it was a good tuesday for donald trump. he's the leader in the race, no question, he'll have attend of the day, about 250 delegates ted cruz and marco rubio, between them, will have won about 320 delegates. hillary clinton is pretty comfortably ahead. this race, there are two possible paths, trump winning or trump not winning and ending up with a brokered or contested convention. everything depends on two weeks from tonight. if he wins florida and ohio, it's probably over. if he loses both of them, we're probably going to a contested convention. if he wins one and loses one, hard to tell. last 4 hours in this never trump, stop trump movement in both of those states. >> up to this point, the arguments against donald trump have all failed, the arguments that he's not conservative tonight, he doesn't have the temperament enough to be president he's not actually looking out for the little guy who represents donald trump's voting base within the republican party. it remains to be seen if it's too little too late. >> cokie, you h

>> donald trump is cleaning house. donald trump, 147 delegates so far donald trump. swamping ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. when you add in the contests we have already seen, here's where the race stands -- you got trump, 229. only 81 for cruz, 47 for marco rubio. this means -- look at this -- this is where they have to go. in his home state of florida, get all 99 delegate there is, win in ohio, he still would be trailing donald trump. >> what that means, matthew, what you're looking at these campaigns, the reasons these other candidates are staying in, it's not just about them getting the number but preventing donald trump from getting that nominee. >> the results of tonight not only shown donald trump dominating is to quote, the favorite bird's song, turn, turn, turn. their reason is to stay in this -- stop donald trump from getting to 1237. their goal, keep him under that and have a contested convention. >> think about that, keep him from getting a majority going into a convention. he would clearly have a huge lead going into a convention. somehow at the c

>> donald trump. looking to lock up the nomination and defy his critics. >> i'm act presidential you but if somebody hits me i'm going to hit them back harder. >> ted cruz. eager to go one on one with the front-runner. >> for those who have supported other candidates, we welcome you on our team standing united as one. >> marco rubio. in a make or break bid to win his florida home turf. >> i will campaign as long as it takes and wherever it takes to ensure that i am the next president of the united states. >> john kasich. staking his campaign on his home state of ohio. >> a positive message and raising the bar for our kids will win. we'll win in this country. >> now the stage is set for an intense debate about who should lead the republicans and the nation. >> a turning point is coming in this election and for this country. >> we are seeing republicans uniting. >> the republicans are eating their own. we have to bring things together. >> the fight for the white house returns to florida right now. >>> a

it might be the fifth event he has appeared with donald trump and wants to make sure that donald trump is safe and that everyone who's come out in support of and even those against are also safe. are you getting any kind of timeline as to when this might happen? if donald trump is caught up in some of that traffic? that snarl that had been caused earlier or what? >> reporter: we have not yet heard exactly why donald trump is late. again, i wouldn't necessarily say it's because of the protests. he certainly has a motorcade able to get through whatever it needs to get through. donald trump is sometimes, however, late to his events. half hour, sometimes an hour. people have been waiting here in the hot sun for than and while waiting, heard from a woman whose sonkilled by an undocumented immigration. what you hear at the donald trump rallies because of illegal immigration being a problem. and here in arizona, a border state, an issue we expect donald trump to speak to today as well as sheriff joe arpaio, who's planning on introducing him. >> all right. jeremy diamond. we're looking at what

donald trump voters. when you talk about a brokered convention and as much as this pains me to say because i am not the biggest donald trump fan as you can possibly tell -- >> no way. >> no, it was hard. but can you not just say and push aside all of these millions of voters who have come out and he's won. i said this earlier today -- >> stood in line. >> and the question was, we had this question about his ceiling, we had these artificial ceilings, 25%, 30% and could he get people to the polls. donald trump has proven he is a winner. until somebody proves him wrong, this theory about a brokered convention or paul ryan or mitt romney, god bless mitt romney, none it have is going to work. >> the big challenge, two weeks is not a lot of time when donald trump has spent the last eight months digging in and his support has calcified. so many of these supporters, they're invested in seeing him win. the idea that we can change the fundamentals of the race i think in two weeks is very, very hard. but, i mean, wh

