carl cameron was saying he's not close to the republican national committee. d be behind the closed doors with reince priebus. there's so much talk of a lack of unity on the republican side. this could be an opportunity for the front-runner 24 hours after the controversial questions about the abortion, but is it almost angered the right more. you've gotten the pro life position wrong and you had to clarify it. to get everybody behind closed doors. >> another piece of analysis from ed henry. >>> let's bring in our political panel. richard fowler, guy benson and. guy, what do you think is going on? let me give you my assessment first. i think that donald trump is already going to be in d.c. talking to foreign policy people this morning and he decided to go over to the rnc because he doesn't want any shenanigans happening with regard to any rule changes or any other kind of votes on the floor. do you agree with me or not? >> i think there's probably some truth to that. trying to figure out exactly what's going on behind closed doors is as good a guess as anyone. f

>> there will be two rules committees in fact. one is the republican national committee rules committee, which will meet in the week before the convention. come up with what amounts to a working draft, that draft will then be approved by the full republican national committee, historically on the wednesday before the convention starts. that document will then go to what is called a temporary convention rules committee, which is made up of delegates as opposed to the republican national committee members. and those delegates will then work through that draft. and can really do whatever they choose in their authority and discretion to make the rules for the convention. so that draft rules will then be sent to the full convention on monday, on the first day of the convention, plus there's a hurricane -- unless there's a hurricane. then that committee will then meet again as the permanent committee, approve the rules, and then it goes to the full convention for passage. so the answer to your question is, the republican national committee rules committee is

that document will go to a temporary convention was committee which is made up of delegates as opposed to the republican national committee members. those delegates will work through the draft. and do whatever they choose is their authority to make the rules for the convention. so that draft rule will then be sent to the full convention on monday. that committee will meet again as a permanent committee, approved the rules, then it goes to full convention for passage. the answer is, the republican national committee rules committee is essentially doing a working draft. host: we keep hearing about rule 40. take a step back and explain what that was about and why it can be changed. rules 26-42 are rules that apply to each convention and must be passed by each convention for itself. the rules that were passed in 2012 are not in effect for 2016 unless and until the convention rules committee passes. in the two previous conventions in 2008 in 2004, the number had been majority in five states needed to approve. ron paul claimed that they had five states. that would have caused a lot of messing with the schedul

republicans' own base. the senior senator of iowa's blind adherence to the dictates of leadership doesn't stop there. the chairman of the judiciary committee was too intimidated to even meet with president obama without the republican leader's consent. he refused to go to the white house without the republican leader by his side. when all finally did meet with president obama on tuesday, the republican leader, the democratic leader, chairman of the judiciary committee and the ranking member of the judiciary committee. at that meeting, the chairman wouldn't commit to meeting the nominee even then. holding hearings, he wouldn't do that. he wouldn't give the nominee a vote, as we told the president. this is not what senator grassley advocated before his party assumed the majority. in january, 2015, the senator from iowa came to the senate floor and said, and i quote -- "we must get back to what we call in the senate regular order i would say do things the way madison intended." close quote. so everything the chairman has done since assuming the role would counter what madison has intended and obviously what the senior senator from iowa had in

he announced his house leadership committee chairs and held private meetings today, first with recently announced foreign policy team, and headed over to the republicanational committee for an unscheduled meeting with chairman reince priebus, that meeting lasted just under an hour, after which trump tweeted -- the rnc described the meeting as a, quote, productive conversation about the state of the race. isn't that exciting language? productive meetings. it's unclear what exactly the two men talked about, but the meeting is curious, it comes after what it been a bad week for his campaign, the national liberal media and opponents, trump is moving on from correction gaffe and still in the campaign narrative. can you imagine? still in command of it. not one of his opponents has been able to seize the campaign agenda. trump owns it from international trade, illegal immigration, radical islamist terrorism, infrastructure, middle class jobs, outsourcing, the wall and, of course, foreign policy, which trump has branded as america first. today, a hopeful day for his supporters. they saw trump going into action, talking less in the videos of his power conview

