marco rubio ran as young senate candidate with the tea party support, promptly went to washington, d.c. and immediately led the effort, not just supported, led the effort for amnesty with a gang of eight bill. that is being dishonest with the voters and people are sick of it and it's not going to happen up here. >> well, it looks like he's paying off because he's moving up in the polls. >> we'll see. we'll see what the poll is on election day. >> jeff, donald trump posted this video message. >> the great slogan of new hampshire, "live free or die" means so much to so many people. all over the world they use thaethat expression, it means liberty, it means free enterprise it, means borders, strong, strong military where nobody is going to mess with us, it means take caring of our vets. what a great slogan. congratulations, new hampshire. wonderful job. >> does this video make up for him not being this with just a couple days before the primary? >> he was up there. >> this is for jeff. >> he was right there. he's coming right back. the snowstorm hit obviously. over the thing is it's tough

and this is exactly the problem so many people see with washington, that they will pass a huge budget-busting bill and then say well, there's a victory or they'll say you can't discuss the illegal immigration problem because it's not politically correct. and here is donald trump being politically incorrect. so it's a sign of strength at this point he is immutably identified with strength. so i don't think anybody is going to -- except his political opponents are going to try to make some hay out of it and say he's weak here. >> most republicans watch fox news and he picked a fight with them. that could be a bad thing for him in the fall especially when we're going out against democrats because he's got to look back at everything he's done and democrats can hold his feet to the fire with one united voice. >> but there are some issues among democrats. while senator bernie sanders enjoys a boost from his meeting with the top democrat, president obama, he is getting resistance from the most powerful democrat in the house, minority leader nancy pelosi. here she is responding to bernie's admission

we know that washington is 3ushing -- pushing beijing to force stronger sanctions. beijing doesn't seem too favor that. over the past couple of days wie had information from washington today that there was potentially a component of an h-bomb and yesterday saying that north korea might carry out a rocket launch soon. some might suggest that they're releasing 5u8 this information to help their cause when pushing for strong sanctions. natalie? >> all right. paula hancock live for us from soum. thank you, palma. the fbi has issued video showing the shooting death of an oregon protesters. why they wanted the public to see this footage. we'll have that next. t sort, stack and seal. these are the hands that keep private information private. these are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. these are the hands that dig for opportunity, identify patterns, and uncover risk. these are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. (singing alougetting to know you. getting to know all about you... getting to like you. getting to hope you like me... is some

continuing to walk out of the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception here in washington, d.c. a powerful two hour mass of christian burial for antonin scalia, associate justice of the united states supreme court. jake, these were powerful two hours, i must say, especially because father paul scalia, the son, one of nine children of justice scalia delivered such a powerful homily. >> the ability of father paul scalia to conduct that service as the celebrant, offering the homily, with such dignity, i know he would say his faith got him through it, but how difficult to conduct a service like that for one's own father, especially a father who was such a larger than life figure, not only to the nation but according to the sons and family members of justice scalia, to the family as well. such a tribute to him that father scalia was able to do it in such a way, wolf. >> and he did combine personal reflections of his dad, his father, with such powerful meaning and even brought in a little joke here and there. >> he did. there were some moments here and there about the one time h

about records, that record right there means more than any legislation than any type of person up in washington, d.c. or the beltway has tried to pass. >> scottie, you bring up endorsements and how much does it matter? >> it always matters. >> well, in south carolina, look at rubio, he has the best list of endorsements you could get. >> and sarah palin did not bring iowa to donald trump as you know as well. >> mayor nutter. >> as someone who has run for office, you would like to have the endorsement but it is not true that the culinary workers endorsed secretary clinton. >> they did. >> and she addressed them and they were helpful, but by the way of the endorsement, and if you can get it, you would. >> and it stings more when it doesn't go your way. >> and in this day and age with the instant communication, endor endorsements are less important than they used to be, and it is the politics tof past. and we are have seen it frankly on both sides. >> in many instances the rank and file is making the decisions based on the information they are gettingt at wref, and at the risk of ever disagreeing w

cnn special coverage from washington, now begins. >>> we're counting down to two crucial contests in two states. >> both the democrats and the republicans have a lot on the line. >> announcer: it's a whole new climate in the presidential campaign with the first contests in the south and the west, the candidates are turning up the heat. >> it's not enough just to be against thing. >> they're throwing everything at me, except the kitchen sink. >> ted cruz, i think he's an unstable person. >> you noticed how rattled donald gets? boy, he really -- he lost. >> he is a liar. >> announcer: right now, in the democratic race, it's nevada's choice. hillary clinton, planning to look like a front-runner again, after her crushing loss to bernie sanders in new hampshire. it's the first battleground where minority voters could decide the winner. will they rally behind clinton and her her rebound? >> it's not whether you get knocked down that matters. it's whether you get back up! >> announcer: or will nevada feel the burn? >> a funny thing happened. the people became involved in the campaign. >> an

