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for example, who gets into a primary debate -- republicans in a republican debate, democrats in a democratic debate. it means that a person who does environment in the expectation that is the only way to get media coverage. you have people that actually are not part of the republican party, and bernie sanders is running in the democratic party. rand paul does not long in the republican party, nor does bernie sanders belong in the democratic party. the parties has gripped the system, it is hard to do anything else. parties that stood for anything long time. candidates have been defining what it means to be a party bargain the nomination of the party, and a party than falls in line with that identity. as a result, there have been wild swings in what it means to be a republican or a democrat as a presidential nominee. fernando: i' ll have more with doctor jamieson next week, speaking to the issue of political messaging in campaigns. and i' d like to know your thoughts. tweet me @matteroffacttv and connect on facebook, or check out our website to view and share videos from all of our programs. a

that could very well be the open nature of the mississippi primary, where democrats had a democratic primary to go vote in. and therefore making the republican electorate slightly more conservative, that should be good news for a ted cruz, for instance, no? >> well, it's what we've seen across the early voting states so far, is that there is a more conservative electorate that's coming out to vote. and fundamentally, all the age and education, income, those things seem to be pretty steady. so it's a pretty exciting and different set of numbers that i don't think has been reported all that much in terms of the changing electorate. and of course, you add on top of that how many more people are coming out to vote, and it certainly shows you that this set of candidates is working to change the electorate and move people to the polls. >> fred, i want to put up the michigan ideology numbers. and this is just for the republican electorate, for now. but i think you'll see that it might be having an impact on the democratic vote. as i pointed out, it hasn't been since 1992 that michigan repub

blue collar democrats have been frustrated because democrat policies have not worked for them. a lot have changing their affiliation and voting republican to vote for mr. trump. why? >> well one of the things i'm hearing that's actually kind of disturbing me is this notion that somehow there will be checks and balances. the things that's kept us over the last six years from having the full effects of barack obama. unfortunately donald trump on the ticket in november imperils republicans across the board. so we don't want to have that situation and empower democrats even more. make those policies even worse on coal country in ohio and elsewhere. john kasich helped bring 400,000 jobs back to ohio. cutting taxes. balancing budgets. exactly what we need for washington. so we need someone who can actually win here and he'll win today in the primary and that will help him go onto the nomination and eventually win in november. >> go ahead scott. >> carol let me point out something. the numbers don't lie in chicago just like shakira's hips. actually since john kasich signed nafta more

this was not just any party democratic party. it was a party that held overwhelming congressional majority for 50 years with very few interruptions. republicans could only get something done by adding a voice to the compromise handed out within -- compromised hammered out within the democratic party. or by joining one faction or another. civil rights bill or that effort to stop universal healthcare for instance. between 1960 and 1990, it was a great sorting out of two parties along ideological lines. republicans became solidly conservative, democrats became solidly progressive. that sorting correspondent into a geographic sorting as well. republicans were centered in the sun belt in the stage west. democrats held the northeast coast and the west coast. states like ohio and few others remained up for grab. none of this would have mattered if the electoral ballot between the parties had not become so competitive. but for the first time since the new deal coalition conservatives republican could at least aspire to capturing the whit

that's a voting block that democrats need to show up in large numbers. if he's trying to convince super delegates of his strength he'll have to find some way to show he can pull that coalition together and it's not happening. >> and does he have a counter argument that i'll atrack white working class men which is her weakness which could be a trump strength. >> that's absolutely right. as you were saying, this show cases what weakness has been all along. firing up a key aspect of the democratic base including white voters and younger voters and more liberal voters. how does she get them back particularly if the race continues into july. it's going to continually undermine her narrative that she's the candidate that can unite the party against donald trump. her only hope is trump fires up the democratic base. >> she understands senator sanders and as much as she would like him to get out he's not going to. so she was hoping to stretch her lead. as her lead shrinks he gets more aggressive every time it does. listen to him when we had the candidates earlier

democratics -- democrats became progressive. that also sorted out into a geographical sorting. republicans were in the sun belt. democrats held the north east coast and west coast. states like ohio and a few others remained up for grabs. none of this would have mattered if the electoral balance between in matters -- parties had not become so competitive. for the first time since the new deal coalition, conservative republicans could at least aspire to capturing the white house as ronald reagan finally did in 1980. conservative republicans in congress did garner majorities on a really basis. -- regular basis. with more ideologically pure candidates in both parties poised for victory, it was no longer -- there was no longer an incentive for the minority party to compromise. i want to underscored that the ideological sorting out in and of the health is not -- in and of itself, is not something that contributes to gridlock today. rather, it was the combination of more ideological consistent parties and the relatively equal pill -- equal appeal of these ideological -- ideologies tha

