neither did hillary clinton. the two front-runner candidates decided to skip last night and focus on new york. >> we want to highlight he didn't win. he calls other peoplers losers, first place is first place. >> what does he do when he doesn't win, he suggests there's illegalities and funny business going on. that is worrisome when you think about the summer. it makes me wonder how this party would be united in the summer and fall. >> we looked at how wisconsin is different, maybe more like nebraska and iowa and different than the states in the northeast. but cruz last night spoke about his delegate momentum. let's listen to what ted cruz sai said. >> four very different states. utah, colorado, north dakota, wisconsin. four victories. in the last two weeks. and in the coming days when colorado and wyoming finish voting, we are likely to have gained over 100 delegates on donald trump. as a result of the people of wisconsin defying the media, defying the pundits, i'm more and more convinced that our campaign is go

. >> i think what you saw bill clinton doing there was an extension of hillary clinton's mood. that she feels like she's bent over backwards to accommodate every demand of the bernie sanders people, the id logical members, the left wing of the party, the activists, every time they've confronted her she's said, you're right, i believe what you believe, yes, yes, and finally she's snapping back and he's snapping back and we're going to say, no, we're going to defend ourselves. we think you're wrong about these things. i think you're lying about my donations from the fossil fuel industry as she said to that protester the other day. so you see the clintons getting a little bit testy. and i think that's what bill regretted. he didn't regret what he said. he didn't regret his message. >> it's not that young people are tilting bernie's way. they're voting at north korean levels for bernie sanders. >> well, on that note let's take a quick pause. we're going to go to our end game segment. back in 45 seconds. what happens when political pandering in new york - if everyone carpooled just

hillary clinton has won in maryland. big win for hillary clinton in maryland. huge win for donald trump in pennsylvania, maryland and connecticut. let's go over to trump headquarters right now. s sa sara murray is standing by. i presume they're going to be happy. >> reporter: i think you're right. obviously the trump campaign wants to sweep all five. they're well on their way with these three victories and they believe coming out of tonight they are going to have an undeniable sense of momentum that could help them in contests coming up in places like indiana, west virginia and the kind of momentum that's going to make it harder for people to argue there's any way that the gop nominee could be anyone but trump. they realize they may have to fight to june 7th to get those 1,237 delegates they need to become the nominee, but i think this string of victories will make it easier to bring on not only voters in upcoming states, but more unbound delegates who may have been a little bit unsure. they think if they come out with five wins tonight it will look like there

hillary clinton is the presumptive democratic nominee. and this is clinton winning over trump. and clinton doing well for the women's vote. then we go on to look at her support among blacks which has always been strong. black voters getting out the vote in kentucky as well. so hillary wins four out of five states. once again many established democrats are asking for sanders to step down. he's mathematically out of it. but he vows he will stay in the race anyway. >> and hillary is focusing more on donald trump and lesson sanders. heather? >> i will take it. rhode island was the only open primary where if you are a member of the other party, you can vote of. >> also apparently helped trump, too in rhode island. donald trump calling himself the presumptive winner. for the republican nominee. >>> what they said about each other next as our coverage continues. always or. but with the rate of change increasing, there's simply( no time for or. businesses today need the agility to do one thing...&...another. and only at&t has the network, people, and partners to help companies sense an

clinton, 57%. bernie sanders, 42%. >> well, new york was plagued by widespread complaints of voting irregularities on tuesday. for more we're joined by dylan buyers. always good to have you with us. before we get to the issue of irregularities. let's talk about the wins themselves. trump and clinton not just winning but winning big. >> yeah. >> what does it mean? >> winning very big. in a way, it doesn't mean anything, and in a way, it means a lot. we've oscillated between two polls in this election, right? we've had this story of donald trump and hillary clinton being the front-runners and being decisive front-runners at that, and at worst what happens is donald trump goes to a contested convention with a huge advantage over ted cruz. the other pool we've voss lated is momentum. bernie sanders having huge momentum, especially in smaller states, saying we've won five out of the last six contests, seven out of the last eight, and this causes us all to question just how much hillary and donald trump

do not tell secretary clinton. she's getting a little nervous and i don't want her to get more nervous. but i believe we've got an excellent chance to win new york and a lot of delegates in that state. >> reporter: his campaign citing the ability to reduce her pledge delegate lead recently by 80 or so delegates. there's still a considerable spread, 200 or so delegates but sanders and his campaign are insisting there is a path to the white house. brianna keilar, cnn, laramie, wyoming. >> before that path to the white house, let's take a closer look now at the wisconsin primaries. we're joined by matthew litman. let's look at the delegate count on the democratic side. hillary clinton has about 1743 delegates right now, including pledged delegates as well as the superdelegates. 1778, sorry. bernie sanders trailing by about 700 delegates here. a lot of people on the bernie sanders' side, can hillary clinton stitch this up with pledged delegates alone? does she need the superdelegates? >> she's ahead by a lot and looks

