"the washington post" join mess now. you want you to respond. he's been the subject of media coverage describing a cozy relationship with donald trump. he's been dismissing those criticisms. let's look at what he said about you on his show. >> "washington post" actually after our town hall meeting the other night when i eperred him with so many questions that i was attacked for interrupting too much actually said how dare they hold a town hall meeting where they don't ask him tough questions. e we asked tougher questions than our ket. tors ask who have the media writers and people have the audacity to ask if we're too close to donald trump. the answer is, no, we're not. >> he says he's been tough. you said he let him skate. >> i think that there is one of these it great situations where both sides can claim, look at this question, look at at that question. my point here is sort of a larger one. that is if you allow donald trump -- if youen gauge him only on social security, iraq, the issues and how he's going to unite the republican party, you'r

i know i date myself when i tell you in 1963, i was there in washington for the march on washington, for the march on washington, for jobs and freedom with dr. martin luther king. this has been something i have felt strongly about my entire life. >> i want follow up something you said at last week's debate, you said race relations would be better under a president sanders than a president obama. why do you believe that? >> i believe president obama has made significant progress. we're going to build on that progress. we can always do better. the progress that we can build on is to understand that we should not have 35% of african-american kids in this country living in poverty. we should not have -- we need real police reform. we need to make sure that when people are in jail, often african-american and latino, there's a path back to civil society so we don't have the race of resid vizzism that we do now. right now it turns out that we the african-american community and the white community smoke marijuana at about equal levels. it also turns out that blacks are four times more likely

i know i date myself when i tell you in 1963, i was there in washington for the march on washington, for the march on washington, for jobs and freedom with dr. martin luther king. this has been something i have felt strongly about my entire life. >> i want follow up something you said at last week's debate, you said race relations would be better under a president sanders than a president obama. why do you believe that? >> i believe president obama has made significant progress. we're going to build on that progress. we can always do better. the progress that we can build on is to understand that we should not have 35% of african-american kids in this country living in poverty. we should not have -- we need real police reform. we need to make sure that when people are in jail, often african-american and latino, there's a path back to civil society so we don't have the race of resid vizzism that we do now. right now it turns out that we the african-american community and the white community smoke marijuana at about equal levels. it also turns out that blacks are four times more likely

we don't need anymore of these washington acts. the acts to get rid of are washington, d.c. acts and as a governor of a state capital i said we don't need somebody from washington, d.c. what i said in that campaign was the problem is washington, d.c. and we don't need washington politicians to fix it. and so when you look at who's remaining on the stage, no question this is the person who will go to washington, d.c. and be able to absolutely turn the place around. we don't need anymore washington politicians, especially some who have only been there for a term and never shown up for work to tell us how to run the united states government. and so, i absolutely believe that donald trump is the best person on that stage to be president of the united states. by the way, there was a period of time i was running against him. he knew i wanted to beat him. he wanted to beat me. we had open conversations about that. but that part of this is over. and then you have to say to yourself as a good, loyal, american who is the best person to stop hillary clinton from ever getting inside the

it doesn't mean that they don't have those dreams and aspirations that they can't reach because in washington they decide that they're not equal. >> absolutely true. i'm proud of all the states that have taken steps to make sure that grants and college tuition and other things are taken care of for dreamers, for others who are undocumented, but it should be a national priority and that's another element of comprehensive immigration reform because once we get that, there are no more questions. everybody is entitled to the same rights and benefits. i'm not sure everybody in the audience even knows every yoo undocumented workers contribute $12 billion to the social security trust fund and the best estimate is that under comprehensive immigration reform that amount would go up to 20 -- it would be an additional $20 billion every year. you talk about making the social security trust fund solvent, getting people out of the shadows and getting them in the economy to be able to pursue their dreams helps all of us. so absolutely we're going to head for that. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> money they can c

