[Ashleigh Banfield, Cnn Anchor:] Hello, Everyone. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. And welcome to LEGAL VIEW. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the White House right now, but also at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City because there are two pivotal meetings taking place at those two locations right now. On your left, the gathering at the Oval Office between President Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders, walking the colonnade. The one-on-one potentially winding down after this walk just 45 minutes ago. Aides telling CNN the president is nudging Senator Sanders towards accepting Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party's nominee. But he will not directly ask him to exit the race. And then meantime in New York City, the presumptive GOP nominee has brought together a large number of the RNC's top campaign donors. The money men. Trump is looking to firm up his fundraising operation. The meeting marking the first time that this group has all been gathered in one place, but certainly not the first time conversations about Donald Trump and raising money for an election has been raised. And there is a lot to debate about that. All of the Democratic super delegates that Bernie Sanders would like to flip, the guy he's meeting with right now in Washington has to be pretty much tops on his list. But, President Obama has the opposite goal, to gently flip Bernie Sanders instead into the Hillary Clinton camp now that Secretary Clinton has a lock on the nomination and Senator Sanders' progressive revolution has reached at best what could be called a cross roads. Senator Sanders' fourth conversation with the president in just the past month comes hours after the president reflected on the bruising inherent in primary season and the healing that he is sure is about to follow. The president spoke to Jimmy Fallon, in fact, for a "Tonight Show" segment that will air this evening.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we're able to pull things together. And and what happens during primaries, you get a little ouchy. Everybody does. You know, when Hillary and I ran in 2008, you know, your staff and supporters, they're popping off and somebody's reading, did you see what that
[Jimmy Fallon, Late Night Talk Show:] Yes. Yes.
[Obama:] And then and they start spinning stuff up.
[Fallon:] Su re.
[Obama:] So there's a natural process of everybody recognizing that this is not about any individual, but this is about the country and the direction we're going to take it. And I think I think we're going to have a great convention and we'll do well.
[Banfield:] May have been taped Wednesday, but it's going to air tight. And CNN White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski joins me now with more on the visit of Secretary Sanders. I'm always fascinated to watch the colonnade walk. Is there anything in the tea leaves that we can get from that? But, effectively, this is not really a surprise what's happening, but take me inside.
[Michelle Kosinski, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Right. I think I think it was interesting that the president used the word ouchy there. You have to wonder how ouchy this meeting is going to be. But but you used the word gently nudging and I think that's really operative. I think it's telling in that the White House won't even publically say at this point that Hillary Clinton is the presumptive nominee. I mean even after that speech she gave. The White House emphasizes and emphasizes again respect. Respect for the process. Respect for Bernie Sanders and especially all of those supporters who might have a really hard time letting go but ultimately who the White House wants to support Hillary Clinton. So, yes, we were really interested to see that video, too, walking through the colonnade. And you think, you know, this is now the place that Bernie Sanders will not inhabit. That has to feel very, you know, difficult for him to walk through with the president, all eyes of the world really on him right now and on this meeting. But you could see how relaxed it seemed to be, and cordial. They were laughing together and now that meeting is underway, should last probably another 20 minutes or so, Ashleigh.
[Banfield:] So then it's not the first meeting, high level Democratic meeting. Senator Standers is busy in Washington today.
[Kosinski:] Yes, and it's interesting now to start to hear from some of the top Democrats. I mean he's going to meet with Senator Harry Reid later. But we've also heard today from Nancy Pelosi and aids close to them saying that they too they want to hear Sanders out. They don't want to strong arm him into stepping out before his decision making process is over. Everybody kind of knows where this is going. Everybody knows what everybody is thinking, but nobody wants to push him and be unduly rough in this process because unity is what they're after. So the president, Reid, they want to talk to Sanders about what he wants moving forward, as well. What does he want in the Senate, for example? What does he want to see as the Democratic Party comes together? They want to involve him and engage him in the process, even though he now won't be the nominee, Ashleigh.
