nicole wallace will join us. join in our discussion, 1:31:59 and so on until polls close. . >>> you're looking live at one of the places in baltimore, maryland. just one of the stories we're covering tonight with just under an hour and a half until polling close. as promised, members of our immediate family are here with us tonight. nicole wall los rejoins us. a veteran of the bush white house as communications director. veteran who lived to tell about and eugene robinson and pulitzer prize winner from the washington post. from time to time we like to check in on the mental health of nicole wallace. what if donald trump will be the nominee of your party. >> in my defense, it was written about how the whole party is having their 2016 moment. >> she said i know this doesn't sound like a column but deal with it. >> she was having an emotional experience. >> i've had to have on tv. thank you, guys. i know we start many the deep end with the smart people but if i could bring it down a bit. >> i think this ends up with

nicole wallace, steve schmidt have been sitting together in studio.arks differ? this is about staff work and both of you have been good, loyal senior staff members to prominent politicians in your careers. how do those remarks differ from the unregulated donald trump earlier in this campaign? are those curate d remarks you just heard? >> i think one of the things that's most significant, it wasn't lying ted. >> exactly. >> it was senator cruz. >> yes, yes. >> i think you're seeing him begin to address the temperament criticism and his talk tonight was on message. the trump message, as he delivered it tonight, it's a potent and powerful one. making the country great again. talking about the economy. talking about jobs. talking about trade. talking about the sense of loss that so many americans feel, that the country's best days are slipping behind it. and that we can be great again. you see a potent general election message. even though he has some structural difficulty in the polls right now with women and other demographics, nobody should discount th

we're still here with nicole wallace, eugene robinson, chuck todd. you were on the phone. i hesitate to ask you a question i don't know the answer to. what have you learned? >> this is case where we trust the data. we just don't have enough of it. look, we've basically shown you where our exit poll is showing things when you do a male/female spl split. it shows you no difference. >> it's no other. >> you just want to have enough data. we have a certain set of standards here before we call it on that front. it's a couple of things. number one, we don't have third wave in the exit polls and bernie sanders and donald trump are appealing to people that work till 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 at night. the late voters, in particular with trump, the late voters are somewhat, potentially helpful. you want to be careful on that front. >> nicole, as the only republican women in this area -- >> that we know of. >> do you mean in manhattan? some might say manhattan. >> there's been a lot of reporting for bridge of the new york times had a story about trump's general election challenges. when you

let's get reaction from in order, hugh hewitt, nicole wallace and rouge robinson. hugh? >> i think it's exactly what we expected. five for five for donald trump tonight. we'll have to get granular later and see if that big win for him in pennsylvania crossed over into his people being able to elect the unbound delegates leaning towards trump, because that's what matters, he's still going to need 286 out of ten tonight. i got to disagree with ate l with robert. i don't see the momentum in the northeast translating into indiana. and what chuck just said about democratic governors, of course, that puts our eye on california where governor brown is in his fourth or fifth term. been on a long full-timtime and wonder whether that will help out donald trump come california on 7th, but in line. >> hugh, can i just ask you, on the issue of governors and you were highlights mike pence, nicole was pointing out earlier this hour that a lack of a pence cruz endorsement is surprising when you just look at these guys idea logically and the issues they care about. pence keeping his coun

nicolle wallace and i were having that conversation earlier about this idea.he believed that trump was going to recalibrate some things and people around him. nothing about this statement says recalibration. nothing about this statement and this is more about mast performance indicative of future behavior and i think this is not a guy that you see pivoting toward presidential like more of a traditional presidential like thing. you don't see a candidate ready to pivot to being -- trying to unite the party and above it all, you wouldn't use lyin' ted. robert, help me out. what does the next three days look like for donald trump let alone the next two weeks. >> i've been reading this. it's not just about lyin' ted and trojan horse but party bosses and talking about stealing the nomination. think ahead to cleveland. where are the relationships going to be for him? making statements that will alienate him. the next few days, california, later in long island. >> is he still going to try to go to colorado? there was some talk with all of these different places for th

