bigly?mmy: chris christie got excited because "win bigly" was his campaign slogan. >> steve: are you serious? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: win bigly. >> steve: win bigly. >> jimmy: win bigly. of course, the other big story is that ted cruz dropped out of the presidential race last night, just a week after -- [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] just a week after announcing carly fiorina as his running mate. carly said she was disappointed that it was over, but still excited to lay off the campaign staff. so i mean, she's like -- that's what she does. [ cheers and applause ] still got it. ted cruz gave a big speech last night with his wife heidi by his side. it was a rough and often awkward campaign for them and it had a fitting ending. check out what happened after cruz finished giving his speech. watch. >> for the presidency right now -- >> jimmy: wait. wait. oh, yeah. [ laughter ] proof that he really is the zodiac hugger. >> steve: what! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: can't stop -

bigly.did you just say bigly? >> that's right. bigly. and i'm going to be the bestest, most fantasticist president ever, it's going to be huge cal. >> okay. >>> finally this morning a settlement has been reached in the $10 million defamation lawsuit filed by sean penn against precious director lee daniels. it came after daniels accused penn of domestic violence referencing rumors from his marriage to madonna. he defended actor terrence howard after he admitted to striking his ex-wife. penn has accepted daniels' apology and accepted his donation to his charity that he founded. >>> coming up on "morning joe," republican leaders are forced to come to terms with donald trump as the party's new standard bearer. we'll tell you who's with him, who's not, and everything in between because "morning joe" is just moments away. you live life your way. we can help you retire your way, too. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase. so you can. financial guidance while you're mastering li

we are winning bigly. [ cheering ] and all of those people were defe defeated. oeg? they were defeated. some don't like me very much but that's okay. believe me. listen to this. 66 -- it was reported just yesterday 66,000 negative ads. 66,000. i said, how can i win an election? every time i turned on a television, it was a negative ad. mostly phony. mostly phony. not all, 100%, but mostly. 66,000, $100 million, more than that, of negative ads against me. okay? and you know, when i'm rough with people, they say you didn't treat jeb bush nicely. guy took $12 million of ads against me and they were nasty ads and they weren't true. that's okay. look, look, we have one person left. she is a total lightweight. believe me. she is not, you know, i watch her speaking. she always uses the teleprompter. i watch her speaking. we are going to win north and south and east and west and i will never say this, but she screams. it drives me crazy. i didn't say it. i can't listen. she goes, and donald trump is a terrible person. and he wanted to buy housing when it was at a low point.

we're going to start winning again and we're going to win bigly. >> republican national committee chairman reince priebus called the real estate mogul the presumptive nominee and asked the party to unite behind him. >> hillary clinton called for supporters to chip in if they don't want to let him become president. >>> a 5-year-old plan of lionel messi has fled with his family to pakistan after receiving threats from the taliban. he became an internet sensation earlier this year after he was photographed wearing a messi jersey. he became known as "little messi." but his father says the boy's fame has caused problems. >> translator: we received a lot of telephone threats and also written threats. that's why we left afghanistan. >> muhis relatives said they accused him of playing soccer instead of studying islam. the family became concerned about his safety. sports were band in afghanistan during the taliban's rule. >>> many creative people dream of selling their works only, but turning a hobby into a business is not easy, despite all the shopping platforms available. help is at hand, though,

bigly? that's right. bigly. and i'm going to be the bestest, most fantasticist president ever. it's going to be huge! >> i can't believe it, you actually could be the next president. >> believe it. because now that ted cruz dropped out, there's only one man standing in my way. >> you mean john kasich? >> oh, hillary. >> oh, mike drop! >> that was really funny. and that sounds just like president obama, doesn't it? that was a good impersonation. >>> meanwhile, heather sounds exactly like heather. >> good morning, everybody. hope you're off to a good day. remember when the former president of mexico said this about donald trump's plan to build a wall? >> i'm not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. he should pay for it. he's got the money. >> well, this morning he is now apologizing and extending an invitation to donald trump to visit mexico. >> what about the other way around? i think it is very important to invite donald trump to come to mexico and to learn about the real mexico, that is th

