touch, trump, trump, trump, trump. >> bob: do you think anybody in america cares? >> andrea: yes. >> brian: why would he go to vegas? >> eric: your comment is trump is not a politician. what a s a politician in your words, then, and what is so good about -- >> bob: somebody with the guts to get in a race and run. he doesn't have the guts to get in the race and run. >> eric: that is a politician? how about a guy who is successful? i'm not here to pump up trump's to go. he goes out there and he worked hard and succeeded. he was bankrupt at one point. >> bob: you guys are trumpized. in america, most people think -- >> andrea: if he were a typical politician, they don't have high approval ratings right now. >> brian: i'll say this about trump. i judge people how they treat people. he treats his audio guy, secretary, the cab driver, if same way. it's not an act. blue collar guy that became a billionaire. nice guy. >> bob: he is not a politician. >> dana: i want everyone to remember this moment. when everyone else is complain their time was cut short, they can remember t

two months after that in april, donald trump through a 63rd birthday for ann romney at trump tower. a birthday bash complete with this sugar coated depiction of mrs. romney atop a horse. abc news was able to report all told the donald has recorded more than 30 robocalls for the campaign and done more than 50 interviews. you want the september meeting. you have the february endorsement. you have the april birthday party. you have dozens of calls, dozens of surrogate interviews and today, the day he clinches the nomination, he's hosting a romney campaign fund-raiser in las vegas. mr. romney is a center piece of the campaign. the seal of the approval that gives him, donald trump is busy advancing his main and only political message. >> is it is most important thing? in a way it is because you're not allowed to be president if you're not born in the country. let's see what happens. a lot of people are questioning his birth certificate. they are questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. there's some major questions here and that press doesn't want to cover it. the press refu

your head of trump.the middle of the whole birthy trump, trump still has time to sell, baby, sell. >> you're not on a mattress on top of trump, are you. >> it's sitting on a trump mattress by certa. it's a great mattress. you should buy one. >> a trump mattress. >> by certa. >> jon: just because year sleeping on it doesn't make it a trump mattress. i don't sleep in stewart sheets. it doesn't work that way. "hey, you know what i had for breakfast? trump muffins by thomases? i like how the butter goes into the nooks and trumps." ( laughter ) and we have to cover romney and obama knowing this beautiful man is out there? ( laughter ) this rare bird that orange bizarrely tufted flapping around in the forest? we have to cover these two numb nuts? it's like you're at a music festival and the poo fighterrers are on the stage but you can't go because you promised your friend you'd go to a country band. i'm not insulting hipsters. obviously, they don't watch. ( laughter ) seriously, a band shouldn't have someone o

trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> a lot of people are questioning i don't agree with all of the people who support me there i don't understand the benefit. what is romney seeking? >> i didn't get 50.1% or more. i'm appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people. okay. >> mitt romney is a basically small business guy. he closed companies, get rid of jobs, okay. >> okay. >> some things that you can't imagine happening in your life, this is one of them. >> i've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time. >> i want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. >> how it's working out for you? >> okay. ♪ >>> we are back after a holiday weekend. i hope you've all had a happy and peaceful memorial day. we begin with mitt

that includes donald trump.ing himself from trump's race bating antics. tonight trump is hosting a fund-raiser. it's expected to bring in $2 million. trump is a vital part of the romney campaign. donald trump is playing an extremely important role, which has been acknowledged by both ann and mitt romney, which has been acknowledged by them in election night speeches. romney and trump appeared side by side when trump officially endorsed romney, this was back in february. trump help a fund-raiser for romney in new york. he robocalled people. he's making the tv rounds and questioning the president's birth certificate. if mitt romney believes we should be focusing on jobs, why wouldn't he just reputuate the nonsense. >> why would he want to openly offend donald trump? >> we wouldn't want to offend the trumpster. trump went full birther on cnbc this morning. >> now, is it the most important thing? in a way it is. you're not allowed to be president if you're not born in the country. i've been known as being a smart gu

trump. if not trump then gingrich. >> i'm guessing that you are not in the trump camp, susan.what happened with trump. >> it didn't make sense for romney to go with trump on the day where he could have had a fabulous all attention on him kind of day. >> speaking of taking attention you're not crazy about senators picks. you don't think marco rubio or chris christie. >> i think those are people that republicans would like to see. i don't think they are the best choices for romney. >> because? >> mostly rubio inexperienced and needs a little more time out there. >> been there and done that with sarah palin. >> a lot of people think he could be a game changer. i don't think vp candidates do change the game. chris christie he has said he is not ready to be president. and you never put someone on the ticket who may be more popular than you are. >> is that why you pick also jeb bush? >> the last one was jeb bush because of his last name. >> i wonder if there is a dark horse candidate out there. certainly sarah palin was a shocker the last time. there has been a lot of buzz about mik