nicole wallace, veteran communications director of the bush years, a surviving veteran. mccain years who runs a small political psychotherapy practice. >> she's the pro and the client. >> that's right. no more than 12 hours a day. >> i might be self-medicating but that's another story. >> just a couple of observations. >> please. >> from tonight. it seems to me what trump's sweeping victory did was make indiana important to him, not so much in a negative sense but in a positive sense because, you know, we came into tonight looking at indiana as the place where the stop trump movement, you know, the idea was farfetched. gee, maybe they could stop trump. >> right. >> they can't stop trump. trump can lose in indiana. >> it's wisconsin. >> right. exactly. >> goes on and wins all the rest. >> wisconsin, but he can -- he can basically knock cruz out. he can -- he can -- >> if he does win in indiana you mean? >> finish cruz even as an irritant, i think, in indiana, if he can beat him in indiana. if cruz can't beat him, where can he beat him? you know, and then the other -- the

not such a bad idea. >> nicolle wallace, stay. i have an idea.tra hours we'll go on till noon and you start at 4:00 so you don't work an extra long day and we don't work -- >> i like that. sure. >> when i watch all of you i came from a working class background, hard hats and lunchboxes. honestly, it's an automatic reaction on my part "i wonder if they're getting time and a half." [ laughter ] or double time. we always knew in our neighborhood that guy got time and a half. everybody knew who's getting overtime. it's not gone away from my consciousness. >> well, thank you, tom. >> talk to the union rep. i'm going go down to the union rep's office. >>> still ahead, nbc's hallie jackson reports live from wisconsin. she spoke to governor scott walker last night. we'll have that interview. in our 8:00 a.m. hour we'll speak live with hillary clinton and on friday bernie sanders joins us here on set. we'll be right back with much more "morning joe." every day you read headlines about businesses being hacked and intellectual property being stolen. that is

you may have caught nicole wallace beaming at her callback -- >> no one in my house ever says i'm right, so when i hear it at work -- >> you're on notice, mark. >> we'll put that on a film drive for you. >> ring tone, baby. >> right now the governor of new york is giving the last so-called -- oh, he is not. that's absolutely not the governor of new york. they're going to play a film inside the ballroom as her remarks are placed at the podium, we're going to squeeze a break in here now. like, as donald trump did, if she shows up at that podium, we'll come busting out of that commercial as fast as you can say the democratic victor in tonight's new york primary, hillary clinton. man 1: you're new. man 2: i am. woman: ex-military? man 2: four tours. woman: you worked with computers? man 2: that's classified, ma'am. man 1: but you're job was network security? man 2: that's classified, sir. woman: let's cut to the chase, here... man 1: what's you're assessment of our security? man 2: [ gasps ] porous. woman: porous? man 2: the old solutions aren't working. man 2: the world has changed. man 1:

republican strategist nicolle wallace, and jose diaz-balart, of nbc news and telemundo. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, with bernie sanders prospects for taking the democratic nomination from hillary clinton getting slimmer by the day, sanders told me yesterday he's fallen behind because in his words, poor people don't vote. there's a lot more in that interview and we'll get tait later in the show and we'll get to the democratic as well. but we begin with the republican race. it's no stretch to conclude that when it comes to donald trump, the republican party has slowly been working it way thou the classic five stages of grief. the first one was denial. trump can't be taken seriously. the second one, anger. what makes this guy think he is even a republican or a conservative anyway? the third, bargaining. let's take it to the voters. they'll reject him, right? the fourth, depression. oh, my god. he's actually winning this thing. and now, the fifth stage, the hardes

. >> nicole wallace, veteran of so many gop efforts, among them bush and mccain, welcome to you. robinson, a pulitzer prize winner and pulitzer board business, a series of awards they hand out, you might have heard of them. eugene, truth be told, you're the one who wrote is the stop trump movement too late? >> it's true. i tried to crunch the numbers, i tried to do the math. we all expect trump to have a big night tonight. and then we go into the five northeastern states next week where he's expected to do well, so far as there is polling he's way, way ahead. so he's going to have a delegate haul. he could be 400 delegates ahead of ted cruz. a couple of weeks from now. and so then, you know, the sort of percentage of delegate that is he needs to win, well, he needs to win 68% of remaining delegates! that keeps going down. and it starts looking more likely that he gets to the number, or that he gets close enough so that uncommitted delegates can be persuaded to vote for him, so that the party eld elders, those who remain, the remains of the establishment -- >> i think that's us. >

