bloomberg: let me be clear. my fellow democrats are all good people and if one of them wins, god forbid, i will support her or him because this election is too important to have divided -- to have our party divided like we saw in 2016. but i offer a different choice and a different kind of leadership. i did not spend my whole career in politics and i don't just go out and make speeches. i build teams and nurture good ideas and i hold myself accountable for results. like i said, i am the untump. that is how i run my business and that is how i ran new york city. if you think about it, i was elected seven weeks after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11. our economy was in tatters. there was smoke still coming out of a big hole in the ground. our economy was in recession. i brought people together and we created nearly 5000 new jobs, affordable housing, reduced street homelessness by 28%, launched a new program to fight poverty, and we built new york city stronger than ever. we can do that across this country.

michael bloomberg is here. elizabeth understands a strong growing economy begins with a strong middle class. >> joe's candid honest counsel made me a better president in chief. and the best part, he's nowhere close to finished. >> in south carolina, a voter who switched frommed byton sanders, says, walla, barack obama, who is neutral. >> you really would not know. i have been talking to the other campaigns. this is a source of anxiety. voters are coming away from the television screens believing obama has weighed in on this race when he has not. there's nothing you can do about it. the ads are everywhere. the debate stage, i'm sure someone will bring this up tonight. that will not do the trick. especially for joe biden, a real problem for him. >> someone will criticize obama for endorsing them all. >> make a decision. >> just to show you how much his good will is within the democratic party but no way we can return to the obama way of doing this. >> i saw him at the all-star game in a panel discussion, i saw hi

michael bloomberg is here. vo: together they worked to combat gun violence, and again to improve education for every child. obama: i want to thank the mayor of this great city, mayor bloomberg, for his extraordinary leadership. i share your determination to bring this country together to finally make progress for the american people. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg, and i approve this message. how we worship, or who we love. and the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. because this is the count that informs where hundreds of billions in funding healthcare, and programs that touch us all. shape your future. start here. learn more at 2020census.gov >i spend a lot of time sin my truck.y? it's my livelihood. ♪ rock music >> man: so i'm not taking any chances when something happens to it. so when my windshield cracked... my friend recommended safelite autoglass. >> tech: hi, i'm adrian. >> man: thanks for coming. >> tech: oh, no problem. >> tech: check it out. >> man: yeah. they came right to me, with expe

bloomberg accused a bloomberg executive at the time of rape. a very serious allegation. and according to the village voice which looked at michael bloomberg's deposition as a part of that lawsuit, michael bloomberg said that he would only believe a rape allegation if there is an unimpeachable third party witness. this is what a spokesperson said about that, said it was a contentious deposition, and this is not what mike believes. >> m.j., you also had a chance to speak to a former bloomberg employee about these lawsuits and the culture at the company, obviously it's one person. what did they tell you? >> this person said they saw and experienced the kinds of sexism that are described in these two lawsuits that we just talked about, they said when you're a woman who worked at bloomberg, you had to look beautiful. you had to be gorgeous. if you were overweight they would call you horrible names. the bloomberg's campaign overall push back has been to say that michael bloomberg himself does not condone this kind of behavior. they gave us a statement from patty harris. in any

bloomberg: ok, we will get over it. [booing] [crowd chanting] mr. bloomberg: thank you, thank you. the easiest thing to do is just to wait them out. anyways, we flipped 21 seats in the house and that put nancy pelosi in as speaker, and began -- and it allowed us to begin holding president trump accountable through the impeachment process, but since the republican senate didn't have the courage to remove trump from office, it is up to us to do it this november and we are going to do it. [cheers and applause] mr. bloomberg: i got into this race 10 weeks ago because i was deeply concerned donald trump was on track to win the election and i couldn't sit by and let that happen. our campaign is getting great response all over america. we are running a campaign for change, a campaign for sanity on a campaign for honesty, inclusion, compassion, and a campaign for human decency, and we are running hard here in virginia because, make no mistake, virginia is still very much up for grabs in 2020, and we are not waiting until the general election to organize here. we've already knocked on more

bloomberg's name. for more, we go to washington, d.c., where we are joined by yasmine taeb, one of the authors of the report. she says they were told to make major changes to the chapter or remove it. other officials told "the new york times" to revise the report to make a focus on right-wing groups targeting muslims. when the report came out, bloomberg had already given the center for american progress three grants worth nearly $1.5 million gain contributed 400,000 more dollars in 2017. yasmine taeb no longer works at the center for american progress, but she is now a member of the democratic national committee. and still with us in philadelphia, journalist blake zeff, who covers new york politics in bloomberg's three terms. thank you both for joining us. yasmine taeb, tell us what took place when you work for the center for american progress. tell us about this report. know,as you likely fearing 2.0, which was released today andve years ago i was on your show five y years ago talking about the findin