it's washington, d.c.'s game of kicking the can, and your kids are going to be it. >> that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. tune in sunday morning for state of the union. the guests, jeb bush and marco rubio. turning you over to brianna keilar in "the situation room." >>> happening now, natural-born lawsuit. donald trump threatens to sue ted cruz over his citizenship if it rival doesn't clean up his act and stop running negative ads. trump is trying to clean up his own act by cutting down on vug garts. will he watch his mouth in his next event? we're standsing by. >>> embracing obama. one ran against him, the other has criticized him, but they're seeing who can hug the president more tightly. >>> machete attack. four people are wounded and a suspect is dead after a terrifying rampage in an ohio deli of was this a case of lone wolf

from the washington examiner, whether it's successful is missing the point. he's doing so on a platform of the republican party that would now exist in washington. joining me now is michael steele. i want to get your reaction to this amazing moment where trump went adversarial on the room. i've never seen in a debate before. it's a strange choice. take a listen. >> how tough is it take property from an elderly woman. >> let me talk. quiet. >> how tough is it? >> a lot of times. that's all his donors and special interests. the reason they're not loving me is i don't want their money. i don't want their money. i don't need their money. i'm the only one that can say that. >> the rnc claims that only 75 of 1,000 seats went to donors. that was a i welcome their hatred moment to quote fdr from donald trump. >> exactly. you see candidates go after the moderator and score the brownie points there. who would go after the audience? donald trump. particularly, when that audience is not his audience. for him it was a win win. he could go in and smack them around. a lot o

it doesn't mean that they don't have those dreams and aspirations that they can't reach because in washington they decide that they're not equal. >> absolutely true. i'm proud of all the states that have taken steps to make sure that grants and college tuition and other things are taken care of for dreamers, for otheres wh are undocumented, but it should be a national priority and that's another element of comprehensive immigration reform because once we get that, there are no more questions. everybody is entitled to the same rights and benefits. i'm not sure everybody in the audience even knows every yoo undocumented workers contribute $12 billion to the social security trust fund and the best estimate is that under comprehensive immigration reform that amount would go up to 20 -- it would be an additional $20 billion every year. you talk about making the social security trust fund solvent, getting people out of the shadows and getting them in the economy to be able to pursue their dreams helps all of us. so absolutely we're going to head for that. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> money they can c

they look at this dysfunctional washington machine and they say gridlock. this cuts the wrong way for them. it's so very clearly one party -- you had donald trump on the debate saying our strategy is to delay, delay, delay. the american people don't want that. it's very, very obvious there's a single party doing that and a party trying to move forward. >> one way to look at it is the blanket categorical -- by the way, i love that the people say the president has the right. like it's a free country, dude. no, it's his obligation. there's going to be more pressure on the senate to cave than if you just stop the whole thing from the get-go. what do you think of that? >> i think that's fine until the president acts. the process starts when the president acts. it doesn't start because mcconnel blows the whistle and says game on. it start whence the president says here is my nominee. give me an up or down vote. we were over our skis a bit. let's keep in mind. this is not unusual. we saw this play out in 2007 with chuck schumer saying they were not going to move f

typically smaller states, minnesota, washington state, colorado, iowa. and new england, other than massachusetts. can bernie sanders win non-new england primaries, where half the vote is minority. and until, i mean, i -- i can't see him doing that that well. >> hillary clinton last time i remember, won all the big states except illinois. she wept the country in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania. >> but she got minority votes. >> oh, that's it? so that's minority votes and the big states? >> yes. >> so what do you they will them, you're the republican out here, conservative republican i would say, knowing all these years. >> for you to say that. >> i don't want to kill you. >> do they feel the bern out here? people are talkative, tourists. >> they have their buttons on. they say i'm for bernie, my husband is, my wife is not. >> i'm feeling it with younger people, with college people. >> couldn't it be the smartest poll in the world. what do young people have to worry about, thirst fair experience with canpitalism is tuition. but what i do have a huge dam

how the fight over his replacement could paralyze the senate and all of washington. we'll hear from four republican presidential candidates, donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. >>> plus, that wild republican debate last night. >> you are a principle -- >> you are the single biggest liar. >> when you point to his own record, he screams liar, liar, liar. >> i think we're fixing to lose the election to hillary clinton if we don't stop this. >> also, bernie sanders gets a taste of what he may face as he tries to win african-american voters. >>óvç i've said black 50 times,l right. that's the 51st time. >> can hillary clinton win by making this campaign a referendum on sanders, not herself? joining me this sunday morning for inside and analysis are gwen ifil, chris, ron fournier and kathleen parker, columnist for "the washington post." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press with chuck todd". >>> good sunday morning. it hasn't happened since 1968. a vacancy battle on the supreme court at this sta

