with the republicans and nbc's hallie jackson. >> reporter: donald trump wants to win in his home state where our new poll shows him over 50% now. ted cruz far behind in third. his campaign tells nbc news they're hoping to stop a sweep, because if trump gets all new york's delegates he'll only need 55% of what's left to lock up the nomination. trump knows if he wins at home and in the nearby states voting next it's easier to avoid a contested convention. that's where cruz may have the delegate advantage. >> now they're trying to pick off the delegates one by one. that's not the way that democracy is supposed to work. it's crooked. >> reporter: while trump won't get the votes of two of his own children who missed the deadline, he's adding staff to get a better handle on the system he's railing against. >> the latest thing he seized upon is when people vote against him, they're stealing the election. it's a really odd notion. >> reporter: and while trump is taking aim at cruz's tactics a campaign source says if he doesn't like the system he shouldn't be a part of it. >> what people

us make sense. we had donald trump's foreign policy speech as well. hallie jackson is in indiana with the cruz campaign. she'll be interviewing carly fiorina live here on this show later in this hour. i'm also joined by super lawyer ben ginsberg, rick tyler, and presidential historian and reagan biographer craig shirley. the last time a president tried something like this, it was ronald reagan. he named dick swik ert as his running mate in an attempt to try to pick off delegates at an open convention that year. but let me move over and check in with hallie jackson and see what the crowd, the reaction in the room, how big was it, it looked good on television. hallie, what's it sound like in the room? >> reporter: looked good on tv. a couple hundred people filling the space. i want to see if we can get our camera man to pan over, as fiorina prepares to do some interviews, including one with us that we'll be doing in a couple of minutes. they had these signs ready, cruz-fiorina. the website is already redirecting to cruz-carly.com. as the campaign tries to fund-raise off today's ann

one movement, hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: closing in fast, the wisconsin finish line. the last push through a state that matters more than anyone thought it would, not just for its 42 delegates but for the momentum it could give the stop trump movement. >> they realize that donald screams and yells a lot, but he has no solutions. >> reporter: it's a dramatic reversal from only a month ago when this looked like trump country. blue collar, more moderate and open primary. but since then, ted cruz has surged more than 20 points fueled by the stop trump movement making milwaukee ground zero led by conservative talk radio hosts like charlie psyches. >> this is not a conservative candidate, but a clown car. >> reporter: but a win here would prove that trump is teflon. battling back criticism from economists who say he's wrong to warn we're headed for a crash. >> what i said we'll go into a massive recession. but i also say if i'm president, that's not going to happen. >> reporter: plus, a revealing new profile claiming he wears a bulletproof vest sometimes, even as he comes under

covering it all. first to nbc's hallie jackson. hallie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. even with that big lead here in new york, donald trump is arguing the delegate system is stacked against him. these new yorkers lining up for hours tonight want trump, and donald trump wants the win in his home state, where our new poll shows him over 50% now. ted cruz, far behind in third. his campaign tells nbc news they're hoping to stop a sweep because if trump gets all new york's delegates, he'll only need 55% of what's left to lock up the nomination. trump knows if he wins at home and in the nearby states voting next, it's easier for him to avoid a contested convention. that's where cruz may have the delegate advantage after cleaning up in colorado. >> now they're trying to pick off those delegates one by one. that's not the way democracy is supposed to work. the system is rigged. it's crooked. >> reporter: while trump won't get the votes of two of his own children, who missed the registration deadline, he's adding staff to get a better handle on the system he's railing

