we're in the middle of downtown albuquerque as well. you can see this line of mounted police officers in riot gear. they are slowly, but surely clearing this protest out, block by block, they're moving barricades as they walk. the horses are moving the protesters out of this area and as they do that, as they go block by block, this crowd is getting smaller and smaller. one thing that we can say is it looks like police are getting a handle on this, but just a few moments ago, we saw albuquerque police try to follow some protesters down an alley, those protesters moved dumpsters to block their path into that alley. we saw an article moved at one of those police officers and you could hear a police officer behind me now ordering this crowd to keep moving. one thing i can tell you, john, isha, we can smell what is basically burning rubber in there. you've seen the plumes of smoke every few minutes throughout our coverage. that's basically people screeching their tires like something out of fast and furious. that's been kicking up a lot of s

fortunately, things have calmed down here in downtown albuquerque. dan simon, cnn, albuquerque, new mexico. >> dan, thank you. and that was the scene outside the convention center with protests raging against trump, but inside trump was cheer kd by thousands of people. at the same time declared the winner of tuesday's lone primary in washington state. that victory puts donald trump eight delegates away by cnn's count of clinching the republican nomination. in his speech in new mexico, donald trump defended his business practices against hillary clinton's claim that he rooted for the economy to crash. and he lashed back at the democratic front runner. listen. >> and i will never say this, but she screams. it drives me crazy. i didn't say it. i can't listen. she goes, and donald trump is a terrible person! and he wanted to buy housing when it was at a low point! who the hell doesn't? who doesn't? >> on the democratic side, hillary clinton campaigning last night in southern california. laser focused on donald trump, attacking him on every front and ackn

>> reporter: yeah jon, we're in the middle of downtown albuquerque, this entire intersection was shut down, was basically controlled by these anti-trump protesters, but now you can see quirk police starteding to move in. they are on horse back and they are pushing these protesters out of this intersection where they were basically in control. with just a few moment's notice, just a few moments ago, they

fortunately, things have calmed down here in downtown albuquerque. dan simon, cnn, albuquerque, new mexico. >> all right, dan simon. thanks for that. so trump, clinton, and sanders all campaigning in california today. let's dig into this more and discuss this unusual sight of -- maybe these days not so unusual, all of the protesters. but the day's political warfare. good morning. thanks for coming on so early. you know, it's hard to turn your head away from these protests that really seem to dog donald trump. >> sure. well, on one level, we really have to lament and worry about what we see as a rising trend of political violence in this campaign. political violence on one level is always a failure of the political process to address people's real concerns in a nonviolent way. as we look towards the last primaries and conventions, the fear of somebody really getting hurt is a concern for everybody involved. i think there's a widespread feeling that both sides need to do more to make sure that doesn't happen. on a political level, what we're looking at

albuquerque? are a lot of the local stations covering these people that we're covering? >> absolutely? a huge deal. our downtown has been taken over by protesters. this is a really big story for new mexico and img it's a really big story for our local government. i think the mayor of albuquerque and the mayor of new mexico have had to deso many resources to control what is happening on our streets tonight. but they really have to ask the question, are we financially prepared to have more trump visits to new mexico if these are the kind of resources that our government will have to use. >> well, the police are very restrained tonight and disciplined from what i can see. it's a good account for them tonight. thank you, chris ramirez, from kob in alba quickie. our coverage continues after this. >> oh, isn't that nice? get this them out of here. get them out. bring them home to mom. go home to mommy. go home to mommy.. >> well, we've gotten used to that. we haven't had it lately. that's donald trump taunting the people that are being thrown out of his rally in albuquerque. that's another version is of the treatment

don't be dull. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> this is the scene right now in downtown albuquerque police are trying to clear protesters,, anti-donald trump protesters from outside a trump rally which ended about an hour or so ago. protesters have thrown rocks and botdles. a door was smashed. a number of protesters have in fact been removed from inside the donald trump rally as well. >> well yeah, that is the scene, live pictureses there, young people as we're told still out there on the street. police trying to clear them out, but they are still out there. some waving mexican flags as you can see. let's get the very latest on the situation there in aler

