and bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard." and donna brazile.e question i asked marco rubio. how did we get here? >> it's been a remarkable nine months. i think this has been long in coming. i think donald trump's language in the course of these events and what he's done has set america back to a agree. donald trump didn't create the divisions that are in america. he's exacerbating them. instead of using healing language, he's using language that incites in the course of this. you have to give donald trump a credit for some things. he's speaking to a group of voters that feel unheard of in washington, d.c. by the gop establishment on any issues. on trade, on jobs. a lot of different things. but donald trump is doing it in way that is not bringing the party, for sure together, and it's not bringing the country together. >> bill kristol, how much has he been inabled? marco rubio said the media has some responsibility. how much is he enabled by the republicans themselves? who refused to take him on earlier? >> he's been considerably enabled. they w

bill kristol put his name into contention. what is bill kristol for president?think it is going to be paul ryan, of who miami huge -- of who i am a huge fan, the country would be well served. i do not think he will put his name in contention. >> just like he was not put his name in contention for vice president. >> he refuses to do something, and then usually does it. mark: one more. >> lame stream media 1000. john: in the ongoing war between donald trump and fox news, this side will win. >> who is fox news? john: really, in what way? >> because after november, he -- donald trump will not be a candidate for president of the united states and he will not be a president-elect for the office. foxnews will still be standing in a will be the dominant platform in our modern media. if you still standing after november, the donald trump campaign is not. >> i like how it is conditional. >> trout becomes president, it -- if donald trump becomes president, it will be like vladimir putin, where he edits the articles. donald trump will start start shutting down media outlets

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donna brazile and bill kristol. how did we get here? >> it's been a remarkable nine months. i think this has been long in coming. i think donald trump's language in the course of these events and what he's done has set america back to a agree. donald trump didn't create the divisions. he's exacerbating them. instead of using healing language, he's using language that incites. he's speaking to a group of voters that feel unheard of in washington, d.c. by the gop establishment on any issues. on trade, on jobs. a lot of different things. bringing the party or the country together. >> bill kristol, how much has he been enabled by republicans themselves. who refused to take him on earlier? >> he's been considerably enabled. they were busy with the bush superpac, $120 million. how much of that was spent against donald trump? i think $5 million. $25 million against rubio. if rubio loses in florida, part of it is because the bush campaign dropped $20 million of negative ads on him in florida. cruz and rubio spent more time fighting each other than trump. the failure to denounce trum

what you notice about a lot of these people, and kristol is typical of it, is they were people in thewing of the republican party, who are essentially discredited by the iraq war. they, you know, jeb bush used much of them as his foreign policy team. they were rejected by republican voters. they'll find a way to crawl back in, because in the end, they want power. and trump, probably, will be magnanimous, because he's happy to take anything from anybody, and exploit it to his own advantage. >> he has been willing. he represent himself as a counter puncher, which is true. he's also shown an incredible willingness to get over any sort of grudge to the extent it can help him again in the future. >> exactly. and karl rove, who has been involved in various anti-trump activities, he had a column last week that said, how trump can make himself more presidential. they're already kissing up to him, waiting for exactly that moment you said, when he's in power and they may have to just surrender. >> democrats are excited about the prospect of him being the nominee, to the extent that democrats ar

as irving kristol said at the time it is fair theology that it is our israel. and that coalition of the three helped propel ronald reagan to victory than alienated by the first pressure on israel to stop settlements and enter into the peace talks and by the mid-'90s they aligned with the liberal internationalists to intervene in the balkans. they constituted the coalition of aggressive nationalists and the christian right and after 9/11 they led the charge with rumsfeld and cheney into iraq is now less than a decade later they've been with the liberal interventionists and some of them are warning that they will back up hillary especially if trump gets the nomination but i believe that -- i will leave that. [applause] thank you very much. now we have the opportunity to talk about the 2016 election. he is a director at antiwar.com where he writes regular columns. he's also a regular contributor to the conservative and chronicle magazine and he's also written a handful of books on u.s. foreign policy and his talk is titled foreign-policy issues in the presidential

