john: not all colleges. a quarter million dollars in some. >> it isn't just college they are offering free. hillary clinton says we'll give you have free preschool. free preschool. >> as a mother of two preschoolers i should be the target audience and it still doesn't sounds like a great idea to expand it. >> true story, john. >> but explain why it should terrify other people. a lot of people say i need daycare and some families don't know how to teach the kids. >> do you think the k-12 education system is doing a good job educating our children? >> how about parenting? how does that sound? it's free for the taxpayer that are parenting. teach your kid at home. >> of course people want to have something to do with their kid. but i can't imagine the best thing to do with them is to hand them off to the government. john: most people think i don't know what the curriculum will be. this will give my kid a head start. >> going up against that are significant government studies of universal preschool which show kid

john: alexis? >> i think the system is rigged in favor of corporate interests against the individuals. donald trump is able to use the bankruptcy code to discharge debt that he owes his lenders four times in bankruptcy. but students who go broke are unable to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy. john: do you agree with bernie sanders who says it's unfair and we have to redistribute? >> a lot of the wealth is redistributed upwards. the top 20% of earners pay 80% of personal income tax in this country. the flat tax is simple. eliminate ways corporations are able to cure special privileges and special benefit. and it make it easier for everyone to pay their taxes. >> wealthy people have more benefit from taxation and they should pay more taxes. reporter >> government take away opportunity for young people to get in there and provide competition to some of the established companies. my makeup and hair was done by a young entrepreneur woman. she had to spend 1,5. >> 0 hours getting licensed. we

john: mr.mcafee. >> libertarianism is grounded in the concept of liberty but that is liberty quite slippery means our bodies and our minds belong to ourselves is liberty is lost when governments decide what is right or wrong regarding what we may do with ourselves. every law that is try to restrict or limit personal freedoms and personal liberty has failed. governments and countries have from allies prostitution or homosexuality. legislate what ideas we may teach our children. they criminalize the subject of alcohol or other drugs and what is the result? our war on drugs has not diminished because the consumption of illegal drugs has nearly filled our prisons with nonviolent citizens and created the most powerful and brutal job cartel in the world. prohibition did not reduce the consumption of alcohol. it created suffering through punishment and gave lives to organized crime. ideas like evolution but ideas have a life of their own and cannot be extinguished. liberty which is personal freedom ca

john: i am john heilemann. with all due respect to hillary clinton's list of favorite new york foods, what is this? chopped liver? happy tax/boston marathon/animal crackers day. campaign- ted cruz's is writing a high of political wrangling in wyoming and georgia where his delegates swept up state conventions, narrowing donald trump's lead. been closer to securing the republican nomination, and yet, he remains miles and miles yonder. he would have to win more than 80% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination before the convention, and trump is expected to diminish those chances with a likely win in new york tomorrow. it is no supplies that on a "good morning america" townhall, cruz was asked by a voter if he would ever consider being trumps running mate. >> i have zero interest whatsoever. [applause] there are a lot of reasons, but perhaps the simplest is, if donald is the nominee, hillary wins by double digits, and i don't think there is anything we can do to change that. john: that's not the first t

john: let's break up with government. >> we are done. john: that is our show tonight.ohn: what was that odd film clip i just aired? it is a new series that actually is about breaking up with government designed to make the problems caused by government more accessible to people, but it is an overbearing boyfriend. the series is called love go and has gotten nearly 2 million views. >> i know that we just met. john: we will debate that premise. i shouldn't do a show on this too many young people seem to love government. people like austin peterson who runs the website libertarian republic .com. you have the same name is a star on the film. john: you are a long time libertarian. you have now watch this. >> when you see him getting all of the sons of thousands of young people you know that something like this is being shared. >> this facebook post that says it is in name, that is what we need. maybe the libertarians need our own reality show. john: someone did supply, at no time has the majority been interested in raw knowledge. this we will do more than any lecture. >> th

john: petersen? >> timid men receive the calm of defertism, i would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty than too little. [applause] >> this is always the argument and no evidence that with all the metadata that's being collected. 110 million verizon users being monitored, that there has ever been an instance of thwarting an act of terrorism. so this is always the question, this is always the hypothetical but just doesn't exist, and if we create, look, it's one thing to open up one phone, but i'm siding with apple that they can't just do that. they have to provide a master key and if they did that, it could be the immediate death sentence if the chinese government got ahold of that, when it comes to a lot of chinese citizens. [ applause ] >> all right, moving on. you all support the second amendment. individual's right to own a gun, but some people with criminal records some, mentally ill people get guns, some commit terrible crimes. should there be any limit, mr. -- governor j

