there's bernie sanders, the centrist and bernie sanders, the libber am.ernie sanders tried to stop assault weapons, what is true is as cooper was asking. they voted several times for a bill that is provided for protection for gun manufacturers. i don't think that gun shop owners should be protected. he was trying to make the distinctionismism maybe it evolved over time, like hillary clinton. >> what did you say. in his response he says he stands by the fact that he cannot hold gun manufacturers liable unless they give a gun to someone mentally ill. that's bernie sanders being on the defensive, which is where hillary clinton wanted him to be. >> at the same time i felt the focus was on those two candidates and they controlled the discussion and in many ways complimented each other. is that true. >> they did, and before the first break, bernie sanders had the most questions. you saw the two at the end. they were saying "i'm not getting enough times. absolutely, you saw this unity on stage working well for a front runner. i am not sure that it works well for

>> i think bernie sanders did everything he could to appeal to bernie sander's voters. my question is, did he appeal to one person who is not bernie sanders? >> what about the black lives matter? >> you know what, i think it wasn't a big subject over the course of the night. they talked about it once and moved on. >> at the beginning and not to those two demographic groups he is struggling withtive. he never found a moment to connect with those voters in the way hillary clinton has. >> and in his introduction to the country because there was in some ways an introduction to the country. they also found out about party which is not democrat, it's an independent. he's a democratic socialist. he needed to explain that to america in and it's a tough word. he talked about denmark, hillary clinton said bernie we are not denmark so that is now a part of the bernie sanders american speech. >> was that effective when bernie sanders said here's what i mean? >> no, i don't think you can explain that in that short of a moment there. i think he struggled to explain. that i think mart

he says bernie gave it away. >> bernie made a mistake.he got a great couple of seconds, but he took the situation that is a very serious situation where hillary is being investigated by the fbi and just gave it away. he can never bring it up again. he's losing big. so i think he made a mistake. i think she did her job. i think she got through the debate. i thought bernie was off. he was not doing so well y. think the other people shouldn't have been up there. i thought a couple were ridiculous. they left her alone and didn't hit her and taking away the e-mails was a good thing to take away which for him i think is a very big mistake. >> from a trump point of view it is. he characterized sanders as clueless on the issue of trade. >> he thinks a lot of trade deals are bad. i will make great deals where he doesn't know where to begin. i watched him talking about trade and he would have no idea. he is not a negotiator. that's not what he does. he can complain. i change. >> that sounds smart. trump campaign ripped into bernie on social media d

>> bernie sanders. >> bernie sanders. >> i agree. >> burning. -- bernie. >> brian, who has been best?rnie sanders. >> i think bernie has the edge on that one. >> i can't think of any other candidate that is talking about it. >> bernie sanders? >> knowledgeable and experienced. >> exciting. >> forward thinking. >> hope. >> interesting. >> game changer. >> he is not classically looking as a candidate. how does he overcome that? >> i think people are just listening to his words, and not focusing on appearance. says are things of that i think a lot of people are thinking. it is charismatic. it is funny when you look at them. he is hunched over. he looks old, but the stuff he says is in touch with a lot of the things that we are thinking about. >> his appearance>> good or bad is genuine. he's not trying to get a stylish haircut. he is genuine. >> are you concerned about his age? >> a little. my concern would be having a president by midterm. kane -- not like john john mccain because of his age. >> his age does not bother me. >> i think he seems in good health. he is willing to go after it,

be bernie. he's real, he's raw. he's connecting with people. the reason we're not going to attack clinton on e-mails and stuff like that. we believe he has the strongest message. if we deliver it to enough people, he will win. that's what we're going to focus on. >> up next, we're going to talk to the debate moderators, anderson cooper and dana bash and juan lopez and our focus group participants will also weigh in on what we all saw. who do they think are the winners and losers of tonight's contest? what did they make of it all? we'll be back after this very quick break. >>> we're back here live at the wynn hotel in las vegas, site of the democratic presidential debate. the moderator, anderson cooper, is with us, dana bash and juan carlos. this was excellent. i say that not only as your friend but as a critic as well. going. it's often until later on until you actually watch the whole thing that you say, oh, okay, this candidate did really well. i think clearly, you know, look, senator clinton

