the gop's presumptive nominee focuses on the road ahead. day after donald trump fired his campaign manager, he met with evangelical leaders in hopes of reassuring religious groups concerned about whether his ideas line up with their values. the path forward looks steep as we lenard that hillary clinton's fundraising ability is burying the businessman's campaign we have fox team coverage. team national correspondent john roberts is why trump's team isn't concerned about the lack of cash. and lauren green who attended trump's meeting with religious leaders in new york and joins us with more. >> donald trump needs christian conservatives' support more than ever. which he has been getting. but you know he's been wooing them the past few months, lots of evangelicals helped him win an early primary voting. but now the stakes are higher. donald trump faced a group that has the potential of giving him the edge in beating hillary clinton in the general election. conservative christian voters. the closed-door meeting was designed to give evangelicals

the gop's presumptive nominee focuses on the road ahead. day after donald trump fired his campaign manager, he met with evangelical leaders in hopes of reassuring religious groups concerned about whether his ideas line up with their values. the path forward looks steep as we lenard that hillary clinton's fundraising ability is burying the businessman's campaign we have fox team coverage. team national correspondent john roberts is why trump's team isn't concerned about the lack of cash. and lauren green who attended trump's meeting with religious leaders in new york and joins us with more. >> donald trump needs christian conservatives' support more than ever. which he has been getting. but you know he's been wooing them the past few months, lots of evangelicals helped him win an early primary voting. but now the stakes are higher. donald trump faced a group that has the potential of giving him the edge in beating hillary clinton in the general election. conservative christian voters. the closed-door meeting was designed to give evangelicals

fresh attacks on the gop coming from mitt romney. our cnn politics reporter teddy schleiffer is there. what is mitt romney saying today. >> he's talking to about 300 of his business friends, donors, previous republican candidates. he had serious words both for republicans who failed to stop trump in the past. he lamented, ted cruz and john kasich who he said did not take on donald trump sufficiently. but the most emotional moment came when governor romney talked about the state of affairs today. he said seeing this is breaking my heart. obviously we know governor romney is not a fan of donald trump. we know he feels pretty strongly about this. at times he appeared to be beating back tears as he gave what he saw as the status of the party. it was not very hopeful. you know, he kind of talked about other republican candidates who he might have been more willing to support, he said, had there been a president bush referring to jeb bush, president walker or president rubio, he might have been willing to serve on their administration. he

gop conference. paul ryan was stressing that to his own conference this morning, the first time they met since his endorsement last week, but there are folks who are still not comfortable. take a listen to what my colleague hallie jackson was able to dig up. >> the fact is that donald trump still needs to apologize for his comments and saying that his comments were misconstrued is not an apology. >> mitch mcconnell said heapolo. that's one thing as a candidate that you learn you need to do at some point. when you do something wrong, you apologize and move on. >> the longer these self-inflicted wounds continue, you know, the less support he's going to get. but he has an opportunity now. >> reporter: thomas, i think it is safe to say there are two camps now. there's a group of republicans that believe that, look, this is as bad as it will get for donald trump and can't get worse. the rnc is trying to communicate with him. he does have to tamper down some of the more bombastic things he's said, specific

he's facing a weary gop. he's had a rocky past on the campaign trail.n states that could go red, states that he doesn't really have staff in at the moment. there's a lot of folks out there that are saying you shouldn't be coming over to scotland, not to campaign, not to meet with foreign leaders, but instead to go to one of your golf courses for a ribbon cutting. it's making many wonder what exactly this campaign has been about for him. this -- saturday we go to the second golf course who are in scotland. it will be the tenth property he has taken reporters and their cameras too leading gop operatives to be very weary of the mote vagivations of such a >>> vermont senator bernie sanders who for now remains in the democratic primary race will join the "morning joe" team tomorrow discussing his campaign and the overall 2016 race. that starts at 6:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> while we wait for the republican and democratic conventions next month, there's absolutely no question about who will be your third choice on november's ballot. the liberta

