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rubio dropped out back in march. this discussion apparently happened just last month that the republican national committee meeting in florida. the source said rubio moved on and added he would likely have demanded some changes in the trump campaign. quoting the source, quote, mr. trump has shown he always leaves the space to walk things back when he needs it. he goes on, with regards to the hispanic community there would have to be things that would have to be walked back. this breaking development comes in stark contrast with what rubio said in the hours after he dropped out of the presidential race saying he did not want to be vice president. as far as the florida senator today, what does he have to say about the front-runner, presumptive nominee of the republican party, minutes ago he talked about donald trump before an audience of foreign policy experts in our nation's capital. >> i don't view myself as a guy who's going to sit here for six months taking shots at him. people know where i stand, how i feel, what

last night that rubio should help save that seat.forcing rubio to think about this a little harder even if he says it's unlikely. >> june 24th. that date might be marked on his calendar somewhere. there is a bit of irony here as well, and i know you know it as well, manu, that the reason that he wouldn't run for re-election of his senate seat is because of his very good friend running in the race as well. that did not stop marco rubio from running against another one of his friends for president, jeb bush. >> that's right. but i'm told in this situation it's highly unlikely rubio would run if lopez cantera, the lieutenant governor of florida doesn't step aside. i'm not getting the sense that lopez cantera will drop out. even if he did, rubio still would have to begin raising a lot of money, have to worry about the other candidates in the primary field, plus rubio lost florida big to trump and he's been criticized for missing many, many senate votes when he was running for president and if he wants to run for president again in 2020 i

night marco rubio was first elected to the u.s.governor jeb bush was overcome with emotion. >> marco rubio makes me cry for joy. >> the two florida republicans seemed at the time unusually close. >> you look up the word leadership, and there's a picture of jeb bush in the dictionary. he led this state for eight years in an extraordinary way. >> so many were surprised when rubio decided to buck convention and run against his mentor, bush. >> but inspired by the promise of our future i announce my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> i know that it's a complicated situation you have with him. you told some people that you weren't going to run if jeb ran, there was a long time ago. and then ultimately you decided you had to do what you needed to do. >> yeah, and it wasn't because it was against jeb. but ultimately i felt passionately that i had something to contribute to the campaign and a message no one else was articulating. this was not just about what i wanted to do next with my life but where the party needed to

and marco rubio is right about that.ow find a way to pull a be rabbit out of a hat and make it all go away. which the criticism was so repetitive, pretty hard to scare it. >> i have the sense that the public has had so much of all of these guys that no one will help him very much anyone that has been in the race so far, that he must be bher seretter served go outside. when senator corker surfaced, you had to say that is an interesting thought. somebody treasufresh. it will be hard for him to get any pop from any of these. >> i think if trump is listening to that interview from marco rubio, one thing that he can take solace in is the fact that he won't go away for the next six months badmouthing him. even though he was obviously sort of grudgingly saying that he said support him, he never said that he would vote for him which is a difference there. so, yeah, i think he can take -- >> not that florida would come down for one or two votes. >> and i think rubio looks for the down ballot races to help out the -- >> that's wha

you know how the campaigns were run and you know marco rubio better than most. >> i know marco rubioks phone calls when he receives them i can't speak to whether or not him and donald trump have spoken. if the report is true, i think it's good that trump is reaching out to republicans like marco rubio because he needs to unite the republican party. i don't believe donald trump can come close to winning if he is unable to unite the republican party. and that starts with reaching out to marco rubio. >> some of the things that marco rubio said about donald trump, unequalified, a con artist, said he wet his pants, talked about hand size. do you think it is possible that senator rubio could come around and end up supporting donald trump? >> again, i can't speak for marco rubio. >> but based on the marco rubio that you were in daily contact with up until march 15th? >> i think he wants to make sure hillary clinton is not elected president, absolutely. and i think he wants to make sure we keep the senate this fall. i expect you will see marco campaigning for pat toomey this fall, rob portma

i really liked marco rubio.ack that marco rubio went on against donald trump were points that were valid, that many of us agreed with, and i don't know how you reverse course there. this is exactly why so many voters are sick and tired of politicians. they say one thing and then they're emphatic about it, you expect them to stand on principle, and then they do a complete 180 like this when it is politically expedient to them. i'm so disappointed. if you go back on his twitter feed, when it was at the height of the primary season, the things that he tweeted, and still there, a con man, fraud, he would be catastrophic for this country. he is no different than hillary clinton. we can go down the litany of criticism. so what happened to that? it has all changed now. what has going on, he is considering possibly running for senate again in florida. they're asking him to change his mind about retirement, and he knows donald trump is popular in florida and may need his help to do that. it is the typical political exped

