us now as we wait for donald trump to speak, hillary clinton supporter and 2008 senior adviser maria cardona and joseph virelli and david chalian, and from madison, wisconsin, vicky mckenna. i want to start with you. in the interview you had wh speaker ryan, he also said that his endorsement of donald trump is not absolute and he can revoke it and it is the second time in as many days he made that point and do you think that's a real possibility? twice in the last two months paul ryan has said donald trump has gone beyond the pale. if he's beyond the pale more than once it's hard to imagine what line donald trump can cross when paul ryan would revoke the endorsement. >> what you need to understand is paul ryan leads with the idea that it is his responsibility to unify the gop. so no, i don't think paul ryan will revoke an endorsement of donald trump, but he's always said he's reserved the right to be critical of donald trump when donald trump and paul ryan, and you know, the conservatives in wisconsin disagree and he has done that, but he has always maintained his pledge that he is going to

. >> i want to bring in maria cardona, angela rye, jack kingston and alex stewart, former communications director for ted cruise. donald trump is seizing on every speck of news about e-mail or the clinton foundation donors for obvious reasons but what is the basis for a special prosecutor? >> well, i don't know that in this politically charged atmosphere that secretary clinton could get a fair hearing and that over and over again she wants to cooperate. she should join in the calling for a special prosecutor. if you think access to the secretary of state is easy to do, i would challenge anybody listening to this to call and see if they can get a meeting with secretary kerry. you absolutely cannot. >> the basis for a special prosecutor would be what again? >> that she was selling access, absolutely selling access. she met with 16 countries that gave over $170 million to the clinton foundation. this was absolutely pay to play. there's no question about it. i've been in this town a long time and you can see it, you can smell it, you can feel it and this was absolutely pay to play. >> let's

washington correspondent for the "new yorker," hillary clinton supporter, maria cardona, white house political director, jeffrey lord. ryan, they are obviously capitalizing the trump camp on hillary clinton, trying once again to explain her e-mails and the situation and how she explained it to the fbi and the american people. she said yesterday, i may have short-circuited in my response. my response could have been better and more clear. how effective is this for trump to portray her as a robot when he obviously is capitalizing on what others see as a weakness of his on the temperament front, right? he says she's a robot. you know what you're going to get. with me, not so much. >> yeah. i mean, look, both candidates have some pretty well-known and serious vulnerabilities, right? for the democrats and the republicans, these are the two candidates with the highest disapproval ratings that either party has nominated. >> yeah. >> and so, you know, when trump is not stepping in it himself, he's got some things to work with here. and i think an ad like this, i doubt -- this is more to play

let's bring in hillary clinton supporter maria cardona.morning to you. >> good morning. >> what you heard there from a staunch supporter of donald trump about his views on immigration. what do you think? >> well, i actually don't think much of joe arpaio. the man is a national disgrace. today "the washington post" had a scathing editorial about this man who has continually flouted the law. has been found in contempt of court repeatedly. and has now been referred for criminal prosecution to the department of justice because he refuses to stop racial profiling to keep his deputies from harassing latinos, who are u.s. citizens, by the way. simply because of the color of their skin and how they look and sound. and this is a man who is advising a potential president on immigration law. i'm sorry, but it just does not ring true or credible or anything in terms of this man having anything to do with our nation's immigration laws. >> he talked about the nixon administration and hoping to punish mexico in ways other than specifically dealing with t

now washington correspondent and trump supporter, scotty hughes, also with us, clinton supporter maria cardona. thank you for joining us. yeah, he says it's going to be difficult for him to win ohio. look at trump, he says he is the best deal-maker out there. why can he not seal john kasich on board? because even you admitted he needs this. >> oh, he does, every republican needs the state of ohio. the question i think jake probably asked governor john kasich, what can donald trump do to win your support? or at the very least stop being the worst torpedos that are coming from the campaign are the same ones with r's by their name. you can sit down with interviews with john mccain, lindsey graham, and they will be the worst sticks of dynamite that will implode the donald trump campaign. what are they risking right now against the other republican supporters who may not be thrilled with donald trump but by god he knows he is a lot better than hillary clinton. you don't see one democratic governor sitting down and knocking hillary clinton. and it's not that they're agreeing with her. until they giv

