that's all of the time i have. joining me back here at 8:00 on the west coast for special coverage of the 2020 election. now i turn it over to reverend al sharpton and "politics nation." good evening and welcome to "politics nation." tonight's lead, false start. the early stage of the democratic presidential race is out of its early stage. and into part of the race are where race is actually a factor. with early voting in the second day in nevada, most candidates

are on the ground ahead of this week's caucuses in the most diverse state to nominate thus far. nearly half of nevada voters are of color making it the first state in this race for the nation's future to represent its future. and along with south carolina's primary at the end of the month, the next phase will show the candidates just where they stand with critical minority voters. i'll talk to three campaign surrogates of color as the primary fight moves southwest and southeast. but meanwhile, today a different kind of race. fans at today's nascar daytona 500 were treated to something loud that blows smoke and goes in circles. and there was the race cars too. president trump at a daytona beach, florida, rally and taking a post impeachment victory lap.

after a week of running over his justice department, we'll talk about trump in a bit. but first, senator elizabeth warren at one point an insurgent in this presidential race now behind in most national polls despite a third place finish in iowa and in south carolina where she put in much work to court support from black women but lags behind three men. but she's third in the delegate count and on the ground in nevada today. joining me now, democratic congresswoman deb haaland of new mexico, the coh-chair for the elizabeth warren campaign. congresswoman, let me ask you bluntly, does elizabeth warren need to come and show some real strength in nevada and in south carolina after disappointing finish in new hampshire and iowa? >> hello, reverend al.

i'm so happy to be here with you again today. look, this is what i know. 98% of the pledge delegates are still up for grabs. and i believe that elizabeth warren still is working very hard to make sure that her message is getting out. i believe that in states like mine where there is a large minority population, that her plans will resonate with african-americans, latinos, asian-americans, working americans, native americans. i'm going to nevada this week to help with with the get out the vote and i'm super excited about being on the ground there working for elizabeth. >> now unlike some of the candidates that are in the race that have -- the crime bill with biden and bernie and even former mayor bloomberg with stop and frisk and the central park five

and other issues, we've not heard of any racial issues with elizabeth warren to date. yet we also have not seen specific policies addressing some of these issues of racism, inequality. elizabeth warren has a plan for everyone. what is her plan for people of color to close the race gap in health care and employment and in the criminal justice system. >> so i would invite you, reverend al, to look at the black women for endorsement that is very powerful and talks of very bluntly about elizabeth warren inviting people of color to the table. black women and youth and all communities to the table to talk about these important issues. and they trust her enough to offer their very powerful endorsement. she has gotten african-american support all over the country. she's gotten native american

support all over the country. i believe that with we trust elizabeth warren to bring us to the table, to give us a voice as she has with all of the plans that she has made and i just think that -- that, yes, we will have are a voice in shaping how those issues move forward. >> but has he -- with all of her plans, has she caused specific plans to deal with the race gap in the country. clearly she's dealt with the economic gap but you can have main veet and wall street but there is alsos martin luther king boulevard and there is a difference among the lower income people in this country based on their race. >> of course. well, you don't have to go far to see that the lower income and the majority of folks who are living in poverty are people of color. i know this firsthand because native americans are among those groups.

elizabeth warren believes very strongly that raising those people up, giving people a chance at success, making sure that economic justice is at the forefront of everything that she does is something that will make sure that the race gap is -- is brought together. and i trust her, reverend al. i trust her intelligence and her heart to move these issues forward. and i believe that she absolutely will. >> all right. always good to have you on congresswoman deb haaland, thank you. let's bring in representative for another campaign, jay moore. he's a state representative in south carolina and a surrogate for pete buttigieg. representative, i understand several faith leaders endorsed your candidate today. tell me how he's doing in south carolina. i'm on my way there tonight.

>> yeah, and i actually look forward to seeing you on tomorrow at charity missionary baptist church, reverend al. look, pete is really building a strong ground game here in south carolina. we have over 55 staffers here in south carolina and he's working diligently to earn everyone's vote. he knows that firsthand. i was very encouraged to be a part of helping roll out those seven faith leaders to endorse pete from greenville down here to south carolina. >> now, mayor pete currently leads in delegates but with the race moving into much more diverse states he's had more questions about his struggle with black voters. take a listen to him this morning on fox. >> what we do have is a vision that's we've demonstrated in new hampshire and iowa can bring

people together and a commitment as we come to more racially diverse states to speak to the concerns of voters who are here. >> we hear a lot about his problems in south bend with police -- with a police shooting and with the firing of the black chief of police. do you feel this has hurt him in the polls with minority and black voters in particular? >> let me tell you what he has done in south bend. i had the pleasure earlier today and also yesterday to spend time with one of the pastors from south bend that came here to south carolina to support mayor pete and hissini initiative to d and invest in affordable housing on the south side of south bend. and also he's just really committed, i have a bill that i'm working on right now dealing with water justice here in south carolina and pete is on the forefront of that as well.

