i don't know what's in the democratic party platform now. and the reason i don't feel guilty about that is because i feel like the platform of the party is something that doesn't have a shelf life much beyond the convention. >> the abs is yes and no. that's certainly true. no one thinks that the -- a democratic president is going to abide by every word in the democratic platform. that's for sure. on the other hand it does say something, it does reflect what the base of the democratic party believes should be the future of this country. and i intend to do everything i can to make that the most progressive document that we possibly can. and i think by the way, that is the document that the democratic grass roots people really want to see. >> you wrote a letter to the dnc chair today, basically saying that you feel like you are being underrepresented in some key committees. >> that's not what i feel, that is the fact. i think she selected three of our delegates and i believe the total number is 60 there. what we want is a fair representation at

is the democratic party, we must make the democratic party more welcoming to us and more to our liking, but this is where we live. does he say that at the end of the day? that, i think, absolutely, after nevada and after the fight that happened over nevada today, is a hugely open question. >> i think if she loses, we'll look back at this period, these couple of weeks when the most damage was inflicted upon her. week after week of humiliating loss and the commentary about how bernie sanders doesn't care about the democratic party, well, listen to trump echo every nasty thing bernie sanders says about hillary and watch her numbers plunge. >> where are we at now? >> hillary clinton is leading by 2,600 votes try is basically nothing left on the board here. i can show you, the story of this is right here. we talk about this as the quirky tradition in democratic primaries. the uncommitted votes. this could be the difference of bernie sanders winning and losing the state. this is on the ballot. if you don't want to vote for clinton or sanders, check off uncommitted. usually you don't see too

there are 15 people who drafted the democratic party platform at the democratic convention. under the party rules, the chair of the party can appoint all 15 of those people. the sanders campaign had previously been very upset, very displeased that they didn't have better representation on the important committees, including the one writing the platform. well, today, the dnc announced that instead of debbie wasserman schultz appointing all 15 members of the platform committee, they divided up. hillary clinton would get to appoint six people. bernie sanders would get to appoint five people. so that was basically proportional to the amount of the vote that each of them have had received in the primaries. six for clinton, five for sanders. six plus five equals eleven. there's 15 people on the committee overall. the other four people would be appointed by the party. that's a big change and a big concession by the dnc. and it does mean the sanders campaign,substantively, they'll have a big role in writing the democratic party platform. which should make the democratic platform rati

this is a real war, i would say, within the democratic party. but a lot of those people in the crowd, they aren't democrats, they are independents. >> that's right. that was part of the problem in kentucky, it was a closed primary. he's done well where independents could vote for him, not well in closed primaries. he's counting on those independents. that nevada situation is extraordinary not just what happened in las vegas where they had sanders supporters throwing the chair, expecting him to fully condemn what happened there. he said of course i condemn the violence but i will not go back on what i said, that this progress is rigged. the reason they are upset, i support. i don't support how they reacted but the reason i support. >> bernie doubled down. >> he did in a state yesterday. >> he's getting it not just from democratic party, the media is coalescing around clinton. some parts of it. they want him out of the race. does bernie sanders want to be ralph nader of 2016. no longer accurate to say he's campaigning against clinton who locked up

right now is going to be too much more the democratic party to bear. whether this fight within the party is going to be too much for the democrats to survive. i think there are two things to consider when trying to come up with an answer to that burning open question in the democratic party and the first one is about the exact nature of the tension in the democratic party right now and how it's being expressed. the reason the tension this weekend the reason that has become a national story and worry for the democratic party is not just because of the drama of the fight in that one state, although it's an interesting fight in that state particularly given that nevada is a swing state, that's not why people are so worried about it nationwide. the reason people are worried about it nationwide is because democrats fear that that nevada fight, including the physical aspect of that altercation in that convention hall, democrats fear that's not just a weird thing that happened in nevada, but it may be a foreshadowing of what democrats should expect at the nati

