in 1983, trump opened the flag shipbuilding trump tower. he published the best seller, the art of the deal. trump was a national figure and you never knew where he would show up next. >> excuse me, where is the lobby? >> down the hall to the left. >> reporter: way back then there was political promise seen with the billionaire. >> i started the draft trump campaign. >> reporter: in the yokin's restaurant, as people waved trump for president signs. donald trump spoke without notes and hit on the same economic ideas that made him a front runner. >> the message in 1987 didn't change but the players. it was saudi arabia and japan back then and side china and mexico. y the people who are hurting is people like me. we work for a living and we are feeling. it and so trump appeals to us. >> reporter: after the speech they left and moved trump to a nor by press conference. >> i had to get him to a side door which was a good distance and as we moved along. he kept stopping and shaking hands with the wait staff and cops and firemen. he ignored the sui

has donald trump stopped the stop trump forces dead in their tracks, or did they stop short themselves? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd. happy friday to you. welcome to "mtp daily." well, what the heck has happened to the stop trump movement? less than 90 days to go now until the convention, and it looks as if the resistance may be in retreat. the party has heeded trump's warnings to keep its hands off the convention rule book at least so far. and party chairman reince priebus is begging the party factions to knock it off. meanwhile, trump looks to overpower the gop all the way to the cleveland convention. you're looking at state fairgrounds in delaware, trump is holding a rally there. delaware, a winner take all state on tuesday, with 16 delegates up for grabs. so far, this has been a standard, trump-style stump speech going on in delaware, a heavy focus on economic issues like trade and china. we are keeping a close eye on what he's saying to that crowd there and we'll have any news that emerges from that speech. toda

trump, trump, trump. he tried to get the came off ththe tripod, the hee goes and show you to the right where the trump sign is . i think things are calming down, one of the agents go in and take care of the man or woman they were pointing at now the fingers are point a the this person and i believe they're going to escort the person out. so to the extent, i know can you s the cameras pointing. there's the big cheer -- [cheers] . charles: there we go! get h out! connell, stay right there, i ha to hand the show off to lou. again, 12,000 people in there, very, very excited. amazing da amazing situation we're going through this election process. now, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. republican presidential candidates tonight turning their attention to new york, the next primary election battle coming up less than two weeks from tonight. donald trump trying to put h hi loss in wisisconsin behind him, lding a big rally in bethpage new york tonight. that rally is set to b begin ths hour, i

. >> he's never trump.e's become the never trump movement. this is the man who engineered the government shut down. there are people who are now supporting him who hated him. he's just a vessel right now. >> on that note, we're going to take a quick break. a commanding win for ted cruz. cnn special coverage continues right after this very quick break. stay with us. ♪ [engine revs] ♪ ♪ [engine revving] the all-new audi a4 is here. (neighbor) yeah, so we're just bringing your son home. (dad) ah! greetings, neighbor. neighbor boy. he really loves our wireless directv receiver. (dad) he should know better. we're settlers. we settle for cable. but let us repay you for your troubles. fresh milk for the journey home? (neibor) we live rht there. (dad) salted meats? (neighbor) no thank you. (dad) hats then! (vo) don't be a settler, get a $100 reward card when you switch to directv. in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives

they are saying trump, trump, trump. brianna keilar at a rally as well. >> you caught that? >> yeah, i caught that. >> at bernie sanders rally. >>> i want to turn to two people who know the political landscape in wisconsin better than anybody. jason stein is with us as well. a reporter for the "milwaukee journal sentinel." jerry, i'm going to start with you. you are one of six talk radio hosts. going on the air waves against donald trump and supporting ted cruz. why do you dislike trump so much? >> it's not a matter of dislike in a personal sense. it's a matter of feeling that he's completely unqualified to be president both in demeanor and in grassroot issues. other than that, he's a great candidate. there's nothing about the man that appears presidential in terms of intelectual heft, mastery of issues and the playground behavior. it's really that simple. >> just that simple. jason, you spent a lot of time talking to political figures, regular people. wisconsin being donald trump's waterloo or can he pull out a win there? >> you know, i think it's going to be very difficult

be trump.here was a question if that was going to change and for now it doesn't look like that's the case. >> we have another major projection. a clean sweep for donald trump tonight. donald trump cnn projects is the winner of the delaware republican presidential primary. all five contests donald trump wins. he wins in connecticut, pennsylvania, maryland, rhode island and delaware. a clean sweep winning all of them. a big, bill deg deal for donald trump. pennsylvania, maryland, connecticut, rhode island and delaware. hillary clinton we have projected is the winner in maryland so far. jake and dana, a big win for donald trump. you can't deny that. >> five for five. it was a week weeks ago we noted the 35% ceiling that the republican establishment figures said donald trump had has been broken. it will be interesting to see what his margin of victory is this evening with all five states being called so early. that would suggest possibly more than 50% in many if not all of these states. the second

