out -- against him to release them from their nda's and that is because, you know, this is something that he thought about, he's an executive of a large company, i think over 20,000 employees but he's running for president and he's running to represent all women, all people, all across the country and the me too movement exposed that we have to be mindful of the accusations that are brought forward. leland: sabrina, the issue of nda isn't a new one, 48 hours before he was saying no i'm not going to do it, if he's going to be the decisive president and

just a reminder about the ndas, the bloomberg campaign is saying they identified three cases of nda thatomberg is accused of saying. and cnn reported just today that according to a senior adviser one of the three ndas involves a woman in a lawsuit that was launched in the 1990s that cnn and other media out lets have reported on. this woman accused bloomberg of having said some crude things in the workplace. the identity of the two others in the remaining ndas we don't know who they are. we have been pressing the bloomberg campaign to get a sense of why this reversal and one campaign aid told me earlier today that up until this point, bloomberg had been thinking about all of this as a ceo. and now he's trying to think about it as a person. >> considering that this had been discussed before, this wasn't new. shouldn't the campaign handled this situation better? >> that's right. the allegations have been out there for a while. obviously dating back decades through his time as a businessman. and he was a public figure. new york city mayor if r three terms. it was one of the top issues that t

anything pertaining to ndas, we have released those women. the day, these are still legal agreements. he is a candidate running for this race as president. he felt it was important to be transparent and allow the women who have these ndas to be able to speak out. but tonight we're prepared for the attacks, we're ready for -- whether it's elizabeth warren or senator bernie sanders coming after him, but at the end of the day, this race is coming down to three candidates. it's mike bloomberg, bernie sanders and donald trump. and we know that in order to beat donald trump in november, we have to nominate someone that can appeal to moderates, independents and democrats. >> sabrina, this is something you'll have to get over to do that, and this is something mike bloomberg will have to deal with. i hear you're trying to make this distinction between people who have alleged some things that bloomberg personally has said, but there are also people who allege he personally created a hostile or allowed to foster a hostile environment at these workplaces

so that's why ndas around these issues are so important.o for instance no one expects the bloomberg campaign or, you know, mcdonald's for that matter to say that if you're on employee and you leave you have an nda, you're not allowed to give people the passwords to the company computers. so there's legitimate reasons to have ndas in corporate america. but in this case if what you're trying to do is promote culture change, if you're trying to create safety for women and men in a working environment, you can't hide the abuses, and that's the piece why it's so important. >> thank you. i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >>> some democratic candidates are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and others are looking at a big cash crunch. how the money could affect the democratic race. that's next. at today's best western, stay two nights and get a free night for your next stay. one night, two nights, free night. book now at bestwestern.com. can be a sign your feeling digestive systemhed down isn't working at its best. taking metamucil

an nda is offered because with it also comes a penalty if you defy the nda. what would the penalty be? >> we want to just make sure that folks who sign the document know that this is a serious process. >> everyone knows that because they're signing up for something, that is one of the most important privileges of being an american, and to preserve and protect the process, but a nondisclosure agreement which is a legally bien binding agreement, you're asking volunteers to sign that to continue on with this civil service, and if you violate that nda, then what would happen? >> it is outlined what could actually happen within the agreement and that is why you are presented it, you're able to read it, review it, and if you so choose, you sign it. that is exactly what it is designed to do. our goal is to make sure we preserve the integrity of the process, that's extremely important within the nevada state democratic party. that's why it is a voluntary document. >> talk about all of this, joining me now, political reporter for the nevada independent, megan meserly,

, you know, the fact that part of bloomberg's response was to say, well, these ndas were consensual.letely erases sort of the power dynamics that are almost always present in these kind of nda agreements, and also when he sort of made a joke about how, well, these women are accusing me of, you know, various things, but it's really just about them maybe not liking some of my jokes. that could not have been a more tone deaf response, and i think it's pretty clear -- or should be pretty clear to the bloomberg campaign that the next time that he gets asked about these issues he probably should have a better response than that. >> yeah. mj, thank you. with me now democratic senator kirsten gillibrand. she bowed out of the 2020 race in august. senator gillibrand, a pleasure. >> first, you have been on this debate stage, watching last night everyone was fired up, but do you agree with michael bloomberg what he said today that it was actually donald trump who won the debate? >> i couldn't disagree more. i thought the democrats did great in laying out a vision for this country that is very di

