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Candidates Make Final Push Ahead of NY Primaries; Sanders Lodges New Attacks on Clinton's Wall Street Ties; Thousands Injured in Coastal Earthquake; At Least 42 Dead, 1000s Injured in Japan. Aired 6-6:30a ET

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, it's a rigged election.

[05:58:22] REINCE PRIEBUS, RNC CHAIRMAN: I find it to be rhetoric and hyperbole.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're in a battle, a nationwide battle for delegates.

TRUMP: Didn't he come out for Lyin' Ted Cruz? Kasich (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Nobody does.

GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Come on. Act like you're a professional.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Welcome to the political revolution.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't think there's been a more important election.

SANDERS: We made less money in a given year than Secretary Clinton made in one speech.

CLINTON: My opponent talks about taking on the interests. Where were you? I mean, really.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Two powerful earthquakes: one in Ecuador, one in Japan.

A frantic race to save survivors.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: That's not how...

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: You've been taking vitamins.

Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It's Monday, April 18, 6 a.m. in the east. Alisyn is off, Brooke Baldwin joining us.

Good to have you, my friend.

BALDWIN: Good morning, happy Monday.

CUOMO: Guess what our lead story is? In just 24 hours New York is up for grabs along with its 95 pledged delegates in the presidential election. Both front-runners are working new angles. Republican Donald Trump is saying Cruz is the pawn of the party bosses, upset after losing this weekend in Wyoming to Ted Cruz. Cruz branding Trump a whiner, John Kasich pleading with Trump to act like a professional. Policy ideas? Not so much.

BALDWIN: As for the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparring over minimum wage and special-interest money, Secretary Clinton hoping for a huge win at home, with Senator Sanders drawing thousands to his hometown in Brooklyn over the weekend and renewing his call for her to release transcripts from her Wall Street speeches. We will have Senator Bernie Sanders live with us in the 8 a.m. hour.

We have the race for the White House covered only the way CNN can. Let's begin at Trump Tower in New York with Jason Carroll.

Jason, good morning.

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And good morning to you, Brooke. You know, we've heard from Trump over and over about the system being rigged. We've heard it from him on Friday. We heard it from him again at rallies over the weekend, the head of the RNC, saying this is not about a system being rigged. This is about some candidates doing their homework and one candidate who is not.

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TRUMP: We have a system that's rigged. We have a system that's crooked. We have this delegate system, which is a sham.

CARROLL (voice-over): Donald Trump doubling down on his beef with the RNC and continuing to criticize Ted Cruz's ground game in the race toward 1,237 delegates.

TRUMP: The fact that you're taking all these people out and wining them and dining them, nobody does that stuff better than me. I just don't want to do it.

CARROLL: The frontrunner tweeting over the weekend, "Lyin' Ted Cruz can't get the votes. I am millions ahead of him, so he has to get his delegates from the Republican bosses. It won't work."

Cruz responding, tweeting that "Over 1.3 million people voted in five contests against Trump. #NoWhining"

PRIEBUS: I find it to be rhetoric and hyperbole.

CARROLL: And the RNC chairman campaign explaining that the RNC can alter the rules between now and the convention, and that it's up to each state to decide the rules.

PRIEBUS: The majority of delegates is the goal, and you need to be able to play within the confines of the rules to make sure that you get there.

CARROLL: Trump's complaints coming on the heels of Ted Cruz's sweeping win in Wyoming, a state where delegates are won through a convention not a primary. Cruz was the only candidate to attend the convention and aggressively campaign in the state.

CRUZ: Wyoming matters. We're in a battle, a nationwide battle, for delegates.

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CARROLL: So what's on tap for today? Trump will be meeting with the group called the National Diversity Coalition for Trump here at Trump Tower. That's going to be at about noon. He has a rally in Buffalo. That's going to be at about 7 p.m.

And despite all the talk about what's going on with the delegates and the rules involving all of those delegates, he's way up in the polls here in the state of New York and is on track to capture a bulk of the delegates here in the state. And Brooke and Chris, he's also predicting that, come California primary, he's going to have the number of delegates needed to capture the nomination. We shall see.

