the dnc took action after a sanders campaign's effort improperly accessed clinton's -- sanders campaign staffer improperly accessed clinton's voter files, taking advantage of a glitch in the system. the sanders campaign fired the staffer involved and the dnc has restored access to the files. sanders apologized for the breach during saturday's debate, which focused largely on foreign policy. clinton and sanders sparred over the role of the u.s. military. the united states must lead, but it is not the policeman of the world. the united states must not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. the united states at the same time cannot successfully fight assad and isis. isis is the major priority. >> if the united states does not lead, there is not a leader. there is a vacuum. amy: both the o'malley and sanders campaigns have accused the dnc of trying to help clinton by limiting the number of debates and scheduling them on low-viewership periods like saturday nights. according to nielsen, just 6.7 million people tuned in to abc on saturday, a fraction of the 18 million who watche

one sanders staffer has now been fired but today sanders campaign manager jennifer weaver accused the dnc of trying help the clinton campaign. >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. this is unacceptable. individual leaders of the dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want but they are not going to sabotage our campaign. one of the strongest grass root campaigns in modern history. >> immediately after weaver's press conference dnc party chair debbie wasserman schultz, if sanders files had been accessed. the problem is that dnc chair's alleged conflict of interest. debbie wasserman-schultz in addition to being dnc chair, is one of hillary clinton's toughest supporters. limiting the number of democratic debates, most of the few debates that have been scheduled have been scheduled for weekends. that means fewer people watching and less of an opportunity for clinton challengers to break through. the fight with the dnc comes as bernie sanders appears to be gaining some momentum. his campaign has now collected mo

senator sanders. mr. sanders: good evening. i am running for president of the united states because it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. i'm running for president because our economy is rigged because working people are working longer hours for lower wages, and almost all of new wealth and income being created is going to the top 1%. i'm running for president because i'm going to create an economy that works for working families not just billionaires. i'm running for president because we have a campaign finance system which is corrupt, where billionaires are spending hundreds of millionaires of dollars to buy candidates who will represent their interests rather than the middle class and working families. i'm running because we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change and take on the fossil-fuel industry and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. i'm running for president because i want a new foreign policy, one that takes on

sanders: i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. josh: welcome back to a special edition of "close up" from saint anselm college. m joined by executive director neil levesque of the institute of politics. thank you for the hospitality. how many debates have you been through. neil: three or four cycles. josh: what was your take away? neil: five days before the christmas, the gloves came off for the first time. i think o' malley did not have a good night and clinton and sanders clearly got into it. normally we would have seen a television commercial or break and abc did not seem to want to cut to the break because the candidates were going at it with such a v viscery. part of it was the data breach. josh: they did not spend a lot of time on that. neil: they spent enough to get it started and it bled into the other issues. the room and the candidates wanted to vent on that stage. josh: one question that was asked, education. that is why i recognized it. how do you come up with the college affordability is on the minds of a lot of peopl

the dnc has barred the sanders camp from accessing its data base and last hour, senator sanders spoke exclusively to our nbc news team on capitol hill. >> reporter: senator sanders, do you have any response? >> i think we are going to be doing a press conference at 1:00. >> reporter: personally are you disappointed with this staffer? >> we are going to be doing a press conference at 1:00. >> we will talk about all that at 1:00. >> dnc congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz spoke to tamron hall about this earlier. take a look. >> we are going to be having an independent audit done so we can assess the depth of this breach. the voter file is of tremendous value to campaigns, to state parties, to party committees, because it includes data about individual voters' habits. >> so we have our political experts, our whole team assembled with us to help break down what this means for democrats, also for the sanders campaign. we expect to hear from them coming up within a couple of minutes. steve kornacki is an msnbc anchor and political correspondent, mark murray is our nbc news senior politic

