but it is also a book that i think a lotta people still associate with mitch albom. it was a story, of course, about, a professor of yours who was dying of als. and sort of the lessons that he left you with. do you still to think morrie schwartz? >> sure. probably every day. if i didn't, i wouldn't be able to help it anyhow because some point every day, if i'm out in the public, someone will come up to me and say, you know, something about "tuesdays with morrie". sometimes it's just, "i like that book, "tuesdays with morrie". other times, it's very personal. you know, my, frequently i hear, "my father died from als, my mother died from al--" anyone who dies from als, i'm, i'm sort of a lightning rod for that story. he was an enormous influence on my life. everything that i write basically is a stem from a "tuesdays with morrie" tree. and, even the themes of "frankie presto" and how we affect one another, i don't think i would've thought of those things if i hadn't been exposed to how a professor who's no longer here, okay, he's been dead for almost, 20 years this mon

. >> i spoke to mitch albom in new york as his latest book was being released. let's start with, with your new book because it's about music. it's called "the magic strings of frankie presto". and, this is a novel. it, it, what's so interesting to me about it is it is written, through the voice of music. it's narrated by music. what kind of voice or personality does music have? >> well, in my imagination, music is very proud to begin with. it's proud of itself. it sees itself as the greatest of all talents. and in this book, it begins, you're right, by, at a funeral, where music has come to collect the talent that was inside the soul of frankie presto, who is my mythical hero, who was the greatest guitar player to ever walk the earth. and in, in this story, music tells you, he sa, he s, music so loves this child, it's, it's prodigy, that it comes to the funeral personally to get the talent out and then to distribute it over other newborn souls. and while music is at the funeral, it decides it's gonna stay and listen to all the hosannas being thrown at its prodig

. >> i spoke to mitch albom in new york as his latest book was being released.tart with, with your new book because it's about music. it's called "the magic strings of frankie presto". and, this is a novel. it, it, what's so interesting to me about it is it is written, through the voice of music. it's narrated by music. what kind of voice or personality does music have? >> well, in my imagination, music is very proud to begin with. it's proud of itself. it sees itself as the greatest of all talents. and in this book, it begins, you're right, by, at a funeral, where music has come to collect the talent that was inside the soul of frankie presto, who is my mythical hero, who was the greatest guitar player to ever walk the earth. and in, in this story, music tells you, he sa, he s, music so loves this child, it's, it's prodigy, that it comes to the funeral personally to get the talent out and then to distribute it over other newborn souls. and while music is at the funeral, it decides it's gonna stay and listen to all the hosannas being thrown at its prodigy becaus

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finger on the scale, but come on, we heard mitch mcconnell today. we heard paul ryan talk about the negative tone. meanwhile we're hearing about trump staffers being black listed if they ever try to work again. who has the bad tone now? is it trump or the gop establishment that seems like it's pulling out every stop to try to stop him from getting this nomination? i think that's the real question. >> new york voters said 70% of them said that the person who has the most votes and delegates won the most states should get the nomination, but mitch mcconnell -- it was 60% in wisconsin where donald trump did not win in wisconsin, but still the people there said the same. mitch mcconnell said when we get a nominee at 1,237 he'll be the candidate and if not there will be a second ballot and i want the delegates to pick someone who can win and when you add those comments up, doesn't it sound like they want the white knight candidate and they want to defy the will of the voters and disenfranchise them? >> i think this is where there is going to be a come to

and actually i'd be interested to hear what mitch says on this as well. you know, the controls of pedagogy, what gets taught in the schools, you want to change that and take it on, you have to go against the academic bureaucracy within our universities, and it's very hard to ply them, to mold them outside of their traditional way of approaching this stuff. so we have different school districts that have been able to do this. colorado's a state that lets the local school districts have a great deal of leeway in how they address this. and we have, i think, some great successes. and my job is to make sure those successes get spread to all -- you know, that each other school district can see the outcomes that they're getting and embrace these approaches. when you start teaching coding in sixth or seventh grade and let kids work up into stuff that's fun. right? how do you design a very simple computer game that you can play on your smartphone. the next step then, the governors compete with each other, as governor daniel said, we governors, we work better, repu