CUOMO: Hmm.

CARROLL: Brooke, Chris.

CUOMO: Jason, appreciate it. We'll check back in a little bit.

BALDWIN: Thank you.

CUOMO: What do you say? Let's discuss.

BALDWIN: What?

CUOMO: Ready for the march of the titles? Here they come. First, CNN political commentator and political anchor of Time Warner Cable News, Mr. Errol Louis; CNN political commentator and senior contributor for "The Daily Caller," Mr. Matt Louis; and Washington bureau chief for "The Daily Beast," Jackie Kucinich.

BALDWIN: Well done.

CUOMO: A lot of practice.

So Errol Louis, hot off the debate stage, where you were driving things like a boss, and now here we are on the eve of the election. I know. It's the morning before the eve, but let's give it a break. So the state of play on both sides. What will matter tomorrow morning?

ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: What will martyr is whether or not Bernie Sanders makes the kind of concerted push that he has been calling for. This is his last best hope to really sort of make good on his claim that a political revolution is at hand and that he can close the delegate gap with Hillary Clinton. This is going to be it.

For Donald Trump, it's going to be can he take all of the delegates? His co-chair and some others have been saying, "We'll get all 95. We're going to beat everybody by more than 50 percent in every congressional district." That's what it would take to sort of have a winner take all, and that gets him on his road to what was just described. Victory before California.

BALDWIN: But just to get ahead for a second and Jackie, join in, as well. It's looking really solid for Trump in New York, but even looking down the line through the rest of April. I'm hearing the Cruz camp saying they can't way for May and Nebraska and Indiana, because this is really looking like Trump turf, the northeast?

JACKIE KUCINICH, "THE DAILY BEAST": Absolutely is. And -- but, you know, again, Trump now kind of has to get to that 1,237 number because of the missteps on the next level, on the second ballot. Because Ted Cruz has been able to vacuum up all these delegates in all these states. We saw it again this weekend. And then you had -- yes, exactly.

So it really is becoming even more critical that Trump lock this up early. And it's still -- I mean, even though the next couple -- the next week or so is going to be a little bit of smooth sailing for him, down the line in May, it's a little bit of a tougher road for Donald Trump.

CUOMO: Matt Lewis, despite the title of your book, "Too Dumb to Fail," you still have lots of friends in the party. What are they saying to you about Cruz's and Kasich's organization abilities here on the ground in New York to stop Donald Trump from getting to 50 percent in a lot of congressional districts? There will be a lot of retail politicking. It's trickier than just getting a general 50 percent across the state.

[06:05:08] MATT LEWIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That's right. No, I'm hearing -- it's hard to tell if people are being, you know, quixotic and overly optimistic or if they're -- you're hearing the real deal, but there is a hope that upstate, that Ted Cruz can keep Donald Trump under 50 percent in some of the congressional districts and he would be above 20 percent, he or John Kasich. It really doesn't matter, because it's about stopping Trump, and that they could pick up some delegates.

And so, you know, I think that, if Ted Cruz can get maybe 10 delegates, he would consider that a huge victory. Just to deprive Donald Trump of all 95 would be a step in the right direction.

BALDWIN: Well, you mentioned a second ago, Cruz is calling Trump the Whiner, again after what happened in Wyoming over the weekend, he's saying the system is rigged, said it's a bad system, needs to change. Over the weekend, we heard again from RNC chair Reince Priebus, talking about how this was all hyperbole. Here he was. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRIEBUS: I find it to be rhetoric and hyperbole. I think everyone understands these rules have been in place for years. Ultimately, about cleaning things up, it's up to the delegates. I mean, by majority the delegates decide. They decide everything. So it's not a matter of party insiders. It's a matter of 2,400-plus grassroots activists; and whatever they want to do, they can do.

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BALDWIN: True, Errol? Totally up to the delegates?

LOUIS: By and large, absolutely. I mean, if not before the convention, then certainly at the convention. They can make the rules anything that they want. They will decide however they want, and that's what the procedure has been, as he says, all the way back to the -- the founding of the party.

