talk about the somewhat chaotic republican race, a former chairman of the rnc, haley barber in the washington bureau and christie todd whitman. governors, thank you both for joining us. governor whitman, start with you. is it a problem for the republican party if donald trump is your party's nominee, and if so, why? >> i think it is. because at the end of the day i don't think he can beat hillary clinton. i think he has to put together real coherent plans to say how he's going to do all these things. they're not going to ring true. people are going to see through it. i also think that his temperament, his bullying, his demeaning of people is not going to sit well with the majority of the american people when it comes to the general election. >> governor barber, like mitt romney is saying, calling what donald trump failed to say about the kkk, disqualifying, are these things that happen when people are in rough-and-tumble of a primary, or is this something different? >> there are genuine concerns that governor whitman talked about. a fox news poll came out showing hillary clinton beating trump

our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is following the democratic contest for us. what's the latest? >> reporter: wolf, hillary clinton is pushing hard for super tuesday tomorrow night. she hopes it will be the biggest collection of delegates yet. she wrapped up a campaign rally here in virginia a short time ago. she's decided to add minnesota on to her campaign schedule. she'll be going there tomorrow. that's a state bernie sanders has been planting his flag in. the sanders campaign is confident of win something states but a short time ago, he told reporters when asked if he could win any state but vermont, he said, i surely hope so. >> tomorrow is super tuesday. massachusetts is right in the middle of it. and i need your help. >> reporter: hillary clinton is riding a wave, hoping her south carolina landslide becomes an even bigger super tuesday victory lap. >> i will work as hard as i can every single day. i will get up and go to work for you and fight for you. >> reporter: the delegate fight with >> reporter: the delegate fight with bernie sanders will go on, bu

we don't believe in a bigger washington. and so, the kind of nonsense that's dominating the opening segment to your show is not what the republican party should be about. >> trust me, nothing something we enjoyed putting together, to be honest with you, senator. let me ask you this. if you have -- what is a political party? and i ask it this way. is it a, is it a party who gets its principles and its ideals from its leaders, or is it ground up? what if this is the people speaking and the people are basically handing the nomination to donald trump? you may not like it, but is it then fundamentally that the republican party is changing because the people that are members of it have changed? >> so, great question. and let's start with this. donald trump has one definite skill, and he knows organizations that are ripe for the hostile takeover. and the republican party has been way too vacuous and not nearly clear enough about first principles for quite some time, so he's trying to wage a hostile takeover of this party. he's atta

meantime, send you to washington. the lead with jake tapper starts now. >>> thanks, brooke. our long national nightmare is over. leo finally has his oscar. the lead starts now. >>> donald trump blaming his earpiece for refusal to condemn the klan, david duke, and white supremacist groups. they interrupt a trump rally. >>> the biggest day in the campaign, republican officials in washington in desperation mode trying to save the party as they know it. what will it mean to be a republican if super tuesday becomes trump tuesday? >>> plus. >> i made the worst mistake of my life. >> first on cnn, an american college student detained in north korea sobbing as he pleas for mercy. does he look like a spy working for the cia? pyongyang thinks so. >>> welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. everything is on the line for republicans tomorrow, super tuesday. if the polls are to be believed, this time wednesday we will be talking about donald trump, the presumptive republican presidential nominee. instead of party leaders getting comfortable with the idea, they're in full panic mode becaus

i think there is a lot of hand ringing in washington. the reality is much of washington brought this on. people are very mad at the leadership. i think in both parties frankly. but trump has had the benefit of having such a crowded field, it's disburpersed a lot of the i think the angryist voices have gone towards him. as long as his field stays as large as it is, that i a benefit to trump. >> washington is a little irked some people aren't dropping to perhaps coalesce behind one. alex, to you, sir, great piece with maggie and jonathan in "the times." in your reporting, you mention senate majority leader mitch mcconnell laying out the plan that would have lawmakers break with trump in a general election? tell me about that. >> what they're envisioning now is a scenario where they're struck with trump and it becomes very clear maybe even before the convention in july that he's a nonstarter and he's going to lose badly. what that means is you have a number of vulnerable republican senators up for re-election who suddenly have to choose do

