michael font la teaches at howard, bruce haynes, the foundern of purple strategies, and john hart, the editor-in-chief of opportunity lives. john, what explains donald trump for you? and this year. >> well, ray, i think that you can't explain without also explaining bernie sanders. and i think that the trump phenomenon and the sanders phenomenon are two sides of the same coin. we have an angry electorate who feels like washington has failed them. on one hand, you have bernie sanders at have catering socialism. and then donald trump, we don't know what he's advocating. but people are hurting because wages have been stagnant for almost 25 years, and the real income equality problem is not what the democrats transcribe as the gap between the rich and the poor, but it's the gap that people feel in their daily lives, between wage stagnation and be increasing costs of food, housing and all kinds of other expenses. >> so where they are. >> it's an economic frustration that's being channeled and expressed on both sides of the aisle. >> let's leave bernie sanders until later in the program, bru

. >> bruce haynes is a founder and strategist of the consulting firm, purple strategies. wait a minute, if your firm is purple strategies, you're by definition part of the establishment, aren't you? >> i guess that i'm wearing a coat and tie. i am. >> so what are your thoughts today? >> well, i mean, there's a great divide obviously that's going on in the republican party. i thought it was interesting. it was embodied in the speeches and the words that you heard today. mitt romney, improv dent choices, enmity of our enemies. democracy in civil situations. donald trump, choke artist, loser, lightweight. one is cspan, and the other is saturday morning cartoons, but there's a wing of the republican party that is elite, that's educated, that's wealthy and thinks about how to run the country in one way, and then there's another group of people who feels that the republican party who feels they have abandoned on important cultural issues, and donald trump is the vessel for them. >> so i hate the way this sounds, and i'm trying to figure out a better way to ask the question. are

bruce haynes, a republican consultant. ght. >> thanks for having me. >> it has been a remarkable day on the republican side. >> it sure has. >> as the republican party erupts into a civil war, hillary clinton is dealing with more questions over her e-mail controversy. >> on the campaign trail, bernie sanders shies away from that topic, but attacks other parts of clinton's record. here is senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. >> reporter: bernie sanders had a message today for democrats. the primary isn't over yet. >> what a fantastic turnout this afternoon. thank you so much. >> reporter: he had the campaign trail to himself, from michigan to nebraska to kansas, hunting for delegates in his uphill fight with hillary clinton. after basking in the glow of elton john and katy perry at one of the campaign's biggest fundraisers, she spent the day out of view as questions about her public e-mail returned. a former aide was granted immunity and will talk about the server she used as secretary of state. it became instant fo