Subject: RE: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:55:55 -0700

Donald Trump on MSNBC, Morning Joe
4/27/16 6:30 AM

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Transcript of Hits:

>> Are you going to start turning your attention now to Hillary Clinton and the general election?
DT: A little bit.

DT: None, because I think we can make it better than it ever was. I think we can actually make this country better.
I think if Hillary Clinton gets in, it will never have the opportunity again, because we're going down fast. We're really going down fast. If she gets in, we will never have the opportunity. So there's really none.

>> Donald, last night, Hillary Clinton spoke about you during her victory speech, and it was specifically about gender. Take a look.
>> The other day, Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, woman card. Well, if fighting for for women's health care and equal pay is playing the women's card, then deal me in.
>> It seems that would be the one area -- perhaps -- you say you have plans for Hillary. I would think she's incredibly strong on these issues.
DT: I haven't quite recovered, it's early in the morning, from her shouting that message. I know a lot of people would say you can't say that about a woman, because of course a woman doesn't shout. The way she shouted that message was not -- that's the way she said it, and I guess I'll have to get used to a lot of that over the next four or five months.
>> What about issue pertaining to women she discussed including equal pay and right to choose.
DT: We're going to do very well. We're going to do very well with Hillary and women as soon as we start our process against her. We're going to do very well. I don't even know if it's going to be Hillary. We're all waiting to find out with the e-mail scandal. I don't know. What's going on with the e-mail scandal. It's taking longer and longer.
She's guilty. Everybody knows she's guilty but they don't want to go after her. It's going to be an interesting thing, but she's got a problem. People at the far left are sitting in jail cells.
>> So you said Hillary Clinton was shouting her message. Bernie Sanders shouts his message, too, right?
DT: Bernie Sanders has a message that's interesting. I'm going to be taking a lot of things Bernie said and using them. I can reread some of his speeches and get some very good material. Many wish she shouldn't be there. He said some things about her that are actually surprising. That essentially she has no right to even be running. She's got bad judgment. When he said bad judgment, I said sound bite. But Bernie has been treated very badly by the Democrats and democratic party. Frankly, he should run as an independent, I think.

DT: I didn't start with Hillary where she had 8 or 900 people sitting in an office, finished office space in Brooklyn because she has money from PACS. Even though I have a lot more money than any pac put together, I like to watch my money.

