Hillary Clinton asserted today that she will be the Democratic nominee and she expects Bernie Sanders needs to get on board before the general election.

'I will be the nominee for my party,' she told CNN's Chris Coumo, 'that is already done in effect, there is no way I won't be.'

Clinton indicated that she has not spoken to Sanders personally - 'he knows exactly what I'm saying. He hears it all the time - yet expects him to 'do his part' when the time comes.

'I certainly said many times what I've just said to everyone, including his supporters, and I am absolutely committed to doing my part, more than my part,' she told Cuomo. 'But, Senator Sanders has to do his part.'

Hillary Clinton asserted today that she will be the Democratic nominee and she expects Bernie Sanders needs to get on board before the general election

'I will be the nominee for my party,' she told CNN's Chris Coumo, 'that is already done in effect, there is no way I won't be'

Sitting at in the library of the town she was raised in, Park Ridge, Illinois, Clinton forcefully asserted that Sanders has a responsibility to convince his supporters to vote for her in November.

After all, that's what she did for Barack Obama in 2008 when she came in second place in the Democratic primary, she argued.

Clinton pointed out that she won nine of the last 12 contests, a winning streak similar to Sanders' now, 'so I know the intense feelings that arise, particularly among your supporters as you go toward the end.'

Unlike Sanders, who trails her by three million votes, and hundreds of delegates Clinton had more ballots to her name in 2008 than Obama. But she too trailed in delegates, and that's 'the name of the game.'

'I worked really hard to make the case, as I'm sure Senator Sanders will, that whatever differences we might have, they pale in comparison to the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party,' Clinton said.

Sanders said he will support the Democratic nominee, even if it's not him, and that he will work tirelessly to defeat Donald Trump in the general because he must not be president.

On that note Clinton said, 'He has to do his part to unify. He said the other day that he will do everything possible to defeat Donald Trump. He said he'd work seven days a week. I take him at his word.

'I think the threat that Donald Trump poses is so dramatic to our country, to our democracy, and our economy, that I certainly Sanders to do what he said he would.'

Sanders is not slowing his campaign schedule, and he vowed on Tuesday to stay in the race at least until the end of the primary, as he has many times before.

At the same rally he gave a withering critique of the Democratic Party, which he said has 'limited energy' and risks losing working class voters that are with him currently to Trump in November.

Last Saturday his supporters tried to overthrow a state convention they said was rigged and reportedly made death threats to the party chair there after the fact.

'What we saw was disturbing,' Clinton told Cuomo of the Nevada brouhaha. But she added, 'I have every confidence we're going to be unified.'

Sanders is not slowing his campaign schedule, and he vowed on Tuesday to stay in the race at least until the end of the primary, as he has many times before. Clinton didn't seem to be sweating it today. 'I have every confidence we're going to be unified,' she said

Back on the topic later in the interview she said, 'I think we'll have a great convention in Philadelphia, and then we'll go out and carry on the campaign against Donald Trump and the Republicans.'

Cuomo tried to tee up a Clinton-Sanders ticket but she told him, 'I'm not going to get into that.'

'Where better? We're in your hometown, make some news, make it a historic place,' he said, pushing her to say she'd consider making Sanders her running mate as a way to bring together the party.

Still not having it, Clinton told him, 'I think what brings us together is Donald Trump. I think that's what brings us together.'

'Is he even on the list?' Cuomo pressed.