campaign. we're going to beat secretary clinton and everybody else in this campaign on the issues. we don't need dirty tricks. that's not how we run here. >> now, the chairwoman of the dnc said the sanders campaign needs to be blocked at least temporarily until an independent audit was completed. she did not back down either, but as pressure grows from liberal groups here, she'll have to, you know, withstand that, but she denied the dnc was playing any favorites with the clinton campaign. >> i can be quite certain that if the shoe were on the other foot and the clinton campaign had inappropriately accessed sanders' campaign proprietary information, i'm confident that this is the decision that they would expect from us. and it is the same decision that we would make if the shoe were on the other foot. >> we'll see about this feud could spill on to the debate stage when clinton, sanders and martin o'malley are set to meet tomorrow night in new hampshire for the final democratic debate of the year. one campaigner said the campaign is paralyzed. the dnc says it's temporary but that clo

the clinton campaign right now, there's no evidence that anybody on the clinton campaign did the same thing to the sanders campaign. so that punishment is a potentially significant punishment. the longer it goes on, depriving bernie sanders and his campaign of access to that national voter file at this point in the race in particular, they can't afford to have weeks of being denied access to sort of the guts of the party or knowing who's who and what's what. >> getting the cold shoulder right now. mark, let me ask you about this. they are trying to contain the damage from the sanders camp on this. we just had the shot up, we expect them to be coming out to talk about this, but how can they recover, especially when they were having good headlines from donations and endorsements. >> i'm fascinated by the response. we saw bernie sanders in that little, our camera with frank thorpe who got him on camera. bernie sanders looked incredibly shaken in that exchange. of course, it will be interesting to see his reaction. i can say that nbc news, we have been able to get some more information. w

fired but today sanders campaign manager jennifer weaver accused the dnc of trying help the clinton campaign. >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. this is unacceptable. individual leaders of the dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want but they are not going to sabotage our campaign. one of the strongest grass root campaigns in modern history. >> immediately after weaver's press conference dnc party chair debbie wasserman schultz, if sanders files had been accessed. the problem is that dnc chair's alleged conflict of interest. debbie wasserman-schultz in addition to being dnc chair, is one of hillary clinton's toughest supporters. limiting the number of democratic debates, most of the few debates that have been scheduled have been scheduled for weekends. that means fewer people watching and less of an opportunity for clinton challengers to break through. the fight with the dnc comes as bernie sanders appears to be gaining some momentum. his campaign has now collected more than 2 million individual contributio

and when it did, the sanders campaign improperly accessed clinton's private campaign data. documents obtained and reviewed by nbc news appeared to show that at least four individuals affiliated with the sanders campaign conducted searches and saved the clinton's campaign's list of potential voters over a period of more than 40 minutes. the dnc responded by cutting off the sanders camp's access to that crucial data which the clinton campaign alleged had been "stolen." casting sanders staffers as "kids in a candy store who ran wild." in a statement the clinton campaign said "we are asking that the sanders campaign and the dnc work expeditiously to ensure our data is not in the sanders campaign account and that the sanders campaign only have access to their own data." the sanders campaign for its part did not deny accessing the data and today they fired national data director jash oretsky for his role in the incident. but the campaign also lashed out at the dnc, casting the decision to withhold data as wildly inappropriate and as part of a broader nefarious plot to coordinate

better than hillary clinton's campaign. he groundff in iowa, supplemented by a norman's outpouring of volunteers who have organized through social media and other means. we have the resources to run a full-fledged campaign. and we will have resources for states thereafter. we are superbly positioned to do well in the process and get in the position to win the nomination. john: we talked in the last day about the perception, even on a , theday like yesterday perception among a lot of political elite that bernie sanders is basically doomed. how big of a problem do you think that is? money theere raising traditional way from bundlers, it would be a huge problem. but because we don't raise money that way, it is not a problem at all. this perception that bernie sanders has too much ground to saw what gary hart did when he won the new hampshire primary. i have worked for other candidates who have won both iowa and new hampshire. i understand the momentum out of those early victories, and i think we can demonstrate to the people th

after a glitch allowed his staffers to view voter information compiled by hillary clinton's campaign. it's something sanders' campaign manager jeff weaver says the candidate doesn't need."i can tell you that this campaign does not possess any data, does not retain any data, doesn't want any data. we're running a clean campaign."sanders' campaign filed a federal lawsuit against the d-n-c, while also providing the committee with information on how it used and disposed of the data. the glitch occured on wednesday. it enabled sanders' staffers to view voter data gathered by the clinton campaign for about 45 minutes. sanders' data director josh uretsky (you- ret-skee) was fired by the campaign. he told cbs news he was *not* trying to snoop."my goal was to create a record of what was wrong so that i could accurately assess both for the campaign and for the dnc // what my understanding was of what was wrong.uretsky was fired and other sanders staffers are under investigation. the d-n-c lifted the suspension late friday night, but says it will as if you've found a house with an unlocked front

