Clinton Slams Trump Over Taxes In New Ad; Should Clinton Hit Back at Donald Trump in Trump Style?; Sanders Hoping for a Contested Convention
VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: His fans continue to mourn the death of musical icon, Prince. His family is now planning to pay tribute to him this summer.</s>CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: Prince's sister Tyka Nelson announced on Facebook a plan for a public memorial and tribute. This will happen in August, she says. The news comes as his church prepares a memorial for him tomorrow. Remember, the singer was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate last month. He was just 57 years old.</s>BLACKWELL: America's so-called toughest sheriff could face jail time if a federal court ruling later this month goes against him. A federal judge yesterday found Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona in civil contempt for not doing enough to halt racial profiling by his deputies. A judge could refer the case for criminal contempt charges at a hearing that's on May 31st. Arpaio's department has been under fire ever since a federal investigation found a widespread pattern of discrimination against Latinos.</s>PAUL: The gun used to fatally shoot Trayvon Martin will stay on the auction block, at least for the next few days. This is according to the Web site where George Zimmerman has put his .9 millimeter handgun for sale. Prank bidders have been dogging the site ever since. In fact, at one point, a fake bid of $65 million was offered.</s>BLACKWELL: New this morning, in fact out in just the last few minutes, Hillary Clinton slamming Donald Trump in a new ad for refusing to release his tax returns. This comes, of course, after Trump denied posing as his own publicist back in the '90s.</s>PAUL: Yes, a lot going on this week. Meanwhile, Donald Trump did meet with Paul Ryan in Washington hoping to win his support, and they released this joint statement, quote, "While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground."</s>BLACKWELL: Should Hillary Clinton hit back at Donald Trump in Donald Trump style, or stay as she has said she would, above the fray? Well, the 20-year-old Clinton scandals keep coming up at rallies for the presumptive Republican nominee, but former Secretary Clinton has not yet answered Trump's attacks directly. And as we hear from our Randi Kaye, her supporters seemed divided over how to fight moving forward.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They came to hear Bill Clinton speak in Patterson, New Jersey. But long before the former president arrived, these voters were already fired up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why do you stoop down into the gutter with someone that wants to bring you there?</s>KAYE: The gutter is where many of these Hillary Clinton supporters believe Donald Trump is trying to drag her, using personal attacks about her husband's extramarital affairs dating back 20 years.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler. And what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful.</s>KAYE: Instead of hitting Trump back on his own personal transgressions, Mrs. Clinton is sticking to the issues.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have said repeatedly, I am not going to respond to the insults and the attacks coming from Donald Trump in this campaign.</s>KAYE (on-camera): Is Hillary Clinton playing tough enough?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I think she's playing tough enough because I don't think that slander is the name of this game. I think that she should stay focused on the agenda at hand.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't believe in mud slinging. I don't think that helps anyone.</s>KAYE (voice-over): But not responding to Trump's personal attacks is risky. (on-camera) Are you at all concerned that this could backfire on her? Because look at what happened to the other 16 Republican candidates who didn't take on Donald Trump.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. I believe, you know, as time approaches closely, that she should, you know, maybe take a couple of shots but nothing too extreme. Because she doesn't want to be anything like Donald Trump.</s>KAYE: Are you at all concerned that those kinds of things could sink in to the American public's view of her if she doesn't say something?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the American people are intelligent enough to know what to look for, to do their research, to do their homework and to not fall into the games of name saying.</s>KAYE (voice-over): There's also the question of how Hillary Clinton should handle Donald Trump's harsh words for her husband. Trump has called Bill Clinton the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. Hillary Clinton hasn't responded to those remarks either. A few here feel strongly that Mrs. Clinton needs to defend her husband and her family, that she's making a big mistake letting Trump, quote, "bully her."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you don't stand up to a bully, they keep going. For her to sit there and let him get away with it, it's like a cancer. If you don't treat it, it metastasizes. And then what's going to happen? You're going to die.</s>KAYE: How exactly should she strike back? Use Trump's favorite weapon against him, says this supporter. (on-camera) So you think she should go after him on social media?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. He's using twitter. Let her use Twitter.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would hate to be in her shoes to have to take all that.</s>KAYE (voice-over): And staying above the fray may be harder and harder the closer we get to Election Day. Randi Kaye, CNN, Patterson, New Jersey.