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CNNW New Day May 18, 2016

Decisive win. His 20th state victory. Clinton is 89 delegates shy of clinching the nomination including super delegates. Remains mathematically impossible for sanders to win with pledged delegates. Republicans. Donald trump last man standing, just 67 of the vote in oregon awarding trump 18 dell guilt. 62 delegates shy of making it official. That margin, however is greater than the number of delegates at stake in the next republican contest, meaning it will take until june 7th to reach the magic number, chris. Wow. It just keeps going. Very interesting. Thank you, christine. Youre welcome. With clinton, as you just saw, squeaking by in kentucky, and sanders winning oregon and in strong fashion, the focus shifts now to californias delegaterich primary early next month. Sanders says hes not going anywhere until then, because he thinks he can win. Cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns is live in washington with more. Joe what a race. Thats for sure. Good morning, chris. A narrow victory for Hillary Clinton in kentucky, but all she needed to be ale ble to claim ss broken the string of victories by Bernie Sanders in malt moll primaries and caucuses, the Clinton Campaign in the blue grass states, shes now within 100 dell guilt or so of what she needs to clinch the democratic nomination. Bernie sanders for his part picking up a win and progressiveleaning oregon, making it clear he has no intention of dropping out of the race, even though there be increasing concerns in the party that his staying the course all the way through june 7th and the california primary creates chaos and anger in the runup to the Democratic Convention. Listen to sanders last night. Many of the pundits and politicians, they say, Bernie Sanders should drop out. The people of california should not have the right to determine who the next president will be. We are in until the last ballot is cast. Also, breaking overnight, Hillary Clinton releasing her personal Financial Disclosures statement, which shows she made about 5 million in royalties for a book and about 1. 5 million in speeches in 2015. The release appeared time to ping donald trump also releasing his disclosure. The Clinton Campaign once again trying to draw attention to the fact trump refused to release his income tax returns, because he says hes undergoing a routine audit. Back to you. Joe, thanks so much for all of that. Questions of party unity plaguing democrats, too. Bernie sanders and his supporters growing increasingly frustrated with the primary process they consider unfair, and that is prompting fears of revolt at their philadelphia convention. Cnns senior political reporter manu is with us. Reporter that raucous crowd in california, Bernie Sanders stayed away from the rather aggressive tactics saying, of course, hes in the race until the last votes are counted, but this much is clear. The longer he stays in the race, the more nervous the Party Establishment grows. The senators response was anything but acceptable. Reporter overnight, Bernie Sanders getting slammed by Democratic Leaders. Calling for sanders to rein in his supporters after this weeks Chaotic Convention in nevada. I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, open the doors. Let the people in reporter but sanders is claiming Democratic Leaders used their power during the convention to prevent a fair and transparent process from taking operation. The leadership there that was running it was not following the rules. They were overruling voice votes on the floor to get the result they wanted. Reporter sna minority leader harry reid who spoke to sanders yesterday is angrily disagreeing saying its a sillial statement. Go ahead. Reporter and senator Barbara Boxer, a clinton supporters seen here trying to calm the conventions raging crowd, tells cnn sanders has to get things under control. We do not condone any kind of violence or threats. Thats unacceptable. Bad language. Thats unacceptable. Reporter the anger didnt stop saturday. The chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic party receiving over 1,000 angry calls. Even death threats. People like you should be hung in a public execution to show this world that we wont stand for this sort of corruption. Reporter now, most of Bernie Sanders colleagues on capitol hill have not called on him to quit giving him the time and space to make that decision. In light of this, pressure is intensifying. Dianne feinstein, a democrat of california who backs Hillary Clinton told me yesterday Bernie Sanders should drop out in june, after voting concludes to avoid a messy convention in july. And jeff merkley, bernies lone senate supporter, has told me that as well. Chris, expect to hear a lot more of that in the coming weeks. Manu, appreciate the reporting. Flip to the other side for a second. Donald trump, pressure to stop talking about other people and Start Talking about what youre going to do. He started doing that and says hes willing to do what no president has ever done. The presumptive gop says he would be willing to pleat with north Korean Leader kim jongun to hold nuclear talks. This as the billionaire developer long boasted about selffunding his campaign no longer is technically. Cnns Phil