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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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| Martin Pengelly | |
| And it’s over to CBS, and Face the Nation. Facing the Nation this week is… Bernie Sanders. | |
| First, it’s CBS Battleground Tracker time. Trump is way ahead in New York, Pennsylvania and California. Clinton is up on Sanders in California and New York. | |
| Here’s Sanders, to be asked about the changed, some would say deteriorated, tone of the Democraric contest. He says he was not “ferocious” in the Brooklyn debate this week, but has become “a little bit fed up” with the negativity of the Clinton campaign and has responded in kind. “I am making it very clear that my views are representing the needs of the working class.” | |
| “Oh, you name it. After we won eight of nine caucuses and primaries … they made it clear their goal was, and I think I’m quoting, ‘disqualify and defeat’.” He says he has not attacked Planned Parenthood, for example, which he says the Clinton campaign says he has. And he returns to the fundraising difference – small donors for him, big for Clinton. | |
| As he said on CNN, he says he is not saying Clinton has done anything specifically for donors, but mentions her positions on Wall Street reform as an attack point, as he did in that debate. | |
| John Dickerson accuses him of “fuzzing up” an economic policy debate with Clinton by concentrating on Clinton’s speaking fees from Wall Street banks and her lack of support (she said yesterday she supported it) for a $15 minimum wage. | |
| The 1994 crime bill, now. Does he regret his support? Sanders uses his line on this: any big bill will have good things in it and bad, and this one had good things on violence against women and an assault weapons ban, so he voted for it. | |
| And on superdelegates, is the system stacked against him à la Trump? “Yes. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.” He thinks he can win New York on a big turnout but the state system prohibits independents from voting in the Democratic primary, and that’s not wrong. | |
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| Donald Trump’s convention manager Paul Manafort is next on the ABC program, where Stephanopoulos asks him about the businessman’s recent shutout losses to Ted Cruz in Colorado in Wyoming. | |
| “We didn’t even play there because it was a closed system and we didn’t want to waste our money there dealing with party bosses,” Manafort says. | |
| “There isn’t going to be a second ballot,” Manafort insists. “There is [sic] many paths to 1,237 to Donald Trump through June and July,” including New Jersey and California. | |
| He then tries to frame Trump as a surprising underdog of sorts. “This was supposed to be the time when Cruz was supposed to be well ahead,” he says. Cruz wins in “the reddest of red states, where you have closed rules,” Manafort argues. | |
| “Trump wins in states where we have to win to win the presidency.” | |
| Manafort blames “systems that keeps the voters” out. “When voters participate, Donald Trump wins. When the bosses participate…” | |
| The “bosses” don’t like Trump, he says, because the businessman has promised to “change the banking system, change the economy”. | |
| “They’re not playing by their own rules,” Manafort says, adding that he’ll be “filing protests” in Missouri, Colorado and Wyoming. | |
| “And we’re playing by [the rules], and we’re winning, and that’s the point, there’s only going to be one ballot.” | |
| He’s dismissive of Cruz’s delegate tactics: “Those are not votes he’s winning, those are bodies he’s winning. If there’s no second ballot it’s much ado about nothing.” | |
| The aide then defends Trump’s complaints about a “rigged” primary process. “He’s complaining about the system, that’s the point that keeps getting lost here,” Manafort says. “We’re trying to open up the process.” | |
| He adds his own criticism of caucuses and conventions and closed primaries. | |
| “That’s the system of the 1920s, not 2016. And yes, there’s history in conventions, but that history is ancient now, not of the modern presidency.” | |
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| Stephanopoulos moves on to foreign policy, asking Sanders about his remarkable turn away from a long tradition of American politicians who have hewed tight to an uncompromising defense of Israel. | |
| Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to have won any state primary or caucus for president, has criticized Israel for what he calls its “disproportionate” response in the 2014 war against Gaza, in which 66 Israelis died and more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed. | |
| “It goes without saying we have to protect Israel, its right to live in peace, to defend the security of its people,” Sanders tells ABC. | |
| “Israel has every right in the world to respond to terrorism,” he adds, “but that was a disproportionate response.” | |
| The senator does not back down from his criticism of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who he says is not infallible. “You cannot just nod your head to Netanyahu.” | |