he was back in washington actually meeting with african-american leaders. he flew here and did three campaign events. a big difference in how they campaigned. hillary clinton i'm told by one close adviser was scared by what happened in new hampshire. so she clearly is campaigning more aggressively here. and the sanders campaign realizes they have a lot of energy a lot of support a lot of money behind them. this is not going to hurt him in the fundraising but it does show their campaign is not as equipped as her campaign to be as aggressive in these settings. she is the true athlete in this race. bernie sanders knows will have to step it up a little bit. >> impressive win for hillary clinton. she needed it she got it. she is going to be speaking soon. eventually we'll hear from bernie sanders as well. i want to go to brianna keilar right now. we expect to see her. i'm sure she is happy. she got the phone call from bernie sanders. >> we understand very much so wolf she is very happy. she was in her suite here at caesars palace receiving that phone call from b

in the campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and wall street. we all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics. that starts with appointing a new justice to the supreme court who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. and we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. no bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. but if we listen to the voices of flint and ferguson, if we open our hearts to the families of coal country and indian country, if we listen to the hopes and heartaches of hardworking people across america, it's clear there is so much more to be done. the truth is, we aren't a single issue country. we need more than a plan for the big banks. the middle class needs a raise! and we need more jobs! we need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, jobs that provide dignity and a future. we can do it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. we can do it with new investments in manufacturin

and if this polling is right, they show he's the one that will come to washington to break washington which people are ready to do. and they're the ones saying he's the one that will get us back to work. that is a powerful message. so all of this other stuff, people aren't identifying with that. and as a matter of fact, you'll even hear him -- i don't like everything he says but i like this. >> we'll continue this conversation in a second. i want to go back to wolf blitzer who has a key race alert. >> thanks. good conversation. this is a key race alert. take a look at this. very early, but donald trump maintaining a steady lead, 34.9%. marco rubio in second place right now 22.6%. ted cruz with 18%. jeb bush 12%. john kasich, 7.7. dr. ben carson, 4.8. less than 3,000 votes cast right now. but trump maintaining his lead, 356 votes right now, ahead of marco rubio. it's obviously dana and david, very early. you guys are working the exit polls and we're getting more indications of what's going on. >> really fascinating stuff. more about what the former congressman, mike rogers is talking a

they don't want bureaucrats in washington telling them how to educate their children. we spend as a nation more for education per pupil than any other nation in the world. not even close. more per pupil, second place doesn't even exist, it's so different. and yet out of 30 countries, we're ranked number 30. you have china, you have norway, sweden, denmark. and then you have number 30, the united states. so we spend the most, and we're at the bottom of the heap. it's not going to happen any more, folks. not going to happen any more. we are going to build our military, which i thank, because a number of the people came down, and a number of the pundits watching tonight, we love our military. we love our military. and by the way, we love our police. our police are terrific. we love our police. they are not being treated properly. we're going to build our military so big, so good, so strong, so powerful, that nobody is ever going to mess with us, folks. and we're going to buy -- we're going to buy the equipment that our generals, our soldiers, that everybody that's in the

in the campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and wall street. we all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics that starts with appointing a new justice to the supreme court. who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. >> bernie sanders may have come in second, but he reminded his supporters where he was in the polls only a few months ago. >> we began in iowa. we were 50 points behind. when we began in new hampshire, we were 30 points behind. and we were way behind here in nevada. but what i think is happening is that as people hear our message -- and it's a tough message, because it speaks to the truth of an american society today that a lot of people just don't want to address. >> ron brownstein, the next big democratic contest is next saturday in south carolina primary. by all accounts, he's doing well there. >> absolutely. you'll see the biggest participation by african-americans where she won about three-quarters of them tonight in nevada as well. there was one bit of i think ve

