david gergen, he said this is stating the obvious. if you look at the polls it is stating the obvious. marco rubio didn't have a snowball's chance in you know where to get elected in ohio but is there a bigger -- with romney and rubio 's and kasich's campaign to stop trump? >> sure. what we are seeing is a prelude to the republican national con have been when people broker in the primaries. rubio is trying to get his voters to go to kasich in ohio because he understands his chances of winning in florida have diminished from what they might have been. he's an underdogging in florida. as we have been saying here on cnn for several days, kasich is the man to watch. he has the best chance of beating donald trump in a big state. if he would do it in ohio it could take a wheel off the trump mobile. >> even though there was a slight head shake from you you are not surprised by this. >> i'm not surprised. i think it will be seen by millions. but nonetheless, i think it is the right strategy. >> do voters really do this? can i do a jig jag so

let's talk more with david gergen. i want to bring him back in to continue the discussion we were having with you and jeffrey lord. trying to get jeffrey lord back. if we do we'll bring him in. let's talk about that because i have a few of the quotes here from donald trump over the past few months about these. february 23, rally in las vegas, talking about a protester, he says the guards are being gentle with him, and he says, quote, i'd like to punch him in the face. i'll tell you that. and then in iowa, on the 1st of february, trump said knock the crap out of them would you seriously, okay, knock the hell, i promise you i will pay for the legal fees, i promise, i promise. that is in response to the protest, it's not saying start these. okay. but here's what he told jake tapper thursday night in the cnn debate when he was asked about it. >> do you believe that you've done anything to create a tone where this kind of violence would be encouraged? >> i hope not. i truly hope not. i will say this. we have 25, 30,000 peop

i'm with david gergen on this. i think this is an angry version of an angry man who has no idea what it is to govern america. >> we hadsome live pictures. i believe they were blocking traffic. there is still an ongoing protest. you can see the live pictures of what's going on on the streets. the police tell us no arrests have been made. no one has been injured. it is largely peaceful. inside, after it was cancelled, we did see some extremely tense moments. he asked the question. is this what you want to see? as a donald trump supporter? is this what you want to see right now? what's happening tonight? i'm not talking about the protests but i'm talking about, donald trump has said. he is the candidate who has said, he wishes he could punch protesters in the nose. is that something that donald trump supporters, you want to see? >> i don't think anyone wants to see violence like this. and donald trump doesn't want to see violence like this. but i take issue with saying that donald trump wants this violence. >> is he j

david gergen, not badly, i should say. the midst of terror fears after brussels, is this the image the white house wants to send? >> the president has a belief that restraint is the best thing he can do. he does not want to seem like he rushed into anything. that somehow he gets all shaken up and he wants to hold back. i happen to disagree with that. i think people now after all the attacks. we've had an attack a day around the world for the last 12 days. after san bernardino and paris and brussels and ankara and istanbul, people are looking for more forceful action to actually drive back isis. and right now we're not winning against isis. we have reduced the amount of territory in syria and iraq but they've expanded elsewhere. we learned through the associated press they trained up 400 fighters to go through europe. under those circumstances, i would tell the president when you gave your speech in cuba, the 38-minute speech and you only gave a few seconds to brussels, you brushed it off. when you go to a baseball game it

as we stay on these pictures, let me defer to you first, david gergen.e looking at the list, michelle obama, rosalynn carter, tom brokaw, larry king, wayne newton, tina sinatra. what does that tell you about who nancy reagan was? >> nancy reagan was enormously active socially. she had a great many friends in private. she believed -- not only did she welcome that, but she believed it was a way to change our politics. for example, when she came to washington she struck up a relationship with catherine grant, "washington post" had been an opposition newspaper to previous republicans but they became fast friends and it was a nourishing relationship and she saw the social as a way to advance the political. it worked out very well. it was natural to her. that's what she liked. she liked good company. they gave more state dinners, like three times as many as president bush did george w. in his eight years. >> we will get in to the glamour of the white house and the china and redogging of the executive mansion. on the service itself, beginning with the civil war

