>> and thanks for joining us. don't forget you can watch "outfront" any time, anywhere, just go to cnngo. "a.c. 360" starts now. good evening. tonight, new evidence of a president unleashed. up front about it. continuing his retribution against perceived enemies intervening on behalf of his flens friends and doing it publicly. a lot to cover on that tonight. we begin, though, with a democratic primary that's taken on new significance in lifgt gh it all, apparent front-runner in it. iowa and new hampshire in the books. first, cnn's john king with the state of the race now that new hampshi hampshire's in the books. >> the headline, bernie sanders gets the win, pete buttigieg a very close second, amy klobuchar a surprising third place in new hampshire. what are the lessons as we go from hn new hampshire on to nev and south carolina? bernie sanders can claim to be the leading progressive in the race right now. he won narrowly.

senator elizabeth warren led in new hampshire over the summer, she slippeddigits. a disappointing performance there. as we go on, people are going to talk about why did this happen? sanders getting 75,000 votes. less than what he received in this blowout against hillary clinton two years ago. somewhat unfair. a two-candidate race here. a multi-candidate race here. still people will ask if bernie sanders says he can bring the new voters, bring the high energy, bring the turnout, why did he slip so much in new hampshire? a question to ask as we go forward. the other question here is, what happened to the former vice president joe biden? 8.4%. allowing buttigieg and klobuchar for now to emerge as the leading centrists or moderate candidates. another thing we saw play out here in the race is the others, especially mayor buttigieg, ran very well in places we'll call sa sanders' strongholds. these are the towns where bernie sanders ran it up the most, the highest victory margin against senator clinton, secretary clinton, four years ago. look, some of the light green, that's mayor buttigieg. a little bit of the dark green, that's senator klobuchar making inroads in what was in the last campaign the foundation of the

big bernie sanders victory. something else we saw in new hampshire last night was a definite split worth watching as we go forward among income groups. bernie sanders says he's the candidate of the working class. blue-collar voters, well, he proved that last night in new hampshire. among those making under $50,000 a year, senator sanders winning with 38%. more than 2-1 over mayor buttigieg, then warren, klobuchar, biden. bernie sanders can rightly claim blue-collar workers like me. but there's a flip side to that. look at this among voters who make $100,000 a year or more. very important suburban constituency particularly for democrats as they move through this campaign. there, mayor buttigieg with a big win. followed by klobuchar, sanders in third. so lower income, middle-class income, goes to senator sanders. more affluent voters splitting for the moderates. here's another way to look at that. if you look through the state here and just pop out the 25 wealthiest towns by median income in the state of new hampshire, look at all that

green. mostly buttigieg. a little klobuchar. only 2% going to bernie sanders. this is a dynamic worth watching as we go into more diverse states, especially the big state of super tuesday. can senator sanders expand his horizons and get to the upper-coinle voters? can the moderates get down to the blue-collar workers? that's a test we'll see as we go forward. but for now, today, bernie sanders says, i have a win, and i can keep going. >> we won the popular vote in iowa. we won the vote here in new hampshire. i believe we're going to win in nevada. i think we're going to win in south carolina. i think we're going to win a whole lot of states on super tuesday. we're feeling great. we think we're on a path to victory. we'll win the nomination and i think we're going to beat donald trump big-time. >> and with that on the table, we're joined now by senator sanders. senator sanders, congratulations on the victory last night. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> a win is certainly a win. pete buttigieg, john king was saying, finished closer than expected. he said last night, "vulnerable americans do not have the luxury

of pursuing ideological purity over an inclusive victory." assuming that's a swipe the you or nod to you. what do you say to that? >> well, what i say is that we are putting together an unprecedented grassroots movement. it's made up of working people. it's made up of lower-income people. it's made up of young people. it's made up of people who feel disinfranchised from a corrupt political system which is dominated by big-money interest. and, listen, in my view, the american people want a government finally that represents all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors and the billionaire class, and that is why we're going to win in south carolina. in nevada. and we're going to beat donald trump. >> some of the analysts last night, you know, said, look, if you take all the people who voted for buttigiebuttigieg, kl a lesser extent, vice president biden last night, more than 52% of the vote, a big chunk of people going toward more moderate side of the party, can you win the nomination without

