when the dnc e-mails were hacked and leaked in 2016, hillary clinton campaign and the dnc went on the move into action to feeding sketchy information to the fbi via fusion gps and christopher steele to get the probe of the trump campaign launched, that probe was launched because of the steele dossier. watch this, stuart evans who ran the d.o.j. intelligence unit told the id he was surprised to learn from the fbi at the 11th hour right before the fbi got the first buys a warrant to spy that the fbi was relying on the research paid for by the democrats. your reaction to that? >> that surprise is like the movie casablanca where they say there is supplies of gambling. the fbi is not supposed to be equally duped and i believe they are not easily duped. so when were investigating comey and others who appear to have committed criminal acts in working with hillary clinton campaign and the dnc to in fact spy on the president, it needs to have high level independence scrutiny, it's getting some now but it will need more because to get the confidence of the american people back we had a long inv

attorney, defense attorney, michael blake, new york congressional candidate and vice chair of the dnc, dean obeidallah of "the dean obeidallah show" on sirius xm, phillip agnew, surrogate for bernie sanders, and jossie ross, co-host of "the indigenous pirate radio t." break-dances with wolves. thank you all for being here. >> good morning. >> interesting choice on where to go first. i'll make michael blake go first here, because it feels like -- >> here we go. >> i know. because it does feel like something about the way that the dnc set the rules, i don't know if it's the rules-setting that created this outcome, but we really are looking at what started off as 453 candidates, many of whom were people of color and women and lgbt, are really coming down to two older white guys. how did this happen? >> well, good to see everybody again. of course, good to see you, joy. this has nothing to do with rules. this is about people making their individual decisions within the polls. you know, when we think about the context, initially it was whether too many people were on stage when it came to

the dnc has a problem with their debate next month do. all the months qualifier signed on to a letter by cory booker who didn't make it asking to lower thresholds writing, "many of the candidates excluded due to these thresholds are the ones who have helped make this year's primary field historically diverse." the dnc disagrees. >> the thresholds for the debate, to say they are somehow leaving people of color off the stage is not only wrong, but insulting. >> elizabeth warren is all for a bigger stage. >> we ought to have a more open feel it. >> if she and bernie sanders split up the progressive vote, he could clear the way for a moderate. "ro khanna of california, a cochairman of the campaigns have the solution would be to create a sanders, elizabeth warren take it." primary voters find a joe biden in first with sanders and second and elizabeth warren and third followed by pete buttigieg and michael bloomberg. >> it's three weeks today we started the campaign and we have done very well. >> like bloomberg, tom steyer has spent millions on

need to have polling done by the dnc. you recall that in order to qualify the debate, you need to have a certain number of report. you can include early state holds. their polling support in early states like iowa is higher than it is nationally. you have yet to see the last 50 days. there is not a single poll that met the qualification standards by the dnc. only national polls. i want to read you this statement from dnc communication director adrienne watson responding to andrew yang. "the dnc will not sponsor its own debate qualifying polls of presidential candidates during a primary. this would break with the long standing practice of both parties using independent polling for debate qualifications, and it would be inappropriate use of dnc resources that should be directed at beating donald trump. th allison? >> thank you, nbc news political reporter, vaughan hilliard. >> we appreciate it, vaughan. thank you. >> it is. >> coming up, congressman john lewis announcing he has stage four pancreatic cancer. he's not giving

start up with a dossier that was paid for, to be prepared by fusion gps, by the dnc. and steel was a part of that process. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. and then his primary subsource was someone who, when he was finally questioned, said they misstated or exaggerated our statements. that the alleged sexual activitiesat were rumor or speculation. that the conversations were had with friends over beers and so on and so forth. so s that was something after the --ha the dossier was used aa basis for moving forward with that. this is information thatrd came afterwards that was known to peoplete in this organization chart. before they attested to a fisa court that the fbi found the russian-based sub source to be truthful ando cooperative. that's an accurate statement. butn if they had included all e truthful and cooperative comments that he made, it would seem to me that may have had a different effect on the renewal. itt seems to me. and the omission of something as profound as this, to not infer from that, that there was a political motivation or let's take