. thanks for being with me. >>> i want to go now to nbc's hallie jackson who's right there beside ted cruz as we speak. hallie, good morning. >> reporter: hey there, guys. senator cruz is at this restaurant in indianapolis here. this is heidi cruz right next to us, she's talking with some voters here, the senator himself is right around the corner and he just previewed that major announcement, 4:00 p.m. happening today. not saying what that announcement will be, but there is some speculation that perhaps he will name a vice presidential pick. carly fiorina we know has been being vetted as on that short list. as we sort of talk about what may come for him in indiana, an essential state, a must-win state some argue for ted cruz just given that he has been mathematically eliminated from contention. we're going to sneak in and see if we can throw a question live to one of these guys as we wait for them to chat with voters. but i see a lot of people at this restaurant. this was similar to what kroou was doing in iowa, getting boots on the ground. i asked him about that as we were walking i

nbc's hallie jackson, who is in wisconsin this evening. hallie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. donald trump has thousands of people packing his rallies here in wisconsin, but he'll need more support than that to avoid a loss to ted cruz. but it's not trump who has to win in this state. it's the never trump movement needing a victory now more than ever. closing in fast, the wisconsin finish line less than 24 hours away. the last push through a state that matters more than anyone thought it would, not just for its 42 delegates but for the momentum it could give the stop trump movement. >> they realize that donald screams and yells a lot, but he has no solution. >> reporter: it's a dramatic reversal from only a month ago, when this looks like trump country. blue collar, more moderate, an open primary. but since then, ted cruz has surged more than 20 points, fueled by the stop trump movement making milwaukee ground zero, led by a group of conservative talk radio hosts, like charlie sykes. >> this is not a conservative candidate. this is a clown car, and the rhetoric that w

offensive as well. as hallie jackson reports. >> reporter: inside of a connecticut theater, donald trump insisting it is not an act. >> when i'm speaking, who is not different than when you are in a private room. >> reporter: even his advisers say he'll work to be more presidential. >> presidential is easy. you know what presidential is -- i walk on. >> reporter: confidence in classic trump style -- >> i sort of don't >> reporter: he is ramping it up against his rivals and birthers against ted cruz. and ted cruz targeting trump's elect ability. >> do we want to nominate a candidate who is a phony? who is telling us he's lying to us. i have to give donald credit. he's betraying us before he got elected. >> reporter: to stop trump, cruz is looking to meet with delegates and getting back-up from one anti-trump group endorsing him there and indiana but backing john kasich in three other states. kasich camp frustrating they are not doing more to happen. an adviser telling nbc news, it is just lip service. stop trump forces and getting off the side line in time for tuesday primary. one pac say

. >> reporter: i'm hallie jackson, and today colorado looks more like cleveland. the state picking its gop delegates, previewing what a contested convention this summer in ohio could look like, and if ted cruz heads there in second place, he'll need to have his support shored up starting now. the campaign deploying what an aide tells nbc news is their secret weapon, a delegate strategy designed to outmaneuver donald trump. in colorado, cruz's top volunteer has been on the job eight months. >> the cruz campaign knows what they're doing and they're organizing well. >> reporter: trump's counterpart only started wednesday. >> it's been like drinking from a fire hose. >> reporter: the front-runner, hunker the down at home, now playing catch-up, but his team argues that doesn't matter. >> this convention process will be over with sometime in june. it will be apparent to the world that trump is over the 1237 number. >> reporter: that's the public spin from a long time delegate wrangler. but privately his recent hiring shows trump's team is more worried than they're letting on. a campaign source s

hard time hearing me. we'll go to hally jackson in a moment. i do want to play quickly, something that he said at the town hall this morning. again, this is donald trump at the town hall talking about nor north carolina's so-called bathroom law. >> i heard one of the best answers was from a commentator yesterday saying leave it the way it is right now. north carolina what they are going through with all the businesses that's leaving and all the striekes, that's on bot sides. there is been few complaints of the way it is. >> a moment ago in the campaign trail in maryland. ted cruz blasted trump over those statements, this is what he said. >> donald on television this morning said gosh, he thought that men should be able to go into the girl's bathroom if they want to. now, let me ask you -- have we gone nuts? this is the political correctness, this is basic common sense -- let me ask you, are there any parents of daughters here? i am a father of two little girls. here is basic common sense, grown adult men, strangers should not be alone in bathrooms with little girls. >> that's not conse

