Institution, but is connected and responsive to the everyday concerns of our people. Theres no doubt that how a united europe works together can be improved. But look around the world at authoritarian governments and theocracies that ruled by fear and oppression, and there is no doubt that democracy is still the most just and effective form of government ever created. Announcer this is cnn breaking news good morning. Welcome to your new day. We do have breaking news. President obama announcing moments ago he is sending 250 Additional Forces to join the fight generals isis in syria. Live in germany with all the breaking details, michelle kosinski. Reporter hi, alisyn. We know 250 Additional Special operators to syria. That would mean a total of 300 in country by the time this is done. We expect them to be there over the next couple of weeks. They could deploy in phases, but that would mean there are six times the number of special operators in the end than there are now. A significant increase. We heard the president talk about why now, to build momentum, to keep things going, as isis continues to lose territory. Listen ive approved the deployment of up to 250 additional u. S. Personnel in syria, including special forces, to keep up this momentum. Theyre not going to be pleading the figpleading leading the fight on the ground bud essential in assisting local forces, they continue to drive isil back. Reporter so even though the white house keeps emphasizes this is not a combat role, obviously, these special forces are going to be working with fighters that are already there. So theyre not going to be on the front lines but theyre going to be there advising and assisting. A significant increase and earlier in the year we saw a few other additional troops going to iraq. The total number of u. S. Troops in iraq and syria is around 4,000. You know, were seeing a boost trying to keep up the momentum, as the president said, but the white house insists that these are mostly going to be there to train, to help provide arms to these forces and try to recruit more sunni arabs in the fight, because up until now, most of the fighting has been done by kurds. Chris and alisyn . Thanks so much, michelle. Well talk more what that means through the show. Another breaking story. A political bombshell. Ted cruz and john kasich announcing that they will team up to try to deny donald trump the republican nomination. The Trump Campaign firing back calling this a horrible act of desperation. All these as all northeast states head to the polls tomorrow. Phil mattingly, tell us about this unusual arrangement, phil . Reporter unexpected. Started with a couple phone calls and progressed into a secret meeting between the top two officials of both campaigns and then last night a jars dual statement released. John kasich ted cruz, now working together with the same strategy, stop donald trump. I want to ask each and every one of you to come out and vote for me ten times. Reporter ted cruz betting big on indiana, announcing hes joining forces with john kasich in an unprecedented lastditch effort to stop donald trump. The dividing conquer agreement, Cruz Campaign will focus time in indiana and clear the path for kasich in oregon and new mexico. This is critical to keeping him from the nomination. Recent polling shows cruz trailing trump by Single Digits in the hoosier state. The strategy shift coming despite the fact that kasich and cruz continue to attack each other on the campaign trail. A vote for cruz or trump, frankly, is a vote for Hillary Clinton. John kasich has no path whatsoever to the nomination. Reporter trump lashing out on twitter and issues a lengthy statement writing, dough lucico often illegal in many industries, yet these two reverted to cocollusion in order to stay alive. The latest gop bombshell coming ahead of tuesdays primaries in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania and rhode island. States where trump appears poised to perform well. The republican frontrunner continuing his own attack dog strategy on the trail this weekend. Cruz is working really hard to i dont want to use the word bribe but to bribe the delegates. Reporter accusing cruz of illegal activity and rejecting calls to appear more president ial. Its so much easier to be president ial, because i dont have to use any energy. You know, i can just walk out so much easier. You think this is easy . Ranting and raving . I got to entertain 18,000, whatever the hell number of people we have here. Reporter guys, no shortage of questions about what this will mean Going Forward, but as i was going back and forth at the Campaign Last night, one of the advisers said there is only one clear overarching goal here. An adviser told me, get to cleveland. All about the contested convention, guys. All right. So were quiet, because, wow. Marinating on everything you just said. A good introduction for you. When were actually impressed with what youre reporting. There is no quick response. All right. So lets talk about how this happened and what it will mean and how