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Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff its on to new york in the president ial campaign, after wisconsin shook up the race. Republican ted cruz and democrat Bernie Sanders won big in the badger state on tuesday. The candidates they are chasing donald trump and Hillary Clinton hope for better in new york, which is home to both. We will have a full report, after the news summary. In the days other news, pharmaceutical giant pfizer and its irish rival allergan called off a record merger agreement. The deal would have saved pfizer hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes by moving its corporate address overseas. But on monday, the Obama Administration imposed rules to block such tax inversions. At the white house today, spokesman josh earnest rejected criticism from the drug companies. Most Corporate Leaders understand that a strong, American Economy is good for their business. And the concern that we have is with the leaders of some corporations that are looking to take the best of america without making a contribution to the success of our country. And that is wrong. Woodruff the merger would have been worth 160 billion. Former coal executive Don Blankenship was sentenced to a year in federal prison for a mine disaster that killed 29 people. Blankenship was c. E. O. Of massey energy, which owned the Upper Big Branch mine in west virginia. His sentencing today came after a federal jury convicted him of conspiracy to violate safety standards. He was acquitted of more serious charges. New signs are emerging that the flow of migrants from turkey to the greek islands is finally slowing. The Turkish Coast guard reports that it stopped 68 people trying to cross the aegean sea today. That is down sharply from 225 yesterday. Turkeys Prime Minister says it shows a deal with the European Union to deport Illegal Migrants is having an effect. More World Leaders found themselves on the defensive today over offshore investments. They were detailed this week in a massive leak of documents the socalled panama papers. British Prime MinisterDavid Cameron said today that his family will not benefit from offshore funds or trusts in the future. And in tokyo, ukraines president Petro Poroshenko said that his offshore holdings were a blind trust that he created, once he took office. The only purpose of that was a transparent, separation of business of the ukrainian president from any political influence. This is absolutely normal procedure and i think this is the main difference from the naming all the political figures in this panama list. Woodruff also today, the documents leak led police in switzerland to raid the headquarters of european soccers governing body. They are focused on a tv contract that could be linked to a bribery scandal. Governments around the world carried out more executions last year than any time since 1990. Amnesty International Reports more than 1,600 people were put to death in 2015. Almost 90 of the executions came in three countries iran, saudi arabia and pakistan. There were 28 executions in the u. S. , the lowest number since 1991. Amnesty says its believed that china executes thousands of people every year, but wont confirm any figures. Back in this country, investment brokers are going to have to meet a higher standard when they advise people on retirement. Labor department rules issued today say advisers act as fiduciaries, legally required to put a clients best interest above all else. They also have to disclose fees they are paid to recommend a given investment. The rules will be phased in next year. On wall street, stocks broke out of a twoday slump thanks to gains in the health care and energy sectors. The Dow Jones Industrial average surged 112 points to close at 17,716. The nasdaq rose 76 points, and the s p 500 added 21. And, the university of connecticut celebrated today, after the Womens Basketball team won their fourth Straight National championship. The huskies routed syracuse last night, 82 to 51. It marked the 11th championship overall for coach geno auriemma, the most in College Basketball history. Still to come on the newshour all eyes on new york as the president ial frontrunners suffer setbacks in wisconsin; the underlying cause of a global spike in diabetes, and much more. Woodruff already, the 2016 spotlight has shifted to the next two Major Campaign battlegrounds new york and pennsylvania. Ted cruz, fresh off his win in wisconsins republican primary, paid a visit today to the big apple. There, he was forced to defend his criticism earlier in this campaign of frontrunner Donald Trumps new york values. Cruz pointed to what one hispanic pastor told him today about whats wrong about new york politics, and the values that drive them. We fight them everyday, we fight them. Theyre the values that mayor bill de blasio liberal democrat one of the first things he did was try to shut down the Charter Schools in harlem, because he is captive to the union bosses who control him, so one of his first actions was to try to throw young africanamerican out of the schols. Those are the values of the liberal democrats that have been hammering the people of this state for years. Woodruff for