. >> yeah. >> that's a damming charge against your child. >> he wasn't always that child. >> ron miscavige said it's cost his relationships with his own daughters and tonight former signtologists complain their families won't speak to them and the most controversial religions in the world. the church pushing back hard and tonight their efforts to discredit ron miscavige. >> ron's daughters have relayed they grew up in a house they would call the chamber of horrors. >> but the emotional reunion, >>> this is a special edition of "nightline." the father, the son and the faith. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. the church of scientology has dealt with many high profile defectors. but the father of the undisputed leader of the church quitting, leaving the church and having a war within scientology's ruling family. >> i have never met a more competent and more intelligent and more tolerant, more compassionate being. >> that is how tom cruise describes david miscavige, the unquestioned leader of scientology, one of the most controversial new religions on >> it's a story that affec

on q&a, historian ron chernow. he talks about the hit broadway musical hamilton in the consulting work he did on it. then minimal miranda base their musical on journal passion biography of alexander hamilton. chernow, when did alexander hamilton first kid on your radar? ron: i started writing about it in 1998. the reason i chose to do was that hemilton seemed to be fading into obscurity. people were coming to regard him as a second-tier founding father. most americans know him from the $10 bill, but that was about it. it was comical, i felt as if i was lifting him out of the security. what were you doing at the time? ron: i have finished writing my biography of john rockefeller. i had done a series of books the gilded age. when i did lectures, people would start shouting out, do vanderbilt, do carnegie. i felt like i was getting stereotyped as a biographer of tycoons and i wanted to switch periods. alexander hamilton was the perfect exit strategy. new era,expose me to a constitutional law, military history, on and on. plus, the most amazing story. brian: you probably don't like th

runaway bike. it's june 28th, 1998, legendary show stopper ron cook is to break the land speed record at murak dry lake in california video grapher mark brazzo is at e starting loon, there to catch what they thinks will be another history-making days for ron cook. he's smashed several records and rarely disappoints. >> i'm seen ron race before. he's very fast on a bike. his bike is 200 miles an hour. kawasaki has a nitrous bottle on it. this thing is a rocket. >> mark watches as ron shoots down the path. it's only later he learns what happens next. ron moves up to fourth gear and hits the nitrous boost button. he's blasting at 175 miles per hour when his front wheel begins to wobble. ron struggles to regain control, but it's a losing battle. he makes a split second decision to abandon the bike, but as this terrifying video shows, his right legislate is caught under the seats pulling him at almost 200 miles an hour in the dusty surface. >> it dragged him like a horse would drag a cowboy. >> the friction of his body against the grounds burns through his protective suit. in another moment,

answer questions. ron desantis: thank you. mr. lyle, you are up for five minutes. cole lyle: thank you. chairman desantis, ranking member lynch, distinguished members of the subcommittee i , appreciate the opportunity to testify. i'd like to begin by saying that i'm not here for myself. i'm here strictly for my brothers and sisters still struggling to transition to post military life while also struggling with post traumatic stress. and no other options besides drugs and therapy. i'm here for those of us in the veteran communities who have been left behind and continue to deal with the pain of suicide as other veterans see no way out. i'm here for the veterans who have lost faith in the system, lost hope for themselves, and have lost purpose in their lives. i'm here for the men and women that, like myself, have had to go it alone and acquire their service dogs at extraordinary financial burden to them. for these reasons, i've been fighting for the last year to change the existing va policy. i believe that allowing veterans to fight pts without all options available to them is tanta

