after he won in ohio mr. trump started working on robocalls as the message delivered by mr. trump. e fund raising. the week before the michigan primary, the candidate that argued to let detroit go bankrupt ducked back east with donald trump. held at a law firm specializing in bankruptcy. that was a nice touch. last month, donald, the honorary buckeye trump, hosted a fund-raiser with anne romney. they hauled in more than $600,000 at that one. the romney campaign wants mr. trump to host another one of those when mr. romney secures the nomination. whatever it is donald trump does for mitt romney, it seems to be working. and mr. romney seems to think he needs it, which makes mr. trump's continued insistence that president obama may not be an american citizen that much more of a question mark from romney's campaign. yesterday mr. trump told the daily bees all the nice thing he is says about mitt romney. when he said, a book publisher came up three days ago saying he was born in kenya and raised in indonesia. his mother never spent a day in the hospital. donald trump is not letting the bi

. >> so, just what is mr. trump up to now? let's check in with our senior political analyst, david gergen. about a year ago we thought this was settled. eve pln trump said i assume it's real. why now? >> i have no idea. you have no idea which way it's going tounce bo next. they're just testing out themes. but donald trump loves to stir up a controversy. >> he does. most times i would plain ignore it, but he's a major surrogate for governor romney. he said on that same program i'd love to be considered for vice president or he wouldn't rule it out. he's had a big fund raise we are governor romney and speaker gingrich next week in vegas. the romney campaign has a big raffle if you go online. put in $3 and win a chance to have dinner with the donald and governor romney. is there any burden on the romney campaign to say, whoa, stifle? >> the thing the rom e knee campaign ought to be careful about is not letting this get too crazy and wander out beyond the message control. for example, donald trump is thinking of starring up a big p

he flies out to accept in person an official endorsement from mr. trump. >> there are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. this is one of them. being in donald trump's magnificent hotel is a delight. i want to say thank you for the endorsement. it mean a great deal to have the endorsement of mr. trump. >> that was february of this year. two months after that in april, donald trump through a 63rd birthday for ann romney at trump tower. a birthday bash complete with this sugar coated depiction of mrs. romney atop a horse. abc news was able to report all told the donald has recorded more than 30 robocalls for the campaign and done more than 50 interviews. you want the september meeting. you have the february endorsement. you have the april birthday party. you have dozens of calls, dozens of surrogate interviews and today, the day he clinches the nomination, he's hosting a romney campaign fund-raiser in las vegas. mr. romney is a center piece of the campaign. the seal of the approval that gives him, donald trump is busy advancing hi

donald trump is a representative of the romney campaign. mr. aising money off of donald trump. they are doing joint appearances, joint fund-raisers, paid robocalls together, and donald trump is preaching that barack obama is not the president. his birth certificate and his sit citizenship are a fraud. if you're mitt romney, what's the right thing to do? you're making a lot of money off this guy, but he's wrong. but you're making a lot of money off this guy, but he's wrong. are you seriously going to do this fund-raiser with donald trump next week, mitt romney? after all the birther stuff was reiterated today? seriously, are you still going to do that fund-raiser? >> what makes the seventh wonder? courage. what makes the dawn clap like thunder? courage. what puts the ape in apeman. what do they got that i ain't got? >> courage. >> you can say that again. >> courage, mitt romney. courage. cocktail moment, dead ahead. an airline has planes... and people. and the planes can seem the same so, it comes down to the people. because, bad weather the pric

mr. trump continues to say that the president might not have been born in the united states. the obama people want to link romney and trump as this ad demonstrates. >> i have read about him. he is an arab. >> no ma'am, no ma'am. is he a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with. ♪ ♪ >> why doesn't he show the birth certificate? >> he doesn't have a birth certificate. now, he may have one but may be religion, maybe says he is muslim. >> why is mitt romney sort of throwing a party with donald trump to raise money? >> as i said, you know, mitt romney has made it clear that this is not an issue for him. ♪ ♪ >> bill: joining us now from washington to react to that ad dick morris the author of the big two best seller screwed. all right, dick. now, mitt romney doesn't say anything about donald trump's position on the birth certificate. should he? >> well, in answer to the guy who said why is he holding a fundraiser with donald trump? answer to raise funds he raised 2 million at that event. obama wishes he had 2-million-dollar events. a lot of people thi

i think you sound ridiculous. >> what mr. trump wouldn't do is give any evidence at all to back up his claims, that is not new, but what the romney campaign doesn't seem to want to do is dump mr. trump because of the unfounded claims. i pressed romney supporter john sununu on "starting point" this morning. >> it's not an issue. >> you don't think anyone -- you don't think -- >> the romney campaign believes the president was not born in the united states. >> so then how come someone doesn't say donald trump is wrong! we're going to tell -- >> donald trump is wrong. the president was born in the united states. >> so, as i mentioned it has been more than a year since these questions should have stopped. president obama released his long form birth certificate, april last year. he released it to settle the issue once and for all, released it because people like donald trump are going on and on making unfounded claims about the president's birth place. as all of that was swirling, just before mr. obama released his birth certificate, we

