Indicate there could be thousands of people who have reached the security of the green zone and are now in the heavily fortified part of the city, the heart of baghdad. Its an area of about four square miles. The u. S. Embassy is there about a mile or so from the parliament building. Earlier there were concerns about some of the parliamentarians who were in the building at the time might be trying to flee to the u. S. Embassy or other embassies in that area. No reports of that as of yet. Its nightfall there. Its getting late and the situations been going on for some time. There are also some reports of Security Forces firing tear gas at protesters who are trying to enter the area. Theres also a state of emergency throughout baghdad in the area adjacent to the green zone and throughout the city. A huge bustling city with millions of people there. Now all this is the result of political chaos thats been going on in baghdad for some time now. These are protesters demanding reforms, demanding an end to corruption, waste in the government. The Prime Minister there has been trying to form a new government for some time now. Struggling to do that. Theres a lot of infighting going on, a lot of instability. This is the big concern of the United States. The United States wants iraq to have a very stable government as it continues to fight against isis and terrorism in iraq and in syria. Youll recall that Vice President biden was just in iraq a few days ago earlier this week there to help support the Prime Minister help to get through this political crisis. The Vice President biden was the third u. S. Official to go there in recent weeks following the secretary of defense and the secretary of state john kerry. So also youll recall that just about two weeks ago or so the United States sent several hundred troops to iraq to beef up the fight against isis. So a lot going on at this critical moment. The United States wants to see a stable government in iraq at a time when they think when u. S. Officials think they have made some progress have seized the momentum is a word used here at the white house and elsewhere to describe where they feel the fight is now against isis. The last thing they want is instability or chaos in iraq at this time when the u. S. Hopes its turned a corner in this fight. It needs the Iraqi Government focused on this fight and not distracted by this chaos thats going on there. Again, unclear how resolved the situation is now. There were some reports of members of parliament trapped in their offices, protesters trying to find them, threats and fear about retaliation and reprisals. Again, a situation that mainly deals with iraqi politics but of great concern to the United States and being monitored closely here at the white house. Ron, i want to have you reiterate a couple things. First of all this is a large group of people. Clearly we can see that. Theres evidence of some sort of property damage. Weve heard reports of that, but its not being described as violent per se, which leads the white house to say they arent concerned at this time, right, for anyones safety, of u. S. Citizens there . Well, the word that weve had heard here is that so far its been peaceful. Yes, i dont know the extent of damage to property. It appears to be an ongoing situation. Large crowds of people in the parliament in and around that area. The important point about this, alex, is that this green zone is a very protected part of the city. People are allowed in, but its heavily guarded. And now there seems to be no security cordoned there at all. And the iraqi Security Forces are responsible for protecting the embassies in that area like the United States embassy. And at this point the work from the state department here is that the u. S. Still has faith and confidence in the iraqi Security Forces to protect the u. S. Embassy and other Foreign Missions there in the green zone. Again, its an evolving situation. Its unclear exactly whats going on at the ground at this point or what damage. There were reports of Security Forces firing tear gas. We have not seen that visually yet. There are reports of members of the Iraq Parliament and other government officials perhaps trapped in the building and unsure of whether to get out whether they would be attacked if they got out. But again, at this point the word from the u. S. Is that this appears to be peaceful and theyre monitoring it very closely. Okay. We will continue to do so with your help. Thank you very much from the white house, ron allen, for that. Lets go from there to president ial politics with three days until the indiana primaries, republicans are instead focusing their efforts on california today. Ted cruz will be the last candidate to speak at the partys state convention later on. John kasich who spoke there last night will be campaigning in san jose. And their events in california come less than 24 hours after hundreds of protesters surrounded a Convention Hotel this ahead of Donald Trumps speech. At one point in fact protesters knocked down the barricades and th tried to get inside. They reportedly threw eggs and rocks at riot police. This all forced trumps motorcade to pull over on the shoulder of the freeway, as you can see right here. He had to walk and eventually under a fence in order to enter that hotel safely. While trump joked about his unorthodox entrance by comparing it to crossing the u. S. mexico border, john kasich essentially blamed him for the protests. But when you live on the negative side, when you feed peoples anger did you see what happened here today . I heard about it. People chaining themselves to a fence trying to prevent somebody i mean, do you see whats happening . Okay. Well, i may not be winning those votes