. the indiana presidential primary is next tuesday, may 3. this week on q&a, historian ron turned now. he talks about the hit broadway musical hamilton and the consulting work he did on it. the creator based the music on biography of mr. hamilton. brian lamb: ron chernow, when did hamilton -- alexander hamilton first get on your radar screen? ron chernow: well, i started writing it back in 1998, brian. it seems rather comical because the reason that i chose to do alexander hamilton aside from the fact that it was the most extraordinary personal story among the founding fathers, was that he seemed to be fading into obscurity. people were coming to regard him as a sort of second tier founding father. most americans know he was on the $10 bill, maybe that he had died in a duel with aaron burr, but that was about it. it seems comical that i was -- i felt as if i was lifting him out of the security. -- of obscurity. now his name is on the marquee of a broadway show. brian lamb: where were you at the time? what were you doing? ron chernow: i just finished writing my biography of john d. roc

copyright national cable satellite corop. 2016] announcer: next, q&a with ron chernow talking about his biography of alexander amilton. then, and david cameron takes questions from the house of commons. after that, a news conference with president obama and angela merkel. >> this week on q&a, historian ron chernow. he talks about the hit broadway musical "hamilton" and the consulting work he did on it. the show's creator based the musician on mr. chernow's biography of alexander hamilton. brian: ron chernow, when did alexander hamilton first get on your radar? ron: i started writing about it in 1998. it seems rather comical because the reason i chose to do

always a deadline, nothing but a deadline. >> steve and ron are used to high pressure deadlines. >> i'm working seven days a week, 10, 12 hours a day, trying to get some sleep. it's a good time to lose weight. >> steve is the owner of merth company. he builds these enormous mardi gras parade floats in mobile, alabama. this season he and his staff completed a total of 76 floats for five of america's oldest secret societies. >> you do some of your better work when you're under the gun. cut all of extraneous stauff ou and get to the heart of the matter. >> ron is the owner of barrett grier. in the weeks of carnival leading up to the final day of mardi gras, ron and his company were responsible for 31 grand balls like this one, set to kick off in just a few hours. >> i've got a dress rehearsal in two hours and then the event starts in about three. >> how many people are you expecting? >> out here in the audience? >> yes. >> oh, the ims will have 3,000 people. 2,800, 3,000, 3,200 people. >> we hung out with these two business owners right before their big events. the pressure was on.

, ted cruz a distant third. here to talk about the battle is ron nehring andrew boucher. ron, we're going to start with you. ted cruz's new york values comment is haunting him. has he had any success turning that around? >> ted cruz, you've seen the events in upstate new york and back down for some outreach events with the orthodox jewish community in new york city. if you saw the footage of the event, particularly the one in upstate new york, there was a line wrapped around the block. so that's pretty good turnout for -- particularly in the context of this media narrative that nobody in new york likes senator cruz, which is obviously not true. we're waging a 50-state campaign, we're going to ask for the votes of the republicans, including in the state of new york. there's some opportunities for us there but obviously it's donald trump's home turf and he is expected to do very well there. >> to that point, barry, new york is donald trump's home turf. he's put a lot of effort into campaigning here. is trump confident he's going to have a sweeping victory in new york? >> we're not tak

. saying nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder or more creative. nbc's ron mott has more on the life and death of prince. ♪ >> reporter: over the years he was called many things. icon. legend. genius. even a symbol for which there was no name. >> pretty good at pretending. >> reporter: a shocked and saddened musical world is calling him a lost treasure. from fans outside his famous paisley park -- >> i can't believe he's gone. >> reporter: to industry giants like aretha franklin who speak to brian soon after getting the news that prince was dead at the age of 57. >> prince is gone, but the music will go on. >> what was it about him do you think? >> well, i don't know. young adults and adults loved prince. ♪ ♪ the sky was so purple people were running everywhere ♪ >> reporter: mtv which came into its own interrupted its programming. ♪ his music was transcendent. evidenced by the multiculture, multigenerational crowd that paid respects to him throughout the day and evening. but he was much more than a musician. an artist in every sense of the word who was a masterful showman who