so i don't understand the dnc. >> they don't understand the dnc. what we do understand is they might not make the debate stage because of these rules that have been put in place by the dnc, because they're not going to meet the polling threshold. >> we'll see. i don't know how many more polls there are scheduled to be released between now and the debate or when the cutoff is. obviously the candidates are very sensitive to all of those machinations, but the dnc is getting a contradictory message from their own members, the rank and file democrats, saying, this isn't fair, why isn't my favorite candidate up there. on the other hand, oh, there's so many candidates. why are we having these debates where no one gets to talk more than a minute. the last one was smaller, they could get into exchanges, get into it a little bit. i finally felt like there was some productive conflict that taught us something about the candidates. that's always been the dilemma for the dnc, trying to balance those two imperatives. they did not want to break it up into separat

i asked steyer earlier today if he feels like response dnc gave yesterday was inadequate when had it comes to situation here's what he had to say. >> i believe that they are probably trying to about work with all of the party it is to resolve this. because having these debates is critical for americans if to see the differences between candidates. it is really important to me that american working people have a living wage and be treated decently and hon nationally hasn't been going on and to walk away from that during a presidential campaign would be something to me contrary to my basic political thinking and my -- feelings as a human being. >> and steyer was adamant he's not criticizing dnc but what candidate are asking for is either the dnc move the debate to a different venue where workers at university are not on strike or they step in and he know them get better wages. and more affordable health care which is what striking workers at the university hosting the debate are asking for. jon. prchl how many of the democratic candidates spoke at this forum today? right so at the educ

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the dnc responded, the dnc will not sponsor its own debate qualifying polls of presidential candidates during a primary. i want to bring in margaret se and gabby orr, a white house reporter, i want to start with you, he is taking aim at the organization that you used to work for. he said the fact that he is not qualifying is out of anyone's control, but is it? >> give him credit, he has run an extraordinary campaign to date. he meets the threshold for donors, 225,000 pollers. i spoked to the dnc folks and they're addiment about this rule and they're not going to change the rules halfway into the game. there is still time. we still have time. i expect a lot of polls nationally and in the early states to come, and maybe he qualifies i think it may be be premature. i think there will be a bevy of polls. >> let's take a look. >> we're seeing signs of a surge, but there has not been a poll in iowa since early november. a lot has changed that is not being picked up, so i don't understand the dnc. clearly anyone here looking at overflowing house parties, people see we're a campaign most likel

or the dnc helped and then tried to frame russia. it's nuts. but "the washington post" today has a long reported piece that essentially says senior white house officials believe putin himself influenced the president's thinking about this, that putin even told an official at one point that putin told him that ukraine was out to get him. what do you make of that? >> what i make of it is that kind of report is very credible, dangerously so because obviously putin is continuing to attack this country. the threat of the criminality that is involved in this impeachment is continuing. the danger to our national security because putin is playing us, he's playing our president but he's also continuing to spread disinformation and propaganda, and this idea, this crack pot conspiracy theory that giuliani is fueling by his trip to ukraine recently is in effect endangering this country, and it is a threat to our national security. >> senator richard blumenthal, thank you very much. >>> next, what the impeachment of president trump means for the

dnc officials say that they are unlikely to change the rules for january. >> the dnc chairman has not decided if you will change the rules for the february and march debate. the union representing the food workers will meet on tuesday or sooner. >>> the articles of impeachment, that is three days away. today on twitter president trump announced it as a hoax and said that we will win. lawmakers will consider two articles of impeachment. obstruction of power they are looking for a senate trial in they have witness wish list but the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham suggests a different approach. >> they will called the witnesses that the president wants. >> i worried that we will not get a fair trial with all the facts and the truth coming out. i will work hard to get that done. >> chuck schumer sent a letter to mitch mcconnell saying that the witnesses that is set a trial should include the former national security adviser and the acting chief of staff. >>> instead of holiday cheer, hallmark is spreading diverse commercials. >>> lori loughlin is not giving up, and the governmen

in a statement to the dnc i propose a simple solution to the january 10 dnc should have for early qualifying polls in iowa, nevada, south carolina were all the candidates have invested their time, resources and staff. will provide an accurate snapshot of the current state of the race where voters hearts and minds are. that is getting away ahead event an eminent problem. the d&c says no. so what is that mean for candidates that need the primary season just one month away? told me former ted cruz and wpa ceo. chris wilson is back. welcome back. >> thanks kennedy. kennedy: so i think andrew yang has a. you are not times i not michael bloomberg you can't take your billions and flood the airwaves across the country, you have to focus surgically on these places. so why isn't the dnc taking that good piece of advice? >> well, the real reason they are not doing it is because they are out of money, kennedy. the they have been having fundraising records and 19. so yang is asking to do something reasonable and they said an odd process to qualify for these debates. and because they are as you pointed ou

