alisyn. the results reiterated in a big way that donald trump is the frontrunner, and it's his tone, once again, that has the republican party riled and concerned. >> i think you would have problems like you have never seen before. >> donald trump warning his supporters could riot. >> we are way ahead of everybody. i don't think you can say we don't get it automatically. i think you would have riots. >> the gop facing the real possibility of a contested convention if no candidate meets the threshold for the nomination. >> i think the people would quite rightly revolt. >> ben carson reiterating that sentiment. >> party leaders are down playing that possibility.

>> all of these stories will continue and they are going to get people stirred up, but those delegates will vote on the first ballot as they are bound to vote by the law. >> and dismissing trump's warning. >> i assume he is speak configuratively. whoever gets 1237 delegates becomes the nominee. it's plain and simple. >> trump, dropping his first attack ad at clintons, claiming her as too week to go up against those against the u.s. >> i have not started on hillary yet. >> this week, pledging to skip their next debate forcing fox to pull the plug. >> how many times can the same people ask you the same

question? i won't be there, no. >> john kasich quickly following suit saying he wouldn't participate in the debate. ted cruz trying to use this as a opportunity to go after trump for ducking that debate, and there's a good reason, ted cruz wants trump to be there. >> thank you for much for auflt background. here to discuss everything, jackie, and david gregory, and herald lewis. let's start with what donald trump said to chris on "new day" if he is not core anated.

it's simple, you have to get to 1237. trump does not think it's so simple. >> i think we will win before getting to the convention, but if we didn't and if we are 20 votes short or if we are 100 short, and we're at 1100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400, because we are way ahead of everybody, and i think we would have riots. >> if he is at 1,100 and not -- is that how he works? >> no, it's not how he works. it's a straightforward rules based system, which you have to get past the post, if you don't get to 1,237, you are not the nominee and things follow from there. and if donald trump he is supposed to follow in the footsteps of his presidendecess

well, other candidates don't act like a schoolchild and don't insult other candidates and do the things donald trump has done. he has to live with the fact that he wanted to be an unusual candidate, fine, he doesn't get the usual treatment. he could and even now probably could go to other candidates and try to win over their delegates and stop with the insults and foolishness, and then maybe he will have a chance of doing it, or do what he suggested on the show, start a negotiation that there will be chaos or destruction if i don't get what i want, and it's a pretty good opening bid if you are going to have an negotiation. >> hyperbole aside, it's safe to assume his supporters are not going to be happy if he gets

boxed out of a convention, and you can say it how you want, and maybe it was unartful or dangerous how he said it, but if he gets in there with a huge lead, that's his scenario, i have 1,100, and you only have 800 and i don't get it, that would be an unusual turn at an election or something unusually disruptive, would it not? >> i agree. the reality is donald trump is in control of this case but not in complete control of his party and that's why the rules are what they are and why it's possible he gets there without getting the necessary number at 1,237. he would have to win 60% of the remaining delegates and that's possible if you look at how he puts things together, and ted cruz would have to win in the high 80s, so it's a steeper climb and then not even possible for john kasich to get to that

number. you got the first ballot, and the question is, if i am pledged to donald trump has a delegate, and what if when there is a second ballot i want to switch my allegiance, what are the ramifications of that? some say that has not been tested. it's not about boxing him out, it's about what happens if you are short and what kinds of negotiations happen and what kind of grassroots support do you have at the convention that could yield a different result. i think it's a pretty unlikely scenario with somebody who is in this kind of control of the race. >> we know how it's going to play out. it happened on "house of cards." at some point you have to have a president use a letter opener to somebody's neck, and he is just joking.

>> what he said about there will be riots, should we see that as a prediction or threat? >> a little of both. if the establishment goes into a room and comes out with marco rubio as the candidate, and they say we think you are too drunk to drive to the white house, the base is going to be angry and i am not saying the violence would be justified, but to say you come out with somebody who is not on the board, or with somebody like kasich who has 100 delegates, that's not going to play well and it's going to look like the quote, unquote, establishment just got their way at the end and that's not where that party is right now. >> '68 we had ugliness and it was a different time with humphrey and it was a different dynamic. and donald trump, they are like,

i don't understand why it's taking it as a threat. is he getting unfair scrutiny for this bit of hyperbole? >> coming out of anybody else's mouth, right, if any other candidates said there may be riots, we would know they meant a big angry political fight, a peaceful fight, but with donald trump, especially after the last weekend, we have all seen this montage of him for openly being people to be beaten, and he has walked that line, so you have to take this stuff kind of seriously when he talks that way. >> i think it's interesting -- look, no question when you are in a position like he is to be in the head of the republican party as he gets closer to the nomination, you do not to just have to think about the words you say but how your words land on people out there. i think back to 2000 and the election decided in the supreme court and how much anger there

was in the country and al gore went out of his way to concede the point even though, you know, there was certainly a lot of hard feelings, politically and personally in that regard, so it would be interesting to see how trump handles himself now, and all the talk of unity, he is trying to back that up, and he will be giving policy speeches, and he is not going to debate and he is going to play rope-a-dope here and not debate, and he will try to maybe get the party more comfortable with him being the nominee. >> we want to talk about the supreme court nominee, and you have a personal connection to him. tell us about that. >> merrick garland is close to my wife and me, my wife beth,

and beth wilkinson, they worked together, and he married us back in 2000, so i have no objectively about merrick garland, but he is a prince of a man, a wonderful human being and brilliant. that's how i feel about him. >> is it true judge garland asked your fiance then three times if she was sure about her decision? >> he is a great mentor and friend to us, and a very difficult political environment. >> he forced her to take a sobriety test. unconventional, but -- >> have you seen the man dance? >> i have. >> panel, thank you very much and great to have you here. >> swivel hips. >> brother gregory has moves,

let it be known. and then the clinton campaign saying it's mathematically impossible to catch up for bernie sanders. >> reporter: the sanders campaign has said in the event hillary clinton does make it into the general election campaign, she is very likely to face much tougher attacks from republicans, especially donald trump, than anything they have seen in the primaries, so this could be considered at the very least a warmup act, and fund-raising e-mails going out from the clinton campaign last night, and among other things they suggested, donald trump would be a dangerous language, sort of stepping up the language there, and the campaign put out three new ads.

>> we have a gun violence problem so i'm voting for hillary clinton. she's tough. she will stand up to the gun lobby. >> bernie sanders's fund-raising e-mail going out last night suggests hillary clinton's campaign reached the high watermark and for here the favor of the sanders campaign, and that would include here in arizona as well as idaho and utah. >> thank you so much, joe. leaders on both sides of the aisle locked in the battle for the president's supreme court nominee. our senior political reporter is live with more. >> reporter: good morning. the supreme court fight comes in

the think of the campaign season and has huge implications for control of the united states senate where republicans are battling to hang on to the thin majority, but republicans are betting their base will reward them in november for standing firm against the president's nominee. >> give the people a voice in filling this vacancy. >> senate republicans declaring president obama's choice for supreme court dead on arrival. >> widely recognized not only as america's sharpest minds, but brings modesty, integrity and evenhandedness and excellence. >> the president touting merrick garland as a consensus nominee, and who worked in high-profile cases like the oklahoma city bombing and as a prosecutor.

but republicans argue it's about principle saying american voters should elect a new president before confirming a nominee. >> it seeps president obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing him confirmed. >> majority mitch mcconnell calling garland saying he will not meet with him. >> senate counterparts saying to do their job. >> we hope the saner heads in the republican party will prevail. >> several and tough re-election races standing tough with the leadership? >> if i meet with him, it may not be a good use of his time

because i will not change my position. >> this is the greatest honor of my life. other than my wife agreeing to marry me 28 years ago. >> only two senate republicans broke ranks to lead the confirmation hearings, and democrats believe their best shot at getting garland confirmed is to force more vulnerable senate republicans to defect, and both parties will head to their convention parties. >> what a touching moment at the white house. that was sweet. we will talk more about this in the program. thank you for that. up next, will senate republicans in tight re-election campaign

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as my parents taught me by both words and deeds, the life of public service is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he is serving and for me there could be no higher public service than serving as a member of the united states supreme court. >> judge merrick garland moved by the suggestion he could become a supreme court justice, but the question is, could it move further along in this process, and it's all about politics of the ugly variety. chris coons has come out.

