hillary clinton let donald trump have it. >> donald trump is an unqualified lose cannon who cannot get near the most powerful job in the world. it is up to us to say no. >> she spoke to south bay supporters in san jose. this morning at 9:00, she will have chicken and waffles on embark dough west in oakland. >> bernie sanders will bring his campaign to san francisco tomorrow. he spent thursday in southern california where he talked about the plan to make college tuition tree. many of you saw the vermont senator on jimmy kimmel last night ignoring a question from donald trump asking him in the delegate selection process was rigged. >> what i hope will happen is i would run against him as the d nominee for president of the united states. in i do, we will pete 'em and beat 'em bad. >> sanders will be at the farmers market in san francisco tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. >> donald trump will be back campaigning this california this morning. yesterday he celebrated a milestone in montana posting this photo eating mcdonald's after earning enough delegates to eastern the g.o.p. nomination. >> we had big

hillary clinton let donald trump have it. >> donald trump is an unqualified loose cannon who cannot get powerful job in the world. it is up to us to say no. >> earlier hillary clinton spoke to south bay supporters in san jose and this morning will have chicken and waffles. >> bernie sanders will bring the campaign to san francisco tomorrow spending thursday in southern california where he expect land to make college tuition tree. many of you saw the vermont senator last night on jimmy kimmel ignoring a question from donald trump asking in the delegate selection process is rigged. >> tell them what i hope will happen is that, in fact, i will run against him as the democratic knox necessity for president of the united states. and in i do we are going to beat 'em and beat 'em bad. >> sanders is at the farmer's market in san francisco tomorrow at 9:00. >> donald trump is in california, today, as well, and yesterday this picture on instagram of him in montana. the republican candidate posted this eating mcdonald's french fries and talking how he earned enough diagnosises to win the governor

first hillary clinton specific to hillary clinton is don't let donald trump get in your head.ause donald trump got in the ted cruz's head by the end and ted cruz basically went off on trump. >> how do you do that though? >> it requires a lot of discipline. >> it's great but non stop with twitter and everything i mean that is -- it's good advice but i don't know how you execute it with the way the races are today 24/7. >> he also got into marco rubi rubio's head. rubio tried to fire back and tried to out trump, trump. >> yes and that was the quicket dive to danald ricklees territory anybody had. it didn't fit the guy. little marco is donald trumpald ricklees and once you play on that battle field against donald trump you will lose every time. >> i want to hear what your mom would say. >> my mother normal deangelo fitzgerald okay from west newark, new jersey. >> she always said the same thing to me. my mom is gone now but she used to say thomas, very soft spoken woman, for your britches. i didn't know what britches were. but i know what they are now and you know i think apply to

donald trump now won florida? this is the chess campaign. how do you change the map? can donald trump put these states in play? if so, where does hillary clinton look? let's say donald trump -- i don't think that one we should do that just yet. let's leave this blue. donald trump wins these three. where does trump go? he's going to have to try in smaller states, like in iowa, new hampshire, starts to even out the map. so as we begin the calculations and the thinking about the general election, there is no question for donald trump the first test is change the map and the industrial states that have been reliably blue for quite a long time. if you're hillary clinton, what are you looking at? you think it's possible, possible with a high latino turnout that you might be able to turn arizona. you think it's possible if you can get a high african american turnout and if conservatives say never trump and stay home, you could turn a state like georgia with a combination of high democratic turnout, suppressed conservative turnout. these are the calculations now going on in the campaigns. as i said this. i want to reset and come back to this. you can look at the

numbers in including new details that help explain the fight between donald trump and hillary clinton. it is now neck and neck. let me show you what i mean. the headline, hillary clinton in a newer poll, her lead down to three points over donald trump. a month ago, it was 11 points. now 46 for clinton, 43 for trump. what happened, why is this so much tighter? big part of it is trump bringing republicans home. a lot of concern back then among republicans, could the party unite. look at this, in the last month, a jump of 14 points in the number of republicans who say sner's going to be with donald trump against hillary clinton this fall. he's now getting 86% of republicans. that is the big reason why this is suddenly a three point race. that 86% contrast that to what hillary clinton is getting right now from dwm democrats. clinton still has the campaign with bernie sanders and the polls show some evidence that bernie sanders supporters are resistant right now to supporting hillary clinton in the fall. one of tfof the reasons why the is so close. you look back to put this all in perspective, right now donald trump ge

