bernie sanders, breaks for bernie sanders there. and young people, no surprise there. he won independents by a pretty wide margin there, too. it's interesting because hillary clinton, when asked the top quality for their candidate was the right experience, they think hillary clinton is experienced. what do you make of what the exit polls are telling us about the division here between clinton and sanders. >> it's a lot of what we've been seeing. once again she wins on electability. she wins on being ready for the jo job day one, but he's more exciting to people, and bringing out young people. we've been repeating it because it's important, but the demographics in wisconsin favored bernie sanders. hillary clinton outperformed her last go-around in wisconsin tonight. it's not a great state for her. it's predominantly white. she does much better among minorities than bernie sanders. we've seen over and over now in this campaign that hillary clinton wins a few and pivots to the general election. we write how the bernie sanders campaign has been put to bed, then he comes bac

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hillary clinton versus bernie sanders. tonight's cnn presidential debate is the final face-off before the absolutely crucial new york primary. he has the momentum, she has the math. the stakes are high and the stage is set. >>> fight for new york. he was born here, she was elected here. sanders has proved he can draw big crowds in new york, but clinton leads in the polls. can tonight's debate determine who wins most of the state's 247 delegates? >>> bern moment. since hillary clinton swept the early voting south, bernie sanders claims the election calendar, quote, distorts reality while his wife tells cnn the process isn't democratic at all. is this sanders' last chance to break through hillary clinton's firewall? >>> and no charges. a sigh of relief for donald trump's campaign as his campaign manager won't be prosecuted for grabbing a reporter. while all three republican candidates will appear at a gop gala in manhattan across the river from our democratic debate. i'm wolf blitzer inside the debate hall. you're in "the si

bernie sanders 55.8%, hillary clinton 43.9%. he's ahead, bernie sanders, by almost 75,000 votes. a big win for bernie sanders in wisconsin. let's go over to john king. on the republican side, now that ted cruz has won wisconsin, it's going to be a little bit harder for donald trump to reach that magic number of 1,237, the delegates he needs at the republican convention in cleveland to automatically get the nomination. >> it is. and donald trump is the only candidate still in the race with a plausible scenario but difficult scenario. ballpark right now, wolf, donald trump needs 62% of the remaining delegates to get to the magic number of 1,237. ted cruz, who said he could do it, needs 90% plus, somewhere in the ballpark of 92% of remaining delegates. but an open convention looks much, much more like lly tonigh? why? let's assume we'll be generous tonight to donald trump and move forward, giving him 6 delegates and the bon us delegates out of missouri. we'll be generous in the northeast, new england, rhode island, connecticut, new york. let's just say donald trump wins pennsylvania

bernie sanders is behind. he needs to shake things up he , needs to inspire his supporters, who are pretty easily inspired by him. and he needs to create a different dynamic in the race. he is now as close to criticizing her on things as he has been in the process. this makes it a brawl in new york. a brawl in new york is what he needs to win new york. john: your argument is that although he twisted her words and went further than was merited, it's good for him because he needs to basically do that. he can't just stay on the path he is on. he has to do something unfair. mark: and the folks in the clinton campaign, if they want to talk about twisted words we , can talk about how the clinton campaign said bernie sanders wanted to get rid of universal coverage. john: the clinton campaign has been guilty of this throughout the campaign. on that question. saying that bernie sanders was friends with the koch brothers. mark: they can get rid of their crocodile tears. i agree, i do think that bernie sanders has taken

hillary clinton and bernie sanders will take to the stage. they're going to grapple in their final debate before the all-important new york primary on tuesday. it's a face-off that comes at a very crucial juncture in this campaign, as you look at pictures of inside of the hall. and on one side, you have hillary clinton, who has won more delegates. more popular votes. and more states. and then on the other side, you've got bernie sanders, who has won eight of the past nine contests. in other words, this is about math versus momentum. and in the past few days, both campaigns have ramped up their attacks, hitting each other harder on character and on policy. take a listen to this. >> our job is to stand up to these powerful special interests, not to take their money. >> under the bright spotlight and scrutiny here in new york, senator sanders has had trouble answering questions. >> i don't think you are qualified if you have supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement. >> seriously, i've been called a lot of things. over the years. but

