i'm ashleigh banfield live at the university of michigan in flint. >> and, everyone, i'm poppy harlow live in new york. ashleigh and i will take you through the next hour and what a day it is in flint, ash, and in politics. it is super saturday. capping off a busy and chaotic week in the race for the white house. stakes are higher, attacks sharper and the results of today's voting, very important. lines to vote in some kentucky locations right now, they are long and they are winding, in kansas, thousands showed up to caucus. five states are holding their contests today on the republican side. 155 delegates are up for grabs. in kentucky, maine, louisiana and kansas, democrats also holding primaries in louisiana. they are caucuses in kentucky and in nebraska. in kansas and nebraska, i should say. in total, there are 109 delegates at stake for bernie sanders and hillary clinton. rivals donald trump and marco rubio are both holding rallies in florida this hour, and looking ahead to that crucial winner take all primary on march the 15th. they have both already had very busy days. marco rub

i'm ashleigh banfield, and welcome to "legal view."he presidential race goes west but not before almost all of the surviving candidates tend to important business in the nation's capital. that's where the american-israel public affairs commitment, always known as aipc is olding the election year for what would be hillary clinton. we will get though that in a moment. donald trump, ted cruz, john kasich get their turn later on this evening. bernie sanders, not attending. he is campaigning in utah and arizona today along with i.d. chid will hold democratic contests tomorrow with 131 delegates at stake. republicans will fight over 98 delegates in arizona and u utah. mr. trump goes in to these states more than 260 delegates ahead of ted cruz by our count. with kasich really trailing a a long way behind. secretary clinton's lead over senator sanders stands at 800 delegates. super and not so super but very good. in her speech to the nation's premier pro israel lobby she depicted herself as everything a president should be and an unnamed repub

i'm ashleigh banfield, and welcome to "legal view." the surviving candidates tend to important business in the nation's capital. that's where the american-israel public affairs commitment, always known as aipc is olding the election year for what would be hillary clinton. we will get though that in a

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. ♪ >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield.elcome to "legal view." right now with we are serious politics for you. donald trump speaking live in wisconsin. ted cruz at an even in madison, wisconsin, with his wife heidi and alongside carly fiorina. bernie sanders for his part live in wisconsin. hillary clinton about to speak live in new york. just so we are clear, trump is a you knowny fier as long as republicans nominate donald trump and he hates nuclear proliferation but thinks japan and south korea may need nuclears of their own. the wisconsin primary, trump and his two surviving opponents address issues, huge and small, weighty and petty. last night cnn town hall, my colleague dana bash hits all the high points. >> nice to see you. >> things have gotten so ugly, all three remaining republican candidates went back on their promises to support the party nominee. >> do you continue to pledge -- >> no, i don't anymore. >> you don't? >> no. >> that came after ted cruz refused to backdrop, despite being asked three times. >> i'm n

our coverage continues now with ashleigh banfield. ♪ hello, everyone.'m ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view" and once again the voters, not the pollsters, pundits and certainly not the candidates have told us what is going on in this presidential race. sweeping three out of four republican contests, making up this week's super tuesday, donald trump gained another 72 delegates with 57 to ted cruz who won idaho yesterday and 17 to john kasich who hasn't won anything but came in a close third in michigan. marco rubio didn't get enough votes anywhere yesterday to win anything but that big zero. for trump, this puts to rest, least for now talk that party elders might be getting some traction with their kitchen sink attempt to bring that front runner down. that's not to say that trump's rivals are letting up any. in fact, this morning ted cruz showed off his newest endorsements in the way of a former gop candidate carly fiorina. >> donald trump and hillary clinton are two sides of the same coin. they are not going to reform the system. they are the syst

our coverage continues now with ashleigh banfield. ♪ hello, everyone.gh banfield, welcome to "legal view" and once again the voters, not the pollsters, pundits and certainly not the candidates have told us what is going on in this presidential race. sweeping three out of four republican contests, making up this week's super tuesday, donald trump gained another 72 delegates with 57 to ted

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. ♪ >>> hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield.me to "legal view." right now with we are serious politics for you. donald trump speaking live in wisconsin. ted cruz at an even in madison, wisconsin, with his wife heidi and alongside carly fi

