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know if you heard this, it just came out an hour ago, he landed in cuba and raul castro, or fidel castro, raul castro, the head of cuba, wasnt there to greet him. [ laughter ] folks, what are we doing . What are we doing . What are we doing . Can you imagine if i were in that position and i landed and nobody was there . They would say donald trump must be incompetent to allow a thing like this to happen. The head of cuba, who was there for the pope and he was there for other dignitaries that come in but he wasnt there for the president of the United States. I mean, we are amateur hour, folks. Amateur hour. [ applause ] and honestly, obama should have turned the plane around and left. No, he should have. He should have turned it around. He should have said byebye. Well, there you have it. Good monday morning. Its march 21, mika and willie have the morning off. Were reaching out the joe who will be with on set in new york. We have managing editor of Bloomberg PoliticsMark Halperin. Veteran i hate saying that, can we change that . Legendary columnist in and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle. Hello, mike. Hello, nicolle. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post fresh off his way too early success. Good to see you this morning. And msnbc political analyst and professor how did you get such a better intro than poor barnicle . Shock to me as well. Former democratic congressman harold ford. And in havana, cuba how often do you get to say that nbcs senior White House CorrespondentChris Jansing. Hello, chris. Good morning. Good morning. Got a lot of news to get to this morning. I know, go ahead, chris. About 100 Republican Convention delegates up for grabs tomorrow with a winner take all primary in arizona and a caucus in utah that has a proportional split but becomes winner take all if one candidate exceeds 50 . In arizona, a poll taken before last weeks contest found that trump had a significant 12point lead, 31 to cruz at 19 , Governor John Kasich tied with marco rubio at 10 . In utah, a postrubio poll puts cruz 593 . Kasich in second at 29 . Trump down at 11 . 2012 republican nominee mitt romney posted on facebook friday in the utah nominating caucus i will vote for senator ted cruz. Adding at this stage, the only way we can reach an open convention is for senator cruz to be successful in as many of the remaining nominating elections as possible. A vote for Governor John Kasich in future contests makes it extremely likely that trumpism
would prevail. So donald trump battled back with a jab at the former massachusetts governors faith while campaigning in romneys new backyard of Salt Lake City. I have many friends that live in salt lake. I have a lot of friends. I have a lot of friends. By the way, mitt romney is not one of them. The [ boos ] did he choke . Did this guy choke . Hes a choke artist. I cant believe are you sure hes a mormon . Are we sure . He choked. He choked. Yeah, wow. Okay, so Mark Halperin and nicolle, he has a lot of friends in salt lake. You knew he did. I mean, you knew coming around here that when we got past the early states that Salt Lake City was his kind of city. So very interesting, this battle between romney the and the establishment and trump seems to be getting hotter by the way. This weekend you couldnt go on
twitter and look at the influencers on the right and left where you didnt see every second or third tweet was just a vicious attack at trump and then countercharges from trump. It seems to be getting uglier out there instead of both sides making peace, right . I think so. And the big question is how does this end in any peaceful coalescing around anybody at our convention . Its difficult to put all of this back together and its becoming a hotter war not less bombastic. Its a big day with trump in washington meeting with some congressional officials, republicans, and having other private meetings and speaking to aipac, but its a big two weeks. We have contests tomorrow in arizona and utah but also two weeks from tomorrow is wisconsin. And i think if kasich and cruz cant figure out a way to stop trump in wisconsin he may be able to be on the path to a
majority and uniting some of the party but hell never unite all of it. Mike barnicle, though, it seems that the antitrump crowd is getting angrier by the moment. Its like time is not healing any wounds. Its stirring things up even more and theyre getting so dug in at this point that i dont see how they put this Party Together again over the next several months. I just dont. Joe, they seem to be heading down a path to a total destruction. You have a cabal meeting secretly. We get reports this weekend, tomorrow night 50, 100 members of the establishment. They could not beat donald trump, they missed donald trump for months and months and months when he was right in front of everyones face. Everyone was hearing his voice other than the small secret cabal of republicans, now theyre going to try and steal it from him because they couldnt beat him. This is really ludicrous. Chris jansing is . I want to pick up on both what he was saying and what Mark Halperin was saying, that Donald TrumpsUnconventional Campaign making conventional moves today. Trump is heading to capitol hill to meet with those two dozen influential republicans at a nearby law firm according to the Washington Post. The guest list is mostly unknown, though politico reports senator tom cotton of arkansas will be there along with senator Jeff Sessions of alabama who endorsed trump last month. Robert costa reports that antitrump super pacs will be staking out that meeting for footage of republicans who attend as republicans take part in the hundredday dash to halt trumps mart to the nomination and planning begins on an alternative ticket should they fail. Weekly standard big kristol is suggesting Third Party Candidates, under tom coburn and
