good evening and welcome to politics nation. live from miami. tonight's lead, like it never happened. democratic presidential candidates are moving on to going after each other ahead of tuesday's new hampshire primary. the first nominating contest after president trump's impeachment acquittal. making the sunday morning show rounds today, candidates will focus on their own fortunes in the granite state. some more ambitious than others. >> let's be realistic. i think it's always going to be an uphill fight when you're running against two people who are neighboring senators. >> we have a great volunteer organization. the reason we won in iowa, because of the grassroots activists. we're going to do that i believe here in new hampshire. >> the way i see this, it's going to be a long campaign.

we've built a campaign to go the distance and that's what i think is going to happen here. >> biden has come out with a new ad specifically targeting you. he says, this is his quote, he's no barack obama. >> he's right, i'm not, and neither is he. neither is any of us. and this isn't 2008, this is 2020. >> a brand-new cnn poll out of new hampshire has senator bernie sanders with a very comfortable lead at 28%. 7 points ahead of former mayor pete buttigieg in second place. senator elizabeth warren is in fourth and possibly bringing his campaign some comfort after iowa, former vice president joe biden in third place. joining me now democratic congressman, cedric richardson. national co-chair of the joe biden campaign. congressman, vice president

didn't do well in iowa and he's predicting he may take a hit in new hampshire. does this dampen him going into south carolina? what does he need to do in new hampshire to at least stay within the zone of where he doesn't look like he is totally depending on south carolina to keep him afloat here? >> well, a couple of things. one, i think he has to perform in new hampshire and then i think he has to perform well in nevada and then off to south carolina we go. if you think of the first four states, you almost can think of it as football. four quarters. and the first two quarters are iowa and new hampshire and they are predominantly white states. over 90%. and the vice president's base is a very diverse base. so when we get to nevada and we get to south carolina and you see african-americans have a substantial input in terms of

the results, i think you'll see a different results. the people of iowa and the people of new hampshire are great, but that just isn't the vice president's base. so we're going to compete. we don't want to leave anything out. we're going to get delegates, both in iowa and in new hampshire and then we'll go on to nevada, south carolina, then there's super tuesday when the bulk of the delegates get awarded and we plan to do very well in those. and we'll go from there. >> now i've been noticing how mr. biden has been running his campaign. listen how joe biden is labeling benghazi during the debate on friday. >> bernie's labeled himself, not me, democratic socialist. i think that's the label that the president is going to lay on everyone running with bernie if he's the nominee. >> so is the strategy of the sanders' campaign that they are saying we're the moderates. we're the centrists here and he

is a socialist and in many places even in the democratic party that might not be something that people are comfortable with in terms of voters? >> i think what the vice president is doing is highlighting what's at stake in this election. and when you get to donald trump in a general election, we will have a self-proclaimed socialist, not a democrat but a democratic socialist as the nominee. the question is how will that fare out in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, ohio, those states that we must win in order to win the president any look, for most of the candidates, for me, my kids will probably be all right if donald trump is elected for another term, but for the bulk of minorities and african-americans and those people who are struggling to reach the middle class, another term of donald trump would alter their lifestyle for generations.

if you look at the supreme court and you look at the federal bench. so when everything is at stake, the question is do you want a democrat or do you want someone that the president is going to label as a socialist that wants to, one, take away all of the private insurance, wants to privatize -- publicize all electricity in the united states. look, i don't think any of the shots are cheap shots, i just think it's showing a distinction about what you're going to have when you face donald trump in the general election if you have bernie sanders. >> now you have always been a straight shooter, probably one of the most straight shooter congress people i've ever known. isn't a lot of this also who is going to be at the top of the ticket in some critical senate races? because the real fight is not only the white house but also senate races and aren't a lot of

