so starting with you, henry barbour, what is donald trump's success, his electoral successes in the past weeks, what is it doing to or for the party? >> well, you know, i think that remains to be seen what donald trump is doing to the party. you know, we're still very early in this process. you've got to get 1237 delegates to win. we've only allocated some 728 delegates to this point. for many trum -- for mr. trump t 1237, he has a long ways to get there. it's not inevitable donald trump will be the candidate. we have 1100 delegates to be awarded in march and april, and there is no way that mr. trump is going to be able to get there at the pace that he's been going. he won 42% of the delegates yesterday, that would put him at about 750 delegates attend of april. my point is, gwen, we have a long ways to go in this process and a majority of republicans, about two-thirds, are voting for somebody other than mr. trump. >> ifill: but is this about delegate nose counting or a rejection from so many republicans of the establishment, of the way the republican party has always been structured? >>

henry barbour, a senior republican national committee member, says trump quote "doesn't deserve to be president." trump says if the party tries to block him...there would be riots. even though the billionaire is the republican frontrunner, ted cruz and john kasich say they will fight for delegates to the end. five deputies in north carolina have been suspended without pay for not taking action at a trump rally in fayetteville when a protester was punched. remember this video we showed you last week. a man was charged with assault for hitting a protester in the face. the sheriff says the deputies there failed to act in the situation. search and rescue will be out again this morning for a man who disappeared in lake thonotosassa. the hillsborough county sheriff's office believes the 24-year-old man, who doesn't know how to swim, panicked after jumping off a boat preserver. they say he went underwater and never re-surfaced. dive teams and a helicopter with infrared technology spent much of the night trying to find him. if you've been waiting to see what the future of the st. pete pier wi

this is henry barbour saying, look, truch doesn't get a pass because he has 100 more delegates than anyonen't convince the majority of delegates to vote for him, he's not the nominee. the process is fair. it's been around for decades and we shouldn't change it for the head of trump university. barbour endorsed rubio. you can hear the sting at the end of the comment. that's the big take away from the rules committee folks. they write the first draft. contested convention okay if nobody clinches on the majority, but they see it as a three-man race, and where will tell you, i'll add to that my analysis means that's a two mf man race. very hard to imagine anyone other than ted cruz finding the delegates to actually stop trump. >> ari melber, good to see you. thank you. >> you got it. >> president obama's nomination of merrick garland to the united states supreme court not only drawing the ire of republicans in congress and also some democrats, some progressive and black leaders also not happy with obama's pick of garland with hopes he would have picked a more liberal candidate or one who would