democratic debate ended last night, you may have caught a replay of this week's presidential debate. >> it's the snl replay of the debate. the spoof of it. the nine candidates took the stage. watch. >> if we work together we can solve donald trump. >> if you combine my numbers with yours, yours, and yours we'd almost win! >> hey, shut your pie hole. >> you're a jerk. you're never going to be president. >> no kidding. none of us are. genius. >> thank you so much for starting your morning with us. your "new day" continues right now. the final debate of 2015 and it begins with an apology. >> i apologize. >> secretary clinton, do you

accept it? >> if i find anybody else involved in this, they will also be fired. >> but after that it got personal and heated. >> for a different generation's perspective on this. >> let's tell the truth, martin. >> we break down the major topics. fighting terrorism, gun control. >> we now finally are where we need to be. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis. >> do not tell me i have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people. >> and jabs at the republicans. >> fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths. >> he's becoming isis' best recruiter. >> plus, channelling the force. >> thank you. good night. and may the force be with you. it starts right now. >> good sunday morning to you. always good to start the morning

with you. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm amara walker in for christi paul. >> this morning bernie sanders is taking another step. the bernie sanders campaign suspended two additional staff members amid the ongoing investigation into the dnc data breach. sanders' campaign manager looking into a half dozen accounts that may have been involved in accessing voter data from hillary clinton's campaign. it doesn't mean that a half dozen staffers are involved since one person can have more than one account. >> all the controversy amping up. the drama going into the final democratic debate of the year. last night hillary clinton and bernie sanders coming face-to-face for the first time since that dispute over a breach of private voter files exploded in public. sure enough the topic came up moments into the debate. the vice president senator wasted no time apologizing on behalf of his campaign.

cnn athena jones joining us now. a lot of verbal sparring but that apology did help to make for a less intense debate. >> it did. because this was the big issue we were talking about for the days leading up or the day or so leading up to last night's show down. and those candidates to fuse the issue at least at the candidate level. we'll have to see what happens in terms of sniping back and fort from the campaign's staffers. but compared to the gop showdown earlier this week, last night's match up was polite, even warm at times. but there were still some stark differences on policy and approach. especially when it comes to fighting terrorist groups like isis. >> the democratic presidential candidates in their final debate this year arguing over who has the best plan to take on the terrorists, lead the nation, and defeat republicans this fall. >> but on our worse day, i think we have a lot more to offer the american people than the right wing extremists.

>> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie sanders face-to-face for the first time since a dispute over a breach of private voter files exploded in public. >> as soon as we learn that they looked at that information, we fired that person. >> does secretary clinton deserve an apology tonight? >> yes. i apologize. the focus shifts toward national security and terrorism. >> we need to be united against the threats we face. we need to have everybody in our country focussed on watching what happens and reporting it, if it's suspicious. reporting what you hear. >> sanders standing firm on his view at the u.s. should not send troops overseas to fight isis. >> to tell saudi arabia that instead of going to war in yemen they are one of the wealthiest countries on earth have to go war against isis. to tell qatar instead of

spending $200 million on the world cup maybe they should pay attention to isis. >> martin o'malley taking on his fellow democrats on terrorist and gun control. >> isil training videos the easiest way to buy a combat assault weapon is at the gun show. it's because of flip-flopping of gun control that both of my colleagues supported. >> all three candidates zeroing in on a presidential hopeful that wasn't on stage. donald trump. >> i worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the republicans, particularly donald trump. >> fascist pleas of billionaires with big mouths. >> somebody like trump comes along and said i know the answers. the answer is that all the mexicans are criminals and rapists. >> reporter: a lot of talk about donald trump on the stage last night. one more issue we saw a divide emerge on the stage between the idea of america as an

