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Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. 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 the end of the democratic president ial primaries is almost at hand, and Hillary Clinton is just 23 delegates away from the number she needs to secure her partys nomination. She kept campaigning today in california, hoping for a big finish, as Republican Donald Trump faced down critics in his own ranks. Well have a full report, after the news summary. Ifill in the days other news an earlyseason Tropical Storm colin raised the alarm on floridas panhandle coast. Governor rick scott declared emergencies in 34 counties as the storm brought winds of 50 miles an hour and several inches of rain. Colin is expected to cross to the atlantic, then move along the South Carolina coastline. Woodruff u. S. Backed fighters in syria closed in today on the islamic states last stronghold along the turkish border. Kurdish fighters advanced on manbij, which sits on a major supply route to raqqa, the militants defacto capital. Meanwhile, aid groups said isis forces in iraq are shooting civilians trying to flee fallujah by boat and other means. A government offensive there has stalled. Ifill the u. S. Navy has banned alcohol for american sailors in japan, over a string of incidents. The latest was sundays arrest of a sailor who drove the wrong way and hit two other vehicles on okinawa. In washington today, the pentagons peter cook said banning drinking and confining sailors to base are essential steps. By making sure each Service Member understands how their actions affected the u. S. Japan alliance. The Department Remains committed to working with the government of japan and the people of japan to prevent such incidents in the future. Ifill all this comes amid a renewed effort on okinawa to remove u. S. Bases. Woodruff there will be no criminal charges filed against the family of a threeyearold boy who fell into a gorillas enclosure at the cincinnati zoo. Zoo staffers shot and killed the animal after it grabbed the boy. A prosecutor said today the mother was watching other children, and the boy just scampered off. Ifill wall street moved higher this monday, as Federal Reserve chair janet yellen said its not clear when the next Interest Rate hike will come. The Dow Jones Industrial average gained 113 points to close at 17,920. The nasdaq rose 26 points, and the s p 500 added ten. Woodruff and the holy month of ramadan began today in much of the muslim world. Millions will take part in prayers and dawntodusk fasting. Ifill meanwhile, renovations began at the site of jesus tomb in jerusalem for the first time in more than 200 years. The work is under way at the Chamber Housing the tomb in the church of the holy sepulchre. Woodruff still to come on the newshour its politics monday, a look at the week ahead on the campaign trail, including whats at stake in california, a sit down with the Libertarian Partys candidate for president gary johnson, and much more. Woodruff and now, to politics. As we heard earlier, we have just one day until the last big primary day of the 2016 election cycle. Hillary clinton won weekend primaries in the Virgin Islands and puerto rico, pushing her closer to the Democratic Party nomination. But she and rival Bernie Sanders are allin in california the biggest delegate prize on the line. Our john yang is in the golden state and he brings us this report. Reporter one final day, one final chance to make the sale in california. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders fanned out across the state. Clintons just a handful of delegates shy of clinching the democratic nomination counting both pledged and super delegates. Tomorrow is a really big day. Lets hope it is i would be deeply honored and humbled for it to be hillary day. Reporter clinton will likely claim the delegates she needs even before polls close on the west coast, but shes working to avoid losing the biggest state of all. Hillary clinton has had a laser like focus on california, cutting short a Campaign Trip to new jersey to add events here. And its been a Family Affair her husband, the former president , has a number of events here in the bay area today, while shes focusing on southern california. Her statewide, fullcourt press aims to win over more converts, like these in oakland whats needed is a pragmatic approach to working with others who can make things happen. And i think that hillary does. Do i love her . Eh. Do i think she can get the job done . Absolutely. I have a child thats due next month, and i think itd be great for the first two president s from my childs life to be an africanamerican man and a female. Reporter at a News Conference in emeryville, sanders said that the nomination contest isnt over yet. Our goal is to get as many delegates as we possibly can, and to make the case to super delegates that, i believe, in the end, that im the strongest candidate. Reporter the delegate math may be against him, but the vermont senator is still drawing crowds of supporters who say theyre still feeling the bern. He seems like a genuine guy. You know, im in all my student loan debt. So that is one of the main reasons is the student loan thing. I think his domestic policy of wealth