>> on hillary clinton. and we're going to be participating in this great campaign in the fall to the end, but we're not going to win the nomination. you have to say this. >> chris hayes, when you hear jeff weaver tell chris jansing this was not a loss in kentucky it was a tie, is that important in terms of how this overall race ends? >> it signals the fact that they are, nothing has changed. i mean, i really think that there is nothing between now and june 7th, and that has been the case forever, short of entirely running out of money to the point where they couldn't pay anyone, that would stop them. i mean, so that is someone who is still flacking for a campaign in the midst of flacking for a campaign. everything out of the sanders campaign are people advocating for a campaign ta is still campaigning. they don't wink and nudge. bernie sanders has gone through this speech where they say we're very good at math. we understand it is an up hill climb. everything out of the campaign is messaged as a campaign th

who would you vote for in the fall, hillary clinton against donald trump? all of them saying they would vote for clinton. a few saying they would be for trump. choke this out, if it's sanders against trump, who would you vote for? look at that. more than a third of them said trump. you have donald trump supporters in this democratic, voting for sanders. and self-identified trump voters, we asked who would you vote for, 73% for sanders, 33 for clinton. >> steve, we're going to have to leave it there for a moment. bernie sanders is speaking in oregon. bernie sanders in oregon. let's pick up what he has to say. >> thank you, thank you, salem! [ cheers and applause ] hello. thank you! salem, thank you. and it sure sounds like salem, oregon, is ready for the political revolution. [ cheers and applause ] this is a great turnout and i want to thank all of you for being here. let me begin by giving you some pretty good news. [ cheers and applause ] last week, last week we won a really great victory in indiana. [ cheers and applause ] and tonight, it appears that we

it was a 76-point hillary clinton win. tonight bernie sanders is beating her by nearly 40 points. the areas that were strongest for clinton. that's the rural, coal part here. we can show you it's right here. this is fayette county. this is home of the university of kentucky. you think bernie sanders. it's early. we only have about 10%. a little less than 10% of the vote in. hillary clinton out to the lead now. if hillary clinton can win here and win big in jefferson, this is lousevilisville. hillary clinton up here early as well. win big here. win big here. look at that, her base from '08, gone in this state. >> wow. thanks so much. can you tell who is winning yet? >> the fact that fayette county, if that hold, if hillary clinton is winning there, that's really good news for her. jefferson county, if she's getting do i understaget ing those numbers. this is early, of course but if she's getting those numbers, that's good news. >> kristen welker is at brooklyn, new york. are they going to open up tonight if she wins? are we going to see the candidate if she wins? >> reporter: i was

still change not on board with it. >> calling hillary clinton a lowlife? d you at the beginning when we had the conversation stop aiming at people at me and start aiming at the clintons. start aiming at the clintons on the flipside, attacking my girl -- governor of martinez. and pushes me off the trump train. and targeting hillary clinton, going after -- >> i don't like that lowlife stuff. i just say no -- everyone has an opinion is this. one year after an illegal immigrant killed a young woman in broad daylight nothing has changed in the city by the bay. outrage as san francisco votes to remain a sanctuary city. thanks man. imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 30,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will take you. jen stops working, but her aleve doesn't. hey mom! because aleve can las

don't take the bait, you heard hillary clinton say it. what are your sources saying about a possible clinton response? >> reporter: that she's going to try to avoid taking the bait for as long as possible. the way that the clinton campaign at least sources i talked to there see it is that this is just the beginning and the expectation based on watching donald trump in the republican primaries is that he's going to continue this line and he's probably going to go further and further and more specific and more specific and they believe in clinton headquarters in brooklyn that the more she -- or if she responds in kind that she's going to be playing on his turf which is not where she wants to play. she wants to continue to certainly go after him on past statements and actions but as you saw on the campaign trail today more on his business practices and that if she responds about the personal attacks that's where the conversation is going to go. however, john, i am also warned that at some point she is probably going to have to respond and int

a significant development for hillary clinton. >> no question. suspecting that there's going to be a lot of criticism coming from bernie sanders supporters, given the fact that she is the secretary of state, but she also is an overactive clinton supporter and she and her family have been for i guess now generations. having said that, this is her job. and she's making it very clear that she believes it's effectively over. but a win is a win, you're right, wolf, but it's going to continue to fuel the bernie sanders energy that he's going to get a fair number of delegates. not the number he needs, but still a fair number. >> and if he does have a sizable victory in oregon and they are splitting these evenly, he will net more delegates out of this evening because of how close it is in kentucky, but that was kind of astonishing, normally, you know, we make projections and election nights, and we don't usually get the election official to come out and see you then and declare a winner, and she gave the caveat, which is true by the way, every election we