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mike bloomberg is here to stay. now qualifying for his first debate and a debate that is tomorrow night. a new npr marist poll vaulting bloomberg into second place at 19% support among democrats and democratic leaning voters and look there also at bernie sanders in front at 31%. the long time front-runner joe biden within the margin of error for second place with bloomberg, which makes it then no surprise

nbc wall street national poll we see sanders opening a double digit lead, bloomberg rising, 27%, bloomberg and warren tied at 14, buttigieg 13, klobuchar 7%. and 26,000 nevadans voted early voting. we will see what tonight brings. jillian: so fascinating to watch. rob: with the democrat party split between its progressive wing and moderates tonight's debate will be the first test between bernie sanders, the democratic socialist, and michael bloomberg who could be the new establishment favorite. jillian: michael bloomberg fails the democrats own litmus test. >> there are three planks to the democratic party, bloomberg failed in all three. class warfare artists, he is a billionaire, that is not a problem for free-market capitalists like us but it is for the incoming democrats. the second bedrock identity politics. he's talking about throwing minorities up against the wall, stop and frisk, in a way that reflects poorly on himself. one more thing. what about money in politics? we've got to get money out of politics. he tried to buy and influence all over the country. political races everywhere

on that stage it wasn't bloomberg himself it was a d. and c. they did that what does that say about the d.n.c. in your mind go ahead. the d.n.c. definitely deserves criticism for this and if you look at candid. it's like you know senator booker and center harris and you know castro the problem that the d.n.c. has is that it seems pretty clear that they change the rules to been if it might bloomberg and he didn't do well last night which will be a problem i think moving forward what democrats are going to have to contend with is similar to what they're going to have to contend with in 2016 the movement the momentum the energy behind bernie sanders bloomberg unfortunately for democrats it's not that candidate i can't imagine anyone who looked at bloomberg performance last night and said that they felt inspired and if you can imagine bloomberg being on stage with donald trump arguing that i'm a better billionaire then you know you think it's the most you're going to be able to thing that happens you could sell tickets because that will be a

what bloomberg did to black, the black community was a disgrace. chris: kelly and, candidate donald trump supported what bloomberg did with stop and frisk. here he is in the first debate with hillary clinton and 2016. >> continued on by mayor bloomberg and terminated by current mayor. stop and frisk had a tremendous impact on the safety of new york city. tremendous. beyond belief. when you say it has no impact, it really did. a very big impact. why was it tremendous then and is racist now? >> the president is toying with everybody. if you showed videotape of that of him everybody would say racist. i think michael bloomberg learned his lesson. that was so long ago. a few years ago as mayor of new york. it was not just stop and frisk. he said run lighting, canceling redlining started the financial crisis. the african-american community were not the perpetrators of that crisis. many of them were the victims. what is he talking about? this billionaire that has made this life's wealth in the financial services industry is now saying that. burning a flag

bloomberg. democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like red lining and stop and frisk. democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another. >> i actually welcomed mayor bloomberg to the stage. i thought that he shouldn't be hiding behind his tv ads. >> the mayor says that he has a great record, that he has done these wonderful things. the fact of the matter is he has not managed his city very very well when he was there. he didn't get a whole lot done. he had stop and frisk throwing close to 5 million young black men up against the wall. >> we could wake up two weeks from today, day after super tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be bernie sanders and michael bloomberg. the two most polarizing figures on this stage. let's put forward somebody who's actually a democrat. we shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn t