democratic party is going to be united. there's not that big a difference between hillary and bernie on the issues. number two, we're going to be up against the biggest clown it looks like that ever ran for president. and what is bernie talking about? he's talking about jobs, minimum wage, university health care, criminal justice reform talking about the issues the party has stood for -- >> i'm surprised at you, bill press, name calling. >> bill, let's make -- that draws an important point here. the difference between the democrats philosophically is very marginal to say the least. among republicans, it is a mass divide. it reminds me of what happened to the democratic party in '72. as you remember, we split up over the vietnam war and it split the republicans. trump alters the trajectory of the republican party over the last 30 years. there will be hell on the streets to pay for that. my only concern is that the republicans are going to be so desperate, that they've come out with everything they can on hillary. i don't kno

democrats can vote for republicans, republicans can vote for democrats. and msnbc's tony is looking at the trend. >> reporter: that's right. this is the local version of the largest industrial union in america and i want to give you living insight into what we have seen in the polls from yesterday. you have a ten-point deficit for donald trump. he has to make that up. bernie sanders is surging and a slight edge against hillary clinton. this is ross winklebauer with the united steelworkers and gives us insight of how trump might make up that deficit. are you seeing democrats union members that tend to be democrats and telling you to cross over for donald trump? >> we have not seen or heard that but we're realistic. we know that some of our members will, unfortunately, listen to donald trump's rhetoric. and will buy into it. and so i'm sure just like no different than ted cruz. they say the rhetoric. some of them will, unfortunately, buy into it. >> hillary clinton was leading in this state by double digits over bernie sanders. >> right. >> until recently.

democratic caucuses in nebraska, democratic caucuses in kansas. two wins for bernie sanders, one for hillary clinton. so far, on the republican side, two wins for ted cruz. he wins the republican caucuses in kansas. he also wins the republican caucuses in maine. two other states republican contests still outstanding right now. we have a key race alert for you. here are the results for you as of right now in louisiana. the republican primary. 8% of the vote is in. donald trump has a significant lead. 47.7% over ted cruz. 23.4%. marco rubio in third place, 19.5%. john kasich in fourth place. distant fourth, only 3.1% in louisiana. in kentucky right now, more than a third of the vote is in. 34% of the vote is in. trump maintains his lead with 40.4%. ted cruz in second place, 31.1%. marco rubio and john kasich, they are fighting for third place but they are a distant third. 13.5% for rubio. 13.1% for john kasich. i want to go over to john king to take a closer look at kentucky. we're having trouble with kentucky. more than a third of the vote is in an

i myself would, i suppose i identify as a democrat because i've only voted democratically in every election. however, i, you know, as i getas older, as i become more informed and become i suppose more active in the political process, i think i have changed my understanding of who i should vote for. and maybe i'm more of an independent than a democrat. >> host: i'm going to let crystal wright jump in. >> guest: thanks, and you make some great observations. i think racism -- if i had more time, i don't want to dominatedo the short time i have with talking about the differenthe types of racism. i experience racism from professors when i was in college and high school, so there are, h you know, we probably don't -- we don't have enough time to go boo all that. but -- into all that. >> host: what about her preferred definition? let's talk about covert and overt racism. >> guest: well, look, i believe there's overt racism that we see, that we hear, right?ra and i gave some examples. there is covert racism in hiring practices now still with fortune 500 companies. you have racism, do taxi cab drive

i would go democrat. maybe i would. i even wrote a song for donald trump. host: go ahead and sing it. caller: oh, see if i remember. ♪ make america great again say america out loud again say merry christmas, ya here's to make america great again vote donald trump for the usa ♪ host: very well done, jaclyn. let me ask you -- if it is ted cruz versus hillary clinton, what do you do? caller: hold my nose and vote for ted cruz. , the lady before me said you get two for one. people are looking for -- people are looking at her husband and voting for hillary because her husband was president at one time. that is what i think. host: dave, from pennsylvania, an independent caller. caller: i want to say one thing. for the majority of people who do not vote for donald trump, you are actually voting against yourself. i personally do not support donald trump, but i support the movement. donald trump is an opportunity to take this government back from the globalists who are driving this country into the ground. hos

divide of any democratic divide, democrat or republican, race, anything, is the generational divide. under 30, sanders is winning 71-29. 60 or over, clinton, it's the inverse. what do you make of that? >> i think young people have experienced life during and after the great recession and, you know, having been born to parents who are the great depression generation, i can see an interesting resonance when i talk to my kids. they are exceedingly concerned about money. they're scared to death of college debt. they do not think opportunity is easy to come by. there's a sobriety and a sharpness to a lot of members of this generation because they were born into overt economic unfairness. well, different reality than the great depression, but the result is the same. a really sharp progressive impulse and a dissatisfaction with the status quo that is visceral. i do think, to your previous point, the democratic party is moving to the left. i think the country is moving to the left. i think the next generation is already there. and i am very happy about those realities. the democratic party o