democratic senate candidates concerned about who's going to be at the top of the ticket? >> i'll be honest with you, reverend sharpton -- >> you usually are. >> not just senate candidates, but house candidates also. i was very involved in us taking back the house. vice president biden got involved in about 40 races for us. we won about 38 of those races. if bernie sanders at the top -- is at the top of the ticket we're going to have down ballot carnage. right now we're competitive in north carolina, we're competitive in texas, we're competitive in colorado, we're competitive in arizona. we're competitive all over the board, and the question is with a socialist at the top of the ticket, how does that affect the bottom of the ticket? and so that is a humongous concern when you start talking about what control of the house and senate means and checking an out of control president. so we would really put in jeopardy giving donald trump the house and the senate and having

four years unchecked power. and to me that is a nightmare. >> now almost every democratic contender's trying to hammer home the message that they're the one that can defeat donald trump. take a listen to this. >> now there are a lot of people right now who are worried that this fight against donald trump may not be winnable, but i've been winning unwinnable fights pretty much all of my life. >> this election is a patriotism check. it is a decency check on this president and what unites us more than anything is that we know that the heart of america is bigger than the heart of the guy in the white house! >> i'll be damned if i'm going to stand by and lose this election to this man. we cannot let it happen. we cannot let it happen.

>> it seems like joe biden and the debate the other night and in the clip now has got fired up more than we saw him earlier in the campaign. i don't know what y'all have been doing, but he seems a lot more passionate. >> well, look, he was reluctant at first to draw out differences between other candidates -- other democratic candidates and himself. he wanted to make sure that the democratic primary, one, was respectful. if you know who joe is, you know that joe doesn't take cheap shots. you know that he's very authentic. he sees what's on the line, and we've convinced him that showing legitimate differences in between candidates, showing a difference in electability is not a cheap shot, it is necessary so that the american people, especially democrats, know what we have to lose, what we need in a candidate in the general election because this one is for keeps. and so, yes, he's a little bit more pointed and he's showing

the flaws and weaknesses in the candidacies of the other candidates. not weaknesses in them personally but the weakness in their candidacies. >> all right. i'll have to leave it there. louisiana congressman cedric richmond, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. for more on this, let's bring in jesse moore, former speech writer for president barack obama and quadrikus driscoll, president of politics and religion at george washington university. let me go to you first, jesse. how do you assess the importance of the new hampshire primary, particularly with the debacle in iowa in terms of getting the actual vote in the night of the caucuses? how important is this or is this just a box to check and that we're really waiting to see what

happens south carolina into super tuesday? >> i think for the party it's very important just to make sure that it feels like momentum is being built by democrats across the board. for the candidates, it's a momentum gain. for the candidates, especially joe biden, it was interesting listening to your last guests there talk about how he's feeling a little more pointed towards his fellow candidates. i think voters -- he's got broad support, especially across the african-americans, latino voters, but it feels broad but shallow and i think what people are looking for is can he articulate an actual vision for what we're going to do other than beat trump. i think that's something everybody shares, but he's making that point, beating that donald trump and i think the next step he needs to take is paint a picture, which is people know what bernie stands for, people know what elizabeth warren stands for. what is he going to do so people have that in their mind when they go into the voting booths.

>> quadricos, as we saw the president this week acquitted f and we saw people fired or at least moving them around, a lot of disrespect back and forward with nancy pelosi, not shaking her hand, how much of this is going to damage, if at all, the president in november? will the whole impeachment and situation of the behavior of the president not be a political factor? >> unfortunately, reverend al, i don't think this will damage the president's chance at all, unfortunately. when you look at this week starting with the debacle with the iowa caucuses, when you look at the -- despite the egregious lies at the state of the union and you look at the acquittal, this fundamentally was a good

week for president trump. i think in many respects all three of those events is really a warning to democrats. democrats must pay attention and they must wake up. i mean, the president during the state of the union talked about opportunity zones, he talked about school choice, he talked about hbcu funding, all of these, i think, will appeal to a very small percentage of african-americans, particularly african-american mans. the presidency -- the president's campaign is going very hard for african-americans. so the president can chip away 3 to 5 percentage points of african-americans during this new election cycle in november. i think when it comes to the electoral college, particularly in states like pennsylvania, minnesota, ohio the president could up his percentage points when it comes to african-americans, particularly