the chairman of the dnc rejected their request for the dnc to release more early state polls, cutting off a vital pathway to the january debate. on his twitter biography he writes, likes the buffalo bills, the democrats and fighting for the little guy, not in that order. apparently he does not like fighting for the little guy who has over 400,000 donors including some right here in new hampshire. you look at that as an early state. some people in the room, we have a chance to out raise elizabeth warren in the fourth quarter. i'm going to look toward the biggest camera in the room. if there is someone from the dnc watching, where am i? if there is someone from the dnc watching, we have crammed over 100 people into a room built for 30. there people watching from out the door. poll the people is my point. i cannot vote in the 2020 election. i am the most passionate about this then anything i have been in a long time. andrew let me give you a high : five, man. [applause] >> i have a little bit more. i will try to get through it. tom perez, pfeiffer the little guy. pfeiffer the american pe

. >> andrew yang criticizing the dnc over the january 14th debate. ening yang was the only nonwhite candidate on stage. under polling requirements, only five candidates qualify for the debate, not including yang after the dnc rejected new polling and yang said the committee should push harder to expand the stage. >> if they heard back that it was not going to be in time for the january 10th deadline, they should say, why don't you start it as soon as possible? the dnc saying we can do nothing about it seems disingenuous because they can clearly reach out to any of the approved polling organizations and ask for a poll to be conducted in a given timeline. >> as for senator elizabeth warren, today she commemorates one year since she launched her exploratory committee with a speech back home in massachusetts and a clean bill of health for bernie sanders after a heart attack earlier this year. the attending physicians at the u.s. capitol say that he has the mental and physical stamina to undertake the rigors of the presidency. >> on friday, secretary of s

dnc signaled they're unlikely to change the rules for january. dnc chairman tom perez has not yet decided whether he'll change the rules for the february and the march debates. meanwhile, the union for the food workers is about to meet with sodexo, the company on tuesday. it's quite possible they may meet a little sooner, elaine. >> farrah, thank you. >>> saturday, newtown, connect marks 20 years since the school shoot. but last night thanks to their high school football team, the day ended in celebration. with the game tied, seconds to go, and fog drifting in, newtown quarterback jack street hit riley wood with the bomb. he crossed the goal line and the crowd erupted in cheers as time expired. newtown won the state championship. >>> the new drug treatment promising hope against advanced breast cancer. >>> how a service station in maryland is charging into the future. >>> plus, the new ballerina breaking barriers on an old christmas tradition. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> winter is officially set to arrive this week on s

they hacked the dnc server. nobody has ever suggested as a matter of fact that ukraine had anything to do with that. the only person who has suggested it in the ugliest of ironies is the vladimir putin. he made up a story about ukraine wanting to go after trump and now members of your own party are parroting it. >> was crowdstrike involved in the d triple c hacking? >> yes. >> is crowdstrike in part owned by ukrainian? >> no. >> really? >> yes. >> yes really? that's not the information that we have. >> you have bad information. the man is american born of russian descent. he's not ukrainian. even if he were, that's what you're going to hang it on? tom bossert said that was a joke. you heard testimony from experts saying it was a joke. mueller said it's not true. burr said it's not true. >> what trump is saying is go back and let's look at all the was in on on the dccc server and -- >> there was no server. they operated in a cloud system. there is no server to steal. >> no server but they were hacked into and the

that the dnc's heart has been in the right place throughout this process. mayor de blasio said as much, but there have been some blind spots. and here's a blind spot that i'm sure the dnc didn't think about it and a lot of us didn't think about. it seems like a great idea to allow people to get on the debate stage based on how many contributors they have. that seems to democratize the process. the only problem is, if you're a billionaire like mike bloomberg or let's say tom steyer, because bloomberg's not taking money, if you're a billionaire, it's very easy to send out a lot of fund-raising letters and get $25 here, $20 -- you may end up spending more money than you take in, but you meet those artificial thresholds that have been put in there by the dnc. so it's -- it's actually, in a weird way, by doing that, you're actually ensuring that billionaires may be able to pay their way on to a debate stage. >> yeah, that's for sure, joe, and it's happening right now in front of us each and every day as we look at the debate stage. listen, this is not a new issu

