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most people watching today are thinking, who is erick erickson? really, who is erick erickson?opular blogger, radio talk show host. used to be a contributor on cnn. i think he's a contributor now to fox. >> erick erickson doesn't have control over who the gop nominates. he doesn't get to decide who the future of the republican party is. the reality is the average republican voter has been killed by offshoring of jobs, by an open border, by a terrible foreign policy that has resulted in all kinds of issues. give us relief from these terrible policies. >> there are even some threats out there that he does get the nomination, a third party candidate could emerge in a general election. so it would be donald trump, hillary clinton clinton, a third party conservative would emerge that presumably would only help hillary clinton get elected president of the united states. >> right. what you see in this desperation is people are terrified that they are losing control of a party they once ran. these people, agone, i worked with them for many years. they are used to calling the shots. and

. >> reporter: south carolina state rep shannon erickson introduced a potential bill that would make the car's safety requirements stricter. the bill was heard this week and calls for a number of increases in child restraint requirements for drivers, including changing when children can move to the front seat. have air bags that could potentially harm the children, they're not of the right size to take the impact. >> reporter: if the bill passes, children 13 and under have to sit in the back seat unless they meet a certain height and weight. >> my children pretty much rode in the back until they were teenagers, because i just think because of how the seat belts come across and we have air bags and the impact of the air bags, my children sat in the rear. >> reporter: representative erickson says a number of people s ske at the hearing in favor of the safety regulations, including when children can sit in the front seat. >> from here to have children impacted because they were in a seat and felt they were involved in a traffic accident or had family members or friends who had children

. >> reporter: south carolina state rep shannon erickson introduced a potential bill that would make the car's safety requirements stricter. the bill was heard this week and calls for a number of increases in child restraint requirements for drivers, including changing when children can move to the front seat. have air bags that could potentially harm the children, they're not of the right size to take the impact. >> reporter: if the bill passes, children 13 and under have to sit in the back seat unless they meet a certain height and weight. >> my children pretty much rode in the back until they were teenagers, because i just think because of how the seat belts come across and we have air bags and the impact of the the rear. >> reporter: representative erickson says a number of people spoke at the hearing in favor of the safety regulations, including when children can sit in the front seat. >> from here to have children impacted because they were in a seat and felt they were involved in a traffic accident or had family members or friends who had children who were injured and could ha

so what do you make of that, erick erickson known in the conservative circles. doesn't really like trump and now saying rubio needs to get on the bandwagon of ted cruz today so that the two of them can go out together and defeat trump. >> well, i don't think marco is listening to erick erickson. he will do what he will do for not only him and his team but all the followers who have given blood, sweat and tears. win or lose, i like he's a man of his word. he's a hard worker and a proud person and he will go and see that through. and i think it helps him in terms of doing what he said he was going to do. so that's number one. number two, people leak aike er eric so that and mitt romney and others saying he will lose to hillary. the only way that donald trump loses to hillary is if erick erickson, mitt romney, cruz and rubio and all their supporters stay home. then there is a chance that he will lose to hillary. but if we unite after, it's a no brainer. pretty simple. >> let's take a look at a new poll. the nbc/"wall street journal" one shows head to head matchups

. >> the issue for people like eric erickson is not who is he going to put on the supreme court, it's a fundamental moral issue. they don't think he's a moral man. they feel like he's not going to be a pro-lifer, that they feel like they would rather go down voting for someone, even if they steal the vote from the republicans for someone whose convections they believe and character they believe. >> yeah, i think that's true, megyn. we don't know honestly. can anyone say what donald trump is going to do, if, and we still have a long way to go, and cruz is shortening that gap, but in looking at this, do we know what would happen during a trump presidency? can anyone say for certain? he's been all over the board. i understand where these people are coming from. they have no idea what they're getting. they know what they would be getting with hillary clinton. they're not saying they're going to support hillary clinton either. it's a false e quiquivalency. i've been hearing a lot of talk about hamilton's rule. >> elect the most conservative electable candidate. great to see you both. >>> w