and as you know, a lot of these environmental justice issues negatively disproportionately affects our community. so, look, what we have seen with polling as it relates to pete and the african-american community especially here in south carolina is they're still getting to know him. and as they get to know him and he talks about his douglas plan which i have to be honest with you is the most comprehensive plan for black agenda here in south carolina and across this country. >> activists and others continue to pound the douglas plan on my desk and it is an extensive plan. but, again, he's got to deal with the issues in south bend if he's bringing people up or down to south carolina from south bend, that is maybe one step. but how does he definitively say that i, if elected president, will have a justice department that will deal with policing as

the obama administration did, that will deal with criminal justice matters, if, in fact, he stumbled in south bend. does he own it, does he say i may have looked at it wrongly and that i am asking for people to understand i've grown since then. how does he deal with that? >> well, i think we've already seen him address the issues that he's had in south bend as it relates to policing them. you saw him firsthand with the town hall that he had in the aftermath of the shooting. taking tough questions. not backing down from tough questions. and what i know for him is this, i challenged him before i endorsed him on a number of different issues as it relates to a number of different issues in our african-american community, and he was very receptive to criticism, very receptive to learning and growing. so, yeah, i feel confident that

he will put people around him that he listens to and he'll make adjustments based on that. i've seen it firsthand for myself. >> all right, j.a. moore, thank you for being with us. we'll see you in the morning for the health disparity. for more on the discussion let's bring in the panel. alana beverly is a former white house official for the obama administration. and hugh hewitt, i don't need to tell you but i will, he's a conservative radio host and msnbc political analyst. let me go to you first, hugh. how do you assess this race now? what do you think has to happen in nevada and south carolina to clarify who is the one that donald trump may likely face or will that be even too early to predict? what i'm asking is will joe biden have to come through here,

will elizabeth warren, are there people who have to show some strength in the next caucus and primary? >> well, it is one of the most interesting races i've watched and i've been reporting on them since 1990. so i think that right now we're down to three b's. bernie sanders, pete buttigieg and mayor bloomberg. mayor bloomberg is a republican who doesn't like guns or pepsi and i think bernie sanders is authentic and i think pute buttigieg is a generational change. biden and elizabeth warren is both done and i think we know that is cooked. what is interesting to me, al, is that the primaries become open primaries in ten days. south carolina, republicans are voting. on super-tuesday, i already voted for bernie sanders, i told chuck todd that on "meet the press" because i got the absentee in virginia. republicans get to pick whether

they want to face a socialist like bernie sanders, whether they want to face a republican like michael bloomberg or the generational candidate pete buttigieg and i think the most important thing is where does the african-american vote go. and i'm not going to ask you a question on your own show, al. but i'm curious about who you will endorse because i think that will matter. >> well you hit me with two things that i'm going to go to my other panelist because i'm not going to let you bait me into something early here, certainly not an endorsement and certainly when you say you, hugh hewitt, i want breaking news voted for bernie sanders -- >> i did. >> let me go to you, alana. you worked in this, you worked in the obama administration and we saw when barack obama came in in '08 he defied all odds and was able to win iowa, do well in

new hampshire and just on and on. we're not seeing that kind of race here. is that good or bad for the democrats because we're seeing a lot of the democratic contenders shooting at each other and a lot of that i'm sure we'll see on trump commercials in the fall. >> well, i think what we're seeing is the diversity of the democratic party play itself out. and so i'm actually -- i'm comfortable with the idea of iowa and new hampshire not dictating who carries the field because as we know they are not representative of the diversity of the democratic party and of the nation. so i'm excited about about nevada. as you know, early voting is underway in nevada. which is an important process in terms of expanding the electorate and making democracy more accessible to people of color, to low income people, to working people. so the early voting process is underway. nevada is far more diverse than

iowa or new hampshire. we know that 30% of the democratic electorate in nevada is latino. 10% african-american. asian-americans are the fastest growing population in nevada. and that is going to -- that is going to catapult us to south carolina. that there are 36 delegates that are at stake in nevada and we have a strong working class population, the service industry is the predominant population in nevada which also represents the diversity of the workers in this country whereas iowa and new hampshire are more of the manufacturing states. so i'm excited about this. i'm excited about nevada and what we see as we move in through to south carolina and then to super-tuesday. just to hugh's point about the three b's, i love the illiteration, i'm not going to count any of the women out, elizabeth warren or amy klobuchar out until they are actually out of this race. they are fighting into the end.

