nebraska governor dave heineman. great to see you, sir, thank you so much for joining us. >> liz, it's great to be with you. let me just start by saying thank you for coming to nebraska -- liz: anytime. >> -- for warren buffett's annual meeting. i saw you out there, but you were too busy. liz: you could have thrown some chocolate at my head, i would have stopped, governor. [laughter] >> well with, it was great to see you. liz: i'm sorry i didn't see you but, look, when i was in nebraska, one thing i learned was you guys have a 3% unemployment rate compared to the rest of the nation which is 5%. what are you doing right in the cornhusker state? >> well, i can tell you what i did for ten years as governor, and that was you lower taxes on businesses and individuals, you invest your resources in education and job training. we balanced the budget ten years in a row, and and we've got some great businesses out here. that's one of the reasons that we fared so well. liz: why aren't you running for president? by the way, i ha

donald trump will get all of the 36 delegates in nebraska. it's winner take all in nebraska. he's moving closer and closer to making it official. getting that 1,237 delegates he needs. he's the presumed nominee and he's made it closer right here in nebraska. >> thanks. let's go to sara murray. she's with the trump campaign in new york. sara, no surprise, mr. trump running the table this evening. still they are waiting for the moment when they clench and get the actual key number of

in nebraska, and west virginia. donald trump now one step closer to securing the nomination, as the democrats continue to battle. >> bernie sanders notching another win in his belt in west virginia, insisting don't count him out just yet. >> we're going to run a country that works. we're going the get this country going again, because right now this country is stalled so badly. >> it's why i've been so concerned about the reckless talk coming from donald trump. people say, well, maybe he doesn't really mean it. when you are running for and serving as president, you had better mean what you say. >> tonight, it appears that we've won a big, big victory in west virginia. and with your help, we're going to win in oregon next week! >> doing the math for you, donald trump's delegate total stands at 1,107, just 130 shy of the magic number. >> and clinton now with 2,239. sanders, 1,469. >> lauren green is following the democratic race for the white house. >> but we begin with rich edson live for us in charlesson, west virgi

what's the likelihood that he could actually win nebraska then? >> reporter: well, step one, his name is still on the ballot leer. this is a sample ballot. you can see ted cruz alongside some of the other former candidates who have now suspended or completely dropped their presidential campaign. so that's point one. also operating possibly in his favor is the gop leadership. nebraska really reflects the national split in the republican party over the trump candidacy. the governor, pete rick rickett, just endorsed donald trump. we spoke to professor paul la landeau and here is what he said about the possibility of ted cruz actually pulling off victory here. >> the state was cleaning toward ted cruz. i would have said that cruz is the favorite to win the primary. now it is hard to tell. i mean you assume that donald trump will win since he's the only person left in the race but you never know with nebraskans. they're pretty independent when it comes to their politics. >> reporter: now about seven hours until we'll get the final answer, gretchen. pol

the polls close in nebraska. good evening, rachel. >> thank you, my friend. >>> polls are closing in nebraska. thank you at home for joining us. happy tuesday. one of the things that happens if you run for president but you don't win is that when you come back to your old job, sometimes people clap for you. that's what happened after marco rubio dropped out of the race for president. and returned to his seat in the senate. that is also what happened today to ted cruz who was spotted by a reporter from roll call getting out of a car on capitol hill to go back to his day job. the car incidentally was very, very, very badly parked. do we have that picture? we don't have that picture. but you know what -- there you go, thank you. can we drop that? so you can see how the car is parked? awesome. he's ted cruz, that's how he rolls, that's how he parks. he may not have won his race for the republican presidential nomination but today he came back to his old job in the senate. his staff did clap for him when he finally we

. >> voters hitting the polls in west virginia and nebraska. donald trump has the nomination locked up. will up coming meeting release the tension in the gop? >>> hillary clinton may be the democratic front runner, but is she an under dog in west virginia? >>> and at least two dead, homes destroyed and cars overturned. tornadoes tearing across the plains. >>> welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. tornadoes tore across homes and neighborhoods. look at this chilling video. look how close that twister is to those cars driving down. so many towns and people told to take cover and fast. we have been collecting new information all night. we will have an update from the scene in a few minutes. >>> in hours, voters from both parties head to the polls in west virginia and nebraska. voters will cast ballots. donald trump is likely getting ready for his meeting on capitol hill. ben carson has requested a meeting with paul ryan before donald trump. this after ryan first stated he is not ready to su

