obviously vermont, new hampshire separated by a river. we are close states but you know what, secretary clinton won this state in 2008. her husband ran several campaigns in this state. when we began this campaign here in new hampshire, we were 30 points down in the polls and she was much better known in this state than i was. so simply to say you know, if the we win this thing it's because bernie lives in vermont, yeah, i'm not -- that's not accurate. >> we talked about a lot more than that of course. including some of the charges being made against him by the clinton campaign, some of the charges he's making about with secretary clinton and what his path to victory looks like after new hampshire as we've been discussing for the last couple hours, poppy, some of the southern states favor secretary clinton. >> by a wide margin. jake, also tonight, we're a few hours from the gop debate. you have seven candidates who are on the stage. you moderated these before. what are you looking out for most tonight? >> well, this the race is so wide ope

i was mayor of burlington, vermont, a many know, who worked very closely with our police department, and believe that the vast majority of police officers in this country are hard-working, are honest, and are trying to do their best doing very, very difficult work. but if a police officer breaks the law, like any other public official, that police officer must be held accountable. that's number one. [ applause ] number two, you have seen on television, as i have, local police departments that look like occupying armies. we have got to demilitarize local police departments, make them part of the community, not invading armies. third -- [ applause ] third, and very importantly, we have got to make police departments look like the communities that they serve. so if there's a diverse community, the police department should reflect that diversity. fourthly, in terms of police action -- police departments are run by local governments, but the federal government can play an important role in helping to fund model type programs -- for example, i think we have to rethink the use of lethal for

and by the way, there's a crisis in vermont. you may recall our governor gave his state of the union speech a year ago on this issue. because people think, well, new hampshire and vermont, these are rural states, not a problem. you're right, it is a terrible problem. what do we do? for a start, we understand that substance abuse and addiction is a health issue, not a criminal issue. [ applause ] and when i talk about moving toward universal health care, what i understand that to be, and it is absolutely imperative that it be, is understanding that mental health and addiction is part of health care. and what that means is when people need treatment, they shouldn't have to wait three months. when they need it, they should be able to get it. so that means we need a revolution in this country in mental healthcare to address the causes of addiction and provide treatment. and i was to a treatment center in manchester, which is kind of peer-oriented. former people who had addiction work with other people. that's one approach. there are

vermont, we expect senator sanders to win his home state of vermont. he's in minnesota tonight. we don't know what's going to happen. let's just say bernie sanders is right and he's competitive in minnesota. another one of his states is oklahoma. again, hillary clinton thinks there's moderate to conservative democrats, some african-americans too. for the sake of the hypothetical, let's give bernie sanders another one of his super tuesday targets. we'll give him all four of his super tuesday targets. secretary clinton would still be picking up delegates. but if we gave bernie sanders his top four targets on super tuesday, she still sweeps down here. we gave her a bigger margin in these states. if she gets that, she starts to pull ahead. again, democratic rules, bernie sanders proportionate. he stays in the game, but he starts to pull ahead. then march gets very busy. what they hope to do by the end of march is sweep the rest of these states and start to edge out. again, democratic rule, sanders could stay skpcompetitive. these later march states we have him at a 55-45. if clinton

obviously vermont and new hampshire are separated by a river. we are close states. but you know what? secretary clinton won this state in 2008. her husband ran several campaigns in this state. when we began this campaign here in new hampshire, we were 30 points down in the polls and she was much better known in this state than i was. so simply to say, you know, if we win this thing, it's because bernie lives in vermont, yeah, it's not that accurate. >> there was an issue that came out last week about secretary clinton pushing back on your suggestions that maybe her votes have been compromised or she's been compromised. >> didn't say that. >> how would you phrase it? >> all i said is what is a factor? if the clinton campaign wants to contradict this fact, i'd like to hear it. what i said is she has a super pac, and she recently, according to her reports, received $15 million from wall street. end of discussion. i never said anything more. >> her response has been, among other things, to say nobody can point to a vote that i've ever changed because of this. and your c

. >> it would be a miracle for her to win -- i'm sorry, he's from vermont. i don't have a prayer here. she won the state eight years ago smeech h ago. she has a network in the state. the idea that this is a foreign country to me, i don't have a prayer -- >> they're neighborly. >> is there anything they can say to convince you as voter? i know you have your preferences. >> our numbers show there's huge percentage of undecided voters here. they have to make a decision. they're expecting a high turnout in new hampshire and i think they're looking. we'll see what happens after tonight. but these candidates are spending a lot of time in new hampshire, they're doing a lot of events. there was some question about whether hillary clinton would stay in new hampshire or just cede it to bernie sanders and she's not doing that. she p so so he has to state there, too. >> i think right now she's got a window because you still have -- even people who are bernie sanders fanatics, there's still this sense of can he win a general election? what would he do on foreign policy?