but it really is a bad thing for the sanders campaign. it hurts the sanders campaign. and i think they ought to minimize the shutdown and accelerate the investigation. i would like to see the database reopened to the sanders campaign before it ever gets to court. >> would you if you were chair of the dnc offer an assurance to the sanders campaign? >> you can't offer an assurance until you know what's going on but i think it's important so the public thinks it's fair not to tie up the sanders database any longer than you absolutely have to. we're not talking days. we're talk -- i'd like to do this in a few hours if i were the chair. >> there are some people that are saying hillary clinton should come out and say that -- say something here and perhaps say that the sanders campaign should be offered an assurance or that this should be handled more than just expeditiously. given how critical access to these voter lists is. >> well, i thought that until a few hours ago myself, alex, you about i got on a conference call with the clinton folks and they are very upset about th

sanders: i'm bernie sanders >> now news nine sports. jason: granite state bragging rights on the line in durham this afternoon, that' s where the unh and dartmouth men' s basketball teams met for the 66th time, very even series between the two programs, 33 wins for new hampshire 32 for dartmouth. first half, tanner leissner knocks down a three from the he had 19 points. at the other end, guillien smith uses the screen, and finds some room to shoot. he buries the three. he had 12 points. kick it out to a wide open pat mcnamara, that 3 pointer put new hampshire went up by how nine. about the spin move in the paint, evan boudreaux hits the floater for the big green . the wildcats were tough today, joe bramanti with a great look to jacoby armstrong on the baseline. he throws it down. he had unh pulled away in the 12. second half and the wildcats win by the snhu women home with 20. fisher today penmen in white, sara ryan, nice scores. nice look underneath to kylie lorenzen for an easy bucket . snhu in transition, erin doherty with good posit

[video clip] bernie sanders: i apologize.ot only do i apologize to secretary clinton, and i hope we can work together on independent investigation from day one, but apologize to my supporters. this is not the type of campaign that we run. if i find anyone else involved in this, they will also be fired. hillary clinton: i very much appreciate that comments. it is important that we go forward on this. i know that you now have your data back, and it has been an agreement for an independent .nquiry into what happened obviously, we were distressed when we learned of it because we have worked very hard -- i said at the beginning of this campaign -- we wanted to reach as many voters as possible and we have tens of thousands of volunteers doing that, entering data all the time, to keep up with what people are telling us. now that i think we have resolved your data, agreed on an independent inquiry, we should move on. i do not think the american people are all that interested in this. i think they are more interested in what we have t

it will make the sanders supporters angry. she needs those people. iowa and new hampshire are going to be crucial. >> the dnc says it had no choice. if sanders campaign did take portion information they had to take some sort of action. is it some risk for bernie sanders to take such an aggressive stance? he has tried to portray himself as a different more ethical candidate. >> he is arguing the fault applies with the dnc not particularly him. but he says the dnc is being biased in their treatment of the campaigns. that's the sort of thing that gets his supporters fired up. and what he has to do is increase their passion, their anxiety. and declaring their support in public in front much friends and neighbors. a lot of people don't want to do that, being fired up to do that. >> the president has acknowledged many nairns thought he was too low to, respond to he went on a bit of a speaking blitz, today at the white house trying to calm fears. do you think this was effective? >> i'm not going to say it's effective but now the fact is americans were worri

in the sanders story about this. to -- the goal is to shift this to the democratic national committee has it in for us and trying to promote hillary clinton and ignoring the fact that it was ultimately somebody on their side who went to the clinton side and the clinton side is trying to remind people of that. >> appreciate you clearing some of that up for us. for more on the political reaction to the story we want to bring in bill preston and roland martin, host of news one now. when we are listening to everything unfolding here, as steve pointed out there are many who do feel that debbie wassermann schultz and dnc are clearly in the hillary clinton camp and this is in their view one more sign based on the reaction. bill press, is that what we are seeing? >> i think we have to keep in mind, number one, as cal perry told us, this is a vendor that screwed up. the sanders campaign didn't screw up. why don't they fire the vendor? secondly, i have been to dnc meetings. there is no doubt the dnc is a cheering squad for hil

