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| Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton flock to New York – campaign live | Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton flock to New York – campaign live |
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| Finally Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, appears on the CNN show. | |
| In what’s become a weekly ritual the host asks him about the rules of the Republican primary process, and Donald Trump’s accusation that the election is “rigged”. | |
| Priebus says it doesn’t bother him at all. “Because I know what the truth is I don’t really worry about it, because I know what is right and I know what is wrong.” | |
| “It’s a state by state process,” he says. “There’s nothing the RNC can do to alter the rules between now and the convention.” | |
| Then Priebus invokes Gertrude Stein (perhaps unwittingly) when pressed about Trump’s charges: “There’s no there there.” | |
| He cannot stress enough how unconcerned he is. “I find it to be rhetoric and hyperbole. I think everyone understands these rules have been in place for years.” | |
| As for Trump’s recent losses, “there are a few states that pick delegates by convention. It’s been going on for a month in each of these states.” | |
| Priebus says that Trump’s stated preference, that the candidate with the most delegates should win the nomination, rather than the candidate with at least 1,237 delegates (a majority of all available delegates), is downright un-American. | |
| “By majority the delegates decide,” he says. “It’s not a matter of party insiders, it’s a matter of 2,400-plus grassroots activists and no matter what they want to do they can do. | |
| “The majority of delegates is the goal and you need to be able to play within the confines of the rules to make sure that you get there.” | |
| He notes that the electoral college and Democratic National Committee also use majority and not plurality systems. “The majority rules and that is an American concept that I can’t imagine us turning our backs on.” | |
| Priebus concedes, however, that he recently asked his colleagues not to even recommend any new rule changes to delegates. “I think it’s too complicated, I think the RNC rules committee with making rules amendment suggestions, it is not a good idea.” | |
| “The recommendations I think just confuse people,” he says. “I think it’s a bad idea and the environment I think is not conducive to that.” | |
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| Then Bash asks Kasich about a new law signed in Mississippi designed to protect “religious freedom” by allowing residents to deny services to LGBT people. Kasich has criticized the law. | |
| He says that while religious freedoms are important, so are anti-discrimination laws. “Trying to figure out how to legislate that balance is complicated and you keep doing do-overs because nobody does it right,” he says. | |
| “I think if we would just calm down here” it would be fine, he adds. | |
| “If you don’t like what somebody’s doing, pray for them. And if you feel they are doing something [against you], just for a second get over it, because this thing will settle down.” | |
| Related: Mississippi's religious freedom bill is the worst yet, LGBT activists fear | |
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| John Kasich is next on CNN with a pre-taped interview with Bash, who asks him what his plan is to somehow win the nomination from hundreds of delegates behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. | |
| “I am not going to whine,” Kasich says, before complaining about what he sees as a lack of media coverage for most of his presidential campaign. | |
| He then repeats a common stump speech refrain, saying “there’s Coke, Pepsi and Kasich,” and most voters go with the brand they know, even though they’re intrigued by the can that says Kasich. | |
| Then he mixes metaphors. “Now we have to pass the Rubicon so people actually know who I am.” | |
| His plan is “to accumulate delegates and to go into the convention as the person standing who can beat Hillary … we are going to nominate somebody who’s going to win in the fall. We are going to win in the fall.” | |
| Bash then asks Kasich about his advice to young women going who fear sexual assault: “Don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol,” he said earlier this week. | |
| “When alcohol’s involved it becomes more difficult for justice to be rendered for a whole variety of reasons,” Kasich tells CNN. “I just don’t want justice to be denied because a prosecutor comes up and says ‘well I don’t know.’” | |
| He says he would tell his own daughters “just you have to be careful”. He wants some undefined mechanisms “to make sure that the women on our college campuses are protected”, and that when abuse does happen “of course we’re going to get to the bottom of it.” | |
