the pictures you're seeing on your screen, joe biden and pete buttiegieg together.g is there for some other purpose than to endorse joe biden, but i assume this is not a coincidence. >> i'm sure. >> yeah. i assume, you know, he's not there to go to the chili's next door. it looks like that endorsement now is coming, so you've got the spectre now, the prospect of a buttigieg standing with biden, klobuchar standing with biden, and three candidates really becoming one candidate on the eve of super tuesday. eugene, your reaction. i didn't mean to interrupt you there, but your reaction to the pictures we're now seeing. >> i remember when i was in iowa shortly before the caucus, so many of the voters who picked buttigieg actually thought highly of biden and wanted to support him, but wanted a new direction -- >> i'm interrupting you again. i'm sorry. pete buttiegieg is talking. >> when i ran for president we made it clear the whole idea was about rallying the country together to defeat donald trump and to win the era for the values that we share. and that was always a goa

come on, be honest with the american people. >> pete buttiegieg dropped out.now have reporting that you and pete buttiegieg had a conversation. >> what i called to tell pete, this is a caliber candidate. this is a guy who is brilliant. he's motivated by the right purposes. this guy is the guy who we have very much in common. and i called him to urge him and really plead with him, he has to stay involved. you know, we talk about passing the torch. we're going to have to, we have to build up the bench. there are some really qualified people. i want him, if i get the nomination, i'm going to come to him and ask him to join me. he must stay engaged. he has great capacity. i think the only thing missing with people like pete and others, they just haven't had enough of a national profile to demonstrate to people that they know who they are and the depth of who they are. you know, it goes everywhere from him to mitch landu and other people of significant capability. they have to stay in the game. they've got to get in the game. i wasn't being presumptuous saying i'd

they went looking to pete buttiegieg and amy klobuchar and kamala and cory booker. and now here we are in the final stretch. we're on the verge of bernie sanders, an insurmountable delegate lead. bernie is getting that white hot light of scrutiny. every candidate has an electability case with deep weakness. every one. suddenly that weakness becomes what we're banking on and people look elsewhere. >> i think what's really happening is the billionaire class is panicking and consolidating the support behind the only candidate that they think could beat, not donald trump, but bernie sanders. and by the billionaire class being in a panic and putting their weight behind a figure like biden, they're putting all their eggs in the basket of a person who can barely remember he's running for president. a week ago he salt in front of a bunch of south carolinians, i'm running for senate and if you don't like it you can vote for the other candidate. donald trump is going to make mince meat of him. >> there is interest in the democratic party that don't like bernie sanders -- it's

followed by pete buttiegieg who dropped out of the race and elizabeth warren counting on tonight. raj? >> they are literally digging for answers. a possible cold case murder could be solved. investigators are digging in and around a parking lot in downtown los gatos. you can see the tarp there. they may be searching for a body. the officers are sifting through buckets of material underneath that canopy behind a couple of businesses right there on santa cruz avenue. sources tell us this is a murder case from the 1980s where the body was never recovered. neighboring business owners and onlookers say it's intriguing and a bit disturbing. >> if it was a family member, you'd want that closure. it would just be interesting to find out what it is. clearly it's something. >> coming up on our 6:00 newscast, nbc bay area's robert handa will have that from los gatos. >> for a parent nothing can be as stressful as caring for a seriously ill child. >> arranging for a portrait might be the furthest thing on their minds. a photographer in the east bay shows how valuable the photos can be. let's

former presidential contender pete buttiegieg gives an interview since dropping out. he sits down with the today show's craig melvin opening up about everything from his historic campaign as an openly gay candidate to his endorsement of joe biden. that's tomorrow on today. >>> amazon ordering that? well, an investigation may have you second guessing the items you put in your cart. stories next. >> and we're still watching for a few showers in the forecast, but the next storm system likely having more of an impact for central and southern california the next three days. how much rain we can expect closer to home when we come right back. >>> expired food is still for sale on amazon. that's the finding of cnbc back in october. cnbc found amazon was shipping expired food from third-party sellers. four months sellers they are still active. they are racking up new complaints about expired products. part of the problem is amazon is regulated differently and captain be sued for past-date items sold by third-party. a bill introduced in washington could change that, outlining a

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we saw the total support that folks like klobuchar and pete buttiegieg and joe biden would amass compared to the total support that elizabeth warren and bernie sanders would get together. and i think that joe biden is really using this to his strength to show that people want someone who is a little more pragmatic than the message and the ideas that bernie sanders is putting forward. especially in these states that are not only important to the electoral college for the presidential election, but in states like virginia that are really important for down-ballot races and were really important in 2018 for helping democrats retake control of the house. >> and, robert, do you take -- i just asked mara gay this. do you take bloomberg at his word that he is willing to finance, in effect, the ground war or large parts of it from here on out, willing to become a one-person super pac, especially given the infrastructure he's already bought, paid for and set up? in short order, he became a huge trump troll just on twitter. >> for vice-president biden, it's not about taking mayor bloomberg at his w

and so, i mean, you had pete buttiegieg, harry reid, clyburn endorsement gave tough love for the campaign which i thought was interesting, too. it was just a cascade. by the way, this is just a testament to me about how strategic voters are thinking in this democratic primary. voters and candidates. >> yeah. >> they're really thinking -- you had voters who were drifted to bloomberg because they thought oh, joe is kind of getting wobblier. may not be the guy. as soon as he had his first debate where he drove his ferrari out of the garage into a fire hydrant. and then they came back to biden, so they're looking at it strategically. >> we had all this stuff when we talk about ukraine stuff. i don't want to do the bidding of trump because it's all -- it's kind of b.s. because -- >> kind of? >> it's b.s. because trump wants the media to do his bidding on ukraine, on hunter biden, because i really think democrats see through that and they know that it means nothing because i don't think anyone -- any democrat is going to go to the poll -- i was talking to people in d.c. today as i made my way b

pete buttiegieg brought both a lot of donors and a good campaign organizing effort.including her own specific kind of list and -- would you expect that those campaigns that have now come to an end, whether or not the candidates have actually endorsed biden, that he'll try to grab that talent? he'll try to grab those existing structures and glom them on the small campaign apparatus he's built for himself? >> sure, biden has a good core campaign team. he needs to add to it. you have field organizers from all those candidates. if michael bloomberg's campaign can be measured in a matter of days, they have amazing talent in that campaign, great digital talent running really a 2020 campaign. whoever the nominee is going to need. yes. and the other thing i'd say about that, those are amazing surrogates. some have endorsed biden. as you think about the general election and fresh faces to go into the battle ground states to make the case. >> i want to show the bernie sanders event in essex junction, vermont, they have a strong coordinated placard game right now. this counts f