Conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Good morning, start dialing in. Lets begin with Hillary Clinton california last night. One of the States Holding their primary today. This is how she reacted to the news. [video clip] clinton according to the news, we are on the brink of an historic, unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do, dont wait dont we . Tomorrow,x elections and we are going to fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in california. [applause] so im asking each and every one of you how many of you have already voted by mail . [applause] how many of you have a ballot at home on your kitchen counter . It in tonight,nd where even better, go to the polls tomorrow and take your family and your friends. That was Hillary Clinton, and last night, this is how Bernie Sanders reacted to the Associated Press reporting, in a statement saying this its unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National committees clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer. Havetary clinton does not and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates, who do not vote until july 25, and who can change their minds between now and then. They include more than 400 superdelegates who endorsed a secretary clinton 10 months before the first caucuses and primaries, and long before any other candidates was in the race. We are asking Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters to dialin this morning and tell us what you think about the news from the Associated Press this morning calling the nomination for Hillary Clinton. 538, nate silver writing about with the Associated Press reported last night. 20, the Associated Press declared Hillary Clinton to be the democratic nominee. Host they go on to talk about sanders campaign. Be the democratic nominee because substantially more democrats have voted for her. In addition to her elected delegate majority, she has received approximately 13. 5 million votes so far and primaries, as compared with 10. 5 million for sanders. Host frank, you are supporting Bernie Sanders in spanish fork, utah. What is your reaction . Caller good morning. I have several comments. First of all, when i started ,atching this primary last year i thought that senator sanders rigid ina little too saying we have to have free school and sort of things. I was hoping that he would offer a little bit wider view of things. I sort of thought that secretary clinton offer the experience. As time goes on, i see there is a political change happening. We see that in the way campaigns can be funded with president obama and senator sanders have been able to raise lots of money through small contributions. I think that is something that will change over time. I feel like senator sanders of politics,era the potential for that. I feel like secretary clinton is more of the same. Frank, youis point, are outlining where you think Bernie Sanders has made some changes to the process. Point, do you think you should get out of the contest . Maybe after today, because you have six states voting. But after that, should he go all the way to the convention . Caller i definitely think he should go all the way to the convention. I apologize, i wish i knew more about what it takes to have a write in campaign. Personally, i will never vote for clinton. I wont vote for trump, but it wont vote for clinton. Host what will you do . Caller i dont know. I wish i knew more about the possibilities of sanders running as a thirdparty candidate. Host frank, were losing you. Lets go to robert in winsor mills, maryland. You are supporting Bernie Sanders. We want to hear from Hillary Clinton supporters this morning. Is on thehink front page of the papers framed is making history, good morning, robert. Go ahead. Caller thank you for allowing me to speak on your program. Day thatts a sad Hillary Clinton is evil allowed to pursue the nomination, given the fact that the delegates already made up their minds that they are supporting her. ,ronically enough, puerto rico who turned out in overwhelming favor for her, dont really understand the fact that its because of her and the people who are backing her the hooligans in the imf and so forth that are trying to run puerto rico into the ground there pretty much the vanguard of the front of the imf and the world bank, she is pretty much their lackey anyways. My whole point is its a shame ,hat she has been nominated given that she is under investigation. Allowed to is still represent our nation in the country of 320 Million People, i cant believe that this is the best person we have to represent us. Host given your criticism of her, likely she is the nominee. What happens, how do you vote in november . Caller when i think about it, sanders his office his options are limited. Running as an independent would work for him. Im thinking about switching parties and going to support gary johnson. I cant vote for trump, i cant vote for Hillary Clinton. Bill clinton has so many skeletons in his closet, but hes not in jail, so im going to go with libertarian, gary johnson. Paul is in appleton, wisconsin, supporting Hillary Clinton. You are on the air. Caller thank you. Wthink clinton definitely on. Shes going to be a wonderful president. The