sanders: no. the president of the united states, 435 seats come up and a third of the senate every year. my views on intelligence, gun control have been out to therefore many decades. i will tell you an interesting in 1988, iran for the u.s. house as an independent. against -- the gun people said, don't vote for bernie sanders. he believes we should put an end to the sale of assault weapons. i lost the election and that may have been a factor. in congress, i have voted for instant background checks, which is key and i want to see them expanded. people who should not have guns because of criminal backgrounds, mental health issues, we've got to make sure they do not fall into those hands. what the president is trying to do, end the so-called gun show loophole, i am in a good position coming from a rural state to put together that consensus primarily about making steve: filter clinton and others have questioned gun manufacturers' liability. mr. sanders: i have voted with republicans on more than one

sanders: the cover of rolling stone. mark: that is about senator sanders. mr. sanders: i would like the votes. we don't expect to get all of them. mark: the magazine will be on newsstands on friday. it will be $5.99. we will get you a free copy. 10 free copies. we want to talk about what you propose and the current environment on wall street. i want you to give me specific examples, current examples. you talked about wall street -- the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior. what is an example of greed on wall street today? mr. sanders: you have wall greed andse recklessness caused the worst economic downturn in the united states, where millions of people lost their jobs and homes. i've never heard of apology. mark: i understand. it still exists? mr. sanders: of course. mark: when you talk about greed -- is there a specific company? mr. sanders: these guys continue to have huge compensation packages. goldman sachs -- i guess he is a billionaire now -- making huge amounts of money after destroying the economy. mark: that is one example. what is a current examp

would you be satisfied if bernie sanders won, 72% for sanders. is that a problem for sanders, because people are fine with her? they're fine with him. >> i think illustrates something that's fascinating about bernie. a lot of people are supporting bernie because they want to send a message. the question is do we want to send a message to the national democratic party or iowa electing presidents? all their candidates are working with a net. many would be very happy with hillary clinton as the nominee. many assume that hillary clinton will be the nominee, but bernie has their passion. bernie has their hearts right now, but their heads are still somewhat with hillary clinton. >> bernie is making the case to them that he's electable. he isn't just a protest candidate. in some of these head-to-head polls he's a bit like donald trump. both of them stumbled into this with whatever motives and then all of a sudden found out that people actually liked them and are actually passionate about them. >> and they're both campaigning on electability. both of the

but it's not just bernie sanders. eight years ago hillary clinton was running for president and actively trying to court pro-gun democrats against barack obama. she portrays herself as a democratic church-going gun-toting democrat. >> we have a different set of rules, what may work in new york city is certainly not going to work in montana. so for the federal government to be having any kind of you know blanket rules that they're going to try to impose, i think doesn't make sense. >> that is not the hillary clinton we were hearing last night, nick. is somebody getting the better deal? >> i think hillary clinton probably a little bit. but here is the truth. i'm not sure this hurts bernie sanders as much as she hopes it does. i feel like for these type of attack issues to really hurt the candidate it has to play in the bigger picture that voters have from the candidate. so for instance, evan bey, and a left wing socialist, he is pro-gun. i'm not sure it really changes how they think about him. i do think if you were won

this is what people are tweetig all about bernie sanders and they're such rabid bernie sanders fans because he's got this passion to take it to the billionaires. >> yeah, i just -- you know, ax, you and i have had this debate before about whether bernie needs to start taking hillary on a little more decisively, and i just don't understand. hillary has through herself and surrogates at one time or another on the campaign trail, you know, she had joaquin castro saying he doesn't care about the hispanic community. she kind of alleged that he was sexist for saying she was shouting about guns. she had chelsea talking about how he wanted to dismantle health care, which i know you thought was the wrong tone. between the racism and the sexism and the -- he's a gun toter and he hates medicare, between all of that -- >> but she means it in a nice way. >> don't you think bernie sanders needs to say enough with this, have you no sense of decency -- >> hillary clinton is blessed with an opponent who doesn't want to go full throttle -- >> that's his appeal. >> -- against her. and that is part of

