a twin nonetheless. >> trevor noah is good there. >>> finally this morning, house speaker ryan made his first appearance on a late show ever last night. the republican joined stephen colbert by satellite and he was only asked one question. >> yes or no, would you accept the nomination? >> no, stephen, i have said i do not want nor would i accept the republican nomination. >> got it. so you're considering the nomination? >> no, i'm not. >> okay, i'll give you some time to mull this one over. how about now? >> still no. >> so that's a maybe? >> no, it's a no. >> like a no no? or one of those no, i don't want to be speaker of the house but i'll accept it if you give it to me nos? >> it's a no no. >> and two no nos make a yes? >> no, they make a firmer no, period. >> okay. period. but if i add two more periods it becomes an ellipsis, so possibly? >> so no, let me say it in clear english. no! >> okay. how about clear german? >> nein. >> clear russian? >> nyet. >> wow. you seem to know a lot of foreign languages. that kind of international experience will really come in handy if you decid

three house candidates, all of who is supporting him and many cases were primary more establishment candidates and harry reid in nevada. i know from sanders' sources they say he made up his mind after nevada that he was going to go forward and stay in this race no matter what all the way until the district of columbia votes on june 14th. i personally would be surprised if anything change from that plan and i think you know you are seeing a little bit of a back and forth within the sanders campaign about the best tone to take and the best way to approach the back half of this race. the margins tonight will help show some of that to us. you have also seen sanders is changing his campaign style a little bit the last couple of days. walking ovall over in new york. that's a switch from one he's not been so engaged from campaigning. >> to all of you, thank you very much. enjo enjoy election day. >> now, let's bring in nbc's mark murray to break down the numbers. >> andrea, almost, the voter and the countries are saying none of the above. 68% of all american voters end up saying they could

and gave republicans a majority retired harry reid. gave us the biggest majority of the house since the 1920s. the battles i've had with republican leadership have been simple. they have focused on one question. if and when we can stand up to barack obama and i'm someone who doesn't believe you fight on everything, i think you pick your battles. what i have fought on is obama care and stopping the debt that's disrupting our kids and grand kids. i believe we could stood and fought much more effectively. we can't stand and fight against obama. we can't give in. fine. if i'm elected president, i think i will work closely with leaders in congress. we're not going to have tactical disputes about whether we can stand up to obama. we're going to have a strong principled, conservative president to pass legislation repealing obama care, stopping amnesty. passing a flat tax. i think we'll see washington responsive to the people in way it hasn't been since the 1980s. >> we're going to sneak in break here. we'll be back at the university of buffalo town hall with texas senator ted cruz. we'll b

video. paul ryan for president, election videos if you saw the headline, you get the story, house speaker john ryan has a video. i get. it's simple. you see headlines like this, left lane blogs, right lane blogs, you think, okay, i got the point. not sure i need to see it. but behold, for this news story, of all things, there is a bit of a grand canyonesque. you actually do have to see it. because even if you believe all these headlines, if you have absorbed this information, so you therefore understand that paul ryan has done something that makes it seem like you may be running for president. having that information. believeing that information, does not do it justice. you actually have to look at it. just look at it. what is this? what is this for, if it is not someone running for president. not editing it in anyway, it's like 40-some seconds. stand on the rim of this and peer into this scenic of this. just watch this. >> what really bothers me the most in politics these days is this notion of identity politics, that we're going to win elections by dividing people, rather than i

, and through this long, long journey. a veteran of white house and campaigns for bush and mccain. and steve schmidt is with us, speaking of bush and mccain. we're happy to have you back. steve, we'll start with you. if, in fact, donald trump continues to paint parts of this country red, what do you make of what's become of the party and what's heading for the party in cleveland? >> look, we're going to have a very contentious convention in cleveland. what's unsettled tonight, is donald trump going to get to 1237 delegates? it looks like he's taking a big step in that direction. brian, when you look at these campaigns and take the measure of candidates, you have to look at candidates when things go badly. and so look at donald trump tonight in the context of the last two weeks. having the big loss in wisconsin. retooling his campaign. dealing with some of the temperament issues. strengthening and toughening his message as the outsider candidate. railing against the establishment. he's put all of that together, recovered from the loss, big win in his home state tonight. and now he goes

