sanders: think about it for a second. and by the way, you will not see this on television, read about it too often in the newspapers, but here's the truth. the truth is that today in america, the top 1/10 of 1%, not 1%, 1/10 of 1%, owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. [booing] sen. sanders: the top 20 wealthiest people in this country today own more wealth than the bottom 150 million americans, half our nation's population. [booing] sen. sanders: that is an economy which is based on unsustainable principles. that is an economy which is not moral, when so few have so much, and so many have so little. that is not the american economy that we need to be the great nation that we should be. [cheers] [applause] sen. sanders: and let me tell you, let me tell you how the rigged economy works. it is not just a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality. here is how it works. we have the wealthiest family in america, the walton family who owns walmart. [booing] sen. sanders: ok, they own more wealth than the bottom 40

a significant lead for bernie sanders. remember, this is an estimate. 55% for bernie sanders. 44% for hillary clinton. remember, these are exit polls. they are based on estimates, based on our early survey of voters as they left their polling locations. the final outcome may be different. we can expect those numbers to change throughout the night. remember, these are exit polls. to give us an indication of where this may be heading. jake? >> all right. wolf, thanks so much. let's go to our reporters in the field. sunlen serfaty at cruz headquarters. sunlen, tell us what the mood is there. obviously no concrete results yet, but a lot of people expecting cruz will have a good night. >> reporter: that's right, jake. and certainly here at cruz campaign headquarters for the night, the crowd is very excited. based on these early exit polls and certainly there is confidence coming tonight from the cruz campaign. a cruz campaign official tells me that the theme of the speech that senator cruz will deliver here later tonight will b

sanders: that is true. but what happened over the last 40 or so years is that corporations have decided that they do not want to pay workers in delaware or vermont or anyplace else a living wage. why would you want to pay someone $25 an hour when you can shut down here, throw those workers out on the street, go to mexico, go to china, go to the it now, pay people very low wages and then bring your , product back into this country? that is the entire basis of our trade policies. the whole goal is to shut down plants in america, paid people low wages abroad, bring your products back here, and make billions in profits. i tell corporate america today, here is a heads up, if i am elected president, we are going to change those policies. [applause] [cheers] [applause] sen. sanders: if you want the american people to purchase your products, and every night on tv have ads telling us to buy this and buy that, you have to start to buy your products, start manufacturing those products in america. [applause] sen. sande

again, it's tough for bernie sanders. it could get better for him in may, as it could get better again for ted cruz in may when the calendar turns towards states that have more of the voters they've done well with. the question is whether on the democratic side it will be out of reach functionally for sanders. >> all right. we're going to talk about that in a moment. the dreaded "p" word for the democrats, proportionate delegate allocation makes it difficult for bernie sanders to gain any ground going forward. we'll talk about what bernie sanders and ted cruz, maybe john kasich need to do to turn around their path to the presidency. that's next. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. e >>> i'm so excited to share with you what america has learned over the past few months. and it has nothing to do with a politician winning his home state tonight. >> we lost tonight. there are five primari

a sanders supporter, dr. paul song, sparked controversy as he warmed up the crowd. >> medicare for all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma. >> reporter: he's married to lisa ling, a clinton supporter and host of cnn's "this is life with lisa ling." he later apologized for using the word "whores." the clinton campaign called on sanders to denounce it, which he did tweeting there's no room for language like that in our political discourse. clinton has won 9.4 million votes. sanders about 7 million. her lead is largely built on overwhelming victories across the south, which sanders took issue with last night on comedy central. >> i think that having so many southern states go first distorts reality as well. >> reporter: jake, senator sanders has a chance to make his own new political reality tonight on this debate stage. you can see behind me our cnn team is doing a bit of a warmup act. wolf blitzer is asking questions of people who are playing the

a sanders supporter, dr. paul song, sparked controversy as he warmed up the crowd. >> medicare for all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma. >> reporter: he's married to lisa ling. he later apologized for using the word whores. the clinton campaign seized on the remark scalling on sanders to denounce it, which he did saying there's no room for language like that in our political discourse. these big sanders crowds are something of a sore subject for clinton. hers are small further but she holds a huge lead in pledge delegates and has a share of the popular vote. in the 34 states that have already had their say, clinton has won about 9.4 million votes. sanders, about 7 million. sanders took issue with last night on comedy central. >> i think that having so many southern states go first distorts reality as well. >> reporter: but the political reality tonight is that this is a new moment. she has a lead in delegates but i'm told by one senior advise

