you're saying people are tired of political correctness and of washington insiders, but do you think they want a candidate who is more traditional and would appear more serious when it comes time to actually go to the poll and voting? >> i don't think that's on anyone as radar. i think every one of those candidates that you just put on the screen could win simply by virtue of the fact they're competed by somebody who might be indicted by the fbi and someone who might be a socialist. i don't think there are serious contenders on the democratic side for them to beat. you saw rubio people saw the most electable and donald trump a lot. donald trump does very, very well among moderate democrats, among union members. this is striking for a republican candidate. i think he would be a formidable general election contender contrary to what some may say. >> we know that donald trump loves to emphasize he is self-funding his campaign. all of us know that. here's what he said tonight. >> i'm probably $40 million under budget because of the fact that frankly i haven't had to spend very much, alth

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they trample on the middle class, they control washington. and why do they chain all their pens to the desk? who's trying to steal a pen from a bank? makes no sense! >> senior media correspondent brian seltzer is following the story. brian, you know, this could be really good. i don't know if there is a down side to this, is there? >> only down side, of course, he is off the campaign trail a few hours. it is probably worth it for sanders as he looks beyond new hampshire, he wants to appeal to a national audience by appearing on "snl." with larry david impersonating him, "snl" has gone easy on sanders so far. it is always a risk when the candidate himself shows up. saw hillary clinton do it in the fall, i don't think donald trump hurt himself when he hosted in november. seems like a lot of up side, not a lot of down side. it will be fun to see them side by side, see what jokes they can make from that, right? >> aren't cameos like this kept in secret? why let the cat out of the bag here? >> this one, in this case, sanders campaign has said publ

washington, the highest peak in the northeast in the united states. >>> new hampshire primary has a record turnout for this primary. a few inches of snow. just drive three hours to manchester to just shy of the canadian border. well, these are indeed super bowl-like conditions for the handful of very excited, but diehard registered voters. in the snowy shadows of the once majestic balsams resort, dixville notch polling station. >> voters come in here and then what happens? >> the voters come in, we'll have a table here where the town officials will check off each voter off the checklist. as they get checked off the checklist they are given their ballot, democrat, republican, whichever they choose. behind them there's individual voting booths. each voter will go into one of these voting booths. they will mark their ballot. i'll keep a close watch on the time. precisely midnight the first voter who had been selected by lottery, the first voter with it drop their ballot and that's the start. >> this is family tradition for tom. >> it's like a lot of things. what you grow up with you take it f

senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joining us from portsmouth. we learned that bernie sanders gained more ground in iowa after a review of the caucus results? >> reporter: as he presses on here in new hampshire his team is still talking about his team in iowa. the iowa democratic party after they would not review the results for caucus's on monday has made a review of 14 precincts. neither of them turned out to be -- just like they were on that night but in five precincts, there were different results. we're not talking about a lot of delegates here but it is a sliver. the clinton campaign was actually losing .122 state delegate equivalent. so they are at 49.84%. the sanders campaign gained .1053 so they are at 49.59%. bernie sanders did a touch better than we thought on monday night. the outcome is still the same, as far as we know, but this is a sign that the iowa democratic party is willing to look into other precincts, is willing to look into other things. the sanders campaign has not made a big deal about this. we heard him say at the debate

is the establishment whom we cover in washington, d.c., and wielded power for many, many years under president george w. bush and they control the house, they control the senate, are they going to be able to take back the presidential nomination? >> so does that mean a real coalescing around one of the four establishment candidates? >> yeah. is there push for marco rubio or jeb bush? is that going to work at all or not? we'll see. dana bash stay here. that's it for this special edition of "the lead." dana and i will be back with cnn's special coverage of the new hampshire primary 7:00 p.m. eastern. i now turn you over to wolf blitzer in a place we like to call "the situation room." >> who wins new hampshire depends on who turns out to vote. just moments from now we'll bring you the first answers to that key question. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> i'm anderson cooper with new hampshire's secretary of state predicting a record turnout. we've just received the first exit polling data on who

here in washington, 2:00 a.m. saturday hong kong. wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, presidential politics here in the united states. with just four days away from the first primary of this, the 2016 race for the white house, and the candidates they're in a sprint right now to the finish line in new hampshire. on the republican side today jeb bush, john kasich, ted cruz, chris christie, marco rubio, carly fiorina, they're all scheduling campaign events today. democrats, hillary clinton and bernie

