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county is having the election for sheriff. zena made it into a runoff for that position in jefferson county, texas. if either one of those democratic candidates is elected, they will become the first black sheriff in the history of jefferson county, texas. but this week, zena steven,' campaign headquarters in beaumont, texas, just this week before she made it into the runoff monday night, her campaign office was the target of what appears to be a racially motivated shooting. on monday night, she was at her campaign office. campaign staffers, members of her own family and while they were there that evening, monday night, a white man drove up in this white jeep cherokee. the man leaned out of the passenger's side window of his vehicle. he screamed the "n" word, screamed some racial slurs and started shooting. and lucky, even though five or six people were standing in front of the campaign office when this guy started shooting

there, including the candidate, herself, she was just outside the office in the front of the office where the shooting happened when this guy drove up. another 20-plus people were inside the building when it got shot at. luckily, nobody was injured. although the guy did shatter the glass front of the building. >> we heard shots fired and the glass shattered at the glass. you know, people, scared people and people scrambling, you know, for safety. i don't know whether the individual that did that was trying to divide the community or stop the election or stop, you know, people running for sure. i love this community. you know, it's ignorance. >> a few hours after the shooting, beaumont, texas police say they arrested this man. they say he confessed to the shooting. they recovered two weapons from his jeep cher key, one was apparently a bee-bee gun. the other a rifle. the suspect is in custody.

so that was monday night in beaumont, texas, where the presidential primary is due to take place tomorrow. now, clear across the country in california, here's another one from this week's news, to keep you up at night, just in case that one wasn't enough. >> we had a three male white supremacists and two hispanic males, young and a hispanic female. they started harassing the hispanics and eventually started assaulting them, beating them up. there was another family here that saw that. they went in to intervene. they started pulling knives out and started to cut two of the victims. >> they were screaming racial slurs, heil hitler, num raus racial slurs towards the hispanics, calming them specks and beaners and just everything and speck and one had a

confederate flag. he kept doing the heil hitler sa luchlt eventually they did run. they will be arrested for assault with a deadly weapon as well as hate crimes. >> so that happened this week in ant loepp valley, california, which is basically northern california, in southern california. when the police officer there said one of the things these white supremacist guys was screaming during the attack is av skins. i think what that stands for is about loepp valley skinheads. racist skinhead group. all three white supremacist attackers, in that case this unprovoked racist attack on hispanics in a park, all three of the white supremacist attackers in this case are still in custody. and that kind of random unprovoked racist neonazi attack is obviously unsettling at any time. it is particularly unsettling in southern california right now on the heels of last week's attempted uniformed kkk march

through an a heim, california. anaheim, california, about 100 miles away from antelope valley. >> that clan march last week got a lot of attention, not just because it's the freaking clan, but because the clansmen ended up getting beaten down in the street by a bunch of counterprotesters, dramatic footage. three peoper three people were stabbed in that klu klux klan melee last week in anaheim. so we're wired in this day and age to think of things like the klu klux klan and neonazis. we are sort of wired to think of them as being some part of some other age, some other slice of american culture other than our own. but this kind of stuff persists. and there are new manifestations of it all the time and racist attacks and neonazi shows of force like this, they do happen in our country, all over our country. and when they do happen, maybe it's unreamed to anything else

going on in our politics. maybe all these things happen in a volume. they follow their own tune. but given what's going on right now in our national politics, it's hard to look at incidents like this happening now. and feel like they are happening in a vacuum. right. one storm does not a weather pattern make. but that doesn't mean you can't tell what season it is more broadly. >> if we're tough with them, we get criticized. we had one guy in new hampshire, actual little, who was a rough guy. he was swinging and swinging and punching an he was really going down for the count and we had a couple of people in the audience who were equally rough and they took him out. they took him out. no, they took him out. and i'll tell you what, it was really amazing to watch and this was a seriously tough cookie t. guy looked like an nfl football player. we had four guys, they jumped in, they were swinging and

