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ISHA SESAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Isha Sesay.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause.
It has just gone mid-night in Albuquerque, New Mexico where police have finally managed to break a violent protest outside a Donald Trump rally.
SESAY: Angry demonstrators jumped on cars, threw rocks and bottles at police and set several small fires. Police and riot gear and on horseback responded with pepper spray.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You'll be fine. You'll be fine. (Bleep). Are you okay? We need water. Does anybody have water?
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VAUSE: Police say they arrested at least one person inside the rally. And a number of officers were injured. Authorities says a small crowd of troublemakers stayed out on the streets after the anti-Trump protesters had left.
SESAY: A Trump adviser called the demonstrators thugs and punks who don't even know what they're protesting.
VAUSE: Well, CNN's Dan Simon was right in the middle of the mayhem and filed this report.
DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is has been a chaotic situation in downtown Albuquerque as anti-Trump protesters have taken to the streets. You can see police officers there in full riot gear. Some officers on horseback. They've been pushing this crowd down the street trying to get these folks to go home. This all started a few hours earlier when you had some protesters break through some police barricades to try to get into the convention center where Donald Trump was giving his speech.
Officers kept those people at bay. But from there, things really descended into chaos. You had a number of people throwing both rocks and bottles at officers as police tried to bring the situation under control. The crowds a lot smaller at the moment but still a number of people out here as police deal with this situation here in downtown Albuquerque and try to get this crowd to go home.
Dan Simon, CNN, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
VAUSE: And Donald Trump now very close to clinching the Republican nomination after winning the Washington primary.
SESAY: He has about 76 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz and John Kasich were still on the ballot even though they dropped out of the race. CNN estimates, Trump now has 1,229 delegates, just eight shy of the number he needs to win the nomination.
And for the Democrats all eyes on California and its primary just two weeks away. The candidates now campaigning hard. Front-runner Hillary Clinton made three stops around Los Angeles Tuesday. At a rally in Riverside, she called Donald Trump's campaigning concerning.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You've got to sort of pinch yourself. When you hear some of what Donald Trump is saying. And it is something that we've got to take seriously, my friends. It may have started out as entertainment, but now it's really, really concerning. We may have talked in the past about how we have a bully pulpit in the White House, but that doesn't mean we want a bully in the White House.
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VAUSE: Bernie Sanders is confident about his chances here in California, saying he has no doubt he will win the state's primary.
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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We will win because we have the energy, we have the enthusiasm --
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-- and because people know that given the crises we face it is too late for establishment politics or establishment economics.
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VAUSE: Joining us now, Democratic strategist Dave Jacobson and Republican consultant John Thomas. Dave, first, given the violence that we've seen in Albuquerque in the last couple of hours, does Hillary Clinton now sort of double down on that message that, you know, this guy is dangerous, he's divisive, you know, we're facing a real problem here, there are a lot of concerns about Donald Trump, look what happened in Albuquerque?
DAVID JACOBSON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Absolutely. I think she's got to try to come off as the uniter-in-chief. She's got to say, look, moderate Republicans, Independent voters and of course Democrats, both Bernie Sanders supporters and my supporters, we need a uniter-in-chief who's going to bring the country together, break through the gridlock in Washington to solve our problems and get things done. Great jobs, improve schools, and make sure we have clean air and clean water among other things.
[02:05:08] And I think she really needs to sort of capitalize on this issue because Donald Trump is running a divider in chief campaign. His divisive nature where he spews out these sort of racist and sexist remarks has really splintered the country, and I think she needs to capitalize on that as we pivot to the general election.
SESAY: And John, what does Trump do now? He has capitalized on being a divider. It has rallied his base. It's excited them. Does he tamp it down? I mean, there's a political calculation to make here. What does he do?
JOHN THOMAS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Well, we've already seen him moderate his tone on, you know, saying that we're not going to ban all Muslims. Since he's walking back of some of his rhetoric, I think we're going to continue to see him do that as the campaign goes along. But you know, it's a delegate line to walk to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is trying to tap into the 66 percent of Americans that think we're on the wrong track. That is an anger that there's a frustration about the country. So, you don't want to go too squishy, too all uniting because you lose track of the very voters that you need to get across the finish line.
VAUSE: Again, Clinton campaign is rolling out a new line avenue tack against Donald Trump. They did this I guess hours before, you know, the event in Albuquerque. But essentially it's a new campaign ad using Donald Trump's words about the housing collapse.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I kind of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money.
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VAUSE: And John, to you. This is actually really bizarre to me. Because the thing that people love about Donald Trump is the fact he's a business man. He capitalizes on a situation and he makes money.
THOMAS: Right.
VAUSE: And that's what he did. He didn't cause the housing collapse. He just made money off it.
THOMAS: Yes. Another campaign ad taken out of context.
VAUSE: Right.
THOMAS: I mean, that's what we're seeing here.