now, ebony, a lot more blaming the gop and nra than terrorists.l i'm actually completely offended by both of those covers. my profession as a criminal defense attorney is about holding people culpable and responsible for their actions and i think the victims here have to be disgusted. they're not interested in this blame game. to say it's the nra's fault, it's irresponsible and gross to me, but people are saying it's the far left because they let these people in the first place. no, no, no. this isn't one person's fault. the intentional bad actor that took 49 lives. >> your thought on the two ways that the media's treating this. >> well, you know, i am an nra member and i know many members who are very offended by the media coverage and blaming the nra as being the culprit of this terrorist attack. so many of our nra members are veterans, military, who have fought against radical islam abroad. they're simply law-abiding citizens who want to ensure they can defend their families and themselves. here's the deal. the media, everyone gets so emotional

why this matters, it's his relationship with the gop and gop's relationship with donald trump, president obama going after donald trump extraordinarily harshly and painting the entire gop with that brush. these policies, muslim ban, the things gop believes in and endorses. for the most part the gop does not endorse these things and been trying to distance themself from that topic quite some time and finding themselves in the position of doing that again. so far on capitol hill nbc news reporters trying to track down a number of senators to get their reaction. for the most part they are either running away from reporters, literally walking in the other direction pretending as if they don't know who donald trump is or trashing this idea. you saw lindsey graham do it and senator flake has done it, shouldn't come as a surprise. even senator bob corker rumored to be in the running as vice president had a meeting with donald trump and spoke glowingly about his foreign policy plan early on coming out saying he doesn't believe in this. this is not right and is disappointed in the campaign right

there are many critics that are coming out from within the gop. we had mitch mcconnell telling trump to get back on message. paul ryan is saying this is overtly racist for trump to make a statement like this. bob corker among the voices echoing the thoughts of senator graham. how does the trump campaign respond to the accusations of racism? >> i think this is pretty typical when you talk about the gop establishment. for decades, any time there is criticism or controversy, they have always shied away and run, particularly when racism is involved? that's the reason donald trump is the gop and not the establishment pick. we have always known that race is going to be an issue. it is the left and the media that seems to be obsessed with it. in that clip that you just showed with mitchell mcconnell being asked the exact same question ten times, getting the same response they are simply obsessing over it. this is an issue that arose because you had the media pushing the narrative that somehow trump university was fraudulent. we heard it a number of times

all of the money would go to him instead of the gop.self-funding was a center piece of his campaign. >>> the record breaking temperatures there threatening to worsen wildfires which have already blackened thousands of acres especially in california. let's get an update. what's the situation there now? >> reporter: the aerial assault has been continuing all morning. they're hoping the fire will not breach the ridge. what's different today, it's hotter and drier, lower relative humidity. that means even if an ember escapes the containment zone and lands on an area that hasn't burned, that could mean another fire. one of the challenges today also, the wind. later tonight a red flag warning goes into effect 5:00 local time until tuesday morning. today and tomorrow some extremely challenging conditions for the firefighters. so far we're told just as of a few minutes ago 45% containment. those numbers could change later today after they've had time to determine if those fire lines are holding. the sun downer winds last night did come in. they

a gop senator said he's unendorsing trump, but the candidate isn't backing down. saying his attacks were, quote, misconstrued. hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: an uprising, unprecedented in how fast it's unfolded. today, illinois senator mark kirk in a tough reelection fight, the fist republican to take back his endorsement hoping he's not the last. >> i cannot support him because of what he said about the judge. that was too racist and bigoted to me. >> reporter: do you hope other members in your party do what you're doing now? >> i do. i hope we send a message that it's not going to be tolerated. >> reporter: trump late today with a kind of course correction saying his words were misconstrued but not aapproximately jazzing for his attacks on a federal judge's mexican heritage. i do not feel one's heritage makes him incapable of being impartial. still feeling that he's not getting a fair trial based on rulings. earlier gop leadership standing by trump's candidacy, just not his comments. >> claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is the tex

