the former gop nominee, mitt romney, drops a bombshell saying donald trump's failure to release his tax returns must mean he's hiding a, quote, bombshell. romney says it's disqualifying for a modern day nominee to refuse to release his tax returns, warning that could conceal, and i'm quoting him now, conflicts of interest and inappropriate associations. all that comes as a badly divided gop is pinning its hopes for party unity on tomorrow's crucial meeting between trump and the house speaker paul ryan. ryan is one of many mainstream republicans who so far have not been able to bring themselves to back trump, and trump may be making it even more difficult by making it clear he has no plans to release his tax returns until an irs audit is complete. the multimillionaire insists there's nothing to learn from his returns. >>> also, russia's slavladimir putin is using a military parade to take a swipe at the united states and its allies, but the u.s. and nato may give putin something to complain about. they're just hours away from inaugurating a brand new missile defense system in europe. i'l

>> no, democrats and mitt romney. you heard mitt romney last week sort of having fun with the turnabout game here saying perhaps mr. trump should prove he has no connections to organized crime. you're going to see more and more people being creative with speculating about what might be in those documents. >> all right, on the subject of creative, and perhaps shifting language, donald trump one of the few policy proposals he put out during the primary season, paper policy proposal was his suggested ban on muslims entering the united states. the campaign quickly after that proposal calling it a temporary ban. trump is changing the language even more. listen to what donald trump is saying about that. >> that's why it was temporary. sure i'd back off on it, i'd like to back off as soon as possible. we have exceptions and again it's temporarily and ultimately my aim to have it lifted. >> beyond that, phil, he also said it's a suggestion. it's just a suggestion. now i'm old enough to remember that when politicians run for o

mitt romney -- michael, michael.f you would just -- if you would stop being -- if you -- i'm sorry. this is a fact. it's called a fact, michael. maybe you're aware of those things. mitt romney released his 2000 return in january of 2012. if you don't want to say he didn't -- say it. but i believe that's the case. that's what mitt romney says in his facebook post. and unlike -- >> oh, my god, he said it on his facebook post. >> mitt romney is an honest man. he's a man of character. >> you're under a lot of pressure. i recall leading this program many nights saying where are the tax returns. >> there was never an issue that the republican nominee or the nominee of either party wouldn't release. donald trump is free not to do it and other people are free to say, gee, that's one of many, many, many worrisome things about donald trump. >> and michael, to bill's point, what about -- hillary clinton and bill clinton have released they say 33 years of tax rush returns. on a simple level, okay, let's say we give you -- you do

mitt romney did nothing to grow the party. the party stayed very white under mitt romney. and what happened? mitt romney lost the black, asian, hispanic and woman vote. mitt romney is a failure, the establishment has been a failure to grow this party. donald trump is doing these things, and that's why they're mad. their power -- my party deserves to be burped down and built -- burned down and built anew. >> host: in "con job" two people who appear in your book, allen west and cornell west. what's the difference between cornel west and allen west? >> guest: well, allen west actually endorsed my book. he was a member of congress in florida. he's a great friend of mine, i've learned a lot from allen west, you know, just was very friendly with him when he was a congressman, and cornel west is a professor at princeton. i think cornel west has come out to support bernie sanders. cornel west, i mention, i think, throughout the book because cornel west, in my opinion, is part of the race hustle movement. and i put him in -- i lump him in a category with al sharpton because cornel

what is mitt romney doing?erday, effectively trying to blow up donald trump. >> yeah, this is what the statement said. it is disqualifying for a modern day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters. there's only one logical explanation for his refusal to release his returns -- there's a bombshell in them. given mr. trump's equanimity with other flaws in his history we can believe it's a bombshell of unusual size. >> he and others like sasse and bill kristol have been critical of him. and donald trump sat down with greta van susteren about the lack of release. >> will you release the eighth year back, will you do that? >> number one, it would be meaningless. i have to see how far back it goes. when you go back eight years -- >> but people are suspicious you're not release because in january of 2012 you said that mitt romney was making a big release by not releasing his. >> but he wasn't under audit. i'm under audit. no lawyer would say release -- >> i agree. i'm a lawyer. >> i'm under a

