, you're just -- >> i'm not working for rahm. >> a rahm friend. >> exactly. >> you're on team rahm. >> yeah. if you're a friend of rahm's you're on team rahm, yes, unless you get an unlisted number. >> i was going to say woe betide the person who doesn't go on team rahm, right? >> yes, yes. >> they get -- four letter words begin to fly. so i love this book for a bunch of reasons. i love it, in particularly, because it really is 40 years of politics. it's not seven years of politics --. >> yes. >> or eight years of politics. your most consumer-facing experience as a consultant is working for president obama. >> right. >> most people know you for that, but i'm an old northwestern university guy. i lived in chicago when harold washington was mayor. >> yeah. >> and died. so to hear harold washington's name and jane byrne and ed vrdolyak, it really took me back. >> yeah. >> that environment to come of age politically for you as a consultant must have been amazing. >> incredible. incredible. you know, evan, i grew up in new york city. in fact, my first political experience was as a 5-year-o

emanuelviously, rahm represents the 1%.owerful and the the connections to wall street in chicago, and someone who's the city inut tremendous crisis as it relates to criminal justice and as it relates to the chicago neighborhoods while the city has -- is in the shadow of the shiny downtown area. the mayor is quite unpopular in chicago, has a very low approval ating, and many people feel second term in chicago -- by covering up a crisis, is covering up scandal, and using the $30 million to get elected. he is not a popular figure. moore, youca morris also held a rally on friday. this is not the anti-trump rally. explain how it fits into chicago's city politics, and now because illinois is one of the major primaries going to be held tomorrow, national politics. veronica: i think that it relates, and the point that we were making is that the policies in chicago are reflective of the policies in america, the policies that have led to many black lives being murdered and nobody being held accountable in a lot of different cases. is

the anger against rahm emanuel, who has about an 18% approval rate in the city of chicago rate. and with all that, he's still only -- only came 8% behind hillary clinton in cook county. so they were hoping for a better number out of cook county, particularly with all the activation there has been around rahm emanuel, police brutality, the protests that happened on friday night. so i think that is disappointing. at this point, it's hard to see how they make up those 40,000 votes they are still lacking as we get down to the final margins here. >> chris hayes for us in chicago at that bernie sanders' field office. chris, you just went through that moment when the people behind you realized they were on tv and made things very difficult for you. you handled that well, my friend. >> it's a little like, you know, when you start hearing your own voice a second late on the return. you have to bifurcate. >> they are tuned to msnbc all night. >> thank you, chris. chris again is there at the bernie field office. they're still planning on hearing from high level surrogates from the bernie s

of rahm emanuel. is rahm emanuel a real problem for you, especially with african-american voters in chicago? >> look, i'm running on my record, what i've done, who i am, and what i will do as president. and i think voters understand that. >> you said that there are no insults in contrast to the republicans. president clinton today went after bernie sanders in chicago and said that he's the blame candidate and that you're the responsibility candidate. that's being personal. >> oh, i don't think so. i think that, you know, that's pointing out that we have very different visions of where we are in the country and where we need to go. look, i'm an optimist about america. i hear so much pessimism, so much negativity, frankly, on both sides. lots of really dire predictions about our country. i think we can have the best years ahead of us, if we do what we have to do. and that is don't be blaming and scapegoating and bullying and engaging in bigotry, like donald trump. let's look positively toward what we ca

clinton can't credibly distance herself from rahm emanuel and can't embrace rahm emanuel, so do you thinkt unfair? >> well i think it's unfair. but this is the same sanders who said he would not go negative. here's a guy who's supposed to be this wonderful, honest hard-working guy. i'm not going to go negative i'm not going to do this and he's done all the things he said he wouldn't do. now, is rahm emanuel fair game? he may be. but i don't know what his actions have to do with the presidential election. >> i'm assuming that hillary clinton you think will win ohio tomorrow. why do you support her? >> i support her because i believe very very strongly that she is the best candidate on either side of the aisle to be the president of the united states. when you look at their histories, people's history is a very good barometer about what they will do in the future. if you look at her, she doesn't just talk the talk she walks the walk. so i am very very proud to say that i'm a supporter and a surrogate and i believe that she will be ready on day one. i don't think there's another candidate in

