The Clinton hopes for Fla and Michigan are dead.

Just a little note, the Clinton hopes for a full reinstatement of Fla and Michigan are dead. The LATimes quotes three of the Clinton supporters on the Rules and Bylaws Committee saying that the delegations should be halved, and even Harold Ickes is talking about "defections" among Clinton's support.

(Chuck Todd runs through a number of the likely "halving" outcomes.)

And yet, the Clinton supporters plan to go ahead with their images of protest and chaos outside the DNC.

(Perhaps a big, public, screaming conflict, trying to redefine the existing rules, over something that's more or less already decided, would be a fitting end to this campaign.)