Prior times. Excuse me, if if you are both screaming at each other, the viewers wont be able to hear either of you. Ive gotten more votes than anyone running, 9. 6 million at the last count. Were going to win here in new york. Thank you . [ chanting bernie ] hello, im wolf blitzer in washington. Wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. Its the day after the big debate. The campaigns are doing damage control after a rather contentious back and forth between the two Democratic Candidates for president of the United States. As for the candidates themselves, Hillary Clinton stopped at a Senior Center in east harlem new york. But later heads to california for a fundraiser that includes george clooney. Bernie sanders is not in new york today. He is at the vatican for a conference. He spoke about Climate Change and the need for a moral econom at a time when so few have so much, and so many have so little, we must reject the foundations of this contemporary economy as immoral and unsustainable. Senator sanders is not expected to meet with the pope while hes in rome. Meanwhile, heres the latest poll ahead of tuesdays primary, the wall street journal nbc news maris poll has president Clinton Holding a 17 point lead over sanders. You see it there. Heres where the race stands on the delegate count. Secretary clinton talked about her lead in pledgeds. She leads by 229 pledge delegates and has more super delegates as you can see in the chart. Lets talk about the debate, the tone, the issues and a lot more. Joining us from new york is senior media adviser for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Thank you very much for joining us. Quickly explain why Bernie Sanders decided to go to the vatican today, crucial day before the New York Primary on tuesday instead of campaigning in new york . Well, wolf, he was delighted to receive the invitation of the pontiffical academy of social sciences and uchbd it would be an opportunity to talk about an issue he cares deeply about, the issue of income, wealth and he is an admirer of popes francis an the message on the issue of moral economy and the popes commitment to dealing with another issue that bernie cares about which is how to tackle Climate Change. Yes, he was out of state for one day but will be back tomorrow and will campaign hard through the primary here on tuesday. We think he is close strong elsewhere and will close strong in new york. It doesnt suggest to you or 0 to your colleagues that he is basically the suspicion is hes given up on new york, given Hillary Clintons impressive lead in the polls. Far from it. We will fight for every vote. She has great advantages in her home state. She has significant lead in the polling and it is more difficult when you compete in systems where independents are not allowed to vote. We get that. Bernie will work hard. We will have an event tomorrow. We will be here on sunday and we will campaign for votes and i think we close strongly elsewhere. I think we can close strongly here, as well. As you know, senator sanders promised to release his 2014 tax return today. When will he do that. Later this afternoon the campaign will release those returns. What about earlier years . I understand he wants to do that but they are not going to be released today. When will the earlier years be returned . I hope soon. Literally jane sanders who does the income taxes in their family is going to finish them. Hopefully before the deadline and that will be released and we will look back. Bernie is happy to be transparent. I think when people see his tax returns. By the way, hes had a disclosure as a member of the United States senate, Financial Disclosure as candidate for president. It is not like theres been no opportunity to look at his personal finances. In addition to that, in the sake of transparency he will release back taxes, as well. We nope that spirit, senator clinton would join in and release the transcripts of the paid speeches she gave to banks like Goldman Sachs and the board of directors of verizon. Wed like to see whats in the speeches. Theres other contentious exchanges as we know last night in the debate in brooklyn on israel and guns. Senator sanders voted to shield gun manufacturers and owners from understand definites like sandy hook and defends the right to sue. Should they be able to sue manufacturers or not . Well, wolf, that case involving those families, i believe yesterday gid did move forward in the courts. Bernie believes that if there are bad actors in the process, whether they are gun sellers, manufactures they should be held accountable. He signed on a piece of legislation that is in the Congress Today that would provide that opportunity. He has in the past supported other bills. He did so because a member from vermont, you know, a lot of small gun shops in his state felt they would be impacted adversely by that and the bill contained some positive messages, as well. The characterization of Bernie Sanders as being terrible or a stooge of the gun lobby, which is what the clinton is arguing couldnt be more wrong. He has a dminus lifetime rating from the nra. He lost his first race for congress because he stood up and said he would support a ban on assault weapons and he supported the president s agenda