the dnc, they are refusing to change their rules. they said in a statement that their qualifications are already extremely low and reflect where we are in the race. so my question to you is, does the responsibility rely on the dnc to change the qualifications or is this about the voters supporting the more diverse candidates here? or is it somehow a mix of both? >> i think it's a mix of both. look, the dnc put together these rules based on what happened in the to2016 primaries between bernie sanders and hillary clinton, and thinking that hillary clinton was the one that received the advantage. so they created these rules. my problem with them, however, is that it is creating this very false narrowing of the field that has nothing to do with voters right now. it has to do with fund-raising and it has to do with poll numbers. and right now, a majority of americans aren't even paying attention. and so i understand why the candidates like cory booker, who is not making the debate stage this time, hjulio castro did no make it last time an

that was not a dnc sanctioned debate qualifying poll. no polls of any kind in nevada in december and that poll in south carolina not a dnc sanctioned poll so four crucial states. they're probably going to create a front runner. maybe a clear, maybe overwhelming front runner to figure out what's going on there in terms of polling. you have four for the entire month that's finishing upright now. none of them are the brand named dnc qualifying polls. at this point last time around, we were looking at 14 different polls. right now we're only looking at four. why are there far fewer this time around? money. money is a big reason. polls are getting more expensive. especially at the state level because it's harder and harder to reached voters. it's harder and harder to get people to pick up the phone. the last time you got a cell phone call, started buzzing. you didn't recognize the number. when is the last time that you picked up the phone. so far fewer polls. good news is we're in a slow period right now. the week between christmas and new ye

and the dnc. and, look. i was at the dnc during that period of time. it was an awful period of time to be at that place. when, you know, your e-mails are being hacked and you don't know who's spying on who. and the fact that they are mimicking what putin and his allies over there are saying. that, to me, again, i've sort of -- like, trump to me is like he's gone. he's gone. but the -- the fact that you've got some republicans, a party that has been, for years, anti-communist, anti-russia. now, they're basically they're foot soldiers. >> and if you look at that, to that point, that -- without those republicans, then it all kind of crumbles because if you've seen in foreign policy with this president. he can be pushed in a certain direction if he is -- >> it's when he's on an island. >> exactly. and they're not leaving him on an island on this. and it has -- and look. russia -- putin is not -- he's not a trump fan or an anyone fan. he's an adversary of the -- america generally. and he's playing a long game here. >> by the way, brendan, i mean lindsey gra

the dnc on friday would not cross a picket line. meanwhile at the urging of new jersey senator cory booker who doesn't qualify for thursday's debate, eight democratic candidates signed on to a letter urging tnc chair tom perez to lower the selector holds for inclusion in upcoming debates in january and february. as of now candidates must meet requirements from polling and campaign contributions, a standard all campaigns agreed to when the debate schedule was announced last year which some candidate now say as the unintended consequence of limiting the diversity on the debate stage. the letter reads in part, candidates who proven their viability and commitment to the democratic party are being prematurely cut out of the nominating contest before many voters have even tuned in, much less made their decision whom to support. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren thinks the move would be a good one. >> i believe that while we're still in democratic primary debates, that we ought to have a more open field and hear from more voices and n

the reality is in 2016, the dnc got hacked. instead of turning its server over to the fbi for examination, which you would think they would do, they gave it to crowdstrike. a company whose co-for under and head of technology is a russian ex-pat who happens to be a fellow at the atlantic council. burris that employing the vice president's son to the tube of 80k a month. and highly troubling crowdstrike, at the same time was research can the dnc server also got busted for falsely alleging that russians attacked the computer system. crowdstrike issued an apology and the ministry of defense was forced to take back its allegations. there is a legitimate reason to want to know who hacked the dnc. was it the russians, was it ukraine? was it in the u.s.? it could have been an internal job within the campaign itself. we don't know because our government was never allowed to examine the servers. so why quow laugh it off as nothing but a diversion as chuck todd and his staff seem to do. >> do you believeing the crane melded in the electio

all things being equal i would open it up but understand the position of the dnc. i would love to see him on that stage as long as he can be there. but we'll see. >> that being said, there has been no shortage of discussion about how crowded the stage can be and while it's important to hear from everybody, how difficult it can be for candidates to get their message out. joe biden talked a little bit about that back in september. here's what he had to say. >> there's still ten people. there's still one minute. tell me your life story in a minute. >> i'm here talking to you. >> i'm being facetious. i think everybody knows these aren't debates, these are one-minute assertions. >> is there a better way to do this so you continue to hear from the candidates, but it's more substantive? >> well, i think that's the other side of it. somebody who has been through a large number of debates, it is really impossible for the public to know who the candidates are if you only have 30-second responses. the field at some point in time has to get culled. when that is, who knows. i t