donald trump is not mitt romney. he brought in millions of new voters. he will do whatever he can to bring in unity except abandon his core platform. charles: reince priebus said he would like to see donald trump make a promise he's not going to rewrite the conservative gop platform. he mentioned things that aren't conventionally gop or conservative. i was shocked when i heard this. for rya ryan reince say he wante him make these promises ... >> it's worth pointing out that's of these leaders all campaigned as conservatives but did not govern as such. when we look at the republican platform, none of these guys followed the platform for years. we have not had a republican govern as a conservative since the 80s with reagan. this idea of someone like donald trump who has never authored a less conservative legislation or voted on or signed a piece of liberal legislation, all of a sudden he's going to be held to a different standard. that -- that's baffling to me. charles: the muslim ban, higher taxes, the trade war, higher minimum wage. these are core issues

and mitt romney's statement today saying it is disqualifying, and what do you think?> well, this mitt romney has been trying to do the never trump thing for week now, and it has failed. he has no authority to say it is disqualifying. of course, trump should release the tax returns, but mitt romney is not the supreme court, but he is a failed candidate who is largely hated by the republican base. >> many of them are saying, you know, i won't bother to go to the convention, and my question is that as everybody is saying about the party unity, and party unity, and do you think that the american people or at least the gop, do they think that the voters even care about party unity? >> no. i think that trump is his own brand, and i'm not a trump fan, i have to add, but no, they don't care about party unity. they don't like mitch mcconnell, a and they don't like paul ryan and they betrayed him and trump subpoena the hero, and why do they care if they kiss his ring or not. >> on the subject of taxes, this is what hillary clinton had to say. >> what about the taxes? so we will

>> i think that you brought up mitt romney. i think there's a vast difference between mitt romney and donald trump. this sort of attack that elizabeth warren and hillary clinton are trying to use would have worked very well against mitt romney because mitt romney basically apologized for being a rich guy. you can't shame somebody who is shameless. you can't expose someone who has nothing to hide. donald trump says of course i made these deals. i'm a businessman. guess what? america is failing just like housing crisis and i'll turn that around. i take bad situations and make them better. that's why you're hiring me. i'll do this work for you like i made myself rich, i'll make america rich again. >> the other thing i would add that stuart maybe can speak to this, when the obama campaign defined mitt romney and got out there and did that, mitt romney was largely undefined on his own terms for the american public. that's not the case for donald trump. he's largely defined himself. the clinton effort now is a rebranding of donald tr

this speech from mitt romney came just days after mitt romney met with our next guest bill cross toll, founder and editor of "the weekly standard" now leading an effort to find a third-party candidate or at least some kind of alternative. bill kristol, thanks for being with us here in new york. you had a meeting with mitt romney that's received a ton of attention right now. there are those who say you are recruiting him to run as a third. heart candida party candidate. please tell us right now what happened at this meeting. >> i'll let mitt romney tell you what happened at the meeting. just get him here tomorrow. >> no problem. >> no problem. we both happened to be at a dinner in washington on thursday night. we discussed what he said publicly that he doesn't believe hillary clinton or donald trump should be the president and we discussed different possible ways to go forward. i do want to go to that meeting on thursday that paul ryan is having with donald trump. don't you think i should be invited? >> sure. >> donald trump could help the 42% or 44% or whatever of the republican prima

