>> big day. good morning, welcome to your new day. it's march 15, 6:00 in the east. it is super tuesday number three, it is also the ides of march, and nobody wants to be caesar. the question is, will all survive. marco rubio and john kasich may be in must-win situations in their home states. if they don't get them, who knows what will happen. voters in five delegate-rich states head to the polls in what could be the most important day in the 2016 race. there are 367 republican delegates up for grabs. the big ones are the winner-take-all states. john kasich thinks it will lock in his path to the nomination. >> on the democratic side, there are 691 delegates at stake today.

hillary clinton looking to add to her sweep. we have super tuesday covered from every angle the way only cnn can. let's begin with phil mattingly in columbus, ohio. how's it looking there? >> reporter: it's definitely tight. and that's been kind of the process throughout the last couple days. a furious pitch for all four republican candidates going into a pivotal day that could define this race. you could come out with the field winnowing by two or the possibility of a long slog ahead to see if anybody can get to the necessary delegates to lock up the republican nomination. >> we're going to have a great day. i think we're going to have a phenomenal day. >> reporter: donald trump looking for another super tuesday sweep. it could mean the end for marco rubio and john kasich. >> we're going to shock the country and do what needs to be

done. >> reporter: rubio and kasich fighting for victories and hoping to stay alive in their home turf. >> ohio should send a message to the country. everybody's watching us now, you know that? and they're not just watching us in the country. they're watching us in the world. >> reporter: as ted cruz, a handful of wins, pushes republicans in illinois to unify as the only alternative to trump. >> after tomorrow, it will be officially a two-man race, because no other candidate has any plausible path to 1237. >> reporter: trump's still dealing with the fallout of violence at events. >> you know who's been hurt? nobody, maybe one. but there's no violence. >> reporter: a blatant jab at the front runner. >> look, a bernie sanders sign, don't worry, are' nyou're not g

beat up at my rally. >> i'm not asking anyone to punch you in the face. >> reporter: but new jersey chris christie and sarah palin, palin with choice words for disrupters. >> what we don't have time for is all that petty, punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on. >> reporter: polls have started to trend away from marco rubio in recent days. all eyes really focussed here in ohio on that one-on-one race between john kasich and donald trump. donald trump savaging kasich on twitter and on in tv ads. mitt romney came out and helped yesterday, not an endorsement, just more effort to do anything to stop donald trump. >> meanwhile, a confident bernie sanders outspending hillar clinton in tv ads, hoping to

close that gap. can he repeat his michigan stunner? or will clinton seal the deal? brianna keilar is live where polls are about to open. >> reporter: the clinton campaign is worried that bernie sanders' message in michigan, especially his emphasis on hillary clinton's support of nafta could resonate in illinois. if bernie does well today, it will keep him in the race. if hillary clinton does well, it could cement her status as the presumptive democratic nominee. they have something in common. both of them positioning themselves as alternatives to donald trump. >> we have to stand up to hateful, divisive rhetoric that is pitting different groups of americans against each other. i believe that's what americans will do. i believe we are better than what we are hearing every night

on television. >> this campaign is telling donald trump and others that we will not -- we will not accept for one second their bigotry and zen phobia. >> reporter: now the sanders campaign is very hopeful they will do well in some of these industrial states. the clinton campaign managing expectations saying as well that bernie sanders could do well. he is, when you look at the map trailing considerably in the delegate count. these are not winner-take-all contests for democrats like they are on the republican side, so it's difficult to see how he could narrow this gap with hillary clinton, let alone catch up to her, but at the same time, you talk to sanders aides, and they say he is in it for the long run, no matter the outcome, through july when we go to the convention. >> no question that's what they say.

brianna keeler, thank you so much. marco rubio's fwaacing an uphil battle in his home state. we have kyung lah live. the estimates are as many as a million and a half may have already been cast. trump supposedly doing strong in the analysis of early voting. what's the state of play now? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. when you look at the early numbers you get a strong clue about what today is going to hook like. we punched those numbers with a political strategist here, and he says if you look at where the voting is happening, a lot of turnout to the north of miami dade county. miami dade is a must-win for rubio. but to the north are counties showing exceptionally high turnout, where people didn't vote in 2012. so the tea leaves there say at least in those early voting

ballots, we are seeing perhaps, looking towards trump, as far as marco rubio, he is in the fight of his political career, this is a county, miami dade, where he must win, but we're seeing just over my shoulder, they're scrambling, making sure the polls are ready. polls open in one hour. it is also a make or break day for governor john kasich. the gop candidate has said he would reconsider his entire run if he loses his home state of ohio. cnn's dan simon is live in north olmstead where polls open in just minutes. how is it looking, dan? >> reporter: we are just outside of cleveland at the st. clairens church. the predominant story line here in ohio is whether voters will give john kasich a lifeline. and one thing i want to point out to you is that when voters come to the desk they can poll a republican ballot or a

democratic ballot, and it's expected that the crossover vote will be significant. if you're a democrat and you want to vote for trump or kasich, you are free to do so. ohio is an early voting state, so voters have been able to cast ballots for the past several weeks, and right now a slight edge goes to the republicans for the amount of ballots cast, it will be interesting to see if that trend continues at polls when they open at 6:30. we'll send it back to you. >> good analysis there, open primaries always add an x factor in there that wind up being relevant beyond that one state. let's discuss what we're looking at heading into this big day, mark preston, cnn political commentator and contributor for the "dailiy cally caller". jackie, you have the most impressive title today, soy beg -- so i begin with you.

today is the ides of march. nobody wants to play the role of caesar, but there are live or dies on the gop side, or is that false urgency? do you believe that matters that much for rubio and kasich? >> where else do they go if they don't win their home states? you talk about some of these smaller contests they've won, such as in the district of columbia here, but at the end of the day, it's the delegate count, and if rubio can't win his home state, he has put all of his eggs in that bass cket a talking about how important that s he is scheduled to be in states like utah, whatever we call that after this tuesday, superb tuesday maybe? but it gets difficult for two candidates that really need to rack up some points. >> we look at states. you look at thins on a more granular level. so what areas are you keeping your eyes on today? >> a couple things.

one is marco rubio clearly has an uphill battle, if anything, to win florida, and it would be devastating for him if he were to lose florida, and the polls seem to be pushing us that way. john kasich could pull out a surprise in ohio. if he wins ohio, that will put a little bit of a roadblock in donald trump's roll across the country and the support that he's receiving. i think we have to look at ted cruz in missouri. there are a lot of evangelical voters which trump has done better with, but cruz could do well there. it's a state we haven't talked about a whole lot, but certainly a state that donald trump has made some inroads, but could they stop trump in illinois. we'll know a hlot more later th evening, could it be donald trump heading on to the nomination, or if that is the case, will there be some move by the establishment to try to keep

marco rubio in the race and kasich in the race and try to deny donald trump the votes he needs. >> where is ted cruz's confidence? >> i think, you know, ted cruz has confidence. this is part of his persona. i don't know that it's based on any sort of empirical data or if he needs anything to justify the confidence. but, you know, look, ted cruz might do very well in missouri today. he could do well in north carolina. and he could end up getting rid of kasich and marco rubio. and i think it might be wishful thinking, but cruz has long argued that he needs a one-on-one faceoff with donald trump, and that's when he wins. if that's the calculus, then ted cruz could have a good day today. >> so, jackie, today also seems like it will determine the fate of the stop trump movement, you

know, there's been a lot of money poured into various groups, super pacs that are trying to pull out all the stops to stop him. and one of the things they've done is this anti-trumt add in which they use his own words about women against him. and they have women do it. so let me play a portion of this that will be airing in vital states. >> you know, it really doesn't matter what they write, as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of [ bleep ]. >> that must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees. >> there was blood coming out of her eyes. blood coming out of her -- wherever. >> women, you have to treat them like [ bleep ]. >> this is how donald trump talks about our mothers, our sisters, our daughters. >> jackie, how effective is that? >> it's hard to say. i don't think it's going to change the minds of trump supporters. look at the rallies, that's

seemed to cause them to hug him even closer. but in places like ohio, illinois who haven't done any early voting, this could change their minds. that is a powerful ad. again, it's donald trump, all the things that may have worked with another politician might not work with him. >> it's also who they're targeting. i don't know that they're going after his loyalists as much as they're trying to awaken other aspects of their party. let's give him his due, though, everybody keeps saying that he won't out with any policy, he came out with policy for an op ed. he's gone after kasich, but if we pop up some of the quote here, one of the casualties of the tpp, the trans-pacific partnership will be america's auto industry, among the worse victims, the people of ohio. the tpp will send the remaining of america's auto jobs to japan. he goes on and uses a lot of

numbers and analogies for why he thinks this is a problem. how does this work for somebody like you. you care about the policy on the conservative side. >> i think this highlights a real schism happening on the right right now. the republican party was once a protectionist party. it was a party even calvin coolidge, you know, and in recent years, in recent decades, conservatives have embraced free markets, the belief that dave ricardo and sort of the belief that trade makes us more prosperous. and that, so this is a, this is actually a clash of vision, and donald trump is sort of hearkening back to a paleo conservative, protectionist, policies that i think, probably, resonate pretty darn well amongst the working class, white voters that do feel like the american dream has left them behind. obviously, he thinks it's going to resonate in ohio. >> so we've reached the part of the segment where we press our

guests to make predictions. we know how much you love this part. what do you think's going to happen today? >> listen, i think at the end, donald trump is going to come out on top as the overall winner. marco rubio, i think, you know, has a very tough hill, as they said earlier, to climb in florida. it will be interesting to see what he does if he does lose that. he think matt's right, i think in north carolina, cruz could come out with two wins tonight. john kasich could surprise us all in ohio. i was just in ohio for the last three or four days, and i got to tell you, he's come on strong up there. but one state to watch tonight to see where this is going, you have to focus in on ohio. >> thank you, panel. stick around, we have much more to talk about, including what happened yesterday on the campaign trail. so we'll be right back with that. >> the coverage really is moment by moment. so please, stay with cnn all day. we're going to be all over this reckoning of super, maybe superb, as jackie said, tuesday. and tomorrow morning we'll get all the returning and why it happened. >> superb tuesday. it adds a b to it.