hillary clinton joins me. what do you think of what you just heard from jeff weaver, sanders campaign? >> i think you saw the sanders campaign condemn violence and threats of violence. we appreciated that. on the other hand in terms of what the nevada state party did, harry reid has been a strong leader for the party. in terms of the outcome of that convention that took place all it did was make sure delegate counts reflected what you saw in the caucus. i think we will want to take a step back and maintain proper perspective. there has been state party conventions going on. what we saw in terms of the scene in nevada was the exception and not the rule. >> what debbie wasserman schultz said, they condemned it and said but. she said that is not acceptable. >> i think you have senator sanders did the important thing to condemn the violence and suggest that his supporters need to not engage in anymore threats or hostile messages. it is troubling in terms of messages left for the state party chair and other scenes

will hillary clinton elevate donald trump or will donald trump pull hillary down to his level. >> ornock her off her game. >> yes. she's probably not anticipating some of the tactics that he'll use even though we've all been witnessing them for months. i thought what was interesting in cruz's speech, which was just shocking and -- >> horrible is the word. >> he said at the end of all of this he says it appears as if the path is now foreclosed. i thought is that english. that's not how people talk and that's why donald trump is doing so well. i can dislike some of the things he says but he sounds like a human and hillary clinton should remember there when she's writing speeches. >> he points out the inhuman things that other politicians says. he says i see that guy talking on the television and i want to hit the television. >> he talks about the national enquirer and people read the national enquirer. >> we were talking tonight about what a huge moment this is in this campaign and in the country you have someone who has never held elected office before and now the presumptive nominee

gene, here we have this mixed result for hillary clinton tonight. in a campaign that seems inevitable, if you do the delegate math. but there's something about watching bernie sanders go out there and give victory speeches that has to be unnerving to the clinton campaign. >> got to be annoying. got to be a lot of things. it's not fun, right. this was not actually, you know, i understand what steve kornacki said. and that's a good and valid point to make. however, this was a beauty contest tonight in nebraska. it did not count. >> no one campaigned. >> so it's not exactly fair -- >> about the polls that day. >> exactly. and when it counted, you know, bernie sanders won so this is not a great night for hillary clinton, even though, because bernie sanders is going to gain, what, three delegates? a net of three delegates or so? it's insignificant progress in trying to erode her big delegate lead. so that's basically unchanged. and there's another primary off the board. so she has to feel good about that. yet, it's hard to feel good when you're quoted as

instead of voting for bernie sanders and hillary clinton, they don't have to make that choice. they vote uncommitted. how many of these voters, if they had to choose between sanders and clinton would just check off sanders name because it would give them a chance to vote against hillary clinton? we're only seeing the big numbers in the sanders counties tonight and when you're seeing a race this close, you have to ask yourself, how many votes has bernie sanders lost tonight because of uncommitted? >> steve kornacki that is great. joining us, anderson lundermangrimes. she ran for the state two years ago against mitch mcconnell. she is supporting hillary for president. i will not ask you who you voted for. i know you voted for hillary clinton. tell us about what steve is talking about. steve kornacki they say they're democrats but will vote for trump this fall. >> is it great to join you this evening and steve's analysis is accurate. it is correct. you only have to look back to the 2012 presidential election to see the share of uncommitted vote that was cast against president obama

hillary turn? we know the clintons like to go negative. they have a ton of money to go negative. >> this will undoubtedly be the most negative campaign in history. in a street fight i give huge advantage to hillary. >> why? >> because there is not a single thing that can be said about hillary clinton that hasn't been said before, none of it is new information. where is with donald trump, it's always something else. today he said people should be carrying out loaded guns in schools, synagogues, churches. what sort of country would we be if we did that? then he varies let's give nuke weapons to south korea and japan. this is the gift that keeps on giving. >> what's happening? his numbers keep going up no matter what he says. from the very beginning, whether it was about the john mccain comment or the reporter from "the new york times," everybody says, trump's done. >> i give him credit, he's been able to unify the party nicely. i believe when bernie sanders is out, it will be a different story. >> game changer for you? >> i'm not going to dis

, or -- talk about hillary clinton. he has called her the big evaluate enabler. what is behind that charge? >> i think that the enabler is less than what he trump savaged the women who accused bill clinton of agreggous sexual contact. bringing forth the women who will be ugly, no question. back in arkansas. the law firm she was at investigated some of the women named in a lawsuit brought against bill clinton. it has never been shown that there was a slush fund or with the exception of den jennifer flowers, the real attention is women trumps need to win. one of the ways he says hillary clinton who has gone after the women her husband has been involved with. we are headed for one ugly campaign, both ways. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. open it up to the panel now. hillary clinton, forever tied to president clinton, successes and failures, she has been her own woman, very successful. did is a double aged sword. >> she said that bill clinton would take over the economy. when you himpicate -- i am putting him in ch

neither is hillary clinton.cy, her entire career, probably not a single issue i agree with. she's never proposed a 45% tariff on chinese goods coming into the united states, which may be the single worst economic proposal proposed during this election season that would be economic catastrophe. her foreign policy, hillary clinton's, abysmal. she's probably single-handedly responsible for the libya invasion. that was a disaster. unlike donald trump, she hasn't called for removing america's military infrastructure, national security infrastructure that is built up since world war ii, which once removed, moving military bases from japan and south korea can't be easily rebuilt. so given those two options, and i believe you should vote in election, you have to choose between who is there and without any third party candidate that i could vote for who would be a serious candidate, i would have to cast my ballot for hillary clinton, which is amazing i'm telling you this over the republican nominee who is donald trump. >