in wisconsin. hour hallie jackson who follows the cruz campaign joins me now from the bronx. we have the new poll out, hallie. it shows cruz should be dead last in new york, followed by trump at 58%. he also had someone escorted out. talk about that. >> we'll start there, thomas, because i think we have some video we can show you. a couple minutes ago, there were some hecklers. they were taelling him his policies were discriminating. they were escorted out of the building. cruz met with some faith leaders in the bronx. he is shaking hands with some people. i can see him out of the corner of my eye. you talk about the monmouth poll. he finished in wisconsin and notch aid big win for him there. now it's new york, delaware, connecticut, pennsylvania, places that look better for donald trump. donald trump now breaking 58%, senator cruz ahead of john kasich. it is a potentially bumpy ride for cruz here, but he's going to upstate tomorrow to albany. he's also looking to play to some of these smaller congressional districts who don't have a bigger play of republicans who can go door to

, katy tur to my right, hallie jackson right there, jacob soeb rof, and kasie hunt. i want to talk tonight about something different. it's past midnight. katy, the guy you cover, he ain't easy to cover. but as you look into what soul there is there and you look into donald trump, is he going -- i've always asked people, did you ever meet anybody who changed? i never met anybody who changed. is trump changing? >> i think he is. >> to meet the circumstances of maybe being a nominee for president. >> i think change is a strong word. i think he's adjusting. >> did you see it tonight? >> we saw a much tighter donald trump up there on the podium today talking about his message. he didn't say lyin' ted. he said senator ted cruz. he was more gracious than he has been in past victory speeches. i think it's a direct result of the new campaign staff that he has, who's advising him right now and telling him to focus on his message and less on the outrageous statements and the unforced errors. >> tell me about bernie because i'm watching him and i'm watching jeff weaver a lot, his very careful

. >>> ahead, the latest on the ted cruz campaign including a live report from nbc hallie jackson and a conversation with a cruz supporter. the ugly tone damage, which ever candidate gets the nomination. good news for democrats on that front in the exit poll. i'm going to talk to caroline maloney about that. that's ahead. (music plays from one way or another )♪♪ ♪ i'm gonna find y♪ i'm gonna getcha ♪ ♪ getcha getcha getcha ♪ one way or another ♪ ♪ i'm gonna win ya ♪ i'm gonna getcha ♪ ♪ getcha getcha getcha ♪ one way or another ♪ ♪ i'm gonna see ya ♪ (inhales cigarette) >>> how will you do next week? >> keep working at it. when people find out i have these pittsburgh value, that helps. >> john kasich was in pennsylvania. he was talking about pittsburgh like ted cruz was in mad talking about donald trump this utah. >> in the republican cannot carry bright red utah, we're looking at a walter mondel blood bath across the country. it may cost up the senate and the house. the bill of rights is in jeopardy. >> cruz is not counting on winning in new york. that m

for the texas senator. hallie jackson is covering the cruz campaign and joins us live from indianapolis. i know, as you always do, you tried very hard to get him to tell us what that major announcement was. you are always there with the right question. he did not want to answer you, did he? >> reporter: his point is if he talks about it now nobody will show up when he makes the announcement on stage. if you look at the speculation, there is talk he will be announcing some kind of ticket with carly fiorina and our cameras have caught images of her in and out of the hotel room and she has been on the campaign trail and a surrogate of his the last six weeks or so. if in fact -- it's still an if at this point cruz were to name carly fiorina on some kind of ticket, it could raise questions and bolser cruz and the question is why now and why today in indiana? the answer cruz is coming off a walloping from donald trump, not just winning, winning to a degree undercutting saying donald trump cannot get a majority of support. this is an opportunity for cruz to try to change the subje