the supposed caveat. you might make a video about you being speaker of the house. speaker of the house videos are usually like this. >> this sits in my office on my coffee table because this is neat. that's what i do all day. they wind me up about everybody 15 minutes. >> again. >> no, i got to go to work. the my staff gave it to me. every 15 minutes, 30 minutes they wind me up and i do my thing. >> so, yes, people who hold the job of speaker of the house in modern times, they make little videos about themselves to humanize themselves and tell you what they like. it's like the symbol monkey thing and there was the long video john boehner did about his turkey. that's a speaker.gov video. what paul ryan did an i'm running for president or wouldn't it be awesome if i was running. he says he's not doing that. he said he's not running for president. he told john harwood, i'm not running for president. his spokesperson backed it up. the speaker is grateful for the support but he's not running. paul ryan was in israel. he told reporters, i decided not to run for president. he then repea

houses. he can count that as a gift. he keeps the land and can make money off of it. it's a gift but he's not giving away the land. >> we should be clear. conservation easements that are quite controversial offer significant monetary benefits for developers. i want to say two things. as a full disclosure, there was one entity that gave $500,000 that was nbc universal. there was a big relationship between nbc and donald trump. second of all, there's reports that trump gave $100,000 to 9/11 memorial museum. we don't know how that's constituted. there's reason to be a little curious given your reporting. >> he gave it out of his foundation. the mostly full of other people's money. that's where the donation to the 9/11 museum came from. a lot of reporting said it came from him but it was the foundation. >> glad to have you here to give us that answer. thanks for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> up next we don't often play video from the british parliament. when we do it's because something amazing has happened. we'll play it after this break. we needed 30 new hires for our cal

the house. i want to take back governorships and state legislatures all up and undown e ticket. >>> the u.s. suddenly finds itself at odds with a longtime middle east ally over the september 11th terror attacks. including saudi arabia to be held responsible in u.s. courts for any role in the attacks is drawing backlash. the white house is lobbying against it, and the kingdom is threatening to sell off billions of dollars of american assets, should it pass. now, the two democratic presidential candidates have joined lawmakers and families of victims supporting passage of senator chuck schumer's bill. >> obviously, we've got to make anyone who participates in or supports terrorism pay a price, and we also have to be aware of any consequences that might affect americans either military or civilian our nation. >> i have said throughout this campaign that we are not taking a hard enough look at saudi arabia. it's not only the people that came from saudi arabia and participated in 9/11. the evidence is pretty clear. >> president obama will arrive in the saudi capital on wednesday to

white house instead of setting up a situation where hillary is the nominee she's so cripple in this environment that could become elected president. >> you don't want to be where he was after the great run in '68. you don't want to be that guy. thank you. i have a long memory for bad behavior. it hasn't helped ralph nader. now he'll call me. let me just drop that. i won't say anything. i'll drop that. thank you. thanks for coming on tonight. coming up, with a huge win in new york, can donald trump clench the republican nomination before cleveland or can the stop trump movement still force him out at a contested convention? >>> plus, the growing likelihood that november's general election matchup will be the heavy weight bout we all want to see. trump versus clinton. >>> the hardball round table is here to tell me things, three things i don't know about the 2016 presidential race. you'll want to stick around for that. >>> let me finish with a big problem for politics. we don't build anything because we don't trust the democrats with money and republicans don't want to build anything.