-- it may have been used against mitt romney.hat certainly wasn't the reason he lost. he wasn't coerced into doing so. usually candidates come around to making the decisions this is an act of good faith they should participate in so the public can vet them and knows how they made their money, can ensure there's no conflict of interest when they assume the most powerful office on earth. >> donald trump should put his tax returns out because, not just because everybody has done it since 1976. that's a big reason, but because he is running on trust me, i know how to run a business. i'm successful. it's the core of who he is and his candidacy, isn't it? >> well, you know, i'm going to be honest. i'm going to go off the cuff here. you may never have me back on here, but i don't even understand why we're even talking about donald trump's tax returns when in reality, we really should be talking about how the narrative of donald trump being racist, bigot who hates muslims and women when you have the leader of the nation of islam, louis f

i think mitt romney's problem is, and i campaigned for mitt romney and paul ryan but he's just a big baby. i think he's upset that another businessman is now the republican nominee and in my opinion is going to win this election because he blew the last election, mitt romney. he blew it badly and these tax returns and all that, greta started agree with donald trump. your financial statement is what you look at and if you are in the water you do not release the tax returns let's wait and i'm not interested in everybody's tax returns anymore. i want to fix. >> i agree with scott. i honestly don't care. i love transparency but what is this fetish with tax returns? i don't get it. >> mitt romney is like, he may have deducted something that he gave to a criminal organization because that's what you do. when you itemize your deductions you always put the mob in there just to make sure. for safekeeping. i really don't understand what i do agree that hillary clinton's speech is to goldman sachs could be such a conflict of interest, we can learn so much in their that i really, i don't care if

mitt romney couldn't win in the end, but mitt romney was close. a lot of the talk to donald trump is not even going to be close. he's starting out close. we can definitely tell you that. that's a look at the polls there. now as we head into the general election season, the countdown is on. 169 days away with a barrage of attacks from the clinton campaign still to come. trump is setting a $1 billion goal for raising money for this fall fight against hillary clinton. "the new york times" reporting that deep pocketed republican donors still not ready to jump on board the trump campaign. we're talking about donors such as paul singer, joe and marlene rickets. they're still on the sidelines when it comes to trump. questions about trump's values, about his tone, the way he's been running this campaign. seem to be working against him when it comes to the donor class. the people who could put up big bucks to try to put him in the white house. trump is looking to ease some of their concerns in a moment. he's going to be meeting with senator bob corker. tha

>> ben sass or mitt romney. i was with mitt romney. think he's thinking about it or be ben sass's campaign chairman. >> matthew is a critic of donald trump. kelly is a trump supporter. she wasn't with trump in the primary. i wanted to have you two on. this is an interesting segment to do about how republicans are sort of grappling with the reality of trump. mathsue, sort of a two-part question here. one is there a scenario where you could end up supporting donald trump this fall and why aren't you there right now? what's keeping you from supporting him? >> what's keeping me from supporting him is donald trump. he shouldn't be president. he doesn't have the character to be. for that's reason i don't see any reason or foreseeable scenario where i'd be voting for him in the fall. >> you don't think he has the temperament? are there specific issues? we're looking ahead to this meeting with paul ryan. is there anything in particular? >> just spend the last ten minutes on your show talking about his affect and demeanor. it's a piece of reali

mitt romney, very hard to convince conservatives that mitt romney is tried and true conservative. yet again paul ryan had no trouble getting behind him. >> because mitt romney adopted basically paul's ideas, paul ryan's agenda, the budget plan. that, paul ryan's signature proposal in the house. no, i agree with you hard for someone paul ryan not to get behind the republican nominee especially because he is house speaker. this is man based on ideas. if you have donald trump win the white house without any of the ideas that paul ryan believes can make the country great again in the words of donald trump, i'm not sure that is much value to paul ryan. david: very interesting stuff going on here. jamie weinstein from "the daily caller," thank you very much. very good to see you. have a good mother's day. >> thank you. melissa: mediaing criticism of possible credibility gap. pundits lining up how donald trump could not win the general election. yet the same people said trump couldn't win the nomination in the first place. is skepticism fair? here to weigh in, howard kurtz, host host of

this is mitt romney's electoral map in 2012. romney's map was john mccain's plus indiana and north carolina. yet as you see still not enough to become president. the question is, what states does donald trump carry that mccain and romney couldn't get to win the republican party, their first ticket to the white house, in over a decade, almost a decade? with me to go through different scenarios, mitch stewart, battle ground states director for obama's 2012 campaign, former senior adviser for ready for hillary, founding partner of 270 strategies, show the mitt romney map again. this is the 2012 map of what happened in 2012. the toss-up states. let's go through what we think the toss-up states are. >> 2012 we basically had ten battleground states. starting west, going east, you had nevada, colorado, iowa, wisconsin, and then at that point michigan was considered relatively safe. we went to ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire, virginia, north carolina, florida. >> okay, so that's -- you think that in this race, trump/clinton, you're lo