again, it's tough for bernie sanders. it could get better for him in may, as it could get better again for ted cruz in may when the calendar turns towards states that have more of the voters they've done well with. the question is whether on the democratic side it will be out of reach functionally for sanders. >> all right. we're going to talk about that in a moment. the dreaded "p" word for the democrats, proportionate delegate allocation makes it difficult for bernie sanders to gain any ground going forward. we'll talk about what bernie sanders and ted cruz, maybe john kasich need to do to turn around their path to the presidency. that's next. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. e >>> i'm so excited to share with you what america has learned over the past few months. and it has nothing to do with a politician winning his home state tonight. >> we lost tonight. there are five primari

sanders and hillary clinton has evolved, bernie sanders has really shifted over time his approach to hillary clinton. when we first started out he would often include the fact that he wasn't going to go after her as part of his stump speech, it was what he was selling to voters. if his crowds ever booed hillary clinton he would urge them to back off, he would wave them off and say, no, no, no, that's not the kind of campaign that we're running. as this race has gotten tighter in and in some ways nastier and as the clinton campaign has turned its fire more aggressively at bernie sanders because they have had to to kind of keep sustaining all the way along, sanders has gone farther in his attacks on clinton and now he uses contrasts with her as a central part of his stump speech. now, it's usually policy oriented and you heard some of it in this new version of this rift. he said she's not qualified to be president because of all these trade deals, because of the iraq war. that's a variation on what he's been saying all the way along, he's been hitting her for her nor of nafta and that

i'm gonna give it to bernie sanders. she's getting under the democratic party rules it's helped you in states you've lost you get 40 something percent, but going forward can bernie sanders win connecticut. >> absolutely. >> a lot of guys on wall street live in connecticut. >> i know that. >> state of new jersey. >> absolutely. >> you're on a roll. we're being generous. i know the clinton supporters are mad at me. we'll give it to you 55-45. we can go on through all of these, but i'm going to do this for the sake of argument i'm going to give them all to you. this is like the price is right or whatever it is. if we give it all to you, at 55-45, you almost catch her, but you come up short. especially in some of these big states you got to win bigger than that. >> in some smaller states we have won a lot of these states in the last couple of weeks by 60%, 70%, 80% in alaska. >> let's show what that means. in a state like alaska it's only 10 delegates. you need better than that. >> as we saw in nevada, senator sanders is goi

bernie sanders knows better than in a. >> bernie sanders is in vatican city. he's going to talk about the conference and hopes to meet with pope francis. charles, do you think that will resonate with new yorkers? in the primaries, it's a couple days away. >> first, i think he'll get a lot of press. press is always good for bernie. the more people know about bernie, the more they like him. do i think it's the smartest move? i don't. i think when you take a foreign trip like that, you do it to build your portfolio, to expand your resume and say not only do i know a lot about domestic issues which i am passionate about, i am also a world leader who can talk about world issues. if you take the world trip and you still talk about the domestic issue that you've been hammering for months now or in bernie case, 30 years, then it doesn't expand the resume. i don't know if it's the smartest move for him in this particular form. >> although when the pope came to new york city, new york loved him, so why not? >> yes, they did. i think charles is saying it right. it's a mi

a significant lead for bernie sanders. remember, this is an estimate. 55% for bernie sanders. 44% for hillary clinton. remember, these are exit polls. they are based on estimates, based on our early survey of voters as they left their polling locations. the final outcome may be different. we can expect those numbers to change throughout the night. remember, these are exit polls. to give us an indication of where this may be heading. jake? >> all right. wolf, thanks so much. let's go to our reporters in the field. sunlen serfaty at cruz headquarters. sunlen, tell us what the mood is there. obviously no concrete results yet, but a lot of people expecting cruz will have a good night. >> reporter: that's right, jake. and certainly here at cruz campaign headquarters for the night, the crowd is very excited. based on these early exit polls and certainly there is confidence coming tonight from the cruz campaign. a cruz campaign official tells me that the theme of the speech that senator cruz will deliver here later tonight will b

