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♪ good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, may 25th. im john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in new york this morning. behind me is the robb elementary school where 19 children and two adults are dead. children, second, third, fourth graders ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. at this moment parents are giving dna samples to try to match with their deceased children as they await for some kind of news about what happened...

Campaign -- >> well, the trump campaign in 2016 wanted to exacerbate the tension between hillary and the bernie camps as much as possible. theyre trying to do that again. they think the democratic party is divided. i can tell you i was at netroots nation last week, a record turnout, 3,700 people came out. i spoke to countless people and they told me who they wanted as the nominee and ill be blunt, nobody said joe biden. i asked them as a group and individually, if biden is nominee, will you supp...

Defense but legal action is expected. this is the first of many to come. bernie sanders entry the 2020 race the growing field of candidates seems to have gotten more competitive. the entire field is far from being complete. >> reporter: nine democrats declared their candidacy for president, but the field could get bigger as more candidates say they are still deciding. >> im running for president. >> reporter: bernie sanders is back on the campaign trail. in his announcement he asked supporters t...

Campaign committee explain why thats important with this "across the country these people excite the grassroots base, and prevent republicans from putting them at ideological bosses." the incumbent in this race, he argues that hes not really that ideological either and he certainly doesnt feel any pressure to blindly ally himself with president trump, who lost this district because -- going back to 2016, he has been skeptical about the present. thats when he ran this ad. >> people ask me, what d...

Moment. >> there are elements of it that are well organized and coordinated. they wouldnt be able to do that without a grassroots base that are very, very upset that donald trump was elected president.

In red states. thats a problem. >> figure out a way to harness all the energy in the streets. saw the republicans do this with the tea party. it was tricky, you remember 2009/2010, a tricky negotiation, had to bring that energy in without being singed by it. didnt always happen. challenge for the democrats, nancy pelosi said at town hall. march on the inauguration happened organically, wasnt organized, now find out howta channel it. >> back to leadership. >> go back a few years with a similar co...

Quick pieces. in the state of new york when she was senator before the stem was popular, she was creating these bills and partnering with universities and schools in new york. the president just announced this brothers keeper program to support young men of color. she helped start an all boys public school dedicated to young men of color, now opening their sixth school. she was talking about a lot of these issues long before they became really popular because she understood the difference betwee...

There is time left to do that. >> joe, hes -- obviously he is becoming popular in iowa. but in each of those instances that ed just mentioned, also, a little fund-raising was going on. i think we cant let -- you know, let that pass. hes clearly seen the fund-raising nunts each of these. third quarter fund-raising, $1.9 million. 12,000 zoneors. average 158 per donor. a lot of small dollar donors. not only building a grassroots base but, you know, this guy does very well at understanding what the ...

Show or news network, the super fan. this is a chance to interface with constituents, right? if you order the barack obama birth certificate mug, made in the usa, you get this fancy little official discount card, good graphics, 10% off for future barack obama merchandise. if you order the mitt romney super fan shirt, you get this sort of printout of -- >> its meaningless. >> thats not meaningless. >> the elections about the economy, not a coffee cup on the website. >> its getting voters out to t...