bloomberg did not endorse obama, and obama did not endorse bloomberg bloomberg waited till the very last week of 2012 to endorse obama's reelection over mitt romney. bloomberg was pretty critical of obama's policies, his leadership style. he was initially supportive of obamacare and later came out against it. said dodd-frank was not good for wall street and therefore not good for america. he was critical when the justice department cracked down on stop and frisk and even on signature accomplishments on the second term, the iran nuclear deal, he opposed that and paris climate accords, right after donald trump pulled out of those in 2017 after getting elected, bloomberg said he wasn't too concerned because he said the previous administration did hardly anything on climate change, it was all downstream actors like local governments and private citizens who had the real impact. bloomberg is wanting to you believe he and barack obama were best friends and worked together in partnerships and that's true in some issues but on some issues bloomberg was very critical. every candidate is trying to

bloomberg had no answer. and if bloomberg alienates african-americans and women, and the aquarium starts to become very small for him to be fishing in, in the democratic party. i guess my question, laura, is how are we sleeping on bernie? bernie probably what i won this thing last night if they had stolen it from him for hillary,. if he wins south carolina, chris, don't you think, if bernie wins south carolina, go ahead and get the fat lady to start singing because this race is over. if bernie wins -- >> laura: go ahead. >> if bernie wins south carolina, you are correct, congressman, i really agree with you, but if he wins south carolina, head of steam going to super tuesday. i don't count out bloomberg on super tuesday pulling in a lot of delegates. the question is, can anybody get the 1900 plus delegates you're going to need to have a majority of the convention? if bernie is close, he's going to be the nominee. wherever the nominee is is going to have to unify the party. he bernie is going to have to look t

bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of bloomberg lp, the parent company of bloomberg news. a senior pentagon official who warned defense department officials against withholding aid to ukraine is stepping down. year thattified last the defense department had not seen enough anticorruption progress to justify releasing the eight congress had authorized. his letter of resignation did not mention ukraine, but said he was leaving at president trump's request. the administration's delay in releasing the aid was central to the president's impeachment. about five hundred passengers left the cruise ship diamond princess at the end of a two month quarantine. the quarantine failed to stop the spread of the coronavirus among passengers and crew. 79 more cases werebringing the p to 629. japan's government has been criticized over its decision to keep people on the ship, which some experts have called a perfect virus incubator. china is looking at ways to help airlines with the coronavirus outbreak. beijing is considering measures such as mergers and direct cash injection. one proposal

bloomberg. whatever you interpret it as, what we know is it is going to be a fascinating debate tomorrow. that does it for me. i'm chris jansing. "deadline: white house" is up next. >>> it is 4:00 on the east coast. 1:00 here in las vegas. and if you already jumped up from your seats to adjust your tv, sit back down this is unfortunately today how my voice sounds. it could be a winter cold or likely the result of a craps at the table last night. chris matthews will rescue me later in the hour and taking over from washington with all of the news from the white house. but we have to begin here in vegas where less than 30 hours the next nbc news democratic debate has the potential to reshape the entire presidential race. michael bloomberg qualifying today, the remarkable 15-point surge in the new poll that puts bloomberg in a strong second place nationally at 19% just behind bernie sanders. that means that tomorrow in a big way mike bloomberg's candidacy gets right. for those that only know him fro

bloomberg: i'm shameless. how we doing? [applause] mr. bloomberg: this is some crowd. i don't know if you came out here for the craft -- campaign over the beer. [applause] mr. bloomberg: to be clear, i'm here for both. it may be the only way to save a nation, with a little libation. [laughter] mr. bloomberg: seriously, our campaign is building momentum across virginia and the country . super tuesday is coming up and we are going to make every second count. [applause] mr. bloomberg: and i want to thank charisse for supporting our campaign and all the kind words when she introduced me. the good news, she said them exactly the way i wrote them for her. [laughter] mr. bloomberg: seriously, thank you for your leadership in the house of delegates. you and your colleagues are showing the country what is possible when democrats are in charge. [applause] mr. bloomberg: now, some of you might remember virginia was the same state i came to when i launched my campaign a couple of months ago and since then, i 've been to 62 cities and 25 states. but i've been to virginia more than

especially at bloomberg. >> she did. she took aim at bloomberg and succeeded. particularly on the nda issue and started out the debate by talking about that issue. by talking about the names that bloomberg called women. comparing him to trump. which goes to his electability. which is how can you allow this guy to go up against that guy. one has problems with women. the other guy has problems with women. she was right on the on the arguments. the question is will it matter? this is late. you have nevada on saturday. south carolina coming up. people don't have any money. you're shaking your head. you know the story. and who has the money to compete other than sanders right now and michael bloomberg? >> that's the great question is could elizabeth or joe or amy or pete have a break out night that leads to donations. from people and donors on the sidelines. frankly getting phone calls from bloomberg saying sit this out i got this. if you're a donor not donating is a an appealing pitch. >> bloomberg is calling donors saying don't give to my opponents. >> saying sit