corey lewandowski, kayleigh mcenany, maria cardona, ana navarro and van jones.ainting himself as an outsider against the status quo. many people have told me this would be the message that could turn things around for him. did anybody agree that this is a message that turns things around for him? i'm going to -- let's -- i'm going to ask a republican first. so let's ask kayleigh. did this turn things around for him? >> yes, because when you look at polls the media is historically low in its approval rating and politicians are also very low in their approval rating. so this message of getting back to the idea of public service, not personal enrichment, this idea that you shouldn't go into public office and come out like the clintons, hundreds of millions of dollars are richer. that's a compelling message. but it's one that has to be put forth constantly without distraction, without getting off message because it is one that resonates. this idea we're here to serve you, we've gotten away from that. >> he said he wants to get senior officials, people who work for h

that's right. >> maria, cardona, i know you and your team of clinton supporters like these poll numbers. however she is still bogged down in the e-mail issue. she comes out late this week and says well all this back and forth over the e-mails i guess i could have short circuited the way that i answered the question. the fbi director james comey said what she said to the fbi was truth fl but he testified july 7th that some of what she said to the american people would not truthful about her e-mails. why does she continue to be hampered by this? and why not come out more directly to the public that clearly has a trust issue with her? >> i do think she should come out more clearly and pick actually the words that comey did say. and this is exactly what she tried to do friday in terms of clarifying her comments. he said a couple things that were really important. the first one is that they have absolutely no evidence that she lied to the fbi. and the second thing is in his congressional testimony he said that those three e-mails that he talked about, those three out of 30,000 e-mails that h

back with me, corey lewandowski, bakari sellers, maria cardona and matt lewis. okay.this is a memo from the trump campaign. it was dated january 14th, 2016, released over the weekend. and it says in part, it says "in the media and in certain social circles our low-p supporters have been called stupid, racist and bigots. the elites look down on them. and there is evidence they deny support for our candidate because they fear being ostracized. that's why the engagement scripts for low-p must all open with a warm and friendly disclosure. i'm a volunteer for mr. trump's campaign for president. this lets them know they're in a safe space. then we follow with encouraging invitation, we'd like you to join us to help america -- help us make america great again. can we count on your vote in the upcoming primary?" so low-p is low participation, right? people who are unlikely to vote, they don't usually participate in the political process. so you were in the trump campaign during the primary. your name is on this memo. so explain what's behind this. what exactly and who exactly

we have maria cardona, a clinton supporter. amy, donald trump, do you believe he should release his tax return? >> i believe that -- he's a private citizen. there's no law that requires them to release his tax returns. >> that is correct. >> so it's up to him. it's his personal choice. i will say, while there is no law for him to release his tax returns there say law that requires hillary clinton to turn over her e-mails and she broke the law. >> there's a bit of a scoff with maria cardona, saand i'll get t that. >> i don't have a problem with him releasing them. i'm not concerned about that. i'm concerned about what is he going to do to get back on track to make sure we're safe and secure and the economy and people have jobs. his tax returns are going to do nothing for that information. >> maria, what about that argument, people don't vote on tax returns specifically. when you rank what voters care about, it's not falling in the top ten. there's economy, national security, you know. >> sure. no, absolutely. but there's also an

we have donald trump supporter, caylee, margaret hooper, and maria cardona. you have tim kaine here, the vice presidential candidate, pushing what he calls klu klux klan politics. >> donald trump is someone that opened his building to the rain bow push coalition. he opened his club to jews and african-americans when others were not. and the head of the anti-defamation league praised him for that. yesterday their shared it and compared him to hitler and stalin. we could be digging into her past with robert byrd. >> he called hillary clinton a bigot. >> what about the picture with a kkk grand dragon. or going on and on, bill clinton keeping the confederate star and confederate flag in his time. >> he was president at the time, he was accused of violating the fair housing act. the blacks and latinos, labelling applicants who were black and latino with c for colored. then of course in the late 1980s, very provocative. four frirns, one latino, wrongfully imprisoned and engaged in a horrific crime. donald trump would have lead the lynch mob and they would be on dea