voters likely who have already considered your plans for medicare for all or free college tuition, determined they don't want that? >> well, actually, i think if you look at the exit polls yesterday in new hampshire, if my memory is correct, medicare for all was extremely popular. and was one of the reasons that we won. i think, anderson, that the more we have an opportunity, and if we're in the general election, we certainly will, to talk about a dysfunctional health care system in which we spent twice as much per capita as the people of any other country, and yet 87 million of us are uninsured or underinsured, 30,000 die each year because they don't go to a doctor, 500,000 people go bankrupt because of medically-related bills, and we pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, you know what, i think people will be very supportive of medicare for all and help us win the election. >> pete buttigieg has actually been focusing on medicare for all. one of the things he said to cnn

this morning was about union -- union health care plans. i just want to play that for our viewers. it's from cnn this morning. >> when you're in nevada, you talk to a lot of folks including workers in organizations like the culinary workers union and other labor organizations that have fought hard for good health care plans. and senator sanders' message that he's going to erase those plans and replace them with a single government plan for everybody is going to be, i think, a very tough sell among voters who want to have that choice. >> that's a 60,000-member union. he says they're handing out flyers saying you want to end health care for their workers and their families. >> that's not exactly what that flier is about. truth is, i have far more union support to the best of my knowledge than mr. buttigieg does. in fact, many of the unions are strongly supporting of the medicare for all single-payer

system. i'll tell you why because when unions sit down and negotiate with their players, verylor wil well, you know, i can give you a 2% wage increase, but i'm going to have to cut back on your health care benefits. taust trying to protect the health care benefits that they have. we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people. and in those countries, unions are going to have to defend the health care benefits they have. they already have health care. they can talk about better wages and better working conditions. so i think what you will find is that many of the unions are supportive of medicare for all because it is comprehensive health care. you lose your job, you got it. you're old, you got it. you're young, you got it. you're unemployed, you got it. it is where this country, if my view, has got to go. >> you know the criticism, obviously, of iowa, new hampshire, large white

populations. there was a national quinnipiac poll this week, it showed mike bloomberg leading you among african-american voters 22%-19%. again, lot of people haven't actually seen mike bloomberg in the flesh. they've just seen his tv commercials. but does that concern you? >> reporter: look, think at the end of the day when people "a," learn about mr. bloomberg's record of stop and frisk in new york city, i think that will change some minds, but second of all, i think when people understand that in our democratic society, we have an individual worth some $60 billion who in an unprecedented way, anderson, isn't really trying to buy the elections. he didn't compete in iowa where all the democratic candidates did. nor in new hampshire, nor in south carolina. he didn't hold town meetings. he didn't talk to people, answer questions. all he did is take a small part of his $60 billion, put it into tv commercials and i guess that

can get you votes. at the end of the day, it is my firm belief that our kind of grassroots coalition, it's a multigenerational, multiracial coalition, with millions of people knocking on door, volunteering, making small campaign contributions, we're going to defeat a billionaire. >> james kcarville, a longtime clinton loyalist, supporting senator michael bennet who obviously dropped out of the primary race last night. he said this week core democratic voters aren't interested being in what he called, said, a cult. he said they're not interested in socialism and revolution and other things he called foolishness and, quote, i don't know how you win an election 78 years old screaming if a microphone about the revolution. i don't know if he was actually screaming at the time, although it's very possible knowing james. i want to give you a chance to respond. >> look, james, in all due respect, is a political hack who said very terrible things when he was working for clinton against i think he said some of the same

things. looking we a look, we are taking on the establishment. this is no secret to anybody. we're taking on i guess the former head of goldman sachs attacked me yesterday. >> yeah, he had some unkind things as well. >> he did. yeah. wall street. and the insurance companies don't like me. you know what, the pharmaceutical industry, which is charging us ten times manyor for the same drugs they sell in canada, they don't like me either, nor does the fossil fuel industry because their product happens to be destroying our planet, nor does the military industrial complex or prison industrial complex. we're taking on trump, the republican establishment, carville and the democratic establishment. but at the end of the day, the grassroots movement that we are putting together of young people, of working people, of people of color, want real change. >> but you know -- >> and they want us to take -- though, it's not all just establishment folks who have a vested interest.

