clinton and trump have high negatives but the new "the washington post" poll even though they have equal high negatives when adults were asked who is more qualified, clinton scores higher than trump on the qualification issue. you can tell that's the point she was trying to emphasize. listen to her donald trump wants to be president, he has to be more careful about what he says. >> so when you say we're going to bar all muslims, you are sending a message to the muslim world and also sending a message to the terrorists because we now do have evidence, we have seen how donald trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism. >> she says i'm experienced. i know how to be calm in these moments. he says you were secretary of state, benghazi happened, in his view she lied to the families, you were secretary of state, look around the world, things aren't a hell of a lot better. he makes the argument a lot argue things are worse, experience versus -- >> well the other thing that was more surprising from her was calling it likely terrorism. you almo

you have the people speaking up to say they don't want washington to pick their candidates. they want a say. on the democratic side, bernie sanders has shown the people matter and the people can speak up and change the democratic establishment. hopefully that change is going forward and republicans elect someone sane. >> marco rubio won expectations. big win for ted cruz. can he keep that momentum in new hampshire? i'm not sure. hillary clinton may have won, but it would have been groundhog day all over for her in iowa although she won a tiny bit. donald trump is a loser today. >> maria. >> hillary clinton wins becoming the first woman to ever win an iowa caucus. bernie sanders did great. also a win. the democratic party wins. they are focusing on the issues that all americans care about. compared to republicans who will nominate somebody who is anti-woman or anti-latino. >> all right. ben. go. >> i'll say this. donald trump proves arrogance and cockiness does not win you the white house. ted cruz did better than anyone thought. marco rubio is a guy that has a little mo comi

brewer i'm going to start with you two major national polls came out today showing a dead heat the washington post shows -- are you feeling optimistic about november? >> i'm feeling very optimistic about november. i think mr. trump will be our next president of the united states. he has wind beneath his wings. our party is coming together, we are uniting and move on to november and win. >> to you governor holeem. hillary clinton is 44% and in march it was trump with 41%. do you think this is a snapshot of a moment in time or a red flag. >> no, the math is very simple on this on the republican side they have one candidate, on the is democratic side there's one. once the democratic party decide an makes it official then they will all come together and be united. this is really a question of timing when this poll was taken. >> okay. governor, in this year's election there's never been anything like it. if clinton is the democratic nominee running against donald trump there have never been two candidates more disliked. for donald trump 41% favorable, 51 percent unfavorable hillary clinton. give m

washington, alaska and hawaii and he won them big. he won five of the six with senator clinton winning in arizona. over the course of the week senator sanders shaved more than 90 delegates off the lead shaving more than 70 of those delegates off just yesterday. hillary clinton says the math is still in her favor and it is and momentum as we head to wisconsin and what senator sanders is saying and even hillary clinton right now, well, she should be feeling the burn. >> this is what momentum is. we have been beating donald trump by double digits. the last cnn poll had hillary clinton doing quite well. she was beating trump by 12 points. we were beating him by 20 points. >> was it just a big day or is it a big day? he is bolder and more aggressive. thinks he has a chance. >> on the one hand it's more than a big day. it's a big week for bernie sanders because he also won two of three contest earlier in the week so he nets about 90 delegates for the whole week. that closes the gap quite a bit. on the other hand these contests could not hav

the washington cartel if you're senator cruz and that's the phrase you use. i saw a positive vision, i think hillary clinton, she needs to put forward that two-word message or three-word message that voters can grab on it. i think that's where it's lost upon voters. the first republican to achieve this, she deserves accommodation for that. first democrat female president. yes, she deserves absolute credit, but she needs to put forward a positive vision. voters don't know what it's about. >> that's right. and i predict the two words you'll hear, stronger together. she's been assaying that the last few days, and it's an implicit contrast than donald trump. we're stronger together. and the way we include more people. the way we become stronger is having more allies overseas. we're stronger together. that's a very distinct and different vision than donald trump's. and when you're in the business of addition, going from 10 or it 13 million voters, trying to get 65 or 70 million voters. i think this argument about inclusiveness and how we're stronger, richer, freer

they're there in washington where donald trump will be speaking in a few moments. he's introducing donald trump, as we understand and when you listen to hillary clinton there, what else does she need to sew up in terms of getting the democratic party behind her? at this point, it's bernie sanders, bernie sanders, bernie sanders. she met with elizabeth warren this morning. got the president's endorsement earlier this week. >> absolutely. said it's about the progressives but also about young women. that's one of the things that's striking. how many millennial women really supported bernie sanders and as i listened to her speech, she was talking about all the difficulty that women of her generation had to go through in the ways of which planned parenthood helped them at a time when abortion was not illegal and the ways this which abortion was under threat today. i think she was really trying to speak to a younger generation as well and thread it all together, stitch it together. >> david, i think we figured out how hillary clinton is going to approach this general ele

