Candidates have to run, the Cruz Campaign had to blow up its schedule and keep all thoeds peop those people waiting. All the people are waiting. All the reporters are waiting for the press conference. Everything got pushed. Everything got left waiting because the candidate and a bunch of his top staffers were holed up in the parking lot of the ymca dealing with a crisis or causing a crisis. That was going on at the ymca 15 miles away. A control room in mid town manhattan was dialed in for ted Cruz Campaign manager. Hes a nice guy. Hes the only person that would give us the time of day. He wouldnt always give us a comment, but he was always nice about it. While this ymca parking lot huddle was under way this las vegas, National Campaign spokesman nick tyler was dialed in to do a live interview with kate snow. Minutes before the interview was due to go live, rick tyler, the National Spokesman for the ted Cruz Campaign, he got up and walked out. No explanation. No notice, just left. Gone.
Nobody seems all that truly confident that it definitely will happen. But we shall see. Thats the Biggest International news story of the day. In domestic news, the biggest thing going on in the country is our nations effort to pick Vladimir Putins counterpart in our nation. Minus the lifelong tenure and the kleptocracy privileges, hopefully. Ahead of tomorrows voting in florida, ohio, North Carolina, missouri and illinois, democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders, held a really big rally in front of 6,000 people in charlotte, North Carolina, this afternoon and then off to st. Charles, missouri, for another big event that is starting in this hour. Thats a shot of that event tonight. Crowd estimate, missouri, is at least a few thousand people. But as you can see, thats a big room and very full. Senator sanders, interestingly, though, after this event in saint charles, missouri right now, then going for broke and hes going to do another just before midnight rally in chicago, where tons of pe
Nationally and general match up, beating ted cruz and donald trump. But she loses 43 to 47. Sanders beats, but unlike clinton, sanders actually beats kasich too. 46 to 44 . And yet, both sanders and kasich are getting pressured to drop out of the race. John, sanders and kasich regularly out on the stump say to voters, i win the head to heads, im the most electable, why isnt it breaking through . Mainly because this episode will be a dream for you, because im going to speak as little as possible because my voice is gone. Ill say electable does not resonate that much with voters in the end. But in the end, what they care more about, can the people get things done, what are their valleys, ideology, positions on issues that voters care about. Not about the abstract question of who is going to win in the fall. Voters rightly see that as something that this is a 50 50 country. It does still beg the question of why clinton is doing worst than sanders, you know. I also wonder why kasich is doi
The Supreme Court. Then well look at trumps war on the media. Some really disgusting people back there. And speak with one of the few elected leaders openly calling him a racist. New york mayor bill de blasio. Plus the two elections last night that proved the power of black lives matter. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. And somehow amisthe most turbulent election cycle of recent memory the past 24 hours have been, perhaps, the most frenzies bringing into sharp relief the very Different Directions that americas two Major Political parties are currently headed. On the one hand, we have a Democratic Party that while confronting significant internal disputes over its principles, policy, and future is working out those differences through a fairly straightforward process. And on the other hand, a Republican Party in complete chaos, both on the campaign trail, and in washington, hurdling toward total institutional collapse and threatening to take the
Women. The frustration is over the 1. 9 billion bill that president barack obama is asking be passed so they can use that money to combat zika, and yet with the possibility infected mosquitoes can spread throughout the country, congress is now taking a twoweek holiday break which means a compromised funding bill is likely week if not months away. The cdc says every day waisted can make the difference. Memorial day weekend is the start of mosquito season in the u. S. We have a narrow window of opportunity to scale up effective zika prevention measures, and that window of opportunity is closing. Reporter the virus is spread by infected mosquitoes. Symptoms include mild fever and a skin rash. The cdc says its clear zika causes microreceively, or an normally small heads in infants and other birth defects. There have been 544 travel associated cases of zika in the United States and some folks we talked to say they are worried. Scared of mosquitoes now more than i normally would be. Traps mi