manager for donald trump and corey lewandowski and hillary clinton supporters basil smiekel and maria cardona. maria's firm currently works for a pro-clinton super pac. basil, i want to start with you because we just heard phil talk about this sort of scathing statement coming trt clinton camp about this a.p. report basically saying the information was, you know, was cherry picked, but at the same time it seems as though this was pretty straightforward. it says these are only non-government officials and the meetings only cover a specific period of time. so is it still not valid? >> think it's valid. i think it does omit and undercount what secretary clinton did during her course as tenure as secretary of state. 1700, at least on that order. so it omits a lot of them, but it also miscategorizes meetings that she took with melinda gates who is world known philanthropist and a nobel prize winner. i think it is erroneous and one more way that donald trump was going to use it and it's just one more attack to miscategorize her time as secretary of state and she is within her own right as is her hu

out front right now, maria cardona, whose firm does work for a clinton super pac. maria, huma abedin, you heard jeff reporting, on the path toward separation. obviously this is a horrific, embarrassing, humiliating thing that's happened. this could be another distraction to hillary clinton. that was her fear. she tried to keep this under wraps. clinton campaign not expected to address this or reply to donald trump. right strategy? >> absolutely. it was misguided, inconsiderate. in short, it was classic trump. a personal tragedy. most women's hearts will go out to huma. her and her son deserve nothing but respect and privacy. this is not an issue that should be politicized by any means and donald trump's trying to politicize it wreaks of desperation. he has seen the polls, the numbers and is trying to do anything to try to distract from the fact that people are understanding that he does not have the temperament to be president. ironically, things like this, actions like this underscore that point. >> donald trump, kayleigh, did respond and spoke specifically about t

. >> so it interesting because i remember having the conversation with maria cardona and i said afterhe black journalist thing and i said the answer to that question is so easy, right? and that was the answer she gave. >> maybe she was watching you, don. >> no matter how i tried to answer this question -- >> i've answered it 77,000 times and every time i got myself into more trouble. maybe that's the way to answer it. you could almost hear the tug of war inside of hillary clinton as she's answering that question because by nature she obviously is somebody who wants to explain and to deep dive and to give kind of all of the, you know, her lawyerly background all of the reasons why x, y and see are not true. it doesn't work with something like this. people want to know are you sorry? are you not going to do it again? yes. americans are forgiving. that's what they want. they want to move on. >> just like her -- the summer of 2015, she was gritting her teeth, she would not say the e-mails were a mistake, she would not apologize. reporters would ask her, will you apologize now? it's been a

here to discuss, alice stewart, van jones, maria cardona and paris dennard. if you didn't join us last hour, you missed a very interesting hour of conversation with these people. we're going to try it again. >> he has supporters like david duke connected with the ku klux klan who are saying donald trump is their donald trump is pushing their values. they're not american values, they're not our values. donald trump was a main guy behind the scourless campaign saying that president obama wasn't born in america. >> first of all, i was deeply offended. to go to hpcu and have that gutter politics is beyond the pale to me. every democrat needs to stand up and say this is reprehensible, this is beneath you, beneath this campaign. if you have a problem with donald trump talking to the black community, then have a count counter. don't attack him by calling him a bigot and a racist. >> and van jones, what do you say? >> well, i, first of all, think it's important that we take note that even though donald trump has disavowed and i applaud him for disavowing the support

here to discuss, kayleigh mcenany, maria cardona and bakari sellers, hillary clinton supporters. now can we just not say it's softening anymore? >> he said that. trump said it's softening. >> andre, what do you think about it? there's no deportation forces, a major departure from the way he started his campaign. what's your reaction to it? >> i think he's evolving, i think he's softening. i think the people around him are softening. i think on the campaign trail he's even hearing it. i think he looks at it from a realistic standpoint and some of the things he thought about doing aren't plausible but you take the most important nuggets and move forward with that. most of the people watching the show want to know how their lives are going to get better. we get bogged down but they want to know the real things that will affect their lives. so i hope at some point we'll pivot back to that and it's not about somebody calls somebody a bigot but we'll get to who can create jobs, what the taxes are going to look like -- you know, what are we going to do about immigration. >> i agree with

