So great to have you along with us on this saturday morning. Im pamela brown in for christi paul and Victor Blackwell is in flint, michigan. Victor, today is Super Saturday and the biggest day of the year and the race for the white house. A lot going on today. Yes. A lot going on here and at home. This is Super Saturday. Voters across five states will head to the polls or caucuses. For the republicans, the stakes have never been higher. Weve got voters headed out to kansas, kentucky, louisiana, maine, nebraska. A lot of headlines. First up, ben carson officially now out of the race. Telling the audience hell take a position with the christian voter group. Meanwhile donald trump who was scheduled to speak at about 11 00 this morning or rather 8 30 this morning is skipping the conservative conference, instead holding a rally in kansas at nearly the same time as his canceled speech. Hes also changed his mind. He clarified remarks that a push for tortures of detainees and killing Family Members. Now he says he would not ask the military to commit illegaling ats. Florida is today. Thats a mustwin state for marco rubio. Its his home state. Ted cruz is launching an aggressive plan. That could potentially be a fatal blow for marco rubio. Mathematically it could be a win for donald trump. A plan for cruz to block marco rubio would put him on a path toston trump. Cnn politics Senior ReporterSteven Collier is following that faceted story. I want to start with this. The republican establishment seems not quite certain that it wont come down to the very end that contested convention. Listen, first, to mitt romney speaking with our Gloria Borger and then Reince Priebus talking about this all going down to the convention. This contested convention, is this a scenario that youre actively looking at . I think its a realistic scenario. A lot of people have thought that. If that were to happen, obviously were sort of in territory that our party hasnt seen. Once again, highly, highly unlikely. Steven, there, you have the head of the nominee, the establishment that maybe this is a possibility. Its unlikely. Beyond the leadership, how per swituation vase per pervasive is it . If he does that contesting it would be a difficult process indeed. If we step back and they about this its absolutely extraordinary that the last nominee of the Republican Party and the previous nominee of the Republican Party john mccain are raising the idea that they could go into the general election with those two figures domina dominati dominating, which is donald trump. Its very risk ski. Historically die provided parties have not prospered in general elections, a Republican Party having a civil war with itself could very well hand the white house to the democrats in november. Ben carson as we said at the top of the show has officially suspended his campaign. His fi his 5 , 6 , 7 in states Going Forward could be pifbtal. Who will most likely get his support . It most likely would be ted cruz. He appeals to many of the same evangelicals that ben carson does. Youve seen marco rubio has made a pitch for those carson voters. In florida, which is a makeorbreak state, if he could swell his support by those carson voters even though it may be just 4 , 5 , 6 as you say, that could perhaps be decisive with the close donald trump. The other issue is the ben carson supporters are very faithful. Theyre very attached to their candidate. I dont think its a given that necessarily they would go to one other candidate and transfer their support. Its possible some dont vote at all. Although its 6 , its possible that the final tally of ben carson voters or cruz could be less than that. All right. Stephen collinson watching the gop infighting that is on display hour to hour on television now. Stephen collinson, thank you so much. Well get back to you sometime this morning. All right. Listen to this. I did the math. I looked at the delicate counts, i look at the states, i looked at the requirements, and i realize that it simply wasnt going to happen, and if thats the case, then i didnt want to interfere with the process. All right. So youve got ben carson there. Thats his official announcement vowing out of the president ial race on friday some of far he has not backed a former rival. Marco rubio, hell be speaking at the conservative conference later today. As conservative commentator, bill kristol urges him to back away from his pledge of support to the frontrunner, the potential nominee. Donald trump. Kristol tweeted this. What he could say. I took a schois to endorse the g gop nominee since then theres been a candidate and ive heard things. I can no longer in good conscience commit to support donald trump. Lets bring in cnn political commentator and host of the ben ferguson show. Good morning. Good morning. Play it out for me, the pluses and minuses, the decision for marco rubio. Two different things. If he does it, i think it will look like an on tunist and it will fracture this election even more so. It will also look desperate for a guy that somehow third place finishes end up somehow giving you first place. I disagree with bill on this. I dont think this would be a good idea to do that. I think you have to run your campaign, say that youre going to continue do it the way youre going to do it, and youre not going to try to pull some rabbit out of your hat at the last hour and say, hey, look what i did, i changed my narrative and its going to fix it. It will not fix it. You may get applause especially at cpac especially since donald trump said youre not worth my time, im not showing up. The room would love to hear anything about donald trump since he has decided not to show up at cpac, but it doesnt play well with the voters. Lets move down. If donald trump gets the magic number to become the nominee, marco rubio has called donald trump a frock, a con man, has mocked him at rallies in recent weeks. Wont that endorsement if it comes, if he supports the nominee, wont that seem disingenuous . No, i dont think so. If you said early on will you support the eventual nominee, everyone but donald trump raised their hand. So its consistent with that. I also think bygones are bygones when you drop out. If you dont believe me, look at chris christie. He was very critical of donald trump and said we dont need him as president and said some intense and derogatory fighting back and forth with donald trump. He had no problem afterward walking on stage. I look at the papers where they say he should resign from office. It obviously did not play well at home for him but nationally i dont think it hurt him with primary voters if he ever decided to run again, but i doubt he will. I dont see them looking at it. With see people lose the endorsement. Huckabee was not a fan, for example, of donald trump. He also said donald trump is the best guy. His own daughter is working for him when she was working against him a month ago. This is the nature of politics. We see it on the republican and democratic side. I just dont think it will be a story. Ben ferguson, we also enjoy your insight. Were going to speak with jeffrey lord on trumps reversal of torture and killing Family Members and immigration, those visas that we also saw that reversal from trump on thursday night. Next, though, well take a look at the contest on the democratic side. 109 delegates at stake as voters head to the polls and caucuses at kansas, louisiana, and nebraska on this Super Saturday and as we mentioned, a total of five states heading to the polls and caucuses. What to look for. Later in the show, this new twist in the o. J. Simpson case vchl you heard about this . Everybodys talking about it this morning. 