began to use the name clinton. cepting the cosmetic choices of an arkansas first lady. >> to avoid any problem and to put it to rest, i will forever be known as hillary rodham clinton. >> she was the campaign manager. she was the boss. she describes hadd ede ede eders going door to door for bill. she would sit next to me and we would work on advertising, negatives and positives. >> in 1982, he was elected governor again. hillary clinton assumed an unprecedented role. head of a commission on education reform. the arkansas education standards committee. >> i believe we must hold accountable teachers as well. >> in 1988, bill clinton considered a run for the white house. an aide worried about what he would face. >> betsy wright sat bill clinton down and said, i want the name of every single woman that you have had anything do with that could be brought up against you as having sexual relations. >> hillary clinton fought for issues and her husband even barging into an opponent's conference. >> he has consistently avoide

the clintons let black america down on prison reform, bill clinton went to the naacp to apologize aboutcrime bills. -- something he did on crime bills. clinton appointed more black judges, so it is good news, bad news story. on the other hand, i don't like it, i don't like it when black voters are taken for granted or ignored by the other party. she learned the last time around when you expect a coronation and find yourselves in an election in the dog fight this time around. john: mark: she says president obama will be more aggressive speaking on her behalf. how big a factor to think he can be in the general election, where his approval rating is, and the has become this? tavis smiley: i don't know what his impact will be outside of the african-american community, because the numbers are what they are. the numbers are getting better. with the african-american vote, it is not an automatic conclusion that one can draw on just because a black person says, vote for this person, they will all do that. it is a huge difference obviously, but you already know this. there is a huge difference be

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the clintons let black america down on prison reform, bill clinton went to the naacp to apologize aboutdid on crime bills. clinton appointed more black judges than anybody, any president prior to him, all presidents combined prior to him so it is good news, bad news , story. some of it is merited no doubt about it, but on the other hand, i don't like it, i don't like it when black voters are taken for granted by one party or ignored by the other party. i think she learned the last time around when you expect a coronation, and find yourselves in an election in the dog fight this time around. mark: if she says the nomination, she says president obama will be more aggressive speaking on her behalf. how big a factor to think he can be in the general election, where his approval rating is, and the has become this? tavis smiley: i don't know what his impact will be outside of the african-american community, to the brilliant point that you messed made, -- just made because the numbers are what , they are. the numbers are getting better. with the african-american vote, i have found that it is n

that is what is driving a lot of concern along the clinton -- among the clinton campaign. ntioned -- secretary clinton has done some tv interviews but has he done in -- adhered to the new york tradition of the traveling press since this started. abby: this morning she took the subway and before that she took some questions. she did focus a little bit more on her new york media. some folks that she is pretty familiar with after two senate runs. i think he is making a concerted effort. she talked a little bit about paying more attention to her traveling press. i think us in the traveling press would love to see more of that. she does talk to the media in general, her traveling national media less than bernie does. but i think that her campaign is focused on lake -- local and state media. which is smart. john: abby phillip, kasie hunt thank you for coming on. we have the real treatment in -- royal treatment in kansas city today. our conversation with the emperor of the planes, meier slide james. -- mayor sly james. you can listen to us on bloomberg 99.1 fm. ♪ ♪ mark: john and

we saw the bernie sanders clinton lay off 200 staffers, the hillary clinton is not. even though the primary calendar is getting short. to the contrary, we report as of tonight that the clinton campaign is leaving in place their staffers in the upcoming states that have yet to vote in the primary and in addition they are adding starve and assigning people senior roles in states that aren't among the last ten remaining states in the democratic primary. they are naming staff leaders and assigning people to go work in states that have already voted in the democratic primary. the bombshell that the clinton campaign dropped late this afternoon is that they are starting to staff up in what they see as general election swing states for the november campaign. this was first reported by usa "today" and the associated press. nbc news has now confirmed that the hillary clinton campaign is basically starting its general election campaign as of today. again they're not pulling staffers out of the remaining democratic primary states but they are reducing the scale of their effort ag

