i am todd gibson. >> north carolina. >>> in our next half hour we have details surrounding the arrest of a man that stormed the stage at a donald trump rally. this is after i'm like a boxer in a ring. a small boxer. you don't expect much... and then, wham! alright round two! bring it, girlfriend! rich, creamy, 100% natural cheese. mini babybel.

here todd gibson. >> duke and north carolina state could have played this game in the try aingeel but we are 300 -- triangle, but we are in dc but wolf pack and blue devil fans made the trek. >> wolf pack. >> let's go beat duke beat duke. let's go duke. >> wolf pack. wolf pack. >> let's go duke. >> i found more maryland fans than wolf pack. >> we made the trip from the carolinas. >> you got duke shirt on and you work for a&m and are you still employed? >> i am. i am. for right now. we will see how the game goes. >> how can a wolf pack guy hire a duke guy you must feel likey

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desafios con violencia racial en nuestras comunidades, judicial, penal, la sociedad el legado de la clavo todd. >>> dentro de la propia y los estados unidos es lo que nos permite mejorar en 1959 el aÑo en que mi padre se mudÓ a los estados unidos era ilegal casarse con mi madre quiÉn era blanca en muchos estados de los estados unidos. cuando comencÉ en la escuela aÚn estamos tratando de segregar, pero las personas se organizaron. pro prestaron. debatieron y debido a los debates y movilizaciÓn popular yo puedo estar aquÍ ante ustedes como un afroamericanos y presidente de los estados unidos eso debido a las libertades que tenemos en los estados unidos que podrÍamos causar un cambio. >>> no estoy diciendo que esto es fÁcil. >>> aÚn hay problemas enormes pero buscar como lo resolvemos. >>> asÍ como obtenemos atenciÓn mÉdica de gran parte de su pueblo y tener ganancias en los derechos de los gays y de las mujeres asÍ nosotros abordemos la falta de igualdad que se concentra tanto en la parte principal de la sociedad y la gente se organiza, tiene una voz la democracia estadounidense y

. >>> todd todo muy bien pero te quiero hacer una pregunta, si se le debe contar todo a la pareja, tÚ que haces, le has contado todo a tu esposo. >>> ay, dios mÍo, le cuento lo necesario, pero yo mejor me traigo a un seÑor que se llama jesÚs que me va a sacar de apuros, jesÚs, tu con todas las novias que has tenido les has contado. >>> todo, todo, le cuento todo mi pareja. >>> y por quÉ, hasta de la novia que tuviste antes vpgs >>> todas. >>> mira, y si despuÉs sale con que yo no te dije eso. >>> la mujer siempre pelea. >>> como quiera pelea. >>> hay una que fufue. pero, ahora lo importante que ella esta presente y hay que tirar pa'lante por nuestra hija. >>> un aplauso para este seÑor, hace honor a su nombre. >>> eres de mi equipo compadre mira. >>> muy bien, pero yo. >>> hay que preguntar al seÑor que ganÓ la loterÍa si va a contarle a su esposa. >>> momento de ir a has redes con me dijo un pajarito. daniel... >>> bueno llegÓ moment todo hablar de gran hermano y l el pa final bienvenida yarel, asombrada porque atenenas te. >>> por fin, y seguro es que tres de estos habita

entre tanto aclarar el con skwp todd palabra ritmo vamos con edgardo. >>> gracias danny y buen dÍa en cas casa. en bruselas amplia operaciÓn antiterrorista, de bÚsqueda, 7 personas han sido detenidas, medidas de seguridad se mantienen en todo el paÍs, john kerry llegÓ hoy al paÍs para hablar contra el torre richl, luis carlos ve les y la Última en formaciÓn. >>> buenas tardes, si, mucho movimiento que se harÉ jis otra de aquÍ en bruselas y tambiÉn en francia, son entre 6 y 7 detenidos, autoridades hablan de 6 la prensa francesa habla de 7, y estos detenidos dos llaman la atenciÓn porque fueron aprendidos por la au autoridad frente a la casa de fiscal general, entre tanto nshg parÍs hubo intensos operativos y detuvieron una persona, se va determinar si estas personas tenÍan o no vinculo con estado islÁmico, la autoridad definiran si se quedan con ellos lolos liberan, entre tanto el secretario de estado, terminÓ una rueda de prensa, hablÓ sobre la colaboraciÓn de estados unidos y revelÓ que dos estadounidenses, murieron en estos atentados, que dejaron como saldo 31 mue

