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I'm tempted to say you covered the last net roots convention. it's hard to see how a presidential candidate's staff would ever put their candidate in that situation after yesterday. >> yeah. you imagine the hillary staff erers who made the decision not to come are popping the champagne saying we look great today because our candidate wasn't boo d off stage. it's an outrageous setup for a candidate. you kept hearing these candidates say i was told i could say my stump speech and chat about things i wanted to talk about and these protesters were saying absolutely not. we are going to go through ...

He made the choice he needs to make at that time. a lot of people in the party will respect that. he will be an interesting character in this sweet 16 battle. executive congressional, grass roots experience. particularly something like this how he articulates that message, will be important. whether he gets the bounce will be interesting. i can see him sitting in the governor's mansion, watching that debate. this thing is over before it begins for kasich. humiliating blow. he can't even make the stage. do people dismiss him then? is there a risk of that? >> huge risk steve. and a risk for the ...

You have a half-attitude. >> travis payne was michael jackson's long-time choreographer. >> we were on a journey with michael that was going to return him to the stage, you know, that he loved so much. and i know that we were eight days away from leaving for london. >> the stage is where michael was most at ease. on stage, there was no one better. ♪ >> since age 5, he had electrified audiences around the world with hit songs like "i want you back." and the world appeared ready to welcome him back. it had been 12 years since jackson's last major performance. the king of pop was poised to rega...

Were spaced out. and it wasn't, like, every day. ♪ see, like, when we first started, we were doing one-nighters. every day, you're in a different place. you're riding in the bus and sleeping on top of each other, that's tough. but this was it, you didn't have to take the stage down. you're in one location. >> i think that night, he finally accepted down deep and whatever the inner reaches of an artist's soul are that he could do this. >> was anything out of the ordinary that night? >> the only thing that might have been out of the ordinary was that michael had a serious glow about him that n...

Rehearsals for "this is it" often ran late into the night. on the surface, the man many say was born to perform never looked better. >> was his voice getting stronger over a period of rehearsals? >> absolutely. >> was his dancing getting stronger? >> absolutely. >> his body? everything? >> absolutely. >> michael bearden, the musical director for "this is it" was on stage that last night. >> he looked back at me, you know, after we did one number and looked at me as if to say "yeah, i'm michael jackson. i got this." he looked really good. i tease some of the dancers when i see them. m.j. was 50...