his part, trump has a scheduled rally this evening in long island, while Ohio Governor john kasich a distant third in the g. O. P. Delegate race was off the trail today. On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders is moving on to pennsylvania. With his wisconsin win last night under his belt. But the democratic frontrunner once again took aim at sanders ability to turn his rhetoric into reality. Heres what clinton said today at an a. F. L. C. I. O. Convention in philadelphia. My opponent in the Democratic Party and i share many of the same progressive goals. I am concerned that some of his ideas just wont work because the numbers just dont add up. Others wont even pass congress, or they rely on republican governors, suddenly having a conversion experience and becoming progressive. While in a number of important areas, he doesnt have a plan at all. Woodruff to dig into last nights results in wisconsin and tell us what it could mean for the road ahead, we are joined by ron brownstein, who writes for the atlantic and national journal, specializing in the demographics of the nations politics; and dante chinni, director of the American Communities project, a county bycounty look at the u. S. Electorate. He is also a politics reporter for the wall street journal. And welcome you both to the program. Thank you. Woodruff good to see you. Lets talk a little bit about breaking down tho vote yesterday, ron, in wisconsin. What did you see from what voters did, how they voted, that tells us anything about whats happening . The short version, judy, is that it reconfirmed the patterns weve seen on the democratic side and it broke the patterns weve seen on the republican side. On the democratic side we saw Bernie Sanders strong where he has been strong, dominant among young people, and surprisingly competitive among working class white voters in the midwest. Hes now won them in every state, except for ohio, where the two of them ran even. So he has shown that he can continue to be very strong in states that are predominantly white and shares a vote. On the republican side, the patterns broke substantially. Ted cruz did better among voters, particularly those who are not evangelicals, than hes done before. The question will be whether that was a onetime anomaly or a new pattern in the race . Woodruff what do you see, daunt awhen you look at wisconsin . The one thing that struck me on the republican side in particular was it really did seem weve been waiting a long time to see who the establishment candidate would be on the republican side. We had marco rubio. He went way wae. We had jeb bush. We even had scott walker. Last night, it looked like the establishment said okay, were going nawl on ted cruz, were going, which is remarkable. To say a year ago that ted cruz would become the candidate of the establishment. And its 2 00 a. M. And closing time at the bar. The republican establishment woodruff youre look at a lot of endorsements and at this point it looks like thats where theyre coalescing. We have some graphics and lets talk about what youve seen in the primaries so far which you referred to. It has to do with on the republican side, who is winning White College grads and noncollege grads. Look, what donald trump has done is fracture the Republican Party along a new line of division. In the past, republican races have been defined mostly by ideology and religious affiliation. You had one candidate who was more moderate, somewhat conservative voters, and also nonevangelicals, another candidate who tends to be more conservatives and evangelicals. Trump has replaced that with a new divide along the lines of education. If you look at that map, he has won voters who are White College graduates in only eight of the 21 states. In the cumulative exit polls hes carried about a third of them. He has been dominant, judy, among the noncollege white voters in the primaries. Woodruff the next graphic. Hes won them in 17 of the first 20 states. And one of the things that was significant last night hes won about 45 of them. In most states the pattern has been trump loses the College Voters usually pretty narrowly, and wins the noncollege intriertz big margins. Last night in wisconsin we saw something very different. We saw him lose the College Voters by a very big margin, almost 20 points. And he also lost the noncollege white voters. That is one of the key questions is that, again, a onetime confluence of events that makes wisconsin unique or is this a new pattern. By the way, new polling out tonight in new york suggests it may have been a onetime event arct least compared to his home state. Its got to be proven that cruz can sustain the advantages we saw in wisconsin. But theres no question trump has upended the usual order in the republican primary by building the Blue Collar Coalition that transcends the usual divide. Woodruff we know voters were bomb barlded with this campaign the last few weeks and the new york voters are about to experience the same thing. Dante, you have been looking at something related but not exactly. You have been looking at how suburban voters are looking at this election. What you have found . And we have a graphic on this, too. The one thing ive noticed looking at