cnn political commentator and washington correspondent for the new yorker ryan lizza maria cardona. your reaction, that trump himself may have leaked this audiotape? >> i think sue carswell has some major explaining to do for her accusations are they're inflammatory. as she's gone on her media blitz the last 24 hours it's amazing, her story has changed and has presented some flaws to it. when she first did her story on nbc it was basically, okay, fine, it was her opinion, it was the story. then she went on another news network and told the female host on that network that she had actually -- there were two copies of the tape, she assumed mr. trump had the other copy, and that when she moved she lost her copy. so that's why this couldn't be her that leaked it because her copy was lost. so she makes two assumptions there. then she goes on this morning, on michael smerconish's show, and she comes up with this accusation that mr. trump leaked it. which is absolutely insane considering the trump -- it's actually very libel almost because that's saying the trump campaign leaked something

turning to you, maria cardona, a hillary clinton supporter.der what you think about what you heard from bob dole when it comes to advice to trump in taking on the clintons. he said the clintons have a whole lot of baggage. >> well, if what he means by that is that donald trump should continue to hit the clintons on whatever he believes that baggage is, i think that would backfire. you know, again, we were talking about earlier about addition versus subtraction and what donald trump did in the republican primary process to win. it's very different than what he needs to do in the general election with a general electorate for different than the republican party. these tactics will backfire. you can see republican strategists saying those tactics backfire. specifically with an incredibly important demographic, which is women. women get turned off by those kinds of personal attacks, and let's remember, that donald trump lives in a glass house when it comes to this type of baggage, if you will, so, you know, if he goes down that road, he has probab

and here to discuss is maria cardona, and bill morris, and buck sexton who is a political xhen ta toshis your response to hillary clinton's interview -- commentator and buck, you first, what is your response to hillary clinton's interview? >> well, it is nothing, and it seems luke she is trying to audition for the model a-team in high school, and of course, we will fight terror, and very clear that she does not want to specify wa type of terrorism, and she will say isis, but not beyond that, and no solution, and one in fairness, because we don't know that it is a terrorist attack yet, and it looks like it is, but the rhetoric in terms the of trump which is the point here of him being dangerous the america or dangerous to the world, it is just not going the sell. i don't think that people really believe that donald trump is going to be invading foreign countries for no reason. and hillary clinton's record tied to the obama record is one of continued failures of foreign policy, and iraq is worse than when barack obama took office in 2009, and afghanistan is worse now, and libya is worse

maria cardona committed to hillary clinton and lny chin former senior adviser to marco rubio. is it fair to say that donald trump as a candidate has some unusual baggage impersonating a pr guy on the phone with the magazine, pbutler making threat against the president's life. isn't this what gives republican's heartburn with this nominee? that they don't ne what's coming? >> i wouldn't call these scandals, they are fun media tidbits. his butler who doesn't work for donald trump said crazy stuff. he is a guy in his 70s. donald trump can't control that guy. as for pr, i don't know if that was donald for not, but it makes him more likeable if he was because he saved 5 to 10 grand a month on a pr guy. if you compare hillary clinton with the scandal in benghazi, i would take that comparison any day of the week and twice on sunday. >> you say if it is donald trump. who do you think it is? >> if it's trump. >> who do you think it is, david? >> could be johnny miller the golfer. has anybody interviewed him yet? >> all right, andy. i will move on. lonnie i guess in comparison, not rele

maria cardona -- >> hi, fred. >> hi! how are you? maria's a cnn political commentator and a democratic strategist who supports hillary clinton. all right, good to see you, as well. >> hey, fred. >> maria, you first. i just established that it's not a requirement, but it's become customary since 1976 that all of the candidates have released their tax returns. so is -- does this mean that voters have become so accustomed to this, that they need to see it in order to make, you know, a clear decision about who they want to vote for? >> absolutely! absolutely. and i think it was very telling when trump told george stephanopoulos, "it's none of your business." i think in essence, he was telling the voters and america, "it's none of your business." and i think america will say, hey, wait a minute, we are the one interviewing you for the highest office in the land, for the most powerful job in the world, and we need to see your taxes. and anything else that can prove to us that you can actually be somebody that we can trust in this very power