nicolle wallace, republican strategist and nbc analyst. former bush and mccain strategist strategist. jose diaz-balart, robert costa from the "washington post," and joy-ann reid, colleague of my at msnbc. you have been in acceptance for a long time. >> living out all five stages in weepy real time. i'm very sympathetic to what you're trying to do. i think that one of the challenges is the solution for the problem you rightfully diagnose isn't any more appealing than the problem republicans aren't any more enthusiastic or optimistic about the outcome of cruz at the top of the ticket. >> would say the goal is to drive this to an open convention. >> and skip trump and cruz and get to door number three? >> if you're not happy with any of the choices, the last time we had a convention like this was 1976, but it was different because everybody was virtually in one camp or another. there are a lot of people who are in none of these camps. to those voters, we would say if that's the camp you're in, you're not happy, vote for cruz, vo for kasich, b

nicolle wallace and i were having that conversation, brian, earlier about this idea. she believed that trump was going to recalibrate some things and the people around him. nothing about this statement says recalibration. right. nothing about this statement and this is more about past performance is indicative of future behavior, and i think this is not a guy that you see pivoting toward presidential like more of a traditional presidential like thing. you don't see a candidate ready to pivot to being trying to unite the party and above it all you wouldn't use lyin' ted. robert costa, help me out here. i don't -- what does the next three days look like for donald trump let alone the next two weeks. >> i've been reading this statement. it's not just about lyin' ted and trojan horse but party bosses and talking about stealing the nomination. and just think ahead to cleveland. where are the relationships going to be for him. he's making statements that will alienate people in the party. the next few days, california, later in the week a big rally in long island tomorrow.

bush nicolle wallace. >> how are we getting all this people?ord jr., he charges a lot. >> i finally get somebody i can talk to about the masters because nobody could talk about it yesterday. did you see the final round? >> i did. >> it had something and another ball and went around -- that was amazing -- >> i literally went out for five minutes and when i came back in he was on his way to a consecutive masters win and one of the most dominant runs in golf to looking like you and me. >> more like me, joe can hit the ball. his history there at the masters, he goes from 10 to 12 and shoots six over, bogie, bogie, quadruple and changed the trajecto trajectory, not only the tournament. he's young, people wondering whether or not he can recover from this, he will, but, gosh, he's got to -- >> that's the question. rory recovered. >> right. >> greg norman never recovered. >> right. >> he is so young. >> sometimes you recover. >> and he is that good. >> and what happens it's like a mental -- >> no, the thing is about golf -- >> it was two days ago. >> i

that is not eugene, and nicole wallace, a veteran, communications director of the bush years, a surviving veteran of the mccain years, who runs a small political psychotherapy practice. no more than 12 hours a day. >> that is another story. >> a couple of observations from tonight. it seems to me, what trump's sweeping victories did make indiana important to him. not in a negative sense but a positive sense. you know, we came in to tonight looking at indiana as the place where the stop trump movement. the idea was far fetched. maybe they can stop trump. trump can lose in indipd. >> it is wisconsin. >> but, he can basically knock cruz out. he can -- >> if he does win indiana? >> even as an irritant. the other thing. we are talking about cruz has an obvious problem with women. we have seen results and polls, it is one of many negatives that he has. he has the highest negatives of any prumptive party nominee ever. you know, according to traditional political math, that would mean, he is vulnerable in the general election, and hillary clinton would be highly favored. if even the high negative

at times like this, we should abdullah akadi in our friend nicole wallace, don't you think?> i think chris christ seone of the people around him, he turned to after wisconsin, a crushing defeat. another lifetime ago. i feel he has become a trusted counselor on all things politics. donald trump would admit, inside the close circle was someplace he needed more savvy. now, he is back to his winning narrative. i agree with your analysis. this is a best of. trump being trump. i think he was speaking plainly, in his slight lees larger, someone describing trump playing a part. putting on a show. he made clear that he will call his own shots. and said, i am not playing a part. >> it was a big of a gentle rebublg to a new advisor. i think that core cory lewandowski, was on the outside, he is back in now. >> i think that is the presumptive version of his nominee persona. he is taking some of the old trump, some of the new trump, he has topped it off with a very full-throated attack against hillary clinton. in a nasty way. women don't like her. that at the end. that was that got your a