he is trying to help the democratic party, not hurt it. that means opening the doors, bringing people in, broadening the base, making it the broad based party as it once was. >> how did barack obama win in 2008? he was running an insurgent campaign, he was running against the establishment, running against a process that many people assumed was in favor of the clintons? he broke through. it is not as if you can't. >> well, of course, it is not that you can't. barack obama ran one of the, you know, the premiere campaigns ever run in presidential history. no doubt about that. he was a phenomenal candidate and he did break through. con grat lace legratulations to people. that doesn't mean we don't want to create a process who represents the democratic party as the nominee. >> does the senator have any regret running as a democratic now? does he feel he has not been welcomed into the party or feel like he is a welcomed democratic into the party? >> yes, absolutely. he feels welcomed. but what it means, though, if you're going to broaden the par

should speak to supporters about the chaos that erupted at the democratic party convention. listen to what dianne feinstein just said. >> we could by the statement in nevada. >> i was. because i think that was the time to have sent a full throated message to his followers that he don't do this kind of thing and this kind of thing is ant thet cal to the process set out. if we don't like the process, we should work to change it. >> how much does it worry he wants to take it to the convention in july? >> it worries me a great deal. i don't want to go back to the 68th convention. because i worry about what it does to the electorate as a whole. and he should too. >> the '68 convention. a lot of rioting going on. >>> bernie sanders campaign manager now making this comment about the democratic national committee's chair, debbie wasserman-schultz, and how she is treated. >> debbie, we could have a long conversation just about debbie wasserman-schultz and been throwing shade on the campaign since the beginning. >> i'll ask the chair, debbie wasserman-schultz, about those issues and s

this is good for the democratic party. those people came out because they believe in bernie sanders, and the democratic party. and bernie sanders talked about raising the minimum wage, saving social security, medicare, health care for all, free community college for every kid in america. don't tell me he is not talking like a democrat. >> finish, dude. >> i am saying this is going to go on. clinton better relax. >> no. >> bernie had a great win tonight in oregon. sets him up well for california. and close in kentucky. what he should be thinking about that, hillary clinton who won in 2008. bill clinton won it in 1996, and she barely wins kentucky. i there are weaknesses in the clinton compain you should be worried about. rather than bernie sanders. dude. respectfully, my dude in love, respectfully, what i will tell you, by every simple metric that you can put forth, super delegates change, if they were thrown out. if they voted with the state. hillary clinton would be the nominee. the fact of the matter is, that is very tru

and that is -- that is, that the democratic party is going to have to make a very very profound and important decision. it can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. >> joining me now from that rally is nbc's chris jansing. i have to say, striking to me how he came across on the television set. it looked like it could have been a rally four months ago. >> and it looks like a rally where he thought he might have won actually in kentucky, but he came out and said, we basically split the delegates. we basically tied in a state where she really won easily the last time around. if anybody thought that he was going to be cowed by the criticism of people like debbie wasserman schultz and barbara boxer and other members of -- other supporters of hillary clinton about what happened over the weekend in nevada, he was not issuing a challenge to the democratic party and suggesting that anyone who says that bernie sanders should jump out of the race is someone who's suggesting that the votes of california shoul

the democratic party splinter off. we would have something like a green party. the institutional structures create tremendous incentive to organize channel politics in one direction or another for we tend to take for granted the kind of politics we have without being aware of the institutional and legal framework that makes that kind of politics. >> as these parties become more intractable and less tolerant of the opposition, hasn't the american public in the loser because their interests appear to fall by the wayside in party interest appear to be the most prominent issue? >> one thing political scientists will tell us about the benefits of the current system, which you may not think about is that voters now do understand much better what they are voting for in a world in which the parties have clear labels and mean very clear things. most voters have trouble sorting through individual members of congress and the individual senators. with differences among presidential candidate tend the party label is the single most important informational tool for the median

