shot,imed he fired the but he did not kill james garfield. rfield was killed by the doctors who created septic poisoning in his body. he had an argument, however, the public was not going to allow this man to go free, or to stay in jail. that was the attitude. at his trial, he wouldn't listen to his lawyers. he refused to listen to them. he would read poetry that he had written. when he was hung, he would actually dance up the gallows. when they placed the noose around his neck, he would read a poem about how he is going to see the lordy. they wanted to plead the case of insanity, and he was insane. he refused to allow them to do. he claimed when he was insane when he pulled the shot, he was not medically insane. and therefore can't should not be charged with the fact that he was out of his mind, that he was in his mind, concerning what he did. later, in 1900, william mckinley is elected president for a second term. in 1901, he is assassinated. hero, liked been a garfield. garfield was a general during the civil war. mckinley had been a captai

. >> james garfield didn't again get his name in until the 34th ballot then one in the 36th ballot. nobody hopes it goes that far. trump has one other problem. 27 percent of republican women say they wouldn't vote for him so she is bringing melania on the campaign trail to say i love him maybe you can love him, too. >> maybe the advice is you should have listened to your wife to begin with. >> thank you so much, john. a big win for ted cruz in north dakota. we learned cruz will claim 18 of the state's 25 delegates answer though they are not required to support him or any other candidate by law. it is not becoming official until the delegates are on the first ballot of the national convention in july. the news not so good for donald trump who may needle gats to go above the 1037 delegate threshold to secure the nomination. >> prooef have is t rhines prie trying to squash this. >> if you get into a multi ballot convention where you have five or six or seven rounds it is possible for a person to be nominated that is not one of the three. i think it is somebodies slutly correct, my poss

james garfield, 1880. almost 40 ballots before they got to him, and he won. >> yep. i can't speak to the past. i'm speaking to the present. they have to play by the rules. if they try to change the rules or injury -- rig the voting they've changed the rules that everybody started playing by, and that's wrong. >> but the one rule that was a constant throughout was that you needed 1,237. like you said, your coiled might get there anyway and all this is malt. but you seem to be saying if he doesn't get there and is close, give it to him name by that math we would have never had lincoln or garfield. >> that's where the true leaders step up. a good leader is going to recognize what the people want, and ensure that the candidate is who the people want. >> allall right. carl, good talking to you. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> now, the other side. ted cruz supporter, what do you make of what he just said there? i think he was saying your candidate, because he has been in the race, and gone through all of this, he would be deserving if he got the delegates but he seemed

around the time when cleveland was president, the guy appointed on the $20 then was james garfield.20 looked like then. also a stim time it had george washington on. 1878, the $20 bill had stephen decatur on it. he was a heroic navy officer. have you ever heard of daniel manning? not danny manning, amazing basketball player, rather, daniel manning, who was secretary of the treasury at some point. that daniel manning used to be on the $20 as well. and he stopped there right next to a guy in the toga. see that good night next to him? with george clooney hair holding a big hammer? weird. and john marshall, supreme court justice was once on the $20. a guy named hugh mcculloch once on the $20 bill. a lot of people have been on the $20 bill. in 1928, made a switch. they took grover cleveland off and put on andrew jackson. interesting. nobody is quite sure why grover cleveland got the boot in the 1920s and jackson got put on the bill that year. a little bit of a weird choice. whatever else you think of andrew jackson, his presidency and owning slaves and absolutely horrifying treatment of

there were several candidates at the top duking it out going back and forth vote after vote and james garfield who wasn't on anyone's radar until the end arises, gets the most and becomes the nominee ending the longest convention in republican party history. there's a reason they don't want this to happen. look at these numbers from the pew research center. on the republican side if the nominee is chosen on the first ballot, 64% of the time that person will win the presidency. second ballot or later, it drops to 50%. those numbers are even worse on the democratic side. >> tom, thanks very much. >>> joining me is national republican consultant, katon dawson. matt moore. and with us cnn "inside politics" anchor john king. matt, what is going on in south carolina now that donald trump and the other candidates have opted out of that pledge to support whomever the republican nominee is? >> well, i love hearing the history of these conventions throughout the past 150 years or so. what's hand in the past week, questions have been raised here in south carolina about the pledge that all candidates in s

you can talk about presidents who did not get reelected, ford, carter and james garfield and william mckinley. it does some make you a bad president to get assassinated after 40 days, but it does not make you a good one, either. lastly, to the person have bad character like nixon or andrew johnson, but people sometimes describe him in ways that make the case. i think to be in the running of thingresident, one of the is you have to have all three of those things, big accomplishments, consequential and you have to have strong personal qualities. to be one of the worst, you cannot have all three because you cannot do important bad things and be inconsequential. we have to sort of choose. dismiss the inconsequential president as a different category. you could have an argument about which presidents are the most irrelevancy,heir or the historical laughingstock, but that is not the same as worst president, so sometimes it gets a little lump together. -- lumped together. i do want to say, having written about bush when he was still in office, having written about reagan a couple decades af