committee. one is the republican national committee rules committee which will meet the week before the conventiony before the convention starts. that document will then go to a contemporary rules committee which is made up of delegates as opposed to republican national committee members. those delegates will then work through that draft. really they will do whatever they choose in their authority and discretion to make the rules for the convention. so that draft rules will then be sent to the full convention on monday, the first day of the convention. unless there's a hurricane. that committee will meet again, approved the rules and then it goes to the full convention for passage. the answer to your question is, the republican national committee rules committee is essentially doing a working draft for what the convention will consider. >> we keep hearing about rule 40 those put in place in 2012. many call that the ron paul rule. explain what that role was about and white can be change this year? >> rules 26-42 rules that apply to each convention and must be passed by each convention for itself. s

foreign policy team, but his day also included a surprise stop at the headquarters of the republican national committee. a source with the rnc told nbc news that the agenda included party unity and other subjects. that meeting comes as trump is facing new stres with women voters. >> an nbc news poll conducted

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i was director for the republican national committee in that -- in north carolina uring that time. we won north carolina for romney and woe won it largely because we increased the hispanic voter, you know, percentage for the republicans in that state. so now they've been this kind of initiative which is a successful strategy around the clock, 24/7 and have invests, according to the r.n.c. estimates, $10 million. future majority project invested $11 million in the candidates so we have new faces in the party. the first sort of test ground for this initiative that the republican national committee has put together is 2014. glen has shown we received 36% of the hispanic vote which ultimately led to the elections of very swing senate states like colorado for cory gardner or florida for rick scott and most notably in texas greg abbott 46% of the hispanic vote. quite larger than his predecessor before him. this initiative, if you look at the actual numbers, seems to be working hard to engage in the hispanic community. i mean, i'm obviously a result of the hispanic community. i grew up in

, as mentioned in the paper, national party committee officers can not even raise money for state accounts and state candidates. the chairman of the republican national committee is banned by federal law from raising a single dollar for a state candidate for local candidate or state party committee to help state and local candidates. measures such as rolling back those kinds of restrictions could help the state parties. the other reason i think i'm here from a national party perspective is we are set up a little differently on the republican side. i worked with state parties all day, every day. we don't have a separate state parties association so i get questions from state parties all the time and as i read this paper, one of the things that struck me is how much of what i was reading was reflect in the kind of questions i get an sentiments i hear from folks on the ground every day and the frustration and confusion. i teach election law at the state level on a regular basis and it's very complex. the most highly regulated entities in the political system and the least equipped to deal with it because they are so highly regulated because the

republican convention will take place. the trump campaign leased what they called the make america great congressional u.s. house leadership committee, chaired by two members of congress. duncan hunter and chris collins, both republicans who support trump. more of this is supposedly on the way. we'll stand by to hear what trump has to say. john king, thanks very much. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. in the meantime, the news continues next right here on cnn. >>> hello, great to have you along with us on this thursday. i'm pamela brown, in today for brooke baldwin. republicans hope to stop donald trump from becoming their party's nominee are facing a new sense of urgency after the front run ae runner's stunning assertion about abortion. now one of his gop rivals says that's far from the only reason trump is unfit to be president. john kasich just laid out his own top five. take a listen. >> we know about his comments on abortion, which have put women in a very difficult position and we know he has since moved to correct those, in one way or

. >> reporter: the republican committee responded by saying bill clinton is pushing false talking points. >> there is no amount of spin they can change the fact that she is not trusted by voters. >> i think a lot of the things coming out of the republicans balance are ridiculous. >> reporter: bill clinton had donald trump slogan. he echoed a message his wife and said. >> this country never stopped being great. we do need to make american whole again so we can all rise together. that is what this election is about. >> reporter: hillary clinton's campaign has offices set up in raleigh, grantsboro, and charlotte. there will be field offices set up this week as the campaign looks to get out the vote. >> a short time ago, michael bloomberg said he will not be launching a third-party campaign. the north carolina primary is on march 15. early voting runs through saturday. on the republican side, donald trump spent the afternoon in concorde. tomorrow. >>> nancy mcfarlane says a community need to learn from a police shooting of a man one week ago. she spent much of her state of the city address t

