their partnership. >> it is big news today that john kasich has decided to pull out of indiana, to give us a head-to-head contest with donald trump. that is good for the men and women of indiana, it's good for the country. we're focusing our energy on the state of indiana. and governor kasich is focusing his energies elsewhere. >> meanwhile, kasich downplayed the pact when talking about reporters today and insisted that his supporters should still vote for him, and not vote for cruz, in indiana. >> are you gonna directly tell your voters in indiana to support ted cruz? >> no, no, i'm not going to tell anybody how to vote. i don't see this as any big deal, other than the fact that i'm not going to spend resources in indiana, he's not going to spend them in other places. so what? what's the big deal? >> so who should your supporters vote for in indiana? >> i've never told them not to vote for me. they ought to vote for me. >> at the same time kasich was saying that, his own co-chair in indiana was saying something very different, telling a local newspaper in indiana that, quote, kasi

seven if i average them together. well, that's nice, but that's not enough in indiana. so cruz absolutely had a shot here even before the kasich coalition building and even before selecting carly fiorina. indiana has become the referendum election. you know, what gloria and mark were talking about, they make a solid point. this is about trump or not trump in indiana now. it's no longer about do you like cruz, or would you rather have a kasich? are you in favor of trump being the nominee on the first ballot, or are you in favor of trump not being the nominee at all and having this go a few ballots deep at the convention? that is the choice that indiana is making, and when indiana makes that choice, it will carry through to cleveland. >> talk to me more about carly fiorina. how does she help him? does she help him in indiana? >> i don't know yet. and i don't think anybody knows

left, right, and center this friday. within the hour the republican governor of indiana, mike pence, he's going on a radio show for what we're told is a significant announcement, and now sources tell cnn that that announcement, he will endorse ted cruz for president. this is an endorsement the cruz team really, really wanted. >> and in just a few hours donald trump, he's going to be trying to woo more insiders, this time in california. he's set to speak before the republican convention outside of san francisco, and this is after protests broke out outside a trump rally last night with more than a dozen arrested. let's get over to cnn's phil mattingly who is following this all for us. first, phil, to that endorsement, that cruz, let's be quite honest, he maybe needed. >> reporter: no question about it, kate. this isn't just because donald trump has had bob yby knight gog around with him in the state of indiana. mike pence has been a standard bearer. he's been under tremendous pressure to come off the sidelines and endorse ted cruz. the cruz team has been working very hard to get this

profile hookups. john kasich says he will stay out of ted cruz's way in indiana while ted cruz will steer clear of new mexico and oregon. it's being called an agreement, an alliance, a pact, a treaty. today in rhode island a certain someone used a different word for it. >> it is collusion. if you collude -- in politics you are allowed to collude, and i was happy because it shows how weak they are. it shows how pathetic they are. mark: this morning as kasich campaigned in philadelphia, ted cruz was in indiana. they defended their unorthodox cooperation. >> i don't see this as any big deal other than the fact that i'm not going to spend resources in indiana and he's not going to spend them in other places. so what? what is the big deal? i've never told them not to vote for me. i am not over there campaigning and spending resources. we have limited resources. >> he's focusing his energies elsewhere. that is a decision allocation of resources that makes a lot of and is devoted to the principle of meeting hillary clinton and turning the country around. >> donald trump is going to scream

, let's have a debate. a one-on-one debate in front of the people of indiana, a town hall, and answer the questions. donald is fond of telling everyone what a strong, tough man he is. well, he could demonstrate his strength by not hiding in trump tower. by coming to indiana and actually defending his positions. the reason he's been afraid to do so so far is he has no answer when he's asked how do you bring jobs back to america. he has no answer when he's asked how do you keep america safe from radical islamic terrorism? this is a serious time. and the american people want and deserve a serious leader focused on jobs, freedom, and security. that's exactly what i will be and what i will do as president. >> how do you justify that, senator, when you look at this, donald trump has hit you already on this both on twitter and elsewhere. >> if you do win indiana what is to stop you from doing a bait and switch and competing in new mexico. >> we are all in on indiana. we are competing in this great state. indiana is a crossroads. it is a crossroads for the entire country. it is big news today tha

indiana, where it might be a tougher run for tramp thump te five states today. >> kasich and cruz campaigns trying to prevent trump from reaching enough delegates to win the nomination. trump has more to say. >> reporter: he has not had any campaign events but vocal on the campaign trail yesterday. calling ted cruz and john kasich pathetic, losers, even hitting john kasich on his eating habits. what do we hear from trump? will he give a gracious speech or classic trump, see him come out and continue to hit his competitors and say, look, it's time for these guys to step aside. >> sara murray, thank you. hillary clinton supporters are hoping for a big night after her commanding victory in new york. she's also campaigning in indiana today before heading to philadelphia for a primary night event later this evening. jeff zeleny joining us the city of brotherly love. jeff, five states up for grabs, secretary clinton spent the day campaigning in indiana. what's her basic mess annual today? >> reporter: wolf, she's in indiana campaigning and pushing forward, i mean, confident about today'

