and then the democratic national committee made a much bigger mistake, they compounded it. it much worse. listen, jake, for months we've known what's been going on with the democratic national committee. we're having a debate on the saturday night before christmas. i don't think that was chosen to have the maximum viewership, okay. i mean, listen. we've tried to cooperate. but if they're going to do this to us, we're going to stand up publicly and we're going to tell the people what's going on. now, they need to stop it. we just want to talk to voters. i can understand being concerned that bernie sanders is doing so well in new hampshire, so well in iowa that we received the endorsement yesterday from one of the biggest international unions, the communications, a huge progressive organization endorsed us. we've got over 2 million contributions to our campaign. all that happened yesterday. >> right. >> and i can understand people being concerned about his progress. but, you know, to do this to us now so close to the iowa caucuses is wrong. okay. they just need to recognize th

extraordinary, donna, for a democratic presidential campaign to go to federal court and sue the democratic national committee. it's an extraordinary moment. let me repeat the question. do you believe the dnc will fight this lawsuit? >> i'm sure the dnc will. i don't speak on behalf of the democratic party, i'm not the chair of the party. but look, this was a breach. there was a bug that the software company found the bug in the system, they tried to fix it in the time that it was being fixed someone breached it. and they found out that the official was from the sanders campaign. the sanders campaign has fired that official, or fired that staff person, and now i think the parties have to come together. and i think there will be some work done to fix the problem. >> does the sanders campaign have a case? >> well, the sanders campaign believes that this information in the voter file is rightfully theirs. what they're saying here specifically is all of the supporter information, all of the people who are with him and the people who are not with him, they spent all summer gathering in this database. so they belie

the candidates met just one day after the sanders campaign sued the democratic national committee for blocking access to key voter data files. 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

as reid binion is suing the democratic national committee . (jeff weaver/sanders' campaign mgr) "we will be in federal court this immediate relief." bernie sanders' campaign manager, issuing a threat that he made good later... ....suing the democratic national committee friday for cutting off the campaign's access to a crucial voter database. (jeff weaver/sanders' campaign mgr) "the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign: the dustup started after the dnc accused the campaign of exploiting a software glitch to access hillary clinton's confidential voter information. the d-n-c database uses a firewall to separate data gathered by different campaigns... ...but that firewall went down briefly on wednesday, during which time national data director, who was fired after the breach, says he wasn't trying to view clinton's data and no voter information was downloaded... ...but the d-n-c suspended sanders' database access... including access to information the campaign itself collected. (jeff

we'll explain why bernie sanders wants access to the democratic national committee voter database. stay with t-v today bernie sander's presidential cacapaign filed a federal lawsuit to regain access to a democratic national committee voter database. this week the d-n-c tem@orarily barred the sanders campaign from having access to that database. that's because sanders' staff improperly accessed rival hillary clinton's campaign data. the lawsuit says the campaign is now "sustaining irreparable injury and financial losses." sanders campaign manager jeff weaver said earlier friday the dnc was "taking our campaign hostage" by preventing it from accessing the data. he threatened the lawsuit if the party didn't back down. a new a-b-c news - washington post poll shows hillary clinton keeping a commanding lead among the docratic presidential candidates. the poll of registered democrats haha clinton 31 points ahead of bernie sanders. martin o'malley had only five percent. but it's interestinto point t that at this time in 2007, hillary clinton led barack obama by a similar margin. also, even

." >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. >> the dnc brings down the hammer on the sanders campaign after a data breach and the sanders campaign makes devastating charges of its own. >> in this case it looks like they're trying to help the clinton campaign. >> tonight the campaign manager for bernie sanders and dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz join me live. >> the sanders campaign unfortunately doesn't have anything other than bluster at the moment. >> then donald trump responds to putin's praise. >> at least he's a leader. you know, unlike what we have in this country. >> why top republicans say trump went too far. >> our country does plenty of killing also. >> and a report card for the president as he gives his year-end briefing. >> interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter. >> "all in" starts now. >> okay, everybody, i've got to get to "star wars." >>> good evening from new york. i'm alex wagner in for chris hayes. a major rift breaking out today in democratic politics as the bernie sanders campaign took

court against the democratic national committee for breach of contract.er when we were talking to you, you were making serious accusations about the d.n.c. they seem to go broader than the question of what they are doing with their data. is the claiming not only d.n.c. breaching contract with you and doing something unfair, but that the d.n.c. is now trying to in some financial way throttle the sanders campaign? tad: i think they are, john, as much as i regret saying that, i think they are. this has been going on for a while. this is the debate the saturday night before christmas. i don't think that timeslot was picked so we could have maximum viewership. we have tried to cooperate with the d.n.c. it is unfortunate in recent days and weeks we are getting the feeling they are putting more than their finger on the scale. in the case of taking away our voter files, they are putting the foot on the scale against us. john: do you think this is because the d.n.c. and the chairwoman engaged in a clinton protection racket or do they feel sanders must be stopped?