, i am going to say that -- i hate the ndas and i wish the whole law would give them up, i refused tohe "weekly standard" and it is so now abused as matter and it is bad for the country, but leaving that aside, bloomberg is not a good candidate, but he has a good campaign. so if you are thinking about this, and people can say he did this and not admiral what he did, he can say, i came under pressure and i thought about it and released people. and what about donald trump, because he has not released anyone. so i am despite that miserable debate, i think that the bloomberg campaign is adjusting to what happened quickly. >> it is also important to remember that he has spent $464 million so far and he is going to be spending hundreds of millions more to help people forget about his debate performance. >> we will continue to talk about this and squeeze in a quick break. fidelity now has zero commissions for online u.s. equity trades and etfs. and fidelity also offers zero account fees for brokerage accounts, plus zero minimums to open an account. and only fidelity offers four zero expense

you didn't see the case through to the point where she had signed that nda.id not sign an nda. >> i wasn't asked to, and i did not. >> so can you speak freely about the case? >> i can. >> can you just tell me about your former client and what she said happened? >> sakiko garrison a person of japanese origin, and she was working selling the bloomberg machine when she helped them build build the company and she came to talk to him to tell them she was pregnant with her first child and she was so pleased, and his response was, she said, kill it. kill it. we have 16 pregnant women here, and later she sued him for that, and she was asked to leave the company, and she sued him and at some point during the lawsuit, which i brought for her in the state division of human rights, she changed counsel. we agreed on the change of counsel. so i am not subject to an nda, although she is. >> did she share with you after he had allegedly said kill it, what did she say back? >> she really couldn't speak at all. she was very upset. she was -- it was her first child, and she was

there's other parties in these ndas as well. i think that has to be respected.y here is there's been all of these headlines that have either directly said or insinuated that dozens and dozens of women have filed sexual harassment claims against mike bloomberg personally. all of those, for the most part, actually involved the corporation, not mike as an individual. and now we know that there's only three of them in which mike is named personally out of all of these ndas that were focused on and mike is willing to make these public and he's willing to make it public because it's a distraction from the full record that he has had as a private individual, as a philanthropist and mayor and business owner who has worked his whole life to empower women, create policies and workplace and a social space where women could feel safe and productive and put on the same level playing field as men. that's been his guiding principle forever. he's made mistakes at times. he wants to apologize for those. he has apologized for those, and those ndas don't define who michael bloombe

we were talking about the exchange on ndas.f anyone who had accused him of anything. she has leased an ad taking on mike bloomberg. i wanted to play a clip. here it is. >> big money is powerful but it doesn't always win. i know that firsthand. when i ran against an incumbent republican to take a u.s. senate seat away from mitch mcconnell, bloomberg endorsed the republican and he raised big money for him, but i beat him anyway. >> is she going to focus again on him tonight on the debate stage? >> honestly, what elizabeth was doing on that stage is what she's done throughout her life and her public life and that is to hold folks accountable. she was not attacking, she was simply holding him accountable to his record and affirming survivor's justice. it is the high time that the experiences for girls and women in this country are not conflated inevitably with experiencing sexual violence harassment or assault. she was affirming survivor's justice. >> how well does she need to do? she hasn't won a delegate since iowa. you had nevad

and ndas are notjust being used to silence students about sexual assault.ormer oxford university student who has broken her nda to talk to us, at the risk of being sued. she was paid off after raising concerns about the treatment of suicidal students. there were a number of students who we knew were suicidal. i saw no responsibility or no care. staff members responsible for student safety were actually quite dismissive of students' well—being and in fact on one occasion a female student came to us to express her mental health problems. unfortunately she dropped out and the oriel staff members responsible for discipline and welfare privately rejoiced. it was our responsibility to help her. it wasn't their responsibility to be happy that somebody that they perceive to be a burden left the college. why do you think it is important to speak out? why now? i have witnessed and experienced so many problems and if people don't speak out, things will never change. oriel college oxford gave us this statement... but our investigation also found not all students got a

she signed her nda so that neither her, or the student she accused could contact each other.xpulsion. they should acknowledge there is a problem and try and take steps to tackle it. the government has told the bbc the use of ndas for student complaints is unacceptable and is clamping down on the practice. lawyers say universities are often using these agreements to protect their reputations but students wonder who is protecting them. rianna croxford, bbc news. scientists from sheffield are working in a refugee camp injordan on a project to try to grow fresh food by using foam from old mattresses. the foam works as soil, meaning not only are the mattresses recycled, but vegetables are grown in a place where the soil is too poorforfarming. victoria gill reports. gardening in the confines of a refugee camp. mohammad's family lost their home and their farm when they fled the war in syria. now, here in thejordanian desert, he's able to teach his children how to grow vegetables in a very unconventional way, using old mattress foam. it sounds like the garden has made this more of a