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the headline, hillary clinton in a newer poll, her lead down to three points over donald trump. a month ago, it was 11 points. now 46 for clinton, 43 for trump. what happened, why is this so much tighter? big part of it is trump bringing republicans home. a lot of concern back then among republicans, could the party unite. look at this, in the last month, a jump of 14 points in the number of republicans who say sner's going to be with donald trump against hillary clinton this fall. he's now getting 86% of republicans. that is the big reason why this is suddenly a three point race. that 86% contrast that to what hillary clinton is getting right now from dwm democrats. clinton still has the campaign with bernie sanders and the polls show some evidence that bernie sanders supporters are resistant right now to supporting hillary clinton in the fall. one of tfof the reasons why the is so close. you look back to put this all in perspective, right now donald trump getting 86% of republicans. mitt romney ended up with 93, so trump getting close. hillary clinton getting 83% of democrats.

hillary clinton. >> it me it all boils down to jobs. >> a tour of the rust belt battleground that could decide the trump/clinton race. what jacob has seen and is hearing. that's all still ahead but we begin with our top story. donald trump flip-flopping on pollsters. he said they were a waste of money a few months ago. now he's bringing one on board. politico reporting trump has hired tony fabrizio. he may be trying to build a more conventional operation. this is a move one of trump's campaign chiefs paul manafort has been advocating. fabrizio and manafort worked together on bob dole's 1996 campaign. trump looking to bridge the divide within his party and bulk up his own foreign policy credentials reaching out to former secretary of state henry kissinger. according to "the washington post," the two are set to meet in new york on wednesday. trump, of course, receiving criticism from republicans throughout the primary for his foreign policy views. particularly when it comes to vladimir putin in russia a

to politics and the new polls while the "washington post"/abc poll shows donald trump beating hillary clinton 46% to 44%. the new nbc wall street journal poll shows clinton ahead by three points, 46% to 43%, both polls within the margin of error. another hypothetical match-up sanders leading trump by 15%, 54% to 39%. meanwhile never in the history of the nbc wall street journal poll have the two major party nominees been viewed as poorly as clinton and trump. 54% of registered voters view clinton negativively compared to 58% for trump. voters have a better impression of sanders whose positive rating is 43% compared to 36% negative. and in an interview that will air this morning, the vermont senator is ramping up his attack against debbie wasserman schultz, facing a primary challenge in august. >> i favor her opponent, his views are much closer to mine than is wasserman schultz's and let me also say this in all due respect to the current chair person, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> new reaction from hillary clinton about comments donald trump made

hillary clinton is. try to tiep will them together but i don't think this is an issue that is going to help him with women. and i think trump needs to be cautious in this area. any kind to give him of advice it would be to narrow the argument. the argument that he wants to make for hillary clinton is that in making theed women part of this target. monicaused her fire on lewinsky. she participated in objective by of women who were victims his power and. has engaged in this line of attack but if he is going to keep it up, it needs to be narrowed from his campaign. -- weironic that weird are talking about this. you need to be more specific. that is where we are in this bizarre race of 2016. chaos breaks out in the democratic race. bernie sanders is under pressure. that must be a nightmare for her team. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ bernie sanders associates said the campaign is willing to do exactly what democrats fear most, inflict damage on hillary clinton in the primary contest that he can't win. even if it

now to the hillary clinton email scandal. a new report by the state department inspector general says clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state violated department policy. gentlemen, the way that i want to structure this is to show what clinton said and then when the report concluded. >> it was allowed under the rules of the state department. >> nobody signed off on it? >> no. no. it was allowed. >> here is what the report said. no evidence that the secretary requested or approved it. >> she didn't try to get permission. if she did she would not have received that. the state department hasn't allowed employees to forward on from a private email to their official one because they said it was not secured. is an estabd has been established for a long time. you cannot do this. >> when two members of the state department's record keeping decision complained about it and expressed concern he instructured the staff never to speak of the email again. clinton never got approval. >> she was mistaken about that. sh

both bernie sanders and hillary clinton have run an incredibly spirited race. but at the end of the day, regardless of what the results are in oregon or in kentucky, particularly given how close kentucky is, hillary is $3 million ahead of bernie sanders. so this has been a really spirited process. it's very good that the american people get a sense of who all these candidates are. but in the worst of days between hillary and bernie, there is no question that the values they carry are very, very different than what donald trump brings to the presidency. he's a bully. >> chuck, let me get you to weigh in finally here. how does your candidate make the case that he is going to be the democratic nominee. he has to win roughly 70% of the delegates on the table. you have to make that case in philadelphia. people who were sander supporters, how do you make it? >> i think bernie has been up front saying it's an uphill battle. i spent 20 years running campaigns trying to figure out how do we mobilize young people, get more voter turnout? how do we get the percentages up?