the sanders' campaign needs to take a deep breath here. >> senator sanders has maintained all along he will not run a negative campaign. what kind of campaign is he running then? >> he has totally foresaken the pledge he made at the beginning. this was his brand that i think is part of what has got him this far. he has been seen as somebody who is saying it like it is, who is calling out the powerful interests we all agree we need to take on here in our economy. he prides himself on not running negative ads but increasingly the rhetoric has become coarsant. we are still miles better than the rhetoric on the republican side but this is below the belt. >> kasie hunt is covering the sanders' campaign for us. senator sanders was upset about this report that there are advisers in parts of hillary clinton's campaign who have a strategy. the quo was, they want to disqualify him, defeat him, and unify the party later. and senator sanders took particular issue with that st strategy. is that true? >> we disputed that report yesterday. i'm not sure what the etemdemol of that report is. those erro

sanders 48, trump 40. sanders' luck runs out with a kasich. kasich 46, sanders 40. we'll be right back. >>> we're back. you're listening to bach right now playing by a concert pianist. i brought in man of the south from mississippi to explain it. mississippi native is a world renowned pianist. you grew up in the south. that was you playing now. the other night i said, i don't understand all this rural thing. i'm a suburban city guy. what is it that you know that i don't know that led to -- you wrote this book about marie hall, a portrait painter who in the earlier part of the 20th century was making beautiful portraits of african-american people, a white woman. >> all kinds of people. she painted african-americans and white people and rich people and treated everybody equally. she did that in the 1930s. she was a visionary. there was something she grew up in small town, a rural town. i'm from the mississippi delta. it's bit north of there. that's the farming area of the mississippi river. something about growing up in a small town, every one knows every one. class i

the daily news was a disaster for sanders if you assume the sanders voter cares about issues. this is the reverse mere image of 12 tromp. they are not groaning on issues, they are voting on one thing or screwed,s, feelings pitchfork inc. the banks -- pitchforking the banks. they say he does not know anything, just blabbing about nothing, and yet, here sanders is having won six straight, one of primary in wisconsin. mark: in the culture of the new , maybe for sanders voters, hillary supporters also -- it creates a fire that keeps him from breaking through. john podhoretz: that is the question, how stoked are hillary supporters anywhere? her voters in the exit poll in wisconsin said 13% were enthusiastic about her possibility of being president, 13%. i don't think there is stoking, i don't know they are stoked. that is the question. mark: you are out 3000 miles, you hillary clinton in the state. it is now a decade since she was elected statewide, elected twice statewide as senator and 2006. does she still have a real hold over the new york necrotic electorate, or is she vulnerab

sanders: and we do not want their money. what momentum is about is my belief that if we wake up the american people and if working people and middle-class people and citizens and young people begin to stand up, fight back, and come out to vote in large numbers there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. and what's we have been seeing a throughout his campaign is extraordinary voter turnouts in state after state after state. [applause] i am particularly grateful and pleased that at a time when many of the pundits said, you know, those young people they do not , want to get involved in politics. they are not really concerned about the major issues facing our country. they are too busy with their video games or whatever. well, you know what is happening? all over this country, young people are standing up and saying, you know what? we want to help determine the future of this country which we love. [applause] sen. sanders: what momentum is about is all across this country, the american people are looking around them. and they u

the daily news was a disaster for sanders if you assume the sanders voter cares about issues. this is the reverse mere image of trump. they are not groaning on issues, they are voting on one thing or two things, feelings screwed, pitchforking the banks. they say he does not know anything, just blabbing about nothing, and yet, here sanders is having won six straight, one of primary in wisconsin. mark: in the culture of the new york media, maybe for sanders voters, hillary supporters also -- it creates a fire that keeps him from breaking through. john podhoretz: that is the question, how stoked are hillary supporters anywhere? her voters in the exit poll in wisconsin said 13% were enthusiastic about her possibility of being president, 13%. i don't think there is stoking, i don't know they are stoked. that is the question. mark: you are out 3000 miles, you hillary clinton in the state. it is now a decade since she was elected statewide, elected twice statewide as senator and 2006. does she still have a real hold over the new york democratic electorate, or is she vulnerable here?

