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myself before. >> and we talk to controversial sheriff joe arpieio about whether his views on imgrants are now mainstream in the gop. plus a look at whether tasers are really safe. >> it was pretty clear to me that this was taser induced cardiac arrest. >> nobody told us these were going to kill people. >> and a widow's mission to honor a hero 60 years in the making. from rockefeller center in new york city, this is "politics nation with al sharpton." good morning. i'm al sharpton. the democratic presidential candidates held just their third debate last night. late on a saturday night right before christmas. and it came after days of controversy over the bernie

sanders campaign improperly accessing hillary clinton's voter data. he apologized for that right at the start. >> not only do i apologize to secretary clinton, and i hope we can work together on an independent investigation from day one, i want to apologize to my supporters. this is not the type of campaign that we run. >> i very much appreciate that comment, bernie. it really is important. we should move on because i don't think the american people are all that interested. >> the debate was in new hampshire, a state where sanders is actually leading clinton in the polls. and he was eager to highlight their differences, especially when it comes to wall street and big corporations. >> should corporate america love hillary clinton?

>> everybody should. i have said i want to be the president for the struggling, the striving and the successful. >> hillary and i have a difference. ceos of large multinationals may like hillary. they ain't going to like me, and wall street is going to like me even less. >> but clinton repeatedly looked past her democratic rivals to focus instead on donald trump. >> the rhetoric coming from the republicans, particularly donald trump, is sending a message to muslims here in the united states and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilizations. mr. trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people. he is becoming isis' best recruiter. they are going to people, showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims. >> there were a few light

moments like when clinton came back late after a commercial break and when she wrapped up her closing remarks by seeming to admit that a good chunk of the country was probably watching the new "star wars" movie instead of the debate. >> thank you, good night, and may the force be with you. >> joining me now is april ryan, washington bureau chief for american urban radio networks, dana milbank of "the washington post," and republican strategist adolfo franco. thank you all for being here. >> morning. >> thank you, al. >> april, sanders is down 30 points to clinton nation wide. did he do anything to regain momentum last night? >> we know last night, reverend al, he was a different bernie sanders, in my opinion.

he was not at passionate, but he was still forceful. i guess with all of this hanging over his head with this new scandal about the list that his staffers were able to look at or at least one we know of for sure that was fired that looked at hillary clinton's list. but he was someone i think tonight that -- last night, who really wanted to show the american public that he's still there. we saw bernie sanders who was still very presidential. but yet someone who was very real. he apologized but came out still forceful, challenging martin o'malley, hillary clinton, and tried to set his record straight. but he also, after he apologized to hillary clinton at the begin, he came back later on and said we have to give her credit for being one of the most transformative first ladies ever. he was forceful, challenging her and martin o'malley but still paying homage. >> dana, how do you read that?

apology came back and kind of paid homage. we had all of these forecasts of maybe this would be a very confrontational kind of night. it seemed the opsiposite from t strategy of bernie sanders side at least what we saw on the debate stage. >> i think that was bernie sanders being bernie sanders. his policies are very clear, but he's not, you know, a rude confrontational kind of guy. he's been fighting the good fight and representing his position, the populist left. he's done it very forcefully. he's been -- succeeded beyond expectations of many. he's not going to get the nomination. we all know that. he knows that. he's continuing to represent what he stands for in a way that's benefitting the party, that's is benefiting his cause. yes, he was definitely strong in

representing himself. politely challenging the front-runner, but i think not doing the sort of bridge burning that we've seen on the republicans. >> and that was forecast. adolfo, one of the things that was interesting is hillary clinton seemed to go past her democratic opponents and was going after the republicans, most notably donald trump last night. it seemed like she was content i've got this wrapped up in terms of the democratic nomination, and she really was going after republican oppone opponents. on "snl" last night, they went back and brought the 2008 hillary and the president -- let me show you what they did last night. >> hillary from 2008. >> hi, hillary. >> oh, hello. >> hello. >> hello. >> oh. >> you changed your hair. >> yes, yes, well, people said i

