we are trailing now actually the proteste protesters. most of them are ahead of us. that's where they're going to stage their protest. we'll see how this goes. >> we are watching video coming in. looks like you're headi ing dow 57th or 58th street. from our camera vantage. are these professional agitators, the kind of people who come out to anything and are the antiarcist types or new yorkers who are fed up with donald trump. >> reporter: this is a mix of people. i say is the people that spoke with the black lives matter, the cosmopolitan anti-fascist movement. a lot of them are the leaders that were speaking in front of this crowd were anti-capitalists and speaking of white supremacy and women's oppression and immigrant oppression. but a large majority of this crowd that was here and gathered seems to be just young probably liberal folks who are here, bernie supporters, lots of bernie supporters. new yorkers. muslim. black. hispanic. white. a mix of people. we saw one white woman and she brought her children. she is a new yorker. she said i've been waiting for somet

you have protesters. our reporter was saying for the first time there's a whole area for protesters. things are very tense there tonight. donald trump earlier today, governor, was talking about some of the incidents of violence at his rallies and talking about how some of the people attending were fighting back against pr e protesters. he said the audience swung back and i thought it was very, very appropriate. what do you hear when he says that? >> it's something i find hard to understand. my message is really very unifying as you know. it must be so unifying that it must be contagious becaus if you watched the debate last night everybody was really positive. or trying to be positive. it's just something that's alien to me. i want to get into a room and give people a chance to make them believe they can be something, that we can be hopeful, that we can be unified. it's what i've done in ohio. it's what i've done in washington. it's what i will do if i return to washington as the president. >> there is a

preparing to protest. donald trump called off the event. he did not hold the event. we saw moments between donald trump supporters and the protesters. that broke out on the floor after the cancellation. it was a remarkable image to see. where do you think we go before voting on tuesday? >> it is hard to say. it could be the turning point in this campaign if he runs on tuesday. the effort to stop donald trump will be very hard to succeed. the vote letters decide. stewart thinks they might process it one way. david gergen thinks it might be processed one way. one thing we know, we are going to be asking whether the trump supporters don't think it is fair. we'll be asking him to address what he thinks about this. the protests will continue without a doubt. >> for everyone who has been with us. thank you so much. don lemon picks up the coverage right now with cnn tonight. >>> donald trump is speaking out after his chicago rally is post possibly in the midst of clashes between protesters and supporters inside.

the protesters at his rally. we want to go life to jeff, he is on the streets of chicago for us. i'm sure you heard donald trump at the top of the braufd cast. >> one thing i was struck by was the diversity of the protesters. you know chicago very well. i used to live here. i was struck by the diversity. black, white, hispanic, asian, young and old. it was very orderly. we have seen the images inside. this was a community protest. as i was walking with some of these protesters, they were saying this is an historic moment for mexican-americans to rise up against donald trump. and i was walking with a gentleman here who lives in the nabl of chicago, the biggest mexican-american neighborhood of chicago. and he said this is chicago's duty to rise up and stand up to donald trump. so it is different from other trump events that i've been at throughout the summer and the fall. we've seen a lot of black lives matters protests. this was different. a least outside. this was the city of chicago that at least some people in

>> there were counter protests.le very frustrated about sitting in their cars for two hours at this point. many got out of their cars and were shouting at the protesters and they shout back. the protestors don't seem violence. i haven't seen anybody shove anybody else and they talked about that in their meetings leading up to this protest, they wanted to make sure that nobody from their side lashed out and through punches or pushed and shoved. mostly we've seen shouting matches here. i'll give you another example. at the sault lake city trump rally last night, in that case, the protesters were actually more angry it seemed and more willing to not only shout, but actually push and shove. we saw some of that. and in fact some of them ended up pushing and shoving officers as officers tried to clear them from a certain space. and that got the most violent that i've seen yet at a trump rally. here again in arizona, the protesters have planned this out well and they have said that they will not push, shove or do anything

this is protesting speech. this protesting donald trump.you agree with donald trump or not, he has rented the venue. he has invited people to come in. people have come in. you have some disrupters inside. outside you have got people protesting who just don't want him to speak. they are exercising their first amendment right to shut down his first amendment right. it's enormously complicated because there is so many factors. but, you know, i guess -- let me go to john roberts. john roberts, you have just made your way outside. >> yeah. hey, good evening to you, greta. ulis cease martin is a trump supporter. he is here at the rally that didn't happen. ulis cease what did you think of the fact that protesters made enough noise and created enough disturbance that they had to cancel this event? >> definitely disappointing. you know, we all havegb our differences, you know. i have actually traditionally been democratic. i voted for barack four years ago. and born and raised here in the city. went to grammar school, high school and college here in

