Was a big night for democrat Hillary Clinton, winning seven states. Bernie sanders took four, including his home state of vermont. This campaign, as i think all of you know, this campaign is not just about electing a president , it is about transforming america. Amy on the republican side, donald trump swept a victory come also with seven states and claimed he is a unifier. I am a unifier. I know people will find it hard to believe, but i am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished , im going to go after one person, thats Hillary Clinton on the assumption she is allowed to run. I dont know she is going to be allowed to run. Amy republican ted cruz his home state of texas, also oklahoma and alaska. We will spend the hour looking at the race at the white house with a roundtable of guest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The biggest voting day of the president ial race was a big night for democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and republican candidate donald trump. They each won victories in 7 along with a majority of delegates. Democrat Bernie Sanders won four, including his home state of vermont, as well as oklahoma, minnesota, and colorado. Ted cruz also won his home state of texas, along with oklahoma and alaska. Meanwhile, republican president ial candidate marco rubio scored his first victory in the primaries in minnesota. We will go to texas and colorado for more on super tuesday results later in the broadcast. Super tuesdays results come as a new York Appeals Court has ruled a lawsuit against Donald Trumps defunct forprofit school, trump university, can go forward. New York Attorney general Eric Schneiderman filed the suit in arguing trumps university 2013, misrepresented itself and defrauded thousands of students of up to 40 million total. Meanwhile, in more news from the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has again faced questioning about her controversial 1996 comments about some black youth, whom she called super predators. On tuesday, clinton was confronted by a young somali america woman during a Clinton Campaign stop in a coffee shop in minneapolis. She asked the former secretary of state about her super predator comments. The quiet back and forth ended with Hillary Clinton growing frustrated and telling the young woman, well, why dont you go run for something then. This comes about a week after black lives matter activist Ashley Williams confronted Hillary Clinton about her comments during a private fundraiser in charleston, South Carolina. Fox news Host Bill Oreilly has lost residential custody of his two teenage children, following a lengthy custody battle during which his 17yearold daughter told a forensic examiner that she watched oreilly dragging her mother down a staircase by her neck. Although the new York Appeals Court ruled oreillys two children should live solely with their mother, maureen mcphilmy, oreilly still maintains shared legal custody over the two children. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on the most important abortion rights case in more than 20 years. Texas abortion providers are challenging provisions of a sweeping antichoice law passed in 2013 that has already shuttered about half of the states roughly 40 abortion clinics. With justice antonin scalias death, the case faces the possibility of a 4 to 4 deadlock, which would leave a lower courts decision upholding the restrictions in place, although it would not set a national precedent. Fbi director james comey has acknowledged that forcing apple to unlock the iphone of the suspected San Bernardino shooter would set a precedent that could be used in other cases. This is james comey responding to questioning by Virginia Congress member Bob Goodlatte during a House Judiciary Committee hearing tuesday. South dakotas republican Governor Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a bill that would have banned transgender students from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. It was the first socalled bathroom bill to be passed by a state legislature. Tuesdays veto comes after south dakota transgender student thomas lewis delivered a petition with more than 80,000 signatures of people opposed to the bill. In a historic ruling in guatemala, two x military officers have been found guilty of forcing 11 indigenous mayan women into sexual slavery during the u. S. Backed dirty wars of the 1980s. Former Lieutenant Colonel and former paramilitary officer have been sentenced to a total of 360 years in prison. The trial comes after decades of organizing by mayan women. In iraq, u. S. Officials are warning the countrys largest dam is facing a unprecedented risk of catastrophic failure. The u. S. Embassy warns that if the mosul dam collapses, hundreds of thousands of people would be at risk of drowning, and more than one Million People would be displaced. Meanwhile, a deadly spate of deadly suicide bombings by isil in iraq have killed more than 130 people over the last few days. Meanwhile, two employees of a u. S. Military contractor have pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to contracting projects in iraq. Neal kasper and his wife Tiffany White of Laguna