>> i don't think there are two donald trumps. i think there is one donald trump. certainly you have, look, all of this and you have somebody else that sits and reads and thinks. and i'm a thinker. i have been a thinker. and perhaps people don't think of me that way because you don't see me in that forum but i am a thinker. i thought it was very nice what ben said actually. it is another side of me. i'm a very deep thinker. i know what's happening. okay? >> the "on the record" political panel is back. and john, you know, saying that there are two different donald trumps, i have to tell you that we meet all these candidates. i think that's true of every single one. you see what a lot of people say about secretary hillary clinton. i traveled with her to pakistan and she is sitting there talking to every general knows every general by name and does her homework and everything else but then she gets perceived a different way. they are all two. >> there may very well be two donald trumps. the problem for donald trump is that voters are going to make their judgments on t

i'm glad you flag that donald trump tweet. i think a lot of people will have notification -- >> it is how we get instant notification from donald trump these days. halle stand by. i will let you work the phones and your e-mail. i want it turn to mark halperin, cohost of course of bloomberg politics and kari dan is with us from our newsroom. mark, i know you, i know you're working the phones and trying to figure out what is going on with this meeting. what do you know? >> reince priebus spends more more time than reported trying to do with the implications of potentially going to convention with no one having a majority of delegates with no one -- with trump having majority but implications as mentioned earlier sponsorships for the convention. about prospect of a lot of prominent republicans saying they wouldn't vote for the nominee. this is reince priebus's complex life right now and today is one of the few times he ebeen caught in effect having such a discussion. big one with donald trump. but there is serious business to do.

this is a big deal for donald trump. charles: the there was a point on the campaign where i thought donald trump hit him hard. donald trump admitted he was mean to him and he hit him hard. he admitted these things as well it's a testament to ben carson and his christian faith. how much of a difference is this going to make for the rest of the election? >> i think it has both a sober and cerebral endorsement. i think this is huge from the perspective -- people saying evangelicals or parole christians or conservatives can't support donald trump. but add phyllis schlafly and dr. jeffers. i also think that this will sort of earn able people to feel comfortable that these people might be willing to hold donald trump accountable in soft ways perhaps evangelicals have had their doubts in the past about him. charles: dr. carson sounds like he will be more involved. not just a stamp of approval. but maybe a conscience, if you will. eboni, he talked about donald trump being too -- two people. the cerebral donald trump and they had

they're endorsing donald trump. i have to tell you, anytime i write or say something negative about donald trump, i am inundated from tweets by twitter feeds supporting donald trump that have nazi symbols and all sorts of racist groups. maybe it's a coincidence that all the white supremacists just happen to be supporting donald trump. i'm not sure. maybe it's a coincidence but it strikes me as sort of telling. >> i'm saying in the course of this questioning people will say the kkk is not endorsing him or what have you. that's not what we're talking about. he can't control whether the kkk endorses him or not but he can control his response to that and say, if you have ties to the kkk, i'm completely not interested in that and don't want your vote. >> thank you. that's it. >> reagan did, by the way. that's exactly what ronald reagan did when it happened to him. >> this is what ted cruz had to say about the kkk and trump. to hugh hewitt. >> you know i joked that there are not many iron rules in politics, but one you ca

position is. >> donald trump supporters are so loyal to donald trump. it's hard to imagine somebody who was thinking about voting for him and has now decided they're not going to because of this. but it does, i think -- i think ted cruz was right. it shows he's not thought through the issue and abortion is such a mine field that he ended up sounding like the way pro-choice people caricature pro-life people. he found himself really twisted into a difficult spot. >> there's been this proliferation of issues that touch on women in many different ways. you have the heidi cruz retweet. you have this question on abortion. and you -- >> corey lewandowski. >> corey lewandowski. if you put them all together, the question is whether you reach a critical mass. when you have people undecided, and there are people who are undecided, who would vote for cruz as opposed to trump. and i think that's what you're seeing in the polils in wisconsin. his gender numbers have flipd. >> karen, you wrote an article about corey lewandowski. does trump benefit? trump has tried to

