staggering 147 fbi agents are on this case right now. >> that story reported by the washington post would be a huge deal, if true. that would be a ton of fbi agents. for instance, in investigation into the oklahoma city bombing, the largest act of home grown terrorism, there were 120 special agents based in oklahoma city and more agents at fbi headquarters in washington working on the case according to the fbi website. in the washington post it would suggest there's a criminal investigation of truly high titanic status. it would have been news very a very good reason. here's the thing. that number, 147, was not correct. it was not even close to correct. here's the washington post's own correction. an earlier version of this article reported that 147 fbi agents have been detailed to the investigation, according to lawmaker briefed. two u.s. law enforcement officials have since told the washington post the figure is too high. the fbi will not provide an exact figure but officials say it's fewer than 50. according to msnbc, a former federal law enforcement official tells msnbc an estim

for the washington power brokers to change the rules because they're unhappy with the candidates who the voters are voting for. they want to change the rules to try try to parachute in candidate who hasn't earned the votes of the people. that is nothing short of crazy. >> it would pave the way for carl rove's fresh face to pave theservants. we should put the conference first. there's something said for us to unite. we probably need a fresh face. >> that was kevin mccarthy dropping out of race for speaker after john boehner announced retirement. the fresh face was paul ryan. you may recall that when ryan's name was first floated, he and his office repeatedly shot down the idea. >> are you running for speaker? >> no. >> why not? >> i don't want to be speaker. >> my statement stands. i haven't changed anything. >> we all know how that one turned out. now with the gop on the market for a white knight once again, ryan insists it will not be him. someone might want to tell the speaker that betting markets rate him as the fourth likely to win the nomination right behind the three candid

washington post revealed not a single donation was a personal gift of trump's own money, not one. many of the gifts he cited were just free rounds of golf. here is one portion of the trump list, most of the entities listed are not actually charities. one is a big mystery. and someone name bryan, no last name, got $800. as the post points out, trump didn't give any money to his own foundation from 2009 to 2014, the most recent years in which tax records were available. the chartabdonations weren't ma his own money. they said trump has given generously from his own pocket but declining to provide any documentation. david, great reporting. my first question is how, if you ran this kind of audit on any random rich business person, how common would this be? >> i think you should give a couple of examples of people in the same asset class as trump. if you look at the fortune list of billionaires in the world, trump is 324th with $4.5 billion. tied with him is george lucas and the redstone. lucas's foundation gave $55 million. most was funded with his own money. redstone foundation gave away $31

senior political roeporter for the washington examiner. i want to talk to you tim, man that likes to rail against big money interests. billionaires fund anti-trump delegate push. this is about the ricketts. the idea we're seeing coming into view is the big money failed in the voter part of the election. now they are thinking we can be successful in the delegate part of the election. >> it's going to disclose as a cubs fan you're way too compromised. >> and biassed to discuss. >> it's a great distinction between some of big money in republican party and the k street wing of the republican party. you have the ricketts, paul singer. you have the kochs. that's a different part of the lobbyist. the lobbyist don't know where they want to go. the big money decaded to t dedi party strength. we can't have him even if we don't think he's the best guy, we can't have him. they are funding the our principles pac just as they funded rubio and jeb. is this going to be lighting money on fire? i don't know. >> do you think it's lighting money on fire? >> first of all, we're talking maybe four or f

washington boasting on twitter just had a very nice meeting with previs and the g.o.p. looking forward to bringing the party together and it will happen. they're casting party leaders for conspiracy to steal the republican nomination. he blamed his resent shut out in colorado on an intentional effort to block him. >> the bosses and the establishment and the people that shouldn't have this power took all of the power away from the voters. so the voters never got to vote and the voters didn't know that except when i got up and complained because they did it after i joined the race and figured i would probably win colorado which i would. they called out the name yesterday with the hills saying he should be ashamed of himself because he knows what's going on. later reminded they had changed the rules to undermine the campaign. >> i know the rules well and know it's stacked against me. i fully understand it. colorado is unfortunate because they disenfranchise the voters. all of the voters. >> you're saying you don't think the rmc wants you to get the nomination? >> i don't. the republican p