Construction Company were indicted for conspiring to defraud the u. S. Government of more than 5 million. Kasper plead guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to solicit kickbacks, while white plead guilty to wire fraud and tax charges. Kasper faces up to 20 years in prison. In news from afghanistan, u. S. Army general John Campbell has stepped down as the commander of International Forces in afghanistan during a ceremony wednesday. The incoming commander is general john nicholson. During his Senate Confirmation hearings in january, nicholson said he envisions the u. S. Military making a enduring commitment in afghanistan. In more news from Afghanistan AfghanAuthorities Say at least , nine people have died in two u. S. Drone strikes in the Eastern Province of nangarhar. This comes after 25 people died in u. S. Drone strikes in the same region about a week ago. In yemen, thousands of people took to the streets of the capital sanaa tuesday to protest u. S. Backed saudiled bombing campaign, after an airstrike killed 40 people in a market on at the march, protester hamid al saturday. Bakhiti spoke out. March is a popular expression against the crime that was committed against shoppers and the popular market in northeastern sanaa that the saudi led to listen wanted to declare as a victory. Amy saturdays airstrike came only two days after the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against saudi arabia, amid increasing accusations the Saudiled Coalition is targeting yemeni civilians. The Parliament Vote comes after 750,000 european citizens signed a petition calling for the suspension of weapon sales. And delmer berg, the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln brigade has died in his , home in california at the age of 100. Berg was one of about 2800 u. S. Volunteers who traveled to spain to fight against the fascist dictator franco during spanish civil war. Berg was also a longtime labor organizer, who worked with the united farm workers. He recalled his decision to fight in spain in an interview in 2013. The fascistcted by so ipt to take over spain, did not know how to get to spain. Until one day i was going to work in hollywood as a dishwasher at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, and i see on the side of a building, friends of Abraham Lincoln brigade. I turned the corner, went up there and told him, i want to go to spain. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Juan welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Before return to the big super tuesday results, your these in todays New York Daily News is, now is the time for Latino Millennials to vote, get talk about this. An interesting thing about the selection, trump, as hes getting closer to closer as seen as a likely republican candidate for president , has been facing a lot of his campaign on building a wall with mexico, attacking mexico, tacking the immigrant community, and were seeing increasingly the impact on young people across the country, especially young latinos. Were seeing reports in the last week of high schools in iowa, indiana, where white students were saying, build a wall, and trump, trump, taunting fellow latino students. Were seeing normas interest in this race enormous interest in this race by young latinos, especially the millennial latinos, i bar far the biggest growing sector of the american electorate. One half of the twice 7 million eligible latino voters or citizens are millennials. And it has been a sharp increase, 40 increases 2008 in the number of eligible latinos that could vote. The reality is, the issue of a registration drive, which many latino leaders are pointing out, univision saying theyre going to use all of the television stations and networks to promote a 3 million Voter Registration drive among latinos, and i think what is actually needed is more bya Freedom Summer Campaign the latino youth of america, similar to what happened in the civil rights movement. Latino youthds of go into their communities and say, youre not going to deport our parents. We are going to make a stand in terms of i think that is increasingly the sentiment im hearing among latino leaders across the country, that they have to harness the millennial latinos now represent not only 50 of the entire potential electorate, but every year 800,000 young latinos turn 18. This is going to continue for years to come. I think that is what the Republican Party is very much afraid of. Trumps campaign is essentially digging a grave for the Republican Party the future. Amy we will talk about Trumps Campaign right now as well as the democrats on the super tuesday aftermath. Juan the biggest voting day of the president ial primary race was also a big night for democrat Hillary Clinton and republican donald trump, who each won victories in 7 states along with a majority of delegates. Democrat Bernie Sanders won four states including his home , state of vermont, as well as oklahoma, minnesota, and colorado. Ted cruz won his home state of texas, along with oklahoma and alaska, despite former governor sarah palins endorsement of his rival trump. And Republican Marco Rubio won only one state, minnesota. He also fell short