moment with indiana's republican governor that's going to waltz through those doors and take to one of those mikes. his name, mike pence and there he is. he's expected to throw his support behind, do you need a drum roll? we thought this was coming, ted cruz. ted cruz for whom the hoosier state could be a political lifesaver. seriously. it could come down to those 57 after all of this. because after six straight punishing losses in the northeast, ted cruz, i think, it's fair to say now desperate to show he and his newly tapped running mate on the right, carly fiori fiorina, can, in fact, win in the heartland. just four days from now when nay go to the polls. a press event this morning, the texas senator was coy about what governor pence might actually say about him but he had plenty to say about governor pence. have a listen. >> i think governor mike pence is an optimistic positive unifying force, a strong leader who i respect. you know, when he was in congress, he was a strong leader in congress standing up and defending conservative principles, defending the constitution, and as g

," everyone. i'm megyn kelly. the cruz campaign firing up supporters in indiana today with a big announcement, confirming that senator cruz has carly fiorina as his choice for a running mate. >> today i am very proud and very humbled and honored to announce that i have accepted senator ted cruz's offer to be his vice president for the republican nomination. >> ms. fiorina will be joining us later this hour for her very first prime-time interview since the announcement today. and the stakes for her team could not be any higher. trump is holding a slight lead in the real clear politics of all polls from the state of indiana. if cruz does not win the 57 delegates up for grabs in less than a week there, the political analysts are saying donald trump will effectively become the republican nominee for president. we're speaking tonight with former romney campaign strategist stuart stevens and trump adviser senator jeff sessions. we'll go live as well to indiana and hear right from the voters when pollster frank luntz joins us with his folk is group. there they are. first let's speak beh

exact same distance, ten feet, and here in indiana, the people of indiana have good sense. the people of indiana have good judgment. the people of indiana i don't believe are simply going to say manhattan has spoken. therefore, we must get behind a new york liberal. i don't believe the people of indiana want to do that. and i think anyone who wants to be elected president owes it to the voters to do what i'm doing here. heidi and i, we are barnstorming the state. we are on a bus tour traveling throughout the state to look voters in the eyes, to answer their questions, to show the humility to subject yourself to the scrutiny of hoosiers. donald trump doesn't like to do that. donald trump likes to parachute in like mick jagger, show up at a football stadium, give some performance and then leave. well, this country isn't a reality show. and if donald trump thinks he's too good to answer questions from the men and women of indiana, that conveys something. it's now been 48 days since the last republican debate. 48 days. the democrats have debated. hillary clinton and bernie sanders

state. could tuesday's indiana primary prove fatal to one or perhaps more than one of the remaining republican candidates? >>> meanwhile, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are fighting just as hard for indiana. we will be checking in with both campaigns. >>> and just days after ted cruz announces carly fiorina as his pick for vice president, we take a look at the likely vp candidates for the others in the race. >>> good saturday to you. thanks for spending it with us. nice to be with you. nice to be with you at home. i'm leland vittert. >> the final three republican presidential candidates are scouring the golden state in hopes of swaying voters during june's primary day. in just a couple hours, ted cruz is scheduled to address the california gop luncheon. donald trump and john kasich spoke there yesterday. will the voters get trump to 1237? john roberts joins us with the very latest from beautiful burlingame. >> reporter: that's the big question going forward, particularly to the indiana primary. first, what a difference a day makes. the sun is out as it was yesterday but there's

nomination. and he's campaigning hard in indiana tonight. the republican frontrunner again campaigning with legendary basketball coach bobby knight and both men seemed to be even jaying their battle for votes in the hoosier state. trump referred to senator cruz who's campaigning throughout the state as well and why he turned to bobby knight for help. >> we don't have a long way if i can win in indiana. if i win, it's over. i didn't want to take too much time because i know you have got him back here lyin' like hell. i said i better get back to indiana fast. i said get me bobby knight fast, please. lou: bobby knight obviously likes trump a lot. giving him his endorsement and getting out on the campaign trail with trump and raising >> as i step away from this podium, i hope as i do that you people will think for just a moment and you will say to yourselves, each and every one of you, damn it, how soon can i go out and vote for that guy? i hope that's what you all have to say. lou: we take up the fight for indiana with the chairman of the indiana republican party. also among m

