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 julian assan

washington post reports that scalia was pronounced over the phone after officials said there were no signs of foul play. the 79-year-old jurist had several chronic conditions. senate republicans are calling for no replacement nominated for the supreme court until after november elections as cnn's manu raju says the white house has no intention of honoring. >> reporter: good morning. president obama said he would wait until next week potentially or maybe after to choose the replacement to justice scalia. that doesn't mean the battle lines are not already being drawn. especially in the senate. the schedule is set of who is nominated and confirmed. decided the next president should not name, not the current president. president obama did not listen to senate mcconnell and is planning to move forward. now the big question from mitch mcconnell and the republicans is will they allow a vote on the floor to confirm or deny the next supreme court justice. this is something they have not fully decided yet because senator mcconnell wants to take the temperature of his conference. you have vario

in washington. and he's right, he's given hundreds of thousands to democrats. anyone who really cared about illegal immigration, wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. they wouldn't be funding harry reed and nancy pelosi and the gang of 8. when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you q say enough with the krupscorruption, let's stan the working men and washington, they don't like you in washington. and if you want to be liked in washington, that's not a good attribute for president. >> here's a man, robin hood over here. he talks about corruption. on his financial disclosure form, he didn't even put that he borrowed money from goldman sacks ande

of the republican senators. your colleagues in washington. if you are going to have a problem with them, what are you going to say to them as president to get them on board so that we can get legislation passed? >> it's a great question, robert, thank you for asking it. >> let me focus on two levels, let me explain how we actually change the direction in washington. it's not that i speak with a lack of civility or respect, you have seen in the presidential campaign as other people insult me, i don't respond in kind. the bible talks about if someone treats you unkindly, repay them with kindness. it's like keeping coals on the top of their head. that is the standard i have tried to follow. i have not attacked my colleagues in the senate, democrat or republican. even if i disagree with them on the issues i'll tell you why they say ted is unlikable in washington. because i'm actually honoring the commitments that i made to the women and men who elected me. for example, on planned parenthood, i used the fight with the budgetary congress to stop giving funding. what the republican leader

in washington and new york deciding who the nominee was going to be, everybody would be up in arms that the establishment is trying to change the deal. but everybody -- you know, it's -- the number of people that participated last night was one tenth of the number that voted in south carolina. but everybody was in that same ballpark. everybody had to deal with the same things. everybody had the same opportunity with hispanics. if trump is on this roll and stays on this roll and by the way real clear politics has him leading in 10 out of 11 states on super tuesday. that will pretty much put the deal to bed i think. >> can't much argue with that. if that holds true. i guess we'll have to see though. of course the elections haven't taken place. >> more than one analyst says senator cruz and rubio should gang up on trump and just go and attack him and attack him. would that work? >> it may be too late for that to work. but early on there seemed to be a decision all of these second tier candidates would attack each other in the belief donald trump would fade out of the weight of his own

senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is following their campaigns. good morning. >> reporter: victor, the nevada caucuses are upon up and the sanders campaign really hopes that this is a chance to show that he can appeal to a diverse electorate. only a week or so ago when he came out of new hampshire the senator's team was not so successful how they could be in nevada. they flew in 200 staffers, people from across the country and they are fighting to a draw here now. it is all about turn out. that's what bernie sanders was saying as he campaigned across the state on friday. >> the eyes of america and the eyes of much of the world, by the way, are going to focus on nevada. and the issue is not just who wins the democratic nomination, the issue is whether nevada will play a leading role in moving this country toward a political revolution which transforms this country. whether the people of nevada will say, enough is enough. that we need a government that represents all of us not just the 1%. >> of course, bernie sanders is not casting this is the end but the beginning of his l

the funeral for a supreme court justice. that, of course, being saturday in washington, d.c. cruz knew justice scalia very well. he said he was very influential in his life. he was a former supreme court law clerk. but interesting this morning the cruz campaign said he was not going to attend the funeral himself saturday even after criticizing president obama for not attending. it was too difficult with his campaign schedule, saturday being the primary here. and the republicans here in south carolina. late today we got word from the cruz campaign that it is still a big unknown. they are looking at the schedule potentially seeing if it will work but no final decision is made whether cruz will attend that funeral on saturday. >> sunlen, thank you. back with gloria borger, katon dawson and the former communications director for senator cruz. katon, we've seen a lot of stuff in south carolina. where does this photoshopped image rank? >> out of 500 like the 426th worst one. >> at least you can be -- >> clever? >> better at it. what it did do is at least they had a conversation. the cruz tea