there are american citizens who, you know, went out to vote in new hampshire, voted for klobuchar or voted for buttigieg or in some cases biden who just feel like -- >> right. >> -- revolution is -- it's just too much. and they maybe like their plans. they don't want their insurance taken away for something else in government hands they don't have any idea about. >> first of all, i think if you look at the issues that we are talking about, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, enormously popular. demanding that the wealthy and the powerful and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes, enormously powerful and popular. making pub lulic colleges and universities tuition-free. as i said earlier, medicare for all is one of the reasons we won in new hampshire. it is very popular in new hampshire and i suspect among democrats all over this country. criminal justice reform. immigration reform. these are issues that the american people, in fact, support. and we're going to win this election because we are prepared

to stand up to wall street and the corporate elite and finally do what the american people want. >> senator bernie sanders. appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. just ahead, the other contender in the liberal lane, senator elizabeth warren, she joins us. and next, the president was asked today what he learned from impeachment. the answers and what he said and what he's been doing are raising yet more concerns about a president with absolutely no guardrails. we're "keeping them honest." with advil, you have power over pain, so the whole world looks different. the unbeatable strength of advil. what pain? let's get down to business. the business of atlanta on monday...

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[ disthave you ever wondered [ distant band playing ] what the motorcade driver drives when they're not in a motorcade? [ upbeat music starts ] [ engine revving ] ♪ this one drives a volkswagen passat. ♪ today's abraham lincoln's birthday. here's part of how president trump marked the occasion. >> what lesson did you learn from impeachment? >> that the democrats are crooked. they've got a lot of crooked things going. that they're vicious. that they shouldn't have brought

impeachment. >> anything -- >> and that my poll numbers are ten points higher because of fake news like nbc, which reports the news very inaccurately. probably more inaccurately than cnn, if that's possible. >> so, that's what he's learned. the heir to lincoln's leader, the party once known as the party of lincoln, this afternoon seeming to confirm he learned none of the lessons that many republicans may have hoped he would before voting to acquit him. ever since, as you know, he's been carrying out retribution against perceived enemies and now seeking to protect friends. this morning he began reveling in it, tweeting this about the justice department's decision yesterday to scale back the sentencing recommendation for his friend, roger stone. "congratulations to attorney general bill barr for taking charge of the case that was totally out of control and prance should not have even been brought." when this happened, just hours after an early morning presidential tweet decrying the tougher recommendation for federal prosecutors withdrew from the case. that happened yesterday. here's the president's reaction today. >> mr. president, are you concerned about the four

prosecutors? >> i'm not concerned about anything. concerned -- >> do something wrong -- >> i'm not concerned about anything. they ought to go back to school and learn because i'll tell you, the way they treated people, nobody should be treated like that. >> these are -- >> he also thanked the justice department while at the same time denying that he played any role in their decision. >> i didn't speak to them, by the way, just so you understand. they saw the horribleness of a nine-year sentence for doing nothing. you have murderers and drug addicts, they don't get nine years. nine years for doing something that nobody even con define what he did. >> murderers generally get more than nine years. actually, those prosecutors also did define what roger stone did, and actually a jury, which is our system in this country, convicted him on all seven counts of lying to congress, obstructing an official proceeding and witness tampering in the russia investigation. as for not speaking to the justice department, he might not have picked up the phone, according to him, but he didn't really need to, did he? he'd already told the world, he

tweeted at 1:48 a.m., no less, eastern time, yesterday morning, "this is a very horrible and very unfair situation. the real crimes were on the other side. if nothing happens to them, cannot allow this miscarriage of justice." just like that, hours later the sentencing recommendations were changed. by today, he was publicly thanking the department of justice. as for the reaction from republican senators, well, you can pretty much guess. take a look. >> are you concerned at all about political influence -- >> i'm sorry. i have a vote. >> any concern about roger stone, sir? >> so you don't have any concerns of what some say is a continuing pattern of some political intervention in a -- >> i got real concerns about overzealous prosecution. more than anything else. >> senator graham went on to say he's, quote, not losing any sleep, unquote, about the four prosecutors. senator john thune said, "it's all best to allow the legal system in this country to work the way it was intended." interpret that how you will. which are words the president has never actually shown any sign of living by whether it's

speaking out repeatedly in the paul manafort case or behalf of michael flynn or calling for comey and others to be prosecuted. in fact, the only time he seems to have spoken out against presidential involvement was when someone else was president. >> here's a demand i'm making today to president obama. mr. president, will you pledge not to issue a pardon to hillary clinton and her co-conspirators for their many crimes against our country and against society, itself? will you make that pledge? no one is above the law. >> secretary clinton, as you know, was never convicted of, lit alone charged with any crime. the fear now is the president is acting as if he is. this comes just days after the president fired a decorated