se convierta en la abanderada del partido demÓcrata van salir apoyar a hillary clinton. >> creenosas que nosotros peleamos dÍa a dÍa los derechos de las minorÍas en este pais, igualdad econÓmica. si esas personas realmente creen en esos ideales tienen que estar con hillary clinton. >> ¿van a salir a votar piensas?. >> esa es la gran incÓgnita. >> una preguntoita, dan la misma pregunta piensas que republicanos hasta independiente conservadores saldrÍan a votar por donald trump con lo que ha dicho y lo que representa donald trump. >> va a ser necesario porque les beneficia que salga a votar al partido republicano por contiendas de senador y congr o piensas que salga a votar?. >> repito se ha mostrado muy hÁbil en manejar medios de comunicaciÓn y el nominados. >> voy a definir usted dice que sÍ que los demÓcratas van a salir a votar por hillary clinton aun los que estÁn. >> te puedo hablar con confianza que los demÓcratas saben lo que esta estÁ en juego y van a salir a votar. >> lo mismo dice usted lo mismo de republicanos. >> yo creo que sÍ hay oportunidad de eso. >> dan garza y fr

we'll see if donald trump will be the same way. >> when have we seen hillary clinton -- combat hillary that you just -- >> in 2008 -- >> in new york. >> but this is not the new york senate. this is a presidential election against probably one of the most aggressive opponents she will ever face. >> so you think that come november, that she will not be aggressive in winning? >> i think one of the biggest problems that hillary clinton has right now is that she's going against an entirely asymmetrical opponent in donald trump. hillary clinton has been very cautious. she has been very calculating in a way that i think is not going to be well suited for a battle against donald trump. >> that gets to my point. and the reason i wanted to play that of bernie sanders tonight going directly after donald trump, every time someone asks hillary clinton a question on donald trump, she says, i'm not going to comment on the way he's running his campaign. why does she not go for the jugular? >> i think what their calculation is, it's like the old saying that you don't want to get in a fight with a pig,

in just minutes, hopefully, i will speak with democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton with nator bernie sanders, seeming to gain momentum in california which holds its primary in a week, clinton scrapped events in new jersey to spend more time out west. brianna keilar is here with me in washington. it seems like there is some concern in the clinton campaign that it's possible, possible, that the headlines will be clinton clinches a number of delegates needed to win the nomination including superdelegates but loses california. >> they feel very good about new jersey, as you know, jake. they actually think in california she is polling ahead of where some of the public polls show. the clinton campaign is emphasizing she doesn't need to win california or new jersey to be the nominee. the problem with that reasoning is she needs to project strength going into the general election. you don't do that by losing a big prize. >> reporter: the end of the democratic primary is in sight. and it runs through california where a whopping 475 pledged delegates are at stake as polls show hill

he crushed hillary clinton there. but even with that big win, even with a 15% win, he barely chipped away at clinton's delegate lead. if you include super delegates, she's only 148 short of securing a majority for the nomination. even so, sanders told supporters last night he can still win. >> with our victory tonight in west virginia, we have now won primaries and caucuses in 19 states. [ cheers and applause ] and let me be as clear as i can be. we are in this campaign to win the democratic nomination. >> you notice bernie sanders was in oregon there. they vote later this month. this morning donald trump is party and put states in play for november that have gone for democrats in recent elections. that's his plan at least. cnn politics reporter sarah murray has the latest. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump picked up two more victories last night, winning in west virginia and nebraska. now, we shouldn't be totally stunned by this since all the rest of the republicans have now dropped out of th

hillary clinton at 12,400,000 votes, nearly 3 million more. the clinton campaign loves to cite that number. as for donald trump, just under 11 million total votes. way over ted cruz. his nearest competitor. donald trump on target to receive more votes in terms of the popular vote than any nominee, republican nominee in histo history. has more than mitt romney in all of 2012. >> incredible numbers, john. thanks for explaining all of that. >>> the head of the republican party declaring dne ining donal will be the presumptive nominee sara murray joins us with more. what a night. >> good morning, alisyn. what a night indeed. donald trump calmed led it unbelievable nearly a year after announcing his presidential bid. he's claims the mantel's republican nominee. >> to voters, they chose another path. >> reporter: indiana marks the end of the road for ted cruz. >> we are suspending our campaign. >> reporter: in a major victory for donald trump as he becomes the republican party's presumptive nominee. >> what ted did was a very brave thing to do. e wan

