cramer from the city of broad shoulders and home to the john hancock willis and trump towers thank youor taking my call. >> of course. how can i help? >> caller: jim, banks of late are under revenues and earnings pressure and cost cutting and mixed first quarter earnings reports indicate, recent fed speak to defer normalization will delay increases in their net interest margin they so desperately need. >> indeed. >> caller: sin tech will continue to fuel disruption in the banking secretarier. number 33 on cnbc's disrupter list. jim, your thoughts on lending club. >> i don't like it. i don't like it because i think it is very hard to understand and i think they have more risks than people realize. i have not liked the stock for a while and that's been right and i'm not changing my view here. i do like dave your mosaic of what you had to say about it but i don't like the stock. >> greg in washington. greg. >> caller: jim. a happy friday world bank inf meeting booyah. >> i was going to give you a flyers capital booyah. >> caller: as we see after growth in institutional investing do you be

i had the chance to meet willie's son, john luke -- >> willie? >> robertson. >> there's only one willie. >> i know a couple of willies. >> as well as jim kelly's daughter, erin. fantastic to see everybody. >> we missed you. >> of course, jerai jerry fall jr., too, very nice. >> we all had favorite movies of kevin costner -- >> i thought he was back today. >> caused a hubbub. >>> it is two minutes after the top of the hour. ethier joins us again today -- heather joins us again today. a fox news alert? >> yes. brian wants to take on kevin costner. good morning, everyone. >> i guess we'll have to give brian our kisses today. >> he needs the attention. >> i got to get the back story. >>> good morning, everyone. i have a serious story to start out the day with today. a fox news alert right now. a columbus, ohio, police officer who was shot in the line of duty over the weekend has now died. 54-year-old steven smith was wounded during a standoff as s.w.a.t. teams tried to serve a warrant. he was a 27-year veteran of the force and now leaves behind a wif

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john t. edge: okra's perfect. >> anthony: yeah it is. oh man, that's good. >> willie neck bone. >> anthony: oh yeah, i'll be working on that. once -- >> willie simmons: we forgive you and don't hold it against you for doing it. >> anthony: i could eat this okra all day long, man. it's good. >> willie simmons: and i wanna know what you think about those greens and butter beans. >> anthony: oh man, they're nice. man, that's tasty. do you think the right people get the credit for southern cooking as we know it? >> willie simmons: i do. >> anthony: you think the right people get the credit? i mean, look, you -- >> john t. edge: people know. people know who's behind this food. whether it's called soul food or whether it's called country cooking. >> anthony: how is the delta -- the mindset of the delta different than the rest of the state? >> willie simmons: no one else can compare with us. like there is no other senator who can sit and talk to you and tell you that they represent dockery plantation, where the blues supposed to been born. there's no one else can tell you th

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willie, joe, and me. it's voting day. it's going to be exciting! >> the collusion thing is not working so well. john kasich was asked yesterday about the collusion and he said we're not working together. i don't want my people to vote for him. i think i'm going to win. >> he sort of did. he sort of admitted to it. the whole thing was awful. a couple of questions -- >> yes. >> i mean, i whine but why did this get reversed? >> reversed? >> i thought it was done. >> the appeals court said roger goodell has the power to oppose that suspension. >> wait. >> the commissioner -- >> aren't we done with this thing? is this the deflated balls thing? >> yeah. is he going to do this, too. >> that's a shame. i think they just -- >> i got another question -- >> okay. this de blasio stuff. i see it all over the place. it's big, exciting headlines. i don't really -- when i read what they describe, when they describe what he's done it sound an awful lot like what every politician does. like, i gyet to read a line fro this. not just the "daily news" where i said "oh, my god! he did this." and he talked to supporters a

john kasich. >> come on. go ahead. >> willie, show america how it's done. >> pretzel. >> how do we eat on tv?o to ben's pretzels facebook page for a chance to win. >> we're working on the "t" here. you know how the shape of the pretzel came around? apparently, a monk created it in the -- 1610. not even the 1600s. it's 610. it's written here. legend has it. i don't know a t >> man, that's good. >> created the pretzel. >> thank you, ben's. these are amazing. >> in honor of john kasich, i'll do the weather with a pretzel in my mouth. thank you.n live tv. that was a bad idea. sorry. okay let's talk storms. we actually have a severe thunderstorm watch in yellow here. in kansas city we have a severe thunderstorm warning. you can see a lot of cloud to ground lightning here. that's going to continue to move east then we'll get a break and see another round of stronger thunderstorms develop this afternoon. this area in red we could see some of our stronger storms later on today especially south central nebraska. also through kansas too. that's where the possibility of hail, 3 to 4 inches in diameter i

