weeks ago, guys -- >> fantastic. will never get old. >> i think i've watched this ten times. >> yes. look at that. >> i love the camaraderie of the whole team. >> the whole school. so good. >> thank you so much, coy. we hope you make good memories today. >> "inside politics" with john king is up next. ♪ nevada democrats make a big bet. >> as we stand together we will transform this country and create a government and an economy that works for all of us. plus on to south carolina. crossroads for joe biden. and a second debate chance for michael bloomberg. >> we have a very few nondisclosure agreements. >> how many? >> let me finish. and the president's anger boils over. a purge of the aides seen as

disloyal and unprecedented meddling in the cases. >> i'm the chief law enforcement officer in the country. >> "inside politics" sourced by the best reporters now. >> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. we begin the hour with bernie sanders and his now decisive early momentum in the 2020 democratic presidential race. >> we are bringing our people together black and white and latino, native american, asian-american. gay and straight. we are bringing our people together around an agenda that works for the working people of this country. not the 1%. >> that sanders celebration in texas after this big saturday

win in nevada. we are still counting the results. but you see senator sanders getting nearly 56% of the delegates. joe biden is second. mayor pete buttigieg at 15%. senator warren t other candidates are struggling down here in single digits. let's pop this back up here. this is the nevada race that sanders wanted to win and he won pretty big. you see some buttigieg green in the rural areas, but sanders is winning big in clark county. most of the population lives here. he's getting half of the delegates here and winning up in the northwest corner of the state. the other big population center. sanders is leading so far, he has a lead in the delegate race and yes, the critics are correct to say only three states iowa, new hampshire and now nevada have voted so far. even this big margin in nevada

demonstrates more than half of the democratic party prefers someone else, but senator sanders has clear momentum now as the race moves to south carolina. another win there is not out of the question. in part because while he has a very firm grip on the democrats' liberal wing no one candidate has emerged as the leading moderate alternative. joe biden vows that will be him after south carolina but buttigieg arguing he's the one best suited one to stop the sanders surge. >> you all did it for me. you all did it. now we're going on to south carolina and win and then we're going to take this back. >> before we rush to nominate senator sanders let us take a sober look at what it is at stake. senator sanders believe in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most democrats. not to mention most americans. >> with us this sunday to share

their reporting and their insights, julie pace. paul kane at "the washington post." tamara keith of npr. abby phillip and politico's laura lopez. i appreciate you getting up so early for us. i want to start with you and this. look at the sanders win we're still counting votes but if you look at the depth and the breadth of it, sanders winning the white vote, 29% in the nevada polls. joe biden wins the black vote, but sanders is contesting with 27% of the vote. among latino voters critical in nevada and in many contests as we move on. wow. 51% for senator sanders. the critics, laura, have been that he has the limited constituency. at least in nevada it's a more liberal electorate but in nevada he made a pretty powerful statement. >> that's right, john. he was the candidate that won in the first diverse state to vote. and so that eats away a bit at

joe biden's argument about electability. biden had been saying that i'm the candidate that can win in the diverse states and can win in nevada that can win in south carolina and sanders has taken a big chunk out of that argument for biden. i took a close look at what he did to win over latinos. his campaign said they spent millions alone on latino outreach. they did community events. even without sanders held some 35 spanish events. they made sure that they were on spanish language tv for a long time and joe biden actually did not go up on spanish language tv in the last week. >> that's an interesting point as we go forward. just look more at this again. among younger voters, 17-29 in the entrants polls. bernie sanders has the young energy in the democratic party. among 30 to 44 he gets half. in a crowded field.

that's half, wow. he has his unique lane and then he's competitive in the other lanes. joe biden won the 65 and older but again sanders it's a more disappointing performance for him there. but he's getting to 11. so that's a weakness you might say with older voters but if you're looking at growth stocks, end banding coalitions sanders. >> he's building a coalition and that's how you win in a primary. you have to be able to draw ultimately from a diverse array of voters and sanders' problem in 2016 was that his numbers really fell off just dramatically with black voters in particular. he spent a lot of time over the last four years trying to get those numbers back up and if he can continue to have this real stranglehold on young voters and a really respectable showing with black voters that's the democratic party right there. >> i was talking to one of his campaign advisers who say early on at the very beginning of this second campaign for sanders, he came to him and he said i want