mitch mcconnell i want the delegates to pick somebody who can win. don't think is he talking about your father. mitt romney has talked about it john kasich has talked about it karl rove has talked about it and even state g.o.p. leaders have talked about a white knight candidate. so my question is, if they were to try to disenfranchise the voters, what's your reaction? where does that go. >> isn't that ironic given millions of votes ahead of everybody. you have seen the performance today and up to today. he was a couple million votes ahead. after the 26 he will be many million votes further ahead amazing. you see the turnout at the polls. states like nevada they had the biggest turnout they have ever had. look at south carolina and new hampshire. these states are having the biggest turnouts that they have ever had. you see the amount of people came to the polls today. democrats who want to do vote republican who didn't know the rules. they were getting turned away left and right. you see in pennsylvania, quite frankly, how many people registered there

getting employers and potential employee together much closer and rapidly. >> and what mitch is doing is really extroaordinary incredibl. in the past it was based on seat time and not skills acquired. what mitch is doing at purdue and poly tech institute is giving people certificates at whatever pace they can pick them up to achieve certain skills in a diploma-based curriculum and that is happening more and more. arizona state university is doing a lot of online teaching where people can pick up, at their own pace, the things they are trying to learn and demonstrate they have gotten the training and the learning that is provided by that. and i think there are a number of community colleges that are grappling with this. how do they move from being seat time to certificate or diploma-based because the graduation rates is staggering low in community colleges. so if they can give people achievements along the way for the investments they are making. we are also trying to get people who have had college, ran up the big debt, but don't have the diploma to show for it the way to show they ha

mitch blacher, "nbc 10 news." >>> and to protecting children in another way, the head of the catholicch is taking a stand. archbishop charles chaput and more than 100 children planted pin wheels, putting them in planter boxes that go in the garden outside of the pastor center. april is national child abuse prevention month. students in one county middle school got a lesson today that administrators hope will last a lifetime part of a drill. police flooded the school with a realistic lesson on what to expect if an intruder should come in. troopers demanded a head count from the teacher and then shuffled students out. >> build muscle memory for the kids. the more they can experience if this god forbid were to happen they are going to be ready and their body is going to act on instinct. >> preparation that this district does is phenomenal. we'd like to see more get on board with it. >> police learned a lot today, and so did the students, they took part in several drills for situations they hope they never have to encounter. >>> well, most of the heavy rain is gone but we still do have sh

where does that leave a leader like senator mitch mcconnell?st of all is most concerned about the down ticket races and senators keeping control in the senate. harris: okay. >> and he thinks, i think -- harris: you mean self-preservation? >> well, sure. harris: that is how i consider it. >> i thinks he thinks republican can't win and wants somebody at least in the polls does bert against hillary clinton. that is what he is signaling there. but you're right, it is forecasting that it is going to be messy in cleveland. >> you mentioned though, there is that period of time between the last primary when they actually get to the convention. favorite game for people out there to play now, i heard that. they fill in the crazy scenario of what they think is going to happen and one thing we've been hearing a lot of is during that period of time donald trump has the chance to go out and partner up with weather kasich or someone else, get the votes. show up at convention even though he didn't get there and still over pretty much out of the gate because a

he made them leap and now mitch mcconnell is making the leap.e using is they'd rather lose with cruz than take a chance with trump. >> so you have trump that wants to win on the first ballot and cruz wants to win on the second ballot and you have kasich who is like i need a third ballot. >> we're going to continue the conversation in a moment. coming up next we have more exit polling that could have lots to say how voters are voting tonight. we'll be right back. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be under attack. with the help of the at&t network, a network that senses and mitigates cyber threats, their critical data is safer than ever. giving them the agility to be open & secure. because no one knows & like at&t. so we know how to cover almost alanything.ything, even a stag pool party. (party music) (splashing/destruction) (splashing/destruction) (burke) and we covered it, october twenty-seventh, 2014. talk to far