>> bernie sanders. >> you have it right. >> he praised bernie sanders.ve to bernie sanders after bernie sanders said, let's remember where we were when bush left office. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month, and i know my republican friends seem to have some am nearby ya -- amnesia. cnn owns these clips, since they own the debate right now. we'll show them to you after the debate. big spreeurprise, bernie sander gets the acknowledgment from trump. >> trump is obsessed with twitter. when the rest of us are -- >> to put it mildly. >> watching baseball or leading our lives, he's tweeting. he has two reasons to tweet favorably for bernie sanders. he believes he's going to be the republican nominee, and he knows that bernie sanders would be the easiest democratic nominee to beat. of course, he wants bernie sanders to win the nomination. he's going to try to pump him any way he can. he also is fighting jeb bush for the republican nomination, and so anybody who takes a shot at george w. bush, he'll tweet favorably about that person. he wants to remind republican

be bernie. he's real, he's raw. he's connecting with people. the reason we're not going to attack bernie sanders on e-mails and stuff like that. we believe he has the strongest message. if we deliver it to enough people, he will win. that's what we're going to focus on. >> up next, we're going to talk to the debate moderators, anderson cooper and dana bash and juan lopez and our focus group participants will also weigh in on what we all saw. who do they think are the winners and losers of tonight's contest? what did they make of it all? we'll be back after this very quick break. decisions, decisions. the new edge+. this one would keep me organized. i could list all the days i've been banned from social media. hmmm, wait this thing has built-in live broadcasting? i don't know what nerd came up with that, but it's awesome. you think they'd censor pippa's doggy-ola's? censored, not censored. censored, not censored. introducing the samsung galaxy s6 edge+ and the note5. >>> we're back here live at t

on the democratic side. >> bernie. >> bernie. >> bernie. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> i don't know. >>e no idea. >> who will be the democratic nominee for president? >> sanders. >> clinton. >> sanders. >> clinton. >> sanders. >> clinton. >> sanders. >> clinton. >> clinton. >> as a betting person, who will be the nominee? >> hillary. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> hillary. >> i'm not sure. >> >> hillary. >> hillary, but i would not be surprised if sanders gets it. >>, or that you bob? >> i think he might be a bit liberal for great parts of the country. >> the fact that he has been branded a socialist is offputting at least 50% of the country. >> the show of hands, how many people think bernie sanders' history as a socialist will be a political problem for him in a general election? hold your hands up if you believe that is true. those of you who think sanders will be the nominee, have you thought that all along? what has changed to make you think that? >> the ability to connect. >> maybe the democrats need something new, something that needs to be tried,

>> i think bernie did well. i think bernie had to stay to the message.le, and he did that. the issues that came up that were difficult for him, he handled. i felt that he did well. he was up on a stage as more than and equal with everybody else. four months ago he wasn't a beat on anybody's radar. now he is formidable. now he is there. i feel very good about how he did and the fact that his message got heard by a lot more people today. >> would you make about the words he used? his words, not the socialist label. i think that was dealt with. words like, we need a resolution? he said to me that we need structural change. that is a shift away from the market system. we have to get more like denmark and the northern european countries with their social democracies. will that spoke the american center? >> i don't think so. i think bernie also talks about -- we talk about structural change, ending institutional discrimination. those kinds of concepts are about humanizing our government and how we do business as a government. it is not about usurping and chang

so the bernie sanders has got to.nded issues campaign and that's adorable. but it is not sustainable if he wants to crack -- >> -- so cynical, i have to tell you. >> remember 2008, hillary clinton is a ruthless -- >> i can tell you barack obama would have had the exact same response that bernie sanders did on the e-mail. his brain is not a typical -- >> he just asked about it on 60 minutes and he didn't have that response. >> i thought bernie sanders had good night in a lot of ways. if he attacked clint on the e-mails i think it would have been a strategic mistake. >> i agree. >> hillary clinton violated obama administration recessiguls when she did this. i think president obama comes at at this point from a different angle. if he comes after clinton it is not going to be on the e-mail. it is going to be on the left flank, the places where she has vulnerabilities. >> i think anna is finding the middle ground. you have i to deal with an opponent. you are not going to get satisfaction out of bernie sanders. he san old s