/rubio, 65%, trump 35%.epresentatives from the cruz camp were sent to feel it out but rubio never expressed any interest. let's bring back our panel, brian morganstern and tara. water under the bridge, doesn't matter or does this kind of underscore a real bubbling up of conce concern. >> i think when you go through the autopsy of campaigns there's a whole lot of things people wish they would have done differently. the marco rubio campaign, i'm sure if there are if we had done this or that, there would be a different result. there had been talk about the unity ticket when it wasn't going so well for rubio but marco rubio at the time we're talking march, nobody really knew that donald trump would have been able to wrap this thing up so early. a lot of us were surprised that ted cruz's campaign collapsed so quickly. people were looking forward to a contested convention. and he's also looking at his own future in 2020. he still has a great political future ahead of his and something else he express was he though

rubio -- i think this was a mistake by rubio.e's very quickly going to be out of the limelight and desperately trying to get back in the game. and it is amazing, this is why i think the story about cruz is so interesting. right? cruz has a place to go now. of all the people that lost, right? he's coming back, he has a big perch in the senate. he's got a big decision to make, is he going to continue to be a bomb thrower the way that he was or is he going to be more of a mature statesman? >> if there is going to be unity coming out of this convention in cleveland, it is going to depend on cruz and his voters. >> he could be the vp pick as well. you never know. >> my money's on kasich. >> or it could be pataki. >> or me! >> you took yourself out earlier. that was just five seconds ago. although today is the day of changing your mind. who knows? guys, great to see you. >>> we are getting a sneak peek at megyn kelly's first sit-down interview with trump after their eight-month future. and of course they discussed the controversy. so,

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won handily over rubio suggest rubio is weaker in florida than we thought. >> the florida lieutenant governor is going to make a run for it himself, they're good friends. trump tweeting shows that marco rubio does by far the best by holding on to a senate seat in florida. important to keep the majority. run, marco, run. >> he has to listen. these are senior majority people. if you cau almost all want rubio to run again because they believe correctly they would have the best chance to hold that seat. he's the incumbent after all. while rubio is citing his good friend in the race, we know how much friendship ask matters in politics. it would be a very difficult challenge in the senate. right now they control the senate 54 seats to the democrats' 46. but you have a sizable number of seats coming up in democratic states, in blue states, that hillary clinton is very likely to carry. something tells me this year we're going to have a lot of straight ticket voting. when people start to vote for trump, they'll vote for all the republicans. when people start to vote for clinton, they'll vote

we'll bring it to you as it happens. >> marco rubio, we maybe see a different marco rubio moving forward saw in the primaries. now that donald trump has clinched the party nomination. rubio is sending signals that he wants to help. >> my sense is i am going to go to the convention. >> you are? >> i don't know if i will have a role in the convention but i have a lot of people that are going there and supporters. >> if donald trump asks you to speak in his behalf, you would do so? >> i want to be helpful and i don't want to be harmful because i don't want clinton to be president. >> donald trump quickly responding to him and says he has no plans to do that. >> donald trump has taken the stage here. lets listen in. >> twelve years ago and did you remember the problem? i think it was running horse. i was going to take it over to a beautiful job. fortunately, i did not do it because there is no water anymore because they sent autothe water out. i would have worked it out. it was interesting. some of the radio guys and one in particular, one of you were here. he was so great, where is that guy

while trump has praised rubio, the presumptive nominee threw cold water on rubio's announcement. >> it's only people who were never asked to be vp who tell the press they wouldn't take the position. >> sources tell fox news that the senator is staying at arm's length from trump because he's considering another run for the presidency in 2020. rubio's inner circle believe that trump will lose in historic fashion in november and rubio doesn't want to be anywhere near around trump when that happens. the new polls suggest that the outcome could be different than the rubio camp is expecting. >>> hillary clinton has all but conceded defeat in west virginia tonight. and is focusing her campaign on the upcoming primary in kentucky. senior political correspondent mike emmanuel has details from louisville. >> expecting to lose in west virginia, hillary clinton spent the day campaigning in kentucky ahead of next week's primary. trying to improve her standing with women voters, clinton has unveiled a new child care plan, proposing to limit costs to 10% of a family's income and is calling for boosting