hillary clinton would have work to do here.rump could pull that off. if you're hillary clinton, now you're losing 270, 268, if this is happening, where do you get it back? one thing the democrats will look at. they've been talking about this for some time. nevada and new mexico used to be swing states. now some people still think nevada, but most think because of the demographics. these are solidly democratic states now. what would hillary clinton try? maybe arizona. republican will say, no way. i can tell you that john mccain campaign is nervous with donald trump as the nominee. >> he's up for reelection. >> about the state, so could the democrats turn arizona? if so, even if donald trump had the success changing the map here, hillary clinton, if she could find a place to change the map, that one takes it back. another one and again, democrats have talked about this, president obama talked about this, senator obama talked about this. state of georgia. bill clinton won georgia once. ross panther row was in the race. let's talk

we all need to unite and focus on defeating hillary clinton #neverclinton. greg, can they do that? on the general and put these divisions behind them? can donald trump really unify his party? >> well, obviously opposition to hillary is going to be a unifying factor for the republican party. look, there are going to be lots of republicans, bill crystal and the bush family, who are never going to embrace donald trump. i understand that. i think in my world, which is the financial world, people are too confident that hillary will win and win easily. in d.c., inside the beltway, i think there's a feeling she's a shoo-in. i would just note that donald trump has consistently been underestimated. he's broken all the rules. i think as we enter the fall, hillary may look like a fairly flawed candidate. >> clips tehristine, if i could would just disagree. one thing brian wrote up, which is a salient point, the polls always told us donald trump was going to win. it was only the media's disbelief and the republican establishment's disbelief that stood in the way of that. look at what the polls

the tox isty of hillary clinton among conservatives cannot be over stated. there's been 20 years of anti-clinton stories and rhetoric that have been marinating out there and i think what you're seeing right now is that donald trump, because he is the non -- it's almost he's become immune among republicans to all of these criticisms because i will lay out one thing after another. donald trump has ties to the mob, but what about hillary? donald trump lied but what about hillary? and that's the real challenge for the clinton campaign. >> how should the clinton campaign meet that particular challenge? >> acchatually not worried abou that because we weren't going to get those voters anyway. we still have an active primary. she's going to win it but a primary is a primary and when you have somebody attacking you, that prolongs the agony. i think this is going to come down to turnout. can we get the obama coolition back on track? if the answer is yes, we win. if the answer is no, it's going to be very close all the way to the end. >> everybody says bernie sanders' b

mainly because hillary clinton has never been truly vetted before. >> hillary clinton has never beenre? >> never been truly vetted before. how many times has hillary clinton been asked about the specific role in benghazi outside of the testimony? >> outside of the testimony pulled together by the republican-led committee. so you believe that hillary clinton -- i just want to make sure that we're clear on this. the former secretary of state, you talk about the money spent against donald trump to perhaps demonize him. the millions of dollars that have been spent against the clintons, both as a first lady and the secretary of state and a senator for the state of new york, which she has received contributions from your candidate, that this -- that hillary clinton has not been properly vetted? >> no. there's an entire generation of voters out there that know nothing about hillary clinton other than what they have heard in the last two to three years. there is plenty of information that needs to be discussed on top of the clinton foundation, which has not been fully discussed in the media.

clinton's poll numbers look straight down from there for months and by the beginning of january hillary clinton had a five-point need that abc poll by the end of january she was tied with barack obama in a cbs poll, then during february clinton and obama traded leads in the polls until late february when barack obama opened a small lead over hillary clinton which then became a double digit lead, a lead that rose above 20 points in some polls toward the end of the primary season. the polling history of hillary clinton indicates that she needs an enormous lead in the polls in order to hang on and win in the end. and 2008 showed that a 33-point lead wasn't enormous enough against barack obama. tonight's fox news poll is just one poll, i'm going to say that again. just one poll, but the fox news poll historically does conform to the basic findings of other major polls. if -- if -- the fox news poll is an accurate snapshot of the electorate at this time it contained some devastating internal information for the clinton campaign. on the question of are the candidates honest and trustworthy, hillary c

eashe's also hoping hillary clinton's remarks about coalminers will translate to help for him today. ate she won by a wide margin back in the 2008 primary. joining us now is a key clinton supporter, senator claire mccaskill. thank you for joining us. as we noted, 29 dell today thes up for grabs. what does the expectation hillary clinton has going into tonight? >> she's campaigning for every vote. we all respect the campaign that bernie sanders has put together and understand the frustration of his supporters. we are confident that she is going to win this nomination regardless of the drought coout west virginia tonight by the number of pledged delegates. not superdelegates. and we know that he will join forces with us to make sure that donald trump never enters the oval office. >> the remarks on the coal miners that secretary clinton made saying that we will put a lot of coalminers and coal companies out of business as we mentioned, she's since tried to clarify those remarks. she called them a mistake. but did you see this possibly coming back to haunt her tonight, maybe even further

