"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

when the washington lobbyists settled on other lobbyists in this race. when the media in one voice said a conservative cannot win, nationwide over 800,000 contributions poured in to tedcruz.org as courageous conservatives said, yes, we can. 800,000 contributions at tedcruz.org with an average contribution of $67. that is the power of the grassroots. but it's more than that. it's 12,000 volunteers here in the state of iowa. it's over 200,000 volunteers all across this great nation. you know, during the course of this campaign people have asked heidi and me are you tired? and i will admit it is 16, 18 hours a day, 6, 7 days a week. we are not tired at all. ♪ >> to the contrary, we are inspehred by each and every one of you. i leap out of bed every morning amazed that at a time when our country is in crisis, every one of us has the opportunity to stand and lead, that we have been put in a place of leadership. for such a time as this. >> all right, we're going to breakaway from ted cruz. there you see, hillary clinton and her husband and daughter. she's ab

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

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

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

. >> 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

in the campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and wall street. we all want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics. that starts with appointing a new justice to the supreme court who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not every corporation to buy elections. and we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. no bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. but if we listen to the voices of flint and ferguson, if we open our hearts to the families of coal country and indian country, if we listen to the hopes and heartaches of hardworking people across america, it's clear there is so much more to be done. the truth is, we aren't a single issue country. we need more than a plan for the big banks. the middle class needs a raise! and we need more jobs! we need jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced, jobs that provide dignity and a future. we can do it by unleashing the innovation of our entrepreneurs and small businesses. we can do it with new investments in manufacturin

and washington bureau chief, david cork -- you're the oldest guy besides me. howard fineman is so right. bernie sanders' approach is brilliant. he reads notes. no teleprompter. nothing fancy. he's like a college professor who's 28 years old. assistant professor, doing a teach-in. he's got all the interesting statistics. he brings them out and each paragraph or thought has one great statistic. and everybody is like, wow, he's teaching us, we like this guy. it's working. >> you talk to people who have worked with him or known him for 50 years and they say he hasn't changed. >> from -- >> he's gotten older. he hasn't changed. hoe didn't do -- he didn't do drugs back in the '60's. he wasn't a hippie. he was all about change, so when he talks this way, people realize it's from the gut. like it or not. there's no question about whether he's calculating or trying to present an image to win votes. it's his message and it's something that hillary clinton has not been able -- >> you're right there. i got the feeling tonight that hillary clinton's speech was teleprompted

ryan, former senior communicationings to mike huckabee is hogan gidley and in washington commentator van jones. thank you all for being here. hogan, let me begin with you. i want to read you something from a "new york times" piece. talks about mitch mcconnell. it said while he's begun preparing senators for the possibility of a trump nomination if it threatened to harm them in the general election they could run negative ads about mr. trump. let's step back and think about that. that is you know, the highest ranking mitch mcconnell saying that his fellow senators can run negative ads against the party's nominee. >> right. also make the comment that we drop him like a hot rock, i think is what he said. i want to know who the we is. the establishment? they have already gut punched the american worker time and time again. they hurt the republican party time and time again, so i'm not exactly sure where he's going. i understand he is trying to protect the senate but that's what makes donald trump so popular is that he's going against what they stand for. >> hurts them more. >> absolutely

i don't know how many conservative voters will say ted cruz washington insider when the constant washington insiders bob dole and trent lott and others are saying we don't like ted cruz, we can't stand him, we won't vote for him. you can't have it both ways. i think the difference between trump and cruz is this. they both have set it up this year to put the establishment flat on its back. the twoun tag team of trump and cruz. however, one is talking about taking on the washington accomplishme establishment and one's gone there and done it. >> but why change your tactics if you're winning? why would donald trump change and give specifics about things or change his campaigning when he's winning? >> he won't. >> kellyanne, i've got to disagree with you because this collection it's not about who's more conservative, which is what we typically see in a primary. this election is about who is more of an outsider. and for donald trump that means going after ted cruz and saying ted cruz took wall street money. i agree with you ted cruz is a great candidate, we'd be lucky to have him, he's the second

they want something different to happen in washington, d.c. they are tired of the same old business being led by the same old people. and bernie represents something new. he represents a revolution that's going to adjust how business is being done in washington, d.c. and you can see that revolution taking place even in some of the remarks that hillary clinton is talking about. now she's beginning to talk about those issues that bernie has been talking about everywhere. not only in a black state of south carolina, not in harlem, but bernie sanders has been talking about that in iowa, in new hampshire. so he's been talking about those issues that are relative to the african-american community from the very beginning. >> we'll see if the young voters show up at the polls today. maria, let me come to you. does this expectation that hillary clinton will win by a large margin hurt her potentially, maybe some of the voters who were -- might have been excite philadelphia this were a much tight erase might stay home and this margin will be narrower? >>