about 50,000 democrats the turn out. apparently, they printed 65,000 ballots just in case. they estimate that they got more like 80,000 people to turnout on the democratic side in utah. so again, that is the bernie sanders theory of the case in terms of how he thinks he wins. he thinks he wins when he gets very large numbers of people to current out. also in terms of the idaho expectations, we just heard from the democratic party communications director that the rest of the state was coming in. and they were just waiting on ada county. now that we have the ada county results which steve kornacki reported, the ada county reports showed a handwritten result on the yellow legal pad, if ada county is in i expect that the idaho numbers will pick up fast in terms of the other numbers we got. >> hold that to the division of elections -- >> i'm not allowed to. >> lawrence, you're smiling. >> well, i just want to go back to a note that chris matthews struck, he was last speaking and talking about tell world's perception on the ba

so so the grassroots democrats. the gulf between the republican party, the grassroots and elites is a chasm. donald trump saw that and the rest of the elites did not. >> it's also just amazing the speed at which the conservative base has abandoned their commitment to purity which is really defined over the past eight years. >> you mean, like -- >> yeah, just as recently as the 2014 midterm elections. i mean, the 2010 midterm elections which birthed rand paul, ted cruz, and saw john boehner's departure. right? that's because the conservative base was so committed to purity, whether that's muscular christianity, constitutional strictness, i mean, that defined my party for the past eight years. in less than a year, trump has proven that that commitment to purity is no longer a defining organizing principle -- >> one of the issues and one of the issues that a lot of these candidates promised that they were going to thwart obama's policies, going to reverse obamacare, they were going to do things they really weren't in a

specifically on the democratic side. a lot of democrats are saying why didn't we nominate a progressive? this was the opportunity to do so. and i think you see bernie sanders trying to stick up for that side of the democratic side of the aisle that says we didn't go progressive enough. but i think on the other side, you see barack obama once again, no drama obama, playing it cool as a cucumber saying, all right, gop, merrick garland. top that. >> if you won't seat him, who would you seat? perry, let's talk about the president's calculation here, assuming he didn't nominate the person he actually wants, right? what could have been the president's calculation in deciding to go for somebody like merrick garland, rather than going for a pick that would have excited the base more? >> it sounds like he really wanted to pick someone who he could imagine -- president obama has been very focused on i'm president for this last year and i'm going to be involved in the campaign, i want to help the democrats win. but i also want to a

the democrats cannot win the senate. they need five seats, if they don't win the presidency, without this race. this is gonna be one of the most high-profile senate races in the country. tom smith and bob casey in 2012 spent $40 million. this race is gonna reach $50 million. >> oh, absolutely. >> the money is gonna flood in, tam. >> and the nrsc will come in. >> that's what i wanted to say. and don't think they're not working right now. >> yeah. >> let me be real clear about that -- there's a time that will happen. >> investing in infrastructure. >> that's right. >> investing in terms of voter targeting. there's a lot of things going on. >> let's quickly switch to the race for attorney general, the democratic primary. my goodness. lots going on there. josh shapiro is up with an ad. he's got a lot of endorsements -- wolf, rendell, casey, planned parenthood. zappala also has a lot -- the building trades here, county commissioners for 11 different places. up with a new ad in which he shows sandra blake, walter rice, janay p

are democrats switching over from the democratic ranks to vote for him? you know, i think if kasich wins, it's going to be about his ability to really have something of a broad coalition which is what he was able to do in his last re-election campaign, did very well with african-american voters, looks like african-american voters might be 19, 20% of the overall electorate there. so it's going to be really interesting. >> david, so far, kasich has been able to do well in states where he's been able to spend a lot of time. we saw that in new hampshire where he did more than 100 town halls. clearly he's been putting everything into ohio in order to win there. when i talked to him yesterday, every time i've talked to him, asked him, okay, say you win ohio, what changes? i mean, he says, well, he thinks he'll do well in illinois, exactly whatever that means, he won't be specific. also he says that he'll just get more interviews and the narrative will sort of change if he wins ohio. >> well, i do think that if he wins ohio, the aura around him will change. the