listen to what he said. >> let me also say a word to the leadership of the democratic party. [ booing ] a party which incredibly is allowing a right-wing extremist republican party to capture the votes of a majority of working people in this country. >> sanders seemingly very disappointed in his own party. we've heard harry reid, debbie wasserman-schultz speak out. how does the party handle this bernie insurgency moving forward? >> they're going to have to do something. as you've seen, the never hillary movement isn't just a republican movement. it's a movement within the democratic party as well. there's definitely going to have to be some kind of talk from leaders in the democratic party that will encourage sanders supporters to come alongside whoever will be the nominee. all signs point to it being hillary clinton right now and asking them to get on board. that is what will be needed to be victorious over trump in the end. >> eugene, we're showing pictures of that chaos at the paris hotel in nevada. look, this is usually three or four days after an event. it's not news anymore. it'

state democratic party chair. you are one of the leadership. he believes already siding with hillary clinton here. >> look, i am an unpledged delegate to the national convention. yeah, i absolutely think this threatens our unity. we should talk about what we are going to do together, whomever the nominee is we're going support that person, come together and for the third term in a row get a democrat in the white house. that's what we should be talking about. >> roberta lange, thank you so much for your time. we greatly appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, donald trump is proposing a major shift in american foreign policy. trump says he is willing to talk with north korean dictator kim jong-un about the country's nuclear program. the new comments from donald trump next, and what those in his own party are saying about it. >>> also ahead, the tsa is now sending dozens of additional screeners to chicago o'hare where hundreds of passengers missed their flights because of long security lines, but wha

so the democratic party reconsidered the rules again in 1982 creating superdelegates. >> there was a o in effect i think create a check on the possibility that a movement candidate would surge into the nomination without support from the party mainstay. >> reporter: superdelegates helped walter mondale eek out the nomination despite local protests by the outsider candidate reverend jesse jackson. >> in cincinnati, we have 27% of the vote and no delegates because 30% threshold. >> reporter: in exchange for his support, jackson demanded delegates reflect the votes of the people more directly. >> what jesse jackson did in 1994 but especially after 1988 was win changes in the rules that essentially ended any winner takes all features in the democratic primaries. what that meant was the democratic party went to a fully proportional system. >> reporter: except, of course, there are also still these super delegates, ones that then senator obama questioned in 2008. >> i think it would be problematic if either senator clinton or myself came in with having won the most support from voters and t

what happened in nevada is now a really big fight in the democratic party between the sanders' campaign and the nevada democrats, also the dnc. a lot of people are getting involved here, including harry reid, the dean of the democratic in the and the dean of the democratic party in nevada. one question is whether this might also, nevada may be the most important swing state in the country this year, this is the shape the democrats are in, in that state right now. joining us from las vegas is john ralston the dean and political correspondent and the host of ralston live. john, what what you can see close up, i know you were able go to some of it this weekend. the national press, do we have an act rat view of what went down and how big a deal it was? >> it was a pretty big deal, beyond the allegations of people being cheated and chairs being thrown and violence, et cetera the sanders folks, at least some of them, came to that convention with the intention, the explicit intention of disrupt tack convention. they had already sued the state party over some ar cane deadline changes. it was qu

party. this week that shifted toward the democratic convention in philadelphia. what is your sense of how worried the clinton people are about how quickly they'll be able to get the party unified after the primary end? >> they are not -- there is some degree of worry. they were hoping to basically wrap up the process when the primaries end in early june. now it looks like this can continue all the way into july. that complicates a lot of things including how you run a -- plan a convention and integrate the supporters. they certainly don't want scenes of people booing at the convention or kind of chaotic scenes we saw in nevada this week. so they're hoping to do what they can to get sanders and his supporters onboard. there aren't a lot of natural allies between the two candidates in 2008. dianne feinstein really helped broker that peace and hosted a very famous meeting between barack obama and hillary clinton at her house. there isn't a natural person to do that in this case. elizabeth warren's name is tossed around. it is unclear how realistic that is. so there a

all liberals alike, i know, it sounds like it since my book, "con job," is a critique on the democratic party, but i think for black americans what i would say is we -- do the homework. there's a rich history with the party of lincoln, and i emphasize the party of lincoln, because that was a good party then. with black americans, lincoln and his republican party was created because they fundamentally wanted to break away from the whigs who wanted to expand slave states out west. lincoln wants parity like martin luther king for black americans. the republican party fought for the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment. so there's a history there. there's a reason why black americans like me believe fundamentally the policy conservatives offer empower them more than democrats. so i would just, you know, i think some of that is going away because you do see after president barack obama's nearly two terms, black americans are really frustrated. travels smiley -- tavis smiley and others are saying, gosh, i don't know if he's delivered on the the promise that he made, and did we deserve to give him over 90% of

