i want to bring in trump national spokeswoman katrina pierson. good evening. >> good evening. >> we were listening to those comments, one of the things i thought was interesting, i want to follow up, you talked about the job losses in that part of upstate new york especially since 2001. small town america, when he goes out to these small towns, does he actually connect with the fact that those are voters but those are not the delegates? is he making that connection and does he take that argument to the convention? >> well he does connect with that. that is the message that has resonated along the south as well where he was very successful in tapping into the voters. one of the things i like to remind people, particularly with the discussion of creating jobs is that donald trump is the only candidate in the race that is actually done that. tens of thousands to be exact. so people know that mr. trump understands the importance of a person being able to feed their family at the end of the day and like, governor huckabee just said, the people are ver

we'll ask katrina pierson how mr. trump is handling this bumpy week on the trail? what happened behind closed doors during the rnc meeting and why is trump m.i.a. on the trail today. >>> the anaconda ad, ted cruz supporter and former reporter on that ad and the lyin' ted pile-on and how the snake goes around the neck. >>> the nuclear summit with more than 50 world leaders, wait until you hear how he describes the iran nuclear deal today. likes the jobs report, the dow jones industrial average near session highs. more than a 200 point reversal after initially falling when the labor department announced the unemployment rate kicked up to 5% but the economy created 215,000 new jobs. charlie gasparino switched his story, new news on how the clinton campaign plans to thread the needle on wall street, and we'll show you tesla's hot new ride. so hot elon musk is updating stunning reservation numbers for the model 3. less than an hour to the closing bell. time to gun the engine and start the "countdown." . liz: this is interesting, the dow is up 96 points at the moment. th

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he had no choice but to back off of it. >> katrina pierson and judson phillips. we'll continue these debates down the road. thanks so much to both of you. connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, and rhode island. they all hold primaries tomorrow. another super tuesday. we'll be live from polling stations in all of those states. we're going to bring you special all-day coverage right here on cnn. also coming up. >>> putting the pressure on isis. president obama announces plans to send 250 more u.s. troops to syria. what role will they play? and one of the commanders leading the fight against isis stands by to join us live from baghdad in the middle east. we'll be right back. >>> united states are adding 250 troops to the war in isis and syria. they won't be involved in combat but the role will be strictly advisor advisory. president obama made the announcement today in germany on this, the last day of his european trip. >> they're not going to be leaving the fight on the ground. but they will be essential in providing the training and assist forces that dri

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the national spokeswoman for the trump campaign, katrina pierson, is joining us. katrina, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> you just heard the cruz campaign is openly saying that a contested convention is their best shot of winning this nomination. is your campaign confident you can get to 1,237 before cleveland? >> we are absolutely confident, wolf, that we will get to 1,237 by california. you know, it's interesting that the cruz campaign is laughing and joking. meanwhile you have millions of republican voters right now who are tearing up their registrations as we speak. i really want to clear up something with regard to the voters voting. that is not what is happening, because the problem is when donald trump wins a state, the voters have voted, but yet the party system comes in on the back end on the delegate selection process to award delegates to other people. that's the problem. >> katrina, i saw a video of one guy ripping up his republican registration. i haven't seen millions of republicans doing it. where do you get that number? >> t

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joining me is katrina pierson. katrina p. >> good to be here. >> i don't need to tell you about the important delegates your guy hopes to sweep. first question out of the gate, is he going to sweep all 95 today? >> you know, i think we will. we're very confident. the state of new york and donald trump go hand in hand. he absolutely loves the state. and i do. i think we'll have a clean sweep today. >> with that said, it has not been a great 24 hours just in terms of your staffing in the campaign. stewart jolly, big field guy. off the campaign. this is following a couple of weeks of bad headlines and some rejigging of how donald trump runs things when it comes to try to win this contest. don't you think that can be damaging 24 hours before people are going to vote before seeing someone jump a ship? >> not at all. i think what we're seeing here is mr. trump engaging to move forward not just to lock up the nomination, but preparing for a general election. i think a lot of people are happy to see some of the individuals