at that point i was asked to sign a nda. and your response was? is it reputable?, i was being defamed in a small group of researchers, i am in a small field, so as long as something comes out, that you are a troublemaker, it is over. so i had to speak out. i was also involved in the lot of gender equality campaigning and! the lot of gender equality campaigning and i could not believe that this had happened to me, i could not believe that i had gone to an institution for help and it had all been turned against me and i was left with a career and a life in tatters while the perpetrator could go on with relative anonymity and claim innocence which was false. how extensive a scandal is this throughout the field of higher education? it is epidemic levels. every time this story has come up, i am contacted by dozens of people, today even, about this. it happens today even, about this. it happens to students, it happens to staff, it happens to people that have been sexually assaulted and raped. we are talking about people who have been raped and i've been told to shut up

so let's stick with ndas, but in a different context.former mayor michael bloomberg says that he will release three women who made complaints against him to -- from their nda, so they may be able to speak publicly. we don't know what the -- the details are, so we don't know the impact on the campaign. we're not going to speculate there. but the question is, if this was a consideration, if this was a possibility, why didn't mayor bloomberg have this in his pocket when he hit that debate stage earlier this week, and when elizabeth warren came to him with that, he could have simply said yes. >> yes. in fact, he could have answered the question. she was saying we don't know if there were dozens of women. he could have said, no, actually, there were just three. one wonders why there wasn't better preparation, maybe the expectation that this question would rise to the top of the agenda and he'd have to have an answer. this is a case of the bloomberg team, i think they're probably kicking themselves a little bit knowing that they might have bee

she represented a lot of companies that sign ndas.ds that in many corporate cases there are standard way of trying to resolve litigation outside the court system and it protects all the parties involved not to release all of them en masse. i do think, however, that there's a concern that these have been used to silence women in the workplace and i think that's a valid and important concern. and, in fact, what bloomberg lp has decided do is not use ndas in harassment claims that come up in the company. we're grateful to senator warren for highlighting that. i think she's done a disservice to presenting an accurate portrayal of who mike is over his life with women and women's issues, but we'll go forward on this. >> tim o'brien, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> coming up, new details on john bolton's book when we come back. i wish i had gone into aspen dental much sooner. it would've saved me a lot of money that i spent. my family has bad teeth. when you're not able to smile you become closed off. the meanin

on sexism, on stop and frisk and, on ndas and whatever. why wasn't he better prepared, sam?eory on my part, he hasn't spoken to me and i haven't told him. but he's a guy who is not emotional. he gets things done, looks at the data, comes up with a solution and does it. for instance, he's apologized because he realizes he was wrong about stop and frisk. and it's a sincere apology but he hasn't done it emotionally. a lot of people want to be felt loved, and i can understand that, but we're electing a president, not someone who's in a church pew, but someone who gets it done. and knows how to do it. so i think he's going to do well in the second debate because i think this time he's going to brag on himself. for instance, he says to bernie, i think it was, when bernie says what the people that work for you, he could have said because it's true, i always paid them well and still do. the people who worked harder i promoted and gave more to. on stop and frisk, that's particularly galling to me because he made a mistake, i think he made a mistake, but he said smoir aboi'm sorry abo

the three ndas that mention him. he obviously has released the women from those ndas and more importantly, bloomberg lp became the first company, large company in the country to lay out the fact it will never use ndas again going forward. >> you could say he was bushwhacked last week. why wasn't he ready to answer the question last week when elizabeth warren went after him? >> last week, the focus obviously senator warren was focused on mike. they all should have been focused on bernie. >> why -- they're going after the guy that's just getting in the race. >> three -- two primaries. two primaries and caucus and nobody's willing to talk about his extreme record. >> what's going on here? >> a fragmented party around a centrist candidate. but -- but you have these extreme views. this incredibly extreme history. and a healthcare plan that is going to take healthcare away from 150 million americans. and castro. and no one's willing to talk about it. if you are not willing to take bernie on stage tonight before super tuesd

the woman has not commented as to if she will speak out now that she has been released from the nda. the former new york city mayor pummeled over the issue on the debate stage. >> mr. mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story? [ applause ] >> we have a very few nondisclosure agreements -- >> how many is that? >> let me finish. >> how many is that? >> none of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like a joke i told and let me just -- [ audience reacts ] >> agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that's up to them. >> reporter: several of the women who signed ndas with bloomberg's company telling abc news they are interested in telling their stories but fear possible retribution. their attorneys say it's unclear if bloomberg's offer to release the ndas will extend to their clients. we tried to get answers from bloomberg after a campaign stop in salt lake city, utah. >> how many ndas did your company sign? will you release the women if they tell you they