john: mr.mcafee. >> libertarianism is grounded in the concept of liberty but that is liberty quite slippery means our bodies and our minds belong to ourselves is liberty is lost when governments decide what is right or wrong regarding what we may do with ourselves. every law that is try to restrict or limit personal freedoms and personal liberty has failed. governments and countries have from allies prostitution or homosexuality. legislate what ideas we may teach our children. they criminalize the subject of alcohol or other drugs and what is the result? our war on drugs has not diminished because the consumption of illegal drugs has nearly filled our prisons with nonviolent citizens and created the most powerful and brutal job cartel in the world. prohibition did not reduce the consumption of alcohol. it created suffering through punishment and gave lives to organized crime. ideas like evolution but ideas have a life of their own and cannot be extinguished. liberty which is personal freedom ca

john berry: that is correct -- john kerry: that is correct. we would not have known protocol before. there was no relationship. charlie: iran and russia and the united states have shared goals? john kerry: we have shared goals and we also have real differences. the challenge is to try to manage those. let me give you an example. 2013, werst came in in ran into the challenge of chemical weapons use in syria. through a conversation between president putin and president obama that talked about what other options might be or whether or not there was a way to get the weapons out. through conversations between a rough and myself, we ultimately shaped a agreement. for the removal of all the chemical weapons. even as we were in controversy with russia on almost every other issue. charlie: address this idea that by crossing the red line as a symbolic act it has been a -- it sent a message to putin, a message to the iranians and others that you could cross the red line without consequences. all of those countries communicated that to you rather quickly.

john kasich is in third, 21%. the poll found that 81% approve of the job governor scott walker is doing. that poll was taken before walker supported ted cruz. the same number of walker fans support trump and john kasich combined. bernie sanders is beating hillary clinton, and in a head to head general election matchup, sanders beats all three, clinton loses to kasich, ties with ted cruz, and would beat trump. what is significant of that skyhigh approval rating amongst republicans now with less than a week before the primary? john: we thought there was no doubt that the walker endorsement of ted cruz would help a little bit. he is very popular with republicans, conferring his blessing on ted cruz may have been a signal of the fact that walker is also a cagey political operator and could see the momentum rolling in cruz's direction anyway. if he is this much ahead, you cannot help but think he will get more points at least in terms of that endorsement and steal the whole wisconsin primary on tuesday. mark: we don't

john: i would say john kasich won the day, and i will tell you john: i would say john kasich won the day, and i will tell you why. roger stone said he was more likely to be the nominee than ted cruz. mark: you have lurched uncontrollably into the truth. john: for story about hillary clinton's frustrations with bernie sanders. coming up, italy chang sits down to review the wisconsin primary. until then, we say sayonara. >> leaked files from a law firm say hsbc was one the most active in registering shell companies on behalf of connected clients. the records outline the creation of more than 200,000 offshore companies. shell companies can be legal and can also be used to hide wealth. california and new york acted to gradually push the statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour, the highest in the nation. new york will do the same by the end of 2019. ahead of tomorrow's wisconsin primary, and ted cruz leads donald trump by 10 percentage points in the latest polling. trump saying if he did not have kasich, i would automatically win. a new study on air travel quality says more flights are arr

john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. and just like everyone else in the next is, we are mourning the loss of a true prince. ♪ mark: even with prince's passing, the presidential contest speeds on, so we have a family tell all, but first, a trump townhall. on the same day that sarah palin came out about a facebook post about transgendered death room laws in north carolina, donald trump himself was asked on nbc's "today" about the laws, and he said that people should be able to use whatever bathroom they choose. donald trump: people go and they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. there has been so little trouble and the problem with what happened in north carolina is the strife and economic, i mean, the economic punishment that they are thinking. matt lauer: are there any transgendered people in your organization? donald trump: i don't know, i don't know. matt lauer: so if caitlyn jenner were to walk into trump towers and need use the bathroom, she could use whatever bathroom she wanted? donald trump: that is co

john: why?hey left the train station before the train left the station, and it is such a wildcard. ted cruz is more predictable. john: coming up, clinton versus sanders, the surrogates make their case. ♪ ♪ john: joining us now is someone who's eminently qualified to talk about the latest back-and-forth between bernie sanders and hillary clinton, hillary clinton's national political director joins us. amanda renteria: thank you for having me. mark: a lot of democrats are saying the back-and-forth between your candidate and senator sanders is not great for the party. amanda renteria: people will look at who is going to get things done, who is talking about the issues, and we hope at the end of the day, the conversation is one we can continue to unify the party when the time is right. john: or to use the phrase crocodile tears, is this bernie sanders and his team going after you this hard, do you take genuine offense, or is this the kind of thing where you think to yourself, he looks like a hypocri

john: and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to house speaker paul ryan -- mr. ryan: i do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. count me out. let me say again, i am not going to be our party's nominee. i should not be considered, period, end of story. john: so you're saying there's a chance. ♪ mark: happy just say no day, sports fan. on the show tonight, my conversation with ice cube. but first, the biggest conversation in the presidential race today came from someone who is not in the presidential race, and now, emphatically, he will not be. paul ryan held a surprise press conference among rampant speculation that he might potentially be a white knight running to the rescue should the republican convention in cleveland be terminally deadlocked. his resounding message today, not going to happen. mr. ryan: i want to put this to rest once and for all. i have remained neutral. my job is to ensure that there is integrity in the process, that the rules are followed by the rulebook. that means it is not my job to tell delegates what they should do.

