journalists john heilemann and mark halperin. featuring the 8g band with stanton moore. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers! >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers, this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight? [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: that's fantastic. let's get to the news. a crowd at a recent erupted in cheers when a bird landed on sanders' podium mid speech. the bird stayed for a couple of minutes and then returned to its nest. [ laughter ] the march madness final four is now set and the teams are villanova, oklahoma, north carolina and syracuse. or as they're known in your bracket, dammit, dammit, yes, and dammit. [ laughter and applause ] donald trump's campaign manager, corey lewandowski has been charged with battery after new video surfaced of an incident in which he violently grabbed a reporter at a recent rally. surely this is going to make a dent in trump's poll numbers. son of a bitch. [ laughter and applause ] donald trump in an interview supported the idea of holding back attacks

tom: it is wonderful to have with us mark halperin, "with all 28-hourect," working a day today. go to bed? mark: i just stayed over. tom: great to have you here, mark halperin. in your book you have the chapter on the dating game. who does secretary clinton date last night? she looked like a real winner last night. what is the next dating challenge? mark: both trump and clinton had strong winds in their home states, now they have to wrap up the nomination and think about being president. we are not that far away from one of these candidates becoming president of the united states. tom: i saw a more presidential trump last night. all of the interviews are that there are a new set of advisors. do you have confidence they will bring us a more managed message from mr. trump? always tomantra is let trump be trump, so they need to balance what makes his personality strong, what makes an vibrant and popular with people who support him, but he has to broaden his support. he will never be president without significantly broadening his support. that is the version we saw last night. franc

steve schmidt, managing editor of bloomberg politics, mark halper halperin. all on board. >> let's talk about the state of the race. steve, let's start on the democratic side. a lot of momentum going bernie sanders' way. why? he's won eight out of nine contests. he comes to new york. people think he'll push hillary there. but a couple of polls say she seems to be moving away. what's happening? >> she seems to have a commanding lead in new york and he is going to have to win in new york. it doesn't look like he is poised to win in the state. no matter how many states he wins in a row at the end of the day she has a very significant delegate lead and she has been on the precipice of being the presumptive nominee for some time. though she is a weak candidate. >> mika found this. there is a story every day, that donald trump is not actively making news that people can write -- this is -- a couple days ago it was his foreign policy inaccuracies that would challenge his campaign. now the "new york times" is saying more than half the spending -- record spending on a

on msnbc, mark halperin. we have three big stories. hillary clinton and bill clinton, former president -- they should be in their movie room just eating popcorn, watching this show. >> this will be great. >> i think she was sort of off the trail yesterday. i would just watch all this going down. what the hell is going on? >> so i want you to get us into all of this. i want quick reactions though first. >> of course you do. >> poof. >> you want back into it. >> poof. >> you want everybody to talk about it before they know exactly what happened. >> mark halperin, yesterday you had an interesting tweet which, of course, i agreed with, where after the speech yesterday you said it is obvious that if donald trump wins the nomination we are going to have to be dealing with basically media that's just unhinged about donald trump when both the left and on the right. and reaction to the speech yesterday, i was trying to get some sound, foreign policy reax to it. i couldn't. it was all high per wholy on both sides. that's why we brought in richar

mark halperin, your take? >> on the question of the speech transcripts?rity, she gave answers last night that bernie sanders if he were a skilled debater could have taken advantage of. he has proven to be a great candidate -- >> feisty candidate. >> raising money, giving a speech that fires up a crowd, appealing and energizing young people, he has not proven to be a good debater. any skilled gator would have taken advantage of many openings she last last night. >> for instance? >> for instance, her answer on social security was waffling, her answer on whether she supported $15 minimum wage was baffling, didn't thin her down. >> she asked him specifically to name one instance where she had been compromised by contributions and he notably failed to do it, but we've actually played a videotape of one of the instances on this show, it involves elizabeth warren talking about a bankruptcy bill that hillary clinton did flip on, a skilled politician to mark's point would have had that in the back of his memory and put it out there in the moment but for some machi

joining us now is mark halperin. ump really a contested convention -- avert a contested convention? mark: he can. some say it is done. said less than a 50-50 chance right now. to the extent he gets that done through interviews, the restraint he showed the other night, he has a better chance in those two other contests. you can watch the rules ng on live said themidt movement -- why has it been so ineffectual? mark: it started too late. they did not find a candidate to get behind. i never thought you could stop trump with a movement or interest group or some ads. you have to stop and with a candidate. for all the movement towards ted --z, there is not a national the stop trump movement does not have a horse to run. trump has played his cards pretty well so far. lisa: let's say trump does when all the delegates and it does not go to a contested convention. how important will republican support before trump in the general election? some of trump's top advisers are there talking to members of the rnc. he will need the