the uk's arbitration service, acas, has published advice for firms and workers about ndas, includingthe airline industry is soaring to new heights in recent years, especially in south—east asia and india. the problem is there aren't enough qualified commercial pilots. so how will airlines meet the demand without compromising safety? the bbc‘s monica miller reports. this cadet is kicking her new career into gear as a commercial pilot. the 23—year—old decided to abandon a career in the medical profession and follow her passion, but she initially had her doubts. i thought that this male—dominated industry was too hard on females. and most significantly, i am short, so i did not know if i could fly a plane or even step on the rudders or the brakes. the asia—pacific region has seen a boom in air travel and first—time flyers, but the small pool of qualified commercial pilots is not meeting demand. in fact, boeing said globally airlines will need more than 800,000 new pilots in less than 20 years. roughly one third of those jobs will be in asia. aircraft like airbus's a321 run on autopilot.

he said he will release the women from the ndas. he says there are three.you say he's lying or think he should release people from ndas that had nothing to do with him. >> let me be clear, if there are only three, and he's right, he could sign a general release, because it would apply to only three people. why won't he sign a general release? also, i think it's very important, this is about the mayor himself and the mayor's company that he runs. so not all of this is from 30 years ago. we don't know how much there is and what the time is but i do know this. women have had enough of being told, no, no, no, it was a different time. didn't know how to take a joke. what was it the mayor said? tonight is enough is enough. no. when we're talking about pregnancy discrimination, which goes on today, enough is not enough. >> he denied that that happened. >> he denied it, but where is she? that's the whole point. women should have a chance -- i get to tell my story without fear of being sued by a billionaire. >> he said bloomberg will no longer have ndas, he credited

we want what about the bloomberg nda issue?e is moving towards where the rest of the country is going on this, he really has no choi choice. >> bret: for all the people he is paying, you don't think somebody told him that? debate prep, this may came up. >> they are reporting he was prepped on this, but his performance was still short on that preparation. warren landed some solid punches on him during that debate, it was pretty astonishing actually. all he can do now is say okay, i am going to release you from the nda and you can say, hopefully he must have some awareness of what they are going to say and it will dilute all of this. >> it is nevada, we are going to take a trip to candidate casino. you have $100 in chips, you have to put them down. josh we will start with you. >> $50 bernie sanders, it is only because there is so much uncertainty that is not higher than that. i have 50 on sanders, $30 on a contested convention where they decide on a second or third, and then ten for biden, ten for the rest of the field. >> i agre

>> well, that's interesting because we all know now what the nda's are all about, thanks to elizabethomberg and the debate -- democratic debate wednesday night, there's a lot of pressure not to have your employees sign those nda's but it's been difficult to get information out of nevada democratic party here. everyone is jittery, they do not want to repeat performance as they had in iowa debacle and abandoned the app, they were going to use the same app as the iowa app that cause sod many problems, they abandoned it in recent forms the google form and now they are back to telephone process and i talked to precinct at bernie sanders rally and they were jittery and nervous about what was going to happen today. arthel: we will find out about the nondisparagement agreement that is they had to sign, meanwhile the show must go on, caucus is getting started in under 15 minutes, at this point who is the sure bet to win in nevada or are all bets off? >> well, i think bernie sanders has got to lose, he's up in the polls by 16 points around 32% according to real clear average of polls and the ot

the statement of any of them want to be released from the nda as to talk about the allegations and sheould contact the company and be given a release. it's clear the reversal on the nda's will include the close with the explosive "cited in "the washington post" where bloomberg allegedly asked the plaintiff how is a married life? you married, and the plaintiff responded that she was pregnant and the baby was due the following september." he respond to her "to kill it." he faces attacks on the former bloomberg reporter who tweeted that the company did not do enough to protect her and her family against the chinese government. bloomberg's lawyers to treat me as if i were piece of company property. using intimidation and threats to try to bully me into submission. >> michael bloomberg needs to do a blanket release so that all women who have been muzzled by nondisclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. >> okay, bluebird statement today is rather that he will only release those people who accused him of wrongdoing directly from nda's are not elizabeth warren but peop