Mattingly joins us now with more. Reporter good morning, chris. Donald trump is scheduled to meet with former secretary of state henry kissing j inger tod. Ed elder statesman, they have something new to talk about. North korea. Trump telling reuters in an interview tuesday he would be willing to speak directly to the north Korean Leader kim jongun. A significant policy shift for the u. S. Towards the country. I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him. At the same time, i would put a lot of chesher on china, because economically we have tremendous power over china. China can solve that problem with one meeting or one phone call. Reporter as it currently stands, senior officials do engage with north Korean Counterparts but direct talks between the countrys two leaders, they are not on the table. Trump also yesterday took a key step forward in unifying his own party. Reaching a joint fundraising agreement. A crucial deal. That aids gop candidates up and down the ballot as well as the party on the whole. Now, this gee, guys, allows top gop donors to write checks up tore 449,000. A pot of money split between trumps campaign, the party and 11 state parties. Now, this is something trump and his advisers have been working with with top rnc officials over the last couple of weeks. Really since trump game the presumptive nominee and another example of trumps shift away from the funding stance, and one that makes clear he is willing to make deals with a party for all intents and purposes he has trashed much of the last year. Phil, stay with us. We want to talk about all this. Bring in cnn political commentator and political anchor for time warner news erroll louis and Jackie Kucinich. Start with democrats what happened last night. Sanders won oregon and razor thin in kentucky. Errol, sanders makes the case he might be able to deprive Hillary Clinton were to win california, say, and for the number to truly be the nominee, is has possible . In theory, possible, but the sanders scenario you just laid out doesnt really take into account the super delegates. Right . You put the super delegates in and Hillary Clinton is almost there right there, and its almost impossible for her to not hit that number. Back out a few hundred super delegates, yes. In fact, Bernie Sanders d. C. Pending how the rules are actually sort of stamped out at the convention, could force a vote by those super dell guilt. The Party Establishment, the super delegates themselves, they dont really want to have to do that. They dont want to be the margin of victory for Hillary Clinton. Rather something closer to unanimity and the scene on the stage, clasp hands and come together. The point of the convention, bring everybody together. Bernie sanders signaling at least theyre not nearly ready to do that. We have heard from the dnc directly. They say a couple of things. One super delegates, to pledged, 8515. Dont make much of the super delegates. Only 15 and have never decide and outcome. However, as errol just laid out, this race is looking like something different. So the question to you, Jackie Kucinich is, at this point you cannot deny they have problems inhouse, because perception is reality in politics. So math aside, Bernie Sanders seems to have the momentum, and more importantly, is winning the kinds of people that will matter most in the election, in the general election. So what is the party to do . You know, it was very striking last night when Debbie Wasserman schultz was on cnn talking about, she looked angry what happened in nevada, and whats happening on the ground with sanders supporters. So theres always been bad blood throughout this whole process between sanders and the dnc, but lets be honest. It shouldnt really be that surprising that sanders doesnt really have an affinity for the democratic appears, because for a long time he wasnt in it. The fact his supporters and he arent necessarily at the party line shouldnt be a surprise for anyone in the establishment. What happened in nevada . They are frustrated. To be fair. Quite frustrated but violence. Ands they expected a little more of a stronger statement from Bernie Sanders, the candidate himself, rather than, you know, what you saw. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as you say did talk about this. Lets play that moment. Well, after i heard that senator reid, that leader reid had had a conversation with senator sanders and he publicly announced that he felt that senator sanders was going to respond appropriately and issue a statement, i was comfortable that, you know, one conversation was enough. Unfortunately the senators response was anything but acceptable. It certainly did not condemn his supporters for acting violently or engaging in intimidation tactics and instead added more fuel to the fire. And, phil, we do have sanders response here. He does say that he condemns violence, but he also went on to talk about how the system is just completely broken, he thinks, and he understands their frustration. Not the fullthroated condemnation of violence they were hoping for. Right. And they feel he hedged a little, and parsing words, looking at paragraph three of a lengthy statement, all that stuff, but still are digging in saying it should have been one line, two sentences condemning the entire thing