lou: joining us now, trump campaign national co-chair and chief policy adviser, sam clovis. great to have you with us. let's start with the big news which is developing here, and that is bill kristol, whom your boss says is basically a damn fool, seems intent on bringing david french, an attorney, from an all but unknown place in our society to about as prominent as you can get, candidate for president. what do you make of it? >> well, it's really interesting. i'm surprised at what bill is trying to do, i think a lot of us for a long time, we've had a lot of respect for bill and the weekly standard, and certainly i followed, first came in touch with the kristol family with his father irving and then onto bill, and i'm a little bit surprised. and i can't imagine what the motivation for this is. if the issue is to expand the debate, that's one thing, but to go out here and to do this to derail donald trump or hillary clinton, it just seems a fool's errand to me. lou: it's a strange thing and obviously donald trump is more than a little upset by it. >> right. lou: as michael go

ed rollins, michael goodwin, also, tonight national co-chair of trump's presidential campaign, sam clovis. a lot to talk about. trump will be holding a rally this hour, in south bend, indiana, we'll go there live when he does take the stage. and center bernie sanders -- senator bernie sanders said he is taking his campaign to what he says will be a contested democratic convention in philadelphia. but hillary clinton, leads sanders by average of 7 points in indiana and has a substantial lead nationaly in fledged delegates and superdelegates. our top story, the do-or-die primary in indiana, at least for senator cruz. cruz is fighting for what may be his political life, making 5 stops across hoosier state today, trump is leading in polls in prime position to win all of indiana a 57 delegates, as for governor kasich, he has taken the day off in what appears to be a very slim hope to might help cruz stop trump. carl cameron in south bend with our report. reporter: donald trump led in 6 of last 7 polls in indiana, ted cruz knows it will be tough to win, he has thrown just about everything at tr

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we just heard in the last block from sam clovis.ut out yesterday about bill clinton, accusations about his behavior toward women in the past. absolutely fair game right now. she and bill clinton should have to answer for it. what do you say? >> that interview was kind of nuts. although i guess it's hard to constantly be explaining and protecting a candidate who will say literally anything. any position he thinks is advantageo advantageous. it's hard to be following your candidate all the time. what he just said in that interview and what trump has been saying is that issues from the '90ss that were litigated, brought up and put to bed are fair game but nothing in trump's past is fair game. we've already talked about that. everybody knows. that's because he admitted he had multiple affairs. it's a dangerous road. as we've been pointing out, this has become a conversation about things that happened 20 years ago in the past. and he totally -- trump is totally dominating the conversation preventing it from going forward into what is a v

joining us now, the co-chair and chief policy adviser for donald trump's campaign, sam clovis. great to have you with us. we've got a -- it's been a busy weekend and monday. [laughter] let's turn, if we may first, to ryan saying after your boss effectively said he'd make a quick decision on whether he'd be around after, based on his endorsement, he says he's willing to step down. your reaction to that? >> well, i think that the meeting on thursday's going to be very important, you know? mr. trump's going to come to town in washington, d.c., sit down with the leadership of the party in the house and in the senate. the speaker has opened up his door to make sure that they have the opportunity to discuss these things. they'll come to a mutual agreement, and it will be a mutuel agreement. they will come out, and they'll be able to stand together, and they'll talk about whatever the decisions were and the way forward. and i think that's what's going to happen in a lot of instances here as we go forward, that the dynamics of the leadership of the party, the donor class of the party,

. >>> turning now to sam clovis, national co-chair of the trump campaign. thank you for joining us.'ll ask the same question to you. i started off with right there, common ground. common principles between donald trump and paul ryan, do you see any? >> oh, yeah. i think there's a lot of common ground. i think what it's about is defeating the democrats in november. i think that's really -- if you want to have one goal, that's the goal. then you have to figure out how you're going to get there. and i think you have to put a lot of these things aside. they'll figure it out. i thought was al was efficient on some of the comments he made about the idea of agreeing on common objectives and common goals. we want to have a high growth economy. i think we can agree on that, how we get there is really for debate. we want to be able to secure the nation, we can all agree on that, then we have to figure out how to do that, how to afford that. we have to make sure that we keep the promises that we made to people. we can agree on that, let's figure out how we're going to do it. this isn't just in

>> why are they -- >> chris, you ask -- >> not a dumb guy, sam clovis. answer to your own question, it works for trump. this is the problem. the trump centric universe, take that makes sense. in the world of winning an election, pivot from winning a republican primary and arguments that work for a republican base in a populous moment are totally different than what work for a general election. involves reaching out, winning over the edge, and the reason she's ties because hillary clinton is currently fighting a two-front war. there's a certain superficiality to the fact they're tied now, because the fact is if you dig into the numbers, he's got a much deeper climb with key democrat graphics and she's suffering from sanders supporters furious because they feel the election was stolen, but the idea that they, 100% won't return to rally around democrats to keep trump out probably isn't rooted in reality. >> now answer your own question? >> what do you want me to do? let them run around with their own theories? i don't want to rubber stamp these people. >> g