a spokesman on the idea of ndas, people having to sign ndas so they can't disclose negative information about him. a spokesman for bloomberg said he would not release anyone from a confidentiality agreement and would not release any of his depositions. senator warren is calling on michael bloomberg to reverse that. here she is at a campaign stop in december. >> i think ndas are a way for people to hide bad things they have done. i think women should be able to speak. they need to be released from ndas. >> would michael bloomberg -- he's not just being a businessman or mayor of new york, now running to be president of the united states, leader of the free world. will he release women from these ndas so they can be heard because what they have to say might be of interest to voters? >> first off, you said senator warren is going to be on the program later, so senator warren is a lawyer, she knows that ndas are routine pieces of settlement agreements in corporate america. i'm sure when she was representing corporations that had done damaging things to women, ndas might have been part of tho

he has lawyers at the company who manage those ndas, and he has addressed that. what he has also said is that -- >> i don't think -- i hear what you're saying, but he says for all he knows, maybe they don't want to be released from it. >> well, look, here's the point. those are legal agreements that he has already addressed and he's already answered. that's not the point, though, and we think what voters care about ultimately is elevating women in the workplace. his track record is all about promoting gender equality. his track record is all about fighting for maternal health and family planning. he supports planned parenthood, he's one of the biggest supporters of planned parenthood. that's what we think ultimately voters care about. and that's why we are where we are at the polls. you can slice up anybody's comments over 30 years, and that's fine, by the way. again, that is your job. our job is to go out and talk to voters and tell them what his record of accomplishment is and what he's going to do for them. >> i feel that you're stressing, but i want to make c

the government has told the bbc that the use of nda is is unacceptable.ople convicted of terrorism offences, halfway through their sentences. it follows two attacks in london, carried out by men who had been released on licence. here's what the justice secretary robert buckland had to say when he opened the debate. mr speaker, i beg to move that the terrorist offenders restriction of early release bill be now read a second time. twice in the last few months, we have seen appalling and senseless attacks on members of the public by terrorist offenders. at fishmongers hall on the 30th of november of last year, two bright promising young lives were cut heartbreakingly short. the perpetrator, usman khan, was released automatically at halfway through a 16 year sentence for preparing terrorist acts. that tragedy was made so much more poignant by the fact that these victims were dedicated to the rehabilitation of offenders, helping people to get their lives back on track. the attack in streatham on the 2nd of february this year came as a stark reminder of the ris

evaseerated, as the kids say, thee ethered bloomberg on wednesday night and reinforced it with that ndaght but now she wants to get back to her core message. >> i think people want to hear more from bloomberg. good thing that he agreed he's going to do this cnn town hall ahead of south carolina and he'll get to take some questions from the voters, right, and hear more, not just the ads he pays to put out there. turning the page to the biden/bernie sanders battle, it's interesting that i have noticed we've seen the vice president himself and also his surrogates really start to focus on bernie sanders' record on guns. and the fact that, yes, he did vote against the brady bill five times and he did vote so that there would not be liability for gun owners. that was my constituency that i was representing in my state. is that a smart tactic heading into nevada and south carolina for him? >> absolutely it's a smart tactic. in fact, you know, he should have been doing thichs ears muc earlier in the process. bernie sanders is now, as we speak, the clear front-runner in this race. and the idea t

>> i guess releasing 3 women from nda's is better than releasing no women from nda's but the issue oforders is far from over with the democrats, far from over as an issue for corporate america, frankly, for bloomberg quickly on the debate stage the bigger issue, much bigger issue was really his lack of experience and the -- the reality that showed through no matter how much cash you have there's no substitute for what the other candidates have which is a year of being out there in the arena, you know, rolling up their sleeves, delivering their message hundred, a thousand sometimes doing interviews, bloomberg's lack of being in the arena over the last year is really what showed through. chris: juan, let me pick up on that, can the mayor, he's lucky in the sense that there's another debate tuesday night now in south carolina, can he come back if he does much better in that debate and if so how does he do better? >> well, first of all, obviously he can come back, he will have debate tuesday night and then super tuesday, if he does well in the debate tuesday night, if he wins delegates on

do you think mike bloomberg handled this well with regard to the ndas?d like he was caught off guard on the stage and it looked like everyone else that all of a sudden is reminded of something that they've done in their past that they're embarrassed about and he was smart enough to recognize these were consensual agreements done between lawyers and parties and he couldn't just sit on the stage say to release people from ndas without talking to the parties involved and it looks like they'll do that now and they'll talk about what happened back then and i hope this puts this matter to bed. we need to worry about what will happen in noefr noef and how to beat the trump-putin ticket that's developing now and if we don't talk about that we're going to lose. >> i was not involved in debate prep with bloomberg and there was no way that he wasn't aware that it wasn't going to come up on the debate stage. >> they were talking about it for days and there's no way he wasn't prepared for this. as far as putting it to bed, here's what belizabeth warren i saying tonig