combat veteran, alexander vindman, for testifying to congress. oh, his twin brother as well. firing ambassador gordon sondland what also testified. today the white house formally launched the promotion of a former justice department official whose office oversaw the stone case as well as the case of former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. one person familiar with the president's thinking telling cnn today that the problem was that she did not do more to get involved in those cases. today, house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says he expects attorney general barr to testify late next month to address, quote, improper influence over the department. here's some of his past testimony on the subject. >> attorney general barr, has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? >> i wouldn't -- i wouldn't -- >> yes or no. >> could you repeat that question? >> i will repeat it. has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone?

yes or no, please, sir. >> the president or anybody else. >> seems you'd remember something like that. be able to tell us. >> yeah, but i'm trying to grapple with the word, "suggest." i mean, there have been discussions of matters out there that they've not asked me to open an investigation, but -- >> perhaps they've suggested? >> i don't know. i wouldn't say suggest. >> hinted? >> i don't know. >> inferred? you don't know. okay. >> he said back then he didn't know. tonight, the question is, how could he not? joining us now is senator chris murphy, a democrat of connecticut. senator murphy, the fact the president says what he learned from the impeachment trial is that the democrats are crooked and vicious, it doesn't sound like someone who's learned any lessons as some of your republican colleagues have said is the case. or hoped was the case. >> well, i mean, he definitely learned a lesson. he learned that he could get away with corrupting his office

with absolutely no consequences. and, you know, we all knew it was laughable when our republican colleagues who were voting to acquit the president suggested that he will have learned his lesson. well, he did learn a lesson. what he learned is he can do anything. he can use all of the tools that are at his disposal in the white house, at the state department, at the justice department, in order to destroy his political rivals, in order to silence anyone who speaks out against him, and to forgive, pardon, or let off the hook his co-conspirators. that's the lesson that he has learned, and what i think we all worry is that we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. he essentially has a get out of jail free card from republicans in the senate. and so if he could get away with corrupting our ukraine policy, get away with firing everybody who told the truth about it and get away with lessening the sentences of people who offended in his name, i just don't know that there's any end to this.

>> if president obama had gone after the federal prosecutors and federal judged involved in prosecuting one of his cronies who'd been convicted of multiple felonies by a jury, you know, there's no doubt republicans would have flipped out. maybe, you know, he would have even stood up to, you know, previous republican presidents who might have tried such a thing, but not this president. >> no. i mean, listen, that's obviously the case. just imagine what lindsey graham would be screaming about if president obama had engaged in any of the conduct that is happened in simply the last three days. what we're seeing is the republican party turn into a cult. they have a dear leader that they follow without question and it's really sad to see. it's really heartbreaking to see republicans in the senate who i know in their heart understand the damage that has been done in democracy fall if line over and over and over again. you know, we all worry that they're going to wake up some day in the near future and find

our democracy gone. it's a fragile, delicate, creature. it's only been around for 240 years and i don't think anybody should assume it's going to be around for another 240 if you don't take steps to protect it from people like this. >> you think it's that bat,d, y think actually democracy could come to an end? >> listen, i think that there are all sorts of different versions of democratic governments out there, and i don't know that in the next 10 to 20 years america transitions into a saudi arabian-style autocracy, but we certainly could all lose our rights of political dissent if we all of a sudden found out that the justice department targets people who criticize the president or is lenient on those who commit crimes directed by the president or in coordination with the president's political agenda, then all of a sudden that doesn't feel like a democracy to me and then all of a sudden it just makes it a lot easier for people who are in

power to stay in power. i mean, that's the fundamental, the foundation of our democracy that you can't use your official powers to try to preserve your power. and that's what the president is doing today on almost a daily basis. >> just lastly, part and parcel of keeping the president's powers in check, the senate in a bipartisan vote passed a war powers resolution today that would restrict the president from taking action against iran without congress' approval. the president tweeted the resolution shows, quote, weakness, and democrats are just trying to embarrass him. some republicans joined democrats in passing the measure. what do you say to him? what do you say to the president on this? >> listen, this is a sliver of good news. we were able to get a few republicans to join us with to make clear that he can't go to war with iran without congressional authorization. and there are other ways in which congress is trying in a bipartisan way to push back on the ways in which the president has abused his power. i'm going to be going this weekend to ukraine.