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. >> mr. trumpo be late for the finale. >> get me the fastest driver anywhere in the world. >> yes, mr. trump. >> i have to go. we are doing a live finale of "the apprentice." you take care of yourself. it will be amazing. 15 weeks, 18 celebrities and it all comes down to this very big moment.

we just recently in an episode of celebrity apprentice -- you mr. trump recognize that real problem was lack of leadership. and so ultimately you didn't blame little john or meat loaf. you fired gary busey. and these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night. >> i mean, all of us laughed that night, but the president seemed to mock trump. but this, as dana said, joan, brings trum 7 back to at least looking like he has some kind of clout in the republican party and the question is, why would willard do this? >> apparently he does have clout. and willard does this because he really can't count on every vote. he really doesn't know how to get to 50.1% reverend al. and you know, i do want to pick up on something dana said that i've been thinking about a lot. it really looks to me like trump is having, a, a lot of fun, that's obvious. but there is also this weird, i think, humiliation ritual going on with mitt romney because he's got to know that this is making life harder for willard. he's got know that he is costing him something. maybe not as

. >> mr. trumpfor the finale. >> get me the fastest driver anywhere in the world. >> yes, mr. trump. >> i have to go now. we're doing a live finale of "celebrity apprentice." i think it's going to be amazing. you take care of yourself. bye. 15 weeks, 18 celebrities, and it all comes down to this very big moment. who will become the next celebrity

mr. trump's investigators. i asked him about it months ago. >> we've had a team in hawaii talking to everyone from the state health department to the school where obama's mother went to other families in the hospital at the same time as he was born. none of them say they've been contacted by anyone working for you. >> well, maybe they're not saying it and haven't contacted the same people. >> we've interviewed the former director of health. a republican. one of two state officials who has seen the original birth certificate that you're talking about in the vault. she says she hasn't been contacted by your people. i mean, isn't that somebody they should talk to if they're there? >> i've been told recently the birth certificate is missing. i've been told it's not there and it doesn't exist. if that's the case, that's a big problem. >> who told you that? >> i heard that two days ago from somebody. >> can you name one person your investigators talked to? >> i don't want to do that. it's not appropriate. >> you can'

. >> mr. trump,, you issued a statement. is a disappointing employment report and you criticized the president wanted him to focus more on job creation. has he taken your -- patty take your advice where would we be now? guest: he should have taken a lot of people's advice. most of the mainstream economists and the people who know what to do to get the economy moving, he should focus on jobs and put people back to work and. from last july or august, he started on the program and it has shown -- it has done some real good. we had 26 months of job growth in the private sector, 19 months of continuous job growth overall. unemployment is down to 8.1%. i am disappointed in the figures, 115,000 is not enough to keep up with job growth for the population growth so we will not get out of the hole with those numbers but we are moving in the right direction. all this talk about cutting back on programs and austerity will take a shaky recovery and moved in the wrong direction. >> you are gearing -- getting very frustrated with him and y

the voters are mature enough to separate mr. trump who has been trumping his card for ages. romney knew what he was getting when he decided to do this event with trump. why do you think trump is different? >> do you think democrats are in danger of overplaying their hand in this? >> i think democrats have been very clear when people on our side have said things that are obnoxious. when you think the archie bunker hour is over here comes donald trump spitting in the punch bowl as mitt romney crosses the finish line. while we give mitt romney a pass on the hair cutting bullying incident when he was in high school there is a theme of him not standing up to bullies. he did not stand up to rush limbaugh. he did not stand up to ted nugent when we know the kind of language ted nugent referred to the president with and has not stood up to donald trump. armstrong is wrong. for him to say i believe that the president was born in the united states he needs a much stronger statement. he needs to say i disavow this and i disavow his tactics. if he can't stand up for what is right for the

mr. trumpd but he shook my hand on the way down. >> greg: that is your one more thing? >> eric: yes. we had a blast. trump backstage, arsenio hall, my wife and i. one more on stage. trump and i. by the way, stay this quickly. there were so many "the five" fans there, i couldn't believe it. >> dana: is that photo shopped in? >> eric: no. a lot of "the five" fans saying i love the show. >> dana: did they love it more than apprentice? >> kimberly: we have a "jeopardy" superstar. >> dana: chris wallace won his "jeopardy" round. congratulations to him. robin gibbs, beegee died at 62 yesterday. cause was complication from cancer. his paternal twin maurice gibb died of a twisted intestine in 2001. i love the beegees. bob did. >> bob: two of them. him and donna summers in one week. terrible. >> greg: i think, you are too young to be -- >> dana: everybody knows beegees. >> greg: they were my seventh and eighth grade prom when you learned how to slow down. the worst clothes. saturday night fever. >> kimb

