and then there's trump magazine. and trump vodka. and trump steaks. and trump mortgage. a business genius he is not. >> however, when you accepted his endorsement four years earlier, this is what you said about his business background. >> donald trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works, to create jobs for the american people. i spent my life in the private sector, not quite as successful as this guy, but successful nonetheless. >> governor, all those unsuccessful businesses that you outlined on thursday, trump airlines, trump university, trump vodka, those are all failures before 2012 as well. were you just sort of saying something you had to say four years ago in order to accept his endorsement? >> well, donald trump has made a lot of money for himself. and there's no question that he's got a lot of money in his pockets and has been successful on that score. but if you look at his record overall and there are other, by the way, failures, you say, okay, he made a lot of money for himself. inherited a lot of money from his dad, but this

and then there's trump magazine and trump vodka and trump steaks and trump mortgage. a business genius he is not. >> he even went where the current gop field had not gone before. >> there's a dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the vietnam war. while at the same time john mccain, whom he has mocked, was imprisoned and tortured. >> john mccain blasted out a statement shortly after romney's speech saying i share the concerns about donald trump. add the last two gop nominees to the mounting outcry over his candidacy and trump now faces the implosion of his party, just as he's seeking to become its own leader. >> mitt did a big, big joke. mitt is a failed candidate. he failed. he failed horribly. >> trump, who argues he's expanding the party brushed off romney's attacks as sour grapes coming from a presidential loser. >> he let us down. he let us down. mitt ran, probably it was the worst run most people have seen. he doesn't have what it takes to be president, that i can tell you. >> the real estate tycoon defended his business record. >> they don't wan

trump. donald trump arriving. sources telling us that's ben carson will be endorsing donald trump tomorrow morning. with that, let's bring in our cnn political commentators, s.e. cupp, jeffrey lord and amanda carpenter. kevin is a republican strategist, s.e. cupp a conservative columnist, jeffrey lord, a former reagan political director and amanda is a communications director for ted cruz. what are you expecting from ted cruz tonight? does he focus on donald trump, trying to make this a two-person race? getting that idea across? or does he try to go after marco rubio and make it as much of a two-person race as possible? >> it's going to backfire if he goes against marco rubio. marco rubio's campaign is imploding as we speak. a lot of people who like marco rubio and supported him. if he attacks him hard he's going to look like he's kicking a puppy. he needs to direct it at donald trump. he is the alternative to trump. if you want to take him down you have to support ted cruz on super tuesday

>> 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 donald trump, with an impressive lead in states across the country tonight. a projected victory in vermont. also winning big in the south, in georgia, alabama, and tennessee. paula faris is at trump headquarters with the road ahead. paula? >> reporter: hi, juju. well, the trump camp is extremely happy. they say what really stood out to them, the number of first-time voters and crossover voters that voted for donald trump on super tuesday. what can't be lost in the

trump at 35.7. the ohio governor avoided the home state loss that would have likely marked the end of his white house run. and in this winner take all contest he claimed all 66 delegates at stake on the gop side. he really needed this win to up his delegate count, and finally racked up this being his first win of the election. >> to have people believe in you, and to believe that you can bring people together, and strengthen our country, i have to thank the people of the great state of ohio. i love you. >> kasich's win denied donald trump yet another victory and made it tougher for the businessman who holds a significant lead in the delegate count to clinch the nomination outright. now, with some momentum in his corner, kasich is vowing to move forward, to go all the way on to the republican convention in cleveland. he is out campaigning today. he has moved on to pennsylvania. his native state. where he has an event at villanova university today. >> and it continues. molly line live for us. thank yo

is a never trump host. no one in this race has gone into this hostile territory. for him to take glee in tearing down trump, i think it was unfair. >> trump admitted he didn't know when he went on with sykes that he was part of that never trump movement. isn't the campaign a little bit at fault for not doing their homework? >> he didn't know. but i praise him for that. unlike others who strategically say i'll go on this one but not that, he goes on. he wants to take his message on the american people. that means going to unfriendly places and friendly places. i think we should commend him for probably being the most open candidate in this case with regard to making himself available to all platforms. >> when you see van, coming from the democrat, you can sit back and let this play out. but hillary clinton when she's been out in wisconsin, she doesn't look like she's running in the primary to some anymore. she seems focussed and in tune with what's going on on the republican said. >> absolutely. donald trump