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what we don't have time for is all that petty punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on! with these quote-unquote protesters. and the media being on the thugs' side, what the heck are you guys thinking, media? it doesn't make sense! >> that's former alaska governor sarah palin blaming the media for the protests at donald trump's rallies. joining us is our panel. jackie, how is the media, how is it the media is to blame for the

people getting punched in the face? >> i don't know. you know, i really don't know how that works. what sarah palin's logic is there, but the bottom line is it doesn't seem to be hurting donald trump. i think he said somewhere else there isn't any violence at his rallies, and i guess he's -- >> sorry to interrupt you, but let me just play that. because it is striking how unequivocal he is about there being no violence in the face of the evidence to the contrary. look at how he has described his rallies. >> the press is now saying oh, but there's so much violence, no violence. you know how many people have been hurt in our rallies? i think like basically none other than i guess maybe someone got hit once, but there's no violence. >> he says basically none. maybe once. that is demonstrably false. this is just the high row fi pr

people. this is the one where the 20-something young man was sucker punched by the 78 year old man. he was hurt. february 29th, the photographer was slammed to the ground. november 21st, a protester was punched, kicked, briefly cloaked. october 23rd, a protester kicked. october 14th, an activist shoved and spit on. there's the former breitbart reporter who has bruises on her arm. >> he's going to say nobody's really hurt and it's being exaggerated. >> how is that not hurt? when you're shoved to the ground and kicked? >> it is. i don't know how badly these people are hurt. and it's echoed in all his rallies. >> they're not in intensive care. >> there's a little bit of a gradient. >> on a stretcher shouldn't be a metric. >> i get why his supporters defend the way they do.

they believe these people are sent in there, that they're agitators, looking for a fight and the media loves to cover it so we can say what we're saying right now. >> i was at the dayton rally on saturday morning, which is a few hours after he had to cancel the chicago rally. to the point, people are getting hurt at these rallies. we have pictures of the police officer with blood running down his face. if you look outside and the police trying to quell the people outside, there was pepper spray be being shot all over. but talking to his supporters in ohio that morning, they were emboldened to show up that morning because they staid they were frustrated and they had enough of enough of these folks showing up at their rallies and interrupting donald trump. one gentleman said to me, a rye tired police officer, look, if you're going to get in my face, i'm going to get in your face. everyone said that they did have a right to their first amendment speech rights to go out and protest, but what they didn't have to a right to do is to go

out and continually disrupt donald trump. donald trump does have his supporters on his side, and i don't see him leading anyone away from that. i think it's only emboldened his hardcore supporters. >> these are two different things, two different separate arguments. if professional protesters are set to upset a rally, yes, they are infringing on free speech, but to say that no one's ever been hurt at his rallies by his supporters is not true. >> there's plenty of blame to go around. the protesters who are attempting to shut him down, to infiltrate his speech and prevent people who were going there for a rally, who wanted to hear a candidate, to disrupt that, that's not a good thing. obviously, i don't think we should support that. i also think it's very true, simultaneously, that donald trump is creating a toxic environment, that he's stoking some of this. he's certainly not discouraging it. and i think he's also creating a

hostile work environment for media. >> you don't have to be speculative about it. this bite is too long to play, but these are the things that he says, and this is what's be being criticized. hurt, not hurt, who's professional, whose rights. then carrying them out on a stretcher. we had a guy in new hampshire. he was a rough guy, he was swinging. they took him out. it was amazing to watch. if you see someone getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him. that's where the criticism comes. i grew up with donald trump. >> donald trump says these things. i grew up at these rallies. we've all covered them for years and years. the role of the leader is not to incite the worst of what's in the crowd. is that a legitimate basis for criticism? >> that's what they were looking into in north carolina. they decided not to press charges or whatever -- >> criminal, this would be a moral instruction.

this would be an ethical instruction, not a legal one. >> sure, protesters are nothing new. we've all been to rallies interrupted by protesters. the difference here is the vitriol and the encouraging people that are there to support him to backlash against these, against these protesters, and, you know, it's just, it's not a way to conduct political discourse, it's just not. when you're in a crowd situation, it just creates a more dangerous situation, not only for the protesters but for trump supporters. >> and mark, there's no sense that donald trump is going to change his rhetoric, given that he is denying that there is a problem of violence at his rallies. >> right, and to the point as well, it begins with donald trump, because he is inciting it. he is not backing down off of anything that has been done or that he has said. he's not accepting any blame. at the same time, what you're having is you're creating a situation where you have these protesters now who are now being, who are now flocking,

they're like mos flocking to the right right now to try to get in the middle of it. so you have this very kpusable situation, which i guarantee you will go on for months. as we head into cleveland. if you can imagine that donald trump is the nominee in cleveland. if you ask imagine the protests that are going to happen out there, it's unfathomable what we could be leading ourselves into. >> something's got to change before then. panel, thank you very much for all of the insight. we'll been checking with you all throughout the day. we have breaking news. an explosion has occurred on the streets of berlin. we have a live report on this developing story when we come back. we needed 30 new hires for our call center.

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all right, we have breaking news out of germany. a car explosion in a suburb of west berlin. at least one person we know has been killed. senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live with the details. obviously this is very early, what do we know? >> reporter: it is certainly very early. the latest information from the berlin police department is that this happened at 8:00 local

time, right in the middle of morning commuter traffic. this car, which was a silver station wagon blew up, right in the middle of the commuter traffic. one person was killed. the berlin police a couple minutes ago confirmed to us that they are very sure that this was an explosive device that was either in the car or on the car. so they're not sure whether it was actually inside the vehicle or whether someone had maybe stuck it onto the vehicle. one person has been killed at this point in time. you're seeing pictures from just a little bit earlier. at this point in time, the berlin police says they have a bomb disposal squad on the scene, checking the car, seeing if there's any other unexploded materials there. they created a wide security perimeter around the area, are urging people to stay indoors, to close their windows and to just stay inside. at this point in time, it's unclear whether or not this incident is terrorism related, they say. >> thanks so much. we'll stay on this story

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. five big, big primaries in the gop side, just crucial for this race for delegate. ted cruz is second behind donald trump. he's hoping the republicans will decide this is a two-man race between him and trump and the others will be gone. when ayou're looking at your internal polling, florida, not really in the offing for you, what's your guess? >> i think all of these states are very, very competitive for us. senator cruz spent a lot of time in missouri and north carolina, and these states will be very, very important for the results

tonight in helping to set the stage for the two-person contest through june and the convention. >> set the stage. let's unpack that a bit, shall we? the confidence is clear from senator cruz. he believes there's a path forward. it's hard as an analyst to see what that path is forward against donald trump. how do you look at it and say okay i see where we're going now. i see which states we're going to win, when you look at the path to victory it's hard to see it. what do you see? >> well, as of right now, donald trump has a small advantage in terms of the number of delegates. we have to get to 1,237 before the convention. and the first thing to note is that we're not for having a brokered convention where washington insiders get to pick the nominee. we think the voters should have that opportunity, and that includes all 50 states, five territories and the district of columbia. we've been organizing since

august in anticipation of the possibility that it will go all the way to california and our 169 delegates at that point. but clearly the elections today help to set the stage. and there's really a lull, a handful of states have a vote between march 15 and april 15. then we get into the northeast primary in new york and on to june. this is a state by state process, a delegate by delegate process, i would imagine, but it's going to be a two-person race between senator cruz and drum, and with trump having this hard limit. it's hard for him to get above 40%. and the biggest majority of republicans don't want him to be the nominee. >> you're a great guest on this issue, because you worked for the rnc for a few years, and we remember you working with

governor swaerts anythichwarzen. ted cruz isn't the most popular guy in the club. how is that shaping up now with trump? are you getting a change in perspective on senate eor cruz? >> i think the fact that he didn't go to washington, d.c. to become one of the washington insiders has become a great strength. you compare it to where marco rubio is in his own state where he's not likely to win today, it bodes very, very well for him. this is not a year when republican primary voters are looking for the most popular washington insider in order to be our nominee. republicans are thirsty for someone to go to washington, challenge the status quo, including challenge the status quo within our own party to put conservative values into action. >> you say brokered. the party people are saying contested. if it goes to a convention, are you concerned that cruz doesn't come out of a conconvention?