| Sanders doesn’t go so far as to say that Hillary Clinton has “ignored” the devastation and poverty in which Palestinians live (Stephanopoulos’ word), but he does stress its importance. “Poverty rate is off the charts [there], 40% people are unemployed.” | |
| Stephanopoulos then asks about Saudi Arabia’s threats to sell off huge American assets if the US passes a bill that would target Saudis linked to terrorism for prosecution. | |
| “Well, we can’t be blackmailed,” Sanders says, agreeing with Clinton that he wants to look at the legislation before making any kind of position on it. But he doesn’t shy from a critique of the Kingdom. “I have said throughout this campaign that we are not taking a hard enough look at Saudi Arabia,” he says. | |
| “Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the world,” he continues, “The evidence is quite clear that sections of that very large royal family have funded Wahhabism,” an ultraconservative form of Islam. | |
| “That is what al-Qaida is about,” Sanders says,” this horrific fundamentalist ideology.” | |
| “So let me look at it, let me look at it,” he says of the legislation. “I do believe that Saudi Arabia is playing a very dangerous role in fomenting fundamentalism all over the world.” | |
| Finally, Stephanopoulos asks whether Sanders will support Clinton should she win the nomination. Sanders basically says yes. “At the end of the say we must defeat Trump, we must not allow a Republican” to win the White House. | |
| Related: Candidates spar over Israel and fate of Palestinians in Democratic debate | |
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| Stephanopoulos turns away from the live stream with Clinton and to his desk, where Bernie Sanders is sitting across from him. He asks about fundraising, which has been one of Sanders biggest criticisms of Clinton. | |
| The senator says that he wants the US to “move away from Super Pacs, as you know secretary Clinton has many of them”. | |
| He contrasts this with his own campaign’s contributions: “We have received seven million individual campaign contributions, averaging $27 bucks a piece”. | |
| He then links the wealthy donors to the cynicism of many Americans about their politics. “I don’t think you do that by raising money from the top 1% and then” say you represent everyone else,” Sanders says. “That kind of doesn’t pass the laugh test.” | |
| “And people see that, and that’s why so many people don’t vote,” he continues. “So I think we need a revolution, certainly in campaign finance [and an] emphasis on getting more working people, young people in the political process.” | |
| He says that Clinton’s intentions to regulate and prosecute Wall Street run afoul of her contributors. “You can’t do that when you’re dependent on them for your fundraising.” | |
| “I am trying to lead this country in a different direction,” he says. While Clinton says she’ll sign measures to increase the minimum wage or regulate Wall Street, she’ll only do so once Congress sends it to her desk, he argues. “I want to lead that effort, not just follow.” | |
| Related: 'They sell you a dream': tech workers protest Clooney event for Clinton | |
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| Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, speaks on Fox News Sunday. | |
| He’s asked first about his infamous “encounter” with the reporter Michelle Fields in March, which resulted in charges of battery which this week were dropped. Does he now acknowledge that he did touch Miss Fields? | |
| No. “Candidly,” he says, “I didn’t remember the incident.” He tried to contact Fields, he says, but to this day he has not heard from her and he is happy this is behind him. | |
| Chris Wallace, one of the more dogged talk show hosts, presses the issue. Is Lewandowski prepared to apologise for touching Fields and saying she was “delusional”? | |
| No. “I’d be happy to have a conversation with her but to apologise to someone I’ve never spoken to and don’t remember having any interaction with is not realistic now.” | |
| On to the delegate fight, which Trump is losing to Ted Cruz in states where bargaining gets delegates rather than voting. Lewandowski says Trump’s best states are ahead of him, starting with New York on Tuesday. | |
| “He is the presumptive nominee going forward,” he says, “and Ted Cruz is going to mathematically eliminated from gaining 1,237 delegates by next Tuesday.” | |
| Wallace presses on how the Trump campaign appears not to have known the rules of the Republican primary. Lewandowski criticises the rules. He mentions Florida, where Trump won but of 99 delegates 30 will be apportioned locally. “I understand that those are the rules but there are people out there who do not volunteer or write a cheque for the party,” he says. | |
| What did Trump mean when he predicted “a rough July” at the convention? Lewandowski doesn’t bite. Trump is winning, the RNC “should respect that”. Wallace pushes – is this another alusion to the possibility of riots, of violence? | |
| “No,” says Lewandowski, “what we’re talking about is a fractured party … that’s not what we’re about … if the party wants a winner they have to support Donald Trump.” | |
| Last question: is the veteran operative Paul Manafort now running the Trump campaign, not Lewandowski, as some reports have said? | |