nobody, mr. trump, except mitt romney. to drive voters away, all he has to do is indulge the lunatic ravings of donald trump's rantings, and for mitt romney to align himself with this gas bag with the funny hair is tantamount to wanting to destroy his candidacy before it gets off the ground. except for contributing money there is no way donald trump helps mitt romney become the next president and if mitt romney can't see that, i'd say the lad has serious problems. here's the question, why does mitt romney continue to put up with donald trump? go to cnn/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog or go to my post on the situation room's facebook page. by the way, wolf, the consensus i talked to is you kicked some ass on that one. you won that on points all of the way. >> thank you very much. i would have preferred not to have to win anything, but it was an important interview. >> it was a good interview. >> we'll have donald trump back at some point to explain his side of the story once again. thanks very much. >>> two deadly

. >> mr. trump thank you for letting us us come to this beautiful hotel, and being with us. >>. >> he didn't just paddle around with one millionaire? he also met with the casino own thaer pumped $20 million to newt gingrich. we all know that money is needed to run a campaign, but in this race it's different. ouide gop groups plan to pump $1 billion into this race. people with millions at their dispos disposal, we'll have more with that at the end of the show, but mitt romney is a perfect candidate, he will keep their pockets lined, keep the system rigged so they will have what they need. that's what willard's candidacy is about, and that's exactly what this president wants to see changed. >> see the job of a president is to lay the foundation for strong and sustainable broad based growth. not one where a small group of speculators are cashing in on short term gains. it's to make sure that nerve this country gets a fair shake. everybody gets a fair shot, everybody is playing by the same set of rules.

of experience. >> i walk down the street, people are screaming, pleat don't give that up. >> you mr. trumpzed the problem lack of leadership. you fired gary busey. these are the decisions that would keep me up at night. >> well, in addition to all of that, let's catch up with the first lady's media world. she has a new book out this week called "american grown" and she's busy promoting it on the daly show like any other author. unlike other authors the first lady did not accept an advance for writing the book. all proceeds will be donated to the national park foundation. msnbc contributor krystal ball joins us talk about the first lady's book tour. according to a very latest "the washington post" poll, the first lady enjoys an approval of 69% of the public. given how many conservatives during the campaign in 2008 attacked michelle obama, she's just buried them, isn't she? >> she absolutely has. she's one of the most popular figures, really, in the world. people love her. i was listening to the president speak at a fund-raiser in and he mentioned her name and the crowd went crazy. he had to

birther but there are major questions here and the press doesn't want it cover it. >> just to correct, mr. trump on his fact, the literary insisting he spoke about who wrote that copy pch he said it was a mistake but that barack obama never gave the publisher any material or background that would imply he was from kenya. so so much for that from don add trump. let's talk about what happened late this afternoon on cnn with wolf blitzer. >> you know what, everybody's entitled to their opinion, wolf. you know my opinion. you know his opinion. and that's fine. we're entitled, as he said yesterday in the airplane, we are all entitled to our opinions. he is entitled to his opinion, and i think that's wonderful. i don't happen it share that opinion, and i think that's wonderful also. i think if you look at the birth certificate, you analyze the birth certificate, there are many people that don't agree with the birth certificate, they don't think it is authentic wolf. >> when you say many people that don't agree. >> many people. >> like who some. >> there are many people. >> give me some authority in ha

romney and mr. trump appearing together.bc news new york. >> judge in edwards mistress and money trial apparently scolded jurors today although it's not exactly clear y.it happened in closed door sessio session. second such hearing since friday. they met for seventh day of deliberation. edwards accused of using nearly 1 million dollars in donation to hide his mistress during the 2008 presidential campaign. >>> planned parenthood caught in a video sting. group of pro life activist say they have proof the non-profit organization encourages the selective abortion of girls. the video was made by the group live action found entered san jose. the story tonight from 7 news political reporter mark matthews. >>reporter: hidden camera video records an incount we are a planned parenthood staff at clinic in austin, texas. pregnant woman posing as patient tells the staff she wants to abort her baby if it is a girl is told an ultrasound will determine the fetus sex. >> so then would i want to schedule try to schedule an ultrasound with an

mr. trump's conspiracy theory of the president of the united states being secretly foreign. that is your history forever. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell". >> wow, talk about a coincidence, the biggest liar of the presidential campaign is raising money tonight in vegas, with america's biggest pathological liar. mitt romney accepts and plays the trump card. >> doubling down vegas style. >> honeymoon in vegas. >> mitt romney's fund-raiser. >> a $2 million las vegas fund-raiser. >> with donald trump tonight. >> i want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> why? >> why? >> why? >> the place of birth movement. >> you are courting disaster. >> this is about raising money. >> mitt romney is not going to have trouble raising money. >> how do you let a guy, donald trump. >> chair a $2 million fund-raiser who thinks that the president of the united states is illegitimate. what is the benefit here? >> i just don't even -- >> i thought your introduction was highly inappropriate. >> there is some very nasty underto