i will adopt the side of the opposition and you make the case for why there should be a hearing on this. please, you go first. >> well, chris, first the senate judiciary committee has given a hearing to the supreme court with only two exceptions. i think it's a new level of republican obstruction to refuse to meet with judge garland. my job as a member of the senate judicial committee is to dig into his writing of opinions on the d.c. circuit court and to meet with him, a courtesy i hope all my colleagues will extend to him. we have an obligation to meet with him and review his record and give him a hearing, and our advice and consent and we in the

senate should do our job. >> we are saying, some of us know him and can confirm he is a good guy, but we don't want to confirm him. they do not say there should be a hearing, and when you break it down by party you have democrats at 82% and independents at 59 and republicans at 29. really, it's that 29 that they are playing to in the gop right now. when you do ask them the poll of the senate hearing, should senate republicans hold hearings on a nominee, you get 60%. don't pretend you are agrieved, schumer said the same thing in 2007, and joe biden suggested

the exact same thing when you were the out party, we are not going to give you a hearing so close to when you may lose the white house? >> that's not accurate. in election years, hearings were given to important nominees, even in hotly contested election years for circuit judgeships and supreme court judgeships -- >> not the same. supreme court is the big ticket, senator. >> the idea, chris, that we wouldn't even meet with him or conduct a hearing i think is unprecedented. there was a confirmed supreme court justice in the election year of 1988. when joe biden was the very able chairman of the senate judiciary committee, he always gave hearings even late in an election year. how do they argue this will turn out differently? hillary clinton is president of

the united states and then they take a chance they will nominate significantly younger and an open activist, and who has a record as a moderate and consensus judge, and what can any of us tell who donald trump might nominate for the supreme court of the united states. in the interest of our constitutional role, it's in everybody's best interest that we proceed with a hearings. >> the response to that is why would we fake it? that's what you democrats like to do? we are not going to allow this hearing. we have the power with votes to keep you from a confirmation. we are not going to give aconfirmati aconfirmation, why fake it? >> because frankly from my perspective when the person people get to hear judge garland and you just played a clip from

his moving speech at the rose garden yesterday and i had a chance to be there and i have seen a lot in my life, but i got choked up listen to garland describe his values and family and the prosecution of timothy mcvey in oklahoma city, and his choice to give up being a partner to be a line prosecutor in a small windowless cigar-smelling room in the department of justice headquarters. this is a man that comes across as truly decent and as deeply committed to the rule of law. i think if we, as you say, just go through the motions and allow him a hearing, the average american will realize it's a consensus pick, at 63 one of the oldest nominees to serve on the supreme court. i am pleased president obama played this straight and didn't nominate somebody designed to stir up our base and somebody designed to rev up the activist,

and he is viewed as somebody that deserves a hearing, which in my role on the foreign relations committee, i am often in a position of lecturing heads of state in other parts of the world about the importance of a nonpolitical judiciary that can preside over its constitutional role. and for folks looking at whether or not our constitutional order can function even in election year. >> it should be mentioned that judge garland was not only passed in that vote, it was like 76-23, and it was a healthy

margin. thank you. i took it easy on you because it's st. patrick's day. you can thank him for it. donald trump and the media, it's a complicated co- dependant relationship.

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you are going to find out about the media some day, folks. they are the worst. they are the worst. >> it's absolute dishonest, scum, and some of them are such lying and disgusting people. >> they write lies and false stories. >> those are just some of donald trump's feelings about the press and for somebody who hates the press he knows how to use it to his advantage and he is threatening to shut down some parts of the free press. joining us is dylan buyers and

bill carter. bill, i want to start with you. donald trump seems to have single handedly shut down the next fox debate. >> yeah. >> he said yesterday or two days -- this week that he didn't know it was happening and doesn't want to participate in it, and john kasich said without the frontrunner, i will not participate and fox stopped it. how does he have so much power over the media? >> he talks about his deal making and he knows he draws rating and there's evidence of that and we have seen it, and he particularly doesn't like fox and he likes to do things to make them twist in the wind a little bit and he has leverage over them and exercised it. >> it's fair to say that donald trump likes being on television and likes being the subject of various newspaper and magazine profiles and tv likes having him on, and the ratings go up and it

should be a win-win, and it's more complicated than that because sometimes he turns on the networks and won't go on. >> it's always comical when he rails against the media when he calls them dishonest and scum and liars and what have you, and he can't go an hour without being in the media, and that's in the news, on twitter, tweeting out criticisms of members of the media, and the story of trump's campaign in the last nine months, it's a political phenomenon and a media phenomen phenomenon, how can be can use and benefit from unprecedented of free media attention well at the same time exploiting the wide-spread distrust in the media, especially among conservatives and those on the right in order to fuel his own

campaign. i think, you know, people at media academics are going to be steadying this one for decades. >> donald trump uses new media, and he often uses twitter to get his message out, which is the perfect medium if you just want to hurl a spitball and not have everything come back at you. we have been on the receiving end of it. he says the failing new york times is truly one of the worst newspapers, they knowingly write lies, never call to fact check, really bad people. they can't do anything about that. you take the incoming. >> if you are a republican and attack the media, you never lose any influence or voters. and "the new york times" the perfect thing to attack. this guy courts "the new york times." he caves attention. it's partly that he wants to be

president and he wants the idea of all the people paying attention to what he says, and when he tweets something, everybody re-tweets it and it get more coverage. >> and the media is not without its own guilt because the media loves to have him on and our ratings go up when donald trump is on, and he gets all sorts of free press. let me pull up some of the ti t advertising rates he has not had to pay. he bought $10 million worth of advertising but he has gotten 1$1.9 billion worth of free meda and that's more than any of the other candidates. >> that will be when the history books are written one of the most important statistic of the entire donald trump campaign. there's a lot of criticism that says why do you carry his press conferences, his rallies, his victory speeches? you are effectively giving him

infomercia infomercials. he is a unique and unprecedented phenomenon in american politics and he has defied political gravity for nine months on a daily basis, and he has set the agenda for so much of what we are talking about, like it or not, in this campaign season, so you know, i understand the criticism. we have spent a lot of time looking into and talking with donald trump, and it's also true that to not cover donald trump and to not take stock of what is going on in american politics right now might be its own form of journalistic practice. >> he made a new threat against the media in the past couple of weeks, and it does send a shiver down the spine of journalists. here's what he has just said. i am going to open up our libel laws so when they write false

articles, we can sue them. that's changing the free press as we know it. >> how is he going to do it? he can't do that unless we get to a dictatorship, let's be scary about it. it's bluster. it's another way to intimidate. i will change the libel laws if you keep writing these things about me, and to be ignored would be the worst thing for him than being criticized. >> thank you. great to get your analysis. up ahead, we are going to take you into rebel-held syria, and thousands of syrians desperate for help and aid? how do you get them aid? we have an exclusive up next. it. why?" no football. that's why

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our reporter went into rebel-held syrian where no western journalists have gone for a year. you have been bringing us terrific and amazing stories, and now you are taking a look at what it's like inside for these medical professionals? >> exactly. we heard from so many people in rebel held areas, what they felt like was it a war against everyday life, a war against anytime they would try to build se sepl hrupbs. i should say this piece was shot before the hostilities and before the news russia would be withdrawing its military, but take a look. i think you will be surprised. >> reporter: it's an all-too common sight in rebel-held parts of syria. the moments after an air strike.

days survivors stagger from the rubble, and those still trapped call out for help. activist say the bombs were russian. when rebels took the capital they saw it as an opportunity they could build their own state and they believe that's why the russians bombs this court house, to under mind that effort. any civilian infrastructure is a target, including hospitals. last month four were hit in a single day, and one was supported by doctors without borders. this is what remains of it now. at least 25 people were killed. this doctor was the general

manager. he told us that russian and regime forces target hospitals cynically and deliberately. >> translator: they want to kill the maximum number of people. also, they want to forbid the area from having medical service. if there is no doctor, no nurse, no hospital, then there is no health care for the people and the people willfully. >> reporter: it is possible they did not know this was a hospital? >> translator: every one knows this is a hospital, and there was a sign that said this is a hospital. but if they didn't know, this is a bigger disaster, because if you were bombing a building like this without knowing it's a hospital, it means you are hitting totally indiscriminately. >> reporter: against the back drop of the war islamic factions gained the upper hand.