here are the speeches from harry reid and mitch mcconnell. >> i have addressed the senate on several occasions, setting the record straight on senate history and the rules. frankly, i would much rather address wage to cut health care costs, bring down gas prices, talk about education, the spiraling deficit we have, but the majority leaders decided we will spend this week and next week or at least part of next week talking about judges in the mainstream. jurisprudence. i am happy to engage in this debate that i would rather not. i do want to debate to be accurate. for example, my good friend, the distinguished republican leader issued a statement last friday which he called the phyllis buster -- filibuster procedural gimmick. record what the word "gimmick" means. the dictionary defines it as a new scheme. i indicated it filibuster was everything but that. it is not a gimmick, it is part of our nations history for two centuries. -- vital of the file checks and balances established by our visionary founding fathers. it is not a gimmick. also, some republicans have improperlye stated the

mitch mcconnell is doing the right thing. chuck grassley is doing the right thing. i'm proud to commend them. i've done so many times. they're saying justice scalia's nomination should be made by the next president. we need to be focusing on the american people, not politicians in washington bickering. >> one quick moment that struck me and a lot of people. at your victory rally a lot of your supporters were chanting for your wife heidi. and she came up on the stage and you had a couple of embraces there seems to be a lot of layers of emotion there. what was going through your mind at that moment? >> well, listen, this has been a pretty amazing couple of weeks in politics. i never envisioned that my opponent would attack my wife. that he would go after my wife and my family. heidi is a rock. i mean, she is strong and she has come through this unwavering. but it was when i recognized heidi in our victory speech, the supporters there began chanting "heidi." it was a powerful moment, just to see so many people embracing her and saying thank you, thank you for putting y

i'm thinking that mitch in hersey, got a future in politics. >> mitch has been mentioned three times. >> i don't know. i mean what about the idea that she's trying to say that she's very relatable. she's with the common folk? i mean like dana you said that's not going to work very well. >> it's hard to take. her authenticity. plus, the easy thing for donald trump, you could turn around and say, well i didn't take $250,000 from all the wall street guys. going up and down wall street, taking $250 a pop to give a speech. by the way, where's your transcript? it's answer aebl. i'm saying for her audience, that was a good performance for her. >> how about schools? she took speaking fees from universities, public universities. >> unlv. >> did you see the lead editorial in the "washington post" this morning? it said why doesn't donald trump release his tax returns? the only candidate refusing that. >> you're right, we might find out that he's really rich. >> it's about finding out if he's as good a businessman as he claims. >> another celebrity is threatening to move to canada. if trump is e

. >> reporter: mitch is talking he and his wife raised two now grown girls. now they're days away from foreclosure. >> may 1st they're going to put it up for sale. >> reporter: mitch, a successful electrical engineer, whose projects included the freedom tower, suffered a debilitating heart attack. >> i can't walk and i don't have that much stamina. >> reporter: he said his doctor ordered him to only work part-time but the boss of his company -- >> they say well, you're fired. >> reporter: mitch embarked on a four-year battle to get it. he was granted back ben fetes-- benefits of over $60,000. he got nothing but mounting bills and more stress. >> i'm terrified i'm going to get a phone call, oh, your dad is in the hospital again because he had another heart attack. security and one phone call later. >> he worked a miracle. >> reporter: mitch got the news he's been waiting for. he'll finally get his disability benefits in a lump sum. >> actually i started to cry. it's such a relief. >> reporter: now they can save their home from foreclosure almost $62,000 deposi

