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GOP Rivals Spar Ahead of Nevada Caucuses; Sanders Accuses Clinton of Copying His Message; Can Sanders Catch up to Clinton in Delegate Race? Aired 6-6:30a ET

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This guy is sick.

[05:58:56] GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We just got an army of people. Many women, who left their kitchens.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Every single day something comes out of the Cruz campaign that's deceptive.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Rick Tyler is a good man. This was a grave error of judgment.

TRUMP: It's the Cruz scam.

KASICH: Everybody has just got to relax.

RUBIO: If you vote for me, I will unify this party.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Secretary Clinton seems to be adopting the positions that we have advocated.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

SANDERS: We are doing something fairly radical in politics. We're telling the truth.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I said, "You're not the shooter, are you?"

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: An Uber driver accused in a shooting rampage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The motive remains unclear at this point.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was running red lights, squealing the tires. I was yelling at him, "Please stop, please stop."

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira. CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It

is Tuesday, February 23, 6 a.m. in the east. We are live in Columbia, South Carolina, because it is time. Sanders and Clinton making the case to voters here and to you in tonight's CNN Democratic presidential town hall. We are just four days before primary in South Carolina.

The question for Clinton: Can she convince African-American voters to stick with her here? Can Sanders, the question for him, can he convince the young to get up and vote, just one week from Super Tuesday?

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Lots of good questions there, Chris. Obviously, we will be with you all morning from there.

Well, for the Republicans, the Nevada caucuses begin tonight. After a wild day on the campaign trail Monday, Marco Rubio's gaining some steam, with a major injection of establishment money and support. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz and John Kasich's campaigns in damage control.

Let's begin our election coverage with CNN's Sara Murray. She's live in Las Vegas for us.

Good morning, Sara.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump is hoping to lock in another win in Nevada.

TRUMP: Forget the word "caucus." Just go out and vote, OK?

MURRAY: While Marco Rubio appears set on a lasting endorsement.

BOB DOLE (R), FORMER SENATOR/PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I'm supporting Rubio.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's conservative, and he's electable.

MURRAY: And is arguing it's time for Republicans to rally behind him as the alternative to Trump before it's too late.

RUBIO: If we nominate someone that half the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November. We will never win that way.

MURRAY: But right now Donald Trump's blows are firmly trained on Ted Cruz.

TRUMP: This guy is sick. There's something wrong with this guy.

MURRAY: Just hours before voters cast their ballots in the unpredictable caucus state of Nevada...

TRUMP: You know, it is Las Vegas. It's a little tricky. A little tricky. MURRAY: ... Cruz was still trying to nix the narrative that his

campaign plays dirty.

TRUMP: This guy Cruz lies more than any human being I've ever dealt with. Unbelievable.

RUBIO: Every single day something comes out of the Cruz campaign that's deceptive and untrue.

MURRAY: Yesterday Cruz fired his communications director.

CRUZ: This morning I asked for Rick Tyler's resignation.

MURRAY: That's after the staffer distributed a video that appeared accurately to show Marco Rubio dismissing the Bible.

RUBIO: perhaps that was the most offensive one, because they basically made it up.

MURRAY: As Cruz struggled to regroup, John Kasich had his own awkward campaign moment, saying women left their kitchens to support his 1970s state house bid.

KASICH: We just got an army of people, who -- and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put -- put yard signs up for me.

MURRAY : His off-hand comment quickly called out by a voter.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll come out to support you, but I won't be coming out of the kitchen.

KASICH: I gotcha. I gotcha.

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MURRAY: Now, John Kasich's campaign clarified they said they were talking how his early efforts were really a grassroots movement where, literally, stay-at-home moms were pitching in.

But nonetheless, Kasich apologized in case he offended anyone. Now, he could be facing some new pressures pretty soon. There may be some big donors who are stepping in, trying to get him to step aside and coalesce behind Marco Rubio.