visits to the white house as bribes. 1976 was a little nutty. 1976 was the last time the republican party had a contested national convention. that's what everybody is expecting to be replayed this summer, but worse when this year's republican convention unfolds in cleveland. back at the last contested convention in 1976, there's two important world changing outcomes that were the results of that contested convention. the first one was the obvious one which is that gerald ford beat ronald reagan. he got the nomination and he went onto lose the election to jimmy carter. even though ronald reagan didn't succeed, how close he got to it did play excellent ground work for him to take over leadership of the republican party much more easily. in 1980 when republicans convened for their next convention in detroit, that republican convention in 1980 not only was that not a fight, it was an absolute coronation. reagan put his chief rival george bush on the ticket as a running mate. there was a little noise that he would pick jesse helms. it was a pretty smooth transition. the vice presidency

getting on the helicopter and flying away from the white house, the big wave as gerald ford became president but one of the other things he did on his last day which we do not see nearly as much tape of is the remarkable fair well speech nixon gave that day. it was not directed to the american people directly. although they did let press cameras in to see it. it was the remarkable speech he gave inside the white house to the white house staff. he was absolutely covered in sweat as he gave this speech. he cried pretty much throughout the speech or on and off throughout the speech he cried. this was obviously, a terrible moment for richard nixon. this was a terrible occasion for him. but even knowing that, this speech he gave to the white house staff as he was leaving that day as he was quitting the presidency, oh my god was that speech dark. >> look around here and i see so many in this staff that you know, i've should have been by your offices and shaken hands and would loved to have talked to you and found out how to run the world. everybody wants to tell the president what to do.

today. house speaker paul ryan felt the need to declareirmly that he will not be the gop's ringer if the race goes to a contested convention. >> i do not want nor will i except the nomination for our party. let me speak directly to the delegates on this. if no candidate has majority on the first ballot, i believe you should only choose from a person who is actually participated in the primary. count me out. i simimy believe that if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president, you should actually run for it. i chose not to do this. therefore, i should not be considered, period, end of story. >> ryan's remarks were designed to squash growing speculation he would be the republican's white knight. coming to the rescue as he did last fall when he accepted the speakership and head off conspiracy theories of back room deals. a new report emerged that ryan is due to attend a secret donor meeting in manhattan. a paper owned by trump' son-in-law. the event turns out to be a fund-raiser unrelated to the presidential race. it is being hosted by the billionaire ricketts family.

from those headlines you get the story. it's not a complicated thing. house speaker paul ryan has done some kind of video that gives the impression he's running for president. i get it. it's simple. you see headlines like this on mainstream news sources, on left-wing blogs, on right-wing blogs, and you kind of think, okay, i got the point, not even sure i need to see it. but, behold. for this news story of all things, there is a bit of a grand canyon effect. you actually do have to see it, because even if you do believe all these headlines and think you've absorbed this information and therefore you think you understand that paul ryan has done something that makes it seem he might be running for president, having that information, believing that information does not do it justice. you actually have to look at it. just, just look at it. what is this? what is this for, if it is not someone running for president? i'm going to show you the whole thing. i'm not editing it in any way. it's like 40-something seconds. just stand on the rim of this and peer into this scenic abyss. just wat

visible from space. jacob? >> over 500 acres here. not only is it the biggest cooperative housing development in the world, it's the biggest polling place in new york city, it is the biggest polling place in the united states of america. this is really an extraordinary thing to see an exercise in democracy right now. the after work crowd is coming in but already 3,000 people have shown up here to vote. not only 3,000 people shown up here to vote but a lot of hillary clinton and bernie sanders folks are coming through here and it's a hotly contested election in this area. hillary clinton was in this very room just last week rallying her supporters. i've been told by people that run the polling place that a good amount of bernie sanders supporters have been coming through. it's not just battleground new york, it is not just battleground the bronx, it is battleground co-op city. >> jacob, thanks. we'll go pack to you. to katy tur who's outside trump tower in midtown manhattan. we'll let you guess whose headquarters that is for tonight. katy, the question is, will tonight be the last

establishment republicans dreaming of none of the above. >> liberals -- >> house speaker paul ryan fueled the speculation this week by releasing this campaign-style video. >> so let's have a battle of ideas. let's have a contest of whose ideas are better. >> while trump dismisses any talk of campaign power struggles in public. >> i had not heard anything about the inner fightings of the campaign. >> in private trump's team is clearly worried. expanding the role of new hire paul manafort. a one-time republican powerhse trump brought in to be his convention manager. and joining me n is donald trump's new convention manager paul manafort, a one-time delegate wrangler for harold fordnd bob dole brought in to stop this delegate bleeding. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. >> let me start with what a cruz official claimed to me this weekend, that there are 144 different delegate selection events yesterday in 11 states. and they were stunned that essentially outside of michigan the trump campaign was nowhere. is that a fair assessment? >> not at all. first of all, alabama, they cauc

