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CNNW CNN Tonight With Don Lemon April 13, 2016

Between secretary clinton and myself. And there are a lot of differences. [ cheers and applause ] the republican taking aim at their frontrunner. Some who feed off of the fears and the anger that is felt by some of us and exploited feed their own insatiable desires for fame and attention. That could drive america back into a ditch and not make us great again. Donald loves to call people a loser. Donald wakes up at night in cold sweats that people will call him losin donald. You cant write this stuff. One rather says thanks but no thanks to the nomination. I do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. Meanwhile in our town hall tonight, donald trump says this about the battle for delegates. I think ill get to 1,237. I think were going to do very well in new york. As i said before, some of the states around that were going to be in next. I think we should do well in california. I think well get to the 1,237. This has been an amazing process. I saidt the beginning and ill say it again, im spending my own money. I understand what motivates people, special interests and lobbyists. They wont do the right thing. The people that are really getting them are giving money. By my not taking money from all of these special interests, im going to be able to do the right thing for the people people think why are they so stupid in theyre doing because theyre told to do it by the people that give them money. I want to get straight to sarah with breaking news. Marco rubio is making news tonight. What do we know . Marco rubio did an interview with the mark levin radio show. He did not quite endorse ted cruz but this is as close as hes come so far. I want the republican nominee to be a conservative and in my view at this moment of the candidates that are still actively campaigning, the only one that fits that criteria is ted cruz, ive said that publicly. As far as the delegates, theyre bound on the first ballot. These delegates, many of them will be free to vote for another candidate and i hope that theyll nominate a conservative. Rubio has all but disappeared since he dropped out of the race. It is telling to hear him say ted cruz is the only real conservative left. And marco rubio has asked him to keep the delegates bound to him. He could play a role if you get to point where donald trump is coming up just short. It will be interesting to see how donald trump respond to that and you know he will. Youve been on the campaign train, youve soon him take on angry protesters, impressions with him and his family tonight . It is striking when you see him up there with his children because you dont usually see him on the campaign trail. So you see how proud he is and talk about how he was raised, about how her father treated her the same as her brothers in terms of her role in the company and in terms of growing up and fueling her ambition. I think that was all telling. I think this is the kind of thing that could help donald trump soften his image. When we look at the broader electorate when it comes to women, his family being out there is something that could help prepare him in the general election. It all comes down to the candidate. It depends on whether donald trump is more disciplined on the stump as well. Weve been hearing him take on the process saying the primary process is fixed, rigged, corrupt. How are voters reacting to that . This does speak to his base. They feel like they have showed up and voted and in new york theyre preparing to cast their ballots and they feel like the Republican Party isnt listening to them. When i was talking to voters at his event in new york yesterday they said they completely agree with donald trump, they feel the process is stacked against him, they feel the Republican Party is trying to rob donald trump of the nomination. The rnc is pushing back hard on this. They do not want to give voters the sense that their party is corrupt, that they are trying to steal the nomination. At least for now donald trump feels a better approach is to continue to be at war with the party. I appreciate that. The Reince Priebus tweeting out sayi saying the nomination process has been known for a year plus beyond. To complain now, give give us a break. And were here with kayleigh mcenany, gloria gorger, donna brazile, kellyanne. I think the facts speak for themselves. I have witnessed these incredible female role models that hes employed in the highest executive positions at the Trump Organization my entire life in an industry that has been dominated by men, is still dominated by men but certainly was when he was starting out in his career and he was employing some of these women and raising them through the ranks. For me i think the way he wrarad me and raised tiffany, its a testament to inspiring rim. He taught me there wasnt something i could doesnt if i set me mind to it, if i had deep passion and unearthed what i wanted to do with my life and worked very hard to achieve it. I dont think thats the message a father would relay to a lawyer he didnt believe had the potential to accomplish exactly what her brothers could. So for me its his actions speak loud are than the word of many politicians who talk about gender equality but its not evidenced in their daily employment practices. I think both at the Trump Organization and also in a more personal capacity, the type of father he was to a daughter, two daughters, i think evidences how he feels about our gender in general. Tiffany . I think my father