today he was in washington, d.c. and so that is a newsworthy story -- >> actually, i was on the air -- right, i was actually on the air, and what we reported is that he was going down to florida, and then actually, we followed up with a statement from his campaign saying he was going down to florida because he needed a change of clothes. that might sound ridiculous, but that's what we reported. >> yeah, okay, well, i don't -- a change of clothes, i don't -- well, chris moody had also said r&r, which i took to mean rest and relaxation. we never disputed the cnn reporting -- >> we also reported that he was going to speak at the national prayer breakfast. >> right, and we -- right. so he went to the national prayer breakfast. the whole point is, in the political world, this is playoffs. this is it. nothing else. skipping the playoffs and expecting to go to the super bowl is just -- it doesn't make sense. so that -- so dr. carson made a strategic decision that he wanted to go to florida instead of new hampshire. that tel

he was at the march on washington. he supported civil rights at the university of chicago, led a boycott at the university segregated housing. do you sense that he understands the complexities of this -- of the african-american community now in 2016 coming from vermont and representing an all-white constituency? >> i think that's his challenge to communicate. i will note he said to me this morning that he's calling for the governor of michigan to resign because of what's happening in flint. that's today. he talked about police misconduct. and i think that it is his job and mrs. clinton's job to convince the voters. i don't think they're kingpins. none of us deliver votes. we can advise people if we decide to endorse -- i've not endorsed anyone at this point, but i think they've got to sell their credentials, their sensitivity and their background. our job is to make sure they have to deal with the issues and that's what this morning was about for me. >> the clinton team has said all along that south carolina, where the

that's what washington, d.c. does. the drive by shot with incorrect and incomplete information and the memorized 25-second speech. >> that's what happened last night. the rubio campaign came out of iowa ahead of steam. they were talking about moving up close to trump and maybe catching donald trump. what are they saying in the wake of this debate? marco rubio just taking the stage. this was not a crushing blow. they are doubling down or if you prefer, quintupling down and trying to make the point that he is best positioned to take on the democrats in the general election. he said barack obama has been effective for the liberal side, but he can be effective for the conservative side. the campaign said it raised more than three times as much last night online than it has during any other debate. he did have an effective night and the question about abortion. the big question is how will the voters react. we were speaking with a few of them and many said look, all politicians are scripted to a certain extent. the supporte

bush also vowed to change washington. but he's also putting the blame on republicans especially with this supreme court nomination. a question of will you give this nominee a hearing? that's going to put republicans on the defensive. but at the same time, don, i don't see the republicans caving. now, will the democrats say, well, the president won't sign spending bills unless you give him this nominee. that, will they raise the stakes to that degree? we'll see later this year, but i don't see republicans caving any time soon and i think republicans might say, listen, we might lose the senate over this, but this is more important to prevent obama from shifting this court. >> i appreciate all of you coming on tonight. gloria borger working hard in the field. all the guys, lazy in the studio sucking up the air-conditioning or the heat. gloria, thank you very much. >> come on down. it's fun. >> thank you, guys. see you soon. >>> when we come right back, hillary clinton on the trail in harlem. will african-american voters be t

national correspondent washington bureau chief for buzzfeed. when you're picking a president of the united states, everybody has to endorse up. no super president or chairman of the board to point down and say pick this guy. how do you endorse up? whether you're al sharpton or congressional black caucus. how do you tell to vote for somebody. endorsements matter for president? >> they do in the sense that particularly for african-american voters, there is still a core of the black vote that is largely, you know, not entirely, but that is very much influenced by religious leaders, by the church. that voter who is in a certain demographic, meaning, black voters over 40 who do still believe in the influence of the civil rights move and reverend al sharpton is that second generation, so i think there is still something to be said for endorsements. they do still feel they have something to say. now, by the way, the entire sort of weight of the black political class endorsed hillary clinton last time and that didn't way voters at all. they went with o