. >> the washington cartel in full terror that the conservative grassroots are rising up. >> we won. we won. [ chanting "usa" ] >>> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. we welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world this evening. >> and i'm john berman. we are live, yes, live for cnn's special coverage, a pivotal night in the race for president, a race that changes so much based on what happened tonight. in the republican race, donald trump with a huge win in south carolina, now clearly the front-runner, seemingly by a lot. for the democrats, hillary clinton reasserting herself in nevada with a decisive win there. >> and looking at the republican field, it is shrinking, and jeb bush, the popular florida governor, the man once considered really the front-runner for the gop nomination, he is now out, announcing he's suspending his campaign in front of a room of supporters tonight. marco rubio, ted cruz right now still at this moment battling it out for second place. it is close, it is tight. we are watching this. the night, though, belonged to the republican billio

recognizing that, you know what, we need somebody who is not part of the problem right now which is washington. if you are looking at the results here in south carolina, 43% of the voters went with somebody who has never been elected into the political office. so dr. carson's message of, you know, heal, inspire and revive is something that a lot of the voters are still wanting in their president. >> all right. jay sop osborne with ben carson and he is still in the race, and not going anywhere as he said. thanks for being with us. matt lewis, and also a cnn xhen ta for the, and errol louis, and you are joining us for the first time tonight, and i want to give it to you, ben carson not leaving the race, and lot of the ted cruz supporters saying, he has to get out, because they believe he is pulling directly from him. >> i can see why they think that, and more importantly, they have to convince ben car sson o that if they have any hope for him leaving the race for that reason. there is going to be a certain momentum that is going to be leading towards when we talk about the delegate counts after

and if it's even found in government, it's at the state level, not in washington, d.c. for the first time in eight years, you're going to have a president that follows the constitution. that means on my first day in office, in my first moments in office, i will cancel every sing. one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. every one of them. when you make me president, when you make me president, we are going to have a president that embraces a free economy. free enterprise works, i know it, because my parents, we're not rich people. my father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. the reason they had a job is because free enterprise works. because someone who had access to money risked that money to open up a hotel and hire them. free enterprise works because it is the only economic model in the world where you can make poor people richer, and you don't have to make rich people poorer. we are going to save free enterprise. we're going to fix our tax code. i have a plan out there to do that we are going to roll back these crazy regulations that come out

it is the election, the primary for the democrats, ryan is with me, cnn commentator and washington correspondent at the new yorker. it's interesting, joe johns told us from one of the polling sites that it looked like to him, this is anecdotal, that voter turnout is very light. >> yeah. >> who does that help, hurt? granted, we don't have the numbers. >> look, so the conventional wisdom which has been wrong in this campaign, but i think it's right in this case, is lower turnout hurts bernie sanders. so, in a lower turnout election you have this core of the democratic party. people that vote in every election, and those voters so far in the first three states have been hillary clinton supporters. in iowa, the sanders campaign predicted that they would lose the campaign under a low turnout scenario. they would tie it under a little higher. and they would win it higher than that. >> this was iowa. >> iowa. and it was obviously in the middle. it was tied of it they nailed that. their projections have been more voters better for sanders, his two core constituencies are young people, millennials, and i

ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that. that is you know, the highest ranking mitch mcconnell saying that his fellow senators can run negative ads against the party's nominee. >> right. also make the comment that we drop him like a hot rock, i think is what he said. i want to know who the we is. the establishment? they have already gut punched the american worker time and time again. they hurt the republican party time and time again, so i'm not exactly sure where he's going. i understand he is trying to protect the senate but that's what makes donald trump so popular is that he's going against what they stand for. >> hurts them more. >> absolutely

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maybe massachusetts, washington, oregon, where there's hotbeds of progressivism. she might start to point out that more. >> van, then we have to go. >> i just think there are areas, is he barack obama -- no. frankly, that's not the point. the point is that there are key differences and on the question of peace, on the question of war and peace, where he gets closer to the president and to the base than hillary clinton, he never made it an issue. >> you think bernie sanders is closer to barack obama than hillary clinton? >> on syria. on peace. >> in life. in the real world. >> on real soldiers dying? yes. on stupid wars? yes. >> on life. >> why is hillary clinton opposing our president? >> this is the game we're having. >> we'll get van a cool cloth for the break. standing by, polls are closing in south carolina. cnn could be on the verge of making a major projection right after this. nobody move! get on the floor! do something! oh i'm not a security guard, i'm a security monitor. i only notify people if there is a robbery. there's a robbery. why monitor a problem

they want something different to happen in washington, d.c. they are tired of the same old business being led by the same old people. and bernie represents something new. he represents a revolution that's going to adjust how business is being done in washington, d.c. and you can see that revolution taking place even in some of the remarks that hillary clinton is talking about. now she's beginning to talk about those issues that bernie has been talking about everywhere. not only in a black state of south carolina, not in harlem, but bernie sanders has been talking about that in iowa, in new hampshire. so he's been talking about those issues that are relative to the african-american community from the very beginning. >> we'll see if the young voters show up at the polls today. maria, let me come to you. does this expectation that hillary clinton will win by a large margin hurt her potentially, maybe some of the voters who were -- might have been excite philadelphia this were a much tight erase might stay home and this margin will be narrower? >>