of winning the minimum 20 of the vote needed to earn delegates in texas, alabama and vermont. ,meanwhile republican john , kasich came in second in vermont. Ben carson had no wins. Both kasich and carson vowed to stay in the race. Hillary clinton dominated among older voters and africanamericans as she swept the south and beat her challenger sanders in 7 of the 11 races contested by the democrats, including the delegaterich states of texas, georgia and virginia, and by a narrow margin in massachusetts. She celebrated with supporters at a victory rally in miami. What a super tuesday. Know, all across our country today, democrats voted to break down barriers so we can all rise together. It might be unusual, as i have said before, for president ial candidate to say this, but im going to keep saying it, i believe what we need in America Today is more love and kindness. Because you know what . You know what . It works. Instead of building walls, were going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every american can live up to his or her potential. Because then and only then can america live up to its full potential, too. It is clear tonight that the states in this election has never been higher, and the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has never been lower. Divide america between us and them is wrong, and were not going to let it work. Juan meanwhile, in vermont, Bernie Sanders celebrated a massive when and vowed to fight on until the Democratic Convention in july. Tonight youre going to see a lot of Election Results come in, and let me remind you of what the media often gets about. These are not this is not a general election, it is not winner take all. 48 ,u get a 52 , you get you roughly end up with the same amount of delegates in a state. By the end of tonight, we are going to win many hundreds of delegates. [applause] bernie ago, as you know better than any other group in america, when we were out on the lake, we were at 3 in the polls. Way in come a very long 10 months. [applause] tonight, 15 states will have voted, 35 states remain. And let me assure you, we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those estates. Juan in the republican race, donald trump swept a victory in alabama, arkansas georgia massachusetts, tennessee, and , vermont, where he was in a close contest with john kasich. And in virginia where rubio had , campaigned hard. During a Victory Party in palm beach, florida, trump claimed he is a unifier. We have expanded the Republican Party. When you look at what has happened in South Carolina and you see the kind of numbers that we got in terms of extra people coming in, they came from the Democratic Party or the Democrat Party and their democrats a longterm democrats and were never going to switch and they all switched, and they were independents. We have expanded the party. Look at the number of votes we had in that area as an example. Four years ago, they had 390,000 or so votes. We are almost 800,000. Whereas the democrats went down. Theres much less enthusiasm for the democrats. Look, im a unifier. I know people will find that hard to believe, but believe me, im a unifier. Once we get all of this finished, im going to go after one person, that Hillary Clinton , on the assumption she is allowed to run, which is a big assumption. I dont know she is going to be allowed to run. Amy we begin with three guests. The washington, d. C. , hans noel from georgetown, university coauthor of, the party , decides. His new piece for the New York Times is called, why cant the gop stop trump . Here in new york, donna murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University whose recent piece in the new republic the clintons war on drugs , when black lives didnt matter. And in philadelphia, James Peterson is the director of Africana Studies and associate professor of english at Lehigh University. A lead msnbc contributor and a host on npr affiliate whyy in philadelphia. We welcome you all to democracy now hans noel, what is happening within the Republican Party right now . It is very clear that donald trump is the front runner and is well on his way to the convention who knows if it will be brokered or not. Talk about with the leadership is doing right now. , can you hear us . Im sorry, you are coming in and out of little bit. Yes, asking about trump will stop he appears to be at a position of it is one to be difficult to stop him. It does likely look like you will be the nominee. Amy talk about the response of the Republican Party. I want to go to a clip right now of paul ryan. Paul ryan, the House Speaker who said on tuesday that the republican president ial nominee must reject any group built on bigotry. Today i want to be very clear about something. If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on peoples prejudices. Ideals. L to the highest this is the party of lincoln. We believe all people are created equal in the eyes of god and our government. This is fundamental. And if someone whats to be our nominee, they must understand this. I hope this is the last time i need to speak out on this race. It is time we get back to focusing on how, very specifically, how were going to get to s