if it was a result of the internal flight from cruise officials over flying back the infected passengers. >> brian todd, excellent report. thank you very much. >> to our viewers, thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett starts right now. out front next, breaking news, a new warning about russian election interference. bernie sanders now revealing he was told russia is trying to help him win in 2020. plus the purge. president trump on the hunt for disloyal staffers in his administration, and changing course, michael bloomberg with a maujor reversal on those controversial agreements to keep complaints against him and his company secret. did elizabeth warren force his hand? let's go out front. good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight we have breaking news. russia is now trying to help bernie sanders. u.s. officials have told the

vermont senator that the government is trying to assist his campaign. that briefing with sanders said to have taken place last month. sanders revealed that to reporters tonight. watch here. >> let me tell mr. putin, the american people whether you're republicans, democrats, and independents are sick and tired of seeing russia and other countries interfering in our elections. the intelligence community has been very clear about it whether trump recognizes it or not or acknowledges it or not they did interfere in 2016. the intelligence community is telling us they are interfering in this campaign right now in 2020, and what i say to mr. putin, if elected president, trust me, you are not going to be interfering in american elections. >> evan perez is out front live in washington for us tonight. evan, what more are you learning about the briefing for sanders? >> the russians never stopped doing some of this activity, kate.

it turns out that the fbi and the intelligence community has been watching some of this activity since the 2016 election and part of it appears to be aimed at undermining the u.s. system, essentially giving voters and the american public reason to doubt that anything that happens from the elections is valid essentially, and so part of what happened here, certainly in the briefing they gave to bernie sanders' campaign is what was happening in 2016. we saw that the trolls from the -- funded from the russians was trying to assist bernie sanders against hillary clinton and there was some activity that was trying to undermine the campaigns of marco rubio and ted cruz and to help donald trump. so some of that activity seems to have just continued and rolled into 2020. what is surprising is that the intelligence community decided

to do this briefing now. we've seen in the past, kate, that they wait at least until there is a nominee chosen by the parties and then you do these defensive briefings. what this tells us is that the intelligence community learned in 2016 when they stayed silent and there was criticism about how they handled it at that time. it looks like what they're trying to do is be more proactive so people did try to at least protect themselveses and make the public aware of what is happening. >> of an, thanks so much. >> sure. >> out front with me now democratic congressman swalwell and was at last week's briefings in russia trying to interfere in the 2020 election. thanks for coming in tonight. there's a lot to get to tonight. >> of course, kate. >> did russia efforts to try to help bernie sanders come up at that briefing you attended last week? >> i can't tell you anything about the briefing. i did ask director wray at a

judiciary hearing if russia was still interfering and he plainly said yes. at first, credit to bernie sanders for disavowing what they were saying and putin i'm not going to put up with it. the real question, though, did donald trump know that russia had a preference for burdeny sanders. donald trump has for the past few months has been not so subtly and his preferred candidate is bernie sanders. is he taking intelligence that he's getting and feeding it back to be aligned with russia so he gets the candidate he wants in the general. >> the reporting is that donald trump was not only -- was briefed that both he and bernie sanders, that russia was trying to assist both he and bernie sanders. that is the reporting that we it we have this evening come i understand that you don't want to talk about what ok nurd a

setting, do you have any reason to question the reporting that you all were briefed on this, as well. our committee has consistently been -- and the voters voted for that in 2018 when they gave us the midterm election and they wanted more oversight in the elections and just to put a finer point on what's going on here with bernie sanders, you can't hold it against bernie sanders that this may be a preference of russia, but you can hold it and ask questions of donald trump if he is working as an agent of russia by seeking not only one to tweet at bernie sanders and trying to amplify his campaign to get him to be the general election opponent and if he is firing people on his staff who are telling others about russia's preferences. again, that's donald trump trying to cover up things to help russia. >> let me play another part of what bernie sanders said about all of this tonight.