sanders: you guys ready for a radical idea? [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: why not? this is madison, wisconsin. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: but in truth, it really is not such a radical idea. it is a simple statement. that in america, together, we are going to create an economy that works for all of us,. not just the top 1%. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this campaign is not only about ending a corrupt campaign finance system; it is not only about ending a rigged economy. it's about also ending a broken criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: today, in the united states of america, we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. [booing] sen. sanders: we have 2.2 million people, disproportionately african-american, latinao, and native american, in jail. we are spending $80 billion per year locking up fellow americans. [booing] sen. sanders: [laughter] that's a sis inc. and interesting way of putting it, yes. is thinkwe have to do through the situation. let me talk a little bit -- just a little bit -- we have a lot more

than the sanders' mo? >>> plus americans now in striking distance of north korea's nukes. the scary claim and whether the threat now is real. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. call it a shellacking, call it what donald trump might call it, a shlonging, whatever you call it, he got his "make america great" hat handed to him last night in wisconsin, making it less likely that he will be able to achieve the magic number, 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the republican nomination before the convention. so trump is currently huddling with his delegate advisor in new york today while a victorious ted cruz looks ahead to new york's primary, today trying to explain just what exactly he meant when he accused trump of having new york values. cnn chief political correspondent dana bash is live in new york where republicans are campaigning today. dana, are there any signs that mr. trump's loss might prompt him to make some changes in his campaign? >> well, you know very well, jak

this is a must-win for bernie sanders. and i think we really saw the gloves come off on thursday night. he knows he needs to win new york if he wants a shot. at this point passing the nomination means he would need to win two-third of the remaining delegates. hillary clinton only needs a third. that's not kick off the state here and there and divvying up proportional delegates. that means something is going to happen and bernie sanders is trying to show that. a small tidbit is at the end of the debate thursday the two of them didn't appear to shake hands. that's a customary thing. >> thatry getting sick of how long this race is going on. bern benefit is upset by the traction he hasn't been getting by the delegates. >> a quick question about his trip to vatican city there. is there anyway that this could hurt him politically speaking? just the fact that he's not in new york and able to build on the momentum he's had, he pointed out 27,000 in washington square park? >> reporter: you know, there is a good chance this won't he

bernie sanders' movement shouldn't have happened. at least from the perspective of the democratic leaders. they assume hillary would win and it would be a coronation. i bet you if you ask bernie sanders, not now, but in a few years, did you really expect to draw 28,000 people at prospect park or 27,000 at nyu? he'd say no. he was a fantastic iconoclast from vermont. what he tapped into was an unhappiness with the structure of the democratic party. same with trump. and to some extent cruz because cruz has been running against his own party from the beginning. so what's happening here is the parties are trying to adjust, to figure out how to be relevant, and that's exciting because that's going to shape the convention. >> as exciting as it may be historically, errol, part of the question is is bernie sanders starting to draw blood, create wounds that will not heal for hillary clinton if she ends up with the nomination? there's a campaign finance issue today, a letter from the bernie sanders campaign to the dnc talking about the hillary

sanders has stressed the enthusiasm for sanders is palpable. he has the younger voters. here in new york city, you have a very strong progressive left voice. >> very effectively. >> cantor is one of the best political operatives on earth. he will be all in for sanders. there are traps for her, problems for her. her record on criminal justice, welfare repeal or or nafta is going to get a big, strong look. new york city is the place. you have two weeks. both camps dug in battling each other. this is the state where you figure out does hillary clinton have the ability to take this guy out >> lisa, add more hype to the fire for me. i'm getting into it. i may stay in new york the next two straight weeks. >> you and me both. i think a couple of things. it is important to look at the daily news interview. the fact of the matter is when you're running for president, you've got to put forth substantive policy proposals. what was damaging i think in that interview just objectively if you look at it, when you have your core bread and butter issue being an attack on wall street and

sanders telling cnn that he has a big rally planned and the sanders campaign countering with four or five dates of their own. no word from the clinton campaign. take a listen to how bernie sanders and hillary clinton talked about these debates. >> i'm confident there will be. i'm not the one negotiating it. this is going on between campaigns. i know my campaign has been really trying to get a time that senator sanders would agree with. >> i think we need to look at the maximum viewing audience. anytime and any venue that works that has that viewing audience will be good. we're looking at a lot of options right now. i think at the end of the day, george, we will have a time and place that will be, i suspect, a very spirited debate. >> reporter: so both bernie sanders and hillary clinton want to debate. sanders campaign manager jeff weaver told me he believes this dispute will be settled fairly soon. it's a very big and important thing for bernie sanders. he is expected to do well tomorrow in wisconsin. he needs delegates and move to new york and upset hillary clinton in her adopted ho

sanders: you guys ready for a radical idea? [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: why not? this is madison, wisconsin. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: but in truth, it really is not such a radical idea. it is a simple statement. that in america, together, we are going to create an economy that works for all of us,. not just the top 1%. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: this campaign is not only about ending a corrupt campaign finance system; it is not only about ending a rigged economy. it's about also ending a broken criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: today, in the united states of america, we have more people in jail than any other country on earth. [booing] sen. sanders: we have 2.2 million people, disproportionately african-american, latino, and native american, in jail. we are spending $80 billion per year locking up fellow americans. [booing] sen. sanders: [laughter] that is a saved and interesting way of putting it, yes. but what we have to do is think through the situation. let me talk a little bit -- just a little bit -- we have a lo