>> just a bit of news in nebraska, what you are looking at here is what happened in nebraska back in march. caucuses, bernie sanders, this is binding, they gave out delegates from this it they had a primary from nebraska. nonbinding, no delegates at stake. it gets to the heart of a major argument the clinton campain has been getting. when more people vote, it helps hillary clinton and hurts bernie sanders. this is the caucus for march. right now, counting in nebraska, clinton, getting 59%, bernie sanders, 41. the decision desk at nbc is not calling this race. let the returns come in the associated press said they are calling nebraska for hillary clinton in the democratic primary. this is significant. the turn-out here looks like it will be larger than it was for the caucus that sanders the clinton campaign said if those we do better. you look at the results in nebraska, what we are seeing right now. our decision desk is want going to touch this. only the associated press has. if you go by what associated press is saying, this bolsters what the clinton campaign has been saying. a prim

he got most delegates from nebraska. he got to go around bragging that he won nebraska. this is part of the winning streak. you see these are caucuses. these require people to spend hours, take hours out of their schedule to participate in meetings. can we get that caucus screen back up? this is important. so bernie sanders won the caucuses. these are the number of votes he got and the number of votes hillary clinton got. about 26,000 people in nebraska took part in these caucuses. bernie sanders won them. what is sanders saying? he says the higher the better. yesterday in nebraska they held a statewide primary. democrats running for all sorts of offices are on the ballot. state law says if you have the primary you have to list the presidential candidates. it doesn't have anything to do with the delegates. there was no organized campaign by either side there but a lot more people voted in this. remember, it was about 26,000 in the caucuses, three times as many people voted. put the primary screen back up there. show the primary now. three times as many people. can we fli

it may just be west virginia and nebraska, but hey, it's west virginia and nebraska. nbc news projects bernie sanders has won the state democratic primary in west virginia, nbc projects donald trump will win the republican primary there. no surprise since he's the only person left in the republican race. and there's nebraska, donald trump also projected by nbc news to be the winner of the republican primary in nebraska tonight by a margin of several miles. donald trump has been the presumptive republican nominee for one week now. and already he's created one job. for chris christie. yesterday donald trump tapped the new jersey governor and former republican presidential candidate to lead transition efforts for president-elect trump if he wins the general election in november. christie will be in charge of staffing up the trump white house. so we got that news about chris christie hiring the trump administration staff yesterday. and that turned out to be incredible timing because today we got news that the bridgegate scandal which tore apart christie's own administrati

he also won 60% of the vote in nebraska. more of the road to the white house from our own adam shapiro. reporter: good morning, boring. good morning, nicole appeared with west virginia and the rare premiere, bernie sanders on the hillary clinton can turn their attention to the next round of primaries trying to solidify and clinched the 1237. the number of delegates he needs to get the nomination at the republican convention in the first-round of voting. the definition still fighting although clinton says a foregone conclusion. she will be the nominee. she still has a chance to pull off a big array. >> i want to take a moment to thank the people of west virginia for the tremendous victory finance at being a double-digit victory. this is where hillary clinton won by over 40-point against barack obama in 2008. >> it all has to do with delegate count. but democrats there's no winner take all in even the sanders may win primaries, he has to divvy up delegates of clinton. as they head towards california, a fox exit polling west vi

first of all in nebraska 62% of the g.o.p. voters there say they would be excited or optimistic to have donald trump in the white house. but in west virginia, that number jumps to 81%. the republican voters think that donald trump can actually beat hillary clinton in november. we have had so much talk whether or not is he electable. look at this, the g.o.p. voter in nebraska 83% say is he triumph over hillary and jumps to 90% where interest is a lot of enthusiasm for donald trump tonight in west virginia. we talked a lot about the angry voter during this whole cycle and we keep seeing these numbers coming in very forcefully. angry on or about dissatisfied with the federal government in nebraska the g.o.p. voters say 93% say yep, that's me. that fits my description. in west virginia, 92% say they are angry or dissatisfied. and these g.o.p. voters want somebody who they think shares their values and can bring what they sees a needed change. so let's take a look at the democratic side in these numbers this evening. hillary clinto