democratic strategist maria cardona, hillary clinton supporter. former reagan white house director washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza. thank you all for being here. it's not just new hampshire, jeffrey lord, where trump needs some help in the polls. it is all the battleground states where he's losing by a pretty big margin in the polls this week. whether you talk about pennsylvania, michigan, new hampshire, even florida, even georgia, a traditionally red state, he's trailing clinton by four points. it's also the national polls. what does he say onstage tonight to try to start to turn thing around? >> when he talks about hillary clinton, for one thing, he needs to have -- and i think he's doing this, a laser-like focus on hillary clinton, on her temperament, on her judgment, on everything hillary. she is the opposition candidate here. she's the person who would be appointing supreme court justices and all the rest. i think that's what he will be doing. he did some of that when he was here in pennsylvania. i think he'll be doing

of media matters and the pro super pac correct the record and the 2008 senior campaign adviser maria cardona. you heard hugh hewitt throwing donald trump a lifeline. more than throwing a lifeline, he provided a road map to explain the president obama founded isis comments and donald trump didn't want anything to do with it, he just wanted to say president obama founded isis. >> that was very kind of hewitt to do that and he knew the storm that was going to be continue if mr. trump did not take it, but obviously mr. trump feels this message is resonating with his folks. from a conservative standpoint, let me just say, are we going to get a signing of a charter or cutting of a red tape of someone of the founding of isis? absolutely not. many conservatives think it was the irresponsible of pulling out of troops that led to the creation of isis and left this void that was filled and that is what we're dealing with right now and we have yet to find hillary clinton or president obama say that they were happy with how they did this, that they actually said -- if they would do anything different. as

ryan lizza is back with me and joining me now, matt lewis, maria cardona and trump supporter kayleigh mcenany. now, here's the panel. how are you guys? >> good, how are you? >> the regulars are here. all right. so, hillary clinton is upping the pressure on trump to release his tax returns. >> in his speech on monday, he called for a new tax loophole. let's call it the trump loophole. because it would allow him to pay less than half the current tax rate on income from many of his companies. he'd pay a lower rate than millions of middle class families. one nonpartisan expert at the tax policy center described this plan as, and i quote, a really nice deal for donald trump. of course, it's hard to say how nice, because he refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns. >>> so, kayleigh, you know this is not going to go away. they're going to keep hammering on this -- hammering him on this. this is what a new bloomberg poll shows. 68% of voters are bothered. you aren't worried that this is going to start resonating with voters? >> not

why don't you ask don lemon and maria cardona and kayleigh who stay at my family's hotels in florida,y hotels we have and how many hispanics, how many haitians and americans we employ and are proud to. so before you attack me least, you at least -- >> you don't even know donald trump, you've never met the guy. >> and i will attack him until the last day of this election because he has been attacking my community. >> you have been a bush supporter and now you're an unhappy loser. >> let me tell you something. let me play my little violin for you, okay? >> i support -- i'm the one that's happy. >> you know what, i wasn't happy that jeb bush lost and it lasted me about a week. after that i started supporting everybody other than donald trump. >> how did that work out for you? >> because i think he's a racist bigot who is destructive for the republican party. >> corey, you are really don't have to go after people personally. you're out of your league when you do that. >> i said donald trump employs a thousand -- >> that was an ad homonym attack on anna -- >> you're so ignorant and defensi