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Yes. That's what we're seeing here. But look, Hillary has to attack Donald Trump on the area he's strongest, which is the economy. And at the end of the day voters, we're going to get through tonight, the protests tonight but voters the other day are going to vote with their pocketbook issues. And they have to assault him. And it's a hard case to make because Donald Trump is a businessman and she isn't.
SESAY: All right. Let's read Donald Trump's response to the Clinton attack. And then David, I want you to weigh in and give your thoughts. This is what he said. He said, frankly, this is the kind of thinking our country needs. Understanding how to get a good result out of a very bad and sad situation. Politicians have no idea how to do this. They don't have a clue. The Trump response as they try to hit him on the economy, which is a strong point.
JACOBSON: Look, I think the Clinton campaign is doubling down on the 2012 playbook that President Obama embraced where they sort of went in and defined Mitt Romney early as a greedy businessman. And I think the Clinton campaign is sort of trying to make Donald Trump the Mitt Romney of 2016 where they say hey, listen, this is a guy who talks a big game in terms of the economy creating jobs but look at his business track record, look at his history and his values as a businessperson. He exploited the free trade laws in the country, shipped manufacturing jobs overseas to Mexico, to China for Trump clothing. This is a guy who took advantage of poor people and foreclosed on them during the housing crisis so that he could flip those houses and make money off their backs.
THOMAS: I mean, that's a cute story but the fact is that's not the case. Maybe with some of Trump ties. But by and large he's a real estate developer, he's built things in New York and he's created jobs.
VAUSE: You know -- because last week we had women, the week before that we had foreign policy, this week we've now got the economy. It looks like they're throwing everything at the wall and they don't have an attack line on him, they haven't got it pegged and they don't --
SESAY: Well, look, they're attacking him and his numbers are going up.
VAUSE: Which is why they keep trying a different strategy each week. Yes?
THOMAS: That's right.
VAUSE: OK. Let's move on because Trump also digging into the past days. He's raising some very old conspiracy theories about the Clintons. In particular Vince Foster who committed suicide. Categorically they have no doubt about at all. But this conspiracy out there was that he was murdered. He was the White House counsel and a friend of the Clintons. Trump said this to the "Washington Post." It's the one thing with her, whether it's whitewater or whether it's Vince or whether it's Benghazi. It's always a mess with Hillary.
You know, this is just some of the latest that we're getting from Donald Trump and these conspiracy theories. You know, if you go back, there was the Birtherism, which seemed to start it off, that you had President Obama was not born in the U.S. Then there was Muslims cheered in the streets of the United States on September 11. Justice Scalia was found dead with a pillow on his face. And of course the Mac Daddy of them all, Ted Cruz's dad may have been linked to the Kennedy assassination. This is what he said.
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TRUMP: And I just asked about stories that were appearing all over the place, not just in the "National Enquirer," about the fact that a picture was taken of him and Lee Harvey Oswald, and they didn't deny that picture.
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VAUSE: What do I know? I'm just asking. I don't know anything.
THOMAS: But other people might have --
VAUSE: I mean, this is kind of -- what do you think about this as a strategy?
THOMAS: I wouldn't recommend it if I were advising Donald Trump. But I don't think he's listening to me or any other strategist at this point --
VAUSE: But it's work.
THOMAS: Well, what he's trying to do is drive news cycles and remind voters of a larger theme that Hillary Clinton has had controversy surrounding her entire career. And that is smart. But beat her up on substantial things. I think it is fair to attack Hillary on her record on women. That's fair. But some of these wingnut theories are not a good thing to push off on.
[02:10:18] JACOBSON: Right. I think these sort of roll your eye politics, you know, salacious attacks are over the top. When it comes to having a dialogue and the serious contest that is, who is going to be the next president of the United States. And I think it really undermines the conversation that we have as a nation in terms of choosing our next commander-in-chief.
SESAY: I mean, this tactic of going negative, isn't it one of diminishing returns? At some point you start to turn people off and ultimately, you know, it just becomes ludicrous. I mean, the further you go with this kind of muckraking.
THOMAS: Yes. It's a race to the bottom. I mean, it will be a question of who is the most unlikeable of them all at the end of the day. But look, negative campaigning works. That's why you have to do it.
SESAY: You know, when you start in May.
THOMAS: Yes.
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THOMAS: That's my -- that's what it is going to take. Look, Hillary Clinton has to turn Donald Trump's soft negatives into hard negatives. And Donald Trump has to turn Hillary Clinton's hard negatives and keep them high as possible.
VAUSE: The one thing that Dave said, you know, when it comes to a negative campaign it won't do a whole lot for your numbers but it will certainly erode your opponent's numbers and that seems to be going on here if you look at the polls.
JACOBSON: Right. The goal, the objective, any strategist sort of looking at these races is look, we are going negative because it works. And at the end of the day, you want to drive up the negatives of your opponents much higher than yours. And I think that's the strategy that both of the campaigns are going to be bracing as they pivot towards the general election.
VAUSE: OK. There is a real investigation right now, the FBI is looking into campaign donations which were made to Terry McAuliffe. He is the governor of Virginia and a long-time friend of the Clintons. Governor McAuliffe says, basically no big deal.