and if it's even found in government, it's at the state level, not in washington, d.c. for the first time in eight years, you're going to have a president that follows the constitution. that means on my first day in office, in my first moments in office, i will cancel every sing. one of barack obama's unconstitutional executive orders. every one of them. when you make me president, when you make me president, we are going to have a president that embraces a free economy. free enterprise works, i know it, because my parents, we're not rich people. my f

we're going to get rid of common core which is basically education through washington, which is a disaster, by the way, and you understand that, and we'll get rid of obamacare. obamacare turned out to be a total disaster. >> donald trump is hoping to harness the momentum from his nevada win as the race heads straight into super tuesday. 11 states vote on that super day which has the other campaigns scrambling to find a path to stop trump's march for the republican nomination. let's go to phil mattingly following the trump campaign in virginia beach today. what did voters flare donald trump today? what was his message? >> kate, he's relentlessly on message. strength over and over again and repeating the length you just played there. he won't diverge to it. that's what they continue to reference, donald trump represents strength whether it's on national security, domestic issues or trade as he talks about regularly and i think the most interesting thing, kate, is as we've seen in the past three contests that's a message working and as we head into super tuesday where 25% of the available del

we have tom lobianco joining us from washington. tom, good morning to you. this debate was a different hillary clinton. not content to sit back and wait until more favorable political terrain. she seemed to have an answer for everything he said. this was an exchange on who was more establishment and her response. watch. >> secretary clinton does represent the establishment. i represent, i hope, ordinary americans and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment. >> senator sanders is the only person who i think would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i have to tell you it is really quite amusing to me. >> so tom, hillary clinton down 30 points in the latest cnn/orc poll in new hampshire. what is she trying to do here? >> she has to put a dent in that. you know, the funny thing is both sides downplayed what the expectations are. you know, you could argue whether or not successfully. she has to put a dent in that. she has to move past this. a lot of this -- you don't want to j

the president has highlighted he failed to unite washington. does this surprise you? >> no, it doesn't. what we're seeing is a very humble president who recognizes that at seven years into his term, there are still things he wishes he could have gotten. he wanted the language to be less visceral, the rancor to be turned down. each ceasees a bernie sanders campaign that has tapped into an angst. sometimes viv to step back and realize my language in this political discourse is not what it should be. i'm not sure how we got there. i think it weighs on barack obama's heart. >> you think sometimes you say things you shouldn't say or that you're too inflammatory? >> no, i don't necessarily think it's too inflammatory but we've begun to let our emotions cloud our better judgment. to me to harp back on another earlier segment, we were talking about african-american young men dieing in the street. those type of emotions build up and there's so many going on around us, i think we have to let cooler heads prevail. i think barack obama is a transformational president. this is som

. >> ted ted cruz, the worst kind of washington insider who just can't be trusted. >> that's a lousy house. i'm going to take your house with eminent domain and park my limos there. >> eminent domain! >> wow. there have been some dirty tricks. what do you expect over the next ten days? >> south carolina has long history here of creative campaign tactics, don, to say the least. i expect a sprint to the finish here in south carolina. as hugh was just saying, a lot of candidates have a real shot here in south carolina. it they get a bit of luck and they perform well in the debate here on saturday night. >> so outsiders, matt, have shaken up the party to the core. it's shaking up the left as well. the electorate is angry at the establishment. are you hearing the same thing in south carolina? >> there's a lot of frustration all around. people are frustrated with what seems to be a prone political class in washington, a political class that listens more to lobbyists and donors. much that much is warranted. many here in south carolina feel left behind on both sides. i think our party has th

he met just a little while ago, earlier today, in washington, d.c. with african-american civil rights leaders to talk about endorsement. not clear who is going to endorse, but the naacp, the urban league, reverend al sharpton and many others. they're pushing hard now. as to hillary clinton's latest ad, i think is something we also have to point out. an ad running in nevada right now. and it pulls on the heart strings, reaching out to latino voters in a very sort of sentimental way. this is a 10-year-old girl, telling hillary clinton on camera that her parents got a deportation letter, and hillary clinton's response. listen. >> feel really, really strongly that you're being very brave. and you have to be brave for them too. because they want you to be happy. they want you to be successful. they don't want you to worry too much. let me do the worrying. i'll do all the worrying. is that a deal? >> so neck and neck in nevada. and you can tell it by the tv ads and everything else that's going on, jim. >> joe johns, thank you. john, if i could go back to t