. >>> here to discuss it, kelly mcnan any, maria cardona, cnn's kirsten powers and doug high former rnc communications director. we have a lot to talk about this morning. i want to start with the clinton foundation and the judicial watch e-mails that came out. the timeline here is bahrain crown prince wants a meeting with the state department. can't get it. clinton foundation asks for a meeting. all of a sudden, the crowned prince gets it. >> what huma said, it has started going through official channels. >> huma said initially when she responded to doug band's initial e-mail, yeah, the crowned prince start asked the state department for this but hillary clinton didn't want to schedule it. after the clinton foundation writes, the meeting gets scheduled for 10:00 a.m. >> those meetings always go through official schedules, regardless of who puts the bug in who's ear. ba ran is one of our closest allies in the middle east, an incredibly important ally. so much of what we're doing over there to fight terrorism and the rest of it. i think it would be weird if the secretary of state didn't s

back with me, matt lewis, scottie nell hughes and maria cardona.e is hillary clinton again today trying to explain the differences between her public statements and what the fbi director has said about her private e-mail system. >> i was pointing out in both of those instances that the director comey had said that my answers in my fbi interview were truthful. that's really the bottom line here. and i have said during the interview and in many other occasions over the past months that what i told the fbi, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what i have said publicly. so i may have short-circuited and for that, i, you know, will try to clarify. >> so maria, here's what i have to say. no matter how many times i try to explain this, it is taken the wrong way or out of context so i will just defer to the last what i have said that it was wrong, i should not have done it and i apologize for it. everything else will be misconstrued. how about that? because every media organization, fact checkers found this claim misleading at best. why does she

i want to bring in our panel, maria cardona, and executive black caucus executive director angel joining us. new cnn political analyst, kirsten powell, official in president clinton's administration. we're happy she's making her debut with us tonight. >> great to be here. >> and conservative trump critic, and former trump campaign manager. and former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski. this whole what the hell do you have to lose message donald trump has for african-americans and latinos now as well, there was a fair amount of criticism for it the first time he started using it. he's clearly -- >> doubling down. >> i guess he thinks this is a good message. problem is what do you have to lose is not really a compelling message generally. i don't think it's how anyone would sell a product, for example, what do you have to lose? and then a lot of the statistics he is using is not really accurate. he's talking in a way most people wouldn't recognize, as though they live in crime-ridden neighborhoods. he talks about them basically all living in poverty. you have a surrogate having come

. >> clinton supporter maria cardona who does work for a pro-clinton super pac. trump supporter, kayleigh mcnany, and senior adviser to the trump campaign boris epistein and former director of the nixon presidential library. all of you with me, let me start with you. this is trump's first meeting as head of state and they were both at the two podiums and he had a very subdued tone. now, of course, you have this controversy brewing over who's lying? he says paying for the wall didn't come up and the president of mexico said one of the first things he said he is not going to pay for the wall. >> this is a very good day for donald trump. any time a candidate can be seen with the stature of president with the pomp and circumstance, and donald trump seen as so bombastic with many people saying i can't see him being presidential. as for the wall and the payment, i have never taken that seriously. i've never understood how he said he will get mexico to pay for it. the wall is going to be built. i don't think it's an important issue in any substantial way. >> boris, but

i'll bring back our panel now, lanhee chen is back, cnn political reporter maria cardona, andre bowerld trump supporter and molly ball political reporter at "the atlantic." let me start with the governor lepage story. you live in south carolina, a state with a little political redemption. paul lepage is an outspoken guy. i haven't heard him apologize for much before. now weighing, musing that he might actually quit. what do you make of that? >> when i was lieutenant governor, this came before the governor i had in front of me. he made a mistake, too. the people of south carolina were very forgiving. i suspect the people of maine will be forgiving, too. if there's a pattern, i understand somebody stepping down. but for somebody to stub their toe, probably not worthy of stepping down. >> he says a lot of stuff that's controversial. does that corporation tut pattern, andre? >> the people of maine will have to make the decision. i'm not a voter of maine, so i really don't have any input on it. >> if you ever see bull durham, he used words that will get you thrown out of a game. >>> other