she has a long relationship with rahm emanuel. does she still support rahm emanuel?i think this is just the latest in attacks from bernie sanders trying to tie her to the mayor. she's been very clear that the justice department. she's the first candidate to say the justice department needed to do a review of the shooting and the chicago police department, and the first speech she gave in this campaign was about criminal justice reform. her record is clear. i think this is the latest attempt to distort and distract and try to make this more negative in the final days. >> you say it's barnd eaernie s attempt to tie her to rahm emanuel. >> she's been clear and will be looking for the justice department report. >> great to have you with us. thank you so much. >> we appreciate it. busy day tomorrow. >> a big interview coming up. chris christie doing the ver vi -- the interview. this is set to begin. we'll bring it to you moments away. it took joel silverman years to become a master dog trainer. but only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. technology

has rahm emanuel endorsed hillary clinton?n campaign has been very distant. >> rahm emanuel has definitely endorsed hillary clinton. i'm sure knowing the political animal that rahm emanuel is, he's somewhat frustrated for not being able to get actively involved here. but certainly, the strategy by bernie sanders is calculated to link that unpopularity toward rahm emanuel to hillary clinton. >> we have bernie sanders also campaigning with chuy garcia, who i know he's chuy, but he ran against rahm emanuel in the last mayoral race, is he popular enough to start to pull over some support to bernie sanders in the community of people of color? >> i think so. and one thing, yes, chuy garcia, cook county commissioner, ran against rahm emanuel, lost in a historic first ever run-off election to rahm emanuel, but still retains substantial popularity. in fact, garcia was endorsed by sanders for mayor, and garcia has actually not only in chicago, but he's played a national surrogate role for bernie sanders' campaign. >> and lastly, does th

. >>> happening today, chicago mayor rahm rahm emanuel will announce his pick for the police chief. he rejected three finalists recommend by the police board for the top post. emanuel stated earlier this year that retired philadelphia police chief charles ramsey was his first choice, ramsey declined the offer, but is working with the city as a consultant. >>> new york times report that a group of bill cosby's accusers will be part of a an exhibit of the african-american history not mentioning the sexual abuse claims. the museum open in september. >>> >>> coming up next, grand old egg celebration at the white house, preview coming up. >>> new video on "action news," showing a parked car as it burst into flames near a hotel in boston. the man who was driving it dieded to pull over near the elliot hotel. moments after he got out of the car it burst into flames. firefighters put it out, officials are working to find out why the car caught fire. >>> devon still is returning to his alma mater with his daughter leah. the foundation helps families with children diagnosed with cancer. leah w

sanders' strategy, trying to win illinois by tying clinton to chicago's mayor rahm emanuel, unpopular with some african-americans after a controversial police shooting. emanuel, a former top white house aide to bill clinton has endorsed hillary. >> rahm emanuel right now is radioactive. sanders in illinois is exploiting the same disenchantment with anything deemed vaguely establishment. >> reporter: perhaps tonight's biggest prize, ohio. sanders hammering clinton for her longtime support for free trade deals. >> i proudly stood with the workers secretary clinton stood with the big money interests. >> reporter: clinton respond. was nafta a mistake? >> you know, i think that you'll have to ask the experts who say on balance some people were helped. some people were hurt. if clinton were to lose the midwest to sanders, she would still be far ahead of him in delegates, but he would get a huge boost in momentum and in online contributions as he vows to keep this race going all the way to the convention. lester? >> andrea mitchell tonight, andrea, thanks very much. want to bring in our poli

possibly if there are controversial figures done the road who are as close to clinton as she is to rahm>> i will ask about florida because i always ask about florida. if the polls are correct and trump doesn't just win, but wins big. what is that about? was thoughtjeb bush to have a stronghold in florida but what do you think explains trump's dominance of florida? >> his dominance in florida is explained the same way as it is everywhere else. his supporters identify with him. they have known him for a long and the hits on him and his marriages and these things in the past -- it doesn't bother them. -- rubioarticularly has not tended to the base their like maybe he should have. he's been very busy getting ready for this campaign nationally and there are a lot of hurt feelings in florida. not just because he has been largely absent but also over the immigration stuff. >> back to hillary clinton, is she a favored daughter? the second president from illinois? >> she has never made that connection. she has to clergy is a cubs fan, but she is also a yankees fan. the couple years ago she got t