went to sanders, late decision. what does that tell you? >> that tells me that the momentum is really with sanders. i think that everybody's having the last-minute conversations, i'm just not excited, who should i think about, is getting persuaded to go with sanders. that's a big statement. i think hillary's campaign has to be concerned especially seeing momentum in all of these states. six out of the last seven. >> last minute wanting to go for bernie sanders. what is it that they're appealing to? >> i think when you look at the exit polls, the issues that they're excited about, income and equality, really important to voters, he has people optimistic about the future. hillary clinton doesn't. so i think that the momentum that he's got, his message is inspiring and he's just -- he's got people excited. hillary clinton doesn't. >> this is the question that probably stood out the most to me when asked among gop voters, do you feel excited, enthusiast enthusiastic, kernltd, scared, when asked that question, cruz 60% o

the reverse, bernie sanders supporter, only 15% say they wouldn't support bernie sanders. that is on her to-do list once she's able to finish off this nomination, if she's able to do so. the first thing on her to-do list is bringing those people in. she probably has more experience than anybody else about what needs to happen, right, because if indeed she vanquishes bernie sanders, she's going to think back to the conversations that barack obama had with her about what he needed from her to help heal thebacarri, certainly has helped her. the momentum appears right now to truly be in his court. >> i have to push back on what was said to my right. this race has not been about momentum. this race is purely about demographics. we understand the diversity of alaska and the diversity of hawaii, but we're talking about african-american voters here in new york. we're talking about hispanic voters here in new york and that's vastly different. that's first. this enthusiasm gap that we keep making up is purely nonexistent. the fact of the matter is hillary clinton is dominating this

we showed you those huge bernie sanders crowds in manhattan and brooklyn. sanders? whyng for did he fail to capitalize on the big wisconsin win? we talked about this halfway through from wisconsin. to pick a fight with her about whether she is qualified, one of the hardest arguments to possibly try to make against her. the choice to do the big rallies at the end rather than the beginning. it is completely dissipated because it is a losing fight. then drop the fight with no explanation whatsoever. culture does not look kindly on an competent campaigning. bernie sanders has been a great candidate in many ways but not these last two weeks. the: what we showed in montage there, seizing on this qualification debate was a huge mistake. she never suggested he was not qualified. she rightly criticized him for some of his answers in the editorial. in the same way the clinton campaign has been wrong in the past, you can't say she's not qualified. mistake and gave her the upper hand in rebutting that argument for all of two weeks. made a theory of what new york was about. they

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bernie sanders will address the convention tomorrow. now, clinton' speech will be her first public appearance since last night's double-digit loss in wisconsin, a result that extended sanders' winning streak to six straight states. this morning, the former secretary of state pointed to an interview that senator sanders did with the "new york daily news" as proof that sanders is not ready for the white house. >> i think he hadn't done his homework, and he had been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood. and that does raise a lot of questions. really, what it goes to is for voters to ask themselves, can he deliver what he's talking about? can he really help people? >> and joining me now, karen finney, senior adviser for the clinton campaign. thank you so much for joining us. i want to pivot back to a clip we showed earlier from "morning joe" where secretary clinton questioned whether or not bernie sanders is a democrat. we know he's an independent. senator. but he has been an

jane sanders was here, as you know a few moments ago talking about how the whole thing with sanders and his positions has had already. let's watch. >> everybody talking about income equality and trade. what he will be doing is pointing out the reason he's running is that they're not on the same page. they have very differing points of view and they will bring the country to different places. >> that is basically the argument that she is mimicking his issues as she moves farther to the left. >> that's right, andrea. and just listening to jane sanders there, she sounds so different now than just a couple of months ago when bernie sanders was resisting attacking hillary clinton saying, you know what? either one of us would be better than these republican candidates and i do think you saw a little bit of this at play yesterday when bernie sanders had that great really vintage moment with those verizon workers. that was really the kind of politics that shaped bernie sanders from the vy beginning. and then later in the day, you had hillary clinton essentially following doing the same thing, s

thank you. >> kasie hunt is following sanders in pennsylvania. we are going to be keeping a close eye on that sanders event in philadelphia if he addresses the qualified remarks he made last night. we will see what he has to say. >>> still ahead this hour on this show, sanders' campaign manager is going to join me live. we are going to ask him about what bernie sanders said last night, we will ask him exactly what the senator meant last night, if he's standing by it this morning. >>> plus donald trump returning to his home turf here in new york hoping that his new york values will help him bounce back after that big wisconsin loss. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪uh oh. oh. henry! oh my. good, you're good. back,ack, back. (vo) according to kelley blue book, subaru has the highest resale value of any brand. again. you might find that comforting. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. whyto learn, right?e? so you can get a good job and you're not working for pea