i can be quite certain that if the shoe were on the other foot, and the clinton campaign had inappropriatelyessed sanders' pro pry tear -- propri information, that is the same decision they would want us to make if the shoe were on the other foot. >> jeff weir, the campaign manager says it is the dnc's fault, and the vendor's fault, and that they hired a vendor to protect all of the campaign information, and so incompetent and as a result some young staffers working with the bernie sanders' campaign has gotten carried away and has been filed, and that it is your fault for not having an appropriate vendor. >> first of all, no question, and i want to make sure that we are dealing with facts that are not in dispute. there is no question, that ngp van who manages the voter file when they were applying a software patch, there was a window that opened up to allow each campaign to see one another's proprietary information, and the difference here is that just like when you leave that front door unlocked, if you are going to be ethical and responsible, you don't go into the house, and take things th

dnc is now actively trying to undermine our campaign, looks like they're trying to help the clinton campaign. does he have a point? >> they cut sanders off from data collection, the grass roots effort of the campaign, debbie wasserman schultz said it was the only alternative she had. but it does seem slightly overreach. >> when 4 people watch on saturdays, couldn't this have been handled quietly? >> this controversy with sanders it could have been handled better i think, it would never be quiet. the primaries going to be in a few week, either candidate or campaign accuses the other of. hillary clinton isn't talking about this much, i don't think she'll talk about it much in the debate. >> repeatedly accessing sensitive information, they also said their data was stolen so i guess you don't think it's a good idea for them to escalate matters especially since hillary is so far ahead. >> no i do not. it will make the sanders supporters angry. she needs those people. iowa and new hampshire are going to be crucial. >> the dnc says it had no choice. if sanders campaign did take portion information

the clinton campaign has sent out an e-mail saying it's the dnc tipping the scales for the hillary clinton campaign. national press secretary for the clinton campaign, four users linked to the sanders campaign steal data from the clinton campaign, one is fired. i guess the others get a pat on the back. joining me now, luis miranda. thank you for coming on. >> good to be with you. >> let's start with the first allegation from the sanders' campaign that you are locking them out of their own information, that it's one thing to punish them, but you're locking them out from their own information. is that true? >> i think it's important to understand that the facts are pretty clear. the sanders campaign has already fired one staffer and jeff weaver mentioned there may be action against the others, because they inappropriately and systematically accessed data belonging to another campaign and that's a very serious issue. we sign the agreements with the campaigns to access the system. there's a set of requirements and there's a protocol that has to be followed. so we're following the protocol to m

. >> if the shoe were on the other foot and the clinton campaign had accessed sanders' campaign, sanders would expect me to react in the same way. >> reporter: today the sanders campaign filed a lawsuit against the democratic party, seeking an injunction, saying it is ham strung without access to its own voter data. sanders supporters exploded online. it is a classic showdown. the outside versus the establishment. sanders a loner with little organization and no entourage, firing up millennials. >> bernie, how are >> reporter: attracting huge crowds. now closing in on clinton in iowa. and slightly ahead in new hampshire. tonight the clinton campaign accused the sanders team of stealing its data in what is the first really nasty confrontation two two rivals who have been, until now, remarkably civil. and 24 hours from now they have to face each other in a debate. lester? >> andrea, thanks. >>> and donald trump is making headlines again. this time with eye-brow raising new comments about vladimir putin. as a mutual admiration grows between the gop pres

clinton said she will not here is a statement from her campaign. it reads, quote hillary clinton will not apologize to trump for pointing out how his hateful rhetoric helps recruit more terrorists. how does this land with voters? clinton is the least trust worthy candidate and now trump calling her a liar. how does that land with voters? >> the most interesting part of that hillary clinton statement is the first two words, hell no. this is a campaign at risk knowing she's in the clear frontrunner position in the democratic race. here she is taking the biggest swing that she is taking throughout the entire campaign at donald trump. so, it is a clear indication that hillary clinton's campaign is aware that none of trump's supporters are ever going to back hillary clinton. donald trump might be doing well in the republican primary, but his favorable or unfavorable rating indicates he has difficulty expanding that appeal to independents and moderates and especially to democrats. he is a reviled figure on the left. clinton is playing the role of uniter i

