about his trip to vat htin city tomorrow morning on "state of the union" joining jake tapper. >>> the republican side. it's a cross country battle for votes and delegates. donald trump and john kasich focusing on the big prize of new york. both campaigning in the state, which has 95 delegates up for grabs on tuesday. meanwhile, ted cruz is in wyoming, where he is expected to pick up most of that state's delegates at the gop convention. here's a sample of what all three had to say today. >> we're going to pass -- >> you know, it's easy to talk about making america great again. you can even print that on a baseball cap. but the real question is, do you understand the principles and values that made america great in the first place? >> you look at what happened in wyoming and what's happening there, when you look at what's happening in colorado, where the people -- where the people never got a chance to vote, and they're going nuts out there. they're angry. the boss' took away their vote. >> leadership matters. that's why i run for this office, but at the end, you know, it's -- needs to

a woman before he met melania's mother, a child came out of that union. he fought, melania trump's father fought the mother of the child who sued for child support three months after the child was born, that he fought it to the highest appellate court in slovenia, trying not to pay the child support fees. >> melania trump is not happy with that article. >> not at all. >> she reacted negatively. >> you have an article in the issue of foreign policy on his foreign policy speech yesterday. your bottom line? >> my bottom line is it is an eclectic array of ideas, many of which don't go together. you heard isolationist themes, that it is always america first, which as many pointed out is echo of charles lindbergh and people that said nazi germany wasn't that bad, we shouldn't fight them. you also heard we shouldn't confuse our oldest allies by making nice with our oldest adversaries, and in the next turn, said we should stick up to china. then he said let's cozy up to china and russia, strike an alliance. it was full of contradictions. if you zero things out, i am not sure where it remai

the border, you are talking about black people, illegal immigrants, union members. >> did you include african-americans in that? come on, all the polls show donald trump has little support in the african-american community. >> i think african-americans care about making sure the border is secure. >> okay, we'll leave it there. thanks so much, ron, john, nice to have you here. >> thank you. >>> still to come in the newsroom, hillary clinton makes her final pitch to new yorkers and takes a swipe at bernie sanders. urging voters to pick a candidate that can quote deliver results. her spokesman joins me next. oh, look... ...another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works... ...in one week. with the... fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to work on fine lines and... ...even deep wrinkles. "one week? that definitely works!" rapid wrinkle repair. and for dark spots, rapid tone repair. neutrogena®. "see what's possible." came out today thousands of people to run the race for retirement. so we asked them...

15. i'm proud to have the endorsement of most of the unions that have led the fight for 15. i was proud to stand on the stage with governor cuomo, with seiu and others who have been leading this ballots, and i will work as hard as i can to raise the minimum wage. i always have. i supported that when i was in the senate. but what i have also said is we've got to be smart about it. just the way governor cuomo was here in new york. if you look at it, we moved more quickly to 15 in new york city, more deliberately toward 12, 12.50, upstate, then to 15. that is exactly my position of the it's a model for the nation. that's what i will do as president. go as quickly as possible to get to 15. >> thank you. >> i am sure a lot of people are very surprised to learn that you supported raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. >> no, wait a minute, wait a minute. >> that's just not accurate. >> i have stood on the debate stage. >> wolf -- >> i have stood on the stage with senator sanders eight different times. >> senator, please. >> if we can raise it to 15 in new york or los angeles. >>

. >> now sanders also picked up the endorsement of the united electrical workers union today but has a lot of ground to make up against clinton. trailing her by double digits in maryland and pennsylvania and clinton spent the morning campaigning among one of her key constituencies, visiting african-american churches in philly. and her strength among the african-american community is a big reason she's leading sanders. in fact, sanders now needs to win more than 80%, 80% of the remaining delegates at stake to win the nomination. clinton, she needs just about 30%. that's part of the reason why we're starting to see her pivot to the general election by taking on donald trump. in addition to that anti-trump video we just saw, clinton has been hammering the billionaire on the stump. >> trump keeps saying things like, you know, i didn't really mean it. it was all part of my reality tv show. running for president will be on your screen. well, you know what, if we buy that, shame on us because he's already showed us what he believes and he's already said what he wants to do. he wants to go aft

sanders both appear on state of the union with jake tapper this morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern here. and thursday night they both, secretary clinton and sanders face off in a cnn democratic debate live from brooklyn. >> much more ahead on your "new day." donald trump makes a surprise visit to the 9/11 museum in new york. it is his first time. and he pulled out his checkbook. was it all politics? also much more coverage on belgium terror. the paris terrorist suspect mohamad abrini claims he's the man with the hat in prosecutors attack. and john kerry is talking terrorism and news. ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪ for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever. entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. if you