it's a feeding frenzy on bloomberg. the moderates -- so-called moderates -- going after the progressives. where does the stand now? where is this race tonight? >> it really is a feeding frenzy on mike bloomberg, but it's also a feeding frenzy on bernie sanders, who remains in the strongest position on the democratic side to get the nomination. in the entire democratic establishment, and just about everybody on that stage, wants to prevent him from getting the nomination. and to me, the most important thing out of the debate tonight, what was the first words out of mike bloomberg's mouth, coming directly from him, not some paid-for advertising, but coming airectly out of his mouth during the campaign, and that is that bernie sanders will never beat donald trump. that is an astonishing indictment of the democrats' number one front-runner for the nomination, spoken by the guy that they hope will be the party's savior. also, the other thing -- don't forget, bloomberg and sanders, neither one of them -- bloomber, has been a

bloomberg. ali vitale with elizabeth warren. shaq is all things bernie sanders and mike memoli with joe biden. shaq, is bernie sanders seeing an opportunity tonight with bloomberg on stage that he is going to have a shield in michael bloomberg? >> almost like they see that they see that campaign. i was speaking with his campaign manager yesterday and made the point that bloomberg is a natural foyle. it was pete buttigieg and before that to target but senator sanders with a billionaire there from front of him willing to more naturally willing to put the attack on and hearing a sense of that on the campaign trail over the past week. gone after mayor bloomberg aggressively on stop and frisk, the impact on african-americans and latinos, the opposition to a minimum wage, a key part of sanders' campaign in 2016 and the openness to cutting social security and medicare and not only go after bloomberg spending in the race but specific policy issues. >> mike, joeb biden campaign pu out best of bloomberg i

did it help her or hurt bloomberg? my argument is this hurt bloomberg. it's not going to help elizabeth warren as much as she needs to be helped right now. ainsley: he just didn't defend himself. let's watch the next one when mayor bloomberg he comments about capitalism vs. socialism. watch this. >> i can't think of a ways that would make it easier for donald trump to get reelected than listening to this conversation. [laughter] it's ridiculous. [cheers] >> we're not going to degree out capitalism. we tried that. other countries tried that it was called communism and it just didn't work. ainsley: whoa, lee? >> flat line. republicans gave him the best mark of the night when he said that but he is not wrong. i mean, the winner of the night last night was donald trump. i mean, people are going to watch that and think this is a mess. ainsley: piggy back on that soundbite the president was in phoenix and he was slamming the democrats for being socialists now. watch this. >> washington democrats have never been more extreme. taking cues from crazy bernie sande

bloomberg? >> well, first, let me say with respect to the polls you were just talking about i think as we all know the national polls are no some ways a lagging indicator of what's going on closer to the ground as we go through these primaries. the national polls will have and will move in response to those. secondly, you mentioned california. california is going to be very much, i think, bernie sanders country. that is a very liberal state and he is well positioned there. in terms of mike, look, this is his first debate since he was mayor, he is a smart guy, he has been working hard to prepare, he is up against four or five people who have been doing this now for a year or more and have a lot of experience on this stage. i think the ad that you showed earlier this week of mike going after bernie sanders, so to speak, will -- could well be one of the themes of tonight. i think mike is idealogically about as far from bernie sanders as any two democrats could be from each other and i think he has

work for bloomberg, i work for bloomberg. i wouldn't be surprised if a fourth of the audience worked for bloomberg. it was hard to find people who were not on bloomberg payroll to talk to. the mood was open-minded but a little doubtful. >> laura: is that a bloomberg pain you have on i'm noticing on your lapel? what is that all about? is that how you got in there? >> i don't think i can keep it on much longer because i came here right from the event, but as i walked in they slapped it on may come everyone has to wear one of these to get them here the price of admission. i don't think it's good for my career to keep it on too long. >> laura: one more troubling interaction tonight was about black unemployment numbers. i want to play that, watch. >> i don't believe those numbers are reflective of what is actually happening. >> laura: how does the president combat that disinformation? the economy has never been better for black america, and yet, there are people in that audience saying i don't believe those numbers. >> i think it

