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When he failed to endorse donald trump. Cruz had several hours to stew on that reaction before taking to the microphones once again today, and he did not back down. I will tell you, when i stood up on the big stage and they asked every candidate there, if you dont win, will you support the nominee. I raised my hand and raised my hand enthusiastically with full intention of doing exactly that. Ill tell you the day that pledge was abrogated, the day that was abrogated was the day this become personal. As i said at the time, and im not going to get into criticizing or attacking donald trump, but ill give you this response, i am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. [ cheers and applause ] and that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack heidi, that im going to come, nonetheless, like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father. Just a little while ago, our owner rin burnett sat down with donald trump junior to get his reaction to the cruz complaints. Listen to this. Hes a pure politician. He tries to play the anti establishment guy. Guess what . During his entire initial stage, he wanted to work for the bush campaign, wanted to do this. The problem is, no one likes him. Hes so unlikable. Literally, no fans, no friends, and he only became anti establishment when he couldnt be a part of the establishment because he couldnt get in there because no one wanted him in there. Do you even want the endorsement . We dont care. We got it de facto, we got it from the voters, the people my father has been speaking to directly. Like the Melania Trump speech controversy on monday, this new ted cruz speech has stolen the focus from the intended message. Joining us right now, political reporter sarah murray and sun land serfaty. What are you hearing from the trump camp in response to the cruz comments . This is pretty extraordinary. Reporter thats absolutely right, extraordinary is just the way to put it. I think we have seen from the donald trump interview, through comments from eric trump, chris christie, trumps own family and allies, we have seen this frustration, this disappointment, anger toward ted cruzs performance, they did see the remarks ahead of time, they knew what was coming. There was still this hope that maybe ted cruz would come around, maybe offer an endorsement or at least have nice things to say about donald trump, and we just really did not see any of that in ted cruzs speech last night. Amid all of this, we have seen donald trump trying to downplay the controversy that ted cruz stirred up. This is very normal for donald trump. He hates the idea of rejection by anyone. He likes to be loved, even by his former rivals. So he took to twitter today to really sort of bat this all back saying, other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is very united, great love in the arena. Wolf, it is worth noting that delegates on the floor last night, even some who were ted cruz supporters were disappointed by what they heard from ted cruz last night. I also talked to a number of republican donors who arent necessarily huge fans of donald trump, but they were disappointed to see ted cruz come out there. They felt like he snubbed donald trump and stubbed the party on this national stage. At least in the room last night it seems like donald trump did have some of the love hes indicating here on twitter, wolf. Sunlen, senator cruz was booed on the convention floor, hammered by a lot of trump republicans including rick perry, chris christie. But has all the reaction been bad for ted cruz . No, it hasnt. If you look at outlets like the weekly standard, the national review, if you look at how theyre playing this, theyre giving ted cruz glowing reviews from last night. I think in large part that was part of his calculation, that there would be this group of tried and true conservatives that would be receptive to his stance and receptive to his messages last night. Cruz aides say the senator was a bit surprise bid the forceful pushback he received on the floor last night and at this mornings texas delegation meeting and he did want to try to defuse the situation by taking questions from the delegation this morning. I did think that the particular si sound bite you played where he offered a personal explanation for why he didnt come out and fully endorse donald trump by any stretch of the imagination, saying im not in the habit of endorsing someone that disparages my wife and father. Ted cruz bringing that explanation has a lot of resonance Going Forward and i think thats what well continue to hear him say. Sunlen, thanks very much. Sarah, thanks to you as well. Lets bring in the panel to talk about the ted cruzdonald trump showdown. We have cnn chief National Correspondent john king, the anchor of inside politics, cnn political analyst David Gregory, the host of the David Gregory show and Jackie Kucinich is the Washington Bureau chief for the daily beast. How extraordinary is what we saw last night . Were supposed to be sitting here today talking about, what are the three big points donald trump needs to make tonight, what did we learn from mike pence about where he plans to mount the campaign