Well see you next fox news sunday. Developing in political news at this hour. The divide in one party growing as supporters are suing over widespread confusion in the primary race and the other party, what could be an Epic Movement toward coming together . Im harris faulkner. This is the report. Heres how it is playing out. A short time ago, a new sign the gop is combining forces to back donald trump. Reports of South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham who has had a long public spat with trump is privately telling others in the party in a fundraiser to support the presumptive nominee. Grahams press secretary will only confirm graham was there and no change in the senators
personal position. People who were at the private fundraiser are reportedly talking though. It would be a big shift towards unity within that party. No such Movement Across the political aisle. Among the democrats, the infighting seems more bitter by the hour. Senator Bernie Sanders is Holding Events in california on this sunday. He feels voters on the Hillary Clinton side are lesser of two evils. What does that mean . All this as we get Hillary Clinton and donald trump neck and neck in a wouldbe showdown. Down to just three points in the brand new nbc news wall street journal poll. We have all your political coverage ahead including a breakdown at the bottom of the hour with fox news Political Insider. First, lets go to political coverage, Lauren Blanchard with the trump campaign. Well start with you. Donald trump is fund raising right now. Reporter you know, harris, the presumptive nominee could
need more than a billion dollars to compete in the general election. The Los Angeles Times reports donald trump on wednesday will attend his first Republican NationalCommittee Fundraiser for himself. The report says 25,000 gets the donors dinner, a reception, and a photo with trump. For 100,000 grand, an rnc membership. Trump and the rnc agreed to a joint fund raising agreement that allows individual donors to give 450,000 to two joint fund raising committees. Much higher than the 227,000 to give to just president ial campaigns. And while trump, the party, and some individual donors are ready to raise and spend millions to elect trump, there are still high profile gop donors vowing to withhold money from the trump effort like Td Ameritrade founder joe rickets. Trump said he has no need for that. These are people that want access to the white house. They understand they cant tell me what to do like every other
candidate. They endorse people like jeb bush. They would have had total control over jeb. They would have had total control over other people. Meanwhile, the billionaire and gop donor is backing trump. Harris . So rich, when we started out moments ago, i was telling viewers about that new polling, that nbc news wall street journal polling showing it would be tighter would Hillary Clinton and donald trump face each other in a general election. Were also learning it could be much more negative than even we think. Plenty of polls demonstrating that especially as more show most voters dont like either candidate. A recently released Washington News poll show 41 have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton and for donald trump, 40 . And for Hillary Clinton, 57 unfavorable and 57 for donald trump too. This is interesting. Potentially worse news for Hillary Clinton because she has a long political path. Rich, thank you very much. Last stand for Bernie Sanders. California. He has the week before june 7th primary there or a couple of weeks and his supporters are so serious about helping him win, they just filed a lawsuit. Apparently, the rules are too confusing and they want more time to register the sanders supporters by tomorrow. Hes in it for the long haul and he needs delegates. 475 of them at stake there and theres a new poll showing sanders beats donald trump in a general election matchup by double digits. Far better odds than clinton would against trump. I think that Hillary Clinton has not looked at a lot of the National Polls out there which have me doing a lot better than she is against donald trump and thats true in almost all of the state polls as well. I think she may not have noticed in the last three contests we won and we tied in kentucky and that we have an excellent chance to win the majority of the
state. Donald trump is a disaster, in my view, and i will do everything that i can whether its the candidate or not to see he is defeated. Lauren blanchard is live for us in vista, california. Lauren . Reporter hi, harris. Bernie knows it comes down to california. Hes been speaking to 7,000 people behind me using mega rallies like this to call out the democratic National Committee and chairs and leadership and also those delegates headed to the convention in july. Saying that polls suggest he would be the better candidate against donald trump. Ive made the objective evidence is very clear that in every national poll, in every state poll, we defeat trump by large numbers over secretary clinton. It is the future of this country. And i hope that the democratic
party understands. Now the hypothetical matchup, nbc wall street journal poll shows Hillary Clinton has a lower favorability rating than sanders and a majority of sanders supporters dont see her in a positive light. Polls suggest clinton still struggles with young voters and may have a tough time getting them to back her in the fall. State after state, we have won the overwhelming majority of young peoples votes. Now, that same poll shows 88 of clinton supporters would back sanders against trump whereas only 66 of sanders supporters would vote for hillary in a general election. Now, if he wants to make his case at the convention in july, he will need to pick up a majority of those 475 pledge
delegates up for grabs here in california, a win he very much needs and harris, add to that lawsuit you mentioned earlier, theres still no indication at which way the judge will vote on that spokeswoman for the california secretary of state did decline to comment. Back to you. Ill tell you after what happened with the rules and angry sanders supporters just last weekend in nevada, you can bet pushing for more time to understand the rules in california will get somebodys attention from the sanders supporters. Lauren, thank you very much. President obama right now is in vietnam. And facing pressure from American Military families over the trip. It is the first stop on the week long trip to asia and a number of american soldiers still unaccounted for. More than 40 years after the end of the vietnam war. Kevin corke is reporting live from pinoy. What is he planning to do in response to the family . Reporter im glad you said that, harris. This is a huge issue. It will not be going away anytime soon. Keep in mind, there are still more than 1600 americans that remain unaccounted for since the end of the vietnam war. Now the white house will tell you and theyve told us privately and even publicly that this will remain a major dialogue point between the two governments because they feel like more cooperation could answer the important questions of what happened to more than a thousand americans and their remain since the end of the vietnam war and like president bush and before him, hope they can move forward on the issue. The mipaw flying over the white house and this is obviously a major issue. Some would say it may even overshadow the effort to expand trade and Security Cooperation and the push for more arm sales to vietnam, harris, well be watching that conversation carefully. Thats what i want to talk