host: mike covers congress for the washington post. he is also worked at the washington city paper. talking about the senate's role in choosing the next member of the supreme court. next up, and ohio, republican -- from ohio, republican. caller: my two questions are, people who don't know our history are doomed to repeat the same problems. in five words or less, why is the liberty bell called liberty bell? two, and the constitution, what is the only form of government guaranteed and why do you keep calling us a democracy since it is never mentioned? i would like to hang on. host: why don't you reference a specific question to the supreme court? caller: if he doesn't know the basic history of our country, his bias will be and. how he reports what congress can do. that he does not know how our founders out of this country, he does not know as -- how to ask the questions and if he does not know what a 10-year-old would of known 100 years ago, why should i believe anything he says? host: i'm aware of the distinction between direct democracy and republican democracy. i'm interested to he

our senior washington correspondent joe johns is live in minneapolis where bernie sanders is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in a little more than one hour. they are also very, very enthusiastic, joe. >> i think so, very enthusiastic. and we're seeing people stream in right now. still got an hour and a half ago. a lot of these people sort of tipify the bernie sanders team across the country, younger, appearing to be students and what have you. but, look, hillary clinton is in some ways in the driver's seat right now and her campaign is trying to appear as if they're not confident, they're not overconfident. they're trying to be cautious and at the same time they're trying to pose themselves as the campaign that is going to win the nomination, the democratic nomination for president. hillary clinton is also talking more about donald trump. and that's a little bit of trying to appear like a general election nominee. but i have to tell you, bernie sanders has been talking about donald trump as well on the campaign trail of late. and it's not just a reflection of who thinks they're in t

the government, if it has power, it belongs at the state level, not at washington d.c. you will have a president that believes in free enterprise, not because i inherited money or i'm wealthy but because my dad was a bartender and my mother was a maid, and the reason why they had jobs is because free enterprise works. free enterprise is the only economic model in the history of the world where you're judged on your merit and work, not on your connections, not on your last name. it is the only economic model in the history of the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poorer, where you can lift everybody up and not tear anyone down. and that's why as a candidate i have offered serious ideas and serious proposals. unlike donald trump, who won't tell you where he stands on the issues, because he doesn't care where he stands on the issues. to him, we'll figure it out when we get there. we can't elect the dog that caught the car. get it? think about it. the dog is always barking at the car. what are you going to do when you catch t

joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc and "washington post" fix blog and "washington post" correspondent ann gearan. first to you, annie, this republican race is something that we have -- the likes of which we've never seen. let me play for you chuck todd and donald trump. we heard about the kkk but let's look at the mussolini retweet. let's watch. from "meet the press." >> that's a famous mussolini quote, you retweeted it. did you like the quote. you know it's lumussolini. >> it's a very good quote. a very interesting quote. >> you want to be associated with a farrist? >> no, i want to be associated with interesting quotes. >> that kind of encapsulates the campaign. the twitter campaign, the social media campaign and where we go from here. >> donald trump is perfectly capturing and tapping into a very powerful and very real strain in the republican party. new research on behalf of democrats talks about just how well he has done that and one of those strains is a very nationalistic -- the critics say jingoistic rah-rah america strain which is the sort of thing that a retwe

washington journal continues. ♪ >> this is the hardest problem i have seen in government, because it implicates america's gifted innovation, privacy, it implicates the rule of law and public safety. we have to talk about it and understand how to we optimize these things we care about? privacy and safety, how do we do that and it is not easy. communicators,he general counsel for the fbi agent association and vice president for policy at the center for democracy and technology will discuss the conflict between fbi and apple, over whether the fbi -- will grapple. the fbi given to the phone of one of the san bernardino terrorist and what this could mean for communication and law enforcement in the digital age. they are joined by a cyber security reporter. >> the tool is a device that was designed to be impenetrable. it threatens the way that our search and seizure laws were designed to operate where reasonable searches under a lawful warrant can obtain access to evidence, so we do view it as a real threat to the ful

