the math is leaning in hillary clinton's favor. the clinton campaign declared victory. it is a very tiny victory. nevertheless, they just landed and a cheer from the press plane from their section of the press plane. clinton staffers. they think they won. let's get the latest from des moines. that is where senior politics reporter chris moody is reporting from. chris, it seems they have counted all of the votes. >> reporter: almost all of them. what a night in des moines. what a long night here in iowa. the snow has just started falling down on us. we are so close to getting that last precinct. as you have spoken about several times, the math is looking very good for hillary clinton here. there's a lot of victories celebrated. not here, but in new hampshire where all the candidates have already gone long ago. ted cruz declaring victory for getting the most here in iowa on the republican side. marco rubio for exceeding expectations and hillary clinton and the math here and bernie sanders for exceeding expectations. >> chris, bernie sanders on the stump today or on the pl

so this is definitely a good win for the clinton campaign. bernie sanders is going to come out tonight i'm told and say this is going to go on. his message of income inequality is resonating he is going to speak behind me in not too long. this is where he was friday night and he had some 6,000 people here. you can hear people shouting behind me bernie. so this race is going to go on to south carolina tomorrow he will campaign in greenville. then he is going to super tuesday states massachusetts on monday and keeping an eye on caucuses in minnesota, in colorado the oklahoma primary, so wolf this race continues but it's a good afternoon here in nevada for hillary clinton. >> next saturday the race continues with the democrats in south carolina. that's when the democratic presidential primary in south carolina takes place. only moments ago hillary clinton tweeted a picture of herself, there you see with her supporters when she got word that she was projected to be the winner of the nevada democratic caucuses. an important win indeed for hillary

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the clinton campaign has a new problem. trying to explain away a political report that both hillary and bill clinton are upset with the quality of their campaign operation and they could be planning changes. insiders say bill clinton is complaining of the campaign's lack of imagination and playing it too safe. hillary clinton denied the report saying, quote, we are going to take stock, but i'm confident in the people that i have. cnn's joe johns has the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, hillary clinton's closing argument came here in a high school auditorium in hudson, new hampshire. she's down in the polls, but she was surrounded by a large crowd. also in attendance, former president bill clinton and her daughter chelsea clinton. bill clinton has said he's concerned that the campaign has lacked imagination so far. tonight, hillary clinton called on the people in the audience to imagine the world her campaign is all about. >> i really want you to imagine with me, imagine what we can do together. imagine an economy th

the money is a serious worry for the clinton campaign. they're going to have to continue to have fundraisers in big ways. he is raising his money organically. it's surprising nearly everyone in his campaign. he's raising more money online than barack obama did. that's a challenge going forward for the clinton campaign. for tonight she's not fund raising in boston. >> speaking like he's on the 16 th green. >> he's always like i can't talk to you right now. >> bernie sanders will miss the putt. nobody wants that. >>> this morning, could a revelation tamp down the accusations against clinton. colin powell and members of rice's staff received information now considered classified on their private e-mail accounts. evan perez is live with more on this. oh, evan, what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, you know, i think the clinton campaign certainly wanted to embrace this finding from the state department's inspector general, because what we're talking about are two e-mails that were received on colin powell's private e-mail account whil

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 resonating. and yes, her message is resonating because i think people are responding to the fact that she wa

however, the sanders campaign thinks it has some juice. >> yeah, and if you listen to the clinton campaign talk about nevada in particular, you know something's going on there. they're talking about it looking more like iowa and new hampshire and a more diverse state and that to me is a sign they're seeing something happening there. i do think on the wall street point, that continues to be sanders's best line of attack. no matter what hillary clinton says about obama and accepting campaign contributions from wall street executives, it's a lot different than accepting personal speaking fees from wall street. and the more that sanders hits that, the harder it becomes for her to message her way out of that. >> getting back to the nevada point, i sat down with harry reid, democrat, last week and he was absolutely furious as the clinton campaign for suggesting that nevada is 80% white, essentially trying to downplay or make it sound like even if she does not win nevada, it's okay because south carolina really represents the democratic coalition. reid says that's not true. they're looking at my

the clinton campaign has acknowledged them directly this week. over the last three or four days or so, she's like, i know you're not with me now, but i'm going to be fighting for you in the end. when you ask young voters why that is, they believe there will be a woman president in their lifetime and they believe she is not necessarily the perfect one. it doesn't mean they're not going to vote for her at the end of the day, but right now they like bernie. >> but the hillary clinton approach makes sense, in the sense that you're not with me now, but i'll still fight for you. she's thinking okay, if i beat bernie sanders, i need to bring them back into the fold. it's strategic, it make sense. but special place in hell? >> that was pretty rough. i don't actually think that that plays well with young women, because when you speak to them out on the campaign trail, they over and over again say, i'm not going to vote for her just because she's a woman. i'm going to vote for the candidate who i think has the best ideals. and i think that there's this int