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." after the presidential candidates, it's about to be the most talked-about name in washington. that name is merrick garland. take it in. he is a u.s. court of appeals judge in the washington, d.c. circuit. and president obama has just announced that merrick garland is the man that he is putting forward to replace the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. he is nowhere near that job yet. in fact, he has a hell of a ride ahead of him with a lot of obstacles to say the very least. i say that, as you know any supreme court nominee has one big step before you get that chair. it's the approval of the united states senate. the senate right now is controlled by republicans, whose leader swears up and down, even this morning, that no name put up by president obama will even be considered at this juncture. here's the president and his nominee just a short time ago. >> this is the greatest honor of my life other than lynn agreeing for marry me 28 years ago. it's also the greatest gift i've e

i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." we are two days past super tuesday number three, and missouri, gosh darn it, still too close to call. can you believe it? it's like florida or something. by the way, not just for one party, both parties. it is absolutely air-tight there. for the republicans, 52 debt gats up for grabs and donald trump and ted cruz, neck and neck. trump with 40% of the vote, cruise with 40%,.7. now let's look at the democrats. is it about the same? yeah, 71 at stake there. hillary clinton leading ever so slightly. 49.6% of the vote, bernie sanders 49.4. squeaker. here's where we stand on the overall delegate count. by the way, missouri not part of this, of course. but the gop, donald trump, leads with 662. followed by senator ted cruz with 408. and governor john kasich, 143. never mind that marco rubio number. he's out. for the democrats, hillary clinton, well ahead of bernie sanders. she now has 1,588 delegates. bernie sanders, way back with just 817. i want to bring in cnn's senior political analyst,

i'm ashleigh banfield, and welcome to "legal view." if anyone watching donald trump's scorched earth drive to the gop presidential nomination was wondering, what do you think mitt romney thinks about all of this, well, now we know. in the latest bizarre ending of conventional politics, the 2012 republican nominee just gave a speech, just wrapped it up. excoriating the likely 2016 nominee. donald trump tried to beat romney to the punch with a series of overnight tweets, including this one. failed candidate mitt romney who ran one of the worst races in presidential history is working with the establishment to bury a big "r," republican win. should also point out that in 2012, candidate romney gratefully accepted the endorsement of businessman trump. we're going to get to that in just a moment. but first, what may go down as the ultimate death knell for ronald reagan's legendary commandment that republicans not speak ill of one another. here, for you, mitt romney at the university of utah. >> donald trump tells us he is very, very smart.

let's go back to michigan and my friend, ashleigh banfield, is there. ash? >> hey, poppy, thank you. and happy super saturday to you. i think all of these days have been pretty super, i have to say, because this election season is like no other. and while people are voting on this super saturday in five different states, there are several candidates who are already looking somewhere else. they're looking ahead down the map to another big tuesday. that's this tuesday. because there's going to be a primary right here in michigan, and there's a lot at stake -- 59 delegates up for grabs for the republican candidates and 130 for the democrats. and right now, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are probably pretty busy sharpening their messages ahead of tomorrow night's democratic debate here in flint, michigan, and it's on cnn. we're thrilled to be here, actually at the university of michigan at flint. you can see the lovely flint river right behind me. don't be fooled. it may look pretty, but it has been the source of so much suffering. joining me now with a look

i'm ashleigh banfield.rewarding weekend for the top two presidential contenders in both parties and one more feisty democratic debate the sprint is on t

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, anybody who's running for president or anyone else, taking positions on socially divisive issues is not necessarily going to help you to please everybody. it may in fact tick everyone off instead, the case in point, donald trump, uniting the likes of ted cruz, hillary clinton and the national right to life committee. yes, those three, united against his top of the head response to one of those town hall questions that he got on abortion. not one, but two written restatements of that answer came afterwards. my cnn colleague phil mattingly scrambled to get it all put together like this. >> this is not something you can dodge. donald trump, smack in the center of another controversy. this time, abortion. at a town hall with msnbc's chris matthews, the front runner says women who get abortions should face some kind of punishment if the procedure should be outlawed. >> do you believe in abortion, yes or no. >> there has to be some form of punishment for the woman. >> three years, ten years, what? >> you take positions on everything else. >> i do t