my panel, david gergen is with me, four presidents he serves as adviser to, karen mcmainy and maria cardona works for a clinton super pac and senior adviser to the trump campaign and basil smikle. maria, what is your response to congressman fleischmann? he didn't want to talk about this issue although sometimes you say things you could take back. >> let's focus on that. clearly donald trump hasn't taken this back. this is something that he has said and the violence that he has enciting and there's no question, no spin, there's no excuse for the words that he used. if there are, then he should say what it was that he meant instead of what he -- and the words that he used which clearly do seem to be enciting violence and by the way, this isn't the first time. this is someone who from the moment he stepped out on to the campaign trail has been inciting violence and he talked about punching people early on in his campaign. there were two people who beat up a hispanic man because they said this is what trump wants us to do. he needs to be responsible. >> two, donald trump did answer questions on

hughes and cnn political commentator and hillary clinton supporter maria cardona. welcome to you both. there's so much news we're not going to get to it all. the big speech tonight where we're all waiting on pins and needles because there seems to be a lack of clarity. the critics are frustrated saying that they can't get an answer on those 11 million undocumented workers estimated to be in the u.s. are they out, are they in, is there a deportation force? are they illegal, are they not? here's what donald trump jr. told anderson cooper last night about where his father is on the policy. >> we have to let i.c.e. do their job, enforce the existing laws on the books. they've been on the books for years. and these guys are basically told that they can't do that. so we have to have baby steps first. we have to let i.c.e. do their skobs a joh jobs and we have to do it for the american people. >> i'm still confused. baby steps? there's really no way to answer this question with baby steps. either 11 million people got to go or 11 million people don't got to go. >> the pri

maria cardona. i want to start with you. i'm old enough to remember the primaries where i'm pretty sure that donald trump said that every one of the 11 million undocumented immigrants should go. i'm pretty sure i remember him differing from the other republicans he was running against right now. i know ted cruz, the guy you used to work for, he warned that donald trump might change his position. is this a moment when you're saying, i told you so. >> in the most polite way possible, we told you this was going to happen. donald trump never had a coherent immigration hearing. the idea you would have deportation forces go around the country and haul people out of their homes was never feasible. we never believed he would ever follow through with something like that. what we saw last night was he's opening the door to comprehensive immigration reform by providing amnesty through legal status, not citizenship, which is everything he demonized jeb bush, marco rubio and john kasich through the primaries. what's fascinating is he's h

patrick healy, "the new york times" political correspondent, kayleigh mcenanye, a trump supporter, maria cardonaan out because he's not in the studio, editor in chief of thehill.com. maria, i'm going to go to you first. cnn's new poll of polls, if we can put that up. is, do you think one strong speech is enough to right the ship for donald trump? >> it's tough to right the ship when the ship is sinking. you're seeing the panic from the republican party. every single day you have more and more republicans coming out saying this is not a man that is fit to be president, this is a man who would be dangerous to the republic if he comes anywhere near the oval office. i think that's why you had panic within the political party, why you had the intervention why you had finally, apparently, donald trump able to follow a script and at least not insult anybody for an hour and a half. if that is the bar we now have for somebody to be presidential, i think it's a sad day for the whole country. i love these polls but as i've said, this is not something that democrats can count on because this is a deeply div

back with me now, john phillips, maria cardona, matt lewis and bakari sellers will be back in a momenthad a little technical problem. john, i want to put up this poll, hillary clinton leading donald trump, this can't be what the trump campaign was hoping for coming out of the conventions, right? >> it's a convention bounce we knew she would get. she's not blowing him out by any stretch of the imagination. now, that being said, i think one of the key plays for trump here is to try to do everything he possibly can to get gary johnson on the debate stage when they debate in the fall. when you add gary johnson and add jill stein to the question, trump does better and i think that's really the play here. >> yeah. matt, this same poll shows 64% of registered voters don't believe that clinton is honest and trustworthy. the clinton campaign can't figure out how to address this issue, can they? >> no, because she's not honest, because she goes on a sunday show, you know, just yesterday, and says, fbi director comey said that i was telling the truth. no, he didn't. he said you were lying. hillar