bernie sanders' campaign has filed a lawsuit against the democratic national committee. good evening. jennifer: the sanders campaign says that dnc was taking them hostage and they will lose hundreds of thousands in donations a day.

the democratic national committee cutting off the sanders campaign's access to its sanders. that dnc database is the lifeblood of any campaign, a massive list of voters' names, addresses and past voting habits. each campaign can add their own data for their eyeonly. how people might vote, whether they will vote at all, which voters they want to win over. but wednesday, a software glitch allowed up to four sanders staffers to access clinton's confidential files. and for 40 minutes, they searched through them 25 times using phrases like "turnout" and "primary priority," looking up clinton's information on crucial states like iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. while some say it's the equivalent of a football team ripping a page right out of the opposition's playbook, the sanders staffer involved says he did nothing wrong. >> you're sayingngou never tually saw any of the data that belonged to hillary

democratic dual, presidential candidate bernie sanders and the democratic national committee are locked in a fight over voter information. >> presidential candidate bernie sanders is suing the democratic national committee. his campaign manager says party leaders are trying to undermine his presidential bid. but the dnc said sanders broke the rules. >> on the eve of the final democratic debate of the year, accused hillary clinton of engaging in dirty tricks. >> they are not going to sabotage our campaign. >> the eruption came after dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz one of hillary clinton's top supporters announced the sanders campaign was being suspended from accessing a massive democratic party databases. information that campaigns rely on every day. the dnc said it decided to block sanders access after his campaign stafort staffers accesd information in the clinton campaign. >> forming an opinion of the actions we've taken to put the shoe on the other foot. if it were the clinton campaign that accessed the proprietary information of the sanders campaign you would be darned sure that

las vegas democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders takes the democratic national committee to court. fox's mike emanuel shows us why the vermont senator claims the party is showing favoritism to rival hillary clinton. vermont senator bernie sanders' campaign is fighting back threatening to take the democratic national committee to court. the d-n-c accused the sanders campaign of improperly accessing confidential voter information gathered by rival hillary clinton's campaign. campaign manager jeff weaver came out swinging claiming party leadership is actively favoring clinton. weaver says: "the individual leaders of dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want if the dnc continues to hold our data hostage and attack the heart and soul of our grassroots campaign, we'll be in federal court this afternoon seeking immediate relief." the sanders campaign fired josh uretsky - its national data director, and is blaming the vendor the dnc uses ngp van for dropping its firewall between the candidates' data. the sanders campaign has been suspended from accessing the system -- including

this is part of what bernie sanders and his people have been arguing all along that the democratic national committeeked the deck against them by scheduling these debates in such a way that very, very few people will watch. there are four democratic debates before the new hampshire primary. new hampshire primary, of course, is critical to sanders. four democratic debates before the new hampshire primary. three of them are on weekend nights, on saturday or sunday with small audiences. there's been one democratic debate that -- during the weekday, it got twice as many people as the debate on a saturday night. so the sanders campaign has a point here. >> thank you very much, david gergen. >>> next, one of the towering figures of the last century soon to receive one of the highest earthly honors. we have a report. ♪ at florida's natural, our "straight-from-the-grove" taste... and our straight-from-the-heart holiday greetings... go directly from our family... thank you. ...to yours. great taste. naturally. florida's natural. glad i could help you plan for your retirement. alright, kelly and promise me tha

the democratic national committee and the bernie sanders campaign have reached a deal to restore the candidate's access to voter data. the sanders campaign filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon saying the d-n-c is trying to tilt the election in hillary clinton's favor... by their action, the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. this is unacceptable the d-n-c claims a sanders campaign worker exploited a software error and accessed confidential voter information collected by clinton's team. team sanders says it warned the d-n-c about the software problem months ago... the party's decision to cut off access to its voter database could could have been devastating for senator's campaign. 40:33 this could have an incredibly crippling impact for the caucus 40:39 immediately they can't run walk list, call lists for the volunteers coming in this weekend. 40:45 they can't record whatever data they get from anybody they talk to. 40:50 since much of the caucus is on the ground organizing knowing all that is very important 40:56 not h