>> i think at the end of the day, senator cruz is where the center of the republican party is, and that serves him very, very well. we can see how weak donald trump is against hillary clinton as the democratic nominee. donald trump has the highest negatives of either party in recent times. that is an extreme disadvantage that he, he would have as the republican nominee. and that, republicans will take a good, hard look at that. because republicans, above all, we want to make sure that we offer an alternative to the status quo of seven, eight years of democrat leadership under barack obama and a nominee in donald trump gives us president hillary clinton. it gives us a democratic senate and we lose the supreme court for 25 years. with the stakes that high, i think the republicans will turn to someone who's been a reliable conservative leader, to someone who's demonstrated the ability to challenge the status quo. that's a strategic advantage tor our team. how the convention comes out, the nominee needs 1,237 votes.

we think we'll be in a strong position going into that convention. >> the one thing that gets a little tricky is despite that damning description of what trump would mean, senator cruz has said on many occasioning he would support ted cruz -- certainly he would support ted cruz, he would support donald trump. how can he feel this way about this man and then support him for president. >> donald trump has shown he's not the strongest competitor. i don't think this is going to be an issue, because donald trump is not going to be the nominee of this party. ultimately the knowlednominee i to be someone other than donald trump and the only one who has that pathway to victory is ted cruz. i think that's a hypothetical which we won't have to contend with. >> that's ambitious looking at the delegate count right now, but as you said, it's a long way from over.

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well, sarah palin is back home in alaska this morning. she's tending to her husband todd after he was involved in a bad snowmobile crash. our stephanie elam is in los angeles and brings us the latest on todd palin's condition and what exactly happened here. >> reporter: good morning. a scary one for todd palin and the palin family. this snowmobile accident happened sunday night, and that's where he was injured. he's in intensive care. we know that this is something that pulled sarah palin off the campaign trail, but at the same time, it's todd palin who has been racing these snowmobiles for a long time. the organization he races with says he is in a hospital recovering, but when you look at what sarah has put out about his

condition, he has a broken and fractured ribs, broken shoulder blade, broken clavicle, knee and leg injuries and a collapsed lung and he was undergoing surgery last night as well. she also said, quote, thank you for your prayers for a speedy recovery. we as his wife and children appreciate your respect for our privacy at this time. knowing todd, once he's out of the hospital he'll ask us to duct tape him up. she was in florida and flew back to alaska. >> that is a lot of broken bones. it will take a long time to be on the mend, even though he is tough. thanks for that, stephanie. a stunning look at life inside rebel-held areas of syria. a cnn crew risking their lives to go behind rebel lines for an exclusive report. that's next. is it becoming a better professor by being a more adventurous student?

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russian war planes are starting to pull out of syria this morning, hours after president putin announced that he is withdrawing his troops. he says russian forces have achieved their goal as the syrian war reaches a somber five-year mark. cnn recently went into syria where virtually no western journalist has gone. we are joined with an exclusive report. it's incredible the access you

got and what you were able to witness. >> that's right. we thanked to get into the city of aleppo. aleppo has been bombed by the regime of bashar al-assad for the last five years and by the russians for the last four months. and there's only one road to get in and out, and they call it the road of death, take a look. >> reporter: you can tell when you're getting closer to aleppo. the streets are pockmarked with the aftermath of fresh airstrikes. berms of earth flank the way to protect the road from enemy fies fire. it's a dangerous journey to a city few dare to visit. we sflou to travel extremely quickly because on one side you have the regime and on the other side kurdish fighters who are now fighting against rebel forces, and there are snipers all around here, but this is the only road now to get into aleppo. as you arrive in the city, the

scale of the destruction is breathtaking. stretching on and on, entire residential neighborhoods reduced to rubble. aleppo was once syria's largest city, a bustling economic hub, now an apocalyptic landscape. russian war planes have bombed these areas relentlessly, allowing government ground forces to encircle the rebel-held eastern part of the city. still, we found pockets of life among the devastation. a fruit market, huddled in the shadow of a bombed-out building, a line of people waiting patiently to collect water, now a precious resource here. this is basically what is left of rebel-held aleppo after months and months of thousands of russian bombs raining down on

here. the streets are largely deserted. the buildings have been destroyed. and the people who once lived here have been pushed out. and the very few residents who are still here, who we've spoken to, have told us that they don't expect the situation to get any better. in fact, they're convinced it will only get worse. this 70-year-old has lived in the city for 40 years. her grandson, faruk, is a fighter with an islamic rebel group. in all, nine members of her family have been killed in the fighting, including two of her three sons. >> translator: they all died on the front line. we raise our heads high for them. god willing, they are in paradise. >> reporter: what would it take for you to leave aleppo? >> translator: it is true there is shelling and russian planes

and militias, but it is enough for us to express our religion and faith as free people without anyone stopping us. it is enough for us to fight kn mujahideen. >> should we leave our country? no, this is our country, and we will remain here until we die. >> reporter: the people clinging onto life here feel that the world has abandoned them, leaving them only with god, their existence becomes more precarious with every passing day, but surrender is unthinkable. >> we've told the stories of those millions and millions of refugees that have fled. it's interesting to go to the place where they've been leaving from. that woman that you spoke to, what does she make of that mass exodus of millions and millions that fled for safety >> i think what was interesting

talking to people on the ground, you'd expect that they want to leave, that they don't have the means or the money, perhaps to do t but actu do it, but actually, they're very committed to staying in syria and finishing what they started. while they understand why so many people have fled the country, they also feel like those people have forfeited their right to have a say in what happens to syria the more this drags on and the more they are the ones who are going to dictate the future of this country. >> the future. the fact that you've been saying that word, when you look at that, one would think there would be no hope for a future there, but there sh. wh what is the consensus on what it would take? the devastation is horrible. >> certainly, what we do know is

that the fighting is costing $4 billion in lost revenue for syria, every single month. if it keeps going to 2020, we're talking about more than $1 trillion. estimates before the russian intervention in terms of rebuilding were nearly $300 billion. so you can imagine what they would be now. now at the same time, yesterday, we have the surprising news the russian president vladimir putin suddenly announcing the russian military is going to withdraw its forces. could that be a silver lining? could that mean an end to the aerial bombardment? we don't know. the devil is very much in the details as far as what this withdrawal will look like. but certainly, people like that 70-year-old woman on the ground in alleppo would absolutely welcome an end to the bombardment. >> it's interesting for these pieces of journalism to be shown to the world. oftentimes it's a headline, and you don't see behind it.

but seeing them clinging to life, what sort of life they have, that's incredible. she's going to be joining us throughout the week with more pieces from there. 's menti as i mentioned, we'll have more throughout the week. you can follow it on cnn.com/syria. we are covering today's super tuesday contests. let's get to it. >> this is now effectively a two-person race. >> i've got to tell you. i'm the only one who can stop trump. >> we don't represent the billionaire class. we don't want or need their money. >> the republican party is not going to allow itself to be hijacked. >> we are better than what we are hearing every night on television. >> remember the democrats for reagan? we had it bigger.

it's democrats for trump. it's a bigger number. >> i want to send a message to the country. >> there isn't a viable path. it's time to move on. >> let's make sure we have a huge voter turnout. >> this is "new day", with chris cuomo, and alisyn camerota. it is super tuesday number three. and for some candidates, it is survival tuesday. voters in five delegate-rich states head to the polls. marco rubio and john kasich looking to stay alive in their home states. donald trump looking to lock in his half of the nomination. >> super tuesday number three just isn't getting it done, that's why i'm going with the ides of march thing, who's going to be caesar? who's going to do the killing?

>> i like the literary alus yan. >> you don't have this ides of march rationale that i'm jumping on. but even though it's proportionate, today could really take the race in one of two paths. hillary clinton could really pull away if she's able to hold the midwest. but bernie sanders could turn this into another michigan and turn this into a race that goes all the way to the convention. let's begin with phil mattingly in columbus, ohio. phil? >> reporter: good morning, chris. for republican candidates, march 15th has been circled on the calendar for months. the first day of winner take all states. for one in particular an opportunity to separate himself from the field, for two others, just an opportunity to survive.

