on the democratic calendar but the clinton campaign made clear that even though bernie sanders was still in the race, the clinton campaign was going to be moving on. after those northeast primaries on april 26th, the clinton campaign said out loud that they would no longer spend any money to run ads in the democratic primary. and they didn't for awhile. until something about tonight made them change their minds. tonight, there are two races on the democratic side. oregon and kentucky and oregon, as you know, polls close at 11:00 p.m. eastern. oregon looks like bernie sanders country but it is much more of a wild card than you might thing tonight in oregon. we'll be talking about that a bunch over the course of this evening but kentucky kentucky is sticking out like a sore thumb. something about this kentucky race tonight which has turned out to be so close. something made the clinton campaign reverse the earlier decision that it was no longer going to be advertising, that it was no longer going to be advertising in that state. they decided, because of something they saw in kentucky, that

the math favors hillary clinton. that's putting it mildly to win the nomination. what her campaign doesn't want is to be on the losing streak at the end of the primary season. there's the chance that could happen. there's also a good chance, and the clinton campaign knows this, they could pull off two wins tonight. this is the only poll we have in kentucky. you can see in very small print, this was taken march 1st and 2nd. that was before one major event in this campaign that's very relevant to kentucky. that's the emergence of hillary clinton's line about putting coal miners out of business. here's this state, if coal will be a problem for hillary clinton, look into eastern kentucky. look in this part of the state. president obama very popular here even among democrats. that could be a problem. the reason it's close and what she's counting on is this is a closed primary state. there's been ten states that have held primaries where only democrats can vote. hillary clinton is ten for ten in those states. you will not have independents coming into those primaries. if there's one upsi

and if you're the democratic campaign. the clintonpaign, he was campaigning in virginia the other day. that election was a long time ago. they think she'll be the nominee. they're starting to move around this map as well, not only state by state, but sometimes where you are in a state, what issue you're talking about -- >> from hillary clinton's standpoint, since the democrats won the presidency the last two times, does she play defense or go on offense? >> she can go on offense, meaning, call donald trump a bully, call donald trump demeaning to women, but that's on offense, right? because you're defending the pennsylvania suburbs. you're defending the philadelphia suburbs and you're trying to get suburban women. you're trying to keep virginia by winning suburban women just outside of washington, d.c. she's on offense on issues, she's on defense when it comes to protecting this map. that's how the clinton campaign looks at it. if you start with the fact that president obama won 233 electoral votes last time, after winning a higher num

the way hillary clinton is the target right now? why would the clinton campaign agree those are going to be the terms of this fight, that this is going to be a one-sided fight? this is almost unbelievably ugly stuff. does it require an answer? >>> big show still to come tonight, still coming up we've got a surprising on-tape admission from the head of the republican governors association and why she is not right now doing something you would otherwise expect her to be doing. that's on tape, that's coming up. also life during wartime gets way more kinetic than it has been. a live report from our pentagon producer. and brian fallon from the hillary clinton campaign joins us live next. >>> the bernie sanders campaign told us last week that they intended to buy ads after all in california. we've also been told that in the full-on sprint to the california primary on june 7th the clinton campaign did not intend to spend money on ads in california unless the sanders campaign jumped in first. today the sanders campaign jumped in first. >> what choice do californians have

up next, the economy, stupid, hillary clinton's version of the 1992 campaign slogan. we will be right back with that after this. ♪ john: hillary clinton today gave a speech at the service employees international union conference. she revved up her rhetoric about trump and his economic agenda. ms. clinton: he could bankrupt america like he's bankrupted his companies. i mean, ask yourself, how can anybody lose money running a casino, really? [laughter] john: that's a pretty good question, you know. but we have started to notice something about hillary clinton and her go to messaging on the economy. a lot of the time, it is more anti-trump than pro-clinton. even some of her own advocates have said that she and her campaign have failed to articulate her vision in any detail. this was evidence in an exchange with a clinton surrogate. >> what are her two best original ideas on the economy? >> infrastructure investment that can create jobs, and putting people together like she has done in the senate. as you know, i worked in the senate for 15 years before i went to the white

kasie you have been tracking the topic about whether hillary clinton in the campaign are reacting to lked to hillary clinton about it and what we like to call an extended interview. tell us about that. kasie: it was not an extended interview, but she did stop instead of sibling moving along and i -- simply moving along. i asked her whether she thought donald trump conducted himself well with women. do you think donald trump has treated women well in the course of his life and business viewings. hillary clinton: i am going to talk about what i want to do as president. kasie: so we will draw the contrast is what we got. want to talk about this. she wants to talk about literally everything else there is to talk about, which she did on the trail today. not that one. that is they are stepping away from. this new york times story, whatever is right for the clinton campaign to use against donald trump, where the even mentioning it in public? mike: this is something i'm not sure secretary clinton on her campaign can take on directly. people will develop a sense for donald trump, his history,