so this is what they do and now are doing it to donald trump. >> is this a setback for donald trump's campaign, jeffrey? >> no. and the -- ironic thing is, all of these '60s protests led to the election in 1968 of richard nixon. who was, you know, flatly opposed to all of this, and quite vividly so. it led to the election of ronald reagan as governor of california in 1966 when all this turmoil was on california campuses. the kind of thing exactly that will help donald trump. if their objective is to harm him politically, all they're doing is helping him. >> jeremy diamond is also with us out of phoenix, he is at that rally to get underway at any moment there in the fountain hills area of phoenix, and so jeremy, how much do the supporters there know about the gathering of anti-trump protestors, you know, on the road leading into that rally, and now what's also trn pyanspi in new york? >> unless you're checking twitter or watching the news you don't have the a sense of that at all. thousands of trump supporters are gathered here. very little protestors within our field of vision here. c

hillary clinton and donald trump leading the pack. now on a likely collision course in the november election. >> get them out of here, please. >> but will the republican party unite behind their controversial front-runner? or is it a fight all the way to a contested convention? senator bernie sanders holding strong on his home turf. >> it is good to be home! >> but is this delegate tsunami for hillary clinton enough to keep sanders down? >> if you don't want to see donald trump -- to keep trump from the nomination? >> announcer: this special edition of "nightline," "super >> announcer: this is a special edition of "nightline," "super tuesday." >>> good evening. it's the aptly named super tuesday . a rough and tumble night of politics. voters weighing in loud and clear on the biggest night of the primary season. tonight. we begin in texas, where everything is bigger, even its outsize role in politics. ted cruz edging out a victory in his home state, considered a must win to remain viable in this campaign. but the night still belongs to

here is a check from trump university for $500,000 made out to donald trump and signed by donald trump. donald trump is now being sued in federal fraud cases, one of which the judge has allowed to be brought under the racketeer influence and corrupt organizations act that's also known as rico, which means that donald trump actually stands accused in federal court of being a racketeer. here is how donald trump lured students to his fake university. ♪ >> we're going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific. terrific people, terrific brains, successful. we are going to have the best of the best. and honestly, if you don't learn from them, if you don't learn from me, if you don't learn from the people that we're going to be putting forward, and these are all people that are hand-picked by me, then you're just not going to make it in terms of the world of success. we're going to teach you better than the business schools are going to teach you. and i went to the best business school. >> joining us now is bob guillo, a former trump university student and a pla

focusey show to women in groups and they say that's donald. someone has to be donald trump. ted cruz are rubio or john kasich. is romney's voice singular in the party? hunt: i don't think anyone in the party really commands that kind of attention the way a eisenhower or reagan would have in the past. whether it is mitt romney or paul ryan. he just hates all of this. donald trump is the antithesis of everything paul ryan believes in. mark: is there a chance that ofney lays out an argument clarity that the other republicans can latch onto? i'm told he's going to talk about temperament a great deal. a legitimate case to be made. mark: ted cruz had the best night of the remaining challengers to donald trump. hunt: you know how many delegates he got out of texas? winning three states was important. not just his home state. rubio, if it had not been for minnesota would've had a miserable night. me they brother said to donald trump was better off with multiple candidates in the race. i'm thinking that could be true. al hunt: that is the only way to stop them. if john kasich dropped

we're beating donald trump. we're seeing republicans uniting behind our campaign because we're the only candidate that is in a position to beat donald and become the republican nominee. beat him. i have to press this a little if you believe donald trump and his campaign are encouraging violence, how could you support isn't that a line that should not be condoned? crossing that line, shouldn't that not be condoned? >> and i'm not condoning it. i'm encouraging everyone to focus on decency, civility, appealing to our better angels. my focus is on winning. winning the nomination. then on beating hillary clinton and bernie sanders. because let me be clear. hillary clinton would be a disaster for this country. if hillary clinton is the president, we will lose this supreme court for a generation. the second amendment will be effectively erased from the bill of rights. religious liberty will be lost for a generation. and our kids will be drowned in debt. jobs will keep fleeing america. i don't want to see my children's

