we are here with steve schmidt, the star of the ongoing series, schmidt happens. mr.chmidt, you have some experience with vice president on rollouts, famously 2008. tell us what you think, the hypothetical presidential roll out of carly fiorina. steve schmidt: she is fine, but it will not make much of a difference. it is momentum in the campaign is stalled. it is what it is. he is tried to change the story line from trumps domination of these contests. trying to get some energy in a head of indiana. it went fine, but carly fiorina is not a surprise. we talked about, we are going to unveil the running mate. a lot of people who thought this stuff with not very long odds, it was likely to be carly fiorina. she had been tested over the last month. the net effect as a practical matter is nothing for her as we wrap up this week and go into next week. mark: one of the biggest things of the week, so much overshadowed tuesday night when tom trump asked if he was the presumptive nominee, and he said yeah. he wants them out. if he wins indiana and they don't get out, which i thi

steve schmidt, where is the center if either of the three wanted to find it? >> look, let's look at the carried interest loophole. republicans have made this a major point of conservative orthodoxy against any type of tax increase including justifying and very difficult to justify it essentially different tax rate if you work in the financial services industry. donald trump said no to that. he's rejected the free trade premise of the modern republican party. he is to the left of hillary clinton as we conventionally define it with regard to the iraq war and with regard to the libya intervention so as we've gotten used to presidential politics over the last several cycles with a pretty predictable issue set, pretty good sense where the 50 yard line is on this election scrambles a lot of that up. >> rachel, it seems to me the trump chain is such a fog of i don't even know what you call it. can't call them positions exactly. that i -- it's not clear to me voters have a fixed notion on the map of right to left where donald trump is. >> to catherine's point, you end

let's bring in republican strategist steve schmidt. we're getting interpretation thanks to steve kornacki saying west virginia, although it is ton and it 92 will be in the headlines tomorrow, bernie sanders countries. if you go into the internals it's going to be trump country. he's going to get a lot of democratic votes, maybe a quarter, maybe a third. >> west virginia used to be a reliable democratic state. it's transitioned to become a monolithic republican state. in terms of the outcome of a presidential race over the last decade or so. it really represents the change of the dna, really, of the democratic coalition away from the working class, blue-collar democrats of yesteryear, towards the obama coalition, which is much more left, much more urban, much more liberal. and so republicans have a chance in some of these states -- ohio, pennsylvania, west virginia -- where you have a lot of scot-irish descendents, working-class white democrats running through the appalachian mountains in this country. >> let's bring in msnbc political c

and while we do, i'm told steve schmidt can hear us and talk to us from washington. steve, the question is, there was a moment there when you said a few minutes ago, it's over. it's over for donald trump, donald trump will be the nominee of the republican party. let me come at it another way. you're a pro all your life in this business. if i came to you and hired you to run the stop trump movement, to run the kasich campaign, any number of things diametrically opposed to trump, would you tell me, no, there's no upside, there's no case? >> there's no chance. the race is over. look, to become the nom in each of the republican party on the first ballot, you have to secure a 1237 delegates. we've been having a discussion for months donald trump was far away from that number, closing in on it, whether he was going to make it or not. it's clear tonight donald trump will clear the 1237 delegates required to be nominated on the first ballot to avoid the open convention scenario on the evening of june 7th when he wins big in the state of california. where he has leads as high

steve schmidt is with us as well. all right. we've got a lot to cover this hour.mments and advances from donald trump in years gone by at trump tower, at his home, and backstage at beauty pagea pageants. the piece opens with the story of rowan brewer lane and an account that trump once asked her to change into a bikini while at a pool party. the report out says after she changed he brought me out to the pool and said that is a stunning trump girl, isn't it? and the piece goes on to say that compared to other stories about trump's comments in the past like the ones about rosie o'donnell, the 1990 episode at mar-a-lago that ms. brewer lane described was difference. a debasing face-to-face encounter between mr. trump and a young woman he hardly knew. here's what she said earlier this morning. >> "the new york times" told us several times that they would make sure that my story, that i was telling, came across. they promised several times they would do it accurately. they told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my s