midwestern downtown, we really thought it was going to be mad house tonight. zoom way this here. there we go. you know what the shrine circus is. think old school circus. think unreconstructed circus. like down and dirty, elephant pop circus. it's going to be tonight at the panther arena. it's got 12,000 seats. it's right next door to the milwaukee theater. right next door. it's 7,000 seats. then if you go right across the street, literally right across the street, there's a parking lot there, the dark rectangle and right adjacent to the parking lot is what's called the wisconsin convention center. that's set up with 5,000 seats. those three venues, literally adjacent to one another on the same city block are going off at the same time. simultaneously, tonight, there's the shrine circus at the panther arena. next door there's a donald trump rally at the 7,000-seat milwaukee theater. across the street there's a bernie sanders rally with the 5,000 seats. 12,000 seats next door to 7,000 streets across the street from 5,000 streets. all one street block, all tonight. we know the milwaukee pol

so careful, governor. hope it was a good lead day at that house today. when you filled up those jugs. you know the filters are only good up to 150 parts per billion, right? technically. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow at 8:00 for tomorrow's special coverage of the new york primary. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> rachel, i saw your report on that last week and he drank the water. it sure didn't look like he was going to drink the water last week. >> no, he did drink the water, says he'll drink it for another month. i have news for him about the threshold lead levels for those filters, but yeah, you know? anyway, thanks, lawrence. >> so that's part of that job, now, drinking the water. >> yeah, seriously. >> thank you, rachel. >> barney frank and nina turner are here for another democratic debate in support of their presidential candidates. basically, it's a mini hillary versus bernie debate. and last week we urged all of the presidential candidates to visit public housing in new york. none of the republicans did that. both

presidential candidates have been invited to visit any new york city public housing project and exactly none of them have accepted that invitation, but i did. you'll see what the candidates aren't seeing. and nina turner and howard dean will join us for a mini hillary versus bernie debate. it will be friendly. ♪ ♪ take on the unexpected. the new 2016 nissan altima. built to stand out. we're always looking for ways to speed up your car insurance search. here's the latest. problem is, we haven't figured out how to reverse it. for now, just log on to compare.com... plug in some simple info and get up to 50 free quotes. choose the lowest and hit purchase. now...if you'll excuse me, i'm late for an important function. compare.com. saving humanity from high insurance rates. >>> senator bernie sanders has wrapped up a rally here in new york city. he gathered supporters. casey hunt joins us now. >> reporter: this was in many ways peak bernie sanders. the campaign claims there were over 27,000 people here in washington square park and it caps off a day where sanders showcased how he

republican senators that have been elected by those states. there's one representative in the house. and new england has this idea if the republicans would put up moderate candidates they would win and they do that and they lose. donald trump, if he had -- if he were to identify an underlying governoring theory for him, he would be a north eastern liberal progressive. that's what he fits in. >> you don't like that. there is literally not a single progressive i know anywhere -- >> his foreign speech today was exactly what hillary clinton's speech -- >> all he talked about was more spending for the military. whatever you say about donald trump's ideology which i find hard to pin down, but banning muslims and mass deportation, there's not a single person that calls themselves a progressive who believes in those ideas. >> i don't believe in it either. >> who knows what he believes. >> i think those people who want a ban on muslims and they don't trust the united states to keep us safe. that's what they're saying. >> that's a charitable read and i wish for you and the rest of the countries th

get special permission to show on tv. it's play on "house of cards." it's john boehner there who was speaker of the house. he's sitting on the seat on what's supposed to be the lincoln memorial. it's not "house of cards." it's house of turd. in the house of cards play on the lincoln, frank underwood is sitting like lincoln but his hands are bloody. sitting in the lincoln seat overseeing the house of turds. that's not blood on his hands. i'm telling you, the new york tabloids don't always care about politics. they do not front page politics every day, but when they do front page politics, hide the children. it can be very profane. it can be very funny. sometimes it's profound. sometimes it's all three. last summer, donald trump, criticized arizona senator, john mccain called him not war hero. despite the fact he was shot down and served five years as a pow in vietnam. he's absolutely a war hero. this is now the new york daily news responded. see the headline there, g.i. joke. in the photo, that's donald trump's class picture when he was in a military themed prep school as teenager. se