morning from the critics. >> if you look at the exit polls, he isn't union mying where he needs to, but he did poorly among african-american voters and other minorities, right? >> definitely. that's a problem that the republican as a whole has to address. they're going to work to address them together. all of them have problems. that's a republican issue right now. you hear these talking about, going after his, not necessarily mr. trump. now they are attacking his campaign, which by the way, obviously winning, because they're winning in delegate counts. obviously have a strategy and they're doing growth and turn around and what we consider to be a general election. ted cruz needs to be telling john kasich. if you cannot mathematically win, then why are you in this race. >> i was going to ask him the same thing. how can he pin his hopes on a contested convention and then say john kasich has to get out of the race, when john kasich is doing exactly the same thing? >> it's very simple. senator cruz has been working since day one on delegates. and you know, this is the thing that people see

a sacred union between a man and a woman, that sex is only for heterosexual married couple and that a person's sex is really decided upon birth. and that is why so many people are taking issue. again, supporters of this, including the state's governor, saying that this is simply protecting people's rights but then you speak to people like the baker that we spoke to today and they will tell you this opens the door wide open and sets things up for discrimination. >> polo sandoval, thank you very much. joining me, representative stvep holland of the mississippi house and director of the center for a religious and civil society. thank you for joining us. >> hello, don. >> what do you say to those who say it's discriminatory? >> i think they're mistaken. the bill answer as fundamental question. are we going to be a society who believes in live and let live where multiple views of marriage can exist or is it winner take all where they will coerce religious people and institutions to come along under penalties, under fines and revocation of tax exemption? mississippi has said no, we going

. and by the end of the time in office, he said, that was another soviet union. gorbachev's soviet union is not the evil empire anymore. now, that showed that he was smart enough, flexible enough and savvy enough to get information and change some of his views and all of his tactics. so the story of the '80s and the cold war is that the both soviets and americans start by totally misunderstanding each other and completely fearing each other and by the end they're working together. and the reasons why i think have a lot to do with two individuals. ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev. would donald trump have the flexibility of mind and nimbleness to switch like that with new intelligence and information changed the world that he started with as president? i don't know. and that's the key and that's what he has to prove as he becomes more and more likely the standard bearer of the republican party. not just for democrats or independents but for republicans. he has to prove that his sense of what it means to be president and what it means to be commander in chief allows for the flexibi

teachers' union calling trump a fear mongerer. the union demanding it be moved out of the public school. jim, a trump campaign, obviously that memo incredibly confident when it comes to delegates, when it comes to eliminating cruz and kasich. after last night's win. >> reporter: that's right. yeah, i think when you're predicting 1,400 delegates that, is the definition of confidence, erin. you're right. after his blowout win in new york, donald trump has some big-time momentum on his side, and today he's hitting two more states on the campaign calendar, indiana and as you mentioned a few moments here in maryland. and he has a new nickname for his rival, ted cruz. it's "the spoiler." ♪ in indianapolis, a victory lap for donald trump after taking the checkered flag in the new york primary miles ahead of his nearest rivals. >> the vote was incredible. it was record-setting. and it's new york. and you know what is nice? they know me. they know the good, the bad, they know everything. they know me. >> reporter: dubbed "king don" by the "new york post," trump is not only save orring a

land. >> they are showing that you could have an independent union in a communist country and the question was how independent were they going to be allowed to be. >> how the u.s. deals with poland and the eastern bloc and with russia will be early challenges for the foreign policy of ronald reagan. >> reagan had spent most of his career blasting the soviet union and attacking any republican or democrat who had said we can negotiate. he had been the leading opponent of detente during the 1970s. the policy of trying to ease relations with the soviets. >> what he disliked about detente is they were hitting the negotiating team as equals. reagan thought there are two super powers, but we have moral superiority because democracy is inherently good and sovietism is inherently bad. with my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it un

anti-nuclear protest in u.s. history. >> president reagan is more eager to meet with new leader of the soviet union. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall.

acting like union boss thugs. in colorado, i spoke to the chairman of the republican party in colorado, trump supporters put out his home address, his phone numbers, he got thousands of phone calls and death threats. trump supporters were telling people to go to his house and bring guns. violence doesn't belong in the campaign. police are reporting threats of violence against delegates from the trump cam pan. >> roger stowe has left the trump campaign. >> he said he has. >> you think he's still in the campaign? >> i think he's their henchman. he's doing the dirty work. >> donald doesn't like he's losing the election. >> is the trump campaign intimidating people, kellyanne? >> it seems like it. we hear from the trump campaign the rules are not fair, the system is corrupt, it's rigged and yet very clearly it was laid out there that stephen house, the party chair of colorado, has received over 3,000 calls since the convention, all of them nasty and he posted on facebook when i hear about burials and my family mentioned in the same sentence, this isn't politics, this isn't democra

