democrats are working on that campaign plan. >> that goes back to another segment that we had that bob beckelaid in our 10:00 show. i want to talk about something bob said regarding this magic 100 number because cnn obtained a copy of an internal campaign memo and it predicts trump will get 1,400 delegates before the convention. that's well over that 1,237 magic number. do you think that he can do that, john? >> i think that based on the momentum from yesterday, where he got 60-some percent of the vote. cruz got last than 15. you're going to have five states next week where i think donald trump may very well run the table. i think there's going to be a certain inevitability. i think there's going to be fatigue among the republicans saying why do we keep hitting our head against the wall? maybe we have to figure out if he's really going to win this many delegates, how to actually join him rather than fight him. i think there's a real possibility if he does run the table next week. >> jam may, there are many on the democratic side who are hoping for the turmoil on the republican side for a cont

back with me now, van jones, bob beckel and maria car don't na.e says he's in this race until the end. at the same time, his campaign is admitting that the path to the nomination is going to be a tough one. why is he hanging on? what does he hope to achieve? >> first of all, california, which is -- you know, they vote last and biggest, is a massive -- they're massive places there for bernie sanders. i think he wants to hang on long enough to give those people a chance to vote, give him more delegates, more leverage so when he does go to the convention, he can get some things done. some miracle would have to happen at this point. i mean, listen, everybody could get beat up on twitter when you say it, but at this point the reality is unless there is a massive collapse of the clinton campaign of historic -- you know, involving both the fbi and "the x-files." i mean i can't imagine the sorry in which she now doesn't get this nomination. he's talking about now how do you get to the convention with leverage? >> that was van jones who said that, not don

and we're joined by bob beckel.an strategist john brabender, as well as matt lewis, author of "too dumb to fail." good to have all of you. he won in a landslide last night winning all the available delegates. yet he is still calling the system rigged. let's take a listen to his victory speech. >> nobody should be given delegates which is a ticket to victory, and it's not a fair ticket. even though we're leading by a lot, and we can't be caught, it's impossible to catch us, nobody should take delegates and claim victory unless they get those delegates with voters, and voting. and that's what's going to happen. and you watch, because the people aren't going to stand for it. it's a crooked system. it's a system that's rigged. we're going to go back to the old way. it's called you vote and you win. >> this seems to be the new pitch speech for donald trump at the moment. is it working with his supporters, matt? >> it certainly works with his supporters. there is a strategy behind this. and it could even play out in cleve

very simple. >> back with me bob beckel,tana goertz and ron.ink he'd run as a third party cand daut if there's a contested convention? >> he's using his leverage as much as he can. he doesn't have much room for a margin for error. he loses wisconsin, and he i have a hard time coming up with the number he needs. if they go to a second ballot, there will be a lot of people that are party regulars that are people that are already saying they're going to peel off in the second ballot. if he doesn't win this outright on the first ballot, he's not going to be the nominee. >> wouldn't he just be handing the election to whoever the democratic candidate -- >> either way, if he gets the nomination, he hands it to the democrats. if he runs third party, he hands it to the democrats. >> i'm confident and positive that mr. trump will get to 1,237 and we won't have a discussion. i think we're going to do it. i'm staying very confident and our team believes -- >> the numbers in wisconsin aren't great. the polls sometimes are wrong but the numbers aren't great

bock be bob beckel is back and van jones and angela rye.ure if you understood my question. yes, i agree. black lives matter very important. but i asked the question and this is what i think bob was trying to say. where are the people shouting down presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle for kids who are gunned down innocently, for people who are killed every single night. explain that to our audience. >> i think a couple of things. that's the gun control movement. that is what folks are standing for whether you are talking about jordan davis' mother who is standing with other moms who kids have been lost to gun violence whether it was from a gangster as bob said or from a rogue police officer or vigilante. it's the same thing. and so that is a battle that there are bills that have been proposed. we couldn't get background checks bill passed through the senate. that should have had bipartisan support. >> it doesn't get covered but you say it happens every day. >> there are stop the violence organizations all over. you can go to an