But Alisyn, I've got to tell you, John Kasich has an independent streak. So we'll see how those moves go over with the candidate.

CAMEROTA: He sure does. He said he wants to stay at least through Ohio, because he's rolling the dice there, to run with a metaphor from where you are, Sara. Thanks so much for all of that background.

Joining us now, CNN senior political analyst and senior editor at "The Atlantic," Ron Brownstein; and CNN political commentator and political anchor for Time Warner Cable News, Errol Louis.

Gentlemen, great to have you here.

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR EDITOR: Good morning.

CAMEROTA: Let's talk about how Jeb Bush's departure from the race seems to be Marco Rubio's gain. There seems to be an infusion of lots of enthusiasm and money now from supporters and donors who had been with Jeb Bush.

Let me pull up for you, Errol, some of the big-name endorsements that Marco Rubio has just pulled in. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. Yesterday, we had on former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty. He announced here that he was endorsing Rubio. Bob Dole, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Flake, Thom Tillis. We are having another big-name Republican on today to endorse him. So is this enough?

ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, it's a very good start. I mean, this is exactly what Marco Rubio wants and needs, which is some validators from all across the spectrum of the Republicans' so- called establishment. People say this is an OK guy. This is a good guy. We should keep in mind that, in state after state after state, you know, you've got thousands, really, of Republican activists on the ground who are taking some of their -- at least some of their signals from some of the guys at the top.

So when, you know, a Bob Dole or a Thom Tillis, or some of these guys are saying, you know, "We're going to go with Rubio. We've got a strategy now. We want to stop Trump," that at least gives them some clear marching orders. It's really just been this confusion when you have a dozen candidates that has really led to a lot of what we've seen so far.

CAMEROTA: Ron, let's look at the map and look at the numbers and see how Rubio could pull this off. This is March 1, OK, so Super Tuesday. Here are the delegates up for grabs on March 1. So where does Rubio win?

BROWNSTEIN: And that is the core challenge for Rubio. Look, I would say these endorsements are necessary but not sufficient. I mean, they help. But it's not going to be any better in any state than he had in South Carolina, where you had a popular governor, a popular senator, Trey Gowdy from the House, and he still got to 22 percent. Which is the Rubio problem, Alisyn, has been that he has a little bit of everything but not enough of anything.

And I think the more important step for him is to find a key argument against Donald Trump. He's more bent to the Trump wave than he has confronted it. And he's changed his position on trade. He said he's not going to tell us how he's going to vote on the Transpacific partnership until May. On immigration, he's moved very much away from where he was in 2013 and much closer to Donald Trump. Ultimately, he has to find a place to fly his flag and make a case against Donald Trump, because endorsements alone are not going to overcome the advantages that Trump has.

CAMEROTA: And in terms, Errol, of the math, if he leaches off some delegates in the not winner-take-all states, then can he slide towards the convention?

LOUIS: Well, he can start to accumulate some delegates, but he doesn't want to start too far behind. And that, I think, is his main danger. You know, if he has to wait until mid-March, if he has to wait until Florida comes out before he really starts picking up delegates, he's going to be confronted, not just with a delegate imbalance but with a lot of really hard, strategic choices.

Like he's got to decide right away, for example, if he wants to play in Texas. If he wants to play in Texas, there's sort of a 20 percent threshold. So if he's not coming in at 20 percent, you have to make a decision. Do I sort of invest a lot of money and time to get to the threshold so that I get even one delegate, or do I turn my back on Texas, go play in Virginia or some other state?

BROWNSTEIN: Yes.

CAMEROTA: Ron, let's talk about Ted Cruz and what's going on with his camp.

BROWNSTEIN: Yes.

CAMEROTA: Yesterday he fired one of his top people, Rick Tyler, after Tyler had tweeted out this doctored video of Marco Rubio allegedly saying -- making a sort of disparaging remark about the Bible.

So let's look at what the video was that Rick Tyler sent out and then the original video. Watch this.