mark halperin, he's running the convention.gure but how large of a role will he play. >> there will be a little chaos in cleveland. he will have meets with the press. he will be trying to send a message to the country however this turns out our party stands for certain values and he'll be thinking and meeting with people about how do we keep control of the louse, how do we try to keep control of the senate regardless at who's at the top of the ticket. he will be a major force. if there are fights over the rules, delegation challenges, he'll be at the center of it. >> mark halperin thank you, rick tyler, thanks for being on. still ahead on "morning joe," we'll bring in senator jeff merkley endorsing bernie sanders plus senator tim kaine of the foreign relations committee who is backing hillary clinton. >>> and a cautionary tale from bloomberg's josh green -- don't underestimate ted cruz. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ it was always just a hobby. something you did for fun. until the day it became somethin

with us is mark halperin. like the democrats are trying to show up the republicans and say, look, we are more civilized than you. is that what is going on? mark: they both like to say look at the republicans having this messy nomination fight. twoy, neither of these relish and negative campaigns. is in the negative mode, he seems to be not at all troubled by it. is not intors negative campaigning. their natural state is to avoid this. what broke out this week is a product of fatigue, the stakes e hotheads inth new york. what about las vegas? david: senator sanders trying to escape that hothouse. he's going to the vatican. mark: there's been some controversy about this. nother he was invited or come i don't get why he is going to spend two days off the campaign trail there to not meet with the pope. he can eat pizza here. it seems like a strange decision. i might say maybe in the end, he will not go. it is not really clear. onwill have jeff weaver "with all due respect" tonight. they thinkking why spending two

nobody knows but mark halperin.'s the way i like it. >> let the voters decide. >> let the voters -- wait. are you with ted cruz? >> yes, please, ted! >> we live in a constitutional republic, and the glory of that is -- >> let the voters decide. >> let the pundits and the politicians and the pollsters can all get around, and they can express what they want in their new york values. but at the end of the day it comes -- >> you gotta close it. >> close it? how do i close it? >> you need a little more ned flanders in here. >> a little more ned flanders. >> there is a texas twang. >> i'm working on the cadence first. >> he's a little more shakespeare meets i don't know who. but it's painful. >> he may be your party's nominee, by the way. >> well, that's going to be fantastic! >> it will be the people and not the -- i got to get the texas thing. it will be the people and not the elite establishment and pollsters. >> you can't do it. you can't be that annoying. >> not the washington cartel? >> i don't like the washington c

on msnbc, mark halperin and john heilemann. former communications director for george w.bush nicolle wallace. >> in winter white. we can't complain. we had such a great winter. >> but i'm ready for it to be -- >> it would be nice. it was snowing on saturday. >> yes, in connecticut we had flurries. >> it was snowing so that's not great. >> never ideal. >> a couple interesting things happening as we start the week. first of all, nicolle, i know your parents had to be relieved as was my brother. the trump campaign in many ways starting to show that discipline that everybody's been suggesting they needed to show. trump not running on 20 shows on sunday, not tweeting up, you know, storms against megyn kelly or other people, have a campaign manager that takes slings and arrows on sunday. they're doing it the way you're supposed to at least pretend to do it. >> i don't know that i'd call it discipline yet. but i think the big question -- and there is a lot of debate last tuesday night -- about whether or not he could make adjustment, and he has. so i think there were people that

joe: mark: and i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. due respect"-- >> coffee in her left hand, mental party in her right hand. one quick simple easy swipe. there are no tokens, but here is how it goes. and i'm in! ♪ mark: there is more from bloomberg later in this episode. we commuted to kansas city, where we set down with the mayor, also a hillary