in nebraska, 82% say he's likely to prevail. in west virginia, 87%. they feel confident they'll be able to unite the party down the road. 59% of republicans say republicans are divided now but they believe they'll unite by november. bret? >> thank you. >> another big night for donald trump. let's get reaction from his national campaign spokesperson. thank you for being here. i want you to ask you about unifying the party. that is the focus now as trump gets ready to meet on thursday with republican leaders. he sounded more tonight speaking to bill o'reilly. what is the thinking inside of the campaign and how important is that for donald trump to make those inroads? >> well, mr. trump is looking forward to his meeting with leaders and paul ryan on thursday, he made a commitment and for the last couple months he has been meeting with lawmakers on the hill to have these discussions, try to calm the concerns and for some lawmakers, mr. trump has not signed a piece of lenl slayings that will be bad for conservatives and he has not ridden a piece of legisla

to jonathan hunt in omaha, nebraska. >> doug, we have no official turnout figures here in nebraska. as yet. but i can say anecdotally, this particular polling place in omaha, it has certainly not been overwhelming of course. that was predicted by most experts in the wake of senator ted cruz suspends his campaign last week. he had been fancied to do well here in nebraska. and his late suggestion today in a radio interview that he might unsuspend the campaign if he's to have a victory seems to have done little to affect a late surge in turnout. there is still discomfort among the gop leadership that reflects the national republican party split over donald trump candidacy. just last week governor pete ricketts, whose family opposed trump endorsed him at a rally in nebraska while senator ben sass has been one of donald trump's most outspoken critics. you would be hard pressed to find any political expert who at this stage would say that senator ted cruz is likely to pull off a shock, victory tonight but poll close at 8:00 p.m. central, 9:00 p.m. eastern we'll be here just in case this r

donald trump will get all of the 36 delegates in nebraska. it's winner take all in nebraska. he's moving closer and closer to making it official. getting that 1,237 delegates he needs. he's the presumed nominee and he's made it closer right here in nebraska. >> thanks. let's go to sara murray. she's with the trump campaign in new york. sara, no surprise, mr. trump running the table this evening. still they are waiting for the moment when they clench and get the actual key number of delegates. >> reporter: that's right, jake. the trump campaign like many other republican operatives were caught by surprise to see ted cruz and john kasich both bow out of the race after indiana and when they were doing the delegate math and trying to figure out how to get to 1,237 nebraska wasn't part of that. they expected ted cruz to stay in the race. they felt like nebraska would be a state that would be more towards cruz and his supporters and they still felt like they could get to 1,237 without winning nebraska. obviously this puts them further ahead. they feel confident going into places li

but that nebraska contest could be very interesting tonight. before cruz got out, he was generally considered the favorite to beat trump in nebraska and even though he suspended his campaign, his name is still on the ballot today. so republicans there are free to vote for cruz if they want to. and that's something to keep an eye on tonight. how many republicans in nebraska still don't vote for trump even with no official opponents left in the race. and what if cruz actually were to win nebraska with his name still on the ballot there? he hinted today that if that were to happen, he might look at getting back in the race. >> ted, are you leaving the door open to, if nebraska were to somehow -- >> it's not going to happen. >> -- miraculously choose you tonight -- >> pat's going for the hail mary. >> i mean, if that happened, would you consider getting back in the race? >> well, i am not holding my breath. my assumption is that will not happen. but listen, let's be very clear, if there is a path to victory, we launched this campaign intending to w

what did you find out about west virginia and nebraska? >> literally the numbers are still coming in. a few things we can take a look at. maybe we can put some of them up on the screen. the west virginia democrats are fascinating to watch in the race. because we've heard anecdotally from many that they are voting for bernie sanders. voting for bernie sanders they're going to vote for donald trump in the fall. there is this sort of change that's been happening over the last several years. where west virginia is not looking as democrat as it was at one time. west virginia democrats 2016 vote for president, 44% hillary clinton, 33% donald trump. and 21% say they're not satisfied with either of the choices that they have. so when sanders is in the mix, take a look at this one, 48% for sanders, west virginia democrats. 32% donald trump, 18% say neither so there's a significant chunk of people on the democratic side, who are undecided. these are interesting, too. because these are numbers that we are seeing for the first time out of west virgini

