so not the margaret hoover were business. which of course is the perfect major if you're going to pay off that one trillion dollars. all right. let's continue to take a look at how americans feel about the college's price tag. we've got an exclusive point taken survey from our friends. they do these special surveys for us every week and this past week they asked is college worth the price tag or not. here's what they found. 55% of americans said yes, it is worth the price tag. so some of our studio audience. while 38% said no, not worth it. but consider this other interesting fact. when asked of the cost of college is out of reach for most american families, 75% of those same people agreed, 23% disagreed. so margaret, interesting. you are hearing folks saying college is worth it but they are worried that it's out of reach for a lot of people. how do you hear that? >> what that means to me is that we're in dire and desperate need for reform for the system. it feels, frankly navigating the financial aid process is an extraordin

want to bring in "the new york times" reporter alex burns, kalie mcnenen, margaret hoover along with andrew kurtzman and cnn's patti solis doyle who ran hillary clinton's last presidential campaign. margaret, level with us. these polls in these battleground states very, very close. did you think we would see such close polls between hillary clinton and donald trump? >> no. i'll be honest. but you see what you do see, and we know this, republicans fall in line, and you're seeing a consolidation behind donald trump in a way that even though you have arch conservatives and people who identified with very different principles in the republican party like myself, there are many people, senators, mainstreamers who are falling in line behind donald trump. that hasn't happened for hillary clinton yet because she doesn't even have the nomination. she's still fighting tooth and nail with bernie sanders. so, yes, while we couldn't have expected this as a snapshot in time, let's also remember what snapshot in time this is right now. she doesn't have the luxury of consolidating her base yet. >> an

republican consultant, margaret hoover, and trump senior adviser, steven miller. good to have all of you sitting here at the table. dan, i want to start with this late-breaking news. a.b. coldhouse. the man who ran john mccain's vp search and came up with sarah palin. what is this all about? who can you tell us? >> he did, and that is certainly what he is known best for, for obvious reasons. but he also is somebody who has been doing this for many, many years. many cycles. he is the go-to guy for republicans on how to -- and how to vet candidates. he actually was talking to our very own michael smerconish, just a few weeks ago, i believe, about what it's like to vet vp candidates. look at what he said. >> tend to be family issues. by the time that someone gets to a vice presidential long list, any personal issues have -- are already well-known or disclosed. but the intrusive nation of a vice presidential vet extends far beyond just the potential nominee and his or her spouse to family, includeing brothers, political affiliations of parents, that sort of thing. tha

joining me to talk about the democratic casserole, political commentators, margaret hoover, kayleighany point when he talks about the need to bring more people into the process. he tends to do well where independents can vote in the primary. >> senator sanders take on donald trump in november. we need every single vote possible. the 120,000 votes that went missing in new york, someone should go to jail for that. what happened in arizona, that's a travesty and mischarge of justice. i do think that will are ways that we can change this. one way is same-day registration. if you are independent and want to vote for hillary clinton or bernie sanders, you'll have the ability to. this comes out of bernie sanders' movement. am i afraid that this is going to be 1968? no. the backdrop was the death of king, robert f. kennedy and a massacre. we don't have that going on today. is it going to be exciting and contentious? it can be. >> donald trump wrote a book published by the illustrious trump university. you went to harvard. sorry you couldn't get in to trump. among the chapters in the book is

and republican consultant, margaret hoover, steven miller, senior adviser to donald trump, and sallynist that endorsed bernie sanders. good to have all of you. i will start with you, steven miller. donald trump was on another network, on morning joe program, and was asked about whether he was being trigger happy saying it was terror as it involved this egyptair tragedy. >> i can practically guarantee who blew it up. gl listen, donald, listen to yourself now. >> the mindset of a weak hillary clinton, which is four more years of obama is not going to make it for our country. we are being taken advantage of by radical islamic terrorists and this world is changing. and another couple of planes go down, mika, you'll have a depression worldwide the likes of which you've never seen. because nobody will travel. there will be no anything. no communication between countries. you will have a problem the likes of which you've never seen. >> the question is is he capitalizing on this for political purpose on fear with this particular event? >> if you look at the whole western world and it is not

bernstein, and patrick heely, correspondent for "the new york times," and two more kmen at a timers, margaret hoover and christine quinn. and jonathan ka seen ee, sanders surrogate. christine, what do you make of the tension in the democratic party? >> first of all, we're the democrats so we argue and feel strongly about things, so i'm not surprised, this is coming to the end of a very emotional, hard fought campaign. >> do you blame sanders for not tam ping things down? >> he should run as long as he thinks he should. if he wants to run until the last ballot is cast, that's his right. it could be better in the general election, folks that want to vote for bernie sanders will have had the opportunity to do that. obviously people need to behave in a dignified and civil fashion regardless of what party they're at and all of the gatherings, but i have no doubt this is typical end of campaign emotion and feeling and that come philadelphia we will be a united party. >> jonathan, do you agree with feinstein about what could happen at the convention? >> first thing i want to say, i do remember 1968. forthc