the clinton campaign confident they've had the organizational edge here, pulled out all the stops when it comes to surrogates, but with the iowa caucuses, not too far in the rearview mirror, they're worried the caucus format here in nevada favors sanders more than polls indicate and i should tell you, wolf, of all of the cafeterias and all the casinos in las vegas, hillary clinton and bernie sanders almost working into each other working the same one. arrival at the cafeteria was delayed because bernie sanders got there first to talk to employees. >> stand by as well, brianna. and now to reno, nevada. folks are lining up. we see them getting ready to go into the caucus site where you are. tell us what's happening. >> reporter: at this caucus site, the university of nevada-reno. there is a lot of energy, wolf, and i want you to take a look at the end of the line, which we can't even see right now. this is how many people have lined up here an hour before all this opened, and it all just opened a few minutes ago. the people are already lining up out here. i'm going to have you actually w

beginning and i think the hope in the sanders campaign and the fear of the clinton campaign was that after new hampshire, those numbers begin to shift and sanders will make more inroads for the african-american community. that's what happened in 2008. barack obama was actually losing african-american voters to hillary clinton in south carolina up until the day after he won the iowa caucus and those numbers moved dramatically towards obama. that has not happened to date and that gives the clinton campaign, you know, a real sigh of relief, i guess, as they head into this tough period. >> so both bernie sanders and hillary clinton, no doubt, hearing a little bit that barack obama, the current president of the united states said yesterday. he was asked about both candidates at a news conference and he talked about them in ways you don't usually hear a sitting president do. let's listen to what he said. >> i know hillary better than i know bernie because she served in my administration and she was an outstanding secretary of state. and i suspect that on certain issues she agrees with me m

not only do we see hillary clinton wrapping herself in barack obama, but we see the clinton campaign trying to drive a wedge between barack obama and bernie sanders. that he was thinking, perhaps, of maybe primarying him or encourages others to do so, that he called the president weak. the whole litany of stuff that the clinton campaign has been pushing about bernie sanders distancing himself in some way from barack obama being the liber liberal critic of barack obama. this shows why. remaining larger than the universe of voters who want a more liberal direction. we'll see when final numbers come in. that's what they're trying to drive up. >> interesting considering the fact barack obama and hillary clinton were adversaries eight years ago and talking to people at clinton events back in new hampshire and iowa, that a lot of people said that they were going for her because they supported barack obama, and they did agree with the idea that she was going to continue doing what he's doing. >> never thought you'd say hillary clinton is the barack obama candidate, but that's what it is her

the clinton campaign is stronger in the contest going forward. south carolina and nevada. before we get to that, we're looking toward iowa to see who won and of course, what happens here in new hampshire. the first clue comes tomorrow at cnn's town meeting then rivals share the same event space. they'll finally start drawing more distinctions with one another for that final week at the new hampshire primary. >> i have to say that town meeting tomorrow night, what about the timing? that will be fascinating. both of them have a lot of work they want to do. when hillary clinton starts speaking, we'll take you to the event. i'm fascinating. what is she going to say? >> we won? we'll take you there. let's turn to the republicans and talk about a wild night and epic turnout busting through previous records. the clear winner, cruz. he was literally popping champagne bottles on the flight out of iowa. how long will the bubbles last? >> donald trump, he is 0 for iowa. his supporters not as sick of winning as he promised they would be. and rubio makes it sound like he won the most i

with the clinton campaign. rough night for the campaign, but as they rightly point out, this is going to be a long, long campaign and one night of bad news is not -- does not end the campaign. and now, of course, the big challenge for bernie sanders to turn his campaign even more into a credible national operation. let's bring in cnn's mark preston for that. how are they going to do it? because as you know, clinton so far has had commanding leads among especially minority voters in states such as south carolina and nevada which are the next two up. >> well, what's going on right now, jake, is they're no longer looking at this as a singular geographical contest. we had iowa, we had new hampshire. there's a lot of talk about us going straight to south carolina then nevada. now they're opening it all up. they see this as a national campaign. they're looking at states such as colorado, massachusetts, minnesota, oklahoma. they're putting ad dollars into these states. they're also noting that in march, a majority of