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TERRY MCAULIFFE, VIRGINIA GOVERNOR: No one's alleged any wrongdoing on any part. As you can see today, I'm full out in force and will continue to be full out in force. And you know, investigations happen. No one's alleged any wrongdoing on my part.
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VAUSE: Could this have implications for the Clintons? Again, they close to somebody who's being implicated in a scandal.
JACOBSON: There's nothing tangible that's sort of come forward. And MSNBC, well, MSNBC the other day release a poll with the Governor's approval rating showing that about 58 percent approval rating. And so, he's in a very good position with the swing state of Virginia right now. Ans o, until we see something that's really concrete that comes out of this investigation, I think they're going to attach themselves to him moving forward.
THOMAS: Well, it's one of those things where even if I did do it, where there's smoke there's fire or their -- forces their perception that like Donald Trump says crooked Hillary's at it again.
VAUSE: And with that --
SESAY: John Thomas, Dave Jacobson. VAUSE: All right.
THOMAS: Thank you.
SESAY: Thank you. Thank you so, so much.
VAUSE: Right. Thank you.
SESAY: All right. We're going to teak a quick break. More politics is ahead. Next, though, a dramatic turn for Bill Cosby. He's been ordered to stand trial. Stay with us.
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[02:15:02] DON RIDDELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: I'm Don Riddell with your CNN World Sports Headline. Real Madrid are hoping for an 11th European Cup Title this weekend. But is Cristiano Ronaldo's participation in doubt? CR-7 has been struggling with a thigh injury and on Tuesday he limped away from training for the third consecutive session. But he says he will be ready to play on Saturday.
The path to another French open title is much clearer for Serena Williams. The two women who beat her in the last two majors, Roberta Vinci and Angelique Kerber have been eliminated as has arguably her biggest rival. Victoria Azarenka has been in good form lately but in the last couple of seasons she's never far from an injury and unfortunately for her a knee problem forced her to abandon her first- round match against Kerry Knapp. She was making a decent match. But she was forced to throw in the towel four games into the decisive set.
Barely a week seems to go by without further revelations of doping in Russian sport. Tuesday's news is that 14 of their athletes have failed retrospective tests from their 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing although we don't yet officially know the identity of any of them. The Prussian Olympic Committee says, they've been informed of the results by the IOC and the athletes compete in three different sports. The ROC (ph) is now working to provide the IOC with additional samples for the athletes in question. That is a quick look at your sports headlines news. I'm Don Riddell.
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[02:16:47] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico have broken up a violent crowd of protesters outside of a Donald Trump rally. Officers fired smoke and pepper spray after a number of people threw rocks and bottles and broke through a police barricade. At least one person was arrested and several police officers were hurt.
SESAY: Inside the arena Trump rallied his supporters with many chanting build that wall.
VAUSE: Several anti-Trump protesters were removed by security.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRUMP: We have a chance to be something so special as a country and really, we want to take care of everyone. We want to take care of those protester that's got ripped out of here. I mean, we want to take care of them and very gently taken out. But we want to take care of everybody. We want to be inclusive. We want to include everybody, folks. We have to. We're a group that's very well unified.
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SESAY: Meanwhile, Trump is now very close to clinching the Republican nomination after winning the Washington primary. He has about 76 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz and John Kasich were still on the ballot even though they've dropped out of the race.
VAUSE: CNN now estimates Trump has 1,229 delegates. Just eight shy of their 1227 number to win the nomination before the convention.
SESAY: All right. Away from politics for a moment. And Bill Cosby will stand trial for felony assault charges in Pennsylvania. The 78- year-old comedian is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee.
VAUSE: She's one of more than 50 women who alleged sexual misconduct by Cosby. CNN's Jean Casarez has more.
JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We can now definitely say that the criminal case against Bill Cosby is proceeding to trial. The preliminary hearing, a very important hearing determined by the magistrate judge that the prosecution had probable cause that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004 when inviting her to his home. He gave her blue pills, had her drink wine, and then sexually assaulted her.
The defense very aggressive in the hearing. You can see that they're going to say that any sexual activity was consensual, that they had a romantic relationship and that alcohol was not used that night, if she wanted to say no, she could have. Bill Cosby is waiving his next formal arraignment but both sides will now begin to exchange discovery and this case will proceed to trial right here in Pennsylvania. Back to you.
VAUSE: And Jean Casarez, thank you for that. Civil rights Attorney Areva Martin is with us. Segun Oduolowu is a pop culture contributor to "Access Hollywood" Live. So, Areva, just walk us through the legal procedure. What comes next?
AREVA MARTIN, ATTORNEY AND LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMENTATOR: Next?
VAUSE: Yes.
MARTIN: Actually the trial. The judge today set a July trial date. But as we heard Jean say, there's going to be this exchange of information between the prosecution and the defense. And we should expect a lot of motions filed by both sides. The prosecution wants to get the testimony in of some of the other women who've come forth and made similar allegations against Bill Cosby and the defense team wants to keep that testimony out as well as they want to concentrate on that deposition testimony. That deposition testimony from 2005 involving the civil case for Constand is critical to the prosecution's case and the defense lawyers are arguing that it should be in-admissible in the trial.
