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>> he knows a lot of donors in california as well. what did you make of the speech that he gave there? he's putting a lot of faith that gun policy is going to be a platform that's going to resonate with a lot of people in this country. he pushed back and said he doesn't want to talk about politics. this is beyond politics. of course there's some politics he has to deal with if he wants to deal with that issues. >> is this an election where inspiring is what beats donald trump? with regard to the whole electability issue, when we have this conversation, the most electable people always turn out...

From minnesota, walter mondale, got crushed. how can she expect to win so many parts of the midwest that went to donald trump? >> hillary clinton came within 70,000 votes of winning the election. she flipped 70,000 votes in wisconsin, minnesota and pennsylvania, she would be president. it's razor thin. and klobuchar going at that electability issue in her speech today. smart consultants in the democratic party believe the upper midwest should be the focus for the democrats come general election time, not the southwest, not the sun belt but the midwest. and she has a track record of success the...

Bros who are leaking for a home, they simply to be how progressive you are, radical you r how much you punch back, i haven't heard a lot of discussion among that group about electability as much as do i from donor class, mid middle of of the road members worried about electability issue. >> what you're grabbing onto is the idea that electability this time is totally not defined. from the bernie wing, we heard time and time again that bernie would have won and hillary did not. so i think the argument, what they can do, even if they are going to come at it from a more progressive or from the lef...

Here, going straight at this as being electability issue for ted cruz, trying to raise questions about his background, get voters to worry about whether or not cruz is the strongest candidate to go up against hillary clinton. ted cruz, so far, not taking the bait. he's avoided trying to go back to donald trump on this issue. but has said this is a settled matter, there's swap theories out there but this is not something that should be a big issue in the race. >> we heard him to say to jack tapper on "state of the union" hear from a constitutional lawyer on that later in the program. let's list...

Issues, some electability issues as it relates, and now you have john mccain, in a sense, aligned with donald trump. >> reporter: donald trump could not have planned it any better. this is good news for him to have john mccain jump on the bandwag bandwagon. in fact, just a couple hours ago, he tweeted that john mccain is no friend of ted cruz. so now he's able to bring up the birth issue, have it cover the press. people are talking about it. and now he can blame it on john mccain, say that i never attacked but mccain is. so it's really a perfect scenario for donald trump who's trying not to al...