. the first presidential candidate to talk about how to fix that ought to win the white house if our political system made any sense. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again on monday. now it's time for a special friday night edition of the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >>> welcome to a special friday edition of the last word. with only four days left before the new york presidential primary with both home teams, the clinton campaign and the trump campaign needing to win big. >> every day we're reminded of how terrible it would be to be ruled over by a self financed jack on lat earn. >> tom brady likes me. >> the only problem is that the candidate with the best chance of beating trump is this guy. >> i've probably got a screw loose. >> new york values. new york values. >> he's unhappy so he complains. >> the republican system is rigged. >> these plans have been in place since october of last year. in trump's defense he didn't expect anyone to fall for this a year ago. >> only in america, folks. only in american. >> i don't write the rules for the republican party. >>

portray him as unqualified for the white house, senator sanders linked her to the trade pac by profitable corporations to avoid paying taxes and then went on to spell out the rest of the senator's quotes from philadelphia. that linked readers to "the washington post" article citing secretary clinton's remarks on "morning joe." both candidates have news conferences schedule for 9:00 a.m. this morning. stay tuned? >>> after a double digit loss in wisconsin, donald trump huddled with advisers in manhattan yesterday, with politico reporting a power struggle between manager corey lewandowski and recently added veteran strategist paul manafort. he was hired to marshal the trump strategy. lewandowski fired the top aide in colorado just as the state's delegate selection began. something that lewandowski denies. cruz is seen as having the upper hand as the rest of the delegates are chosen, speaking at this weekend's state convention. and "the denver post" reports that tentative plans for trump to appear fell through, but trump will be hiring several quote, well known and seasoned operat

you feel animated about evangelical fervor or social issues. that's what's in his wheel house. >> it's something weirdly european about this secular nationalism, comfortable in cities but who are these elite guys. we're seeing all this new york values junk. cruz throwing that out there. trump objecting. >> we accept the consequences. >> we don't want to be there and support him. that's new york values. >> those kids saying our parents are undocumented. we come from families that are undocumented. you've also got the situation to me where part of what's happening here is there's two things at play. one is, geography is momentum. were you in state that's good for you? yeah, wisconsin was good for cruz in many ways. >> donald trump does not do well in plain states. he does well in the south and northeast. people google racial slurs that correlates with people donald trump doing well in primaries. >> part of connection to that is in places like kansas and utah, which are almost entirely white, trump does poorly. what's also fascinating is the delegate rules of the republican party end up m

i did not get to yesterday. >> you talked to the president. >> i went to the white house on a chartered plane and talked to mr. ford up at the white house. >> reagan may have had the movie star appeal going for him, but president ford won out in no small part because of the trappings he could offer to all those delegates. flights aboard air force one, cocktails at the white house and even a state dinner with queen elizabeth. reagan's card was his hollywood connections. he tried to lure them with john wayne and jimmy stewart. it didn't quite work out. ford prevailed and lost to carter in fall. 40 years later trump could be set to plunge into the same kind of delegate war. one governed by few rules about what can be offered in exchange for the support of the uncommitted. on sunday, trump's new convention manager said the campaign will do everything within legal and ethical bounds to win them over. >> what is fair game in getting a delegate is paying for their convention cost. is it golf club memberships. what's fair and unfair in this. what's ethical and unethical? >> there's la