barack obama and hillary clinton -- >> reporter: you called mitch mcconnell a liar, not them. >> theyapologize to the american people for seven years of economic stagnation, people seeing jobs going overseas and wages stuucks -- >> reporter: so no apology to mitch mcconnell? >> my folks is not on washington, that ain't going to happen. if the washington lobbyists want to see that happen, they can hold their breath a longer long time. my focus is on the american people, unite being republicans behind shared values and a shared vision. now, i will tell you this, i am happy to praise mitch mcconnell for his stand along with truck grassl -- chuck grassley saying we are not going to hold hearings for a replacement for justice scalia. they're doing the right thing in saying that justice scalia's replacement should be made by the next president so the american people have an opportunity to vote and express their views. >> reporter: we're almost out of time. just one quick moment that really struck me and a lot of people. at your victory rally in wisconsin, a lot of your supporters were chant

mitch, let me begin with you.polls are to be believed, the two national front runners will lose in wisconsin. you ha you heard me say is wisconsin a sign of what's to come or out liar? >> could be an outlier. he would go after ted cruz' wife and spill the beans. i'm a talk show host and i winced. imagine how they felt about that. he's losing women and you have votes coming from rubio and carson going to cruz, the talk show host in milwaukee, conservatives, governor, the coalition found a home in ted cruz. that won't be the case in new york where the people of new york values may reject cruz. >> john, are donald trump and bernie sanders competing for the same votes and because of wisconsin's open system at odds with one another because someone voting for bernie perhaps voting for donald and vice versa. >> let's be clear from the start that donald trump and bernie sanders are at opposite ends of the spectrum. people shouldn't see the possibility you scope out as an ideal logical response per se because wisconsin has

so, to mitch's point, i do not think we are intentionally driving this way. think we're just not having the debates to write the framework that works in the present economy. in washington, we have not had a political environment where that can happen. doing some of this better. the challenge is not, in my judgment, figuring out what laws to change, the challenge is what are the values that create america in the new economy, and when you're talking about social safety nets, when we're talking about economic security, and some of these broad questions, we have not even begun to have that conversation, arthur alluded to it, i'm very grateful for collaborating with us. have athink we need to option,undamental whether the nations do it, we have goodwill working with us and training people for a skills-based labor market. that's not why i went to goodwill. how much thealize social institutions on the ground are changing because of the tremendous need in cities and states. i think we need to figure out what we're going after, and then come we can address the policie

if ted cruz were the nominee, having to work with mitch mcconnell? >> it's an excellent point. because they're trying to protect their outsider brand and compete with donald trump but at the same time, they're trying to win over members of the republican establishment to say, the cruz campaign is the one who can really topple trump and bring together the party but cruz doesn't want to lose his credibility. that's why when he talks to people, he's the outsider, he's the anti-mcconnell. >> lastly, can i ask you about what happened last night down in pennsylvania, in pittsburgh with donald trump? there's a bit of sound i want to play and to set it up, he's talking about penn state university and the former coach who's now deceased, joe paterno. take a listen. >> i know a lot about pennsylvania and it's great. how's joe paterno? we going to bring that back, right? how about that whole deal. >> so the trump campaign later clarified that what he was talking about is a statue of joe paterno, for years, for decades, was the coach at penn state and then, the controversy involving the ar

jay, don't forget to drop joe and mitch at cam's later! yeah, what time are they expecting me to, uh-- oh, what the hell? oh, isn't it cute? last night when i went to do my nails, the girls did it just for fun. what's fun about a lifetime of gender confusion? ay, please. it's the same as when you took him to the dodgers game and you brought him back with that dodgers cap. you think? or is it different in every conceivable respect? ay, and don't forget that phil is gonna be meeting you at mitch and cam's to help you bring lily's princess castle here.

