even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. mark: for more coverage on the wlwt.com. right now we have the five takeaways from the cnn townhall. you can catch the democratic debate on msnbc tonight at 9:00. and for all the commitment 2016 latest news, check out our mobile app and website at wlwt.com. lisa: turning to the other side of the race, new hampshire campaigning is just heating up and already we have more republican candidates dropping out. candidates rand paul and rick santorum have both now dropped out of the 2016 presidential race. santorum didn' t stop there, announcing that he is now throwing his support behind now-former competitor marco rubio. rubio placed third in iowa' s caucuses, behind ted cruz and donald trump. trump is accusing senator ted cruz of stealing the republican iowa caucus. he' s calling for either new voting in iowa or for the results to be nullified. mark: florida governor rick scott has declared a health emergency in four counties of the state. at least nine cases of the mosquito-borne zika ill

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. >> clinton did say she's proud of the campaign both she and sanders are running describing their differences as contrasting on issues while the republicans she sayses are only contrasting on insults. >> the war of words among the republican candidates appears to getting increasingly biting. donald trump attacking texas senator ted cruz over what he calls dirty tricks to steal the iowa caucus through a campaign of misinformation. abc's tom llamas is in new hampshire. >> reporter: donald trump accusing senator ted cruz of using dirty tricks to win the iowa caucuses. the accusation coming after team cruz spread word on caucus day that dr. ben carson might be dropping out. >> he insulted ben carson by doing what he did to ben carson. that was a disgrace. >> reporter: on the day of the caucuses, the cruz campaign sending supporters this e-mail, stating the press's reporting that "carson is taking time off" after iowa and "making a big announcement next week." it goes on to say, "please inform any carson caucus-goers of

in my view, we judge a nation -- and i know paul wellstone said it better than i -- we judge a nation not by a number of millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how we treat the most vulnerable people in our country. people who cannot defend themselves. that is a sign of a great country. [applause] nobody in this room should be proud of the fact that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. nobody should be proud or accept that millions of seniors and disabled veterans are trying to ,et by on $11,000, $12,000 $13,000 a year. that is not what america should be about. that is why i believe we must lift the cap on taxable income coming into the social security trust fund. and expand social security benefits. [cheers and applause] senator sanders: my legislation i introduced would raise taxable taxes for people earning $250,000 or more. top 1.5%. and expand and extend social security for another 58 years and expand it such that seniors now living on less than $16,000 will get $1300 more. that is the least we can do for the people who helped

[applause] >> i'm a paul wellstone progressive. [cheering] >> and let me tell you what that means.do better when we all do better. i knew what a high coup highi'd say that was a coup. but evidently, i've been told it isn't. do betternew we all when we all do better. in suburban minnesota. neither of my parents went to college. my dad didn't graduate from high school. bedroom, onea two bath house. but i considered myself the luckiest kid in the world, because i was. i was growing up middle class, at the height of the middle class in america. but a lot of kids don't feel days.ay these that.'ve got to restore and hillary clinton will restore that america! [cheering] thisfe, i'm familiar with part of the country. in portland,up maine. down east. i know that. now, she wasn't as lucky. dad, a decorated world war ii vet, died in a car when she was 18 months old, leaving her mom widowed at age 29.ids there was one younger than my wife. but they all made it. it, because of social security survive benefits. now, sometimes -- this is maine -- sometimes they turn the heat off in the winter. so

great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma.e have differences. honestly, i think we should be talking about what we want to do for the country. if we're going to get into labels, i don't think it was progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. i don't think it was progressive to give gun sellers immunity. it wasn't present to vote against ted kennedy's immigration reform. we can go back and forth like this. the fact is, most people watching tonight wants to know what we've done and what we will do. that is why i am laying out a specific agenda that will make progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave, and the other elements of what i think will build a strong economy that will ensure that americans making progress. that is what i'm offering. that is what i will do as president. >> senator sanders? how do you establish a list of what needs to be a progressive? sen. sanders: no, not at all. here is the reality of american economic

twitter and statements by the campaign, obama would not be a progressive and even the great late paul wellstone would not be a progressive. i will not let in that better me. i know where i stand. >> reporter: with five days remaining until the new hampshire primary, it is up to the voters to decide. some 40% of the voter are independent voters. many of whom will pick up ballot on primary day to decide who they will vote for. democrat or republican and make their decision then. john and christine. >> jeff, thank you. let's dig deeper over what we learned of the candidates. greg, i want to play a little sound. hillary clinton pressed on taking speaking fees. a lot of speaking fees from goldman sachs. listen. >> look, i made speeches to lots of groups. i told them what i thought. i answered questions. >> but did you have to be paid $675,000? >> i don't know. that's what they offered. you know, every secretary of state that i know has done that. >> that's usually once they're out of office and not running. >> to be honest, i wasn't committed to running. >> greg, how did she handle that answer? >> t