he does so by getting delegates in west virginia and nebraska. he tweeted out to supporters thanks to those who voted here in nebraska. trump is looking ahead to the general election. he has senior republican leaders who have yet to jump on board with his campaign. still have problems and reservations about his candidacy. with that he is scheduled to meet in washington with house speaker paul ryan. >> i think paul ryan loves this party and loves this country and wants to see something good happen. i think we will do better if we are unified. >> we have to be a party that is broad and inclusive, principled, apply the principles to the problems of the day and offer the country better solutions and appeals to independents and disinfected democrats. >> ryan and other republicans oppose trump on a number of policy views including entitlement spending and foreign policy some of the rhetoric that has come out of this campaign. this as his campaign is moving forward i am trying to figure out who donald trump's running mate would be. his campaign manager

he said, i knew i wasn't going to win nebraska. is this guy thinking about get back in, do you think? >> i don't think so. he's throwing a handful of mud in the water. it was already murky enough with this whole never trump movement. now ted cruz has just muddied the waters even more. here's the other significant thing about him saying that, alluding to it. i understand he wants to try to give his supporters a little bit of hope. but this further divides the republican party and ted cruz, like marco rubio, said they will support the ultimate nominee. marco rubio just said that he would. ted cruz is muddying the water and going back on his word. that's not going to get him a path to victory and it's not going to set well with the voters. >> how does, you know, ted cruz even attempt to work this out with trump or vice versa? ted cruz, last we heard, on supporting trump, he said, i'm not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife. then trump attacked ted cruz's father, suggesting he was in on the jfk assassination. so that h

nebraska and west virginia hold republican primaries today. house speaker paul ryan says if donald trump asks him to, he will step down as chairman of the republican national convention in july. trump said to meet with speaker ryan thursday morning. at least two people were killed yesterday when storms and tornadoes tore through south central oklahoma, our meteorologist maria molina will be there with live report. checking u.s. stock market futures ahead of the opening bell. dow futures higher by 110 points, s&p futures higher by 13, nasdaq gaining 25 here in the premarket. that's a look at what happens now, nicole. nicole: massive surge across southern border. nearly tripled the number of families than last year. fox news williams takes the details for you. >> lauren and nicole for context, this exodus from central america largest mass migration since cuban boat lift in 1980. there are three kinds of illegal immigration, those who arrive as tourist, those who sneak over the border and in this case immigrant who want to get arrested, turn them

and also in nebraska. that's somewhat unsurprising considering he has no national gop active opponents running against him. that includes senator ted cruz. he returned to washington, d.c., and the u.s. senate yesterday. he said he could re-enter the race if a path to the nomination opens up for him. though he says he assumes that will not happen. trump is turning his focus to the democrats now, tweeting this morning and ensuring all his opponents have nicknames, big win in west virginia and nebraska. get ready for november, crooked hillary who is looking very bad against crazy bernie will lose. as for the democrats, another primary win for sanders here in west virginia. >> i think it ends up being a double digit victory tonight. this is a state, west virginia, where hillary clinton won by over 40 points against barack obama in 2008. >> reporter: a marked change when coal country was clinton country back in 2008 when she did defeat barack obama. she still has a substantial lead and the number of people who

this is the one that counts and gave out delegates for this but had a primary in nebraska. democratic primary, nonbinding no, no delegates at the stake but gets at the heart of a major argument the clinton campaign has been making. primary and caulks you have more people vote and it helps hillary clinton and hurts bernie sanders. this is the caucus from march. bernie sanders wins it by 14 points. they are still counting the votes. 40% is in but hillary clinton right now is getting 59% of the vote, bernie sanders is getting 41%. i can tell you the decision desk here at nbc is not going to call the race but let the returns come in but the associated press about 15 minutes ago looked at the returns and said they are calling nebraska for hillary clinton in the democratic primary. this is significant because the turnout here looks like it's going to be three to four times larger than it was for the caucus that bernie sanders won. so you think of those small states where bernie sanders racked up big margins and caucuses whether idaho, alaska, utah, places like that. the clinton c