Full Transcript:
>> Donald, are you feeling more presidential this morning?
>> Yes.
>> Stop it.
>> Hold on. He's going to sound presidential. Sound presidential for us.
>> I get more and more presidential as I have victories, absolutely.
>> Sounds like he's lying in bed.
>> No, I'm not.
>> You sound really excited to be on "Morning Joe."
>> I am. Always exciting. What a night. He's been presidential. Intensely boring. Wonderful. The first time it's happened. So should Ted Cruz and John Kasich drop out of the race?
>> They should have. In fact, I heard they were having a news conference last night to drop out of the race and they canceled the news conference. They have to play their game. John is now 1 for 47 and Ted is, you know, a disaster. I guess I'm 3.5 million votes up on him. It's crazy. It's a crazy thing. It's crazy. No highway. It's over. I think we're doing very well. I think we're going to do very well in Indiana. We have the great Bobby knight endorsing me tonight, which I look forward to. It's going to be exciting.
>> Are you ready to predict you're going to get to 1237 and more when it comes to delegates.
>> I've been saying that for a Monday. I think we're going to get it. I think we're going to get it fairly easily and we're going to have an amazing -- I think we'll do great in Indiana, California, and some states in between we're going to get.
>> Are you going to start turning your attention now to Hillary Clinton and the general election?
>> A little bit. I want to finish off the final two leftovers, the two guys that shouldn't be here. For the sake of the Republican party, they shouldn't, because we want to unify the Republican party.
But I have two people that are still here hanging around as the expression goes. Not going to get anywhere. It's going to take time. It's a process. Have you to wait a week and then you have to wait another week. Instead of that, we could be raising money for the Republican party, a lot of it. I have a lot of friends, give a lot of money to the Republican party. We're not going to do it until they find out whether or not I win. I have friends that will give tremendous amounts of money to the Republican party.
>> Were you surprised last night by the scope of the victories?
>> Yes.
>> Talk about that.
>> Well, the scope was fantastic. I was told if I get 50 it's good. I was told you couldn't get 50 in all of them. You know, getting 50, Joe, you and I discussed this and I discussed it at length last night. Getting 50 is very tough when you have three people.
>> Right.
>> You know, if you look I won by 60 and 62 and last week it was 62 in New York and you have three people, I mean, if you had 62 and you had one person that's considered a landslide victory, right? If you win by 5 points, you know, if you're one or two, it would be a really, really amazing. Now, I mean, if you win one-on-one by 5 points that's considered pretty much of a landslide, right? So I'm getting essentially 60% against two other candidates. That's pretty amazing.
>> Are you at this point, you have to be thinking about vice presidential picks. Are you starting in your --
>> I have someone in mind but I don't want to talk about him because I don't want to think about it until it's over. I heard Cruz was starting to think about vice presidential picks. He may pick Carly Fiorina. I see Rhode Island is 64. That's a good number.
>> Donald, by the way, we wanted to talk to you about that.
That appears to be your ceiling and maybe you should drop out of the race.
>> It's my ceiling with three people. Don't forget, if I had two people the 64 would have been 80.
>> "The Washington post," we've been talking about it for nine months now, why has the media -- we've had this running joke, trump's ceiling 25, 30, 35, 40, poor guy should get out of the race. Why has the media underestimated you so badly at every turn. You've been seeing it, living it at every turn. You actually paid a compliment to the media, ask you why you did that. Why have they misread you so much over the last nine or ten months.
>> I'm an outsider. I don't play by the traditional rules. I'm self-funding my campaign which maybe has an impact on them. I think the media is under pressure. I think they look very bad. When I came out, they all said I was going nowhere. I wouldn't announcement. You folks were great. Not everybody was. You gave me a hard time, too.
>> When did I give you a hard time.
>> We give you a hard time on things you disagree with but we always thought your candidacy was successful. Don't understand the people who didn't get it. Mike Barnicle has a question.
>> Donald, congratulations on your crushing sweep last night, first of all.
>> Hi Mike. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Of all the candidates on both sides of the aisle in the course of this campaign, you have the most resonant campaign message, let's make America great again. It's clearly identifiable. People have clung to you and listened to you in the last several months. In your mind, what period of time or what specific year do you want make America akin to in the past? What year or decade or generation would it be?
>> None, because I think we can make it better than it ever was. I think we can actually make this country better.
I think if Hillary Clinton gets in, it will never have the opportunity again, because we're going down fast. We're really going down fast. If she gets in, we will never have the opportunity. So there's really none. We're going to have our own era and it's going to be a great era. There's so many things we can do to make our country rich again and great again and respected again. And I would say none, Mike. There were some interesting times but you're going to see something -- we will make America greater than ever before.
>> Donald, last night, Hillary Clinton spoke about you during her victory speech, and it was specifically about gender. Take a look.
>> The other day, Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, woman card. Well, if fighting for for women's health care and equal pay is playing the women's card, then deal me in.
>> It seems that would be the one area -- perhaps -- you say you have plans for Hillary. I would think she's incredibly strong on these issues.