sanders. it is not that i am anti-hillary. it is that i am just pro sanders. mark: thank you. up next, an inside look. iowa, ground game. remember, if you are watching in washington, d.c., you can now listen on the radio on fm. ♪ ♪ john: team sanders in des moines says his momentum is due in no small part to the team of john: team sanders in des moines says his momentum is due in no small part to the team of volunteers in this state. there is a filmmaker who was out at the hawkeye state headquarters of the sanders campaign to look at the foot soldiers in his ground campaign. bernie sanders: three weeks from now, in a very short. of time, february 1, the eyes of the world, and the eyes of the country, will be on the state of iowa. we have gone from a situation where most people in iowa did not know who bernie sanders was, let alone what he stood for, to be in a position where i honestly believe we have a strong chance to win. we have a real chance to win here in iowa. >> probably close to 300 in my area. i bet it is tens of thousands. >> we have met over a million folks in

senator sanders called him weak, disappointing. he even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against president obama. now, i personally believe that president obama's work to push through the dodd-frank bill and then to sign it was one of the most important regulatory schemes we had since the 1930s. >> reporter: secretary clinton is trying to keep some questions and concerns and doubts alive in the minds of voters. particularly in south carolina and african-american voters by saying that bernie sanders did not support the president. that is one of the strongest things you can say. bernie sanders came back and said of course i supported the president. i support president obama. those are a couple of exchange in the course of the two-hour debate. martin o'malley was on stage. he is struggling in the polls. this is a tight race with hillary clinton and bernie sanders. two weeks before the voting begins in iowa. john and christine. >> jeff, thank you so much. this was the last head-to-head face-off before actual votes tw

mark: americans would pay more under bernie sanders? mr. sanders: no one. we have, by far, spending far more for capita than the people of any other country. we need to significantly reduce it. and lower prescription drugs. john: one quick question on guns -- today, you praised president obama's executive action. you said it helped end the scourge of gun violence in america. is it enough? mr. sanders: i think the president was right. i know him pretty well. i saw him after the shootings in oregon. what he said i think was all that can be said. john: we have to cut you off. thank you so much. when we come back, we will break down president obama's speech. ♪ ♪ mark: earlier, we talked about president obama's remarks about gun control today at the white house. here is how we tried to counter the criticism that his actions are an affront to the second amendment. president obama: contrary to claims by some presidential candidates before this meeting -- [laughter] president obama: -- this is not a plot to take away everybody's guns. you pass a background chec

bernie sanders announced april 30 of the past year. this past summer, he had 25,000 people in rallies across the , sotry, but the media lavished its attention on donald trump, that it did not pay attention to bernie sanders. notuld argue that it was until bernie sanders essentially began to compete with hillary clinton clinton in the fundraising area in the last he broken evenk or brought in more money through small donations, that the media said, wait a minute, maybe he is the real deal and there is a viability factor here. media measuredur the candidate's viability by how much money they raised i think is rotten. donation, someone is not as mortgaged to the powerful interests that dominate our country at this time of staggering inequality. guest this morning is the editor and publisher of nation magazine. talking about their endorsement of bernie sanders and other issues in 2016. if you want to ask questions -- of hillary clinton, you talked about making deals to get things will notashington bring the change so desperately needed. --

a new fox poll has sanders with an even wider lead. in this poll he's ahead of clinton by 13 points in new hampshire. and sander performs better than clinton in early states as well. and in iowa, clinton leads donald trump by 8 points among registered voters but sanders leads him by 13. in new hampshire clinton is ahead of trump by 13 but sanders tops him by 19, apparently emboldened by those numbers and other like them, sanders had this to say about his electability yesterday. >> well, for a start i would urge those voters, voters all over this country, take a look at recent polls in which bernie sanders is matched with

sanders: you are right. because there is another report that the government comes up with which concludes that people have given up looking for work and millions of people are working part-time when they want to work full-time. that number is close to 10%. let me give you another number. which is very frightening. i asked some economists to do a study for me on youth unemployment. what kind of employment is there for kids who graduate high school? you know what the answer was? kids who were white, 33% of them were unemployed or underemployed. latinos, 36%. african americans, 51%. this is a tragedy. people want to stand on their own two feet. they want to become independent. but above and beyond that, if anybody in this room tonight thinks there is not a direct correlation between that high rate of youth unemployment and another american tragedy, that we have more people in jail than any other country on earth -- if you do not see the correlation, you are missing an important point. [applause] sen. sanders: s