</s>PAUL: As the Clinton campaign prepares to take on Donald Trump in the general election, she still has an opponent in the primary race and Bernie Sanders is not backing down. He's hoping for a contested convention. Now there is a group of Sanders supporters out there looking beyond the convention and they're circulating a draft proposal. It calls for Sanders to concede the race, possibly endorse Clinton, then take on Trump himself. OK. Nomiki Konst, a Democratic strategist and Bernie Sanders supporter is with us. Nomiki, good morning to you. I want to ask you about this draft that says Sanders would be a powerful surrogate for Clinton. In what arena do you see that happening?</s>NOMIKI KONST, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: So this draft is, I don't know where this mysterious draft came from. There are no authors. They barely published where it came from. And a lot of the language sounds very similar to some of the Clinton language. So I think that everybody on Team Sanders right now is very passionate about moving forward. You know, he's won 17 of the last 18 races. He has 45 percent of the pledged delegates. And most likely will win the majority of the next couple of states, including California where they are in a statistical tie.</s>PAUL: I was going to say California has an awful lot of -- it's got very sizable delegates at stake. But just to be clear, are you asserting that this draft is coming from the Clinton camp and not in Sanders camp.</s>KONST: Yes, or some sort of independent expenditure. They have a lot of operations, including correct the record which is a David Brock operation. And it pretty much -- and this now coming from the campaign, the Sanders campaign but for myself after reading the language and some of the Sanders supporters re-read it very similar to the language of a lot of the correct the record language, using language like "Breaking Barriers," "Attacking Fascism and Donald Trump." And it is not necessarily something that the Sanders campaign endorses. And, you know, reporters report on a lot of things if they're tipped off, obviously.</s>PAUL: OK. Well, I want to get to some of Sanders' language here, something that was at a fund-raising e-mail that's using some -- some incendiary language to some degree. It says, the Sanders campaign revealed their thinking, obviously saying hitting Clinton hard, saying that she's very close to Trump in the polls. Here it is. "We're going to have a contested convention where the Democratic Party has to decide if they want the candidate with the momentum, who is best positioned to beat Trump, or if they're willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country." I read that and I think a lot of people wonder, who is courting disaster aimed at? Is the disaster Donald Trump? Or is it Hillary Clinton?</s>KONST: Well, the disaster is shown in the polls. I mean, Bernie Sanders is the only person right now who beats Donald Trump in swing states. Nationally. He's the only candidate who has the most likely chances of beating Donald Trump electorally. He is the only candidate who can win that very important working class white -- unfortunately, just the white male vote which is what it's going to come down to this year. He is the only candidate that not only can get the base of Democratic voters, but woe independents and young people and has the momentum. And so what he's basically saying is, if we want to win in November, which is essentially what the Democratic Party's mission statement is, is to win and to find the candidate that is most electable, then Bernie Sanders is that choice.</s>PAUL: OK.</s>KONST: But, unfortunately --</s>PAUL: When you talk about winning that requires some money. And also notable in this fund-raising e-mail that was sent out, he is asking people to make $3 contributions to continue his run for wins in Oregon and Kentucky on Tuesday. How financially sound is Sanders' fight at this point?</s>KONST: Campaigns are expensive. We've all noticed over the past five or six months he's been hitting record numbers. Last month wasn't as strong as previous months, but it was still very strong. One of the strongest out of all the presidential contenders. So, you know, he continues to raise money and he is doing it in a non- traditional way. He's crowd sourcing it. He's getting it from individuals. And so he's basically breaking, he is hacking the system of political -- of presidential campaigns right now. Presidential campaigns usually, either you have to be somewhat of a self-funder, or you have to raise money from very unlikely and unfriendly to the Democratic process type types. Whether it's having Super Pacs that raise money from dark shadow -- dark money groups and corporations or accept money from lobbyists, as Hillary Clinton is, and even the Democratic Party is right now. Or, you know, he decided to go the honest path. And he's doing it well. And he's the most electable candidate. He did go in opposite way. I suppose, in terms -- if we talk about conventional elections. And it does seem to be working for him to some degree. No doubt about it. Nomiki Konst, we appreciate you being here. Thank you.</s>KONST: Thank you.</s>PAUL: Sure.</s>BLACKWELL: I want you to see the video here of this young man. He was featured in a recent CNN documentary series. He gave hope to a lot of people. But he was found shot to death before he could escape the violence of Chicago. We'll examine what tragically cut this young man's life short and hear from his mentor and former principal. Also, an Olympic doping scandal getting a lot of attention this morning involving Russian athletes and reports of widespread cover- ups.