suggested by many mr. ferville not pursuing this project. >> ron miss catch have much the father of david miss cavage speaks for the first time about his life inside the church. in a interview ron now 80 is speaking out about why he decided to leave the church and write a book about his own son called ruthless. >> power tends to corrupt. and absolute power corrupt absolutely. that taste of power i think is what changed david. >> reporter: ron spender nearly three decades working in the sea org the religious order of the church where he says he witnessed his son's volcanic temper. >> david was backstage literally tearing me apart verbally for 55 minutes cursing, yelling, screaming at me. >> reporter: for six years ron lived on a sprawling scientology base in california known as gold. >> it got worse and worse and worsism ron blames his son for what he calls an intensely stressful atmosphere at the base and says over time the crushing workload discipline and lack of sleep became unbearable. >> and they work hard. they work really long hours, evening longer than we do but they enjoy it

gentleman playing the horn, that's ron miscavige, david's dad, who now much to the chagrin of the church has decided to step out and play so solo. >> what's the relationship between your son and tom cruise? >> tom cruise thinks that david is the top spiritual being on this planet. >> the top spiritual being on the planet. >> ron miscavige now 80 is now speaking out about why he decided to leave the church and write a book about his own son called "ruthless". >> power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. that taste of power i think is what changed david. >> reporter: ron spent threely three decades working in the religious order of the church where he says he witnesses hi son's volcanic temper. >> david is backstage literally tearing me apart verbally for 55 minutes, cursing, yelling, screaming at me. >> reporter: for six years ron lived on a sprawling steintology base in hemmette, california, known as gold. >> it got worse and worse and worse. >> reporter: ron blame his son for what he calls an intensely stressful atmosphere at the base and says overtime the crushing

: cruz campaign national spokesperson ron nehring with me now. ron, welcome back. strategically, why did senatator cruz spend time in new york? >> well, think that's a great question because it stands in contrast what we've seen in some campaigns of the past people say, well, new york, that is just a bunch liberals there. no need to go but senator cruz has been determined from the very beginning to wage a 50-state campaign to earn vos of republins in primary contests from all 50 states. why we organized in iowa from the beginning of process, california, new jersey, vote at end of the process and new york being somewhere in between. senator cruz will be in the state repeatedly. he had a great event in upstate new york today and came back down to new york city for another event. so we're working hard to earn support of new yorkers at every opportunity. we know it is donald trump's home state. we know he has the home ste advantage. we know he is expected to do well but -- deirdre: ron, let me interrupt you if you don't mind. >> sure. >> did the senator regret comi here? was that rougher

arnold swartsz neg ger and entrepreneur ron uns who authored prop 227 which effectively ended bilingual education in california. this is not a debate, it's a conversation. first, each of you, tell me something that is prchl and might surprise us about you? >> i spent most of my time serving in east palo alto, east san jose. what i've seen is the economic earthquake we've sofrd in this country. i can be spending in the morning one of the greatest accumulations of wealth in the history of civilization and spend the afternoon with people under the poverty line. >> who is ron unz? >> i have lots of friends over the ideological spectrum involved in politics. one of the surprising thing is a lot of left rinders and right wingers agree on a lot of things, sometimes more than the mainstream of either party. >> tom, something personal? >> i'm the sixth of eighth child. when you're the sixth child, they don't tell you when hide and seek is over. as a family growing up, we had a lot of great conversations around the dinner table and i learned to argue with my older brothers. i became a business at

movies. ron, we see you every weekend. >> fairly regularly. >> we want to see you more is what i wanted to say. >> okay. that's what you're getting at. >> lost in translation. >> okay, well, good morning to you, paula and dan. robert, good morning to you. good morning, everyone. we begin with authorities in virginia disclosing that the former felon who fatally shot a state trooper at a bus station in that state was carrying an arsenal of 143 rounds of ammunition. the officer, 37-year-old chad dermyer, had been taking part in a training mission at the bus station, greyhound bus station when the suspect by the name of james brown allegedly opened fire. brown had previously served prison time for using a firearm in a crime, a drug charge and a domestic abuse conviction. officers nearby returned fire killing that gunman, james brown. >>> and u.s. officials say a drone strike in somalia has killed a key leader of the terror group there, al shabab. hassan ali dhoore and two others were said to have been killed in the attack which occurred in southern somalia. officials say dhoore, who

