the old military graveyard under the black prairie sod and the wind. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. good morning. i'm phillip mena at msnbc world headquarters in new york. it is 6:00 in the east, 3 out west and here's what's happening. new polls show two new democrats topping the 2020 field. why so many voters say they'd take either one. president trump reigniting fears of a government shutdown with big plans to slash the budget. why he's reserving $100 million for his daughter. plus -- >> here's how bad trump's presidency is going. his campaign manager this year was sentenced to four years in prison. for trump, that's good news. >> snl's weekend update uses paul manafort to take a few jabs

at the president. we begin this hour with a 2020 run for the white house. new revelations on how the democratic race for the president is shaping up in iowa, the state that kicks off the presidential nominating process. joe biden is leading a new pool. he has not formally announced. elizabeth warren followed by kamala harris and beto o'rourke who is still teasing a possible 2020 run. senators cory booker and amy klobuchar coming in at 3%. democratic hopefuls will return to the trail. here are the democrats speaking at south by southwest. nbc news asked beto o'rourke when he will announce. he said, quote, he's on a time line that will work for my family and the country.

>> one of the things that we learned out of 2016, no one had run against someone like trump before and it seemed to me that by going down every rabbit hole that we lost our optimistic agenda for america. you pick your battles with him, right? you don't go after every single tweet he does. >> and senator warren was asked how she's ideologically different from bernie sanders and she said she's not a democratic socialist. >> there's an enormous amount to be gained from markets that markets create opportunities but markets have to have rules. they have to have a cop on the beat. markets without rules are theft. >> former starbucks ceo howard schultz who is considering running as democrat took on the progressive tilt. >> it appears that the democratic party had decided the way to beat donald trump is a

far left socialistic agenda that i think is a bad strategy, not only for defeating trump but worse than that, a terrible, terrible position to put the american neenl and i think the american people are going to rejekd it. >> crews al developments this week. and a senate deadline. let's start with the white house and nbc's mike have i kara. it includes huge cuts to a variety of programs. can you walk us through some changes? >> good morning, phillip. it's become almost a cliche to say a president's budget is dead on arrival when it arrives on capitol hill. this is no exception at all. it's an opening bid from the administration but important indication of where its philosophy and priorities are

when it comes to federal spending. let's take a look at the controversial spending. strict new work requirements for what the administration calls able bodied americans. large increases for the pentagon budget now up to about $750 billion annually and $100 million for a global women's fuchbd led by daughter and top advisor ivanka trump here at the white house. let's not forget, as if anybody did, these are supposed to count that clock. that's going to be the time when we'll face the prospect of another government shutdown. >> like deja vu. one place he's not tightening the pursestrings is the $100

million he's setting aside for his daughter's global women's fund. how is that going to go over? >> that runs against the grain. an america first president sending $100 million over seas to help women in aiding them get out of poverty through partnerships with private businesses and aid programs as well. it's interesting because we saw those 80 "figure 0 officials. house democrats are treading very carefully around the family members in particular, this family member when it comes to an investigation. >> mike, thank you as always for starting us off this morning. joining me now, melissa quinn. supreme court reporter and jonathan allen. thank you both for joining us this morning.

let's look at the iowa poll. joe biden is leading followed by bern na sbernie sanders, is thi name recognition? >> it reflects the larger fight that we're seeing within the democratic party. you have a more moderate candidate like joe biden who hasn't even formally declared and said whether he will run in 2020 although there is speculation and then you have bernie sanders, the more progressive, further left wing member of the party. if joe biden decided not to run for president, i believe it was 30% of those polled said that they would go ahead and support sanders as the lead candidate. there certainly is an overlap of support between those two even though their politics and where they fall on the ideological spectrum are pretty far apart.

