[ cheers ] >> we are on the brink of a historic -- historic unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do, don't we? >> coming up here, clinton's successor in the senate. defiant. bernie sanders saying he's not done yet. >> i should fight down to all of the delegates going to philadelphia in every instance. we beat trump by a far large margins than hillary clinton. [ cheers ] >> coming up, sanders' campaign manager, jeff weaver is joining us live. over ruled. donald trump going against his campaign staffs. the judge of the trump's university case. >> all i want him to do is give

me a fair share. >> and house speaker paul ryan. >> and good day everyone, i am andrea mitchell in new york. this unpredictable presidential prime season now includes a first. a first for women for america's politics. hillary clinton as the presumptive nominee heading into the most pivotal day of the fight. democratic voters are in new jersey and new mexico and dak a dakotas and all important is the crucial california. clint clinton's team is still fighting for every vote. >> this race is so tight in

california wharks a california, what are you saying to your supporters? many young voters are coming out. >> i feel good about our campaign and how well organized we are. i am urging everyone to come out to vote for california. >> joining me now is kristin welker. kristin, first to you, we were in california over the weekend, with clinton being challenged by sanders' heck le sanders' hecklers and a lot of support on both sides. secretary clinton and bill clinton has had over 34 events over the past week alone combined. senator sanders have pulled all of his resource to win california. the question is, why?

yesterday, nbc news pointed out in secretary clinton is the presumptive nominee. these results are not official. california becomes key because it has so many delegates and if secretary clinton can win in california, she can all take away senator sanders' remaargum for wanting to stay in this race. if she does have a majority of delegates tonight that she will declare victory. here in brooklyn she's going to speak and you and i are going to be there later on tonight. she's going to do a couple of things in that speech, she's going to talk about the importance of the unity and we have heard her over the past several days drawing sharp distinction of donald trump and calling her unqualified. we'll hear more of that i anticipate. he's going to talk about the historic nature at this moment. she did that with you yesterday.

she's going to expand that tonight of the fact that she's the first female clinching her party's nomination. a big night ahead but a lot of focus in california, still. >> andrea. >> karen, the whole arc of hillary clinton's career and you and i have been following for a decade now, she's the number of first but always the hard way. >> you know, that's really true. even in 2008, barack obama was able to get all the attention to the historic candidate. one thing people are over looking then is that no women ever before in history won a state primary. and yet somehow she again, when hillary clinton does these things, the pattern of her career is she sets out and stumbles and she picks herself backup and she grinds on. again, sometimes it is easy to over look how many barriers that she has pushed.

and you know, it left her in this position for the last 20 years in a row. she's been voted the most admiradmir admired woman in the world in the poll. yet, she starts this general election season with higher negatives than any democratic nominees ever had. >> and kristin, what are we wearing of the white house. everyone is awaiting for president obama jumping into this and reported yesterday, president obama did call bernie sanders on sunday and there was a lot of doom and gloom in the sanders camp after that call. he's giving them a heads up he's going to make this endorsement. some kind of announcement after she go to the top in pledged delegates alone depending on the outcome of today's polling? >> andrea, i did have an extent conversation with the administrative official essentially said they want to wait to see what happens in

california. i anticipate if secretary clinton does have a majority. if she declares victory tonight, president obama will endorse her in short order. i am told he's eager to get out of the campaign trail. what does it mean? he has been increasingly having conversations of his top aids of the roles he's going to play in 2016. he did have that conversation with bernie sanders, he said he's on the verge of endorsing secretary clinton. he's going to be pivotal to unify the party and getting his coalition on board and those younger voters supporting senator sanders. he's eager to take on donald trump. donald trump is the one that has not criticized him and threatens his legacy but who has offended him personally, he's eager to get out of the campaign trail and get to the game. >> briefly, karen, wondering why

this moment for women, politics aside, does not resonates more. new hampshire are not flocking to clinton, they don't seem to feel this moment of the way older women do. >> that's right, i think there is a real generational shift. a real general split here and i think it is going to be up to clinton and her campaign to sort of remind younger women what this moment means. it may be easier to do once bernie sanders is out of the race. >> thank you both so much. as hillary clinton begins to make history of becoming the first woman to be the presumptive nominee. donald trump is taking credit for breaking that glass ceil. >> i was the one that broke the ceil. my relationship, i think it is going to end up being very good with women.