then there's trump magazine and trump vodka and trump steaks and trump mortgage. a business genius he is not. here's what i know -- donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as the degree from trump university. [ cheers and applause ] donald trump tells us he is very, very smart. [ laughter ] i'm afraid when it comes to foreign policy he is very, very not smart. this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter. who attribute add reporter's questions to her menstrual cycle. who mocked a brilliant rival who happened to be a woman due to her appearance. who bragged about his marital affairs and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity. donald trump says he admires vladimir putin. at the same time, he's called george w. bush a liar. that is a twisted example of evil trumping good. he's not of the temperament of the kind of stable, thoughtful person we need as leader. his imagination must not be married to real power. >> look, mitt is a failed candidate. he failed horribly. i backed him. you can see how loyal he is. he was begging for my e

different those two trumps are, those alleged two trumps. ben carson. remember, it wasn't so long ago that trump suggested carson had a mental problem that predisposed him to pedestrian feel i can't. donald trump has made good with him and they have talked. he does have the authority to say this. >> i hear so many people say trump has such great kids. it's not like you have the one side where people are complaining about but they point to the fact he is a good father. anyway, both of you, do not go away. >>> this is a fox news alert. some 17-year-olds will now be able to vote in ohio's presidential primary, this major court ruling could shift ohio to senator bernie sanders' favor. fox news ed henry is live in cleveland, ohio. ed, 17-year-olds? >> greta, very interesting, you are right. he had sued, bernie sanders, to get 17-year-olds to vote in tuesday's primary if they turn 18 by november. now, the key is that a state judge has just ordered moments ago that that go forward. the secretary of state is already objecting. it's going to be appea

donald trump? >> he has told me that i'm unfair. okay? i'm not going to get into me. i want to bring it back to you. >> you talk to him so many times. >> yeah, tonight. right before you. >> and you let him get away.za >> no, no, no, no. i don't let him get away >> >> you with him on everything. >> that's not true. talking points is used that kind of stuff. overnight we received about 3,000 emails as usual the reaction to the trump interview was all over the place. i'm too kind to him. i'm condescending. i'm unfair to the candidate. i'm in the tank. same interview. on and on. we'll read some of your letters later. but, that reaction is mostly based on how the viewerw4a feels about donald trump, not what actually took place in my interview with him. as far as mr. ramos is concerned, he seems to be on another planet. here's the factor record and you can look it up. everything is in the beginning of his campaign, i directly told donald trump that mexico would not, would not pay for the border wall. eve

trump's goal is 1237 delegates. trump has 319 delegates. his opponents have a combined 385. two basic assumptions. caucus states have not been trump's strongest places. he may see close races in states with big suburban populations like in virginia where he won but not by very much. even in the states trump has lost, he still gets a lot of delegates. one third of the delegates. let's say this pattern continues. let's say that he loses ohio to john kasich. loses florida to marco rubio. those are two of the big winner take all states. he would falls, short of the magic number of 1237. there are lots of other scenarios. does that make a case to you that it is possible that trump continuing along and winning could stop short of a majority? john: it is plausible. it is not the likeliest outcome. the caucus states where only republicans are allowed to vote. he will have to loses winner take all states. not just ohio and florida but other big winner take all states. he would have to be beaten. note is a reasonable chance the most likely outcome that he could stop short of the numbe

but trump must be trump. he cannot abandon this style and the issues that have got him here. >> they talk about him as being a bad influence on american politics. i know that argument and i agree to a lot of it. i don't believe that's all he's offering by any means. he's offering something that people say, i've been waiting for this. something that does make people happy. >> he's an optimistic guy and wants america to be great again. that's why he is running. it's an authentic aspiration. people can criticize tons of things about him, but he has a simple message, and that strikes a chord with a lot of people. >> why is he the first guy to think about america, not the government, not society. bernie talks about society. and this guy talks about the country, we're going to beat the russians and chinese, we're going to even take on the canadians. >> it's helpful to not be a person of government and not think about government. this is the way most business people talk about -- they don't think about the governmen