they are fed up with washington, they want somebody to blow up washington. >> they want strength. >> they want strength because barack obama in their mind has been so weak. they want somebody who's tougher on isis. they want somebody who that is not bought and paid for by wall street. they want somebody that can turn the economy around and i will say, you know, i have more confidence that donald trump knows how to turn around the economy than a bunch of kids that just walked into washington, d.c. a couple yeeshyears ago and never made payroll. i understand all of that. s which makes the ugliness of this shocking. >> there are too many many where as i stints on policy "i don't know anything, i don't need to know anything." he has become the worst thing about a politician. he's become arrogant in his standing atop the polls. he's become intellectually lazy. he's talked about john bolton. why not put john bolton on the planes and learn four things about the middle east. the things he says show he doesn't know anything about the world or the problem we face than he did when he facwent do

these are washington insiders. and i don't really hang around with them. they are not comfortable with me. people say there are a lot of voters that would vote for trump or for me. why is that? they know i don't take orders from the establishment. those people, the big lobbiests i beat them 25 years ago and they resent it. it's great. they can have their opinions. i'm not even aggravated by it, but it means nothing to me. they are not out here. they are not in the arena. take a deep breath. >> what are you expecting to happen tomorrow on super tuesday? >> i think trump will probably win everything. maybe cruz will win in texas and then has to figure out how to head north with his message. we'll do okay but not great. this was never our plan. we have a campaign plan and then we campaign our plan. our hope now is that our belief is that we go north and you will begin to see things change. >> governor john kasich, we appreciate you being on new day. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> the good stuff. that's next. stick around. you premium like clockwork. month

this is to quote "morning joe's" joe scarborough in "the washington post." so is this how the party's abraham lincoln dies? what does this do to the gop? >> this is what the gop has been trying to get away from. when we got into this election they were looking at the autopsy from the last election saying we need to be more engaging of minorities, we need to be more open to other groups, people who don't traditionally vote republican and they've done the exact opposite. they've mored toward a very xenophobic, nativist territory with donald trump at the front. >> let's go over to the democrats, because bernie sanders is now coming out swinging at hillary clinton and swinging at trump. is this new strategy going to get him any more votes? >> he's really having some trouble looking towards super tuesday. doesn't look good for him. and i think just beating expectations may not be enough. there's a lot of delegates that are being handed out on tuesday and hillary clinton looks very strong to get a lot of them when they leave you know when they hit wednesday mornin

little marco rubio is another washington politician that is all talk and no action. and the florida senator hit back making fun of trump's unusual tan and says what is trump's small hands. >> he doesn't sweat because his hands are clogged from the spray tan he uses. donald is not going to make america great. he's going to make america orange. he is always calling me little marco. he is 6'2", which is why i don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5'2". you know what they say about men with small hands. you can't trust them. you can't trust them. >> and new signs of republican panic in washington overnight. what might be called a disendorsement from senator ben sass. in a lengthy facebook post, he writes if trump wins the nomination, he will not vote for him. >> he is hugely popular. he campaigned all over iowa against trump. now he says he is in the never trump camp. he will not vote for trump if he is the nominee. interesting to see that. interesting to see how the party responds. >>> hillary clinton is campaigning fresh off her huge victory ove

and his new hotel in washington. >> "the washington post" interviewed about 15 laborers at the d.c. hotel site reporting that many revealed they had entered the u.s. illegally. >> basically the charge is this, mr. trump, you don't practice what you preach on immigration. >> yeah. well, it's wrong. first of all, the one charge is from 35 years ago. i think that's a pretty good record when people have to go 35 years back to find out about workers. now, as i remember it, those workers were hired by another mpany. i just hired a company and they had some workers that were perhaps from poland or some place. and this was the demolition of a building that made way for trump tower. so the workers, chuck, this is 35 years ago you're talking about. by the way the laws were totally different. the laws were not what they are now and totally different. as far as one of the great hotels in the world that's currently being built on pennsylvania avenue between the capitol building and the white house, there were no illegals. we do checks like you wouldn't believe. and they didn't name any names, th

the people in washington are public servants. we haven't had enough of that. donald trump, greaet to have you in one of the greatest cities in the whole world. maybe more phd's per capita than any place in the country. people all over the world are investing here and hiring people. i am proud to have you with us. god bless. [applause] donald trump: that is so great. you know? he is an incredible guy. [cheering] thank you, get him out of here will you. [applause] [cheering] never fails. the cameras follow that and they know how many people are here. take a look. unbelievable. [applause] 32,000 people. we can't get them all in. fire department, let them in. got thousands of people over there. all right. that is the first time that senator sessions ever endorsed a person running for president. that could be a big deal. we've had some interesting times. "time" magazine did a cover story that this is a movement. i am just a messenger. this is a movement. we're going to take our country back. there has never been a time when we've made so many decisions and been so