i think he was shocked when he was elected mayor of burlington, vermont, in 1980. he's thinking what a great moment, and he gets to create his movement which is what bernie sanders is all about. >> does appearing on "snl" matter? >> i think to his audience it does. i think every time that he is getting any attention at all it makes the entire media establishment think, wow, he's still here, you know. >> and of course we see the original appearance by larry david here from the fall. such brilliant casting. we saw hillary clinton on "snl" a few months ago. this has become a required part of the show, going on late-night shows. >> it shows your sense of humor, that you're relatable. important for hillary clinton and bernie sanders given their reputations. >> i'm curious to hear from you how feel the press is treating these candidates. both of you are experts on this topic, and rebecca, what noticed in the coverage of clinton on monday night and tuesday morning when she won the iowa caucus, just barely but she won, was that it didn't seem to be treated with historical

this is right along the connecticut river separating vermont and new hampshire. one of the larger republican suburban areas, salem here, no volts at all. if you go back in time, this is mitt romney country, 56% of the vote, establishment republicans, a decent size population chunk and at the moment nothing from s sale salem. you can see gersh doing well there. because of the fractured field donald trump is getting, 28%, 25%, as my high as the 30%. this is the ron paul. these winning everywhere. because of the flintered vote, he winning across the entire state. you have one town for jeb bush, about a half dozen or so, maybe six or seven for governor kasich. at the moment trump is filling in this map. as we look for the second and third, 72%, it's doable, we've got smath to do. it's conceivable it marco rubio has a strong performance in a town or tw that he could jump up. if you look at this 10% number, you need 10% in new hampshire to get any delegates. it you're below 10%, you get no delegates. i'm told from two advisers that chris christie knows he gets no del c

massachusetts, vermont, virginia, minnesota, tennessee, georgia, alabama. those are all states where we will do well and win delegates. then the ones that -- the other ones you mentioned, michigan, illinois, those come a week later. then ohio on march 15th. winner take all. and kasich will win all of the delegates in ohio. that's a path to take the delegate lead if not narrowing this town it a two-person race that john kasich will win. look, it is about someone who can get the stuff done. doesn't just talk about it. he has cut taxes. he doesn't just talk about it. he balanced budget. privatized services. >> i want to jump in here. i want to get your take on something that just crossed the news just into us. that today governor signed this bill, contracting for health services as a state with any organization that performs or promotes abortions. that blocks government funding to planned parenthood. planned parenthood just came out, their president, and said john kasich is proudly eliminating care for expected mothers and new borns, leave is thousands without

bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont, he is the winner. and he's got an impressive lead, a very impressive lead, 23% of the precincts reporting. 58% for bernie sanders. only 40% for hillary clinton. that number, 10,000 votes ahead. very, very impressive. once again, bernie sanders is going to be making a victory speech momentarily, we're told. donald trump is going to be making a victory speech momentarily, of course, we will have live coverage of both of the winners. we'll also hear from some of the others as well. let's go over to john king at the magic wall. this is a truly impressive feat for donald trump especially when you think where he was, what, six, seven months ago, a lot of people thought it was a joke, but he is by no means a joke. >> and eight days after the first loss of his political career in iowa, donald trump gets the "w" in new hampshire, goes to south carolina where he's led in the early polls. we'll see what happens. donald trump has momentum. ted cruz thinks south carolina is his territory. what a race we have. john

of course, he's from vermont. but more than just his location, this is a candidate that is inspiring young people, first-time voters to get involved in the process. so i think if hillary run as very energetic and passionate campaign, similar to what bernie is doing across the country, she'll come in whatever place the voters give her. >> and one of the things that donna is pointing out is closing the youth gap. that might be a huge task to do if you look at some of the entrance polls coming out of iowa. the youth numbers are really astounding. sanders at 84%, clinton at 14%. support there in iowa. when it comes to the youth number, which is key in every state. but here in new hampshire, is the goal for hillary clinton -- does it need to be winning them over or just not pushing them away further? >> well, look, i think both sides actually have something -- a couple of red flags when it comes to the youth vote. yes, bernie sanders crushed hillary clinton with young voters and bernie sanders' problem is he's not turn