rick perry. Coburn has privately considered a bid but said he doesnt expect to be the candidate. Meanwhile, perrys former Campaign Manager says the governor wants the gop to unite around senator ted cruz who he has endorsed. Joe . All right. So sam stein, theyre talking about bringing trackers toll follow people that would have the audacity to follow donald trump. This is at the point you can declare your party is at an all out civil war. This surprised me. Were talking about a republican operated antitrump super pac going after fellow republicans for meeting with the republican frontrunner. You have to step back and think to yourself, the partys kind of coming apart here at the seams and its interesting because the more Establishment Republicansdo actually go to donald trump such as Chris Christie, senator Jeff Sessions, the harder it becomes for them to take it away at the convention because trump will have more mainstream people complaining on his behalf saying no, no, he got the most votes, he got the most delegates, maybe he didnt reach the critical threshold but he deserves this. So as you get more and more Establishment Republicans, it becomes his nomination. In addition to that, what happens if he arrives at this convention somewhere w somewhere between 1125 and 1225 delegates, 112 to 75 shy, to his point. How do you stop him . I understand you go from a second vote and third vote, but from a practical standpoint and you see the momentum that hes i mean the thing that happened this week were very troubling. We watched on television with his Campaign Manager who didnt
try to defuse the situation, but lets pause that for a moment. I dont know how you stop him once he gets to the convention. Does he lead . Does our third party they talk about third Party Mainstream candidate. There could be a Third Party Trump candidate if he decides not to run. From marks standpoint, the reporting, what do you get . Do you hear neigh hexd launch a Third Party Candidate . It will be too late for him at that point to get on the ballot as anything but a writein. But the Republican Party has a hundred different ideas about how to try to stop donald trump. What are they . Its too late that the point. Does anyone in trumps camp get so angry this is happening. There are only four of them. But you tried to separate out the violence im not. No, no. Thats at the core of the discomfort. As an american, its deeply troubling to watch that. It concerns me he would not i
mean, he condoned his Campaign Manager and condoned im just saying, look at palm ry paul ryan having to go out and condemn these types of actions. At the core of the republican establishments opposition to trump is precisely what you described. Has a Campaign Manager ever served due w served dually as a crowd bouncer before . Im curious, youve been out there almost on a daily basis with these campaigns, specifically the Trump Campaign. How close do you think the Republican Party is to just saying we surrender, were going to have our gallipoli moment, well go out of the trenches and run to our deaths with donald trump in the lead. How close they to that as opposed to this ridiculous meetings theyre having with people trying to take the thing away from him snrj. Its hanging in the balance. You can see a largely unified party in cleveland and you could
see, joe, an absolutely divided Republican Party. I think it depends on how many more contests trump wins and also stylistically how much he reaches out. How many more Chris Christies can he find in the Republican Party . Well, that depends on two things. The first thing has to do with the violence. The violence has to be tamped down. It makes the republican establishment for good reason very uncomfortable. Of course there are protesters all over the place. Hes always being interrupted. You know what . They need to not respond and thats not his brand but the more incidents like this that happen the more uncomfortable the republican establishment is for good reason. The second thing has to do with the fact that were hearing it more and more, we saw in the the david brooks column yesterday, the unprepared nature of everything. The lack of depth on policy issues, the lack of experts around him. The inability to get up and dig a little bit deeper than just surface soundbites. Thats one thing Chris Jansingthat people are looking forward to date, an sproord extraordina important speech at aipac. Will donald trump sound president ial for the first time in his campaign . Some people close to him are letting reporters know this morning that they are going to see a new donald trump and this is where he makes a turn to the more president ial approach that hes been promising for a very long time weve heard it before, as you say, and this is an incredibly important day with all the remaining president ial candidates who are going to be speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs committee, commonly known as aipac. Hillary clinton, john kasich, ted cruz, and donald trump all in washington today. Addressing an expected crowd of about 18,000 people. Several groups are expected to protest trumps remark this is evening with a group of rabbis planning a walkout after he is introduced while others are advocating a less disruptive