the data throughout the election, even going in, republicans need to win the suburbs to win the general election. Its very important to them. Theyve been losing in the suburbs fair long time. In the last election, say, in 2008 2012 sorry barack obama won these suburban places by about 16 points in the breakdown they used for the American Communities project. I looked at headtohead data between Hillary Clinton and donald trump, shes winning in those places by 32 points, double the advantage. What were seeing in the primaries is trump cannot win in these places and it revealed itself again last night. You look at that map. Where does he win . He wins milwaukee, he wins in dane county, and he wins up a little bit around green baker appleton. When you get up in the rural areas thats correct all trump. Woodruff but there are suburbs and there are suburbs. Are you talking inner suburbs . We know today in the city theres sprawl. Absolutely. Woodruff and there are places where suburbs become almost rural. Absolutely, and exushes, and exurban areas and those places very good for republicans in the past. When you look at the breakdown, the head to head with Hillary Clinton, he still holds the republican edge in those places but hes way down. He doesnt have the edge that, say, mitt romney had. There has been some commentary, even from trump himself, that he is winning because he is transforming the republican lexingtonerate. Thats not really happening. If you look at the share of the vote cast by republicans, it is basically the same as it was in 2012. There has not been this big upsurge of democrats and independents and trump has won republicans in every state he has won except missouri. What he has done, jeweledy, is taken the existing coalition and divided it in a new way. He achieved what somebody like pat buchanan and Rick Santorum tried and could not. Really for the first time in a divided primary, the blue collar side is driving the result, and the white collar side is the fragmented one. Woodruff quickly, we want to turn to the democrats here because, ron, you have also looked at that and frankly how it is divided by race, how Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have divided the white voters. Sanders started as the classic basically white collar, and young people. Hes doing incredibly well with young people, 70 overall. But he has expanded beyond that. He is now competitive among the blue collar whites. He has won all white voters in every state outside of the south cept for ohio and iowa. She has dominated among white voters in the expowght thats allowed him to compete far beyond the wine track states like oregon or vermont and new hampshire. What he hasnt done yet, though, judy is cross the second hill, which is the diversity of the Democratic Party, and the challenge that creates for him, on the democratic side every large state is diverse, and she has won every large state, except for michigan. Woodruff and African American and hispanic voters. Asian voters. Until he breaks that pattern, thats his task in the remaining contest new york, pennsylvania, california, and new jersey. The one thing you also see with Bernie Sanders that is interesting, hes winning rural places. There are aspects to bernie. We think about him as hes the college kids, crazy professor sanders gvote for him. Thats not everything thats going on with him. He has aspects to him hes a prairie populist in a lot of ways. Hes winning kansas, rural parts of wisconsin, nebraska. He wins the Pacific Northwest but hes winning rural whites ws that live in the old prairie populist areas. Woodruff but he still is, ron, a significant number of delegation behind. Hes a good candidate for kentucky, west virginia, south dacoat aoregon. But on the democratic side, the big states that awarmed the big trove of delegate delegates arel diverse. Sanders campaign recognizes the hill he has to get over to truly challenge her is crack the diversity of the Democratic Party. Without that he cant win in california or new jersey. Woodruff we are going to have to leave it there. It is all fascinating, and new york two weeks from yesterday. Ron brownstein, dante chinni, we thank you both. Thank you for having us. Woodruff and now, an alarming new report about the dramatic growth of diabetes across the globe. The World Health Organization said today that an estimated 422 Million People are now suffering from this chronic, lifelong disease. William brangham has more. Brangham the w. H. Os report tracked the global rise of diabetes over the last 40 years. And it showed a quadrupling of the number of cases worldwide. Its now estimated that 8. 5 of adults in the world have the disease, and the costs are tremendous an estimated 3. 7 Million Deaths every year are linked to diabetes and higher thannormal blood sugar levels. The fastest growth of the disease has been in africa, the middle east and asia. Joining me now is dr. Etienne krug; hes the World Health Organizations point person for dealing with diseases like diabetes. Dr. Krug, these are genuinely shock numbers. How do you explain this incredible growth of diabetes . Well, we are seeing a steady growth now for several decades which largely, particularly for people with type 2 diab