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Bernie Sanders Wins Oregon Primary; Hillary Clinton Wins Kentucky Primary by Close Margin; Possible Tension in Democratic Party Between Sanders Supporters and Clinton Supporters Examined; Trump Willing to Hold North Korea Nuclear Talks. Aired 8-8:30a ET
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[08:00:00] BILL CARTER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I mean, many women felt bad for her in this situation.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Right, but Donald Trump is turning it to say that she actively was involved.
CARTER: Yes, OK, but wouldn't you be a little defensive and upset if you heard these rumors about your husband? It doesn't seem that effective to me to attack her on that basis. To attack him, yes. And it deflects that Trump wants to do. He wants to deflect. That is effective, I think.
CAMEROTA: Bill, Brian, thank you. Great to have both of you here. We're following a lot of news, including increasing fears about the revolt inside the Democratic Party. Let's get right to it.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In no way is it ever acceptable to condone violence and intimidation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a pretty unfair process.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The election was rigged.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Senator Sanders should outright condemn that specific conduct.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We obviously do not condone any kind of violence or threats.
BERNIE SANDERS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This campaign is listening to the American people.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I get threats every one to two seconds.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have too much divisiveness in America.
SANDERS: We are in until the last ballot is cast.
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BERNIE SANDERS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He will not be disadvantaged by anybody in North Korea.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Trump campaign is announcing along with the RNC that it has agreed on these joint fundraising agreements.
REP. PAUL RYAN, (R) SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: We're having the kind of conversations that are necessary to make sure that we are unifying.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is -- everybody loves this is tie.
CAMEROTA: Oh, everybody.
CUOMO: Everybody.
CAMEROTA: Well, I cannot refute because I actually love it.
CUOMO: Weigh in. High bar.
Another round of primaries, another split for the Democrats. The results quickly overshadowed, though, by a major battle brewing within the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders campaign having trouble keeping some supporters from becoming violent. Now animosity between the campaign and top Democrats is starting to boil over, and this means, could there be chaos at the party's convention.
CAMEROTA: Donald Trump, of course, the last Republican standing, and he has picked up one more win. The presumptive GOP nominee now courting some more controversy, saying that he will speak with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, and he's sealed the deal with the RNC to accept big campaign donations. So we'll hear from our panel of Trump supporters later this hour. They are standing by.
We have it covered the way only CNN can. Let's begin with Christine Romans who gives us a look at the results last night and the delegate race now. Hi, Christine.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi there. Here we go. Hillary Clinton got the win she needed, but barely, the margin razor thin, narrowly winning in Kentucky, fewer than 2,000 votes. In Oregon, senator Bernie Sanders with a more divisive win there, coming with 54 percent of the vote to Clinton's 45 percent, his 20 state victory. Despite winning fewer delegates than Sanders last night, Clinton is now just 89 delegates shy of clinching the nomination if we include those super delegates. It remains mathematically impossible for Sanders to win with pledged delegates.
Let's look at the Republicans now. The last man standing, Donald Trump, took just 67 percent of the vote in Oregon. That victory awards Trump 18 delegates. The presumptive GOP nominee is now 62 delegates shy of making it official. That margin, however, is greater than the number of delegates at stake in the next Republican context, meaning it will take until June 7, Alisyn, to reach the magic number.
CAMEROTA: OK, Christine. Thank you for all of that.
Hillary Clinton squeaking by Kentucky, Sanders emboldened by that narrow margin, plus his big win in Oregon. So now both candidates are looking forward to California. CNN senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns is live in Washington with more. What are you seeing, Joe?
JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn. Bernie Sanders has an event in San Jose at 10:00 pacific time this morning at fairgrounds. He spoke at a huge rally in Los Angeles County last night. Though the headline this morning, as you said, is that narrow victory for Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, all of what she needed to claim that she has broken the string of victories by Bernie Sanders in multiple primaries and caucuses.
And the Clinton win in the bluegrass state makes a statement about her ability to attract votes in Appalachia. She's now within 100 delegates what she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders for his part picking up a win in progressive leaning Oregon and making it clear he has no intention of dropping out of the race even though there are increasing concerns in the party that his staying the course all the way through the June 7th California primary is creating chaos and anger in the run-up to the Democratic convention. Listen to Sanders last night.
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SANDERS: Many of the pundits and politicians, they say, Bernie Sanders should drop out. The people of California should not have the right to determine who the next president will be.
[08:05:01] We are in to the last ballot is cast.