erika: and breaking news bernie , sanders presidential campaign suing the democratic national committee. phil: he' s accusing the dnc of

jeff: by their action, the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. this is unacceptable. cynthia: now, the sanders campaign has fired its data director. he says he was just trying to document a security problem, and see if sanders' data was also at risk. and we will be hearing a lot more about this. you can be sure about that. steve: cynthia, thank you very much. so far, neither the clinton nor o'malley campaigns have commented on the data breach. all three candidates meet on the debate stage tomorrow night in new hampshire. the democratic debate starts at from the february 1st iowa caucuses. the iowa democratic party is now getting information out to its hundreds of precincts. and today, they delivered information packets. candidates, and they been working hard. we're just looking forward to having a successful evening, and getting our democrats out talking about the issues. steve: the iowa republican party announced earlier this month that the nearly 1700 locations are locked down. stacey: the head of the department overs

there's been a big push by moveon.org and other sanders supporters to complain that the democratic national committee clearly is quietly supporting hillary clinton in other ways. the democratic national committee has now denied access to these computer lists. how big a deal is it that they don't have access to the computer lists just weeks before the iowa caucus? >> today, tomorrow, through the weekend, not a big deal. if this is something that they don't have access to say in the next week, ten days, well, we're getting close to iowa. this is the stuff, in case you're wondering, this is where democrats, both parties have this, voters lists that will say here's everything we know about this voter and these are the issues he cares about. these are the things they have been accumulating over the years. then for instance the campaigns will then say okay, then they have talked to john smith and found out boy, the issue he cares the most about is, you know, campaign finance reform and maybe the clinton people had knocked on john smith's door and knew this. the bernie people hadn't, you know. this is the t

of the next democratic presidential debate senator bernie sanders campaign is suing the democratic national committee. it wants the committee tore itch state its access to a voter database. bernie sanders campaign filed the lawsuit in federal court late friday afternoon hours after the democratic national committee suspended access to its shared voter database. >> we need our data which has been stolen by the dnc. >> reporter: dnc blocked the sanders camp access after a 45 minute computer glitch on wednesday allowed workers to view information gathered by the clinton campaign. sanders fired data director jo josh, but he insists he wasn't trying to snoop. >> like always to create a record of what was wrong so i can accurately access both the campaign and d inform c what my understanding of what was wrong. >> reporter: dnc says at least for sanders users not only look at voter files from 10 states but saved and exported some clinton data. >> people make mistake leaving their front door unlock also it doesn't mean it's okay to go in to their house and take their stuff. >> sanders learn of the breach 24

of the next democratic presidential debate senator bernie sanders campaign is suing the democratic national committeeit wants the committee tore itch state its access to a voter database. bernie sanders campaign filed the lawsuit in federal court late friday afternoon hours after the democratic national committee suspended access to its shared voter database. >> we need our data which has been stolen by the dnc. >> reporter: dnc blocked the sanders camp access after a 45 minute computer glitch on wednesday allowed workers to view information gathered by the clinton campaign. sanders fired data director jo josh, but he insists he wasn't trying to snoop. >> like always to create a record of what was wrong so i can accurately access both the campaign and d inform c what my understanding of what was wrong. >> reporter: dnc says at least for sanders users not only look at voter files from 10 states but saved and exported some clinton data. >> people make mistake leaving their front door unlock also it doesn't mean it's okay to go in to their house and take their stuff. >> sanders learn of the breach 24 ho

. >> but debbie wasserman schultz has a more serious role as chair of the democratic national committee. >> i really just want donald trump to keep talking. >> and, california congressman dana rohrabacher. he hasn' t changed his views on climate change, and he' s not about to now. >> it' s all bogus. we' ve been given bogus numbers. >> plus, arab american stand-up comic dean obeidallah uses humor to challenge stereotypes about muslims. but today' s news from the middle fernando: i' m fernando espuelas. welcome to "matter of fact." as chair of the democratic national committee, deborah wasserman schultz is always in the spotlight, whether she is leading the charge for her own party or under attack from the opposition. her strategic decisions will help determine the outcome of the next election. donald trump recently said you were crazy and neurotic. is he right? >> well i really just want , donald trump to keep talking. his misogynistic alienating comments through the duration of this campaign have shown exactly where the core of the republican party is today. instead of the rest of the