israel kristol is 112 years old, born in bold in 1903 and now lives in israel. he was presented with a certificate from the folks at guinness, he admits he doesn't know the secret of a long life and says he is determined, as he puts it from above. >>> richard simmens is speaking out about why he has not been seen in public in more than two years. >> for the last 40 years, i have been traveling, teaching classes, and i had a knee injury, so i had a knee replacement. which was very difficult for me. and now, my other knee is hurting. and i don't want to have another replacement. so i just really have been taking it easy. >> speaking to entertainment tonight, simmons dismissed reports that he was held against his will. the 68-year-old exercise guru says he still keeps in shape and is healthy despite speculation that he has been gained so much weight. simmons also said he is not done performing and will come >> good to hear. >>> let's get to your forecast. kind of a rainy morning. days. elliott. >> a lot cooler. a raw kind of feel. the east wind. the east wind is bl

i think bill kristol puts his name in contention. what is bill kristol for president.tionale for the crystal dan crystal dance see. i know you think it will be paul ryan. my friend. the country will be well served by him running for president. i don't think he'll put his name in coop tensi in contention. >> no precedent -- >> ryan says he refuses. >> and then does it. i will not eat the wheatties tomorrow morning. >> one more. >> we'll do lame stream media, you didn't let me do it. >> in the ongoing war between donald trump and fox news, this side will win. >> who is fox news? >> really? in what way. >> because after november, donald trump will not be a candidate for president of the united states, and won't be a president elect for the office. fox news will still be standing. it will be one of the most dominant platforms in our modern media. fox news is still standing after november. the trump candidacy is not. >> who has won so far? >> i would still say fox. >> i like that it's conditional. because if trump becomes president. >> no, if trump becomes president, it wil

. >> bill kristol, i know, and i'm disappointed in him and all of the others. of these establishment folk, they believe that they are kingmakers. no, they are not. the american people are speaking. they are saying, many of trump. me the most, greta, is the fact that the people are saying one thing, huge turnouts. record number of primaries being won by donald trump. but, yet, these establishment folk are saying well, we want to select the candidate, not like mike huckabee talked about yesterday. this is why i'm on the side of let the people speak. let the people vote. that's the way it was intended to be. >> well, you know, the people are speaking. you should see my emails. people are offended. they talk about the arrogance of people in the republican party. >> yes. >> telling them that their vote is a stupid vote or a bad vote or whatever. i mean, i wouldn't be surprised if this back fired because most people out there who voted for trump so far in the 10 states or whatever we have had so far they believed them and now they are being insult by the people in th

so bill kristol, you have been trying to stop donmld trump f some time. first i guess you were a little bit in denial. >> right. >> but can he be stopped? >> i kind of like being in denial. it's generally a healthy psychological state often mpared to facing rereity. i think h hcan be stopped. he had a good night. counting even the first four states, which voted before to have about 35% to 36% of the popular vote cast so far, about 40%, 42% of the delegates so far. he's an boff 50%. it's very hard to see any of the other candidates getting above 50%. i don't think it's true that getting another candidates out helps the antitirump cause at this point -- >> because you need to keep him from getting 50. >> yes. >> one of the big questions of this entire campaign is we now see actually tonight announced a big renewed effort to stop donald trump. what took so long? why now? >> might have been better -- there was too much tactical thinking about gee, if i take trump down here, we'll help cruz, and i prefer rubub or i i prefer kasich or i prefer jeb bush. think a