clinton is going to outwork everyone, earn the votes she needs. she's already gotten 2 million more votes than donald trump has. letbe donald trump and let hillary clinton win the white house. >> while we're on the subject of teaming up, do you think whoever the democratic nominee is should pick the other candidate to be their running mate? >> not necessarily. i to respect the fact that each nominee has the right to pick their own running mate, but as the congressman said, the race is still up and going, news flash, senator sanders is still in the race as much as people don't want to respect the fact that he is in the race and that this is a democracy and it is about choice. i will say about taking mr. trump for granted, you know, there are two ways to run, run unopposed or run like hell and the democrats would do well not to take mr. trump for granted. he beat 16 other folks in this and this is going to be a real, real race. >> now that donald trump wrapped up the republican nomination there's a lot of talk including by him about who his vice presidential nominee will be. take a listen. >> the bushes, the romneys,

clinton and donald trump are locked in a virtual tie. a one-time double-digit lead for clinton is now all but gone. >> my campaign is not going to let donaldo normalize himself in this period. i do not want americans and good-thinking republicans as well as democrats and independents to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy. it isn't. >> as you can see a lot to talk about this morning. our political correspondents are spread out across the country this morning. i'm going to start with msnbc's steve kornacki. let's do some big boarding, steve. where do things stand? >> it's tightened up. in the last couple ofks

donald trump. can clinton do that? >> letting him tousing his way against him. nk she does have to do a little martial arts with i am. i think i would let him defeat. the person that defeats donald trump is donald trump particularly for hillary's voters. s >> we have been saying that all along because i don't think donald trump defeats himself. he has had a lot of success. there are two things to mention, the panel that casey had those are all republican women should be in line. most of them were white, educated women. they should be falling in line behind donald trump. that's a problem when it comes to linthillary fighting back, s does not have to do it. she has a lot of surrogate fighting for her. >> that really boomerang and did hit him a lot. >> i think he's trying to bait it in his debate. great to see you both. thank you for your time. >> i want to give you an update of our polls question. should hillary clinton's response to trump's attack on bill clinton's past. check out our polls on msnbc.com. >> happening right now, marco rubio is talking foreign polic

let's focus on hillary. >> reporter: hillary clinton seems ready to focus on trump too. >> we cannot let barack obama's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. >> reporter: but while clinton supporters are asking bernie sanders to get out -- >> i would like to see sanders try to bring some of his supporters over, as well. >> reporter: he says no concession before the convention. >> the convention will be a contested contest. supporters for ushering in a political revolution with their. >> we have received over 7.4 million individual campaign contributions. >> reporter: over the weekend the president teasing sanders during the white house correspondents' dinner. >> bernie, you look like a million bucks or to put it in terms you'll understand you look like 37,000 donations of $27 each. >> reporter: the president actually made fun of all the different candidates including hillary clinton. he said her attempts to reach out to youth voters was like a relative signing up for facebook. clinton took it all in stride tweets nice job. aunt hillary approves. >> lana zak reporting for us in washington, thank you. >>> mayday demonstrations

compareas asked me to the health care plans of donald trump and hillary clinton. let's be fair, this is what people are covering now. hillary clinton is explaining more than she is campaigning. on your question about comparing bill clinton as a sitting president with a good economy and peace abroad and hillary clinton is not the president. it is a really weak response for her to say, all of a sudden, it is the royal we. royal we.the we reformed welfare, we created 23 million jobs. dan: i agree that this trump tactic will jostle the clinton campaign. honestly, what voters is he appealing to with this message? maybe consolidating the hard right. if he has to do that in late may, that is problematic. who is he speaking to with that? >> i hope eventually he gets her on health care, the fact that she has been in public life for 30 years and has done nothing to improve the lot of women. she has improved her own lot. she got millions of dollars to do speeches. she is not even that interesting to listen to. let's force a two way conversation on abortion. let's show who is reall

i want to play something else that hillary clinton said on donald trump. let'sk obama's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. we cannot let all the hard work and progress we achieved over the last 7.5 years be torn away. >> all right. i'm listening with one ear to ted cruz in indiana and he's talking right now and that's what we're seeing on the right hand side of the screen. he's trying to be optimistic and talking about jobs but let's finish up with the hillary clinton question here. some of what donald trump says, a lot of it resinates with key voters that hilary needs in her camp so she can't talk about how she thinks donald trump's rhetoric is hateful and all. she has to talk about issue issues doesn't she? like trade. like jobs. >> of course. hillary clinton i think one of her problems as a campaigner is she is much more interested in governing and in policy in a year in which talking about policy hasn't been elevated. the rules of american politics are clear. you need to build a coalition beyond your base and reach out to moderates in the middle class an