but the democratic national committee has now suspended sanders from accessing his own voter data. eric: president obama will meet with reporters at the white house today, before leaving on his annual hawaiian vacation. bernardino to meet privately with the families of the 14 victims of the shooting rampage. he is encouraging americans to be vigilant over the holiday season. meanwhile, a friend of the couple who carried out the shooting in california will be in court on monday. enrique marquez is charged with buying the assault rifles they used and conspiring with syed farook to plot attacks in 2011 and 2012. elizabeth: already beatified nun mother teresa will now become a saint. pope francis approved the second miracle needed for sainthood. brazil with several brain tumors. teresa died in 1997. nba star lebron james tweeted an apology overnight after this happened in last night's game against the cavaliers. he scrambled for a loose ball and plowed into a woman sitting courtside. that fan turned out to be ellie day, the wife of pga champion jason day. released from the hospital ove

other.the democratic national committee suspended the sanders campaign from using using it's voter database for a good part of the day friday. it all happened after they found out a glitch gave a sanders staffer access to information put together by the clinton campaign. "it's as if you found a house with an unlocked front door and instead of locking it and went in and you took things, ransacked the house and took things that didn't belong to you." the sanders campaign filed a federal lawsuit and told the d-n-c how they got and then got rid of the data.they said being kept from that information would have cost them 600-thousand dollars a day in lost donations.the sanders data director was fired -- and says that he was only trying to figure out exactly what went wrong so he could accurately tell the d-n-c. "this campaign in an official capacity, does not possess any data, does not retain any data doesn't wany any of their data." tuesday night -- 13 republicans took the debate stage again for the last time this year. year.with changing poll numbers in iowa and across the nation putting ted cr

the democratic national committee just blocked the sanders campaign from getting access to that database. the dnc's move came after some sanders staffers thanks po a software glitch improperly got access to clinton information in the database. one sanders staffer has now been 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 sc

. >> reporter: on friday the vermont senator's campaign sued the democratic national committee in federal court after the dnc blocked the campaign from accessing a key voter database. hostage. we have a grass roots campaign. when we have people come to our campaign headquarters to call voters, we can't generate phone numbers to do that. >> reporter: jeff weaver accused the dnc of sabotage saying the suspension cripples their operation and could cost more than $600,000 a day in lost donations. it also started when a 45- minute computer glitch wednesday allowed sanders' staffers to view voter data collected by rilhillry clinton's campaign -- 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

the democratic national committee has suspended bernie sanders campaign's party's master list of voter the commitee staffers confidential files of rival candidate hillary clinton. abc's bazi kanani has the latest in election headquarters. the bernie sanders firing a campaign data breach: peeking past a temporarily failed firewall in a democratic national committee server to voter database. jeff weaver, sanders campaign manager: "that behavior is unacceptable to the we fired the staffer certain that any not utilized" much bigger consequences for already, the d-n-c has suspended the campaign's access to the party's crucial voter file while it investigates. the day before sanders, clinton, and martin omalley face off in their third debate on abc. the sanders' campaign is blaming the dnc and its software vendor for the glitch that caused the firewall to fail. that fired staffer-josh uretsky-- tells abc news he wasn't prying for clinton's info, but just wanted evidence of the security failure. 13:49:40 i wasn't trying to hide what i was doing because i felt like i was assessing .. i was dia

he is accusing the democratic national committee of favoring rival hillary clinton. a report from manchester in the state of new hampshire. >> reporter: saturday's democratic debate was supposed to be an opportunity for bernie sanders to gain momentum still roughly 30 points behind his opponent hillary clinton in national polls that. there are allegation that a member of his staff took a technical glitch to gain access to confidential voting data belonging to the cran tonne campaign. they are alleging theft and the democratic party has suspended the sanders campaign from having any access to this voting data. the sanders campaign has now responded with a lawsuit in federal court. >> this is not the first time that the vendor hired by the dnc and the dnc to run the voter file program has allowed serious failures to occur. >> reporter: the sanders campaign is allege that this is a sign the democratic party is undermining its campaign in favor of the candidacy of the hillary clinton for the presidential democratic nomination. she has been viewed as the establishment cand