--bernie time. john: what is your one piece of advice to bernie sanders? >> keep staying positive. >> don't attack. not that i love hillary -- nobody is above attack. but part of why he is catching fire is he is not an insult comic. he is running really powerful ideas. bernie mania. the the benr, berning man, howard bern show. with us are two of his top advisers, jeff weaver and tad devine. i will ask you to fill in the blank. bernie sanders accomplishes blank tonight, it will be a win. >> if he introduces himself to the 35-40% in polls who don't have enough information to make an opinion, that is a big win for us. the more people know bernie sanders, the more they like him. this is an introduction to millions of people who don't know where he is -- who he is. john: is that a recitation of his believes, or him as a human being? jeff: both. people want to know the biography, where he stands on issues, his stance on income inequality and the corrupt system. about hisoesn't talk directly much in public, at least in my experience. is that different tonight? je

be bernie.x, let's talk about the three wild cards on stage. they're ones that can cause more trouble. o'malley, webb and che firefighter, what can you tell me? >> they have literally nothing to lose. they have literally nothing in the polls here and they need something to be taken off of life support and get to relevance, let alone a path to victory. which is probably out of the question here. jim webb if you go back and watch his debates very feisty. he has a tendency to get under people's skin. one warned hillary clinton about letting him get under your skin. chafee he'll bring up the iraq war. meanwhile, martin o'malley he needs a big break through tonight. he did not expect to be coming to the first democratic debate at 1% in the polls. he has not been an i believe to catch a break at all. he's built up his own expectations about the debate performance, demanding more and more debates, that's consumed his campaign for the last few months. if he doesn't deliver tonight, that's a big problem

bernie sanders, more low key if you listen to the campaign. he's been going through research and practicing a little q and a but not quite as structured. he really, anderson, wants to make voters think he's serious and main stream and not allow hillary clinton to marginalize him as someone politically extreme. >> thank you. joining me now is former obama senior advisor david axle rod and knnia mallika-henderson. what about hillary clinton? >> look, she is a good debater. we were in 25 debates with her in 2007, 2008 she's commanding. she's crisp. she has a fluent and policy. she needs to give people a sense to believe these policy papers add up to something in terms of her belief where the country can go. >> can she be real? that's a criticism often made of holding a focus group about how she needs to be more real and just be real. >> yes, i think that's right but, you know, we saw -- i said this before, we saw two hillary clintons in the last campaign. the one before she lost the iowa caucus when she was the front runner very cautious, very un

i'm endorsing bernie as a member of conscious.lieve the bills that he and i sponsored, i'm talking about bernie, are good for america. bernie and i are the house and senate office on raising the minimum wage to 15, on stripping the fossil fuel companies from subsidies, public government subsidies. we're both the house and the senate author on making sure proposing that we only have prison be a public function and not be sublet to the private sector through privatization. i mean this is what -- this is why i'm n the other reason i'm in is because i love the fact he is reaching out so broadly, that he is engaging electorate. he is causing excitement. after an election with 72% low, 36% of the people voted. we need somebody who is going to generate some street heat. bern ji doing. that i'm excited to be a part of it. >> congressman, thanks. >>> coming up, if you started to get a feeling that hillary clinton was a candidate falling by the way side, she made sure to clear up that for you last night. a look at her performance is next. t

it was bernie sanders on this question of capitalism, it was bernie sanders on guns.bernie sanders actually did her the biggest favor of the night when the subject of e-mails came up. he rallied to her defense he basically said this is not an issue anybody should really care that much about. so bernie sanders ended up defending her. >> we were on with bernie sanders's campaign manager. the second debate not very far away. do you think we'll see a change in tone from senator bernie sanders? >> yeah, i wouldn't be surprised. part of the story here, too, i think is the sanders campaign was putting out the word that he had not done much formal debate preparation heading into this. hillary clinton was in 20 of these things back in 2008. she knows how to handle presidential debates. bernie sanders has done some debates in vermont before but never on a stage like this before. i think there was an assumption on his part that, hey, i do media interviews all the time, i give these speeches all the time. i don't have to worry about what i'm going to say. where it really showed i

bernie sanders at 18%.ekend the dnc chair, debbie wasserman schultz will be here for the debate as well over the next couple of days, she was asked, what happens if vice president decided at the very last minute he wanted to show up? all the indications are, he won't, but what if he did want to participate in this debate? here's what the chair of the dnc had to say about that? >> we do know he's been carefully considering whether he wants to run for president of the united states. of course, in the democratic primary, we would always have room and welcome the sitting vice president. >> reporter: just to give you another look inside this debate hall, carol, it's very impressive. our cnn crews have been working very hard, day and night over the last few days. you can see the chairs are in here. we didn't see this yesterday, so the seating is almost set in here. on the far side to my left, you see this giant screen over here. done lemon, who is helping host this, he'll be finding questions from facebook users