. >> why donald trump? >> because we have political operatives trying to manipulate the results. >> reporter: it was a triumphant warning for trump, yet there were all right warning signs. earlier that week his campaign manager had allegedly man handled a reporter and the incident was still getting a lot of attention. could it mean that a candidacy that had been flying so high was losing altitude? still as the plane descended into chicago for that night's rally, everything seemed on track, no one could prepare for the darkest moments the campaign would yet see. when we come back, we show you the outrage us behavior of candidate donald trump, from long shoot to front-runner. verk twice. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on purchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one sided. her long day as anne. hair stylist starts with shoulder pain when... hey joanne, want to trade the all day relief of 2 aleve with 6 tylenol? give up my 2 aleve for 6 tylenol? no thanks. for me... it's alev

>> donald trump is running this campaign. and i'm working directly for donald trump. but i'm working with the whole team as well. >> that is washington lobbyist and republican party insider paul manafort, who has taken over the trump campaign now that the worst campaign manager ever, cory lewandowski, and the gang that couldn't shoot straight at the trump campaign, have managed to lose delegates and states where donald trump won the most votes. the question that paul manafort will never be asked in washington is why did you do it? why did you go to work for donald trump after having worked for republicans like bob dole, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, gerald ford? all reasonable republicans, all decent and dignified men. and now paul manafort is working for the most relentlessly ignorant vul garian in the history of republican party presidential politics. paul manafort has the kind of political resume that would more likely find him on the never trump team. willie sutton, one of the most famous american bank robbers of the 1930s, when he was asked why he robbed banks

a former rival, carson is now supporting trump. >> why donald trump? >> because we have political operatives trying to manipulate the results. >> with a large delegate lead, and now ben carson's endorsement, it was a triumphant moment for trump. yet there were already warning signs. earlier that week, campaign manager corey lewandowski allegedly man handled a female reporter and the incident was getting a lot of attention. for the first time, it seemed trump was losing his grip on the news cycle. could it mean a candidacy that was flowing so high could lose altitude? everything seemed on track. no one could know what was in store would be the darkest moments of the campaign had yet seen. >>> when we come back, we show you the outrageous journey of candidate trump, from long shot to frontrunner. >>> and later, we bring you exclusive footage of the near riot on one of donald trump's campaign stops. is it a glimpse of things to come? this is joanne. her long day as a hair stylist starts with shoulder pain when... hey joanne, want to trade the all day reli

cruz is leading trump 42% to 32%. donald trump has changed his position. back in september he signed a pledge to support the republican nominee no matter who it was. >> the best way for the republicans to win is if i win the nomination and go directly against whoever they happen to put up and for that reason, i have signed the pledge. so i will be totally pledging my allegiance to the republican party and the conservative principles for which it stand, and we will go out and we will fight hard, and we will win. >> that's was september. the cnn town hall two days ago donald trump told me he's no longer abiding by that pledge. >> do you continue to pledge whoever the republican nominee is? >> no, i don't anymore. >> you don't? >> no. we'll see who it is. >> of course, it should be pointed out doesn't seem like any of the other gop candidates believe they'll be standing by that pledge. the pledge likely came up during trump's meeting with reince priebus. jim acosta joins me now. what are you learning about the meeting with the rnc. was this preplanned? what w

donald trump is behind. donald trump not only won but won big. he's losing now in the second, third and fourth steps of the process. very much like ron paul did in 2012. the cruz people now mastering the system. what's happening? let me give you one example. look in virginia. donald trump won the nine th congressional district in coal country. donald trump won it huge. he won some by 55%, 56%. he gets three delegates for that one county. he will get those delegates. they will go to the convention and must vote for trump on the first ballot. this is what's happening in state after state in district after district. y all these trump delegates must vote for him on the furst ballot. if he doesn't get there on the first ballot, then they are free agents and many of them are aligned with cruz. they understand that first ballot could be everything. >> just basically, trump is ahead in the total delegate count. some of those delegates are essentially not really trump supporters. they just maybe will have to vote for trump at the first round but it gets t

trump's own voice. that's what you used in effect against him in that interview with him. >> yeah. the unfortunate thing is that nothing seems to move the hard core trumpcans, even that really creepy, but we discovered we can put together a coalition of the sane and in wisconsin there's going to be 35% or so of people who are going to accept anything that donald trump says, no matter what, but then you have the 65% to 7 0% of republican conservatives who look at this and go this man is unfit to be president of the united states. this is appalling behavior. there are the folks out there, the coalition of the decent and sane. hopefully you folks can do that in new york. >> stuart stevens, one of the silliest things i've been hearing for many weeks now are people who come on and say they're going to get him in line and he's going to turn and become presidential. you have worked with a lot of candidates and i'm sure you've spent a lot of time trying to switch the style of a lot of candidates and move them i