>> we're going to have a great day. i think we're going to have a phenomenal day. >> reporter: donald trump looking for another super tuesday sweep. >> florida's looking fantastic. >> reporter: a big day at the polls for the front runner could mean the end forbids for marco rubio and john kasich. >> we're going to shock the country and do what needs to be done. >> reporter: on this do or die day, rubio and kasich fighting for victories and hoping to stay alive on their home turf. >> ohio should send a message to the country. everybody's watching us now. you know that? and they're not just watching us in the country. they are watching us in the world. >> reporter: as ted cruz, a handful of wins, pushes republicans in illinois to unify as the only alternative to trump. >> after tomorrow, it will be officially a two-man race. because no other candidate has any plausible path to 1237. >> reporter: trump still dealing with the fallout from days of

raucous protests. >> you know how many have been hur at our rallies? i think basically none, maybe somebody got hit once, but there's no violence. >> reporter: his rivals' response, a blatant jab at the front runner. >> oh, look, a bernie sanders sign, don't worry. you're not going to get beat up at my rally. >> one difference between this and a donald trump rally is i'm not asking anyone to punch you in the face. >> reporter: but trump supporters new jersey governor chris christie and sarah palin showing force for trump, palin with choice words for disrupters. >> what we don't have time for is all that petty, funk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on! >> reporter: while there's no shortage of attention on that florida contest, all eyes have really focussed here in ohio over the last couple days. donald trump and john kasich in

a pitch battle, trump attacking kasich on twitter, and in ads. romney telling ohio voters to turn out for kasich. kasich has a 77% approval rating among republicans. trying to turn that into a win that not only stops trump's momentum but keeps kasich's campaign alive. meanwhile, democratic frontrunner hillary clinton is hoping to rebound and all but seal the deal. but polls show rival bernie sanders is sealing the gap in some key states. can he repeat the went he had in michigan? >> reporter: this really could be a pivotal day for democrats. if bernie sanders does well, this could keep him in this race more viably. and if hillary clinton does well today, this could cement her status as the presumptive democratic nominee. it's interesting, though. both of them with the same message, leading into this big

day, positioning themselves as the alternative to donald trump. >> we have to stand up to hateful, divisive rhetoric that is pitting different groups of americans against each other. i believe that's what americans will do. i believe we are better than what we are hearing every night on television. >> this campaign is telling donald trump and others that we will not, we will not accept for one second their bigotry and xenophobia. >> reporter: now if bernie sanders does do well, does beat hillary clinton in either ohio or illinois or missouri, that will put wind in his sails, but when you look at the map, he's still trailing considerably in delegates behind hillary clinton, and these are not twiner tatwi

winner take all states like you see on the republican side. it's hard to see how bernie sanders could really close the gap with hillary clinton or even catch up. that would be much more difficult. but nonetheless, his campaign, his aides are saying he's going all the way to the convention in july. and hillary clinton didn't get out 2008 until june. so it's really difficult for her to call on him to get out even if he does not do well today. >> look, this whole election cycle has been nothing if not surprising. so anything is still possible. and we'll see what happens today, brianna. polls now open in most of florida. marco rubio hoping for some hometown love to keep his hopes for the republican nomination alive. cnn's kyung lah is live. how's it going there? >> reporter: the polls have just opened as you said, and rubio's certainly hoping for a lot of love. we've just seen the first couple of voters come to this fire station, a polling station, the voting booth is set up.

this is the heart of rubio's stronghold here, miami dade county. he has got to win this county, so how is it looking? if you look at some of the weekend numbers that we crunched with a political strategist, these tweekd numbers, this is early voting, absentee yovoting. yes, turnout is heavy. but here's the rub. much of north florida, many of these counties, anti-establishment places that didn't vote in 2012. the turnout there is especially high. so strategists are saying that's looking very good for donald trump. rubio looks so far looking at those numbers, if those trends continue, could have a very tough day. chris? >> spot on. >> i spent the weekend down there moving around south florida. no question, especially with that cuban population, rubio's very popular. but florida's like three states, and they all break very

differently. the other big race that's winner take all is ohio governor john kasich is not hedging. he says he will reconsider his run if he does not win his home state. cnn's dan simon live from north olmstead. voting already under way. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, good morning, chris, just a trickle at this point. can you see some of the voters behind me. we are just outside of cleveland here in cuyahoga county. the main story line is whether voters who twice elected john kasich to statewide office will send him a lifeline. one important thing to point out, when voters come to the desk, they can pull a republican ballot or a democratic ballot, and it's believed that you will see a lot of crossover votes. so if you are a democrat and you want to vote for kasich or trump, you are free to do so. we should also point out that ohio is an early voting state, and voters have been able to cast ballots for the past several weeks, and right now the

edge goes to the republicans for the amount of ballots cast. at least in the early dawning it will be interesting to see if that trend continues. >> here to discuss all of what might happen today, cnn's political commentator, jeffrey lourde. and margaret hoover. great to have both of you. you live and breathe this stuff. you look at the numbers. what do you think is going to happen today? >> if i had to put my money on it -- >> you must. >> i have to say trump wins florida. kasich wins ohio. proportional, as you know, everywhere else. >> who's winning in the other two states? >> i think trump and cruz. >> and all three? trump and kasich in illinois. >> so with that delegate stew, then what happens? >> the muddled mess that is to

block donald trump to the 1237 continues to the convention, and i don't think we get a huge amount of clarity. if trump wins ohio, i think it's game over. after that trump has to win slightly more than 50% of the remaining delegates, and he has not just the delegate count but the momentum to get through the states many the block trump movement slows down. >> it's interesting to hear from the cruz campaign. they say they really want a two-man race, but jeffrey, take off your partisan hat for a second and put on your old venerable smart-guy hat. where does he get the confidence to want a two-man race if trump, even if he doesn't winnow o ohi? i just heard his guy say cruz can get there. where do you see it? pennsylvania, new york, all these big states that are coming up where trump would have a presumption of dominance? >> right, in truth, i don't see it. as you know, i live here in pennsylvania. i just don't see it.

i haven't seen any sign of a cruz campaign here at all. and donald trump would have, as a new yorker, would have a, you know, sort of neighboring state advantage here in pennsylvania. so to be frank, i'm a little baffled as to where and how they see this. i mean, i generally would be curious to know. >> trump has really laid off -- go ahead. >> to answer jeffrey's question, i think the way they're counting on it. first of all, they've pulled out their super pac adds from florida. what they're trying to do, what's that a play for? that's a play for marco rubio's delegates. what they are hoping is that they can consolidate the kasich support. i don't think this is realistic, but that's what they're hoping. >> they pulled the money out of florida because they weren't getting the traction. the original plan was to stick it to rubio, make sure he lost it in florida by goblging up and trying to split some of his vote there. >> let me add one thing.

here in pennsylvania we have a dual track system. to show you how this works. in 1980, george h.w. bush won the pennsylvania primary, but the delegates are elected on a congressional district basis. chris cuomo, not trump person or cruz person its. so frankly, it all depends on the campaign in question has recruited someone to run in that district that has enough name recognition on their own to get elected as the delegate, and that's a whole different thing than the beauty contest, and that counts more. >> donald trump hasn't laid off kasich. he hasn't made kasich a target up until now. so because he knows that ohio is so pivotal, he has begun going after kasich. but let me play for you some of the things and let you see if you think this is effective, listen to this. >> kasich cannot make america

great again. can't do it. he can't do it. your governor kasich, if you look at him, and i'm being totally impartial. he goes to new hampshire. he's living in new hampshire. living. where's chris? is chris around? even more than chris christie who was there. go home. go to sleep. get a good rest. go out tomorrow. you got to beat kasich. he's not going to be a great president. he's not going to be strong. he's weak on the borders. >> it doesn't seem like he's honed the message very tightly there, margaret, what do you think? >> see what sticks. it's the same line of messaging that he used for marco rubio, calling him an absentee senator. john kasich was elected by 1 million votes only 16 months ago. he runs a party apparatus. >> he's known as a favorite son. >> he's like an 80% approval

rating. he's a very popular governor. this is going to be the one place where donald trump gets beat. >> favorite son in ohio, maybe 20%. >> what's he trying to do e j, f jeffrey, spread it around? he did come out with an op ed using the trade package of the tpp and saying that kasich was for, he's for nafta, that was on the substantive side. what is going on on the political side? >> on the political side, chris, i have to say, and we've said this of about. we saw this in texas with ted cruz in florida with marco rubio. if you can't win your own state, you shouldn't be the nominee. but if you do win your own state, i mean, the obvious question is, well, duh, i would hope so. i mean, i don't understand the notion that if john kasich quinns oquinwins

ohio, this sudden behould being. >> you were talking about the trump movement if it rolls through. there's a new anti-trump ad out, from an anti-trump pac and uses his own words about women against him. let's play a portion. >> it really doesn't matter what they write, as long as you have a young and beautiful piece of [ bleep ]. >> that must be a frepretty picture, you dropping to your knees. >> there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever. >> women, you have to treat them like [ bleep ]. >> this is how donald trump talks about women, our mothers, our daughters. >> if donald trump is the nominee, running against

clinton, that's going to be one of their three-pronged strategy. independent women, college-educated women, these are part of the sort of secret magical sauce that republicans have to get to the polls to vote for them if they're going to win a general election, and republicans have lost them in 2008, 2012, even in the off years, we have a hard time getting women to the polls. that is how hillary clinton will get them and not donald trump. >> defense is hillary clinton has got women coming out for donald trump saying that she was an enabler of her husband's sexual abuse of them. juanita broderick and says that hillary clinton threatened her. for her to get into this again, you know, that's going to be a big problem. >> and that will be trump's defense. i think you two have just illustrated what we would see in a general election on this topic. >> hillary clinton, because everybody is reminded of the sort of terrible thing that she was put through. >> that's the fight.

we know for sure who doesn't win -- the american voter. because if that's the basis of comparison, we have a real ugly showjeffrey, margaret, thank yo. stay with cnn for super tuesday, and we'll have all the analysis on "new day", wednesday. there was a car explosion that rocked berlin during the commuter time. atika shubert is live at the scene with the breaking details, learning more. >> reporter: this is something we've never seen in the last few years, but that is the car several hundred meters behind me. it apparently was driving down the road right around rush hour when it just blew up before people's eyes. now police are saying they know there were explosives inside the car, and they're treating this at the moment as a criminal investigation, a homicide investigation. they are not considering, yet, as a terror investigation. so there are no counter-terror police here.