nicolle wallace, eugene wallace, a contributor to time magazine, alyse.in new york state. >> it's in. the parties are rigged. let's get -- >> are they both rigged? >> kind of. >> the democrats and the republicans? >> yeah. >> it's like country clubs. they're both country clubs. >> totally. >> i don't think so anymore. the last poll we saw donald trump was doing very well going up 33% over ted cruz looking ahead to next week, trump has a commanding 15-point lead in pennsylvania, with a 41% support. the morning -- >> as the kids like to say, john kasich in second place at 26%. ted cruz bringing up the rear at 23%. in new jersey, a state that votivote votes during the first week in june donald trump leading the way 52%. but, you know -- >> rutgers. >> chris, mark my words, donald trump's ceiling is 52%. you heard it here, first. >> his ceiling is whatever he has in the most recent poll. look, he's going to -- these next few weeks are going to be very, very good for him. he's going to win new york tonight. the only question is how much of the 95 delegates in

bush, nicole wallace. ,hey are both swell people despite their differences and similarities. ould happen tomorrow that is within the realm of the plausible that would surprise you? nicole: nothing. trump, i think, is going to win big. the notion that wisconsin was anything other than an opportunity for the people who were arguing for him to do some things differently was never the case. i think it strengthened the hand of people who wanted him to hate-tweet a little less and wanted him to pull back from this media exposure. he strengthen those people by losing in wisconsin. some necessary adjustments, and i think he is in a great position. the democratic race might be closer than people thought it would be. on the republican side, it will be, as everyone predicted, a huge night for trump. john: tad devine was sitting here saying, give me another day. we will see how it closes. what do you expect and what would surprise you on the democratic side? i suppose bernie sanders could do better than the polls are showing, and we would be having a conversation about his , but i don't t

. >> where our team is concerned, because we don't get to talk to you often, nicole wallace wants the next question. stand by. >> all right. >> i don't think anyone doubts your candidate's connection with the republican base on economic issues. i wonder how you view the importance of connecting on national security issues with women who in 2004 were a deciding vote on issues of keeping us safe. how important is it to you that this, i understand there's a national security speech in the works this week. how important is it to you that your candidate grow and evolve and build trust with republican voters, particularly republican women on this issue? >> it's an important issue. there's no doubt about it. i'm going to go back to the gw battleground poll where voters who, and this was two days ago, voters who feel that national security is like their number one issue, i believe the numbers, we were up almost 3 to 1 over hillary clinton. i believe you're seeing someone from the outside who tells it like it is. they call out isis for what they are and you're going to see something tomorrow i

we can report the domain name is owned by nicole wallace. >> lose with cruz 2016. >> i did not -- i did not -- >> i bought the domain. >> my name has been invoked. >> you'll get your chance to defend your gifted receipt of the name after we hear from casie hunt who is in wyoming. remind our viewers why he's there on the night of the wisconsin primary. >> reporter: that's a very accurate description of how bernie sanders handles these events. largely stump speech. so we get a little bit on this wisconsin victory, but he is here in wyoming to show he's pushing forward. there's a caucus coming up here on saturday in wyoming for democrats, that's why they're here. we're still watching for that margin in wisconsin for this bernie sanders win there that we've projected. that's going to matter quite a bit for delegate allocation and it's going to tell us a lot about his potential prospects down the line. bernie sanders has been so insi insist ent he does have a path to victory. he gets irritated when you suggest that he doesn't. i talked to his wife today and she expressed some of that frustra

nicole wallace, communications director for president bush. eugene robinson has a pulitzer prize this his den, and a lot of people don't. chuck todd is the moderator. >> do people call them doens? >> i call mine a den. >> does it have wood panelling? >> it has book lines. >> book line study. >> you were expecting maybe knotty pine? >> yes. >> start with nicole. >> i'm going to add a couple of ms. meltdown and mojo. this is arguably, the two weeks since we were last year. we should get together every tuesday. >> we should have just faked one last tuesday because we're weird. >> tgi fridays or something. >> we're awaiting the returns from narnia. >> trump had the first real meltdown in terms of what happened to him in the media where he has said outrageous things. you can probably go out onto fifth avenue if you're donald trump and your supporters won't peel away, but you can't take five positions on abortion. you can't look so plainly like you're doing what charlie sykes talked about on national security. you've had the president and secretary