west, in vermont, in vermont, african-americans, african-americans are ten times -- they have a ten times higher rate of incarceration than white folks. that's what i'm talking about. if you want to look at people's records -- >> he's never support -- >> african -- >> you're talking over -- >> -- the money. that's just a fact. >> african-americans are -- african-americans in vermont said bernie sanders treated them as if they were invisible. >> that's not true. depends on which ones you talk to. you and i know -- >> i don't want any of my brothers in prison -- >> gentlemen, let me try to move this discussion along. >> we agree with that, though, brother. >> bakari, hillary clinton -- bill clinton is seen as his wife's not so secret weapon. also signed a crime bill that disproportion atly affected the african-american community which senator sanders voteod. how can hillary clinton be a part of that? >> hillary clinton apologized for being a part of that. we have to have this discussion and have it honestly. we have to come out and bernie sanders has to be held to the same standard. that's

in the mid-1980s, sanders ran for governor of vermont against madeleine kunin who was running for her second term is a democrat when sanders ran as a third party candidate. sanders didn't do so well, getting just 14% of the vote. governor kunin was easily reelected. former vermont governor madeleine kunin joins us with insight on what it is like to run against bernie sanders. thanks for being with us. >> well, thank you. i'm delighted to be with you. and of course, you know, he was a young man then. and he gave the same message, though, in terms of income inequality. he's toned down a whole lot. i mean, then he was frankly a fringe candidate, and the message of income inequality today resonates more. but he had similar body language. and he probably didn't have the same haircut or the same suit. >> so his message resonates more in terms of income inequality, yet you are endorsing or at least behind hillary clinton, is that right? >> absolutely. >> why is that? >> well, i will be, very simply put, she is by far the most qualified candidate, male or female, to lead this country for the

that's his home turf, we're talking new england, massachusetts, vermont. they feel good if they can pick up those states. colorado, they want a fight and texas as well. bernie sanders still understanding he needs to make inroads with that african-american community because going forward these states have a much bigger constituency. unlike iowa, new hampshire, much whiter than the rest of the country. he wants to make inrhodes, he spent money doing $1.7 million in south carolina. hillary clinton spent $2.1 million. starting to introduce it in new hampshire going big in south carolina, even this week, talking about african-american youth unemployment is higher than whites. african-american women have a bigger age disparity than white women. he's stuaarted to talk about th reform, racial inequality. he's trying to make inroads and the african-american community in south carolina that will be good news for him going into the south carolina race. fred. >> and chris, former congresswoman gabby giffords who barely survived being shot in the head has made an emoti

the senator from the neighboring state of vermont by a pretty wide margin. clinton is hoping a newly scheduled debate on thursday and most importantly the cnn town hall tonight can help close that gap. >> i care a lot about this state. i view it as being the first in the nation primary for a reason. i know that they tend to favor their neighbors. that's the pattern, the history of the primary. and senator sanders is a neighbor, but i think we will have a good contest, talking about, you know, what results we can produce, what our records have been both in domestic policy, foreign policy, national security. and i think the people of new hampshire will get a chance to really evaluate both of us. and i feel good about my prospects. >> so senator sanders will be at the cnn town hall tonight, but he is refusing so far to commit to the thursday debate and actually refusing to concede defeat in the iowa caucuses. cnn's joe johns has the latest on that in new hampshire. >> reporter: john and christine, after coming within a fraction of beating hillary clinton in the

senator bernie sanders of vermont. [ applause ] >> welcome, senator. great to see you. >> and former secretary of state, hillary clinton. [ applause ] >> good to see you. >> really good to be here with you. >> welcome to you both. >> now a word about format. there will be two short breaks. and the rules are simple. 90 seconds for each answer. and 30 seconds for the other candidate to respond. >> with iowa and new hampshire behind us, we are now broadening the conversation to america's heartland and beyond, including here in wisconsin. now let's turn to the candidates for their opening statements. the order was decided by coin toss. and senator sanders, you go first. >> gwen and judy, thank you for hosting this event, and pbs, thank you. nine months ago, our campaign began. and when it began, we had no political organization, no money. and not much name recognition outside of the state of vermont. a lot has happened in nine months. and what has happened is i think the american people have responded to a series of basic truths. and that is that we have t