reporting" live from the fox news desk. >>> it's the race for the republican nomination, and indiana is next. and indiana could be everything. like over, full stop for everybody who's not donald trump. as for last night that's history. clean sweep, as expected, for trump. he won bigger than even the polls predicted. but indiana is what matters, and ted cruz knows it. he's putting everything there. politico's shane goldmacher writes today, "trump can't win the nomination there, but it's where he could lose it." john podhoretz in the "new york post," if trump wins the primary next week in the hoosier state, cruz is toast and trump will almost certainly be the republican nominee. the "national journal's" josh trauthauer says if cruz wins indiana taking most of its delegates the path for trump to win 1,237 delegates is very narrow." make no mistake, this will not be easy for ted cruz. he's down in the latest indiana poll by a few points. there part of the electorate is angry about lost jobs and a troubled economy. that's a trump strength. and there's no organized network of conservative rad

are telling us about the kasich and cruz alliance in indiana and beyond. the answer may surprise you. it's our most important number of the day and it is also still ahead. >>> we're going to start with the plan for indiana. a last-minute deal hashed just last night by the cruz and kasich campaigns. they're going to divide up key upcoming republican primary states in an effort to stop donald trump from clinching the republican nomination. the two campaigns releasing near simultaneous statements last night saying they would be divvying up three key races in the upcoming primary calendar. the new map now looking like this. kasich ceasing campaign operations in indiana. he'd been running between 15% and 20% in the polls there. ted cruz in return giving up on oregon and new mexico. in theory at least allowing for kasich to be the sole trump opponent in those states. kasie hunt is in washington, d.c., with the latest details on what is an unprecedented last f last-ditch effort by the forces. >> this is something that is just really a stunning reversal of where these two camps were just a h

indiana. that's going to be the next one to come after today, next tuesday, may 3rd. cruz also teasing a possible vice presidential pick before that pick contest in the hoosier state. details on what he's saying on that front in just a minute. >>> also on the agenda, putting the party back together. democrats wrestling with how to retain bernie sanders' supporters after the primary and sanders saying it's not going to be that easy. >> people think, you know, bernie sanders is going to snap his fingers and will who votes for him, oh, now we're going to vote for hillary clinton. bernie said so. that is not the way the real world works. >> unity for the democrats looks like it could be a very tough task after this primary season. new comments from last night's msnbc town halls still ahead. rounding out our agenda this morning, donald trump gets an assist from the general. >> i have one of the great endorsements of all time coming up in indiana. i refuse to say it's bobby knight. but it's bobby knight. >> trump holding a rally in indiana tomorrow with one of that state's most legen

bitch could play for me. john: that son of a bitch. trump's campaign in indiana also has a tv ad featuring donald trump junior talking about how tough his dad is. testoster-on don, smart, tough, or somewhere in between? mark: somewhere in between. they recognize that they need to soft and him a little bit. this is the quintessence of .etting trump be trump this is the kind of personality he has. he plays to his strength. women might find this appealing. i think they need to use a vodka and others. he he does not back down, says what he believes about hillary clinton. when they try to make him back down, it is not going to work. ,ohn: well, that is great fabulous. i said yesterday on our show that donald trump has a huge problem with women voters. if he doesn't solve that problem, he can't be president. i don't think anything he did in these instances is offensive, but he will have to remediate this problem to some degree. maybe he will do it later or now, but i remember mitt romney in 2012 refused to defend assaults on the obama campaign, and he got eviscerated. i think trump nee

from indiana while john kasich is not planning a primary night appearance. hillary clinton is campaigning in indiana this afternoon before heading on to philadelphia for a primary night watch party and bernie sanders holds a rally tonight in west virginia ahead of that state's primary on may 10th. all after another very heated day on the campaign trail where the focus is on division before unity. >> lyin' ted announced that he can't win by himself. he cannot do it. you know, he's a joker. he cannot do it. so he said let me form a partnership, which i call -- what do we call it? go ahead. go ahead. what do we call it? let me form -- it's called collusion, folks. >> i understand that donald will whine. that's what he does. donald is a sore loser. >> i'm not going to spend resources in indiana, he's not going to spend them in other places, so what? what's the big deal? >> if we end up losing, and i hope we do not. and if secretary clinton wins, it is incumbent upon secretary clinton to reach out not only to my supporters but to all of the american people with an agenda that they

-take-all state of indiana. 57 delegates are up for grabs. if trump win it is hasser state, he's closer to the magic number of 1,237. let's get to the campaign trail and the latest on the protests in california. we find nbc's ali vitaly in the middle of that chaotic scene. with just days until a critical primary, how will the visuals help or hurt the trump campaign? >> reporter: good morning, eamon. these visuals aren't anything new. we've seen protests outside trump rallies before. that's not new. what is new is we're in california, this is the beginning of his time campaigning in the state ahead of the june 7th primary. clearly what we've been seeing over the course of the past few days is much more escalated protests, much more numbers, even more violence. the pre curser to this level of violence is what we saw in chicago a few months earlier. what was so interesting about yesterday is it actually started off quite peaceful. when we first arrived, we saw people silently protesting. some people were even burning incense. what we saw was people coming to the front of the hotel.