the clintons are. they were helping, clinton won in 1992 and in 1996 in the general election. this is kentucky. right? i mean, that's the reality check we need to get up against. >> the clinton campaign can't just get away with saying it's 90% white. that's what sanders' states have looked like. yes, 90% white but eight years ago won 72%. there is a question here that is her support eight years ago, we saw this in west virginia has completely flipped and although she's clearly now popular with the coalition of people that her campaign clearly sees as the building blocks to 270 electoral votes, there is this other portion of working class voters in some states that could be competitive come the fall but where her appeal and how that gets extrapolated to states that will be competitive in the upper midwest where donald trump indicated he'll go. that's the question that gets asked for the clinton campaign when looking at the lack of appeal with some of these voters in these primary states at the end of the season here. i do think when you see the lines, look at those people lining up to go into that. there is a movement that is happeni happeni happeni happeni happening same l tan use. >

the way hillary clinton is the target right now? why would the clinton campaign agree those are going to be the terms of this fight, that this is going to be a one-sided fight? this is almost unbelievably ugly stuff. does it require an answer? >>> big show still to come tonight, still coming up we've got a surprising on-tape admission from the head of the republican governors association and why she is not right now doing something you would otherwise expect her to be doing. that's on tape, that's coming up. >>>s also life during wartime gets way more kinetic than it has been recently. a live report from our pentagon producer. and brian fallon from the hillary clinton for president campaign joins us live here next. stay with us. >>> the bernie sanders campaign told us last week that they intended to buy ads after all in california. we've also been told that in the full-on sprint to the california primary on june 7th the clinton campaign did not intend to spend money on ads in california unless the sanders campaign jumped in first. today the sanders campaign jumpe

i agree this will jostle the clinton campaign. at voters is he appealing to with that message? maybe consolidating the heart right. -- hard right. who is he speaking to? groups.nk several i think eventually he gets her on health care and the fact that she has been in public life for 30 years and has done nothing to improve women. she is improved her own lot. she got millions of dollars to give speeches, she is not interesting to listen to. let's force a two way on abortion and see who is extreme. he is a ridiculous record on abortion. it reminds people of how long the clintons have been around. they have been around so long and you ask yourself, you are promising to do all these things. what have you done? >> i think she has done some stuff. she should talk about it. ryan.l i have nothing to report. this is my disposition. you are close to him. would you be disappointed if paul ryan backed him? leadersall republican should think twice about endorsing someone who is and is not aacism conservative. >> he said we share a conservative

clinton and her go to messaging on the economy. time, it is more anti-trump than pro-clinton. is more of the time, it anti-trump than pro-clinton. she and her campaignave failed to articulate her vision in any detail. in an exchangece with a clinton surrogate. >> what are her two best original ideas on the economy? >> infrastructure investment that can create jobs, and putting people together like she has done in the senate. as you know, i worked in the senate for 15 years before i went to the white house. and ay had a reputation record of pulling people together to get things done. mark: is either of those an original idea on the economy? she has a very clear vision of where she is going to take the country, and that is a vision she is going to run on in the fall. john: does hillary have an economic message, and if so, what is it? mark: there are some things on her website. [laughter] policy proposals. most involve an expansion of government. she says she will not raise middle-class taxes. a 20 yearhas been drought in both parties. the think tanks, the congressional thought leaders, very few new big ideas that the middle class can grab onto and say

interesting thing is watching each side try to defend exactly what they know is coming, and the clinton campaign trying to stay above it on the personal attacks, putting out positive statements about her campaign every time donald trump attacks on personal issues, attacks on bill clinton's infidelities, the trump campaign doing what the trump campaign has always said they were going to do. the big question is how this impacts each candidate in the polling going ahead. >> yeah. >> all right. phil mattingly, thank you so much. it's messy. >> stay here, phil. let's bring in -- let's add to the conversation. alice stewart, barry bennett, senior adviser to the trump campaign, and cnn political commentator, hilary rosen, a hillary clinton supporter. barry, first to you. how does the donald trump campaign, how do you respond to these attacks coming from the clinton campaign? >> well, i mean, you know, we don't have any expectation that this is bean bag, right? the clintons are very good at what they do. at the expect them to come at us with knives, but they need to understand we're coming right back at