donald trump, triunfa en nebraska. latinos enredados y arrestos. en este 10 de mayo habla la madre de laura dÍaz a un aÑo de recuperar a su hija. barack obama se convertirÁ en el primer presidente en visitar hiroshima, ciudad japonesa sobre la que este paÍs lanzÓ la bomba atÓmica. locutor: este es su noticiero univisiÓn edición nocturna con ilia calderÓn y enrique acevedo. ilia: demÓcrata bernie sanders venciÓ a hillary clinton en primarias de virginia, lo que permite reducir la ventaja. asegura el senador que siguen la pelea por la nominaciÓn del partido. en este mismo estado y en nebraska donald trump se llevÓ la victoria del lado republicano. tenemos los detalles de la jornada electoral. reportera: donald trump arrasÓ en virginia occidental y en nebraska sus primeras primarias sin rivales. se mostraron optimistas ante una posible presidencia de trump. a pesar de la esperada victoria. >> puede decidir lo que quiere hacer, o no estÁ diciendo la verdad. reportera: estÁn enojados porque en su primer dÍa de vuelta al senado ted cruz

however, this was a beauty contest tonight in nebraska. it did not count. >> no one campaigned. >> so it's not exactly fair -- >> about the polls that day. >> exactly. and when it counted, you know, bernie sanders won so this is not a great night for hillary clinton, even though, because bernie sanders is going to gain, what, three delegates? a net of three delegates or so? it's insignificant progress in trying to erode her big delegate lead. so that's basically unchanged. and there's another primary off the board. so she has to feel good about that. yet, it's hard to feel good when you're quoted as delivering a victory speech. you can't get rid of this guy. he keeps going, and, as rachel just said, you don't quite know what his end game is. you don't know ha what he wants. he runs as if he intends to win. >> he's not asking for anything other than winning. >> at the least, he keeps hillary in pivoting to the center. at this point in the campaign, she would be pivoting to the center. she's been pulled left by bernie, and he wants to keep h

trump is expected to win in nebraska. everything seems to be moving this way right now. >> that's absolute lire right. -- it's absolutely right. it's an unopposed juggernaut. the only question is whether people in congress or other party types around the fringes recognize this or continue to try to resist it. i think they frankly are on the wrong side of where this is going. and i think they will embarrass themselves eventually. lou: do you agree with michael? >> i do. he need to run his own campaign. raise the money he need to raise. focus on hillary and not pay a bit of attention to the washington conservatives or house republicans that may not be intact, they will come in at the end. lou: he has won women in west virginia. he has won he demographic group over the course of the last six weeks. this is -- and people keep talking about his problems. going to those battleground state polls, he's doing tremendously. the rhetoric from the so-called elites and establishment and the empirical reality couldn't be more divergent

trump comes out top in nebraska as well. he adds to his virtually insurmountable delegate lead as the only republican left in the race. trump needs 1,237 delegates to clinch his party's nomination outright and at the moment he has 1,119. >> joining us now from washington is cnn politics reporter tal kopan. great to talk with you. >> hi. >> so not surprisingly, donald trump enjoying victories in west virginia and nebraska. bernie sanders had a convincing win over hillary clinton in west virginia. so what lies ahead, and when might sanders reassess where the race stands and what role he needs to play in it going forward? >> i don't think you'll see bernie sanders reassess his candidacy until after the last primary is said and done in june, going into the convention in july. he has given every indication that he still intends to continue this all the way to the convention, in fact telling his supporters that he believes he can go ahead and win this nomination outright. of course at this point that's impossible with pledges dele

you see the images from lincoln, nebraska. i have never seen this on a golf course and the divots left behind. baseball-sized hail come down in lincoln. this is 1 of 100 reports of hail on monda afternoon. you saw some getting up to incredible strength with rotation and wedge shape of the tornadoes on the surface. here is the severe weather threat. central texas over the frontal boundary there this afternoon. another area of concern right across northern tennessee into kentucky. we are watching that carefully. the main threat is for wind and hail. don't see much in the way of severe weather causing tornadoes by this afternoon. certainly could see a few isolated, but nothing widespread. the concern does pick up on wednesday for more in the way of tornadoes in places like oklahoma city, joplin, kansas city and st. louis in line for the highest threat. on the scale of 1 to 5, that is a threat of a level 2. >>> pedram, thank you. firefighters in alberta struggling to contain a devastating wildfire that has destroyed 2,400 building

nebraska and west virginia. welcome to "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> good morning heather. i am abby huntsman. it is primary day in nebraska and west virginia. >> the last republican standing donald trump expected to win both states today. >> a different store row of sorts for the democrats. clinton and sanders are going hid to head to win over voters in coal country. >> we have more on that with rich. >> good morning abby and heather. polls open in about an hour here. they will stay open for 13 hours in west virginia closing at 7:30 tonight for republicans and donald trump it is about amassing the delegates he needs to clin the nomination. he is not running against any other national republican challengers here. he has 1,068 delegates. he needs 1,237 to clinch the nomination. for democrats hillary clinton has 2,228. bernie sanders 14,54. the winning democrats needs 14,083. clinton did well when she was running against barack obama. that appears to have changed especially with comments that compl clinton made about coal miners