and annual question best suited for someone that works for the quick and national committee because i worked republican state leadership committee. we are separate. i am aware of the work, but could not tell you that specifically because someone that is specifically in the committee would have to answer. i think data collection works both ways. when you collect data you function off some assumptions. and when you receive data your probably surprised by results. if you are doing it right you have assumptions and surprises after. so exactly what those are i cannot tell you, but i can tell you that the more you do that and the more work and effort that you put into something like that the more efficient your strategy will be in the end. >> would you like to go at it? >> no. it was a good question. >> great question. >> if. >> if i can find someone answer that question. >> another question. >> hi. >> speak into the microphone. >> just interested in joke jail -- joe eldridge, thank you for this illuminating panel. the impact of having a latino or hispanic on the ballot has on turnout. >> the question. >> it

committee. the republican convention 2016 host committee in cleveland, ohio. said -- $54 million to be exact and they need 64 million to pull off the convention. so they're not sweating according to ms. lauer. so 54 million. she said most of it is in the bank. there is an organization called color of change which is petitioning and lobbying companies like coca-cola, xerox, at&t which has announced they are a partner at republican convention to pull out not only all money they might donate for the convention but services they provide. so far no companies are publicly saying whether they give you money or not. by law, you don't have to file who's donated until after the convention. the republicans are saying not a problem. color of change will boycott and demonstrate if they give any money. trish: the concern is there might be violence at the convention. is that triggered by any of these outbreaks at some of the trump rallies? >> well, you can only go -- look, we've seen what's happened outside chicago, when mr. trump attempted to speak, and protesters stopped h

court of appeals, and jane kelly from iowa, that's where the republican committee chairman chuck grassleys from. another name, ms. jackson, if confirmed she would be the first african american woman to sit on the supreme court. >> libby thank you. >>> another city is dealing with contaminated water. dozens of schools in newark, new jersey have turned off the taps because of lead. but city officials insist this is not another flint. >> reporter: it was the report of gray water last thursday that made them move up the annual test to check for lead. those tests found a problem with drinking water in 30 city schools. one school had readings 30 times the epa standards. while the city says they don't believe the contamination poses any sere ousz health risks, officials have shut off fountains in all 30 schools, and provided bottled water while they investigate the source of the lead. >> we have a difficult needle to thread here, because in an abundance of caution, we are going the extra mile. >> reporter: parents say the schools didn't act fast enough. they got the test results back monday, yet

the chairman of the republican national committee. tomorrow we look at the other side. tune in to fox business network tomorrow morning on "mornings with maria" when i sit down with the dnc chairwoman, debbie wasserman schultz. that's tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern on the fox business network on my morning show, "mornings with maria." >>> protesters crowding donald trump's events as he heads to the southwest. we will speak with a trump campaign adviser, his senior policy adviser, as the front-runner's policy platform. you can follow me on twitter @mariabartiromo, @sunday futures. tell me what you'd like to hear from stephen miller, who is up next as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." the e-class has 11 intelligent driver-assist systems. it recognizes pedestrians and alerts you. warns you about incoming cross-traffic. cameras and radar detect dangers you don't. and it can even stop by itself. so in this crash test, one thing's missing: a crash. the 2016 e-class. now receive up to a $3,000 spring bonus on the e350 sport sedan. whewhat does it look like?ss,

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remember that once you become a nominee you get access to republican national committee e-mail, different employees of the state. a different organization. as to where this is located, this is no shock to our audience, i could throw a baseball from the front door of the rnc and hit a house office building. on the house side directly across the street from the capitol. the political operation and business of the congress is kept pretty close literally across the street. and it is not uncommon to see members of congress come over here. a lot of times doing fund-raising. you can't do that ib inside the capitol. and a lot of turnover. dnc is just down the street. so it is very close to the center of political power in washington and a lot of important people on the republican sidewalk through the doors every single day. in fact i saw a little bit earlier our bone ben ginsburg well known republican lawyer walk in there. >> we will need to get him on the phone since he is an msnbc contributor. luke, you knew i knew the answer to where the building is. i used to live about seven blocks away from

again, a statement from the republican flat committee.weeting, quote, just had a very nice meeting with rance priebus and the gop. looking forward to bringing the party together. and it will happen! with that happening this afternoon, donald trump also looking to make nice with the party in case of an open or contested convention. but to make sure it doesn't get there at all, trump is hoping he can do well in wisconsin, he can win wisconsin tuesday, if he can win there, insome other states, maybe he could meet the minimum number of delegates to meet the nomination without the convention. why the latest polling in wisconsin may not bode well for trump. take a look at big board. here it is. this is the newest poll from wisconsin. this is the gold standard poll out there. there it is, ted cruz pulling ahead by ten points over donald trump in the state. psychologically that would be bad for donald trump to lose wisconsin, lose it by double digits to cruz. the delegates, magic number, trying to not have the open convention. wisconsin, 42 deleg