. >> well, you know, we're certainly in a political era now with gridlock in washington where the art of political compromise i think unfortunately has been lost. i do think that the president has to be someone, he or she has to be someone who is an effective negotiator with a good temperament. he or she will have their finger on the nuclear button. and whether or not trump is that person is something not only iowa caucusgoers have to pay attention to but voters in the general election. >> tim o'brien, appreciate you being with us. >> thanks, anderson. >> i want to get the panel's take on this. donald trump has repeatedly said as president, you know, i'll modify myself, i'll change a little bit, i won't be quite so aggressive in my personality. do you think voters believe that? and do you think voters want that? >> sure, i think they believe it. you know, he has built, with all due respect to this gentleman, he has built this enormous business organization, which beyond doubt is successful. can you go through and cher write-pick a failure here or there? sure. of course. you can do tha

they may not be independents, but they are angry at washington, and they want to have washington turned inside out. they think donald trump will do that. >> and bob beckel, do you think there are people there who don't care that george w. bush kept america safe after september 11th as the bush campaign claims and many in the republican party and many in america feel? do you think there are enough people who are willing to look beyond it and go against the establishment? >> maybe. after that performance on saturday night, trump, i thought, i mean, that was a kind of performance that would kill most politicians, but at least the initial polling is it doesn't hurt him that much by taking on george bush and 9/11. and i -- i'm a little bit surprised by that, but we'll have to wait and see another day's worth of polling. as for the stakes, this is going to end up being, i assume cruz will be in the mix. that means somebody is going to be a third ticket. after that, they're out of there. after that, the doe nay or thes come and say we've done what we can. >> only three survive after this. >> o

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also cnn political commentator and washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza. this idea trump could be unstoppable based on not only momentum but math. how much stock do you put in there? >> a lot. we've been grading marco rubio on a curve since iowa, right? he has to consolidate the anti-trump vote and he has to consolidate the republican establishment around him and the donor class and do it basically yesterday. time is running out. in between now and super tuesday is likely to be another trump victory in nevada. bottom line as john pointed out. if you aren't winning, you aren't winning. the most important thing is if cruz can pick up florida and ohio, then he has a shot. then the momentum can change. it's going to be hard for him to pick up ohio if kasich is in the race. frankly, rubio's path is through john kasich. with kasich in the race, it's very, very hard to see how he catches trump. >> maggie, as long as -- to ryan's point, as long as kasich is in the race but also cruz is in the race. the vote is divided. >> the vote is divided although i've been ske

here in washington. 4:00 p.m. in rio de janeiro. 8:00 p.m. in syria. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >>> up first, presidential politics here in the united states and the mad dash for votes in new hampshire. republican candidates, they're crisscrossing the state right now, just five days before the first of the nation primary. most of the candidates have multiple campaign events in new hampshire today. they're also sharpening their attacks on one another ahead of tuesday's primary. but texas senator ted cruz says he's taking the high road.

>> no, i'll be back in washington tomorrow. >> i know. like mules. >> it's our busy season. >> wolf blitzer, dana bash, thank you. back to you. >> thank you. coming up next, more conversations with more candidates and the reality check with one of the claims made on stage. we'll be right back. >>> we're back in the debate hall that looked more like a ballroom blitz. we are joined by donald trump. they really came after you. ted cruz and marco rubio. how did it feel? >> it felt fine. i expected it. i was told by watching you and everybody else, in particular, i was told it would happen. i expected it. based on every poll, i hear i did very well. i felt comfortable. >> how do you prepare? >> it's very interesting. i never debated before professionally. i'm against these politicians. they talk. they do a lot of talking. the first debate was good. i think we did very well in the debating. according to every single poll. the more important polls are the polls we have now. bloomberg came out with a poll a couple hours ago. double digit leads pr

for the second time in a month the president highlighted that he thinks he failed to unite washington. does this surprise you? >> no, it doesn't. i mean, what we're seeing is a very humble president who recognizes that at seven years into his term there are still some things that he wished he could have gotten. it's the epitome of the american dream. he wanted the language to be less visceral, the rancor to be toned down. and what he sees now is a bernie sanders campaign and a donald trump campaign which have tapped into an anxious, which have tapped into a worry. and all of you us, even myself included, sometimes i have to take a step back and realize my language in this political discourse is not what it should be. and i'm not absolutely certain how we got there. >> how so? >> but i know this is something that weighs on barack obama's heart. >> you think sometimes you say things you shouldn't say or too inflammatory? >> i don't necessarily think it's too inflammatory. but we've gone to let our emmotions cloud our better judgment. just for me to harp back on an earlier segment, we're