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he has a digital ad making fun of bloomberg. ♪ ♪ reporter: and, when the bloomberg campaign saw the phony instagram dms in the digital ad they responded using biden's own words. >> mike has what every public official should have, passion, matched with principle. your legacy extends well beyond the five boroughs. reporter: bloomberg can expect a lot of incoming about a lot of different things. for example, elizabeth warren tweeted following. mike bloomberg approved and oversaw a program that surveiled and tracked muslim communities in mosques, restaurants, even college campuses leaving permanent damage. he refuses to apologize for it. he, michael bloomberg, has the attention of the front-runner right now in the polls, bernie sanders. >> mr. bloomberg has ever right in the world to rhine for president of the united states. he is an american citizen. but i don't think he has the right to buy this election. [cheers and applause] reporter: more than 33,000 democrats voted just yesterday in the early period here in nevada. more than 70,000 have voted early overall. that is almost as many democr

apparently comparing bloomberg to trump. writing, at least now primary voters can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an ego maniac billionaire. joe biden is hoping for a strong finish in nevada after disappointing showings in iowa and new hampshire. >> we choose unity over division. we choose -- we choose compassion over cruelty. and maybe most importantly, we choose truth over lies. truth over lies. so folks, it's time for us to get up. >> reporter: tonight's debate will be one of the last chances these democrats have to leave their mark on nevada voters with those caucuses just three days away and michael bloomberg isn't competing here in nevada or south carolina focusing instead on those super tuesday contests. >> thank you very much. joining us now, paul begala and andrew gillum. andrew, i want to start with you. two major things have happened since the last time democrats debated. number one, bernie sanders is clearly the national front runner now. every poll is in agreement on that. and the second thing is

bloomberg is running on anything. not because he doesn'tan have ideas, he's got plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream but bloomberg doesn't think any of that matters. he's not running on ideas, he's not trying to convince voters of anything. he's not making arguments are working to change their minds on policies they care about. he's trying to buy them and hence the presidency. if the single most cynical political campaign ever run of this country. bloomberg is trying to subvert our sonography with cash and he's going all and to do it. bloomberg has spent more than $417 million on advertising so far in this race. his nearest rival, bernie sanders, has spent 40 million, that's less than a tenth. joe biden, the men they told us was themi front runner, has spet just 12.3 million. compare that, let's say it again, to the at least 417 million bloomberg has pumped into the race, just onus advertising. and that's just the beginning. they say bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion of his o

michael bloomberg confessed. pa rt sure. michael bloomberg confessed. part of leadership is, when you mess up, you confess. you see that you made a mistake. michael bloomberg has said that and, further said, he has said that and, further said, he has learned from that. and learning from that, he has made so many great proposals on african—american empowerment. he has created 100,000 new business opportunities in the united states, and affordable housing programme for african today, he is announcing his total criminal justice reform package that hits on every point that african americans in this country have been talking about for decades. the thing about michael bloomberg is that, as a mayo, what you promise and when you make a policy proposal, you do it. michael bloomberg has a record of doing things that he has committed to do. on capitol hill, he will perform them. when he was back or do you make mistakes and he apologised and learned from it i need to do more to explain to african—americans the us, hey, he was wrong. in doing so, move on and i d

what is true according to a business insider investigation, both the company that bloomberg founded bloomberg lp and bloomberg have faced nearly 40 employment lawsuits from 65 plaintiffs since 1996. the majority of those alleged discrimination over race, gender and disability status and wage discrepancy and none of that is acceptable, but we will have more on the actual allegations sanders' aide accused him of doing. she said 64 sexual assault al dwagss gaial -- allegations and there were not. so either a campaign pushes out and tolerates the smears or it does not. we know where president trump and the team stand on these issues. they lie and smear, but is this now what we are supposed to expect from everyone? as ryan nobles reports, they are calling this episode trumpian and sets the stage for the heated debate tonight. >> bernie sanders is facing new questions over his health. >> very good, thank you. >> reporter: after suffering a heart attack last fall, sanders pledged to release the medical records before the primary and in december, he released three letters of doctors who treated him w