the reverse, bernie sanders supporter, only 15% say they wouldn't support bernie sanders. that is on her to-do list once she's able to finish off this nomination, if she's able to do so. the first thing on her to-do list is bringing those people in. she probably has more experience than anybody else about what needs to happen, right, because if indeed she vanquishes bernie sanders, she's going to think back to the conversations that barack obama had with her about what he needed from her to help heal thebacarri, certainly has helped her. the momentum appears right now to truly be in his court. >> i have to push back on what was said to my right. this race has not been about momentum. this race is purely about demographics. we understand the diversity of alaska and the diversity of hawaii, but we're talking about african-american voters here in new york. we're talking about hispanic voters here in new york and that's vastly different. that's first. this enthusiasm gap that we keep making up is purely nonexistent. the fact of the matter is hillary clinton is dominating this

me about it, bernie sanders is not a nice guy, and -- >> bernie sanders is -- >> he is crabby. >> he is crabby. >> i like the way you did that. would anybody say about a male secretary of state that they were unqualified? by definition, that job makes you qualified. >> if his opponent went around saying that, i might. >> i like your courage. >> thank you, howard fineman, and heidi presba. if you want to get ahold of her, usa today. i love courage. sometimes it's great. bernie/hillary fight. more with the roundtable. >>> up next, john kasich going up to ted cruz ahead of the primary. could a second place finish propel kasich to a strong number two ahead of the contested convention? could he position himself with a lot of delegates to demand the vp job if he wants it or be asked for it by trump? i notice trump doesn't hit kasich. i fight that fascinating. this is "hardball." the place for politics. (laughing) there's nothing like making their day. except making sure their tomorrow is taken care of too. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase. so you can. while you're

found out they couldn't vote for bernie sanders. but again, i think that was maybe only a couple extra points. >> that's close to. i'll throw this to the table, we're picking a democratic nominee or republican nominee so only people willing to sign up for the party should be willing to vote in it. >> i think that's why there's a movement under foot calling it open primaries across the country. the question then becomes do you see tactical strategic voting. people who are independents say i don't want this guy to run in that party so i may cast my vote the other way or not. there's been no scientific evidence of that at least in the polling, but it does play a factor going forward in states like new york or even florida. >> you know what traditionally before this election open primaries were seen as the strategy of conservative democrats, right? it was something that was pushed to kind of break the back of progressive interest groups and unions because the idea was that independents were going to skew more moderate. >> absolutely. la

i don't think this was bernie sanders at his best. he feels, at least within the democratic primary electorate, he is on the losing side of these gun issues. the issue of apologizing or not on any front is irrelevant. i don't expect hillary clinton to apologize for the iraq war. she has said she got it wrong and she made a mistake. i think she waited far too many years to do that, and the mistake can be held against her. i don't care whether she apologizes or not. in that instance, he just seemed too oblivious to the question coming from someone in this personal tragedy and didn't take on the polish and try to flip it against hillary. it was very much a conventional politician's trick. he is trying to run as a guy who is not a politician. i don't think he looked good in that exchange. >> in the end, joan, if hillary clinton becomes the nominee, she needs bernie sanders' support? >> she does. >> needs his supporters to rally behind her as well. >> she does. >> lot of scorched earth. we've seen different sides get together, as we saw in

bernie sanders is of modest means. everybody knows that. >> you cannot ask for transparency on one side and not deliver on the other side. you want to see the wall street speeches, but you don't want to disclose your tax returns on the other hand. if you want both candidates to be treated fairly, then bernie sanders needs to display it and show his tax returns. not just a page, but all of them. >> and showed his income states through 2014. they're the same. >> first three pages, not the full thing. just to be exact. thanks to both. >>> bernie sanders and hillary clinton neck and neck in wisconsin. paul ryan insisting he's not running for president. >> i think you need to run for president if you're going to be president. i'm not running for president, so, period, end of story. >> why does his name keep coming up as the gop nominee? are you ready to open? ready to compete? ready to welcome? the floors, mats, spotless. the uniforms clean and crisp. do your people have the right safety gear? are they protected? i'm ready!

