♪ ♪ ♪ eric: big night for senator bernie sanders, fox news projected the vermont senator was the decisive winner of the nevada caucuses, you know, now he's looking ahead to texas, in fact, he's already in the lone star state yesterday arriving there even before fox news channel projected that he won the silver state. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters i'm eric sean. jillian: and i'm jillian mele in for arthel neville. bernie sanders soaring with vice president joe biden with best showing in second, we have fox news team coverage on the race

for 2020, jacqui heinrich has the latest from las vegas, first steve harrigen awaiting for rally. >> a big crowd waiting patiently for bernie sanders rally at the university of houston, sanders is holding 4 different rallies in texas over the weekend in the runup to super tuesday and you can really feel a sense of energy here and momentum, sanders won convincingly in nevada in almost every category, men, women, college educated, noncollege, union, no union, biggest march was with young voters giving 66% of the vote and speeches so far in texas, sanders paid little attention to democratic competitors, instead he is focusing his attention on president trump. >> they are sick and tired of a president who is undermining

american democracy who thinks he's above the law and who apparently has never read the constitution in this country. >> sanders has said he expects to win the texas primary, it's the second biggest one on super tuesday, 228 delegates will be given out proportionately and, of course, in presidential elections no democrat has won texas since 1976 since jimmy carter, president trump won over hillary clinton by 9 points but 2 million new voters added to the texas rolls in just the past 5 years. jillian and eric, back to you. jillian: large number, steve, thank you so much for the report. eric: the rest of the democratic field trying to get past nevada and focus on playing catch-up with senator sanders, the race for the nomination now moves to south carolina, you know, the former vice president joe biden's fire wall to try to keep him competitive in this race.

jacqui heinrich with the latest on that, she remains in las vegas, hi, jacqui. >> hey, there, eric, 50% of precincts are reporting, the results are clear senator bernie sanders and significant lead over rivals the other question how the others stack up behind him. sanders third straight win for him affirming as clear front runner putting spotlight on how much democratic voters want a progressive candidate, sanders gave speech from texas last night, they vote on tuesday, super tuesday. he credited enormous grassroots support for getting him here, sanders campaign knocked on half a million dollars in nevada. >> a nut generational and multiracial coalition which is not only going to win in nevada, no campaign has a grassroots movement like we do which is

another reason why we are going to win this election. >> former vice president joe biden came in a distant second but one enough support to claim his first victory of this primary season, he placed fourth in iowa, fifth in new hampshire, not even meeting the threshold for delegates there but the campaign long insisted first two voting states don't represent the country, he needed to perform better with diverse electorate before heading to south carolina and second place finish now brings his campaign back to life. >> you put me in a position, you know, the press is ready to declare people dead quickly. [laughter] >> but we are alive and we are coming back and we are going to win. >> slightly behind biden in third is former mayor pete buttigieg, slip for him since iowa when he essentially tied with sanders, he congratulated sanders on his win but quickly criticized putting the election in the hands of democratic socialist, most of the party would be alienated.

of course, the one candidate who we didn't see measured yesterday was former mayor michael bloomberg, he entered the race so late that he was not eligible for caucusing here, we will see him for the first time on ballot on super tuesday, eric. eric: from las vegas, thanks. jillian. jillian: and fox news alert now president trump jetting off to india where the country's prime minister plans to roll out carpet for 2-day visit, the president to address massive rally as touted as the world's largest cricket stadium and repair bilateral relations and forge trade deal with the world's largest democracy by population. kevin corke in new delhi with more, hi, kevin. >> great to be with you, jillian, the two men have a strong bond and we anticipate the bond will be on full display during the president's visit here to india, it is something