john kasich. >> come on. go ahead. >> willie, show america how it's done. >> pretzel. >> how do we eat on tv? >>6s ben's is giving away a year's worth of pretzels like these. go to ben's pretzels facebook >> we're working on the "t" here. you know how the shape of the pretzel came around? apparently, a monk created it in the -- 1610. not even the 1600s. it's 610. it's written here. legend has it. i don't know about the "t." >> man, that's good. >> created the pretzel. >> thank you, ben's. these areamazing. >> in honor of john kasich, i'll do the weather with a pretzel in my mouth. >> eating on live tv. >> that was a bad idea. alking to myself >>> let's talk storms. back through the plain states, we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect in yellow here. in kansas city, we even have a severe thunderstorm warning. you can see a lot of cloud-to-ground lightning. it'll move east. then w tll get a break. then we're going to see stronger storms develop later this afternoon. we could see stronger storms later on today. es pecially south central nebraska, also through kansas. that's where the poss

would cite -- >> i literally only speak in john travolta movies. [ laughter ] >> seth: i like that you consider that a travolta movie. it's such a bruce willisah, that's weird. >> 'cause then the sequel had rosanne. >> seth: oh, right, rosanne was the baby. >> she was his sister, and then -- >> seth: was the dog talking in one of them? >> oh, come on. you better believe the [ bleep ] dog was talking. [ laughter ] sorry i can't say that. >> seth: you can get away with it. oh, that's right. we're gonna get to that. but who was the voice of the dog? >> i don't know. i'd like to think it was just bruce willis again. >> seth: probably. [ laughter ] now, it's interesting, 'cause you knew you couldn't say that word. because your show deals with so many issues like, cosby, islamophobia, issues that other sitcoms don't deal with. >> you know, zany sitcom topics like gentrification. [ laughter ] >> seth: have you, we obviously work at the same network. we're both doing network shows. have you run into stuff with the censors, with the nbc people? >> we did the cosby episode. and i've never talked to so many lawyers before. [ laughter ] >> seth: really?

willis is covering comments about the u.s. headed for a massive recession and we'll get to that. first, john roberts is live in lacrosse, wisconsin, two hours northwest of the capitol in madison. >> reporter: good afternoon. donald trump held his first event of the day, now in superior. he knows all about momentum. wins tend to create wins so head like too win because he builds more momentum and pick tier the delegate prize in new york. he will be introduced in duluth by iowa wife, trying to convince women in wisconsin who skeptical about voting for trump, if i love him, maybe you can love him. donald trump turning his focus toward ohio governor john kashich, saying it's fine if john kashich wants to go to the convention but he should get out of it. he should get out of the race and stop take votes away from me. listen to how case sick responded -- kashich responded. >> he is 1-30. he lost, like, 29 or 30 or 31 times. whatever they hell it is. every single state and every single island, he's lost. >> donald trump said i need to get out of the race because i'm getting his voters. no. no i've

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willy nilly? no, that's not the issue. the issue is when they cheat. >> johnking to larry kudler last night and cnbc contributor larry is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, simon. >> kasich has gotten better at this. >> you're right. that's a pretty good observation. he's got good messaging now. he's on a growth message. i like his liberalized trade position. i think he's exactly right. at the beginning of that there's another clip. he kind of hedges. then i push don't tariffs hurt consumers for example. and then he went into the competition, which is very good. so good for john. he's got a good tax plan. he's pro grouchlkt i think, by the way, he's going to edge cruz out for second place in new york which in delegate terms is actually worth something. >> i'm glad you raised something to ted cruz because, he was on "squawk box" for an hour this morning. it was a wide ranging interview. pra perhaps the most poignant was playing it. take a listen. >> the fed has for those with assets has drin up stock prices but that's not built on anything new