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d cnn political commentator, jeff zeleny and smart guy in glasses and cnn political commentator bob beckel, smart guy in suspenders. bob, we are going to start with you. wisconsin is not new york. i think we all know that. i want you to dig in to this for me and let me know why this matters to the front runners and the folks that won last night. >> you could argue there is a little momentum. the problem is things change so quickly. not going to get momentum in two weeks them question about new york is the significant one now. bernie sanders, i was talking to his campaign strategist and they believe they can win new york. i'm trying to put it together. i have counted delegates for six presidential elections and i can get hillary clinton to the majority of delegates. i cannot get bernie sanders there at the republican side, t still has a chance to get to the majority but it is getting increasingly unlikely and if it goes to a second ballot, neither trump or cruz will get the majority. >> if we talk new york, let's talk democrats here. jeff zeleny, i know you are here in new york. nice to hav

now we're seeing the real donald trump. >> bob beckel, you say no matter how hard he tries, that manafortny advisers? >> this has gone on for years. i did mondale, gary hart got caught at a dinner fund-raiser saying my wife gets to do california, i got to go back to new jersey. they're voting on the same day. i read that as an ad, we won new jersey big. it happens. ted cruz has been doing a lot of this too. we all do it. we all try to fix our candidates in fund-raisers with political officials to try to make them feel more comfortable. the fact of the matter is donald trump is set -- he's not going to change. >> donald trump is the first politician in modern history that doesn't have focus groups, that didn't test the words coming out of his mouth, doesn't have pollsters or speechwriters. >> you don't think he's saying that donald trump doesn't believe what he's saying? that's what it lends to, he's saying it, but he's going to change. >> the context of the speech, he goes on to say, look, he acts one way in a business context, acts another way out on the campaign trail. i think that make

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i've got cnn commentator and former democratic strategist bob beckel and conservative analyst e.d. let's run through the r's first. donald trump picking a veep. i'll throw out a couple of names and we'll run through them. marco rubio, what do you make of rubio as a potential running mate for trump if it's trump? >> i don't think that the relationship is beyond repair. think think that's good. florida is very important. he has experience. he's a likable guy. he gives good speeches, but the little marco and the disparaging remarks may have shaped the image that people have of marco rubio right mow so i'm not positive about that. >> and, beckel, isn't it hard to be on the receiving end of a statement like that, that kind of a slander and then decide okay, i can put it aside and get on this ticket? >> sure it is. there's a bigger question for trump. does anybody want to run with him? i mean, i'm serious here. it reminds me of goldwater. candidate after candidate, turned him down. think about it. if trump gets beaten badly are you going to be forever hooked to his wagon? i mean, if you'

here joining us margie omera and bob beckel. bob, let's back up to where the democratic candidates are. last night they questioned each other's qualifications. today they went back to ten miles an hour. why? >> i think bernie probably decided and his advisors that there are a lot of things you can say about hillary clinton. one is not that she's not qualified to be president of the united states. yesterday i talked to bernie's chief strategist. it comes down -- as i put together what he was talking about, they have new york, indiana, pennsylvania, and california in mind. that's where bernie could do. the problem is you still can't get enough bound delegates to get over the top. so what happens? people forget about the superdelegates. superdelegates, i've dealt with them for years. they're not bound to who they say they're going to vote for, and they can an stain, and if they get enough to do that, you get to a second ballot, and then there's an outside shot at winning the nomination for bernie. i think it's a long shot. it's not

. >> democratic bob beckel has counseled hundreds of candidates. >> it's theatre of politics, tryingo get the people to come in and take a look and see if they like your play. >> here in cleveland, the romney campaign's preparing a play, trying to get lots of people to watch. >> only way to attract them to the theatre is if it looks good. >> tighten that out a little bit. >> just one presidential campaign, in the fall, in the general election, involves 400 people, advance people, setting up a stage. >> mike check. 1-2. >> a presidential campaign stop involves a lot of hard work. >> most are paid to do this. some are volunteers. >> does anybody have any questions? >> the planning starts days earlier. >> you send people driving around small towns in america, and asking people, hey, can we use your -- can we use your campus green? >> mel ritter is the director of candidate operations for mitt romney. >> let's get to work. >> campaign staffs try to make sure the right number of people show up. hillary clinton's presidential campaign was run by patty solis-doyle. >> you make calls to camp

bob beckel, i talked about the momentum that you get when you win a race, let's say wisconsin, whoeverut the leader tomorrow, and there's about a five-point spread between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. yet, there's little talk she could surmount that. why is that? >> bernie's numbers are pretty strong. she's never been strong in wisconsin. it's not the kind of state -- >> you think five points is very strong? >> no, i said i don't think she has been very strong in wisconsin. i don't think she is going to win with wisconsin. she will get her share of delegates out of it. that's something people forget here. these delegates are chosen by proportion. even if she loses the vote she will gain a lot of delegates and in new york i believe she will win because minorities are growing in number of voters significantly since the last presidential election. i think her strategy is to keep racking up delegates. i don't think a bounce out of wisconsin will carry to new york. first of all, most people think she will lose any way. >> errol, jump in on this. the piece in the "new york times" abou