cruz/rubio 65%, trump 35%.re sent to field it out but rubio never expressed any interest at all. joining me to talk about this and everything else, house democratic caucus chair, javier bacera, a hillary clinton supporter, former arizona gunjan brewer who backs donald trump, amanda carpenter who worked for ted cruz and nina turner who supports bernie sanders. amanda, let me start with you. source familiar with marco rubio's thinking tells me first of all there was never any concrete offer but second of all some of his misgivings, he thought two senates from washington, d.c., teaming up to go after trump would only feed into trump's outsider narrative and b, he thautd the nominee should be able to pick who i thinks will be a running mate to help them win in november and not be stuck with somebody picked in the midst of a heated campaign battle in the primaries. do you think it could have worked, though? >> i think it would have worked. i talked to a lot of people during that time and the run-up to florida and th

marco rubio is retiring from office. he is going to go out and say something nice about donald trump whenever he does it. we are going to run the video of everything he used to say about him. what you're showing the constituents, i don't know when you are telling the truth because you said x months ago that trump was a con man, now you're saying he should be president. >> and there is no thinner plank to be on to be the guy who was belittled and humiliated by donald trump who now goes out humbly in his service. i don't know how that makes you, marco rubio, a strong person, let alone a worthy advocate. >> i mean, trump is turning them all into, are you telling me the truth now or then? >> and then you turn into chris christie who looks like the world's biggest hood instrument. but don't you think it seems like people go from never trump to never hillary clinton, a justification getting in line with a guy who is going to be very formidable for secretary clinton in the fall. >> hugh, do you think there will be the moment wh

but rubio's friend is in the race and he says he doesn't want to run against his friend.m to intensify. >> donald trump used to call him little marco, expect him to enter the race. it it's. >> june 7th is of course still a week away but another anniversary is coming up, june 3rd, 2008, the day that barack obama locked down enough delegates to clinch the nomination in 2008. and for her, i'll be watching to see how she's switching gears and getting herself into that mindset as that date approaches for her, on june 3rd, 2008, obama said you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations. that's when he said when he realized had e would hit the ma number. >> maybe she'll hear this and read that and change her tune a little bit. >> speaking of 2008, i talked to veterans of the p.u.m.a. movement, which is primary unity my -- rhymes with grass. they think the system is broken. and the system is benefiting their candidate this time, but still they point to the fact that they have these people that are really clinging to bernie

on the ticket, but rubio is pushing back on that notion. and the florida senator has essentially moved on, he's not interested. >> he made that clear. all right. jim acosta, thanks very much. just a quick additional note, donald trump has told the associated press he has narrowed his list of potential vice presidential picks to five or six people. he has not ruled out the new jersey governor chris christie. we're working to get reaction ourselves from the trump campaign on that and more. as for the democrats, primary in nebraska that is nonbinding. voters already caucused there giving bernie sanders the win. and this west virginia, it's expected to be a rough night for senator clinton especially this light of some remarks she made about coal mining and coalminers. she's in louisville, kentucky for us tonight and that's where we find jeff zelenyzeleny. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: they don't expect her to come out on top in west virginia. she's down considerably in the polls. and of course the comments that she made in march about

ridiculed rubio during the campaign has now tweeted this.co. that kind of encouragementment. rubio says he would be willing to help the presumptive nominee. listen. >> donald trump asks you to speak on his behalf, you would do so? >> yeah. i want to be helpful. i don't want to be harmful because i don't want hillary clinton to be president. look, my policy differences with donald trump, i spent 11 months talking about them so i think they are well understood. that said, i don't want hillary clinton to be president. if there's something i can do to help that from happening and it is help ifle to the cause, i'd most certainly be honored to consider that. >> talking about speaking at the convention, but the other issue is go he to get back in and run for senate. welcome to you. later on in that interview he started talking about maybe running for that senate seat. it sounds like they're kind of keeping the door crack open a bit. >> yeah, certainly republicans would love for rubio to run for re-election. there is a big group of republican candid