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MARCO RUBIO: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

GRAPHIC: Rubio: "Got a good book there." Staffer: "Yes." Rubio: "Not many answers in it. Especially in the..."

Rubio: "Got a good book there." Staffer: "Yes, sir." Rubio: "All the answers are in there, especially in that one."

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PEREIRA: OK. So they claim that he said, "Not many answers in there" in the Bible. But he said, "All the answers in there." So where do you think this leaves the Cruz campaign?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, look, I mean, Cruz has been facing this issue throughout. I mean, and it kind of goes to a broader question of the, you know, behavior in the Senate, which left many senators to feel that he would do whatever it takes to advance his own interests and why he's having so much trouble getting endorsements from his colleagues. So it doesn't help. And obviously, it kind of advances that narrative.

The bigger problem, though, Cruz faces, Alisyn, is the really opposite problem of Rubio. Rubio's support has been broad but very shallow. Cruz has been much too narrow. You know, he was touted as someone who was going to bring together economic and religious conservatives. Instead, he is running very poorly in each of the first three states in voters who are not evangelicals. Not better, really, than Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee.

So he really has two narrow a base on which to truly contest this. I mean, he can be strong in some of the southern states, as Santorum and Huckabee were, but without a broader coalition, he's not really going to get to Donald Trump.

And real quick on Rubio, to answer your last question. The states that he has to focus on most likely are pretty much the same states as Bernie Sanders. I mean, states that are more white collar, and more coastal, more cosmopolitan. You look at kind of Massachusetts. If you look at Virginia, if you look at Georgia, states with more college graduates, where he's run relatively better, those are probably his best options on Super Tuesday.

CAMEROTA: Errol, we have a list of the so-called sort of dirty tricks of Ted Cruz that have cropped up. So let's just go through some of these.

You know, there was that Iowa mailer, the one that said voter violation -- voting violation. And then there was the misinformation about Ben Carson dropping out. Not true. Aggressive robocalls, his rivals say. There was this Photoshopped image of Rubio that he said showed him looking quite diminutive. And now this Bible thing. Does this end up having an effect on his campaign or is this just all to be expected during a tough contest?

LOUIS: Well, a lot of this is to be expected, but it does affect him, because it plays into a narrative. You know, this stuff doesn't work if it's, you know, sort of completely contrary to type.

So, for example, the smear on Rubio with the video that you showed. It doesn't work, because nobody really thinks that Rubio is some kind of, you know, secretly anti-Christian, you know, hater of the Bible.

On the other hand, Cruz, you know, he's gotten this reputation of being sort of a dirty player. As Ron suggests, some of this comes from the way he's acted as a legislator, having nothing to do with the political campaign. And so it feeds into a type. It starts to take hold. And now he's got to spend a lot of time and energy just dealing with that, which is the last thing he needs to be doing right now.

CAMEROTA: Ron, Errol, great to talk to you guys. Coming up, we will talk more about John Kasich. He's also in a bit of damage control. As well as how the Iowa -- the Ohio polls are looking, because that's very interesting, what's happening with Kasich and with Trump there.

So stay with CNN all day for coverage of tonight's Republican caucuses in Nevada. And be sure to join us Thursday night as the remaining five Republicans square off in the final debate before Super Tuesday. Wolf Blitzer moderates live from Houston, Thursday night, at 8:30 Eastern right here on CNN.

[06:10:14] Let's go to Columbia, South Carolina, where we find Chris Cuomo. Hi, Chris.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, my friend.

You know, as we all know, contrast and conflict are a given in a tight race. And we're seeing that among the Democrats now. Bernie Sanders and his team stepping up attacks on Hillary Clinton ahead of tonight's CNN town hall right here in South Carolina.

