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Because structurally, you have to win pennsylvania, you have to win ohio, you have to you know, you have, like a map, in particular six states. And you lose one, its over. The democratic ride is a much easier ride. If i pick up new york, or if i pick up michigan, its over folks, its over. Ifill but his speech was interrupted today by protesters representing the black lives matter movement. Get em out folks, youre going to hear it once all lives matter. Ifill but Party Leaders denounced his refusal to reject support from white supremacist groups, including the kkk and david duke. Well, just so you understand, i dont know anything about david duke, ok . I dont know anything about what youre even talking about, with white supremacy, or white supremacists. Ifill in a tweet, the republicans last president ial nominee, mitt romney, called trumps words a disqualifying and disgusting response. While donald trump traveled in virginia, which has 49 delegates at stake, florida senator marco rubio cast a wider net for the 174 delegates up for grabs in tennessee, then georgia and arkansas. Rubio, too, knocked trump for his comments yesterday, during a stop in atlanta. Honestly, you know our country, you know your neighbors, you know your family and your friends. Do you really believe that theyre going to vote for someone who refuses to disavow the ku klux klan . No do you think theyre going to vote for someone with a record like his . No theyre not. That means theyre going to lose. That means the winner of this election will be Hillary Clinton. No ifill and ted cruz, who spent today in his home state of texas, piled on as well. With 155 delegates at stake, the Lone Star State is super tuesdays biggest prize. Cruz took aim at the practices of a trumpowned club in florida, one that he said turned aside American Workers looking for jobs. Now listen. Thats not a whole lot different, what donalds doing, than a whole lot of big companies. But you dont get to abuse, take advantage of American Workers, and then suddenly style yourself a champion of American Workers. Ifill the heated republican rhetoric became the focus today on the Democratic Campaign trail as well. Hillary clinton, fresh off her nearly 50point victory in South Carolina, weighed in this morning from massachusetts. What we need to do now is make america whole. Working together, rejecting the mean spiritedness, the hateful rhetoric, the insults. Thats not who we are. Ifill and Bernie Sanders, in minneapolis, spent more time taking on trump than he did clinton. We will defeat mr. Trump. Because the American People believe that community, working together, trumps selfishness. And most importantly, we will defeat mr. Trump because the American People understand that love trumps hatred. Ifill tomorrow is likely to provide a definitive turning point for both parties. Well take a thorough look at the republican and democratic races, after the news summary. Woodruff in the days other news, the u. N. Secretary general pronounced the threedayold truce in syria is holding by and large. But Syrian Government forces continued air strikes in hama and ground assaults near aleppo and elsewhere. And the main Opposition Group warned the u. S. And u. N. Have to intervene. Are they aware of the violations there . I believe there has to be a mechanism to really stop this violation on the ground 220 to encourage others to go and set on the table to negotiate. Woodruff in washington, the white house said its too early to assign blame for the truce violations. Ifill in iraq, shiites were hit hard, again, by a suicide bombing that killed at least 40 people northeast of baghdad. Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 73 after sundays twin suicide bombings in the iraqi capital. Islamic state militants claimed responsibility for that attack. Woodruff anger boiled over today among iraqi and Syrian Refugees stranded at greeces northern border with macedonia. Theyve run into restrictions as they try to head deeper into europe. Geraint vincent, of independent television news, reports. Reporter in the footsteps of thousands who came before them, the people followed the railway line north toshedz the the towards the border but this morning the path was blocked. Young men at the fronted of the crowd demanded access. It wasnt given. So they decided to gain it themselves. Battering rams were created along what they found along the way. When that didnt work they got hold of something bigger. The gate was forced open and the crowd came face to face with the police line. With the phones bouncing of the riot shields the police decide to respond with tear gas. One steps forward and fires the first straight into the crowd. He falls back but the man in the blue is undeterred. The next one hits him in the chest. The police followed up with tear gas with stun grenades now the crowd cant move back quickly enough. Behind the young men at the front, there were families and children. Their rucksack packed. Now theyre just trying to escape the gas which is singing their eyes and burning their throats. Back to where they began this morning, a transit camp meant for 2,000 people whichlhome to. Woodruff across europe, fire broke out as crews began dismantling a huge migrant camp in calais, france. Activists fought with police at the site, where some 4,000 people had been living. Ifill back in this country, at the supreme