can portray her as a typical politician, someone who you detest in a year when the electorate hates washington, certainly that's going to work to his advantage. the inspector general report is not done. the investigation is still ongoing. there will be presumably more developments. the issue is going to hound her until election day. >> this is part of why you see her right now pivoting away from the woman stuff. by all accounts, she should have been able to run as a grandmother this year, everybody trusts grandmothers, everybody loves grandmothers, she wants to do the best for her grandchild. but if you're a woman and everyone still thinks you're untrustworthy, that's not working for you, and you have to turn that in a different direction, you have to go after him about not only his trustworthiness about his readiness. >> absolutely right. she says he's a loose cannon, a bully, unpredictable. and to your point, maybe you don't trust me, but don't trust him more. >> so my question is really simple. if you have paid federal income tax, show us. some people say he doesn't want to show us because

voters obviously just detest washington. so if he does things as far as a typical politician, someone who says -- he says things that a normal politician won't say, people seem to like that. even if we think this is going to hurt him in a general election, there are folks that are laughing, thinking it's great that he's attacking her. >> people in america process things differently than we do here, that much we know. >>> coming up, new details from a state department report about hillary clinton's e-mails. >>> we'll share some words of tribute from our past three presidents. >> from our biggest cities to smallest towns, citizens have done what had to be done to advance the dream that began on the fourth of july. >> the long lasting tribute is all around us, a country where citizens have the right to worship as they want, to march for what they believe, and to say what they think. >> remember, it is their courage, their unselfishness, their devotion to duty that has sustained this country through all its trials and will susta

post" a high class tabloid is what i consider "the washington post." it's an insult to say these women do not have viable claims. they have detailed accounts of thien things that happened to them. >> i heard you say that earlier. let me say this to you. i think you're right, all victims of sexual abuse or at least accusers should have a voice. but these women had their voice in the '90s. i remember sitting there when i was old enough with my parents and my family had going how much longer do we have to listen to this? we've heard from these women. we feel awful for them but they have had their day have they not. >> it's relevant again because hillary clinton's running for president. a lot of people actually not everybody does remember the '90s. the accusation is that it's hip okaysy for hillary to attack donald trump for what he said about women when she was enabling bill clinton and going after and engaging in character assassination against the victims. >> i was there in the '90s with hillary clinton. she was the one who was lied to. she was betrayed

when the washington lobbyists settled on other lobbyists in this race. when the media in one voice said a conservative cannot win, nationwide over 800,000 contributions poured in to tedcruz.org as courageous conservatives said, yes, we can. 800,000 contributions at tedcruz.org with an average contribution of $67. that is the power of the grassroots. but it's more than that. it's 12,000 volunteers here in the state of iowa. it's over 200,000 volunteers all across this great nation. you know, during the course of this campaign people have asked heidi and me are you tired? and i will admit it is 16, 18 hours a day, 6, 7 days a week. we are not tired at all. ♪ >> to the contrary, we are inspehred by each and every one of you. i leap out of bed every morning amazed that at a time when our country is in crisis, every one of us has the opportunity to stand and lead, that we have been put in a place of leadership. for such a time as this. >> all right, we're going to breakaway from ted cruz. there you see, hillary clinton and her husband and daughter. she's ab

then three more alaska, hawaii, washington state on saturday. bernie sanders if he won all six of those contests 55-45, he would cut hillary clinton's lead, the beginning of the week, 330, the end of the week, 302. somewhere in that ballpark. so he would make up a little ground but not a lot. hillary clinton says i'm so far ahead that even if you have a big week like this, you can't catch me. why don't you tone it down, senator sanders? he says such talk, though, is reckless. >> it would be extraordinarily undemocratic to tell the people in half the states in america, you don't have a right to get involved in the nominating process for the democratic candidate. if you write off or you say to half the states in this country that they should not participate, their response may well be on election day, well, you didn't want us to participate in the primary process. you know, we're not going to come out to the general election. >> but so bernie sanders is essentially saying my supporters, if you ignore us, treat us with disrespect, we won't be there