clintons 90s, were some of the best years of my life. I think that bernie should get out. , like you said, hillary has 3 million more votes. Thats my comments. Host what impact do you see a role for senator sanders in a Clinton Administration . What is his role Going Forward . Caller i really dont see a role for him. He is too much of a socialist. N, thewouldve wo republicans would have been licking their chops, saying is a socialist, no more capitalism. He definitely would have given trump the presidency. I think hillary definitely has a lot better chance of beating donald trump. I really do. The republicans would have turned bernies comments into europe, saying we are going to be europe. Were not going to be america anymore. Hilary duff and only has a better chance of beating trump. Host larry in tennessee, a clinton supporter. Caller i think hillary is the best qualified, and all of these republicans that have been throwing this benghazi krapp her, they said they brought this up to ring her popularity down, and thats exactly what they did. Laws, she broken any had bad judgment, but who in this country hasnt . Host ok, larry. If you heard the former secretary of state say in california last night, its not over. She is campaigning in that state codes california is one of the states voting today, along with new jersey, south dakota, north dakota, mexico, hannah montana, all have contest today. And you will be able to react to those contest here on cspan starting a 9 00 p. M. Eastern, our coverage begins, of todays primaries in those states. Joining us on the phone is doyle mcmanus, with the Washington Times congos talk more about the california contest. Where does it stand right now between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the state of california . Where it stands now depends on which poll you look at, and what voter model that poll is looking in. If you forgive me, i will throw in one technicality on polling. If you look at the pool of eligible registered voters, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are neck and back. They are too close in the polls to tell apart. Voters andtake those you start looking only for what the pollsters call likely voters if you ask them if they voted before, how long have you been a voter then you start getting different numbers. Its either very close, or Hillary Clinton has a clear lead of 10 or 12 points, depending on whether you think new voters, young voters are going to turn out, or not. How manyest here is young voters who are Bernie Sanders voters turn out, how many new voters. There is been a huge flood of new Voter Registration over the last 45 days. How many of those new voters turn out for Bernie Sanders . Are atow many delegates stake, and explain the demographics of how they are breaking down in this democratic nominee contest. Guest california is the biggest state, by far the biggest pool of pledged delegates and the democratic contest. About 11 tes, thats of the total number of delegates at the convention, both pledged and superdelegates. Words, more than one in 10 of the delegates at that convention will be from california. If you only take the pledge to delegates, the ones elected at primaries or caucuses, its about 14 of the pledged delegates. Almost one in seven of the pledged delegates. Delegateshuge pool of that if this raise were closer at this point, this would absolutely be the decisive contest. The demographics are very interesting, because of course, california is a very diverse state. It is already a state in which Nonhispanic White people are a minority of the population. That is not true in the voter population yet, because the latino population is younger and has a somewhat lower Voter Participation rate ver. But the electorate is about 24 latino, about 10 africanamerican. Asianamerican, so its a very diverse electorate. One of the interesting things the polling has shown us though is that californians are different from the rest of the country. Tonot one to come as news most people in the rest of the country. In most of the country, Hillary Clinton in democratic primaries has clearly done better among all minorities, including africanamericans and latinos, and Bernie Sanders has done better among white voters. That pattern has held, with wages to exception, in that very big latino or hispanic minority in california 24 of the registered voters. Those numbers are basically the same for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton as they are for Nonhispanic Whites. In other words, california latinos are kind of behaving as if they are not a minority anymore. This call by the Associated Press that Hillary Clinton has the magic number to win the nomination, because she is the present of nominee does that impact voter turnout today . Guest it will, but we dont know exactly how. Sides, in bothh campaigns and among nonpartisan, noncommitted voting participation folks is that that will depress turnout. Because people are going to look at the news and say this thing is already decided. Why should i bother voting . The other possibility though is that were going to find out whos voters are more fired up and are more enthusiastic. Its entirely possible that the ap announcement that Hillary Clinton is the