about on the republican side, having just heard from the kasich campaign, having just heard from steve schmidt, the quote i believe was "it's over" for every other candidate not named trump. we are duty-found to go to steve kornacki as we are getting results in from indiana. what do you think is going to tip this either way? what's the big one you're waiting for results from? >> i'll give you a couple, one for each campaign right now. if you're a bernie sanders supporter what do you think of, you look at college towns. you've got two here they're looking at, partial returns, indiana university. bloomington. you can see about one-third of the vote in right now. sanders is crushing clinton in this county, he could squeeze a lot out of this still. also, nothing in yet in indiana here, tip pa canoe county, the home of purdue university, boilermakers that could be a big county for bernie sanders. on the flip side, the good news for hillary clinton, we talked about this earlier, you look up aer, lake county, this is where gary is, it looks like the early vote coming in, hillary clinton having a deci

also with us, steve schmidt, from the mccain-palin campaign. steve, it's your fight now. you won this washington state thing tonight, i mean trump did. this question, i thought the chairman was pretty smart, susan hutchison. she said trump's going okay, but if he wants more women voters, he's got work to do in the next five weeks. she wasn't cheering him yet. she was sort of admonishing him, i think it's fair to say. >> there's no question if donald trump is going to win this election in november, he has a lot of work to do with women voters. he has record high unfavorable numbers with women voters. that being said, though, this is not a popularity contest. it's a choice. and the choice is between candidate a and candidate b. and we watch these scenes playing out, you see the mexican flags, you see the intimidation, some of the broken windows, the rumblings of violence. you look ahead to the convention, this is going to be a tumultuous election. donald trump is going to be poised to take advantage against some of these things. i think as you look out over the next couple

former mccain senior campaign strategies steve schmidt. is a el a eliza, and katty kay. we're sorry mike barnacle went missing. >> we need a search and rescue mission. >> you never know. he might have shuffled away. the race between donald trump and hillary clinton is narrowing. nbc surveymonkey shows hillary clinton at 48% and donald trump at 45%. secretary clinton maintains her advantage over trump with women voters. a 15-point margin down a bit from 19 last week. donald trump's 11-point lead among men remains unchange. clinton's strength with minority winning black voters 84 to 9. trump is up among 14 points among white voters. both candidates holding their own among party supporters trump is doing better among independents. 44% to clinton's 36. and last week trump called house speaker paul ryan the leader of the republican party. more republicans actually trust trump than ryan to lead the party. that's by a 58-39% margin. that's a lot to get through, joe. >> a couple of the things are jumping out. this is not paul ryan's party anymore.

also with us is republican strategist steve schmidt, chief strategist of 2008 mccain/palin campaign and msnbc political analyst. it's your fight now. you've won this washington state thing tonight, donald trump did. this question, i thought the chairman out there was smart when she -- susan hutchison, she said basically trump is doing okay but if he wants more women voters he's got work to do the next five weeks. she wasn't cheering him yet she was admonishing him, i think it's fair to say. >> there's no question if donald trump is going to win this election in november he has a lot of work to do with women voters. he has record high unfavorable numbers with women voters. that being said, this is not a popularity contest, it's a choice and the choice is between candidate "a" and candidate "b." we watch these scenes playing out. you see the mexican flags, you see the intimidation, you see some of the broken windows, the rumblings of violence, you look ahead to the convention, this is going to be a tumultuous election. donald trump is going to be poised to take advantage against some of t

republican strategist and msnbc contributor steve schmidt. president of the center for american progress and staff over hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. steve, how long -- i guess my question to you as we watch this play out in the first four or five days of this, we saw him kind of debate and negotiate with himself on taxes a bit. a little bit on the debt. to what extent do you see him proposing some fully fleshed-out policy agenda? to what extent do you see him doing basically what he did in the primary, in the general? >> it will be interesting to see what the outcome is of this meeting thursday with paul ryan. i think that one of the things that donald trump could do that would to do a lot of good is to say to speaker ryan, look, what is the legislative agenda that you think we could pass if i'm elected that i could send up to the hill on january 21st? and as we look ahead to the fall, to september, to the debates, i think these are likely to be the most-watched domestic broadcasts in american history. it may be the largest gl

