Transcripts For KQED Washington Week With Gwen Ifill 2016030

Fraud. His promises are as worthless as the degree from trump university. Gwen by weeks end, every candidate left standing said they would support the nominee. N i hate people that think stuff and theyre nothing. Gwen even if it is donald trump. There is no doubt, if we remain divided, donald trump wins. Remaining divided is a path to catastrophe for this country. Week, mollyng the ball, National Political correspondent for the atlantic, dan balz, chief correspondent for the post, and jonathan martin, National Political correspondent for the new york times. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it nationslive from our capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by strong. Committed to were committed to sure. To smart anded light, secure and bold. Of enduring needs, the men and women of boeing are deliver build and critical capabilities for those who serve to protect our nation thats anlies, and enduring commitment. Thousands of people came out to run the race for retirement. So we asked them, are you completely prepared for retirement . Prepared . Could you save 1 more of your income . It doesnt sound like much but saving an additional 1 now big difference over time. Im going to be better about saving. Can you do it. Long run. N the prudential. Additional funding is provided by newmans own foundation, donating all profits own Food Products to charity and nourishing the common good. Ford foundation, the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs viewers like you. Thank you. Again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. Gwen good evening. Ok. Deep breath, everybody. Were going to try to keep it but its hard, especially when the leading candidate for the republican us. Nation keeps testing mr. Trump so when little marco spews his about the size of my hands which are big. Said, marcohim, i marco no, i just wanted to look at that. Ball hands can hit a golf 285 yards. I backed mitt romney. I backed him. You can see how loyal he is. Begging for my endorsement. Toould have said, mitt, drop your knees. He would have dropped to his knees. He was begging. Was a, how shall we week, aery anatomical week in which last weeks big surprise, the Chris Christie endorsement, became its own meme, forcing the new jersey governor to actually say this. Governor christie no, i wasnt being held hostage. I wasnt thinking, oh, my god, done . Ave i gwen it turned into the kind of week where super tuesday where actual statesrom cast actual votes faded into the background and despite all of accusation and backbiting, endedights g. O. P. Debate this way when the fox news anchor asked if they would support the republican nominee. Because i gave my word that i would and what i have endeavored every day is do what i said i would do. He ends up as the nominee, sometimes it makes it a little bit hard, but i will support the republican nominee for president. Yes, i will. Gwen am i the only one who undercut theind of case the underdogs have been making, dan . Dan youre probably not alone on that. Extraordinary moment at the end of that debate and at the end of a remarkable day. We keep saying this is a campaign, the likes of which weve never seen. We never saw what happened on thursday before with the nominee gets up past election and denounces the frontrunner as someone who should never be the united states. Gwen who had endorsed him four years ago. Had endorsed him, and then, hours later, every one of Donald Trumps opponents who two hours trying to say why he shouldnt be president , say they would endorse him. Gwen molly, lets take a long view here. What does this tell us about the state of the Republican Party . Did a big interm look internal look at themselves and nowe last election it looks like theyre getting ready for another one. Molly assuming this somehow some point, yes, there autopsy. To be a new up until about a week ago, we were watching the republican in slowlfdestruct motion. This week it is no longer slow motion but happening rapidly and feels like itd it is fragmenting, shattering into a million pieces. Mentioned the autopsy from 2012, the recommendations for how to avoid loss like mitt romney suffered and what has happened to this party is theyve gone in direction. Opposite the recommendations of that autopsy were to do more outreach to minority voters and Younger Voters and to women and to take and to enacte immigration reform, certainly not to build a wall. So the party, if trump becomes the nominee and dan that it seems utterly abnormal that these candidates are saying they would back the nominee but its actually the most normal thing thats happening. If you had asting, candidate with this delegate lead, normally there would be a bigger bandwagon effect. It wouldnt just be Chris Christie jumping on board with him and a couple of members of congress. You would see everybody start to testamentut it is a to the Disruptive Force that donald trump represents that that is not happening. Gwen jonathan, Donald Trumps answer to this is that hes bringing people in and there has turnout in early elections. But a lot of the remaining standing democrats republicans are saying hes driving people away. Which is it . Jonathan both. Hes bringing lots of people into the process. Some of