that administration officials have been talking about at length, now that he's finally here they are certainly looking forward to that, now before departing the white house for joint base andrews and boarding air force one for the trip, the president expressed his excitement for the visit. >> well, i look forward to being with the people of india, we will have millions and millions of people, long trip, but i get along very well with the prime minister, prime minister modi, he's a friend of mine. i committed to this trip a long time ago and i look forward to go, the first lady is coming, some of you are coming, i hear it's going to be a big event. some people say the biggest event they've ever had in india. >> the president and first lady traveling to india with 12-person official delegation in addition to the president and the first lady ivanka trump, jared kushner and others, ambassador to india wilbur ross, secretary of commerce, robert o'brian, national security adviser as you see the energy

secretary fcc chairman also in toe, this trip will include a rally, you mentioned it where more than a hundred thousand people to and, warm reception to the prime minister in texas, we attended the howdy modi event, 50,000 in the u.s. and this time the crowd expected to be roughly double that, about the size of a michigan football game, so that should make for a very special day. the circumstance aside, we expect two leaders will spend great deal talking about trade, energy policy and, of course, anticorruption measures, we also anticipate that we will probably hear about at least one trade deal, not a broad trade deal but maybe military arm's sales here to india and perhaps some other energy sales as well, we will keep an eye on all deliverables as we continue coverage, for now back to you. jillian: i know that you'll keep us updated, kevin corke live for

us, thanks, kevin. eric: the department of homeland security whistleblower who was an outspoken critic to have obama administration, well, he's been found dead in northern california, sheriff's officials found the body of phillip on friday, he died of self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities say the investigation into his death is active and ongoing. claimed obama era ordered analysts to quote, delete or modify hundreds of records of individuals that were tie today islamist terrorist groups, reports say he retired officially 5 years ago and at the time before he said that the orlando pulse nightclub and santa barbara jihad attack could have been prevented if the obama administration had taken the proper precautions. jillian: fallout continues from report that is u.s. intelligence officials recently warned house lawmakers that russia is once again trying to interfere with our election, to help both trump

and bernie sanders campaigns, mollie has more. >> zero intelligence that russia wants to help president trump get a second term, he says there have been secondhand leaks from the democrat controlled house intelligence committee to that effect, but o'brian says it doesn't make any sense to him since the trump administration has been, quote, very tough on russia. >> i haven't seen any intelligence that russia is doing anything to -- to attempt to get president trump reelected. i think this is the same-old story that we heard before. i have seen the reports from the briefing at the intel committee, i wasn't there but i've seen no intelligence that suggests that, i've also heard that from the briefers that that's not what they intended the story to be. >> the house intelligence committee chaired by democrat congressman adam schiff received a briefing earlier this month by intelligence officials after that briefing there were report

that is members of congress were told that russia is trying to help president trump. the president has dismissed those reports as, quote, misinformation campaign from his political enemies in congress. both the president and his national security adviser said today, however, that they had seen reports in the media that russia wants to help bernie sanders, sanders says he was briefed on that last month. >> our national security adviser should stay out of politics and that is a political statement, what we know is that the russians never stopped interfering in american politics, they don't just get involved in elections, they are involved every single day and now analysis of what they've been doing on twitter since 2016 has been pretty clear, they are weighing in over and over again in support of right-wing causes in support of donald trump's political agenda and, of course, stands to reason that they want donald trump reelected. >> president trump has said

today that he has 4 or 5 people under consideration for the position of director of national intelligence and he said in the, quote, not so distant future he would be announcing who those people are, for now the current ambassador to germany rick granel is taking over the position. >> mollie, thanks. eric: jillian to coronavirus outbreak, growing concerns worldwide after italy has reported a spike in cases even ordering lockdowns of dozens of towns and canceling the venice carnival, iran reported first case and infections shot up more than 600 in seoul, south korea, more than 78,000 and the death toll around the globe topping 2,400 and climbing. christina coleman the very latest on the stats, she is in los angeles, christina. >> eric, here in the u.s. cdc says that the virus is not

