Chairman of the Republican National convention if donald trump asks him to. Hes the nominee. Ill do whatever he wants, with respect to the convention. Reporter ryan, striking a conciliatory tone after a bombshell announcement last week that he wasnt ready to support trump as the presumptive nominee. First, i want to get to know him and understand him better, because i really dont know him. Reporter the two men still set to meet on thursday along with rnc chairman reince priebus. Trump will also meet with Republican Senate leaders on the hill. Former president ial candidate dr. Ben carson reaching out to ryan for a private meeting to help soothe tensions before trump meets with him. Basically the kind of conversation im hoping we all can have is how we can actually unify our party. Reporter trump also making a big appointments, announcing new jersey Chris Christie will serve as the chairman for his Transition Team should he become the next president , but Party Leaders still weary of trumps conservative principles. Trump fending off backlash over his economic proposals, accusing the media of mischaracterizing him in several interviews on monday. So it was totally misrepresented just now by you and misrepresented frankly by nbc. Whoa, whoa, whoa. They go there to talk about like im giving a tax increase for the wealthy. Im not. Reporter explaining lower taxes for all. Increase the wealthy, theyre still paying less than now. Im not talking about inning increasing from this point, from my tax proposal. Reporter his plan to repay the National Debt. And renegotiate with creditors as reported. This is the United States government. First of all, you never have to default because you print the money. I said, if we can buy back Government Debt at a discount, in other words, if Interest Rates go up and we can buy bonds back at a discount reporter for donald trump spending the entire day defending, clarifying, seeming to revise on some economic proposals not ideal, but for Hillary Clintons campaign, exactly what they want. According to advisers ive spoken to, tie donald trump up just a day on positions related to policy, perfect for that campaign. It hasnt worked throughout the primary. If yesterday is an indication, its one they think they can pursue Going Forward and also keeping a close eye on, marco rubio. Already pulling himself out of consideration for the Vice President ial candidate. Not the first republican to do that, and likely not the last as well, guys. We are going to hear from marco rubio on the lead later on today phil. Should be very, very interesting. Meantime, on democratic side, the sole focus is on West Virginia. Mountain mama take me home. Eight years ago Hillary Clinton dominated against then challenger barack obama. This time around she 345i may b underdog. Will coal country turn on Hillary Clinton giving Bernie Sanders another win . Live in charleston, in West Virginia, polls open in, what, a few minutes . Reporter right. 6 30, and the poll workers are inside getting everything set up. Now, if early voting is any indication, there may be recordsetting votes cast in todays primary. The question is on the democratic side who will they vote for . Bernie sanders or Hillary Clinton . This state, youre right. Its coal country. They still have not forgotten what Hillary Clinton said during the town hall meeting. Cnns meeting in march, where she said coal mines will be shut down and coal miners will lose their jobs. Now, she has said she misspoke there. That what she actually meant was she is encouraging other industries to come to West Virginia, but Bernie Sanders said last night in sacramento that he is going to win West Virginia. Now, im not going to get into plan b, because we have five weeks and believe me well be working very hard in these next five weeks on plan a. Plan a is winning california, winning West Virginia, kentucky, oregon and the remaining states. After that, then well look at where we are at, but my goal right now is to get more pledged delegates than Hillary Clinton. Reporter now, we want to look at some of these early voting totals. You will see, its truly recordsetting here in West Virginia. 2016, this year, early votes, almost 101,000. In 2012, a little over 57,000, and in 2008, about 69,000 votes cast. You can see, record number, but the gop is saying that they believe they will be the winners today, because of coal countrys alliance to donald trump nep say early voting has been in recordsetting numbers and they think they will continue today. Alisyn, chris . Thank you very much. Appreciate the reporting. Economic back with you when the poms actually open. Lets discuss implications whats on the table this morning. Cnn Political CorrespondentPhil Mattingly back with us, cnn political ank herb at time warner news, mr. Errol louis and cnn political analyst and host of the redoubtable David Gregory show podcast, David Gregory. The redonkulous. Good to you have all here. David, start with you. What do you believe the major implication is of what trump did yesterday on tax policy a little bit, but more on debt understanding. Two ways to look at it. This is a businessman. Hes looking at it differently. More efficiently, more effect e effective effectively, or this doesnt work in government. A lot of concern about the latter. The larger frame for this is how he United States the Republican Party, and that is his First Priority right now. This meeting with ryan looms