the clinton campaign needs to focus on job number one. get out there and vote. >> we'll see what the outcome is here tomorrow. that's going to tell us how urgently these changes will be. if it's a big loss, there will be pressure from donors on the outside to do something. the big challenge still is raising money. bernie sanders, average contribution of $27. that is real. they can give and give and give again. >> that's real. >> he talked about it today very passionately as we saw at another rally in manchester. >>> outfront next, we'll show you where donald trump is. he says he's stepped up his ground game. will it deliver, though, the big win that he must have tomorrow? hillary clinton trailing badly among younger women voters. why are they picking sanders over here? we talked to some today. but through good times and bad... ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. but i've managed.e crohn's disease is tough, except that managin

president bill clinton so much out there on the campaign trail. is he going to continue to be very visible? >> wolf, i don't know what to tell you except this campaign feels strongly any day we have president clinton out there advocating for secretary clinton, that's a good day for our campaign. you'll continue to see him out there. >> quick reaction to "the washington post" story that moved today reporting that investigators from the state department issued a subpoena to the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation last fall seeking documents about the charity's projects that may have required approval from the federal government during clinton's term as secretary of state. they also reportedly, according to "the washington post," asked for records related to her top aide huma abedin. what can you tell us about this? >> i saw that report but i really can't tell you much more than what's in it. the foundation has been quoted in that story noting that the request that came from the ig does not concern hillary clinton or the foundation, but it's

it's feeling a lot like 2008 with the clinton campaign up against the ropes. back with the panel joining us right now, let's talk to our political analysts and reporters. >> you introduce us, one voter short of dixville notch. but we're more willing to share our opinion. >> you know, it is -- there are -- it is reminiscent of 2008 and it's not. the reason that it's not is because once you get past new hampshire, those states turn very favorable for hillary clinton. you know, that's why, as i said earlier, i'm sort of shocked that -- it seems to me that they are overreacting to bernie sanders and overreacting to this particular primary and i think it's making them look, frankly, a little more frantic than they should be. >> let me ask you, back in 2008, when you were with the obama campaign, did you know how much hillary clinton was moving up in new hampshire? because she entered 18 points behind, right? >> we quit polling on sunday because we wanted to save a little money and so we probably -- if we had polled one more day, we could have been prepared for the

>> clearly the clinton campaign has won south carolina. i want to go to bernie sanders headquarters in rochester, minnesota right now. i take it there is a statement now from the campaign. what do they say? >> reporter: there certainly is, wolf. senator sanders says i congratulates secretary clinton on her victory. he makes clear this is just one contest. he said let me be clear on one thing tonight. this campaign is just the beginning. we won a decisive victory in new hampshi hampshire. she won a decisive victory in south carolina. in three days, we will pick 11 states. we are not going to stop now. that is why senator sanders is en route to minnesota. we will give a speech here. this is not a watch party. there are no televisions here. there are no screens here. unless they are looking at their iphones, they don't even know what happened yet in south carolina. that is by design from the sanders campaign. but the reality is here, wolf, the democratic party is seeing this. tonight represents a shift in this campaign. it certainly has a lon

he had won new hampshire and for this campaign, the clinton campaign from the time he had won new hampshire and nevada yesterday it was really tough going. it was top aides saying there was the best day of the clinton campaign since she declared her candidacy in april. there was a key win and partly because even though there is a sizable minority voting block in democratic electorate in nevada it is only 30%. 15% african american and 15% hispanic and with so many white voters there was a possibility that bernie sanders really could have closed the gap on hillary clinton. it seemed like one state more favorable to him that there was a thought especially with the caucus format it would favor. but ultimately he fell six points short of hillary clinton so it is this decisive win for her going into the south carolina which is friendlier terrain. >> so what about bernie sanders? where does he go from here? clearly hillary clinton has the upper hand into south carolina and of course on super tuesday. >> on super tuesday you have south carolina next saturday. super tuesday in a week in change and a

brianna keeler chasing the clinton campaign in nevada. you heard jim clyburn saying he's been on the phone with his friends in nevada trying to get them out tomorrow. this has to come as welcome news and a relief for the clinton campaign. >> reporter: it is, and i think what it does is gives them a little bit of confidence, if, for instance, they lose in nevada, which they think is a real possibility. the polls are tied up. they're unpredictable. this is a caucus setup. one of the things that struck me about what you heard and certainly where you heard clyburn say this was at allen university. this is one of the distinctions that the clinton campaign is making and that clyburn is making. bernie sanders has a proposal for free education. hillary clinton's campaign has a bit of a carveout there to provide a fund that would help historically black colleges and universities. when you see him talking about hcbus, he's saying hillary clinton is the one who has an eye on these universities, who cares about the african american community, and it'