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 hard. >> no, it should not be. today, 3 million people in the state of new york who are independents lost their right to vote in the democratic and republican primary, that's wrong. it's administered by the state, you have a right to vote. that's a very unfortunate thing, which i hope will change in the future. >> reporter: that's the blunt reality here, jake. you had to have been a registered democratic voter in march before this. if you were switching parties you had to do that last year. that will take away a lot of sanders supporters. they kne

we have bernie sanders winning and winning decisively. he gets ten more delegates and he is welcomed by the new york media market famously negative with the new york daily news tabloid headline today. how does this matchup work? >> what a welcome to the new york primary which is absolutely critical make or break for bernie sanders. 247 delegates and the only way he can stay on the path to the nomination is by doing well there. the issue here why hillary clinton is making such a big deal of this interview, they copied and pasted the entire thing into a fundraising e-mail. it plays into a lot of her pre-existing narratives she has been trying to push on bernie sanders. as you saw on "morning joe" he is unprepared. on guns which is big in and of itself that will help with black turnout in new york city. they are saying that he took this position in favor of this law to prevent gun manufacturers from being sued for political reasons and under cuts the idea that he has been true to ideals. a final point on this. he is being attacked in the jew

>> bernie sanders. i think he's the only one talking about tissues and from the perspective of what is right and wrong. and his base issue of living wage is one of the most important that can lift everyone else up. >> thank you so much. we'll be here all day talking to voters and watching for the debate tonight at cnn. >> very interesting. thanks to both of those young women. and thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. up next, berman and bolduan. you do all this research on a perfect car then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should have done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. just one of the many features that comes standard with our base policy. call for a free quote today. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. zblnchs fame or attention? that could drive america down into a ditch. >> they're acting like union boss thugs. >> the sy

you have the momentum right now that bernie sanders says is his. who do you think comes out on top tonight? give it to me quick, donna. >> the democratic party. >> look at my finger. look what happened? low energy. [ laughter ] >> bernie had a great day yesterday, a good night tonight, goes off to rome e. gets the pope's blessing. >> bill comes back strong at the end. this is what we've been waiting for, the democratic debates starts? just a moment. actions speak louder. something we'll show you. through small things, big things, and spur of the moment things. [ applause ] >>> we're live at the greenhouse. at the brooklyn navy yard in brooklyn, new york, for the cnn democratic presidential debate. we've come to brooklyn just five days before the new york presidential primary, a very important contest for the democrats with an enormous number of delegates at stake. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, and i'll moderate tonight's debate. joining mess errol lewis, with time warner, or partner in t

bernie sanders backyard. place he may find trouble and a lot of the voters have a familiarity with her. that will make a difference. >> i'm voting for hillary. he's probably the most qualified. what we're so bad about is a piece of prosperity. if she can match that, i'm fine with that. >> the other thing that's happening here, very interestingly, israel is playing a role in this. this is the nineth congressional district. a will the of people watched that debate. they heard that back and forth between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. that i can like her stance on israel here. that's a determining factor. >> that's fascinating. you have bernie sanders. he's so far the most successful jewish presidential candidate in history, in american history. his home congressional district and he may end up being tripped up on that issue. very interesting. thanks for that. coming up, if the democratic race turns nastier and nastier, what's the risk to the party come november? is there one? i'll ask new york congresswoma

bernie sanders kind of get that. bill clinton -- excuse me, hillary clinton and donald trump know the new york culture we are talking about, which i still think exists. i know your point from earlier, but it is still a little early there. they had a plan and they went through it -- will matter a lot. we saw the shortfalls. i am not really getting at with sanders in the daily news interview and made all of those, what i would say, intemperate remarks. he was saying, the daily news, it is just a dumb tabloid. he made it to arthur brown. if you had been around new york , guys like that are kind of legend and the are getting older and not getting out to the bronx as much as they used to, but factors in the want to make an impact and they do. they know their stuff. john podhoretz: can i make a contrary argument? interview was a disaster for sanders if you assume the sanders voter cares about issues. this is the reverse mirror image of trump. they are not groaning on issues, they are voting on one thing or two things, feel

has made bernie sanders a much better candidate. from the beginning, hillary clinton knew this was not going to be a calk walk. she knew this was not going to be a coronation. so the question about whether she hasn't or has or hasn't been able to put him away, let's look at the numbers. it is right now mathematically impossible, even if she loses every single state from here until the end of the calendar for bernie sanders to catch up to her on pledged delegates. and the problem with a theory about what they now want to do with superdelegates after they were talking about how undemocratic superdelegates were is that there has never been an instance where superdelegates have overturned the will of the people. meaning superdelegates have never gone and flipped to give the candidate with the less number of pledge delegates at the convention their support so that they could get over the threshhold. that's not going to happen this tomb around either. >> to maria's point because the sanders campaign has been talking about this. it's one t