and in some cases, mitch mcconnell and others have said, we will not even show the courtesy of meetingith the judge to find out what he thinks. and i think what's important for all of you to understand -- because you're going to be not just lawyers appearing in court, potentially, but custodians of our legal system and our democracy -- is if you start getting into a situation in which the process of appointing judges is so broken, so partisan that an eminently qualified jurist cannot even get a hearing, then we are going to see the kinds of sharp, partisan polarization that has come to characterize our electoral politics seeping entirely into the judicial system. and the courts will be just an extension of our legislatures and our elections and our politics. and that erodes the institutional integrity of the judicial branch. at that point, people lose confidence in the ability of the courts to fairly adjudicate cases and controversies. and our democracy can't afford that. our system is designed to make sure that this branch works. and it requires a broad consensus, even if we don't agr

joan: because of mitch mcconnell. if mitch mcconnell wasn't there, down that marker, i would say that they would make progress because the white house made some progress, already made progress with republicans. made it aobama has major priority. but i actually think we'll be januaryaround here in of 2017 with an eight-justice court. gwen: oh, joy. thank you all very much. thank you, as well. we have to go now but as always, continuessation online, on the "washington week" among othera where, things, we'll talk about today's nuclear summit in washington. you can find it later tonight and all week long at pbs.org/washingtonweek. keep up with the latest judyopments with me and woodruff on the "pbs newshour." see you here next week on "washington week." good night. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org.] >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- today people are coming out to the nation's capital to importa

listen, i have a lot of respect for mitch. worked for him for three years, when he did with 41 senators, running circles around harry reid is amazing. when we find out we have nominee, may not be the one we want, we'll have to figure out is it hillary or is it going to be trump or him? or cruise? mitch didn't like cruz. he hated him. i don't know what the relationship is now. so, i would rather have somebody there you know you wan work with. i think key for donald trump and for ted quite frankly will be picking a vice president that can actually bridge that gap. somebody who brings party and people together. i think that is critically important. deirdre: sound like you're thinking trump-cruz potential ticket? >> i said that two weeks ago. if we're divided as we are, makes total sense to have the two. surround you and pick cabinet members. a lot of people exceedingly talented part of this process. i think you bring everybody together that way. deirdre: at least two weeks ahead, former massachusetts senator scott brown. thank yo

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell seemed to take a veiled hit saying he was optimistic there would be a second ballot in cleveland. let's watch mitch. >> it is important for everybody to understand that the convention rules will require you to get 1237 delegate votes and until one gets to 1237, they will not be the nominee. so there is some candidates suggesting it's somehow tricky to follow the rules of the convention. we'll follow the rules of the convention. 60% of the delegates bound on the first ballot will be free to do whatever they want to on the second ballot and i'm optimistic there may be a second ballot. >> congressman, these guys behave like members of a guild, the masters of the cloth hall. the dutch master cigar box with them deciding who is a republican, what the rules are. how does that square with democracy, the people the voters seem to like trump? >> yeah, i think the rules are the rules and we should abide by them. there is talk about the rules committee at the convention can change the rules at the convention and that's the thing that's angering mr. trump and

but donald trump's right where he needs to be to get to that magic 1,237. >> let me ask you this, if mitchonnell called you up and said, i'm no fan of donald trump, you decided to go for him quickly, what am i missing, what don't i understand? what would you tell a mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, who are doing verbal gymnastics not to look like they're comfortable with trump, but they're trying to be neutral. what do you tell them to get them more comfortable? what got you more comfortable? >> what i would tell them, for the last 7 1/2 years, we've had a legislator who stepped into the president's office, never been prepared and the country has paid a price. the only chief executive left standing that could be the president is donald trump and bringing that experience into the white house. someone who would put together the best cabinet we've ever seen, because he's going to hire the best and the brightest, that's what you do in the private sector. that in and of itself should carry the day, because we can't have another ill-equipped legislator going into the white house with all the issues an

ifean, it would be one thing mitch mcconnell was say, man, it's going to take so long to anddule all the hearings votes and we won't have time, because we're just so busy that then do criminal justice instead. spikence there's been a in the number of days off in and typically a judicial confirmation takes less than three months from the time that person's nominated. example, tookor 82 days. this is something that shouldn't getting done the criminal justice issues. i think what's been tougher is just managing the traditional politics around being soft on crime vs. being tough on crime. and right now, because crime sadly, except for in certain neighborhoods in chicago few other cities, have been going down in ways that are nobody can fully explain. there's less profit in saying i'm going to be tough on crime. there's always a hesitance on the part of legislators, because very rarely is a politician punished for having crime andough on sentencing. know, a lanally, you willie horton, they feel that a that can be perceived as lenient might come back to bite them. the good news is, so far