republicans in washington, d.c. are starting to tell republican senators that they don't have to go to the convention if they are the nominee. they should think of running against you if you are the nominee. that combined with marco rubio doing the never trump hashtag. do you think republicans are violating the pledge? >> totally. if they want to play the game i can play it better than they k. and i have more people than they do. doing that is a total violation of the pledge, yes. >> how do you see this possible hypocrisy of the pledge? >> i think republicans are headed for a split whether trump is the nominee or not. this has gone so deep for so long. if trump is the nominee, there's no way on god's green earth that many rank and file republicans can vote for him or go to the convention or do the things they normally document if he's not the nominee, a lot of the voters will be so angry they will sit out the election. the republican party has a big, fat problem. >> already. brian, real quick. >> i was going to say,

, it welcome contributes to the narrative of rubio being a washington insider. but there is of a different m magnitu magnitude. when you're endorsed by someone that stood next you to at a debate podium and sparred with you, you got in disagreements with and was on the campaign trail, when you're endorsed by snaun is your equal and colleague and says, yes, i wasn't the guy but there is the guy. i do think that is meaningful. i don't think it's going to, you know, make him rise more necessarily. but i do think in the marginal situations when you have a voter of massachusetts where trump is leading by 20 points saying to himself, you know, i do go with rubio or trump? maybe you think of new jersey governor chris christie and maybe that makes a difference? >> and ron, you made reference to the "new york times" piece entitled "inside the republican party's desperate mission to stop donald trump" writing this "the endorsement by mr. christie landed friday with crippling force. it was by far the most important defection to mr. trump's insurgency. mr. christie guy miff

the fascinating governor of maine was at the governors meeting here in washington earlier this month and he was very fired up about the fact that something must be done. we have to take on donald trump. this is going to be terrible for our party. well, he's a big chris christie guy. when christie got on board late last week, lepage followed suit. there's no more revealing in the party than those ten days where paul lepage goes from that. they have been sounding the alarm for months about this, who have been pleading. yeah, jeb bush. >> walker. >> pleading with folks to raise money to try to go after trump to create some kind of a sustained organized campaign against him. it fell on deaf ears time and time and time again. and now you've got the spector of the senate gop considering not just separating themselves from trump but actively running ads against him to provide space for their own candidates who are going to be on the ballot this fall. mitch mcconnell is a very wily old pro is apparently determined to do whatever it takes to hold the majority. and that includes possibly runni

joining me from washington, our cnn political director, mr. david chalian, and cnn's chief political analyst who you will see also until the wee hours tonight, gloria borger. so great to have both of you on. david chalian, to you first, what are the top three things you will be watching for? >> well, start, brooke, with what you just read there in your intro, which is independents. i believe that -- one of the first things i'll look at is to see how independents split here. in our last tracking poll, they were splitting between the two parties. they can choose to play in either the republican or the democratic party. which one do they choose to play in and how does that affect the trump and sanders vote totals? those are the candidates that have been drawing from the independents. so that is the first thing i'm watching for. i'm also watching for what the voters tell us they're looking for. this is the head versus heart argument. i want to see, are new hampshire voters coming out tonight to back the person they think has the best chance of win

here in washington, 8:00 p.m. in tripoli, libya, wherever you're watching, thanks for joining us. we're following two developing stories this hour. first, it's the race for the white house. republicans are spread out across south carolina as they try and reach undecided voters in tomorrow's primary. saturday is also caucus day in nebraska for democrats. we'll check in on the latest with the hillary clinton and bernie sanders campaigns out there. and in washington right now, people are streaming in to pay their last suspect respects to antonin scalia. he's lying in repose at the u.s. supreme court. these are live pictures you're seeing right now. president obama and the first lady, they're expected there some time later today. we're going to talk more about justice scalia's life and legacy, that's coming up later this hour. >>> meanwhile john kasich called the republican race a demolition derby, of course referring to the running battle between donald trump and ted cruz, between ted cruz and marco rubio, between donald trump and jeb bush. are they willing to keep up the pressure an

you but in a segment to follow because i said on cnn thursday night, i was surprised on the day "the washington post" broke a story that a superhad arrived at the clinton foundation from the state department that question wasn't asked in the thursday night debate. >> absolutely. it was appalling that you have not only that. so number one, you have the fbi confirming that there is an fbi investigation going into the leading candidate to new hampshire and former secretary of state, not one question but further and even also equal, that the clinton foundation has allegations coming against it and again, neither of those issues are being brought up and i think that that's not just sad if you're a republican but as a democrat because if you allow your supposed front run tore get through the primary without facing tough questions and end up as a party post july with a candidate that's under indictment, that's a big problem, as a republican, i don't have a problem with that but i think if you're a democratic voter and knowing that your top candidate wasn't questioned about that giving them a pass is a