event in albany this morning. let's start with wyoming. reaching out to msnbc hallie jackson. i know ted cruz is the only republican candidate who's there right now. he's expected to make his pitch about 25 minutes or so from now. how likely is it he's going to sweep all these delegates in wyoming like in colorado? >> the chances look pretty good. donald trump's own advisors are sayi ining he believes cruz wil sweep. trump has not committed resources or time in wyoming. cruz is. he's coming here in about a half an hour. we will hear him make his pitch. john kasich has a surrogate but the candidate is in new york. cruz, the chances look good. while cruz is working his delegate strategy as we have been talking about to be in place and prepared for a possible contested convention. a top campaign aide said none of this matter if he locks up the magic number by june 7th and the important date when california goes ahead and holds its primary. all of this, of course, is contingent upon keeping donald trump below that 1237 thresholds and having the delegates in place to move forward. >> what are

really taking the bait. our own hallie jackson has an interview with ted cruz's new running mate. that's coming up in just a minute. also, on our agenda this morning, cruz may have fiorina with him but trump says he's the one who just landed the biggest endorsement of them all in indiana. >> i think the most important thing in the world is that we vote for the best man there is for this job, and you've already met him. >> the general, robert montgomery knight, a basketball legend in a basketball crazed state. won three national titles at indiana. now he wants to put trump over the top in the hoosier state. and rounding out our agenda this morning -- >> i am very good in arithmetic and i can count delegates and we are behind today. but you know what? unusual things happen in politics. >> the delegate count doesn't look good and now the sanders campaign shrinking this morning. word of some layoffs as the landscape turns bleak for hillary clinton's challenger. the question now isn't just what sanders wants out of all of this, it's what can he get? all of that, much more still to come this m

difficulties here. we will dig into that cruz announcement in just a moment. hallie jackson is with us and we have a lot of other political headlines, our team of reporters covering trump's foreign policy speech for us, kelly o'donnell previewing the republican front-runner speech scheduled for this evening. let's start with hallie jackson. i apologize, i'm holding a microphone in my hand now because we lost my mike. ted cruz is trying to make a big mark today, at least look like he's got presidential ambitions, he's naming a vice president. >> reporter: he's trying to get everybody to talk about something other than donald trump decisive victory in the northeastern states, not just winning but winning big and coming out with this announcement he will be talking about carly fiorina on his ticket if he gets the nomination. this is something cruz has been trying to drum up intrigue all day today. he came out about 9:30 this morning and announced that announcement and refused to say what that would be because he wanted folks to show up and see for themselves. this is a line of people waiting

to start off with hallie jackson covering the cruz campaign. hallie, you spoke with carly fiorina last night. sources close to the campaign have conceded that the move to add carly fiorina was designed to change the conversation, try to undercut the momentum that done auld trump has. that does seem to be working. at least when we look at the headlines this morning. how does it seem to be playing out on the ground? >> well, when you look at the headlines and local papers, we were just in indianapolis and the front page was a picture of carly fiorina and ted cruz talking about candidates coming to indiana to blan ket the hoosier state five days before what will be a crucial primary, not just for ted cruz but that stop trump movement. you will see on the stage behind me, he and carly fiorina with first campaign rally since he announced that she would be on his ticket if he were to win the republican nomination, and in our conversation, carly fee over-rena and i talked about this attack line coming from the trump campaign. you heard paul manafort talk about that this morning, it is de

two of them are devoted to beating hillary clinton in november. our own hallie jackson tried to get him to respond to some allegations from the trump campaign. donald trump has said this is an act of collusion. that is a word they are floating a lot today. hallie asked ted cruz to respond twice to that. he did not answer that directly, twice dodging it, instead going on to talk about donald trump in broader terms. we want to turn to peter alexander who is live on the phone with us from philadelphia where governor kasich just met with voters at a local diner. he is the other half of this agreement that took a lot of people by surprise sunday night. is he responding directly at all to these comments that we've heard from the trump campaign this morning? >> reporter: what was striking is the similarity and the language used by ted cruz and john kasich. he got to this diner here at philadelphia, the opportunity to meet with voters but clearly this is a moment where reporters wanted to pepper him about the deal. i asked him right out of the gate whether he would direct his voters to vote