she joins us from washington. what are the latest details? >> reporter: we know justice scalia went to texas on friday for a hunting trip at a secluded rezorts. he had dinner on friday night. the ranch owner had been speaking to reporters and said scalia was entertaining and engaged throughout the dinner. around 9:00 p.m. he said he had a long week and wanted to get a good sleep. a separate source tells evan perez that scalia said he wasn't feeling well on friday. the next day the range owner checked on scalia because he didn't show up for breakfast and lunch and found him in bed lying in repose. the sheets weren't wrinkled, no signs of foul play. it appears he died in his sleep of natural causes and the family has reportedly requested for him not to have an autopsy. >> in terms of political fallout, a fight brewing over the successor between the white house and republicans. any timetable as to how it could play out? >> likely it will be within the next month we'll hear about a nomination based on previous nominations coming from president ob

when the watch dogs in washington can't even agree, it becomes a question. donald trump's plan becomes even more perplexing. even if trump's plan were to fix deficit, it would do nothing to fix the $19 trillion in long term debt that already exists. at last night's republican debate, donald trump found himself taking quite a bit of fire from his rivals, hoping to halt his momentum. including this attack from marco rubio over trump's now defunct school, trump university. >> there are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to trump university and they're suing him now. that's a fake school. >> by the way -- >> you take a picture of a cardboard cut out of donald trump. that's what they got. >> trump is being sued by a number of former students who enrolled at the university and who now claim the real estate billionaire is nothing more than a fraud. drew griffin has been looking into the allegations. he filed this report. >> this was the promise of trump university when it laumped. direct from the university chairman's own mouth. >> at trump university we teach succe

from the shadow of the george washington bridge comes the pugnacious politician from us. catway. he loves the cowboys, spring teen, and telling people to shut up. >> sit down and shut up. >> he's stronger than the storm but is he born to run? >> shut up. >> he's new jersey governor chris christie. >> i think that's my favorite one we've seen so far. >> you know what, i feel like yelling at a teacher. that's how angry i am. >> well, we have shocking, indeed, upsetting news in the world of the 2016 fantasy candidate draft update. today we learned that one of our contestants has zero draft picks still running for president. that contestant would be our good friend, joy reid. today's chris christie news has ended joy's journey, just 37 7 days after her draft show first aired. she had quite a run with her five randomly selected picks, all-star lineup of george pataki. jim webb, rick perry. we reached out to joy. here's what she told us. "let's dispense with this notion once and for all i knew what i was doing when i made my draft picks." her draft pick has come to an end with 5,300 po

katy tur has to cover the guy, ralston live is at msnbc political analyst, and back from washington, yes, the former chair of the republican party when it was a normal political party, michael steele. the former chair of the former republican party. also an msnbc political analyst. caucus site, msnbc jacob soborof. you're already in position. we'll get the reality. john, something happened this weekend, starting here on saturday night. something is going on. not here, but out in south carolina. all of a sudden, trump is unstoppable, if you listen to all the nervousness. the titanic is sinking. >> as i've told you, nevada is ground zero. the -- >> what i was -- >> i know what you're talking about. listen, trump is going to win nevada. it's going to be a bad night for the antiestablishment. >> it's going to be bad for. >> exactly. i talked to one of the key advisors, who predicted, predicted that his guy would finish in second, 25 points behind trump tonight. and they thought, well, at least we're going to get second place. how do you argue. >> that's not second place. >> marco rubio c