bernie sanders, i love bernie sanders, i always have.s aroblem with bernie, democrat, we have to win this race, and i think it best chance is with hillary. i would love for trump and hurried to have a debate. , just likerush him she did with the committee. people have to realize, when president clinton was in office, and how well we were doing. remember this, when you get hillary, you also get him. you get a two-for-one deal. that is really all i have to say . host: when you go to the ballot in oklahoma city, and you have a choice between senator sanders and secretary clinton, which ballot will you cast? caller: i will cast for hillary. host: thanks for the call. larry has this point, saying, hillary was all lawyered up for the hearing, the first will appoint, don't let them make you mad or authentic. rumble -- ready to grumble. ryan better prepare for prom tr? hillary's e-mails will not look fake anymore. that is from this morning in "the weekly standard." mark joining us from minnesota, welcome to the program. caller: i always find tha

>> bernie has to just be bernie. he has a powerful message.itfall would be not delivering that message. ok? so he is going to try to do it. mark: i'm going to count -- how many times is he going to smile on camera? >> 4. mark: i'm going to count. unlike some reporters, we are not super impatient to say why are you ahead in all 50 states? you are ahead by the right kind of poll in iowa. is it possible to stay behind in the other 48 as you are now and win those first two and revolutionize the field, or do you have to get ahead in other places before february? >> can i answer that? i worked for walter mondale in 1984 and i saw what happened when gary hart won new hampshire. i don't think we will be up behind in 48 states. john: you think you will go before new year's or february, it will go ahead? >> i think it is possible. i saw a field poll with 35 in california. there is a poll in connecticut today -- 12 points. >> oregon was four points a while ago. >> there are places where bernie is catching on and we could succeed. in iowa we have people o

but bernie made a mistake. he took a situation that is a very serious situation where hillary is investigated by the fbi and gave it away. he just gave it away. he can never bring it up again. it's not like he's winning, he's losing big if you look countrywide. so i think he made a mistake. >> she thinks the republicans are pushing benghazi. do you find that to be the case? do you think we have done enough on this and should move on as a country? >> well, certainly it wasn't helped by what's been happening over the last week or so. but i would say this, it's not the biggest thing in terms of my own thought process. i have a lot of respect for trey and the people on the committee. and i think they are legitimately honorable people doing the right thing. benghazi is one of many, many things. i mean, hillary had a very bad record as secretary of state. she had tremendous mistakes and -- just look at the whole world that's blowing up around us. and it was during her term, essentially, plus a couple years of carry.

>> because bernie got out there early, because bernie has real passion on the issues and because there is a difference in the issues between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. except for tpp, it's hard to think of any issue that vice president and secretary clinton disagree on. but to go back to your early question, in polls, it shows the sanders voters, 94% of them have no problem voting for hillary clinton for president. hillary clinton doesn't want to upset that apple cart. and remember, also, if you look at the polls, bernie's doing very well in new hampshire and well in iowa. when you get to states that are urban, african-americans and hispan hispanics, bernie is doing very poorly. >> 4% -- >> so i don't think hillary should, in any way, shape, or form panic over the sanders surge in iowa or new hampshire. >> you're forgetting about nevada! that's why she set up the firewall here >> nevada, not nevada. >> is he more electable than hillary clinton. clinton leads the field by a 20-point margin. biden down at 19. but hillary clinton trails when placed in head-to-head matchups with t

bernie sanders. our panel play fact or fix and i hit streets of new york to find out how popular is soci kennedy: the best way to learn is to play, that is why i asked my friends to buckle up for a game of fact or fiction, bernie. sanders, edition. >> let's go here question number one. bernie sanders fact or fiction, bernie sanders believes cable tv price are too damn high, and has asked ftc to investigate. >> that is a fact. kennedy: you would be right. question two, bernie sanders, hugo chavez, recognized bernie sanders as the legitimate government of united states, until 2010, and referred to hip as quote, elel presidente. >> so true. kennedy: i wish it was true. that means president messy hair. number 3, bernie sanders recorded folk album we shall overcome in 1987, that is true. here is a clip.s i saw below me that golden valley ♪ this lap land was made for you d me ♪ this land is your land ♪ this land is my land ♪ kennedy: i love socialism ♪ , the question, bernie of ment to sing but the produc

