mr. trump, thanks for your time and thanks for being a huge fan of our show. mr. trump: tremendous show. john: you yourself have the show. you are finally running for president. mr. trump: i have never done this. it has not been that easy. mark: in some areas, you do better than bobby jindal. john: on the show, the monopoly man. supporters turned out with their own signs at the economist tower. it looked like an event at the megamall. a nice megamall with escalators and people hanging off the balconies into the atrium and security guards keeping the throng and check. trump is the only candidate who announced in his home and in his office which is the sky rise next to tiffany's flagship store. the donald arrived from on high, descending from an escalator filled with angels. we waited and we waited and we waited. and then the words we all wanted to hear finally. mr. trump: ladies and gentlemen, i am officially running for president of the united states and we are going to make our country great a

[applause] mr. trump early things i would do probably before i even got in -- i would not even use -- i know the smartest negotiators in the world. i know the good ones, the bad ones, the underrated once. they think they are good. the newspapers get buffaloed but they are not good. i know the best negotiators in the world. we will do very well. very, very well. i would not even waste my time with this one. i would call up the head of ford, who i know, if i was president. i would say congratulations. i understand that you are building a nice $2.5 billion car factory in mexico and that you will take your cars and sell them to the united states, zero tax across the border. you say to yourself how does that help us? it is not good. i'll say congratulations. let me give you the bad news -- every car, truck, part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, we will charge you a 35% tax. [applause] mr. trump: that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction and that is it. here is wha

mr. trump. questioner: you have heard the president talk about the republican field? what does he think about it? mr. earnest: the president is an interested observer in this process. having been through this process a couple of times himself, he understands how difficult and even challenging the process of being a candidate for president or a candidate for a re-election for president can be. but the president also believes these kinds of campaigns are important for the country because they do have -- when they are -- -- when they are run effectively, they have a way of surfacing important debate that's important for the country to consider -- debates that's important for the country to consider. we're in the early stavenlgs this particular campaign but hopefully over the course of the next 18 months or so we'll have an opportunity to engage in a vigorous debate about the future of the country. and the president obviously has spent his nearly seven years in office now thinking a lot about the f

[applause] mr. trump: jared, laura, eric -- i'm very proud of my family. they are a great family. so, the reporters said to me the other day mr. trump, you are not a nice person. how can you get people to vote for you? i said, i don't know. i said, i think that number one, i am a nice person. i give a lot of money away to charities. i think i am actually a very nice person, but i said this is going to be in election -- an election that is based on confidence because people are tired of these nice people and they are tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world and they are tired of spending more money on education than any nation in the world per capita than any nation in the world and we're 26th in the world. 25 countries are better than us in education and some of them are like third world countries. we are becoming a third world country because of our infrastructure, airports and roads. one of the things i did -- i said -- a lot of people said he will never run. he does not want to give up his l

mr. trumprs over by the millions and what do we do? when was the last time you saw a chevrolet in tokyo? it does not exist, folks. they beat us all the time. when do we beat mexico at the border? they are laughing at us, and our stupidity. and now they are beating us economically. they are not our friend, but they are killing is economically. the u.s. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. [applause] mr. trump: thank you. it is true. these are the best, and the finest. when mexico sends its people they are not sending their best. they are not sending you, you. they are sending people that have lots of problems and they are bringing those problems with us. they are bringing drugs, crime they are rapists and some, i assume, are good people. i speak to border guards and they tell us what we are getting. it only makes common sense. they are sending us not the right people. it is coming from more than mexico. it is coming from all over south and latin america and coming probably

there were a few bumps today for mr. trump to watch. they did apparently have to put barkers out on the street in manhattan outside trump tower to lure in passers by in order to fill the room by mr. trump when he was announcing. also, mr. trump chose to play neal young's song "rocking in the free world" for his event. since that is basically a song about the republicans screwing the poor, you can imagine neal young was not all that excited about it becoming the donald trump for president anthem. after that happened at this event today, neal young released a statement saying, quote, donald trump's use of "rocking in the free world" was not authorized. and there's no other thing that i'm editing out. the first sentence is donald trump's use of "rockin in the free world" was not authorized. and the second is mr. young is a long time supporter of bernie sanders. so endorsement for bernie sanders and you can't use my song. also, the number crunchers at 538.com took a look at not just the current crop of people running for president in 2016. t