marco rubio, who called trump a con man, who said he was dangerous, now marco rubio says i'm going to go to the convention and if donald needs me -- >> look, my policy differences with donald trump, i spent 11 months talking about them. i think they're well-understood. that said, i don't want hillary clinton to be president. if there's something i can do to help that from happening and it's helpful to the cause, i'm honored to be considered for that. >> you'll see the rest of that interview coming up on "state of the union" with jake tapper, an exclusive with marco rubio. rubio saying, you have to stand on principle, what are you doing here? the degree that he's doing it tepidly, and the democrats seem to have most of their hands on deck, is that a problem for trump? >> on the rubio front, it's interesting to see the party start to slowly get behind him. there are still a lot of folks who are still not there yet. speaker paul ryan for one. he's not ready to endorse donald trump, he wants trump to hear about are no of his policy positions. the real challenge for trump, the question is,

, marco rubio ain't no donald trump.play that card or role in the campaign, he wound up being tagged as little marco as was dispatched in a moment. he always tried to present himself as a more serious alternative to the republican party but here's a very again where i think ambition got in the way of principle. again, i point to how his mentor acted, jeb bush. took a stand, held that stand. marco rubio didn't even take three or four months before he started to walk back what was the never trump movement that he was the person that put out there. >> i wonder if it's former mentor. that's a whole other segment. we'll have to have you back to talk about that. joan, i'm going to stay with you a little bit and talk about pat buchanan. good ole pat came out with a piece in which he talked about donald trump in glowing terms, especially called him the great white hope. let me graed a littread a littl. angry white male is now an acceptable slur in culture and politics. so it is that people see in donald trump someone who unapolo

. >> i'm going with marco rubio. >> your picture of marco is little. >> it is. >> but i he has to winrida it would be a surprise and trump needs to reun any party. establishment is feeling disconnected from him. if marco rubio can forgive donald trump and get behind him that will vote whorz feel completely disconnected from this right now and i think choosing a woman is too obvious and predictable and i think this could be thetic tote get this donald trump. >> can he forgive is the question. >> i novrment i know. >> tom, great mind think alike. >> zana martinez would be the best pick. >> you said martinez. >> i don't think she's able to be convinced. i'm going with marsh ablackburg to back donald trump i thought i was picking a wildcard. >> [ here's what ]. >> i'm alone in my republican pick. >> is that why you rolled your eyes at me. >> i couldn't believe it. >> congratulations. you want to do democrats. >> yes. >> so, democrats you know i'm not sure we're not paging these for both hillary clinton and sanders by the way. >> i know that's true. we went with picking for hillary. >> i'm

urging rubio on twitter, run, marco! jake tapper speaking with rubio on "state of the union." after dropping out of the presidential race whether or not he'd be willing to serve as donald trump's vice president. mr. rubio offers a lot for any ticket, youth, energy, from the battleground state of florida, he's latino. rubio tell me why he will not serve as trumps vp as well as discussing his plans for future. so you're willing to go to cleveland, you're willing to speak if appropriate, you want to do whatever you can to defeat hillary clinton. and you like public service. is the door still closed to being donald trump's vice president? >> it is because, in my view, this wouldn't be the right choice for him the donald i think deserves to have a vice president, he deserves to have a running mate that fully embraces some of the thing his stands for. >> we should definitely think that those of white house cover politics and those of your fans watching this right now, that this is not the end of it for you. like you will -- you think you will likely run if not for president again, s

give us a name, rubio. who are you voting for? some people think his tweets mean he's backing trump and rubio supporters are upset. one respondent, worked my [ bleep ] off for you. you said he can't be trusted with a nuclear arsenal, how do you unsay that? yeah, how do you, do you say just kidding? >> no, you have to say it backwards. then it is undone. >> trump said some things. trump seems to be nice to him now. he said he won't call him little marco anymore. >> marco is in between rock and a trump. i get it a vote for hillary is a vote for hillary. a third party candidate is essentially a vote for hillary. i think what is best is for him not to tweet. why does he have to say who he is voting for. i understand he wants attention, the limelight. i think he is deciding if he wants to run for senate again. i think i heard that on tv. i could be wrong. >> trump tweeted recently. he said marco should run. he has the best chance to run. run marco. >> when you are receiving compliments, you want to be like thanks, dude, i guess i will