york, i'm joined by jeff zeleny, also with us patty salice doyle, angela rye, jonathan dasini and bob beckel. thank you all for being with us. i want to start with jeff zeleny here with us in new york who is covering the sanders campaign and the clinton campaign. but that campaign at least when it comes to bernie sanders, a lot of miles away at the vatican. jeff, what went into this decision. >> the decision was very personal for the senator. some of the advisors did not mask the fact that they weren't sure how wise it was for him to leave new york four days before the critical primary. he insisted on it. he's connected to the message of the pope. he's connected to the issues of social justice, and the economy. and he got an invitation to speak at this conference. his campaign has shown us a copy of that. it came a week before he announced it. there was a controversy over how it was announced. setting that aside, i think this is a moment to show he's more than just a vermont senator. he's more than someone who is creating an uproar in the democracy party. he has better issues. what a better

i want to bring in ben jealous, and bob beckel.perdelegate committed to hillary clinton. i have to ask you, ben, what do you make of sanders' comments about hillary clinton not qualified to be president? >> i think what we're seeing is that's we're getting into a place where the race has really tightened up. we've won 7 out of 8 races. in a couple of days, 8 out of 9 races. the clinton campaign said they were going to attack sanders, go after him and trying to discredit and disqualify and that's what they are doing. they've chosen to go heavily negative. bernie is from brooklyn, and he will frankly defend himself. >> what do you make of it, bob? do you think him saying hillary clinton not qualified to be president? >> i think that's a bit of a reach. i talked to ted devine for some time today, sanders chief strategist who used to work for me, which is why he's so good. in the course of this, i pieced together a strategy. four states really matter to them. new york, pennsylvania, indiana and california. if they can win two of those

. >> bob beckel?i said here on this show monday night, brilliantly, i might ad, that there are four or five things they'd like to see done, some that hillary clinton can accept and some she can't accept, particularly trade deals. and so the question is, as you get out to the floor and be a fight, i think it does. it doesn't take that much with that many delegates to get you out to the floor and doesn't really matter. it does. because the republicans will take it and they will try to drive the democrats that much farther left. so there will be -- it will be significant. i wouldn't underestimate it at all. >> i've got to ask you, angela, how does he leverage these potential wins that bill's talking about. >> i think there's one thing. he's already shaped a lot of this agenda. vermont is now having automatic voter registration. the second thing is, he has former staff that has launched a pact called brand-new congress designed to go straight to the 2018 midterms and focus on reshaping the face of congres

to say i congratulate you for being on fox news and all how but i don't understand you and bob beckel can sit there with that nd put up crap that they throw at you. you have to that have a living but i don't understand how you can do it, bro'. as a black man raised in the 1960's. congratulations. go for it. it is i think that important that people even in the same point of point of ifferent views and say i haven't thought of that. he idea is that it sparks more conversation. it cllenges people who may be ith others of like mind but here companies a different point of view and you have to -- here comes a different point of view respond.have to you say i don't know how you can sit there and take it. i wouldn't want that taking place o be without me there. i run into so many people who fox news and watch and i'm part of the reason. adds to the mix. that is the spirit in which i do the job. williams a graduate emmyverford college won an for politics the new black power and his new book "we, the we will go to harold from new jersey. good morning, republican line. good morning. congratulati

to say i congratulate you for being on fox news and all how but i don't understand you and bob beckel can sit there with that nd put up crap that they throw at you. you have to that have a living but i don't understand how you can do it, bro'. as a black man raised in the 1960's. congratulations. go for it. it is i think that important that people even in the same point of point of ifferent views and say i haven't thought of that. he idea is that it sparks more conversation. it challenges people who may be ith others of like mind but here companies a different point of view and you have to -- here comes a different point of view respond.have to you say i don't know how you can sit there and take it. i wouldn't want that taking place o be without me there. i run into so many people who fox news and watch and i'm part of the reason. adds to the mix. that is the spirit in which i do the job. williams a graduate emmyverford college won an for politics the new black power and his new book "we, the we will go to harold from new jersey. good morning, republican line. good morning. congratula