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of donald trump. that's how he's dominated. we've seen cbs say it's great for cbs business, donald trump. >> should we make a turn? >> let's make a turn. thank you for that implicit criticism. >> i singled out cbs, not cnn. >> i saw your eyes and soul at the same time. >> looking at the democratic race, everyone says this is going to be a good day for hillary clinton except the hillary clinton will say maybe, but they still want to say they're trying to lower expectation. do you think hillary clinton will be insurmountable in her lead after today? >> she's going to get shellacked in vermont. there's that, but she's going to be well on her way. and i think bernie sanders is going to have to try and find an answer. the way he got wiped out in south carolina after spending a fair amount of money and a fair amount of time, he didn't just give up on south carolina, and he still got clobbered. if that happens tonight in georgia, he's going to have to start rethinking his strategy and recalibrating some of t

it's hard to interview donald trump. so i have sympathy for the anchors who have been trying to do it. but they have not been effective. and that needs to change. i also got the sense that trump was a little bit subdued. he's damaged goods, and i think he now knows that he's damaged goods, which will affect his confidence and maybe his bluster a little bit going forward. you can hear it a little bit in his voice. i don't think he's going to do well in wisconsin. he might win but he's not going to win convincingly. and i would bet that ted cruz is more likely to win because in wisconsin the conservatives are very conservative and the liberals are very liberal. and i also think john kasich will do better than expected in wisconsin. >> let's listen to one of my favorite parts of this interview where someone finally confronted him about his crazy ideas for having 45% tariffs, which are just sales taxes on americans. let's listen to this. >> what would happen to the price of goods if in fact a president donald trump were to i

they went to donald trump. chris christie, again, donald trump. so i think you're going to see a lot of that support go to donald trump. again if you look at the numbers in florida, you're seeing support for donald trump across age, income, education, it is so widespread. >> ashley that goes to our next question. what is the key to the republican nomination now, or is it a done deal? >> it's not a done deal, i don't think yet. but i would say one thing in response to what boris said, last night rubio's policy director, one of his aides on the campaign, actually came out and tweeted that their support should now go to senator ted cruz if they wanted to stop donald trump. so i do think that delegates, if rubio still wants to remain in this somehow to take down donald trump, i think that would be convincing delegates to go for ted cruz. ted cruz is the only one who's still viable, i believe, in this election, to donald trump -- >> but he hasn't even won a state. he hasn't even won a state yet. >> the thing is ted cruz has been able to pick up a major

watch for donald trump to play the case of, look, everybody against donald trump. this is how it's always been and this is what is fueling the record turnout and this is how it's going to continue. for him, jose, he says this is going to be good. >> hallie jackson, ted cruz says it would have been the end of the road had he lost texas. is that a nudge, a hint to marco rubio, you don't really make any difference right now? >> reporter: it's more than a hint and a nudge, jose. just a reminder, cruz said the same thing. any candidate who cannot win his home state needs to look at the candidacy. at the time, it was a sign of how confident he was doing and now it's a direct message not just to marco rubio who has to win florida but also to john kasich who has to pick up ohio. when you look at the bigger picture, let's talk about the delegate math. those two states, florida with the 99 delegates are going to be key when we move forward on march 14th. let's look at our count of the delegate map. donald trump leads with 325. ted cruz has 237. rubio, 117. john kasich, 27. l

is that something to that argument or are they overstating what donald trump' donald trumpo him when there are disruptions or interruptions? >> first of all, there is this long body of court cases about inciting violence and there are -- the point is being there are limits on someone's first amendment rights but there are not that many limits. but for political candidates there are even kind of fewer limits on their first amendment rights. meaning that when you put yourself voluntarily into a political campaign the expectation is that you are going to be insulted. yopeople are going to say things to you that you don't agree with and you think aren't true. there is very little if any legal recourse for candidates. they are really held to a much higher standard. i think it would be very difficult if not impossible for trump othe trump campaign to prove -- or the trump campaign to prove sacks actions of these protesters. >> jim so interesting talking to you about this and we appreciate you coming on. >> thank you very much for having me, very interesting legal issues. >> you're welcome.