swinging. the next day we got killed in the press that we were too rough. give me a break. you know, we don't want to be too politically correct now, folks? it's very unfair. you know, they're allowed to swing and punch the heck out of people, but if we get a little bit rough in taking him out, we're terrible people. that's the way it is. it's one of the many reasons our country is going to hell. >> the republican presidential front runner donald trump in warren, michigan. later today, he was in cadillac, michigan. >> get him out of here. get him out of here. get him out. are these rallies the most fun of everybody? do we have the most fun? do we have the most fun? get him out of here.

get him out. get him out. so disruptive. remember when bernie sanders, they took the mic away from him? that's not going to happen with us, folks. that's not going to happen. remember that, he walked away from the mic, he stood back and watched these two young girls talking to the audience. they said, we came to listen to him. he was standing in the back as two women took the mic away. now that doesn't happen to us. get that guy out of here. get him out. get that guy out of here. get him out of here. get him out. i think you should arrest him. do you like him? i think he should be arrested.

arrest him. i think he should be arrested for what he just did and for the fresh mouth he's got. i would arrest him, officer. so i don't want to give any recommendation, officer, i would arrest him for a filthy dirty mouth. >> the president presidential front runner donald trump a his rallies in michigan. ahead of a michigan primary on tuesday. this has become a regular increasingly performtive part of his rallies, get him, get him, get him. and i just want to say, cadillac, michigan, i don't know this is the first time he's explicitly called for a protester at one of his events to be arrested. what you see more commonly, increasingly, mr. trump, he talks about violence against protesters. he sometimes flat out calls for violence against the protesters. more often, though, he sort of encourages it without actively saying, please do it. >> all right.

get him out. try not to hurt him. if you do, i'll defend you in court. don't worry about it. >> that was also today. today, speaking in warren, michigan. so violence at political events, violence taking place at those events, the threat of violence at the those events, we don't think of that as our american culture. right. we think of that as a feature maybe of an earlier time in american politics him we think of it as something that happens in other countries, maybe that aren't as advanced as ours. if we do think about it happening in our politics, we think of it as happening only on the fringes of our politics. certainly not at events held by somebody running as a major party candidate for president. >> this is wallace country but he ran into one of the worst and one of the laudest protest demonstrations of his campaign so far. >> you've got some folks out here who know a lot of

four-letter words, but there are two four-letter words they don't know. w-o-r-k and a-s-a-p. you don't noe what those are. you are a punk, that's all you are. well, let's talk about vietnam. the u.s. got in a glitch. you got too much hair on your head, partner. you got a load on your mine. that's right. cut the flood lights off. >> george wallace from the podium as protesters are pulled out of his rallies in 1968. george wallace in 1968 ran in a segregationist campaign for president n. that campaign in 1968, he won five states in the deep south. three of them mentioned, donald trump has already won in the republican primary this year and one more of which he's expected to win tomorrow. at the time that george wallace was running this extremist overtly racist campaign in 19 skating, a lot of people at the

time wondered if that campaign would start basically the american rise of european-style fascist politics. and by that i mean not just the ideal logical content of what these political leaders were offering, selling people on, it was also the style by which they were conducting themselves as political figures and violence is a key part of it. violence is seen as instrumental in those kind of movements. fascist leaders like mussolini and in the u.k., one of the hallmarks of their political appeal, the ways they exerted tear political effort is they had a paramilitary cad ray of thugs who accompanied them on thrill i their political realms, who would attack people at political rallies and make sure not the threat of violence but violence was a part of the appeal, a part of the package and that fascist political mobilization. in the donald trump campaign in