of the union. >> i think we have a path to victory, i think we have come a very long way in the last year, and we're going to fight for every last vote until california and d.c. primary. >> reporter: as clinton faces criticism from sanders, she's getting consideration from an unlikely place. conservative mega donor, billionaire charles koch said sunday it is possible clinton could be better than the gop nominee. >> we would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. some of the republican candidates, before we could support them, we have to believe their actions would be different than the read rick we've heard so far. >> people denied climate science, make it harder for people to vote. >> back to our panel, joining the conversation, christine quinn, supporter of women in need. and sanders supporter, democratic strategist. does it telegraph how important the platform is getting changes? >> i have no doubt that senator sanders will point -- he doesn't want somebody like donald trump or ted cruz in the white house to pick the next supreme court nominee, doe

to clinton on cnn's "state of the union." >> i think we do have a path to victory. i think we have come a very, very long way in the last year and we're going to fight for every last vote until california and the d.c. primary. >> reporter: as clinton faces criticism from sanders, she's getting consideration from an unlikely place, conservative mega donor and billionaire, charles koch. he said sunday it's possible clinton could be better than the gop nominee. >> we would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric, let me put it that way. but on some of the republican candidates, before we could support them, we'd have to believe their actions would be quite different from the rhetoric we've heard so far. >> reporter: but clinton was quick to respond, tweeting not interested in endorsements from people who deny climate science and try to make it harder for people to vote. meanwhile, jake, "the new york times" is reporting that the veepstakes is already beginning with the clinton campaign. campaign advisers are starting in on a list of about 15 to 20 possib

from the campaign trail. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is getting testy. with the wisconsin primary just two days away, hillary clinton and bernie sanders spent the weekend sniping at each other. he demanded an apology for being called a liar. she called him desperate. she says he's playing games over a debate day. he says she's the one blocking it. last night they took to the same stage, and each insisted the other will lose to donald trump. >> for the democratic party to succeed, we need a vibrancy, and we need an energy, and we need a level of grass-roots activism that we do not have at this moment. >> i think we need a nominee who's been tested and vetted already, and for 25 years, they've thrown everything they could at me, but i'm still standing. >> joining me now is senator bernie sanders of vermont. senator, thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> you've gotten into a back-and-forth with secoretary clinton about money from the fossil fuel industry. hillary clinton says she is sick of your campaign lying ab

the public transit union, workers union, here in new york, which is huge. first of all, he marched with the verizon workers who are on strike at verizon. and then a ceo said you're for the working people and i'm not. i think he's on a roll. now he's going to go to the vatican and get the pope's blessing. what more could you want? >> his wife was here at cnn and criticized the dnc for the rules, basically calling it rigged. she went even further. >> you have to admit the way that they're doing things in terms of superdelegates and in terms of how delegates are put out there doesn't make a lot of sense to the average person. we're saying it's wrong. >> wrong? >> we're saying it's not a democratic way to carry out an election. >> does she have a point in vermont where he got 86% of the vote? >> i want to take this moment to welcome bernie sanders and jane sanders to the democratic party. i think it is necessary to understand that bernie sanders signed up to become the democratic nominee. it's not unfair. there is no metric by which bernie sanders is winning this race. he's not winning

so-called minutemen on the border. >> reporter: on cnn's "state of the union" sanders turning to her judgment. >> i have my doubts what kind of president she would make. >> reporter: but clinton not responding in kind. >> do you have doubts about what kind of president he would be? >> no, i don't. i don't have anything negative to say about him. >> reporter: despite polls showing clinton with a commanding lead in the empire state, sanders telling new york voters today he can win with their help. >> if we can win here in new york state, i believe we are on our way to the white house. >> reporter: sanders taking his fight to the airways with a new ad voiced by actress susan sarandon. it's focused on fracking, a key issue for upstate new york voters. >> bernie sanders is the only candidate for president that opposes fracking everywhere. >> reporter: his campaign also charging a super pac backing clinton is partially funded by fossil fuel lobbyists. >> bernie, he can't be bought by them, because he's funded by you. >> reporter: looking ahead, clinton sees the path to the nomination and s