long it will last. Our brand new cnn politics editor, wana, great to have you, wana sanders. And David Gregory, host of the David Gregory podcast. Okay. Collusion. Put up the statement from donald trump. Lets just say this is what hes calling it. Collusion, his tweet. Very angry, tweeting a lot, calling it desperation. Whenever its in caps you know he means it. The question, is it collusion . David gregory, cocollusion would be doing something secretive for dishonest or illegal purposes. This is not that, but unprecedented and huge for kasich and cruz. First, donald trump is right. Two relatively weak campaigns relative to his campaign joining forces to stop him, because they know the real game for them is to stop trump to win on the first ballot in cleveland. If he gets it on the first ballot, its over. They know if they can stop a first ballot victory for trump they have a shot. Maybe the two of them join forces, mabon marco rubio, maybe its somebody from the outside. I think thats unlikely. A lot of this is really about indiana. The three of them in the race, you have an advantage to trump. If you take kasich out of it, because he it some appeal there as a midwestern republican governor in a conservative state, if you take him out of the equation, cruz and trump get much closer. I think their view is, if trump were to win in indiana, it really does kind of are slam the door shut after perhaps hell have a pretty good run here tomorrow. Lets talk about the chess game and how they divvied up the pieces. So cruz is going to get indiana, and kasich oregon and new mexico. And i guess i mean, the big question is, can this work . Thats a great question and keep in mind the five states that vote tomorrow on tuesday, or all states phil noted donald trump could perform well and this from stopping donald trump from getting the nomination, it is much slimmer. Were seeing the campaigns working together it to see ground effect with one another. Whether it will work and be enough is really an open question. Right. Because thats the thing. Were using the phrase, phil, you get this, you get that. Neither gets any of these. The case that kasich wins those southwestern states, northwestern no. Not going to win them, but hell be competitive. Indiana, will cruz maybe, maybe not. What do you think the real st t strategy is here . All about convention . All about convention. These states arent winner take all. Appealing delegates state by state. While donald trump may win indiana, ted cruz going into congressional districts and taking delegates away, not only like john kasich did in new york. Donald trump had a crushing win but john kasich took away delegates. What this allows them both to do, save resources. Obviously, john kasich really low on money allows him to narrow his campaign, focus on specific areas, particularly oregon, and his campaign really likes new mexico where they think they can play well, peel off delegates giving ted cruz an an avoided slhot at indiana. Its make or break in indiana for ted cruz. One of the interesting things about this, ted cruz in particular was on the record he was not interested in any arrangement like this. When there were whispers about this a couple weeks ago he shot it down basically saying he didnt need john kasich who he considered a spoiler. And a staunch he said to you, i think, no, no, no. Theres no convention. This is all about who wins right now. Im the only one who can beat this guy. Absolutely. So what changed . Reality. A few weeks ago, trump won wisconsin. And cruz in wisconsin did something he hadnt done before. Expanded his base of support beyond christian conservatives. He was showing signs of perhaps he could expand that support and then got crushed. He gets a bagel in new york and now has to look ahead and see the prospects, and now theyre finally picking up what was the prescription from mitt romney. The former standard bearer in 2012. He said a month ago this ought to be the playbook for these two candidates to try to get it to an open convention, because he told me on my podcast last week, if both kasich and cruz coming out of new york were going at each other and all of these states through california theyre just going to divide too much of the vote and indiana tells the tale. Because as phil just said, cruz has got to win in indiana. A conservative state, and if theres three people on the race and hes trailing he needs kasich out of the equation. Doesnt mean he can necessarily do it or everybody staying home but a way for the campaign to say we have a strategy and have to Work Together to deny trump. A kink in it. One is that indiana, as phil pointed out, proportional. Southwest, northwest states, proportional. Most are now winner take all. Big difference between the democrats and republicans. So does this really help them . And some context whether or not theyre all in on this strategy, a nice way of saying theyre not. What theyve said about each other. Just hours beforehand. We have cruz and kasich about cruz and kasich . Yes. Watch this. A vote for cruz or trump frankly