is george washington's aunt. within a few days i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. this is my cousin george. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com >>> welcome back. breaking news right now. students at arkansas state university are in a lockdown after reports of two men with guns on the campus. the campus is located at jon jonesboro, arkansas, a campus of about 20,000 students. the school is telling students to get to safe places. no shots have been fired and they have not located any suspects. joining me on the phone is law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. while everyone is being asked to stay in a safe place while that's happening, give us an idea of what you think campus security trying to find the gunmen and secure the campus. >> i think, fredricka, finding the gunmen is priority number one because it may not be a truthful report, it could be a hoax, it could be someone spotting plain-cloths police officers. we don't know if there are two armed men on this campus. so that's a problem. secondly, i wonder w

radical. for more, go to cnn.com and read my "washington post" column it week. let's get started. >>> let's get right to the big stories from around the world with tom freedman of t"the new york times". tom, welcome. >> good to be with you, fareed. >> let me ask you first. the president is being hammered on the campaign trail by some republicans. is it a good idea or naive? >> it's a great idea. go down there, e engage with the people, e show them the best of america, our economic model, political openness. whoever out there in your audience is afraid of cuba, have them raise their hand. i'm not afraid of cuba. it's well past time that we ended our isolation of cuba. it's lab tested. the more we engage them, the more we'll enhance their own move to a political system. it's a great idea. >> more complicated is syria. is there any path out there? >> i have been thinking about this issue. i've been quite weary to get involved in syria over the last couple years because i just didn't see a path going forward. and aye certainly been deeply concerned about the humanitarian dimension of

ground elsewhere in washington where scalia's vacant seat is ground zero in what is a major political battle. the president won't give an inch saying the senate's duties are ironclad. senator john mccain weighed in. >> i believe that we should wait until after the next election and let the american people pick the next president. then we should consider who the next president of the united states nominates. >> we are outfront with president obama who is traveling in california tonight. >> reporter: the white house today now leveling its own blows at republicans in the deep political standoff that started only hours after justice antonin scalia's death. >> this is a republican congress that has a lot of practice saying no. this is not the first time that republicans have come out with a lot of bluster. >> reporter: president obama vows to fill that supreme court seat by constitutional duty. >> there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. these are responsibilities that i take seriousl

that pbs news hour debate live tonight right here on cnn. senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joins me now from the debate site in wimilwaukee. jeff, i don't know if it's accurate to call hillary clinton the front-runner anymore. will we see her behaving this evening more as an underdog? >> reporter: jake, an underdog might be a bit of a stretch but she's a wounded front-runner for sure. the clinton campaign tonight is trying to draw more distinctions as they have been trying to with bernie sanders but there's no question she has far more to lose. a showdown in milwaukee. >> you are the reason we are here. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders on the same stage tonight. their first face-to-face meeting since tables turned in the democratic primary fight. >> i want to begin by congratulating senator sanders on his victory tonight. >> reporter: sanders suddenly in the driver's seat after a commanding win in new hampshire. >> thank you, new hampshire. now it's on to nevada, south carolina and beyond. >> reporter: but clinton is well positioned for a long battle ahead, w

. washington is corrupt. an area where ted cruz and bernie sanders have overlap? >> all of these candidate will say there's corruption in washington and the government's too big. especially in a republican primary. all whining the government's too big but who's willing to do something about it? that's senator ted cruz, and donald trump underlined they hate him in washington, d.c. because he will stand up to the washington cartel. what the campaign's about. a conservative candidate we can send to washington, d.c. for the first time in 208 years. >> -- 28 years. >> and you lost to him in the crime marry, primary? >> i like chris, done great things for the government of new jersey but doesn't have the track record i think are critical to this election and the future of the country. goes back not to that he's not the best candidate but that the ted cruz record on supporting the constitution of the united states and his background to doing this consistently is more important than ever before. >> mayor, thank you for your tinchts thanks for having me. >> nice to have you here. crunchti