obviously the super pac and campaign aren't allowed to talk but the super pac launches the first attacks against donald trump to define him and the clintonter donald trump's taxes. it seems as if the clinton campaign may want us to not focus on election returns tonight or those supporting her and they would rather us focus on this battle they are trying to wage and get ahead of to define donald trump early. but here is the problem, dana. unlike -- some of what they are doing is looking at the playbook of how the obama campaign successfully defined mitt romney in 2012 but the problem for the clinton folks here is that donald trump had a very successful year branding himself. >> that's right. >> and it is very hard now for the clinton folks to get in and try to redefine somebody that's been defined in the american imagination. >> no question about that. as much as he's defined himself, he also has been up against people on the republican side who have tried to define him. not a democrat trying to kind of point out what they believe are weaknesses when it comes to the general electret, which is quite different. >> a lot of pressure rather t

the things the clintons have done well, i think you will agree with, the people who win the presidency and the u.s. when it by talking about the future, and not the past. well, clinton campaign is talking about the past, as well. 2000 six,g back to the clinton campaign has released its own blast from the past. a video about donald trump. it includes audio from the real , saying he hopes the housing bubble will burst so we can make more money. today, the clinton campaign dispatched in army of surrogates, including angressman ryan, to hold conference call with reporters and blitz their media markets with criticism of trump's remarks on the financial crash. here is the talking point on the immediate call. >> it is very clear to me that donald trump is only out for himself, at the expense of working families here in tampa, florida, and across america. i am not sure you make america great again by rooting for to fail so you can make a quick buck. >> these are real human beings in real communities that are just trying to get ahead. they need a president who will root for them, not root against them. when it comes to messaging and tactics, this is a very clear example of asymmetric

the clinton family. the chairman of hillary clinton's campaigns previously. 's tenure. you've heard mcauliffe say there. the clintons and i have a lot of friends in common and that explains the overlap between the clinton foundation and these donors. that's where this could get tricky. as we move into this general election cycle, it's likely we'llcycle, it's likely we'll see more and more scrutiny on the clinton global initiative and the way in which those donors interact with the clinton family. now, of course, the test to wait and see if there are any connections that seem to be improper here. you also saw mcauliffe very surprised by the fact that this investigation was ongoing. the fbi, justice department had not notified him that this was happening. we still don't have a response from the clinton campaign on this. brian fallon was asked about it yesterday during a tv appearance. he said at that point he had yet to see the report, steve. >> all right, kasie hunt. and again, virginia, this is -- it's key for so many reasons here. the close tie to the clinton

the biggest prizes, hillary clinton believes with the latino vote. suburban vote that she can keep -- what if donald trump now won florida? this is the chess campaign. how do you change the map? can donald trump put these states in play? if so, where does hillary clinton look? let's say donald trump -- i don't think that one we should do that just yet. let's leave this blue. donald trump wins these three. where does trump go? he's going to have to try in smaller states, like in iowa, new hampshire, starts to even out the map. so as we begin the calculations and the thinking about the general election, there is no question for donald trump the first test is change the map and the industrial states that have been reliably blue for quite a long time. if you're hillary clinton, what are you looking at? you think it's possible, possible with a high latino turnout that you might be able to turn arizona. you think it's possible if you can get a high african american turnout and if conservatives say never trump and stay home, you could turn a state like georgia with a combination of high democratic turnout, suppressed conservative turnout. these are the ca

and that's the real challenge for the clinton campaign. >> how should the clinton campaign meet that particular challenge? >> acchatually not worried abou that because we weren't going to get those voters anyway. we still have an active primary. she's going to win it but a primary is a primary and when you have somebody attacking you, that prolongs the agony. i think this is going to come down to turnout. can we get the obama coolition back on track? if the answer is yes, we win. if the answer is no, it's going to be very close all the way to the end. >> everybody says bernie sanders' background hasn't been exposed. what are the deep dark secrets in vermont that you know? donald trump has called him a commu communest. is there anything else? >> we don't really play that kind of politics up here. he was red baited by a republican who was about to lose to him and the guy lost by about 25 points or maybe 20 instead of six or eight. we're still a civilized place here. >> the fox news poll showed gary johnson, the libertarian candidate polling 10%, which would be a record for the libertar