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we need to fix a broken washington, d.c. i think a lot of people agree with that. >> my question to you, is he still talking about possible impeachment and talking about possible charges? >> people lost faith in institutions in the country. they lost faith in the corporate america and the media. to have a different direction come to washington, d.c. and change the temperature in the room you need an outsider. donald trump is that outsider. he doesn't come from that world. i also think it is important that he is a lacart with politics. you can't be liberal on gay marriage and then conservative on punishment. he is coming in as a republican against tpp and the war in iraq. i think that the american people are yearning for something like that. >> you are saying we are going to hear a positive in these next 24 hours. he is not going to talk about hillary clinton? >> i think it will be a mixed bag. a little of column a and column b. >> it is impossible for him not to talk about hillary clinton. >> i have never heard donald trump

jason, he is the washington post reporter, and his newspaper, fred ryan, the publisher there, put out a statement that they can't wait for him to come home. that leaves just one, he's the only one left we have not heard from his family. so, guys, by the process of elimination, if there were anybody left in iran, we suspect he would be the one because we've heard from either the employers or the families of everyone else. >> all right, chris, quickly, we also got word this morning that secretary kerr have i back in the u.s. there had been some speculation that perhaps he would meet with the americans once they arrived in switzerland. do we know why he decided to come back to the u.s.? >> we have not heard why. we don't know whether it was a scheduling issue or why he had to come back across. we will find out. certainly those americanss will go from switzerland to germany, and then be home and we're also looking for word about what kind of reception they'll get once they're back here in the united states. >> all right, chris fraits for us in washington, thanks so much. and we'll come ba

. >> the chosen candidate of washington, the chosen candidates of big money and the lobbyists are not going to decide the republican nom me. it will be we the people. >> why would i change? >> we will build on a strong progressive tradition, from franklin roosevelt to barack obama. >> winning is shaking up the democratic party. >> with your help, we will come back to philadelphia, for the democratic national convention. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer, you are watching live special coverage of the critical eastern conference, a big night for donald trump. winning in pennsylvania, delaware, and rooz rooz. was it xwl close in any of those five states. republicans trying to stop donald trump may be out of time after tonight. clinton is relishing, four more victories, her delegate lead as well. they are want talking about winning the nomination, they are talking about the flat form p a lot going on. go over to jake. >> it has been a phenom al if there is any wrinkle, it is that there is a question about unbound delegates. of

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. >> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington defendant c. where the state of our union is taxed overnight. publishing a copy of donald trump's 1995 tax return revealing a $916 million loss from failed business projects. it would allow him to use those losses to offset taxes on new income for as long as 18 years so did donald trump pay any federal income taxes. mr. trump is a highly skilled business man that as a responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. that being said mr. trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes. that statement does not mention paying income taxes or dispute the authenticity of the times obtained documents but they do say it was illegally obtained. joining me now is bernie sanders that is a supporter of hillary clinton. good to see you as always. let me get reaction to this news about donald trump and not paying federal income taxes. some supporters would argue why should he pay an

i want to thank univision, "washington post" and facebook and miami-dade college, the largest college in north america for hosting us here this evening. tonight i am looking forward to the opportunity to discuss how we knock down the barriers that stand in the way of people getting ahead and staying ahead. starting with the economic ones. my focus is on more good paying jobs with rising incomes for families. and how we prevent corporations from taking jobs out of our country by imposing an exit tax, making them pay back any tax breaks they'd gotten. but we also need to be having a positive agenda for manufacturing, for small businesses and entrepreneurs. for more clean energy jobs. and i also look forward to discussing comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship that will be one of my priorities in my first 100 days as president. and i will also be talking about education, every child deserves a good teacher -- >> thank you, signature. >> so thank you for having us, and i look forward to the debate. >> thank you. senator sanders, your opening remarks. >> thank you all

we are live here from washington d.c. this week, the new york observer made headlines after endorsing donald trump for president. the reason it's notable is because the newspaper is owned by donald trump's son-in-law. donald trump is the father-in-law of the observer publisher. that is not a reason to endorse him. giving millions of disillusioned americans an opportunity is a reason. a day after the endorsement was published one of the top reporters announced he was resigning. ross, you were the national political reporter there and leaving in two weeks. why did you decide to resign from the observer? >> well, brian, it was a confluence of factors. one factor was the endorsement. i expected our newspaper given our deep pride that we would perhaps remain neutral. i was blind sided by the endorsement. maybe a bigger issue was the fact it was reported that our editor in chief had a roll advising donald trump before he tlifred a speech from the conference last month. >> right. he was looking at the draft of the speech and sai