and moving forward. Thats the issue right now. Bernie sanders isnt willing to do what they want him to do yet. What in large part the last 10 months have been about. Manu reported, watching the senators. They have given Bernie Sanders his space. Respect him as colleague. Respect him for what hes doing. Slightly concerned what his supporters would do. That starting to shift now. The party is getting frustrated. Senate leaders are getting frustrated and senator reid, never one to hold his tongue is coming out and others as well. How do they balance the fear they push bernie and his supporters too far in the opposite direction, versus the fact they need to unify right now. Their willingness to speak out now is an important moment for the party and how Bernie Sanders and his supporters respond is equally important. What will they say . If youre the senator and you know from the reporting, were all hearing from these people what do you say to Bernie Sanders about why to unify . Were not going to include what i want in the platform . No. Not getting free college, not Single Payer Health care. Not going to get it. What do they say to him when hes got momentum, masses coming out and what happened in nevada, we all know, Something Worthy of condemnation. A lot of conversations going, i know there are, behind the scenes trying to answer just that question. Can we give him something on the platform . Shift things away from super delegation . Maybe thats Bernie Sanderss legacy in 2016. The issue, hes a colleague. They feel theres Mutual Respect among the two camps if you will and this is a conversation that should happen behind closed doors and end up with people raising ease others arms and unifying the party. When you top to topline democrats at some point Bernie Sanders and his supporters will recognize this sull a about beating donald trump. Hillary clinton is the one to do it and its time to unify. No doubt, concern it hasnt happened yet and they dont see a pathway for it to happen. His statement on nevada making that more clear. Errol, quickly . One thing that might be discussed swomewhere along the line, its fine to make 1,000 intimidating phone calls to the chair of the party. Maybe made those calls to voters in nevada and wouldnt have been blown out. So much of this condemnation of the establishment, and all of that political energy, if it were put into actually, you know, sort of turning out the vote for Bernie Sanders, hed be doing better in many different states. So you dont buy what happened on the floor there . No. The big fight was for two delegates. Thats all they would have gotten, even if they succeeded. Seemed sort of pointless. Panel, stick around. A lot more to talk about. Talking at the democrats, a news story line whats happening within the party. Who better to talk than dnc chair Debbie Wasserman schultz will be here, tell you about whats going on in her party for herself. Picture this donald trump and kim jongun sitting down facetoface. Trump says he would welcome the opportunity to sit down with the leader. What do Foreign Policy experts think about that . If you have allergy congestion muddling through your morning is nothing new. Introducing rhinocort® allergy spray from the makers of zyrtec®. Powerful relief from nasal allergy symptoms, all day and all night. Try new rhinocort® allergy spray. In new york state,ll night. We believe tomorrow starts today. 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So donald trump making headlines by saying hes willing to sit down with north koreas leader. Who is known as a dictator. Right . We calm him kim jongun. The son and seen as a holy figure there. So he believes hes the man that curbed nuclears testing there. Why is this . 2008, barack obama, then senator, says, look, you know, id have to sit down with some of these bad guys. Sit down with athem and now donald trump is saying the same thing n. Ta cnn debate when barack obama said that and hammered by john mccain at the time. He was naive, didnt understand how Foreign Policy worked. Interestingly enough, the Obama Administration worked it out with iran, with cuba, but not north korea. This is something donald trump will be attacked on. Already attacked by Hillary Clinton. They say this to attack him on naivete. Weve seen concerned the comments, positive comments made about Vladimir Putin Going Forward, but sitting down with a dictator is essentially giving credence to the fact that that dick tait hear a right to exist or his country as its currently set up, the u. S. Is willing to recognize that. That is not the structure of Foreign Policy we usually see from the gop. Right. Errol, one of the things this Donald Trump Campaign has raised, all sorts of new things we dont normally see from the gop candidate. At the time, 2007, then senator barack obama said it, his Foreign Policy supporters tony lake and others said, bold, new way of doing business. And so now that donald trump is in that same category, how does everybody thread that needle . Pretty much doing the same thing. Both obama then and trump now, they want to position themselves in certain ways and orch certain issues at not reckless. This is the shadow of the iraq war. Right . Thats the Main Campaign issue that obama ran on

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