were you surprised by rubio's about-face? >> i was. i was surprised by how quickly it came, simply because of the ugliness of the primaries. just consider during this primary campaign, particularly in the late stages, marco rubio called donald trump a dangerous conman, he couldn't be trusted with the nation's nuclear codes, other insults in there that are more fitting or a neighborhood playground argument between kids than presidential candidates so given all that history, i was quite surprised. and donald trump, it goes both ways here because donald trump is somebody who belittled marco rubio, said he couldn't get elected dogcatcher and now he's encouraging him to run for a senate seat in florida so the speed at which this happened was a bit surprising the seven so the question on everyone's mind, why? why did he decide to do this and why did he do it so quickly? >> for margarito given what he said, he regret quite a bit, the attack that he took in the late stages of this primary where he launched a personal attack on donald trump, pu

. >>> so marco rubio no longer in the race. but remember, he's still holding on to his delegates. 171. so where would those delegates go if we get to a contested convention? and is rubio actually warming up to trump now? >>> plus, did you see the fireworks today? the battle between trump and cruz. boy, did it get even nastier today. >> if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he'd say one thing in the morning, one at noon and one at evening, each lie contradicting the test. whatever lie he's telling, he believes. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, and you're talking to your doctor about your medication... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me go further. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, so

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seven ranting tweets and an hour later, rubio also wrote, a long-time friend wrote rubio is betwixt and between when it comes to legs tomorrow at the gym. rubio tweeted that was enough for one night. >>> missed a road, or an exit on the beltway. the national transportation safety board today ruled that's exactly what caused last year's deadly amtrak derailment in philadelphia. the engineer evidently got distracted and simply lost track of where he was. bruce leshan is live at union station with what the safety board says we need to do to keep it from happening again. and quite frankly, bruce, 's a different story, when it's something like that, in charge of an amtrak train. >> right. it's a whole lot of people. they say key to solving this is a safety system that would have automatically slowed that train down, as the engineer mistakenly accelerated into a sharp turn. now, this safety system is something that the ntsb has been urging for years. but congress just delayed the mandate by another three years. and potentially even longer. >> college professor, zaweed nguyen. >> the part that

and rubio was supposed to be this new face of the republican party.e was supposed to take conservatism, make it appealing to a broader electorate that didn't typically vote republican. he was supposed to raise the tone, be more tolerant and open to all sorts of people. trump has moved everything in the opposite direction. so it's sort of a fundamental rejection of everything that rubio has stood for. and now rubio isn't only saying, well, as bad and horrible as trump is, hillary clinton would be even worse. i don't trust her with the nuclear codes either, and i don't trust her to appoint judges. he's not even saying that or laying that out. >> no. >> he's saying that he'd be honored to speak on the behalf of donald trump. >> what he's saying is -- and this is what i think i find hard to watch about this. what he's saying is, i was lying before. or, i am lying now. but i had to be lying at one point. right? like either i have -- i think that we should elect someone who's a lunatic who shouldn't be near the nuclear codes, or i was just saying that to ge

marco rubio had an interview with jake tapper yesterday.port him, but i wonder if we have the sound about marco rubio possibly being donald trump's vice presidential pick. rubio says, uh-uh, i don't want. one bit. listen. >> he's the presumptive nominee at this point. he'd be best served by having someone, not just by the way of vice presidential nominee, but active surrogates who agree with him on his issues. my differences with donald, both my reservations about his campaign and my policy differences with him, are well documented and remain. i think he would be best served by having people close to him in his campaign that are enthusiastic about the things he stands for. >> two things there. number one, that's a statement he's not enthusiastic about the things donald trump stands for. that should not be lost on anyone. the second thing is, donald trump's vice presidential pick, and he says he's down to five or six people, this is really important. this is the first chance anyone is going to get to see about how he makes decisions about th

rubio is just one of many republicans in this boat. for rubio, it's interesting because we know his political aspirations are not gone. he's retiring from the senate in year, but he also told jake that he's likely to run for office again. that could be another presidential campaign, it could be a run for governor for florida in 2018, although that seems less likely. but rubio is someone who has definitely made the. >> caller: calculation that he can't afford to leave the republican team, to support hillary clinton. these efforts to draft an alternate fast fahas fallen sho. so he needs to do something to help republicans right now even if it's not give donald trump a full throat of endorsement. >> and do you think that this effort that he's making, because we really have seen a remarkable turnaround for him will from marco rubio because he really did not respect -- certainly said things that he did not respect trump in any way, but he now is saying that he will be honored if he had some sort of speaking role and platform at the conventi

