Result of those other delegates . Ted cruz is one of the most powerful second place finishers in recent history in one of these conventions . I dont expect a lot of drama. Weve seen very tight races before, even tighter on the democratic side in the 2008 barack obama versus Hillary Clinton race. And what ends up happening, when all of the candidates end up dropping out and you have a presumptive nominee by the sheer number or networks calling it or party designating you the presumptive nominee, you pretty much control that convention. There might be some discentrists here or there, for the most part donald trump and his allies will control every aspect of the convention in cleveland from the platform to the speaking order to whos giving the key note speech. This is going to be Donald Trumps convention. And that is significant to kind of understand even as you try to see if there are dissenting voices. Donald trump, the showman who has said the past conventions was the most boring hes ever seen. Hoping to have a stamp and imprint this coming summer. Mark, thank you very much. I want to get to Hallie Jackson joining us from phone from billings mond s montana. This is a significant milestone. Youve been speaking to the Trump Campaign. Are they reacting to this . Listen, i think what were going to see, peter, donald trump and Campaign Aides talk about how trump has now hit that magic number before Hillary Clinton has on the democratic side. Point to this as a sign of his unity within the Democratic Party as a way that republicans and some specifically are in fact stronger than clinton moving into sort of the convention season. So i think thats the significance for the Trump Campaign of this right now. This doesnt change how we talked about donald trump as the presumptive nominee for nbc news until the convention, he wont officially secure the nomination but youre right, this is a milestone. Im told by a Senior Source that you will see a number of these unbound north dakota delegates at that event in bismarck, committing to trump or at least coming out and publicly backing him as we have now called it as he has reached that magic number, peter. You look back at the contours of this race over the last year, over the last year and change and this is a real moment for the Republican Party after prediction after prediction that donald trump would simply not reach that figure. Here we are end of may, not even california yet, there was a lot of folks that thought maybe it would take until june 7th for trump to do this. Trump not going through the motions with that stop in bismarck, north dakota early today and another stop where you are in montana, making sure he checks every box, get to say hi and thank you to his supporters across the country. Reporter hell continue to do so, peter. After that, north dakota event, the fact he was given that Energy Policy speech in north dakota was significant because of this reason he would be able to bring these delegates forwards and be able to hit that math ib number. But then he goes to montana, where we are in billings. Hes going to hold a rally. People are already lining up for that. He heads to california, fresno and san diego tomorrow for other events. Hes not not disappearing we should say because that has happened and he hit this magic number, doesnt mean well see him off the campaign trail. Hallie jackson in billings, thanks so much. We want to get right to steve kornacki. He runs these numbers better than anyone in the business. Break it down for us and tell us what just happened. A lot of people will say its a thursday and there were no new votes. What changed . Remember we were talking about this a few weeks ago in the runup to the pennsylvania primary, the unbound delegates, these are free agents and they automatically get elected or chosen to go to the national convention. They can vote for anybody who they want there. They dont have to vote for the candidate who won the primary or the caucus or whatever procedure in their state. More than 100 of these floating around in pennsylvania, a lot of them have given a indication that they were going to take into account how the primary in that state went. Donald trump won pennsylvania in a massive landslide and north dakota, unbound delegates were chosen there at the convention. A lot of noigs around that convention for people following this closely, it looked like ted cruz in the stop Trump Movement had gotten a real coup out of north dakota and gotten loyalists into these slots. A lot of these unbound delegates chosen like that are officially formally saying no, im with trump. And again, hallie was saying there, it doesnt change how weve been talking about him here. Hes been the presumptive nominee for a long time. We assumed that these delegates would fall into line but the timing really as hallie is saying, may 26th now. It was april 5th was the night of the wisconsin primary. Donald trump lost by double digits to ted cruz and if you can think back it may seem like an eternity now but how many voices did you hear that night and day after saying thats it, theres no way donald trum trump is going to wrap this up and on may 26th and were saying hes hit the number. As we talk about that number though, obviously it was his opponent ted cruz who had been outorganizing him for so long and that seemed to be cruz campaigns strength as we report about new infighting as it were within the Trump Campaign right now, his National Political director rick wiley just being basically booted out of the campaign. The Trump Campaign still does have challenges in terms of organizing now