large, because hes got to unite all the wings of the party if hes going to get out the vote this november and get it out strong and raise all the money he wants and needs to raise and has to rely on the party to raise. Policy positions like this that are flexible. That maybe are not well thought out. That are nontraditional. All of that sends signals to the broader electorate at large, yes that he can tack back and forth and refine the issues. Its unusual he doesnt have fixed Economic Issues, appears to be a moving target on some of these policies. The real issue, what it sends within the party when he wants to get the conservative wing of the party in the fold. To get them united before a convention to get the vote up. Errol, how nervous are Party Leaders about, i can renegotiate the debt, i can print money. The things that he said yesterday . Its an interesting question. I mean, i would love to hear what kind of phone calls Party Leaders are getting from the Business Leaders that they respond to. The big donors that they rely upon, because, you know, when donald trump does bits, i think weve gotten a sense of this, does business, its flexible, negotiated. All negotiated. Chaotic at times. Throw something out there to see what works and so forth. On the other hand when youre doing that with u. S. Currency, with the bond market, you can cause a level of disruption that, you know, maybe works for him as a private businessman, may not work for everybody else when talking about leadership of the global economy. So if Party Leaders are willing to live with this, hearing from donors, hearing from corporate leaders, well, yeah, might be turbulent, we can live with it, you get one outcome. More likely, i think, they are craving stability. And its in the constitution for a reason u. S. Debt shall not be questioned. The bedrock of the modern economy. If donald trump is fully aware of that, and he probably got a little bit of pushback in the last couple of days. I think hes going to probably modulate this a little bit and has something most politicians never have. The ability to do a 180 day after day after day after day, and not suffer in the polls for it. He doesnt have flipflop. He says flexible. Find ways to make it work, he says. Thats salable with what hes doing with policy. How is it working inside the party . One guy calmed me yesterday, of course he wanted you to congratulate him when you talked to hill. Thats what hes saying to all of us. The Republican People need to stand up within the party, come to him, say, youre the man. Congratulate him, fall in line. Is that happening . If you think from a republican perspective that their candidate, their presumptive nominee, their standard bearer would be giving interviews talk purely about his flexible on policy, his willing to negotiate, that his original proposal is a floor not a ceiling and willing to give in negotiations you would think they would be horrified. On some level talking to Republican Leaders and staff on capitol hill, theyre kind of scratching their head right now. When you talk to people who met with didnt dnd behind the scenes, whether on politics or policies, theyll tell you hes a different person than you see out on the stump. When it comes to policy issues specifically, take the debt issue, hes taken four bites at this apple over the course of the last five days. All four hes revised his position in some way. The position he ended up with you yesterday morning and with the wall street journal yesterday afternoon is essentially a nation can work for the Republican Party. At least it wouldnt lead to default. The idea it will take him four times to get to that position, and a position that doesnt necessarily track with republican orthodoxy still is very concerning inside the Republican Party. David, speaking of money, donald trump has estimated it will cost maybe 1. 5 billion to run in the general, and so now he is beginning to sort of put into motion the wheels of fundraising and finding donors. What happened to the selffunding his campaign . Well i dont think he ever intended to selffund to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Certainly to get a billion Dollar Campaign up and going. I dont know anybody who would want to dot that. Yeah, he has to rely on the party and big donors within the party and this gets to the other large point which is, is everybody behind it . The primary for the republicans is over. So a lot of the lashing out he did at the party elites and the establishment, to win the day, he now has to transition into a new phase where hes got to get the Party Apparatus behind him, get big donors behind him and i think he is uncomfortable with this transition. Hes in a position, as phil said, look, come to me. I did something historic here. Im the nominee. I represent a new brand of conservatism. You all have to kind of get over yourselves. And thats not happening yet. But this is a different dynamic, david. Interesting. One thing asking for support in politics, we know, errol, now, hes asking for money. You go and ask people for money the leverage shifts in the conversation. Is this something where his famed negotiating skills come in handy . Hes been on the other side of the transactions. The ones to write checks and pester candidates if he feels like it or give strategic advice hell probably disregard. He knows what its like to have rich donors come in and sort of muscle their way around your campaign. Hes going to have to decide how much of that hes going to put up with and how much hes going to do. I think also hes got to figure out what kind of a campaign he really wants to run. Hes done everything on a shoestring now. If he think its thats what he wants to do going into november, he may not need to raise the money weve been talking about. Panel, stick around. A lot to talk about with Hillary Clintons campaign as well. Players and wanting to hear from them, you will get that on cnn. Marco rubio talking to the one and only jake tapper on his show. The first interview since dropping out of the race. Whats he going to say, whats he not going to say . 