What needs to be done and who needs to go to prison. Plus, brand new details about the final moments of the life of prince. Even a lifesaving mission on the day he died that was too late. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Well, folks, there you have it, donald trump is the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee, having vaing wished all his republican vie valls including the final holdout, Ohio Governor john kasich who is expected to drop out of the race in just a few minutes. Trump is pivoting to the general election, starting to vent potential Vice President ial picks and promising to eviscerate Hillary Clinton who just previewed the attack shell take against trump in an exclusive cnn interview branding him a risky loose canon. As trump shifts his focus were starting to see how many of those never trump stall worths will end up backing the partys standard bearer. Jim acosta in new york where trump is plotting strategy. Were already seeing some members of the party who said they would never support trump coalesce around trump. Reporter thats right. Thats where we are in this process right now with ted cruz and now john kasich out of the race Trump Campaign sources say the presumptive gop nominee will start to focus on building a 50 state general Election Campaign with a much bigger staff that will begin to join forces with the rnc and advisors to trump say names are already beginning to surface as early names in the search for a running mate. Donald trump is the last man standing. Its a beautiful thing to watch and a beautiful thing to behold and were going to make America Great again. Reporter after a convincing win in indiana trumps road to the white house just got a lot less congested, with john kasich dropping out of the race. Cnn has learned the Ohio Governor told Close Friends my heart is not in this. The sudden departures of kasich and ted cruz we gave it everything weve got. Reporter now present a new challenge for trump, to unite a Republican Party that is deeply divided, a task made more difficult by the presumptive gop nominee who angered many in the party when he speculated that cruzs father was involved in the kennedy assassination, an outrageous and unsubstantiated claim ripped right out of the National Enquirer, trump still not offering an apology. The National Enquirer gave you, john edwards, it gave you o. J. Simpson, it gave you many things. You cant knock the National Enquirer. Reporter a key trump advisory conceded cruz will need some space before he speaks with the real estate tie coop. Its not going to be today but weve got to move past the primary. In the heat of battle people say things on all sides. Reporter trump has begun looking for a Vice President ial running mate. Rob portman, suzanne in a martinez and nikki haley are the early favorites inside the campaign as they would be on anybodys short list. Trumps daughter ivanka is expected to offer her input on the process which is in its early stages and trump wants to pick a politician. The business i handle i think im going to be very, very good on the military to be honest with you, i think that will be the hidden strength and i think probably i would like to go with somebody with great political experience. Trump is boldly predicting he will beat Hillary Clinton in traditionally democratic strong holds like new york but he wont have the support of the antitrump New York Daily News which welcomed his victory with the picture of an elephant in a coffin. Rnc chairman Reince Priebus told cnn trump will actually help the gop. Do you know what, i think Something Different and something new is probably good for our party. Now, trump still planning to campaign in the states that are Still Holding primaries in the coming weeks to turn his attention to Hillary Clinton and team trump is enjoining the fact that hes driven off his rivals before Hillary Clinton as one trump surrogate put it to me, jake, who would have thought we would have a nominee before the democrats and we should point out my colleague dana barber has confirmed with rob portmans office he is not interested in being Donald Trumps running mate so the trial balloons are going up and already being popped. Thank you so much. The Presumptive Republican nominee is moving into general election mode and in a brand new interview with my colleague, wolf blitzer, mr. Trump talked about his potential Vice President ial picks and his plans for taking on Hillary Clinton. As were speaking i know youre very happy that ted cruz has dropped out. Cnn has confirmed john kasich, the Ohio Governor, hes dropping out as well. You are the only one left right now. Thats good. Thats good. Youre just telling me this the first time about john and thats good. I think john is doing the right thing. Ohio, you know, is an important state. No republican has ever been elected president of the United States without winning ohio. Well, i think john will be very ive had a Good Relationship with john. Hes got a lot of government experience, congress, as a governor. I think john will be very helpful with ohio even as a governor. He says he doesnt want to be a Vice President. That could be. He said that. Would he be someone you would be interested in vetting. I would be interested in vetting