a poll came out showing he has an 86 to 10 lead in vermont. i think that explains why he did so well in new hampshire and why he's going to massachusetts today. he's trying to find any friendly terrain he can. but it's not just the demographics of south carolina that don't do well or don't -- aren't strong for bernie sanders. it's a whole bunch of states in march. it's tennessee. it's arkansas. it's alabama. in fact, i think it's most of the democratic primary contests that you have coming up aren't suited well to his campaign. >> well, i mean, there is massachusetts. there is vermont. >> spending a lot of money in colorado and minnesota. >> those are places he thinks he can do well. >> but john -- >> hang on. there's another thing bernie sanders thinks will help. it's about a state of honesty. clinton clint hillary clinton still has a problem convincing voter she's honest. she gets killed on the issue. people say honesty is an issue for them. they go to sanders, and she talks about this. she talked to jake tapper about it. listen. >> i think

. >> reporter: sanders, from largely white vermont, has heard such critiques before. despite ample evidence that he was a civil rights activist since way back in college. >> this is you in 1962. >> who is that handsome young guy? >> reporter: he told msnbc, he demanded his own university change racist policies. >> stop keeping your housing that you own segregated. stop segregated housing at the university of chicago. later i got involved with segregated schools in the city of chicago. >> reporter: even that photograph is complicated. although it's in sanders's campaign video and is arousandes us to believe that's him taking charge of the demonstration, the handsome guy has been identified as another student. still, he has taken up issues important to african-americans. he's maintained ties to leading black activists like al sharpton. he helped jesse jackson win in his presidential campaign in vermont. >> no president will fight harder to end the stain of racism in this country and reform our criminal justice system. >> reporter: one member of the congressional black c

we'll give vermont to the sanders campaign. we give minnesota to bernie sanders for the hypothetical. let's just give them colorado for the sake of the hypothetical.sanders wins his top four targets, what she hopes to do is start to pull away. let's assume after super tuesday it looks roughly like this. remember, she has 445 super delegates. he still has just shy of 20. her math is better than this looks. this map gives you only pledge delegates. so she hopes to be well out here again to send a message to senator sanders. he's been saying release the transcripts of your paid speeches. his rhetoric has been tougher of late. >> as people have suggested even by staying in the race, he pushes her towards his positions, the most important issues he's been pushing and that's one of the reasons he might stay in a lot longer than the delegate count might suggest. >> when you hear the clinton campaign hoping senator sanders tones it down, does that seem, a, likely and, b, possible? >> our indication will be at the cnn debate on sunday.

i'll tell you, in new hampshire, we call vermont upside-down new hampshire. i don't think there's a lot of -- i don't give that a lot of credence. he's tapped into something. in new hampshire we have the second highest student loan debt in the country. students from new hampshire pay the highest amount, the biggest tuition for a state school anywhere and here comes bernie sanders who says, we want to make public college free, and he trauk talks about getting big money out of politics. this is a state to win an election house seat. he's hit a nerve here in new hampshire. >> on the republican side, donald trump is way ahead of marco rubio and ted cruz. what do you see there? >> yeah. i think that's going to be an incredible battle. i think there will probably be about four tickets out of new hampshire. and you'll probably see trump getting one of those, cruz getting another and then i'm really going to be watching to see who gets the other two tickets. is it kasich? is it bush? is it christie? rubio? so the race is really up for grabs. even with the trump polls

not far away from his home state of vermont. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders spending final days as they try to edge each other out. hillary clinton and bernie sanders are making their final push to super tuesday. >> i need your help. i need your help to go and vote tomorrow to bring people to vote with you. >> we are listening to the american people and their pain and their needs rather than hustling all over the country collecting millions of dollars from the 1%. >> reporter: a new cnn orc poll shows clinton with a big lead nationally, besting sanders by 17 points. >> thank you so much, south carolina! >> reporter: after a huge win in south carolina saturday, hillary clinton sounds like the presumptive democratic nominee. >> i don't think america ever stopped being great. what we need to do now is make america whole. >> reporter: she's no longer calling sanders by name. >> i have a difference with my esteemed opponent. >> reporter: crafting the message for the fight with donald trump, who she's treating like the eventual republican opponent. >> i think we need more l