>> we were told and maybe other countries will get involved in this campaign, and, look, here is the message to russia. stay out of american elections. they are trying to cause chaos. they're trying to cause hatred in america. >> i know you just said that you give kudos to him and how he's responded to this, but sanders also did not reveal this information. he says because it involved intelligence. do you think sanders should have said something publicly, though, before now? >> well, he's in a tough position, and you know, the reason he's being briefed about it is for his knowledge and his own defensive awareness. i'll leave it to each campaign as to how they deal with this. >> but this is a different time. >> this is the era post-2016 when everyone said that folks should have been briefed more, people should have known more.

the obama administration should have done more. do you think that bernie sanders should and could have done more and the months since he's been briefed considering what we knew and have learned since 2016. >> the question i would have is did the briefers tell him he could talk about it because this is such a new era as you point the out what you want to give to him, and most of us want to be careful when we receive information from the init will jens officials. the president should call them out on the world stage and say he's not going to tolerate it. the buck really should stop with him. >> that part of the briefing that you were a part of, i want to play what the president's response was to the assessment that russia also prefers president trump. >> i see these phonies, these do-nothing democrats they said

today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. i was told a week ago they're trying to start a rumor. it's diss information. >> he's saying disinformation and he's saying especially on twitter, disinformation on the part of democrats and this is a disinformation campaign on the part of democrats. what do you say to that? >> if the president doesn't understand why russia likes him let me make it clear for him. you are corrupt. you were corrupt when you tried to do business in russia. you were corrupt when you tried to do business in russia. you have covered up all of your dealings in putin. you kicked the interpreter out and you were impeached because of your dealings with russia. it should be no secret to you or anyone in the country anymore as to why they prefer you. >> i hear what you're saying to the president and in terms of the briefing that you had, sources tell cnn that one takeaway from the briefing was

that lawmakers, democrats and republicans alike want to see the underlying intelligence that led to the assessment of trump. that was the latest that we had and this was before the bernie sanders bit came out. is that because people are skeptical of the assessment? >> well, kate, i'll tell you, this was not a one-off briefing. there will be more and there were more -- there were briefings before this one on this issue of election interference and so we'll continue to try and understand what the russians are doing. we're going to use the oversightabilities and the power of the purse and the subpoena power. >> do you want to see the underlying -- in order to accept the assessment. do you want to see the underlying intelligence? >> of course. there has not been a single briefing around what i have seen around intelligence interference to doubt what the intelligence briefers are telling us. we don't want you to think about politics when they come in to brief us. we just want the facts. >> you would hope not. >> thanks for coming in.

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breaking news. bernie sanders confirming tonight he was warned a month ago that russia was trying to help his -- is trying to help his presidential campaign. the news coming just a day after we learned that president trump and lawmakers were told russia's election interference campaign continues and is also trying to prop up the president. out front now, former cia chief of russia operations steve hall. samantha vinaigrette, senior adviser to the national security adviser under president obama and former director of the nixon library tim naftali. there was so much that happened since i was last on television it's crazy. steve, russia trying to help donald trump ask bernie sanders in the same election. to some, that may sound confusing, honestly. does that make sense to you?

>> it does, kate. to the lay person it sounds like how can russia be helping both sides and what we learned over the last two election cycles and we've been talking about it for the better part of four years is the russians are interested in causing division and causing us to go against each other in the united states and putin is not pro-trump. he's not anti-bernie. he's anti-united states, and that's what we're going to continue to see him trying to agitate on both sides. it's pretty much a common playbook for the russian intelligence services and that's what putin is up to this time around. >> so, sam, the reporting is that trump was briefed on both efforts by the russians. does that -- both efforts by the russians and he appeared to reference -- to reference that knowledge, i guess, it was the best way to say that at a rally today. listen to this. >> doesn't he want to see who the democrat's going to be? wouldn't you rather have, say bernie? wouldn't you rather have bernie

who honeymooned in moscow? >> seeing that, knowing what we know now does that change the way you change the way you see or judge the way he's talking about this? >> i think anybody should take a step back and recognize that president trump seems to be actively inviting russian interference yet again as long as it's not supposedly against him. he has bristled at the news that the intelligence committees were briefed that he was putin's pick. no one wants to be publicly putin's puck and he seems to be inviting the interference on the democratic side. the more it changes the more it stays the same and the republican primary back in 2016 and this is not an oops he did it again moment. the intelligence has been on record in 2016, 2018 and warned about 2020. what we are seeing now is the fruits of their labor. they're interfering with various candidates and trying to sow

divisions and instead of guarding against election insecurity president trump is inviting it. so if he's not willing to actually acknowledge the threat and let the ic acknowledge the threat to committees in congress what is he actually doing about it? >> that's a very important question tim, this is the thing that sets him off the most. any suggestion or any information, any intelligence that could be construed as russia is helping him actually win is actually having an impact and he didn't do it all himself, right? what does this moment mean for him and his presidency. >> i've often wondered why people think he's such a dealmaker since his tale is so easy to see. you don't think foreign leaders can predict? you don't think that they can take advantage of that to drive a hard bargain when they need to? the very fact that the president of the united states is willing