supreme court as well as the gift of friendship he bestowed on so many people in washington, d.c. and beyond. let's bring in joan. joan, one of the things father beck was talking about, how difficult this must have been for justice scalia's son, father paul scalia, to have presided over as celebrant and the homily. tell us about that. >> the son certainly rose to the occasion, didn't he. i was struck by he has a resemblance to him a bit. i know justice scalia's eldest son gene the best. and he has a little dark italian in him. there is something about the face of father paul as he was standing up there, very much recalled the justice. i thought his approach recalled the justice a bit, too, was obviously laced with humor, but wasn't going to let anyone off the hook, including his father when he referred to the fact that he was always practicing his catholicism, practicing to get better. in death he urged congregants to pray for his father at this moment. i thought that was quite striking. i thought his measured tones were like justice scalia when he was at his most solemn. we talk so m

washington, the march from selma to montgomery and directed the voter education project for six years. but i met hillary clinton. >> he says he met hillary clinton. he never saw bernie sanders. as we all know, he marched with dr. king, vanessa, do you think that will be damaging to senator sanders at all? >> potentially for those who were considering him or thinking about him. quite honestly, as was mentioned earlier, what's really important in this race is not to kind of look to even the leaders to say how we're going to vote, but it's for these leaders to actually -- the candidates to actually address the issues that are of most importance to the voters, right, especially to black women -- >> what are you hearing from your "essence" readers? >> they want to hear about affordable health case living wage, college affordable. our younger audience 18 to 34 wants to hear about criminal justice reform, they want to hear about public education reform. those are the issues that are critical importance to our audience and the candidates that actually speak to those things that affect our eve

deals. 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 of new hampshire

washington, 8:00 p.m. in damascus, syria, wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we're keeping an eye on two major developing stories right now. first the fallout from the surprise passing of the u.s. supreme court justice antonin scalia, and the battle between the white house and republican-controlled senate over replacements. former president george w. bush makes a much-anticipated return. he'll hit the campaign trail in south carolina to support his brother, jeb bush, who spent a good part of the weekend defending the family name. >>> but we start on the steps of the u.s. supreme court where the flags are now at half staff in honor of the dean of the current line-up of justices. 30-year veteran antonin scalia passed away over the weekend. our correspondent joey johns is at the court for us, joe, what do we know about memorial plans? >> reporter: frankly i've talked to them just a little while ago, still no word on what is going to happen here at the court or elsewhere. awaiting for word. he does have a large family, nine children. the scali

blitzer. it's 10:00 a.m. in san francisco, 1:00 p.m. 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 sanders, they're also on the campaign trail in new hampshire today. we're also monitoring the events taking place specifically this hour. bernie sanders' rally set to begin any minute now in exeter, new hampshire, and hillary clinton is wrapping up a canvas launch in manchester. looking at live pictures there. we're watching all of this unfold. meanwhile, a new poll out today shows bernie sanders holding to a wide lead over hillary clinton in new hampshire. in the cnn-wmur poll of lik

biggest problem right now in washington? well, it's clearly the dysfunction in washington, the fact that they don't talk, they don't work together. very rarely does anything get done. the one person who has the independence and can be the change agent to actually get washington working again, it was very clear to me that that was donald trump. >> jeff, an endorsement like that actually moving the needle for him at all in new hampshire at this point? >> no, i don't believe so. i listened to senator smith, whom i met back in the reagan days and have enormous respect for. i'm sure he's going to disagree, but i just think that when you are involved, i mean, he was the -- scott brown was the nominee for the united states senate the last time around, surely he's got some folks in new hampshire that like him. so, yes, i would think. but the more important thing is, like president reagan, who brought in conservatives and moderates together in the party, donald trump, when you've got sarah palin on the one hand and scott brown on the other and both for donald trump, that says something about

congressman in washington or senator or lekted official, 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 insurg

washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. just four days away and the gloves are on? well, they are at least for donald trump. "the lead" live from new hampshire starts right now. all the candidates pulling out their two-minute offense this super bowl weekend. jeb bush even calling on his mom to march him into the end zone as a kinder, gentler donald trump looks to turn his perceived lead into a win, unlike what happened in iowa. >>> dead locked, a brand new poll showing bernie sanders in a virtual tie with hillary clinton nationally after the angriest night of the democratic campaign yet. >>> plus, robo calls from skinheads. the white nationalist group urging americans to vote for one particular presidential candidate. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper live from beautiful hanover, new hampshire, home of dartmouth college. in addition to alumni such as kir stin jill brand, rock feller and daniel webster, even with senator blutarski in the presidential race it would be hard to imagine it any more bizarre or unpredictable. a mad dash for vote

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 just hang it up in new hampshire. she made that point. they do ne

, send you to washington. the lead with jake tapper starts now. >>> thanks, brooke. our long national nightmare is over. leo finally has his oscar. the lead starts now. >>> donald trump blaming his earpiece for refusal to condemn the klan, david duke, and white supremacist groups. they interrupt a trump rally. >>> the biggest day in the campaign, republican officials in washington in desperation mode trying to save the party as they know it. what will it mean to be a republican if super tuesday becomes trump tuesday? >>> plus. >> i made the worst mistake of my life. >> first on cnn, an american college student detained in north korea sobbing as he pleas for mercy. does he look like a spy working for the cia? pyongyang thinks so. >>> welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. everything is on the line for republicans tomorrow, super tuesday. if the polls are to be believed, this time wednesday we will be talking about donald trump, the presumptive republican presidential nominee. instead of party leaders getting comfortable with the idea, they're in full panic mode because of an i

way i wanted to into our politics in washington. and people ask me why i've devoted so much time to this topic. i tell them it's not just because mime' president and the polarization and the gridlock are frustrating to me. the fact s we've gotten a heck of a lot done these past seven years, despite the gridlock. we saved the economy from a depression. we brought back an auto industry from the brink of collapse. we helped our businesses create $14 million new jobs over the past six years. we cut the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.9%. we covered nearly 18 million more americans with health insurance. we ignited the clean energy revolution. we got bin laden. we brought the vast majority of our troops home to their families. [ applause ] our -- we got a lot done. we're still getting a lot done. and our political system helped make these things possible. and the list could go on. there's no doubt america's better off today than when i took office. [ applause ] so -- so -- so i -- i didn't want this to be a state of the union speech where we had the standing up and the sitting down. come

will block anyone nominated by president obama replace antonin scalia. for the "washington post" op on ed, he wrote, if my republicans colleagues proceed down this path this act alone will define their time in the majority. thinking otherwise is fantasy. reid and mitch mcconnell have been trading jabs. party lines have been drawn. >> republicans are talking about the republican playbook. this is the playbook we should follow, the constitution of the united states. >> president obama has gotten two activists judges on the court. capable, intelligent justices but share deeply his philosophy. >> reid and other democrats are hoping the white house pick would be someone they would ordinarily support. to point out it is politically motivated because it is an election year. >> there's no exemptions for when a vacancy could tip the balance of the court. >> the process is under under way as the vacancy intensifies the race. ted cruz, a member of the senate judicial committee, amplifying what is at stake with a new ad. >> life, marriage, religious liberty. the second amendment. we're just one

washington cartel has its favorite candidates. >> that was ted cruz. you have chris christie taking fresh swipes at rubio a short time ago in new hampshire. >> when he gets in front of folks at houn town hall meetings he does a drop by. that's like a drive by town hall, man. 45 minutes. you know, marco rubio is the master of the drive by town hall. give the canned speech i've been giving for six years. look at it. it's the same speech he gave when he announced for the senate, same speech as when he nominated mitt romney. the same speech he gave when he announced running for the president. we are he a just one day away from groundhog day but every day is groundhog day in the rubio campaign. >> this as the bush campaign has a full page add featuring a letter from former and current speakers floor. the add reads in part, take it from the people who know marco and jeb best. governor bush is the leader we need to make america safer, stronger and freer. but on the flip side, a number of bush supporters may be reevaluating. let me bring back daniel knew howser with the national journal. da