so i think it's a complicated case that the sanders campaign is making. >> as you know, bernie sanders campaign already even before this was working under the assumption that the dnc is quietly, maybe not so quietly, in effect supporting the hillary clinton campaign. that's why they were doing these presidential debates on a saturday night when most people aren't at home watching television. you've heard those complaints earlier from the sanders campaign. >> exactly. so i would imagine that now those -- this is going to fuel an even greater, larger case for them to make on that theme. and it's fitting that we have a debate this weekend among democrats. the last one of this calendar year. and bernie sanders will be able to make the point that there have been very few debates on nights that people are not inclined to watch. and now that the dnc is potentially blocking him from this valuable information for indefinitely really, so it really does strengthen his case and could add a lot of fuel to the grassroots fire that we have already seen. >> you're looking at this, kevin, as a republic

sanders and won the nomination. how do you turn those folks into die-hards? >> well, we're working. it's what we do right now. touching people. door by door. going to the grassroots. i will tell you, poppy, here in new hampshire i have had an opportunity to talk to some people who went outdoor knocking today. they are excited about telling senator sanders's story. he is standing up for the working poor. his case in college. how he wants to eradicate institutional racism. people are excited. there is no magic wand to any of this. hard, grassroots, door gnawing, phone calling, people to people telling why they support senator sanders he is just getting started. >> let's talk about that, what we will see in half an hour on the debate stage. how do you hammer home to voters that your candidate is the one that is going to be most focused on the economy, in equality et cetera. perhaps the voters aren't seeing enough of a difference between hillary clinton and bernie sanders. >> i mean, part of it, poppy, he is a senator f

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we are also waiting for a news conference from bernie sanders' campaign. the national democratic campaign is going to suspend his access, and we will have that address. >>> and also, following the anxiety following the terrorism in san bernardino and the president's plan to destroy isis, according to a washington street journal poll, only 34% of americans approve of the way that the president is handling is isis, and 60% disapprove. we go to gloria borger and jim acosta at the white house. what do you believe that the president is going to try to get across? >> well, it is another way of him assuring the american people that he is on top of it in securing the homeland and taking the fight to isis, and you have heard it in several settings, the oval office, the pentagon, and at the national counter terrorism center yesterday. and this is a unique opportunity for the president to talk about what he feel s ths that the accomplishments were over the last year, and they want to talk about the climate deal inked in pari paris, and they want to talk about the ira

bernie sanders, (d) presidential candidate. "the problem would not have happened in the dnc's vendor had done their job properly." the staffer responsible for the breach has been fired. two others were suspended. and, sanders, himself, has apologized to hillary clinton and his supporters. "it's not the way we do a but, sanders said the dnc's move to then suspend the campaign's access to their own voter information was wrong. "there are a number of people in the dnc that think that the leadership acted improperly," sanders said. sanders has now called for an independent investigation of data breaches dating back to the beginning of the campaign. this latest breach certainly hasn't hurt sanders' numbers. the latest iowa poll puts sanders within 5-points of hillary clinton. "i want to thank the people of iowa very much for their support," sanders said. "when we began this campaign, we weren't 5 or 10 points down, we were like 40 or 50 points down." sanders says he'll need even more support to put him on what he calls a "path to vi

the d-n-c blocked sanders from a shared database.. after a glitch allowed his staffers to view voter information compiled by hillary clinton's campaign. it's something sanders' campaign manager jeff weaver says the candidate doesn't need."i can tell you that this campaign does not possess any data, does not retain any data, doesn't want any data. we're running a clean campaign."sanders' campaign filed a federal lawsuit against the d-n-c, while also providing the committee with information on how it used and disposed of the data. the glitch occured on wednesday. it enabled sanders' staffers to view voter data gathered by the clinton campaign for about 45 minutes. sanders' data director josh uretsky (you- ret-skee) was fired by the campaign. he told cbs news he was *not* trying to snoop."my goal was to create a record of what was wrong so that i could accurately assess both for the campaign and for the dnc // what my understanding was of what was wrong.uretsky was fired and other sanders staffers are under investigation. the d-n-c lifte

