Bernie Sanders Wins Big in Wisconsin; Sanders Had Trouble Answering Questions on Big Banks.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Please keep this a secret. Do not tell Secretary Clinton. She's getting a little nervous, and I don't want her to get more nervous. But I believe we've got an excellent chance to win New York and a lot of delegates in that state.</s>CAMEROTA: That was Bernie Sanders celebrating his big win last night in Wisconsin over Hillary Clinton. That is six out of the last seven states for Sanders. But he is also still recovering from a stumble in an interview with the editorial board of "The New York Daily News" which raised questions about whether the media has been tough enough on Sanders. Joining us now to talk about all this is National affairs correspondent for the nation John Nichols and CNN Senior reporter and Media Politics Dylan Byers. Great to have both of you gentleman with us this morning. John, let start with you he had a resounding victory last night in Wisconsin. Do you think that perhaps the media has not taken Bernie Sanders seriously enough before now?</s>JOHN NICHOLS, NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, THE NATION: Well, I think the media has taken him pretty seriously in the last couple of months since the New Hampshire win in that and maybe the week or so before New Hampshire, quite seriously. But the core premise that you're getting to is an important one. Because I'm not sure the media has taken the Democratic race quite so seriously as it has in Republican race. The Republican race has grabbed the spotlight, and obviously for reasons well discussed. Now is this contest gets to New York, if we believe the polls, the Republican race is not going to be that close in New York. The Democratic race is going to be very competitive. And New York is a media hot house. It's a place where you really do have things breaking very, very fast, as Dylan well knows. And you have table papers, the Daily News and the post that really go at it every morning with incredible headlines (inaudible). So I think this is going to be real test.</s>CAMEROTA: All right. Let's talk about this daily news interview Dylan that it has been labeled basically a disaster in some corners for Bernie Sanders because of how he answered some questions. So let me give our viewers an example of some of the things that they say that he botched. For instance, one of his signature platforms is that he would break up the greedy big banks. So he was asked by the editorial board of "The Daily News." How would you go about doing that breaking up the banks? Sanders says "How you would do is having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd- Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail. "The Daily News" says "But do you think that the Fed, now, has that authority?' Bernie Sanders says "Well, I don't know if the Fed has it." It seems like that's one he should be able to hit out of the park, Dylan.</s>DYLAN BYERS, CNN SENIOR REPORTER FOR MEDIA AND POLITICS: That absolutely when he should be able to hit out of parking. Look, these sorts of answers happen throughout this interview. They happen on foreign policy which has been -- Sanders has been weak on foreign policy in terms of identifying specific proposal about what he would do for some time. Fine, his issue was always taking on Wall Street. It's always about the economy. That really is what brought him as far as he's come. But now in an interview, he can't even really get into specifics about how he would break up the banks or how he would implement this ambitious economic policy that he's brought up. And, you know, look the point is right. We're getting into a New York City media market. They're going to go very hard, they're going to take advantage of the fact that they've got two weeks in the national spotlight right now with this race. And they're going to go really hard on all of these candidates. And for Bernie Sanders, a guy who has been able to get up there and rail against Wall Street day after day after day and get called for specifics and just well, you know, Wall Street deserves everything it gets but not have any specifics on that issue now might be that time when people really begin to take a second look at just how effective he can be in actually implementing these proposals.</s>CAMEROTA: John, here is another example. This one is, what you would do to fight ISIS basically and what you would do with a captured is commander? "The Daily News" asked, what would you do with the captured ISIS commander? Sanders says "Imprison him." "Daily News" says "Where?" Sanders says, well, if that questions leads us to Guantanamo." And "Daily News" says "Well, no separate and apart from Guantanamo. It could be there, it could be anywhere. Where would a President Sanders imprison, interrogate that person. What would you do? Sanders says "actually, I haven't thought a lot about it. I suppose, somewhere near the locale where that person was captured. Should Bernie Sanders have thought more about that answer?</s>NICHOLS: Yeah, look, that's a rough answer. And, you know, I think when you get to the heart of the matter, rather than going, you know, on this specifics of that issue, which people have wrestled with a great deal, what you recognize here is there is that there is something unique about a newspaper editorial board session. You are sitting with a group of folks where they have done a lot of research. They would do editorials on these issues. They take stands. And one of the critical things in the moments like this is to simply have a clear stance, take it and, you know, let it sort out as it does.</s>CAMEROTA: And so, why didn't he give to you John. I mean, why didn't Bernie Sanders have a clear stance on both those things? Whether he has the authority to break up the banks and what he would do with imprisoned ISIS commanders.</s>NICHOLS: Well, I think that the answer to that is -- I can't get into somebody's head and say why you did or you didn't. But I can say that you have to setting like this. Let me also suggest on that first one, the banking question, I do think that on that one, I'd like to see more questions and more answers there. Maybe some other additional newspaper editorial sessions. My sense is that Sanders can and will do better on those. But of course this gets to the heart of the matter. You have two weeks. You're going to get hit very aggressively again and again and again. And there are not those opportunities to clean things up. You've got to hit the mark in every interview and every setting. And so, for Sanders, if he recognizes that this interview did not go as he wanted it to go.</s>CAMEROTA: Yeah.</s>NICHOLS: And then really kind of get stronger, he could do fine in New York. But if you see a series of this, if you see a pattern of this, New York City especially is the sort of place where this can become a real problem.</s>CAMEROTA: Yeah, John Nichols, Dylan Byers. Sorry gentlemen we're out of time. But thank you very much.</s>BYERS: No worries.</s>CAMEROTA: We appreciate you're being here on NEW DAY. Talk to you guys again soon. We're following a lot of news including the results from Wisconsin primaries so let's get ...