the pro clinton super p.a.c. out there are holding back $70 million to use after the democratic convention to election day presumably if he becomes the nominee to go after donald trump. >> which is stunning. as you point out he does things differently and it isn't -- people watching okay he does things differently. he gets free media. not just free media. he does do ads. he does it differently. >> he does. he does some official ads. but he also is just a whole lot better than really anyone out there in grabbing headlines and using social media to spread his word. take a look at this. [ barking like a dog ] >> really that's from instagram and one of those captivating things that people will share over and over again. overall spending look at this. this is shock. think about where he is in the delegate race and look at the money he's been spending compared to the other big candidates. sanders $41 million. clinton 31.6 million. cruz 17.5 million. and trump according to the records, only $9.5 million spent on apds. mo

i think the clintons, they are smart people running for campaign. w there is automatically going to be a drop in the african-american turnout just because this brother is not on the ballot. how much that drop is going to be, i do not know. how much harder they have to work to make sure turnout is significant enough to push them over the top is a question i don't have the answer to. john: so the democratic base on a wide variety of issues, that is part of the reason why he has been able to generate enthusiasm and giving her a challenge. if you have been asked in the beginning of the sanders campaign, listen, we know we are on the white state of the issues -- right side of the issues, what would you do? how would you advise him, how would you assess how well he has done to ready what has going to be a challenge for him? tavis smiley: the new york times wrote a good piece on the missteps in the sanders campaign. they hit the thing on the head. it was too late, that would be my advice. if you are not known by the african-american community, and you are t

so this is big news today from the clinton campaign. essentially not walking away from the primary but moving on from the primary and starting to run against trump. is this partly a psychological operation to sideline bernie sanders and make it seem like the clinton campaign is moving down field past him? or is this just the clinton campaign moving downfield past him? they don't care what effect this has on the primary because in their mind the primary is down? joining me noun, kristin welker. thanks very much for being here. >> thanks for having me. great to see you, too. >> how big a deal is this announcement of this sort of change of direction from the clinton campaign and can you tell whether some of it is basically a psychological operation to psyche people out or whether this is real? >> i think your set-up was perfect. to some extent i think it aimed in part at sending a psychological message at senator sanders. clinton campaign and surrogates have for quite some time have been nudging senator sanders not necessarily to get out of

is the clinton campaign worried about losing the state? think the unworried the state might flip under the radar. i think what kasie just mentioned about the vermont media market is important. that is one of the reasons why hillary clinton is spending a lot of time upstate in western new york in those kind of places. places where there is not a huge amount of population but where bernie might have a chance to make some inroads among white working-class workers and people geographically closer to the vermont border. there is a lot in new york working in bernie's favor. they want to make sure no voters are flipping under the radar. if this is the way things are going to start, we have almost two full weeks, do you think it will be -- will they take their feet upbeat celebrator on the sanders campaign or will they go deeper and deeper and harsher and harsher in the next two weeks? kasie: that was my question of the press conference this morning, whether or not we would see him reacting to the weight media reacted to this small change in his s

the clinton campaign saying that senator sanders has reached a new low by saying that secretary clintons not qualified to be president. i will play the interview with "morning joe." that's what senator sanders says he is responding to. a lot of moving parts here. we have a representative from sanders' campaign on the way to the studio. >>> meantime, washington bureau chief for mother jones and political analyst david korn is with us and national correspondent and msnbc political analyst joan walsh, who has endorsed hillary clinton, is with us. david, i'll start with you here. sometimes you have to go back in time. we don't like to do that in news, feeding frenzy. but hillary clinton was on with joe scar borrow borough and was about this interview how bernie sanders could not explain how he wanted to break up the banks. this turned into what we're seeing now, senator sanders accusing her of not being qualified to be president. so far, no one can provide any tape of hillary clinton saying that about him. it sounds like back and forth, you hit me first. >> yeah. >> nevertheless it looks pr

the super predator commentary that mrs. clinton way back when has since been debunked many times over because the statistic didn't support it when you have these type of comments, this type of mind set, that is producing3ckqs numerous policies in states that are criminalized children and tried them as adults, we don't allow them to drive, we don't allow them to make their own decisions, we can't find contracts. they can't -- they can face complex criminal justice system that doesn't make any sense. so, when bill clinton reinvokes this in response to a protester, it causes concern. are we going back to those policies of 1994 or are they doing like they have said, moving away from that? they have apologized for that. so why are we justifying it now? that's the question that76 it raises in my mind. >> andel let's talk about 1994 because you look at the statistics here the crime bill in 1994, violent crime in urban areas dropped 46% after this bill passed. >> it was dropping since 1992 before the bill was even signed. >> so it had noth