african-american men. >> i agree with you. >> if people say i can't vote for him, they're not passionate about voting against him. either way, it benefits him. but listen to bernie sanders earlier today on "meet the press." >> we won the iowa vote by 6,000. we won the realignment vote by 2500, from where i come, by the way, that's a victory. >> you are in single digits among older voters and i say this because older voters vote. >> the answer is yes and no. the answer is we are having -- we have got to work on this issue because it's my record for senior citizens. it's a very strong record. we're going to work on that. >> jesse, what does the candidacy of bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, those on the

left, what does it do in terms of the party? you heard me talk to congressman richmond about you're not only talking about the white house, you're talking about the senate and the house. will a bernie sanders at the top of the ticket hurt the senate races and the congressional races? >> it could. it's hard to say. i will say that, you know, i haven't actually given up on senator warren yet, mostly because she seems and has always seemed a little more interested in persuasion and that hasn't appeared to be senator sanders' gift or focus yet. mobilizing and absolutely bringing to their feet the base, his base. the question is will he be able to steer that through pretty complicated primary. >> now, quadricos, would you explain from your vantage point, explain to me the rise or the

seeming rise. former mayor of south bend, pete buttigieg? because whether or not we want to go with sanders numbers or not, he is perceived to have been a big winner in iowa. what does he have to do in new hampshire to maintain that momentum? and where is his base? and where is that momentum coming from? >> i think sanders has been very consistent throughout his entire political career. we know what sanders stands for. we know his policies. we know the rhetoric. so he already has an established base. mayor pete buttigieg, to your point, he is taking a playbook out of bill clinton. he has done all of the right things. he's gone to an ivy league school. he is indeed a rhodes scholar. he's served in the military. he has a very likeable personality. he talks a great deal about policy and has a certain base

within the democratic party for that. i think we need to be clear, reverend al. policy, unfortunately, is not going to win this election. you need someone who's going to go toe to toe and stand tough against a trump. i'm not convinced, and i could very well be wrong, that mayor pete can do that. >> all right. well, we'll have more with my panel in just a few minutes. coming up, can democrats move on from trump's impeachment acquittal and put all their focus into the 2020 race? we'll see with one of the seven impeachment managers who worked tirelessly to prove the case against the president. how will impeachment factor into down ballot races as house members face re-election this year? first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top stories. >> we have some stories we're watching this hour. in new york city, two police officers were shot within hours

of each other overnight. officials believe the attacks are targeted and committed by the same suspects. that first officer was wounded when shots were fired into his police van. he avoided serious injury and is expected to be released from the hospital today. the other officer was injured after the gunman opened fire in a bronx precinct. that officer is in stable condition. the gunman now in custody. the defense department says two army soldiers were killed in an attack in nangahar province afghanistan. this happened in a joint training between u.s. and afghanistan forces. an individual wearing an afghan uniform opened fire. the motive of the shooter not known. and a bloody massacre in thailand ended early this morning when police shot and killed a thai soldier who had been hold up in a bangkok shopping mall for ten hours after going on a shooting

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i think that fear does the business at the senate too often. i talked to a lot of these republicans individually. they were private conversations but i see the fear in their eyes. they tell me they know the president lies. they were concerned about what he did. when you see the kind of support

trump has in his party and you see the kind of attacks he makes for people who used to work for him like jeff sessions, secretary of state tillerson or a number of others, they noel' do that and they'll also turn all of fox and all of talk radio against him. >> the president couldn't stop the house from impeaching him, but in the republican controlled senate he used fear to keep himself in office, and it worked. but now he's busy making an example of those who department bend to his campaign of intimidation and firing impeachment witnesses. all as a part of a revenge operation that his hometown paper is comparing to nixon's infamous friday night massacre. but in nixon's time there were principled members of his own party who saw the importance of

