speaking to cnn about the general election fight in front of him. >>> hillary clinton taking aim at donald trump speaking with cnn about the presumptive republican nominee and the democratic primary challenger she still can't shake. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday, may 5th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. donald trump has cleared the field. he is the presumptive republican nominee. even so, he is on the campaign trail in west virginia. trump officially the last man standing after ohio governor john kasich dropped out less than 24 hours after ted cruz. donald trump says he has his eyes fixed on november. >> do you think the general election campaign already started? you versus hillary clinton? for all practical purposes, bernie sanders is out? >> i think what has happened is a flip. i thought i would be going longer and she would be going shorter. she can't put it away. i put it away. she can't put it away. i thought i would be out there and she would be campaigning against me. i'll be campaigning against her. >> the general election c

right now they want to set the path forward for their general election, the battleground state staffers, the spend, how they're laying out their general election plan is what they're doing right now. as jeff said all they care about is the general election but they can't put all of their money there and foe kes all of their financial and staffing resource there is until they know what they have to do with california. there's a lot of frustration within the campaign right now of we're ready to shift entirely not just in our message but also on our finances and staffing and we just can't do it yet as long as california is still throughout. i think that's why kentucky matters so much. they want kentucky in a way that could put them over the top if you add super delegates in and say we've won this already, let's start shifting everything. >> they want to look at the battleground states. we have the quinnipiac polls from florida, from ohio, from pennsylvania, hillary clinton versus donald trump. in ohio donald trump is up which is something that caught a lot of people by surprise here. this

we'll fire up the big board for our first official general election preview. you're not going to want to miss that. that is just a minute from now and rounding out our agenda this morning, getting the party to unite. >> i've gotten a lot of calls from people that were far more brutal than ted was and they want to join the team. in fact, i said to them, how can you do that after what you said? they said don't worry about that. that is not a problem. they're politicians. >> the voters in the republican party choose donald trump but some of the parties long time leaders still insist he is not their guy. will they fall in line or will they hold out all the way until november? we're going to talk to the republican national committee's chief strategist shawn spicer. that is still ahead. we begin with our top story. the republican party becoming donald trump's party and all those dreams of a contested convention, they have now evaporated last night with that dominating performance from donald trump in the hoosier state, nearly all the vote now counted in indiana. look

trump campaign tell cnn sara murray that today this shift to the general election begins in overdrive. we know that there are already conversations within the trump campaign coordinating now with a republican national committee. making key decisions where to put staffers and beef up in battle ground states. coordinating in a way they haven't done so far. also, a clear pivot toward looking toward a vice presidential pick. they're ramping up their vetting in their search for vice presidential nominee. trump has been clear he wants an insider as a nominee. he's been on the record many times saying he wants someone that understands the washington system. at the same time, donald trump still has to focus on campaigning and aids say he'll continue doing that going forward but clear that the trump campaign now very clearly shifting now into the general election. >> all right. sun sunlen. one guy is saying i'm still here! john kasich is still running for president even though he now is running fourth in a two-man race. he's fewer delegates now than marco rubio does. yet, as

the campaign is suddenly making a hard turn to the general election. she is sharpening her battle plan for trump and intentionally choosing two words to describe him. she said the two words again and again when she sat down yesterday with anderson cooper. >> i don't think we can take a risk on a loose cannon like donald trump running our country. donald trump said it is okay for other countries to get nuclear weapons. i think that is dangerous. he has said wages are too high. i think we need to have a raise for the american people. raise the minimum wage. get wages going up. when he says women should be punished for having abortions, that is just beyond anything that i could imagine. i think most women can imagine. >> he did walk that back. >> he's a loose cannon. >> reporter: as she uses the words loose cannon, he is calling her crooked hillary. he starts with advantages. leading trump by 13 points in a new cnn/orc poll. with all of the republicans out of the race here, sanders is the third wheel. he says he is staying in through california and the con