SESAY: Go ahead. Let's listen to one of the defense attorneys for Bill Cosby speaking outside of court today. We learned -- we gleaned a lot about how this is going to unfold. Let's take a listen.
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BRIAN MCMONAGLE, BILL COSBY'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It was presented that after, and I stress after this so-called incident the complainant continued to contact Mr. Cosby. The complainant accepted a dinner invitation from Mr. Cosby. The complainant returned to Mr. Cosby's home. And ultimately, after returning to Canada, the complainant asked for tickets to a concert that he was performing at, went to the concert and presented him with a gifts.
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SESAY: So Areva, this is about tearing down Constand's credibility.
MARTIN: Absolutely. And building the case of a romantic relationship. We've heard the attorneys say that consensual sexual encounter happened on that particular night, that she had an opportunity, Constand had an opportunity to say no and she didn't. And so if you can show that there were phone calls, there were subsequent dates, if there was subsequent contact between Cosby and Constand, then the argument about a romantic relationship, you know, starts to make more sense and starts to have more credibility.
[02:21:17] VAUSE: Segun, we should say Bill Cosby pleading not guilty to all of this and the trial will be under way. But given everything that we've learned about Bill Cosby and all the details, regardless of the outcome of this trial, can Bill Cosby fall any further from grace at this point?
SEGUN ODUOLOWU, ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST: He could fall into prison.
VAUSE: I mean, in the eyes of most people.
ODUOLOWU: Well, honestly, it's a very tough question because if they find him not guilty there are going to be people that jump up and say vindication, we told you all along. I mean, you can go to any grocery store, barber shop, any place where people are, just walk outside on the street and people will say, I don't think he did it. And then some people would say, I think he's despicable. Personally I'm in the despicable camp. I think that he did it. I really do. And the fall from grace, and I say it hurts a lot of people because the TV character of Bill Cosby, Dr. Huxtable, that's what we put our faith in. That's what we thought the man was. But this tactic by the defense, it feels almost Hollywood in nature.
They are shaming and using the media to -- they call her the complainant. They don't use her name. They do as much as possible to say that, oh, there were gifts that there was, it was consensual. If you are drugged and someone takes your power to say no, I don't care if she walked into that room with every expectation of having sex with Bill Cosby. If he took her ability to say no away, then yes, he's a rapist. And I don't think it should be this difficult for people to understand or the court of public opinion. As I said, what they're doing is a smear campaign. I mean, this is Hollywood at its finest.
VAUSE: This is pretty typical defense tactics.
MARTIN: Oh, it's absolutely typical. And whenever someone is charged with rape we often hear that there was consensual relationship between the parties. And I have to disagree with Segun. Of course there are a lot of people who believe Bill Cosby is guilty and they believe it because of the 40-plus, almost 50 other women that have come forward, but our criminal justice system presumes you are innocent until proven guilty. And he has a constitutional right to confront the person, in this case Constand, making the allegations against him and to put on the most aggressive defense that he can. That's what happening here.
ODUOLOWU: Doesn't it turn your stomach, Areva? He's walking in withholding on to someone's arm like he's blind. Just last year he was doing stand-up shows. Okay? So, this whole facade of oh, I'm frail and I'm an old man now. This is 2005. This was 11 years ago.
MARTIN: But you are ignoring -- I don't think we can ignore what happened after this incident. I understand what you're saying about someone's power being taken away from them if they're drugged. That's absolutely a crime. And if that happened he should be found guilty. But on the other hand, it's not typical behavior for someone that has been sexually abused to continue to have the level of contact that we're hearing about in this case.
ODUOLOWU: That's not true, Areva. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Areva, abused women stay with their abuser. Come on. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on!
MARTIN: There are lots of cases where that doesn't happen.
ODUOLOWU: Come on! Prostitutes stay with pimps.
SESAY: To that point of how the defense we know is going to play this and try to tear down Constand's credibility. How did the prosecutors respond? How did they counter that because they know it's coming.
MARTIN: Absolutely. And what they're going to have to do is try to establish, that yes, she may have had some inconsistencies with respect to her statement but that she was abuse, that she wasn't able to control what happened in that situation and that women often continue to have contact with their abusers. So, we may see psychologists testifying. We may see other experts testifying about the mentality and the actions of someone that's been in an abusive situation. But I think we have to allow all of the evidence to come in. I think it's premature to assume that Cosby is going to be found either guilty or not guilty because we haven't seen what's going to come in. And we know that deposition testimony, without it I don't think the prosecution has a chance of getting a guilty conviction. ODUOLOWU: But why? Why? In that deposition he says, I bought
Quaaludes, drugs, illegal drugs to give to women for the purpose of sex. Why do we need more evidence than that?
MARTIN: Because that's what the criminal justice system looks like. We cannot convict someone because of something they may have done to someone else. If I'm being charged for attacking --
ODUOLOWU: So, a monster is not a monster?
