michelle bernard, and roger stone. roger, i'm looking at today's "new york times" so it must be true. the club for growth and other conservative groups are all now plotting and scheming to take down the donald. >> the political establishment is soiling their britches over the rise of trump. a new pole today has donald trump leading hillary clinton. no wonder the political establishment is in a panic. >> the donald continues to dominate headlines, this was gotcha? >> are you particular with general soleimani? >> yes, go ahead and give me a little, tell me. >> he runs the quds forces. >> yes, okay. >> the kurds have been horribly treated by us. i think you said kurds. >> no. >> i'm sorry i thought you said kurds. >> what do you hear in that tape? >> what i hear is donald trump instead of having an issue to throw back at somebody, he is a lot of things and i think he is stronger than people give him credit for. every political analyst that says this guy will be gone is wrong. it is about 35% of the republican elector rate

the roundtable tonight, michelle bernard, paul singer and ruth markus. i want to start with you, michelle. you're closest, i think. what are you episcopalian. >> catholic light. >> that's fair enough. my father was episcopalian before he found the light. let me ask you about the american reaction to this pope. i look at him -- it's not going to be doctrinal changes. but what he's doing -- i am a catholic all my life. i am a catholic. i'll forever be one. what he's saying it's the sin, not the sinner. it gets back to that we're going to forgive, even mortal sin. a woman who has had an abortion is many ways a tragedy for her. she had to make a decision. and after she made it, she decided that wasn't what she felt good about or whatever, that there would be a way to come home. you go to confession and no more excommunication. i think that's a wonderful embrace of so many catholics. >> absolutely. >> to come back to the church. >> absolutely. i love this pope, for one. >> as do millions of people. >> as an episcopalian. for people who are gay, for women -- >>

michelle bernard an independent analyst. and roger stone has since left the campaign.er, i'm looking at today's "new york times" so it must be true. the club for growth and other conservative groups are all now plotting and scheming to take down the donald. >> the political establishment is soiling their britches over the rise of trump. this is just another manifestation of the political establishment apoplectic about trump and the fact that he's not be holden to lobbyists and all the special peers in washington. no wonder the political establishment is in panic. >> the donald continues to command all the headlines, including a headline generated by a headline he did with hugh hewitt. i want to play a tape and ask you if this is gotcha >> are you particular with general soleimani? >> yes, go ahead and give me a little -- go ahead, and tell me. >> he runs the quds forces. >> yes, okay. >> the kurds have been horribly mistreated by us. >> no, not the kurds, the quds forces, the bad guys. do you expect his behavior to change? >> i thought you said kurds. >> no. >> i'm sor

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. >> i'm joined by the round table msnbc david corn the washington burro chief and michelle bernard ishe president for the public policy and paul singer washington correspondent for usa today. the game here, we know what is going on. joe bide season calling around and asking democrats is there room for me. the clinton campaign wants them to say no, sorry, she's got the numbers and there is something in it for us. is that the message after what the clintons have done in the last week? is that the message democrats will deliver to joe biden? >> it's the message that the hilary campaign is trying to deliver, i am here and strong and it's a big fight. now there are a lot of democratic donors out there who still haven't committed to hilary. a lot of people bundlers for barack obama. star warts about hillary clinton with or without the e-mail controversy and seems to be a little opening, maybe a medium-sized opening for joed biden so it's natural the hillary clinton campaign would come around and make that space as small as possible and try to show joe biden there is a big hurdle to overcome

thank you to julie pace and to michelle bernard. very nice to have you on the set.ck update to the breaking news we've been following on msnbc. police in phoenix have made an arrest in a recent string of shootings along an interstate there. 21-year-old lesley allen merit jr. is in custody this morning after being arested last night at a walmart. his father insists he is innocent. detectives say they linked his gun to the first of four shootings that occurred last month. investigators are still investigating the shootings that have followed as they think those were acts by copycats. no one has been seriously hurt. the seemingly random shooting of vehicles along the interstate has drivers on the edge. stay with msnbc for the latest. and still to come, from paris. play awesome party song. ♪ (phone ringing) what's up mikey? hey buddy i heard you're having a party. what? if i was having a party, i'd invite you. would you? yeah. (phone ringing) oh! i got another call. adam: i'm not having a party! hey chris what's up! you heard about adam's party man? it's going to be cra

trump, if she starts off with that line, look at this face, carly fiorina wins. >> thank you, michelle bernard and john, thank you again. sarah lenti, we'll have you back many times. when we return, let me finish with the nasty divorce we're watching in the republican party. that's what's going on now. you watch and stick with us. i'll tell you why. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. misswill turn anan asphalt parking lot into a new neighborhood for san franciscans. a vote for "yes" on "d" is definitely a vote for more parks and open space. a vote on proposition "d" is a vote for jobs. campos: no one is being displaced. it's 40% affordable units near the waterfront for regular people. this is just a win-win for our city. i'm behind it 100%. voting yes on "d" is so helpful to so many families in our city. >>> let me finish tonight with this nasty divorce we're watching the republican party go through. you know, back before the election of abraham lincoln, the republican party was born of a merger of the old whig party of landed wealth with the abolitionists. today is the republ

bernard. sarah lenty is a republican strategist who works with jeb bush's candidate. we'll get to the sanity to jeb bush in a minute. michellele thought trump was crazy and says crazy things and so does dr. carson. but, my god, bill kristol talking about bringing back dick cheney and that puppetoon of his, just like marco rubio does what sheldon addison tells him to do. of course they want puppets to neo cons. >> listening to bill kristol's statement is absolutely aston h astonishing, because remember he is the establishment of the establishment in the republican party. and what have we been hearing for months and months and months? if you have a third party candidate, you'll be handing over the white house in 2016 to hillary clinton. so does bill kristol really believe that dick cheney or someone else, you know, can run as an independent third party candidate, in the event that donald trump becomes the republican nominee and is he truly willing to say that the republican party, as they know it, is over, and hail to the chief and the next chief is hillary clinton. >> i don't know that i would say that anybody in the party th