should, so i did. >> even if you beat bernie, aren't you worried about the republicans? who is their front-runner? >> oh, i will tell you but only if you grab on to something to brace yourself because you're going to hit the efen floor. >> just tell me. >> you need to hold on to something. >> donald trump. >> i told you. oh, my god, we're going to be president. >> i know! >> is it any surprise that mrs. clinton seemed eager last night to attack donald trump? >> it's not a surprise at all. this contest on the democratic side in my opinion has been over for some time. last night sure lie confirmed it for me. the fact of the matter, these debates are taking place on saturday night. not just this saturday night but the remaining debates are saturdays and sundays.

these are dress rehearsals. this contest is over. bernie sanders will, of course, not be the nominee. hillary clinton is taking every precaution, even having these debates, the campaigns or the dnc on saturday nights to make sure that if any mistakes are made, that they are minimized. that's very clear to me. i really think that bernie sanders has even failed in moving hillary clinton much to the left, despite all that's been said about this. last night we saw that when she didn't take the bait on the issues of the bank and said i'm a candidate for every american, and everyone including banks and corporations. she's always been a careful candidate, and she demonstrated it last night. she is absolutely focused, as she should be on the republican field. i know she knows donald trump is not going to be our candidate for president. i can assure you of that, but he makes nice foil and can --

>> oh, he will not be the nominee. it's a nice way to brand the republicans at trump supporters when that won't be the case. >> is he sure about that? is donald trump not -- >> i'm sure about that. >> he's saying he's sure about that. we heard that from -- >> i'm going to hold him to it. >> and the fact that he has become the front-runner so long, april, and now the republican party has got to deal with what he represents, it almost is getting to the point whether if he's ultmaimately the nominee o not, he's become the symbol of that party and what it stands for. >> he's changed the dynamic in the republican party and political landscape whether it's democrat or republican. the issues he's putting out there are important issues but how he comes about to the end result is the problem. donald trump has put the issues

out there, yes. we give him that. but the tactics, divisiveness is a problem. reverend al, i was at a party last night. there was an ambassador there. what are you hearing around the world globally when it comes to what's happening here? ultimately the conversations come about to donald trump. and around the world, globally, people are upset. >> we're going to talk a lot more about the republicans debate this week, but, dana, i think that the other concern is, is mrs. clinton and as adolfoed so, being a safe candidate? is she doing enough to drive out her base vote she'll need in a general election against the republican? because the danger is that at one level you avoid a lot of problems, and at another level, are you giving a base you need the reasons to come out and vote and maybe have to stand in line with new voting laws in some spots. we'll talk about all of that. everybody, stay with me. lots more ahead.

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when donald trump was back in phoenix this week, he was introduced by another controversial figure. sheriff joe arpaio of maricopa county. he's been a polarizing figure for decades, known for aggressive immigration policies. the sheriff set up an open air jail that he called a, quote, concentration camp, where the heat climbs to over 110 degrees.

he forced prisoners to wear pink underwear and in 2013, a federal judge found his office guilty of violating the constitution by racially profiling latinos. i, myself, have had public battles with the sheriff over the issue. but now he is sharing the spotlight with the gop front-runner, singing trump's praises. >> he gets the message across. think of that. he says things that a lot of people would like to say, but they don't have the guts politically to say it. so -- and that's sad. >> the sheriff also revived one of trump's signature issues, birther conspiracy theories about president obama. >> if you recall five months

ago, i introduced donald trump. at that time i said a few things. we have something in common. the birth certificate investigation. which is still going on. >> joining me now is sheriff joe arpaio of maricopa county, arizona. thanks for being here, sheriff. does donald trump's surge mean that your immigration views are the mainstream now in the gop? >> you know, al, one thing i did say five months ago that he opened the door for illegal immigration. you do know that everybody wanted to keep this quiet but since he brought it up, all the candidates are talking about it. regard lless of what the final results, at least he opened the door. maybe congress will finally do something now, or the next

