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david gregory, chief analyst gloria borger, dana bash joins our crew tonight, matt lewis and kayleigh mcenany a cnn commentator and a trump supporter. >> gloria, havei have to ask yo watching those cute little girls tonight -- >> build a bear. >> i learned a lot tonight. >> any time you see a candidate with his intelligent, smart wife and children, you get to see another side of them. the vote you ks for president of the united states is a very personal vote. i don't think it erases political differences or anything else, you can't overstate it, but i do think it lifts the veil a little bit and it's important for voters. >> did you coordinate with the cruz family? >> i did. we called each other up and said we're going to have a build a bear party and what are you wearing? and i said yellow and -- >> and what do you think, david? >> the looking glass of a campaign shine as really hard spotlight of who these people are, the rough and tumble of candidates. when you see people with their spouse, with his kids, it's humbling. you get a sense of the every day, what their life is like, what

with us as well, chief political analyst gloria borger. we watched that donald trump event, and we were wondering, what donald trump would we see? is there such a thing as a chastened donald trump? >> no. >> the answer seems to be no. >> no, and he went back to sort of donald trump 101. he's now got one candidate that he's taking aim at. and it's very clear to me he's going to treat ted cruz like some kind of alien in the state of new york. who is this guy who talked about new york values. what does he know about us? this is donald trump's home turf. and he is going to make ted cruz seem as strange as he possibly can to new yorkers. and, you know, it's clear, trump has a lot of appeal in urban areas. cruz might be heading in upstate. but donald trump is clearly saying he is not one of us. and he believes and his campaign believes that what happened in wisconsin stays in wisconsin. and has absolutely nothing to do with new york. >> you are looking at pictures on the right of donald trump inside that event on long island. still signing poste

gloria borger, in terms of tonight, what are you looking for? obviously, donald trumping secretary clinton, expected to do very well tonight. >> right. and you know, as bill was saying earlier, we say this is the most important night but is it really? >> here we go again. >> i think you can be looking at the two nominees tonight. donald trump does really well, in all of the states, if he does overwhelmingly well in the state of pennsylvania, and if he manages to get a lion's share of those congressional districts and those delegates, those uncommitted delegates, then i think it's a huge win for him, particularly heading into the state of indiana. for hillary clinton and bernie sanders, the math becomes nearly impossible for bern. i think we're going to start having to look at sort of next steps and how they negotiate with each other for the rest of this campaign. >> clarity by the end of tonight? >> maybe. >> clarity's a great worth. unpredictable year. senator sanders he needed it last week, he didn't get. he needs to win pennsylvania to say i

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john king, gloria borger, trump supporter, jeffrey lord. clearly governor does not want to go down the road of kasich doesn't get it, do you support trump. it sounds like he's not supporting trump and probably not cruz. >> not cruz, whom he pointed out called him toxic waste. so normally that would not endear you to somebody, right. >> although stranger things have happened in this race. >> clearly it's the process of elimination. he and kasich are old friends. the fact he said kasich has tremendous momentum, i didn't understand that. >> sandoval is not popular by conservatives in the party. he wasry reid, for goodness sakes. >> so he decided to endorse kasich because he was the last man standing. they won't go for the other guys. you have to read between the lines in a little bit in your interview. >> clearly the cruz campaign wants kasich out of the race. kasich shows no sign. >> cruz has been much less critical of kasich in the last week or so in new york than he was. >> why is that, do you think? >> because he needs john kasich. ted cru

support ir kayleigh mcenany, former cruz communications director amanda carpenter, ross douthout and gloria borger. how important is this? how much of a relief for the trump campaign about corey lewandowski. >> it's a huge relief for lewandowski and the campaign. looking back on this, if corey had apologized at the beginning, none of this would have occurred and maybe i was a little too rough. that didn't happen. now he's no staffer wants to be the center of attention in your candidate's campaign. you want to be in the background and push the candidate forward. it's going to be a big relief to him and to his family. >> there still may be a defamation suit filed by this reporter against him for -- based on stuff he said on twitter. certainly not having criminal prosecution has to be a huge relief for all trump supporters. >> it's a big deal. anyone who looks at the florida statute knew this was going to be dismissed easily. and the really big lesson here is we shouldn't presume someone's guilt first of all. and i think this is a moment to commend donald trump for keeping him on staff. any other can