spreading fast but it could happen, 18 americans who returned to the u.s. from the quarantine diamond princess cruise ship in japan, today on its way to india, president trump says the u.s. has evolving situation under control. >> it's a big situation going on throughout the world and i can say the united states, we very much closed our doors in certain areas and about certain areas, we will see what happens, but we have the greatest doctors in the world, we have very much under control, we accepted a few people, small number of people, they are very well confined and they should be getting better fairly soon, very interestingly, we've had no deaths. >> in the men time uphill battle fighting coronavirus in south korea, today's south korea president government will increase antivirus alert to red, highest level allowing the government to order temporary

school closing and transportations and flights to and from south korea, south korea reported 8 fold jump in viral infections, they announced 69 more cases, bringing total to 602, the country also reported 3 more fatalities raising death toll to 6 and in italy, town are on lockdown to stop the virus in the northern region of lombardi which is the nation's capital milan and the number of confirmed cases stood at 89, italy has 132 cases including at least 2 deaths, health officials are worried because they can't trace the source of the virus. and today china's president xi called covert 19 the biggest public health emergency the country has ever faced and called for more efforts to stop the outbreak and, again, the world health organization saying as of right now its major concern is trying to track down the immediate source of this

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jillian: welcome back, bernie sanders headlining a texas rally this afternoon after projected win in nevada caucuses last night cementing his status as the party's national front-runner, but the self-described democratic socialist had some challenges ahead including mike bloomberg's plan to swoop in on super tuesday, let's talk about whether the vermont senator has the momentum to go the distance and face off in a general election against president trump, white house correspondent, good to see you, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. good afternoon, now. [laughter] jillian: so what do you think? do you think he has it right now to continue going the distance? >> well, bernie sanders performed very well in nevada and he was able to show there that he can win minority voters, he did well with hispanics winning 53% of them i believe in

nevada, he also got roughly a quarter of african americans so that might tell us a few things heading into south carolina this week, that's a state that joe biden is relying onto stay in this race but bernie sanders since he ran in 2016 has invested more resources in south carolina and so there will certainly be a battle there in south carolina. jillian: you mentioned some of those nonwhite voters, those numbers out of nevada, let's go ahead and take a look at some of these on the national level and this is among african american primary voters and you'll see joe biden with 31% and bernie sanders with 29% from a week ago and univision poll among latino voters have sanders and biden, sanders has the edge over him a little bit with 30% nationally in nevada, he had the edge 33% to 22%, what do those numbers tell you as we go into south carolina and really beyond? >> again, in south carolina where african-american voters are something that joe biden

believes that he will do well among that demographic, that's also a demographic that bernie sanders would need to do well with, right, in this particular primary and so those numbers are looking good for both of them, so we might not know until the voting actually begins in south carolina, but you had earlier asked generally about bernie sanders and how it is looking for bernie sanders and the amount of money that bernie sanders has been able to raise so far has helped him to be able to run advertising and so really develop a ground game in the states nationally and even some of the democrats now who are raising large amounts of money after the debate performances do not have the advantage of time on their side, super tuesday is just around the corner, jillian, and he has been putting the resources in and making the -- laying the ground work for this for years now. jillian: you mentioned super tuesday, how does someone like mike bloomberg come out on super tuesday, what do you think he needs to do from now and then

because the debate was not his finest showing? >> well, he will have another debate on tuesday in which he will be have an opportunity to do better, but the other question, jillian, what do the other democrats on stage decide to do, elizabeth warren heavily targeting him in the last debate with something that helped her raise money and raised national profile but pete buttigieg has been making the argument that bernie sanders is the one to beat right now and about to run away with that and so will they focus their attention on michael bloomberg again because he has attribute that is they think that the democratic party does not want in a nominee or will they say the same of sanders and decide he's the front-runner, we have to go after him. jillian: that debate was definitely one of the most excite to go watch that we have seen so far so curious to see how tuesday ends up playing out especially when you have someone like a elizabeth warren throwing punches right away. you mentioned pete buttigieg, let's talk about him for a second, pete buttigieg did really well better than a lot of people expected him to do in