Donald Trump also, we have to keep in mind, has made some completely unforced errors. There was a little story in Politico about how, you know, back in April, they were sending invitations to people to try and sort of come to his side and be delegates. They were sending them to Washington, D.C., when they were supposed to go to Washington state.

BALDWIN: Whoops.

LOUIS: That kind of -- and it was two days after the deadline. I mean, that kind of stuff is never going to wash. You can say "rigged" all you want, but you've got to master some of the very basic rules. Some are a little tricky. But the basics of Washington state versus Washington, D.C., that's nobody's fault but his own.

BALDWIN: Geography.

CUOMO: Look, there's definitely ground game to be played, but I have to tell you, at a Little League game this weekend, balls and strikes, half a joke, half not, people calling out, when they didn't like the call, "Establishment! Establishment!"

There is something to what Trump has done, Jackie, in terms of making the rules, making the way you're supposed to do it, a function of what people shouldn't like. How does that help him at the ballot box?

KUCINICH: A lot of Trump's people. That is why he's catching fire.

CUOMO: Because he already has or do you think he can grow the tent?

KUCINICH: But I think he can grow the tent, and Ted Cruz has to be careful with his own name-calling. Calling Trump a whiner, making fun of him on various conservative radio shows. He's kind of at risk of looking like Trump when he does that. And so one of the reasons that people, you know, are signing up with Cruz, because they don't like the kind of nasty, childish games that Trump is playing. I wonder if Ted Cruz keeps up with that tone. BALDWIN: What about, finally, we know that the RNC rules committee,

you know, we talk about the all-important RNC rules committee meeting this week, rules chair Bruce Ash and others want to openly debate the rules changes and specifically possibly considering making recommendations that would prevent a savior candidate, a la, Matt, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said last week, no way. Please, please, you know, when you're sitting there on the floor...

CUOMO: Everyone's checking his hands seeing if he was like this.

BALDWIN: ... you know, please -- you know, please elect somebody who's actually running for president, Matt.

But do you think -- do you think it would be smart to sort of change up the rules now, or to use a baseball analogy, you know, three strikes and you're out? Is there sort of fuzzy math on the rules right now, or should they stick with what they have?

LEWIS: Well, word has come down from Reince Priebus, apparently, that this spring meeting, you know, "Don't worry about changing any rules right now. Because it's going to have the appearance that the game is rigged." They're going to wait, probably, until they get to the convention. That's when it matters anyway, when the actual convention rules meeting meets. Not the RNC rules committee. This is a very byzantine process. That's probably when you'll see changes if they are to be made -- be made.

So why telegraph it, why stir up trouble now at the spring meeting and give Donald Trump more fodder?

But I do want to something real quick, because it goes to what Reince Priebus said. In that clip you just played, and he talked about grass roots activists. And I think that's an important distinction. These aren't just party bosses.

You know, some states have open -- open primaries, where they let Democrats and independents weigh in. You could argue that's not fair, you know. And then other states are saying, "Look, yes, of course, our grassroots activists are more important. We should give them more weight."

CUOMO: All right. So Matt, Errol, Jackie, stand by, because we're going to talk about the Democratic side, just as much up for play tomorrow morning here in New York. But first, Mick.

[06:10:03] PEREIRA: Why don't I do that right now?

CUOMO: Please. Tee it up for us.

PEREIRA: All right. We're going to continue with the baseball metaphors all morning.

On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders turning out massive crowds at a rally in his home town of Brooklyn. Sanders blasting Hillary Clinton for raising obscene amounts of money at West Coast fundraisers. This battle for New York heating up in these final hours. Chris Frates not refereeing, but you're watching from the sidelines.

CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right, Michaela, and I'll tell you what. Hillary Clinton is feeling good enough her lead in the Empire State as she rolled to the West Coast this weekend to raise money and some eyebrows, including from her host, George Clooney, who called the amount of money raised at his fund-raiser "obscene."

And Sanders return from his visit with the pope to a huge rally in his native Brooklyn.

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FRATES (voice-over): Bernie Sanders has been hammering Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall Street.