the gop is as far from unified as you can possibly be.lican presidents and the last republican nominee scores of senators, congressmen, the existing house speaker calling donald trump's comments this week racist. this isn't unity this is like a hostage situation that's going badly. right? >> we shouldn't be surprised. >> i don't agree that democrats and independents have gone over to donald trump. he got republican votes in a republican primary and it's having an enormous problem unifying that part of his party because, you know, every week he goes out and says something they have to hold their breath or go disavow. >> what we do know is that donald trump has more votes than any other republican nominee in history. 1.5 million more than anyone before. 7 million fewer people voted in the democrat primary season in '16 than 2008. 7 million people. now those are individual whose wi will vote for someone. that's where the enthusiasm gap is. when it comes to donald trump people know what they've got. it's not a surprise. they know he's probabl

charles, on substance, this is that the gop should be doing. he should develop some proposals that trump should consider when he takes office and they are conservative proposals did they save billions of dollars in waste and cut back on regulation. $10 million in food assistance programs will be saved. this is the constructive role that i think you should play, but they should be recommendations to the front runner to the presumptive nominee for when he becomes the president because the gop in the house will be following his lead and his agenda. charles: charlie, it is interesting we are looking at photos -- film from earlier in the clergy, you saw a black woman, a member of the clergy dare. there was another subliminal message to paul ryan was trying to convey us well. >> most definitely. i've actually pleased by what i saw. for once, the speaker of the house is something on or didn't do. they are reaching out to portions of the american electorate that don't traditionally vote republican. this is something you and i talked about frequently th

the poll also finding a third of gop voters and gop leaners say they don't find trump qualified. so the problem is not so much just with the electorate in general but even in his own party. not good numbers for donald trump, melissa. melissa: all right. thank you so much for that. david: well the olympics are only five weeks away and there are still a lot of concerns whether rio de janeiro will be ready for them. the state's acting governor warning, the games may be a quote, big failure. the governor says he is worried about security and mobility. the subway line, for example, the main venue still isn't finished. there is dwindling gas money for police patrols because there is a lot of crime down there. he says the state is waiting for 860 million-dollars payout from a federal government. but that federal government is practically bankrupt, melissa. melissa: wow. david: tough one. melissa: all right, the grand old divide is still standing. why republican donors are not handing over the dough to presumptive nominees. david: oh, boy, they have to figure that out. horrendous floodin

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next month, the lebron james posters will come down and gop banners rise, as the quicken loans arena will be transformed. donald trump and thousands of gop luminaries and delegates will flood into this highly secured zone. we are at quicken loans arena where the rnc is going to be. what's it going to be like with 50,000 people here? >> it's going to be crazy busy, crazy busy. lisa: this area inside and surrounding the arena will be closely guarded by secret service. it's the area outside the zone that kee president of the police patrolmen's association, up at night. >> you know i would love to be able to tell you guys that we're in a good place right now, and that we're ready for this. and uh, i can't, i can't. lisa: loomis' union represents 1,400 cleveland rank and file officers -- 600 of whom will be on convention duty -- manning checkpoints, monitoring traffic, and trying to keep a lid on violence. lisa: are you afraid your guys are going to get hurt? >> yeah, there's definitely going to be guys that are going to get hurt. but the city has a responsibility and a duty to make us as

but on the gop side, look at what happened last week.nc chair reince priebus said it's embarrassing. senator mcconnell endorsed donald trump long ago. paul ryan endorses and it became clear to me what is needed is someone with an independent constituency, a pre-existing constituency that can step into the breach here. in fact, if i continued this effort, i may in fact block somebody who would have the kind of constituency needed to hit the ground running. not just hit the ground running but sprinting. >> is there somebody you're thinking of in particular that should run as an independent? >> you know, there are a number and i think this is an excellent moment for one of the many, very popular gop governors to step up and say that they have experienced uniting people, not dividing people as we just saw from this mexican judge controversy. he's an american judge, not a mexican judge. as we've seen from that controversy, donald trump is in the business of racial division. he is in the business of turning americans against other americans. t