. >> i mean, yes, you run a very local election that has nothing to do with washington and what's goi on in the country but for those reasons, it's about the supreme court and so there are so many -- >> why wouldn't you try to embrace donald trump? if you're running in the house, he's bringing in all those voters, why wouldn't you embrace hill? >> because this idea that donald trump the primary front runner will be embraced by general election voters is a fantasy. i know you think it's a new phenomenon -- >> can i argue with you? >> there will be a reckoning. >> i hate to agree with jeffrey lord on anything ever. going on the record, i hate to agree with him on anything. i'm on record for that. however, i think he'll surprise people, donald trump. i've been screaming at liberals for the past several days. they sound more like people in the republican party, this guy can't win. >> you don't want them to become complacent. >> obviously, we've become complacent taken too lightly we might get beat. donald trump has stuff that will work in a general election. >> can we say this is a histor

ally washington is now working to renew or start anew its relationship with iran. talk about the high wire that u.s. officials have to walk. we can point out that the statement that came out was not from the president. it wasn't from secretary kerry. it was from a spoking person john kirby for the state department. >> victor, first of all, wasn't becky's reporting spot on? she laid it out in all the color and all the details that really described this complex kind of mosaic that we're dealing with. it's very difficult to get your arms around it. to your question, yeah, it's an incredibly tough challenge that we have. and clearly i would say what the united states administration is doing now they are down playing -- they're not trying to enflame this. a spokesperson steps forward and said we're working diligently with both capitals in tehran and riyadh to mitigate. bear in mind saudi arabia and iran have major issues, and we see it every day in yemen. remember that saudi arabia has a hot war with shiite militia in yemen now. this is not a war by proxy. this is saudi

i wonder why he's going to the state of washington? because you know what? republicans don't win it but we're going to win it. that's why i'm here. that's why i'm here. [ applause ] and this love affair began about three months ago when i came up here and we had record crowds, two events, massive, massive crowds. i said why don't the republicans win that state? i think we're going to win washington state. so that's the story. that's why i'm here. that's why i'm here. i don't know if you saw it but poll numbers came in today that are phenomenal. we're leading in florida, we're leading in north carolina. we're leading on a national basis. los angeles times, we're two or three points up. we're doing really well, folks. it's all coming together. when you see crowds like this, people fully understand why. i will tell you. thank you. so we are going to have a great victory for the people, people. remember. for the people. it's going to be a victory for every citizen whose voice has not been heard and that's a lot of people. it will be a win

new york sends washington 13 cents. it goes you this the wur democratic wash and dry cycle and it comes back 11 cents. how do you like that? you need to do a, b, c and d to get the other 11 pennies. i think if we gave education to the states, 50 laboratories of innovation and best practice, that we would genuinely have that innovation and best practice that other states would emulate. and we would have failure that everyone else would avoid. but one size fits all. it just doesn't work. >> in massachusetts we put in high stakes testing in grids 4, 8 and 10. we had to pass those tests. we did away from social promotion so you didn't graduate from high school when you had to check if to repeatial reading and math when you got to community college. and our test scores have been the highest in the nation. both english and mafr. in terms of quality, the quality became number one in the country. i've opposed common core in massachusetts. i think what we already have there is better. i think there's a lot that the government ca

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> thanks. back now with our panel. joining the conversation. cnn david gergen, and regional vice chair, a donald trump surrogate. i want to start with you. you get on this issue of trust and this issue of truth. we talk about the e-mail and what director comey discussed yesterday. hillary clinton said she never the sent or received the e-mails. she said she never sent or received any e-mails marked classified. that's not the case. hillary clinton said she turned over all of her e-mails. the fbi director said that's not the case. this gets to the issue of trust. this gets to the issue of leveling with the american people. do you see how that is a problem for her and why she would need to address it more? >> a couple things. on the e-mails in question, i think the campaign has been cheer. they have not seen, and i don't know if they have yet, the e-mail that the director is referencing. so we can't really speak to what their response is on that. the facts from their perspective, sense they have not yet seen the e-mails. not that they should have

hotel in washington clinton supporters were screaming at david plouffe. there is still another sort of chapter to play out here. the spd snd supporters he can influence them some but this has to be a process. i think she has to excite them. this is not all on bernie sanders. >> when you talk to them at the rallies they are so cool if not just cold to hillary clinton. it's not even so much anger but you wonder if it's one of the wild cards as we look ahead to the general election. will she be able to replicate the obama coalition, there isn't that fire for her among the people shoring him. >> a lot of the supporters are not democrats. they're independents, young people who may not come to the polls in november. will they be attracted to what he was saying? >> the question is indiana matters in the sense the math is overwhelming for hillary clinton but she won pennsylvania to end april in 2008 and won indiana the narrowest contest, 50 point to 49 point. to your point jeff supporters saying there's still a tiny chance and they came together and hillary clint