>> it is a big if. i believe it's 95% that he has committed to run a krording to a "new york times" here. they say 70% say joe biden is not too liberal or too conservative. 44% say bernie sanders is too liberal. this is a political debate abso. we keep saying it's way, way early. it may be too late for some of these candidates many months from now. i think one of the interesting things here is joe biden is 20 points up from iowa 80 years ago and bernie sanders is 27%. so these 27 and 25% numbers are not necessarily the same for the two candidates. i do think name recognition has

a lot to do with it. the candidates that are below them are not as well known. the fact that we haven't seen these candidates go up against each other yet has something to do with it. it is definitely situational. biden and sanders have a huge advantage, coming from the left portion of the party. biden more from the centrist wing of the party. again, as you point out the numbers, a lot of people look at him as a goldilocks candidate. >> in the zone. i want to talk about the appeal of joe biden. a majority, 64%, say joe biden is more experienced. 34% say the time for him has passed and he should stay out of the race. biden, indeed, had a long career in politics. in the senate in 1973. how do you think his record and legacy will come into play? >> he obviously has a lot to point back to in terms of

speaking about his successes and the experience that he has obviously serving not only in the senate but also as vice president under president obama and it is in stark contrast to president trump where he can sort of say this is why i am the better candidate. look what happened when we elect a president that doesn't have the same as i do. he is in his mid 70s. some supporters have said it's time for fresh, new, youngblood. i think his experience and the years he has spent on capitol hill will bode well for him. >> he's 76 years old and bernie sanders is 77. what in his past might he have to defend here, joe biden? >> there have been questions raised about comments he made in the '70s about integration and segregation. we're see reports come out and

talking about crime on the senate floor in the early '90s. he has a very lengthy record to go back through. all things that he is going to have to answer questions on, i'm sure. >> under the microscope once again. jonathan, how significant is it for biden's appeal? is biden's advantage an extension of president obama? >> it's the advantage for his run for president before a couple of times and not gotten any traction. to the extent that his record was going to be looked at in the past, where he differed from the democratic party's values, the liberal side and the evolution has moved toward him over time as evidenced by his tenure as vice president. what melissa was talking about, there are certainly some things in his nast will raise eyebrows. the 1994 clinton crime bill that

he was the author of. that hillary clinton and bill clinton had to answer for in the last campaign. joe biden was the author -- prime pusher of amendments. smierk make sure it doesn't cross racial and gender guidelines. there will be a lot for him to discuss. i'm not sure how much that will actually end up hurting him. the bigger question is how does he look on the debate stage? does he look like he's in the moment or is he having trouble answering the questions? does he look like he's in touch with the electorate or does he look like he's in touch. >> we only have a couple that support taxing people in over

$50 million in assets. the green new deal is 65%. medicare for all, 49%. legalizing recreational marijuana, 44%. >> these are all policies that a number of democratic candidates have already come out in favor for so i do think that this is just indicative of the shift that you have seen within the larger party, but you also, i think, have to give credit to some of these more grows -- they caused some candidates to go on the record and say exactly where they stand on these issues that now we're seeing in the poll are gaining support from voters. >> jonathan, what does that poll tell you about how voters are thinking when it comes to how that shift has now gone to the left? >> we see such a stark difference between the parties here, right? the president of the united

states got finished with the tax cut law that should go towards the most wealthy in the world. it would cut programs for impoverished in the country. so you're going to see in this election i think a very, very stark contrast between what the parties want to do, where they want to go from there. >> we can now pivot for the president's national emergency at the border. the white house is trying to convince undecided senators and trump is taking names and noticing who opposes him. what would happen if more republicans condemned the emergency declaration. >> it's a huge defeat for the preside president. to see members of his own party say, you're grabbing too much power. the executive is taking too much

power. this was the central tenant of his campaign and the dock acted and they're saying, essentially we didn't elect a king. we didn't elect you to say where all the money should be spent. that's congress's job and obviously they're a little concerned about what somebody on the left might be able to do in the future if they decided to reappropriate money. you can hear what's going on in that stage at south by southwest. you can see what democratic plans are. republicans are worried about socialism. they say the president should put money where he wants. i think this would be huge if the senate tells him he shouldn't be able to do it even if he is able to do so. >> melissa, what about you? >> i think this would be a significant rebuke. publicly and in private discussions coming out of the white house, they're trying to limit the number of republicans who would vote with the