and the hillary clinton campaign accusing the sanders campaign of criminal theft. it's this big fight over data in the democratic party. a data breach. it is a strange fight. it is ongoing right now as i speak. we're going to have the latest on that in just a moment tonight. but we are going to begin our show not with that story. we are beginning our show with a bit of a special report. we cover a lot of crazy stuff on the show. and there has been a lot of this show. we just had our seventh birthday this year, which means that in cable news years this show is basically like a 340-year-old dog now. but in all of the craziness we have covered over all of these years there is one thing that has happened in one american state which stands out to me above all others. and it stands out to me because i maintain that it really is the single most radical policy, the single most radical piece of legislation put into law by any state in the country in our modern american political history. even if you know nothing else about how the united states of america is governed, you k

clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon said the data was breached "by sanders campaign staff in 25 searches by four different into the sanders' campaign account." meanwhile, a new fox news poll reveals clinton has a 56-34 lead over sanders with former maryland governor martin o'malley at 2% among democratic primary voters. this comes the day before the third democratic presidential debate. in the new york times yesterday, frank bruni criticized "the invisible democratic debates", and wrote quote: "what a shamefully imbalanced primary season this has been... the democratic candidates have, in contrast, hidden in a closet." and a political analyst in the granite state says tomorrow night's debate should have limited impact. smith says: "i don't think the debate is going to be critical for new hampshire. first off it's the saturday before christmas - on a saturday night nobody's going to be watching this. people are going to be learning about it by reading the paper the next day rather than seeing the debate." emanuel on cam: the campaigns of sanders and former maryland governor ma

and the clinton campaign that you no longer possess any of the clinton campaign's data? campaign in official capacity does not possess any data, does not retain any disoot doot, doesn't want any of their data. we are running a clean campaign. >> reporter: but the d.n.c. insists that the sanders camp has not turned over the clinton data that it took, and that until it does, it will not be allowed to access even its own voter information on the shared database. scott, the clinton campaign weighed weighed in late today accusing its opponent of theft. >> pelley: nancy cordes in washington for us tonight. nancy, thanks. if you're one of those who despaired that washington exwrid lock would never end, well, today, congress lurched forward. democrats and republicans in both houses compromised on a trillion-dollar bill to fund the government for the next nine months. it's the biggest achievement yet for the new house speaker, paul ryan. previous spending fights have shut the government down or come close during fights over such the president signed the bill this afternoon. >> i a

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off sander's access to his own voter profile, potentially crippling his campaign. >> if the shoe were on the other foot and clinton had accessed sander's campaign, sanders would expect me to react in the same way. >> reporter: today sanders filed an in junction saying it is ham strung without access to its own voter data. sanders supporters exploded online. it is a classic showdown. the outside versus the establishment. and no entourage, firing up millennials. attracting huge crowds. now closing in on clinton in iowa. and slightly ahead in new hampshire. tonight the clinton campaign accused the sanders' campaign of stealing data in a nasty rivalry between two that have been civil and 24 hours from now they have to face each other in a debate. lester. >> andrea, thanks. >>> and donald trump is making headlines again. with eye-brow raising new comments about vladimir putin. as a mutual admiration grows between the front-runner and the russian leader who has been a major thorn in the side of the u.s. nbc's katy tur has details. >> reporter: from russia with love. vladimir putin famous online for his afaction for topl

-- by hillary clinton's campaign. the director said he wasn't trying to spy. >> i was trying to correct a wrong so i could accurately assess both the campaign and for the dnc and what my >> reporter: he was fired and the dnc says in reality four different users examining clinton's voter files from ten exporting data. >> this campaign in its official capacity does not possess any data, does not retain any data, doesn't want any of their data. we're running a clean campaign. >> reporter: tonight the clinton campaign calls it all an egregious breach of data. the debate should be interesting tomorrow. kate, back to you. >> thank you. >>> tonight there are new charges in the murder of bela bond, the little girl formally known as baby dough. a grand jury has in-- doe. a grand jury has indicted her mother and boyfriend. she's accused of collecting state benefits for her daughter even though she knew her little girl was dead. the body of bela rushed in june. >>> the fired operator of the is not giving up his job without a fig