you have not qualified yet for the stage because you haven't met a threshold as defined by the dnc in national polling. you pushed for them to institute state-by-state polling. they've rejected that. tell us your reaction. >> well, jim, we just celebrated our millionth donation. almost 400,000 donors. and there has not been a poll in iowa, nevada, south carolina or right where i am right now in new hampshire that satisfied the dnc in almost a month and a half. so all we want is for there to be polls in order for us to demonstrate that we would easily qualify by the dnc's own threshold. we're well over the donation threshold. we're looking to raise $1 million just today alone. and all we need is for there to be some polls in the field so we can see what the american people are thinking. >> let me ask you this. some of the other candidates have said that shrinking that stage over time has been to the benefit of the democratic field, allows voters to focus in more on the front-runners. what's your response to that argument? >> we don't have a problem with the dnc setting thresholds, as l

>> i'm a member of the dnc and a lot of us have issues with the dnc. fortunately, we have women, we have women of color, we have african-american women in there fighting to make sure these debates are as broad as required. and so i disagree with many of the rules that have been established. we have to make sure that we fight to get our dnc as a democrat, of course, and a member of the dnc to make sure these rules are fair. we saw after the last debate that that my perspective as a dnc member, they really did knock out the voices of senator castro and booker and, of course, kamala harris. they should have had the opportunity to be part of those debates. >> congresswoman barbara lee, wishing happy holidays to my fellow california girl. good to see you. >> thank you. happy holidays to you. >>> falling in line, how president trump keeps republican lawmakers firmly on his side and the political consequences for those who challenge him. one republican who's doing just that in the primary next year is going to join me after the break. there he is, william wel

dnc server is in ukraine pause of a ukrainian company. a few of the over 14,000 false statements or flat-out lies donald trump has hold throughout his presidency. the "washington post" believes it will push past 15,000 next week. they are the biggest pinocchios. he made the list seven times. david corn, i'll start with you on the marquis pinocchio. gepetto's prized possession led to this investigation. that's what he had to say the last few months. . >> trump has given pinocchio a bad name, i've got to say. i don't know how you came up with 13 over the years. and i feel sorry for the other politicians on the list who may have told two lies the whole year and they are on the list. . >> the cherry tree versus the orchard, i suppose. >> but the ukraine -- this is part of the ukraine scandal. trump's pursuit of a crazy, be bunked conspiracy theory that the russians did not hack the dnc, that it hacked itself or the ukrainians hacked it or helped it. that's the hoax. and when i read the transcript that came out, that he wants the first favor h

wikileaks dumped dnc emails. then a foreign official comes in and says, you know, back in may this guy said something in a bar to me, it was a suggestion, a suggestion. and before they even interviewed that person, they opened the a counter intelligence investigation on the whole campaign on the idea that this must reflect preknowledge of the hack. i'm saying that when you actually look at the surrounding circumstanc circumstances, that was a bridge too far. it wasn't reasonable for them to assume that and the proper response was to talk to the campaign. that's normally what would happen. this happens all the time in campaigns, there's hanky panicky going on, and we don't assume as the government that the campaign is part of that plot. we say to the campaign, they're foreign people who are feeding money into your campaign. the idea that you only talk to the -- some american that is involved here, if you are 100% certain that they're not culpable is simply not true. >> i want to move onto other things. but on the

to that, you say what is the former interim chair of the dnc? >> not only the former chair, someone who has fought very hard and very long, the battle that started with jesse jackson and shirley chisholm to make this a party of diversity and a party that believes every american deserves opportunity to compete for the presidency of the united states, i think the dnc is absolutely right. you set the rules in the beginning of the game that says we are going to have certain numbers of debates and here are the criteria, you have to live by that but to dip into the pool and say we are going to commission our own polls would be inappropriate. it's inappropriate for those who have already dropped out and those who were still competing. so i recognize mr. yang's concerns and i share many of his feelings about diversity and inclusion but i think it's inappropriate for the dnc. we have independent polls including fox news and others that will be coming out soon and hopefully other candidates as well as nondiverse candidates will be able to show that they h