and where does the campaign see were supposed to be looking in the veer rue mirror. Because of this feud between donald trump and ted cruz, this is about the Republican Party, about the focus of the Republican Party. Instead, were looking at the review mirror. The conventions are to close the door. The first day is supposed to be slam the door shut on the primary season, move forward for the general election. Not in Donald Trumps world. Were living in the world of the unexpected because we have the most unconventional candidate in our life times. Cruz this morning at this event he had with members of the texas delegation. Hes the senator from texas, he doubled and tripled and quadrupled down. Listen to this. What does it say when you stand up and say vote your conscience and rabid supporters of our nominee begin screaming what a horrible thing to say if we cant make the case to the American People that voting for our partys nominee is consistent with voting your conscience, with defending freedom and being faithful to the constitution, then we arent going to win and we dont deserve to win. Thats how you win elections. Hes obviously not bundling. And its so personal. He made it very clear. Donald trump trashed his wife, trashed his father. He made it clear its personal. We talk about sarah palin going rogue, this is going road. If the big goal here was to achieve party unity, this shows the primary is not over, the party is divided. Trump is adding to those divisions with his comments about nato and he still has a huge task tonight which is to convince more than 60 of the people who dont think hes prepared to be president that he is. Thats a lot of work to do. Youre in charge of your convention unless youre not. He appears to have not been in charge. Jackie, the Vice President ial republican nominee, mike pence, he was responding this morning. He was on fox. Listen to this. I didnt hear all of teds speech. I did hear him congratulate donald trump. Got that out of the way right at the beginning. On winning a hardfought campaign. This was a tough and challenging primary. These are tough competitors. Ive been through a few tough elections myself. I know those feelings can be strong. I was grateful that he came. I was grateful he congratulated our mom knee. Im confident in the days ahead youll see the party come together and present the choice to the American People. That was about a positive a spin as you can imagine. Very impressive. Mike pence basically said, cant we all just get along . Idea logically mike pence is much closer to ted cruz than he is donald trump. He endorsed ted cruz. It was a little tepid, but he did. Very much even when he was in congress, he was very much like ted cruz, not like donald trump, so he probably does feel that pull and he once even on the ticket to unite the Republican Party. Hes got quite a job ahead of him. Marco rubio addressed the crowd here, not here in person, via video. But he took a different tone than ted cruz, even though marco rubio lost in the republican president ial primary contest. Ill play a little clip. Donald trump is committed to cut taxes, curb spending and get our National Debt under control. Unlike barack obama and Hillary Clinton donald trump takes seriously the threats from islamic radicals and is committed to rebuilding our military. After a long and spirited primary, the time for fighting each other is over. So he came via video, endorsed donald trump which cruz didnt do. Hes up for reelection. You make a key point, hes up for reelection. I expect when rubio woke up and read the paper about the nato treaty and donald trump says it depends on the they pay their dues, i suspect he thought about did i really want to send that video. Well see in 2018 when hes up for Senate Reelection or 2020. Look at the florida primary map. In rubios home state, donald trump cleaned his clock. The last thing you want to do, if you look at the florida primary, if youre marco rubio, he doesnt like donald trump, doesnt want to be around donald trump. He doesnt want to poke Donald Trumps voters in the eyes because he needs them. Among conservative icons, hes getting praise, ted cruz, in the nastional review in an article lion ted, as opposed to lie lying. Slate writes ted cruz just made himself 9ds kw4r50i6r7b8g9sds swrab are a conservative icon. I think as i go around this convention and talk to elected officials, this is a time of choosing for a lot of conservatives. Congress said to me yesterday, well have to ask the question. He may be disliked, may be seen as a phony. That question is going to be asked. If trump loses and loses badly, there will be questions for the other conservatives who fall beneath the fallen line. And theyll be a real split about that as there is now. This is not a united party. What passes for unity is literally calling for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton. The Never Trump Movement maded, but there are still influential elements among republicans who cant stomach the thought of having trump as their nominee. Absolutely. Cruz has a Foundation Within this very convention this is Donald Trumps coronation. But look at the platform, look at the rules. That is ted cruz. That is very conservative indoctrine thats woven through. That felt to me like cruz 2020, the Building Blocks of that last night. Dont rule out if trul wins, that cruz wont challenge in the primaries in 2020. What he did last night was give a green light to never trump voters. Dont accept the pressure to vote for trump. Will that matter in texas . No. Might it matter in virginia . Maybe. How ability ohio . How about florida. Lots more to assess, guys. Thanks very much. The fallout coming fast and furious after cruzs decision not to endorse donald trump. So did he wreck his chances for a future president ial run . Well talk about that with one of ted cruzs former key staffers. 