that was today as the nevada democratic party and the democratic party more broadly continues to kindf tear itself up over what's happening there. what happened in nevada is now a really big fight in the democratic party between the sanders campaign and the nevada democrats, the dnc, a lot of people are getting involved here, including harry reid, who was the dean of the democratic party in nevada. one question is whether this might also be a general election problem for democrats. nevada may be one of the most important swing states in the country this year, and this what you're seeing right now, this is the shape the democrats are in right now. joining us from las vegas is john ralston. from what you can see close up at what happened at this convention, does the national press, do we have an accurate view of what went down there and how big a deal it was? >> well, it was a pretty big deal, rachel. beyond the allegations of the people being cheated and chairs being thrown and violence, et cetera, the sanders folks, or at least some of them, came to that convention with the intension,

democratic side. now there are big concerns for the party. campaign and the dnc sparring over sanders' response to violent threats from his supporters. could it be the democrats convention that's the one that descends into chaos? we'll ask sanders' campaign manager and the chair of the dnc. also, an interesting foreign policy statement from donald trump. he says he would be willing to talk to kim jong-un of north korea. the billionaire also reaching a deal to take donations rather than continuing to self-fund his campaign. so how much can his supporters now donate each? we have details on that and so much more at the top of the hour. see you then, boris. >> see you then, allison. thank you. >>> a billionaire making a big bet against the u.s. stock market. we'll tell you why he's doing it next. because why would you take a pain medicine when all you want is good sleep? zzzquil: a non-habit forming sleep-aid that's not for pain, just for sleep. from bank of america to buy a new gym bag. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every time and 2% b

the results, quickly overshadowed by a major battle brewing within the democratic party. etween the campaign and top democrats starting to boil over. and this means, could there be chaos at the party's convention. >> donald trump, of course, the last republican standing, and he has picked up one more win. escorting controversy, saying he will speak to kim jong-un and sealed the deal to accept big campaign donations. we'll hear from our panel of trump supporters later this hour. they're standing by. we have it covered the way only cnn can. let's begin with christine romans and the delegate race. >>> hi there. here we go. hillary clinton got the win she needed, but barely the margin razor thin. narrowly winning in kentucky, 2,000 votes. in oregon, bernie sanders with a divisive win, 54 to 45%. despite winning fewer delegates, clinton is now just 89 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, if we include those super delegates. it remains mathematically impossible for sanders to win with pledged delegates. >>> let's look at the republicans. donald trump took 67% of the vote i

. [ boos ] and that is -- that is that the democratic party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. it can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. [ cheers and applause ] that is the democratic party i want to see, bringing in people who are willing to take on wall street. [ cheers and applause ] to take on corporate greed. [ cheers and applause ] and to take on a fossil fuel industry which is destroying this planet. [ cheers and applause ] so i say to the leadership of the democratic party -- open the doors, let the people in. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting "bernie" ] or the other option for the democratic party, which i see as a very sad and tragic option, is to choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big money campaign contributions. [ boos ] and be a party with limited participation and limited energy. [ boos ] and a party which incredibly is allowing a right wing extremist republican party to capture the votes of a ma