people who have come out against the dbd dnd candidaonald trump the white house and donald trump's message trying to get limb to the white house. those 50 or so protestors actually blocked major arteries so that many of the people who were going to show up in a sort of the rally were unable to get there. we've got reporters all over the map. there is also a contentious rally taking place in midtown manhattan outside of trump to you towers. and back with me, chief of staff of the rnc. and stephanie elam trying to make her way to the rally is on foot, because come to find out a lot of people who were trying to get to that rally in support of donald trump now have to walk to it, and jeffrey lord, a donald trump supporter, also with us now. all right. so good to see all of you. now, all of this taking place just ahead of the ashrizona primary and as wells utah caucus cnn hosting democrats and republicans in one big discussion, one big night here on cnn. chris frates to you first. i wonder how much this dynamic, is a supporters as well as the protests, will dominate discussions with donald trum

whatever happened to trump airlin airlines, trump university, trump magazine, trump vodka, trump steaks, trump mortgage. he called him a bully, mysogenist, show-off, and he was just getting started. i have searched my memory, i have searched the political history of modern america, i have never seen anything like it and yet each day brings another surprise and we're looking at another gop debate tonight. can you believe this is playing out? >> no. it is extraordinary. it's certainly not like anything i have seen. there have been less than warm personal feelings between presidents and then the nominees who would come after them, but nothing like this, vitriolic and personal and it's running both ways. >> yeah. we left less than warm a long time ago, and we have moved into scorched earth now. ben, always a pleasure, counselor. thank you very much for being with us. >>> andrea, to you, the same question. we started our conversation with you have covered a lot of campaigns. i cannot remember a precedent for a day like the one we have just seen. >> i can't, either, because even in cases goin

according to a trump campaign insider who has turned against donald trump. as of tonight, all the polls indicate that the republican party is on its way to nominating the weakest possible candidate to run against hillary clinton or bernie sanders in the general election, a candidate so weak, so disliked by a big majority of voters that he could sink republicans on the ballot with him, causing republicans to lose control of the senate, lose house seats, and it wasn't supposed to be this way because donald trump wasn't supposed to be the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. "i sat in trump tower being told that the goal was to get the donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. that was it." that's according to stephanie sigliski, who was the communications director of make america great again super pac that was created and disbanded last year. the trump camp would have been satisfied to see him polling at 12% and taking second place to a candidate who might hold 50%. his candidacy was a protest candidacy. it pains

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

trump thinks i can change these people into trump democrats. that's one place he thinks he can put michigan in play. he also thinks he can put pennsylvania in play. how? donald trump thinks he'll do better. maybe he won't win the pittsburgh area. but he'll do better with blue collar voters. donald trump thinks the old former steel part of the country, coal part of the country out there that he can do better with blue collar workers. anecdotally there's some evidence he could do better. not that hillary clinton couldn't counter him. that puts michigan, maybe pennsylvania on the map as well meaning republicans would contest them in ways we haven't seen in a while. there's ohio. 51/48 last time. donald trump thinks he can win in places like this where you have blue collar voters. let's look at what happened the other night even when kasich was winning his home state. donald trump did very well in the youngstown area. blue collar voters here and across the southern part of the state. a lot of conservative democrats. white conservative men who were

in the room with trump. but there are a lot of rnc donors who will walk aby from the top of the ticket it trump is nominee. and all of the things i mentioned before that will play out in cleveland if trump comes in, which is almost certainly the case, with majority or close to it. >>. >> andrea mitch sell with us on the phone. she's been doing reporting. andrea, tweet from donald trump confirminging a meeting p. we see him in the video we keep running, emerging from rnc building. he says, looking forward to bringing the party together and it'll happen. what do you know that's behind that tweet p? >> we is acknowledging he was meeting with reince priebus. we your outside in the alewhere you saw the motorcade pulling out. so we could not definitively say it was with reince priebus but there is no way that donald trump would have been in the rnc for 45 minutes to an hour with anyone other than the head of the rnc, reince priebus. and the fact is, he's got a lot of repair work to do. they have to bring this part

trump. both sides of my republican party are split and they are passionate and they're very engaged in this race. i don't think it's my position right now to step in and try to influence one way or the other so i'm going to stay out. >> let's talk about what happened today here in washington. donald trump, he met with the rnc chairman reince priebus. a republican source telling cnn the meeting was about convention rules, delegates. here's the question. do you believe that the person, the candidate who has the most delegates going into that convention should be the nominee? >> what i believe is we should follow the rules that are going to be made by the delegates when they get to the convention. and so on round one if we don't have -- whether it's cruz or trump that have enough delegates to win, i think we'll have to go by the rules of the convention. now, i think if donald trump has more delegates, i think he'll probably w the convention. but if not, you know, it could go to ted cruz. wolf,

