ron brownstein, angela rye, and dylan byers, cnn senior media and politics reporter. the dream team, you guys, to unpack what happened last night. >> they would rather be dreaming and sleeping. that may be more accurate. >> maybe. maybe. but let's go with it. let's talk, ron brownstein, about donald trump and this coalition he has built of support. it was there in full force last night. he now needs 50% of the delegates from here on out to clinch the nomination. >> this continued what we saw in new york. it was an lute breakthrough night for donald trump. up until new york, he had not reached 50% of the vote in any contest. now he's reached it in six straight. not only was there depth of these victories as mj was talking about, the size of them. it was the breadth of them. he did better than we have seen him do in the exit polls in any state now. in new york, pennsylvania, connecticut, and maryland, those are now his four best states among women, among men, among republicans, among voters without a college degree, and they tie for his best state among voters with a co

another man there is ron brownstein. he is here with us now. ron, big debate. >> yeah. >> hillary clinton and bernie sanders. they have not been on stage together for five weeks. bernie sanders, the big question is how far is he willing to go? >> i think you saw he will go a lot further than four or five months ago when we were commenting on las vegas where he said i'm sick and tired of the d damn e-mails. it was a reminder of how far he has come from where he started. if you look at the exit polls, he has now one white voters in every state outside of the south except for iowa, the first state and ohio. he won most caucuses. with a he has not done yet and was clear again last night, he has not cracked the african-american community. best he has done is trail 2 to 1. the best results in the midwest. elsewhere it is higher. he is trailing with partisan democrats. he is winning people who self identify as democrats as opposed to independents by 15 to 20 points. those two lines converge in the northeast. you have close primaries that are opened toe

that's beneficial for both trump and clinton coming out of these big wins in new york. >> ron brownsteins that vote next week not unlike teke new york. >> i think you saw above all that the biggest wins for cruz and sanders look like big exceptions. i think the most important message out of new york on the republican side is that wisconsin looks like a one-off. ted cruz did things in wisconsin that he had not done before. it was the first state with an exit poll where he won most voters who are not evangelical christia christians. i think it was the fourth time he had beaten donald trump among donald trump's core group of white voters without a college education. last night those numbers turned around. donald trump won 65% of whites without a college education in new york, his best performance yet in any state. ted cruz plummeted back to 12% among voters who are not evangelicals. that's an ominous sign for him. as dylan pointed out, there are not that many of those evangelical voters. hillary clinton has now won every big state except michigan. the only big state he won was a state where

let's bring in ron brownstein. ron, i want to get to you first. good morning to you. few candidates for president could have survived a week like donald trump had. people across the country said the same thing now for months. is this different? on the issue of abortion. >> well, look. the trump phenomenon has been consistent. he has a deep hold on his piece of the party but had trouble expanding beyond that. he's a plurality, not a majority front runner. if you look at the past people who collected this data, candidates who won the kind of race he won they were ascending toward 50% of the vote. you were seeing elected officials consolidate around him. donald trump is stuck somewhere between 35 and 40%. he's looking at a tough night tuesday in wisconsin in a state that was 57% noncollege in 2012. should have been a good place for him. in this situation trump has a bigger piece of the party than anyone else. it will be a close call to get over the ballot majority. that's the meaning of stumbles on issues like abortion, nato, nuclear weapons in asia deepening doubts amon

nia-malika henderson, we have analyst and senior editor at "the atlantic" ron brownstein, and gloriaorger, and pro-clinton super-pac ver paul begala, and van jones. and donna brazil and bill press. man, there's no time to talk about anything. you people have to stop insisting on these intros. . >> who is chris cuomo? >> man, i'm going to have to start going by a symbol. brother of the current one as the governor likes to say. there is no question the race has changed the in my lifetime, a new york presidential primary has never mattered. so what is the calculus on both sides right now? what are you hearing? >> i think sanders is going in essentially for the kill. it was a surprise early on he was going to play sew heavily in new york. but you see from the clinton campaign some worry that it could be closer than that. just machines ago, they sent out some talking points, saying tonight on this stage bernie sanders will have to answer for the "new york daily news" interview a few weeks ago. >> the pushback on that -- that was a jump interview to set up the endorsement of hillary clinto

