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Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Election HQ 20160528

Monument, one of many ceremonies to honor Fallen Heroes across the country this weekend. Good saturday to you on this long weekend that officially begins summer. Nice to be with you. Nice to be with you at home. Welcome to americas election headquarters from washington. You are looking live at a Bernie Sanders rally in Santa Barbara, california, due to start any moment. Sanders is the only candidate hitting the campaign trail today. Hes holding three rallies in california ahead of the states june 7 primary. Polls show sanders and clinton locked in a tight race heading into the delegaterich contest. Sanders has vowed to amass as many delegates as possible to try to win the democratic nomination but the current delegate count doesnt favor sanders. California offers 475 democratic delegates which explains why Bernie Sanders is spending so much time campaigning there before the june 7 primary. Hillary clinton is pretty close to locking up the nomination, just 73 delegates shy of hitting that magic number needed to clinch. Especially when you count super delegates. Bernie sanders supporters hope Hillary Clintons email troubles could be bernies gain in the delegate count for the democratic nomination. This week brought a scathing state Department Inspector general report on her email practices, but it does not end there. Now everyone is watching to see what will happen with the fbis criminal investigation. We are following the story from d. C. Reporter you can bet the fbi is closely watching these developments. In addition to the fbis criminal investigation, and the i. G. s report that just came out, there is also the civil case from Judicial Watch looking into clintons email practices. This week the conservative legal Watchdog Group released the transcript from its recent deposition with a Longtime State Department staffer, louis lucas. Clinton previously said her use of email for work was widely known but he said he thought she was only using it to stay in touch with family and friends. The report issued this week shows that several low level staffers raised questions about the security of her email setup they were told it had been approved and to never bring it up again. In fact, according to the report, clinton never sought nor received permission from the state department i. T. Officials to exclusively use personal email. Those officials told the i. G. If she had asked for approval, they would have said no, because it would be both a Security Risk and a violation of the departments recordkeeping rules. All of this combined with what we already know makes it appear there was a concerted effort by clinton to control her email records by skirting federal recordkeeping laws. Clearly theres enough from the i. G. Report, from the leaked emails, she is in trouble here. Shes going to be indicted. Anyone who says this is not an indictable offense, they dont understand whats going on with the classified information. Reporter despite the contradictions between the i. G. Report and clintons previous statements, clinton and her Campaign Says theres nothing new in the report. She did nothing wrong and they are not worried about hurting her in the upcoming election. As ive said many times, if i could go back, i would do it differently. I know people have concerns about this. I understand that. But i think voters are going to be looking at the full picture of what i have to offer, my life and my service. Reporter those concerns were highlighted in the recent latest fox news poll, where 66 of voters said they did not view her as honest and trustworthy. Leland . Garrett kenney, thanks. For more on how all this is affecting the democratic race for the white house, wall street Journal White House correspondent Colleen Mccain nelson has also been covering the democrats for the journal. Great reporting. Glad to have you. We heard that statistic, 66 of voters dont find clinton honest and trustworthy. Is the email scandal resonating with democratic primary voters rather than general election voters . At this point, its a little bit of a moot question just because shes on the march to the nomination and is not going the math is on her side. So shes not going to be derailed. But it does fuel the existing narrative that she cant be trusted. So she has been out there saying this was allowed, i didnt do anything wrong, it was permissible to use private email but the report says very clearly its not. Do you think Bernie Sanders campaign, shall we say, regrets we dont want to hear about your whatever emails anymore . Well, at this point, theyre not showing any signs of regret. They are certainly holding firm to that. Points for consistency, perhaps, but also perhaps a missed opportunity. Even with this report now in hand, Bernie Sanders is still not attacking her on this. His campaign manager, his surrogates are still not talking about this issue, so it certainly could have been a useful issue for them at this moment leading up to this moment, but they just wont go there. If you had talked about this race about a year ago, this should have been long over. You should have been back here on your couch in washington, not still on a plane every other minute. Were 58 days to philadelphia. How worried are Hillary Clintons folks that theres not really a coalescing of the Democratic Party around her, even if she does win the