>> joining me now is another woman who spoke of a lot of glass ceiling, supporter of secretary clinton. >> reporter: hello. >> with that said, your reactions to this moment sooner than they wanted? they wanted to all happen tonight. they were not pleased of the associated press and nbc following suit as we counted the super delegates. do you have concerns for one thing that this may make a difficult to heal the wounds with bernie sanders because of his objections to the super delegate counts. >> reporter: i don't think so, andrea, this is a historic moment and a milestone reached by secretary clinton to be the first female nominee. the national party is a big deal. she's earned the vote and the delegates as it is an exciting moment for theically and the

world. this is something that every women and gi woman and girl can look up to. >> you got two little boys, did they react to these things or they are used to the fact that mommy is the senator so what's the big deal, how can a woman be on the national ticket? >> reporter: a lot of kids are following this. i can tell you they do not like donald trump and they think hillary clinton is amazing. we are all supporters of hillary clinton. it is an amazing moment of our nation. we'll continue to do so running into the general direction. >> new eastern spancy pelosi eny clinton today. wondering why she waited. this is after hillary clinton went over the top. >> reporter: everybody makes their own decisions when to endorse their candidate. i know she's the best candidate

running for president today and the most experience and i am really excited of this moment in history, she's done the hard work of earning every vote and winning this primary and such a strong way across the country, it is an important moment for all of us. >> you know elizabeth warren well and you obvious lily hilla clinton well. can you imagine of the ticket of warren? >> i know hillary will make the right choice regardless. >> i want to ask you about donald trump criticism of the judge in his civil case because from all accounts, including trump's own attorney at the time, this judge has ruled on his favor on a number of motions including postponing the hearing after the election. aside from the refusing of the request for summary judgment,

one wonders what is donald trump trying to do in making this ethnic argument against this hispanic-american judge. >> reporter: his comments are racist and ugly. it is not something that this country believes in. his comments are wrong and it is the reason why hillary clinton should be president. >> i want to ask you about you have been spear headed on the service committee which is you're outrage of the assault case and the letter you have written to the president campaign of the way the pentagon is handling. >> reporter: the ap released a story saying that the defense misled congress during this debate and of the number of rate prosecutions and the nature of those prosecutions. this is the same, andrea, military does not want to have the over site and the accountability that it needs. we have 20,000 cases of rapes and sexually assaults and

misconducts last year alone. the rates that people are retaliated against reporting these have not budged. and a number of them are discharged within seven months of reporting those rates. >> what do you want the president to do as commandeering chief? should there be an investigation? do you think there needs to be more over sight from the pentagon? >> the most important thing is the president can side with victims and believe survivors to say we are not reporting. if we can support to someone, we would be more likely to report. that's what survivors are telling us. i want the president to believe those survivors and professionalize his military and trained military prosecutors and take them out of the chain of command where there is too much bias. they are not lawyers and they don't have criminal justice

experience, they should not be deciding whether a crime is committed because it distorts the system. from a survivor's perspective, they don't believe that anything will be done and they don't believe the chain os of command have their back. >> of course, what would you like to see senator sanders do? >> reporter: help hillary clinton. our next commandeering chief needs his support and bernie needs to travel the country and call on his supporters to support hillary clinton so their voices are heard. their values are shared by hillary. thank you very much. >> thank you for being here today. >> thank you. >> coming up, donald trump telling supporters to go on the attack against the judge. we are starting to see more republican leaders looking for an exit ramp. new reactions are coming in from