i'm just quoting donald trump. i rely on kayleigh to be the fact checker. >> i want writers to get the credit as someone who did write a book. >> here's the deal. if you are going to be the are in donald trump's position, you have to deal with the fact that somewhere between 35% and 40% of people who self-identify as republicans and show up at this convention say they'll never vote for donald trump. that's a tough starting point. what is he going to do about it? this lindsey graham and ted cruz reunion is extraordinary because what lindsey graham is saying, is i know ted cruz is going to lose but i'd rather go down lose with ted cruz because i know he's a republican and we can rebuild from within if that's the context of the loss. if donald trump takes over the republican party, it's over. >> ross, why shouldn't donald trump, if he has won the most states, the most races, has the most delegates, i mean, if i was a donald trump voter, i would be outraged that suddenly the gop grand poobahs are coming in telling the

donald trump's brand is winner. when he's back on his heels, he loses that. >> i think, though, in combination with that, the kkk/david duke piece played probably a bigger role than people suspect. because at the end of the day, people just don't want to be associated with that in any way. >> that's why i call it a dog whistle. something that you can deny that it's racist. the kkk is probably the one thing -- you can say mexicans are racist, but that's not racist. >> any sentence that has kkk and david duke in it, the answer is no out of the box. i think it pulled some people back and it just happened for cruz to be at a point where he was making that argument that caught as well. so for rubio and kasich, it wasn't a play for them. for cruz, he saw the opportunity because donald trump opened up this door. >> i think david duke wasn't mentioned for 20 years. and somehow he's back because of this stupid event where he endorsed, i guess, and trump couldn't unendorse him. >> couldn't walk away from it clean enough. >> l

donald hired 17. what's been reported is that donald told the editorial board of the "new york times" what i'm saying on immigration i don't believe. i won't build a wall or deport people. this is just rhetoric for the voters. if, in fact, you went to manhattan and said i'm lying to the american people, then the voters a right to know. >> you're the lying guy up here. you're the one. >> release it. >> excuse me. i've given my answer, lying ted, i've given my answer. >> he scam it had people of florida. he scammed the people -- he doesn't vote. he doesn't show up to the u.s. senate, he doesn't vote. he scammed the people. he defrauded the people of florida. >> you've made that point. go ahead. >> as you can see in his answer, it's the same thing. >> you defrauded the people of florida, little marco. >> let me ask the voters at home. this is this debate you want playing out in the general election? >> i tell you what i don't want playing out and i've said it before, the crowds. who is that good for? jus

if donald trump gets the republican nomination, would any of you not vote for the nominee, donald trump? that's a lot of people in this room. would any you vote for a democrat instead of donald trump? we have five hands in the republican party headquarters in the home of gerald rrchlts ford who would vote republicans. i leave you with this, are you still all proud republicans? [ applause ] . >> thank you for having us. we learned a lot in this room. >> thanks a lot for sticking around for us. it's interesting to hear. all the politicians tho ho have come forward, republican politicians who have come forward who say never trump and we've interviewed and others have interviewed, none of the ones that i talked to at least have said they would vote for a democrat. do you think that room is representative of something larger going on or not? >> there's a real phenomenon here with people look at trump and say this man does not line up with what i believe, i have been in the republican party for a long time, i am a conservative who believes these things, i don't understand this man's ideology,

trump, i know donald trump. he'll bolt. he'll be angry. he might run as a third-party candidate. >> right. and what they said to me when i asked about that, we're willing to take that chance. it's better than having him as the republican nominee. >> jamie gangel working her sources for us. >>> this afternoon donald trump says he's facing a lot of incoming fire right now. there will be even more tonight at the republican presidential debate in detroit. dana bash is on the scene for us. dana, not everyone in the republican party clearly on board with mitt romney and the stop trump movement. something that's risky, especially if he wins the nomination. what are you hearing over there? >> reporter: that's exactly right. certainly i'm hearing a lot of what jamie is reporting about members of the republican establishment apoplectic about donald trump being their nominee which is why they're willing to take this to the convention, but others in prominent positions, especially on capitol hill, are saying are you kidding

you see the reporter's body at the donald trump. that apparently is donald trump. shortly after this, because this is sort of a frame by frame video, you see her body move pretty significantly several inches c maybe even a foot or so back. >> can we play it back? >> that would tend to suggest that there was some sort of grabbing and americaing motion. the important thing to understand, florida like most states as a misdemeanor form of battery and the fresh hold is low. any intentional touching that was without the person's consent is potentially a crime. and the law is very specific. you need not cause harm. you need not cause injury. so long as that touching was unpermitted, unconsented to, then you may potentially be charged with misdemeanor battery. >> so as the low threshold. it does look like she does jerk back, but this video is jerky in and of itself because it's a frame by frame thing. do you think this proves anything one way or another? >> it appears to prove -- remember, you don't just have the video. you'll have the testimony of a complain nant, and eve

