mitt romney is in the same boat. we need to unify. coming together and it is important we all come together. we've come together over more controversial candidates in the past including gerald ford and including hw bush. >> in that statement he released, says while not a likely circumstance, he said the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone seeking to be commander in chief. >> he is talking about hillary clinton's foundation. >> he is talking about donald trump. >> sounds like the clinton foundation to me. >> this is the nominee from four years ago, associations with criminal organizations, those are strong words. >> well, again -- >> that's not the media, that's mitt romney. >> he is a constituent of mine, he is frequently in san diego. he is a good man. we all knew even though he lost the election he is a good man, but he needs to start looking at the positive side which is the direction that donald trum

as of today he is then the same place mitt romney was on election day 2012, and mitt romney got wiped out. all the predictions of gloom and doom and republicans not supporting trump, if i were him, i would be happy. i would still know that i have a lot of work to do. mark: despite him losing to clinton on a series of traits, he is even with her. he has to radically improve his numbers in terms of traits to have a chance to win. the other heartening thing is the meta-thing. republicans think he can win. the lead with independents is heartening. on the downside, his numbers have improved. his standing has improved. but he is still behind. and he does lose a lot in traits. where he is behind in traits, clinton can use that to leverage. people thinking she is better on foreign policy and on a range of issues where he would rather be stronger. but overall, i would say more good news for trump. john: way more good news then bad news. he'sottom line though is doing badly with nonwhite voters and is in trouble with women. not as bad as you might have thought with women. he is either going to

>> no, democrats and mitt romney. you heard mitt romney last week sort of having fun with the turnabout game here saying perhaps mr. trump should prove he has no connections to organized crime. you're going to see more and more people being creative with speculating about what might be in those documents. >> all right, on the subject of creative, and perhaps shifting language, donald trump one of the few policy proposals he put out during the primary season, paper policy proposal was his suggested ban on muslims entering the united states. the campaign quickly after that proposal calling it a temporary ban. trump is changing the language even more. listen to what donald trump is saying about that. >> that's why it was temporary. sure i'd back off on it, i'd like to back off as soon as possible. we have exceptions and again it's temporarily and ultimately my aim to have it lifted. >> beyond that, phil, he also said it's a suggestion. it's just a suggestion. now i'm old enough to remember that when politicians run for o

the most troubling thing for him is the place romney was and romney got wiped out. trump had predictions bloomed and gloom and not supporting trump. if i were him, i would be happy with that but i know i got a lot of work to do. >> two things are hardening for him. one is despite him losing to clinton on a series of traits, he is even with her which puts alive the notion he has to radically improve the numbers to have a chance to win. the other thing that's incredibly heartening is republicans think he can win. >> very important. >> and the lead with independents is what romney had, which is incredibly important, but if he can be even and leading with independents, that is heartening. on the downside for trump, i think the fact that his numbers have improved, his standing improved in some traits but he's still behind is maybe a little bit bad for him and he does lose into a lot of traits. where he's behind in traits clinton can use to leverage, people thinking she's better on foreign policy and a range of issues where he'd rather be stronger. overall, i'd say more g

this is mitt romney's electoral map in 2012. romney's map was john mccain's plus indiana and north carolina. yet as you see still not enough to become president. the question is, what states does donald trump carry that mccain and romney couldn't get to win the republican party, their first ticket to the white house, in over a decade, almost a decade? with me to go through different scenarios, mitch stewart, battle ground states director for obama's 2012 campaign, former senior adviser for ready for hillary, founding partner of 270 strategies, show the mitt romney map again. this is the 2012 map of what happened in 2012. the toss-up states. let's go through what we think the toss-up states are. >> 2012 we basically had ten battleground states. starting west, going east, you had nevada, colorado, iowa, wisconsin, and then at that point michigan was considered relatively safe. we went to ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire, virginia, north carolina, florida. >> okay, so that's -- you think that in this race, trump/clinton, you're lo

difficult for romney in this instance. i can't help but wonder how lonely romney feels.e went on a limb and took a stance of real principle and some bravery in opposing trump. now he looks around and sees all of these people-- john:f including a lot of his big donors. john: who he thought were with him. not only have they flocked to trump, but have abandoned romney. now it seems that ryan might do the same. very hard. hillary clinton might have any surrogate in the corner, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren who has stayed on the sidelines of the clinton-sanders contest. and on what she said, trump's response after these words from our sponsors. ♪ john: the endorsement of elizabeth warren would be-- last speaking at the center for popular democracy annual gala, warren upped her anti-trump rhetoric. yesterday we talked about team clinton coordinated strategy of fanning surrogates out to criticize the presumptive nominee for saying and 2006 that he hoped the housing market crashed so that he could make more money. now warren is joining in that course. sen. warren: donal