they're not ruling it out at this point, but they haven't found, they're still sifting through the forensic evidence. it only killed one person, the driver of the car. what they're tryingto figure out now is whether the driver was targeted in the explosion or whether the car was carrying explosives. so a lot of this will depend on the forensics evidence they're able to gather which they're doing right now, michaela. >> let us know what else develops in that. we know it's early in the investigation. also developing overnight, three veteran chicago officers are recovering after being shot during a narcotics investigation. the male shooter opened fire when officers approached and tried to speak with him and a woman he was with. that shooter was killed in the exchange of bullets, and the woman was not hit. authorities are interviewing her at this hour. all the officers are expected to be okay. we will give you updates on their condition as we receive them. well, donald trump says his rallies are, quote, love fests, but we have seen violence at recent events. does trump need to tone down his

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okay. there is no question that donald trump's events have often been interrupted by protesters. there's a lot of passionate them. but in the last week, it does seem elevated at these large-scale rallies. there does seem to be violence more often than not, the scale, the situation, the impact, those are all debatable. but what about the responsibility and how much of it is on donald trump to calm the temperature at his own rallies? let's discuss. cnn commentator, mark lamont hill, and jonathan gillian. thank you for being here. professor, make the case. what do you see going on here at these rallies, and who do you think is responsible? >> what i see is democracy in action, right? both sides are arguing. you have the opportunity in america to come and protest and to say whatever you want, within certain limits and boundaries and with certain penalties. so i see people resisting donald trump's message, but what i see

now is a kind of violent response from trump supporters that is egged on by trump. i'm not making a legal argument that he should be held legally liable. but it is an ethical standard on any human being to not suggest people punch people in the face, to not suggest that you'll pay their legal fees for punching somebody in the face. it seems like a basic rule of common decency. >> the push back is, what if they are not just protesters, what if they're planted to start fights with his protesters, to make trump and his supporters look bad. >> that's a fair point. i've been doing activism for 20 years. i've been on the ground as a resi resister. and every political party has plants. the candidate historically has not said punch people in the face. even if people are there to cause problems, telling your supporters to punch them in the face only makes things worse.

the goal of a politician is to de-escalate the situation, not to escalate. >> chicago, turned into a near-riot situation, how do you see it? >> i understand what mark is saying about our right to speak over somebody and right to free speech. but, when we have a right to assemble. especially inside a private place and actually meet up and discuss peacefully what we're trying to discuss, to have people come in, in an organized fashion, with the intent of disrupting, causing intimidation and potentially inciting violence, now what we're starting to see is far beyond g one individual or one candidate saying something in particular and more upon, we're putting the emphasis more upon this group or groups of people who are coming in to do this. because what we're doing now, both sides are skating the

ethical line. there's no doubt about that. and legally, it's going to be very difficult to prosecute nick. there's no record, really of a lot of people being prosecuted for this. but the powder keg that is being built right now. that is the thing that we all have to start looking at, because as we were talking before we came on camera, this is something that could turn completely violent and blood could be shed, and that is where, because both of these groups are very charged. that's where we're going to see things change. >> if you were security adviser to donald trump's team, would you tell him to calm it down when these things are going on in the crowd? don't egg it on? would that be your advice? >> it's a very difficult question, because donald trump is running on the platform of standing up to these protesters and standing up to the status quo politically. so i would definitely say those particular words of punch somebody in the face and getting involved and saying that i'm going to pay somebody's legal

bills, you're setting yourself up for maybe not being prosecuted but a lot of heartache. on the other hand, i would definitely start to look at these different groups and organizers of the groups. everything's changed everything they do when they go online to organize these things, now you have a trail. and not that we would ever prosecute anyone under a nn ric status, if we start rioting and intimidation, now we're looking at something organized and really does go against the civil rights that we have. >> the private venue, professor is something that makes it a little moricale icallcomplicater analysis, when he buys a venue, it changes in terms of the favor of the event. >> let's not forget these are public figures who are having

public events so the public will vote for them. if we start to privatize the critique, that leads us to a dangerous area. i don't want to issue a hypothetical. these people are not there for inciting violence. there's no evidence of that. i've been in these moments for years. there's no organizing to cause problems or intimidation or harm. they're protesting what they consider to be an aggressive and violent rhetoric. we saw these same protesters come to hillary in atlanta, and bernie sanders. the only difference between what's happened there and here, is hillary and bernie haven't said hey, punch them in the face. it seems that you get a better result when you don't tell people to punch them in the face. >> i think you have to look at the actions of both groups, and you have to look at the actions and their reasons that both groups are there. and i just think right now, especially in the media, we have

to be very careful, and we have to set ethical standards and follow those ethical standards, because we're all a match that could easily set this powder keg off. and i guess the last thing i'll say is during these things in chicago, i saw a tweet where a woman said that if i was just watching them make the big three networks, i wouldn't know what's going on. i think it's very important that the media takes the lead in tamping down the pressure that's going on here, regardless of what people are saying. >> understood. gentlemen, thank you very much. appreciate both sides of the analysis as always. we know bernie sanders is campaigning hard in the midwest with the same message that delivered the surprise win in michigan last week, can he do it again? attacks three strong litter box odors, plus locks clumps tight. ... and now it's light. every home, every cat. there's a tidy cats for that.

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[cheers and applause] >> that's bernie sanders rallying voters in ohio to show up at the polls for him on this super tuesday. polls open in missouri, illinois ohio. will he pull off a surprise victory as he did in michigan? joining us is ben jealous. hi, ben. >> good morning. >> 691 delegates up for grabs on the democratic side today. where will bernie sanders be strongest? >> we are strong in the midwest. three states up and here, and we're doing great. last night he went from there to chicago where i am now. if 4,000 people in seats, 5,000 turned away at the door, 10:30 in chicago.

if turnout goes up, we will win. >> sanders are polling michigan on steroids. how so, what does that mean? >> about three weeks ago we were 30 points down. now we're in the single. now it's like six, seven points. and the trend line is heading straight up for us. it's the same thing, quite frankly, throughout this region. and the upsouth in north carolina, we are seeing the same thing. so it really depends on turnout. >> the latest polls that we have show something different, more than a six-point spread. this is from monmouth university, shows clinton at 54% there, sanders at 40%. look, obviously, we know polls can get it wrong as they so strikingly did in michigan. but that's this now shot from today. >> that's this now shot from today. the polls have been all over the place.

as we've surged in all of these states. last week the average was 23%. some showed us at 9%. some showed us at 30%. clinton hit her high watermark a long time ago. we've been surging up, and it's going to depend on turnout. >> hillary beat barack obama in ohio in 2008. part of the criticism against bernie sanders is that he has not invested much time in ohio. he's recently shown up there. he's recently had rallies. he invested more of his time in new hampshire. has he spent enough time in the state? >> well, what's real is that when you're competing against the biggest dynasty in our country's politics, a family that has run four presidential races, you've got to camp out in the first two states, and then you've got to rush to every state after that. and we will find out when the polls close whether we spent enough time. what we know is if we had more time we would win virtually all of these states.

the trend line has been headed straight up for us. again, you start to see turnout going up throughout the day, then you should put your seat belts on that we will be winning that state. and, again, it's not just ohio. it's the rest of the midwest, the upsouth, again, where we have seen things surge. >> one more minute, ben, on ohio. there's an interesting wrinkle in that state that could affect bernie sanders. he's been doing well with young voters, as you well know. well, this week is spring break. across the country, and certainly in ohio. and ohio state university is out. as are other colleges. >> that's right. >> in ohio. and there are estimates that 167,000 students will be out of town. does that concern the campaign? >> look, we also have lots of young people who cannot afford to go to college. bernie sanders is clearly for young people who are concerned about college affordability, not just in college, but, again, who

wish they could afford college, the best candidate. we'll see what happens. if turnout goes up, we will win. >> one area of concern for bernie sanders, and a weakness for bernie sanders has been the african-american vote. hillary clinton was thought to have had that locked up. what do you think we'll see today with that? >> you know, what we see, and obviously, the black vote is something i know a whole lot about. what we've seen is that the black vote has continued to move up for sanders, you know, we went from, you know, very low numbers in the deep south to about a third of the black vote in detroit. in kansas, just before, michigan last week, in the, in the so-called blackest senate district. in the senate districts that are more than 60% black, ten of them in that state, we won eight or nine out of ten, with 60% or more of the vote in each district. and so what we've seen is that

black voters, as they've gotten to know sanders, support has surged. and quite frankly, many folks, and one of the reason they keep surging is a heart-head thing. my heart's with him, my head doesn't know if he can win. as they do their own investigation, as voters do their own investigation and look and realize, today is just halftime. we are just getting to the, to the halfway point in the earned, in the chase for earned delegates. it is western states, northern states where we perform very well, and we're seeing to get more and more of the black vote in those states. then. >> jealous, thanks so much for being on "new day." the race for florida is now a must-win and a family affair for marco rubio. he beat the odds and secured a victory in his own state?

marco rubio's sister joins us next.