the united states in 2016, we have not seen yet any kind of paramilitary pro-trump, you know, anti-protester uniformed gang things going on. we haven't seen anything like that emerge yet. but trump campaign events are now so reliably violent that it is a part of what people expect to see when they go see him in person. and they're so reliably violent i think we are tarting to wink at the possibility that donald trump events may be self policed fairly soon. in louisville, couple this week, what started off as disturbing, upsetting video of a young black woman shoved and screamed at inside a trump rally, that already disturbing footage took a darker turn, even more chilling when a fairly famous neonazi activist proudly bragged that, yeah, he was one of the young white males who was screaming at and physically shoving that black woman at that trump rally as i should mention

donald trump the candidate, himself, screamed from the podium, "get out." >> oh, get out of here. get out of here. look at these people. get out! out! out! out! get out! unbelievable. unbelievable. oh, well. get out! >> the shoving and the screaming from the guy in the red hat there, you see the guy with the thin beard. he's the white nationalist who was bragging about being one of the white men who shoved that woman as trump was screaming

from the podium and egging them on. on his twitter feed, he recently reposted a quote from somebody else who was warning that soon enough the donald trump campaign would have its own brown shirts and the guy who was shoving that young woman at the rally the neonazi activist, he retweeted the remark with the caption, god i hope so. brown shirts, of course, would be paramilitary thugs that surrounded adolph hitler during his events. sort of a military-slug police force to protect nazi rallies, to protect hitler, himself. quote, god, i hope so. in this political climate, the donald trump campaign right now is headed into david duke's home state of louisiana. and, frankly, in this political climate, what's happening there tonight feels very heavy with her. we've got more on that in just a moment, including footage of

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ahead of tomorrow's louisiana primary, this was republican front runner donald trump's event tonight at an airplane hangar in new orleans. i was a big crowd at this event. a rowdy and tense crowd. also protesters, campaign reporters on the ground tell us a number of people at these events tonight were pushed and shoved by people in the crowd. a lot of signs ripped out of people's hands and ripped up. there was a lot of shouting, as all kind of folks were ejected from this rally one after the other. mr. trump's rallies are increasingly becoming like this. this trump crowd in new orleans tonight was estimated at 3 to 4,000 people. to give you some sense of what the character was of that crowd. now, in terms of what will happen tomorrow, in terms of this primary, i should tell you that krout size means about as much as hand size when it comes to predicting victories.

mr. trump is expected to win tomorrow in louisiana. although in contrast to what felt like super tuesday this week, there is a question mark hanging over his contest for the weekend. mr. trump has faced criticism in the past during this campaign, obviously, he's never faced anything like the onslaught of criticism he got this week. is that going to make a difference in his numbers in the contheft weekeest this week. if they will take a toll, i think it's fair warning that that toll if we see it hurt his numbers this weekend, you probably won't see it in louisiana tomorrow because of one logistical fact. >> that is that 40,000 republican votes were already cast in louisiana before the whole republican parity turned on trumped a started criticizing him this week. louisiana early voting started two weeks ago, it ended a week ago. given the lead mr. trump had in the polls in louisiana and nationwide as of two weeks ago. i think it's fair to guess he probably banked a big lead in

louisiana just during early voting. early voting happened between february 20th and february 27th, before this tide of republican criticism rose up against him over these last few days. he also would have banked that early voting lead in louisiana before he last night bragged about the size of his little donald at the site of last night's r-rated debate. nobody knows, of course, whether that will help him or hurt him. just as nobody knows whether the criticism will help him or hurt him. in addition to lousiana and that primary this weekend, the republicans will have three caucuses in kentucky and kansas and maine. now, in the louisiana primary the polling is very heavily in mr. trump's favor. in the caucus states, polling is basically useless. i will tell you, there are three things to watch for this weekend at what is getting to be a critical stage. two are normal. one is disturbing. the first thing to watch for is, obviously, who wins and by how much?