bernie sanders knows better than in a. >> bernie sanders is in vatican city. he's going to talk about the conference and hopes to meet with pope francis. charles, do you think that will resonate with new yorkers? in the primaries, it's a couple days away. >> first, i think he'll get a lot of press. press is always good for bernie. the more people know about bernie, the more they like him. do i think it's the smartest move? i don't. i think when you take a foreign trip like that, you do it to build your portfolio, to expand your resume and say not only do i know a lot about domestic issues which i am passionate about, i am also a world leader who can talk about world issues. if you take the world trip and you still talk about the domestic issue that you've been hammering for months now or in bernie case, 30 years, then it doesn't expand the resume. i don't know if it's the smartest move for him in this particular form. >> although when the pope came to new york city, new york loved him, so why not? >> yes, they did. i think charles is saying it right. it's a mi

why does bernie sanders keep making this misstep? >> my grandparents came from the south as 90% of african-american folks have come from the south. i think it was just his way to kind of deal with the fact, look, it was hard. the secretary dominated in the south, but he's moving to areas of the country. i don't just think it's necessarily geography as it is people were having more time the later on they get to vote to really get to know who senator sanders really, really is. i don't think he's dismissing any part of the country. but let's face it, he is running against secretary clinton who has had the benefit of a national profile for decades. senator bernie sanders has only been on the scene for 11 months. he has made incredible ground, erica. people wrote him off when he first made the announcement. i think he was at 3%. now in some polls, he's polling neck and neck with the secretary and i think it's fair to say he beats every single republican in the general. >> it's one thing to say he missed an opportunity about the way things

bernie sanders, breaks for bernie sanders there. and young people, no surprise there. he won independents by a pretty wide margin there, too. it's interesting because hillary clinton, when asked the top quality for their candidate was the right experience, they think hillary clinton is experienced. what do you make of what the exit polls are telling us about the division here between clinton and sanders. >> it's a lot of what we've been seeing. once again she wins on electability. she wins on being ready for the jo job day one, but he's more exciting to people, and bringing out young people. we've been repeating it because it's important, but the demographics in wisconsin favored bernie sanders. hillary clinton outperformed her last go-around in wisconsin tonight. it's not a great state for her. it's predominantly white. she does much better among minorities than bernie sanders. we've seen over and over now in this campaign that hillary clinton wins a few and pivots to the general election. we write how the bernie sanders campaign has been put to bed, then he comes bac

senator sanders has closed the gap. the lead awhile ago was much wider for hillary clinton but still it's basically double digits in every poll we're looking at in new york. in terms of actually becoming the democratic candidate for president, winning the nomination, this is a must-win state, isn't it? >> i won't say it's a must-win but needs to be close. we have a series of new england states that's follow shortly. what happens in new york can have an influence. what we see is sanders' momentum. we've seen eight of the nine last contests he's taken. we've seen him close a gap on the polling from 30% to roughly 10% to 12% in new york and as bernie himself pointed out, often the real poll, that is the election, has favored him far more than the polling has. so what counts is what happens tomorrow. >> a lot of people say that momentum isn't really momentum. it's just sort of the nature of the calendar. it dips into some states that are demographically favorable to hillary clinton and moves to states that are more demograp

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interview was a disaster for sanders if you assume the sanders voter cares about issues. this is the reverse mirror image of trump. they are not groaning on issues, they are voting on one thing or two things, feelings screwed, pitchforking the banks. we read december think this guy can't possibly be president. he doesn't know anything. he's just blabbing about nothing, and yet, here sanders is having won six straight. he won a primary in wisconsin. mark: in the culture of the new york media, maybe for sanders voters, hillary supporters also -- it creates a fire that keeps him from breaking through. john podhoretz: that is the question. how stoked are hillary supporters anywhere? and wisconsin last night her voters in the exit poll in that said 13% were enthusiastic about her possibility of being president. 13%. i don't think there is stoking, i don't know they are stoked. that is the big question. mark: you are out 3000 miles, but you hillary clinton in the state. it is now a decade since she was elected statewide, elected twice statewide as senator in 2000 and 2006. does