. >> mr. trump, what about chris christie? he said he's not afraid to challenge you, that you -- because you're set to announce tomorrow. you should be taken seriously. he loves how you treat his family but he will take you on if necessary. this is what he had to say about you. >> donald is a serious guy. he has been a good friend of mine over the years and only donald will be able to determine if he really wants to be a candidate and really push. if he does he has been able to sell almost anything over the course of time. the fact is you have to take him seriously if he decides to run. we'll see what happens, though. i like him. he has been a good friend to me and mary pat over the years. i'll take anybody on if i decide to get into this race. i think you know that. >> what do you think about that? >> it was very nice. i have been friend with his chris and mary pat. they're terrific people. he said in another show that the only one tougher than him is trump and that's what we need in this country because we are being pushed a

it was a very weird way to fake run for president but mr. trump got tons of traction, months of press coverage for that in 2012. remember when mitt romney and ann romney had to do the donald trump event. donald trump did not run for president in 2012 either. then in 2014 he said he was going to run for governor of new york. at the last minute he decided not to run for governor of new york. now apparently we are on the eve of him announcing whether or not he is going to run for president this time in 2016 as a republican. and here we get to the limits of my abilities as a person who has a job like this. because it is not at all that i dislike mr. trump and therefore don't see the appeal because i don't share the affection for him that his supporters have. it is nothing like that. it's not qualitative at all. i do not recognize -- i cannot see that what he is doing is something that might conceivably to anyone have any political appeal. >> i want to make the country great again. this country is a hell hole. >> i have an absolute way of defeating isi

mr. trump has a lot of different businesses, sure, but one of the things he does is he co-owns these beauty pageants. i was not always clear on that fact. now i know, and now you know. and this is another thing that he does. this is a reality tv show called quality the apprentice." you have probably heard of it. i didn't really understand the premise, but the premise is that donald trump asks people to demonstrate their business skills by doing businessy type activities quickly and under duress. quick, market this product. and then he fires people at the end of each episode. the "apprentice" has been on television for more than a decade. there's always a version of "the apprentice" in which the contestants are celebrities. the celebrity version of the apprentice goes like this. >> i'm not sitting here screaming and ranting and raving. that's not my style. i'll have a conversation with him later, should i survive. >> later, should you survive. that's right. should you survive? should you survive

but now mr. trumpapparently launching a campaign to not just meet but to actually become president of the united states and republican voters apparently don't mind the idea too terribly much. i do not understand to think about that. i do not understand how to think about it. i do not understand what it means. i don't even understand whether or not this is politics. joining us now is someone who i would like to help me, the host of "hardball," chris matthews. thank you for being here. >> so i'm the grand when it comes to explaining trumpy. >> i just feel like i don't honestly know if this is just a celebrity/reality tv thing i don't get. is this real politics? he kind of polls well. >> well, he's kind of a comic book figure. if you imagine a superman or better yet a batman episode, he would be a downtown developer. waunging around with his trench coat, good looking wife lots of money, a flash. he's a showoff. he is the kind of guy where the average working guy doesn't have much money, says this is how i

, and i'd like somebody to go back into those and find out how mr. trump got to be so rich. some of it's not so pretty. >> yeah well i know a lot of those writings. i do my due diligence here. and i sent them all back to donald trump so he could review it himself. >> believe me i heard from him when he this came out. >> i bet you did. but julie, on that notion i mean obviously hillary clinton is very wealthy. we have a couple of candidates in the race who are very wealthy. not donald trump wealthy but to charlie gasparino's point maybe that is a bit specious. and to ben stein. but what do you make of that? a candidate who's going to come out there and say i'm aspirational you can have this too, we can go ahead and do this we can get everything that you dream of and do it all over again. what do you think? >> first of all, i'm pretty skeptical donald trum subpoena as rich as he says he is. i want to see those tax returns before i take his word for. but to his message, the problem with mitt romney wasn't so much that he was rich. that's fine. the problem with mitt romney was th