. >> meantime hillary clinton escalating her attacks against gop frontrunner donald trump. >> we cannot let barack obama's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. >> clinton accused trump of encouraging hate and violence on the campaign trail. >> it may turn into mayhem. riots raging overnight in seattle forcing cops to use tear gas and grenades. >> multiple officers hurt and even more folks raised. kelly wright with more. >> good morning. this was a dangerous flash. it started with protests earlier in the day. you can see things got out of hand. the flash became ugly. molotov cocktails were thrown at them. five police officers were injured including one officer who was bitten. nan protestors were arrested. police chief kathleen o'toole said police made it clear if the protests became destructive to property or violent toward people in any way the police would step in and take action to stop it. >> we allow people to assemble and march even if it is unpermitted we try to let it happen. but when it becomes violent and property damage becomes significant we have to do something and we did. >>

clinton slammed trump over his role in what she calls the insidious birther movement and disavow former klan leader david duke. >> we cannot let barack obama's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. we can't let all the hard work

clinton. mark: let me ask you both about donald trump and then getting back to hillary clinton.sibility the donald trump campaign, what would that be right now? >> who does donald trump one passes vice president. we are seeing a lot of things who backers would like to see as his vice president, but i would like to take -- i would like to see who he truly wants. -- i i were already already know the answer to that, godzilla. thatthink the question people have been trying to figure out for a long time, is what bill's role is and how much they are talking about strategy on a daily basis. how much trust there is. john: how worried is the clinton campaign about philadelphia if it is true sanders could win today. there is a lot of things that could happen. he could win california, what happens? >> because it is mathematically , theyible at this point, are still confident. they are concerned that there could be big protests, that there could be a way of center supporters standing up and saying, no, we are not ok with this. it is unclear exactly what that will be. when clinton was in cal

trump's delegate count 1,000. >> then we can focus on crooked hillary. >> reporter: hill willry clinton being ready to focus on trump too. >> we cannot let, barack obama a's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. >> reporter: while clinton supporters are asking bernie sanders to get out. >> would i like to see sanders try to break from his supporter as well. >> reporter: he a says there will be no concession before the convention. >> the convention will be a contested convention and contest. >> reporter: ushering in a political revolution with their millions of donations. >> we have received over 7.4 million individual campaign contributions. >> over the weekend the president teasing sanders during the white house correspondence dinner. >> bernie, you look like a million-dollar. you look like 37,000 donations of $27 each. >> the president made fun of all of the candidates who would like to replace him in office. including hillary clinton. he said her attempts to reach out to youth voters, sort of like a relative signing up for facebook. the clinton took it all in stride though tweeting nice job, aunt hillary a proves. >>> lana zach, abc news, washington. >>> we've got overnight

and donald trump, 61%, 56%, let's go to the honest and trustworthy poll. are they honest and trustworthy, no. 66% for hillary clintonnald trump. what are we living in? look at that. these are the two people who are left. >> may of 2012, 2008, mitt romney, john mccain, barack obama, unfavorable in the low 30s and upper 40s, two candidate in the upper 50s. america today has nominated or on the verge of nominating two of the most unpopular people you can imagine. within each party they found a slice and broken up within that slice. hillary is in trouble with bernie. she is going to win but the split in the democratic party is profound. bernie is much more popular than she is but somehow she is winning because of the superdelegates. martha: the authenticity factor. people think bernie, love him or hate him, telling what he believes and they think the same about donald trump. donald trump's numbers as unfavorable seem to be improving a little bit. he has his work cut out for him. can he get into numbers you would like to see in the united states of america? >> absolutely. for hillary or donald. >> slowly lower his unfavo

clinton? >> for the first time i think an opponent will donate to her campaign. >> no, i am going to hold you to that. what makes donald trump the best case scenario for hillary clinton? i'm not lettingck to the airport without giving me an actual actual answer. >> he's not the best case scenario. donald trump is a fact bending loose cannon. he gets constant media attention for free. there won't be a day from now until november when trump is on every tv channel. you are going to tell me electing a woman is unprecedented? germany elected a female chancellor. denmark, poland, korea, norway, 22 sovereign states in the world have argued beat us on that. -- have already beat us on this. ok game change guy, in case you actually find yourself writing a third book, there are things you should know. and one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that trump is the best case scenario for hillary clinton. 38% of the people gave her a favorable rating. 37% said she is honest and trustworthy. and 22% of democrats say she is not enthusiastic about being the nominee. she beats trump in a lot of surveys. you ask what makes trump the best case scenario? i don't know what y

is that something democrats will do their best to not let them do that, in the words of hillary clinton, we can't let donald trump and campaign aides normalize himself to americans right now. in circles like the one you work, it has to be a real concern, trump speaking to a lot of independent minded voters, this may seem like an appealing candidate given the unpopularity of his opponent. >> you saw the collapse between any difference between the house republican majority and donald trump's view of america. it's happening in the senate where they won't even bring up a supreme court nominee and we can't fund a critical priority like fighting zika. on issue after issue they are not doing their job because they want to go into the arms of this extreme view you see donald trump leading. it's not right for the country. what democrats simply need to do is stand back and let people focus on what they are doing, which is everything besides their job, which is furthering this radical view that says maybe we can't all go forward together or have to be at each other's throats all the time. a lot of us think that's wrong and