SANDERS: You cannot have a super PAC raise many millions of dollars from Wall Street or special interests and then tell the American people with a straight face that you're going to stand up to the big money interests. Not true.

FRATES: The Vermont senator is also ramping up his attacks on her campaign donations. Clinton spent some of the weekend in California raising money for herself and other Democrat with two events hosted by George Clooney. VIP ticket prices hit over $353,000.

A group of Sanders supporters were showering her motorcade with 1,000 $100 bills in Los Angeles on Saturday. Clooney admitting he understands the frustration.

GEORGE CLOONEY, ACTOR: It is an obscene amount of money. In the Sanders campaign, when they talk about it, it is absolutely right. It's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics.

FRATES: Sanders praised Clooney's honesty, quipping the actor is backing the wrong horse.

SANDERS: you're not going to have a government that represents all of us, so long as you have candidates like Secretary Clinton being dependent on big-money interests.

FRATES: On the campaign trail, Bill Clinton, making several unscheduled stops around New York, was taking a swipe at Sanders.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think it's funny that all these young students have been so enthusiastic for an opponent and sounds so good, just shoot every third person on Wall Street and everything will be fine.

FRATES: And Hillary Clinton talking up her experience to voters across the five boroughs on Sunday...

H. CLINTON: It's easy to diagnose the problem. You've got to be able to solve the problem!

FRATES: ... even cutting loose to Latin music at a block party. Now, Clinton continues to lead Sanders by a wide margin in the polls but both candidates are campaigning hard today in New York City. Clinton will hold a get-out-the-vote rally this afternoon in Manhattan, and Sanders has a rally scheduled tonight in Long Island City. And Sanders needs a big upset here tomorrow if he wants a shot at narrowing Clinton's lead -- Michaela.

PEREIRA: Well, Chris, before he goes to Long Island City, Senator Bernie Sanders joining us right here in the NEW DAY studios. He'll join us in our 8 a.m. hour.

Meantime, powerful earthquakes rock Ecuador and Japan this weekend, killing hundreds and injuring thousands. The death toll from this weekend's powerful Ecuador quake soaring to 272, and that number is expected to rise as crews are searching the rubble. We have both tragedies covered for you. Let's begin with CNN's Boris Sanchez, live in Ecuador.

Boris, good morning.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Brooke.

As you mentioned, the death toll sitting at 272. More than 2,500 people hurt. Both those numbers expected to climb significantly. Part of the reasons, officials have yet to get a full grasp of the extent of the human cost of this earthquake is that roads -- many roads are inaccessible. The infrastructure is a huge problem here in Ecuador.

You may be able to see behind me this huge bridge that collapsed onto a car, killing a person and injuring another in a coastal city where the hardest-hit areas are very difficult to access. It's been raining for many weeks consecutively, partly because of El Nino. That weakened the roads, and the earthquake has essentially decimated them. So as we get closer to finding out the extent of the damage we're going to clear a picture of just how powerful this earthquake was -- Chris.

CUOMO: We'll stay on it. Thank you for being down there. Please, keep the people safe, and we'll check back with you in a little bit. Boris Sanchez down in Ecuador.

All right. So two people found in the rubble in Japan. Remember, you have Ecuador dealing with a natural disaster. Japan still dealing with it. Dozens dead. More than 1,000 injured. Rescue crews still racing against time to find signs of life, and they are finding signs of life.

We have CNN's Matt Rivers live near the epicenter of the 7.3 earthquake that rattled Japan on Saturday. There are still people alive there, and the race is on. What do you know?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Chris.

Good morning to you, and the sun here has just set, which makes rescuers' jobs that much harder. They are still looking for people. You mentioned they found two people, very welcome news here. But officials tell us in this village where we are alone, nine people remain trapped at this point. So they have a lot of work cut out for them overnight.

[06:15:11] We spent most of our day today watching rescue efforts, and the main culprits here have been landslides. In this village alone, several landslides triggered on Saturday because of that second earthquake. That's what ended up collapsing a lot of these buildings. That's what trapped these people, and that's what rescuers are up against at this point.