and that does seem painfully obvious. but it's starting to become increasingly and specifically important. because if mr. trump keeps winning at the same pace he's been keeping this time. if he keeps winning by the same margins he's been winning by, he is very possibly on track to get the republican nomination cleanly with no way that anybody else can take it from him, even at the convention. so i'll have a little more on that in the show tonight. watch this weekend to see whether or not he wince and if he does win, watch to see what kind of margin he rolls up in terms of the delegates he gemts that's the first thing t. second thing to watch is whether there will be aniesque of this criticism against him from within the republican party and that criticism getting so much louder over these past few days. in three states that are going to be voting this week by caucus, in kansas, kentucky and maine, those caucuses this weekend there isn't any early voting. so even if he does win in those states, this is voted down compared to other similar

states. is he winning by smaller margins he might have otherwise been expected to win. overall, are the turnout numbers, any can be signs the criticism against mr. trump is taking a poll. are the republican voters going to stay home now they heard so much trenching criticism against their front runner. that's the second thing to watch. finally, a third this inc. to watch. i mean it earnestly. the third thing to watch is the level of violence at donald trump political events and specifically violent incitement from him at his political events. does the violence continue to rise over this weekend and heading into next week's contests? does it level off? does it decline? does he try to distance himself from it? it has been a long time since we were forced to think about the electoral utility of violence in american politics and racially innexted violence specifically. now we're back to that. now one of the dynamic, one of

the variables you have to watch here is whether this particularly front runner continues to turn up that dial and basically encourage violence in his crowds. if he does that, if there continues to be violence at his events, if he continues to encourage it from the podium centimeter that something that drives up his intensity of his support or the breadth of his support or does that freak out republican voters who might otherwise support him? with are a country that actually does have pseudofascist and violent racist black shirts and brown shirts on the far fringes of american politics. we have per skint skinheads and neonazi and that variety of american monster, though, has never been before attached to and attracted to a front party major campaign the way they are to donald trump. for the first time since i have been alive, we are legitimately watching to see if the black shirts and brown shirts officially attached themselves to his campaign in some way.

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responsibility for their care, including their long-term care when they get older. we do not let veterans out to fend for themselves in this country. we do not abandon veterans in this country. keeping up our end of that bargain, it's something we have always done. it's a commitment we all share. so take, for example, this veteran's home, it was opened not long after the civil war. since the 1800s, this facility in one way or another has been a home for veterans who needed a place to live as they got older. some veterans needed extra care as they joined the ranks of senior citizens, whether the frailty of age or dementia. at any given time, four or 500 soldiers, airmen and marines lived in that state home. for those veterans. that home was where they lived, central to their lives. then a few years ago that state got a new governor tenant new governor found a way he thought

he could save $4 million a 82er from that veteran's home. he figured out a way how the state had been spending money to take care of elderly veterans. he decided to get rid of the state workers taking care of the veterans and instead outsource their jobs to a private company. as you might imagine, the workers were upset. so were the veterans who depended on those workers. a veteran of a korean war told the local press at the time, quote, for the life of me, i can't see them getting rid of the care takers they got there now. they know each and every person that's up there. another veteran, a vietnam war vet said the care takers were quote like family. they're the ones that see us first and tell the doctors and nurses, something is not quite right with tony or jack. they go to our funerals. they're not paid to do that. they bring us christmas presents t. private company people aren't going to do that. it turns out that he knew what

he was talking about. he ultimately sued to try to turn back this privatization scheme. his case included stories that make you tear your hair out or at least donate to your favorite veteran's group. the case includes stories of private company workers dropping an elderly veteran while they were trying to lift him. they broke his neck. private company workers insisting on feeding one elderly vice president ran solid food when the doctors said not to. they literally pulled the feeding tube out of his stomach. so the veterans sued to try to turn back the private advertisization. the courts had a plan. you know how that worked out? yeah the state auditor recently looked into how the governor's plan was working out for the elderly veterans to stay hole. they found the home was understaffed 81% of the time. 81%. they found elderly vets were not getting medications properly.