important it is in indiana for him. it is important to make a break p important for cruz than it is for trump. >> reporter: absolutely. the endorsement is a blow to donald trump. this is the campaign that has not relied on endorsements and frankly does not need many endorsements. the people may have been rejected washington and so endorsements from washington from establishments and governors have not done much to sway the needle for donald trump. this could potentially help ted cruz. the polls are still close to the donald trump, their campaign is still feeling positive about that. they feel comfortable going into states like california and new jersey that are next. after that, a big win on tuesday which netted them 109 delegates and not including the unbound delegates. the majority will say they'll vote for donald trump at the first ballot at the convention. >> kasie, the stop trump movement depends entirely on ted cruz and on his chances in indiana? >> it really does. i have to tell you having been in indiana a couple of days. the census, the momentum is with donald trump and not wit

tomorrow. they are looking, this is cruz and kasich, they are looking at later contests in indiana, new mexico and oregon. kasich agrees as part of this deal that he will stay out of cruz's way in indiana. indiana is up on may 3rd. cruz will stay out of kasich's way in new mexico and oregon. the man behind the art of the deal, donald trump, he is slamming this deal as, quote, a horrible act of desperation. overnight trump released a statement reading in part collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two washington insiders have had to revert to collusion in order to stay alive. cruz and kasich are meth kael dead and this act only shows as puppets of donors and special interests how truly weak they and their campaigns are. but could this shocking twist back fire on kasich and cruz? our political team is here this morning with every angle of the deal covered. let's start with msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. she's in our washington bureau. kasie, three states involved here. kasich benefitting in oregon and new mexico but really this looks to me that i

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indiana's next primary is on tuesday and it's seen as a must win for ted cruz in order to stop donald trump from clinching the republican nomination. on "morning joe", carly fiorina talked about teaming up with her formal rival. >> we began to have serious conversations with this over the past week or so. i think ted cruz wants to be sure that the people of indiana and people of this nation understand the choice in front of them. on the one hand you have cruz and fiorina and the other hand you have donald trump and hillary clinton and i put them in the same category because they are the same category. >> harsh words about cruz from former house speaker john boehner. he tore into the candidate during a speech at stanford university calling the texas senator quote lucifer in the flesh and quoted as saying, i get along with almost everyone and but never gworked with a moe miserable sob in my life. the tweet, chosen a vp candidate who failed badly in her own effort. on the "today" show, the republican front-runner doubled down on the position that hillary clinton is playing the wom

announcer: indiana governor announced he will vote for republican presidential candidate ted cruz in his states primary election. he also had praise for candidate donald trump. here is a portion of the interview. pence: i have met with all of the candidates. as of tuesday, i want to say clearly, i respect all three candidates in the field. trump, who i think has given voice to the frustration of millions of working americans, on the lack of progress in washington, d.c. and i and particularly grateful that donald trump has taken a osierg stand for ho jobs. state, i'mving the grateful for his voice and the national debate. but let me say, i have come to say who i am supporting. and i am not against anybody. but i will be voting for ted cruz in the upcoming republican primary. >> you know him personally. you know his education, experience, constitutionalist. what can you make as a recommendation? gov. pence: it is a great question. as you know, i am a reagan conservative. iliterally, as a teenager, was active in democratic politics. i started hearing the voice of the former californi

1,237 has opened up wide for him. this morning all eyes already on indiana. trump now with a chance next week to break ted cruz and the stop trump forces once and for all. we are going to set the stage for what could be the climactic gop primary showdown and we're going to show you new comments from trump just this morning. we'll show those to you in a minute. also on a jend -- the agenda t morning, is bernie sanders now raising the white flag. >> we have now won 16 primaries and caucuses all over this country, and with your help, we're going to win here in west virginia. >> sanders saying all the right things in his speech last night, but a statement from his campaign after losing four more states to hillary clinton sure makes it sound like he can read the writing on the wall. so what does he do now? >>> and finally on our agenda -- >> if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. the only thing she's got going is the woman's card. >> if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in! >> you c

indiana, that's when donald trump will be taking the stage, he will be joining by bobby knight. here in the nation's capitol. trump passed the nomination. well, it is getting a little easier and he's now picking up some speeds as well. we are 24 hours into this new political effort to try to bring he and carly fiorina together as a unit. yesterday ted cruz topping up what many are calling a hell mary with carly fiorina. today, cruz is fighting back with boehner who called him l "lucifer in the flesh." >> boehner had an interesting comment. he allowed his inner trump to come out. when he called me lucifer he's not directing that at me, he's dr directing it at you. >> ted cruz hitting back hard from that lucifer calling. here is moements ago when he spoke with reporters. >> i think boehner has made it crystal clear. boehner in his remarks described donald trump as his texting and golfing buddy. if you want someone that's a texting and golfing buddy if you are happy with boehner as speaker of the house, by the way, donald trump gave boehner superpac $100,000 just a few years ago. donald tr