democrats in going against this national emergency declaration. right now i believe the number is for republicans on the record saying they do intend to vote for the resolution of disapproval. if that number continues to grow that could certainly be a cause for concern for the white house. we are hearing the president on twitter trying to urge republicans to stay united so it does seem like this is something that they are keeping a close watch on even though he has said that he will, in fact, veto the resolution. but if those numbers continue to grow, yes, this is a significant rebrigham young of the president's policy. >> if keeping that naughty list, so to speak, for republicans voting against him. melissa quinn and jonathan allen. thank you both for joining us this morning. the pardon dispute, is it really going to amount to anything in the end? legal analyst katie fang joins us next. i've always been amazed by what's next.

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it's about an hour before sunrise in the nation's capitol and one day before the house is expected to vote on a resolution demanding the mueller report be released to the public. the democratic mesh our is non-binding and simply intended to put pressure on the justice department. during his confirmation hearings attorney general william barr would not commit to making the muller report public. trump is reviewing in a tweet that michael cohen personal gerd

himself because he directly asked me for a pardon. i said no. the president's current attorney backed his client's claim revealing to the associated claim trump told him 11 months ago that cohen had asked for a pardon. the contradictions come as the two struggle with credibility concerns bringing forward the question, who can you trust? katie fang is here. >> good morning. >> does the question of who dangled the pardon first actually matter here? >> i thought the last time we were dealing with the word dangling was over the dangling chad. my issue with this is who cares? we're really going to argue over whether the pardon was -- the timing of the pardon was offered or it was asked for? how about the more important stuff like the checks were

written by donald trump while he was in office to pay off stormy daniels. these are things that are more important than the timing of a pard pardon. the reason it's important, when cohen testified he didn't talk about the details of his last conversations because of this issue. cohen's kind of ham strung. he can't really get into the details, but trump of all people is calling cohen a liar. well, trump al's even credibili is suspect. the presser before he got on to he talked about the fact that paul manafort's judge said there was no collusion and we know that's a lie. i think trump's own credibility is suspect at best. we know cohen is going to prison for lying to congress. >> we have just one more pardon dangling question for you.

"the new york times" reported the trump's lawyers discussed pardons for flynn and manafort. this is being investigated by the sdny and what does this alleged pardon dangling tell you now? >> we do know trump re345i7main sympathetic to paul than for the. we know he thinks he's been mistreated and he basically said after the i think horrific manafort sentencing last week that he feels badly for paul manafort. so the reason why that's relevant is is trump going to offer a presidential pardon to paul than for the? is paul manafort going to accept that pardon? we know that manafort is going to be sentenced this week in the district of columbia for his case for violating plea agreement and for basically lying and so the real important question is whether or not the judge is going to launch paul manafort, take on an additional

to the 4 years or 47 months he got from judge ellis and whether or not that's going to be included in any type of pardon from donald trump? >> we will find that out this week. katie, the president has repeatedly done this on twitter. now "the daily beast" is reporting that the department of justice has revealed a letter that jeff sessions wrote a letter about how they handled the clinton foundation and uranium one issues. the report there says that's proof that sessions caved to the president's demand to open an investigation into his biggest political rival. nbc news has not independently confirmed this. i want to know how dangerous would this be that the president and attorney general can open up an investigation into a u.s. citizen without facts or law? >> it would just further bolster the argument again that trump critics bring which is we've now en2erd into the realm of a dictator ship and banana

republic. it's a horrific idea that he can order the department of justice to launch an investigation into a private citizen who by no coincidence was his biggest foe and ran against him to be president of the united states. let's talk about this actual letter, phillip. this letter states it's from jeff sessions to the u.s. attorney in utah, a gentleman by the last name of huber. it's saying go investigate clinton and the uranium investigations. matt whitaker is the one who e-mailed this. what doj did is they filed a sworn declaration under oath in court in support of a motion for summary judgment in that case where these documents were sought and they basically lied and said that the documents in writing didn't exist but again two days before matthew whitaker is to leave the doj, this letter

