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[SOURCE: 'Meet the Press' transcript for April 27, 2008]
MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday:
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY): I have received more votes by the people who have voted than anybody else.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): If we’ve won the most delegates from the voters, seems to me that it might be a good idea to make me the nominee.
MR. RUSSERT: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, making their case for the Democratic nomination. How much is their battle hurting the Democrats’ chances in November? Will their fight go all the way to the convention? With us, an exclusive interview with the man in the middle of all this, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Dr. Howard Dean.
Then, next up, Indiana and North Carolina on May 6th. Insights and analysis from David Broder of The Washington Post, John Dickerson of Slate.com, Gwen Ifill of PBS’ “Washington Week” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” Andrea Mitchell of NBC News and Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine.
But first, the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is one for the history books. How is it going to be resolved in the spirit of unity? Joining us, the man who must do just that, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean.
Dr. Dean, welcome back to MEET THE PRESS.
DR. HOWARD DEAN: Thanks for having me on, Tim.
MR. RUSSERT: Let’s look at the latest number. These are elected delegates. Barack Obama has 1491, Hillary Clinton has 1334. You need 2,025. Upcoming Democratic contests: Guam, Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico; ending on June 3rd, Montana and South Dakota. Four hundred eight delegates available with all those contests. Lastly, the so-called superdelegates, Clinton has 263, Obama has 240, and 292 remain uncommitted.
When you look at all that, how and when is this nomination fight going to end?
DR. DEAN: Well, I’m hoping it’ll be over by the end of the month of June. We’ve made great progress in the last few weeks that I think about 50 or 60 unpledged delegates have said who they’re going to be for. And, you know, it’d be a lot of fun for you if we had a divided convention with 104 ballots; it’d break the record. But the truth is we need to figure this out before the convention. We need time to heal. And actually, I’m not the most important person in terms of bringing the party together. The most important person is the, is the person who doesn’t win the nomination. Because I can remember when, I can remember when I lost to John Kerry, I had to go out and convince my supporters–it took me about three months–that they needed to support Senator Kerry. I endorsed him, I campaigned for him, I went all–to all the college campuses. And that’s what the person who doesn’t win this, with 49 percent of the delegates, is going to have to do in order to keep the party together.
MR. RUSSERT: There’s been an interesting debate over the last couple weeks about elected delegates. Obama has more elected delegates than Clinton. And if you look at the remaining contests, Hillary Clinton would need to win 69 percent of the outstanding elected delegates in order to overtake his lead, which most people believe is just impossible to do with proportional allocation. Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, former Democratic National Committee chairman…
DR. DEAN: Yep.
MR. RUSSERT: …made this observation about elected delegates. Let’s listen.
(Audiotape)
GOV. ED RENDELL (D-PA): The popular vote is, to me, a much fairer indicia than the pledged delegates because the pledged delegates are elected in a very undemocratic way.
(End audiotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Do you agree with that?
DR. DEAN: Well, no, I don’t. First of all, I don’t agree with it. And secondly, look, we have a set of rules. My job here is not to side with one candidate or the other and talk about pledged delegates or superdelegates or any of that stuff. My job is to take the rules that everybody started with and enforce the rules without fear or favor of any candidate. The–somebody’s going to lose this with 49 percent of the delegates in Denver, and that person has to believe that they were treated fairly if–otherwise, we can’t win. Look, John McCain is a weak candidate. He’s wrong on Iraq, as far as the American people are concerned. We don’t want to stay there for a hundred years. He’s wrong on the economy; it wasn’t the mortgage holders that, that, whose fault this was. He’s wrong on healthcare. We should have health insurance for all our kids. He is not a strong candidate.
The only thing that’s going to beat us is if we’re not unified. And my, in order to be unified, both the losing candidate and the winning candidate have to feel like the system was fair. So Senator Rendell may say–I mean, Governor Rendell may not like the rules, but the rules are what we started with. Most of them have been in place for the last 25 years. That’s what we’ve got to go by, whether you like the rules or you don’t like the rules.
MR. RUSSERT: You had an interview with the Financial Times and said this: “There’s a gestalt in politics when suddenly people see things in a synchronous way. Politically, there will be some feeling at the end of this process that somebody is better than the other person in terms of taking on John McCain.”
