next, breaking news. intelligence officials warning congress of the secret briefing that russia is trying to help trump get re-elected. trump was furious. that why he has named a new acting director of intelligence? plus michael bloomberg trying to move on from last night's debate. can he escape lingering questions? and nevada to hillary clinton four years ago, will they spoil it for sanders again? let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of out front. we're in las vegas. less than an hour, presidential town halls will begin. we have more on that in just a moment. first breaking news. cnn learning president trump has been warned that russia is

trying to help him again, to interfere in the 2020 election. according to a source, the intelligence community's top election security official warned house lawmakers that russia is trying to get trump re-elected. it's an incredible thing hearing news of the briefing set the president off. he was furious according to a source. specifically furious at his now outgoing national director of intelligence joseph mcguire for allowing the briefing take place. he didn't want to hear it for what he believed was ammunition for democrats. news of the outburst coming 24 hours after trump picked loyalist richard grenell to be the new acting director of intelligence. kaitlan begins our coverage outside the white house. it's a stunning development when you get a headline like this, the instinct would be to be furious and to perhaps put someone in place that would not allow this sort of thing to get out.

what more are you learning about this briefing, which official led it and what happened? >> reporter: erin, it this is interesting. shelby pearson is the election official who led this. she's in the job that she has essentially to coordinate it all because it was a position created by dan coats, the former director of national intelligence last summer who the president famously feuded with over intelligence that he was briefed on that he did not like. now, she is the one who went up there, spoke with these lawmakers. we are being told by sources that house republicans grew angry during that briefing, though it's not entirely clear, we are still learning more about that. but when the president found out he was essentially concerned that democrats would try to weaponize this again him, namely adam schiff who is the house intelligence chairman who was in the room and was the one who led the impeachment inquiry against the president in his committee last fall. we are told this what led to the date after the briefing. joseph mcguire, the acting

director of national intelligence, the president blew up at him, essentially angry at the fact this had taken place. it was one of mcguire's deputies who had been the one to brief this. now we know as the reporting yesterday showed, the president is now putting a loyalist in the top job as director, acting director of national intelligence. that's rick grenell currently the u.s. ambassador to germany. the now, erin, we are being told by two administration officials it is coincidental this report came out about russia favoring the president to win the election. and the president installing a loyalist in this job. but, erin, we should note rick grenell will be doing this job with another job he still has, acting as the ambassador to germany. it's not like it was a convenient time. it's going to raise a lot more questions about whether the president is acting out because he's seeing intelligence that he doesn't like. >> all right. kaitlan, thank you very much. and i want to go now to democratic congressman from illinois mike quigley who sits on the house intelligence committee. so let me just start, congressman, with is there

anything that you can share with us about this briefing? >> i can't talk about what took place in any particular briefing. i'll just remind your viewers that from january 2017 on, the entire intelligence community, with a high degree of certainty, said the russians were the ones who attacked the democratic process, and they did it to favor one candidate, president trump, over the other, hillary clinton. dni coats who was ousted because he disagreed with the president said most recently, the lights are still flashing red. they're warning lights. they are still going to do this. the russians have never left. so we should be protecting the democratic process and there's no coincidence. the president ousts people who disagree with him, who hurt in his mind political advantage or personal advantage. and i think that's what you should see this for.ause you're saying it's no

coincidence. they're trying to say it's a coincidence he's putting in rick grenell, a coincidence at all. i wanted to see if you believe this goes one step further. is this the president of the united states trying to cover up the fact that russia is trying to help him in the election? >> i think the president of the united states is trying to take over the intelligence process in the same manner we saw this week where he's trying to take over the justice department. he doesn't want the truth to ge. that's extraordinarily dangerous when it comes to intelligence. the truth, the intelligence truth keeps us safe. we are less safe when the president does things like this. the fact of the matter is nobody has to weaponize this. the russians have weaponized social media and they've hacked and dumped and there's a lot we have to do to prepare for the primaries and november election. the russians attempted to attack

the democratic process during the primaries. this has been reported. and the president getting people out who want to talk about that has an extraordinary chilling effect on anybody willing to come forward, as we saw with colonel vindman and others. >> so let me ask you because obviously the president, we understand, was furious when he found out about this. didn't want people to know about it. we are also hearing, though, that -- a source is telling us when you were briefed in your committee and you would think that everybody would uniformly be up in arms about russian interference in the election, it's confirmed it's happening regardless of who it's trying to help. the understanding is the intelligence community sayingep launched an attack, they didn't want to hear it. is that true? >> i can't speak to a particular briefing. i can speak to a pattern of behavior. it's been very difficult to pass election grant, to fight against

