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the man's just not a good public servant and i'm sorry about that. >> congressman keith ellison, thank you so much for your time. i greatly appreciate it. thanks a lot. >> thank you. >> of course. >>> coming up, a flashpoint from last night but how are voters defining progressive versus liberal when it comes to hillary clinton and bernie sanders? well, our first team says the differences are stark as the party appears more divided than at any point during the obama era. let us know tonight when you watch it all play out during the democratic debate at 9:00 eastern time only on msnbc. we'll be right back. check this out, bro. what's that, broheim? i switched to geico and got more. more savings on car insurance? yeah bro-fessor, and more. like renters insurance. more ways to save. nice, bro-tato chip. that's not all, bro-tein shake. geico has motorcycle and rv insurance, too. oh, that's a lot more. oh yeah, i'm all about more, teddy brosevelt. geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. staying in rhythm... it's how i try to live... how i stay active. so i need nutrition... that wo

the political action committee of the congressional black caucus endorsed hillary clinton, keith ellison and others endorsed bernie sanders. secretary clinton and her husband the former president, are the fast friends of black america. the daughter of eric garner who died during a confrontation with the nypd, endorsed sanders. clinton and sanders met in a debate last night in milwaukee. sanders related the issue with black america as persistent gaps. >> if you have african american poverty rates of 35%. when you have youth unemployment at 51%, when you have unbelievable rates of incarceration, which by the way, leaves the children back home without a dad or even a mother, clearly, we are looking at institutional racism. we are looking at an economy in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. and sadly in america today, this our economy, a whole lot of those poor people are african american. >> while hillary clinton noted that the debate venue was one of america's most racially divided cities. she name checked the local man killed by police and while she largely agreed with sand

and one of the members of the congressional black caucus, commerce member keith ellison, said or tweeted the congressional black caucus has not endorsed in presidential polls the separate cbc pac endorsed without input, including from me. yet a follow-up tweet saying -- can you responded that? >> absolutely. me apologize to the professor, i think i referred to him as "lee." the congressional black caucus this not ever endorse in any race at anytime because it is a composite group that can conclude and does include republicans as well as democrats. it is a nonpolitical entity that just focuses up on legislation. the political wing of the congressional black caucus is a congressional black caucus political action committee. it is the only group of the congressional black caucus that c4 and it doesn't engage in political actions. it has a board. the board considers as part of its consideration where the are in the political black caucus. for example, in this race, did not only -- not only did we not know and have a prior long-standing working relationship and partnership with senator clinto

keith ellison the cochairman of the u.s. house we have just great surrogates out there. we are going to speaking inties in the next week and i think you're going to see a lot of momentum for us. >> we have just a minute left, i ur path when you look at going forward to states after south carolina, where should those who support you be looking for you >> well, you know, i think sed a lot of people in iowa. john, as you may recall, we started off 40 or 50 pointsinly surprised people in new hampshire. and i think we're going to continue to surprise people. right now speaking to you from denver, colorado. last night we had a to 0,000 people out at that rally i think we're going to do very well here in colorado. i think we're going to do well in minnesota. to see us doing far better across the board. >> dickerson: all right, senator hold it right there. from you in a moment. we'll take this quick break. your path to retirement... may not always be clear. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. investors have relied approach to find long term value. so

. >> congressman keith ellison is co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus. >> the public sector and the private sector must be working together in order for the market to work properly. >> wouldn't it be nice if the wise men and women in washington could make the market work properly and create jobs? >> john, nobody can doubt that we have schools that are crumbling, that our parks need more attention. my own city of minneapolis, we saw a bridge fall into the mississippi river, man. >> but government doesn't have money of its own. it has to take money from the private sector to give too those pro >> you >> you have to take the money from somewhere. >> congressman illinoellisoelli claims it can create 2.2 million >> if >> if they can create 2 million jobs, why 5 million, 10 million? why are you soo cheap? spendz more. >> in needs to be balance. >> how do you know 2.2 million is the right balance of taking money from the private sector. >> no one ever does know the exactly right answer. >> i think this guy has the right answer. that's mark cuban, owner of the nba champion dallas ma