them arent republicans. You look at the states where done well, theyre socalled open primary states, vote, democrat, republican or independent. Expanding thes electorate and bringing in orple that are apolitical were democrats and thats expanding the electorate. Time, hes drawn him into vote against what many fear would be 20fold if hes nominated, that people would vote against him. The way ive heard it described, he would be the lever for the Obama Coalition in the reverse. Instead of having obama on the ballot for the third time, youd same impact but instead of folks coming out to vote for obama, they would vote against donald trump. Gwen it is fair to say that there is a freakout going on. It go in the Republican Party, the fear that they are, as marco rubio likes say, handing this election to Hillary Clinton . Dan rubio said today that if donald trump is the nominee, the conservative movement will come to an end. And i think that gwen thats pretty apocalyptic. Dan thats a very apocalyptic statement but one that a lot of people feel. When this Republican Campaign started out, it looked like it be a very tough, bitter fight, between the mainstream and a tedent cruzlike figure, the populist insurgency. That still exists but donald trump has come in and kind of theked Everything Else off table. Gwen gleefully. Transcended those divides. Dan hes created another dynamic within that race and the thepect of him becoming nominee now as we saw this week is so alarming to people that theyre trying to figure out which direction to go and how to how, if its going to be stop him. To molly and no matter what ends up happening by the time we get to the Republican Convention in july, it is hard to imagine these fractures healing. If trump gets enough delegates take the nomination outright, we already have a very large andion of conservatives republicans saying they would never support him and talking alternatives or attempts to take over a third party. To goodness, doesnt that all sound desperate . Molly they are desperate. Gwen but they didnt see this coming. Molly nobody saw this coming. I didnt see it coming, you didnt see it coming. Thats why donald trump has been tremendously educational. There is a whole sentiment in notelectorate that was being expressed, this large mostlyf disaffected, White Working Class voters who did not feel they had a voice in trumpocess until donald came along and thats why people are voting for him who have never voted in a republican primary. Possible to beat him at his own game . Thats usually, they see theyhings appealing and say well try to grab those folks, too, by sounding like him. Thats what people say Hillary Clinton is doing with bernie sanders. Jonathan thats the tradition in politics. Somebodys message is coopted by somebody else. Mainstream candidates coopted moreessage of the ideological candidate. It hasnt happened this time oncese it was too late folks realized this was real. I recall talking to folks in the party in november of last year were pulling their hair out because they couldnt get the donor types to come to terms fact that it was real. People were in denial for so long. Still cant. Jonathan they are now that hes won a few states but it took so long to get people to realize he was a threat and now its happening. Real fast, though, whats twoking to me is there are sort of layers of concern. Ideological. I was at cpac, the conference of conservatives in d. C. , and the mind of folks there is, he would unmoor the party from conservatism, it would not be the Reagan Coalition anymore. Gwen what rubio is saying. Jonathan thats a profound darker,but whats even what struck me about romneys was talking about trump taking the country down a democracy. Rom thats the speech you dont hear in america, somebody would move from away dan let me pick up the point about the effort to coopt his message. It is, people his message is mostly stylistic. Try tosaw marco rubio adopt that last weekend and in the debate prior to this week, and it turned out to be a failure. It took marco rubio down to the level of donald trump without having the strength that donald trump projects so its very difficult for them to do that. Gwen and it doesnt seem like the debate stage is the place works anyhow. These debates have devolved to the point where nothing changes whos a winner or losers at these debates and no one can actually catch up. Molly well jonathan so true. Know, one constant in all the debates is that attacking donald trump has been recipe for disaster, right . All of the candidates who are their run race took at donald trump and bounced off of him like an electric fence and theyre gone now so the ones remaining on the stage are the ones who hadnt attacked him until recently. Lot about this race that marco rubio and ted cruz really began attacking donald in earnest a week ago, after iowa and new hampshire. How heres an example of that doesnt work. You mentioned mitt romney getting out there and using language with donald trump and even forecasting what would happen next. Listen. Governor romney watch, by the way, how he responds to my speech today. Will he talk about our policy differences or will he attack me low roady imaginable insult . This may tell you what you need temperament, his his stability and suitability to be president. Mr. Trump so