right now, but over time i believe the people like to live where they can be hopeful, where they believe that this country can be better, where they believe at the end they need to have somebody thats had the experience and somebody that can unite the country. Once trump hit the stage he renewed his attacks against the party. Its a rigged system. Its a rigged system. Okay. Its a horrible, horrible, disgusting system. The Republican Party in a president ial sense doesnt win anymore. You pick your standard cookie cutters. I can tell you already just give me the name of the person and ill tell you exactly what states hes going to win and what states hes going to lose. Im different because im going to win states that nobody else can. On the democratic side sanders and clinton are off the campaign trail today, but they will return to indiana tomorrow ahead of tuesdays primary. Bernie sanders is getting ready now to attend the white house Correspondents Dinner later tonight. And while Hillary Clinton is also taking a break today, former president bill clinton has three Campaign Events in indiana, one of which just wrapped up. And heres what he said moments ago tying his wifes economic message to his administration. This whole election comes down whether you believe we can all Grow Together again like we did in the 1990s when i had the honor to serve. I believe we can. And i believe that if you grow the economy from the middle out and help lift people from the bottom up, well all rise together and we wont be so mad at each other. Lets get a little more now on the Gop State Convention in california ahead of the june 7th primary there that could ultimately decide the nomination. Nbcs scott kohn live for us in burlingame where the convention is going on right now. Scott, a welcome to you. I know youve been talking with voters there. So what are you hearing . Reporter well, to some degree, alex, theyre pinching themselves because this is not a role that California Republicans are accustom to. Four years ago at the Gop Convention in this state it happened in february but the only candidate to speak here was Newt Gingrich and his candidacy was on its last legs. This time as you said all the major candidates, trump, cruz and kasich are making appearances here. So to some degree theyre relishing an importance they havent had in the past. But theyre also starting to talk about party unity. How does this party come together behind whoever is the eventual nominee. One trump supporter telling me the way to do that is to find a place for the other candidates. Put ted cruz on the supreme court. Find a place for john kasich in the administration, ben carson and so on. But a cruz supporter suggesting that maybe some voters will just stay home if donald trump is the nominee and that that is going to be an issue. So thats something that they have to work out here. Its something that trump talked about when he spoke yesterday about whether he can win with or without a united party. Ted cruz will have a different message when he speaks this afternoon. And his running mate, Carly Fiorina, speaking this evening, alex. All right. Scott cohn there in burlingame. Lets go to indiana now the state that could decide the race for the republican nomination and nbcs ron mott is checking the pulse of voters there. Ron, are people fired up about tuesday . If so, what are they saying . Reporter hey there, alex. Well, they are fired up. In fact, we have found a few people will, well get to them, fish our way through this crowd. Were at indiana comicon. On tuesday they will go to vote here for the first time in about 40 years where their votes could prove pivotal in deciding a president ial nominating contest. On the gop side donald trump is really trying to cement what appears to be a presumptive nominee at this point with 57 delegates up for grabs, all of them go to the winner. So weve got three people here. This is don ellis. Don, who are you voting for on tuesday . It will be john kasich. Reporter why are you throwing your support to him . I dont like cruzs attitude. And i just dont like the way that trump has been handling things. And john kasich seems to have a positive attitude in a way hes presenting the stuff he wants to do. Reporter the question we ask all of the folks voting for ted cruz or john kasich, will you vote for donald trump if hes the nominee . I doubt it. Reporter doubt it. Okay. Next up, tell me your character . Reporter okay, and your name is . Dani. Reporter youre voting for . Bernie sanders. Reporter why . He stands for my generation. I believe hes just an outstanding person and he actually understands like the needs of the current generation and how were growing up in such honestly terrible situations. Reporter and hes way behind in the delegate count. Are you able to support secretary clinton if she is the democratic nominee . I think so, yeah. Reporter okay. This is liv, you also voting for Bernie Sanders . Thats correct. Reporter what about his message that seems to resonate with the younger voter . I think hes the most honest politician out there, as honest as a politician can be. And he stands for a lot of things that i really care about. Reporter nice ears. Thanks. Reporter also, will you be able to vote for secretary clinton if shes the nominee . Probably not. No. Reporter so there you have it, alex. We have a john kasich voter, a Bernie Sanders voters here, election on tuesday, matters this time around here in indiana. Back to you. Its so interesting. They seem very much involved with their particular candidate. They dont necessarily want to vote for somebody else. Im curious, ron, because i know youre a fair reporter, could you not find somebody who was going to vote for donald