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

in this campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and about wall street. now, senator sanders and i both want to get secret unaccountable money out of politics, and let's remember, let's remember, citizens united, one of the worst supreme court decisions in our country's history, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign. a right-wing organization took aim at me and ended up damaging our entire democracy. so, yes, you're not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me. we also agree -- we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to once again threaten main street, and i will fight to rein in wall street, and you know what, i know how to do it. so when i tell you no bank could be too big to fail and no executive too powerful to jail, you can count on it. now, the real differences in this race are truly over how do we create a future of prosperity, opportunity, and security for all of us? we need to build a growth and fairness economy with higher wages and more good-paying jobs includin

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

they got to know each other on the appeals court here in washington. they were both opera buffs. they enjoyed each other's company, as unlikely as they may seem. and justice kagan made a point of going hunting with him when she came to the court. so he made friendships with lots of people, not just his idealogical soul mates, but he enjoyed the combat of ideas. and he also loved the law. as he told me in an interview a couple of years ago, it's a great job for somebody who loves the law. it was his great passion. and sometimes he got carried away with it, but he left a very strong impression. >> pete williams, nbc justice correspondent, thank you for your reporting on this. we go now to the white house where kelly o'donnell has some new information. >> reporter: we can now tell you that president obama will be making a statement about the death of justice scalia at 8:30 eastern time, 5:30 pacific. the president is in california, and he had a day where he was sort of on a down day, playing golf. but his purpose for being in california is to host a summit of ten asian leaders. he n

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

. >> together we have sent the message that will echo from wall street to washington, from maine to california -- [ applause ] -- and that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super packs. [ applause ] >> bernie sanders earlier tonight and now to the republicans. he has done it. he pulled it off. donald trump of new york has won the new hampshire primary. our projected winner just after 8:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. we also called second place fairly early this evening for the governor of ohio, former congressman, john kasich. it is the rest of the race that we expect to remain fluid as a higher percent of the vote comes in. the big race was between third, fourth and fifth. between cruz, bush and rubio. chris christie with a very big decision to make but the winner for the republicans got his time in front of an uproarious crowd as well. >> in terms of the -- >> we are going to start winning again. we don't win anymore. as a country, we don't win on trade, we can't beat isis. we don't win wi

will not be chosen by the washington establishment. will not be chosen by the lobbyists. but will be chosen by the most incredible, powerful force where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people, the american people. tonight, thanks to the incredible hard work of everyone gathered here, of courageous conservatives across this state, we together earn the votes of 48,608 iowans. to put it in perspective, your incredible victory that you have won tonight that is the most votes ever cast for any republican primary winner. >> all: ted! ted! ted! ted! ted! >> tonight is a victory for millions of americans, who have shouldered the burden of seven years of washington deals run amuck. tonight is a victory for every american who's watched in dismay as career politicians in washington in both parties refuse to listen and too often failed to keep their commitments to the people. tonight is a victory for every american who understands that after we survive eight long years of the obama presidency, that no one personality can right the wrongs done by washington. the millio

wolf blitzer, back to you in washington. >> it's amazing how close it's been among the democrats. almost all of the votes now in -- what, 49.9% for hillary clinton. 49.6% for bernie sanders. i want to go back to jeff zeleny quickly. jeff, you're there with one of bernie sanders' top advisers. >> wolf, that's right. i'm joined by jeff weaver, the campaign manager for senator sanders. jeff, what do you make of what is still remaining out there? and are you satisfied with all the information you've gotten about this? >> well, look, there's still some of the vote out. it's very, very tight. who knows whether one of us or the other will be a couple delegates up or a couple delegates down? but this is a tremendous victory for our campaign tonight. we started in single digits and fought our way up to a tie and maybe a win. so this is really going to be a springboard for us into new hampshire and the states beyond. >> what do you think is the fund-raising possibility of this night? senator sanders raised $20 million in january online. what's your estimate of what this will do? >> well, it

anderson back to you in washington. >> we'll see more people turning out in the last few hours. what do you think -- >> why are you smiling? >> it's not just because i work for ted cruz. i feel like we finally found a conservative who can win. look at what ted cruz faced in this election. not only was he competing with donald trump. on his birther issue, on his evangelical faith. he was being attacked fiercely by the republican party. you had all of these gop king makers of the past saying he could never win. don't he did it. i don't think this is a win for ted cruz, this is a conservative product, they sought a leader who can stand for conservative principal, this may be the beginning of something much bigger, this is a great night for conservatives. >> how concerned were you when you heard there was record turnout on the gop side. all night long, so many people have been saying record turnout is going to break in donald trump's favor. hillary clinton 49.9%. bernie sanders 49.4%. with 84% of the vote now. so that race is tightening, it is still anybody's race. an extraordinary