since ive been a little girl has always just inspired me and had so much faith in me to just be the best person i can be, the best woman i can be. Every time i speak to him on the phone whether it be at phone or im with him in his office or palm beach, he wants to us do the best and he has the utmost fail that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to just as well as men if not better and were such strong, hard workers, ivanka, melania, i truly feel my father is the best husband, the best he could be. Why do the women closes to him see things differently than many women voters . They see him as a father, an employer of women, hes warned them to stay away from drugs and alcohol. Thats different. The numbers started going around College Educated republican women to say nothing of independent and Democratic Women right around march 11 at the chicago rally and then after he insulted heidi cruz, somebody elses wife. Can he recover . Yes. Should he put his family right out there to help him . Should we see them as surrogates . This family is so kcohesive. Hes got buildings all around the world with his name on it. This is his greatest imprimatup. The response from his daughters, kayeleigh, did that help him . 100 . There was this effort to paint donald trump into a caricature into antiwomen. Dont you think he supplied the vcanvas and the paint and paint brush yes, he did but from that one instance. Let her finish. Ill let you get in. What you look at what youve seen this evening, you see someone who empowers women, not diminishes them. But theyre wealthy people in manhattan. They need to connect in a different way. And ivanka can and melania can and tiffany can, but to think all of that got washed away donald trump, there is a pattern of behavior, its rosie odonne odonne odonnell, megyn kelly and heidi cruz. But ivanka, not only is she likable, but it speaks well can i say one thing about ivanka . She had a baby three weeks ago. And when i had a baby, i didnt like like that three weeks ago. The respect they had for their father shows. And theyre character witnesses for candidates. Do you think sometimes tone is important and up get more with honey than vinegar so to speak . I think without question. There also comes a time when you actually have to put the hammer down. I agree. There comes a time when people are laughing at your face, that you have to actually fight back. Thats whats so important about what he does. Hes not going to go every time theres a little change in the wind, hes going to flip. Thats not what he does. Hes going to fight for the american people. Tone is important. For 38 years ive seen him do deals with people from all over the world, different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different personalities. Hes better to do that than anybody. Nobody can be more endearing. He wins everyone over when the time is right. But were at a time in our country where we believe we need some change, we need someone who is going to go to work for the people. The biggest joke i hear is politicians talking about how theyre going to serve the people. Theyre serving themselves. He wants to give back to the country, to the people who have been so loyal to him. He wants to go through this brutal process to be able to give back. Hes truly its incrkrecredi selfless and amazing to see and its resonating with the people. Donna brazile . Ive met his kids, met his wife, theyre very kind, respectful people. But when you disrespect an entire group of americans, whether its punishing women, mexicans as rapists, banning muslims, i mean, people take that personally. So i dont know if one interview with his family will change the script, but it will help some people who are comfortable with his temperament maybe find him a little bit more so everyone is sitting here talking about megyn kelly and heidi cruz and muslims and none of this has seemed to hurt donald trump at all. It has. Hold on. He should have had this wrapped up a long time ago. And hes losing to hillary. Women alone, if you look at the data, hes trailing among women. People dont realize in a general election, the republican usually wins women in terms of the total number of women. White women. Im sorry, excuse me, white women. I beg your pardon. Married, not single. My point is if he cant win barack obama lost white women in 2012, he lost them by 6 points to mitt romney. If Hillary Clinton got up to 52 and wins 80 of minorities, its very hard to win. That kind of data really does matter. And character witness, family, all of that is very important but there is he was asked tonight do you speak the way to your family the way you speak in the course of the Political Campaign . Oh, no, i dont do that. Im a lot nicer. So there is this kind of outlandish way of speaking about women, muslims and others that he is now trying to tack back. I think he does have a long way to go. Arent people often different at home with their families than they are at work . But its like hes winking. Stand by, guys. I have to take a break. 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Well, by the way, maybe i will ask someone from the establishment to be my Vice President , which raises a lot of question marks with conservatives, who believe hes not a conservative, hes way to malleable, why is why some in the establishment early on was saying i can live with this guy. He says he gets enjoyment out of tweeting and you no, its interesting. I started off a number of years ago and i now see that over the weekend i picked up like almost 100,000 people and i have 7. 