i sat down with democratic congressman keith ellison. i began by asking whether the clinton campaign was in good shape for the contest to come or do they adjust their strategy after struggling to beat sanders? >> i think she's doing fine. i think bernie had a good night. hillary had a better one. that's what she needed to do. she did what she needed to do which was win iowa. what her stock and trade is she's experienced. she's done this before. she's the person who is most prepared to be president. that's what she needs to keep doing. i wouldn't change a lot. >> congressman, you've campaigned a bit with bernie sanders. i think last night a victory, an outright victory would have shocked the political world. i think had he lost by five or seven points everyone would have said that was nice. it was fun while it lasted. where is the sanders campaign after last night's result? >> bernie is in this. he's excited. his base is excited. his campaign is excited. this thing is within our grasp. we're now turning to new hampshire. i think the excit

representative keith ellison. cochair of the house progressive caucus. you all know danny glover. we have a young danny glover on our campaign. the actor has spent his entire career fighting for social justice. how about harry belafonte? again, an example of someone who is not just an extraordinary singer and actor but he has been involved in the fight for peace and racial and social justice his whole life. anyone here here the ad that spike lee did for us. he is one of the great, producers in america. i also want to thank representative joe neal for his support as well. let me make this brief. our country today faces very serious problems. that is the truth. does everyone agree? i think and the reason i am running for president is that i believe that it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics and the same old, same old. ok? when we live in a country which is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but when african american youth unemployment of high school kids it is 51%. 51%. an african-american child poverty in this country, 35%. when

and you now join the ranks of other prominent african-americans, keith ellison and cornel west. ben jealous, thank you so much. throwing your support behind bernie sanders. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> bernie sanders will debate hillary clinton on thursday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern and you can see it live right here on cnn. and we'll be right back from manchester. rootmetrics, in the nation's largest independent study, tested wireless performance across the country. verizon, won big with one hundred fifty three state wins. a t and t got thirty-eight, sprint got two, and t mobile got, zero. verizon also won first in the us for data, call speed, and reliability. a t and t got, text. stuck on an average network? join verizon and we'll cover your costs to switch. ♪ light piano today i saw a giant. it had no arms, but it welcomed me. (crow cawing) it had no heart, but it was alive. (train wheels on tracks) it had no mouth, but it spoke to me. it said, "rocky mountaineer: all aboard amazing". >>>. >>> welcome back to manchester. the new hampshire debate is expecting record turn

he has the endorsement of congressman keith ellison. you can see this crowd behind me. it is regular democrats who are fed up at the establishment. they're tired of the status quo. and they really are resonating with his call for a new type of politics. we definitely see a lot of young supporters out here. that is the hallmark of his crowd. it's also not a very diverse crowd as we've seen from exit polls in south carolina and other states he has stronger support from white supporters and that's what this crowd largely looks like tonight here in rochester, minnesota. he definitely is appealing to the anger that exists in this electorate on the democratic side of the race as well. of course it is driving the republican side of this race with trump. but bernie sanders is calling for that revolution, asking people to believe again, to believe in something. so he's going to take a little bit of inspiration from barack obama in 2008 and ask these voters to belief agaive again. you can hear the person behind me now. she's already taken a shot at hillary clinton. this is one th

i want to recognize john sarbannes, who is here as well as congressmen keith ellison, from the great state of minnesota and congressman andre carson from the great state of indiana. [applause] this mosque like many in our country is an all-american story. you've been part of this city for half a century. you serve thousands of families. some who have been here for decades as well as immigrants who come to this country and work to become proud citizens. now a lot of americans have never visited a mosque. to the folks watching today who haven't, think of your own church or synagogue or temple, and a mosque like this will be very familiar. this is where families come to worship to express their love for god and each other. there is a school where teachers open young minds. kids play baseball, football, basketball, boys and girls, i hear they're pretty good. [ laughing ] cub scouts, girl scouts, they meet, you build bridging of understanding with other faith communities, christians and jews. there's a help point of those who meet for their faith. as voters you come here to meet candidate

congressman keith ellison from the great state of minnesota and congressman andre carson from the great state of indiana. this mosque, like so many in our country is an all american story. you've been part of this city for nearly half a century. you serve thousands of families. some who have lived here for decades as well as immigrants from many countries who work to become proud american citizens. now, a lot of americans have never visited a mosque. some folks watching today who haven't, think of your own church or synagogue or temple, and a mosque like this will be very familiar. this is where families come to worship and express their love for god and for each other. there's a school where teachers open wrung minds, kids play baseball and football and basketball, boys and girls. i hear they're pretty good. cub scouts, girl scouts, meet and recite the pledge of allegiance here. with interfaith dialogues, you build bridges of understanding with other faith communities, christians and jews. there's a health clinic that serves the needy regardless of their faith. members of this communit