the chairman of the republican national committee. tomorrow we look at the other side. tune in to fox business network tomorrow morning on "mornings with maria" when i sit down with the dnc chairwoman, debbie wasserman schultz. that's tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern on the fox business network on my morning show, "mornings with maria." >>> protesters crowding donald trump's events as he heads to the southwest. we will speak with a trump campaign adviser, his senior policy adviser, as the front-runner's policy platform. you can follow me on twitter @mariabartiromo, @sunday futures. tell me what you'd like to hear from stephen miller, who is up next as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." this is how banks saw me. ever since i had a pretty bad accident. the medical bills all piled up. so i signed up for experian. they helped educate me on how debt affected my fico score. now my credit and i - are both healing nicely. go to experian.com and start your credit tracker trial membership today. ...as a combination of see products.. and customers. every on-time arriv

he is the chief counsel for the republican national committee where he oversees all of the operations of the council office. this includes federal and state campaigns and compliance. the 2016 republican presidential nomination process. which keeps him really busy. at the end of the panel is eliza dylan kearny. she is senior editor at american prospect where she manages their website. she also writes a weekly column on money called rules of the game. she contributes to magazine features. she is also most famously known for coining the term super pac. we now all have it as an easy part of the political lexicon. this is a great panel. they have interesting things to say nine going to turn it over first two jonathan and ray to talk about the work they did in preparation for this panel. >> thank you all for coming on this beautiful day. it is good to seasonal friends in the group. thanks of course to ray, my co-author. i also need to recognize our research assistance and all-purpose analyst and friend. extremely helpful. we could not have done it without you. it's chaos out there. both in

he believes it's tied to his being elected to the township republican committee two weeks ago. >> i expect stuff because of my signs and my beliefs, but i did not expect swastikas. >> there was nothing on them last night so the vandals hit overnight. his wife spotted it this morning. >> i didn't know what it was until i went out there and looked at it and i saw it was a nazi >> george is old enough the sacrifice it took during world war ii for america to turn the tide in europe and defeat hitler. >> this threatens all of us. this is why we can still fly that flag here. swastikas aren't the only things painted on the trump signs. others carry vulgar words. this one carries the word heil. >> i'm aware enough politically enough to know that by putting these signs out here i was going these signs out here i was going to create attention. that was the idea. this kind of attention, no. >> needless to say, someone coming close to your home in the middle of the night with bad intentions would not make anyone comfortable. george is no exception. i have my family who lives here that i am very concer

committee, a member of congress, joining us from capitol hill right now. i'll just get your quick reaction to this tough statement from the republican national committee. >> coming from the party that shut the government down to denight people health care and cost us $24 million, and the party of obstruction, and the president hayes made progress in spite of them, it isn't at all surprises that they refuse to do their jobs. the president has more than 300 days left in his term. i'm sure the american people think that we shouldn't leave a supreme court seat of which there are only nine, and a court that has the consequence quenchally issues facing them that this court does open for almost a year. it's ludicrous, it's unprecedented and unacceptable. >> when president obama was a u.s. senator, he filibustered the nominee justice alito, something he now says he regrets. when vice president biden was a u.s. senator back gh 1992, he said p.resident bush, should consider -- and not name a nominee until after the november election is completed. so if it was good for the democrats then to make these kinds of statements during an election year in the case of biden,

she's the director of the republican state leadership committee.she's been involved in trying to recruit more latinos to work -- to run, to try to get people registered and turned out. she has worked for years on voter engagement and outreach strategies to women in latino politics. she's right at the center of what must be somewhat frustrating right now for it the leading candidate at this point in terms of what you are trying to do. david carroll was a professor here at american university. we'll leave it at that -- no. we miss you, david. academic units and universities are like baseball teams. and a baseball team somewhere out in the suburbs, way out there, university of maryland, i will never forgive you, david, because you are doing such good work about parties and american politics, but more specifically today you know about demographics and the parties and about the latino voters and party. so let me begin by asking narrowly to start, if that's okay with the panelists, for a few remarks. then we'll go to glen and we'll end with david, if tha