to expand my base. i know we do well with young people and with white voters. bernie sanders said he wanted to expand beyond that. to have real strength among latino voters and black voters. and creep into older voters and that's what they have shown that they can do. a sign of their confidence here is that he's adding events in south carolina. if they didn't think he had a chance in south carolina he wouldn't bedding events in south carolina. >> right to your point and to the point that laura made, whether you like him or not, bernie sanders has worked really hard. learning lessons in 2016 when he came pretty close with hillary clinton. he had good latino support he has made it better. the point about south carolina, the generational if we have the divide, he has a chance. if he can keep the younger voters even if the older ones are loyal and stick with biden. >> yeah, i think that sanders has staked a lot of his campaign on younger voters but it's

starting to pay off because what younger voters have done for him is they have given him a really solid base. he has overwhelming support with younger voters and they're rock solid in his favor and he's spent more time trying to pick away at the other constituencies. i think in south carolina a similar thing is going to happen for sanders. he has a chance to make inroads with younger voters and he can spend more time especially in the last week kind of picking away at the support that biden has with voters who are over the age of 35, maybe even those younger than 65. he doesn't necessarily need to take away support from 65 and older, but if he can get the middle aged black women to give him a second look that will go a long way i to the credibility argument. >> and plus you get to focus

more and more as senator sanders has tried to do, smart politician, electability at the beginning was a giant weakness, but now he says i can beat trump. >> we are going to win across the country because the american people are sick and tired of a president who lies all of the time. the american people are sick and tired of a government which is based on greed, corruption and lies. they want an administration which is based on the principles of justice. >> it's interesting as we go forward. biden gets a life line out of nevada now he goes into south carolina and he has to prove it. he has to prove it. so you see senator sanders there, a candidate with energy, a candidate with optimism and

talking about his agenda. more often than not, biden says i'm not them. >> i'm a democrat for a simple reason. i ain't a socialist, i'm not a plutocrat, i'm a democrat. [ applause ] i'm proud of it. >> he gets a life line, but is that enough? i'm not a socialist meaning i'm not bernie. i'm not a plutocrat, i'm not bloomberg. but who is joe biden and what does he want? isn't that one of the reasons he's slipped so much in this race? >> he's at his best when he's trying to talk about what comes next, you know, trying to give some sort of forward leaning agenda as opposed to hey, come back to the old days with me. i was at a couple of his events on friday in las vegas. they were goodish. they were okay. there was more energy than i thought actually some of my

colleagues have been expecting. but he needs to go in to south carolina and have a real big win. bernie only needs to be in the mix. if he's a close second that's almost another win for him. because super tuesday the states look a whole lot more like nevada than iowa or new hampshire and south carolina. so if he keeps repeating that coalition across the super tuesday states, he'll -- >> biden needs to decide whether he actually wants to take on bernie sanders or not. >> yes. >> i mean, that argument that he made was pretty thin. it was one that hillary clinton tried. it didn't really work against sanders in the primary in 2016. if biden is going to say this guy is the front-runner, i'm the person who is more qualified than him to beat trump the argument has to get more clearer than that. it has to get more sharp than that. because bernie sanders is, you know, 20 points ahead of biden in nevada. that's not a close race. >> hold that thought. we'll come back to all of this

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numbers. nbc news/"wall street journal" poll asked who are you most enthusiastic or comfortable about when it comes to the nominee? bernie sanders leads with 65%. two out of three democrats say they wound comfortable or enthusiastic if bernie sanders were atop of the ticket. you see bernie sanders on top. democratic voters despite all of the warnings feel comfortable about bernie sanders. the next contest is in south carolina. this is just one poll. don't invest in any one poll, but this one from the university of mass lowell last week showed senator sanders quite competitive in south carolina. he's competitive in the next contest. then the two biggest prizes on super tuesday, california and texas. sanders on top, it's competitive, but on top in california. yes it's competitive, yes, in play in texas. he's playing and playing strong everywhere. let's take a little look at what comes ahead. south carolina is saturday. that is alone, that's a primary. then super tuesday, the first

big blur. 14 states plus america samoa. and plus voting in one big sweep. sanders has the organization, sanders has resources he thinks he has momentum. and sanders tells you straight up, elect me, here's what i'm going to. >> we are going to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. we are going to create millions of good paying union jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. we are going to have high quality, affordable universal child care and we're going to make public colleges and universities tuition free. we're going to cancel all student debt in this country. we will significantly expand funding for planned parenthood. >> laura, sanders' critics have tried this, maybe they got too focused on michael bloomberg in