with carly fiorina. is it going to get him anything, though, in do or die indiana? >> donald trump and hillary clinton, they are two sides of the same coin. they're both liberal. we know that. >> fiorina waste nothing time going straight after donald trump yesterday, but donald trump so far not 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

in indiana who are watching this program right now, your message come primary day, there is to vote for. >> look, i am not getting into that. things are not so plain and simple. i don't tell my voters what to do. first of all, i don't have voters. there are people who live in indiana will have to make the conclusion. >> the magic number, the next seven days will prove critical for donald trump to see if he can lock up the nomination the old fashion way. >> you will have a revolt. you would have a minimum, nobody all these millions of people that joined the republican party which makes it so hot, all these people will never vote, they'll never vote for anybody but surely hoping for them to vote for the republicans. >> he's not ready to conceive. i am winning and i am winning because of what i stand for and what i have done. >> i am way ahead in the votes. >> what do you say to she's saying last night. i am winning. >> well, i think you got to count the votes before you make that declaration. >> a little too confident? >> a little too much. there are five contests tonight, i think we'

. >> thanks, lawrence. good night. >>> also tonight, in the war room, the indiana mystery. not a single poll has been taken in the state that could determine the republican presidential nomination. and an explosive charge today against the bernie sanders campaign from president obama's former campaign strategist, but first the stop trump movement continues even though the only win they had in the entire state of new york last night was in donald trump's neighborhood. >> our country is going to hell. >> he yells a lot. >> get him outta here. >> you don't hear me up here complaining and whining. >> i think it's such a bad system. it's so unfair. >> i think it's a good process. let's just let it play out. >> he's helping donald trump. >> i'm not interested in his opinion. >> it never ends. it never ends. >> we don't want to handle the general election gift-wrapped to hillary. >> we'll fire hillary. you know, i did well with that fired. >> what a time to be alive. >> the race for the democratic nomination is in the homestretch and victory is in sight. >> i don't think that's the case. look, we'r

cruz does in indiana. >> he cleared 50% in his home state last week. we'll see if he clears 50 tomorrow night. he has a chance to. thanks for joining us. chuck will be back tomorrow with "mtp daily." stay tuned for a doubleheader that will start at 8:00 and a special edition of "hardball" with chris matthews starts right now. >>> bad news buddies, let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington and welcome to the special two-hour edition of "hardball." ted cruz and john kasich are trying to do together right now what neither has been able to do on his own, stop donald trump. cruz and kasich have joined forces trying to coordinate their campaigns against trump in the primary states after tomorrow's five states. trump calls the arrangement collusion and may well play directly into his argument that republican nomination process itself is rigged. nbc's kelly o'donnell is rhode island where trump had a rally today and national political reporter for the national post and nbc political analyst and the former chair of the committee and msnbc analyst. kelly, t

-on-one. last night they were in indiana telling voters it is not that much difference between trump and hillary clinton. >> donald and hillary both agree that our taxes should be increased. both donald and hillary believe that illegal immigrants who are here should be able to become u.s. citizens. donald trump and hillary clinton both support tax payer funding for planned parenthood. >> last night trump said he will be living in indiana for the next week. he will take off campaigning there at a rally with hall of fame college basketball coach bobby knight who won three championships at indiana university un. in a basketball loving state quite the endorsement to have. >> garrett tenney live for us. garrett, thank you. on the democratic side he won four out of five of the primary on tests. bernie sanders said he is not going anywhere yet. lauren, good to see you. >> good to see you. after the primaries hillary clinton is closer to securing the democratic nomination. she won four out of five states pennsylvania, maryland, delaware and connecticut. bernie sanders showed his strength in