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gloria borger, what did you make of all of that? >> look.asich-cruz deal plays into donald trump's narrative. the word collusion is carefully chosen because it plays into the story line that this campaign is rigged against him. that these are two establishment figures who will do anything they can to try and keep him from winning. so it could potentially backfire against cruz and or kasich because it might make trump voters that much more inclined to vote and support donald trump. >> dana, do you think it's too late for them to try to do this? >> no. because as david just laid out, the this is not an attempt to stop trump so that one of them can win. the this is just to stop trump from getting the delegates before -- needed for the nomination before the cleveland convention. what i think is so fascinating quickly because i did a fair amount of reporting on this back in march when the discussions started and it was really a one way conversation. that kasich campaign, they were trying extremely hard to get the cruz camp to join forces and have

we have the new york city correspondent patrick heely, political anchor errol lewis, gloria borger, caylee mcnanny, tara set meyer. gloria, what do you make of him naming fiorina? >> changed from last night's disastrous performance. >> completely diversion narrow, why not do it, puts his chips in the middle of the table. says this is it, naming a woman. maybe she will help in california, maybe not. did lose a senate race there. they like each other, she campaigned for him, endorsed him, i think he has nothing to lose by doing this except all of us saying it is a last ditch effort to save his campaign, which by the way it is. >> in the wake of the sort of kasich, cruz deal, seems like he is throwing everything at this. >> he acknowledged he is low on resources. one thing you get with carly fiorina is someone that's possibly a self funder with a bunch of money, ran in california, got 42% of the vote. help him perhaps win selected districts. because it is winner take all by district in california. she can round up delegates. then there's a question of trying to grab part of the news cycle, ge

. >> gloria borger, what did you hear? >> i think it was like a coliseum.se guys do not like each other anymore, and i think the tone was nasty. and i think -- you don't think so? i think it was nasty to a degree. there was sarcasm from bernie sanders when she was talking about wall street and how she called them out and he said, oh, my goodness, they must have been really crushed. right? that was a little sarcastic. >> she had a few jabs, too. >> she jabbed him on guns. i think she got the better of him on the issue of guns, which has always been his weak point. but i tell you one thing, bernie sanders on the issue of israel in new york city did not change his position saying that there had been a disproportionate response in gaza and i think that's politically tricky for him here. >> tricky, maybe admirable. whatever you think of the position, he certainly didn't choose to pander on it. >> nope. >> but i think he had a couple of bad moments in this debate, one on guns. that's been plaguing him since the beginning of this race. he voted his state on guns a

cnn global affairs correspondent elise laugh et is with us, gloria borger, and hilary rosen, and cnn bin. gloria, what do you make of ted cruz's decision to pick carly fiorina as his vice presidential pick? >> couple things. first of all, wolf, he needed to change the conversation from the sweep that trump had last night and he also just put all his chips in the center of the table. he said look, i'm all in, it is a big play for the state of indiana. i am not sure what it does to help him there, but what has he got to lose. he has to travel the state. carly fiorina is somebody who thinks the way he does, who has endorsed him, who is good on the campaign trail. a woman who can help him and so they can try to divide and conquer the state. from his point of view, i don't think he had much to lose by doing this. i think it is a campaign tactic to get more attention and try to win that state for him, which is really make or break. a contested convention, wolf, as you know is his only play and he wants to go into a contested convention, number one, and number two, he wants to go in from a p

gloria borger is with us and ryan lizza, the washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine. trump is turning his focus to the campaign in new york state, rather than california. at least for now. california isn't until early june. he's moving rallies here, releasing this instagram video. watch this. >> everyone understands that the values in new york city focus around money and the media. >> i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than new york. >> new york values are american values it said. what's his strategy here? >> first of all, i think that's a great video. it clearly, you have to expect that trump is going to use the new york values thing theme. what he's trying to do by not going to colorado or california and focusing on new york now is to try and reduce cruz to getting zero delegates out of new york. new york has 95 delegates. if he keeps cruz below 20% statewide, and in all congressional districts he comes away with nothing. and i think, you know, trump understands that this is now a delegate fight. and this is a p

let's discuss what's going on with our political experts s joining us gloria borger, david chalian andika henderson. very exciting, getting ready for this debate. there's going to be a big crowd inside as well. senator sanders seemed to stumble a little bit in that interview -- >> a little? >> how important will it be for him to get into specifics tonight? >> i think it's going to be very important because you'll press him and hillary clinton will press him on specifics. because, you know, she says that he's not experienced enough to be president of the united states, that he hasn't put meat on the bones when it comes to his policy development. i think that's what we saw in that "daily news" interview. i think she'll continue to go after him on that to make the case that she actually has the credibility on policy to become the president of the united states. >> if he does get specific and show us how he can provide the finances for all of his important ideas and they're very significant revolutionary, he would call it, would he ever get that through the congress if there's a republican

