wasserman schultz: that is a nightmare, not a fantasy.will make a decision based on who will move us forward and build on the progress we have made. >> same-day registration, -- rep. wasserman schultz: there is irony in him criticizing a process that he now wants to use to become the nominee. >> irony alert. is there an argument against same-day registration for democratic primaries? rep. wasserman schultz: i support that. i support automatic registration, and same day registration. we are the party that believes we should maximize people's opportunity to vote and republicans think we should strip the electorate because the only way they can win elections consistently is by having fewer people vote. >> open primaries versus closed primaries. sanders says democrat should have all open primaries to get in independence. how do you feel about open primaries versus closed primaries? rep. wasserman schultz: that is decided by state law. >> how do you feel? rep. wasserman schultz: i believe a party's nominee should be chosen by a member register

debbie wasserman schultz. when doug hughes, the gyrocopter guy got out of that congressional race in anticipation of his sentencing to prison last month, he got out of the race against debbie wasserman schultz and threw his support, instead, to another challenger who is running against her in the democratic primary. he threw his support to tim canova. and it is tim canova's campaign to unseat debbie wasserman schultz in her home district, that is the race that sent up the rocket's red glare in democratic politics this weekend. >> you've been calling for a revolution. in florida, are you with wasserman schultz or are you with her opponent? >> well, clearly, i favor her opponent. his views are much closer to mine than is wasserman schultz's. and let me also say this with all due respect to the current chairman, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> senator bernie sanders this weekend, taking time off from running for president to throw his support behind the non-gyrocopter

wasserman schultz: i support that.are the party that believes we should maximize people's opportunity to vote and republicans think we should strip the electorate because the only way they can win elections consistently is by having fewer people vote. >> open primaries versus closed primaries, sanders says these -- democrat should have all open primaries to get in independence. rep. wasserman schultz: that is decided by state law. >> how do you feel? rep. wasserman schultz: i believe a party's nominee should be chosen by a member registered with that party, we should not have republicans or independents playing games. >> you are against the open primaries? you would like to get rid of them? rep. wasserman schultz: the party's nominee should be chosen by members of that party. i would not suggest we start trying to change that in states but we certainly should not have any more than exist. it is up to the states. about whetheralk you think it is a problem that bernie sanders was not a democrat. rep. wasserman schultz: w

bernie sanders wants to beat debbie wasserman schultz.s wasn't a bernie sanders district in the primary. are you in the right district for this kind of campaign? >> absolutely. we have more donations in the state of florida than does debbie wasserman schultz. we have plenty of people who voted for hillary clinton who are joining up on our campaign. i'm sure debbie wasserman schultz wants to believe this is a proxy fight and that she can count on every hillary clinton voter. she will be mistaken if that is her belief. >> what is the message that you have separate from complaints that bernie sanders and bernie sanders campaign might have. what is your case against debbie wasserman schultz? >> she ignored recommend azs from constituents. this was fact checked by miami herald. she has been voting for their interests over interests of constituents. she has become increasingly unpopular. issue after issue she is on the wrong side of it, pay day loans, regulations of wall street, drug war, even support for israel people don't know where she stan

wasserman schultz: of course.ver been correct that our party's nominee has been selected by superdelegates. nicolle: why do you have them? we will take them if you decide to get rid of them. [laughter] it seems like you give him an excuse for staying in. he is clearly doing her harm. the interviews. he's doing her harm. trump is picking up these lines of attack. why don't you guys -- why can't you control his desire to stay in? rep. wasserman schultz: this election is going to be decided by voters who are going to vote because they care about who is the one who will ultimately have them back and help them reach the middle class. i'm not going to handicap how the primary plays out. and ourpropriate, democratic national have decided it is appropriate, to have elected officials and party leaders to have a role at our convention, and the pledged delegates elected by voters. they are both important, and this is important to note, which i have said repeatedly. if it was -- it was decided a long time ago to have superdel