intervention overseas. sanders argued he was more of a proponent of -- or clinton was more of a proponent of regime change he argued that the u.s. doesn't have to be a policeman of the world. it's a similar to a divide we've seen on the gop side among candidates like ted cruz, marco rubio, and donald trump. >> athena jones, appreciate it. thank you. we are on the verge -- on the verge of pulling off a biggest political upset in the history of united states of america. >> reporter: can you tell us why you won the debate? >> because i've been about getting things done. my politics is a politics of action. i'm bringing people together to get important things done. that makes our economy grow, it makes wages go up, and i offer a new generational perspective on this world of ours and our country. you heard it two of the candidates bragging after last night's debate. sanders and o'malley celebrating

saying they are on the verge of doing something great and possibly they won the debate last night. let's bring in jake tapper host of state of the union. >> we will talk to him about the debate. the bigger challenge for martin o'malley beyond getting through a debate with confidence that he performed well is what is the path to the nomination and what we're going to ask him what he needs to do when it comes to actual voting in the months ahead. does he need to come in at least second in iowa or new hampshire? we'll put the question to him coming up. >> let me ask you about the data breach controversy. we know that overnight two additional sanders campaign staffers have been suspended. the campaign manager said they're looking at a half dozen acoukountccounts as well. what is the impact on the sanders campaign potentially?

>> well, right now it seems as though the sanders campaign and the clinton campaign are trying to down play this. initially the response of the clinton campaign was very aggressive. they had a conference call. one of their spokesman went on the situation room with wolf blitzer and was aggressive about the charges laid out against the sanders campaign. which are serious. i don't want to diminish that. it seems as though the clinton campaign realized or come to the realization or the opinion that, a., we're going to need sanders voters at some point. we don't want to alienate them. and b., presuming she gets the nomination. b. it's not good for the democratic party to have a dispute about corruption within the process. rights now it seems as though both campaigns are down playing it. i think the breach is a relatively serious issue. >> let's talk about hillary clinton last night going after trump, going after the

republicans, preparing for the general. still 42 days until iowa. she's down ten points in the latest poll out of new hampshire. is she clear to go ahead and look toward the general or still have a fight potentially from sanders on her hand? >> she still has a fight. i don't think -- it's true that she's positioning herself for the general election, which we saw romney do in 2012 as well. and usually the frontrunner and the person who is going to go on is already thinking about the general election. it's also true that clinton came armed to the debate last night with opposition research. with information about not just sanders but o'malley's records. i think in that you can see she isn't taking it for granted. she's showing she's still involved and still in the fight. she talk about what o'malley did when he was head of the democratic governor's association about going to wall street for money. she talked about sanders' record about voting for intervention in libya. she's engaged in the thick of

it. her positioning more broadly speaking, i think, is that of somebody preparing for a general election candidate. >> jake tapper, looking forward to the show. >> thank you. "state of the union" with jake tapper starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. and we've been talking about the democratic debate this morning. but the republicans have been busy, too. up next we'll take a look at candidate ted cruz's new holiday ad. >> such as how obamacare stole christmas and rudolph the under employed reindeer. >> all the reindeer couldn't afford to hire rudolph. >> act now and you'll get a leader who does what he says he's going to do. when your cold makes you wish... ...you could stay...

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on the same night of the democrat's debate. ted cruz ran a parody ad in iowa. it airs during "saturday night live." >> the whole family will enjoy reading stories like "the grinch who lost her e-mails." >> i'll use my own server and no one will be the wiser. >> if you act now, we'll throw in the inspiring new christmas story soon-to-be an instant

classic. "the senator who saved christmas." >> this is a good one. >> if you are not completely satisfied with the collection of cruz christmas classics, you probably hate christmas and america. >> cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein is joining us now. you watch it the first time and think that was cheesy. if you take a second, there is strategy here. >> yeah, well, i'll tell you if you poll the republican coyote room and looking for adjectives for ted cruz cuddly probably wouldn't come up in the top five. ted cruz had a fascinating week, you know, he and marco rubio have collided at high speed over the issue of immigration and have done a lot of damage to each other, i think, and potentially to the party in the general election as well. ted cruz has seized on an issue that has been surprisingly under the radar in the early months which was marco rubio's support