seen before, admitting he made a mistake. nbc's peter alexander and hallie jackson are out with the campaigns in wisconsin this morning. peter is with trump in lacrosse, hallie jackson following cruz in madison. so, peter, let's start with you and let's start with what i just mentioned there a minute ago, donald trump i guess in this column of maureen dowd in the "new york times" expressing contrition. tell us about it. >> that's exactly right. in fact, he will be back on the trail with his wife tonight, but he did wade back into that war over wives thing as you noted it was a mistake to put out that retweet that showed the unflattering picture of heidi cruz next to his wife melania, he said as follows, quote, if i had to do it again i wouldn't have sent it. that's about as close to contrition as you've heard from donald trump over the course of this entire campaign so far, obviously that deficit with women is critical, but the state really is pivotal not just for trump but also for ted cruz because it's a more moderate conservative state, cruz hoping to show that he can expand into

. >>> joining us now, nbc's katy tur, she covers the trump campaign and also with us is hallie jackson covering the cruz campaign. some of us who listened to the trump speech tonight thought we were hearing a strong rebuke to the new jeem in -- regime in his campaign. paul manafort promised a more presidential candidate. this one went on at no length, no teleprompter, got in the shots at hillary clinton that we saw. what's going on inside that campaign in terms of the candidate's presentation? who's winning the battle on how he's supposed to take the stage? >> i think it's a day to day thing with the campaign right now but certainly the -- by all appearances at least for tonight, corey lewandowski seems to be winning that battle. lewandowski came and spoke to reporters before donald trump took the stage. he said that he would never change donald trump. when i asked him if he's trying to evolve the candidate. meanwhile, lewandowski was relatively close to trump. a couple people away from him, standing on his left side. paul manafort on the other hand was far down the right side, behind a corner

, about to begin. hallie jackson covering the cruz campaign. wisconsin was supposed to be the turning point, now the day after new york maybe this feels a little different. what's the game plan for the cruz campaign? >> reporter: listen, bracing for a rough week after donald trump dominated last night in new york. he looks poised to do very well next week in the northeast and midatlantic states but cruz is keeping an eye on those 54 unbound delegates in this state. a campaign aide telling us they expect to get two dozen of the delegates, so 24, plus pick up another six in maryland. those are the states that cruz will be focusing on. here in hershey, there's a kiss mobile out front, home of hershey chocolate. this is the delegate slate that the cruz campaign is looking to put out there. these are people who have committed to supporting senator ted cruz if this does go to a second ballot or even a first ballot considering they are unbound in pennsylvania. cruz himself is talking about his path to victory here, his path to the nomination. remember, donald trump tweeted this morning that

philadelphia today. thank you. >>> hallie jackson is in indianapolis where ted cruz is focused on next week's primary that will happen a week from today. good afternoon to you. ted cruz is focused on next week. how is he taking advantage of this so-called alliance, not sure we can use that word anymore, his alliance with john kasich. >> reporter: i think you said it best, a kind of frayed alliance at this point. you are seeing cruz try to take advantage of kasich conceding campaigning in this state by calling on kasich's supporters to come behind ted cruz. here's what cruz had to say at a rally last night. >> for those supporters of john kasich, either here or at home, there may be issues on which we disagree but more unites us. if you don't want to see donald trump as the nominee, if you don't want to see hillary clinton as the next president i ask you to join us because this is the only campaign that can and will beat donald trump and then hillary clinton. >> reporter: now, listen, cruz has been calling on supporters of other candidates to back his campaign for really months now