get washington off their back. if the state is not going to get off their back get washington off their back so we can see jobs coming up. we can see manufacturing jobs coming back to upstate new york. that's what this election is about. >> in your victory speech in iowa in february, you promised you would be a big champion to first responders like those who ran into burning buildings. when you gave that speech, an lapd officer forced to retire because of 9/11 related cancer, he wrote an op-ed and said you didn't vote for the act. many republicans voted for it including senator blunt, burr, senator cotton. a lot of people supported this that are normally your allies. why did you vote against it? >> it's real simple. i supported it. it was the right thing to do. >> you voted against it. >> it was rolled in as washington -- the way washington works they roll that in to that funded every single one of obama's priorities. you had to vote to fund obama care. you had to vote to fund amnesty and bring refugees to this country. i wasn't going to fund all these liberal priorities. if you h

. >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews back in washington with a special edition of hardball. hillary clinton and bernie sanders were face-to-face tonight in their last scheduled debate of the democratic primaries. let's get to one of the big moments of the night. clinton was quick to bring up sanders interview with the new york daily news last week provoking this fight about which candidate has the judgment to be president. >> if you go and read, which i hope all of you will before tuesday, senator sanders long interview with the new york daily news, talk about judgment and the kinds of problems he had answering questions about even his core issue, breaking up the banks. when asked he could not explain how that would be done. >> let's talk about judgment and super pacs, money which is completely undisclosed. where does the money come from? do we really feel confident about a candidate saying she's going to bring change in america when she's so dependent on big money interests. >> it's not an attack on me, but it's an attack on president obama. you know, let me tell you why. you may n

screen. sanders campaign manager telling the washington post, the couple will release 2015 returns which will be filed monday unless they seek an extension shortly after they are finished. sanders promised to make his 2014 returns public came after the two candidates sparred over tra transparency at their debate. when hillary clinton was asked about paid speeches, she pivoted and challenged sanders on his tax return. last night it was there. hillary clinton, will you release the speeches. the taxes are out. >> she's prepared to release her candidates if every other candidate releases their speeches in a variety of different formats that they may have delivered. >> this isn't enough. not enough for her to put out. >> i think she should be held to a singular standard and shouldn't be subjected to a standard different than anybody else. >> what is the standard? i've heard this line. we're talking about the democrat race for president. he said i'll release all my wall street speech transcripts. there are none. >> he spent time traveling in a different of ways to different places. it's

is playing. democracy spring has been happening in washington, d.c., 1,400 people arrested. it seems to me there's two kinds of democratic primary voters. there's voters for whom this is front of mind. like the whole thing's corrupt and until you fix that you get nothing else downstream and those are the folks that are on the capitol protesting. there are folks whose intellectual analysis i find fairly compelling. then folks on the other side who say, yes, that's a problem, and there's all these other problems, and we're not going to effects it tomorrow so you do what you can within the system. >> you know what i was struck by, george clooney, the guy who held the fund-raiser. and who said, look, i'm uncomfortable with all this money in politics. >> right and hosting this fund raiser. >> and i'm not talking about george clooney here but i genuinely think he hit the mark there, that within this democratic party there is a pretty unified critique of big money. >> yes. >> the overwhelming majority of democratic senators voted for a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united. s

elected to serve in washington there? you're as good a judge as i am. what i know what is he's doing is saying something that is simply not true. and that enough should be reason to ditch this tv ad before it sells another citizen on something that is simply not a fact. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. our special coverage of the new york primary continues now. >>> i am so glad to be back in the bronx. >> these are my people! we're going to win and we're going to win so big. >>> an epic battle for the empire state. unleashing a war of words. >> i do question her judgment. >> they have questioned my judgment, well, the people of new york voted for me twice. >> can kasich and cruz slow down trump on his home turf? >> this is america. we don't pledge allegiance to a man, we pledge allegiance to a flag. >> it ain't over till it's over. >> a republican system is absolutely rigged. it's a phony deal. >> and can sanders pull off his biggest upset yet? >> i think we've got a surprise for the establishment. if we have a large voter turnout we're going to win this thing. >