david gergen, cnn political analyst and white house adviser to four presidents. errol lewis, cnn political commentator and anchor and the walking wikipedia of politics. first and foremost, i want to talk about how the polls have been changing. nationally, we have seen it shrinking, the donald trump lead nationally has been shrinking from about 16 points in january to 9 points ahead of ted cruz. in florida, we have seen the same shrinking with other polls. i think the shrinking in florida was eight points or so. looks like the national shrinking. there's some talk that donald trump may have peaked. i know it is difficult to two take polls but david gergen, weigh in on this notion. with all of your history and watching waves and peaks and ebbs, do you get the same feeling? >> i do have a feeling the assault on donald trump coming from all sides are taking some of the pain ot off and chipping away at it. to me the big e surprise is not just the shrinking but one of the polls that just came out but among independents and republicans leaning independent, over half thi

david gergen is still with us as well. the image we all had of her was this loving wife, a wonderful woman. we really didn't know about the strength and the toughness of her till later, david. that was at least the impression i got from the outside. you were there on the inside. you remember those years very well. >> oh, she was -- she was -- could be extremely tough. she was the enforcer. somebody -- you know, somebody has to be, in any organization, who looks and says, who is measuring up and who is not? if you didn't measure up in her eyes, you didn't stay long. you quietly sort of left. she was not only protective of him. together, they were very protective of the presidency as an office. they very much -- i think today, when we're going through this boisterous, sometimes, campaign, they very much believed in the dignity of the presidency. and, you know, ronald reagan would never go in the oval office without a suit and tie on. and when he was shot, you know, he famously came to the hospital and first thing he did when

>> david gergen, david sanger, thank you.donald trump's world view will be on display tomorrow night in milwaukee at our cnn town hall. he'll be taking questions from the audience. so will ted cruz and john cause it kasich. >>> bernie sanders riding a wave of caucus victories over the weekend and calling for another debate. we'll be right back. so when your symptoms start... ...doctors recommend taking non-drowsy claritin every day of your allergy season for continuous relief. with claritin you get powerful, non-drowsy relief 24 hours a day, day after day. and with fewer symptoms to distract you... you can focus on the extraordinary things you do every single day. live claritin clear. every day. if legalzoom has your back.s, over the last 10 years we've helped one million business owners get started. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. igoing to clean betteran electthan a manual. was he said sure...but don't get just any one. get one inspired by dent

david gergen, let me bring you in. it has been said that sometimes nancy reagan was almost the bad cop to her husband's good cop. we heard ron reagan jr. say earlier today what a bunch of us were talking about on sunday when the news first came that mrs. reagan had passed and that is there likely would not have been a president reagan if he did not have nancy there by his side pushing him and really being the other half of this incredibly powerful partnership. >> thanks, jake. by the way, congratulations on last night. you really had a wonderful debate with the republicans. most substantive debate that we've had. but as to the two reagans, jim baker said this right off the bat in his remarks today and in the eloquent tribute, that there would have been no reagan presidency without nancy reagan, and that's because she was not only engaged in this wonderful love story but as baker and others said, she was a political wife. and she embraced that as to what his career was going to be and she was going to help him make that

joining me now, senior political analyst and adviser to four presidents, david gergen and jeffrey lordupporter. thank you both for being here. david, rubio says this. kasich says this. let's remember they signed the pledge. what has happened to the republican party? are we seeing a fracturing of the republican party almost felt as if you could hear just exhaustion, despair. i don't know how you'd describe it in marco rubio's answer. >> we're going to be into a new chamter after tuesday if donald trump runs the tables as john king has been reporting. he's going to have a very, very almost unstoppable lead coming out of that. so, these things will continue to evolve as we go. i think a lot of these candidate rs preparing themselves if there's some another attack as we had in chicago loos night, in somebody gets badly hurt, pray that does not happen, then i think they're going to, they may jump. that's why i don't the understand argue and jeff, you can help me with this. you say he condemns violence, doesn't condone, but why doesn't he go in front of supporters at the next rally and say,

