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america's election headquarters i'm eric shawn. >> i'm arthel neville. good to see you this sunday morning. donald trump is not taking anything for granted. today's event in the big apple follows a massive rally at upstate new york yesterday where trump hit his main campaign themes with supporters in his home state. >> after this week, when he gets wiped out in new york, which he will -- he gets wiped out. he no longer has a road to the nomination. he will no longer, after this weekend, because it should be -- it should be pretty thorough. because who would -- after he talked about new york values and talked about it in such a disgusting way, who in new york would vote for this guy? and who in new york would vote for the other guy, who is in favor of the nafta? so you can't -- i'm sorry, folks. you have only got trump! >> all right. so senior -- our senior national correspondent john roberts is in

staten island. we'll get to him. first up this afternoon is elizabeth brand. >> hi arthel. we have a different story for you on the other side of the country. we're talking about george clooney and the each he hosted with hillary clinton. a seat at the v.i.p. table with the actor, his wife and the presidential candidate set guests back more than $535,000. just attending the event $30,000 on friday night. the next morning the actor says he agrees with vermont senator bernie sanders saying that amount of money being spent is obscene. clooney went on to say he would do the same for sanders if he were to win the nomination. take a listen. >> i really like bernie. i think what he is saying in this election is important if you are a democrat, again, to

have these conversations. i hope he stays in for the entire election. and if he were to win the nomination, i will do whatever i can, including, if asked, a fund-raiser like this. >> you can imagine protests erupted. protesters lined up outside of clooney's home as well as the event location on friday voicing frustration with the large amount of dollars spent in the campaign. at one point protesters tossed $1,000 argument of $1 bill at the motorcade. next to the average donation sanders is receiving, $27, he released an ad featuring the voices of men and women who gave $27 and why. during an interview he pivoted off her event costs linking the front-runner to wall street. >> there is something wrong when few people -- in this case, welcomy individuals, but in other instances for the

secretary it is wall street and powerful special interests who are able to contribute unbelievely large sums of money. that's not what democracy is about. that's a movement toward oligarchy. that is why we've got to overturn citizens united and i have run this campaign on the bases we are going to make it on contributions averaging $27 a piece. >> sanders will be in brooklyn, new york, today ahead of tuesday's primary. i suspect we may hear more from the democratic socialist and his criticism of clinton's fund-raising throughout the day today. back to you. >> thanks so much. meantime, donald trump, well, he has called ted cruz line ted and referred to marco rubio as little marco. now hillary clinton is firing back at drufr as he roofd referred to her as crooked hillary. >> i don't respond to donald trump and his string of insults about me. i can take care of myself. he can say whatever he wants to

say about me. i really could care less. >> clinton adding she is not upis it set about what trump calls her, but she says that his comments about women, immigrants and those with disabilities are undermining american values. other news, a threat from saudi arabia if a congressional bill that pins blame on the kingdom for 9/11 riyadh says it will sell billions of dollars in u.s. assets. that would be a financial hit. this amid growing accusations that saudi arabia did help facilitate the horrible terrorist attack on our country. this certainly will be front and center when president obama travels to saudi arabia and meets with leaders this coming week. as saudi rulers deny their government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. really? ambassador john boulton joins us now. senior fellow at the marion enterprise institute. what should the president tell

the saudis when he sits down with them on wednesday? >> i think the focus will be on other issues like iran. but i think on this legislation the president should say he is opposed to it vigorously. i think properly so. i think this bill is very misguided. the -- the argument is that private citizens should be allowed discovery against the government of saudi arabia to find out if that government was involved in 9/11. i think that's a huge mistake from the u.s. perspective. you know, the u.s. government has an opinion whether the saudi government was involved. we had an opinion about the government of afghanistan under taliban's involvement there, too. and what the u.s. government did was overthrow the taliban government. if the u.s. government thinks the saudi government was involved in 9/11, then the u.s. government ought to take the some sort of action. it is a mistake, and only -- only in overlawyered america could you believe that the

appropriate response to an agent of war is to authorize a lawsuit. >> you know a lot of people though, critics, are accusing saudi arabia of being involved. they have got the secret 28 pages that the president apparently will decide to declassify, perhaps, within 60 days, we're told. do you think that those pages as has been mentioned and alleged, do show a saudi connection to helping facilitate the hijackers that attacked us in the name of radicalis laum? >> i've never seen the 28 pages. so i don't know what's in them. i suspect as a practical matter they are going to be made public because of this controversy. let's be clear. two administrations as different as george w. bush's and barack obama's have seen not just 28 pages but hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence on the 9/11 attack and have concluded that the government of saudi arabia and its senior officials, as the 9/11 commission report itself said were not involved. but my point goes beyond the

particular issue of seaboaaudi arabia. it is not appropriate to launch thousands of individual lawsuits against a foreign government if we think they have committed an act of war against us. if we do, we should respond. let's just -- this has nothing to do with saudi arabia. you know, there are 193 governments in the united nations, 192 of which would like nothing better than to waive sovereign immunity against the united states and have tens of thousands of lawsuits filed against us. let's try to keep our eyes on the prize here and not do something that in the long term is going to be more disadvantageous to america and its citizens than miss passing this bill. >> the family victims are outraged over this. let me read you what paul sperry wrote today. quote, officials saudi assistance for at least two of the saudi citizens who sellinged in san diego.

