sarah: clare richardson joins us in the studio now for some analysis on all this. it seems like everybody that clinton and sanders himself acknowledges that she has this nomination in the back. >> this announcement by the associated press that she's won the nomination on the basis of getting enough superdelegates could not have come at a worse time in her campaign. despite on the eve of these big contests, and what it says to people, especially burger supporters, is that she has won the contest on the basis of an undemocratic system, the superdelegates. it's absolutely, though superdelegates causing a lot of problems. it's something that sanders has pointed to time and time again. he says it is not democratic. do you think this will hurt her in the general? >> i think it definitely is. let's remember what the superdelegates are. when the delegates go to the national convention in philadelphia to vote for hillary or for bernie sanders, which bernie sanders says he's going to keep duking it out until he gets to that moment, you will have pledged delegates from the st