they said, mr. trump, you have no idea how bad. you have people coming in and i'm not just saying mexicans. i'm talking about people that are from all over, that are killers, and rapists, and i mean they're coming into this country. >> let me talk to you about that for one second. the government of mexico called those comments prejudicial and absurd. and i think that what they're objecting to is the idea that of the 11 million undocumented workers, illegal immigrants, whatever you want to call them, in this country, that you're painting them with a very broad brush, rapists, criminals, when that's probably a very small percentage. >> no, no, i don't think it's a small percentage. it's a lot. but it's not mexicans necessarily. they're coming from all over. >> you talked about building a wall and having mexico pay for it. >> yeah. >> how exactly are you going to get mexico to pay for it? >> mexico has not treated us well. mexico treats us as though we are stupid people. which, of course, our leaders are. i don't blame mexico. china's

mr. trump, thanks for your time and thanks for being a huge fan of our show. mr. ous show. john: you yourself have the show. you are finally running for president. mr. trump: i have never done this. it has not been that easy. mark: in some areas, you do better than bobby jindal. john: on the show, the monopoly man.

mr. trump: i have never done this. it has not been that easy.reas you do better than bobby jindal. on the

mr. trump, thanks for your time and thanks for being a huge fan of our show. mr. s show. john: you yourself have the show. you are finally running for president. mr. trump: i have never done this. it has not been that easy. mark: in some areas, you do better than bobby jindal. john: on the show, the monopoly man.

you love mr. trump yet you love the hispanic community. >> and i wanted him to know how hurt good people were. law-abiding good people that his statement was way too broad. it was crude in many ways. >> you thought he could hear it coming from you. >> i was begging him on the telephone just apologize. you can have the same strong view. build your fence. build it a thousand feet high. nobody builds like you do. let it be clear. >> we have the photo of geraldo talking with donald trump. what's the bottom line? is he going to apologize? >> i won't tell you what he said. i wasn't really on the record per se. and i feel awkward. >> checking his twitter feed. i don't think it works. >> suffice it to say he hasn't backed down. >> no. he was on our show on thursday and he was referring to mexican immigrants and other immigrants as killers. not all of them of he is standing by his comment, that nbc is weak. they are weak. otherwise they would tell the truth which is as i say it. that was his point. >> first of a

somebody said to me, a very nice reporter, but mr. trumpknow me like me. does my family like me? i love my family. speaking of my family, ] h át did a great job. did she doÑ4"? a great jsg jared, laura and eric i am very proud of my family. they are a great family. so the reporter said to me the other day, but mr. trump, you are not a nice person. how can you get people to vote for you? i said i don't know. i said i think that number one, i am a nice person and i give a lot of money away to charities and other things and i think i am actually a very nice person, but i said this is going to be an election that is based on competence, beca;¤ people are tired of these nice people and they are tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world and they are tired of spending more money on education than#7úcÃany nation in the world per capita than any nation in the world, and we are 26th in the world, 25 countries are better than us in education, and we are becoming a third word country, because of our infrastructure and roads and everything. i

first mr. trump weighs in on being compared to an accused mass murderer. >> mr. trump, thank you for being here tonight. your reaction now to the fact that this -- the president of programming and content at univision sent out a picture on his instagram account comparing you to a mass murderer. >> well i think it's disgraceful. i think he should be ashamed of himself. he immediately deleted it and the lawyers are going to have a field day. as you know, they broke a contract. we have a binding five-year contract where they pay a lot of money. they broke it and they're not allowed to do that. they have no right to break it. and frankly mention cob, thar people and leaders are much smarter than our leaders. they're taking advantage of the united states at the border and on trade. the reason that univision broke the contract atremendous amount of pressure was put on frankly by mexico and by the leaders of mexico put on univision because they didn't like what i was saying an trade. >> they went on the record and say it was the comments you made based on your recent quo