they found staff were failing to check in on residents to make sure they hadn't wandered off into the streets. they found when veterans started complaining they were neglected or abused, no one tracked those complaints or investigated them like they should have been. that's what the state got when this new governor came in, with his new ideas about this better way to run things. privatize stocks. it will be much cheaper to work great. forget the way he's been doing it since the 1,800s. this will be great. shut up, veterans, this will be great. when it turned out to not work out great, obviously, collect his scalp. after finding what they had been warning about, suing about, screaming about the governor accepted the resignation of the veteran of his cabinet who ran veterans issues for him. so that's one. all right. take a breath. settle in. exhibit b. same new innovative governor. no, this is a state that has one city that's bigger than every

other population center in the state by a mile. and it's one big world class city that is four times larger thaten the next largest city in the state. as by population, it's as big as the next five biggest cities in the state combined. all right. they've got one big population center in the whole state. you might think of it as the crown jewel of the state. these are the public schools in that state's largest city. black mold spreading through buildings. dead rats in the hallways the classrooms the gils. live rats. live mice everywhere. mushrooms growing out of the walls. ceilings caveing in. floors buckled. floors buckled. not to mention the lack of books and basic school supplies. >> that goes without saying. that's the floor in the gym a. few weeks ago, teachers began staging mass sickouts at these schools. hundreds of teachers called in sick. dozens of schools closed t. teachers weren't protesting the

kind of thing teachers usually protest. they were protesting for a better pay package, they do have terrible pay and contract conditions but what these protesters were protesting about was this, they were calling out sick and picketing day after day was the physical condition of the schools. they figured, listen, if you want to do right by the kids, it was more important to take desperate measures to sounds the alarm of the physical condition of these buildings rather than keep those kids in those disgusting and dangerous school buildings for one more day. the amazing thing about this state and its largest city and the condition of those schools is that this school district is under the direct control of the governor. not being run like a normal state. there isn't a locally elected school board that's running things, that's responsible for the things in the school like it is in normal places in the country and normal states. now, in this state the governor took over the schools,les, put

his own person in a unilateral control of these schools and under that leadership, with him having taken that responsibility, the schools are expected to be completely out of money by april of this year. now the school year does not end in april t. school year presumably will, this year, if the district as it's scheduled to do runs out of money completely by then. the governor is in charge of those schools. that governor put an emergency manager in charge of those schools to run it for him. >> that manager resigned from the job last month, saying there was no reason for him to stay, because he had finished his job ahead of schedule. he wrote this letter to the governor. dear governor, if an emergency manager determines the financial manager he or she was appointed to manage has been rectified. they shall inform thef go. it is from these premises i am informing you i intend to leave my position as mmpblgs manager. everything's mfixed.

why stay moment longer? i'm out of here t. schools are partially uninhabitable. they are due to be completely out of money by april. this governor calls this problem solved. exhibit c, same state, same governor. if december, the fbi unsealed a five-count indictment against an official in a new agency this governor created to cut through all that terrible government bureaucracy and run schools in a new efficient stream lined way, a governor's way. his federal corruption indictment alleged this official basically used this new agency for bribery and money laundering, including a lucrative kickback scheme that resulted in three guilty pleas in federal court and what's likely to be years in prison for all three felons. that's exhibit c. here's a new one, exhibit d. same state, same governor. i old you to grab a pop, put your feet up. this is astonishing. this is all the same state, the same governor, this is happening right now.