>> does the presidential election and the way that pennsylvania shakes out help or hurt you as you head to the general election? >> i think it's very positive, because there's such a stark contrast when the way our presidential candidates have been conducting themselves and what's unfolded on the republican side. and i think if you're a voter, and you care about vision, if you care about ideas, if you care about solutions to tough problems, as compared to just ugly and divisive rhetoric, then you're going to be standing with democrats. in the fall. and i think that's vitally important for the future. >> does that mean riding hillary clinton's coattails so to speak, assuming she becomes the nominee? >> i would be proud to stand with hillary clinton. i had the great opportunity to work with her when i ran a major office in the clinton white house. i saw her as a person who brings people around the table, rolls up sleeves and makes sure that we leave the rhetoric aside and get it done. that's very refreshing. >> you know, a lot of your campaign ads featured mentions of your large philadelphia family. i w

will he pay the price in the general election? ming up, look back and a look forward to this dramatic 2016 race after this break. ♪ mark: welcome back. our next guest was with her before it was even trending. the chief strategist for the hillary clinton campaign, thank you for coming. 's name off ofump his candidacy. if he was able to significantly improve his standing, what kind of achievement with that the in the annals of politics? if i had wings, i could fly. i gets an enormous uphill climb for him because he is extremely well-known. the definition around him right now is of his own making. this did not get put on him by any opponent. he has created themselves. when you solidify things on your own efforts -- let out thatwill he could have a standing good enough to win? anything outt rule completely, but when you look at how this has built up over time and how solidified it has been, if you look at when he started talking about running for president in the things he's been saying over the last four or five years, these ratings h

when you win in a closed republican primary, that's not who votes in the general election. and the people who didn't vote in california, many more of them are latinos and people of color and low-income people. they're not going to donald trump. they're going to vote for hillary clinton or bernie sanders, who will stand up for the rights of everyday people, everyday working people without using that vile, sexist, racist, eth nisist language. >> what about that point he makes that you can't just turn the page on what has been said, that it will come back and haunt him? >> well, i think that everybody has heard all of the negative stories about donald trump as we were saying in the earlier segment that could be said. jeb bush said that you're not going to be able to offend people on your way to the presidency, and look where jeb bush is right now. you know, ronald reagan was called a teflon president, and i think that -- and the reason he had that moniker was because he was able to say things that other politicians weren't able to say. i think donald trump is a completely diffe

. 10% of eligible voters voted in the primaries. general election is a totally different beast. >> according to the polls as many as three-quarters of women nationally do not like donald trump and it's hard to see how he fixes that by going after hillary in this way. on the other hand, the way that hillary is going after him does have some democrats nervous she's walking into his trap. she's saying he's risky and unpredictable. that's basically his platform and she's selling herself as the status quo candidate. she's saying vote for me if you're afraid of changing anything. >> right. >> if you want things to go on just go on as they are, the point of his candidacy is he dangerous and risky and might actually change the way things are. >> great point. for all her many strengths and she has many strengths she says establishment, same old same sold and he is new and different. the message he wants to sell. the one message the democrats tried to send this week, at a time when we discussed earlier the republicans are fractured into too many pieces to cou

in the general election, that's not the case.clinton leads or is tied with donald trump in 58 of the 64 polls that have been conducted. >> wow. >> since last year, matching the two of them up against each other. donald trump has only led six times. so right now if you're looking at data to inform you who starts this general election stretch with the edge, it's undeniable that it's hillary clinton. >> that important number stays at 58. next number, 84%. republican voters who say they wouldn't support trump or hillary clinton. >> it seems like a lot given throughout this campaign we've heard about donald trump's ceiling with republicans, republicans who are resistant to his campaign and are never trump people. so it seems like 84% is a. the problem for donald trump is that hillary clinton wins between 90 and 95% of democrats. and given the polarization in the country the fact democrats have had an edge in all of these presidential elections as far as there have been more democrats who turned out to vote than republicans, that is tr

will he pay the price in the bigger america general election? up, a look back and forward at the dramatic 2016 race. right after this very quick break. ♪ ♪ mark: welcome back. #i am withest was her, before it was trending. the chief strategist for the hillary clinton campaign, thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. mark: take donald trump's name off of his candidacy. if he was able to significantly improve his standing with women voters and hispanics what kind ,of achievement with that be in the annals of politics? guest: if i had wings, i could fly. i don't. i think it is an enormous uphill climb for him because he is extremely well-known. the definition around him right now is of his own making. this did not get put on him by any politician or opponent are he has created himself. that is the hardest thing to undo, when you have solidified your image on your own efforts. mark: it is hard, but it -- is winossible that he could with women and hispanics? out: i don't relate completely, but when you look at how this has built up over tim

