Man. Hes back. Recharging the batteries and zapping his rival. Its lyin lyin ted. Thats not all hes spelling out. Its a fix. Blasting the whole delegate ball game. Its a crooked, crooked system. So now that hes facing a contest at the convention in cleveland, not a coronation, can his campaign adapt . And will the family name give that campaign the boost it needs . Ive got so many family members here today. Look at that. Boy, oh boy. My sons and my daughter. Did ivanka do a good job . This is an Anderson Cooper 360 cnn republican town hall. Candidates and their families. Voters seeking answers before making a choice that could make history. National sirius Xm Satellite Radio channel 116 and the westwood 1 radio network, welcome to all of you. We are here with donald trump, his wife, melania, daughters ivanka and tiffany, and sons eric and donald jr. Will be joining us shortly. In the audience tonight, republicans all from new york. They came up with the questions theyll ask tonight. We reviewed them to make sure they dont overlap. Im going to ask the candidate a few questions, myself, as well. This is a chance for voters to hear at length from the candidates and the first time the people closest to them. Before i bring out the family, i want to start with donald trump. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Big day for you. Got very good news. You were certified today the winner of the missouri primary. Picked up another 12 delegates. Great polling numbers for you. New york 1 Brook College poll, 60 in new york, way ahead of all the other candidates and even the quinnipiac poll had you around 55 . Great. Way ahead. You got some good news. Youve been very critical of what happened in colorado. I want to reads out only of the things you said. You said the nominating system in colorado is, quote, rigged, disgusting, and dirty. You called it a corrupt deal full of crooked shenanigans. Ted cruz is saying youre just being a whiner. The bottom line is the rules are the rules. Didnt you just get outplayed on the ground . No. I dont think so. Look, first of all, you and i watched ted cruz and i watched him very strongly say, well, hes been winning, but, you know, ive won 22 states and hes won 10 and were really way up in votes, you know, in terms of the voters which to me is very important but its never talked. Im millions of votes ahead of him, and as you know, im hundreds of delegates ahead of him but the colorado thing was very, very unfair and i thought louisiana was very unfair. I won louisiana. I won it easily. The popular vote. He got the popular vote. Because of all his shenanigans that goes on. You call them shenanigans. Those are the rules. I know the rules very well, but i know that its stacked against me by the establishment. I fully understand it. We had people out there and they werent hurt. Then, in fact, today when it was announced the numbers were announced, they put out something on twitter saying, oh, we stopped trump, essentially, we stopped trump. That was put out by the party in colorado. The point is it was stacked against us. Now but you weve won our share. You could have had a Better Organization on the ground. A lot of the folks i dont know if it would have mattered because it was totally set in stone and thats the way it was. You saw republicans that wanted to go and wanted to be Trump Delegates and theyre burning their card on the internet. A lot of time, a lot of organization, going out, reaching out to people who wanted to be delegates to run in the process. I mean, it was a whole electoral process to get delegates. Anderson, we had delegates there, a lot of delegates and they were not heard because the Republican Party out there was 100 probably controlled by the rnc which maybe doesnt like this happening because im a selffunder, im putting up my own money. They dont like when i put up my own money because it means they dont have any control of me because im working for the people. Im doing for the people. And, you know, when you talk about winning, ive won most of it and im not complaining. Frankly, there are couple that i won that hes complaining about. I won you know, ive been winning far more than anybody else. You talk about the rnc, reince priebus, head of the rnc tweeted yesterday, said the rules were set last year. Nothing mysterious. Nothing new. The rules have not changed. The rules are the change. Nothing different. Anderson, they changed the rules a number of months ago. The people in about eight months ago. Well, its not very long ago. You had a lot of time to prepare they saw how i was doing and they didnt like it. Same thing in florida. Now, i won florida in a land slide, right . But they changed the rules so that the winner gets all because they thought jeb bush wases going to win. Hes the former governor, of marco rubio was going to win. Then all of a sudden the first poll came out and trump was leading by a lot and said, what are we going to do, what are we going to do . Because that was done so i wouldnt get any delegates. Then i won in a landslide and i got all the delegates. Sometimes it works to my advantage. But colorado is unfortunate because they disenfranchised the voters. They disenfranchised all of these voters youre saying you dont think the rnc wants you to get the nomination . No, i dont think so. I really dont. You think theyre actively working against you . I dont see it. Its not like i have 15 miles of proof but