for bernie sanders it is make it or break it. here sanders is leading kroorgd to the of the last polling average, 48 ahead of clintons 44 and martin o'malley trailing. clinton is more than 24 points ahead of bernie sanders on the nationals. that reflects how she is doing in states like nevada and south corolina. it shows you how significant a win in new hemp sheer has to be. he is from vermont, one state away. his message has been resonating with voters. he needs to capitalise on that >>> before the controversy regarding the voter files, they have stayed focused on the issues. how much of a distraction will this be and what are the issues that they will try to focus on? >> the candidates have to be careful how they talk about this flap tonight. they may leave it to their campaigns and their surrogates to do push back. does it really benefit them to talk about it much this evening, but it will come up. the real focus this evening is national security, foreign policy. you will certainly see hillary clinton talking about her time as

bernie sanders actually still ahead. new poll from the "boston herald" up there in new hampshire, sanders with a two-point lead over hillary clinton, down slightly from the last time, but nonetheless, he leads there. he is within striking distance in iowa, down by about ten points there. the saving grace for hillary clinton right now is even though these numbers look a little shaky for her in the early states, the minute you get beyond the early states and start polling states like south carolina and big states with much more diverse populations, she is overwhelmingly ahead of bernie sanders in those states. that is thanks largely to overwhelming support from african-american voters. that's something that bernie sanders has not been able to put a dent in so far. turning now to the republican race, too, just want to update you on developments there this morning. donald trump did one of those call-in interviews he's becoming famous for. he did one on "morning joe" this morning. the subject of vladimir putin came up. vladim

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especially bernie sanders. i think he has to come in this debate and draw really sharp contrasts that he hasn't done in the previous two debates. he's backed away from them. he has to win iowa, which he's behind in now. he has to win here to try to reset this total race. and the only way he can do that is to take her on frontally. >> and not just on the economy, not just on wall street, not just on the issues that are the bread and butter for bernie security. on what happened under her watch in libya, on what she wants to do in syria. they're going to portray her, particularly sanders, as a hawk, with the base of the democratic >> that is a top issue tonight. we'll be right back. ryou do all this research on the perfect car. rgas mileage, horse power, torque ratios... rthree spreadsheets later, r you finally bring home the one... then smash it into a tree. p your insurance company is all too happy to raise your rates... p maybe you should've done a little more research on them. for drivers with accident forgive

that is a tough issue for bernie sanders. he tried to bridge an area there of consensus that he kept talking about, but there's some heated back and forth. >> that was maybe the best exchange in terms of the dynamic, if you were watching it as a spectator. the problem for bernie sanders, his entire rational is he's the guy that's going to attack hillary from the left. but when it comes to gun control, he doesn't get it done. martin o'malley started to make strides there and i think he went a little too far and they went okay, marty, calm down. so at the end of the day, hillary probably comes out ahead. >> juan, what do you think on that topic? mrs. clinton talked a lot about the fact that there has to be a coalition to come together to close loopholes and that kind of thing. it doesn't happen on the hill, it hasn't yet. >> no. i think the overwhelming thing is here, you have democrats talking about gun control. nobody in the republican side is talking about gun control and in the aftermath of san bernardino, you can see the d

sanders: i'm bernie sanders >> good morning, new hampshire. it is 11 minutes past 6:00. there is manchester, 34 degrees. we can see a little bit of stars when you look outside at the moment, but clouds on their way out so we'll see more sunshine as we go through the day here, so be on the lookout for a couple of snow showers that will pass through, even in southern new hampshire with no accumulation expected. i'll have more on the forecast in a few minutes. amy: the mother of the little girl known for months simply as baby doe, and her boyfriend, have been indicted in the girl's death. bella bond's remains were her mother rachelle is indicted along with her boyfriend. if convicted rachelle bond faces seven years in prison and mccarthy faces life in prison. both will be arraigned in january. president obama and the first lady met with the families of the shooting victims. the fbi calling the attack terrorism. the married couple responsible became radicalized in the years prior to the shooting. the president delivered previous remarks during our visit, we must remind ourse