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mark: and i mark halperin. all respect to etiquette, that escalated quickly. ♪ mark: hello from washington, d.c. on this very amusing wednesday after donald trump's five state conquest. he and ted cruz trying to get media domination. rally,ng that up with a featuring chair-throwing basketball coach bobby knight. today,

mark: and i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. "with all due respect"-- >> coffee in her left hand, mental party in her right hand. one quick simple easy swipe. there are no tokens, but here is how it goes. and i'm in! ♪ mark: there is more from bloomberg later in this episode. we commuted to kansas city, where we set down with the mayor, also a hillary clinton superdelegate. we have that conversation later. but first, stand clear of the closing doors, because the democratic race is running express. hillary clinton and bernie sanders now in a high-speed spat over who is qualified to be president of the united states. things kickoff tuesday when cnn reported that the clinton campaign has a new three-part strategy to beat sanders. one disqualify him, two, defeat him, and three unify the party later on. "linton went on "morning joe and was asked about sanders interview with the new york editorial board. >> do you believe that bernie sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the united states? sec. clinton: i think the intervi

mark halperin, i begin with you. what did wisconsin change? mark: every three episodes i'm on here, i like to quote one of my father's jokes, and today i will quote this one. "only two people understand how the international economic system works, and, unfortunately, they disagree." there is so much ambiguity now amongst very smart political observers in the game, journalists, people watching from afar who know a lot about what everything means right now. what wisconsin did on the republican side was put donald trump on the defensive and made it mathematically more difficult for him to get a majority, although not impossible, and it made ted cruz the primary opponent. john kasich is more marginalized now than he was before. and it gives cruz a chance to continue to have momentum coming into the northeast. on the democratic side, it may give bernie sanders a chance to extend his fight, extended his streak of victories. and it made it possible for him, if he wins new york, to continue along, and to continue win and make it harder for hillary cli

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eastern time on msnbc, mark halperin. political writer for "the new york times," nicholas confessore, and professor harold ford jr. then we go to washington. where we find pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and -- >> what?! >> pulitzer prize winning editorial writer for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor, jonathan capehart. good to have you all on board this morning. >> i have nowhere to begin. how was everybody's weekend? did everybody have a good weekend? was it okay? anybody do anything big this weekend? because i tell you, i was, you know, sitting home, you know, you know, in my t-shirt, reading twitter. i felt like a total loser. >> really? >> like, everybody went to see bruce springsteen play his tribute to prince. >> apparently that was very cool. >> and i'm sitting there eating corn chips. >> it's all on youtube, you can just watch it there. >> so i shouldn't feel bad? everybody was there. bruce -- >> bruce in brooklyn. that's big. what did you do, nick? you're

. >>> with us on set, we have john heilemann and mark halperin. in washington, senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein who was up way too earl will think mowill thin. >> willie geist, your family in wisconsin. >> he doesn't talk about that. >> if you saw him asked ask the question who buys two minivans? the guy with two families. so your wisconsin people, i don't know if they surprised us or not but it was an identical story on both sides where you had both front-runners losing by 13 points and then the question being is it going to have an impact at all or not? still, what a big night for the underdogs. >> the public polling was underestimating what ted cruz was going to do last night. it had it at about 10 points, he won by 13 points. this becomes the story of delegate math. we're looking at the convention and unless donald trump can pull something huge in these states coming up, because even the rosiest projections of the northeast and california get him a little under 1237. that doesn't count th

eastern time on msnbc, mark halperin. political writer for "the new york times," nicholas confessore, and

i am mark halperin. with all due respect to new yorkers, hey, i'm voting here! ♪ mark: election day in the great state of new york. ,he campaign in other states donald trump and hillary clinton were in no hurry to leave the hometown love behind. surrounded by tv cameras, both made the ritual stop this morning to cast ballots, for themselves presumably. this

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john heilemann, and with all due respect to amtrak, it seems like you have an itty bitty problem with your branding. >> and is billed as the a slip primary. >> the accelerated primary. >> what some are calling the -- >> what some are calling -- >> the amtrak primary, it's being called a lot of different things because the famous acela train. ♪ john: happy acela primary day. voters in five different states get their say in the presidential nomination race and all signs point to another victorious evening for donald j trump, billionaire and hillary clinton, not quite billionaire. there are 172 delegates for grabs and a lot of bragging rights. what would make this a great night for donald trump and what would make it a super duper mega monday night for donald trump? mark: 15 contests left and five of them are tonight. the numbers have been crunched and looking at the different scenarios and these states all have different rules. under this scenario, and i have crosschecked his

with mark halperin, john heilemann, jeanne cummings and mike barnic el. >> i will say for a lot of establishment arians and people in the trump move am, basically if you put them under sodium pentathol, we know we are going to lose the general election. it's over. we understand that. what we are trying to do is we are trying to keep from having our party split in two. we need to try to keep our party together to keep some sem ambulance of what we used to be and we need to try to hold the senate, hold the house. >> rose: and we conclude with chris cox, chief products officer at facebook and we talk about facebook live. a new element that they are now offering. >> it is a medium. in the simplest definition of the world it is a way for people to share their experiences with each other which is what a medium is. but if you look across everything we do now, it encompasses a pretty wide range which is cool. you have messaging ands what z app are two of the largest services in the world, superprivate, one-to-one, you and your wife, your husband, children, all the way up to facebook and instagram which

