John Kasich Suspending Campaign, Leaving Trump Unrestricted Path; Wolf Blitzer Interviews Donald Trump; Will Kasich Endorse Trump; Bernie Sanders Vows to Stay in Race.
SCIUTTO: We want to update you now on breaking news. Ohio Governor John Kasich expected to leave the Republican presidential race, giving Donald Trump a clear uncontested path to the nomination. CNN's Wolf Blitzer sat down with Trump just a moment ago. Here's how he reacted to that news.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: As we're speaking, I know you're very happy that Ted Cruz has dropped out. CNN has confirmed John Kasich, the Ohio governor, he's dropping out as well. You're the only one left right now.</s>TRUMP: That's good. That's good. You're just telling me for the first time about John and that's good. I think John is doing the right thing.</s>BLITZER: Ohio, you know, is an important state. No Republican has ever been elected president of the United States without winning Ohio.</s>TRUMP: Well, I think John will be very -- I've had a good relationship with John.</s>BLITZER: He's got a lot of government experience in the Congress and as a governor.</s>TRUMP: I think John will be very helpful with Ohio, even as governor.</s>BLITZER: He says he doesn't want to be a vice president.</s>TRUMP: Well, that could be. He's said that.</s>BLITZER: Would he be someone you're interested in vetting?</s>TRUMP: I would be interested in vetting John. I like John. I had a good relationship with John and gotten along with him well, but whether he's vice president or not, I think he'll be very, very helpful with Ohio.</s>BLITZER: Do you think the general election campaign has already started, you versus Hillary Clinton, that for all practical purposes, Bernie Sanders is out?</s>TRUMP: Well, I think what has happened, there's been a little flip, and I'm even surprised by it. I thought that I'd be going longer and she'd be going shorter. She can't put it away. Like a football team that can't put the ball over the line. I put it away. She can't put it away. So I thought I'd be out there and she would be campaigning against me. Yeah, I'll be campaigning against her while she's campaigning.</s>BLITZER: The general election campaign from your perspective starts today.</s>TRUMP: Essentially, it started, I mean yeah.</s>SCIUTTO: Joining me now is CNN chief political correspondent, Dana Bash. Dana, Kasich is out. Is he going to endorse Donald Trump?</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: My source, who I just got off the phone with, close to John Kasich, says not immediately. He's going to have an announcement, as you were talking about earlier in the Ohio. We understand he is obviously not going to continue to run, but he's not going to today immediately in the same breath say that he's going to support the only candidate left in the race now, which is Donald Trump.</s>SCIUTTO: You heard Donald Trump say there that he'd be interested in vetting Kasich as a vice presidential nominee. Is that something John Kasich, you could see him accepting?</s>BASH: He has said really explicitly he does not want to be vice president. He has said he would be a terrible vice president, that he's got a good job. He's the sitting governor of Ohio, and that was based on anybody being the top of the ticket, not just Donald Trump. So he's really ruled that out. We've seen in history other people rule out the idea of being a running mate and then they have changed their mind. But I think the fact that you heard Donald Trump say that he believes that, regardless, Kasich would be helpful in Ohio, that was an important notion because Ohio is incredibly important, historically, but it really will be for Donald Trump, and so he does need Kasich to be on board in some way, shape or form</s>SCIUTTO: The Never Trump movement obviously taking a hit with the two potential contenders or competitors at the convention, they are now out. You do have some people digging in their heels.</s>BASH: Yeah.</s>SCIUTTO: But you also have some people already changing, and one of them being Bobby Jindal. Do you see the Never Trump movement surviving through the convention?</s>BASH: Not as a movement, a cohesive movement, as we've seen, I don't think so. It's possible that sort of a smaller satellite version of it will exist, but I have been talking to Republicans all day who are split. Some saying we've got to support the Republican because we just don't want Hillary Clinton or the Democrat in the White House, but others just as adamantly, really senior Republicans, Jim, who are lifelong, diehard conservatives, saying I'm just going to write somebody in. I will not vote for Donald Trump. Do you think you're going to change their mind, there's no way, I've asked, and the answer is absolutely not. So those people are going to say and have been saying they'll focus on the down-ballot races in the Senate and House, and, you know, Donald Trump is going to have a harder time bringing them around. I would -- I would never say never, but I've never seen this kind of split before.</s>SCIUTTO: Six months still to change his mind.</s>BASH: That's right.</s>SCIUTTO: Dana Bash, thanks very much.</s>BASH: Thanks, Jim.</s>SCIUTTO: You can watch Wolf's entire interview with Donald Trump today on "The Situation Room," beginning at 5:00 eastern time, right here on CNN. Bernie Sanders is celebrating his win, a surprise win in the Indiana primary, but it barely puts a dent in Hillary Clinton's delegate lead. Clinton picks up 39 delegates, even though she lost in Indiana, and Sanders gets just five more, 44 delegates. To win the nomination Clinton needs just 18 percent of the remaining delegates. Sanders would have to win 101 percent. Of course, not possible. Jeff Weaver is with the Bernie Sanders campaign and is the manager, and joins me now from Burlington, Vermont. So even Senator Sanders admits he faces an uphill climb, but he's staying in the race. Why is he staying in the race?