going in focus with mike ozanian, carrie sheffield, john tandy and bruce jackson. 1980. ronald reagan partnered with jack kemp in congress to get tax reform. could trump partner with ryan to do the same? >> the answer is, yes. trump is saying, make america great again.

going in focus with mike ozanian, carrie sheffield, john tandy and bruce jackson. 1980. ronald reagan partnered with jack kemp in congress to get tax reform. could trump partner with ryan to do the same? >> the answer is, yes. trump is saying, make america great again. paul ryan saying, prosperity through economic growth. listen, under reagan the animal spirits were unleashed on the u.s. economy. major blue chip companies, cisco, dell, created under the reagan years. now an app economy with low-wage mixed jobs that pay hardly anything. >> mixed jobs? >> and a third watch. third of manufacturing workers on welfare, david. really bad>> it is awful. john, not to diminish reagan, but before reagan, a couple of years before reagan, jack kemp, a great tax cutter, had this kemp/roth plan and reagan kind of piggybacked on that and used jack kemp to get that through congress. could the same happen with trump/ryan? >> i think it certainly diminishes reagan to mention trump in the same breath and i think that's the problem. define paul ryan and the republicans, run as fast as i can

let's turn to beth furry, nbc.com senior editor, tamra drought, the vp of plss and research and carrie sheffield "opportunity lives." you have voiced skepticism of donald trump. are you saying, it looks like he'll be the nominee? >> it looks that way. when you're competing against a $2 billion juggernaut of free media for trump. trump was complaining about the ads against him. that's nothing compared to the free media he's gotten. so you know, i think that heading into indiana, the polling, as you've been repeatedly showing, it's -- >> but this is what's confused me. what was the message? did you ever pick up the message of the stop trump movement? they say he's not going to win in the fall, so they're trying to make the electability argument. i've seen that argument used against the candidates that excite the passion of the base for a long time. but besides that, what is the argument? >> i think the biggest problem, they didn't have a good alternative. ted cruz never proved to be a palatable alternative for republicans. john kasich, who polls the best of all of them in terms of electability was