john: one more question about sanders. do you think it is problematic that senator sanders calls himself a democratic socialist, and if so, what is wrong with being a socialist? guy: i know this is a popular question. my issue is not with the fact he describes himself as a socialist. i describe myself as a democrat. on the issues that matter to me on middle-class taxes, gun safety, who can get things done for working people, i simply believe that hillary is better. other people can reach a different conclusion. but to get into whether or not a socialist can win, i think that is just one of several electability problems he faces. you do not have to ask me. i am happy to admit that i am not an unbiased purveyor of this. just ask the republicans. the communications director of the rnc was defending bernie sanders and attacking hillary clinton. the head of the largest super pac said this morning they were running advertisements against hillary, for the purposes of stopping her from winning the primary. mark: guy, we have to cu

simone sanders is with me, sanders' national press secretary. thank you for joining me this evening. >> thank you for having me, poppy, happy to be here. >> we had a surrogate from the sanders campaign with me, and i said, how are you going to win south carolina? he said, one word, momentum, we'll build off the momentum. simone, is that a risky bet? >> you know, no, poppy, it's not a risky bet. look, we know and we think we have to do well in iowa and we have to do well in new hampshire. but we're not waiting until iowa and new hampshire happen to invest in states like south carolina. so we have a very robust ground game right here on the ground in south carolina, all throughout the state. and we are counting on momentum coupled with a solely ground game, and really connecting with voters where they are, meeting them in their communities, the barbershops, the beauty shops, and the bible studies. that's what we're counting on. >> the three b's. we heard hillary clinton call senator sanders, quote, a pretty reliable vote for the gun lobby. we will

and sanders isn't letting up. the democratic candidates crisscrossing iowa late into the night saturday. with just hours to go. for hillary clinton, it was all hands on deck. >> i am so proud to support my mom. >> she is the single best change maker i have ever known. >> reporter: husband bill and daughter chelsea, helping deliver the final pitch. >> thank you, bill, thank you, chelsea. >> reporter: clinton is entering the home stretch with a boost. saturday's des moines register bloomberg poll shows her with a slim lead over rival bernie sanders. 45% to 42%. and "the new york times" endorsed her. calling her one of the most broadly, and deeply qualified, presidential candidates in modern history. >> i hope that we'll be able to persuade you to join us to make progress for our country. >> earlier in the day clinton tried to turn the page after the state department determined 22 e-mails from the former sect's private server were top secret. clinton telling nbc news she didn't generate them. >> this is an inner agen

that's a ream message to bernie sanders supporters. the other thing that struck me was that he basically absolved hillary clinton of attacks on him in 2008. you've seen various democrats and some republicans point to the attacks she leveled against him in that fight. this inoculated her. i took some things too seriously. they weren't that big a deal. that gives her a real line going into tonight. >> i think that's right. we don't know sort of privately that obama as well as his top aides favored hillary clinton. but i think this was as close as he's come so far. i do think there was that absolution that he gave her from 2008. so i think that was important. and one of the things i wonder if hillary clinton will almost -- just the audio of him praising her and really making the point she wants to make about her campaign, which is that she is the one who can deliver. >> she's been making that more and more. we've seen both from clinton and sanders, whether it's contrasting their policies with each other. they have been getting more aggres

can bernie sanders win? and of course how old is bernie sanders. we see that a lot with different candidates. with hillary clinton we see things like, will hillary clinton get prosecuted? questions around the benghazi hearings. and with o'malley we hear why is martin o'malley running for president, is he still running for president. folks with questions of whether he is in the race at this point. >> what you are tell ing me is there is snark on-line. we are shocked by those. >> curiosity. >> fair enough. >> daniel, seiberg, thank you very much. >>> as we have noted, iowa will kick off the primary season with caucuses, it is 15 days from now. we will be watching the debate with some voters in iowa. they are at a debate watch party in urbandale, basically a suburb of des moines. the race is tight between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. three polls in the last week, two had hillary clinton up by three or less and one has sanders up by two. a lot going on tonight. 23 minutes from the debate. we'll be right back. me smile. spending the day with my n

