From, the source tonight, cnn can now call donald trump the presumptive nominee. But his last republican rival vanquished even Mitch Mcconnell is throwing his support behind trump. And trump is making a headsnapping new demand will tell you that in a moment. So Maggie Haberman will join me live on what elon musk was doing at maralago as trump was pleading with a judge for mercy, which for him means more time. The cough of the many millions that he already and tonight, the agonizing choice to leave your home state to terminate a pregnancy. Texas mom, kate cox explain to her deeply personal decision ahead of a huge moment in the national spotlight, shes President Bidens guest at the State Of The Union tomorrow night. Im Kaitlan Collins since this is the source its this equal that most americans didnt want. But apparently its the only thing play. Super tuesday has all but cemented the Biden Versus Trump rematch at the top of their partys tickets. Nikki haley is out and Mitch Mcconnell is apparently on board more on the Outgoing Senate republican leader in a moment. But this is notable 170,000 voters backs nikki haley over donald trump in the Battleground States of nevada, North Carolina, in michigan. Remember that number because it could be very important Come November 570,000 is more than double the gap that decided the race. And those states four years ago but that is the backdrop, the current and former president s chose very different ways to convince haley voters to join their team today. President biden commended her for quote speaking the truth as the nail Presumptive Republican nominee bragged that he had trounced chart here in washington. It was even enough for Mitch Mcconnell to fall in line and finally endorsed Donald Trumps something he is not done. The same. Donald trump, i should note who attacked both the senator and his wife and vicious and racist terms over and over and over again. Its also the same donald trump that Mitch Mcconnell hasnt spoken to in three years. The same one that he also scorchingly denounced after january 6, theres no question. None that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of a day no question about it the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president for his part, mcconnell insist that there is no disconnect between his criticisms of trump and helping put them back in the white house potentially dvor is at 25th, 2021. Shortly after the attack on the capitol i was asked a similar question and i said, i would support the nominee for president even if it were the former president my first guest tonight, like Mitch Mcconnell is a lifelong republican who witnessed trump and action firsthand and even wrote entire book morning and severe terms about a possible second trump term. Better john bolton was Donald TrumpsNational Security advisers. But on source many times, its great to have you, ambassador bolton. I mean, republican in voters were given more than a dozen choices here why does so many of them insist that donald trump they believe is the best their party has to offer. Well, im not sure they think hes the best, but i think all of the other republican candidates with the possible exception of Chris Christie and asa hutchison, made the same mistake. Trumps opponents made in the 2016 Nomination Process of attacking each other, hoping to be the last one standing so they could take trump on. And it turns out this year, as in 2016, you dont beat donald trump by attack. The other candidates, you have to make the argument that convince voters trump is not fit to be president. And they all basically failed to do that with a few exceptions really kinda did that at the end. I mean, she went after him on age. She went after a Mountain Fitness for the presidency on russia, too little too late. And i think that was part of the problem. They couldnt make up their mind, are they for trump . Are they against trump . Are they trying to appeal . Hes trump. Political leadership doesnt consist in following what the polls tell you. It consists of persuading people that they should support your candidacy and reject trump for all of his flaws. That case was never made by any of them youve said that neither biden nor trump is the correct answer. I mean, but that is going to be the choice. So what toys are you going to make . So youre just telling me im very beleaguered these days and in 2020, i wrote In The Name Of a conservative republican. I live in maryland and you have that possibility because there was no conservative republican on the ballot. I feel exactly the same way four years later, and thats what ill do again. Its a problem with america that were going to have a rematch of a contest 70 to 80 of the people say they dont want what, whats wrong with the political system that produces the result that so many dont so instead of voting for donald trump, youll just write someone in thats right. And look, i live in maryland. Biden is going to carry that state anyway. Im going to worry what i think priority has to be for people who in publicans who dont like trump is get a republican senate. And in maryland, we have a real opportunity with former governor larry hogan. Im going to spend a lot of time on that. So for