and winning bigly. >> did you just say bigly? >> that's right. bigly.bestest, most fantasticist president ever, it's going to be huugggee rks. >> hugeical. >> i can't believe it, you actually could be the next president. >> believe it. because now that ted cruz dropped out, there's only one man standing in my way -- >> you mean john kasich? >> no, hillary. oh, mike drop. >> speaking of mike drop, watched your speech at the correspondence dinner, it was lars. >> i watched your speech on foorn policy and the feeling is mule chul, buddy. >> thank you for praising me. i totally love it. >> that's so good. they both do pretty impeccable impressions there. >> six months until election day in november. we've got a lot more of that coming. >> that's great. >>> well, the presidential election picture in november now becoming clearer. trump's assent so far has been unprecedented, it is historic. it the clinl ton campaign and the democrats, are they underestimating trump? we'll talk about that. when consultant josh atkins books at laquinta.com. he gets a ready for

but he went after her as he might say, bigly. >> we have to get your governor to get going, she's got to do a better job, okay? she has got to do a better job, she's not doing the job. hey, maybe i'll run for governor of new mexico? i'll get this place going. >> this looks like a remarkable minute long rift against a governor popular in new mexico and nationally as well. >> if you go back to 2012 and re-reince priebus and rnc, what republicans need to improve to win the white house, susanna martinez fits that description. >> checks almost every box. >> more approachable to women, more approachable to hispanics. here she is this star inside the republican party for some time where she is the head of the republican governor's association. she was the one surrogate nationally chris christie brought into new jersey to be a validator and campaign for him in 2013. this is the model of the kind of outreach that republicans had hoped to do in order to win the white house and donald trump is clearly offendsed she hasn't supported him yet. goes on the attack and does a complete takedown for som

and quote, we're going to win bigly.cs, he predicted that hillary clinton would be a poor preside president, and a lot to get to, including but not limited to chris matthews in washington. chris. >> well, brian, it is still a free country, and you can say merry christmas and always have been able to say merry christmas. i don't know what that exactly is about. let me say i thought that was a very low-key victory speech given the fact after this year of campaigning in a very major, i mean, exciting campaign so far, he's won the nomination of the republican party. the keys to the city were handed to him by reince priebus in the tweet. it's over, and yet it didn't seem like a resounding victory speech. he did do a lot of conventional things. he thanked everybody, carly fiorina, ben carson, governor christie, all his staff people, corey lewandowski, hope hicks, paul manafort. it was a traditional thank you, but it didn't have the drama or the magic effect of a guy who just won the republican party nomination. i was surprised

we are going to win bigly and save our 2nd amendment. and as you know, and as you've heard, the nra endorsed me three days ago. we're going to win, win, win. you're going to say to me, mr. president, we can't stand it anymore, we're winning too much, we can't take it. and i'm going to say, i'm sorry, we're going to keep winning because we are going to make america great again. >> new national polls show donald trump is surging against his likely general election opponent, hillary clinton. now they're in a dead heat. earlier today, i asked the co-author of "rediscovering god in america," former speaker of the house, fox news contributor newt gingrich about the race for the white house. take a look. speaker gingrich, great to sit down with you for a few minutes. donald trump seems to be on a roll lately. he's very confident. keeps hearing the speeches. he's looking forward to overtaking hillary clinton in the real clear politics averages. what's he doing right? >> couple things. first of all, he's brought more and more republicans together

we're going to start winning again and we're going to win bigly believe me.started watching all of the different networks i could see immediately that we were doing very well, and it really looks like a massive victory and looks like we win all 57 delegates. and i must say in staying in various places in indiana, we had -- i turned on the television and all i saw was negative ads, negative, one after another after another. and i called my people, and i said, how can we win? it's just constantly. it was the same as florida. you know there have been 60,000 negative ads. i got it right from you folks. 60000. in fact, two weeks ago it was 55000. now it's 60,000 negative ads, most of which are absolutely false and disgusting. and i said how can anybody endure this? i had one evening two nights ago where literally they had five ads on in between segments of a show that i was watching. i said that's just incredible. and the people are so smart. they don't buy it. they get it. and tremendous amounts of money was spent. millions and millions of dollars. they were comp

when i'm in charge, america will start winning and winning bigly. >> did you say bigley?. >> bigly. >>> welcome back at the top of the hour. we have chairman of african-american studies princeton universities and on capitol hill political reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst robert costa. >> good to see you. we're following comings and goings. what have you been hearing over the past 24 hours from republican establishment figures in that building behind you. >> i spoke to dozens of them yesterday. my sense, joe, is that they are moving toward trump. not always an embrace, not enthusiastic but there's an acceptance he is going to be the nominee. there's a sense despite all his vulnerabilities and poor poll numbers across the country he may be able to bring out democrats and independents. that's the silver line in my reporting. >> do you get a sense, they are afraid to run with him on the top of the ticket as some have said through the primary season or do you get a sense that some senators or congressmen, women think he may not be such a hindrance

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