when he got to washington, somebody said to him, well, what do you uniquely bring to washington? and he stopped and he said, well, i guess arithmetic. we're going to make it add up for the american people again, and at the end of eight years, it did. we had 23 million new jobs, but more importantly, incomes went up for everybody. not just those at the top. middle class families, working families, more people were lifted out of poverty than at any time in recent american history. this is not in the far past. we can do this again, my friends! but what happened? well, back came the republicans. back came trickle-down economics. back came cutting taxes on the wealthy, getting out of the way of corporations. the single best photo of what happened on wall street later is the picture taken of the man president bush put in charge of wall street, the fcc commissioner. he's standing there grinning with a chain saw in his hands, and a big stack of regulations. well, they did a heck of a job. they turned away from what was happening in the financial markets, and the mortgage markets, and we

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

we'll monitor and bring you the latest news from washington, d.c. meanwhile, coming up as well, republican voters turned out in record numbers for the caucuses and primaries this year. but fewer democrats came out this cycle than 2008, when there was so much more excitement. does this tell us anything about the way ahead? up next, i'll talk live with the chair of south carolina's democratic party after a quick break. antix. i had a lot of doubts going in. i was a smoker. hands down, it was, that's who i was. after one week of chantix, i knew i could quit. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix definitely helped reduce my urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse or of seiz

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

that's the reason he has few friends in washington. he's finding fewer and fewer on the trail. >> not in iowa. he road his few friends all the way to victory in the iowa caucuses. guys j stand by. we have a lot more to talk about. >> including fireworks. the super scary kind that can erupt in your face like is happening to marco rubio. you'll hear from chris christie is happening and what happened when a big name rubio supporter was asked to name the senator's accomplishments. >> a super scary kind of fireworks. >> the booming ones that come at you. >> and sanders needs to make enroads with the minority voters. we'll have the client team to respond to his new endorsement. we said goodbye the day. and to the city. and drifted off into the twilight. and when we woke, we found that the whole world had reinvented itself. sail with princess cruises the best cruise line in europe. princess cruises. come back new. that's why i switched from u-verse to xfinity. now i can download my dvr recordings and take them anywhere. ready or not, here i c

. >> that's what washington, d.c. does. the memorized 25-second speech -- >> the bottom line of barack obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true. >> there it is. the memorized 25-second speech. there it is, everybody. >> when we come back here, jobs, isis and what it means to be a conservative. the republican debate continues right here from new hampshire on abc. >> where do you think we are now? >> i think we're in the same place we were before. i'm out there saying things i wanted to say. he never gives an unrehearsed answer, never. it's a battle, baby. >> what did you think of your performance? >> really good. >> really good? >> yeah. >> have you got raw knuckles? >> no. >> what do you make of a person, an opponent who having seen the punch coming, reacts in that way? >> not ready. you can sit in a conference room somewhere with a bunch of your friends and pretend they're being hard on you, and it does not replicate when you're standing up there, 12 million, 15 million people watching, all the cameras on and th

money and the stamina and the fact that you have ted cruz who is not liked by the establishment in washington. you have donald trump who if you add them both together you have over 50% of the vote. not liked by them. how much money do you think goes to marco rubio after today? >> well, i think that is the big decision that establishment candidates or the establishment part of the republican party, the centrist part, if you will, however you want to call it, they have to make a decision if they really want to put their power behind somebody like marco rubio. because if not, then, you know, we're sitting here talking about scenarios for ted cruz to go on longer. for marco rubio to go on longer. i talked about how donald trump is leading in every single other poll and every single other state outside of iowa. that is why those kinds of scenarios, if people don't start getting out and getting out fast and consolidating behind one or two candidates other than trump, i still think trump can actually trump everybody else moving forward. >> and when we come back we'll talk about much more in a second

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

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

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

if you ask me would i take anybody from washington, d.c. to come in here and run my business, no way. no way. because i got something to lose. they'd have nothing to lose. they're playing with our money. so i think some of them don't even care who we are out here. they want their power. they got their power, and they want their way. for iowa, not only for iowa, but for the national spotlight, as far as i'm concerned, this is about national security. providing our own fuel, and not buying from the people who want to hurt us. i made the statement to a senator from texas two years ago when i was in d.c., and i said i want america to be energy independent and he said, mr. good, that's a pipe dream if you ever think that's going to happen. and i said, as long as people like you are in charge, that's right. i think a lot of things that we're talking about now wouldn't be talked about in a normal election. but because we have some outsiders involved in the race, things are being talked about. and in my view no matter how much you love or hate dona