there were all created by a woman named bonnie erickson.n into working in theater. >> awarded something to offer. none other than muppets creator jim henson. >> i think he had that effect on a lot of people. he was very positive. >> working together creating not only miss piggy. >> we had the skills which are considerable. >> then be replaced it isn't a traditional looking mascot. the best place for the fanatic fan is is eight dash and. so we were a little daunted by that. so to become a smart-alecs. >> now she is also working on a collection that is set to open in the fall. >> it is so entertaining and fun. i thoroughly enjoyed it. >> des she do all that herself? >> right now she is heavily involved with the legacy. >> the date is kansas city chiefs? [laughter] >> trump marches to the republican nomination to be a supporter of governor christie and governor kasich. to get his plan to defeat trump. on to break it down with the "new jersey now". ♪ our executive producer has said "chasing" news what song. ♪ >> what is a mountain of kittens? p

erick erickson was there.th a unity ticket to defeat donald trump. maybe it is ted cruz and john kasich. they were unclear. >> i listened to your interview with sam clovis. any time they talk about a closed door meeting, i think to myself they should be on pleased. they are trying attorney steal it from donald trump despite the fact that he has enough votes, regardless of whether he gets to 1,237. the efforts so far i think are disengaged to donald trump, frankly play to his benefit. >> we will see what happens soon enough. in fairness, we are only halfway there on the gop side. he has to get over 50% of the remaining delegates. that has not been what he has had so much to do. >> it is only hey a way there. this election cycle is not if not surprising. michael, thanks to have you on. >> thank you, guys! >> i love the way he makes the -- his name is like an emotion. >> smerconish. >> i have a little smerconish coming up. >> is caringing because covering heals faster. for a bandage that moves with you and stays

but then you have eric erickson coming out jeffrey and called mr. cretin and a gold beated sleaze to get the republican party to run against him. >> donald trump has won endorsements from governor christie on the moderate side of the gop ledger, he's won endorsements from jeff sessions. i do believe the unification process has already begun. i like eric erickson a lot. and i'm a fan but i have to say he's going off the rails with this. i don't speak for donald trump on this, i don't speak certainly for eric erickson, i just think he's making a mistake, it's fine if he wants to oppose donald trump, this is america, it's what the democratic process is all about. but i can tell you that i will be supporting the republican nominee, period. >> a scathing attack going on right now, actually it's on donald trump. actually it's about to begin. there you see senator harry reid, he's expected to deliver a major address, blasting the republican front-runner and the role the republican party has played in his rise to popularity, we will monitor this and bring i

. >> tell me who eric erickson is. >> an influential republican. he and everybody else in the room two or three months ago, anybody but hillary. this is now anybody but trump, including hillary. if they do a third party -- >> tell me, all three of you, tell me what it is about trump about the brazenness, what it is about the ideology, his philosophy? is that too long a list? >> ronald reagan talks about the republican party and donald trump doesn't endorse any one of those, which they would be a foreign policy, being conservative on social issues and discipline fiscal policy. none of those does trump subscribe to the traditional republican formulation. >> but the grassroots love him. >> donald trump does not respect or care what the republican establishment or its leadership, he doesn't care what eric erickson thinks. he doesn't care what mitch mcconnell thinks, paul ryan thinks, they know they'll lose power, marco rubio would have followed a lot of their instructions, donald trump, cynical, but it happens to be true. >> he said there is a bunch of

a frustrated group led by eric erickson, emerging with a call for a unity ticket for the gop and looking ahead to a contested convention. the stop-trump movement regrouping to reassess how to slow him down. two road blocks slowing them down. first, trump could still lock up the nomination before the convention. ads against him not doing much, as he more than doubled his delegate lead this week, even after outside groups spent $13 million. >> now we're having conversations with donors, gauging the interest in moving ahead. >> reporter: anti-trump activists trying to convince delegates to be the convention. >> real people with lives and schedules and vacations and cell phones and twitter accounts all have to be found, cataloged, and wooed. >> reporter: the message to them, in the words of one activist, people who bultd this party have been here longer than the newcomers who are the whole thing down. >> those of us who are delegates in colorado. >> reporter: the second issue for the stop-trump movement, calling for unity without special vying to the party. new signs cruz may have the edge.