-important indiana primary, essentially the last hope for ted cruz and his allies to derail donald trump. but it's trump that seems to be gaining new support. it's coming from the most unlikely of places, washington, d.c. >> we talked about how to unify the party, what we needed to do to get congress on board and i think we'll see things grow exponentially over the course of the next two weeks. >> multiple headlines over the past 24 hours pretty much tell the same story. the republican establishment is coming around to the reality that donald trump is going to be the nominee, whether they like it or not. while trump still has less than a dozen congressional endorsements, he picked up two big ones on thursday. house committee affairs chairman jeff miller and the head of the transportation committee, bill schuster. ted cruz's campaign seems to be losing steam. it took another hit when john painer called him lucifer in the flesh. when a former party leader uses that kind of language, it's not hard to imagine that other lawmakers will harbor similar feelings. >> i get along with almost every

elections with cruz focusing in on indiana and kasich on oregon and new mexico. trump is blasting them, accusing them of collusion, calling their strategy pathetic and weak. >>> also, new details emerging tonight about the final days of prince, including a midair medical emergency. the music star reported by the pilot of his private jet as being unresponsive, then rushed to the hospital after an emergency landing. we now have a recording of the pilot's emergency call. we're covering all of that. much more this hour with our guests, including trump supporter and tea party activist scottie nell hughes, as well as our correspondents and experts. let's begin with the republican race for the white house. our political reporter sara murray has the very latest. sara, new political drama on this, the eve of five important primaries. >> reporter: wolf, tomorrow voters will head to the polls in a number of these eastern states like pennsylvania where i am, maryland and delaware. but today the drama is focused on the contests that are even further down the field, as john kasich and ted cruz strik

house hopefuls are battling it out in indiana where the democratic primaries are only five days away and what's at stake for front-runners donald trump and hillary clinton. >>> and pills on prince. cnn has learned that the musical artist was carrying prescription drugs when his body was discovered. powerful opioid medication used to relieve pain. was prince treated for a possible overdose just days before his death? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> heated new rhetoric from a surprising source, former house speaker john boehner. he made a withering assessment of ted cruz calling the senator, "a miserable s.o.b. and lucifer in the flesh." boehner says he'll vote for donald trump in the general election if he's the republican nominee calling the front-runner a texting buddy with whom he's played golf. he's holding a rally in southern california. and we're following new developments into the investigation into the death of prince. a law enforcement official now tells cnn authorities found prescription opioid medication on him and at his home in minnesota. the source

keep stepping up his criticisms of ted cruz. we heard it in indiana. the lyin ted references. >> how is donald trump feeling about winning there? >> reporter: well, you know what is interesting about that, when you heard what the indiana star said, calling him, quote, a disaster in the making, a danger to not only the united states but to the world, saying that kasich and clinton are the best choices out of a disappointing field of presidential candidates. but even having said that, donald trump remaining just as defiant as ever. still lashing out at ted cruz saying that he is the better candidate and actually criticizing cruz for picking a running mate when he says mathematically he has no path to the nomination. >> so what does he do? he now goes out and gets carly who left the race because she had no votes, she had nothing. and that's okay. she's a nice woman. but it's not going to help. it's not going to help. >> reporter: trump also telling the crowd there in indiana, if he would win there, basically he says it's going to be over. well, it won't be over. still has to win here st

the polls going in you are talking 30-35-point lead for donald trump. the real battle is indiana coming up and whether they can block him from getting to 1,237. bill: you have been speaking with folk in d.c. what can you report as to whether thing are smooth. bret: any campaign has growing pains from a campaign to a general elect. there has been friction between manafort and lewandowski on top of the chain inside the trump campaign. the whole thing whether he was projecting an image to republican leaders down in florida last week i don't think sat well. the question is how trump deals with his internal campaign because transitioning from that fire up the crowd and 20,000 people in the stadium to show me you can sit behind the desk in the oval office is a transition he will have to make into the general elect. >> we have had that conversation for at least a week the past month. i want to play a clip from yesterday. i do not believe this was on teleprompter. hillary clinton if you want to be president of the united states, you have got to get familiar with the united states. you do

nation a place of possibility for so many people. my fellow americans, people of indiana, it is time, we must take our country back. this -- this is the fight of our time and i believe ted cruz is the man to lead that fight, and i am prepared to stand by his side and give this everything i have, to restore the soul of our party, to defeat donald trump, to defeat hillary clinton, and to take our country back. and so, my fellow citizens, you must stand with us, you must fight with us. we must restore the potential of this nation. we must restore what has made this nation great for so many people, regardless of their circumstances. so the possibilities of this nation, the opportunity of this nation, the rights and liberties of this nation, can extend to every american. ladies and gentlemen, this is the fight of our times. ted cruz is the man to lead that fight! i will stand proudly by his side! i want you to stand with us as we fight. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the next president of the united states, ted cruz. >> there you have it. the vice presidential prospect, the vic

standard for indiana, bobby knight has to be the gold standard, so many others endorsed us there. it will be great. we will be spending numerous days in indiana. it will be something really, really special. so, i wanted to thank the media. they have covered me fair for the last two hours. they have been very fair over the last few weeks. it has been amazing what has been happening, the crowds, record setting, bigger than bernie, the democrats have treated bernie very badly. and frankly, i think he should run as an independent. i think they treated him badly. the system, it is a bad system, whether it is their system or our system, you look at what goes on. the best way to beat the system is have evenings like this record-setting votes, record setting delegates. i use the analogy of the boxer. when the boxer knocks out the other boxer, you don't have to wait around for a decision. that is what happened tonight. that is what happened last week in new york, that is really what is happening throughout. we have millions more votes, millions more than cruz, millions more votes than kasich. kasi