here the irony ofv("á that the protesters are protesting donald trump's speech. protesting speech.r. because they are trying to stop donald trump from speaking. >> i think that said, they are also ying to counter act trump's message. trump has through this entire election cycle been the loudest voice in the room. there hasn't been someone as loud and will to roll up their sleeves and counter act him as we are seeing right now. most of his critics have stayed fairly polite with the exception of rubio who got a little bit pj 13 rated when he went after him. what we are see something protesters actually try to weigh his voice out. it's not just about silencing trump. chicago has a long history of having active, organized mobile protesters whether it's laborvy protesters in the early part of the 20th century or as recently as protesting rahm immanuel's decision to withhold the video of a teenager getting shot in front of a mcdonald's by police. it's not surprising that this is politicized. it's part of the city's political history. if anything, protesting trump's speech is kind of unde

and one protester yesterday punching an african-american protester in the face. he wasn't throwing punches. >> and that also wasn't serious when mr. trump said that. but we don't hear the media coverage of previous rallies. there are hundreds of thousands of people that have come to these rallies and we never see when the protesters throw themselves into a crowd of mr. trump's people, start swinging and thrashing, because they do need organized events to try to create chaos. this is what we call organized chaos. a lot of people are already familiar with it. this is something that americans need to be paying attention to. because if we do not stop this issue right now, and elect someone that is going to fight for the freedom of speech and that's going to protect americans against the will of all of these special interest groups that feed into these socialist a isist organizations going to lose our country. >> katrina, thank you. the streets of chicago remain, as she put it, chaotic tonight. and this is not at all what the trump campaign had in mind, what those 25,

we are trailing now actually the proteste protesters. most of them are ahead of us.at's where they're going to stage their protest. we'll see how this goes.

they're protesting his words about black lives matters protesters.they're protesting his words about wanting to ban all muslims from coming to this country. they're protesting his words about latinos. they're protesting him tweeting a crime statistic that was bogus that claimed that white people were killed mostly by black people earlier this year. they don't believe that he is being helpful for this country. they believe that he's dividing this country so what they're doing is now they're coming in in the areas where they live, essentially, and they're trying to disrupt this. they're trying to take a stand. they're trying to make a scene. so in this sense, there is blame to lie on both sides because the protesters are coming in in the hopes of making a scene, in the hopes of having a clash and the supporters are giving it back to them. all the while donald trump is not doing a lot to make sure that his campaign rallies are calm and safe environments. there is an announcement, we had one just a couple minutes ago, that says donald trump values the fi

let's listen. >>> looks like the protesters are protesting, peacefully so far. figure it out by just watching it. yeah, well, i don't know how -- jonathan, this is going to be a situation that trump has to deal with. he may not be able to have any more of these super love-in rallies, because the opposition has gotten word and they're allowed to get in. they disguise themselves, and once they're in, they can protest within. and disrupt. >> donald trump has a right to hold political rallies and to talk to his supporters and not have them canceled by mass protests all throughout the rest of the campaign. at the same time, he has a responsibility as deana said to encourage his supporters to act in a civilized way. >> see what we're watching here. a small scuffle of a woman who pulled a protester sign, ripped it up in front of her. she gave her the finger. it's relatively. well, she is enjoying this. but the kind of thing that could get escalated. let's face it. someone will not have a smile on their face if approximate this keeps up. >> this is a situation where don

you want a protest. that's the question you have to read somebody's mind about. >> it's not that he's not interested in giving that kind of common sense civic and civil advice. i'm close to the contention he wanted it this big because it's a classic strong man technique. we've seen strong men rise through street base political rallies and street base political mobilizations where they deliberately encourage violence at their events to scare the country so the country wants a strong man to come in and establish order. that's a technique. that's a political tactic we're not used to seeing but it's hard to escape for me that's what he's hoping for here. >> nixon did that in '68 and '70. we saw that in the rallies where he would stand on the roof of car and they give him the v sign and say they hate it. i'll tell you one thing, i'll take different cut at that. i agree with what you're saying. it's logical. i know the american people, have picked up newspapers from north korea or south korea or somewhere in t