john. I like john, i have had a Good Relationship with john, ive gotten along with him well. Whether he is Vice President or not i think he will be very helpful with ohio. Do you think the general Election Campaign has already started you versus Hillary Clinton that for all practical purposes Bernie Sanders is out . Well, i think what has happened theres been a little flip and im surprised by t i thought that i would be going longer and she would be going shorter. She cant put it away, thats like a Football Team they cant get the ball over the line. I put it away. She cant put it away. I thought i would be out there and she would be campaigning against me. I will be campaigning against her while shes the general Election Campaign from your perspective starts today. Essentially it started, yeah. And for all of wolf blitzers interview with donald trump be sure to tune into the situation room right after our show, thats at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Lets bring in our Political Panel to discuss this remarkable past 20 hours. We have bill crystal and van jones. Bill, the obvious question for you, you once threatened to start a third party if trump got the nomination but there are others out there publicly saying, republicans, die hard republicans saying they are not going to vote for donald trump, one of them mark salter, john mccains former chief of staff tweeting the gop is going to nominate for president a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks its on the level. Im with her. Using the Hillary Clinton slogan im with her. What are you going to do . Im not with trump but im not with her so im looking for an independent candidate. I think ben sasse, senator from nebraska, very bright young promising senator has said he cant support donald trump and he doesnt want to support Hillary Clinton, let ben sasse run, he can take nikki haley, maybe she would like to run with sasse, they can argue which order to have the ticket in. Im saying on cnn, sasse, haley, haley, sasse, they are both fine with me. I would like there to be an independent republican candidate because i cant support trump and clinton. If it comes down to it and its clinton versus trump and maybe you have gary johnson running on the libertarian ticket would you vote for gary johnson . I will write in someone appropriate. But youre never trump . No, i dont think he has the character to be president of the United States. Its beyond any particular issue i disagree with him on or who he picks as vp. The man in the last five days embraced mike tyson, the endorsement of a convicted rape in indiana. He likes toughness, donald trump, thats great, he likes rapists. The thing with ted cruzs father he recycles a National Enquirer story accusing his rivals father being involved in the assassination of kennedy. Van, you are a democrat and are afraid that trump is going to win. Absolutely. I said, you know, get your sandbags ready, democrats, a wave is coming. A wave is coming. Listen, i have unfortunately had to spend a lot of time in minnesota the past two weeks. The unfortunately part is not being in minnesota. No. Because prince died. Exactly. So people in minnesota dont protest. I love minnesota. I love minnesota. Desperate cnn executives in minnesota are calling its because of princes death. I spent some time not in the no in los angeles, no the in d. C. , not in san francisco. Theres pain out there. People are very, very frustrated and its like past divorce, in the middle of a divorce people are mad. People are just done. We have a lot of people that are just done. So i think what weve got to accept is this is a verdict thats being passed through the sanders campaign, through the Trump Campaign on what weve been doing in the Political Class and i believe that Hillary Clinton can get through this, but not if people start gloating and assuming that somehow trump is going to selfdestruct. We already went through ten months of people saying exactly the same thing, hes got a ceiling, he cant do this, he cant do that. This is not a normal weather event, this is a tsunami. We have to have a very different approach to this phenomenon. Just to put an exclamation point next to vans point, in indiana, the most middle american state there is, right, 54 of the voters who voted last night voted for either donald trump or Bernie Sanders. I mean, think of it, thats kind of amazing. Centrist middle american state and they reject the more centrist candidates of both parties and vote for sanders and trump. I want to Say Something just in complimenting you for once in my career, i do think that there is a difference between what in europe they would call the clean right and dirty right. You and i have disagreed on many signs but you have never trafficked in violence, nasty racial appeals, we just dont agree on stuff. There is a dirty right that is growing in europe and its now growing inside the United States that traffics in political violence, traffics in the kinds of racial appeals not dock whistles but mega phones, i think its dangerous. I dont know if you have the right strategy but i think that those people who have built a conservative movement that had to be respected, we had respect in the Democratic Party for obama was a response to the fact that they had built something coherent and powerful and smart and we had to respond. This is something that is very, very disturbing, i think, for the entire Political Class and those conservatives who stick to their principles i think will be rewarded in the longterm. Stick around, guys. Coming up, what does Hillary Clinton have to say about her Presumptive Republican opponent. I dont think we can take a risk on a loose canon like donald trump running our country. Isnt that line a lot of primary voters like trump, because he speaks his mind and isnt politically correct . Stay with us. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. There is only one place where real and amazing live. Seaworld. Real. Amazing youre down with crestor. Alright now theres a way you can get crestor for 3. Adding crestor, along with diet, lowers bad cholesterol. Crestor is not for people with liver disease, or women who are nursing,pregnant, or may become pregnant. Tell your doctor all medicines you take. Call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness; feel unusually tired; have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. These could be signs of serious side effects. Ask for the crestor 3 card. Ask your doctor about crestor. Welcome back to the lead. Were going to stick with politics. A win is a win as the sports fans say except of course when it really isnt in politics. Last nights win in indiana does not put senator Bernie Sanders any closer to winning the democratic nomination. If sanders wants to derail Hillary Clinton he will need to win 101 of the remaining delegates, that is unlikely. Brianna keilar is with me in washington. Last night senator sanders said in a statement that, quote, the Clinton Campaign thinks this is over, theyre wrong. I am a little confused because he seemed to be suggesting a week ago that he was in this so the democratic voters could keep voting and so that he would have some input on the Democratic Party platform. But is he still running to win . I think he is still fighting to influence the platform. I think hes being genuine when he says that, but hes also trying to motivate his supporters. I was in indiana with sanders last week and it really works. His campaign believes whether youre fighting for the nomination or the platform the route there, the strategy is the same. That Hillary Clinton says she understands sanders is staying in for the long haul, she did back in 2008 but its clear she now considers this a twoperson race with donald trump, not Bernie Sanders. Donald trump may be trying to brand Hillary Clinton. Crooked Hillary Clinton. Crooked hillary. Crooked hillary. Crooked hillary, right, crooked. Shes crooked as you can be. But shes got her own label for the Presumptive Republican nominee. He is a loose canon. Loose cannons tend to misfire. I dont think we can take a risk on a loose canon like donald trump. In an exclusive interview with Anderson Cooper clinton made moves to protect her lead with minority voters. Elizabeth warren tweeted that donald trump has built his campaign on racism, sexism and zeen owe phobia. I think Elizabeth Warren is really smart. Do you think he is a racist. I will let people judge for themselves. I have the highest regard for senator warren. With trump the last republican standing clinton still has a primary battle. Bernie sanders clinching a win in indiana. I understand that secretary clinton thinks that this campaign is over. Ive got some bad nuz for her. But despite a victory in the Hoosier State sanders path to the nomination is seen as impossible. Clinton has turned her attention to trump. Polls 54 to 41 , but trump bests her on handling of the economy as he eyes the industrial midwest where clinton could pay dearly to this comment at a march town hall. We are going to pull a lot of coal miners and Coal Companies out of business. Clinton has since said she misspoke. Ive been very clear weve got to make a transition to clean renewable energy, ive always been clear for this whole campaign that we cant do it in a way that totally leaves behind people who dug out the coal to turn on the lights and to power our factories. But trump is insisting he will make sure the comments stick. I watched her three or four weeks ago when she was talking about the miners as if they were just numbers and she was talking about she wants the mines closed. And just to show you the kind of cleanup duty that clinton is on for that remark, she was in ohio yesterday and she said she was there to explain that she made a mistake, this is a big issue and very key states like ohio and also pennsylvania and other areas. You heard trump jumping on it immediately. And he will continue to. Thank you so much. Lets bring back our Political Panel. Senior editor of the Weekly Standard bill kristol and van jones. Van, lets take a look at in you video brand new just put out by Hillary Clintons campaign. I am a unifier. Were going to be a unified party. He is a con artist. A phoney. Donald trump is the know nothing candidate. Donald is a bully. This is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter. I dont remember. Who it goes on and on from there. Effective . I think its going to be good for the base to feel like, hey, there is a real problem here, but the clintons Hi