sanders, 11%. is hillary clinton banking on moving through the first two states and then really that's where the difference with clinton and sanders comes to the floor? >> absolutely. she would love to win iowa, but if she doesn't, she is sort of eyeing south carolina as a fire wall. bernie sanders' support is concentrated among white liberal voters. the democratic electorate overall is much more stronger minority measures. south carolina is the first state you see that looks more like the broader democratic electorate. hillary clinton is talking about gun control. that is an issue that she sees as appealing to african-american voters, especially in charleston, we are a block away from the emanuel ame church where the racially motivated shooting took place last year. hillary clinton is trying to reach a broader chunk of the democratic electorate than bernie sanders can win in iowa and new hampshire. no doubt about it. >> eric, thank you for that. talk to you soon. he has been up all night. >> hard

sanders is more liberal. she'll point that out he is not a loyal life-long democrat. >> she has to slow his momentum or risks losing on caucus day. >>> speaking of not so friendly fire, donald trump has been stretching the limits of his supposed truce with ted cruz, repeatedly bringing up questions about his identifial's canadian birth and white house eligibility as he did again today in new hampshire. >> he has to figure it out. i think he can go in for some kind of a judiciary proceeding. look. doesn't matter what he does. you can't have a nominee who is going to be subject to being thrown out as a nominee. you can't do it. you are going to make that decision, folks. it's one of those little decisions. i'm sure ted is thrilled i'm helping him out, but i am. i mean i am. he's got to go and fix it. >> of course, that was the latest of trump going after cruz but it's by far from the first. cruz has been dealing with this now for a better part of a week. let's take a listen to how he has responded as this issue

eugene, this was the bernie sanders debate. >> it really was. it was all about bernie sanders. he has proposed -- i guess he has proposed revolutionary change. hillary clinton very much pushed back against that and pushed back against various aspects of bernie sanders' record, especially on guns. she was on the offense on the gun issue. on wall street, which was one of the more interesting clashes, i thought, the tables were turned in a way and he very much went after her for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees. >> let's go to some highlights here. let's go to the highlights here. one of the first heated exchanges tonight was over health care and here was hillary clinton and bernie sanders arguing over the cost of bernie sanders' proposal. >> we have the affordable care act. that is one of the greatest accomplishments of president obama, of the democratic party and of our country, and we have already seen 19 million americans get insurance. we have seen the end of pre-existing conditions keeping people from getting insurance. we have seen women no longer pa

guest: i don't care about bernie sanders in the sense that he is bernie sanders. he is the face of a movement. he is our face of our issues. until we go forward and to support him in those endeavors -- i would remember at the caucuses, talking to obama supporters, where are you going to be in june, in october and november? when the issues come and we have to address and support these to get health care reform, to get labor reform, and other things that we find meaningful to our lives, they were not there. subsequently, this president was not able to accomplish his formal agenda. now we have a movement with a different face. saying essentially, but consistently, without checking the weather, knowing that he has a position and has voted on these issues repeatedly. he did not need any clarification on how bad trade is. mark: less than 30 seconds, so button it up. jerry: it is right that face matters. hillary clinton has been a fighter and cut out her strip in the town halls. you could see that last night. michael dukakis used to say, there are two things you have to

sanders. >> trevor: ah, yes, a surging sanders. someone tells me you don't want to search that on urban dictionary. a surging sanders, it's when you come out of nowhere. (laughter) as sanders catches up with -- and even surpasses hillary clinton in iowa and new hampshire polls, you might be wondering who is this rising new yet old force in the democratic party? so tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we present th "the legend of bernie sanders." you see, sanders was born in brooklyn in 1941 and raised by his parents a pollster and a scratchy old sweater. the turning point in his life came as a teenager when he was bitten by a radio active senior citizen giving him the power to be as grumpy as ten old men. he moved to vermont, running as independent for mayor, won that race and ran for congress, won, and ran for senate and won that. if he didn't get into politics, he probably would have won "the voice" as well. you think this is a joke but bernie sanders released an actual folk album in 1987 called "