donald trump is a big mistake. she should let her surrogates fight those fights. her super pacs -- >> any thoughts that trump won't hit her on the trustworthy thing. the clintonation is rife for a scandal. >> he knows, hit her where it hurts. he knows more people don't like her. more people would like to have a beer with him than her. i'll hit her where it hurts which is her trustworthiness, scandal after scandalal. the documentary comes a few days after the actual convention. >> couldn't that also cancel each other out? when we talked about this with the sex scanndals. donald trump is a known fillanderer himself. >> he would put bill in her administration as the economy czar. people don't want a third term of bubba. >> really? >> yeah. >> you're not actually equating bill clinton's fox news reported that. what is the issue with donald trump, a known philanderer. >> it has been reported he cheated on all of his wives. there are instances where there are women out there saying he groped them -- >> it is inappropriate for new york times to have an ex-girlfriend saying they miss quoted me either. >> i understand that. >> the new york times blew themselves to bit

clinton and donald trump. as clinton continues her battle at bernie sanders. we have surprising new numbers from that poll at this hour. >> my campaign is not going to let donald trump try to normalize himself in this period. >> bad judgment, she suffers from bad judgment. >> and urgent search, the window is closing fast to find the black boxes from egyptair flight as investigators searching for clues as to what went wrong and how did that impact airport security in the u.s. already facing jammed check points. >> i am more concerned of the lines. >> i don't want security compromised especially when you are flying over seas. >> it is frustrating to get here early and still have to wait in long lines. > >> coming up, secreta secretaryd security secretary jeh johnson right here on "andrea mitchell reports." and we are following breaking news out of baltimore where a judge just issued a ruling in the case of one of the police officers charged in the death of freddie gray. he has been found not guilty. r gray suffered severe spinal injury. he died a week later. nbc ron is live outside the courthouse. the initial reaction to this verdict, he was not as we understand

quinnipiac university poll shows clinton, hillary clinton, and trump, donald trump, neck and neck in pennsylvania. with trump just one percent behind clinton. so let'sre about it with democratic congressman, brendan boyle, who represents pennsylvania's 13th district, and does endorse hillary clinton. good to see you. >> thank you. good to be on, freddy. >> so congressman boyle -- i love that. my brother and sister call me that. >> i heard someone else say that. >> so how do you explain what's going on here or what some are seeing as what's going on here, which is that trump red is bleeding into traditionally some pennsylvania district blue? >> well, first, the last couple of cycles you've seen states like colorado and virginia be more of the swing states that decided the presidential election and less so pennsylvania. i think it's going to be different this year. pennsylvania, which has been democratic, but reasonably close, i believe, will be one of the key battlegrounds this year, along with our neighbor to the west in ohio. i'm confident that we're going to carry, certainly, philadelphia, as well as the philadelphia suburbs, that have been trendi

but he's doing better in every one of these matchups as calculated than hillary clinton is and better than donald trump. let'st with this idea of momentum. that the clinton has had a spate of bad states here. trump has had good states in this route. how much could that play out? ohio, florida, pennsylvania? >> donald trump was wrapping up the nomination, becoming the presumptive nominee, bernie sanders going through a string of states in may he's going to not only do well, win the states, win a number of delegates from those states. still the math doesn't work for bernie sanders going forward, but this is a month where hillary clinton is going to have a lot of bad headlines. i do think one of the interesting things just taking a cursory glance, the cross-tabs and numbers, hillary clinton across the board in all three states leads donald trump on just about every issue they poll on except for the economy. with the exception of pennsylvania, donald trump has a double-digit lead on the economy. who would best handle the economy in pennsylvania, in florida, a nine-point lead in ohio. you want to know why clinton'

clinton will face-off against donald trump. according to a new poll, the two likely nominees are clocked in a close race in the all important state of ohio. let's check out the scoreboard. clinton holding a slight advantage over trump 45% to 42%. that's within the polls margin of error. 1960 was the last year the candidate of ohio lost the presidency. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." the general election fight is being sharpened. things got heated between the two after trump tweeted crooked hillary clinton perhaps the most dishonest person to run for presidency and great enablers. clinton reacted in an interview with cnn's jake tapper. >> you know, remember, i have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they believe and how they speak. i'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or bullying or their efforts to provoke me. he can say whatever he wants. >> here is what trump had to say about that. >> she said i'm used the word. certain word. >> off the reservation. i said to myself, that's a horrible expression. if i would have used that expression maybe in the opposite form,

clinton's e-mail server. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. the breaking news. we are awaiting donald trump. he will speak live any moment. you will hear it, because this his first rally since becoming the presumptive president yial nominee and his comments since paul ryan told cnn in the past couple hours he is not ready to support donald trump.