convention this summer, could it be that house speaker paul ryan will emerge as the republican nominee? ryan is going out of his way, of course, to say he's not interested, but would the party rather lose with trump or cruz or run a fresh face like ryan to topple hillary? i'm thinking a lot about that. >>> plus, the democratic fight between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. sanders has momentum right now and should win here tomorrow night. so why is this campaign talking about mistakes it's made in the past? i don't think it's making many mistakes now. and the "hardball" roundtable is here in milwaukee. will tomorrow night's wisconsin primary be a turning point in the republican race? will it point the democratic race in bernie sanders' direction? finally, let me finish with this political situation in our country as of tonight. this is "hardball," live from milwaukee, on the eve of the wisconsin primary. those new glasses? they are. do i look smarter? yeah, a little. you're making money now, are you investing? well, i've been doing some research. let me introduce you to our broker. how mu

caught nicole wallace beaming at her callback -- >> no one in my house ever says i'm right, so when i hear it at work -- >> you're on notice, mark. >> we'll put that on a film drive for you. >> ring tone, baby. >> right now the governor of new york is giving the last so-called -- oh, he is not. that's absolutely not the governor of new york. they're going to play a film inside the ballroom as her remarks are placed at the podium, we're going to squeeze a break in here now. like, as donald trump did, if she shows up at that podium, we'll come busting out of that commercial as fast as you can say the democratic victor in tonight's new york primary, hillary clinton. man 1: you're new. man 2: i am. woman: ex-military? man 2: four tours. woman: you worked with computers? man 2: that's classified, ma'am. man 1: but you're job was network security? man 2: that's classified, sir. woman: let's cut to the chase, here... man 1: what's you're assessment of our security? man 2: [ gasps ] porous. woman: porous? man 2: the old solutions aren't working. man 2: the world has changed. man 1: meaning? m

house of representatives in the same party to get anything done. this polarization doesn't fit with our constitutions and our tradition in the senate. i keep telling the bernie people, interesting ideas but you need 60 votes to get anything through the senate. real chaos the way our system is headed now. >> people are looking up the galic dictionaries as we speak. let's go to the campus of marquette university. chris, how's that line? i think the doors have closed behind you. >> doors have closed. the man called the chief inspector who is the person who administers this polling site said here ye, here ye, the polls are closed. these folks are online. they are filling out registration forms. the democratic party spokesperson says they believe, i'm sorry. getting some tutorials on how to fill out the paper work. the democratic spokesperson said they believe this is due to the new voter id law. there were some complaints that the chief inspector wasn't accepting electronic enrollment forms as one of the ids to register. people showing on the phones and he was saying he was not allowing

the federal danger threshold for lead is 15 parts per billion. well, in january, this house tested at 3 parts per billion. in february, it was 4 parts per billion. again, on march 2nd, it was 4 parts per billion. but then two weeks later, in the middle of march, it was 265 parts per billion. way above the federal threshold. more than 10 times above the federal threshold. then at the end of the month, it was back down to 6 parts per billion, which is okay. but that one day, wow, 265 parts per billion, that's terrible. so careful, governor. hope it was a good lead day at that house today. when you filled up those jugs. you know the filters are only good up to 150 parts per billion, right? technically. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow at 8:00 for tomorrow's special coverage of the new york primary. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> rachel, i saw your report on that last week and he drank the water. it sure didn't look like he was going to drink the water last week. >> no, he did drink the water, says he'll drink it for another month

. disaster. >> i think they'll try to save the senate and the house. i don't see the appetite working with trump. >> what's more divisive, a republican party gets stuck with trump or a party that's dumped him in favor of a cruz or a ryan? what's more crazy. >> i think they should dump him. >> what should be is more crazy? >> much more crazy -- look, this is a political party as was pointed out a couple of mints ago that was -- minutes ago that was founded more nan 150 years ago. in the history of the republican party, it has said we're in the wrong track. in 1940, this party was headed toward nominating a isolationist on the eve of world war ii. they took wilke, who didn't run in the primaries. i'm not saying we're in the same kind of a moment, but i'm saying that the party has to become adult and the leaders have to say we'll take the attacks, we'll take the criticism, but we are a pushing this stuff aside. because it doesn't work. >> they weren't going to run as an anti-war party either. they did it again in '52 with ike. >> america first, by way, which is donald trump's talk. been used