the landscape is peppered with shines urging all men to join the jihad and one encourages people to cover up completely. this doctor works at the only hospital still handing and he is no militant but sees this conflict in black and white. >> translator: the whole of the syrian people is against isis and against extremism, and the russians are focused on civilian areas. >> reporter: i asked him why he doesn't leave syria. >> translator: if i did that, i would abandon my conscience. this is our country. we can't dessert it.

i could very easily leave, but we remain steadfast. i am prepared to die rather than to leave. and i will carry on no matter what. >> reporter: carry on in the faint hope that in the next generation of syrians, it will be better. >> so powerful to see that response from him so emotional. that doctor in seeing the hospital that was hit, is there any sense of the scale of how many hospitals have been destroyed and hit with the air strikes? >> we did research before this story and we wanted to know how widespread this was, and the russian regime said they never targeted hospitals and we looked

at a report at a doctor without borders, and they said 82 medical facilities, 82 medical facilities hit last year, and 12 of them were absolutely destroyed by those hits, and i just wanted to give you a couple other figures that stayed with me from this report, and just that area in northwestern syrian area, 462 children under the age of 5 were killed last year, and in and around damascus rebel-held area, 420 children were killed, and very much civilians in the process. >> that doctor and others that you spoke to, what are their sense of the peace talks going on in geneva? >> they want their lives to improve and at the same time they don't feel their voice and

their needs are being represented or heard in geneva. they feel they are unwitting pons in the game of chess. they have very little faith they will lead to any long lasting peace. >> terrific and amazing reporting. you can get more by going to cnn.com/syria. and more news this morning, including donald trump's fallout. >> i think you would have problems like you have never seen before. >> there would be a tremendous disturbance. >> that doesn't make him strong, it makes him wrong. >> i think you would have riots. i am representing many millions of people. >> i don't think it's unreasonable to ask our colleagues to put this off.

>> today i am not -- nominating merrick -- >> we hope the saner heads of the republican party do their job. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. after a successful super tuesday, trump is wasting no time turning his attention to hillary clinton, and it shows hillary clinton barking like a dog. good morning, phil. >> reporter: there are three candidates left in the republican race but only one clear frontrunner. donald trump using that poll position to scuttle debates and

issue a stark brush back to republican leaders. >> i think you would have problems like you have never seen before. >> donald trump warning his supporters could riot if he is denied the nomination in a live interview on new day on wednesday. >> we're way ahead on everybody, and i don't think you can say we don't get it automatically. i think you would have riots. >> the gop facing the real possibility of a contested convention if no delegate meets the nomination? >> that would be a disaster. >> ben carson reiterating that sentiment. >> no question there would be a lot of turmoil if the establishment tries to thwart the will of the people. >> all of these stories are going to continue and everybody is going to have opinions and they are going to get people stirred up but those delegates will vote on the first ballot as

they are bound to vote under the law. >> and i assume he is speaking configuratively, and if we go in the convention, whoever gets 1,237 delegates is the nominee, and it's plain and simple. >> he is dropping his first attack ad aimed at the democratic frontrunner, hillary clinton. >> trump foreshadowing his plans to go after hillary clinton after fox's last gop debate. >> i have not started on hillary yet. believe me, i will start soon. >> this week pledging to skip their next debate forcing fox to pull the plug. >> how many times can the same people ask you the same question. i won't be there, no. >> top republican officials are trying to down play what trump said about possible riots, but you have to look at it through the spectrum of the last couple

of weeks, the rising tensions and the rising tension in chicago, and if you talk to republican officials behind the scenes there's lot of concern and has been leading up to this point and these comments adding fuel to the fire. >> everybody needs to take a deep and cleansing breath, phil. >> and then a showdown on capitol hill as leaders on both sides of the aisle sound off for the supreme court pick. and the republicans vowing to block the nomination. senior political reporter is live in washington. >> the supreme court fight begins in earnest today as the nominee meets with harry reid, and the republicans are fighting to hang on to the thin majority. right now republicans are betting their base will reward them for standing firm against the president's nominee. >> give the people a voice in

filling this vacancy. >> senate republicans declaring president obama's choice for supreme court dead on arrival. >> widely recognized, not only as one of america's sharpest legal minds but somebody who brings to his work a spirit of decency and modesty and integrity. >> the president touting garland as a consensus nominee. he worked on high-profile cases like the oklahoma city bombing and unabomber as a long-time justice court lawyer and prosecutor. >> put this off until after the next president is elected. >> it seems clear that president obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed but in order to politicize it for purposes of

the election. >> majority leader, mitch mcconnell, calling garland to say he will not meet with him or get a confirmation hearing? >> that is impossible to defend. >> some warning more constructionism could flip the control of the gop-led chamber to flip in november. >> we hope the saner heads in the republican party will prevail. >> some standing firm in the republican leadership. >> if i do meet with him it may not be a good use of his time because i am not going to change my position. >> garland got emotional at yesterday's announcement having been passed over twice for the highest seat in the court. >> this is the greatest honor of my life, other than my wife agreeing to marry me 28 years ago.

>> democrats believe their best chance at getting garr hrupd confirmed is to force more senate republicans to defect and they acknowledge their campaign needs to show results by july when both sides head into the conventions. >> that is going to be a tough deadline to meet. let's discuss this with the white house chief of staff, denis mcdonough. >> happy st. patrick's day, chris. >> same to you, as well. and looking at somebody to fill the vacancy of antonin scalia. judge garland well respected and sits atop the second highest court in the land, the d.c. circuit. you are hearing from your gop brothers and sisters, and it's

not about garland, don't waste the pick, and let the people decide. what is your rebuttal? >> the people have decided. obviously the president was elected to serve four years and senators are elected to serve six so we should get this done, the president submitted a nominee without question the experience and excellence. now the senate should do its job. >> and then senator barack obama in 2006 argued against election year appointments, against then alitos when he was being nominated, and chuck schumer and joe biden are arguing the same perspective the republicans are now, and are you trying to have it both ways? >> no, we are trying to do what the constitution says, and give

him a hearing and get him on into the court. i don't remember the president making the argument you just suggested, chris. instead what i remember what happened with justice alito and justice roberts is that they had meetings and hearings and votes and then they were confirmed to the supreme court. we should be afforded judge garland, a person of unquestioned excellence, remarkable experience, including leading the federal effort against look into the oklahoma city bombings. he should be afforded that same constitutional set of responsibilities. >> i am referring to when then senator obama was trying to filibuster the confirmation on alito. you remember that.

>> let's be clear on what happened at the time. there were meetings and hearings and votes, and then there were several votes on the senate floor to end the debate and then the vote to make sure that he got on to the supreme court. so we would like to see the exact same process. it's not that we would like to see it, and this is what the constitution requires. senators should work the full six years of their time in office. the average supreme court nomination, chris, is completed in 67 days from announcement to confirmation, and that's exactly what -- they have plenty of time to do that in this instance as well. >> do you think they will get it done? >> i do. i think it's the right thing for the country, and as i said to you this morning, throughout the papers this morning, you can't find a bad word about judge garland, and that's because he is a person of remarkable experience and a person of remarkable decency, and he is a

judge that is uniformly among republicans and democrats seen as somebody with the kind of temperament and the kind of excellence that should be, you know, represented on the supreme court. given that set of facts, my guess is the politics of this wash away and we end up filling this vacancy as we have done now for years. >> it's hard to dispute what you did about judge garland. >> he is a remarkable skwraourists, i have to say. he led the effort in oklahoma city and in the kwraouunabomber republicans and democrats have said to president obama, this is the kind of person we want to have on the supreme court, and they have that opportunity now. >> what gives you the confidence you will get senator mcconnell to move? he is saying no. >> what gives me the confidence is judge garland's remarkable

