Seems like you dont care about my kids. Your kids are being treated this way because of the conduct for your party for 2 hundred years. Parties change over time. Point of view. You have not stopped here is the deal. The Republican Party was the party of liberation and the Democratic Party was the party of liberty. Caring more about properties then people that. Began to switch over the last century. Anybody with two eyes knows that. Why is is this more important to you than the fear i have and so many blacks have across the country. This is still being used today, the same old formula. David duke was a big fan of occupy wall street. As president obama. Thats today. Thats not 150 years ago. Jeffrey, are you hearing that van is saying and that he represents a large swath of people who say that they were hurt and offended by what donald trump said, okay. He said it on friday and disavoided the kk. He tweeted after it jake tapper but on jake tapper he seemed to be tap dancing for some reason and that offended people. Do you get that. Sure i get it because i believe this is where weve come to. When everything is about race. That is whats going to happen. That is whats going to happen. I think it is a misunderstanding. Where was president obama at just scalias funeral . Am i supposed to take great offense at that . Lets do it bynolog analogy. This is a good conversation. Make everything about parties. I never raised party. You cardioind of go back and forth about whos party change and when. If you were running for office and i asked mott thin the past said i hate and one time i ask you dont want me to condemn a group i dont know anything about. You would look at me like i had two heads. This is the analogy to. This he disa i vowed david duke. He knew who he was and he didnt pull the trigger this time. What i am saying to you is to suggest that. What i hear is that the undertone of all this is to paint donald trump and, what, the conservative movement, rush limbaugh, everything as a bunch of White Supremacists. That is what i hear. That is what i hear. I dont accept that by the way. I dont accept that premise. I actually reached out to trump as soon as i could after it and said you should come on and clarify this because i havent heard you say fliek this before. What im saying is what other explanation is there for backing off a position that you supposedly so strongly hold. Chris, you are attributing the deliberateness to this. There is no reason for him to deliberately do it when hed done it the other way repeatedly. So you think it is not deliberate. No. Ive got to Say Something here. If you are African American and you are watching this, with regard i cant tell you, this thing trended on twitter for two hours last night. Ive heard from everybody aye ever known. Literally, third grade. The reason that African Americans flinched not just when he kind of hedged a little bit. We were up earlier because he said i disavow. Isis endorses me . I disavow. Move on. Hang on, there is a moment there. A leadership moment. You aggressively say i dont want this. Everything you see about donald trump is passion and he will do something and it will take a whole media cycle. You are being endorsed by the equivalent of isis and all you say is i disavow. That sent the shock waves. Then when he comes back and is even more hedge ji, that is when the floor fell out from under the black community and we are very concerned because this man could be the president. And if you are the president you should be leading. You shouldnt be hedging. You should have a chance to denounce terrorism in my own country and you dont it and you are donald trump, somethings wrong. That is our feeling about it. Somethings wrong. Does it ever occur to you that donald trump thinks that the clan is terrible and its a stupid subject . Yes. Why is it stupid. Why . A terrorist organization . Yes. In the United States . I think thats exactly what he believes. Then if its not stupid that is the point im trying to make to you. That is exactly the point. This formula of racism plus progressivism is what has been going on in this country for 2 hundred plus years. And it is still being used to this day. Jeffrey to your point though. You know donald trump very well. I know what it is like when you Say Something about him he doesnt agree with. He did not behave that way this time. And that raised eyebrows and you dont have to be black to feel strongly about what a hate group represents. But he didnt do it this time. You misrepresent this guy hes all over you like ugly on an ape. Not this time. This time he was careful about it. It was uncharacteristic. And raised suspicions. She could have just come out and doubled down on it. And again he didnt. And hes had people like you come out in instead and say this is silly. You have to see that it is not consistent. Im not saying pernicious but it is not consistent. Everybody makes mistakes as they go along. I dont know he answered the way he did. But im more than comfortable with the fact that hes not a ratesist. Which is the implication here. Nobody said old on. I would not be here. And i i know he would not be here. But that is not the point. I dont think most think that donald trump himself is actually racist. We should take that off the table. Is question is is he willing to play funny with racism. No. No. Let me finish and then you can beat me up. Is he willing to play funny with racism. Is he willing on the inconsistent on this one terrorist and every other one for political game. I think they think hes an opportunist and not a racist. Respond to that jeffrey. Hes saying donald trump did this intentionally because for that base, that small percentage of the country that feels that way, they would rush out this droves to vote for him. And let me clarify. It is a little more subtle. I think it is that him being the strong white guy whos not going to get pushed around. Strong guy. Not strong white guy. Strong white guy. Who wont get pushed around by the pc stuff is a part of his brand. And i think the thing is if i back down