trump's worst week. >> jeremy diamond with the trump campaign in rothschild, wisconsin. let's talk about this and the week that was for trump first as you heard jeremy say, campaign manager arrested for misdemeanor battery, then he drew fire for comments on abortion, back and forth. the polls trailing ted cruz in wisconsin but perhaps some are pointing to as being the most troubling is his disapproval rating among women. look at the numbers, this is a recent poll that finds 73% of registered female voters disapprove of the republican front-runner. among republican female voters unfavorables from 29% up to 39%. in the last few months. will it is bring in our panel again, david gergen, jeffrey lord, a trump porter, and van jones, a democrat, and also previously worked in the obama white house. jeffrey, let's talk about the disapproval numbers when you look at them from women, those came before he had to defend his comments on abortion, before he had to deal with the fall-out from his campaign manager's arrest, for grabbing the arm of a female reporter. are you concerned ea

will run a donald trump-type campaign.ou? lou: of that i believe, we can be assured, no matter what happens. thanks for being with us. james rosen reporting. >>> on the democratic side, hillary clinton aides telling the "boston globe" they are working to narrow a list of vice presidential candidates and, quote, there is no question a woman will be on the list. clinton's increasing competence may stem from a recent monmouth university poll which she held tos a 13-point lead over bernie sanders in the state of maryland and they vote next tuesday in maryland. >>> pennsylvania also votes the same day. a franklin and marshall poll out of pennsylvania shows clinton with a 27-point lead, but sanders believes clinton is ahead of herself. at a rally earlier today, the vermont senator explained away his defeat in new york. he blamed the closed primary system. >> we just had a democratic primary in new york state the other day. [booing] . >> i share the sentiments, but -- [laughter] >> here's the point, i don't mind losing but three

going after trump. can't they see that it's cruz or it's trump and this not anything in between? >> it's desperation. there are people who cannot stand donald trump to such an extent, they think somehow the more money they spend they will be able to get people away from him. money or negative ads or anybody will take 8 who wins. it's tough. the one thing that has been missing from the last two presidential candidates is toughness. it's someone who is not only going debates the candidates. but tough policies from people around the world who lnlt going to deal with and won't take garbage. that's why ted cruz is dig in his heels. lou: your thoughts on trump in particular. i's saying the party rigged the game. he's say together anti-establishment crowds that ahe attracts by the tens of thousands and he would say millions. and he would be right in the cumulative. they are not going to have it with an establishment that insists on disenfranchising a million voters at a time as the colorado party did. what do

but trump may be growing efforts with manafort efforts to reign trump in.t is increasingly clear that trump is unwilling or unable to follow-through and resents efforts to transform him. leslie marshal is a fox news contributor and kevin is a talk show host with salem media group. before we begin the conversation. hear what manafort had to say on fox news sunday. >> the campaign said you are hearing from donald trump who believe in his candidacy. i deal with the committee who have a different role and they wanted to know, will he give speeches on policies. >> after he made comments to the republican national committee meetings suggesting that donald trump would tone it down. which donald trump? >> is there any doubt? the only attempt at reforming his wild shoot from the the hip campaign style was to bring enforcer manafort and he's now kicking him to the corner. we'll see guns blazing and the ugliest of america. and no stopping it at this point. >> lesly, you have a read on which donald trump will appear. >> i think will the real donald trump stand up. we h

be trump. if you're in the war room, right now one of the things you need to get your hands around is the republican platform process. because there is doctrine in there that is not part of donald trump's rhetoric. that's sort of been an ignored facet. >> we're joined by steve mcmann from purple strategy. he worked on three democratic presidential campaigns, including a consultant for governor howard dean's 2004 presidential campaign. steve, howard dean's campaign may be a model for what we're seeing tonight. very important written statement by the sanders campaign tonight. in which bernie sanders says, he gives this reason why he's staying in the race. that's why this campaign is going to the democratic national convention in philadelphia with as many delegates as possible. to fight for a progressive party platform. and then, steve, he lists all the items he wants in that platform. and in that written statement, not one word now, not one word about a path to the nomination. >> right. it's inte

people come after us and say we are enabling trump, that we love trump, that we want trump to win.is ridiculous. the truth is, trump will be judged correctly by the totality of things he has done. he can't escape his past, and things he says now are in the context of the past. however, he can conduct himself in a way that will somewhat ameliorate some of these problems if he tries to stay within what we consider the norms that should govern our political discourse related to minorities and women. if he plays better, he will ameliorate. if he continues to say things that are inflammatory, this will never get better. mark: whether he's running against bernie sanders or hillary clinton, he will be the story, the center of attention. and his conduct will determine some of it. but i believe a lot of it is baked in. the trump supporters brook no criticism, and trump opponents look at anything he does through the filter of that he is a bigot and a racist and a horrible man, including many people in the press, who rather than being objective become virulent anti-trump advocates. i find tha