>> ben sass or mitt romney. i was with mitt romney. think he's thinking about it or be ben sass's campaign chairman. >> matthew is a critic of donald trump. kelly is a trump supporter. she wasn't with trump in the primary. i wanted to have you two on. this is an interesting segment to do about how republicans are sort of grappling with the reality of trump. mathsue, sort of a two-part question here. one is there a scenario where you could end up supporting donald trump this fall and why aren't you there right now? what's keeping you from supporting him? >> what's keeping me from supporting him is donald trump. he shouldn't be president. he doesn't have the character to be. for that's reason i don't see any reason or foreseeable scenario where i'd be voting for him in the fall. >> you don't think he has the temperament? are there specific issues? we're looking ahead to this meeting with paul ryan. is there anything in particular? >> just spend the last ten minutes on your show talking about his affect and demeanor. it's a piece of reali

pick romney -- say it's romney and say it's trump, do we honestly believe that romney takes enough -- one state or two states? i don't think so. i think a romney helps mrs. clinton. >> i don't know how low hillary clinton's approval ratings go. whether it's romney or somebody else. >> i didn't mean to nail you down. you just mentioned a name. >> the states you'll look at, utah actually is at the top of the list. >> trump's weakest. >> for an independent state. >> a state republicans should win. >> should win. >> states where they shouldn't win or haven't won but could win. you look at states where republican governors win in democratic states. and you look at wisconsin. you look at -- you'd look at possibly michigan. you certainly would look at the upper midwest. minnesota. you look at states like iowa. you look at states like oregon that have like sort of tough independent streaks. that's good places to start. and i would suggest, too, a guy like mitt romney would look south. utah, trump doesn't have support in utah because of the values voters. i'm sorry, i'm from the deep south. te

mitt romney did nothing to grow the party. the party stayed very white under mitt romney. and what happened? mitt romney lost the black, asian, hispanic and woman vote. mitt romney is a failure, the establishment has been a failure to grow this party. donald trump is doing these things, and that's why they're mad. their power -- my party deserves to be burped down and built -- burned down and built anew. >> host: in "con job" two people who appear in your book, allen west and cornell west. what's the difference between cornel west and allen west? >> guest: well, allen west actually endorsed my book. he was a member of congress in florida. he's a great friend of mine, i've learned a lot from allen west, you know, just was very friendly with him when he was a congressman, and cornel west is a professor at princeton. i think cornel west has come out to support bernie sanders. cornel west, i mention, i think, throughout the book because cornel west, in my opinion, is part of the race hustle movement. and i put him in -- i lump him in a category with al sharpton because cornel

now trump has a few choice words for mitt romney. >> i helped mitt romney a lot. >> and you feel likengrateful? >> i really -- i believe i p won him or helped him win five states that -- >> sounds like you think he was ungrateful? you think he's been ungrateful? >> he was, he was ungrateful, which is okay. a lot of people are ungrateful. lou: the subject of my commentary next. stay wit at ally bank, no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like grandkids equals free tech support. oh, look at you, so great to see you! none of this works. come on in. my school reunion's comi♪ fast. could be bad. could be a blast. can't find a single thing to wear. will they be looking at my hair? won't be the same without you bro. ♪ when it's go, go to choicehotels.com. the site with the right room, rewards and savings up to 20% when you book direct. book now at choicehotels.com lou: a few quick thoughts now on some of the republican elites who call themselves conservatives. they're trying to sell the nonsense that they're upset because the party's presumptive presidential nominee is donald