is found. there are no coincidences. somebody who comes in behind matt whitaker was going to find it. they have a lot of explaining to do why they lied in their sworn pleading. >> appreciating your perspective as always, katie fang. thank you so much for joining us very early on this sunday. >> always. just ahead, the issues driving the presidential campaign. who is saying what? up next, sound check 2020. plus, snl's weekend update poking a little fun at paul manafort's sentencing this week. >> paul manafort, who looks like he was born divorced, faced up to 24 years in prison but only got 4 years, probably in a minimum security white collar facility with a bunch of his friends. the guy stole over $50 million and he basically got sentenced to college. also, how can you possibly claim manafort lived a blameless life. he's being skensed for another crime next week and it's a crime

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the new des moines register poll finds that over 2/3 of the caucus goers would be dissatisfied with the presidential candidate who takes money from lobbyists and other wealthy individuals. here it is by the numbers. 31% would be very dissatisfied. another 40% would be mostly dissatisfied with candidates accepting big money donations. about 20% of respondents would be satisfied with it. democrats are officially vying for president in 2020 and we're expecting more to announce in the coming months. here's your sound check 2020 to help us keep track of each candidate's policy proposals. >> i'm not accepting corporate tax money and i refuse to take any money from fossil fuel industries. if i'm the president of the united states, we're going to end those subsidies that taxpayers are shelling out their money, if you will, to the oil, gas and coal industry. i think that's fundamentally wrong. all of that pollution is

literally killing us. antitrust is something we should be talking about more. more and more consolidation in this country, it means prices go up, it means innovation and entrepreneurship go down. we're basically going back to the gilded age in terms of consolidated power. i think the justice department should be taking this on. have the resources they need and do this in the right way. >> i believe that health care should be a right and i believe that we should get to universal coverage. i also think there are somewhere north of 115 million americans who get their health care through private insurance through their business or some other way through private insurance. i don't think we're going to take away that insurance from them or make them go to a whole new system very easily. >> we need to tamake adjustment. i don't think that entails cutting the program, i think that means fortifying the program. social security is something that really transformed what it meant to be in this country. by the way, something else that

was derided as a slippery slope to communism by some when it was introduced but really what it minute is age did not become a sentence of poverty for millions and millions of americans. i don't believe that there is anything wrong in principle with social security and, therefore, i don't believe this needs to be a discussion about cutting benefits for anybody. >> affordable housing in our country is one of the biggest issues that we are not talking about. 99% of the counties in this country, minimum wage workers cannot afford market rate for a one bedroom apartment. one of the proposals that i am offering is that if a family or individual is paying more than 30% of their income in rent plus utilities, you get a $6,000 tax credit to help you make those payments. >> we are going to root out institutional racism wherever it

exists. not only are we going to end voter suppression, we're going to make it easier for people to vote. if you are an american citizen and 18 years of age, we're going to automatically register you to vote. >> i love that you are getting into more detail about the 2% wealth tax. so it's all property wherever shoeld keeping your yacht in the caribbean sea or whatever is not going to help you. you can renounce your u.s. citizenship and escape this tax but you have to pay a 40% exit penalty. you built your great fortune here in america, you owe something to the american

people. >> and even more candidates are outle campaigning this weekend. julian castro, and jay inslee are at south by southwest. bernie sanders is holding two rallies in new hampshire. coming up, inside the sunrise movement. you first heard of them after that confrontation in dianne feinstein's office, but where did they come from? where is it going? quick programming note, msnbc is live every saturday and sunday at 6:00 a.m. eastern. we're back in a moment. ♪ ♪ sorry, is that too loud?oud. you don't need any more hormones in your house. that's why you chose kraft natural cheese. made with fresh milk without the added hormone rbst. it's cheese as it should be.