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katrina pierson, the national spokeswoman for the trump campaign.is a clip of donald trump speaking about mike pence not that long ago. >> the governor's a great guy. i've met with him. he may not endorse. i don't think he'll endorse anybody, actually, and he may endorse us. i don't know. he's a great guy. he's become -- he's done a very good job as governor. and he's a great guy. i don't know if we'll get his endorsement. i don't think -- >> you don't think so? >> no, i don't think so. >> well, he did sort of endorse. he said he was going to vote for ted cruz. you're the spokeswoman for the campaign. your reaction. >> i think this quasi-endorsement was about the reelection more than it was about helping senator ted cruz. we'll notice in his endorseme s endorsements, he didn't say anything particularly bad about mr. trump and just that he was going to vote for senator cruz but it was wise of him, if he's going to support anyone, to try not to alienate anyone. he had a tough race last night and will have a tough race this time. >> mr. trump must be d

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let's bring in katrina pierson. national spokesman joining us live from dallas. thank you very much for joining us. mathematically, john kasich is out. he can't reach that 1237 magic number. ted cruz apparently can't reach it. nearly impossible for him to get to that 1237 number but their goal is to prevent donald trump from doing so. do you believe they have that chance? because they think if they can prevent h from getting the delegates on the first round, they will get it on the second or third round. >> i don't think that's going to happen. as i said from the beginning and the campaign has said that mr. trump is going to reach 1237 prior to the convention. even when we're talking about delegates, wolf, the math is there. donald trump is the campaign that has won the most contests, has the most votes, and will have the most delegate going into the convention. and then it becomes a question of electability moving forward. donald trump is a first-time candidate who won 60% in his home state which happened to be the state of new york. then you have a sitting sena

trish: katrina pierson, thank you so much. >> great to be here. trish: i want to hear from you all, what do you think? do you think this rigged system? or is the cruz campaign outmaneuvering trump rum in terms of the delegation fight? head over to my facebook page. you can like it. tell us what you think. we'll get the conversation going there. >>> plus coming up president obama heeding to saudi arabia amid uproar over the threat to harm our economy if 9/11 lawsuits against the saudis are allowed. if the trace of such threats are is he going on the trip? why won't he release 28 redacted pages from the 9/11 report which may indicate that the saudis were involved in those horrific attacks? new york representative peter king joins me. >>> plus in fox news exclusive. heidi cruz is with me. my big interview with the republican senator's wife. why critics don't like her husband and having kids on the campaign trail and what she would like to focus on on the campaign trail. i will see you here. every year, the amount of data your enterprise uses goes up.

i asked katrina pierson that exact question. look, why didn't corey say, michelle, i'm sorry, i was trying protect donald trump and get him out of the way. i apologize if i hurt you in some way. why didn't he do that? and she said because the reason michelle fields came forward with all of this on twitter. this was a fight playing out in a very, very public way, and because of that it may be difficult for the two parties to talk directly to each other. do you buy that? >> sure, for one thing, sorry is not big in the lexicon of the trump campaign, and beyond that as the trump campaign began insulting michelle fields and calling her delusional and she pulled back, it escalated on the focus of so much media coverage. trish: mercedes, did it cost him with women? >> i think it hurt donald trump, absolutely. what we did see is even within the conservative movement, there were many conservative pundits who backed michelle fields. a letter about 12 conservative journalists came out basically asking donald trump to ensure he would have c

katrina pierson, trump campaign spokeswoman with us from dallas, texas. thank you for your time. >> great to be here. >> and, again, a quick note for anyone who wants to watch that entire exchange between chris matthews and donald trump, kit be found in the hard ball section of our website, msnbc.com. encourage you to take a look. >>> let's bring in some analysis here. republican strategist, former campaign manage for mike huckabee. molly ball covers politics. good to see both of you. let's start with that charlie siccs interview. charlie says that the trump was already so underwater with women that those abortion remarks really didn't damage trump's base at all. what then did it do, chip? >> well, it gave doubt. and when you're going into a week that you got a big contest in front of you, the last thing you want to do is have any doubt. i would say this, thiss one of the few weeks that donald trump had a bad campaign week. but he had a bat one right before a big contest. obviously, i think they're getting prepared. i think katrina did a good job talking