mitt romney -- michael, michael.f you would just -- if you would stop being -- if you -- i'm sorry. this is a fact. it's called a fact, michael. maybe you're aware of those things. mitt romney released his 2000 return in january of 2012. if you don't want to say he didn't -- say it. but i believe that's the case. that's what mitt romney says in his facebook post. and unlike -- >> oh, my god, he said it on his facebook post. >> mitt romney is an honest man. he's a man of character. >> you're under a lot of pressure. i recall leading this program many nights saying where are the tax returns. >> there was never an issue that the republican nominee or the nominee of either party wouldn't release. donald trump is free not to do it and other people are free to say, gee, that's one of many, many, many worrisome things about donald trump. >> and michael, to bill's point, what about -- hillary clinton and bill clinton have released they say 33 years of tax rush returns. on a simple level, okay, let's say we give you -- you do

mitt romney the 202012 nominee y says he won't vote. you're describing it as a small disagreement but you have major players saying they won't support the nominee. what is your message to mitt romney and the bush family? >> as i said about mitt romney he lost a race he should have won. if he had done what he should have done four years ago the country wouldn't be in the mess it is. it's sour grapes, call it what you will, it es irrelevant. you will see other members of the establish disappointed in the bushes. beyond disappointed, they're y saying what they're saying. donald trump's allure is the fact he is anti-establish and he will do what it takes as the ceo to secure our borders and get our jobs back and keep us safe. yeah. i'm very disappointed in some establish figures. it's not surprising. they lost to mr. trump, he closed them out on may 4th, something they said was totally impossible. to use the words, he embarrassed them because he accomplished something no one thought possible. i'm disappointed. it has no impact what will hap

romney says he's not interested in running for the president. though, he thinks his support in an independent campaign could be crucial no matter what. back with me, danny helper, ebony williams, carl higbe. mitt romney to the rescue, how do you see that playing out? >> absolutely not. [laughter] he was rejected when he came out, when he spoke out against trump, overwhelmingly rejected by many of the people who are now the bulk of the people. i think it's terrible for the republican party, it's going to draw another line of division. i think trump will still win, and at the end of the day, the republican party's going to be left in ashes. charles: you know, ebony, i think a third party with mitt involved could sink donald trump's chances. >> you think? charles: you know, you give up utah, maybe another state, maybe. >> i don't know, i think i've got to go with carl on this one, charles. i think mitt romney's credibility, he's a two-time first runner-upper -- [laughter] two times to get the nomination, you fell short of getting the presidency, i

what is mitt romney doing?erday, effectively trying to blow up donald trump. >> yeah, this is what the statement said. it is disqualifying for a modern day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters. there's only one logical explanation for his refusal to release his returns -- there's a bombshell in them. given mr. trump's equanimity with other flaws in his history we can believe it's a bombshell of unusual size. >> he and others like sasse and bill kristol have been critical of him. and donald trump sat down with greta van susteren about the lack of release. >> will you release the eighth year back, will you do that? >> number one, it would be meaningless. i have to see how far back it goes. when you go back eight years -- >> but people are suspicious you're not release because in january of 2012 you said that mitt romney was making a big release by not releasing his. >> but he wasn't under audit. i'm under audit. no lawyer would say release -- >> i agree. i'm a lawyer. >> i'm under a

romney, obama, i don't know if it's up. romney the red states and obama the blue states. there's two possibilities. he's got to flip -- he's got to try to hold those romney states. get to 206 and trying to get to 270. you start in florida, we've learned that election after election. could he do it in florida? that would get him a good chunk. to trump they look to the rust belt. pennsylvania comes to state maybe trump would have more apeople there. pennsylvania, ohio if you want to broadly define rust belt. a state like iowa. >> what about minnesota and michigan? reince priebus talked about it. >> when i start to look at it, i was thinking michigan at first, too, and when you run the numbers you realize if trump flipped michigan, it would take a lot but if he did it means he's flipping a lot of other states, too. pennsylvania is in a class closer than michigan, michigan more, like, a ten-point gap and pennsylvania sort of half that. pennsylvania's one the electorate is aging a little bit and fewer college degrees. >> donald trump's campaign is focusing on white working cla