. >>> indiana voters are heading to the polls in a few hours and back with me margaret hoover, and kellynne and kaleigh and sally. and now, i want you to look at the moment from yesterday when carly fiorina introduced ted cruz. >> the next president of the united states, ted cruz. ♪ ♪ well if you ask me where i come from ♪ >> and you can play it over again, because i missed it. the cruz camp says that she did not fall off of the stage, but it appear tas she did stumble and walked off and disappears and then it is like, where did she go, and look at it. >> all right. >> oh, no. >> clearly a trap door designed to get more attention. >> and something like katy perry. >> and this is what donald trump said. and by the way, she felling off of the stage, and did you see? and cruz didn't do anything. even i would have helped her, okay. [ laughter ] >> kaleigh, seizing on the moment to criticize ted cruz. >> and it is brilliant, and whatever you think of donald trump, and the fact that he can take some little moments like that, and stump speech to make the whole panel laugh, well, okay. thankfull

i want to bring in margaret hoover and peter. let's start with you.s a big old deal having a list in your favor. >> a list can shrink. the gaps can shrink over time. some things aren't going anywhere. i find it hard believe people will radically change their beliefs on foreign policy, particularly middle east policy and i think they assume the former secretary of state is stronger on that but doing well with the economy and i think that could continue and grow. and certain issues matter differently at different times. in 2008, foreign policy was all people cared about. and then we have an economic collapse and you have john mccain who said, the economy is not my thing. but it mattered more. >> it matters a guy like donana trump not known to talk deeply on issues is going to have to at some point tackle these issues. do you think he's going to do it? >> i don't think he's going to have to talk about issues. he got through an entire republican primary without really talking about any issues. the most robust policy proposal is an immigration plan about h

. >>> back to our political discussion with maria car dona, margaret hoover, steven miller and sarah cone. we talked about hillary clinton's sort of nuanced response, she has to be careful that it is not conviewed as a weakness. donald trump is using his, strong, coming out right away saying, okay, this is terror, we should all, you know, deal with it. and then he makes the point about the second amendment, which everyone says is false, but steven says is true. you didn't get to make your point. you're saying what? >> i was saying that in the first instance we saw one of donald trump's tactics, which is focused on fear, right? talk about fearmongering, talk about what he knows people are afraid of and get people to support him and what he's saying. in the second instance, talking about saying that hillary wants to come and take your guns away, that's a lie. it is not true. which is another one of his tactics. he lived in a fact free zone for the past eight months in this campaign. and it doesn't matter how many people fact check him. you talked about it earlier. it is false what he s

cnn political commentator margaret hoover.alex burns, national political reporter for "the new york times" and jackie kucinich washington bureau chief for the daily beast. we can talk about what happened in the last conversation i had which we can talk about in a second but in honor of john berman who is under the weather today, i will be making a "star wars" reference so brace yourself. this is for j.b. alex, you liken today's primary to the death star hovering over alder ron and spoiler alert alderon blows up i learned. remind us, alex, who is who in that scenario. >> donald trump is the death star. ted cruz is sort of the one haplessly protesting we're a peaceful planet, please don't do this to us. obviously we need to let the voters vote but the polls seem to point in one direction. this could be close to the end of the line for ted cruz. any path for him to the republican nomination or even to a contested convention regardless of who it ended up nominating ha to run through indiana. if he does lose indiana today, if he lo

margaret hoover is here, she worked with george w.ush white house and two republican presidential campaigns, edward espinosa, official for governor bill richson, angela right, aryn williams. it's great to have you. so, ryan, there's this back and forth of a debate maybe. it sounds like a joke. it sounds absolutely silly, but john said it, in this election anything is possible. what do you think the chances are? >> well, i don't know. i think it would be a very highly rated debate. it's certainly something that senator sanders would want to do. it would help his campaign which is now struggling in the final stages of the democratic primary process. i don't think it's a good move for trump. trump is the republican nominee for president. he's going to face off against hillary clinton. his focus should be solely on hillary clinton and debating bernie sanders is really just kind of punching downward and not helping him in the general election match-up. >> i mean, the whole notion seems a little ridiculous, but admit it, margaret, you first