. >> bill kristol, one of the republican side is that threat going both ways. maybe they'll have a conservative run as a third party if donald trump gets the nomination. >> i think they're planning that matthew dowd's plan c is the one hillary clinton is winning a clear m mority of the delegates. that's the difference betwewe the parties. right. i think a lot of conservatives, republicans felt they couldn't support donald trump. we could have a third party this fall, i think. >> in the men time, kirstete an all-out effort in these two next weeks, trying to find a way to stop trump in ohio and florida. >> lot of folks view ohioo and florida as absolutely critical because of the number of delegates at stake there. by march 15th, you're looking at it may be too little too late. again, we have onlnl just begun to see folks on the republican side prosecuting a side that hillary clinton is going to be showing. but at this point with donald trump so far in the lead, if you look at the next few states, poll after poll show donald trump with a big lead. >> earlier this

can me go to bris kristol's office and say "let's make peace."minee, i'll make the big concession. >> he's called mcconnell, he's called ryan, does he have it in him? >> i don't think so. the thinthat scares conservatives the most is he knew two weeks ago he could start to pretend to be presidential and have gotten the people in the establishment that are waivering and yet he can't help thinlhimself. he sends out the tweets, he blesses his campaign manager who has the tendency to act like a thug. he can't help himself. where bill has a point and this is an interesting moment in history, he's not a conservative. i think that is what -- so do you end up having a fight about what is conservatism and do you have to fight for the conservatism that bill spent his entire life fighting for? >> here's the thing, though, if you are a conservative like bill and myself you're going -- i mean, i am, at least. i'm thinking about options and i think i mow what kind of supreme court justice i will get with hillary clinton as president of the united states. i'm n

this is one of the concerns going back to the bill kristol peace.ncerns is that if trump prevails and affects the republicans in diverse states to attract new people to the party, that could be a problem. is,of the lines of thinking without for rubio. i have heard this expressed several times. -- vote for rubio. i have heard this expressed several times. republicans have made great gains among florida's minority voters. you don't want to have that suddenly erase all the hard work of the par >> coming up monday morning, peter wainer. speechwriterr and for the romney presidential campaign. they will discuss the battle in the republican party nominee and who he will support for the nomination. then ken burns talks about his documentary on checking robinson -- on jackie robinson. and -- jesswn bravin will be with us to discuss the supreme court nominee. journal" everyon morning at 7:00 a.m. month -- >> monday on "the communicators," they discuss how and whether the fcc should develop privacy regulations for the internet. they are joined by howard buskir

sally kristol: -- krisel: we can track him any ballots are being used, if we need to get more ballots out to a precinct, brian: they really get a good insight into what' s happening they' re directly connected. we' ve had strong turnout here where we are in clifton. 79,000 people so far out of that 550,000. comparing to last year, when the last elections where they had a heavy turnout, we can' t do that, because they didn' t have those numbers. they have them now. and it' s thanks to those e-poll books that was the problem in trouble last time. live, brian hamrick, wlwt news 5. lisa: brian, thank you. people are lining up at the polls to make their voices heard. reasons for showing up. wlwt news 5' s dan griffin is live in saint bernard with what voters are telling him matters in this race. good afternoon. dan: good afternoon, mark. it hasn' t even been six hours since the polls have been opened, the people have a lot to say. there' m at step out of the stop -- and going to step out of the shot. we' ve been seeing lines all over, we were in sharonville earlier, we saw lines there is s

according to "the new york times," "the weekly standard's" bill kristol floated ben sasse of nebraska's name as a possible option for an independent republican ticket. meanwhile, former new hampshire governor john sununu endorsed the anyone but trump effort yesterday saying the goal is this. let's get to the convention in cleveland and figure it out there. and massachusetts governor charlie baker who endorsed chris christie before the new hampshire primary broke his months long silence about whether he would vote for trump in the fall. >> i have said that i wasn't going to vote for donald trump yesterday and i didn't. and i don't plan to vote for anymore november but i'm not willing to concede with 35 states to go that he's going to be the republican nominee. you know, i don't know how bernie sanders and his supporters feel today when people run around and say that the democratic nomination is over. i don't think the republican one is over either but i said i wasn't going to vote for trump yesterday and i'm not going to vote for him in november. >> the former standard-bearer of the repu