the first congressional visit there since the impeachment trial with republicans. and i will be sending a message once more to president zelensky that he should stay out of american politics, even if rudy giuliani is still skulking around. whether it be a war powers vote or trips abroad to try to make sure that our foreign policy doesn't continue to be perverted by this president, we're going to have to all be active in defense of democracy. >> senator chris murphy, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thanks. >> we're going to have more on this story just ahead. alan dershowitz, one of president trump's attorneys during the impeachment trial, joins us and cnn's jeff toobin to talk about the stone case. later, senator elizabeth warren on her disappointing performance in new hampshire and why she says the race is far from over. what'd we decide on the flyers again? uh, "fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance." i think we're gonna swap over to "over seventy-five years of savings and service." what, we're just gonna swap over? yep. pump the breaks on this, swap it over to that.

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before the break, you heard democratic senator chris murray weigh in on the roger stone case. he said the actions of president trump and attorney general bill barr is more proof how more emboldened the president has become since his acquittal. harvard law school all an dershowitz is author of "defending the constitution: alan dershowitz's senate argument against impeachment." also with us, jeffrey toobin, former prosecutor and cnn chief legal analyst. good to have both of you with us. jeff, the president today con gara congratulating attorney general barr on twitter saying i'm taking charge in the case, thanking the justice power to prosecute is the biggest the federal government has except to make war th. they can lock people up. they can execute people. one of the bedrock principles of what we do as a government is to

treat everybody the same. e don't ha we don't have the executive who happens to be in charge now single out his friends for harsh, or easy treatment, or his enemies for harsh treatment. and to have the president pick his friend to have his sentence, you know, recommendation overturned, is just a perversion of everything the justice department stands for. >> professor dershowitz, the president says he didn't intervene in the justice department's decision. does -- his critics say he doesn't have to pick up the phone and call the attorney general, he tweets out his thoughts and the attorney general knows what to do. what do you think of it? >> that's clear. that's clear. the question is whether or not that's unlawful or unconstitutional and our constitution puts the president in charge of the executive branch and we know that president jefferson micromanaged the aaron burr case. we know that president franklin delano roosevelt micromanaged the case of the german saboteurs and determining whether their sentence was going be and we know that president george h.

bush acquitted weinberger. we live in an imperfect world because we have a very schizophrenic justice department. no other western democracy merges the two roles of the attorney general. "a," he's the minister of justice, adviser to the president, the cabinet member and also a chief law enforcement official. in england, they have a separate office. in israel, a separate office. many other countries, separate offices, so we don't have that problem, but in our country, we do have that problem. i wish we could eliminate it and we could eliminate it if we created a new department, a department of public prosecution, which would be generally operated out of the courts and not by the executive. but right now, presidents throughout history have put a thumb on the scale, have helped their friends, hurt their enemies and it's -- it's not a good system. i wish we didn't have it. in this case, of course, the sentence, of course, i hope

americans really pay attention to this because the sentence, itself, was absolutely outrageous. now, be focused on one sentence, he should be talking about how sentences have gotten out of hand. this guy got four times the amount he would have gotten had he pleaded guilty. and that's called the trial penalty. and so there are a lot of problems and issues here, but it shouldn't be done selectively. it should be done across the board. >> but alan, it seems like your point is because other presidents have behaved badly, it's okay that this president behaved badly? it's not required for presidents to abuse their power in this way, so why should president trump have done it? >> of course not. well, nobody should abuse their power. obviously. the question is, is it within the power of the president to intervene? he says he didn't. but to intervene in order to try to lower an outrageously high sentence? if the president did it routinely and said, look, i'm

going to look into harsh sentences, i see that as part of my role as checks and balances, going to commute, going to pardon and influence the justice department to reduce sentences. i'm going to try to get rid of the guidelines. when the guidelines came into effect, 20% of people pleaded not guilty, went to trial. it's something like 3% or 4% because the trial penalty is so great that people are afraid to go to trial and they're getting -- when you sentence an old man, first offender, nonviolent, to life in prison -- >> right, this is not anything the president has ever talked about. >> for a person that age -- >> this is not something -- >> he has talked about that. he has taulked about that. he's talked about excessive sentences. he talked about it with the first step act. >> like the central park five. he was really outraged about it. >> i think the american public -- >> i mean, he has a record of, you know, calling -- wanting people to be killed. i mean, he's not exactly all the time talking about harsh sentences and making this a focus. he's talking about helping out his friends. >> well, i would love to see the president make it as part of his