MARTIN: The fact that I attacked you isn't relevant to whether I attacked her. And we have to stay focused on the facts in this particular case. Just because Bill Cosby is a celebrity doesn't mean that justice for him should look any different than it looks for any other defendant.
SESAY: You talk about staying focused on this case. We know that there are outstanding civil cases. Any impact in any crossover?
MARTIN: Well, obviously if he is found guilty that will be more fuel to the civil case that are going forward. Some of those cases are barred by the statute of limitations, but there are some active civil cases in California and we know there are some active cases in Boston. And if there is a guilty verdict in this case I think it will help those civil plaintiffs in their cases, maybe help them get to larger settlements sooner. In my cause, this case is to go away.
[02:26:08] ODUOLOWU: Is this what our legal system has come to, that we just suspend disbelief and common sense? Like there are people on Twitter -- there are people on Twitter --
MARTIN: No, no, no. We don't suspend --
ODUOLOWU: In between commercials people on Twitter are coming at me -- well, in between commercials people on Twitter are coming at us saying how can you say that he's guilty and everyone has the right to a fair trial. My question -- my statement to all of those people is let him babysit your kids. Thrust him. Let him go date your aunt. Do you trust him? Do you trust this man --
MARTIN: The justice system, we can't have a dual system for celebrities and non-celebrities and this is --
VAUSE: I'm not so sure that the level of guilt or innocence comes down to --
MARTIN: He's entitled to be presumed innocent until he is found guilty.
ODUOLOWU: But do you -- but do you believe -- do you believe as a lawyer, as a human being, do you believe this man is innocent?
SESAY: But that does not matter in the court of law what she believes --
MARTIN: I think he's entitled to the most incredibly aggressive defense that his dollars allow him --
ODUOLOWU: We watched a murderer in O.J. Simpson walk free.
VAUSE: OK.
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We are not moving on to O.J. --
MARTIN: Bill Cosby, not O.J.
VAUSE: Areva, absolutely.
ODUOLOWU: Worse than O.J., 50 women.
SESAY: We thank you for this very spirited, very spirited discussion.
VAUSE: Again, Bill Cosby and his defense team maintain his innocence.
SESAY: And he has denied all wrongdoing.
MARTIN: Remember our criminal justice system, that's the status today.
VAUSE: Let's just reaffirm that one. Segun --
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SESAY: We'll have you back. Thank you.
MARTIN: OK.
SESAY: All right. Time for a quick break. Next on CNN NEWSROOM. Chaos on the streets. As protesters get violent outside a Trump rally. But it was a winning night for the Republican presidential candidate.
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[02:30:50] SESAY: Welcome back, everyone. Police are working to keep things calm after violent anti-Trump protests broke out in Albuquerque, New Mexico Tuesday.
VAUSE: Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside a Trump rally to protest his immigration plan and the violence escalated throughout the night. A number of police officers were injured and at least one person was arrested. Here's Dan Simon.
SIMON: Things are definitely calm now in downtown Albuquerque, but you walk around and these are some of the remnants on the street. This is an empty canister of pepper spray. We saw police employing that tactic just a short time ago to try to get crowds to calm down, if you will. You had hundreds to begin with. Then as the police pushed the protesters down the street in the middle of the main thoroughfare in downtown Albuquerque, you had the crowds begin to disperse, but quite a chaotic situation all evening. This really began when you had a group of protesters break through a barricade that police had set up to prevent protests from going in the convention center where Donald Trump was giving his speech. They got close to the door but police in riot gear kept them at bay, and from there, I have to say, things quickly descended into chaos. You had protesters, as you said, throwing rocks and bottles at police. Police were showing remarkable restraint with these protesters, basically hoping that things would calm down, but things only escalated. They went to a main thoroughfare a couple of blocks away. Some were bouncing on police cars. They were lighting things on fire and things were just completely out of control, and then police started using pepper spray. They started firing tear gas canisters into the crowd, and ultimately, that seemed to do the trick to get these crowds to go home, but quite a scene. This is not what we expected when we first got here this afternoon. We saw well over 1,000 anti-Trump protesters congregating. This was a peaceful protest when Donald Trump came into town. Then as you had nightfall, mainly young people, not clear if they were part of that original protest. Police say they weren't, they were just troublemakers, but clearly they caused quite a scene here in Albuquerque. John, Isha --
SESAY: Let's get to Eric Bauman, the Democratic Party Vice Chair for California.
VAUSE: And KABC talk radio host and Trump supporter, John Phillips. A wild night in Albuquerque, John. What's your take on this? What does this do for the Trump campaign? Does he come under pressure regardless of who's to blame here, or who you blame here? Does he come under pressure to dial it back?
JOHN PHILLIPS, TALK RADIO HOST, KABC: No, I think this helps him. I think the silent majority is watching these criminals on CNN tonight assault police officers, attack public property, go after police cars, and they're appalled at what's going on. They see the Mexican flag out there -- we've lived through this here in California in 1994 when proposition 187 was on the ballot, when governor Pete Wilson was running for re-election, and we saw protests that were very similar to this, and there was a backfire, a boomerang effect that happened and proposition 187 ended up passing and Pete Wilson ended up coming back. He was down double digits in the polls. He ended up winning a second term decisively.