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

he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and then he's offered what he believes is a rather simple remedies. that is something that's really resonating right now. >> but a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe that he could do it. >> that all of these people misjudged the pundits pm they misjudged the anger of the american people. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the frontrunners right now, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015. what do they have in common? they're the outsiders. and they have close to 60 and 70% in some places. and marco rubio now wears the establishment proudly. and the idea you can beat trump from the left, senator rubio himself was asked tell us which state you'll win and he said i'll win florida on march 15th. ladies and gentlemen, by march 15th, 50% of the delegates will have voted. he's skipping the first four contests 0-4, he's not going to win anything on super tuesday, according to mr. rub io himself and he may win florida. i think cruz has a much better chance of winning te

andrea mitchell standing by in washington. we are duty-bound to add at exactly this point of the evening, andrea, that prior to today's story in "the new york times" about the republican race, last night's impactful story on page one of the electronic edition of "the new york times" was about the latest release of e-mails. >> exactly. >> and some of the language that reporters used to talk about the known/unknowns in this case is chilling and she still faces a very uncertain future where this e-mail case is concerned. >> but it clearly was not at all important to the african-american voters, the voters in south carolina. it hasn't taken traction even on the campaign trail. it doesn't -- it's shown up in other places, other states, where bernie sanders was killing her on the subject of honest and trustworthiness, certainly in new hampshire, even in nevada to a certain extent. not here in south carolina. so, going forward, she can only hope that she can gain traction with this big victory among -- the projected victory among the

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

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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

that's how you really get something done in washington, d.c. because when you are elected president, without help, without working with the senate, without working with the house, you can't get it done. and president obama, for six years, had opposition from republican party to stop him from even further progress. >> congressman, you had something to say? >> yeah, you know, it's a good example, my good friend, mr. meeks and i admire him very much. >> mutual. >> i disagreed with the president on fast track, bernie disagreed. now hillary disagrees, and that is a point that we could have a difference. it is not a difference based on demeaning or anything. it is just a fundamental difference that this trade agreements have been hurting workers, wages and the economy of our nation now for every trade agreement that's occurred. now, i don't know where mr. meeks stood on that but i was against it. bernie was against. and those are the things that elect people, taking positions, being right about your -- and being consistent with your positions. not ch

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

he was on the march on washington with the reverend king, martin luther king. he was arrested in a civil rights demonstration, chicago around the same time. he has a long commitment to civil rights. i'm hoping that no one brings any sort of negativity to this campaign. but, again, we saw it in '08. it wouldn't shock me to see it again. >> good having you with us. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> let me bring in jeff weaver here for the campaign. i just heard you guys brought in $5.2 million since last night? >> yes. you may remember bernie said in his speech that he may hold a fundraiser. he asked people to contribute and they did. >> and they did. i wanted to play a little bit of sound. we had a chance to catch up with senator sanders on sunday. i asked him, the polls show you 25 points ahead. look how he responded. >> reporter: did you ever imagine you would be at this point? >> the answer is yes, i did. >> reporter: but up against one of the biggest democrats of all time, hillary clinton? >> if the question is, have we done better than i thou

in this campaign, you've heard a lot about washington and about wall street. senator sanders and i both want to get secret, unaccountable money out of politics. let's remember, let's remember citizens united, one of the worst supreme court decisions in our country's history was actually case about a right wing attack on me and my campaign. a right wing organization took aim at me and ended up damaging our entire democracy. so, yes, you're not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me. we also agree that wall street can never be allowed to once again threaten main street. i will fight to reign in wall street. you know what, i know how to do it. when i tell you, no bank can be too big to fail and no executive too powerful to jail, you can count on it. now the real difference is this race are truly over how do we create a future for prosperity, opportunity and security for all of us. we need to build a growth and fairness economy. including a bold, national commission to create millions of jobs in clean energy, manufacturi

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

he was back in washington actually meeting with african-american leaders. he flew here and did three campaign events. a big difference in how they campaigned. hillary clinton i'm told by one close adviser was scared by what happened in new hampshire. so she clearly is campaigning more aggressively here. and the sanders campaign realizes they have a lot of energy a lot of support a lot of money behind them. this is not going to hurt him in the fundraising but it does show their campaign is not as equipped as her campaign to be as aggressive in these settings. she is the true athlete in this race. bernie sanders knows will have to step it up a little bit. >> impressive win for hillary clinton. she needed it she got it. she is going to be speaking soon. eventually we'll hear from bernie sanders as well. i want to go to brianna keilar right now. we expect to see her. i'm sure she is happy. she got the phone call from bernie sanders. >> we understand very much so wolf she is very happy. she was in her suite here at caesars palace receiving that phone call from b

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