that's the problem for hillary clinton. y clinton as well this has already sunk in with the american voters. the vort of americans do not trust hillary clinton they associate her name with liar and even the democratic party we have seen exit polling such as the case in wisconsin. 1/3 of voters who list trust as very important issue. only 16% of those voters trust hillary clinton. this is a big problem for her. the problem with her as well is you have bernie sanders who is running a campaign on authenticity and what is more inauthentic than a liar, someone patently dishonest with the american poem. she has lied about this issue in so many different ways. americans can just not trust her. >> i will tell you what's worse, lisa, somebody who is running against a bigot, zeno phone and misogynist. >> richard, that sounds like -- that's a real bad smear right there. if you want to talk about misogyny, we can talk about bill clinton, too. we can play that tape. >> if donald trump wants to run against bill clinton that's a campaign h

on the democratic side, bernie sanders wallops hillary clinton taking 56% of the vote to clinton's 43%. cruz and sanders celebrate their wins at raucous rallies saying they do have a path to the white house. >> as a result of the people of wisconsin defying the media. defying the pundits, i'm more and more convinced that our campaign is going to earn the 1237 delegates needed to win. either before cleveland or at the convention in cleveland, together we will win a majority of the delegates and together we will beat hillary clinton in november. >> with our victory tonight in wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries. [ cheers ] and we have won almost all of them with overwhelming landslide numbers. >> now, the wisconsin results move ted cruz closer to that magic number of delegates needed to win, 1237, and they tip the republican party much closer to a contested convention in cleveland. to help us sort this out on what happened on the republican side, let's bring in the panel. cnn political analyst, josh rogan, cnn politics reporter, senior reporte

to deal with the nation's biggest banks? clintonasillary exposed last night is a serious demagogue. on the banking issue. it was unbelievable to me. she raised or made the statement, we can never let wall recommend street again. who did of the first time? it was her husband in alliance with phil gramm for the republicans, who reversed glass-steagall and open the door to the too big to fail. it was her husband, by the way, who signed the bill into law that she accuses bernie sanders of having somehow engineered. and that was the commodity futures modernization act which bill clinton and lawrence summers a secretary-treasurer and phil gramm pushed through congress, did it as a lame-duck president. it is that legislation tucked into an omnibus bill -- only four people in the house voted against it. ron paul was one of them on the libertarian side. yes, bernie sanders went along with this threat that if you don't vote for the omnibusill, people don't get paid of support and so on. it was bill clinton's bill. she estimates repeatedly, bl

i think he felt that coming off the wisconsin loss. hillary clintonrd of people around her. do you think she's happy to be back in new york? >> yeah. mostly black college, there was a sense of kind of loyalty coming back home. the speech she gave was kind of -- no news made. to me, what was most interesting was watching her take off the names of the local elected oefthss, the city councilman, the local congress people and having an anec krchlanecdote ab one. she played her cards right when she became senator of new york. in a sense it still continues. it's reaping rewards right now. she's really bloved eloved in a certain segment of this town. she and bill clinton are royalty in new york. >> she was giving the bronx president some air time. andrew kirtzman, thank you. we've been watching hillary clinton make her way around new york city this morning. very busy hour. very busy morning. a lot more ahead today, too. i'm steve korniacki. jose diaz-balart will pick up our coverage after the break. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel

>> reporter: the clinton campaign is expecting a big night tonight. they're also worried about the sanders' campaign recently raising questions about whether the clinton campaign how it raises funds jointly with the dnc if that is something that breaks rules. the clinton campaign says it's above board but they're worried that these attacks are something that could hurt hillary clinton and the party in a general election. they're not just worried, they're angry. one source told me many in the campaign were quote pissed about this. look for backers of hillary clinton to be calling for bernie sanders after tonight to look at the long game. as one said to me quote he has to find a way to land this plane so it doesn't crash and burn the party. so could tonight bring a miracle on the hudson? that's not what the clinton campaign is expecting, but they're hoping what's been a testy primary of late will get toned down. >> she's getting ready for her speech tonight. let's stay in new york. >> reporter: one of the things we're looking for right now is how much th