little protest. nobody hurt and hopefully we can keep that going. that's why i did this today. i don't want to see people hurt or worse. i think we made the right move. >> i agree. >> rather than forcing a very bad situation. >> we're watching a recurring tape. an african-american guy in his 30s. he's very middle class guy and his sign says i'm really angry. what would you say to him if you had a chance to chat with this guy as what you're trying to do for this country as potential president. >> i want to bring back jobs. 58% of unemployment rate. you have to bring back jobs. i'd be angry too. i'm looking at him and he looks like he's an intelligent guy, but there's a lot of anger and frankly we have to bring jobs back to this country. our jobs are going to mexico, all over the world. they're going everywhere but here. you see in a nabisco moving out. >> mr. trump, why did you say go get a job when you say you're going to bring jobs. you recognize these young people don't have jobs. why did you mock

anybody else want to protest? do i hear any protesters? any protesters? you can arrest her. arrest her. arrest her. here's what's going to happen. i'm going to tell carrier. my daughter and wife would say it's not presidential for your to call carrier. i would say who cares. i'm going to say, good luck in mexico. hope you build a nice building. enjoy yourself. every time you make a unit, you bring it into the united states, which has to go across real borders, you're going to pay a 35% tax. here's what's going to happen. they are going to call their lobbyist, but i can't be bought because it doesn't matter. i'm working for you, folks. they're going to call their special interest group. within 24 hours the head of carrier will call me and say mr. president, we have decided to stay in the united states. thank you, sir. here's the end of the story. we don't win anymore. we don't win at trade. we get killed with everybody. we have the worst trade deals. we're going to have the best trade deals. we're going to use the greatest business people in the world. they'll do it for nothi

protesters the clashing with trump supporters, and many of the protesters i recognized since the earlyays of ferguson. amy: you said as you look around, you thought of your dad. explain. umar: you know, my dad was a blue-collar guy. when i looked around the crowd, i saw guys who reminded me of his buddies. these were middle-aged, baby boomers, and there were also a lot of teenagers is supported. blue-collar, from st. louis, very much in opposition to the movement. my father was not a trump supporter. they see a guy who champions champions the white working men against isis, against the mexican worker, against african-americans, etc. they see heroes. also eyewitness on the street that the protesters were younger, more vibrant, more full of life, and i saw a group of trump supporters who looked like they were in a viagra commercial. donald trump has said he is going to pay the legal fees of supporters, like the supporter in north carolina who sucker punched a young african-american man when security was taking the man out. and he hauls off and socked him, , fromterwards a reporter inside

what's the point of the protests? are these protesters trying to antagonize trump folks? are they trying to engage them in some sort of confrontation, in some sort of fight? >> right. so i think it's two things. one: we cannot go any further with a -- with an individual who's running for the highest leadership position of this country who has already said really dangerous things in terms of our own national security, and our own safety, as it relates to women, black people, immigrants, and other communities and muslims around this country. and so he needs to be held accountable to the rhetoric that he is positioning himself. and then the second of that: no matter whatever happens, regardless of whether or not donald trump becomes elected, he now has mobilized an entire base, an entire electorate of people who share his rhetoric and are actually taking violent action, as we've seen the last couple of days of different actions that have been taken. and black people in particular have again punched to the ground or abuse

who punched and kicked the protester? >> no, i'm saying this. these are professional agitators. i think somebody should say that when a road is blocked going into the event, so that people have to wait sometimes hours to get in, i think that's very fair and there should be blame there, too. when signs are put up, lifted up with tremendous profanity on them. i mean, the worst profanity. you have television cameras all over the place and, people see these signs, i think maybe those people have some blame and should suffer blame also. >> we also see the video of your campaign manager, cory lewandowski, who does appear to grab the collar of that protester in that video. also your private security. why is your campaign manager out in the crowd engaging protesters? this is the second incident in about a month. >> because security at the arena, the police were lax. they had signs up in that area that were horrendous. i can't say what they said on the sign. but the ultimate word. it was all over the camera. and, frankly, the tele

the protest that had been organized was supposed to be a nonviolent protest.ant to do go in there and chant. they want to do disrupt in some fashion. and there was a larger group of them that at any previous protest. i mean, protesters had been ejected from previous rallies. well, this one they will they realized they were never going to be able to eject them all. >> that's because move on and some of the other far left websites got involved and they planned it out and they directed people. in that's what happened. and that's what they did. >> only a matter of time before that happened, exactly. they finally estimatenned up and said hey, if it's one we're going to get thrown out. if it's 100 never get all of us out of here. >> gentlemen, thankh-9÷ you. i want to point out i was in los angeles over the weekend and reading the "l.a. times." no mention of move on. no mention of an organized drive to stop donald trump from speaking. none of that it was all trump, trump, trump, trump. his fault. directly ahead, charles krauthammer has some thoughts on the violence