Gestalt, feeling, is that what’s going to decide this race?
DR. DEAN: That’s what, that’s how voters vote, and that’s how delegates vote. Delegates are just like voters. They, really, they look like voters, they are voters, and that’s what’s going to happen. What’s going to happen is, based on the last–you know, this is essentially pretty close to a tie here, and what’s going to happen these last nine primaries and, and cauc–I guess they’re all primaries–is that we’re going to–there’s going to be some feeling at some point and the–in the–after these last few weeks that one of these candidates is more likely to win than the other, and I think that’s who’s going to get the nomination. I can’t tell you who that is. I have no idea who it is. But that’s what’s going to happen.
MR. RUSSERT: The candidate with the most elected delegates is not guaranteed the nomination?
DR. DEAN: The rules say that the candidate with the most delegates gets the nomination, and I support the rules.
MR. RUSSERT: So that the superdelegates could, in effect, overrule the elected delegates?
DR. DEAN: That, you know, you shouldn’t think of it that way. So-called “superdelegates” are, in fact, elected by exactly the same people who vote for the elected delegates. This is just–this is like an–a representative democracy. You elect a–80 percent of the delegates, and they have to do what you ask them to do. The others, the 20 percent you elect, essentially do what’s in their best judgment, just like the House and the Senate does. Sometimes you like it, and sometimes you don’t. But these folks are elected, all, all of them, almost all of them are elected. A tiny minority are not elected; they’re appointed. But most of them are elected. They’re elected by the same people who went to the–who go to the conventions and go to the–vote in the primaries. They’re governors, senators. A lot of them are, are, are DNC members. There’s 21-year-olds there, there’s–50 percent are women and so on, and on, on it goes. So this should not be looked at as some bunch of cigar-smoking folks in the back room slapping each other in the back and electing the next president. It doesn’t work that way.
MR. RUSSERT: James Clyburn, the congressman from South Carolina, said he’s been listening to people, however, and this is what Congressman Clyburn had to say:
(Videotape)
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): (From “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”) Now they seem to be feeling that the graybeards are positioning themselves to overturn the will of the people. These superdelegates–they don’t quite understand what the superdelegates are. They think that we’re waiting in the closet somewhere to, to just snatch this nomination away. And so that’s the feeling that people have got.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe that the elected delegates represent the will of the people?
DR. DEAN: Yes.
MR. RUSSERT: So that if…
DR. DEAN: But I also believe the so-called superdelegates represent the will of the people. They are responsible to their constituencies: governors, senators, people running for office, DNC members, all elected by the same people who are going to these caucuses and to these primaries.
MR. RUSSERT: But the elected delegates were elected because they ran supporting the person that won the primary or the caucus. What should be the criteria of a superdelegate when they make their judgment as to who to vote for?
DR. DEAN: Well, I’m not going to say what their criteria should be because that’s not what the rule–the rules don’t give you a criteria. They’re supposed to vote their conscience. My personal belief is they’re going to vote for the person they think, think can beat John McCain, which is what I think a lot of these voters are voting for. I think a lot of these folks are going to the polls and are going to go the week after next in Indiana and North Carolina are saying, “Which one of our folks, of our folks, Senator Obama or Senator Clinton, can best beat John McCain?”
MR. RUSSERT: So your personal view is that even if someone has won more elected delegates, if you think the other person would be a stronger candidate against John McCain, you’d opt for the other person?
DR. DEAN: Tim, that is not my personal view. My personal view is, I am the chairman of this party, we have a set of rules that have been in place for a year and a half, and I am the person who’s in charge of upholding the rules whether I like them or not. Are there some rules I might change next time around? Yeah, maybe so. But right now we’re focusing on the rules we have. Look, that’s all we’ve got. No–I feel like I’m the referee here at the NCAA finals. You know, you make some calls, but if you stick to the rules and do the right thing according the rules, you’re going to end up with a decent process. And that’s what we have to do.
MR. RUSSERT: The rules are the superdelegates do not have to…
DR. DEAN: That’s correct.