president will do something, except that all they do is talk. >> now we had our battles. we had our debates but we always talk. it's unbelievable to go from the things you were talking about, talking about people, prisoners walking down the street, immigrants being paraded around in underwear and all and now this is the mainstream of the republican party? do you feel like you're accepted now and that you are -- have arrived as one of the leaders of the party as far as bringing your ideology front and center? >> i didn't plan it that way. i was a regional director. tex aarizoa texas, arizona, so i know something about the border. mainly because of the drug trafficking. i'm glad that some politicians, instead of standing in front of a fence talking about illegal immigration, now they're

starting to talk about the heroin traffic coming across. that's a good thing. i didn't do this. i had the authority, my deputies under i.c.e. we were acting as immigration officers for two years, and so i'm not going to take credit for the illegal immigration. we had to do a lot of other things, al. now everybody is talking about it. >> let's talk about something else you brought up. you said that the birther conspiracy research that you were doing and that trump was doing or supporting is still going on. are you and trump still on this birther thing? do you believe the president of the united states was not born in hawaii? >> i don't care where he was born. i said that from day one. i said that it's a fraudulent document, government document. that's all i've been saying. i don't care where he was born.

that's not my trust. it's a fake document, which if you had a fake document, you'd be in jail tomorrow. that's all. >> why hasn't anybody been able to establish it's a fake document? >> we establish it but nobody wants to look at it. they avoid it. and i've had two major press conferences, two, three years ago. nobody will look at it. they don't even want to hear about it. the only reason i mentioned trump is the fact he brought this out a long time ago. he was the only one that talked about it. nobody wants to talk about it, al. >> let me ask you this, sheriff arpaio. how important in your judgment will the immigration issue that you have championed on the other side from us. how is this going to rank in the republican primaries and in the general election. how important will it be?

will it be at the top of the list? we have another caveat in this because of the terrorism. you know the controversy going on about people coming into our country to do harm. that's another element that connects with border security and people coming into this country illegally. so just by chance, it's too bad it happened in california, but just by chance now we have the different element and all it does pertain to immigration situation. so that's not going to go away now. >> sheriff joe arpaio, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. happy holidays, al. >> thank you. same to you. >> thank you. ahead -- are tasers really safe? we talk to the director of an explosive new film that could help change how police treat the public. also, new feuds in the gop presidential race. and a widow's fight to honor a

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we're going to give people choices so good that you don't have to kill people to protect yourself. >> but "the guardian" reports there have been 48 deaths following the use of a taser. though establishing a direct link in these kinds of cases is difficult. and a new documentary "killing them safely" looks at whether tasers are really safe. >> this is what the tobacco industry relied on for decked as. you can't prove tobacco causes cancer. >> it was clear this was taser induced cardiac arrest. >> nobody told us this was going to kill people. >> joining me is the filmmaker behind the new documentary "killing them safely." thank you for being here, nick. >> thanks for having me, reverend sharpton. >> are tasers more dangerous than people generally realize? >> y without question.

the public understanding and where the company was so smart was that the public understanding would be that these were weapons that were alternatives to deadly force. which means they would be used in high-risk scenarios. now the police understanding, this goes back from the very early stages when they were being told in mass was they were 100% safe. they could not cause death. police officers began using these weapons at lower levels of force because they do end any confrontation so effectively. because there's a risk of death or serious injury, a lot of the people who end up being killed or injured should never have had their lives put in jeopardy. that's the disconnection that taser international, the sole manufacturer of these weapons has been able to play on for years. >> you actually spoke to a vice president of taser international. let me play that. >> to the outside observer, we're using electricity. that scares people. we're shocking somebody in the

minds of people. we're using something that's foreign. we've been trained as kids to be afraid of electricity and yet medical science has used electricity for benefits from physical therapy to defibrillators. it can also be used to cause great harm when it's used at great levels of power that we're nowhere near. >> does taser international recognize the dangers that risk here? >> internally, yes. very much so. their own research has born out these risks. >> are there national standards on police and how they use or not use tasers, when and under what circumstances does it become necessary or even justified use? >> the scary thing about this is just like a lot of use of force, police departments are autonomous.