hillary clinton that way? will he be able to succeed with his insults if they're not directed toward her femininity but just directed toward her policies. >> is there such a thing as a woman's card, congressman? >> i think there are certain advantages, i think hillary clinton knows what they are, her and her team will exploit them if there's an opportunity if trump or cruz give them an opportunity, i think they'll be effective at exploiting that. i would say, though, to your point that he does sort of dis people. i think if he is a candidate, he will be quite bold and will be confrontational, will call her out on other things other candidates might be afraid to say which could be effective. >> you have run for office, is there a woman's card? are there advantages? >> i think it is odd to say she's going to exploit being a woman. she is a woman. do you exploit being a man? you are a man. when she talks about her life as a woman, it is not exploiting it. it is so curious. on one hand, talks about her life as a w

secretary clinton? is true now that the spotlight is pretty bright here in new york, some things have been said and senator sanders did call me unqualified. i've been called a lot of things in my life. that was a first. that -- he had to question my judgment. well, the people of new york voted for me twice to be their senator from new york and -- [applause] and president obama trusted my judgment enough to ask me to be secretary of state for the united states. so, look, we have disagreements on policy. there's no doubt about it. but if you go and read, which i hope all of you will before tuesday, senator sanders long interview with the "new york daily news," talk about judgment and talk about the kinds of problems he had answering questions about even his core issue, breaking up the banks. when asked, he could not explain how that would be done. and when asked -- when asked about a number of foreign-policy issues, it could not answer about afghanistan, about israel, about counterterrorism, except to say

against clinton. we will talk with democratic party chair debbie wasserman schultz about the state of the race. >>> plus, what do you think? is the prolonged campaign on the party? let me mow on facebook or twitter @foxnewssunday and use >>> a look outside the beltway at philadelphia, site of this year's democratic convention. front runner hillary clinton took a big step this week toward locking up the democratic nomination with her sweeping victory in the new york primary. but bernie sanders shows no signs of conceding and continues to run hard against her. joining us now from florida the chair of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman schultz. congresswoman, given that hillary clinton seems to have a pretty clear path to the nomination now, does bernie sanders need to tone down his attacks and start to bring the >> well, i actually have been very proud throughout this campaign of both of our candidates. you've seen in every single one of our debates and then also in discussions on the c

i think that ultimately the clinton campaign, clinton ally, clinton supporters need to step away from senator sanders and give him the time to go through the process of grieving and healing and coming to the point where he becomes a sincere ally of keeping the white house instead of setting up a situation where hillary is the nominee she's so cripple in this environment that could become elected president. >> you don't want to be where he was after the great run in '68. you don't want to be that guy. thank you. i have a long memory for bad behavior. it hasn't helped ralph nader. now he'll call me. let me just drop that. i won't say anything. i'll drop that. thank you. thanks for coming on tonight. coming up, with a huge win in new york, can donald trump clench the republican nomination before cleveland or can the stop trump movement still force him out at a contested convention? >>> plus, the growing likelihood that november's general election matchup will be the heavy weight bout we all want to see. trump versus clinton. >>> the hardball round table is here to tell me things, three t

he has endorsed hillary clinton. one of the reasons that bernie sanders says she's not qualified to be president, in his words, she's not qualified because she voted in favor of the iraq war, because she supports international trade agreements that he says has eliminated lots of jobs and that she takes money from wall street. he also goes further and says he wants her to apologize to the american people. i want you to respond. >> well, first of all, let's take that one by one. in terms of the trade agreements, she opposes the transpacific partnership, which is the only agreement that is before the american people and the congress at this present time. she did so after studying it, waiting to see what the particulars were, laying out a standard and making a note that it did not reach that standard on behalf of the american worker and then she decided to oppose it. now, while she was in the senate, the only major trade agreement that was before her was the central american free trade agreement and she voted against it.

thing about secretary clinton, secretary clinton, huge win. huge win. >> absolutely. >> and puts her in a position that was said before, she's got to find even more -- being more magnanimous. she's punched back some. i think at this point, those young people out there, it is hard to uncurdle milk if you sour these young people on the whole process, you hurt not just the party, the country. this is a first time a lot of these young people have gotten involved in anything. you said you want free stuff, as some of her surrogates have done, that's not right. nobody says the pentagon just wants free drones or nasa just wants free space shuttles. everybody pays taxes, people have a right to say where they want the taxes to go. she has to get her surrogates to really reach out to them and bring them in. >> bernie's campaign has really crossed a line. >> and the guy apologized within minutes and bernie apologized as he was. >> he was talking about congressional democrats. which he was not, i read the context. >> listen, you and i both know you cannot