on washington. i remember watching that on television when i was in i believe the fifth grade. that's how long bernie's commitment to civil rights has been and to social justice. >> so you were young. he was a smidge older. point being, this has been a thread through his lose. for you, mark lamont hill, especially when you look at the numbers aamerican african-american voters in south carolina, why do you think he's not polling higher? >> i think there are a few reasons. the clintons have a very strong connection to african-american communities. despite the fact that bill clinton undermined black prosperity during the '90s. many black people still consider him the original first black president. because of that, they feel connected to the clintons as a proxy. one where we can be somewhat critical of bernie sanders. early on, bernie sanders responded to calls from black lives matter movement by saying, hey, i marched with king. or hey, my economic justice program will lead to racial justice. in a sense, his critique felt dismissive and a little condescending to people. >> you don't thi

washington for us. evan, as you find out more, please bring them to us. i do want to go back to our jeffrey toobin, cnn senior legal analyst and expert on the supreme court. let's talk about his relationship with the other justice tons court. specifically i'm interested in his relationship with ruth bader ginsberg. obviously opponent to the left. jeffrey, toobin, are you with me? >> i'm sorry. >> i'm just very interested ins as we look at these imams of the two of them, justice ginsberg and antonin scalia sitting down for a conversation on stage, i'm interested in justice scalia's relationship with the other relationships on the court and ruth bader ginsberg, his ideological opponent on the left. >> they were friends for many years. they had a lot in common. other than their politic which had nothing in common. they were both new yorkers. justice scalia from queens. ruth gens ginsberg is from brooklyn. they were both on the d.c. circuit before they were on the supreme court together. they spent new year's eve together all the time. through many, many years. justice ginberg's late husband, m

washington about can you win a general election? let's talk about demographics for a second. if the next republican nominee wins the same share of the white vote that marco rubio did in 2012, that was 59%, that nominee would need to win 30% of the non-white vote. now, with all due respect, sir, a lot of republican leaders in d.c. struggle to envision you accomplishing this, especially given the fact that there are white supremacist groups and individuals like that who support you, some of whom you've even retweeted. >> well, is that i know nothing about. i don't know retweeting up. retweet somebody and they turn out to be white supremacists. i know nothing about the groups that support me. s i will tell you, as a candidate i'll bring over a lot of democrats, bring over a lot of independents. nobody else will. in all fairness, other candidates will never bring over independents. we're talking about the reagan democrats. we'll bring over tremendous numbers. we'll bring over youth. bernie's not going to make it, in my opinion. i never thought he would. hillary won't make it. frankly f she g

. >> washington politicians and lobbyists are rushing to crown marco rubio, but national polls so john kasich is the one who beats hillary clinton by 11 points, not marco rubio. >> as for trump, he has other problems, namely the gop's last nominee, mitt romney, who's calling on the real estate tycoon to release his tax returns. >> i think there's a bombshell in there is because every time he's asked about his taxes, he dodges and delays. >> trump, who tweeted out a pic of what his tax returns look like accused romney of doing rubio's dirty work. adding i'm going to do what mitt romney was totally unable to do, win. romney fired back saying me thinks the donald protests too much. he has tangled with romney, to john mccaino george w. bush. >> they lied. they said there were weapons of mass destruction. there were none. >> trump says the matter will be settled in time, telling cnn he will release those tax returns. >> i get audited every year, which i think is unfair. i go through large audits, but we'll make a determination over the next couple of months. >> now, sources close to romney

, then it's still -- >> the people who start this spin, they need to get out of washington more. last week it was rubio is going to be the guy. then the debate and he collapsed. the establishment thought this is where we start the three-way race between cruz, trump and rubio. then rubio had the debate he'd like to forget. and there's another one saturday night which could be life or death for rubio. donald trump got what he wants. high can win again with somewhere in the 30s. this is a great line from a republican. i can't use his name but he said this today. how is this going to sort itself out? he said to hell if i know n then, if you watch a high-speed five-car collision as it happens, it's hard to know who walks away injury free and who dies and who gets sent to the hospital. >> if you talk about it last night, you could have a situation where it's trump and cruz and trump becomes the establishment candidate because of so many establishments disliking cruz. >> that's right. he's on the air down there. just at that event. seems like a lot of people were there. you can see from the