bernie sanders, not going to say it is impossible. he has a steep hill to climb. >> msnbc steve karnakky, we will check back with him shortly. >>> new anti-terror raids in belgium. at least one person has been arrested. we are going to take you to brussels for the very latest. stay with us. m naslonski, o'connell jooishlgs our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. another step on the journey. will you be ready when growth presents itself? realize your buying power at open.com and you're talking to yourevere rheumatorheumatologistike me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspe

bernie sanders said he will support the democratic nominee. they both made clear in the end they believe in a progressive vision for this country. so i don't have a question in the end that people can and will come together. i believe they'll come together behind hillary clinton and i believe there'll be a lot of unity in this party. that's why the discussion should be about the issues, great. we have differences in our parties and argue who can get certain things done and which is the best policy. great. that is a healthy debate. by the way, like in 2008, andrea, you saw the long, long campaign in 2008 all the way to the end between barack obama and hillary clinton and what happened? it energized the whole party and in november, there was a great wellspring of democratic energy that came out to the polls. that's a healthy process. but clearly, let's just start at the beginning. hillary clinton is one of the most qualified people to ever run for president of the united states. >> you took a while to decide to endorse her. you've well been long

now they know bernie sanders. i think that makes a very tight race on tuesday. >> donna, do you want to see more debates? >> yes. i get an opportunity to see you, anderson. i want to say wolf, dana, errol, great moderating. great panel. good questions. yes. i liked it. >> even some of the questions got applause because voters really wanted some of the questions to be asked of their rival candidates. i thought it was a great night for new york. as a former new yorker to be relevant at this stage in the election is truly amazing. we're relevant on the republican side as well. >> it was a great night for the republican party becauseou bet that somewhere in the basement in washington, the tapes were rolling. they will be spitting out positions by fall without any question. >> thank you. i know. that sounds very stoic. we have to end it there. thanks very much for watching. this is 100% useful for a 100% fresh mouth. what's it like to not feel 100% fresh? we don't know. we swish listerine®. as do listerine® users. th

bill, as the bernie sanders supporter here, bernie sanders himself talked to chris cuomo about the path to victory. take a listen. >> it's a narrow path but we have a path and the idea that we should not contest in california, largest state, let the people of california determine what the agenda of the democratic party is and who the candidate for president should be is pretty crazy. we're in this to the end. >> first, i thank him for recognizing california. i think what bernie's saying makes sense. understand, i think van jones said this, bernie the candidate and bernie the cause. they're both important to him. i mean he wants to win. he also wants to shape the agenda of the party, going forward, which means particularly the platform. he wants to shake up the democratic party. he's talked about political revolution. the more delegates he has, the more likely he's going to achieve three goals, number one. number two, he believes, as i do, that as hillary clinton did in 2008, it's important to let v every voter in every state express their choice. i would say to people pushing pressure o

bernie sanders -- >> i'm sorry. you're not responding to what i asked you. >> right. >> you're taking great umbrage that they won't say whether they're qualified. your candidate is saying she is not. that would be more divisive. >> no. >> more negative. >> sure, listen. what bernie is doing reacting to an attack, which they launched against him, and his qualifications to be president of the united states. i mean, it is, you know, these guys wanted to have that tack. they wanted to have an opportunity to go against him and the hard but subtle way that they do. i went to law school a long time ago, and i think secretary clinton learned the same thing i did in law school. how to answer a question without saying the words, okay. she is very good at it. that's why they don't say the word qualified, okay. but the truth is, we know exactly what they're doing. we would love to have a debate on the big issues, a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt system of finance. that's the fundamental issue. if she wants to debate