to spread disinformation about the nature of an assault on our democracy suggests that when push comes to shove he's only interested in his own political survival, and that is very dangerous for the country. we are watching right now the potential of a purge of our intelligence community by one of his political appointees just because he doesn't like the fact that once again, the intelligence community has found that russia is interfering in our democracy. >> so, and i want to get to--i want to bring that up in one second, but steve, the new york times is also reporting that the new acting director of national intelligence essentially on day one has requested the underlying intelligence that led to this assessment of russia trying to help trump. i wonder, does that sound to you like good due diligence? does that sound like an attempt to undermine? does that sound like russia's efforts are already working kind

of to tim's point? >> well, i think what we're seeing is again a pattern out of donald trump that has become even stronger since he considers himself cleared now of impeachment and other potentially law enforcement actions. he is, indeed, cleaning house and this is something that i'm very familiar with. unfortunately, not because i've lived in the united states and i've spent over 75% of my career in places where auto c, racis ruled the world. i cent tell you when i see a new prime minister and new president of a foreign country says comes in, who are the bad guys, let's get them out of there so i can get the answers that i would like to see, not bringing just the facts which is what the intelligence community is trained to do and does an excellent job of it and this is more of trump's house cleaning

and it will do a lot of damage, not necessarily only to the intelligence community or doj as he tries to bring them to heel, but to the national security when he's not going to get the type of intelligence that this country needs to protect itself better from bad actors like russia, iran and china. >> sam, adding to this is another layer, right? trump is now a new head of personnel and cnn has learned and this is what we're alluding to here that he is telling folks and essentially in his initial meeting to look out for staffers across the administration who are seen as disloyal to the president. one, every president comes in and brings in new people. this is different than that, obviously. was there ever a suggestion when you were working in the administration in the white house of this kind of -- i don't know, disloyal hunt? >> if president obama had an enemies list it was composed of

people trying to attack the country and not people who he perceived as his ego. the predicate for job security administration is so perverse as this individual is looking at who to fire, he's ostensibly looking at people that are willing to keep quiet about potential crimes and that are willing to smile and nod about whatever the president says. that kind of activity would have gotten any official under president obama or president bush who i also served under would have gotten them fired and in the first instance, this guy wouldn't have had a job in the obama administration. he was escorted off of white house grounds because of security clearance issues and now he is in charge of vetting who is supposedly qualified to still serve in this administration. nobody should want to be on the designated survivor's list for president trump at this point. >> tim, final word. >> i've just got to say that a great intelligence community

tells presidents what they don't want to hear. a great civil servant tells the president something they didn't know. when you have a president who is insecure about his knowledge and who sees any criticism as threatening, you'll never get the kind of information you need to the president which means we are all at risk. >> but this is a new reality. this is the trump administration post-acquittal. cleaning house and settling scores at least in part because that's the evidence we've seen to this point. good to see you guys. thank you very much. out front next, joe biden who is now speaking out about russia trying to help bernie sanders win. >> let me put it this way. i know russia doesn't want me to win. >> could this in some strange way help biden's campaign? elizabeth warren slamming michael bloomberg's campaign to release women from the nondisclosure agreement. why?

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breaking news. bernie sanders with a stern warning to vladimir putin after learning russia is trying to help his campaign.

it is a very different message than what we heard from president trump earlier today. >> i see these phonies, the do-nothing democrats. they said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. >> i was told a week ago, you know, they're trying to start a rumor. it's disinformation. >> mr. putin is a thug. he is an autocrat, and what i say to mr. putin, if elected president, trust me, you are not going to be interfering in american elections. >> jeff zeleny is out front from las vegas for us tonight. jeff, you were at the president's rally today. a pretty stark difference in tone and message from sanders on this very same threat. >> kate, it certainly was. the president essentially doing what he's been doing for the last three and a half years or so, essentially mocking the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the 2016 election and is planning on or is meddling in the 2020 election.

