Mr. Trump tweeted celebrating 1237, eating some mcdonalds. Until tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Trumps over the top. Lets play hard ball. Donald trump has earned enough delegates to win the republican nomination on the first ballot in cleveland. He is over the top. It was unbound delegates that did it. He did a victory lap tossing out red meat attacks against president obama, hill clintary
clinton, senator warren. Lets watch. Hes a president who has done a horrible job. Everybody understands that. Hilly clinton is worse than obama. She said i want to put the coal miners out of business. I want to put the coal mines out of business. Shes saying i want to put the steel mills out of business. Shes made it her job. Is that offensive . Its very offensive. Im sorry about that. Pocahontas. Elizabeth warren. I think shes as native american as i am. Shes a woman thats been very ineffective other than shes got a big mouth. That was rough. Meanwhile one trump advisor saying his boss plans to soften his most controversial proposal, that ban on all foreign muslims coming to the u. S. Trump toyed with a potential
television bonanza, a debate with senator sanders. If they can raise 10 to 15 million for charity, it will be a night of him versus the selfdescribed democratic socialist. One major republican still isnt in the band wagon. Thats speaker paul ryan. He was asked about a phone call he had with trump. Here is what he had to say. It was a productive phone call. Weve had conversations. Our staffs have been meeting. We had a very good and productive phone call. Did it get you closer to yes . We had a productive phone call. Ill leave it at that. Back home Hillary Clinton took a shot at trump. Just today, it was reported that donald trump has clenched the number of delegates he needs to be the republican nominee. That means an unqualified, loose cannon is within reach of the most powerful job of the world. John, let me look at this thing and everybody has a point of view but heidi has no point of view. Right down the middle. Trump was trump today. This idea hes going to become president ial. Hes out there with the pocahontas line wearing thin. This was his chance to jump over and say i won. He didnt act like that. Thats not his m. O. He will take the racket and beat you with it until you say i give in. Thats what hes doing. Hes beating on democrats but still beating on other republicans that falling in line. Hes making a point to everybody around him that if you dont fall in line, im just going to bring this kind of crazy swocor
and abuse to you. Was there logic to what he did today . I think it was. Hes going to go with what got him to this point. If he turns more on the democrats than the republicans, hes getting the Republican Party behind him now. Months ago mitt romney was saying youll never get us behind you, sir. Yet nine out of ten republicans in the latest polling say they will support trump. Because . Because hes not hillary. Hes not hillary. Thats what he did today. They keep doing that. I dont know if theres ever a point where he will try to be more president ial. This is base election. Hes trying to get up in the high 40s. It will cost him with women. This aint going to help him with minorities. Its a cheap shot and going after the president. Then the president took shots at
him today. If you look at what he did today, thats the road map hes following. You have to ask the question of whether he can stick to that. You look at what he did yesterday. Look at what he did with Susana Martinez. There was zero political calculation that would have told him that was a good idea. Youre having a problem with latinos and women so you go to a blue state and attack the most prominent latina female in your party. Even as he clenches the nomination he continues to slam republicans such as Susana Martinez of new mexico. Lets watch. We have to get your governor to get going. Shes got to do a better job, okay. Your governor has got to do a better job. Shes not doing the job. Poor mitt romney. Poor mitt. I have a sore thats worth more money than him. He choked like a dog. You ever see him in athletics. Hes a choker. He walks like a penguin on to the stage. Like a penguin. Many of people i competed against have now endorsed me. Most importantly, no jeb hasnt done it yet. He will get a burst of energy and he will do it. Believe me. He needs a little more energy. I have to tell you next time i watch mitt romney walk, ill look for the penguin. I cant resist it now. What does that do for you politically . Its what hes always done. Its bullying. Hes bullying people that are examples. He doesnt care about martinez or bush or romney. He doesnt need them as far as hes concerned. He uses them as whipping boys to prove to the other members and the fluential voices. If you dont do what i say im
going to beat on you in public. Hes done that to great effects so far. Why is he doing that . For a party thats defined itself as being this hawkish, tough guy party like republicans have. They fall in line real quick. Appealing feature of a person is strength. He also had an act. Hes 90 and hes still great. He cant give up because he doesnt have policy. He doesnt have anything reasonable to say. This is what got him to this point. Hes putting down others and hes kicking butt. He will do that again and again. I think were reading a little too mump into this. She was critical of him. What this shows is he didnt
have the selfcontrol to think about that political calculation and think about whether this makes any sense on any level to attack her. Hes angry. You got the mike here. Half the people watch this show a women. Im wondering about a couple of things. Some things he does do not advance his cause but he does them any way. Why did he pick a fight with carly fcar ly fiorina. He could say i dont think the way youre interrupting. Is that a thing here. Its a question. I dont know whats in his heart. Its something that women will look at that and ask the question is that sexism or Something Else. Why was he more irritated by her and view her as interrupting him. Why was that in his head when she was behaving like any other candidate on the stage. Like him calling elizabeth