want to say thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> why? >> why? >> why? >> the place of birth movement. >> you are courting disaster. >> this is about raising money. >> mitt romney is not going to have trouble raising money. >> how do you let a guy, donald trump. >> chair a $2 million fund-raiser who thinks that the president of the united states is illegitimate. what is the benefit here? >> i just don't even -- >> i thought your introduction was highly inappropriate. >> there is some very nasty undertones. >> he was born in kenya. >> this is the most obnoxious swill. >> a kind of feud between donald trump and george will. here's how it standarded. >> the cost of appearing with this bloviating. >> george will may be the dumbest and most overrated political commentator of all time. >> i don't understand the benefit, what is romney seeking? >>> the romney campaign gets too celebrate their victory in the texas primary tonight and they're clinching of the republican nomination, officially. they get to celebrate that tonig

hanging out with trump. i think joan was right with that visual of the big trump airplane, you expect him to put trump on the white house if he wins. >> you're so right, another parole of wisdom, the fact that trump is the godfather of birtherism now, but he has now romney as an accolade saying that president obama is an anchor baby. but really he isn't one of us. here is chuck todd asking mitt romney's campaign spokesperson andrea shaw about trump overshadowing romney yesterday. >> any regrets by the campaign of spending the day you clinch the nomination with donald trump? >> look, donald trump is a supporter. you know, governor romney midit clear they disagree on some issues. governor romney says he believes the president was born in the united states. he said it repeatedly, he thinks the issue is closed. >> you know, then let's lock at romney on monday what he said. i think what he said himself is more informative that what his suppo spokesperson said. >> i don't agree with all of the people who support m

so they are letting trump go out there and raise this as much as he trump wants. >> all he did is send out a spokesman -- let me go out to john ral ston. here is the thing about why this is so important. so far in this campaign, mitt romney has shown a willingness to go down for just about anybody. tax nuts like norquist, the war hawks, completely with them in iran. the christian right going down liberty university getting honorary degree, whatever that is worth bp all this effort, constantly to woo constituencies of the right and never say no to anybody. he won't say no to birther who t.o. a guy who is out there trumpeting this stuff. he snuck into the country like an international con artist and said this about the president so he could reach the racist out there and the know-nothing people. what does it sound to you like out in vegas? >> chris, i think you hit on it. i think george will is kind and underplaying. that creates the appear ins after buffoon which is what trump is. but this is the most noxious swill you could offer up in american politics, as you say. between the lines r

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trumped. mitt romney is letting it ride by donald trump. the real estate tycoon is still voicing his doubts about whether president obama was actually born in the u.s. >> i've never really changed. nothing's changed my mind. >> he may have one. >> reporter: trump's fixation on the trump's birth certificate has made its way to an obama campaign video that no down smacked down conspiracy theories four years ago. >> no, ma'am. no, ma'am. he's a decent family man. >> in response, trump sweeted, t he's afraid of it and gr good reason. he keeps using mccain as an example. however, mccain lost the election. instead the obama campaign is enjoying what he calls craziness a full year after the president released his long form birth certificate in washington. >> the state of hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate. >> reporter: asked about trump's comments, romney seemed to say that the financial support was a risk that was worth taking. >> they don't agree with everything that i believe in, but i'm appreciative to have the help of a l

donald trump brought to you by donald trump. to 4:00 p.m. looking forward to getting to the chicago area. every time i have been out to join good friends at wcpt, we have a good crowd and a good time. make your way to the frugal muse in darian illinois. >> one of my absolutely places. great, great american city. >> saw a disturbing story on the news last night about warm weather, hot weather and i think 10 people murdered over the weekend in chicago. >> horrible. >> ranging gauge, persistent crime problem in chibinobi. the one thing that chicago has yet to graham with in the late '90s '90s, main of the great urban cities went through a reformation of the policing practices and their methodologies and that sort of memo reached a lot of american cities starting in new york city philadelphia, cleveland boston. >> even here. >> los angeles, washington, d.c., absolutely. when i came to washington in 1990, the murder rate the year before there were 585 homicides in washington d.c. in 1989. >> really? >> yeah. there are fewer, about 15

and so he wants to rely on the trump magic and the trump name. i think after yesterday, i will never forget the sight of mitt romney next to the big trump sign behind him. it's cowardly, but it also really brings in this birther nonsense no matter what they try to say, he validates trumps birther nonsense and keeps it part of the conversation. trump is loving every moment of it. >> he is the piper. it's a real point. the guy who wants to be the hard right on every issue. he wants to be with the hawks on foreign policy, with grover nordqvist, and on birtherism, he wants to be seen with trump. >> we thought we went through this with romney, but the point that i made on this show and elsewhere, chris, is that romney again and again sort of flirts with a pale version of birtherism. he says that obama is not really a true american, he's not one of us. so he plays footsy with the notion that he is not truly american. i can't think of a better contrast. yesterday, the president of the united states who is he hanging out with? john glenn, pat summit, and