| In cricketing terms, Lewandowski dead-bats it. Baseball? A bunt? | |
| “I’m grateful that Paul is onboard,” says Lewandowski, adding that they had “a great senior staff meeting” yesterday. | |
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| The host asks Clinton whether she’ll release the transcripts of her high-paid speeches to Wall Street, and whether she’s worried they’ll reveal flattery for the financiers. | |
| “I don’t have any concerns like that, I’m just concerned about a constantly changing set of standards for everyone else but me,” she says. Clinton has asked other candidates to release analogous speeches; Sanders has mockingly pointed out he’s never been paid to say anything to Wall Street. | |
| “Thirty-three years of [my taxes] are in the public domain, eight years are on our website,” she says, going on about her openness to letting Americans see her records. | |
| I think the Republicans are going to play all kinds of games … I for one am nto going to be fooled by that | |
| Then Stephanopoulos asks about Donald Trump’s new nickname for Clinton, “crooked Hillary”. | |
| “I don’t respond to Donald Trump and his string of insults to me,” Clinton says. “I can take care of myself.” | |
| “I look forward to running against him,” she continues. “I’m concerned about how he goes after everybody else. He goes after women, he goes after Muslims.” | |
| “He’s undermining the values that we stand for in New York,” she says, adding that “he would turn us back and undermine the progress that we’ve been making. | |
| “He wants to set Americans against each other and I’m not going to stand for it.” | |
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| Hillary Clinton is next on ABC’s This Week, where host George Stephanopoulos asks her whether she’s worried about Bernie Sanders’ continued criticisms of her links to Wall Street and wealthy individuals. | |
| “No, I’m not,” Clinton says. “He knows very well that I’ve been supporting the fight for $15, that the whole movement behind the whole fight for $15 that is fueled by unions and activists, who have endorsed me.” | |
| “We’re having a vigorous back and forth about raising the minimum wage which we both support, which the Republicans don’t support at all,” she continues. | |
| “There are going to be a lot of charges and all kinds of misrepresentations, but I don’t think voters are confused by all that.” | |
| Stephanopoulos points out that Clinton is calling for a $12 national minimum, and has cited some economists’ concerns that a $15 minimum wage could actually reduce jobs. | |
| She says she wants “a phased-in” increase. “A phased-in minimum wage increase to get to $15 in the city and surrounding areas, to get to $12, $12.50 upstate … but to be constantly evaluating the consequences so that there are no lost jobs.” | |
| “If for federal legislation it has the same kind of understanding about how we have to phase this in, how we have to evaluate it as we go, if the Congress passes that of course I would sign it.” | |
| “I think their campaign is trying to make something where there is nothing.” | |
| She again points out that many unions “support me, not him”. | |
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| Finally Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, appears on the CNN show. | 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”. | 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.” | 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.” | “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.” | 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.” | 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.” | 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. | 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. | “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.” | “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.” | 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.” | 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.” | “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. | 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. | 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. | “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.” | “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 | 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. | 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. | “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. | 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.” | 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.” | 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. | 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.’” | “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.” | 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.” | “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 | 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. | 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 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.” | 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”. |
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| 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. |
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