mitch daniels is my cochair. how do you make capitalism work in a 21st-century way? how do you -- longer-term investments? how can you actually have a tax code that incentivizes investment in human capital? we need to make capitalism work for a broader group of people or the anger that bernie is tapping into on the left and that mr. trump is tapping into on the right could undermine a system that has worked pretty well for us. >> do you want the budget? >> i will take on the budget the best i can. i think what we are hearing the senate -- mitch mcconnell says he's going to move forward with a appropriation bills despite the fact that they can't necessarily get to a budget resolution this year. but do you think that that can get done, that the appropriations process can actually work in an election year and more broadly, you've been involved in these broader fiscal discussions over many years now, what do you think it's going to take? is there any hope of any of that with however the presidential elections turnout this year? >> some of the biggest disappointment since

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leader, mymajority friend mitch mcconnell and other republicans today having quoting selectively from the remarks i made in an attempt to justify refusing chief just -- chief judge garland a fair hearing on the floor of the senate. they completely ignore the fact that the time i was speaking of the dangers of nominating an extreme candidate without proper senate consultation. neglected toly quote my unequivocal bottom line. so let me set the record straight. i said and i quote, "if the president consult and cooperates with the senate, or moderates nomineestion, then his may enjoy my support as to justice kennedy and justice souter." i would golear forward with the confirmation even if youhairman with a four presidential elections if the nominee were chosen with the advice and not merely the consent of the senate. just as the constitution requires. advice toent presidents of both parties, including this president, has been that we should engage fully in the constitutional process of advice and consent. my consistent understanding of the constitution has been that the senate must do so

if you play out how this -- how much of a problem this could end up being, if in fact mitch mcconnell sticks to not giving a hearing and not giving a vote -- and let's say from their perspective, everything works out great, and their nominee, whoever that might be, wins and takes over the white house. and they then make an appointment. the notion is the democrats would then say, oh, well, we'll just go along with that. [laughter] president obama: that is inconceivable, right? so now the democrats say, well, you know, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. we'll wait four more years to see how the next president comes in. at which point, what's most likely then is mitch mcconnell will then eliminate the filibuster possibility for supreme court justices as was eliminated for the other judicial appointments. and now it's just a majoritarian exercise inside the senate of who controls the presidency and who controls the senate. and if different parties control the white house and the senate during that period of time, you're not going to get any appointments done, which is a dis

mitch mcconnell saying there won't be a hearing.preme court is a big issue? >> i hear it on the campaign trail. people care about it. i honestly think when chris matthews had his back and forth over abortion with donald trump, a lot of people started talking again about the importance of the supreme court. take a look at some of the polls that nbc news has done. when you look at whether or not the senate should vote on the supreme court replacement, you see 15% there that aren't really dedelawa decided, when you go to the second poll, do you approve or disapproval not considering a supreme court nominee. 55%, that's huge. democrats have sort of grabbed on that. i just talked to a couple of members, democratic members of the judiciary committee. there is one thing to watch, though, thomas. this happened a bit ago. the kansas senator, jerry merand said he would meet with merrick garland. and they said we're going to primary you. both sides mean business. there is a lot at stake here. >> we'll see how it goes with the speech in the nex