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document will then go to what is called a temporary convention rules committee, which is made up of delegates, as opposed to the republican national committee members. those delegates will work through the draft. and do whatever they choose is their authority to make the rules for the convention. so that draft rule will then be sent to the full convention on monday. the first day of the convention, unless there's a hurricane. that committee will meet again as the permanent committee, approve the rules, then it goes to the full convention for passage. the answer is, the republican national committee rules committee is essentially doing a working draft. for what the convention will consider. host: we keep hearing about rule 40 that was put in place in 2012, and many call that the ron paul rule. explain what that was about, and why it can be changed this year. ben: rules 26-42 are rules that apply to each convention and must be passed by each convention for itself. the rules that were passed in 2012 are not in effect for 2016 unless and until the convention rules committee passes. in the two previous conventions in 2008 in 2

. >> spokesman for the republican national committee says he assumes trump is speaking figuratively. look at the delegate count as it stands this afternoon. donald trump is clearly in the lead as you can see. there's ted cruz at the red bar, could win the nomination outright, he could. gray shows if each candidate wins every delegate still available. his loss in ohio, trump's loss in ohio to make things much harder. ted cruz would need to win the vast majority of remaining delegates to clinch the nomination, something almost every analyst says is impossible. for john kasich, it is impossible, absolutely impossible to reach the required number, even if he wins every single delegate up for grabs for the rest of the contest. contested convention is kasich's only hope. his backers defend the strategy by arguing that a lot can change before july, polls show john kasich has the best shot at beating the democratic nominee, the party would be suicidal to pick anybody else. obviously his rivals aren't buying that. ted cruz didn't mention john kasich in his speech last night, really ignoring h

there were some suggestions including some from your former aids that some people inside the republican committee are considering amongky wrenching with your nomination. >> i think david -- go ahead. >> reporter: suh may very well may have sewn up ten or 15 states at this point, is that enough for them to honor their agreement with you. >> i have a lot of respect for the group and i don't know that i've been treated fairly or not, but i can tell you that i do respect them. what i really have is a great number of people. i have millions and millions of people and when i was watching those broadcasts just a little while ago before i came in here because i wanted to see where we were before i started speaking, i was amazed at the kind of numbers. the republicans have tremendous energy. the democrats don't. they don't have any energy. their numbers are down. our numbers are through the roof and people are making the statements i've never seen in modern times a party that was so energized. i think if somebody is doing as well i'm doing -- and i'm not speaking for myself, me or anybody else, or if i'm

would suggest a center-right candidate under a liberal president is given a pass by republicans who rule the committee. >> yes. bill: that would be the next president, be it hillary clinton or whoever the republican nominee is, perhaps donald trump, they would then have the decision come january. >> yes. bill: the court would sit at 4-4 for the next nine months? >> not necessarily 4-4. chief justice roberts is very adept at crafting compromising majorities. the chief justice also has the ability, if a vote is 4-4, not to release the opinion and to keep the opinion until a 9th member of the court joins. bill: mike lee is coming up in 30 minutes. >> senator lee has great insight into the operation of the supreme court. he clerked for justice sam alito. senator lee would be a prime contender for this seat if it is still open and if donald trump or ted cruz or even john kasich becomes president. mitch mcconnell is making calculation. the calculation is that the republican will win in november. because if hillary clinton wins, you will not get a merrick garland-like nomination. you will get a much farther

in the year 2012 the republican national committee adopted a rule that requires any nominee to have "e support of a majority of delegates from each of eight or more states." a majority of delegates. the rnc could vote to change that rule before the convention. but as it stands right now, not only do candidates have to win eight states. that candidate would have to win eight states and a majority of the delegates in those states. that is not an easy task with four candidates still in. but donald trump has already done. ted cruz and marco rubio are only partially there. and a win today in ohio would be john kasich's first state with a majority of delegates. fox news judicial analyst judge napolitano is here. >> it's easier to understand the federal laws than it is the republican rules. but the basic rules are as you said. a person's name cannot be put in nomination if they do not have a majority of the delegates from eight or more states. that means that donald trump could be the only person whose name is put in nomination. however, if ted cruz or marco rubio or john kasich are still in

ultimately this small group of republican members of the committee meet behind closed doors unilaterally decided last week to reject a long-standing invitation to public hearings. in doing so they denied americans, all americans republicans and democrats alike a chance to participate in the consideration of a nominee. they deny americans the chance to have us do our job. the judiciary committee is one of the busiest in the senate. he considered some of the most consequential decisions affecting american people. we are brought here to do our job and work together for our constituents, we can achieve great things. this is what happened three years ago. the senate passed conference of immigration before. after six hearings and three weeks of mark-ups many lasting very late at night each of 18 senators serving on the committee participate in the process to draft that legislation. mr. chairman everybody who had a number to bring it up could go back and forth, one democratic in one republican. we did this for half a day late at night. all in public, all covered by television. not all of us sup