of gang of 8 immigration rebill in 2014 that included a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants, which was ultimately killed when the house republicans would not take it up. the problem cruz faced he supported an amendment, as you know, during the process which would have provided legal status but not citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants. he said it was a poison pill designed to kill the bill. it may have. it required him to make the case for legal status which rubio is saying you're being a hypocrite. i think they have been significantly damaged by the week of events. maybe at the end of a tough week some levity is the appropriate response. >> you know what it reminds me of? we're having the conversation as we go into the christmas break where a lot of people are going to check out. in 2008 mike huckabee introduced that ad that started with, "aren't you stotired with the politicians on television." it seems he's trying to take a

page out of the huckabee book and get the viral video status. >> a good point. they're largely aiming at the same audience. you look what happened in iowa which is the key first step for ted cruz he has ascended in the polls there by doing what huckabee did in 2008 and santorum did in 2012. abo so i think cruz is aiming a kind of seasonal message at voters most prime to receive it. >> does it help to remind them that he's the man that red green eggs and ham? >> well, that's an interesting question. i think cruz is basically trying to be the, what, the most outsiderish insider in the field. he knows how to make government work more than donald trump but less part of the washington what he would call cartel than say,

marco rubio. yeah, i think it probably is useful. his persona is that he's going to -- he will know how to go to washington but will not really be absorbed by the system. so in that sense it's probably helpful. his bigger challenge is not so much the people who will respond to this ad. his bigger challenge is what happened to huckabee and santorum. they were never able to get far beyond that beachhead of evangelical christians. that's enough to make noise in the race. you can win a lot of southern states. but in the fend that's all you can do, you will not be the nominee. he has to show he can build a broader coalition than either of the two candidates that pave the path he's following. >> okay. we'll watch the strategy and follow the impact of the ad. ron brownstein, thank you. breaking news out of the

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the jets keep the nfl playoff hopes alive. the cowboys, maybe next year. >> clay wire with the bleacher report. >> how about the jets? the cool storyline their quarterback is ryan fitzpatrick. he played for six different teams in his 11 years of the nfl. he never had a winning record. a win here would guarantee that. let's check out cowboys quarterback matt castle. he was struggling so they turned to kelvin moore. he throws the touchdown pass to dez bryant. that was pretty much moore's only highlight. three interceptions in the game. the game was about ryan fitzpatrick. he rereallyallis and takes the . the game winning field goal. the jets are 9-5 looking pretty good for the playoffs and ryan filts patrick is guaranteed the first winning season in his

career. switching gears to the nba. last time we saw kyrie irving was last season. game one of the nba finals. after six months on the shelf he's back in time for christmas making the season debut this afternoon against the sixers. and cavs are already in first place. meet santa's not so little helper. oklahoma city thunder star surprised about 80 homeless children when he showed up at a local holiday party at the local shelter. they had no idea he was going to be dropping in. they had food, fun, games. called up each child by name and handed them a backpack and a brand new pair of air jordans. >> thank you, coy. they are back. overnight tina fey and amy poehler revived their hillary clinton and sarah palin characters on saturday night live.

take a look at this. >> can we focus? i'm running for president again and i'm getting advice from the smarter woman i know. >> me. >> i should be the one giving you advice. in 2008 i got a lot heck of a lot closer to the white house than this gal did. [ laughter ] >> here is my advice. you got to do what you believe in your spirit but also america but not teachers and their fat liberal books but also an even why worry about wages with the status quo which is another latin word. status quo. americans are being taken for a ride and also the man can only ride you when your back is bend so -- >> oh, my goodness. i love that show during the presidential cycle. they do it better than anyone. >> i can watch that video over

and over. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. state of the union with jake tapper starts at the top of the hour. but right now "inside politics" with john king. the democrats face off in new hampshire. >> i worry too much that secretary clinton is too much into regime change. >> i'm not giving up on libya. i don't think anybody should. >> plus the fifth republican clash reshapes the fight. >> can you support legalizing people in this country illegally? >> i understand that marco wants to raise confusion. i have never supported legalization. >> and bush takes on trump. >> donald trump is a jerk. >> inside politics sourced by the best reporters now. welce