>> joining me now, david weigel who covers national politics for the "washington post." i first met you nine years ago and you were the guy covering rand paul, libertarian movement, ron paul revolution. you covered ron paul and rand paul for nine years. why did this not work out? >> think a place that sells really good sandwiches and tries to sell chinese food and pasta. he's trying to be too many people. he didn't have the interest in carrying that off. he thought he could add to his father's coalition. what he learned very wickly and couldn't really undo, if you try to add or change anything to the pure libertarian message, people bolt and don't trust you anymore. >> right, because ron paul actually did much better. he had his bloc, 15% to 20% of the electrate he superserved. rand came from that world obviously and thought he could give a libertarianism light that didn't work. >> he wasn't the america first alternate right person that ron paul was. every time he ran, had pat buchanan-ish views on race in the past and didn't hurt him when it came to foreign policy. peop

bridges between us if we're iffing of to fix the problems in -- if we'reing to fix the problems in washington because all they have is walls. >> donald trump has said he opposed the 2003 invasion of iraq, but this morning, those claims are under new scrutiny. buzzfeed has unearthed a 2002 interview from the howard stern show that said he did support an invasion. here is his reaction following the cnn republican town hall. >> we don't know the enemy. >> we know this they're skulking around somewhere and you're a sitting duck. >> but we have an idea who the enemy is and the politicians don't want to tell you that. >> are you for invading iraq? >> i guess so. i wish the first time it was done correctly. >> do you remember saying that? >> no, but i mean, i could have said that. nobody asked me -- i wasn't a politician. he was probably the first time -- it was probably the first time somebody asked me that question. but that was before the war started -- >> 2002. >> by the time the war started i was against the war and there are articles -- i mean, there are headlines in 2003, 2004 that i was tota

i do think there's a benefit to understanding how the process works in washington. much as we all think it needs to change, and i think that, one of the things i hear the most as i travel around new hampshire is why can't you guys just work together to deal with the problems facing the country. we need somebody who understands how to reach across the aisle. i think hillary has that. she has that history. that's what she did in the senate. it's what she ditd in the white house. it's what she did as secretary of state. >> the argument on the other side is we have this structure problem that's grown up in american politics. it's not just you guys. >> in the depths of the worth great depression could barely get more than two or three votes for a stimulus bill. >> when the united states was threatened by hitler in world war ii, one vote is what it took to pass the draft. it was just one vote to make that pass so that we could actually build the resources we needed to go fight to save the free world. i think this idea it's going to be overwhelming and easy is not right. >

he understands the issues of defense and washington. all of his issues are -- >> but congressman -- >> it's not just some platitudes of, well, i happen to have a plan for you. i have experience and i have delivered. >> go ahead, will. >> maybe he balanced the budget, but he's increased spending in the state of ohio by 43%. there was a bill that passed in congress in 2009. it was called obamacare. president obama jammed that bill with nancy pelosi down the throats of congress. obamacare legislation on the state legislature. that's not conservativconservat. what they know about him are his liberal policies which helped him in new hampshire. those liberal policies aren't going to help him in south korea. >> i'm going to hit pause here. they fight with each other. you have trump and cruz glad these two are fighting. still a very crowded field. >>> next, bernie sanders meeting with al sharpton in new york today courting the black vote. it's not well lit because this was just a breakfast. they were talking. how big of an issue is this for hil

back in washington, robert costa joins us, msnbc analyst as well. the republican party's reacting now to the news of trump's dominance in different ways. for some they are pushing resistance. henry barber, the nephew of hallie barber, a member of the republican national committee said, after trump has won in new hampshire and south carolina, republicans are crazy and are about to blow the white house if we don't rally to stop him, close quote. marco rubio made the case for why the party needed to nominate him. >> we can't win. if we nominate someone, if we nominate someone that half of the republican party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to november. we will never win that way. i don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. if we nominate someone that 40% to 50% of our party can't stand, we are going to lose. >> indicatekaty, i don't know w these guys are thinking, but he sounded desperate. we've got a leak in the dike, we've got to stop this thing. >> which is the case right now

there are 250,000 people at the march on washington. all of those people are civil rights icons, as i look at it. >> i don't doubt hillary clinton's support for civil rights and i don't doubt that she's been a supporter of the cbc and the issues you care about. but in 1964 she was a goldwater girl. by her own description she was a republican back then. i mean she was in high school. but she was not doing what bernie sanders was doing at that time. >> well, the thing that i think we all have connected with was that after her awakening, hillary clinton was able to participate in programs and put forth policies that were revolutionary at the time, working with the children's defense fund is just one. but keep in mind that back in that same time, ronald reagan, who was almost a deity for republicans, was a democrat. so i think if we're going to get into that part of things, i would say bernie sanders has just become a democrat. but i think the thing we need to focus on, frankly, is history. i think history says something about what a person