The Vermont -- Vermont senator is accusing Clinton of copying his message. And he's also continuing to beat the drum that Wall Street donors may be influencing her campaign. This as Clinton seems to have a not-so-secret advantage.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny is live in South Carolina. He's going to give us more on this. Delegates versus super delegates. The distinction matters.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: It does matter. Good morning, Chris. And that is something that we're going to be keeping our eye on here, because this is a race, after all, for delegates. So follow along here.

Hillary Clinton now has 52 pledged delegates. Bernie Sanders has 51 pledged delegates. It sound pretty even, right? But when you add those super delegates, the leaders of the Democratic Party who have a vote in this, her lead increases to 497 to 69.

That explains the dynamic coming into this town hall meeting tonight. Bernie Sanders knows that he needs to try and slow the energy that is coming behind his rival here. That's why he was campaigning yesterday in Massachusetts. And he says some of Clinton's language sounds awfully, awfully familiar.

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SANDERS: I have to say that I am delighted that Secretary Clinton, month after month after month, seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated. In fact, I think I saw a TV ad, and I thought it was me. But it turned out, it was Secretary Clinton's picture in the ad.

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ZELENY: So a little bit of sarcasm there. But the translation is this. Bernie Sanders says that Hillary Clinton is moving to the left, that he has brought her to the left. And that, in fact, is one of the reasons he decided to run for president at all.

But look, he is still very much in this race. His supporters are very fervent against [SIC] him -- for him. That's why coming in tonight to South Carolina, he'll be making his case.

But Chris, he is keeping his eye well beyond South Carolina, as well. Super Tuesday, a week from today, he'll be campaigning this week all across those states. He still has a lot of delegates up his sleeve, as well -- Chris. CUOMO: Well, as you've coached me all along, Jeff, Sanders' play is

young voters and to hope he does well enough in these states coming up that the super delegates shift their votes. Because they're allowed to vote for whomever they want. But the way they're pledged right now gives Clinton a big lead.

ZELENY: They are.

CUOMO: All right. Thank you very much, my brother. We'll check back with you in a little bit.

Mick, back to you.

PEREIRA: All right. We'll look at some more headlines before we turn back to you, Chris.

Two Republican senators are breaking from party leaders, saying they would act on President Obama's potential Supreme Court nominee. Susan Collins of Maine telling CNN the Senate should follow regular order and give careful consideration to any nominee. Her colleague, Mark Kirk, facing a reelection tough battle in Illinois, taking it a step further, saying the nominee deserves a hearing and a vote. GOB [SIC] -- GOP brass disagree, saying the nominee should be introduced by the next president.

CAMEROTA: We're learning more about the Kalamazoo rampage suspect. Detectives say he made incriminating statements about, quote, "taking people's lives" after his arrest. A gun store owner also says he bought a heavy-duty jacket hours before the shooting started. The gunman was denied bail after being officially charged with six counts with murder, among other charges. And we have a live report in all of this in an update coming up.

PEREIRA; A new cease-fire agreement going into effect this weekend inside war-torn Syria. The truce begins midnight Saturday. It will last three weeks. There is a possibility that will be extended. President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to set up a communication hotline to monitor violence. Now, the ceasefire does not include terrorist groups ISIS and al-Nusra Front.

Fourteen minutes past the hour. We'll head back to Chris now.

CUOMO: All right, Mick. As we know, Hillary Clinton is on a role when it comes to racking up a big super delegate lead over Bernie Sanders so far. Can she be stopped? The answer is yes, but you've got to crunch the numbers to do it. And we'll do that for you ahead on NEW DAY.

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[06:18:28] CUOMO: All right. What wins an election? Message, yes. Being a quality man or woman, yes. But at the end of the day, it's delegates that win the election, both in the primary within the party and in the general against each party.

And now I know your eyes are going to glaze over, all the inside wonky stuff. Look, that stuff makes me want to punch somebody in the face, to coin [SIC] a presidential candidate. As much as it makes you feel that way. But you have to understand the picture. Because it's a big reason that Hillary Clinton is seen as having a really big advantage in this race. She's already 20 percent of the way where she needs to be to get the delegate count. And she's still tied with Bernie Sanders.