Tens of thousands of people will spend the night tonight once again in shelters for fear of more aftershocks. We have certainly felt them beneath our feet several different times. The grounds have been swaying and above.

Over in the skies, we have seen U.S. military support. Helicopters have been flying all day long, providing logistical support to their colleagues in the Japanese special defense forces, some 25,000 of whom have been deployed here in this region to help find survivors and to begin the cleanup process -- Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right. Matt Rivers, our thanks and also to Boris in Ecuador. Those devastating earthquakes, both in Japan and Ecuador, have many of us wondering, are they somehow related?

Our Chad Myers joins us now with more on all of this instability. This is really extraordinary.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is. Once the earth moves, it seems like it keeps moving, Michaela, but we talked to Mark Simon from Cal Tech, and he said the two earthquakes, the one here and the one way over here are probably as related as a tree falling in Canada and a Mexican cactus falling over at the same time. Not related. Too far away.

Now, all of the earthquakes that are around the earthquake in Japan, all of those aftershocks, absolutely, are they related? No question about it.

But over the year on average, over the year, over the entire world we should have 15 7.0 to seven point -- almost 8.0 earthquakes, 15. So far this year, we've had 5, and they're all around that ring of fire. The Pacific Ring of Fire from Alaska all the way to Japan, all the way down south through Banda Aceh and all those other areas that have picked up those earthquakes in the past.

There's your 5: Alaska, Russia, Indonesia, Japan and Ecuador. Now, seismologists have said that there's a potential that, since the Banda Aceh earthquake in 2004, that there seems to have been an uptick over the world.

You say, wait a minute. That's 12 years ago. How can that be an uptick? Well, to you and me, 12 years is a long time. But to a couple-billion-year-old earth, 12 years is a second.

PEREIRA: yes. Putting it in perspective for us. All right, Chad, thank you so much.

And for those of you at home who would like more information on how you can help the victims in both of the earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan, visit our website, CNN.com/Impact -- Brooke.

BROOKE: Michaela, thank you.

Voting begins in the New York primary in less than 24 hours. Hillary Clinton leading in the polls, but can Bernie Sanders pull off an upset? And if he doesn't, is he finished? NEW DAY, back after this.

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[06:22:08] BALDWIN: All right. We talked Republicans this morning. Let's talk Democrats. Hillary Clinton...

CUOMO: Fair and balanced.

BALDWIN: You like that? You like how we roll?

CUOMO: Appreciate it.

BALDWIN: A bar, sitting next to you, Chris Cuomo.

CUOMO: That's what I'm talking about.

BALDWIN: Bing.

Making their final push ahead of the New York primary tomorrow, 247 delegates up for grabs in New York state. How will it all play out? They have stuck around with us, our political panel, this morning. Joining us, Errol Louis, Matt Lewis, and Jackie Kucinich.

CUOMO: Not related.

BALDWIN: Not related. Genius.

CUOMO: I made that mistake. Errol had to correct me twice.

BALDWIN: Jackie -- Jackie, Kucinich, to you first. When you look at, New York, and you look at the polling and how strong Hillary Clinton seems to be doing.

KUCINICH: Right.

BALDWIN: A, is this a lock for her? And, B, if Bernie Sanders loses -- how much does he falter?

KUCINICH: I don't think it's -- I mean, she -- it does look like she's going to win here in New York. However, she's not treating it like a lock. She campaigned hard yesterday. She's campaigning hard today and tomorrow. So I think that they're not taking anything for granted.

In terms of Bernie Sanders, it will hurt him if he doesn't win, you know, a good proportion of the delegates here in terms of momentum. However, it's hard to -- it's hard to think that, you know, he's just going to pack it in, if he loses New York. They're expecting to lose New York. If they pull off an upset, that would just be a huge boost for that campaign.

CUOMO: Errol, you're a blessing every day, but few people are wired in New York the way you are. The polls this close are meaningless. We get that, but the cross tabs or not.

Clinton is down 20 points from where people say she should be as the unfavorable opinion. OK? The unfavorable opinion, when they look at Democratic candidates, opinion of them, 56 percent negative. Democrat registered voters on her, OK; Sanders, 36. That's really where you want to be. Nobody's really ever above anything close to 40 in these kinds of things.