this group of conservatives led by red state founder erick erickson sound like ideological suicide platoon as they reportedly are considering a number of strategies, including a third party conservative run for the white house. trump, to this point has outwitted his opposition, outmaneuvered them for months, both republicans and democrats. super pacs have reportedly wasted more than $200 million attacking failed republican candidates that include scott walker, jeb bush, chris christie, marco rubio, and at the same time, voters have made it increasingly clear, they want donald trump to be the nominee, and by a sizable margin. the gop establishment is equally clear. they won't accept trump and they are now committed to what appears to be a battle, and it might include the death of the party itself. they've already begun talking about changing rules that now favor trump. changing those rules to exclude him. types like house speaker paul ryan who are making a public point of talking up the prospect of what ryan calls an open convention. >> there's more likely to become an open convention than

people like eric erickson, he would not be considered a squish or a rino, he is a conservative. and then you have establishment people. so he's fighting on three fronts. i thought last night when he tried to make the pivot in his press conference, he did okay that. to charlie's point, the 47% that was able to sink mitt romney, because the democrats are looking for any of those three words. the democrats, 47% against romney, the republicans, you didn't build that, which is what they tried to tag on to obama. so now he's trying to consolidate the republican party and you know the democrats are going to walk in lock step. so they're looking for that 47%, what is it going to be? they might already even have it. and looking at any of the nominees that the republicans would put forward. i think donald trump -- mitt romney tomorrow is going to harken back to the speech he gave when he decided not to run six months ago. >> chris, we're going to have rubio and cruz on tonight. is it all -- is it real in your view? does either of those guys actually have any path? >> look, they have a pat

i think this should go all over the internet. >> erick erickson saying a cruz/rubio ticket makes the most sense right now. pair up, announce the deal, let rubio win florida, get to the convention and make it so." that strikes me as fan fiction rather than actual political advice. >> it's kind of adorable, right, the level of creativity and imagination that's going into this. it's actually sort of endearing. think it's fan fiction that there's going to be a "mad max" brokered convention idea. the reality is getting cruz and rubio to magically deflate their egos to put together some sort of unity ticket, good luck, bless your heart, we'll see what happens. the fact is donald trump right now is the prohibitive favorite to be the republican nominee and republicans are to an extent making peace with it because he does drive turnout, because he has phenomenal name i.d. and because perhaps having a wildcard candidate against a fairly predictable democratic candidate might give them a decent shot as odd as i feel saying that. >> howard, if you had to predict, i mean, we've seen all these rif

molly erickson is with convoy of hope and she's kind enough to join me now to talk a little bit aboutbeen doing, the work your group has been doing and thank you for letting us partier in with you to get those 500,000 bottles of cnn water out to the residents. the really the kind of thing we love doing. i want to let you know as well anderson cooper, don lemon, i was going to do it as well but was stuck on the air, a lot of our work verse been working behind the scenes with you. doing this since january door-to-door opening up relief stations. >> yes. >> how did you end up coming from your base in missouri to flint, michigan? >> as a nonprofit it's disaster response. while that normally includes natural disasters like tornadoes or earthquakes, hurricanes, this is a disaster. it's a water crisis. there's was a need and we wanted to address that. we partnered with local churches here after there was a state of emergency in january, and we've been here ever since, distributing water. >> i'm looking at some of the pictures of my colleagues. so proud of -- sara sidner one of our correspond

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erickson. >> guest: good morning. i have just a comment.i want to know why, who's the side for the president? the establishment for both parties? not only for the republicans, for the democrats also. why they have to decide who's going to be the president. the establishment, we know what they do. just the lobbyists, okay? we're sick and tired from that. so now you have no reason to go after what the people choosing to be president. and all you people, all of you got to stay out of it. people got involved, if it's a democracy, that's how you work. people got to vote and go on from there. >> host: all right, katherine, we're going to leave it there. ..ke, but ultimately, it is your decision to go vote. we all get one vote. i would note that the washington lobby, which you are upset about, say they vastly approve of ted cruz. host: the book is, watching the non- fiction authors on book tv, they have a longer conversation and delve into their book. book tv weekend, they bring you author after author. it spotlights the work of fascinating people