and then joe biden is counting not just on good showing in nevada but counting on south carolina to his fire wall. >> now, let me ask you, president trump has said he's going to get a large segment of the black vote this time. he only got 8% last time. do you believe that is real and, if so, why? >> absolutely. because of 3.5% unemployment. i believe the most important -- >> well blacks are not 3.5% employed. blacks are doubly unployed. >> a lot better than they have ever been before -- >> no, that is not true. >> we're going to disagree, al. >> we could disagree. but facts -- we can disagree on our opinions. facts are facts. >> facts are stubborn things i know. it depends on how you count and which bureau of statistics you look and if the economy stays that way, and i don't know if it will because of coronavirus,

that is a looming danger for the entire world not just china but if the economy stays on fire i don't think african-americans will leave that vote and go for pete buttigieg who is untested or bernie sanders socialist. and by the way, going back to your endorsement, al, the person watching this show with the most interest is named joe biden, he's desperate for your endorsement. are you sure you're not going to throw him a life line -- >> i'm going to call -- >> reverend al let me jump in on how we count. >> i'll call him after the show and tell him you voted for bernie sanders, alana. >> hugh, it depends on which facts you count and how you count them well if you use numbers you'll know the unemployment rate for african-americans has been going done consistently for years now and no matter how you count it it is always twice that of white unemployment so i'm tired of hearing the republican talking points about the economy being on fire when blacks are still unemployed, where african-americans are still

unployed or underemployed. >> at a double rate. >> and working two jobs. >> and you have to factor in the wage difference between blacks and others but ville to leave it there. alana beverly and hugh who has announced his endorsement of bernie sanders. thank you. coming up. the caucus this weekend will be the first real test for 2020 candidates in a state with real diversity. i'll speak with democratic congressman from nevada who recently endorsed joe biden about why he made that decision and what it could indicate about nevada voters at large. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top stories. >> thanks for that stories that we're watching this hour, evacuations of americans on a quarantined cruise ship off the coast of japan have started today. more than 300 people on board of the diamond princess has tested positive for the coronavirus. those evacuated will be flown

back to military air bases in california for screenings. there are over 67,000 cases worldwide and more than 1600 people have died so far. then in mississippi, residents are bracing for record-breaking flooding. much of the flooding concentrated around the capital city of jackson. the governor tate reefs has declared a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation order is in place for affected areas. the governor said more than 2,400 homes and structures are in danger. more "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton after the break.

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we know that the american dream cannot tolerate four more years of a president who thinks he can choose who lives it. >> we are going to need a multi-generational, multi-racial campaign of energy and excitement. >> our democracy hangs in the

balance. we can get -- -- we can get timid or back me and i'm in the fight. >> we choose unity over division. we choose science over fiction. and we choose compassion over cruelty and maybe most importantly we choose truth over lies. >> early voting has already begun in the lead-up to next week caucus as democrats gathered last night in las vegas to make their case. the latest polling out of the silver state has six candidates getting double-digit support with bernie sanders in the lead, joe biden the perceived front-runner for much of the campaign, before his lackluster results in iowa and new hampshire, is currently polling in second place. joining me now is democratic

congressman steven horsford of nevada. just this week he endorsed joe biden for president. welcome to "politics nation," congressman and thank ug f-- th you for being with us. >> great to be on your show, reverend al. >> let me ask you, joe biden was the early front-runner, polls now say he's polling at number two. you saw the results in iowa and new hampshire, didn't do well. yet you came out and endorsed him in this last week. why? >> because pundits and pollsters don't know what i know which is the people in nevada want someone with character and they want someone who actually knows and will deliver on the issues that matter most. and that comes down to the issues of health care, education, health care and housing.

i was with vice president joe biden the last few days and we've been at events at the polling locations, at church this morning and everywhere that we've been there has been an overwhelming amount of support because they know joe biden's character. they know the struggles and the sacrifice that he has endured and the fight that -- the reason that he's not in this for himself but in this in order to save the soul of our nation from a corrupt administration. there is one thing that we're united as democrats on and that is to defeat donald trump. but to do it we need someone who can actually bring our party together and the best person to do that is joe biden. >> now, joe biden had his bag sa -- baggage with the crime bill and other issues related to race. this is the first caucus or primary but it is a caucus in your state that has a large

minority base in terms of voters. the culinary union has not endorsed joe biden. though they said something nice about him. how will all of this work with the voters in your state in your district? >> what i know is this, reverend al, the fact that joe biden stood shoulder to shoulder with president barack obama as his vice president and that he delivered under his administration to pass the affordable care act, to make sure that we help to recover from the great recession and help protect people here in our community who were suffering from home foreclosures, the fact that he led as a sponsor of the violence against women act and voting in civil rights, these are the issues that the majority of people in my state and in my district care most about. they know joe and joe knows nevada. i believe he's going to do very well here.