even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition. >> you being the self-proclaimed gate keeper for progressivism, i don't know anyone else who fit that definition. >> instead of arguing about definitions, let's talk about what we should do. >> you began it yesterday. >> one of the things we should do is not only talk the talk but walk the walk. i'm proud to be the only candidate who does not have a superer pac, who is not raising huge sums of money from wall street or special interests. >> time and time again by insinuation, there is this attack that he is putting forth which really comes down to, you know, anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought. i just absolutely reject that, senator. i really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. enough is enough. if you've got something to say, say it directly, but you will not find that i ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that i ever received. i think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been ca

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. so i'm not going to let that bother me. i know where i stand, i know who stands with me, i know what i've done but i don't think it helps for the senator to be making because clearly we all share a lot of the same hopes and aspirations for our country that we want to see achieved. i don't think it's appropriate if planned parenthood endorses me that they're thrown out the progressive wing and put into the establishment. that's just not anything we need to do. let's have a good contest of ideas, let's contrast where we stand and that's what i intend to do for the next couple of days. >> satisfactory answer for you, bakari, for the audience and for americans? >> i think it was. many of us have this problem with the progressive pure testify test going on with the democratic party today. today we had a twitter storm about hillary clinton and bernie sanders about you're a progressive and you do this. barack obama is not a progressive? sorry, bill. you're talking about the president who led

[applause] we, of course, my thoughts went to an old and very dear friend of mine, paul wellstone and his wife, sheila. [applause] elected in 1990, at the same time. we became very close friends can ofwork together on a number issues. and i want to thank the democrats of minnesota for work, sure that paul's and more importantly,'s vision is never forgotten. [applause] everybody in this room president, that no not bernie sanders or anybody address theone enormous crises facing this country. and the reason for that, which is not talked about very much in the media or in congress, is the reality that big money interests , wall street, corporate america, corporate media, koch brothers, large campaign donors have so much power, so much influence over the economy and political life of this country, no president can do it alone. so, i could sit here for 10 hours -- that is right. [applause] i could sit here for 10 hours and tell you all the things that have to be done, but i would be wasting your time. because nothing significant gets done unless millions of people come together, including w

even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. we have differences, and, honestly, i think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. if we're going to get into labels, i don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. i don't think it was progressive to give gun makers immunity. i don't think it was progressive to vote against ted kennedy's immigration reform. we can go back and forth like there. most people watching tonight want to know what we've done and what we will do. that's why i'm laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress and get more job, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements that will build a strong economy and ensure americans will keep making progress. that's what i'm offering and that's what i will do as president. >> how do you establish a list of what it means to be a progressive that's unrealistic? >> no, not at all. here's the reality of american economic life today. the

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive here here is what i want youngple to know. they do not have to be for me. i'm going to be for them. >> how are you going to defend yourself against right-wing attacks? mrs. clinton: i have had a lot of practice. whatever your age, you really think about what someone is proposing and what their record is about getting it done. beneton said the bernie sanders is not as good a debater as hillary clinton. and he is not. but i thought last night he showed the maturity he has gone to as a performer in situations like the town hall. i thought she was quite good. much more her natural self than her tv self. john: i 100% agree. i thought they were both impressive last night. she found her way back to effectively how good she was at her best in 2008. we all wondered how long that would take and whether she would get there. she is there in this setting. bernie sanders who started this campaign as a shouty order, but had not that much experience doing this kind of stuff in front of millions of people. he is not quite as good a

even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. we have differences, and, honestly, i think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. if we're going to get into labels, i don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. i don't think it was progressive to give gun makers immunity. i don't think it was progressive to vote against ted kennedy's immigration reform. we can go back and forth like there. most people watching tonight want to know what we've done and what we will do. that's why i'm laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress and get more job, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements that will build a strong economy and ensure americans will keep making progress. that's what i'm offering and that's what i will do as president. >> how do you establish a list of what it means to be a progressive that's unrealistic? >> no, not at all. here's the reality of american economic life today. the