, most of them union, and they wanted to believe that trump would bring back a steel mill. they want wouldn't to hope he would bring a steel mill back to youngstown. they wanted it to be a certainty. as the gospel tells you if you just put your faith in, it's not a spirituality, it's almost like a science. it is a fact. >> thank you so much for your time. >>> coming up next, why is america's reaction to the crack epidemic completely different than the current reaction to the heroin crisis? is it race? we'll discuss. >>> plus, just in to cnn, details of just how former nfl player will smith of the new orleans saints -- how he died. what the coroner and his family's attorney are now saying. back after the quick break. ing . longer? pam. this...this is pam's. try not to take things personally. all right. thank you pam. don't let the little things get to you. get your beauty sleep. and use new aveeno® absolutely ageless® night cream. with active naturals® blackberry complex. you'll wake up to younger looking skin in just one week. younger looking skin can start today. new absolutely a

hillary clinton was first elected. the party machine has pretty much died across the state. unions are working very hard for bernie sanders across the state. his message is resonating especially in upstate new york in working class communities, blue collar communities, wolf been hurt by the economy of the '90s, the nafta economy of the clintons. that's why in the past three weeks alone hillary clinton went from a 40% lead to just about a 10% lead. and that is sending fear to the hillary clinton campaign. and that's empowering the bernie sanders campaign. and so what that means right now there's a 200-delegate difference. that 200 delegate difference has stayed that way for the past several months, for the last ten primaries and caucuses. and when hillary clinton uses this term about -- the number of the 2 million person lead, voter lead, that's not counting caucuses. because caucuses don't count their votes. unfortunately they're party run and that's a party rule. so all of those caucus votes that bernie sanders got are not being equated. so this momentum, we're feeling it but we'r

jeffre jeffreys. it matters in new york as much or more than any state in the union. let's listen first to what former president bill clinton had to say about the issue that had been dogging hillary clinton about the word predators and what it means as a perspective on the african-american community. and bernie sanders latest response to it. here they are back to back. >> i don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out on the street to murder other african-american children. maybe you thought they were good citizens. she didn't. she didn't. you are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter. tell the truth. >> i think we all know what that term meant when in the context that it was said years ago. we know who they were talking about. that's exactly right. that's who it was. and i think that the president owes the american people an apology for trying to defend what is indefensible. >> nina turner, what is bernie sanders doing here? >> well, chris, it's very clear. i mean, president clinton cannot

back on cnn's state of the union. >> i think we have a path to victory. i think we have come a very, very long way in the last year and we're going to fight for every last vote until california and the d.c. primary. >> reporter: as clinton faces criticism from sanders, she's getting support from an unlikely place, billionaire, charles koch, he said clinton could be better than the gop nominee. >> we would have to believe that her actions are a lot different than her rhetoric. and for the republican candidates, we would have to believe their actions are quite different than the rhetoric we've heard so far. >> reporter: clinton was quick to respond, not interested. cnn philadelphia. >> back to our panel, also joining the conversation, supporter of women in need and melanie, a sanders' supporter and democratic strategist. sanders saying his future support of clinton is going to be partly depend on her platform. is that a wise thing for him to say? does it telegraph how important the platform is for him? >> i have no doubt that senator sanders is going to support secretary clinton, no d

union democrats, the blue collar democrats. the reagan democrats. people are so frustrated in rhode island. high unemployment, heavy illegal immigration. donald trump's message, don, has completely cut through the state is a wreck. there's going to be record turnout tomorrow. the enthusiasm today was just tremendous. you're going to see a huge turnout. and trump is going to win rhode island. i think over 65% tomorrow. >> when i introduce you, if i didn't say you were a trump supporter, people would know. what are your listeners saying? >> i don't think there will be. i agree with john. it will be a route or real close to one for donald trump tomorrow. but i will say this at least in pennsylvania, i don't -- john can speak to rhode island, the thing i encourage everyone to consider in pennsylvania, as you know, it's all about the delegates. and there are 54 delegates in pennsylvania that will go to the convention uncommitted. now many of them have since declared. and one miff colleagues on our radio station has gone to the trouble of finding what these delegates and how they'll go to

to be, is she going to be as aggressive back? when i interviewed her on sunday on "state of the union" she said i'm not going to say anything aggressive against him. apparently she was storing it up, waiting for tonight. >> that's what she was doing. they both have a lot to gain and a lot to lose right now. it was obvious, i mean, you can still feel the heat coming off the stage back here, that they did both recognize that. i actually thought what was really tremendous is that they do genuinely have differences on a lot of issues, and the heat -- i mean, there were some political questions, important political questions that we asked and they missbs -- mixed up on, but from everything from israel to wall street, they mixed it up on policy. >> errol, a great addition to the panel this evening. what struck you in terms of good moments and bad moments the candidates had? >> i think hillary had a pretty good moment in trying to recover from a pretty good question she go about guns coming over the border from vermont. we essentially caught her and her campaign really kind of not fabricatin

union thugs and donald trump needs to learn. >> reporter: doubling down on trump's turf in new york today. >> it's very simple. violence is unacceptable. threatening violence is unacceptable. >> reporter: meantime the trump campaign is trying to hit the reset button signaling they are taking steps toward playing the inside game, beefing up their staff, taking on a veteran gop operative as their political director and hitting capitol hill today for meetings to broaden support among lawmakers. >> this meeting was sort of step one as we begin to transition from our primary focus to becoming the nominee toward the general election. >> reporter: the trump campaign also receiving a welcome break today. florida prosecutors announcing they have decided not to prosecute trump's campaign manager corey lewandowski for battery charges. >> while the evidence in this case is legally sufficient for the police voto have charged mr lewandowski, it is not strong enough to meet the legal burden of a reasonable likelihood. >> reporter: stemming from this incident where he allegedly grabs brightbart rep