albuquerque? are all the local stations covering these pictures we're covering? >> absolutely. this is a huge deal. our downtown has been taken over by protesters so this is a big story for new mexico. i think the mayor of albuquerque and the governor of new mexico have had to deploy so many resources to control what's happening on our streets tonight that they really have to ask the question are we financially prepared to have more trump visits to new manage exico if t are the resources that our government will have to use. >> the police seem very restrained tonight. thank you from kob in albuquerque. our coverage continues after this. cl clrn. >>> isn't that nice. get him out of here. get him out. bring him home to mom. go home to mommy. go home to mommy. >> that was -- we got used to that. we haven't had it lately, that's donald trump taunting people thrown out of his rally. we're back with the panel. joy you've been away for a bit. >> yeah. >> that's an interesting crowd. i wish i got a better look at the die verversity to get a bet look at the crowd but here we are in albuquerque, new mexico. so he knew wh

and this morning, the streets have cleared out in downtown albuquerque after real protests last night. after that donald trump rally. the demonstrators interrupted his remarks several times. that's not u.nusual, but what ws unusual, what we saw in chicago several months ago, but police put out smoke canisters. police walked back block by block to try to the protesters somewhat under control. trump himself talked a lot about topics in the news. hillary clinton. he talked about the new mexico governor and many upset about his appearance in albuquerque at all. >> thank you for that. >>> a trump senior adviser responded to the riots tweeting watching thugs and punks in alker ri, they don't nope what they're protesting. new mexico's republican governor susana martinez was not atlas night's rally saying she was too busy to attend. all of that as trump remains just a handful of delegates away from officially taking the republican nomination. he won the washington primary last night. and while clinton is poised to also win washington's primary, it won't give her any delegates. washington demo

this morning, the streets have cleared out in downtown albuquerque, after real protesters last night. after that donald trump rally, the demonstrators interrupted his remarks and not uncommon to see during a trump speech but what we saw was the escalation like what we saw in chicago a couple of months ago, but police still employed pepper spray and smoke can sfers and the crowd was disruptive and smoke in the air here outside of the convention center as police walked block by block to keep protesters somewhat under control. trump, himself, talked a lot about topics about hillary clinton and talked about the new mexico governor here. many of the protesters upset about his appearance in albuquerque at all. betty? >> hally, thank you for that. >>> a trump senior adviser responded to the riot tweeting, watching thugs and punks in albuquerque en route to california. they didn't even know what the republican governor martinez was not at the rally saying he was too busy to attend in a statement. as trump remains just a handful of delegates away from officially taking the republican nominatio

well, ma'am, i'll tell you at a time that i was protesting, it was around 5:00 and i was downtown in albuquerque for a couple of hours with hundreds and hundreds of protesters. i've heard that there were up to a thousand protesters at that time. the protesters, myself included, were able to march for blocks, several blocks and it was peaceful. it was actually beautiful. unfortunately, i never saw any footage of that last night. what i did see last night was violent and it was heart breaking actually. >> and you say heart breaking. why? are you worried that the message gets lost? why was it heart breaking for you to see this? >> it was heart breaking for me because i know what had happened hours earlier, which was a beautiful, peaceful protest. and what i saw on the television last night was just a handful of folks causing trouble, and i thought that didn't reflect well on the city because, you know, the city -- we came out strong and we did have a strong message and it was just unfortunate. when i was marching, and i was with, i'll tell you, they weren't criminals and thugs. i was marching with

seen some folks disperse is going to be out here for a little while, so that's the scene in albuquerque downtown. we saw the smoke when we heard what sounded like rocks and people hitting glass, there were audible gasps of surprise. people were talking about the protesters outside. we have to stress, again, not unusual to see these kinds of protests, see riot police at a trump campaign event. when you look at where we are, new mexico, a state where campa events. we are in a state where immigration is a major policy topic it's not surprising you are going to see these protesters and it's something we have been expecting. >> i don't think they're winning their argument in terms of the tv cameras right now with the signal we got there. thank you so much. more as we continue to cover the protests at the trump rally down in new mexico. this is a special edition of hardball. man 1: you're new. man 2: i am. woman: ex-military? man 2: four tours. woman: you worked with computers? man 2: that's classified, ma'am. man 1: but you're job was network security? man 2: that's classified, sir. woman: let's cut