rubio will win of the primary, that, i am convinced of. i don't think he can win the general, he got a lot of baggage to deal and no, no, i look forward to being a senator after he hated being in the senate. i think that like i said, i think it feels good in the moment. i understand why republicans are panicking of the state of the fl floor and a senate race, if you are marco rubio, it is a mistake to do this. >> and the state of the senate. >> it is regardless of florida. >> rubio improves republican chances a little bit but it is not enough. >> chuck todd. >> all right. >> great to see you. >> tune in at 5:00 eastern and for "meet the press." >> we have a little program note that's on different time. >> it is a formula one and we'll air right after the race. arnold schwarzenegger and bernie sanders. >> a live report from one of the nation's busiest hubs next. right here on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ try your favorite ranch with a fresh taste so crisp, you'll be surprised it doesn't crunch.

i think it's wide open for marco rubio, it would be great for marco rubio, if donald trump wins the presidencybio is young enough to be the incumbent. to come in and say hey -- >> that's a scenario. but dana, there's another scenario. that trump doesn't win this thing in november. is that what we're seeing from marco rubio? that's how i interpreted it. that he distanced himself from trump. >> i see it as marco rubio doing his first interview, which isn't easy after a grueling campaign and a loss where he disappointed a lot of people who are still very loyal to him. i don't think he's making any plans, he's not being calculated. he's just being sincere and he's being principled, saying i got to look at myself in the mirror every night. i'm not going to make a decision right now. there are tectonic shifts in the electorate and in the republican party. how it ends up, who knows, but i will take him at his word. he's not interested. maybe he'll change his mind if he gets a phone call. but he's not soliciting a phone call. >> i agree. greg, do you think cruz is in denial, do you think he's in flat-

i want to go back to marco rubio, though.blicans and conservatives to realize, there will be two people on the ballot this time. donald trump and probably hillary clinton or bernie sanders. but either way that should clarify the choice. why? hillary clinton is struggling yet again against one opponent. i believe had they not cleared the field for her, this time she'd be the nominee. she can't get it done when she has one opponent. senator obama in 2008. bernie sanders now. and i think in the fall it's going to be a much closer race. in fact, donald trump is now pivot to the general election while she's struggling to not distance herself from bernie sanders voters. her surrogates go on tv and say, oh, literally flick their wrists. wrist flickers. oh, bernie won the primary but she'll be the nominee. >> what's the math? >> thereby, abandoning thousands of voters who just cast their ballot. i think donald trump could put her away in the next 90 days. he should pivied to the general election srchlts that light? 90 days you think

then rubio responded with a series of tweets posting, a long type friend in quotations says rubio istwix and between when it comes to whether to do chest or legs at at gym. and according to a source who knows his cousin's wife dentist, rubio could do cardio instead. it is nearly impossible for someone not in office to ever become a successful candidate for president. right? we know who he is talking about there. but what does it say about the perception and frustration for candidates who are people in the public eye when junk's written about them that may or may not be true? >> it's obviously very frustrating. i worked for marco rubio for five years. one of the things that struck me is not only his great sense of humor but how disciplined his team is around him. there were very few leaks out of marco rubio's campaign or out of his team. so reporters struggling with that sometimes find people who pretend that they're friends or say they are friends. we had these unnamed sources that were wrong. the tweets last night -- like the report yesterday -- it was just wrong. that was very frus

this image of what might have been a powerful picture, cruz/rubio, 2016. top officials in the cruz campaign are convinced if rubio would have agreed to be ted cruz's running mate, the presidential race would be a very different one today. the cruise campaign even poll tested a cruz/rubio ticket in five states, illinois, arizona, wisconsin, and north carolina and missouri. the results according to a cruz source, blowout. trump, 35%. representatives from the cruz camp were sent to feel it all out but rubio never expressed any interest. let's bring in julian, a historian and professor at princeton. good to see you. >> thank you. >> a lot of monday morning quarterbacking here. a cruz/rubio ticket. would that have helped stop that trump movement? >> i'm not convinced. as we saw rubio did not do well in most of these primaries including in his own states, i understand what cruz is saying and you ask imagine the possible excitement but you know, it's not clear rubio would have given in that balance and the campaign would pay directly into donald trump's argument

