the protesters. at one point, one of the trump supporters spit in the face of one of the protesters. now, of course, it s not rare to see protesters at campaign vents. we ve seen this before. the level of animosity, the level of aggression we saw tonight is a little bit out of the ordinary for an event like this, anderson. i understand you caught up with donald trump before the rally to talk about some of the comments he made about russia earlier today that have been, you know, getting some attention. what did he tell you? reporter: yeah, no surprise donald trump has managed to make waves on more than one issue today. he said earlier today there was really no way to say whether russia was responsible for shooting down mh-17. that s the commercial jet shot out of the air last year. i caught up with him today to ask him when u.s. intelligence points to pro-russian accept frost as being responsible for this, it seems like he s defending russia to some folks and i asked what he thought
and there was a physical altercation between members of the crowd and between some of the protesters. at one point, one of the trump supporters spit in the face of one of the protesters. now, of course, it s not rare to see protesters at campaign vents. we ve seen this before. the level of animosity, the level of aggression we saw tonight is a little bit out of the ordinary for an event like this, anderson. i understand you caught up with donald trump before the rally to talk about some of the comments he made about russia earlier today that have been, you know, getting some attention. what did he tell you? reporter: yeah, no surprise donald trump has managed to make waves on more than one issue today. he said earlier today there was really no way to say whether russia was responsible for shooting down mh-17. that s the commercial jet shot out of the air last year. i caught up with him today to
that say feel the burn and the image of a floppy white hair and glasses replacing the image of the obama hope poster. anyway, sure enough an image of sanders is ubiquitous as his campaign vents and has become a symbol of what sanders described as a coming political revolution. in three months he s consolidated enough support to emerge as the chief. this is what he has won. he s the chief alternative to front-runner hillary clinton. his gains are most evident in new hampshire where he leads hillary clinton by seven points according to the boston herald /franklin pierce university poll. 44% to 37%. that s real. we re joined by round table ron reagan in seattle, howard fineman is here, april ryan is white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and jason johnson is our newcomer, a political contributor to nbcnews.com. let me go to ron reagan. you re out there. ron. is this a moment or a movement? let s start with bernie?
taxes. the criticism is the back stabbers who are leaking things like there to politico. romney associates are baffled that such a successful corporate leader has created a team with so few lines of authority and account bl accountability. they are trashing their own candidate. the criticism of how mr. romney is campaigning and why he s losing is also focused a lot this week on the schedule. he s not campaigning very much. his spare campaign schedule worries some republicans. fund raising trumps rallies in romney s schedule. his light public schedule has led some gop donors to grumble. from the wall street journal, gop senators offer romney advice. what s the advice. the nominee should be spending more time campaigning in official states. he was asked about that criticism and asked if he will do more campaign vents or
have voiced support for walker but they re not showing at any campaign vents with him because he could be legally toxic with their campaign. they can t afford to be seen in public which somebody that could be a huge liability after june 5th. this is why i cover wisconsin as much as i do on the ed show. this is all about citizens united. there is absolutely no way the democrats in this state or as walker loves to say, the union bosses whoever the heck they are, as if there s this money just pouring into this state from the clouds. it s raining dollars for democrats, that s not the case. what we saw here was 30,000 volunteers in the winter time go across the state and get signatures. the boots on the ground. now, i don t think that these groups that are falling into