reining in the president's power with many even resigning in protest. the profile in courage few republicans seemed willing to attempt these days. joining me now is one of the seven trial managers, democratic representati representative val demmings of florida. congresswoman, let me ask you as one that was among the house managers, what do you think was missing or lacking, if anything, in presenting the case? or are we dealing with people that no matter what you presented, they were not going to convict this president? >> well, reverend sharpton, it's good to be back with you and, look, we knew, the seven house managers, that we had to present the strongest case that would be clear and convincing to the senators as well as to the american people. look, i think everybody who was paying attention, and there were a lot of people who were, the

case that we presented was overwhelming. the evidence in the case was overwhelming. we had testimony from career foreign service officers who made the decision, as you know, to disobey the president's unlawful order and come before congress and testify, but you also heard leader mcconnell say long before the trial started that he was going to coordinate basically every step of the way with the white house and there would be no daylight between him and the president and we certainly saw that clearly at work in the senate. it was extremely disappointing to me for the senators to take two oaths, the first one when they were elected and the second one to administer impartial justice and just totally disregard those oaths and vote to clear the president and then say that we presented our case and clearly that what the president did was inappropriate. we're moving forward and we're going to continue to provide the

necessary oversight that we should. >> now do you think if you had been allowed, you and the other managers, to call witnesses, call john bolton, call mick mulvaney, if you were able to present witnesses and present documents, which clearly you were not permitted to do, do you think that could have changed any of the outcome? >> reverend sharpton, as you know in courtrooms all over this nation, persons are called daily. witnesses are called. what courtroom, what judge, what jury would not want to hear from witnesses with direct knowledge? and certainly if there's evidence out there, documentation out there that will prove or disprove a case, certainly everybody who's serious about a fair trial would want to hear that. the witnesses that we talked about, bolton, mulvaney, blaire, they should not have been just democrats' witnesses, they should have been on the

republican list as well. certainly john bolton who said, hey, i want to testify. i only want to testify before the senate and i'm ready. if the senators believe that mr. bolton had information that would clear the president, certainly they would have wanted to hear from him, but obviously they chose not to and i think that's very telling about their intentions to help the president cover up his wrongdoing and not have a fair trial. >> now the president's base seems energized by the impeachment proceedings. do you think this outcome will impact the election in terms of the senate and the house this year? >> well, we certainly know that there are -- the president has supporters and, you know, as he said as a candidate, that he could go on fifth avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any support. reverend sharpton, i certainly hope that is not true, but all indications are that it may be.

you know, we -- i think the american people sent a strong message during the 201 elections during the mid-term elections with the overwhelming victories you saw in the house. i also think a lot of people are certainly disappointed with the senate just ignoring their responsibilities but, look, we were working real hard to expand the lead in the house and one of the detroit recruitment chairs and also, youknow, we are interested in taking back the senate. we certainly understand how important that is so we never shied away from those responsibilities. we've been working hard because i just believe certainly after watching what we just watched last week that the democratic party is the only hope for keeping our republic and holding the president accountable and so we're going to continue to work hard. >> now i hear a lot of conversation about how

impressive you were. i'm even hearing some say you may be on the short list of the nominee to be asked to run for vice president. if you were asked, would you run? >> you know what, i -- people approached me, some of my colleagues and others asked me about seeking higher office. my response to them is do you think i'm not working hard enough right now? reverend sharpton, i'll say this in answering your question, there's a scripture that says he who begins a good work in you will see it through to completion, and i really believe that god has given me a tremendous opportunity to serve people in this very special way, first as a police chief and secondly as a member of congress. i am willing to do whatever work that god has put before me to do and to serve wherever i'm needed, but i have to tell you, it's very humbling for people to believe that i can help --

continue to help to take this nation in a direction that -- where we need to go. so i'm going to -- i know you're familiar with this. i'm going to just pray about that and see where it goes. >> well, i didn't hear a no and it is -- it shows your political skills that you would quote the bible to a preacher to go around and not say i'm not running. so i'll put that as a maybe and even we'll revisit that. let me ask, what are your hopes that the american public keeps in mind as they go to the polls to vote for the presidency? in november, what do you hope they remember about this president that you joined several others in prosecuting? >> let me say this, reverend sharpton. none of us came to congress to impeach the president. we came to congress to work on the safety and security of our nation, on health care, public