boycott. Despite his typical offthecuff style politico is reporting that trump has taken input from a number of very significant jewish influencers who have reaffirmed to him the importance of this particular speech. Now, last month, trump said hed like to broker a deal between the israelis and the palestinians and got criticism for saying hed be neutral something which he says his speech is going to address. I think making a deal would be in israels interest. I dont know one jewish person that doesnt want to have a deal. A good deal. A proper deal, but a really good deal. Define a good deal. Well, ill define that tomorrow because ill be defining it tomorrow. Im not going to define it now. Im going to define it tomorrow. But we would like to see and everybody would like to see a real deal be made, not a deal that will be broken, a real deal that will be made. Something that can be lasting. Yeah, you know, mark, the question is whether he can discipline himself. Thats, again, what the republican establishment, a lot of people in the media have been wanting for a long time. Can donald trump discipline himself to deliver an indepth policy speech . If he tries to deliver an indepth policy speech will he make the same mistakes ben carson made talking about hummus as a dangerous, dangerous food. Will he actually be able to stand up and deliver . I think our questions about whether the republican establishment is going to get serious about donald trump or not depends on whether donald trump is going to get serious about being a president ial candidate and start acting like one and talking about policy and the way that a lot of americans expect from their president. Look, if you were scripting this in a fictional way, todays event would be right in your script because this is of all the things that president ial candidates are asked to do. Speaking to aipac is among the most difficult and substantive. Its complicated. You have to navigate a ton of different constituencies and it
involves nuance. So, mike, do you think trump will go in there and give nuance and depth and president ial demeanor or he going to wing it . First of all, well see a different donald trump. Are we going to see a donald trump reading a prepared text and sticking to prepared legitimate points on perhaps the most controversial aspect involving the world peace potential world peace. On the one hand, he has ba Bibi Netanyahu who continues to provide over a system where they increase housing allotments. And palestinians have never come to the table really in a sensible way and hes got to do that but, mike, i think he will do that. Its just 10 minutes later does he get on twitter and call his first twitter a jerk . I actually think he is capable of that. I think he can stand at a podium and read a tell prompter. But weve lowered the bar to a ridiculous level. Were asking if he can read a teleprompter when hes running
if president of the United States. Hes probably one candidate whos gone away from republican orthodoxies, not just on israel, about cuba, the iraq war, so on and so forth. And every time hes done it weve assumed he done, but he goes up in the polls. So will he do it . I dont know. Or stick to a prepared text . Im curious to see if theres a protester in the room or if the rabbis get up and leave how he reacts. Get the rabbis out get them out of here this will be remembered for a long time. To your point, sam, thats most important, where does he come down on policy . Because he wont be able to escape the statements he makes here Going Forward around Foreign Policy. Famous last words he wont be able to escape. Cant you see that, rabbis walks out on trump. Sad. Jerks, losers. Still ahead on morning joe, another weekend, another
scuffle at a trump event. Now hes speaking out. Well play his latest remarks. Plus, a world in disarray. Richard haass is back from overseas with a sobering assessment with the next commander in chief. First, bill karins. A snowy morning for some in eastern new england and hopefully this is it. You have snow this morning, three to four inchs on the ground most locations. Schools closed for kids in boston today. That snow is moving up to maine. Youre done with your snow, d. C. , philadelphia, new york is done. So additional snowfall, we may pick up one the two inches boston north wards. Portland, maine, to bangor, that may be the worst drive. Down east maine could pick up six to eight inches. Its not just new england. We have freeze warnings across much of the deep south, even northern louisiana. Its rare to get freeze this is far south this time of year. Were at 29 in oklahoma city, 38 in montgomery. Even atlanta is chilly at 38. This is one of the coldest mornings well see until next winter. This is a good time of year because the march sun is strong. Well have 68 in dallas, 60 in atlanta. New york city will be at 51 and that snow on the grass will be melted by the end of the day. For our friends in the northeast in new england with the snow, tomorrow looks better getting up near 50 in boston. New york city, youre done with your snowflakes. We got about a half inch in the park. The roads are just wet and it looks just fine for this afternoon. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. [alarm beeps] the intelligent, allnew audi a4 is here. Aint got time to make no apologies. Trolling for a gig with cant blame you. Its a drone you control with your brain, which controls your thumbs, which control this joystick. No, im actually over at the ge booth. Were creating the Operating System for industry. Its called predix. Its gonna change the way the world works. Ok, im