on the right side of the screen, jane sanders coming up with bernie sanders. we know how important the women vote is, anything more important to it than that. >> absolutely not. that was decided before the voters. this has ban week or two of wives battles. now, they are frankly open game. it's been that way since the early part of the republic. but the way it is done this time has been a little harder. of course they set it up that way. you don't see a podium on election night in any state with background people are not preselected to do and send a message. >> speaking of strategy, jeff zeleny, great reporting from you in the clinton camp in a new shift in her strategy. here to for it has been gentle. now as you have reported she's going towards the words disqualified, defeat and worry about unifying the party later. talk to me about your conversation. how they ended up at this point. was wisconsin a turning point for them or was michigan? this is a shift in they have to remind voters, the clinton campaign does not believe bernie sanders is qualified for the p

sanders: thank you wilmington. thank you. [applause] [cheers] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie. sen. sanders: thank you all. , anda wonderful turnout thank you so much for being here this afternoon. [applause] [cheers] sen. sanders: let me thank rosaria dawson. as most of you know, she is a great american actress, but she is more than a great actress. she has devoted a significant part of her life to making sure end we end racism, that we all forms of discrimination in this country. [applause] [cheers] sen. sanders: and she stood up and fought for people who often don't have a voice, so i thank her for all that she has done and her role on this campaign. [applause] [cheers] begin byers: let me quoting to use some words of a guide that many of you know of, and some of you know personally, that is the president of the united states. [cheers] biden was justoe quoted the other day in the new york times. he remains neutral in the battle between bernie sanders and hillary clinton, but not betwee

sanders: that is true. but what happened over the last 40 or so years is that corporations have decided that they do not want to pay workers in delaware or vermont or anyplace else a living wage. why would you want to pay someone $25 an hour when you can shut down here, throw those workers out on the street, go to mexico, go to china, go to the vietnam, pay people very low wages, and then bring your product back into this country? that is the entire basis of our trade policies. the whole goal is to shut down plants in america, paid people low wages abroad, bring your products back here, and make billions in profits. i tell corporate america today, here is a heads up, if i am elected president, we are going to change those policies. [applause] [cheers] sen. sanders: if you want the american people to purchase your products, and every night on tv have ads telling us to buy this and buy that, you want us to buy your products, start manufacturing those products in america. [applause] sen. sanders: now, i have o

i think sanders said swing for the fences. one of the people introducing him said swing for the fences. one of the big lessons of the campaign, john, if you are talking about the blue collar voters flocking to trump or the young voters flocking to sanders. there are a lot of people frustrated enough that they're willing to consider alternatives that in the past, it would be beyond the pale with agenda and pedigree. there is something out there in terms of a candidate like clinton who is working more within the conventional system. there is something you have to hear in what is happening so far. >> we know bernie sanders is leaving after the debate to go to the vatican. is that good or bad? >> new york is a tough place for him. it is very hard to he see how he ultimately gets over the top. going to the vatican, these are national campaigns. the ability to deliver a message across the country from association with pope francis even indirectly is a positive for him. particularly with the latino vote which is critical in californi

sanders moved on to pennsylvania. jeff zeleny is in university park, pennsylvania, with the sanders campaign. sanders has been saying that the polls here in new york are not measuring the depth of his support and hillary clinton will be disappointed today. does he actually think he can win, pull out a victory here? >> reporter: i think there are a couple of things. there's an on mftic view all of the people who turned out at his rallies over the last two weeks in new york, by the tens of thousands, the optimistic view of sanders supporters would say, look, enthusiasm appears to be on our side. realistic view is something different. they know that it is math is tough in new york. they know that the clinton campaign has inherent build-in advantages there. no one that i've talked to in the sanders universe today is projecting or expecting victory. bernie sanders, turning his attention toward pennsylvania, he had a rally a short time ago in erie, pennsylvania, coming here to state college, home of penn state university, t

>> senator sanders! [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: and what you are watching right here is of course bernie sanders as he was leaving the vatican, just talking a little bit about why he was there. if you're just joining us, we were watching as he was exiting there. bernie sanders, of course, got on a plane late last night after wrapping up that very fiery debate with hillary clinton right here in brooklyn. got on a plane, went to rome for this meeting. it was an invitation that in his words he said that was so moving he could not refuse to come. he was talking about the church's views on climate change and also this pope. he made that quick trip. there have been a number of questions this week as we look at the poll numbers here in new york, and if we look at things like the delegate count, there's been a lot of questions about whether bernie sanders should be making this trip 24

sanders: what is my point? my point is that yes, we can change the status quo when we think big and when we have a vision. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: im not naive. i know the power of wall street and their endless supplies of money. i know that corporate america has shut down. if they can make another five dollars in profit. i know that billionaires are funding candidates whose job it is to represent the wealthy and the powerful. i know about the corporate media that will give us all of the information we need except what is most important for working families. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: i know about all of that at this is what i also know. i know that's what history about is that when people stand up and they say, the status quo is not acceptable, we will not have children working in factories. we will not have working people in a job that has no power over those jobs. we will not continue to have segregation or racism or bigotry. we will not have women unable to vote or go to the schools the