education and housing and all of those things that every community should care about. we didn't run to impeachment and we certainly did not run away from holding this president accountable. i would ask the american people to think about the america that they really want for their children, for themselves and for their children. and i want them to think about this president who has never taken responsibility for the wrongdoing that he's been engaged in, has never apologized. this president who was trying to cheat to win the 2020 election, to deny the american people one of the most basic rights, and that's their right to vote. i want the people to think about the kind of america that they want and then ask themselves, can this lawless, unprincipled, unskrupled president get them to this place? i believe the overwhelming majority would say no. that's why it's so important that the senators did not do what they needed to do. now it's in the hands of the people and that's why it's so

important to get to the polls, to run to the polls and exercise your right to vote and send a clear message that what is going on in the white house now is totally unacceptable. >> florida congresswoman va val demings, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> more "politics nation" after a short break. ♪ ♪

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week since the senate acquitted president trump, and the fallout could potentially have serious consequences on senators up for re-election in november. two of them most vulnerable are maine republican susan collins who called for more witness testimony but ultimately voted to acquit and alabama democrat doug jones, who voted to remove the president and represents a district or state that the president won overwhelmingly in 2016. my panel is back with me. jesse moore of common thread strategies, a former speech writer and public engagement officer in the obama white house and quadricos driskell, professor at george washington universi university. let me go to you first, jesse.

the senate races, susan collins and the races of others that are in challenged states in terms of could go either way, how will the -- how will it be impacted by the acquittal that they voted for? and on the other side, doug jones, who's a senator in alabama, which is a red state and he won because many feel the scandals of his republican opponent, how will that affect him? was he just throwing his career away by voting with the democrats, who he is a democrat and taking a stand there rather than where he knows the majority of his state is? >> i frankly -- i respect and i'm nostalgic for where people are willing to throw their careers away. >> i am, too. >> yeah. i don't know if that's what doug jones officially did, but if he did, you know, that's my brother right there. i will look at him and try to

hope that more people follow his lead. even with, you know, susan collins, i'm a democrat and i'd love to get a handle on that seat, but i'm more -- i guess i'm more distraught by the thought of losing centrists from the political battlefield altogether. we need centrists to make this battle run in the way media works and gerrymandering and voter suppression. we're just losing all access to people who are somewhere in the middle. they can't survive. >> now let me go to you on this, the same question, and let me say this as you answer this, is that i have a lot of respect for doug jones risking because i -- again, i don't know. i have a lot of family in alabama. i don't know he necessarily can't drive a turnout, but i have a lot of respect for somebody that stands up and puts it all on the line and i have a

lot of respect for mitt romney. i have attacked mitt romney. i don't agree with much but he did a principled thing. how do you answer the same questions in terms of how the post-acquittal will affect senate and congressional races? sorry, i'm talking to you, quadrico. >> sorry, reverend al. >> i agree essentially with my co-panelist jesse on this. you know, this was a moral and ethical failure of the senate but also a moral and ethical failure of our federal republic, and it really shows how the country is not only extremely politically polarized but the -- some of these simple-minded politicians are only concerned about being re-elected, so much

so that they are willing to acquit a person who potentially put our federal republic in danger. and while i'm a former republican, how do you spell disappointment? susan collins. yes, we need centrists in the senate and in the house, but i was really disappointed in her vote and i've certainly echoed, give kudos to senator romney and senator jones. and i think the goal -- so we have to remember the goal was always impeachment. this was a very polite sized process, and kudos to speaker pelosi, impeachment was a goal. president trump is impeachment, but i think the strategy now needs to shift a bit because it could have potentially backfired, as i mentioned earlier, with the state of the union, president trump parading around black people and other things like mentioning criminal

justice reform and the like. so the strategy needs to now shift, and once the strategy shifts, i think democrats will be in a good place because unfortunately democrats are the only resemblance we have to restoring some respectable governance back to our federal republic. >> that's from a former republican, jesse. let me ask you. part of what the president is going to run on is the economy, saying that the economy is great, doing better than ever, yet he's not talking about he has brought us to a trillion dollar, trillion dollar now deficit that we are seeing a lot of unemployment going down, but the wages are not going up. so more people may be working, starting under the obama administration, but they're making less money and there is less stability. do the democrats have the right messaging going to counter the president talking about the economy?