go ahead, david gergen. >> well, this is a very tough issue, isn't it? i'm very sympathetic with people who say the candidates aren't saying enough, they're not sympathetic. but i must rise to the defense of bernie sanders, as well as hillary clinton. both of these people have worked most of their lives on the right side of this issue, trying to push for a greater racial equality, more opportunity. people forget about hillary clinton and the younger generation, how she went to right for mary wright edelman, for the children's defense fund. she's one of the most noble women in this country, one of the most noble americans. and i think they deserve more credit for what they've done, and less scrutiny about the black ghetto. yes, he made a wrong statement, yes, he was wrong in saying that. but the truth is, had he said black neighborhood, no question. so he stumbled over his words. stumbling over his words versus a lifetime of working on a good cause -- >> i agree -- >> i think people tend to cut him some slack, because they believe the his heart in the rig

she's an outspoken communicator and david gergen is a cnn senior political analyst, former advisor to four, court them, four u.s. presidents. he's also a professor at the school of government at harvard. you knew that i was going to come to you first on this. but one of your colleagues who was a backer of donald trump said that donald trump was misspeaking when he made this -- i think it's fair to say mistake yesterday because he certainly changed his opinion twice over in two different statements. but now that we're being told this is a misspeak, and you just said yep, i want to play that misspeak so that we can really look at him as he's speaking to determine if it's a fair cat gorization as a misspeak, so let's look at it. >> do you believe punishment for abortion. >> there has to be some form of punishment for the woman. >> 10 years, 20? >> that i don't know. >> you take positions on everything else. >> i do take positions on everything else, it's a very complicated issue. >> is the man responsible for these abortions? zblilt has different feelings for different people, i would sa

david gergen, let me start with you. have you ever seening in like this where the leaders of the party on capitol hill both go out the same day and basically distance themselves from the nominee of their own potential -- potential nominee of their own party. >> i can't remember. the only possible comparison would be way back in 1976 when reagan was seen as the outsider, took on president ford and there was a lot of unrest in capitol hill about that. of course, i think the leaders were right to do what they did today to separate out, send a message to trump, they're not going to be just manipulated by him if he makes a mistake, he's going to have to pay a price. it will cause him to be more careful next time because he clearly blew it. all of the talk, we're going to distance ourselves from trump generally, they've got to be careful in the leadership they don't look like they're dismissing trump voters. voters are really important to them. if they look like they're dismissing them as sort of you're second class, we don't

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and also with me david gergen.wo things that stood out to me, saudi arabia, what he would do with saudi arabia on the oil front and israel. because he said one thing in the first half of the interview of the new york times and something else when it comes to a two-state solution with israel. >> first of all, it is striking he sat down with the "new york times" for almost an hour and a half or more than that. this is a candidate wanting so badly to be taken seriously. he has a lot of criticism for not having foreign policy advisers. and he wanted to make the case he's ready. >> he needs three generals. >> that's right. what you pointed out. the headlines, on saudi arabia he said the united states if he were president may stop buying 0 oil from saudi arabia and other arab countries if they are not willing to put ground troops in to fight isis, or the other alternative is they start to pay the united states for its effort in fighting isis. basically the idea fits in to his broader world view which is something the uni

david gergen, a long time adviser to ronald reagan, reflected on the reagan relationship. >> they came together in the early 1950s and it changed ronald reagan's life. he was ending his movie career and his first marriage ended badly. he was lonely and uncertain of himself. he met nancy and they together went through the '50s together and bond very closely. >> the president and mrs. obama extended condolences saying they were fortunate to benefit from the warm and generous advice. nancy reagan will be buried at the simi valley, california ronald reagan library. >> and a romance that lasted for decades. >>> 12 minutes past the hour. north korea upping the ante with the nuclear threats. is there reason to worry with the regime warning of preemptive strikes? we go live to seoul next. hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon... then quickly fell back to earth landing on the roof of a dutch colonial. luckily geico recently helped the residents with homeowners insurance. they were able to get the roof repaired like new. they later sold the cow because they had