hillary clinton the big winner on the democratic side. the big takeaway this evening is not just that donald trump dominated in seven contests, possibly eight, if you look at the turnout numbers of how many democrats and republicans are turning out to vote, across the board in democratic primaries and caucuses, it's down. people are not voting. they're not as enthusiasmic and across the board in the democratic side people are enthus arrestic. records were set tonight. it's astounding. this is not the first time we've said this. it's a trend. if democrats are not careful they're going to lose this presidential election. >> that's right. there's no question love them or hate them, a lot of the new voters coming out on the republican side, they want to influence the trump factor. there doesn't seem to be in he question about that, but -- look, i've met on the campaign trail, you've met them on the campaign trail, there are a lot of people who have been completely disaffected who like donald trump's message. they like the idea that finally fr

for example, who gets into a primary debate -- republicans in a republican debate, democrats in a democratic debate. it means that a person who does not fit will come into the environment in the expectation you have people that actually are not part of the republican party running the republican party, and bernie sanders is running in the democratic party. rand paul does not long in the republican party, nor does bernie sanders belong in the democratic party. the parties has gripped the system, it is hard to do anything else. parties that stood for anything that is highly coherent in a long time. candidates have been defining what it means to be a party bargain the nomination of the party, and a party than falls in line with that identity. as a result, there have been wild swings in what it means to be a republican or a democrat as a presidential nominee. fernando: i' ll have more with doctor jamieson next week, speaking to the issue of political messaging in campaigns. and i' d like to know your thoughts. tweet me @matteroffacttv and connect on facebook, or check out our website to view and

this is among democrats. you see there, sanders edges out clinton by 6 points, 40 persz enthusiastic about sanders, 34% enthusiasm about clinton. but take a look compared to january there. hillary clinton's trajectory is the wrong direction, she ticked down from january in enthusiasm. bernie sanders has really gotten a nice bump since january in terms of how democrats feel about his potential nomination or potential candidacy as the nominee. we look at how they split with donald trump t republican front-runner. what does it look like. take here, hillary clinton versus donald trump, our cnn national poll this week, 53% for clinton, 41% for trump. that's a healthy 12-point margin there in a national election of it but take a look at bernie sanders. it's 20 points. he defeats donald trump in our poll, 58% to 38%. so when bernie sanders is expressing and touting the enthusiasm he sees in his crowds, when bernie sanders says he does a better job defeating -- not just donald trump but frankly, any of the republican

democrats line. caller: hello. i am a democrat. i'm calling in reference to donald trump. i have followed him for years. i'm 70 years old. donald trump is really dividing america. he istoo rich to fail, putting blacks and whites against each other when we are in the same boat together. i'm trying to figure out what his issues are. , they arenknown to me fear and they threaten our democracy. donald trump came in as a republican. i feel he could have walked in as a democrat because all he is doing is hijacking the republican party. i think the republican party needs to stand up and fight for what they stand for and not be dictated to by donald trump. host: in terms of the mechanics is itting the nomination, easier for him to run as a just inan or democrat, terms of the process of getting delegates, superdelegates in the case of democrats? guest: probably as a republican this time around because they do not have the superdelegates. a lot of republicans who oppose donald trump wish they had the same ability as the democrats to have superdelegates come in and support a differen

okay, judge, the democratic race? >> i think that hillary clinton's biggest whoa is is the justice department. i believe that the fbi isvj nearing a conclusion on the -- its accumulation of evidence. it has the evidence, it's corroborating and recorroborating the evidence. and recommend to the superiors in the justice department that it be present to do a grand jury. what happens there, nobody knows. if the evidence is not present to do a grand jury, i think you will see that evidence along with fbi commentary on it all over the place and that will be devastating to mrs. clinton. >> and the doj internally will kind of break apart? i mean, people will have a problem. >> i think people will resign because there is such a serious effort -- remember, there are two investigations of her, one public corruption and the other the email scandal voluming hundreds of fbi agents. i can't see them sitting on their hands if that work is tossed in the trash can because the president wants her to succeed. >> there is such a disconnec

but the leader of the democratic party facing time for the democrats to rally behind hillary clinton. the new york times reported that obama told a group of donors that senator bernie sanders was nearing the point at which his campaigning against hillary clinton would end and that the party must soon come together to back her. white house press secretary josh earnest had this to say at his briefing yesterday. >> president obama made a case that would be familiar to all of you, which is that as democrats move through this competitive primary process, we need to be mindful of the fact that our success in november in electing a democratic president will depend on the commitment and ability of the democratic party to come together behind our nominee. the president did not indica indicate or specify a preference in the race. >> he also reacted. here he is. >> i don't want to speculate on what he said or what he didn't say. i've heard there's been some push back from the white house kind of indicating that he didn't say that, but the bottom line is that when only half of the american people