ron brownstein, dante chinni, we thank you both. >> thank you for having us. >> woodruff: and now, anew report about the dramatic growth of diabetes across the globe. the world health organization said today that an estimated 422 million people are now suffering from this chronic, lifelong disease. william brangham has more. >> brangham: the w.h.o's report tracked the global rise of diabetes over the last 40 years. and it showed a quadrupling of the number of cases worldwide. it's now estimated that 8.5% of adults in the world have the disease, and the costs are tremendous: an estimated 3.7 million deaths every year are linked to diabetes and higher- than-normal blood sugar levels. the fastest growth of the disease has been in africa, the middle east and asia. joining me now is dr. etienne krug; he's the world health organization's point person for dealing with diseases like diabetes. dr. krug, these are genuinely shock numbers. how do you explain this incredible growth of diabetes? >> well, we are seeing a steady growth now for several decades which largely, particularly for people w

our senior political analyst, ron brownstein. he's a senior editor at "the atlantic."nd cnn political director david chalian. ron brownstein, donald trump clearly blasting the rnc right now saying in an interview with the hill newspaper that the process, in his words, is a disgrace for the party and that the rnc chairman, reince priebus, quote, should be ashamed of himself. but he's still the front-runner. how unusual is it for a republican presidential front-runner at this point to be saying that the system is rigged? >> it is as unusual as many other things about the donald trump campaign, which is to say unprecedented. look, i think there's a lot of questions you can raise about whether many of the nonprimary systems that are being used are conducted to a standard of excellence that is required in an election where every delegate and every state counts. i think there are going to be questions like that after this primary is over. but the idea that this is specifically rigged against donald trump is kind of ludicrous on its face and is a very high-risk, i think, gamb

controversial border wall inspired a rally cry. [ chanting "build that wall" ] >> with me now, ron brownsteinorning, ron. >> good morning, carol. >> so how politicky splesive could this u.s. supreme court decision be? >> this is, to paraphrase joe biden once, this is a big deal. one of the most controversial decisions. as pamela said, it gets at this growing expansion of executive power in an era when divided government -- we've seen both parties push the envelope trying to do things through unilateral action. the court is the one place that can put a brake on that. immigration has moved to the center of the differences between the parties. we came out of 2012 after mitt romney won a higher share of the white vote than ronald reagan did in 1980 and lost by 5 million votes. official autopsy commission argue that the party had to reach out to more diverse voters. that impulse led the senate in a bipartisan vote to pass immigration reform bill in 2013. the house refused to take it up. ever since, the republican party has been moving in the other direction, culminating in the calls by ted cruz an

talk about this trump/cruz battle with our cnn spanl, historian and professor at princeton and ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst. gentlemen, let's begin with you ron, another super tuesday of votes just two days away and trump is favored to sweep the five northeast states. will it be enough to get him to that crucial 1,237? >> not by itself. he is going to have a strong day on tuesday as he did in new york last week but he'll need further gains in noefr -- in may to get over the top on that first ballot. look, we've seen by this point in the race, the grooves are cut pretty deep in terms of patterns of support for remaining candidates. if you look at ted cruz, his biggest weakness has been, he has run consistently poorly among voters not ee ven gel cal christians. only carried them in wisconsin, most of the northeast states, around 10% or less among those nonevangelical voters. looking at the map, those are states across the northeast, pennsylvania, maryland, delaware, very small, relatively small evangelical population. he's in a very strong position but if you look at the traject

joining us ron brownstein.ith us along with cnn political commentators donna brazile and s.e. cupp. it's been a combative week for these two candidates. how heated do you think it could get tonight? >> debates are about moments. i'm sure secretary clinton and senator sanders are preparing for those moments where they can show what i call the deepest contrast. the vast majority of democrats would like to see our candidates continue to conduct themselves with civility. i don't think they'll become too aggressive but they will get their points across. >> he had a huge crowd at washington square park in new york last night. young people showing up. a lot of enthusiasm. but the math isn't there. it's not that easy for him right now. he needs at least 56% of the remaining delegates in order to capture the nomination? >> took the "a" train to the event for the ffrts time in 24 hours. took the subway to a presidenti presidential primary. the last time they had a new york primary that mattered was bill clinton. obama ha