mark: you heard mr. trump reference the dispute with the club. ave us after the interview this letter that shows the club for growth attacked trunk yesterday -- trunk yesterday -- trump yesterday. there is some dispute about who initiated the meeting. this is an evolving thing, the club for growth versus donald trump. watch bloomberg.com for more. coming up, more interview with donald trump, and his opinion on legalization and a special message for mr. neil young after this. ♪ john: now the exciting scintillating second half of our interview with mr. donald trump. when we left off, i was just about to ask about legalizing drugs. in the past when you have expressed the view that the way to deal with the war on drugs is to legalize drugs. are you still in favor of that? donald: i look at the colorado situation and it's very interesting. a lot of bad things are out there with respect to people's health and the effect is having on people. i'm not in favor of the legalization of drugs. john: you have changed your mind. donald: i don't know if i ever wa

what advice would you give mr. trump? >> what would i say to mr. trump? don't take it personally.aybe it just happens in presidential elections. hillary clinton got a lot of static last year jeb bush is getting stack tick from trump, hillary is getting static from trump and hillary is giving static to trump and jeb is giving static to trump. it just happens. >> it sounds like you're on a first name basis with all of these people. what do you want to do when you grow up, by the way? >> i want to either be the president, a lawyer or a businessman. >> i am glad you're not holding back at ten years of age. you have big dreams and i wish you the best with that. since you mentioned you got to know donald trump from "the apprentice" can you give me your best you're fired? >> you're fired! >> yes, shay doyle, best of luck to you little man. we appreciate it very much. >> you too. >> thank you. i need all i can get from you. shay doyle, ladies and gentlemen. >>> we're going to take you back to the breaking story that we told you about at the top of the hour. a suspect drew a knife on fbi a

angelo wanted macy's to disassociate themselves with mr. trump. nearly 700,000 people signed that petition at macy's at move on.org. it's a activist campaign. his name is angelo carusone. now he says that at one point donald trump threatened to sue him for millions of dollars because of that campaign to get macy's to drop mr. trump. the lawsuit never happened and angelo carusone carried on his work as being an anti-donald trump activist. when donald trump announced his presidential campaign yesterday, you might remember one of the things did he right off the top is to make a very big deal about how many people were there at the trump tower in new york to see him make his presidential announcement. here's how that announcement started. >> wow! whoa! that is some group of people. thousands. so nice. thank you very much. that's really nice. thank you. it's great to be at trump tower. it's great to be in a wonderful city, new york. and it's an honor to have everybody here. this is beyond anybody's expectations. there's been no crowd like this. and i ca

and a woman was on television this morning, and she said, you know, mr. trumpand she was telling other people and i actually called her, but she said, you know, mr. trump, i always was against guns. i didn't want guns, and now since this happened, it's up in the prison area, my husband and i are finally in agreement because he wanted the guns. we now have a gun on every table. we're ready to start shooting. i said very interesting. so protect the second amendment. end common core. common core, it is a disaster. bush is totally in favor of common core. i don't see how he can possibly get the nomination. he's weak on immigration, he's in favor of common core. how the hell can you vote for this guy? you just can't do it. we have to end -- education has to be local. rebuild the country's infrastructure. nobody can do that like me, believe me. it will be done on time, on budget, way below costs, way below what anyone ever thought. i look at these roads being built all over the country, and i say, i can build those things for one-third. what they do is unbelievable.

. >> i don't think that mr. trump is rich has anything to do with whatsoever that he would have been a good president. fine if he wants to brag about it. to meitis like chuckles the clown bragging about being funny. i did a lot of writing for your sister baron's, and i'd like to find out how mr. trump got to be so rich. some is not so pretty. >> i know a lot of those writings. i do my due diligence here. i sent them all back to donald trump so he could review them himself. >> i heard from them. >> i bet you did. on that notion obviously hillary clinton is wealthy. we have a couple who are wealthy, not donald trump wealthy. what do you make of that a candidate coming saying you can have this too. we can go ahead and do this get everything that you dream of and do it all over again? what do you think? >> i'm skeptical he's as rich as he said he is. i want a look at the tax returns. the problem with mitt romney wasn't so much he was rich, that's fine the problem is the policies he embraced would have helped the rich and

somebody said to me the other day a reporter, very nice reporter mr. trump are not a nice person. >> we don't need nice! >> that is true. but actually i am. i think i am a nice person. does my family like me? i think so. i am proud of my family. by the way, speaking of my family all of you tiffany, vanessa, and jarred, and laura and eric -- i am very proud of my family. they are a great family. how can you get people to vote for you someone said? i said i think i am a nice person. i give a lot of money away to charities and other things. i think i am a very nice person. but i said this is going to be an election that is based on comp competence. people are tired of the nice people and they are tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world. and they are trying -- tired -- of spending more than any nation in the world per capita and we are 26th in the world. 25 countries are better at us than education. and some are like third world countries. but we are becoming a third world country because of infrastructure and roads. i said i will do it. a lot of peo

