Politics. Com. See you tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Trump at the gates. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews. Has donald trump broken through the gate on the citizens of republican establishment getting ready the cheer. This is what it looks like in washington. Donald trump is well on his way to the nomination with ted cruz and his allies having just five days left to stop him. What was once a stop Trump Movement seems like a movement to accept trump. John boehner used Strong Language against trumps rival calling him, well, you listen. How about ted cruz . Lucifer in the flesh. In washington i have Democrat Friends and i have republican friends. I got along with almost everyone. But i have never worked with a more miserable son of a [ expletive ] in my life. Thats what hes saying on the record. Lucifer in the flesh. With boehner blasting cruz, the list of Trump Supporters on capitol hill continues to grow. The latest today, pennsylvania congressman bill shuster who said donald is a private sector Business Leader who knows what it takes to get things done. Thats what washington needs. Its time for our party to you niet unite behind trump and focus our time and energy on beating Hillary Clinton. Let me go to you robert. Youre in south bend. Im looking at the list here. Trumps got three governors. Theyre pretty right wing guys. About a dozen Congress People and senator jeff sessions. Has the gate broken yet . Are they into the fort, the trump people . The gate is broken with many parts of the republican establishment. At trumps Foreign Policy speech yesterday in washington i was there. I saw many pillars of the conservative establishment walking up to Paul Manafort and Corey Lewandokski and trying to get to know them. Is it over . It was over for a while now. O get to know them. Is it over . It was over for a while now. Get to know them. Is it over . It was over for a while now. Trump was able to establish momentum that no one else could break. As long as he could sustain it, he was able to continue with his message. Sometimes off beat. Sometimes getting himself in trouble, but still there was a consistency to him that kept his core base with him. All he had to do was add to it which is what hes done in big ways in the polls last week and go into indiana. This baghdad bob performance by cruz and his people. This marriage of the week. A couple of days hes married to kasich and now Carly Fiorina. Cruz is doing everything he can to stop that donald trump has sewn it up. There really is no more race. Cycle by cycle hes just fighting tooth and nail to make sure that nobody is saying that trump has got it. This exact story is his worth nightmare. Hes been fraged. Cruz out there in front for the establishme establishment, he was called lucifer. He said it was an insult to i love this. To all conservatives. Lets watch. Boehner had some interesting comments last night. He was a little more expressive. He allowed his inner trump to come out. Ive never worked with john boehner. I dont know the man. Ive met him two or three times in my life. I have said 50 words in my life to john boehner. I would be surprise and every one has consistented of pleas t
pleasantries. Hes not directing that at me. Hes directing it at you. Hes angry at the American People holding him accountable. You want to display a narcissism, political narcissism. Hes saying the speaker of the house, all those years and serving doesnt know him. Therefore, theres something not to be taken seriously about the guy. Boehner doesnt know im sorry. Doesnt know ted cruz. Hes a nobody. What a weirdly revelatory about the psyche of ted cruz. The biggest put down is i havent met them. The success of donald trump is about the end roads, its about the limitation of ted cruz. His fight now by picking a v. P. Reminds him a lot of reagan in
76. He had two gubernatorial terms in california. He had the experience in 64 with gold water. Cruz has only been in the senate since 2013. He doesnt have the deep relationships that could serve him. He said boehner didnt go far enough in calling him lucifer, satan. Here he is. I fully agree with john boehner. Maybe he gives lucifer a bad name by comparing him to ted cruz. Ted cruz perpetrated a fraud and a hoax when he brought about the shutdown of the government. Some kind of a vague promise that he would bibe able to take obama care out of budget. Ted cruz knew it wasnt going to work. Shut down the government. Cost the government money. Served no purpose other than to boost his name. They used to say democrats are in disarray but now the
republicans. Trashing the guy. Other guy saying this is bad way of treating lucifer. Clearly, Speaker Boehner blames ted cruz for the loss of his speakership. It was ted cruz coaxing the Freedom Caucus to rebel against boehner and shut down the government and kick him out of office. He caused enormous amounts of headaches for john boehner. He may not know john boehner, but john boehner knows him well. He knows how to kick people out. Get him out of here. You have taste of how he would do it with that comment. They found it ironic that ted cruz would say that because ted cruz was John Boehners lawyer