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all right, we have some braking news just in to cnn. donald trump picking up nine delegates after winning the caucuses in the northern marian marianna islands to the east of the philippines. trump now has 343 delegates. two of the gbig states, florida and ohio are winner take all states. marco rubio's need to win there cannot be exaggerated.

joinings now is marco rubio's sister veronica. it's nice to have you with us. i know the family and the friends are workin' south florida like nobody's business, how do you think it's looking? >> gauging by what we see, we have so much support, especially down here in south florida. we've been working the phone banks and going door to door. and every time we go somewhere, people say or when we call, they say i'm voting for marco. my husband's voting for marco, my kids are voting for marco. you've got our support. that's been the majority of what we're seeing here locally. even door to door we get a lot of that. >> how is the family managing expectations? it's hard for marco, even harder for family and friends to watch him running a race when you're worried about what's going to happen. how are you managing expectations? >> i don't think we really look at that. we look at where we are in the moment and how far we've come. you know, growing up with him, you know, you know him all your

life and you see what's happening and it's so incredible and we're so proud and excited to be a part of it and proud of him for getting where he is and seeing the support he has. the people in this community have watched him grow up literal before their eyes in the public eye and serving the community and seeing him get to this point is amazing. somebody told me the other day, can you imagine your brother's running for president. and i said i can. i always thought he would be doing this. so it's just exciting to actually see it finally happening. >> and you tell people, it's not because you always wanted him to be president or he talked about it a lot. you just always saw him as someone who had a unique effect on people. tell me about that. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. well, as a child, you know, i always say that i remember growing up, we would have all the kids talking about what was going on with us, but he was always having conversations with the adults about politics and government and that was kind of different. but then, as he became actually,

he got into public office, i would just see the way people reacted to him, you know, every time he gave a speech or he just would meet people. they would always come up to us, to my parents, to us, and say he's going to go far. he has something. there's something about hem that just connects with people and reaches people. and we knew it. you know, but seeing other people respond to it is really, really special. >> was he the protective brother for you growing up or a constant pain for you? >> a little of both. >> don't be too honest. it's television. >> okay. sorry. no, he was, you know, typical brother relationship, no different than most people, you know, he was really protective behind the scenes. he did a lot of things without me knowing he was doing them to protect me. and when we kids, we're only a year apart, so you have the typical childhood, but for the most part, my mom and sister always say that we grew up like

twins because we were close in age and did everything together. we weren't twins, but we were close and did everything together, even through the teenage years, same friends, same everything. >> what would be your advice to your brother if florida does not go his way? i's goi he's going to be looking for people to give lihim direction, but what would you tell your brother? >> i would tell him to go with his heart and to really pray about it and see what god tells him, this is a point where it's not what we want for ourselves but for what god wants for us. we're christian, and we rely a lot on our faith to guide us. i would advise him to do what he's doing, which is brpraying about it and speaking to his family and his staff. but as his sister, i would tell him to pray about it and listen to what god wants for him. >> we know it's not just about the candidate. the whole family feels what's going on. in the rubio case, you're all

working very hard as well. good luck to you and the best to the family. >> thank you. okay, so what's behind the protests at trump's rallies? is it freedom of speech or just disruption? donald trump says he takes no responsibility for the violence at his rallies, though he uses violent rhetoric to egg them on. next, we get historical perspective on all of this. day. all across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. like in rochester, with world-class botox. and in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today - at business.ny.gov bleeding gums? you may think it's a result of brushing too hard. it's not. it's a sign of early gum disease...

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do you know how many people have been hurt at our rallies? i think basically none. there is no violence. these are love fests. >> we calls them love fest. but donald trump is coming under criticism for violence breaking out at his rallies. so what is the place for protest in politics. how does what we're seeing right now compare to past periods of political unrest. he's in los angeles. he's up very easterlrly.

you said that donald trump is deliberately p lly provoking ta that accompanied the rise of strong men throughout our history. that is a strong statement. >> i don't consider it false though. it's what rachel maddow has reported very very well. senator rubio has pointed out that there's been no incidents at any of the rallies for any of the candidates, except mr. trump. and it is simply a dynamic, that if you insult people. if you say you want to punch them in the face. if you keep saying you get out of here, get out of here. if you associate with the ku klux klan or waffle on that

issue, if you make fun of television reporters. if you call all mexican immigrants rapists and murderers at some point you are stoking a very fierce reaction. and i'm surprised that it isn't even worse. and if this goes on, you know, you are going towards the brink of civil -- civil breakdown. and a policed state in the end if something is not done to restore debate and democracy instead of intimidation and thuggery. >> it is interesting. we had an analyst on air just a short time ago describe it in the same way you are. the idea that this is a powder keg. we do know that donald trump has managed to top into something. he's managed to tap into and

effectively push the anger button in a sector of the electorate. he doesn't see it as inciting. he is describing it as a love fest. how do you react to that? >> i know donald trump. i think that he's disconnected from reality now. he's just -- no one in their right mind could call this a "love fest." these are huge authoritarian rallies and displays of intimidation. and he can't possibly mean that. but he's a p.r. guy and i guess he's just trying to interpret this what people see an television as a love fest. it makes no sense at all. >> let's look at this from an historian perspective. compare and contrast what we are

seeing now. there are some parallels i suppose to your history but compared to what you saw and lived through in the sixties? >> well one of the the biggest parallels is with kent state, where had 14 people were shot and wounded. four were killed and two more at jackson state the next couple of peaks. and that was the nixon administration with john dean being there and spiro agnew in the background. they had a close race in a primary in ohio going on and they wanted mr. rhodes to be elected and they had him out there calling the student protesters at kent state "brown shirts who would have to be eliminated" and the national edwa guard got completely panicked

out of control. nobody knows how the orders were given exactly. but they turned and shot into a crowd of peaceful demeonstrator. and they were shot in the back. and that was the political effect of kent state that is still with us thousands of people visit the campus every year. and i could give many other comparisons. but it is the coming of a strong man that is happening here i think. that is the key problem. and i would advise people not to play into mr. trump's hands. not to get into his playbook as if the protesters are and protesting his right for speech. it is not true if you have that

many people there who incite -- does anybody remember the phrase you're not allowed to shout "fire" in a crowded theater? >> yes. we know that very well. we remember it. tom hayden, we appreciate it. ho hopefully we'll be able to call on you again to join us. >> thanks very much. following a lot of news today including tonight's critical super tuesday contest so let's get too it. >> oh look a bernie sanders sign. don't worry. you're not going to get beat up at my rally. >> love fest. >> i am so worried about our country and what could happen if we don't wan together

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. welcome to your "new day." tuesday march 15th, 8:00 in the east. today finds the final installment of the super tuesday trilogy. and voters in five delegate rich states are heading to the poll this is morning. really two loom larger than the others -- florida and ohio. winner-take-all. marco rubio, john kasich, both facing must-win situations in their home states. now trump just picked up nine more delegates this morning in overseas voting.

the northern marijuana islaon m. >> 691 delegates at stake today on the democratic side. hillary clinton looking to build on her lead, and bernie sanders looking to you have a another upset. either way the 2016 race will change tonight. phil mattingly is live in columbus ohio. how is it this hour? voiters already heading to the polls here and four other states as well with the opportunity. is this the day donald trump puts a hammer lock on the nomination? and also is this the day two other candidates drop out? >> we're going to have a great

day. >> reporter: i donald trump looking for another super tuesday sweep. a big day at the polls for the front runner could mean the end of presidential bids for florida senator marco rubio and ohio governor john kasich. >> we're going to shock the country. and we're going to do what needs to be done. >> on this do or die day rubio or kasich both fight footwork victories and hoping to stay alive on their home turf. >> everybody is watching us now. do you know that? and they are not just watching us in the country, they are watching us in the world. >> and ted cruz, a handful of wins pushes republicans to unify. >> after tomorrow it will be official a two man race because no other candidate has a plausible path. >> trump still dealing with the fall out from days of protest at his events. >> do you know how many people have been hurt at our rallies?

i think like basically none other than i think maybe somebody got hit once but there is no violence. >> and a jab at the front runner. >> oh look at bernie sanders sign. don't worry you are not going to get beat up at my rallies. >> one difference between this and a donald trump rally is i'm not asking anyone to punch you in the face. >> what we don't have time for is all that petty punk-ass little thuggery stuff that's been going on. >> reporter: john kasich with some serious structural advantages in the state over donald trump. a big organization.