hayer rahm emanuel can hardly afford to give them up. last week a city would not dismiss a lawsuit that sought hundreds of millions in refunds. it's part of a controversy sparked by red light cameras, it involved shortened yellow lights. outright civic corruption. >> captured on camera, vehicles running red lights with disasous routes. in the next decade accidents like these killed 9,000. engineers grappled with ways to make interceptions safer. and a controversial method is to use red light cameras. working. >> that's from a vehicle of red flex traffic systems, a leading manufacturer of red light cameras. studies show that they reduce high speed crashes and critics point to studies conducted by states and the highway, concluding that red light cameras almost always lead to a steep increase in red light collisions. when you throe a red-light camera at an intersection, it creates a problem, because you have all of these things going on in the driver's mind, one is wow, if i don't stop here, and i go through on a short yellow, at the very

listening to the report before us, yes rahm is absolutely a big piece of this.e didn't do as well with african americans as she did with some of the southern states. among latinos, bernie sanders actually carried that contingent with a big percent of the vote in illinois. >> we don't have time to talk about it tonight but a lot of questions in my mind about turnout and how republicans are turning voters out, democrats not so much. >> say that for another day. >> i'my walter, thank you very much.z" >> ifill: in the day's other news, the language and violence in the presidential campaign drew criticism today from both parties in washington. president obama spoke at an annual st. patrick's day luncheon. without directly mentioning donald trump, he deplored what he called the campaign's "vulgar and divisive" rhetoric. >> while some maybe more to blame than others for the current climate, all of us are responsible for reversing it. for it is a cycle that is not an accurate reflection of america, and it has to stop. >> ifill: on the republican side, senate majority le

a lot of democrats believe rahm emanuel backlash is helping bernie sanders there. we're going to get to the democratic race later, but we're going to start with the republicans and the republican front-runner donald trump. mr. trump, welcome back to "meet the press," sir. >> good morning. >> i got to start with what's been happening over the last 48 to 72 hours. do you accept any responsibility whatsoever for the escalated tension that takes place at your rallies? >> well, i think if anything a lot of people have praised me for canceling the one rally. we had 25,000 people coming, we got a lot of them not to come through notice. and the rest of them we canceled because we had disrupters out there. they weren't really protesters, they were disrupters, like professionals. they had bernie sanders signs all over the place and made by bernie sanders people. these were professionally made signs. and rather than going, which i could have done pretty easily, i would have gone, made a speech, you would have had an awfully big riot and a lot of people would have been hurt. a

lose illinois, it is on rahm emanuel. and apparently he knows it. there's nothing he can do about it. he's a toxic figure. that just is what it is. it's fascinateing how she's getting punished for rahm. >> he's beenin invisible with r. >> well, has to be. >>> alex is giving all this away, but we have to play "snl," you get the whole thing now here, alex. bernie sanders and the impact on hillary clinton. here it is. >> you're fired up. you're anangry. and i'm angry too. because the top 10% of the top 1% controls 90% of the wealth in this country. so thank you millennial for lending your support to the biggest outsider jew in the race, h)llary rodham clinton. >> but, ris, that actually is what's happening. bernie sanders has won the message primary. >> he won the message. >> this is their sense of rendezvous with destiny. you have to g that younger generation to support what you're doing. you've got to move in that directitin. you know what's fun about watching this though it just reminds you politics used to be fun. >> yeah. >> when they did dirty tr