we have nbc political analyst and republican campaign attorney ben ginsburg and nicole wallace, formerior adviser to john mccain and president bush. can we put out an apb for the stop trump movement? >> no. >> i'm trying to figure out where it is, it's not here in new york. >> because it's such an expensive media market and they made the tactical decision to harbor resources for further down the road. now there's less road to harbor the resources for, but it's the classic decision that you make in a state where for a variety of reasons, this isn't the place to try to fight this fight. >> nicole, there was so much, call it exuberance in this movement, the day after wisconsin. and i think the ted cruz campaign, you talked to some supporters of it, you get the sense that they too know that they maybe had some irrational exuberance to borrow a famous phrase. they came here and maybe now regret it. >> yeah, listen, i think the real stop trump movement was the 15 republicans who ran against trump, and i think they ended in piles of dust is a pretty good prediction of how this movement now or

bush, nicolle wallace. how did he do?did great. [ laughter ] >> lot of meds today. >> that's what the gentile says. >> in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist in, associate editor of the "washington post," how did he do? >> bless his heart. >> so this great panel along with will he and me, joe will be here in a bit, he's taking a "morning joe" sabbatical which is about five minutes. >> did he get up at 5:20 instead of 4:10. >> he was trying to swipe his metro card. >> i think he's on the subway trying to use tokens. >> jam them in that slot. >>> the debate over which democratic presidential candidate is qualified to hold the oval office continued all day yesterday. all day. hillary clinton said her opponent's remarks about her qualifications are "silly" and former president bill clinton agreed. >> he came right out and said he doesn't think you're qualified to be president. >> well, that will be up to the voters of new york and the other states that will be passing judgment in the weeks ahead. i think it's kind of

rachel and i are back with our friends, nicole wallace and eugene and i want to let you guys toss this around. the optics of what we've witnessed tonight, not only the discussion here in the studio, but the optics of sanders getting on a plane, leaving the press corps here. it's his charter, he's entitled to do what he wants, and going home to burlington, right now at this point. >> i would lump it together with the optics of ted cruz giving a speech in the 8:00 hour, and my, what a difference two weeks makes. two weeks ago tonight, we were talking about their whopper victories in wisconsin. i have been on both ends of this. and to pay it back to chuck todd, i think he was right. you've got to give jeff weaver credit for leaving himself a little bit of room. the truth about the sanders campaign is that they probably don't know what happens next. i'm guessing there are some conversation happening. and i'm just guessing. as you said, i'm an outsider observing this democratic race. but i would bet that that's not the only idea about how to proceed. and when you're on a losing campaign, yo

feldman and communications chief president george w bush and senior advisor to the palin campaign nicole wallace. >> hi, guys. wow. >> boasts well despite differences and similarities, what could happen tomorrow that's like within the realm of the plausible that would surprise you? >> nothing. right? i mean, trump i think is going to win big. i think the notion that wisconsin was anything other than really an opportunity for the people arguing for him to do some things differently was never the case. i mean, i think it strengthened the hand of people that wanted him to maybe hate tweet mess and pull back from media exposure. he strengthened those people by losing big time in wisconsin. he's made the necessary adjustments and i think he's in a great position. i think maybe the democratic race might be closer than people thought it would be. i thought hillary would be as dominant as trump said he would be. on the republican side, it will be as everyone predicted for awhile, a huge night for trump. >> you heard tad saying well, don't count on -- give me another day and we'll see how close it is or

it's py arobabl good time to see if nicole wallace has an update for us on the trump campaign, on allngs republican party. >> i'm told that he is going to be arriving there, straight from the time 100 dinner, which is a celebration of "time" magazine's top 100 movers and shakers, and donald trump certainly qualifies for that list. >> he's at a gala across town and he's heading there -- >> as one does. >> yes, but when you run as a big guy from new york city -- i'm also told something interesting. we've been talking a lot about the unbound delegates in pennsylvania and have seen some of them interviewed. and i am told that chris christie was endorsed by or has a very strong relationship and was endorsed by the pennsylvania gop chairman, the state party chairman is a guy named rob gleason. obviously, chris christie, one of the only establishment figures to have helped donald trump, helping him with all of his -- >> i see where you're going with this that would explain why the trump campaign is less nervous than everybody else about those unbound delegates in pennsylvania. >> they feel v

republican strategist nicolle wallace, and jose diaz-balart, of nbc news and telemundo.unday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning, with bernie sanders prospects for taking the democratic nomination from hillary clinton getting slimmer by the day, sanders told me yesterday he's fallen behind because in his words, poor people don't vote. there's a lot more in that interview and we'll get tait later in the show and we'll get to the democratic as well. but we begin with the republican race. it's no stretch to conclude that when it comes to donald trump, the republican party has slowly been working it way thou the classic five stages of grief. the first one was denial. trump can't be taken seriously. the second one, anger. what makes this guy think he is even a republican or let's take it to the voters. they'll reject him, right? the fourth, depression. oh, my god. he's actually winning this thing. and now, the fifth stage, the hardest one of all, acceptance. why? trump just won big in new yo