clinton. ♪ ahn: sometimes, when you are total amateur, you have to call in a pro. joining us now is a senior adviser to our boss, michael bloomberg. he is also the former communications director for hillary clinton's 2000 eight campaign. and from washington, d.c., bloombergs senior -- 2008 campaign. and from washington, d.c., bloombergs senior politics reporter. experience with this long, bitter, political cycle? >> people are getting tired and tensions are beginning to manifest themselves. i think at the end of the day, hillary clinton will be the nominee. she will not need superdelegates to become the nominee. we all know that in this process is is very difficult for the person in second place to catch up once they fall behind. bernie sanders is going to win more states. he will collect more money. i assume he will go all the way to california. some point, the two sides will begin to ratchet down. in 2008, there was a point at conclusionme to the that we were unlikely to overtake barack ob

yes, hillary clinton won. a good victory for her yesterday, but there are a lot of elections to go, a lot of votes to go. politics is a strange thing. lots of different things can happen. the people, the most important thing, i would say is that the activists, the people i talked to yesterday, my facebook and twitter feeds are energized to keep pushing bernie's message forward about the political revolution. we're going to make the argument for bernie. i think he will be the nominee. >> so, you know, i don't know how the math adds up, but i know that bernie and also jeff weaver, his campaign manager, say they're going to the convention and would agree with you. hilary rosen, how would you respond to what you just heard here from the hillary clinton perspective? >> well, look, i don't think any candidate wants to be told that even if there's a 1 in a million chance, that there's no chance, so i'll let -- >> what you're telling him here? >> let his team go on and tell us how they're going to win 85% of the next

he picked up 41 delegates to hillary clinton's 33. just hours after returning from nevada, sanders was in brooklyn, new york, last night for a forum on faith and social justice. when asked about the criminal justice system he gave one of his strongest endorsements yet of the black lives matter movement. take a listen. -- for substantially raising consciousness on this very important issue. >> and after george clooney invoked bernie sanders' campaign in an interview airing on "meet the press" this morning my colleague chuck todd asked clooney about the hefty price tag for a fund-raiser he and his wife hosted for hillary clinton in los angeles. >> $353,000 a couple to be a co-chair. do you look at it yourself and think that's an obscene amount of money? >> yes. i think it's an obscene amount of money. i think that, you know, we had some protesters last night when we -- when we pulled up in san francisco. and they're right to protest. they're absolutely right. it is an obscene amount of money, but sanders campaign when they talk about it

hillary clinton's behalf already. that actually was not true. super pacs have not spent anywhere near that much money supporting hillary clinton thus far. but we now know that they're about to, because the ap is reporting tonight that on the morning after the california primary, on june 8th, priorities usa action is going to start a huge $90 million, seven-state ad campaign against donald trump and for hillary clinton. $90 million! that's massive. that is like three times what super pacs -- all super pacs combined did spend on hillary clinton in the primary campaign thus far. i know at one level or another like all very large numbers start to sound alike, especially all very large numbers with dollar signs on them. like once you get above an a amount that you can personally imagine it is all just big numbers. but $90 million worth of ads against donald trump and for hillary clinton? 90? that is -- enormous. just for context, at one point in this presidential race, we thought that jeb bush might chase all the other rep

for hillary clinton another loss, but so what. her team insists the map and math are both on her side for all the candidates, their focus now shifts east on the republican side, the first term texas senator celebrating that impressive win in the badger state. he scoops up almost all of that states 42 delegates. at the moment, donald trump still has a hefty delegate lead and a major test is in trump's backyard. the next one, that is, new york where the stakes are high. 95 delegates up for grabs. trump planning a rally where thousands are expected later today. a live look there right now. it will be the first time we've heard from him since that walloping in wisconsin. ted cruz also here today campaigning in a bronx neighborhood in new york city. he's expected to take the microphone any moment now. he will be taking questions as well. when that happens, we'll bring it to you live here on msnbc. also coming off a big win tuesday, vermont senator, bernie sanders, who narrowed his delegate deficit against hillary clinton but still has

>> it is a big number for hillary clinton. more than one million is actually more than voted in the republican primary in new york. and of course, ted cruz. hillary clinton spoke about the need to unify the party. sending out to a message to supporters of bernie sanders, there is much more that unites them then separates them. if hillary clinton is on a mission to unique the democratic party, where are voters that are really not as of now, buying what she is selling? >> we have seen throughout the campaign, that bernie sanders as well as the -- look at the new york democrats from the exit polls today, 18 to 29-year-olds, went to bernie sandered. look at the member liberal wing of the party. look at that number, again, sanders, wins that as well, 56% of the vote. hillary clinton 44% of the vote. wall street, a big issue for bernie sanders. bernie sand erds wins that eight percentage points, the last number solidifies the problem that hillary clinton is having with liberal voters and younger voters, two keys that shy will have t