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if you're the clinton campaign you think you have the high ground. meaning in the last two presidential elections president obama won every one of these blue states and he won indiana and north carolina. if you're the clinton campaign your goal is to play defense. if you're the trump campaign you have to change and mr. trump thinks his best success is up here. we talking about the new polls. if you look at the polls they do tell you national polls show a significant clinton lead. we elect presidents state by state. that's a dead heat in florida and ohio and pennsylvania and you have to say wow for mr. trump because it's been so long since pennsylvania went republican in presidential politics. if you're donald trump and you're looking at this you think what you've been saying all along is correct, that you can come into the race and like ronald reagan did create say trump democrats in the state of michigan, create trump democrats in the state of pennsylvania, be a traditional republican successful at the presidential level and get ohio and then if he c

let me ask you about the criticism your campaign has made toward the clinton campaign also on the issue of fund raising. you have called the clinton campaign money launders for their joint fund-raisers with the dnc. are you alleging that the clinton campaign is criminally liable for what is wrong with the fund raising tactics? >> that term was used by democratic state party officials. that wasn't our term. they've been getting huge donations from wealthy people and doing two things. they said they would give it to the state parties. the state parties have gotten 1% of the money. what they have done is quite remarkable. they take the money they get from people from contributions above the limit that they are allowed to take and turn it into a small dollar contribution machine which all goes to the clinton campaign. they are turning it into small dollars that goes to the secretary. money that goes to the state parties gets vacuumed up by the dnc sometimes, according to the news report when state parties don't realize the money is being taken out of their account. it's quite phenomenal. >>

the republican electr electret. he needs to get serious about the campaign and treat it that way. and for secretary clintonsay and i think they have done a good job of it try not to be distracted. this is a long campaign and ultimately, this sbis about you. the electret will change and focus. people are looking at the candidates. she needs to remind people why she's qualified to be president and to some extend paint the brand of change as unacceptable. >> donald trump views it almost exactly the opposite the way you said it. he gave that interview to the new york times where he said a baseball team that wins the pendant doesn't change the way it plays in the world series. he believes the way he got the nomination will get him to become president. >> for me to question instincts thanks i have been good. having said that, that's true to some extent. he can't completely lose who he is as a credible voice in someone that speaks his mind but i don't think you can win a general election campaign for president of the united states by winging it and i don't think -- i think there are people around him telling him

and one of the things the clintons have known well, we have people who win the presidency of the united states by taking about the future and not the past. >> the clinton campaign is talk about the past as well. our next topic requires a little time travel back to 2006 because the clinton campaign has released its own blast from the past fueled video about donald trump. it includes audio of the real estate mogul two years before the big u.s. financial crisis saying hopes the housing bubble will burst so he can make more money. today the clinton campaign dispatched an army of surrogates from key general election battleground states. here is how they frame the campaign's talking points on that media call. >> it's very clear to me that donald trump is only out for himself at the expense of working families here in tampa, florida and across america. i don't know about you but i'm not sure how you make america great again by rooting for it to fail you can make a quick buck. >> these are real human beings in real communities that are just trying to get ahead and they need a president who will root for them. not root against them. >> all right. the thing about the gen

the clinton campaign. fox news national poll that shows donald trump ahead of hillary clinton but within the margin of error for a statistical tie and the new hampshire poll that shows hillary clinton slightly ahead of donald trump but still within the margin of error. new hampshire was not supposed to be a battleground state for the democrats. barack obama won it twice. today hillary clinton's super pac launched its first tv ads in the battleground states of florida, virginia, ohio, and nevada. the ad's target donald trump's statement about women. >> you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. does she have a good body, no? does she have a fat ass, absolutely? you like girls that are 5'1", they come up to you know where if ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps i would be dating her. a person who is flat chested is very hard to be a 10. and you can tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. >> the conservative super pac our principles launched a similar ad in ma

the presumptive nominee. hillary clinton is campaigning as the front-runner for the democrats.ugh trailing in delegates, bernie sanders has vowed to stay in the race right up to the convention, potentially postponing the opportunity for democrats to unify. francesca chambers, white house correspondent for the "daily mail," is following the democrats this election cycle. she's joins me now to discuss the state of the race. welcome to the program. francesca thank you. it's a beautiful set. fernando: thank you very much. let me ask you, is hillary clinton done? has she effectively won the nomination? francesca: well, bernie sanders says he's going to stay in this all the way to the last primary , which is in washington, d.c. and possibly beyond that to the convention. he thinks there are several strategies by which he could overtake her or at least draw even enough to make the case that he should be the nominee. fernando: how realistic are those strategies? are they a lot of wishful thinking at this point? francesca: well, it would be very difficult. it would be implausible, but n

kristen welker has been covering the clinton campaign. they're not saying so publicly but the democrats, the clinton democrats there at headquarters, are really not happy. >> reporter: they're not. publicly what you're hearing is that ultimately they think the party will be unified at the convention which is now about two months away, andrea, but privately you can hear it in their conversations. remember back after secretary clinton decisively won new york communications director called for senator sanders to stale back his heated attack against secretary clinton, and what we have seen since then is really only an escalation in some ways. we heard that certainly last night. so they are saying that it ultimately is up to him to take the first step toward unifying this party and, andrea, once california weighs in, if she still has a nearly insurmountable delegate lead, it could be tough for senator sanders to keep making this case that he's making. this could be a very different conversation but, again, the clinton campaign looking to senato