ellison, the cochair of the house progressive caucus of african-americans, a congressman, you know, all have come to support bernie sanders' s campaign, because of the lyrical revolution that he is calling for is one that will uplift all people of all races in this country. reid: you are under way to get ready for another debate, which is on the 11th, a couple days away. jeff weaver, thank you very much for your time, we appreciate it, and congratulations as you move forward. that is the story here from concord high school gymnasium which will be back to a gymnasium here in a couple of hours. i am reid lamberty, thank you. maria: with basketball hoops that bernie sanders, right after he was declared the winner, the projected winner, decided to play some hoops with his grandson. ed: perfectly natural. it really fits great. the stories tonight are all easily with trumpet sanders, but headquarters tonight, and mary, that might be story number two. mary: that is definitely going to be story number two, and they john kasich campaign has been saying quietly all along that they absolutely

ellison in the house. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me was a they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many americans to get ahead and stay ahead. that is not my agenda.

he was answering questions from a community organizing group, keith ellison, one of his few congressman lawmakers, fellow lawmakers who have endorsed him. in a heavily after can american district, minnesota coming up on march 1st, discussion on the ground that sanders could win, but he is is starting to take steps farther into these communities where he knows he has to make inn roads, and in particular, he needs to make inn roads with young african-americans. that's an area where they can do a lot of work and the crowd that sanders was speaking to today was made up largely of young people. >> okay, let's go to -- let me ask you this. john, the candidate you've been covering, the public figure, hillary clinton. she has good nights and bad nights. there is an unevenness to it. i thought she was very good last night. in the last debate, she was very good. other times i get the feeling, she doesn't want to be there. >> yeah, i think she has been struggling to find a message and last night she found it. it's surprise, surprise, bill clinton. it is i am obama's third term. a good message for

keith ellison, a minnesota congressman and sanders supporter said on twitter the endorsement was without input from cbc membership, including me. in a battle of endorsements, the sanders campaign weighed in with one of their own today, harry belafonte. >> just use your platform and your power to do good for social welfare. >> reporter: the sanders-clinton contest is playing out to a far more diverse electorate. the nevada caucuses is a state where 20% of voters are hispanic. the south carolina democratic primary is the following week. 55% of democratic voters in 2008 were african-american. sanders, who says he raised more than $6 million since new hampshire took a victory lap on "the late show with stephen colbert." >> why do you think the young lings like you? >> i think for two reasons. by definition, young people are idealistic and they look at a world with so many problems and they say why not? >> now, young voters are a challenge but raising money is also a challenge for the clinton campaign. their campaign manager sent out a note trying to shake up their donors. listen to what he s

ellison in the house. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me was a they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many americans to get ahead and stay ahead. that is not my agenda.

. >> some people in the congressional black caucus, specifically congressman keith ellison felt left out that he wasn't asked whether or not he should be part of this vote. there's also been, you know, kind of rumors around tsince th that some african-americans are going to start going over to bernie sanders now. >> well, the key thing for her is that she in any way has an erosion with african-american support. she'll have a tough time putting her coalition together. she's already lost young voters. she had a clobbering in new hampshire, totally expected to get beat as bad as she did. my sense is bernie sanders is now a serious candidate. he has to be dealt with as a serious candidate and democrats have proportional nominations all the way through here. every state he will compete in and he will start, harry belafonte endorsed him, a magical name in the civil rights movement. i don't think the black caucus is going to turn that around. >> you brought up an incredibly important point that the primaries are proportional. >> that's right. >> so there's no reason for him to go away. >> a

keith ellison and raul. put that up against hillary clinton's congressional endorsements, she's been endorsed by 39 sitting u.s. senators and 155 members of the house. but you know what, members of congress don't decide who the presidential nominee of their party is going to be. that is decided by voters. bernie sanders tonight in iowa in particular is counting on big turnout and tons of support in iowa's college towns. among them, iowa city, the home of the university of iowa, and the home for tonight of our own jacob who is at the caucus site there. jacob, i presume things are keeping up and filling up. >> filling up, showing up, relatively unbelievable thing to see, rachel. i talked to the caucus chair, carla smith, she did not expect it to be this big. the people here in line to register to vote. first time voting? first time? you guys are registered. these guys are all in line over here to vote. they're trying to separate people that have participated before from folks that are registered. are you regis