but more importantly than that, people say is his people going to support hillary clinton? ut and take on donald trump? that would be the best thing that the clintons could hope for, that he goes out there because he can speak to those people. he can speak to trade, blue collar workers, young people. they desperately need bernie sanders, not just his voters but him in donald trump's face. >> speaking of donald trump, he tweeted this out. he said what a greet evening we had. so interesting that sanders beat crooked hillary. the dysfunctional system is totally rigged against him. is sanders actually helping donald trump by staying in the race? you think it's going to hurt hillary clinton the longer this goes on? >> i don't. i actually think it's a good thing that bernie sanders is staying in the race. i've said it often that hillary clinton has been vetted on a national level for decades, but this is a different kind of vetting. we know that she's already been through a presidential in 2008. this is, to me, still a cake walk compared to what we saw in 2008. i know, don, you sa

hillary clinton stands as the last barricade. as i said, the chief strategist in the latest stop trump movement. a last-ditch effort before. all convinced their mission would prove ultimately successful. let's admit this basic fact tonight. since this 2016 presidential campaign got its start, we heard candidate after candidate agree they would certainly beat trump if they got them in debate or one on one or people got a good look at him. they each said this and with the republican voters sharing a full look at trump in broad daylight, they are moving to support him by the rate of nine out of ten and it's only may. meanwhile, the latest national polling shows the man everyone thought they could beat running even with the person would so convincingly kill him in the general. that's hillary clinton. what the heck is happening? yesterday hillary clinton passed, well she pressed her case. >> i do not want americans and, you know, good-thinking republicans, as well as democrats and indedents to start to believe this is a normal candida

a lot happening, were exciting some earnings -- inciting anxiety on hillary clinton campaign. the abc news washington post poll has trump beating clinton by two points, 46 to 44%. the nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows clinton beating trump by three points, 46 to 43%, last month clinton was ahead of compan tru b

gives you a reminder that hillary clinton enters with an advantage. d trump can do damage across the rust belt, he can make it competitive election. >> there's concern about people that don't want to vote clinton, how would that change the map. >> the clinton campaign is studying this closely. imagine a conservative that runs so if you don't want trump, can't vote for clinton, where might it play out. what about in the state of georgia. conservative stay home and hillary clinton, you get african americans to turn out big numbers. obama campaign thought they could in 2012. what if hillary clinton could turn georgia blue, and also mississippi, and arizona. if a conservative run took two, three, four percent, she could get the latino vote. any of that a guarantee? no. heading into an unorthodox year with so many unpredictable elements, including a possibility of a third party candidacy, including how trump can play out in traditional blue areas. a lot of studying, they think the map this year will be different. this year is different. >> john king, thanks

he's jumped 14 points in the support he receives from republicans in that race against hillary clinton. last month when that republican race was still unsettled, there were a lot more republicans saying, hey, if it's trump versus clinton, i don't know where i'm going to go. now that they know it's going to be trump versus clinton, they're going to donald trump and that is tightening this race up. on the democratic side you can see hillary clinton's support from democrats a little lower than that 86% trump has from his own party. the reason for that, you have some holdouts there, some bernie sanders supporters who right now are saying they're not ready to get behind hillary clinton as the nominee, as the candidate against donald trump. the hope for hillary clinton is that things could settle down in the next few weeks, maybe bernie sanders comes around and endorses her. that could move her support up overall. so if there is a silver lining in this poll for hillary clinton, it's we saw republicans unifying around donald trump when he locked up the nomination. if and when hillary clinton

the spokesperson for hillary clinton, repeating her misleading statements about the e-mail. gain. and it's why we now have a situation where among the independents, among people who -- the unfavorability rating for both clinton and trump is minus-74 percentile. so the biggest casualty in this campaign is the truth. neither one of these candidates are worth trusting. >> i think that's what a lot of voters feel. i remember my parents saying, what a terrible choice we have. this is a perennial, if you will. it's greater than what i've ever seen. the top two finishers in both parties were unacceptable choices. we badly need a successful presidency and a serious and able leader. we're not likely to get one from either candidate. >> i talked to one of her senior people right after i wrote that, and people close to clinton were saying this is all about an e-mail. all about the blurring the lines with the clinton foundation. this senior official sat in her office and told me it really doesn't matter. trust doesn't matter. i was saying this is going to bring down her trust figures, an