they worked with the dnc operative. in fact can i make one more point, chuck? >> sure. >> in fact, in december of 2018 a ukrainian court ruled that ukrainian officials had violated ukrainian hlaw by meddling in or election. that was reported in the "new york times." dr. hill is exciteled to h e ed entitled to her opinion. >> when does opinion become fact? does 17 intelligence services saying it, does every western ally saying russia did this. i'm sort of confused. at no point is it no longer an opinion for you? >> i don't think it's an opinion. i think it was a fact. but the fact that russia was so aggressive does no exclude the fact that president poroshenko actively worked for secretary clinton. >> my goodness. wait a minute. senator kennedy you now have the president of ukraine saying he actively worked for the democratic nominee for president. now come on. you realize the only other person selling this argument outside the unite is this man, vladimir putin. you've done exactly what the russian operation is trying to get american politicians to do. are you a

>> reporter: tom, this is not the first hurdle for the dnc. last month, they had to move this same debate from ucla over a different labor dispute. but tonight, both the party and the candidates are optimistic that they can find a solution before thursday. tom. >> rachel, thank you. >>> and there's much more ahead on "world news tonight" this saturday. a shooting inside of a mall during the height of the holiday shopping season. frantic shoppers seen running to safety, the latest from the police tonight. >>> actress lori loughlin now fighting back in college admissions scandal, what she's now accusing prosecutors doing. >>> and a reporter inappropriately touched on live tv. her alleged attacker arrested. the charges he's now facing. the charges he's now facing. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the fir

andrew yang supporters are speaking out after the dnc denied his request for more qualifying polls for the next democratic debate. cheryl: garrett tenney is live at the nation's capitol with more on yang's iowa. he's being very vocal. >> reporter: you may remember, andrew yang was the only candidate of color on the debate stage in december. he's warning the dnc there may be more candidates of color a few weeks from now if it doesn't stedoesn't step in. yang wrote, a diverse set of candidates might be absent from the stage in des moines for reasons out of anyone's control. on monday, the dnc said it will not be conducting its own polling to help fill in the void and get more candidates on stage, saying it has been more than inclusive throughout this entire process with an expansive list of qualifying polls, including 26 polls for the december debate, more than half of which were state polls. here's how andrew yang responded. >> the dnc saying we can do nothing about it seems disingenuous because they can clearly reach out to any of the approved polling organizations and ask for a poll t

what tom has tried to do at the dnc is create a system that was fair. at the end of the day i hope all the candidates go into the communities, particularly communities of color, and talk about the issues important to those folks. that's what's really important at the end of the day. you know, continue to push. i hope they come back here to south carolina which is the first in the south presidential primary where it is the first primary where there's significant african american communities that will show up and vote. they want to hear from these can candidates. they want to make sure these candidates are talking about the issues that are important to them. >> jamie harrison, thanks for coming in. i appreciate it. >>> coming up, he put his life on the line to expose atrocities, now real action from congress. will it make a difference? pical. like salonpas patch large. it's powerful, fda-approved to relieve moderate pain for up to 12 hours, yet non-addictive and gentle on the body. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu. aveeno® with prebiotic striple o

. >> i don't believe we should cross that picket line, so i'm encouraging -- [applause] >> the dnc to try to work this out to find a new location or they're going to have to figure out what -- how they resolve this. >> in a statement, a spokesperson with the dnc said they and loyola marymount learned of this issue friday and adding while he was not a part of the negotiation between sodexo and tom perez, the chairman of the dnc would absolutely not cross a picket line and would never expect our candidates to either. we are working with all stake holders to find an accept rabble resolution that meets their needs and will enable us to proceed with next week's debate. the california debate was supposed to take place at ucla, but it was relocated because of disputes there. >> ellison, you're in pittsburgh, tell us about the forum. obviously, pennsylvania is a key battle ground. >> yeah, it's a big deal. so, seven candidates are here today. it was supposed to be eight, but senator cory booker, according to this team. he came down with the flu and he had to back out the forum at the last min

the only evidence i have and i think it is overwhelming is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. >> that is what the consensus is. >> yep. eve seen no indication that ukraine tried to do it. >> reporter: that is enough to earn presidential raise where it counts on twitter. thank you to great republican senator john kennedy for the job he did in representing both the republican party and myself. and just a few moments ago the president and the first lady stepped off of air force one arriving here in london for these nato meetings and we should mention the white house, they like the split screen of seeing the president over here in london meeting with the nato leaders while the house of representatives is holding the impeachment proceedings and the white house has until the end of the week to decide whether administration lawyers will play any part in the impeachment proceedings in the house and one official questioned whether the white house needed to respond to the house hearing set for wednesday as it includes constitutional scholars as manu raju was just mentioning, n