i know more about protesting and protesters than you'll ever know, don., i don't mind meeting with protesters as long as i know it's in good spirit and they're not a professional agitator. >> he wasn't running for president then. how is this different? is it different, van jones? >> i think it is different. let me just say something we haven't touched that much on, which is about the protesters. let me tell you why i think that their tactics should be possibly reconsidered and why they won't agree with me. i in general think it's fine to go to an event to appropriation test, to make some noise, to make your point heard, but then also to leave or be peacefully arrested and let the event go on. i don't believe in this shut it down philosophy. here's why they will tell me i am wrong mon. they're saying that trump gets wall-to-wall coverage and they feel like the only way they can be heard is to protest at his rallies because that's where the media is and to possibly shut him down because they're tired of hearing from him. this is a campus with a lot of musli

that's how many were planning to go to the protest to the street tonight. that's a big protest. they're on a big stage out there for speakers and the like. there has been banter back and forth, but before it has started, it is getting hot >>> let's talk about the numbers. you're saying possibly up 120,000 people inside. it's several thousand outside as well. what are the security concerns, if any?concerns,if any? >> reporter: lots of security, police an campus police, they have kept a long buffer of policemen in between the people going into the pavillion. we have seen insults back and forth. we saw a little bit of shoving, but the trump supporters were admonished over the loud speaker not to touch anybody. just to yell and scream when they see somebody trying to protest, but don't touch them. this is all before he has taken the stage and so we will see what will happen when he does >>> thank you. donald trump being the front runner also has secret service protection now. south east have been seeing severe weather. >> reporter: six states were understand flood watchers and warni

protesters. this is what happened today at the event before chicago went off the rails tonight. >> you know, part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore, right? and they're being politically correct they way they take them out so it takes a little bit longer and honestly, protesters realize it. they realize there's no consequences to protesting anymore. there used to be consequences. there are none anymore. so that's it. thank you very much. thank you. are they gone? yeah, they're gone. our country has to toughen up, folks. we have to toughen up. these people are bringing us down, remember that. they're bringing us down. no reason for it. these people are so bad for our country, you have no idea, folks. you have no idea. they tribute nothing, nothing. they can get up and when they're being taken out they can raise their bad finger up in the air and drive people, which is very unfair, and some people get very angry at that because you know

when the protesters come in and often times the protesters are minoritie minorities, if they're latino, african-american, muslim, they ko come in and protest and the majority of these crowds are caucasian. that's not to say donald trump doesn't have minority supporters. he absolutely does. we talk to them at the rally. they have the same reasons as anyone else might have for liking donald trump. they believe it's economic and believe he's going go in and get things done. i'm also not saying, to be very clear, all of his supporters are in some way intolerant or racists or bigots or anything like that. there's a number of his supporters are not that sort of thing. i don't know how to classify all of his supporters. what i am saying is that there does seem to be this undercurrent of otherness throughout this campaign. they're the ones that are causing the problems. if you get me in charge, i'm the one that will make it better. i'm going to build that wall so there's no drugs coming in. i'm going to build that wall so you can keep your jobs. i'm going to build that wall so we can keep amer

to be clear it's not just men protesting.any range of people protesting, a variety of different reasons. you have immigration protesters here, you have muslims here who are saying that they are against his muslim -- temporary muslim band, black live matters here seek for racial equality in this entire movement. you have a variety of people on the ground here. it's very different motivation. all of them getting the same kind of treatment. >> trymaine, let me bring you in because you were in st. louis where we saw protests of a lesser kind but still very significant to those who want to shut down these trump rallies. what i am curious about, to a person you see video, cameras, you see people holding up their cellphone cameras. we've seen the video of the trump supporter sucker punch one of the protesters in north carolina. we've seen this video. cure usely donald trump claims his supporters have been attacked but so far -- i'm not saying it doesn't exist, so far his campaign has not produced any evidence of his claims. and to a