| “I don’t care if there’s a party with alcohol I would just say be careful.” | |
| Related: Away from spotlight, John Kasich speaks to those who would listen | |
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| Bash asks Sanders about his seemingly conflicted positions on gun control, namely his commitment to a rule that protects gun dealers from lawsuits by the families of gun victims and his recent comment that Sandy Hook families should be allowed to sue. | Bash asks Sanders about his seemingly conflicted positions on gun control, namely his commitment to a rule that protects gun dealers from lawsuits by the families of gun victims and his recent comment that Sandy Hook families should be allowed to sue. |
| Sanders tries to thread the needle, saying that they have the right to sue but that he still believes the laws should offer protections to dealers. “Of course they have a right to sue, anyone has a right to sue,” he says. | |
| He has previously argued that guns are like hammers or other objects that could be used for violence: the wielder is ultimately responsible, not the person who made or sold the object, necessarily. | |
| He also points out that he supports a ban on assault weapons. “That’s the kind of weapon that caused the horrible tragedy in Sandy Hook,” he says. “Those weapons should not be made in the United States of America. So in that sense, I agree with the Sandy Hook parents.” | |
| Bash moves on, asking Sanders whether he can point to any instance in which he thinks Hillary Clinton was influenced by cash contributions from wealthy interests. He says no one can prove any instance, declining to go the route that Elizabeth Warren – now a senator and fairly muted about the campaign – once did. Warren has in the past linked Clinton’s ties to Wall Street with her decisions. | Bash moves on, asking Sanders whether he can point to any instance in which he thinks Hillary Clinton was influenced by cash contributions from wealthy interests. He says no one can prove any instance, declining to go the route that Elizabeth Warren – now a senator and fairly muted about the campaign – once did. Warren has in the past linked Clinton’s ties to Wall Street with her decisions. |
| Finally Bash asks Sanders about releasing many years of tax returns, as Hillary Clinton has done, and Sanders promises he’ll get them out, as soon as this week. | Finally Bash asks Sanders about releasing many years of tax returns, as Hillary Clinton has done, and Sanders promises he’ll get them out, as soon as this week. |
| Related: 'Consensus' candidate on guns? Sanders faces skeptics on both sides of debate | Related: 'Consensus' candidate on guns? Sanders faces skeptics on both sides of debate |
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| Bernie Sanders is the first guest this morning on CNN’s State of the Union, where Dana Bash asks him about actor George Clooney’s recent concession that there are “obscene” amounts of money being given by wealthy donors to candidates. | Bernie Sanders is the first guest this morning on CNN’s State of the Union, where Dana Bash asks him about actor George Clooney’s recent concession that there are “obscene” amounts of money being given by wealthy donors to candidates. |
| Clooney just co-hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton that cost as much as $353,400 a seat in San Francisco. | Clooney just co-hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton that cost as much as $353,400 a seat in San Francisco. |
| “Well I have a lot of respect for George Clooney’s honesty and integrity on this issue,” Sanders says. “One of the great tragedies is that big money is buying elections,” he continues, adding that leaders should not be “responsive to the needs of Wall Street and wealthy campaign contributors”. | “Well I have a lot of respect for George Clooney’s honesty and integrity on this issue,” Sanders says. “One of the great tragedies is that big money is buying elections,” he continues, adding that leaders should not be “responsive to the needs of Wall Street and wealthy campaign contributors”. |
| “There is something wrong when a few people, in this case wealthy individuals,” he says, “are able to contribute unbelievably large sums of money. That is not what democracy is about. That is a movement toward oligarchy.” | “There is something wrong when a few people, in this case wealthy individuals,” he says, “are able to contribute unbelievably large sums of money. That is not what democracy is about. That is a movement toward oligarchy.” |
| “This is the issue of American politics today. Do we have a government that represents all of us or represents the 1%?” | “This is the issue of American politics today. Do we have a government that represents all of us or represents the 1%?” |