ndas today, tomorrow, he probably should have said it two days ago.a rule of crisis communication. >> right. i don't think they expected to be in a crisis mode this quickly. they've got a lot going for them. >> they had to know they walked in with a bull's eye on them. >> happy friday. we'll be right back. at fidelity, we'll help you build a clear plan for retirement. one that covers health care costs, taxes, and any other uncertainties. because when you're with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. >>> this has been quite a friday. and we thought this has been quite a week. that's all we have for tonight. we'll be back monday with more "meet the press daily." sunday we'll have a huge show on "meet the press." we need to take a closer look at this russian interference situation now the sanders campaign has been briefed. has the live issue inside this primary, inside this campaign, inside this trump administration. w we'll preview south carolina. don't miss sunday, "the beat" is now. th

that is the nda question. the kind of question that is so specific in its yes or noness.ollow him for the rest of the campaign trail. the idea that there were 64 suits out there. it had been percolating. but now there's a very specific will you release the women from the nda that he didn't answer and they got on him for. i don't think he goes another major interview or encounter without getting that question again. >> it would be nice if he did a major interview. they have to come up with some answer and do it quickly. it was funny what you said about the fact his best moments when he wasn't speaking. that was a the sound of silence with deafening. >> he didn't have an answer. i have to tell you i'm hearing from the trump campaign. they're thrilled. as you can imagine. >> because? >> which is, the circular firing squad. which hasn't happened a lot in fairness to the democrats until now. for the most part the debate stages you were on the focus hasn't been on each other. it's been on the president. that's not the case now. they claim they see the numbers going up for the p

and answer on ndas is that women didn't get his jokes. i thought it might be trump saying that. >> i worked with bloomberg 25 years, 25 years hasn't been a single charge or lawsuit anywhere else about his behavior or anything he said, ndas are complicated between employees. mike is running, not employees not putting them on trial. elizabeth warren wanted to put him on trial last night. but he has a record. he was not given a million dollars by his father to start his business. he went out and built business. unlike people on stage, some that served as single term as a mayor in the midwest, others that sat in committees their whole life, mike has run the largest city and done things. the national leader on environment and gun control, and mike is the untrump. >> kevin, why didn't mike say any of this last night? you're not going to be the president, he's the one that wants to be it. he can't bring a campaign team. >> listen, i think mike has to get his legs under him. had a better second half of debate than the first, i will admit that. th

one thing with bloomberg and the ndas. he said if the women want to be released, they should contact the company and will be given a release. elizabeth warren, if she chose, still has something to needle him on. he did not say we're done with the ndas. he said if you want out, call me and i'll let you out. that is not the same thing. >> quickly, we know democrats are looking at bloomberg and saying he is splitting the moderate vote. that is only helping sanders to have it locked up by super tuesday. >> it is okay to split votes. that's what the process is for. that's why chuck todd asked the question at the end of the debate debate. if this comes down to the pluraity and not majority, it goes to the convention. this is a unique election. voters have a lot of very tough choices to make. it is okay to split moderates. that means democrats are not sure and actually need that time to make a choice. >> a lot of american voices still to be heard. josh joshua, thank you. >> i appreciate it. >>> heading overseas now. new hope the

nda, man. i played for the nda years ago. my son owns an nda franchise, chinese generals. he's -- bloomberg is the biggest disaster. if it is billionaire to billionaire, sencical people -- lionel shriver, best selling novelist. she said people will welcome bloomberg as a respite from trump. no, they won't. if it's billionaire to billionaire, nobody -- people are going to go with the billionaire who isn't like this guy. the one thing you say about trump, when he came up with that rosy o'donnell line, he wasn't the creature of minders. he wasn't the creature of people that don't tear tell the sultan that he's going to have to come up with an explanation as to why so many of the girls in the harem had the sign nondisclosure agreements. it was pathetic. >> tucker: probably the best summary i've heard of american politics. i don't think you can beat presidents and we're all going to suffer. mark steyn, great to see you. thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: well, last night's debate left every democrat looking weaker and less capable of taking on the man that they dece

lawyers have said that the use of an nda raises ethical questions.students to sign agreements that could lead them to be sued, and they say it could be a bullying tactic. students who have been affected say it is almost like being re—traumatised, and for context, these are the people that go to university for the first time. they leave home, and done they would get the situation. do they have a place in universities, these agreements? they are used to protect confidential business information, and we could see how this could apply in universities in research projects. we can see the use of nda is in sexual misconduct cases, so in order to ensure that this remains fairand impartial, it may order to ensure that this remains fair and impartial, it may impose a strict limit on confidentiality for that period, but these are solid to do with complaints. thank you very much. the equality and human rights commission is threatening the government with legal action over what it's described as a "repeated failure" to move people with learning disabilities and a

