michael bloomberg postponed hid appearance tonight opting instead to prep more for tomorrow night's debate which could be crucial given his performance his first time out. reports he appears to be positioning himself to try to focus his attacks on bernie sanders. then there's joe biden trying to make south carolina the spark to revive his campaign, about to receive the endorsement of congressman james clyburn. we'll talk about that and new reporting on russian interference which an official said was driven by a desire to, quote, watch us tear ourselves apart. a russian dissident and chess grandmaster joins us with his thoughts on the subject. along those lines reporting from cnn and elsewhere the white house and white house allies have been making lists of government officials to be purged because they're perceived to be disloyal to the president, the kind of thing that used to happen at the kremlin happening here and now. the democratic race, new insights in the race in nevada and south carolina.

let's begin with our political director david chalian. david, is there a sense whether the nevada results have shifted the dynamic in south carolina particularly for senator sanders and former vice president biden? >> reporter: yeah, well, anderson, it's shifted the entire race. what we have now after senator sanders' commanding victory in nevada over the weekend is a clear dominant front-runner for the democratic nomination in this race, and that is bernie sanders, the senator from vermont. you are right to note the new dynamic and, trust me, senator sanders must be aware of it, too, because being the front-runner, anderson, of course comes all that scrutiny. i mean, he has been facing an onslaught from fellow democratic members of congress today, never mind his own democratic opponents in the presidential race sort of going after him and scrutinizing his comments to you on "60 minutes" about fidel castro and praising the literacy program he had run there in cuba.

comments he made about criticizing a pro-israeli group. he's feeling the scrutiny of his new front-runner status. >> and sanders is obviously trying to win over more african-american voters. he has made strides with african-american voters. sanders could survive a second place finish in south carolina. could biden survive? >> joe biden says he's going to win here, so he has set the bar for himself at victory or bust in many ways here. you are right, i have no doubt that senator sanders, who has now amassed a significant lead in the race in these early contests could survive a second place showing here especially to your point if he shows he's made progress with the african-american vote from four years ago in the contest against hillary clinton where she sort of wiped the floor with him, with the african-american vote. we saw him competitive with biden but competitive and

overwhelmingly winning the hispanic vote. bernie sanders has been broadening his coalition of support throughout these early stages in this race. >> i think a lot of people may not realize once you have the south carolina primary, which is saturday, it's just three days until super tuesday. it doesn't give the candidates much time to bounce back if they don't do well this weekend. it's an onslaught of votes coming. >> we have the town halls tonight, big important debate tomorrow night. more town halls on cnn wednesday. you are right, just a couple days after that, the primary and super tuesday, three days later, where a third of the delegates, anderson, are going to be apportioned. so this goes into sort of hyper drive rather quickly and all these other candidates know that's why you see so much heat now. all trained on michael bloomberg in nevada. now everyone realizes it seems in the race bernie sanders is the dominant front-runner and if you're going to try to stop his

success at the moment you don't have much time to do it. >> david chalian, thank you very much. joining us is senior political commentator david axelrod and senior political reporter nia-malika henderson. democratic stat strategist. david, how much of a boost do you think the nevada victory gives him in south carolina? >> well, we'll see. he's certainly moving up in the polls. he doesn't need to win south carolina. he'd like to. if he did, he would basically put biden out of the race or cripple him dramatically. he just wants to continue to amass delegates. the advantage he has now, anderson, is he is dominant in that progressive lane of the party. he's putting delegates away. and the rest of the party is divided. the non-sanders wing is divided and that suits him just fine. i think that the debate tomorrow night will be very important in this way.

michael bloomberg had a terrible debate in nevada and it stemmed his progress. he was making steady progress with all the money he was spending in the super tuesday states. if biden does very well on saturday in south carolina and bloomberg has another bad debate tomorrow night, biden could actually emerge as the alternative to sanders, and that is what they are betting on. >> nia, if a large number of african-americans do vote for sanders in south carolina, would that put to rest the lingering criticism that he hasn't made enough progress in terms of attracting a more diverse voters? >> i think that in some ways is already put to rest -- >> it's already been answered? >> i think so. he's showing in nevada, he's clearly growing among latino voters winning in that state. he has a coalition of the other folks in this campaign so far don't have a multiracial coalition.