this. i've been the sponsor of those measures. it's been tough to get bipartisan support. and i will say this broadly. it has been a pattern of behavior by my republican colleagues of resisting this information and siding with the president. whether they're doing this because they agree with the president or they just want to protect him, i'm often asked, are they true believers? i can't tell any more when unfortunately they're complicit. >> all right. congressman, i appreciate your time and i thank you. and i want to go now to the former general counsel for the director of national intelligence, robert licht, special agent for the fbi and "the new york times" reporter julian barnes who is breaking this story. let me start with you, bob. the reporting is the president was furious and he then appoints a loyalist to take the job as acting chief of the dni. what does that add up to when you see it? >> well, i have to agree with

congressman quigley. it's impossible to believe this is coincidental. there is no advantage to be gained from replacing one acting director of national intelligence with another acting director of national intelligence. the only plausible explanation for this is that he was furious at admiral mcguire for allowing bad news to get out, and he wants him to replace him with someone who won't allow the bad news to get out. >> so, asha, can you just put an exclamation point on what the significance of this would be, russia interfering in the election to help the president of the united states get re-elected, and his instinct is to get rid of the guy who tells him that and get someone else who would be in the position of telling congress and the american people about that, who is loyal to him? >> yeah, this is problematic on a number of levels, erin. so, i mean, the first one is that he does not want intelligence regarding foreign

threats to the united states to reach the intelligence committees whose job it is to understand what these threats are, to pass legislation if they need to, to protect the united states against it. so he's kind of breaking down that separation of powers relationship which we've seen before. and in not wanting this to become public, he's cherry-picking intelligence so that -- to shape his own, you know, election prospects. and again, we've seen this before in the whole ukraine saga of wanting to, you know, smear his opponent to help himself. the biggest problem, erin, is that, you know, the way that you neutralize disinformation, which is what russia does, you need members of congress and ultimately the public to know this is what's going on in order to have the public be able to, you know, take that into account when they make an informed vote.

>> so, julian, you have been reporting on this. i guess we understand the house republicans got upset when they found out about this, that they sort of went into attack mode and essentially trite to politicize it. what else have you heard about what republican reaction was to this briefing, which if it is what we understand it was, which is russia interfering in the election to help the 79 of the united states get re-elected, everybody should have been up in arms about? >> well, look, as we know, this is a line that the republicans have increasingly pushed back upon. they argue that russia didn't want -- didn't favor trump. they were just sowing chaos. and there was no reason russia should support trump in 2020. and so this is what the line of attack from representative stewart and other republicans on the committee who kind of hammered away at the briefer

saying, we don't believe this. and it was very similar to the kinds of lines that we've heard from congressman ratcliff and other sort of staunch defenders of the president on the committee. but this was a classified briefing where the latest intelligence was being presented, where the conclusions about what russia were doing wasn't laid out. it wasn't supposed to be a political forum and yet that's what it became. >> i mean, bob, the president has a history of refusing to admit that russia would try to help him in the election, right. what julian said, it was about sowing chaos. that's what the intelligence community indicated it was first time around. they clearly helped president trump, which is their briefing now. here's how president trump has responded, though, to russian interference again and again and again, which is to deny it. here he is. >> you know who got me elected?

i got me elected. russia didn't help me at all. >> i thought the russian hoax -- it's a hoax. they used that as an excuse for losing the electoral college. russia did not help me. that i can tell you, okay. >> why do you think he refuses to accept the intelligence and now by his behavior and this coincidence that is not a coincidence seems to be having the same reaction again? >> well, i don't want to go into psychoanalyzing the president, but it's pretty clear that he views the possibility that the russians attempted to influence the election on his behalf as undercutting his legitimacy in some respect. and he's working backwards from that conclusion to challenge the facts, regardless of what the facts may actually turnout to be. this is actually consistent with what the republicans did in january 2017 when the initial

assessment came out. they had the exact same reaction. they refused to accept it. they attacked the intelligence community for drawing that conclusion. so this has been a consistent pattern all along of denial of what the intelligence community is finding. >> all right. all of you stay with me. we have more on our breaking news after this. there are reports now this hour that there may be even more resignations from the intelligence community coming now after the president's lashed out following this briefing on russian meddling. plus michael bloomberg trying to move past his debate debut. >> the real winner in the debate last night was donald trump. >> and we are now less than an hour until the start of our democratic town halls in las vegas as bernie sanders reveals surprising details about his private conversations with former president obama. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger

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that russia is looking for ways to interfere in the 2020 election with the purpose of helping president donald trump get re-elected. and a source telling cnn that trump lashed out at his outgoing acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire about that briefing. a former senior intelligence official telling cnn, quote, the ic intelligence community sees as reporting the truth, simple statement of facts in evidence without judgment. the president sees as undermining his legitimacy. a damning thing coming from the intelligence community. let me go to julian barnes from "new york times" who has been breaking this story. julian, so, now we have -- you are reporting there could be another resignation related to all this coming. tell me what you know. >> yeah, so andrew hallman, he's been the acting number two under joe mcguire since last august when sue gordon was asked to, to resign.

and he has been seen as a steadying hand in a relatively turbulent time. but the fact that he is leaving, this acting number two job, shows that rick grenell, the new acting dni is going to put his own team in at the top. so he is going to really try in whatever time he has there to sort of shape the management of the odni. >> i mean, asha, it's a pretty stunning thing. the statement we just have, right, from the former senior intelligence official saying what the intelligence community sees as reporting the truth, simple statement of facts in evidence without judgment, the president sees as undermining his legitimacy. and what we're seeing tonight, asha, he effectively would be able to silence it. to silence the reporting of those facts. >> that's what it sounds like he wants to do. i don't -- it sounds like he

wants dni or subordinates of the dni to lie to promote the narrative that he wants. you know, it is the intelligence community's job to present the intelligence they receive and the conclusions they have drawn from it. again, so that policy makers can make those decisions. i want to emphasize here also that we can't forget that dni mcguire was also the person who dried to forward tried to forward on the whistle-blower complaint about misconduct going on in the intelligence community. so these new people would be -- grenell would be in charge of that as well. would he take that seriously? will people not be willing to send complaints to him? and is he going to coordinate the intelligence community the way he is supposed to in order to respond to these threats? i think these are all questions that should concern americans right now.

>> well, it should. whatever you think of richard grenell, i don't know how you can serve as ambassador to germany which is one of the most important allies in the united states, and be the head of the entire acting intelligence community. it sounds absurd. richard grenell who is going to take this acting job where mcguire was an acting is very loyal to trump. in fact, so loyal, that the word out between the two of them is a bit jarring. let me tell you what i mean. here we go. >> i love to negotiate things. i do it really well. >> every american would be incredibly proud to see how donald trump negotiates. >> when i see foreign leaders, they say, we cannot believe the difference in strength between the united states now and the united states two years ago. made a lot of progress. >> it is a true pleasure to work for this president on foreign policy issues because i think we are making so much progress. >> i've been tougher on russia than anybody else. >> this president has been very

tough on the russians. >> two points to make from that. first, bob, pretty eerie, the word echo. >> there's no question grenell is a true believer and an absolute loyalist. >> and, julian, to that point, is there -- what's your understanding about grenell's willingness to report the facts as the intelligence community sees them to the president, whether it be about russia interference or whether it be about the whistle-blower report, which, of course, mcguire did pass on judging it to be credible on its merits and facts? >> look, this is the key question that former intelligence and current intelligence officials are asking at this hour. did trump put grenell in place to slow the flow of information,

particularly intelligence about the election, to the white house and to congress? now, there are administration officials who say, hey, give him a chance. he hasn't even gotten there yet. he's a foreign policy professional. but those -- the kind of comments that you just showed are what has given people pause, that he is so quick to repeat the words of the president, so quick to amplify his words. and the -- traditionally the intelligence job has not been that kind of political fighter. it's been ainu tropical storm lane arbiter. >> all right. that is, of course, what it should be, to know what the facts are. if you politicized facts, we all know how bad that can be. thank you all very much. and next michael bloomberg trying to change the topic from last night's debate. will it work? plus elizabeth warren stepping up her attacks on bloomberg tonight. >> of all the people standing on that stage, he is the riskiest

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welcome back to a special edition of "out front" we're live from las vegas where former president joe biden and senator elizabeth warren will be in two town halls. michael bloomberg tried to turn the conversation from his debate performance to donald trump. >> the real winner in the debate last night was donald trump. because i worry that we may very well be on the way to nominating somebody who cannot win in november. and if we choose a candidate who appeals to a small base like senator sanders, it will be a fatal error. >> and this comes as bloomberg's campaign reveals that he has spent $464 million of his own money so far into the race.