so mayor rahm emanuel can hardly afford to give up the revenue that's generated by red light cameras but last week, a judge ruled against the city's request to dismiss a lawsuit that is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds in red light camera tickets. the suit is just part of a huge controversy sparked by red light cameras in chicago. it's a story involving shortened yellow lights, a spike in rear end collisions and outright civic corruption. captured on camera. vehicles running red lights with disastrous results. in the last decade, accidents like these have killed nearly 9,000 people in the united states. engineers have grappled with ways to make intersections safer. and one of the most controversial methods is to use red light cameras. >> in communities across new jersey, traffic safety cameras are working to make people safe on our roads. >> that's a video from red flex traffic systems one of the main manufacturers of red light cameras. studies show that red light cameras reduce high speed t bone crashes. federal highway administration concludes that red light camer

look i think rahm emanuel went to chicago as obama's guy. guy who gave up a vance chance to be speaker of the house to be the chief of staff to president obama in the toughest period that the country's seen in a long time and did a great job. he has become a very disliked person among progressives and african-americans in chicago mainly because of the police brutality problem and the way he's dealt with it. the fact that people feel he had that videotape that somehow he was a part of hiding the videotape that showed a police murder -- >> has sanders successfully linked him -- >> sanders brilliantly said, actually took rahm emanuel's endorsement of hillary clinton and used it against hillary and said i don't want your endorsement. so you're going to see now whether or not that worked and you have to look at the black vote and see how it played, but i do think that rahm emanuel wound up being a net harm to hillary clinton than a gain. that wouldn't have been strewtr few years ago. definitely true this year. >> jeffrey lord, as we're awaiting d

. >> now, the mayor, rahm immanuel, a democrat and worked in the clinton white house in the 90's, hasd secretary clinton or senator bernie sanders? >> he did that aló long time ago, but he has beenq?s÷ kind of mia. he hasn't had a public schedule for several days. only making, you know, brief appearances. bernie sanders, greta, has been campaigning against rahm immanuel and he told me the other day, i interviewed him on saturday in a sit down and sanders told me i don't want rahm immanuel to endorse me even in the fall should i be the nominee. he said he represents the wall street wing of the party. i want him to steer clear of me. >> and, of course, i should note that illinois is also the birthplace of secretary of state hillary clinton. it's going to be interesting watching your state tomorrow as well. mike, thank you. so, who is going to have a big showing in the show-me state? missouri will hand out 52 g.o.p. delegates to tomorrow's winner. the springfield political reporter is in springfield. john, who is going to take your state? >> it's a toss-up right now. we haven't had a lot

he built up with the city's anti-rahm forces, african-american electorate frankly. and so there a fascinating racial dynamic playing out here. we've seen bernie sanders struggle with black voters, we saw him do better in michigan, losing 2-1, the interesting test tonight is does he sort of assemble this coalition in illinois, using a sort of bank shot off rom ahm ee emanuel, ber numbers from him here, particularly out of cook county, than we see any where else. >> it could be an aberration, reflection of rahm. what's been interesting, how hillary clinton has decided they know it's a problem. she didn't throw him under the bus. she is not -- he has kept his headway underground. it seems they accept it. they don't want to exacerbate it. >> that's exactly right. a quiet, quiet noncommittal sort of silent awkward date sort of situation for much of the campaign. bill clinton was here today, you know, talking about a responsibility candidate. obviously, hillary clinton is huge support here in a place like cook county. she is probably still the favorite. but they have just

rahm emanuel's unpopularity may cost them votes in chicago they normally would have. and they're even thinking north carolina's going to be close. >> yeah. i mean, this week is sort of a replay of super tuesday for them where -- >> but in a more defensive approach. >> absolutely. i was going to say without the many advantages going in we thought she had there. and we really can't underestimate the blow that michigan dealt to the campaign. she was supposed to win there. she expended a lot of political capital and a lot of time and effort to win there and she lost badly. >> and i'll tell you i think the auto bailout hit, i think they wish they'd done it sooner. >> right. >> they sort of blew that one. but they've been wary, alex. it's sort of like they have one foot in the general, they don't want ta alienate sanders, they don't want to anger him or his voters and at the same time they need to defeat him. >> well, bernie sanders is going to be the democratic nominee. >> yes. whether he's wearing a man suit or a pantsuit. >> oh, i see what you're saying. >> the campaign