this, mj sticks with us. she's our cnn politics reporter. ron brownstein, angela rye, and dylan byers, cnn senior media and politics reporter. the dream team, you guys, to unpack what happened last night. >> they would rather be dreaming and sleeping. that may be more accurate. >> maybe. maybe. but let's go with it. let's talk, ron brownstein, about donald trump and this coalition he has built of support. it was there in full force last night. he now needs 50% of the delegates from here on out to clinch the nomination. >> this continued what we saw in new york. it was an lute breakthrough night for donald trump. up until new york, he had not reached 50% of the vote in any contest. now he's reached it in six straight. not only was there depth of these victories as mj was talking about, the size of them. it was the breadth of them. he did better than we have seen him do in the exit polls in any state now. in new york, pennsylvania, connecticut, and maryland, those are now his four best states among women, among men, among republicans, among voters without a college degree, and they tie

state treasurer, jeff dewitt, trump campaign surrogate. also ron nehring for ted cruz campaign. thank you for joining us. ron, trump wasted little time bringing up the senator's earlier remarks about so-called new york values. listen to what trump said. >> i've got this guy standing over there, looking at me, talking about new york values with scorn on his face, with hatred -- hatred of new york. so folks, i think you can forget about him. >> does senator cruz regret making those comments? >> well, you know, donald trump gets really defensive whenever senator cruz challenges new york liberalism and new york liberals. because donald trump has been funding and bank rolling so many new york liberal democratic politicians and the new york democratic party for so long. look, wolf, everybody knows that senator cruz, what he was referring to with that and that he's challenging the liberal status quo in new york city and new york state that has produced some of the highest taxes in the country. so many people who are forced to leave new york state because of those high taxes and the economic

. nbc's ron mott is with us. ron, good morning. what are we expecting in court today? hey, ron, can you hear me? ron? i think we're having some audio problems. we're going to try to re-establish communication with ron. as a matter of fact, he actually just got back on in front of the camera because there was a security sweep that he had to move so we're going to re-establish -- we're going to be right back. stay with us. the call just came in. she's about to arrive. and with her, a flood of potential patients. a deluge of digital records. x-rays, mris. all on account...of penelope. but with the help of at&t, and a network that scales up and down on-demand, this hospital can be ready. giving them the agility to be flexible & reliable. because no one knows & like at&t. our partnership with habitat for humanity at pg&e, we believe solar should be accessible to everyone. allows us to provide the benefits of solar power to the types of customers who need it most. pg&e provided all of the homes here with solar panels. the solar savings can mean a lot, especially for low-income families. with

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where many americans and other westerners are based. lelts get right now to nbc's ron allen monitoring the situation from the white house. ron, good afternoon. what do we know? >> alex, sounds like a very chaotic situation going on for several hours and latest reports indicate there could be thousands of people who have reached the security of the green zone and are now in the heavily fortified part of the city, the heart of baghdad. it's an area of about four square miles. the u.s. embassy is there about a mile or so from the parliament building. earlier there were concerns about some of the parliamentarians who were in the building at the time might be trying to flee to the u.s. embassy or other embassies in that area. no reports of that as of yet. it's nightfall there. it's getting late and the situation's been going on for some time. there are also some reports of security forces firing tear gas at protesters who are trying to enter the area. there's also a state of emergency throughout baghdad in the area adjacent to the green zone and throughout the city. a huge bustling city wit