russian intelligence hacked the dnc and the clinton campaign. does your report disprove that finding? >> no, we don't disprove any of the findings. >> russian intelligence was acting to release stolen emails through wikileaks, through d.c. leaks with an intention to help donald trump's presidential campaign and you don't disagree with that? >> we don't disagree with it. >> there was a coordinated influence campaign on social media to try and tear apart american society, to sow discord and your report doesn't disagree with that. >> correct >> let me just in summary, when the fbi opened this investigation known as crossfire hurricane, russia was at that time engaging in an unprecedented and broad scale attack on our election and our democracy. as a candidate, russia if your listening, i hope you're able to find hillary clinton's emails. all of this was happening while the fbi was trying to protect our elections and our democracy. i would have preferred to see our president criticize then the russians who were attacking our elections. but to your r

so what i actually believe should happen is that we should go forward with the dnc putting together a task force of people from around the country, the way that happened before 1972, and people from different backgrounds, different experiences, and they should get together and create a system of rank order in these states. some of those that go into that, how reflective the state is of the diversity of the party and country, the size of the state and how easy or expensive it is to campaign in that state. also if we say our values are we want to make it easier for people to vote. how easy does it make for people to vote? is there early voting? is there vote by mail? how many voting locations do they usually have in most of their areas. we can come up with a thoughtful, effective way to rank order these states and then you also give an incentive to states to actually get better about how accessible they make voting to people. if we do that, then i believe that the presidential nominating process will, i think, be fundamentally more fair to people who are voters out there and who want to

will he get to be dnc chair again? >> after the convention, the nominee -- as for the primaries, you don't want to give up the small states at the beginning too quickly. i think the best solution is to have south carolina, nevada, iowa, new hampshire on the same day. >> even south carolina, i think you're not getting the same kind of -- >> the problem is if you go to a big state at the beginning, then they just campaign airport terminal to television studio to airport terminal. there's no retail politics. they don't have to meet voters. i don't want that. >> in colorado -- >> there is math that you can -- there's math that you can layout, picking a place like georgia. georgia has both. you have regional areas, you have rural areas. you have one metropolitan area and it's not that expensive. it's not like you're going to ohio where you have media markets. >> we have to pay for this. we're going to make everybody talk in the break. thank you so much. coming up 24 hours later how the candidates are responding to the impea

the dnc saying we can do nothing about it is disingenuous. they can reach out to any polling organization and ask for a pull to be conducted at any time. -- poll to become the to be conducted at any time. [inaudible conversations] mr. yang: we should be privy to our data even when it is not being breached. getting sold and resold or tech companies are profiting from it, we should know about that. think the law goes far enough to make our data [inaudible] >> on health care, you spoke on this over the weekend. nameare for all is the that would essentially eliminate private health insurance. your andrew: to me, medicare for all means universal health care for all americans. we need to get health care access up and costs down to a level where americans can get the health care they want and deserve. health care should be a human right in this country instead of a means for companies to make money off of. >> would you consider rebranding your own as universal health care? andrew: i think medicare for a means universal health care. to me and other a

i was a little surprised that the dnc elevated their threshold. i thought that they would keep it the same. >> and i want to talk to but that threshold. the very fair and transparent process and said a year ago that thequalification would go up and not one campaign objected 37 they say that they are trying to make it as fair as possible. >> and i've had absolutely no issue with the dnc's thresholds throughout. they have actually been very fair and transparent like they said. i was still surprised that they elevated it for january because i thought that they wanted to give cory a path back to the stage to have more representation on the stage and the only concern i have is that they haven't been running many polls in part because of the holidays. so it is difficult to have a higher threshold when there aren't that many polls in the field. >> and cory booker's campaign and the rest of the field came forward with this letter asking the dnc to do away -- to go back to some of the earlier thresholds. and your campaign did sign on to but i was told by a