nbc news political director, moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. back with us, attorney and republican strategist ben ginsberg at the table as well. ben is a partner at jones day and while ben doesn't work on trump matters, jones day represents trump for president, i just wanted to put that out

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we watch todd aiken, we watch them come out and stay most ridiculous things. that was the guy who talked about legitimate rape and the female body shutting down. crazy things. if you're watching republicans get trapped by the media. these aren't trapped questions. these are regular questions. he should have been prepared. that's not the media trying to get hill. that's a question that any of us at the table should answer. they're looking at these top igs all the time. we can say abortion, contraception, gay marriage. so do what you just did. greg gutfeld for president. >> too many skeletons in my closet. some of them still alive, by the way. i keep them on a drip. the one thing that bothered me about this. >> one thing? >> the thing em, there are some conservative republican who's believe there should be punishment. i don't know anyone. >> i think he would have been better if he had gone to the middle of fifth avenue and shot someone. i felt like he was saying gem. he kept saying, the answer is, the answer is. it was painful to watch. if you've thought about t

brian todd is gathering details. what are you learning? >> reporter: tonight analysts are telling us this interview may give western intelligence agencies information about abu bakr al baghdadi's personal interactions with others. it may not give many clues about where he is physically but we've gotten information on that from a top white house official. a new warning from top u.s. officials to the terrorist leader of isis. we'll find you. >> abu bakr al baghdadi's days are numbered. >> reporter: the anti-isis envoy says baghdadi is likely hiding in raqqah, syria. could u.s. intelligence have just picked up yushl information on baghdadi from his ex-wife. she has just given a videotaped interview to a swedish affiliate. >> translator: why did you leave? >> translator: i wasn't happy. translate did you love him? >> translator: no. >> al dulaimi says it was a traditional arranged marriage after her previous husband had died. she was married to baghdadi for just a few months in 2008. at that time she says he was a university lecturer. she says

. >> we used the money that we raise todd purchase water, from mobile supermarket which matched us 100 percent of the money we raised, and also received donation from his a couple of churches in the the area as well as one of our community partners called to serve, community development corporation. >> water will go to an elementary school in flint so children there can have clean drinking water while they learn. >>> there are grave new warnings about climate change, and how quickly sea levels are rising around the globe. a new rutgers university study shows sea levels could rise up to 4 feet by the end of the century. some in boston are taking steps now to protect against storms and potential flooding. they are backing up streetlights and traffic signals with solar power and supporting new building designs. hospitals are especially concerned. >> operating 24/7 even when they are exposed to extreme weather. >> we have raised the ground floor level up to the 500 year flood level. >> boston is the third largest city in the country, for coastal development. sustainable real estate develop

. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to thursday's "mtp daily." circle today's date on the calendar, folks. is this the tipping point for trump and his relationship with the republican establishment and the republican party? is this the moment that the republican party who wasn't excited about trump realizes, now it might be better to risk alienating trump and losing supporters than soldier forward with his enormous baggage. we've been here before. it's something that something happens to change everything, like it's done so many times and it doesn't. yes we realize we're making this point on the even of april fools' day. here's why this could be the tipping point. for nearly ten months the republican party has been bent, twisted stressed to maximum breaking point thanks to the weight of trump's call them controversies. these are just a few of the things trump has said which either he had to walk back or earned him swift enunciation within his own party. start with going after john mccain's war record, saying he's not a war hero, he was a war hero

. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to thursday's "mtp daily." circle today's date on the calendar, folks. is this the tipping point for trump and his relationship with the republican establishment and the republican party? is this the moment that the

. >> marc and todd started planning a ceremony. among the locations was timber creek bed and breakfast near paxton. when they e-mailed them, they said they did not host same sex ceremonies. >> we were just shocked at the response we got. it was totally unexpected. >> the couple said the b and b owners sent more e-mails. >> we got more e-mails. >> they filed a complaint with the human rights commission. and they found that timber creek had illegally done this. timber creek owner says the ruling violate his freedom of religious, and that his christian faith teaches marriage is between a man and woman and he has a moral obligation to follow that conviction. he said the bed and breakfast policy will not change. meanwhile, the wantons say the ruling sends a message. >> the ruling is showing that businesses cannot discriminate. that's what this was all about, and you can't pick and choose who your customers are. >> they say they have also seen a change in public opinion since their case began. >> good morning, we're finally getting some

to the point about radio, ted cruz just wrapped up in an open todd sykes. he just interviewed cruz. jeff flock in the middle of milwaukee is there with the aforementioned charlie sykes. take it away, jeff. >> in the studios, the biggest microphone, the biggest talker in the state and may be the most famous talkshow host and the state right now and maybe the country at the moment, charlie sykes. we just talked to ted cruz. you are very influential in this day. you say you were a genuine conservative with conservative principles and he said donald trump is not. >> donald trump is not a conservative. whether his position on taxes or contributions to democrats in the past. it is not just that is not a conservative. i think he distorts the conservative message. he's kind of the cartoon image of what liberals say about conservatives. >> you're afraid he's going to sector movement that. he's been successful with governor walker turning a few states. >> this is a saber is a state where we take conservative principles seriously. we have done conservative reform. and then donald trump comes i

we'll be homonitoring his event for comments and with chuck todd, here's what kasich said to a trump supporter asking what he'll do to get her, quote, off the trump train. >> you send somebody down there that doesn't understand how it works, then you're going to have more drifting. and the only thing i can tell you is we won't drift if i'm there because i know how to move the system. i don't hate the establishment but i know how to move the establishment for the good of the folks. >> coming up, we'll take a look at where kasich stands in wisconsin. new polls out show that he is in third and could he creep up to second? we'll have the very latest. owen! hey kevin. hey, fancy seeing you here. uh, i live right over there actually. you've been to my place. no, i wasn't...oh look, you dropped something. it's your resume with a 20 dollar bill taped to it. that's weird. you want to work for ge too. hahaha, what? well we're always looking for developers who are up for big world changing challenges like making planes, trains and hospitals run better. why don't you check your new watch and tel

stuart: we hear you todd. thank you for joining us in new york. more protests and outrage start in kansas, pro trump messages upset students at university of kansas. i thought that was at emery. ashley: that happened last week and now we have it in kansas university and a lot of the same reaction, stuart, for students upset. the staff of the school at ku wiping out the sign saying, listen, it wasn't pre approved. we may have allowed you to do this if you came to us first. but students upset. they say they're very troubled by classmates who support a racist, sexist, demagogue. stuart: get out of here liz: what's terrifying is that this trump outbreak scare is headed west, it is causing universities to review their chalk policy. the staffers there at the school, they say this chalking was not pre approved so we'll remove them. stuart: therefore, they decide what signs can be put up in chalk. ashley: in chalk. stuart: on the floor. ashley: yes. stuart: stunning liz: it's terrifying for students. stuart: got to tell you liz: university of utopia. stua