, 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

, it welcome contributes to the narrative of rubio being a washington insider. but there is of a different m magnitu magnitude. when you're endorsed by someone that stood next you to at a debate podium and sparred with you, you got in disagreements with and was on the campaign trail, when you're endorsed by snaun is your equal and colleague and says, yes, i wasn't the guy but there is the guy. i do think that is meaningful. i don't think it's going to, you know, make him rise more necessarily. but i do think in the marginal situations when you have a voter of massachusetts where trump is leading by 20 points saying to himself, you know, i do go with rubio or trump? maybe you think of new jersey governor chris christie and maybe that makes a difference? >> and ron, you made reference to the "new york times" piece entitled "inside the republican party's desperate mission to stop donald trump" writing this "the endorsement by mr. christie landed friday with crippling force. it was by far the most important defection to mr. trump's insurgency. mr. christie guy miff

and if it's even found in government, it's at the state level, not in washington, d.c. for the first time in eight years, you're going to have a president that follows the constitution. that means on my first day in office, in my first moments in office, i will cancel every sing. one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. every one of them. when you make me president, when you make me president, we are going to have a president that embraces a free economy. free enterprise works, i know it, because my parents, we're not rich people. my f

i went to washington to distance myself from it. you see bernie sanders saying i'm not a democrat or republican, i previously was an independent, trying to somehow not seem like you're just somebody who goes to washington, d.c. and casts votes. congress has about a 15% approval rating right now. i don't think you want to hitch your kite to that institution right now. >> right. on governors, you know, specifically jeb bush would say governors should be president, not a senator. he was comparing himself to marco rubio, essentially saying he, jeb bush, is better for prime time as an executive of a state, he's dealt with natural disasters and economy, employees, et cetera. what do you think the strongest attribute of a governor is going into the oval office? >> that they don't have to vote on things. look what's killing hillary clinton. her vote for the iraq war. that's what bernie sanders is nailing her on that. but the idea that a governor has created his own administration. you can judge but it would be impossible to say that governo

joining me from washington, our cnn political director, mr. david chalian, and cnn's chief political analyst who you will see also until the wee hours tonight, gloria borger. so great to have both of you on. david chalian, to you first, what are the top three things you will be watching for? >> well, start, brooke, with what you just read there in your intro, which is independents. i believe that -- one of the first things i'll look at is to see how independents split here. in our last tracking poll, they were splitting between the two parties. they can choose to play in either the republican or the democratic party. which one do they choose to play in and how does that affect the trump and sanders vote totals? those are the candidates that have been drawing from the independents. so that is the first thing i'm watching for. i'm also watching for what the voters tell us they're looking for. this is the head versus heart argument. i want to see, are new hampshire voters coming out tonight to back the person they think has the best chance of win

that other senators that washington d.c. had not stood up for it in cases like water bo d boarding. and there is no bigger amount of cowards in the world a -- >> -- exactly. like what if there were kids in the audience? i don't know if there were but i wouldn't want my kid to hear that. and i guess he repeated the p word because someone in the audience, a woman had shouted it out. do we have that sound cut yet? we do not. so donald trump said on morning joe, we were all just having fun. it was a fun moment. i got a standing ovation, the place went wild. somebody said mixed cheers. no the place went wild. i got a standing ovation. and all i was doing was repeating it and doing everybody a favor. he was just having fun. but you know what critics will say. it is not presidential to use such a term and so unnecessary and it is so crass. >> but it is talking about head lines. and if he would have just used the word coward it would not be headlining. >> but people are talking about the word. we're talking about the word -- >> but most people understand what it is in reference to. >> -- re

on education, on welfare, reforming those programs, getting the money and power out of washington. and that's just a fact. again, when you have a record, you have an enormous advantage. that's why he's done so well in the past few weeks, because when you carry your message to 106 town hall meetings, you understand what voters are concerned about, but you also have real ideas, real vision, that resonates with them. so it's been a great campaign. of course, with 12 candidates, you can always find someone who hates john kasich, but the fact is he is the right kind of leader for the country right now. >> all right. i have to leave it there. john, thanks for stopping by. >> still to come in the news room, john kasich and the power of the undecided voter in new hampshire. will his gamble pay off on this primary day? we'll talk more about that, next. see see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that i won't stop. until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for mod