are the dnc right to say, the voters don't like you? that's part of politics, or -- >> what's been happening for a year, some of these candidates, cory booker, julian castro, they've been out to south carolina, to iowa, they've been talking to voters and they have not shown up on the polls. booker and castro have had, castro in particular, some real standout debate moments which have not transferred to the donation. i think if you acan argue that you have a credible case and you can mebeat donald trump, and you've had comparable debates on the debates stage, maybe it would be competitive. >> is there anything you want to ask forgiveness for or do you want to give a gift to anybody? i'm going to back out of this one as the man at the table, because a lot of people took note that the only candidates who talked about forgiveness were the two women. >> i will ask for forgiveness. i know that sometimes i get really worked up. and sometimes i get a little hot. i don't really mean to. >> i would ask for forgiveness any time any of you get mad

that poll was not a dnc sanctioned debate qualifying poll. how about nevada? zero. no polls at all of any kind in nevada in december. one in south carolina. and again that poll in south carolina not a dnc sanctioned poll, and so the four key lead off states, the four crucial states. these are the states going to win on the field. they're probably going to create a front-runner, maybe a clear, maybe an overwhelming front-runner. to figure out what's going on there in terms of polling this is all you've got. you've got four for the entire month finishing off right now. at this point last time around end of december 2015 in these four states we were looking at 14 different polls. right now we're only looking at four. why are there far fewer this time around? money, money is a big reason. polls are getting more expensive especially at the state level because it's harder and harder to reach voters. it's harder and harder to get people to bick up the phone. the last time you got a cellphone call, started buzzing, your land line, it's one of the problems pollsters have rig

>> have you talked to the dnc about how that might work? mr. bloomberg: no, it is up to the dnc, they can set the rules, and if they set the rules where i qualify, i would certainly debate. what i want to do is talk directly to the public and explain what i have done and what i would do and give them some comfort that because of what i did in the past, i will deliver in the future. they are not just empty promises. and if you can say that in a debate, ok, although it is hard to do that. i think i would be much better off talking to the public as i am doing now. thank you, all and i just want to thank the people from virginia. going to phoenix, arizona tomorrow. >> are they too liberal? are the current democrats too liberal? mr. bloomberg: i have no idea, but we are going to do that test, and it is called voting. thank you. >> i wanted to tell you i hang my head in shame at the industry and the very unfair personalized reporting of these fellows and i think you ought to know that opinion because you are going to the disappointed in me down the r

andrew yang supporters are speaking out after the dnc denied his request for more qualifying polls for the next democratic debate. garrett tenney has more on yang's argument just weeks away from the first caucus. good morning. >> these debates are getting harder and harder to qualify for. andrew yang met the fundraising requirements for the debate but only met one of the 5% pulling requirements for the 4 poles that are required. yang's campaign argues there has been almost no qualifying polls since the last debate on the server 19th but the dnc says it has been more than inclusive through this entire process with expansive list of qualifying polls including 26 poles for the december debate more than half of which were state polls. >> the dnc saying we can do nothing about it seems disingenuous because they can clearly reach out any of the approved polling organizations, send out for a poll to be conducted and give a timeline. >> show biden is qualified for the next debate and on monday said he would be willing to pick a republican as his running mate with one caveat. >> the answer is i

bumped dnc emails. then, i for official comes in this guy you know, said something in a bar to me, a suggestion, before they even interviewed that person, they open the counterintelligence investigation into the idea that this must reflect pre-knowledge of the hack. i am saying when you actually look at the surrounding a bridgences, that was too far. it was not reasonable for them to assume that. was to talkesponse to the campaign. this happens all the time in campaigns. foreign donors, hanky-panky going on, and usually, we don't assume as a government that the campaign is part of that blood, we go and we say to the -- of that lot, we go inside of the campaign directly. if you are 100% certain they are not culpable, it is simply not true. replication,zer the report is very critical. document 17, emissions are errors -- or errors in the .ubsequent that resulted in applications that made appear the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case. do you think given that, that

and by the way, that server, it still sits in the basement of dnc headquarters. yet it is conspiracy theories like this that the president and the top republican on the house intelligence committee continue to peddle. gop lawmakers like senator kennedy are attempting now to launder those lies by claiming that things such as a 2016 op-ed written by a ukrainian official critical of president trump are the evidence of ukrainian election interference. that is simply not comparable to russia intentionally meddling in our election. so where does that leave us? where does that leave our country? russia you should know is already interfaring in the 2020 election by among many other things, amplifying comments of republican lawmakers like kennedy pushing claims of ukrainian interference. why should this trouble all of us? i spoke to law enforcement officials, intelligence officials, welles lawmakers in both parties. i asked if the election is safe from russia and others today. all of them have said no. >> jim, thank you very much for all of that explanation and explaining