picking up two key endorsements, jeff miller and pennsylvania congressman bill shuster. luke russert is live on capitol hill. let me go back and start with john boehner. you hear him saying some choice things about senator ted cruz. these are two men who by the way haven't seen eye to eye for a long time. >> reporter: no, they haven't, kate. i think it's very important that people know the back story here. october of 2013 was arguably the most difficult three-week stretch of john boehner's entire speakership. that was due directly to one man, and that's ted cruz. this was during the government shutdown. ted cruz told a conservative bunch of house republicans to hold out, that if they stuck together, they could get president obama to somehow agree to appeal obamacare. a lot of members thought that was a cam kazcy strategy to say the least. one of the things that boehner had to continually deal with, he would often think he had gotten a deal with the white house, that he had gotten something more conservative passed to be the government funding bill, they would get some wi

the latest today, pennsylvania congressman bill shuster who said donald is a private sector business leader who knows what it takes to get things done. that's what washington needs. it's time for our party to you unite behind trump and focus our time and energy on beating hillary clinton. let me go to you robert. you're in south bend. i'm looking at the list here. trump's got three governors. they're pretty right wing guys. about a dozen congress people and senator jeff sessions. has the gate broken yet? are they into the fort, the trump people? >> the gate is broken with many parts of the republican establishment. at trump's foreign policy speech yesterday in washington i was there. i saw many pillars of the conservative establishment walking up to paul manafort and corey lewandowski and trying to get to know them. >> is it over? >> it was over for a while now. trump was able to establish momentum that no one else could break. as long as he could sustain it, he was able to continue with his message. sometimes off beat. sometimes getting himself in trouble, but still there was a cons

bill. senator shuster is determined to get a bill that does craft privatized air traffic control. that is spin it off into a private nonprofit corporation. and that's very controversial. so if he insists on doing it that way, it may wind up with no bill this year or it will be very hard to get a bill out of the house that's also acceptable to the senate. host: that was my next question. what is the time line? because it did drag longer than expected in the senate. so what could we expect in the house in the coming weeks or maybe the coming months? guest: well, there's a july 15 deadline. i don't think it's a real hurdle but that's when the f.a.a.'s current authorization that's current authority for powers -- to use its powers and programs expires. so congress needs to do something by july 15th. but they could very easily just do a temporary extension for a few more months or a year. so it's not clear that something will happen in this congress. it could. but it's unsure at this point especially since members are going to be gone so much of the year because it's an election year an

trump got another congressional endorsement, this one from bill shuster.eanwhile, the already fragile alliance between ted cruz and john kasich, key to any success the stop trump movement might have, seems to be fraying even more. when asked about the alliance in fort wayne today, cruz denied that there was any collusion between the campaigns. someone later tweeted, "i can't stand liars." john, the indiana primary is tuesday. is the stop trump movement growing or shrinking? john: i don't know it is shrinking, but it seems to me that there were people in neither movement, people who have been holding their fire slowly and gradually, and maybe there will be more after indiana if trump wins. right now, people are going to the trump capitulation side, and that's bad news for the stop trump movement. it is static. mark: it has to grow to stop him, because at its current size, it is not enough to slow him down, wisconsin being the exception. you saw the congressional endorsement today. but a lot of people are poised to give up and throw in the towel on tuesday a

i'm going to invite bill shuster to come out and lead us. all of the presenters. [applause] i would like to thank all of the pulitzer prize winners. [applause] i would like to thank all of our friends from the pulitzer prize institute who came down here from new york. i would like to thank all of the people from the tampa bay times, and especially my great colleagues from the poynter institute. [applause] congressman lewis. if you will join us. if anybody else that would like to come up on stage and join us. feel free. ♪ >> ♪ we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome someday deep in my heart, i do believe we shall overcome someday i do believe. overcome someday. we shall all the free. we shall all be free we shall all be free we shall all be free someday deep in my heart i do believe we shall all be free someday we shall overcome we shall overcome come on, everybody we shall overcome someday deep in my heart i do believe we shall overcome someday we are not afraid we are not afraid no, not afraid deep in my heart, i do believe do