is this fight good for either clinton or sanders? >> i think the fight is a little better for clinton than sanders right now. >> we're in the disagreement zone. >> i think it's the case that he -- he went further than was merited. he got a little misled by the headline on the "washington post." she did not go as far as to suggest he was unqualified. she made it -- by implication, she was suggesting there are questions about his qualifications, and begged the answers. but she did not go all the way to say bernie sanders is unqualified. i think one of the things you have to do if you're running an inner party primary, one of the rules according to hoyle, you don't say things in that could be used in and ad. the things bernie sanders said last night could be used against hillary clinton. he went too far given the level of provocation in question. >> scored that way, yeah, but the whole point is to win the nomination fight. bernie sanders is behind. he needs to shake things up. he needs to inspire his supporters, who are pretty easily inspired by him a

they know that the clinton campaign has inherent build-in advantages there. no one that i've talked to in the sanders universe today is projecting or expecting victory. bernie sanders, turning his attention toward pennsylvania, he had a rally a short time ago in erie, pennsylvania, coming here to state college, home of penn state university, this evening. he is looking forward, hoping for a win. but if he was expecting one he would be in his native brooklyn tonight. >> it's significant that new york is a close the primary, only members of the democratic party can vote, no independents. how might that affect bernie sanders? >> reporter: that is the key thing to keep in mind tonight measuring support across the board. only democrats who were registered democrats last month can vote in this. bernie sanders ran into a man today doing some walking around midtown manhattan, approached by a man who said i wanted to change from independent to democrat to vote for you but i had to do that last october. and this is what bernie sanders told him -- >> it shouldn't be this

the governor is a big clinton ally. nator blumenthal has been going after bernie sanders on guns for months. they were the go-to people whenever clinton wanted to attack sanders on guns, she turned to her allies in connecticut. now the race has come to connecticut and this is the ads they are running on tv there, this is the message she is doing with these town halls, and it's really the closing argument that she's chosen ahead of that tuesday primary. >> really quickly, i want to make a pivot. danny glover, chris jansing interviewed him earlier. we saw it not too long ago. he essentially would not say that he would support hillary clinton if bernie sanders is not the nominee. your thoughts? >> i think about what patton oswald said when they asked him the question. he's a sanders supporter. he said if hillary wins, will you vote for her in the general? he said of course, because i'm not a stupid child. he said we have to unite against the enemy of the two psychopaths, his words. we will see pressure mount to sanders hold

bernie sanders upending the front-runner hillary clinton. e democratic nomination will be decided at the democratic convention in philadelphia. to get there sanders needs to beat clinton by big margins again. sanders is calling his w

that is the hillary clinton projection 39 minutes after the polls closed. we projected it for hillary clinton. we're approaching 60% of the vote in, 60/40 race. a number just about every bit as impressive as what donald trump is racking up tonight. there is new york mayor the bill de blasio, who worked for the clinton campaign years ago, has had an interesting back and forth relationship with this incarnation of the clinton campaign. >> it's interesting. he held his council, sort of kept his council for a while, did not endorse right off the bat. eventually did endorse hillary clinton and has been a very enthusiastic supporter, but took him a while to get there. >> and during an otherwise miserable attempt at comedy in front of a live audience at the broadway show "hamilton," they later very awkwardly joked about it. ben ginsburg is here with us in the studio. the former general council to the rnc. he's worked for romney, worked for bush/cheney. and ben, we always talk about the path to cleveland. we always ask you what kind of an argument the stop-trump for

the gloves are officially off. bernie sanders and hillary clinton, once delighted in keeping the race for the nomination relatively and comparatively drama-free. but last 24 hours have changed that. starting with hillary clinton shedding doubt on bernie sanders' commitment to the democratic party. >> do you believe this morning that bernie sanders is qualified and ready to be president of the united states? >> well i think the interview raised a lot of serious questions. i think that what he has been saying about the core issue in his whole campaign doesn't seem to be rooted in an understanding of either the law or the practical ways you get something done. and i will leave it to voters to decide who of us can do the job that the country needs. >> now, that interview resulted in an "the washington post" article with this headline -- "clinton questions whether sanders is qualified to be president." that was the headline of that article. late last night, sanders reacted in a big way. >> she has been saying lately that she thinks that i am quote/unquote not qualified to be president. i don't think that you are qualifi