take shape. let's discuss this and what today means with ron nehring with the ted cruz campaign and craig dunne, a republican party chairman in indiana, the great state of indiana. great to see you craig and ron. thank you so much for joining us. so, ron, first to you. john kasich yesterday, he was asked about this alliance and specifically asked what is your message to indiana voters? what should they do, and he says i never said they shouldn't vote for me. they ought to vote for me. what does that mean for your deal? >> it's nothing unusual at all. the arrangement that we worked out with the kasich campaign is a resource allocation strategy, and that is that we're going to concentrate our time, energy, and effort in indiana. he's going to concentrate his effort in oregon and new mexico, and that's it. nobody said we would ask anybody to vote for any other candidate and the like. so this is perfectly consistent with what's been worked out and what we already announced. >> remain calm, all going acc d according to plan. ron, last week on this show you called john kasich insufferable

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thousands of refugees and migrants. ron allen is traveling with the president and has more. >> reporter: nearly 1 million migrants have been resettled here in germany. angela merkel, who just returned along the edge of the war zone, has been politically pounded for opening germany's doors. donald trump made headlines when he called her policy, quote, insane. today president obama took another swipe at trump and defended merkel. >> she is on the right side of history on this. and for her to take on some very tough politics, in order to express not just a humanitarian concern, but also a practical concern, that in this globalized world, it is very difficult for us to simply build walls. >> reporter: however, one major of area of disagreement, the chancellor has called for the creation of state zones inside syria to protect civilians and stop the exodus. president obama has said no, saying it would require a large force of u.s. ground troops in harm's way. still the german leader is perhaps the president's most trusted ally here in europe. a relationship repaired after damaging revelations

. carson whens, he is the eagles target the sec overall pick in the draft. ron jaworsky recently went to north dakota to learn more about him and came back with a positive impression. >> you see the power on tape, but you want to hear what is on his mind and in his heart. i when out there and talked to him and his coaches and fans and tem mates, and i did not hear a negative thing about this young man. a family guy and a faith based guy. the 15th highest score ever recorded and his grade point average is 4.0. all the boxes are checked. >> all right to baseball now, vince valesquez takes the mound for the phillies in d.c. the last time he was on the mound they lost 15-5. the coach and scott mclure need a better approach with harper this time around. >> i have a theory on how we should pitch him. i talked to mcclure about that and see how it works out. throw the fastball down the middle and see what happeneds. >> please don't do that. >>> the flyers will have to decide who the number one goalie will be? >> i never look at myself as a backup. i saw a good opportunity to be a number one. and

man there is ron brownstein. he is here with us now. ron, big debate. >> yeah. >> hillary clinton and bernie sanders. they have not been on stage together for five weeks. bernie sanders, the big question is how far is he willing to go? >> i think you saw he will go a lot further than four or five months ago when we were commenting on las vegas where he said i'm sick and tired of the d damn e-mails. it was a reminder of how far he has come from where he started. if you look at the exit polls, he has now one white voters in every state outside of the south except for iowa, the first state and ohio. he won most caucuses. with a he has not done yet and was clear again last night, he has not cracked the african-american community. best he has done is trail 2 to 1. the best results in the midwest. elsewhere it is higher. he is trailing with partisan democrats. he is winning people who self identify as democrats as opposed to independents by 15 to 20 points. those two lines converge in the northeast. you have close primaries that are opened toemocrats and significant african-american populat

. the reason they have that rule is because of ron paul and his delegates would not release themselves willy nilly on a republican field they do not believe in. you are going to see in the same way trump delegate these very, very upset and chaotic and passionate race will swirl into the gutter. >> wow. yes, ron paul had the delegates. you love ron paul, right? they are committed to donald trump. >> they would still love him too, right? >> there is a nonaggression principal. >> his supporters are passionate about his ideas the way he is passionate about him as a guy. the republicans don't want trump to be the nominee. you can't just go to number two. >> they would have to pick someone else. they can't let these voters choose and kasich win one state and then pick him. i get your point. the thing that is good for the country is it exposes that democracy is all an illusion and your votes don't matter. >> is that a good thing? >> people should know that. >> it is not a good thing that democracy doesn't exist, but it is a good thing people don't know it exists. >> we have made a choice. we