donald trump not win florida, and donald trump will not be the republican nominee. >> reporter: what is your road map to change florida and win in florida? what do you have to do? >> well, i know we know how to win elections in florida. and what we have to do is remind people what's happening with donald trump. there are people that have been taken by his message. he's trying to exploit people that are hurting with this argument that he's fighting for the little guy. donald trump has never fought for the little guy. he's a guy that says he's tough on illegal immigration but he hired illegal immigrants to work on his trump towers to build it. he is a con artist and that's being exposed and you're seeing where he was up by huge margins in every poll and is pug off small victories and in theis -- >> reporter: but senator he's winning. he's winning delegates and winning states. winning winning is what matters here. >> charlie, you have to get to 1,237 delegates. donald trump is not on track to do, that especially after tonight. when you get into the winner-take-all states and the race co

there is obviously an effort under way to silence donald trump's supporters, to silence donald trump himself and i must say if another candidate for the presidency of the united states had just had an incident where somebody tried to rush him on stage and secret service had to actually engage, i know it wasn't a serious incident in the sense of nothing happened thankfully, if that had been the case with hillary clinton, any candidate, all we would be talking about is the threat to that candidate and things have gotten out of control and people need to stop this mad babyish conduct of thinking that they can shut people down, tell them what they can and cannot say. they either believe in the first amendment or do not. they don't get it both ways, i believe in it but you're saying mean things so i'm going to scream and shout you down. even apparently throw punches, there were curses at people last night in chicago attending the rally. i'm sure there are people there with children. maybe they wanted to see what donald trump had to say. they have protesters, it's out of control and even f

of those 27, donald trump has won 18. that's donald trump in the maroon. ted cruz has won 7, john kasich has won 1. and then you can give minnesota to marco rubio, although he dropped out of the race. we're not counting territories or the district of columbia. that is dominant. on the democratic side, of the 24 states that have had contests, hillary clinton has won 15, bernie sanders has won nine. there are some stories that have emerged from the evening, not a great night for bernie sanders, marco rubio drops out, john kasich lives to fight another day but have i to say the big story is the complete and total dominance of donald trump. >> absolutely. unfortunately for him there are still other people in the race who are going to give him a run for his money and make it hard for him to win the delegates before the convention. it's not impossible but it's going to be hard. on the democratic side it, has been a mixed bag so far. hillary clinton so far has had a really, really good night. in looking at the outstand being ra -- outstanding race -- missouri it

and donald trump. my experience as the prosecutor and as auditor of state working on public integrity is that somebody like that who has no core principles that they are unwilling to compromise ultimately is not the kind of person that you can afford to trust public power to. and somebody who -- go ahead, i'm sorry. >> i was just going to ask you. but haven't the voters spoken? shouldn't you support anyone that republican voters support? because donald trump is won ten states so far. >> two things. number one is i didn't sign away my rights as a united states citizen to have an opinion and make my own choices just because i became a member of the republican party on elected official. but more importantly the american people haven't spoken. 70% of all the delegates still remain to be chosen. and if you look at the third to 40% of the republican voters that mr. trump has amassed so far, the republican electorate only represents about a third of americans. so a third of a third is maybe a ninth. i think t

yet donald trump losing. when the clinton a tack machine gets focused on trump, i think it's going to be brutal for our party. we can't let him be the nominee. it's not going to be trump. strong words to follow. >> there you go, i appreciate it. senator coleman, thank you. we shall see. the people will speak. >>> another difficult day for sportscaster erin andrews. she testified today in her $75 million lawsuit against marriott hotels after a stalker videotaped her naked in her hotel room. she spoke tearfully about how more than six years it still affects her today. >> i feel sad because i think he would have loved the girl more that was there before this happened and i feel very guilty about that. ♪ look how beautiful it is... honey, we need to talk. we do? i took the trash out. i know - and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan. right now? whether you're new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. it's up t