up' not going to be a traditional candidate, not going to follow the rules you people in washington want me to follow or republican party. i'm not going to do it. another issue was trump university, some documents released the new york state attorney general says it's fraud, some of the documents trying to suggest people were scammed and an issue that hillary clinton thinks in addition to her comments about coalitions and voting groups she thinks can say he's a great businessman, instead he's a scam. >> this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. he is trying to scam america the way he scammed all those people at trump u. >> if nothing else, we've learned unlike the republican primary campaign she is going to do this every single day. >> yes, and somewhere marco rubio is saying why did not that he work for me? the question is going to be these are the attacks that have been waged on a piesmeal basis during the primary campaign. now there's going to be a fuller frontal assault for months, does it stick and define donald trump going forward which it hasn't so far. >> t

he could have punted until trump came down to washington. a big part of this is paul ryan is trying to protect that house majority. we are now in a situation where donald trump's numbers are so terrible that he puts not only the senate in jeopardy for the republican party but the house as well. and i think one of the things that ryan is calculating is that he is giving other house republicans cover as they feel that they don't want to endorse donald trump that maybe that gives them a better chance of saving their seats. >> so he's saying, look, you have to do this if you want to save the republican party and if you want to save our majority, correct? >> i think he believes that he doesn't want everything to go down in the massive bonfire that is the trump candidacy. he wants there still to be a republican party in washington afterwards that can rebuild. he doesn't want a situation where the republicans have lost the senate, the house and essentially the supreme court all in one election. >> you looked pained. >> this is a candidate that has

this is a map of the congressional district in washington. the statewide winner gets a bunch of delegates and three for each congressional district. donald trump is in play in this district here. you see the dark red. that's donald trump. he's in play, looks like he's going to win the northern district right up here and potentially in play for a third district here. maybe nine delegates for trump. better guess would probably be six. maybe nine. we'll watch the rest of the votes as we watch the statewide delegates come out. as dana was talking about earlier, the anti-trump forces wanted to keep him in single digits, below 15. as of right now, if this ends like we think it's going to end tonight, even if donald trump gets the missouri delegates that we have not awarded him yet because there's still some issue, donald trump will need 62% of the final delegates to get to 27. is that doable? yes. but he's only been winning 46% of the delegates so far. a, it defies of track of the race so far and, b, senator cruz comes out with a good amount of mom

. >> we are going to fight hard to win the primary in washington, dc. >> tonight, we close one chapter in history and we begin another. >> the end of the primaries is only the beginning. we are stronger together. let's go out and make that case to america. thank you. >> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. 6:00 p.m. in london. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. the historic stage is now set. hillary clinton, the first woman to be the presumptive nominee and donald trump, facing off for the biggest job in the world. the two took victory laps as the final major night of primaries wrapped up. >> not about one person. it belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible. there are still ceilings to break for women and men for all of us, but don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in america. barriers can come down. justice and equality can win. our history has moved in that direction, slowly at times, but unmistakably, thanks to generations of americans who refuse to give up or back down. no

alex burns and "washington post" political reporter philip bump and mark preston. so, here we go, alex. he said, i'm not going to go there. i'm not going to talk about it. that's exactly what he's doing. can we explain this simply by who he has telling him what to do? you have bannon and brightbeit. attacking the clintons on a personal basis for, what, 5 y25 years? >> remember the people around donald trump and i would add roger stone to that list, a guy who has been around donald trump longer than anyone and written an entire book about bill clinton and his affairs and hillary clinton's alleged involvement in helping cover them up. i think it's clear that donald trump himself when he's faced with adversity likes to escalate the conflict to the greatest extent possible and in this kind of situation i think it's difficult for someone like that who likes to fight and likes to fight harshly and in personal terms to resist the impulse to go there and go there fast. we saw him pretty publicly wrestling with that all of yesterday and all the day before. first saying i wo

now, based on the fact that my experience in washington and ohio have been successful, using a formula to get everybody to work together to rise and provide opportunity for everybody, i proposed a 100-day agenda for when i'm president. and i can tell you, be rest assured, we'll enact this and balance the budget and freeze all federal regulations for one year except health and safety and rebuild our rule making system to stop crushing small businesses which kills jobs in our country. we will simplify and reduce the taxes on individuals so all americans can keep more of what they earn and will help our small businesses. we'll reduce taxes on businesses and double taxation so those businesses will invest in america and not have their money trapped and invested in europe. we will send welfare, education, medicaid, infrastructure, and job training back to where we live in the states so the states can be the laboratories of innovation and the laboratories of modelling what works. we'll protect the border and use common sense on immigration reform that will include a guest worker program. and