the democratic national committee says a glitch allowed the campaign to access the confidential donor database. it included information from hillary clinton's campaign. sanders campaign says it never downloaded or printed the list. it also fired a staffer. >>> today republican presidential candidate ted cruz continues his campaign blit nz virgini blitz in virginia. >> your weekend could be off to a slow start. the traffic alert that could affect a lot of you. >>> and just one week to go. the last-minute crunch is on for that perfect holiday gift. wait until you hear how some stores are trying to make it >>> the 16-year-old student charged with bringing a load gun into his classroom is back in court this morning. police still don't know how the teen got the gun through the school's metal detectors. no one was hurt in the incident. >>> a traffic alert that might slow you down in virginia tonight. multiple lanes on 395 northbound there will be shut down. kind of in a wave. v-do t v-dot crews are working on a pedestrian bridge. closures start at 9:30 and stay in place until 9:00 tomorrow

nation." there's a family feud brewing in the democratic race. first, the democratic national committee accused bernie sanders' campaign of improperly accessing data belonging to hillary clinton's campaign. then, late today, sanders sued the party claiming it's trying to undermine him. nancy cordes sorts this out. been stolen by the d.n.c. >> reporter: the sanders campaign filed the federal complaint after the democratic national committee cut off the campaign's access to a key voter database, a move the sanders camp says could cripple their operation, costing them more than $600,000 a day in lost donations. sanders' campaign manager jeff weaver. >> this is taking our campaign00. we have a exwras-roots campaign so when we have people come to campaign headquarters to call voters we can't generate phone numbers to do that. >> reporter: the d.n.c. shared democratic database after a glitch enabled sanders staffers to view voter data gathered by the clinton campaign for about 45 minutes on wednesday. sander's data director josh uretsky told cbs news he wasn't trying to snoop. >> reporter: bu

other.the democratic national committee suspended the sanders campaign from using using it's voter database for a good part of the day friday. it all happened after they found out a glitch gave a sanders staffer access to information put together by the clinton campaign. "it's as if you found a house with an unlocked front door and instead of locking it and tifying authorities, you went in and you took things, ransacked the house and took things that didn't belong to you." the sanders campaign filed a federal lawsuit and told the d-n-c how they got and then got rid of the data.they said being kept from that information would have cost them00-thousand dollars a day in lost donations.the sanders data directotowas fired -- and says that he was only trying to figure out exactly what went wrong so he d-n-c. "this campaign in an official capacity, does t possess any data, does not retain any data data." tuesday night -- 13 republicans took the debate this year. year.with changing poll numbers in iowa and across the nation putting ted cruz closer or ahead of donald trump -- the expectation was tha

bernie sanders campaign of stealing millions of dollars worth of voter data held by the democrat national committee. that led to a suspension for the sanders campaign. but a deal was reached to clear up the mess ahead of tonight's democratic debate. [ chanting ] >> reporter: democrats lined the streets in manchester, new hampshire, showing support for presidential candidates ahead of their third and final debate of the year. political analysts say voters in the critical primary state are eager to hear plans for national security, income equality and ways to combat drug abuse. >> with the increase in prominence of national security issues, they're starting to pay more attention to the commander- in-chief question. >> reporter: but the issues could be clouded by controversy. here at the media center, journalists from around the world have been following a civil war within the democratic party. on friday the democratic national committee discovered four bernie sanders staffers improperly took information compiled by hillary clinton's campaign and blocked the sanders camp from seeing any voter data fro

senator bernie sanders' campaign has gone to court against the democratic national committee... and sanders' campaign manager lobbed a major accusation against party leadership: (( jeff weaver/sanders' campaign mgr: "i think the evidence is mounting. it's almost irrefutable. that there are people in the dnc who are trying to help secretary clinton." )) ((paul joncich)) the move comes after the d-n-c blocked sanders' campaign from access to a voter database because campaign workers reportedly used a computer glitch to download information from hillary clinton's campaign. weijia jiang is in new hampshire with the big developments ahead of tomorrow night's democratic debate: bernie sanders' campaign filed the lawsuit in federal court after the democratic national committee suspended access to its shared voter data base. (sot: jeff weaver /sanders campaign director) we need our data which has been stolen by the dnc the dnc blocked the sanders camp access after a 45 minute computer glitch, on wednesday, allowed workers to view information gathered by the clinton campaign. sanders' fi

top stories, there has been an agreement between the bernie sanders campaign and the democrat i can national committee, the dnc was denying access to an important voter database. the sanders' campaign said it would lose hundreds of thousands in daily donations without it, so the agreement reinstates the access, the democrats square off in a nationally tell advised dedate >>> a father and two young daughters were hit by a car crossing a street, the dad and 9 month old and 29 year old were taken to the hospital, their injuries were not considered life threatening, the driver did stop and the accident have under investigation. >>> there are new charges this morning in the murder of bella bond, the little girl known formerly known as baby dough, the grand jury has charged her mother and boyfriend. bond accessory after the fact she is accused of collecting state benefits for her daughter even though she knew the girl had had died. she wasn't identified for months. >>> a rude awakening for a family forced from their home after a teenage driver suddenly slammed right into their living room. it's amazing ther