kerrie washington just walked by looking amazing. can we talk about eddie. i thought he might show up in something a little more edgy. >> he usually wears wild clothes, he's a fashion guy. but he's wearing a beautiful standard classic alexander mcqueen tuxedo. because tonight is not the night for the gentleman to go crazy. you do that at the globes, you do it as other events, but tonight keep it classy. >> rooney mara, what did you think? >> rooney mara was stunning, wearing givenchy, a goth victoriana flair, keeping to her personality. very severe hair and makeup. it was so romantic. it reminded me a lot of the costumes in beyonce's videos. >> you have hot sauce in your purse? i now you were going to get beyonce into this. and last, but not least, brie larsen. nominated for "room." >> she's wearing custom gucci. heavy studded belt. a departure from what gucci has been doing, it's a little more off-the-wall. >> if i could pick a theme there isn't a theme for tonight. >> for tonight? >> yeah. >> absolutely not. it's all over the place. >> we've seen romantic.

people in washington are public servants. they serve you. we haven't had enough of that. donald trump, great to have you and one of the greatest cities in the whole world. the huntsville, madison area is fabulous. we have more ph.ds per capitia than any place per country. the best corporate leadership of all over the world and best here and hiring people here is what we need for all of america. i'm proud to have you with us. god bless. >> wow. so great. that is so great. you know, he's an incredible guy. thank you. get him out of here, will ya? thank you. get him out. all right. thank you. boy oh, boy. never fails. but you know, again, i say it all the time, now the cameras, they follow that, they know how many people, the all time record, look over there, hey, cameras, take a look eefr here. take a look. unbelievable. 32,000 people. this is amazing. and by the way, look over there. we can't get them in. they won't let them in. why can't they come in? fire department, let them in. let them in. we've got thousands of people over there. let them in, if you can. all right. s

are found in our homes, in our communities, and it is in our government, at the state evel, not in washington, d.c. [applause] for the first time in eight years, you will have a president that follows the constitution. in my first moment in office, i will cancel every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. every one of them. [applause] president, aree going to have a president that embraces a free economy. free enterprise, my parents were not rich people -- my father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. the reason they had a job is because free enterprise works. someone who had the money risked and hired them. it's the only economic in the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poorer. [applause] save freeing to enterprise. we are going to fix our tax code. back theseg to roll things that come out of the federal government. we are going to roll back social security. we are going to utilize the resources god has blessed us with an we are going to repeal and replace obamacare once and for all. [applause] when i'm presiden

they are ticked off and mad at washington. that is the kind of stuff resonating. they don't care whatever politician endorses anybody i don't think. >> i thought the number was stunning white evangelicals made up 75% of the vote here. i asked about the support of the evangelicals in the south in 2016. here is what i was told. >> i'm hearing as i go around the country a lot of evangelical christian whose don't want to use the word evangelical anymore. i'm kind of with them when you see the buffoonery going on in this election campaign i started referring to myself as a gospel christian. >> that is unbelievable to hear russell morris say i don't want tocall myself an evangelical anymore and said he was afraid to bring his kids to the interview because trump was on the television. he is puzzled by the fact that none of that seems to have affected evangelicals, church goers. have you seen anything in alabama that indicates? >> it has been fascinating to watch. those of us who are evangelicals hear donald trump say things like i was probably audited because i am such a

i look at what goes on in washington. these guys could care less about me. we talk about young people having never participated in the political process. what our job is to revitalize american democracy. to have one of the highest voter turnouts on earth, rather than one of the lowest. >> brnz bernie sanders there saying that he is moving in to super tuesday with momentum, despite the fact that he lost. he was smashed by hillary clinton, his competitor in south carolina. you heard hillary clinton in her concession speech last night saying, kind of in response to donald trump as we have been talking about the whole back and forth involving the kkk saying america is great. what she wants to do is make america whole. governor john kasich almost repeating a similar refrain. now talking to supporters in massachusetts saying there is no time for hate. let's listen in. >> i guess every day i wake up there is another crazy thing happening in this campaign. apparently today, i don't understand it but donald trump refused to disaassociate himself and condemn white sup