>> because it's the democratic party. look, it just needs to change policies to reflect -- >> the minnesota party is called the democratic -- so i can't hook you into this. >> you can't. >> are you a social democrat? are you a democratic socialist? >> i'm comfortable with social democratic -- >> no, she's made it clear. that's not a -- >> everyone admires -- >> hasn't done any good. >> the question is at what point do we turn our attention -- >> okay. here is the problem. you just opened the door and i want to answer it. most democrats that like hillary clinton really like bernie sanders, too, but support hillary for the nomination but most guys that support your candidate don't like hillary. that's dramatic. that's a pretty dramatic problem. >> the nbc polls show the sanders people are red sent about hillary clinton. >> you people -- >> you people -- [ laughter ] >> sanders' people don't like -- >> it's all out now. >> sanders' people don't like hillary. i looked at the numbers today. it's amazing. it will be hard to draw

if you go after barney frank, one of the most popular people in the democratic party when it comes to kind of the left wing of the party. when he was in congress, he was really leading, almost the champion of that kind of part of the party. remember in massachusetts, there were a lot of people who were on the liberal side who wanted governor patrick to appoint him to the senate seat when it was open. the sanders campaign may be going a little too far in their fight by taking on some folks that people in the party really like. >> david, i want to give you opportunity here. we have been talking throughout much of the last year about the civil war inside the republican party, trump versus never trump, people who can't accept him and people who can. what we are now seeing it appears is a similar civil war on the democratic side. >> let me put it this way. if you are republican, schadenfreude is the only freud you get. thank you for that. i don't understand why donald trump doesn't do this. from his own point of view, he should. first, it extends, enhances and enlarges the mayhem inside th

party. we have work to do. >> is it a different challenge this time. they were part of the democratic supporters are outside the party. >> but they participated for a reason. their values i believe are much moral lined with ours and hillary clinton. h hillary clinton has said there is a lot less that separates us. they will be the nominee. the math is pretty clear. she only needs about a third of the pledged sdel delegates. and she will be the nominee and we'll work harded to bring them all into the general election. >> you have jeff weaver hints that sanders if there is an endorsement of clinton, it didn't come until the convention. and when you match bernie sanders against donald trump, sanders is up 16, clinton up 3. >> let's talk about electability. hillary clinton has more than almost 3 million votes more than bernie sanders and bernie sanders has a million two votes more than trump. and that's where it koucit count the eboballot box. >> trump had 16 opponents, clinton had one. >> and that's tougher. at the end of the day, she has 3 million more votes than bernie sanders and that

. >> let me also say a word to the leadership of the democratic party. >> sanders splitting last night's -- if sanders believed the democratic race is rigged could donald trump swoop in and pick up supporters? trump seems to think so. we will talk to sanders campaign manager and to hillary clinton's top spokesman about that in just a minute, also about the fallout from that chaotic democratic convention in nevada, one that has some wondering if it is just a preview of what we see at the democrat's national convention this summer. an interview nine months in the making. >> would be amazed at the ones that don't -- >> it was a retweet. >> many times. >> who? >> excuse me. >> trump has his sit down interview with megyn kelly. we break down what happened. rounding out our agenda. >> you think you can do it? >> absolutely. >> you think you can do it right now? >> he is looking for college students supporting donald trump. he is going to show us what he found when he went on campus. all of that and much more still ahead. we start with the big news last night. hillary clinton pulling off an app

>> that's a question nobody in the democratic party seems to figure out. to hillary clinton if she wins kentucky by a couple thousand votes but it really shouldn't have been that close. it's a closed democratic primary state as you have noted. one thing hillary's aides and allies are pushing out lately is yes, she's a boring candidate. she is kind of politically clumsy. many americans just don't like her. but that's still going to be preferable to donald trump. this is the narrative they're feeding the press, that she will be the more reliable and study candidate. contrasted in their view with the more unpredictable trump. that may not work in this unconventional year but it's trying to turn your weak into his strength. >> it's only going to be about 25 delegates apiece and they'll split kentucky so that doesn't really help sanders. chris what about the story of bill clinton? and his friend jeffrey epstein. it was talked about on a morning show that sounds like a cup of coffee this morning. and it seems like it's more of a focus lately. is that going to be