>> bernie sanders has been in washington, d.c. longer than the clintons ever were. he came there aver the 1990 election and he's been on television and the burlington media market here for some time. bernie sanders has been here for a very long time as well. >> what about going forward? you've got bill clinton going to south carolina today for an appearance tonight. where is your fire wall? if you look at seven of the 11 campaigns to come, you've got large numbers of minority voters in contrast to iowa and new hampshire, which are predominantly white. is that coming advantage for her going on with south carolina, alabama, tennessee and then of course pennsylvania, michigan and nevada even long before that? >> well, look, 4% of the delegates are picked in february. 56, 57% are chosen in march. so that's really when the delegates are going to get racked up. hillary is tremendously fortunate to have a lot of support in the african-american community and hispanic community among women. we're fighting hard to bring on more young people all the time. that's a support that

, the political grass roots speaking up and speaking out about what we have to try to accomplish in washington, but we also need to have a very clear set of goals that we are going to achieve and we need to level with the american people about what they are, what they will cost, what will be expected of our citizenry. so i see as president having a constant dialogue with americans. here's what we're trying to get done, here's why i need your help, here's why you may think comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship isn't something you care about, but i'm telling you it will help fix the labor market, it will bring people out of the shadows. you have to make those connections so you have people with you every step of the way. that's what i want to do. >> thank you. before we go, i want to ask secretary clinton you've made it clear when you look at senator sanders you do not see a president. >> i did not say that. >> do you see a vice president? would you unite the party by trying to pick senator sanders as a runningmate? >> i'm not getting ahead of myself. if i'm fortunate to be

." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews, in washington, with just eight days until south carolina's republican primary, a poll finds donald trump well in the lead. 36% of likely republican voters back him. according to the augusta conical survey, cruz comes in at 20%, rubio, third at 15. last night, nbc pollster peter heart focused group of republican voters in south carolina, and here's what they said about those three front runners. >> marco rubio. >> rising star. >> marco rubio. >> fresh face. >> marco rubio. >> still new. >> marco rubio. >> immigration. >> fin finish your term as senator first. >> needs experience. >> ted cruz. >> negative. >> give me a word or phrase for a feeling. >> feeling? divisive. >> opportunist. >> fake. >> fake. >> dock tore near. >> donald trump, go around the room, get ready, everybody got their word. i want one word, fast and i want it served up to me. >> leader. >> flashy. >> alpha dog. >> rich. >> dog matt particular. >> narcissistic. >> inspirational. >> divisive. >> greedy. >> that's something i can believe. i think they made sense. peter hart told nbc news

>>> 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 clinton has taken the stage in manchester, new hampshire. we're also awaiting the start of a sanders rally new hampshire, as well. on the republican side, donald trump relishing his front-runner status saying he wouldn't be happy with anything but a win in the granite state. the republican candidates, they're out, spread out across the state today. they're jockeying for every vote possible. ted cruz and donald trump have events scheduled later this hour. we'll hear trying to establish f as the one and only

>> there are two reasons why we covered the scandal at the george washington bridge that came to be known as bridgegate and why we covered it so closely two years ago. people didn't understand why we focussed on it so much. first it is the most important bridge in the world. when they created that traffic jam that day they did not know there was going to be a terrorist attack in new jersey or new york city that morning. we're just lucky what happened that day was not much worst than the any traffic jam there anyone had ever expected. the second reason we covered it so closely is because chris christie was obviously plan together run for president. the actions of the presidential candidate were at the the center of that coverage so on this program that was the beginning of our coverage of the christie for president campaign. the political analysts who took the christie campaign seriously this year are the same people who never bothered to study the details two years ago or listen to every word that chris christie said in that first press conference he had about the scandal, a press confere

i'm chris matthews in washington. it didn't take long for the political battle to start over filling justice scalia's seat. what is less than zero? the chances of obama successfully appointing a supreme court justice to replace scalia, within minutes of the justice's death. mitch mcconnell said in part, the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. senator chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee said given the huge divide in the country and this president above all others to use the court to circumvent congress, it only makes sense that we defer to the american people who will elect a new president to select the next supreme court justice. and senator ted cruz told chuck todd on "meet the press" he would stop any nominee at all from even being considered. >> doesn't the united states have an obligation to at least go through the process and have an up or down vote? >> not remotely. p