steve schmidt, who ran john mccain's presidential campaign in 2008, said republicans have a choice to now be how many republicans come out and say i love my party but i love my country more? we'll see how many republicans out there that say it is better for hillary clinton to be elected president of the united states, to be the commander in chief than somebody who in their view is not stable. >> andy card was george w. bush's white house chief of staff. thanks for taking a few minutes. the news involving, you worked in both bush administrations. the news involving both of them. george bush 41, a spokesman saying he's retired from politics. briefly came out of retirement to help jeb. those were exceptions that's proved the rule. he does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign. obviously, it got personal there between donald trump and jeb bush in this campaign. you know them well. is there any chance that they revisit this? could you see them supporting trump at all? >> look, i think donald trump is the one that's going to be in the driver's seat on that. he h

they will vote for hillary, especially given her stance on national security issues, that's how steve schmidtt it. on issues of national security there are many republicans who will endorse hillary clinton. do you believe that? >> i think that there's certainly a number of republicans who are going to shift over and support hillary clint clinton, but i don't really think that that number is going to be all that significant in the big scheme of things. i understand there's been a disturbance in the force. you've heard a lot of voices cry out on twitter and elsewhere about what's gone on in the republican party and people i respect like phil who can't support trump for ideological reasons are going to be a portion of the electorate. but what you're seeing on the cnn poll you referenced earlier in the program, you're already seeing 84% to 83% of republicans and republican leaners saying they're going to support trump. you're already seeing a kind of unification around him among most of the party members. i think you're going to continue to see that. there was a lot of animosity against mitt romn

when i was on mccain, you had rick davis and steve schmidt. obama had plouffe and axelrod. there is always more than one voice in the room and there has to be. now, as far as the boss, donald trump is the boss and that's what this country needs, it needs a leader who will be leading and not just punting the decision as obama has done for so long now in his time at president. >> and if you're saying he is thes about, w boss, who is the o number two? >> as far as vice president? newt gingrich, governor fallin, chris christie, a lot of capable candidates out there and donald trump will be the one who makes that decision and it will be the right one for his campaign and for this country. s >> boris, thank you so much for your time. >>> cornered by a 400 pound gorilla, the first look at the race to save a 4-year-old's boy life half submerged in water. more "sit" per roll. more "who's training who" per roll. bounty is two times more absorbent. so one roll of... ...bounty can last longer than those bargain brands. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty. the long-lasting quicker p

steve: you know what? he's got a busy schedule. he's got to fit stuff in. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: two times! ♪ >> jimmy: next from the capitals is nate schmidtpuke rainbows when he opens his mouth. that's not fair. that can't be -- >> steve: that can't be true, can it? >> jimmy: that can't be true. can we see that? yeah he is. [ laughter ] real-life snapchat filter. >> steve: taste the rainbow. >> jimmy: next from st. louis is kevin shattenkirk. he was voted most likely to be an andy kaufman character named hockey latka. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: i thought it was going to be something else. >> jimmy: no, no, no. [ laughter ] >> steve: captain's log. >> jimmy: next up -- [ laughter ] captain kirk. captain's log? >> steve: captain's log. brown. shattenkirk. >> jimmy: talking about aliens like kling-ons around uranus or something? [ laughter ] "star trek" stuff. >> steve: "star trek" stuff. >> jimmy: next up from the dallas stars is alex goligoski. he was voted most likely to stare at his teammates like this when they're standing next to him at a urinal. [ laughter and applause ] hey. i just finished. keep doing what you're doing. i d

she's in the new season of "unbreakable kimmy schmidt," amy sedaris is on the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> stevey: beyond. and we have new music from chance the rapper, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] a hot show. this is a hot show tonight. >> steve: crazy! >> jimmy: we have something special now, guys, because this saturday is the kentucky derby. now usually, there is a horse that's a clear favorite, but not this year. no. it's nearly impossible to predict the winner. well, you guys are in luck, because when it comes to predicting things, we have a a secret weapon and it's puppies. [ cheers and applause ] that's right. ladies and gentlemen, it's time for puppy predictors: 2 2016 kentucky derby edition. here we go. ♪ puppy predictors puppy predictors ♪ >> jimmy: welcome to the puppy predictors: 2016 kentucky derby edition. here's how it works. we have 16 puppies, each representing one of the top 16 horses competing in saturday's big race and please, guys, give me a minute. and one giant trough of kibble, right here, ladies and gentlemen. yeah. whichever puppy crosses the finish line and reache