Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 201606

Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20160609

Distracting. Attack dog. Senator Elizabeth Warren is one democrat who holds nothing back when going after donald trump. Shes going to endorse Hillary Clinton tonight. Could warren become Hillary Clintons running mate . An isis american. A virginia man who joined isis and then defected appears in federal court on terror charges. Why the First American isis fighter is captured on the battlefield and could be a gold mine for u. S. Intelligence. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, president obama endorses Hillary Clinton for president of the United States saying he doesnt think theres ever been someone so qualified to hold that office. The president says hes fired up and hell start campaigning with Hillary Clinton next week in wisconsin. Clinton says shes honored and that she, too, is fired up and ready to go. The endorsement was released after the president met oneonone in the oval office with Bernie Sanders. While sanders wont be moving into that office himself, he has vowed to help Hillary Clinton defeat donald trump and aides say sanders will keep pushing for his progressive agenda. Donald trump reacted quickly tweeting, obama just endorsed crooked hillary. He wants four more years of obama. Nobody else does. Trump today met with prominent republicans but hes still having trouble with key figures in his own party furious over his attacks on a latino judge. John kasich and scott walker suggest they may not endorse trump. Kasich says trump has, quote, gotten worse since the race ended and House Speaker paul ryan voices dismay. But what he calls trumps antics saying he hope trump can fix this. Ill speak with democratic chris murphy and our correspondents, analysts and guests will have coverage of todays top stories. Lets begin with the breaking news. President obamas endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Lets go to our White House Correspondent michelle kosinski. This follow as meeting between the president and Bernie Sanders. Reporter yes. He didnt waste any time. To see how this played out was truly remarkable. We have a president ial endorsement in a video, in a tweet put out by Hillary Clintons campaign. We know it was recorded on tuesday and its clear that the white house wanted to wait for this long discussion today with Bernie Sanders. Now, what we didnt hear from him was im bowing out, im now supporting Hillary Clinton. He approached those things in essence saying that he will now work with her and the white house towards their unified goal of defeating donald trump. I congratulate Hillary Clinton. Reporter a president ial endorsement in the form of a slick Campaign Video released on twitter. I know how hard this job can be. Thats why i know hillary will be so good at it. In fact, i dont think theres ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. Reporter unity among democrats is what they are all looking for and thats the picture president obama was careful to protect side by side with Bernie Sanders today at the white house. But after more than the hourlong private discussion with president obama in the oval office, sanders said hes not leaving the race just yet. I will, of course, be competing in the d. C. Primary which will be held next tuesday. We will continue doing everything that we can to oppose the drift which currently exists towards a form of society. Reporter he did suggest he sees the writing on the wall. And lee work as hard as i can to make sure donald trump doesnt become president of the United States. Reporter and plans to meet with Hillary Clinton. I look forward to meeting with her in the near future to see how we can Work Together to defeat donald trump and to create a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 . Reporter the president going out of his way to praise the senators hard fought battle. Just like eight years ago, there are millions of americans, not just democrat, who have cast their ballots for the very first time. And a lot of that is thanks to senator Bernie Sanders. Reporter they want his supporters. Many who right now are still saying bernie or bust. And you heard senator sanders say to all of you just a couple of hours ago how critically important it is that president obama be succeeded by somebody who shares our values. Reporter president obama now free to hit the campaign trail and will in a matter of days. I am fired up and i cannot wait to get out there and campaign for hillary. Reporter also on twitter today, donald trump. Obama just endorsed crooked hillary. He wants four more years of obama but nobody else does. Hillary clinton responding simply delete your account. Sanders met with Top Democrats and they want to hear him out, find out what he wants, what does he see as best to rally as many supporters and obtain that party unity. What we could see in the coming days is a rollout of endorsements from the Vice President and even from the first lady, wolf. Well be watching closely with you. Thank you. Lets bring in our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, Bernie Sanders made the rounds in washington and says hell still compete in next weeks primary next tuesday in washington, d. C. , and what are his plans Going Forward . Hes still campaigning to a point. Hell hold a rally tonight in washington, d. C. , but he clearly has made a central pivot in this campaign. Top of the order here the first order of business is bringing his supporters on board, like michelle just said there. He can join this. But the reality is, one of his attractive features to all of these supporters is that he was an outsider so they know part of these discussions were how can you bring these people on board so they dont either, a, stay home or, b, vote for an independent candidate or a Green Party Candidate or someone else who is running. So, wolf, central to that is firing these people up. I was struck by something that Bernie Sanders said right when he walked out of the white house about president obama. Let me begin by thanking president obama and thanking Vice President biden for the degree of impartiality they established during the course of this entire process, what they said in the beginning is that they would not put their thumb on the scales and, in fact, they kept their word and i appreciate that very, very much. Wolf, that was a message to his supporters as well because many who i talked to over the last many months believe that the white house was essentially supporting his opponent. But he clearly made the point clear that he appreciated the respect that was shown to him. In winning 22 states, its given him a bit of leverage here. One of the key reasons for falling in line, he probably gets the team player award. Bernie sanders will become a chairman of a major committee, likely the budget committee. At least potentially the budget committee. Those are things that have been talked about. Thats one reason for him to go back to his day job with a smile on his face. The Clinton Campaign wants him to hit the campaign