biden does well with african-american voters. not as well as hillary clinton did. she won black voters in south carolina, like 86%. biden is like 35% of black voters. it hurts him that the field is so large and you've seen sanders make inroads with black voters but also white voters, these sort of moderate white voters in the south. he does pretty well in the last poll i saw in south carolina and even in nevada you can see him making strides with upper income white voters as well. so you have south carolina. it's clear that even if biden wins it's not going to be by the same margin you saw hillary clinton win so that will cut into any sort of delicate haul he would take. super tuesday, states -- some of those states are white states like colorado has latinos there, too, a state bernie sanders did well in already. california, he didn't lose it by that much. texas has a lot of latinos there.

this is really hard. you have these town halls coming up. you have these debates coming up. but this is a train that is fast moving, that has been on this track before, right, sanders has won many states before and put together a grassroots organization so that's hard to stop. >> there's a lot of questions among moderate democrats about the electability of senator sanders. those questions get answered, though, the more he wins. if he does well, incredibly well in south carolina, it's hard to imagine somebody else overtaking him. >> it is and i like to remind people at the end of the day the democrats, the democratic base, and we, the people who don't want donald trump in the white house, will be the ones who get rid of donald trump from the white house. we are very much fixated on who the figure head is and every four years we play this game of who is electable and who is not. we are going to need to see a movement like in 2018, literally a blue wave. at that point it was about resist coming off the heels of the women's march.

we're going to need to see a groundswell of people coming out to get rid of donald trump in order for this to work. the truth is -- >> right now the only candidate who has a movement is sanders. >> exactly. and that's an interesting thing you can't discount. you can't discount the fact he has this big delegate lead. one person i'm going to be watching in south carolina come saturday is tom steyer. this is all about -- we keep talking about bloomberg and nobody has cast a vote for bloomberg at this point. what's interesting is steyer has been on the ground also making inroads in the african community. african-american community. he could well walk away from this state getting himself on the delegate board. that changes, he thinks. >> he's put most of his money in south carolina in ads. >> trying to buy that credibility to then be able to shift the scales for next tuesday that will be interesting. this idea of who is electable or not, at the end of the day if we are serious about our democracy, if we are serious voters, we are the ones who will have to come out energetically to vote in our interests and our interests, so many people in this country believe, the majority believe, that our interest is not donald

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his chances in the races to come. he performed well among hispanic voters and with african-american voters 6% behind joe biden, which means he's making inroads among the very voters biden has been counting on and will be turning out in higher numbers in south carolina. back now with our political team. david, is south carolina do or die for vice president biden? if he can't win there, can he -- where can he win? >> i do think that. he has pointed to it as having a good showing. he has underperformed in the first two states, did the bare minimum in nevada but beaten by bernie sanders this is a state with 55% to 60% african-american vote. that is his base. he should do very well in this state. if he were to lose here, he's going to have to reconsider his race. he has to raise money and he hasn't done very well at it so far. he's not going to do well if he loses this.

he'll have to reevaluate. they seem very confident they can pull this off. if they don't, it's very bad news. >> aisha, if biden wins in south carolina, does that -- if you're bernie sanders, does that really worry you? it's sanders who has the movement, who is pulling big crowds and who has a lot of money. >> right now bernie sanders has 45 delegates and biden has 15. even if joe biden picks up more in south carolina, he's still probably going to be behind bernie sanders. i don't think this is a calculus going into tuesday. coming out of super tuesday is a testament to where things stands and who ends up staying in the race. what's interesting to me, too, we are going to have to start talking more about the actual issues on the campaign trail. right now we keep talking about electability and there's this presumption that the person who is more moderate,this case joe biden, is the person people think is electable. i don't think that's the case. i think elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, are having