the romney supporters now say they will vote for another candidate. about half favor nixon and half favor rockefeller. >> people like you might write rockefeller's name in. >> some people including ann nelson thought nelson rockefeller might take romney's place. >> i will vote for any republican candidate that wins in miami at the convention. it will either be nixon or rockefeller. >> but no one could really compete with richard nixon in new hampshire. >> by the time nixon made his last campaign speech, he had most of the state's republican votes. and according to all predictions he was already a winner. >> having traveled through this state, having met hundreds of you personally and thousands of you that i've spoken to, having heard your questions, having looked into your faces, you have given me new hope about america. is it your ballot going to indicate a change is going to come in november or -- and i say turn out. let's get the biggest vote we've ever had. and with that vote you'll not only see to it that we will win tomorrow but that new hampshi

you can look at the obama, romney map. the biggest test is actually to prove, to prove and have the polling prove that you can compete across here. if you can make the democrats spend time, money, resources here, then it can change the map in other ways. as we begin to think about this and what donald trump said tonight. i think any early calculation of the electoral map has to be put to the test. can donald trump do across from battleground pennsylvania across over here into minnesota, wisconsin, and the like, include iowa and illinois, i think is most unlikely, but across the belt, if he can change the map here. he has the potential to make it a very different race. >> we're talking hypothetically about a contest between hillary clinton and donald trump. bernie sanders did win in indiana tonight. an important win for him tonight. and his supporters are going to say, why aren't we paying attention to his win? the answer is, it's proportional. >> it's proportional, if he were to become the democratic nominee. you'd have ha

is he mitt romney? is he a different kind of billionaire than mitt romney but the same or is he some unique novel different kind of threat and that's a choice the clinton campaign is wrestling with right now. >> in terms of the republican party he's a complete alien. charlie had it right here's reince priebus going on the shows this week what about this article with donald trump and women and saying nobody cares about politicians and their women. this is the start of the republican party, bill clinton's sex life has been a corner stone for 20 years. this guy has to do the walk of shame. nobody cares. it's already started and it's beyond that. he's overtaken the republican party. the people who run campaigns for the republican party probably aren't getting their phone calls returned and that's the panic. they have literally no idea what donald trump is going to do on a day to day hour by hour basis and he's trying to turn into mitt romney but it's going to blow up two days from now. >> the night that tru

and mitt romney's statement today saying it is disqualifying, and what do you think?> well, this mitt romney has been trying to do the never trump thing for week now, and it has failed. he has no authority to say it is disqualifying. of course, trump should release the tax returns, but mitt romney is not the supreme court, but he is a failed candidate who is largely hated by the republican base. >> many of them are saying, you know, i won't bother to go to the convention, and my question is that as everybody is saying about the party unity, and party unity, and do you think that the american people or at least the gop, do they think that the voters even care about party unity? >> no. i think that trump is his own brand, and i'm not a trump fan, i have to add, but no, they don't care about party unity. they don't like mitch mcconnell, a and they don't like paul ryan and they betrayed him and trump subpoena the hero, and why do they care if they kiss his ring or not. >> on the subject of taxes, this is what hillary clinton had to say. >> what about the taxes? so we will

this speech from mitt romney came just days after mitt romney met with our next guest bill cross toll, founder and editor of "the weekly standard" now leading an effort to find a third-party candidate or at least some kind of alternative. bill kristol, thanks for being with us here in new york. you had a meeting with mitt romney that's received a ton of attention right now. there are those who say you are recruiting him to run as a third. heart candida party candidate. please tell us right now what happened at this meeting. >> i'll let mitt romney tell you what happened at the meeting. just get him here tomorrow. >> no problem. >> no problem. we both happened to be at a dinner in washington on thursday night. we discussed what he said publicly that he doesn't believe hillary clinton or donald trump should be the president and we discussed different possible ways to go forward. i do want to go to that meeting on thursday that paul ryan is having with donald trump. don't you think i should be invited? >> sure. >> donald trump could help the 42% or 44% or whatever of the republican prima

i have great regard for both the romneys. what disqualifies you is losing.e american people don't care about donald trump's tax returns. i don't. we know he's an imperfect man, but at this point this nation is ready for him. charles: the way it's presented, though, particularly with somebody like a mitt romney, he's a very successful man himself, that he know something. and it does pique the interest of some people. what's in those tax returns, mark? >> tax returns show very little. it won't affect the vote at all. i didn't support mitt romney in 2012 in the primaries, but i cut him a check for $2,000 in the fall because i wanted to see barack obama beat. let me give a mess and to mitt romney right now. turn in your gop voter card. switch your registration. endorse hillary clinton and get out of my party, and by the way, i want my money back. this guy is is -- is a traitor. he should support this nominee. charles: anybody who is formerly gop that isn't wholeheartedly behind donald trump you are saying they are traitors? >> mitt romney who is the nominee for

