joining us here live is tara setmayer, and maria cardona and ben ferguson, the host of the ben ferguson show. good morning. we have done a lot on the democratic race. hopefully maybe while we're talking, we will get an official delegation. let's talk about the one winner we know for sure, ben ferguson, that is ted cruz. i suppose there is one loser, he would not like me saying that, that is donald trump. >> it will be very weird moving forward to see how donald trump deals with this. it will be interesting to see where the money goes. you will see a lot of small donors continue to really pour in to ted cruz. the big question is the big checks that are going to people like jeb bush. where will they go? i think marco rubio is going to be the person getting this. i think the big take away is this, everyone was expecting that donald trump would win this. then the question of how do you stop him? are you able to stop him when he is over 40% in the national poll. the national poll doesn't matter anymore. you have three viable candidates. you may have a one with kasich in new hampshire. we don

so bernie sanders will not run out of money, maria cardona. so how will the clinton campaign pivot and take him on in new hampshire, or is the clinton campaign going to pivot? tell me, we have a town hall, hillary clinton walks on the stage and says what? >> she says that she hopes that she will earn every vote in new hampshire and she will focus on the message that she has focused on up until now which is how she is the one going to be best prepared and will fight the hardest for middle class voters. for those who have been left out. and that she is the one who has the best experience and knows how to do the job from day one. >> but that is not what she has been saying that brought it to a statistical tie -- >> but it says she has won the majority, and is still ahead by quite a large margin. will that still be the case, after tonight we'll see. but i think what i was talking about earlier, again, she is at her best when she is competing hard for this. it is better for the democratic party when there are two out there with messages that are re

tara setmayer and sally kohn along with ben ferguson and maria cardona. the iowa democratic party saying it was a close contact with robust turnout. what does that tell you about engagement in this campaign? >> it is fascinating since the republicans had a turnout vote of 125,000. this time up to 185,000 or so. people thought if there was more turnout, trump would win resoundi resoundingly. it goes back to the point that organization matters. ted cruz had 12,000 volunteers to get the cruz crew. they were organized on the ground. that matters in iowa. the fact that the donald trump campaign had virtually no organization on the ground. it is reported they did not pay for the infrastructure. volunteers did not know where to go or what to tell the supporters which precincts to go. that did not help donald trump. i think it is another part of the story here that it was ted cruz who benefitted. possibly marco rubio. ted cruz benefitted from the record turnout. >> no one can take away that trump can fill a room or stadium. that doesn't mean though that you have

here to talk about that strategy, maria cardona -- >> guerra -- >> guerra, the rnc's director of hispanic media. these little things we talk about during the break, how should i pronounce that? they give me the way i should say it. ruth guerra. explain to may what the gop has done for the hispanic elections since 2012 -- >> don, well, since 2012, yes, i can hear you, since 2012 we decided we launched our engagement program and we honestly can say we have been in the hispanic community for over two years now. the amount of volunteers that we're gathering. the amount of staff we're in the middle of hiring, we're in the middle of hiring about 200 people paid staff and a lot of these folks will be in the hispanic communities. and they will be hispanic themselves because who else better to go door-to-door to talk to another hispanic and telling them why they're republican and why they should vote republican. >> so you think it's working? >> sorry, say again -- >> do you think that approach is working? >> well, here are the facts. the facts are we started back -- after 2012. and what we saw in

let me come to you, maria cardona. they say there is no one that will carry on the legacy of another president. >> i think absolutely hillary clinton would carry on obama's legacy because it's part of hers. she served at his secretary of state. she's been the team player as part of his administration. she's focused her life's work on many of the issues that he has been able to implement as president, especially obama care, which has given health care to millions of americans who didn't have it before. let's remember that she was the one who tried to make the big push for that in the early '90s and has the scars to show for it. she feels obama's legacy could be hers. that doesn't mean she won't do other things differently and build on the legacy, which is actually what she's been saying. i think for african americans and latinos and middle class families all around the country who are looking for a champion to continue to be their voice, hillary clinton speaks very loudly to those folks and her message is resinating. >>

i'm joined by cnn political commentators maria cardona and van jones. maria, a lot of people anticipated a bernie sanders win but this was a huge win that surprised so many people, is he now considered a very, very serious threat to hillary clinton's campaign? >> well, i think he's certainly considered a very serious contender during the primary and i think the clinton campaign is certainly looking at him as that. it was a terrific night for him. there's no question about that and it was a tough night for hillary clinton but let's keep this in perspective. it was the second contest when you get through with the first four states, you're only going to have been decided 4% of the delegates and so it's very, very early. going into south carolina and nevada and in the states for super tuesday, the terrain is more favorable for hillary clinton and that is what they'll be focusing on. having said that, it doesn't mean she doesn't have to learn lessons from what has happened thus far and she was very clear about that last night and there f there's anything we

cardona. good to see both of you ladies. >> hey, fred, how are you? >> maria, good. let me begin with you. do you believe that madeleine albright's words were taken out of context? do you think there is an understanding of what was said and what was meant by it? >> i think it was the wrong context for her to use them in. anyone who knows madeleine albright knows this is a line she coined a long time ago. and a lot of women do agree with it. i agree with it in most context. and i've used it before in a lot of different context. this isn't the best context to use that line. and i think hillary would agree, you don't shame anyone into voting four ar you and you earnt vote. i thisty is incumbent upon the campaign and hillary clinton herself and this is what she will continue to do is to talk about that stellar record. it's a lifetime of working on behalf of the women's issues, on behalf of family issues. whether paid family leave. whether it's a woman's right to choose. whether it's her going to t