let me give a mess and to mitt romney right now. turn in your gop voter card.itch your registration. endorse hillary clinton and get out of my party, and by the way, i want my money back. this guy is is -- is a traitor. he should support this nominee. charles: anybody who is formerly gop that isn't wholeheartedly behind donald trump you are saying they are traitors? >> mitt romney who is the nominee for our party who we fell behind and supported to beat barack obama and lost -- charles: we have got to go. >> he betrayed his president and house lead fresh 1990. charles: i think mitt romney lost the election, and i think people still held him in high regard. long this start to linker, a lot of people won't hold him in that same high regard. the middle class is shrinking, particularly in metropolitan areas. in new york city you are either rich or you are poor. e*trade is all about seizing opportunity. and i'd like to... cut. thank you, we'll call you. evening, film noir, smoke, atmosphere... bob... you're a young farmhand and e*trade is your cow. milk it. e*trade

to vote for mitt romney. and look what happened over the past two or three weeks. right. hillary had a terrible, terrible time with all the new fbi information coming out. the new e-mail information coming out. donald trump had some of his roughest two or three weeks over the past two or three weeks. their approval ratings keep going down. the poll last week had mitt sitting at 20%. and mitt got a lot of his votes from hillary supporters. there are a lot of democrats that don't want to vote for hillary. there are a lot of republicans that don't want to vote for trump. this might be the time that a guy that is not all excitement. we've seen what excitement has gotten, as some people may say. let's go with a steady guy. mitt romney, you know, he started at 20%. he could do something here, if he decided to jump in. >> that's the model that mike murphy and other people have been talking about. go steal a couple of states. you don't have to get on the ballot all over the country and try to win the election outrigh

so far, mitt romney is not interested. the 2008 nominee with a primary in august is a reluctant yes, but also staying away from cleveland in july. >> if it's donald trump at the top of the ticket, no doubt that this may be the race of my life. >> even the chair of the convention is sending a signal to donors and voters that it's okay to stay on the bench. >> i think the bulk of the burden on unifying the party will have to come from our presumptive nominee. >> i didn't get paul ryan. i don't know what happened. all of a sudden, he wants to be cute, but we'll see. >> with a meeting plans in washington next week, the chill could thaw, and some trump skeptics are coming around, including rick perry who said this months ago. >> donald trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism. >> trump begins as a scarred candidate, trailing by 23 points among women and leading by three points among men. >> he didn't think much of equal pay for women because he doesn't think much of women. >> for trump, the attacks are personal. >> she was

no, i'm not a fan of mitt romney. just a you understand, i raised a lot of money for mitt romney. i made robocall scum i make speeches for him. he let us down. if you read the front page of the wall street of this weekend, mitt romney looks like a fool. by what is it good about mitt romney? [inaudible] >> she was not nice and i was fine, gentle bit of a jam. to think i'm going to change was on the quidditch each concluding with her. go ahead. one more, one more. [inaudible] >> bob dole is a fan of mind. of don't endorse me so don't tell me about bob dole. [inaudible] >> terry johnson got 1% last dime. i watched that whole situation. it was pretty disgraceful. i think it's a total french didn't i think is a french candidate, you want to know the truth. i watch them and to watch his motions and to watch what he says. i think it is a fringe candidate and your second, well, we do a lot of research on that i think it's not going to be a factor, okay? [inaudible] >> i think he set a new bar today. [inaudible] no, not all of you. just many of you. not you, david actually. [inaudible] >>