also joining us bakari sellers, clinton supporter, maria cardona who also supports clinton and matt lewisnior contributor to the "daily caller." all right, here we two. now we have a panel. let's discuss this. think we have enough to discuss tonight? >> i think so. >> matt, i'm going to start with you because you haven't been the biggest trump supporter safe to say. even you like this economic speech today and then bam, this letter comes out and it's another conversation entirely. is this how it's going to be from now until november you think? >> yeah, i think it will, but, you know, look, obviously the letter isn't great news for them. i think today was a pretty good day for donald trump. he gave this economics speech. about half of it i would say is sort of orthodox reagan era republican tax cuts. the other half i would say is populist, protectionist, anti-globalist trade politics which i think plays well with a lot of working class americans out there. but the most important thing he did was stay on script. he actually read from the teleprompter an didn't take the bait when the protest

. >>> maria cardona, pro-clinton super pac, pastor james davis, a donald trump supporter, baccari sellersllary clinton supporter. corey lewandowski, trump's former campaign major and still receiving severance from the campaign and trump republican. let me start with you. you heard marco rubio. you heard john mccain. both of them at least from the polls coming in will continue to win today and we don't have the final results and still not willing to say they will campaign with donald trump. it was so tepid. it was damning. how significant is that? >> well, in some places i think it will be significant. i think it will be more significant for senator toomey in pennsylvania and my home state. for marco rubio, i'm not so sure because he's popular although we do need to remember that he was defeated by about 20 points by donald trump and his presidential primary in florida. for john mccain that's a different story again and he's got a tough race on his hands, and i do think the trump folks are pretty passionate people, and they're remembering who is and who is not going along here with the ban

political commentator van jones and democratic strategist maria cardona and paris denard, who was directork outreach for george w. bush. so glad to have all of you. i will start with miss cardona first. sarah palin since trump's wishy-washy stance on immigration could erode his support. is she right? why is it hard for him to stay on message on this issue? >> i think first of all because -- two things. he has no clue where he stands, where he should stand, i guess i should say, because during the republican primary, it was the number one issue as to why he won. what i mean by that is that if you look at all of the primary states except for wisconsin and new york, the majority, the vast majority of the trump voters who came out to vote for him in the rest of the primary states did so because of his stance on immigration. and so he knew that that was the reason, that was what brought him to the dance, right, that was what led him to win the primary. going into a general election, i think now he has people like kellyanne conway who understand that without at least 44% of the hispanic vote, he

. >> let's bring in maria cardona, and boris epstein, a republican strategist and trump surrogate.en donald trump expressing his reluctance to endorse ryan and mccain and his coming out last night? nothing, from what i see changed, except from the outcry from the party. >> well, victor, it's all about party unity. donald trump knows what's best, not just for politicians, but for the party and for the country as a whole. that's -- >> he didn't know that last week? >> victor, let me finish now. >> okay. >> that's what's best for the country as a whole. he take a look at the situation and decided it is important to endorse paul ryan, senator mccain, and senator ayotte and that's what he did. and again, he knows what's best for the country and that's when the decision was made. >> okay, you've now finished. he didn't know that last week? >> he was evaluating the options. this is within the republican party. this is gop versus gop. the people in those primaries had already endorsed donald trump. they were also very supportive of donald trump and he was evaluating what to do and that is

maria cardona, clinton supporter and cnn political commentator, welcome to both of you. >> good morning>> because an invitation was extended to hillary clinton as well, should she have can sld her trip to ohio and visited the mexican president instead? >> absolutely not. this is something taking place in the united states of america. the most important thing hillary clinton can do is have a conversation with american voters. look, i actually see it the opposite as mr. pence says. i think that this looks like an act of desperation on behalf of donald trump. i call it the political equivalent of an ave maria pass. his campaign is going off the rail. what he's trying to prove to americans is that he can be presidential and meet with world leaders, that his experience on the world stage isn't just the beauty pageants that he has leadered in the past. so i think most americans will see right through this because they also see a candidate who is rash, who doesn't think things through and i think it will also be difficult for the mexican president because as you have noted on your show, he's g