cardona. welcome back, ladies. >> thank you, fred. >> maria, you first. talk us to about the power, potential power of you and other super delegates. >> you know, it is so interesting that all of the attention that a super delegates are getting. in reality if you look at 2008 and the role of the super delegates, they followed what the voice of the people ended up beg and the primary caucuses and who the winners of those where which was, and normal delegates from the states, which was barack obama. interestingly enough, what ended up happening is that a lot of super delegates that hillary clinton pledged even before the beginning of the primary process started, a lot of those super delegates switched over to then senator obama when he started winning a lot of caucuses. so i would suggest that bernie sanders focus on exactly what hillary clinton is focused on p. which is winning as many contests, as many caucuses, as many primaries as possible. and then the rest of it will fall into place. >> ok

joining me to talk about that, democratic strategist maria cardona. i'm not even going to try guerra. >> guerra. >> the director -- rnc's director of hispanic media. just little things we talk about in the break. how should i pronounce that? ruth guerra. >> there you go. ruth consideration you hear me? >> don, since 2012, we have launched our engagement program and we can honestly say woo have been in the hispanic community for over two years now. the amount of volunteers we're gathering and the amount of staff we're in the midst of hiring about 1,300 people to join us full time paid staff. a lot of people are going to be in hispanic community and are going to be hispanics themselves. who better than another has panic to tell them why they are republican. >> so you think that approach is working? >> well, here are the facts. the facts that are we started back after 2012 and what we saw in 2014 mid terms were in colorado, for example, with wins with senator corey gardner. in pueblo county, a highly democrat and highly hispanic county, we made major gai

cardona. maria, can you clear this up? it seems to be a matter of a lot of contention today. is secretary clinton, a moderate as she once said, or a progressive, as she also says. >> she's absolutely a progressive. it's kind of laughable to those of us who endured what she went through in the 1990s. i worked a to the dnc under ron brown when the right-wing organizations were relentless in attacking her as a radical lefty liberal communist woman who was going to take over our country and completely ruin it. so let's remember, in the 1970s, jimmy carter appointed her to an organization called the legal services corporation. this entity worked for the rights of cocktail waitresses who were complaining their outfits were too skimpy, who worked for the rights of trans males who were looking for help from welfare agencies for gender operations, who worked for indian tribes and suing maine and new york to give back some of the land, and who did some of the earliest work on reproductive health for wom

maria cardona. and the author of "the wilderness" and political straft gist mark hoover. if trump wins tomorrow, is he going to run the table, as he likes to say? >> there's a very strong possibility that that's exactly the case. and that's exactly what's has the cruz camp and rubio camp and every other republican in the country -- and kaley, quite nervous frankly because winner takes all states start on march 15th. so proportionately dialing up little by little. this war of attrition on the guys on the other end. the field has not winnowed by march 15th, donald trump's inertia, his earned media campaign, all of the momentum that's gone into this frankly means that's donald trump will be the republican nominee. >> are you finally saying -- >> i did in iowa. it took me going to iowa to realize. >> why did it take iowa? >> because i was on maternity leave before. >> you can't think about it when you are on maternity leave. >> i wasn't really plugged in. >> mckaleyla, trump claims he ce out against the iraq war before. we uncovered this howard stern interview from 2002 sayin

for more, let's bring in cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona and political strategist jonathan at this seeni, author of "the essential: bernie sanders and his vision for america." he supports bernie sanders. jonathan, what's at stake in the debate tonight? >> well, i think every time i'm asked that, i say the same thing. for bernie, it's pretty straight forward. he wants to be known to more americans across the country. he doesn't have to look around for slogans or figure out what the next poll-tested slogan should be. he's very straight forward in terms of the principle he's held for 30, 40 years and wants to explain how he wants to change the rigged economy and corruption in washington. >> hillary clinton has to come back from the stunning defeat in new hampshire. what does she need to do tonight? >> i think she needs to focus on her message of actually trying to get things done. this is one thing that senator sanders has not been able to answer in any of the debates or any of the interviews he's done, which is everything that he's talking about sounds gre

we're joined by maria cardona. also cnn political commentator, jeffrey lord. as you know, the primary takes place in new hampshire. donald trump was not in new hampshire yesterday. he was in south carolina. he couldn't get to new hampshire because of the weather here. that's a problem just a few days before the primary, no? >> well, i don't think god is taking sides here, but the weather is the weather in new hampshire. i'm sure donald trump wants to be there and he will be. you have to fight until the last dog dies as it were. you never give up, forget the polls, and just keep going. >> jeffrey quoting bill clinton this morning. mark that as a first. maria, i want to talk about bernie sanders. what you do think the risks are for him leading up to tuesday? he's got a 30-point lead. he's at a nearly 2-1 advantage here. what do you think? >> i think you're right. he's carrying the huge, huge, huge expectation. that's not something you want on your back going into what i the is a much closer primary going into new hampshire. i think the burden is on him and on hi