MR. RUSSERT: …abide by the vote, vote of the electorate.
DR. DEAN: Right. And I might–that’s correct–and I might add that never in my time as going to these conventions, which has been back to 1980, have I ever seen that not happen. I’ve never seen a situation where the, where the unpledged delegates didn’t essentially end up voting the same way the pledged delegates did.
MR. RUSSERT: The popular vote–the Obama people are saying if the popular vote is going to be the main determinate in all this, then we–why go to Iowa, why go to New Hampshire, why have a caucus rather than a primary? We would have had a much different strategy.
DR. DEAN: Yeah, you know, the one thing I’m not going to do is get into the various merits of the arguments between the candidates on popular vote or delegate vote. I, I’m here to say what the rules are, I’m not here to side with Senator Obama or Senator Clinton on these arguments. The voters will make their decisions about those arguments.
MR. RUSSERT: But delegates nominate, not popular vote.
DR. DEAN: That’s right. That’s right. You know, we’re spending a lot of time on process, and I think most Americans care about whether they want to be in Iraq or not for a hundred years, about the economy, about health care. I think they care about John McCain’s reinvention of himself after the Keating Five. Turned out he wasn’t such a reformer, as it was. Those are I think the, the things people…
MR. RUSSERT: Well…
DR. DEAN: …are worried about.
MR. RUSSERT: …but the Democrats are very worried about who’s going to be the nominee and whether or not the result will reflect the primary process.
DR. DEAN: The reason Democrats are so interested in this is they want change. Look at the number of people who’ve voted. They’re going to be at 35 million people who’ve voted in the primaries. There’ll be more people who voted in Texas for Senator Clinton and Senator Obama combined than voted for–in the general election for the Democrat in 2004. People want change in this country. You can’t get change without a, a different party controlling the White House. John McCain is four more years of George Bush. He supports George Bush right down the line on all these issues. They want change. That’s why this is such an intense election. Not because there’s a fight over the superdelegates or the popular vote or–people want fundamental change in this country and they can’t get it unless Senator Clinton or Senator Obama is elected.
MR. RUSSERT: But you yourself have said unless the Democratic Party’s united they will have a very difficult time in the fall.
DR. DEAN: That’s right. And that’s…
MR. RUSSERT: So I’m–I want to focus on this unity question because when you talked to the NAACP in 2005 you were talking about black and white Americans. And you said, “The one thing the Democratic Party will never do, we’ll–we will never divide Americans to win elections. We’ll never do that.” And black Americans heard that and listened to it, and they point to this, Governor. In 2004 here is the black vote: Bush 11, Kerry 88 percent. In 2000: Bush 9 percent, Gore 90 percent. And now many African-Americans, Congressman Clyburn and others, are saying, in effect, if Barack Obama ends this contest with more elected delegates and the superdelegates decide, “Well, you know what? We’re not going to nominate him. We’re going to opt for Hillary Clinton,” what will black Americans do? What will black Democrats do who have been the most loyal component of the Democratic Party?
DR. DEAN: You know, I–this is, this is pretty hypothetical. There’s a lot of if, if, if, and you and I have both raised teenagers and we both know you don’t answer too may hypothetical questions before you get in a lot of trouble. So, you know, if, if, if, if. The, the–we don’t divide people. The Republicans have scapegoated minority groups for a long time. First they pointed the fingers at African-Americans by calling what–affirmative action as a quota system. Then they pointed the finger at gay Americans with an anti-gay marriage stuff on all the ballots where gay marriage was already illegal anyway. Now they’re pointing the fingers at immigrants and, by extension, Hispanic and Asian-Americans. We don’t do that in this party. Now we happen to have an African-American candidate and a woman candidate, and clearly those groups of folks who have historically been disenfranchised in our political process have their favorites because there’s an emotional pull towards those candidates. See, at the end of the day, we have to bring that together, and as I said at the opening of the show, the most important person to bring those folks together is the person who doesn’t win.
MR. RUSSERT: But this is how deeply-seated the feelings are. Again, Congressman Clyburn talking about former President Bill Clinton. He said, “Mr. Clinton’s conduct in this campaign had caused what might be an irreparable breach between Mr. Clinton and an African-American constituency that once revered him.”