. >> reporter: the national republican committee did not waste time firing back pointing out north carolina voters rejected the khrepbt ons three times in past elections -- clintons three times in past elections. it is clear that people here do not trust clinton. >> trump came to the tar hill state. he is trying to win over voters. >> let me ask you most importantly, who is going to win north carolina? trump! >> right. >> i think so. i think -- i thinking we are going to do great here. i happening we are going to do great. at the coliseum on wednesday. last december he spoke in the arena in raleigh. >>> senator ted cruz will be in the triangle, the republican presidential candidate will speak tomorrow at 1010 road and starts at noon. >>> funeral arrangements are set for nancy reagan. she will lie in repose at the presidential library in california. a private service is friday at 11:00. buried next to her husband, former president ronald reagan at the library. nancy reagan died in her home on sunday from heart failure. she was 94. >>> an emotional day in court as a family of a young mother a

the republican national committee. we need to be successful.: i can predict with certainty everything, and you know what the game plan of the democrats -- you know what hillary is going to do. whoever the nominee is, is a racist and there is a war on women. i see more women in here than men. [applause] there is a war on women. republicans are homophobes. they want dirty air and water. that came out of obama's mouth. they want the young people in the old people to fend for themselves. your friends like paul ryan will be pushing every grandmother in the country out of her wheelchair. are you prepared on that front to deal with that, whoever the candidate is? and i would ask how ready are you? i read this week the democrats are ready for whoever the nominee is. how much research have you guys done? reince: we have a full-time department at the republican national committee. we've been preparing a book on hillary clinton for years. obviously there is more to do. sean: how many millions of pages? reince: you might also want to talk to the fbi and th

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henry barbour, a senior republican national committee member, says trump quote "doesn't deserve to be president." trump says if the party tries to block him...there would be riots. even though the billionaire is the republican frontrunner, ted cruz and john kasich say they will fight for delegates to the end. five deputies in north carolina have been suspended without pay for not taking action at a trump rally in fayetteville when a protester was punched. remember this video we showed you last week. a man was charged with assault for hitting a protester in the face. the sheriff says the deputies there failed to act in the situation. search and rescue will be out again this morning for a man who disappeared in lake thonotosassa. the hillsborough county sheriff's office believes the 24-year-old man, who doesn't know how to swim, panicked after jumping off a boat preserver. they say he went underwater and never re-surfaced. dive teams and a helicopter with infrared technology spent much of the night trying to find him. if you've been waiting to see what the future of the st. pete pier wi

he's getting them on the key committees that will write the rules for the republican convention. is ted cruz tying to steal this nomination from you? >> it tells you what a crooked system we have and what a rotten political system we have. and frankly, i'm -- i'm millions of votes more than -- i have millions of lyin' ted. millions. millions of votes more. i have many, many delegates more. i've won areas and he's trying steal things because that's the way ted works, okay? the system is a broken system. the republican tabulation system is a broken system. it's not fair. i have so many millions of votes more. i've brought people into the party by the millions. you understand that. they voted by the millions more. it's one of the biggest stories in all of politics. and what do i have? i have a guy going around trying to steal people's delegates. this is supposed to be america. a free america. this is supposed to be a system of votes. where you go out, you have elections. free elections. not elections where i won. i won louisiana. and now i hear he's trying to steal delegates. you kn

so the republican national committee has big fund-raising events for them as well and they are seeingot of criticism from corporate america. usually republican -- >> andrea mitchell reporting from washington, d.c. thanks very much. still on the set with barry bennett. barry, let me talk about the rnc meeting. we see luke russert outside. when it comes to what you think happened outside or inside behind closed doors -- >> yeah. >> do you think there is a mutual consensus? an idea of unity moving into the convention. it seems like it is an uphill swim. >> yeah, but you know, there's a reason why candidates see huge point bumps outside of the convention because that's where the healing takes place. that's where primary voters come home. that's what we will see. so i'm not worried about that at all right now. >> barry bennett, senior trump adviser, thank you so much. my colleague, kate snow, is here to pick things up for the next hour.

