. >> i mean, joe watkins, your party has to be horrified that he's glommed on. >> i am. i don't know any republican worth his or her salt who likes david duke. >> it's because of donald trump. >> for some people, law and order, that's what george wallace said in 1968 when he was running for the presidency, or maybe it was '72. in any case -- >> nixon said it too. >> it means different things to different people. >> we're out of time, unfortunately. we're going to have to get more thoughts, because joe, jonathan, and david will be back later in the show, save those thoughts, you guys will be back. >>> coming up, more from philly voters on what matters to them. stay with us. if you need advice for your business, legalzoom has your back. our trusted network of attorneys has provided guidance to over 100,000 people just like you. visit legalzoom today. the legal help you can count on. legalzoom. legal help is here. to folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain... shoots and burns its way into your day, i hear you. to everyone with this pain that makes ordinary tasks extraordi

let's bring in joe watkins, republican strategist and former white house aide for george h.w. bush. and political analyst. hello. good to see you on a saturday morning. joe, we'll start with you first. did hillary clinton go too far by tying donald trump to white supremacists and do you see an alternative to all the mudslinging we are now seeing in this race on race? >> well, you know, when somebody attacks you, you have to respond. otherwise, the attack can-can stick. sadly what happens is when you have this kind of mudslinging, it distracts from the major issues that impact america from any serious discussion or debate on those issues. you have 6 million americans working part-time for economic reasons. a bunch are not participating in the labor force. they would love to hear how they are going to put amecans back to work. specifically, what hopes they have to get back to work. but as long as you have these charges thrown about who is a bigot and so on and so forth, it all gets blurred and all you have are a for you here what the gop sean spicer told one of my colleagues about hil

let's bring in joe watkins, former aide to george h.w. bush and former spokesman for the ted cruz campaign. good to see you both. >> good morning. >> joel, you first. talk about this very delicate dance that paul ryan is doing right now. >> you've got to consider who paul ryan has to think about, not just himself of course but think about all of the republicans that made him speaker of the house and a lot of those members of the house are in tight races and in many of those races donald trump is very well perceived in their district. so there's a lot of pressure on paul ryan. there was pressure early on, to come out and endorse donald trump. so paul ryan has to think about party unity, think about keeping a majority of republicans in the house. and not just what he might happen to think about the matter. >> rick, here's what former romney adviser, that's lonnie chen, said about ryan's message. i know he wants to unify the party but i don't know that it can be unified given that we have a very divisive nominee. what do you think? can repub

joe watkins, republican strategist and former aide to george h.w. bush and reich tyler, an msnbc political analyst. rick, i want your reaction to "the washington post" report by the push to stop trump by changing party rules, in fact shawn spicer released a statement. all of the discussion about the rnc rules committee acting to undermine the presumptive nominee is silly, there is no organized effort, strategy or leader of this so called movement. it's nothing more than a media creation and series of tweets. you agree? you hear anything about these? >> i am. i agree with shawn on the one hand it's not silly, it will be could be and might be very, very serious, if the trump continues to perform the way he's been performing and people see the writing on the wall that november would be an imminent disaster. on the other hand he is right, the efforts that i've seen are not serious, and it's very difficult to beat something with nothing, and so for they have not presented what their something would be. people are not going to overthrow donald trump for s

. >>> let's get more reaction now to do that we bring in joe watkins, republican strategist and former aide to george h.w. bush and rick tyler, former spokesman for ted cruz. good to see you. so some argue that britain's decision foreshadows a trump victory out of many of the same sentiments in the words of who new york times anger at elites, anxiety about loss of sovereignty and perhaps most of all resentment toward migrants and refugees. joe, is this truth to that? >> well, there is some truth to the fact the same sentiment that you saw exhibited in england does exist here. certainly some anxiety about illegal immigrants being in this country and it's been strong enough to catapult donald trump into his election efforts. he won all of the primaries, the presumptive nominee of the party. donald trump still has to be concerned about the money that hillary clinton's going to spend in the battleground states where this election is going to be won or lost. not lost on the general sentiment of voters as it relates to immigration, it's going to be won in ohio, in florida, and pennsylvania a

. >> joining me now is joe watkins, a republican strategist and former bush white house aide. also rick tyler, mkz political analyst. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so joe, i'll start with you. i want your reaction to the length donald trump is going in order to stay on the nra's good side. how do you read it? >> well, he's a smart guy. a lot of these groups are going to get in line now. donald trump, you look at the numbers nationally, this is a competitive race. and you're going to see a lot of these groups, the nra and others even if he doesn't support every plank of the platform, supporting him and doing it with gusto. they think that trump has a chance to win and they are going to be behind him. >> you think they are getting in line because they believe in donald trump the man or don't want hillary clinton to get to the white house? >> they want to have a seat at the table. for all of these groups, they want to have a seat at the table with the person who is president of the united states. if the their candidate has a shot to win they are going to do everything

. >> let's bring in rick tyler, msnbc political analyst and joe watkins, republican strategist. so gentlemen with a good morning to you both. rick, i'll start with you. i want to talk about protests at donald trump's rally last night. 35 people arrested there. so where does it go from here? what does a convention look like? a trump white house look like? will there be protests following him everywhere? >> i don't know about the white housement we'll see what happens there. but yeah, i think the protests are going to follow along. the protests have been at republican conventions forever. maybe this one will be quite larger. but alex, i think the protests help donald trump because they emphasize that you know, this is the left that's trying to shut down free speech, it doesn't help that you have a lot of mexican flags on american soil. i know people are trying to show their heritage and pride but it's sort of reinforces donald trump's message that you're losing your job to illegal immigration. >> rick, i got to ask. you said it helps donald trump. is that with his base? >> yes. >>

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

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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

. >>> 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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let's bring in joe watkins, republican and strategist and white house aide. joe, good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> donald trump, he keeps saying he is luring millions of people into the republican party. do you believe him, joe, if so, who are these people? >> reporter: well, of course, we have at love oem peejssterred to vote. >> that has a lot to do with how motivated you are. so i don't know how many new people have been brought into the party. clearly the people who are motivated to send a message to washington are the ones standing in line and showing up to vote on election morning in these primaries and clearly, donald trump has gotten their attention a. lot have shown up at the polls to vote for donald trump. >> if he is bringing these new voters into the party, do you think that's a today thing? because if he is the one inspiring folks to get in there and register to vote. yes, of course, everyone deserves to put tear voice in, have their voice heard, for the republicans, if they're reflecting donald trump, is it good for the party? >> reporter: