Much for joining us. Cnns primary coverage continues right now with laura coats and abby philip tonight, too big checkmarks. One has all already happened, and were expecting the other any minute now. And when it does, you can officially lock in your Matchup Cards for what might be the most important election of our lifetime welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im codes and washington dc, its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious and he will be the democratic nominee come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of states, State Of Georgia, one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done for trump tried to deny democracy and say, well, donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the star in terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down. So who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person sen. Its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping over every single republican can challenger that stood in his way. Now, tonight, trump has already put georgia and mississippi in the win column. And soon after polls close in Washington State, he will all certainly put an Exclamation Point on this primary and confirm to the country that the Republican Party has all been reap, been remade in here this lets begin with our coverage tonight. The place that matters most nights, just like tonight at the magic wall with cnn chief correspondent john king. John we know that he has two more in his Wind Congress talking about donald trump, mississippi, and also georgia hasnt looking, well, he needs 31 more delegates. Joe biden, as you noted, clinched with georgia. He is now the presumptive nominee. Youd are not officially the nominee. Do you get to the convention . They do the gavel. They dropped the confetti, but hes the presumptive nominee. Donald trump will get there when Washington State comes in later tonight, the polls close. There about an hour races where he is 11, 84 right now, you need 12, 15, so 31 more delegates. This is impressive. Hes winning 92 of the delegates and all the contest so far. So if youre the Trump Campaign saying, wow, were already 92 . Its the middle of march, march 12th. Youre going to clinch the nomination. Thats great. Right. And look at this only vermont for nikki haley. But even as you see this the same for biden, even as you see great strength in the primary campaign. If you look deeper, you do find some weaknesses and were seeing them in georgia tonight. Go to georgia because of course this was a very controversial discussion point. Remember that 12,000 less than that boats in terms of winning, how did he fare . So public, polling, Public Opinion polling right now shows donald trump ahead and georgia about a month ago of very reliable poll shows him a head right now. But as you know, theres an Election Interference trial. There and forget all that for a second. Just remember how close this was. 11,000 votes last time. This look, hes getting 84 . So again, if youre a republican, youre trump fan. You say 84 , thats great. It is great. However, she dropped out of the race. Remember number one for starters hes getting nikki haley, the former governor, former ambassador, getting 14 . If you round that up. But laura, look more closely, Fulton County in atlanta, shes getting 39 now this is a democratic area. Fulton county is going to be blue when were at this map, and election. But youve got, if youre trump, you got to cut into the margins, right . You cant you cant let joe biden gets 70 . You cant let them get 75 how do you stop that from happening . You get into dependence and you get moderate republicans in the suburbs, moderate republicans in the suburbs yet again, tonight, as they have throughout the primary season, are saying, no, thank you, mr. Trump, even though shes out of the race, thats fulton, come over here, gwinnett. Shes getting 23 right there again, atlanta, this used to be a very republican suburb. The suburbs becoming more and more democratic in part because suburban voters are repulsed by donald trump. Shes getting 23 come down here to the cab, look at that, look at that, thats 45 for a candidate whos gone from the race against the former president of the United States in a restate with a republican governor. But remember the difference . Brian kemp fobt, donald trump and donald trump said the election was stolen. Brian kemp said, no, it was not. We run free and Fair Elections here in the State Of Georgia. You do have this is a trump state. I dont want overdo it. Hes getting 84 of the vote. But there are a lot of traditional establishment suburban republicans who believe their governor, not donald trump. And tonight a lot of them are saying no, thank you. Voting for nikki haley, especially here. I just its stunning to me. If you look at it in this context, come back to the 2020 map, look at the president ial race. This is why atlanta, Fulton County in the suburbs around it, cut close. That was 11,779 votes. And so the pop, this is the major Population Center ladder and the big suburbs around it. No issue with any of these communities. Theyre great communities too. But the people live here. If youre looking at the math of a big election and so if you look at dekalb, yes, donald trump only got 17, 16 last time, right . If he can get 20 there, thats the 11,000 votes were talking about, right . Thats the 11,000 votes. So you come back to tonight and you just look at this. And so where he was weak in 2020, he showing some wheat in the General Election, you shown some weakness denied. So its a big win. But again, its the suburbs cycle broken record, but suburban voters still have huge doubts about donald trump. Hes going to be the republican nominee. Therell be the presumptive nominee and about an hour when he wins washington between now and his convention and then between then and november its got some work to do. Fulton county told me One More Time bad. Of course, were Election Subversion Trial is and youre talking about a jury pool as well, right . So sanely, look so youre talking this is the republican primary electorate, right . So you know, 58 of your roundup for trump, 39 for governor haley, youre right there you think of atlanta. This is the African American base in georgia. Then you move out to the suburbs its by far democratic area, but there are a lot of republicans in the closein suburbs, or at least former republicans are a lot of brian kemp voters if you want to put it that way in Fulton County in the suburbs. So you come back to 2020 in the president ial election again, donald trump got 26 in the General Election. Joe biden got 73. So its a democratic area, but so people that somethings oh, it doesnt the matter, of course it matters. If you can make that 28 , then you win georgia if you lose by 10,000 votes, you just, its all about the margins. Can you move that up . And so if youre trump coming in from the last campaign to this campaign, youre saying i know my problems are right here. Right here. Youve got to make them better in the prime results tonight, you see a big Question Mark of whether he indeed has john king making us do maths and i will be checking back in though abby all right. Thank you. Joining me now is democratic congresswoman from minnesota, ilhan omar. She is a member of the Progressive Caucus in the house, and shes very vocally opposes israels war in gaza. Congresswoman, thank you for being here with us tonight. Thank you for having me, abby. So President Biden, just a couple hours ago, crossed that delegate threshold to synch the nomination for your party. Are you personally comfortable with him as your partys standard bearer in november well, congratulations to the president. And as weve said before, a long time, no, sitting first term president has lost nomination of his party to run for reelection. And i know that every single democrat in the country is going to make sure that we do so everything that we can so that we avoid a trump presidency. The state of the Union Address was just about a week ago and its no secret. One of the goals was for President Biden to reset the narrative around his age did he do that for you . Did he lay any concerns that you may have had about his age or his ability to do the job i was never really concerned with that. Ive ive spent time with the president both in the white house traveled back with him to my district, spend time with him in the district it always seemed very clear to me that he had the energy and the ability to continue to do this work one of the things happening on capitol hill this week, its become a Big Point Of Contention A Ban On Tiktok you have this might surprise some people. The same position as donald trump when it comes to banning tiktok. Does that feel a little weird to you . I have the same position as the majority of americans since tiktok users have. And today we had an Intel Briefing and none of the information that was provided to us really was persuasive in the fact that there is anything to be really concerned that its not concerning when it comes to facebook or twitter. So when we just had one of your democratic colleagues Congressman Moscowitz on the show last night. He suggested that for example, when it comes to the israel, hamas war, that china is using tiktoks algorithms to ramp up divisions in this country. And thats one of the concerns that he has in terms of National Security. Do you think theres any validity to that . What i what i do think that people are finding discomfort is the fact that for the first time in our nations History Americans have access to real images of the horse that are experienced by palestinians daily and the onslaught that is taking place, this horrific assault on gaza really is being streamed to every Single Person here in this country. So we no longer have to rely on legacy media to get that information. Every Single Person sen. Has the information directly from the mouth of the people who are being slaughtered. Its an important point that we are seeing some really horrific images and we know based on our own reporting at cnn that there is a lot of suffering in gaza i do want you as youre talking about this war to listen to what one of the president s top aides on National Security, Jake Sullivan said today at the White House Briefing about a ceasefire, which i know that us support. Listen those who would like to see a ceasefire in gaza, a ceasefire is on the table today for six weeks to be built on into something more enduring if hamas would simply police women wounded, and elderly. And the fact that they will not do so says a lot to me about hamass regard for innocent sinn Palestinian Civilians if a ceasefire is on the table today, hamas could agree to it today does he have a point . Well hamas showed up to egypt. Its my understanding for the negotiations. It was israel that refused to send negotiators to be at the table to carve out, you have to remember that a ceasefire is not something that happens magically it is a process that is negotiated by different parties that have interest. And so i just think clear