hallie jackson is in the bronx. ted cruz just had an event there. so, hallie jackson, how did the locals treat ted cruz? the guy who said new york values, coming to new york. what was the reaction? >> reporter: well, you know, initially, when you walked in, you saw him immediately heckled by a couple of protesters. a couple of guys came in, i think we have the video, and were yelling at cruz, calling him racist, saying, you don't belong here, taking him at his immigration policies. they were escorted out. it all went down peacefully, obviously. they were taken out without incident. but it's a sign of what cruz may be up against in places like the bronx. that said, the "new york values" line is potentially not a bad sale in a place like iowa. in new york, it may get harder. which is why went cruz was asked about it by us here at his media availability earlier, he talked about liberal democratic values, in his words. and he specifically said, hey, if you're in western new york, you understand. you know what these values are, you get it. that is a bit of a sign to me, of where cruz p

out, in new york, he is 14 points behind hillary clinton. i believe we have hallie jackson standing by. actually, we're going to go to kasie hunt. she's standing by with the latest on the sanders campaign. and kasie, you know, we make so much about whose turf it is in new york. hillary clinton obviously considering this her second home. and she was senator representing this, but this is also supposed to be bernie sanders' home turf as well. so when he is behind 14 points, what does the campaign say about it? >> the numbers are tough for bernie sanders right now, tamron. but we should expect over the course of the next couple of days a show of force from the sanders campaign in terms of what has been their ongoing advantage all the way along. that's the people who are willing to show up. i want to show you, this is the line to get into his event in syracuse. you guys have been standing here for how many hours? five hours. four hours. she's a half hour. sorry. there were people here this morning at 7:00 in the morning. well before that 2:00 start time for this event. now we're also expec

ted cruz. nbc's hallie jackson is live to us in casper this morning, hallie? >> we're on a bit of a lunch break, folks are milling about here while the ballots are getting ready to be counted. the process will take a couple hours but when it's over later this afternoon we will know the 14 delegates of the 26 plus three unbound headed from wyoming to the national convention in cleveland come july. right now it looks as though ted cruz has the edge. he was the only candidate to speak here today and i want to show you the shirts all over here. "cowboys for cruz 2016." we've been seeing these on a lot of people. cruz has a big presence at the convention, at that particular state convention. one gentleman is preferring a couple people here. they picked cruz delegates or kasich delegates or trump delegates. you can choose undecided delegates and i spoke with one gentleman who said that is his pick why he wants wyoming to be wooed at the national convention. he wants toll pigss to drill down into wyoming issues. as he said, hey, if you give him -- we want the dinner and flowers, we don't w

lucifer in the flesh by john boehner. hallie jackson asking him about it earlier this morning. we will dive deeper into those responses. meantime, donald trump is taking aim at hillary clinton, continuing down this path as he's firing up a crowd today in evansville, indiana. we'll have more on what is shaping up to be a heated general election battle. our political team has it all covered from indiana to washington today. we want to begin with jacob rascone on the road. in evans vil, indiana this hour, where a trump rally wrapped up moments ago, with some big names, especially in the hoosier state. >> reporter: in fact, he's still going behind me. there was a lengthy introduction by coach bobby knight. he's giving his normal pitch. he's talking a lot about manufacturing and jobs. he's been talking about carrier air-conditioning. talked about that a lot at rallies throughout the country. he called it just now his baby, because he heard ted cruz had been talking about this plant. it's a plant that announced in february that it should shut down and relocate to mexico, 1,400 employees losi

brooklyn. kasie hunt, katy tur, and hallie jackson as well. first to you, kasie. bernie sanders, the overnight flight to the vatican. we don't know whether or not he'll see pope francis but already, he has had the paparazzi around him and he's talking about, you know, why he left the campaign trail to speak about economic justice in rome. >> a brief address to this conference he's there attending and focusing on the things we've heard from him all across the course of this campaign talking about global financial deregulation that he says has driven a lot of the problems that the country and frankly, the world face. standing on a stage that, you know, he probably wouldn't have had the chance to stand on had he not mounted such a spirited insurgent campaign against hillary clinton and you have him explain this trip that way saying this was essentially a bucket list item, this is something if he didn't do it, he would just regret it for the rest of his life. there, you can see him getting off the plane in rome. they flew overnight after the debate and after that speech and something of