let's switch to the democratic race. hillary clinton simply wants to put michigan behind her, that's her big goal tonight. she wants to run the board and prove to bernie sanders i'm winning again in the south in north carolina and racking up some wins in the midwest. should she sweep the race, her math becomes more and more dramatic. she'll get close to the halfway point in the delegate chase, pledged delegates, put bernie sanders behind her, and she wants to make the statement that michigan was a fluke and that she now can prove she can win in the rust belt. what bernie sanders wants tonight is to prove michigan was no fluke and to try to send a message, that would send a message if he just won ohio, he would say i'm strong in the industrial midwest, but it would not fundamentally change the map. if bernie sanders wants to change the conversation tonight and make people think hillary clinton is weak, he needs to win more than one in the midwest. illinois and ohio would be a strong message to the sanders campaign also th

race, people who are otherwise, or who are otherwise democrats, otherwise sympathetic to the democratic party and members of the democratic party, deciding not to cast that vote today for either sanders or clinton, so they can weigh in on the other contest instead. i mean, how is that going to work out? >> that's the thing, ricochet effect. steve kornacki is going to talk to us about the board. >> we can show you the early exit polls, the question of how many democrats, how many independents are coming into the republican primary. so what we're seeing is a comparison, compared to 2008, it was a similar situation in ohio. they had a choice, big democratic primary going on, hillary clinton, barack obama, you had a big republican primary going on, what you saw back then was an electorate that was 80% republicans. they called themselves republicans. 17% in the rhyprimary were independents. we're seeing a lot more independents. number has jumped from 17 to 28. the number of democrats, more than doubling from 3 to 7. that combined is 35% we're seeing in this exit poll. 35% more than a third o

. >> well, democrats are actually saying, two reporters, last month, the low turnout among democrats. we only have two candidates so far. the field has been narrowed to two. republicans, you know, have one doesn't insula these contests. obviously, in 2008, there was one for barack obama. neil: thank you very much. back to donald trump. he is doing a lot better than almost anyone thought. he has 110 primaries under caucuses. obviously, doctor carson winning the contest. is this beginning to change the behavior of donald trump? sounding more presidential. a little after 9:30 p.m. sounding a little bit or graceful. only calling marco rubio little marcoux once. what do we do about that? he always kind of comes out. he comes out a little more calmly. he did not come in first place in iowa. i thought to myself, will this guy become more presidential. back to twitter. back to rallies. sometimes a victory speech. he has a different effect in the arena. >> you can answer me this one. the press conference. what ever it was. it looked like he was telegraphing something. what he had with governor

democrats have been running from his legacy, and is wonderful to see both major candidates in the democratic party embracing roosevelt legacy. the real trick is, will we be as good as our grandparents' generation? will we leave up to his legacy? alexander: questions, if we are prepared -- mic, sir, right here. while someone is poised to us a question, i will follow up. those ideals, do you think they are largely uncontested in democratic circles today, because unlike the republican party, which is sorely divided, there is a unity of purpose on the part of the democrats. as it is points out, they are still in effect, a corporatist model in which they participate. harvey: the last debate was interesting to the extent that hillary clinton was explaining her eagerness to embrace all democrats, rich and not so rich, and poor. bernie sanders was on the verge of what madison said, i welcome their hatred, when he referred to the 1% of his day, and the american liberty league, which is koch brothers and others. alexander: sir? >> i am wondering what you think is the future of the four freedoms in lig

john from misery is next on the democrats -- missouri is next on the democrats line. caller: good morning. this.d like to address thisiggest cause of disintegration of the american political system is rupert murdoch. he devised this country. h-- he divided this country. host: others would argue we are seeing that in the left as well. guest: the media are. it is plura >> it is plural, and we have competition. there are biases in the media. they go to the internet to get their information will look for fox presents are other places present the media. they go to places they want to be and entertain. entertainmt the best aspect of presenting material. i think that certainly fox is known to be conservative. murdoch is a conservative person. i don't think he is the reason we have division in america. we have division in america based upon culture, race, and ideology, and the media does not control that. they reflect it to a greater extent. host: this is an editorial. last.s from jonathan it is called storm clouds. he makes a couple of points. isdonald trump wins what he cal

there's no show on the democratic side. you have five candidates, six candidates, pushing, pushing, pushing for new voters. on the democratic side, you have two people and one pushing for new voters. when you come to the general, you're going to see the president out there campaigning for hillary, which will be a big difference. you have the commander and chief out there saying this is my choice. >> you'll have the unpopular commander and chief campaigning for her. those problems, the e-mails, her vulnerabiliti vulnerabilities, benghazi, the ponzi scheme of the clinton foundation, you can bet they'll come out if donald trump is the nominee on the other side. there are so many unknowns. the republicans have opened their wounds and let it all come out. >> it's going to be a little hard to reconcile that. at the end of the day they're going to nominate trump and have a lot of unhappy non-trump supporters or vice versa. >> isn't it the same thing with bernie sanders? >> i think it is a little easier. i think the sanders people