. ted cruz drumming up support in indiana. ahead of the primaries, last hour, former california governor, pete wilson, surprised supporters at the convention with a cruz endorsement, and on friday, the indiana governor pence announced his support, and now that trump breached 1,000 delegates, cruz needs a win more than ever before. we are joined now at the convention, and what was the message today? >> reporter: well, part of the message was not to go down the path, as he called it, yelling and screaming. he was telling those who came out to the state convention he is the candidate to unite the people and move forward. things started off, as you said, with former governor pete wilson coming to the stage making the introduction, giving e ining endorsements for cruz, and what we heard in the speech is what you hear on a typical cruz stump speech, frankly. but then he went on to say that california, that california voters would be the one who would eventually choose the nominee that california at this point is in a cross roads and talked about why he decided to choose his running ma

clinton. >> bernie sanders is pressing on, wrapped up a rally in bloomington, indiana. the strategy may be shifting. news out of the campaign today? >> reporter: that's right. he is significantly downsizing from a peak of about 1,000 staffers we saw in the beginning of the year all the way down i'm told by the campaign manager to about 325 or 350 staffers. i spoke with jeff weaver, his campaign manager a short time ago, and he says this is the natural evolution of any campaign, that because there aren't as many states left they need to contract their ground game. a lot of folks looking at this saying if you're looking at the long game, think you have a shot at the general election, you would not be downsizing. what is clear is bernie sanders is going to go through all these contests, he was talking today about that. he has also been more conciliatory, talking through the day about unification come this summer of the democratic party, and sort of making a case not just for his campaign winning but his campaign having influenced this summer at the convention. >> how is the clinton campaig

. indiana basketball legend bobby knight. ted cruz announces carly fiorina as his vice presidential candidate. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. super poligrip is part of my life now. that's why i run on quickbooks. details. i use the payments app to accept credit cards... ...and everything autosyncs. those sales prove my sustainable designs are better for the environment and my bottom line. that's how i own it. char already we are await -- charles: we are awaiting a donald trump rolly with hoosiers legend bobby knight. ted cruz announced carly fiorina as his running-mate. but is he getting ahead of himself by picking a vice d suca shaa -- shuch a shellacking. >> you look at the hail mary pass of a couple days ago where ted cruz was teaming up with kasich. that's hard to rationalize when he teamed up with carly fiorina. it makes the campaign look desperate and it says to everyone who had hopes h

the gop's final chance to stop trump, the hoosier state in indiana. >>> pivoting to a general election, hillary clinton's campaign the past 24 hours making moves which suggest she's looking ahead to the general election. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. >>> let's get right to presidential politics with three days until the indiana primaries, republicans are instead focussing their efforts on california today. ted cruz will be the last to speak at the convention. john kasich will campaign in san jose. their events in california come less than 24 hours after hundreds of protesters surrounded that convention hotel ahead of donald trump's speech. at one point, protesters knocked down the barricades and they tried to get inside that hotel. they reportedly threw eggs and rocks at riot police. and it all forced trump's motorcade to pull over on the shoulder of the freeway. as you see there, he had to walk under a fence in order to enter that hotel safely. while trump joked about his unorthodox entrance by comparing it to crossing the u.s./mexico border, john kasich esse

winner, he's a champ. he's been so great for indiana. he loves indiana. he loves indiana. and to have his endorsement the is just an honor. and i just want to give him a little special hand. special guy, folks. there aren't too many of them. i want to tell you, i know a lot about the world. there aren't too many of them. there are very few. and you certainly don't find them very often in politics, that i can tell you. you know, you've been seeing these crazy deals they're making. they're desperate. they make the deal where cruz calls. he's losing badly. he's losing all of them. in fact -- lyin' ted, right? lyin' ted. he's an outright liar. boy, you know, i watched him the other night. now, i always start off by saying we will repeal and obama care. everybody knows. so i watch him the other night. donald trump loves -- absolutely loves obamacare. i said, what? he's telling this to an audience. believe me, folks, we're going to repeal it and replace it. okay? then he goes, he doesn't want to bring education local. he wants it coming out of washington. the guy is going one after another