the clinton campaign is hoping for a win. bernie sanders could win indiana and that could slow down her march to the nomination. >> jeff zeleny for us. hillary clinton looking past bernie sanders to the general election. campaigning not in indiana, but making stops in west virginia. she felt the wrath over past remarks that she would quote, put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business as part of her clean energy p n plan. >> i want to know how you will put coal miners out of business and you come here and say you are our friend. >> what i said was totally out of context from what i meant. i have been talking about helping coal country for a long time. i did put out a plan last summer. it was a misstatement because what i was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs. that's what i meant to say. i think that seems to be supported by the facts. i didn't mean we were going to do it. what i said was that is going to happen unless we take action to try to help and prevent it. i do fee

there's no delegates at stake, but it gets to the heart of a major argument the clinton campaign has been miaking. when you have more people vote, it hurts. about 40% is in in nebraska. but hillary clinton is getting 59% of the vote. bernie sanders is getting 41%. i can tell you. the decision desk here at nbc is not going to be calling this raechlts the associated press about 15 minutes ago looked at the returns and are calling nebraska for hillary clinton in the democratic primary. this is significant, because the turnout here looks like it's going to be three to four times larger than it was for the caucus that bernie sanders won. so you think of those small states where bernie sanders wrapped up big margins, idaho, alaska, colorado, the clinton campaign has been saying if they had primaries, more people vote, we do better. if you look at these results in nebraska, what we are seeing, and they're still counting them. our decision desk is not going to touch this. only the associated press has. but if you go by what the associated press says, this bolsters what the clinton campaign ha

joining us is the press secretary for hillary clinton's campaign. which bridge did you come over? >> the brooklyn bridge, always. can you tell us some of what hillary clinton's innovative economic ideas are? >> her answer was just fine. what is original? >> some of the first speeches we gave at the new york city was about raising wages. she talked about a profit-sharing proposal that companies forize rewarding workers. mark: that is not part of the of the structure plan. anything original about the infrastructure plan? of -- how she level would pay for it. discussion in the earlier segment. we put out a raft of middle-class tax cuts. tax cuts for prescription drug costs and childcare. we have not revealed the whole extent. mark: so more is coming? brian: absolutely. we did that on purpose for preserving it for the general election campaign. mark: how does tax policy relate to economic growth for families? brian: hillary clinton views the tax code as a vehicle for helping incentivize responsible behavior by corporate citizens. you have the profit-sharing proposal, she has also use t

how hard about the clinton campaign go after this? you get toish eyes of transparency for hillary clinton, is that challenging? >> it is challenging but she was campaigning in new jersey on wednesday and a man shouted up out of the audience what about his tax returns and she went after it and kind of suddenly had a new line. she was not planning on speaking about it. i think the issue of hammering the clnts for not being transparent this gives her a lot of ammunition to talk back about it. the clnts released their tax returns for some 30 years. i think this is a big difference between the two. donald trump is calling on mitt romney four years ago to release his tax returns. he's on the other side of this issue. we have to put this in the column of his voters certainly don't care about it. the question is, is this going to limit his expansion potential? it might. i'm not sure but i think sean spicer is voicing the worry of a lot of republicans, either do it or don't do it but every day this cannot be a drip, drip, drip, are you going to

it's the base a lot of clinton campaign operations and her stops in the state were focussed on this part of the state. you see a very close race with secretary clinton in the lead. if you're in the war room you're encouraged by what you saw happen in jefferson county and that you're awaiting more votes from fayette county and you're expecting your margin will stay the same and maybe grow as those votes come in here. a close race. no matter how it ends up democratic proportional rules if senator sanders can win this it would be huge because she won it with 65% of the vote in 2008, but that would be a moral victory for senator sanders but he needs 67% of the remaining delegates and no candidate is getting 67% of the vote in kentucky tonight. >> under democratic rules there's proportional distribution of delegates in all of the states as far as pledged delegates are concerned. look at how close it is right now. hillary clinton has a very slight lead. she's up by 2,149 votes right now. 71% of the vote is now in. stand by for more votes. we're waiting to hear directly from senator sanders, a

