to los angeles, the clippers showing signs of a resurgence as chris paul, blake griffin and deandre' jordan each post double-doubles in a 119-99 first round playoff win over the trail blazers. in san antonio, the spurs jump out to a 1-0 lead after 20 points from kawhi leonard pushes them past memphis, 106-74. that is a blowout. >>> turning to the eastern conference, in miami, the heat match a franchise playoff record with 41 points in just the first quarter. and with the help of 31 scored by luol deng, they set a franchise playoff record with a total of 123 points in yesterday's win over the hornets. ouch! >>> but in cleveland, the top-seeded cavaliers take their opener without as much ease. relying on big numbers from their big three to slip by the pistons in game one, 106-101. >> good game. >> yeah, a pretty good game. thank you, bill. >> no problem. >>> now to the -- >> that's what i'm here for. >> thank you. >>> to the stanley cup playoffs. in anaheim, the predators take a 2-0 lead after downing the pacific division champion ducks 3-2 last night. in detroit, the red wings blank the ligh

jordan spieth currently tops the leader board finishing with a 6 under round of 66. two strokes ahead of the field after a bogey-free day. meantime, four-time champion major champion and world golf hall of famer ernie els got off to a bad start. check this out, the 46-year-old veteran golfer needed six -- count them, six putts to get the ball in the hole. guys, could you do better? anyway, he did score a 9 on the par 4 first hole. yikes. that's the highest in tournament's history. >> oh. he misses the one-handed. >> he's looking at this thing, i can't believe this nightmare. he got an 8 over par. he's tied for 31st. >>> in phoenix, the diamondbacks with a one-run lead over the cubs in the bottom of the second inning. >> left center. and this could be trouble. drops it! and flying around the bases. williams -- and he is safe. >> yikes. man down. but arizona's segura takes advantage of the collision. he hit it to left center. he hustled around the diamond, but that guy, not so lucky. not well with him. that's chicago left fielder -- >> got injured. >> he was carted off

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meanwhile, michael jordan the star of that '96 bulls team released a statement congratulating the warriors on their record-breaking season adding he looks forward to seeing them in the playoffs and president obama stayed up to watch the end of the game, tweeting if anyone had to break his home team's record, he is glad it was the warriors. that was pretty gracious of him. pretty awesome. >> the kobe thing is amazing. he had a horrible year, his body wasn't cooperating, scoring 60. going out like a legend. >> yeah. >> we have legendary beautiful weather moving across the country. not so much this morning down in areas around new orleans though. this is where we had some heavy rain coming off the gulf. that will track over the city. i-10, the rain is starting to encroach on you. from panama city, back to tallahassee, jacksonville, florida, to gainesville, on and off rain today. definitely not beach weather. here's the great stuff. 77 in denver. 74 in minneapolis. that's almost like -- we're starting to hint on like early summer-like conditions. that warmth is going to spread across the count

joining us in the conversation, the former adviser to "time" magazine and msnbc analyst elise jordan and the democratic mayor of baltimore, stephanie rawlings blake. halle jackson is coming to cruz campaign or as some say they call it hell. in washington, political correspondent who is covering the stop trump effort. wow. you need to ask to get off of that gig. it's going nowhere fast. what do you think about -- i can't just introduce. we have mika, she can introduce it straight. good morning. so mayor, the race is shaping up. i would guess in the way a lot of traditional democrats have been excited about. >> we could not be more thrilled. i see the democrats measuring up the drapes. we are in a very, very good position even when we smack at each other which is rare. we are talking about issues that matter to the american people. i think my girlfriends call it a hot mess. >> a hot, hot mess. we have been for a couple of decades now. what do you think is going to happen with the democratic party? i think bernie sanders is harming the campaign by the things he is saying? >> i think pol

what do you think, elise jordan? i'm not sure they're all voters. bernie sanders would be doing better if every person went to his rally showed up at the polls. it's a group of people who feel strongly about him. are they going to run to hillary? >> i don't think they're going to run to hillary. i think that's the challenge that bernie sanders has to internally grapple with. what is his role? conciliatory, a peacemaker? is he going to essentially accept he's had a huge impact on shifting the party platform and shifting hillary clinton. or is he going to keep going hard at it? i tend to think he's going to keep staying at it and pushing his message. i think he's gotten personal among the two politicians. that's a hard thing to strip away in the aftermath of a defeat. >> mark, do you agree? is bernie going to keep at it? >> he'll keep at it. i think the pressure is going to be on him to stop the going so hard it hurt and running a more positive message. he's the money to go through. it's clear for him it's important to be on the ballot in california.