</s>JEFF WEAVER, CAMPAIGN MANAGER, BERNIE SANDERS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Well, because the math that you just laid out in your intro is just not correct. That includes what are called super delegates, who don't vote until we get to the convention. If you look at pledged delegates, the delegates that are allocated based on the primaries and caucuses, neither candidate will arrive at the convention with the number of pledged delegates you need to secure the nomination. That means whoever is nominated will be nominated at the convention with the assistance of super delegates, who are unbound and not voting until we get to the convention. I know CNN puts this number up there, but it's just not an accurate reflection of where the race is, frankly.</s>SCIUTTO: Let me ask you this.</s>WEAVER: And the race is --</s>WEAVER: Go ahead, sure.</s>SCIUTTO: Are you saying that Sanders is in this to the convention? He's going to take the campaign all the way to the convention?</s>WEAVER: He has said that repeatedly, and I'm just articulating what he's said many times himself.</s>SCIUTTO: But let me ask you this. On super delegates, of course, they can switch. How many super delegates have switched from Clinton to Sanders in the last month?</s>WEAVER: Well, let's -- look, it's not about the last month. Let's play this out. Let's --</s>SCIUTTO: How many in all?</s>WEAVER: Disenfranchised voters all across the country, including in California.</s>SCIUTTO: He's had a string of wins and he should have gotten more support from the super delegates.</s>WEAVER: He's had a string of wins coming up, and at the end of this, when the super delegates take a look at which candidate can best beat Donald Trump, and that is clearly Bernie Sanders. The polling is consistent and unwavering over a couple of months now. Bernie Sanders beats Donald Trump by a larger margin than does Secretary Clinton. He's a much better matchup against Donald Trump, in large part because of his strong support among Independent voters who Democrats will have to bring into coalition in order to win the White House and ballot -- and the candidates up and down the ballot.</s>SCIUTTO: Donald Trump, of course, the presumptive nominee. Has no competition now as we get closer to the convention. Are you concerned that an extended fight within the Democratic Party is going to hurt Democrats' chances of beating Trump in the general?</s>WEAVER: Well, that's an old myth I think which was exploded in 2008, ironically enough, by Secretary Clinton herself when she went all the way to the end of the process. Then-Senator Barack Obama became the nominee and did quite well in the fall, so that is an old myth in politics. The truth of the matter is, unlike the Republican process we've seen, the Democratic party process has been one that's largely been focused around issues, issues like raising minimum wage, universal health care, dealing with income and wealth inequality in this country, and that -- having that debate ongoing is very, very healthy, in fact, for the Democratic party. And you saw exit polls in Indiana where, 3-1, Democrats in exit polls said they thought this contest was in fact energizing the Democratic party rather than dividing it.</s>SCIUTTO: Has Sanders influenced the kind of campaign that Hillary Clinton is running in your view?</s>WEAVER: Well, certainly, the issue positions that the secretary has staked out have moved over time. They have gotten much closer to Senator Sanders. You know, she has consistently supported the bad trade deals, she called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP, the gold standard of trade deals, and then got in the race and said, well, now I'm against it, you know. She moved on the Keystone Pipeline, which she had not spoken out about. He was out against it on day one and she ultimately came out against it. You know, she was for a $12 minimum wage and he's been for 15 and now she's trying to move towards 15 herself. So on issue after issue there's been a lot of movement on the part of the secretary. And it's important that Democrats make sure that if she's the nominee, that she stays with those positions and doesn't try to move back to the center.</s>SCIUTTO: There owes an odd commonality between some Sanders supporters and some Trump supporters, frustration with Washington, et cetera. Are you concerned that Donald Trump could attract some Sanders away from a Democratic nominee who see themselves as outsiders, who feel that the system just isn't working?</s>WEAVER: Well, I mean, I've been all around the country with the Senator. Clearly, a lot of frustration out in the world about Washington, about a rigged economy, about a corrupt campaign finance system, so that -- that exists, but let's be clear, the difference on the substance of policy between the Democratic candidates, whether it's Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders, and Donald Trump are quite stark frankly. He doesn't want to raise the minimum wage. He thinks wages are too high in this country. You know, he's adopted a lot of far right positions in order to secure this nomination. So I'm pretty confident that the Democratic nominee, whoever that is -- and obviously we think it's going to be Senator Sanders -- will be in a good position to take on Trump and to keep voters who have supported Senator Sanders throughout this process. But let's be clear, if Secretary Clinton is the nominee, it's really incumbent upon her to reach out to these voters, particularly the millions of young people who have come out, and talk to them about why she is going to address the needs that they feel and the issues that Senator Sanders has raised during the campaign.</s>SCIUTTO: Jeff Weaver with the Sanders campaign. Thanks very much. That's it for me. Wolf will be back at 5:00 eastern in "The Situation Room" with that interview with Donald Trump. For our international viewers, "Amanpour" is next. For our North American viewers, Anderson Cooper's live interview with Hillary Clinton is coming up.