iowa and new hampshire, obviously didn't exactly carried that momentum into nevada, we saw bernie sanders run away with that, but, still, someone oh like pete buttigieg has been knocked for a while about not having those nonwhite votes, about needing to gain more traction there and then as you look ahead to south carolina as we just talked about, do you think someone like him is able to get some of those votes from bernie sanders? >> well, pete buttigieg has also been focusing his resources on other states that will vote on super tuesday and the voters that he does best against. so he is now running digital ads in counties that voted for donald trump in 2016 but had voted for barack obama before that and he's making an argument that he can win, quote, unquote, future former republican voters, so really trying to pick up some votes now from people who might be voting in this democratic presidential primary who may otherwise be independent or lean right because he is a more

moderate of the candidates and thinks he can win votes there. jillian: before we let you know, you have a piece out right now that republicans that don't want to vote for donald trump, who are they going to vote if bernie sanders ends up being the guy on the democratic side or the person i should say on the democratic side, a lot of people don't want to vote for a socialist, so do you think that there may be a lot of people out there who don't vote, i know it's early to ask that but that's kind of what you have to think about right now. >> some of the people i spoke to to be clear said that they would vote for bernie sanders and these are current or former republicans who are not going to vote for donald trump, they said they are not voting for donald trump, but they also some of them also said that they couldn't vote as you said for bernie sanders and they are open to voting for a democrat in the general election if that is a more moderate democrat, bloomberg, buttigieg, a biden or a klobuchar is what they were telling me and, of course, there's always going to be a question of how much of a problem is that for donald trump, he is at 49% in the

gallup poll that just came out and 45% among voters and so he does have a high approval rating right now so whether the trump campaign thinks that's a real problem for them in the general election or not, that's one thing, but it certainly is a debate that's taking place. jillian: all right, francesca chamber, thank you very much. eric: speaking of the president on his way to india where he's going to meet with prime minister modi but before taking off he spoke with reporters about the democratic presidential candidate and the race, you will want to hear what he says about bernie sanders, this is as democrats are freaking out, pollster john is here to break it all down rty mus your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> good sunday to you and welcome back, president trump tweeting congratulations to senator bernie sanders for his projected win in the nevada democratic caucuses last night

making self-described democratic socialist the solid front runner to win the democratic nomination and face the president in november. david at the white house. hi, david. >> president trump took off for a trip to india about 3 hours ago, he came out and answered questions for the press for about ten minutes and right out of gate he talked about yesterday's votes in nevada. >> it was a great win for bernie sanders, we will see how it all turns out. they've got a lot of winning to do, i hope they treat him fairly, frankly i don't care who i run against, i just hope they treat him fairly. i hope it's not going to be a rigged deal, a lot of bad things going on and i hope it's not going to be one of those. >> the president for months now, jillian, is pushing the narrative the system is what he calls rigged against bernie sanders, perhaps a way to solidify sanders as democratic nominee someone who president trump is confident he can beat in november, now sanders had a good day in nevada yesterday and

is moving full steam towards super tuesday, states i asked the president directly who will be the nominee he believes without hesitation it's going to be bernie sanders. now late last week word came down that russia was trying to help bernie sanders' campaign, sanders receive received a briefing of the sort but condemned any help from russia. the president also accused of receiving help from russia, he had not received such a briefing and doesn't seem concern about any russian interference, listen. >> it sounds like it's '16 all over again for bernie sanders. and he won, he had a great victory yesterday but you know it's happening -- >> this president is spending a night in india, he will be back mid-week, on friday he will have a rally in south carolina before super tuesday, and then on saturday he will make an appearance at cpac. back to you, jillian. >> no slowing down that's for sure, david, thank you. >> you bet.