bernie sanders is behind. he needs to shake things up he , needs to inspire his supporters, who are pretty easily inspired by him. and he needs to create a different dynamic in the race. he is now as close to criticizing her on things as he has been in the process. this makes it a brawl in new york. a brawl in new york is what he needs to win new york. john: your argument is that although he twisted her words and went further than was merited, it's good for him because he needs to basically do that. he can't just stay on the path he is on. he has to do something unfair. mark: and the folks in the clinton campaign, if they want to talk about twisted words we , can talk about how the clinton campaign said bernie sanders wanted to get rid of universal coverage. john: the clinton campaign has been guilty of this throughout the campaign. on that question. saying that bernie sanders was friends with the koch brothers. mark: they can get rid of their crocodile tears. i agree, i do think that bernie sanders has taken

sanders, you know, is looking shaky. and it's looking to be like a hillary versus trump race. >> it's interesting how new york sort of showed you the kind of difference between rally organizing and organizing organizing. sort of a triumph of campaign organizing that hillary clinton was able to pull out this. who won the week? >> clear cut winner of the week was new york values. forget about it. forget about it. >> oh, yes, yes. >> no presidential candidate will ever use it as an epithet again as ted cruz learned more than anybody else. >> you're absolutely right. and the bronx was so important. i never heard the bronx referred to more, given more love in the history of living in new york and also having living in florida, which is the sixth borough. it's still new york but i think new york definitely won big time. michelle, who won the week? >> i'm going to agree with robert. it was obviously hillary clinton and trump. i mean, for hillary clinton the victory was, i mean, obviously very important in terms of her delegate

mark: would bernie sanders think -- sanders make a good vice president? [laughter] amanda: we have to make sure we are winning the primary in new york. we are taking one contest at a time, earning every vote at a time. mark: would you expect now fully there is any reason to think this contest won't go until june? in other words, bernie sanders will be contesting every primary all the way through june? amanda: it feels like it's going to go and while. and we are planning for that. we are working hard in every state. we want to win by the numbers in new york. we are trying to get to all the different boroughs. at the end of the day, we need a plan. we knew this from the beginning. we always have a plan for a, b, and c. when i was with the last, that was exactly what i said. we are going to try for every single pledge delegate. at the end the day, we feel confident we will have those delegates and the popular vote, and the excitement around the country. isn: amanda, yes or no, senator sanders qualified to be president or not? amanda: senator sanders has brou

bernie sanders 55.8%, hillary clinton 43.9%. he's ahead, bernie sanders, by almost 75,000 votes. a big win for bernie sanders in wisconsin. let's go over to john king. on the republican side, now that ted cruz has won wisconsin, it's going to be a little bit harder for donald trump to reach that magic number of 1,237, the delegates he needs at the republican convention in cleveland to automatically get the nomination. >> it is. and donald trump is the only candidate still in the race with a plausible scenario but difficult scenario. ballpark right now, wolf, donald trump needs 62% of the remaining delegates to get to the magic number of 1,237. ted cruz, who said he could do it, needs 90% plus, somewhere in the ballpark of 92% of remaining delegates. but an open convention looks much, much more like lly tonigh? why? let's assume we'll be generous tonight to donald trump and move forward, giving him 6 delegates and the bon us delegates out of missouri. we'll be generous in the northeast, new england, rhode island, connecticut, new york. let's just say donald trump wins pennsylvania

bernie sanders has shaved 37 points off her lead. she still leads sanders, 56% to 38%. let's bring in anthony foxx, a clinton supporter. thank you for being here. i am curious why you think we are seeing secretary clinton's lead drop in new york? >> this is what happens as races get closer. they tighten up. that's not a surprise. i think what's clear is that secretary clinton is speak together issues of great concern to new yorkers about securing new york and the country, making sure we are breaking every barrier to ensure economic opportunity for so many people and frankly her appeal to the fact that she actually has a record of doing things is a very important part of why i think new yorkers will ultimately support her. >> what about the democratic voters in a much smaller venue in wyoming? they make their preferences known. if senator sanders wins there, it would be his eighth victory out of the past nine primaries. how concerned is the clinton campaign about momentum with ten days to go until new york? think about the headlines. think about the talk. >> it is very c