mark: and i'm mark halperin. everyone else in the next is, we are mourning the loss of a true prince. ♪ mark: even with prince's passing, the presidential contest speeds on, so we have a family tell all, but first, a trump townhall. on the same day that sarah palin came out about a facebook post about transgendered death room laws in north carolina, donald trump himself was asked on nbc's "today" about the laws, and he

--and i'm mark halperin. everyone else in the next is, we are mourning the loss of a true prince. ♪ mark: even with prince's passing, the presidential contest speeds on, so we have a family tell all, but first, a trump townhall. on the same day that sarah palin came out

mark halperin on every at 5:00 eastern time on "with all due respect."om the politics in the u.s. to the economics of china. chinese company's have never had to wait so long to get paid. a stock price build and customers delay sending funds. we take a look at the charts, next on "bloomberg ." ♪ president obama is starting an international toward the middle east and europe, landing in saudi arabia just about one hour ago. before he left, he sat down with charlie rose. one thing they spoke about was support for iraq and the battle against islamic state. obama: the iraqis are willing to fight and are gaining ground. we have to be sure to provide them more support. provide training and special forces who are backing them up, when we are gaining intelligence , working with the coalitions we have come a what we've seen is we can continually tighten the news. coalition we have, what we've seen is we can tighten the noose. watch the full interview tonight at seven effect p.m. eastern time on bloomberg television. time onp.m. eastern bloomberg television. wha

it's mark halperin. every president and vice president we've had in this country has been a man. i'm not going to -- you have to look at the best candidates you can. but i think your point is well taken. the women of this country, the people of this country understand it would be a great idea to have a woman as vice president and something i would give very, very serious thought to. >> are there any women in particular you think would be qualified for that job? >> are there any women? yes, there are many women qualified for that job. >> could you name a few? >> i think it's a little too early to be speculating on that. but i think, as you know, there are people in life, elizabeth warren, i think, has been a real champion in standing up for working families, taking on wall street. there are other fantastic women who have been active in all kinds of fights who i think would make great vice presidential candidates. >> all right, senator bernie sanders, thank you very much. >> we always love having you on. >> and tomorrow on "morning joe" -- good luck tonight -- donald trump will joi

bernanke greenspan and paul volcker all in new york, the first time the living fed chairman mark: i'm mark halperind i'm john heilemann. "with all due respect" to donald that, we bet you wish national teflon day, which is today, would have arrived a little bit earlier. ♪ john: 3 new yorkers, a texan, and buckeye walk into a primary. we will see how that joke ends. after the front-runners defeated by double digits in the badger state, all the candidates turning their sites to this

you can see all things politics heilemann and mark halperin with -- on "with all ."t you said a lot there and i will say some more -- the nasdaq is the biggest record of the biggestn 9.6% and the laggard on our markets down 3% or so. etf is also down similarly, down by 1.7%, its biggest fall since early february. 70 of the stocks mirrored on a total return index are all in the negative. a look at some specific stocks. i'm going to have to send it back. david: a bit of breaking news -- verizon communications lands to make a bid for yahoo!'s web business. verizon to indications planning to make a bid for yahoo!'s web businesses next week. ♪ lisa: this is bloomberg markets. i'm lisa abramowicz. david: breaking news on yahoo! -- verizon said to be moving forward with yahoo!. walk us through what we know. guest: starting off, no surprise that verizon is interested. that they are amenable to buying the yahoo! japan stake which is something sources told me verizon doesn't want. that indicates there has been some back-and-forth between yahoo! and verizon. that's not really a