bloomberg i'm joined by my guest in washington he's a g.o.p. strategist in seattle we have zach holler he's an author and media analyst and in los angeles we cross to kim iverson she is host of the kim iverson show or a cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it it's a toss up now i always go to the person that got up earlier but we early as but we have washington and in los angeles i'm going to defer to los angeles cam what what are the prospects of this kennedy see moving forward for michael bloomberg after his 1st appearance on the debate stage go ahead kim. now i want to have. this guy as well charisma you can just buy you can't just buy burgers the way that bloomberg thought that he could the way that all of us were ruling that he would do at the end of the day if you got up on that stage and he had no charisma he looked staff he looked awkward he looked like that strange cartoon about a billionaire that we see he was like a cartoon of him even billionaire and i think we all just saw t

this is bloomberg. david? talk nevadag up, we politics and a newly expanded debate with our panel. this is balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. michael bloomberg, the majority owner of our company, will be on the debate stage in las vegas at head this weekends nevada caucus to take us through the shifting clinical seen, we welcome basil's michael and from washington, greg swenson, a spokesman for republicans overseas u.k.. i will start with you, basil. lpe bloomberg owns bloomberg , you also did work for him on campaign. what will having him on that stage do? basil: it gives folks like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren to sharpen their progressive credentials. you will see biden on the attack. warren and sanders will be trying to pull everybody to the left. the truth is for pete buttigieg and joe biden, they will be fighting bloomberg for the center. there a lot of folks who seeing biden suffering in the polls are

the fact we're talking sanders versus bloomberg, not bloomberg versus trump, another indication bloomberg surged into the top tier of the race, other candidates are taking him seriously, bloomberg campaign feeling they need to punch back as well. >> and shaq brewster is in reno, following the sanders campaign across the country. big rallies the past few days. >> reporter: that's right, stephanie. to be clear, a sanders surrogate did retweet the video joshua describing, but the campaign through jeff weaver saying they didn't create the video or have anything to do with the origin of the video. outside of this fight with the video, it is clear the sanders campaign is ready to lean into the fight with mayor michael bloomberg. in response to mayor bloomberg reaching the debate stage wednesday night, virginia state coordinator sent a statement to nbc news saying essentially bring it on. he acknowledged the race is a dead heat, said the energy and excitement is on sanders' side. you listen to senator sanders on the stump, out on the campaign trail, it is clear who he wants to target, leaving so

what, i'm supposed to give bloomberg a pass? not on this show. >> i'd like to know who you are going to vote for. who are you voting for? >> who i vote for it is not of your business, but i'm not voting for trump and i am sure as hell not voting for bloomberg. >> so you're not going to vote. >> you're not voting for trump and you're not voting for a democrat. >> you guys have done a poor job of convincingvovo me -- >> sean: we'll be right back, i agree with whoopi. we we will be right back. i've got a headache. joining us, lisa boothe, 2020 senior advisor, mercedes schlapp. >> i think we all had a headache now. >> sean: it is like that every day. >> of course it is. in meghan's defense, has the democratic party given anybody a reason to vote for democrats right now. if you're looking specifically at mike bloomberg, i mean, what's his message? what is he running on?ty >> sean: broad, sweeping generalizations about minorities and farmers need more gray matter and it's easy to be a farmer, i could teach you to be a farmer in second

>> it was very effective against bloomberg. i agree with the other panelists, very effective against bloomberg. don't know how much it will help her in the campaign totally because she is competing, bernie sanders is the leader and you have biden and buttigieg but the strategy considering where the party is right now the best strategy was to go ahead and knock out or try and knock out the billionaire who has been rising in the polls and particularly when you are at this particular point of the campaign where the base is so against billionaires with bernie making billionaires out to be the most evil people in the world, she was very effective in that regard and served her purpose. >> why do you think she did not go after sanders? we brought this up earlier? do you think she is gunning for some sort of spot in his administration should he win? >> i think her and sanders are so close on a lot of the policies that it is difficult to go after sanders without hurting herself or becoming so much of a hypocrite because they are so clos

bloomberg had his moment. it was not tonight. he could still have it, but he is not the guy in those campaign ads as far as the people who are at that stage. >> mike: i surprised he didn't have a better answer on the nda's? >> yeah, i heard he was a very practiced at practicing with debates prep and all kinds of practices. i would think that would be one of the oppo moments he would push back on. you know, there were some good moments where he pushed back on the party and going down a road of socialism, but overall, i think this was a pretty bad night for mike bloomberg. >> mike: bret, thanks so much. the president making his case in arizona to voters tonight in a keep america great rally. white house correspondent kevin corke joins us now from phoenix. good evening, kevin. >> evening, mike. as expected, the presence at the majority of the time tonight talking about his compliments, but he also used his remarks to target the policies espoused by some of the leading democratic presidential candidates, most notably among them, demo