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Was all this about 2020, ted cruz looking ahead lets say if donald trump loses, maybe hes set the stage for another effort at the republican nomination . He started last night talking about people forget he congratulated donald trump for his victory and called for people to vote their conscience. That was the takeaway from last night. Why couldnt he simply say, as marco rubio said, i support ted cruz . It was nice that donald trump invited him to come, very gracious. Everyone was expecting they would get some sort of endorsement. It was extremely generous to have the invitation without a doubt. There has been a phenomenal convention, theyve done a great job, but at the same time, when the initial offer was made, there was never any exchange of, look, you can speak as long as you endorse. That was never in the initial conversation. They spoke the other day. The Cruz Campaign made it clear that they were not going to endorse. When they saw the speech two hours prior to giving the speech, they saw it wasnt going to happen. They knew there was not going to be an endorsement. Obviously, understandably, theyre frustrated the way things have come to play, but the point of his speech was to help unify people. Wolf, you know, you recall back in 76 when reagan gave his speech for gerald ford, he didnt endorse. He called for unity, lets unify and come together. Thats part of teds message last night and hell continue to do so. You think between now and november 8th ted cruz will formally endorse him . Last night he said he doesnt want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States. The only other realistic option would be trump. Theres no statute of limitations on when you can and cant give an endorsement. Thats important to keep in mind. As he said, like a lot of people, theyre still listening and looking and watching what donald trump is going to do, and he will want to hold his feet to the fire on issues important to him, such as protecting the constitution, our freedoms, life, liberty and marriage. Thats what he was doing. This morning ted cruz said it was also personal. It was very ugly, those exchange that ted cruz and donald trump had during the campaign. Ted cruz this morning said, look, look what he said about my wife, look what he said about my father. You think i can go ahead and endorse someone like that. I would hope a lot of men would be the same way in terms of someone is critical to your wife like that and says such things about your father, that he killed jfk, not to mention you also cant forget donald trump repeatedly called to question teds citizenship and whether or not he was qualified to be president. It tooks us weeks and weeks to fight that. Its really personal. Sure. But at the same time, there are principles and what he did last night, as he said, hes standing on principles, calling on conservatives to vote their conscience and unite the party by standing be hoond and uniting on values. At the same time he was standing for his principles, it got personal since they took that pledge. Last night in the speech, not so much about politics, but it was about politi personal he did make the pledge at one of the first republican debates saying whoever the republican nominee is, he will vote for him, support him, and the accusation is hes betraying his own word. As he has said numerous times, and donald trump has previously said he would go back if certain things happen with regard to the pledge. The takeaway that ted made last night is that the policies of Hillary Clinton and barack obama, we cannot have those anymore and its time for the conservatives to unify. Here you see donald trump arriving at the convention. They call it the q, the quicken loans arena. Hes going to walk around. I see ivanka trump, his eldest daughter is with him right now. Theyll be checking out the stage. Shell speak tonight, introduce her father. Shes very impressive in her own right, as all of us know. Theyll get a sense of the stage there tonight. Most of the speakers like to do that coming in earlier in the afternoon and getting a little sense. There you see paul manafort, the Trump Campaign chairman, hes walking in as well. This is going to be a really significant moment for donald trump tonight, his big speech. Were going to watch that unfold. Alice, as you see this going on, you worked for ted cruz on his president ial campaign, you worked for Mike Huckabee at one point. Youve worked on several president ial campaigns. For donald trump right now, this is going to be one of the most important nights