i said what about nebraska? i love nebraska, what about nebraska? right? and i said is it like, are the people expecting me to be there? they said yes. i said we're going! we gotta go, right, have a little fun. be like pete said we have to go on tuesday and vote, because we're looking to break the all-time record. we passed eisenhower, we passed nixon. we passed almost everybody, we're just about ready to pass ronald reagan, who we love. we're just about ready to pass -- we just passed everybody and we have a lot of states to go. but we want to create such a record like they haven't had before. if you can on tuesday, takes two minutes, go in, vote. we have more votes than anybody and don't forget i started out with 17 people and one by one, it was a beautiful thing to watch. [ cheers and applause ] so we had a good time. it's been an amazing experience for me. i've never done this before. i've been a politician for ten months and these guys have been politicians for 30 years in some cases, right? how am i doing? am i doing a good job? [ cheers and applause

polls close in nebraska at 9:00 eastern. we're moments away from some exit poll data in those two states. we'll get a quick look at the mood and makeup of those electorates in a few minutes and it's at a time when there are unanswered questions about the state of each party heading into november. what's happening in coal country in west virginia politics, is a story of american politics. hillary clinton and barack obama are generally not popular in coal country. if you live in a state like west virginia, you probably don't know many folks who do like them. but it didn't used to be like this. in 1996, democrats dominated the state. clinton beat dole by roughly 15 points. but the older, more rural, white demographic has evaporated. romney won the state by 27 points. in the 2012 democratic primary, a felon serving a 17-year sentence, got 41% of the vote against obama in the democratic primary. "the washington post" summed it up this way. simply put, west virginia does not like obama. in some ways, what's happening in west virgi

two dozen tornadoes left a trail of devastation across oklahoma, nebraska and iowa yesterday. two people died. in about 15 minutes, see how residents vowed to rebuild after suffering a crushing loss. >>> for the latest on the forecast and weather warnings when they happen, be sure to download the wusa 9 app. >>> president obama will travel to hiroshima this month, the first visit by a sitting u.s. president to the site where the u.s. american warplanes dropped atomic booms on hiroshima and nothing give nagasaki. the president's main reason for going is to attend an economic summit. >>> voters in two states cast ballots today. donald trump is running unopposed and has an uphill climb uniting the republican party. on the democratic side hillary clinton and bernie sanders battle in west virginia. the front-runner faces a tougher general election battle against trump in a trio of key states. craig boswell reports. >> reporter: it's primary day in west virginia and nebraska. >> this election will kind of be a turning point for our country. >> reporter: donald trump is running unopp

trump winning two more primaries, nebraska and west virginia today. he earned just over 60% of the votes in the winner-take-all state of in e ne and 36 delegates. >> trump adding to his total following iz victory in west virginia. as it stands, trump is 130 delegates shy of clinching the gop nomination. >> getting close. >> meantime on the democratic side, bernie sanders beating hillary clinton again. this time in west virginia. handedly so. >> very much so. sanders using momentum to rally supporters in oregon. he insists he will be taking his presidential bid all the way to the convention in july. >> this is a state, west virginia, where hillary clinton won by over 40 points against barack obama in 2008. with our victory tonight in west virginia, we have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states. let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination. >> despite winning the mountain state with a majority of the vote, sanders is making a small dent in hillary clinton's massive delegate lead. still has a long way to

ben sasse's home state is nebraska. nebraska is one of eight states that held republican party state conventions this weekend, one out of every six delegates to the republican national convention this summer was chosen this weekend at the state conventions. there were a few other beg petings but a loot of the delegates from the rnc were picked this weekend. and what happened at the state conventions this weekend should probably put to rest once and for all the -- not only did all of these state convention republican not on rolled over for donald trump, they also went out of their way to take extra time at their state convention to overwhelmingly rebuke their brand new home state republican senator for his adorable little pointless resistance to donald trump. >> it's campaign 2016 now. a big rift forming in nebraska's republican party. today sasse's own republican party in nebraska took formal steps to stop his movement, voting here to adopt a resolution em. >> so senator ben sasse tonight speaking at the american enterp