i've known hillary clinton for 25 years. i respect hillary clinton. we were colleagues in the senate, and on her worst day, she would be a better president than either of the president candidates. >> today clinton courts voters in upstate new york while sanders holds rallies in brooklyn. plus donald trump sets his sights on the convention and beeves up the role of one of his top strategists as cruz tries to keep moment up with incoming attacks. phil matingly is kicking off our coverage. >> reporter: as you see, they're apparently ri lining their messages, bernie sanders and hillary clinton all would be better than anybody on the republican side. look, this is a fight. it's broken out. i think it's somewhat unsettling to a lot of democrats who have been watching the democratic race and saying at least we're not the republican race. that's starting to shift a little bit right now, and while both candidates have started to ratchet back the escalation, still a few jabs here and there. here's what hillary clinton said this morning in an interview with the

clinton crushed sanders with 63%. and rhode island, sanders' only win for the night, the current delegate count, 2141 for clinton and 1321 for sanders. >> let's start with garrett tenney and donald trump's big night. >> good morning to you, abbey. it's hard to do much better than donald trump did last night. let's take a deeper look into the numbers. let's start with connecticut which was the closest race on the republican side. but donald trump still won by more than 29 points. he won every county in the state and picked up all 28 delegates. in delaware, trump hit 60% and scored all 16 delegates there. kasich's campaign was hoping to pick up a few delegates in maryland's districts. they were close to d.c., but even there donald trump won and picked up the state's 35 delegates. rhode island, kasich picked up five. in the biggest prize of the night, trump easily picked up the 17 at-large delegates. but he's likely going to get more than that. more than half of pennsylvania's 54 other delegates, which are unbound, some

i think hillary clinton wins this, you can't beat hillary clinton again unless you're hillary clinton. she has such deep connections to the party's institutional history with various constituent actors. very young, ambitious democratic politician asking what model that you can replicate, bernie sanders who you say not part of the party for long time, entirely the message that i thinks one that the rising class of young voters the trouble is going to have a tremendous -- the african american voters. constituent see that is liberal. large number of conservatives and modern voters who do not vote republicans. when you look at younger voters has done well with young voters of color, look at that constituency those folks have not been voting in large numbers. when we see other voters of color coming into the process later on they will be more inclined like hillary clinton who is talking about the particular challenges facing voters of color. this is going to be very interesting. something that is distinct to democratic politics. >> you think that the candidate who says, we don't have to ma

1996 voted for bill clinton. a if they thought he was a racist, don't tell me that you think african-americans aren't smart enough to vote for someone who has their interest. there's a reason why toni morrison said that bill clinton was the first black president. no way should you ever classify or should anyone think the clintons ever thought of african-americans in a racist manner. the fact of the matter is, in the same time period, if you look at the economics that senator sanders talks about all the time, that was a one when income disparity was declining. there is no way, no how, no stretch of the imagination that one could use to say the clintons were racists. >> very empassioned on this. let's talk about guns in new york city. she made a controversial statement and senator sanders went after her. the other day she said most of the guns used in guns and crimes of violence and killings come from out of state and the state that has the highest number per capita of those guns come from vermont. was that an accu

hillary came into the race, determined to rev up the old clinton machine, to revive the clinton era, to burnish the long clinton legacy. instead, mr. sanders has forced her to betray it. he provided the sword, and she has slain the clinton democrats. she had to abandon every winning centrist new democrat position that had defined the clinton years. bill clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any president since world war ii. mrs. clinton has spent the past six months, in essence, saying that everything he did was weak, phoney, or wrong. the nomination is hers for the taking. but the winner, politically, in this season of democratic distress is the man who burned up the clinton establishment. >> gene robinson, has bernie sanders required hillary clinton to move too far left? >> not necessarily, because this is a different time. and the public is in a very different mood from when, from when bill clinton was in office. i mean, you know, i agree only to the extent that bernie sanders, in my mind, has kind of won the ideological battle. so he continues to battle for the

we continue to follow hillary clinton in new york and bernie sanders. sanders continues his attack, saying she was unqualified to be president. >> let me be clear. this is not the type of politics that i want to get in. i know it's what the media loves. it's not the type of politics i want to get in. but, let me be clear. if secretary clinton thinks i just came from the small state of vermont, she's mistaken. we will fight back. i do hope we can raise the level and i hope now and then the media will choose to talk about real issues. >> just a short time ago, in an unscheduled stop in the bronx, hillary clinton responded. >> it's kind of a silly thing to say, but i'm going to trust the voters of new york, who know me, and have voted for me three times -- twice for senate, once in the presidential primary. look, i didn't -- i don't know why he is saying that, but i will take bernie sanders over donald trump or ted cruz any time. so, let's keep our eye on what's really at stake in this election. we have republicans whose values are so antithetical to what'