and are in bed with bernie sanders. and i -- i think the best way to describe it is the best get out the vote campaign for bernie sanders. >> we're video now of bernie sanders on the picket line out with the verizon voters earlier, the verizon strikers, talking to them almost as soon as that strike began. all right, john, basil, appreciate it. i know you have a lot of work coming up the next couple days. talk to you soon. >> thank you. >>> programming reminders now. as we head into new york. it has to be fox news for your only complete coverage of the new york primary on tuesday. america's election headquarters is live all day with the battle for new york. >>> and fox news chris wallace has an exclusive interview with donald trump's embattled campaign manager, corey lewandowski, recently cleared of charges. that's tomorrow. you can check your local listings for time and channel. >>> ted cruz is showing he's mastered the delegate game as he campaigns out west. his rivals hitting the campaign trail in new york today. just

a lot on the line for bernie sanders especially. mark: she has won an inordinate amount of the debates that she has been in. he needs to have something happen tonight that she doesn't expect. her team will be prepared for so many things. unless he can come up with something that throws her and causes her to be seen in a different light, she will be fine. what do i expect? i don't expect him to come up with that. every indication is that he is not prepared for this in the way that any other candidate would. he has been great in many ways. these are big moments, he has to rise to the occasion and create a paradigm shifting event. know,well, look, as you the one debate she lasted 2008 was the question of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants. it was a question she didn't expect. she will expect everything sanders brings that her. the fact that she has gotten under his skin, there's just enough annoyance and irritation between these two that there is a chance things could get heated. and just judging by how the clinton people reacted

bernie sanders sheas overwhelming popularity with young people. we cannot say it's not real thing happening here, peter. >> look at american university presidents. they think it kind of things coming out of the mouths of bernie sanders and hillary clinton are long overdue. they are for all kind of movements that are -- that are seditious after black lives matter. i can remember my president encouraging my students in baltimore to protest in the streets. you don't get an education that way and you don't solve the problems of society or the prescient problems these students face of getting an education and getting a job. our universities are producing what you just saw, people who can chant slogans. charles: i don't think we are producing high school graduates who have the wherewithal to become good college student to begin with. >> how got free market and school choice. let's let the free market work. i would argue americans were far better educated before the federal government got involved in education. let's try returning to that because we know

whether or not bernie sanders supporters say that. it was targeted to them as much as the republican nominee. >> she will need them in the general election. thank you so much for joining us. very busy day. congratulations for making it through it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> the republican side, donald trump scored upwards of 86% of the vote in one drik n. long island he scored there big too. joining us to talk about that is congressman from long island, the represents the first district, donald trump and ted cruz supported his bid for congress two years ago but has not made an endorsement in the race. congressman, thank you for joining us. after 1:00 a.m. in the east. your reaction on the big win by donald trump tonight? >> this is a decisive win for donald trump. sweeping all of new york's 95 delegates. he had a few tough weeks of delegate losses in other states. the primary was slowly getting closer with each passing day. he was managing to retool certain aspects of his campaign in recent weeks. looks like he might come out of

how many negative ads have the republicans run. >> against bernie sanders. here's the difference. >> response. she has 20 years of negative republican ads and still beating him. >> wolf blitzer said during the democratic debate, if you talk over each other, we can't hear what you're saying. i hate to be the bearer of bad news. we have to move on. the good news, i am sure we will have you back on and continue this discussion. thank you so much. programming note, bernie sanders will be on cnn tomorrow on state of the union. look for that at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> coming up this saturday. a tragic story out of florida. a zookeeper attacked and killed by a rare kind of tiger. the investigation now under way into why the big cat attacked. >>> a floorz zookeeper in the final days of her job was killed by a tiger she knew well. it happened friday out of public view at the palm beach zoo which will be closed through the weekend. boris sanchez is covering this tragic story. >> reporter: what happens is truly sad. we heard from a zoo official that said the keeper knew

affirmative argument for bernie sanders. but here's the problem. hillary clinton has now won virtually every state that looks like the democratic party, meaning the states that are diverse, meaning she's winning in the states with these big metropolitan cities. that is what the democratic party looks like. it looks like the electorate in south carolina where it's heavily african-american, heavily latino, heavily urban, and by the way, it is not a collegiate electorate. so you cannot win by filling washington state -- >> he thinks it's a college town. >> the democratic party is african-americans, urban white voters. it's women. it's voters over 40, and that is how you win. by the way, it's registered democrats. and if bernie sanders cannot win a big urban state with lots of african-americans and with registered democrats in it, it's hard to make the case that you should be the titular head of the democratic party. >> look across the aisle here because bernie sees things we don't see. we're watching primary results. newspapers