trump put together tonight? >> that's one of the things that republicans have been putting together tonight. this is not the old coalition. high and low end of the income spectrum and also by the way to southern states and also vermont and massachusetts. so he has proved himself to be a new kind of animal in the republican party and washington republicans don't quite know what to do with him yet and there is a real sense of panic. they've got about two weeks for their last ability to stop him before those primaries ton 15th of march. >> pelley: what are their options? >> their option he are to go nuclear, to dump so much advertising and tacks on him that he is incapable of winning in other states and hope that marco rubio or ted cruz wins in those winner take all states, and then they can work on a more the problem with that is that you are decimating a person who is getting vote after vote after vote and by the way who is growing in strength because of the irstation and the anger at the very people hatching the

>> 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

certainly trump supporters waiting for donald trump anxi s anxiously. standing out, some, in the sun for hours and are certainly ready for this to get underway. >> a very jovial kind of setting there. are you hearing from even donald trump's people? whether there is any -- i guess an adjustment in how he will arrive, or whether he will still arrive? >> we haven't heard any of that yet. they usually don't discuss security matters like that. certainly protests aren't anything unusual at a trump rally and not for the trump campaign. they are now used to dealing with these types of protests whether blocking a roadway or outside of the venue or if it's inside the venue. there is always a possibility you have protestors infiltrating the venue without showing they are protestors and then demonstrating, interrupting trump in the middle of his speech. we've seen that happen dozens of times in the last couple of weeks with trump being interrupted at least a dozen times in single rallies. so certainly something that the campaign is used to and are prepared for it.

veteran on both sides of the argument, trump and the ant-trump. the ant-trump protesters. i want to make sure they keep moving. i don't want in. any explicit language going on and that's always a danger that we take. the trump rally hasn't just started yet. this has been going on for about five hours outside the tampa convention center. >> and the people, the supporters there, are these overflow folks that have not been allowed into the rally? is that why they're outside? >> exactly that. so people stayed in line about four hours. they took in the capacity that they could take. that's when it got frustrated. >> how much of that is more ginned up because they see your camera? or other cameras there? or is this happening when the cameras aren't on? >> this is happening when the camera isn't on. there is an equal number of protesters. in every director you see local media here everywhere. and i think that's playing a part in this. i don't know if people would be here if there was not so much media here. >> reporting in tampa for us outside the trump rally taking place there.

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

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

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 had the two republican leaders in the house and senate. paul ryan of the speaker of the house and mitch mcconnell, clearly distancing themselves from donald trump. >> it was remarkable. both said they wouldn't involved in this presidential campaign. the remarks about the ku klux klanened the hesitancy of donald trump to move away from their endorsement, really got to those republican leaders. awfully little awfully late. if those republican leaders wanted to do in donald trump they should have done this many months ago. >> jon karl, you have a candidate here, donald trump, who's attacked john mccain, the candidate in 2008, loser because he was attacked.

trump, as he says? donald trump is arguing with her over what really happened. let me play for you what he said today about why the reporter, in his view, is not telling the truth. >> she said -- this is an exact quote. i was jolted backwards. she yanked me down. she didn't go to the ground. she didn't almost fall to the ground. i was able to maintain by balance nonetheless, but i was shaken. >> katrina, why is it worth it for him to go to this granular level, to go down to the ground with this one? >> it's not necessarily down to the ground. he's just stating the facts. we hear media coverage 24/7 on things like this where the facts aren't being reported. this woman is saying that a father of four small children grabbed her and tried to throw her to the ground, erin. that is a very serious charge. it did not happen that way. that's all mr. trump is doing. he is fighting back for his employee doing his job. this was a press scrum. this type of thing is not unusual. >> doug, a quick final word to you. is there something to be said for donald trump's loyalty? >> t