with me now, cnn washington koesht joe johns. tell us more, joe. >> hey, carol, two at the top of the list for the campaign making sure to say this election process is not over or at least if mrs. clinton has made a decision she hasn't disclosed it. now we're taking a closer look at the travels and statements of people who have been mentioned. multiple sources told me and my colleagues at cnn that virginia governor tim kaine is right up at the top of the list. today, kaine making an appearance in his home state virginia. potentially a good choice, a member of the senate foreign relations committee which means he has foreign policy experience and he's been vetted at the highest levels already. the other democrat we're told at the top of hillary clinton's list is agriculture secretary and former iowa governor tom vilsack. today, he's expected to be here in washington for the white house summit on global development. vilsack has a close relationship with hillary clinton that goes back year, and years. coming from iowa, it's hoped he

i had bob costa from "the washington post" on my radio sho today. he was standing near trump at the moment he walked into the hall and he said almost these are not his words but almost like a gladiator, he was fixing his french cuffs. when he heard that cruz was getting booed, it was like, yeah, now i'm going in there. >> i'm looking at you and also thinking philly. you are a philly guy so i want to pivot and talk dems because we're in that sort of magic window when we will find out who hillary clinton selects as her vp. names floated out, kaine, vilsack. let me throw out cory booker. i hear he's very much in the consideration. you have this tweet from senator booker did with hillary clinton and him hugging. and then this morning, he was in cleveland with senator al franken. he was sort of this attack dog. listen to what he said. >> what really got me here was the level and intensity of the hate and cruelty that i've seen on the floor and come being oin speakers. this chant of "lock someone up," take away their liberty, throw them in prison, that's

i want to bring in now cnn senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny and dana bash. you both have been getting reporting on this, talking to your sources. jeff, let me go to you first about this decision and how at first it looked like she was digging in her heels, it was hard fought. but now it appears her tenure will be over? >> yes, that's what it looks like. but not immediately. look at this statement she just issued very carefully here, particularly these lines. she says going forward, the best way for me to accomplish those goals is to step down as party chair at the end of this convention. as the party chair, i will open and close the convention and i will also address the delegates about the stakes involved in this election. now, this is where it could get complicated here. i just talked to a top democratic source who has been in conversations with the clinton campaign. he said, this is not okay with brooklyn, the clinton campaign headquarters. they firmly do not want her making a major address here in this hall. they do not want her facing the -- for one, th

i have susan paige, washington bureau chief for "usa today" senior writer for "u.s. news and world report" and our old eric bradner, cnn politics reporter. just out of the gate, we just learned about this debbie wasserman schultz news. we heard about the boos this morning but the fact she is now not only gaveling this entire convention in as the dnc chair, she's not speaking. are you surprised by that? >> pretty messy start to the convention and they had a chance yesterday to put this to bed by saying she wouldn't speak and they didn't so this was one of the points we made at the beginning of the republican convention that they didn't settle the controversies they had brewing that they let them stretch over more time than they needed to. this this is an example of the messy start that spotlight it is divisions the in this party. >> it is united together is the theme tonight and this is how this week -- you laugh. >> well -- >> but it's not a good look. >> her position was untenable and if she came out on this stage it would have been the biggest scene of the night an

michelle doherty is in moscow, but let's head to washington first. he ha evan perez. >> the hacker was the work of hackers working for russian intelligence. officials tell me the fbi is investigating this hack, and so far, the evidence does point to at least one group of hackers that is familiar to u.s. counter intelligence. this is the same group that was involved in hacking into nonclassified e-mail system tess state department, and at the white house, as well as other federal agencies. investigators believe that russian intelligence is behind a wave of other cyber attacks on political organizations and even think tanks in washington. the release of the e-mail by wikileak does add another wrinkle to this. we don't know where they got the e-mails it is releasing, and they're not saying. we can say the russians did this to help donald trump. we know this is a type of activity that foreign spies, including the russians and united states always try to carry out. they did similar cyber attacks in the united states around the 2012 election cycle. the iss

jackie kucinich is back, a cnn political analyst and bureau chief for daily beast in washington. cnn political commentator scottie nell hughes and david chalian is back. before we actually chat, i've been reading about eight years ago what happened on the floor at the dnc with then hillary clinton who obviously lost it to then senator barack obama. this is what happened eight years ago. >> in the spirit of unity, with a goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let's declare together, in one voice, right here, right now, that barack obama is our candidate and he will be our president! >> all right. so dan pfeiffer, let me just turn to you first having been on team obama. why do it that way? what did that mean for then senator obama moving forward? >> well, it is important to remember that the primary in 2008 was much closer than this one in terms of delegate count, in terms of popular vote. so you had very strong feelings from a lot of clinton delegates who thought that they wanted her to be the nominee. and it sent a powerful signal to them that while we might ha