why go -- why move all the way to the general election when she's still -- yes, the math is on her side, but she's still in a primary. >> well, i think because our focus is on the general election. we're going to let the get campaign and the sanders campaign hash out the primary and we're going to focus on the four states we're advertising in tomorrow and then looking at significantly expanding the map into places like north carolina which we think is going to be competitive this election. >> once you go up, are you never going off until november? >> we are staying up until election day. >> how much money? >> right now about $130 million, which will include not only television but more importantly a lot of digital advertising which, frankly, is how we're going to reach in particular young voters who we want to make sure turn out in this election. >> i did read you guys were originally going to start this after california, your ad buys, but you pushed it up. what was the one reason? >> honestly, we think it's important to start the campaign as early as possible, and, frankly, once donald

the u.s. presidential election in oregon and kentucky. on the republican side, the race is over and attention is turning to the general election. he willmp to have to widen his appeal and bring in voters who might not normally choose a republican. i went to the city of revere in a massachusetts to see if he can do it. as its illustrious name suggests, the city of revere has an independent streak. in 1775, this town for baird the tax by the british in the first naval battle of the revolutionary war. in 2016 they handed donald trump's biggest primary victory in the state. amid clouds of smoke in the local cigar shop, we found little faith that politicians will help working people. what you think you will vote in november? >> republican. katty: for donald trump. do you like him? >> i do. it is also a dislike for her. i think she is everything a politician should not be. katty: unemployment is above average and there is little spare cash. you do not have to spend long in the town to hear resentment for these problems. revere is emblematic of the pressures facing working-class america, specifically white working-class america. in th

according to donald trump, beginning of the general election campaign, now that he is the presumptive republican nominee. trump is facing new challenges, not the least of which he is wildly unpopular among women. in a gallup poll a month ago, 77% had unfavorable opinion of trump, even before he said hillary clinton was playing some woman's card. the question is does trump have plans to change the dynamic? here is more of wolf's interview. >> let's talk about women voters. you'll have to be good with women voters. 61% of female voters, republicans, democrats, independents back hillary clinton. only 35% of women nationally say they back you. how are you going to change it. >> i think it will change, i think it will change rapidly. women want security. women want strong military. they want to know that they're secure in our nation. women want women's health issues taken care of and hillary is not going to do it like me because i am going to make our country rich again, i am going to bring back our jobs, we are going to have a good economy again. which we don't now, we have a horrible eco

although the general election does seem like a stretch. the idea he can look presidential, i find that -- i see that in the press, he is pivoting to looking presidential, like looking presidential is doing one speech. >> mary suggested donald trump is professionalizing, talk about his new finance chair. dan: he is not known in the political fund-raising circles. if donald trump needs to raise half of $1 billion to $1 billion, most people put these armies together over a time of years, a complex process, the idea you can flip a switch and do it under six months. he has chosen someone to do it not known for being able to do this. he may have other access to small dollar donations. at the end of the day, you need to build the kind of resources, you need a high dollar bundling operation to run a national campaign you need against hillary clinton. >> all super pac and web. not going to bundle. mary: i will disagree with you guys. my proof is bernie sanders, ted cruz, they raised money. donald trump's unique capacity to get plenty of earned media

save your vote for the general election. is that wise? >> john, i've been wrong trying to do the smart guy thing on donald trump for a long time. at the end of the day, donald trump marches to his own drummer but i will say this. he's tried to spin this week as a general election campaign. in a week that should have been terrific for donald trump, the wiki clinched the nomination, beating ted cruz last week in indiana, he's had a terrible week. he's been moving around on issues, trying to find his footing,he's been trying to attack clinton and run a general election campaign. that's all well and good but his challenge now is trying to bring republicans together and it looks like this week , his meeting with paul ryan in washington is going to have a lot to say about whether or not he can make that pivot against hillary clinton into a general election. now there's trouble. >> the republicans are about to nominate a whirling dervish and the democrats are about to nominate someone who is steady and reasonable and predictable. i think that's a

