Hillary Clinton Clinches Democratic Nomination.
BANFIELD: Folks, this is a day when you want your daughter to be watching T.V. or looking at the headlines because for the first time in this country's 240-year history, a woman will lead the presidential ticket of a major political party. Hillary Clinton has surpassed the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Despite that milestone, she is stressing the importance of winning every single delegate she can from the six states voting in the primaries today. She has appealed to every voters tweeting it is your day to head to the polls, re-tweet this if you're voting for Hillary. I'm joined by Terry O'Neil who is the president of the National Organization for Woman -- for Women. Thank you so much, Terry, for being with me on this day. It is a historically significant day, although for a lot of people it doesn't seem to feel that way and I want to get your take on it. We can eloquently deliver the pros, but at the same time, do we already feel that women are there?</s>TERRY O'NEIL, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ORGANIZAION FOR WOMEN: Oh, that's exactly the perfect question, Ashleigh. First of all, we want every single supporter of Hillary Clinton to vote in California. I have so many friends in California and what I keep telling them is your voice matters, your vote matters. And by the way, it's really important to get to the polls today and vote for the down ballot candidates as well. So it's really not over. I expect to be celebrating tonight after we got the results of New Jersey and start getting results from California. I fully expect to be in total celebratory mode. But, you know, Ashleigh, you're exactly right when you say, women are already in the mainstream of U.S. society. I'll just tell you, 19 -- 2016 happens to be -- now is 50th anniversary and we recently changed our statement of purpose. In 1966, it was to bring women into the mainstream of society. And last year, the feeling was, you know, we need to modernize our statement of purpose because we are in the mainstream. And so the new purpose is to push for feminist ideals and really to change society and bring about societal changes. So, we're not where we need to be but we certainly have moved into the mainstream.</s>BANFIELD: And people have said from now on it will be unremarkable if when another is a major party nominee for president. But I look at Hillary Clinton's polling and I think it does reflect that perhaps to people it is already unremarkable that this milestone will pass with a puff as opposed to Barack Obama's explosion milestone of being the first black president. And I say that because the polling split. Men are going for Trump and women are going to for Hillary but she struggles with winning over the younger female voters. I hate to say that could be a good thing if you're a Hillary's supporter but it does tell you that perhaps a lot of those women many feel, so what, it's expected.</s>O'NEIL: You know, I think actually it is -- it will be historic. And absolutely it will be historic. It is not a so what moment at all. But I think that we need to understand that stark differences in the United States history with this very specific systemic racism that this country has struggled with since the 1600s. And so for an African-American man to be elected president was extraordinary in the face of real focused enslavement and then Jim Crowe and segregation and this focused kind of systemic racism that we've been struggling within this country since our founding. It has been millennia for women around the globe not just in the United States.