she signed her nda so that neither her or the student she accused could contact each other. orface i had to promise never to tell anyone or face expulsion. they should acknowledge there is a problem and try and take steps to tackle it. the government has told bbc the use of ndas is unacceptable and is clamping down on the practice was the lawyers say universities are often using these to protect their reputations but students wonder... he was protecting them? rianna croxford is with me now. you have been looking into this per year, what are the results of your investigation? i started to looking at nondisclosure agreements of staff who similar allegations of sexual harassment and bullying. then one student got in touch with me and i started wondering, how big is this problem? lawyers say there is a huge abuse of power here. we're talking about students who are not receiving legal advice, signing agreements that say they can be expelled or sued and allotted the students have talked about almost being traumatised by that experience. lots of them are getting in touch with now a

he doesn't have the blanket authority to just lift ndas. >> understood.u don't know if those three which he was involved in have come forward to take him up on that. >> i don't know yet. >> you had all of these -- i thought funny memes yesterday where you were going after bernie sanders seeming to give -- to cast fidel castro in a positive light and then you took some down. >> oh, you mean the campaign. i thought you meant stuff on my own twitter feed. >> these funny memes where -- >> i think in one of them he was misquoted but it was a statement in there, attributed to him that wasn't from him so we took it down. but i don't think -- the other ones stayed up. >> tim o'brien, we appreciate you coming in and we'll be watching closely tonight. >> thanks for having me. >>> cnn will host four town halls tomorrow night from charleston, live, including former new york city mayor mike bloomberg. watch tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >> if that's any sign, tonight, tomorrow night, the next few days will be -- >> fascinating! >> yeah. that's one w

we don't know what is in the ndas? what do you think about the timing?e it ready to go on the debate stage. the candidates have been talking about them, the media have been talking about them so i think they are trying to clean up a little, his team, from his debate performance with this. >> lisa, thank you for being here. >>> this morning, there are more than 77,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the world. and a surge in cases outside of china. it shows that the disease is not slowing down. >>> we'll get you to that, but i also want to tell you there's an all you episode of the cnn original series "the windsors." here's a preview. >> before he was king, george was living a relatively normal free under the radar life. happily married and as a younger member of the royal family, he does public duties and is contented with that life. >> he was always in the family, but his whole life continued to change. it was that he's been tasked with this incredibly difficult job. one of the first things he does is change his name to george, strengthening the c

he announced his company had identified three ndas with women to address complaints about comments they said i had made. and that those women would now be released from the agreements. bloomberg isn't even on the ballot here in nevada, and after the caucuses tomorrow all eyes shift to south carolina and the next debate. bloomberg's team is already preparing. this an admit he took a beating in the first debate and say he has to do better. >> mary bruce in nevada for us all week. mary, thank you. >>> another developing headline late today. this one involving bernie sanders. tonight u.s. intelligence officials believe the russians are not only trying to help president trump get re-elected, that they were working to help bernie sanders on the democratic side as well. sanders was briefed weeks ago and pressed on this a short time ago. here's what he said tonight. abc's jonathan karl now. >> reporter: a stunning development in the heated democratic primary -- bernie sanders today acknowledged intelligence officials have warned him russia is trying to help his campaign as a way to create disco

are you going to release the ndas?ll talk about it between now and then. >> so, you may do something different? >> i want to keep you in suspense. >> suspense didn't do you much good. democratic strategist, anchor and executive producer for team u.s.a. and host of "politics nation" here on msnbc and fresh off the exclusive interview with mike bloomberg. he got up from the interview and the campaign made the announcement. >> we did the whole interview sunday on my show. and i also feel he ways trying to get ahead of next tuesday's debate and he may do something different because i said to him. are you going to be more in the offense on tuesday night? and he says we'll see. but having been one to have fought and worked with mike bloomberg, i would be surprise fd he did not come with some, let's say, attacks of his own. there are people around that stage that are vulnerable themselves on these issues. and i think that they should not feel that they would not be called on the same standards that they've now set. i would be

the ndas was one particularly rough line of attack.he has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements, so mr. mayor, are you willing it release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements? so we can hear they'ir side of e story. >> we have a very few nondisclosure agreements. >> how many is that? >> let me finish. >> how many is that? >> none of them accuse me of doing anything -- many didn't like the joke i told. and -- let me -- it is easy. >> all the mayor has to do is say you are released from the nondisclosure agreement. period. >> ending there with biden. what is the warren campaign saying this morning, she nodeed a big night and it seems she had it. >> the bloomberg had a tough night, elizabeth warren had an excellent night. i think this was a night that the campaign felt like they really needed to have. because she came in at a disappointing third place in iowa. very disappointing fourth place in new hampshire and as we head into the nevada caucus on saturday, and beyond, they nee