number and gave republicans a majority retired harry reid. gave us the biggest majority of the house since the 1920s. the battles i've had with republican leadership have been simple. they have focused on one question. if and when we can stand up to barack obama and i'm someone who doesn't believe you fight on everything, i think you pick your battles. what i have fought on is obama care and stopping the debt that's disrupting our kids and grand kids. i believe we could stood and fought much more effectively. we can't stand and fight against obama. we can't give in. fine. if i'm elected president, i think i will work closely with leaders in congress. we're not going to have tactical disputes about whether we can stand up to obama. we're going to have a strong principled, conservative president to pass legislation repealing obama care, stopping amnesty. passing a flat tax. i think we'll see washington responsive to the people in way it hasn't been since the 1980s. >> we're going to sneak in break here. we'll be back at the university of buffalo town hall with texas senator ted cruz. w

say paul ryan, speaker of the house, you worked on an effort -- how would you describe it? >> it was an online petition effort to try to get 1 million people to say yes we would support paul ryan. >> he asked you to shut it down. >> and then today -- today paul ryan who asked you to shut that down, basically released a commercial for himself. let's look at this. >> what really bothers me the most in politics these days is this notion of identity politics that we're going to win an election by dividing people, rather than inspiring people on our common ideas and culture, on the things that should unify us. we all want to be healthy and we want everybody to succeed. we want people to reach their potential. now liberals and conservatives are going to disagree with that, no problem. that's what this is all about. so let's have a battle of ideas. let's have a contest of whose ideas are better and why our ideas are better. >> that's from a speech he made a couple of weeks ago that we covered the night he did it. what is he doing? he knows that everybody thinks -- there's a lot of talk out

white house said president obama thinks clinton is qualified to be president. speaking to reporters in the bronx, clinton called sanders criticism silly. >> it's a silly thing to say. i'm going to trust the voters of new york who know me and have voted for me three times. twice for senate, once in the presidential primary. look, i didn't -- i don't know why he's saying that. i will take bernie sanders over donald trump or ted cruz any time. >> joining me now is former philadelphia mayor who has endorsed hillary clinton. let me start with you. what do you make of this? i make that both senator clinton and senator sanders are qualified to be president of the united states. the nation, on the other hand, endorsed senator sanders because we believe his issues are important for the country at this time. boldness is what is demanded. we agree with what she said, no that she's disqualified but the vote for the iraq war, the super pacs, the failure to be bolder on health care and all these issues suggest that senator sanders is the candidate for this time. they are going to need both -- the

, drifting at sea on the smaller boat until they were rescued. they are being housed in a stadium in greece. >>> strains have begun to the show in the traditional allies in the middle east, israel for one. and yesterday, president obama was snubbed at the airport but later met with king salman amid a time of heightened tension. in the wake of declassifying the 28 pages of the document as to who financed 9/11 and that the foreign governments would be held liable. saudi arabia has always denied a role in the attacks. the two leaders discussed joint action on isis and he pushed the saudis to be more open to diplomat wh diplomacy with iran. >>> and the volkswagen will unveil a plan in court today to buy back the 500,000 diesel cars that it rigged to evade u.s. emissions tests. cnbc's nancy hulgrave joins us live from london. what does this mean for consumers and the company going forward? >> well, alex, it is good news for the company as far as investors are concerned. we have seen the stock rally for a second straight day on this news. however, we don't yet have confirmation of volkswagen of w

rabid right wing tea party republicans in the house of representatives egged on every day by senator ted cruz. that's why john boehner resigned in the middle of his term. boehner quit because he couldn't stand another day trying to control out of control children in his party, in the house of representatives and an out of control senator in his party, cheering them on. so no one should have been surprised today to learn that john boehner hates ted cruz. and i mean hates him. john boehner is retired. no one should be too surprised that john boehner feels free to tell the truth as he sees it about ted cruz. especially when it can v it can hurt ted cruz the most. and everywhere he goes, everyone has a recording device in their pockets, we shouldn't be surprised. we got to hear john boehner call ted cruz the devil. >> how about ted cruz? >> lucifer in the flesh. in washington, i have many democrat friends, i have republican friends. i get to along with almost everybody. but i have never worked with a more miserable son of a bimp in my life. over my dead body, will he be president. >> ove