trickling in for donald trump, earlier his campaign announced a few more congressional endorsements, bill shuster of pennsylvania, the head of the house transportation and infrainstruct stur company and jeff miller of florida chairs veterans affairs committee and chris collins one of the first to throw his support behind the front-runner says more of those endorsements are coming. >> you're going to hear the word endorse and strongly support as our nominee the key issue is support. >> d.c. endorsements are nice and all, for trump. the most important one is in the state of legend. the legendary coach bobby knight has been introducing trump and again this afternoon. one would think votes or endorsement, bobby knight in indiana just might have that effect at some point down the line. >> could be. you spoke to the trump campaign tod today. >> i spoke to a top aide who told me they feel really encouraged about the last 48 hours or so which is the tuesday sweep of five states, followed by yesterday's foreign policy speech. the campaign feels that this will start to bring more republicans into the tent

the latest today, pennsylvania congressman bill shuster who said donald is a private sector businessr who knows what

a few new endorsements to roll out, bill shuster of pennsylvania, chairman of veterans affair committee jeff miller of florida and mike kelly of pennsylvania now an ardent supporter of donald trump. manafort had an interesting line about the selection of carly fee ov overyor rena, he says it's an act of desperation but then he said it was a very odd move from ted cruz ahead of the indiana primary because carly fiorina at her time at hewlett-packard was the quote/unquote queen of outsourcing. i suspect you'll hear that line through the duration of the time he's there until tuesday. other interesting things talked about in the meeting with members of congress where they were on the delegate count as kasie mentioned, they still have a very good chance when this go out west to california. other states still left like new jersey, they think they can win there. also, this idea that the nomination of donald trump is inevitable. if you're a member of congress it's time to get on board. it's especially time to get on board if you're a member of congress who represented one of these districts tha

b bill shuster joined by mike kelly of pennsylvania.s we know that state went overwhelming for trump and chairman jeff miller, veteran affairs committee in the house is endorsing donald trump. he met before about foreign policy. he seems to be on board. paul manafort of the trump campaign was at this meeting on capitol hill and said that the members of congress who attended doubled from last week going from eight to 16 and they expect more endorsements to come this week. man afort also told me ted cruz's selection of carly fiorina was an act of desperation and the nail in the coffin for the cruz campaign was tuesday and indiana they feel good about but ted cruz cannot win in nomination. that echos what chris collins, trump's first congressional backer said from new york. take a listen how he makes light of what ted cruz has done recently. >> indiana will be the last nail in ted cruz's coffin, so to speak. we saw the desperation yesterday and heard the terms trying to grab the news cycle for one day in nominating or choosing carly fiorin

committee chairmen: florida's jeff miller of the veterans affairs committee, and pennsylvania's bill shuster of the transporation panel. but the frontrunner took heat for his foreign policy address yesterday. in a phone interview with the "today" show, he was asked about criticism that his plan to fight the islamic state is light on details: >> one of the big tenets of my speech yesterday was the fact that i said, and very, very strongly, that we need unpredictability, we need to be omewhat unpredictable. >> reporter: as for the democrats, bernie sanders was in oregon, which doesn't vote until mid-may, while hillary clinton stayed off the til. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: after big wins on tuesday night, hillary clinton and donald trump have commanding leads in their fight for the presidential nominations. to make sense of the delegate numbers and how they shape the road ahead, we are joined by domenico montanaro, political editor for npr. welcome. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: let's start with the democrats. where right now do hillary clinton and bernie sanders stand