sanders ahead of clinton by eight points, but there in the right, clinton beating sanders by eight points. and sanders lead in have energized his supporters and changed the dynamics of the race. today in iowa we saw how bernie sanders is turning the raw emotion of struggling americans to political advantage not only against clinton but against the gop. here is what he said to a woman who cried when telling her story living on the minimum wage. >> the truth is you can't make it on 12,000. you can't live in dignity on 10,000 or less. and millions of people today are in that position. and then, amazingly enough, beyond comprehension, and i don't mean to be overly partisan but beyond comprehension you have republicans going around saying we got to cut social security. we got to cut it. what people are getting is too much. $10,000 is too much. >> today we also got a look at how president obama sees the battle between sanders and clinton in an interview with politico, president obama rejected the notion that sanders is an idealist and clinton is a pragmatist. some of that language includes sand

does bernie sanders not understand any of this? it is simply insane, insane to tell the folks that you will destroy the capitalistic infrastructure. >> you have got to break up these huge financial institutions. they have too much economic power and they have too much financial power over our entire economy. >> turns out that they were crooks and they destroyed our economy. >> again, if bernie sanders were ever elected president, the economy would collapse. companies would flee abroad. the u.s.a. would turn into venezuela. that's why bernie sanders will not be president. he is, however, very entertaining, is he not? especially when he unloads on his opponent, hillary clinton. >> the leader of goldman sachs is a billionaire who comes to congress and tells us we should cut social security, medicare and medicaid. secretary clinton, and you are not the only one, so i don't mean to3! just point the finger at you. you have receivedhvxhñ almost $600,000 in speaking fees from goldman sachs in one year. >> i think she is the only one. i do

bernie sanders needs the high turnout. even the president said, peter, in his interview with politico, bernie sanders is not barack obama. then he had to have a meeting with bernie sanders. >> just to confirm that he wasn't barack obama. >> they put his thumb on the scale, and he is not. >> but he kind of put his thumb on the scale for hillary clinton, and then he pulled it off and had a meeting with bernie sanders. to sanders' point, if you look at any data -- some people don't trust polling. this is in every single poll. if you have a younger crowd, if he turns out younger people like obama did, if he turns out independents like obama did, if he gets an influx of a lot of new voters who have never caucused before like obama did, that's the recipe. >> well, and how unlikely that this accept tseptogenarian from would suddenly be obama who was this rock star young guy and came out of nowhere. it's a very different profile and he's targeting the same constituencies. every democratic -- most democratic primary tend to have an

sanders was noticeably on the defensive at times. meanwhile, listen to how clinton responded to that much-talked about sanders' closing spot. >> i think that's fabulous. i loved it. you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. and we need a lot more poetry in this campaign and in our country. so, i applaud that. >> she was referring, of course, to the america ad -- our mistake for not showing that a little bit. that was a far cry, though, from how she spoke to iowa crowds just two weeks ago, when she took a lot of chances to take jabs at sanders for what she called were unrealistic campaign promises. >> i wish that we could elect a democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say, we shall do this, and we shall do that. that ain't the real world we're living in. >> but you can tell, the clinton camp has pulled back on some attacks. they haven't stopped hugging president obama, though. that's something she kept his policies very close to her last night and she seemed to be happy to embrace the warmth of his strong praise. in f

the sanders campaign has purchased a huge amount of ad time through monday. concentrating on goldman sachs, although the ad doesn't mention clinton by name, sanders frequently criticizes her after she was paid $675,000 she gave for the firm in 2013. watch. >> how does wall street duet away with it? millions of campaign and speaking fees. our economy works by wall street because it's rigged by wall street, as long as washington is bought and paid for, we can't have an economy that works for people. >> i'm bernie sanders and i approved this message. >> touting her years of experience like the sanders ad, clinton doesn't mention her opponent by name but it references the affordable care act and the need to stand up to america's powerful gun lobby, two things clinton says sanders has failed to do. >> she'll build on obamacare, not reduce it, stand up to the gun lobby, not protect it, lead on foreign policy not ignore it. >> helping us break this all down is jeannie zano. thanks for joining us. let's tart with the clinton contrast ad, what do you make of it? >> i