everyone who works for bloomberg works for bloomberg. so there's no one that can be like, hey, mike -- >> you suck. >> yeah, that was terrible. you have to do it again. we're going to videotape you and show it to you. he a did that happen with you? >> yes, that happened with me. and you don't let the person leave the room. and the people who were working with me worked for me, too, but they knew that i was coachable. like, if they were like, hey, yang, that was not great. here, we'll show it to you. let's, like, do it again. then i'd be like, all right, let's do it again. there were times i did not want to be there at all. but like in mike's case, if he didn't want to be there, he's not going to be there. you know what i mean? there's no one on his team who can be like, that was terrible. this is going to potentially damage your campaign to a very, very high degree. i know this is the case because i saw him on stage. like, if you get the obvious question and you don't pivot to this memorized script that your team has hammered into you, y

bloomberg, what the heck is bloomberg standing for except china at this point? >> the same people that elected donald trump, people are sick and tired of career politicians. sick and tired of people who just say all the way things and can't do anything. that is why bernie has busted through. for decades, bernie has been principled. he's been principle to a plurality, not a majority. in the majority come he is a wacky socialist. but inside the democratic party, the growth of liberalism and socialism is becoming a majority inside the party and that is why bernie can win this thing. as from bloomberg, not only did he fail to defend last night, he failed to make the case why he had any positive ideas about being an alternative. it's not that his record needs to be talked about, it's who is eat and what are his ideas because mike is a moderate? that is the case he has to make and he flopped. if you say he is not wounded i'm glad you're not my doctor. >> it's one debate and it is a snapshot so i don't have to be your doctor but here's the deal, bernie sanders, the dem

this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: this is "bloomberg daybreak." the risk off day is permeating through the markets. dow jones futures off by about 2.5%. same thing for the s&p. if this holds, it will be the 10th largest points loss ever for the s&p. european stocks also getting hit hard, following the most since 2016. the dax rolling over despite the evo data not being as bad as we data not- the ifo being as bad as we thought. that is the story and the bond market. is to have the three months-10 year really inverting, -16 basis points. dollar-yen lower. gold getting a safe haven bid. an unbelievable move from $1500 to $1700 in a matter of weeks. crude touching a critical level around $51 a barrel. coronavirus was the backdrop as officials convened in riyadh over the weekend. much of the conversation centered on appropriate policy response. >> the asian central banks are out there. we already saw interest rates being cut, and there are further expectations of interest rate cuts. usually, central banks are the speedboats, and they need to be out fas

michael bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of bloomberg lp, the parent company of bloomberg news. let's bring in kevin cirilli. what were the top points from the debate? kevin: first, the dynamics of the race haven't significantly changed much. bernie sanders remaining the frontrunner, particularly after his showing last night. he's also anticipated to win the nevada caucus on saturday. second, the bloomberg campaign tried to suggest that this was a two-person race between sanders and bloomberg. every other candidate on that stage saying last night in very clear terms that they disagree with that assessment. buttigieg, klobuchar, lauren, -- joe biden -- char, warren bidenhar, warren, and joe all say that they are contenders in this race. room last night, even if sanders is not able to clinch the precise number of delegates he would need to get the nomination, he still now appears likely, at least as of today, to win the majority of delegates compared to the other candidates. that would set up a lot of tension for the democratic party as it heads into the convention the summe

is it going to be mayor bloomberg or philanthropist bloomberg? i say this because philanthropist bloomberg is the one that has invested heavily on electing women through emily's list, has invested heavily for planned parenthood, has invested heavily on gun reform. has invested heavily on every single issue that will expand the base and bring in a bigger tent. mayor bloomberg when he talks about what's happened with redlining and stop and frisk has been incredibly damaging with some of those policies. so as he rolls out his person and his persona, he's going to have to be able to answer directly of what is happening and who is going to show up. >> eugene, does it take character off the table? >> it may. i mean we did have an election in 2016 and donald trump did win it, after the "access hollywood" tape, after everything. he won the election. and so i think a lot of democrats, as they look toward this election, they're saying it's trump, it's going to be a knife fight, maybe we should look at the guy with the biggest knife, right? and with $60 bil