. cnn chief washington correspondent joe johns has more on the life and legacy of justice scalia. >> i antonin scalia do solemnly swear. >> the first italian-american to sit on the nation's highest court, justice antonin scalia was a conservative in thought, but not in personality. >> justice scalia has an ir repressably pugnacious personality. even in his early years at the court that came out both at oral argument where he was the most aggressive questioner and behind the scenes where the memos that he wrote had a real galvanizing effect among the jurists. >> he was able to light up or ignite a room with his often barack demeanor and we could sense of humor. grounded in american law and its constitutional traditions. >> feisty. he can be belligerent. he's obviously very candid. completely not pc. pides himself in being not pc on the bench and in court. >> i'm an italian from queens. this is the top of the hill. >> a sharp mind combined with a sha sharp pen allowed scalia to make his point. >> he's very good, especially with audiences that aren't predisposed to like him. i think he's

that many voters have that there's this canyon between their community and washington. and there's a lot of frustration about the idea that washington is not listening to people and their every dave concerns. donald trump's candidacy for many of these voters has become a vehicle for those frustrations. and he has talked about it, whether it's been about the economy, whether it's been about immigration, whether it's national security. he has not offered real substantive positions, but instead he has offered clarity. he has defined what he thinks is the wrong approach by washington and offered really simple recommend dips. >> a lot of people in the beginning didn't believe he could it it, that he to have more substance, that the people in the republican party misjudged the anger of the people. >> and they really shouldn't have. >> absolutely. >> go ahead, kellyanne. >> they really shouldn't have because the three people who are the front-runners, marco rubio in 2010, ted cruz in 2012 and donald trump in 2015, what do they all have in common? they were the outsiders challenging the esta

reported by our colleague jamie gingel. i'm joined by evan perez, he's with me here in washington and cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey tubin. he's in new york. evan, if i could begin with you, what further details do we know about where the funeral may take place and how things proceed from here? >> well, there's still a lot of planning taking place right now, jim. we don't know exactly which church. we know the son is a priest in northern virginia, and we know he attended church here in d.c. >> and he's a catholic. >> he's a catholic obviously. we don't know whether perhaps they might use the national cathedral which would be something for a sitting supreme court justice would befit his position. >> former presidents and others have had their funerals there. >> it is possible because you can have catholic ceremonies or catholic mass at the national cathedral. that is a possibility. we don't know whether that is something the family is going to, is going to ask for. >> jeffrey, just in terms of history, when is the last time, if ever, that a supreme court justice pl justice layed in s

people. >> 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

out there in the "wall street journal" and the "washington post" and in corporate america, wherever you may be, let me tell you straight up, yes, i believe that health care is a right, not a privilege! [ cheers and applause ] and that is why i believe in a medicare for all single payer program which will not only guarantee health care to all, it will not only end the pharmaceutical ripoff of the american people but it will save the middle class family, the average middle-class family thousands of dollars a year in health care costs. [ applause ] let me conclude by saying what no other candidate for president will tell you. and that is that no president, not bernie sanders, not anybody else, will be able to bring about the changes that the working families and the middle class of this country, that our children, that the seniors, our seniors deserve. no one president can do it because the powers that be, wall street with their endless supply of money, corporate america, the large campaign donors are so powerful that no president can do what has to be done alone. and that is why -- an

new york. thank you so much for being with me. 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 first in t

senior washington correspondent joe johns is live in chicago, illinois, where he's covering hillary clinton. joe, is the clinton team getting worried about nevada? >> reporter: i think they have been focusing on nevada in a new way since the weekend for sure, jake. look, they say they think it's going to be tight and down to the wire, but they do point to their organization as a thing at the end of the day that they think will put them over the top. tonight a democratic dead heat in nevada. >> when we stand together, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. >> reporter: bernie sanders and hillary clinton suddenly locked in a close battle with just three days to go until saturday's caucuses. >> thank you, new hampshire! >> reporter: sanders is trying to build on his momentum following a big win in last week's new hampshire primary. >> everything in my political gut tells me that we have the momentum here in this state. that if people come out in large numbers on caucus day, we're going to win here in nevada. >> reporter: underneath the nevada numbers, some advantages for clinton.