"washington post" has done an awful lot of reporting on the fact that he makes a lot of claims about the amount of money he gives to charity but essentially doesn't really follow through. so somebody with the kind of wealth that he claims to have if he gives no money to charity that would be an embarrassment. finally, he could probably -- it's possible that he doesn't really have the kind of wealth that he talks about. he is running on his business record, on his business beingac. >> first, if he did have russian ties, it would be on the front of the financial disclosures. it is not. he just admitted in that press conference, as much as you might try to slander him in that way, he admitted he had no ties. in fact the only candidate that does is hillary clinton who received $145 million from shareholders of uranium 1 when it was sold from canada to russia for the clinton global initiative. national security issue happened with hillary clinton's server in the first place. we would not be be in this situation today if there was not fear. we've already been told that the dnc has been war

elizabeth mental hospital here in washington, d.c. that hospital has a detention facility where john hinckley has been staying for 35 years since he attempted to assassinate president reagan in 1981. among the restrictions placed on hinckley, he cannot approach the news media. he is being barred from any contact with any member of the reagan family, any member of james brady's family. james brady, the presidential aide who was seriously wounded in that attack. also, he cannot contact the families of the two secret service agents who were wounded in that attack and he is barred from any contact with jodie foster, jodie foster, the actress who he tried to impress 35 years ago when he tried to asass that's president reagan. she of course now is a successful director. john hinckley not allowed contact with her or the reagan family or the secret service families who were involved in that assassination attempt, carol. >> all right, brian todd reporting live for us on this astounding news this morning. thank you. >>> it has been a busy morni

the washington establishment versus whatever you want to call the trump populism and he represents exactly what trump is attacking. so to have him as your enemy, it could not offer trump a better trar target. >> the last 20 seconds what would romney learn from this father to be more effective in this fight? >> it revolves around the grass roots. he has to separate himself more bike his father and the electorate the solution, not mitt romney. >> thank you. fascinating op-ed. take a quick bake and we'll be right back. ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet? >>> top of the hour. 2:00 p.m. eastern and it is down to the wire in five states today. lines are out the door. crowds are filling caucus locations as voters make their final choice on this super saturda

. >> the spirit of the country is lower, because we don't like what is happening in washington. >> hello, even. i'm john berman and we are live and we want to welcome to viewers here in the united states and around the world. >> i'm kate bolduan and thank you for joining us and watching continuing coverage of souper saturday, and it is super sunday now. and super for some and especially donald trump and hillary clinton finishing the night with the overall delegate math, but not without seeing big losses tonight. >> and bernie sanders took nebraska and kansas, and took them big. and hillary clinton took louisiana by a large margin. >> large. >> and along the republican line, ted cruz had big victories in kansas and maine, and donald trump won the two biggest states kentucky and louisiana, but it is very close in those states. looking at the delegate math, h hillary ahead of bernie sanders, and most of you will ask me, yes, we do include super delegates. hillary 1,131 to bernie sanders 479. again, we should know note that ted cruz did win more delegates tonight. so trump, 385, to cruz 298

he didn't come to cpac in washington, he went to kansas. and marco rubio was campaigning there as well. speaking of cpac, wolf announced that the results of the straw poll from there. you and i were joking earlier that how ever many election cycles the paul family, ron and rand have been able to really kind of stack the decks and organize in a way that they did well. that's -- they are not players now but look at that we had it up again. one more time. ted cruz, 40%, marco rubio 30%, donald trump 15, john kasich 8%. to your point about cruz consolidating conservatives i was there this morning interviewing marco rubio on stage, and every time i mentioned the name donald trump it was like -- like i was mentioning the worst name in the world. the crowd, definitely not a pro trump crowd. >> anti-trump crowd. >> very. it's not a big surprise that he didn't go this morning because they knew that. >> i think it was a wise decision. obviously he knew. we should put this in context. this is a survey of 2700 or so active young conservatives i think t

>> the most important element for creating jobs is lifting the burden of washington on small businesses. two-thirds of all new jobs in the economy come from small businesses. if i'm elected president, we will repeal every word of obamacare. we'll pass a simple flat tax and abolish the irs and we will pull back the federal regulator, the epa that is strangling farmers and ranchers and small business. the effect of all of that is we'll see the economy take off. we're going to see millions of high paying jobs. we'll see wages rise for working men and women who haven't seen that for a long time. we'll see young people coming out of school with two, three, four, five joffers. all we do is get back to the free market principles that made this country great in the first place. >> the seven wins you say you had against donald trump, maybe other people have only had one or two. do you really think this is a turn of the times for the republican party for voters to see who should be in office? >> well, look, it's important. nobody has had two wins against donald. only one candidate has beaten him