bring in margaret hoover and former george w. bush white house staff member john avalon.lyst, editor-in-chief of the "daily beast" and jeffrey lord. my man. trump supporter and former reagan white house political director. it's great to see you all here. so i am not joking. i think that there's so much out there, people have to decide what matters what doesn't, and why. let's start. the third-party scare by bill kristol. do we believe there is a mistress candidate that will be formidable and have a real shot? should we care? >> there's life still in it. right? that monty python thing saying, not dead yet. the dream's not dead yet. >> i think -- and -- >> hold on a second, jeffrey. >> jeffrey, you'll get your turn. i'm joking, jeffrey. look, there are republicans, as you know, that will not vote for donald trump, and they will not vote for hillary clinton, and it doesn't matter. what we're going down the list, the problem is who. it's not going to be anybody we recognize insofar as a name. not mitt romney. >> if it's not anyone you ever heard of, can this person come in an

let me bring in david catanese, and cnn political commentator hillary rosen and margaret hoover here,egist and commentator here at cnn, as well. welcome to all of you. david, you're up to bat first. you know, all of these different threads about marco rubio, the rnc meeting in hollywood, florida, last week. you know, he's not interested. but things would change. trump would have to walk issues back. cut through it all for me. what are you hearing here? >> well, look. i think you could have different advisers on different pages for the candidates. remember, all the campaigns lots of advisers and different titles and sometimes as a reporter it's hard to figure out or it's your job to figure out who's the closest person to that candidate and possible that an adviser down there at the rnc meeting feeling out, hey, what's rubio's next move? he lost the senate seat and going back to the private sector if he's not on the ticket. so, that is probably all possibility but more interesting, sort of a macro story in this and how all of these guys trying to calibrate what's going on with the vote

bring in margaret hoover, cnn political commentator and former george w.hn avalon, editor and chief for "the daily beast" and jeffrey lord, former white house political director and donald trump supporter. great to see you all. >> good morning. >> good morninging, ali. >> as we approach the memorial day weekend and the president in hiroshima, explain why it would be a good thing for world leaders to be rattled by donald trump? >> well, i think what we're seeing on the international stage is a version of what we've seen here domestically which is to say the outsider versus the insiders. just because you were the head of a foreign country doesn't mean you haven't managed to become in some sense part of an insider's club here, where everybody thinks the same, everybody does the same thing and meanwhile the results are terrible. so all he's really saying here is that -- people should be, quote/unquote, rattled in the sense that they should think anew and act anew and he would be a change agent in this. and that's a good thing. >> okay. john? >> yeah. i mean, l

so let's discuss all of this with our cnn political commentator and republican consultant margaret hooverthe "daily beast" john avalon. the argument from trump supporters. this may be old news, the clinton sex scandals, we lived through it in the '90s, however there's a whole crop of millennials that are voters that may not know about this, and they may be somehow poisoned against the clintons by hearing about this now. john, go. >> yeah. look, i mean, there is a generation that was not politically aware or alive that can vote now when all of these scandals first got resuscitated, but go into the garbage dump and bringing out all the old con spearies, paperbacks and vhss and airing them -- make a distinction. the self-inflicted sex scandals of the clinton years absolutely credible. some of the other scandals totally credible. the conspiracy theories -- we need to separate out the vince foster stuff. that's where all of a sudden you are trolling the american people, you're, you know, your typical bully pretending they're a victim and it really is indulging all the conspiracy theorists tota

i should say he was a ted cruz suppo supporter, and also margaret hoover worked in the bush white houset's campaigns. margaret, start with the kasich question. what's he doing? >> what is john kasich doing? look, john kasich should have run stronger in new york to help keep trump's numbers down. should have run stronger in a lot of places. does this become a pro-john kasich movement? put they are money where their mouth is and not never trump or have they run out of steam? >> answer that question. >> totally run out of steam and sort of roll over. what you've seen is an acquiescence among conservative intelligence and elites that maybe the best thing to do is to fall in line. we see democrat fall in line. republicans fall in line. maybe have to disprove the theory running like donald trump can actually win a general election. >> you're going to fall in line? >> is this about me? i have a very hard time, personally, hard time imagining myself voting for donald trump and a lot of republican women that feel exactly like i do. >> ben ferguson, follow up with that question. are you going to

let's discuss with our guests margaret hoover, cnn political commentator and former george w. have you here. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> talk us through what we are seeing. we have to talk about what attacks are fair? i guess it's the kitchen sink campaign? right? so everything is being thrown at each other. let's start with what donald trump has been doing, and that is bringing up bill clinton's, the accusations from women that are still out there about bill clinton having perpetrated sexual assault in the past. fair? unfair? >> well, it's inevitable. i don't know how you grade it ethically, because trump obviously is also partially deflecting attention against accusations made against him in the past, and just a complicated relationship with women and extramarital relationships. it's a degree of deflection. this election will be the big ugly. it's going to be everything. there is nothing that's too low, and this is just a sign of things to come, folks. you know, first you played the woman card against hillary, then the rape card against bubba and it's only going to