john: and i'm john hellmann. and "with all due respect" to the rnc, summer is coming. ♪ song]of thrones theme john: happy earth day, earthlings. we remember prince, but first, the republican party's spring meeting in hollywood, florida which wraps up today. the rnc chairman urged leaders to unite again with whoever nomination.e it was a private presentation. full read-out of the presentation was first reported by our colleagues. in it, manafort laid out a case for why the republicans should not be worried about donald trump's very low favorability ratings. >> they don't like her. they think she's a liar. they think that she only does things in her interest. trump's negative with personality. some of the ways in which he has presented the issues. some of the style that he has. some of the ways that he has presented issues. it could be his personality that people are troubled with. fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than facing caret fixing negatives. you can change the way a person positions himself. whe

john: how? farmer who bought the city but bring my parents back but the guard did not like me. [laughter] so they would denounce me. i am hoping for the best that they are safe. >> do you consider yourself a hero? and rebecca i get discouraged a lot. people inspired me a free day -- every day. >> is there any point african americans will stop playing the slavery card? >> not to speak for the whole community but that victim card will never go away there is political value in it. with harriet tubman and could get in a time machine to come here and in 2015. >> harriet tubman time machine. >> great movie. [laughter] if she could read any tsa one dash essay about my progression, she would laugh her head scarf off. >> if you are in the black market how you get out? >> if they're caught they to get out or sometimes they are executed. they hate the americans. so my last problem to have the ambassadors but they don't like the ambassadors. [laughter] that our suffering is because people are starving. john

john kasich is in third, 21%.he poll found that 81% approve of the job governor scott walker is doing. that poll was taken before walker supported ted cruz. 45% of walker fans support trump -- support ted cruz. the same number of walker fans support trump and john kasich combined. bernie sanders is beating hillary clinton, and, in a head to head general election matchup, sanders beats all three. clinton loses to kasich, ties with ted cruz, and would beat trump. let's go back to the republican numbers, and take apart this poll. what is significant about that skyhigh approval rating amongst republicans now with less than a week before the primary? john: we said yesterday, that there was no doubt that the walker endorsement of ted cruz would help a little bit. he is very popular with republicans. conferring his blessing on ted cruz may have been a signal of the fact that walker is also a cagey political operator and could see the momentum rolling in cruz's direction anyway. if he is this much ahead, you cannot help b

john: with all due respect to john boehner, a fleshy lucifer? >> ted cruz is lucifer in the flesh. >> lucifer in the flesh. >> lucifer in the flesh. ♪ john: happy night of the living ted. indiana's judgment day, and the stop trump folks are trying one last mechanism. trump has been doubling down on his machismo. trump insinuated that hillary clinton would not be a viable candidate for president if she were playing the woman card. he pushed that at a rally with the legendary basketball coach, bobby knight. mr. trump: bobby called me up about a year ago, and he said to me, hey, donald -- he is the best, you don't get any better. tough. would you say he was tough enough? not just tough, smart, tactical, he was a winner and still is a winner, believe me. >> let me first tell you that i was very selective with players during the time i was here. i will tell you one thing, that man who was just up here a minute ago, that son of a bitch could play for me. john: that son of a bitch. trump's campaign in indiana also has a tv ad featuring donald trump jun

we will be right back. ♪ john: the numbers from wisconsin ♪ john: the numbers from wisconsin are in.he numbers of dollars spent on television ads in the state. ken goldstein now joins us from washington dc. let me ask you about a national question, where are we in terms of the ad wars? talk about the big numbers. ken: to date, $380 million has been spent on the potential -- presidential primaries on television advertising. $270 million on the republican side, $110 million on the democrat side. if you follow the money here, you would not necessarily find the winner. the majority of dollars spent on the republican side, some candidates are not in the race anymore. donald trump only spent $18 million on it tv advertising. mark: in wisconsin, where the two underdogs won, what was spending like? ken: in wisconsin, $8.4 million spent on television advertising. $3.4 million on the democratic side, $5 million on the republican side. interestingly, going back to the national numbers, overall bernie has outspent hillary $59 million to $51 million. his advantage in wisconsin was even more prono