louis ck, chuck todd and al franken. tapped to participate. contestants will play for the charity of their choice. >>> pixar announces the names for "finding dory" diane keaton is among the cast. it hits theaters this summer. it's going to be huge. >>> and stephen colbert had an exclusive and hilarious interview with donald trump on the "late show" last night. well, sort of. watch this. >> now, mr. cartoon trump, how do you respond to anderson cooper comparing you to a 5-year-old? >> anderson cooper is a dumb-dumb. he's a stupid head, a total poopy-pants. it's sad. >> right now i got to say you are sounding a a little immature. >> i know you are, but what am i. >> oh, come on, sound like an idiot. >> stephen, i'm rubber, you're glue, i have a lawyer and i will sue. >> huge. i'm alex witt. this is "early today." so you don't have to stop. because you believe in go. onward. today's the day. carpe diem. tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we give you your day back. what you do w

a couple weeks ago, police found j johan todde leede shot to deathd the murder has put neighbors on edge. police still don't have any suspects. >>> a maryland man faces charges for trying to hire a person to kill his wife. the suspect met with an he offered him $15,000 for the murder. police say the husband wanted the murder committed inside the couple's laurel town home and he wanted it staged to rook like a home invasion or burglary. >>> a newborn girl is in stable condition here inrook like a home invasion or burglary. >>> a newborn girl is in stable condition here in washington after police in hagerstown say the mother lied to police. police were called to the home wednesday after the mother gave birth inside the house. the mother told investigators the infant was found on her back porch wrapped in a plastic bag. police do not plan to press charges. her name and age not being released because she's a juvenile. >>> we're learning students in loudoun county wrote a school bus with explosive training material on board. a federal agency used the bus in an exercise at briarwoods high scho

i go to these town halls, you know, yesterday with chuck todd it was great, with anderson cooper the day before. i'm out there in milwaukee and people are cheering when i'm doing the town hall because i'm giving them a sense that it can be better again and americans want to know that tomorrow will be a better day. they -- we all know that. that's what they want but they want evidence. so i'm not just talking, i'm telling him here's what i've done so give me a chance here. but they're finally starting to hear me. they didn't hear me, joe, for how long? five months? so five months? you go in the store, there's coke and pepsi and there's ca kasich, you're shopping and that's interesting but i don't know who he is, let's go coke. the key for me is continue to be out here so people can identify me and decide whether irate up here with the traditional brand. i'm trying to get branded now. >> i for one like an rc cola so that's a good thing for you. you've been spending time in new york? >> it's so unbelievable. >> eating pizza at howard beach in queens with knife and fork -- >> i didn't us

some 60 years and lived with a todd descendant. >> is todd still the way they were then. >> my mother-in-law was a unique example of some of the same behavior and some of the very good qualities and some of the other qualities. >> like all of us. >> she died on the cusp of her 96th birthday. i knew she was senile when she was 95 because she started treating me right. i think what you're saying about the different parts of mary lincoln's personality is very much on target. >> no question. i got off easy. thanks. [ applause ] >>> the media teaches us that the democrats and republicans are supposed to be at odds with each other, and i think that people need to recognize that we need to be respectful towards each other and we need to recognize that senators are respectful towards each other and that will be more conducive to getting more policy done. >> the truth is these people, these people that we see on television, on c-span, are real people. when we saw president obama, perhaps the thing that most stood out to me is he had bags under his eyes. he's a real person dealing with real things. >>

i mean, my dad was a mailman, i'm sitting here with chuck todd in queens, it's fantastic, okay. but, but, i mean trump is in the arena with me, and sometimes it is a roller coaster the way i see him. sometimes he calms down, the last debate, he was very calm, and then these crazy things start happening. it's not just him, he says we should patrol muslim neighborhoods. it pulls the country apart. i was thinking about this today driving over here. so i have two 16-year-old twin daughters, whenever i say who, if you happen to be the nominee, i would have to tell them why i would endorse him if i did. so i have my two daughters -- >> you don't know what to tell them. >> i don't know what i'm going do yet. honestly, i don't think he will be the nominee. i'll tell you why. nobody will have enough delegates when we get to the convention. people will think about two things. who can win in the fall, which he and cruz can't. and secondly, who can be a good president. that's a crazy thing to think about. who can run the country. you can laugh. >> the fact that you said you don't know what