trail pretty quickly and their meeting will likely come after the d. C. Primary. Wolf . Lets see what happen after that. Thank you very much, jeff zeleny. Joining me is chris murphy of connecticut. Senator, thanks for joining us. You believe its time for senator sanders to step down and end his bid for the white house . I think hes made it clear that his priority is defeating donald trump. Theres one more primary to go but i think the rhetorical shift has already happened. I think this is going to be a very, very powerful image to have, Hillary Clinton and barack obama campaigning together next week in wisconsin and perhaps the week after to have Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigning together throughout the country to the extent that there are any lingering, undecided progressive or democratic voters, donald trump will be a tremendous unifying factor. His sort of proud overt racism is something that is going to drive all of bernie supporters who may be a little reluctant to get into the tent into hillarys camp. Are you saying within two weeks or so you think that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton could be out on the campaign trail together . He campaigning for her . I hope so. I think theres still going to be some important things that he wants to bring to the convention. Once we are finished with all of the voting, he and his supporters have said that would be the moment to come together. So im hopeful that senator anders will be out there as quickly as possible. You can hear that there may not be a need to wait for the convention to have the unifying moment. As you know, theres a lot of anger among many of bernie supporters. What does president obama, Hillary Clinton, what do they need to do to get those millions of specially young Bernie Sanders supporters on board to back hillary . As you know, as one of the youngest members of the senate, which is, of course, a relative term, i care deeply about making sure that young voters turn out and i think the rhetoric has been so powerful, maybe they havent listened to some of the proposals that Hillary Clinton has made and maybe now after he gets on board with her campaign they will hear the things shes saying about College Affordability and progressive issues like paid family sick leave. Again, they are going to take a seconds look at donald trump. Younger voters which care about tolerance, justice, inclusiveness are going to turn out for Hillary Clinton and turn out at the polls, also because they reject all of the divisive rhetoric that is going to be the foundation for the trump campaign. Donald trump has run an unconventional campaign. Is Hillary Clinton underestimated him and his tactics . I dont think that. This is a country in which 45 of the electorate is solidly red and blue. Youre arguing about 10 in the middle. I dont think shes under estimating at all. This is going to be a challenge in that hes going to literally make up new things about her every single day so shes going to have to be very aggressive in the Rapid Response to correct the record and shes going to have to be helped by the media which have done a much better job in realtime calling out trump when hes latying about others. 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Get an insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Were following todays breaking news in the president ial race. President obama announcing his endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Lets bring in our cnn political commentator peter beinart, contributing editor at the atlantic media. Chief political analyst gloria borger, ryan lizza, washington correspondent and executive editor mark preston. Gloria, todays engorsmedorseme expected but what kind of impact do you think it will have . Well, the timing is that it couldnt happen fast enough as far as the president was concerned and orchestrated properly, you see the president walking with bernie at the white house, sanders meeting with the Vice President talking to Hillary Clinton this was kind of soft dip employee see at work and Bernie Sanders coming out and talking about defeating donald trump and i think they want to get on the same page and the president is just itching to get out there and weve seen that during recent appearances. Hes been talking about donald trump and you can see that he wants to get out on the campaign trail. This is his legacy and it lies with Hillary Clinton. Mark, what do you think of the future plans . Well, certainly the meeting with barack obama is being viewed internally as a very good meeting. They were happy with the outcome. They knew the endorsement was coming. As far as Going Forward, people are looking at Bernie Sanders as a real team player. Now the question is Going Forward the next couple of weeks, wolf, with Bernie Sanders giving to the clintons his endorsement and not fighting if, looking at policy issues, the drafting Platform Committee is meeting here in washington. There will be a few more meetings. See if he can push the democratic agenda more to the left as he would choose to do so. Heres insider information. Theres been a lot made of whether Bernie Sanders can take out Debbie Wasserman schultz. One thing we should be looking for is whether the Clinton Campaign will replace former representative barney frank as well as Connecticut Governor malloy as the rules committee. They are very upset the Sanders Campaign is very upset at these two gentlemen because he feels that they unfairly attacked Bernie Sanders and dont want them on the rules committee. Mark, thank you. Interesting stuff. Peter, president obama will be visiting Hillary Clinton out on the campaign trail next wednesday in wisconsin. How strongly would you expect him to come out against donald trump during that appearance and subsequent appearances . Extremely strongly. And i think youll see with a lot of humor as well, remember what barack obama did at the White House Correspondents dinner, where he mocked him. One of the real advantages that Hillary Clinton has in this race is she has stronger surrogates. Barack obama will be a very aggressive attacker of donald trump. Donald trump goes on himself a lot but a lot of republicans, most republicans, even those who have endorsed him, who dont want to go out there and be attached to him at the hip and thats an advantage for Hillary Clinton. Ryan, when would you expect a Vice President ial pick on Hillary Clintons part . Well, the traditional time to do that is right before the convention. Of course, the convention this cycle are a little earlier. So sometime in early july i would expect that well start to hear that. Only a few big moments in a race when everyone is paying attention. Vice president ial pick, convention and debates. And it will tell us a lot about what kind of campaign shes going to run. Is she going to go left and play up the base or is she going to try and grab some of the disaffected republicans and maybe point to someone who is a centrist. Ryan, i understand you have an article coming out in the new

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