. >>> >>> punishing donald trump, on june 16th mr. trumpis. >> when mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. they're not sending you, they're not sending you. they're sending people that have lots of problems. and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. they're rapists, and some i assume are good people. >> shortly after that univision dropped trump's ms. usa pageant, and today, this happened. due to mr. trump's comment regarding immigrants nbc is ending their contract with him. he already will suspend his role because of president. joining us from washington brit hume are you surprised by nbc's actions today? >> a little on the face it appears they put their interest in political correctness, not to say i agree with mr. trump's remarks, i don't. ahead of their business interests. but when you think about it bill the big one was the apprentice. >> you said you didn't agree -- >> i think it was exaggerated and grossly over-simplified. i think there were many good people trying t

in addition as mr. trumpeady indicated, he will not be participating in the celebrity apprentice on nbc. celebrity apprentice is licensed from mark burnett's artist media group and that relationship will continue. trump was asked about nbc's decision today at an event in chicago. >> well, i think nbc frankly, i've had a great relationship with them. they didn't want me to run because they wanted to do "the apprentice." as you know they renewed "the apprentice." i cannot do it because of the fact i'm running and as long as i'm running for president, they were not happy with it. they wanted me to do "the apprentice" and now with my statements on immigration, which happen to be correct, they will take a different stance and that's okay. whatever they want to do is okay with me. i had a lot of great relationships with nbc. i think as far as ending the relationship, i have to do that because my view on immigration is much different than the people at nbc. >> in nbc's statement, the company said it ended the relati

derogatory statements by donald trump regarding immigrants nbc is ending its business relationship with mr. trumpnbc will also not run the pageants trump had had already suspended his role on celebrity atis because of his run for president. joining us from washington is brit hume are you surprised by nbc's action today. >> a little. they put their interest in political correctness, not to say i agree with mr. trump's remarks, i don't, ahead of their business interests. when you think about it, bill, the big one was the prentice he was already out of that not costing him very much to do this. >> you say you didn't agree with trump's remarks. where did you? >> i think was exaggerated and oversimplified. a lot of good people trying to make it here from new mexico we saw it the in presence of those kids in particular than he suggested. >> okay. could an argument be made that he was highlighting a problem, trump was. that is harming the nation and just didn't speak to it in a specific way rather than -- >> -- i agree yeah i don't think donald trump was trying to demonize all mexican people. is he tryi

what makes mr. trumparticularly interesting, a, he's very injurious to the republican party because he takes in some waist most interesting field since the republicans first fielded a candidate in 1856 and makes it look silly. second the republicans are going to have to come to terms with the fact that he's given lots of money to democrats, including money to nancy pelosi in 2006 when she managed to become speaker. but we're going to learn here the declining utility of political dollars. you just can't buy things in this country this way. and remember that the entire marketing genius of the ford motor company was put behind the edsel. he is an edsel. >> there is an inherent contra dicks contradiction already. he said he is a free trader but would tax imports from mexico that's how he'd pay for the wall. that's a tariff which is not being a free trader. >> look. i do think it's bad to actually overanalyze all these ideas. the contradictionses were flying around that room every second. you could give a logi

caller: i was in a regiment from chicago, mr. trump can run this country and it doesn't matter if he has a military background or not. the object is to get the country back on the road to success and money. and the fact that he does make money means he knows how to demonstrate his ability as a manager. we have generals and military people and he can rely on them to run the country. there is no need for him to have a military background, what we need is people who will stand up for america and make us number one in this world and put the fear and the people do not test do not know who we are. god bless all americans. he wants to help veterans and every veteran should have health care forever when they serve. host: let's look at comments on twitter. one says, what a speech. another reagan. another one says that he needs to work on his speaking. renee said, team trump. about time that we get a straight shooting kind of guy. we now have a caller from new orleans. caller: good evening. host: go ahead. caller: what really got to me is mr. tr