>> senator sanders believes in inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most democrats, not to mention most americans. senator sanders believes in taking away that choice, removing people from having the option of a private plan and replacing it with a public plan whether you want it or not. >> 2020 democratic pete buttigieg sounding more like the trump campaign and slamming senator bernie sanders, you know, sanders riding a wave of momentum after projected win in nevada, what does the poll shows as matchup with the president and how is the campaign preparing for a possible sanders race, john, the ceo and partner, good to have you in the studio, john. >> nice to be here. eric: what are you seeing in the polls? >> as the media polls are now reporting job approval is moving up, people are recognizing that he's performed for the economy, made america stronger, more prosperous and against democrats, i mean, one of my friends lauren, she was the

founder to have republican jewish coalition and former trump delegate, he wrote an article forecasting this where he said the democrats are losing their center, basically the party of roosevelt and truman and kennedy is gone, there's no center and they've created the socialist, they did it to themselves because nancy pelosi and adam schiff, they were trying to go after the president, you know who they killed in this? joe biden their front runner because they exposed all of the corruption that him and hunter had and he collapse -- eric: it hasn't been proven. >> let me tell you, it created sanders. allowed sanders to move up as biden collapsed. they did this to themselves. now they are trying to make stories about the russians. eric: what about the fact that sanders has been out there and captured maybe some of the obama folks who voted for trump wanting change, you know, the young people, aoc types, he has the others but some of the democrats today, they are freaking out, they are freaking out that sanders could be the

nominee. >> they've underestimated him and we have great deal of respect that he truly believes in what he's saying, voters see him as authentic, so just like president trump as somebody direct, sand freers the left, radical left is the same thing and he's coming at it in a party where when we asked earlier this year do you think socialism is more fair capitalism, the democrats think socialism is more fair, so he's riding that wave and the sentiment. eric: when you're talking about sanders, let me read you something from the washington post in terms of pollsters, quote, on capitol hill democrats have been circulating and unflattering private poll paid by a rival presidential candidate that test negative messages against sanders among voters in 6 presidential swing states, quote, bernie sanders is a socialist who supporting un-american big government plans that will spend trillions of dollars, lead to higher taxes and destroy our way of life reads one line of the polling

test, john, this is a democratic question, this is -- this sounds like you guys. >> it's not us, by the way, it's the democratic establishment and they are out of touch with heartland of america and that's why president trump won historic election in 2016 and that's why we can get reelected out if we can get message out and get through the press. for them to panic like that and start eating their own, they are losing the center and we will occupy the center and we are working hard to pick up more voters and exspanned coalition, the president is not just working his base, he's expanding his coalition, we will get more african-american votes, we will get more latino votes, we will get stronger as this election progresses. eric: what do you do with sanders, do you poll socialism, do you talk about honeymoon in the soviet union, support for el castro. what do you do?

what type of questions do you poll about sanders? >> we government capitalism and socialism, we have seen the president's job approval going up and job approval has been positive in the battleground states particularly in battleground states that he's won. that's all published, it's on the website. >> where can people go for that? i know it's early and we just have sanders coming off of two wins, he has south carolina next sad and super tuesday, what do you predict? >> there's a debate on tuesday that's critical for mike bloomberg, he got crushed in the last debate, 20 million people watched it. that's a lot when you think that hillary clinton got 65 million voters, a lot of the democrat voters are watching it, sanders who is a good debater and practice, it's going to be a

very important debate and friday the president comes in and does a rally in south carolina, talking about record low unemployment, created 7 million jobs and trade deals that help a lot of the states that were early in the primary calendar, and at the same time i think you're seeing, the thing that's unreported the president solidified the republican base and in new hampshire he went with record amount, people forgot we had a primary but the trump voters came out and so you're seeing a strong president with a solid base who is now broadening that coalition to make it a majority coalition. >> he's sneaking in night before on these events. >> it's not sneaking in. [laughter] eric: well, you know. >> he's making a debate. eric: that's true. >> he has a vision for america, let the voters hear it. eric: doing an enron, getting in

there. good to see you, thanks very much. >> pleasure. jillian: u.s. on the verge of a possible peace deal with the taliban in afghanistan, will the current reduction of violence hold and what we can expect in the region going forward, that's coming up next. when you shop with wayfair,