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Because i dont feel that theyre putting candidates out there in either party that are addressed the peoples needs. Not their wants, their needs. Normally i vote republican and just for my own standards and what i believe in, and so typically thats what it is, but as for a certain person, i havent really seen one that i actually love yet. So it will probably be a lastminute decision. Whoever makes the most sense. Have you chosen who that is yet . My choices are hillary, sanders, or kasich. Okay. Im still deciding. Still deciding. A lot of voters here in michigan are still deciding. Those are a few of the people i spoke with here in flint this weekend. There are, though, contests today. This is Super Saturday for both the democrats and republicans. Lets focus on the democrats. 109 delegates at stakes at voters head to the polls in nebraska, louisiana, and kansas. I want to bring in cnn political commentator van jones and lets talk about, first, the contest today before we get to the debate. We even got these three states, louisiana, kansas, nebraska. Potential strength for either. Well, i mean what i think youre seeing now is we have a Democratic Party that really has three wings. Theres the establishment wing that Hillary Clinton represents very, very well. Theres this new populist wing that bernie represents. Before that it was warren. Before that it was occupy wall street. But this third wing is this Racial Justice wing, the africanamericans, latinos, black lives matter, dreamers. Whoever gets that third block is going to win and it looks like Hillary Clinton has that block wrapped up. And so you see obviously bernie does very, very well with young people but especially with white young people. He does less well with africanAmerican People. Hillary clinton has to achieve something really extraordinariy. In 2008 you remember there was a lot of anger because of her and now president obama. Its very hard to lose trust and regain it. But shes done it with the black community and a local lot of people say she has all these trust issues. She may be able to over the curse of the year do that with more and more people as she reintroduces herself as a new, i think, stronger version of who shes always been. I saw that in North Carolina in that contentious 2008 primary. When i went and spoke with people, what we heard from many of the people, the black voters there, was she had obamas back and so now i have hers. Exactly. Loyalty. Yes, loyalty. So lets talk about looking into the debate tomorrow night. Bernie sanders over the last couple of days has really been hitting Hillary Clinton on her support fehr nafta and ttp. Is that effective especially as you travel across this region of the country. Its possible in a primary but a general election. Bernie sanders has really, i think, channeled a lot of the frustration in the Democratic Party with some of the things that clintons did in the 90s that this party is really a reaction against. The new party its so ironic the new party hillary may lead is, in fact, the party her husband led. Very skeptical of nafta, very skeptical of this new trade deal, socalled ttp, so she has to deal with that. So there are other issues as well, that the 1990s version of the clintons is on the opposite. You get the criminal justice issues. Bill clinton, very, very tough on crime. I think the prison population doubled on him. Bernie has not done the best possible job but its an important issue. There are other issues as well. Lets not forget the clintons got into bed with Newt Gingrich on welfare repeal. They called it welfare reform. Many called it welfare repeal. Hillary clinton often talks about marrying the right element. People forget her mentor when she was young. People forget. She was so critical of what clinton did to welfare that her husband quit his administration. Peter ellman quit his administration. Think here the Africanamerican Community in the north is different than in the south. Those africanamerican moms and grandmas and church folk who went out to vote for her in South Carolina are not the same as these africanamerican trade unionists here in the northeast who even if their labor leadership likes the clintons may be concerned about their jobs. Van, well continue this conversation next hour. I want to know. After this Republican Debate and all we saw on stage on thursday, the democratic debates are not as entertaining door they movie the needle as much. Van, thanks so much. A programming note, Hillary Clinton and ben carson will be on stage today, democratic president ial debate sunday from flint, michigan. Anderson cooper moderates. Thats only on cnn. Pamela has a lot more going on. And theres a lot going on. 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Were going to get back to flint, michigan, in just a moment. But first here are ostories. Drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman reportedly snuck into the United States twice and visited his daughter when he was a fugitive. His daughter said he came to visit her in florida after he escaped prison in mexico. Guzmans daughter said she had no idea how slipped across the border when both u. S. And mexican authorities were looking for him. Theyre looking into whether a piece that they found is missing from the messing plane. It looks like the tail section like the boeing 777. The scrap was found this week by an american tourist. Police in maine have arrested a 55yearold man and charged him with the murder that took place 55 years ago. Its been a cold case ever since her body was found. He made a number of incriminating remarks over the years that may have suggested he was involved in her death. The author of the a great santeeny and the prince of tides has died. 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