qualifications and i have great faith in the constitution, and it served us well over more than two centuries, and we ought not to throw it out now. and what the majority leader is suggesting there position is now, it's unprecedented in the history of the united states senate. i think that's a mistake. the president suggested yesterday that would wind up politicizing the supreme court. i think is that just too high a price to pay for some kind of political outcome up there on capitol hill. my sense is they will come around to this, and we will have a hearing and vote and that vacancy will be filled. >> while i have you, let me employ your unique gift for strategy at a job you would never want, would be my suspicion, if you were working on the gop side right now, donald trump coming in strong, and let's say he does have 1,150 delegates as he gets to the convention and he suggested here

on "new day," if they don't give it to me when i have that many, there could be riots, and my sense at the time was he was being hyperballic, but that he was threatening riots and he did not say he was going to lead riots but it could happen, and if he comes in with that many, how do you deny him the nomination? >> i don't know if this is good for mr. trump or the republican party, but i have a hard time -- >> oh, don't punt. it's st. patrick's day. chase the snakes away. >> i have enough snakes to chase away as it is, and i will rely on st. patrick to do all that. i will leave it up to the ru th republicans. >> are you surprised how much they are using trump, and they are using him as a simple of everything wrong with the country. are you surprised by their

disposition? >> one thing i am super proud of, if you look at the course of the last ten years of this country, i think all of the ideas, frankly, that are driving political thought and debates in washington are democratic ideas. we're the idea's party now. i see speaker ryan doing a lot of work and wants to turn republicans from a party of opposition to a party of preparation, and it's clear to me they have a lot of work to do on that, and it's not good when all the ideas are coming from one party and it's not good for the country when all the ideas are coming from one party, and i am hopefully they will have discussions sometime soon, and regrettably we don't see that from congress, and we are going to keep doing our job and i hope they come along. >> thank you very much and let's see if you can get these hearings done. again, happy st. patrick's day to you. now to an interesting

development in the clinton e-mail saga. she made multiple requests for a secure government smartphone in 2009, but those requests were rejected by the nsa. officials say the rejection was because of security vulnerabilities. this information coming to light in e-mails obtained by judicial watch. and clinton ended up with a private server, a move she said was a mistake. a video shows a trump support supporter punching a man. the deputies there have been suspended. and the uber driver that

shot people sues uber. he fans for michelle obama hoping for a possible run for the white house will have to look elsewhere. listen to what she told the crowd in texas. >> i will not run for president. no, no, not going to do it. and here's one of the reasons why, because i have these two young people at home, and being the kids -- the daughters of a president, just think about it. come on, young people, not so easy. they have handled it with grace and poise, but enough is enough. >> she went on to say that she wants to, quote, impact as many people as possible in an unbiased way when she leaves the

white house in january. >> she said she was going to be the mom in chief. she stuck by her word on that. >> she clearly does not love the game. it wears on her, and understandably -- >> can't imagine why. >> understandably so. understandably so. donald trump warning of riots if he isn't the gop nominee this summer. could there be violent backlash if he is denied the nomination? we will speak with a lawmaker who supports trump. we've created a new company. ♪ one totally focused on what's next for your business. a true partnership where people, technology and ideas push everyone forward. accelerating innovation. accelerating transformation. accelerating next. hewlett packard enterprise. ♪

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what happens if donald trump does not hit the magic 1,237 number of delegates to secure the nomination? on this show yesterday trump warned of riots if he is not the gop nominee at a contested convention. joining us now, congressman chris collins, the first congressman to support donald trump. good morning, congressman. >> good morning, and happy st.

paddy's day. >> since let me play for you wh donald trump told chris on our show yesterday what he predicts if he doesn't get to the 1,237 number. >> i think you would have riots. i think you would have riots. i am representing a tremendous -- millions of people. these are people that have not voted because they never believed in the system and didn't like candidate, et cetera, et cetera, and if you disinfranchise those people and say i am sorry, you are 100 votes short, i think you would have problems like you never have seen before, and i think bad things would happen, i wouldn't lead it but i think bad things would happen. >> some people interpret that as a threat. was it? >> no, i think it was a rhetorical -- first of all, he's going to be the nominee.

if he shows up with 1,100 delegates and the next person is 500 or 600 behind him, no question he will have this on the first vote. there is not going to be a contested situation with a second and third and fourth vote. what you are already seeing, certainly on the house floor yesterday, most members were coming up to me knowing i was the first member to endorse donald trump saying let's just move on and take the fight to hillary clinton, and let's unite behind our nominee, which is donald trump, and let's just move forward and i think you are already seeing this, and i thought it was a good move for mr. trump to decide, let's stop the infighting and it's time to coalesce behind trump, and so i think it was a good day yesterday as i think the shift in our conference on the house floor and the shift in the republican party is recognizing, donald trump is going to be the nominee.

>> that's not what ted cruz and john kasich are recognizing. what if he doesn't get to 1,100? what if ted cruz and john kasich are within striking distance. do you predict there would be riots? >> nobody wants to see riots, and you can't protkeubgt, and the donald trump base would be extraordinarily upset, and the thought that the, quote, power brokers are others would try and snatch this nomination away from donald trump that won in the north, the east, the south and the west with racking up numbers that we just saw this past tuesday night, number one, i don't think he will be stopped short of 1,237, if he is, he will have anywhere from 1,050 to 1150, and i believe on the first ballot, the delegates understanding the rationale.

>> i am not talking about some establishment figure parachuting in, i am saying, what if fair and square john kasich and ted cruz make it closer to that number, and nobody makes it close to 1,100. it sounds like donald trump is sending a signal to his supporters they should do something if he is denied the nomination? >> no, i don't think that's the case at all. the message is really let's move on. he is going to be the nominee. when you look at the rules of the convention, as currently written, and who is even on the ballot for the first round, somebody has to win a majority of delegates in eight states, and that certainly not going to put some of these folks like governor kasich even on the ballot for the first round. i am confident, donald trump will be the nominee, and i think, again, you are seeing the shift already with people saying enough of the infighting, and

it's time to understand we have to defeat hillary clinton, whether it's the future of the supreme court and we need a leader that will stand up to vladimir putin and the ayatollah, and donald trump is that leader and i am confident he will be the nominee, and all the comments were rhetorical in nature. donald trump has really north, east, south and west. his support is energized and real. >> congressman, this is where it gets challenging. it sometimes hard to know when donald trump is using a rhetorical flourish or joking or being serious. it's hard to know. so when he says i am -- i mean, he says it as plainly as he possibly can, i believe it, this is what would happen, and you have to take this very seriously, and there would be rioting, that sounds like he is serious. >> well, again, at the end he said, and i would certainly

never call for anyone to riot, and you have got to understand, that's what he is saying. i think, again, rhetorically, he is saying, and he is right, his supporte supporters, which are both democrats and republicans, with energy, the kind of energy we are seeing in this cycle that we have never seen before compared to the democrats, they would be extraordinarily upset, and we would have to see that play out. but the best thing is let's get donald trump to 1,237, and it becomes a moot point and i believe he will be there, and i also believe and you are hearing other establishment folks, if he is 100 short, he will get it on the first ballot. >> thank you so much for joining us on "new day." d.c. court of appeals chief judge merrick garland has been named as obama's pick to the supreme court, and we will learn more about who he is from two people that know garland well. (avo) my name is pamela and i've been making