redistribution, focus on education, health care and making those things a priority are the best option we have right now. Reporter while the two democrats mount one last battle, republican nomineetobe donald trump kept a low profile today. But he still defended his latest attack on friday on a latino judge presiding in one of the Trump University lawsuits. Let me just tell you, i have had horrible rulings. I have been treated very unfairly by this judge. Now, this judge is of mexican heritage. Im building a wall. Reporter on sunday, the senates Top Republican deplored the trump statements. I couldnt disagree more with a Statement Like that. Is it a racist statement . I couldnt disagree more with what he had to say. Okay, but do you think its a racist statement to say . I dont agree with what he had to say. This is a man who was born in indiana. All of us came here from somewhere else. Reporter trump rejected the criticism today, telling fox news all i want to do is figure out why im being treated unfairly by a judge. Criticism aside, trump doesnt have to worry about the results in california tomorrow. All the focus will be on the clintonsanders contest. Here in the shadow to have the fogenshrouded golden gate bridge, theyre preparing for sanders preprimary evernghts as much a concert as rally, including dave matthews, fish bone, danny glover and cornell west. Judy . Woodruff how has Bernie Sanders been able to keep it so close . We know it wasnt always like this. Reporter its like they really decided they were going to focus on california. They felt they could do well here if they spent a lot of time here. She spent a majority of his time here since the end of may. It appears to be paying off. Hes showing in the preprimary polls for the first time this season hes making inroads among minority voters who have tended to support clinton in the past. The polls show him splitting latinos with Hillary Clinton, and actually beating her among asianamericans. Woodruff john, we also know tomorrow night other states are voting. Hillary clinton could go over the top when these other state results come in in places like new jersey. How will california even matter for Bernie Sanders if that happens . Reporter according to the sanders camp, california being so big, so diverse, they think if she loses here, in order to beat her here, they could make the argument to superdelegates that hes more electable, but their big fear is that, indeed, Hillary Clinton goes over the top, while voters are still going to polls here in california, and that the sanders supporters who havent gone to the polls yet get discouraged and dont go to the polls. Woodruff what are some of the sanders supporters saying about what theyd do if he doesnt win the nomination . Reporter a couple of them said they could not vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances, that they were going to vote for the green party. But they were also savvy enough to know that, here in california, very unlikely that it would go republican under any circumstances, so that they would be able to make a statement by not voting for Hillary Clinton, while they were confident or felt assured that they werent going to help donald trump. Woodruff john yang reporting for us from california. Thank you, john. Thanks, judy. Ifill that brings us to politics monday with amy walter of the Cook Political Report and Stuart Rothenberg of the rothenberg and gonzales political report, and columnist for the washington posts power post. Welcome to you both. So, stu, seems to be going through a series of turningpoint. Lets talk about the democratic turningpoints first. Hillary clinton could be making history tomorrow night. Im quite confident shes going to get at least 23 more delegates. Probably new jersey will put her over the top, that will be an historic event, remarkable. She would build up delegates throughout the evening. Shell be the de facto nominee, the question is when Bernie Sanders will accept it, and shell pivot to the election. Ifill any sign Bernie Sanders is pivoting . We heard he took a phone call on the side of the road to the president of these united states. Who knows what they can talk about, but we can guess. Yes, we can, and we saw today the president is eager to get involved in this campaign. Reports in the New York Times saying he may be making an endorsement by the end of the week. Its been clear for some time Bernie Sanders decisions will be important but the next most important person is president obama, when he decides to come out and basically hug Hillary Clinton and say this is the nominee, Everybody Needs to move on. Im also going to be watching very closely for what other progressive leaders in the party, like elizabeth warren, do after tuesday. Maybe they give Bernie Sanders a couple of days, but then i think the wagons start to circle around Hillary Clinton. I think Bernie Sanders has to get on board. Its all well and good ifill how much time does he have to do that . Well, look, running for president is a grueling job, and hes been doing it for months, and hes exceeded expectations, and he deserves some sort of victory lap, even if he loses. So i think everyone would give him a few days to recover and lick his wounds. But the reality is he doesnt nearly