and talking about criminal justice? >> well, the criminal justice, you guys talked about it before, but the criminal justice point, you're seeing super bowl ads, you're seeing the state of the union with the president highlighting black men and women, young black people who have been frankly screwed by the system and who it's starting to be rectified. the -- all he's doing there is literally just trying to tamp down people's votes so it doesn't feel like people who, you know, may not otherwise be rushing to the polls so he doesn't feel like an emergency that they need to show up and vote against. you're absolutely right about that. on the economy, you know, the real frustration for democrats is -- and this, you know -- i might be a little biased here, but we came in at an historic low in 2009 and the job that was done to try to bring things back up and to try to move us in the right direction, it all started right then. so when you hear the president reciting numbers, he's reciting

numbers of the fact that he hasn't completely turned the ship all the way back around. you know, that's great, but the fact that he is benefitting from coming in in a historically great trajectory, you don't hear that from him. obviously you wouldn't. he's not exactly a super honest broker but -- yeah. >> now, quadricos, i'm out of time but i wanted to come back to you one more time. what will the bloomberg effect have, not only in the primaries he says he's in. even if he does get the nomination, put in a lot of money, what effect will people that can come in with independent expenditures and counter the gop and the president ad for ad, pound for pound in a fight? >> well, look, bloomberg is a billionaire, and that's one of the good things going for him. he's also somewhat of a centrist democrat so i think that he as a new yorker can also go toe to toe with president trump. and he has the money to do that.

i would also just mention kudos to senator klobuchar for staying in this long. she was a lower tiered candidate. she has surpassed senator booker and harris. we need to look out for her as well. >> thank you very much quadricos and jesse. both of you. a quick note, tonight is the 92nd annual academy awards ceremony, and as has been the rule, the categories are nearly devoid of nominees of color. a point that i and others have been protesting for years as pointing to wider systemic conclusion in hollywood. tonight i am pleased to note one bright spot that i've watched take shape. >> and, remember, the road ahead might look rough, but you can make the journey with a little bit of work and a whole lot of love.

>> the story of a black father facing a daunting challenge that i as the father of two daughters can relate as a challenge doing little girls' hair. i first learned about the project in 2017 when filmmaker matthew cherry was crowdfunding for its development. i sent him a shoutout on this show, now the film is up for tonight's oscar for best animated short. good luck tonight to brother cherry and to brother steven you saw in the clip there. oh, by the way, i copped out with my daughters. i took them to the beauty salon. >> up next, my final thoughts. stay with us.

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had the same commitment to other families, that when i get involved and national action network gets involved, i'm there until we get justice. and we become family. so long after cameras are gone, long after reporters have put away their laptops, these families have to live with the memory that someone they loved and cherished never got to see their lives because of something like what happened to trayvon. many of the mothers of the movement come because they bond, and that's why i continue to speak about criminal justice. it's not enough just with first step, though that was a good beginning, but what about gun control, what about stop and frisk that this president wants to do nationally? what about stand your ground laws that are still on the books

here in florida eight years later? what about their stopping consent decrees on police departments that have a pattern of abuse all over this country? the first thing that president trump did was to go and cancel those consent decrees. even though the patterns were there when he became president, he had his justice department stop it, so yes, i'm here eight years later with trayvon martin's family. and i'm going to keep showing up until we can turn this around and this country, where trayvon martin types can celebrate their birthdays at 25. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, "meet the press" with chuck todd. along with support, x is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye.

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