wait a minute, you say bernie sanders can do well in washington, oregon, california. bernie sanders will do well up in new york and up in other states in new england. there are places he can look. the big test for bernie sanders, the big debate tomorrow night in michigan. the big test is right here. michigan tuesday, then ohio and illinois the next tuesday. bernie sanders has to make a point. he has to say, okay, secretary clinton, you have the relationships in the south, you beat me in the south. if he wants to make a case that not only hi politically reform message but his economic reform message is big, what a statement it would make if bernie sanders could in the industrial midwest start in michigan and go into ohio and illinois. that would send a message to the clinton campaign. they think they'll do well there. bernie sanders gets some momentum with a couple wins, when he gets to the midwest next week, if he wants to fundamentally change this math, he has to make a statement in the midwest and michigan is tuesday night. >> tomorrow is the cnn democratic presiden

washington county. and finally, york county. now, what does that all mean? let me tell you the nine people on our ballot. the results were as follows and includes the military absentees. jeb bush, 31 votes. ben carson, 132 votes. ted cruz, 8,550 votes. carly fiorina, 17 votes. mike huckabee, 10 votes. john kasich, 2,270 votes. rand paul, 55 votes. marco rubio, 1,492 votes. and donald trump, 6,070 votes with 27 write-ins. so, the percentages. and as i'll remember, if any candidate achieves 50% plus 1, they win all 23 main delegates. if no candidate achieves 50% plus 1, then the delegates, the 23 delegates will be allocated to those who get more than 10% of the vote on a proportional basis among those candidates. so, coming in first, in the maine caucuses is senator cruz with 45.8% of the vote. second is donald trump with 32.55% of the vote. coming in third is governor john kasich with 12.17% of the vote. and fourth, with 8.00% of the vote is senator marco rubio. because of that, three candidates to achieve delegates to the national delegation in cleveland. te

let's talk about donald trump now ditching the appearance at cpac just outside of washington, but that does not mean his presence will not be felt, of course. ahead, the tone against trump and the gop rivals who will be speaking there today. plus, we're sitting here in flint, and of course, you've heard about the water crisis that's been going on here. it has not gone away. we'll spotlight the media's role to help residents affected here. and we've got live pictures out of wichita, kansas. donald trump expected to hit the stage very soon. this is also right next to a caucus site. so, strategy, of course, here on the part of trump. he was scheduled to speak at cpac, skipped that. he'll be here and then in florida later today. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. get ready to show your roots ♪ you'd better go home leading shades, even salon shades in just 10 minutes. for natural looking color as real as you are. show the world your roots with root touch-up. this just got interesting. why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat

she more than anything wants to see a revolution in washington, and she, in fact, said that if it was not trump, she would vote for sanders on the other side. so, i think there are these strings in both wings of the party, they want change. and you know, i think they would be furious if something -- you know, there's a perception there's a funny business at a convention. >> it puts tremendous pressure on reince priebus and spencer to make sure they are fair arbor tomorrows on the process. i think up until now, they've done a good job at doing that and not showing favoritism, but anything they do, particularly any rules changes that would be necessitated will be under a microscope. >> quickly, it's a little bit of a misnomer, because the only way you get to a brokered convention is that if it's the will of the voters that there's no majority. >> we now can project kentucky, so let's end the speculation and get to wolf. >> this is what we were waiting for, the last contest of the night to make a projection. cnn projects donald trump will win kentucky, the republican caucuses in kentucky

>> you know, washington, d.c., our nation's capital. there is a virginia tech civil engineer, an environmental engineer, mark edwards, who looked at a situation there where lead levels spiked in washington, d.c., and what he found was that between 30% and 60%, there was an increase of 30% and 60% of still births and miscarriages. now, the government did a study that contrasted that, but he is now here in flint looking at this matter. people trust him because they feel like he did really good research, and he is here from virginia tech. he is looking into this. >> just quickly, i notice little jalen, the 7-year-old, one of her other children. is he okay? >> he's having a lot of problems. he was suspended once the first year they got here. the second year, when the water had been switched over, 56 times he's been spended from school. he has hyperactivity disorder and he's affected. and his mother feels like it's the water. >> these are one of the, you know, conditions that they say lead will do in developmental delays. sara, thank you for

roughest period of the campaign. >> and the spirit is lower, because we don't like what is happening in washington.

