donald trump needs a majority of those to win. >> needs a majority of those to win. we are, of course, a few months out at this point. we don't even technically have a democratic nominee yet. how much of this do you think any of this could shift the next couple of months? >> it could shift. 1988, michael dukakis held a large

mark kirk got elected because of unusual circumstances so he say little different but wisconsin, pennsylvania, floridaw hampshire and ohio are all classified as presidential swing states. and they have in most cases republican incumbents, florida is an open seevmentd but the question is request the republican incumbents here run their own races or are they going to be defined by donald trump. and if you are kelley in new hampshire or rob portland in ohio, your problem self ree morning that you get up, a reporter is going to shove a microphone in your face and ask you what do you think about what donald trump said yesterday. >> woodruff: for house members, dave wasserman, it say little different, isn't it? they are not as high profile. obviously on a statewide basis, it's more in their district but they can get swept up in this as well. >> that's true. it may make it even more difficult for them. they have seen less time to communicate from voters and separate from the top of the ticket in an environment where the presidential race is getting all the attention. and it is the main event. and so for exam

in order to win the nomination, and most of them are blue states like minnesota, wisconsin, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, all states that went blue for -- when barack obama won them and that he intends to play hard in. and today he may have picked on his new fight with environmentalists. he said while he's done very well environmentally, the drought here in california, there is a tremendous water shortage that particularly up in -- around bakersfield and northern los angeles and northern california. the drought's been terribly horrible and had a terrible impact on agriculture here. so trump is saying that part of that is because of overexertion and overenthusiasm to protect endangered species. so now he's saying he's going to turn water back on if he is elected president which would be an incredible feat and one that would certainly be liked here but the environmentalists aren't going to like it. i know i said south dakota earlier. it was north dakota. >> carl cameron live for us in san diego, california, thanks. >> you bet. >>> well, police are on guard wherever donald trump shows up these days for pos

and if you can put up that slide, we went to florida, ohio, north carolina, nevada, wisconsin and pennsylvaniad these are the states that are going to determine who wins and who loses. what we found is there's a key 11% of the electiorate who doesn't want either clinton or trump. call them "none of the above." to me, it's going to be the none of the above voters. 1 out of every 9 that will determine this election. the key component to them is they're not issue voters, they're attribute voters. if you look at then, 2 out of 3 are women, which is good for hillary clinton. they're younger voters, which is also good for clinton. but politically, they lean towards the republicans. a majority voter for mitt romney in the last election. and they feel better towards the gop. however, the most important component is they are character voters. they're attribute voters. the attribute that matters the most is honest and trustworthy -- >> well, they have nobody then, because the polls show that the voters don't think donald is trustworthy and they don't think she is either. >> that's exactly the point. the

at a finance conference yesterday, republican governor scott walker of wisconsin and rick scott of florida governor john hickenlooper and virginia governor terry mcauliffe. all of them say there are open jobs in their states that their employers can't fill because they can't find skilled workers. their solution, a mix of job training, apprenticeships, and changes in schools, public schools, all of which they say are needed to combat this jobs skills gap. right now there are 5.4 million jobs open in the united states, near a record high. it's a sign that employers want to hire, but it also indicates that employers can't find people with the right skills. that's a really interesting position of those four governors a the a time when we're talking about these jobs disappearing. that's interesting. >>> all right. an american death near the front lines in the battle against isis. new information about the navy s.e.a.l. killed in combat in iraq. that's next. >>> u.s. forces moving dangerously close to the front lines in the battle against isis in iraq. more than 4,000 u.s. troops in the region r

wisconsin. big disadvantage in florida, virginia, even north carolina and arizona which mitt romney won. they say he's not matching up to romney when it comes to the white vote. how do you turn that around? >> polls today aren't relevant. in 1980, reagan was down to 25 points to jimmy carter at this point in time. we've just come through a bruising republican primary. you know, there's plenty of time for donald trump to fix those issues. plus, there are polls out today that show him down two and up two. the polls are all over the place, and they're not -- >> they're not really. there's one poll a rasmussen poll that shows him up two. >> there's a battleground poll that showed him down three. they're all over the place. the important thing is polls aren't relevant today given that we're starting the process of unifying the partiment we're going to have a positive convention. we're not going to be dealing with the kinds of problems that the democrats are going to be dealing with at their convention. and donald trump will have the time to put together the general campaign structure, work wi