ERIC BAUMAN, VICE CHAIR, DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CALIFORNIA: And since that day, no Republican has ever won an office in California. Every Latino voter, virtually, to the one in California, votes for the Democrats, and I think what you have seen, as is evidenced by voter registration in California, that Donald Trump has fired up Latinos all across America. You know, there have been a million and a half voter registrants in California since the first of the year, and the largest number of Latino voter registrants ever, they're all registering as Democrats. And this is going on in state after state after state, because of the kind of demagogic language that he's used from his wall on down.
SESAY: John, just quickly, I want to read Donald Trump's tweet in the aftermath of all of this. This is what he said. Great rally in New Mexico. Amazing crowd. Now in L.A. Big rally in Anaheim. Is that good enough as a response to all of this, just to put that out and not to directly address the scenes we saw on the street?
[02:35:06] PHILLIPS: Absolutely. He's not responsible for the violence that was going on outside the building. The people who were committing those acts of violence are responsible for it. And I've got to say this -- Eric is a guy who, if he was there in Albuquerque, he would be out there with the voter registration forms or maybe the picket signs. He wouldn't be burning things down. He wouldn't be attacking police officers. If you don't like what Donald Trump is saying, there's a right way of responding to it and there's a wrong way of responding to it, and what you're seeing tonight is the wrong way.
SESAY: And to be fair, the police in Albuquerque did say how the scenes we saw towards the end, those weren't --
PHILLIPS: Yes, but I don't know why they want to bend over backwards to make excuses for these people when the violence just didn't start a few minutes ago. The violence has been going on throughout the evening. So there were fires, there were rocks being thrown, there were laws being broken long ago.
SESAY: Gentlemen, a pleasure. Thank you.
Spirited.
VAUSE: Very spirited.
SESAY: All right. Well, let's take a look at where things stand after tonight's primary. Trump is now within striking distance of winning the Republican presidential nomination after that victory in Washington State. He won 76 percent of the vote counted so far.
VAUSE: And CNN estimates Trump will gain 40 delegates. He needs only eight more to clinch the nomination before the convention. Well, next here on CNN NEWSROOM, the U.S. President is headed to Japan for the G7 summit. But first, he met with Vietnam's next generation of leaders. Highlights from his last day in Vietnam just ahead.
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SESAY: Check out this dramatic video of a tornado as it churns across a highway and tears apart a farm in Kansas. Weather officials say severe thunderstorms spawned multiple twisters across the state on Tuesday. Several people were injured.
VAUSE: An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces is moving to retake Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital in Syria. An activist group says a clash was taking place on the northern outskirts of the city. The U.S. led coalition is providing assistance as well as advice.
SESAY: This offensive coincides with one against ISIS in Fallujah, Iraq. The U.N. is pleading for the safety of thousands of people trapped there. Though the Iraqi government has urged residents to flee through safe corridors, activists say ISIS is preventing them from leaving. VAUSE: There is more information about the final hours of Egyptair
flight 804. Egyptian state media published images of a log one the pilots signed saying the plane was in normal condition with no issues. That coincides with a French statement that said the plane passed inspection before takeoff.
SESAY: Well, the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders are still missing as the search for the wreckage intensifies. The jet crashed into the Mediterranean last Thursday with 66 people on board. Now, it has been six days since the flight disappeared from radar and there are no clear answers on why it went down.
VAUSE: Brian Todd reports on the evidence investigators are working with so far.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Conflicting accounts of the final moments of Egyptair flight 804 now deepening the mystery over the plane's fate, still unknown whether there was an explosion on board. The initial answer may come from the bodies. An official at the Cairo morgue tells CNN more than 15 bags of human remains have been delivered to the morgue. The official says those remains are small in size. Egyptair's vice chairman is refuting remarks from some Egyptian officials that small body parts indicate there was an explosion on board.
AHMED ADEL, VIE CHAIRMAN, EGYPTAIR (via telephone): In any high velocity impact, it leads to defragmentations and this is not indicative of what caused the accident. So as of now, this is all speculation.
TODD: Veteran investigators tell CNN body recovery is critical. A detailed examination of the bodies could reveal important clues.
DAVID GLEAVE, AVIATION SAFETY INVESTIGATOR: We would X-ray the bodies to look for fragments of bomb blasts and things like that. That may give you information.
TODD: Egyptian officials say relatives of those on board have been giving DNA samples to help match what's been found to possible victims. So far, only small pieces of debris have been recovered. Pieces of seats, luggage, life vests, personal belongings. No major parts of the fuselage have been located. Another point of contention -- did Egyptair flight 804 make a dramatic swerve before it vanished? Shortly after the crash, the Greek defense minister said radar indicated the plane swerved 90 degrees left, then 360 degrees right before it plummeted. But a top Egyptian aviation official now denies that, saying the aircraft did not swerve or make a precipitous drop in altitude before it disappeared. A veteran controller and radar expert says it's possible neither official is wrong, that they're saying simply what their own respective radars picked up. He says because the plane had just flown over Greece before it vanished, Greek controllers may have gotten a more detailed picture of its track.