LOUIS: Right.

CUOMO: What does that mean here and moving forward?

LOUIS: Well, I think that means she's got something she's got to overcome. Let me suggest to you, because some of the strategists have said this kind of quietly. It's not really sort of a big thing on the campaign trail. A lot of this is sexism. I mean, it's partly some people -- people just say, "Well, I don't trust her. She doesn't keep her word."

And then you turn around, say what politician does? You know? I mean, the governor of New York, of course, is an exception. Right? But I mean, politicians all the time, they change their opinions. They move here; they move there. With Hillary Clinton, though, it seems to be something that's just completely unacceptable. You know, everybody raises money from all kinds of sources.

CUOMO: Not the cascade of scandals?

LOUIS: ... somebody they throw dollar bills at. I think there's an element of that. It doesn't necessarily play itself out, I think, in the vote. But I think that's what accounts for those polls, because she is, in fact, those same polls show that a lot of people are going to vote for her, but ask about some particular characteristics, it starts to get a little funky. And, you know, here again...

CUOMO: Do you buy it?

LOUIS: You don't see it happening to every politician. Just her.

CUOMO: She's also the only woman in the race. So I mean, who else are you going to compare it to? Carly Fiorina? She had plenty of high negatives, also. It's to be earned (ph). What's your take?

[06:25:10] KUCINICH: I don't know. I don't know if I believe that. Because you'd have to -- if she didn't have the record that she had, the Clintons, being in politics for as long as...

CUOMO: He's not better than hers. Although he's a big originator of a lot of her trouble? KUCINICH: That is true but also, when you're not running for

something, people like you more. Hillary Clinton has very high positives when she was secretary of state, and we saw those numbers went down as she started running for election. When you actually had to scrutinize someone's record, things get a little more dicey.

BALDWIN: Can we talk about the dollar bills raining down on the Clintons over the weekend. Before we get there, if I may, George Clooney, so he's stepping in. He's weighing in on this over the weekend, because he and his wife, Amal, they host this star-studded, you know, $33,000-a-ticket kind of fund-raiser for Secretary Clinton.

CUOMO: Big money.

BALDWIN: And he even weighed in over the weekend saying, "Listen, this kind of money in politics, this is obscene." Here he was.

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CLOONEY: It is an obscene amount of money. The Sanders campaign, when they talk about it, is absolutely right. It's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree, completely.

The overwhelming amount of money that we're raising, and it is a lot, but the overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising is not going to Hillary to run for president. It's going to the down ticket. It's going to the congressmen and senators to try to take back Congress.

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BALDWIN: So that night we have the video of the 1,000 one-dollar bills being thrown at the Clinton motorcade. Here you go. They're going into this fund-raiser, mad. What did you make of this stunt?

LEWIS: Give them credit for having music, by the way. That makes is more appealing, more likely we're going to show it on TV. Of course, it's theater. But what they want to do is make Hillary -- you know, if they're getting the benefit of raising all this money, let's have it, ding her a little bit with it.

By the way, I felt Clooney, you know, you could say that he was being defensive, talking about how the money is not just going to Hillary, but I think there was also a message there, which is that Bernie Sanders hasn't been a loyal Democrat. Hasn't been part of helping elect other Democrats, and so I think Clooney was maybe subtly reminding everyone that Hillary is sort of a party stalwart who actually cares about growing the party. And Bernie has sort of just shown up and said, "I'm a Democrat."

CUOMO: Matt Lewis, Errol Louis, Jackie Kucinich, thank you very much.

Speaking of Senator Sanders, who better to answer for his campaign than the man himself? Senator Bernie Sanders joining us live right here in our studio, 8 a.m. hour. Please watch. Just 24 hours before the big New York primary -- Mick. PEREIRA: All right. The U.S. put on notice. Saudi Arabia

threatening to hurt our economy over a new 9/11 bill. President Obama is now getting involved in this high-stakes dispute. What has the Saudis so up and arms? A look at that, ahead on NEW DAY.

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