what is this strategy to go after florida, virginia, pennsylvania, minnesota, my home state, michigan, wisconsin, et cetera? >> well, i think if you look at those states, there's -- all those states have one thing in common, there are lots of lost manufacturing jobs in those states, they are states where republican registration decreased dramatically in the last few months and as a result, mr. trump is doing very well. i think this campaign will be about putting states on the board, not taking them off. my guess is even more will come on the board as we get through this process. >> trump told the associated press in a recent interview, i will win states that no republican would even run in. so that part of the strategy. right? >> yeah. i mean it is a total shift. if you look at -- you know ohio like you do. youn youngstown, ohio had 68,000 registered is republicans. now there a 38,000. there is a big shift going on. >> tomorrow you are going to be in a meeting with facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg discussing claims of bias in the presentation of trending news on facebook. here is a veiled hit. rem

wisconsin. >> even in he flipped, pennsylvania, virginia, florida, he still loses.ave a democratic build in advance as far as the elect material college and donald trump is the least effective republican to change that map. >> do you agree, i know you are not a donald trump fan but is there a path to 270 electoral votes? >> this is possible but it sun favorable, forum trump it is 28.4 favorable and 65.4 unfavorable, and 37 point deficit. 38.4 favorable for hillary clinton and 54.9 unfavorable. 16.5 deficit. they are both this bad shape upside down. that points to the only way to win for donald trump is to make hillary clinton worse then he is. and that is beginning to be difficult because, remember, by the time we get to convention, july 18 and july 25, 80's the campaign will be over and wednesday the opinions are in place they are difficult to change, a final point, in the latest "wall street journal"/nbc policy clinton is 56% negative and 26% and donald trump is 65 negative and 43 very. >> what difference that the last 20 years? >> i add that hillary clinton with

wisconsin. if he were to win florida and ohio, let's say he's able to take michigan, hasn't been done since theould be dead even at 269-269 then you go back to the map. if it's not virginia or new hampshire, what do you get? do you win wisconsin? maybe, maybe not. do you win iowa? iowa would do that for you, 275. in this mix, scenario, put a lot of things in play over the next six months to she how you get to 270 or how hillary clinton prevents him from doing that. it always comes back to ohio and florida and all these scenarios where we begin the chase and the race for 270 in 2016. sean? >> all right. thanks, bill. >>> joining us with more reaction, former clinton pollster, fox news contributor, doug schoen. republican pollster, john mclaughlin. all right. look at that map. wow. that was a pretty interesting, you know -- >> more wide open. it's different than the republicans. republicans last two cycles have been running country club campaigning says we're going to run in narrow sliver states. >> yeah, they don't expand the electoral map. >> now trump gets to open up the rust belt, maybe the n

if on our battleground map, if democrats could hold nevada and wisconsin, then if you're secretary clinton or bernie sanders, floridald give you over the top. that's why this map is so competitive and so hard. the hill is steeper given the last two leches for republicans. if donald trump could hold florida, that makes it a for the interesting map, but donald trump has to go in -- let's start this way. donald trump would have to win ohio, he would have to win north carolina, which romney carried in 2012 after obama carried in 2008. we're at a tie. 253 to 53. this is how a competitive election could play out. where does the state of virginia go. one of the classic swing states in american politics has been trending blue in recent years. if the democrats can hold that, now you're up to 266. pick one and you get to the finish line. can donald trump hold iowa? george bush had some success. barack obama won it twice. if trump could somehow take iowa, there you are, 256, and we come down to two smaller states. democrats will tell you, they believe colorado is coming their way. traditionally been a battleground state. the d

four years ago, the republicans talked about florida, talked about virginia, and colorado, and talked any nevada. pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, iowa, wisconsin. these are the states with more white populations. it is not any winning over latinos, it is blue collars. >> i can't believe we are thinking any this. we are already thinking about this. in part, that is the way the two remaining democrats fight, who fares better against trump. >> melting down. >> i will remind you, he envoked the fight for 20, 20. >> one hit wonders for 40. that is a stunning look at the map. of course, the map as well. as anyone. here, we slide into general election territory. >> we do. mechanically, ready to run, probably circles around the republican party and trump's campaign in the idenity idea. single women in virginia. hitting different swing, donald trump will run it on, your gut feeling. that is what his campaign has been around hillary can't assume to win it the way obama d she needs to borrow bill clinton a ability to be a gut politician. you saw a glimpse of it in her attempt to connect with that coal miner, she has a lot of work to do. democrats, not fu

organizations for the general election in these eight states, colorado, florida, nevada, new hampshire, north carolina, ohio, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. eight states. building up the organizations in those states. hiring field organizers. making sure those state operations have what they need for the general election. and that will be music to the ears of democratics. now that they have settled on their candidate, donald trump and democrats are still in this contested broil on this side. it's going to be music to their ears to hear that it's starting. it's going to be music to the ears of the democrats specifically in those eight states especially because in six of those states they've got republican incumbent senators who are up for re-election this year and who the democrats would very much like to take their seats away. so millions of dollars in new funding, lots of new field organizers hired, beefing up state organizations. that's all getting under way. sanders campaign aggressively criticized hillary clinton's campaign for forming the fund-raising with dnc. sanders criticizing the clinton folks not having enough money they were