"outfront" tonight, donald trump's son, eric trump. to see you again. >> good to be here. >> your father said if he's the nominee, he's going to stay, in his words, unpresidential until he wins the general election. even if he's competing against hillary clinton. with unfavorables like those, though, are you telling him that he needs to change his tone? >> no, not at all. if you look at ronald reagan, one of the greatest presidents we've ever had, had massive unfavorables as well. my father is amazing and a great guy. you see the votes. you see what's going to happen tomorrow. we're going to absolutely demolish it in new york. we're going to do so well tomorrow. we're winning every single poll. people are behind him. and he's got incredible energy. and he's already won the majority of the states. i saw cuccinelli on the show two minutes ago. cruz hasn't won a single state, necessary to win the general election. we've won florida. we're going to win new york. we're going to win new york by a lot. we can take states like pennsylvania awa

has to be a great concern to trump thank you. it's also -- donald trump.so got to be a great concern for those who believe a contested convention will result in a third figure coming in and sweep upping the delegates, a paul ryan or kashich. probably not. not if ted cruz copies to be as successful as he is being in getting the delegates he wishes to be in voting positions. >> downticket republicans would be fine with ted cruz because that wouldn't be a split, but if you are a republican who says i can't stomach thank you. trump and i hate ted cruz, i'm just not going to vote. not voting is also a concern. the republican is upset with the person being nominate and you don't vote, that hers congressional. >> right now the cook report, political publication, sees about six republican downticket positions in possible trouble, and has upgradedded the standing of four democratic positions, as a result of this trump dynamic. interestingly, though, in a lot of these congressional races, you're planning on this a year in advance and you're the democratic party. you

no change in the trump delegates. west virginia, 34 total. trump gets 24. again 1237 to win, there he is at 1023. in late may on may 17th, oregon has 28 total this is a proportional state it favors donald trump. we'll give him 12 delegates in our estimate. may 24th, washington state, had 44 total delegates, proportional, slightly favoring trump, we give him 18. the final day of contests, june 7th, first montana. that favors ted cruz, 27 total. no change in the trump number. south dakota. kind of the same story, favoring cruz, no change in delegates there for the total number for trump. new mexico, 24 delegates on the line. it's allocation is proportional. trump in our estimation gets 10 of those delegates, a few more than his opponents, it's added to the total and the big prize, california, 172 delegates up for grabs, we'll give trump 109 of those. and then new jersey. 51 delegates, winner take all. all 51 to trump. now 1223, you need 1237. so six, seven, carry the zero. that leaves 14 delegates to reach. the majority of 1237. now let's go back to pennsylva

trump would be, so if you're going to lead, mr. trump, it is time to lead.'re the one who said america first. so lead. action. far less talk and no whining. and there is not a minute to spare if you mean to make america great again and you've got to start by leading the party, i'm not sure you really like too much. well, too bad. that's the deal. all you have to do is overcome yourself, the party you represent, the party that doesn't like you and yes, your gop and democratic opponents. we who've been watching you for sometime now to this point figured that's a pretty fair fight. now go win the damn thing. our quotation of the evening, this went from marks who said, i refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. and mr. trump return to your sense of humor. it's served you well. we're coming right back. >> donald trump fired up, fighting back against calls to fire his campaign manager. >> they want me to destroy a man's life and the other two candidates, kasich and cruz said oh, he should be fired. fired for what? >> trump's not backing down. will i

trump! trump!o matter who you are, a man or a woman -- >> reporter: even though melania never wanted her husband to run for president, she's saying all the right things to help him win the white house. >> if you elect him to be your president, he will fight for you and for our country. he will work for you and with you. and together, we will make america strong and great again. thank you. >> reporter: even her husband seemed impressed. >> i want to thank melania for that. that was very special. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> our panel, does she really help him, you think, amanda, out on the campaign trail? >> i found the whole thing very awkward. she's beautiful. i don't think she's relatable. i think if i were going to sit down and have lunch with her, i have no idea what we'd talk about. she lives in the lap of luxury. she's married to donald trump. you know, i can't imagine what her life is like. so it's nice that she's getting out there potentially getting comfortable, but i have no

all he has to do is if the non-trump delegates are more than the trump delegates, that mean trump doesn't have the majority isn't the nominee. back to new york. >> chris, thank you. >>> this is going to be interesting. a.p. is saying that wisconsin voter turnout projected to be the highest since 1980. so a lot of people turning out. >> ted cruz made a comment about chris wallace's last point, how he doesn't have to get the nomination he just has to get enough to stop trump. two guys running in the woods being chased by a bear. and one guy stops and puts on his running shoes and says i don't have to outrun the bear i just have to outrun you. >> that does it for me. i'll be back at 11:00 p.m. eastern. and we'll call bernie sanders the wisconsin winner. we'll see what happens on the gop side. >> i'll continue on with you. new m ally blind you may also be struggling with non-24. calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. tired of working for peanuts? well what if i told you that peanuts can work for you? that's right. i'm talking full time delivery of 7 grams of protein and 6 essential nutr