>> I haven't quite recovered, it's early in the morning, from her shouting that message. I know a lot of people would say you can't say that about a woman, because of course a woman doesn't shout. The way she shouted that message was not -- that's the way she said it, and I guess I'll have to get used to a lot of that over the next four or five months.
>> What about issue pertaining to women she discussed including equal pay and right to choose.
>> We're going to do very well. We're going to do very well with Hillary and women as soon as we start our process against her. We're going to do very well. I don't even know if it's going to be Hillary. We're all waiting to find out with the e-mail scandal. I don't know. What's going on with the e-mail scandal. It's taking longer and longer.
She's guilty. Everybody knows she's guilty but they don't want to go after her. It's going to be an interesting thing, but she's got a problem. People at the far left are sitting in jail cells.
>> So you said Hillary Clinton was shouting her message. Bernie Sanders shouts his message, too, right?
>> Bernie Sanders has a message that's interesting. I'm going to be taking a lot of things Bernie said and using them. I can reread some of his speeches and get some very good material. Many wish she shouldn't be there. He said some things about her that are actually surprising. That essentially she has no right to even be running. She's got bad judgment. When he said bad judgment, I said sound bite. But Bernie has been treated very badly by the Democrats and democratic party. Frankly, he should run as an independent, I think.
>> Great call.
>> By the way, Nicole is here, and her parents were texting her furiously all night, a good night for Nicole's mother and father.
>> Congratulate them. I like Nicole's parents Nicole is a very beautiful, nice woman but I like her parents perhaps better.
>> Fair enough. You're giving a national security speech today. There's a lot of anticipation. Created in part by lengthy interviews you gave to "Washington post" editorial board, "New York Times" editorial board. I think you would acknowledge there is a lot of filling in to do about the kind of foreign policy you would do as president. I wonder if you could take us behind the scenes of that process. Did you put some of your favorite generals, thinkers on the plane? Did you debate out some of the long held conventions about our alliances. Tell us about the process, not just how it was written but how you arrived at what you're going to detail today?
>> We did. With he had a lot of very good experts.
I'll be naming them today. That helped people of great consequence. I will say that a lot of people that I've looked at have great names and they have been involved with nothing but failure. They have wonderful names. You should use general tso and so. You should use this one and that one. They have been involved for a long time with the strategy of our war plan --
>> I'm sorry, but no one -- you view Iraq and Afghanistan as fair, so no one involved in either going to war or executing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is anyone you would consider to be part of your foreign policy team.
>> They are considered and I'm using some. But I will tell you that there are some that I just couldn't take it anymore, when they were giving me their credentials. Mr. Trump,iver been involved for 14 years at the highest level of the Iraq war. I said, well, I would really not be interested in using you, sir, with all due respect. We'll forget about you. We need new thinking. We need a lot better thinking. This is ridiculous. What's been going on for so many years is ridiculous. Whether we like it or not, there are people out there that haven't had a claim but I like their ideas better. We had conversations with both. I'll be announcing names later. We had conversations with both, all very good people. Everybody is a good person. Some ideas just haven't been working. When I see people like Lindsey graham working on the war floor as long as he's been in the senate and then he says I've been doing this for many years. Well, that's the problem. It shouldn't take many years. It might take many months, it might take many weeks if we had the right people.
>> John heilemann.
>> I'll be there to hear your speech. Congratulations. I've heard about roles manafort and Lewandowski play, some say coo.
I would like to hear you describe their respective roles and what they do for you in the campaign.
>> Let's go back to the beginning. We started with Corey and hope and a few people, right? When everybody said trump is only going to do this for a few weeks and not have much fun. I didn't start with Hillary where she had 8 or 900 people sitting in an office, finished office space in Brooklyn because she has money from PACS. Even though I have a lot more money than any pac put together, I like to watch my money. I don't know. It's an old habit. What happened, we have actually by far the best in the history of campaigns, we have the best location. Joe, would you say that's right, and Mika? In the history of campaigns we have the best location.
>> It is. You can afford to build it out a little bit.
>> Cement walls.
>> Concrete walls.
>> Wires hanging down.
>> I only have the space rented. The day the campaign ends, I get the highest rate in the city. The day the campaign ends, I'll build it out for a computer company. It's one of those things. But it's fine. I like it in the concrete. The other looks sort of ridiculous to me. So we have that. It's a rough space. We came in in Iowa second, a close second, got no credit for it. Marco got a lot of credit for coming in third. I got no credit coming in second. It's a race should have come in first actually. I had the votes but the caucus process was not a process that I frankly ever heard of. I've been doing this for a couple months.
>> Hey, Donald, you're locking down the nomination and you're still going back to Iowa.
>> You remind me of someone I know.
>> No, they asked me about the campaign. Went to New Hampshire, we won it, South Carolina, went to all these states and I started winning like crazy and have been winning every since.