you help somebody then he turns. Now, i will say this. I will say this. This. Say he probably had a right to turn, because nobody could have been than me in getting him not to run by saying hes a choke artist. Gwen his new favorite term, choke artist, and thats the version of what hes had to say about people. Does this kind of inability guess to stop donald trump in his tracks does it for close off the avenues people like ted cruz . People like marco rubio . John kasich . What is the path left for them realistically . It seems theally, only path left is for the remaining candidates first of all to win their home states. Cruz did that on tuesday in texas. Marco rubio has to win florida kasich has, and john to win ohio. But then so thats the first step. Were toink if that happen, we would be having a somewhat different conversation in a couple of weeks. Then, they have to accumulate enough delegates prevent him from having 1,237, the amount you the nominee, before the convention, and then figure out a Convention Strategy that deny him the nomination. It is a series of difficult steps. A look at theke delegate count because you 1237 needed. As we speak, the latest a. P. 329 delegates for 110 for31 for ted cruz, marco rubio, and 25 for john kasich. Now, what is really interesting about those numbers is that from here on in, we have what is winnertakeall kind of election which people cant compete in the same way they could. It favors the person whos already ahead. Molly it does and that helps trump but at the same time look at the delegate count. Trump is less than 100 delegates ahead of ted cruz and what i think gave a lot of people who hoperying to stop trump this week was that on super tuesday he was leading in the polls in 10 of the 11 states. Ended up only winning seven of them and it was ted cruz who victoriesnexpected and came closer than expected in other states. Won texas by a larger margin than polls predicted. And alaska and there wasnt a lot of good polling in some of these states thate see some evidence trumps momentum may be stalling and cruz may be getting a surge in Southern States and thats a lot of who will be voting on saturday and we see kansas to tryt to to score a win in the caucuses there. There are still a lot of delegates in play and as dan said, the main strategy of the people trying to stop trump now everyone to stay in the race. At one point it was for everyone to get out of the race. Everyone to stay in the race. Still wants aruz oneonone shot at trump because hes convinced. Gwen doesnt everyone want a oneonone shot . Dan no i think rubio and kasich are open about the fact that its better for everyone else to stay in. He canill believes if get kasich and rubio out of the race, they would lose their home states, ohio and florida, he would have a chance to beat thep in delegates before convention. Now, thats a long shot but the cruz folks have totally rejected this idea of kasich takes ohio, well splitflorida, delegates and hold off until the convention. Cruz doesnt want to do that. In florida. Gwen heres the thing. Step back for a moment from the gamesmanship to get to dimension, which we love. Thatoes it matter at all donald trump cant answer policy questions . For instance, last night he what talking about war crimes saying he would military to kill the wives and families of terrorists, something the Geneva Convention would frown upon. In front of our eyes he immigration on an issue on the debate stage last night. None of that seems to hurt him exit polls show that people who vote for him dont immigration. Dan i think they do care about immigration. It may not be the top issue. But, of course it matters. I think that in the end people some sort of judgment about the capabilities of the two nominees and their ability the country and to handle crises and whether they have confidence in them to do it now in the republican debate, in the republican fight, a secondarybeen aspect to the projection of kindnality, strength and of a formidability as a candidate. Molly what you see trump doing all of the answers to every policy question. Its not that he doesnt answer. Simultaneously contradictory answers so he says hell commit war crimes and the next daye and he says well follow the law and people hear whatever they want that. R in its post modern in a lot of structuralist campaign. So ive met people who say im a moderate republican and i because i think hes a moderate who would make deals and get things done and say hes aople who right winger like me and hell make sure we dont let in mexicans. D so people hear what they want to hear. Dan is he the obama personality that blinds people to whatever they dont want to see. Gwen rubios point was flexibility is not conservatism. Molly thats the point for some people. Speech on super tuesday was,orida, his main point im going to make deals with congress, and get things done. Wrong when he says, there are issues that republicans and democrats actually agree on and still it done because theres this gridlock and this partisan opposition. Actually is selling something that is not the lineogical conservative of, you know, resist at all costs and stand on principle. And saying id go in there do deals. Jonathan thats the most eye opening part of this affair for conservatives. Gwen including sarah palin who endorsed