they have two independents, angus king of maine, and bernie sanders of vermont. they would need another 14 republicans to join them, that's a pretty high hurdle. >> that's a high hurdle. not just the blue state senators, and there are not that many of them, but moderates and people who could seem to be gettable votes. one is lindsey graham. he voted for alina keegan and sonia sotomayor, i had chance to talk to him and he said the president can only get a nominee who is a consensus nominee. who is that consensus nominee, he said, orin hatch. there's no chance, but the message is saying it's going to be very hard to get anybody through in this environment. >> someone like susan collins of maine, a republican. it'll be tough to get her support, i assume, although she may be one who might be open to it. >> she may be. i've tried to reach out to her office, no word yet. we'll see, i'm sure the white house will target her as well. >> they need 14 been that's a high hurdle. thanks very much. the senate's top democrat is calling for justice scalia's seat to be filled rig

the challenge that he will have is in vermont. they talk about new hampshire being a home game for donald trump and it is for bernie sanders who represents the state next door who does extraordinarily well with white voters, even whiter than iowa. now that it's snowing, it's whiter still. it's a whiteout. once you get to more diverse communities, hillary has a much better track record. >> as a supporter, do you buy that argument? that's what the hillary campaign has been saying, wait until nevada, wait until south carolina. >> look, it's clearly a challenge for bernie because of who he is, a senator from vermont. it's not been necessarily his issues. but i think, again, they are underestimating underestimating appeal of bernie sanders which they have done from the beginning and it's showing. if they are not retooling, they ought to be retooling. he resonates beyond just white voters and appeals to young people and he talks about core with martin luther king. he's not unknown. ben jealous help as lot. >> former president of the naa

i was in the house of representatives, representing vermont. i was on the house banking committee, and i saw the billions of dollar coming in from wall street in campaign contributions and lobbying to deregulate wall street. i helped lead the opposition against that deregulation, was not successful. wall street got the government off of their backs. they were free to do what they wanted do, and we all know what the results of that freedom were. [ shouting ] >> i wouldn't phrase it exactly like that, but it's close to the truth, okay. what happened is with the freedom that they got, that they bought, they're able to do whatever they wanted. it turns out they developed a business model which was essentially fraudulent. and they brought this economy into the worst economic downturn since the great depression of the 1930s. and what happened is, millions of people lost their jobs, they lost their homes, and they lost their life savings. and against my vote, congress bailed them out. >> bernie sanders delivering his stump speech in these, the final h

bernie sanders is heavily favored to win in the state just next door to his home turf in vermont. cnn's poll of polls shows him with a nearly 20 point lead over rival hillary clinton. but after eking out such a narrow victory in iowa, the closest in history, by the way, clinton is looking to close the gap against sanders all the while embracing her usual underdog status here. clinton, along with thousands of her volunteers fanning out across new hampshire. voters there head to the polls in the nation's first primary next tuesday. today she told supporters sanders doesn't stand a chance if voters compare their records. >> we've been fighting the progressive fight and getting results for people for years. so i hope we keep it on the issues, because if it's about our records, hey, i'm gonna win by a land slide on tuesday. >> cnn senior political correspondent briana keiler is live in dairy new hampshire the side of tonight's town hall. i spoke too quickly, i meant to say unusual underdog status. she is definitely in this to win this. briana, since now it's down to two, walk me throug

that primary in south carolina could be a huge test for the vermont senator. in recent days, he has become more and more vocal. here he was speaking out about the water crisis in flint, michigan. >> i suspect the secretary agrees, one wonders if this were a white suburban community what kind of response there would have been. flint michigan is a poor community. it is disproportionately african-american and minority. and what has happeneded there is absolutely unacceptable. >> let's bring in someone who has known senator sander since the early '70s. he is john franco. in the '80s, he was city attorney under then mayor bernie sanders. also, he is back, cnn political commentator mark lamont hill. gentlemen, welcome, to both of you. >> good to be here. >> john, on the personal side of bernie sanders, i think for those people, unlike us who have been following this so, so closely, they kididn't realize until they watched the town hall with anderson cooper about his arrest. they didn't know he was arrested and that he marched and, you know, this, you know, came from

that's the future senator from vermont. both sanders and his rival, hillary clinton, are fighting hard to win support of african-american voters. clinton just got the endorsement of representative james clyburn, the third ranking democrat in the house of representatives and now one of hollywood's biggest actors has given his big voice to her latest ad. it comes a week ahead of south carolina's democratic primary. cnn's don lemon sat down with morgan freeman. >> reporter: first of all, welcome. you decided to make these series of ads in support of hillary clinton. this is an endorsement? >> well, yeah. i have to pick somebody. and she's been my choice. she decided, yes,ly go. >> let's take a look at the ad. ♪ >> her church taught her to do all the good you can for all the people you can for as long as can you. after law school, she could have joined a high-priced law firm. but instead she worked to reform justice in south carolina, exposed racism in alabama schools, and provided legal aid to families in arkansas. her life'