people who do face this choice and they dont want to write someone in we have dealt with a lot of people in the show who have been critical of trump and dont feel like hes the best that republicans have to offer for the presidency. But they also dont want to vote for a democrat. I mean, what would you say to people who . Are willing to vote for their party, but only because its an r on the ticket. Well, id say dont violate your principles. I think this is the problem the democrats have in pursuing a bidens candidacy. If trump wins in november his Election NightVictory Speech start off saying, i want to thank joe biden and the Democratic Party for all the hard work theyve done to bring the back to election. Biden is deeply unpopular. Its not going to get any better between now and election day, the country would be better off if they found another candidate. I dont see that happening. So i know you think hes unpopular. You very much do not like President Bidens policies. Youve made that clear in our conversations before. But is it worth not voting for him simply because you dont like his policies. If you genuinely think trump is a threat to democracy, well, i dont think hes a threat to the constitution. I think he caused enormous damage in the first term. I think it will cause more deaths damage in the second term, but our institutions are stronger than donald trump and i think if you overstay pardon me . Does that include the presidency because he has people who we just talked to, Doug Burgum Last Night who trump says would be a great vp and he wouldnt say if you thought that mike pence did the right thing on january 6, neither will at least defined she said that she thought he did the wrong thing. Jd vance, theres no doubt that The One And OnlyInterview Question on the Vice President ial Interview Questionnaire is, will you do what i tell you to do this time, at least until something dramatic happens though, trump cant get a third term i think his, his presidency would be filled with disorder, chaos, and damage to the country. But that requires fighting against it. It doesnt say its so bad. Im going to violate my principles for voting by voting for joe biden. Its a very unhappy situation. Theres no getting around it, but i dont think do you think voting for biden would violate your principles . I think absolutely. I think hes conducted a disastrous American Foreign policy to give you simply one example from today, his proposed budget on Defense Matters for next year represents a 1 increase. Thats lower than the rate of inflation at a time when we need dramatically increased Defense Spending to face our throats. But even though the two of you agree on nato, something that he has upheld and the concern that weve heard a very real one that donald trump will withdrawal from nato if he takes office. Thats not enough to get you to vote for biden over trump . No, because i think the policies hes pursuing have led us to the crisis that we see in ukraine. He failed to determine for the russians there and put them do that. Well, but biden made no effort. In fact, said publicly twice. Im not going to be able to determine. I think that was fundamentally wrong. I think the same things happening in the middle east now, biden is more worried about a wider war than he is the threat to our closest ally, israel. One thing that President Biden did right after he took office cut trump off from intelligence briefings, which is often for 60 years has been afforded to pass president s after they leave office typically the major nominees of parties also have access to classified intelligence briefings, but the white house said today that theyre not keen to change their mind on letting trump get that access, even though hes about to be the nominee. Do you agree with that . I would not give him access to classified materials, whatever the past precedent has been. No. No, no other candidate has been under indictment for allowing classified information to be compromised and given given the pendency of that indictment alone i wouldnt give him the briefings. Ambassador john bolton. Thank you for joining me here tonight is also former Deputy Campaign manager for the desantis president ial campaign. David polyansky and former Lieutenant Governor of georgia, geoff duncan. And given you what we just heard jeff on, what voters are facing here in this battle for those nikki haley voters, whether theyre going to go to trump or to biden whats your sense of what theyll do yeah. I think we we were gonna wake up tomorrow with 100 million americans scratching their head is to what, what do we do now . I think its interesting to break down who these nikki haley voters are. Its such a wide categories scattered categories, right . Youve got republicans that dont think the 2020 election was rigged. Youve got fiscal conservatives, you got democrats who are disenfranchised with wide and youve got former republicans that are now democrat. So youve got this whole big quadrate. Its gonna be interesting to see what plays out and look. Seven months is a long time. But i dont i dont really know what to do at this point as somebody who cant vote for joe biden because i dont align with his policies. I dont believe hes got the best interest any longer of the country donald trump is just broken down. Theres no chance that i would ever show up to support donald trump. Whats your sense well, look, i think i think what weve seen with donald trump is hes defied the odds both this year politically and legally. And so i think most in our party and certainly most people in the country didnt think hed have this easy prompt to the nomination, nor did they think that he would evade trials and delay them as much as he has. And so i think the combination of his potency politically and his ability to move seamlessly fit the Legal Process is put them in a pretty strong position right now. And if you look at the real clear politics averages 2. 