there aren't enough adjectives left to describe mr. trumpmber one of greatest films ever made white heat. james cagney plays a menacing criminal who above all wants to please his mother. the hard roiled plot leads him trapped by police atop a fuel storage tank. gunshots pierce the tank and amid the rising flames he yells made it, ma top of the world. >>> back here a pair of newly wedding whos fighting back after their dream wedding party was broken up by gunfire. did you hear about this? the couple they were married at the waldorf astoria last weekend, but during the cocktail hour a guest's gun went off. a woman was grazed and the weapon wasn't found so the reception was canceled and now the newlyweds are reportedly planning to sue for millions because they never got to have the party. so kelly, you just had a couple of your sons get married. >> i'm so glad it was wonderful. everything went off without a hitch. >> congratulations. >> congratulations to michael morgan and britt and sarah. well here is one delicious world record. the world's l

mr. trumpnse? and has the damage been done. ♪ ♪ try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. ♪ those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. oh no. who are you? daddy, this is blair he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. i got everything i wanted..... i always do. he seemed nice. >>> welcome back. new fox news polling is out. jeb takes 15% of the republican vote. trump 11%. dr. ben carson rounds out the top three at 10%. no other candidates reached double digits. mr. trump takes third place in new hampshire behind bush and rubio. we're bringing him back now. donald trump. mr. trump, a lot of

statements by donald trump regarding immigrants, nbcuniversal is ending its business relationship with mr. trumpudes the miss usa and miss universe pageants. nbcuniversal is, of course, the parent company of msnbc. it looks like trump will not be returning to the "celebrity apprentice." though the show itself has not been canceled. at first he appears to take the news in stride. >> nbc, frankly, i had a great relationship with them. they didn't want me to run because they wanted to do "the apprentice." as you know, they renewed "the apprentice," but i told them i cannot do "the apprentice" because of the fact i'm running. as long as i'm running for president, they were not happy with it. now with my statements on immigration, which happen to be correct, they are going to take a different stance, and that's okay. i think as far as ending the relationship, i have to do that. because my view on immigration is much different than the people at nbc. >> little later, however, trump released a new statement saying nbc is so weak and so foolish, and this is a statement he released, mr. trump stands by h

they said mr. trump, you have no idea how bad. i'm not just saying mexicans.eople from all over that are killers and rapists. they're coming into this country. >> let me talk to you about that. the government of mexico called those comments prenl additional and an sush. i think what they're objecting to, the illegal immigrants, whatever you want to call them in this country, that you're painting them with a very broad brush, rapists, criminals, when that's probably a small percentage. >> i don't think it's a small percentage, but it's not mexicans necessarily. they're coming from all over. >> you talked about building a wall, having mexico pay for it. how are you going to get mexico to pay for it? >> mexico treats us as though we are stupid people, which of course our leaders are. china's even worse. >> how do you force a country to build the wall. >> mexico makes a fortune because of us. a wall is a tiny peanut compared -- >> so you would impose tariffs unless they built the wall? >> i would do something very severe. i'd build it. >> the -- i think you said t

i hit the streets and i decided to campaign for mr. trumpthis something that mr. trump asked you to do? >> no. winners don't ask, seth. [ laughter ] roll it, alex. >> hi we're here in new york city trying to convince people to vote for the greatest human being on earth, donald trump. ♪ annie, who do you plan on voting for? >> hillary. >> sweetheart, i feel so bad for you. you're hysterical. you don't know what you're talking about. if you vote for donald, he'll fix all the women's issues. you'll get bags, free mani pedi's once a month. free trips to pier one. you can get one wicker item from pier one once a year on your birthday. that's straight from the donald. >> oh, love it. >> so what do you think is the most important issue to you? >> i would say the debt we have going right now. >> very smart thing. here's what we need to do. we'll invade china and we'll take all their gold. [ laughter ] and we'll pay back the saudis with the chinese gold. and then if the chinese want to come talk to us, we'll drop a couple bombs on them. and then gues