he has confounded expectations within the gop primary, and there was a certain percentage of the goporate, obviously, that was attracted to his message. but i don't think he wears well, and i don't think there's anyone who watched that interview, frankly, with donald trump denying he has a thin skin who found him at all believable. he is, if anything, very thin skinned and a bully. and i think he demonstrated this week by doubling down, tripling down on these bigoted comments about the judge and the trump university case that he is just fundamentally unsuited for the highest office, really, any office in the land, so i don't think we can take the challenge lightly. he's kind of a human wrecking ball. at the same time he is proceeding to alienate greater and greater numbers of people every week. >> remember, congressman, that whether it's jeb bush or ted cruz or marco rubio or any of the other republican candidates, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars, a lot of that money in attack ads against him. they went after him in all the debates. he has achieved something that is pretty

some gop leaders are struggling to get behind their nominee. trump insists that reports are overblown. >> hi elizabeth. yes, i'm here with a litany of trump supporters. this line goes way into the casino here. the treasure island casino. he got here at midnight. he did that because he wants to ensure seats necessary at the theatre. now, what is different from this event -- outside of this area. now, mr. trump was right here in vegas, a series of gop fund-raisers. last night, he told a crowd -- win that state, but he continues to struggle with maintaining confidence in his own party as has been reported by "the washington post." finds himself and that's denied trump initial nomination. paul ryan was asked on sunday if he thinks members of the house republican conference should follow their conscious. >> the last thing i would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscious. of course i wouldn't do that. believe me, chuck, i get this is a very strange situation. it's a very unique nominee. >> they want to see -- they want to

late this afternoon, a gop senator said he's unendorsing trump. but the candidate isn't backing down, saying his attacks were, quote, misconstrued. nbc's hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: an uprising, unprecedented, and how fast it's unfolded. today, illinois senator mark kirk in a tough election fight, the first republican to take back his endorsement, hoping he's not the last. >> i canno said about the judge. that was racist. >> do you hope other members of your party do what you're doing now? >> i do. i think we should send a strong message that racism and bigotry will not be tolerated in the party. >> reporter: trump late today with a kind of course correction saying his words were misconstrued, but not apologizing for his attacks on a federal judge's mexican heritage. quote, i do not feel that one's heritage makes them incapable of being impartial. still saying he feels justified in questioning whether he's getting a fair trial based on prior rulings. earlier, gop leadership standing by trump's candidacy, just not his comments. >> claimin

so we're going to end it there. >> trump bested his gop rivals early and the white house is relishing the chaos his candidacy is causing the gop now. >> republicans, on the other hand, wrapped up their nomination process early. but apparently it wasn't early enough to allow the republican speaker of the house to basically call the republican presidential nominee racist. >> mouse house and senate republicans, including supporters, are denousing trump's claims that the federal judge yoe seeing a lawsuit against trump university is biased because he's hispanic and trump wants to build a wall. reince priebus spoke with trump yesterday. a trump political adviser made it sound like winning the fraud case is part of the presidential contest. >> we're not afraud of this case, mr. trump is not afraid to take it on and we're ready to have our day in court when it comes. >> former rival south carolina senator lindsey graham. >> mark kirk citing trump's comments about the judge. trump issued a statement defending his criticism of the judge. but then while this lawsuit should have been dismissed,

a veiled attack on the gop's presumptive nominee. the assault on donald trump, without naming names. >> hillary. hillary. >> reporter: the clinton's accompanied their daughter chelsea as she left the hospital with their new grandson. photos of them celebrating the birs of her son, aiden. a family moment revealed before clinton began campaigning attacking donald trump on his business practices and economic policies. she got help from vice president joe biden, who warned about the danger of alienating 1.5 billion muslims around the world should trump become president. in a speech, he never used the republican nominee's name. >> that's what has always been america's greatest capability, not empty bluster. not a sense of entitlement that's fundamentally disrespects partners. not an attitude and insecurity of a bullying. >> reporter: a new poll shows clinton leading trump by seven points. in eight battleground states, a new clinton ad questions whether trump is presidential. >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. >> r