bernie sanders has not spoken on the record about it. my colleague, chris matthews, though, just spoke to hillary clinton about that debate. >> well, chris, what i've said through my campaign is that i would look forward to another debate. i am, you know, anxious if we can get something set up to be able to be there. and so, let's try to make it happen! >> would you like the chair of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman xhult shults, to approve the debate next week? >> i would like the chairman of the party and the campaigns to agree that we can debate in new hampshire next week. that is what i'm hoping will happen. >> okay. >> i'm joined now by msnbc's chris matthews, host of "hardball." hillary clinton moments ago. well, you know, your takeaway from all of this. obviously, she's now willing, even though from all reports, it was the clinton campaign, when she was such a big front-runner, who didn't want another debate. >> isn't that human nature? >> of course it is. it's politics. >> you know, all of those saturday night,

sanders 37%. o'malley, 2%. sanders, 81%. clinton, 18%. >> bernie sanders doesn't sound like a typical politician. whether it was bernie sanders in this election, or rand paul in the last election. these candidates don't sound young and cool, but they sound very different and they sound very authentic. voters particularly younger voters find that to appealing. i don't think that the socialist label is not necessarily going to do in bernie sanders. young republicans, young voters rather don't really remember the cold war or the soviet union. so, when we talk about the hammer and sickle in the ad -- >> but they remember that simon and garfunkel song. >> but there's a mom in flint who's not going to wait for the revolution to be able to give her child clean water. there is a guy in cleveland who lost his job is not going to be able to wait for the revolution. you'll have to wait, even if you brought in a senate, he wouldn't bring in a house, getting stuff done is the thing that moves me, that makes -- that gives me goosebumps. i

sanders has a slight edge, good edge in new hampshire and sanders with a slight edge among those who say they are moderate. you'll have more of a split in sanders' favor in the state of new hampshire and again, significant sanders wins just like he did in iowa significantly among men but the gender gap not as much in clinton's favor among women in new hampshire. that's why this race is so close and why sanders has the slightest of edge. hillary clinton not as far ahead as she would like to be. if you're under 45 and a likely democratic voter in new hampshire, 66% for sanders, 33% for hillary clinton, but flip it over. if you're 45 or older, hillary clinton has a 51% to 42% edge. anderson, it comes down to who turns out especially for bernie sanders in iowa and new hampshire. younger voters, new voters, as we countdown at the moment, boom, rock them, sock them. very close race for the democrats in both states. >> yeah, amazing numbers given the numbers and the way the race is unfolding, you have to worry about what the rival is thinking. joe biden kept his counsel tonight his thoughts

bernie sanders announced april 30 of the past year. this past summer, he had 25,000 people in rallies across the , sotry, but the media lavished its attention on donald trump, that it did not pay attention to bernie sanders. notuld argue that it was until bernie sanders essentially began to compete with hillary clinton clinton in the fundraising area in the last he broken evenk or brought in more money through small donations, that the media said, wait a minute, maybe he is the real deal and there is a viability factor here. media measuredur the candidate's viability by how much money they raised i think is rotten. donation, someone is not as mortgaged to the powerful interests that dominate our country at this time of staggering inequality. guest this morning is the editor and publisher of nation magazine. talking about their endorsement of bernie sanders and other issues in 2016. if you want to ask questions -- of hillary clinton, you talked about making deals to get things will notashington bring the change so desperately needed. --

sanders answer is illuminating. saying the chance of getting reparation through congress is nil, a correct observation which would apply to much of the senator's own platform. articles, commentary immediately followed. while the sanders' campaign declined to comment. early on in his campaign, bernie sanders had some run-ins with black lives matter activists. since then, i think his campaign would argue, even well before then, he has been working very, very hard to bring voters of color into the fold. sanders is doing very well in predominantly white iowa. but he cannot win in a democratic primary without a sizeable chunk of voters of color. the campaign has made some gains in the polling among voters of color. but he still trails hillary clinton nationally by some 40 points among nonwhite voters. i spoke with ta-nehisi coates, national correspondent of "the atlantic" and author of "between the world and me." and asked him why he felt moved to write the sanders' piece. >> i simply didn't understand his answer, to be