this weekend sanders supporters showered clinton's motorcade with dollar bills, angering many clinton supporters. meanwhile, donald trump is test driving a new nickname for hillary clinton, "crooked hillary." earlier today sanders was pressed if he and the republican front-runner are essentially making the same argument. >> donald trum is very brilliant coming up with statement, it's an ugly statement. what i have said regarding secretary clinton is we have a corrupt campaign finance system in which billionaires -- >> you've gone further. you have said that she accepts this money from wall street, from big banks, from fossil fuels, and that affects her judgment. >> well, of course it does. why do you think -- >> would that be crooked? >> in that case the entire united states government is crooked. we have a corrupt system. i'm very proud that we are doing it differently. >> sanders won't explicitly call clinton crooked, he argues the whole system is corrupt and if hillary clinton is part of that system, the logic sus seem difficult to avoid. now the sanders campaign is accusing the cl

is it clinton country? >> it is clinton country to a certain extent. congressional districts inside new york city with all or part of new york city. the same thing applies. we have a proportionate delegate system. sanders people are making inroads in one district after another. you flip it upstate. upstate, a part of the rural, allegedly more conservative districts. some of them border vermont. they know and like bernie sanders. places like woodstock. where there's a counterculture that really becomes part of the equation here as well. she'll have to fight for every single vote. she's got a -- a lot of work that is being put in. you know, in advance of this debate that's coming up on thursday. it's in new york city. it is really intended to reach everybody in the state. and, the clinton team, i think you have seen the frustration and the energy they've put into this. though they think they have a durable delegate lead, the bragging rights that bernie sanders would have as he told you a few minutes ago, would be enormous if he should come close >> that'

listen to how he responded to the issue of hillary clinton and the possibility that hillary clinton would use her gender or would run as an historic candidate, being the first woman to be a nominee. listen to what donald trump said. >> well, i think the only card she has is the woman card. she's got nothing else going. frankly, if hillary clinton were a man, i don't think she'd get 5% of the vote. the only thing she's got going is the woman's card, and the beautiful thing is women don't like her, okay? >> if she were running as a man, eric, she wouldn't even get 5%. donald trump said it last night. now as he does the rounds on the morning shows this morning, that's the question he's going to be asked. that felt more like the old donald trump than perhaps the new, more restrained donald trump, who doesn't exist, frankly. >> absolutely. he said repeatedly last night, he's not planning on changing his tone, changing his approach. frankly, to lock up the nomination, all he needs to do is keep doing what he's been doing. you did see both candidates start to pivot toward the general election la

hillary clinton is still struggling with millennials, especially young women. >> the clinton camp believes donald trump will be a gift with them. we'll see. it's not that easy. and people were saying he'll never do well. and tonight, he rolled big time. so one senior person said we feel confident now. and they said look. he has ripped up the play book. it looks like he's ripped up that paper. >> and another effort, good job. >> yes. >> i don't want to believe your account. >> not your -- >> just your twitter account. >> directly head, hillary clinton gets called out for allegedly playing the woman card to get elected. why one of her rivals slamming her gender politics, next. (man) hmm. what do you think? ♪ (stranger) good mornin'! ♪ (store p.a.) attention shoppers, there's a lost couple in the men's department. (vo) there's a great big un-khaki world out there. explore it in a subaru crosstrek. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and you. philips

they will go after hillary clinton in ways i have never gone after hillary clinton. things like the clinton foundation or things like the e-mail situation. i don't talk about that. i have never talked about it one word on this campaign. i suspect very much that donald trump and the republican party will go after her in many many ways that we have not. >> if he says she has bad judgment, you wouldn't disagree? >> it depends -- well, i think donald trump's not that donald trump has bad judgment, i don't think donald trump has any judgment whatsoever. when you have a candidate like donald trump whoeverry single day is attacking a different group of people, whether mexi n mexicans or muslims or veterans or wom en or african-americans, this is a man without any judgment without demeanor and i think the vast majority of american people no matter what their political views are do not believe donald trump has the demeanor or judgment to become president of the united states. >> you suggest he's dangerous. he is the nominee, he is the likely nominee, does your continuing crit

. >> can i make a xhoent about bill clinton, though. this is typical bill clinton. he does not like criticism of his record. he's partly defending hillary clinton. when we progressives have criticized him for pushing through nafta, criticized him for basically carrying the water for robert rubin and the glass/steagall act, refused to help unions replace the strike replacement -- >> gays in the military. >> the fact that the economy he oversaw, yes, created a lot of jobs but really built on a credit bubble which then blew up. bill clinton does not like to hear that criticism. it's indicative of the debate going on now. we, bernie sanders, and the precinctive movement, the political revolution, want to overturn the establishment politics that bill clinton and hillary clinton represent. to your point about the question about qualifications. look, let's kind of separate the two things. they both have resumes. and both of them have done lots of things in government service. but i think the debate that bernie wants to go back to, which he did from the begipping was, how d