begin with a fox news alert, the presidential race in full swing in indiana. republican front runner donald trump is set to take the stage in evansville. we'll cover all of the news "happening now". >> fireworks on capitol as two top military minds get grilled on the battle against isis. is the obama p administration doing enough to defeat the terrorist network. >> chilling evidence left at the scene of a gruesome murder. with a community on edge. who the police want to look at now. >> the race to rescue a pilot when the twin cessna, plowed in to a tree. it is all happening so fast. i didn't think. >> we began with donald trump setting his sights on indiana as we go to the second hour of "happening now". i am jon scott. >> and i am heather childers in for jenna lee. we are waiting for the rally by the republican front runner that is scheduled to begin. and ted cruz announced that carly fiorina would be his running mate. the texas senator hoping to give a jolt to his campaign. but donald trump, blasted cruz's announcement and called it a waste of time. >> he is the first presidential

you, that son of a bitch could play for me. >> our team of reporters are stationed across indiana today, as well as washington, d.c., and oregon, where bernie sanders is wrapping up a huge rally. let's turn to the gop front run, donald trump, nbc's jacob rascon in evansville, indiana with the trump campaign. i called bobby knight's endorsement the least surprising endorsement of the cycle yesterday. i think i stand by that. >> reporter: yeah, you give an interesting introduction and he rambled on and on and said things like donald trump created more jobs than any american that ever lived and the crowd was loving everything this person said. even after he sat down and donald trump took the stage, he came back on one point and put his arm around trump during an awkward exchange and said, let's quit it with the presidential crap, and went on and i didn't understand the story he was telling. but the crowd seemed to love it. and if that's any indication at this crowd, the other crowds we've seen in indiana, then he's going to be a big deal here. the question will be, can he really pull

pulling out all the stops ahead of today's indiana primary and now both cruz and fiorini are making the argument the race is not over and that trump and clinton are two sides of the same point. donald trump and hillary clinton are virtually indistinguishable in their positions. they are virtually indistinguishable in the fact that they have always been insiders to this corrupt system of crony capitalism and selling access and influence and he cannot be our nominee and if you were to be our nominee, hillary clinton would be our president and that is the future i'm not prepared to live by. jon: let's bring in our political panel. krista venus is former communications director for the john edwards presidential campaign. ron jean, former chief of staff or that senator republican conference. to you first chris from the democratic side of things. ted cruz was talking about basketball earlier this week but you describe this in sort of a football terminology. what is this carly fiorina announcement? >> it's a hail mary. when you are this far behind in delegates, when you are getting wiped o

indiana becomes a make or break battleground next week. the democrats are in a different step of the process. today, hillary clinton expected to widen her delegate lead over bernie sanders. the question becomes when if ever will bernie sanders concede the race. if you're paying attention to some clues in recent days, sanders and clinton may symbolically be negotiating the terms of that surrender. we have a super team with correspondents spread out across the northeast. we begin with donald trump, nbc katy tur covering it since last summer. how are they feeling about today? they have to be feeling good. >> they are feeling good about today. doing really well, actually an understated number. saying if they walk away tonight with 80 delegates they will feel they've done well. the expectations on the outside looking in are better than that. he could potentially walk away with, according to a lot of experts, 90 plus deg gats, perha -- delegates, and the northeast states resonating with his campaign and playing to his message quite well. kate. [ no sound ] >> sorry, katie, i couldn't hear

again score big victories. but it could be close in indiana the following tuesday. with that, donald trump holds a rally in indianapolis this afternoon. he's headed to maryland. hillary clinton campaigns later today in philadelphia. ted cruz also in pennsylvania. bernie sanders and john kasich are both off the campaign trail today. as we look at the races going forward, i'm joined now by our awesome election team. msnbc's steve kornacki is here with the delegate math moving forward. steve, that is the critical thing right now. we can, i guess, flounder around in what happened in new york, but the reality is what is the impact moving forward. >> yeah, i think it's big, tamron, in both parties. let's look at the democratic side right now. these are the states that are left now. you take new york off the board, these are the number of delegates that are at stake in these primaries. here's the key, though, going into last night hillary clinton's lead in these pledged delegates, that's what these are called, her lead over bernie sanders was 210 roughly going into last night. because of th

and now in indiana -- not for mexico. ungrateful. say, i am supporting him. i'm not against anybody but i will be voting for ted cruz in the upcoming republican primary. you know his education, his strengths and his constitutional rights. looking in his direction -- well, a great question. i am abrading conservative. ands active and democrat when i started hearing the voice of the former california governor who are church related his agenda, principles of less taxes, traditional values and a strong military, on to the republican party. throughout my career, those have been my principles and animated by service. i support them at every turn in a look for opportunities to sport men and women who have encourage to stand up for these principles. i see ted cruz as a principal of conservatives who has dedicated his career to advocating the reagan agenda. for my career, i know a little bit about spending a bit. ago. imore than a decade really admire ted cruz. andtand up to taxpayers opposing deficits and debt. calling for repealing obamacare. impressed the way ted cruz's devotion and knowl