the entire republican leadership in washington, d.c. was with him. and everything i knew about politics said there was no path forward. but it didn't matter to me at the time because i believed deeply that if america continued on the road that the new president put us on, we would lose the things that made it a special country, and the place to change the history of my family. you fast forward seven years to this moment, things have only gotten worse. we have only gotten further and further away from the principles that made america the greatest nation in all of human history. and it brings us to this moment in our history now. the election of 2016 is no longer simply a choice between political parties or even ideology. the fundamental question before america right now is what kind of country is this going to be in the 21st century? the thing that i always enjoy about cpac is the incredible number of young people that come to these, younger americans. and by younger, i mean anyone under 44. although i feel 45 this week because i had the flu, but anyw

. >> and the spirit is lower, because we don't like what is happening in washington. havi -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, once again, and welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm kate bolduan. >> and i'm john berman, and super for donald trump and hillary clinton, and maybe more super for ted cruz and bernie sanders. >> on the democratic side, bernie sanders won nebraska and kansas with clinton taking louisiana and among the republicans, ted cruz won kansas and maine and donald trump, he took kentucky and louisiana. >> trump and clinton continue to lead in the critical count for delegates, and clinton has, and throw it up here so i can read it to you. clinton has 1,131 and bernie sanders has 749, and right now, we are looking at 298 for ted cruz, and so i have to tell you that tonight, ted cruz won more delegates than -- well, certainly more than marco rubio, but more than donald trump, and that is crucial. marco rubio did not do well at all. >> that is very, very true. let's take a look here. trump this evening, and trump

it's a two minute spot that's really driving home his message of draining the swamp and anti-washington establish. . he's been consistent on that throughout his campaign. i believe win lose or draw, i think the republican party is going to take a closer look at changing the way washington works. i think the republican party is going to be committed to reigning in government spending. across the board republicans and democrats on issues such as obama care. they have no choice but to work together and trade is a big issue. we're seeing the trade issue alone is moving numbers in states like michigan and other states that are key battle ground states. i think they're going to be taking a closer look at some of the key issues. >> i've heard it a lot in the battle ground states personally in the voters. thank you to all of you. we appreciate it. >> 2:00 a.m. eastern, 11:00 p.m. west. if you are up, so are we here with our special live election coverage. i am poppy harlow. we begin with another twist and perhaps the wildest presidential race of your lifetime. hours before election say director

donald trump continued his message of drain the washington swamp, get away from the corruption of politics, hillary clinton is unfit to be present. while one as you indicate may be more positive, trump is more harsh he has tapped into an electorate who wants that. >> who feels like they haven't been heard for decades. simone, i wonder, regardless of who wins, if it is clinton who wins what she will face in congress, unless the democrats flip and house and the senate, i don't know, but you are probably going to have an embouldenned freedom caucus, you wonder how much the next president can get done, whether it is the first woman, or whether it's donald trump, what downing we see frankly in terms of productivity for us? >> i think the house and the senate matter. if the democrats want to take the chous, they need 30 seats. that's unlikely. they can close in on the margin but they need 30 seats. i think the american people want to see some type of progress whether it's criminal justice reform, whether it's immigration remorm, whether it is addressing economic inequality, this electorate that

let's bring in sunlan where she is in washington. what have we learned about what the president will say? it's extraordinary . >> to say they have had a rocky relationship would be an understatement. not only because donald trump's role in the birther movement but keep in mind president obama has been one of donald trump's chief critics over the last year, as well. this will be the first meeting the two will have. the last time they were in a room together was three years ago at the white house correspondents dinner. you will remember then, president obama took aim at donald trump from the podium in the brunt of a joke. that said, a white house officials admit it will be a challenging meeting for him. they say it won't be an easy meeting but he said that president obama is very sincere about making sure it is a smooth transition of power. that, in large part, starts today with the tone of their meeting. soming that president obama spoke about yesterday in the rose garden. >> now, it's no secret that the president elect and i have som

he tried to pick it up in washington yesterday. there's going to be more of that. i'm aware of other people he's reached out to. so i think this will continue and we will just play this out here so far, but not to be forgotten here is that between donald trump and ted cruz they're getting about the two outsiders they're getting about 80% of the vote. >> they are still counting votes in idaho and utah. ted cruz has a lead in the utah caucuses. the question is will that hold. we're keeping an eye on belgium a day after terrorist attacks. c. three weeks of non-stop basketball. no! yes! this country is unified in totally blowing off work that first thursday. enough attack ads and name calling... that was a foul you jerk face! yes! yes! for one-twelfth of the year... these truly are the united states. no! no! yes! yes! eat it rogen! eat! it! no! i don't like it! hey liquid wart remover? could! take weeks to treat. embarrassing wart? dr. scholl's freeze away wipes 'em out fast with as few as one treatment. freeze away! dr. scholl's. the #1 selling freeze brand. isn't lik