. >>> jeopardy has its power players week in april, bill just missed the list but chuck todd and alfrankten. >> it wouldn't be fair to the others. >> contestants will play to the >>> and six star has announced voice roles in the upcoming "finding dory." snl alums are among the cast. finding dory hits theaters this summer. >> it will be huge. >> i know it will. can't wait. >>> and steven colbert had an exclusive interview with donald trump on the late show last night. well, kind of. >> now, mr. cartoon trump, how do you respond to anderson cooper calling you a 5-year-old. >> anderson cooper is a dumb, dumb, a poppy pants. >> i have to say right now you're sounding a little immature. >> i know you are, but what am i? >> oh -- >> i'm betty nguyen. and this is show hoe. and this is "early today." we stop arthritis pain, so you don't have to stop. because you believe in go. onward. today's the day. carpe diem. tylenol 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we give you your day back. what you do with it is up to you. tylenol . pepper discove

you were nominated for an oscar for playing mary todd lincoln. >> yes i was. >> seth: a fantastic film that was. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: and, i have to ask about this. i know -- because you always read about how daniel day-lewis stays in character. >> yes. >> seth: and so he stayed in the character of abraham lincoln, and is it true he would send you text messages as abraham lincoln? >> yes. >> seth: wow. [ light laughter ] >> yes but, i would have done that. i, too, did that. i found that not odd in the slightest bit. >> seth: so, have you done that before? for films? >> i've -- he comes from a different school of acting, but mine is, i come from the actors studio. i trained with lee strasberg, so. i, being female though, and growing up in the era that i did, i always tried to hide the fact that i stayed in character completely and utterly, i talked the same dialect. i lived the same life. i never got out of it. but i would hide it, because they would go, "boy, is she weird, let's not hire her again." you know. >> seth: mm-hmm. >> but, you know, i think daniel,

mary todd lincoln and abraham lincoln. mary and abraham were looking to a spouse that would share interests with them and have similar perspectives as they did. both mary and abraham loved poetry. they loved reading and books. they liked children and they loved partisan politics. and they had a very large circle of political friends in common. they were both smart, quick witted, and absolutely obsessed with whig politics and kentucky senator henry clay, the beau ideal of their beloved party. they were likely in love and talking about marriage by december of 1840. unlike their parents, mary and abraham saw marriage as something beyond and economic union. they aspired to find love and friendship as well. marital expectations were greatly heightened for this generation of americans, and there was much more hand wringing as a result. this is a very important context in which they suffered their famous lovers break-up in january of 1841, but it was also their shared interests, their enthusia enthusiasm, for whig politics that r

here now, chuck todd. >>> well, good evening, and welcome to another msnbc town hall, this one with ohio governor, john kasich. we're in queens, new york. st. helen catholic church.

additionally, todd at thurgood marshall where there were fights and sometimes parents would come in going after teachers or students, and i in her stand as a staff under how scary that is. when i heard about the incident yesterday at carver, i understand why parents are concerned. i also want to ask is david golding in the room? is he here see. i want to know why-it upsets me when i see people on their cell phones when we have families that are waiting here since 9:00 am with very young children. i feel like that's really disrespectful. i feel like it's-i appreciate a lot of times when the district has children come up early but that i could these families had to wait until 9 and a lot of them are in kindergarten, it upsets me and i feel that needs to be names and if you like these families need to feel like they're being heard and into the body language, i don't see that happening right now. so, please do what you can to help these help them to feel they are visible in our district and they are important to our school. >>[applause] >> good evening. to pres. cheyney vp walton, superintend