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in power, politics and paychecks, as you probably already know, daylight saving time began last night and it could possibly be the last time you have to change your clocks. that's because florida senator marco rubio has introduced a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. what are the advantages of that? nbc's kerry sanders explains. >> the idea that extra sunlight in the evening could improve public health allowing more time for outdoor activities, reduce robberies and benefit the economy and tourism. one argument for keeping the clocks ahead, road safety. more daylight commuting hours means less accidents. >> not everyone thinks it's time for permanent change though. in the winter it could mean very dark mornings. >> many cities will have sunrise at 8:30. many others will have sunrise at

9:00 a.m. and some places in the country will have sunrise as late as 9:30 or later. >> that was kerry sanders reporting. the new bill will not apply to any state that does not already observe daylight savings time. climate change protestors rallying behind the green new deal. they confronted senator dianne feinste feinstein. she presented them with her proposal and that reaction went viral. you may remember more than 100 members of the same grassroots group were arrested while protesting nancy pelosi's congressional office back in december. our colleagues at nbc news digital went inside the organization as the green new deal resolution was rolled out. here's what happened. >> thousands of u.n. climate scientists came out saying we have 12 years to radically

transform our economy. >> hi. i'm 17 years old. >> there are people around the world that are suffering because of this and it's a life or death situation. >> i'm the executive director of sunrise movement. >> i think there was this overwhelming sense of like where are the adults in the room? >> sunrise movement is building an army of young people to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs for our generation. we are going to be building the largest youth political force this nation has ever seen. >> participate. >> every day i feel like i have to take a couple of minutes to step back and say, holy -- we're really doing this. >> the sunrise movement started in the summer of 2017 when a small group of young climate

activists came together with a bold idea, to create a movement big enough to match the size of the threat from climate change. >> environmental activists occupied nancy pelosi's office supporting what they're calling a green new deal. >> green new deal! green new deal! green new deal! >> our party needs to work for us, not for the 1%. >> i think we were completely blown away by how successful it was. that really put the green new deal on the map. >> the pelosi sit-in brought national attention and sunrise movement hubs began springing up across the country. >> green new deal is inevitable. >> all of our local politicians have the chance to do something about this. they have a chance to stand with the green new deal and they have a chance to fight for our

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new insight into the 2020 race. a new poll of democrats in iowa shows joe biden two points ahead of bernie sanders at 27 and 25% respectively. no other democrat has even reached double digits. the poll was released as biden is very close to reaching a decision on jumping in spending the weekend talking it over with his wife. let's bring in antwon seawright and ned ryan, ceo of american majority and former writer for president george bush. >> good morning. >> antwon, these early polls are showing biden and sanders at the top and on the scale of political positions, one closer to center, the other much further to the left. what does that say about where the democratic party is at? >> well, most of that is because both of the candidates enjoy name i.d. if you remember, bernie sanders, in my opinion, has never stopped

running for president. i think people have love and affection for joe biden because he spent so much time throughout his life dedicated to democrati opinion, compete with donald trump and the republican ticket on next year. >> ned, a new article in "the new york times" titled "bernie sanders-style politics are redefining the 2020 race, unnerving moderates." it refers to moderate democrats who increasingly fear that the party could fritter away its chances of beating president trump in 2020 by careening over a liberal cliff. so, is that how republicans are hoping this plays out? do you think republicans are running against bernie sanders or another candidate with similar policy positions would be easier than running against a moderate candidate? >> well, i think donald trump wants to. i mean, i think a lot of these candidates have come out already, you know, medicare for all, the green new deal, free college, even some universal basic income. all of these ideas i think are

still too far to the left of the mainstream of america, so i think donald trump is hoping that a candidate that has proposed these ideas is actually going to win the nomination. i have to think, and probably antjuan will disagree, but i think that the nominee will have to have sworn allegiance to most of those ideas to be able to negotiate and get through and win the nomination because the power of the grassroots and the small donor base, the progressives, adhere to all those ideas. i think the other question, too, is what happens in 2020 in regards to the house? the democrats did not take the house back because of the aocs and the omars and the talibs of the world. they took it because about 36 to 40 moderate to centrist democrats who ran in swing districts, these ideas are too far left for most of those districts, and at the end of the day, i think voters are going to look at this and realize, these guys are part of the majority that's actually moment proemting these ideas. i think the democrats should be concerned about the house as well in 2020. >> ned, i don't disagree with you about the fact that we as