the democratic presidential caucuses, we're about to get premise area results on the democratic sitde. in the meantime we have a key race alert from utah. on the republican side, the republican presidential caucuses, very early, 2% of the vote is in. ted cruz maintains his lead with 62%. donald trump has 23.4% and john kasich has 14.6%. very early in this contest. just a few more than 2,000 votes have been counted. on the democratic side 6% of the vote is in, but bernie sanders has an impressive lead over hillary clinton. 66.9% over 30% for hillary clinton. still very, very early in utah. let's go to john king at the magic wall. utah democratic and republican caucuses the results are finally beginning to come in. >> senator sanders will be happy with the early results, but he needs this win here. no question, senator sanders expecting to win here and in idaho after hillary clinton's big win in arizona where she's looking to get six out of ten delegates there, for bernie sanders to get 60%, seven out of ten delegates here. arizona is more delegates, but it will help him. on the republi

if a democrat is elected. >> right. johnson is one of several senators from blue states that obama won twice that republicans are very concerned about pat toomey in pennsylvania is another one. rob portman in ohio is another one. and it's not only in terms of the numbers, but we're talking about some very bright, some very capable senators. some of the most capable senators on the republican side of the aisle could go down here. and their concern is if trump is at the top of the ticket it, will increase enthusiasm for democratic voters to come out to ther polls. and it is a legitimate concern. they are also concerned over the supreme court nominee garland could play as well. >> you saw the poll numbers but what are the wisconsin voters saying about the candidates. "on the record" griff jenkins is on the ground getting the pulse of the voters there. griff? >> we are at the world famous clios where trump held a rally. we began the dayás3f two hours south of here in kenosha. it is sanders rally. in that same poll you are

the democrats know this is true. during the 102nd congress, then chairman joe biden, denied a hearing to dozens of nominees and recommended if a supreme court vacancy occurred the entire appointment process should be deferred until after the election season was over. between 2003-2007 democrats on and off this committee voted dozens of time to deny any conformation vote to republican judicial nominees. in 2005 harry reid said the constitution does not require the senate to vote on a president's nominee. when he chaired the committee under a republican president, senator leahy denied a hearing to dozens of nominees who were never confirmed. senator charles shumer stopped this. democrats proposed filibusters under president clinton, supported them under president bush and abolished them under president obama. democrats had their reasons for these statements and actions and i am sure each time they believed their positions in these matters was legitimate. those statements and actions are not compatible with the position

philadelphia did have two democratic special house elections. it cost $350,000, by the way, in a time of tight budgets, and now we have an interesting outcome, of course, so the bottom line is that lynwood savage won in the 192nd district. that's the area of wynnefield and overbrook, and tonyelle cook won in the 200th district. >> 200th. >> yes, and so we have two new faces that will be going to harrisburg, but did we need to have it at this moment? those seats have been open for 10 or 11 weeks. couldn't we wait six more weeks? >> the answer is no, and you can't blame those two really good candidates. i know tonyelle, and i really congratulate her. she has worked really, really hard in the community for a long period of time, but this came from harrisburg. >> we couldn't wait till spring? >> this came from -- i absolutely agree. this came from speaker turzai, and the issue wasn't about the two philadelphia seats, it was the 57th district outside of pittsburgh that was the issue. this is a seat that had a republican representative, but has a majo

downside for democrats, there has been less excitement on the democratic side. republican debates created more interest that has shown up a at the polls. >> reporter: we saw marco rubio in hialeahs i guess he realizes if he is going to win the primary on tuesday, he is going to need as many votes from south floridaians as he can get. he might not get them in other parts of the state. >> absolutely right. let's be honest, 500 people who showed up at a rally in hialeah, that's not a great number for him. marco rubio at this point in the campaign. everyone is wondering does he drop out, if he stays in, does he hurt himself in the long- term. everyday is a e tenty in campaigns two. years to recover if he does end up losing, he knows his career not over, depending on what happens on next tuesday. >> jim defede, thank you very much. coming up, we will go one on one with debby shultz, chair of the dnc. eliott rodriquez, back to you in the studio. >>> somber anniversary, what robert levinson's wife is saying 9 years after he >>> 9 years since levinson disappeared in ira

democratic party is going to be united. there's not that big a difference between hillary and bernie on the issues. number two, we're going to be up against the biggest clown it looks like that ever ran for president. and what is bernie talking about? he's talking about jobs, minimum wage, university health care, criminal justice reform talking about the issues the party has stood for -- >> i'm surprised at you, bill press, name calling. >> bill, let's make -- that draws an important point here. the difference between the democrats philosophically is very marginal to say the least. morning republicans, it is a massive die vide. in '72 we split up oaf the vietnam war and it split the republicans. trump alters the trajectory of the republican party. there will be hell on the streets to pay for that. my only concern is that the republicans are going to be so desperate, that they've come out with everything they can on hillary. i don't know how much more you can do after 20 years. but on bernie, i think they're going to be roug