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JOHNS: Also, breaking overnight, this is interesting, Hillary Clinton releasing her personal financial disclosure statements which shows she made about $5 million in royalties for a book and about $1.5 million for speeches in 2015. That release appeared time to ping Donald Trump, who also released a disclosure yesterday. The Clinton campaign trying to draw attention to the fact that Trump has so far refused to release his income tax returns because he says he's undergoing a routine audit, Chris.
CUOMO: I like that Joe, "ping." That might be the word of the day, pinged him.
All right, so forget about a unified Democratic Party right now. You got Bernie Sanders and his supporters growing increasingly frustrated with what they say is a process that's not fair within their primaries. The infighting is turning so ugly some party leaders fear there could be a revolt in the convention. CNN senior political reporter Manu Raju live in Washington with the latest. What do you got?
MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: Hey, Chris. Last night Bernie Sanders was in prime form, riling up some 11,000 supporters in Carson, California, with his fury stump speech and telling his legions of supporters that Hillary Clinton is getting nervous because he may win California on June 7th. And he steered clear of the controversy in Nevada over the weekend, made no mention of that at all. But party leaders know they are in a jam with Bernie Sanders. They absolutely need his passionate supporters, though they are increasingly worried that the increasingly divisive primary fight could make it harder to unite their party this fall.
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REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, (D) FLORIDA: The Senator's response was anything but acceptable.
RAJU: Overnight, Bernie Sanders getting slammed by Democratic leaders calling for Sanders to reign in his supporters after this weekend's chaotic state convention in Nevada, telling Chris Cuomo --
SCHULTZ: After the word "but," you go on to seemingly justify the reason that the violence and intimidation has occurred, then that falls short of making sure that going forward this kind of conduct doesn't occur in the future.
SANDERS: I say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, open the doors, let the people in!
RAJU: Sanders is claiming Democratic leaders used their power during the convention to, quote, "prevent a fair and transparent process from taking place."
JEFF WEAVER, SANDERS CAMPAIGN MANAGER: The leadership there that was running it was not following the rules. They were overruling voice votes on the floor to get the result they wanted.
RAJU: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who spoke to Sanders yesterday, is angrily dismissing Sanders claim of a rigged system, telling CNN it's a silly statement.
And Senator Barbara Boxer, a Clinton supporter, seen here trying to calm the convention's raging crowd, tells CNN that Sanders has to, quote, "get things under control."
WEAVER: We do not condone any violence or threats. That's unacceptable. Bad language, that's unacceptable.
RAJU: The anger didn't stop Saturday. The chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party receiving over 1,000 angry calls, even death threats.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People like you should be hung in a public execution to show this world we won't stand for this sort of corruption.
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RAJU: Now in the aftermath of the Nevada episode, Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton now see an opening. Diane Feinstein, a veteran Democrat of California, told me yesterday that Bernie Sanders should drop out in June, worrying that a schism in the party is exactly the kind of thing that could help elect Donald Trump. Even Bernie Sanders lone Senate supporter, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, said to me last month that if Sanders is losing in June it will be time for him to leave the race. But so far Democratic like Harry Reid and the number two Senate Democrat Dick Durbin have refused to call on Sanders to quit. But whether Reid's frustration with Sanders handling of the Nevada episode changes his calculation remains to be scene. Alisyn?
CAMEROTA: Many, thanks so much for all of that background.
Here to discuss with us, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. She has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Good morning, Senator.
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL, (D) MISSOURI: Good morning.
CAMEROTA: Let's start by talking about what we saw in Kentucky last night. Rewind the tape to 2008, Hillary Clinton won that state by 35 points. Last night it was razor thin. She had a 0.5 percent margin, less than 2,000 votes. How do you explain what happened in Kentucky?
MCCASKILL: Well, she has a different opponent this time. Last time, she had Barack Hussein Obama was her opponent. I think there were a lot of people in Kentucky that we're excited about Barack Obama. But this time it's a different choice. And I think they choose Hillary Clinton because of her stability, her strength. It was very close, and frankly, I think the most important thing to take from this is that, you know, the issues.
[08:10:00] These two candidates agree on so many issues, you know, and that's why I'm hopeful that we can come together as soon as the primary season is over, because the issues matter in this race.
CAMEROTA: But does it concern you, the lack of excitement that a narrow margin like that would suggest for Hillary Clinton?
MCCASKILL: No, because Donald Trump is going to provide plenty of excitement for people who don't want us hugging up on Putin, don't want our country insulting Great Britain, don't want somebody reckless and risky in the Oval Office with nuclear codes, thinks it is a good idea to weaponize with nuclear weapons more countries in the world. This is really somebody who a shoot from the hip guy as we've seen. He says amazingly inappropriate things. On the world stage, think it would be a disaster. So I think that alone will unify, but I also think Bernie Sanders will help unify us. I believe that in my bones.
