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♪ good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, may 25th. i'm john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in new york this morning. behind me is the robb elementary school where 19 children and two adults are dead. children, second, third, fourth graders ages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. at this moment parents are giving dna samples to try to match with their deceased children as they await for some kind of news about what happened. this is what we know at this hour, all the new details we've been getting in overnight, as i said...

Campaign -- >> well, the trump campaign in 2016 wanted to exacerbate the tension between hillary and the bernie camps as much as possible. they're trying to do that again. they think the democratic party is divided. i can tell you i was at netroots nation last week, a record turnout, 3,700 people came out. i spoke to countless people and they told me who they wanted as the nominee and i'll be blunt, nobody said joe biden. i asked them as a group and individually, if biden is nominee, will you support that person? they said absolutely. no one brought up the pelosi/aoc fight. that was not releva...

Defense but legal action is expected. this is the first of many to come. bernie sanders entry the 2020 race the growing field of candidates seems to have gotten more competitive. the entire field is far from being complete. >> reporter: nine democrats declared their candidacy for president, but the field could get bigger as more candidates say they are still deciding. >> i'm running for president. >> reporter: bernie sanders is back on the campaign trail. in his announcement he asked supporters to build a grassroots base of 1 billion volunteers. >> our campaign is about taking on powerful spec...

Campaign committee explain why that's important with this "across the country these people excite the grassroots base, and prevent republicans from putting them at ideological bosses." the incumbent in this race, he argues that he's not really that ideological either and he certainly doesn't feel any pressure to blindly ally himself with president trump, who lost this district because -- going back to 2016, he has been skeptical about the present. that's when he ran this ad. >> people ask me, what do you think about trump? honestly, i don't care for him much. i certainly don't trust hillary. i...

Moment. >> there are elements of it that are well organized and coordinated. they wouldn't be able to do that without a grassroots base that are very, very upset that donald trump was elected president.