let's start with the democrats. hillary clintonill begin speaking any moment now in buffalo, new york. later after that event she'll head to rochester. her campaign continues to focus on upstate new york, ahead of the primary on april 19. bernie sanders spending the day in his hometown of brooklyn. he is said to hold a rally at the top of the hour, followed by another rally at 5:00 p.m. eastern. and ted cruz and donald trump are taking the day off on the campaign trail while. they're working to winnow down a list to the final 37 who will attend the national convention in july in cleveland. on the scene today in colorado springs, the msnbc delegate hunter jacob soboroff. jacob, talk about how this fight is playing out on the ground and how folks are making the case for why they should be picked? >> ted cruz may be off the campaign trail today, but his campaign is going in full force. the congressional 2 ballots, the ballot box will be closed in two minutes. the reason i'm outside, the whole thing moved out to the courtyard. you're s

becoming the democratic nominee. clinton picks upality least 145 of new york's 247 delegate dele. and including superdelegates, it's even larger. sanders will have to win 71% in the remaining delegates and superdelegates. a behemoth task. sanders-campaign manager says they will continue to fight for the nomnation to the convention, even if clinton is leading in pledge delegates and the popular vote. listen on the press conference sanders held earlier. >> sanders also blasting new york's voting process for not allowing independent registered voters to vote and new york city announcing it will audit its board of elections after 125,000 voters names in brooklyn were inexplicably removed and sanders is taking the night off. >> thanks very much on the latest. >>> and joining us now an agungt professor and supporter of sanders. so, we've been told that bernie sanders has gone home to vermont. do you know why? >> caller: it's a late night. we got a long way to go still in this campaign. so, i think it's okay to take a rest before h

--n: the clinton wisdom is he still manages to fall short. blicans who are willing to break with their party amid the supreme court justice standoff. they have now reversed their position. they are now against holding hearings for the presidents. senator kelly ayotte says she will meet next wednesday. shot going to a no shot? mark: i'm not saying it is a death knell, but up until now, the white house has had forward progress. most every development has been in their favor. these two senators reversing course and saying no hearing, i think makes it clear how much pressure is being put on all republican senators both by leadership and the grassroots to say no hearing. i don't know there will ever be a hearing. always thought that it some point the republicans would cave and in-depth having to give this man a hearing and voting him down if that was their choice. i increasingly think it's the it's suicidal from the republican standpoint. mark: it shows once again the republican party is in an echo chamber of conservative media. they should listen

the bill clinton trying to be a good surrogate for the hillary clinton campaign. ere last week. >> so we just had ryan fallon on and dismissed the reports that there are some worried about bill clinton on the campaign trail whether he helps or hurts. what does that sound like, joy? 2008 when that same argument was made after south carolina and other uncomfortable moments for hillary clinton. if she's the nominee, i think we could safely say that this will be always that how much of a help is bill clinton? it will also be applied later to barack obama, again, whomever is the nominee. how much do these giants in their party help the nominee? >> reporter: yeah, and tamron, it's interesting i'm here in staten island which is, as you have been saying this morning and all morning, it's the most red borough in new york city but it's all relative. john mccain won this section of new york city in 2008 and barack obama narrowly won it in 2012 and 29% republican but in relative to other parts like brooklyn and manhattan and 70% to 80% democrats, this is a reagan democrat coun

it's not as easy as putting it on the clintons. e voters he's got to get and fighting with the self righteous attitude he has doesn't help. >> not everybody was rolling over for this. my colleague, reverend al sharpton was dead set against it. they were fighting it really, really hard. you can see video of them there. i mean, they really fought it. so there was an element society looked ahead and saw this was going to come. do the clintons now so many years later still have to answer for what was done so long ago? >> yes. everyone has to answer. but the problem is that the activists on the ground at that time fighting against this and talking about the other -- the other ways to fight crime were not being listened to in that regard. so when the effort -- there is a call for more -- there is a legitimate concern about the ways in which violence enacts itself in black communities. so when we go to our elected officials and say, can we get these resources, the only thing those elected officials hear is police and prisons. they don't he