CAMEROTA: All right, let's talk about that, senator, because that's not what is happening at the moment. In fact, we're seeing not only infighting, but actually real fighting. Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders supporters expressed great frustration, even hostility about the results of the Nevada, the caucuses there and the primaries. Look at this. You're just seeing all of their frustration boiling over. Do you think that Bernie Sanders is to blame for some of the threats or the violence, or the system is?
MCCASKILL: No, I don't believe Bernie Sanders is to blame. And let me say, I think the vast majority of Bernie Sanders' supporters are wonderful people who care deeply about this country and want to change direction. And I think we agree on that. So I really think this is about passion that's boiled over. I think it's the frustration of mathematically impossible, which is what their path is at this point.
CAMEROTA: Because Bernie Sanders doesn't frame it that way. He says that he believes he will be able to rack up enough delegates, California included, to deny Hillary Clinton the 2,383 that she needs at the convention. Do you think that's possible?
MCCASKILL: It is not -- I don't believe it is possible. But Bernie is leading a movement. And he wants that movement to remain strong until the very end of the primary process. At that point in time, he knows what a disaster Donald Trump would be for this country and for the ideals that we care about. And remember, Bernie Sanders has said over and over again, this is about the issues. And he has got to, when the time comes, remind his supporters, this is about the issues and the Supreme Court, and I think that will absolutely bring us all together, and I think it will happen before Philadelphia.
CAMEROTA: And when is that time in your mind?
MCCASKILL: I think it is after the last primary. I don't in any way begrudge Bernie Sanders and his supporters wanting to have their voices heard in every single primary. I remember how difficult it was for us in 2008 when Hillary won seven of the last 10 primaries, and we were all going come on, it is time to unite. But she did the right thing in 2008, and I believe Bernie will do the right thing this year.
CAMEROTA: He has won 20 states. I mean, it is -- he does claim he has the momentum. Do you have any fear that this infighting that we're seeing in the Democratic Party threatens the convention which might be more divisive now than the GOP's convention?
MCCASKILL: Well, of course. I mean, obviously when you see what happened in Nevada, it is cause for worry. But I don't think the answer to that is to try to demean or put down the Bernie supporters or paint with a broad brush that somehow these are not people who appreciate the First Amendment and not violence. I think the way to do this is to stay focused on the issues, and remember what Bernie Sanders said. On Hillary Clinton's worst day, she is so much better than Donald Trump. And that's what I think the voters will have to decide in November.
CAMEROTA: Senator, what do you think the Clinton campaign's strategy Donald Trump, who has said that he is going to go after Bill Clinton's past with women?
MCCASKILL: You know, I -- it's hard for me to figure this one out. I've got to be honest. This is a guy who pivots and insults people when he gets trapped in ridiculous policy mistakes. You know, he is somebody when faced with the fact that he doesn't know what he is talking about, just changes positions. On a minute's notice, I mean, he can be for one thing at 10:00 in the morning and say something different at 2:00 in the afternoon, and the voters aren't holding him accountable.
I do think as people make that final decision, who do you want to have a nuclear codes? Who do you want to represent our country on the world stage? Who do you want to be actually trying to implement change in this country? Somebody who insults people at every turn, or somebody who has experience in trying to bring people together that have different opinions about things?
[08:15:07] I think Hillary Clinton comes out way ahead in that calculus.
CAMEROTA: Senator Claire McCaskill, thanks so much for being on NEW DAY.
MCCASKILL: You bet. You bet.
CAMEROTA: Let's get to Chris.
CUOMO: Donald Trump says he is ready to go where no U.S. president has ever gone before. He is willing to sit face-to-face with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un for nuclear talks.
Trump also sealing a deal with the RNC to fund raise for the general election, ending the self-funding aspect of his campaign.
CNN's Phil Mattingly joins us with more.
What do you got, Phil?
PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Chris, Donald Trump is scheduled to meet today with former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and the presumptive nominee and Republican's Party preeminent foreign policy elder statesman has something new to talk about.
North Korea, trump telling "Reuters" in an interview Tuesday that he would be willing to speak directly to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a significant shift in U.S. policy toward the country.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him. At the same time, I would put a lot of pressure on China because economically we have tremendous power over China. China can solve their problem with one meeting or one phone call.
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MATTINGLY: Guys, as it currently stands, U.S. senior officials will engage with the North Korea counterparts, but direct talks between the country's two leaders, not at all on the table.