ford, carter, and through no special fault of their own, james garfield and william mckinley. it does not make you a bad assassinatedget after 40 days, but it does not make you a good one, either. a bady, in do they have character, like nixon or andrew jackson? to be in the president for the best president, you have to have all three of those things. big accomplishments, and be consequential, and you have to have strong personal polities. to be one of the worst presidents you cannot have all three, because you cannot do a important bad things and be an consequential. dismiss the inconsequential presidents as a different category, you have a argument about who is a laughingstock or irrelevant but that is not the same as the worst president but it comes in the middle, lumped together. to wrap up, and i will talk about reagan in a minute, but i will say having written about bush when he was still in office and having written about reagan a couple decades after he left office, it is hard to see up close. there is a difficult and distorting lens around who was the worst. for that r

they are hoping it could be like it was for abraham lincoln or even 1880 with james garfield. my point is there is a feeling it would be democrats would benefit because theirs does not look like it will be contested. but a third of bernie sanders supporters may not vote for hillary clinton. >> if you actually see the disunity and if there is fistfights and name calling at the convention that usually is going to hurt i think. and i think the problem with hoping for a back room deal that might produce someone who's not even running is undone. because the primaries have really created a perception among the people that this is the way we do it. they forget parties do have control and in much of our history parties could make choices and could decide among the delegates but now there is a majority of those who say it should be those with the most noex. so if trump doesn't get it, i think it is going to be a really tough convention. it's possible. and who can predict what will happen? but it is likely to hurt. i agree that unless the bernie sanders folks feel compelled to feel good

john kasich maybe is not hoping to repeat patti ann in terms of the number of ballots cast but james garfield't eve haven't his name entered into contention until the 34th ballot and became the nominee on the 36th ballot. patti ann? >> interesting times. john roberts, live in wisconsin, thank you. >> reporter: thanks. >> you can see the tension that has been developing with the republicans. now tensions are also growing between hillary clinton and bernie sanders as they head into the wisconsin primary as well this week. the democratic rivals both rallying supporters at separate events in eau claire today. sanders trying to push forward with momentum gained from sweeping the western caucuses while clinton tries to inch closer to that delegate count needed for the nomination. rich edison is live with more details. rich, what's happening with this? >> reporter: hillary clinton's first campaign event of the day is almost under way in wisconsin. after months of voting and caucusing she's still fending off senator bernie sanders. he leads in the latest fox business poll there, 48-43. wisconsin vote

james garfield who was not even running. 1880. i enjoyed covering it. it is always good having you. thank you very much. >> always good being with you, neil. the same drama is going on now. everyone. what are we going to do? thank you. did not live very long. hillary clinton. a world of trouble to young voters. young voters, the guy in the white house right now. what does that say? after this. ♪ .... neil: whatever you want to call -- i always think, how did that meeting go. people are laughing at the name google. that is what it is. the earnings his appointment last night is not sitting well with investors today. those shares down more than 6%. it is what it is. you get it. [laughter] all right. i am trying here. work with me. hillary clinton is trying to say the same thing to young voters. work with me. even when bernie sanders steps out. she is growing very confident. having no choice but to hang it up. bernie sanders is their candidate. by an overwhelming margin. how she tries to woo them back. democratic strategist extraordinaire. one weak link. an african-american vote in almo

i go back to the time when james garfield was the chairman of the rules committee in 1880 and said thereconvention that bind as vote against my will on any question whatever. he went on as chairman of the rules committee and that convention to write a rule that's basically exactly the same as rule 37 in our rules today that prohibit binding of delegates and there's only one time in the history of the republican party where the national convention has adopt ad rule that actually binds the delegates to vote a certain way at convention. that was in 1976 when gerald ford was afraid ronald reagan was going to steal some of his delegates and able to persuade the convention rules committee on the convention itself to adopt the rule binding the delegates to the results of primaries previously held. >> your contention is regardless of the state rules that the delegates shouldn't be bound even on the first vote? >> yes. the supreme court has held several times and your network has done a lot of research into this and confirms that fact supreme court decisions have guaranteed the rights of individu

. >> james garfield style.chris, that he's made on our show yesterday, that this whole process is rigged? and he says, look, despite it being rigged, i'm still winning. and that i'm ahead by millions of votes over ted cruz. and he's out there trying to grab these delegates in these meetings. he's been doing so since the fall. that's why he says it's rigged. do you buy that argument? will it fly? >> no. it may fly, but i don't buy it. let me explain the difference. these rules have been set up since last year. it's not like they changed them in the darkness of a smoke-filled room last week. in colorado. in wyoming. and cruz knew the rules, worked the rules, and has won by the rules. trump, it's really on his campaign, the fact that they either didn't know or weren't paying attention to the rules and they have definitely gotten beat. now, may it fly? it doesn't sound good that you didn't in the case of these two states, he didn't have a state-wide caucus, didn't have a state-wide primary. it was done the old fash