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joined by mark preston, our cnn political commentator ana navarro and senior political analyst ron brownsteinc here in washington and peter binrat is a contributing editor from the atlantic as well. he swept all five states and calling himself the presumptive nominee. is he? >> that may be a tad premature but we certainly heading in that direction. last eight days or something have been something different. donald trump is beginning to do what he had not done before which is consolidate the rty. up until new york he had not won 50% in any state and now won 50% in six consecutive states now and not only the depth of the victory but the breadth of it. he put up his best numbers among the groups he has been strong, men, noncollege voters. he also put up in new york, connecticut, maryland and pennsylvania his best numbers among groups he is weak, the collected educated republicans and women. all in all i think you're seeing the beginning of a consolidation. could this be a regional blip but maybe but it feels something is changeing in the republican race. >> certainly does. mark preston, you've b

this with cnn political commentator jeffrey lord, global economic analyst and political analyst ron brownstein. good to see all of you. jeffrey, let's begin with you. after all of this some would say rather negative talk about washington, are you surprised that trump is now saying that he would need a political insider? he said it for some time but now easy l easy he's elaborated. >> i'm not surprised. he's a very smart guy. one thing that they have to decide is who balances their ticket, what is the kind of person you look for. all we have to do is look at president obama who was, in a sense, an outsider himself and he turned to joe biden who was precisely the kind of figure that donald trump is describing. as bill clinton turned to al gore and other republicans have turned to similarly experienced people. so i'm really not surprised at this and, frankly, it's a pretty smart thing to do. >> he described this as a dreary outlook and that is rather odd, is it not, who voters would bring optimism, some inspiration? >> yeah. it's very interesting. i mean, what's so diabolical is that donald trump

let's bring in our political panel, ron brownstein, political analyst and a contributor and historianversity. good to see both of you. julian, you first. trump is expected to win big in new york. does he need to sweep with this 95 delegates at stake in order to keep him in first place? >> well, i think it's very important he's in first place and even he would remain there and allow cruz to gain some strength and legs to his campaign, especially with what happened in colorado. i think this would be very important to change the media narrative and give a boost to trump supporters going towards california. >> ron, talk about momentum, we've been talking about this and putting so many candidates at an advantage. it's ted cruz who really says he's got the momentum right now given that he's done so well in some of the most recent races. but new york, you know, the polling is just not showing very favorable potential numbers for ted cruz. >> you know, i think the evidence is very clear that in a modern primary system, what really exists are states that favor one candidate or another based on

we have jackie kucinich and we have ron brownstein. what's your opinion, mr. podcast?o subscribe to that. you are doing me a favor. look, i think that donald trump is in the middle of what almost two weeks now of an argument about a rigged political system that he hasn't caught up to because he wasn't prepared enough for the machinery of how to win delegates. i think that he's, as i have been saying all week, inside and an outside game. the outside game is to argue about the system and to play to his brand, but the inside game is to start to work the system to his favor. if he wins in new york, if he should win convincingly, he gets to the stretch where he can put concerns to bed and put himself in a good position. he is still in command of the race. he is in a better position if he wins in new york. >> jackie, "the new york post" is endorsing trump. in it, they say, should he win the nomination, we expect trump to pivot. not just on the issues, but in his manner. post pivot trump needs to be more presidential and better informed on policy and more disciplined and less

ron brownstein and margaret hoover. donald trump, the front-runner, is in an out-right feud with the chair of the party. >> unified by force. it is not unusual to bring a party into the national party committee. what is unusual is to have open warfare and it can energize his voters who thrive on us against them mentality. on the other hand, if he leads in delegates and is short of the first ballot majority, he is going to need unbound delegates. those tend to be party people. if you have somebody saying the party is biased against me, the system is rigged, they are more hesitant about turning over the party to that nominee. this is something that may help him with his electorate but is a real high wire in terms of the maneuvering he may need to get over the top. >> that's looking at it as far as what's going on in trump's mind. what's going on in reince priebus' mind right now, do you think? he not only said, these are the fact, the rules have been set, he took it a step further. >> he went to a tweet. >> he said, give

and our senior political analyst, senior editor for the atlantic, ron brownstein, to put it in perspectiveor us. let's break down the numbers. where do they stand now? >> we're actually on the verge of talking about two potential contested conventions, completely wild. one is far more likely than the other. let's look at the democrats first. the magic number here is 2,383. the number of delegates hillary clinton or bernie sanders needs to win. as it credible stands, with more 1600 delegates on the map remaining, clinton needs to win 36% of those. bernie sanders, 77%. so a clear lead. now take away the super delegates. this always the wild card here. free agents that can go any way they want. hillary clinton 129 delegate lead. that's what the sanders campaign wants to look at and say they can flip them over. reality is, in democratic rules, super delegates matter. hillary clinton with a major lead in super delegates. if you look at republicans, and we know the math. 1,237, the only number anybody cares about. contested convention looking far more likely. donald trump right now post wisconsi