we have to run this bunch out of washington, d.c. we have to rid the earth of them, get them out of there. >> on the democratic side, it's even closer when you look at the actual numbers in the polls. hillary clinton with a three-point lead over bernie sanders in the latest des moines register poll. statistically a tie within the poll's margin of error, that's called a dead heat. the candidates are fanned out across the state. making the last-minute pitch to voters and late into tonight. don't want to miss a moment. you don't want to look back with regret come late tomorrow night. we begin with the republican race. phil mattingly is in des moines. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is in sioux city, iowa where donald trump is about to speak. jim, i'll start with you, how confident is he about winning iowa? it comes down to turnout. does he think in a state where caucus-going seems to be an inherited thing that people are going to show up for him? >> well that's the million-dollar question. we're finally going to get that

big money controls what goes on in washington. every american understands that. you have to be very naive not to believe that the wealthiest and most powerful institutions in this country are contributing huge amounts of money, for what reason? for the heck of it? they just want to have fun and contribute that money? of course they expect something. but that is different than saying this candidate took that amount of money and voted that way. that is not what i'm saying. what i am saying is you have a corrupt campaign finance system. i will do everything i can to overturn this disastrous citizens united supreme court decision. and in fact, i believe we should have public funding of elections. >> but your campaign did send out this excerpt from elizabeth warren, and she directly said to clinton -- >> well, that's elizabeth's point. i think the point we wanted to note -- i suspect the point that the campaign tried to make was to identify a particular vote that secretary clinton cast. by the way, they're sending out ten things a day attacking me, just to set the rec

what we can expect from tonight's republican debate in south carolina with cnn political commentator, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza, and mj lee, director at the center for politics at the university of virginia larry sab dough, and politics editor at the root.com, jason johnson. good to see all of you. see if i can do good traffic copping here. mj, you first. ted cruz releasing an ad attacking trump using the word sleeze. listen. >> trump bang rolled politicians to steam role the little guy, a pattern of sleeze stretching back decades. >> so much for being more positive, mj. >> yeah, not seeing a lot of that around here just a week from the south carolina primary. this is because donald trump and ted cruz both badly want to win this state. first southern primary of the 2016 race. look, they've had tensions brewing awhile. this is crunch time. they each have one victory under their belt. they want to show they're the anti-establishment candidate. there's a lot at stake for the two of them. donald trump who doesn't like to be criticized showing frustration, tweeting yeste

there are live pictures of president barack obama arriving near washington, about to head back to the white house. kendrick lamar's fiery performance at the agreements last night has a lot of people talking and it comes on the heels of beyonce's powerful super bowl show. what are they saying about race in america? here is nischelle turner and we like to just call her ma'am here, our boss lady. >> boss lady. >> boss lady, yes. >> i want to listen to ten seconds from kendrick lamar's performance last night. listen to it. ♪ you hate my people, your plan is to take away my culture ♪ >> those are some strong words. you mate my people, you plan to terminate my culture, not your usual award show material, is it? >> not usual award show performance but i thought it was lit, man. he did what good artists do -- yes, lit, as they say in the african-american community. he challenged the standards, he pushed the boundaries, he did something really, really powerful. i thought it was great and i loved watching the scared people in the audience as their eyes got really big like deer when he start

"the washington post" reports that donald j. trump, the front-runner for the republican nomination right now, is getting advice from rudy giuliani. both giuliani and trump confirm they've spoken several times on the phone over the last month about big, important things about running for president. >> quote/unquote, campaign issues. let's discuss and bring in cnn political commentator, errol louis. great to see you, thanks for joining us overnight. that was a lot of fun. what do you make of this? rudy giuliani, donald trump, hmm? >> what i make of this is, donald trump taking another step toward a very interesting break point i think we're going to see in the near future, which is that as trump continues to rack up delegates, what looks like right now. because the next president is not just the commander in chief and not just the head of the government and not just the head of state, but also the head of the party. and i think we haven't seen any senators endorse him openly. i think the closest to an elected official, the most po