caller: i'm leaning towards bernie sanders. what bernie sanders is saying. like hillary clinton but not that, uh, yeah, i just like bernie sanders better. i think your clinton is -- -- hillary clinton is, her -- i mean, i would vote for the democrats. i'm voting for pretty much the democrat. and bernie is an independent, too. i would vote for him. the one thing i can't do is vote for a republican. i voted for bush twice. mes going to take a lot for to vote republican again because the way that they have been acting. host: take a look at reaction from donald trump tweeting this. biden made the correct decision for him and his family. personally, i would rather run against tiller because her record is so bad." james gilmore. "biden decision means dems are left with clinton, sanders. socialist's policies would hurt those they claim they want to help." then you have rinse previous -- reince priebus saying that the vp's decision is a major blow for dems. strongest candidate gone. party now saddled with scandal ridden clinton. we divided the lines by clinton suppo

why is bernie sanders to effective? >> he is bringing up topics that are pertinent that will not outlast this presidency but in the following presidency. >> he's a socialist. >> do you have an issue with that? >> we're a socialist country in many ways. >> how many of you think america -- raise your hand if you think america is a socialist country. >> we don't like our police and firefighters. >> just want to know. megyn? this is a chance for fox news viewers to see people they otherwise don't see. they're going to choose the democratic nominee. and based on tonight they like bernie sanders. >> we shall see how that gets reflected. frank great to see you. thank you to your guests. i just heard from our panel of voters during the debate, you'll see debbie wasserman-shultz will join us and share her take on the debate when one test >>> joining me now with her reaction is debbie wasserman-shultz. great to see you tonight, madam. >> thank you, megyn. >> the vice chairman of the dnc decided she was disinvited after calling fo

for bernie, for hillary. to show to be per swasive to those republican, independent, anybody thinking of maybe going other than the norm. >> i'm not sure they can do anything to brick in republicans today but bernie sanders and hillary clinton, first and foremost, do no harm. make no mistakes. for hillary clinton she's got to show that she is human, that she's capable of exhibiting human emotion. that she can connect with the american public. she's got to dispel some of the problems. remember the word cloud on her. untrustwort untrustworthy. liar. she's got to address those issues. she's going to tak have to tack the e-mail issue. bernie sanders has to show he's more than the 74-year-old scary socialist from vermont vth. >> and let's talk about the carly fiorina moments. who is poised to do it. >> any of these candidates. here is the thick. the fiorina moment was a fiorina flop. he performed terrific in the debates and zoomed up to 15%. and guess what? in week's poll she's back down to 6. why? she didn't tell

these people who love bernie sanders, love bernie sanders. anybody who goes after bernie sanders on that stage is going to risk alienating those voters. they don't want to do that. >> i'll say this. carson has not been an attack dog of the debates and he's at the top of the polls. fiorina was not an attack dog in the debate. she had her moments where she had to respond to attacks and she's at the top of the republican polls. i don't think necessarily being on the attack is what gets you and i would say hillary clinton still has -- democrats have great feelings for hillary clinton. if someone thinks they're going to make their mark tonight attacking hillary clinton in a democratic primary where she has so much democratic support, i think they're barking up the wrong team. >> thanks so much for coming. appreciate it. and i think you endorsed ben carson. >> brad also said he was going to jump in this pond. just saying. >> do not miss a minute of the action, the cnn debate, the very first democratic debate. begins at 8:30 p.m. eastern time only o

>> bernie sanders by far. he explained how we got to the situation we are in today and how obama coursed through the economic collapse and what we need to do to change it. he's the only candidate on stage who could explain this in the clearest terms. >> bernie sanders. he put it in personal terms and t tapped in. >> what about -- who was the loser when it comes to the economy? >> hillary. he can't get away from wall street. of all of the candidates on the republican and democratic side there is no candidate that has accepted more money from wall street than hillary clinton. she will not be able to get away from this. this will be the key issue that will probably lose her the election. >> this is a kumbaya moment. hillary said something that will be used against her in attack ad after attack ad. i represented wall street. i started salivating waiting for the general election because i am running attack ads against her and she shot herself in the foot. >> what about immigration? that's a hot topic this election