no one is really keeping track of use of force. no one is keeping track of how many people are dying except for estimates because the electrical current doesn't leave traditional biomarkers with a blunt force object. it can be difficult to determine the cause of death for a medical examiner. >> one thing that i gathered from the documentary that is pretty well established is that using tasers does, in many ways, interfere with police that might normally engage in dialogue or talking down a suspect. >> yes, absolutely. >> it kind of encourages officers to just go for the taser rather than engage in things that could not have any risk of life at all, like talking to the suspect. >> absolutely. you have to understand what the public doesn't understand is that only 2% of arrests in general by best estimates will use some kind of weapon to effect the arrest.

the weapons are so expensive, if they couldn't be used as low levels of force. maybe you'd buy some for some s.w.a.t. officers but most every street officer in a lot of departments is carrying these things, and they've been trained to use force, to use this weapon to use violence to control any situation, not just dangerous ones. and then essentially figure out what happens next because there really are no serious risks. >> nick, i thank you for your time. it's very important subject. and his documentary "killing them safely" is in theaters now. >> thanks very much, mr. sharpton. we reached out to taser for comment about the film. the company said in part, quote, we're disappointed about this highly biased documentary. and that, quote, our technology has made communities

significantly safer and has saved many lives. for more information, you can visit their website at taser.com. next -- the republican primary. cruz versus rubio. bush versus trump. battle lines form in the fight for the gop nomination. this holiday i can count on being slammed with orders. we're getting slammed with orders. and my customers knowing right when their packages arrive. totally slammed! introducing real-time delivery notifications.

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battle lines are forming in the gop nomination fight, and not even the holiday spirit can soften things. ted cruz with santa claus at a campaign stop. but cruz wasn't so jolly when he attacked marco rubio who responded in kind. >> senator rubio still supports amnesty and a pathway to citizenship today. for the millions of people who are here illegally. senator rubio's campaign is desperately now trying to muddy the waters on immigration.

>> highs going to have a hard time because he's not told the truth about his position in the past on legalization. ted cruz needs to be clear about what his stance is today. >> we're also seeing jeb bush trying to jump-start his campaign by reigniting his feud with donald trump. >> just one other thing i've got to get this off my chest. donald trump say jerk. you cannot insult your way to the presidency, disparage women, hispanics, disabled people. who is he kidding? a guy like that should not be the front-running candidate of our great party. that is not how we win. i gave myself therapy there. thank you for allowing myself to do it. >> things are certainly getting frosty in the gop. donald trump had to look overseas for some warmth to vladimir putin who called trump, quote, colorful and talented. and trump is running with it. >> look, we're all tough guys. but wouldn't it be nice if like

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it's the "star wars" of politics. the republican primary. the biggest fight in the galaxy.

we're back with our panel, april ryan, dana milbank and adolfo franco. dana, can jeb bush find his inner jedi master and successfully take on donald trump? >> the force does not seem to have been with jeb for very many months now. i see very little evidence he's going to get his act back together. look, if we look at the republican primaries in the past, everybody sort of has his or her moment in the sun and will have a little rally. it's starting to look like the jeb bush rally goes from 3% to 5%. what really needs to happen if they want to stop trump, and i think that's an absolute imperative, is the reasonable candidates in the race, marco rubio, john kasich, need to get together and say we need to get behind somebody. we have to exercise our patriotic duty to get out of this race to make sure trump is

not representing this party and conservatism. >> adolfo, even last night, "snl" had fun with the trump/bush kind of feud. watch this. >> trump, i mean, this guy is the chaos candidate. am i right? chaos? is he for real? no, man. >> jeb, you're a very nice man, but you're basically a little girl. folks, this is true. i got hold of jeb's birth certificate and full disclose uhis real name is jeborah. >> that is not true. >> and bush call donald trump a jerk in real life, adolfo. is this helpful? >> let me say something, if i can. as the republican on here, i want to say something about the democratic debate and then i'll answer the question quickly. i hope that the press, we have