ALAN BELL, FORMER MILITARY PILOT AND CONTROLLER: The Greeks had potentially multiple surveillance radars tracking the airplane, and the airplane had just flown over their airspace and was still in relatively close proximity. So they would have been able to have a much higher resolution on what the airplane was doing.
TODD: The Egyptian radars, Alan Bell says, may have been much further away when the Egyptair flight came into their air space. They only tracked it for about a minute before it disappeared.
Investigators and aviation experts tell us the definitive information as to whether the plane swerved, took a precipitous dive, or whether there was an explosion on board, will come from the black boxes, but recovering those is seemingly becoming more difficult. Egyptair's vice chairman told CNN, the search area is the size of Connecticut. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
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SESAY: Now U.S. President Barack Obama is on his way to Japan, the next stop on his week-long trip to Asia.
VAUSE: He left Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a short time ago after a town hall meeting with young leaders, and in Japan, Mr. Obama will meet with other world leaders for the G7 summit.
SESAY: CNN's Alexandra Field joins us now live from Ho Chi Minh City. Alexandra, it's good to have you with us. President Obama's principal goal for this trip was to strengthen the partnership between the U.S. and Vietnam. It's clear what Vietnam has gained from the President's visit, but what did the U.S. really get out of all of this?
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Isha, you're right. Vietnam has been making it clear that they are gaining a lot from this and actually sort of the reviews of the trip in the English language newspapers here in Vietnam have been pretty positive. You've actually got this one that says, peace better than war. It's quoting President Obama in his address yesterday. This article really reflects on the fact that the President came here to sort of talk about how much the Relationship has transformed between Vietnam and the U.S. in the post- war era.
[02:45:09] The stated goals of this trip for both Vietnam and the U.S. were to improve security and economic cooperation between the two countries. When you talk about what the U.S. gains from this trip, well, this has been an opportunity for President Obama to continue to pitch the TPP, the Trans-Pacific trade deal which he hopes will become a signature part of his legacy. It remains stalled in Washington at the moment. But Vietnam and the U.S. are not the only interested parties in this trip. You've got a big third party that's carefully watching this and that of course is China. People in China are closely scrutinizing the evolution of this relationship between Vietnam and the U.S. In fact, there was an editorial that ran in a state media newspaper which said, whatever common interests the two countries pursue, they should never compromise China's national interests and threaten regional security. That, of course, would be a reference to the fact President Obama did announce while he was here that the U.S. would no longer ban the sale of arms to Vietnam. That has been perceived by some as a move to counter China's growing strength in the region. The President has said that is not the case, that this is just a further commitment to stabilizing and normalizing the relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. The editorial in China's paper concludes by saying, we hope Obama means what he says. So, that's the view from China.
VAUSE: Quickly, Alexandra, the President heading to Japan for that G7 summit, but I guess the real highlight will be the visit to Hiroshima.
FIELD: Absolutely. He's got the meeting with G7 leaders. He's got a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. But yes, all eyes really will be on the moments that he spends at Hiroshima. He will be the first U.S. president to visit the site of the first atomic bomb attack, and this will certainly be a poignant moment we expect, a reflective moment we expect, and it does tie into some of the broader themes of the trip. We heard from his senior administration officials who have sort of framed this trip by saying that it's important to the President to communicate this point, that the U.S. should not be imprisoned by the past. This is a trip that reflects on a very complicated past with Vietnam, also with Japan, and in setting the tone for more cooperation in the future, John.
VAUSE: Alexandra Field live this hour for us with the very latest on President Obama's trip to Asia, his tenth trip to Asia. Still trying to make that pivot.
SESAY: Yes, thanks, Alex.
VAUSE: Well, the Super Bowl could be coming to a city near you. The National Football League owners announced the locations Tuesday for the championship games.
SESAY: Atlanta will host Super Bowl LIII in 2019.
VAUSE: Guess where I live?
SESAY: The city is getting a brand new football stadium for the hometown Falcons next year.
VAUSE: Billions of dollars. South Florida will be the site for the Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Ah, it's coming to Los Angeles.
SESAY: 2021, though.
VAUSE: I'll be dead by then. There we go.
SESAY: All right. Mark your calendars, everyone. Now, coming up, Bernie Sanders supporters are faced with a tough question. If they had to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, who would they choose? We'll go to a Sanders rally to find out after the break.