4 00 p. M. Eastern right on the lead. J. B. . And the transgender bathroom law, an allout legal war. Both sides, the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina now suing each other. Martin savidge live whith the latest. Good morning. Reporter clear indications North Carolina did not decide to back down, instead it doubled down and file add suit agained the federal government. An escalating in North Carolina over the states socalled bathroom law. North carolina and the federal government filing duelling lawsuits within an hour of each other. Citing violations and overreach. Placing North Carolina in direct opposition to federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity. They created statesponsored discrimination against transgender individuals. Reporter the states governor responding to a Justice Department demand to drop the law or amend it with a lawsuit of his own. We believe a court rather than a federal agency should tell our state, our nation and employers across the country what the law requires. Reporter the most controversial provision bans transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate. Attorney general loretta lynch, a North Carolina native, comparing the law to segregation. What this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share. It was not so very long ago that states including North Carolina had other signs above restrooms, water fountains and on public accommodations keeping people out based on a distinction without a difference. Reporter North Carolina countering saying the Obama Administration is attempting to rewrite the law for public and private employers across the country. This is not just a North Carolina issue. This is now a national issue. I think its time for the u. S. Congress to bring clarity to our national antidiscrimination provisions under title 7 and title 9. Reporter one of the institutions caught potentially in the middle here is the Public University system of North Carolina, and the storied university of North Carolina itself. It put out a statement late in the day saying that it would comply with federal law. Which sounds good. Except right now the governor of that state is challenging just what is federal law. Alisyn . Okay, martin. Thanks so much for the back grourn background. This morning a deadly knife attack at a train station near munich, germany. One man dead three others injured. Police are questioning witnesses about what happened including whether the suspect shouted a a allau akbar, meaning god is good. And ripping through oklahoma, several tornados. Take a look at this. It really is out of a movie. Carving its way through elmore city. People trying to get out of the way. You dont know what to do. Weve all been on the ground if youre in this business. When you see tornadoes you dont know which way to go. Sure enough, it has been devastating. The question, is the threat over . So many neighborhoods destroyed. Bring in cnn meteorologist chad myers with what you need to know. As were saying here, chad, its hard to prepare once its on the ground, but whats the best course force for people in these areas . Understand, its still spring, chris. This isnt going to be over. We wont get 21 tornadoes like yesterday, but some on the ground, maybe towards the evansville area, plus or minus 100 miles from there. Storms continue this morning. Still on the ground in spots. Dallas, weather towards the west and tyler and longview and back to texarkana. Theres the storm setting up, moving farther to the east tomorrow. Maybe a couple, a dozen, maybe half a dozen. All you need in your neighborhood is one to ruin your day. Back to the video here, because i want to point out a couple of things what we tall a stove pipe tornado. Straight up and down, likely somewhere in the neighborhood of 130 to maybe 150 Miles Per Hour inside that vortex. The Weather Service will be back out there looking at that today to see how much damage was done to substantial buildings. Thats how they figure out how high the winds were to knock down a brick structure, and you throw those bricks so many feet or yards or in cases miles, then they know how big the storm is. Now back to my map and show you how the storm look and radar, because this is such a classic setup i think you should see it. Heres what it looks like on radar. This is the hail core of the storm. Theres elmore city as the storm tracked all the way across towards roth. Always look for, if looking at local radar at home or something on internet is this hook down here at the bottom. That hook and ball is the debris ball. That is insulation and shingles and trees and branches in the air as that storm continueded to move. This is a big tornado pup lucky it didnt move through a more populated area or we would have lost