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sanders campaign, we were informed by our vendor, accessed the proprietary information of the clinton campaignnow -- >> did you learn from the vendor or did you learn from the sanders campaign about this breach? >> we learned from the vendor. >> and at this point, one staffer has been let go as a result of this. you're shaking your head. go ahead. >> well, yes, my understanding from the sanders campaign is that they have let one staffer go. you know, we're still analyzing the depths of this breach. our vendor is saying that more than one staff person on the sanders campaign who had access to the voter file and this information actually viewed it and accessed it. so, that's why an independent audit is going to be so important. and tamron, also, i want to be clear, you know, what we're doing is following our memorandum of understanding, our agreement we have with each presidential campaign. they are prohibited from accessing another campaign's proprietary information, and we have the ability to suspend that campaign's access to the voter file in order to make sure that we can preserve the integr

the dnc took action after a sanders campaign's effort improperly accessed clinton's -- sanders campaign staffer improperly accessed clinton's voter files, taking advantage of a glitch in the system. the sanders campaign fired the staffer involved and the dnc has restored access to the files. sanders apologized for the breach during saturday's debate, which focused largely on foreign policy. clinton and sanders sparred over the role of the u.s. military. the united states must lead, but it is not the policeman of the world. the united states must not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. the united states at the same time cannot successfully fight assad and isis. isis is the major priority. >> if the united states does not lead, there is not a leader. there is a vacuum. amy: both the o'malley and sanders campaigns have accused the dnc of trying to help clinton by limiting the number of debates and scheduling them on low-viewership periods like saturday nights. according to nielsen, just 6.7 million people tuned in to abc on saturday, a fraction of the 18 million who watche

>> i think the clinton campaign will use this as a sort of moral club. campaign i think is for reasons we just discussed very much in the right when they say that the process, if general, tilts in the favor of hillary clinton. her husband was the president. everything that they could do to help her seems to have been done now the clinton campaign, instead of feeling a little defensive about that. hey, you are fought playing fair. i think they will hold on to that for as long as they can. the sanders campaign will have to live with it. the reality what they did was, in fact, wrong. it wasn't critical, it's not a game changer, it won't change the outcome of a primary. this is something they will seem on and move on as long as you possibly can. >> you remember in the first debate, bernie sanders said people are tired of hearing about your dam e-mails. is hillary clinton going to be as gracious talking about the voter base? >> you know what, i think it depends on the moderators, how they hand him the questioning about this. i don't think that either hillary

right now it's not the clinton campaign who's his biggest obstacle, he says it's his own party. the campaign trail has both bernie sanders and hillary clinton on the attack. clinton's campaign is accusing sanders of stealing secret voter information accessed through a breach of the database, maintained by the democratic national committee. meanwhile, sanders is accusing the dnc of sabotage, after the committee barred sanders access to his own voter information as a consequence. >> we are running a clean campaign. we're going to beat secretary clinton and everybody else in this campaign on the issues. we don't know dirty tricks. that's not how we run it here. >> reporter: philadelphia resident and bernie sanders staffer josh aretsky is at the center of the controversy. >> we tried to, basically, audit the system internally north to assess the scope and the impact. assuming that our data was equally at risk to all the other data that was at risk. >> reporter: nbc news learned for 40 minutes the sanders campaign searched key clinton voters. uretski says he wasn't trying to be sneaky

staffer has been fired for assessing confi-- accessing confidential information on hillary clinton's campaign. craig boswell on all the fallout. >> reporter: bernie sanders campaign fired its national data director after he accessed confidential voter files from hillary clinton's campaign. the dnc maintains the master list of voter data and rents it out to national campaigns. it includes voter information and history including past support and donations. each campaign then adds its own proprietary information gathered from field workers and volunteers. a firewall is supposed to keep campaigns from viewing the information gathered by their opponents. but on wednesday, a software glitch caused the firewalls to come down for about a half-hour exposing voter files to all the campaigns. the bernie sanders campaign said, after discussion with the dnc, it became clear that one of our staffers accessed some modeling data from another campaign. that behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was fired. the dnc has suspended the sanders campaign access to the database until it determines it no longer ha

she lies about everything. >> clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon offered a terse reply to that demand. "hell no. hillary clinton will not be apologizing to donald trump for correctly pointing out how his hateful rhetoric only helps isis recruit more terrorists." and just a few hours after releasing that statement fallon made it clear that the campaign was not backing down. >> if we had heard other republican candidates standing up to trump before now, then maybe we wouldn't be in this place where he's still considered the front-runner and he still continues to get away with this hateful rhetoric that is actually making it less safe here in the united states of america. >> joining me now is communications director for hillary clinton's campaign, jennifer palmieri. great to see you, jen. let me ask you -- >> thanks for having me, alex. >> let me ask you first about donald trump's latest comments just a few moments ago. does hillary clinton want to run against donald trump? >> i don't think i want to betray -- betray that -- our view on that. although there is a lot about running against