trump . Reporter we have found one person, i think, who was throwing their support to donald trump, and we have yet to find anyone here throwing their support to secretary clinton. So i dont know what that says editorially, but we will continue to look for them this afternoon. Okay. Ron mott, thank you so much for that. Meantime, Hillary Clinton puts her cards on the table in her latest ad hitting back at Donald Trumps comment that, quote, the only card she has is the womans card. She is playing that card like i have never seen anybody play it. Lets bring in franceska chambers. Ladies, good to see you both. Sabrina, im going to get to you first. Do you think were seeing a preview of a clintontrump election . Sfwl absolutely. I think to appeal not just to the women who supported democrats in recent cycles which is single women, barack obama certainly overwhelmingly won that number in 2012 and 2008, but also among married women who have a traditionally supported republicans in larger numbers. And you now have polling that shows that at least 50 of republican women are saying that they cannot imagine voting for donald trump. So i think this is a line of attack you will continue to see from both clinton and her democratic allies. But also leading up to indiana i think youll see even ted cruz having tapped Carly Fiorina as a running mate really trying to appeal to suburban women who are critical of donald trump and who he was able to appeal to in wisconsin after Donald Trumps comments on punishing women on abortions. So i think on both sides youre going to see these comments potentially hurt donald trump. Do you think if and when he has to pivot to a general election, sabrina, that he can rehabilitate himself with this voting block . Or is it lost . Well, i think that its hard to imagine him pivoting because at this point theres a series of comments you saw in that ad it went from abortion to the comments about playing the women card and also just hes had that infamous fight with megyn kelly and made a string of comments many women find sexist. Its hard to imagine how he would plan to pivot when so many women have such an unfavorable view of him. There was one poll out the other day that showed 70 of women across the country have an unfavorable view of donald trump. Thats very hard to reverse in very little time. Uhhuh, yeah, and to be effective with it. Okay. Bernie sanders had a tough week and laying off more than 200 staffers. Do you get the sense its the beginning of the end for him . Well, Bernie Sanders says hes not getting out of this race, that every person in every state should have the right to vote. He says he will stay in through california, possibly even until the convention. But you have seen this week a shift in the way that Bernie Sanders has been talking at his events. In the past he would attack secretary clinton relentlessly on trade, on her wall street contributions, on those transcripts. Now hes started to focus a little bit more on the bigger picture, on the issues that he would like to see in the Democratic Partys platform and the direction that hed like to see the Democratic Party go in. Now, he says again that hes going to compete hard for every vote, but its easy to see if youre listening to what hes saying that his campaign is shifting in the direction of focusing on where he wants the party to go. And making sure hes had a lasting effect. Yeah. But francesca, the fact hes staying in the race at this point, do you think hes at all hurting clintons general election chances by staying in so long . Well, the Clinton Campaign has said that theyre fine with him staying in even though they think its very obvious at this point that she will be the democratic nominee based on the number of pledge delegates she has and the number of super delegates that say they will be voting for her at the convention. All that theyve been asking is that he back away from those assaults on her character and on the policy issues that i was just talking about. And he has stepped back from those. So at this point if he continues to focus on the issues that hes concerned about, the minimum wage, trade, et cetera, it might not actually affect her anymore. But donald trump has been seizing on the things hes already said about Hillary Clinton now, so the damage may have already been done. You know, sabrina, if clinton is the nominee and sanders backers dont shift their support to her just like we saw with that one woman that ron mott was interviewing just before we got to this segment, she said she was a sanders supporter but she didnt think she could vote for Hillary Clinton in a general election. Talk about how problematic that could be for her. Well, i think it depends on who her opponent is. If its donald trump, then theres real opportunity for Hillary Clinton to make inroads not just with the coalition of voters that typically lean democratic, but also of course with independents and potentially some republicans. We were just talking about women and there are some republican women who in polling have said they could see themselves supporting Hillary Clinton if the opponent is donald trump. When it comes to bernie and his supporters, i think it depends on the tone he takes himself in the remaining weeks of the primary. If he chooses to start to try and rally his supporters around Hillary Clinton and her candidacy, especially as she assumes the democratic nomination, then i think there is an opportunity to change their mind. They really will look to him as a leader of the revolution that hes created in the grassroots. But it depends on the tone and it depends on if hes willing to shift, i think, away from the personal attacks hes made in attacking her on the issues even when it looks li