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." the breaking news this hour. brand-new fears that two bombers may be on the loose right now after bombs ripped apart an airport and subway station in brussels. and isis leaders in syria, in syria, may have played a role in this. the devastating blast on the subway line near the headquarters of the european union was initially thought to be the work of one suicide bomber. the brother of a suicide bomber who had struck the airport one hour earlier. but now surveillance video has piqued investigators' interests in a man who was standing close to the known bomber holding a large bag at the metro. it is not clear whether that man is dead or alive. or if he was involved. investigators have also identified the second airport suicide attacker. he is najim laachraoui on the far left of your screen and known to counterterrorism experts as a skilled isis bomb-mak bomb-maker. he is suspected not only of supplying the bombs used in paris last november, but also of coordinating those attacks in the

. >> top of the hour, i'm poppy h harlowe in for ashleigh banfield. we begin with breaking news. out of the pentagon. ash carter just confirmed the death of the isis terrorist described as isis' finance minister. and by many accounts believed to be the number two no the terror organization. barbara starr joins me with that. you were just at the pentagon. what more do we know about the man whose name we noul know is abd al rahman mustafa al qaduli. >> hi had a high price on his head before he was killed. this operation coming at a time when there is so much focus on the isis leadership. sec care tarter talking about the cells. the ones we see in brussels, may be inspired or directed by the isis leadership in iraq. there's no word on whether he directed anything himself. it's an ongoing concern. it's one of the reasons they're trying to get to the top leadership. as finance minister, with him gone, the hope is it will become more difficult for isis to recruit people. bring them into the organization. and pay them to stay. so they hope that this has an impact. will someone else take

i'm poppy harlow in for ashleigh banfield. we begin with raids an arrests and criminal charges aimed at taking down interlocked terror cells. >>> also, a half dozen others were picked up by authorities in 13 raids yesterday. they were questioned at length and released. we have just learned authorities have released the only suspect to date who had been tied though bombings in brussels and charged with "terrorist murder." the federal prosecutor's office says the clues that had led to the arrest were not conclusive. frankly, the evidence was bt there an they had to release him. earlier today, jerusalem's minister of health said the more people have died and the death toll is at 35. that does not count the three known suicide bombers. let's go to alexandra fields who is joining us from brussels. i want to get to this man charged with terrorist murder. he was accused of direct involvement, questionsed and suddenly released. >> these weren't charges. these are serious charges he was facing. attempted terrorist murder, terrorist mur

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view" after a fairly rewarding weekend for the top two presidential contenders in both parties and one more feisty democratic debate the sprint is on to another super tuesday. hillary clinton, bernie sanders and john kasich all have live campaign rallies today. right now, we are waiting on donald trump to take to the stage in north carolina. north carolina votes on march 15th. we will listen in as soon as he gets busy up there on the stage. tomorrow, well, let's call it nothing to sneeze at tuesday. maybe not a super as last week or next week, but you can say this, on the republican side, four state contests offering a total of 150 delegates. that's more than 10% of the number that is needed to get that coveted nomination. democrats are holding two contests in mississippi and in michigan with 166 delegates up for grabs. as we speak, cnn estimates that hillary clinton has 1,147 delegates to bernie sanders 498. senators won weeke senato senators weekend won weekend cau

hello, i'm ashleigh banfield. welco welcome. we're on the march to super tuesday, folks. and it soon will be in the rearview mirror, but not before they crisscross yet again all the states. one more time now, it's the eve of a multistate delegate sweepstakes. by our count, the four surviving republican candidates and two st surviving democratic candidates have a total of 20 events on their schedule, just today. not tomorrow. just today. hillary clinton giving an economic speech in chicago which happens to be her hometown which appears to be in play thanks to an unpopular mayor who is a long time clinton confidant and employee in the white house, too. in all, three candidates are fighting to win their home states tomorrow. besides clinton in illinois, marco rubio desperate to carry his state of florif flof florid. not looking good. jop ca john kasich says if he doesn't win his home state, which is ohio, he fight just stay there and quit the race. missouri and north carolina round out the third super tuesday of the month with a total of 367 republican delegates and 691 demo

i'm poppy harlow in for ashleigh banfield.gin with raids an arrests and criminal charges aimed at taking down interlocked terror cells. >>> also, a half dozen others were picked up by authorities in 13 raids yesterday. they were questioned at length and released. we have just learned authorities have released the only suspect to date who had been tied though bombings in

i'm ashleigh banfield. it is high noon in the east.day from vermont, all the way to america somoa. the polls are open on the biggest single day of presidential nominating season. john kasich is about to speak in one of those states.