and the saudi embassy in is transfer of some $130,000 from then saudi ambassador prince band ar's checking account. quote, the saudi ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party. you are quite right, the saudi arabiian government denies, they say the government as an ins stoot institution supported the hijackers. they say senior officials did not. they are leaving a hole a mack truck could drive through. government institution, senior officials? what about junior officials and everything else. >> if some individual funded any aspect of the 9/11 attack, by all means they can be sued. and they should be. there is no issue of sovereign immune h immuni immunity. i understand why the families of the victims of the 9/11 attack are upset. there is no question about that.

but that doesn't mean that our government should forfeit its responsibility, particularly when you think of the precedent that we would be seth. it may make us feel good or let's really be honest here. it may have some temporary political advantage in today's context, but it will cause harm to america beyond calculation in the number of lawsuits that our citizens could face in other countries down the road. >> finally quickly, what do you think will happen? >> i don't think the bill will pass. i think the president would veto it in any case. as i say, given all this fuss, let's declassify the 28 pages. get them out there. >> we'll see if the president does do that after his trip in about 60 days. we certainly will be on top of this. ambassador, always good to see you, as always, thank you for your inviting. >> thank you. for now, all eyes on new york ahead of tuesday's primary. let's go now to senior national correspondent john roberts live in staten island with the latest

from there. hi, john. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. sorry for the delay. donald trump was having a press conference here at the hilton garden inn at staten island. he received an adoresment and an award from the new york police veteran's association. hasn't been the best of weekends for him. he lost 14 delegates to ted cruz in the state of wyoming. trump is hoping to make up for it with a big night on tuesday. he leads in the new york state by a whopping margin, about 31.5 points over john kasich. more than that over ted cruz. and yesterday, at a big rally in watertown, trump pledged that cruz doesn't have much of a path forward after new york. here he is. >> after this weekend, when he gets wiped out in new york, which he will -- he gets wiped out. he no longer has a road to the nomination. he will no longer, after this week. because it should be -- it should be pretty thorough because who would -- after he talked about new york values and

talked about it in such a disgusting way, who in new york would vote for this guy? and who in new york would vote for the other guy, who is in favor of the nafta? so you can't. i'm sorry, folks, you only got trump! >> reporter: of course donald trump in the past couple of weeks has been on the war path about the delegate selection process after he was shut in and out the state of colorado. this morning at this press conference he was saying wyoming was another example of that. but he chose not to play in either wyoming or colorado. yesterday at a big rally in syracuse, he suggested that unless the republican national committee changes the rules regarding delegate selection or at least encourages the states to, that the rnc could be in for a quote, rough july. that was a big topic of conferring at the press conference. i asked him about it. he said the process should be about voters not about party bosses. he says he has a lot of supporters who are very upset about this. and he hopes there will not be

violence in july surrounding the convention. but he certainly left oef open the doctor, arthel, that his supporters will be upset if he goes in with a purality of delegates and he is denied, or if he is denied a majority prior to the convention because of the way the rules are set up. >> john roberts, thank you. another sign of russian aggression. this time, another russian fighter jet has gotten too close for comfort about our military. this time was a u.s. spy plane. it was the latest military poke in the eye by moscow over the ballotic sea and comes after two russian warplanes buzzed a u.s. navy ship twice in the past week. what is putin up to? kristin fisher has more from our washington bureau. >> reporter: the u.s. european command says this russian fighter jet did a high spieth speed and highly dangerous barrel roll over a u.s. reconnaissance plane. the wings were just 50 feet

apart. the plane was operating in international air space and never crossed into russian this comes just five days after another russian jet buzzed an american destroyer in international waters in the ballotic sea. it flew, you can see there, within 30 feet of the uss done cook. incredible and nerve-racking video. but these kinds of close encounters are going new. they have become increasingly common in recent mons as tensions between the u.s. and russia, especially in syria, continue to rise. the navy calls russia's action unsafe and unprofessional. fox news contributor lieutenant bill cowen equates them to a poke in the eye. >> we are on one side of the equation in syria. the russians are on the other side of equation with respect to assad. we are all sitting down trying to get the peace process continued working and here the russians are poking us in the eye as they did before. >> reporter: in regards to this recent incident, moscow says

these reports of a close encounter are not consistent with reality. they claim the pilot made visual contact with the u.s. plane and then changed course. but the u.s. european command strongly disagrees, they believe it was a dangerous maneuver that has the potential to escalate tensions between two countries with a very tense relationship. families trying to take in a movie under the stars get quite a shock. the epic fail that led to this soggy disaster. and as the republican candidates go into overdrive with just 48 hours to go until the new york prime, will donald trump pull off a big win in his home state? he's looking forward to a fall matchup with hillary clinton. coming up, new york congressman peter king, who is no fan of mr. trump, gives us his take. ♪