on gun violence across the board. This is a gross mischaracterization of his record. For the most part he has been strong and thats why the nra itself says Bernie Sanders is no friend of the nra. You have been involved in Democratic Politics for a long time. Were you surprised how tough senator sanders was on the Israeli Government last night . That debate, in criticizing the israeli response to the hamas rocket attacks coming in from gaza during the war in 2014 . No, i was not surprised because ive heard bernie say that before. I think he made it clear last night that he, as president , would stand shoulder to shoulder with our strongest ally in the middle east, the nation of israel, the only democracy there. He has made it very clear that his own personal experiences, including living when he was a young man have given him insight to the security of a small nation like israel surrounded by so many enemies. Bernie sanders is prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. He will also have a unique opportunity as president of the United States, to move forward in a quest for peace in the middle east. It has been a difficult challenge. Secretary kerr riff has been a tremendous force in attempting to do this and even when you put everything in it to it has unfortunately been stymied. Bernie is honest and straightforward on his views on this and others. He will not change his views even if it means not winning as many votes as he otherwise may have. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Lets talk about the clinton campaign. The reaction some of the points in last nights cnn democratic debate, new york congressman Gregory Meeks is joining us, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Thank you for joining us. Good to be with you, wolf. You think Hillary Clinton will win overwhelmingly, i assume in new york based on the polls, right . Were going to work hard. Polls are polls. I know this weekend i will be back home working hard. Hillary is working hard. Taking no vote for granted. It is possible he could stun her and you and win in new york . I dont think so. I think new york knows hillary. She was our senator for eight years. She did a great job. We reelected her overwhelmingly. We were happy she offered to become the secretary of state. We were sad to lose a great senator. The a 1994 crime bill signed in to law by bill clinton she said shi she is sorry for the unintended consequences of the bill how it impacted minoritities and africanamerican young men. Is that good enough . You say it was a mistake to vote. She didnt vote, to support that legislation. What you said is right. Only one of the two candidates had a vote. If anyone should apologize. Because he was a congressman. She was the first lady. We should be talking to Bernie Sanders about apologizing for his vote. Hillary clinton didnt have a vote . You think Bernie Sanders should apologize. They talk about 1994 as if it were hillarys responsibility. If he thinks it is a bad vote it is bad judgment on his part. We have to take the whole thing in to context. What is taking place in 1994, exorbitant crime rate and stuff going on. Now we see bills, i dont know of any bill that comes out of congress that is perfect an there are sometimes unintended consequences. And hillary said there are unintended consequences and we have to fix them. Her first statement when she declared for president is fixing the criminal justice system. You heard senator sanders say her use of the word way back, the word super predators. He said that, referring to the crime bill, he said that was, in his words, obviously racist on her part. The use of that phrase super predator. Do you agree . Absolutely not. If you think of the clintons and the Clinton Administration in the 90ss, theres a reason why 88 in 1996 voted for bill clinton. A if they thought he was a racist, dont tell me that you think africanamericans arent smart enough to vote for someone who has their interest. Theres a reason why Toni Morrison said that bill clinton was the first black president. No way should you ever classify or should anyone think the clintons ever thought of africanamericans in a racist manner. The fact of the matter is, in the same time period, if you look at the economics that senator sanders talks about all the time, that was a one when income disparity was declining. There is no way, no how, no stretch of the imagination that one could use to say the clintons were racists. Very empassioned on this. Lets talk about guns in new york city. She made a controversial statement and senator sanders went after her. The other day she said most of the guns used in guns and crimes of violence and killings come from out of state and the state that has the highest number per capita of those guns come from vermont. Was that an accurate statement from her perspective . Theres a lot of Fact Checking and only a tiny number of guns used to commit crimes in new york come from vermont. As he said last night and as your Fact Checkers said on cnn, most of the guns come from outside of new york from states that are lax on gun control. There are a lot of other states that are lax from your perspective, bigger states than vermont. Thats true. Theres no way to track, and your Fact Checkers said