. >> all right, i have to leave it there, maria cardona, joshua clinton, thanks to both of you. >>> stillme in the "newsroom," quarterback colin kaepernick sits down, refuses to stand up during the national anthem. now critics are fired up. i mean that literally. >>> outrage and fever pitch surrounding 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick's refusal to stand during the national anthem. some fans are burning their kaepernick jersey, one playing the national anthem and calling him -- well, i can't exactly say what he called him on the air, but watch. >> listen, you ignorant son of a [ bleep ]. you should never play another down in the nfl again. move to canada. >> kaepernick remains defiant, now saying he plans to stay seated for the national anthem moving forward. >> i'll continue to sit. i'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. to me, this is something that has to change, and when there's significant change and i feel like that flag represents what it's supposed to represent and this country is representing people the way it's supposed to, i'll stand. >> cnn c

maria cardona, democratic strategist and supporter of hillary clinton.mark burns with us, a donald trump supporter. david ca ntones, senior politicl reporter. doug, you ran three senate campaigns. north carolina. right? obama took the state in 2008. romney took it in 2012. this is a state that donald trump should not be nine points behind in. how concerning is that for him? >> it is very concerning. the reason is it isn't just poll numbers it is what we hear on the ground or frankly what we are are not hearing on the ground. typically in north carolina republicans have done very well in the east where more white conservative voters. he'll certainly do still very well there but there are less of those voters. the question is how is donald trump going to organize suburban areas outside of raleigh, outside of charlotte, my hometown of winston-salem. reality is he doesn't have people on the ground to do so. only time you hear campaign staffers of trump being talked about in carolina, it is the fact that one recently pulled a gun on another. in this crazy cam

cnn political commentator and hillary clinton supporter maria c cardona is here as well. kayleigh, my understanding what donald trump told anderson last night is this is his current position on undocumented immigrants. he sees no path to legalization for the 11 million undocumented immigrants here. no path to legalization. however, he won't commit to the fact that they all should go. >> what he's saying is they have to go back and return if they want any chance of legalization. >> but he isn't committing to forcing them to leave, correct? >> he's committing to removing the criminals. he's starting there. after that, it's a negotiation with congress. that's how these things work. it's a compromise. >> so the criminals will go. the noncriminals, he's not committing to the fact that they have to go. >> he's saying -- his starting point is with the criminals. which is what he's always said. here's the thing with donald trump. his position is one of security. if we want to talk about flip-flop. let's talk about hillary clinton who went last november at a new hampshire rally, s

. >> maria cardona, amy, thank you for being here. >>> we'll look at what is happening this morning withad for the thousands of people there. >>> coming up, the waters are still submerging entire neighborhoods here just south of louisiana. but there is hope. coming up, we'll show you how some of the waters are receding and what comes next for the people hit the hardest. >> thank you. >>> also, a zika virus this morning, a new one here in the united states. if you're pregnant, the cdc says you need to avoid at least two different parts of f. florida. >> the department of health has learned through one of their investigations that five individuals have already been confirmed as cases of local transmissions of zika that are connected to the miami beach area. i'm hillary clinton, and i approve this message. michael hayden: if he governs consistent with some of the things he said as a candidate, i would be very frightened. gillian turner: he's been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our western european allies. max boot: this is not somebody who should be handed the nu

we have maria cardona and scottie nell hughes, political editor and trump supporter. s, especially come from rubio, he is decidedly pro-life. why would this change his position? >> well, this actually underscores why the republican party has such an issue in terms of support from women, and why they suffer from such a huge women's gap. it is because people like marco rubio really reflect how out of touch and misguided the republican party is, when it comes to issue of women's health. this is an incredibly debilitating disease that has hit hard, not just latin american countries, but now it is coming into the united states through puerto rico, through florida, and the bill put forward by the white house is the one that would be best suited to make sure that this money is going to exactly the people that are being affected by it so much. low income communities, women who can't afford health care. and what republicans did was they poisoned the bill with efforts to try to cutback funding for those clinics, and to cutback funding on obama care. so they really weren't intere