to her right, senator bernie sanders. he has been given hillary clinton a run for her money in the polls. it will be interesting to watch them go head to head. the other two will try to have a breakout moment. martin o'malley, chaffee, jim webb. they will be looking for break-out moments on tuesday night. the potential flash points between hillary clinton and bernie sanders, one of those will be on the iraq war. in the last 24 hours, sanders has been reminding supporters he voted against the iraq war and hillary clinton voted for the iraq war. the battle royale between hillary clinton and barack obama back in 2008. that cost her in 2008 with the democratic party. "the x factor" is vice president joe biden, does he join this debate tuesday night? i noticed off stage here in las vegas, here inside the wynn hotel there is an extra podium just in case vice president biden decides to join this debate. if he does, it will make for fascinating political television. >> all right. he's welcome if he wants to get on the stage. jim

so two members backing bernie sanders. of course the clinton team says they have more than 100 members of congress backing her. wolf. >> all right. thanks very much, john berman with that report. republican hopefuls may take some time out from their constant attacks on one another to watch the democrats go at it. let's go to our political reporter sara murray. sara, donald trump is already sounding off about this showdown tomorrow night. what's he saying? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. all eyes will be on the democrats tomorrow. and that includes donald trump's. he says he's going to be tuning in for the debate. here's what he had to say. >> i'm not rooting for anybody. i just want to see what they have to say. there are a lot of bad ideas out there, but i want to see what they have to say. i think it's going to be interesting to see. you have three of them that are, you know, registered very low. but i think it's going to be interesting for at least the first ten minutes. >> now, trump said he'd be willing to go up agai

bernie sanders has an electability issue.o prove on that stage tonight is he's up against hillary clinton whom people have known nationally for decades and who is a former secretary of state, that he can lead the country particularly on foreign policy issues. which we haven't heard a lot. >> stand by, guys. we're just a little bit more than two hours away from the start of this cnn democratic presidential debate here at the wynn hotel in las vegas. all eyes tonight are on the front run arunner hillary clint bernie sanders. whatever you're doing, plan well and enjoy life... ♪ or, as we say at unitedhealthcare insurance company, go long. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company... go long. when you're not confident your company's data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see things others can't. mitigating risks across your business. leaving yo

for bernie sanders, we saw earlier numbers today.oorly with african-american voters. hillary clinton is dominating amongst that key voting bloc inside democratic primaries. he needs to make inroads with them. this is an enormous opportunity. half the job is showing up and tomorrow night they'll have a great opportunity because of that. >> are you surprised how well bernie sanders is doing compared to the other three former governor of maryland, former senator from virginia? governor from rhode island, they're registering one or two or 3% if that. >> sometimes they're getting beat by the margin of error. the marger erin of error is tw they're getting beat by that. something is happening in this country. bernie sanders has tapped into it. there's a real populous. if elizabeth warren had come into this field, she would probably be 50%. there is something happening. i think that we may be underestimating how much of an appeal he can make. if you put this guy, unlike hillary clinton who you might love, the more you see of bernie sanders,

no sh no, it is not clinton or bernie.off the action there, and she is going to be singing the national anthem for the democratic debate, and our coverage is going to be kicking offt at 5:30. and if you think of celebrities and who they endorse, think of oprah winfrey and who she e endorsed, and if you want to know who is going to vote for whom, tune into kyung lah. >> reporter: presidential politics and celebrities go hand in hand and then this -- >> i am voting for trump! >> reporter: fandom meets a superstar thanks for the current celebrity taking on a new calculus. >> president bernie. >> and sarah vil verman is not the only supporter there of bernie sanders. he has a list of 150 celebrity backers including flea are from the red hot chili peppers and danny devito. and not to be outdone katy perry even vol unteered to write hillary's theme song, and kim kardashian -- >> well, it is a kind of affirming the existing beliefs. if you are waivering about a candidate. ♪ >> reporter: a measurable effect. and remember 2008, man

