flying around on twitter and statements by the campaign, barack obama would not be a progressive, joe biden would not be a progressive, jeanne shaheen would not be a progressive. even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. >> sanders' jab at clinton speaks to louder conversation and growing discord happening in the democratic party. with hours to go, new fund-raising totals creating another stir. sanders outraised clinton in january, according to numbers from both campaigns. look at the numbers, $21 million to $15 million. clinton comes in to the debate tonight with an apparent iowa win under her built but the raiser-thin margin is driving some debate even with iowa, and it's supposed to be in the rear view mirror. we're joined live by two of our best correspondents who have been in the trenches covering the campaigns for months now. kasie hunt and kristen welker here with me to talk about a lot that's going on. and guys, we've got four hours and a lot of bombshells already including "the des moines register," coming out say essentially all of the heat that's happ

they have said this is the biden rule. they've also passed on comments by reid and schumer where they've suggested holding up authority. every nominee, pending nominee for the supreme court in the last century, has gotten a vote on the senate floor. it's been a practice for the senate judiciary committee to move forward on a nomination that comes from the president. the fact that the republicans won't even schedule a judicial committee hearing, won't even have a vote on the floor, they're going all in on this. we'll see how it plays out in the swing states in 2016, but mitch mcconnell being very, very firm about it staying he won't even meet with president obama on the floor because he doesn't think it needs anything. thomas? >> just to remind everybody, that donald trump rally in nevada happened about 20 minutes ago, his final one before tonight's caucuses. we'll continue to monitor that. we were looking to see if he'll speak out on the president's plan on guantanamo and its closure. hut everybody else up about me quittin

. >> you shouldn't compare yourself to joe biden and you shouldn't say that's what we're doing. here's exactly what we're doing. you have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable. you just simply haven't. fact is when you talk about hezbollah sanctions act that you list as one of your accomplishments you weren't even there to vote for it. that's not leadership, that's truancy. >> joining me now nbc's gabe gutierrez in londonderry, new hampshire. he's been out with marco rubio. you look at a debate like that when a third of voters say they're undecided in this state, how does it all play out? >> hi there, ari. good morning. yeah, it could make a huge difference. but despite that stinging debate performance behind me you can see that there's a very large crowd here at the event for marco rubio this morning. the question will be this morning, how much of that debate performance resonate with those voters. will marco rubio be painted now, forever, as a robotic candidate? now, interestingly enough, that is something his opponents are seizing

you mean like joe biden? >> even beyond that, actually. >> one more thing i wanted to talk about, the debate last night came in waves. it started out intense, but by the end they were pretty much friend again. i want to play close to the end of the debate last night. >> if i'm so fortunate to be the nominee, the first person i call and talk to about where we go and how to get it done will be senator sanders. >> i happen to respect the secretary very much, i hope it's mutual. on our worst days, i think it's fair to say we are a hundred times better than any republican candidate. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's true! that's true! >> that maybe got the biggest applause of the night, kelly. kum ba ya, they're all friends again, right? >> i think they were friends. i don't think they had a reason to expect they couldn't come to a moment like that. it's a tough campaign, some difficult things were said and will continue to be. certainly sanders has tried to not make it terribly personal, although it's gotten roug

joe biden would not be a progressive. even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. so i'm not going to let that bother me. >> and there are a list of things that are progressive causes that she's not only been involved with since this campaign but even when she was u.s. senator, secretary of state. >> is that a fair comparison? >> i'll tell you why this came up and why i think it is a fair comparison. hillary was in ohio in september. she said some people say, you know, i'm a moderate and centerist, i plead guilty. if you say that in ohio and come to and say i'm a centerist, you have an obligation to say which one i am. >> you have to sometimes moderate your views to reach across the aisle and get things done which is what frankly voters on both sides are fed up with, not getting things done. >> i agree. voters want someone to get things done. bernie has gotten a lot done in washington. enormous record in achievement and a great record as mayor of burlington. we have talk about effectiveness. but

flying around on twitter and statements by the campaign, barack obama would not be a progressive, joe biden would not be a progressive. >> reporter: some question, of course, in my mind, as to whether or not bernie sanders would say that the president was progress in, that's something that could touch off more conversation around this. but, we're -- there's issues, as well, for the sanders campaign looking back a little bit. the new "des moines register" editorial talking about how something smells is their headline in the democratic party asking for more auditing of those results. razor-thin. and as well as some discussion among the sanders campaign as far asseting expectations. the question being, if the margin here in new hampshire is that close, as it was in iowa, who does that amount to a win for? is it bernie sanders? is it hillary clinton? so much of new hampshire is an expectations game. i was at a bloomberg politics this morning with the campaign manager for hillary clinton's campaign, he acknowledged, even if there is that razor-thin margin a win would be a win but we can expect t

poise a risk each debate she's come out with positive headlines, generally remember vice president joe biden was not going to run after hillary clinton gave that first strong performance. >> the risk, the potential reward. already out of iowa, he's up 3 million in donations after the iowa caucuses. we saw that huge welcome party in the middle of night when bernie sanders arrived back in new hampshire. i think you were following along with him at the time. let's talk about the rewards, though, that can come from this debate from him tomorrow night. >> there was a risk for him in saying that he wouldn't do the debate. this is a campaign that's prided itself on attempting to be open, honest, all those things. ultimately they didn't have much choice but to say, hey, we're going to go ahead and do this. i also think that the reward for the sanders' campaign in a debate and the way they've always felt after they've come out of them is that their supporters take from it it's a chance to see him on a national stage. it drives these small donations. sanders had the single best fund raising day of his