. >> that is him trying to tie donald trump and hillary clinton together. but let's listen to ted cruz tying donald trump to mike tyson. >> donald trump was proudly trumpeting the support of mike tyson, a convicted rapist who served three years in prison here in indiana for rape. and donald trump says, well, tyson is a tough guy. you know what, john, i don't think rapists are tough guys. i think rapists are weak, they're bullies and they're kourds. >> ted cruz has a point in one sense. i never imagined a presidential candidate who would brag about mike tyson and bobby knight's endorsement. if your numbers are bad with women, this is not where i would start. so donald trump is not in the -- that said, ted cruz sounds desperate. hillary clinton, donald trump and john boehner are from the same party and basically the same person? that doesn't make any sense. >> it also doesn't make an affirmative case. michelle bernard, i want to bring you into this. let us now listen to donald trump responding to ted cruz on the mike tyson endorsement. >> it just shows what a liar he i

clinton is not holding back on trump. >> joins us now. ron, we heard from donald trump. let'sary clinton reacted to the news of flight 804. >> it does appear it was an afsage of tororrism. it shines a light on the groups. >> her tone is different. >> you see the challenge that trump faces. what makes him appealing, he will say anything. he is unfiltered by trasdal. this is terrorism. so quickly, unequivically, and the it is not the approach that you would see, it is a reminder how different he is, and might be. what is the common al ity they are harnessing of politics of fear here. >> dealing with a deep hole, hillary clinton as she pointed out, are starting out today. if you are in a situation like that, in many ways, it is making the other candidate. >> let me ask you, do you think that donald trump is qualified to be president? >> no, i do not. i think in the past week, attacki attacking who has nuclear weapons, saying pull out of nato, let other countries have nuclear weapons. and the conconsequences of his positions, and state he has cultry offended minorities. and groups

donald trump and what he stands for. >> let's play a little clip. this is a clip of an interview i did with donald trump back in 1999. at the end of the bill clintonn your book you say of mrs. clinton, a wonderful woman who's handled pressure incredibly well. >> i agree with that. i think she's gone through terrible times, i think she's been through more than any woman should bear, everything public. women go through this on a private basis and can't take it. she's on the front of every newspaper. i think she is a wonderful woman. >> is she qualified to be senator? >> i think she is. running from another state, i think i would support her. she is a really terrific woman. >> very nice words of hillary clinton at that time. he's evolved that position since then. >> well, i mean, it is like saying are you still best friends with the high school best friend? probably no. >> yes. >> he always says nice things about people out in the public. he just not purposely going to go out there and respond in a different way attacking him or his family for that matter and only confusing the people here in the d.c. bubble. voters, a lot of them, do get it. why you

trump to win that and hillary clinton to lose it. she is doing already badly against sanders. imagine her against a real candidate like donald trump. >> let's talk more about the sanders, clinton, trump dynamic right now in california. bernie sanders wanted a debate before the california primary. clinton said no. suddenly, it was, what about trump? trump initially said he would debate bernie sanders. now, he has changed his mind. sanders has this to say to that sudden decline of the debate. listen. >> you know, i hope that he changes his mind again. mr. trump is known to change his mind many times in a day. trump goes around. he is a bully. he is a big, tough guy. well, mr. trump, what are you afraid of? why do you not want to see a debate here in california? >> tara, what is mr. trump afraid of? >> well, mr. trump is afraid of getting his behind handed to him in a debate again which he did at almost every single debate during the primaries. >> oh, come on. that's not the truth. >> it is the truth. >> he won every single debate. the polls showed it. >> you can't say that you won. online polls aren't a measure of how well you have done. >> t

sanders is the early leader over hillary clinton and as expected the republican presumptive nominee donald trump is the winner in west virginia. i'm anderson cooper. let's go to wolf blitzer. >> we've got some key race alerts. look at this, in west virginia, hillary clinton has a slight lead only 2% of the vote is in. ernie got 50.6% to ber sanders 41.3%. very early. we have projected -- we have not been able to make any projections, but bernie sanders is the early leader based on the exit polls. she's up 308 votes right now. jeff is joining us now. he's in kentucky. that's where the democrats have a primary a week from today. you're covering hillary clinton. what's the reaction over there to what we know so far? >> reporter: the clinton campaign is wanting to move beyond that's west virginia results. they do not believe they will win in west virginia this evening, but they're trying to figure out why they're not doing better among some white working class voters. there's going to be a string of states, west virginia, indiana, michigan, they're trying to figure out if she can appeal to that set of voters here. the campaign is spending a lot of time rese