the culinary workers union understand that joe is fighting to protect their health care. he has a plan that will not take her health care away, in fact he'll build on obamacare and for those who choose to do so. that is what we need. we need someone who understands how government works and who is ready to do the job from day one. actually, from minute one. and that is joe biden. >> joe biden took aim at former new york city mayor michael bloomberg this morning on "meet the press" calling out bloomberg's history with the black community. listen to this. >> the point is that $60 billion can buy you a lot of advertising. but it can't erase your record. there is a lot to talk about, michael bloomberg. you all are going to start focus on him like you have on me, i'm not complaining like you have the last six months, you're going to focus on him, his position on issues related to the african-american community from stop and frisk to the way

he talked about obama -- >> so if mr. biden, former vice president biden, is bringing up the record of former new york city mayor michael bloomberg then is it not fair to bring up joe biden's record other than his vice presidential service to barack obama? >> you can't dismiss his record as the vice president for the most successful and i might add -- >> i'm not dismissing it but i'm saying that is not his entire record because -- the other things that are part of his record. shouldn't we deal with the whole record? >> there are a lot of people who may have supported the crime bill back in the past. >> but they're not running for president. he's running for president. >> and we're talking about today and the future. and know is this, when with vice president biden is elected president he will take on the nra, he will restore the assault weapons ban, le make sure that

we finally pass background checks. here in las vegas we had the worse mass shooting in our nation's history and he understands that the american people are hurting from the carnage which is gun violence in our nation. and we need a president who understands and who has empathy for the american people who are suffering. not only in the workplace, but in our very communities. and so this is not a battle between billionaires. this is a battle with the -- between the soul of our nation, between a corrupt administration, the donald trump administration, and the vision that joe biden has to bring our country forward, to finally restore some decency to the white house. i am looking forward to, and i know many of my colleagues in congress, are looking forward to having an administration that we can work with again in order to move our country forward. >> steve horsford, i've known you a long time and good long answer but you didn't address

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for this week's gotcha, i want to turn your attention to the biggest villain in the american higher education system. no, not betsy devos. though it was a close call. i'm talking about predatory private lenders of college loans. we're in the midst of a student debt crisis. with nearly $1.5 trillion in outstanding college debt and like equities built into the american way of life, the student debt crisis has hit black and brown borrowers

particularly hard. partially because far more black students need to borrow than white ones. because of long-standing institutional discrimination that made it nearly impossible for black families to build any kind of generational wealth and it gets worse. even as black and brown students are starting at a financial disadvantage, a new study shows that those who choose to attend historically black colleges and universities or spunk serving institutions are targeted with higher lending cost. the study called this edition cal red lining and it looks specifically at wells fargo and financial technology company upstart to find these racial disparity in loan terms f. this sounds familiar because this isn't the first time wells fargo has been accused of

discriminatory lending. they targeted black home buyers with sub prime lenders into the lead up to the financial crisis led to the biggest wipeout of black wealth in american history. wells fargo responded to the study by saying that it's characterizations, quote, do not reflect our lending practices a and the on collusions are exaggerated, end of quote. but the study authors maintained they used wells fargo own data. the study called on congress to enhance oversight for state and regulators to stop the financial abuses and to increase transparency. but i won't hold my breath. the best move would be to stop borrowing from these institutions or at the very least voting for elected officials who will hold them accountable for this misdeeds. so wells fargo and upstart, even

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talk to your doctor about chantix. as of this broadcast, 18 inmates have died in mississippi prison system since the end of december. two in the last 24 hours. ten of them at the state's penitentiary, including five prisoners killed by other inmates and three who took their own lives with conditions alleged to be so bad that a federal lawsuit filed against the state by nearly 30 prisoners and entertainer jay-z pleads that prisoners are, quote, in peril. this month the justice department civil rights division announced an official investigation into parchman and three other mississippi prisons. joining me now is jerry mitchell, founder of the

mississippi center for investigative reporting. he's also author of a brand-new book titled "race against time, the reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era." let me ask you, jerry, what is going on in parchman? >> well, it is falling apart to be honest. and you've got several things going on. you have horrible conditions in what is called unit 29. you have rain literally pouring into the cells, you have just horrible conditions overall. and here is the basic problem, you don't have enough correctional officers. they're only paying as a starting salary $25,000 a year which qualifies that officer and his or her family for food stamps. so -- >> so the corrections officers in mississippi are getting