all right, after a break, we're going to take you back to washington, d.c. there's a big leadership thing going on there. republicans are going to elect their new leaders. democrats want to postpone that thing. we'll take you live back to capitol hill next. you got it. just say show me millions of used cars for sale at the all new carfax.com. i don't want one that's had a big wreck just say, show me cars with no accidents reported pretty cool i like it that's the power of carfax® find the cars you want, avoid the ones you don't plus you get a free carfax® report with every listing start your used car search at carfax.com >>> gop leaders will speak at any moment. they'll hold a press conference just hours before they pick their leadership team to serve under president-elect trump. minority leader nancy pelosi announcing house democrats will now vote thursday on whether or not to delay their elections. manu raju, jeff zeleny, both on capitol hill this morning. what do you got, manu? >> good morning, carol. actually, paul ryan going to be facing a vote this a

that is his challenge here to come into this room and say washington is broken. i can create more jobs. i can keep you safer. she's a part of the status quo, the republicans understand what they need to do for four days. the question is can they pull it o off? >> if trump stays on script and if the pros who are running the convention and the party and his campaign, can create a coherent message, they should be able to get a balance out of this. >> i think part of the reason why the vp rollout was a lost opportunity was because they should have been a ten-day, two-week good message opportunity for republicans. they can still make up for it by having a good week here, and i think there's no reason to think they should -- can he stay on the prompter? that's the question. will he give a speech that's scripted and written for him that will appeal to the broad swath of voters that will be compelling to those who are still undecided at home and if he can and everything else goes off smoothly, i have no doubt they will. >> i think as much as hillary clinton is trying to

i haven't met a washington deal maker ever. i'm just a delegate from south dakota. i'm doing what i think will provide for an open, transparent, and efficient convention. the rules need to be written in a way that the party can nominate its candidate by showing support from a majority of delegates, and this particular rule doesn't change that. in fact, i think it actually creates a false perception that certain candidates don't have support, and whether we only have three available candidates or two, when we get to the convention, we should have them place the nomination, let the delegates vote, let the votes be counted. when a nominee gets to 1237, that person is our nominee. >> david wheeler, the whole world is going to be watching. there's going to be a lot of pressure on you guys if it gets to that point. we'll be in touch. david wheeler, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> coming up for us, fresh fears that isis could get their hands on nuclear material top of mind as world leaders gather in washington. donald trump says he's not ruling out using a nuclear

cnn washington. >> the question is will that work. joining me is david axlerod. these more aggressive highly coordinated attacks from the clinton campaign how effective do you think they will be on a candidate who is reactive as donald trump is? >> it's an interesting question. it's like you're used to preparing to play the new york giants and now you have an alien invader from mars. i think he has been very resistant to these attacks and at the end of the day i don't think the substance of the attacks are what ultimately are going to be problematic for trump, it's the way he reacts to them. what he's proving to be is very reactive and his press conference today proved that. his issue is going to be temperament. so by provoking him with these attacks they may achieve something larger than the attack themselves. >> explain that. so you mean go after him on his temperament or try to provoke something. >> i think his temperament is exposing itself. i said a long time ago, i think presidential campaigns are mris for the soul. the pressure increases the higher you go

, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks ande

white people, but we have all people of all races and demographics saying, something is not working in washington and i don't know what it is, but something has to change, and that is the challenge of the republicans to keep those people without that rhetoric. >> i have not ever seen a president who gets elects to fear, and playing to hope is a tter option, and usually often more successful. and so, that is the question that i have about donald trump, which is if he is the nominee of the republican party, where is the hope part? >> ryan? >> i thought that andrew's essay is excellent and you should read it, but i disagree about how resilient our democracy is in the face of someone like trump, and you can win 40% of the primary vote and maybe capture a party's nomination, but the argument that you laid out against trump, that argument has been made with a sustained campaign yet, because frankly, republicans haven't been able to do what chairman rogers just said, how do you capture the wind of the voters that trump is appealing to with the nonxenophobic view, but in the general election, he is going

so he campaigns against washington. here is another thing about washington that we know. we are just two days away from the white house correspondence dinner, one of washington's most fabulous events. >>o kate will be there and i will not. i did, however, sit down with one of the most important players of the evening, host of the big event. he confessed to me to being nervous. >> they are replacing andrew jackson as well as most blood thirsty racist in the jackson five. >> larry will more knows it is easier to win the nightly show crowd than woo what could be the fiercest most fickle audience in show biz/washington. >> it is the most narcissistic room, journalists, politicians and hollywood. and the president. that room could explode just on the narcissism alone. >> when it comes to the white house correspondence dinner, the explosion is worth the risk. >> something that i really wanted to do and if i did it i really did want to do it for this president. and i thought the time might have expired for that. so to sneak in there at the end was very cool. >> what's happening.