conversations young people and people of color care about. when joe biden talks about more of the same, he loses some of those folks. i think those issues will matter in terms of mobilizing the base and who is able to have a movement. >> nia, senator klobuchar and mayor buttigieg have struggled to attract voters and didn't do well with latinos in nevada. if they fail in south carolina, does that -- are they done? does that cement the narrative they can't build a diverse coalition? >> it's hard to think where they go from there, what states can pete buttigieg or amy klobuchar win on super tuesday or come close? you have states like california, states like texas. you need money. you need a coalition. that's the whole thing. pete buttigieg talks about being an inclusive candidate, talks about people having a sense of belonging if he wins the presidency but he doesn't actually have a coalition.

amy klobuchar the same thing. i think they're in single digits, 4% or 5% among african-americans in south carolina didn't do well with latinos so, yeah, i think for a lot of these candidates it really is put up or shut up time particularly after super tuesday, those big, big states. california, almost 500 delegates, right. if you're any of these candidates that hasn't been able to put together any sort of fund-raising, any sort of energy, any sort of crowds, any outright victories, it's hard to see how you go on. >> david, what about elizabeth warren? go ahead, david. >> i was going to say, i think she is an interesting question. she continues to do fairly well in national polls. one out over the week she was running second to bernie sanders, but she's underperformed in the first few states. one interesting nuance of nevada where she had a very strong debate, and she did very well among those voters who said they decided at the end she was in the 20s with those voters. can she have another strong

debate performance tomorrow that translates into a surprise finish here? she's the one candidate i would think bernie sanders would like to see out of the race because he competes -- she competes with him for some of those votes on the left. so she's an interesting candidate but she has to pull off something of a surprise here if she has another fourth or fifth place showing, it's going to -- i think it's going to depress her ability to do well going into super tuesday. >> i just wanted to jump in and add to what nia-malika was saying, this idea about building a coalition is crucial. i just don't understand where, say, a bloomberg has spent all of his time not talking to people, not building a coalition on the ground, not mobilizing a base, but throwing ads up. i don't know where the folks who are just playing an ad game think they're going to get real voters from. to tom steyer's credit, he's been buying ads but he's been out there talking to people, my whole family in south carolina, hey, we've been hearing from him.

the idea you can just run this as a marketing campaign, it doesn't work that way. >> thanks very much, david, nia, thank you. appreciate it. the white house pushing back on reports of russia's preference for president trump. what we know and don't about a controversial house intelligence meeting. there he is. oh, wow. you're doing, uh, you're doing really great with the twirling. dad, if you want to talk, i have a break at 3:00. okay, okay. i'm going. i'm gone. like -- like i wasn't here. [ horn honks ] keep -- keep doing it, buddy. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. you know, like the sign says. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. dealing with our finances really haunted me.ttle cranky. thankfully, i got quickbooks, and a live bookkeeper's helping customize it for our business. (live bookkeeper) you're all set up! (janine) great! (vo) get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks.

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the one consensus about the election russians are indeed interfering again. whether to any one candidate's benefit is where the waters get muddy. conflicting reports about a house intelligence briefing earlier this month have only complicated the matter. one intelligence official tells cnn the initial characterization of russia actively aiding the

president was, quote, misleading. a national security official said russia sees the president as a deal maker. to help untangle the story, what went wrong in this briefing by the intelligence official of congress? >> anderson, this seems to be a story of nuance and overstatement. this briefing took place behind closed doors, classified briefing to the house intelligence committee, by the most senior security official in the intelligence committee, shelby pearson. what we're told including by an intelligence official, she did not go into what was a very routine briefing with talking points that included possible russian support for any of the candidates but it clearly came up. what she said according to numerous officials there is russian support and preference for president trump as well as bernie sanders in the democratic primary. those things are not mutually exclusive when your goal is to sow discourse and division.