we have seen the president repeatedly do this. if he's standing side by side with vladimir putin in helsinki a couple of summers ago or if he's meeting with him in a different location, he has never stood up to him directly and talked about this, he said he's very strong and tough on him, but we see no evidence of that. it was an entirely different tone and tenor, if you will, from senator sanders. he was campaigning in california in advance of the nevada caucuses here, and he was making no bones about the fact he said that the russia cannot undermine the american democracy and american election. what is the u.s. government and the trump white house, the trump administration, going to do about this going forward? we know the russians are planning to meddle in this election. the stark response essentially the president firing or dismissing his director of national intelligence after that briefing on capitol hill and senator sand seers is saying lo

russia can't undermine the democracy. a very big divide in the span of a couple of hours from the president and a presidential candidate. >> good to see you, jeff. thank you. out front with me now alexander rojas, executive director of justice democrats and keith boynkin. good to see you guys. keith, what do you make of bernie sanders' response to this threat that russia is trying to help him? >> well, i liked his initial response that putin should stay out of his elections which is what donald trump should have said from the beginning and what he should have said in 2016, but he did not. the secondary response after the washington post story came out was different and troubling. in that response, he acknowledges he'd known about it for a month and he kind of blamed the washington post. i don't think that was a good response or what he should be saying and part of his appeal is his authenticity and he's willing to be a straight shooter and speak about what he believes unapologetically.

so when you have those -- that kind of appeal and that's your philosophy, you can't have this sort of lack of transparency about a major issue that you have information that's been delivered to you. it's the same thing people write about medical records and the same question people had about sanders' unwillingness to talk about mike bloomberg's money. so i think he's got some questions to answer and i don't think it's threatening to his campaign and he's got to figure out a way that's fair and not be inconsistent with his values of transparency. >> what keith is getting at, alexandra, let me play this moment of the kind of sanders on the tarmac as he was walking away how this went down. let me play this for you. >> if you have a briefing a month ago? >> one day before the nevada caucus. why do you think it came out? "the washington post"? good friends.

>> it's kind of a trump-like play there. is he really blaming the washington post for reporting -- look, it's reporting. that's -- this is how it works. >> well, look, i mean, i think the media has been, you know, since 2016 to not just bernie sanders, but a lot of the supporters, the outlook has been that they've been unfair and constantly criticizing not just bernie sanders, but his progressive ideas, but i mean, look, at the time if this was a month ago we don't know if the briefing was classified or not and i think the important thing to focus on here is that bernie sanders is standing up to vladimir putin in a way that donald trump never will and i think it's also really important to recognize that this is the day before the nevada caucuses and bernie sanders is the undisputed front-runner nationally and heading into nevada, and the democratic front-runner and that the big focus has to be -- and sanders' foreign policy speaks to that

russia does not -- would not be happy with a bernie sanders presidency because of how tough he is going to be against authoritarian regimes and autocratic leaders like vladimir putin. >> well, and -- sanders' campaign on some level keith is arguing that the release of this news is designed to purposely damage sanders and that -- in suggesting that the president -- suggests that president trump could be directly responsible for it. do you buy that? this is why -- this is why this feels so uncomfortable to me. it's such a serious issue and it is so quickly becoming what it looks like. >> yeah. >> yeah. i don't -- i wouldn't put it past donald trump to try to politicize national intelligence like he did with ukraine to do it again and to weaponize this against bernie sanders. is there any evidence, though? without the evidence it's irresponsible to suggest that there is. so i think what the responsible

course of action is what bernie sanders said from the beginning is if he should stay out, period. you didn't have to blame "the washington post" or talk about it anymore and going back to that he knew about it a month ago, to alexandra's point, if they said you can talk about it. if he didn't have permission to talk about it, it would have behooved him to talk about it a month ago and he would take a hit either way and you take less of a hit, this is what happened and this is what i know and i still think vladimir putin should stay out of the election and transparency is part of what makes bernie sanders appealing as a candidate. >> you have to be different from donald trump and you can't use the same values that donald trump uses. >> let me play what joe biden is saying in response to all of this. listen to this. >> i know russia doesn't want me to win. as you well know, on facebook,

they've taken down all of the bots and the thousands of bots run by russians to tell lies about me. from the beginning it's very clear that putin doesn't want me to be the nominee and donald trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. >> i can just say doesn't the focus on who russia prefer and doesn't prefer doesn't that miss the point entirely of what's actually happening? >> well, i mean, i don't think russia wants any democrat that is not donald trump to be elected. it's not going to be helpful for his presidency and i completely agree at that time focus right now has to be on donald trump and defeating him and this issue right now, i think, is about that russia should not be interfering at all in u.s. elections and every democrat right now should keep on defeating donald trump. as we know, disinformation will

sow division wig thin the democratic party. >>. >> all candidates, no matter what letter is beside their name and linking arms and it's happening now and russia's trying and this is what we need to be doing and the question remains that we've had throughout the show which is if trump is talking this way, you have sanders talking this way, what is actually happening to try to stop russia who is actively trying to interfere, meddle once again in the election? that question lingers. thank you, guys. out front next, did mike bloomberg cave to elizabeth warren? tonight saying he will release three women from their non-disclosure agreements. plus bernie sanders refusing to turn over his medical records after his heart attack in october. so what do you really know about his health? sanjay gupta is out front. absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it's the final days to save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed.