| Bash then asks about Sanders’ recent visit to the Vatican, where he managed to get five minutes with Pope Francis. “No one is suggesting the pope is embracing my policies,” he says, adding that he was honored to go and that he agrees with the pontiff about the importance of fighting inequality. | Bash then asks about Sanders’ recent visit to the Vatican, where he managed to get five minutes with Pope Francis. “No one is suggesting the pope is embracing my policies,” he says, adding that he was honored to go and that he agrees with the pontiff about the importance of fighting inequality. |
| “We have got to create an economics which is based on the morality dealing with the needs of working families and the elderly and children and the sick and the poor,” he says. “The fact that I was invited there was for me a very moving experiences.” | “We have got to create an economics which is based on the morality dealing with the needs of working families and the elderly and children and the sick and the poor,” he says. “The fact that I was invited there was for me a very moving experiences.” |
| “The rich are getting richer almost everybody else is getting poorer.” | “The rich are getting richer almost everybody else is getting poorer.” |
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| George Clooney hosted some big-money fundraisers for Hillary Clinton in California this week, events which attracted criticism from the Bernie Sanders campaign and protests outside the venues. He has been interviewed by NBC’s Meet the Press, which goes out at 10.30am ET, and NBC has released a clip. | George Clooney hosted some big-money fundraisers for Hillary Clinton in California this week, events which attracted criticism from the Bernie Sanders campaign and protests outside the venues. He has been interviewed by NBC’s Meet the Press, which goes out at 10.30am ET, and NBC has released a clip. |
| In it, the actor is asked by host Chuck Todd whether the sums involved in his events, such as $353,000 a couple to be a “co-chair”, are as critics and protesters have said, obscene. | In it, the actor is asked by host Chuck Todd whether the sums involved in his events, such as $353,000 a couple to be a “co-chair”, are as critics and protesters have said, obscene. |
| “Yes,” he says. “I think it’s an obscene amount of money. We had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they’re right to protest, they’re absolutely right, it is an obscene amount of money. | “Yes,” he says. “I think it’s an obscene amount of money. We had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they’re right to protest, they’re absolutely right, it is an obscene amount of money. |
| “The Sanders campaign when they talk about is absolutely right. It’s ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree, completely.” | “The Sanders campaign when they talk about is absolutely right. It’s ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree, completely.” |
| Related: 'They sell you a dream': tech workers protest Clooney event for Clinton | Related: 'They sell you a dream': tech workers protest Clooney event for Clinton |
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| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the race for New York, a day after Ted Cruz swept the Wyoming convention and left Donald Trump without a solitary delegate there. | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the race for New York, a day after Ted Cruz swept the Wyoming convention and left Donald Trump without a solitary delegate there. |
| If it’s Sunday it’s the shows, and the businessman has sent two representatives to cross swords with the press on his behalf: a former adviser to dictators and a man who was charged with battery against a reporter, but will not be prosecuted. Last week one of the duo accused Cruz’s campaign of “Gestapo tactics” and hinted at dark things to come at the Republican convention should Trump not receive the party’s blessing and nomination. | If it’s Sunday it’s the shows, and the businessman has sent two representatives to cross swords with the press on his behalf: a former adviser to dictators and a man who was charged with battery against a reporter, but will not be prosecuted. Last week one of the duo accused Cruz’s campaign of “Gestapo tactics” and hinted at dark things to come at the Republican convention should Trump not receive the party’s blessing and nomination. |
| The real estate heir’s campaign has turned to his home state of New York, where he’s expected to crush Cruz: he leads 53% to 18%, with third candidate John Kasich sandwiched between them at 23%. Cruz’s ultraconservative ideas have clashed with conservative and liberal New Yorkers alike, and while Kasich has had more success speaking to (and eating with) the moderates of the state, neither has high hopes for Tuesday, though Cruz has chipped away at Trump’s lead in the delegate race. | The real estate heir’s campaign has turned to his home state of New York, where he’s expected to crush Cruz: he leads 53% to 18%, with third candidate John Kasich sandwiched between them at 23%. Cruz’s ultraconservative ideas have clashed with conservative and liberal New Yorkers alike, and while Kasich has had more success speaking to (and eating with) the moderates of the state, neither has high hopes for Tuesday, though Cruz has chipped away at Trump’s lead in the delegate race. |