wasserman schultz: that is decided by state law. >> how do you feel? rep. schultz: i absolutely believe a party's nominee should be chosen by a -- someone registered with that party. we should not have independents or republicans playing games -- >> you are against the open primaries? you would like to get rid of them? rep. wasserman schultz: the party's nominee should be chosen thehis is my opinion -- party's nominee should be chosen by members of that party. i would not suggest we start we start trying to change that in states but we certainly should not have any more than exist. we should not have more than already exist. ultimately, it is up to the states. >> i want to talk about whether you think it is a problem that bernie sanders was not a democrat for most of his career. rep. wasserman schultz: we decided affirmatively he should run and we welcomed him with open arms. >> has the stop trump movement and the republican party run out of options? our conversation with kelly and conway next. ♪ ♪ >> joining us is kellyanne conway. she read the collection

can what you want now about debbie wasserman schultz's record and why are you running against her?t here, as a constituent i've closely followed her record. i've been displeased with her record. he's become more and more of a disenestablishment politician. she's neglected the interests of her constituents. and i think we need new leadership. i believe i can better represent the constituents, and not just those in a few elite area codes or zip codes but all of the constituents in florida's 23rd. >> this idea of being a politician is say buzzword, if you're elected, you'd be establishment. you have to flesh that out more. what specifically in nature do you think she hasn't done right? >> well, when you look at our fundraising practices you see a big difference between debbie wasserman schultz and myself. she's been taking millions of dollars from the largest corporations and wall street banks and she's been voting along their linings and not in the interests of her own constituents. you look at my fund raising practice, it's thousands upon thousands of small donations i'm not going t

schultz: i did not see mr. zakaria's show. i try to catch that when i can but miss that particular segment. i believe the president has worked hard to build relationships around the world. that was a priority for him over the past seven years. look at this trip. we would go to vietnam. the first ever trip of its kind where the president will spend three days on the ground, both meeting with the government, the leaders of vietnam and also with the young people, the entrepreneurs, business leaders in order to deepen the ties between the two countries. then he will travel to japan. both of those countries, we have a difficult past with. if you look at the preceding decades, we have built strong relationships. japan is now one of our closest allies in the region. we do a lot of business with them, both in military cooperation, maritime security, economic cooperation. the president is absolutely looking forward to deepening those relationships. those are the fundamental goals of this trip alongside advancing the u.s. national secur

the only one making debbie wasserman schultz an issue is bernie sanders.hematical mathematically, he can't get it done. and it's time for bernie sanders and supporters to unite so we can go and target down donald trump in november. because look at everything that's at stake here. so i know that it's a difficult personal decision for him to make. but to make debbie wasserman schultz the issue is just -- you know, something that we need to get past. >> scottie, the narrative to this point has been turmoil within the republican party. and there are still divisions, as we know. paul ryan still has not yet endorsed. the republican -- presumptive republican nominee. as you watch this from the other side, does this take away some of that hit to the republican party? >> i enjoy watching it as a republican. but i'll say this. even if you were to replace her at this appointment, what makes you think that's going to bring peace to your party? that's going to cause more turmoil because do have an alliance behind her. she has accomplished nothing, she has lost. but tha

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schultz: we should be clear.the senate passed a bill that is $1.1 billion, short of the $1.9 billion public health officials tell us we need. we are encouraged by bipartisan support. it is rare in washington these days that we get a partisan support. we are encouraged by the steps they took, but we do encourage the president's request. i'm happy to walk you through some of the actions we could be taking as soon as that money is allocated. for example, without the funding, vaccine development is getting delayed, diagnostic testing is getting delayed, funding for mosquito control that could slow or even halt, and states do not have the funding they need to fight zika. these are request from governors, james. i will say one more thing. we know at some point there is sayg to be a media -- let's a heightened level of interest in this and what is the federal government doing to respond? when that day comes, i want you to remember the preceding three months of congress in action on this. james: to that point, listening