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

that's why you see trump. i don't think trump or cruz are fair traders. i think they are both free traders. i think hillary had mixed feelings about it before. i think she had the right sentiments. i think probably with bill clinton in the white house that had some impact on her for sure. i think she has seen that nafta didn't work. this is my opinion of her. not what she said to me about nafta. i think bill clinton's probably seeing that nafta hasn't worked well. i don't expect him to stand up publicly to talk about it that way. it's clear our trade policy and tax policy and the elites of this country have sold us short. i won't use the word betrayed. that's strong but they sold us short on trade an taxes and our place in the international economy. >> my question to you, there's two schools of thought of donald trump as the nominee. one is this guy will get creamed. he's gotten the highest on favorables. there's huge swaths of the country that wouldn't consider voting for the guy. the other is he's terrifying. he doesn't believe in anything so he can say

trump. not one that we see very often in that he actually reversed himself on that gaffe. usually he sticks to his guns, stands has ground and doesn't budge any further. that's not what we saw earlier. >> reversed himself and yet said he's not reversing himself, he doesn't change his position. >>> karen tumulty with "the washington post," kristen soltis anderson, a republican pollster and columnist from the washington examiner. she's not my long lost cousin. and david gersten is here as well. karen, does this impact donald trump? his campaign quickly did try to come out with this same essentially trying to clarify what donald trump's 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

. >> for the other candidates in the race, a new opening to go after trump. >> donald trump is created a toxic environment. there is no place for a national leader to prey on the fears of people. >> he doesn't want to say anything to his supporters he doesn't want to turn them off. he understands the reason why they're voting into them because they have tapped into anger. >> responsibility begins and ends at the top. it is my hope that all of us, can appeal to civility. >> president obama who has increasingly jumped into the 2016 political fray suggesting that trump's republican critics are getting what they deserve. >> imagine what trump would say if he actually had a record like this? instead of selling steaks, you've got the republican establishment, they're very exercised. we're shocked somebody would be saying these things. how can you be shocked? this is the guy remember, who was sure that i was born in kenya. who just wouldn't let it go. and all this same republican establishment they weren't saying nothing. >> well we always say there has never been an election like this. on th

if trump is the nominee. i spoke with the former governor and asked her if she was surprised by christie's bomb shell endorsement. >> it didn't really surprise me. i heard rumors this might be happening. it disappointing me because as the governor of a diverse state of new jersey to feel comfort able with all he said about donald to get comfortable and endorse someone who is race baiting and appealing to some of the worst emotions in people really was a disappointment to me. >> does it change your view of who chris christie is? >> well, chris, feels this. he does believe that at the end of the day donald trump will be the winner. that's what he feels is most important. i have a problem because i'd like to see someone elected to the presidency who can bring the country together and make things happen. that's what i'm looking for and that's why i'm supporting john kasich. it's not over yet. some of the media like to say it's all over. we forget, tomorrow, tuesday, will be only one state that has a winner take o

trump goes to washington. >> mr. trump goes to washington. >> mr. trump goes to washington. >> mr. trump goes to washington. >> mr. trump goes to washington. >> mr. trump goes to washington. >> good morning to you both. mr. trump as you mentioned goes to washington. >> greetings from the bloomberg washington bureau. just down the road from here white house hopefuls of both parties are addressing the annual conference of the powerful pro israel lobbying group. all three republican candidates are speaking this evening. donald trump's speech will be by far the one that gets the most attention. later in the program we'll show you my conversation with a pair of rabbis who are concerned with trump's policies and his rhetoric. to further illustrate the tough crowd trump will face this evening check out oat investigation hillary clinton got this morning when she spoke to the group and called out mr. trump for previously suggesting he would not take sides in the israeli-palestinian conflict. >> yes, we need steady hands not a president who says he is neutral on monday, pro israel on tuesday

as for the trump campaign, they have said it didn't happen. you saw donald trump's tweet. as for mr. lewandowski, his lawyer said he was issued a notice to appear and given a court date. he was not arrested. they want to emphasize he is absolutely innocent of this charge, and they will enter a plea of not guilty and look forward to his day in court. he's quite confident he will be exonerated. again, that is the back and forth. legally, you could have a judge in a probable cause hearing decide there isn't enough to move forward, or you could move forward. you could have basically a jury find him not guilty or you could find him guilty. ultimately a misdemeanor charge is not the most serious that you're going to see, and this one doesn't involve an intent to harm, necessarily, and yet at the same time as we've been reporting, highly unusual for a campaign manager, highly unusual in the political process against a reporter, in this case a conservative outlooks reporter, and finally, this is, of course, the next shoe dropping after a period of time where both mr. lewandowski a

trump ahead of mr. rubio by some 20 points and that remains the same. >> 21 this morning. >> even after all of that that we have been through. what the candidates like to do is put some space between themselves and these negative ads. so it's the super pacs that run these ads so the candidates can take more of the high road and talk more of substance, as opposed to the attack ads. but are they effective? probably so. you may have some folks who are on the line, who have not made a decision yet as to who they want to vote for when you see some of those ads, some of those words by mr. trump, that could persuade voters that is -- >> the one with all of the, the bleeps and all the nasty words from trump, i think that's running primarily up north, isn't it, david? >> that's exactly right. >> they're trying to target those republicans who live in the northern part of the state which people sometimes compare to like southern georgia or southern alabama. >> the problem is those ads don't talk about policy. and