they wanted people to peacefully protest on the sidewalk. but take a look around. that is clearly not happening. >> all right. okay. we're going to keep our eye on this. in fact, sara ganim, squeeze te shot, keep it in the shot as we continue the conversation about what's transpiring there in new york at the same time watching developments in arizona just outside of phoenix where a number of people have gathered in demonstration of donald trump's soon arrival there in phoenix. so to the right of your screen you're seeing the earlier images where roughly 50 people, according to the sheriff's deputies opposite blocked a major thoroughfare, blocking the passage for many motorists to get to a donald trump rally that's expected to take place at any moment now, and then on the left of your screen you're seeing anti-trump demonstrators described by our sara ganim there in midtown manhattan outside of trump towers where people are gathering right there. so i have a few people with me, i believe, both in front of the camera and perhaps even on the phone. mike shields is in

that's a protester. that's a protester. it's actually when all of the room goes, there they are, there they are, i say, oh, now i have to stop. whereas that voice, you can't even hear it. it's pathetic. okay. but yesterday in chicago, 25,000 people coming, we were going to have 15,000 outside. we had speakers set up. 10,000 inside. and we had disrupters. i call them not protesters. i call them disrupters. they had all professionally made signs. they're holding them up. it says bernie on them, good old bernie. he was a lousy senator. he runs. he didn't do a damn thing in the senate. and you have hillary. you have some hillary signs up. and hillary, frankly, let's face it. you look at what's going on in the primaries. they're down 35%. there's no excitement whatsoever. the republicans, you know what, we are so far millions and millions of people are showing up at the polls to vote. thank you. and it's for me. it's not for -- i tell you what. it's not for little marco. and it's not for lyin' ted. this is the biggest liar we've

i've been protested. anybody who is in public service in a big election has been protested.this extent, but this brings back a lot of memories when we were battling. it's clear to me that this is being instigated by people who have a very clear agenda to do exactly what you're seeing right now, this disruption on the tv and painting a picture that's not a flattering one. so here we go. >> yeah. we talked about that at the top of the show, some of these groups are organizing protests or these campaign events and this may be the first of a lot we see this weekend. gentlemen, thank you both. we'll be right back after a quick break. pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. then your eyes may see it differently. only flonase is approved to relieve both your itchy, watery eyes and congestion. no other nasal allergy spray can say that. complete allergy relief or incomplete. let your eyes decide. flonase changes everything. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. ♪ those who have served our nation have ea

dozens of trump protesters. look at the crowds outside who clashed with some of his supporters outside. this was at the university of illinois. >> it ended with some protesters being forcefully carried out and the trump campaign canceled the rally all together. cnn white house correspondent jim acosta was there. >> reporter: things are finally back to normal in chicago after a donald trump rally resulted in chaos inside the arena on the campus of the university of illinois at chicago. essentially it unfolded over the course of a few hours. there were hundreds of protesters gathered inside the rally with the purpose of disrespecting the event. that's what happened. donald trump came to the podium and announced the convenient would be canceled. that's when the crowd exploded into chaos. we saw fights break out. there were not enough police officers and security personnel on scene to get the situation under control. then we saw chicago police, dozens of them, filing down to the floor of the arena. they were startin

and then they get protesters. and the protesters all showed up pretty much at the same time. so it was totally organized. they didn't just drift in. they just boom all of a sudden showed up. so at some point -- they won't get away with this stuff because it's going to be -- >> at some point they won't get away from this stuff, that's not what i expected him to be saying. what he said a moment later, i don't know why we pulled the wrong thing, was, mr. hannity asked him, did law enforcement recommend this to you? and donald trump said, yeah, they did recommend it, they strongly recommended it. the chicago police department is not saying that's the way it happened. >> maybe trump law enforcement, maybe he has his own eyes and ears in here. because the chicago police, who aren't exactly the most willing to go on the record at a moment's notice and tell us, they quickly answered my call and said no, we were not consulted. we took not any part in this decision. he never came to the venue, he was not here. >> he never came to the venue, they never met with him, there was no consult

police are escorting protesters. we don't know if they are trump let out now. >>> campaign 2016 is proving to be unprecedented. in chicago trump supporters and protesters fighting inside a campaign rally. situation so bad the event had to be postponed. arena was filled with thousands of people evenly divided between trump supporters and protesters. cbs's elliott rodriquez takes us inside. >> reporter: the rally scheduled at the university of chicago pavillion was called off after large numbers of protesters packed the arena clashing with trump supporters who chanted we want trump. >> we want trump! >> reporter: fights broke out on the floor of the arena in front of dozens of news cameras there to cover the republican presidential frontrunner. this protester made his way to the stage where he ripped apart a trump campaign sign. security he got into a fight with a trump supporter wearing an american flag as a cape. at one point a trump campaign spokesperson made the announcement that the rally was being canceled. >> mr