wasserman schultz responded.her opponent, she will remain neutral in the process. >>> now in the wall street journal/nbc news poll, trump gains four points over last month at clinton's expense. and in a new washington post/abc news poll, trump is two points ahead. 46% to 44%. this as clinton blasts trump over the weekend calling him dangerous. >> i do not want americans and, you know, good thinking republicans as well as democrats and independents to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy. it isn't. what he is advocating -- look with a he has done this past week. attacking our closest ally. england. heaping praise on a dangerous dictate other in north korea. talking about letting other countries have nuclear weapons. o advocating a return to torture. that is beyond the pale. it poses immediate dangers. >> trump fired back at clinton last night naturally on twitter. taking a dig at her ongoing fight for the nomination. donald trump writes, bernie sanders is continuing his quest because he believes crooke

you have debbie wasserman schultz.really for what his supporters did in nevada. there was some chaos there and now you have some senators who are talking about removing her from the dnc. are you seeing this as really a groundswell, like do you really think that debbie wasserman schultz could be on her way out? >> i wouldn't call it a groundswell, but i definitely based on my reporting, jeff's reporting and others here would call it a real conversation and it really does go to the heart -- i mean, there's lots of issues and lots of -- several sort of factions of democrats have different issues with her, but when it comes to the current moment in time it is all about bernie sanders and about the fact that he has been at war with her since the beginning of his candidacy. did not think that the party treated him fairly when it came to the scheduling of the debates, how many debates there were and many other issues. so, what we are certainly hearing, both from senators on capitol hill is -- and others is maybe some tepid su

debbie wasserman-schultz, we could have a long conversation just about debbie wasserman-schultz and how she's throwing shade on the sanders campaign since the beginning whether it was the debate schedule that were few and far between when no one is watching, whether they shut off the sanders access to his own data and sue them in federal court to get it back and whether it was the joint fund raising agreements with the hillary clinton campaign taking money away and sending it to the dnc and look, it's not, i got to say, it's not the dnc. by and large, people in the dnc have been very good to us. debbie wasserman-schultz is really the exception. >> what's your response to that? he accuses you of throwing shade at the bernie sanders campaign. you're the exception, he says. >> yeah. my response to that is #smh. if we're going to talk about that comment about throwing shade. we need to focus on one thing. get through this primary and work to prepare for the general election and make sure we can continue to draw the contrast between either one of our really fine candidates who are focused on

going to be more problems for wasserman schultz.have to look at that district. it's a very hillary district. the primary that ended on march 13th, hillary clinton won that district, district 23, by something like 69-30%. only 30% of the people in that district liked bernie sanders. it's going to be -- >> that might be why when we spoke with tim canova he did say he agrees with hillary clinton on more things than he agrees with bernie sanders on. that said, he's not debbie wasserman schultz and she's become the focus of so much anger. is it possible that if the convention goes sour, if bernie sanders goes down but he goes down ugly quite frankly and they don't have that message of unity coming out of philadelphia that that could end up reendiboundind reverbing against debbie wasserman schultz. >> it's 2016, anything is possible. if you just look at all of the upset that we're having in both parties. you expect the unexpected. and one of the things that debbie wasserman schultz has been very good at, it's making enemies. she's made a

. >> in florida are you with schultz or her opponent?> well, clearly i favor her opponent. his views are much closer to mine than his schultz's and let me also say, in all due respect to the current chair person, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> and he went even further. schultz meanwhile said donald trump would be democratic candidates questioning his success in the business world. over the weekend we have the washington post reporting that the last time his tax returns were reported, he paid nothing for income tax. revealing, for at least two years in the 1970s, trump had taken advantage of a tax code provision and this is popular with developers. it allowed developers like him to report negative income. on "meet the press" yesterday, hillary clinton questioned trump's business acman. saying he is a quote pretend success. and bernie sanders took a shot at his wealth. >> is there anything donald trump's done that you think should be praised? >> i think he should release his tax retrntz becaus