the magic number. and 64 for george bush. >> in little rock clinton's people realized they've won. >> it was the most delirious is go around and hug everybody. >> i just called governor clinton over in little rock and offered my congratulations. he did run a strong campaign. i wish him well in the white house. >> ross perot has failed in his bid, too. but he's taken nearly 20% of the vote. >> god bless you. thank you very much. >> had perot not been in that race you would have had a very close race between bush and clinton and bush might well have won. >> may god bless the united states of america. thank you very, very much. >> deserved to lose. the president didn't deserve to lose but those of us involved in the campaign deserved getting crushed. >> after 10:00 the 270 number was reached. >> the relief, son of a bitch. >> my fellow americans -- >> reporter: backed by a surge of support from the young and the old, clinton has trounced george bush. >> on this day, with high hopes and brave hearts and massive numbers, the american people have voted to make a new beginning. >> there's a strong sense in the countr

most of them will be loyal to the clintons. t think despite what the poll shows that senator sanders is as electable despite the polls suggesting otherwise. >> here's the thing. i've always thought the importance of super delegates is over rated in this sense. in the democratic party especially at a populace moment the super delegates will i think have a hard time defying the will of the electorate. and what no one is arguing right now is that bernie sanders except for jeff weaver is going to over take hillary clinton, going to get somehow way ahead of her in pledged delegates and that will get the super delegates who might in other circumstances, i think a lot of them would leave the clintons if he's way ahead but if he's not they're not going to leave the clintons. >> the thing is whether to defy the voters of your own state caucus primary vs. the national popular vote, who won more states or whatever. it is still going to be tough to flip them but that's why i brought up the e-mail investigation. we'll be right back with base

in the democratic race, hillary clinton, ending the bernie sanders winning streak. a bigger margin than either campaign thought she would achieve in this race. that means hillary clinton will walk away with 139 delegates. bernie sanders gets 108. she increases her delegate margin decisively here. for the republican side, a way, way bigger margin. donald trump, at least 89 delegates. john kasich, right now at least 3. ted cruz with a grand total of zero. zero in a state he did campaign in. that leaves donald trump in a much stronger position to get to the magic number of 1,237. needs to still run a disciplined campaign and close, maybe close enough, you'll talking about that coming up, i'm sure. as for hillary clinton, 500 away from her magic number but leads in the pledged delegates and super delegates. and overnight, senior strategists suggested bernie sanders needs to start flipping super delegates over the next couple of months if he has any chance of winning the nomination. >> thanks for the breakdown. >>> clinton is celebrating a big win shifting focus to the ge

does he want a position in the clinton administration? to see butis harder that's the signs we're all watching for in the next couple of weeks. whether the california race, does he fight hard there? a unity momente for them? what does that look like? and president obama, the white house, has made it clear that they will not get into the race until senator sanders is completely out. the clinton campaign wants to get the president in the race to have thatager happen as soon as possible. john: if hillary clinton reads she'ss you two do and ready to move on to the general election, she has changed her focus a little bit. today she's also hired staffers for the general election in new hampshire, florida, all purple states. how is she turning to the general election? did it first and foremost by going back to her break andaking a planning on how to take on donald trump and i'm told that ae's fine with this period of month of bernie sanders staying in the race. it gives her some time and space. nearly asspending much money as he planned in indian

in the month of march alone. and clinton hopes that a win in new york will shore things up and keep her lead among the delegates. >> ed, thank you. >> now to the republican race in the battle for 21237 delegates and the number be needed to clinch the nomination. donald trump leading 743. and ted cruz with 517. and kasich trails with 143 delegates. black burrman joins us from washington with details and you are looking at the fund-raising. ted cruz is going after the republicans that went with rubio and bush. >> reporter: the number be that ted cruz and his campaign are putting out there 12 and half million. that's the amount they raised last month in march. that would be the best fund-raising month for cruz. and tout receiving donations from 240000 supporters. that is a jolt for a campaign that is coming off a string of victories and making the point that republicans should consolidate behind cruz. cruz has been the foc of kasich. coming on the heels of kasich slamming new york value's comment. kasich campaign released an ad

up next, "state of the union." >>> mean streets. clinton getting nasty in new york. >> maybe the american people might wonder about your qualifications, madam secretary. >> he obviously hadn't really studied or understood. >> can clinton dispatch sanders once and for all on her home turf? an exclusive interview next. >>> and born in brooklyn. the come-from-behind challenger shows me his hometown as he faces his toughest battle yet.