today two members of house leadership, committee chairman jeff miller and bill shuster, endorsed trump for president. trump has the explicit support of 11 members of congress. after a meeting between lawmakers the trump campaign representative chris collins suggested this is just the beginning. >> members are definitely coming on board. there were eight of us that had endorsed donald trump. today we had 16 members in the meeting and others that had other commitments that wanted to come. you're going to hear different terminology. you're going to hear the word "endorse." you're going to hear the word "strongly support." >> after failing to get more than 50% support in any primary before new york state, trump has now cracked 50% in the past six states and picked up more than 60% in three of them. he's winning demographic groups he struggled with, racking up wins in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country. winning half of voters with college degrees. in indiana the next state on the primary calendar, polls show trump leading second-place ted cruz who desperately need

representatives bill shuster, jeff miller and mike kelly. all three are supporting donald trump.y 2 of the 3 are endorsing donald trump. congressman kelly on the right erroneous reports of an endorsement. they wanted to clear it up saying congressman has not endorsed donald trump, merely voted for donald trump and is attending pro-trump meetings on capitol hill. but that is not an endorsement. why would you think that's an endorsement? i don't even know how to spell endorsement. what is going on with this? i find this ridiculous. joining us to decode, elise. great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> as an outsider looking in on republican politics, this makes no sense to me at all. do you have any explanation for what's going on with these guys? >> it really is just the chaos of 2016 and having 16 candidates, fairly strong candidates throughout this whole process. this goes back months and months and months to when all these candidates starting getting into the race over the summer and endorsements didn't trickle in because there were so many differe

bill shuster and jeff miller endorsed donald trump, a third republican, mike kelly said he voted for donald trump. is that a sign that the g.o.p. going to accept that donald trump will be the g.o.p. nominee? the speaker: every little grain of truth. look, the process is going to play itself out. our members are free what they want to do. our members are free to endorse or not endorse. this will play itself, either the candidate will get. and my job is to make sure that it is done smoothly and by the rules and i'm sticking to that. reporter: to follow up on that. thanks for having the children. i'm following up on that. but trump has made comments if 100 or t hit 1,237 or 00 shy it would be unfair. the speaker: rules are rules. reporter: how are the rules -- the speaker: the rules committee decides the rules. and our job is to make sure that the rules are followed to the t in a very transparent way that it's fair and following rules is the fair thing to do. so we'll see what happens. i honestly have no idea what's going to happen. -- rter: mr. speaker, [captions copyright national cab

bill shuster and jeff miller endorsed donald trump, a third republican, mike kelly said he voted for donald trump. is that a sign that the g.o.p. establishment is going to accept that donald trump will be the g.o.p. nominee? the speaker: every little grain of truth. look, the process is going to play itself out. our members are free what they want to do. our members are free to endorse or not endorse. this will play itself, either the candidate will get. and my job is to make sure that it is done smoothly and by the rules and i'm sticking to that. reporter: to follow up on that. thanks for having the children. i'm following up on that. but trump has made comments if he doesn't hit 1,237 or 100 or 200 shy it would be unfair. the speaker: rules are rules. reporter: how are the rules -- the speaker: the rules committee decides the rules. and our job is to make sure that the rules are followed to the t in a very transparent way that it's fair and following rules is the fair thing to do. so we'll see what happens. i honestly have no idea what's going to happen. reporter: mr. speaker. [ind

signed, sincerely, bill shuster, chairman. the speaker pro tempore: referred to -- it will be referred to the committee on appropriations. without objection, the house stands adjourned until noon >> there are 5 million children who have at least one parent who is incarcerated, and we know that one of the few institutions of stability our schools, whether public or private. what can we do to support schools and teachers who have to work with this population, and can the faith-based community play in the process? >> this gentleman here. just wait for the mike. >> thank you very much, sir. i am from the caribbean and african safety conference and my question is as it relates to the incarceration of immigrants, look more specifically at lack immigrants, -- black immigrants, have you looked at the impact that it has on our population? when of the challenges we face, especially as it relates to prisons reentry programs, is ,hat sometimes after an arrest before we can minister to them they are already in the process for deportation.