nomination it will be contentious at best . Well, this is a challenge and at this point i think the Clinton Campaign is trying to assess exactly how steep of a challenge because part of the problem is they dont know exactly what Bernie Sanders wants. Hes showing that hes willing to not only contest every primary but he wants to fight over things both big and small related to the convention. So its not just that he wants to influence the platform or that he wants a prime time speaking spot. Even this morning you saw Bernie Sanders campaign coming out fighting, asking to have two particular clinton surrogates removed from convention theyre fighting every little fight. What do you think they want . Does he want to be vp . I dont think thats what hes after necessarily. That seems like a pretty farfetched idea at least in terms of what the clinton camp wants. I dont think thats a gettable target for them. But they certainly want to influence the platform, they want to they say change the system. They call it a rigged system. You watched the video from nevada where the Bernie Sanders supporters felt as though they had been slighted there at the state convention in nevada. They started throwing chairs and all those kind of things. Are the clinton folks getting ready for these kinds of disturbances in philadelphia . Well, they are. Its interesting because Bernie Sanders supporters are applying for permits to demonstrate in philadelphia, so the question is what exactly are they planning to do. The bigger question is what is Bernie Sanders going to do to try to guide them. Can they do much after what happened in nevada. Exactly. Its kind of incumbent upon them to offer guidance and say lets keep this simple, be supportive of Hillary Clinton ultimately. Its up to him to kind of lower the temperature in philadelphia. So we havent seen any signs yet of whether hes going to do that. Where does this go from here in terms of california in about ten days, and then what happens between california and the middle of july, lets assume for the moment now the fbi doesnt indict her. So in terms of unifying the Democratic Party, thats a key time period, the five and a half weeks. At that point, Hillary Clinton will have enough delegates to be the presumptive nominee. So the question at that point is what is Bernie Sanders going to ask for. Is he going to ask that Debbie Wassermann schultz, the Democratic National committee chairwoman, step aside, is he going to does he have a list of demands. The clinton folks certainly are signaling they are willing to work with him. They just want to know what he wants. Maybe he doesnt even know what he wants at some point. Colleen, appreciate you being here. We will follow your reporting. Thank you. Illegal immigration one of the hot button issues of 2016 and its getting more heated with new developments in the debate. Parents of kate lynn steinlee killed allegedly by a mexican immigrant deported five times is suing the federal government, specifically blaming the sheriff who released the suspect from custody without notifying immigrations and Custom Enforcement or i. C. E. Making himself the king, he is deliberately circumventing the law that was in effect for the city and county of san francisco. He acted without authority. A complete abuse of authority in ismemo. A civil case like this, the legal issue is whether the government and its taxpayers can be held liable for the actions of a criminal. Case law is wellestablished that they cannot be held liable. I. C. E. Will not comment on pending litigation but said in a statement that Agency Officials have met with the family to express their deepest sympathy for the familys loss. Donald trump has used the steinle case to boost his argument for building a wall along the u. S. mexico border. At a trump rally in san diego yesterday, hundreds of people turned out to protest against his stance on immigration. As you might imagine and you can see, things got out of and as protesters flung trash and pushed over barricades. Police were forced to step in and arrested at least 35 demonstrators. We have the latest on the fallout from the rioting in san diego. Calling them thugs, Donald Trumps san diego rally featured angry protesters yesterday, aside from the arrests the Police Department added that nobody was hurt and no one destroyed any property. While trump, like many republicans, encountered strong resistance in california, he faced especially strong protests in san diego. A city near whats reported as the largest land Border Crossing in the world. Trump has called to build a wall on the Mexican Border and force that country to pay for it, and says he wants to deport millions of mexicans in the u. S. Illegally. While in california, trump says he has a shot of winning that state in the general election. Despite his very poor polling among key demographics in the state, trump says he can be the first republican in more than 30 years to win california. I am going to make a heavy, heavy, heavy may because i honestly think with getting these massive crowds all over the place, i actually think were going to win california. He also said he wanted to debate Bernie Sanders so badly. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clintons refusal to debate her democratic challenger ahead of the california primary, trump enthusiastically said he would fill that void. Sanders said he was ready. Now trump has joined clinton in rejecting sanders, saying in a statement quote, based on the fact that the democratic nominating process is totally rigged and crooked Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wassermann schultz will not allow Bernie Sanders to win. Now that im the Presumptive Republican nominee it seems inappropriate that i would debate the second place finisher. Donald trump will be in washington, d. C. Speaking at rolling thunder, a yearly motorcycle ride through d. C. , honoring the militarys prisoners of war and those missing in action. Back to you. Lot of questions about how exactly trumps comments will play considering hes been critical of p. O. W. S in the past, especially john mccain. Thanks, rich. Liz has more. After the 2012 election, Republican Leaders stressed the need to reach out to the hispanic and minority communities as the rnc gets ready for the july convention in cleveland, they have named wyoming senator John Barrasso to head the committee, writing the partys 2016 platform. Hes drawn a line in the sand for donald trump saying no president ial candidate has ever fully embraced the platform but we expect absolute acceptance of it. Joining me to break it down, president of Latino Partnership for conservative principles, alphonso aguilar. Thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. Before we look forward, i want to take a step back and look at the 2012, there was a gop growth and opportunity project released, almost 100 pages on all the things the gop can do better to reach out to the Hispanic Community and other minorities. Fast forward to today, we are looking at another election. Have they taken any of those recommendations and have they come to fruition . Absolutely. I was part of some of those conversations. I think Reince Priebus should be commended for the work hes done to engage the Hispanic Community. The rnc is doing a great job in establishing key contacts in battleground states to get latino support. We saw results in 2004, specifically cory gardner in colorado, a state where the latino vote is decisive. A good conservative who was constructive on immigration. He did very well with latinos. So i think that the rnc has done as much as it can. The question here is what has changed everything is certainly donald trump. You may have a great infrastructure to promote your candidate, but if the candidates not likeable, if latinos reject him, you are going to have a hard time selling him to the latino community. The question is, at this point, they are rejecting donald trump but can donald trump change the tone of his comments on immigration and his positions and perhaps become competitive to latinos. Perfect segue to my next question. I want to play a sound bite. He was talking about the latina governor of new mexico, Susana Martinez. Take a listen. We have to get your governor to get going. Shes got to do a better job, okay . Okay. So we hear there, you had actually addressed this shortly before, but is this him hitting on the hispanics necessarily, are they offended by this type of comment . No. Not at all. To try to say that hispanics are offended because shes latina, its the worst kind of pandering. It could backfire for democrats if they continue that line. Look, i thought it was silly. Hes going after Susana Martinez because she didnt show up at that rally and hasnt endorsed him. Thats it. Hes an equal opportunity, if you will, offender. Democrats dont understand that they dont have a hold on the latino vote. Latinos understand that both parties have played politics with them. Its a very sophisticated electorate. As we look at the polling, some of the polling that has been done even by fox shows that while trump is in the 20s, Hillary Clinton is in the low 60s. Not the same level as barack obama. So you know, they have questions about her. There you have 62 for clinton, 23 . What youre saying is that shes not necessarily the best alternative. Exactly. They are not flocking to Hillary Clinton. And that presents an opportunity for donald trump, if hes able to pivot and try to attract latino voters with a more constructive tone and position on immigration, and i think he actually has left the door open for that when he talks about the undocumented. He says he wants to go back but then he wants the good people to come back to the u. S. What if he were open to having a talk that mexicans could go to their consulate, register and given a path to legal status within their country . Something like the would be acceptable to latinos. I think donald trump has an opportunity but i think those changes and that change in tone needs to happen right now. Publicly, i denounced him when he made that comment about mexican immigrants. I denounced his positions. Im not ready to support him or vote for him. But he needs to do some work. But hes a force of nature so it could happen and he could become competitive with latino voters. He is certainly changing how we think about politics and certainly in every way. In every way. Even with latinos. Thank you so much for joining us. Wish we had more time to talk about the convention. Thank you for your insight. We appreciate it. Thank you for having me. For more election 2016 news, dont miss Fox News Sunday tomorrow. Chris wallace has an exclusive interview with Trump Campaign manager cory lewandowski. Now that trump has enough delegates to secure the nomination, whats the strategy moving towards november . Check your local listings for air time. 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