a third-party run from trump. >> trump won't do a third-party run. it will be too late. we won't be able to do it and he can't afford it. the problem i think that you're saying that the party has is it either goes down in some sort of figurative flames by denying trump with the nomination even though he has almost enough delegates or it goes down in flames by letting him have the nomination. >> right. look, trump as nominee would get massacred by hillary clinton in the general election and poll after poll shows that he's losing to hillary in arizona by eight points. arizona only two times in the last 100 years has a democrat won arizona. i think it's interesting that we always have to worry about disenfranchising the people that voted for trump. what about the over half of republicans in the party in the conservative base that has said no to donald trump throughout this process. he is not consolidated before last night in any state over 50% and he needs to do that throughout the whole country to get the majority of delegates like every other republic

some say why some think the lawsuit against trump university will hurt trump. we'll see whether you believe it's a political hit job by a hillary clinton supporter. we take up that case with arthur aidala and rebecca roseman tonight. donald trump having the best week ever. tuesday he won five primaries by hic margins. and cruz chose a running-mate who can't seem to win elections. and john boehner attacks cruz with brutal directness. reporter: ted cruz's with would-be running-mate carly fiorina in indiana, a must-win state if they hope to stop donald trump. he slammed the frontrunner for sexist criticism of hillary clinton. >> it's not surprising donald trump attacks hillary for being a woman. donald has a problem with strong women. this is not subtle or complicated. i has a real problem with strong women. >> but icy opposition to trump may be melting on capitol hill. senator john cornyn of texas had been chilly with trump but now says trump may be able to expand the gop. cruz and voters got a blunt reminder of the senator's unpopularity from speaker john boehne

and donald trump's comments on the iranian nuclear deal, donald trump and hillary clinton agree on theian nuclear deal. just this week in the speech donald said he would keep this agreement in place because we have to honor our commitments. no, donald, we do not have to honor barack obama's misguided commitments that endanger america and endanger israel. that is purely an executive agreement. i'm not sure donald knows what executive agreement is. but it was not confirmed by the senate, it wasn't passed into law, which means the next executive can change it. you want a clear difference between donald and me? on day one, i will rip to shreds this catastrophic nuclear deal because when the ayatollah khamenei chants "death to america" he means it. and the threat of an iranian nuclear weapon, 1 nuclear weapon in the atmosphere over america could set off an emp, electromagnetic pulse, take down the electrical grid along the eastern seaboard and cost tens of millions of lives. we need a president that understands those threats. let me make one final point on this. it's now been 49 days since

trump add another nine. in pennsylvania, trump easily picked up the 17 at large delegates and likely get more than half of pennsylvania's unbound delegates. 36 of those 54 said think would either vote for trump or whoever one their district. trump is now up to 950. cruz is at 560, and kasich is at 153. last night at his victory rally, donald trump said he now considers himself the presumptive nominee and gave us a preview of what we might see in a general election matchup with hillary clinton. >> i think that hillary, honestly, she's a flawed candidate. and i think she's going to be easy to beat. i think she's going to be much easier to beat than most of the 16 people that i competed with just recently. go ahead. >> the next big primary and potentially the last real shot for cruz and kasich to stop trump from clenching the nomination is next week in indiana where last night ted cruz told supporters the race is now moving back to his territory. >> the race is real, real simple. donald trump and hillary clinto

donald trump losing by double digits, was the anti-trump crowd getting its act together.now we're looking at polls in new york where he could get all 95 delegates and i'm looking ahead to these primaries in the northeast that look like trump favorable territory. are we looking at another narrative shift, donald trump is back ahead by 400 delegates, back in position to win this thing on the first ballot? >> i think new york is going to certainly maybe give a bounce to trump's step if he is able to win it as expected based on the polling, but i think pennsylvania, maryland and other states, but particularly pennsylvania mean a lot in the end of april because if trump is not able to win over those suburban moderate republicans outside of pittsburgh, outside of philadelphia and those vote rich areas that are critical in a general election and you see kasich actually doing pretty well in some pennsylvania polls that may show again just a few days later after new york that trump still has vulnerability. if he can capture the northeast that will give him some momentum going into

what is the trump doctrine. what is the trump view.pend more in the military or are we going to spend less? send troops to iraq and syria to fight isis or let russia do it. what is the trump doctrine if? if he can't answer that question he should not be commander-in-chief. martha: thanks, marc. bill: we can confirm sources inside of the trump campaign saying they have locked up 34 of the 54 unpledged delegates in pennsylvania. this matches some of the reporting we had last night. i have number around 36, north there off. the trump team says 34 of 54 unpledged are in their cat power. so you can add that then to the haul of 105 or 108. either way a remarkable night for the trump team among these five states. really a blowout. martha: a lot said they would go with whoever won. like who we talked to the other night at our town hall i will go whoever wins. that would account for some of that. quick break. we'll be right back. go ahead... leave the competition behind. lexus gs 350 and 200 turbo. there's no going back. >> i'm jon scott, six m