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of our better angels and cherished ideals for a more perfect union. as a citizen, patriot and leader, it is my duty to use my small platform to speak the truth. arouse our collective conscious and channel the best version of america that i know is within us all. as one nation, under god, indwizable, with liberty and justice for all. this is no time to run or be silent. it is my turn to stand tall in the breach and speak loudly at the pres tcipice of far itscism. as president clinton said, there is nothing wrong with america that can't be fixed by what's right in america. i believe that in my soul. let us choose kennedy over kardashianism each and every time. that is why i defiantly stand up. why i defiantly speak out, and why i defiantly stand before you today. martin luther king junior once said the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. this is one of those times. trump has created a toxic eco system in our political discourse. trump has appealed to the lowest common demnomin

easy. even dispatching former president bill clinton to union halls across new york city. before a knighttime rally in the bronx, sanders stopped in pittsburgh. >> what an extraordinary turnout. >> reporter: he lashed out at clinton's support for trade agreements and ties to wall street. >> i just don't know why wall street has not invited me to speak before them. and i got my cell phone on. i'm waiting for the call. >> reporter: of course, wall street and income inequality two of the issues that are central to this democratic primary fight, and certainly here in new york. now one of the questions that has been asked about the sanders candidacy is can he attract a diverse set of voters. at this rally behind me in the bronx, it is one of the most diverse rallies we have seen. for tonight at least the awer is yes. the sanders campaign believes that going forward, the states play well to their strengths. they can attract a diverse set of voters. that's why the new york primary on april 19th is so important as to how long this democratic race will go. jeff zeleny, cnn, new york. >>> we

the soviet union gorbachev decides to do something bold and he says let's separate sdi from reducing the nuclear stockpile. once he does this, it opens up the possibility for a third summit. >> relive the '80s tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "at this hour with berman and bolduan" starts now. >>> ted cruz is lucifer in the flesh, the most miserable son of rhymes with witch he has ever worked with. those insults not from donald trump but from john boehner emerging from the shadows to torch ted cruz before the race of his life. >> what does that mean for the never trump movement? why the republican establishment is warming up to the billionaire. >>> chilling new details about

included hundreds of people. all part of a plan worked out between the european union and turkey and it's aimed at reducing the influx of illegal immigrants, migrants, in greece. cnn international correspondent phil black is at the turkish port where the migrants were today. >> we watched as the three vessels that traveled from the greek islands pulled up and started to disembark the migrants. 202 in all. being escorted by european officials for the journey over. then there was a transfer as they were handed over to turkish officials here. taken ashore. identified, registered and moved on to other holding camp s places. for the people who don't come from syria, most from pakistan, some from afghanistan, they are taken to detention centers where turkish officials say they could be returned to their country of origin. the syrians are allowed to stay here. they will be sent to the camps that already house some 2 million syrian people who have fled the conflict in that country. the european union says this deal is necessary in order to remove some of the pressure on greece. as borders ar

. stay tuned for "state of the union." starts right now. ♪ >>> whiplash! donald trump changing his position on abortion -- >> you have to ban it. >> -- twice in two days. >> the laws are set. i think we have to leave it that way. >> how will voters respond to the front-runner's flip-flopping? >>> and delegate derby. >> our path going forward is to get 1,237. >> but if no one makes it to that magic number, who will win? the stealth strategies under way to swing the convention. >>> plus -- under her skin. >> i am so sick of the sanders campaign lying about that. sick of it! >> clinton accusing sanders of lying and playing games over a new york debate date. >> my understanding is she would like to do it in brooklyn. i was born in brooklyn. let's do it. >> will they face off again? >>> and the best political minds will be here with insights from the campaign trail. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is getting testy. with the wisconsin primary just two days away, hillary clinton and bernie sanders spent the weekend sniping at each other. he demanded a

