Sandra that disturbing scene played out just blocks away from the federal courthouse. The d. A. Condemned the attack saying assaults will not be tolerated in our community. More on this Ongoing Investigation in just a moment. But we begin with the Democratic National convention. Weeklong Virtual Event kicking off with democrats calling for unity while slamming President Trump. Im sandra smith. Trace good morning to you, im trace gallagher. Tonights speakers are the rising stars like alexandria ocasiocortez, as well as heavy hitters like bill clinton and the presumptive nominees wife dr. Jill biden. Last night Michelle Obama and senator Bernie Sanders both slammed President Trump on character and leadership. The state of this nation is very different. More than 150,000 people have died and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president down played for too long. Whenever we look to this white house for some leadership or consolation, or any semblance of steadyness, wha
Coverage all the time on bloomberg politics. Com and a great deep dive into john kas h kasichs nomination. Our colleague, until tomorrow si. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Rumble, lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Can bernie do it, do it again . Can he win the big apple. A new poll today shows sanders has narrowed clinton, Hillary Clintons National Lead to two points. Look at that 5048 and closing on her, perhaps passing her. Sanders gained four points while clinton dropped three. You know the math. Meanwhile in new york state, the site of tomorrows big primary, the democratic polls are tightening. Sanders is predicting an upset matching the surprise victory
last month. Here is what he said this morning on the today show. Lets look at the real poll tomorrow. Generally speaking polling underestimated how we do in elections. We were 25 points down in michigan and ended up winning michigan. The fight for new york state has proven already to be the m
Lets listen. Just frightening there, the sound of everything rattling inside that supermarket. It keeps getting louder and louder. More than 70 people are dead and nearly 600 are injured. Rescue crews are scrambling to look for survivors under the rubble here. You can see the video. I think we have it coming up. If not now, in a moment. Bridge collapse smashing everything under it. The death toll is expected to rise. Seismologist susan huff joins us on the phone from pasadena. In terms of magnitude, tell us the severity of this quake compared to what we saw in japan last week. So, this was a 7. 8 which is quite a bit bigger than the magnitude 7. 0. Along the ring of fire, its not nearly as bad as the biggest earthquakes can be. It was also relatively shallow, which makes the shaking stronger near the surface. I think a lot of people are looking at this, susan, and thinking okay, were talking about three major earthquakes in a matter of four days. Both of these countries part of that ri
State of new york. Trump won 61 of the republican vote with john kasich finishing second and ted cruz a dismal third after his criticism of new york values, something he could not shake. Hillary clinton won 58 of the democratic vote, beating Bernie Sanders by a wider margin than most polls had predicted. Secretary clinton also received more votes, over a million, more than the three republican candidates combined. Both clinton and trump took the stage last night to versions of new york, new york. New york, new york we dont have much of a race anymore based on what im seeing on television. Senator cruz is just about mathematically eliminated. The race for the democratic nomination is in the home stretch and victory is in sight. And its all about delegates, and secretary clinton picked up at least 177 of them in new york, increasing her already big lead over senator sanders. She now needs just 29 of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination while sanders needs 71 . Donald trump pi
Lyin ted. 6575 percent of republicans recognize nominating donald trump hands the election to Hillary Clinton. I beat Hillary Clinton by 12 points and the other guys lose. Byron york joins us. First on trump, what is your expectation today . He looks very strong in new york. There have been 15 polls since april 1. Trump has been 50 or above in 15 of those polls. New york has 95 delegates. Only 14 are awarded statewide. In each of the states Congressional Districts, each of them have three delegates. If trump is below 50 he has to split the delegates. There is a possibility if he scores above 50 everywhere he would take all of those 95 delegates. Bill that was very well done, byron. What about ted cruz and john kasich. Their hope is to keep trump below 50 in those Congressional Districts. They can come out of new york saying they won some delegates. Even when trump did so badly in wisconsin he said i won a few delegates and he did. Encase itch who is in second place, kasich or cruz can