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chief political analyst, gloria borger, senior political analyst david gergen, nia-malika henderson, kalin mcaneenny, bakari sellers, peter barnart. on super tuesday, should we ex-tech to get further clarity in both races tonight? >> i think we'll get definition that is very important heading into next week which could be decisive week in both races. not mathematically but in temples of the arc of the race. tonight, can ted cruz deliver body blows to donald trump on super saturday? can he get back in the ring and prove, you landed a few punches but i'm going to win this round. he wins in mississippi, though ted cruz says he's back in the race and ted cruz closed the delegate gap, ted cruz was supposed to win across the south. if donald trump takes mississippi away it goes to the underpinning of the cruz campaign, tea party, evangelical voters in the south. michigan, donald trump wants to send a message, he wants to win michigan and say i'm winning in the south, north, everywhere and in places that democrats think are theirs in november. plus the margins in michigan very important. if

david gergen, cnn senior political analyst i think he's likely to get a boost today in michigan and mississippi. he's going to be hard to stop. hawaii, idaho and mississippi all vote tuesday but the biggest delegate prize is michigan, where ohio governor john kasich hopes to gain momentum ahead of the primary in his state next week. florida also votes on march 15, and polls show senator marco rubio trails trump in his home state but rubio just got some high-profile help. mitt romney i'm calling on behalf of marco rubio for president. former republican anti-trump robocall going out to florida voters. the support, coming as some rubio advisors tell him to drop out early. a claim rubio is publicly refuting. as always... when those results start rolling in, you can stay updated with the fox19 now mobile app. we'll also have a recap tonight at ten. and a week from today... we'll be counting the ballots for ohio's presidential primary. new numbers show that many have already cast their vote! according to the secretary of state... 173- thousand voters have already sent in their ballots. of that number

david gergen, we're all looking at ohio and florida.asich is not able to win ohio and rubio's not able to win florida, what, what happens? >> that's the importance of tonight's election, clarifying election. all the way aen lo we've been waiting for a nice that would tell us what the path forward is. tonight is that night. we'll come out knowing either donald trump has a broad clear path or it's a rocky path and he may not get there. on the other side, hillary has to shake loose from bernie sanders or is he going to stay in there? bernie's not going to take the nomination away from her. if he has the force, he will have enormous power at the convention, the platform, what position she'll be taking in the general election and what a hillary clinton presidency would look like. >> maggie, right now donald trump with his victory in the northern mariana islands the only one eligible to have his name in contention at republican convention. other candidates are hoping they're able to do that. >> this might be the first rules committee meeting

lamont hill, dana bash, david gergen, former adviser to four presidents including nixon you just wereearing about, bakari sellers, sally kohn and a donald trump supporter. it's funny when you think about what we were hearing that was 70 million people watching. that give us a whole new context that the top debate was 24 million about for the gop. but these debates still matter a lot tonight. and what was your takeaway from this one sth. >> two things. one i thought it was an incredibly aggressive exchange coming out of the gate, which is something we don't always see. bernie was very aggressive up front to challenge hillary on the wall street issue. at the end of the debate they both got off of their talking points when they were asked certain questions. bernie seemed flustered on the race question where he said white people don't live in ghettos. and hillary couldn't talk about faith in a way that resonated with voters. >> i thought it was obviously incredible i aggressive. just a couple of months ago when this two of them, particularly bernie sanders, wanted to just stay on message