here's exhibit d. do you remember that oil spill last year on the california coast. pipeline near santa barbara sprang a leak. nobody noticed for a unbch of hours that pipe turned out to everybody's surprised, it did not have an automatic shutoff or at least it didn't have one that worked. by the time they finally pan wally shut it off, tens an tense of thousands of gallons of crude oil spilled out to an absolutely pristine ecologically sensitive beach. the company that did that, they owned pipelines all over the country, including pipelines under this river in the same state where our innovative governor has had so much on his hands recently. the company has a kunl of century old pipelines under that river dating back to 1918. and last week, during big snowstorm, a local woman lives nearby, she was stuck at home because of the snowstorm and she's googleing around online. she stumbled upon this in the federal registry. it's a request by that pipeline

company for permission to pump crude oil through those century old pipes that run under that. the company has said they had been given permission to do that, to use those pipes for that kind of purpose, way back in the day. way back when they built the pipeline in 1918. so now it's 98 years down the road. they're just checking, ohio, do we have that permission? are we good to use that pipe for crude oil? what do you think, local residents? are you good with a 98-year-old pipe started up as a crude oil pipeline under your river? construction standards were great in 1918. i'm sure it will be fine. what could have happened since then? don't think of it as ol. think of it as vintage more like an antique pipeline. the public had 30 days to comment on this amazing request concerning this antique pipeline under tear river. that pipeline, i should tell you, it runs under that river, just immediately upstream of the

drinking water intake for the state's largest city. okay. does a eb have any objections? well, here's the thing about that. apparently nobody has any objections, because nobody heard about the public comment period. nobody noticed. by the time anybody noticed that this pipeline company was asking to do, the window for public comment had closed. >> that request for public comment on that bonkers pipeline plan, it got a grand total of six public comments, including two that were just tests that had been withdrawn. so if the nice lady who happened to be googleing around in her house during that snowstorm had not seen the notice of federal registry that day, quite possibly, nobody would have seen this at all. and that is a federal issue. right. that's a federal public comment peempltd because pipe lines are something regulated by the federal government. you know what, if there was a federal review going on, of the prospect of running crude oil through a 100-year-old pipe

directly upstream from the drinking water uptake for your state's largest city, don't you think somebody in the state might have noticed that, other than that nice lady stuck at home because of the snowstorm noodleing around, happening to googleing it. it's a federal review, but nobody at the state said anything or did anything. or sent up a flag or even told anybody it was happening. we don't know if they noticed. the public comment period came and went for that absolutely critical and super freaking scary issue and the state never apparently even noticed. of if they did, they never said anything. but you know what, this state obviously is michigan and the governor of thistate is rick snidered and he's busy right now with the consequences of having lead poisoned the population of michigan's seventh largest city during the another one of his

innovation ideas and while they're working on that, you know, who knows what else has gone by the wayside. there are presidential primaries and caucuses in a few states this weekend. all the campaigns are basically hunkering down in michigan. michigan is the next big one. they will award a big chunk of presidential delegates in four states tuesday. god bless michigan and let's hope the pandering they're getting for this fortuitous place they find themselves on the nominating calendar, let's hope that pandering does them some good. what's obvious on the broadside of a barn right now in our country is michigan is a governance disaster like no other state in the country right now. and a state that ought to be thriving. think of it, right, if its federally bailed out and revived auto industry t. envy of the world? the biggest and best auto makers in the world. you'd think that michigan would be kind of cruising right now. right? instead, michigan is reeling

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>> good morning. today because it is in the best interest of the residents of michigan, i am calling on governor rick snyder to resign for his actions and inactions pertaining to the flint water crisis. >> as presidential campaigns flood into michigan for that state's primary on tuesday, to pick up a local paper in michigan these days, you are likely to see a headline like this, don't ask what governor snyder knew, ask why he didn't. that comes from rochelle reilly of the detroit free press. joining us now is rochelle reilly of the detroit free press. it's nice to see you. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> is michigan in a different position than other states right now? from the outside, you can tell, i'm sort of agog at how many government-caused disasters the state is handling at the same time right now? >> this is an unusual position for any state to be in, but it's

a sad position for michigan, which just had its largest city go through the largest municipal bankruptcy in history and should have been something that governor snyder could have touted as a great victory. but nobody can remember anything good that has happened because of all the bad things that are happening now. it's death by a thousand cuts. >> you are getting a lot of attention from presidential campaign, because of tuesday's primary and how unexpectedly important it is, particularly on the republican side. do you feel like any of the national attention helps? do you feel like any of the candidates get what's going on in michigan right now? >> reporter: i can tell you that when i talked to people in flint, they are thrilled for any attention. because they yelled loud and long for almost 18 months before they got the kind of attention they're getting now. so they're thrilled they are now getting presidential candidates. there is going to be a debate, a democratic debate in flint. quite frankly, they welcome it. they want toem people to hear them. they want toem people to see what they have been dealing with for some time.