. >>> joined by nicolle wallace and msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki.late and up early. good morning. trump is calling himself the presumptive nominee. is this over? >> it's so over, we n word for democratic side and the there are not three examples where they're going to trip up the national dynamic. >> you like to crunch the numbers. do you agree, if you're a gop member of the house of the senate, you wake up and put the trump bumper sticker on your car? >> there are dead enders out there. saying, if we win this state, pick off this delegate. i mean, we're at the point where donald trump's lead, it's not the -- we're not talking so much about the states he might be surprisingly losing in from here on out, it's the cruz states he might win and sweep this thing. >> do your math thing, steve. i think the prospects of the contested convention, trump not being able to get to 1,237, was greatlyed last night. >> the state of pennsylvania, there were 54 free agents. is this often. talk about the democrats, side tt's personal? >> may can't believe why he launc

. >>> let's bring in our good friend nicolle wallace. >> good morning. >> how many more times does paul ryan have to say he's not getting in the race, that the nominee should come from the field of candidates who are currently running or have ran, before people believe him? >> he'll say it many times. what he wants hasn't been the point. it's been about what the party nie needs. the truth is, the party needs paul ryan. they need his steady leadership. he's a highde focuses on policy and civility. we are short on that this cycle. >> it's interesting because he has said this many, many times. yet, he calls a news conference to say it again. i assume the message is, one, for the media that likes to speculate about it, but is there another audience? donors, republican party leaders, he was trying to reach, as well? >> it would be an offensive method. i think defensively, he's savvy enough to know you can't get on the wrong side of the base of the republican party. the base is deeply suspicious that the establishment is going to come in and do exactly what paul ryan said he wouldn't do. whic

nicolle wallace, good to see you. >> thank you. >>> surprising new report out this morning on how the fbi managed to crack into the iphone of one of the san bernardino shooters. paying professional hackers to help. nbc justice correspondent pete williams has more on that. good morning. >> whatever works, savannah. it turns out the worldwide attention to the fbi's court battle with apple was seen in the hacker world as a challenge that was impossible to resist. now, officials say it was an individual who successfully met the challenge. wasn't a big corporation or a government agency that came up with a way to get into a locked iphone left behind by one of the san bernardino attackers. to open farook's phone, officials needed to get around the security fee suatures on th phone. the fbi won't say who it was or how it was done. in fact, the method has been a government secret, bought and paid for. many of the nation's police departments were hoping it could be used to open thousands of locked iphones nationwide that investigators believe hold important evidence. the fbi says it works on o

bush, nicolle wallace.n of the republican national committee, michael steele. >> quick question, what is mike barnicle, everybody? >> legendary. >> epic. >> i think he's more like a veteran columnist. >> and nicolle is like the iron woman. you were here all night, right? >> caffeinated. >> so how are your parents doing this morning? >> they text me all night, like as though it's like it's my primetime coverage. it's like jump in and tell them that donald is evolving. jump in and tell them -- i said at one point for his own political purposes, it might have helped him with what he has to do to give her a little quick congrats on her wins tonight and they fire back with texting rage. he should never -- >> michael steele, has he -- he calls himself the presumptive nominee. what should we call him? >> the presumptive nominee. if he were any other candidate, that's exactly what everyone in washington and around the country would be calling him inside the gop. donald trump put together a massive coalition of supp

bush, nicole wallace. >> popping popcorn. and i'm watching reince priebus this weekend. i know reince, i like him. but i wanted to tell him, buddy, just stop. just back away. you're like the rnc chair. he has exactly you where he wants you. you're looking defensive. have an associate come on. have a past rnc chair come on. have haley barbour come on going, well, you know, politics. it's just much about nothing you know, trump, he's just trump, he's just -- just ignore trump. >> i don't think haley wants to say that about trump. >> but i'm just saying, the guy in charge of the rnc, you don't go on there and look offensive. and this is donald trump, making turn, guess what? last week he wasn't on, he put his people on. this week he wasn't on and it was other people on being defensive. but reince doesn't need to do that anymore. >> reince saying he's not going to take donald trump personally, he should. because it's personal. he is making this case, and i think, you know, sort of, while we were sleeping, he might have won this case. i think ted cruz keeps winning at these s