All right. So let's find out what this means and what it means going forward. We have political reporter for "The State," Andy Shane; and CNN Politics executive editor Mark Preston.

So put that back up on the screen there while we're talking about this. The number of delegates versus super delegates. Let's start simple here, Mark. Super delegates. Delegates are the people that you get apportioned at the convention, based on how you win in a state, depending on the state's rules. Super delegates, "X" factor. How so?

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR: OK. So the super delegates are basically your elected officials: your governors, your senators, your members of the Democratic Party that don't have to pledge themselves. They can do that personally.

So we saw this happen back in 2008 when there was a big fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. So what we've seen happen is that Hillary Clinton has gone out and has effectively collected as many of those as she possibly can. So that's basically putting those in her back pocket even before we had one elected contest happen.

[06:20:01] CUOMO: Now, we say "X" factor. By the way, this was a big part of the Biden calculus. Yes, it's mostly about what's going on in his head and his heart with the loss of his son. But it was, well, how is he going to deal with these super delegates?

But the "X" factor, Andy, is they can vote for whomever they want. So if there's a surprise in their state, there's pressure, if they decide they don't like your face, whatever itis, they can go the other way. So how does Sanders make inroads?

ANDY SHALES, POLITICAL REPORTER, "THE STATE": You know, it's going to be tough in South Carolina. He's already pretty much -- Hillary Clinton has gotten most of the super delegates here in South Carolina.

CUOMO: Andy, when I tee up optimism, do not rain on my parade.

SHALES: I'm sorry. We're here in the home of the firewall, you know of the Clinton firewall.

CUOMO: But if he shows penetration into African-Americans or if it's young people within that group that comes out, they can change. But you don't see it?

SHALES: They can change. I just don't see it at this point. I mean, Hillary Clinton has been working the states since -- for the past few years. She was a major candidate in 2008 until Barack Obama came along and obviously stole her thunder. She was hoping that she would do well.

CUOMO: And a lot of super delegates switched.

SHALES: And a lot of delegates switched. But in the end she said, "Look, if you didn't work for me back in 2008, be for me in 2016." She's worked those relationships a lot harder at this point than senator Sanders.

CUOMO: All right. So let's look at the rest of the map, because there are a lot of delegates up for grabs. And obviously, in each of those states, there are super delegates in play, as well.

So let's show you the numbers there. And the map is a suggestion as to why Sanders is taking days off here in South Carolina and going elsewhere. Right, Mark?

PRESTON: Right. I mean, look, he doesn't look at South Carolina as a place where he's going to win. I mean, that's clearly not going to happen. He also looks down at the South, when you're going to Georgia, and Tennessee, Arkansas, states that Hillary Clinton is going to do better than him.

What he's looking for is long ball. He's trying to play this long game, where he wants to go to states like Minnesota, Colorado. His own state of Vermont will -- will vote. He's hoping that Massachusetts will come his way. And in the Democratic contest, basically, he doesn't have to win a state to continue winning delegates.

CUOMO: They are tied right now in terms of the ones that they've won through popular vote.

PRESTON: Correct. So we make a big deal out of winning a state. And the Democratic contest, it's more of a moral victory. OK? It's more of a method victory. It's how close is the margin between the two candidates when you continue to match these numbers?

CUOMO: Andy Shane, is there any percentage in Bernie Sanders starting to attack the system and saying these super delegates, this is part of the rigged thing? You know, they're in the bag before they even hear the message. You know, they're making decisions, taking it away from you out there, you who are the voters who are fighting for your households every day. Is there any percentage in that?

SHANE: I don't -- I don't think so. You hate to say it, but a lot of times, the super...

CUOMO: No shame campaign?

SHANE: Well, they're part of the establishment to a certain degree. I mean -- and again, they're going to be part of this -- and some of them are -- were Hillary Clinton supporters back in 2008.