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david gergen, can you just comment as we're looking at this row. caroline kennedy on down. this picture. >> well, it's a remarkable set of people who have shown up. you go back through, you have lyndon johnson's daughter is there, it sort of goes up through history. rosalynn carter. think it's remarkable that so many people from both sides of the aisle are there. the one person who's not there is barbara bush. >> barbara bush is not. >> george w. is there with his wife laura, but -- >> well, barbara bush and nancy reagan famously had a difficult relationship in the white house. and so, you know, the bushes were rarely invited up to the residence. when they were the vice president. i don't know the reasons for her not being there but it's interesting to note that she's not there out of all these other first ladies. >> there may have been other reasons, in fairness to her. >> yes, yes. >> again, all of these -- about 1,000 people in this room at the ronald reagan presidential library. nancy rereagan's funeral about begin. this is a funeral she initially discussed with her hus

. >> david gergen said it sets a tone for the campaign. say you want to be a unifier. you say you can show leadership. moving forward, what are you going to do about this? >> well, i don't like seeing violence i'm not a person who want to see violence. i don't want to see people hurt. weapon women we said go home in peace. these are people that cause problems. and they have caused problems. and they're happy to cause problems. and they stop the right of freep speech for other group that's are totally nonviolent groups of people. but people nevertheless, they're not angry people but they're very angry about the way our country is run. they are very angry that our jobs are going to mexico and china and japan and every other country except ours. >> do you think it would help if you met with the protesters? >> i wouldn't mine meeting them if the meeting was in good faith. a lot of them, they make this a career. protesting is a business for them. >> if i thought i was meeting with people. i know more about protesters than you'll ever know. okay? i've been having protesters

start, before we get to comment ta commentators, david gergen, it all plays well for donald trump. >> i kept wondering, can people be angry? you couldn't quite tell from the numbers. but it is clear, you know, virginia, it interesting, wonder whether the people northern virginia, a lot of the folks work for the government. and those are pretty -- those suburbs have done very, very well economically. it not surprising they wouldn't be as angry or dissatisfied. the deep south you have a lot of angry and dissatisfied. >> virginia taylor made for marco rubio, moderate voters, those more high lie educated voters and that's why you've seen him spend so much there, and also hit on the kkk point. he's been trying to get moderate voters, not the red hot angry voters. it will be interesting to see how he does and what his statement is after this evening is done. how does he kind of ahmmodulate his tonight. what does he say to reset his campaign. >> the sense of betrayal we've seen in the republican electorate is consistent throughout every primary and caucus we've seen, they feel betrayed by th

chief national correspondent, inside politics anger, john king, political analysts gloria borger, david gergen, nia-malika henderson. kayleigh and mary katharine are opinion writer. bakari a clinton supporter, former south carolina lawmaker. peter beinart supporter of the atlantic monthly, city of new york teaches journalism and on the liberal side of thinkings. john king, anything to read in from exit polling? mississippi a state, where on paper, ted cruz given the large percentage of evangelicals certainly thought early he would have an advantage but evangelicals going for donald trump. >> it is. if you look at map from south carolina across to the texas border, we'll see if mississippi fills that in, all donald trump, send a message to the republican sport, this is not ideological race republicans thought they could have of a ted cruz tea party evangelical candidate versus washington republican establishment because you have the great disrupter donald trump. a lot of anti-establishment in the race. but ted cruz thought he'd been running against a governor bush or senator rubio, mitt romney,

david gergen was among the aides working for president reagan, joining us on the phone right now. a very sad moment. some immediate reflections of nancy reagan. >> well, wolf, as you know -- and you were there for much of it, too -- it was one of the great love stories of american political life. as a couple, they came together in the early 1950s and it changed ronald regulagan's life. he was ending his movie career, but his first marriage had ended badly. he was lonely and he was uncertain of himself. and he met nancy and, together, they went through the '50s together, which bonded very, very closely. he became much more conservative during those years. and then, of course, he had the goldwater campaign in 1964. coming to the presidency itself, she was his anchor through those presidential years. much of the success that he had, he attributed to her. you know, he had -- he could go out and take on the lions, wherever they might be. coming home to nancy at night was a very important part of his well-being as a person. they were very private. they didn't make a lot of -- some presi