president. george w. bush said he doesn't really miss washington and the white house after eight years and then a chant began. we miss you. we miss you, mr. president. the most noteworthy time was him slamming donald trump without once mentioning his name. >> thank you, gary. this is only the latest skirmish in a long running effort to put jeb bush in a corner using his brother's stance on iraq and 9/11. no one has become better at twisting this particular night than donald trump who is finishing up a rally in greenville. take a look at this moment from saturday night. >> i could care less about the insults that's donald trump gives to me. it's blood sport for him. he enjoys it. i'm glad he's happy about it. but i have -- >> i am sick and tired of him going after my family. my dad is the greatest man alive in my mind. and while -- while donald trump was building a reality tv show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe. and i'm proud of what he did. he's had the gall to go after -- >> the world trade center came down in your brother's reign. remember that. >> let me f

. chief washington correspondent joe johns first with a look back at the justice's life and legacy. >> reporter: the first italian-american to sit on the nation's highest court. >> justice scalia has a pugnatious personality and in his early days of court that came out where he was the most aggressive questioner and the memos that were called nino grams inside the court had a galvanized effect on the justices. >> reporter: he was able to light up or ignite a room with his often brash demeanor and wicked sense of humor. grounded, say many colleagues, in a profound respect for america's law and constitution. >> feisty. he's very candid about how he feels about things. loves to call it as he sees it. completely not pc. in fact, prides himself in not being pc on the bench in court. >> italian from queens. this is the top of the hill. >> reporter: a sharp mind combined with a sharpen allowed scalia to make his point both to the pleasure and disappointment of the colleagues and public. >> he's very good, especially with audiences that are not predisposed to liking him. he's disarming and

, tennessee, he is going to do well. here in washington, just talk to go some of the republican establishment types who might have to do business with donald trump, they are starting to come to the realization they have to convince us with donald trump. >>> yeah. and does that -- we have read all the punditry, david, does that panic then in or do they sort of surrender to this? >> the freakout factor within the party establishment is quite high. and it's real. and within the republican party, it's kind of panic mode. they are trying to move out of this momentum narrative to actually rolling up some delegates. is there a path for marco rubio? the big concern this morning is john kasich. if john kasich stays in the race, does that hurt rubio? does it make it more difficult for him if not completely derail him. he has to show he can win and not just theoretical. getting as much establishment and donor support behind rubio as possible and find not only just a path toward the nomination, but how does he take on donald trump? how does he disqualify trump? that has to be done soon if the party gets

clinton. our senior washington correspondent, joe johns, is following the democrats. joe, can sanders slow clinton's momentum ahead of super tuesday? >> reporter: wolf, i'm at u-mass amherst waiting for bernie sanders to make his appearance. his campaign is showing it's got a lot of life left in it after that loss in nevada. he's ramped up the rhetoric today, added multiple stops to his campaign schedule, and he's also hitting hillary clinton for appropriating many of his ideas on the campaign trail. >> bernie, bernie, bernie. >> reporter: bernie sanders is going on offense today after his loss to hillary clinton in nevada. >> what the american people have got to determine is which candidate, whose life work is about standing up to the billionaire class, standing up to wall street, standing up to corporate interests and who does not. >> reporter: and tweeting about the lack of transcripts for clinton's paid speeches. it's been 17 days, 6 hours and 32 minutes since @hillary clinton said she would look into releasing her paid speeches to wall street. he spent the weekend in south caroli

problems in washington. all they do is have walls. >> i don't question people's christianity. i think that's a relationship they have with their lord and savior themselves. i don't think it's appropriate to question donald trump's faith. he knows what his faith is. and if he has a relationship with the lord, fantastic. if he doesn't, it's none of my business. >> bush taking an apparent dig at trump later, while listing the good things about being a self-proclaimed incident vert. >> listening allows you to learn. rather than being a big blow hard and talking all the time. what are you going to learn when you're talking? nothing. >> jeb gushed about his family. >> it's a blast being with george because i love him dearly. i realized early on if i could be half the man my dad was that would be a pretty good thing. >> it's really where i found the lord. life is so rocky, so fragile. we have to build our homes, our lives on solid ground not on sand. and i have found that even though the pain still comes, there's where i have to go. >> reporter: so kasich's compassionate side on display. if

