peter beinart with us as well. dana, you've been covering this campaign for a long time.rats and the republicans. your initial impressions. >> i was watching it thinking over and over that bernie sanders kind of put himself out there as the dreamer, what he would do if it's possible as a progressive, as a liberal. with every turn hillary clinton said no, i'm the doer, like i'm the pragmatist here. it's really nice to have all those big thoughts and dreams, bernie sanders, but this is what can and can't be done. particularly as you were mentioning, jeff, on health care. she was kind of trying to bring everybody back to reality, saying sure, you want to have universal health care, but guess what, the president had a super majority in the senate. or i should say he had a 60-vote threshold in the senate of democrats and he couldn't even get universal health care done. so good luck to you. >> it was a pretty fierce exchange on that whole issue of guns. david axelrod. as well as health care. >> yeah. and i agree with jeff. i think bernie sanders doesn't have a good answer on gu

peter beinart joins me now. you say just look to young americans as evidence.'s what you wrote. according to pew, a clear majority of young republicans say immigrant strength in america half say corporate profits are too high and almost half say strict environmental laws are worth the cost. why should republican candidates take notice of that when often, as we've seen election after election, young votes often don't equal as many as the older generations who will get out to the polls more? >> because the size of this millennial generation is vast. in the next couple of elections, they're going to be between 30 and 40% of the electorate, they're going to stay that way until closer to the middle of this century. whether you're able to compete amongst this generation or not is going to be tremendously important. right now the republican party has had a couple of significant big problems. first of all, those millennials will remember george w. bush didn't like him very much, they prefer barack obama, but even those millennials who identify as republican tend to be

continuing our conversation now, peter beinart, also van jones, gloria borger, michael smerconish, donna brazile, and bakri sellers. it highlights how important iowa was in all of this when you look at the polls, you look at what happened. also we didn't talk much about the republicans. have we mentioned trump once? >> thank god. >> it's midnight and we haven't mentioned him in an hour. >> and we haven't mentioned o'malley. >> i've got something nice to say about martin o'malley. >> first of all -- >> we did talk about o'malley. you said he was going to bring it. and you said, well, he showed up. he was present. >> he did do very well today. i mean, he's going before the firebrand surge. 74-year-old devout socialist who's a revolutionary. and hillary clinton, who's a staalward of the party. that's difficult. >> and he said let's not talk about process, let's talk about people. and i think in his response to many of the questions he tried to bring it back to the people. the people in iowa. and then he tried to bring it back to his own message in terms of delivering, as -- come on. i'm bei

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peter beinart, hadley heath manning, thank you. on the phone with me now is hugh hewitt. d morning, carol. >> oh, hugh, what do you make of this? >> it's grand. i love it all. peter should not worry. if president trump is around, i'll make sure he -- here's the deal. it's not about megyn kelly. it's not about women. it's not about blacks. it's about generating buzz for donald trump. and he owns casinos, he makes big bets because he understands gambles. i've played every minute of this press conference on my radio show last night. twice. you're talking about him this morning. i watched wall-to-wall coverage last night. it was all about donald. iowa caucuses.stroke before the- he went in and he basically took all of the cereal off the shelf and everyone is eating his cereal all day long. but it's not real. everybody will tell you, he doesn't dislike anybody. i've got my own trump tattoo, right? he called me a third-rate radio announcer. i called him up and talked to him and he's fine and back on the show. that's donald trump. we've learned it. but we can't fall for the opera

peter beinart, sabrina schafer. >>> tomorrow, president obama joins anderson cooper for an exclusivel -- excuse me, an exclusive town hall to discuss gun control. you can watch that right here 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," north korea brags it built a hydrogen bomb. why? it says it needs nukes to defend itself from america and its allies. >>> and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. world capitals across the globe are reverberating with strong words condemning north korea's claims that it successfully detonated its first h-bomb. in a rare show of solidarity, nations are voicing grave concerns. cnn's kristi lu stout explains why this could be such a game changer. >> reporter: it's confirmed. it's not the first time north korea has tested a nuclear weapon, but this could be the most powerful one by far. three previous tests, all clustered within a few kilometers of each other between 2006 and 2013 were of atomic bombs or a-bombs. and we know how strong they are. this is what u.s. forces dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki in

. >> van jones, peter beinart, gloria borger, michael smerconish, donna brazile and backari. >> when that -- i was getting to that. when he said that, you guys gasped. why? >> because she's a reporter. and more than that she's a respected journalist. i don't watch her often because that conflicts with me watching anderson. >> preach. >> but she's a reporter. she's a moderator. she is a professional. and whether you like her or dislike her you just don't telegraph that. i think it's very unprofessional. >> he's like a cry baby. i'm going to take on isis but i don't like megyn being mean to me, mommy. it's like are you a tough guy or not? >> what happened to any decorum in the political process? there is a way that you address women in general. and he has just debunked any form of respectability that's out there. my mother would not let me talk to another woman like that no matter what she was saying about me or who she worked for. >> but is there a method to -- i'm just -- >> nobody is floating on television now that we're back from the sought here, what we were all just agreeing, whi