our chief political analyst gloria borger. david swerdlik and ryan lizza. new yorker magazine. donald trump is lashing out at senator cruz after cruz won all of colorado's delegates in that state convention this weekend. is this a smart strategy for trump? >> look, in the short term i think it makes a lot of sense because what donald trump is saying plays into his brand, which is that the establishment of the republican party, i.e., ted cruz is trying to rig this election against trump. so what's it does in the short term is it motivates his voters. and motivates his base and gets people out there and maybe motivates some of his supporters to try and become delegates to the convention and get on the rules committee. in the long term, however, trump's got a problem, if he can't figure out how to, you know, get his delegates committed to him on the convention floor because the rules are the rules. they're not going to change. can't change them in the middle of the game. he has to figure out a way to win once he gets to the convention if it's contested as it l

political dream team, kayleigh mcenany, david gregory, host of the david gregory show podcast, gloria borger, matt lewis, and donna brazile. next time, donna, you'll get with the purple. what was the news coming out of this? >> donald trump said he doesn't believe that the republican establishment wants him to be the nominee, that the republican party wants him to be the nominee. and we've heard him say over and over again that the process is rigged, et cetera, but i don't think we've ever heard him say that he believes that the party, i.e., the rnc, et cetera, wants him to be the nominee. >> let's listen to it. >> oh, you got it. >> yeah. >> good for you. >> you've been very critical. you said the nominating system of colorado is rigged, disgusting and dirty, a corrupt deal full of crooked shenanigans. ted cruz said you're a whiner. the rules are the rules. didn't you just get played out on the ground? >> no, i don't think so. i've watched ted cruz say he's been winning. i've won 22 states and he's won 10 and we're way up on votes in terms of the voters, which to me is important to me. i'm

much to discuss and here with me to do it, cnn chief political analyst gloria borger.he book george h.w. bush, tim natali, also the former director of the presidential nixon library. and cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. dana, first to you, before we dissect everything and what we heard from voters in wisconsin, break down for us why wisconsin matters so much. >> well, for a whole host of reasons. number one, just numbers. because this is the delegate race right now, and the 42 delegates in wisconsin are -- it's not new york numbers. it's not more than 200. but it's significant, so that's number one, just the numbers. and number two, it's the sort of psychological momentum for whoever does end up winning. assuming it is ted cruz, it keeps him in the race, not that he was going anywhere, but it allows him to make the argument to supporters and maybe more importantly donors that he genuinely is in the hunt for the nomination and could potentially pull it off. it's a long shot, but could potentially pull it off before the convention. so that is really one -- so

joining me, cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger, jeffrey lord who was at the convention in 1976. we're outing your age, jeffrey. >> oh, man! don't do it! >> and alice stewart, who was ne at the convention in 1976, who is communications director for ted cruz. gloria, you just spoke with james baker, former white house chief of staff. he played a key role. tell busus about it. >> he was the chief delegate hunter for gerald ford. you had ronald reagan challenging a sitting president, imagine that, challenging gerald ford and heading into that convention in 1976 it was very close, nobody knew who was really ahead. in the end it only took one ballot but the margin was 117 votes. i asked jim baker sort of if he were running donald trump's delegate hunt right now, what would he be doing? and what would he tell trump to do? take a listen. >> if you were running the trump delegate selection process now, what would you be doing? >> well, i think they need to be ramping up a sophisticated delegate selection process. i'm not sure that they've been paying very much attention to their ground

nia-malika henderson, we have analyst and senior editor at "the atlantic" ron brownstein, and gloria borgerand pro-clinton super-pac ver paul begala, and van jones. and donna brazil and bill press. man, there's no time to talk about anything. you people have to stop insisting on these intros. . >> who is chris cuomo? >> man, i'm going to have to start going by a symbol. brother of the current one as the governor likes to say. there is no question the race has changed the in my lifetime, a new york presidential primary has never mattered. so what is the calculus on both sides right now? what are you hearing? >> i think sanders is going in essentially for the kill. it was a surprise early on he was going to play sew heavily in new york. but you see from the clinton campaign some worry that it could be closer than that. just machines ago, they sent out some talking points, saying tonight on this stage bernie sanders will have to answer for the "new york daily news" interview a few weeks ago. >> the pushback on that -- that was a jump interview to set up the endorsement of hillary clinton. they