there's no intelligence assessment, no evidence that russia is actively working to support any of the candidates including those two men. i spoke with a senior intelligence official in the past hour who said that at no point did shelby pearson say that russia is aiding in the re-election of president trump. clearly it was taken by some. pearson's former boss, the former acting director of national intelligence pushed out and replaced by ambassador ric grenell who has no intelligence expertise. >> so is there -- it's confusing. is there clarity on the goals and tactics of the russians? what are the goals and the tactics? >> there is no disputing that russia is meddling. they continue to. they never stopped. their goal is chaos, division, anger, pitting us against each other.

an elections official at the fbi earlier today said their goal is to watch us tear ourselves apart. what we're seeing in terms of the tactics are some of the old tactics we've seen before as well as an evolution in those tactics. they tell us there will be an evolution in their playbook. they're going to come at these u.s. elections with misinformation campaigns, getting americans on social media to share things that make us angry and divide us and misinform us. there are going to be hacking situations in which they go after candidates, campaigns, parties, election infrastructure. and one interesting thing we're keeping an eye on, anderson, officials talked about, is russians using servers here in the united states, which means agencies like the nsa and the cia which work overseas, will have a harder time keeping an eye and thwarting that russian threat. >> appreciate it. president trump is feeling vindicated.

he lashed out at chairman adam schiff. here he tweeted a link to comments by congressman jim jordan. the president wrote, lies and leaks, the same with the mueller witch-hunt three years ago. joining me is the former director and cnn national security analyst james clapper, author of the book "facts and fears." director clapper, you see the fallout. i know you had similar briefings back in 2017 about russia's influence in the 2016 election. how does something this important get misstated or misinterpreted. what do you think went on here? >> i obviously don't know, anderson, since i wasn't there and nobody is talking to me, for understandable reasons, about what did happen. i think probably shelby pearson went in with kind of under the

operating basis to set up the office like dan coates did last summer with the premise the russians were going to continue to behave as they did in 2016, interfering in our election and will probably be supportive of the election isn't until november. the russians will evolve just as they did in the runup to the 2016 campaign. but their basic objectives have not changed. and they want someone that they're comfortable with in the white house, that they can deal with. and they want to sow as much doubt, discourse and distrust in this country as they possibly can just as they did in 2016. and regrettably we are a ripe target for that. and, of course, what's recently happened with the firing, essentially, of joe maguire -- >> the director of national intelligence --

>> and his acting director, well, this plays perfectly to putin's hand. so now he has weakened the intelligence community and has them cowed into reporting on those very activities. the winner in all of this is vladimir putin and russia. >> it's no surprise the president has pounced on this. can you fault him on that? >> can i fault president trump? >> yeah, for jumping on this. i mean, it does seem clearly whatever happened in this briefing -- i mean, it's not really clear what happened, i guess. >> well, it's not. obviously it is. it plays to his paranoia and

insecurity, i suppose, but, i mean, it's correct for him to be sensitive about it. at the same time by overreacting to this, which i guess is the objective, the end result will be suppress further reporting on the russian activity. now maybe that's what he wants. he just doesn't want to hear about it so that comports with his world view better. >> there's a report the acting dni richard grenell has yet to communicate with the full state -- the office of national intelligence despite having gotten the job some five days ago. is that unusual? does it take -- i don't know what the security clearance situation is. coming from being ambassador in germany, what do you make of that transfer? >> well, i don't think that ambassador grenell is put there

to try to master intelligence, to familiarize himself with this huge enterprise he sits atop of. he's there to do a purge and get the intelligence committee, and i use air quotes, under control. typically, yeah, you'd put out some communication to all of the employees, get to know the staff, find out what the problems are, the typical thing you do, how do you do business around here. that's not what he's about. he's there for a different reason. >> thank you very much. more in just a moment on president trump and a russian pro-democracy leader and former world chess champion and his take on 2020. in america we all count. no matter where we call home, how we worship, or who we love. and the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. because this is the count that informs