donald trump. that comes just hours after the former republican hopeful lindsey graham said he won't vote for donald trump, won't vote at all in november for either donald trump for hillary clinton. let'se right now assuming hillary clinton is the democratic nominee. our senior political correspondent brianna keeler. washington correspondent for the new yorker ryan lizza. host of cnn smerconish, michael smerconish. and cnn senioredor, ron. two former presidential candidates say they won't be supporting donald trump or hillary clinton for that matter and in a general election. what does this signal about the state right now, of the republican party? >> yeah. reare r rewe are running out of adjectives. the head of the alcfio wouldn't support either. george bush 41, george bush 43 said they wouldn't. at least three blue state governors in maryland, illinois and massachusetts says they wouldn't endorse. it is an extraordinary rupture in the party but continues what we have seen throughout. donald trump's was a revolution from within. he mobilized particularly among the blue collar side of the party that did not pick the nominee. . one telling example. only two states where majority of repu

he's already trying to run the general. >> trump is a disaster for the country, no doubt about that. let's be clear. hillary clinton is far superior to donald conceivable. but let me say this, this is a myth that the long primaries somehow hurt the general election nominee. i think 2008 really put that old myth aside when it went all the way to the end as the secretary said in the clip you ran. and obama won handily even though it went to the end. this campaign on the democratic side, unlike the food fight and name calling on the other side, this campaign on the democratic side has been about issues. it is important between now and the end of the process for issues that are important to democratic voters that they be discussed and debated. so if we can keep the minimum wage in the news, $12 that the secretary wants or $15 that senator sanders wants, let's talk about health care, education, these are the important issues facing the american people. if it seems to be one on one the way trump operates, all the issues will be pushed off the table because as we have seen in the primary process, the business imperative on the media side will put

caricature that hillary clinton creates of donald trump and make voters realize that he's a very different candidate and hillary is coming out obviously early to try to define donald trump. >> let me take a look at a real clear politics average poll gauging a general election matchup between hillary clinton and donald trump. so as of a week ago, clinton is ahead of trump in california, 53.3% to trump's 36%. as of a month ago in new york clinton was ahead of trump by 22 points and clinton with 55.5% to trump's 33.8%. so, i mean, should hillary clinton be worried about trump tramling in her own backyard or should she stay the course? >> my sense is she should stay the course and focus on the battleground states where she is concerned she can lose to trump. michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin route because right now those numbers suggest hillary clinton does have some safety, despite the fact that donald trump is taking a big gain. alluding to ronald reagan and what he was capable of doing and ultimately, hillary clinton if she's going to win this fight, it's in places where a lot of white working class voters have broken away for bernie sanders and do have the capacity to break awa

let's take a look at our special version scripted by -- mark: can you say in one sentence or less why donald trump is the best case scenario for hillary clintonr the first time in election history, her opponent might donate to her campaign. >> what makes donald trump the best answer for hillary clinton? i'm not going to let you go back to the airport. >> because he's not the best case scenario. that's my answer. he's a fact bending loose cannon that alienates mainstream voters but he gets constant media attention for free. there will be a day from now until november when trump is in on every tv channel and with a straight a's, you're going to tell me electing a woman is unprecedented. germany elected a female president, denmark, poland, norway liberia, they are run by women. 22 sovereign states in the world have already beat us on that. ok, game change guy, just think case you accidentally find yourself running -- writing a third look is there's no evidence to support the statement that trump is the best case scenario for hillary clinton. 38% of the people gave her a favorable rating. 30% of the people said she's trustworthy. just 22% of demo

if you place a bet, i would say a slight advantage clinton but it would be a risky bet. >> let's talk about donald trump. we talked about hillary clinton hoping to pivot to a general election, donald trump gearing up for a general election he has that luxury which hillary clinton doesn't have. i want to play something donald trump said a while back. i'm not sure if this was several weeks or months ago about what he would and would not do in terms of preparation. >> i don't have pollsters telling me what to say. a lot of these folks have pollsters. i'm turning down millions. i don't want your money. i don't want your money. you think those people are giving without favors? now, hillary raised $46 million. a lot of money. the good news is i got -- well, the good news is how much do i have? ten billion. >> donald trump earlier. he has now -- sensibly it's one of the remarkable things you didn't have a pollster before considering -- >> tony who polled for him before when he was think being running for president, and he's worked with manafort. i would suggest what you see is what happens. it's unusual to som

clinton and donald trump are locked in a virtual tie. a one-time double-digit lead for clinton is now all but gone. >> my campaign is not going to let donald trump try to normalize himself in this period. i do not want americans and good-thinking republicans as well as democrats and independents to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy. it isn't. >> as you can see a lot to talk about this morning. our political correspondents are spread out across the country this morning. i'm going to start with msnbc's steve kornacki. let's do some big boarding, steve. where do things stand? >> it's tightened up. in the last couple of weeks you could see it right here, hillary clinton up 3 over donald trump just a few weeks ago. hillary clinton was leading this thing 50-39. what's happened since then? the big development, donald trump, he locked up the republican nomination. we stopped asking if he'd be the republican nominee. we started to know that he will be the republican nominee. people looked at this race anew. donald trump polls within 3 points of hillary clinton. you had bernie sanders a second ago talking about this. the unfavorable n