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new tonight, mike bloomberg says he'll release the women covered by three non-disclosure agreements detailing complaint against him. that new position comes 48 hours after bloomberg said essentially the exact opposite. stumbling through that question

on the debate stage in nevada. out front now, todd rutherford, he supports mike bloomberg. thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> now, we see what's all transpired with bloomberg releasing the statement. do you think mike bloomberg handled this well with regard to the ndas? >> it looked like he was caught off guard on the stage and it looked like everyone else that all of a sudden is reminded of something that they've done in their past that they're embarrassed about and he was smart enough to recognize these were consensual agreements done between lawyers and parties and he couldn't just sit on the stage say to release people from ndas without talking to the parties involved and it looks like they'll do that now and they'll talk about what happened back then and i hope this puts this matter to bed. we need to worry about what will happen in noefr noef and how to beat the trump-putin ticket that's developing now and if we

don't talk about that we're going to lose. >> i was not involved in debate prep with bloomberg and there was no way that he wasn't aware that it wasn't going to come up on the debate stage. >> they were talking about it for days and there's no way he wasn't prepared for this. as far as putting it to bed, here's what belizabeth warren i saying tonight. >> that's just not good enough. michael bloomberg needs to do a blanket release so all of the women that have been muzzled from non-disclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. >> what do you say to that? >> unfortunately, elizabeth warren simply can't let this go. this is her last grasp of hope. >> well, i don't know about that because it is something discordant that he's releasing

three people from non-disclosure agreements and then he says in the statement he put out this evening and i've done a lot of reflection and as long as i'm rung the company we won't offer nondisclosure claims going forward so it is a fair question if you're going to release people and you think these nondisclosure agreements are not good, dangerous for people going forward, why not release everybody from non-disclosure agreements that have been signed in the past? >> erin, because the three that he released were the ones that involved him. he has a company with 20,000 employees and it is unfair to speak for the other employees that simply may not want to address them on either side because that's the benefit of ndas is nobody has to talk about it moving forward. it minds both parties. she's not won a single prime ear she's entered and if she doesn't keep this on the forefront then she'll be out of camera shot and

that's going to be bad for her. we have got to move on and it's time for people like elizabeth warren, and those people not winning races to get out of the race and if they cannot then we cannot beat donald trump. >> you don't think this is a good thing to bring up ask discuss and an important development. >> i know it's an important issue and that's why michael bloomberg release said those people that he had ndas with, but the problem is we've got other issues like climate, we've got other issues like climate change that we are not addressing. we've got to talk about guns and russia's involvement in our election and if we are not doing that then we are missing the game and that is how the trump-putin ticket won last time and that is how they'll win this time if we take our hands off the ball and if we look at things that are red herrings. he wouldn't have ak apologized and he said he would did it and he would have moved on and he's

someone that cared, had feelings and wanted to address it at the onset. >> i don't know if other folks would consider this a red herring. >> it's obviously mike is not on the ballot in south carolina, i hope i can get a candid assessment because a new south carolina poll released yesterday shows that biden has a near row lead over sanders there at the moment. do you think biden is going to win south carolina? >> you know, biden may win, but it will be by the narrowest of margins. what i keep hearing in south carolina is people that want to vote for mike bloomberg and as you said earlier, they can't and especially in the african-american community who want to vote for tom steyer. i don't think he can take it across the finish line and we can't write in in south carolina and biden has been weakening by the moment and his inability to,