republicans in washington, d.c. are starting to tell republican senators that they don't have to go to the convention if they are the nominee. they should think of running against you if you are the nominee. that combined with marco rubio doing the never trump hashtag. do you think republicans are violating the pledge? >> totally. if they want to play the game i can play it better than they k. and i have more people than they do. doing that is a total violation of the pledge, yes. >> how do you see this possible hypocrisy of the pledge? >> i think republicans are headed for a split whether trump is the nominee or not. this has gone so deep for so long. if trump is the nominee, there's no way on god's green earth that many rank and file republicans can vote for him or go to the convention or do the things they normally document if he's not the nominee, a lot of the voters will be so angry they will sit out the election. the republican party has a big, fat problem. >> already. brian, real quick. >> i was going to say,

well, washington, d.c., may start doing just that. after murders in the nation's capital went up 54% last year, the city council recently voted for a crime bill that includes a provision to give money to those who are most likely to commit acts of violence. >> all those in favor of the amendment in the nature of a substitute, say aye. >> 200 people per year could receive payments in conjunction with mentorship and therapy. criticism of the proposal has been witherring, as you might imagine, and the bill is not certain to go through, but here is a really crazy part. another city has run a similar program for several years paying out tens of thousands of dollars, and it appears to be working. in 2007 the bay area city of richmond, california, was the ninth most dangerous city in the united states. things were so bad, the city officials thought about asking the national guard to be sent in. instead, they created the office of neighborhood safety, a new department, separate from law enforcement, that would focus on reaching out to the com

they are fed up with washington. it is a change election. it is send a message to washington. we're sitting here with $19 trillion worth of debt. we haven't had a balanced budget in 15 years. we have people who are struggling, absolutely struggling -- >> would you like some water? >> she's preaching this sunday morning. >> i know! let me tell you, they're sick of the southern border not being secured. and they want to see some action. and so they're sending a message, and god bless the american people for standing up and saying, we're going to get this country back on the right track. >> here's the thing. you cannot beat donald trump playing defense. you can't say i'm here to defend. you have to play offense. you have to say i want to extend what the last president did. that's why bernie is actually drawing people to him and building a movement. your state's a great state. but you also know that no one else gets to camp out for a year in any state. what we're seeing right now in places like chicago, places like detroit, places like flint, we'll both be there next week, is ther

kathleen parker from "the washington post", jim warren from pointer, and molly hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. kathleen, is rubio trying to portray trump as a loser, something other candidates up until now have been maybe afraid to do? >> well, absolutely. and i'm delighted that e seems to have taken my advice because i wrote a column to that effect, but anyway, yes, basically what he's doing i think is going after trump. he's taunting him because the one thing a bully can't stand is to be taunted, and he's trying to get under trump's skin i think at a deeper level than anyone else has bothered to do previously and why not? trump has been throwing it at him pretty fiercely. he's returning the volley but he's also having a little bit of fun i think. it's a liberation moment for marco rubio who has been accused of being so robotic previously. it seems to be working too. trump cannot stand it and we'll see where it goes. we'll look forward to everyone getting back to being a little more presidential however. >> you think that will actually happen? >> will that actually happen?

the fascinating governor of maine was at the governors meeting here in washington earlier this month and he was very fired up about the fact that something must be done. we have to take on donald trump. this is going to be terrible for our party. well, he's a big chris christie guy. when christie got on board late last week, lepage followed suit. there's no more revealing in the party than those ten days where paul lepage goes from that. they have been sounding the alarm for months about this, who have been pleading. yeah, jeb bush. >> walker. >> pleading with folks to raise money to try to go after trump to create some kind of a sustained organized campaign against him. it fell on deaf ears time and time and time again. and now you've got the spector of the senate gop considering not just separating themselves from trump but actively running ads against him to provide space for their own candidates who are going to be on the ballot this fall. mitch mcconnell is a very wily old pro is apparently determined to do whatever it takes to hold the majority. and that includes possibly runni