. biggest story in politics, this will not be allowed. hallie jackson covering the cruz campaign, she's here with me in new york city, jacob rascon is in albany in new york ahead of a trump rally today. so, hallie, let's start with you. we've got the stop trump effort, the ted cruz effort, they've merged for the moment at least. colorado is a big thing for them. they take all the delegates, trump is crying foul, where else can they pull this off the rest of the way? >> pennsylvania next, they're also looking at indiana, a campaign aid telling me they are working to pull in more organization there and to make sure that they're set up in that state and the other interesting part is what's happening in california. that is where senator cruz is today, out campaigning, holding a couple rallies in the southern part of the state. i am told that we will see later today several dozen endorsements rolled out from elected officials in the republican party in california, which is a way for cruz to be able to point to that slate and say -- not technically a slate of delegates but a slate of s

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this morning. hallie jackson, kristen welker and kasie hunt. it is a beautiful day but it's even nicer for me when i get a chance to work with you. >> in person. >> i know. >> let me turn to you hallie first. we've mentioned trump and the other candidates. >> let's talk about cruz and then john kasich. ted cruz today not even in new york which is significant about what he thinks his chances are here. instead he's in philadelphia where he'll be watching the results roll in. the campaign believes pennsylvania is a place they can pick up delegates. maryland too they'll look to but also look ahead to indiana on may 3rd. that's a place they believe they can slow trump down and the stop trump movement might get involved as well. for john kasich, i just got off the phone with a top strategist for his campaign and this source is saying that, hey, places like connecticut and rhode island could be very good for john kasich. he's polling in second place in new york city here. >> and there, by the way, as we speak, sorry to interrupt you. there's mr. trump voting right now in manhattan, so w

name being booed on her own network. nbc's peter alexander and hallie jackson are out on the trail this morning. peter, with more on the potential truce this morning, what do we know? >> reporter: so you know about that meeting obviously, megyn kelly made her comments, this was a strange stand off, this would have been her first first interaction in months. one of the videos they play to introduce the candidate begins with megyn kelly saying and here he is, that always ee policities boos at these events, donald trump in the recent past has called her overrated, said things like she is crazy. we do have some reporting that's coming from "the new york times" as well, they talk about what may be a desire to mend fences more broadly for donald trump with fox news, the fact that according to the "new york times" trump went to fox news' headquarters on the avenue of the americas and met for lunch with the fox news chairman roger ailes as well, you can see some of that reports there. but that's notable is megyn kelly isn't just a large television star, she's also representative of what's

republican race. it's moving quickly with just a week to go until the new york primary. hallie jackson and jacob rascon are covering the gop side of things for us. good morning to both. let me start with you, jacob, in new york city's capital. we now know what happened over the weekend in places like colorado. but weren't these private meetings and strategy sessions that trump's been having supposed to prevent this from happening? >> well, they're all going on at the same time. when he was not in colorado and not in california, which he canceled those events, he was meeting some of that time with his team. i want to show you around, if you don't mind. this is the arena we have, that trump is going to have his event tonight in albany. seats many thousands of people. police have already started blocking off some of the street. i want to show you the first supporter we have so far, and his car. we'll go over and show you how it says go trump. his name is steve. we'll talk to him in just a minute. he does this over and over for different events, for different singers, for hockey players, and n