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jackson also is on capitol hill and luke russert. first of all, to you luke, he also the same time said donald trump is better than hillary clinton, is that right? >> yeah, lets take a listen and i will read you the lines he said today about donald trump's comments. textbook definition of a racist comment and thinking behind is not something i personally relate to and i am not fwoinggo defend him. the speaker is doing everything in his power to say he had nothing to do with donald trump and don't believe in his comment and yet, i still stand behind my endorsement. this and andrea, today, paul ryan has been doing something he's trying to do for his party for a while

of talking about the issues of poverty and talking about gop ideas to streamline initiative programs in the party and policies. that gets all over shadowed by donald trump. that's the difficulty that the speaker had. how do they push forward when anything they try to do from a policy perspective or try to rebrand the party that's nearly washed out by donald trump. there is a lot of questions today. it seems like they believe and have to hold onto him because if they don't, there could be disaster down the ballot. that's a tough give right now. >> here is paul ryan trying to give up to one of his idol jack kemp going to dc. it is all over shadowed by this donald trump controversy. katy tur, you are the one that's digging deeply into this trump

campaign and what the staffs are saying and divisions of the staff of the way the candidates is perceiving of the first time it happened. >> reporte katy tur? >> i am sorry. >> reporter: i am sorry, i didn't hear the question. >> i am talking about your reco reporting from the campaign and the staff disagreeing with donald trump taking this attack with the judge. >> reporter: absolutely, the campaign had been telling me that they were frustrated with this idea of donald trump going after the judge in this way and what we are hearing now is just of people denouncing this comment. donald trump reported of a candidate without a campaign. today he's coming closer to being a candidate without a party and a number of party leaders that we keep on seeing over and over again trying to distance himself from this. the question now is how much can the party take from donald trump

before they are forced to rescind their endorsements. folks like paul ryan or mitch mcconnell or other leaders trying to back off from these comments c comments. despite the fact that his comments are being called racist, they're still maintaining they're going to vote for him except for lyndsey graham. >> lyndsey graham talked to halie jackson on capitol hill. let me play a little bit of lyndsey graham and ask you about it. >> i would like to support our nominee but i cannot. i would love to be able to support our nominee and i think his comments were racist. i don't think that donald trump personally is a racist person but he's playing the race card. >> playing the race card, halie.

>> reporter: lyndsey graham seems emotional when we caught up with him near his office on capitol hill asking him about trump's comments and asking him to react to this. he believes the love of the country will trump the hatred of hillary clinton. today, he's telling nbc that he will not vote for hillary clinton or donald trump. he will write in a third candidate. graham is commenting not just the race card, he's believing that donald trump is ruining judge curiel's life. he's questioning what trump is doing and questioning the legitimacy of it and governor christie hitting graham on his credibility. what you saw from graham today,

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candidate. i look at him and i watch him and watch what he says. he's a fringed candidate and your second -- when you do a little research on that, it is not dpoi not going to be a factor, okay? >> donald trump calling gary johnson a fringed candidate. bill weld and johnson, they could swing the election one way or another but which way, gary johnson and bill weld is joining me now, governors, thank you very much, it is good to see you again. >> thank you. >> governor johnson, your reaction to donald trump calling awe fringed candidate? we are both fringed candidates. getting reelected by bigger margins of the second time than

the fers tiirst time, boy, you hit it on the head. >> you enjoy being in that fringe. governor weld, your reaction of the donald trump's latest controversy of the way he's going after the judge of his ethnicity. >> it is courts of appeampletel question and totally racist. he's driving everybody crazy and he enjoys being the center attention. the question of race and more than racism is stability. this is a fella that's talking about bringing nuclear weapons to japan in south korea. that's not a fellow that this country needs with his finger on his nuclear button. >> one thing that we noted in our nbc news survey online polling. it is a four point race and when

we factor in gary johnson, hillary clinton is a point behind donald trump. you seem to be taking away more support from clinton than trump. >> i think at the end of the day, we would not be doing this if we did not have the opportunity to win. to win, we need to be at 15%. we need to be in the presidential debates which ultimately some interesting things could happen. you know we got unique combination here and smaller government is a good thing, lower taxes and good thing as president, vice president, we are going to sign onto things that make things better, personal liberty and personal freedom and really, important in our lives. look, we should be able to make choices and choice always comes down on the side of choice and the world made less safe because of these military inner vengss.