the weekly standard editor bill kristol is circulating a memo suggesting potential third party candidates, including former u.s. senator tom coburn, and ex-presidential candidate rick perry. coburn, according to "the new york times," has privately considered a bid but says he doesn't expect to be the candidate. meanwhile, perry's former campaign manager says the governor wants the gop to unite around senator ted cruz, whom he has endorsed. and today, nearly all of the remaining presidential candidates are scheduled to speak to the american israeli public affairs committee known as apac. hillary clinton, john kasich, ted cruz, and donald trump will all be in washington today addressing an expected crowd of 18,000. wow. several groups are expected to protest trump's remarks this evening. with a group of rabbis planning a walkout after he is introduced. while others are advocating a less disruptive boycott than the rabbis i guess. despite his typical off-the-cuff style politico reports that trump has quote taken input from a number of very significant jewish influences who have reaffirmed to

how's bill kristol doing? >> bill's a happy war wror. >> no, he's not!the west, and he's not going to be the nominee. that's six states out of this next 17. beat him in wisconsin -- >> so i see he put the chip in your head, too. >> i'm the neurotic one with the delegate spreadsheet and trying to map out how ted cruz can stop donald trump. >> let me tell you, we know bill kristol, bill kristol is a friend of ours, and you are the neurotic one in this group. >> dan balz, thank you very much for being upon still ahead, while humans may still be ahead of artificial intelligence -- >> well, at least for this week -- >> at least for now, sarah eisen explains a twitter experiment that went very, very wrong. >> you know what it's called? >> what's it called? >> twitter. keep it here on "morning joe." most of the orcas at seaworld were born here. sending them into the wild wouldn't be noble. it could be fatal. when they freed keiko, the killer whale of movie fame, the effort was a failure and he perished. but we also understand that times have changed. today, peo

. >> bill kristol, one of the things that we're seeing on the republican side is that threat going both ways. maybe they'll have a conservative run as a third party if donald trump gets the nomination. >> i think they're planning that matthew dowd's plan c is the one clear majority of the delegates. that's the difference between the parties. right. i think a lot of conservatives, republicans felt they couldn't support donald trump. we could have a third party this fall, i think. >> in the men time, kirsten, an all-out effort in these two next weeks, trying to find a way to stop trump in ohio and florida. >> lot of folks view ohio and florida as absolutely critical because of the number of delegates at stake there. by march 15th, you're looking at these winner takes all. it may be too little too late. again, we have only just begun to see folks on the republican side prosecuting a side that hillary clinton is going to be showing. but at this point with donald trump so far in the lead, if you look at the next few states, poll after poll show donald trump with a big lead. >> earlier this e

this is one of the concerns going back to the bill kristol peace. of the concerns is that if trump prevails and affects the republicans in diverse states to attract new people to the party, that could be a problem. is,of the lines of thinking without for rubio. i have heard this expressed several times. -- vote for rubio. i have heard this expressed several times. republicans have made great gains among florida's minority voters. you don't want to have that suddenly erase all the hard work of the party. this is one of the viewpoints i have heard articulated lately. host: james is joining us from orlando. good morning. caller: hello. thanks for c-span. thanks for the young lady coming in so early. i'm going to disagree a little bit with the nice young lady that preceded me. if you search on google, jim greer and marco rubio. get your pot of coffee. you are going to be reading for about an hour. this marco rubio [laughter] his past is not being investigated by the press. i am not party preferred. does the past matter at all? i would like to hear the l

bill kristol, going to experience there, all of the fuel, all the anger, all the outsiders. >> very good night to donald trump. some thought he would fade in summer, fall. ted cruz doing pretty well. >> one of the surprising things we have seen from donald trump across all of his victories so far, he's winning from every segment of the republican party, he's winning in moderates, winning among evangelical christians. >> on this highway there's a five-car pile-up happening right now. donald trump is winning across a number of idea logical segments. he's winning among voters who have less than a college degree. they're turning to donald trump as someone who's finally giving them a voice. >> cokie roberts, everybody in washington scratching their heads. >> it's beyond scratching their heads. there's probably heavy drinking going on tonight among the politicians in washington. and we had the remarkable scene senate and the leader of the house, republican parties, coming out and making statements, essentially against donald trump. because of the ku klux klan issue. you know, you look at these