he's campaigning through tuesday's primary here in washington. he's already dropped his attacks on clinton and he's really kind of upped his jabs at donald trump. despite this long, tough primary season coming to a close, the party really does seem to be uniting behind clinton. nothing seems to bring democrats together quite like bashing donald trump, suzanne. >> you have a lot to cover there, chris. a lot to work with this week. >> a lot to work with. >> all the different events and moving pieces. good to see you as always. >>> police revealing new information. this is about the shooting of christina grimmie. what they're saying about the gunman who opened fire on the singer, cutting her life tragically short. only one network gives you more than just great coverage. it's t-mobile! only t-mobile's lets you stream video and music - for free! and we doubled our lte coverage in the last year. the other guys can't say that! we got you covered. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dres

he knows washington and he has not endorsed but complementary. there are a lot of people for donald trump to pick from even though that other people are taking them out. >> i think that it's wise to stay away from the senators and congressman. that's off brand. the whole message is -- >> he is saying that he wants a washington insider. >> yeah, i think that he can get away with the governor. i like the idea of chris christie and he is on for donald trump. and then it's an executive and then different than a washington insider and it's off message if he picks someone in congress. >> kaylie, who would you like to see on the ticket? we will not hold you to it, but who is your personal preference? >> well, he said that there's a 40 percent chance of those in the race with him. someone like mark rubio or john kasich or chris christie. i would like to see someone in the race and fighting to the end with donald trump. >> okay. thank you. appreciate it. thank you all. >>> there's breaking news this hour into hillary clinton's e-mail. we will bring you th

the washington post is celebrating this morning. for 545 days this newspaper has been tirelessly campaigning for the freedom of their reporter. you see this morning the owner of the post weighing in on twitter saying wheels up and out of iranian air space. the hashtag is notable. it says jason is free. the campaign hashtag for 18 months was free jason. the top editors of the post are already in europe. they fly to europe on friday in expectation of this news on saturday. for the families involved, all the families, it's a relief to know their loved ones are on the way out of iran. we heard from the brother of jason that you may have seen. here is his statement from this morning. the whole family says they are relieved that jason is on his way home. it's talented journalist who is doing his job fairly, accurately and lawfully. after nearly a year and a half of delays jason's release has brought indescribable relief and joy to our family. this might manightmare is appron end. what you didn't know is the secret negotiations were happyi

"washington post," "new york times," they said, donald trump felt humiliated, he had a terrible time. i said, they are so dishonest. the one thing, the one group that lies more than lyin' ted cruz is the press. the media. they really are bad. they really are dishonest and that's why their poll numbers with people in the public are so low. they are so totally dishonest. >> well, certainly do you feel like that when you don't like what they say. when you do like what the media says you go out of your way to say -- >> i'm a big boy. when i do something that's off i don't mind being criticized but they make things up. they literally make up things that you said. they cut you off in half sentences. so it's a totally different meaning from what you give. >> let me give you a chance to clean up one thing before i go. >> i've gotten used to it but the press is so dishonest especially the political press. like just about -- nothing i've ever seen, can compete with it. it is -- a disgrace. what happened. >> let me give you a chance to clean something up here before you hear the reactions to it.

sanders will meet with president obama thursday in washington. mired in controversy since he locked up the republican nomination, donald trump took a more measured tone tonight. he steered clear of his recent attacks on the latino judge which horrified a the love the party leaders n a rare scripted speech, trump said he understands his responsibility as the new republican standard-bearer. he wornd he'll be relentless and combatsive on beha iviv ivive c on behalf of the united states. >> my goal is to always bring people together. but if i'm forced to fight something i really care about, i'll never, ever back down and our country will never, ever back down. i fought for my family, i fought for my business, i fought for my employees, and now i'm going to fight four, the american people. >> there will be much more to come as the campaign enters a new phase. we're waiting to hear from bernie sanders momentarily. we'll have live coverage, a very important speech by the vermont senator coming up. we'll hear from him momentarily. let's go over to jake a