. ♪ mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann. rward to the art is no talking points and rebuttal. -- art is not talking points and rebuttal. ♪ mark: happy gotham city debate dave, sports fans. john: we'll cover the brawl between hillary clinton and donald -- and bernie sanders. announcers in florida

mark: and i mark halperin. and with all respect to etiquette, that escalated quickly. ♪ mark: hello from washington, d.c. on this very amusing wednesday after donald trump's five state conquest. he and ted cruz trying to get media domination. rally,ng that up with a featuring chair-throwing basketball coach bobby knight. today, cruz had his own. the processcuited by naming carly fiorina, former presidential candidate, as his running mate. >> after a great deal of time and thought, after a great deal of consideration and prayer, i have come to the conclusion, that if i am nominated to be president of the united states, but i will run on a ticket with my vice president told -- presidential nominee, carly fiorina. mark: fiorina also spoke. after being introduced, she took a shot at the red -- republican front-runner, donald trump. trump and hillary clinton are two sides of the same going. there was liberal, we know that. , like soary clinton many politicians, she has made her millions selling access and influence f

mark: and i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to verizon, i'm pretty sure you can hear bernie now. ♪ mark: on the show tonight a trump family sitcom. but first, some action and drama, with less than a week to go to the new york binary. the front-runners in both parties, hillary clinton and donald trump, hold commanding lead not just an empire state, but other eastern states up to vote after new york. both parties are still struggling to unify their fractured party before the convention. tonight, we start by looking at the pair of front wars starting with the democrats. new polls from quinnipiac university and emerson college today show hillary clinton leading bernie sanders in new york, 58-36 in maryland, and 49-43 in maryland. and a medieval of the clinton-sanders debate in brooklyn, tensions are quite high between the two democrats and their camps on issues of are very important to the left. such as guns, wall street, and fracking. today, sanders picked up his first endorsement from a colleague in oregon. an

mark halperin. we also have those from weekends with alex witt. and donnie is with us. and senior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein. that is a motley crew. >> someone has to add a little estrogen. chaos erupted in california outside of donald trump's first campaign rally. demonstrators blocked traffic to them swarming cars and at one point busting a police cruiser's windows with one man stomping on it. protesters forced police to close streets. others threw bricks. the smell of burnt rubber reportedly because of what's happening right there. that's a car spinning out in the middle of an intersection. they are doing a donut. police say 20 people were arrested and reported no major injuries in which was the first violence since the chicago rally. this footage of a trump supporter talking to medical personnel. reporters witnessed a confrontation there. >> mark halperin, the violence was outside the rally. going to be hard for the media to spin this one as donald trump's problem. that was something they loved to talk about a

mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann. we're looking forward to the art is no talking points and rebuttal. -- art is not talking points and rebuttal. ♪ mark: happy gotham city debate dave, sports fans. john: we'll cover the brawl between hillary clinton and donald -- and bernie sanders. announcers in florida they will drop formal battery michelle fields was grabbed last month. here is dave ehrenberg explaining his decision this afternoon. in thee the evidence case is legally sufficient for the police to charge mr. lewandowski, it is not strong enough to meet the legal burden of a conviction. it is not uncommon for an inner circle staff member to assist in clearing a safe pass wave. -- pass way. that one be noticed agent was positioned directly behind ms. field and appeared to show no concern over her actions. mr. lewandowski could have called this agent's attentions to her movements before taking action himself if he considered her a threat. after the incident, mr. lewandowski denied ever touching mrs. fields in any way. al

scarlet: we will see mark: i mark halperin. and i'm john heilemann. due respect to house speaker paul ryan -- mr. ryan: i do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. count me out. let me say again, i am not going to be our party's nominee. i should not be considered, per iod, and of story. john: so you're saying there's a chance.

mark halperin and john heilemann are still with us.e you looking for this week in the new york primary? what would surprise you? john: either one of those people losing. has the sanders or clinton margin tightened and does trump get all the delegates from new york? to try to get their respective nominations locked up. there was a big -- david: what is bernie sanders trying to do in these last two hours? talking that issues of judgment about wall street and the iraq war and dealing with the banking industry. surprisednders is that with all of this time he's invested on the ground and these rallies have not produced tightening in the private or public polling. the end result a be closer and i think the clinton folks hope the margin is big enough so people can speculating. >> in a city -- both of them now thinking it is likely a general election matchup. is this game over for bernie sanders if he loses? dauntingfaces very math. whether he wins or loses by a little bit. he could make an argument about momentum but even if he wins by a poin