clinton will face-off against donald trump. according to a new poll, the two likely nominees are clocked in a close race in the all important state of ohio. let's check out the scoreboard. clinton holding a slight advantage over trump 45% to 42%. that's within the polls margin of error. 1960 was the last year the candidate of ohio lost the presidency. we'll befo right back. breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. once your asthma is well controlled, your doctor will decide if you can stop breo and prescribe a different asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. do not take breo more tha

it is arguably day one of hillary clinton versus donald trump and the clinton campaign wasting no time, they have released a rather gritty new anti-trump web ad that letshe people we just talked about do the talking. >> the man is utterly a more on. >> a sign of deep insecurity and bullying, the greed, the showing off. >> not really rich, misogyny, third-grade theatrics. >> that is what the trump campaign can expect. kaitlyn hugh e burns is a reporter for real clear politics. this ad goes on and on. >> this is the beginning of what we will see over the next six month. what was effective about this ad is using the republicans own words to describe the person who will be the standardbearer of the party. the clinton campaign has been studying this republican primary so far, learning from lessons learned by people like jeb bush and marco rubio and ted cruz, who were taken down by trump, off their brand, trump was able to undercut their message and survive, proved to be a wiley competitor and the clinton campaign knows that whatever moves he makes they have to prepare for that. martha: whatever moves she decides to make, he famously said i punch back 10 tim

now, police clinton focused on two things that are important and matter most, and theys are jobs and economy. she delivered quite a few jabs at donald trump. >> interest there is no can let donald trump get near the white house. >> bernie sabders kachl out to criticize clinton. inside, mrs. clinton talked about reuniting the party and the country. she has an early event in oakland, a breakfast, consisting of chicken and waffles. that sounds great. >>> hillary clinton made a stop in san jess yeah, raising the possibility she and bernie sanders should form a unity pack to defeat donald trump. david louie continues in san jose. david? >> i'm standing aconsiders street from parkside hall. she proposed there would be unity and she might have confused voters by saying she and bernie sanders were on the same page. >> with california primary, a few voters wanted to hear from hillary clinton. inside, they got a message that two should strike a chord. >> we're on the same page. so we're going to come together and have more in common than we do with donald trump. >> reporter: carol whalen thinks her family reflects an emerging sentiment. >> i have four voters in the country. one is

clinton matchup? >> donald trump says the general election is under way. hillary clinton in the lead by a healthy margin. but opportunities in our polling for donald trump. let's look at why hillary clinton can feel good as to general election starts. doesn't mean it will last. as of today, as we speak in early may, she's holding to the coalition. these were his numbers among men on election day 2012. hillary clinton doing a little better, among women, doing bet, among independents, doing b better, in the suburbs, doing better, also doing better than president obama on election day 2012 among nonwhite voters. if she can keep the coalition together, she can win. is it all bad news for trump? no. those demographic numbers show you he has work to do. there are also opportunities for mr. trump. he says in a state like michigan, i'll re-create on issues like trade. nationally, donald trump has a five point lead. modest, but a lead on the number one issue for voters, who can best handle the economy. look at the midwest. donald trump knows his path to the presidency runs through the rust belt and look at that. 59 to 34 in the midwest on who is better able to handle t

donald trump may in fact pick a democrat. which vp picks would be most advantageous in matschup between donald trump and hillary clinton. let'sng them back. in i love your reporting in things like this. you are ahead of the curve and open-minded, which gets you in trouble with the twitter-sphere, but i love it. tell us the best vp's? >> the best vp's? considering a democratic nomination on a republican ticket has been done before in 2008 when mccain vetted joe lieberman, that's not entirely crazy. but i think donald trump, and this is more conventional thought, i think marco rubio is the best vp, they seem to be coming together, marco rubio said favorable things about him, florida is a swing state. he's a young guys, a positive message and he can go out on capitol hill and bring all the never-trumpers back into the party and back together again. charles: mark, rubio feels like he made overtures of late. is that true, mark? >> yes, that's plausible, charles. what's more significant about trump is what he won't do. he won't choose based on pc culture, based on identity politics and ideology, he's going to approach it as a busin

donald trump. >> if we win in indiana, it's over with, folks. it's over with, and then we focus on hillary clinton. >> we cannot let barack obama's legacy fall into donald trump's hands. >> bernie sanders is the strongest candidate. >> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. john is off today. it is voting day in america once again, folks. so get all of your hoosier, midwest references ready. throw them all through that basketball ring. here we go. the good people of the great state of indiana are headed to the polls as we speak. what happens in indiana could reset the map in this wild primary season. 57 republican delegates, 83 democratic delegates, they are up for grabs today. front-runners hillary clinton and donald trump, they could be looking at two very different results. tonight, trump is aiming for a knockout blow against ted cruz. cruz has events coming up any minute -- moments from now. we're going to bring it to you when we see him, hear what he has so say on voting day. and for the democrats, the clinton campaign seems to be lowering expectations about a big win against bernie sanders. she is not even in the state of indiana today. so much