>> yeah, jump in there. >> the point is we don't agree with either party, it is natural that we would draw votes from both. when i gave a talk to the republican national convention in houston in 1992, i summed it up as we want the government out of your pocketbook and bedroom. that's neither the republicans or the democrats. the democrats want the government in your pocketbook and the republicans want the government in your bedroom. >> thank you very much, both of you governors, looking forward to see you on the campaign trail. >> we are on the ballot in all fifty states, thanks andrea. >> coming up next, getting out the vote, both clinton and

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[ cheers ] that's what this campaign is about. >> jeff weaver is joining me now, good to see you dpagain. what are your hope in california? >> we hope for a win in california. as you know you have been covering this and he's been on the road here in california. by the time it is over, we are looking at 250,000 californians at live rallies. he schedules four or five events today and we are advertising in television, we are optimistic. we are working very hard to make sure that in fact a few people do turn out in california as well as other five states that are voting today. >> basically, the candidate moved to california and as he's

been there for three weeks. it is been a tight race according to the polls and registration is way up. if he does not win california, what does that tell you and what does that mean for his decision? >> well, obviously, he's going to make the case super delegates once the voting is over. obviously, that argument is stronger and if we win in california or if we don't win, the argument is the same. a win in california would help to strengthen that argument. >> have you flipped any super delegates yet? >> no, the intensity of our outreach of super delegates, we'll let it go to the people vote here in california, the dakotas and next week the people of district of columbia gets to vote. it is important that they get to vote given the fact they are left out of the progress. congress. >> if it turns out to be the case that hillary clinton has a

majority of the pledge delegates, which is entirely likely, without any of the super de delegates. would that impact his decision? at that point looks like he will have the majority of the plan delegates and it is time to make a decision to conceive the race. >> well, i think he's been clear on this that he wants to go to the convention and the secretary has a lead in the pledge delegates at this time which may end up with the pledge delegates at the end. the way the process is, unless you have 2223 pledge dell gaylgayletes. you know i am not justifying the system but that's the system under which we are operating ochit is not the system that we made. those are the rules of the process to lock the super delegates out of the delegates. certainly, neither secretary

clinton or senator sanders is going to have that number at the end of day. >> how do you feel the president calling senator sanders giving him a heads up that he's about to endorse sometimes as early as this week depending on the outcome in california. >> the president has been even handed throughout this process. it is greatly appreciated by the senator and everybody on our campaign. he's certainly could endorse the secretary much earlier. he decided to stay out of it and let the voters have their say and that's greatly appreciative and that's a mark of leadership of his part. >> if the president makes the decision saying for the good of the party to fight donald trump which we knows bernie sanders want to do. it is time to unite. how persuasive would that be for senator sanders? >> well senator sanders makes his decision of what he wants to do. senator sanders have got ten million votes at this process.

and contributors have helped rallies around the country that brought out 1.5 million people. and so bernie sanders answers to those people and the people who voted for him and supported him and the people at the grass roots. at the end of the day any decisions he makes would be the interest of those people and the greater interest of the country. >> bernie sanders has said that he believes it is important to fight donald trump to prevent donald trump from winning. >> absolutely. >> will he actually take steps if he does lose to hillary clint clinton? will he take steps to affi affirmitively help support hillary clinton? >> the senator said he will campaign night and day to defeat donald trump. >> will he campaign with hillary

clinton if she's the nominee? >> all those details have to be worked out. she's not the nominee yet. i am sure there will be a unity at some point of both candidates there. everybody on the democrat side, i will and disregard and everybody is interested in defeating donald trump. i think in recent days that we have seen more and more of what a decisive and a bigot person he is with his attacks on the federal judge. he's unfit to be a commandeering chief. everybody is committed to seeing him defeated and defeated soundly. >> jeff weaver, thank you very much. good luck out there today. >> and tonight on nbc nightly news, lester holt will have an exclusive interview. coming up here on more on the high stakes in california of the biggest primary prize at all as tonight's results could define the upcoming general election fight. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports," on msnbc.