if anybody can explain all of this to us, it two of the smartest people in politics, that's gloria borgero ted cruz named carly fiorina has his vice presidential running mate. >> what? >> yeah, why? >> why? because he could and because he wanted to change a conversation. donald trump had a big night last night, he had a major sweep, he's well on his way to that 1,237 -- >> foreign policy speech today. >> foreign policy speech. and cruz needed a diversionary tactic, change the conversation, tell republicans, look, this is what my ticket would look like, i have a woman on this ticket who can go up against hillary clinton, she's great, she was terrific at debates, she's not unknown to you, she's a conservative and on and on and she just put all those chips in the middle of the table. >> cart before the horse? >> i little bit, sure. >> not a little bit, a lot actually. >> so i want you to listen to this interview, mark. >> everything about this campaign, everything about this election is unprecedented. let's face it. these are unprecedented times. and we face unprecedented challenges and dang

cnn commentator sally kohn, cnn political contributor, michael nutter, anchor john king, gloria borger, jeffrey lord, amanda carpenter, kevin madden, mary katharine ham. and, jerry mathers, as always, the beaver. gloria, what are you expecting? >> i'm still trying to get over the beaver there. i think that -- >> gee, wally. >> -- okay, we can go through the whole cast if you want. look, cruz needs to win wisconsin tonight and the margin of victory matters for him, right? ted cruz, if he can win in wisconsin, he's not on, you know, terra firma there, it's not his natural habitat, it's not hugely evangelical. if cruz can win here, people will say, he staked a claim somewhere we didn't think he could do it. for trump, i think everyone knew trump was going to have some trouble heading into wisconsin. but everybody thought he might get about the pollsters around 35%, something like that. if he does, if he holds to that and does better, even a little bit worse, you could say all of his problems over the last couple of weeks were a temporary speed bump and he could survive it, and he could mo

chief political analyst gloria borger.and political commentator charles blow, columnist with "the new york times." welcome. i know you're taking pictures before we're going live. >> absolutely. >> this is such a beautiful set. >> it is. >> beginning with still much talk about this whores's remark last night. this is the bernie sanders rally. this is when, you know, a surrogate came up and mentioned -- we don't know who he was referring to, members of congress, hillary clinton, some critics have pointed out. the issue is that about half an hour later, bernie sanders was speaking. i'm told by jeff zeleny, he wasn't even there, so he didn't hear the comment, but he didn't disavow the comment until 12 hours later. as a bernie sanders supporter, was 12 hours too long? >> first of all, the remark was absolutely outrage, unacceptable. >> whoever you're with? >> whoever the candidate, yes. i am not going to fault bernie sanders. he did not hear the remark. i wish he had done it sooner, but he did it and that's the most important t

joining us gloria borger and nia. this has been a tough week for donald trump. his campaign manager corey lewandowski was charged with a misdemeanor battery charge and fall out from his comments on abortion and women. he had the controversial comments about nuclear weapons. he's now trying to get the party unified. this is no simple mission. >> donald trump's terrible, horrible, awful week. now he has questions about delegates. if this goes to a contested convention, wolf, and ted cruz wins wisconsin. you have seen another poll today saying that is very likely that there is a ten-point difference with trump behind cruz, the question will be, doesn't it have to go to a contested convention? because who will get to the magic number of 1237. so far in this campaign we have seen donald trump waging an air war. never been good at the retail, ground politics and the kind of work you have to do. in order to make sure your delegates stick with you, wolf, it's like mining for gold. it's like just sitting there and doing that leg work and inviting them to meet with donald

back now with gloria borger and john king. thank you for being with us.rs and hillary clinton. there's a lot riding on it. both say it's their oklahoma state. >> healthcare health care has lost 7 of the last 8 contests. we're not talking about math now. we're talking about losses. and she really wants this win and she wants to win it big. it would certainly help her with her math, but this is proportional. if hillary clinton wins, she keeps winning in states that look more like the democratic party. and bernie sanders keeps winning in states that don't. and he often wins with independents. if he's going to be a creditable candidate in the future, he has to start winning with democrats. and this is a race that will show you whether he can. >> let's think about what you said. in a tie with hillary clinton. a long time independent, now self-described socialist democrat unknown on the national stage six months or a year ago. a statistical tie with hillary clinton. that is astounding. yet it means everything, but at the moment it means almost nothing. we're in