the clinton campaign is looking at kentucky. come into this with a primary losing streak coming into tonight. they know they're in great shape to win the nomination but they want to win in a state that bernie sanders is really targeting. and they are looking to kentucky, saying they can get a win here. is that plausible? if so, how would they pull it off tonight? what would it look like? >> it's entirely plausible. bill clinton carried this state twice. hillary clinton carried it by 31 points in the 2008 primar. the only poll that's been taken in this state which was in early march, she led senders, 43 to 38. that was before she made the comment about putting coal miners and coal companies out of business which hurt her in the state's two coal fields. and the clinton campaign has been playing something of an expectations game. at first downplaying its chances in kentucky and now talking them up. and after you spend four days in a state, you better talk it up because it's going to be embarrassing if you lose it. >> what about --

kasie hunt has been with the clinton campaign. and kasie, my sense is they are basically staying out of this, at least in terms of the campaign itself. allies of theirs have been speaking out, but in terms of the headquarters here in brooklyn, not speaking to this very much. >> that's right, chris. i was just e-mailing with a senior clinton official who says that they do not have a statement at this point on what's gone on. i think if you talk to people on the sanders' side, they would posit that the statements out of the democratic national committee and other places the state party represents clinton's interests. i don't think the clinton campaign would embrace that view, but that's definitely the sense among many. harry reid in particular, a major player here, you played what he had to say about this earlier today. he's been paying close attention to what has gone on. but i think the concern overall for clinton's supporters and remember, what came out of this convention is exactly what we expected based on the results of the nev

now we do see just a brief comment from the clinton campaign a second ago, she said this, she said "wekentucky, thanks everyone to who turned out. we're always stronger united." that is going to be the only response from the clinton campaign, of course hillary clinton is not speaking tonight. they're trying not to dwell too much on these primaries here, but a keyword there, we're always stronger united. that is a message to those bernie sanders supporters to come on board with her and get on to this fall campaign here against donald trump. but wolf, bernie sanders will be coming out to speak here in just a sort, few short minutes. and of course he is going to say he's continuing through california, the primary here on june 7th. >> yeah, what is so impressive is the huge crowd that he attracts, especially all the young people who want to go out and listen to him. we'll have live coverage of that coming up. i want to go over to dana and david right now. there's a lot of friction going on, dana right now within the democratic party. forget about the republicans for the time being. >> ther

irving who protests against donald trump goes to the clinton campaign for help? 'm saying in any campaign, if a legitimate organization or individual comes to you, you agree on the topic, you make a case-by-case judgment. >> shouldn't it. >> and then you offer your assistance. they have made it public as you know in the daily beast article. >> only when it was exposed not before. it should say we don't like trump, hillary is helping us. i think it's another dirty trick. >> they agree -- it's not a dirty trick. putting ads on craig's list and offering to-to-pay people to protest other campaigns is a dirty trick. >> i think mccoy have have been upfront with the press from the jump. >> he was. >> only after he was caught. he wasn't upfront. >> caught? he asked for help, he got help. >> daily beast uncovered the fact that the man was in bed with the clinton campaign. he didn't come up and say to us hey, i'm working with hillary clinton out there. >> what's wrong with that. >> it's sneaky, mary anne. sneakiesque. >> sneaky. let's get to the debate. you predicted on thi

kristen welker is following the clinton campaign from las vegas and luke russert is following developinge latest on the state department report on hillary clinton's use of a personal e-mail server. let's begin with kristen welker in las vegas, good morning to you? >> jose, good morning to you. there is no doubt that report yesterday is overshadowing secretary clinton's campaign this week. it did rebuke her for her use of a personal e-mail server while serving as secretary of state, particularly the report said she didn't seek permission and said that she didn't follow federal records rules by not turning e-mails once she left office. i spoke with one of her top aides who says the answer is she didn't feel she needed to ask permission because her predecessors used personal e-mail accounts and ultimately she was preserving her e-mails every time she copied or forwarded to someone with a state.gov account. steve kornacki pressed joel bennettson earlier today. take a listen to this exchange. >> it's not unreasonable for a person to infer that this is an acceptable way to e-mail. >> here is i

next, brian fallon, the clinton campaign's press secretary joins us. so much more, after this break. ♪ ♪ john: welcome back. joining us is the press secretary for hillary clinton's campaign. which bridge did you come over? brian: the brooklyn bridge, always. john: can you tell us some of what hillary clinton's innovative economic ideas are? brian: her answer was just fine. mark: what is original? brian: some of the first speeches we gave at the new york city were about raising wages. she talked about a profit-sharing proposal that would incentivize companies. mark: that is not part of the infrastructure plan. anything original about the infrastructure plan? brian: how she would pay for it. i heard the discussion in the earlier segment. we put out a raft of middle-class tax cuts. tax cuts for prescription drug costs and childcare. we have not revealed the whole extent. mark: so more is coming? brian: absolutely. we did that on purpose for preserving it for the general election campaign. mark: how does tax policy relate to economic growth for families? br