in pennsylvania, where congressman bill shuster is in a very close race with a tea party candidate.nto a very narrow lead. he is just over 20,000 votes compared to our helpers and who has just over 27,000. one alreadyts, conceding defeat. therrow lead in pennsylvania house race. susan: we're going to take a few phone calls to get your reaction to tonight's results. trump ando donald hillary clinton's speeches. our phone lines will be open and you can send us a tweet at c-span. on the phone right now with us is john, who writes about politics with the baltimore sun. aboutt to talk to you maryland. against ahollen sitting member of congress, john edwards. the winner in this was mr. van hollen. tell us about how this race was fought. contestedas certainly , and with it not being as close as i thought it would be. i thought we might not get a call in this race. there was a lot of back and forth. toards, very early on had establish yourself as a more progressive candidate. .he went after chris van hollen mr. fritze: she really tried to establish herself as to the left of chris van hollen

our transportation chairman, chairman bill shuster out of pennsylvania, he wants to do more. this isn't the end. this is the beginning. but it's a fantastic beginning and one we ought to celebrate $305 billion going back to communities around this nation to focus on safety and infrastructure. it streamlines the process, mr. speaker. the most dramatic streamlining of the regulatory process. it often takes longer to get regulatory approval to build a bridge than it does to build the bridge itself, mr. speaker. years wasted on approval processes that could have been streamlined while still being good stewards of our environmental resources. this bill does that. it eliminates the increasing costs that come with those delays, mr. speaker. the increasing cost that comes from that bureaucracy making sure the american taxpayer is getting more value for their dollar. and it shores up the highway trust fund, mr. speaker. we'll talk a lot about trust funds in this time today. but the highway trust fund was going bankrupt. the highway trust fund didn't have enough money to meet the needs

shuster has more. >> hello! hello new york! >> reporter: in manhattan monday just after new york governor signed a bill to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, hillary clinton joined him for the labor celebration. >> we need to build on what has been accomplished here in new york, and go all the way to washington and raise the minimum wage for everybody in america. >> reporter: but clinton's presidential campaign platform calls for raising the federal minimum wage to just $12 an hour. it's her rival senator bernie sanders who has steadfastly endorsed lifting it across the nation to the level new york has now made law. >> i believe that the minimum wage has got to be raised to a living wage, 15 bucks an hour! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: in recent months while clinton did not oppose the new york efforts, she did say at $15 an hour in general would put too much of a burden on rural areas and small cities. does that include rural areas in up state new york? on this day the clinton campaign would not respond. instead the candidate seemed to take a shot at sanders, saying new york success demonstrates lofty rhetoric i

shuster from this committee, mr. defazio and others for making this happen and for including this language in the bill and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields, the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. gibbs: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mrs. miller, who has fought for years to protect the great lakes. mrs. miller: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you yielding the time and, mr. speaker, i rise today to express my very, very strong support of h.r. 223, which is the great lakes restoration initiative act of 2016. actually as the chairman said, protecting and preserving the great lakes has been a principal advocacy for myself and for the years i started in public service. i grew up on the great lakes. i live near the great lakes. the lakes were more of a source of reryation, they put food on the table for my family. the great lakes are such a proud, proud part of our hair tiff, of our identity. our great lakes, as been said, generate billions of dollars each and every year through fishing, through the shipping industry, recreational

i would also like to thank chairman shuster, chairman upton and chairman hensarling for working with us to advance this bill. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record letters exchanged between the committee on homeland security and the committees on transportation and infrastructure, energy and commerce and financial services. i urge all members to join me in supporting this legislation and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: i rise in support of promoting resilience in preparing for attacks and responding to emergencies act and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of h.r. 3583, the promoting resilience and efficiency in preparing for attacks and responding to emergencies act, also known as the prepare act. before i begin, i would like to commend former emergency preparedness subcommittee chairperson mcsally and ranking member payne junior for their close collaboration in developing this legislation.