gloria borger is now with me. let me start with you.onfident about tonight, but it is definitely going to be combative on the issue of wall street and guns. >> i think the question is who lands the first blow, and i think if i had to take a bet right now, i would think that hillary clinton would sort of sit back and wait for bernie sanders to go after her because he's got everything at stake here. he wants to narrow that gap. democrats give delegates to everybody. they give participation awards, as my friend david axelrod likes to say. he's going to come away with a bunch of delegates here, but he needs to narrow that gap. so i think he's going to come out. it wouldn't surprise me if he talked about her speeches. i heard you asking about that before. talked about her speeches, talked about the fact she earned a bunch of money speaking to verizon which currently has its own labor issues. i think you're going to hear sanders draw those contrasts a little bit and come out swinging. >> let's start with bernie sanders. 700,000 americans work

host of the bill press show, bill press, michael nutter, host of inside politics, john king, gloria borgertrump support somewhere cnn political commentator, kayleigh mcka nameny, democratic strategist donna brazile. did you hear anything from the interview we just did with corey lewandowski that raised your eyebrows? >> a fascinating moment. there's a story in politico suggesting that donald trump is mad at paul manafort and power's going back to corey lewandowski after some of it has been stripped away from corey lewandowski. mr. manafort is not happy with that story. he believes it has fingerprints of will lewandowski and roger stone, a mischief maker, associated with mr. trump for a long time. he's mad, taking it personally, it's about him and thinks it complicates the job of trying to reach out to the republican establishment and calm them down. talking about internal dissension in a trump campaign when he looks like he's going to win five states and make it near impossible to stop him. >> let's talk to a couple of pennsylvania voters. we have two here. you voted outside harrisburg. >>

political dream team, kayleigh mcenany, david gregory, host of the david gregory show podcast, gloria borger, matt lewis, and donna brazile. next time, donna, you'll get with the purple a. what was the news coming out of this? >> donald trump said he doesn't believe that the republican establishment wants him to be the nominee, that the republican party wants him to be the nominee. and we've heard him say over and over again that the process is rigged, et cetera, but i don't think we've ever heard him say that he believes that the party, i.e., the rnc, et cetera, wants him to be the nominee. >> let's listen to it. >> oh, you got it. >> yeah. >> good for you. >> you've been very critical. you said the nominating system of colorado is rigged, disgusting and dirty, a corrupt deal full of crooked shenanigans. ted cruz said you're a whiner. the rules are the rules. didn't you just get played out on the ground? >> no, i don't think so. i've watched ted cruz say he's been winning. i've won 22 states and he's won 10 and we're way up on votes in terms of the voters, which to me is important to me. i'

patrick heely, chief political analyst gloria borger, senator cruz former communications director, and tara so the meyer. i never heard one calling another lucifer in the flesh. >> where does that come from. a bit of a reach. you got the sense that john boehner was finally saying something that he wanted to say for many months about ted cruz. he doesn't necessarily love donald trump or love john kasich, but really dislikes ted cruz. you feel like ted cruz is a bloodied candidate walking through indiana, people are taking shots at the guy to see if they can lay limb out tuesday. >> gloria, cruz tries to say boehner is calling you the people lucifer, did that make sense to you? >> well, no. but good try. what he is trying to do is say john boehner is establishment the establishment hates me and therefore hates you because you don't like the establishment. z way talk to go a republican polster, and he said boehner has the conservatives, what he doesn't have -- >> you mean cruz. >> sorry, cruz, and that boehner's words today could actually help trump to a great degree because those moderat

gloria borger, this is a clear effort by the trump campaign to show a more presidential side of this candidate. >> right. and i think they understand he's not only been attacked by hillary clinton on his foreign policy views and that if he becomes the nominee, he would run a former secretary of state and contains certain vulnerabilities but certain strengths and he's also been under attack by his own republican party on not only issues like trade, but issues like bombing isis, for example, issues like iraq. the neoconservative wing believes that was the right decision and he believes that was the wrong decision to go to iraq. on china, nato. everything from on nukes because he wants to, thinks it wouldn't be a bad idea if japan and south korea had nukes. immigration and temporary ban on muslims and i'm not sure there's anything he in either the establishment or the neocon wing of the republican really agree on. you could probably speak to that. >> it's interesting following his five big wins yesterday. we did the ma our political unit. he's now winning, trump, in the popular vote in