individual leaders of the dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want but they are not going to sabotage our campaign. there the eruption came after dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz one of hillary clinton's top supporters announce they'd the bernie sanders campaign was being suspended, on information that the campaigns rely on every day. the dnc decided to block his access due to a software glitch that accessed information that belonged to the clinton campaign. >> would i askfully sanders supporters or anyone who is formulating an opinion about the actions that we've taken dom put the shoe on the other foot. fit were the clinton campaign that accessed the proprietary information of the sanders campaign you can be darned sure understandably that his supporters would expect that we would take the exact same action. >> but sanders people said they were the ones that told the dnc about the software problem and fired joshua oretsky. never viewed or shared the clinton files. >> we had to assume that our data was equally exposed. and you know, updated reports show that it was. and we just wanted to docume

we asked the clinton campaign where they got that from, they have not offered any direct evidence that has happened. donald trump tweeted overnight, simply, hillary clinton lied. >> okay, jon karl, thanks very >>> let's talk to mr. trump right now. we saw that tweet, mr. trump. are you going to stand by it? >> of course i'm standing by it. it was vetted. fox news went out in great detail and looked for it and there's no such video. they may make one up knowing the clintons and knowing hillary. she made it up. it was a sound bite. just like bernie sanders lied. he went out and said things that i never said that about mexicans. i have great relationships with the hispanics. i didn't say what he said. they make up things in the world of politics. they're all talk no action. they're politicians. >> you sure you want to go down that road, the fact-checkers have called you out on false candidate? >> i'll go down that road. many of the things that i have said, i think about all of them, they have been controversial at not controversial in the end because people start to say, trump is actually

the clinton campaign communicions director of the clinton campaign.o begin with secretary clinton giving it to the republican candidates last night. your response to donald trump this morning? >> you know, donald trump i think was talking -- what secretary clinton was saying last night, one of the many dangerous things about donald trump is that his hot rhetoric saying we shouldn't allow muslim refugees is being used -- an international group that monitors social media on isis -- >> but there have been no videos. >> what they have said, they're using him, he's being used in social media by isis as propaganda. don't have a particular video in mind but he's being used in social media. what they haven't found is a video that you know mr. trump keeps talking about this alleged mystery video of thousands of people in new jersey cheering the collapse of the world trade center. it's true he's being used in social media by isis. >> but to be fair you don't have a video -- >> to help recruiting. i'm not referring to a specific video. but he is being used in so

the clinton campaign this morning calling for that to happen as quickly as possible. erica. >> kristen, what is the feeling this morning? will this come up in the debate? will hillary clinton bring it up? >> reporter: i don't think you will see hillary clinton give bernie sanders a pass in the same way that he gave her over her e-mails. at the same time, she is allowing her campaign to play the bad guy here. to really go for the jugular. that is allowing her to stay above the fray. think about it. she is leading nationally by if you look at the polls in new hampshire, sanders is leading clinton by ten points. she wants to ding him without being aggressive. >> you mentioned the numbers, kristen. there is a lot of focus with the lack of democratic debates, but the way we are moving into the debates and whether or not bernie sanders and martin o'malley can do much tonight to raise stature in the upcoming contests. is there thinking this could help in some ways? >> reporter: well, it could to some extent. to give you a sense of what we will see, you will see bernie sanders

pat rynard with iowa starting line blog, but you used to also work for hillary clinton's campaign. >> pat: yeah and number of campaigns that used this software. >> sabrina: so first of all, what's your take away from this, how wrong was it that bernie sanders possibly had access and potentially looked at that information? >> pat: sure, well over all it's unprecedented on a number of fronts. number one, that there was a breech in the firewall between the campaigns. that the clinton people were able to see a sanders stuff and sanders people able to see clinton's stuff. sanders staffers and not just any sanders staffer, but their national data director, actually used it to run a bunch of lists of the clinton data. and number 3, that the sanders campaign access to it has been cut off completely. i've never seen that before. especially this close to an election. >> sabrina: so first of all, i mean how detrimental is it to a campaign to no longer have access to this data? >> pat: sure, i mean you use it all the time. the national voter file, the van they call it, it has everything. it has a

and now, the clinton campaign firing back with two words. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl on the campaign trail. >> reporter: hillary clinton's campaign is say, quote, hell no, she won't apologize for this shot she took at donald trump in the abc news democratic debate. >> he is becoming isis' best recruiter. they are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists. >> reporter: after the debate, clinton's campaign could provide no direct evidence that happened. >> i will demand an apology from hillary. she should apologize. she lies about e-mails. she lies about whitewater. been repeatedly accused of distorting the truth. in fact today, fact-checking watchdog politicfact called his "campaign mistatements," the 2015 lie of the year. they couldn't pick just one, but they cited several, including his claim that muslims in new jersey celebrated on 9/11. cheering. >> reporter: and that president obama wants to take in 250,000 syrian refugees. when the white