$25,000 a year where the correction officers were literally qualify for food stamps for the family. >> yes. >> so that is why you don't have a lot of people applying to be a correction officer in mississippi. >> absolutely. and the legislature has refused to raise that -- repeatedly, despite request. >> now these the-- these people that are are incarcerated and held by the state but put under the inhuman conditions and the state is not responding to this at all? >> well, after all of this violence took place, they moved a number of these inmates off to a private prison. some of them. some of them are still there. they've basically -- that is the situation right now. it is kind of an emergency situation. they don't have -- unit 29 still have some inmates there. so we'll see what happens. how the state is going to deal with this.

but so far they've appointed a task force, and supposedly looking for new corrections commissioner. we'll see how that goes. >> now if one does a crime they should do the time if they are guilty of a crime. but to live under these conditions where it is life-threatening -- >> right, yes. >> -- and where you're having people dying, people don't get the death sentence or live in torturous conditions because they did something that they have to pay their debt to society. >> yes. i mean, as someone put it to me, you treat people like animals. and this is what happens. it is a horrible situation. and really to be honest i'm not sure that we would allow animals to be treated like this. it's just really abysmal conditions. i'll give you a quick example. when federal court oversight

ended in 2011 there were literally no cells or within parchman that had no lights or no power. this past year -- >> wow! >> this past year there are 300 or more. you have inmates literally sitting in the darkness, sitting in water. i mean, it's just -- you can't imagine the conditions. not to mention roaches and mice and mosquitos and broken windows and all of this -- the air -- the cold air from outside is coming in. it's just -- we wornt -- we won't accept it for animals for sure. >> we're going to keep our eye on this. jerry mitchell. >> thank you, reverend al. the loving notion on the stage. director matthew cherry discusses me live to discuss his

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last weekend's academy awards telecast was a repeat disappointment for many black viewers and film-goers who didn't see black artists and black artists and black films recognized again. but there was this bright spot. >> and the oscar goes to hair love. >> hair love was done because we wanted to see more representation in animation. we wanted to normalize black hair. >> filmmaker matthew cherry first envisioned his now oscar-winning animated short film, hair love, after watching viral videos of black men trying to do their daughters' hair. i first learned about his project in 2017, when one of my producers brought its crowdfunding campaign to my

attention. i sent cherry a shoutout on this show. and three years later, he's one of the industry's fastest rising stars, while hair love is more -- is now more than a movie. it's a movement. joining me now, academy-award winning filmmaker matthew cherry. first of all, congratulations. >> thank you so much, man. pleasure to be speaking with you again. >> thank you for coming on again. let me ask you, the breakthrough of this is bigger than just a film and your career, and that's huge in and of itself, but the breakthrough really embraces a strong cultural statement that you wanted to make. explain. >> yeah, man. you know, like i said in the speech, you know, one of the biggest goals we had was obviously representation, and also wanting to normalize black hair. and you know, we brought the young gentleman with us who had been going through the situation he had been going through in

houston about them wanting him to cut his hair and threatening him with suspension if he didn't do it. we brought him along as our guest, and we wanted to get the word out about the crown act. i think the big goal for us is if we can help that get passed in these states, stories like deandre's can stop happening. >> we had congresswoman gwen moore on about the act she's proposing to congress. you have in effect mainstreamed and brought a culture, a real issue that could also support legislative change. so this is a big deal to me. >> yeah, you know, i think it was such an incredible opportunity that the timing just kind of worked out that the crown act had just become law in california, and we had just met with senator holly j. mitchell who authored it along with dove and a laeot of other companies.

when you get an opportunity to create real life change out of art, that's the best thing possible that can happen. we have already seen movement in the past week with it potentially passing in colorado, minnesota, kentucky, and a few other states. we hope it goes nationwide. >> what does matthew cherry have next in his trajectory toward the kind of level of respect and gravitas you gained in the movie industry with an oscar? >> i think the big thing for me and my team is we want to continue making great stories that all have the same type of energy and kind of focus that hair love had, things that are joyful, that are positive representations and things people can be proud of. >> well, we certainly, you are a bright spot last week, and we are certainly happy to see you moving on in the way you're moving and not in any way diluting your commitment. director matthew cherry, thank

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