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correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is outfront. >> reporter: last october i visited senator bernie sanders at his home in vermont shortly after he had a heart attack. >> sanjay, the god's truth is that if you're sitting there and you said, bernie, did you have a heart attack last week, i'd say what are you talking about? i feel great. >> reporter: he was back to doing three to four events on the campaign trail but did amplify concerns voters may have already had. an nbc news/"wall street journal" found that while 39% feel comfortable with it, 50% of voters have reservations. >> people have the right to know about the health of a senator running for the president of the united states, full disclosure and we'll make them public. >> you're doing this interview with me. it is a fair conversation to be having go health. >> of course it is. >> reporter: instead in december his campaign released these

three letters including one from dr. brian monahan, the attending physician of the u.s. congress who has treated sanders for the past 29 years. he wrote, you are in good health currently and you have been engaging vigorously in the rig ghors of your campaign and other scheduled activities without limitation and noted since his heart attack his heart function improved enough so that he could stop using some of the medications he was initially prescribed. his include ones for cholesterol, thyroid and blood pressure as well as aspirin and blood thinners. the two other letters were from his treating cardiologist. his doctors also said sanders' heart function is comparable if not better to men his age. now, most experts say a full release of medical records wouldn't necessarily shed more light on his health but one test result could help. the ejection fraction. that's the amount of blood pumped from the chamber with each contraction. it's a measure of the function of the heart. in 2008 then presidential

candidate senator john mccain invited me and several other reporters to evaluate eight years' worth of medical records for several hours. but that has been the exception and not the rule. and sanders told cnn at tuesday's town hall what he released i believes is enough? we have released i think, anderson, quite as much as any other candidate has and i'm comfortable with what we have done. >> just to be clear you don't plan to release any more records. >> i don't think we will, no. >> and sanjay is here with me now. we saw you digging through boxes and boxes of mccain and records. i so remember that when you were doing that back then. but how much useful information do these full medical records give you versus the letters like sanders released? >> i could tell you practically speaking, kate, nobody does that. it takes hours to go through all these medical records so if you have a specific question looking at a specific time frame people will dig through the medical records for that but to sort of look at them, denovembo is not

something that typically m happens. they are protected by hippa. we're not just looking at the letters but hook at who wrote them, in this case dr. monahan, the congressional doctor, also how long has he been taking care of senator sanders? in this case close to 30 years so it's the data, relevant data, who is providing it, all these different things that go into the letter and often how medical professionals communicate >> that's absolutely right. good to see you. sanjay. >> have a good night. outfront next we brought you the emotional story of andrew yang's wife laying out in painful detail how she was sexually assaulted by her doctor when she was seven months' pregnant. tonight that doctor is facing a new investigation. rakuten is easy to use, free to sign up and it's in over 3,000 stores. i buy a lot of makeup.

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new tonight, the manhattan district attorney's office says it's investigating new allegations against the doctor of evelyn yang, wife of former presidential candidate andrew yang. now, this is just weeks after yang shared her painful story exclusively with cnn and dana bash which prompted 40 women to come forward with their own accounts of sexual assault allegedly by the same doctor. there are now around 70 women who say they are survivors of this doctor. 70 who never spent -- this doctor never spent a day in prison after prosecutors cut a plea deal in 2016. drew griffin is outfront with us tonight. a new investigation is what these women have been asking for. what do you know? >> kate, they have been asking but some have been asking for years and say the d.a. is only doing it because of the scrutiny and the courage of these women including evelyn yang coming forward publicly. dr. hadden is described as

potentially the most prolific sexual predator this new york city. there are upwards70 women, former patients claiming he abused them in exam rooms at columbia university medical center, yet, he got this sweetheart deal? not only, kate, did he spend not one day in prison he's never been on probation. he just retired and he went home. some of these accusers think this is the d.a.'s problem, part of a pattern of the d.a.'s office in new york. they say to let high-profile or financially connected men off the hook in sex cases. they've called for district attorney cy vance to resign. he said he's open for those to come forward and potentially having new charges against this doctor. >> so has evelyn yang said anything about this? >> well, she called it a good start. she wants more. she wants more than just the investigation of hadden. she wants the d.a. to investigate columbia university

medical center for as she says allowing this doctor to prey on so many patients over decades when they had indication from multiple sources that he was acting inappropriately. kate, columbia university told us it supports the victims and will cooperate with the d.a.'s investigation. >> thank you so much for your work on this, drew. really appreciate it. thank you all so much for joins us. "a.c. 360" starts right now. good evening. we begin with my conversation with former illinois governor rod blagojevich. president trump this week commuted his 14-year federal prison sentence. he was convicted of a string of charges including wire fraud, attempted extortion and conspiracy to solicit bribes. he was impeached by the illinois state legislature in 200 the and a year later declared his innocence on a believe appearance of "celebrity apprentice" hosted by donald trump. his commutation has been criticized by democrats and republicans in illinois familiar with his record. i spoke with the former