of liberal causes in addition to supporting hillary clinton and chuck schumer and harry reid and joe biden and jimmy carter and john kerry. maybe in addition to that last year he wrote a big check to planned parenthood. >> nbc's vaughn hilliard is traveling with the cruz campaign. all right, vaughn, how are those attacks resonating on the campaign trail? >> reporter: hi, joy. i think what was interesting today at this particular rally, marco rubio and donald trump keep having -- i guess taking the headlines as the mano y mano battle. ted cruz just ratchet id up. he's going to arkansas tonight. he's kind of reinserting himself in this conversation and brought up the fact that, hey, all i'm saying is we need to see the tax returns. he even said could there be tax fraud in there. he's just saying just release your taxes, donald trump. >> all right. nbc's vaughn hilliard, thank you very much. appreciate it, following the cruz campaign. >>> i want to bring in columnist jennifer reuben and also joining me editor in chief of reason magazine matt welch. jennifer, i want to go to you first because

. >> vice president joe biden with his thoughts on donald trump's candidacy. what did you make of what joe said? >> well, i think it's absolutely fascinating that it's in the mainstream of american political thought that now donald trump can one the republican nomination. this is something that most people, other than you, thought impossible even three months ago, six months ago. and i must say you said it very early before anybody else said it, even the fact that you suggested that he could have a big impact on the race was scorned by almost all media outlets who have spent the last six to nine months suggesting that we were wrong about that. now that it is happening they are now mocking and ridiculing us because we got it right and suggested that somehow -- shower' too close to donald trump when that's just a lie. the fact of the matter is they're just angry because they have been wrong for nine months and we've been right. >> you know, it is also -- it's -- we saw it with joe klein yesterday, his head was about to explode here on the set. there are people t

. >> joe biden and john kerry will be getting a lot of phone calls. >> on this friday night there was another drip in the on going flood of the hillary clinton e-mail saga, the releases. this time the state department declared 22 of the e-mails top secret and won't be released -- that won't be released. hillary clinton calls for the e-mails' release, while bernie sanders indicated that maybe not everybody is sick of hearing about her e-mails after all. >> there is no classified marked information on those e-mails sent or received by me. dianne feinstein the ranking member of the intelligence committee who has had a chance to review them has said that this e-mail chain did not originate with me and there were no classification markings. i do want them released. >> your supporters including tom vilsack former governor of iowa and senator feinstein have suggested it's political. is that what you think? >> well, i'm going to leave that to others who are quite experienced in the ways of washington to comment on. i just have to point out that the timing and some of the leaks that have led u

i think on the democratic side, you know, it would be so different if maybe biden was in the race or elizabeth warren was in the race. >> do you know who my secret candidate was for the democrats? senator brown. jerry brown from iowa. >> that didn't happen so you had bernie sanders and i think there was this massive discounting and then these massive crowds. >> what happens in south carolina, guys? >> we don't even know what's going to happen in new hampshire. >> once we get past these first two do you think bernie with his position is going to have a staying power? >> never say never. >> we don't know. let me tell you this, last night hillary clinton when asked about her e-mails once again pretended it was 1999 and it was a vast right wing conspiracy. she didn't realize that the federal bureau of investigation has an investigation going -- >> she also says she is 100% certain there's no problem there. >> she had nothing to lose by saying that because if she is indicted she's out. why not come out and say i'm 100% certain. >> if they do to her like they did to petraeus she's out. >>

. >> what's joe biden thinking this morning? what's john kerry thinking this morning? i'm serious, what is elizabeth warren thinking this morning? a woman who knows that -- >> her endorsement could have changed the course of this. >> forget about her endorsement. what about her candidacy? elizabeth warren this morning has to know that this party is her party. >> well, i think not just those three democrats but a lot of the democrats are looking at the internal and they're thinking one thing and the forensics that are being done within the clinton campaign right now, it's not the messaging, not the targeting, it's the candidate. and they have a real problem with the candidate. she is off message, can she get on message? and one of the jarring things that occurred here and has been underreported and under the radar and occurred within the last week is the ad, the quote from madeleine albright and gloria steinem supposedly to get women to support hillary clinton only because she was a woman. that does not work. >> no. >> it did not work and a lot of younger women especial

. >> that was a war that was opposed by the majority of senate democrats including vice president biden. the unspoken truth of that war is we had 500,000 americans coming back who were injured with gulf war illness. that was a very costly and expensive war. >> he does believe that war was a mistake? >> i think whaeblngs was that we did not exhaust every opportunity to resolve that conflict without war. >> finally let me ask about bernie bros. obviously this has been an issue, he has talked about this. you guys have been asked about this before. there's only so much i get that you can do to police your supporters, but isn't there something more you guys can do to police your supporters? >> we do to the extent we can police our supporters. >> some of this stuff is nasty. >> of course. >> i've been on the receiving end of it myself. >> there's the other world, its clinton bots are out there as well which we have not gotten into, paid and unpaid clinton people trolling around on the internet, stirring up trouble. that's fine. this is an issue about the candidates, what are the candidates do