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as trump and top gop allies put on a happy face.'s campaign war chest. going into a head to head battle against clinton. now, for weeks, people have been telling trump, the fastest way to unify the party is to go after a common enemy, to go after hillary clinton. today, he will test that theory and see just how well he can prosecute the case against clinton. back to you, chris. >> all right, sarah, we'll see. the speech is at 10:30, and we'll be covering. >>> before going under fire, she was blasting trump as reckless, hypocritical, making products overseas, and insisting to put america first. what was the impact and what happens next. chris frates, live in washington with more. good morning. >> hey, good morning, chris. hillary clinton did use donald trump's business record against him yesterday. she painted the billionaire as more of a bankrupt deadbeat than a business genius. she argued he would be a danger to the world's economy as president. that all folded neatly that donald trump is unfit to hold the highest office. >> he has

gop leaders increasingly worried about backlash and distancing themselves from trump remarks. >> i don't agree with what he had to say. this man was born in indiana and all of us came here from somewhere else. >> in addition to ethnicity it could cause bias in courts too. >> trump is rattling the gop. >> he is trying to confirm that stereotype that is wrong. and it is offensive. it really is and this week it was a whole new level. >> not all republicans nor hispanics disagree. former bush administration general alberto gonzalez is both. and says that trump has a right to question judges' fairness in the court review process and not as part of the campaign and trump's potential gop running- mates let him have it. >> this is one of the worse mix takes he has made and it is inexcusable. >> i don't condone the comments and we can press on to another topic. >> the trump's campaign problems are documented and today the message and the organizational problems overlapped and some say he should lay off the judge and trump says not to do that and time to turn up the heat on the supporters and neit

this is a comment from representative reed ribble, who is a three term gop congressman. he is one of the remaining never trump congressmen. here's what he said to cnn today about trump's remarks about judge curiel. >> his comments over the weekend are authenticate is what i believe is the man's core character. and you know something walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's likely to be a duck. and if you continue to say what i believe are racist statements, you're likely to be a racist. >> i'll let you have the last word on that. >> well, i guess what i would say is that we can all misspeak. we can all say things we regret. but where there is a pattern over decades of somebody misspeaking in this way about blacks, about people of mexican origin, babout muslims and bein called out for by the department of justice for racial discrimination in the business that they own, then i think it's hard to see it as anything but a pattern of racism and prejudice in the basest terms. >> yeah. i appreciate your candor, nick. thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. >>> when we come r

you've raised money for gop candidates. you're also a republican strategist.ut his ability to raise money? he is a billionaire. he has a lot of billionaires on his side. why are people asking this question? >> i don't know but let's break apart some of numbers. you cited the $296 million that secretary clinton raised. in the reports it is important to understand what you're seeing. most importantly, to see the cash on hand number. her cash on hand number is much, much lower. two, the importance of money in politics in terms of buying airtime, which is where huge percentage of political money goes, really isn't as important as it used to be. there is all kinds of examples. this election cycle about money and huge ad buying just not moving numbers. one only has to look as far as jeb bush, marco rubio and even hillary clinton early on in the primary when she was struggling against bernie sanders who had no money early on. cash on hand number is very important. the second number you want to look at is the burn rate. how much money are they going through matter of

zblf now new twist on the gop side.kins, republican strategist and former aide to george h.w. bush and reich tyler, an msnbc political analyst. rick, i want your reaction to "the washington post" report by the push to stop trump by changing party rules, in fact shawn spicer released a statement. all of the discussion about the rnc rules committee acting to undermine the presumptive nominee is silly, there is no organized effort, strategy or leader of this so called movement. it's nothing more than a media creation and series of tweets. you agree? you hear anything about these? >> i am. i agree with shawn on the one hand it's not silly, it will be could be and might be very, very serious, if the trump continues to perform the way he's been performing and people see the writing on the wall that november would be an imminent disaster. on the other hand he is right, the efforts that i've seen are not serious, and it's very difficult to beat something with nothing, and so for they have not presented what their something woul