. >> mark halperin thank you so much. >> detail-- let's head down to the markets. check on some company movers. you're looking at the auto sector. >> i want to start with tesla. even though the stocks is not moving much. it's come down sharply. let's take a look at it avis budget. both stocks are lower. hertz came out. over supply of vehicles pressuringest -- pressuring its prices. that range had been 1.5 to but you.-- 2.5%. we are also watching some of the other auto related stocks today. i think we're talking about ferrari next. which it spun off. er-- ferrari ceo planning to retire following nomination of new board of directors. also, at least temporarily as ceo of ferrari. interesting movement we're seeing in the shares today. auto nation was initiated. the natural there put -- analyst there putting a $50 price target. nonetheless, seeing shares pull back. now let's get to tesla. tesla shares, little change now. coming down sharply off the high of the day. after the company said it was recalling 2700 model s suv's. there's an issue with the third row seat. the

mark: i mark halperin. and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to house speaker paul ryan -- mr. ryan: i do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. count me out. let me say again, i am not going to be our party's nominee. i should not be considered, per iod, and of story. john: so you're saying there's a chance. mark: happy just say no day, sports fan. on the show tonight, my conversation with ice cube. but first, the biggest conversation in the presidential race today came from someone who is not in the presidential race, and now, emphatically, he will not be. he addressed rampant speculation that he might potentially be a white knight running to the rescue should the republican convention in cleveland be terminally deadlocked. his resounding message today, not going to happen. mr. ryan: i want to put this to rest once and for all. i have remained neutral. my job is to ensure that there is integrity in the process, that the rules are followed by the rulebook. that means it is not my job to tell delegates

mark: i am mark halperin. john: i am john heilemann.e respect to hillary clinton's list of favorite new york foods, what is this? chopped liver? happy tax/boston marathon/animal crackers day. campaign- ted cruz's is writing a high of political wrangling in wyoming and georgia where his delegates swept up state conventions, narrowing donald trump's lead.

. ♪ mark: i'm mark halperin.n: i'm john heilemann, and with all due respect to amtrak, it seems like you have an itty bitty problem with your branding. >> and is billed as the a slip primary. >> the accelerated primary. >> what some are calling the -- >> what some are calling -- >> the amtrak primary, it's being called a lot of different things because the famous acela train. ♪

mark: and i'm mark halperin. and just like everyone else in the next is, we are mourning the loss of a true prince. ♪ mark: even with prince's passing, the presidential contest speeds on, so we have a family tell all, but first, a trump townhall. on the same day that sarah palin came out about a facebook post about transgendered death room laws in north carolina, donald trump himself was asked on nbc's "today" about the laws, and he said that people should be able to use whatever bathroom they choose. donald trump: people go and they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. there has been so little trouble and the problem with what happened in north carolina is the strife and economic, i mean, the economic punishment that they are thinking. matt lauer: are there any transgendered people in your organization? donald trump: i don't know, i don't know. matt lauer: so if caitlyn jenner were to walk into trump towers and need use the bathroom, she could use whatever bathroom she wanted? donald trump: that is cor

mark: i am mark halperin and with all due respect to bernie sanders, we have your best friend of michelle. aboutll: we are talking jane. mark: let's get started by talking about another unpredictable creature who tweets, donald trump. we will have the latest bloomberg policy online poll that has some good data about how donald trump is doing against married women voters, but first let's understand why donald trump is the writing the complex rules by which publicans and democrats elect their dell -- select delegates. after the convention in colorado on saturday, trump is starting to criticize the cruz crusaders who are outmaneuvering trump. trump's rhetorical campaign follows -- where bernie sanders crushed hillary clinton in the popular vote and walked away with the same number of delegates as his rival. here is donald trump making the case for himself and for sanders in a rally in rochester, new york last night. i bernie, and he wins, he wins, he keeps winning. they say, he has a chance. why doesn't he have a chance? because the system is corrupt. it is worse on the republican side. i am

mark: and i'm mark halperin. and "with all due respect" to lead brooks, kasich nailed it three weeks ago. >> i got a feeling that when march madness ends, villanova may be the national champion. ♪ mark: hello and good evening. welcome to the wisconsin primary day. ted cruz and bernie sanders are both expecting big wins tonight, while their chief rivals, donald trump and hillary clinton, have been throwing up some buzzer beater attempts. there is more than just delegates at stake. two full weeks separate today's primary from the next big election, here in new york. we'll talk about all these candidates tonight, but let's start with donald trump, billionaire. the republican front-runner spent yesterday trying to woo voters from the badger state, where his wife made a rare appearance on the campaign trail and spoke on his behalf. from his zeroing on a targeted message about establishment forces trying to stop him. here's trump at a rally in milwaukee last night. trump: thesedonald are establishment people that don't

i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to bernie, -- verizon, can you hear me now?onight a trump family sitcom. but first, some action and drama, with less than a week to go to the new york binary. the front-runners in both parties, hillary clinton and donald trump, hold commanding lead not just an empire state, but other eastern states up to vote after new york.