dana here from "the washington post" and msnbc, press hillary clinton on the supposedly isis tapes and so forth or videos that picture donald trump. i haven't seen any evidence of that. i think that may be a little exaggerated. i hope that happens. secondly, she pressed bernie sanders on regime changes, you voted for that in libya. is that a success? that will be something for republicans to talk about. so i hope these things are brought up during the course of the next few weeks. on the republican front, we had a little mini bush bounce. i agree with dana on that. unfortunately for governor bush, it might be too little, too late. i would have hoped that would have happened much earlier in the process. it's a little late in the game to do that. that patriotic duty, dana, that you referred to, the voters will take care of that. >> i hope you're right.

>> let me ask you. i see you shaking your head on that, april, after adolfo reprimanded us about what we ought to be -- >> suggesting. >> it's sunday before christmas. i'll let that go. but you are nodding there. >> well, there are issues out there. whether you support one candidate or the other, you have to understand that the issues out there, particularly when it comes to isis. isis is a huge threat. you need to find out where folks stand. if there's an agenda behund what he's asking, that's another thing. but there are legitimate issues out there. you want to find out more about where hillary clinton stands. she said some things last night that you can dig into. but also what about the republican side? you want to hear more about them? there was something that was blaring last night that -- well, this week, that was missing on the republican side at the debate. they didn't talk about black lives matter. they didn't talk about urban issues, and that's been missing on the republican side.

you should go and have them pressed about that as well. if you want to -- >> adolfo? >> april, there's a difference between an omission, i take your point, and a commission. when donald trump said that people were cheering after 9/11, he got enormous, well deserved scrutiny from msnbc, "the washington post," the news media. when mrs. clinton made this comment, maybe i missed it, i've seen very little reaction from the moderators or anybody else oofshlt -- >> we're not even 24 hours. >> we're not even barely 12 hours. >> right. >> well, the moderators certainly -- >> let me ask you something else, adolfo. >> sure. >> when you see donald trump embracing the compliments of putin, i don't know how any can survive this. couldn't this backfire? >> i keep thinking something is going to backfire. i think that is so outrageous to

suggest we'd have a partnership with russia on -- when we have such stark differences in terms of values, prince pelgs and real geopolitical objectives. that doesn't mean we're looking for a confrontation with russia. we need to cooperate with china and russia as we can. those are societies completely different than ours. but, obviously, donald trump is completely unqualified to become president. even in the republican debate when asked about the nuclear ipod strategy, he had no idea what the question was because he doesn't know what that was. so i think he's demstraonstrate again he's unqualified. for some reason the american people seem to look beyond that. >> and you're the republican saying that. "the new york times" reports that his brother, former president george bush, is now reassuring donors about jeb bush telling them he's upbeat about jeb's chances and now

considering going on the campaign trail to help him out. is this a shift in strategy or a sign of desperation, dana? >> i mean it would be a shift in strategy but they've tried everything else, and it hasn't worked. george w. also said his brother is peaking at the right moment. we hit that crucial 5% just in time. i hope adolfo is right that republican voters will take care of that and get rid of trump on their own. i'm optimistic but it would be clear if they had a clear alternative and i think republican voters are better than donald trump and if they have a serious alternative, they'll go with that guy. >> reverend al. >> got go. april ryan and dana milbank and adolfo franco. a widow's effort to honor a