the house gop conference. it was an unscheduled meeting. all his members said you have do something about this, we can't allow this precedent to be set with the minority party is allowed to hijack the house floor. as you know in the house there is no mechanicsm for filibuster. the ruling party gets to make up the rules. the only way to get what you want is a petition, you need 218 votes to get that -- signatures. ryan make the calculation i'm not going to be the speaker that allowed this to go without at least attempting to end it and a show of strength. ryan went to the floor and he brought upon this demonstration to show strength and to show ultimately we're not going to be bullied into voting on bills pertaining to gun control and i wonder whether or not they think that was the best call at the end of the day because this will lead the news for at least the next day. i mean given the magnitude of this story it bumped donald trump. >> we have extraordinary images on our screen tonight. we have the official c-span video of the house of rep

they're sort of like the natural base for the gop.e gop, unfortunately, with the current nominee, seems to be alienating them with rhetoric. when donald trump criticizes a judge who is presiding over the trump university litigation as having a conflict of interest because he is of mexican origin, that's a problem, and the gop needs to change the rhetoric and appeal to that natural base. >> all right, thank you, christine. that's "inside story" for this week. thanks to all of our viewers for tuning in. thank you so much for our insiders' ideas and your time. we appreciate that. hope you have a great week ahead. we'll see you right back here next sunday morning. connections. you're not just in the classroom; you're part of the community. you meet these tiny kids every year, and you help them learn and grow. but you also get to know their families, and over the years they become a part of your life, and you become a part of theirs. when you build those connections, you can accomplish some pretty amazing things. i'm jackie kruzik and i'm

some gop delegates are trying to change july's convention rules.at may be a long shot but it's more signs that the party isn't rallying around trump even house speaker paul ryan is enforcing unity. in an exclusive interview set to air tomorrow on "meet the press." ryan is telling his members to vote how they want. >> the last thing i would do is tell anybody to do something that is contrary to their conscience. of course, i wouldn't do that. look, believe me, chuck. it's a very strange situation. it's a very unique -- i felt as a responsibility constitutionally as speaker of the house i should not be leading some causam in the middle of our party. that will knock us out of the white house. >> for more let me bring in eleanor clift and republican strategies patrick griffin. thank you very much for joining us. patrick, let me begin with you. i want to play you some sound. this is donald trump and what he had to say about his own party just moments ago. take a listen. >> breaking news! there will be this and that at the convention. who are they going

i'm confident he will turn the house gop's agenda into laws. ryan said he and trump talked at great length about issues important to the republican agenda. and that while it's no secret that he and i have our differences, we have more common ground than disagreement. the endorsement goes a step further toward unifying the republican party. freeing donald trump to focus the full weight of his campaign on his presumed opponent. >> hillary is not a talented person. in fact she's a person with absolutely no natural talent. she's one of the worst secretaries of state in the history of our country. now she wants to be our president. >> trump is trying to take advantage of hillary clinton's recent weakness against bernie sanders in california. one of a number of blue states trump hopes to put in play for the first time in decades. >> we're going to come in, we're going to work california hard. we're going to work the state of washington hard. we may even work oregon hard because we've been really treated up there great. i think we have a chance. i thi

you won't believe what he's saying now about the gop and mexico. let's go "outfront."

so what can the gop do about in this? the bottom line question tonight. >> yeah, erin, republicans could still deny the nomination to donald trump. and in several caways. for example, rule 38, forcefully argued back in 1880, by james garfield. some analysts think this section of the convention rules refutes the idea that delegates are bound to candidates. here's part of it. no delegate or alternate delegate shall be bound by any attempt to impose the unit rule. supporters of this notion say that means delegates cannot be forced to vote as a unit. as a winner take all block, just because some candidate won the popular vote in their state. instead they say each delegate is free to get votes and vote his or her conscience. so the rule 38 votes say if you think trump is a bad candidate, bad guy, bad for the party, you don't have to back him, erin. >> so then that would be -- that would be one way. now, that is not the only way. that this could completely change. >> no, because -- they could say any vote cast for anyone assist