The campaign has gotten bigger, it's evolved, right? We started with Corey as the manager and hope doing a lot of work. Hope is terrific, too. All we're doing is adding more people. Now, Paul actually gets along very well with Corey. They get along. They have different functions. They are -- the functions are broken up. I brought Paul in because a very, very smart friend of mine, who knew him very well said he is fantastic. Okay? He's somewhat political, my friend. He's actually a very successful businessman. He's a political type. He loves politics, like all of you. He said this guy is fantastic. I brought Paul in. And Paul has done a really good job. The two guys get along. The only time they don't is when a phony paper like "Politico" will write a story that has no bearing in truth, none whatsoever. This "Politico" rag, they write stories that are so false with no comment and they never call me. They never ask me for a quote. Honestly, I'm the only one that matters. It's my campaign.
>> You're the one in charge.
>> They don't even call me to ask. They should call me. How are they doing? I say, they get along great.
>> Sounds like you're not available.
>> I read a story that is so unbelievably bad but they don't call me to ask me that question so they can never know the answer. I'm telling you they get along really well. They have separate functions, very separate functions and they are doing great.
>> Let me ask you in closing, you had said Bernie Sanders -- by the way, I want to go back. Yes, we have been critical of you from time to time, but we've never questioned, like everybody else, whether you were going to win this thing or not. It seemed obvious to us, especially Mika from the beginning, that you would.
>> Mika knows talent, I will say. She's like a talent scout. She knows great talent.
>> She does.
>> Jeb Bush does, because in the midst of the campaign, pd Donald Trump -- he calls me Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump is a gifted politician.
>> I think you're more than a politician.
>> Let me ask you, you said last night Bernie Sanders is not being treated fairly by the democratic party. You said it again this morning.
>> I agree with that.
>> Yeah, we certainly agree with that. They have been -- that process has been rigged from day one. Let me ask you, though, on the Republican side, how is RNC treating you? Are you being treated fairly, with sufficient respect? And if you win the nomination, are you going to clear out the RNC and get new leadership there or are you going to keep rance priebus and put others in place.
>> I unlike reince, he likes me as much as you can with anybody that gets these wins. They were supposed to pick a senator, who would have lost, a congressman, senator -- not so much a congressman. But sometimes. Or a governor. That was the way it was supposed to be. You have Ben Carson come in. He's a great guy. He endorsed me. He's a great guy. He was actually very effective. He was the most effective in a sense. Chris Christie came in and did very well. A lot did better than Kasich but they didn't stay in. Marco Rubio has far more delegate than Kasich, and he didn't stay in. He said, well, I've got to get out now. He did the right thing. Kasich should get out also. I think, Joe, that this is a campaign that has a lot of legs, a campaign with a lot of good brain power. I think it's a campaign that's going to work right to the end.
>> But are you going to work with the RNC or are you -- if you win the nomination, are you going to get a new group of people in there.
>> I'm going to try, Joe. I think so. The campaign and to a certain extent the RNC inherited this. This delegate system is a scam. It's a scam. Now, with that being said in Pennsylvania I did really well, because I got to 17.
Plus I got many, many more that are already pledged. You I don't think have reported. They have a great chairman there. I have -- really a great leader. I have many delegates in Pennsylvania that you haven't been reported on because you don't know yet. It will be announced. A lot of them. We did the whole pledge card thing.
>> Yeah.
>> But the whole system of what's going on, where I win in Louisiana and end up with less delegates.
>> It's outrageous.
>> The whole system is a scam. Hey, Joe --
>> We're showing Pennsylvania right now. The entire state, it's all red. You won every county in the entire state. It is hard to believe that every single delegate there is not going to back you. If they don't, that is a scam an it's a rigged process.
>> Not representing Pennsylvania.
>> I would be saying that if John Kasich or Ted Cruz won every county. If you win county, how do you not automatically get every delegate.
>> Every single county. In Pennsylvania they have a morals provision where they will back -- they morally inclined to back if you win, and I won everything there. But I will say this, right now in Pennsylvania you have lyin' Ted Cruz and his staff of honchos, and they are going around trying to pick-off people. They are taking them to breakfast, taking them to lunch, taking them to dinner. They are all over the place. He lost the state. In fact, he did horribly in the state. In fact, out of five states, I think he only came in second in one. Ted Cruz, in all fairness to John Kasich, who should not be in it, 1-for-46, Ted Cruz last night came in fourth, came in third in four states. I don't know. I don't know where he's going. Ted doesn't have the ability to get votes. Mika picked that up a long time ago, perhaps faster than anybody else.
Mika gets nauseous when she watches this guy speak.
>> Now, come on.
>> I do.
>> Ted Cruz cannot -- I'm trying to be nice to you.
>> I appreciate it.
>> Ted Cruz cannot get votes. The only way Ted Cruz gets votes is a scam deal. He'll go to Wyoming where they don't vote. He'll go to a caucus where the caucus is fixed. The guy can't get votes. He's not a good politician. But he shouldn't be trying to pick-off delegates. We should get 100% of the delegates in Pennsylvania and it looks like that's where we're heading.

Lauren Hendricks

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Subject: 2016 GOP HIT on HRC

Donald Trump on MSNBC, Morning Joe
4/27/16 6:30 AM

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Responded to a question about Hillary hitting him on women's issues - "deal me in!" by saying he hadn't yet recovered from her shouting.
^trying to provoke a response

Promised details and new foreign policy names in his speech today. All but said that people involved in foreign policy over the last 15 years were worthless because they've been involved in failure.

Called on Cruz and Kasich to get out multiple times. Said he would not raise money for the Republican Party until they dropped out.