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National political correspondent, james helman. >> a big shock, look at the polls -- >> trump mania. >> a real joke by the republican establishment, they didn't like him. they kept coming in at the end, and he wins big. how did it it happen? >> it was just out there for five days last week, and i spent a lot of time traveling around the state with matt bevin. it's interesting because he really tried to turn out his base. he spent a lot of time some of the reddest parts of kentucky. he told me that he wanted to run on economic issues, but those weren't getting any residence, what was it talking...

i've had tens of thousands of people over the years working for me, i'm a job machine. do i think it's time to have some of the other republican candidates drop out? yes. you need a very strong person with tremendous energy. thank you very much, folks. >> good morning. that is the way we wake up, everybody, it's wednesday, november 4th, welcome no "morning joe." >> that's not your normal press conference, is it? >> every sound byte is like the one you would choose. >> exactly. sit through an entire press conference to get one byte. he didn't mean to, but it just slipped out. >> it's ...

Administration has followed through on and as a result will have to defend that going into november. >> very good point you make. you, too, james helman. >> thanks, alex. puerto rico holds its primary tomorrow. the illinois primary is on tuesday the 20th, march ends with the louisiana primary on the 24th. looking ahead to april, washington, d.c., maryland and witne wisconsin hold theirs on the 3rd and new york, pennsylvania, delaware and rhode island hold theirs on the 24th. let's get more on sergeant robert bales, the suspect in the afghan killings. john yang is outside ft. leavenworth in...

Those delegates trying to make his case that he's the best candidate aside from romney in the race, he has a little bit a logistical problem there in making that argument. >> james, then you have newt gingrich who's arguably siphoning off conservative votes from santorum and vowing to stay in the race until the convention. give us a reality check. what do you see happening with gingrich going forward? >> i've started a death watch clock that i started on tuesday. his campaign is irrelevant and essentially over but you're right, he could cost santorum key support in a place like he was at the z...

know the identity of the american soldier facing charges in the killings of 16 afghan civilians. army staff sergeant robert bales was flown out of kuwait and is at the detention center at ft. leavenworth, kansas. he's 38 years old, married with two children and is highly decorated after three previous tours in iraq. john yang is in kansas and we'll have more details and a live report just a few minutes from now. let's go now to front-page politics. we are watching three big contests in the republican presidential race, missouri, puerto rico and illinois. rick santorum is campaignin...