him. You wouldnt think that was her world view. Jonathan its not about ideology. To see how little their own the ideologybout and principles. It part of the party . Its part ofhink the party. Try totheres still a strong stf conservatives in the party but i think the block of voters trump are much lesso ideological than the traditional republican as we have thought them, particularly primary voters. Molly it will have been a great irony for the Republican Party their establishment ends up being victim of a rebellion intransigence. Gwen does that mean the stop window has closed . Molly i dont think we know. Butthan its not closed coming down fast. Dan i agree. Its coming down fast but given Everything Else thats happened in the campaign, i dont rule out the ability of trump to be stopped. Stoppedve all predicting. Molly if this cycle stops know anythingnt from predicting things it, will have been a blessing. Gwen it wont. Thats my prediction. We have to duck out a few minutes early this week to give you the chance to support your local pbs station which, in turn, supports us. Couldnt possibly get to everything that happened this super tuesday week, were extendedaround for an webcast where well get to all that stuff we missed including the democrats. You can find that at pbs. Org washingtonweek. Who knows where well be this will seemweek, it like a long time has passed again. Keep up with daily developments the pbsght on newshour. Well see you next week on Washington Week. Good night. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. ] Corporate Funding for byshington week is provided today people are coming out to the Nations Capital to thatrt an important cause could change the way you live for years to come. How can you help . By giving a little more to yourself. For my future. Topeople sometimes forget help themselves. The cause is retirement. Today thousands of people came to the race for retirement and pledged to save an additional 1 of their income. If we all do that, we can all win. Prudential. Additional National Political<\/a> correspondent for the atlantic, dan balz, chief correspondent for the post, and jonathan martin, National Political<\/a> correspondent for the new york times. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it nationslive from our capitol, this is Washington Week<\/a> with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week<\/a> is provided by strong. Committed to were committed to sure. To smart anded light, secure and bold. Of enduring needs, the men and women of boeing are deliver build and critical capabilities for those who serve to protect our nation thats anlies, and enduring commitment. Thousands of people came out to run the race for retirement. So we asked them, are you completely prepared for retirement . Prepared . Could you save 1 more of your income . It doesnt sound like much but saving an additional 1 now big difference over time. Im going to be better about saving. Can you do it. Long run. N the prudential. Additional funding is provided by newmans own foundation, donating all profits own Food Products<\/a> to charity and nourishing the common good. Ford foundation, the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs viewers like you. Thank you. Again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. Gwen good evening. Ok. Deep breath, everybody. Were going to try to keep it but its hard, especially when the leading candidate for the republican us. Nation keeps testing mr. Trump so when little marco spews his about the size of my hands which are big. Said, marcohim, i marco no, i just wanted to look at that. Ball hands can hit a golf 285 yards. I backed mitt romney. I backed him. You can see how loyal he is. Begging for my endorsement. Toould have said, mitt, drop your knees. He would have dropped to his knees. He was begging. Was a, how shall we week, aery anatomical week in which last weeks big surprise, the Chris Christie<\/a> endorsement, became its own meme, forcing the new jersey governor to actually say this. Governor christie no, i wasnt being held hostage. I wasnt thinking, oh, my god, done . Ave i gwen it turned into the kind of week where super tuesday where actual statesrom cast actual votes faded into the background and despite all of accusation and backbiting, endedights g. O. P. Debate this way when the fox news anchor asked if they would support the republican nominee. Because i gave my word that i would and what i have endeavored every day is do what i said i would do. He ends up as the nominee, sometimes it makes it a little bit hard, but i will support the republican nominee for president. Yes, i will. Gwen am i the only one who undercut theind of case the underdogs have been making, dan . Dan youre probably not alone on that. Extraordinary moment at the end of that debate and at the end of a remarkable day. We keep saying this is a campaign, the likes of which weve never seen. We never saw what happened on thursday before with the nominee gets up past election and denounces the frontrunner as someone who should never be the united states. Gwen who had endorsed him four years ago. Had endorsed him, and then, hours later, every one of Donald Trumps<\/a> opponents who two hours trying to say why he shouldnt be president , say they would endorse him. Gwen molly, lets take a