republican party. >> this ate gop committee gave a vote of no-confidence to the chair, hasan rnett. the republican party committee said it made the decision to protect the group's integrity. the statement outline what they described as eight violations of party rules including creation of a disrespectful environment. they also accused him changing prices without regard to the financial regard of e party. the executive committee says this venture will be in place until they decide whether to remove him from office. >>> north carolina transportation officials e traveling to north carolina to project. they are holding a meeting to update the virginia north comebacks. that is the group working to develop a high-speed rail corridor to connect washington with charlotte. today's meeting is in richmond. >>> a court-martial begins at fort bragg in the case of a soldier accused of killing a woman in nama. officer omar valez was assigned fort agg. he was conducting training in panama when he killed a woman. at the time, the local media said the two were romantically involved. >>> a fort bragg s

about document will then go to what is called a temporary convention rules committee made up of delegates as opposed to the republican national committee members and those delegates will then work through the draft and do whatever they choose in their authority and discretion to make the rules for the convention so the draft rules will then be sent on the first day of the convention and the committee will then meet again if they approve the rules and then it goes to the full convention for passage. but the answer to your question is the republican national rules committee is essentially doing a working draft for what the convention will consider. >> we keep hearing about cool 40 was put in place in 2012 and many called the ron paul rule. please explain what it is about and why it can be changed this year. >> 26 through 42 applies to each convention and must be passed by each convention for itself so the rules that were passed in 2012 are not in effect for 2016 unless and until the convention rules committee passes them. in the two previous conventions in 2008 and 2004, the number had identified states majority in fiv

once again a third-party possibility at the cleveland but first a republican committee meeting here in cleveland a week before the convention would have to vote to get rid of a rule requiring any candidate needs to win at least eight states to be nominated. that would open up the floor to almost anyone. >> i mean, watt certainly to be a republican. >> but some have not been campaigning at all. >> one name that keeps coming up is paul ryan. it could be jeb bush. it could be newt gingrich. >> that would involve getting the party's choice to play the part of peace maker at a contested con of earnings rising above the chaos to emerge as a clear leader. and, of course, all of this is only a possibility if donald trump fails to secure that magic number of delegates that automatically clinches the nomination. today a top trump aid threatened to give up his credentials as delegate and leave the republican party if trump is blocked from the nomination. the latest target of the hacktivist group "anonymous." they are posting what they claim to be trump's cell phone number and social security numb

donald trump has exposed the nakedness and hypocrisy of the republican national committee who said very clearly throughout the entire campaign that the vote of the people do not count, that we do not count. they're bent on choosing who they're going to choose, they're going to fail. donald trump is going to be the nominee. charles: do you think this is discussed? brought up? >> i believe it was. i believe the establishment may realize that very soon they're going to be on oxygen. they're not just opposing donald trump, opposing the voters of this country. charles: charlie, the other side of that argument is if he doesn't have the delegates, everyone knew the rules, it goes to the new we're all accustomed to the rounds of voting that will choose the nominee. you think it's a fair process? >> i mean i think there's a lot of changes i would make to the rnc rules xt. we know way more about conventions. my prediction is this, it's going to be neck-and-neck, maybe trump will have 1,000 delegates going in, and cruz will be around 910, and at that point it becomes who's better organized and who

one more point on the judiciary committee, we're asking our republican colleagues to simply do their job. hold this body and the judiciary committee in some regard. we can disagree on the politics. we can disagree on a nominee. but hold a hearing. hold a vote. that's what our constituents sent us here to do. and i would remind my dear friend from iowa -- and he is a dear friend -- what his own web site, the committee on the judiciary's web site says is its job. this was pointed out by senator durbin a few days ago, but i think it's worth repeating. this, mr. president, is a copy of the web site of the judiciary committee. here is part of what it says when it comes to nominations. when a vacancy occurs on the supreme court, the president of the united states is given the authority under article 2 of the united states constitution to nominate a person to fill the vacancy. the nomination is referred to the united states senate where the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing, where the nominee provides testimony and responds to questions from members of the panel. traditionally -- th