policy to reduce sentences across the board, to make sure that the trial penalty is eliminated or reduced. this could be a wake-up call. look, civil libertarians and liberals should be outraged at the seven to nine-year sentence that was recommended by the justice department. >> first of all, alan, there's a recommendation -- >> this president. yeah. >> it wasn't the sentence. and isn't the fact -- >> i understand that. >> -- that he hasn't spoken out for -- on other defendants make it worse that he spoke out on this one because this is his friend? this is someone who potentially could have testified against him. doesn't it make it worse that this is the one case he chose to speak out on? >> like in the george h.w. bush case, of course, when the president picks one case, it's usually a case that's come to his attention for one reason or another, but jeffrey, are you seriously saying that it matters that this was just a recommendation? you know how infrequently judges don't follow recommendations? it's prosecutors'

recommendations that result in the trial penalty and coercing people into going to plead guilty when they have close cases but which they could be acquitted. so it's the recommendation of prosecutors. that's the real problem. >> paul manafort got considerable -- >> focus on this, even if this situation -- yeah -- >> paul manafort got considerably less than the guidelines. roger stone was -- >> that's the judge -- >> -- very weakly defended. so the idea that this was a sentence of seven to niner e ey, this is simply not true. it is consistent with what the -- >> it was a terrible recommendation. >> i think it was -- i think it was a very -- >> terrible. >> -- high recommendation. i agree with you on that. but the idea that the president of the united states decides this one case, and by the way, in that tweet, he said the democrats should be the one who are prosecuted, so he's not just defending his own friend. he's asking for his enemies to be prosecuted, too. >> we're out of time.

i appreciate it from mr. dershowitz -- >> we haven't seen -- we haven't seen that happening, but i hope this will result in reform in the system. that would be a good thing. >> professor dershowitz, thanks, jeff toobin as well. up next, my interview with senator ef lizabeth warren. how she says she can turn her campaign around. let's get down to business.

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elizabeth warren's presidential campaign is clearly reassessing its strategy

tonight. the massachusetts senator led polls just a few months ago, however, she's now had two poor performances in a row placing third in iowa, fourth in new hampshire. today, according to one media analysis group, her campaign has canceled more than a half million dollars in ad reservations in the next primary state in south carolina. just before airtime i spoke to senator warren about her performance so far and how she sees the coming weeks and months unfol unfolding. senator warren, thanks for being with us. i'm wondering about last night, what do you think happened in hashire? there were obviously a lot of people who wanted you to do better, your supporters. >> sure. including me. but, you know, we've got five candidates now who all have delegates, and i think we're in for a long nomination process. since iowa, i have raised $5 million in grassroots donations. people who are saying, stay in this race, fight this race, because they get it. >> do you have a sense of why that message, which is the message you gave in new

hampshire, didn't resonate? >> i don't, but i can tell you this, i can tell you that it's what i fight for, and i'm going to get out there and keep fighting for it and keep talking about it. i think we're in a very frothy place right now but do keep in mind we've only heard from two states. we got 98 states and territories, 98% of our states and territories, left to go that means we got a lot coming up. although i have to say i know everybody wants to talk about the horse race, but the thing that is really getting to me right now is what's going on over at the justice department and the whole notion that we have people in our justice department resigning because donald trump's inappropriate influence and the attorney general overturning a sentencing

of donald trump's krocronies. you know, right if front of our eyes, we are watching a descent into authoritarianism. and this just seems like a moment to me everybody should be speaking up. >> right. >> presidential candidates should be speaking up. people around this country should be speaking up. >> i said -- >> we can't have this. >> last night i think i said on air that the "washington post" says democracy dies in darkness. it actually doesn't. it dies on television. it dies right under the lights of, you know, the bright of day. this is an attack on the institution -- >> people not doing something. >> -- of justice. >> that's right. with people not doing something. understand we should all be calling for the attorney general to resign. what barr has done should mean that we are demanding a resignation, and if that guy won't resign, then the house should start impeachment proceedings against him. >> i know when you called for the impeachment of the president