florida. terri is in fox lake, wisconsin. tell you about the middle class life in fox lake. caller: middle-class life, i don't know. i got married at 18, had my first child in nine months and days later. cans,a job at american getting $3.30 an hour, but they had a layoff. so i have a solicitor's job, which pays a dollar -- $1.10 an hour. maintainingssed by and having a second job. my wife working. we were raising three children. the middle-class kind of snuck up on me. i got promoted, worked hard at what i did. i was very, i took all of these one, andot for number to get those promotions, and i got promoted up to a nice middle-class, what i considered a middle-class job. the gentleman earlier on today talk about reagan. reagan was terrible for people who had government jobs, because i don't have social security. i have not been able to get social security, never was able to. reagan economics took it away. if you have a government pension, worked in a factory and a pension they did not take away social security, but any kind of government job, you are without social security.

wisconsin, mr. rooney of florida, mr. veasey of texas. young athletes have been disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic. as lessent males who played sports are twice as -- adolescent males who played sports are twice as likely to abuse opioids than nonathletes. writing a prescription for opioids in a population that may not fully grasp the risk associated with the drugs can be dangerous and lead to unintended negative outcomes. h.r. 4969 amends the public service -- health service act to direct the secretary of health and human services to study what resources are available to youth athletes and their families regarding the dangers of opioid use and abuse. nonopioid treatment options and how to seek additional addiction treatment. the secretary would then be required to report the findings and work with stakeholders to disseminate resources to students parents and those involved in treating a sports-related injury. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pr

not just the usual battlegrounds like ohio, florida, virginia, but others, more blue states like michigan, minnesota, and wisconsin. states that have not voted for a republican since, i don't know, the '80s or longer. the associated editor of the "wall street journal" is here. he thinks he has room to work. >> he may have. he has appealed to a lot of independents. he has appealed to a lot of people who have lost jobs, manufacturing jobs that have gone abroad. there's a certain argument that is slice of the bernie sanders vote that similarly feels economically disenfranchised, kind of nobody watching out for them, might shift to somebody like trump who has sounded that bell during the campaign. >> but he's offered nothing in the way of policy to fix it. not a word. they don't seem to mind that a bit. >> yeah, we haven't heard -- but nonetheless, he's opening up offices. he's been behind on the national superstructure for a campaign for a long time, right? you know, up until now. they're just really building it out. clinton already has that in place so she has an advantage. but it is notable. as you said, traditiona

the people sitting in a working class community in virginia or florida or ohio or wisconsin or michigan of person who is deciding between donald trump and hillary clinton. >> even the focus on donald trump hillary clinton fighting on bernie sanders. she's opted out of a debate in california. bernie sanders is hitting her hard for doing that. we'll talk about in a few minutes. >>> the secretary of veterans affairs is under fire after down playing veteran wait times comparing it to waiting in line at a disney theme park. that story and more ahead on "morning joe." soon. i like the bride more than the groom. turquois dresses... so excited. did all her exes get invited? no one's got moves like uncle joe. ♪ should i stay or should i go? ♪ when it's go, book with choice hotels and get a free $50 gift card for staying just two times. book direct at choicehs.com. you always have a choice. explore your treatment options with specialists who treat only cancer. every stage... every day.... at cancer treatment centers of america. learn more at cancercenter.com/experts amazing sleep stays with you a

additional flooding in the next several days, severe storms across parts of texas extending to wisconsin and even florida and damaging winds and lagger hail and isolated tornadoes possible during the day today. the big story what was tropical depression bonnie, moisture up and down the east coast. most of the rain now forecast to impact portions of north carolina through the next couple of days here with several inches of rain in the forecast. otherwise it's just going to start a muggy start of the day across parts of the northeast. maria: maria molina with the latest there. another failed missile test for north korea. cheryl casone with the details. cheryl: good morning, maria. according to south korean military, north korea failed missile launch today. a medium-range missile and if confirmed the fourth time that north korea has tried and fail today launch this type of missile. meanwhile this morning cincinnati zoo director standing by his decision to kill the silverback gorilla after 3-year-old fell into its enclosure saying that there's no doubt that the boy's life was in danger. >> people who questio

if on our battleground map democrats could hold nevada and hold wisconsin, then if you're secretary clinton or bernie sanders, florida get you over the top. that's why this map is so competitive, so hard. the hill is steeper, if you will, given the last two elections for republicans. if donald trump could hold florida, that makes it a more interesting map. but then donald trump has to go in, well, let's start over this way. donald trump would have to win ohio. he would have to win north carolina, which romney carried in 2012 after obama carried in 2008. so where are we mao? i didn't do that on purpose. we're at a tie, 253 to 253. this is how a competitive election could play out. so where does the state of virginia go? one of the classic swing states in american politics has been trending blue in recent years. if the democrats can hold that, now you're up to 266. pick one and you get to the finish line. so can donald trump hold iowa? george w. bush had some success. barack obama won it twice. if trump could somehow take iowa, then there you are, 266-259. and we come down to two smaller states. now, democrats will tel