of what the clinton campaign a fire wall. you get the states like nevada, next south carolina, where you have a significant african-american population, significant latino population. that was supposed to be the clinton fire wall. we're shy of 20%, this is a dead heat. 50-49. the winner here if it ends up like this no matter who is on top the delegates split evenly. how is she maintaining the lead, the reason she is slightly ahead because of a significant lead at the moment in clark county. more than 7 in 10 live in clark county, las vegas and the suburbs, the major population center. 13% of the vote counted there. she maintains a lead, now if the margin stays the same, absolutely zero guarantee of that, but if she's run up this margin of 13%, stays significantly ahead the state numbers will stretch out if she continues to have such a big lead because of the population center. the rest of the state, these are smaller rural counties but you see the healthy sanders lead. and then second largest county here in most of the votes

doors for the clinton campaign. joining me now from iowa city, iowa, is new york city mayor, bill de blasio. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us. >> you're very welcome, jake. >> so, mr. mayor, how is the reception for a big city boy like yourself among the small town folk of iowa? are they greeting you well or eyeing you warily? >> no, it's been a great reception. iowans take the caucuses very, very seriously. they care about people coming to the door talking about the issues. i came out here with a team from new york. we've knocked on 1,800 doors since friday and a lot more today we're going to be doing. the great thing is that people are so focused on the meaning of this state. they understand that they're the first in the nation, they understand they're making a big, big impact. really believe that changes people want, this is a very progressive electorate, as you know, jake. if you're progressive, you want to see greater taxes on the wealthy, higher wages and benefits for people, paid family leave, paid sick leave

never mind all the history that the clinton campaign, the clinton family has in this state. of course 1992 is a pivotal moment and 2008 was a pivotal moment for her. they are saying they can't win. when you talk to them privately and some of her supporters, they believe she can win. the polls are all over the board. because of the independent voters we've been talking to and about all day long, some who are playing in the republican primary, they simply don't know but this is much closer than the 25 points would suggest. i am told that most sides believe this is within five points or so and that is not a lot of space or so. if they get out their vote which they have been trying to do, it could be much tighter than some of our suggestions before have suggested. >> what have they been doing in these final few hours to get out the vote? >> reporter: she was aggressively working across manchester, working across southern new hampshire this morning, she was being very visible. they're working the phones behind the scenes. virtually the entire brooklyn campaign office has descende

so interesting, wolf, the sanders campaign is remembering exactly how much the clinton campaign lost by eight years ago. this is a strong win for secretary clinton. she of course was not in south carolina on election night either. so the sanders campaign is saying, look, this is not out of the ordinary. this is normal. we're looking forward here. and only 4% of the delegates have been counted now, have been picked now. we have iowa, new hampshire, nevada, now south carolina. now the race really begins in march. so some 56% of the delegates are picked throughout the month of march. sanders campaign say they have a strong online fund-raising operation. they have shown they can raise more money in defeat as we saw in iowa and nevada here. going full steam ahead here, wolf, regardless of what happens in south carolina. >> at some point we will hear from him as well. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. back to jake. we are getting close to the top of the hour. that's when the polls close. potentially we could make a major projection. >> absolutely. it could be a strong night for secretary clin

the ball is really in the clinton campaign's court. all they have to do is say march 6, flint, michigan, and then we'll do a debate in new york, preferably new york city prior to the new york primary the week before. if they say that, we're good to go and will be there in new hampshire. we're not going to let the clinton campaign determine when and where we have debates. this is going to be something that the campaigns work out. >> if hillary clinton's campaign agrees, has debbie wasserman-schultz and the democratic committee authorize the the additional debates? >> thets not clear to me. the msnbc debate was put on the table without dnc sanction initially, so i'm want sure that that's really the controlling factor at this point. >> okay. jeff weaver, good luck to you. give our best to the senator as well. we'll be watching the content tonight and what happens on all of this. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. thank you. >> when iowa ends tonight, by the way, the race moves to new hampshire, cnn will have a very special

that is the question. that is what the clinton campaign is wrestling with right now. can they overcome that? cnn's brianna keilar at clinton's campaign last night. >> reporter: john, thousands at hillary clinton's last campaign event beforeiowans caucus. hillary clinton making the case she is more electable than bernie sanders and more capable of getting things done in washington. >> if you agree with me that we need to build on the progress we have made, we need to prevent it from being ripped away and undermined by the other party whose views and values are opposed to what i believe, then i hope you will go caucus for me tomorrow night. i hope you will go. i hope you will stand up for me. i hope you will fight for me. and i promise you this, i will stand up and fight for you every single day of this campaign and then when we win, i will fight for you in the white house. thank you and god bless you. >> reporter: talking to clinton campaign sources, they feel good about hillary clinton's prosp t prospects going into caucus day. she has done all she can when it comes t