certainly they should want to have a vote of the people of colorado. The people of colorado i would have won. I won so many of the votes. I mean, the voting has been phenomenal. Thats why ive won so many more states than ted cruz and kasich. Does it say, though, something about okay. You dis agragree with the proces it was in colorado but you had months to prepare. Does it Say Something your critics say it says something about your leadership ability, for somebody who touts himself as somebody whos an organizational genius, whos created this amazing Business Organization, that you couldnt create an organization on the ground that can beat ted cruzs organization. Number one, i started with a 1 million loan. I built a 10 billion company. Its a phenomenal company. Is the Business Organization the same as a Political Organization . A lot of similarities. In this case, ive won most of it. You can say, what about organization . Well, how come im leading by hundreds of delegates, how come im leading by millions of votes . Remember this, i was supposed to lose south carolina. I was supposed to lose to bush, new hampshire. I was supposed to lose the entire south. I won virtually everything in the south. I look at your board, i mean, its all my color, whatever that color is. I guess its sort of a semipurple. Not the nicest color, but thats okay. But i won the entire south. I won florida. I could say they have a Bad Organization because cruz was supposed to win alabama, arkansas, he was supposed to win kentucky. He lost all of them. He lost florida. The point is, i mean, if you talk about that, i can say, well, if my organizations not so good, how come ive won many more states than him and millions of votes . I just want to read you what corey gardner, a republican senator from colorado said. Hes really annoyed at what youve been saying. Hes a member of the establishment. Youre insulting these delegates who ran who are regular people. Im insulting the system. The system is not a good system. He says how on earth are you going to defeat isis if you cant figure out the colorado Gop Convention . We can figure it out. Its stacked against us. How come my people went there, delegates, great delegates, theyre all over the internet burning up their republican card. How come how does that stack against y y you . Because the Republican Party in colorado wanted cruz or maybe they wanted somebody other than trump. I dont think anybody really wants cruz. Why would they want him . Theres no reason to want him. But the Republican Party wanted somebody other than trump. And you know, the funny thing, i am the only one thats going to beat Hillary Clinton assuming she runs, assuming she gets out of her problem which she probably will because thats a system thats bad, too. Ill give you another example. Im no fan of bernie sanders. Im no fan at all. To me, hes forget it. Every time i turn on, hes winning, hes winning. Every week after week, he wins, he wins, he wins, he wins. Then i watch you and all of the pund pundits, they say, but he cant win. You know why . Its stacked against him. It really is. Its stacked against him. In his case, its superdelegates, in my case its the obvious. But its stacked against you said in the past if you werent being treated fairly, youd consider a third party run. Is that something still on the tab table . Its something i dont want to do. Look, im winning by a lot. Based on the numbers you just gave me from new york im leading by more than 40 points a good chance of picking up all the delegates. Everybody else flew town. Cruz left town. He talked about new york values like you and i and everybody else, we know about new york values when we saw what happened with the World Trade Center and how incredible new york was. So i think he left town. I dont think hes going to come back. But im winning new york. I think ill do great in new jersey. Ill do great in pennsylvania. Ill do great in connecticut. Rhode island is great. Maryland. I mean, i got a lot of states where they know me. The nice thing is the states that know me are the ones that i really do well in. Like florida. They know me in florida. I won in a landslide. Bun of the knocks on you, you disagree with it, you havent given a lot of specifics to some of your policies. Your campaign has been saying, i think it was last week they started saying you were going to start putting out very specific policy pronouncements. Im going to start doing that, yes. I did one at aipac about concerning israel and it was met with raves. You even said it was good. I did one on im going to be doing probably ten over the next two months. You know when the next one is going to be, what the topic is going to be . Id say early next week. Do you know what the topic will be . Were looking at different ones. I want to talk about unity in the Republican Party because i think its very important. But were going to be talks about the military. Were fwoings going to be talks nato. When i talked about nato last week identify been building buildings all my life and doing deals all my life. Its obsolete. Everyone is ripping us off. 28 countries. Theyre ripping us off. Its obsolete. A soviet union that doesnt exist. Russia is plenty strong. It doesnt cover terror. If it does cover terror, the wrong countries are in. You say its obsolete. Of course its obsolete. It was done 68 years ago and hasnt changed. Experts on nato say trump is right. These are the people