joining us is the press secretary for hillary clinton's campaign. which bridge did you come over? the brooklyn bridge, always. john: can you tell us some of what hillary clinton's innovative economic ideas are? >> her answer was just fine. our infrastructure proposal would put a lot of people back to work -- mark: what is original? >> some of the first speeches we gave at the new york city was about raising wages. she talked about a profit-sharing proposal that would incentivize companies for rewarding workers. mark: that is not part of the of infrastructure plan. anything original about the infrastructure plan? brian: the level of -- how she would pay for it. so, sure. would she pay for it? asking the wealthy to pay more, as well as closing corporate tax loopholes. i heard the discussion in the earlier segment. we put out a raft of middle-class tax cuts. including terms of -- targeted tax credits for prescription drug costs and childcare. we have not revealed the whole extent. mark: so more is coming? brian: absolutely. we did that on purpose for preserving it for the general ele

she's now become a surrogate for the clinton campaign among white working class voters. shifts because it does mirror the shift in hillary clinton's campaign season. >> absolutely. so he's definitely deployed in different ways. and she's still incredibly popular amongst african-american voters. for the same time, quite a bit of time since at least 2008, bill clinton has actually been used in a particular way where she talks to white voters. he appeals. he appeals to white voters, especially white men. so there's a connection there and there's this idea that he'll be able to speak to them in a way that other surrogates can't and haven't done in the past. >> jimmy, you have a state since 1986, the last time bill clinton ran for president. bill clinton won it in '96. then something happened. by 2000, it's lightly shifted to be more republican and increasingly become more and more republican to the point where barack obama lost it quite candidly. it was 30.3% for brac brarack o and 55.2 for mitt romney. this is how nonobama democrat that state will become. this is her talkin

stories about tensions in the trump campaign, the clinton campaign, you don't hear much about strategys they are under a fair amount of rusher. john: she's also not going out of her way to offend a large sector of the american public. up next, mr. barry bennett from the trump campaign and senator rubio's former spokesperson right after this. ♪ very joining us now is bennett, one of the many right hand men of donald trump campaign and marco rubio's manager.mpaign we won't talk about the size of either one of your hands. thank you for being here. 90's speciale yesterday talking about your campaign. there was a report in the go about one of your campaign operatives reaching out and saying we want to make an issue out of whitewater. explain the political sense entailed in what seems to be a campaign that is almost entirely negative about hillary clinton and negative about anxiety happened in the 1990's. there's a lot of ammo there, but i don't think that's what the campaign is going to be about. it is certainly what is keeping them off-balance right now, but this campaign is going to be ab

room, the presidential campaign war room is where the top campaign officials plan the strategies to handle their candidates' most important challenges where you want to be in a campaign. the clinton war room strategy has been to avoid having their candidate respond directly to donald trump's attacks. here's how hillary clinton handled it tonight. >> insulting women, i don't care what he says about me. i care what he says about other successful women, women who have done their part, we are after all 51% of the country. [ cheers and applause ] >> today donald trump tweeted the clintons spend millions on negative ads on me and i can't tell the truth about her husband? don't feel sorry for crooked hillary. but the trump war room shifted its attacks to benghazi with a new instagram video captioned hillary has bad judgment. here it is. >> we've seen rage and violence directed at american embassies over an awful internet video. >> she lied to me, she told me it was the fault of the video. >> she said we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son. >> so she did say to you that the bengazi attack was caused by protests. >> absolutely. >> i don't

has the clinton campaign figured out how to respond to donald trump's attacks? >>> time for tonight's war room, the presidential campaign war room, where the top officials handle the most important challenges, it is where you want to be in a cam wayne. the clinton war room is trying to avoid reacting to attacks. >> i don't care what he says about me. successful women, women who have done their part, we are after all, 51% of the country. >> today, donald trump tweeted the clintons spend millions on attacks on me, but i can't tell the truth about her husband? don't feel sorry for crooked hillary. >> overall awful internet video. >> she lied to me, she told me it was the fault of the video. >> she said, we will have the film maker arrested who is responsible for the death of your son. >> she did say to you, that the bengazi attack was caused by protests. >> i don't know why that is funny. >> the last war room, the virginia of the george mccain war room. and the obama war room. >> if i the strategy has been donald trump goes lie, we go high. we focus on substance. an