so far mitt romney is not interested. the 2008 nominee with arimary in august is a reluctant yes but also staying away from cleveland in july. >> donald trump on top of the tic ticket, i have no doubt this may be a race of my life. >> signaling it's okay to stay on the bench. >> the bulk of the burden on unifying the party will have to come from our presumptive nominee. >> i didn't get paul ryan. i don't know what happened. all of a sudden he wants to be cute, but you know, we'll see. >> with the meeting planned in washington next week, the chill could thaw and some skeptics are coming around, including rick perry who said this just months ago. donald trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism. >> trump begins the general election as a scarred scanned da candidate. >> he doesn't think much of equal pay for women because he didn't tnk much of women it turns out. >> for trp, the attacks are going to be personal. >> and she was a total enabler, would go after these women and destroy their lives. i mean, have you ever read

mitt romney and john mccain didn't flip flop on every issue.re's a difference there. >> are there things donald trump could do to win you over as he needs to win over paul ryan? what sort of statements can he make or what can he do? >> i think donald trump is dishonest, i don't think he believes in anything. interesting in kayleigh's defense of him, said it would hurt his brand, not what he believes. politically, paul ryan gave him an opening to earn the vote of conservatives. that's what he needs to do. >> i believe in limited government, doesn't he have to change some of his positions? >> that's why i don't think it is necessarily possible. it would have to change who he is. he is a political chameleon. it would be pandering back to conservatives if you decide no, i am not going to think about minimum wage, no i am not going to get rid of nato. all these things. that's the problem here. because he has been -- >> talking to people, active republicans, big donors, involved in a number of different cycles, many of them, men in particular more th

i get it. >> there are a lot of conservative who is didn't like mitt romney. a few at this table who did. but we said mitt romney was a better option than four more years of barack obama and everybody stood in line to do what they had to do to try to elect mitt romney. >> now get in line, take the medicine, vote for the guy that's going to be better than the other evil. >> you know take the big loss, that's up to you guys. >> let's see about that. >> a quick anecdotal story. last week i went out to din wer very good friends. diehard democrats, would never vote republican in their entire life. a couple of months ago he said i kind of like what trump is saying. he voted for donald trump, now jay wants to vote -- he wants to work for donald trump. last night out to dinner with a guy whose son was a big political democrat operative in new jersey. out to dinner with him. he says to me last night. he said i'm watching the show, i agree with jon stewart. i don't know what hillary clinton stands for. i can't vote for her, i'm going to vote for donald trump, too. you'r

if mitt romney did that, i would be happy to talk to him. i think it's great. >> he owes you a thank you. you want him to thank you first for 2012 before you will reach out to him? >> i helped mitt romney. >> and you feel like he was ungrateful? >> i believe i won him or helped him win five states. >> you sound like he was ungrateful? >> he was, which is okay. a lot of people are ungrateful, but he was ungrateful. they did not respond accordingly, and that's okay. >> let me move on. let me move on to some issue things. there's a few things that some people think are contradictions. i want to see if i can pin you down here. the issue of taxes. your tax plan is one where the biggest beneficiaries are the .1% when it comes to raw dollars that will be saved among taxes. but then in an interview earlier this week, you seem to say, you know, my tax plan, it's not set in stone. maybe i'll raise taxes. maybe i'll actually raise taxes on the rich. so i guess which is it? are you willing to raise taxes on the .1% or not? >> let me explain how the worl

mitt romney and john mccain didn't flip flop on every issue.rence there. >> are there things donald trump could do to win you over as he needs to win over paul ryan? what sort of statements can he make or what can he do? >> i think donald trump is dishonest, i don't think he believes in anything. interesting in kayleigh's defense of him, said it would hurt his brand, not what he believes. politically, paul ryan gave him an opening to earn the vote of conservatives. that's what he needs to do. >> i believe in limited government, doesn't he have to change some of his positions? >> that's why i don't think it is necessarily possible. it would have to change who he is. he is a political chameleon. it would be pandering back to conservatives if you decide no, i am not going to think about minimum wage, no i am not going to get rid of nato. all these things. that's the problem here. because he has been -- >> talking to people, active republicans, big donors, involved in a number of different cycles, many of them, men in particular more than women loo