. >>> we're going to turn to katrina pierson, the national spokesperson for the trump campaign. you for -- >> hi, steve. >> actually, katrina, we are going to get back to you in one second. we said we're keeping an eye on bernie sanders. let's listen in. i think he might be talking about last night. >> -- told cnn and i quote that their strategy as we go into new york, into pennsylvania, i guess, is, quote, disqualify him, defeat him and unify the party later. now, you know, as i have said a million times, i have desired and i have run an issue-oriented campaign. it's hard as we can see here, the media is not particularly interested about why. middle class declines, about wage and income disparate, that's not what you're interested in, but we have tried in rally after rally and many of you have been there to talk about the most important issues facing the american people, but if secretary clinton thinks just because i'm from a small state in vermont and we're going to come here to new york and go to pennsylvania and they're going to beat us up and they're going to go after us in

we are also going to talk to the trump campaign spokeswoman, katrina pierson. there has been news of potential shakeups in that campaign, a new pecking order, maybe. we will ask her about all of that. but as we speak this morning, new york now in the rear-view mirror. all eyes now on the five northeast states that are going to vote just six days from now, next tuesday. connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, and my favorite, the ocean state, rhode island, all of them voting next tuesday. will it mean the end of the road for ted cruz or john kasich or maybe more immediately for bernie sanders? speaking of ted cruz, he is in hershey, pennsylvania, this morning. we are expecting him at a town hall any minute. the keystone state the biggest prize on the board next tuesday. our team has already made their way to the next battlegrounds in this presidential race. we'll hear from them in just a minute. but let's start with what happened here in new york last night. let's take a look at the republican side first. donald trump action look at this, there was all th

supplement. >>> as donald trump looks to bounce back from a series of missteps, we're back with katrina pierson, the national spokes bank for the trump campaign. katrina, donald trump admitted to "the new york times" that it was a mistake to retweet that unflattering photo of heidi cruz saying, yeah, it was a mistake. if i had to do it again, i wouldn't have sent it. why didn't he say that earlier? what took him so long? >> it's something that he was thinking about and he wasn't sitting down in an interview talking about it either. this is one of those things that you acknowledge and you move on. he is fighting for the republican nomination and fighting back, by the way, again to this day no one has talked about the months that melania trump had been under attack before this occurred. >> he kept defending that decision to retweet that unflattering photo over and over again. finally to maureen dowd he acknowledged, yes, it is a mistake. is he recognizing that he's losing support potentially from female voters? >> not so much from that. i think it's more of how the media frenzy behind the chris m

katrina pierson, thanks for joining us. >> great to be here. trump campaign. john kasich, by the way, will talk about his new deal with ted cruz on cnn. he will join anderson cooper, 8:00 p.m. eastern. much more coming into "the situation room" now. we'll take a quick break. be right back. piece of equipment for me. the fact that you can travel with it as a laptop and use it as a drawing tool, it's the only one i need. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation. have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven't worked well enough. hu

joining me national sportsperson katrina pierson. ted cruz got 14 out of 14 delegates. he got another 3 out of 3 in south carolina. i know you guys don't like the delegate system but what can you do about it? >> we are going to expose the delegate system. we do expect to win handily in new york. sweeping the state would be great and if we don't, it's still a win. senator ted cruz did not win his home state by 50%. charles: it would help to give one state over 50% to say hay, listen, it would be also amazing considering that after this northeast swing, those other states are critical. >> he will do very well in the states coming forward. senator ted cruz is in fourth place. senator cruz by the end of april will be mathematically eliminated. the onatly phway he has is the disentrance chiesment just like in georgia where voters didn't count. charles: he's playing this delegate game better than he is so far. how far is donald trump willing to go to play the delegate game? >> he's not interested in giving out goodies. that's not very democratic, is it? we are talking about v

joining me now, katrina pierson, and rich lowery. good to see you both. so katrina, the media, they love these stories. we saw this four years ago. any campaign shuffle or shakeup of any sort is, they're falling apart! you tell me whether that is real or wishful thinking by the publications we just listed. >> it is completely wishful thinking. the rumors of the trump campaign demise are greatly exaggerated. mr. trump has won 21 states. senator cruz has won 9. we won 7 of senator cruz's states that he was supposed to win. yet there's this magical ground game. this delegate system is an extension of the state republican party. therefore, a construction worker who maybe has two shifts is not going to make it beyond the pyramid process from the precinct level or the congressional district. he's working with the establishment and that's how he's getting the delegates. >> everything she said is right, is it not, rich? >> yeah, and anybody who is writing trump's political obituary is making a big mistake. it is true that the trump campaign wasn't built for this.