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judge merrick garland is facing a long nomination battle

if he is to become the next supreme court justice, so how will garland handle the process and what is he like behind the scenes, and why is he the man that president obama chose in the first place? let's ask two people that know him well. attorney beth wilkinson also worked with him, and her wedding to david gregory official by garland. for a judge to be worthy of such trust he or she must be faithful to the constitution. he or she must put aside his personal views or preferences and follow the law, not make it. >> this is the correct answer, jamie, and certainly it should

be music to gop ears if they believe it. can you tell us some insight from you about this man, judge garland, in terms of whether or not that is what he is about, what he just said. >> what you just heard is what you get with merrick garland. merrick is a man whose judicial philosophy is quite modest and he has opinions and reaches decisions but he does not reach for an ideological position. he is probably the least ideological nominee you could imagine. >> beth, when we hear about this judge, oklahoma city, and that's why i like that both come with that credential. what was so impressive about what happened during his tenure under the investigation during that trial? >> you know, merrick was able to bring his intelligence, his decisiveness, his calmness and

compassion to a situation that was so extraordinary, the country was in turmoil, and he flew out and took charge of the court appearances, and he walked the streets with the victims and the law enforcement, and he provided compassion and understanding to all of these people while showing kind of a leadership that everybody wanted in that type of situation. he is just an extraordinary guy and you feel like you are in great hands when you are around him, and you feel like there is nothing political about the decisions he is making and he is meticulous and careful and understanding and i can't imagine anybody that could bring more high pressure and praise. >> he is head of the d.c. circuit often called the second most important court in the land. what makes him different? >> as beth just said, he combines a number of

characteristics which you have seen in his career, whether it was taking charge of the oklahoma city bombing case or his stewartship of the unabomber case or the peace and tranquility that he brought to the d.c. circuit, a court which was not a happy place before his chief judgeship. he is really smart. he is very careful. he is a sweet person. you could see that yesterday in his remarks. there's a sweetness to him. as beth said, he cares about how the law affects people. beth came on to the trial team, was one of the handpicked trial members, and merrick came on and the reason he was there we needed somebody that would make sure we had a flawless prosecution and who would relate

to the victims and coordinate law enforcement, and he brought all of those qualities and then a great deal of heart to that process. i think he would be a spectacular justice. >> beth, you have a special connection here, not just a professional one, but you had him officiate your marriage to a guy named david gregory. are you worried about your friend, judge garland, going through the ugly, ugly process knowing there is so much stacked against him? >> not at all. he knows who he is, and he has an extraordinary wife and children, and he is an over protective and loving father, and he is a good person and knows who he is, and he's not a political person. i think he will, you know, make all of us proud as he goes through this process and whatever happens, i know he will keep his head on his shoulders and will remember what his real job is right now, which is to be the chief judge of the d.c. circuit court. i think he will be magnificent.

>> in terms of obviously there's a lot of politics at play, and we keep hearing the word constitution but this is not about the constitutions but it's about what the politicians want to do. do you think this is going to wind up in a hearing? what does your gut tell you what is going to happen? >> it tells me it's a whole lot harder to say no, i won't meet with somebody or consider a judge when it's a real person, and that real person, merrick garland is somebody that has very broad support throughout the legal community, republicans, democrats, and you can see that reflected in many of the comments of the senators who know him, so i just have to be optimistic about this. he is so right for the court. i just think the logic of his appointment will prevail. >> counselors, thank you very much for your perspective and profession opinion on garland.

if donald trump is the republican nominee, do the democrats have the general election in the bag? some warn it would be a big mistake to underestimate the donald? we will speak with the top democrat next.

you don't have to ask me the trouble republicans are in, ask mitch mcconnell. he said if trump is the nominee republicans should run on their own. it never serves a party well to be divided with their presidential candidate. >> the idea of donald trump

being the republican nominee is a dream come true for some democrats which means a trump nomination means a divided gop and a win for the democrats in november. are they underestimating donald trump. we welcome the chairman of the democratic campaign committee. why do you and some of your fellow democrats, we just heard from shuck schumer, think this should be manna from heaven. >> i pray every day we don't have a president donald trump. i think there's a lot of concern across america when you have somebody running for united states spewing the hate donald trump is, but he created a lot of optimism for me as a democrat and a lot of democrats across the country with opportunities. what we know as democrats what paul ryans know as speaker of

the house as a republic, donald trump is bad for the gop ballot. >> let me question you and challenge you about that, congressman, because he is bringing in new people to vote. the voter turnout is up on the republican side. independents are voting for him and some democrats are switching over. is it possible you are underestimating his appeal? >> well, alisyn, i never underestimate anybody. that's how i was raised, you take everybody seriously. these are not my numbers i am using to validate why donald trump is bad for the ballot, but when there was commissioned polling before the republican retreat it was the republican polling that showed 48% of people across the country are less likely to report a republican down ballot as a congressional house member if donald trump is on the balanlot so these are their numbers.

it's republicans that are more concerned about donald trump than anybody across the country. >> well, some democrats are also concerned about him becoming the possible nominee, and david plouffe who was president obama's campaign manager in 2008 talked about the peril of underestimating donald trump. >> he is unpredictable and he could lose in an epic landslide, but as you see, he is bringing new people out and has appeal to blue collar voters and he will run a very unorthodoxed campaign, and he will inbound there face every day. >> your argument, it could help divide the gop, but it also could be really damaging to hillary clinton, particularly since he has said he plans to throw the kitchen sink at her. >> well, donald trump has proven

not only is he willing to throw the kitchen sink at somebody, he is willing to throw the sewage plumbing at people at well, and he is reaching into the bowels of whatever he has left to insult americans, and that's what is concerning about donald trump. here is what i have, when you have somebody running for the united states, that made it okay to say the statements full of b bigotry, and i believe it's donald trump who is going to be his own worst enemy. i am not the one that is most concerned, these are republicans everywhere around the country. it's why paul ryan and mcconnell are trying to show division. today paul ryan is bringing a piece of legislation to the floor asking the house to take a vote on a brief that is more

about the party of trump than anything else, which is hateful towards immigrants. this is one example of how donald trump has taken over the house and it's the donald trump party and not the gop. >> he said that nothing is off limits if he is the nominee, and he plans to dredge up her past and skeletons in her husband's past, and do you think she and the country could endure a protracted fight like that? >> i believe when we see republicans across the country like marco rubio and ted cruz trying to take down donald trump, the reason it has not worked is because they are not great messages or authentic, and donald trump has said the same anti-muslim and hateful rhetoric, so there's not a good contrast. we as democrats are having a thoughtful debate on policies

and ideas, so when independents across the country and millennials, and people and old people, and they are go into the general election it's going to be abundantly clear and that's what we are going to make sure that people across the country are showing up at the polls and beating trump on the ballot. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> you can tweet us on new day or post your comments on facebook.com/newday. journalists jorge ramos challenging donald trump at a news conference. it did not go well, or did it? this is not the first time that ramos has provoked a confrontati confrontation, and he has a new book and wants to tell you why this was necessary to do with donald trump, defending it to the end. you both have a

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there are a million different theories about donald trump and the media. you see all kinds of confrontations, all kind of theories.

but jorge ram's stands out. gave a window into trump and ra mos. was he grand standing to make a point all his own? he takes this on in a new back "take a stand:less con ons from rebels." >> i like in spanish. >> the trillioanslation would b fearless. let's play it. >> sit down. sit down. >> i'm a senior citizen i have a right to. >> no you don't. you haven't been called. go back to univision. you weren't called. >> don't touch me sir. you cannot touch me.

i have the right to ask a question. >> you are very rude it is not about you. >> it's not about. >> this is not about you. get out of my country. get out. >> i know it's always important to you to show the second part of that exchange. >> i think it is very dangerous ha that potential candidate attacks a group, an ethnic group. and hen he says go back to immigration that is code word for get out of here. the kind of hatred donald trump has been promoting since june 16th. and i wonder nine months ago where were the press, the parties? >> what do you mean where were they? >> exactly. most of the time they say this candidate can't make it.

it is not dangerous. and now everybody is attacking him but it is probably way too late. >> do you think you went over the line with how you did that as a journalist. >> i don't think so. when you are attacking a group, mexican immigrant, muslim, women. you have to take a stand. that is a social responsibility we have as journalists is to prevent the abuse of those who are in power and to confront those who are in power. in this case donald trump. >> what is the difference between a stand and a stunt. >> well i think when it is on tv it is not easy. we are in a studio. everything is produced. nothing is easy. you produce tv. that moment where i was with donald trump, it was produced. there were three cameras. everybody knew what was going on and we knew what was going on and donald trump knew exactly what was happening. >> things happen. there is no question things can get tense. they can get hostile. the question is whether or not i you did on that purpose because

you knew he would kick you out. and it makes you look like a victim when in fact you were being provocative. >> when he's attacking mexican immigrants and saying they are rapists and criminals and drug traffic irs he's absolutely wrong. all the studies suggest that most immigrants are not criminals or rapists or terrorist and immigrants are less likely because they don't want to get in trouble with the police. and 40% of all undocumented im -- >> visa. >> that's the kind of rhetoric he's been pushing. and now is he surprised to see protesters confronting him? of course not. i'm not surprised. >> why am i asking. we are cut in the same cloth. we give very direct interviews.

i get painted with the same brush. very often people say you are not interviewing trump. you are arguing. it is an interesting line. i got that you were going to be criticized. because it comes to, well what is the promise premise of your question? i don't like the wall. i don't like how you treat immigrants. that is an opinion. >> you have to reason i'm working for spanish language network. and the fact is the vast majority of immigrants don't agree with what donald trump is doing. so what do we do? you have to bring that issue and address it to the candidate? >> the hillary clinton town hall. good focus on what mattered. you got a lot of kudos. when you asked the question about if you were dieted are you going stay in the race? what is the basis? provocative. provocative. where do you get the suggestion that if she's dieted? where does that come from?