they just -- trump waltzes back to new york and, let's be for donald trump.ant to say, our kids, the one they win is the one that did not win. so crystal family delivered an entire congressional district. >> you've finally got your revenge. >> to the never trump forces. >> let me ask you, congressman, when you hear bill crystal talking about establishment members jumping on board -- you've been on board -- you're not jumping on board today. but, you know, talking about a pathetic vote in new york, childish behavior by establishment members who want to jump on the winning bandwagon as they perceive it. what do you say to that? >> well, i've been a fan of bill's for quite some time. i agree with him most of the time. but these are the facts. trump is bringing out millions and millions of more people. people who have never voted. people who haven't voted in years. he's bringing out people from independents, of course, republicans and democrat party. and he's speaking to the issues that hard-working taxpayers are thinking. no one, no one in the last 50 years, has

trump? >> was a surprise and real disappointment. >> surprise for me too. >> it's not in line with the pro-life movement. we brief to be pro-life is to be pro woman and pro baby. a woman who chooses a abortion is back would into a corner out of desperation. she needs a path to hope and healing. >> what about the people use terms like murder? >> sure. >> when they go murder, what are you going to do about it if it's a murder. >> and it is taking a life. when a woman is looking at abortion, she can choose adoption, bring the child to term, she can choose abortion. she thinks if she chooses abortion, she erases the life. they have the experience of grief after having chosen it, you can't erase a life. >> so you are very active in this, and i appreciate you coming on. a lot of republicans support this criminal -- >> no, she was absolutely 100% wrong. i do not know one member of congress that punishes women on this. >> it one front-runner has said that. >> he has backtracked. but yesterday shows

trump did not himself attend. we spoke a short time ago. >> shawn, the meeting, what was the take away. you need 1237 delegates to become the nominee. we have a ways to go in the race. each of the campaigns was here making their case. >> the idea that trump may not get to 1237 before the convention but close enough for supporters to claim moral victory, the party some would say would be on tricky ground in terms of optics to have someone else get the nomination in a second round of voting, is it just the rules are the rules, any number short of 1237 it has to go to another rounding voting? >> absolutely. it is 1237 or bust. look, anderson, for any conservative out there, remember obamacare when it was passed initially or up first, it was three votes christmas eve. no one said if it is close, it should pass. that's not how it works. when majority decides, majority decides. takes 1237 delegates to pass any order of business. we have to remember that. there's no other time we would say, whether politics or sports, if

we have seen the picture of donald trump's trump plane on the tarmac.t down the road and not far away the hyatt regency where you are seeing crowds. we have been watching this picture over the course of the last hour or so. more and more people gathering. again. watching and waiting to see even how donald trump with his secret service and certainly law enforcement, his motorcade, will be approaching this location. we have seen some of the protesters holding hands and sitting in the middle of the streets. certainly there are multiple ways to get inside of this building. and police will help donald trump do so. these people exercising their first amendment rights to protest. and donald trump, obviously, has every right and intention to speak in front of this crowd inside this hotel here in burlingame, california. let me just be totally transparent with you. we're trying to get voices. jeremy diamond is a correspondent covering for months and months these different donald trump rallies. he was there last night as things got very, very violent in costa mesa

trump wants a big win.hood, again, republican district out here in the western part of the state, a republican district that reads through the lines comes down to here. republican district out here on the eastern shore, can ted cruz target or does donald trump run the board? he's going to get 90 tonight, maybe 91. can he get 75 or 80% of the delegates next week? if he does that, he's in his math to get to 1,237, hard, but better. >> big, big night for donald trump. let's go over to jake and dana, jake, you guys are there in new york. the home state of donald trump, the adopted home state of hillary clinton. huge wins for both. >> that's right. and the last time there was a new yorker versus new yorker general election was i believe 1944, fdr and governor tommy. one of the things, da that, that's interesting about that nice from 1,237 delegates on the republican side and 2,283 on the democratic side as we call it a magic number. it's really just a majority. mark preston, how are the candidates doing with the

donald trump retracted. the american people benefit from having someone who provides access and isn't afraid to see chris matthews who is obviously ideologically opposite of donald trump. >> kayleigh makes a good point. you have to give credit to donald trump for going to an interview over at msnbc. maybe he was overconfident. i don't know what the calculation of it was. he does make himself more available. to "the new york times." i don't think any other candidate has given that lengthy of an interview focused on foreign policy. >> he makes himself very available to the media. what we're seeing is the weakness of his overall campaign. he's gotten far -- this far ahead because of the strength of his personality. right now the campaign needs to take control and guide him. i think that's was a miscalculation for him to go on chris matthews. someone at that campaign should have been able to tell him, a, this is a bad idea because there's not a lot of gop primary voters watching chris matthews and msnbc. if you