So I think his best shot is to make his case, you know, to try to win maybe some of the congressional districts. The congressional district delegates -- you get three each -- can be split between candidates. So that he needs to get at least 15 percent of the vote in a congressional delegate -- in a congressional district in order to get at least one delegate out of it.

CUOMO: What does he need to do to take this to a convention? Because the theory is he's not going to be able to. You know, in all likelihood. We've got to see. We've got to have the votes. Right? There have been so many surprises so far. But he may not be able to blow past her in terms of the delegate count, given these super delegates, if they hold to their commitment. But what could he do to take it to a convention?

PRESTON: Well, I mean, look it, he could be influential in a convention. I like what we're seeing on the Republican side, where you have the Republican establishment, looking at Donald Trump in -- with fear in their eyes where we're talking about a brokered convention or a contested convention.

The Democratic side, if Bernie Sanders is unable to, you know, win, right? I mean, if Hillary Clinton over the next two weeks just, like, hits him hard and does very well, Bernie Sanders can still go to the convention. And if anything, in a loss, it can be a victory in the sense that he can move her farther to the left and into the positions that he thinks the Democratic Party needs to move to.

CUOMO: And if he shocks and wins in a state, those super delegates have to think. They're there for their people and representing their party, not just their own interests and a handshake.

Let me ask you this, Andy Shane, in terms of what happens tonight, town hall. Bernie Sanders put out a tweet. "We're still waiting for those Goldman Sachs speeches." How do you feel about that in terms of its legitimacy as a straight issue?

SHANE: You know, nationally, it might play as an issue. But here in South Carolina, I think people are most worried about the economy. They're most worried about that rigged system that -- that Senator Sanders talks about.

CUOMO: There's the Sanders tweet, by the way.

SHANE: And exactly. I think, you know -- I think there are some questions about honesty with Secretary Clinton. But I think the bigger issues is really pocketbook issues here in South Carolina.

CUOMO: Do you see that as a cheap shot, or is it a legit question? "You gave a speech to banks. Banks are a big concern. What did you say?"

PRESTON: Look, all fair is -- all is fair in love and war and certainly in politics. And there's certainly somebody to be said about Bernie Sanders staying in the race right now, you know, with the ideas that -- what if something ever did happen to Hillary Clinton? What if she had to get forced out? If Bernie Sanders were to just quit the campaign and walk in a week or so, OK. If, for some reason, she was forced out of the race, would people go back to Bernie Sanders, or would they look to Joe Biden, you know, to your point? Would they look to somebody else, to try to bring in and draft him -- try to draft him in? So his stay in the race long ball.

SHANE: I was saying or Senator Warren.

PRESTON: Elizabeth Warren or somebody like that, sure.

CUOMO: Andy Shane, Mark Preston, are you excited about tonight?

[06:25:11] PRESTON: Very excited. It's going to be right behind us.

CUOMO: You have to be. Yes. We're going to be right here. This is the big stage where we're doing it. Obviously, that's why we're...

SHANE: And we here at South Carolina, we love the attention. Thank you.

CUOMO: Good, good. Well, gentlemen, thank you for being here with us. Appreciate it.

So this is the night that we're going to see Sanders and Clinton make their case, not to just some reporter, not just to each other, but to the voters of South Carolina, people who are living with problems that now will become issues in this race. I will have the best seat in the house at the CNN town hall at 8 p.m. eastern right here on CNN.

All right. Let's take a little break here. When we come back, we're covering a very big story, major implications to a community in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Silent in court, the man accused of doing all of those killings. But he hasn't been silent with police. They say that the defendant has made incriminating statements. But the motive still very much unclear. That matters to the case and to the victims and their families. We have the latest ahead.

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PEREIRA: It was standing room only as the community of Kalamazoo, Michigan, gathered to offer prayers for the victims and families impacted by Saturday's shooting spree.