>> very simple reason. there is an fbi investigation. >> do we even know there is a grand jury. >> there is a possibility. many people think that because of the majority of latinos vote for the democratic party that are we supposed -- am i supposed to treat democrats different than republicans? absolutely not. the democrat party they don't have a plan b. what happens, what happens? is that a possibility. >> it is a very remote possibility -- >> we don't know. >> no we know that it is a remote possibility because we know there is no grand -- we don't know if there is even a grand jury. and the fbi -- i know you know this. the fbi doesn't indict. >> we're not even at that point. they haven't even recommended anything. >> i think my responsibility is to ask tough questions to all the candidates, democrats and republicans. and we have to do that. at the end, i think it is always better to ask a question than not to do that. how many times have you had an

interview and then you finish the interview, you go home and you say i should have asked that question. >> every time. >> happens to me every time i'd rather be criticized for asking than not asking a question. >> it is always interesting to hear people's incite into how they felt going into something and why they did it even though it may be viewed many different ways. your intention may differ from the reaction. >> particularly interesting to hear from him because he became this symbol of the fight against trump. >> is he an advocate? is he a journalist. what i like about jorge is he's not blindsed by this. he knows how people are going to see things and he goes in with his eyes open. i was testing him as part of helping him make his points. i will now get blamed for being

against jorge ramos and protecting clinton and protecting trump. and that is how it works. you have to be open that criticism. >> you should stop reading twitter. >> i -- >> i delete. i'll show you where the delete button is. >> they say don't -- they say you shouldn't read it. we all read it. we all read it. >> i really don't -- >> oh she's so -- >> all right. following the news. let's get the latest in donald trump's latest controversial comments. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

good morning. welcome to you "new day." thursday mar 17th, 8:00 in the east. happy st. patrick's day to you all. donald trump in the media again. he said that if i go into the convention all of these delegates and i don't get the nomination there could be riots. >> trump now turning his focus to november and hillary clinton. he just released a new video questioning her toughness and mocking her for barking like a dog. let's begin our coverage with

cnn's phil mattingly. he's live in philadelphia with more. >> reporter: well the day of the third super tuesday was supposed to be one for the dust to settle and get a measure of the republican race going forward. instead it was all about the front runner once again dominating the conversation, putting an end to one debate and a start to a lot of real concerns about what could happen in the convention in a couple months. >> i think he would have problems like you have never soon before. >> reporter: donald trump warning h warning people could riot. >> we're way ahead of everybody. i don't think you could say we don't get it automatically. i think there would be riots. >> reporter: if no candidate makes the threshold. >> that would be a disaster. thinkty people would quite rightly revolt.

>> ben carson reiterating the sentiment. >> there is no question there would be a lot of turmoil if the establishment tries to thwart the will of the people. >> but party leaders are downplaying that possibility. >> all of these stories are going to continue. and everyone is going to have opinions and they are going the get people stirred up. but those delegates will vote on the first ballot as they are bound to vote under the law. >> and he's dismissing trump's warning if. >> if we go into a convention whoever gets 1237 the delegates becomes the nominee. >> trump dropping his first attack ad aimed at the democratic front runner hillary clinton painting her as too weak to go up against opponents of the u.s. trump foreshadowing his plans to go after secretary clinton earlier this month during fox's last gop debate. >> i have not started on hillary

yet. believe me i will start soon. >> this week he's pledging to skip their next debate forcing fox to pull the plug. >> how many times can the same people ask you the same question. i won't be there in, no. >> party officials have obviously had security concerns about the convention for months. they always prepare for that. it's always a magnet for them. general every four years. what happened yesterday with donald trump really kind of ratcheted up the pressure a little bit. there's been concern behind the scenes about the tone and tenor of this race increasing with what we saw in cleveland and some of the violence at some of the rallies 245 we've seen. what donald trump said yesterday really underscoring potential problems ahead. republican officials not totally sure how to handle those problems yet. >> meanwhile on the democratic site hillary clinton is also pivoting to the general election. underdog bernie sanders not giving up. he's marching onto the next contest out west insisting he

can still win. joe johns is out west in phoenix. hay joe. >> good morning michaela. in fundraising e-mails the hillary clinton campaign suggesting that donald trump would be dangerous as president. and now democrats in congress chiming in. one top democrat expanding on the argument we've heard before that a donald trump candidacy in the general election would effectively help democrats pick up seats on capitol hill. listen. >> donald trump has created a lot of optimism for me as a democrat, as well as democrats across the country with opportunities. what we know as democrats is what paul ryan knows as speaker of the house and as republican. donald trump is bad for the gop ballot. >> the democrats running for the

now expanding to the west and other places. hillary clinton just put out three new television ads including one featuring former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords talking about gun control. bernie sanders traveling in the west, arizona, id and utah. so the race continues. >> here now to discuss trump's warnings about potential riot, utah republican congressman, jason chaifts. the chairman of the house oversight committee which will question people today on the flint water crisis. more on that in a moment. >> good morning. top of the morning to you. >> i see your handsome green tie. everybody in congress seems to be celebrating today. >> yep, yep. it's a fun day. >> great. congressman, i want to ask about something donald trump said on air yesterday. he made a troubling prediction

about what would happen at the convention if he did not get somehow to the 1237 delegates needed. let me play this for you. >> if we didn't and if we're 20 votes short or if we're a hundred short and we're at 1100 and someone else is at 500 or 400 because we're way ahead of everybody. i don't think you could say we don't get it automatically. i think you would have riots. i think you would have problems like you have never seen before. i think bad things would happen. i really do. i wouldn't lead it but i think bad things would happen. >> how do you interpret that? >> it's a bit sensational. but look, if he's that far ahead that is going to be taken into the deep consideration. but you have to go all the way to the finish line. he's just past the halfway point and you have to get all the way to the finish line. so this is not yet over.

and you actually have to win the race. you can't just say well, i got close. >> sort of. do you have to get to the 1237? or if he gets close? then is it given to him because he's still the front runner? >> well they gather and if you have to go to a is second ballot you are to go to a second ballot. he would have a strong case if he has a wide margin. there is still a lot to be played. utah coming up and other states that haven't weighed in yet and california and other big places. so let's see where this things goes. >> he seemed to be telegraphing possibly a suggestion or prediction that his supporters will not go lightly. and that they would riot if he weren't the nominee. does that trouble you? >> i don't know that there would be riots. but look, on the positive side donald trump is actually brought a lot of new people to the race. if you look at nevada compared

to when romney one that caucus four years ago, this race where donald trump participated, more than twice the number of people showed up to vote. so the enthusiasm gap t story that you ran prior, hillary clinton's got a big problem. because i went to some of those caucus meetings in nevada. and they had very few, very light turn out with the democrats. donald trump legitimately is bringing a lot of new people to the process and that is a good thing for republicans. >> okay. congressman. so why not endorse him? >> you know what? the voters are smart enough to figure this out all by themselves. i did endorse marco rubio but i'll support the republican ticket and the voters will figure this out. >> like you, governor haley supported rubio and she has come out and chosen to endorse ted cruz. let my play this for you. >> my hope and my prayer is that senator cruz can come through this and that he can push

through and really get to where he needs to go. >> okay. so now that marco rubio is out. why don't you endorse someone? >> i'm going to endorse the nominee. that is what i intend to do. and we have the vote there tuesday. i think ted cruz is going to do exceptionally well. he's a rock solid conservative. he's got a lot to offer. and it is a different dynamic with marco out of the race and now you have ted cruz that really can garden they are conservative viewpoint. so, again, this is why cnn and so many people are going to keep watching cnn because we do have a horse race. >> we sure do. let's talk about there in congress today. leading this hearing where you are calling governor snyder of michigan to testify about the water crisis. what questions do you have for him? >> not only the governor of michigan but the epa administer also. because there is a catastrophic failure at every level. the local, county, state level certainly and then the epa, who