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as we discussed before the break one belief that came from the house intelligence meeting putin has aided the president's re-election. today in response to the reports on that briefing the white house told cnn that, quote, no one has been tougher on russia than this administration. joining me is the former world chess champion, russia pro-democracy leader and the author of the book "winter is coming by vladimir putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped." so a senior fbi official is saying russia's goal is essentially to watch us tear ourselves apart.

do you -- does that sound accurate to you? >> absolutely. spreading chaos, that was putin's goal, not only in america, across europe, eagerly supporting the far right or far left, making sure the center is decimated and, again, every country looks like a house divided. that's what he's looking for because he's afraid with american leadership the free world can be united against his aggression in europe. and it's especially stupid to deny he wants trump to be re-elected because he said it himself in helsinki. he made no secret he wanted him to succeed and wants trump to be re-elected because it's not just for what trump does but more for what trump doesn't do. he doesn't talk about human rights. he doesn't talk about democracy. he doesn't foster the alliances with traditional american allies. that makes the free world weaker. >> it's interesting the idea

of -- the idea he could be through disinformation or whatever it may be or election interference pushing trump but also pushing bernie sanders. the idea of the center is sort of the enemy. the various sides of this. >> and i think they're coordinating the efforts. if you see what's happening now in the conservative media, it's a reflection in the liberal media ignoring trump. many believe he would be an ideal opponent for hillary to beat. now there's a moratorium on sanders. he's just not on the radar. but at the same time if you follow trump's speeches like in davos or his state of the union, the president of venezuela, it clearly shows he's shaping his campaign against sanders. and of course putin believes

sanders could be the ideal candidate to go after. imagine what sanders, at that time mayor sanders, could have said in the soviet union when he wanted to please his host. i have no doubt if he said something incriminating vladimir putin has it on files. >> the statement he made publicly was about youth programs. >> the kids. eating and drinking, putin could be more open about praising the soviet union and i have no doubt it's in the white house ready to go when or if sanders -- >> it is remarkable we now talk about the white house having purges of official who is are not toeing the line. reminiscent of when you think of the word purges you think soviet union. >> i hate telling you, i said so many times.

now it's not just solving one problem at a time. firing the head of dni after these agency said, allegedly, russia was interfering, not only putting trump's man, lackey, on top of the organization, but sending a message across-the-board. >> the entire organization. >> that's what's going to happen. the same happened with alexander vindman. everyone talked about him being fire. it's more important what trump did to his twin brother. >> the idea they're making lists now, we are reporting today, of potentially anybody they think is disloyal to be purged out is weakening the deep state or the bureaucracy. >> less people are in the

powerful positions, more power in the inner circle and the dictator himself. imagine trump has been doing it now in an election year. if he, god forbid, is re-elected, he will have no more constraints. and that's what putin is betting on. >> i remember marie yovanovitch, the ambassador to ukraine who was removed, she talked about the state department being hollowed out from the inside. >> absolutely. >> which is a terrifying idea. you don't notice it from outside but inside it's been hollowed out. >> it's a record number of positions in the state, in defense, and many other agencies, intelligence agencies, not being filled because, again, less people, more power in the hands of the chosen few trump nominated. >> garry, i appreciate it. coming up, bernie sanders told me in a "60 minutes" interview everything is bad about fidel castro's regime. i asked him about comments he

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>> he educated the kids, gave them health care, totally transformed society. we're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of cuba. it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. when fidel castro came into office, you know what he did, he had a massive literacy program. is that a bad thing even though fidel castro did it? >> dissidents in prison didn't -- >> that's right. and we condemned that. unlike donald trump, let's be clear, i do not think that kim jong-un is a good friend. i don't trade love letters with a murdering dictator. vladimir putin, not a great friend of mine. >> supporters of sanders point out he's essentially saying something similar to what president obama said. about education and healthcare in cuba. they were quick to criticize his remarks and some florida democrats attacked sanders. florida is obviously a state vital to democratic hopes for the presidency in november. congresswoman debbie powell joins me now. her district is in south florida. congresswoman, thanks for being with us.