. >> you have no desire to lift the nda? >> we have an agreement. he cannot do it if you wanted to.would not want to do that. maybe if you, but i don't think so. >> trace: it did not go over well on "the view" and not on the debate, why was there not an adjustment? it seemed like game-time decisions that were not thought through on his team. >> i think there is no adjustment because the story has not changed. there is no indication that, you know, that anybody is interested in breaking the nda agreement, and mike bloomberg cannot unilaterally do that. >> trace: i am curious, because after the debate he was criticized, and then he took part in that debate any changed day. he edited the ending to make it seem like it was more powerful than it was. and he got some criticism. i want to play it for you and get some thoughts on why the campaign chose to make an edit to make it appear different. watch this. >> i'm the only one here that is ever started a business, is that fair? okay. i'm the only one here that has ever started a business, is that fair? >> trace: it ran actually for 20 seco

he said that the ndas would stay in place and at one stage was actually booed by the audience for sayingthat all of these candidates are vying for position, but also now really vying against each other in very, very aggressive terms. just briefly, among those candidates, all eyes onjoe biden, his campaign in serious trouble. here. he has just lacked fire and momentum. he has been doing better tonight. he had a couple of hits against mike bloomberg which will be important to him. but he is going to find the next few days particularly testing. he has to do better in the nevada caucus which takes place on saturday and also in south carolina a week after. there is a sense that he believes his campaign will do better with black and latino voters. he has to prove that in the coming weeks. chris, thank you so much. iran says two of its nationals have died from the new coronavirus — the first deaths reported in the middle east. 25 people in the same hospital are suspected of having the disease. injapan hundreds of passengers on board the diamond princess, who've tested negative for coronavirus,

he wanted to take the actions to allow the women to break and be free of their nda, to speak out. i mean, he believes that women should be able to, you know, voice their concerns. >> just because women bloomberg says complained because they didn't like jokes he told are free to talk about it doesn't mean the democratic rivals are ready to let the issue fizzle out. >> that's just not good enough. michael bloomberg needs to do a blank release so that all women who have been muzzled by nondisclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. >> the bloomberg campaign thinks they notched a win here in nevada, though, even they weren't on the ballot because they were on the front page of the las vegas review journal newspaper, with a story about some billboards they bought this week. jon? jon: peter doocy in las vegas, peter, thank you. >> i would like to talk about who we are running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. no i'm not talk about donald trump. i'm talking about mayor bloomberg. >> he thinks he can buy the election. >> mi

nda, man! i played for the nda, years ago.y son owns and nda franchise that the chinese general gave him. bloomberg is the biggest disaster -- is the biggest disaster on this -- it is billionaire to billionaire. sensible people. great novelists lionel shriver wrote to the british spectator, american novelist, best-selling novelist and said people will welcome bloomberg as a respite from trump. no theywo won't. if it's billionaire to billionaire, nobody -- people are going to go with the billionaire who isn't like the sky. the one thing you say about trump, when he came up with that rosie o'donnell line, he wasn't the creature of minders. he wasn't the creature of courtiers who don't dare tell the sultan that he's going to have to come up with an explanation as to why so many of the girls in the had to signed nondisclosure agreements. it was pathetic. >> tucker: [laughs] probably the best summer ever heard of american politics. of american politics. i don't think you can be president since her foreign-born and we are all going

but again, some of those women are under ndas. it raises an issue.leaves people like elizabeth warren, gives her an opportunity to attack bloomberg which he has done. she said those women should be allowed to speak and they should be able to come forward and share their stories and their accusations against bloomberg. it certainly leaves him exposed on the debate stage, and i expect that a number of candidates are going to bring that up tonight. >> mj, one move that could be made is to lift the ndas. >> yeah. >> right? >> that's right. i think that's a fair thing that a rival could bring up, and this is sort of the gist and sort of at the core of this kind of reporting. you know, you look back over the last few years or so on the various kinds of stories and reports that have come out related to me too or men behaving in ways that are inappropriate, and especially when there are these kinds of lawsuits, yes, what often ends up happening is that the alleged victims who are often women, do end up signing these agreements to not be able to publicly spea