katrina pierson and national spokesman for ted cruz, ron nehring.o pc that caitlyn jenner should be able to use which ever bathroom she wants. explain to me what the position is here that individuals like caitlyn jenner should be forced to use the men's room? >> no. i think the issue is what happens at our high schools and our elementary schools and the like across the country, particularly in the case with north carolina which exercises its rights to enact legislation aimed at clarifying this particular issue. this has been an issue in my state as well. people are concerned about having the prospect of having grown adult men in a bathroom at school and the like. that's something that many people find offensive and inappropriate. >> has this ever happened, that you know of, in california, or anywhere that you know of, a tra transgender in a bathroom harassing a girl? >> difficult laws are being phrased in different ways. part of the issue in my state where it has been debated in california,an anybody walk into any restroom of any gender at all, the

we're back with the trump national campaign spokeswoman katrina pierson.o tear the country apart. they were bitter, very angry in their denunciation of donald trump to which the campaign put out a statement saying, ask how successful they've been since they left. six failing wannabes out of hundreds of contestants. so sad. you heard some of their comments earlier this hour, katrina. is that the best response? you think that's appropriate, the campaign's response to what we heard from him? >> we're talking about people who were given an opportunity of a lifetime. and some were successful because of the show. one actually won one of the seasons, and then they come out for their own personal gain, as mr. trump says. they just wanted to be in the limelight. otherwise, they wouldn't have held a press conference. they say it's not donald trump himself. it's the campaign. and they know nothing about the campaign. so to sit there and hold a press conference to criticize the campaign and not mr. trump himself saying things like racist, xenophobic, sexist, you name

joining us now rebecca bird and katrina pierson. rebecca. what you pretty well frozen in time in wisconsin. the last two polls before today 5 and -- and 6 point advantage. and arg has trump ahead. >> in our polling average we still have ted cruz with a slight lead over donald trump but it's not a commanding lead and it's not going to be a commanding outcome, i think in wisconsin. ted cruz is hoping to win by a few points there. but this won't be the dominant victory that would be the end all-be all for any these candidates. lou: does your internal polling suggest -- your candidate is out there talking about it's going to be a delightful surprise he believes tomorrow in wisconsin. what do you make of it? >> we have always said that yes, wisconsin, is competitive. but we are definitely competing in that state. in trump had self events over the weekend and will continue throughout tomorrow. we are pretty confident we are going to do well. this is not a do-or-die moment for the trump campaign. how, it is a do-or-die for the cruz campaign. if we

joining me right now, evan siegfried, and trump spokesperson, katrina pierson.o have you guys here. we hear donald trump speak in indiana and talking about kasich's eating habits, what is happening with the whole philosophy to get him to be more presidential? >> this is something we experienced and mentioned this whole time. donald trump is going to be donald trump. at the rallies this is opportunity to engage with supporters. they love him. back and forth, give-and-take, when he talks like that crowd goes wild. trish: they do. >> they have a good time at rallies. you see speeches and interviews where you see more presidential, whatever that is supposed to mean donald trump but he is not going to change that. trish: i think about him. trish: when i hear him speak he is very, very smart man, extraordinarily successful, but he has not lost the street fighter mentality from queens. i think that is in fact, evan, whether you like it or not, and i'm guessing you don't because i heard you talk about him before, that is what people respect. >> that is his supporters re

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. >> katrina pierson is national spokesperson for the trump campaign.ood to see you again tonight. so the abortion remarks were so controversial that he was condemned by both sides almost instantly. there was no one defending him, no one. and he came out and did a full 180. to those who say mr. trump misspeaks a lot, he said the war in afghanistan was a mistake, and said that was misspeaking. he said that obamacare, that he likes the mandate, and then said no, he misspoke there. he said women should be punished for abortion if abortion is ruled illegal. now he says he misspoke there. what say you? >> i say when you are a political candidate for eight months, you are speaking off the cuff. mr. trump, that's one of his appeals that he's not a scripted politician. with regard to this specific account with abortion, mr. trump did provide a statement two actually. at first, the media frenzy is trump called for a ban on abortion, which in fact he did not. that was the original statement about leaving it to the states. the second regard, he wanted to clarify h

