amanda renteria: thank you for having me.mocrats are saying the back-and-forth between your candidate and senator sanders is not great for the party. is this a bad thing they are having this back-and-forth? amanda renteria: people will look at who is going to get things done, who is talking about the issues, and you know we hope at the end of the day, , the conversation is one we can continue to unify the party when the time is right. john: mark used the phrase crocodile tears. is this bernie sanders and his team going after you this hard, do you take genuine offense, or offense asked, or is it the kind of thing where you think to yourself, he looks like a hypocrite, we will make hay with this? amanda renteria: when you look at a comment like unqualified when you are talking about the secretary, you have got to wonder what is going on on the other side, what is going on in the campaign where they reached that level. so we look and understand it, but we also recognize that the end of the day, we have got to be talking about th

amanda renteria: the kind of has to do with the kind of work the secretary has done her entire careerin the middle of the night and she is asking tough questions about policies, proposals, and all that time she has spent not just in her career helping those proposals, but now as well, we have started the campaign, a lot of people talked about she is spending time on policy, too much time on this issue or that issue, not talking directly to the people. she has spent a lot of that time because she believes in governing. she believes in having policy to -- having policy solutions, so it is not a big deal to her, it is what she is about. it is bringing solutions, and it is having the kind of proposals, experience. what she brings to the table. john: what started all of this was bernie sanders' interview with new york daily news editorial board where he entered a variety of questions, some on oneign policy, some issues. if asked if hillary clinton was qualified, she said the interview he gave raised a lot of questions. what questions were raised by the interview senator sanders gave? amand

as national political director hillary clinton's campaign, amanda renteria is known as a problem solver. now she has a big one. bernie sanders is not going away. amanda joins me now from new york. welcome to the program. amanda: thank you for having me. fernando: the secretary has done very well in many states. but bernie sanders seems to have staying power. how do you see the race moving forward, wisconsin and then new york? people will be tuned into wisconsin. a lot of folks will really engage when it comes to new york. this is her home state. a landslide.ll see both sides will have a lot of attention here in the city of new york. you will see a lot of attention around new york, around pennsylvania and california simply because those states have so many delegates. at the end of the day, that is how this works. fernando: although bernie sanders seems to have a deficit relative to the secretary, he's hitting pretty hard. in his victory speech a couple weeks ago, he was very critical of the secretary. are you worried that this kind of rhetoric might harm secretary clinton's capacity to b

joining me now is amanda renteria, national political director for hillary for america.hank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> did you ever -- i've got to ask this first, do you ever feel that at this date it would still be this tense, and this close in a primary fight? >> i got to say, i think there's a lot of things we're surprised about in this election cycle, given what's happened on the other side. but, at the end of the day, we knew that every presidential is tough and you've got to earn every sing the vote. and so, the way the democratic process works, and the delegate counts work is going to be awhile. and so we're going to keep working through it. >> all right. according to polls right now, sanders is slightly ahead in wisconsin. how do you feel about your candidate? >> i think my candidate is doing a fantastic job and we're incredibly excited about what we have going forward. wisconsin is going to be tough, though. and we know that. when you look at the demographics of wisconsin, it's not quite where the democratic party is as democratic party a

. >>> joining us now, someone who is qualified, talk about the latest back forth and amanda renteria.ank you for having me. >> a lot of democrats saying the back and forth between your candidate is not great for the party. is this a bad thing they're having this back and forth or it doesn't matter? >> people will look at who is going to get things done, who is talking about the issues. and you know, we hope that at the end of the day, the conversation is one that we can unify the party when that time is right. >> amanda, earlier in the show, we were talking about this, and mark used the phrase crocodile tears. is this the kind of thing when you see bernie sanders and his team going after you this hard, do you take genuine offense at, or is this the kind of thing you think to yourself, we're going to make hey with this. >> when you look at unqualified, when you're talking about the secretary, you have to wonder what's going on on the other side. what's going on on the campaign, where they've reached that level. and so we look at it and understand it, but we also recognize that at the e