president obama couldn't be a progressive, paul wellstone who is an icon with the liberal community, wouldn't be one. that was a big moment for her. in terms of spirituality, they turned it into campaign and politics. we serve a greater power than that that doesn't much care about politics. i give them credit for doing it. i do think it humanized them some, and they both need to be humanized. >> i see it somewhat differently. first of all, they did not seem to be pandering. it was really -- it seemed like an honest explanation on both their parts. you can tell they're going to play their religion card. it didn't seem that way. i think that hillary clinton would be less defensive. it is very much the case that during the 1990s, hillary clinton wasn't a part of the rainbow coalition. she wasn't hanging out with others. they came in this third way door. they came in saying we're not all that liberal stuff. we're this new kind of more hod r moderate. you have to eat the whole hamburger. if you want to claim stuff when you were 20, you have to claim things you did when you were 40. she wa

even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not fit this definition because he voted for doma. we have differences, and, honestly, i think we should be talking about what we want to do for the country. if we're going to get into labels, i don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. i don't think it was progressive to give gun makers immunity. i don't think it was progressive to vote against ted kennedy's immigration reform. we can go back and forth like there. but the fact is most people watching tonight want to know what we've done and what we will do. that's why i'm laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress and get more job, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements that will build a strong economy and ensure americans will keep making progress. that's what i'm offering and that's what i will do as president. >> senator sanders. how do you establish a list of what it means to be progressive that's unrealistic? >> no, not at all. here's the reality of

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. >> sanders' jab at clinton speaks to louder conversation and growing discord happening in the democratic party. with hours to go, new fund-raising totals creating another stir. sanders outraised clinton in january, according to numbers from both campaigns. look at the numbers, $21 million to $15 million. clinton comes in to the debate tonight with an apparent iowa win under her built but the raiser-thin margin is driving some debate even with iowa, and it's supposed to be in the rear view mirror. we're joined live by two of our best correspondents who have been in the trenches covering the campaigns for months now. kasie hunt and kristen welker here with me to talk about a lot that's going on. and guys, we've got four hours and a lot of bombshells already including "the des moines register," coming out say essentially all of the heat that's happened with iowa needs to be reviewed and the results are in question, they say. >> the challenge is, they can't recount because of the way that the caucuses work. what happens n

of course it's a state of paul wellstone, the state that has a deep liberal tradition that fits his politicsooking at the numbers today, wolf, how much he's spent in south carolina is something to absolutely take into account. he spent nearly $2 million in television ads. spike lee was on the radio there for him. he could not watch tv, drive across the state without seeing bernie sanders on television or listening to bernie sanders. we'll find out if the investment paid off tonight. he also had almost 200 staffers on the ground there. so it's not that bernie sanders was not making an investment in south carolina. the question we'll find out tonight is if it's worth it and what that means going forward in these other southern primaries in the other primaries across the country here. but when you talk to his advisers, they will say, look, this is a delegate fight. he will do very well in convict tests in march here. but there's no question here, wolf, this is a turning point. democrats realize this is a turning point. the question for bernie sanders is, will he change his rhetoric at all? he w

my friend, the late senator from minnesota, paul wellstone fought hard for that mental health parody law. as paul always insisted a mental health parody bill is about equality and fairness. it is time that patients who are struggling with an eating disorder receive that equality and fairness. it is time that so many of these women who suffer from this disease, that it's much more particular to women than men, get to receive that treatment that you get for other kind of mental health disorders. this bill would ensure that patients like anna weston aren't prevented from getting the treatment they need simply because their insurance doesn't cover it. eating disorders become life threatening when left untreated making early detection absolutely critical. that's why this bill would also use existing funds to create grant programs to train school employees, primary care physicians, and mental health and public health professionals on how to identify eating disorders as well as intervene when behaviors associated with an eating disorder have been identified. i think most young people today k

barack obama would not be a progressive and joe biden would not be a even the late great senator paul wellstone> jonathan, how do you think she did with that answer and where do you think she's playing in this campaign? >> i think she did well with that answer. i heard a piece the other day warning democrats about what is happening between clinton supporters and sanders supporters. if you say something negative about senator sanders, the response you get back will melt your pixel screen. i think secretary clinton did a very good job of defending herself. yes, i agree with the comparison to what is happening on the left is happening on the right in that the candidates are so far to their edges that they might have a problem swinging back to the center and being able to swing back to the center. but the idea is that she's not a progressive i think is ludicrous. >> we have seen the influence in debates and this is not only the first time that these two are going to go head-to-head but it's the last time that new hampshire voters go to the polls. let me give you each 30 seconds and lisa, i'll start