him 30. puts him up to 935. washington proportional, oregon proportional. nebraska is winner take all. let's say that's a cruz state. trump's only getting delegates out of those two states. that would put him at 1021. we go to june 7th. winner take all, new jersey, looks really good for donald trump. that would sit him at 1072. new mexico, let's say he takes 12 out of there. 1084. montana, winner-take-all, let's say cruz there. and california, the big wild card. three delegates for every district you win. let's say trump gets 121 out of california. look at this. look at what that would do. if he did that, he'd be short. you'd say, 1205, he's short, open convention. remember what i said. circle pennsylvania. this is the key. and i think this is the biggest single story right now in the republican race. east 54 in pennsylvania. these are unbound delegates. these are men and women who will run on that primary ballot in pennsylvania next week. they will become free-agent delegates at the convention. here's the catch. a lot of them right now, like a majority of them who are running, aresay

actively also courting gop lawmakers with manafort visiting washington yesterday to meet with the house of republicans and more than ten months after trump launched his presidential bid, they are touting upcoming policy speeches. the results of manafort's leadership we're being told was a different radical donald trump who took the stage last night, trump 2.0. a kinder, gentler trump with a more presidential tone and finally heshed the ugly rhetoric. the evidence for this total transformation trump's been staying off twitter and the sunday shows and last night he referred to senator cruz instead of lying ted. >> we don't have much of a race anymore based on what i'm seeing on television. senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated. >> but less than 24 hours after that speech, here was trump addressing cruz today. >> in the case of lying ted cruz, lying ted, lies, oh he lies. you know ted, he brings the bible, holds it high, puts it down and lies. the evangelicals have been supporting donald trump, it's been great. >> if there was any doubt that trump is still trump last night h

to court the elite in gop washington and rnc. paul mannafort described his pitch to party lead neshs an interview with nbc's casey hunt. >> we're here to let them know that we're going to run a traditional campaign. we're the nominee of the republican party. it's going to be a trump brand of the party. but we are republicans, we're running as a team. >> running as team, traditional campaign, that's a real about-face for a campaign that has been anything but. at the same time, ted cruz is trying to portray himself at the trump alternative, the most electable candidate and the biggest threat to hillary clinton, releasing a new two and a half minute web video with actors playing clinton and her closest aides. >> the plan is coming together. donald trump is paving the way for you to went white house. >> what's our next move? >> our op file on trump is ready to go. when our friends in the media release this stuff he's toast. >> silenting dissenters with lawsuits, taking people's property, a long list of failing businesses. >> he plays fast and loose with the facts. >> he isn't trusted and

now run by a washington lobbyist who has been a lobbyist for 40 years. they brought in an army of lobbyists who are running the entire campaign. yesterday they were down in florida meeting with party leaders and they were saying, these are their words, that all of this is just a show. that he doesn't believe anything he's saying. he's just trying to fool gullible voters and he's not going to do any of it, he's not going to build a wall, he's not going to deport anyone. he is telling us he is lying to us. >> ted cruz is certainly right about at least one thing, donald trump's campaign is now officially being run by washington lobbyists. the very people he spent much of his campaign rallying against. it's not just any lobbyists who are in charge of this phase of the campaign, but, well, some of the -- well, the most unsavory lobbyists possible. paul manafort, who has brought in several of his friends, has spent decades in washington, d.c. working for some of the worst people in the world. literally. as political reports. the firm he helped found developed a niche representing a rost

that. joining me now is washington bureau chief. i cannot get my head around this fact. this is someone who was third in line to be president of the united states. he's the longest serving republican speaker of the house. he's someone who voted for impeeshment during that period. he's a beloved figure in illinois politics. you've covered the guy. what do you make of this? >> well, everyone was stunned. everyone is stunned and then you have the small world of illinois politics where scott cross who is a hero for being -- >> tremendous courage to stand in open federal courthouse at 53 and say what happened. just tremendous courage. >> absolutely. so i applaud him and he gave an el owe consequent statement to let others know who might be in his situation that it's not about them and if anyone's in the situation i'll help you get the transcript because it's important to hear how he said i'm hear partly to help people that might be in my situation. that aside, just think, hastert was a local hero. when scott cross met him when he was a teen, the high school wrestling team had just wo

most hated person in washington, d.c., ted cruz. at an appearance at stanford university, former house speaker john boehner expressed his disdain for the texas senator in remarkably stark terms. >> how about ted cruz? >> lose f >> lucifer in the flesh. i've never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life. over my dead body will he be president. >> that last part didn't seem to be a joke even though people laughed. cruz hit back. >> he said something like he's the worst s.o.b. i've ever worked with, something like that. >> lice fucifer in the flesh. >> there was that too. the interesting thing he said is, i've ever worked with. i've never worked with john boehner. i don't noknow the man. when john boehner calls me lucifer he's not directing that at me. he's directing that at you. what waner is e e er boehner iy is not anything i've said to him. what boehner is angry with me for is standing with the american people. >> the part how ted cruz doesn't know john boehner? that's odd since john boehner once hired ted cruz to be his lawyer. cruz campaign today claimed the two