warren pocahontas. The guys started laughing. The more he said it, the woman standing behind him started biting her lip. I think thats how a lot of moderate republican women are looking at some of the these things that he says opinion its a little more personal. Native americans in its not like theyre cartoon figures out there. It wasnt just that he called her pocahontas. He said she was ineffective and all she had was a big mouth. She got federal agency created and you cannot like her but big mouth. Last night, donald trump seemed to accept an invitation and today he said he would do it if the event could raise 10 to 15 million for charity. Lets watch the counter offer here. I think it would get very high ratings. It should be in a big arena somewhere. We can have a lot of fun with it. Id love to debate bernie. The problem with debating bernie is he will lose. I wanted to put up money for charity. We had a couple of calls from networks already. Raise 10 million, youll get on a debate stage. I would love to. I can write the headlines now. You can tell thats the way its going to go. Theyll be rooting for him. I can see it coming. Why would he want to walk into a situation where theyre not going to beat Bernie Sanders. How could bernie lose the debate . Right now hes got about 10 . Its going to become clear to
bernies voters that trump is not somebody their candidate would ever want them to support. The age old rule of not engaging candidates who are below you. Thats why hillary didnt want to debate. Hes not going to do it. Its not him. He wants the networks to pay him to do this. Hell give the money to charity just like with the vets. Im doing it all for women. I wonder if they will give it to planned parenthood again. Everybodys going to cheer and nobody knows such trump moment. I just think hell lose. Thank you. Amazing. So smart here. I do think everything you say is right. Coming up, good news and bad news for Hillary Clinton. The bad news is shes leading Bernie Sanders with just two points. Look, this is going to be tricky out there in california. He could win that one. The good news for hillary, shes beating donald trump among middle income voters in the rust belt states. Can clinton fight her two front war against trump and sanders at the same time and win at both . Thats ahead. Plus, president obama says World Leaders are rattled. Thats his word, by donald trump. Trumps response, good, they should be. It is smart politics for the president to engage like this with the republican nominee . Its dangerous to fight down, i would argue. Dont fight with a guy coming at you. Much more from the trump archives. More that show earlier signs of what hes selling now. Youll find this fascinating. Well show you what he said in 1999 to me. Its so interesting about today. Im talking about philly tonight too where the democrats are going. This is hardball, the place for politics. Real is touching a ray. Amazing is moving like one. Real is making new friends. Amazing is getting this close. Real is an animal rescue. Amazing is over twentyseven thousand of them. There is only one place where real and amazing live. Seaworld. Real. Amazing we showed these hey yeveryday experts. Ide . Im a police officer. Paramedic. The value of nissans. [safety beeping] intelligent safety shield technologies. Whoa like forward emergency braking that could stop your car for you. Save even more with Holiday Bonus cash this memorial day, during nissans safety today event. For a limited time, save up to 1,500 on the 2016 nissan rogue with 500 memorial day bonus cash. Where can i buy it . Sign me up shop your local nissan store and choosenissan. Com today. Following a campaign stop, donald trump made an appearance on jimmy kimmel live. He was asked to explain past praise for Hillary Clinton. Lets watch. In 2008, i want to get this right. You said you thought hillary would make an excellent president. As recently as 2012, you thought she was terrific. What did she do . Ill tell you. Im a businessman. I had a beautiful story where they said trump is a world class businessman. I speak well of everybody. If people ask me about politician, i speak well. Shes wonderful. Everybodys wonderful. Thats the way it is. They ask me for contributions, i give contributions. So you were full of [ bleep ] when you said that . How can you talk like that . Well be right back. Introducing otezla, apremilast. Otezla is not an injection, or a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. Some people who took otezla saw 75 clearer skin after 4 months. And otezlas prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Otezla may increase the risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. Some people taking otezla reported weight loss. Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Side effects may include diarrhea, nausea, upper respiratory tract infection, and headache. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Ask your dermatologist about otezla today. Otezla. Show more of you. Welcome back to hard ball. Hillary clinton is pushing forward despite the state Department Audit that says she violated the federal recordkeeping rules when she was secretary of state even when one of her closest aides recommend clinton use an official state Department Email address. Clinton said, quote, lets get separate address or device, but i dont want any risk of the personal being accessible. The investigation did not find any evidence that clinton received a new device or address after that discussion. The Clinton Campaign has been down playing the inspector