at that point, what is most likely is mitch mcconnell will then eliminate the filibuster possibility for supreme court justices. now, it is just a majority exercise inside the senate, who controls the presidency, and who controls the senate. if different parties control the white house and the senate, in that. period of in that it is disastrous. there's a lot of work needs to be done. is second thing that happens people, at that point, will become more and more cynical about decisions coming down from the court. they are already cynical because so many opinions and the thing straight 5-4. it starts feeling like this is just partisan alignment. it gets worse under these circumstances. people a few the courts -- view the courts as extensions of our political parties, polarized political parties. if confidence in the courts continually breaks down, then you see our attitudes about democracy generally break down in ways that are very dangerous. front.ere in get impressed, you did all dressed up. was there a memo sent out -- did you are noty -- going to class like this, i know, i remember

to mitch's point i don't think we are intentionally driving things this way. i just think we are not having the public and policy debate to write the framework that works with the present economy. we have not had in washington a political environment where that can happen. the states are doing some of this better. but the challenge is not in the first instance in my judgment figure out what law to change. the challenge i think is what are the values tat create the whole of america in a new economy and when you are talking about social safety nets, when you are talking about economic security, and some of these broader questions, we haven't even begun to have that conversation. auth arthur alluded to it in his opening comments and i am grateful for the collaboration. but i think we need to have a fundamental conversation in this count raechlt we can debate if government does it, neighborhoods, good will, we have good will working with us in training people for skills-based labor market. people don't realize how much the social institutions on the ground are cha

you don't do things that way. >> bashing ted cruz there for his altercations with mitch mcconnell. and get this, more news on this front. at speech last night at stanford university out in california former house speaker john boehner, he is about as establishment republican as it gets. he absolutely tore into ted cruz last night calling him, quote, lucifer in the flesh. and saying, quote, i have democrat friends, i have republican friends, i get along with almost everyone. but i have never worked with a more miserable s.o.b., not quite what he said there but you get the idea, in my life. boehner in the interview said he would vote for trump if trump is the republican nominee. and that he is, quote, texti ii buddies with trump and he added he would never vote for cruz. strong words there from john boehner. hallie jackson is following the cruz and now the cruz/fiorina campaign we're calling it in ft. wayne, indiana. luke russert is on capitol hill. ahead of the big meetings between the trump campaign and top republicans there. hallie jackson, we're going to start with you though. you

mitch mcconnell has rallied tim collinssides behind his position.either of you see any scenario in which they could buckle before november? guest: it is hard, because the nature of the u.s. senators and the public at large -- they often thinks of senators as flip-flop errs who change positions. but on issues of importance like a supreme court nomination or declarations of war, it is hard to get a senator to flip his position once he has taken a strong position. is going to take a lot of political pressure from democrats and obama. guest: i think it would infuriate the conservative base if they were to shift the strategy now. that would be unlikely. the big question will be with the lame duck. even though mitch mcconnell has said they would not nominate, if a democratic candidate was, then it will be a big question. -- says what staffers really think about donald trump, ted cruz and their staffers. when we asked if her public leader should find a loop leader, a third of republican senate aides said yes. aides saidcratic pelosi should go if democrats

the mitch daniels administration -- so, mitch daniels is the former republican governor of indiana andnow the president of purdue -- wanted to implement this test at wide scale in the university. they wanted a very large portion of the incoming freshmen and the outgoing seniors to take this test in order to monitor undergraduate learning. the daniels administration has made value their sort of keystone word. for example, in indiana, it's now dotted with billboards that say "education at the highest proven value," to sort of sell purdue. this was bound to be controversial for a few reasons, the first of which is that mitch daniels' administration has been controversial at the school. this is for a variety of reasons, maybe the biggest one being that he does not have an academic background, which made many of the faculty unhappy when he was hired on. it's also the case that the way in which he was selected was controversial given that he appointed all of the trustees who, in turn, appointed him. so, when he was governor, he appointed the trustees that then appointed him as the president,