could this move be a sign between silicon valley and the gop nominee?apple playing politics anyway? our very own elizabeth macdonald. apple previously supported the are a wednesday. >> they are not getting support or money in any way. as you pointed out. we know, it you know, mr. trump has attacked apple in the past. over that eat christian fight and the fbi. it is worth pointing out that we are finding out that wells fargo, ups, jpmorgan chase, walgreens to be involved. >> yes. they are not in a democrat convention either. the companies that are staying in our microsoft, google and facebook. trish: what are all of these companies doing at that convention anyway? i want all of that out. out. trish: you wonder when they will have a nike logo. [laughter] it is a great point. do investors want their companies involved in politics. remember when starbucks got involved in politics all little while back? it backfired. does that help the bottom line? >> that is a fair question. apple has the calm solo as of late. tim cook was just over there in china. we know

it reagan -- >> the 1980 republican and democratic conventions, with ronald reagan becoming the gop nominee and president jimmy carter accepting the democratic nomination. on july 1, the smithsonian air and space museum will commemorate anniversary. and un-american artifacts -- upin 1976, we were wrapping a golden age of human exploration with the apollo missions to the moon and we were launching into the first golden age of planetoid exploration with the missions of the 1970's to mars and the outer planets. we are now in another golden age of planetoid -- planetary exploration, particularly on mars. >> we tour the museum with the head of the space department and we learned about the story of human space exploration, from the moon to mars. and at 8:00 on the presidency, the former deputy assistant to president reagan and author of the book, "true reagan." thishave come to see that, relates again to president nexen, that a great -- nixon, that a great leader is a person that can discern the future and lead a people to it and threw it. >> for the complete american history tv schedule, go to c

the gop running mate let him have it. >> this is one of the worst decisions trump made. it's inexcusable. >> i don't condone the comments. we can press on to another topic. >> reporter: take a pass on being trump's running mate. on foreign policy and credibili credibility, trump flip-flopped on libya. he recorded a video in 2011 urging u.s. intervention. he argued the u.s. was wrong to get involved and would have been better off had gadhafi not been toppled. this weekend, he flipped back and said he was always in favor of targeted air strikes. tomorrow, the final six primary states cast their ballots. that process will end. trump planned to have his big victory speech here at trump tower until mid afternoon when he announced he was moving it to his golf club in westchester. now, an hour and a half away, found out about it when trump decided to move it across town to his golf club. >> he has options. thank you. let's get perspective on this. brithume is here. >> wrapping up the nomination early. tussling with primary contenders. witness how effectively the campaign of the

he and corey lewandowski made history in the gop primary and now he want to go a different direct. charles: if everything is going oh street and -- so great, and he set established record, and all of a sudden he was out. encoreie was -- even corey was dismayed. it sounds like something was wrong there. >> you have been hearing donald trump was making changes going toward the general elect, putting in a new system and bringing on more people, and that's just part of the process. charles: katrina, you have been fantastic. tesla has announced it made an offer to acquire solarcity. tesla taking a hit. he land musk, the ceo of tesla, his cousin runs solarcity. they will focus on clean energy. but solarcity has been a disaster. just before the announcement goldman said it was the worst solar play in the country. we'll have more for you on this update. solarcity, elon musk buying his cousin's company. donald trump need the christian vote. charles: donald trump meeting privately with evangelical leaders. just a short time ago the trump campaign announced there was a tense moment when evang

opposing the gop nominee take their fight to the steps of trump tower. we're keeping an eye on that event playing out not very far from our headquarters. and the final countdown, hillary clinton hoping to clinch the nomination by tomorrow night as she and bernie sanders sweep through california with the state's primary just hours away. >>> and the loss of a legend. tributes to muhammad ali pouring in from all across this world as the city of of louisville, kentucky, gears up to say good-bye to its favorite son. the reverend jesse jackson will join me with a look back at ali's legacy and a tweet sent out over the weekend that's gotten so much attention. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm tamron hall coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. let's start off with donald trump refusing to back down on his comments about the federal judge overseeing the case involving trump university. that's left top gop leaders scrambling to explain their continued support. trump's latest comment just this morning. here's what he said. >> all i'm trying to do

both going to fight. >>> this is the gop is in disarray.umptive nominee over remarks about a federal judge. can trump stop the bleeding? and campaign cash. top donors saying they won't give to trump. i'm going to talk to his top money man tonight. let's go "outfront." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront"