joining me from washington, d.c. is democratic strategist careen, the former deputy campaign manager for the martin o'malley campaign and the former 2012 obama director. still with me in columbia is representative gilda cobb-hunter and matt nichols and elise jordan is still with us. matt, you're up. fat tony salerno, discuss. >> well, i tell you, i don't think that it's goes to cause donald trump a vote. i think ted cruz is really grasping at straws. i think if you look at the voting block that is supporting donald trump's candidacy right now, look at what he's already done this election cycle. look at his flamboyant history and past. you think people think he did business in atlantic city in that time period and didn't know anybody in the mafia? donald trump, i guarantee you he's going to say yeah, i had to do business. part of it, i think he's going to brush it off. it's not going to be an issue. what it tells me is cruz is desperate. he's trying for the breakthrough moment, something that's really going to crack t

that is from "the washington post." guest: we are six months out and there is a lot we can do in six months out. we have the technology to do , targetedpraying spraying, to the mosquito populations. you spray that residual spraying and if you see mosquitoes in your house, they do not fly very far. when they have had blood, they and they stay locally. we attacked them and target them locally. then we set up a risk assessment and surveillance system to make sure the population has decreased. i just saw the other day where we are talking about in the olympic village, their screens on the windows and doors? good question because if there are not, put them on there now. are the athletes going to have air-conditioned rooms? airot, let's get conditioning out there. what advice are giving athletes and visitors about insect repellent? host: so you are not worried. if you are traveling to south america, you would continue with their plans? guest: yes, i would. host: paul is joining us from england. we welcome those watching acros

and i understand the anger towards washington. but that anger should be directed at the obama administration. their willingness to ignore the law. to do whatever they want by fiat. that is really where this fight needs to go is against the obama dmings. and if we nominate donald trump we are effectively continuing the obama administration in the face of hillary clinton. >> victor, let me come back to you. and of course there's been this call for donald trump to release his taxes. e heard that from ted cruz. but we heard something else. let's play that sound bite from yesterday from ted cruz. >> you know in the civil war you couldn't fight for the south and the north at the same time. it didn't work that way. they didn't make a musket with a barrel on both ends. page side. >> so ted cruz invoking the imagery of the civil war right in the deep south. to make a political point of course that brings up a the meerd of the painful and associations for people. >> i don't think he was doing it in that context at all. i think he was just s

system move, not so much out of the gulf of alaska, but they're more aimed across british columbia, washington, and into oregon. less so if california where they have seen such extreme drought over the last few years. and temperatures in the central united states were exceptionally warm. we'll show you the record high temperatures. mostly in the 20s. there you see in aberdeen, south dakota, you go back to 1895. that was a record, back in 1895. the temperature for saturday afternoon was 20 degrees. there we see mid 20s, north platte, nebraska. these temperatures are good ten degrees or so above where they should be for this time of year. it isn't just the west coast of the united states that is feeling the impact of a strong storm system where snow levels are lowering and gusty winds and heavy rainfall. same can be said across the western and the north central mediterranean where you see the brighter colors. that's where the higher cloud tops are. that's where the heavier rain is going to be. and don't be surprised if you see a couple of thunderstorms just erupt across the west coast of italy,

what is missing in washington is the political will. democrats don't want to do it and far too many republicans don't want to do it. donald trump has made illegal immigration the core of his campaign. there is more than a little chutzpah in that, given that donald trump, his record on illegal immigration is terrible. donald trump had a $1 million court judgment against him for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens to build his hotel. mira lago resort in florida, which trombones, it was reported yesterday, brings in hundreds of foreign workers and by and large won't hire americans. there was a striking interview on cnn last night. donald was saying, the reason i bring in foreign workers -- no americans want to be waiters are waitresses or bellhops. what complete nonsense. >> i saw that and i was stunned that he said that. senator cruz: "the new york times" reported that of the 300 americans who applied for those jobs, donald hired 17. go to a tgi friday's. you're telling me no americans want to be waiters? you don't think peo