the last couple of days, but you can't sell this, but we saw it even there in nevada where the culinary union leadership said don't be for bernie sanders. he'll take away your health care and we say pictures of all the caucuses where union hotel workers were lining up for bernie sanders. >> that's right. i mean, the fact that the culinary didn't endorse seemed to really helped sanders because it didn't direct any of the workers towards another candidate. when i was there in january, one thing i heard from biden supporters or those leaning biden but kind of looking around was that there was an interest in sanders. they seemed to like his policies. they liked the policies of elizabeth warren, but they were skeptical about whether or not he could win. that was before new hampshire and iowa and now nevada happened. it's interesting to see if the strong finishes in the first three states actually sway voters in south carolina. there's no doubt it's an uphill climb when it comes to older

african-americans who are very much still loyal to biden. >> more moderate, more conservative climate. but some -- it's a test of how much momentum. move on to south carolina. the interesting thing is to watch the other candidates react to this. he's solidified the left wing of the party. everyone else is tripping over everyone, call it the centrist or the moderate wing. if biden, klobuchar remain in the race, they will siphon votes away from bloomberg. if bloom remains in the race, despite showing he can't offer a viable alternative to sanders he will siphon votes away from pete. >> it's a hilarious thing going on, the non-sanders candidates acknowledge the reality. as far as the field is crowded,

sanders' path to the nomination is easier. nobody wants to blink first and in the bloom -- the bloomberg statements are kind of funny whether he talks about the fragmented field. he's making it more fragmented by getting on the ballot for super tuesday. we watched this happen with the republicans in 2016. everyone act no, ma'ams that, but -- acknowledges that but there's no effort under way to try to change the similar outcome. >> warren's collapse is sort of underappreciated because it allowed sanders to completely own this lane. she's getting 10% in all of the states or less. and so everyone thought warren and sanders were going to fight in this lane almost to the draw which would allow someone like biden or a buttigieg to soar. it hadn't happened. it's going to keep going

straight threw super tuesday. >> be careful about anyone who says they know how this will end. they don't. we should remember 2016 and barack obama winning over hillary clinton. let's let this play out. however, one of the things that came up in the debate, the other candidates are saying, hmm, sanders may get ahead in the delegates, may be impossible to catch, but may be impossible for him to catch the majority. if we get to that point, what do we do? >> you want the convention to work as well? >> yes. >> convention working as well means that the people have the delegates pledged to them and they keep them -- until the leading -- >> yes or no. leading person with the delegates -- >> no, let it play out. >> no. >> i think the will of the people should prevail, yes. >> thank you, guys. >> those who get the most votes should become the nominee. >> it's bernie versus them. >> well, but there's a reason why bernie sanders feels this way because he feels that he is likely to have a plurality of

the delegates when you get to the convention. though maybe not necessarily a pure majority based on all of these other people in their bumper cars unwilling to get out of the other lane to make room for someone to rise up. and, you know, the thing is we really did live this story and maybe it will change but it is shaping up much the way 2016 shaped up on the republican side where there was one candidate who a lot of people said was unpalatable but had a titanium piece of the pie. when others dropped, some of the supporters went to the person with a titanium piece of the pie. >> you had the winner take all on the republican side, but not on the democratic side. so here we are today. julie pace, someone who might be at this table wrote this. burn it down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party's establishment wing on edge. it how is donald trump began his unlikely march in 2016 and it's how senator bernie sanders has

cemented himself as the front-runner. have democrats have a conundrum. two-thirds of the voters are okay with bernie sanders. the establishment is freaked out. same nbc news/"wall street journal," what don't you like? 57% say they have worries about a candidate who had a heart attack in the past year. more than half candidate older than 75. so there are things about bernie sanders that the general electorate might not like. but we're in a primary process and democratic voters don't consult their independent friends when they're in a passion fight. >> i think this is the part completely up tested about the sanders narrative. we don't know how it will play in the general election. that's the best argument that they have in their favor but at the same time, i think the lesson we can learn from donald trump is that the party will come to the nominee. if bernie sanders is the nominee, you better believe that

the establishment types will realize he's the horse that's leaving the barn and they have to go with him or not go at all. and a lot of this hand wringing is going to fall by the wayside. i would be very, very skeptical of all of this talk of superdelegates overturning the will of the people. that is extremely controversial. and i think democrats know that. and there's a lot of talk about it right now but i think there's going to be some real soul searching about whether they want to burn the party down in the effort to sort of change the outcome at the convention. >> they should focus on south carolina and super tuesday. a lot of people are putting their cart out in front. it's what happens and it's one of the reasons that trump is president and sanders is doing well. i appreciate you getting up early. if you come back to washington to get some sleep or going straight to south carolina? >> i'm coming back to d.c. to get some rest. the inconvenient truth causing the president to lash out at his own intelligence team. dad, we need to talk about something important.