of this whole campaign, the speech he delivers tonight, to the American People. Absolutely, without a doubt. What we see them doing there, refd to as the walkthrough. They get a sense of the stage and the lighting and the microphone. Hes an expert speaker and has given many speeches. This is important to just get a sense of the stage, and without a doubt, tonights speech and the theme behind it, make America Great again, what i think will be so great tonight. Donald trump has said this from the very beginning and his brand has been make America Great again. Tonights speech is his way to tie a bow around it and bring the party together. I think its going to be certainly a phenomenal speech, really reaching out to the people in this room and across the country. Im sure the rating also be through the roof. It will be his chance to show his contrast between his policies, his views en vicksed for the future in contrast with Hillary Clinton whichever one in that room across the street in terms of the delegates acknowledge his policies will, as he has said, make this country great again as opposed to Hillary Clintons. Well see if he walks out on the stage. Well have coverage of that. It looks like the secret service guys are moving around over there right now. Hell be walking up to that stage. Wanting to get a little flavor of whats going on. Lets take a quick break. Well come back to these live pictures. As soon as we do donald trump certainly known for his showmanship. What should we expect from his speech tonight . Much more on that. Will he say anything about ted cruz . Well ask one of Donald Trumps senior advisers. Were standing by to see donald trump and ivanka trump on the stage getting a little sense of whats going on. Approaching medicare eligibility . 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You did this yesterday with mike pence. I did. Its usually a pretty brief process, just getting you comfortable with where the stage will be set up, where the teleprompters will. Its typical for them to practice with the teleprompter outside the convention hall. You have cameras there obviously, journalists watching them. Its not that hes going to go through his whole script, maybe practice the cadence in your head, go through some of the lines where you know youre going to hesitate for effect, great applause lines. A very special partnership between ivanka trump and her dad. Shes worked hard on her speech, a masterpiece. Shes 34 years old, extremely impressive woman. Obviously theyre both going to be reading speeches carefully scripted, carefully drafted speeches on the teleprompters. They are. In the case of ivanka, normally introductions like the one you saw from speaker ryan of mike pence, theyre very warm but tend to be very biographical and maybe one or two anecdotes. Ivanka is his daughter but also a coworker. She calls him best friend, mentor and boss. I think youll see a much richer illustration of their relati relationship and how this man has helped other people along the way, people who felt down and out, people who wanted another chance, people who have come looking for a job. You heard his sons emphasize this, too, and the New York Times wrote a piece this morning about this, wolf, that this is a man, donald trump, who feels most comfortable talking to the electrician, the plumber, the foreman at a job, as comfortable as he is going up to see how the pept house has turned up at the end of a project. Tiffany the first night, only 22 years old. Amazing. Recent graduate of the university of pennsylvania, very impressive, very poised for a 22yearold. Extremely impressive, donald trump junior, eric trump last night. All the trump children, theyre adults, very polished. Theyre also great character witnesses. We all know if you can be judged in your life by the children you raised, youll be jun just fine. The full measure of the man that is unfolding this week, is someone respected by those who work for him, but also by those who love him and call him dad. I thought the trumppence combination is when he said look at the trump family, you cant fake great kids. A lot of americans can actually that resonates with him. He said my greatest title has been dad, not vip. This is closed press. We get a shot of it because we have cameras all over the quicken loans arena, but theyve turned off the microphones so we cant hear what he or ivanka might be saying right now. This is normal. Will there be a video tonight as well . Usually at a lot of these conventions, theres an exte extensive video introduction of the president ial nominee. You see that every night. A couple different out takes of the last several nights. Weve worked on that over the last couple weeks and months, putting that together for the convention. The thing about the videos, they get life after that. You can cut them down into ads, make them more documentary style. Donald trump and the social media team are doing a fen nol nall job reaching out to mel len yalls. I feel millennials get short solicit. Ivanka and her husband are millennials. Mature, poised, accomplished. They do this as a family affair, extended family affair, articulate. I believe coming out of this convention tomorrow, wolf, we will have seen this