In the democratic race, Bernie Sanders. And upset in indiana. Understand secretary clinton thinks this campaign is over. Ive got some bad news for her. Amy then democracy now s own Juan Gonzalez retires from the New York Daily News after 29 years. I figured my modest contribution would be a voice from another part of new york, not writing about outcast neighborhoods, but from them. Not simply to entertain, but to change. Not after the fact, but before it when coverage could still make a difference. Air Juan Gonzalez s speech when he became the first latino journalist inducted into the new york journalism hall of fame and speak to Pulitzer Prize finalist tom robbins who describes juan as the most essential reporter in new york these past three decades. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Donald trump has virtually clinched the republican nomination after senator ted cruz suspended his Campaign Following a devastating defeat in the indiana primary. Trump won about 53 of the vote, capturing 51 delegates in the winnertakeall state. In his concession speech, ted cruz shocked his supporters by announcing his withdrawal. From the beginning, ive said that i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Say it, im sorry to appears that path has been foreclosed. We left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got, but the voters chose another path. Amy in the democratic race, vermont senator Bernie Sanders pulled a surprise upset by winning just over 52 of the vote. We will have more on the results later in the broadcast. The Bernie Sanders campaign has launched a petition urging the Clinton Campaign to transfer money her massive joint fundraising venture to state parties. This comes after politico investigation found less than 1 found less than 1 of the 61 million raised by clintons record fundraising vehicle with state parties has actually gone to the state parties. The Hillary Victory Fund is a joint venture between the Democratic National committee, 32 state committees and , clintons campaign. It allows clinton to collect massive donations at events like the recent dinner at george and Amal Clooneys house. But it turns out that of the 3. 8 million the victory fund has transferred to the state parties, 88 of it was quickly moved back to the dnc by the clinton staffer who controls the committee. In syria, fierce fighting has been reported between rebels and the Syrian Regime in the city of aleppo. The syrian observatory for human rights said the battle was the most intense the city had seen for more than a year. Dozens have reportedly been killed. This comes after at least three people were killed when a Maternity Hospital in a governmentcontrolled section of the city was hit by rocket fire. Secretary of state john kerry said the rockets appeared to have come from a rebel area. Attack on the hospital appears to be rockets that have come from some area of opposition, and were trying to determine precisely which. So the bottom line is, there is no justification for this horrific violence that targets civilians or medical facilities or First Responders no matter who it is. Amy the hospital attack came days after Syrian Regime destroyed a doctors without bordersbacked hospital, killing the last pediatrician in the rebelheld east aleppo. The u. N. Security council has unanimously passed a resolution reminding states they must protect medical and aid workers. But joanne liu, president of doctors without borders, noted four of the five permanent members of the u. N. Security council have been tied to attacks on hospitals, including the United States for its destruction of a hospital in kunduz, afghanistan. Liu said the attacks must stop. Four of the five permanent members of this council have, to varying degrees, but associated with coalition responsible for attacks on Health Structures in the last year. These include the natoled coalition in afghanistan, the Saudiled Coalition in yemen, the russian backed syrian led coalition. Amy u. S. Navy seal Charles Keating iv has been killed in northern iraq. The pentagon said keating was serving as an adviser to Kurdish Peshmerga forces and died as a result of a coordinated and complex attack by about 100 isis militants. Keating is the grandson of Charles Keating, jr. , the late financier who served prison time for his role in the 1980s savings and loan scandals. In canada, a raging wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate from the heart of the Alberta Oil Sands region. The entire community of Fort Mcmurray has been ordered to leave. Its the largest wildfire evacuation in albertas history. Scientists have linked the increase in wildfires to climate change. The Detroit Teachers Union has urged teachers to return to work today after teacher sickouts over a funding shortfall shuttered nearly all of the districts 97 schools for a second day tuesday. The teachers called out after learning the district may not have the money to pay them at the end of the school year. But Union Officials say they have now received assurances the teachers will be paid. Detroit teachers have also protested black mold, rat infestations and other dire , conditions in their schools. Georgia republican governor nathan deal has vetoed a bill that would have allowed people to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. In a statement deal said it