. >> we are going to talk to one of the leaders of that name, the chief strategist for the clinton campaign. you know we're going to ask you about that report yesterday in just a moment. first i want to talk about today. it's 11:15. polls have been open for a long time. i know you've been checking in. what are you hearing so far? >> we don't start getting information until probably early afternoon. you wait for some accumulation. the early turnout matters sometimes, but you're looking at the flow over a longer period of time before you start trying to make sense of it. even in new hampshire, having been here in 2008 it's tough to know how it might end. i've been on the other side where early information looked good. we thought we were winning until the polls closed. you saw a progression during the day where it didn't look quite like it was, and a lot of the data coming in at that point was erratic. when it's e ri erratic, you havo question it. >> what is a win today? >> i said after iowa that a win is a win. for us, we came in after iowa with one win on the table, and a long way to climb u

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it's a good night for the clinton campaign. they hope it gives them momentum into this incredibly important a month of march. if she could run up the score a little bit and keep winning, she could stretch it out a bit more. >> we're going to be hearing from bernie sanders momentarily. >> the question of course is -- i mean, if looking forward to these other southern states, if hillary clinton is age to continue, this what does it do to sanders' overall message. does he begin to try to shift it? what is his message to those supporters when it looks less and less likely he has a chance to win? >> in nevada he was able to go listen i was down and i almost toppled the democratic machine. how he changes his message going forward, i think it's going to be a challenge. and also the specter of him only competing in white states, only doing well with white voters, i think that could start to be a bit of a problem as well. >> is it a problem with senator sanders or is it just a strength of hillary clinton? when you look at senator sander

the clinton campaign says the math works in their favor. we are waiting for more information. joining us live from des moines this morning, the last reporter, senior digital reporter chris moody. great to have you here with us. >> reporter: great to be here all night with you. exciting caucus on the republican side and democratic side. i think the most nail biting has been the democratic side. the most fascinating to watch for those who want to stay up all night. it is neck and neck. very close. hillary clinton's campaign has declared victory. now, all overnight, the campaigns have been flying to new hampshire. they are just now landing there. that's where the campaign will go on from here. this is where if it hasn't been exciting enough, it get really exciting there. hillary clinton declaring victory. feeling good about it. also bernie sanders coming from lower expectations and nearly tying a candidate who was as some people said, inevitable, he is feeling good as well. there is a bernie sanders event in new hampshire for people who have waited for his plane to land there at

the clinton campaign knows this primary is going to continue for at least another month, perhaps much longer than that. the national polls are just one more indication that more people are getting to know bernie sanders, more people are finding some reasoning in his argument. they're really buyi ining what has to say. that's why the clinton campaign is trying to shut him down in nevada and south carolina. >> thank you very much. outfront now, our chief political analyst gloria borger. gloria, let's start with the endorsement. this endorsement matters a lot. >> hugely. >> there has been a huge fight for this and a history of clyburn with the clintons not always positive. >> i think it is a make good. >> this is a make good. we talk about do endorsements matter or not. will he sway black voters to clinton? >> i think he is revered in this state. when the political action arm of the congressional black caucus endorsed hillary clinton, he did not. i think the timing of this is very interesting because, of course, as you point out and as jeff was just talking about, the polls in nevada ver

this is what the clinton campaign is hoping for by the end of march. at that point they think sanders will get it tone down his rhetoric and stay in as a protest candidate. at the moment the clinton campaign thinks it's swinging their way. >> how big of a lead does trump have on the republican side? >> donald trump, three contests, new hampshire, south carolina and iowa for the republicans. he has 68. you need 1237 to win. everybody assumes trump will win nevada. that's the next republican contest. let's say it's trump, rubio, cruz and kasich. then trump has three wins and we're heading into super tuesday. remember the conversation you were just having. how do you stop trump? here's super tuesday. for the sake of argument say ted cruz wins his home state. not guaranteed. let's say ted cruz wins texas. again, a hypothetical. kasich says he can win in the northeast, win massachusetts. but trump is ahead there. let's for fun give kasich to massachusetts. so then you have something like this after super tuesday. donald trump is starting to pull away becaus

what's going on in the clinton campaign? >> i talked to john podesta and saw a lot of the clinton people. there's no question when you start getting involved in the primaries and caucuses, you begin to add new people. you've got to add people because the goals have changed, taking out bernie sanders, and of course they need to bring in more seasoned people who can actually go out there and work the fields in a more diverse part of the country. so will they add people? i'm sure they will. >> but are they dissatisfied? that's the question. >> you know, i wouldn't characterize it as dissatisfied as much as, you know, you have donors, you have people around you that are frustrated. they're not involved, they're not making a decision. but here's something that we all should know, because i respect the kind of operation that robbie and marlin and others have put together. they're running a traditional democratic campaign where you have an operation, you have absentee ballots. absentee ballots are up 12%. they have reached more hou