generals report since it came out yesterday. Here is secretary clinton reacting to the report earlier today. This report makes clear that personal email use was the practice for other secretaries of state. I know that because it is well known. Its pointed out in the report. It was still a mistake. If i could go back, i would do it differently. I know people have concerns about this. I understand that. I think voters are going to be looking at the full picture of what i have to offer, my life and my service and the full threat that donald trump offers our country. Is the interview with the fbi scheduled yet . No, its not. I have offered since last august and im looking forward to seeing this matter wrapped up. Ruth, i know were talking before. This is a tough one to try to get through. Its murky. No one ever told secretary clinton when she was secretary dont use the private email server. Nobody ever told her. Whose fault is that . When you go to school they say use eight and a half by ten paper. Use a pencil and theres instructions to every part of our life. There was no literal, clear instructions to her, dont do that. Do this. Theres two levels of fault. There was a culture of enabling around her. Youre the important person. Youre the principal. Everybody wants to make you happy and satisfied. Your role as the principal is to have people around you who feel empowered to stand up to you and Hillary Clinton made a mistake but her staff also and the people who were working for her failed her by not telling her
this was a truly bad idea. They did fail her. I actually also think there were some im a big defender of Hillary Clinton. Im going to support the nominee. I think she made a mistake that white house put out some guidelines that she didnt follow. They also knew she wasnt using the right email server and probably somebody at the white house should have said something. I think theres plenty of enabling going on. She said yesterday, im the only secretary of state who put out all their emails. She didnt. She had 31,000 she kept and said they were private. 31,000 is not all. Right. You got to just come totally clean. Can she . This is the problem she keep saying she did what other secretaries of states have done. I know growing up my mother would chastise me about doing
something my friends have done. If they jump off the bridge, are you going to jump too. This is the point. Its dont totally dismiss it. You have to totally own it. Do you think this will matter . I always like to ask when i have a problem. Will this matter a month from now . It may or may not. Mr. Trump will make sure that the voters never forget it. Its one of the things he spews out. Does he know what was wrong . Hes not expressed that. Can you explain what exactly matters here. Why does it matter . Its important to understand this Inspector General is the jv
come papered to what does the fbi, what does the Justice Department do. It has to do with classified information. I doubt that Hillary Clinton will be indicted. The criminal law is strict here. The sense that some people believe that the clintons dont think the remember rules apply to them. Thats why it matters. Thats perfectly fair for some people to think. Its always a higher standard. I ran for president. Ive been in the senate. I dont want to be doing anything illegal on the political side. I communicated with people who ive raised money with. Im a true believer in that. I got to get some kid into stanford because they gave me money to campaign. Thats a different phone call she should be allowed to keep to herself. Let me express some sympathy for Hillary Clinton. When she says i dont want the personal to come out, thats the result of having years of having everything in her life excava excavated. Voters head to the polls on june 7th. That aint much. Not at all. Whos going to spend the big money out there and win this . Certainly senator sanders big time. Got five million left right. About. Hes out there. Hes been holding large rallies. Hes pressing the flesh. Two weeks from yesterday. At 8 00 eastern time, were going to know that Hillary Clinton has enough delegates to win this. Its over. Whats that do . This is bad for the Clinton Campaign for following reasons. This poll is bad because a week ago she was ahead by 16 points. Polls are a snapshot in time. Hes still moving. Hes moving like this. Theyve got to do something to stop that movement. I hate when you count the super delegates. I know you do. Thats life. They dont count. They dont count until the day of the convention. Thats life. Many believe the 2016 contest
will be fought and won in the midwest states. Working class voters could swing the contest to trump or clinton if shes the nominee in the general election. According to a Bloomberg Politics purple slice poll, clinton leads by seven points among middle class that includes the states of michigan, ohio and pennsylvania. 30 to 75,000 a year. These are the people that most people believe, if trump has chance these are the people that will need to go there. Reagan democrats. Whats the normal spread . Is it mostly democratic. The group has gone for the winning president ial candidate in six out of last six president ial campaigns. Its been by different margins. You think this is good news . Its very good news. It closes the door on the strategy. Its not going to close the
door. Its the only door hes got to go through. Thats exactly right. Its his only door. Its one of the doors. He has to go back to a romney strategy where he is focusing on. The purple states. Hes not going to flip these states. Here is the question. If the republicans win the deep south, they will win the Rocky Mountains and the plain states. Democrats will win the bicoastal, california and seattle. They will win the east coast. The battleground has to be the middle. Its florida, ohio and virginia. Its not michigan and pennsylvania. Democrats have been winning those pretty consistently. Whos here from ohio in. I am. Just kidding. They do not win. Thank you. Next, rattled. Thats how World Leaders are feeling about donald trump. I have mix viewed about World Leaders and what they think. You can see the president take on the republican nominee a much more aggressive way. Lets agree on that one. This is hardball, the place for politics. Safety doesnt come i