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marco rubio speaking to jake tapper earlier.er these people hedge their bets and this disunity goes on, how much harder does it make for the republicans and donald trump to win the election? >> guys, this is really interesting. i wonder how much of this is fun to talk about but doesn't matter. i don't mean to be rude, but like i don't know any conservative republicans who are on the edge of their seats waiting for marco rubio to give them permission to support donald trump. do you know what i mean? like so we talk about unity of the party, but when it comes to trump supporters, it's really about unity between me, a person, and donald trump, the candidate. that's the unity that matters, and no one doubts that that unity exists. this like vague unity of like bringing marco rubio into it and the other 15 people who trump obliterated during the last eight months, like i don't think trump or supporters of trump even care what those other 16 people want or will do. so i don't know. i don't know if unity matters that much because there

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>> well, again, i think he has gotten long better with rubio, and rubio has made it clear that he might well be willing to serve in this position if asked -- >> that was little marco, the water joke, how do you move on from that? >> come on. these are politicians. >> all right. >> they get over things very quickly when they have to, or when it suits their interests. all about -- >> what do you make our quickly he dismissed nikki hailey and he just -- that was it. >> like any other presidential nominee, he has had relatively good experiences with some and relatively bad experiences with others, and for whatever combination of reasons he considers the fact that she endorsed rubio and sliced him at a very important moment in the campaign when he was hoping to win -- and he did -- south carolina. i can see why he made the decision, and, look, it's not like he doesn't have a lot of other choices. this is the nominee's prerogative. nominees are human beings and they pick people they want to work with. that they have good chemistry with and also someone they can win the election with. >> fair

florida senator marco rubio. former florida governor jeb bush.ies and gentlemen, the republican candidates. >> and dr. ben carson, please come out on the stage. he's standing there as well. dr. carson. >> and donald trump. >> and lastly, we welcome back to the debate stage donald trump. it's no noisy in here. we're going to introduce ohio governor john kasich. >> it is over now they did all eventually find their way onto the stage. the big picture, 16 of them who made it onto the stage lost. last night the magic number of 1237 delegates was hit. the nomination was officially clinched. and as remarkable as it is that it was clinched by donald trump, this is the process by which that happened. this is how the republican party this year became donald trump's to do with it whatever he wishes. and it is arguably a terrible process. and this year it was inarguably a cringe-inducing one. but it produced an outcome that is really serious for this country and this did officially happen. as of last night this race is over. this is how it happened. the ques

senator marco rubio is speaking right now about the situation in the middle east. we're monitoring that. also, senator ted cruz. he's returning to his job back at the united states senate today. we're monitoring that as well. a reminder. trump still needs to capture the 1,237 delegates to secure the republican nomination. democrats are only battling for delegates in west virginia today. it may be a very close race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders there. clinton is holding an event in lexington, kentucky, by the way, right now. kentucky votes in their primary a week from today and senator sanders preparing to take the stage in stockton, california. the california primary is june 7th but there are 29 delegates at stake for the democrats in west virginia. here's how they stand right now. hillary clinton has a 301 pledge delegate lead. now let's take a closer look at how hillary clinton and donald trump match up in some key swing states. the new quinnipiac university poll showing clinton holding a 1 point lead in florida and pennsylvania over trump while trum

neil: marco rubio tipped his hand when he said -- >> i think marco rubio would be an outstanding choiceor vice president. i think he would be an outstanding choice for president, obviously. whoever -- obviously ted cruz selected carly fiorina. i suppose john kasich if he somehow won the nomination would pick someone. but marco rubio is very articulate. he has an understanding of foreign policy. he understands freedom personally and he would be an outstanding addition to the ticket. neil: do you think the economy hiccups or this recoverly slows or reversed. that that might benefit a business like a donald trump in a general election? >> i think that's a good point, neil. i think that's one of this strengths. he does understand business. he invested all over the country and all over the world, and he can say with credibility i think here are the factors, taxes, regulations, permitting, energy costs, quality of the workforce, all the thing that matter in a successful location attracting business and jobs. he also i think is strong on energy issues, and i also think people are looking for a