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welcome to russian election interference, the sequel. trump is again undermining his own intelligence agencies. the acting director forced out after the president learned that the deputies had briefed congress on new russian meddling. in the briefing if officials said it was clear that the kremlin again is acting to help president trump. officials familiar with the sgel -- intelligence said it's crystal clear. once again, president trump took

vladimir putin's word. this is the new twist. bernie sanders now confirms his campaign was briefed by intelligence officials and told there's evidence that russia is working to boost his campaign. here's the contrast. senator sanders criticized putin and harshly condemning any kremlin meddling and president trump in contrast calls it all a democratic hoax. >> after three years of ridiculous witch-hunts and partisan democratic crusades, by the way, i think they're starting another one. did you see that? i see these phonies, these -- to do nothing democrats. they said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. it's disinformation. that's the only thing they're good at. these people are crazy. that's all they think about. >> but the disinformation there was from the president of the united states which is a tough thing to say. happens to be a true thing to say. this is not the democrats. his own people went to capitol hill. said russia is again actively

interfering in the 2020 election and russia is expressing and showing a preference for president trump. when he finds out about this he gets mad. in the oval office meeting he denies it. says i don't believe it and runs the director of the national intelligence out of his own job. >> for the first three years the trump administration said we agree where the intelligence community's assessment to help trump. they had to say that because that was the assessment that existed at the time and now trump is in a position where he's controlling who is the intelligence community. he is basically saying if you believe that, i'm going to put you out. and that's the different between what we're expeerntioning now. >> if you believe or don't speak the truth you can't hold your job. >> he's changing the players and what the actual government is saying about what the intelligence says. which is a completely different scenario. we can no longer fall back on,

well, this is what the intelligence community says because we can't be sure that trump, you know, trump's actors are going to stand by what the intelligence is actually -- >> to that point, his national security adviser, robert o'brien will be on later today. they released part of the interview transcript. there are these reports that they want bernie sanders to get elected president. that's no surprise. he honeymooned in moscow. i haven't seen any intelligence that russia is doing anything to attempt to get president trump re-elected. i think that's the same old story we have heard before. we have been very tough on russia, been great on election security so i think it's a nonstory. this is veering into the danger zone. that's supposed to be an apolitical job, somebody we trust if there's a terrorist attack, ebola or something like that number one, going after bernie sanders and i haven't seen any information that russia

is doing anything. is he lying or not doing his homework? >> it's a really extraordinary set of statements from o'brien to not condemn a foreign government interfering in an ledge -- election. to not condemn a foreign government interfering in the election because it's in favor of a political opponent is really infuriating. think of the message that sends to the foreign governments. the message from the u.s. government right now is feel free as long as it helps out the president. that's really what they're saying here. >> yeah, i wish we could diagram that accept tense because he is because he's saying he hasn't seen any evidence on the trump side of things. but he's seen news reports on the sanders side of thing so he's willing to believe that. he seems on the parsing those words very carefully to avoid upsetting the president of the united states. and as you say, adding a

blatantly political hit on now what is the president's key opponent. >> and as this plays out, you touched on this. just some headlines from cnn and "the new york times." the new personnel head tells agencies to look out for disloyal staffers. the efforts to remove -- it heightens up ease across the administration. you have a purge going on. he brought back a trusted deputy who is on the phone saying where's the deep state? where's anybody who said anything bad about the president? >> this is test for the republicans. they come back monday night. congress has been away for a ten-day break. they have been saying we'll be tough on moscow. we'll be tough on election security. the moscow mitch hash tag of last fall really infuriated mcconnell. this is a test to see if they have any ability, any guardrails at all. mcconnell seems to be the only one in the last few months who's been able to sort of influence

trump at all. he has to fly to figure out to keep the president reined in. >> in the sense -- good luck. every president is political. every president wants to protect himself for re-election, but this is on steroids. your job is to brief congress, you do your job, the boss gets fired and now the meddling in criminal cases. roger stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison. not ready to pardon him yet. >> i'm not going to do anything anything other than the great powers bestowed on the president of the united states. i want the process to play out. i think that's the best thing to do. because i'd love to see roger exonerated. but roger stone and everybody has to be treated fairly and this has not been a fair process.