bernie sanders is from over here in vermont. he has a lot of history here especially along here, see the obama blue up here where you get these liberals. it is tilted in favor of sanders. there's room for a good fight there in the next week. >> we'll watch that. john king, thanks very much. >>> there's a lot more ahead. bernie sanders pulled off a virtual tie in iowa. largely because he clobbered clinton among young voters. i'll talk to his campaign manager about the battle in new hampshire and beyond, next. l al. i'm bushed! yea me too. excuse me...coming through! ride the gel wave of comfort with dr. scholls massaging gel insoles. they're proven to give you comfort. which helps you feel more energized ...all day long. i want what he has. >>> as we said today the iowa democratic party declared hillary clinton the winners of last night's caucuses. mrs. clinton will receive 23 of iowa's delegates, sanders 21. in new hampshire they'll be battling over delegates. the most recent cnn poll shows sanders leading clinton by 23 points i

he's a democratic socialist from nearby, vermont. some democrats here in new hampshire may take that into account. at least the clinton campaigns hopes they will. sanders is calling for a new movement. he's calling for a revolution, if you will. he thinks that is what this country needs. take a listen. >> that is why what iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution. [ applause ] >> a political revolution that says when millions of people come together, including those who have given up on the political process, they're so dismayed and so frustrated with what goes on in washington with young people before who had never been involved in the political process, when young people and working people and seniors begin to stand up and say loudly and clearly, enough is a enough, when that happens -- >> so this, of course, will determine how this race goes forward. his call for a revolution and her call for democratic activist and regular. the new hampshire primary one week away. so many contests ahead. the clinton campaign is stronger in

clinton cruised to an easy victory in the south carolina primary creaming the vermont senator with 74% of the vote. exit poll shows it was african-american voters who propelled her to victory. she got 84% of the black vote in zb zk compared to 16% for sanders. in her victory speech, she thanked voters and sanders and made it clear she was ready to expand her campaign. >> we have now gone through four early states. i want to congratulate senator sanders on running a great race and tomorrow this campaign goes national. >> that national campaign begins today in nashville, tennessee. live shots right there whenever hillary clinton does emerge. hillary clinton will hold a rally any moment. we will go there thrive talk about the race with the political panel. larry sabato from the university of politics in virginia and a hillary clinton supporter. her firm works for a pro clinton super pac. you are also a super delegate. >> i am. >> got that prestige, too. >> hillary clinton has a lot of momentum coming off the big win in south carolina and going in to super tuesday. she said i'm not taking

. >> hard to get your arms around bernie next to him and know that he ran has a socialist in vermont. clearly he's tapped into the anger not the rationale of voters i think. >> and tough clinton campaign who says well he's a next door neighbor and well we don't vote for vermont people. they are the upside down state. >> everyone has to look at the map or look at the shapes to understand that joke. thank you, appreciate your time. and still to come, ted cruz won iowa. new hampshire though a very different state. he's o been coming in in the top three in the polls. what is going to happen here. one of ted cruz's backers will be our guest right after this. we'll be back. want to survive a crazy busy day? sfx: cell phone chimes start with a positive attitude... and positively radiant skin. aveeno® positively radiant moisturizer... with active naturals® soy. aveeno® naturally beautiful results®. avo: when laquinta.com sends craig wilson a ready for you client: great proposal! let's readytalk more over golf. mes? craig: great. client: how about over tennis craig: even better. avo: a gam

hillary clinton has won the iowa democratic caucuses, but the vermont senator, bernie sanders, he still has plenty of momentum heading into new hampshire. he came in second. razor-thin margin. swroe johns is in keen, new hampshire. covering the senator's campaign for us. they're going to be holding an event i'm told later. any official reaction or even unofficial reaction from the sanders campaign to the announcement from the iowa democratic party that hillary clinton narrowly beat sanders and is the winner of the iowa caucuses? >> no official reaction. i have talked to a campaign aide who did point out the closeness of this race and an indication to me that they're still trying to get their words together, if you will. also, pointing out in earlier conversations while this campaign is asking to see paperwork about what happened in iowa, they're not using the word challenging the result in iowa. right now they have made the pivot hard and fast to here in new hampshire. you can see the evidence of it right behind me at the colonial theat theater. they're still scheduled for a couple of h