was highly questionable the measure would make students safer. A similar measure became law in tennessee this year. In honduras, a prominent radio journalist has been shot four times but survived. Felix molina was reportedly attacked twice in the same day monday. He was shot twice in each leg. In a Statement Released by a human rights group, molina said he believed he was directly targeted and vowed to continue practicing journalism without fear. He said i declare myself a survivor of the insecurity that the majority of the country faces. Molinas shooting came one day before World Press Freedom day. Labor activists targeted the clothing retailer h m over the safety of its supplier factories in bangladesh. As h m shareholders met in sweden, organizers rallied in front of the times square h m store in new york to demand safe conditions. My name is elizabeth. Im a journalist and author. I am out here today to demand that h m provide safe working conditions for the bangladeshi factory workers. They have over 100,000 workers making their close in bangladesh, and currently the majority of them are working in facilities without legal fire exits. So their lives are literally on the line in the name of making cheap close for western consumers. No one should die in the name of making cheap fashion. Amy in february, an h m supplier factory in bangladesh caught fire early in the morning before most of the factorys 6000 workers arrived. In washington state, six workers at the Hanford Nuclear site have undergone medical evaluations for possible exposure to chemical vapors. In total, more than 30 workers are being evaluated for possible exposure to vapors resulting from radioactive waste from the u. S. Nuclear weapons program, which is stored in underground tanks at the site. Last month it was revealed , thousands of gallons of radioactive waste had leaked between two walls of one of the tanks, and incident a former worker called catastrophic. Former new York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of corruption charges. Silver served as new york Assembly Speaker for over two decades and was one of new yorks most powerful politicians. He was convicted of abusing his office to rake in more than 4 million in illegal bribes and kickbacks. In new york city, voters who say they were blocked from casting a ballot in last months new york president ial primary packed a board of elections hearing on tuesday. Some 126,000 brooklyn voters were purged from the democratic rolls ahead of the primary. Voting rights activist Yvonne Gougelet spoke out. The new york city board of elections have to hand over the primary results and that number is certified. If those votes are certified, no evidence that we find will matter in the court of law. If the votes are certified by the new york city board of elections on the events at 3 30 p. M. , nothing that we find in the future is going to change the primary result. So we as activists are working alongside with the lawyers in court. They are fighting to get a court order. Theyre trying to stop election from getting certified. We are here at the board of elections to put pressure on them, ask questions, tell them what happened, find out what is going on. Amy an indian man who follows the sikh religion says he was pulled off a bus and detained for 30 hours for speaking punjabi with another passenger. Daljeet singh was traveling on a Greyhound Bus from arizona to indiana when a fellow passenger falsely accused the two men of speaking arabic and discussing a bomb threat. Fellow passengers detained the men in amarillo, texas until Police Arrived and arrested them at gunpoint. The police also removed singhs religious turban and circulated mugshots of him without the turban to local media. Singh and the Sikh Coalition have demanded criminal charges against the passengers who accused and restrained him. Meanwhile in california, a group of women say they were kicked out of a cafe in laguna beach last month for being muslim and wearing hijabs. Sara farsakh said she and her friends were told to leave the restaurant within 10 minutes while their desserts and coffee were still on the table. A worker said the restaurant needed to clear tables for other clients, but farsakh said there were numerous empty tables, and other customers were not asked to leave. President obama is heading to flint, michigan, today. His visit comes weeks after three michigan officials were criminally charged for their involvement in the flint water contamination crisis. The lead poisoning began when an unelected emergency manager appointed by michigan Governor Snyder switched the source of flint strengthening water to the corrosive flint river. Obama is expected to meet today with an eightyearold flint girl who wrote to him asking him to come to flint. She wrote i am one of the children that is affected by this water and ive been doing my best to march and to speak out for all the kids that live here in flint. To see our documentary, thirsty for democracy the poising of an American City you can go to democracynow. Org. Afeni shakur, a former black panther, activist and mother of late hiphop artist tupac shakur, has died at the age of 69. Afeni shakurs activism was a source of inspiration for her sons music. Tupac shakur was killed in a stillunsolved driveby shooting in las vegas in 1996. Afeni shakur died in california monday after suffering a suspected heart attack. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from atlanta, georgia. Juan gonzalez is in new york. Hello, juan. Juan welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Donald trump has virtually clinched the republican nomination after senator ted cruz suspended his Campaign Following a devastating defeat in the indiana primary. Trump won about 53 of the vote, capturing 51 delegates in the winnertakeall state. In his concession speech, ted cruz shocked his supporters by announcing his withdrawal. From the beginning, ive said i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Itight, im sorry to say appears that path has been foreclosed. Together we left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything weve got. But the voters chose another path. So with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the ,ongterm future of our nation we are suspending our campaign. But here me now, i am not suspending our fight for liberty. [applause] i am not suspending our fight to defend the constitution, to defend the Judeo Christian values that built america. Continue. Nt will and i give you my word that i will continue this fight with all of my strength and all of my ability. Amy with ted cruz, ohio with senator ted cruz dropping out Ohio Governor john , kasich becomes Donald Trumps only remaining challenger. Reaction among the republican establishment to trump remains divided. Republican Party ChairmanReince Priebus tweeted, realdonaldtrump will be presumptive gop nominee. We all need to unite and focus on defeating Hillary Clinton neverclinton. However, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. During a victory speech in new york, donald trump set his eyes on november. We are going after Hillary Clinton. She will not [applause] she will not be a great president. She would not be a good president. She will be a poor president. She doesnt understand trade. Her husband, perhaps in the history of the world, the single worst trade deal ever done. It is called nafta. And i was witness to the carnage over the last six weeks, specially. Juan meanwhile in the democratic race vermont senator , Bernie Sanders pulled a surprise upset by winning just over 52 of the vote. I understand that secretary clinton thinks that this campaign is over. Ive got some bad news for her. [cheers] great victory in indiana. Next week we will be in west virginia. We think we have a real shot to win and that great state. Then were going to kentucky and oregon and we think we have a pretty good chance to win there as well. Then were going to another bunch of other states culminating in the largest state in the United States with the most delegates, and that is the state of california. And we think we have a pretty good chance to win there. And i think as more and more delegates are to the Democratic Convention take a hard look at which candidate is generating the kind of enthusiasm, excitement, voter turnout that we need to make sure that someone like a donald trump does not become president , i think were seeing more and more delegates concluding that that candidate is Bernie Sanders. Amy despite Bernie Sanders victory, Hillary Clinton still holds a commanding lead in the delegate count. To talk more about Donald Trumps rise to power in the upset by Bernie Sanders we are , joined by tom robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the cuny journalism school. He was recently named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reporting on the culture of violence in new yorks prisons. In the 1980s he covered politics, labor, and organized crime for the daily news and the Village Voice from 1985 to 2011. His recent article for the Marshall Project is trump and the mob. Welcome to democracy now why dont you begin by talking about, really, this historic night in indiana. Start with donald trump now becoming the Presumptive Republican nominee with ted cruz pulling out. Good morning. Who would have thunk it . Yet the slickest con man out of new york city has just been basically made the republican nominee by the hoosiers of middle america. It is an astonishing thing. I guess it goes to show that the republicans have just as little idea as to who their base is as the democrats. Juan tom, youre one of the few people who attached on trumps amazing history and relationship to organized crime in america that has gotten virtually no attention. Could you talk about some of the characters that you another reporters on her under years ago that have not been paid attention to this campaign, starting with the infamous warre coehn . He is wellknown to people at least of our generation, probably not so much to the one that is casting a lot of ballots now but roy was the sidekick and cheap witch hunter for senator joseph mccarthy, a guy who reminds a lot of people of ted cruz. They look alike and talk alike. Left the senate, he went into private practice and set himself up basically is the House Council to a couple of the crime bosses in new york city. Adopted ae time, he young developer from queens looking to make his first mark as a developer in manhattan and donald j trump. Donald j trump will tell you to this day that he learned how to play politics and he learned how to play development from roy cohn while he was sitting in roy cohns east side townhouse