you have erick erickson coming out against trump. this is no the something either.rick erickson invited trump last year in georgia and so this is something that maybe has gone unnoticed here in the mainstream media but it's absolutely a division within the republican party that i think is going to be very important moving forward. >> we need to mention something that happened several days ago. an incident at a trump rally a secret service officer and photographer there for "time" magazine, the photographer wanted to get closer to protesters at the rally, he cursed at secret service agent trying to push to get access. the agent seemed to use a chokehold to pull him to the ground. we can show part of the video. it's very disturbing video. i wonder, from breath of you, reactions. is his something, i can state as a fact we would not have seen this at any other rally at a in other candidate. what does it tell you about trump, even if he has nothing to do with the altercation, what does it tell you about the rallies? >> it tells me a few things. like at this from perspect

david: they have a big microphone, people like erick erickson. they have been out in the news for a long time but you compare them, and i would say the relatively few voices like them that support the establishment inside the beltway with the millions of people who have been voting for trump how can they deny the -- >> i don't agree with your premise. david: electorally donald trump is getting millions of votes. >> i don't agree with your premise. nobody would say eric air son is part of the establishment in washington, d.c. he is anti-establishment as you possibly come. david: so is marco rubio at one point. >> fair enough. at this point you have 65% of the republican primary voters who voted for somebody other than donald trump. the rules are there for a reason. if he doesn't hit 1237 you can bet many people in the republican party will do anything they can to deny him the nomination. david: even if that means hillary, even if hillary becomes the president as a result? >> yeah, i think what you're seeing people do now is look for any and every

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i know there are a group of conservatives who reported along with erick erickson, who are going to be getting together, talking about an independent conservative run against donald trump. >> i think a third party run is a ticket to president hillary clinton. >> or maybe he'll take that over -- >> and again, we don't know what the map is going to look like after tonight. if rubio loses, as the polls say that he will, kasich wins, cruz picks up some delegates in illinois and missouri, then you are looking towards the convention and these campaigns are going to put forward their narratives and their arguments as to why they can win in the general. and that's what kasich is -- >> let me ask you this. i know you can't speak for the "wall street journal" editorial page, but you can speak for yourself. would you start moving towards getting behind a donald trump candidacy if your only choice was trump and clinton? >> at the editorial page, we talk about policies. and we try to educate voters, so that they make the best possible, most informed decision. and that is something that really has n

glenn beck, eric erickson. >> i heard those guys. i lover all of them.y are good conservatives. >> give me a break. on your network charles krauthammer. steven hayes. these guys were conservatives. >> adrianna, if you are hillary clinton, do you put money in this super pac? >> exactly. >> hillary clinton has donald trump campaign. >> mitt romney the two-time loser melting mettle ling in this election and wet their pants because they will finally lose power and lose the nomination to donald trump, they are basically, this pac, your pac is directly helping hillary clinton. because i will tell you what's going to happen when the establishment elites like mitt romney stab taj this election at the convention. that's going to alienate a whole swath of people. what's going to happen is we are going to punch back during the general election. we are not going to show up at the polls because we are not going to be forced into electing ted cruz or another candidate that we didn't pick. and hillary is going to win. >> adrianna, hold on. i want to play a sound bite t

we heard erick erickson talking about the possibility of a third party candidate.k, that would seem to be jumping the gun maybe a little bit. is there a shorter term path forward stopping trump without leaving the party or a contested convention? >> i think the short term path is to beat trump in california. i think the clearest and most direct shot at keeping him from reaching that threshold in delegates is if he doesn't win california, so you could see another all in effort of donors and operatives, you know, with outside money and working with -- >> even after what happened in florida? they see that as a different equation? >> i didn't say it was a good idea, i said it was the only straightforward path to do t i would say, look, there is a choice these forces have to make, right, they can go against trump, try to deny him the nomination at the convention and suffer the consequences to save the party in their view. so they may decide that a divided party without trump at its head into november is better than a divided party that has trump as the nominee. and ther