>> well, ooh say vermont absolutely is next door to new hampshire. i also say only one candidate in the race who won the democratic primary in new hampshire, hillary clinton, she defeated ba rack obama. she's got advantage, too. they can spend all of that time talking about how close vermont is to new hampshire, that's an objective fact. clintons have been here for decades. the political establishment is supporting her candidacy here. we'll talk about a rigged economy that sends wealth to the top. that message worked in iowa. i think it's going to work here in new hampshire as well. >> bill clinton the comeback kid thanks to the primary in new hampshire at that time. what infrastructure does senator sanders have in south carolina and nevada? >> well wolf, we've got great campaigns that we've built on the ground in nevada and south carolina. we have a large number of people in both states organizing out of a number of field offices around the state. we have been on television in nevada since the 23rd of december. clinton campaign joined us january 6th

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he's from the neighboring state of vermont. here's what bernie sanders had to say today. >> secretary clinton ran here in 2008. secretary clinton won here in 2008. secretary has a very formidable political organization and as you know has virtually the entire political establishment on her side. so, you know, we are taking nothing for granted. trust my, we are not. we are going to work as hard as we can. we just did this wonderful meeting here in keene, we'll be in claremont later in the afternoon. we're going to be all over this state. so we are going to work with our volunteers to bring out as many people as possible. and we look forward to winning here but we take nothing, nothing for granted. >> so lowering expectations. is this a strategy, van, to downplaying his strength in new hampshire? >> that's the way the game is played. he's done 20 elections, won 14. he knows it's important to say exactly what he said. of course what he says has the benefit of being true. one thing we haven't talked about enough, he owes a great de

the former president unloading on the vermont senator saying he is living in a sealed box. in manchester with more on that. >> reporter: not exactly on message there but that is what we have come to expect from bill clinton trying to shake sense into the voters of new hampshire in one friend's words. trying to get them to look closer at bernie sanders' record. it is a sign that this race is closer than he ever would have imagined. >> when you are making a revolution you can't be too careful about the facts. >> former president bill clinton unleashing a blistering attack on his wife's rival bernie sanders going after sanders' health care plan. >> is it good for america? i don't think so. >> reporter: labelling sanders as dishonest and hypocritical in his criticism of the financial sector he rails against. >> anyone who takes money from goldman sachs can't be president. he may have to tweak that. >> reporter: the words were stinging, blasting the vermont senator and supporters for what he called inaccurate and sexist attacks including the mobs of supporters who use crude lang

bernie sanders, the senator from vermont, just landed in new hampshire. he is speaking right now. he has not given any definitive word about the election in iowa last night. the caucuses. the state party hasn't released final results. let's listen to what the senator has to say. >> we thank you so much. >> we love you, bernie! >> we love you, too. you heard me say a million times. let me say to you here at 5:00 in the morning. we're in this together. in this sense, no president can do it alone. that is what the political revolution is about. millions of people standing up and demanding you have a government that represents all of us and not just wealthy campaign contributors. i just want to thank you all. we have a lot of work. we have a rally tomorrow in the afternoon. it's

the clinton people said, yeah, it's next door to vermont and a white state. what about nevada? nevada is diverse. so what is the issue there? >> well, i think it's clear that bernie sanders has made some progress in building out his coalition in nevada. no question about that. and i think we have to look at this not in what the poll numbers are but what the delegate fight is going to be and the sanders campaign has come a long way really quickly in that state so that they will do well there. what it looks like to me is there's going to be a delegate split. hillary clinton did well in 2008. if you'll remember, president popular vote, he one more - delegates because of the way that they are distributed across the state. >> i know you remember that, dan pfeiffer. >> i won't let anyone forget that. >> and that's something you bragged about. you said, yes, he lost but won the delegates and that's something that you learned after the fact that explain away what happened. if this becomes a delegate fight, they are going to lose the bragging rights that they are hoping to get once this

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a senator from neighboring vermont. on the campaign trail today she made a plea for help. >> this state has been so good to my husband and me and my family. >> hillary clinton has been campaigning along side her husband since the beginning. >> terry shoemaker is a tour guide for out of town democrats with white house ambitions. he helped introduce both clintons to the state. >> they had no idea who he was. that was the beginning for what has become a mutual admiration society between the clintons and new hampshire. >> as she does now, hillary kept her own schedule back then. >> absolutely. she was here a lot in 1991 and 1992. people came up and said, why isn't she running for president. >> all the way back then -- >> all the way back in 1991. >> and at that point that she would -- >> you know frankly, i thought she could but i didn't think she would after being first lady. >> when her own presidential campaign needed a lifeline after losing in iowa eight years ago, new hampshire delivered. >> i just don't want to see us