to bob earlier, i had lunch with a group of union presidents of major labor unions yesterday. they are worried about their members that are telling them they like donald trump. and they like him because he's opposed to the trade deals. he says he's for jobs. it's all bs but there's a certain appeal we've got to be careful of. it's a small sliver of the american electorate. >> all right, bob, the hooker's thing, come on. >> it's true. his grandfather did. it was fine. i don't have any problem with that. >> oh, lord. >> listen, i promise you when we come back, we're going to talk about bernie sanders again. don't count him out just yet he said. we'll be right back. on your air. now you just book a seat, right? not quite. sometimes those seats are out of reach, costing an outrageous number of miles. it's time to switch... to the capital one venture card. with venture, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. and when you're ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any airline and use your miles to cover the cost. now that's more like it. what's in you

no to abortion, contraception, and gay unions are not to be -- he opens the door just to allow his priests and bishops to make judgments based on the individual case. keeping in mind, of course, that mercy for pope francis has to be the overriding theme. >> all right. the american election is also making its way to the vatican in the form of bernie sanders. tell us about that. >> reporter: yes. well, bernie sanders campaign announced he had been invited to a conference at the vatican next friday. this conference is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of john paul the second's social incyclical, looking at some of the catholic social teaching of that time 25 years ago. i spoke to the vatican official in charge of the conference because it seemed somewhat unusual that a presidential candidate would be invited to a vatican conference, and the official told me that it's not their intention to lend any particular support to the campaign, but that bernie sanders had expressed an interest many times, the official said, in the pope's teaching within this particular incyclical, so they though

. i'm proud to have the endorsement of most of the unions that have led the fight for 15. i was proud to stand on the stage with governor cuomo, with seiu and others who have been leading this battle, and i will work as hard as i can to raise the minimum wage. i always have. i supported that when i was in the senate. but what i have also said is we've got to be smart about it. just the way governor cuomo was here in new york. if you look at it, we moved more quickly to 15 in new york city, more deliberately toward 12, 12.50, upstate, then to 15. that is exactly my position of it's a model for the nation. that's what i will do as president. go as quickly as possible to get to 15. >> thank you. >> i am sure a lot of people are very surprised to learn that you supported raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. >> no, wait a minute, wait a minute. >> that's just not accurate. >> i have stood on the debate stage. >> wolf -- >> i have stood on the stage with senator sanders eight different times. >> senator, please. >> if we can raise it to 15 in new york or los angeles. >> secre

forget, sunday morning, tune in to "state of the union." my guests will include ted cruz and the top advisers to all five presidential campaigns. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer. he's in "the situation room." have a great weekend. >>> happening now, breaking news, protesting trump. a tense demonstration outside of a hotel where donald trump is addressing california's republican party. protesters knocking down barricades trying to storm the building just hours after bloody clashes at a trump rally. so why is the violent reaction to his campaign now escalating? tepid endorsement. four days before the indiana primary, the state's governor announces he's voting for ted cruz but his backing seems to lack enthusiasm and goes on to praise donald trump. will it have any impact on the primary outcome? >>> putin's talk. weeks after the navy ship was buzzed, a dangerous maneuver was conducted over a u.s. air force plane. what's vladimir putin up to? >>> and the kim jong-un regime sentences an american citizen to ten years of hard labor in north korea.

"state of the union" at 9:00 and noon. >> i thought he looked pretty when he said she started it. >> like donald trump. >> like a counterpuncher. but the reality is she didn't really start it and she really didn't question his qualification for office. he waded into this. it was a mistake. there are many things you can say about her. i don't think this is one of them. >> bill clinton was asked about the original comments today. watch. >> i just wanted to ask you, these comments bernie sanders has made about hillary not being qualified, if a man with the same resume had, do you think that gender is a piece of this at all? >> of course it would but he walked it back a little today. >> for him to say it at all, do you think gender was a factor? >> i don't know. you guys commented. i think shooe'd be the best president and that's obvious by a country mile. that's all that matters to me. yes, i think there are some different standards. >> when he's running, he can be -- >> you can see the wheels turning. >> what's your reaction? >> i think every time a microphone is put in front of hi

union. they have no interest in renegotiating this. many of the countries are making economic business deals in iran. as the president counpointed ou american sanctions against iran continue to remain in place for the most part. the best that a future american president can do is to add some more u.s. sanctions that will limit american trade with iran, american businesses from operating in iran. the germans are not going to go along with that and certainly the russians and chinese will not. they are stumbling each other to get into that market and make money on oil and trade. a future american president could add some american sanctions. >> that's not going to negate the deal? >> no. iran doesn't need the united states for a lot of the things that its economy necessarily wants at this point. it needs technologies. technologies that america may have the best of, but there are plenty of places to get the technologies. if the u.s. says we won't give you technologies, the chinese and russians will or the germans. so it's great for political rhetoric to say i'm going to tear up thi