you're calling senator sanders' comments unacceptable. is sanders wrong in what he said? >> anderson, i represent thousands of cuban american families that have fled the brutal dictatorship under the castro regime and, yes, they are completely unacceptable. the cuban regime continues to oppress its people. it continues to cause unspeakable harm to thousands of families and is propping up another dictatorship in venezuela and those comments are extremely hurtful to so many people here in my area and very offensive. >> all right, but is he actually wrong factually? agreed, obviously, about brutal dictatorship. sanders did say we oppose the authoritarian nature of regimes and condemns dissidents. in 2016, yeah, they have their

literacy rates are very high and actually for a country that poor that their medical care is relatively good for latin america. >> look, there is a saying here in south florida by many cubans that they say castro may have given us health care and education but he didn't give us breakfast, lunch, or dinner. the reason the cuban people have not been able to rise up is he has targeted any of its dissidents by jailing them and many times even murdering them. so that is why the cuban people continue to be oppressed. and i will continue to stand up for my community against any harmful policies or comments like the one the senator made, and that's why i have been continuing to stand up to the trump administration because he has consistently targeted immigrants that are living in my district, he has consistently rejected any sort of gun

violence reform that we have sent to the senate. i will continue to do that. that is what i was elected to do, to stand up for my community and that's what i intend to do. >> i want to play for our viewers what president obama had said which a lot of supporters of sanders are pointing to in the wake of this. let's play that. >> i said this to president castro in cuba. i said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people. every child in cuba gets a basic education. that's a huge improvement from where it was. but you drive around havana, this economy is not working. is that as offensive to you? >> anderson, i'm going to be very strong against anyone making any comments giving any credit to castro. let's be clear here.

we still have thousands of cubans here trying to be reunited with their families, the trump administration closed down a program to restart that program. people are trying to leave that country. so again, they may have introduced literacy programs, but also a dictatorship that have affected so many thousands of families that continue to suffer from the pain and suffering. >> do you think this hurts senator sanders among the people he represents. >> for me personally, i'm going to continue to focus on the work that we have been doing in the house of representatives. i think it may hurt the senator. i invite him to come down to south florida so he understands the pain of the costs.

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there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. it's hard to overstate the e emotional devastation. it was plain to see on the faces of the estimated 20,000 fans and teammates, friends and family members today at the staples center in los angeles. >> i'm here because i love kobe, and this was one of his favorite songs.

♪ your love is bright as ever even in the shadows ♪ ♪ baby kiss me, kiss me -- >> please welcome vanessa bryant. ♪ my heart is glowing >> gianna bryant is an amazingly sweet and gentle soul. she had the best laugh. it was infectious. it was pure and genuine. she was an incredible athlete. i won't be able to tell her how gorgeous she looks on her wedding day. i will never get to see my baby girl walk down the aisle, have a father-daughter dance with her daddy, dance on the dance floor with me or have babies of her

own. gigi would have most likely become the best player in the wnba. she would have made a huge difference. as i got to know him, i wanted to be the best big brother that i could be. now he's got me and i will have to look at another crying meme. >> guys were complaining. said, shaq, kobe's not passing the ball. i said i'll talk to him. i said kobe, there's no i in team and kobe said i know, but there's a me in that mother [ bleep ]. >> he was known as a fierce competitor on the basketball

court. the greatest of all time, the writer, the writer. he was my koko, we have been together since i was 17.5 years old. i was his first girlfriend, his first love, his wife, his best friend, his confidant, and his protector. may they both rest in peace and have fun in heaven until we meet again one day. we love you both and miss you forever and always, mommy. >> you ask for my hustle, i gave you my heart. >> kobe bryant was 41 years old, his daughter just 13. we remember them tonight as well as christina mauser who was laid

to rest. we remember them. next on cnn, the first of three cnn town halls tonight. first with my colleague chris cuomo with senator bernie sanders. all right, live from charleston, south carolina. this is a cnn town hall event. good evening, i'm chris cuomo, so we're just five days away from the south carolina primary. this is the last major test for the democratic presidential candidates before super tuesday. the leading contenders are on

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