basically what they said, it was a peaceful protest. and in my view, that's not a peaceful protest. when someone rips up a sign in front of me or someone knocks off a hat, to me that is not a peaceful protest. peaceful protest is when martin luther king jr. hat sit-ins and you sat there and peacefully protested your message that way. >> is the rhetoric of donald trump very different from the rhetoric of martin luther king jr. do you think he shares some responsibility for the violence surrounding these events? >> i honestly -- i don't know that i can, because i just -- i don't see that as his push. i don't think -- i know he's said some things that people take to heart or take it literally. he says, i'll punch someone in face. he gets angry that way. i don't think you should take that as a literal attack or aggravation toward that situation. >> figure of speech. >> i think it's a figure of speech or venting his frustration. >> thank you, tark. frances, the cleveland authorities are keeping mum about any security preparations ahead of this event but they have been taking precautions

j lovely protest.roups that are not good groups. these are not good groups for the country. all of the signs were professionally made. can you see that everyone came at one time. we had 25,000 people signed up. we had thousands of great people. these are amazing people. great people. we have great people at the rallies. and we had 25,000 people coming. and that's another thing with the people that are competing. a guy like kasich, nobody shows up to his rallies. nobody goes. you look at ted cruz, nobody goes to his rallies. nobody cares. so, you know, these are massive rallies. and, actually, we have had very, very -- we have virtually no -- you know, if you think in terms of protesters we have had so few protesters at these rallies compared to the size of the rallies themselves. we have had no injuries, no problems until yesterday when we had this one. and this one was a total setup and it was organized by a group andiv professionally organized. and what they're really doing is shutting down the first

and if protesters should arrive. by the way, they've got an area across the street roped off, geese and protesters apparently going to enjoy that damp, swampy area across the street, they're not going to engage. you heard trump say yesterday if protesters deinterrupt his event he's going to seek to press charges, he's going to quote ruin their lives. some heat added to that threat today because he's going to get an endorsement on stage by the sheriff of this county. kate? >> trymaine, let me go back to you. there's been a lot of talk about whether these protesters are organized. whether moveon.org for example might be rallying people to come out to donald trump events specifically. what's your sense of the level of organization? >> there definitely is a level of organization, i think it's more on the local grassroots level. we've seen from city to city they've experienced their own levels of unrest around police violence, et cetera. you look at the ferguson protesters who've been pushing on the ground and fighting an

and these protests are -- and these -- it was a protest and reaction to them, look people can protest. they have no right to rush the stage. donald trump has a right to speak, and others have a right to protest. but they should do it in a civil way. the violence that we've seen is really very dispushing. i don't think it's very representative of the republican party. at least i hope so. >> now, governor, do you think that all of this will affect tuesday's election? we have five states that are critical in terms of the selection process for both parties. do you think this will affect the voting on tuesday? >> yeah, i think it will. i think it will add some points to john kasich's total in ohio. i think it will help ted cruz perhaps in north carolina and missouri. but, what's happening is, over time, all of these things are starting to pile up. and they will begin to have an effect on mr. trump. particularly when he gets in a one-on-one race, either in the republican primaries against ted cruz, or in the general election. it -- it's becomes baggage and the more baggage you have, the har

the protesters? >> at least one demonstrator punched and kicked. and trump's campaign manager appears to grab a protester by the collar. >> getting involved in confrontations, violence is not the answer into plus, john kasich sees no way to a split-the-map strategy to stop trump. >> this is a crazy idea. who actually could be president of the united states and do a good job? >>> and the historic visit. president barack obama is hours away from being the first president in nearly 90 years to step foot on the island of cuba. "newsroom" starts now. >>> hello again, everyone. thank you for joining. i'm fredricka whitfield. it was another night of violence at a donald trump rally. this time, in tucson, arizona. trump's campaign manager, corey lewandowski, the man in the gray blazer, was caught on camera in an apparent altercation with a protester and more violence at the same event as the protester was brutally attacked as he was being let out of the venue by police. so this morning on abc, trump was ques

some people are convinced that this was paid protesters, that these were well-organized protests designed to try and shut down their ability to watch their candidate. so, you have a lot of strong supporters here for donald trump and very much so in agreement with what his perspective is on those protesters last night, despite what some critics may disagree with on that front. >> all right, phil mattingly, thank you so much. mark preston as well from vandalia, ohio, there. all right, well, we've heard from donald trump, his reaction to what took place last night. other candidates have been reacting as well within the gop. ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich all condemning the violence at last night's trump rally, but they also say trump shares some of that blame. >> leaders cannot say whatevr they want, because words have consequences. they lead to actions that others take. and when the person you're supporting for president is going around saying things like, go ahead and slap them around, i'll pay your legal fees, what do you think's going to happen next? >> donald trump has created a