joining us, inside politics anchor, john king, political analysts, gloria borger, david gergen, makyseem to play, you know, a good indication for john kasich, obviously somebody who has long experience in politics. but there is this real desire, in all of the states, we're seeing this in stated previous, for somebody outside, somebody without any experience. >> yeah, i'm very struck by the numbers of how many feel the party has betrayed them. that's a serious indicator why people are looking for outsiders. we saw throughout the primary process the poll leaders leading up until the iowa caucuses were ted cruz and donald trump. they combined played up more than 50%. so you are seeing a lot of people gravitating toward something different. it is not -- it is a real throw the bums out, it not just we want change, it's we want to tear the system down. that's going to benefit trump. the question, though, whether that is consistent across every state, i think you're seeing different electorates in different places. that is going to be what will give hope to the people trying to stop him bef

ben, i think some of the pushback would be as david gergen said earlier on the program, you know, could the other candidates go further? donald trump is pointing his finger at bernie sanders. bernie sanders said it wasn't my campaign that organized these protests, et cetera. but jeffrey, should a bernie sanders, for example, step up and say to anyone who supports me, even if this has nothing to do with our campaign, do not do this in our name if, indeed, it was them? >> sure. in all candor, bernie sanders, whatever bernie sanders says, i mean, his supporters are going to do what they're going to do and they are individually accountable for their actions. i listen to my friend ben, whom i respect enormously. i just have to say when we talk about this subject, we have got to hold the people who do these acts responsible. and as i said earlier in the day, you know, this is what goes on with the american life. hubert humphrey for heaven's sakes was pushing the politics of joy and they did exactly the same thing to him, exactly the same thing. rallies like this caused all kinds of havoc, got

. >> with me now, cnn senior political analyst and former presidential adviser, david gergen.come. >> thank you carol. >> so does any of that matter to trump supporters? >> not at the moment. and this is a very, very odd day. here is donald trump poised for a massive victory. 12 states are going to be voting today. he's certain to win. about eight of those. he may win even ten. and yet at the same time that sound you hear is the quaking of republican strategists and insiders who are so worried now that democrats are about to unload an avalanche of garbage on trump. that they have all of this stuff they have dug up over time about business deals and things he said about women and that is just going to be coming down on him and make him unelectable. at the very moment when trump is about to grab the crown there is always this oh please, god, do we really have to do this? >> nearly every poll shows hillary clinton beating donald trump in a general election. so i can see why they are quaking. but donald trump leads in pretty much every category. these are the inside numbers from a

david gergen, though, i do have to say that on the actual vote, true, he voted against it. in terms of his support for the auto bailout he did support it. he supported a bill that specifically would have done that. he didn't vote for it because he didn't want the bank bailout that went with it. >> sure. it's complicated. because there were two bills. >> that's right. >> the bailout was embedded in a broad bill that would bail out wall street. he voted against that. at the same time he support a bill that was just about the auto industry, he supported it. >> he supported an auto bailout even though he didn't vote for the one on the table. >> yes. i don't think he explained it well. >> no. >> but i want to go back briefly to this. and why this push to get the governor of the state out in flint. i think he should resign. you're captain of the ship. you're responsible for what goes on in the ship. but if you're going to say that and you want to be nonpolitical, you also want to call for the head of the epa to step down. that person has responsibility, too. why is it that the pe

back with me ben ferguson, david gergen, maria cardona and ben. what are you looking for tomorrow?the stakes here. this is a lot of delegates. this is the first big day. >> it's a big day. two things to look at. look at marco rubio and if he does not win a state anywhere, how do you keep moving forward in this one. 155. who is up there? it's called texas. a guy named ted cruz from texas. if he wins there, that's more delegates than donald trump has received so far. if he's able to win this -- >> they are proportionately allocated. >> if he does very well and wins tex ahe's going to be able to stand up and say, i won. the first state we went to, i now went to texas. this is far from over. it's going to be harder for rubio to make that same claim that i've somehow got a third place strategy to get the white house. >> hillary clinton sweeps -- >> sweeps? >> i like that. >> becomes the inevitable nominee. i think she even wins massachusetts. on the republican side, donald trump likely wins two-thirds of the states tomorrow. the big question for him is if he can keep the other two guys