out front now, former baltimore mayor, she endorsed mayor bloomberg today and will serve as national political coe chair for the campaign. and, mayor, it's great to speak to you again. so, as a viewer last night -- >> good to see you. >> you watched the debate performance as so many did to see the first time he was on that stage. he hasn't been in the debate obviously in many years. what did you think of his performance last night? >> i think everyone, including mayor bloomberg, hoped that he would have done better. but the truth of the matter is as mayor, never in my life when someone was complaining about whether or not the trash was clean or the crime rate was -- was coming down, never did i hear anyone in the background say, but she killed it in that debate. that's just not the way it is. where things matter on the ground, mayors get things done, and michael bloomberg is a great example of getting things done where it counts. in the senate, winning arguments matter. on the street getting things done for your constituents

matter. >> that is the case he needs to make. the attention as you are aware, some of the more heated exchanges last night, one of which occurred when senator warren confronted mr. bloomberg about consent agreements. here is that exchange. >> he has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace. so, mr. mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story? [ cheers and applause ] >> we have a very few nondisclosure agreements -- >> how many is that? >> let me finish. >> none of them accused me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke i told. >> okay.

so how do you think he handled that moment? what should he have done differently? >> i'm not here to play arm chair quarterback. i think mayor bloomberg answered the question. i also think, you know, over the course of time -- today, we have spoken about people saying, listen, if those women want to come forward, mayor bloomberg believes in transparency. his record speaks to that. he would not stand in the way of that being done, but i don't -- i don't think -- putting him on the spotlight that, the gotcha moments are great for television, but i don't think it really speaks to his heart, and that is a man who hires women, promotes women, and worked to protect women. the work that he's done across the country with his philanthropies. >> so, is it your understanding that he would release them from those ndas so they can tell their side of the stories, what they want to tell, and there

would be full transparency? >> i believe mike bloomberg believes in transparencies. i don't think that he would block anyone from telling their story if that is what they chose. >> so, i want to ask you about something else. obviously we've spoken many times over the past, as you were mayor of baltimore. you were mayor of a city that is no stranger to issues involving race and police tactics. obviously one of mayor bloomberg's signature policies when he was mayor was stop-and-frisk. that came up as everyone knew that it would. here's what he said about it. >> if i go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that i'm really worried about, embarrassed about was how it turned out with stop-and-frisk. >> mayor, have you had a heart to heart with the mayor about this policy? and do you feel that his apology

is heartfelt and genuine? >> first, i believe his heart -- his apology is heartfelt and i believe it's genuine. with respect to heart-to-heart conversation with mayor bloomberg, mayors across the country have had heart-to-heart conversations about ways we can protect lives. this wasn't a crime fighting strategy to reduce car break-ins or burglaries. this was a crime strategy to stop the killing on our street. this was a way to stop homicides. and i experienced the same thing in baltimore. we were able to get the homicide down to the lowest it's been in over 40 years, and i thought that we had accomplished something. and yet when i talked to my constituents, their concern was about their treatment from the police department. just like mayor bloomberg, i course corrected because i understood the problems and the challenges that come from the aggressive policy. it happens when you are in that seat and you're trying to save lives, so you don't have to face another mother who has lost a

son. that you try to do everything you can to make sure that lives are protected in your streets, and sometimes we don't get it right, and it is a mark of a man where he can apologize, where he can, where he can take responsibility and know that the full picture of his work speaks to his heart and how much he invests in our communities. >> mayor rawlins, i appreciate your time. thank you very much, mayor. >> thanks. >> and next, elizabeth warren entering these final days before the last night's momentum. is it too little too late? crucial to winning this state, it doesn't appear that they are fans of bernie sanders. so how badly could that hurt? as and i just didn't listen. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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tonight elizabeth warren ramping up her attacks on michael bloomberg issuing a stark warning that he cannot be the democratic nominee. >> he thought he could waltz on that stage, push everybody else

off, and become the democratic nominee. of all the people standing on that stage, he is the riskiest one for the democrats. he would be most vulnerable in the general election. >> out front now, democratic strategist and megan, political reporter for the nevada independent is also back with me. so, mark, bloomberg saying sanders is the biggest threat a and warren saying bloomberg, circular firing squat. how hard are her attacks against him? >> there is a certain segment of the electorate she's appealing to. she's trying to get back any of those real liberal supporters that were on the fence who may be drifting towards bernie sanders as we've seen sanders do so well in iowa, new hampshire, he appears to be doing really well here. so when her attacks on bloomberg are really focused to try to get back that base that she really enjoyed this summer. >> maria? >> i think that's right. but i also think it goes a