long view here. What does this tell us about the state of the Republican Party<\/a> . Did a big interm look internal look at themselves and nowe last election it looks like theyre getting ready for another one. Molly assuming this somehow some point, yes, there autopsy. To be a new up until about a week ago, we were watching the republican in slowlfdestruct motion. This week it is no longer slow motion but happening rapidly and feels like itd it is fragmenting, shattering into a million pieces. Mentioned the autopsy from 2012, the recommendations for how to avoid loss like mitt romney suffered and what has happened to this party is theyve gone in direction. Opposite the recommendations of that autopsy were to do more outreach to minority voters and Younger Voters<\/a> and to women and to take and to enacte immigration reform, certainly not to build a wall. So the party, if trump becomes the nominee and dan that it seems utterly abnormal that these candidates are saying they would back the nominee but its actually the most normal thing thats happening. If you had asting, candidate with this delegate lead, normally there would be a bigger bandwagon effect. It wouldnt just be Chris Christie<\/a> jumping on board with him and a couple of members of congress. You would see everybody start to testamentut it is a to the Disruptive Force<\/a> that donald trump represents that that is not happening. Gwen jonathan, Donald Trumps<\/a> answer to this is that hes bringing people in and there has turnout in early elections. But a lot of the remaining standing democrats republicans are saying hes driving people away. Which is it . Jonathan both. Hes bringing lots of people into the process. Some of them arent republicans. You look at the states where done well, theyre socalled open primary states, vote, democrat, republican or independent. Expanding thes electorate and bringing in orple that are apolitical were democrats and thats expanding the electorate. Time, hes drawn him into vote against what many fear would be 20fold if hes nominated, that people would vote against him. The way ive heard it described, he would be the lever for the Obama Coalition<\/a> in the reverse. Instead of having obama on the ballot for the third time, youd same impact but instead of folks coming out to vote for obama, they would vote against donald trump. Gwen it is fair to say that there is a freakout going on. It go in the Republican Party<\/a>, the fear that they are, as marco rubio likes say, handing this election to Hillary Clinton<\/a> . Dan rubio said today that if donald trump is the nominee, the conservative movement will come to an end. And i think that gwen thats pretty apocalyptic. Dan thats a very apocalyptic statement but one that a lot of people feel. When this Republican Campaign<\/a> started out, it looked like it be a very tough, bitter fight, between the mainstream and a tedent cruzlike figure, the populist insurgency. That still exists but donald trump has come in and kind of theked Everything Else<\/a> off table. Gwen gleefully. Transcended those divides. Dan hes created another dynamic within that race and the thepect of him becoming nominee now as we saw this week is so alarming to people that theyre trying to figure out which direction to go and how to how, if its going to be stop him. To molly and no matter what ends up happening by the time we get to the Republican Convention<\/a> in july, it is hard to imagine these fractures healing. If trump gets enough delegates take the nomination outright, we already have a very large andion of conservatives republicans saying they would never support him and talking alternatives or attempts to take over a third party. To goodness, doesnt that all sound desperate . Molly they are desperate. Gwen but they didnt see this coming. Molly nobody saw this coming. I didnt see it coming, you didnt see it coming. Thats why donald trump has been tremendously educational. There is a whole sentiment in notelectorate that was being expressed, this large mostlyf disaffected, White Working Class<\/a> voters who did not feel they had a voice in trumpocess until donald came along and thats why people are voting for him who have never voted in a republican primary. Possible to beat him at his own game . Thats usually, they see theyhings appealing and say well try to grab those folks, too, by sounding like him. Thats what people say Hillary Clinton<\/a> is doing with bernie sanders. Jonathan thats the tradition in politics. Somebodys message is coopted by somebody else. Mainstream candidates coopted moreessage of the ideological candidate. It hasnt happened this time oncese it was too late folks realized this was real. I recall talking to folks in the party in november of last year were pulling their hair out because they couldnt get the donor types to come to terms fact that it was real. People were in denial for so long. Still cant. Jonathan they are now that hes won a few states but it took so long to get people to realize he was a threat and now its happening. Real fast, though, whats twoking to me is there are sort of layers of concern. Ideological. I was at cpac, the conference of conservatives in d. C. , and the mind of folks there is, he would unmoor the party from conservatism, it would not be the Reagan Coalition<\/a> anymore. Gwen what rubio is