. >> washington journal is life every day with news and policy issues. tomorrow, molly o'toole will join us to talk about obama's plan to close guantanamo bay. will talkegor skinner about the latest developments surrounding the zika virus. >> how can we get people to pay attention to wasteful spending? we tend to find things that are but theunderstand government is so large, organizations have to cut through the noise. congress talking about wonderful things they are doing. make it more personable so they understand the impact on them. shaftday night, thomas talks about his organization bringing attention to wasteful federal spending. compiles unauthorized government programs. >> we work with the coalition called the congressional pork busters coalition. they came up with the definition earmarks.ending, we started the big book. billion. year was $3 every year that we can find inmarks, we release the book april or may. next, marco rubio campaigns in georgia. then, john kasich stops by another state to take questions from voters in tennessee. leader, a ted

our home and in our communities and it's even found in government, it's at the state level, not in washington, d.c. [applause] for the first time in eight years, you will have a president that follows the constitution. office, my day in first moments in office, i will cancel every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. everyone of them. when you make me president. when you make me president, we will have a president who embraces a free economy. my parents were not rich people. my father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. the reason why they had a job is because free enterprise works. someone who had access to money asked that money to open up hotel and hire them. free enterprise works because it is the only economic model in the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poorer. [applause] we are going to save free enterprise. we are going to fix our tax code. i have a plan to do that during we are going to roll back these crazy regulations that come out of the federal government. we are going to save social security and

"the washington post" saying she cruised to victory over bernie sanders. this is, in many ways, the speech she's been raring to give as she accepted -- claimed victory in iowa before it was certain. went on to defeat in new hampshire. the campaign trail has not been what the clinton campaign anticipated or expected as recently as six months ago. but tonight, to great excitement and a great introduction by congressman clyburn, she came out and was eventually able to do somewhat is very, very difficult with an election night. big crowds, she brought them to silence. you could hear a pin drop. she brought the throttle all the way back and feathered the prop and she was talking about the black lives matter movement. so big night for her tonight. and our director of elections has passed on word to us that this margin of victory could be truly sweeping and could be north of 40 points when all the votes are counted. we've got 20% in, rachel, and this is a big victory. >> this is only one in five votes count sod far. only 20% in, so there's no reason to extrapolat

, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks ande

reporter isnior joining us in washington. for listeners on c-span radio, we are keeping an i on hillary at an's headquarters in south carolina. a significant win in the palmetto state. we will listen to your calls and comments. first, steve, baltimore, maryland, democrats lined. -- line. thee: i want to point out republican party, the regressive the reasonys saying minorities vote democrat is because they offer free stuff. of -- ianders is sort --'t want to say off offering, he is offering free college education. the reason we did not vote for bernie sanders is that i think in this case we are going with the devil that we know. we are going with hillary. generally we just know her. she has ties and she knows the black community well. thank you for listening to my call, that is it. host: thank you. alex: i think he is right. the clintons have had a relationship with the african-american community for decades. even before he became president in 1992. when he did become president come he had a very strong relationship with the c

. >> good evening from washington. based on early exit poll numbers, hillary clinton on her way to a significant victory tonight. the polls have just closed. the only state holding a primary today is the democratic primary. this would be her second straight victory after a win in the nevada caucuses. we are in columbus, south carolina and we will show her victory speech. get your calls and comments about what this means for the democratic primary in senator sanders as he moves ahead. tuesday were super a significant portion of the delegates will be at stake. -- republican pollster frank issuing this tweet, black voters make up a bigger percent of the south carolina primary, more than 2008. keep in mind 2008, barack obama winning overwhelmingly in south hadlina and hillary clinton about 530,000 democratic votes in 2008. we will keep and i on today's results. -- we will keep an eye on today's results. hillary clinton winning the south carolina democratic primary. we will have the raw numbers as they come in with more cov

maybe massachusetts, washington, oregon, where there's hotbeds of progressivism. she might start to point out that more. >> van, then we have to go. >> i just think there are areas, is he barack obama -- no. frankly, that's not the point. the point is that there are key differences and on the question of peace, on the question of war and peace, where he gets closer to the president and to the base than hillary clinton, he never made it an issue. >> you think bernie sanders is closer to barack obama than hillary clinton? >> on syria. on peace. >> in life. in the real world. >> on real soldiers dying? yes. on stupid wars? yes. >> on life. >> why is hillary clinton opposing our president? >> this is the game we're having. >> we'll get van a cool cloth for the break. standing by, polls are closing in south carolina. cnn could be on the verge of making a major projection right after this. nobody move! get on the floor! do something! oh i'm not a security guard, i'm a security monitor. i only notify people if there is a robbery. there's a robbery. why monitor a problem