elise jordan thank you as well. gene, stay with us. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," dr. ben carson joins the discussion. >>> plus, one of the leading members of president obama's cabinet, commerce secretary penny pritzker. also leave it to donald trump to make "exceedingly unusual" if not unprecedented remarks on the economy. we'll talk to bob woodward and robert costa about their hutch-discussed new interview with the republican front-runner set up right here on "morning joe." >>> and mark halperin joins us for his take on tomorrow's big election in wisconsin. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. with the tiger image, the saliva coming off and you got this turning. that's why i need this kind of resolution and computing power. being able to use a pen like this on the screen directly with the image, it just gives me a different relationship to it and i can't do that on my mac. this is brilliant for me. whewhat does it look like?ss, is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student? is it one day giving your daughter the opportunity she

. >> that was u2 front man bono at a refugee camp in jordan earlier this month. he will be testifying in front of a senate subcommittee today talking about what he saw on that trip and the rock icon and co-founder of the one campaign and red, bono joins us from capitol hill now. thank you so much for being with us and more importantly thank you for spreading this story across the united states. we hear so much about the refugee crisis, we hear so much about the syrian civil war but we don't see the actual effects of it. tell us what you saw in jordan and what an impact it had on you. >> well, thanks, joe, thanks for having me on. ten years ago i co--founded the organization one to find extreme poverty and i'm proud to tell you a lot of progress has been made in that fight. what i learned from my trip, though, was along the borders of so he malia and camps along the borders of syria. what i learned from that trip is a lot of this good work could get undone and furthermore it threatens the very existence of europe and that's a big thing to lay on you at breakfast a

the defending champ jordan spieth on top of the leader board again finishing the day with a six under 66. two strokes ahead of the field after a bogey-free day at augusta. that kid is out of his mind. meanwhile, four-time major champion and world golf hall of famer ernie els -- i don't want to watch this. this is terrible. >> why would anyone want to watch this. >> he chipped within three feet of the pin figuring he was going to get up and down. the 46-year-old needed six putts to get it in. >> through the windmill. >> this is a psychological study or something, i don't know. els comes away with a master's record -- not the good kind -- scoring a nine on the par 4 first hole, that's the highest in the tournament's history. he finished with an eight over round of 80. >> you've done that drunk on the green. >> of course we've all done that. and what do you say after about three of them? "pick it up." >> do you watch golf, nicolle, how many showers a golf match? >> it can i canbe six hours. >> who does that? >> guys and women that love golf love it. >> pool cue, get down on your knees. >

jordan spieth way ahead. he was ahead last year when he won. ahead the whole time here. he goes to the back nine, he bogeys 10, bogeys 11, then he starts looking like me. >> that's not good. >> no, that's not good. >> did he start cursing and digging holes into the ground with his stick. >> and i believe he got a quadruple bogey. >> with his snitick? the golf club. >> so we were watching it and as he'd making the turn we're talking about what an extraordinary achievement this was going to be. i went out to the corner store, got a falafel, they have a lot of those in new canaan, i'm holding the spicy sauce and it's dripping out of my hand and he's behind. he was like four behind. >> how long do these things go on? >> it takes a long time. >> days. >> you can take a long drive -- >> and people sit and watch. amazing. >> most incredible part is he almost came back again. >> nothing to say about the golden state warriors. >> you go ahead. >> the golden state warriors tied the record for most regular season wins with one game ahead -- >> i think we're in the weeds. >> that's