. >> but debbie wasserman schultz has a more serious role as chair of the democratic national committee. >> i really just want donald trump to keep talking. >> and, california congressman dana rohrabacher. he hasn' t changed his views on climate change, and he' s not about to now. >> it' s all bogus. we' ve been given bogus numbers. >> plus, arab american stand-up comic dean obeidallah uses humor to challenge stereotypes about muslims. but today' s news from the middle fernando: i' m fernando espuelas. welcome to "matter of fact." as chair of the democratic national committee, deborah wasserman schultz is always in the spotlight, whether she is leading the charge for her own party or under attack from the opposition. her strategic decisions will help determine the outcome of the next election. donald trump recently said you were crazy and neurotic. is he right? >> well i really just want , donald trump to keep talking. his misogynistic alienating comments through the duration of this campaign have shown exactly where the core of the republican party is today. instead of the rest of the

but it is also accusing the democratic national committee of wrong-doing as well. the controversy surrounds a computer program called "vote- builder" that is run by the d-n-c. it's a database of voter information that helps campaigns find supporters. while the program was undergoing upgrades recently, there was a security breach that allowed democratic campaigns to access each other's information. the d-n-c has learned that someone on the sanders campaign did just that. the sanders campaign admits that a "low level" employee accessed hillary clinton campaign information. that employee has been fired ... and the sanders campaign is investigating if anyone else accessed the information. in the meantime the sanders campaign's access to the vote-builder database has been suspended. that means the campaign is virtually the sanders campaign says that is not fair ... and its being done maliciously. individual leaders of the dnc can support hillary clinton any way they want but they are not going to sabotage our campaign, one of the strongest grass root campaigns in modern

the democratic national committee immediately shut out sanders from all voter data, including their own when the dnc found out about it last night. sanders threatened a federal lawsuit. it didn't come to that. their access was restored. live in manchester, new hampshire where the debate will get under way in one hour. it is also where sanders has a slight edge over clinton. if i didn't confuse people enough, can you walk us through why this voter data is so critic critical? >> well, the voting data is critical because while all the campaigns have the same access to the overall voter list that the democratic national committee has in terms of names, addresses, that sort of thing, each of these individual campaigns are spending a lot of time on the ground in these early states or on the phone, for instance, making contact with these voters to determine whether they are like to go support their candidates. clinton campaign, for instance, will rank by someone who is likely to come out and caucus for her in iowa on that cold night, february 1st. or someone who is less likely, more persuadabl

sure to be an interesting debate, after senator bernie sanders' campaign is suing the democratic national committee. sanders' campaign wants the dnc to reinstate its access to a voter database. weijia jiang in manchester, new hampshire tonight, ahead of tomorrow's debate. weijia: bernie sanders' campaign filed the lawsuit in federal court late friday afternoon, hours after the democratic national committee suspended access to its shared voter database. jeff: we need our data, which has been stolen by the dnc. weijia: the dnc blocked the sanders' camp access after a 45-minute computer glitch on wednesday allowed workers to clinton campaign. sanders fired data director josh uretsky. who he insists he wasn't trying to snoop. josh: 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. weijia: but the dnc says at least four sanders users not only looked at voter files from 10 states, but saved and exported some clinton data. debbie wasserman-schultz: people make mistakes, leaving their fro

this happens as one candidate faces a block from the democratic national committee. donald trump is holding the top spot for republican presidential candidates, and ted cruz has slipped into second place. we fact check cruz's most recent advertisement . and pole officers in dubuque are helping one teen fighting cancer make sure she has everything she needs for her dream vacation. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour n@ws source, this is the kcc-tv9 sunday morning news. we begin with first alert storm team meteorologis t britley ritz. thanks britley. the three democratic presidential candidates face off tonight for the last time this year. hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and martin o'malley will take questions onstage in new hampshire. the debate starts at 7 o'clock tonight right here on kcrg-tv9. this comes after the bernie sanders campaign had to staffer accused of tapping into clinton's confidential campaign database with information about voters. the democratic national committee temporarily suspended sander's campaign from using the party voter's fil

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