“When he was going through his impeachment problems, it was the black community that bellied up to the bar. … I think black folks feel strongly this is a strange way for President Clinton to show his appreciation.”
“Clyburn added there were appeared to be an almost unanimous view among African-Americans that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were committed to doing everything they possibly could to damage Mr. Obama to a point that he could never win in the general election.”
DR. DEAN: Well, I–you know, again, I have enormous respect for Jim Clyburn, who I consider a great personal friend, but I’m not going to get in the middle of a fight over–between the Obama and the Clinton people, so I’m not going to have any comment on that.
MR. RUSSERT: But if, in fact, the nomination was denied to Obama, who won the most elected delegates, could you unite the party?
DR. DEAN: Tim, that hasn’t happened, and I don’t expect it to happen. I expect us to go forward united, and I expect either one of these candidates, whichever one loses, to support the other.
MR. RUSSERT: But it could become very difficult.
DR. DEAN: Everything can be very difficult in life, and you got to work hard to make sure it isn’t.
MR. RUSSERT: Mitch…
DR. DEAN: Which is one reason, I might add, that I’d like all the unpledged folks to say who they’re for by the end of this next month, so that we have the time that’s necessary to heal the party. We need change. Women need change, Africa-Americans need change, Americans need a change. And this party can deliver change, but only if we’re together.
MR. RUSSERT: So play out the primaries through June, and then have the superdelegates, undecided, commit themselves?
DR. DEAN: Well, no. I think they should continue to commit themselves, you know, from now, as they have been over the past few weeks–about 50 or 60 more have committed themselves. Just keep dribbling it in. We’ve got–I, I, I don’t know, almost three–two-thirds of them committed, and just keep going right on down and commit as you have been…
MR. RUSSERT: You’d like them all announced by when?
DR. DEAN: I would like everybody to say who they’re for by the end of June.
MR. RUSSERT: End of June.
Michigan and Florida. There is a report–reports that the Democratic National Committee is having a meeting on May 31st…
DR. DEAN: Right.
MR. RUSSERT: …which may in fact say to Michigan and Florida, “Well, you broke the rules, you moved your primary dates up without permission, but we’re going to give you half delegates, half your elected count, half your superdelegate count come, come convention time.” Is that true?
DR. DEAN: Well, I don’t know about the–what the Rules Committee’s going to do. I have no idea what they’re going to do. But here’s the deal. First, you got to respect the voters. The voters of Michigan and Florida were not the people that screwed this all up, it was politicians. Secondly, you have to respect the candidates. They went in on a set of rules that everybody voted for, including Michigan and Florida, before they changed their mind, but–and so you can’t really change the rules and alter the course of the race. And thirdly, you got to respect the 48 states that did respect the rules.
Here’s why the rules are important. For the–this year, for the first time, we balanced the early primaries with ethnic and geographic diversity. We included a state from the South and a state from the West, because we think we can win there now. And we included states with significant numbers of minority groups who the Democrats can’t win without, and those folks ought to be allowed to say early on who they think should be the president. Now along comes two states which steps on the process. You’ve got to deal with that in a fair way. So I don’t know what the solution’s going to be. The Rules Committee’s going to start to work on that now as they prepare for the meeting at the end of May. But nobody will be satisfied with the outcome because nobody’s going to get everything they want. What we strive is to be fair to the voters, fair to both campaigns, and fair to the other 48 states.
MR. RUSSERT: Former Governor Jim Blanchard of Michigan, who’s a Clinton supporter, said the Democratic National Committee has handled the situation badly. “They have put their rules ahead of common sense, of electing a Democratic president, of voters in two major states. … They’re treating the rules like they’re the U.S. Constitution or the Ten Commandments. They’ve lost their way.”
DR. DEAN: Well, they were one of the two states out of the 50 that violated the rules. I’d kind of expect that from them.
MR. RUSSERT: But Michigan and Florida are swing states.
DR. DEAN: They’re both very important states. That doesn’t mean they’re any more important than anybody else.