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we close this morning with a simple question. is it ever too late to honor a hero? waverly woodson fought in world war ii as part of the only black combat unit. now a new book is telling his story, and his widow is fighting to make sure his legacy is not forgotten. >> june 6th, 1944, dark. jerry's steel pill boxes on the cliff sliced us in two like a but butcher's knife. >> waverly woodson was a medic in world war ii. a member of the only black combat unit at d-day. woodson took fire that day and was hit with shrapnel. it didn't stop him. for 30 straight hours on omaha

beach, he pulled out bullets, he amputated a foot, resuscitated four drowning men. he treated hundreds of american troops, black and white. >> the number of casualties on omaha beach was phenomenal. we'd never seen that many or even thought that there would be that many casualties. the guy was with my who was a tank man, he was standing beside me and said what is that over there? i said it looks like a ship. >> are they dead or alive? they're dead. oh, my god. later a commander would recommend woodson for the medal of honor. he didn't receive it. in fact, for 50 years, not a single african-american who served in world war ii received the award. waverly woodson died in 2005. but his story is getting new attention. his widow is leading the charge for a posthumous medal of honor.

a new book tells his story and that of his battalion. "forgotten -- the untold story of d-day's black heroes at home and at war." joining me now is joanne woodson, the widow of waverly woodson and linda herview who writes about waverly woodson in her new book "forgotten." thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> it's my pleasure. >> joanne, your husband's actions were truly heroic. i mean truly. what do you want people to know about what waverly woodson did that day? >> i really would like the world to know what a great man he was. he was a very generous man, and he really was dedicated to anything that he wanted to do. and he was always giving a helping hand to something.

to think he interrupted his education in early part of his life to get in the army and do the things that he did. >> linda, you've written in this book, and it's very, very graphically written about how these men, waverly and those that were in his unit, were absolutely heroes, but you say forgotten. >> what happened over time because these men were well known in their day, was somehow they got dropped from the story of d-day and most history books don't mention them, movies don't show them. i felt that it was time to look into this because i was curious as to why i had never heard about them. >> i think there was a letter found by you, linda, recommending him for medal of honor.

what happened to that? >> that's buried in the archives in the truman library. there had been at the time, waverly woodson was a big star in his day. newspapers wrote about him. he was dubbed number one invasion hero by a local newspaper in pennsylvania. and he was known coast to coast on radio shows, interviewed, and then somehow a recommendation to be nominated for the medal of honor went missing and a piece of paper, a sole piece of paper exists that shows he was a candidate. it's not too late. we give posthumous medals in this country. >> joanne, your husband a few years ago, as she was saying, did do some interviews. he talked on camera about the events that day at omaha beach. with your permission, i want to play to you what he said. >> yes. >> the mortar landed on the

other side of that truck and the shrapnel and stuff from the mortar shell hit me in the left leg, as well as the right leg. being in a segregated army at that time, when we actually combined our resources with the white troops there was no such thing as segregated because the people who were wounded, and if you were a medic, they don't care exactly who -- what the color of the person was or his skin or anything like that. only thing they wanted was aid. >> what was amazing to me about listening to that, joanne, he's in a segregated army. they couldn't use the same barracks, facilities and all. yet when they were wounded, there was no segregation. and there was no bitterness by your husband. there was no resenting their different standing in terms of

a -- having the same rights or access as others. they said all people wanted was help. and it seemed like all he wanted to do was serve and provide that help. >> that's correct. that's the type of person he was. >> i think that's why this is so compelling that they get a medal of honor. they were dealing with the enemy abroad and those that discriminated blatantly against them at home. >> that's exactly what happened. waverly woodson said that, you know, on omaha beach they didn't care about the color of my skin. he was haunted by the cries of men calling doc, doc, can you help me? we don't hear often about what happened on june 7th on omaha beach. on june 7th waverly was still working to save men. >> joanne woodson and linda, thank you both for your time.

linda herview's book is "forgotten -- the untold story of d-day's black heroes at home and at war." that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next sunday. at planters we know how to throw a remarkable holiday party. just serve classy snacks and be a gracious host, no matter who shows up. [cricket sound] richard. didn't think you were going to make it. hey sorry about last weekend, i don't know what got into me. well forgive and forget... kind of. i don't think so! do you like nuts?

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