that was the signal clinton send eight years ago. it seems as though bernie sanders is sending that signal. >> the first words in this statement, i congratulate secretary clinton on her victories tonight. a nice gesture on his part to be sure. let's go to john king and take a look at the democratic count. she has a very, very impressive lead in the all-important delegate count. >> there are two sets of math here. the first math is she is going to end the night tonight. this is our ballpark. we haven't completed allocating all the delegates. this is 295. among just pledged delegates. not only that, she wins four of the five states tonight. starts to add more clinton blue, pennsylvania, maryland. she wins big in these states and stretches this out to 295. they don't like to talk about the superdelegates. they say, they don't vote until the convention. they can change their mind. they are well aware after a night like this, the superdelegates are unlikely to change this mind. 295 in pledged delegates. when you add in the superdelegates,

as the primary campaign focuses to the other northeastern states mrs. clinton concedes she is not taking anything for granted. now to our new york newsroom with the latest on the campaign. >> for hillary clinton and her campaign, this win in new york puts an end to senator better me sander's mow men mum. he -- momentum. he won 7 in a row. clinton's campaign believes mr. sanders no longer has a chance to mathematically win the nomination. clinton winning 57% of the vote. a 15-point win. sweeping all five burrows in new new york city and dominating with hispanic and black and female voters. the clinton campaign believes the sanders campaign had to win new york by double digits to have a chance at the nomination. now with tonight's victory clinton picks up 135 of new york's 247 delegates meaning clinton's lead over sanders is now up to 275 total pledge delegates and including the super delegates it is even larger. now last night she spoke about uniting the party. she dismissed the republicans ted cruz and donald trump as decisive and dangerous. and she reiterated

the sense we know what it is. he has to pick hillary clinton's demographic lock. she is winning in big states where you have an african-american constituency and a latino constituency, the traditional base of the democratic party. he succeeded on small scale in smaller states. he needs to do it in a big sk l scale, and there's no better test in new york. if he cannot do it in new york, as we talked about trump having a big april, hillary clinton is betting on a big april. she wants new york as a springboard. then you go into these other states. bernie sanders probably favored in rhode island, connecticut maybe. if you look at maryland, delaware, and especially the philadelphia area of pennsylvania, you have the african-american base of the democratic party. if bernie sanders cannot break through, he's going to get to the end of april down 280, maybe 300 in the pledged delegate koun count. if april ends that way, sanders math because impossible. >> thank you, john. appreciate it. >> thank you, my friend. >> i want to bring in jennifer granholm, the former governor o

, and large donors connected the fossil fuel industry. clintonmaintains that she's received only about $330,000 from individuals who work for fossil fuel companies. we welcome you both. eva resnick-day, described the scene when you were able to question hillary clinton. how hard was it to get to her? >> absolutely. it is pretty difficult to make sure you will get to the front of a rally, and even have the opportunity to stick your hand out and, hopefully, get to ask a question to secretary clinton. from 350d an activist action named miles had weighed about six hours in order to make sure that we were at the front of the line stephen get the opportunity to propose this question. amy: had you been trying before this day? >> absolutely. this is a larger climate movement of thousands of activists across the country who have showed up to rallies to protest at fundraisers, demanding that whoever our future leader is is accountable to the people and not contributions and corporations in a campaign. amy: she says you are bernie sanders representative who

the stakes clearly are enormous. a clinton victory could break sanders' recent momentum and put the nomination in her grasp. a sanders win could shake her campaign to its core. amid the rhetoric and big rallies, the race has been getting nasty as the two sides hammer one another on policy and qualifications. will tonight's showdown boil down to insults or issues? and the insults are flying among republican candidates. all three will appear tonight at a black tie gop gala. ted cruz, accusing donald trump's campaign of threatening violence even as prosecutors decide not to charge trump's campaign manager for grabbing a reporter. i'll speak with clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon. our correspondents, analysts and guests, they will have full coverage of all the day's top stories. let's begin with our senior washington correspondent joe johns. set the stage, what's the latest? >> that's true, wolf. quite frankly here in new york and across the state. it's been a week of acrimony, sometimes rivaling the republicans, a ton