court, Justice Clarence thomas did something he had not done in 10 years of oral arguments he spoke. He asked a string of questions during a case about gun rights. It was the first time hes participated from the bench since february 22, 2006. Woodruff across washington, at the white house, a solemn ceremony today for u. S. Navy seal edward byers. He was presented with the nations highest military decoration. Its been some 40 years since a president bestowed the medal of honor on a living, activeduty member of the u. S. Navy. And, only five other seals have received one. Todays ceremony is truly unique a rare opportunity for the American People to get a glimpse of a special breed of warrior that so often serves in the shadows. Woodruff edward byers was a senior chief special Warfare Operator on the elite seal team 6 that rescued an american hostage in eastern afghanistan in december 2012. Dr. Dilip joseph had been working for an Aid Organization when the taliban kidnapped him. Our seals rushed to the doorway, which was covered by a layer of blankets. Ed started ripping them down, exposing himself to enemy fire. A teammate, the lead assaulter, pushed in and was hit. Fully aware of the danger, ed moved in next. An enemy guard aimed his rifle right at him. Ed fired. Woodruff that first seal, petty officer first class nicolas checque, died of his wounds, but byers saved dr. Joseph. Ed leapt across the room and threw himself on the hostage, using his own body to shield him from the bullets. Another enemy fighter appeared, and with his body, ed kept shielding the hostage. With his bare hands, ed pinned the fighter to the wall and held him until his teammates took action. Woodruff after todays ceremony, however, outside the white house, byers said the real credit goes to his comrades. If it wasnt for that team, i wouldnt be standing here today. Specifically for me, my teammate, friend, and brother nic cheque. The award is truly his. Woodruff now, byers says, he bears the responsibility to live up to the sacrifice that cheque and others made. I dont know for sure how this will change my life. I just plan on taking it one step at a time. Im going to continue doing my job in the navy, continue being a seal, and doing the thing i love ever since i was a child. Woodruff he joined the navy in 1998 and has served nine combat tours. Ifill and on wall street, late selling wiped out a months worth of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 123 points to close at 16,516. The nasdaq fell 32 points, and the s p 500 slid nearly 16. Woodruff still to come on the newshour super tuesday and the battles to unseat the president ial frontrunners. A major election victory for moderates in iran. Hackers that hold your data for ransom, and much more. Ifill with the candidates busy on the trail today and its time for politics monday, with amy walter of the Cook Political Report joining us from florida, and tamara keith of npr, who is covering a Hillary Clinton event in northern virginia. Xlwelcome to you both out theren the road. I want to start by reading this mitt romney tweet he sent out today, pretty tough words against what is increasingly looking like the Party Nominee donald trump. He wrote it was a disgusting response by the real documented trump thats his handle of course to the kkk. His bigotry is not in the character of america. Now mitt romney has been stepping up his attacks on donald trump during the last week or so but it feels like this is another turning point. But whenever we approach a turning point amy, we then pass it and go somewhere else. Is this different. It feels like were still where weve always been, gwen, which is a lot of people wringing our hands talking about how much they dislike documented trump or disawe donald trump or disavow hinby statements although they dont worry behind donald trump so he continues to benefit from the fact that the field remains fractured. Theres no consensus now about who the candidate to take on donald trump would be, marco rubio thinks its him and tests cruz thinks its him and he thinks he can wait until ohio and it will be him. Lr ifill he said people arenoe alternative maybe because theres so many alternatives. How would you characterize the depth of the republican worry about the state of affairs right now. Well, i mean i think you can see the depth of worry in that mitt romney has come back to the surface and hes tweeting and you know theres even a little mitt romney buzz out there which is a sign of the worry thats out there. You also have, its an interesting mix. You have some members of congress or at least one senator saying hes not going to vote for donald trump no matter what. And theres sort of a growing chorus of that at the same time that donald trump is gaining some endorsements, including from senator sessions in alabama and Chris Christie of new jersey. Ifill you were talking and referring to the senator from nebraska, at least amy was if there was a choice between Hillary Clinton and donald trump he would vote for neither. Does that leave a path at all for ted cruz, or marco rubio. Its going to be very interesting for both of these candidates. Ted cruz has the most to lose here. He was banking his entire strategy on the south. He obviously came up short in South Carolina, very far short. Hes hoping for big win in texas but even that is not enough. Hes also, he also has to do well along the Southern States that are