the protest that had been organized was supposed to be a nonviolent protest.ant to do go in there and chant. they want to do disrupt in some fashion. and there was a larger group of them that at any previous protest. i mean, protesters had been ejected from previous rallies. well, this one they will they realized they were never going to be able to eject them all. >> that's because move on and some of the other far left websites got involved and they planned it out and they directed people. in that's what happened. and that's what they did. >> only a matter of time before that happened, exactly. they finally estimatenned up and said hey, if it's one we're going to get thrown out. if it's 100 never get all of us out of here. >> gentlemen, thankh-9÷ you. i want to point out i was in los angeles over the weekend and reading the "l.a. times." no mention of move on. no mention of an organized drive to stop donald trump from speaking. none of that it was all trump, trump, trump, trump. his fault. directly ahead, charles krauthammer has some thoughts on the violence

how is it donald trump's fault if there's a protest and two people get into it outside a protest? i think it's the same thing. >> how is it a protester's fault that they get clocked in the face. >> that's a protest, that was a donald trump guy. donald trump says i want to pay for this guy's legal bills. >> kimberly mentioned chicago friday night. do you think that was right? >> there's nothing on the ticket that says you cannot have a different point of view than donald trump if you come into this venue. >> moveon.org raised money. they handed out a list of what to look for, how to act inside the protest. disrupt -- i mean, protesters. >> there's more of that on your block. >> disrupting is -- it's a -- i think it's a crime. >> if it's disturbing the peace or assault of conduct, battery, things like that that happens, it jumps into the legal venue, in terms of whether someone should be prosecuted, et cetera. >> i was at a restaurant on friday night, waiting for a table. and i was watching the scene unfold. these three younger people -- it was interesting to get their take, they ag

and strikes and protests today in france. anger is growing over new labor reforms that would help businesses hire more employees by shaking up the country system . to make matters worse there is traffic chaos on the train network as real workers strike. that is over plans to change to the working arrangements. a victory for artificial intelligence as they have just beat one of the best players of the complex board game. our top story now, live from paris. >> we will start with the upset in michigan for the race to the white house as bernie sanders won the primary. by a hair. he beat hillary clinton i under 2% but it is enough to take all 130 delegates. clinton won mississippi and she does look set to take the democratic nomination. speaking after his michigan win, he was triumphant. , what weafter state have done is create a kind of momentum that we need to win. so once again, this has been a fantastic night in michigan. >> in the meantime, donald trump is tightening his grip on the republican nomination. the billionaire busi

protester tried to threaten the candidate. with that is doing now it gives trump a new platform with which to denounce the protesters and on "fox news sunday" trump justified asking his supporters to go after these protesters at events. >> there were two people in the audience, they couldn't find them, they didn't know where they were but they had tomatoes and they were going to chuck them at me, being hit in the face with a tomato is not exactly so good. so before i started my speech i said folks, you have two people out there tomatoes, if you see them, do whatever you to to do to them, i don't care. you know what? i think i'm totally within my rights to say that. >> reporter: but the protesters are not backing down. last night in kansas city trump was interrupted a number of times inside the event but the scene outside the theater was much more chaotic. hundreds of protesters crowded the streets when they would not disperse, police unloaded on them with pepper spray to try to get them to finally move. of course this is a ric

you can protest things. you can state what you believe, but you do it in a sense of respect and under the laws of the land so it doesn't ever get to a place where it's vie lents. i think our leaders have to step up and call for that type of peaceful protest as we go forward. if not it's going to get worse. >> what do you want to hear from leadership in the republican party? >> i think most leaders in the republican party are calling for that sort of thing. they want there to be peaceful ways to resolve these things. they're looking for americans to be able to share their voice and voice their opinions peacefully and i think we will get to that. i think that -- but we need all of the leaders to join in and say look, there's a way to do this and we also need to call out the people on the left. this is something that's been brewing on the left that hasn't been talked about. you should see what it's like to be a conservative and talk on a liberal college campus. there's threats to people, people get shouted down

i've seen obviously clusters of protesters together planning on protesting together.ups of people sitting in different areas of the arena and around. that's why it seemed like it was everywhere at once. especially when the cancellation announcement came, you felt the entire arena erupt. something donald trump did today in light of last night, this is something i have seen him do now consistently whenever there is controversy or questions about his tone or rhetoric, he takes what happens and adds it in and makes it a seamless transition into what his message is. he's protecting his supporters, saying they're the nice guys, i think is what he said, the good guys. and that everyone else is kind of the one that's in the wrong. and so he's painting his supporters as victims here. and is something else he did that is so interesting, and he does this after people protest at other rallies, as well. he talks about the need to unify. he always goes into this riff of how we want the same things and maybe he could change their mind, and then usually makes a joke and moves off tha