while you had a administration that dismissed them arrogantly so. >> i will ask you if you think that governor snyder is going to resign with the caveat that he keeps saying he's not going to. i have to wonder all these things piling up, with flint getting worse and worse and worse, not in the sent that it's not getting fixed to the more we learned about it for him, is it possible for to him stay in office that much longer? >> well, there are three things true, governor snider is severely sinister or heart breakingly naive or really is out of touch with what is going on. i don't think he is going to resign. i think it's the thing that he thinks this is his problem, it was caused on his watch. he's going to stay and try to fix it. but as the tensions mount and the calls for his resignation mount, i don't know how much he can get done. i know there are two things he has to get done.

one is get the money to the detroit public schools so we don't lose a public school system in the state's largest city. the other is to get the situation in flint fixed. if he does nothing but that, he will probably be able stay in office just to do that. >> i really enjoyed talk you to you. thank you for being with us, rochelle. >> thank you, rachel. >> she's talking about when people go out to vote in the presidential primary, there will be people signing up volunteers to recall governor rick snyder the recall signature petition gathering thing the watch started on easter sunday in michigan churches. stay with us. future. but up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients ... ...from food alone. let's do more. add one a day men's ... ...complete multivitamin. with vitamin d and magnesium to help support healthy blood pressure. one a day.

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>> a big day of politics, four caucuses and a primary, maine, nebraska, kentucky, kansas, louisiana in what is feeling like a key nomination seriously, this year, did you, yeah, for real. you should watch. see you then. zblrnl

. >> i say, it take some hutzpah to say to a presidential candidate, let's get your haircut, trim it up. the person that i never met before, i'm running for president. it's a key moment for me right now. go ahead, have at me with scissors. it was a senator bernie sanders campaigning and getting a $7 hark in the great state of kansas. today, where there also happens to be a big caucus the weekend. cannes kansas will be a caucus this weekend. democrats have a contest in louisiana, nebraska, those will all be on saturday, maine the democrats will caucus on sunday. so again, it's caucuses in kansas, nebraska an maine, louisiana is the only primary. in louisiana, hillary clinton is

up in the polls. she's pretty heavily favored to win that state. >> that makes sense both in terms of drem graphics of the -- d demographics of louisiana. in kansas, that's a caucus. so there has basically been no public polling, except for one poll which showed secretary clinton up by ten. can you take that with a grain of sam. in the great state of neb, there is literally no polling. senator sanders has been faring well in those states. maine will be holding its caucus on sunday. another one we've got no polling. the sanders campaign says they i have a chance to win all of those caucus states and louisiana. where hillary clinton is up by a lot. it's not a caucus. it's a primary t. clinton campaign is conceding senator sanders could win nebraska and kansas. they maintain they will scoop up more delegates by the end of the weekend. as for maine, nobody really

knows. those are the best predictions we can make. those are the best expectations the campaigns can set on primary caucus everybody. msnbc's political coverage is up next. it's super saturday in parts of this country. voting under way soon in the great state of louisiana for both democrats and republicans. it's also decision day in parts north, east and west. good morning, everyone, i'm alex witt. today marks the critical two-day stretch that could all but resolve the presidential nominations for both parties. the battle is joined today for democrats in three states and in four states for republicans remain in bitter conflict for a part of the party. >> i'm going to do anything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't elect donald trump. i think he would be terrible for office. r