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specifically with debbie wasserman schultz.was that there are very real conversations going on but among democratic senators about whether or not maybe it would be a good idea for debbie wasserman schultz to step down before the convention for one reason and one reason only, to try to keep calm and keep philadelphia where the convention will be free of chaos. and that was after a concern about what happened in nevada and the back and forth that you just played here. number one, senators don't decide whether or not the democratic party party is there or not and there's a lot of support for debbie wasserman schultz. nancy pelosi put out a strong statement of support and others have as well. it is ultimately going to be up to hillary clinton's campaign what happens at the democratic national committee assuming she does formally get the number of delegates going forward. >> this is certainly not the rhetoric that the dnc wants out there. could this help fuel donald trump's fire? >> it could. at this point this seems to be an intrad

a, they can win fights against debbie wasserman schultz. b, if you're going to try to unite people behind hillary clinton, she's a much better bad guy, essentially, to be up against. >> yeah. i mean, look. it's an easier fight to have, as you said, with the dnc. which is not just debbie wasserman schultz. it's kind of a faceless thing. when we say people don't like congress. people don't like the dnc. >> right, who likes the dnc? >> nobody really likes the dnc except maybe superdelegates and the the like. i think that the other political theory behind this is that the more progressive you can make the democratic party on paper as an official party, the more, if not locks hillary clinton in then at least pulls her towards that as the standard for what being a democrat actually is. >> and there's also -- i mean, campaigns need enemies. that's how campaigning works. you're fighting someone. and that's what energizes people. it strikes me today, i had this moment of, right, maybe that's how this sort of ends is that this is the enemy. >> right,

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to debbie wasserman schultz. >> to debbie! whoo!> that was "saturday night live" once again, having some fun with the democratic presidential race. all joking aside, the sanders campaign has repeatedly accused debbie wasserman-schultz of rigging the process in favor of hillary clinton. now bernie sanders is taking that feud with the dnc chair to a whole new level. on sunday, sanders was asked if he supports debbie wasserman schultz's primary challenger in florida tim canova. >> clearly i favor her opponent. his views are much closer to mine than wasserman schultz's. let me also say this, in all due respect to the current chairperson. if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> right after that interview, the sanders campaign sent out a fundraising blast for canova that read, on issues like making tuition free at public colleges and reforming our broken campaign finance system, he is someone you can be proud to support. that's why bernie is endorsing tim's campaign. canova's campaign then raised $250

debbie wasserman schultz has quietly repealed those ethics rules. lobbyists can again donate to the party. last fall, debbie wasserman schultz convened a meeting with a number of lobbyists and reportedly handed out a menu of options saying, if you get varying amounts of money, lobbyists and windsor types of influence at the convention. the role of money in politics, which is the of the campaign theme in the presidential primaries, we are seeing that come into focus with the tension between debbie wasserman schultz in the bernie sanders campaign. amy: and you bernie sanders choosing five people for the platform committee, among them well,l west, jim zogby as bill mckibben -- well-known for his stance on the environment and climate change, and keith ellison, the congressman from minneapolis ahead of the congressional progressive caucus. >> the way to fight is manifesting is over this platform committee that you're referencing. this is the committee that writes the official positions of the democratic party. symbolic in nature, but now shaping up to be

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his views are much closer to mine than is wassermann schultz's. let me also say this, in all due respect to the current chairperson. if elected president she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> as i don't need to tell you, this is very tough talk for senator sanders to say he's going to support wassermann schultz's primary opponent. and that if he wins, he effectively will end her reign at the dnc. while senator sanders is a political force and able to raise a lot of money, in the march presidential primary in florida, he only got 30.5% in wassermann schultz's district as opposed to clinton who got 68%. how many people in her district are feeling the bern, is subject to debate, jim. >> he says the battle within the democratic party is over disappeared as well. thanks very much. you can see his full interview with bernie sanders on state of the union tomorrow, sunday, 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> an event like the egyptair crash during the height of an election season can help voters better understand a candidate and how they