behavior, but let's not forget the election of 1860, when the stephen douglas campaign compared mary todd lincoln unfavorably to a sheep in heat. that's history. that's history. that's-- we didn't make this up. that's history. last night donald trump had to answer for that retweet at a town hall, when he was grilled by cnn correspondent and the legolas of cable news, anderson cooper. >> after saying that you were going to spill the beans about heidi cruz, you repeated unflattering picture of her next to a picture of your wife. >> i thought it was a nice picture of heidi. >> come on. >> i thought it was fine. she's a pretty woman. >> you're running for president of the united states. >> excuse me, i didn't start it. >> sir, with all due respect, that's the argument of a 5-year-old. >> i didn't start it. no, it's not. >> the argument of a 5-year-old is "he started it." >> excuse he. you would say that. that's the problem with our country. >> every parent knows a kid who says "he started it." >> excuse me. >> stephen: yeah, excuse me. excuse me, anderson. you would say that. that's the probl

of course he took that carriage ride with mary todd that afternoon, said that he believed that on this day the war had ended and that he was happy, happy in ways that he never had been before. i started with that notion of lincoln's happiness. and i want to end with that as well. because despite dark days, lincoln never surrendered hope that the union would be saved. because what was the union itself but hope incarnate. the last best hope of earth. for democracy, for freedom. with the war over he sought to unify the nation, to rebuild it on principles of justice and mercy. he knew there would be significant obstacles, but there had been obstacles to winning the war and those have been overcome. so too with the problem of reconstruction. for all of the sadness he endured, one observer said there is a soft shade of melancholy in his smile and in his eyes. lincoln was at heart an optimist. his final speech sought to define and redefine terms. during the war he offered a plan of reconstruction with the emphasis on "a", a man of reconstruction. as the phrase goes he then put in parenthesis.

i'm here with rachel mad owe and chuck todd. chris matthews is going to join us, but we have to talk about what is the biggest news to come out of everything on our air tonight. donald trump's comments on abortion which have now ignited a firestorm on the left and right. this after the gop front-runner said that women who undergo abortions should face punishment if abortions were to be outlawed. >> if you say abortion is murder, you have to deal with it under the law. should abortion be punished? >> people in certain parts of the republican party and conservative republicans would say yes. >> how about you? >> i would say that it's a very serious problem and it's a problem that we have to decide on. it's very -- >> you're for banning. >> are you going to say put them in jail? >> i'm asking you because you say you want to ban it. what's that mine? >> i'm pro-life. >> oh you do ban abortion. >> you go back to a position like they had where people will go to illegal places, but you have to ban it. >> you running for president of th

who belonged to the edwards todd family, the most distinguished in springfield living on aristocracy hill. projecting himself as a self-made man, he believed himself to be and wanted to be seen as rising from the common clay. he was determined to leave his past behind. even to bury it as if hiding his humiliation, his impulse was to protect himself from revelations about his origins. as for the actual details of his early existence, he had been stone silent. it was at a campaign event in 1856, after he had become a republican, that the man who had been extraordinarily reluctant about discussing his pass, sensitive about his social inferiority, blurted out a startling confession. i used to be a slave said lincoln. he did not explain what prompted him to make this incredible statement. why he branded himself as belonging to the most oppressed, stigmatized and untouchable cast, far worse than being accused of being an abolitionist. illinois, while a free straight, had a dra conian black code. why would lincoln announce that he was a former slave? the bare facts he did not disclose to hi

todd, load the four-wheeler into the truck. flo: that's like bundling! 'cause progressive can bundle your boat, atv, and rv with your truck to save you money. don't talk to her. she has rabies. rabies was created by the government. look it up. [ flames whoosh ] [ gasps ] who are you people? yay, grandpa's still alive. i don't want to buy any cookies, little girl. >>> breaking tonight, the clinton campaign is now turning its sights on donald trump, with a new ad that targets the republican front-runner directly for the first time. watch. >> new york. 20 million people strong. no, we don't all look the same. we don't all sound the same either. but when we pull together, we do the biggest things in the world. but when some say we can solve america's problems by building walls, banning people based on their religion, and turning against each other, well, this is new york. and we know better. >> joining me now, kevin jackson, fox news contributor, and lisa durnan, a political commentator. lisa, let me start with you. why do you think hillary clinton is going