saying. Jonathan thats a profound darker,but whats even what struck me about romneys was talking about trump taking the country down a democracy. Rom thats the speech you dont hear in america, somebody would move from away dan let me pick up the point about the effort to coopt his message. It is, people his message is mostly stylistic. Try tosaw marco rubio adopt that last weekend and in the debate prior to this week, and it turned out to be a failure. It took marco rubio down to the level of donald trump without having the strength that donald trump projects so its very difficult for them to do that. Gwen and it doesnt seem like the debate stage is the place works anyhow. These debates have devolved to the point where nothing changes whos a winner or losers at these debates and no one can actually catch up. Molly well jonathan so true. Know, one constant in all the debates is that attacking donald trump has been recipe for disaster, right . All of the candidates who are their run race took at donald trump and bounced off of him like an electric fence and theyre gone now so the ones remaining on the stage are the ones who hadnt attacked him until recently. Lot about this race that marco rubio and ted cruz really began attacking donald in earnest a week ago, after iowa and new hampshire. How heres an example of that doesnt work. You mentioned mitt romney getting out there and using language with donald trump and even forecasting what would happen next. Listen. Governor romney watch, by the way, how he responds to my speech today. Will he talk about our policy differences or will he attack me low roady imaginable insult . This may tell you what you need temperament, his his stability and suitability to be president. Mr. Trump so you help somebody then he turns. Now, i will say this. I will say this. This. Say he probably had a right to turn, because nobody could have been than me in getting him not to run by saying hes a choke artist. Gwen his new favorite term, choke artist, and thats the version of what hes had to say about people. Does this kind of inability guess to stop donald trump in his tracks does it for close off the avenues people like ted cruz . People like marco rubio . John kasich . What is the path left for them realistically . It seems theally, only path left is for the remaining candidates first of all to win their home states. Cruz did that on tuesday in texas. Marco rubio has to win florida kasich has, and john to win ohio. But then so thats the first step. Were toink if that happen, we would be having a somewhat different conversation in a couple of weeks. Then, they have to accumulate enough delegates prevent him from having 1,237, the amount you the nominee, before the convention, and then figure out a Convention Strategy<\/a> that deny him the nomination. It is a series of difficult steps. A look at theke delegate count because you 1237 needed. As we speak, the latest a. P. 329 delegates for 110 for31 for ted cruz, marco rubio, and 25 for john kasich. Now, what is really interesting about those numbers is that from here on in, we have what is winnertakeall kind of election which people cant compete in the same way they could. It favors the person whos already ahead. Molly it does and that helps trump but at the same time look at the delegate count. Trump is less than 100 delegates ahead of ted cruz and what i think gave a lot of people who hoperying to stop trump this week was that on super tuesday he was leading in the polls in 10 of the 11 states. Ended up only winning seven of them and it was ted cruz who victoriesnexpected and came closer than expected in other states. Won texas by a larger margin than polls predicted. And alaska and there wasnt a lot of good polling in some of these states thate see some evidence trumps momentum may be stalling and cruz may be getting a surge in Southern States<\/a> and thats a lot of who will be voting on saturday and we see kansas to tryt to to score a win in the caucuses there. There are still a lot of delegates in play and as dan said, the main strategy of the people trying to stop trump now everyone to stay in the race. At one point it was for everyone to get out of the race. Everyone to stay in the race. Still wants aruz oneonone shot at trump because hes convinced. Gwen doesnt everyone want a oneonone shot . Dan no i think rubio and kasich are open about the fact that its better for everyone else to stay in. He canill believes if get kasich and rubio out of the race, they would lose their home states, ohio and florida, he would have a chance to beat thep in delegates before convention. Now, thats a long shot but the cruz folks have totally rejected this idea of kasich takes ohio, well splitflorida, delegates and hold off until the convention. Cruz doesnt want to do that. In florida. Gwen heres the thing. Step back for a moment from the gamesmanship to get to dimension, which we love. Thatoes it matter at all donald trump cant answer policy questions . For instance, last night he what talking about war crimes saying he would military to kill the wives and families of terrorists, something the Geneva Convention<\/a> would frown upon. In front of our eyes he immigration on an issue on the debate stage last night. None of that seems to hurt him exit polls show that people who vote for him dont