john: everyone expects john kasich to be good at this. he is a goofy guy.ll last night. mark: i think they are both really funny privately and both not nervous on the shows. that's the key. you've got to be game to do it. they were both pretty game. the cruz thing where jimmy fallon played trump was great. john: it's hard not to be nervous, but they had it down. mark: on monday, you will get to see some comedy and competition when we show our foosball face-off with ted cruz. politics to bloomberg right now. coming up, emily chang sits down with arianna huffington. we will be back monday with more from our foosball match with ted cruz. mark is so excited he decided to skip ahead and tease it before i had time to tease it. mark: we came up with a lot of good nicknames for ted cruz. john: we did. almost trump-ian i would say. ted cruz, not a lot of banter. mark: if you want to see the eye of the tiger, watch monday's episode. john: thanks for watching. time to say sayanara. ♪ ♪ announcer: "brilliant ideas," powered by hyundai motors. ♪ narrator: the contempora

you know, i talk with him, i talk with john every single day. every day. i talk with john. and he talks back to me. which is wonderful. the saddest part came two days after his memorial service when i got a telephone call telling me that i would be awarded the presidential medal for the humanities. and i thought, oh, my god. why couldn't he have lived to see this? he was my champion. on the first day i volunteered at that tiny little station, wamu, which was on the campus of the american university, you went off the curb, you couldn't hear the station anymore. [laughter] but i came home, this is 1973. npr got off the ground really in 1970. and so wamu was not even a member of npr at that time. you had to have five full-time employees to be a member of npr, and we did not. i came home from my first day as a volunteer at that station, and john rehm -- honestly, this is so hard to believe way back then -- john rehm said to me, "someday you'll be host of that program." so he dreamed for me. he saw ahead for me in ways i could not see for myself. now, contrast that with what we

why isn't john birch on this sheet? she said you mean john birch? [laughter] i said yes. i don't know. thank you should investigate. she did. e-mail me back to weeks later to say i thank you are right. du want us to put john birch at the top of our list? [laughter] after all the first casualty of the cold war. i said that isn't my business. yes. you should put it in a form i sit idle the cameraperson you should talk to the family. this was two years ago i was there a couple weeks ago still not on the listed i said why? and that it is political. but just a second commentary in interviewing me about my grandparents and i stopped at the gravesite it if you want to talk about that? >> that is a great story. >> from the state department that was of really big deal. day remember the john mitchell trio? ♪ >> where would they stand now? there is a lot of consistency of the tea party politics with the strict interpretation and states' rights the opposition to gun control opposition to abortion and federal income-tax the lidia of conservative issues to live a very different times t

john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to verizon, i'm pretty sure you can hear bernie now. ♪ mark: on the show tonight a trump family sitcom. but first, some action and drama, with less than a week to go to the new york binary. the front-runners in both parties, hillary clinton and donald trump, hold commanding lead not just an empire state, but other eastern states up to vote after new york. both parties are still struggling to unify their fractured party before the convention. tonight, we start by looking at the pair of front wars starting with the democrats. new polls from quinnipiac university and emerson college today show hillary clinton leading bernie sanders in new york, 58-36 in maryland, and 49-43 in maryland. and a medieval of the clinton-sanders debate in brooklyn, tensions are quite high between the two democrats and their camps on issues of are very important to the left. such as guns, wall street, and fracking. today, sanders picked up his first endorsement from a colleague in oregon. a

john: what next?ard: i think at some point they are going to have to start reassuring democrats that he is not going to continue to bash hillary clinton on a daily basis. at some point, you have to worry about unifying the party and you need to take your foot off the gas a little bit. you can compete to the end, raise all kinds of money but if you're going to be calling her criminal, that she has violated campaign-finance laws, that is not helpful. i think you will begin to see a lot of people in the party say, you can contest this fiercely on ideas, but cool it with the ethics and personal attacks. mark: how do you feel about the effectiveness of trump attacking the republican national committee? kim: i think he has done a great job because simultaneously he is doing the same thing everyone else is doing -- he got his guys out there. if you do not think they are doing the same type of operations -- mark: what does he get out of messaging that way? kim: he gets to take it either way it comes. he gets

john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. and "with all due respect" to lead brooks, kasich nailed it three weeks ago. >> i got a feeling that when march madness ends, villanova may be the national champion. ♪ mark: hello and good evening. welcome to the wisconsin primary day. ted cruz and bernie sanders are both expecting big wins tonight, while their chief rivals, donald trump and hillary clinton, have been throwing up some buzzer beater attempts. there is more than just delegates at stake. two full weeks separate today's primary from the next big election, here in new york. we'll talk about all these candidates tonight, but let's start with donald trump, billionaire. the republican front-runner spent yesterday trying to woo voters from the badger state, where his wife made a rare appearance on the campaign trail and spoke on his behalf. from his zeroing on a targeted message about establishment forces trying to stop him. here's trump at a rally in milwaukee last night. trump: thesedonald are establishment people that don't

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