Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Facing Off Before the New York Primary.
LEMON: All right. We are back now with my political dream team. I want to continue talking about the Democrats. Mark Preston, this is for you, latest NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" Marist poll, Clinton is crushing Sanders 55 percent to 41 percent. That's among likely Democratic voters, primary voters. Is that enough time for Bernie Sanders to make this up?</s>PRESTON: You know, I don't necessarily think that Bernie Sanders has to win New York or -- look, he probably won't win New York. But the way the Democrats are apportioning delegates, it's not going to matter. Just like Bernie Sanders has won seven over the last eight, but yet the delegate total has been about the same. But this is what is important. That's why Bernie Sanders shouldn't get out of the race. Bernie Sanders goes and he holds rallies, and 10,000 people show up. Bernie Sanders goes, 5,000 people show up, 15,000 people show up. Bernie Sanders is clearly reaching a part of the Democratic Party that the Democratic Party is going to need. The nominee is going to need, whether it's him or Hillary Clinton to win in November. You have to keep the basic side. You saw that happen in 2007, 2008 with Obama and Clinton.</s>BECKEL: There</s>CONWAY: Because of this, why is he even so competitive with her in her quote "home state?" I mean, that is really a story --.</s>BECKEL: Because she's the dog beat out of her.</s>CONWAY: No. It is not his home state. Vermont was, he won that. He wasn't -- Bernie Sanders won Vermont by a margin that Hillary Clinton will never win by.</s>LEMON: How important is this debate?</s>CONWAY: I understand. She was born in Illinois.</s>LEMON: How important is the debate on Thursday night?</s>NUTTER: I think we are at a critical point in the campaign. New York by itself and then what I have called to the kind of Atlantic Tuesday with those five big states and a lot of delegates at stake. But you know, some of the stuff that's happened over the course of the last week, whether represented in New York, born in New York, whatever the case may be, the only thing going on the 19th. And it's significant from a delegate standpoint, so insignificant.</s>LEMON: So this just one week before the primary.</s>BECKEL: It's the highest number of undecided voters of any states so far - this far I mean.</s>MCENANY: And it is worth mentioning, we have seen Bernie Sanders kind of, you know, waiver or go back and forth on this qualified, she is not qualified, here's what I meant, you know. This debate, he is going to be squarely asked, do you think Hillary Clinton is qualified, and he's going to have the choice, do I go negative here or so I rise above and kind of take the road Hillary Clinton did?</s>PRESTON: But she has signaled today that she is going to go negative based upon on the editorial board that he had with the "Daily News," where he wasn't able to effectively answer questions about how he would reform Wall Street. She said today. She called that into question.</s>LEMON: Is the campaign worried about momentum?</s>NUTTER: I mean, you should be able to explain your own plan that you have been talking about for a year. I mean, I have run for office, been in office, you should be able to explain your own stuff.</s>PRESTON: It's complicated, man, it's complicated.</s>LEMON: He has won seven over the last eight contests.</s>BECKEL: That's over. The momentum he takes on New York --.</s>CONWAY: The question is where do his voters go? But ladies and gentlemen, the idea that his voters, Bernie Sanders voters are just going to say, you know what, this was fun, but I'm for Hillary now, I think that's a dream.</s>LEMON: Bob, say out loud what you're whispering. What did you just say?</s>BECKEL: Come on. Just saying that the problem for Bernie Sanders is you caught on later, and I can't, any way I do it, I cannot add up a majority delegates. Can't do it. The only strategy the guy stays on the strategy which is to try to keep them below the 50 percent mark and try to get the second --</s>LEMON: I find it interesting that you say something and I hear lots of people. Remember in the beginning when I said, you know, lots of people were telling me, Donald Trump, I like that guy. And they look over and then whisper to me, a lot of people have said it's mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders and it's also mathematically impossible for Donald Trump to win in a general.</s>BECKEL: There's no way Bernie Sanders can get the nominee. There is no way.</s>PRESTON: Not mathematically impossible --</s>MCENANY: Especially when you consider, you know, Kellyanne point echo that. She said not all Bernie Sanders voters are going to just march over to Hillary Clinton. In fact, 37 percent say they can't see themselves voting for Clinton. I would argue Trump has a real chance at courting some of the blue collar workers. In places like Pennsylvania --</s>NUTTER: And many Republicans are not voting for Donald Trump if he's the nominee. And will go over to Hillary.</s>MCENANY: I don't see that.</s>LEMON: Because of the demographics of this country, she said that demographically impossible --</s>BECKEL: It's why Republicans can't win the presidency.</s>HOOVER: Here is the situation. Mitt Romney won 59 percent of white voters, most of any non-incumbent president running -- Republican running for president. He still lost by five million votes. You simply have to bring more groups of people to the table to vote for you besides white voters. And so we have to win more. Win more. We have to win more --</s>LEMON: We will be right back. We'll be right back.