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from our sponsors. ♪ john: last night was not bernie sander's next. clinton campaign prepared big-time for the debate. the viewers were able to see that clearly. sanders, not so much. there were times when it showed. was take a look at one of the big moments last night where clinton took off the gloves and got the upper hand, and sanders on the subject of capitalism. sen sanders: we should look to countries like denmark, sweden, and norway, and learn what they have a college for the working people. >> you don't consider yourself a capitalist, though. sen. sanders: do i consider myself part of the casino capitalist process, where so much have so much -- and so much has a little, where wall street greed and recklessness has wrecked the economy? no i don't. >> anyone else on the stage that is not a capitalist? sec. clinton: let me follow up on that. when i think about capitalism, i think about all the small business start ied. we have the freedom in our country to do that and to make a good living for themselves and are families. i don't think we should

i love that bernie sanders comment.i got myself a hard-working, wonderful companion, and here we are 53 years later. and a dynasty, actually. >> the next debate, with all due respect, swihart, i know what the problems are. everybody who watches these debates has an interest in what they are doing. i haven't heard one solution in any of the debates so far. >> no solutions. >> nobody is telling us how to reduce the debt, how they will take care of the mentally ill, how to fix the criminal justice system. they throw the ideas out. i don't have to hear that. i'm going to watch the ball game from now on. >> the former philly guy, chase utley come up or down? >> oh jeez. let's put it this way, i am a tie cobb fan, so i'm with him. >> he was not a nice guy. anyway, i like chase, but i have a problem with this. thanks to carolyn goodman. what a charmer. what a charmer. you too. former mayor, oster goodman, who built this place! up next, the line on these democratic candidates, who's going to win it? within the last hour, senato

bernie sanders will be standing to her right. martin o'malley to her left, jim web and lincoln chafey on the ends. it starts tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. and cheryl crow will sing the anthem and she's excited to be there for the debate and we are, as well. we are talking about the candidates' road to las vegas, what they need to do tomorrow night and how they are getting ready tonight. i want to start with brianna keilar. what does hillary clinton, brianna, been doing in the last couple of days and what message has she been trying to get across? >> she's been down as we say in the last couple of days here. last few days, actually, anderson, she was campaigns last week in new hampshire and iowa and met with black lives matter activists in d.c. on thursday and then she went down on friday, saturday, sunday and so she's had some time to prep in ea earnest. her message here is to try to cut through the politics. she's spent so much of this early part of her campaign dealing with this e-mail controversy about her practicing on e-mail while s

one thing bernie sanders hates is talking about himself. he doesn't like answering personal questions when reporters ask him. he's got a lifetime in civil rights. he's got a lifetime in politics. he needs to share a little bit more of who he is with democratic voters. and also let them know why somebody who is a democratic socialist can actually be elected president of the united states. he has to look presidential and lift the veil a little bit on who he is. >> martin o'malley, jim webb, lincoln chafee, the other three candidates who will be on the stage, they've got a tough assignment tonight. >> they do. because they see the recent example of carly fiorina on the republican side. it was in an undercard debate. they saw somebody low on the polls can make themselves for relevant in the race. she's still in the middle of the pack, but she went from nowhere to the middle of the pack. they're thinking what's my breakthrough, how do i make a connection? the question is, do i go after hillary clinton because there's a risk in doing that if you'

bernie is talking about.s something that not only has drawn me there and he's a friend. but i think as other members begin to also hear from their constituents as other members begin to look at what the motivation that bernie is creating across the country, i think more and more people will begin to give very very serious consideration to his campaign. >> well you have said the word "consistency" a couple of times. do you see that as the distinguishing characteristic between bernie sanders and hillary clinton? >> no i want to be also -- i think bernie has been great at making sure that he sticks to the issues. and he has an historic record with those issues. he's been good to stick with the issues. hasn't demonized, degraded any opponents, hilly in particular. and i respect her. formidable person, capable person. but when i mention consistency, the hardest thing in politics is to stay on course. and bernie has done that for decades. so i want to reinforce that message because i think bernie is absolutely corr

i think bernie sanders did well, too, but i think she outpitched bernie sanders, and bernie sanders let her off the hook a little bit on the e-mail issue but hillary clinton was very strong and i thought anderson cooper's questions were great, direct and aggressive. she handled them very well. >> let me ask you this. as i said, by most accounts hillary clinton won the night and if you look at social media which many times tend to be younger people although facebook the average age is like 45, but younger people would be voting. in our live voting, not an official poll, just some results from last night, bernie sanders was the clear winner, like 75% to 18 or 20% over hill hi. where's the disconnect there? >> that's interesting. that's the level of excitement, especially for a new candidate, a candidate that's been around. he's been in the house and senate, but america is just getting to know bernie sanders, and he has an attraction like ron paul did, rand paul's father, where he attracted a lot of younger voters, so i think that those younger voters are going to the online poll. same thi