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east bureau, mike. >> it's not been an absolute cease fire, afghan security forces and taliban clashed, but all sides seemed to have accept that the scrimmages are something less than a violation of the reduction in violence, but on friday at midnight afghan time orders went out to field commanders to halt all roadside and suicide bombs as well as rocket attacks for 7-day period the taliban can keep the bombs quiet for a week, truce with the u.s. and the taliban is expected to be signed on february 29th in qatar, that paves the way for afghan negotiations and possibly a peace deal, people in kabul who have lived in war for 18 years now are impatient about the process, they don't have faith in reduction of violence, they want to get in the part where they can rebuild their lives. >> afghans want a fundamental peace in cease fire so that people can contribute to the

country's construction. >> now president trump says he's ready to sign the truce and bring the troops home. >> assuming it works out in less than a week, i will put my name on it, time to come home and they want to stop, you know, they've been fighting a long time, they are tough people, we are tough people but after 19 years that's a long time. >> afghan president says afghan security force wills remain at defensive posture regarding the taliban but will continue operations against isis and al-qaeda forces in afghanistan, u.s. defense official says any attacks will be evaluated to determine if they came from the taliban in the past spoilers have attacked with the interpretation of sabotaging cease fires, jillian. jillian: one day at a time, thanks, mike. eric: former national security adviser and senior counselor at the foundation for defense of

democracies, john, do you think this would hold? >> well, i think we can probably get through this 7 days eric even if it's not a truce cease fire, reduction in violence, nobody is quite sure what that means and both sides have interest in getting through this and signing a deal that begins to withdraw u.s. forces from that country which is clearly what president trump wants, he -- he ran on a promise of winding down these endless wars in afghanistan in particular, i think he wants to show real progress by the time of the elections and the taliban, of course, wants u.s. forces out so they can eventually have their way, provide some kind of decent intern -- interval to the united states and my guess is they have every intention to bringing down experiment in afghan democracy. eric: so really like a holding

pattern for them. here is what the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan, general austin scott miller says, quote, it's abobservable trends showing reduction of violence and i'm confident we would be able to understand that on a daily basis and as things go on we will have a better understanding of what the trends are, sounds like officials don't know if the taliban will hold up their part of the bargain? >> yeah, i think, listen, it's very opaque and very vague, i think everyone has an interest in allowing the 7 days to pass to say that there haven't been any major incidents, there's little bill of fighting on the margins, hopefully no u.s. troops would be killed because i think that would be the real -- real problem for this deal, but listen, 7 days is nothing and a 19-year conflict, the taliban are determined to come back to reestablish their own islamic emirate, we are in line with

al-qaeda, they are supposed to renounce al-qaeda as part of this deal and begin fighting al-qaeda, i will believe it when i see it, we haven't seen that yet for sure. eric: what we've pour intoed the country and the effort against radical islamic terrorism, what would you predict and what would you like to see? >> of course, like everybody i -- i wish and pray for peace, nobody wants to leave our forces over there longer than they have to be there, though, the issue is can you resolve this conflict in a way that allows us to bring most of our troops homes and yet we don't recreate the conditions that necessitated us going to afghanistan in the first place, that's the trick and whether we have the breath and the stamina to lead sufficient force there to continue to conduct the kinds of counter terrorism mission that is we need to conduct against al-qaeda and isis and

others who would choose to use afghanistan as the safe haven from which the plant and plot operations against the united states and our allies, that's the real -- the real conundrum here and we will see if the united states still has enough patience to see this through. eric: well said, john, foundation for defense of democracy, john, thank you, good to see you. >> thank you, eric. eric: of course. jillian: president trump making major switch in intelligence community, up next former ambassador to germany richard granel acting director of national intelligence and who might be in mind to take over full time salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. (sensethe lack of control when iover my businessai, made me a little intense. but now quickbooks helps me get paid, manage cash flow,