with virginia expected to be a battleground in the general election. last time we saw hillary clinton on the campaign trail was friday night in oakland, california. she is attacking donald trump saying he does not have a coherent foreign policy and his attitude is cavealer and reckless. she faces questions on her e-mail server. the fbi has interviewed huma abedin. clinton was asked if the fbi ticketed her team. >> no one reached out to me yet. last august, i made it clear i am ready to talk to anybody any time and i encouraged all of my assistants to be very forth coming and i hope this is close to being wrapped up. >> clinton's purpose here this afternoon is talking to woman and young families about paid family lead and health care. >> thank you, mike. >>> fox news alert taking you to north carolina. governor mccorey about his beef on the law. >> the state legislature and governor believe that guidelines need to be put in place because of the new public topic for government buildings, our schools and rest stops to insure privacy and expectation privacy

maybe it will happen in the general election. >> any idea, again, based on your research here, why has the number of primary voters cast never even reached roughly 50% of the number of votes cast in a general election? >> because so many people love to say they're independents, even though they actually are hidden partisans and vote a partisan line in november, so they stay out. and then i've heard many times over the decades, well, i vote when it really counts. i vote in november. how did we end up with these two turkeys? they didn't vote in the primaries. >> the white house weighed in on what we've been talking about here, the bitter divide between the clinton camp and the sanders camp suggesting both sides will be able to come together just as democrats did eight years ago. >> there are going to be strong feelings on both sides. but i think one of the lessons of the election 2008 is not to confuse the passion in the primary for disinterest in the general election. >> white house spokesman josh earnest a few moments ago. tensio

his biggest competition now, lou, is this really himself transitioning from the primary to the general election seen him starting to make those moves within the past week but he really needs to win over more people in his own party. you can't win a general election without party unity. we haven't seen it before. >> watch paul ryan, see what paul ryan says. that will be big. lou: all right. rebecca, thank you, mike, appreciate it. >> thank you. lou: more election results from west virginia. trump winning west virginia but too early to call the democratic race. house speaker paul ryan says he was following his gut when he aired reservations about donald trump. >> this is my gut. just me being candid. my gut. the other point is a lot of us didn't think it would end this quickly. i was getting ready for an open convention. lou: dog gone the surprises in life. i'll take that up and more with billionaire investor wilbur ross who proudly represents the establishment, and a great american. stay with us, we're coming right back. ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking

also independents cannot break on primary day, they have to wait until the general election. ernie sanders' case, voters for him may not get that chance. back to you. >>> i want to go now to oregon where for the first time in a presidential primary there are no polling places. no voting. voters there are submitting their choice via mail-in ballot. cal perry is here to explain this unique voting process. how are you, man? >> good. so in 1998, oregon went to vote by mail and things got great there. the turnout is fantastic. we've got some turnout numbers for you. let's show you the national turnout first. national turnout, 80%. that's huge. that's 20 points higher than most other states. the problem is how does that affect the primary? you're automatically registered to vote in oregon when you get your driver's license. that's great, very progressive. well, the problem is you have to fill out a little card, you have to sending it back in if you want to be registered in a primary. how many people are filling out that little card? well, 20%, 30% maybe so i think we'll see low turn

looking ahead to the general election, voters warming to the possibility of a president trump. voters would feel if trump became president? more than half would be excited or optimistic. 18% concerned. 24% scared. that's come down significantly since earlier primaries. same question, but much different results on the democratic side. how do voters feel about a hillary clinton presidency? only 16% would be excited. 52% optimistic. 22% concerned. a smaller percentage scared. what about bernie sanders in the white house? more excitement than clinton. 31%. 41% optimistic. 22% concerned. just 4% scared. but an interesting twist here. when we asked who has a better chance of beating trump in november? 54% choose clinton. 43% sanders. sanders wins the state, but clinton gets the vote of confidence for the general election, john. >> all right. thank you so much, christine romans. in case you didn't hear. donald trump won indiana. ted cruz, he lost. he's out. and john kasich is -- john kasich. what's he doing? let's bring in cnn political commentator host of the ben ferguson show, ben f