a large data operation. obviously a ton of supporters. not to mention a 77% approval rating amongst republicans. still donald trump really going all in on ohio. holding a number of rallies, including a late edition yesterday going up on tv with advertisements and of course non stop attacks on kasich it a twitter. kasich's aides know this will be a toss up going into the last day. if kasich can win really the first opportunity maybe to stop trump from getting to those requisite delegates to win the nomination michaela. >> meanwhile the pressure is on democratic front runner hillary clinton tonight. polls show bernard is closing the gap on some key states. brianna keeler is live in charlotte with more for us. keilar. >> this could be a pivotal day on the democratic side. it could keep bernie sanders more viably in this race if he

does well. and if hillary clinton could see her stath as the presumptive democratic nominee cemented today. both in their final push to this big tuesday positioning themselves as alternatives to donald trump. >> we have to stand up to hateful, divisive rhetoric that is pitting different groups of americans against each other. >> i believe that is what americans will do. i believe we are better than what we are hearing every night on television. >> this campaign is telling donald trump and others that we will not -- [ audience shouts ] >> -- we will not accept for one second their bigotry and zen phobe gia phobia. >> reporter: and because these states are not winner take all on it is difficult to see how he

really narrow this is gap with hillary clinton, let alone closes it and catches up with her. nonetheless aides to sanders say he's in this for the long haul going all the way to the convention in july. >> brianna thank you very much. we can tell you the polls are now open in all five states voting today. north carolina has 72 delegates available today. >> reporter: those high numbers mean those stakes are also high as you mentioned. polls has been happening about on hour and a half now. and we have seen this steady trickle of people coming in to cast their ballots as well. there are plenty of people who want to get involved. the north carolina state board

of elections is saying early absentee ballot voting has surpassed 2008 and 12. so that could be a sign that we could see a fairly significant turnout. hillary clinton at this point poised to do very well at this primary as well as on the republican side. we are expecting at least this to be the final opportunity for republicans dead set on stopping trump. but again we are seeing those numbers slowly rise here as those voters continue to come in here in the state of north carolina alisyn. >> keep it posted. meanwhile voting under way in illinois as well. that's where we find ryan young live from chicago. >> reporter: good morning alisyn. a steady flow of people already. the 6:00 a.m. happened here. we do know there has bin creased interest in this compared to 2008 because there are over a hundred thousand more absentee

ballots so far. going back down the street we're going to show you the video we shot just yesterday afternoon. because the line around this building was going all the way down to the stoplight as people were trying to come out and do their early voting. we do know there will be some rush voting later in the afternoon. we've been told the increased interest in the election will cause people to rush out throughout the day. >> ryan what did you scare away all the voters? what are you doing over there? what's going on behind you. >> that morning rush. ha ha ha. nothing right now apparently. >> stay on it ryan. we'll be back to you later. all right. here this morning the first member of congress to back donald trump. new york republican chris collins. good to have you this morning. >> good morning. >> take me from making the shift from jeb bush to donald trump. >> to me it is easy.

jeb bush the chief executive of the state of florida has the executive experience needed in the white house. we've got donald trump t chief executive of a very complex organization that he's been the head of for over 40 years. and frankly chris the last thing we need in the white house is another legislator without that executive experience. so my switch from jeb bush to donald trump was really one of recognizing the need for a chief executive, not a chief politician in the white house with all of the issues that this country is facing today. >> so what are you hearing from your brothers and sisters about your support now? is there any trending and a favorable position? because there is still a lot of speculation that trump would not make it out of a convention. >> obviously today is going to be a very important day with florida and ohio. so as this day comes to an end, if donald trump wins both florida and ohio we will have our presumptive nominee. now if john kasich stays alive

in ohio, we're going to keep marching forward. there is no question tonight is going to be a great night for donald trump. he's going to get a lot of dealts whether he dealegates wh clearly they are going to support the nominee. hillary is the great uniter of our party. and i fully expect it is going to be donald trump. >> what do you make of what's been going on at the trump rallies? do you think he should calm down his rhetoric? >> what you are seeing is chapter two in the democratic playbook. these are paid protesters. these are not spontaneous groups of people that have a pressing issue showing up at these rallies. sure there are a few of those what. we are really seeing is the democrats understanding the one person they know will beat hillary clinton is donald trump. so they are going to pull out

the stops. and these paid protesters showing up to disrupt donald trump's rallies, to me it is chapter two in the democratic playbook. it is a sad day of affairs for what we'll call dirty politics. but that's what we have. >> is the right response to say punch them in the face? and other threatening comments? do you think that is what you would do if it were your rally? >> it comes to one thing we know about donald trump. if you punch him, he is going to punch back. we all have our own personality, if you will. donald trump is going to stand there and not take anything somebody throws at them. but again, what you have is the democrats with paid organizers, paid protesters going to these rallies to disrupt the rallies and i'm sure the frustration that goes with knowing the types of folks that are there will elicit some comment. donald trump has called for people to stand down.

let's be peaceful. donald trump realizes his words literally carry a lot of weight and i think he has shifted his rhetoric here in the last few days. no one likes to see what is going on. i would ask the democrats to stop paying protesters to disrupt rallies. >> can you prove that allegation? and even hillary clinton? >> yeah i think chris it's very well known now that these are paid protesters, that the exact source of the funds we all have our inclinations of where that money is coming from. but there is no question these are paid protesters. these are not a bunch of college kids showing up because, you know, they have an issue here or there. >> same people paying them to go to the hillary clinton event. >> no i'm saying these are paid protesters. >> you had some of the same groups showing up at hillary clinton events. do you think she's paying people to come to her own events and make her look bad? >> who know what is hillary

clinton is going to do. we know from her playbook she'll do anything she can to be president of the united states. she can't be trusted as far as you can throw her whether her comments s os on benghazi or h comments on e-mails. the money she's raised for secretary of state. i go up and down the line you can't trust trust a thing that hillary clinton says and that's why people know donald trump will go head to hed against hillary clinton and the democrats are in panic mode. they know the one candidate they can't beat is donald trump. >> what do you think about the polls or how do you explain the polls that say the opposite and you are hearing it from your fellow goppers saying you got to vote for me. we all do better than trump against hillary. >> well trepublican messaging hasn't even begun. it's been a slug fest. been messy. it continues today.

where all you have on the democrat side are two people trying to outprogressive each other. hillary saying i'm more than you. and hillary i'm more than you. and bill de blasio saying i'm the most of all why am i not in this conversation. and when all turns to hillary clinton, the fact that she didn't even pull away from bernie sanders is a telling story in and of itself. 80 plus percent of women under 5 are suppo -- 35 are going to bernie sanders. when we know it is donald and hillary you are going to see where that goes. i know in western new york, the working men and women. the union folks, the people who lost their jobs under nafta, they are solidly in donald trump camp. and that is why all of a sudden in a general election not only is new york in play but so is michigan. and when you put new york and

michigan in play in a presidential election, i think you will see donald trump steam roll over hillary with a reganesque type victory. >> god to have you on "new day." this is going to be an all day affair. stay with cnn. we're going to have complete coverage of this super super tuesday. and full analysis of what whatever happens tonight happens and what it means going forward right here tomorrow morning on "new day." mick? >> this is big for the first time an nfl official is acknowledging a link between repetitive head trauma and the brain disease cte. the league's vice president for health and safety making that admission during a round table discussion with lawmakers on concussions. cte can only be diagnosed after death. a doctor recently located the disease in the brains of 90 of 94 former players tested. time for levity, once again

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so ohio is one of super tuesday's big prizes but a surprising shift. long time democrats deciding to shift. >> reporter: in youngstown ohio he's been talking politics for 31 years. i sat down to listen. >> i've been a registered d since 1980 and i'm take a republican ballot i'm supporting trump. >> had enough of these hand picked. hand chosen, bought and paid for candidates. voting for trump. >> from day one, i have been for donald trump. and i was a democrat. >> it's like nothing i've ever seen before. >> that's mark monroe.

head of the republican party in this part of ohio where finding a fellow republican is almost as heart as finding a job and unemployment here is almost 9%. >> something that's never happened before. >> 84-year-old gus, these days guys like him go by another name. crossovers. >> democrat all the way. >> and now what are you thinking when it comes to voting? >> i'm going trump. >> then there is twin brothers don and ron, painting trump signs and making trump campaign buttons. they are retired cops and apparently retired democrats. >> for 50 years i voted democrat since the vietnam war and served over there and came over there and i've always backed democrats and it was the right party to be in. >> but now you are going to vote

how. >> i'm going vote republican and i'm going to vote for donald trump. >> voting been under way since mid february. they have been crunching the numbers. >> 55% of all the republican vote is coming from democrats to republican or what we consider non affiliated voters. >> you heard right. of the republican votes cast so far, more than half have come from voters who up until just recently were either independents or democrats. it is not just in ohio. exit polls show crossovers in other primary states. the same polls show anger is the biggest motivator but trump isn't the only benefactor. >> well there is a guy around for the people that's funded by the people and it is bernie sanders. >> back in local head quarters kathy is worried about running out of trump yard signs. >> very very popular.