they asked him about health care, the economy and gridlock in washington. before we ended the interview, we got more personal. how do you relax? obviously you play golf. how do you decompress. you don't sleep much. >> not too much. i thought -- i'm relaxing now. isn't it a crazy thing? i feel that i'm a worker. i have to work hard. i love to work. if i were president, i would be in the white house a lot. i wouldn't be taking trips all over the place for whatever reason. why would you leave the white house? it's interesting. you're there for a limited period of time, okay? you're not going to be there forever. why would you after i would be there so much but i'd be working. i'm a worker. i would be working. when i go on a vacation, i once went on a vacation where they had no phones. i was out of there in one day. we've got to work. we need a working president. >> we both lost our older brothers. you lost your older brother in 1981, i believe. i did in 1988. what impact did that have on your life? >> it had a great impact. >> he was a handsome guy. he was a p

the establishment in your state is out to get me, the establishment in washington. donald trump is fighting the big voices people don't like especially grassroots republicans. he's fighting president obama, fighting the republican establishment. nickki haley is popular in the states. that might require a bit more calibration for mr. trump to let it go and focus on his voters sometimes he can't resist. >> gleoria, to be clear, george w. bush is no longer on the trail for his brother, is he? >> reporter: no, i think it was a big showing and whether he'll come back out again, we deon't know, but his mother is going to be out on the trail so it continues to be kind of a family thing. >> gloria, thank you, john king as well. >>> just ahead, republicans on the attack as the south carolina approaches. will the republicans get tougher? that's next. >>> on the democratic side, bernie sanders and hillary clinton vie for the crucial african-american vote. e... ...reinvented. sophistication... ...redefined. introducing the all-new lexus rx and rx hybrid. agile handling. availab

here's our senior washington correspondent, jeff zeleny. >> the clinton's and new hampshire. >> being back in new hampshire is an absolute joy. >> i survived the new hampshire primary when i ran for president the first time. on dunkin' donuts. >> a bond strengthened over a quarter century that is tested there more than ever in next week's new hampshire primary. and a little known arkansas governor the come back kid. a second place finish that revived his bid for the white house. >> new hampshire tonight has made bill clinton the come back kid. >> 25 years and four campaigns later, hillary clinton is turning to the state for a come back of her own. she a running far behind bernie sanders. a senator from neighboring vermont. on the campaign trail today she made a plea for help. >> this state has been so good to my husband and me and my family. >> hillary clinton has been campaigning along side her husband since the beginning. >> terry shoemaker is a tour guide for out of town democrats with white house ambitions. he helped introduce both clintons to the state. >> they had no idea who he

we will start to see that snow come to an end midday for places like washington, d.c. and new york city. it will stick around from providence to boston. that is where we anticipate greater snowfall totals in excess of 6 to 8 inches of snow. look out portland, maine. you have possibility of hefty snowfall totals for you. eastern sections of maine picking up to a foot of snow. the national weather service has issued winter storm warnings for much of massachusetts and rhode island and connecticut. that includes long island with winter weather advisories for new york city. look what's coming for the first part of next week. arctic blast of air to the eastern half of the u.s. including new york city. a brief warm up this weekend, but monday and tuesday and look at chicago by monday, only high of 29. bundle up. >>> thank you. the u.n. ruling that julian assange is being unjustly detained in london. he has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy for years. what's he going to do now? we're live next. >>> breaking news this morning. a u.n. human rights body ruled that wikileaks

we're going to take you to washington now. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. he's looking more like a politician today and less like -- well, less like donald trump. "the lead" starts right now. recalculating. republican front-runner donald trump making some tweets after his second place finish in iowa. he's pounding the pavement instead of his opponents in new hampshire today. >>> hillary clinton and bernie sanders both of them circling left like they're on a nascar track as they battle over who's the real progressive. but did clinton stumble on the $675,000 question last night? >>> plus, an nfl star's death that may help save the lives of future players. our dr. sanjay gupta gives us a look at your brain on football and a possible medical breakthrough against a crushing disease. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we are in the thick of it, people, so of course we begin today again with our politics lead. donald trump in new hampshire, the site of the nation's

they are fed up with washington. it is a change election. it is send a message to washington. we're sitting here with $19 trillion worth of debt. we haven't had a balanced budget in 15 years. we have people who are struggling, absolutely struggling -- >> would you like some water? >> she's preaching this sunday morning. >> i know! let me tell you, they're sick of the southern border not being secured. and they want to see some action. and so they're sending a message, and god bless the american people for standing up and saying, we're going to get this country back on the right track. >> here's the thing. you cannot beat donald trump playing defense. you can't say i'm here to defend. you have to play offense. you have to say i want to extend what the last president did. that's why bernie is actually drawing people to him and building a movement. your state's a great state. but you also know that no one else gets to camp out for a year in any state. what we're seeing right now in places like chicago, places like detroit, places like flint, we'll both be there next week, is ther