democratic side would be less energized than the republicans this primary season. last month the washington times ran a piece titled "donald trump drives gop record turn out, democrats lack enthusiasm." but as we get closer to general election with the increasing possibility of trump atop the republican ticket, complacency doesn't appear to be a problem for democrats. after tuesday's primaries, 69% of democrats in pennsylvania, including majorities of both clinton and sanders voters, said the campaign had energized the party. on the republican side, exit polls show only 39% said the primaries had energized the party, while nearly 60% of voters in pennsylvania on the republican side said the primary process had divided the party. that divide can be felt in the senate as some republican leaders seem anxious about the down-ballot effects of a trump nothing nation. the gop nominee could make all the difference whether republicans keep or close their slim senate majority this fall. cornell, there are a bunch of vulnerable republicans in cycle, in the senate, it's set up to be a decent year for d

evening from washington, d.c. i'm chris hayes. today felt like a real preview of the 2016 general election. with six months until election day, it is already ugly. this was the sense scene outside california's republican state convention earlier today where donald trump was scheduled to speak. less than 24 hours after 17 people were arrested and property damaged in protests outside a trump rally last night in southern california. it is the kind of thing we can probably expect to see again and again as trump continues to campaign around the country, not to mention at the republican convention at cleveland this july. before trump's arrival in burlingame not far from san francisco protesters managed to break through a police barricade and rush to the hotel. succeeding in prohibiting trump's motorcade who had to pull off the highway on to the side where trump actually got out of the car, his security detail and his entourage all sort of getting into line. he proceeded to walk on foot along the concrete barrier, there he goes, descending down into the embankment sitting next to the hig

do a remarkable job. he's already announced and washington post reporting a series of policy speeches. he's already announced changes that will talk about something other than that. >> if this were a normal candidate and normal campaign, all of this will make sense. i understand it's only one policy speech. it's not a series of them. that's number one. it may take a while to get off the ground. a lot of people close to him have said, when he turns, he knows how to do this. he will stay disciplined. he's yet to show us any discipline. past performance is indicative of future behavior. maybe he does change, but a lot of people have been saying that very thing about donald trump for six months now and he didn't do it. >> thank you for mentioning discipline. allow me to show some as i often have to. >> yes, you do. >> we'll be back after a break right after this. when it comes to medicare, everyone talks about what happens when you turn sixty-five. but, really, it's what you do before that counts. see, medicare doesn't cover everything. only about eighty percent of part b medical

washington but he is maturing as a public figure. finally the field is narrowed and seems to be assuming the mantel of true conservative in a way he hasn't before and the question is question sustain that? can he really become a figure on the right that's bigger than just the man of the shutdown. >> he's got to win somewhere -- he's going to have to win in one of these northeastern states like he -- >> philly suburbs. >> i was just going to say, to me pennsylvania might be a better shot for him than you realize. especially if the kasich collapses -- >> you made the point. john kasich is from pennsylvania. let's remember. he has a great affinity. been the ohio governor and spent a lot of his life there. first 18 years and took me to mckees rocks outside pittsburgh. he wants to stick around to go back home. >> second amendment is a huge issue in pennsylvania, one of the issues statewide that defeats democrats and republicans. >> the pride of penn right here. >> if you other exit poll numbers that jump out. this idea 38% of wisconsin republicans described a trump presidency as scary. you do

washington post headline reading clinton questions whether sanders is qualified to be president, which is completely accurate since she was questioned. sanders cited the cnn report and the washington post headline to back up his claim. >> the washington post had a headline that said, quote, clinton questions whether sanders is qualified to be president. end of quote. that's what was thrown at me. she has attacked me for being unqualified. if i'm going to be attacked for being unqualified, i will respond in quiet. this is a quote from cnn. quote, disqualify him, defeat him and unify the party later. that sounds like they are ready to run a very negative campaign. >> sanders reiterated his attacks on clinton's own qualifications to be president. >> if you want to question my qualifications, let me suggest this. maybe the american people might wonder about your qualification, when you voted for the war in iraq, the most disasterous foreign policy blunder in the modern history of america. people might want to wonder about your qualifications when you supported every trade agreement. >> clinto