all right, let's talk about this with cnn political commentator and hillary clinton supporter, maria cardona and scottie hughes, rights alert.com and trump supporter. good to have both of you back. >> good morning, victor. >> so let's start broadly on the topic of guns. maria, i want to start with you. this resonates with many families, many communities across the country. when we look state by state and go to the region of the rust belt, michigan, ohio, where trump has shown some strength, does this work as well politically for hillary clinton? >> i believe that it does, victor, because what we have seen in the past several years, even though there has been a complete lack of action on this, on behalf of congressional republicans that the majority of americans do agree there should be common sense limitations on being able to give the opportunity for people to get guns who shouldn't get guns. people with severe mental disabilities, criminal, and the way you do that is expanding common sense background checks. republicans are against it because they're in the pocket of the nra. what we've se

back with me, maria cardona and kamau bell. that was a clip of your "united shades of america."wo latino neighborhoods and sat down to dinner with this family. what did you learn about latinos in america. what is the difference between this, you know, people sending me this on snapchat, friends saying oh, snapchat is cinco de mayo versus what donald trump did. >> the person who sent that snapchat isn't running for president, unless that's their way of announcing or unless you're friends with donald trump on snapchat. >> what is this teaching you, the election, the donald trump tweet today and what you did, what -- >> on some level, what donald trump has basically said through all of these appearances is that he doesn't understand latino americans or latinos in general. i don't either, so i went and talked to them and came away with an understanding. i didn't assume because i eight -- ate a taco bowl i could say look, i love you. >> what did you learn? >> a lot of times in the news we talk about the fear and deportation and immigration. and i learned that they live with that fear

we have sally cohn, democratic strategist maria cardona, cardona is a clinton supporters and a 2016 super delegate and boris epstein. he is a donald trump supporter. sally, to you first. you've been a sanders supporter. yet, this week, you wrote, i'm having a hard time being a bernie sanders supporter at the moment. why is that? >> well, i was disappointed with the behavior of some, not ail, but some sanders supporters in nevada. the media got it wrong. chairs weren't thrown. but what did happen was far less civil than i would like to see. i'm also disappointed in the way the sanders campaign responded. i think you have to come very clearly, repeatedly, first thing out of your mouth against that kind of behavior without saying buts and talking about process. but that said -- >> democrats have criticized donald trump for not immediately criticizing supporters who resorted to violence. >> that's right. part of the thing that's been inspiring about bernie sanders' campaign all along, it's represented the moral high ground in this country for folks frustrated by politics. you have to continue

also with me is maria cardona. and trump supporter, thank you all for coming on.an't wait to talk about this with you. i'm going to start with you. i was at the dinner and the crowd was really e receptive to the president's jokes. there were a lot of laughs and people commenting about how his timing is impeccable. you say obama gets a c plus for his jokes. only a c plus? >> i was rating his performance as he's done eight of them. this was the worst of the eight. i think it was funny. i think he came out of the gate guns blazing. >> i just thought that i was expecting a great performance tonight. >> and to talk about donald trump. there was a moment where he said all right. i want to talk about the press corps. he said u you think i'm going to wrap up and not talk about trump. but he really didn't talk about trump perhaps as hard as people thought. lou, were you surprised by that? >> yes, i was. but i guess that he recognized trump is doing quite well and probably this wasn't the time and wanted to see where the chips fall with the rest of the races. >> he also wen

here to discuss now is tim pawlenty, the former republican governor of minnesota and contributor maria cardonaho is a superdelegate committed to hillary clinton, and also mark preston our executive editor the. and mark, let's start with you, and talk taxes, and have been talking back and forth about trump's taxes and the timing of it and when and if they will be released after, and mitt romney is going after mr. trump and saying, mr. trump, tear down that tax wall, and he then goes on the say in at tweet it is disqualifying for a modern day president to not release the taxes to the american voters? >> well, perhaps that is true, but in the case of donald trump, unless we find out that there is something that is damaging like offshore accounts or the loopholes that he is not supposed to be using or the tax rate is so unbelievably lower than it would be for the normal person, then -- >> or not as rich as he says. >> or even that is not going to hurt him either. listen, donald trump is the unconventional candidate that none of us have seen in our lifetime. >> why is mitt romney going after donald

joining us is former congressional black caucus director angela rai. 2008 clinton campaign advisor maria cardona. lieutenant governor andre braugher. former romney campaign strategist stewart stevens, a trump critic, so is amanda carpenter, former communications director for senator ted cruz. andre, welcome to the program. you hear donald trump, a reporter yelling out that's offensive. is it appropriate for donald trump to be calling elizabeth warren pocahontas if native americans are saying that's offensive? >> clearly it's not how i would conduct business but i haven't been a presidential nominee. he's gotten further than i could have ever gotten so i don't think i can question what he's doing because it's working for him. >> is it appropriate? there's stuff that works but does it work as a president? would it be appropriate for a president trump to -- >> anderson, i would have thought by now he would have gotten more moderate but the frustration level is out there and he probably understands the temperament of the folks. johnny lunch bucket is what i call that individual and there's a person

also maria cardona, a super delegate committed to clinton. isn't that special?wis, senior contributor to the daily caller and author of "too dumb to fail." she's super, she's a super delegate. do you have uber delegates after that? andy dean, whlet's start with y. 1237. here is donald trump, how he celebrated with mcdonald's. did he really eat that burger, do you think? >> he does like mcdonald's, don. we're at 1238 now. >> 1237 plus one. >> correct. 1237 plus one which was the number we needed to get to and ten months ago when this began there were two or three people on television, jeffrey lord, myself and donald trump who thought this was possible and ten months later because of his hard work we are where we're at -- we are where we are right now which this is history in the making. it's a massive monumental day and the fact he did it before the convention nobody expected so it's exciting. >> so while andy -- while trump was loving it -- see what i did there -- hillary clinton was talking -- good product placement. >> talking with wolf blitzer. here's what sh

former communications director for the rnc, and not a fan of trump, and also democratic strategist maria cardona joining us, her firm works for a pro-clinton super pac. jeffrey, starting with you. is it donald trump? jeffrey? can you hear me? is it donald trump? what are the political implications here? >> i don't think there's any. i mean, first of all, trump unequivocally denies it's he on the tape. the thing that occurs to me, i mean, as you know and i know in this day and age of high-tech we could have a picture of you and me having tea with hitler and it looks exactly like the real mccoy, and, of course, it would be phoney as a $3 bill. i don't trust in this age of technology, take any famous person, make them say or do anything or look any way you want. >> you don't think it's him? >> he says unequivocally it is not. >> do you believe him? >> yeah. taking his word. he knowings what he's doing here. you know, that's what e he says. you know, sure. >> doug, what do you think of it? is it trump and would have any reason not to lie about it to sweep it under the rug? >> if it talks like a trum

maria cardona.t from your reporting, does it seem like the clinton campaign has their strategy sort of in place about how to deal with donald trump. we heard from hillary clinton when donald trump was talking about her being an enabler, saying i'm not running against donald trump i'm running for my vision of the country. she at other times said she couldn't wait to run against donald trump. >> you just highlighted the crux of it. they don't have their strategy in place, but they will say they do. but you see they don't. she said for months i can't wait it take him on and that is not what we are seeing. and he often crows about this, did shut her and bill clinton to some extent down late last year when he went after them on the same vein, about their personal lives, about bill clinton's infidel its and you saw bill clinton take a lower profile. hillary clinton stopped using trump as an easy foil. since then they haven't figured out how they want it handle him at left if regards to this. it is a tough

joining us is maria cardona, super delegate committed to hillary clinton and sally cone who has endorsednow her, i'm in her -- you say -- >> her fellows program. >> gw alum. >> there you go. >> gw kind of night. >> mutual admiration. >> hillary clinton send bernie sanders a clear message yesterday, basically telling him to cool it. she said i'm the nominee and that's that. is she rung out of time to unify this party? >> i don't think so. i think this is something she discussed at length in the chris cuomo interview, she was there in 2008. i was there with her. this stuff is tough. this is hard. i know exactly what the bernie sanders supporters are going through. when you have this kind of passionate fight, where you put everything on the line, for your person, and you believe with everything in your soul that that person should be the nominee because they will be the best candidate and the best president of the united states. but then the math isn't there. the rules are there. it doesn't get to where you want it to be. at some point, you have to understand the most important thing is to

host in los angeles and a donald trump supporter, also joining us, cnn political commentator, maria cardonaank you very much for joining us. >> hey, wolf. >> thank you. >> one of donald trump's new ads takes liberties sort of with bill clinton's past with women. hillary clinton hammering donald trump over the housing collapse. a question to both of you. is anything off limits? john, first to you. in this race, assuming it's a race between donald trump and hillary clinton. >> well, it's fitting we are having this conversation on the day that the bill cosby news broke because i think there's similarities here. going back to the story, pretty much everyone -- >> come on, john. >> the allegations of sexual assault were pretty much just in the "national enquirer" and anyone talking about it, it was like touching a live wire. wendy williams did it and got fired. janice dickinson trying to talk about it in a book. an npr reporter dressed down by bill cosby. hannibal burress on stage talks about it and the story takes on a life of its own. it was exposed to people who had never heard about it befor