she pushed bernie sanders all over the stage.he other three candidates made , i think very little impact. , she is in a better place than she was. if she can get to this benghazi hearing strong and put this e-mail behind her, she will be in a good place headed into iowa and new hampshire. mark: i gave her an "a" and i don't normally give "a" on debate performances. it was not flawless, but it was so strong. particularly, compared to the other folks. the next closest i gave was to bernie at "b-" which is generous given how bad his performance was. hillary proved that she is a great debater, as she was in 2008. she was a lot like mitt romney. thinksairs carefully, about what she wants to say. there wasn't anybody who came in last night that had the experience and preparation that she had. look them up. i do know how this will affect bernie's numbers in iowa or new hampshire, but she has a lot on the line and performed brilliantly. john: she has a lot of flaws as a candidate, we agree. but she has some real strengths, and debating i

i thought bernie was off, he was not doing so well. thought the other people should not even be up there, to be honest with you. a couple of them were ridiculous. >> she got bailed out by bernie sanders, who said "enough for that!" got a big laugh, and moved on. what do you make of that? >> they may not care about it, but the people in this country do. if you watch the debate, it looked like something from the early 1980's, a liberal versus liberal debate about who will give away the most free stuff. >> it was interesting they didn't go after her on the e-mail issue. i would have taken her to task on that. if i win the nomination, trust me, this would not end. john: then we have the consensus from the conservative media estblishment, fox news and the wall street journal editorial board, which came down on the side of the notion that hillary won the debate, only because there were no strong challengers on the stage. let's listen to that. >> the overarching message you took? >> hillary clinton is going to be the nominee. >> it showed the

dems favor hillary clinton by a 16-point margin over bernie sanders. clinton is supported by half the likely caucusgoers. sanders by roughly a third and joe biden if he runs by 12%. without biden, clinton's number swells to 58%, sanders inches up to 36%. no one else gets more than 3%. and south carolina, take a look, noncandidate biden claims second place with a quart he of the likely vote and clinton still dominates. without biden it's not even a contest. clinton's support surges to 70% versus 20% for sanders. we'll talk more about all of that in just a moment, first, i bring in jim acosta in the wynn hotel in the las vegas strip. set the stage for us, so to speak. what are the topics and the format? >> hi, pam, you can see the debate stage is almost set. we've had cnn crews in this auditorium for the last 48 hours working day and night, putting the pieces to the puzzle together. you can see the podiums behind me. we have photographs on all these podiums. lincoln chafee, the former governor of rhode island, martin o'malley, the former governor of mary

>> bernie sanders. >> who do you think won the debate tonight?ght, so it looks like we have -- what is that, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven -- so is looks like the young millennial voters here said bernie sanders won the debate with a few votes out there for hillary clinton. >> the former senior adviser to president obama made this observation on twitter, clinton had a great night of sanders winning the focus group and old line polls but the pundits saying he lost. alex wagner, who won? i give up. >> this is what we were realized about this campaign season, there is someone that the media thinks is winning or losing and then there is the reality like the grass roots or the voters. ben carson is on the right and had more facebook fans than hillary clinton and bernie sanders combined, right? he is the darling of the grass roots. bernie sanders obviously has some appeal that we in the media are not picking up on to the degree that the headlines yesterday all touted exactly the same thing, which is hillary clinton won and by and large all th

i saw nurses for bernie, feel the bern. he gets a lot of passion from people. bernie sanders does not run away from being honest about who he is. one of the things he said he is, he's very honest about the word socialist. let's a let the viewers hear it in his own words. >> are you a capitalist? >> no, i'm a democratic socialist. democratic associatism has a government that reflects the ordinary people. democratic socialism similar to throughout europe, no i don't believe that government should control everything, but health care should be a right of all people. i do believe that college education should be affordable to all people. >> democratic socialist. so a gallup poll said that half of americans would not vote for a socialist and to a lot of people whether you put a -- you know, an adjective of democratic in front of it or not is not relevant. will he back off that word tonight? >> i think, you know, you can talk about that poll, but people are not concerned about the labels. but what they're concerned about is the su