>> roger stone was convicted by a jury of seven different crimes. lying to congress, tampering with evidence. the president said -- you read that, translation, i'm going to wait for the appeals process to play out but i have the pen i can take care of this. >> all of this is happening after he was acquitted in the senate in impeachment and also that president trump was doling out pardons and clemency in a week that roger stone, you know, is getting sentenced. also probably not a complete coincidence. >> to your point, it will be interesting, see if anyone in the senate wants to stand up in the election year and worried about making him mad at them. two giant super tuesdays for michael bloomberg. one is a giant redo. >> i want to talk about who we're running against a billionaire who calls women fat

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and he's spending a lot to make a giant splash. he was often on the defensive including when elizabeth warren pushed him about nondisclosure agreements with women who had settled workplace complaints against bloomberg. >> they sign the agreements that's what we'll live with. >> i'm sorry, the question is are there women being bound by muzzledpy you and you can release that from that immediately. >> he relented saying he had identified three ndas about comments i had said. if anyone wants to be released from the ndas they should contact the company and they'll be released. he is one of six democrats qualified for tuesday night's debate in charleston. my question is number one, huge stakes for him. to prove he can have better

footing on the debate stage. number two, is he still the pinata or do most realize we have to get bernie sanders first, is it a dual challenge? >> they have to figure this out because the more that they target bloomberg they're trying to own that lane of the establishment lane, but if they're not hitting a at the front-runner he's going to keep cruising. they have to go after sanders in some way, shape or form. maybe let elizabeth warren do that job for them while the others go after bernie. >> yes. i think you'll see a bit of a mixed stream for warren she not only got momentum from her attacks on bloomberg, but she got a lot of money and keeping up the quite personal and biting attacks on bloomberg. buttigieg is trying to do both things at wupts. he's saying we can't let the party be taken over by the billionaire who is trying to buy his way in but we can't let it

be taking over by a socialist. i think biden will be fascinating to so where he goes with this because bloomberg is most narrowly in his own way. but he's the other one. he was second in nevada by a big distance. you do have to close that gap. >> so we did get a bit of a flavor of that. listen to the former vice president here trying to take a shot at bloomberg. >> this is a guy who wouldn't endorse barack, number one, when we ran the first time. this is a guy who when we passed obamacare he said it was a disaster. >> i think what we should ask ourselves as democrats do we really want to spend the next few months debating which billionaire had a more hostile work environment? >> the question is can they make it stick in the sense that i just want to put this up on the screen, you know, bloomberg is not on the ballot on saturday. bloomberg, $160 million. look at the numbers, just look

at where he is. it is mind blowing. >> yeah. but last night proved that the democrats are fracturing their non-bernie sanders support all by themselves. bloomberg was not on the ballot last night and they were completely and totally fractured to the point that bernie sanders had a blowout. so it does seem like it would be a built of a mistake to -- bit of a mistake to train all of this attention on michael bloomberg. he has a lot of things that you can go after him on. and when it comes the -- there are two things here. one is about whether or not they're blunting the momentum of the actual front-runner but the second thing is what elizabeth warren successfully proved was that you have to show voters that you have the toughness to take on trump. i don't think at this point with michael bloomberg kind of on his back -- on his heels that that's actually going to be effective. i mean, people know that he's been able to be taken down. they want to see that some of

the other candidates have what it takes to actually put up some fight on that debate stage. i think it has to be against bernie sanders because he's the guy right now who's the one to beat. >> warren landed thepunches but did not translate into votes in nevada. >> it's a complicating factor because 75,000 people had early caucused before that debate on the air. >> we shall see. up next, a new effort to end america's longest war. america's choice 2020 is brought you inably -- if you're living with hiv, keep being you.

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di -- modi is going to make sure that they will be shown, and the president is already inflating the crowds, but it is 100,000, and that is a huge crowd still. >> and so we have modi and trump. >> and now, eyeing the results of nevada at tom steyer who spent $15 million in that state over the last several months, and he landed in fifth place and the first ballot and then lost support on the second ballot. so the question for democrats right now is what does money and i.d. buy you and how durable is that support? it is a question for not just tom steyer, but also for mike bloomberg, and for steyer if he going to make the south carolina debate. he needs one more poll, and he

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