. >> let's bring in the chief political analyst gloria borger and correspondent da that bash. doesn't seem to be letting up going after hillary clinton. maybe after new york a little change in tone but he's still pretty angry. >> i think bernie sanders is going to be bernie sanders. he has enough money to continue as long as he wants and i think his end game here is really to ape the democratic agenda, going forward. to shape the platform. to tell hillary clinton that in the democratic platform he wants a $15 minimum wage, not a $12 minimum wage. she's sort of been inconsistent on that issue. he's going to raise money for republican ral ka liberal candidates. i don't think this is the end of bernie sanders not getting the magical number at the convention. she can block him with juice on the platform committee. i think she wants to work with him to keep his people supporting. >> all the young people who support him. she needs them if she's the nominee in pennsylvania, the biggest prize tomorrow, take a look at this. this is the nbc news/"wall street journal" marrist poll with a

john king, gloria borger, also with us jeffrey lord, cnn political commentator, supports donald trump. amanda carpenter, republican strategist kevin madden who is also a cnn political contributor, and last, but certainly not least, the birthday girl, mary katharine hamm a senior writer at "the federalist" and relatively new cnn political contributor. thanks one and all. appreciate it. it's a long night. let's get our feet wet. donald trump is predicting a surprise, it's an open primary, explain why that could help him. >> open primaries, democrats, independents can cross over. trade message should play well in much of the state yet public polling showing him down ten points to ted cruz. important to the stop trump movement, invested time and money, a big battleground state, talk radio establishment, everything against donald trump. if he won by one vote it would send such a message to the stop trump movement that you had your best shot, you had a sustained time to do it and you didn't do it. if he loses, is he dead? of course not. moving to his home state new york. he begins the day n

we'll talk about that and more with our chief national correspondent, john king, gloria borger, also trump supporter kayleigh mcenany, former george w. bush speech writer michael gerson and political commentator and clinton superpa c coordinatr paul begala. he's maybe been the ringmaster of one or two of these. these comments on abortion. how do you see them? has he switched? has he misspoken? >> i think maybe all the above, honestly. he's kind of in a rabbit hole here. and the first part of his statement to john dickerson which we've been parsing is that the laws are set until they change. the second time he came back and answered it, he said the laws are set, and i think we have to leave it that way. if you look further on at the clip cbs released, he was asked whether he thinks abortion is murder, and he said he didn't want to say, and then at the end of the interview, john dickerson said to him, do you disagree with that proposition? he said, no, i don't disagree. this will give more fodder to ted cruz to say that donald trump doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to

that's gloria borger and mark preston. thank you for joining us here at 10:00 p.m. eastern. so ted cruz named carly fiorina as his vice presidential running mate. why? >> what? >> yeah, why? >> why? well, because he could and because he wanted to change a conversation. you know, donald trump had a big night last night. he had a major sweep. he's well on his way to that 1,237 number. >> foreign policy speech. >> foreign policy speech. cruz needed to have a kind of diversionary tactic to a degree. change the conversation. tell republicans, look, this is what my ticket would look like. i have a woman on this ticket who can go up against hillary clinton. she's great. she was terrific at debates. she's not unknown to you. she's a conservative and on and on. and he just put all those chips in the middle of the table. >> cart before the horse? >> a little bit, sure. i mean not a little bit. a lot actually. >> yeah. so sunlen serfaty got an interview with carly fiorina a short time ago. mark, i want you to listen to it. >> everything about this campaign, everything about this electi

and cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger. so kayleigh, we talked about this last night. donald trump continuing to say this whole process is rigged, calling out the rnc. cruz is saying he's essentially whining. do you worry at all that on day two of this, now, i don't know, maybe it's day three of this, that he's starting to sound like he's whining? >> no, he's pointing out something that's an unfair, broken system. you know, look forward -- we move past colorado where the people weren't even allowed to vote. talk about unfair. people don't neeven get a voicen this because the delegates know better that them, party offic l officials know better than them. look forward to pennsylvania, politico came out with a piece saying 32% of possibtential delegates of that state already selected a candidate before the people of pennsylvania speak. that's the antithesis of democracy. >> do you think donald trump didn't know what the system was in colorado? even if you think the system was unfair, this wases a system set last year as reince priebus has said. i think some at least eight

our chief political analyst gloria borger and david chalian and jeff zeleny. ving these protests and do you expect to see more and more of them? >> yeah. these are people that don't like donald trump. it may be a combination of folks, some bernie sanders supporters in there, some people that may not like his immigration policy. it's probably a whole group. i don't think we know exactly who they are and i think this is what politics is about. people are allowed to protest. this is what this country is founded on. what people don't like is violence and we don't like it when we see the windows of police cars broken. ait's a question of whether this continues and whether it continues to get worse and whether people protesting understand that this doesn't do their cause any good. >> these are live pictures, you see the police lined up and some protesters still there outside that hotel. they are not gone yet. there were obviously hundreds of them earlier. they are still there right now. david, it's interesting. they block the road. you saw that video of trump having