as the trump convention. Coming out of philadelphia next week, lets see if it felt like just Hillary Clintons conventi convention, overshadowed by liz wealth barren, barack obama, bill clinton. How big a problem was ted cruz last night . I thought it was a huge disappointment. I ran his major super pac. I understand the way he feels that. He could have said that. He could have said i will never forgive you for what you did to my father and wife, but i love my country. Sometimes you cant be a little bit pregnant. You cant come to the convention and stand there where this man is going to be nominated, talk about i thought ted cruz gave an emphatic and compelling roster of conservative principles and why were so different from obama and clinton, and then failed to say, and please elect this fall. Ive heard from donors disappointed, activists that are angry. I understand why he did it. Its a gamble for his political future. For many conservatives, the future viet now and we want to beat Hillary Clinton. Donald trump knew there was not going to be a formal endorsement. He was gracious enough to let him come speak . A great word to use for donald trump and one that is not used far enough in my view. Donald trump was gracious twice yesterday, second when he found out hours before that ted cruz was not going to endorse. He could have plunked him off his Convention Schedule but he did not. The first time he was gracious is refusing to accept the resignation of Meredith Mciver who helped Melania Trump write the speech and took the responsibility for that error in having some of the words from a former speech why didnt they come clean with that right away, why wait two and a half days . I dont know if it was two and a half days. Your point is well taken. I dont know if everyone knew the facts. Remember, this happened while the trumps were flying back to new york that night from melanias paul manafort, the Campaign Chairman was put in an awkward position. He was denying there was any plagiarism, denying there was any lifting of comments, if you will from Michelle Obamas speech eight years ago. Then all of a sudden we get the statement yesterday acknowledging, yeah, there was a problem the woman taking full responsibility and donald trump being incredibly gracious saying he wouldnt accept her resignation, shes been a part of the trump family and organization for years. Getting back to grace, donald trump could have taken that away from ted cruz. I think last night still belongs to mike pence. Most people arent talking about mike pence on this day. They will ultimately. Thats because people like the drama and ted likes the headlines. Youre starting to see a couple headlines on the web this afternoon, wolf, where this gamble backfired for ted cruz and people are scratching their heads. That remains to be seen. Mike pence as the Vice President ial nominee will have a daily opportunity to restate the case he made last night to america. I think last night with mike pence, americans got to see exactly why donald trump chose him. You see ivanka trump there at the microphone. The microphones are turned off. I want to let our viewers around the United States and around the world know. Shes practicing reading from the teleprompter, getting advice from the stage floor director. Donald trump is there. Paul manafort. To the right you see jared kushner, her husband, who is with her as well. Scotty, cnn contributor, donald trump supporter. Scotty, this is going to be for ivanka trump and for donald trump, i would argue probably the two most important speeches at least to date of their lives. Absolutely. Theres no better surrogate for mr. Trump than ivanka. Shes proven that time and time again. She shows grace, competence, stability. She shows the fruit of the tree is strong. I think every parent would love to say we would love to have a daughter just like ivanka. Tonight shes the best person to show the warmth of mr. Trump before he comes on stage and he shows the Leadership Qualities and the type of character he will be. Scotty and kellyanne, all of us know and i do it all the time, its not that easy getting that feel, delivering a speech, making it feel like youre just talking but youre really reading. You need some coaching. The teleprompter isnt in front of you, either. Its to either side. You have to be very careful that you dont look like youre watching a tennis match. The other thing, wolf, this is a pretty el ity hall. You some media and maybe a couple stray delegates taking pictures. You cant replicate or fully anticipate what it will be like tonight when thousands and thousands of people will be in that hall. And millions of people watching. Except for the fact these are trumps. Mr. Trump all year long has been speaking to tens of thousands of people in his rallies. Ive got to tell you, scotty, hes much better as a speaker when hes speaking, has some notes and delivering offthecuff. When hes reading he becomes a little more stiff, if you l not as natural. Hes a more exciting speaker when hes just speaking. Thats the challenge for tonight. While i respect the type of trump when hes talking about teleprompter trump, i know theres no way we would be here today putting mr. Trump at the top of his