think the issue is not that. i think the issue is frankly -- and we've in my union run a very positive campaign in both of these candidates. that bernie, the reason you all think is breaking news is because bernie promised from the beginning and that was part of his charm to run a really positive campaign about the issues and since the beginning of march it's gotten bhr more and more negative and he's been attacking her character over and over again almost every speech and so, you know, she responded in terms of not doing his homework in terms of the "daily news." i'm -- >> but she also said he wasn't a democrat and she couldn't really figure out what party he represented and she was intimating that he was a socialist right? nobody was fooled by that. >> i actually read that interview with glen thrush. you know, this is what's great about the democratic party. we let everybody in. and it is true that bernie became a democrat to run for president. and he's been an independent. he's caucused with the democrats. but he's been an independent for a long time. so the issue becomes h

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-criticized deal between the european union and ankara. under that agreement, migrants who reached greece by march 20th and had their asylum request rejected or didn't apply for asylum are now being sent back. cnn's erin mclaughlin is in the port of lesbos, and phil black is in the turkish town where the ships will be arriving. we'll start with phil black there, and we know those ships are heading your way. they should reach port very soon. in fact, phil, talk to us about what those migrants on board have to look forward to once they arrive there. >> reporter: rosemary, we can see the vessels. they are now clearly within sight here, and they appear to have slowed on their final approach here, each one carrying around 130 passengers, reluctant passengers, you'd have to say. these are people who crossed in the other direction, with the dream of establishing a new life in europe. they are now returning to turkey. that dream, really, a total failure. what happens to them here isn't clear. and it is really the most controversial part of what you touched on there and described accurately

clinton both picking up big union endorsements on the eve of their cnn debate. >>> and russian warning? shocking new video shows russian jets aggressively buzzing the deck of a u.s. navy destroyer multiple times, coming so close the commander says it was dangerous. so what's behind this risky maneuver? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the republican front-runner at war with his own party. donald trump accusing the republican national committee of conspiring to prevent him from getting the nomination and says the rules are, quote, stacked against me. calling out rnc chairman reince priebus by name, trump says it's a disgrace for the party, but priebus tweets that the nomination process has been known for more than a year and it's up to the campaigns to understand it, adding, quote, give us all a break. i'll speak with reince priebus, that's coming up. >>> and ted cruz who's a master of those same rules and used them to corral delegates is appearing at a rally in pennsylvania right now ahead of tonight's cnn town hall in which he'll appear with his family. me

was an agreement i negotiated with ukraine for the european union. >> you're not concerned you will see compromise and stand up and say we won't play any dirty insider games. we're different, like trump promises. >> absolutely. i'm inheriting a great situation. i have to steer the ship in a little bit different direction. >> the question becomes are you the right captain? look, this is not a character judgment. they have done plenty of that when you're involved. but to say i'm different. i don't play this game. you've done your entire professional life. is that the right guy to captain the ship who is supposed to be heading into different waters? >> donald trump thought it was. >> what do you think it will mean for the campaign? >> they will do what's happening now, coming to me to find ways to get involved in the trump campaign. >> you see more people getting involved. >> people who wanted to before but didn't have a way in. >> what does that mean? >> they didn't know people. they didn't know donald. >> if you're wrong about the 1,237 and you go to convention, he has to have the ri

alliance, you keep our enemies at bay whether it was the soviet union or now iran, and we will pump oil and put money in your banks, and they are saying they have been betrayed. the iranians are moving everywhere from iraq to syria to lebanon, and the saudis look like they are being surrounded and the administration is doing nothing. >> why is it so important for us to maintain a strong relationship with saudi arabia? >> you have to look at the oil, and i realize it's more than oil but 55% of the world's oil reserves are under the persian gulf, and if that were to go under some sort of civil strife it would cause chaos in the long run for a long time in the world's economy. >> in terms of the fight against terrorism, the u.s. needs saudi arabia's help, and it's their concern in the wake of the latest threat that perhaps saudi arabia might want to scale back. >> pamela, we do need them. this is a sectarian war between shia and sunni, and we need a sunni constituency, and it does control the city of mecca, and if we lose them, it's unchartered waters. i think we are in a very dangerou

union. something that was met with backlash after it was published and be sure that is part of the questioning. david cameron will be taking to the podium and bring that news conference, press conference to you live. >> these are always very good. very energetic when the two leaders get together to answer questions from the combined press corps of the two nations. the news conference begins at any moment now. we'll turn it over to ashleigh banfield and jake tapper. >>> hi, everybody. welcome. i'm ashleigh banfield and this is "legal view" but we begin with the breaking news of what you see on your screen in london where at any moment, you're about to hear from president obama and the british prime minister david cameron. we've got some video from early on as they were heading in to talk front and center on the agenda and it's a big one. a push to intensify the war on isis. plus, britain's very big and upcoming vote on whether or not to leave the european union and it's a move that could have a lasting impact on americans here at home. the meeting at downing street earlier and