heavily evangelical but the problem for ted cruz is the same problem he had in South Carolina which is evangelicals9e around 3335 of that vote. What this means is ted cruz comes out of march 1 if instead with a head of steam hes in deficit with delegates. We have a different cam here with a different strategy. March 1st isnt as important to him. These are not the states he has to do as well and he never expected to do as well n he needs to wrap up some delegates though. His play is march 15 once we start getting into winner takes all states, places like florida here and ohio. He has to win those in order to be relevant. But really at the bottom line, gwen, were to a place right now where donald trump is the presumptive nominee until one person can be the alternative, or we get to a place where the vote continues to be divide, where delegates continue to be divided, and we end up with no candidateoe ,n getting 50 of te vote. This is actually looking like the best Case Scenario for people who dont want donald trump. Ifill its interesting to me the endorsements, jeff sessions, very conservative, Chris Christie not, that they would both be gathering around him. Is that just a flood gate about to open . This is an interesting thing. Its not clear what the endorsements for donald trump actually mean. Hes just up conventional candidate who doesnt really need endorsements but then these endorsements lend legitimacy they lend credibility to this outsider candidacy. Ifill tam, i wanted to stick with you. People think wevdabout republic. Youre at a Hillary Clinton event and if you listen to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders they also talking about the republicans. Yes, absolutely. Hillary clinton is doing it in more of a veiled way. You can almost say Hillary Clinton is trying to take something of a high road, shes talking about the need for love and kindness and then sort of showing distress about the discourse on the republican side. She says she wants to take them on. Bernie sanders is also being very critical of donald trump especially. He sent out a tweet yesterday about the kkk stuff, and it was very critical. And interestingly Hillary Clintons account then retweeted that. Ifill has that ever happened before where Hillary Clinton endorsed anything Bernie Sanders said. Yes. They often talk about their distinguished opponent. But this was definitely an interesting situation to have her campaign retweet his campaign. Ifill having a common enemy is alwaysxlamy, which pare going to say last week obviously Hillary Clinton dealt a pretty big blow to Bernie Sanders. Theyre still fightiziqm each other, dealing daily kind of juvenile blows on the republican side. Which party is having the more consequential civil war at this point . It absolutely is the republicans. I feel like this is a party right now. I mean, i can almost hear the taughthitytonic shift here. Its absolutely splittingwhen ye level of worry is among republican establishment, like i said on spinal tap this goes to 11. It is off the charts. I think we are going to see a Republican Party that looks, if donald trump is the nominee, that looks very different than a Republican Party weve seen before. I dont doubt that we will see a republican candidate running as a third party. This is notbtalked about michaeg in the past im talking specifically about a traditional republican establishment conservative figure running as a Third Party Candidate would not be surprised about that at all. The civil war has been a big part of the republican identity for sometime. The factions have been fighting each other for some time. The only thing that has kept these factions from splitting apart in the past has been the fact that republicans are united in their dislike for president obama. But now that the focus is inward instead of outward the civil war is starting to take a serious toll and i really think were going to see in some way, shape or form a dissolution of 7m,n te Republican Party as it currently stands. Ifill wow, thats saying something. It is interesting we dont hear president obamas name nearly as much anymore. That used to be the common rallying cry. Amy walter, the political report and tamara keith of npr. Thank you both. Woodruff the results are in from irans elections they show strong gains for relatively moderate allies of president Hassan Rouhani and a setback for morehardline elements in irans conservative islamic establishment. Its the First National elections since last summers nuclear deal. There was heavy turnout friday as iranians elected a new parliament, and the socalled assembly of experts, a council of senior clerics that is tasked with selecting the Supreme Leader. The man currently in that office, ayatollah ali khamenei, praised the high turnout and advised the newlyelected bodies to guard against western influence; he remains the decisive voice in iran. So what does this all mean inside iran, and for the u. S . We turn to Karim Sadjadpour, of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. Karim, welcome back to the program. So how do you read these results . Judy, i think this was a best case outcome for president rouhani. As you know many of the moderates and reformist candidates were disqualified, prevented from running. So before the election it looked pretty bleak for rouhani. But they managed to come up with a list of what they call the list of hope. And that list swept tehran, i