. >> mj, our friend ron brownstein, who has since gone to sleep, made the point that this is what you sort of start seeing with normal presumptive nominees at this stage of the campaign, i'm talking about donald trump right now. perhaps voters coalescing around as it gets late or. now we're seeing donald trump at more than 50% of the vote. it's taken a long time to get here. what does the trump campaign want to do? do we have a sense of how they intend to use this moving forward? what do the next seven days look like leading up to indiana? >> i think donald trump's message has been very clear over the last few weeks, and it has been that the system is completely rigged. he has not stopped talking about that issue on the campaign trail, that the system is rigged, that only the establishment can win and that donald trump is here to prove otherwise. when donald trump goes out on the trail and tells his supporters, look, john kasich and even ted cruz, they are part of the establishment. and let me tell you the republican party and the republican national committee and this reince priebus

let's bring back david gregory and ron brownstein.t one point trump said new york values and it was the first time in the campaign where we saw donald trump have moral high ground and he spoke about 9/11 and how everybody came together and how dare you challenge that, and cruz since then has been moving away from that. let's play what cruz says new york values means right now. >> let's be clear, new york knows what those values are, the values of liberal democratic politicians, like andrew cuomo and eliot spitzer, and charlie rangel, all of whom donald trump has supported given tens of thousands of dollars throughout the years. >> david gregory i would submit this is much better for ted cruz, but do you think donald trump will be able to counter by saying that's what he meant, he was talking about us. let's play what donald trump says he meant by new york values. >> listen to this. >> you remember during the debate when he started lecturing me on new york values like we're no good, like we're no good. i have this guy standing over the

let's bring back ron brownstein, jackie kucinich and david gregory. to my trained ears, it sounds like he does not want it. was there more than met the ear? >> no. i think that was no and i mean it. he told people all along this is not his year. that is not his year. first of all, if he were to come in such an establishment figure, he would have a hard time winning. he's 45 years old. we were talking about this. he has young kids. does not want to give up that time. at 45, he has an opportunity to really build the party, build himself and run later. he is also in a position as speaker of the house to have a huge role in terms of domestic policy. and i think he wants to try to frame an agenda for house republicans, even if it's at odds with a nominee that might be trump. >> he is pro immigration, pro trade. his signature arrival were to cut entitle thes. all of which trump is on the opposite side they are trying to move beyond trump or cruz or kasich. who wants to be that person. this is probably a pretty good day for democrats. a lot worry the most ab

jackie kucinich and ron brownstein. brooke you must suffer the same thing i say, every time there's an election. did you see those old machines? can you believe how antiquated because of the system? move on. what is winning for hillary clinton today what is winning for bernie sanders? >> winning for bernie sanders is getting close to hillary clinton. >> how close? >> how close? i don't know. within a couple points. get her out of double digits, that would be a huge story. however it doesn't look like he's going to surpass her. doesn't look like there will be an epic upset like in michigan. looks like she will win tonight and the clinton campaign has been downplaying expectations. saying she's not going to blow him out of the water. however, she maintains that double-digit lead a good night for hillary clinton. >> what about, rob brownstein, hearing from bernie sanders, he was sitting in the studio yesterday talking about all of this faithful feel the "bern" followers. 28,000 in prospect park over brooklyn and talks abou

. >> with me to talk about this and more, ron brownstein. ing. >> good morning, carol. >> do you buy that from bernie that he's going easy on clinton because he hasn't brought up the e-mail scandal? >> he's gotten tougher in the last few weeks. essentially trying to paint a portrait of her as someone who is too tied into the system as it exists in special interests to deliver the kind of sweetening change his supporters like. in the end, i think the challenge from bernie sanders is very straightforward. he has to win some of these big states that are still on the calendar. that's the only path to the nomination. the only way to win the big states is to do better than he's done among african american and latino voters. that's the core challenge. i'm not sure challenging clinton is the way forward on that central challenge for his campaign. >> you know, sanders said not only did sanders say clinton is unqualified to be president. his campaign said clinton could destroy the democratic party because of her ambition. so older democratic women are

let's talk about all this and more with ron brownstein.d morning. >> good morning carol. >> first i want to talk more about ted cruz's daughters. because they really did steal the show. especially caroline. i want our viewers to listen to a bit more of that. >> a couple of days ago, i was back for caroline's daddy-daughter picnic at school, which featured all of the dads running and playing games. and -- >> my favorite. >> your favorite was that she got to dress up daddy in like this pink boa and these big goofy looking underwear. >> and i swear it was on a videotape the whole time. >> uh-oh. >> and now it's a class video that they are senting out to all the parents. >> oh really. [ laughter ] hmm. >> but it does. >> -- anderson. >> okay. it was so good we had to show it twice. what a lovely moment. we ted cruz has problems with the likability factor. does this help? >> well i think the town hall s have been an absolutely great addition. and the third edition of having the family. sure it helps but only so far. i think voters assume as the