the voters are angry, they don't want a washington insider. they want somebody fighting for their jobs. they want somebody who's perhaps a little bit more protectionist and populist when it comes to trade. are you surprised or disappointed that senator cruz isn't adapting more to where the voters are? >> you know, he has a great message that i think now that the field has been winnow ed down will connect with people. let's talk about jobs and a lot of americans are concerned about jobs. ted cruz's message but also his solutions are far more effective because he understands that the biggest killer to jobs right now are all the heavy hand of regulation from the united states government. obamacare, the epa, dodd-frank, et cetera. ted cruz is the one who's able to bring all these things down very quickly once he's elected. that will stimulate gdp in the united states and get jobs growing again. >> white supremacist group is out with a robo call endorsing donald trump and telling voters, republican voters presumably that are being targeted not to v

call now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, wherever you're watching, thank you very much for joining us. we start in new hampshire where the presidential candidates here in the united states are making their final push to the voters just one day before that state's first in the nation primary. hillary clinton and vermont senator bernie sanders are on the campaign trail. sanders tempering expectations with a big lead in the polls. former president bill in

it is the election, the primary for the democrats, ryan is with me, cnn commentator and washington correspondent at the new yorker. it's interesting, joe johns told us from one of the polling sites that it looked like to him, this is anecdotal, that voter turnout is very light. >> yeah. >> who does that help, hurt? granted, we don't have the numbers. >> look, so the conventional wisdom which has been wrong in this campaign, but i think it's right in this case, is lower turnout hurts bernie sanders. so, in a lower turnout election you have this core of the democratic party. people that vote in every election, and those voters so far in the first three states have been hillary clinton supporters. in iowa, the sanders campaign predicted that they would lose the campaign under a low turnout scenario. they would tie it under a little higher. and they would win it higher than that. >> this was iowa. >> iowa. and it was obviously in the middle. it was tied of it they nailed that. their projections have been more voters better for sanders, his two core constituencies are young people, millennials, and i

started out in washington d.c. today meeting with some civil rights leaders including al sharpton and the head of the national urban league. sanders is headed onto las vegas later today. he's expected too much town hall there as well as a rally. and he will be facing off in that town hall with hillary clinton. back to you, carol. >> reporting live for us this morning, thank you joe. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we're just two days away from the republican primary in south carolina. and the candidates are scrambling to lock down votes. in the first round of town halls, the candidates sold themselves, jabbed each other and talked about a strong military in south carolina. a state steeped in military tradition. the elephant in the room? whether opening combat roles to women will weaken the u.s. military. here's senator rubio's take. >> i don't believe the military is a place where we should lower standards to meet another goal. i believe that -- i'm open to people in both gen

it's clear they don't trust washington. >> i don't either, timothy. less than anybody maybe. >> it's a polarized environment and i feel hike a lot of that is because of our most recent two presidents. what tools will you bring to the table to able to work with people on both sides of the aisle? >> in manhattan i built a tremendous company. i built really a city on the west side of manhattan, goes from 72nd street to 59th street. hi to get zoning. i was told it was impossible. i bought the land inexpensively because people said it was impossible to ever get it done. ism got it zoned for an almost 6,000 unit job, thousands and thousands of parking spaces and it's been a tremendous success. they can a great job. to get that zoned and get that taken care of, you can negotiate anything. i just got the old post office on pennsylvania avenue. i'm building a hotel. every major company in the country wanted that hotel company and i got that. who did i get it from? the obama administration if you think about it, i had a great plan, i had a great balance sheet,

have given up on the political process, they're so dismayed and so frustrated with what goes on in washington with young people before who had never been involved in the political process, when young people and working people and seniors begin to stand up and say loudly and clearly, enough is a enough, when that happens -- >> so this, of course, will determine how this race goes forward. his call for a revolution and her call for democratic activist and regular. the new hampshire primary one week away. so many contests ahead. the clinton campaign is stronger in the contest going forward. south carolina and nevada. before we get to that, we're looking toward iowa to see who won and of course, what happens here in new hampshire. the first clue comes tomorrow at cnn's town meeting then rivals share the same event space. they'll finally start drawing more distinctions with one another for that final week at the new hampshire primary. >> i have to say that town meeting tomorrow night, what about the timing? that will be fascinating. both of them have a lot of work they want to do. when hillary cli