>> joining us to discuss this phenomenon and more is a democrat from ohio who has endorsed hillary clinton. good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm well. so how do we explain what we just saw in martin savidge's piece that democrats are opting for donald trump over hillary clinton? >> i was in youngstown last week in akron. i saw something very different. i understand a number of people crossover at election time like this. i also know people know it was the democrats and president obama that did the auto rescue that kept thousands in jobs and the supply chain that feed into that gm/chevy plant there. so i think people are understandably upset. but i also think that i know that i trust hillary clinton to have a real manufacturing plan. the only person in this race that does when either side.

and will keep this growth going. we've had 71 consecutive months of job growth since the auto rescue. unfortunately governor kasich hasn't kept that up particularly well in our area. even though we were doing better five and six years ago. so there is a very understandable frustration among everybody in the mahoning valley and everybody in ohio and across the country. >> and in that area i believe unemployment is close to 9%. so for people in your state of ohio who think that the issues are jobs and trade, how can you tell them that hillary clinton is the best choice when of course she was part of the obama administration and she has supported president obama's policies that many now blame for the predigit that they are in. >> president obama's done something no one has since

roosevelt, that's get a majority vote in ohio twice. i don't really buy his policy is that unpopular. hillary clinton was the secretary of state. she worked for him. of course she supports the policies of her boss. but the fact is she is going to look at a very different trade policy. i don't take a backseat to anybody on trade issues. i'm leading the opposition to the senate. i've written a book on trade. i opposed the trade agenda through presidents of both parties. i see something different in hillary clinton. she's going after currency. she's going stand up strong ag on keeping china designated a as non market economy and understands better than any of the other candidates in either party what do with either trade policy. all for candidate, cruz and trump and sanders and hillary all are against the t.p.p. and hillary has a plan and i've worked with her on that to put people back to work all over the state. >> donald trump was talking

about this very subject matter and talking about the air-conditioning company that moved its base from indiana to mexico and he was saying this would be a vulnerability for hillary clinton. let me play that for you. >> if hillary is president, her special interests will call her, her lobbies will call her. her fundraisers will call her. and she knows it is a bad thing. but she won't do anything about it. >> he's saying that she is vulnerable or trade deals. >> well it is easy for trump to say that and he doesn't ever go any deep are about what he would actually do other than call the ceo and oppose trade deals and negotiate a better again. but again, hillary clinton is -- i trust her. i've worked with her on the issues for a long time. and i trust her to negotiate better trade deals to have a much better ifrt enforcement of trade laws and trade rules.

people working in steel and rubber and many other places because we've enforced trade deals. her special trade prosecutor will do that. we will see a different trade policy coming out of here. and i'm convinced of it. i wouldn't be supporting hillary clinton if i didn't believe that. >> senator brown, thanks so much for taking time for "new day." to the other side of the ball. john kasich confident he's going to win in his home state of ohio. but even if he does win, what is the future of his campaign in terms of victory? we're going to get the analysis from kasich's lieutenant governor coming up. o: he gets au alert the second his room is ready. avo: so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch. avo: and when craig gets his pitch down pat, do you know what he becomes? client: great proposal! let's talk more over golf! craig: great. client: better yet, how about over tennis craig: even better. avo: a game changer! secretary: your 2 o'clock is here. client: oops, hold your horses. craig: no problem. avo: la quinta inns & suites is ready for you, so you'll be ready for business.

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according to most of the polls we're literally tide. he may win in ohio. who knows. he's the governor. but he has not done a good job. >> donald trump admitting governor kasich of ohio could have the upper hand tonight. it would be the first win for state's governor. 66 winner take awl delegates at stake. joining us now is governor taylor. do you believe the governor is going to win? and if so, what does that mean for his path forward? >> absolutely john kasich is going to win ohio. he has a 62% favorable rating. the state is back on track.

we were down over 350,000 jobs. five billion dollars in tax cuts. a $2 billion surplus. the governor has ohio back on track. and after he wins today we're going to go deeper into the primary calendar which we knew from the beginning the campaign has always said will be the strength for john kasich. >> why? that is the part. because some as you know say even if he wins ohio the path forward doesn't look that great. make the other argument. >> well the other argument shah the experience that john kasich has his record of dplisht here in ohio, bringing jobs back to you are state, balancing the deficit, $5 billion in tax cuts. as the message, also a policy position, that's proven correct here in ohio. it's gotten our state back on track and as we get more into

the primary calendar more americans are going hear about that experience and track record. and as you know in michigan and new hampshire and in ohio those making their minds up later are voting towards john kasich. john kasich is going to be strong. he's going to win and he's not only going win ohio but he's also going to be the republican nominee to be president. >> your optimism is understandable. illinois is going to be a very big state to watch. we'll be watching that. in terms of the criticisms against kasich by donald trump, he says he's an absentee governor. he's been in new hampshire more than his own state. and more importantly, ohio has lost a lot of jobs. auto industry jobs and others and it is because of the bad trade deals that kasich is in favor of. the tpp, nafta. how do you defend those

positions? >> well we're up over 400,000 jobs across the state of ohio. growing industry, diverse. grover cleveland just brought jobs back from mexico in the last two years. governor kasich has always supported job policies to help grow jobs. and in ohio we're up over 400,000 jobs. wages are growing faster than the national average. ohio wins are stronger because of the decisions that governor kasich has made and the policy positions that we've not only pushed through the last six years but as you know governor kasich continues to be very strong in ohio with new policy initiatives just being announced that will continue to drive our state forward. >> what about the absentee thing? >> governor kasich is integrally involved with the decisions here in ohio. anybody who knows him knows he's very hands on and as i've already said we've introduced a couple of new bills here in the

last couple of weeks that we call our mid biennial review budgets. governor kasich believes not only doing budging every two years but every single year because there are new policy initiatives that we continue to push and john kasich pushes to drive our state forward. we are not taking our foot off the gas here this ohio. even though we are stronger. and john kasich continues to push. and he is very hands on is very much aware of what's going on here in the state of ohio. even though he may be on the road. he's got a cell phone and can be reached when we need him. >> do you think he's going to get on the ballot in pa? the primary is april 26th. as, you know, council for kasich admitted to having false signatures. that is what spurred this controversy and the lawsuit. do you think he's going to get on the ballot? and if not that is a big blow? >> absolutely john kasich is

going to be on the ballot in pennsylvania. i know we continue to talk about this because it is laid out there as the controversy but absolutely john kasich will be on the ballot in pennsylvania. >> it's lady out there because we haven't heard from the judge yet. governor very good to have you. good luck to governor kasich in ohio tonight. >> thank you very much. >> ahead a cnn exclusive. inside aleppo, a once thriving syrian city reduced to rubble by air strikes. pictures from the ground, where only cnn is willing to go.

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russian war planes are beginning to pull of the syria this morning hours of vladimir putin announced he is withdrawing his troops. he says russian forces have achieved their goal. this as the civil war in syria approaches a five year mark. clarissa ward recently went into the area and joins us now with her exclusive report. i am in awe of you that you would choose to do this. incredible the access you got. >> thank you. i think it gives you a sense though. this tiny moment of bravery we might have had for six days on the ground is the every day live for so many in syria. and we managed to visit the city of aleppo which has been bombed for four years by bashar al

assad and for the last five months the intensity really increased as the russians became involved military. and there is now one road the rebels can use in and out of that city. they call it the road of death. take a look. >> you can tell when you are getting closer to aleppo. the streets are pockmarked with the aftermath of fresh air strikes. it is a dangerous journey to a city few dare to visit. >> we now have to drive extremely quickly on this portion of the road. on one side you have the regime and other side you have kurdish fighters. and snipers all around here but this is the only road now to get into lealeppo.

as you arrive the scale of the city is breathtaking. stretching on and on entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. aleppo was once syria's largest city a bustling economic hub. now an pock lippettic land skap. ground forces allowed to encircle the eastern part of the city. still we found pockets of life among the devastation. a fruit market huddled in the shadow of a bomb out building a line of people waiting patiently to collect water. now a precious resource here. >> this is basically what is left of rebel held aleppo after months and months of thousands of russian bombs raining down on here. the street deserted and the

buildings street and the people pushed out. and the very few residents who are still here who we've spoken too have told us that they don't expect the situation to get any better. in fact they are convinced it will only get worse. she's lived here forty here's. her grandson is a fighter with the rebel group. in all nine members of her family have been killed in the fighting. including two of her three sons. >> they all died on the front line. we raise our heads high for them. god willing they are in paradise. >> what would it take for you to leave aleppo? >> it is true there is shelling and russian planes and iranian militias and every day there is a massacre. but it is enough for us to express our religion and our

faith as free people without anyone stopping us. it is enough for us to fight as hu mujahideen and defend our honor and our women. >> should we we leave our country and go to another country? no. this is our country and we will remain in this until we die. >> the people here feel that the world has abandoned them, leaving them only with god. their existence becomes for precarious with every passing day. but surrounder is unthinkable. this is our. >> you would think that anyone under this type of bombardment would want to leave the country. no one who had the means or the

money would voluntarily stay and live under that type of relentless bombardment. but this is a voluntary decision for them. they want to stay. they want to keep pushing in this battle. and their view of people who leave the country, while they understand, okay it makes sense you need to leave the country. you want to continue your education. you want to live in safety. you want to bring up your children in a safe environment. at the same time they are also saying, you know, you are forfeiting your right to have a say in the future of this country. because you left when the going got tough you left. >> that's very interesting. what do they make of this news. russian president vladimir putin saying, pulling oufrt troops. our job is done. chooed our goal. how are they reacting. >> i think people are gob smacked and don't know whether to be dancing in the streets or actually believe what they are hearing. you heard in the stand up. the people we talked to were convinced things were going to get worse. now the russians pulling out.

i would say they are optimistic and hopeful but still also extremely skeptical. >> waiting for the other shoe to drop almost. >> exactly. >> thank you for this. back with us this week with some more pieces for us. >> thank you. >> good stuff for you coming your way. stay with us. ...and our competitors' rates side-by-side, so you know you're getting a great deal. saving the moolah. [ chuckles ] as you can see, sometimes progressive isn't the lowest. not always the lowest! jamie. what are you doing? -i'm being your hype man. not right now. you said i was gonna be the hype man. no, we said we wouldn't do it. i'm sorry, we were talking about savings. i liked his way. cha-ching! talking about getting that moneeeey! talking about getting that moneeeey! savings worth the hype. now that's progressive.

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