as it heads towards a general election campaign. It does and the other thing you have to wonder all is a long, he has broke so many of the rules of iron clad rules, he has broken it and look where he is today. He has got the numbers to be the republican nominee. And also, i think its a moment maybe to step back and put some of this in context too, you know, how long did we hear he had a ceiling of 15 , 35 on the republican side. Hes going we ran the numbers the other day, it looks like hes going to get out of this primary process exactly what mitt romney got in 2012, more than john mccain got in 2008 in our poll this week, he got 86 of republicans now saying they are with trump against Hillary Clinton in the fall. He is almost now at the same level of republican support that mitt romney had on election day in 2012. So the story here is i think we spent so many months, even when donald trump started to win the primaries, yeah, but, half of the party, 60 of the party, whatever known is thrown out wont be for this guy. At the ends of the day, if you took Donald Trumps name off of it, what were seeing is the end of a process that looks similar to what we saw with the last two republican nominees, basically the same. Thank you very much. We want to bring in our friends mark caputo joining us from miami and here in washington, Washington PostNational Political reporter and msnbc political analyst, robert costa. Bob, to you out of the gates, this is a significant moment that were witnessing, not that donald trump hadnt focused his attention on Hillary ClintonGoing Forward but i want to get your take right now on how the campaign sort of views this point in time as the party appears to be gelling but there are still divisions, donald trump taking on the only latina governor. Suzanne na martinez. As donald trump turns towards the general election, he remains his own chief strategist. He has turf wars beneath him but donald trump remains at the center of his campaign. He takes an active role, dismissal of rick wiley, directly do to trumps own hand and involvement of personnel and decisions on the campaign. On the campaign trail not doing much to reach for party unity. Remains trump as ever being insend dairy at times. Even yesterday there were several republican governors siding with suzannemartinez back and forth. Mark, the Trump Campaign focusing on Hillary Clinton now getting a pview as it were as what the next line of attack may be. This is an email that was sent intended for a michael caputo, a Trump Campaign adviser that instead ended up in the email box of you, mark caputo. No relationship. What did it tell us about where donald trump is going next . They are ready to launch a broad scale assault on Hillary Clinton and its going to be no holds barred and white water will be fair game as trump himself signature fied, the allegations against bill clinton and actual bill clinton from the past will be brought back up to bobs point really, donald trump is the chief strategist and has all of these people dredging all they can to throw everything at Hillary Clinton. She knows its coming. What was what was a surprise was the dismissal of rick wiley and donald trump called his florida strategist after a blowup and said whats wrong and she told him and trump basically told rick wiley, youre fired. Its a pretty remarkable thing for a candidate to get involved in that granular level of his campaigns mechanics but hes doing that and now hit the magic number with delegates. So far its working for him. Mark, you just punched your ticket for another appearance with the use of pack dill lo. I was fumbling around and that was the best i could do. We appreciate it. Steve, another major headline on Hillary Clintons turf the latest report from the ig about the use of the private email server but our friends at first read today talk about how Donald Trumps weaknesses often overshadow Hillary Clintons. Its striking how Many Americans view her as according to our word cloud, liar and untrust worthy. That was the biggest Word Association anybody had but donald trump almost matches her in terms of that figure. If you look at her most recent poll, do you think each candidate is honest and trustworthy . Hillary clintons number on that front is 19 . Donald trumps number is not good, but it is higher, 35 . Its almost twice as high. If you took hillarys out of there and looked at just trumps, i would say thats a terrible number but Hillary Clinton coming in at just 19 . It seems to be the biggest single if you had to reduce all of her potential liabilities and vulnerabilities into the fall into one that stands out the most, that really is it. Thats been the story for this entire campaign, is she honest . Is she trust worthy . Heres a story where she was out there and the line has been for the last year she sought approval from the state department to do this and this was done setting up the private email server was done with state Department Approval and you have the Inspector General saying no, she did not seek approval for this and if she had sought approval, approval would not have been given. Then you add in the second layer, she refused to sit with and talk with and be subjected to an interview by these investigators. She did not cooperate with this investigation in that sense. She says she will with any fbi investigation but when you look at a number thats that low in terms of people thinking shes honest and being straight forward, somebody who doesnt cooperate with the state department Inspector General on a report like this and report like this comes out and says no, when she says