and he called me back and my secretary said, gary hart is on the line. i went back in, got on the phone, and said, hi, gary. and he started laughing. the last sort of rolled and rolled. not a word had been spoken between us. almost like there is a new brotherhood now. [laughter] rather raucous laughter that had no basis to it , i said, why are we laughing? he said, it is life. so it is a unique experience. and this is my turn. >> what do you think you will be facing the next few months? mr. tsongas: timmy, this is really a campaign of a message. so i am a candidate and the usual kind of thing, but that message has to get out there. there is so much of this is i'm getting opinionated leaders in the united states, whether they are academic, political activists, those people to read the ideas and have a sense of that, a sense of direction. in essence, it is a campaign of people who believe not only in you, which is how we used to run campaigns, but not only you but the ideas you represent. so that the momentum is beyond any one person. so it is a different

remember gary hart with the blonde on his lap and the monkey business. it doesn't necessarily ruin things either because we have husband.>> there's a long way to go. >> on this date for years ago newt gingrich was leading the new hampshire primary. he ended up finishing 30 points behind mitt romney.>> it's a long road ahead. >>> gearing up for sunday's big game against the surprisingly good jets. they would like a playoff by but -- they are happy with their playoff bye but they would really like home-field advantage throughout. this normally would be a something. >> no question. they want to come and play in new england. the patriots made it official, they signed 32-year-old stephen [ name indiscernible ] to beef up the running game. >> after having monday off the gillette stadium on tuesday. they begin preparations sunday -- for their big game sunday against the jets. the big game -- the big story is stephen jackson the veteran running back was signed yesterday. he joined them in the pats fieldhouse. he will were 39 for his new team. if all goes well th

this perception that bernie sanders has too much ground to saw what gary hart did when he won the newpshire 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 that bernie sanders can't mobilize the kind of coalition that barack obama mobilize, bernieindependent, that sanders is the strongest candidate. i think support from hillary will move to us very quickly. mark: your candidate had a better second debate than a aboutt debate, talk his focus getting ready for this one. been in session with the senate. he was voting there today. he did a couple of hours yesterday. we will do a couple of hours tonight. he has experience at debating on the big stage. he knows exactly what he wants to say. his message will be delivered. mark: we will come back and talk more with tad. we will continue when we come back right after this. ♪ . . . john: we are back in the third part of our tripleheader with tad devine, bernie sanders senior strategist in vermont. your campa

within less than a month gary hart had almost knocked him out of the race are.nishing second in iowa, eliminating the field, beating mondale in new hampshire and then running on pure momentum. no organization, no media, nothing. just momentum. and came within a hair. that's where i disagree with your former guest. this is not all about ground game and whatever. it may be in iowa, but it's also about excitement. tests also about message. -- it's also about message. message matters. and the problem is presidential politics is about the future, not the past. and be right now we are waiting to see if anyone can grab lightning in a bottle in either primary. neil: you know, pat, i was thinking let's say she does stumble out the gate, and it's bernie sanders who's galvanizing all the attention and votes and press. but even liberals could be pragmatic, right, and say we love bernie, but he can't win. do they then resort to finding an outside candidate, or is it too late at that point? what happens? >> no. no, look, the democratic party has rigged its system to give part

strategy of do well in iowa, have everybody saying we didn't think rubio had that much support, the gary hart theory. you go to new hampshire, get the win there and you're off and running. >> that's the theory and the conventional wisdom, there's three or four tickets out of iowa. rubio is likely to be up there, who knows and that carries him to new hampshire with some buzz and comes in second to trump who has been very strong in new hampshire. the thing is, it's interesting, though, that jeb bush, chris christie are going after rubio, because i think they're trying to plant doubt in the minds of those voters in those states about things that already the voters are uncomfortable about with rubio, like, why isn't he campaigning harder in they want to see the candidates in their states, that they're trying. rubio doesn't seem to be trying very hard. and his rivals are pushing on the notion that rubio is kind of lazy and just wants it because he's the next big thing. the early state voters want people who really care and really try. >> and chris christie from his standpoint, he's betting it all

gary hart came in with 15 and won in ham. >> expectations outperforming.ectation matters even more. >> absolutely. >> great to have you with us. we'll have you back in 2016 to see how many predictions came true. >> happy new year. >>> we do have some breaking news involving the affluenza fugitives. the mother who is back in the united states, she was just officially charged. we'll have details next. you premium like clockwork. month after month. year after year. then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch. yeah... surprise... your insurance company tells you to pay up again. why pay for insurance if you have to pay even more for using it? if you have liberty mutual deductible fund™, you could pay no deductible at all. sign up to immediately lower your deductible by $100. and keep lowering it $100 annually, until it's gone. then continue to earn that $100 every year. there's no limit to how much you can earn and this savings applies to every vehicle on your policy. call to learn more. switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $509. call liberty mutu

i remember back in '84, gary hart who had no campaign, went in the last weeks with advertising, and finished second to mondale. you can bring people out. you can. iowa -- the electorate -- that's what i'm saying. trump has got -- i don't know if he's got the vehicle. he's apparently fairly well organized, i understand there, but the most important thing he's got is fervent supporters who normally don't. so the question is do they come out? >> can i ask you a question, john, just about where they are in the place of this election and their politics, trump and cruz? because in the beginning of this ride that everybody's been on and watching some of the drama in the race and so on and so forth, 17 candidates and blah, blah, blah, i mean, it has seemed like they were not aligned but at least maybe friends, or in politics, maybe you call it frenemies, i don't know. >> well, they've had different styles. >> but they don't step in each other's wheelhouses is what i'm talking about. >> not yet but they're getting there. >> tuesday night? >> trump called cruz a maniac. >> right, we had some of that t

worked in the government on the staff of the united states start, gary hart from colorado. the ethiopian famine occurred in 1984 and for me, that was the spark to say i want to try to do something that marshalled the resources we have in the united states. that created an opportunity for people to literally share their strength. we are thinking of those in the food industry, restauranteurs and others. so far, by asking them to participate in food and wide event, we've raised over half a billion dollars. we've refocused most of our work on childhood hunger in united states. so, we went through this kind of trajectory of first working internationally, still do a little bit internationally. realizing we had great needs here in the giants and we had the skills and talented to solve that problem. >> you say it isn't the food. >> in the united states, we have food in abundance and a number of callers today have talked about how they've seen food waste and we see it in restaurants and other places where it gets thrown out. we also have food and nutrition programs. the snap program

ingmar tin o'malley probably needs to be more like gary hart in 1984, arguing that democrats need toeaders. >> ron brownstein, always good to have you. >> thank you. >> thank you, ron. >>> we're going to turn now to cnn's chris frates, following the latest developments from washington. hillary clinton's campaign wasn't exactly happy yesterday. regarding the voter registration information. what's the reaction been from them? >> yeah, well, they were more than unhappy, amara. they were furious, right? so they put out a statement this morning, saying "we are pleased that the sanders campaign has agreed to submit to an independent audit. we believe this audit should proceed immediately, and pending its findings, we expect further disciplinary action to be taken as appropriate." now, brian fallon, the spokesman for the hillary clinton campaign, was on our air last night. let's take a listen to just how angry they were. >> it was an egregious breach of violation of the rules. and for someone like senator sanders who said he was going to run a different type of campaign, this is as below th