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[02:50:30] DEREK VAN DAM, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: A rare sight was caught on camera by storm chasers across the Central U.S., in fact, the U.S. state of Kansas. This is a dual vortex tornado, two tornadoes at once. You can see the legend at the top portion of your screen. We refer to this as dancing tornadoes because they often move around each other. This is one of several tornadoes that have been spawned across the central U.S. this week and guess what, there is the chance of severe weather once again. Here's a look at what's building this severe weather. We have a fairly slow-moving cold front across the plains and we're also tapping into warm Gulf of Mexico moisture. On top of that, we have a strong jet stream in the upper levels of the atmosphere. So this is really just the right conditions for the possibility of severe weather. The middle of the workweek, 24 degrees for Denver, 17 for San Francisco, 18 for L.A. Chicago, 29. You have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some could have large hail and the potential of gusty winds. New York City, we stay sunny. Atlanta also blue skies overhead with temperatures in the lower 30s. You can see the storm system rotating across the plains. Again, look out for severe weather. Iowa City traveling southward into Oklahoma City. In terms of rainfall accumulation, you have the potential of upwards of 100 millimeters of rain and some of the slow-moving thunderstorms across the region.
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VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. Police in Albuquerque, New Mexicom have finally broken up an angry mop outside a Donald Trump rally. Protesters set several small fires and threw rocks and bottles at police. Officers responded with pepper spray. A Trump adviser called demonstrators thugs and punks. He went on to say, who don't even know what they're protesting.
SESAY: Meanwhile, Trump is now very close at clinching the Republican nomination after winning the Washington primary. He has about 76 percent of the vote so far. Ted Cruz and John Kasich were still on the ballot even though they dropped out of the race.
VAUSE: John Kasich doing almost as well he was he was doing when he was actually in the race. CNN estimates Trump now has 1,229 delegates, just 8 shy of the number he needs to clinch the nomination.
SESAY: A new "Washington Post"/ABC News poll suggests that 20 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters would actually back Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, in a matchup in November.
VAUSE: They say that now. Our Gary Tuchman went to a Sanders rally and asked voters who they'd support should the senator from Vermont be defeated.
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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bernie Sanders' most loyal supporters are conceding nothing.
Do you still think he can get the nomination?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In he can win California, I think we can get the nomination. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. Bernie or bust.
TUCHMAN: If the Sanders supporters here in Anaheim, California are wrong, Hillary Clinton would certainly like and likely need to have their votes. But many here have doubts about her integrity and trustworthiness. The animosity cannot be overlooked.
If Hillary Clinton faces Donald Trump in November, who would you vote for?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you have your choice between the corrupt and the stupid. And so I'll take Hillary.
TUCHMAN: For Hillary Clinton, at least that means spirited endorsement equals a vote. Other Sanders supporters won't even consider it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I could vote third party, I could write in Bernie Sanders.
TUCHMAN: If Bernie Sanders doesn't get the nomination, I know you're still hopefull he will, and Hillary Clinton faces Donald Trump in November, who will you vote for?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think anyone here cares about Hillary Clinton. Nobody here but you guys. No one here cares about Hillary Clinton.
TUCHMAN: There are people who care. Perhaps not you, and that's my question for you, though. What do you do in November?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't any anyone here cares about Hillary Clinton.
TUCHMAN: You don't want to say?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a movement. If she wins, great. This is the last time she's going to win.
TUCHMAN: And some Sanders supporters dislike her so much --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'll probably vote Donald Trump.
TUCHMAN: -- they are considering doing what many others here consider unthinkable.
What is the reason you'd vote for Donald Trump?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess just to not vote for Hillary Clinton.
TUCHMAN: The fact is, there are Sanders supporters here who care very much about the Democratic Party and the party not losing the White House.
TUCHMAN: If he doesn't get the nomination and it's Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump, who will I vote for in November? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Definitely Hillary.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No choice there -- Hillary.
TUCHMAN: But the atmosphere here, while anti-Trump, was also anti- Clinton.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: But it is not just -- it is not just Donald Trump. My Democratic opponent, Secretary Clinton -- (booing)
[02:55:09] TUCHMAN: There are still more than 5 1/2 months to go until the general election. But what stands out now is this -- many of the Hillary Clinton criticisms that come from Bernie Sanders' supporters at this rally are identical to the criticisms of Hillary Clinton we hear from Trump supporters at one of his rallies.
SANDERS: We're going to march out with the Democratic nomination.
TUCHMAN: Here in Anaheim, Bernie Sanders is still the one and only for most of these people.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Never Hillary, never Trump. That's a waste of all of our time.
TUCHMAN: Bernie Sanders didn't have a lot to say about Hillary Clinton at his earlier event, but when he talked about her fundraising or her Wall Street ties, his supporters erupted in boos. Not surprisingly, he had more to say about Donald Trump, at one point declaring that if he won the Democratic nomination, Donald Trump would be, quote, toast. His supporters went wild. Bernie Sanders, it appears, as of now, is still at full throttle. This is Gary Tuchman, CNN in San Bernardino, California.
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SESAY: The fight is far from over.
VAUSE: They say they won't vote now. Clearly, the Clinton campaign believes that that will change the closer it comes.
SESAY: They certainly hope so. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.
VAUSE: That was the end of three long hours. I'm John Vause. The news continues with Rosemary Church and Errol Barnett right after this.
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