6 Million People there, almost 7. 5 million on facebook, 1. 5 million on instagram. And its really an asset. I really enjoy doing it. You see whats going on. There is some genius there. Will you read some of the stuff, there is genius there. You have to find the right genius, but it is a powerful thing. As president , though no, i wouldnt be doing it. Or i would do it very little. Its different. But right now if im fighting one of my opponents, i can tweet out things or my feelings and i had it in cnn. There was one instance where i was at a town hall and someone got up and made a pretty negative statement about the president , very negative. They never found out who this guy was, was he a setup or what and he made a pretty negative statement about the president and they said i didnt defend him and it was a big deal. I remember i tweeted one line and then another line and i put it out and it broke into cnn, they broke into this major broadcast, donald trump breaking news, and it totally solved the problem. So it doesnt all work badly. But it is a modern method of communication. When i have 16 million or 17 Million People when you add it up, it gives me a big advantage. Do you ever want to say to him put the mobile device down, its 2 a. M. . If he would only listen. I did many times. And i just say, okay, do whatever you want. Hes an adult. He knows the consequences. I said none of those things, even twitter seems to have hurt him. You guys vehemently disagreed saying yes, it has hurt him. He sa im not going to do this as president. Wouldnt one thing youd have to show by example . Its his frenemy, twitter. I think he knows hes very smart about controlling the news cycle. So he can tweet something at 10 00 at night and youll put it on your show because youre watching,ere watching and then the morning the news cycle on the morning shows will be dominated by something that donald trump tweeted the night before. He couldnt have done what hes done without a 24 7 news cycle, cable news, and without twitter. I dont know that he could have pulled it off. Thats a good question, too, for president obama, as well, who used social media to his advantage. And cable news. Thats right. And hes been able to phone into these shows. I think twitter phoning into the shows, rallies and the polls. He doesnt love his own pollsters. If your entire narrative is winning, winning, winning, were losing and we need to win again and youre losing in the fall, there are republican primary vote who are will look past some of the indignities and look past some of the rhetoric to win in the fall to beat Hillary Clinton. If you cant prove you can beat Hillary Clinton, youve shrunk your let me ask you then. You said putting stock in polls. So the polls show hes losing to Hillary Clinton. How much stock should we put in that . We dont know if Hillary Clinton is the nominee. We dont know who the exact nominee is. How much stock should anyone put in that . A poll that came out today showed him coming closer to beating Hillary Clinton than ted cruz. This just goes to show the polls are not reliable right now. It is april right now. I tend to agree one at a time. The polls against Hillary Clinton do not matter right now, particularly in a race when you have Bernie Sanders who said i dont want to talk about her emails. If donald trump is the nominee, were going to talk about her emails, benz, the Clinton Foundation until the cows come home. Im sit hearing, i want to laugh but its inappropriate at this time to talk about hillarys emails and investigation thats all the republicans are talking about because theres no substantial. Weve entered a substancefree zone with donald trump. When is the last time weve actually debated policy when we talk about these republican candidates . I mean you can talk about tears down someones character, but if you dont have a plan and a vision for the future, its worthless. She potentially broke federal law and that will be asked about her on the debate stage. Thats not true, kayleigh, thats what your analysis the fbi is looking into an inquiry into how her email was handled and whether or not anyone hacked it and if any emails contained classified information. All of the various intelligence agencies are looking at those emails. I hope they conclude this. I hope she gets this behind her, otherwise shell have to continue to talk about it. You shouldnt feel cornered. Because the truth is a lot of the things that are negatives for trump have not hurt him up till now. He is winning. He is winning. Now all of these things could eventually hurt him. I do think where he has gotten into issues in policy, it has started to reverberate against him, talk about Nuclear Weapons for japan and south korea, some of that stuff has boom raerange back on him. I do think president ial campaigns are much less about characteristics, character and personal characteristics and he is portraying strength and some of his outrageousness, by the way, in opposition to these other candidates is at a decibel level that offends a lot of people but also gets him such attention that he has been effective. Kayleigh has a point. Remember when he went after bill clinton, it seemed like a crazy idea, the point is that polls he did seem to neutralize we dont know whats going to happen in a general election. If donald trump is the nominee, he could go after hillary. We dont know how shes going to respond. She could fall apart. Donald trump could put her on the offensive in a way stay with me.

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