secretary clinton, not letting the issue go. take a listen to what she had to say friday afternoon. >> seriously, i have been called a lot of things over the years but unqualified has not been one of them. this morning he finally acknowledged that, of course, he doesn't really believe that. this is all pretty silly. >> now, some democrats are expressing a broader concern, which is that ultimately this could make it harder to rally the party and unify the party around the ultimate democratic nominee, whoever that ultimately winds up being? as of right now, we are watching a fight play out in wee opyomin where democrats are going to be caucusing. senator sanders if he wins that state will give him more momentum but not enough delegates to chip into her lead. he has to start winning larger states like new york and that is why there is such a fierce battle going on right here in the empire state. >> that is something i am going to talk about with my next guest. let's bring in nina turner, an avowed bernie sanders supporter. >> happy

i've known hillary clinton for 25 years. i respect hillary clinton. we were colleagues in the senate, and on her worst day, she would be an in iffi infinit better president than either of the republican candidates. >> she's qualified. >> of course. >>> and keeping the heat on ted cruz over those controversial remarks on new york values. this time it's john kasich hitting cruz with a new ad. >> ted cruz sneered at our new york values. >> i think most people know exactly what new york values are. >> all right, to our political team, as the 2016 race is covers from all angles today, i want to bring in jacob rascon. jacob, paul manafort is now the new man at the top. what else can you tell us about his new, consolidated role in the trump campaign. >> reporter: thomas, this is undoubtedly a new phase of the campaign. you have this very small, very fight and unconventional campaign expanding, coming off the heels, of course, of that big wisconsin loss. paul manafort hired just over a week ago as the new manager. mr. trump in the release says he's taking on

many who have committed to hillary clinton. as clinton's campaign attack fair? >> reporter: as the battle for new york intensified bernie sanders campaign is hoping to close the gap. >> it looks to me like syracuse is ready for a political revolution. >> reporter: today the clinton campaign tourng a new tactic accusing sanders of trying make up ground by flipping super delegates. >> if anybody is trying rig the system to overturn the will of the people it's senator saernsd. >> reporter: both candidates laying a home state claim on the big apple. enthusiasm is key. >> leapt us have the largest turn out in democratic primary history here in new york state. thank you all. >> reporter: sanders is holding three large rallies today while clinton held a roundtable on equal pay for women. >> if talking about equal pay and paid leave and more opportunities for women and girls is playing the gender card then deal me in because these are -- >> reporter: gender and politics on the mine of president obama today though he did not mention clinton by name at the dedication of a

i do not know if she needs them. -- the that clinton clinton people understand that simultaneously when and if she vanquishes bernie sanders, she will need to do something for the people on the left and moved to the center. her greatest gift would be of donald trump and ted cruz are the republican nominees, that will bring a lot of democrats home from the left. >> she needs those votes, it if you think about the coalition barack obama put together, a big percentage of millennials, helped him get to 270 electoral votes, she needs those people. she dude -- she does not bb stories about how democrats will sit on their hands at home. sanders supporters who did not vote for barack obama. >> for some people it is their first time to vote. trump's polling margins are just as hefty as hillary clinton's, close to 50% in new york and connecticut which could trigger a winner take all scenarios for the delegates in those states and a 20 point lead over ted cruz and john kasich in maryland. big wins there would put him closer to winning the nomination before the summer. hired a man who scott wireske

clinton apologize. not seen president clinton apologize. and it is just not acceptable. it is not acceptable for bill to talk about he almost wants to apologize last week. not acceptable for hillary to push out bill de blasio this week. it was her skit. >> she said it was not her skit. it was his skit and she was merely there. >> it was vetted by her campaign. it is not acceptable and she needs to apologize. bernie sanders apologized, his surrogate apologized. she owes folks an apology. she should not use racialster why types as a vehicle for humor in any way. and not in politics. it is not acceptable. >> let me ask you about this. bernie sanders spoke earlier today in new york. he has been working hard, as we all know, to gain ground with african-american voters p. there is a recent quinnipiac poll showing clinton leading sanders 65% to 28% among black voters here in new york. 65/28. why do you think he had such a hard time with the african-american voting population. >> what we've seen is black voters support go up. what we also know is that the biggest split in this r

hillary clinton has opposed that. hillary clinton in a primary conversion now says she's against the transpacific partnership. actually the chamber of commerce president has reassured his people saying that's just a primary tactic. i'll give you one last one, campaign finance. just this week charles koch, the billionaire, said he could potentially support hillary clinton over a republican. if you join that with hillary clinton's continued refusal to release the wall street transcripts from her speeches to goldman sachs, that's a fundamental question about who is actually going to battle corruption and who will be -- >> let me get this straight. i want to know what jonathan is exactly saying. are you saying charles koch coming out and saying he could possibly vote for hillary clinton proves she has ties to wall street? >> what i'm saying is that that kind of approach, and if you take the wall street payments, it says basically we have a moderate democrat who -- >> this is exactly the point. what you're suggesting is th