. >>> let's head now to indiana where we find hallie jackson, covering the cruz campaign. we know we've been having some trouble with your shot because of the weather, which is coming over here soon. so hallie, if you cut out, viewers now know why. but very quickly before you do, tell us about how cruz wants to handle tonight. and is there a definition of what a good night is? he could finish third and all five primaries tonight and it wouldn't be a shock. >> he could. so how does he want to get past tonight? quickly, i think, is the bottom line to get to tomorrow, to try to reset the narrative in this race. and even if the campaign comes in third, in let's say, pennsylvania, that's a state that the campaign has identified as key because of the unbound delegates. so there's a sense in the campaign i'm told by aides, that even if they were to come in behind trump, if they were to pick up a couple dozen delegates, they would feel like they're in good shape, and they can get on to the business of resetting the narrative. the way they had to do with wisconsin, drawing parallels there.

sillyness. >> nbc hally jackson is in delaware where trump is scheduled to speak in a few hours from now. what's the reaction to cruz? >> reporter: we'll see what trump has to say here at 4:00 this afternoon a couple of hours away. will be surprising if trump did not talk about this. he's on top of the headline and he likes to come out and defend himself at times at rallies like this one. we had a long line of people waited to get in and they are all headed inside now. we can talk about it though, what cruz and his campaign is trying to do and take trump on. cruz, you mentioned of the new facebook video. let's play omnivosome of that a we'll talk about it online. >> guess who's joining the ranks of the pc police? >> people go and use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. >> donald trump cannot be trusted with common sense. why would we trust him in the white house? >> so kate, this is an attack on trump on two fronts. one on his conservative credentials. something that cruz had been for months now since january when he let go of that and embraced of what he's been doing in 2015. he

cruz campaign, hailey hallie jackson standing by in milwaukee tonight. >> reporter: i'm here with one of ted cruz's spokesmen. we heard again and again from the governor and ted cruz is turning point. how do you see this victory in wisconsin as it propelz you moving into states where ted cruz doesn't look like such a natural fit, new york and pennsylvania? >> there's some important lessons to learn from the election results here tonight. three weeks ago we were down by 20 points and two weeks ago we were down by 10 points and a week ago things started to change and we started to move ahead and the reason why that happened is that voters in wisconsin got to know ted cruz. ted and heidi engaging people directly. when people got to know him, they embraced him and rejected donald trump. did shows when we engage those numbers turn around and we expect to see that in every state where we engage going forward. >> do you feel that the field is more difficult as you move forward. you look at new york and while aids are telling us there are maybe some districts where you can pick up delegat

little girls. that is political correctness on steroids. that's just silliness. hallie jackson is in delaware, where he's scheduled to speak in a few hours. bring us up to speed. where do we stand in terms of a campaign strategy for donald trump the last few weeks of the primary season? >> what you've seen, you've started to see already with donald trump, a candidate who seems to becoming more disciplined if you look at the advisors he brought on board with a more inclusive campaign opposed to ted cruz on a delegate hunt north of us in delaware, where the trump campaign has been working to hone in on unique keystone state process, right? these delegates elected to these slates and cruz not giving any ground, cruz reaching out to delegates on a personal level and making sure surrogates are also doing the same, helping some delegates get elected so these key 54 unbound delegates in pennsylvania will end up, the majority of them, the hope is, backing ted cruz. that's the campaign's goal. donald trurchl fighting that vigorously. one thing we've seen the last 24-48 hours is this issue

signs ahead for both party front runners. we begin with our correspondence. nbc hally jackson is covering ted cruz and nbc kristen welker is following hillary clinton and kasie hunt with bernie sanders. jacob, let's start with you with the trump campaign talking about major over haul. what does your report tells you. >> reporter: it was three weeks ago that trump hired convention manager, a big hire and we heard of policy speeches that's going to come. then a couple of weeks ago, we started to see changes in the candidate himself on the trail that his speeches were much shorter, he actually showed up on time or early to rallies, small things. he always had localized statistics of unemployment and a sharper message and rick wylie and now we are hearing of this big new shift that's on top of all of it which is now we have one of the top campaign officials resigning, steward jollies. >> they are planing the campaign on spending big in upcoming states. $20 million allocated for that. trump likes to brag about how little he spends less than anybody on ads and on anything. now, they ha