MR. RUSSERT: In fact, there were some meetings of delegates in Michigan, various conventions where Hillary Clinton is now lining up delegates, and, according to Congressman Blanchard, “We want to pick people who’ll be loyal to Hillary, who would commit to her through multiple ballots.” So Governor Blanchard of Michigan, former governor, is planning for, in effect, a multiple ballot convention.
DR. DEAN: Sure. I mean, I–look, everybody has a right to plan anything they want. My plan, as the chair of the DNC, is to try to get this resolved before we get to the convention. Because if you go into the convention divided, it’s pretty likely you’ll come out of the convention divided.
MR. RUSSERT: Without Michigan and Florida counting, as of now, people are saying, “Howard Dean should have handled this differently. He should have interceded and fixed this problem and not allowed us to come to a point where these two states feel dissed and it could hurt us in November.”
DR. DEAN: Well, I mean, that–it wasn’t my decision to make these changes. Florida and Michigan both voted for a set of rules, then they tried to push ahead of everybody else, and that makes it more difficult for everybody. We want to resolve this. This is not the voters’ fault in Florida and Michigan. But the fact of the matter is that you have to–you cannot change the rules towards the end of the game just to advantage or disadvantage of a particular candidate. You can’t do that.
MR. RUSSERT: But you decided not to seat the delegations, not count the primaries.
DR. DEAN: That’s correct. Because they stepped on the minority groups and the small states in the South and the West that needed that time to have their primaries and have their early input.
Look, it’s, it’s–this is like having a, a line full of people waiting for something. If two of them jump the line and go to the front, it’s not going to be long before you’re going to have a riot. Don’t forget, at the time these sanctions were passed by the Rules Committee, New Hampshire and Iowa were threatening to move into 2007. You’ve got to keep order, and that’s part of my job is to keep order. It’s understandable that the folks you call out because they think they’re more important than everybody else are going to be upset about that. We did keep order, we do have an orderly process. I’ll defend the process.
MR. RUSSERT: Will Michigan and Florida be seated?
DR. DEAN: Yes.
MR. RUSSERT: In some way, shape or form.
DR. DEAN: In some way. I’m determined to make that happen. I can’t–again, I can’t, I can’t speak for what the rules committee will do. They’re 30 very independent-minded people. I can’t speak for what the credentials committee at the convention will do. I believe Michigan and Florida should be seated in some way because it was their–their voters did not cause this problem. This was caused by a political problem, not the voters’ problem.
MR. RUSSERT: Seated and their delegates will vote for the presidential nominee?
DR. DEAN: I, that’s what I hope will happen.
MR. RUSSERT: The Democratic National Committee has been taking some television advertising out about John McCain, one out on the economy. You are now also going forward with an ad on Iraq. Let’s watch that ad and come back and talk about it.
(Videotape)
Offscreen Voice: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: Maybe a hundred. That’d be fine with me.
Voice: President Bush has talked about our staying for 50 years.
SEN. McCAIN: Maybe a hundred.
Ad Announcer: If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?
The Democratic National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Now, Senator McCain’s campaign is saying that you take those words totally out of context. Here’s how Senator McCain explained what was actually said at the town hall: “It’s dishonest because anyone who looks at the entire transcript of the exchange that I had at a town hall meeting with a man who came there, who had a legitimate point of view that he was against the war and asked–we went back and forth about how long, quote, America would be there, and I said, `Well,’ he said, `How many years?’ I said, `Could be a hundred.’ But the case is, it’s after we’ve won the war. And I immediately said it’s the same as we have troops in South Korea, we have troops in Japan, we have troops in Germany, depending on the security arrangement that we have.
“No one could have interpreted that exchange as me saying that we’re going to be in a war for a hundred years.”
DR. DEAN: First of all, we’re not arguing that he’s going to be at war for a hundred years. We don’t think we ought to be in Iraq for a hundred years under any circumstances. Think of the hundreds of billions of dollars that are being spent in Iraq, which we need right here at home right now to preserve American jobs. That’s the first thing.
Secondly, if Senator McCain believes that you can occupy a country like Iraq for a hundred years without having a long war and violence and our troops being hurt and, and killed, I think Senator McCain is wrong.