to the clinton campaign may start becoming more aggressive towards sanders. th campaign been, especially pulling their proverbial punches, knowing that whomever wins will need the other's supporters. starting today, secretary clinton is raising more pointed questions and launching tougher attacks on whether sanders even understands the basics of one of his fundamental campaign promises, for example. joe johns is traveling with former secretary of state hillary clinton. he joins us now from philadelphia. joe, just in the last few hours clinton seems to be really taking on a tougher tone. >> reporter: definitely a tougher tone, jake. but reprising some of the themes she has touched on in the past, the clinton camp making it clearer than ever that they'd like to close this thing out if they can and start spending their money on the republicans, but it's also evidence of something else. they need a big bounce-back win after the losing performance in wisconsin. hillary clinton is ratcheting up her attacks on bernie sanders. >> you've got to know what you want. you'

anne: the clinton campaign is using bill clinton as a counterprogramming message. where she is not almost all of the time. , except when he goes off message from time to time. seen his presence in the same room when she is doing something political as a double-edged sword. he can get the crowd riled up, but he becomes the focus of attention, not her. i think he feels the same way. you said a few times that he likes to step back and give her the limelight. this is one of those occasions. after the debate, we will eat pretzels. what are you going to be doing? anne: i will be getting on a plane with bernie sanders going to rome. he said that he still might see the pope? anne: the vatican has not ruled it out. the senior vatican spokesman says there are no plans for the pontiff, pope francis, to see bernie sanders. that is not the same thing as saying it won't happen. john: some suggested that it will definitely happen. anne: there is a good chance. john: would there be a picture? anne: probably. the vatican is pretty press friendly. there certainly are often photograph

hillary clinton, with 57.5% of the vote. and they're both about 200, donald trump's what, 264,000 votes ahead of his nearest competitor. hillary clinton is 244,000. >> there's a 20% threshold to get any delegates so cruz will likely come out of this with nothing. >> it's huge. won the table until those five states. perhaps cruz can do well in maryland, pennsylvania, well meaning get some delegates. probably not going to win those states, and they're putting the focus increasingly in indiana. >> the miss tack ted cruz made criticizing new york values. one is pride in the state of new york. >> worst political line. >> we need bury that line. >> it's interesting, in terms it of pivotal, how much the narrative has changed even among ourselves. the last two weeks we've been talking about, cruz has a great operation and is in there getting all those delegates and trump is really fading and it looks like the trump thing is bad. he tonight, donald trump is back on track and back on top. and back on top. >> donald trump plays a great

i can see why the clinton campaign is getting nervous. won seven out of the last eight states. he's clearly got momentum as he gains more support in the states that are coming up. but really what it comes down to and what is important to talk about in this election is the differences between the two candidates. you and i have spoken before specifically on secretary clinton's tenure as secretary of state, as u.s. senator. and the track record she has in particular on these foreign policy issues. so when voters are looking at in these upcoming states, what are the differences, some key distinctions important to note are begin with the iraq war. secretary clinton either didn't do her homework properly or didn't have the foresight and judgment to know how that war would end up, and she voted for it. bernie sanders voted against it. >> let me interrupt for a second. do you agree then with bernie sanders that because of that vote on the war, because she takes money from wall street, because she supports some of these free trade agreements she i

the youth with his saxophone. but is that all there is to bill clinton? wanted to know more about where he came from. he burst on the scene. he's got like a different way. he's smart, he seems to have a lot of controversy around him. who in the hell is he? where did he come from? why don't i know anything about him? >> i was born in a little town called hope, arkansas three months after my father died. i remember living in that old, two-story house where i lived with my grandparents. i remember going -- >> what are the three things you want people to know? he worked his way up, he was born poor, he's one of you. and that was the start of telling you the story, the central story of the man from hope. >> i end tonight where it all began for me. i still believe in a place called hope. god bless you. and god bless america. >> clinton tells his story and america is buying it. >> he's chosen his running mate, fellow southerner al gore. >> two blonde wives, everybody looks young. perfect day. don't stop thinking about tomorrow. okay, i was gagging. but in terms o