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i'm surprised that you went with clinton over sanders because of the issue sanders is pushing. was it a difficult decision? >> no. no, it wasn't. i talked to bernie beforehand, he's a great friend of mine, personally, both he and jane, and i still count him as a great personal friend. and a soul mate on a lot of things. but why i supported hillary, i've known her since 1991, i want to debunk something right now. i can tell you that she -- i think she is one of the most honest, trustworthy, competent individuals i've known in my political life. all of this stuff about kids asking, is she trustworthy or honest. if you had 15, 20 years of constant right wing barrage at you, indue endos, lies, fabrications, you'd wonder. it's easier to get out negatives on social networking than positives. >> sure. >> but through that all, by gosh, he's stood up straight and tall and she is the best equipped person to be president of the united states in my lifeti lifetime. >> what have you seen different from her this time than eight years ago? i think part of the -- the reason this stuff gets rei

is race between clinton and sanders even tighter? plus, donald trump threatening to boycott thursday's debate. is he going to walk? michael bloomberg for president. could the race come down to the battle of billionaires? let's go "outfront." >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. we begin with breaking news. bernie sanders closing in on hillary clinton. this is a new national poll we are just releasing here on cnn. it comes as sanders and clinton are in final preparations for the cnn presidential town hall. you can see live pictures of the stage. this will be sanders and clinton's last chance to state their case to voters before the iowa caucuses. clinton's once lead narrowing under the sanders' surge. clinton leading sanders and she is leading still 52% to 38%.

senator sanders so close. we know from colleagues steve kornacki that a big part of the strategy to win is younger voters. potential first-time caucusgoers who he needs to turn out monday night and so where do you go it find young people these days? snap chat as we have just said hottest social media platform among ma lineillennials. >>> when we come back, more on the big race on monday. rnments s being hacked, emails compromised, and intellectual property being stolen. that is cyber-crime, and it affects each and every one of us. microsoft created the digital crimes unit to investigate and fight cyber crime. we use the microsoft cloud to visualize information, so we can track down the criminals. using our advanced analytics tools, analysis that used to take days to run, we can now see in real time. and we're building what we learn back into the cloud to make people and organizations safer. when it comes to the cloud, trust and security are paramount. our passion is making life tougher for cyber criminals, and

bernie sanders had a mason city event. so bill clinton shows up, rescheduled for mason city and appearing at just about the same time. jockeying back and forth, one starting after another and miles apart. both you and sanders people, you're all watching each other's moves. >> i would say that iowa becomes a small state when you've got so many candidates and supporters who are here in the final five days, so secretary will be here a lot between now and caucus day. she's been here doing events every day, so i think iowans see a lot of her. >> it's a giant chess board. >> exactly, 3d chess here. thanks for having me. >>> coming up, full-court press. the clintons take iowa by storm. all clintons, over 20 campaign events in the next few days. you see bill clinton there, as we speak. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from iowa. e*trade is all about seizing opportunity. so i'm going to take this opportunity to go off script. so if i wanna go to jersey and check out shotsy tuccerelli's portfolio,

well, put aside the question of would you rather have bernie sanders as president if bernie sanders could do everything he wanted versus hillary clinton if hillary clinton could do everything they wanted because the fact is neither one of them is going to have that circumstance. they're both going to have to deal with a republican congress. and that congress is going to block nearly any major economic legislation because they want to go in the exact opposite direction. where does the president still have any power? it's in the areas that sanders doesn't talk about. it's not in changing the shape of the economy. it's not in taxes. it's not in spending. it's not in creating jobs programs. and it's certainly not in creating single payer health care. it's in these regulatory measures. it's in using unilateral administrative power, criminal justice reform, and foreign policy. it's in these things that bernie sanders isn't really passionate about. so i'm arguing that taking a big risk on electing someone who's pretty far to the extreme compared to where the party has been before isn't really wo