need to stop the campaign against Hillary Clinton. He doesnt merely need to acknowledge shes going to be the nominee, he needs to embrace her. He needs to bring his supporters along, particularly the 18 to 29yearolds who are not enthusiastic about her. Ifill lets talk about the party who has a nominee, the republican party. Donald trump is undergoing backlash because of comments john mccain was talking about, about the judge in indiana who he thinks is unfair. There seems to be real pushback this time from republicans. Well, i mean. Ifill guess the question is there really pushback or a plain defense . I think thats where republicans are stuck here. We have this balancing act for so Many RepublicanOffice Holders, folks who have endorsed him, those who are on the ticket with him who say im going to support him but try to keep my distance from him. But as this week exposed, it is a very difficult thing to do. No matter what donald trump says, especially the more incendiary things he says, you as a candidate or an Office Holder on the republican side are going to have to answer for those things, for as much as you would like to distance yourselves, and i think this is what theyre going to have to deal with day after day after day on this campaign. I think its quite remarkable were on day i dont know what day we are day four or five of this story and trump continues to stoke the flames of this rather than trying to pivot himself under the other issues that we know he would have a much easier time going and focusing on. Ifill meantime, if youre Mitch Mcconnell, paul ryan, or any other number of other republicans who have already endorsed and kind of embraced donald trump as the nominee, youre going to be asked every time you show up somewhere, is he a racist. Exactly. Gwen, joint what were surprised by this. This is drumps m. O. This is the way hes behaved for months, and there is no reason to think hell change. I expect similar incidents between now and the first week in november where donald trump says things that are controversial, explosive, and youre right, microphones are put in kellies face and Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryans eve and every day. He said this to agree to disagree, and thats a problem with the Campaign Like this. The campaign isnt set the agenda well, actually, donald trump is setting the agenda. Its not the normal campaign agenda. He just refuses to act like any other politician. Ifill thats where i wanted to go, actually, amy. Is it a campaign or is it a reality show with donald trump in the drivers seat and everybody else, including surrogates, endorses, including anybody else who might be a future Vice President ial running mate, they all dont know what theyre going to wake up to. Absolutely. What you saw in the republican primary is a candidate who upsended the traditional norms of campaigning and i think a lot of folks assumed thats the way he could win a general election as well except the fact people forgot a couple of things. One, a republican primary electorate is not a general electorate. Thats important when you realize how much more diverse the general electorate is. The second thing is donald trump is under a greater amount of scrutiny and press crch even than he was in the primary and as we see, he does not do well when he is forced to answer for his positions, when hes put on the defensive. He lashes back. For all the folks that said, isnt this fun . Hes changing the rules of the game. The reality is the rules are there for a reason and he can try to change the rules of the game but its going to cost him for the folks who didnt vote in the republican primary. Ifill which party is in a tougher spot now . The democrats trying to figure out what to do with Bernie Sanders or the republicans trying to figure out what to do with their own nominee . I suppose the democrats have the immediate problem, two candidates running for the partys president ial nomination. But h in the long run i believe the republicans have a bigger problem because they have a deeply flawed or de facto nominee, they have a divided party. The democrats are divided now but theyll get together. Sure, Hillary Clinton has work to do among Younger Voters and the most progressives, but i think the democrats are more likely to coalesce, have a tighter bond than the republicans. I think that division is going to continue all the way to november. Ifill stu rothenberg, rothenberg and gonzalez political report, amy walter of the Cook Political Report, thank you both very much. Thanks, gern. Thanks, gwen. Woodruff stay with us. Coming up on the newshour the longlasting influence of muhammad ali, revitalizing the historic route 66, plus, remembering the npr journalist who died in a taliban ambush. But first, back to politics. This years president ial election will likely feature two Major Party Nominees who currently have some of the highest unfavorability ratings of any such candidates in recent decades. As a result, some voters may take a look at the nominee chosen last week by the Libertarian Party the former governor of new mexico, gary johnson. I spoke with him a short time ago. Governor gary johnson, welcome. Judy, such an honor to be here, watching you on television forever. Here i am. Woodruff thank yo