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why the renewed emphasis on kentucky for the clinton campaign? >> hi, alex, great to see you. the question here is kentucky still clinton country or not? this is a place where the clintons have deep roots and history. bill clinton, of course won the state of kentucky in 1996. they have ties to the politicians here. the last time i covered hillary clinton in kentucky is when she was stumping for grimes running for senate. there are a lot of factors here making it so clinton has a fight here against bernie sanders. of course the larger picture being she's still fighting this primary even as donald trump has wrapped up the republican nomination. part of this is her comments on coal. she talks about eliminating coal jobs, putting them out of work. she has tried to correct that and worked on that in west virginia a week or so ago. it still applies here. a lot of coal in kentucky. that's an issue. bernie sanders drew thousands of people to an event in louisville earlier this month. he's been campaigning hard here, as well. if she loses here, that means she will have lost all of the s

the fall campaign. if bernie sanders wins here in indiana, this is one problem the clinton campaign wants, to sprint to win and bernie sanders could well win in indiana and that could slow down her march to the nomination. >>> thank you for that, jeff. joining us to dig dealer in the fight in the primary in indiana. ellis henican. thanks for coming in early. >> good morning, guys. >> it is all about the delegate count. dana bash about the great one-on-one interview with ted cruz. cruz saying listen, trump can't get to 1,237. i will not commit to supporting him. i want to play the interview for you know. >> will you support his candidacy if he, donald trump, gets the delegates before cleveland? >> dana, nobody will get to 1,237. i'm not going to get to it. neither is donald trump. >> what makes you sure he won't get the delegates? getting 47% of the remaining delegates isn't inn conceivable. >> he hasn't gotten 47% to date. >> he did well last week. >> you are right. he did well in his home state. he did well in the adjoining states. >> so we have polls in indiana showing trump with a double digit lead a

let's turn to kasie hunt covering the clinton campaign from san jose, california, today, clinton justwith reporters right? >> reporter: that's right, clinton spoke to the pool that covers her. this is the first aside from a brief interview -- brief comment she made in an interview with univision, which was the first time she's talked at some length about those e-mails and that state department ig report that said the way she used it was improper. she again reiterating, it says that the report showed that personal e-mail use was the practice of other secretaries of state. they pointed to powell has another example. of course, the question being at that point, there was no real policy in place for a secretary of state to use e-mail. she also says, i know people have concerns about this, but i think voters are going to be looking at the full picture of what i have to offer, full -- compared to the threat that trump offers for our country. so of course, the clinton campaign wanting to focus more at this point on donald trump than this issue. it's taken her quite some time to get out in fr

she's campaigning in many of the same locations he's campaigning in the next 24 hours or so. it's a place that the clinton campaign feels the race is very close. it could go either way. for the clintons, losing here would be a blow. this is a state that's been very good to her and her husband. she did well here in 2008. bill clinton was the last democrat to win this state in a presidential race back in 1996 in a general election. they have a lot of friends, political allies here. hillary clinton was campaigning for a senate candidate who ran against mitch mcconnell here in kentucky. it was one of the few political events she did in 2014, but there are a couple of things working against her here. her comments about coal jobs that she tried to walk back and fix with events in west virginia. they're relevant here too. coal is a very important industry here in kentucky. the clinton campaign also privately believes there are a lot of conservative democrats who may be trump supporters who will be voting in the democratic primary. is state is very historically southern democratic, so there are a lot of conservat

where are we if day two of this story. >> well, you know, i think the clinton campaign faces a central challenge. and that is her trust numbers. and the latest new york times poll, 64% of registered voters said they did not trust hillary clinton. that is the same amount as donald trump. and i think they're wondering how do we overcome that, that central challenge has collided with this new report that is, you know, in some ways very damning. and i think the most damnk because you play that clip of donald trump, it plays right into the narrative that he is trying to craft of her, as crooked, as not being trust worthy, as finding ways ways tot around the rules. >> rose: steven lee myers, what do you think, day two. >> i think a lot of people are still digesting the report. the report is only one of several that are coming. judicial watch, a conservative watchdog group is doing depositions now, seeking more information about why she created this private server. who knew about it. what were the security risks involved, on top of the fbi investigation which is also coming down the pike. so

the sanders campaign is so upset about? i'll get to that in a second. secondarily, the clinton campaign and other democrats are saying this is on the feet of the sanders campaign, they're saying you can't call for a revolution and then be surprised when people start acting like that. >> it's understandable position, right? if the situation were reversed to clinton supporter did the same thing sanders people would be demanding that as well. we've seen donald trump held accountable for things that his supporter do, we may be talking about a smaller number of the sanders protesters than the case of trump, but trump has been asked to be responsible for every case. the standard is not supposed to be differenten there are repercussions when you do this. there's a different issue, too, when you have a senior official delivering one message that is made behind the scenes to look as if something is an organic uprising but being encouraged at a higher level, that complicates things a lot. >> donna, let me bring you in here. a recording of a phone call by a sanders supporter to the chair