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with me katrina pierson, national special woman for the trump campaign.t to couple with polls that couple out as well, that i thought were kind funny. look at temperment. asked voters who has temperment. hillary does, sanders does, cruz does, trump no way he doesn't have temperment of the who has the knowledge, hillary, sanders, cruz, trump doesn't have the knowledge. who do you want the gop nominee to be look at this one, trump. this is dichotomy, you don't have the temperment or judgment but we want you. how do you guys reconcile that. >> has a lot to do everyone they're saying has these qualities are politicians. we live in society that for decades political correctness, multiculturalism. we have to coddle adults and mr. trump doesn't represent that. even though psychologically people think he doesn't have the qualities they know intrinsically mr. trump has what it takes to get things done in this country. melissa: when you have internal conversations about what happens like in wisconsin, there is half, you know the pundits, the problem was trump got o

>> they say that but katrina pierson said they're confident they'll reach the delegates by june. going to go to colorado in a few this hour and trump has cancelled appearances out west and great questions about the ground game in colorado and seem to all but given up and get a delegate out of what's playing out there. >> reporter: right, and you heard paul manafort saying he was asked about cruz's sophisticated campaign on the ground and said, look, cruz is running a very clever campaign and we're going to do our own delegate stealing in the weeks ahead. and sign seasoned operatives and say they're on the game and getting on it now. >> thank you very much, jacob rascon and more on the republicans later in the hour but now back to the democratic race. it was once cordial and now it's taken a different tone. the question is how long will it last? this tone that we've heard the past few days. hillary clinton sat down for an exclusive interview with "today show's" matt lauer. the state of the primary race and the e-mail investigation that continues to hang over her presidential bid.

dan balls and we'll start with the national campaign spokesperson for donald trump's campaign, katrina pierson. thanks for taking a few minutes. let me ask you this. your candidate, donald trump, has been complaining calling it rigged. he went 0 for 37 with delegates -- 0 for 34, excuse me, with delegates there. we went back and looked. this is august 2015. this was the headline that appeared out in colorado. this is the headline that appeared in papers around the country saying that colorado was canceling the vote at its 2016 caucus and saying this is the process. the process has been clear in colorado since last august. seems to me you guys are surprised now to find out that's how it worked but you knew all along, department you? >> well, of course, and that's what mr. trump has said. he's just identifying the rigged part of the system. what they have done is put in a pyramid scheme essentially to choose delegates. for example, in colorado, if you have 3800 people show up to be delegates, you would expect those who have been credentialed and those who have names on the ballot to actually rec

martha: katrina pierson is trump campaign national spokeswoman. morning, martha. martha: how do you answer that argument? that donald trump who portrays himself as a master businessman, a manager extraordinaire, someone who puts good people in good positions could allow that process to get so far away from him and then say it is rigged? >> well the process isn't far away from him, martha. mr. trump is talking about exactly what happened in colorado. yes, we have been winning despite some of the rules put in place. we have a national party that changed rules to try to stop a outsider last time. in this case those rules are benefiting donald trump because he is beating the system. with regards to colorado, this isn't even about the rules per se. this is about leaving our delegates off the ballots, losing their credentialing paperwork so they couldn't get in to be voted on to begin with. martha: the reason they lost because of what way rules are in colorado. people in colorado voted on rules in place over two separate processes to create that system.

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. >> joining me now is katrina piers pierson, national spokesperson for the trump campaign. let's start with the polls in wisconsin showing over the past 14 days or so, senator cruz has been able to expand his lead. it is not in the double digits at this point. but it certainly appears that in wisconsin, donald trump is against the ropes. how do you see tomorrow? >> i think we have known for quite some time now that wisconsin was definitely going to be challenging. and i'll point out that just a few days ago, polling was showing that senator cruz had a ten-point lead, and we see that lead shrinking now. i think things in wisconsin are a lot closer than most people want to believe, particularly because there are a lot of independents who are not showing up in these polls that will be voting for donald trump. >> but wisconsin when you look at the demographics, when you look at some of the issues important to the voters in that state, by all standards, it should have been a place right for donald trump's message of make america great again. his issue with trade, and appealing t

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. >> katrina pierson is national spokesperson for the trump campaign.ood to see you again tonight. so the abortion remarks were so controversial that he was condemned by both sides almost instantly. there was no one defending him,