more votes than bernie sanders. so we've seen her sort of ratchet this up. the latest was he talked to the new york daily news. he had a number of stumbles, including on really explaining himself on how he'd break up the big banks. she said a number of things that if you are a presidential candidate that you are probably a little irritated with that he's not done his homework and not sure she's a democrat. and what we saw last night is bernie sanders ratcheting it even more. so it seems to me in a little bit that hillary clinton has sort of poked a bear. and i think it is a bear that the clinton campaign didn't necessarily think really has a shot at the nomination but it doesn't mean it is not a bear that can't also damage -- >> i and just want to explain what our viewers will are looking at. i think hillary clinton is going to ride the subway here. they are inside the subway station in the bronx. go ahead. >> and this to me is sort of a veiled reference. you could sort of use this as the imagery of what we heard fr

that is bernie sanders. what is he doing? he was just walking a picket line with verizon workers who went on strike this morning. they are out over the issue of wages and jobs they feel have moved overseas. some 36,000 verizon workers up and down the east coast off the job. bernie sanders showing solidarity with him. he often talks about his support of trade unions. today, he picked up the endorsement of the new york transit union. in a way, these are two union events in just one day. >> he also picked up another key endorsement, his first endorsement from a sitting u.s. senator from oregon, jeff merkley. manu raju spoke with merkley about that endorsement. this is key. this is the first sitting senator to back bernie sanders. >> that's right. 46 have actually endorsed hillary clinton. he became the first. i asked him was he surprised about that? he said, well, maybe if other democrats had a chance earlier and did not actually commit to hillary clinton earlier, they would be considering endorsing bernie sanders right now. but

>> i think bernie sanders would end up beating donald trump. at this point i have a hard time imagining in he democrat losing to donald trump trying to project it forward to november. i will say this, though, in hillary clinton's case we have a well-known candidate. we know her pluses and her minuses. after 25 years of being in the headlines and having every reporter look into her repeatedly, i can't believe we're going to find a lot new. believe it or no the even though bernie sanders has been public for the last few months most americans think he's larry david. you talk to people and they're confusing sanders. think about what will happen when sanders finally gets his vetting and he will get a vetting from the republicans if not from the media. so i'm less about sanders though i think he would probably win. >> i have to ask a bernie sanders spokesman about what you said. >>> coming up, hillary versus bernie, representatives of both campaigns are going to join us. if you're going to make a statement... make sure it's an intelligent one. the al

bernie sanders, 42%. 15% margin. as for delegates, clinton is projected to add 139 to her total, bringing that to 1,930. she needs 453 more delegates to clinch the party's nomination. >> well, it was a much needed win for clinton after losing eight of the last nine contests to sanders. >> in this campaign, we've won in every region of the country. [ cheers and applause ] >> from the north to the south to the east to the west. but this one's personal. >> cnn's mj lee is in new york with more on this. i guess the big news in the last couple of hours was this criticism coming from the clinton campaign about bernie sanders and his destructive path. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, first of all, this was a very, very big night for both donald trump and hillary clinton. so much so that i'm willing to bet if ultimately both trump and hillary clinton do end up being their party's nominees, i think there's a chance that they point to last night and the new york primary races as sort of a turning point in their ra

all eyes on bernie sanders. exactly what he has. if he keeps hammering on hillary clinton. >> while this is not a concession. this is not a white flag, this is potentially a very significant statement from senator sanders. he says he is going to stay in the race because every democrat should get an opportunity to vote in plenty of states where contests have not yet been held. also, because he wants as many delegates as possible so he can force as many progressive issues into the party platform at the convention but no longer does it seem like he is putting out the suggestion that he can win. >> no question. this statement marks a major turning point in the race for the democratic presidential nomination. for all the reasons you just said, and most importantly, because he is listing all of the things that he clearly wants to use as leverage. anybody who has listened to one of his speeches would not be surprised at the issues, $15 an hour for minimum wage and medicare for all and the list goes on. this is no longer bernie sanders, the