. >> greetings from washington. i want to thank all of you for your work to root out corruption. >> enormous amounts of money have flowed to the clintons, from foreign governments, foreign financiers and businesses. >> oh, yeah, i got to pay off bills. >> before we had to worry about money from wall street and big labor, now we have to worry about it coming from around the world and infecting our politics. with the clintons, nothing is sacred. everything is for sale. >> jeff zeleny, the clnts have been dealing with opposition research and with barbs from the right for a long time. the question is what scares them? is this the type of thing that scares them? is this different than the e-mails? >> i think this does not scare them as much as some of the unknowns. . is all known. we know what's in peter sweitzert's book. this say movie playing to a different audience. the general election audience may not be entirely familiar with that so they're going to get more of an airing of that. i think the thing that worries the

washington, d.c. washington, d.c. has its primary on tuesday, bernie sanders has long said he wants everyone to have a chance to vote, and in his mind, that doesn't just go to today. it goes to the washington, d.c. primary. that's the only big event that we know of, but he's also in washington, d.c. for meetings. at this point though anderson you bring up a really good point there, it's a promise that he's making to go to the convention, but we're not seeing a whole lot of resources to back up anything really going into the convention and beyond the convention. >> brianna, thanks very much for that. and so that is the question. what would this actually look like in the weeks ahead? if he wants to keep this going through the convention, does he have to keep doing event kps. >> he might, but he might also do it for hillary. remember last time around, diane feinstein, senator feinstein became the peacemaker and she had barack obama and hillary clinton over to her house for a drink. and she left the room,

"the washington post" join mess now. you want you to respond. he's been the subject of media coverage describing a cozy relationship with donald trump. he's been dismissing those criticisms. let's look at what he said about you on his show. >> "washington post" actually after our town hall meeting the other night when i eperred him with so many questions that i was attacked for interrupting too much actually said how dare they hold a town hall meeting where they don't ask him tough questions. e we asked tougher questions than our ket. tors ask who have the media writers and people have the audacity to ask if we're too close to donald trump. the answer is, no, we're not. >> he says he's been tough. you said he let him skate. >> i think that there is one of these it great situations where both sides can claim, look at this question, look at at that question. my point here is sort of a larger one. that is if you allow donald trump -- if youen gauge him only on social security, iraq, the issues and how he's going to unite the republican party, you'r

you know, we won a great victory in the state of washington a few months ago. we just want oregon -- [ applause ] and we're going to win california. i am beginning to like the west coast. this campaign, when we talk about equitable wages, it is not just as you know raising the minimum wage to a living wage, it is also ending the disgrace of women making 79 cents on the dollar. and together i know that every man here will stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. [ applause ] i am a member of the u.s. senate committee on the environment. and i will tell you what all of our know and that is that climate change is real. it is caused by human activity, and as everybody in california knows it is already causing devastating problems. >> listening to senator sanders speaking in california this evening. let's get some quick takes from the panel. david axelrod. >> well, i wouldn't say the planes coming in for a landing here. >> right. >> if anything, i think he intensified his rhetoric and he said flat out to beat donald trump, we first have to beat secretary cl

the dates, "the washington post," proved that. just in the same way when veterans were trying to be vendors as they're allowed to do in new york and make a living on fifth avenue, donald trump reached out to two mayors to have those veterans kicked off fifth avenue because how could we let them be at such a prestigious address. he is about himself. he will manipulate people when it is good for himself. >> kayleigh, respond. >> two veterans were here yesterday who said he has been giving four decades. several organizations said they got calls in january they would receive money. takes time to disburse money, as the clinton foundation knows. 10% of clinton foundation goes to charitable giving, 90% to the foundation. >> a navy veteran lost his life savings at trump university. there were veterans yesterday showing trump's true colors. >> if donald trump is so charitable, how come they only gave $57,000 to veterans organizations between 2009 and 2013, and didn't give hardly any of his own money to his own foundation. he becomes charit

is this a symbol of trump's charm offensive and that it's working in washington, d.c.? >> it doesn't take much to charm people in washington, let me tell you. a phone call will do it. whether kay leigh says these are people that will be with him, not all of the people ran against him. governors and others, and he cannot get them to endorse him for him. nobody's endorsing his position on immigration. nobody's endorsing on his now walk-back position on muslims. nobody's endorsing him on the position of women. this guy has got nobody who supports his platform now is he a nice guy? sure everybody can be a nice guy, particularly when you're in a position of strength like he is. but i tell you, he does not represent the base platform of the republican party, and that's a problem. >> let timothy get in here. certainly is a 180 on a lot of people. >> bob's point is a great one. i wondered, where's the honor of these people in washington. trump's called them despicable things. he's insulted them everything, down to their core. this is why people don't like politics and don't lik