the question that remains ov the general election is, in a general election, with a different, broader electorate, is he judged as a politician or the way you judge an entertainer. >> you're absolutely right. that's what we saw throughout the interview. when you started asking him about his contradictions and the issues, what do you think about the minimum wage? well, yes and no. he's going to go either way, both ways. the same on every issue you tried to pin him down on. so i think it makes the general election campaign totally unpredictable, except in its unpredi unpredictability, except in the fact trump will run to the left of clinton on issues, to the right on other issues. >> aren't conservatives going, see, we told you he would do this? >> some are, chuck, and they're welcome to their opinions. however, you can't leave on the field the 10 million plus voters who supported this man in the primaries. it's historically high figure. i have to push back a little bit. i don't think it's fair to say he's judged as an entertainer. what he's judged as is a n-politician. politicians are h

we've seen what the numbers are for the general election. ly damaged and the big reason for that is among women. the question is, this is why it surprised people. after the big wins, maybe he changes tone and instead talks this way. is there a chance we're missing something here? clinton versus trump get together on the stage. people see them next to each other. he talks this way and the public reacts differently. is there a chance of that? >> he's got a severe deficit with women but she's got a severe deficit with men. he's hoping to galvanize. when i hear her talking about preserving bomb barack obama's legacy, that's not what i want to vote for, either. i'm open for a third party candidate. let's get a powell, mark cuban. >> could you vote for trump? >> i do not want to be on the wrong side of history so, no. >> i agree with kerry. hillary clinton does have a deficit among men, young men, all men, white men are her biggest challenges and i think what trump is doing here is intensifying that already problem that she has but also potentially

even in the general election thosean't afford to lose people. margaret: hillary clinton can't laurels, rest on her either. if the election were held tomorrow, hillary clinton would probably be the president. election is in november and like donald trump proved by if it'sjust did, even not completely transferable, he's a very good strategist, his feet. people change their minds about things and leave it to the vice biden, saying today it would be a mistake to trump.timate donald john: rick perry last year gave a speech in which he said donald onmp was a cancer conservatism and now he's come out and endorsed him and said he was open to being vice president. for someonehinking like perry? sharpolly brought up a point. a lot of party officials and governors are watching the republican base and saying there something happening here. we may not understand it but we don't want to get so far away it that we lose the potency that could change the republican parts for the worse but maybe for the better. think one of the most interesting parts of the dance

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, where the two parties are, what things look like going boo the general election. >> sure. e pivot to the general, you start to look at a collection of states where, remember, presidential election is a state by tate contest. we see many national polls which are useful. this is one state by state. the democrats have in recent years held on to a number of states that add up to slightly more electoral votes than the republicans have sort of reliably in their corner. which to say that democrats do very well along the coast, new york, california, places with big urban centers. republicans tend to do very well around outthrough the plain states. that's where we start. in the middle of all of that, in the middle, a number of states we usually call the battleground states, we'll track them all. these are places that are more closely divided. where partisanship evens out or tends to be close to even between democrats and republicans. many times you hear them mention ohioa florida mentioned in that sen tones, that's why it started there. >> dickerson: election in america really takes

the major crises that we face. >> reporter: the clinton campaign clearly turning focus to the general election. again, saying they believe their time is better spent campaigning and talking to voters and preparing for the general fight. george. >>> the war between hillary clinton and donald trump is intensifying with donald trump firing off a low blow releasing an instagram ad on monday. hillary clinton for her part not responding to the personal attacks. instead blasting donald trump from the campaign trail. saying if he becomes president, he could bankrupt the country. >> he is a recipe for lower wages and more debt. he could bankrupt the country like he has bankrupted his companies. i mean ask yourself, how can anybody lose money running a casi casino, really? >> donald trump back on the campaign trail. kicking off a four--day tour of the west. new mexico had the highest proportion of hispanics. we will see what his past remarks have on mexicans and what his reception is like. >>> breaking overnight. donald trump clarifying his position on whether guns should be allowed into schools after h