that's where donald trump goes on hillary clinton. he's not using any of bernie sanders' material. >> lawrence, do you believe that the sanders/clinton split is not actually hurting clinton's eventual chances against donald trump? >> i don't see how it does. the previous model for this is hillary clinton running against barack obama until the very last day, until very last vote was counted in the primaries. barack obama went on to win. bernie sanders has said donald trump has to be stopped, he has said that consistently, that means there's no question that if bernie sanders isn't the nominee he is going to be out there with the nominee running hard against donald trump. he's left no doubt about that. >> lawrence o'donnell, thank you, my friend. we'll take a quick break. there's more ahead, including what some of the sanders' campaign, former staffers and supporters, are saying they want to work on after the democratic presidential primary is over. it's not exactly what you might think. we've got that ahead tonight plus chris hayes is g

when more people vote, it helps hillary clinton and hurts bernie sanders. this is the caucus for march. right now, counting in nebraska, clinton, getting 59%, bernie sanders, 41. the decision desk at nbc is not calling this race. let the returns come in the associated press said they are calling nebraska for hillary clinton in the democratic primary. this is significant. the turn-out here looks like it will be larger than it was for the caucus that sanders the clinton campaign said if those we do better. you look at the results in nebraska, what we are seeing right now. our decision desk is want going to touch this. only the associated press has. if you go by what associated press is saying, this bolsters what the clinton campaign has been saying. a primary in nebraska, a completely different result. at least we are sees from the caucus. >> eugene washington, also with us. kathryn powell, and by satellite, steve schmitz. >> there is something about watching bernie sanders go out, and give victory speech, it has to be unnerving to the clinton campaign. >> unn

hillary clinton has a slight lead. only a few hundred votes have been counted so far. 49.5% for hillary clinton and 37.8% for bernie sanders. maybe only 1,000 votes have been counted so far. we'll get more vote tallies coming in over the next hour. all of the polls closed at the top of the hour. we're standing by for more early votes in kentucky. if hillary clinton pulls off a new win tonight, how soon might she be able to clench the democratic nomination. the delegate race ahead as we continue this special edition of the situation room. [phone buzzing] [engine revving] [engine revving] [phone buzzing] ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. this is the pursuit of perfection. real is touching a ray. and. al is making new friends. amazing is getting this close. real is an animal rescue. amazing is over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing fight heartbur

at the same time, he can also be that point person for hillary clinton on the campaign trail when hillarylinton is not a good candidate on the campaign trail. >> how much do you think the '90s -- it's been interesting to watch the '90s record get relit debated, particularly in a democratic primary, on crime policy, on trade. but on job creation, how much do you think that still resonates with voters? >> i think it resonates, but that's kind of sick lick. so he's kind of lucky and we also did have two wars. so that helps you keep your money if you aren't fighting two wars for 15 years. this is the tension between bill clinton, sometimes he goes off message, way off message. hillary clinton has not decided whether or not she wants to run on a '90s message with her husband or if she wants to be an independent candidate in the 21st century. that's number two. he doesn't want to seem like he's hiding from donald trump, but donald trump will pull every single woman who has ever accused bill clinton of anything, he's going to put that back on the table. because back to point two, hillary clinton

hillary clinton says something like $12. bernie sanders says $15. >> nobody who works the full-time job should live in poverty. it's laughable to look at that quote. a headline from a year ago, donald trump, quote, having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country. >> now he says he is open to raising it. he says he's looking at it. >> wow. i'm stunned by his campaign conversions. donald trump is a loose cannon, indeed. donald trump when the unions were organizing at the hotels in las vegas, donald trump fought that tooth and nail. donald trump doesn't stand for increasing the minimum wage. donald trump needs to talk to the people that i meet day in and day out. the woman i met in detroit who slept in her car the night before -- she slept in her car with her three children because they didn't make ends meet. that's what hillary clinton is all about, making sure people can earn a liflible wage. she has been consistent in showing she can break down barriers not only by raising minimum wage. >> you are a strong spor

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this is not hillary clinton saying this. this is not the clinton campaign saying this. lary knows that she did in 2008 exactly what bernie sanders is doing, is letting every democrat in every state vote. and then let the chips fall where they may. this is a disgusting piece of political garbage. >> do you want to defend david wade? he's not here to defend himself. >> no, i don't have any reason to defend david wade, to be honest with you. i'm not going to take any fire when i don't need to. the fact of the matter is, i will agree with bill press, that bernie sanders has every right to stay in the race as long as he wants to, if i'm not mistaken, hillary clinton stayed in the raise until june 8th in the race with barack obama. i don't have a problem as long as they're uplifting a democratic message, which they are. but one thing hillary clinton is doing is fighting a battle on two fronts. she's keeping one eye on bernie sanders, but it would be political malpractice not to take donald trump seriously. she's already staffing up in battleground states, in swing states, and