campaign national spokesperson ron nehring. glad you're here. your job is to stay focused, help senator cruz to stay focused. for the next 10 days what markers of success do you want to see in the campaign? >> we're moving through the campaign all the way through the june 7th primaries. we had a terrific day-long series of events in california. sold out crowds in irvine and san diego county. then on to new york and to pennsylvania. we're at bottom of the fifth inning in this game. it has four inns to go roughly. we have new york and northeastern primary on 26th of april. month of may, one election a month in month of may. one week there is two. we go on to the grand finale in the state of california where we've been organizing since last august. it was terrific to see our california events sell out within just a few hours of invitations going out online, showing depth of support we have in the biggest state of the country which will have the single biggest voice at the national convention. deirdre: ron, do you expect california to make up for what many people anticipate will be losses f

little more than 100%. governor kasich 162%. cruz national spokesperson ron nehring is with me now. ron, welcome back. we are glad for you to be here. >> thank you. deirdre: i want to ask you about cruz's comment in a minute, but just mathematically focusing on the number it is impossible for senator cruz to get more than 100% of the available delegates up for grabs. when he says we're going to a contested convention, on what grounds? >> well, that is that based on upon the projection that no candidate is going to get to the necessary majority of the delegates in advance of the convention. and that means we go to a first pool lot and then, most of the delegates, big chunk of the delegates at that point are free to vote their conscience. we know at that point, many of those delegates will coalesce behind senator cruz because they identified senator cruz as champion on issues that bring them to politics in the first place. we may have slightly longer series of balloting than happened any convention in 20 years but at the end of that process i think senator cruz will most likely be the nom

nomination. here is kayleigh mcenany and ron nehring and matt lewis, senior contributor to the daily caller and author of "too dumb to fail." ted cruz picks carly fiorina for a running mate. is this a hail mary, you think? >> carly fiorina is tremendous. i got to know her when i was state republican party chairman in california, she ran for the u.s. senate there. she won a republican primary, a hotly contested republican primary. she energizes people, she's knowledgeable about the issues. >> she's very qualified but is this a hail mary? >> no, it's not. senator cruz arrived at his decision as to who he would like to see as his running mate. why sit on it until the convention? she's a very, very powerful campaigner, a great addition to the team. now she can go out and campaign with senator cruz and american people can know this is who the ticket is. if we nominate ted cruz, we'll have carly fiorina be a great vice president. it's a total winner. >> we heard donald trump say cruz doesn't have a pathway to the nominated. at what point should he quit? >> donald trump is going to get mathematica

. and that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. yeah, it wasn't. so when ron said you'd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew better. now ron does too. the e series. legendary john deere quality. unexpected low price. e series compact tractors come with an industry-best, six-year, no-cost powertrain warranty. >>> captain? it's been a long day. >> that is sooner hero heartthrob chris evans, and he and carly steel went one on one. things got interesting when talk turned to female body parts. >> it always does. but we begin with his captain america civil war co-star and their big premiere. >> oh! i see the world through your golden lens. >> yeah, here's a surprise. he's actually a little nervous on the red carpet last tuesday. >> when you see fans come out, you see how enthusiastic people are, and you're kind of shaking in your boots about it. >> you're not shaking. >> it's debatable. >> really? >> it's nerve-wracking. >> he had a day of reckoning in "captain america civil war". there's a divide, and let's just say that super mp and captain america don't play nice tog