joining me now, gloria borger, cnn chief political analyst. lliams, former spokesperson for governors mitt romney and john sinunu. awesome having you all on. gloria, to you first, with ted cruz, you know, spending so much time in new york, i wouldn't exactly say it's been an entirely warm welcome. trump is way ahead in the polls. do you think he's going to make up significant ground between now and april 19th? >> i think what he's trying to do is work really hard to keep trump under 50%. because he wants to get a bunch of delegates away from trump. this is a real uphill battle. it's a little hard for cruz after you've talked about new york values and all the rest. so, you know, i think that he can't completely give up. he understands. i've talked to his campaign. they know they're not likely to win new york, but they like to get a few delegates out of it and kind of stake their claim to a degree. because at this point in the campaign, you cannot be seen to be abandoning new york, even with donald trump as the front-runner. >> donald trump's num

john king, gloria borger kayleigh mcanainny, mary katharine ham, and donna brazile.ly, just little exit polls we've been seeing results does play well for donald trump. the idea of somebody outside the establishment. >> sure. that's what we've been seeing. >> time and time again. >> seeing time and time again in the exit polls. what's interesting what we're seeing in early exit polls is that these seem to be less conservative and less angry republicans as well. we saw angry republicans more so in the south in the early polling now less conservative in the state of new york, as you might also think. one other thing's interesting to me, we look at these early numbers, just like in the state of wisconsin, about 3/4 of the people here believe that if you're really ahead, heading into the convention, you probably ought to get the nomination. some we'll be talking about a lot, i think, in the weeks ahead. >> in sports, play on your home field. the fact that when you get that home-field advantage, when it happens, matters, too and it happens at this point of the campaign is

get more on the republican race, joining us, senior washington correspondent jeff zell man, and gloria borgers leaked memo, talking about that we saw the trump campaign that we got a hold of, they predict he is going to get well past 1237, the number of delegates needed first ballot to get the republican nomination. they think he could get 1400. is that realistic or bravado? >> 1400 may be a little high, but truth of the matter is, wolf, after trump's victory last night in which he got lion's share of the delegates, i don't know what it turned out to be, 89 out of 95 delegates, and he is going into a host of states in the northeast, you know, pennsylvania, maryland, connecticut, delaware, rhode island, would look good for him. i think donald trump is the only one who has any mathematical possibility of getting to 1237 before the convention. if he doesn't get to 1237, he may get close enough so he can convince enough superdelegates, between 150 and 200 of them, to vote for them, and get over the finish line. >> the republicans have 5% of superdelegates available, 95% of pledge delegates. his v

meantime, let's bring in kevin madden, gloria borger, david chal yen, and jeffrey toobin. kasich and cruz? >> i think it is a last ditch effort, you have been calling it a hail mary. i think cruz figures he has to do something. their only shot is at a second ballot at the convention. that's what they're working towards. i was talking to paul manafort today who is the delegate hunter for donald trump and here's what he said about the agreement. he said i think the agreement is a sign of desperation. the washington insiders will always put their interests ahead of what voters want. in a way, wolf, it does play into the trump narrative that it is the insiders trying to get him, trying to rig the system against him. by the way, what's the guarantee that all those kasich voters are going to suddenly turn around and vote for cruz? i don't think so. >> you're a strategist, republican strategist, kevin. is it too little too late? >> it is a strategy of last resort, this is not the way -- this is not a strategy they're choosing. it is a strategy that's chosen them. this was -- thei

chief political analyst, gloria borger, and assistant editor david swid lick, and senior analyst jeffreyn, gloria, to what we heard from sean spicer, spokesman for the rnc. especially the notion that trump wants the next convention in cleveland in july to have more showbiz to it. >> i think sean didn't take too well to that. i think sean's main job in coming on the show was to defend his boss, reince priebus, and to say reince priebus is not going anywhere. we heard that until 2017 when his term is up and that even if donald trump wanted to dethrone him, he could not do that, he doesn't have the power or authority, he is not president of the united states, and it is up to members of the rnc to decide who the next chairman should be. even presidents when they try to pick their own chairman of the party sometimes have a difficult time getting what they want. i think sean was kind of on fire defending his boss. >> 95 republican delegates at stake tomorrow night in new york state. how many of them does trump need to show he has a spectacular -- >> i think he needs overwhelming victory tomorr