democrats won gerrymandering republican districts in 2018. however, i do fundamentally disagree with you about how we talk about policy in 2020. what you and i probably both agree is that president trump will not want to have a serious policy debate. he will make it all about personality, in which he -- >> no, i disagree. >> which he did in 2016. however, i do think that democrats, that we can do both, we can talk about progressive policy, a progressive policy prescription but talk about it in such a way that they connect with voters all across the country, even independent thinkers and moderates who believe that we have gone off the cliff as a country under this president. >> let me show you something -- >> no, but antjuan, i've got to push back a little bit on that. i think trump has a great record to run on with regards to policy. i think a lot of americans are going to like it, whether it's jobs, wages, you know, a lot of conservative base loves his breaking apart the regulatory state. i think he's got a great record to run on. i think he's going to be a great blend of policies, and also

personality. i've got to tell you, after that cpac speech, i think any democrat on the stage with him is going to get blown away in 2020 if he keeps that up. i do. >> ned, we had a real policy debate in 2018, and democrats overwhelmingly won that discussion. there has not -- >> you know because republicans have failed on the health care issue. >> right, that's policy. and you have fundamentally done not one thing to fix the health care system and democrats are constantly pumping out a policy agenda out of the house that will fix some of the problems we have in this country. and if you look at cpac, cpac was simply red meat, right-wing rhetoric and everything that the kool-aid drinkers want, and that was about trump trying to rally his base because he came into cpac a wounded warrior. >> there's kool-aid being drunk on both sides. i think each party would argue. antjuan, i want to get your thoughts on these numbers. the iowa poll found that among democrats, 91% support the green new deal in steps or in full. 89% feel the same about new taxes for those with assets of

more than $50 million. and 84% support medicare for all in steps or in full. so, antjuan, does that leave any room for a moderate democrat to run? >> yeah, you can be for these things and want to address these issues, but i think how you talk about them from a policy standpoint will ultimately decide how we measure out as a party in the end. for instance, yes, some people are for medicare for all, but people also talk about how we bring about the public option, how we lower the age. and so, in theory, in big picture, 50,000 foot, yes, you can be supportive of these measures, but i think in the end how the final ticket flesh these ideas out will decide how we connect with voters across the country. >> antjuan, at south by southwest yesterday, elizabeth warren was there along with other candidates, and she spoke more about her proposal to break up the tech giants like amazon, apple, facebook, all the big ones. amy klobuchar did not take a position on that idea, but she did raise a tech proposal of her own. let's listen to that. >> maybe there's a way we could

actually tax when they use data, when they use us, and we're their commodity, and we're not getting anything out of it, right? well, maybe then we could tax them, so the money goes back to us, when they are exchanging that data, right? when they sell our data to someone else, well, maybe they're going to have to tell us so we can put some kind of a tax on it, just like we do with other businesses. we should be looking at something like that, because these days that we think that they can just make money off of us and we don't get anything out of it, i don't think that's right. >> antjuan, what do you make of those proposals there? >> what i think is starting to happen is the political interstate is starting to get full with candidates. and so, what you see from every candidate is a way to try to figure out how to separate themselves in traffic. and so, you're going to see policy ideas from every candidate to figure out where the separation factor could be. however, i'm not sure that many americans are absolutely focused on these type of policy items.

i think people are more focused, in my opinion, the ones i talked to, on quality of life issues, like wages, like affordable housing, like health care. but i do think that this gives warren and klobuchar a chance to separate themselves from a crowded field, talking about these types of policy items. >> ant won seawright, ned ryan, we appreciate the fiery debate this sunday morning. president trump wants to cut the budget. he wants to give $100 million to ivanka for her pet project, ahead. n to ivanka for her pet project, ahead. the way they subscribe to movies. we don't follow the naysayers. ♪ ♪

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