mitt romney lost before. mitt romney will lose again. if you told me that marco rubio and mitt romney were going to run as a third party ticket, then maybe some actions, i might put some money on that one. but mitt romney himself, i don't see how he's going to galvanize anybody. he would guarantee the republicans would lose the white house in the fall and guarantee they would lose senate seats. i think that would be a terrible idea for him. >> lonnie? >> i think there's a lot of people who have expressed they have concerns about donald trump, whether it's because of his policy positions, his temperament or otherwise. i think that's why you continue to hear these discussions. at the end the day, there's going to be some percentage of the republicans who decide i'm going to stay home or support somebody else. an independent move gives voice to those people potentially. however, it is unlikely at this point because we are so far down the road and it looks like trump so it is what it is.ive nominee. >> so far down the road. i remember that p

david is right, it would be historic but i don't think mitt romney is going to do it because in a senseent the height of arrogance and hubris. what romney would be saying is i didn't participate in the process but i want to offer myself as the savior of the republican party. he had his chance. he could have run in the process like everybody else, gone through the whole campaign and perhaps he would have done well and perhaps he would have won, but he didn't. so now to come in and all of a sudden say i want to disrupt the process, that is his right to do it, but i don't think it would be successful and i think it would guarantee that hillary clinton would win the white house. >> would it be hub ris? there is a piece in the "wall street journal" and it says friends warned him don't speak out, stay out of the fray because criticizing mr. trump will only help them. he said they were right. i came his next target. he has no illusions he would alter mr. trump's progress toward the nomination or spark a meaningful independent candidacy. if he has his own self-doubts would it be the high of arr

here is some of what he said about mitt romney. take a listen. >> i helped mitt a lot. i raised a lot of money for him. i ruined the carpet of my apartments we had so many people come. we actually had to have two fund raisers. i helped mitt romney a lot. >> you feel like he was ungrateful? >> i believe i helped him win five states he was going to lose. >> sounds like you think he was ungrateful? >> he was. he was ungrateful. it's okay, a lot of people are ungrateful. >> the paul ryans and his former presidential running mate, do they need to bow to the will of the people, as sarah palin describes it? >> i think it's important for what speaker ryan did and governor romney trying to do say, look, we need a nominee of the republican party who will stand for conservative market-based policies, have forward-looking solutions and want to build and include more people in the party. they're expressin inging a poin view i think donald trump is not espousing those values, they're trying the best they can to make that point and make that case. >> as donald trump announced today, c

this is barack obama, the blue states, versus mitt romney, the red start. another way, this is the battleground map for the 2016 election. if they're dark red, likely to stay red, dark blue, likely to stay blue. you see the lighter shades, likely democratic state and republicans states. let me start on this map. what does donald trump say? donald trump says i could beat hillary clinton in places that are traditionally democratic. well, if he has that success and what jeffrey lord was just calling the rust belt. democrats are going to say hey wait a minute, it won't happen. if donald trump with can win in pennsylvania, michigan, and then come over here, win wisconsin, he's the president of the united states. you can do it. i make it sound easy, those are fire states traditionally democratic for a long time. it can be done just in this part of the country which is why donald trump reaches out to bernie sanders supporters, and why donald trump talks about the trade message. in his mind, you can do this in one part of the country where he has proven that he has

is he mitt romney? is he a different kind of billionaire than mitt romney but the same or is he some unique novel different kind of threat and that's a choice the clinton campaign is wrestling with right now. >> in terms of the republican party he's a complete alien. charlie had it right here's reince priebus going on the shows this week what about this article with donald trump and women and saying nobody cares about politicians and their women. this is the start of the republican party, bill clinton's sex life has been a corner stone for 20 years. this guy has to do the walk of shame. nobody cares. it's already started and it's beyond that. he's overtaken the republican party. the people who run campaigns for the republican party probably aren't getting their phone calls returned and that's the panic. they have literally no idea what donald trump is going to do on a day to day hour by hour basis and he's trying to turn into mitt romney but it's going to blow up two days from now. >> the night that tru