andrea mitchell standing by in washington. we are duty-bound to add at exactly this point of the evening, andrea, that prior to today's story in "the new york times" about the republican race, last night's impactful story on page one of the electronic edition of "the new york times" was about the latest release of e-mails. >> exactly. >> and some of the language that reporters used to talk about the known/unknowns in this case is chilling and she still faces a very uncertain future where this e-mail case is concerned. >> but it clearly was not at all important to the african-american voters, the voters in south carolina. it hasn't taken traction even on the campaign trail. it doesn't -- it's shown up in other places, other states, where bernie sanders was killing her on the subject of honest and trustworthiness, certainly in new hampshire, even in nevada to a certain extent. not here in south carolina. so, going forward, she can only hope that she can gain traction with this big victory among -- the projected victory among the

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ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that. that is you know, the highest ranking mitch mcconnell saying that his fellow senators can run negative ads against the party's nominee. >> right. also make the comment that we drop him like a hot rock, i think is what he said. i want to know who the we is. the establishment? they have already gut punched the american worker time and time again. they hurt the republican party time and time again, so i'm not exactly sure where he's going. i understand he is trying to protect the senate but that's what makes donald trump so popular is that he's going against what they stand for. >> hurts them more. >> absolutely

it is the election, the primary for the democrats, ryan is with me, cnn commentator and washington correspondent at the new yorker. it's interesting, joe johns told us from one of the polling sites that it looked like to him, this is anecdotal, that voter turnout is very light. >> yeah. >> who does that help, hurt? granted, we don't have the numbers. >> look, so the conventional wisdom which has been wrong in this campaign, but i think it's right in this case, is lower turnout hurts bernie sanders. so, in a lower turnout election you have this core of the democratic party. people that vote in every election, and those voters so far in the first three states have been hillary clinton supporters. in iowa, the sanders campaign predicted that they would lose the campaign under a low turnout scenario. they would tie it under a little higher. and they would win it higher than that. >> this was iowa. >> iowa. and it was obviously in the middle. it was tied of it they nailed that. their projections have been more voters better for sanders, his two core constituencies are young people, millennials, and i

what is missing in washington is the political will. itocrats don't want to do and far too many republicans don't want to do it. donald trump has made illegal immigration the core of his campaign. there is more than a little chutzpah in that, given that donald trump, his record on illegal immigration is terrible. $1 millionp had a court judgment against him for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens to build his hotel. in florida,sort which trombones, it was reported hundreds ofrings in foreign workers and by and large won't hire americans. there was a striking interview on cnn last night. donald was saying, the reason i bring in foreign workers -- no americans want to be waiters are waitresses or bellhops. what complete nonsense. >> i saw that and i was stunned that he said that. senator cruz: "the new york the 300eported that of americans who applied for those jobs, donald hired 17. go to a tgi friday's. you're telling me no americans want to be waiters? you don't think people want to be waiters at a swanky hotel where peop

they believe that he will, that he will change washington. i don't believe that he will because he's never done anything to change washington. in fact he's funded all the people who have made washington what it is. >> rick tyler, who has had an inside seat on this wild ride so far, msnbc analyst and former cruz campaign official, thanks for your time today. >> good to be with you, ari. >> great. now look, i want to tell you what's coming next. our programming note. the msnbc special live coverage of the south carolina primary results, that's coming up next starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern. brian williams, rachel maddow and chris matthews watching the results and giving you all the details. that is, as i say, up next. we're going to fit in a quick commercial break, but right after that we're going to look at the ground game with people on the ground here in south carolina who have been out there and can tell you exactly what's been happening as the polls are about to close. and hillary clinton touting her record saying she's going to win over any

not in washington dc. for the first time in eight years you are going to have a president that follows the constitution. in my first moments in office i will cancel every single one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. when you make me president we are going to have a president that embraces a free economy. my parents were not rich people. my father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. someone who had access to money used that money to open up a hotel and hire them. free enterprise works because it is the only economic model in the world where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poorer. we are going to save free enterprise. we are going to roll back these crazy regulations that come out of the herald government. are going to save social security and medicare and balance our budget. we are going to fully utilize the energy resources. andwe are going to repeal replace obamacare once and for all. when i am president of the united states you will have a r