-- it may have been used against mitt romney.hat certainly wasn't the reason he lost. he wasn't coerced into doing so. usually candidates come around to making the decisions this is an act of good faith they should participate in so the public can vet them and knows how they made their money, can ensure there's no conflict of interest when they assume the most powerful office on earth. >> donald trump should put his tax returns out because, not just because everybody has done it since 1976. that's a big reason, but because he is running on trust me, i know how to run a business. i'm successful. it's the core of who he is and his candidacy, isn't it? >> well, you know, i'm going to be honest. i'm going to go off the cuff here. you may never have me back on here, but i don't even understand why we're even talking about donald trump's tax returns when in reality, we really should be talking about how the narrative of donald trump being racist, bigot who hates muslims and women when you have the leader of the nation of islam, louis f

with a young mitt romney watching on. don't know -- mitt romney is probably not going to go to cleveland. jeb bush is not going to cleveland. i don't know if anybody is going to use cleveland as a backdrop to do this. >> what about the fact that you haven't had a single hispanic republican, and we can think of some prominent one, the marco rubios for that matter, not a single hispanic republican has come out and defended or supported donald trump. at some point doesn't he need at least one of them because they still have to close that ethnic gap in terms of just the demographics in november? >> look, i don't know if any -- at this point how is it going to help? i don't know. i think that's like, you know, the horse has left the barn. there's nothing that can be done on that front. i actually if i were trump strategically, i think you sit there and say, look, i'm writing off colorado, i'm writing off nevada. i've got to figure out another way to win florida. and i would just focus on fixing my problems with women. with sub

and pushed romney and said would you be willing to help? and he even suggested to romney would you be willing to be that third party candidate? that said, we know in the past, we can't say it often enough, that mitt romney has said he is not interested in a third party run. we have reached out because of this report once again to romney's spokesperson for comment. we have not heard back yet. >> never a dull moment. thank you. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >>> paul ryan and donald trump have different ideas about the direction of the republican party. can they bridge that gap when they meet next week? does trump need the house speaker's backing to win the election in november? knows. but everyone knows cheese. cracker barrel has won awards for their delicious cheddar and they put that cheddar in a new macaroni & cheese. can you spell delicious? delicious. d. e. l... want to remind you that no one's the same without the game. like @pigskinsusan15, who writes, "with the nfl season over "now my boyfriend wants to talk on sundays. "all the

mitt romney just confirmed it. we've watched governors, the national review, conservative leaders, establish mechbt, and party operatives trash donald trump. but mitt romney will always be remembered as the one who put us over the edge and awoke a sleeping giant, the silent majority, the american people. fact, the establishment is panicked. myth essentially called for a brokered convention where the republican nominee will be selected by party activists and delegates irrespective of their state's choice. the call? to vote for whom ever has the best chance of beating donald trump. you want a brokered convention? a primer, myth. whenever we have one, we lose. do we inford a merge from a brokered convention to lose the general election? so why? because the party elites and elders want to protect us? and stop us from falling into the abyss? mitt, i'm shoe you and your cronies don't feel this, but most of us working two and jobs think we are already in the abyss, the obama abyss. and most of us scared about our safety a

mitt romney lost before. mitt romney will lose again. if you told me that marco rubio and mitt romney were going to run as a third party ticket, then maybe some actions, i might put some money on that one. but mitt romney himself, i don't see how he's going to galvanize anybody. he would guarantee the republicans would lose the white house in the fall and guarantee they would lose senate seats. i think that would be a terrible idea for him. >> lonnie? >> i think there's a lot of people who have expressed they have concerns about donald trump, whether it's because of his policy positions, his temperament or otherwise. i think that's why you continue to hear these discussions. at the end the day, there's going to be some percentage of the republicans who decide i'm going to stay home or support somebody else. an independent move gives voice to those people potentially. however, it is unlikely at this point because we are so far down the road and it looks like trump so it is what it is.ive nominee. >> so far down the road. i remember that p