about now. Why is the Obama Administration trying to sell more weapons capability . Its despite a decades old ban already. Why is that happening . Reporter yeah, nails on the head. Youre right. Keep this in mind too, theres a lot of lawmakers that feel this is not such a great idea given the previous relationship with beijing and hanoi but more regional Security Cooperation and maybe that stability will help act as a bull wart those acting in the south china sea. The vietnamese want to better protect themselves with more u. S. Arms. The u. S. Would feel like by arming them in a better position, maybe them and other allies in the area can act as sort of a bull wort against the chinese but its a complicated issue and may not be solved on this particular trip even though it is clear the white house would like to eliminate that ban. As you point out, its a decades old ban that remains in
place and despite chipping away at it a little bit under president clinton, its still remaining at least to this day. Well see if that changes, harris, and watch that closely as well. I would imagine, kevin, before i let you go, the families see this playing together. How can you not maybe make or address one end of identity t i of the missing soldiers and also not look at what the vietnamese want in terms of military and weapons . Its a very interesting combination of things. I would imagine the families play it together. We cover the news as it happens there. Thank you very much. Yeah. Right now, a manhunt under way after a Police Officer was murdered during a traffic stop. The latest on the search for the killer as we monitor a News Conference set to begin for the latest breaking details from there and the fox news Political Insider on whos ahead, whos afraid and whos happy in the race for the white house. Well take all the political headlines and two at the bottom
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they hit him. Homeland security jay johnson say it is a significant blow to the taliban. I think its significant because mansour was actively trying to undermine reconciliation and targeting u. S. And afghan interests. If he was, in fact, killed, this would be a major development. Taliban has more than 30,000 fighters in afghanistan alone. Some 10,000 u. S. Troops remain in that country. As you may know, that is supposed to be cut in half by the time president obama leaves office. And back to the United States now. A manhunt in massachusetts reportedly coming to an end after hours, hours of a standoff. Local news stations now reporting police have shot and killed a gunman accused of taking out a Police Officer. Rona Ronald Tarantino at umass. And saluting in a sea of blue as they escorted his body to the medical examiner. Police conference under way. We bring the news that comes out of that as it breaks. Ryan is with us. With our eye to the News Conference, whats been happening . Reporter hi, harris. The police from auburn to oxford, the fbi helping out. They have just confirmed exactly what our affiliate reported from our source 20 or 30 minutes ago. The shootout is over. The suspect who Police Believe shot Ronald Tarantino is dead. We understand that the one trooper who was shot during this standoff has been rushed to a hospital. He is expected to be okay. The shootout happened at about 9 30 at an apartment on watch street in oxford, massachusetts, the county of worcester. This began at about or 10 00. Police blockaded watch street where the suspect was held up in that apartment and they pushed media and neighbors back. The two locals that i spoke to, one man was looking to actually visit a friend on that street when it was blockaded. He saw an Armored Vehicle go with s. W. A. T. Members on to that block. He heard negotiations happening from the speaker attached to that Armored Vehicle. Police urging the suspect to turn himself in. They would try every ten or 15 minutes. He said this went on for about five hours and every once in a while, they would hear gas canisters, tear gas that was thrown against the apartment, is what the police were saying during this standoff. At 12 30 a. M. This morning, officer Ronald Tarantino stopped on a residential street in auburn, neighboring about 25 miles southwest of boston. The driver, this suspect, who is now named as Jorge Zambrano shot
tarantino and fled the scene. 40yearold tarantino rushed to Umass Medical Center and leaves behind a wife and three children and earlier, we saw, as you mentioned, harris, in the intro, just dozens of officers saluting a motorcade as the body was transported to the medical Examiners Office earlier today, and fellow officers also laying flowers in front of a stone monument honoring officers who lost their lives in the call of duty. In the meantime, as we have said, the fbi had been working, this was a team effort to make sure that they got this person. Tarantino had spent just two years on the Auburn Police force. Before that, he spent seven years in the police force in neighboring lester. So popular, they named a sandwich after him and called him a dedicated publicer serva. Leaving behind three children and a wife. Our local affiliate reporting that he served our country and he is on his way to lay his father to rest. Brian, thank you very much. Crews around the globe joining the search for the black boxes from egyptair flight 804 and americans are helping out. And now raising some new questions about one angle theyve been looking at since the very beginning when the plane first went missing. Terrorism. A live report from paris. The latest on the investigation. And a donald trump supporter going out with a special dedication for the special nominee for president. Youll have to see it. I havent voted in years, but this year, its election because mr. Trump is not a politician really caught my attention. In my lifetime, all politicians have made promises theyve not kept. Jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive jake reese, day to feel alive
an egyptian submarine headed to flight 804 the crash there. Pulling more from the Eastern Mediterranean seas trying to zero in on the black boxes which could help them determine exactly what caused the disaster. They thought they had him and now we know they didnt so their still looking. Mike mccall said multiple clues point to terrorism. I think many signs do point to terrorism. An explosive device on the aircraft. Since there were not smoke detecters in the lavatory, it was breached indicating it may have been blown out. We wont know until we get the black box and all the confirmation from that. Senior foreign affairs
correspondent live for us in paris. Greg . Reporter the air search is intensifying in the mediterranean where flight 804 went down about four days ago right now. In the mix, the United States navy have their p 3 orion active. Three of them in fact on rotation coming from a base in italy. This weekend, they report that they found a large debris field on the surface of the mediterranean consisting of about 100 pieces from that downed aircraft. This is considered a very important find, harris. We covered already parts of the plane, personal esqffects and remains. But no sign of the black box voice and data recorders. Those are critical, of course, to figure out what happened in this crash. Egypt is now dispatching a submarine that could go