crew. >> he is in the clinton crew. he is understated. he doesn't have big political ambition. >> not to overshadow her. >> is he well liked with the military. >> is he a conservative democrat. is he not a bomb throwing. >> well liked by everybody in the senate. >> a lot of the people think she is going to go for warren but that would be too radical. >> no way. >> bill is going to be the vice president or really co-president. i think warner is a fairly good choice. virginia is in play although i think she would win virginia. >> that's tough. republicans need to win virginia. >> look how donald trump did there. he didn't do well in the primary there. >> i know. >> that's an indicator. harriet tubman. i'm a big harriet tubman fan. >> me too. >> if you know about ms. tubman and research her she is unbelievablably brave woman i'm happy she is on the $20 bill. >> me too. >> greta van susteren had a nice point if they make a $20 bill which they should you could leave old andrew. he had good points and bad points and give harr

congressman sean maloney why none of that worried hillary clinton. he is a clinton supporter. over a year ago he said i'm with her. he tells us how empire state win makes her unstoppable. >>> the republicans nowhere to be found in new york today. donald trump in pittsburgh as a new poll shows him leading in maryland. senator ted cruz in pennsylvania as well. stephen miller on whether this means cruz and kasich are conceding new york. new york aside, the two states that remain crucial for this election. we've got the former governors of both states on why they matter so much? >>> plus the fbi is finally revealing just how it cracked open apple's iphone, peabody's bankruptcy and kobe bryant's farewell. we're less than an hour to the closing bell. let's start the "countdown." . liz: okay, we just lost a teeny bit of air here. still up 169 points. just over 120 points away from dow 18,000. make it -- well, 109. every time you blink it's closer or further. highs of the market of the session up 189 points for the dow. you're looking at pictures. take you to philadelphia, these are l

i've known hillary clinton for 25 years. i respect hillary clinton. we were colleagues in the senate. on her worst day, she will be -- she would be an infinitely better president than either of the republican candidates. >> she is qualified. >> of course. >> hillary didn't want to let it go. she continued the war of wards. >> you may have heard senator sanders say i'm unqualified to be president. well, seriously. seriously, i've been called a lot of things over the years, but unqualified has not been one of them. this morning, he finally acknowledged that of course, he doesn't really believe that. this is all pretty silly. the question in this election should be who can actually get things done. >> well, shortly after that, in a gaggle with the press, clinton too backed down, answering to reporters that yes, sanders was qualified, is qualified. anyway, tad devine, senior advisor to the sanders campaign, and ed rendell, the two-term governor of pennsylvania who's supporting hillary clinton. governor, hillary clinton, she was a little snagged up there,

then senator obama beating secretary clinton and then go to rhode island and hillary clinton won with blue collar workers here and bernie sanders is hoping to flip the map. the bigger prize is down here in the mid-atlantic. hillary clinton is hoping pennsylvania is kind to her again and she's hoping for a win in this ballpark. she hopes it's big because this should be a state if you think of bernie sanders' message, trade deals. both bernie sanders and donald trump go to cities and tell voters who had manufacturing and steel mill jobs you have been -- trade deals have not been good for you. both trump and sanders have sold that message. clinton wants a big win here and so does donald trump on the republican side and donald trump is hoping this is john mccain in 2008 and this is mitt romney in 2012 and donald trump is hoping it fills in like this so not only does he get the 17 statewide delegates that go to the winner tonight, but he can go to them and say i have a powerful win in your state tonight and i need your votes when it comes to cleveland. donald trump and hillary clinton favo

, bill clinton's crime bill. today he sounded remorseful or almost remorseful for yesterday's remarks. >> i did something yesterday in philadelphia, i almost want to apologize for it, but i want to use it as example of the danger threatening our country. i'd rather vigorously defend my wife as i'm one to do. i realized, finally, i was talking past her the way she was talking past me. we got to stop that in this country. we got to listen to each other again. >> now, an entire movie could be made about bill clinton's relationship to various hillary clinton political campaigns. yesterday was not the first time he's created some controversy in his role as surrogate for his wife. eight years ago when hillary clinton was fighting for the nomination against barack obama, bill clinton portrayed his candidacy this year. >> i am a great speecher. this whole thing is a biggest fairy tale i've ever seen. >> those remarks hurt hillary clinton in south carolina that held its primary a few weeks later. that's a taste of the acr

clinton. things like the clinton foundation or e-mail situation. i don't talk about that. i've never talked about it, one word on this campaign. i suspect that donald trump and the republican party will go after her in many, many ways that we have not. >> he's a member of the united states senate. let me ask you about terms of agreement here. it seems to me that both sides are taking out their position. senator sanders said i'll bring enough delegates to philadelphia, the convention to right the platform. hillary clinton says we're not doing anything he tells us to do. how does this get worked out at tend as part of a deal? >> it reminds me when hillary clinton said i want respect for millions of people who supported the ideas i put forward. that's the position she took in to the convention into the platform. that's the position bernie is taken out. these are issues that have resonated and he's been talking about and those can be ideas that can be part of the united movement going forward into