on the democratic side. in florida, on the democratic side, two-thirds of the vote is now in. hillary clinton has an impressive lead. 214 delegates are at stake for the democrats in florida. they don't close all the polls until the top of the hour. in ohio, less than 1% of the vote is in. hillary clinton has the lead there over bernie sanders. 68.1% to 30.6%. only about 11,000 or 12,000 votes are in. in north carolina, the polls are closed there. the votes are coming in significantly. 10% of the vote is in. it just changed, 62.1% for hillary clinton. 34.5% for bernie sanders. 10% of the vote is in. she's got a lead of almost 34,000 votes in north carolina right now. we're waiting for all the polls to be closed at the top of the hour. we're waiting for all of the polls in florida to be closed. we'll take a quick break and be right back. see me. 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 f

is, let's say for instance that a democrat won the white house and republicans blocked the democratic nominee in the next term, there would be a very strong push to get rid of a filibuster on supreme court nominees. there would be a very strong push among democrats to do that. i think we are into -- i'm not sure where this will all end up, but we are heading into a place where it is becoming more and more shrill partisahi

does that help the democrats? >> watch how he respond to my speech today. >> he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said, mitt, drop to your knees he would have dropped to your knees. >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. let's face it, a lot of them agreed with mitt romney but none of them were voting for donald trump. tonight i'm going to talk to an outsider who ran and won. that's jesse ventura. plus, the republicans battling for the soul of their party. what does it mean for the democrats? and could hillary clinton's e-mail woes still trip her up? >> bakari sellers have a former member of the south carolina statehouse. and cnn political contributor van jones! my dream team is here this evening, except for bakari, but we'll include him anyway. bakari, romney is leading the charge to stop trump and trump is fighting back. watch this. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as degree from trump university. >> he was begging for my endorsement pendorse me ment. i could have s

let's move over now to the democratics, let's go to chuck todd before i move on to the democratic side about what we've seen here right now. wins. especially texas. does that change the dynamics of the republican race? >> i think it does. definitively say. trump, a very bad night for marco rubio, and a survivor night for ted cruz. he had to win his home state. him. one of the few primary states vote. the big story is marco rubio got his one on one opportunity with trump over the last 72 hours. and it failed miserably. >> we're going to get to the democratic proprojections. donald trump is speaking at a news conference in florida. say. >> all talk, no action. you have to win something. he hasn't won anything. and he actually hasn't come very close. so we'll see what happens. yes, go ahead. go ahead. >> we're going to monitor that news conference, let's take you through the democratic results. and we'll start again in the state of texas where nbc news projects hillary clinton wins tonight in texas. in virginia, the democratic primary there, another one for in georgia, clinton and her sou

so 6 out of 10 democratic delegates. which means she can't stumble but to beat her, bernie sanders has to start winning 65-35. even if hillary clinton is losing, even if she's losing some states, 52-48 and then winning some, 55-45, she'll continue the march. >> john king, thanks. back with our panel, gloria borger, bernie sanders will probably stay through even if he's not going to get the nomination. >> he's had a huge impact on this race and he's got a lot of money. what's the reason for him to get out? as long as they are not name calling on the republican side, you know that democrats are happier voters, that each candidate is acceptable, that if hillary clinton were to become the nominee, as you were saying earlier, the sanders voters -- >> do you think there will be a ton of democratic debates? if you're hillary clinton, do you want to be on a stage with bernie sanders? >> i would say town halls. i would say that they are getting very big audiences and that if you're a presidential candidate, you don't want to turn

democrats are not always right. democrats have often supported corporate welfare. democrats have supported disastrous trade agreements. >> and i have said and i will say again i'll be happy to release anything i have as long as everybody else does, too. because what really is behind that question, republicans and democrats, is whether i can stand up to wall street. >> is her answer enough for you that she'll release it when all the republicans and democrats release it? >> i want everybody else to release it. i'm your democratic opponent. i release it. here it is. there ain't nothing. >> being a white person in the united states of america, i know that i've never had the experience that so many of the people in this audience have had. >> i would say and it's similar to what the secretary said, when you're white, you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto. you don't know what it's like to be poor. you don't know what it's like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car. >> i think that donald trump's bigotry, his bullying,