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to debbie wasserman schultz. >> to debbie. >> reporter: sanders has also blamed wasserman schultz for limiting many of the debates and holding them on weekends. wasserman schultz called sanders an instigator of his supporters disrupted a convention. has this incident tested the fragile detente between the sanders' campaign and democratic leaders. >> i can tell you that i'm not doing anything to discourage the senator from continuing his campaign. >> reporter: today she did announce that sanders will get to name five of the 15 members of the committee that will draft the democratic party platform for the convention. sanders also wants one more debate against clinton in california, but so far he has no answer. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you. the top u.s. military commander for the middle east made a secret visit to syria over the weekend. army general joseph votel met with rebels and kurds fighting the assad regime and isis. today isis unleashed a series of bomb blasts along syria's mediterranean coast. more than 120 people were killed. elizabeth palmer reports isis hoped to ratt

please welcome kevin schultz. [applause] prof. schultz: good morning. thank you for that marvelous introduction. thank you for putting together this center. thank you for showing up at this distinctly un-buckley and absolutely un-mailer time of the morning. [laughter] you learn weird things when you learn about people. norman mailer was incredibly disciplined. he got up early no matter how late he stayed up. he taught each of his 6 wives exactly how he liked his scrambled eggs every morning. thank you to the center for the work that you do. thank you to ann o'keefe for making this happen so flawlessly. it was marvelous. my name is kevin scholes. i am lucky enough to detect the university of illinois at chicago, a marvelous place that is changing lives. giving first generation college students degrees, changing lives. i feel lucky to come to a place like this where i can talk about common ground and things that i find important in our political life. i was invited to talk about the book. although both of these guys died 8 plus years ago now and had their

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the sanders campaign has been engaged in a growing feud with dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz saying she favors hillary clinton. on state of the union, sanders announced he was supporting wasserman schultz's primary candidate in the race for florida's 23rd congressional district and went as far as to say that if he were elected president, wasserman shultz will no longer be the head of the dnc. >> you've been calling for a revolution in florida. are you with wasserman shultz or with her opponent? >> well, clearly i favor her opponent. his views are much closer to mine than is as wasserman schultz's and in all duery inspect to the current chairperson, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> dnc chairwoman wasser man schultz issued this, i remain as i have been from the beginning neutral in the presidential democratic primary. end quote. let's bring in in california where sander is expected to hold a rally. sunlin, he seems intent on taking on now the democratic leadership. >> reporter: that's right, fred. this is certainly a significant esca

we will look at team debbie wasserman schultz. tapped three either current or former members of congress. elijah cummings, who is a very popular member of congress. he has been doing battle with darrell issa on the house government oversight committee. he is somebody whose become the leading voice of democrats in the house minority. we have got here bonnie schafer, the only non-member of congress who is on the list. former ceo of clare's stores representing business on this list. barbara lee, of course, who is the leading voice of the anti-war democrats. she was the lone voice against the authorization to use military force after 9/11 but she also has a lot of other issues including civil rights. she sits on the house budget committee and is a member of the poverty caucus. very important there. lastly, howard berman, a former member of congress from california. he is somebody with a lot of foreign affairs national security experience. that is team debbie wasserman schultz. to team bernie. team bernie sanders, notable in the fact t

his views are much closer to mine than is wasserman schultz's. let me also say this in all due respect to the current chairperson, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> let us talk -- how big a deal is this? >> this is a really big deal. this is not the sanders -- this is not bernie sanders saying he's upset with debbie wasserman schultz, doesn't like the way she runs the party. he's saying i want her gone, and i'm going to use my influence to get her gone because beyond that comment he made with jake tapper, he also sent out a fund-raising e-mail to all of his millions of donors asking them to give money to help defeat debbie wasserman schultz in a primary. this is before he goes to a convention run by debbie wasserman schultz as the dnc chair and tries to have influence over the party process there. this is a really big deal, and it's one that during the course of our reporting, for the story that we put out on sunday, it wasn't clear what sanders wanted to do. this sends a much stronger message that he's