all right, we thank you so much for joining us, maria cardona.be with you. >>> hillary clinton is pushing back against a report saying she did not follow the rules when it comes to using her private e-mail server for government business. clinton told wolf blitzer that she thought she was allowed to use a private server when she was secretary of state. she also said the rules were not clear and that she's not the first one to do it. >> this report makes clear that personal e-mail use was the practice under other secretaries of state, and the rules were not clarified until after i had left. but, as i've said many times, it was still a mistake, if i could go back, i'd do it differently, and i understand people have concerns about this, but i hope voters look at the full picture of everything that i've done. >> state department spokesman said on thursday that clinton o. rioters clash with riot police. >>> also no antibiotic will kill it, and now a patient in the u.s. has been diagnosed with the superbug. we'll tell you why doctors fear it could sprea

the washington bureau chief of the daily beast, maria cardona joins us, clinton supporter and democratic strategist. thank you to the three of you. >> thank you, pam. >> so much to talk about in the wake of these polls that recently came out. maria, on that note, trump, as we know, can focus just on hillary clinton at this point while she is spending this time and money beating back the bernie sanders' challenge. in your view, how much does that hurt her? how much is that playing into these poll numbers we're seeing here? >> i think it is playing into the poll numbers, which is why we're seeing them really tighten up. you have the republican establishment, as phil was saying, coalescing behind their nominee, as regretful as that might be for many republicans. but they're doing it. that's what the polls are showing versus on the democratic side where you still have an animated contest going on, even though at the very end she will still be the nominee. i think that those polls will change once we come out of the convention in philadelphia. but i think in the long run, this is not hurting

director of the university of new hampshire survey center, tan that garts, a trump supporter, and maria cardona works for a pro-clinton super pac. we have a lot to discuss on the heels of that contentious interview we just heard with chris cuomo and a member of trump's team. tana, as we heard, trump is really focusing his attacks on both clintons with this new ad, talking about how hillary clinton was an enabler for donald trump, but that same strategy backfired on republicans back in the '90s. it actually boosted then-president clinton's approval ratings along with those of hillary as first lady. your candidate also has his own colorful past. is this the right move? >> oh, absolutely this is the right move. we don't want to have a repeat of the '90s and mr. trump just wants to let the american voters know who they're voting for. it's not just hillary clinton, it's actually bill clinton and we don't want that back in the white house and there are a lot of people that are very fearful of having the clintons re-enter the white house and mr. trump is just opening that up and letting people know th

maria cardona and jonathan tussini. thank you both for being with us. we appreciate it.t to start with you, if i could. i know that you have a problem with the delegate count but the fact is, the rules are the rules the way they are. so mathematically, why does he stay in this race? >> well, first of all, yes, the rules are rules but respectfully, you have it wrong. you're right about the pledged delegate difference is about 280 or 285 delegates. it is not true, respectfully, that hillary clinton will clinch the nomination as 90 delegates to go. that will not happen until the superdelegates vote at the convention. i just debated governor ed rendell this past -- couple of days ago on npr and he agreed with me that we will not know who wins the nomination until the convention because nobody will have enough pledged delegates prior to the convention. so let me go to your question. look. bernie has acknowledged and i think everybody that supports bernie acknowledges that it is a steep hill. we have to win on the pledged delegate side probably about two-thirds of the delegate

hillary clinton supporter maria car doug cardona. is back with me along with mark preston. you were shaking your head along with everyone else. he worked for trump for nearly 30 years. when he tried to retire back in 2009 trump personally intervened, got him to stay on longer. he knew him well. >> yeah. hasn't worked for him in a couple of years. but as soon as they found out about it, mr. trump wanted to completely disavow himself of any of this. he did used to work there. he was a trusted person for a while. but what he said was disgusting and we completely disavow it. >> is that enough, maria? >> clearly i'm glad to hear that he did it immediately and he didn't hesitate, which i think is what people were worried about back with the kkk group et cetera. i don't think this will be an issue. but i do think it will remind voters of all o the other hateful comments trump has made and will sort of put it in that bucket of this is not somebody who either understands what america looks like today, is going to go after those voters that a