ticket, nominating him as our president if he had done teleprompter from day one. He would not be able to resonate, not be able to actually bond the Republican Party as his message has been able to do if he was reading from a teleprompter a wellprepared script. A very president ial look right now, i would have to say, full suit and tie and the flags. They get to look like they have command and control. Looks like theyre beginning to walk off the stage. Donald trump, they want to be comfortable tonight. Theyre getting advice from people on the stage all the time. You see floor directors, jared kushner, her husband in the middle of the screen. And paul manafort. I guarantee these will be probably two of the most well vetted speeches ever. Every word has been checked, doublechecked, toauthentic, cor own. We know its going to be scrutinized, one lesson weve learned this week. Want to make sure theres nothing lifted even inadd very at the present timely. Right now theres software that can go back and check. Absolutely. Thats something People Like Us do, wolf. You have to be seeing what america will take from all these speeches. I believe in the end folks will look at Melania Trumps speech and remember a woman who famously said the greatest privilege on planet earth is to be an american citizen. Next week shell spend her tenth anniversary being one. I dont know if theyll remember the back and forth of earlier this week. What can you take from these speeches and put into those facebook posts or google posts. What will cnn run three weeks from now . What will be the one snippet from ivanka trump or Donald Trumps speech tonight that will be run. Im hoping donald trump goes back and literally channels his inner ronald reagan. Lets look at 84, come together to make America Great again, inspirational. 1980, look at can anyone look at the record and say of this administration and say well done . He still needs to bring the independents in tonight. Nixon in 68, did we come all this way for this . This has been such a journey. Most importantly i want him to channel eisenhower from 52, today, this is the day of a great battle, the road that leads to november 4th is going to be rough, but im here to fight. He needs to show that strength. Thats something romney missed. Many people it was this point romney lost the election. He didnt fight president obama the last few months. What donald trump also brings to tonight, in addition to being a real estate magnate and a billionaire, hes a showman. Hes dontell vision for a long time. He knows the production values. He understands that. I think probably thats what hes discussing right now with the floor directors. And the lighting. Ive been there to witness it firsthand. The lighting, the angles, are the lights too bright . Are you squinting . This is the man who understood the cultural sooik ieft with the apprentice. Look at ivanka trump. This is a woman with a successful line of clothing an House Products in her name who also understands the american consumer. Shes someone who looks overall her advertising. Very impressive woman, 34 years old. Alex cass an knows is with us, senior strategist for rebuilding america now which is a new pro donald trump super pac, is that right . Yes, it is. Theyre rehearsing up on the stage right now. You cant have any direct involvement with the Trump Campaign as a super pack, but you can support donald trump. Explain to our viewers what youre doing, what your mission is . The way campaigns seem to work now under all the new Campaign Laws is that campaigns are limited in what they can raise, a few thousand dollars for the campaign itself for many contributors. But the media part of the campaign, the tv part can be supported with larger contributions through a super pac. Its what jeb bush did, what Hillary Clinton is doing with her pac, priorities usa. We were created to be the counterbalance to priorities usa. Well be up in swing states next week, in ohio, florida and pennsylvania. When you say youre going to be up, having advertising . On tv with commercials. If people go to rebuildingamerica. Com how much have you raise sod far . Weve raised 3 million this week so far. Weve raised another two yesterday. So we expect to be on the air in a significant by this week. Governor pence is going to carve out a hunk of his schedule to attend some events for us. I think were going to be able to counterbalance youre clearly not going to raise as much as the pro Hillary Clinton super pack, right . Hillary clinton had a head start on. The clinton foundation, Clinton Global Initiative are generally professional corrupt enterprises that specialize in raising hundreds of million ofs dollars. Its going to be hard to do anything. Youve got a lot of republican fat cats here at cleveland. You met with several of them yesterday. Is that what youre say . Yes, we did. Paul manafort called in and gave us a briefing on the campaign and the state of the campaign. Hes not calling into any other super pacs as he said on the call. I think if folks want to help donald trump and keep Hillary Clinton out of the white house, this is the best pac that you can support. Did you get a bit from sheldon adelson, the billionaire, las vegas billionaire who is very active