nicolle wallace's parents are supporting donald trump. and yet other very established republican writers are explaining the phenomenon away as somebody who's looking for a hitler-like figure. this is not on fringe publications. and i'm not saying these people's names because they're friends of mine and it's -- but this isn't the fringe part of the republican establishment. they are insulting my brother, nicolle's parents, and millions and millions of successful americans who are not sitting at home like with needles, discarded needles around their house. >> it's funny you make that reference, i read that piece that you referenced in your "washington post" column that suggested that it was the drug problem that it was heroin and prescription pills that was leading these people go and vote. the problems in their lives were brought on by drugs and going to vote for donald trump which i thought was quite a leap to make. but i think the point of your piece is the point that's been around for a year now which is that people who criticize the tr

bush nicolle wallace. >> in winter white. we can't complain.we had such a great winter. >> but i'm ready for it to be -- >> it would be nice. it was snowing on saturday. >> yes, in connecticut we had flurries. >> it was snowing so that's not great. >> never ideal. >> a couple interesting things happening as we start the week. first of all, nicolle, i know your parents had to be relieved as was my brother. the trump campaign in many ways starting to show that discipline that everybody's been suggesting they needed to show. trump not running on 20 shows on sunday, not tweeting up, you know, storms against megyn kelly or other people, have a campaign manager that takes slings and arrows on sunday. they're doing it the way you're supposed to at least pretend to do it. >> i don't know that i'd call it discipline yet. but i think the big question -- and there is a lot of debate last tuesday night -- about whether or not he could make adjustment, and he has. so i think there were people that didn't think he was capable of evolving and he has. and the

bush nicolle wallace and the president and ceo of politico, wisconsin's own jim vandehei., these races are crazy. you look at the polls. we see polls showing bernie ahead. we've seen some polls yesterday that show hillary catching up. like she was going to win. >> right. >> a poll out shows bernie zooming ahead. >>> on the republican side, same thing. looks like cruz has a four or five-point lead. another poll or two that came out that showed trump ahead or catching up. >> i don't really get it. >> nobody knows. nobody knows but mark halperin. that's the way i like it. >> let the voters decide. >> let the voters -- wait. are you with ted cruz? >> yes, please, ted! >> we live in a constitutional republic, and the glory of that is -- >> let the voters decide. >> let the pundits and the politicians and the pollsters can all get around, and they can express what they want in their new york values. but at the end of the day it comes -- >> you gotta close it. >> close it? how do i close it? >> you need a little more ned flanders in here. >> a little more ned flanders. >> there i

. >>> mark halperin is managing editor of bloomberg politics and nicolle wallace. >> cruz and kasich do something else. i've been surprised how they've been doing the same things, expecting different results. this is also desperate, showing what position trump is in. >> too little, too late? >> trump road into his mega victory on a message of a rigged system. nothing reinforces it more than the collusion of his last two opponents. >> he tweeted about it. as you said, desperation, sad. exclamation point. are the campaigns telling voters, vote for other guys, or talking to the independents and money? >> every dollar spent attacking each other -- you had kasich attacking cruz in indiana. they had to take all resources and say, every dollar we have to stop trump has to be spent against trump rather than against each other. again, it's a process argument, as nicolle said, this plays into trump's message, as opposed to a positive message. >> charles koch, conservative politicians, mused about voting for hillary clinton over trump or cruz. >> general haden said she might be a better choice

let's bring in nbc news political analyst nicolle wallace and mark halperin, managing editor of bloomberg politics. >> bill clinton said he probably didn't handle the protester the right way. a presidential candidate is campaigning wite a husband who is the president of the united states and has a legacy of his own that he has to defend on the trail. how compltuicated s this for hillary? >> super complicated. we saw it year ago when he campaigned for his wife and she lost. the next days in new york are going to be incredibly important for the nomination. not just a question of who wins. hillary clinton is heavily favored. but how the clintons navigate the trail. ground than new york city and new york state. we'll see how president and hillary clinton deal with it. see if sanders can narrow the gap in a state that's critically important to his c nces. >> anything about using bill clinton as a surrogate? you mentioned, they're using him again today. >> i think after thnt happened, there were probably discussions that occurred behind the scenes. in fact, bill clinton was asked atuuestion bou