>> pam: brian todd has the story. >> reporter:he said it and then he said >> reporter: the computer discovered in a garbage can outside the terrorist bomb factory and brussels. suggesting, at one point this was a larger plot. >> suggesting, the prime minister of this was a potential target. >> reporter: security also stepped up tonight over this information that he could be the next target derrick and clues that they missed before the bombings last week. the buildings have been looking for these individuals, the brothers who blew themselves up at the train station and airport. they say, before this interpol went out there were seeking the brothers on tourism and criminal charges they could not find the brothers. >> were hiding in apartment and the garment district where the bombs were made. --they were >> reporter: another missed clue. the belgium axed the turks is one of the brothers were involved in terrorism threat known for criminal acts is not clear as to how much the turks gave the belgiums. >> fact that they are not sharing the exact information and the loss to put these guys in jail su

todd, do it. let's do word origins for $200. megan. -what is an ultimatum? -correct. "little" movies for $600, please. todd. -what is "little miss sunshine"? -you are right. i'll take tasty ads & jingles for $400. bill. -what is subway? -yes. highways & byways for $200, please.

todd akin in the missouri senate race, cheryl ingle in nevada. what might be happening here is what's happening on a national scale played out in states which can s not that crazy because a primary is a series of states that's playing out. it's the same people voting in the states, we just haven't seen it in aptle primary. >> ifill: one of the things, kathleen hall jameison, that seems different about donald trump is he has great skill at changing the topic and stealing the headline from somebody who seems to be having a good day. is that part of what you think is different. >> yes, vulnerability opens up for mr. trump and the news cycle features the vulnerability, he changes the topic by attacking, doing something outrageous and eccentric and suddenly the entire news agenda shifts and instead of focusing on the serious potential exchange and the vulnerability initially exposed, we're galloping in some other direction and the electorate isn't informed about the substantive that might have been concerned about the original statement. >> ifill: we

let's bring in our political director and moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. chuck, donald trump isn't shy about making provocative statements and sticking to them, but on abortion why this one? why did he back off so quickly? is that not stunning in itself? >> reporter: it is stunning and because the pro-life community criticized him as harshly as folks in the pro-choice community did and that's why he had to backtrack. look, he does come across as somebody who is a convert on this issue because he didn't know how to talk about it. he hadn't -- frankly, it looked like he hadn't studied the issue very deeply or spoken to folks in this movement on the issue, so i think that's why he quickly walked it back. that said, we are entering a dangerous phase here if you're donald trump. you've got to be very careful. the republican party and its leaders are looking for reasons to get into the not trump bandwagon. this coupled with what he's been saying about nukes and coupled with some of the other stuff, if he also loses wisconsin, there could be real momentum that ac

i mean, my dad was a mailman, i'm sitting here with chuck todd in queens, it's fantastic, okay. but, but, i mean trump is in the arena with me, and sometimes it is a roller coaster the way i see him. sometimes he calms down, the last debate, he was very calm, and then these crazy things start happening. it's not just him, he says we should patrol muslim neighborhoods. it pulls the country apart. i was thinking about this today driving over here. so i have two 16-year-old twin daughters, whenever i say who, if you happen to be the nominee, i would have to tell them why i would endorse him if i did. so i have my two daughters -- >> you don't know what to tell them. >> i don't know what i'm going do yet. honestly, i don't think he will be the nominee. i'll tell you why. nobody will have enough delegates when we get to the convention. people will think about two things. who can win in the fall, which he and cruz can't. and secondly, who can be a good president. that's a crazy thing to think about. who can run the country. you can laugh. >> the fact that you said you don't know what