democrats. >> good morning. about -- a question, the comment i have is about donald trump, i feel that the media is feeling the rage and the hatred and the bigotry that is coming on the airwaves, because they give him more airtime. that any other candidate for president of the united states. yet, they talked very badly about hillary clinton, you have hate, whousing represents the ku klux klan, who talks about president obama as a muslim. who does not even have strong policies, or doesn't even know, policies, pretty much a literate and ignorant. and he is getting all of this attention and people are joking, every day, americans do not think this is funny. people are suffering, they have no food. their jobs are gone. they're trying to find a way out, life is not a joke. i don't understand -- and a lot of people in the media, maybe they have a lot of money, maybe they don't know about the every day, hard-working americans who is suffering, who are really serious. >> the media coverage of donald trump, we talked abo

that's when democrats win. republicans win when people are demoralized, when the voter turnout is low, and when the billionaires buy elections. i don't think any fair-minded person would disagree with the assertion that our campaign has the energy, has the momentum, and can bring out large numbers of people. now, our campaign is doing as well as it is, it has the momentum and energy for one very simple reason, we are doing something very unusual in contemporary american politics, we are telling the truth. now, the truth is not always pleasant. that is true for our personal lives, it is true for politics. but just as in the case with our personal lives, it is imperative that we have the courage to look at reality as it is. if we simply push it under the rug and ignore it, as media often does, we will not effectively address our problems. and that is what this campaign is doing. number one, when we look at the many crises facing this country, at the top of my list is the fact that we have a corrupt campaign finan

he focused his fire on democrat hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton does not have the strength or the stamina to become president. >> reporter: truz voted in his home state of texas and took a dig at marco rubio, who is currently trailing in his home state of florida. >> any candidate who cannot win problems. >> reporter: rubio rallied in minnesota, the one state he looks to win, and kept his attacks focused on trump. >> i will get in my pickup truck and drive around this country if i have to before i allow the fall into the handsave con man. >> reporter: rubio got some backup today from republican speaker of the house paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. they denounced trump for waffling on whether he would disavow the support of former k.k.k. leader david duke. >> if a person wants to be the nominee of the republican party, there can be no evasion and no games. they must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. >> let me make it perfectly clear. senate republicans condemn david duke, the k.k.k., and his racism. >> reporter: but as voters cast ballots, the

>> reporter: a hold up by a democratic senator. he told me he was against the law and didn't want it to pass.

they came from the democratic party, the democrats. their long-term democrats. they were never going to switch and the all switched. they were independents. we have expanded the party. look at the number of votes in that area as an example. four years ago they had 390 thousand votes. we doubled it. we were almost 800,000 votes. the democrats went down. there is much less enthusiasm. i am a unifier. i know people will find that hard to believe. i am a unifier. once we get this finished i'm going to go after one person, hillary clinton on the assumption she is allowed to run which is a big assumption. [applause] i don't know she is going to be allowed to run. that is going to be an easy race. i beat hillary in many polls. i don't think marco is going to be able to beat her. i think ted is going to have a hard time. ted cruz has a shot because at least he has one a little bit. we are going to be a much finer party. to be honest with you. we are going to be a much bigger party. our party is expanding. look at the primary states were i have one. that hasn't happened

very different democratic electorate in this state. bernie sanders winning in one county by a decent margin, but otherwise a very impressive victory as she runs up the vote as well. >> impressive wins for hillary clinton and donald trump in arizona. let's go ba can ck to anderson. >> let's look at where the delegate count now stands. >> we can judge winners and losers based on winning states, but it comes down to the delegates now. let's look at the republicans tonight. donald trump has picked up 58 delegates winning the state of arizona. ted cruz, john kasich both shut out not winning any tedelegates. donald trump has 741 delegates to date. ted cruz 421, john kasich 145. in order to secure the republican nomination you need 1,237. hillary clinton has picked up 35 delegates right now to date -- for tonight. bernie sanders has picked up 18. let's move now to democrats year-to-date. hillary clinton, 1,691, bernie sanders 895 delegates. let's break that down and explain it to our viewers. hillary clinton has 1,209 pledged delegates. these

there's already been an enthusiasm issue for the democrats on the democratic side. and this is one of the sort of central concerns for democrats. these old reagan democrats in michigan, elsewhere, aren't necessarily voting democrat in 2008. they weren't necessarily big supporters and fans of barack obama. but hillary clinton needs them. she needs these workers. so the union endorsements she was hoping to get them, she didn't get them. watch that over the next ten days or so. who comes out in watch the turnout in michigan. that's going to say a lot for what happens in the fall. >> interesting dynamic. it could change the map when we get to the general election. we'll look at that. mary? >> especially after last night, i'm seeing really notably increased frustration particularly with the cruz camp with trump's media dominance and what they feel is disproportionate coverage of him when he wins a couple states versus them winning a couple states. as much as there were problematic things about rubio's approach attacking trump or say mitt romney's unendorsement of donald