the republican chair committee says it would not hold hearings on any nominee put forward by president obama nor would they vote on any choice of his. 66% of the americans polled disagree with that republican move. >>> president obama is headed to milwaukee to highlight some of the affordable care act it has dropped to about 28.8 million this year. and critic argue the law mandates have increased coverage costs. the president 's visit could insides with the 6th the bill. >>> ohio's primary is less than two weeks away. ohio secretary of state is hosting a twitter town hall to answer voters questions. use the hash tag ask sos. he said he would begin to respond this afternoon. >>> still ahead sports authority is filing for bankruptcy protection, what it means for employees as well as shoppers. details coming up. >>> and snow making returns to northeast ohio, i'll tell you how much and how the 60s are come back too. big changes in (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, seem to be dealing americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong

right now, there are republicans, and i spoke to some of the national had republican committee, and they are getting into a room and saying, hey, if donald trump is the nominee, we're going to succeed the white house to donald trump, and make sure that our candidates are going to win and hold the senate because that's the better way to government in this town. and supposedly mitch mcconnell is behind that. so they're saying run against the presidential nominee, because that's the way that you're going to win your campaign. >> cool under fire there, michael shure, and i'm told that it's 135° where you are. >> it feels like 1 so. >> in miami, thank you. and at the bomb of the hour, we'll look at how the immigration debate is playing out in florida and how we could affect the primaries there. >>> turning to isil, u.s. force haves captured the man who is said to be in charge of the chemical weapons program. and mike viqueira has the details. >> reporter: good evening, tony, the fight against isil has suffered recent setbacks, but today, they have captured the top isil official, even as they

not even the republican national committee could stand it. they condemned the idea. chairman reince priebus said this is far too late for a third party candidate, sounding just a little bit woeful about it. maybe that was miment in coul imagine missio this his less than convincing assurance. >> well, i mean, i think it would be highly unlikely if it's not, i can tell you that, i think it would be somewhat unusual but, you know i can't 100% guarantee that, but i can't imagine right now sitting here, believing it would be anyone but the three remaining candidates. lou: i suppose you are convinced now, right? trump's response one of incre in. >> if the establishment were to put up an independent candidate. >> if they are going to do that, they are going to do that, then you might as well run the election to hillary clinton or whoever runs, if they are going to be stupid and do that, instead of embracing the millions of people who are coming in to vote, they will do that. lou: stupid is a big word, usually used in reference to people with big jobs in washington, d.c. he

democratic and republican presidents in the past, as well as the reputations and credibility of republican committeeouse and senate. >> the explanation aside, you know the questions remain. you see it in the exit polls. if we put up oak where bernie sanders won. you know that. massachusetts a hotly contested state. hillary clinton won there, but in both of them, trustworthiness, hillary clinton, lucky to get over 50% in her own party. fueling that is what she calls the drip, drip, drip with the e-mails. now you have one of her guys having to plead the fifth before he would talk to the feds. and now the logs being brought into the investigation. it suggests there is their there. your response? >> there's no question the clintons have been on the national political stage for a long time and the subject of a barrage of criticism and investigation. >> this is the fbi, though, not tray gowdy, jay. >> i hear you. and, look, this is a challenge for her. much more of a challenge for her in the general election when she's the nominee, which i think we all expect she will be, but you know, that's -- that's an

a lot of campaign experience, sarah palin, and the republican committee, former council to romney campaign, bush. steve, i'll start with you. sum up what you see on the board tonight for donald trump and also the losses on the part of a guy like marco rubio. >> tonight donald trump is the overwhelming front-runner for the weak nomination and if he wins in florida and in ohio next week he becomes the presumptive nominee. when we look at the contests tonight the two candidates in the republican race who have any path to the nomination are donald trump and ted cruz. john kasich taeptiattempting to ohio and marco rubio attempting to win florida, neither has any path to the republican nomination and this notion that the washington establishment will deny the nomination to the person who secures the most votes over the primary process, i think is fantasy. if it would happen, then it would destroy the republican party. it would blow it up. it would guarantee hillary clinton was the winner in the november election. that's why i think it is unlikely that that will happen at cleveland during the con