donald trump not coming here. in your obviously biased view, what does donald trump not coming here say to the conservative movement? >> i'm not biased as much as informed. i am also on the board of acu. i know what matt said is true, we work with these candidates trying to get everyone to agree to a certain format. it is too bad for donald trump. thatis an audience reacts as much to messages as messenger. if he came here and talked about how americans are getting killed with isis and kill without economy, mr. trump would have had a good reception here. he is clearly not afraid to take tough questions. he stood on the debate stage for 2 hours and took fire from all sides. he took some personal and salacious insults as of late marco rubio. scheduling conflict -- the man doesn't -- he can just leave early in the morning and get to kansas. john: you just basically ruled out all the possible explanations, what explanation could you give? >> they feel like these should be in these states. this is the purist form of dir

ted cruz leads the field by 10 points over donald trump with donald trump 9 points over john kasich. how will this affect the race if this poll holds? >> if ted cruz can peel away wisconsin and coming up after wisconsin is the colorado caucuses, ted cruz has tended to do very welfare reform l in the. every time ted cruz can peel away one of these contests, it makes it more difficult for donald trump to get to that magic number of 1,237 delegates. you were talking about this in the buildup to the show. it's not only the abortion comments, it's the corey lewandowski incident, the wife war wars we saw last week and the violence at the rallies. it's whether the cumulative effect is starting to affect his numbers. ted cruz has certainly caught fire. it could be a change in the momentum of this race. we'll have to see how it all pans out on tuesday night. stw >> you mentioned corey lewandowski. that was the other big story we were mentioning. >> i am confident that neither president obama nor president bush would tolerate someone on their staff being accused of physically assaulting a repo

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donald trump: its true. mark: are there other areas where you think you need to know more to be president about national security? donald trump: i have a good instinct for national security. mark: i'm not asking about your instinct. there is no area for you think you need to learn more about it? donald trump: i want to know more about anything in every area. and everyle area little corner. i do think i have a good instinct. if you go back four years ago, we should not have been in iraq. but i said, now you are leaving, you have destabilized the middle east. it is a total mess. iran will take the oil. iraq has the second-largest oil reserves in the world. really good oil. i said, take the oil. so now who has the oil? and iran willoil, have it. john: it is been taken for for a long time that the united states and the president of united states are the leaders of the free world. if you are the president of the united states would you think of , yourself as the leader of the free world? donald trump: i would. th

doesn't that help donald trump? >> i hope that there's a presumption particularly with lindsey graham leading the way and giving cover that cruz is the -- what you just said, donald has embarrassed institutional down ballot races enough that there's a hope that the party will unify before florida and ohio. why not contest it? >> it will be interesting to see what kind of phone calls marco rubio's getting. before we go our friends at "snl," we thought it was an off week for them, but it wasn't. they h a little fun speculating that hillary clinton seems to be enjoying the state of the republican race. take a look. >> to all of you voters out there who have thought for years, i hate hillary, i could never vote for her, to you i say welcome. [ laughter ] i've got clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, and here you are stuck in the middle with me! >> it does -- kelly, the two most unpopular people with general election voters with the democrats it's hillary clinton and for the republicans it's donald trump, i mea

donald trump is the unifier. this next governor coming up on stage, that he and i are together on the stage, you will see the manifestation of donald trump's ability to unify. i want to introduce to you, governor chris christie. and he will tell you why he is supporting donald trump donald trump for the president of the united states of america. >> we had after lunch time, information about todd palin being involve in a snow mobile accident in alaska and sarah palin was not going to be able to attend a trump event and she would go back to alaska. we see her on the stage shelf referred to the accident as a little wreck and she proceeded to keep the schedule for the tampa event. chris christie on the stage now. i want to bring into the conversation, we have miami beach mayor, phillip levine, thank you, so much. we have a pirate ship pulling in behind us. >> trump. >> no. we know trump is in tampa. not too far away. what do you make of the reaction that some people are having to the rally taking place. we saw the re

in on hillary yet. >> but for donald trump, mika -- but for donald trump who has disapproval numbers in the 60s, we would all be talking about a democratic nominee with disapproval ratings in the mid-50s. this is extraordinary. >> what i took out of that story, a big story about the fbi and all of that, is that 147 fbi agents are focused on this? don't they have other problems? >> they downsized that number. it's only 50. >> now it's closer to 50. >> only, yes. >> there's no crime in the country they should be worrying about? >> as a reporter, to have 50 sources -- >> so hillary clinton has decided to take on donald trump. her campaign is unveiling its first ad in new york ahead of that state's primary in april 19. the spot takes dead aim at trump. take a look. >> new york, 20 million people strong. no, we don't all look the same, doe don't all sound the same, either. but when we pull together we do the biggest things in the world. so when some say we can solve america's problems by building walls, banning people based on their religion and turning against each other, well, this is n