we are joined by senior analyst jeffrey toobin, and senior political analyst ron brownstein, senior editorto listen to sound from paul manafort, trump's convention manager. it is a big position in the trump campaign. listen to what he said in private position to the rnc. >> he is sitting in a room, he's talking business, talking politics and it is a different%. he is on stage and talking about the kinds of things he is talking about the things that project an image that's for that purpose. the part he's been playing is evolving into the part that you've been expecting. >> the part he's playing, is this a problem for him? >> he is walking a tight rope. as p king said, you would expect if he is the nominee to dial back on the outrageous comments and behavior we have consistently seen. if he is going to be the nominee, he has to reassure, the party leaders, they're putting the party in the hands of somebody they can trust. if you say i have been playing it up, i am not that person, you open yourself to the criticism we heard from ted cruz, especially since on many issues, not all, but many is

cnn senior political analyst and senior editor for "the atlantic" ron brownstein., i want you to react to what we just heard from donald trump that the system is rigged except for those states he won. >> exactly. you know, he's got a selective criticism of the system. when he wins, the system works just fine. when he loses, the system is crooked, the system is rigged. look, wolf, our system is quirky. every state gets to decide how they want to run their state contest. some states have primaries. some states have caucuses. some states have conventions. but it is up to each state. and you have got to know what each state wants, what each state's rules are. in the same way that you have got to fill out and, you know, and go by the requirements to be on the ballot in each state, you've got to go through the specific requirements to compete at each state contest. and i think he sounds whiney. i think he sounds infantile. but i also know that he's laying out this narrative so if he gets close to 1,237 but doesn't get quite there, he can claim that it's getting stolen fr

joining us to talk about all of this is ron brownstein and jackie kucinich.reat to see both of you guys. happy monday. >> good morning. >> jackie, let's talk about this. trump had this four-day conspicuous absence from the campaign trail. he came roaring back on twitter to talk about how he thinks what's happening in colorado and elsewhere is unfair and basically a perversion of the one person, one vote democracy we all think of. he said the people of colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. biggest story in politics. this will not be allowed. what's he talking about, jackie? >> i just don't think tknew the rules they were going into. colorado has a several month-long selection process. the cruz campaign was ready for it. it misprinted two sets of ballots to actually be selected correctly. >> a big concern, ron, is this a metaphor of what's to come? this game gets a lot more tactical. >> they have been counting on the big win. it may still be enough to get them there. what's increasingly clear, if he does not get the first ballot

and in the daily beast, jackie kucinich and ron brownstein. i believe that was the irony of the night certainly for the clinton campaign. to hear bernie sanders say, look, you can have this great point of view. but it may not go anywhere. you need consensus. he was talking about guns. but will that have metaphors. >>> he's a realist on guns but not anybody else, breaking up banks or flacking or other issues around the world. this is the knock against him. he's talking about things that may be important but a lot of progress if's in the country believe in but don't have an opportunity to get done legislatively. so is talking about them enough? that was his argument on guns. yet on everyone else he is supposed to be believed. this is the fault line in the race. you say you may not like me. may be around a long time and part of this establishment, but i know how to work within this system. he is saying, no, i'm going to outside the system. >> but hillary clinton is overpromising on guns. she is saying she can push through things that will be bloc

we can all hear ron brownstein in the distance holding up a big sign saying, this is what needed to happen. it is what needed to happen. especially the last number christine gave us. she had been losing to bernie with white voters, less educated voters, one of those crosstabs, i hate the description but a real demographic. is this where she needed to be? >> absolutely. this is a state that looked a lot more like the rest of the democratic party than other states we've seen. that's the argument you're going to hear from her campaign going forward and that other states they're about to go into in this contest look more favorable for her. sanders had a tough night last night. you've seen repeatedly, sanders will keep going regardless, that was clear last night. the margin of win much bigger than the clinton was spinning for literally weeks, and i think this is -- the moral victory conversation is long out the door. she has now a pledge delegate lead, very, very hard for him to catch and they're talking flipping super dell guilt. not a great argument if you're him. one that will convince suppo