david gergen, what can donald trump do to stop this? can he step up and be statesman like and stop this? what does he do? they put out a statement. they said there were security concerns. they said go in peace. what does he do now? what would you tell him to do? >> he has to go to the country. he has to sit down in a calm way, a calm place through television and talk to the country about what he expects going forward. what he wants. he will to have issue a clear call, which he has not done so far about having peaceful rallies. he only wants people to come in peace and leave in peace. and he has to be very strong or he will bear moral responsibility for the violence that may occur in the future. and we're headed in that direction. if he keeps holding rallies hike this and doesn't change the tone, we'll have really, really tough situations. >> jim acosta, i want to go back to you. it looks like we're seeing some people trying to clear out. a lot more police coming in. >> that's right. a few moments ago they announced over the public addre

with me, david gergen and robin kelly. welcome both of you. vid, that comment by clinton, i know she didn't mean that it way but it was damaging, wasn't it? >> it was indeed. this is a very, very sore point in so many states in the -- like west virginia and ohio and others. and i think she could have presented it a very different way. but i do think it is going to cut and hurt her. she still has about an eight point lead in ohio according to the latest polls but after michigan and the upset sanders pulled there when he was 20 points back virtually on the night before nobody knows for sure which way ohio is going to go today. >> bernie sanders message on trade is resonating. is it possible that she could lose the state of ohio? >> well i'm not going to predict. and of course anything is possible. but she is up by 8% and i think if people really looked at what she said that it wasn't that people were not going to ever have jobs that we need to retrain people and give people other skills so they can take the jobs of the future. >> and i want to st

the reverse of her, i went to mike deaver and jim baker and all the people i knew at the time, david gergen, and asked, would you support this? they said, absolutely. then i got landon, a wonderful speechwriter and he and i sat down and worked out the lyrics, she said, i'll not only do this, i'll dress up and she put a whole routine together and it was the most amazing night i ever spent in washington, because you could actually feel attitudes toward her change. >> she killed it that night. sheila tate, thank you. and bob, thank you. >> let's go outside to rob. >>> beautiful day here. we got people from virginia. huge contingent from texas. we were vail, colorado, last week. >> watch this. this is going to be the biggest air you have seen all day. are you kidding me! >> are you kidding me is that right. that's shaun white. nobody does it better. the flying tomato just stomping every landing. there's the mctwist. that was a lot of fun. more snow coming. tahoe's getting it first. southern sierras a couple of feet there. it will get out to vail, beaver creek and aspen as well. that's the lates

joining me is david gergen and patricia murphy, a columnist for "the daily beast."good morning. >> let's start with the juicy stuff first, for lack of a better term. ted cruz and donald trump are now at a war of words over their wives. trump tweeting, "lying ted cruz just used a picture of melania from a gc shoot in his ad. be careful, lying ted or i'll spill the beans on your wife." >> last night, donald trump went after my wife. she's my best friend in the word. if donald wants to get into a character fight, he's better off sticking with me because heidi is way out of his league. >> i'll stand up for my little woman, patricia. thoughts? >> there is obviously no line that donald trump won't cross. absolutely unbelievable that he's threatening heidi cruz, who is a very well-respected professional, went to harvard, very smart woman and has been noncontroversial in this entire campaign. there's really nothing that donald trump won't do and i think there's no threat he wouldn't issue toward ted cruz. i think it does reveal a little bit of his sensitivity for donald tru

. >> joining us to talk about the race cnn political analyst david gergen is back and a cnn's political commentator errol lewis. you heard me say, i do declare -- i'm from canada so it is hard to put that. it is hard to hear that. these ads work, don't they? >> yes, they do. that pac ad against donald trump is a tough ad on him. americans don't really like coarse, crude presidents. we know that from the past. i think especially in the wake of nancy reagan's death, and all