they couldnt say true or false. Their answer was, which i agree on that, it is complicated. Thats the best answer to that. It is clear, though, that if you look at the laws in vermont with reference to guns as compared to the laws in new york state theres substantial difference, and that senator sanders has voted to delay gun background checks which is for the nra. The nra praised him for sticking up for their biggest bill. He talked about 88. Clearly he got elected in 1990. He must have given them what they needed because they said their biggest bill was about to come out and he voted to stop the background checks and the time limitations that they needed at that time. Thank you. Good to be with you. Thank you very much. Gregory meeks of new york. We have both party chairs live this hour, as well. The republican kmshl committee chair, Reince Priebus and Debbie Wasserman schultz will be joining me for separate one on one interviews. Another major earthquake just hit japan. 7. 0 quake. This time we are gathering information that is coming in. We will bring you much more after this. You do all this research on a perfect car then smash it into a tree. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. Maybe you should have done more research on them. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. Just one of the many features that comes standard with our base policy. Call for a free quote today. See Car Insurance in a whole new light. Liberty mutual insurance. Breaking news in to cnn. A major earthquake has hit japan again. This is in the same region where a 6. 2 quake hit late thursday. That according to the u. S. Geological survey. A tsunami adviser has been issued for parts of japan. Disturbing developments coming in. We will get more information, update you. Karen maginnis is standing by. What do we nobt about the magnitude 7. 0 quake that just hit japan . What we understand, wolf, is that yesterday the earthquake that we saw then, that were also fatality earthquake related, now we are looking at this is probably the earthquake. The others were foreshocks, meaning they were leading up to this 7. 0 magnitude earthquake. It has been revised. But what makes it especially dangerous is this is only ten kilometers deep. Six miles deep. This is in a heavily, densely populated area. The closest largest city is nagasaki. This is in kumamoto. But also felt in tokyo. It is more densely populated in tokyo and ten kilometers deep. Heavily populated area and we are looking at potential for a catastrophic infrastructure damage. There you can see the video beside us as to what happened. Theres a tsunami warning that has been issued very dramatic pictures that we are looking at out of southern japan. To be precise, the other days, the thursday 6. 2 magnitude quake struck japan. This is a 7. 0. That was a this is not an aftershock, as they call it. That was a preliminary what was the phrase you used as far as the earlier 6. 2 . They are referred to as foreshocks, something leading up to the primary earthquake. 7. 0. Just about 30 minutes ago, we were saying 7. 1. Usgs said 7. 1 magnitude. I think we need to focus less on what the magnitude of this is certainly that is critical but the fact it is so shallow i was speaking with Cnn International and they were interested in the description of what a shallow earthquake means. It would be like if you were sitting on a bed and someone is shaking the top of the bed you would definitely feel that more significantly than if someone were under the bed shaking it. The deeper you go, if you have more substantial earthquake, you would definitely feel the impact of that but this is also a densely populated area. Highly developed. Were looking at the potential for devastating damage to infrastructure across this region. Ten kilometers deep, six miles deep, the equivalent and that is especially considered a shallow earthquake. You see a lot of south american earthquakes, very notorious area where they have significant earthquakes. A lot of those are 30 kilometers deep or 18 or 19 miles deep or maybe 40 kilometers deep. Thats substantial. The fact we have this substantial earthquake, a major earthquake, 7. 0, at ten kilometers deep and you can see the damage already. Some of the pictures we are getting, associated with this earthquake that happened within the last hour or to hour and a half, wolf, this is significant. As i mentioned, there have been about i think i counted about 18 foreshocks. Yesterday, one of those foreshocks was deadly. Back to you. How do we know that this 7. 0 also is not a foreshock and more could be expected . Thats a good question. I would guess that yesterday we perceived the earthquake that turned out to be damaging there, as well as fatal, we probably perceived that was the primary earthquake. We will see probably additional aftershocks from this. Some of them could be equal to that earthquake. I suspect that well see some that come very close. You are right. At this point it is hard to tell but just from historically speaking, thats what this particular earthquake looks like the 7. 0. As i mentioned the usgs revised that at least one time and now measuring 7. 0. We will stay on top of the breaking news. 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