that then i think an honest broker in this in this conflict thats actually i mean, thats actually what i really want to clarify. Are you suggesting that when he says theres something on the Table A Ceasefire that israel has agreed to. They want those hostages back. Hamas will not agree to that. You dont think that thats where things you dont believe that that is where things stand today in these negotiations well, there was a current Api Reporting that said, you know negotiators from hamas arrived in egypt to negotiate for a ceasefire and israel decided thats send anyone down there to negotiate. You can certainly have certain demands that you want. And we obviously want the hostages released, return to their families or american hostages that are included. There is an infant that is included in those hostages and so it is important that we do everything that we can, but we cant be this honest to the point where we are saying that everybody is doing everything that they can to be at the table to negotiate a ceasefire that can lead to a permanent solution. So again, to clarify hi congresswoman, youre saying Jake Sullivan is being dishonest when he says israel is at the table, willing to sign a ceasefire im saying hes not showing the full picture. I dont know if hes being honest or not, but it certainly does not go along with the current reporting that that has come out of those Negotiation Efforts on the president and this election, which is, as you point out, really important one, you didnt vote for President Biden, or for uncommitted in minnesota as primary, the uncommitted vote. Who was a big part of that primary in your home state . I wonder if the election were held today. Would you vote for joe biden . Can you confirm that he would have your vote today . Of course democracy is on the line. We are facing down fascism and i personally know what my life felt like. Having trump as the president of this country. And i know what it felt like for my constituents and for people around this country and around the world, we have to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen to our country again. And do you think your constituents ultimately will come to the same conclusion that you did the Tens Of Thousands who voted uncommitted as a protest against the president well, the uncommitted have been very clear. They want a change in policy and weve seen that within three days, you had the Vice President using the word ceasefire. We now have the president saying there is a red line. If israel goes into well refer that he is going to condition aid. So there has been a significant progress. I think it is the responsibility of every citizen of this country that cares for the humanity of all to continue to push this administration to do what it can do to end the onslaught that palestinians are living through every single day. All right, congresswoman ilhan omar, we appreciate you joining us on the show tonight. Thank you for having me i love to talk about these two milestones tonight with me now, scott jennings, jamal simmons, as he cup and mark preston what did you make of that jamal that interview there on a couple of different fronts on the political front. Honestly her reaction saying there has progress, saying that the president has already moved. It seems like that is actually a little bit of an olive branch more than ive been hearing from many of the progressives whove been supportive of the uncommitted lives well, its true that the protests and the push on behalf of whats happening in gaza has moved the president to be more vocal about the policy. I think thats happening inside the administration and the administration has always been concerned about the deaths in gaza. The question is, how much they will talk about that publicly. And i think we are hearing and then talk more about that and certainly push. I was concerned at one point with congresswoman omar point about the ceasefire because when we started talking about ceasefire and hamas was on the line, there was a lot of shes sort of reference that while ceasefire doesnt happen automatically, people have to come to the table. But thats not what you hear when youre at protests, when people say president to say ceasefire now and that was in that what kind of in the thing so i feel like we have to make sure that everybody is being held to the same standard here. And we need all the parties to have cease fire because we do need to have israel to be secure and we also need to have these children and women in gaza to not be dying and for them to be secure. So weve got to figure out how is it . That we have a situation where we can end the cycle of violence on the ground in the middle east and not just point fingers at one party or not it scott, were you surprised to hear her say pretty clearly she would support President Biden in november. Its sort of her colleagues. Im not sure they would say that today. Know shes a democrat. Theyre gonna vote for biden. Im not surprised about that. I am surprised that in the year of our lord, 2024, there is a Public Relations agent for hamas sitting in the United States congress. The reason israel is not at that meeting is because hamas will not provide a list of the living hostages. I didnt hear a word a word of concern for the hostages. Ceasefire. She said, dont happen magically. We know there was a ceasefire in place on october the sixth. And who broke it on october the seventh . I cannot believe honestly what i heard out of that interview. What i want are for those hostages to come home i want som