let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today - at business.ny.gov >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." we're going to begin this hour with a trove of new information in that trail of bombings in brussels. and a warning, quite a strange one from the united states state department and it's directed at you, americans who may be traveling, quote, to and throughout europe. you heard right, the entire continent of europe. i'll have that in just a moment. in the meantime, a city in mourning, the de facto capital of europe is also the scene of intense grief, but also manhunts, primarily for the man now known as the man in the light jacket, the big hat. the one on the right of your screen. authorities do not know his name yet. but he's one of three men who carried bombs into the main brussels airport yesterday morning. the one on the right, however, was the one that got away. the two on the left set off their bombs in a departure hall, in a suicide attack. the wanted man left or abandoned his bomb which was the big equivalent of bombs but it did not employee until a

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." have live ballot cam shots from charlotte, north carolina and st. louis, missouri. 691 democratic delegates are up for grabs in five big bellwether states. three of which happen to be the home state of the people who appear on the ballots. for republicans, they are fighting over 358 delegates. two of their contests, florida and ohio, are win take all. that's music to the ears of republican candidates not named trump, who at the moment has a 100 delegate lead over ted cruz. for hillary clinton's sake, she's got more than twice the delegates as her competitor

i'm ashleigh banfield. it is high noon in the east. super tuesday from vermont, all the way to america somoa. the polls are open on the biggest single day of presidential nominating season. john kasich is about to speak in one of those states. virginia. while gop front-runner donald trump is stumping in kasich's home state of ohio. that's the picture on the right. we're going to dip into both events when they get underway. first, the big picture. and i do mean big. at stake for republicans, 595 delegates. almost half of the number that they need to win the nomination. democrats fighting for 865 delegates. that's more than one-third of that party's requisite number to nominate. cnn colleague jim acosta, traveling with trump. he is in columbus, ohio. wait, columbus, ohio. that's not a super tuesday state. what are you doing in columbus? >> reporter: you know, i'm in columbus, because donald trump is in columbus, and that tells you exactly what the mind set is of the donald trump campaign right now. they are riding high in the polls. he i

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." breaking news today. a stunning turn in this very wild political season. donald trump's campaign manager, corey lewandowski, pictu pictur here, has turned himself in on misdemeanor assault charges. he's accused of grabbing journalist my shell fields at a news conference in jupiter, florida, back on march 8th. of course, there's video. it's hard to make out in this large crowd, but that is my shell fields in the light yellow jacket, next to donald trump, holding her phone and then you can see a man said to be lewandowski said to be pulling her away from donald trump and that's the basis of this assault charge. now corey lewandowski has a notice to appear in court. and he has a court date, as well. trump campaign spokeswoman is giving a preview of what is to come. saying corey lewandowski will plead not guilty and he will be exonerated. i want to bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta and sara murray following the donald trump trump campaign. you were at the event when this began. can you give

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." people is in certain states vote and analyzed and counted and then new poll s and it starts over with a different bunch of states. this tuesday the wild west. but the weekly state contests are no small affair. make no mistake. ask rubio who at this time last week was still in the race. remember those old times? good times. here's where the remaining republican candidates are working today. democratic senator bernie sanders is making stops in arizona, idaho, and utah today. hillary clinton for her part has fund-raisers scheduled for later today in connecticut and virginia. little further down the pike. donald trump heads in to the western states needs his republican rivals big time and today we are learning how bad another group wants to see trump steam roll come to a stop. not his fellow candidates, not the democrats either. i know what you are thinking. instead a powerful group of conservatives already in office or very much in influence. and a surprise endorsement for the campaign o