knew about this for a long, long period of time and didn't do anything. so this is the third in a series of hearings. it is a really tragic event. i was there in flint michigan back on saturday. i just can't even imagine having to for more than a year now take showers with bottles of water and not be able to drink the water and they're paying the highest water rates in the country. this is a real tragedy and we want to get to the bottom of it. >> the epa says they were lied to by michigan officials. do you believe governor rick snyder new about the scope of this problem more and earlier than he's let on? >> i see no evidence in that. what i do see is when he does know about this that he does start to take action. i do think there were people that were not as candid with te governor as possible. he's actually dismissed and

fired some of those people. but the epa started to investigate this in february of last year. and it wasn't until january of this year they actually did something about it. we are talking about a hundred thousand people who are drinking lead laced water. you had congressman killdee, a democrat jumping up and down about this with the epa. they knew about it. but they kind of suppressed it. they even told the local mayor don't worry about this report. we haven't finalized it yet. so about seven months later people continued to drink the water. >> congressman, what do you think of judge garland, president obama's pick for supreme court? >> well he's a talented person but i don't think the senate is going to bring it up. look i'm in the house of representatives. but when joe biden was the center of the senate judiciary committee and made the case it was too close to the election to actually confirm somebody. democrats are going to have a

really hard time trying to demand the high ground. i think they have made it clear they are not going to vote on this until after the election. >> thanks so much for being on "new day." let's get over to chris. >> a political throw down on capitol hill. it's not so much who he picked but that he picked anyone at all. lawmakers are doubling down on promises to not hold hears for merrick garland's nomination process. manu raju is live in washington with the very latest. what is the chance of progress my friend? >> reporter: hey chris, looks pretty slim at this point. judge garland does meet with senior senate democrats this afternoon. but only a hand full of republicans are even willing to meet with the nominee. that hard line has major ramifications in a election year are republicans are at risk of

losing power in the chamber. but the gop is promising that a firewall against the supreme court nominee will rally the base in november. >> give the people a voice in filling this vacancy. >> reporter: senate republicans ensuring this choice for supreme court dead on arrival. >> not only one of the sharpest legal minds but someone who brings to his work a sense of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence. >> reporter: the president pounding merrick garland with more experience than any other nominee in history. worked on high profile cases like the oklahoma city bombing and the unibomber as a long time justice lawyer and federal prosecutor. >> put this off until after the next president is elected. >> reporter: but republicans argue it is about principle. saying american voters should

first elect a new president. >> it is clear president obama made this nominee not with the intent of seeing it affirmed but in order to politicize it for the election. >> that principle has no history, no precedent and is virtually impossible to defend. >> reporter: democrats urging their counterparts to do their job. >> give president obama's nominee a meeting a hearing and a vote. >> we hope the saner heads in the republican party will prevail. >> but several and tough reelection races standing firm with republican leadership. >> if i meet with him it may not be a good use of him time. >> reporter: for his part garland got emotional at yesterday's announcement, having been passed over twice for a seat on the high court. >> this is the greatest honor of

my life. other than lana agreeing to marry my 28 years ago. >> since such proceedings have become common practice more ththan some years ago. mark kirk of illinois. knockouts believe they need to force other gop things before the conventions in july or they may have to wait until next year. some breaking news out of the state department. the united states will classify isis atrocities in iraq and syria a genocide. secretary of state kerry will make this announcement this morning. it is the first time the united states is declaring a genocide since darfur in 2004. >> primary wins getting lots of attention, not always the kind he likes.

late night comics taking their pot shots. here is our look at the late night laughs. >> donald trump won every priepry last night except for ohio. and donald trump didn't seem to mind. the word ohio is filled with zeros. and looks like he hit a really significant number. take a look at the number. yeah. when trump said he wassed good at making deals. i didn't know he was that good. >> donald trump won yesterday's republican primaries in florida, illinois and north carolina. trump did especially well with white males, caucasian men, and non women of no color. >> that's a specific group. [ laughter ] >> i like the reference made there with the 666. >> they're having fun with it. and there's much time to go.

>> all right. hillary clinton and donald trump don't agree on much but they are both getting knocked around on one mutual weak spot. likability. which candidate is more likely to overcome that problem? when heartburn hits

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hillary clinton, donald trump both in solid position atop the runner board in both

parties. they are not alike in most ways and they are certainly going to be a study in contrast if they wind up facing each other in the general. however they do share something that neither will be happy about. high negatives. let's discuss. margaret hoover is a former george w. bush white house staffer and veteran of two gop campaigns and cnn political analyst john avalon, editor in chief of the daily beast. you are laughing at me. did i say something wrong in the intro? what did i say? >> judge -- >> i corrected it. mock me not sir. it is good to see you both this is going to be a potentially historic general election on many fronts one of them maybe that this may be the first time that each party picks its least-liked candidate. what we call plus/minus very

often. some of the most recent numbers we have here at cnn that measure straight likability. favorable, unfavorable. donald trump, hillary clinton's numbers. also similarly what we call in the business, upside down. higher negatives than positives. have you ever seen that before where the two choices in the parties come up upside down. >> not two choices but both are deep underwater. usually the question is who do you want to get a beer with? here we're deep in double negative territory. this is unprecedented to that extent. you are dealing with candidates who are being elevated in part because of their unlikability in the case of donald trump. or in the case of hillary clinton. >> aren't you supposed to be liked over anything else when it comes to politics? >> yeah, except in the twilight zone in 2016. >> especially on the republican

side. we've seen this in the republican primary. donald trump is reflecting the anger. we hear it over and over and over again. >> what about an the democratic side? how is it that the candidate with the higher negative is winning right now? >> what's key is not her general favorability/unfavorability numbers. as much as who they are unfavorable with which which constituencies they need to win in the general election. hillary clinton has to put together the obama group. and the key for her women and minorities. and even though she's not demonstrating as much enthusiasm in the primary with those groups of people. nobody could probably turn as enthusiasm in the general as much as donald trump. donald trump in terms of people disliking him and coming out to vote for hillary because they vote for donald trump. his upside down numbers, 76%

unfavorable. >> with hillary clinton t suggestion is that the likability may be closely tied to long familiarity with neutral and negative situations and honesty. look at honesty. top candidate quality. if it is honesty for you. sanders beats clinton like an egg in all the states. florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina, ohio. he's often doubling her or tripling her if not even more of a multiple. explain. >> bernie sanders, his core asset is authenticity. he believes what he says and that is part of donald trump's appeal too. a brashness that is read as authenticity. hillary clinton, her husband was called the natural in politics. she's the professional. she's all about the prose of governing rather than the poetry of campaigning. she's not a naturally campaigner. so bernie is going to win the likability but he wins the electability and that is the calculation most democrats are making. >> shares our values.

i guess there is going to be a little bit of a still sill ji to shares of value, honest, moral how you speak. >> shares our values for the republican primary numbers. and one would think a huge block as we know of republican primary voters are evangelical voters. values voters. but they have not volt forward ted cruz who would be their natural candidate. they vote forward donald trump. the thrice married, four times bankruptcy. the guy encouraging con stitches to slug each other and find the guy with the tomato and beat them up. clearly doesn't share our values but it is not about the guy who shares our values. >> what about when you have these two forces of nature collide in a general election if that is what happens? >> it is whoever is liked least is the one that wins. >> the larger imive implication is going to be the tone of the election. when you have these two negative

fronts hit each other, you are going to have a massive eruption in american politics. you are also going to see a relentlessly negative campaign. because all of the energy isn't going to be about who people want to support. the vision of hope they want to see. it is about who they hate least. and the enthusiasm to get to the voting polls is going to be to stop the other person. that is a double negative campaign cycle. it is going to be ugly. relentless, like listens to me and and will give me very hard turnout. >> give me a run off of that. >> one of the key constituency is that every democrat has tried to win is can they break into independent voters and maybe even some republican women. >> look, republican women really don't like hillary clinton. really don't like her. but do you know who they like less? donald trump. >> do we know that for a fact? as recently as a couple of weeks ago shows republican women -- >> but things can change when

the choice is truly binary. i know what i've said about john. but now it is john or margaret. sometimes people change when they have to make a choice. >> clearly both campaigns. trump is planning on the world's biggest etch a sketch. and i think you are going to see significant policy changes significantly on the trump side. but hillary clinton has a record to run on that it is tougher for her to run away from. this is going to be a fascinating campaign because it is against two folks under water -- >> tpp trans pacific partnership? >> yes. >> alisyn? >> okay. a contested convention, chris. what does that even mean? we have the answers, next. the future belongs to the fast.