-- i think sanders will be in the race for tsonga sanders will be in the race. that endpoint is the convention. he only thing that changes between now and then is the recalibration of the ask. if it looks like it is not in his favor, that it looks to be the case. alexander wagner. alex: alexandra wagner. did you call me alexander wagner? we will be back with donald trump's mathematical path to the nomination. ♪ mark: donald j trump is expected to have a victory on tuesday. he is leading other northeastern vote this month according to public polling. our by the number segment looks at what big victories could mean for trump's chances of securing a nomination and avoiding a convention. to become the republican party's nomination, the candidate needs the majority of delegates, 1237. donald trump is more than halfway there with 743. ted cruz follows with 545. john kasich is an distant third with 143. neither ted cruz or john kasich have a realistic chance of winning before the summer. donald trump is the only one with a shot. even his path is narrowing. with 16 co

bernie sanders set one up. he just chooses not to raise money for it because apparently he doesn't care about electing democrats up and down the ballot to the same extent hillary clinton does. that's why you've seen state party chairs in the last 24 hours speak out and condemn these attacks from the sanders campaign. to criticize this type of activity that is attempting to invest in campaigns down ballot is only impairing our ability to take advantage of what could be a tremendous opportunity. jose, we have a chance in this coming election this november to not just retain the white house and make progress on all the important principles that bernie sanders has spent the last several months drawing attention to, we have a chance not just to retain the white house but elect democrats in the house and the senate in order to achieve real change. if we have a gridlocked congress we'll be frustrated to make progress on all these key issues we've been talking about, but we have a singular chance with the likes of dona

the sanders campaign when they talk about it is right. it is ridiculous we should have this kind of money in politics. i agree with that. >> maria, does that contradict what you said before? >> no, absolutely not. i completely agreeith him. i think most americans agree with him. certainly most democrats do. hillary clinton agrees with him. it is an obscene amount of money. but guess what, those are the rules that are in place. so let's do something about it. let's get democrats elected, let's make sure that we are able to put in a supreme court justice that is able to overturn citizens united, let's get money out of politics, and let's focus on making sure we underscore democratic values and are out there being able to fight for middle class families and working class families, which is exactly what hillary clinton is doing, and by the way, it's working since she's winning at the moment. >> so i am going to bring you in. maria says this is the way it is, this is basically what you have to do in politics. bernie sanders has taken a differe

sanders, the wife of bernie sanders. sanders: both of us were born and bred here. coney good to be back at island, having so many people out there, and south bronx, all the people out in the audience. it has been fantastic. mark: so your husband has said you may be from vermont, but you are not intimidated by this. are you intimidated to run here? not sanders: well, we are intimidated by new york. secretary clinton represented new york, but it is like home to me. anchor: your husband has made this complaint that the process has been unfair, given the way the delicate rules are nine in many cases. do you agree with that? do you think it is unfair? mr. sanders: i do not know that it is unfair, but it is kind of silly that the votes that are superdelegates, they are people who are not the voters, so that this not seen quite right. i know this is what the republicans wish they had at this point in time. we just do not agree with that. one person, one vote. that the grandkids saying there was the same number of delegates. how

i'm gonna give it to bernie sanders. she's getting under the democratic party rules it's helped you in states you've lost you get 40 something percent, but going forward can bernie sanders win connecticut. >> absolutely. >> a lot of guys on wall street live in connecticut. >> i know that. >> state of new jersey. >> absolutely. >> you're on a roll. we're being generous. i know the clinton supporters are mad at me. we'll give it to you 55-45. we can go on through all of these, but i'm going to do this for the sake of argument i'm going to give them all to you. this is like the price is right or whatever it is. if we give it all to you, at 55-45, you almost catch her, but you come up short. especially in some of these big states you got to win bigger than that. >> in some smaller states we have won a lot of these states in the last couple of weeks by 60%, 70%, 80% in alaska. >> let's show what that means. in a state like alaska it's only 10 delegates. you need better than that. >> as we saw in nevada, senator sanders is goi

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i think -- i think sanders will be in the race for tsonga long as sanders will be in the race. that endpoint is the convention. the only thing that changes between now and then is the recalibration of the ask. map. if it looks like it is not in his favor, that it looks to be the case. john: alexander wagner. alex: alexandra wagner. did you call me alexander wagner? i appreciate that. mark: i cannot get involved in this conversation. alex: it has gotten fraught. peanuts. john: we will be back with donald trump's mathematical path to the nomination. right after thing, this. ♪ ♪ mark: donald j. trump is expected to have a big empire state victory here on tuesday. he is leading other northeastern states that vote this month according to public polling. our by the number segment looks at what big victories could mean for trump's chances of securing a nomination, and avoiding a deadlocked convention in cleveland. >> in order to become the republican party's nomination, the candidate needs the majority of delegates, 1237. donald trump is more than halfway there, with 743. ted cruz