helping the world keep promises. >> liking live at ohama nebraska. donald trump about to address supporters there, trying to respond to criticisms he has been receiving from fellow republicans who question whether he is a real republican and then the other dustup that might heave been created by his own vp selector, ben carson, who is saying that, well, he is open to anyone and everyone on the ticket for donald trump, including democrats. ben carson doubling down with me earlier today. >> what i've said is that if there is a democrat, a prominent democrat, who believes in the constitution, including the first and second amendment, believes in personal responsibility, and rather than a handout, fiscal responsibility, and strong responsible military, sure, i'd be happy to talk to such a person but i don't know of any such people. somebody let me know -- >> all right. want to be clear, still oon the table, remote as it may be, for a democrat to run with donald trump. >> if they met all the criteria ask they would really be a republican. >> okay. switchi

nebraska actually votes next week. obviously he's not running against anybody, but all the more reason, and oh, by the way, being in omaha, the nebraska academy congressional is a toss-up. it was a rough day for donald trump and his campaign. right now, the republican party is aggressively trying -- apparently rejecting his calls for unity. paul ryan says he's not ready to endorse trump, adding that the bulk of the burden for unifying the party will have to come from our presumptive nominee. today trump's campaign head called ryan unfit to be speaker if he doesn't support trump. today ryan's office announced that the house speaker will be meeting with trump next week at a gathering of house leadership in washington. trump and ryan will also meet separately with rnc chairman reince priebus. as you know, paul ryan is supposed to be the chairman of the convention. if he won't endorse the presumptive nominee, can he hold that title? mitt romney said he's not going to support trump. he said, i see way too much demagoguery a

you can see we are not going to win nebraska. >> a magical third person to come in? >> i think what will we will see hillary clinton, he won all the states to the north and south. i thought i think he knows he is done, too. how about a ted yuz supreme court nod cruz supporters would jump on the what went through the mind when you heard that? >> i am at some point, it would be like bribery he has to do the tiright up until this point, he has to . >> the latest round of presidential primaries, look at the numbers now t trump running unopposed in west virginia, in nebraska, trump is the winner. cruz was hoping for some turn-out there. kasich, 11%. sanders was expected to win off a clinton said back in march, the plans for clean energy would put coal miners out of business. it is a virtual deadly in three states. when you look at these numbers, what do you worry about? >> well, i think i, we believe that hillary clinton -- three states to win the presidency. >> this is now may. we are talking about november. two nominees, pea wi-- we will able to we talk about opposition

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over on the republican side, donald trump easily won nebraska and west virginia primaries. the wins coming easily since he's the only republican left standing. but it was news regarding a controversial donald trump delegate out of california that made headlines late yesterday afternoon. the california secretary of state released a list of formally assigned delegates included on trump's list was william johnson. one of the country's most prominent white nationalists. trump spokesman hope hicks says the white nationalist inclusion was due to the database error, despite the campaign formally choosing the candidates. johnson said he'll withdrawal as a donald trump delegate. however, johnson will remain on the certified list heading to cleveland. >>> trump also made news regarding a possible supreme court pick that's reverberating across the political world. >> well, they'll be pro-life. we will see about overturning, buwe will appoint -- i will appoint judges that will be pro-life. >> okay. >> planned parenthood released a statement that read, quote, women can't trust donald tr

voting underway in west virginia and nebraska. all eyes are on west virginia as hillary tries to work around the negative comments against coal miners. although they don't officially have it locked up, there is speculation who will be their vice presidential pick. jo ling: nebraska republicans when asked how they feel about trade with other countries, 50% say it takes u.s. jobs. 36% say it creates u.s. jobs. west virginia republicans, you see yet the same theme. 66% say they believe trade takes u.s. jobs away. a pretty serious majority. we have not seen that as much in the republican primaries. trade with other countries, 53% say it takes jobs in the u.s. as we look at the pressing issues of coal and job creation off that april jobs report, you see people focusing and voting with their pocketbooks. charles: bernie sanders is keeping his long-shot campaign alive in west virginia. the numbers are good for him. the republican party has a primary in nebraska with the turnout expected to be low. what can we expect from today's primarie