little bit further in underscoring two things. number one, how unprepared bloomberg was to deliver what could have been some, at least acceptable answers to issues they had to know were going to come up. and number two, to expose him also for the lack of preparation on how to answer the billionaire question. that -- those answers that he gave really made him look completely out of touch. and i don't think that's just for the base or for the people who used to support sanders. i even got a lot of people who were leaning towards bloomberg, but then after last night said, i don't know if i can vote for him because they were very concerned about his not only lack of preparation, but lack of answers to some really obvious questions that would have come up in this debate. >> so, megan, how are people reacting here? i know you had been talking to -- he's not on the ballot and a lot of them said they wish he were. they're putting their first choice who is their first choice because their first choice was mayor bloomberg. today what have you been hearing? >> yeah, he is part of the sort

of muddle, right, of this especially in nevada. we've seen bernie sanders being sort of at the top, sort of front runner in this contest on saturday. but there's a lot of play for who is going to be second and bloomberg is part of that. after the debate obviously i think a lot of folks have seen that clear contrast, having folks go after him, having elizabeth warren go after him in a way we hadn't seen. voters in nevada, their exposure to him has been through television ads, right. not even ads he's specifically targeting at nevadians, but bleeding over from the national media. >> we just heard from the mayor of baltimore. we're going to hear from a lot more mayors like her. she is an african-american, former mayor of a city. she herself had done stop-and-frisk. she believes his apology is genuine. she believes he answered the woman question. obviously she's going to be his political director. we're going to see more and more mayors across this country who may be jumping 0 not his team. will that be effective? >> i think so, and for this reason. he's been working on issues that are really important to mayors

who are part of the united states conference of mayors, the national league of cities, which is an organization of small cities across the country. i think you're already seeing mayors get on board with him because when they look at last night's debate performance and they look at his track record and what he has done on certain issues -- look at what he did in virginia just on guns alone. i think that's what they're looking for. from the debate last night, the fight between pete buttiegieg and amy klobuchar about who had more experience, pete buttiegieg said, i guess being a mayor means you don't have any experience. you have michael bloomberg now having mayors from small cities and large cities backing his candidacy. these are mayors who have small political organizations that become bigger political organizations that are rooted in every -- >> even mayor buttigieg told me he was very grate. for some of the work that mayor bloomberg had actually done in south bend, indiana. i'm curious what all this means. you have all these guns out for bloomberg. >> yeah. >> okay. when bernie sanders is the one who is by far the front runner, he has surged in all the polls,

you look at california, two new polls, commanding lead for san der ders. bernie sanders the one they would have gone for last night he emerges unscathed. >> i think that's right. elizabeth warren and frankly the others as well missed an opportunity because they were so focused on this shiny new thing that was mayor bloomberg. i think bernie sanders has some issues that he can be and should be vetted more deeply about. one is guns, and we were here in las vegas where you had the biggest bloodiest shooting we've seen in history, and he has not voted in perhaps the way a lot of people that are for gun safety would want him to volt. vote. he didn't have to answer for that. he voted for the comprehensive bill in 2007. latinos supporting him were 9 at the time. they don't know that. it doesn't bode well with older

latinos. when he talks about socialism, i know that we know he's talking about finland, norway, et cetera. to those older latinos, the ones that came from venezuela, nicaragua, cuba, exactly. even older americans who grew up during the cold war, that's an issue. >> so, megan, when you think about sanders, how does he play on the ground? do you see -- and obviously we see in the polls in nevada. do you see it as a passionate ardent support for sanders or less than that? >> it's definitely passionate ardent support. in 2016 in nevada he was still introducing himself to a lot of folks in that campaign cycle. he came a lot closer in the 2016 race than he should have. he was 20, 30 points behind hillary rodham clinton in the polls in 2016. only finished five points behind her. even though that was a loss, it was a victory for him and his organization. he's had that grassroots support and that fire and he's been able to capture it by bringing in experienced campaign staff. his 250 people plus on the ground here. he's been able to take that grassroots enthusiasm and channel it into this focused