one of the things i wanted to ask him about was the suggestion from the clinton campaign that the reason sanders is going to do well here in new hampshire on tuesday is because he is from neighboring vermont. take a listen. >> you're favored to win the new hampshire primary. >> don't make me nervous. don't jinx me. we think it's going to be close. we're working hashed. >> clinton campaign is trying to downplay it. secretary clinton pointed out that you're from vermont and new hampshire voters often vote for people from neighboring states. she says it's the neighborly thick. is that an insult? >> in the sense it is. look. obviously vermont, new hampshire separated by a river. we are close states but you know what, secretary clinton won this state in 2008. her husband ran several campaigns in this state. when we began this campaign here in new hampshire, we were 30 points down in the polls and she was much better known in this state than i was. so simply to say you know, if the we win this thing it's because bernie lives in vermont, yeah, i'm not -- that's not accurate. >> we talked about

it is a code the clinton campaign hasn't cracked well enough yet. but that money will keep him in this race for a long time to come. the other thing is just -- it is the hardest thing in these campaigns is to stay in the moment. in this age of social media and a camera on you every second, staying in the moment, making every second count, every interaction with voters count. everything is captured on camera. that is the hardest thing. looking ahead to iowa, to nevada and south carolina is really tempting but really every day she and bernie sanders are in new hampshire, the voters across the country, democrats are watching them and they have to practice that discipline of making this moment matter. >> thanks both of you. >>> keep it here on cnn because today at 1:00 eastern wolf bl z blitzer talks to bernie sanders about hillary clinton, the town hall and what it is like to be the frun ner new hampshire. and a presidential town hall in dairy, new hampshire. tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. still to come. will the race come down to two words, yo

that is the campaign shakeup. there is some soul searching going on inside the clinton campaign. she clarified, no, not a shakeup. more like a reordering. let me play for you how she defined what they are going to do. >> i have no idea what they are talking about or who they're talking to. it's going to be the campaign i've got. we're going to take stock what works, what doesn't work. we're moving into a different phase of the campaign. >> i think these headlines are unhelpful. when they went through something similar in 2008. when headlines talk about the clintons are unhappy with all these people around them, the advisers. the senior strategy for barack obama, what's the only consistent element in this story? and that is hillary clinton and shortcomings as a campaigner, her in ability to connect and keep the electorate. i think that's the case here. look, the clintons get a lot of scrutiny and a lot of intrigue. by the way, it is not usual for campaigns to take stock and shake up a little bit. the difference between clinton today as opposed to 2008, she is prepared for a longer

what this did do for the clinton campaign is reset her candidacy after the defeat in new hampshire. this campaign continues now. john and christine. >> jeff zeleny, thank you. no one grew their tent bigger, but they got to refocus as they head into important states. i want to bring in colleen mccain nelson. let's start with hillary clinton leaning hard on barack obama trying to show this is the candidate who will continue this president's work and bernie sanders is an outsider. >> absolutely. she mentioned president obama every chance she got. she tethered herself to his legacy and interjected him in the conversation when he wasn't part of the question. she brought him up and said he has done a great job on health care and race relations. he has made improvements there. she mentioned his policing commission which is not a major initiative that got a lot of attention. she brought that up and said i agree with everything that has been done. it was a strategic move as she looks ahead to the south carolina primary. jeff noted half of the voters are likely to be african-american. she is

between the clintons and their campaign. what are you learning? >> reporter: we're hearing a couple things. bill clinton behind me, i'm told, has been concerned about the campaign. and the question of whether there's enough creativity in it, the question of whether they are looking forward as opposed to looking backward. hillary clinton herself has said they are going to take a look and an accounting of the situation and why they were so close in iowa, for example, why she's behind here in new hampshire. but no big changes in the campaign. there are concerns from democrats about the fact that bernie sanders has been able to outfundraise them and they are concerned generally about the situation going forward. they are going to take a look at it but apparently no big changes in the campaign structure at least for now. >> joe, thank you very much. it's been a full day of campaigning for bernie sanders as well. he has a 26-point lead in the just released c independent n tracking poll. he's clearly not resting on those poll numbe

because the clinton campaign is looking a the long game. as she said last night during that debate, carol, she said she doesn't think it's such a bad thing to take money for interest groups and noted that barack obama himself had taken money from wall street. so hillary clinton trying to push, or at least trying to defend herself from this fight from the left, this bernie sanders populist idea he's saying that she's too tight and too close to wall street. >> so, errol, she postponed a fund-raiser but during a debate we heard her artful severe comment, booed by the audience. did that have anything to do with her decision to postpone this fund-raiser? >> almost certainly did, and really part of a much larger fight. that booing, that back and forth, that's not just clinton versus sanders in a personal sense. that's hillary clinton arguing what the progressive wing of the democratic party, the progressive base if you want to call it that. it's a valid debate. to say, look, just because i have raised money, want me to win, right? i have to go ou