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." polls are open we have live ballot cam shots from charlotte, north carolina and st. louis, missouri. 691 democratic delegates are up for grabs in five big bellwether states. three of which happen to be the home state of the people who appear on the ballots. for republicans, they are fighting over 358 delegates. two of their contests, florida and ohio, are win take all. that's music to the ears of republican candidates not named trump, who at the moment has a 100 delegate lead over ted cruz. for hillary clinton's sake, she's got more than twice the delegates as her competitor bernie sanders. dan simon is watching the voting in ohio just outside of cleveland and kim is in miami. i know the weather is good but it could be tumultuous in other areas. >> certainly tumultuous. we have new data before we are getting. we are hearing from the secretary of state that turn out across the state this morning has been high. we are also hearing from the secretary of state they can confirm that early

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view."nd analyzed and counted and then new poll s and it starts over with a different bunch of states. this tuesday til

ashleigh banfield.have you with us. >>> mitt romney says despite the attack on donald trump, he has no plans, read it, no plans to get into this presidential race. he sat down with chief political analyst gloria borger, did a one-on-one interview with her, had plenty to say about donald trump and why he went after him. >> he has tapped into an anger which is very much understood. what he has done with the anger, however, is not to build it and to resolve and high purpose, but instead to take it down a dark alley. and that i think is unfortunate. at this stage we say all right, he could easily become the nominee, likely to be the republican nominee at this point, but i think there's a better choice out there. >> so the contested convention, is this a scenario that you're actively looking at it? >> i think it is a realistic scenario. a lot of people thought that for some time. >> likely? likely? >> you know, i think it is more likely than not that we will have a nominee before the convention that's donald

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, anybody who's running for president or anyone else, takingons on socially divisive issues is not necessarily going to help you to please everybody. it may in fact tick everyone off instead, the case in point, donald trump, uniting the likes of ted cruz, hillary clinton and the national right to life committee. ye

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."e united states and all around the world. we are going to begin with this breaking news. a knife has been recovered from the estate that used to belong to football star o.j. simpson. a spokesperson for the los angeles police department says it is unclear when this knife was found or even if it is related to the 1994 infamous murders of simpson's ex-wife nicole brown simpson and her friend ronald goldman. as you will clearly remember from the months and months of coverage, o.j. simpson was acquitted, a famous acquittal in both of those murders. that happened in 1995. you can see the microphone is being set up, an ad hoc news conference is what we're expecting the lapd to hold at any moment and we're going to bring you those microphones live just as soon as they step to the mike. in the meantime, paul vercammen, who has worked this story as long as any of us who have been in the media for the last two decades has. he joins me live in los angeles on the phone en route to this news confere

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. >>> welcome back, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. you're just joining us, the news that is breaking is there was a knife that was discovered on the former property of o.j. simpson, why is this significant? the los angeles place department has just given a news conference to say they've had this knife for about a month but someone else has had this knife for even longer, the only information they will give to us is that the knife was turned over to an officer, a motor officer who may or may not have been on the force at the time, that officer is retired and that investigation is continuing but perhaps the more important investigation is testing the knife and that's what the lapd is doing right now. forensic testing, serology, blood testing, dna testing to find out if it is indeed the missing murder weapon. that case went to trial without the murder weapon but that case led to a double acquittal for o.j. simpson. paul vercammen is live in los angeles and cnn legal analyst danny cevallos joins me live from new york. first to you, paul v

. >> top of the hour, i'm poppy h harlowe in for ashleigh banfield. we begin with breaking news.f the pentagon. ash carter just confirmed the death of the isis terrorist described as isis' finance minister. and by many accounts believed to be the number

let us help grow your company's tomorrow - today - at business.ny.gov >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfieldl view." we're going to begin this hour with a trove of new information in that trail of bombings in brussels. and a warning, quite a strange one from the united states state department and it's directed at you, americans who may be traveling, quote, to and throughout europe. you heard right, the entire continent of europe. i'll have that in just a moment. in the meantime, a city in mourning, the

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." breaking news today.n this very wild political season. donald trump's campaign manager, corey lewandowski, pictu pictur here, has turned himself in on misdemeanor assault charges. he's accused of grabbing journalist my shell fields at a news conference in jupiter, florida, back on march 8th. of course, there's video. it's hard to make out in this large crowd, but that is my shell fields in the light yellow jacket, next to donald trump, holding her phone and then you can see a man said to be lewandowski said to be pulling her away from donald trump and