MSNBC's Steve Kornacki comments on protesters disrupting Donald Trump's speech at the state Republican convention in Burlingame, CA.



"A lot of attention has been paid, when protesters show up there, to how [Trump] and his crowd treat those protesters. And I think in a lot of ways that has hurt him," Kornacki said. "There is a lot of sympathy for protesters who show up at Trump rallies who get hassled by the crowd -- singled out and ridiculed by Donald Trump. I sense there is a lot of sympathy towards them."



"But when you turn it around and you have prtesters saying they are denying him the right to speak here, we're going to deny people the right to hear from him, I do suspect that is going to turn people around. Maybe they don't like what he is saying. But that doesn't mean you have the right to shut this down," Kornacki said.



"That kinds of messaging within the Republican primary... that they're out to get him, or in this case, he will turn this to his advantage and say they were trying to shut me down, afraid to let me speak. If Donald Trump speaks and says these terrible things that have given him terrible poll numbers with all voters across the country. In that sense there is sympathy for protesters, but when they say you're not going to speak: I do wonder if that changes the equation," he concluded.