Now, Trump also took a step forward towards unifying his own party yesterday. Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee reaching a joint fundraising agreement, a crucial deal that aides GOP candidates up and down the ballot as well as the Republican on the whole.
Now, this allows top GOP donors to write checks up to $449,400, a pot of money that would be split between Trump's campaign, the party and 11 specific state parties. Now, as this is something Trump advisors and top RNC officials have been working to put together really since Trump became the presumptive nominee. It's another example of Trump shift away from his self-funding stance, but it also makes clear, he is willing to make deals with the party that for much of the last year, he basically trashed -- Alisyn.
CAMEROTA: OK. Phil, thanks so much for all of that reporting.
Well, the Pentagon says ISIS is losing significant ground in Iraq and Syria. The U.S.-led coalition reporting ISIS has lost 45 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq and 20 percent of the land that it controlled in Syria. On the downside, the pace of retaking that land from the terror group has slowed.
CUOMO: A chaotic scene at city hall in Farmers Branch, Texas, protesters taking over a council meeting confronting the mayor and calling for justice for Jose Cruz. The unarmed 16-year-old was shot and killed by an off duty police officer after a car chase in March. That officer, quit the force, is now facing murder charges.
CAMEROTA: All right. Donald Trump racking up another win in Oregon, while comedians racked up more punch lines. Here are some late night laughs.
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STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDIAN: President Obama gave the commencement speech at Rutgers and took a little swipe at Trump.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
COLBERT: Ignorance is not a virtue. Ignorance is bliss. If Trump wins, we're looking at very blissful four years ahead of us.
JIMMY FALLON, COMEDIAN: I read that a new super PAC is actually trying to convince Amish people to vote for Donald Trump. Those people are look, we're not Amish, we just got rid of our TVs so that we can stop hearing about Donald Trump.
SETH MEYERS, COMEDIAN: Experts are suggesting that Donald Trump's base of support may be much greater than polls are reporting, because some voters may be reluctant to admit to pollsters that they agree with Trump's ideas. Guys, that's a red flag. Your president shouldn't be a guilty pleasure.
I know, I should be getting a salad, but I'm going to vote Trump. I'm so bad right now.
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CUOMO: It's funny, because it is true. I can't tell you how often, please, weigh in at social media @alisyncamerota. Alisyn with a Y.
CAMEROTA: Oh boy.
CUOMO: Who say, I'm for Trump. At first I thought that was because, they think, you know, as a media person, he is an outsider, you shouldn't be like that, people are conventional.
I think that that's a big moment here. I'm really angry, I'm really frustrated, I really don't buy into the system. Is he perfect? Nope, but.
CAMEROTA: I hear it all the time too. My taxi driver yesterday said, oh, he was telling me about Trump. I like Trump so much. I said, really, what do you like? He goes, he is entertaining.
I mean, you know, people have different reasons why they vote the way they do. Please weigh in.
CUOMO: Bernie Sanders, firing up his base. Are they too fired up? Some of his supporters angering the party with their behavior because they're making threats and saying that people should be hanged.
We'll ask Sanders' campaign manager if they have been strong enough against the meltdown, next.
CUOMO: Also, we're checking in with the Trump supporters about the state of the race, and whether they care about Trump's past.
[08:20:02] We'll be right back.
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[08:23:40] CUOMO: Tension between Democratic Party leadership and the Bernie Sanders campaign. Boiling over, some would say. Party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, condemning the Sanders campaign for not responding forcefully enough after violence at the Nevada state convention this past weekend, even saying Senator Sanders is adding fuel to the fire.
Now, the issue could wind of threatening this summer's convention. I'm speaking slowly so you can drink in the footage.
Here to respond, Bernie Sanders campaign manager, Jeff Weaver.
Not acceptable is what congresswoman and party chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, says. That Bernie Sanders should not have put a "but" between what you did was unacceptable. You can't have violence, and -- but I get why you're really angry.
Did the campaign do the right thing when it came to shouting down violence? JEFF WEAVER, BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Look, Chris, Bernie
Sanders put out a statement before the convention happened. After conversation with Senator Reid, he put out a statement after the convention happened. He categorically condemns any kind of threats that went on, absolutely unacceptable.
You know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, we can have a long conversation just about Debbie Wasserman Schultz and how she has been throwing shade on the Sanders campaign since the very beginning.
[08:25:03] Whether it was the debate schedule that were very few and far between and scheduled on weekends when no one is going to be watching. Whether it was when they shut off the Sanders access to his own data and we had to sue them in federal court to get it back. Whether it was these joint fundraising agreements with the Hillary Clinton campaign, which are taking money away from state parties and sending it to the DNC.