is a vote for Hillary Clinton. At the end of it all i think when were at the convention, the delegates are going to want to know who can beat hillary . And these guys dont have enough time to turn around super high negatives. As we stand here today there are two people and only two people that have any plausible path to winning the nomination. Me and donald trump. As i said, plausible path. An hour beforehand. The frenemies strategy. Thats what this is. Exactly. Going along to get along here and hoping this magic strategy will work out, but john kasich and ted cruz represent two very different sections of the republican party. Very different appeals to one another. Its not clear if this can work and the open question, so you deprive donald trump of delegates ahead of the convention. A big question looming over the socalled stop Trump Movement from the beginning, then who the person republicans can put up to defeat the democratic nominee, whether or not its Hillary Clinton or the long shot, Bernie Sanders. Indiana is may 3rd. Is that now the make or break state on the republican side . No question about it. For ted cruz, they made that clear last week. A back story to what you just showed. The top advisers for ted cruz and john kasich were meeting had a secret meeting in florida this past week. While ted cruz was in florida, during that rnc meeting he called john kasich a spoiler, didnt belong in the race. While ted cruz was still saying this their top advisers were meeting behind the scenes to make this happen. The reality is, while both candidates blessed the deal, neither spoke to one another. Still difficulties between the two of them. The reality, a recognition from both campaigns as painful as it may be from the candidates themselves that this is it. It might even be too late, but indiana is it for ted cruz and for john kasich its never been about winning states, all about getting to cleveland. This is an opportunity to make a deal, save resources and perhaps get himself to cleveland with donald trump in a weakened state. One little problem. One big problem. The little problem, consistent for kasich, always saying its an the convention. The last month or so. For cruz, a big change. Hell explain that. The big problem is tomorrow. A ton of delegates are going to come down tomorrow and a lot of them are winner take all in that. Some uncommitted at the convention, but its a big deal. Well see how they feel about this with the big numbers piling in tomorrow night. Well keep talking about this. In the 8 00 hour, players and the campaigns. Sam clovis with the Trump Campaign and ron nehring with ted cruzs campaign. Well see what they have to say about this. Very different stories, i promise you that. Mic. Take a look at what the democrats have to say. Hillary clinton is posed for a big day tomorrow as five northeast states head to the polls. Bernie sanders fighting to stay alive. Clinton is setting her sights now on the general election. Our National CorrespondentJason Carroll is in hagerstown, maryland with more. Good morning. Happy monday. Reporter happy monday to you, and you know, as you know, sanders has already acknowledged over the weekend that his path to the nomination looking more and more narrow. All this as Hillary Clinton is already setting her sights on who might be the republican nominee. Hello, bridgeport reporter Hillary Clinton is gearing up to a fivestate primary battle with Bernie Sanders, but it doesnt sound that way on the stump. What trump and cruz say, its not only offensive, its dang dangerous. Reporter the democratic frontrunners speeches were against donald trump. Donald trump actually says, wages are too high in america. Trump says things like, bar all muslims from coming into the country. Reporter ted cruz wasnt spared either. When ted cruz says, hey, lets round up all of the muslimamericans making sure we have Police Watching all of them, the commissioner of the nypd really summed it up when asked, when he said, ted cruz doesnt know maowhat the hell talking about. Reporter the vermont senator is not budging, continuing to draw a stark contrast between them. This campaign, unlike secretary clintons, has not raised 15 million from wall street. As secretary of state she pushed the fracking technology. Reporter with nearly 400 delegates on the line this tuesday, sanders vows to keep fighting for each vote. This campaign is doing well, and will win. Reporter sanders promising to wage war against clinton all the way until june. We do have a path to victory. I think we have come a very, very long way in the last year, and were going to fight for every last vote until the until california and the d. C. Primary. Reporter and looking ahead to california, the clinton camp also asking the sanders camp to tone down the rhetoric. This after a sanders supporter actress Rosario Dawson mentioned Monica Lewinsky over the weekend. Well talk about that with our panel comes up shortly with our panel. Thank you for that. Bernie sanders is staying in the race. 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