that said, we know in the past, we can't say it often enough, that mitt romney has said he is not interested in a third party run. we have reached out because of this report once again to romney's spokesperson for comment. we have not heard back yet. >> never a dull moment. thank you. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >>> paul ryan and donald trump have different ideas about the direction of the republican party. can they bridge that gap when they meet next week? does trump need the house speaker's backing to win the election in november? knows. but everyone knows cheese. cracker barrel has won awards for their delicious cheddar and they put that cheddar in a new macaroni & cheese. can you spell delicious? delicious. d. e. l... want to remind you that no one's the same without the game. like @pigskinsusan15, who writes, "with the nfl season over "now my boyfriend wants to talk on sundays. "all the time. just so many words... coming out of his mouth... at me." ok, your boyfriend's got it bad. maybe think about being single until the start of the season. depressing yes, but so is talking. ♪ w

paul ryan had no problem getting on board with mitt romney when mitt romney had a lot of liberal credentials>> the problem is i opposed john mccain and mitt romney in 2008 and 2012. ultimately supported them as nominee. but with them it wasn't a character thing. no one doubted they were actually good people. a lot of conservatives, particularly evangelical christians don't see a difference morally between donald trump and hillary clinton. that is his problem. david: erick erickson, the resurgent editor. you look in good health. thank god for that. >> thank you very much. melissa: west virginia primary mountain state, coal industry has seen dramatic declines during president obama's time in office. now hillary clinton and bernie sanders are trying to convince the state they can clean up the mess. our very own adam shapiro joins us with details there. how goes the battle there, adam? reporter: well everybody expects mr. trump will emerge victorious here because he has no competition but let's talk about hillary clinton. i want to show you the video when she met with a coal miner who was out of

nominee mitt romney announcing they cannot support donald trump for president. what about speaker paul ryan? will he support trump? speaker ryan making his announcement he would tell you his decision straight ahead. right now, we are moments away from donald trump's first rally in west virginia. this is also his first rally since being named the presumptive g.o.p. nominee. and brace yourself, trump, he might come out guns blazing for clinton who right now is also getting attacked left and right for her comments about the mining industry. fox news griff jenkins inside trump's rally and earlier today he spoke to miners in the state. >> please do not touch or harm a protester. [crowd booing] >> greta, we are just moments away from trump's first speech as presumptive nominee and as you mentioned the folks here have been on their feet going wild. they are very fired up. a large part of this audience is, as you mentioned, coal miners and we expect trump to speak directly to them. in fact, the west virginia coal association endorsed trump earlier today. and we were abl

should mitt romney get in the race? i bet you he can peel some of those folks off. >> there's her pitch again. that means no cursing or drinking. we're going to hold you to that if it comes through. >> yeah. >> only if he runs! >> fair enough. we have to leave it there. thank you very much. >>> in our worldly coordinated military attacks taking on isis militants in three strategic strongholds. right after this. it takes a lot of work... to run this business. but i really love it. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost® to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay strong. stay active with boost®. when age-related macular have degeneration, amd we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression. and everywhere i

he doesn't come across like mitt romney did not that i like donald trump but mitt romney seemed unlikablethink i would add to this and i hope the hillary folks uses this i'm sure he wasn't hoping for that 2008 recession if he was hoping for it when he missed that $53 million bond interest payment that bankrupted his fourth casino. i hope they use that because it didn't go well for him either. >> you have this conventional wisdom that the democrats are going to try to brand donald trump as the new mitt romney. it would be a giant improvement in donald trump's standing in this election if he were branded as the new mitt romney. romney was in a better position in the polls at this point and he had much more room to grow with voters who didn't necessarily have a firm opinion of him but were open to him in a way that a lot of independences and women and minority voters were open to mitt romney. i think what you're seeing the clinton campaign begin to try to do and it's in the fits and start phase is to try to puncture this notion of donald trump as this bold american economic national as a guy