, police clinton focused on two things that are important and matter most, and theys are jobs and economy. she delivered quite a few jabs at donald trump. >> interest there is no way we can let donald trump get near the white house. >> bernie sabders kachl out to criticize clinton. inside, mrs. clinton talked about reuniting the party and the country. she has an early event in oakland, a breakfast, consisting of chicken and waffles. that sounds great. >>> hillary clinton made a stop in san jess yeah, raising the possibility she and bernie sanders should form a unity pack to defeat donald trump. david louie continues in san jose. david? >> i'm standing aconsiders street from parkside hall. she proposed there would be unity and she might have confused voters by saying she and bernie sanders were on the same page. >> with california primary, a few voters wanted to hear from hillary clinton. inside, they got a message that two should strike a chord. >> we're on the same page. so we're going to come together and have more in common than we do with donald trump. >> reporter: carol whalen thinks her family reflects an emerging sentiment. >> i have four voters in the country. one is

trump campaign against hillary clinton. the headline in "the new york times," little is off limits as donald trump plans attacks on hillary clinton. so let's start with kasie hunt in bowling green, kentucky. kasie, no surprise there that it is going to be a full-throat attack on hillary clinton by donald trump. what is the clinton campaign saying? how are they bracing for that? >> reporter: kristen, good morning. the clinton campaign at this point i think, and you talked to many of her top advisers every day. they know that this is going to be essentially a kitchen sink campaign, and i think the question is, you know, how nervous are they about whether or not they're going to have more success in combatting this than all of the republicans that tried to take him on one at a time. the primary campaign enclosurely proved that he is teflon in ways that more traditional candidates aren't. that really presents a major challenge. i think that's part of why you're seeing priorities usa decide to dispense with the notion that they're going to stay out of this until the primary is over. originally that ad campaign wasn't supposed to really ramp up

clinton's e-mail controversy and her response to her husband's infidelities. trump said he will unleash it face-to-face at the presidential debate. >> let's just imagine i'm on a debate stage with donald trump. >> reporter: clinton today envisioning that first debate, too. even imitating her likely gop rival. >> so what is your plan to create jobs? his answer is, i'm going to create them. they're going to be great. i know how to do it. but i'm not telling you what it is i'm going to do. >> reporter: her aides say clinton's counterattacks, ignore his personal jabs while trying to capitalize on trump's negatives, including with women voters. but clinton's also preparing to unleash a not so secret weapon. >> in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. it's not cool to not know what you're talking about. >> reporter: on the bill clinton factor, today clinton defining the role for her husband, saying she'll put him in charge of revitalizing the economy. >> it may very well be the campaign will say, they'll use bill clinton against me, we might as well derive some of the positives by trying to use our spin about the former president. >> reporter: on wednesday, this fight will escala

clinton. it's clear this this country. we elect either democrats or republicans in the modern political times. if you are not for donald trump then you are for hillary clinton. let them until my last breath in my body. another clinton presidency? that's a disaster. especially for people who say obama has been destroying the country. >> the other piece is the possibility of elizabeth warren being the v.p. talk about the move as a progressive democrat to socialism. you know that would be a problem, too. but what do you think that trump and paul ryan are going to be talking about at their meeting on thursday? >> you know i think you said itlier you called it a shakedown. i don't know if i'd use those terse, uj j. but i do think that paul ryan is hearing from his house members. we've got more republican house members than we've had in a skpren rags. some of them are worried about the effect of trump. no question about it. they are in purple or blue districts. but the fact is at the end of the day, paul ryan is going to back donald trump. going to be the chairman at the convention and has to back the nominee. and most republicans, most republicans and most leaders ar

if i'm advising hillary clinton, i'd tell her to let donald trump speak more. to let him speak as much as he wants to speak and find out exactly how much he knows. don't interrupt him. let him speak more and more. he thinks he is good at debating. let him prove it. >> todd's right in the sense of donald trump to focus on doing no harm. donald trump whether you want to talk about his tactics or not, he knocked off 16 well qualified candidates on the gop side. the guy knows what he is doing. the other thing to advise donald trump to do is let hillary attack him on the tax returns and what he needs to say is, hillary, i'll release my tax returns when you release all of your wall street transcript and reinforce to the sanders supporters that hillary is beholden to wall street. >> get the popcorn ready now, fellows. we don't know if it's hillary clinton officially yet. but and then there will be two. thank you both so much. we'll do this again. >>> next, mark cuban says if donald trump gets elected, the economy will tank with quote 100% certainty. "time" magazine re