and an investigation on impeachment, there were those who said, well, look, you know, politically, this is not going to be good for democrats. you said, look, the things that are more important than that. is there -- i mean, the idea of launching another impeachment investigation this time against the attorney general, that, i mean, again, there are political considerations, no? >> no doubt, there are political considerations, but what do you think are the political considerations just sitting by and sitting on your hands? look, you started this with talking about how democracy dies. it doesn't just die in darkness. that it dies on television with nobody doing anything. enough of this. we can't just sit by and watch this happen. i have to say, i'm surprised the other presidential candidates aren't out there talking about it. >> before we go, just one last question about what lies ahead for you. obviously, it's nevada. there's south carolina. are you concerned that -- senator sanders appear to be

solidifying the progressive wing of the party behind him. you got, i guess more moderates, you would say, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar. do you see yourself as a lane in between a sanders and a buttigieg, a klobuchar? i mean, some sort of bridge between them? where is your lane at this point? >> so, jesse jackson made a wonderful statement many years ago. "it takes two wings to fly." and i think that's where we are right flnow in the democratic party. a lot of good people in this party. a lot of good ideas. but we need someone who's going to be able to unite this party. and to be able to fight hard on behalf of core democratic values. to fight on behalf of hardworking middle-class american families. to fight on behalf of people who've just been getting the short end of the stick over and over and over. you know, i came to politics late, but that was my life's

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nixon. i listened to dershowitz. i love those segments with you, toobin, and him. i was very disappointed in that one. i'm disappointed in the professor's position. i imagine if it were his client, the president said the reverse instead of it's too big a sentence, it's too soft, put him in jail for longer. i wonder what dershowitz would say then. i bet it would be a different argument. politics doesn't mix with the administration of justice. it's not debatable. we're going to take on what the problem is. vy i have evidence of the same. we'll lay out what happened here. we have senator blumenthal here, about what can be done by congress, and what can the democrats do to win check on the president. do they have someone for the job? >> appreciate it. see you in a few minutes. on that front, breaking news straight ahead on yet more turmoil at the justice department. the business of atlanta on monday... ... cincinnati on tuesday.

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people. do you know what could be next? >> reporter: yeah, as you mentioned our colleagues at the justice department, anderson, are saying there could be more resignations in the justice department in response to how the doj has been handling this roger stone case. i will tell you, though, if there are resignations, they may be in vain, anderson. i talked to a couple trump advisers this evening who fully expect the president to either commute the sentence of roger stone when that comes about or give him a full pardon. and so those resignations could come along. obviously, that is what our colleagues are hearing over at the justice department. but whether or not it actually makes a difference in the end, that, it just may not come to pass. i will tell you, anderson, >> understandable why he would talking to one trump adviser feel that way. i mean, no one in the senate earlier this evening, this adviser was saying the presid t president, he's been on this really on the republican side, certainly, would stand up to him other than mitt romney. >> reporter: that's right. vindictive victory lap for about that's why you saw the a week now, expect him to be more brazen in the coming days president's, you know, his mood was palpable in the oval office and weeks and months ahead accoinweek. earlier today. he was sitting in the oval office with the leader of ecuador with a stack of trump campaign hats right there next to him in the oval office. and he was asked whether or not he had learned any lessons from

this impeachment saga and he said the lesson that he learned was that it was the democrats, in his words, who were crooked and that he should not have been impeached in the first place. not exactly the lesson that a few republicans like susan collins of maine were hoping that the president would draw into from this experience. if anything, it sounds like we're going to see a more emboldened president trump in the days to come, anderson. >> all right. jim acosta at the white house tonight. jim, thanks very much. appreciate it. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." chris? >> apdson, thank you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." the president attacked the rule of law like we've never seen. forget the clever legal minds and devious debates. it is obvious what happened here. there's evidence that shows it and we have it. so let's get after it. what do you do when a president dictates what is justice for his friends? we watched the president praise his attorney general and his

cronies and trump are now saying the prosecutors, they're the ones who went rogue, deep state. it's all bs and there's a trail to prove it. the deception is not new. in fact, it is the directness that's startling. presidents usually pardon for something like this. think bush with weinberger. clinton with mark richt. why? because they know the institutions of justice would generally not go along with a perceived political payback. but this president is post-presidential. he is in automatic autocratic mode.