5 to almost twoandahalf points ahead of joe biden. And hes leading him on average. And every single swing state except pennsylvania, which is under 1 . So if youre asking me how i view it today, id rather be in Donald Trumps camp than i would in the president s you obviously worked on desantiss campaign that face says a lot. But do you think donald trump was ever beatable . In retrospect know, look, the minute they were two things that happened, you said no. Yeah. There were two things that happened and i think this is when the nomination ended. Number one, when he was first indicted, i think the party and the base rallied around him because they felt it wasnt just an assault on donald trump. They felt it was an assault on him. You did a great job message the gene and number two, when public polls started to put him in striking distance and ultimately ahead of biden, the Electability Argument went away. And when those two things happen, the race was over. It was officially over the night of iowa, but it probably ended last summer i mean, this all Kinda Crystallized today when we saw Mitch Mcconnell get behind trump. I dont think its totally surprising that Mitch Mcconnell would do it in the cynical sense. But in the political sense, when you look at it, how trump is not only attacked Mitch Mcconnell nonstop, hes attacked elaine chao and shes personally told me when ive spoken to her and interviews that she believes those attacks are vehemently racist, and he endorses him and trump now goes from saying, i could never worked with Mitch Mcconnell to saying he could work with him. Thats the problem. I wrote a piece for the Atlantic Journal Constitution Last week where i called it. Thats just politics all right, weve got to stop just saying thats just politics to go along to play along. I mean, im one of those folks and republicans, im thinking nikki haley, dont dont endorse donald trump, right . Where are we going to draw the line in the same as republicans . Where are we going to draw the line that the future of this country is more important than a shortterm sugar high of getting a couple of points or likes on whatever whatever is driving mean these people watching tim scott do what hes doing. I mean, he knows better than this. So does the whole list of people that have just fallen in. Thats just politics is going to absolutely destroy this country. And so my encouragement is the wake up. Go to work and continue to say the right things not to win an election, but for the right things for americans and youngkin, Governor Glenn Youngkin of virginia, i should note just endorse donald trump on twitter or something that he had no stated an arms length from him as he conducted his own race. Ron desantis got out and endorse donald trump. He has not said really anything except since then. Hes not campaigning on his behalf. I mean, you just heard but john bolton said about not about voting your conscience, writing someone and if you dont though that Donald Trumps the nominee, i say to that i remember a former boss of mine in 2016 using that same line at the cleveland convention. Look and for people who are watching and dont know, it was senator for this, im sorry using that line at the convention in regards to the trump candidacy, then look, this is complex the fact of the matter is youve got a choice between a president who is not wholly unpopular, just unpopular with americans but hes driving policies that are driving each of us as we make decisions in our personal lives on the economy, its just not going to get credit even if the economy does turn around on immigration, hes at 18 popularity favorability on it because hes failed. And i think as we heard earlier in the night on the network hes been absent on the issue only until recently has even emerged and talking about that, which is the number one issue weve got a Long Way To Go in this race, but again, id rather be in the trump camp right now than i would be with the president leading into tomorrow night. And the sense is still at trump and desantis havent spoken that. I dont know. Geoff duncan, david. Thank you both for being here great to have you both up next as you heard, elon musk saying today, hes not giving any president ial candidate money. So why did he just meet privately with trump at maralago will speak to Maggie Haberman about her latest scoop. Plus in North Carolina, republicans just nominated someone who is quoted hitler on facebook. 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