. >> john kasich his establishment, and yet the establishment doesn't take the guy, willie, who is up by, what, 12 points? and has been consistently. >> and has been consistently. it's the stupidestist thing. the establishment is making one stupid move. >> the nbc wall street poll the national number, which doesn't matter, it has kasich at 40 -- marco rubio had 20% around the last time around. how does it get divvied up when rubio gets out? donald trump got 10%. he's up 10. cruz got eight points. he's up eight. remember the argument once the other guys get out they're going to rush to the anti-trump. half of them went to trump. >> right. >> all right. >> has trump said all along he said everybody is adding up is not for me. i'm going to get the voters and he has. >> if kasich cannot do well in pennsylvania, the state where he was born, he doesn't have much of an argument. >> i wonder if he gotten the backing from the people that tried to push cruz to stop donald trump i wonder -- >> that's my point. a two-term governor from ohio. >> with the national security vision in line with the w

set we have the managing editors of bloomberg politics, john heilman and mark halpern and in washington sam stein who was up way too early. >> willie. >> that's okay. >> the thing is you saw billie, she asked you a question, who buys two mini vans, right? guy with two families. your wisconsin people, i don't know if they surprised us or not but it was an identical story on both sides where you had both front-runners losing by 13 points and then the question being is it going to have an impact in the end at all or not? but, still, what a big night for the underdog. >> yeah. the public polling was actually underestimating what ted cruz was going to do last night. had it about 10 points. he won by 13 points. this now becomes the story of delegate math. we're looking at the convention and unless donald trump can pull something huge in the states coming up because even the rosiest projections of the northeast and california get him a little under 1237. that doesn't count those unbound delegates. this could come down to the negotiation and the convincing, swaying. >> unbound delegates. >> become the nominee of the party. mark halpern goi

as willie noted earlier in the show, it bolstered the kasich argument for staying in the race. as long as johnong with ted cruz, you're talking about a split -- the splitting the anti-trump vote. mitt romney made this point the other day. as long as both those guys are in the race, that's good news for donald trump. it's great for trump cruz came in third in and of itself, also great for trump cruz came in third because it gives kasich an argument for going on. as well as kasich goes on that's doubly good for cruz in the states ahead. >> gene, thank you very much. >> zapped by electricity. >> i know. funny thing. >> steve stays with us. still ahead on "morning joe." >> the actual delegates that go to cleveland are elected by the people. if you want to elect delegates, your supporters come and vote. every other presidential candidate knows how to figure this out. by the way, every presidential candidate has known how to figure this out in every cycle. the donald trump doesn't know what they are doing. it's a kim kardashian reality show. >> ted cruz continues to rale against trump's campaign. >>

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john kasich voters may change their mind. who may benefit from this? a lot of jockeying and last-minute decision making this election cycle, gerri willis, connell mcshane first, before everything. wait a minute. gerri: why would you be that horrible to connell mcshane? he is pretty. charles: what about who is going to get the late deciders? gerri: i got to tell you, trump gets late deciders but how many will there be? it has taken karch money, every political commentator on radio, all of the republican party to get ted cruz on top in wisconsin. charles: got momentum. the thing that has helped donald trump, he was crushed in early voting, louisiana voting day, ted cruz had more votes than donald trump. that is starting to change the game. >> because of the 40%, most of those are second choices, ted cruz. ted cruz momentumwise, they buy into a trump movement. the world, all these people we heard from, trying to stop donald trump, as the message gets across more and more junk a 6 supporters go to ted cruz, not donald trump. charles: a stronghold for donald trump, does that worry democrat in the general election? charles: i do -- charles: one thingabout po

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john, good morning. >> hi, mary. got a new suit and everything. i'm ready to go. this is an exciting day today because you know i'm cheap. i do not buy clothes just willie nilly. toasty rays later today, you bet. some folks in the 60s. some folks around 78. and to the west, we're going to be right around 81 degrees. so warmer than it was yesterday. this is the warmest day of the week. going to see the front cut the numbers down by about 10 from monday into tuesday but sunshine, you bet. uv forecast is up. if your out there, enjoying it, put sunscreen on so you stay safe. kyla is in for alex. >> thank you. >>> good morning, everybody. we have an accident to tell you about this morning. we're going to look at the map, route 84 is closed eastbound at exit 5a due to an accident involving a truck with a debris spill. route 207 is going to be the and pleasantville, the saw mill river parkway closed between exits 29 and 27. drivers are going to be detoured around this on to marble avenue. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect city-wide. chris and mary, over to you. >> thank you. >>> the yankees and mets saw action on sunday. >> and the first-ever e