make it more difficult for him to get a total like pennsylvania, wisconsin, certainly ohio will be a battleground. what can they do in floriday will start super pac advertising? this is still a work in progress. they do have a primary campaign they still have to run. so she has to concentrate on pushing forward to make sure she can get that done before she can really go after donald trump. mark: great story, thank you so much. up next, a republican congressman gives us his update on the great gop unity project 2016. ♪ ♪ mark: with us now from capitol hill is david jolly, republican congressman from florida, who does not yet have both feet on the trump train. he is also trying to become a senator. thank you for joining us. david: you got it, thank you for having me. mark: where do you stand on your own with public deliberations of whether you'll be enthusiastic for donald trump rather than just or him because he is not hillary clinton? david: i am not there yet. i hope donald has the ability to unify the party, truly unify the party by november. but my issues are conservative issues. in addition to tone, it is paying off mone

wisconsin. >> not one. even if he were to flip, pennsylvania, virginia, florida. he still loses.ou have a democratic built in advantage in terms of the electoral college. donald trump is the least effective republican right now to change that electoral map. >> i know you are not a big trump fan. is there a path to 270 electoral votes? >> there is. it's an ugly path. let's start with this. the favorable/unfavorable and clear politics for donald trump is 28.4 favorable, 65.4 unfavorable. 37-point deficit. >> her un -- >> i will get to that. 38.4 favorable for hillary clinton. 54.9 unfavorable. 16.5 deficit. they are both in bad shape. both upside down. that points to the only way to win for trump is to make hillary clinton worse than he is. that's difficult. remember, by the time we get to the conventions, july 18 and july 25, about 80% of the campaign will have been over. and once these opinions are in place, they are difficult to change. one final point. in the latest "wall street journal" nbc poll, you liked the last one. clinton's negatives are 56% negative, 42% very. trump's a

to be tough under any circumstances, places like pennsylvania and illinois and wisconsin and new hampshire and ohio, florida to be especially tough with a nominee who could face particular difficulty in blue places, even if he can turn out a blue collar, improve among blue collars -- >> what about john mccain, facing tough situations in arizona? >> mccain has said he will support the republican nominee. not in the same place as paul ryan. which surprises a lot of people. i think on foreign policy, let's be honest. john mccain is closer to hillary clinton than he is to donald trump. both internationalists, both have a more activist role in syria. donald trump is much more of an american firster. not quite isolationist. >> hillary clinton didn't insult his service. >> exactly. >> as pow. >> partisanship is serious and john mccain is in a tough election. he is worried about hispanics in arizona coming out in high numbers for his democratic opponent. >> mobilizing hispanics right now largely as the result of anger towards donald trump. >> he could be a -- >> stand by. just want to remind our viewers to tune in

and in the house we've got two and now we add iliana of florida, bob dold, richard hannah of new york and add congressman reed hribal of wisconsin. we have spoken with all of their offices today, they have all confirmed that they should also be crammed into that midsize sedan or station wagon previously holding all of the republican party in congress who is against donald trump. because there are now nine of them confirmed being no to trump republicans. we are going to have to get them a bigger car. turns out they would not all fit in a station wagon. they would fit in a chevy tahoe if you got the one with the third seat in the back. as long as they have no baggage, these nine members of congress, this brady bunch, in the proverbial chevy tahoe, that is the sum total what we know so far. in terms of the split in the republican party over donald trump becoming that party's presidential nominee. these updated numbers mean the no to donald trump caucus is roughly 3% of congressional republicans. oh, how will the party survive. this terrible schism. i should say if you are a republican member of congress or republican member of the

wisconsin, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania. call it the rust belt battleground. even if he wins floridaer of the traditional swing states, it's a very narrow path to the presidency without taking at least one of these rust belt states. trump's speeches seem taylor made for the working class rust belt, middle class tax cuts, america first world view. he'll tell you he's going to win in the midwest. a new online bloomberg poll now says otherwise. among those likely middle class general election voters in the four states, clinton head trump 46-39. not out of the extraordinary lead for clinton, but still a lead. we'll show you the map again. it's a long way to go until lex day. the rust belt battleground map is key if trump is going to make this electoratelely a close election in november. ay experts. i'm a police officer. paramedic. the value of nissan's... [safety beeping] intelligent safety shield technologies. whoa! like forward emergency braking that could stop your car for you. save even more with holiday bonus cash this memorial day, during nissan's safety today event. for a limited