>> the clinton campaign needs to do a real serious analysis. her messaging is not resonating with youk people. that's the biggest thing that concerns me. under age 30. that's where it's really breaking for sanders and we know there's strong potential there because on substance, clinton and sanders are for the very far apart on the substance of their policy issues. it's the messaging that he has broken through and he's driving with this anti-wall street message. that's hitting him. i think it's going to be more challenging once he moves into states that has strong communities of color, that's not a message that they are internalizing and driving them to the polls. >> if you look at the exit polls, mo, not just the 22-point gap we're talking about here, with women she lost. on the trust portion, she lost big time. 91-5. that has to send a very strong message and these are issues that transcend new hampshire. this is going to continue on, continue on, continue on unless they can make a serious change. does this put her southern firewall in questio

jeff zeleny is with the clinton campaign. he has the latest through her swing in tennessee. >> reporter: john and christine, with just one full day of campaigning before super tuesday, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are in a different race. hillary clinton stopped at churches in memphis and rally in nashville and on to arkansas. her attention shifted suddenly. she has been talking about bernie sanders for so many weeks calling him a single issue candidate. raising questions of his plans being realistic. she had donald trump in mind on sunday. let's take a listen. >> i believe america is great right now. what we need is to be whole. we need to be whole where all of us have a place. where everybody feels like we're all in this together. that is what i want to do in this campaign and it is what i want to do as your president. >> reporter: this democratic primary fight is far from over in terms of delegates. 56% of the delegates selected in march. tomorrow and then again on saturday. the moment has changed in the race. hillar

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 focus heading into the primary center. >> reporter: you know, it's kind of a two-prong strategy. it's, number one, to keep punching away at donald trump, the front-runner here in new hampshire. but the other is, as you said, to convince everybody here who is undecided, and there's still a lot of undecided voters that we're talking to, but especial

after a day of intense campaigning across the board. >> reporter: the clinton campaign leaving nothing for chance in south carolina. from the walls of our campaign offices to the message at her campaign rallies. >> if the number don't ed up it's wrong to make those promises. >> reporter: bernie sanders is front and center on the minds of clinton world. >> bernie is not the man. bernie was really running, he said to push her to the left. okay. so he's done that. >> reporter: jacqueline is working the phones to bring this democratic race to a close. >> if he was a wise man, he would step away. >> you think he should step away. >> i think he should stay way like she stepped away graciously when obama got the nomination. >> reporter: sanders said he's just getting start snooped they are getting very, very nervous. all over this country and virginia and every place else we're taking on the entire political establishment. >> reporter: in the fight for delegates clinton and sanders are nearly tied in pledge delegates. her advantage soars when you add in support from party leaders or super del

campaign and clinton campaign are watching this very closely and i suspect maybe we get the numbers tonight, even if we get the numbers tonight i'm going to get the conversation about the process continues for a day or three. >> so awkward that it's taken so long. we're going to stay on top of this. it doesn't get much closer. i want to go to cnn's dan merricka. he's traveling with hillary clinton. you're on the tarmac in des moines. getting ready to take off for new hampshire with the former secretary, right? >> we are on the tarmac, that is correct. i can hear the engines firing up as we speak. you'll probably hear some back chatter on the overhead messaging. but the clinton campaign just held a gaggle, a press conference on the plane before taking off, and they did what their candidate didn't do tonight, and they declared victory. brian fallon, the national press secretary, said we believe strongly that we won tonight. they are citing as john king said earlier that secretary clinton has 22 delegates compared to senator sanders' 21. in the words of jen palmieri, we believe that th