dagen: let's bring trump campaign national chairman and chief policy adviser sam clovis. happen? >> it's going to be a great meeting, sort out some issues there. i think it really is an important part of what goes on. i think we've had a bruising campaign, 17 dand dates started, there's one left standing, i think a lot of people are trying to sort out exactly how all of this happened and i do think there's a sense of denial still in washington, d.c., i'm down in dc right now that i still think that a lot of people in this town have not quite come to grips with what has happened across this country and why donald trump has been able to bring the coalition together and received more votes than any other republican presidential candidate in history. dagen: sam, on that point when paul ryan first came out and i think the quote was i'm not there yet, going back and watching that, it seemed like he was just light matily shocked that the nomination had gotten wrapped up so quickly and he was asked about it and he was like, what -- rather than saying i don't really know donald tru

. >> sam clovis joining us from the trump campaign. not everyone is down on the ideas for dealing with the nation's debt. rick perry said it's time to consider new approaches. perry ran against trump for the republican presidential nomination but now supporting him. here's what he said on cnn's "new day" about the debt proposal. >> having a conversation about a lot of different alternatives out there about how you deal with the debt and so, you know, having a conversation and then moving it through washington and getting that to be reality are two different things. throwing out a lot of different ideas, i mean, chunk it at the wall and see what sticks. i don't have a problem with that. i think what people hear very often from donald trump is that, number one, washington has full-ti fouled this up beyond recognition. they have really messed up our economy. let's bring in country swomeone who has a record as a business individual. >> i want to bring in mark pr s presston. this is the first major address for marco rubio at a think tank in

let's discuss this and so much more with trump's national campaign co-chairman and policy adviser sam clovis >> good morning. how are you? >> doing well. how do you explain the strength you're seeing there and the numbers showing donald trump in these key battleground states? >> i think you know, we've talked about this before, alisyn. the dust starts to settle we're going to start to see more coalescing here. an important meeting coming up thursday, and coming down to washington, mr. trump's coming down to washington to talk to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and others. i think this is an important step forward for us. i think it's going to work very well in our favor. i think we're going to start to they start to campaign.e when - this is the thing i've asked all of the policy people to look at, and all of the things i think is important for our campaign is to make sure that we have a way to compare and contrast donald trump's positions on issues with those of hillary clinton. ask the question that is always asked, are you better off today than eight years ago and do you want for mour year

trump as the presumptive nominee of the republican party. >> sam clovis, great to have you with us. ons on a very, very big win in indiana. >> thanks so much, john and thanks for having me on. >> all right, sam. >>> our wolf blitzer will speak to the man reince priebus says will now be the presumptive nominee. donald trump will be in "the situation room." interview airs at 5:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> calling on the gop to unite behind donald trump who he says will be the preive, is now the presumptive nominee. rnc chairman reince priebus joins us live, next. ♪ you wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. but since he can't... you rely on frontline plus. because frontline plus unleashes a deadly killing force to kills fleas and ticks, plus flea eggs and larvae, preventing a new flea infestation. its protection lasts a full 30 days. no wonder frontline plus is recommended by vets for killing fleas and ticks. after all, your dog is a lover not a fighter. frontline plus. vet recommended flea and tick killer. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. s

they quote sam clovis saying that tax proposal would, if fact, tleed a surplus of 4.5 to $7 trillion. a surplus, not a deficit. there's been the conservative tax foundation says it's going to add $10 trillion to the debt. >> sam clove sis a good guy. he's a friend. i don't know where in god's name he got those numbers. it just doesn't make any sense at all. the tax foundation, by the way, is a dynamic scoring. that means they say policies will effect behavior. and that will effect the economy. as i say, our committee to unleash prosperity is helping on this as we've helped every other candidate by the way. trump is the last guy standing. and it will be any shifts -- and there are tweaks, they're just tweaks, but they will add to growth, jobs, wages and investment. and they'll vastly reduce that deficit number to something around $3 trillion. to sarah's point, i get that. i think sarah is right about the uncertainty factor. but i think that arguement is going to wear very thin. you're going to come into the period now where mr. trump is making more teleprompter speeches on trade, on th

you had sam clovis who talked about reforming entitlement. he's at least floated the idea.own the road. maria: if he's going to implement the tax plan with 15% corporate tax which would be a game changer for markets, you have to come up with a way to pay for it. >> that's where there's wiggle room and that's probably what speaker ryan is playing for right now. i think he has to be careful to not over play his hand. maria: i agree with that. >> acknowledge what people have said and the people spoke definitively. he's no longer the republican party leader. donald trump as of now presumptively is the republican party leader and so, you know, the king maker is no longer speaker ryan as much as i respect him and a good guy, but he better be very careful. maria: john, let me get to you, as we get closer to the general election, the rhetoric on the campaign trial is getting uglier and uglier, listen to this. i want to get your take about what the next six months looks like. >> hillary cannot even put away bernie, she can't put him away. crooked hillary, she can't put him away and