senator sanders personally endorsed a candidate who's running against the chair of the democratic party, debbie wasserman shuts, in her home congressional district in florida. he's asked his supporters to donate money to that challenger's campaign to try to turf the national party chair out of her seat in congress. that said, even with personal stuff like that going on, the democratic party under debbie wasserman schultz, they have to negotiate with the sanders campaign, they have to come to terms with them as the sanders campaign stays on in the primary and the party gets ready for its convention in philly in july. this past week the dnc gave the sanders campaign a pretty big concession when they agreed debbie wasserman schultz wouldn't appoint all 15 members of the platform committee as the rules said she could, instead she'd appoint a handful of members and let the rest be split between sanders and clinton according to what share of the vote each has received in the primary. that was a big concession. from the dnc to the sanders campaign this past week. they get big-time representati

the democratic party is going to have to make a very, very profound and important decision. it can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party. people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. [ applause ] that is the democratic party i want to see. bringing in people who are willing to take on wall street. [ applause ] to take on corporate greed. and to take on a fossil fuel industry which is destroying this planet. [ applause ] so i say to the leadership of the democratic party, open the doors, let the people in. [ applause ] [ "bernie ] or the other option, the other option for the democratic party which i see as a very sad and tragic option is to, is to choose to maintain its status quo structure, remain dependent on big money, campaign contributions. [ booing ] and be a party with limited participation and limited energy. and a party which incredibly is allowing a right wing extremist republican party to capture the votes of a majority of working people in this country. [ booing ] now i come from the working class of this country

the democratic party. e's a lot of friction that may not be -- >> hillary was a party person. >> that's so key with hillary clinton she wanted a democrat clearly in the white house, she wanted democrats. >> but sanders says repeatedly he doesn't want trump. >> but that's different than saying he wants the democratic party as it currently exists in power. >> bernie sanders sees himself as an indispensable historic figure. >> wow. >> he feels like sanders feels like it's his destiny to lead the democratic party and this is his last chance to do so. when you. you the it in those sort of grand terms, i think it looks a little different. >> let's get to that then. if that's his mind-set and you're hillary clinton and just told cnn that interview showed you earlier with chris cuomo he'll come around, it will be fine, bernie sanders will get it. she said i understand this, i went through it in 2008. senator sappeders is on "state of the union" at the top of the hour. he did another interview, democrats still have

basically, what have prompted carterre the losses of and mcgovern and so the fear the democratic partyasn't nominating the electable, winnable candidates. and so party insiders said down and said, what do we do? their instinct was, we need to take control. we need to take control of the nominating process. we are worried if we let the people decide through primaries, they're going to pick the wrong person. and so they instituted the superdelegate who could act as a corrective, essentially, to the at the vote by -- convention casting votes for whomever they chose. and what really the sort of and inogy you saw there the transcripts, the fear of the activist or the outsider candidate that might disrupt the party, might not work with the democrats the way they want once the person comes to the presidency. and so the since the elites know best and we have a particular political acumen. amy: this was in response to -- mcgovern and carter. interestingly, they did not see governor -- carter as an insider but as this southern outsider who was mostly joined officials from his own local circles a

can you have these two very different candidates and still have one unified democratic party? hen you look at the party itself and poll party members and also progressives -- we have to keep in mind there's a large new voting bloc of former independents that are progressive that have joined the race since bernie sanders joined the race. you see that they overwhelmingly stand in line with bernie sanders' platform rather than hillary clinton's platform. they want universal health care and free college and affordable college. they want all of the issues in the platform that bernie sanders has suggested. so i think what hillary clinton and the democratic party establishment really needs to pay attention to is where the democratic party is today. not where it was 20 years ago or 10 years ago. because that's really where the establishment is concerned right now. keeping the system that's been in place for a while that is really reelecting them. we're losing 10% of the party every single year. there are now more registered independents nationally than the republican party members and

democratic party is going to have to make a very profound and important decision. [ cheers ] >> it can do the right thing and open its doors and welcome into the party, people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. [ cheers ] >> joining me now from that rally is nbc's chris jansing, you can see the massive crowd behind her. striking to me, how it came across the television set, it looked like it could be a rally four months ago. >> reporter: it looked like a rally where he thought he might have won in kentucky. he came out and said we flipped the delegates and we basically tied in the state where she really won easily the last time around. if anybody thought he's going to be counted by the extra credcri barbara boxer and other members and supporters that hillary clinton about what happened in the weekend in nevada, he most not repeatedly issuing a challenge to the democratic party and suggesting that bernie sanders should -- you can imagine the reaction in the middle of this speech, he came out and said james sanders just told me that, jane sanders told me that