joining us, our chief political analyst, gloria borger, cnn political commentator, smiek al smerconisher beinart. >> the new york post endorsed donald trump saying that there would be a pivot on issues, on substance, that he would assume a different attitude and become more acceptable. >> that's quite an endorsement. >> if a lot of people believe that, that could help his race for the nomination. >> but what you just said, imagine that. we're endorsing him because we think actually he's going to change. we think that he'll change on the issues. we think that he's going to change in his manner, that he'll become more presidential and that's why we're endorsing him. i think it does represent a point of view among some republicans, including early on in this race some establishment republicans who believe that trump is more malleable than, say, ted cruz who they disagree with and they consider more dangerous in a way than donald trump. so oddly enough, "the new york post" in endorsing him is representing the point of view that we can change donald trump if he were to be elected. >> michae

joining us also is gloria borger. who stepped away for a short time. nice to have you back.ening out there that we missed? >> the spin room is kind of dying down here. >> what else stood out to you? in terms of making headlines tomorrow? what do you think we'll be hearing about? >> i just think that the intensity of this debate between these two candidates, i also think it was stunning, bernie sanders' position on israel, for example. stunning for a candidate in new york, a democratic candidate in new york, to speak the way he did. i mean, you know, he basically sounded like donald trump on the question of israel. donald trump, quho said you've got to have an honest broker. >> and aipac, and bernie said he had a scheduling conflict and couldn't make it. >> bernie sanders sounded an awful lot like donald trump on nato. he said we ought to get our european allies to spend some more money on that. it was interesting, because we always say that sanders and trump are the flip side of the same coin. in fact, tonight, in some ways, they actually were. >> there are a number of repub

let's dig a little bit deeper with chief political analyst gloria borger.or and former obama senior adviser, dan pfeiffer. our cnn political commentator, ana navarro. cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for "the atlantic" ron brownstein. guys, thanks very much. ana, i want you to react to what we just heard from donald trump that the system is rigged except for those states he won. >> exactly. you know, he's got a selective criticism of the system. when he wins, the system works just fine. when he loses, the system is crooked, the system is rigged. look, wolf, our system is quirky. every state gets to decide how they want to run their state contest. some states have primaries. some states have caucuses. some states have conventions. but it is up to each state. and you have got to know what each state wants, what each state's rules are. in the same way that you have got to fill out and, you know, and go by the requirements to be on the ballot in each state, you've got to go through the specific requirements to compete at each state contest. and i

. >>> let's get coverage from our chief political analyst gloria borger, senior political commentatoror adviser to president obama and real clear politics reporter rebecca berg is with us. that monmouth poll, 52% for donald trump, very significant. because in new york if you get more than 50% of the vote, it's winner take all. that's 95 delegates. the second biggest prize after california. >> right. and you can -- there are ways in new york state if you win 50% you get about 11 or 12 delegates, and then it's by congressional district. so there are ways for people to peel delegates. >> if you get under 50%. >> away from donald trump. but it's really important for him, obviously. it's looking good for him. thises should home turf. there's a sense that in order to get his momentum back, he's got to win new york state. but the feeling is inside the trump campaign and the other campaigns is they need to get control of this delegate process which they don't have control of. as sara was mentioning, they've hired paul manafort. he is somebody who worked in the '76 convention for jim baker and

joining us in "the situation room," our senior political reporter nia-malika henderson, gloria borgere new yorker magazine's washington correspondent, and "washington post" assistant editor david swerdlick. in this new york magazine article, this profile of donald trump, it goes back to 2014. and apparently his strategy was to be less presidential, more provocative, if you will to get his name out there. seems to have worked. >> i would have to say it worked. he says if he hadn't done that, he would have been like the rest of these folks and just blended in to the woodwork and he had to find a way to distinguish himself. i think we can safely say that donald trump has actually succeeded in distinguishing himself. he's different from any candidate we've seen on the national stage. >> ivanka trump, his daughter, told her father, you have to act more presidential. to which he told the magazine this. he said, you know there's a difference between being presidential when you are now president of the united states and being presidential when you are running against 17 other people. the sugg

david catniss, also have with me chief political correspondent dana barb and gloria borger.on this whole allegiance between john kasich, ted cruz, not exactly spelled out clearly. you know, maybe kasich's getting out of cruz's way in indiana but he's saying, hey, hoosiers, vote for me. is this doomed? >> it depends -- to answer that question it depends how you define what this is. and what i mean by that is, you know, john kasich has known to be -- been known to be a little bit grumpy at times and i think that this is one of those situations where when he was asked about the variations of this deal yesterday, he didn't exactly stay on message. the way that probably his aides would have liked to. and surprisingly, the people in the cruz camp weren't as bothered by it and here's why. it's because the cruz campaign as you and i talked about yesterday, they have been resisting this kind of alliance or any kind of alliance with the kasich campaign for weeks. more than a month, really. and the reason is because they didn't think that they could get anything out of it. now they thi