critic tim miller tweeted that trump's team is sending e-mails to their washington, d.c. list asking people to be delegates in washington state. just in case anyone from trump team happens to be watching, here is a helpful map. they sent it not just to the wrong people but two days past the deadline. as bad as that is, and it's pretty bad, it's nothing compared to the trump failures in colorado where all delegates are selected by district and state conventions and with they have been badly out organized. cruz has won the 18 delegates and he may be poised for a clean sweep. the trump operation in colorado is being run by this guy, patrick davis, who just started on the job. that's because lewandowski fired a young operative who has been in charge of the campaign. because he had been commune indicating with manafort after lewandowski told him not to. >> started in that role on wednesday. >> what's it been like? >> it's been like drinking from a fire hose. our expectations are very low. we don't expect one delegate. if we get one, that's a win for trump in colorado. >> those expectation

fix, chris and alyssa and founder of the washington post and kristen welker. dan, in other subjects between bernie sanders and donald trump. >> well, striking, watching the debate and listen to bernie sanders, i was struck by the number of things that he was saying. i mean we know they are both the outsider candidates and we know the degree which they created in a sense of movement behind their candidacy. they both like to talk about the polls and they both rail about superpacs and they both got grie grie grievances on delegate rules. on foreign policy, there are similarities of what they said on the war and what bernie sanders said about nato. this is something that donald trump has talked about this spring and on israel and the palestinians, bernie sanders sounded similar to donald trump about being more even handed in the streemt in the wtreatment o. >> they found agreements on a number of issues. >> what's also interesting of the new numbers we have at this hour. hillary clinton is down to a 2 point national lead of bernie sanders. kris and alyssa, do you think of the way she's

washington post and nick. >> first, to you, the donald trump 2.0 or whatever you want to call it at this state, katy tur, our colleague is being t d told. trying to explain to the house members how they want to run this campaign and the same time priebus was meeting with others. the selection process is rigged and not fair and true. >> yeah, spends little and get on tv a lot and outraged people. >> tweet all the time. >> now, we are seeing a more convention donald trump campaign. part of that campaign, just saw the metaphor to convince the party he will not be a disaster for them. >> if this become as horse race, he needs the party to believe that he could be a good candidate for them down ballot in the fall. >> kris alyssa, what is the likelihood that he can persuade party regulars and house members who have not been in this corle. >> well, look, outreach is one big part of it andrea. i don't believe that trump campaign was staff inside a way that people could go to the capitol hill club and talk to republican members in congress and essentially look, everything you know about donald i

o, pinocchios from "the washington post" on that. that's not the kind of campaign he said he was going to run. if he wants a debate about climate change, there's one candidate who got something done. but that's hillary clinton. >> i know. but she was in copenhagen with barack obama. but with it this nasty, how is the party going to come together? >> we came together in 2008. we had a hard-fought primary. democrats know that what we have to do, the party that's really the party against the people in this country that are republicans, because the democratic party and our nominee, who i think are hillary clinton, will make the case that we will improve people's lives economically, giving their kids the education they deserve, taking on climate change, and we'll be making that case forcefully against republicans and we will unite democrats around that. >> she's in new york? >> yes, home state. >> joel benenson. thank you very much for being with us. >>> breaking news to report from the supreme court. in unanimous decision, rejected the challenge by conservative republicans in texas.

rnc on friday in washington, they are nowhere near the kind of relationship, working relationship that would make it easy to slide into a convention or a contested convention. and with everyone having the same goal. >> normally, this is a time for coalescing but we see the divisions of the party playing themselves out in wisconsin right now, new york and the northeast after that. this highlights exactly why republicans are where we are. we are divided. if trump were to win, the never trump movement is not going to go away as long as he's short of the 1273 goal of delegates and if he is, it's incumbent on donald trump to prove he's the greatest deal maker and go out and get those delegates. if he's able to do that, he'll be our nominee for sure. doug heye. thank you. you could see them, with all respect, later today on msnbc. and just ahead here, buzzer beater. the 2016 candidates are also shooting for some of that last second magic. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. can't get enough of that. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"