the ahead of the democratic party this morning tells cnn that bernie sanders has not done enough to reign in his supporters after unrest at the nevada democratic convention escalated into chaos and even death threats towards party leaders. listen here. >> in no way is it ever acceptable to condone or to even to ignore violence and intimidation against officials with whom you're frustrated. >> now, bernie sabders campaign manager jeff weaver spoke out condemning the violence but also accusing dnc chair wom, debbie wasserman schultz specifically of working against sanders campaign. listen to him. >> cat gorically condemns any threats that went on, absolutely unacceptable. debbie wasserman schultz, we could have a long conversation about her and how she's been throwing shade on sanders campaign since the very beginning. >> so, senior political reporter manu raju is on capitol hill with the latest here. where does this fight stand right now? >> well, i can tell you, kate, a number of senior democrats i spoke with want more than just weaver to say we condemn the violence. they want bernie sand

i still welcome him to have a conversation with it and having this democratic party ending up being a party of unity and inclusion. until then, officeers are out there. >> i will offer to pay the beer bill for all of you. >> yeah. >> you heard there is been a lot of reactions nationwide to what happened over the weekend in nevada. sanders' supporters reaction to what happened there was inappropriate. the national committee put out a statement of concern based on what they heard. senator sanders put out multiple statements on this. do you think things got out of hand this weekend and that convention was inappropriate? >> i think that if we were to look at saturday, hillary clinton did not win. trump did. what happened was that -- this is what happened, we had 4,000 of the most passionate people in this valley who got in a room together and you put them in this confined space for 15 plus hours, and who had little access to food and have three bars outside the convention center that'll put there specifically for us. i don't know what other situation that would created high emotions. if y

i believe i know what's best for the democratic party to solidify our ranks, there's a very serious challenge that is not mou mounting, has a lot of momentum. >> senator cory booker concerned about the growing division in the democratic ranks most seen saturday when bernie sanders supporters revolted issuing death threats to the chair woman and throwing chairs on the democratic floor. while bernie sanders is making stri strides, donald trump is feeling so bold to release a potential list of nominees within the last hour, the democrats have seemingly gone in the opposite direction. joining me is virginia, an organizer on the floor at saturday's convention. i know you said you think the behavior of the supporters at the state convention has been overexaggerated however we have debbie wasserman-schultz saying the senator's response was anything but acceptable and a added more fuel to the fire. in his statement he says he doesn't condone the violence or any form of it. do you condone what happened there in terms of the democratic process and what do sanders supporters want to unify this party? >>

will of the democratic party, then you would be chicago '68 literally. >> yeah, but the influence of superdelegates and to be able to put part of the count that hillary clinton talked about did potentially have an impact on voters who might have voted differently and certainly on the media coverage. >> it may have on the media coverage, although one thing i would say is if it was having an effect, we wouldn't see what we're seeing now, liz, which is democratic voters -- i mean, look, my feeling about this, my principle is you listen to people voting. people should vote. they should determine the outcomes. that's what the country was founded on, sort of. you know, you look at the voters of the democratic party, they are saying we want to keep going. they're showing up in kentucky. 46% of us are going to vote for bernie sanders and they're going to show up in oregon. they are not sending a message that we want this over. >> right. obviously violence was striking this weekend in nevada, but there were as many sander

democratic candidate. there are things we can do, and this is just a party process.his does not require changing the constitution. amy: i w want to thank you both for being with us. of in thesees times, and rick perlstein, reports for the washington spectator. we will have a link to all of your reports at democracynow.org . this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we're going to look at what has been happening with police here in chicago and the mayor rahm emanuel. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "black girl soldier" by jamilah woods. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on the road in chicago, illinois, broadcasting from wycc chicago pbs. chicago, illinois, where there has been a development in the police shooting of 22-year-old african-american woman rekia boyd. in 2012, off-duty chicago police officer dante servin fired several shots over his shoulder into a group of people boyd was standing with near his home, striking her in the back of her head. he