get it over to ron claiborne. >> good morning to you, dan, cecilia, rachel. good morning, everyone. >>> well, one of the fbi's ten most wanted fugitives is behind bars in mexico this morning. mexican police capturing brenda delgado in the city of torreon on friday. she was allegedly behind orchestrating the murderer of dr. hatcher. her two alleged accomplices are in custody here in the u.s. >>> in a retrial a tennessee jury found former vanderbilt university student cory batey guilty of raping an unconscious woman at the school in 2013. batey was one of four players, football players, accused in the high-profile case. they are accused of assaulting the vanderbilt coed in a dorm room. batey and one of his teammates were found guilty but the judge declared a mistrial this case. >>> a time to celebrate. spacex touched down on planet earth. it's the first time the 260-foot rocket safely landed. it was launched from the cape canaveral air force station in florida sending a cargo capsule to the international space stations with supplies including an inflatable habitat that could house as

serving chief of staff bush and donald trump delegate rona ronnie mcdaniel. brother of ron howard and ted cruz supporter. all of that coming straight ahead. don't miss it. we begin this morning on campaign trail. bat sl continuing this morning. trump is speaking out against the republican primary process claiming senator cruz is stealing the election from him. top party officials continue to standby the nomination process. >> we are millions of votes ahead, millions, and i'm hundreds of delegates ahead but the system, folks, it's rigged. it's a rigged disgusting dirty

alexander hamilton. >> he said, ron, i was reading your book in mexico and as i was the musical started popping on the page. he started telling me, hamilton's life is a classic hip pop narrative. i thought, what on earth is this guy talking about? he picked up he had a class ignoramus in hip-hop turns on his hands. my first question was, can hip hop be the vehicle for telling story?rge and complex he said, ron, i'm going to educate you about hip-hop. he did on the spot. started talking about how you can pack more information into the lyrics than any other form, because it's very dense. he started talking about the fact that hip-hop not only has run endings -- it has internal rhyme. alltarted educating me and of these different delights that are important to the success of the show. p.m.nday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on "q&a." >> madam secretary, we proudly toe 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the united states. ♪ >> the u.s. patent act of 1790 require that anyone applying for a patent must submit a model of their invention. were200,000 models requirementfore the

republican party in 2012 threw out half the maine delegation for supporting ron paul and replaced them with people that led to mitt romney, that led to colorful and aggressive and tearful screaming confrontations on the floor of the rnc in 2012 and the hallways after the maine delegation got thrown out. this year they're picking delegates right now. this year, ted cruz won the maine caucus when it took place last month. nobody really knows how the delegates are going to be picked today and tomorrow.

the father and the family now ripped in two. >> reporter: ron miscavige, now breaking ranks and publicly criticizing his own son, the powerful leader of the church of scientology, david miscavige. >> if you are a scientologist, you are one of the relative few that hold the answers in your possession that all humankind depend upon. >> reporter: ron was in the church for decades, but has now left and written a book, which he discusses in an exclusive interview with abc news. you have written a whole book about your son, and you've called the book "ruthless." >> yeah. >> reporter: that's a pretty damning charge to level against your own child. >> he wasn't always that way. when he was a kid, i am telling you, he was a lovable kid. >> reporter: a lovable kid who, according to his dad, let the power of being at the helm of this wealthy, celebrity-studded church, go to his head. >> and i say to you sir, c.o.b, we are lucky to have you and thank you. >> reporter: scientology is attacking the book, arguing it was co-authored by a noted critic of church management, and is laden with outr

you have to have one majority in eight states. >> it was rule created for ron paul. >> we'll see if that holds, cruz and trump have interest to keep that and keep other people out. thank you very much. that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow shows start now. >>> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the airport in peoria, illinois is not what you call a big airport. it's the big downing peoria airport. it's only served by four passenger airlines. i can't tell what the international flights are. i'm sorry. i know there must be some, but i couldn't find them. still, if you live near peoria, illinois, there's a chance this lovely piece of infrastructure is your airport. today, it shut down. it wasn't like a temporary weather shut down or something routine like that. they stopped all flights into the airport and out of the airport, and then, they evacuated the entire airport. they made all human beings leave. they pushed everybody all the way out. there was a big long line of cars on the parkway leading into the airport which was stopped for so long.