on this one it is going to hurt me. But i think people think hes opportunistically pushing buttons to help him and hurt everybody else. And that is essence of the playing the race card. Right there. Me saying hes playing the race card is me playing the race card . Yes. Thats to meta. My brain is coming out my head. The question is whether it is not appropriate. And it takes us back to a central question. He just didnt behave here the way he usually does. This is not a guy who minces words. Not a guy whos careful. Sometimes he backs off after it which is a beautiful strategy of his. He goes really far to impress some people and pulls back to do others. The spigs did he do that in reverse this time . Because he leaves you with an open question. Why didnt he say what he always says. That doesnt mean anyone thinks hes a racist or an opportunist. It is just weird. But you are suggesting hes an opportunist. I am certainly not. I am. He is. I dont want to confuse to two of you. Not me though. There is a legit question. Regardless how you feel about his answer. And it doesnt mean you are racist by asking the question. It doesnt mean you are baiting by asking because it makes no sense. When the guy talks about immigrants you are the one to back him off. Hes gone much farther than that many times. When hes talking about muslims he goes very far. Many times and then backs up. Here he did the opposite. Doesnt means hes racist or opportunist. Means it was weird. And let me say one thing about me and jeffrey. The reason we can have this conversation. I respect this guy. I dont agree but i respect this guy a lot. He came on the air when everybody at laughing a t donald trump and he took incredible brick bats. And hes turning out to have been more right than wrong. And the reason we get so hot and we go back and forth and do this for five hours is i actually respect this guy and hope he respects me. You have two legitimate points of view. There are a lot of people who feel for each category. I think the you have there are people who play the race card but im not doing that and a i dont think a lot of people were last week. Talk and conversation is good. Yes. On that note gentlemen, van jones, jeffrey lord we appreciate you both bringing the fire and your different perspectives and fight gt it ow here on air. Thank you both. And it is a good instruction on how to do it. You should take note. Stop beating up chris alisyn. I cant. Its too easy. He makes it so. Some things are unfixable. More intractable than race. Super tuesday coverage continues on newsroom with carol costello. Thanks for joining us. Happening now in the news ram. Trump and clinton tightened their grips. There is nobody, nobody thats going to beat us. The rest of the republican candidates not letting go. There will never come a time in this race where our supporters are asking us to get out and rally around donald trump. How long until the gop field narrows . As long as the field remains divided, Donald Trumps path to the nomination remains more likely. In the meantime the front runners looking to november. Im going to go after one person. Thats Hillary Clinton. Whos got the edge . We have to make america whole. Make America Great again is going to be much better than making america whole again. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Super tuesday becomes surging wednesday. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton win big bolstering that he has r their leads. Trump riding a wave of voter anger and record turnout from arkansas all the way to vermont. The new york billionaire wins seven states and erases the traditional boundaries of geography. Ted cruz captures his must win home state of texas. He also seizes oklahoma and alaska. Making the case that he is now the only republican who can beat trump. So called establishment candidate marco rubio notches his first victory in minnesota. And now looks to his home state of florida. His only hope for survival may be a windfall of delegates in a winner take all state. And Hillary Clinton builds on her momentum. Bernie sanders wins vermont and oklahoma. As expected. Colorado was a surprise victory for him. Across the country, a critical day for the campaign. Lets begin with jim acosta, in riviera beach, florida. Good morning jim. Zwl good morning carol. Donald trump certainly has the upper hand this morning. Firmly in control for the gop battle for the white house. But he did not accomplish a clean sweep. He did not drive his rivals out of this race. Allowing ted cruz and perhaps marco rubio to emerge once again as the men who could potentially stop trump. We have expanded the rn Republican Party. It was a big night for donald trump. The clear front runner now well on his way to clinching the republican nomination. The republicans have tremendous energy. The democrats dont. They dont have any energy. Their numbers are down. Our numbers are through the roof. The billionaire businessman racked up seven state wins. Including delegaterich virginia, georgia and tennessee. I think we are going to be more inclusive. I think we are going to be more unified and i think we are going to win in november. After kays of controversy over support from White Supremacists trump tried to strike a more diplomatic tone claiming he can unify the country. Im a unifier. I know people are going to find that hard to believe but believe the path to beating the to unify. The ted cruz also called for unity asking the other three non trump candidates to drop out after he won texas, oklahoma and alaska. If we remain divided in all looikd donald trump becomes the nominee. But i think donald has a hard ceiling of 3540 . Cruz making the case hes the gops only hope to win the white house. For those who have supported other candidates we welcome you on our team. Standing united as one. Trump said the gop leader should get along with him or else. Paul ryan i dont know him well but im sure im going to get along great and if i dont hes going have to pay a big price. And on trump continued the inult ises marco rubio. I know it