christine, what do you make of the tension in the democratic party? >> first of all, we're the democrats so we argue and feel strongly about things, so i'm not surprised, this is coming to the end of a very emotional, hard fought campaign. >> do you blame sanders for not tam ping things down? >> he should run as long as he thinks he should. if he wants to run until the last ballot is cast, that's his right. it could be better in the general election, folks that want to vote for bernie sanders will have had the opportunity to do that. obviously people need to behave in a dignified and civil fashion regardless of what party they're at and all of the gatherings, but i have no doubt this is typical end of campaign emotion and feeling and that come philadelphia we will be a united party. >> jonathan, do you agree with feinstein about what could happen at the convention? >> first thing i want to say, i do remember 1968. forthcoming. i was sitting in detention, which tells you the kind of person i was the morning of the general election. i remember clearly th

s >> democrats in the bluegrass state and both parties in the beaver state are at the poll this is morning with donald trump now running first in a one-man race. all the drama is on the democratic side. bernie sanders hoping to keep his two-state winning streak alive and chip away at hillary clinton's delegate lead. >> at the very same time, clinton is fending off bernie sanders she is also trying to shift into full general election mode with her sights first set on donald trump, but first before that, she's got to get past kentucky. let's get over to cnn's brynn gingras. she's in louisville, kentucky, right now where the polls are open. what are you seeing, brynn? >> reporter: good morning. it's wet, it's soggy outside here in louisville, but it's really not stopping voters from coming to this particular poling precinct to cast their ballot. we've seen a significant amount of people coming. as you can see here the line behind me, we've got about 100 people per hour casting their ballots. those are pretty good numbers and here in kentucky this is a state that hillary clinton really wants t

right now, the democratic party has a massive advantage over the republican party. trump hasn't built the apparatus to do that. maybe he can catch up, but -- >> time for a break. ahead, discussing one big difficulty for hillary clinton compared to donald trump. her party not yet coming together behind her. picture from the party convention in las vegas. also, there are pacs, super pacs and scam packs for causes like i am impeaching obama or saving donald trump. drew griffin investigates where that money actually ends up. ♪ what backache? what sore wrist? what headache? advil makes pain a distant memory. nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil. each day was fueled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuality. ...which meant she continued to have the means to live on... ...even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. if you have moderate

bernie is the democratic party trump. trump of the democrats. florida.h you are a clinton supporter. go ahead. caller: i may hillary clinton supporter. host: what do you think --? caller: go ahead. host: what do you think about the rift between the party and the sanders campaign? caller: bernie sanders is an independent and he should have read the platform of the democratic. he's coming in and he is really really hurting the party. hispanics and african-americans, we cannot afford trump to get in office. everything that president obama has done to help the mexicans and the blacks, we can't afford to put trump in office. i would just like people to really understand that because e, ourget trump in ther country is going to go to hell. host: margin in new york. sanders andorting you believe the dnc is hurting. caller: yes i do. the dnc from the beginning has to keephis whole thing hillary up front. and do everything they can to suppress bernie. starting from the debates and going through what happened in nevada a few days ago. i watched a lot of th

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i say to the leadership of the democratic party, open the doors. the people in. >> that's a fired up bernie sanders late last night after his win in oregon. the math for a sanders nomination, no easier today as clinton also squeaked out a win in kentucky. sanders at this point needs roughly 90% of the remaining delegates to become the nominee. the one thing sanders appears to be able to deny clinton is party unity, bitterness between the camps has reached a kcrescendo especially after saturday's nevada contingent, a knockdown dragout, charges by the sanders camp of a rigged process. top officials from both campaigned in separate interviews today suggested reconciliation could still happen. >> there clearly are process issues to make the party more inclusive and open. do i think the party will come together? 100%. >> it's been troubling in terms of the messages left for the state party chair and other scenes that have played out in nevada. >> nbc's kristen welker and rebecca hunt, kristen, clinton spokesman bryan fallon suggested in that interview w