they won't support him in the general election. three more than would be normal. even if he's able to get most of the institutions on board, there are parts of the establishment that are unwilling to lift a finger to do anything for him. >> even if they're not never trumpers, they're sitting on their hands for the most part. >> i don't think it's such a big hit for donald trump if mitt romney isn't out there stomping for him. >> i don't know if it's a big hit for him either. i think it's a big hit for the republican party if we don't see more people being very vocal and saying, are we so desperate as republicans to win an election that we're going to give up our morals. i loved watching -- reading george wills columns, he said it's better to lose an election and build a better republican party. >> than to lose 50 out of 50 states. >> than to elect a donald trump as the country's next president. what do we stand for? >> the george will perspective, which i guess my point is, as that perspective is a deeply minority perspective. and it has been remarkably -- given th

>> it is just the beginning of the general election. i think what's important, we saw him flip numbers in a serious way during the gop primary, things people thought was unfavorable. >> he couldn't get above 35%. >> had a ceiling. cathedral ceiling. >> and they kept raising that. >> what's interesting, the distinction john makes between primary and general, donald trump speaks about the general as if it will be the same as the primary, it is not the same electorate, doesn't respond to the same things. he changed rules but i don't think he can make them the same thing. >> hillary clinton, the attack on her as enabler, do you think it plays well with republicans and independents? >> plays amazingly well with republicans. we have seen republican candidate after republican candidate bend over backwards. i'm a good guy, not a racist. they play the woman card. mitt romney was destroyed. he is the most decent guy, destroyed by the woman thing. republicans are like finally somebody going on the offensive and take the battle to hillary. there's s

can he do the same with general election voters or is that a different electorate? t's a riddle i don't think anyone knows the answer to. the reanswer is the republican base is not going to be enough mathematic will i to win some of the swing states donald trump has to win. donald trump is a very unconventional candidate, we know that. but the map is very conventional. at the end of the day, he's got to win ohio, he's got win florida, he's probably got to wing colorado and in my opinion, virginia. him speaking in these platitudes, i just don't know if he can do it. >> all right. robert trainen and careen jean-pierre. thank you. that's going to do it for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> super happy to have you with us here this friday night. this has been a busy friday and there are a couple of serious stories that are still unfolding tonight as we speak that we're going to be keeping an eye on that we're going to be talking about over the night as more information comes in. one of them is this shooting that happened this afternoon in downtown was

now, we know in the general election, west virginia is typically a more republican state. can we expect to see a lot more of this if clinton is the nominee? >> i think what we're going to see with this -- with these kind of protests, we're going to see these in a lot of states that are very angry and are getting hurt very badly economically. so you're going to see it in some southern states. west virginia, which has been a state that the clintons have campaigned in a lot during their tenure in politics, has gone the other way. things there -- i do a lot of work in that state. things there are not going well. coal has been a problem. i think hillary is going to goetz on the fastest jet possible and probably never go back. it's a state that loves donald trump, and getting over that hump in the primary is not necessary. when we get to the general election, she's got a whole bunch of other states to build that math to 270. west virginia just isn't one of the one she needs. >> of course as we've been pretty much leading on to here, it's looking more and more likely that this wil

what they need to secure to beat hillary in the general election. that's coming up. ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet? >> yesterday the state department found it didn't find any technology whom clinton was secretary of state. then hillary said you won't find that staffer either. turn the car and buddy. >> hilarious. donald trump won both primaries in nebraska and west virginia. brand new fox exit polls said the chances against hillary clinton may be better than any one thought. here to take a closer look inside the mind of nebraska motors is partners always good to see you. i always love the exit posteriorlies. >> there was a frustration with the federal government. >> people are saying they are angry or sdafsed. 9

great for the general election for oregon. ers tonight, though. >> if i lived out there, i'd use one of those drop-off things. i'd be scared if my ballot gets lost in the mail or something. >> there you go. one of the questions for you. do you think it will help the establishment candidate? because people have to go and register for a party, clinton has the edge because she has the establishment and ground game. >> that's an interesting point. you look at oregon on paper and portland and say, was there a city in america more made for bernie sanders than portland, oregon? jeff merkley, the only senator to come out and endorse bernie sanders is from oregon. he can read the writing on the wall. this is sanders country. he doesn't want to irritate those sanders voters. but the closed primary and how those ballots work there was a poll that came out last week that had hillary clinton leading by 12 points in oregon and a lot of people said that doesn't sound right. you may be explaining why that number is something to watch, why hill