, violent protesters in a tweet released this morning he referred to protesters as thugs.what's your reaction? >> my reaction is incorrect. we were a lot of people undecided. we wanted to know in chicago if a trump rally was the environment that we have seen in the media. we care about our city u. we did not want that rhetoric in chicago. >> a number of people had gone on to social media calling for peaceful protests. if you went on to facebook, i know last night was reported essentially this had come out of thin air. but there was a call for organized peaceful protests of the trump rally. it is on a university campus. if anybody has been to chicago, the west side of chicago, diverse in age because of the college and ethnicity. hispanic and african-american. when you made it to the stage, what was the message that you wanted to get to that audience? >> the message that i was getting at was america is already great without the hate. when i got to the rally before any cameras were rolling, there was so much hatred and ignorance and discrimination. it was a terrible environme

protest. a lot of left wing groups sort of signed up together. to attend this event. maybe other trump ooechts to just mess it up. cause a lot of controversy, get a lot of television attention and blame it all on donald trump. >> i don't agree with that. i believe that there are huge numbers of people that are totally disgusted with donald trump. >> you don't think there's a possibility that some, i agree, there are many who would genuinely want to protest, but that others are sort of gunned on by you know, the media matters folks or others, george tsiros groups that might want to just show up. >> anybody that comes to protests, maybe some people said, hey, let's go to a protest. you know -- >> have you ever done that? >> these were not paid professionals. you know, going out there. these were regular old people that are disgusted by what trump is saying. >> but you could see what he's saying that some just come out of the blue, show up, then we come to find out they were recruited, right? >>

we protest against rahm emanuel, we protest against anita alvarez and we protested against trump. it's something that we do. >> listen to what bernie sanders said about his supporters going to donald trump rallies. listen to this. >> no, not to disrupt rallies. and trump -- look, i don't -- i won't shock you by telling that donald trump lies a whole lot. i mean, he calls me a communist. that's a lie. to suggest that our campaign is telling people to disrupt his campaign is a lie. we don't. we have millions of supporters and some of them will do what they do. but our campaign has never, not once organized any effort to disrupt mr. trump's rallies or anybody else's. >> so sanders says his supporters should not provoke any violence at the rallies. do you think his supporters will listen to that? >> definitely, because that's not the -- i saw firsthand on friday his supporters were simply expressing their first amendment right. >> are you worried that these tactics could backfire because there's a monmouth university poll that found that 22% of the people are more likely to vote for t

protesting peacefully. aren't you concerned that by protesting intolerance, which is what you want to do, aren't you being intolerant yourself by not letting him even speak? >> we were definitely not protesting intolerance. all we were doing was in a very peaceful manner. he of course has his right to speak but keep in mind he's the one who chose not to come. he's the one who chose not to speak. he had that choice and made that choice. >> but you know that a lot of his rallies are being disrupted badly and it was clear this one was never going to get off the ground and people do seem to be saying that he'd made the right choice by not going. >> i mean i think he -- i think the right choice would have been to not come. i mean i think he has the right to speak the way he wants to speak, just like anybody has the right to utilize our first amendment rights. i think nobody ever wants anything to escalate into violence whether you are protesting or whether you're on his side. nobody ever wants that. >> whether a

the protesters? >> at least one demonstrator punched and kicked. and trump's campaign manager appears to grab a protester by the collar. >> getting involved in confrontation, violence is not the answer. >>> plus, john kasich sees no way to a split the map strategy to stop trump. >> this is a crazy idea. who could actually be president of the united states and do a good job? >>> and the historic visit. president barack obama is hours away from being the first president in nearly 90 years to step foot on the island of cuba. "newsroom" starts right now. hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. right now, history is being made. these are live pictures of president obama and the first lady leaving for cuba on his two-day trip. the president will tour old havana, meet with cuban leader raul castro as well as political dissidents inside that country. we'll have live coverage when the president arrives. but first, more violence at a donald trump rally. this time in tucson, arizona. trump's campaign manager,