paul wellstone progressive. [cheers and applause] sen.ranken: and let me tell you what that means. paul said we all do better when we all do better. now, if i knew what a haiku was i would say that was a haiku, but evidently i have been told it is not. but paul knew that we all do better when we all do better. minnesota,n suburban neither of my parents went to college. my dad did not graduate from high school. werew up in a two-bedroom, one bathroom house but i considered myself the luckiest kid in the world. because i was. i was growing up in a class at the height of the middle class in america. that a lot of kids do not feel that way these days. got to restore that and hillary clinton will restore that america. [cheers and applause] sen. franken: my wife grew up in portland, maine. down the east. i know that. as lucky.t her dad, a decorated world war ii veteran died in a car accident when she was 18 months old, leaving her mother widowed with five children at age 29. there was one younger than my wife. but they all made it. they made it

even the late, great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. so i'm not going to let that bother me. i know where i stand. i know who stands with me. i know what i've done. but i don't think it helps for the senator to be making those kinds of comparisons because clearly we all share a lot of the same hopes and aspirations for our country that we want to see achieved, and i don't think it's appropriate that if planned parenthood endorses me or the human rights campaign endorses me, you know, they're thrown out of the progressive wing and put into the establishment. that's just not anything we need to do. let's have a good contest of ideas, let's contrast where we stand and that's what i intend to do for the next couple of days. >> it would obviously be historic if you were elected president. >> you think so? [ applause ] >> i've studied a little bit of history. but it seems like young women aren't rallying to this potentially historic home. historic moment. i say this in iowa. among women under 30, senator sanders beat you by 70 points. that's

it's a paul wellstone of the right. >> do you think? >> yeah.yeah. >> i think he's right and i think that they are looking for somebody who is going to do what they say they're going to do. and what a lot of other politicians or pundits in washington will look at and say why did he do that? his supporters are saying, thank god, somebody finally does that. >> my problem -- and the reason i'm tough on him is i sense in him a darkness, a veer lent an tip a thee towards obama that's -- almost sees obama as castro, as a dictator of the left. his viciousness with which he goes after -- we know what it is, the washington establishment. the vicious anger of him, i think it's for real and it scares me. it's so menacing. >> that's what democrats did to george w. bush from 2005 through 2008. >> well, there was a particular issue there, the war. >> right. >> there is an issue that you agree with those that went after bush. >> that's a good point. >> it's a good point if you're a democrat and if you are a republican and a conservative they will give you thei

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive.>> and there are a list of things that are progressive causes that she's not only been involved with since this campaign but even when she was u.s. senator, secretary of state. >> is that a fair comparison? >> i'll tell you why this came up and why i think it is a fair comparison. hillary was in ohio in september. she said some people say, you know, i'm a moderate and centerist, i plead guilty. if you say that in ohio and come to and say i'm a centerist, you have an obligation to say which one i am. >> you have to sometimes moderate your views to reach across the aisle and get things done which is what frankly voters on both sides are fed up with, not getting things done. >> i agree. voters want someone to get things done. bernie has gotten a lot done in washington. enormous record in achievement and a great record as mayor of burlington. we have talk about effectiveness. but the way it get things done is not to go fot middle and try to pull people together. the '90s way doesn't work a

i was a big fan of paul wellstone. his plane crashed. he always talked about he was from the democratic wing of the democratic party. that is bernie sanders. that is a kind of message we need to get out. franklin roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents. bernie sanders is in that tradition. he is not in the corporate establishment. he works for the good of the people. his planesaid mysteriously crashed. why do you say that? guest: it crashed. i do not want to get into that. there were issues about electromagnetic pulses. that is a separate issue. he died. he and his wife died. it was a terrible tragedy. a beautiful day. no weather problems. there are questions. he was a great man. he was the kind of democrat we need. host: joseph from delaware. go ahead. caller: ok. i want to know how bernie rid of the $19t trillion debt we are in. i look at the country is a business. we have free capitalism and trade. you don't invest in a company that is going broke under obama, the country is going broke. i would not cash a check with the united s

even the late great senator paul wellstone would not be a progressive. i'm not going to let that bother me. i know where i stand. i know who stands with me. i know what i have done. but i don't think it helps for the senator to be making those kinds of comparisons because clearly we all share a lot of the same hopes and aspirations for our country that we want to see achieved. i don't think it's appropriate that planned parenthood endorses me or the human rights campaign endorses me, they are thrown out of the progressive wing and put into the establishment. that's just not -- that's just not anything we need to do. host: just a few minutes left this morning on the "washington journal." we are asking if you could change the presidential primary, the nominating process for the candidates, how would you do it? we asked this question with just five days to go before the first in the nation primary in new hampshire. here's the front page of the new hampshire union leader. retail politics, dollars and cents. a picture of marco rubio greeting customers at a di