joining us nous, congresswoman debbie wasser m eerman schultz. on "new day." what is the state of play within your party? >> the state of the play within the party is really the same as it has been. we are at the narrow end of the funnel of our democratic primary, and we have a number of primaries to go, and that primary will continue to play out. we are preparing for the general election, and at the end, when we have one candidate and a presumptive nominee i'm confident we'll be able to unify, because there is a dramatically stark contrast between either one of our candidates, both of whom have focused on how to help people build on the success we've had under president obama and reach the middle class, and donald trump who is saying he's drag us backwards, back to the same policies that crashed the economy, has no foreign policy experience, and is the most misogynistic and bigoted candidate that is also the most unpopular presidential candidate in history. a pretty stark contrast. >> true, but you have some stark contrast growing within your ow

if he were president, the wasserman schultz would lose her position. president obama selected her as the dnc chair woman in 2011. trade to the transportation security administration will be on the hot seat today. peter messenger will testify before the house committee about how he plans to reduce massive delays for travelers waiting to get through security, causing people to miss their flight. fox has learned this week that kelley hogan, the man in charge of security is on administrative leave pending reassignment. peter king says a solution is necessary whenever that may be. >> listen, we can't afford to waste 1 dollar. whatever money is needed to be spent should be spent. nicole: king says the tsa needs to hire more agents, offer more training, use private security firms. something being done at san francisco airport. lauren: virginia governor terry mccullough insists this new federal investigation into donations to his 2013 gubernatorial campaign has nothing to do with the clinton foundation or hillary clinton. maccoll is getting peppered with the m

debbie wasserman schultz has not been neutral.he has clearly been for hillary although she insists publicly that she's neutral. sanders has a legitimate gripe perhaps and the delegate rules which he is a symbol i guess certainly favor hillary because of the super delegate presence which is so important in the democratic race. my sense about it is that it is kind of a double standard at work, priebus gets criticized for doing what everybody wishes debbie wasserman schultz was doing on the democratic side. >> let's look back at what happened last saturday in the nevada convention. where bernie sanders supporters thought that they were being treated unfairly, they started throwing chairs, they were threatening the republican -- not the republican -- sorry. they were threatening the democratic nevada chair. if this had been trump supporters do this, juan, what would the narrative in the media have been? >> it would have been, i think, even larger. that's not to say that this was ignored. this has gotten a lot of attention. >> it wasn'

debbie wasserman-schultz has gotten herself into a bunch of messes. think the republicans do there is right and vines prebus is not an elected official. i think she is in a lot of the trouble. reporter: is this threat to debbie wasserman-schultz if she loses, is it throwing red meat to the republicans? >> it shows how weak a candidate hillary clinton is. debbie wasserman-schultz is in trouble because she has went in bank for clinton this whole time. she was not seen as prevent deeg baits and doing anything she could for hillary clinton to be the nominee, she wouldn't be doing this. if hillary clinton were pop here and a good national candidate this wouldn't be happening. >> i think she has gone overboard to prove she is neutral. because she is a woman she has been painted automatically as a hillary supporter. >> democrats were trying to get bernie sanders to call it quits. >> she said he has every right to go through the primary process. that's not to say -- it's extremely difficult to have an elected official who is all set to chair of the party. lik

it is not just personal dispute between debbie wasserman schultz. now you told me a second ago it sounds like bernie sanders did get -- did he or did he not get a fair shake? >> in nevada? >> in his campaign. >> we have competed in some 40 states. we have had very good relationship with state parties all across this country. the one case we funded the state party because it didn't have the resources to put on caucuses. hillary clinton refused to help them. we have had dispute with one state party at this level, nevada state party. nevada centric issue where the chair put in temporary rules that were designed to stifle debate. they were implemented over a negative voice vote from the floor and unappealable decision. let's not confuse what went on in nevada with a broader issue. we have had great relationship with state parties across the country skblmpt it if we get to the end of the process hillary clinton has the delegates to be the democratic nominee are you going to tell supporters we gave it our best. it was a fair process. she won, we lost. >>