in republican politics . Were just starting reaching out now. So ask us again in a while. Look at this stage. You want to talk about unification within our party. Im sitting with kellyanne and alex, who for the past year we were on different teams debating each other, unity in the party has brought us here together we didnt see that unity with ted cruz last night. Its a bigger picture. That may have been one of the great moments of the convention that helps donald trump. Why do you think that . Youre a veteran republican strategist. I can tell you that. Ted cruz is a selfinterested politician that no one likes, the narrowist possible expression of what it means to be a republican. In a general election, ted cruz is the republican equivalent of zika, and when you dont have zika, its good. In a general election, thats not helpful. Last night, everything people dont like about ted cruz he reinforced, the selfinterest. Some people are talented enough to take an act of utter disloyalty and turn it into a stand on principle. Ted cruz is not that gifted. He reinforced what people dont like about him. Not being a ted cruz republican is a plus in a general election. How often do you think we can get ted cruz not to endorse donald trump . Ill pay for that. I still have optimism, what a great thing for tonight or even next week if ted cruz takes a step back and says, for the good of the party t good of the country. He made it clear this morning, this is personal. You cant expect, he said, someone whose father and wife were attacked by donald trump to forget about that and announce that hes supporting them. If youre running for president of the United States, its not about you. Thats the important thing. If you were president of the United States and put your own interests first the way ted cruz did last night, it wouldnt be good for the country. So no, he made a pledge. He gave his word and he did keep his word. And repeated it on march 3rd. At that first republican debate, when all of the republican candidates on the stage were asked, will you commit now to support whoever the republican nominee is . The question was asked because there was concern donald trump wouldnt make that the irony is donald trump got the nomination. He eventually said yes, ill support the republican nominee. All of them did. A bunch of them now kellyanne, you know this well, are refusing the make that commitment to support donald trump. They need to make a decision that goes way beyond their conscience and ask themselves, if your word is your bond, if part of the entire political structure that you have built and your reputation centers on, i keep my word, im a principled person, i stand up to leaders of both parties, how is this an exception . Wolf, we all read the pledge. You can see the pledge. There is no cod sill, no footnote that this does not apply if donald trump is the nominee. Jennifer granholm is with us as well, not a donald trump supporter. Shes a Hillary Clinton supporter. Were watching, by the way, i want to set the scene, donald trump and ivanka trump, his eldest daughter who will both be speaking the night at the Republican National convention. Theyre up on stage, practicing a little bit, going through what its like to stand there, read from the teleprompter, get the feel for the room. If youre a politician, jennifer granholm, this is an important aspect and a critically important speech tonight to go through a rehearsal like this . No doubt about it. Hes got send the theme of unity through his party after what happened last night and what happened on monday. This ability to feel comfortable, hes somebody who feels comfortable in that space anyway. But the ability to go up, no exactly where your mark is, where the teleprompters are, make sure the lighting is right, all very important. One of the things hes got going for him and weve heard this and seen it this week, his children, who are adults all of them, very impressive, the presentations, the love for their father that theyve expressed. This is something that resonates with a lot of people. They say, you know what . I dont know about donald trump, hes got great kids. As mike pence said last night, kids are really important for determining how great the parents are, at least how you view them. You cant fake them. You cant fake good kids, although sometimes kids do go awry. Sometimes you wish you could. I think thats one of the things coming out of this convention, people think they know donald trump because theyve seen him on tv, been in their living room for 30 years, but not the man. Maybe, i think one of the things were learning in this convention thats going to be most helpful, that the best thing donald trump has built isnt a building. Its those kids. Its that family, and that is something of the incontrovertible. It tells you something they all credit him pour the kind of dad he was. So i think thats a story jennifer, lets look ahead a few days. Were seeing the republicans getting ready for final leg, day four of this Republican National convention. On monday well all be in philadelphia, day one of the Democratic Convention. What happens here this week, how does that impact what will happen in philadelphia . Philadelphia . I think it is