who study it. You gave an interview to usa today talking about possible Vice President ial picks. You did say you would like you name marco rubio, you name john kasich. You even named scott walker. I said theyre people i like. Right. Heres the problem. Ive beaten them very, harshly. Walker was supposed to win. Right after i started on him, he want back to wisconsin, okay . And he endorsed senator cruz. Of course he did. I didnt ask him for an endorsement. How could i ask him for an endorsement . I was the one who got him out. Jeb bush the same thing. Marco the same thing. I cant imagine they like me too much. When youre saying you like them as potential Vice President s or i like them as people. I like them as people. Now, could they be involved in some form in the government . Yeah. Absolutely i think they could. I dont necessarily think for a Vice President. Its interesting because they are all sort of, you know, you could argue establishmenttype candidates. Is that whoever you would pick for a Vice President , weve talked about this before, is that what you would look for, somebody who with political experience on the ground in washington, essentially a washington player who can help you with congress . Yes. Without a doubt . Im a business guy. Were going to make great deals on trade. Its right in my wheelhouse. Were going have a strong military, rebuild our military. Were going to take care of health care. Im going to do so well with so many different things. I want have somebody who can deal with congress, that gets along with congress, thats a washington person. Can you name one . I dont want to do that now. I think its inappropriate. I think its the wrong time. I do have people in mind. I have a lot of people look, ive been dealing in politics all my life. I know most of these politicians. I have great respect. Sort sessi senator sessions, Jeff Sessions endorsed me. He was supposed to endorse cruz. Everybody thought cruz, i think its his alltime most respected senator and cruz would talk about him all the time. Senator sessions, senator sessions just endorsed me. And, you know, i have a lot of respect for a lot of the politicians but i would certainly want that to be a political position. Were going to take a break. When we come back, questions from the audience for mr. Trump. His wife, melania, daughters ivanka and tiffany, and sons donald jr. And eric. That on this second a. 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And we are back with donald trump and joining us his wife, melania, sons donald jr. , his daughter just jumped on the stage as well, shes 8 years old. Eric is with us. Daughters tiffany and ivanka. Welcome, great to have the whole family together like this. Ivanka, i have to start off with you. Congratulations on your baby. How is everything going . Thank you, everything is going incredibly well. Theodore is 2 weeks old as of sunday. Are you sleeping through the night . No, not even close. Not even close, but its a blessing, so were very happy. Congratulations. Thats the most important thing. Im curious, when your dad, your husband, i mean, how did the conversation come up . Did he was there a family meeting like on the brady bunch, i mean, did he call each of you individually and say, you know, im going to do this this time and what did you think . Well, i think its such a personal decision that ultimately it was one he had to arrive to on his own, and obviously as weve all seen over the last several months its a vicious industry politics, much more so than real estate or anything weve ever experienced, so, but we were just incredibly excited for him. I mean, we know what hes capable of. Weve stood by his side for the last decade, in my case, a little bit longer in dons case, and watched him do these deals at the Trump Organization and we know what he can bring to the country so were just happy to support him. Hes flirted with it before. Did you think, okay, this time its actually going to happen . I think this time we knew it. You sensed the frustration in 2008, sensed the frustration even more so in 2012 but i think we were young, he has a company, he actually employs tens of thousands of people whose livelihoods and wellbeing depend on the stuck success of the com. I was 28, hes not going to say, heres a billion dollar company, leave it with us and hope the people who have been loyal to him for so many years will be okay. Weve been in the cpany much longer, have the decades of experience, he can walk away knowing the people who are so good to him for that period of time are going to be taken care of and he can do what he wants for the country. Melania, were you nervous for him or instantly like, yeah, lets do this . I was not nervous for him but he was thinking about it and i gave him my support and i said to him, you need to go and run and people will take serious and if you run, you will win and i see how people react to him before he announced it. Tiffany, eric, when you saw him coming down the escalator with melania, did you have any idea that it would go on this long, that it would become what it has . Its an amazing Success Story if you look at it, right, hes been in politics nine months and hes winning the Republican Party for president of the united states. I mean, its really an incredible story, but to your specific question, i actually remember when you said listen, kids, im going to do this, im going to hop into the race, i want to s