can tough talk bolster bernie sanders's bid? is hillary clinton more than happy to swipe back at him multiple times? it's "mtp daily" and starts now. >> good evening, from new york, welcome to "mtp daily." i'm steve kornacki, in for chuck todd. tonight's take, 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 resul

bernie sanders kind of get that. clintonnton -- hillary and donald trump know the new york culture we are talking about, which i still think exists. i know your point from earlier, but still, that will matter a lot. the shortfalls. i am not really getting at with sanders in the daily news interview and made all of those, what i would say, in temperate remarks. he was saying, the daily news, it is just a dumb tabloid. if you had been around new york -- and maybe they are getting older and not getting out to the bronx as much as they used to, but they want to make an impact, and they know their stuff. can i make az: contrary argument? the daily news was a disaster for sanders if you assume the sanders voter cares about issues. this is the reverse mere image of 12 tromp. they are not groaning on issues, they are voting on one thing or screwed,s, feelings pitchfork inc. the banks -- pitchforking the banks. they say he does not know anything, just blabbing about nothing, and yet, here sanders is having won six straight, o

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

bernie sanders. >> why? >> bernie sanders has been on the front lines of civil rights ever since before i was born, and i'm 29. not to mention -- thank you -- not to mention he cares about the people, number one. and he's for the people. he doesn't have super pacs such as hillary clinton does. >> let me ask you another issue. one of the main issues tonight that also got a lot of passion out of this group was the minimum wage issue, which they were discussing whether or not it should be $12 or $15. what do you think about that? >> i think contrary to secretary clinton's views, now is not the time for maintaining the status quo. nor is it the time for incremental change. now is the time for real change in this country. the working class and middle class in this country have the chips squarely stacked against them. now is the time to empower those people. one of the best ways to do that is raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. >> a lot of you were very -- a lot of you feel very strongly about that. but also wh

and bernie sanders 46.5%. look at her wins in delaware, more impress iive 20 point spre for hillary in delaware. take a look at maryland. a 30-point spread for maryland. the impressive wins you can't ignothing the fact that it is a big night for 956 right now. 54 uncommitted delegates in pennsylvania. we know donald trump will get 29 of those. if you factor that 29 into this total, and it means at this point, donald trump would need 50%. he started needing half. >> ted kriz was leading, now, donald trump, leading, with indiana, get through that 990, plus twaechb. by all wants people expect ted cruz to win in nebraska. most people donald gets nebraska. next tuesday night is critical skip ahead here. this is may. we finish in orgop, and see what happens. remind people, this isn't the very end, in new york, we go to california. if something like that happens, the main test for donald trump. cruz for stopping momentum. again. simple math. they said they would pick up a lot of delegates, they didn't. perhaps the ma

that's the phrase that bernie sanders used. he actually used that word, quote, unquote, not qualified. what she did was very artfully not answer the question, is he qualified and that's something that politicians will frequently do in these situations. did bernie sanders fall into the trap of using this phrase of thinking incorrectly that hillary clinton had used the phrase because she did not use those words? >> i certainly don't know what bernie sanders watched or heard or was told by his aids, but i don't think you're giving him enough credit for strategy here. i mean, i think here's a guy who basically made up her saying something and put quote marks around it. she's not qualified. i think -- i think he's getting hit in the mouth for the first time in this campaign and it's giving him to a place where he's saying things that just don't -- i mean i'd be surprised if you could find 10% of democrats in new york that don't think hillary clinton is qualified to be president. whether or not hillary clinton could have gone further

bernie sanders is going to finish the race strong. no one is going to go to the convention with a majority of pledged delegates, and they're going to have to decide if they want to go with the candidate who can win in november. >> that's the candidate who doesn't have the relationship that the clintons have, hillary clinton has with them, when you look at the party leaders who the superdelegates are. >> right. >> what indication is there that bernie sanders has established a relationship with those people he'll need to support, beyond saying i can beat the republicans in a head-to-head matchup. hillary clinton does as well. >> well, not every case. she loses to ted cruz in some polls. she certainly loses to john kasich. >> in the vast majority of averages, though, she beats their front-runner. >> she definitely beats the front-runner. >> yes. >> and ted cruz. yes. >> in wisconsin, she was tied with ted cruz. a lot of battleground states where she doesn't do quite so well frb at the end of the day, superdelegates are people of congress