the trump camp denies that.ut many experts believe if donald trump does not get 1237 delegates and does not win on the first ballot at the convention, as many as 100 of his delegates will abandon ship. remember, most delegates are only bound to a candidate on the first vote. after that, they become free agents and the cruz and kasich campaigns have apparently made in roads when it comes to stealing them. then there are states like louisiana. trump won the popular vote in the primary, but because it was so close, both he and cruz took 18 delegates. rubio took 5. rubio's delegates and 5 at-large delegates are up for grabs. even though trump won the state, cruz could walk with more delegates. those are the types of rules that have prompted the trump campaign to launch lawsuits. and then you consider the rnc has been knocking down the likelihood of a contested convention, then suddenly it puts out a what if guide. megyn? >> they're doing the math. the math suggests it could very well happen. trace, thank you. >>> ma

he's telling us he's lying to us. >> well, trump, of course, the new trump, was the old trump. take a listen. >> so cruz picks it up, lying ted. he goes donald trump is kidding everybody. he's different on the trail. he said, and he said that he's going to do things differently. and he's not going to build a wall. what the hell does this have to do with the wall? believe me, i'm building the wall. >> all right, michael and katie, michael, is this a new trump? that's what paul manafort promised a more trump with more depth. that didn't -- that sounded like the old trump. >> basically, the outward side of trump is still going to be trump. he's still going to go riff on the party and riff on the politics of the party. but when he needs to be in that zone where he wants to specifically communicate, i think you will see it, and i think we have already seen him at times try to do that, when he uses the notes. >> katie -- he mocked him. listen to what he said about being presidential. watch this. >> presidential is easy. you know what presidential is? i walk on. so you walk on. ladies

or a different question, does the new trump even exist? and is there such a thing as trump classic? >> so he's unscripted, he's candid, and in moments lindsey graham will be joining us live to talk about the gop's race and the senator's surprising meeting with the president's supreme court nominee. >>> and move on bernie. some of bernie sanders most liberal supporters are now telling him don't fight at the convention. hear their warning. >>> hello, everyone. i'm john berman. >> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. the donald trump charm offensive deploying top aides to court the rnc. party leaders are meeting for the last time before their national convention and trump's team is jumping into the game that he loves to rail against, making the case for trump before the same group that trump has hit on the stump as being part of a rigged and crooked delegate system. >> in a not so secret memo, team trump predicts i will clinch the nomination by winning 1,400 delegates, well over the 1,237 needed to avoid a contested convention. if trump falls short, his lifeline could come from this grou

then there are people who enable trump to be trump and the reason that the people who enable trump tois because trump thinks that being himself is what got him here. it is very difficult for the other side of this inner circle which is very small to make the case that he should change anything at all because he's had so much success so to me the story tonight is that the people who have not had as much success in trying to him to do things differently have an incredible case study in what was really a collapse among trump -- i asked the trump folks what do you think explains your dramatic fall and collapse in wisconsin? and they said it was the last two weeks. what i'll watch for and what i think we will still talk about two weeks from now whether this loss helps strengthen the people around trump who would like to see him do things differently. obviously they didn't get to him before the statement went sdmrout do we know who the various camps are? >> there's some reporting. robert costa and chuck todd probably talked to some of these folks but it is a small circle around him. so, you

"dump trump." "california won't be trumped". "mr. haith, leave our state."the thrust of the protest ick taking aim at trump's immigration policy. this morning i did see a woman with a t-shirt that said latinos for the wall. so there were a couple of trump supporters out here but they're vastly outnumbered, and we haven't seen too many of them lately. they may have felt threatened or intimidated and left. but you can see a number of protesters are also banging on drums and using their bull horns, as we see the protests start to move back toward us, they've been blocking the street in front of the hotel, kind of going back and forth. on the two sides of the protests, number of protesters sat down in the street and have linked arms. now a group is marching back this way, and i'm not seeing a whole lot of effort to replace the barricades by the grass here. just the driveway, which is interesting to note. here come the marchers. the anti-trump protesters. it's a lively scene out here. i should probably go and see what is happening at the from of the hotel by the

trump.he congressman from pennsylvania, pennsylvania a state that trump swept on tuesday in the primary. he is saying officially that he will back trump as did congressman miller from florida. he has been advising trump on national security issues. mark sanford saying many of us expressed concern are reconciling concerns that in all likelihood, trump will be the eventual nominee. that from a backer of ted cruz. outside the establishment and how he built this campaign. now it seems they are turning to try to lockdown support from the republican establishment and making inroads there. >> they have been doing it for about a month, month and a half going behind the scenes and trying to convince members of congress to get on board. it wasn't so successful early on. especially because he was attacking the party almost every day, calling it a rigged system. it didn't look like he was necessarily going to get to 1237. as he won more contests, the overwhelming win as it looks like he could win indian