present of nominee paradoxically in california could benefit Bernie Sanders if his voters are more enthusiastic and more intent on sending a message, its possible that some Hillary Clinton voters will look at the news and say won already wanted it, why should i bother . Thats why Hillary Clinton was taking such pains to say its not over yet, you select to get out and vote. Doyle mcmanus, with the Washington Times, thank you. We are asking all of you to react to the news today. Today, front page, clinton set to make history. Compare that to the telegraph, and their headline saying we still have work to do. Tennessee, yous, are supporting Hillary Clinton. Good morning. Caller i already spoke to you, but i want to say one more thing. Host ok. Caller all of the democrats and independents realize that donald trump is not who he is showing himself to be. Hes really not. He is fooling everybody. Host ok, larry. Were going to be talking about donald trump in our last hour on the washington journal. We will have republicans only dialing in to get your reaction to Donald Trumps comments about the judge that is presiding over the Trump University cases. Bloomberg politics with this story on the website last night are you Conference Call with supporters, he orders his surrogates to intensify the criticism against the judge, and the media. We will talk about that, whether or not republicans are agreeing with the Presumptive Republican nominee, or do they disagree with him . We go to tim in tuscaloosa, alabama. Good morning. Youre on the air. Caller good morning. Im supporting Bernie Sanders. I have been a democrat for years, but i cannot understand how africanamericans have decided to vote for Hillary Clinton, when she supported her bill that1994 crime has put more black people in prison in america than any other president , and she has flipflopped over almost everything that she has been involved with. I see her as just a fake, a phony, and a fraud. Host what are you going to do in november . Caller one other thing i like to say she has given contributions to a lot of these black organizations that are supporting her. Even al sharpton has her, she has contributed to his National Action network, which is falling apart. But in november, if i have to vote, believe it or not, i would vote for donald trump. He gets in, maybe it will wake up some of these other democrats who are running behind a phony like Hillary Clinton. Thank you. Host josie in jacksonville, florida. Good morning. Caller i just wanted to say 2008, a couple of days after the last primary, hillary endorsed obama. Two months before the convention in august. But sanders wants to continue his campaign to the convention. Obama will resident intervene, perhaps after the last primary next tuesday, and try to unite the party. Because this is just ridiculous to have all of this confusion with two campaigns going on, when hillary is obviously going to be the nominee. Thank you. Host josie, do you think president obama can do that . Caller i think it will help. I think it will help. An endorsement from him could come as early as this week, and the new york times, has a story that obama is eager to campaign for training for clinton and shred trump. Says president obama after months of sitting on the sidelines is ready to aggressively campaigned for Hillary Clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her candidacy as early as this week. President he way, obama and Bernie Sanders spoke by telephone over the weekend, discussing the path forward after tuesdays primary process according to a person familiar with the conversation. The call was meant to remain confidential, the conversation bernieesident obama put sanders unnoticed, saying he would soon move to endorse clinton. The call was first reported by abc news, and reported in the new york times. We are talking to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters about what do you Hillary Clinton being the presumptive nominee. Nancy pelosi said she voted for Hillary Clinton in the california primary, and is proud to endorse her. California. G beach, good morning, you are supporting Bernie Sanders. Would you think is going to happen in your state today . Caller i hope it happens for Bernie Sanders. The reason i say that is he seems to have a very good background, he seems sincere, he has integrity. Reactiony, its more that im voting for Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, people must have short memories. , a few milesgo from where i live in long beach when benghazi happened, Hillary Clinton, when she was secretary of state under obama said it was due to a Youtube Video made by an egyptian christian who lives in cerritos, california saying it was a Youtube Video that he made that incited a flash mob in benghazi. That man sat in jail in Los Angeles County for over a month before his name was cleared. This is Hillary Clintons machinations. This person does not represent the interests of the people, she violates the laws of the land by false imprisonment. I dont know who is buying into her, i dont know why she is saying that the democrats are behind her. I live in long beach, all i see are people supporting sanders. I dont see anybody really supporting Hillary Clinton. Anaheim,to a venue