weighs in on a freedom of information lawsuit that would compel testimony from her e-mails from hillary clinton herself. this is one filed by judicial watch. taking a deposition today from a top aide to clinton when she was at the state department. cheryl mills is asking the judge to prevent release of the video from the deposition. mills fears it will be used in a partisan attack against clinton. whatever the judge decides, the organization will be able to release a transcript. >>> and as sure as the sun rises, donald trump is blasting clinton at a rally overnight. listen. >> crooked hillary. she's as crooked as they come. she had bad news today, as you know, from some reports. came down weren't so good. not so good. the inspector general's report. not good. but i want to run against hillary. i just want to run. >> more breaking news overnight. signs there may be trouble brewing in the highest levels in the trump campaign. a top aide leaves six weeks after he was hired. jim acosta has more. >> reporter: donald trump has rallies out west, but his campaign has parted ways with the staffer. forme

i think donald trump is more suited than hillary clinton. is a ploding candidate who needs to have structure who has to follow step after step and it will benefit donald. that all to say, i think the thing that is going to help donald in the general is this is the year of the outsider. nothing screams more establishment than hillary clinton. nothing screams outsider more than donald trump and i think this is the year of the outsider, people are looking for somebody that is maybe not as scripted. somebody that is more authentic. somebody that is a new face, a fresh face, not taking us back to the 1990s. i think that it will be a very interesting campaign and i give the advantage to donald when they start to debate head to head. >> fox news poll has donald trump leading hillary clinton by 16 points with independents. let me ask you this. you're a democrat, a hillary hater, bernie sanders supporter. not you, just random democrat. says i can't vote for hillary, i don't like the establishment factor going on. it is not working on the gop side, doe

hillary clinton doesn't. trump doesn't. most of the politicians who have been on the scene for a while don't. barack does, bill clinton does. so just using that metric alone, you'd have to say he's more of an asset than a liability. you know, doe and clinton have app interesting relationship. of course, bill clinton beat dole in 1996, but after that, as clinton does with a lot of the people he defeats, they developed a kind of close relationship just the way they did with the bush's, and his criticism of clintons in the clip played there was tepid compared to what trump said recently. >> but, marc, i wonder if bill clinton is having the kind of effect given his popularity given his respect, getting people excited about hillary clinton's potential presidency? >> i worry because bill clinton is such a contrast to hillary clinton in terms of personality, engagement, modes of addressing the voting basis, in fact rs what voters see is not excited about hillary clinton, but they realize what they are not getting with hillary clint

hillary clinton. just 9% for donald trump. among latinos, it is hillary clinton at 65%, donald trump at 28%. donald trump, though, with a 14-point lead among whites. hillary clinton is up 15 points among women, donald trump up 11 points among men so you add it altogether and it shows that hillary clinton is up three points over donald trump. it was five points last week. so a little bit of tightening. jose, i think one of the theories that's going on here is as donald trump has become presumptive nominee, more and more republicans are getting on board. it will be interesting to see if hillary also seems to solidify some of her poll numbers once the democratic race is concluded. >> mark, if we look at those numbers once again, 84% hillary clinton in the african-american community, plus 60% latinos for hillary clinton. is there any scenario that trump could actually succeed with those numbers, if those numbers remain steady? look at that. >> jose, given my knowledge of politics covering the 2004 cycle w

did, just turn those four donald trump would be the next president of the united states, not hillary clintonbernie sanders. the pro-clinton super pack thinks defending the states is part of defending the obama coalition. the owe fuss of the new ads women using donald trump's own words. >> you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her, wherever. does she have a good body, no. does she have a fas ass absolutely. er. who is flat chested is very hard to be a ten. >> and you can tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. >> does donald trump really speak for you? >> that go bleep themselves every fact checker has taken it grossly out of contest. they haven't changed the ad yet, that's taken grossly out of context but to the general point they think the gender gap and reinforcing trump's own words what he said about women is the key to defending that map. if we can defend the obama coalition we can win >> good luck. one of the problems is that trump if you look at some of these polls it's early, yada yada yada but he's doing exceptionally well among men so it ba

the war between donald trump and hillary clinton intensifyinnten. monday with the voices of two women accused bill clinton of sexual assault. hillary clinton fought back with an ad of her own. listen. >> i sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. if there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you can make a lot of money. >> so much to talk about. let's break down the developments in the race for president. >> let's bring in political reporter eugene scott live in the washington bureau. you heard that ad. donald trump's words. will we see more of that from hillary clinton? also, this instagram ad. a low blow from donald trump. again, the voices of two women who accuse bill clinton of sexual assault. this is from a candidate who has had his own infidelities and the expression those who live in glass houses, should they throw tones? will that work? >> i'm not sure. i imagine the heart of the mind set is the fact he is polling poorly with women. he wants to put a dent in hillary clinton's approval ratings with wo