[Banfield:] All right, Michelle Kosinski following this story for us live at the White House. Thank you for that. I want to just go north from Michelle all the way up to New York City. It's where Jeremy Diamond from CNN is staking out a very different kind of meeting in Manhattan. Donald Trump meeting with to GOP fundraising officials from all 50 states. I am fascinated by this story for a million and one reasons, but also because the story, up until today, and I don't know if it's going to change, has been so many of these donors are so hands off, so worried about this particular controversial candidate that they've been keeping the purse strings tight and considering the down ballot races instead. If the money is going to fly, it's going to go towards the Senate races, which are contested, and not necessarily top ticket candidate. Are you hearing differently?
[Jeremy Diamond, Cnn Correspondent:] Yes, that's certainly the thinking of some donors. You know, they're thinking, you know, if they can't support Donald Trump, they'll at least, you know, put some money towards the down ballot races that Republicans are up against in some tight battleground states. But, you know, Donald Trump is bringing along some of the top ticket GOP donors in the field. You know, he is rallying some of the top you know, Woody Johnson, for example, who was a big Jeb Bush donor's finance chairman and some of the other top tier GOP donors here. We actually just saw several GOP donors and Donald Trump's chief operating officer, Eli Miller, walk into the building here at the Four Seasons. Governor Chris Christie, who has also been a key figure as far as building that bridge between Donald Trump and the more establishment donor wing of the Republican Party. So this is going to be kind of one of those meetings of the minds where Donald Trump is going to try and ease some of the concerns that these donors and the fundraising team have and also kind of forge a path ahead, kind of figure out what the plan is to be able to raise the millions and millions, hundreds of millions of dollars needed to compete in a general election. Donald Trump just yesterday in an interview said that he, you know, sees no reason to raise over a billion dollars, which is kind of the watermark that was established in 2012 and what Hillary Clinton is expected to raise. So, certainly Donald Trump trying to form a plan here, trying to ease some nerves that donors may have. But we'll have to see what happens actually inside of this meeting. Ashleigh.
[Banfield:] Jeremy Diamond live on the sidewalk waiting for those to exit so he can ask some questions. Thank you for that. We'll tap into you throughout the rest of the day to find out what you can find out. And I just want to remind our viewers at this time that that unease that Jeremy's alluding to, much of it has come from the kinds of comments that Donald Trump has made along the campaign trail and most recently about the judge, the federal judge in his Trump University case, alluding to the fact that his Mexican heritage he's a U.S. citizen but that his Mexican heritage may in fact be a problem for him to continue sitting on the bench. There's been no motion for recusal, let's be clear, from the Trump camp, ever. No lawyer has ever asked that judge to recuse himself. There's been nothing filed. But, publically, these statements have been made and it has made a lot of people in the Republican Party very nervous. Not the least of which the head, you know, of the House that the speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said that those comments are just racist, so textbook racism. And then this morning the speaker of the House had something different to say about that as well. Have a listen.
[Rep. Paul Ryan , House Speaker:] Do I think that these kinds of antics are distracting and and give us a campaign that we cannot be proud of? Yes. I've spoken very clearly about it.
[Banfield:] So there you go. These are fresh on the minds of those who may be walking into these meetings with Donald Trump. And, look, there's also that comment Donald Trump has made himself about $1 billion may not be necessary. He may be just relying on me, the media, to do a lot of that bidding for him, to give a lot of that coverage for him. You don't have to spend a whole lot of money on political ads when you've got the CNN putting your news conferences on the air. So that will be some kind of dynamic that those fundraisers are going to have to or those donors are going to have to assess. And wouldn't you want to be the fly on the wall. All right, just ahead, we're going to continue to do politics, but we also have this remarkable story. We have some new documents from the prosecutor in the Stanford rape case, and they reveal that the rapist actually lied to the judge in that case. What he didn't want the judge to know about his past, what the judge found out and what the prosecutor said about it is next.