important for democrats to see what happened on the republican side. There is no doubt because this Republican Party has been so divided this week, both in style and in substance, even the comments this morning that you were talking about earlier regarding the whole nato alliance. That is hugely controversial in the Republican Party. It is hugely controversial on the democrat side. Democrats, however, is going to be coming together with the theme we are stronger together, that we are united, we are one world. While the Republican Party is looking at uniting the party, shes going to be looking at uniting the country. We just got a clip from the Senate Majority leader, mitch mcconnell, who previews Donald Trumps speech tonight. Listen to this. I think basically a couple of things he needs to do. Number one, im a strong advocate for having a great script and sticking to it. Thats the way you avoid making mistakes. And driving home the message that America Needs to change. If you look at the survey data, people are not happy with where we are. And so if in the end the decision this election is about do you want to take a new direction, donald trump wins. I think he needs to be selling new direction and change tonight. Sounds, jennifer granholm, like one of the messages they want to ask the American People, are you better off today than you were eight years ago. Thats been done before, as you well remember. It was done successful. Thats right. And if you ask the American People today do you feel safer, do you feel more secure, are you more press perrous, are you healthier than you were eight years ago . And vote as you feel on that. Whats going to be the answer from the clinton campaign. Im sure the democrats will be saying eight years ago we were in the middle of the worst recession in our life times. We were losing 6,000 jobs per month. Today weve had 75 months straight of job creation. The economy as the unemployment has been cut in half. They will recite all of that and it is very important. The fact that the president s Approval Rating is in the 54 range is very important. Plus, in addition to that, the change argument you know, you might want to see change, but do you want to see change that jeopardizes you . The fact that the economists, intelligence unite, has ranked donald trump this is the thirdlargest global threat. After his comments this morning i bet he bumps up a couple of notches and the fact that theyve never even put a human being like a candidate on that list before, that donald trump is so risky, that kind of change is not the change that people want. Well get a preview now of what the Democratic Convention is going to be like. We get a preview of those three president ial debates that are going to be taking place in september and october. I suspect the viewership for those debates between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. I just want to go back to this message of change. Donald trump is a very complex person with very simple messages that have so resonated with American People. Make America Great again. Sounds a lot like barack obama, 2008, bill clinton, 1992, and george w. Bush 2000, even youve had two terms of one president. Hold on. What we know for certain that what donald trump promises tonight will probably be like anything weve ever seen before because it is donald trump. Here is a look back at some of the moments hes up against. You have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade, for freedom in america and freedom in the world. I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. [ cheers and applause ] my fellow americans, tonight i accept the challenge and the commitment to provide that new leadership for america, and i ask you to accept it with me. Weve had enough of big promises and little action. The time has come for honest government in the United States of america. [ cheers and applause ] you are the people who make america what it is. It is from your ranks that i come and on your side i stand. I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will. The time is now, my fellow americans, to recapture our destiny. Read my lips. No new taxes. But this is not my moment. It is for the people of america that i stand here tonight, i know whose moment this is. It is yours. It is yours entirely. [ cheers and applause ] when i put my hand on the bible, i will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, i will swear to youp hold tuphold and dignity of the office to which i have been elected, so help me god. Is he going to have a line that will resonate for generations . There are several. Youve seen his speech. I have. It is a great speech. It is in his voice. I think more important than just sound bites for the ages, wolf, is really some tried themes in there. Donald trump as a man, donald trump as a visionary and donald trump as a person. Well all look forward to ivanka trumps introduction of her father. Thats a masterpiece. Thats it for me this hour. But ill be back 5 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Then all night well bring you the latest from the Republican National convention. Our special coverage continues right after this quick break. 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