Look, it's not -- I got to say, it's not the DNC. You know, by and large, people at the DNC have been very good to us. Debbie Wasserman Schultz really is the exception.
CUOMO: Well, lucky for you, Kentucky is champions of democracy, that we offer so many great forums for you throughout this primary process. I see you nodding your head in ascent.
WEAVER: Very appreciated.
CUOMO: Very well done, Mr. Weaver.
The headline --
WEAVER: You also.
CUOMO: Thank you, sir.
The headlines from the discussions with the DNC, with the party elites, to use an exception that's in parlance now, is stop whining, you're losing, you're doing very well, but you're losing. You're down by 3 million votes. You're down by a bunch of pledged delegates and superdelegates. Don't blame it on the system.
Your response?
WEAVER: Chris, we've competed in some 40 states so far. We had one state where this has been a problem, in Nevada, which I think would lead people to believe that there's a Nevada specific problem.
This doesn't happen anywhere else. We've had great relationships with state parties all across the country. We have in one case helped fun the caucuses in a statement party because they didn't have the resources, the Clinton campaign refused to help them. We did.
So, you can see there has been two issues largely in the campaign with the so-called, quote-unquote, "elites". It's been Debbie Wasserman Schultz and this incident with the Nevada state party. So, we've had great relationships with the parties across the country. We look forward to working with them in the future. I'm sure they're going to want to have Senator Sanders out there, win, lose or draw, out there on the stump, helping candidates and helping them raise money, and we look forward to have a continuing great relationship with them.
So, there is really two pressure points here, and I think people who are on the other side of this, you know, including the Nevada state Democratic Party, which did such an abysmal job with their caucus process.
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CUOMO: But it's not just Nevada, Jeff, right? I mean, when Senator Sanders is on the stump and opens his hands wide and says Democratic Party, let the people in, that doesn't sound like a discreet issue.
WEAVER: Absolutely.
CUOMO: It sounds like, you know, a macro, overarching criticism of what he has called a rigged process.
WEAVER: Well, I think there's two separate issues, Chris. I think there's one is, these electoral process issues like you had in Nevada or with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And then you have this other issue, which is, how do we broaden the base of the Democratic Party. How do we make it the home for more people? How do we make it more inclusive? How do we bring in the young people who feel left out? How do we bring in Democratically aligned independents? How do we bring in working people?
That's a different question. And that's a challenge, sort of global challenge for the party in order to help it grow and be successful for years and years to come. Bernie Sanders I think is helping to lead that, we're registering hundreds of thousands of people in California.
So, many people coming into the process. And you want to make sure the Democratic Party is welcoming to those people so they stay engaged.
CUOMO: So the burden may shift, right? Senator Sanders said to me, "Chris, don't put it on me to get my supporters to go for Hillary Clinton. She has got to do that."
But the burden does shift. You make it through California, let's say you don't have the pledged, you go to the convention, the vote goes against you. Now, it's your decision what to do.
Are you concerned at all that if Senator Sanders, given the pace of things right now and the tune of things, turns to his people and says, listen, we've got to be against Trump, we've got to help Hillary Clinton, she's the one that they look and say, hey, you said she was a disaster, you said she can't do these things, what changed, Bernie? I thought you were supposed to be authentic.
Are you worried you won't be able to make the case for Clinton?
WEAVER: Well, Bernie Sanders has said that he will support the Democratic nominee, whoever that is, at the very outset of the whole process. He said he'll work seven days a week from keeping Donald Trump from being elected president of the United States. So, I think his supporters understand his position on this, and I think, you know, he will be persuasive in the event he is not the nominee. Obviously, if he is the nominee, he will be all in for him.
CUOMO: What do you think is going to happen in California?
WEAVER: Well, I think we have an excellent shot to win in California. There's a lot of momentum there. I think you saw the crowd last night that he had when he arrived from Puerto Rico.
So, I think there's a lot of energy out there. The volunteer base is tremendous. The people of California have been great to the senator, and he won in Washington and Oregon and we're moving down the coast.
CUOMO: Just to be clear to the hashtag feel of the Berners out there who saw what happened in Nevada and say, hey, that got a lot of attention. Let's do the same thing in the next date, the message from the campaign is, don't do it, correct?
WEAVER: Don't -- absolutely. Certainly, there should be no threats. No context in which any kind of threats are ever acceptable, Chris.
CUOMO: Jeff Weaver, appreciate you making the case for the senator. Congratulations on the win last night. Appreciate you being on NEW DAY.
WEAVER: Thank you very much.
CUOMO: All right.
WEAVER: Thank you. Happy to be here.
CAMEROTA: OK, we do have the view from the other side.