immigration. Dan i think they do care about immigration. It may not be the top issue. But, of course it matters. I think that in the end people some sort of judgment about the capabilities of the two nominees and their ability the country and to handle crises and whether they have confidence in them to do it now in the republican debate, in the republican fight, a secondarybeen aspect to the projection of kindnality, strength and of a formidability as a candidate. Molly what you see trump doing all of the answers to every policy question. Its not that he doesnt answer. Simultaneously contradictory answers so he says hell commit war crimes and the next daye and he says well follow the law and people hear whatever they want that. R in its post modern in a lot of structuralist campaign. So ive met people who say im a moderate republican and i because i think hes a moderate who would make deals and get things done and say hes aople who right winger like me and hell make sure we dont let in mexicans. D so people hear what they want to hear. Dan is he the obama personality that blinds people to whatever they dont want to see. Gwen rubios point was flexibility is not conservatism. Molly thats the point for some people. Speech on super tuesday was,orida, his main point im going to make deals with congress, and get things done. Wrong when he says, there are issues that republicans and democrats actually agree on and still it done because theres this gridlock and this partisan opposition. Actually is selling something that is not the lineogical conservative of, you know, resist at all costs and stand on principle. And saying id go in there do deals. Jonathan thats the most eye opening part of this affair for conservatives. Gwen including sarah palin who endorsed him. You wouldnt think that was her world view. Jonathan its not about ideology. To see how little their own the ideologybout and principles. It part of the party . Its part ofhink the party. Try totheres still a strong stf conservatives in the party but i think the block of voters trump are much lesso ideological than the traditional republican as we have thought them, particularly primary voters. Molly it will have been a great irony for the Republican Party<\/a> their establishment ends up being victim of a rebellion intransigence. Gwen does that mean the stop window has closed . Molly i dont think we know. Butthan its not closed coming down fast. Dan i agree. Its coming down fast but given Everything Else<\/a> thats happened in the campaign, i dont rule out the ability of trump to be stopped. Stoppedve all predicting. Molly if this cycle stops know anythingnt from predicting things it, will have been a blessing. Gwen it wont. Thats my prediction. We have to duck out a few minutes early this week to give you the chance to support your local pbs station which, in turn, supports us. Couldnt possibly get to everything that happened this super tuesday week, were extendedaround for an webcast where well get to all that stuff we missed including the democrats. You can find that at pbs. Org washingtonweek. Who knows where well be this will seemweek, it like a long time has passed again. Keep up with daily developments the pbsght on newshour. Well see you next week on Washington Week<\/a>. Good night. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. ] Corporate Funding<\/a> for byshington week is provided today people are coming out to the Nations Capital<\/a> to thatrt an important cause could change the way you live for years to come. How can you help . By giving a little more to yourself. For my future. Topeople sometimes forget help themselves. 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The main square was once a protected harbor until it began to stink so badly they had to fill it in. A colorful mix of work and pleasure boats fill todays harbor. These days, pirans walls are inviting, rather than defensive, and the town is simply an enjoyable place in which to relax. Explore the evocative back lanes. Hike up to the cathedral. Scale the venetianstyle bell tower. On top, catch your breath by enjoying views of piran and nearly the entire slovenian coastline. The trafficfree harbor front, lined with slovenes enjoying fresh seafood, is made to order for a stroll. Swimmers frolic while sunbathers claim more than their share of the national coastline. Piran clusters around its showpiece square, piazza tartini. As with most towns on the adriatic, it was long ruled by nearby venice and retains its venetian flavor. In fact, the town is officially bilingual slovene and italian. Today the square is enjoyed by visitors and locals of all generations, savoring the good life where the slavic world, the alps, and the mediterranean all come together. Hello and welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. Later, what the new speaker hopes to accomplish and a courtrder has parents worried about the prircvacy of their Childrens School<\/a> records and carolyn paul talks about her new book on the importance of girls taking risks. First, this week Health Officials<\/a> confirmed additional cases of zika virus in the bay area including a pregnant woman in napa and a San Francisco<\/a> resident. We learned staid statewide, eight cases of zika, all traveled represented. 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