romney's withdrawal has helped make richard nixon favor rockefeller. about half favor nixon and half favor rockefeller. >> people like you might write rockefeller's name in. narrator: some people thought governor nelson rockefeller might take romney's place. >> i will vote for any republican candidate that wins in miami at the convention. it will either be nixon or rockefeller. narrator: but no one could really compete with richard nixon in new hampshire. >> there he is. narrator: by the time nixon made his last campaign speech, he had most of the state's republican votes. according to all predictions he , was already a winner. >> i say this having traveled through this date -- state, having met hundreds of you personally and thousands of you i have spoken to, having looked into your faces, you have given me new hope about america. is new hampshire going to indicate that a change is going to come in november, or is it going to be more of the same? i say to you, turn out. let's get the biggest boat we have ever had -- biggest vote we have ever had. with

so far mitt romney is not interested. the 2008 nominee with a primary in august is a reluctant yes but also staying away from cleveland in july. >> donald trump on top of the tic ticket, i have no doubt this may be a race of my life. >> signaling it's okay to stay on the bench. >> the bulk of the burden on unifying the party will have to come from our presumptive nominee. >> i didn't get paul ryan. i don't know what happened. all of a sudden he wants to be cute, but you know, we'll see. >> with the meeting planned in washington next week, the chill could thaw and some skeptics are coming around, including rick perry who said this just months ago. >> donald trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism. >> trump begins the general election as a scarred scanned da candidate. >> he doesn't think much of equal pay for women because he didn't think much of women it turns out. >> for trump, the attacks are going to be personal. >> and she was a total enabler, would go after these women and destroy their lives. i mean, have you

bush line up and try to -- and mitt romney, lest i forget mitt romney -- [laughter] you know, i don't i really do not. they have a responsibility to the offices they've held, to the people they represent, to the pledges they're made -- >> yep. lou: -- and they just have seemingly no trouble at all about breaking their word. i'm speaking specifically of paul ryan in trying to dress it up as something other than a violation of trust. >> well, absolutely, lou. and, look, i think people like the bush family or romney, they think they're acting out of some great principle and not supporting trump, but they're really acting out of pride. they cannot get over the fact that trump won a soaring victory in spite of their staunch opposition. [laughter] and by winning like he did, trump has proven how totall irrelevant the republican establishment is to the american electoral process x these establishment types, they cannot forgive him for that. that is the unpardonable sin. that's what's going on here. lou: we just had on the air as you were speaking there, pastor, donald trump and governor rick

them to donald trump. >> yes, you can. >> they don't have -- romney, mitt romney, governor romney hasothing in common and trump has nothing in -- >> governor romney gave the blueprint for obama care. >> even on rhetoric and on tone, i know that people think it's not important -- >> just character. >> you can't compare mitt romney and donald trump or john mccain and donald trump. >> none of our -- up until now, we have -- >> hold on. i'll let you get it, go ahead. >> the big difference between those -- >> she's been on for several hours -- >> the voters feel the party failed them. every single exit poll shows a majority of the voters believe the party failed them. >> debra, go ahead. >> donald trump has not been a republican, he's been more -- much more in the democrat party, he's the biggest insider in the race. he's been indebted to banks and politicians, making deals with banks and politicians his whole life, and he has his contributions to the clintons and all the way down the line to a bunch of democratic candidates. shows where his heart has been. and he's done, he himself says a

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and mitt romney doesn't just yet, a release his tax returns. are you concerned about that? are you concerned about people like mitt romney or former president bush both saying hey're not going to attend the convention? >> of course, i'm concerned, weight it adds to the that -- an effort out there, and is, n't know how strong it that has been labeled another trump group and a movement. i'm not encouraging people to join that group. let's figure out how to bond these peopling it. let's not compromise our values together. yes, i am concerned about that more concerned about this large weighing of the constitutional christian conservatives and fiscal conservatives, that here's what they're looking at. a baby born today, one of our just as a baby boy, yesterday morning about 2:30 and first ttle guy draws his free air, breath in america, but has a $60,000 debt to uncle sam. they know that. about half the people are working and half the are not. that baby is going to have to be a producer and will have to pay ff about $20,000 in national debt. the repu