back in 2006. You cant tell me you never talked to the man. He was his actual lawyer . Its reported today. It was hysterical on the internet. You were his lawyer and you never talked to him. You have the former speaker calling him lucifer and the other guy jumping in saying youre being unfair to satan. Trump, today, said cruz selection of Carly Fiorina as a running mate wasnt going to help him. This is the other part of the threering circus tonight. Now hes got to recover. What does he do . He gets Carly Fiorina. Shes very nice. Everythings fine. Carly got out. She had no it was she had the one good debate on the
childrens stage. Not on our stage. She was on the children. She didnt debate against me. He now goes out and gets carly who left the race because she had no votes. She had nothing. Thats oekay. Shes a nice woman but its not going to help. Its not going to help. Thats the toned down donald trump. Nice woman. The other day he was saying to traction. No one was reacting about her even though hes attaching her to a loser. Hes trying to find way to say he said 70 of women dont like Hillary Clinton. We cant find it. It doesnt exist. Hes also trying to trash the desperation of ted cruz with this running mate. Trump allies dont feel worried about fiorina because i asked them about california and
said shes run for senate in california. Doesnt she bring a network. Theyre view is he doesnt bring a deep root in california to help cruz in that primary. You thought maybe cruz would pick a wild card but he went with an outsider, a businesswoman who underscores cruz ideological appeal. Where does fiorina vote . I believe she believes in Northern Virginia at the moment. I dont know her official residency. I believe she votes in Northern Virginia. I dont think this will be a real claim on the california voter having gotten beat out of there and skipped town. Maybe he didnt know that. Said hello to everybody at notre dame. Thank you. Coming up, what does donald
trump mean when he says his Foreign Policy will put America First . Hes pushing nationalism and trump saying our countries getting shoved around. Hes going to shove back. Why is Hillary Clinton not only surviving but thriving in the year of the outsider. The hardball round table will be with us tonight. Theyll tell me something i dont know about this president ial race. Let me finish with the words of john boehner wafting through the air. Words about the devil and lucifer. This is hardball, the place for politics. Plap poor mouth breather. Allergies . Stuffy nose . Cant sleep . Take that. A breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. Breathe right. Customer service d. Maam. This isnt a computer. Wait. Youre real . With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. S. , like me, anytime. Wow. This is a recording. Really . No, im kidding. 100 u. S. Based Customer Service. Here to help, not to sel. Secretary of state john kerry got emotional during a speech wednesday night at the lbj president ial library. He was discussing his times a naval officer in the vietnam war and as a protester against that war. Kerry choked back tears as his recalled his fame antiwar
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stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. E. T. Phone home. When you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. Change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1. Welcome back to hardball. Donald trump is promising what he called a rational new approach to Foreign Policy that puts America First. A key tenent is to refrain from nation building that got us in iraq. Here is trump. It all began with a dangerous idea that we could make western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a western democracy. We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Were getting out of nation Building Business and focusing on creating stability in the world. Well, trumps wider vision is his willingness to disengage with Foreign Countries if he can not get what he wants tr them. Reuters reports the theme of trumps speech America First is
alarming. Trumps rhetoric still relies on the superpower for defense. Trump speech has also earned praise. Corker who he declined endorsing a candidate said hes more open to backing trump. You know, i may change my mind but the fact is ive been meticulous about not trying to choose sides. I am chairman of the Foreign Relations committee. A speech was given. I liked it. I want to hear more about it. Im joined by president of the council relations. What would you say would be, if you had to write an ap lead on what trump is saying is his Foreign Policy. I think the principle tenent is one of economic nationalism. And a suspicion or discomfort