drink with u get a mitch mcconnell, they can. really?hter] drink with u get a mitch mcconnell. [laughter] . applause] i'm sorry. s.get frustrated sometime [laughter] i am not giving up. taking my charm offensive on the road. a texas barbecue with ted cruz. kentucky blue grass concert with rand paul. michellek-burning with bachmann. [laughter] murmuring] pres. obama: my charm offensive learn interesting things about what's going on in congress. it turns out, absolutely nothing. [laughter] charm part of my offensive is simple, we need to make progress on some important issues. take the sequester. republicans fell in love with can't ing, and now they stop talking about how much they hate it. it's like we're trapped in a album. swift laughter] pres. obama: one senator who has reached across the aisle recently is marco rubio, but i don't know about 2016. mean, the guy has not even finished a single term in the senate and he thinks he's ready to be president. [laughter] kids these days. ook, it is true, i have not managed to make everybody hap

mitch mcconnell has rallied tim collinssides behind his position. host: do either of you see any scenario in which they could buckle before november? guest: it is hard, because the nature of the u.s. senators and the public at large -- they often thinks of senators as flip-flop errs who change positions. but on issues of importance like a supreme court nomination or declarations of war, it is hard to get a senator to flip his position once he has taken a strong position. is going to take a lot of political pressure from democrats and obama. guest: i think it would infuriate the conservative base if they were to shift the strategy now. that would be unlikely. the big question will be with the lame duck. even though mitch mcconnell has said they would not nominate, if a democratic candidate was, then it will be a big question. -- says what staffers really think about donald trump, ted cruz and their staffers. when we asked if her public leader should find a loop leader, a third of republican senate aides said yes. aides saidcratic pelosi should go if

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donald trump would have a field day if ted cruz asked mitch mcconnell for an apology.t's the right thing to do, and i don't think anybody expects it, so, i'm not going to be holding my breath. we either support ted cruz because we are against trump or we don't support him because he was obstructionist and did not play well with his senator colleagues. those are the choices. >> peter, let me get you in to this, on the democratic side, as you know bill clinton tried to do damage control after the heated exchange that he had with the black lives matter protesters yesterday. listen to what he said earlier. >> i did something yesterday in philadelphia, i almost want to apologize for, but i want to use it as an example of the dangers threatening our country. half of us are so mad all the time because we think the game has been rigged. well the game has, the question is how you do unrig it? >> does this almost apology hurt or help the clinton campaign effort? >> well, the whole incident hurts hilary clinton. i think it was a very interesting debate and in some ways the exampl

and one of the reasons is because they're upset that ted cruz went on the senate floor and called mitch their collective leader a liar. i asked whether or not he is willing to apologize. listen to what happened. >> you know what? dana, this is why people are so frustrated with washington. it's the inside battles back and forth. this isn't a game. this isn't about washington power brokers. this isn't a smoke-filled room. if we want to turn the country around, let me tell you who should apologize. barack obama and hillary clinton should apologize to the american people -- >> but you called mitch mcconnell a liar, not them. >> they should apologize the american people for seven years of economic stagnation, for people seeing jobs going overseas, for wages stuck. barack obama and hillary clinton should apologize to the single moms forced into part-time work because of obama care. >> so no apology for mitch mcconnell? >> my focus is not on washington. that ain't going to happen and if washington lobbyists want to so that happen they can hold their breath a long, long time. my focus is on the

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who are the odds of someone like mitch daniels coming out of this as a nominee? >> i don't think they're great. i think it's toing to be one of those three and i can't question larry's micro analysis. there is momentum and cruise finished third. very bad. and i'm curious about this meeting in florida. >> they say this is the rnc. you know? they meet thee times a year and that cruz is making his case. >> i don't know. that is the question. but there is something else going on. a lot is about 1237 but i'm seeing a growing sentiment. the guy who gets the most votes they may lean in that direction. because this criticism is having some impact about votes. >> do you see this antitrump faction that is opposed to him? they want to see ted cruz go down there because they're banking on it getting to a second ballot. and if it gets that far, trump cannot win? >> they want everybody but trump. and never trump. but you know they need to think, too. they could step up a little bit. they can try to make an effort to talk to donald trump. these guys weren't hurt, insulted. you