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>> here and now i would like to say i have never spoke to ms. fields. i turned over my phone records to the palm beach county district attorney's office. it clearly shows i called her phone number that evening when i got back. i'd be happy to have a conversation with her. but to apologize to someone i've never spoken to and candidly don't remember having an interaction with is something that's unrealistic right now, but i have said and would be happy to say again this is a person i've never spoken. to i'd be happy to have that conversation if we can put this thing behind us. >> mr. lewandoski talks about that and the trump campaign. you can see the full interview a little under two hours from now only on the fox news channel. new yorkers gearing up for this say in the presidential race this week with the outcome of the primaries having real consequence. that hasn't happened for a long

time. the real clear politics polling shows donald trump in front with 53% support. john kasich in second, with 22%. and ted cruz in third with 17%. joining us now is new york congressman peter king. good to see you, congressman, as always. >> as you, arthel, thank you. >> okay. we see that donald trump is winning big, expected to win big here in new york. he is very popular in his home state and popular with many of your constituents as well. the republicans there on long island. should donald trump become the republican nominee, do you think new yorkers would expect or want him to tone down his presentation a bit? >> yeah. not just new yorkers. listen, i'm not supporting donald trump right now. if he is the nominee of the party, i certainly will. i am totally opposed to ted cruz. but that's a different story. but donald trump has really tapped into something and there is a potential there for him to get popular support that goes

beyond his base. but he has to get a better knowledge of the key issues. he has to stop needlessly antagonizing people. not attacking everyone who might have an honest disagreement with him. he has tremendous talent, a lot of media ability, and he can make real inroads but he has to have a better knowledge, can't be attacking people like john mccain or george bush. and just, you know, going after all those opponents with such vehemence. it detracts from his capacity to get votes. >> i heard you say should he become the republican nominee -- because as of now you have not endorsed anyone -- >> right. >> should trump become the nominee maybe then you would throw your support behind him. did i hear you right, congressman? >> yeah, if donald trump is the nominee of the party, i will support him. he is a new yorker. we don't have a close relationship but actually i did hear from him last week. i've had real differences with some of the things he has said but at the same time he is raising issues that are important, and he is able to

reach into a popular base that republicans have not been able to reach in the past. but in doing that, he is antagonizing otherwise. he has to find a way to synchronize that and has to fine a way to got a better grasp of the key issues. hillary clinton is not a strong opponent. in many ways this is up to donald trump. >> congressman -- i'm sorry, someone talked in my ear at the wrong time. let me keep going here. everybody is looking forward to or perhaps thinking there is going to be a contested convention come july. if it gets to that point, do you have any expectations or real concerns about a contested convention? >> yeah, listen, if donald trump or ted cruz can't get a majority and they can't -- i can't see ted cruz ever getting a majority then it's going to have to be contested. throughout our history we've had many of them. the fact is -- not in a while but we have had them. the fact bag that the party is so divided a contested

convention, it would be hard to bring it together afterwards. i would hope if donald trump gets close he would be able to get it. if not, give it to someone like john kasich who has been in the race all along. again, it's going to be a -- if it is contested, the convention, i think there will be a lot of hard feelings, it will be bitter and it will be hard to unite the party. >> the party chair, reince priebus is saying he is going to wait until after the new york primary tuesday to recalibrate the republican delegate system. what do you think about the system? ? the system is what it is. for instance donald trump very likely on tuesday is going to get more than 50% of the state vote and probably more than 50% of the vote in each of the congressional districts. he may get 53, 54% of the vote but net 100% of the delegates. cruz or kasich could say that's unfair. the nature of the nominating process is always -- iowa has

caucuses. some have open primaries. otherwise have closed primaries. others have local conventions. that's the way it's been. it's not meant to be easy. whatever it is, i don't see any attempt to stop trump. these rules have been in effect one way or the other with idiosin accuracies for the last hundred years in some cases. others get changed every few years. but that's part of vying for president. you have to learn to navigate the mine fields. mixed metaphor there. >> we get your point. thank you. you go to a movie at a football stadium, sit down on the blanket in the field and some folks got quite a surprise. the sprinklers went off at nissan stadium in nashville, n tennessee. the crew apparently forgot to disable the sprinkler system when you show the movies during

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