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trump has 776. the non-trump forces if you take them and aggregate them together, 834 delegates who are selected. that's a 98 delegate majority for the anti-trump forces. to be determined is 902. and the outcome of the campaign, the outcome of the nomination will be decided by those 902 delegates. now what happens if we have them break 50-50? then we have donald trump at the convention with 1,187, short of the number needed to nominate. the anti-trump forces have 1285. there would be a 98 delegate gap. the question is could they coal less. what happens if it's 47/53. then it is trump 1160 well short and the non-trump forces at 1312 with a lead of 352. more likely they can coalesce. >> webefore i let you go, there was an important meeting down at sea island in march. it was reported that there was all of these establishment people including yourself who were trying to figure out how to knock off trump. what was the real story? >> the "huffington post" says that the highlight of the american enterpris

i'm not sure that trump being trump has what it takes to come to these people and make that argument and get all of them on board. >> i think there's a big attitude factor. if you look at the people in that room, they're turned off by donald trump east 's attitude. i think they've attracted a lot of attention to what the republican party may be about but this shtick is getting old. >> for the voters, it doesn't seem to be getting old. they're certainly coming out still. >> i do think this's a new level of seriousness as there's fewer people on that debate stage, as donald trump has more attention on him as a serious presidential -- >> we're going to take a break. in detroit the three ethree republicans candidates not name nameed donald trump weighed in as well. and delicious sweet for the kid you'll never outgrow... feed your inner kidult with frosted mini-wheats®. try new kellogg's mini-wheats harvest delights with sweet drizzle and bits made with real fruit. it's my job and it's i takealso my passion.rises. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep... so i couldn't get up in time. th

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

trump. acting as if the nomination is now in the bag and warning of big trouble if he's denied the big prize at the gop convention, cnn's sunlen serfaty has the latest on the republican race. sunlen, what are you hearing? >> reporter: wolf, tonight donald trump is already looking ahead, looking toward securing the republican nomination, predicting that there will be a healing process that happens after this very rough primary. but it is certainly not over yet. some are now preparing for this to go all the way to the convention. >> we're going to win, win, win and we're not stopping. >> reporter: with the math and the momentum, donald trump is taking big steps to the nomination. >> the fact is we have to bring our party together. we have to bring it together. >> reporter: today indicating he's ready to bring the nominating process to a close. the gop front-runner saying he's done with gop debates and would skip one scheduled for next week, opting for a policy speech to the pro-israel organiza

trump at 44, john kasich at 9. trump leads polls in north carolina and missouri. but in ohio, a quinnipiac poll shows trump and kasich in an actual tie at 38% with cruz at 16 and rubio not even registering within the poll's margin of error. ted cruz in illinois today a state with 69 gop delegates that he reminded voters trump for years has sighted with and funded democrats. >> just how rich are you you've got 50 grand and say i've got nothing better to do than to give this to rop emanuel to hammer the people of chicago. >> trump leads with 15 states, one and 460 delegates. john kasich says if he loses his home state, he will drop out. and marco rubio if defeated in florida he will go all the way to the convention in cleveland. >> in the wake of last week's rally in north carolina at which an audience member was punched in the face, the sheriff's department is looking at the possibility of charges. a misdemeanor as well as their own techniques and whether or not they could have done a better job of keeping the peace. >> carl cameron, thank you very much. carl camer

love trump's hate and fact checking trump from the stump. he told rachel maddow when arguing about whether or not there is a path forward, the polls are showing he would be a better general election candidate against donald trump. this year very focused on populous anger and energy. there some similarities between what's going on on the republican side with bernie sanders although he would reject comparisons to trump. they do argue that that ultimately is the path forward. he has proven that he will be able to go further against hillary clinton than any of us thought. >> thank you so much, casey. joining me with all of this, good to see you both. alex, i will start with you here. sanders said he is banking on super delegates. how realistic is this and what more can that campaign do to stop sanders? >> clinton has a 26-1 advantage among super delegates to bernie sanders depending on how you calculate and all of them have not become public. that argument with casey, he would be a stronger candidate against donald trump. that's what he is banki