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>> welcome back, a high-level cabinet shake-up president trump appointing u.s. ambassador to germany, richard grenell acting director of intelligence, grenell wasting to time to asking number 2 of the agency to step down. garrett tenney with the details, hey, garrett. >> rick grenell not to be for long, he can act for 210 days, he's quickly making his presence known, on friday predecessor joseph mcguire as well as number

2 andrew hoffman resigned, grenell told homa, in that his service was no longer needed. grenell is putting his own team together and first is kash patel, former aide to gop congressman devin nunes who played a key role in investigating alleged abuses by the fbi and doj against trump campaign, grenell and patel have been given mandate to clean house, and to carry out a top to bottom review of the agency, top democrats are outraged over the president's decision given that grenell has never worked for agency and saying it's dangerous for the country. >> what i am worried about is the politicization of intelligence by this administration, the new acting head of intelligence has no

background in intel, he's a trump loyalist and i think we all worry about this administration controlling massive amounts of intelligence, massive amounts of classified information leaking it out to the press when it advantages them. >> both the president and grenell said that he would only be seeing the 17 spy agencies until a permanent dni is in place, this morning president trump said narrowed list of candidates to 4 or 5 very respected people. >> i will say ambassador grenell has done a fantastic job, this is a just temporary job, we have 5 people that we are looking at seriously, expert people and at certain point in not too distant future we will be announcing who they are. >> and president trump has said repeatedly that he prefers to have his cabinet in acting roles rather than senate confirmed because it gives them more flexibility essentially to make changes if he doesn't like how they are doing their job,

jillian. jillian: interesting, garrett tenney, live for us, thanks, garrett. eric: what do you think the word royal is really worth, harry and meghan taking another step from separating from the royal family and some people are not too pleased. ♪ ♪ hey! my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. who's the dummy now? whoof! whoof! so get allstate where good drivers save 40% for avoiding mayhem, like me. sorry! he's a baby!

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they're backing down on their push to use the world royal in their new brand, they tried to copyright it, but they insist the queen does not own those rights. david lee miller, our temporary royal correspondent, here in new york. hello, david lee. >> reporter: hi there, eric. this is a royal controversy. some royal watch orsers are calling the latest statement if prince harry to be yet another p.r. disaster for the royal family. on friday the couple known as the duke and duchess of sussex agreed to stop efforts to trademark the name sussex royal. what's attracting a lot of attention is thinly-veiled criticism of the queen. i quote: while there is not any jurisdiction by the monarch or cabinet office, the duke and duchess of sussex do not intend to use sussex royal or any iteration either within the u.k. or otherwise when the transition occurs in spring of 2020.

the transition, march 31st is the date the couple will officially back down from royal duties. they will keep the prefix hrh, his or her royal highness. however, they will no longer actively use the title as they will no longer be working members of the family. the couple have come under increasing scrutiny from both the public and the media. >> this hasn't gone down too well at all. i mean, who is advising these people? they're slowly turning into dumb and dumber. i mean, the bottom line is that her majesty the queen has been more than gracious in saying that, look, you know, you can keep your titles, you can do this. >> reporter: queen elizabeth, prince harry's grandmother, has released a statement saying that harry, meghan and their son archie will always be, and i quote, much-loved members of my family. harry will remain sixth in line for the crown despite starting his new life in canada. eric: interesting that the legal language, can't use it in --

since 1776 we haven't been part of that, so i guess they could use it here. >> thanks for letting me join. do it again at 4 p.m.? for now, leland and gillian in d.c. eric: see you in a few hours. ♪ ♪ >> won the popular vote in iowa -- [cheers and applause] we won the new hampshire primary -- [cheers and applause] , -- and according to three networks in the ap, we have now won the nevada caucus! [cheers and applause] gillian: bernie sanders coming out on top last night. the picture at the top of the democratic race beginning to get a little bit clearer, sanders cementing his lead at the head of the pack after the caucuses. right now we've got 60% reporting and sanders taking