-- >> it ain't nuanced. 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 t

murder of two college students in washington state. >> what the police did not know is there is not one strangler but two. today in a bellingham, washington, courtroom, kenneth bianchi, in the hope of avoiding a death sentence, confessed to participation in the los angeles hillside stranglings and accused his cousin angelo buono of being his accomplice. >> kenneth bianchi, he was motivated because he was trying to show his older cousin, who he revered, that he was tough. for angelo buono, he enjoyed the fact that he had his younger cousin listening to him. we see this time and time again. pairs of killers who urge each other on, and together they are extremely vicious and violent. >> is there any doubt this is a body? >> no doubt. there's a skull and jaw bone and everything. >> when did you first get word there might be some bodies buried here? >> this morning. >> had you had any indication before? >> the man behind the killings was dean coral. 33 years old. or was. he was shot and killed wednesday evening by wayne henley, 17 years old. henley was one of two teenagers who lured youn

has got a track record of fighting against washington, going down to the senate floor, telling the truth about what's going on, even among republican senators. >> so how do you explain -- >> including our leadership, when they are wrong. pardon me? >> how do you explain the photo shopped flyer? >> you know, that's just graphics. it's making a visual point. it's not a substantive point. substance is what's your plan to get the economy going again? what is your record of voteding and leading in washington to defeat the establishment. >> so if a news organization put a picture -- >> -- in the history of the world has gone to iowa and told the good people of iowa that big corn and ethanol has to go. >> if a news organization superimposed your head on somebody else's body shaking president obama's hand you'd have no problem with that as long as you thought people knew it was some sort of dramatic representation? >> my first concern is always -- my first concern is always going to be, is what they are saying there correct or not. and the substance of what we've been saying is absolutely

>>> 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 alternative, shall we say, to donald trump. what's his f

security officials and a u.s. official here in washington. the details. are very sketchy. they are in the process of being turned over the americans. contractors said to be two iraqi americans, one egyptian american kidnapped last month at a building in southern baghdad. a neighborhood that was known to be partly controlled, at least at that time, by some iranian backed shia militias that moved around in that neighborhood. there was a lot of concerned that they were iranny backed shia militias. not sure what got them free, but they are, and it goes to the point that iraqi security forces were able to locate them, were able somehow to get them out of there. they now, being turned over to american authorities, and we will see what the next steps there, whether they return state side, stay in iraq, not just clear at this point. this situation, this story, still unfolding. >> good news for the contractors. good news for their families as well. barbara, thank you for bringing us the news. >> in just a few hours, president obama holds a news conference. this is his first chance to speak in

, only here on cnn. >>> in the meantime, i'm going to call on cnn senior washington correspondent, joe johns. he's in chicago. and joining us from new york is cnn political analyst, the editor in chief of the daily beast, john after la. joe, next contest for them is nevada on saturday. those are caucuses, our latest polls there showing it's really neck and neck. how is hillary trying to put some space between her now and bernie sanders? >> i think you can say that they have really picked up the tempo. and just about every other hour or so, we're hearing something else out of the hillary clinton campaign, telling us about what's going on in the ground to try to sway voters. not just in nevada, but also in south carolina, which is very important. a good example of that, just a few minutes ago, we got a dispatch from the hillary clinton campaign, pointing out that they have the endorsement the now of billy murphy, a very prominent civil rights attorney, who is representing individuals in the flint water crisis, as well as the family of the individual in baltimore, who was killed in police

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 father was a bartender and my mother was a maid. the reason they had a job is because free enterprise works. because someone who had access to money risked that money to open up a hotel and hire them. free enterprise works because it is the only economic model in the world where you can make poor people richer, and you don't have to make rich people poorer. we are going to save free enterprise. we're going to fix our tax code. i have a plan out there to do that we are going to roll back these crazy regulations that come out of the federal government. we are going to save social security and medic