Look, our folks don’t want, I–our folks, our country–70 percent of our country does not want to be in Iraq for a hundred years under any circumstances. Senator McCain is wrong. He is out of step with the American people, and he is wrong.
MR. RUSSERT: He is saying it’s analogous to Germany or to Japan or to Europe.
DR. DEAN: And South Korea. I have the same quote that you have right here.
MR. RUSSERT: Where you have troops there, but they’re not involved in conflict.
DR. DEAN: That is correct. Now, does anyone think, who’s watching this show, that if you keep our troops in Iraq for a hundred years, people won’t be attacking them and won’t be setting off suicide bombs and won’t be having militias go after them? I don’t think so. And most Americans don’t think so. What Senator McCain is saying doesn’t make any sense. We cannot be in Iraq for a hundred years. Those dollars belong in America. We’re in trouble in this–in, in America. And, frankly, the Bush-McCain economic program has put us in trouble in America. That money needs to be here in America.
MR. RUSSERT: The Republican Party in Virginia has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission saying that your previous ad and no doubt this one, they will insist, is being coordinated with the Obama and Clinton campaigns, it’s all anti-McCain, and that it violates the election rules.
DR. DEAN: Yeah, that is a joke. There’s no evidence for that whatsoever, and it’s plain untrue. Neither one of the campaigns ever saw this ad or knew anything about it before we put it on.
MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, back in February of ’06, when you were pushing hard to have the Democrats take over the House and Senate, which they did, you made some firm commitments, promises what the Democrats would do. Let’s watch.
(Audiotape)
DR. DEAN: We will promise you that if you elect a majority in the House and Senate, we will not permit Iran to be a nuclear power; we will make a deal with China to get nuclear weapons out of North Korea; we will catch, capture Osama bin Laden or kill him.
(End audiotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Two years later…
DR. DEAN: Well, two, two years later, there is a deal with North–with China to try to put an end to the nuclear weapons in North Korea. It turns out that there have not have been, had not been nearly as much progress, according to the National Intelligence Estimate, in Iran towards nuclear weapons in the first place, and we have not captured Iran–Osama bin Laden, nor have we gotten out of Iraq. And I have concluded that you can’t get out of Iraq or capture Osama bin Laden unless you have a Democratic president. It’s not going to happen with George Bush or John McCain in the White House. We don’t need four more years of what we’ve had for the last eight years, and that’s what you get with John McCain.
MR. RUSSERT: Well, that was not the fine print. You promised the Democratic Congress could do it.
DR. DEAN: Well, I was wrong because we had a president that wasn’t interested.
MR. RUSSERT: John, you don’t think George Bush is interested in capturing Osama bin Laden?
DR. DEAN: Well, he–the proof is in the pudding, and it hasn’t happened, and we haven’t gotten out–gotten ourselves out of Iraq. We know–we knew, and one of the reasons we won the election is 2006 is we knew the American people wanted us to get out of Iraq. We tried every way we could. Senator McConnell in the Senate filibustered and made it impossible for us to get out, wouldn’t allow the vote to come to the floor. The president vetoed several measures, just as he then went on to veto things like children’s health care. This is a, this is a party, a Republican Party that’s completely out of step with what the American people want, and we now are going back to get more senators and, and, and the presidency, so that we can do the things that the American people want us to do: get out of Iraq, spend our dollars here at home to help people who have been victimized by the mortgage crisis, and to have a health care system that works for everybody, particularly our, our children. How hard-hearted are these Republicans who veto and uphold the veto, as Senator McCain did, of, of children’s health care? Shouldn’t we at least have health care for all our children? We need change in this country.
MR. RUSSERT: And yet Senator McCain is tied or beating both Clinton, Obama in most of the national polls.
DR. DEAN: That’s because Senator McCain’s not being challenged by anybody yet, and we intend to do that. And this ad’s part of it.
MR. RUSSERT: Dr. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, we thank you for joining us and sharing your views.
DR. DEAN: Tim, thanks for having me on.
MR. RUSSERT: Coming next, what to look for in the upcoming primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6th. Our roundtable: David Broder, John Dickerson, Gwen Ifill, Andrea Mitchell, Richard Wolffe, coming up next right here only on MEET THE PRESS.
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