. >> bernie sanders pulled off a stunning upset. inside politics, the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters, now. >> welcome to inside politics, i'm john king. thanks for sharing were sunday morning with with us. breaking news. the americans released from iranian jails are now on their way home. the president of the iran spoke about the historic prison swap just last hour and we're waiting now to hear from president obama. we expect that later this morning. the dealing and lifting of sanctions is prart of the nuclear deal, of course an immediate issue in the 2016 campaign. democrats call it proof diplomacy works, republicans see it very differently. >> there may be some ugly core parts of this deal we don't know about yet, so we should withhold judgment, but right now, i give thanks that the americans are coming back, and this should have happened a long, long time ago. >> all the details haven't come out on that, but every time we show weakness, it's a victory for iran. >> they know that if you take an american hostage, ba

i'm light on bernie sanders. you are dracula if you think i'm light on sanders. you are democratic --$q dracula. >> the nor we norwegians came down raped and pillaged the whole crew. they couldn't stay away from the island. that's what i mean we are not going to go back to your an sis tores. last night is what counts. karl rove, everybody. when we come right back, brit hume on sean penn, saying journalists are terrible and the the iranian prisoner swap. what does brit think? watters in iowa. >> which european countries would you like to see the united states emulate? >> switzerland. >> those reports after these messages. t7f+x tongue, or throat, or affects your breathing or causes rash or hives. kidney problems sometimes requiring dialysis have been reported. some people may develop severe joint pain. call your doctor if this happens. using januvia with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. to reduce the risk, your doctor may prescribe a lower dose of the sulfonylurea or insulin. your doctor may do blood tests before and during treatment to check y

john: how is bernie sanders responding? his campaign put out a statement saying the clinton campaign is mischaracterizing his position on health care. the senator was swaggering away at the forum we were at in des moines. >> she has been getting more aggressive with you. >> yeah. inevitable that the candidate for the democratic nomination may not be so inevitable today. i have known hillary clinton for 25 years. i have respect for her. but what we are looking at is an establishment politician. i think it is too late for establishment politicians and economics. john: mark, hillary clinton, chelsea clinton beating up on bernie sanders. is she getting tough with sanders, finally? issue panicking? -- issue panicking? mark: i am stunned watching chelsea clinton go on the attack. they are trying to attack bernie sanders on health care. he supports single-payer. i am stunned by the whole thing. i will say that you and i spent a couple days in iowa. we saw bernie sanders. there is no doubt he has built something real. stakes are, b

and here is senator sanders. so we have all three candidates now walking out onto the stage preparing for this pivotal debate, just 15 days before the iowa caucuses. the last time these candidates face off. before the voters have their say. so talk about the anticipation that you feel just being here, andrea, that we all feel. >> well, it's so exciting. we see them on the trail. we shout questions. we try to ask them questions. we see them at rallies. you can hear the cheers from inside the theater. but this is the chance to get into the policies with them and really talk about the things they care about and how they handle the pressure from each other. >> well, there's no one better to do that than you and lester, and we are very excited about that. and chuck, i'll toss it back to you. >> thank you, kristen. the candidates are on stage right behind me. [ cheers and applause ] you hear the cheers there. by the way, we went from all those red ties at the republican debate last week. and it's nothing but blue on st

we have live pictures of bernie sanders rally in waterloo. he's expected to be near that sign any minute. the sign doesn't move. bernie sanders will. jeb bush speaking to voters in cedar rapids. he's had his daughter by his side all weekend. jeb bush not doing well in the latest poll in this state. hillary clinton will be in council bluffs. that's where donald trump is. she's in a very tight race with bernie sanders. you can see hillary clinton on stage. that's her daughter chelsea clinton on stage with the former secretary of state. i said polls are close right now. there is a brand-new poll that has sent politicos into a frenzy this afternoon. i'm talking about the des moines register politics poll. donald trump up five points over ted cruz. this is the first time the des moines register polls look anything like that. as to the democrats, hillary clinton is up three points on bernie sanders. that is awfully close. and our cnn orc poll, shows the same thing as the register on the democratic side and roughly the same thing on the republican s

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