bernie sanders will be at cnn's state of the union this sunday with jake tapper. be sure to watch saturday morning, 9:00 a.m. eastern. and thursday night, don't forget, 9:00 p.m. eastern for the democratic presidential candidate's debate live from brooklyn. this debate comes only days before the critical new york primary. >>> coming up next, fresh searches under way after the capture two of major suspects linked to the attacks in brussels massacres. could one of them be the so-called man in the hat shown on surveillance video before and after the airport bombing? >>> happening now -- breaking news. captured. one of the most wanted terrorist suspects in custody. is he the mysterious man in the hat? his escape from the brussels airport bombing was caught on video. police are conducting new searches amid fears isis may accelerate plans for another bombing. i'll ask a top member of the senate intelligence committee what he's learning. >>> where is trump? the republican front-runner is out of sight, uncharacterista l uncharacteristalaluncharacterily quiet today. >>> and turf war. the d

picture. he's a mainstay on sunday morning shows like "meet the press" and "state of the union." this week, with nine days until new yorkers head to the polls, he's missing. he's not calling in to any sunday shows and nor did he pretape any interviews. this is the first time in five months he's skipped sunday's circuit. hugh hewitt tweeted this, it's been three days since a major donald trump story. it's a little like a hit list game streak or quarters without touchdowns. later today trump will be back on the campaign trail in upstate new york. right now the empire state is in the political spotlight with two competitive primaries happening right in the media's back yard. so it's the new york media versus the candidates. reporters, i think they're enjoying this. from hillary clinton maybe struggling a little bit with a new york city metro card, happens to all of us, to john kasich's foe faux, eating a slice with a fork and knife and ted cruz as he made the rounds making matzo in brooklyn. joining me is the perfect panel of new york's brightest and smartest political junkies, fred dick

to grab phone lists and canvassing lists. the transport union, which endorsed bernie, very important union here. those people are incredibly effective in turning out the vote in the city. upstate, it is pretty much a tie. bernie is doing well in areas where he can show hillary clinton's support for very bad trade agreements has hurt jobs. >> part of that can be a tactic. a lot of the polls have shown, 15, 10 percent caps. >> she's in a more commanding position, but the point is that that enthusiasm gap that she may be experiencing is something that she's worried about. she didn't necessarily want this debate tonight. why would she want to give him at a shot at oxygen and air time to wound her in a debate? she's going to turn out her voters. she's got a home state vibe going on, but it's interesting. i actually had a constructive exchange on twitter earlier today. >> there's news. >> breaking news. >> this is a woman that lives in california, but from new york she said i'm really looking forward to tonight because i want to hear from sanders a real plan of action. she's got my head, b

threats and intimidation. >> they're acting like union boss thugs and in colorado, i spoke yesterday to the chairman of the republican party in colorado. trump supporters put out his home address, put out his phone numbers. he got thousands of phone calls. he got death threats. were telling their supporters, go to the house and bring guns. look, violence doesn't belong. the trump campaign encourages it over and over. in indiana, police are reporting threats of violence against delegates from the trump campaign. >> want to start my panel on that comment, talking about the republic republicans. i have with me cnn political commentators s.e. cupp, margaret hoover. ladies, nice to see you. i feel like they're all sort of doing there, you're intimidating this isn't fair, they're complaining. s.e., who has the most room you think to complain? >> well, anyone who is not on the trump side is getting -- i mean, i speak for myself, you know, threatens, intimidated. it's not fun to not be on the trump train. takes some courage and some thick skin. >> you're getting threatened? >> oh, for sure, dai

. >> i'm a bus operator with local union 998 here main milwaukee. >> how long have you been here? >> six and a half years. >> reporter: every demographic that's been pro-trump. not here. >> where do you stand politically? >> definitely a staunch conser e conservati conservative. i voted for ted cruz. >> why? >> i like that he's not a fanatic. >> reporter: trump still has his fans here. >> he has his own money, so he can stand up for the people. >> reporter: even they can see where trump has messed up. >> i don't think he's appealed to the walker supporters. >> reporter: scott walker is wisconsin's governor. you may best remember him for this. in 2011, walker took on state unions in a bitter battle over right to work legislation and won. in 2015, walker, beloved by republicans in his state, decided to run for president and lost. pushed out many experts say by trump. something trump likes to brag about at his wisconsin rallies. >> i wouldn't say your governor loves me. >> reporter: he's right because walker endorsed cruz. trump said he doesn't need walker supporters anyway. he's counting o