. >>> let's bring in joe watkins, republican strategist and a former aide in the bush white house. and with a good morning to you, joe, so the departure of marco rubio, does that leave donald trump with an open path to the 1237 delegates needed for the nomination, or not? >> his challenge has been that he has hant had great organization on the ground. he's not a huge following. he's got great momentum but he hasn't been as organized as ted cruz who has raised a lot of money and has people in every single state working for him. if trump had that he would have a clearer path to the 1237 he needs. >> republican strategist steve schmidt was on "morning joe" and this happened on thursday where he was talking about the republican establishment and says it has a case of so-called influenza. they don't understand the plight of america's blue collar workers and it doesn't get how to defeat donald trump. doesn't understand donald trump himself. do you think the gop establishment is out of touch? >> well, steve schmidt raises a good point. i said over and over again the reason why donald trum

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and joe watkins, republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush. welcome. >> good morning. >> let's start with the tweet storm. hey. trump's barrage of tweets friday about former miss universe, alicia machado. people have been quick to call a lot of trump's previous controversies campaign killers. but do you think this one actually could be it? >> i do. the end is here. look, these -- this is the worst post debate spin in history. maybe -- maybe caligula had a worst debate spin in roman times. this is as bad as it gets. he could have survived his poor performance in the debate. now he's going on four, five days with the former miss universe. nobody cares about it. and he is just -- it's funny because the clintons are -- they have to be, the clinton camp has to be overjoyed with how they've been able to emotionally manipulate this man. they played right into his hands. and he has wasted four days, and -- and the biggest problem i'm sure we'll talk about is he's going to lose women. he's losing them big time. >> well, joe, what do you think? do you t

. >>> let's bring in joe watkins, republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h. w. bush, and rick tyler, msnbc political analyst and former national spokesman for the cruz campaign. so donald trump now says president obama was born in the u.s., but for hillary clinton, that admission is not enough. here's what she had to say at an event in washington yesterday -- >> he is feeding in to the worst impulses, the bigotry and bias that lurks in our country. barack obama was born in america, plain and simple. and donald trump owes him and the american people an apology. [ applause ] >> so joe, should trump apologize? >> well, he should, but he's not going to. if he really wanted to reach out to the african-american community, an apology would be in order. but even an apology wouldn't be enough. most african-americans, every african-american that i know is offended by his comments on the birther movement and the fact that he's continued them for so long. so i don't even think that an apology at this point would be enough. i mean, it's almost the midnight hour of the

let's bring in joe watkins and rick tyler. gentlemen, with a good morning to you both. i'm going to pose the same question we heard in that clip we're going to play in a moment by going after delegates, is donald trump embracing what he has been attacking as a rigged system? could that hit his popularity with voters who like his outsider image? >> i don't think so. i think at the end of the day he doesn't take any kind of a hit for that. donald trump has defied most of the odds so far, i mean, we're been talking about him since his eninterest i into the race last year and i remember early on there was always about is this it for donald trump. how much longer you think he'll lastment we're looking at donald trump as the only candidate in the race still who has a path to 1237 before the convention. may not be a strong path but nonetheless he has a path to 1237. i don't think this impacts him negatively. >> can you ask about the new ap article that argues because of the large numbers of unbound delegates the pennsylvania is mainly meaningless. you're in pennsylvania. what

i want to bring in joe watkins, former white house aide to george w. bush and jimmy williams. thanks for joining us. >> i want to pick up where peter left off. his campaign is in michigan where they see potential. this is kind of to push the media narrative. why is trump spending time in these places. time is the most precious resource he has. if you were advising him wouldn't you say to get thee to florida? >> get to the places where you have a shot to really make a difference and win the election. florida is the most important, the biggest prize from the standpoint of tipping point states. he would be well advised to spend time there. again this is where not having organization really impacts the campaign. i have talked about this time and again with you and others, hallie, on msnbc saying donald trump raised money. not as much as hillary clinton. but he's not chosen to use the money he raised to build organizations. he doesn't have the same organization hillary clinton has. she has a massive organization. a well oiled machine out there pushing for her in the key tipping poi

for analysis, let's bring in joe watkins, former h.w. bush and patrick murray. can i say, patrick is here in studio. the two of us looked at each other during these sound boits and went, uh-huh, let's go with the big news, chris christie has given his endorsement to trump. this happened after saying things like this. >> donald has a lot of talents, he does, he has been a successful businessman. he has absolutely no ability in this area. it doesn't make him a bad guy. i think he's generally a good person. but, you know what, he has no business being president of the united nations and if i thought he did, i wouldn't be running. i'd be helping him. >> so, patrick, what's chris christie get out of this? and how does this affect any of your home states? >> i have been following chris christie's career, since forever. >> yes. >> since he was u.s. attorney, a decade ago. in new jersey we have been used to seeing a chris christie who always makes that political calculation, how can this best serve me? he has pretty much decimated the republican party in the state of ne