they didn't know about trump airlines and trump mortgages and trump vitamin network and trump steaks and trump taj mahal. they didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by donald trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful not been a uniform success. as they learn about him, a lot of them say i want to make sure i take a closer look at the other guys in the race. >> how about the argument and, again, we heard this from rush, this is the establishment basically trying to maintain control of a guy -- and push back a guy they wouldn't be able >> well, you can't control ted cruz for instance. no one has suggested you could do that and marco rubio, everyone tried to stop marco rubio from going against a sitting republican governor in florida. he did it anyway and won. establishment suggests there must be some wizard of oz somewhere pulling the strings. that's not the way it works. there are individuals like myself. i sat there and watched donald trump. i said, look, someone has to say something. i didn't talk to anybody and say i'm going to do a speech. this is some

it was all about donald trump, donald trump. cruz was supposed to have a day off from the campaign trail. he's been largely under the weather and sick, but they quickly changed his campaign schedule and added last-minute events in mississippi and michigan. these are states that vote tomorrow. the cruz campaign of course not wanting to leave any momentum from this weekend behind. cruz spoke with voters early eer today and here's what he said to say. >> it's neck in neck right now, i'm encouraged. i think momentum is surging our direction. number one, we're seeing folks who had been supporting donald trump and are realizing he isn't who we thought he was. >> he called mississippi a battle ground and he called donald trump his biggest competitor in that state. >> i want you to listen to what trump said on saturday after cruz won a few states. >> i would love to take on ted one on one because ted can't win new york, he can't win new jersey, he can't win pennsylvania, he can't win california. i want ted one on one, okay? marco has to

of a trump rally. and crash his rallies is being construed as being construed by some as i incitement to violenc. >> it is a bernie person, it is a bernie person. there is a guy charging the stage. probably i.s.i.s. or i.s.i.s.-related. >> isn't this better than listening to a long boring speech? looks like go home to mommie, bye-bye. >> protesters make no apologies for crashing trump rallies. they are willing to dive into the middle of a mosh pit to disrupt trump from speaking. these guys are truly looking for trouble. >> we came here to protest donald trump. >> so amazing. >> ho ho ho! [ screaming ] >> watch it! >> we shut it down! >> on violence we have seen at donald trump rallies have raised questions where the legal lines are drawn when it comes to a candidate renting out a venue and what are the rights of the protesters at that venue. an election law attorney in san francisco has been practicing law for 25 years. jim if a candidate rents out a private venue as trump can friday night in chicago w

thing went from the summer of trump to the fall of trump. too little too late. i think the prediction being, you're on the precipice of a trump basically his path being paved. 85% he is the nominee. at 8:51, i put it that he is the nominee. >> you know, you were just speaking with some emotion. some of our colleagues didn't grant you respect but i will. for you, if today is the day for trump, what do you feel? >> one of those people who say, i can do the math. basic math. that's what this is. so what i'm looking for tonight when we do special election coverage, are there any surprises? i'm looking at dana, he said 98% likely she wins the general election. he said that her strategy is not going to be -- it will be not so much hope and change as hate and castrate. so buckle up. >> what do you think of that? >> that was uncomfortable. okay. i'm looking forward to the coverage tonight. i want to see what happens. i'm optimistic about the future and great minds with ideas can come together. >> i will stay up and watch. definitely. for me, it is n

trump. he's not only feeling confident about his chances on super tuesday, he's also declaring victory in his war of words with marco rubio. rubio in the last several days has tried to out-trump trump, trading insult for insult. donald trump took issue with one specific line of attack. saying he said about men with small hands, and he left it out there rhetorically for everyone's imagination. donald trump in front of this big crowd in columbus, ohio, defended the size of his hands. this is what he had to say. >> when he said i had small hands, they're not small, are they? i never heard that one before. i've always heard people say, donald, you have the most beautiful hands, right? >> so you can tell with that reaction, brooke, he sort of had the crowd in the palm of his hands you might say and, you know, one thing that was left unsaid, i will say at this event, donald trump did not address one of the big elephants in the room right now. this is normally a time when the party rallies around a