was a tough night for marco rubio. He had a tough night but he worked hard. He spent lot of money. He is a lightweight. But rubio did pull off his first win in minnesota and vowed to fight on. There will never come a time in this race where our supporters are asking us to get out and rally around donald trump. People is a saying fight as hard as you can to save the party from a con artist who refuses to criticize the kkk. But the stop Trump Movement is picking up steam this morning. A republican antitrump super pack called our principals pack announcements it is hiring more staff and resources before the next critical contests for saturday and spread out over the next two weeks. They are going to quickly become winner take all conuses. So that does give people like rubio and cruz a chance to make a comeback but sometime is sirm running out for those go. Ted cruz can say he won tkz but if marco rubio doesnt win florida it is going to be very difficult for him. Jim acosta live from florida this morning. Marco rubio concedes hes an underdog but he has one advantage. Hes the establishments choice to become the standard bearer and push trump and cruz back to the fringes. Joe johns in minneapolis this morning. Hi joe. Reporter good morning carol. Marco rubio won the caucuses here in minnesota with huge turnout. Ted cruz in second. Donald trump in third. But if there is a path to the nomination for marco rubio it is just not clear right now. He picks up 106 delegates to the republican convention. Donald trump has 300 delegates. Ted cruz has around 200 delegates. Rubio does say that the electoral map gets better for him after super tuesday. But if he is able to pull off florida, which is his home state, it is a big question and it looks like hell still be running against the win. Though he says hes going stay in the race. Listen. Donald trump is not someone that the republicans support is going to come after he and say hey we need everyone around the race lets rally around the front runner for the good of the party. The contrary is true. The fight is to save the Republican Party t party of lincoln and reagan from someone whos not just a con artist but who refuses to criticize the kkk. We cannot nominate that takes those positions. Someone who shares hillarys positions on planned parenthood, who says hes going to be neutral an iran. This is a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and i will not give up this fight. I will go through all 50 states before we stop fighting to save the Republican Party from someone like that. It is the math that is the problem here. Right now early polling shows donald trump with app big lead in the state of florida. And a marco rubio cannot pull off a win in his home state under these circumstances. It really raises a question about his viability as the candidate. Rubio today campaigning in michigan where donald trump also holds a lead in the polls though it is a lot more fluid situation there, carol. Joe johns live from minneapolis. Thank you. On the gop side it would be over in any other year. Republicans would rally around the clear front runner. But not this election. Not when a man named donald trump wins big. The headline in the New York Daily News this morning, riffs on Trumps Campaign slogan proclaiming make america migrate. And clips of the Chris Christies facial expressions went viral. Scott reeg sl the republican lawmaker from virginia. He sent an email to supporters writing quote, trump is a bully, unworth of our anonymounominati. I will not support trump in the general election. So lets talk about this. Former Republican National committee chief of staff mike shields joins us. And former georgia congressman and ted cruz supporter is here as well. Also mark preston joins me. Welcome all of you. Good morning. So mike a question. Mr. Trump won ten states, Republican Voters have spoken. If lawmakers are elected by the people, who are they to tell voters they are wrong . Yeah the voters have spoken. If you look at the numbers, 46 of the people who voted in the republican primaries last night vote forward donald trump. 64 of those voters voted for someone else. And that is why this isnt over yet. Hes certainly the front runner and amazing delegate but it is not over. And if you look at the places where he has shown a little weakness. Oklahoma, minnesota. He lost. These ro not open primaries. Is march 8th. You have michigan and idaho. And march 15th where you have a huge slate of winner take all states including florida. There are a lot more closed primaries. Republican regulators, grassroots activists working in the party for years have a much larger influence. Hes shown a little bit of weakness in a closed primary as opposed to open and last night 64 of the people who voted voted for someone else. That doesnt mean he might not get new supporters as others drop out but there is a path for someone else to deny him the convention and it is real and why this race is still going on. But still mark it appears even the candidates running are not listening to the voters. Marco rubio for example, hes won one state. 1 in 15. That is worst than the Detroit Lions last year. On what planet can he actually win. Your beloved Detroit Lions. Perhaps they will do better this time. Here is the problem for republicans at this point. They are fighting against the clock. There are a very short period of time for a marco rubio or a ted cruz to find that path to then try to eclipse donald trump when it comes to delegates. The republican establishment very frustrated. Flumicsed by Donald Trumps support. And we have to point out that donald trump has driven out the vote in record numbers in many of these states and we saw that last night on super tuesday. So donald trump really has become this enigma for the Republican Party. And in july there are already talk here in washington where some people are talking about not inning going to the convention. There is also talk about trying to deny him the nomination if they are able to keep the level of delegate support under the threshold needed to