. >> clinton responded in a statement to the "washington post" that reads in part, i was talking about the impact violence crimes was having on communities. i shouldn't have used those words. i wouldn't use them today. like the entirety of the democratic party, has changed in 20 years. she now embraces the language of reform, but the legacy of bill clinton's policies continue to be debated throughout the campaign. press conference in south carolina yesterday, senator bernie sanders appeared to attack hillary clinton for another controversial piece of her husband's presidency, welfare reform bill. >> what welfare reform did in my view was to go after some of the weakest and most vulnerable people in this country. and during that period, i spoke out against so-called welfare reform. secretary clinton at that time had a very different position on welfare reform strongly supported it. and worked hard to roundup votes for its passage. >> coming up, we'll talk to a former member of the clinton administration about bill clinton's legacy and the problems it created in the 2016 race. (patrick 1

we've had plenty of people in washington making all kinds of bad deals. the last thing we need in washington is someone who is going to focus on making a deal regardless of the outcome. >> i don't think that's what he's saying. >> i think what donald trump is saying he's someone who has staked his career on, quote, making deals. we've had deals coming out of washington that have taken the country in exactly the wrong direction. >> ron, ron, you can make deals as long as you make them in the right direction. >> this is a choice between someone who has been a, quote, conservative for about six months. versus someone who has been a reliable conservative and challenging the washington cartel and problems in both parties. that's what ted cruz is doing. that's the type of leadership that we need. >> ron, the exit polls, the cnn exit polls, out of new hampshire showed that those who voted in new hampshire who self-identified as quote/unquote very conservative gave the nod to donald trump over ted cruz by 12 points. i understand what you're saying, but the people

washington is in gridlock right now. you understand that. >> i know all about this. and i know how things don't get done. >> when you see congress, i think the last time i saw it 9% -- about 9%. we're going to make it better. we're going to bring it up and get things done. >> when you put up a building in new york, there it is that big building on fifth avenue, the trump tower. i'm not in the business. what i've heard about is you have to pay a special percent, maybe 5% to the bad guy. the councilman will stiff you. or a labor union being very difficult. what do you do? how do you scare them into doing what you want them to do or pay them off? how do you get it done? >> i'm the king of zoning. >> what's your technique? >> i deal with people. i hire experts. i hire people that are good -- >> do you pay these guys? >> they're consultants. >> do you pay the -- >> no, i don't. the problem is, first of all, it's dishonest, and i'm an honest guy. if you do that, everybody else comes along and it never ends. if you don't do it, like the old story, you take care of building

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in washington. a whole new world on the campaign trail. next stop south carolina and nevada. hillary clinton is the favorite. now scrambling to regroup after new hampshire was lopsided. she even lost the women's vote. republicans are all chasing donald trump. all but twhile two, dropped out. now a race like none we've ever seen before, frankly. it's about to get more interesting. let me start with jim acosta at the trump rally in pendleton, south carolina. ji

brianna keilar joins me now in washington. sanders isn't even in south carolina today, he's in massachusetts where he hopes to score a victory a week from tomorrow. >> it's pretty revealing where the candidates are on the democratic side. hillary clinton is fund-raising in los angeles so maybe some confidence revealed there. but you see bernie sanders banking on some of these states that are whiter for sure. his team realistic about his chances in south carolina but he will have to broaden his support if he's going to win the democratic nomination so he has a lot of work to do to challenge hillary clinton from here on out. hillary clinton, stealing back some momentum after her victory in the nevada caucuses. >> i want to knock down all the barriers holding people back. we spent a lot of time talking with voters in the last week about the barriers they felt did impede their getting ahead. >> reporter: it's a message her campaign thinks is resonating with african-american voters in south carolina, which holds its primary saturda