mitt romney, he's a republican. he's a conservative. in this race, you don't know and that's why people are up in arms. i think people have real legitimate questions. paul ryan is concerned about the future of the republican party. down ballot, he starts losing members in the house because he had truch at the top of the ticket, he is no longer speaker. >> and i think that's the thing here. looking long-term, i think hillary is a lot less dangerous to this country because when her policies fail, they're going to plame socialism, a mixed economy, but when trump's fail, the businessmen. the capitalists, then it's discredited and there's nothing stand ng the way of dick tor yal rule in this country. >> i love the idea of trying something new. look, we've had eight years of president obama. basically told the world we don't need to be exceptional anymore in america. what makes it? what are the ideas? >> hillary -- >> what it does do, ss not telling the world you're going even with them. you put yourself at a disadvantage with trade. with wit

mitt romney announced he would be skipping the election this summer.e said on this program earlier that he would never vote for trump. the republican senator from nebraska wrote a 5000 word piece of post -- facebook post that he could not about four trump or hillary clinton. meanwhile, there are some republicans like mitch mcconnell, and governor brian sandoval and former minnesota governor tim plenty that have fallen in line. question, taking the uniter-divider elements on both sides, what do we know about how things stand in trump's challenge of bringing the party together? mark: before ryan, i thought he was having a better day than worse day. the ryan thing tilts the thing. the two president bushs, it shows how much trump has changed our perception to have two former presidents. one that was a german of the rnc -- a chairman of the rnc. they are acting like, oh, we are not waiting in, we are staying home today. john: they are waiting in. they for them to not say are voting for the republican nominee is weighing in. john: bob dole said he will go to

>> i think that you brought up mitt romney. i think there's a vast difference between mitt romney and donald trump. this sort of attack that elizabeth warren and hillary clinton are trying to use would have worked very well against mitt romney because mitt romney basically apologized for being a rich guy. you can't shame somebody who is shameless. you can't expose someone who has nothing to hide. donald trump says of course i made these deals. i'm a businessman. guess what? america is failing just like housing crisis and i'll turn that around. i take bad situations and make them better. that's why you're hiring me. i'll do this work for you like i made myself rich, i'll make america rich again. >> the other thing i would add that stuart maybe can speak to this, when the obama campaign defined mitt romney and got out there and did that, mitt romney was largely undefined on his own terms for the american public. that's not the case for donald trump. he's largely defined himself. the clinton effort now is a rebranding of donald tr

if mitt romney did that, i would be happy to talk to him. i think it's great. >> he owes you a thank you. you want him to thank you first for 2012 before you will reach out to him? >> i helped mitt romney. >> and you feel like he was ungrateful? >> i believe i won him or helped him win five states. >> you sound like he was ungrateful? >> he was, which is okay. a lot of people are ungrateful, but he was ungrateful. they did not respond accordingly, and that's okay. >> let me move on. let me move on to some issue things. there's a few things that some people think are contradictions. i want to see if i can pin you down here. the issue of taxes. your tax plan is one where the biggest beneficiaries are the .1% when it comes to raw dollars that will be saved among taxes. but then in an interview earlier this week, you seem to say, you know, my tax plan, it's not set in stone. maybe i'll raise taxes. maybe i'll actually raise taxes on the rich. so i guess which is it? are you willing to raise taxes on the .1% or not? >> let me explain how the worl

mitt romney, very hard to convince conservatives that mitt romney is tried and true conservative. yet again paul ryan had no trouble getting behind him. >> because mitt romney adopted basically paul's ideas, paul ryan's agenda, the budget plan. that, paul ryan's signature proposal in the house. no, i agree with you hard for someone paul ryan not to get behind the republican nominee especially because he is house speaker. this is man based on ideas. if you have donald trump win the white house without any of the ideas that paul ryan believes can make the country great again in the words of donald trump, i'm not sure that is much value to paul ryan. david: very interesting stuff going on here. jamie weinstein from "the daily caller," thank you very much. very good to see you. have a good mother's day. >> thank you. melissa: mediaing criticism of possible credibility gap. pundits lining up how donald trump could not win the general election. yet the same people said trump couldn't win the nomination in the first place. is skepticism fair? here to weigh in, howard kurtz, host host of