look at clinton and sanders. cloppen berg was the democrat running. 92% voted for cloppenberg. 4% skipped the race all together. and thsanders voters. 79% for: enberg, 12% skipping the ballot. what does that say to you, scott ross? >> one thing is that it -- we have heard a lot about talk radio in wisconsin pushing out the stop trump effort. and talk radio in wisconsin, before stop trump ever started, they were about stopping voting. and so the consistent theme there is voter fraud in the state of wisconsin has been the talking point of talk radio in wisconsin for the last dozen years. the fact is, under oath, the wisconsin department of justice, the republican-controlled wisconsin department of justice could not prove one instance of in-person voter fraud in the entire state of wisconsin, and we're talking about 17 million ballots cast between 2004 and 2014. there is no voter fraud in the state of wisconsin. and i think mean that said it personal. the only thing going on are partisan politicians rigging the laws

joe johns is at the clinton rally. hillary clinton just finished speaking. what was her approach today, what does she have to say? >> reporter: hello, anderson. she has just finished speaking, just wrapped up here in philadelphia. healthy size crowd. she pushed hard here talking about her connection to pennsylvania, the fact that her father is from scranton, pennsylvania. she says she was baptized in pennsylvania, her brother lived here, of course. she talked a little about the fact that the philadelphia democratic convention is coming up, it is here for people in the audience tonight, talked a lot about the clinton years, the booming economy in the 1990s, blamed the change in the economy on republican president george w. bush. focused a lot on the republicans, including those running for president now. one interesting note, i think this also happened at an earlier rally with hillary clinton here in this city, a small group of african-american protesters appeared to be black lives matter protesters were removed from the audience. i could hear the chanting, i

remember, they in south carolina, bill clinton attacked barack obama. so did hillary clinton. the same thing they've done to bernie sanders throughout the campaign. i want to show you this little sheet, pam. this is a sheet that rates chelsea clinton's characterization of bernie sanders' health care plan as mostly false, and that was exactly the same characterization that hillary clinton made of bernie sanders' health care plan. the reason i bring up health care, every single plan, every single issue that bernie sanders has put forth for changing america, for having a political revolution, the clinton campaign repeatedly lied about his positions and mischaracterized them, because they can't win on the issues. bernie sanders has completely captured this primary, define what this primary is about. so the only way hillary clinton can win is for her to go for moderate corporatists, what she is, to try to be a progressive. that's what this whole debate is about and i'd like us to get back to debate the real issues. >> i would love for it to get back to the issues. again, bernie san

you would not vote for hillary clinton? >> i cannot bring myself to vote for hillary clinton. people talk about voting for the lesser of two evils. i don't believe in that. >> reporter: could a drawn out end game hurt not just his rival but what he and his supporters stand for? for "the this week." cecilia vega, abc news, new york. >> let's talk to senator sanders about that right now. senator sanders, thank you for donald trump is now mimicking your arguments about hillary clinton. does that concern you? >> not at all. i mean, donald trump lives in his own world. he attacks everybody for any reason. he'll attack me, hillary clinton, his own republican opponents. it's not a concern to me. what does concern me is that we need to continue this debate. george, about what is happening to ordinary people in america. and that is that the middle class continues to decline. i was in baltimore yesterday. the level of poverty there is beyond belief. the fact that we have so much income and wealth inequality. the fact that so many kids are graduating college deeply in debt. the fact that

now let's look at hillary clinton. look at that excitement number at the top. 14%, that is part of the enthusiasm gap we've been talking about on the democratic side. only 14% of wisconsin democratic primary voters would be excited, 54% optimistic, 23% concerned, 7% scared. again, this is a bit of a warning sign for hillary clinton here, just not as much out and out excitement, enthusiasm for her as for bernie sanders. >> no question, david chalian. no question, dana, that hillary clinton has been battling this idea of voter excitement. 14% of democratic voters excited about her being president, 33% for bernie. but the word scared is one you seldom hear when it comes to somebody in a party talking about a possible nominee from their own party becoming president. and the idea that 58% of republican voters in wisconsin are either concerned or scared and 38% are scared about trump as president, these are republicans. they're stunning numbers. >> it is stunning. let's just marry the two concepts. you have republicans who a

one, as our reporter covering hillary clinton points out, we think this is the closest hillary clinton has come to offering something of an apology for the 1994 crime bill, not that she necessarily needs to offer one, but she did say, quote, i'm sorry for the consequences that were unintended and have had a very unfortunate impact on people lives, something like an apology for the 1994 bill. in addition, there was a moment when clinton was talking about how nobody has overthrown or got rid of assad, which even though -- >> jake, i have to jump in. our jeff zeleny is with senator sanders. let's go to jeff. jeff? >> senator sander, thank you for joining us tonight. the tone in this debate seemed so different from those early debates last year and earlier this year. given that tone, how difficult will it be to unify this democratic party? >> i think the tone is different because we have won seven out of the last eight state contests and i think the clinton campaign and the secretary are getting a little bit nervous. i think it undeniable we have the momentum. we've been attacked a whole l