the clinton campaign has been here for months and months building up the roles. the polls are close. describe the level of pain and agony within clinton world tomorrow if they don't win tonight. >> well, having been through the pain and agony in '08. >> take us back. >> it's big. it is big. the stakes are very high for both hillary clinton and bernie sanders. if sanders wins, that's huge. it will have momentum going into new hampshire and the rest of the primary states. for hillary clinton, if she wins tonight, there's an opportunity to blunt bernie sanders ae momentum, maybe whittle down the margin in new hampshire, and then it's clear sailing on march 1st on the super tuesday states. >> doesn't it also serve to blunt some of the heart burn or heart ache that she couldn't pull it off? >> yeah. the narrative has been origin electrical hillary was going to be waltz into the nomination. then we've had a reversal where it feels like there's a revolution with sanders. there's nothing more exhilarated than being shot at without effect. if she pulls off a win in iowa a

however, we have spoken to the hillary clinton campaign on her bus. and they're saying that they believe that they have won. that they will win. but only by a hair. they said they had a large turnout, second only to 2008. and they argue that actually helped them. but by winning, remember, iowa is an expectation game. and hillary clinton was said to be this inevitable nominee with this huge ground game. and if she wins by just a hair, is that really winning, given how well bernie sanders has done against hillary clinton? >> chris, i mean, winning is winning. but clinton's camp, i think was interesting, took a very different tone in terms of their opinion on how tonight went than bernie sanders. what are they saying? >> well, the clinton campaign say they believe when the results are settled, that the democratic party is going to announce they have more votes and more delegates than bernie sanders. it's only by one delegate more, that shows that going into new hampshire, there's a battle. the momentum is going to be going with bernie sanders, into that

that's one of the reasons that the chairman of the clinton campaign met with members of congress today, democratic members of congress to try to ease any concerns about the direction and length of this campaign. >> jeff, thank you very much, from new hampshire tonight. founder of correct the record, and jonathan, a bern i sanders supporter. let me start with you. you heard hillary clinton. to the best of her knowledge, no voting irregularities. she won, that's it, she's celebrating. she said it multiple times. did she win it? >> we just want to make sure all the votes are counted, that everything is done correctly. i think democrats in particular in 2000, when votes were not counted correctly, they remember that. and there was no allegation on the part of jeff weaver anything was done wrong. i think david and i were talking about, one of the thing that happens in iowa is a lot of these people are volunteers. the people who are pre -- >> right. you're not conceding until it's counted? >> that's the campaign's position. i think what bernie talked to chris about this morning, he said, if

. >> the clinton campaign had a big lead in nevada polling over the past few months. now it's neck and neck. why did that change? >> it certainly has changed over the last several months. not a lot of polling here. late last year she was up some 30%. the reality is this race has changed. people suddenly are looking for an alternative and they are seeing there is a potential, viable alternative to her. so quite simply, people discovered who he was here and they are just now finding out more about bernie sanders. >> we saw record-setting turnouts in iowa. very close to what it was back in 2008 in new hampshire. will this continue in nevada at the caucuses this saturday, saturday afternoon? >> wolf, that's the key question here. nevada has been not as focused as iowa and new hampshire. this is only the second election cycle where the presidential contest has happened here. they are not expecting turnout nearly as big as new hampshire or even iowa. eight years ago it was only slightly over 100,000 on the democratic side here. that's why it's like trying to find a needle i

now, wolf, long game right now for the clinton campaign. they're sending bill clinton down to south carolina tomorrow to start to rally the troops down here. the sanders folks tell me bernie sanders, himself, as i suspect hillary clinton will be spending all their time in new hampshire in the next few days. >> gloria, white house press secretary earnest said today a robust contest between the two democratic candidates is actually good for the party. >> they're thrilled. >> well, is it good for the party. >> well, look, i think that it's clear from hearing the president, himself, if it were up to barack obama, his legacy depends on hillary clinton getting elected president of the united states. period. end of story. and that's why he had to meet with bernie sanders to kind of, you know, assuage his ire, you know, the fact that he said that. but, look, i think that, yes, contests are very good, but if i'm in the clinton campaign right now, what i'm looking at is, yes, we're sending bill clinton to the south, we think we got a southern firewal

. >> reporter: the clinton campaign relishing their big win in south carolina. hillary clinton's communications director, jen palm airy, saying they did better noon than they expected they would. campaign sources telling us they think donald trump is going to be the republican nominee. it was significant that in clinton's speech she outlined what her argument in a general election would be against donald trump. >> despite what you hear, we don't need to make america great again. america has never stopped being great. [ cheers ] but -- but we do need to make america whole again. instead of building walls, need to be tearing down barriers. >> reporter: clinton aides saying they have 46 states ahead of them, a long way to go. privately, they're not as cautious. one aide telling me they think they'll have this wrapped up by march 15th. we'll see a series of contests then following the contests for super tuesday. by mid-march, almost 60% of delegates will have been awarded. by then, aides think it will be clear there is no pathway to the nomination for bernie sanders