operation. >> the irony is it used to be, it used to be it was perceived elizabeth warren and bernie sanders were competing. support would go to bernie sanders. last night she's touting being a capitalist and in a sense ceding that lane to him and going to bloomberg. >> at the same time being the lead attack dog on bloomberg. even though she says she's a capitalist, sending out a dog whistle, certainly sending a signal to more centrist democrats, i'm not as socialist as bernie is, but at the same time, listen, everybody out there on the liberal side, i'm going to take down bloomberg. i think she was sending two messages. >> trying to have it both ways. >> it's politics. why not? >> you can try sometimes quite hard. all of you, thank you. and tonight on cnn we have two more town halls live from las vegas. joe biden is up first with anderson. that's going to start in about 15 minutes and i'll moderate a town hall with elizabeth warren at 9:00 eastern. out front, bernie sanders, new details about conversations with former president obama and

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member culinary union is fighting on the picket line to unionize more workers at another casino. >> my husband has asthma, and we fought for that because we didn't afford it. now i can and he can, and he can be with me longer. we should be able to have that. our choice, it's our choice. >> she's talking about her union health care. in one building she gets doctors visits, prescriptions and eye care all covered. culinary union warned its members a vote for bernie sanders and his medicare for all plan would mean an end to union health care. >> i'm not sure about the medicare for all if that's a good idea or not. you know, it sounds good, it always sounds good but i'm not sure. >> you're the one at war with the culinary union right here in las vegas.

>> sanders directly addressed the union workers. >> i will never sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have. >> one by one every top candidate except for sanders marched with workers. even elizabeth warren who supports medicare for all. tom steyer also taking to the airways attacking tv ads. while medicare for all is not a deal breaker for every union member, it is weighing on suzanne. she met amy klobuchar at the

culinary health care center. do you believe bernie sanders when he says medicare for all will replace this and take care of everybody? >> no. i really don't believe that. i'm scared because if if he ends that where are we going to go? there's nowhere else for us to go, you know? >> while the union has been clear on their position on bernie sanders and health care they have not specifically endorsed anyone else. here's something else we need to know when we're talking about this union. they are a huge get out the vote organization, bernie sanders has been courting the latino vote. what we don't know yet is if the union power is going to blunt his efforts in the latino community. >> thank you so much, kyung. and when you're running for office don't forget to tell everybody about your website. ♪ at progressive park! children: yeah!

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>> reporter: amid the babble of debate, they ring out loud and clear. >> join us at berniesanders.com. >> i ask you to join me at amyklobuchar.com. >> reporter: reactions range from so incredibly cringy to better to have a tip jar on the podium. the candidates keep plugging. >> matter of fact, if you're watching right now, you can go to peteforamerica.com. >> reporter: going to town flogging websites at town halls. >> you can see it on our website at amyklobuchar.com. >> reporter: as unsubtle as a late night infomercial. though occasionally a candidate will work one in. >> it's not a plan, it's power point. >> reporter: in the heat of debate. >> i don't know if there are any power points on it, but you can definitely find the document on peteforamerica.com. >> you can join me at michael bloomberg.com if you want, but i'm not asking for any money. >> reporter: and his website doesn't.

unlike the billionaire, the others have to beg. >> so i ask everybody to go to elizabethwarren.com, pitch in 5 bucks. >> reporter: at least their plugs aren't as blatant as this one outside the roger stone sentencing. dcblacktours.com offers tours billed as unique to black experiences. founder hoists his sign wherever hoards of cameras gather. the candidates tend to close with their plugs. joe biden once confused texting with his web address. >> if you agree with me, go to joe 30330. >> reporter: joe biden just told us his pin number. if you agree with me, go to joe nuclear code sequence, boom. did joe biden just give out the combination to his luggage? cue the "spaceballs" clip. >> that's the stupidest combination i've ever heard in my life. that's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! >> reporter: when someone says joe's long record, it means he

carries a lot of baggage. remember this. >> 303330. >> reporter: jeanne moos. >> i changed the combination on my luggage. >> reporter: cnn, new york. thanks for joining us. "cnn tonight" with don lemon starts now. hello, everyone. you have been watching cnn's town halls live from las vegas. trying to make their case to voters tonight. that as the clock is ticking on the all important nevada caucuses on saturday. let's jump right into our expert analysis of what you heard there today. our political director mr. david chalian and he joins us now. lots to talk about. so senator warren started a town hall taking it to bloomberg again on his record with women and nondisclosure agreements with his company. let's watch that and we'll talk about it. >> so i