we face a person who is sort of an unprecedented person in history in the general election. and i think he'll be clear about that when this primary is over into june. >> that sounds great, but it's not true. he is running -- to me, senator sanders is the most aggressive against secretary clinton. he's won 20 states, 10 million voters and counting. >> sure. >> and he now wants to kick off your platform committee, members like barney frank and former congressman and governor malloy. he's an open warfare with the democratic national committee. >> why doesn't he drop out? look, as long as -- so long as bernie sanders is playing, robin, to donald trump's batman, these guys are waging a two-front war street front against hillary clinton. >> absolutely. i heard that, and that's definitely why her negatives are where they are. but the point here is that i was on hillary clinton's campaign eight years ago. and it was a hard-fought campaign at this point. and then just as the primary ended, hillary endorsed obama and was a strong champion for him and united the party. and there's nothi

>> we'll get started on the general elections. those are contested. they are close. that's been our history for the last several cycles, obviously. what i am going to do is keep on talking about what i want to see our country be and how i want to work to provide more good jobs and rising incomes. i think that most people remember the 1990s of the time of peace and prosperity. i think most people have to draw a connection between the great recession and failed republican policies which donald trump is willing to continue. >> so we are going to work hard and we are going to make the case and i feel confident about that. >> i see a change election and people are talking about wanting a change and don't want the establishment. donald trump is out saying if you were a man, you only have 5% of the support that you have, that you only have the support because you are a woman. think about that. >> he should take a look at the numbers. i am leading him by millions of votes. if we are talking about the contest between him and me before we get to the general election, i feel pre

now it is time to turn to the general election, be a realist. u want to compete with hillary clinton with a billion, $2 billion. >> you don't think that defeats the message. you know, in fact we have him talking about this on the campaign trail months ago. >> i am self funding my campaign. i'm not taking money. i'm for you. >> i'm self funding. i self fund. >> i am self funding my campaign. these guys are all taking their money from special interest. >> i spent a lot of money, up to close to $40 million. still funding my own campaign, by the way. >> me, i am self funding my campaign, folks. all the other guys are getting money. i am self funding. this is a self funded campaign. i don't need money, i don't want money. now i'm self funding, so it's a big difference, folks. i don't care. i am going to do what's right for you. >> he got millions from donors but not from large big money donors. that was something that was popular when he was running, you heard reaction to the statements. do you worry it takes something from him? >> i don't think so, h

an unusual coalition of people to support him through the primaries and into the general election. he still faces a lot of skepticism for many republicans as to whether or not he's the guy who can actually win in november. but as he started this rally, trump said he is the one that democrats really fear. let's listen. >> i just got back and one of the big democrats, i won't tell you who because i don't like to mention their name, but one of the biggest said you better be careful with trump. there are right now 16 people sitting homeelevision and you better be careful what you wish for because this is going to be brutal. and we're going to win, folks. >> reporter: of course one of the big potential vulnerabilities that donald trump has according to many people going into a general election is some of the things he's said about women over the course of this campaign, something the clinton campaign is expected to attack him heavily on. last night in eugene, oregon, donald trump trotted out a line line of attack saying, if you think i've got problems with women, look at yourself in the

donald trump is looking towards the general election now. ning what his first 100 days in office would look like. let's discuss with the panel. erol lewis, david gregory, bus yis first 100 days in office. i want to show you some of the things he wants to do. enact immigration ban on muslims. complete design of the wall of the u.s. mexico border, choose the stream court nominee to fill a vacant seat, establish relationships with republican leaders in washington, overturn the executive orders and key policies. >> all comes from recent interviews he's done with the "new york times." >> that is a lot. some of those that you want to establish good relations on the hill, some of the policies might make that difficult. >> might make it difficult. if you look at the policies, temporary ban, we heard in that interview that wolf blitzer did, the designing the wall. these are very popular with republican voters who have supported him. interestingly, even more popular than the wall is the temporary ban of muslims within ts republican party based on exit