bloomberg also faces attacks from a bloomberg reporter who tweeted the company didn't do enough to protect her and her family against the chinese government. bloomberg's lawyers tweeted me as though i were a piece of company property using intimidation and threats to try and bully me into submission. >> michael bloomberg needs to do a blanket release so that all women who have been muzzled by nondisclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. >> bloomberg's statement today is rather sharon asked that he will only release those people who accused him of wrongdoing directly from mba not as was before and wanted, people who just accuse somebody from the bloomberg company, you might remember he was equally sherman ask about not releasing anyone from their mbas and that changed in less than two days. who knows what tomorrow brings. >> the democratic primary for president in case you haven't noticed has taken an ugly turn tonight. michael bloomberg, for vandalizing his knoxville tennessee campaign office and littering it with expletives. that is far from the action in vegas,

michael bloomberg is here. to why don't you and they said no but he's here so almost immediately started working from one coast to the other to improve our schools both. maire bloomberg and myself inherited schools that were failing for 50 years in my case one out of 3 schools are failing schools were in too much better than that we work together to improve those schools dramatically our graduation rate went up by more than 40 'd percent in new york and in l.a. and he raised teachers' salaries by 40 percent work and there's against gun violence you know crime big issue even though new york has a save big city and the safest big city it was still an issue and as it was here in l.a. and the 2 of us worked to reduce gun violence we started an organization called mayors against gun violence worked on climate change and a whole other slew of issues what was he like to work with. you know. he's a character he's a guy who. not a guy have a lot of words if you will but he puts his money where his mouth is or does he le

michael bloomberg doesn't like anybody but mike bloomberg. it just exudes everything he talks about, whether talking about farmers or women or young kids in the city who, you know, for how many years did he embrace stop and frisk because he said it saved black lives? the one guys, thank you both. members of the deep state should be worried tonight. will explain why. senator lindsey graham will tell us about his plans to get to the bottom of the beginnings and/or responding crossfire hurricane's. later on, fixed news cnn not going to like what we have to say. special edition of "hannity just for you. straight ahead. (whistling) (whistling) >> sean: more developments tonight in the quest to hold those that abuse power, on friday senator lindsey graham sent his fisa witness list to the doj as part of his committee's probe into the department's handling of the russian investigation. it comes as the attorney general bill barr continues to deliver on his promise to restore doj integrity and it's why you see russia hoaxers out there playing defense

bloomberg is the founder and majority older of bloomberg lp, the owner of bloomberg news. tesla plans to build a factory in germany hitting a legal roadblock. the court says clearing of forest must stop immediately. environmental activists had filed a challenge. by the middle of next year, tesla hopes to have the factory running. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am viviana hurtado. this is bloomberg. let's stay with tesla and brought them out to electric vehicle. joining us is new streets technology infrastructure analyst. he has a neutral rating on tesla. when you take a look at tesla's dominance in the market in the u.s. as well as elsewhere, how long does that stay? pierre: that is a very good question. if you look at the last seven improved thehas efficiency by 40%. that is what you find in the car when you drive it. to cars first model s being produced today, you have a 40% improvement. it took tesla six years to do that. i think in the next three to five

this is bloomberg. ♪ s is bloomberg. ♪ paul: welcome to "bloomberg markets." i'm paul allen in sydney. taylor: i'm taylor riggs in san francisco. our top story today, the coronavirus death toll approaches 500. the white house expects minimal u.s. disruption. china has locked down more than 50 million people. caucus.n in the pete buttigieg leads in iowa with full results still delayed. the democrats say the final numbers will be accurate. elon musk has plenty to smile about in 2020. tesla hit the fast lane, shares doubling in value this year alone. thanks, taylor. let's look at how the trading on the markets are right now. australia has just opened. currently, we are higher by a quarter of 1%. new zealand has been trading for a couple hours. a couple -- a bit of data out of new zealand. jobs coming in better than expected in the fourth quarter. the jobless rate falling to 4%. the participation rate was weaker. there are signs of wages growth in new zealand however. we see it up by almost 1%. nikkei futures are looking flat as the s&p uses as for -- after we saw