Democrats trade accusations on the trail in New York

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• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Most of the presidential hopefuls hit the trail hard today, and while accusations of lies are nothing new this campaign season, this time, the war of words was on the Democratic side.

  HILLARY CLINTON (D), Democratic Presidential Candidate: If I'm so fortunate enough to be your president, I will never forget New York.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Despite the cheerful greeting, the jabs are getting sharper in the Democratic contest.

  Here's Hillary Clinton Thursday after she was confronted with accusations she's taken money from the fossil fuel industry.

• HILLARY CLINTON:

  I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I am sick of it.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Bernie Sanders fired back this morning in a TV interview.

  SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (VT-I), Democratic Presidential Candidate: Well, I'm not crazy about people disrupting meetings, but the fact of the matter is, Secretary Clinton has taken significant sums of money from the fossil fuel industry.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics says it is a fraction of 1 percent of Clinton's fund-raising.

  The candidate herself focused elsewhere today, talking manufacturing with business owners in Syracuse.

  On the Republican side, John Kasich stumped in Pennsylvania, ahead of its primary at the end of this month, where polls show him inching up on Donald Trump.

  GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), Republican Presidential Candidate: I would rather us be a hopeful country, rather than a country that is hopeless, because hopelessness never gets us anywhere.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  As for the front-runner, new details emerged about his surprise meeting with Republican leaders in Washington Thursday.

  Here's RNC chair Reince Priebus on their discussion about the party's convention in Ohio:

• REINCE PRIEBUS, Chairman, Republican National Committee:

  We did talk about unity and working together and making sure that, when we go to Cleveland and we come out of Cleveland, that we're working in the same direction. And part of that is just talking more and making sure that we have got open channels of communication, so pretty normal stuff.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Meanwhile, a pro-Trump TV spot hit the airwaves in Wisconsin, where candidates face their next major test on Tuesday.

• WOMAN:

  And Ted Cruz, he wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants. That won't protect my family. Donald Trump will.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Ted Cruz will campaign in the Badger State later tonight.

  And we will get a report from our own John Yang, who is in Wisconsin, later in the program.