for donald trump. but the hard working men and women of wisconsin stood and campaigned tirelessly to make sure tonight was a victory for every american. >> meantime democrat bernie sanders is already looking forward to elections in wyoming and new york. after his decisive win in the badger state where he earned more than 55% of the total vote. >> this campaign has won seven of the last eight caucuses and primaries. with your help on saturday, we're going on win here in wyoming. then we are headed to new york. and i know a little bit about new york because i spent the first 18 years of my life in brooklyn, new york. >> voters in wisconsin turning the tables on front-runners donald trump and hillary clinton. and a check of the exit polls might help us understand why. >> as we've seen, senator ted cruz pulls out a needed win in wisconsin. donald trump's persona may have helped cruz gain the victory in the badger state. here's why. nearly a quarter of wisconsin republican primary voters are excited about t

donald trump.real estate market rebounded and donald trump was back on top, valued at $450 million on the forbes' wealthiest americans list. but trump said it was more than like $2 billion. >> donald is one of the few people, and i think the researchers at "forbes" have always said this, who personally lobbies them to not only be included on the list, but to constantly push himself upward in the ranks. >> what people think of donald trump is important to him. he may or may not admit it, but it's important to him. all of this, poll numbers, "forbes" lists, you name it. his position matters to him. >> in 1997, he filed for divorce from marla maples, and less than a year later, trump fell in love, this time with a 28-year-old slovenian supermodel. >> as soon as i saw her, i said, that's a very special person. i knew what i wanted as soon as i saw her. >> he was very charming and it was the energy between us when we started to talk. and that's important, that we both felt the same way. >> 1999 was a pr

they also have tended to be anti-trump. they're energized by trump.o he's gaining some votes in one sector and he's losing them in other sectors. >> but he has six months if he turns this thing around. >> a lot can change. >> to change the opinions of him. he's a master of messaging. larry, great to see you. >> thanks, megyn. >>> now the trump critics are suggesting maybe he peaked. maybe that was it. but before jumping on that bandwagon, you will want to hear what charles krauthammer has to say, next. plus, donald trump met with the rnc chair today to talk about uniting the republican party and rich lowery and former senator scott brown are here on what appears to be a very divided gop at the moment. >>> plus, brian will join us to report on how the state department decided to tweet about spring break -- oh, boy -- and assigning women, i guess, numbers? maybe it was the guys who were getting rated and how it went very wrong. girls, stop that! don't let dust and allergies get between you and life's beautiful moments. with flonase allergy relief, they

trump. this time i might be right. he just ended political hell week. his campaign manager was arrested for misdemeanor battery. he flip-flopped on abortion, said some controversial things about nukes. now wisconsin votes on tuesday which polls have him trailing ted cruz by ten points. but most problematic for trump, among women his disapproval is abysmal, a cnn poll recently found that 73% of women disapprove of the gop fro front-runn front-runner. after wisconsin the next big prizes are new york on april 19 and pennsylvania on april 26. yes, recent polls show trump leading his home state by a large margin but in a close race with john kasich in pennsylvania and here's the unpleasant truth for trump. both states have rules that put power in the hands of the party, which is not a good thing for mr. trump. in new york, a change last year by the republican state committee allows the party, not the candidates, to select delegates. the new process is intended to reward longtime party loyalists w

trump. >> for the democrats, the night belonged to bernie sanders. the senator continued to make slow headway. he won wisconsin with 56% of the vote. hillary clinton got 43%. >> bernie sanders and ted cruz both thanked their supporters for their wins in wisconsin. >> cruz, who has been trailing the republican front-runner donald trump since the race began said wisconsin is now a turning point in his campaign. >> as a result of tonight, as a result of the people of wisconsin defying the media, defying the pundits, i'm more and more convinced that our campaign is going to earn the 1237 delegates needed to win the republican nomination. either before cleveland or at the convention in cleveland, together we will win a majority of the delegates, and together we will beat hillary clinton in november. >> bernie sanders was already looking ahead to the next contest when he found out he'd won in wisconsin. >> he gave his victory speech in wyoming where voters will caucus this saturday. >> momentum is

trump to soften it.may not work but when they try to make him back down or sand off the rough edge, it's not going to work. he's going to win or lose as machismo. >> that's great. fabulous. i said yesterday on our show that donald trump has a huge problem with women voters. if he doesn't solve that problem, he can't be president of the united states. i don't think the things he did in these instances is offensive. he's going to do something in some substantial degree. maybe he'll do it later. maybe he'll do it now. i remember a guy named mitt romney who refused to do it and he stuck to his principles too. i think trump needs to fix this problem. >> there's tens of millions of americans who love hillary clinton. they love her personality, what she stands for and the prospect of her being american. there's tens of millions of american women who don't feel this way. any other campaign they could not have followed tuesday night with this display. >> when i say he needs to fix this problem, i don't mean he ne