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contrary. governor chris christie defending donald trump. krchristie was the first trump' rival to endorsing him. joining me now is chris cillizza and susan paige. chris cillizza, it looks like chris christie was kind of twisting himself into a pretzel. is this part of the dance by those who want to become vice president candidate? >> i will take him at his words that he leaves what he said that he has not had any experience that leading him to believe that donald trump is racist. the issue here is when you make a comment about someone's ethnicity being disqualified. that's the textbook definition

of racist. it is hard to make those two things coexist. i get christie's experience with donald trump. if you look at the broader context of how trump has played with race ethnicity in this campaign, it is more difficult, i think to simply say flat out that he's not engaging in any of these stuff and anyone who says that he's over reacted. >> lyndsey gram ham on the hill today of the interview that halie jackson did with him. >> i think it is unfairly. if he believes the judge cannot hear his case make a moeks unti under the rule of law. if any lawyer challenged that the judge cannot hear the case because his parents were borned in mexico, they would risk their

reputation and sanctions. >> a pretty tough language from lyndsey graham, susan paige. >> this is a republican party in a panic today. they have a nominee, he's got a majority of the convention delegates. some of them are saying that he -- this is a big concern for republicans whether their nominee is able to pivot and address a larger election. what is he going to mean for candidates down the values. senators and the swing states up for election, where they stand when it comes to donald trump? >> on the democratic side, bob is now rejoining us, we apologize for the issue there. what does bernie sanders do, win or lose, you got the president

of the united states telling him he's about to endorse secretary clinton. >> everybody has to give him space and time. secretary clinton understands this. she went through this in 2008. he will make some calls to the super delegates. i don't think that'll yield very much. in the next week or two, maybe after the dc primary, he will make a statement and he will get out of the race. it is also true that secretary clinton would have prefer to lockdown the nomination with the voting today. she did it because of super delegates. another reason to get rid of the super delegates. one of the things i think that she and bernie sanders can agree on the convention. >> in fact, clinton, is a real concern is there not chris cillizza of the possibility that people staying home and not vote and she's got it locked up.

the last thing that they themselves want it. >> the thing that you want right before an election is the stakes could not be higher, your vote is super important and what you don't want is well, it is already over with. the sanders people have said this is turning out for us. you can argue for the sanders' team is the one last chance to show the establishment or the media, who ever to show the establishment that they are wrong. yes, i think it is a motivational tool to say ta california is going to put them over the top and coming out anyway and support hillary. >> susan punjaige, there is something contradictory of the system is rigged. i am going to try to flip them and that's my pathway to take the nomination. >> i am convincing, too. there is been no signs of super delegates are interested in flipping. both parties have their nominees. the question is, how do the

parties get united? the republicans are having real problems today. that's a lesson to bernie sanders and an interview with you, jeff, we were taking a slightly different tone than he did in the past. barack obama -- if he comes out tomorrow and endorses hillary clinton and says his race is over, maybe that's the off ramp that bernie sanders needs to get booi behind her to address the future and politics and this general election. >> bob, he comes out of this race win or lose with a huge amount of leverage of the money he raised and fund raising and the way he's been able to generate young enthusists. >> there are a million new registrations in california and many of them are people who are very young. i think that bernie sanders will be a major force. the first place he will be a major force is in the fall.

he has a real job to do to bring new people. that's why you see the polls are relatively close right now. they will just as the clinton people moving to obama. she did her job and he will have to do her job. >> in the past, it is her job to persuade supporters and not that he has the obligation or responsibility to win. >> look, i have been here with jimmy carter, the primaries are still going on. you are out there and you are making your case and you are making your argument, i think jeff weaver testimompered himse this morning. it is different afterwards and a different situation in the 1980 when jimmy carter did not debate or campaign. there is plenty of room here to put the clinton people and the

sanders people together in terms of platform positions and reforming the nominee process. >> thank you to all of you. >> and much more ahead on this big primary election day as voters are heading to the polls in six states. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. t bu, or buildg the be houses in town or becoming the next highly-unlikely dotcom superstar. and us, we'll be right there th you, helping with the questions you need answered to get your brand new business started. we're legalzoom and we've already partnered with over a million new business owners to do just that. check us out today to see how you can become one of them. legalzoom. legal help is here.

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this historic day in american politics. [ inaudible ] california and new jersey combined 600 delegates. up for grabs tonight are the crown jewels o f the remaining primary season. when it comes to the delegate map, hillary clinton has already sealing the deal becoming the first woman ever head to the major party ticket. nbc declaring clinton as the presumptive nominee. moments ago senator sanders tweeted this. >> "lets show them we are not going to let it happen, go vote." >> the presumptive nominee is facing a possible