with the transformational nation building that we have been carrying out for the last part of 15 years. Its a more narrow vision and probably recalibrating the balance between what we do overseas and at home slightly in favor of the latter. Yesterday called for more unpredi unpredi unpredictability when dealing with others. Here he is on his unpredictable threat. People are casting voting. They should know whether or not a vote means a massive military presence in the middle east. If i get elected president , i dont know what isis to know what im going to do. What about the American Voter . The enemy is watching. Everything we do, we announce what were doing. They prepare for it. I dont want that. You know, richard, Foreign Policy and one residents here from the old nixon days. He believed in mad bomber theory. Im a little off. I might do something really crazy. In my interview, i said would you take Nuclear Weapons off in the middle east. He said no. I said how about europe . He said no. That caused some laughing. Where would you use neuclear weapons in europe. Where would you bomb them and not kill thousands of other people. What do you think of it . Its a double edged sword. It can keep an adversary off balance. North korea, there might be case for american unpredictability. On the other side, we have to be really carable about unpredi unpredictability. So many other countries in the world depend on us being predictab predictable. They have to have a fairly Firm Conviction that the United States will make good on what its pledged. They will accommodate the most powerful country or decide to take their security into their own hands. Neither one is something we wouldnt like the see. Its been said this i looked at the names of the people. They seem to be in the realist category. Is that what you would put this speech . Clearly its not neo conservative. He distanced himself from george w. Bush as well as from barack obama. Theres no sympathy for what we did in iraq or what we did in libya. I think the core is nick nationalism. The suspicion of trade, opposition to immigration. More transactional approach to allies. An element of realism. I thought he was interesting he echoed john quincy adams. The idea we would not go abroad. I think he called enemies to pick a fight with. I think the core is much more economic nationalism. Okay. Its great having you on. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. What do you make i jumped yesterday on this charge against Hillary Clinton saying she went to sleep the night Chris Stephens was getting killed and the other americans went to sleep. A total lie. Nobody has ever said that about Hillary Clinton. Absolutely not. Hes really just making a series of statements that sound good to him in the moment on their own and despite the fact we saw a scripted Foreign Policy speech that he read from a teleprompter. I dont know this is different from the comments hes made in the past. These are individual attitudes and statements of personal belief that when put together dont make a doctrine and they dont hold up against statements hes made within the same speech or previously. He wasnnts to build up the. Military. We like to know we have the largest navy, the most ships, the most surface ships. We have everything. At the same time hes pulling back. He said the cheapest investment you can make is many the u. S. Military. It shows lack of understanding of what the post world war ii order looks like. We can call it realist or isolationist. Thats giving it too much credit. It was not design for Foreign Policy experts. Designed for the 64 of the americans that dont have a
passport or havent been overseas. Itf youre in real estate yo want to build a big building and you dont get the right deal from the people you buy the land from, you can walk back and look somewhere else. You cant walk away from england, france, nato, the arab countries on our side. You cant walk away from japan, south korea. They exist. You cant walk away from mexico. Once you make one of these ultimatums and say you must build the wall and they so no. Then where you go . We drop off Eastern Europe from nato protection . We just say no more. I dont understand how you walk away from the table this diplomatic terms . Hes not looking at this in diplomatic terms. It requires strategic thought. Everything is transactional and in the moment. He referenced the idea of getting the best deal possible. We have allies and these are the
onces you have and they are not ideal. The president of mexico will not build wall keeping his people in. He would not last one minute in office. Hed be imached. I think east germans tried this. It didnt do anything to help. The government was finished after that. The minute anybody knows youre keep your people in by wallnd paying for it. Thats the absurd of this bluff. They will say mr. Trump in mexican and spanish, i cant do this. Well give you a nice try. Were not building wall. The scary part is he talks about unpredictabilities as if thats a great thing in Foreign Policy relations. Its also the same thing as volatility. Its terrible for markets and how the world works. The last thing people want is a United States they cant predict or rely on. He starts challenging putin, he takes his shirt off and loves it. Here is his chance to be macho
man. Look at putins country. I dont want to imitate him this any way especially the look of the guy. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, what is political corruptness . Great question. Wham this case could mean for him. Can you do favors for somebody and can they do a favor back . What is corruption . What is legal . What isnt . Are we going to leave it to the fbi to decide . This is hardball, the place for politics. 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
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