what about mitt romney? if he's so serious about this, why doesn't he just throw his hat in the ring? >> i think mitt romney has had his couple of runs in the white house. listen. i think that reince priebus is right. it's a suicide mission. there's no way a third party conservative is going to win. it will fracture the republican party. the only reason you would do it is to try to protect down ballot races. and say we're going to see the white house to hillary clinton for four years and try to come back and try to win it in 2020. that's all mitt romney is doing at this point but here's a problem with donald trump. to david's point as well, donald trump right now is continuing to do his own press. he's continuing to put out messages on twitter saying, oh, i don't care about the london mayor. i don't care about this. we talk about donald trump being presidential. this is not very presidential at this point to have himself putting out these messages but a big city mayor. when's the last time bill de blasio was

before mitt romney had a chance to define himself. they defined him as this hedge fund millionaire. they're going to try it to do it again. donald trump is so well defined in the american consciousness, the challenge is entirely different. while we're getting a sense of what they're going to try to cast him as, this billionaire who has essentially is a con artist, has scammed people out of money, builds these condos and pulls out of deals, i don't think they'll do it the same way. >> they go after temperament as the one issue they might be able to score points, how they went after mitt romney and will go after daelonald trump on temperament. >> kristen welker, headquarters is buzzing today with the probability now that they are going to be facing donald trump even after a night where they lost badly to bernie sanders. >> reporter: andrea, i just spoke with one of secretary clinton's top officials here at her headquarters who said, look, the fact ted cruz dropped out, that john kasich is dropping out, trump is the likely nominee doesn'

donald trump is not mitt romney, right? he's not embarrassed by his wealth. >> he flaunts it.l make you a billionaire. >> when she talks about him bankrupting the country like he bankrupted his countries, it does have a certain resonance. trump has said i'm going to pay down the u.s. debt by convincing u.s. creditors to take a haircut on treasury bonds. so it does raise i think real issues of how he would manage the feds. >> let's get donald trump's response. >> she goes, and donald trump is a terrible person! and he wanted to buy housing when it was at a low point! who the hell doesn't? he went bankrupt with his casino company. i made so much money in atlantic city, but, you know, i'm a business guy. we all use the laws. >> what do you make of that one, dan? >> well, that's trump, isn't it? look, mitt romney, bane capital personified a certain idea, which was that wall street and companies like bane were shafting the little guy. donald trump is trump. there's no bane capital, there's just trump and his businesses. one guy, and this one guy who is operating at the level of med

conservative activist, and mitt romney appeared mitt romney has really played an important role in this group your did is reaching out to key players who he thinks could have crossover appeal in a three-way race. john kasich was the most surprising name we found. romney has made personal overtures to the ohio governor, asking him if he is any interest in being an independent bid. we also needed around the and others have reached out repeatedly to ben sasse nebraska senator who is a favorite of those on the right is to him as someone like ted cruz, with more of a sunny demeanor. some other surprising names, senator coburn, the former oklahoma senator. outrageeen having some and military figures. bill kristol. there is been some celebrities have had some personal overtures like mark cuban, the owner of the dallas mavericks. host: mark cuban is said that he is not going to run. guest: he did. let me go back to a speaker reince said last week after the meeting that took race -- place saying that it was a cordial meeting, but he is not ready to endorse them. >> the process of unifying the re

mitt romney says he is not going. >> mr. trump likes to speak of the size of his crowd and other things. wonder if they're still predicting big crowds even though he locked up the nomination? >> it's pouring rain here in charleston, west virginia. we have seen a thick stream of trump supporters lining up on the other side of this arena in charleston. the campaign is expecting at least 13,500 people and think it's going to be a rowdy crowd. the local paper is reporting mass many as 40 or 50 officers are on hand, work with the secret service and state police to make sure the security plan is thorough, and mr. trump just a few minutes ago tweeted from his desk at trump tower, happy cinco de mayo, the best taco bowls are made in trump tower grill. i love hispanics and there's a picture of him eating a taco bowl, it look us likes. so in west virginia folks are excited to be the ones to see mr. trump since his final two republican rivals went home. >> that was a real trump tweet? >> yeah. your show just sent it to me. the real don