she got approval for this, she didnt ask for approval and wouldnt have gotten approve if she did. Thats the kind of story that brings the number so low. Steve, i think youre right. Kristen welker is joining us from las vegas, nevada, by the look of the back drop, no place but the vegas strip. Give us a sense as steve was making the point, the Clinton Campaign or clinton herself has hardly been forthright about her use of this personal email server insisting that she did it with permission. What was the Clinton Campaign saying and doing right now as this is a new sort of element for the arsenal in Donald Trumps back pocket . Absolutely. Peter, we are here in las vegas, where secretary clinton is going to be addressing some Union Workers later on today. Shes going to try to turn the page on all of those headlines you were just discussing with steve. But look, her campaign is in full spin mode. They make the argument that she didnt feel as though she needed to ask permission because her predecessors, former secretaries of state had also used a personal email account. Theres obviously a whole host of inconsistencies, why didnt she turn over her files once she left office. Of the answer to that was she thought she was saving the files because she was copying them and forwarded them to people who had state. Gov accounts. Still a lot of questions there, this is overshadowing Hillary Clinton as she tries to clinch her own nomination. A lot surprised donald trump was able to do it before she beat sanders. The reason why shes putting so much energy and so much effort into california peter is not so much for the math but for the momentum. She wants to head into the convention on solid ground and in order to do that she has to win here in california. That would blunt senator sanders argument that even if he heads into the convention with fewer delegates but she hasnt officially clinched with pledged delegates, there should be some type of contested convention. Thats why youre seeing her fight so vigorously for california and one of her top aids telling me tomorrow we ask expect to see them go up with ads there. Airing in a number of key markets and of course, her ongoing challenge continues to be that she has this twopronged fight. Fighting against senator sanders but still fighting against donald trump. I anticipate later today well hear a lot of sharp jabs against donald trump. Peter . Bob costa, do you hear me . I do. I want a take from you about the Clinton Campaign right now. They have been refusing to this point to take the bait about the most frequent attacks about sexual infidelity, the infidelities of bill clinton in the past, Hillary Clintons treatment of women in the words of members of the Trump Campaign right now. So obviously it seems clear that donald trump will continue that attack but also hit Hillary Clinton on this Inspector General report as hes already done with a new tweet today saying it reflects on her lacking the temperament and judgment he says to hold the highest office. In my interviews with donald trump, ive often been struck on the question of female voters and his lack of overtours to them. Its not so much he needs to have a strategy to win over more women. Its need that he needs to destroy Hillary Clintons popularity with women voters. Thats what youre seeing right now on the email front but also in bringing in former president clintons history, trump believes he can start to get ground there with women just by pulling away some from Hillary Clinton. We havent seen that pay off entirely in the polls but that seems to be his longterm outlook. Thank you for that. Our friend ben begins burg joins us now, a veteran of republican politics and knows these conventions and the way, the number the delegate Selection Process works as well as anybody. Four years ago this time you were the person who was off in who knows where trying to secure as many delegates as you could for mitt romney. Now as its not even memorial day and donald trump wraps up the nomination. No more talk of a contested convention. How do you sort of cast this moment and how do you address the divisions that still exist within the Republican Party . Paul ryan yet to endorse, sue sus susannna martinez, accusing him of trying to bully her. It is a triumph when they go over the numeric alma jort. He did it at about the same time as mitt romney did. Later than the historical norms but it seems to be the norm with the series of changes that the rnc put in in 2008. The challenges of consolidating the party are on a little bit of a shorter streak. What was fortunate for previous nominees is that they had the nomination, they were the presumptive nominee earlier and could move to bring the Party Together in april and so far in this particular month and you know, mr. Trump deserves a lot of credit for selffunding his campaign. The down side of that he doesnt have the financial network, network of donors thats an important point to bring up. In real terms, what are obviously this is a nontraditional campaign but its obviously been and incredibly effective one that resonated with so Many Americans across this country. What are the Biggest Challenges in real terms beyond money Going Forward . He got a lot of free media but organization money, those matter more now as we head towards a general, dont they . Organization does matter because the primary had about 20 million voters in it and general election well see somewhere around 130 million. So that requires a degree of organization and reaching voters who are sort of lower propensity voters. That has traditionally been done with organ