a former secret service agent who filed paperwork to run in a gop florida congressional seat, servedthe bush 43 and obama administrations. he says he wouldn't share such personal anecdotes. guess why he chose to do so now? i understand the uniformed officer that wrote the book would say to himself, i feel like it's time, i feel it's time to tell the real truth about this woman because i think the penalty of electing her president far supersedes the penalty i will take for someone who violated that unwritten oath of silence. >> reporter: the trump campaign wasted no time capitalizing. >> i don't recall mr. trump ever screaming at secret service calling them pigs, throws vases across the room and claws the face of his spouse, which hillary clinton has been reported to do. >> the clinton campaign writes, gary byrme joins the rachgs of ed klein and other authors in this latest in a long line of books attempting to cash in. byrne says he believes his recollection proves mrs. clinton does not have the integrity or temperament to be president. we will see if it will sway critical primary vo

now author and historian craig surely join c-span to talk about the last contested gop convention. that is next live o n "washington journal" ♪ hardest q&a.-span's >> "washington journal" continues. , the author of a number of books, including "reagan's revolution." was 1976 and we went to begin with talking about rule 16c. we want to welcome our viewers on c-span3's american history tv. coming up, a look back, courtesy the remarkabled coverage that led to president ford's, nation in 1976. here is a portion. the republican party is here to nominate a presidential candidate for 1976 and an incumbent president for the first time since 1912 aces a serious challenge from within his own party. that presidential balloting comes tomorrow night. be settled outd on the floor of this convention in kemper arena tonight. and wills acknowledge test their strength, which could make or break their candidate. it will be on a change in the party rule, 16c, the number of the new role, proposed by the reagan sighed to enforce president ford to name his vice presidential running mate by tomorrow morni

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more primary votes than any gop campaign in history. to all of those bernie sanders voters left out in the card by a rich system of super delegates we welcome you with on arms. >> this as trump is fashion criticism from fellow republicans about comment he made about the mexican heritage of drug hearing a trump university fraud lawsuit. trump saying his comments were misconstrued. in new york, patricia stark, fox news. >> hillary clinton is also projected winner new mexico and south dakota. meanwhile president obama is is set to meet with senator sanders tomorrow. >> sanders campaign plans are clear and last night they asked for his help in the democratic primary later this month. >> let's get to breaking news out of upper ning count county this morning. "fox school students died in a horrible accidents in demaskus. they all attended clarksburg high school and two died on the scene and the other later at the hospital. it happened around 11:30 last night and investigators remain on the scene that hour. >> developing overnight, maryland de

. >>> now the race to the white house and now gop anxiety tonight over donald trump. and his shaky poll numbers, and what his candidacy could mean for republicans running all across the country. trump having none of it, telling party leaders to toughen up. now the top republican in washington is raising eyebrows with what he's telling nbc news. our hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: in texas today, where everything's bigger, so is donald trump's gap nationwide with hillary clinton. a trump slump starting to show in his sinking poll numbers. with today, the most powerful republican in congress telling nbc's chuck todd his house members don't have to back trump. >> the last thing i would do is tell anybody to do something that's contrary to their conscience. of course i wouldn't do that. this is a very strange situation. it's a very unique nominee. i feel as a responsibility institutionally as the speaker of the house that i should not leave a chasm in the middle of the party. that would definitely knock us out of the white house. >> reporter: donald trump with hi

criticism of that stance is growing even within the gop. for president i told everyone that this is what would happen. that we would be continually faced with this very difficult choice as we are. many of us have been, between hillary clinton and donald. this is not where i wanted us to be, it's where the voters have chosen and i respect that, but i can -- it isn't going stop from opining from time to time when he says something that goes too far and this is one of those instances. >> bring in congressman jason chafe is, republican from utah, chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee. great to have you here, congressman. sounds like the person you supported, marco rubio, a respectful but regretful, i told you so? >> well, mr. trump happen to answer for this, and i think that the comments he made at the way he made them were wrong. i just do. >> do you think they were racist? >> i think they were very misinformed. he referred to him as a mexican? he's from america. he's from indiana, an american. i've never had someone