they've been called out for the dishonest handling of it by "the washington post," politico and many other media outlets. so for the candidate to stand on the stage and say it again, it is false. it was false from the get-go and it remains false. you can find out a lot more about our reality checks by going to cnn.com/realitycheck. >>> tom foreman, thank you. we want to be clear, cnn has reached out to ted cruz and his campaign asking him to join us and address this incident. thus far, the cruz campaign has declined our requests to appear and has pulled all of their surrogates from cnn. >>> an emergency meeting today at the united nations security council. representatives meet to discuss how to handle a rocket launch in north korea. dad, you can just drop me off right here. oh no, i'll take you up to the front of the school. that's where your friends are. seriously, it's, it's really fine. you don't want to be seen with your dad? no, it's..no.. this about a boy? dad! stop, please. oh, there's tracy. what! [ horn honking ] [ tires screech ] bye dad! it brakes when you don't. forward c

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they know she will not only be effective in washington, but she's our best chance to make sure that the white house stays in democratic hands. >> the question is do you believe -- that's bernie sanders saying it's very serious today. do you think this is very serious? >> i'll let senator sanders answer for himself. i was out of doors this weekend in iowa. we've been having events all week. this doesn't come up. what the voters care about is affording health care, affording college, affording child care. i'm not hearing about it from the voters. think they take a lot of other issues much more seriously. >> thank you for being on. >>> coming up in the next hour we'll talk to bernie sanders' campaign manager. >>> all three campaigns in overdrive. knocking on doors, making calls, to nail down votes. performance... ...reimagined. style... ...reinvented. sophistication... ...redefined. introducing the all-new lexus rx and rx hybrid. agile handling. available 12.3-inch navigation screen and panorama glass roof. never has luxury been this expressive. this is the pursuit of perfection. checking

let's go back to the election center in washington, d.c. wolf blitzer has breaking news. >> we have a key race alert on the democratic side. right now, 1% of the vote is in. these are actual votes. the first votes that have been reported, bernie sanders ahead by 252 votes over hillary clinton. 58%-38%. no votes reported on the republican side. once again, this is very, very early. these are the first real votes. let's go over to john king. show us what's going on in merrimack. this is significant potentially, john. you're familiar with this area. >> let's go back to 2008. let me show you where we're talking about. south of manchester. in the 2008 race in the democratic primary, merrimack is right up here, just above your south of manchester, north of nashua. about 2% of the state population. she narrowly won in the 2008 race. nashua is important to secretary clinton tonight. hudson over here. again, 2% of the state population. an area she did very well with blue collar traditional democrats and suburbanites. wolf, as jake just noted, it's k

>>> i'm michael smerconish live from washington d.c. the outcome of the south carolina republican primary and caucus will be a presidential reset. if hillary clinton loses to bernie sanders in nevada, might it forshadow another collapse like in 2008? and he certainly is not expected to win, but how badly jeb bush loses could determine whether this is the end of the line in his campaign just another indication of what an unpredictable election this has already been. post of all, the republican who is projected to win today keeps confounding everything we thought we knew about politics after baiting the pope himself into a holy war. donald trump now called for a boycott of one of the most popular american corporations, apple. that's despite the fact as of yesterday, trump himself was still tweeting with his iphone. today is also the day of antonin scalia's funeral. i'll talk to a former clerk of scalia's that went on to argue some 80 cases before the supreme court. cnn will begin coverage at 10:00 a.m. >>> the tussle in the fbi's battle a

he has plans to fix the mess in washington, create new jobs, rising middle class incomes, and protect the american people from isis. >> what's the place that he has to have? i don't know you don't like it when you say you have to come in third or fourth, but these are real questions right now. for him to continue, he's got to do well here. >> we feel real well about south carolina. this is a commander and chief debate. this is the most military friendly state in the country. governor bush has been endorsed by lindsey graham. we think we have a great case to make that he is the best candidate on national security, which is the leading issue here in south carolina. >> what do you say, hogan? >> i don't disagree. he has an amazing resume. the conventional candidates are having a difficult time resonating because it is an unconventional year. it is almost like voters have put on blinders to all the things he just said. there's a lot of things governor bush has done toward conservative, but they're gravitating towards those who have no accomplishment. jeb bush has built a fire wall here. h

here in washington d.c. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wrer are you watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >> we start in iowa where voters are just hours away from casting the fist votes in the presidential election. the candidates are making a