. >>> the polls closed in nebraska at the top of the hour and trump wins. meantime senator cruz is not ruling out a return to the campaign. james rosen reports on another former candidate's remarks. >> ending the silence after conceding that donald trump with ted cruz returning to the senate. cruz was asked if a win in nebraska would prompt him to reenter the race. a prospect is unlikely but wouldn't rule out all together. >> i am not holding my breath. my assumption that will not happen. but listen. let's be clear. if there is a path to victory, we will launch this campaign. the reason we suspended the race last week indiana's loss and i didn't see a viable pass to victory. if changes we will correspondence. >> cruz has advised the states, 32 states and territories in all that he intends to hold on to the delegates as to shape the party platform and rules to reflect the cruz brand of conservatism. >> they are all negotiating with donald trump. ted cruz has important voice in the party and a conservative champion and he will take this message to the convent

phil smith of nebraska medicine at the university of nebraska medical center. over 35 years ago dr. smith established the nebraskan infection control network to educate health care professionals regarding infection control in nursing homes and hospitals. dr. smith is a pioneer in the field of infectious disease and his perseverance and dedication led to the establishment of the very critical bio containment unit at nebraska medicine in 2005. commissioned by the center for disease control, the unit was at ground zero in the fight against ebola. providing ebola training to more than 30 of the country's top hospitals while successfully treating several ebola patients. dr. rick sacre who contracted the disease in west africa credits the omaha unit with saving his life. recently dr. smith co-developed the sent foreer preparedness education, a coalition between the university of nebraska medical center and crayton university medical center. it is important and very difficult to sum up this year that he has had. what is critical, though, is that the ebola problem and crisis is not going aw

he easily won west virginia, also nebraska. he adds at least 39 delegates to his total, but it'll end up being more than that once west virginia's convoluted process works itself out. trump needs 1,237 delegates to win the republican nomination. on the democratic side, it was just west virginia voting, and that was just fine for bernie sanders. he crushed hillary clinton there. even with his win, sanders barely chips away at clinton's delegate lead. if you inc

starting with nebraska. that is only for republicans and donald trump is looking to pick up delegates and clinch the nomination. both parties will go to the polls in west virginia. speaker ryan would step down if trump asks him. to and donald trump announced new jersey christie will be tasked with building a team over the white house if trump wins in november. mike emmanuel is following the democrats today. and doug is in the mountain state on a big p issue for voters, coal. doug. >> reporter: we are outside of the mine in west virginia. you can see much of the mining operation idle and huge stack of coal. you can't make it out i don't think, but there are the railroad tracks to carry the coal to various power plants. they used to load up two coal trains a day with the coal and now they are down to two coal trains per month. that pretty much says it all. if you look at the towns, you can see the economic devastation. businesses boarded up and foresale signs. drug epidemic and broken families. and the number

. >> reporter: voters in nebraska and west virginia head to the polls today. presumptive gop nominee donald trump is running on -- unopposed and expected to win big. >> i want primaries to keep going but everybody is out and i'm the only one left. >> on the campaign trail, his personal attacks on his likely democratic opponent hillary clinton to continues. >> is married to a man -- he is married to a man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics force during a stop on monday clinton called trump's rhetoric reckless and dangerous. but i'm not running against him. he is doing a fine job of doing that himself. >> clinton facing an uphill battle in west virginia today where polls show bernie sanders hold the lead. vermont senator campaign in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 people last night in sacramento. >> i think we have a good shot to win in west virginia, kentucky, oregon and after those three states, we are coming to california. >> sanders needs a landslide win in california's primary to stay in the race. hannah daniels, cbs, news. >>

for example, nebraska, he's about to be in a rally in two hours from now in nebraska. the nebraska primary is on tuesday. had an opportunity to speak with governor ricketts of nebraska. if anyone should be conflicted, it's him. donald trump went head-to-head with his parents, joe and marlene ricketts, they f td ameritrade. there is coalescing on behalf of the party, i asked pete ricketts what he's going to do as governor of nebraska. listen. >> donald trump had talked to your parents, joe and marlene ricketts and said negative things about your family in response. could you still, if he's the nominee, vote for him? >> yeah, the republican party stands for ideals about increasing opportunity. i will support the nominee because we're looking to really unleash that full potential in america. that's what the republican ideals are about. that's why whoever our nominee is we're going to get behind that person and take the white house. liz: this is news, even if it's donald trump, you -- >> i'm going to be behind the nominee. liz: john, if governor ricketts can come around, d