donald trump: it is true. mark: are there other areas where you think you need to know more to be president about national security? donald trump: i have a good instinct for national security. mark: i'm not asking about your instinct. there is no area for you think you need to learn more about it? donald trump: i want to know more about anything in every area. every little area and every little corner. i do think i have a good instinct. if you go back four years ago, we should not have been in iraq. but i said, now you are leaving, you have destabilized the middle east. it is a total mess. iran will take the oil. people don't realize iraq has the second-largest oil reserves in the world. really good oil. i said, take the oil. so now, who has the oil? isis has the oil, and iran will have it. john: it is been taken for granted for a long time that the united states and the president of united states are the leaders of the free world. if you are the president of the united states, would you think of yourself as t

>> the chief strategist of donald trump's campaign is donald trump. there is -- you know, corey lewandowski is running the campaign but there is -- this is donald trump. and i think just like the answer on torture, which he then had to clarify or change his position, i should say, the next day, sometimes he gets out ahead of himself. and when you're running to be leader of the free world, this can be a real problem, particularly if you're going to become the nominee, which by the way he is the front-runner here. >> this will be a subject tonight. i'm sure this will be the form of an attack and the second piece of things that's going to be a form of attack is what was presented by a super pac against him last night, which is about his outsourcing, the fact that he's got lines of clothes from china, from mexico. to me at a point when everybody is talking about jobs, maybe i'm biased, but this issue will be the subject of an attack on donald trump. why can you say that you are pro job, great, you're going to bring these jobs back when all you've been doi

for donald trump, this happened. donald trump getting big wins in seven states from alabama to vermont. ted cruz in texas, oklahoma and alaska and marco rubio won in minnesota. he came in first place. trump is building a substantial delegate lead but there are crucial big delegate primaries ahead and a lot of big prayers being said by establishment republicans hoping to stop it. >> for the democrats, hillary clinton comes up big on super tuesday winning in seven states, further expanding her delegate lead. bernie sanders says he's not going anywhere, folks. he won more states including his home state vermont. there's little time, though, for celebration. the next round of contest is just three days away and another big debate right around the corner. cnn's political director david chalian is joining us now. david, you were up all night looking at all of the exit polls watching all of the results come in. what do you think is the big headline this morning? >> well, let's just start with trump's massive victory and the

some told me they joined the gop to vote for donald trump, others to vote against donald trump. now, me too. they say you can't go home again. but i'm just planning a short visit. and now for a tweet or two. as i like to say, you can follow me on twitter if you can spell "smerconish." here's some of what came in this broadcast. a roundtable of over 60 wealthy white establishment men meeting to overthrow the will of gop voters. what could possibly go wrong? i can only say i am neither wealthy nor over 60, so i assume you're referring to the other guys. continue sending me your twee tweets @smerconish. i'll see you next week. heals faster. for a bandage that moves with you and stays on all day, cover with a band-aid brand flexible fabric adhesive bandage. theand the kids always eat sky their vegetables.e. because the salad there is always served with the original hidden valley ranch. this just got interesting. so why pause to take a pill? and why stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anyti

you decided to endorse donald trump. here on cnn all of them refused to commit to that pledge, refused to commit to backing the eventual republican nominee. should they reconsider? >> well, they need to start thinking about, you know, the republican party, the republican brand, and what happens if they, as people in leadership positions, take positions that help to destroy the unity in the party. what are the consequences of that? i'm sure that a lot of people on the other side are absolutely delighted to see this. they couldn't wish for this any their wildest dreams, but at some point the republicans have got to stop this self-destructive behavior, which they always seem to engage in no matter how much of an advantage they have. >> they've got to stop the self-destructive behavior, but it continues. donald trump said last night on cnn he doesn't care if ted cruz supports him. here's how he put it. >> i don't want him to be tormented. i don't want his support. i don't need his support. >> nearly 6 million people have cas