. >> look, obviously, vermont, new hampshire are separated by a river. we are close states. but you know what, secretary clinton won this state in 2008. her husband ran several campaigns in this state. when we began this campaign in new hampshire, we were 30 points down in the polls and she was much better known in this state than i was. so simply to say, you know, if we win this thing it's because bernie lives in vermont, just not accurate. >> with me now carl bernstein, the renowned former "washington post" reporter who helped crack watergate, brought down a presidency, also the author of "woman in charge." thanks for being with me, sir. >> good to be with you. >> if sanders ends up winning new hampshire but it's not by a wide margin, not talking about the near tie in iowa, but if it's not wide like the polls are showing now, how do you think people will read that? i mean, will they read it as more of a loss for him since the expectations are so high? >> i think we ought to just look at what's going on on the ground and not try to predict how others are going to read it. h

bernie sanders, the independent senator from neighboring vermont, 58%. he's about 10,000 votes ahead of hillary clinton at only 40%. a big, big win for bernie sanders. a big, big win for donald trump. you know, actually i want to go back to anderson right now. anderson, you're getting more information and you're also getting expert analysis. >> yeah, that's right. david axelrod, gloria borger are taking a deep dive on the numbers both for donald trump and for hillary clinton, what bode for her future and for the future of donald trump as well. i should say all night long we've been hearing people on camera saying, you know, who among political commentators thought this night was possible to have donald trump winning. i got to point to jeffrey lord who -- you want to do a victory lap, lord? you have been saying from the get-go that donald trump can go all the way. >> i have, indeed. i mean, i just -- i spent time with him. i talked to him. you know, you try when you're in politics to listen to people, to understand what they're saying. and, i mean, here's

so they are looking at minnesota, at colorado, at massachusetts, at vermont, at oklahoma. but, wolf, the reality here is that this race may change tonight. the dynamic of this democratic race may change tonight. just a week ago, it's important to remember, sanders campaign thought they had a potential win on hand in nevada. that didn't happen. this is the end of the beginning of the first of four contests. this race is about to go national so quickly. the sanders campaign is saying, next week will be much better than tonight. wolf, that matters in this campaign. if tonight is bad, the sanders campaign will have to remind supporters they should stay in it for a long time to come. >> jeff zeleny, thank you. i want to go to jake tapper. he has more. jake? >> that's right, wolf. it's so interesting, let me bring in dana and david just to talk about this along with you, wolf. this is such an indication of the day is night, night is day contest, comparing hillary clinton in 2008. she lost south carolina by almost 30 points to barack obama. >> that's right. >> but now we don't kn

thank you all very much. [ cheers and applause ] >> a powerful speech by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. now a democrat and in a virtual tie with former secretary of state hillary clinton here in iowa. the latest vote count 95% of the votes in. 49.8% for clinton. 49.6% for sanders. sanders essentially declaring a moral victory this evening. regardless of how it turns out. he said it was a virtual tie, and it looks like his campaign and clinton's campaign will end up with roughly the same number of delegates. this is a bad night for the establishment, i would say, wolf blitzer. both the democratic establishment. you have bernie sanders, somebody who describes himself as a democratic socialist. basically tying with the ultimate insider figure, hillary clinton, here in iowa. and on the republican side outsider candidates really winning the day in that contest. jeff zeleny is with the sanders campaign and has some news for us. jeff, a powerful speech for bernie sanders. what's next for him? >> jake, it was a powerful speech. of course he said that iowa started the revolution

still waiting for the vermont senator. so stay tuned for that. right on the heels of the new hampshire primary is the first big test in the south. republicans hold their primary on february 20th in south carolina. that is followed by the democratic primary on february 27. very often after the bitter battles in iowa and new hampshire south carolina has been the tiebreaker among these candidates. for marco rubio who's coming off a strong third finish in iowa, he's just received a massive endorsement from south carolina junior senator tim scott. >> it's not just about winning one election. it's about growing the number of americans who vote on the basis of limited government and free enterprise and a strong national defense. we need to unify the conservative movement and the republican party. i can do that better than anyone. we need to grow it. i can do that better than anyone who's running. we need to beat hillary clinton and bernie sanders. i give us the best chance to do that. i can't wait to run against them. >> with me now from new hampshire i