ellison, this is an opportunity for them to assert themselves as a political wing of our community and say we're not just going to go with the clintons, even though they will support the clintons in the general in is a very sophisticated community. it not just the black vote. >> so quickly this is what i want to bring up. it really breaks down along generational. young voters for the democratic presidential nominee, bernie win business quite a large margin in south carolina. when you look at the choice for democratic nominee, it is an entire li entirely different story in south carolina because hillary wins on pretty much all front. >> that's actually a larger issue that we allow two diverse states in the union to set tone on both primaries. i think that's a big mistake and problem. >> van jones? >> i agree. i think that secretary rail should learn that younger voters -- >> you have 20 seconds. >> younger voters black and white need to hear a more inspirational message from her period. >> van jones, you are picked the right weekend not to be in the east. i'll see you back here on monda

>> i was talking to keith ellison, an african-american civil rights leader and congressman who has a photograph of them together. he's going to put it out online later tonight. obviously, john lewis is a legend. the reality is he was with -- c.o.r.e. is the group that he was part of. and there were not that many, unfortunately, white men who were taking on those issues at that time. you have two legends, two icons. i don't think we should get into that. what i am very excited about is that no matter who wins between bernie and hillary, african-americans are winning this week as our issues become something that both sides now are fighting to articulate. for too long democrats ran away from black issues. now both of them are running toward black issues. that's a positive for both of them. >> donna, what do you make of this, and charles as well. bernie sanders supporters say at 20 years old he was arrested for leading efforts to desegregate housing. student housing at the university of chicago. >> anderson, i worked on the jackson campaign in 1984, and back then, charles, you probably r

ellison in the house. the co-chairman of the house progressive caucus. >> i've got to just jump in here because, honestly, senator sanders is the only person who would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. i've got to tell you that it is -- [ applause ] it's really quite amusing to me. people support me because they know me. they know my life's work. they have worked with me and many have also worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i am not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it. i don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promi

ellison in the house, cochairman of the house progressive caucus. >> look, i've got to jump in here because honestly, senator sanders is the only person who i think would characterize me a woman running to be the first woman president as exempt fiing the establishment. and i've got to tell you that it is -- it -- it is really quite -- it's really quite amusing to me. people support me because they know me, they know my life's work, they have worked with me and many have also worked with senator sanders. at the end of the day they endorse me because they know i can get things done. i am not going to make promises i can't keep. i'm not going to talk about big ideas like single payer and then not level with people how much it will cost. a respected health economist said these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. i'm not going to tell people that i will raise your incomes and not your taxes and not mean it. because i don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficu

it comes after congressman keith ellison, one of only two muslim members of congress, was on our show last fall calling for president obama to visit a mosque in the final year of his presidency. today's visit comes at a time of increased attacks against muslim-americans in mosques. some of them violent. hateful and bigoted campaign rhetoric. and calls for muslims to be banned from entering the country and polling showing a significant number of americans agree with them. obama's mosque visit today even at this late stage in his presidency served as an important reminder of the core vision of religion puerilism that represents the very best of the american tradition. >> if you're ever wondering whether you fit in here, let me say it as clear as i can as president of the united states. you fit in here. right here. you're right where you belong. you're part of america, too. you're not muslim or american. you're muslim and american. >>> tonight, the once enormous republican field is looking noticeably svelter. with five days to go until new hampshire's first in the nation primary, the gop

no matter how good your eyesight is, congressman keith ellison, if you're standing in alabama, you can't see people in chicago. strangely, lewis's comments may not help hillary clinton much either because after he slammed sanders, he said he did meet bill and hillary clinton, but that meeting now appears to have come more than 20 years after the heyday of the civil rights movement. >> the human spirit. may it never be extinguished. >> reporter: by then, bernie sanders had even recorded a musical tribute to the civil rights era. but for critics in this fierce political battle, none of that seems to matter, as they insist his vaunted record is little more than a song and dance. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> let's talk to the author of "the essential bernie sanders and his vision for america." thank you for being with us. >> a pleasure to be here, christi. >> i know you've been following sanders for quite some time, he's made civil rights obviously a large part of his platform. i want to talk about something that happened last night at a black america forum. i received a warm reception