>> donald trump will be donald trump. all day yesterday in colorado and then in nevada. this issue never came up. i sat for hours when he was talking about jobs and the economy. nobody asked questions about this. i was there with governor romney with governor romney and donald trump. this isn't what they talked about. what they talked about was having jobs and the economy. i understand it's somewhat sensational when you're doing boring fund-raisers and this is something more exciting to talk b but really, governor romney is focused on jobs and the economy. >> i understand that. i know he is. here's the question, i assume you're totally with governor romney on where the president was born and you distanced yourself and distanced yourself from donald trump. >> i'm going to way out on the limb and i'll suggest barack obama will probably be on the ballot and my suggestion to republicans as much as we want to move forward, let's focus distinguishing the differences about obama's record and what he wants to do with jobs and the

we're all talking about donald trump. but this isn't about trump. now becomes about romney. romney is exposing himself as what he is a political coward. no conviction, no spine, nothing to tell the voters whatsoever that he would have any spine to stand up to all of those leaders that he talked about and criticizing president obama. if he can't even stand up to doned a trump to rush limbaugh and especially to one of his supporters when she accused president obama of being treasonist, how whether he stand up to all the world leaders. >> do people look at that is this he's clinching tonight. you have to applaud his campaign. some people say it was a weak field. he got here. he won the nomination. he's not be holden to anybody but to the point where people say he's weak or she says coward. i would say cautious. >> i think when you're introducing yourself to the american people, your associations, who you hang out with, who you condemn, who you embrace, that matters. that's why reverend wright mattered to obama in 2008. 20 years ago in june, bill clinto

so they're letting trump go out there and raise this as much as he, trump, wants. >> yeah, all he did was send out his spokesman today to do it, but he won't put his lips around it. john ral stston, here's the thi about why this is so important. so far in this campaign, mitt romney has shown a willingness to go down for just about anybody. the tax nuts like us. the christian rite going down to a literary university and getting a degree, for whatever that's worth. constantly wooing the constituents to the right and never saying no. romney won't say no to a birther. trump is going around saying all this stuff. what's it sound like to you out in vegas? >> well, chris, i think you hit on it, and i think that george will was being kind and underplaying be being a bloterating ignoramus. this is the most swill you can conjure up in politics. it's between the lines racism. it's one thing to have grover norquist and the tax swing of the republican party. it's quite another thing to stir up the most insidious feelings in this country, and howard is right, there are people here in this swing sta

so he want it rely on the trump magic and trump name. and i think, you know, after yesterday, i will never forget the sight of mitt romney decomplaining next to the big trump sign behind him. like a wholly owned sub sudden areary. so it is cowardly but also brings this this birther nonsense, no matter what they try it say, he validate trump's birther nonsense and keeps it part of the conversation. trump is loving every minute of it. and romney needs it stand up to him. >> of course he is. he's the piper. he's the piper. david corn, joan has a point here. >> yes. >> the point that this guy want to be the hard right on every issue. with grover norquist on tax policy, with the liberty university crowd in virginia on christian issues. and on birtheris heiism he want be with trump. >> i feel like bull murray. the point i've made on this show and elsewhere is that romney again and again sort of flirt with a pale version of bijerrism in which he says barack obama doesn't really understand america. doesn't think america is eye neek. doesn't thin

trump started working on robocalls as the message delivered by mr. trump.he fund raising. the week before the michigan primary, the candidate that argued to let detroit go bankrupt ducked back east with donald trump. held at a law firm specializing in bankruptcy. that was a nice touch. last month, donald, the honorary buckeye trump, hosted a fund-raiser with anne romney. they hauled in more than $600,000 at that one. the romney campaign wants mr. trump to host another one of those when mr. romney secures the nomination. whatever it is donald trump does for mitt romney, it seems to be working. and mr. romney seems to think he needs it, which makes mr. trump's continued insistence that president obama may not be an american citizen that much more of a question mark from romney's campaign. yesterday mr. trump told the daily bees all the nice thing he is says about mitt romney. when he said, a book publisher came up three days ago saying he was born in kenya and raised in indonesia. his mother never spent a day in the hospital. donald trump is not letting the b

they can talk about donald trump all they want.used on jobs and the economy, how many mitt romney's going to get people back to work. and i think that's what voters care about. >> that was romney campaign spokeswoman andrea sal claiming it's the m thes who want to bring up the birther issue. however, here's mitt romney yesterday, hours before his multi-million dollar fund-raiser with donald trump in las vegas. >> i was speaking with one of these business owners who owns a couple of restaurants in town. and he said, you know, i'd like to change the constitution. i'm not sure i can do it, he said, but i'd like to have a provision in the constitution that in addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the constitution, i'd like it also to say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he can become president of the united states. >> i think he said "citizenship," didn't he? even more stunning than romney's wink-wink, nud

by donald trump.rst mormon to clinch a major party nomination and yeah, nobody's talking about that, as you mentioned, zoraida, everybody is discussing donald trump and the issue over the president's birth place. there's a picture of in are mity coming off the plane and in the back the trump plane, symbolic of the day. you can see him coming off the plane there. listen, everybody is discussing donald trump and this issue and it is a distraction for mitt romney. the whole theme for mitt romney is the president is bad when it comes to job creators and wasting taxpayer money. we're not discussing that at all. newt gingrich is at this fund-raiser trump had at his hotel. he disagrees, take a listen to newt gingrich. >> i think donald trump said what he said because he thinks it's the right thing for him to say. >> reporter: do you think it's the right thing to say? >> no, i this that i obama creates very powerful emotions about him, largely because of the radicalism of his views. >> i was looking at the po