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all right. the magic number for republicans, 1237. that is how many delegates a candidate needs to clinch the nomination. if no candidate hits the mark a gop goes to a contested

convention. what happens there? we brought peter in. professor, we need you to help us with this. because this is really complicated, intricate stuff. we're trying to break it down so we can understand. this is the magic number, 1237. exactly half of the delegates available. both trump and cruz want to hit that number before the convention. are likely either of them to get there? >> cruz is not. he would need roughly 80% of the remaining delegates. there is no reason to believe he can get that much. donald trump is probably only 50 percent of the remaining delegates. so donald trump does have a chance to get to the 1237 number. >> closer though. that's interesting, right? because it is not a done deal. it is not a sure thing. so assuming either one of them gets there, we know then as the convention starts, according to the analysis done by the "new

york times," 95% of those delegates are bound. does that vote automatically fail then if they go into the convention without the 1237? >> it depends how close it is. if donald trump were really close to 1237, he might be able to lure some of those people. but if he's not really, really close. then you are right. you probably go to a second ballot. >> did you say second ballot? let's go to round two. assuming that vote fails. vote two, 50%. 57% of the delegates become unbound. and the attempts to get a majority begin again. trump has always said i'm a negotiator. i'm a negotiator. what kind of negotiations. what kind of backroom conversations are happening? >> this is when things would get really really fascinating. you can imagine him going to another candidate a john kasich, and saying we've got a great job

for you if you bring some of the those delegates over. or you could bypass the candidate altogether and go straight to the delegates. hey want to come to mar-a-lago and lounge? it's really fun here. donald trump will have lots of ways of luring delegates to his side. >> and this is where we're going to see likely some of these tactics that donald trump takes that are different from what we've seen in past conventions. his negotiating skill play out a little differently. right? >> there are going to be all kind of rumors about the deals that were made. the interesting question is, is it conceivable that the anti-trump candidates, cruz, kasich, rubio, who's not in it but there are some delegates there who supports him. could they conceivably team up, come up with some kind of agreement to allow one of them or even someone who wasn't even running to get to the 1237. >> soo that is the big variable. >> that is the big variable but

that is probably harder than trump simply luring a few people over to his side. >> okay. so if we get to round three at this point 81% are unbound. and they can then vote for anybody they want. how do you see that potential scenario playing out? >> if trump can't get it on the second ballot and i think his chances are pretty high. then i think all bets are off. this is totally uncharted territory. >> this is unprecedented. >> you can go back to the twenties but it's been a very long time. it is even conceivable in those circumstances if it became clear that donald trump could not get to the 1237 and none of the other candidates could, that you could have someone who hadn't run. there are questions about whether this is possible in the rules but depending on how they write the rule, it is even conceivable that someone who is not running, a paul ryan, mitt romney, could potentially come

in and people rally around them. >> last but not least, we've got to ask you this. marco rubio. he had 171 delegates. so back to the magic number. what happens to the 171? it's complicated. because the rules are created by the states. in some states those people have to vote on the first ballot for marco rubio even though he's not in the race. and then on the second they can switch. >> each state can do different things. >> each state. and to make it even crazier. each state can rewrite the rules between now and the convention in some cases. but there will be some unbound delegates. i suspect you are going to see donald trump spending a lot of time with the unbound rubio delegates because they give him a cache to potentially push him over the edge. >> there is not going to be a pop quiz on this later?

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you have to see this next segment. when rebels took control of parts of syria. they hoped to create their own state away from bashar al assad's tierney. then russia started bombing them. courthouse, schools even a hospital all leveled. what happened to the doctors who stayed behind and survived. clarissa ward went into rebel-held syrian territory where virtually no one else has

been for the past years. great to have you back safely. tell us about this assignment. >> what was so extraordinary when you talked to people on the ground alisyn, you know, russia and the regime said it is fighting a war against terror and terrorists but when you talk to people on the ground they will tell you over and over again that it feels like a war against every day life and the main victims in that war are civilians and civilian infrastructure like hospital, like courthouses. and we took a look around at several courthouses and hospitals to find out just how dramatic the impact of that russian bombardment has been. take a look. >> it is an all too common sight in rebel-held parts of syria. the moments after an air strike. survivors stagger from the rubble. those still trapped call out for help. the target this time the

courthouse. activists say the bombs were russian. >> when rebels took the provision shl capital, they saw it as the crucial opportunity to demonstrate they could build their own state and they believe that is exactly why the russians bombed this courthouse, to undermine that effort. >> any civilian infrastructure is a potential target, including hospitals. last month four were hit in a single day. one in the city of meritonaman was supported by the doctors without borders. this is what remains of it now. at least 25 people were killed. this doctor was the jm general manager. he told us that russian and regime forces target hospitals deliberately. >> they want to kill the maximum number of people. also that it want to forbid the area from having medical

service. if there is no doctor, no nurse, no hospital, then there is no healthcare for the people and people will flee. >> is it possible they did not know this was a hospital? >> everyone knows this is a hospital. there was even a sign that said this is a hospital. but if they didn't know, this is an even bigger disaster. because if you are bombing a building like this without knowing it is a hospital, it means you are hitting totally indiscriminately. >> against the backdrop of this vicious war, islamist factions have gained the upper hand here. among them al qaeda affiliate to al nusra. the landscape is peppered with signs shunning western democracy and urging all men to join the jihad. one encouraging women to cover up completely. he works of the only hospital

still standing. he's non militant but see this is conflict in black and white. >> the whole of the syrian people is against isis. and against extremism. but we see that the russians are bombing far from isis and they are focused on civilian areas. >> i asked him why he doesn't leave syria. >> translator: if i did that, i would abandon my conscience. this is our country. we can't desert it. if we left, then we have sold our morals. who would treat the people? i can very easily leave. but we will remain steadfast.

i am prepared to die rather than to leave. and i will carry on no matter what. >> carry on in the faint hope that for the next generation of syrians, it will be better. >> oh my goodness, what a story. what a choice. his conscience or his life. so if civilian targets are truly, intentionally being targeted, what is their defense? what do they do there? >> there is no defense. i mean, this is the big problem. they can't -- look for example at this doctors without borders supported hospital. doctors without borders provides coordinates for their hospitals so that people know they are there. so that people don't attack them. there was a sign outside of the hospital saying that this was a doctors without borders supported hospital. it only seems to make them more of a target. and doctors without boardest actually released a report last year where they looked in hospitals in rebel-held areas and they found that 82 medical facilities were hit.

82 medical facilities in one year. 12 of them completely decimated. and just to give you another couple of figures because they are so astonishing. in one area in the northwest. the rebel-held area. 462 children under the age of 5 killed. 1420 women and children killed in and around damascus. it is so clear from these figures and from what we saw on the ground that civilians are the target asks they are bearing the brunt of this. >> so that doctor saying he's staying out of his principles and his conscience. do others have the resources to leave? why are others still in the areas? >> this is what was incredible to me. because there are actually. you would imagine that anyone with the resources, means and money would be on the first ticket out to europe, to turkey, to lebanon, anything to escape the bombardment. but there is a small but very steadfast core group of doctor, of lawyers, of various people who are committed to staying

inside syria and to keep on trying to carve out some semblance of normal daily life in these areas. and obviously they are hopeful. you know, this video was shot before the cessation of hostilities began. there is now some hope that perhaps with this russian withdrawal there will be some decline in the degree of bombardment. >> let's pray for that. incredible window into life there and we would have never had it without you. thank you so much. great to have you here. we have the good stuff next. rmi. because it's our mission to help you realize the rich taste that pure can bring. the smallest pinch of pure mccormick can make meals legendary. because pure tastes better.

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