| Trump, after weeks of campaign disarray and losses to Cruz’s well organized team, is ready for a comeback. He’ll be holding a rally in Staten Island at 11.30am ET, where my colleague Ben Jacobs will report on his tirades against a “rigged” primary process. | Trump, after weeks of campaign disarray and losses to Cruz’s well organized team, is ready for a comeback. He’ll be holding a rally in Staten Island at 11.30am ET, where my colleague Ben Jacobs will report on his tirades against a “rigged” primary process. |
| Party chairman Reince Priebus will also appear on the shows to talk about a possible contested convention – and Trump’s past threats of “riots”. | Party chairman Reince Priebus will also appear on the shows to talk about a possible contested convention – and Trump’s past threats of “riots”. |
| Related: $1,000-a-plate Republican gala highlights clash of 'New York values' | Related: $1,000-a-plate Republican gala highlights clash of 'New York values' |
| For Democrats, the race has become a contest of a expat Brooklynite and an adopted Manhattanite. Bernie Sanders, fresh off a speech in the Vatican and a very brief encounter with Pope Francis, will be facing off with the press to talk about his chances to win some of New York’s 291 delegates against high odds. | For Democrats, the race has become a contest of a expat Brooklynite and an adopted Manhattanite. Bernie Sanders, fresh off a speech in the Vatican and a very brief encounter with Pope Francis, will be facing off with the press to talk about his chances to win some of New York’s 291 delegates against high odds. |
| He’ll also be holding what’s expected to be a gigantic rally in Prospect Park, in the heart of his native Brooklyn, later this afternoon. My colleague Dan Roberts will report from the scene. | He’ll also be holding what’s expected to be a gigantic rally in Prospect Park, in the heart of his native Brooklyn, later this afternoon. My colleague Dan Roberts will report from the scene. |
| Frontrunner Hillary Clinton has also deigned to answer questions from the press this morning, before she also heads to Staten Island to woo Democrats on the most conservative borough of New York City. Clinton has held a steady lead in New York, according to poll averages, and has spent the week alternately criticizing Trump’s outrageous claims and Sanders’ mixed record on gun control. | Frontrunner Hillary Clinton has also deigned to answer questions from the press this morning, before she also heads to Staten Island to woo Democrats on the most conservative borough of New York City. Clinton has held a steady lead in New York, according to poll averages, and has spent the week alternately criticizing Trump’s outrageous claims and Sanders’ mixed record on gun control. |
| Sanders has argued that his past in a state with virtually no gun control makes him ideally suited to find “consensus” – but Vermont gun lovers aren’t so sure, Lois Beckett reports. | Sanders has argued that his past in a state with virtually no gun control makes him ideally suited to find “consensus” – but Vermont gun lovers aren’t so sure, Lois Beckett reports. |
| Clinton also continues to fend off accusations that she’s in the corner for big money: the banks, fossil fuel interests and now venture capitalists. Scores of tech workers took to the streets of San Francisco earlier this week to protest a Clinton fundraiser co-hosted by a financier and George Clooney, with seats costing as much as $353,400. | Clinton also continues to fend off accusations that she’s in the corner for big money: the banks, fossil fuel interests and now venture capitalists. Scores of tech workers took to the streets of San Francisco earlier this week to protest a Clinton fundraiser co-hosted by a financier and George Clooney, with seats costing as much as $353,400. |
| We’ll have updates on all their answers on national TV, the appearance of North Carolina’s governor – embattled over an anti-LGBT protection law – and any fallout from the surprise release of nine prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, a prison condemned by the UN but largely ignored by presidential candidates so far. | We’ll have updates on all their answers on national TV, the appearance of North Carolina’s governor – embattled over an anti-LGBT protection law – and any fallout from the surprise release of nine prisoners from Guantánamo Bay, a prison condemned by the UN but largely ignored by presidential candidates so far. |
| Related: 'They sell you a dream': tech workers protest Clooney event for Clinton | Related: 'They sell you a dream': tech workers protest Clooney event for Clinton |