to endorse is senator bernie sanders. the person i tried to tell his story, the story why i believe he can take our country to the next level. that's why i'm here in iowa today. >> are you enjoy participating in the iowa caucus? >> i am. my brother went to clinton community college years ago. he came -- he's from ohio, so, this is not my first time to iowa. it's been a while. but i'm getting those warm and fuzzy feelings back all over again, but, yeah. >> if you're a former ohio state senator, have you noticed in your time here, big difference to iowa politics or similar? >> it's too early for me to tell. iowa and ohio has similarities, cultural similarities. i feel right at home in iowa. >> to give people an idea -- so, to give people an idea what they are tasking you with, you are traveling on behalf of the sanders campaign. >> i'm a national surrogate. my job is to cme to events like this. i'm here to support the volunteers to let them know work is not in vein and they are the most important people in this process. eve

sanders: i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. announcer: you' re watching wcvb newscenter 5 at 11:00. pam: a fiery scene, billowing flames in texas after a fuel truck explodes. burning fuel ran down both sides of the highway and into the median, the highway closed for hours. the driver was killed. a hotel was evacuated. police are investigating. bob: police found and skeletal remains on a new police removed malnourished dogs and cats from the home. frank holland has the story from new bedford. frank: new bedford police described a disgusting scene inside this man' s home. two dead cats were found inside along with malnourished dogs and police say that feces was all over. >> this man has no way of supporting himself and that people are just taking these animals. frank: police found the remains of seven dead chickens and several dead rabbits. police came to the house around 3:00 on saturday morning while investigating an unrelated hit and run. when police approached the home, there were dogs barking and saw what was apparently a ho

sanders, yes, i apologize. sally: martin o'malley, barely registering in the polls, worked to grab the spotlight. mr. o'malley: we're listening to the bickering back and forth. maybe that's how politics are done in washington. sally: the debate focused heavily on national security and combating isis and gun control. mr. o'malley: senator sanders voted to give immunity to gun dealers. sec clinton changes her position on this every election year it seems. mr. sanders: do not tell me that i have not shown courage to stand up against gun people. ms. clinton: i have been for the brady bill. i have been against assault weapons. sally: both sanders and o'malley seeking draw distinctions with the frontrunner. mr. sanders i voted against the : war in iraq. mr. o'malley: may i offer a different generation's perspective on this? marcus: clinton is averaging a 25 point lead over sanders nationally, but sanders has a slight edge of about four points in new hampshire. the democratic candidates will square off again in the ne

building a future sanders: i'm bernie sanders josh: the mother of the little girl known as baby do. bella bonds remains were found in a trash bag on deer island in june. her mother rager is charged with eating an accessory after the fact -- her mother rachel. michael murphy is charged with murder. the saint paul' s graduate agreed to an interview with newsweek that jean: we talked to the reporter who sat down with all in the brief who found out he is spending all his time since his conviction. reporter: that high-profile rape case. it was a trial that lived in the headlines, a sex assault at one in this country. a 15-year-old claiming she was raped by owen le brie. >> this someone was going to get what he wanted and not take no for an answer. reporter: in august, a jury clearing le brie of rape charges but convicting him of misdemeanor sexual assault. this is owen out free while he is waiting his sentence. he is building a chapel and since his conviction. the 20-year-old insisted he had done nothing wrong. telling "newsweek" it was the knowing i told the truth. i walked out of the c

sanders staffers and not just any sanders staffer, but their national data director, actually used it to run a bunch of lists of the clinton data. and number 3, that the sanders campaign access to it has been cut off completely. i've never seen that before. especially this close to an election. >> sabrina: so first of all, i mean how detrimental is it to a campaign to no longer have access to this data? >> pat: sure, i mean you use it all the time. the national voter file, the van they call it, it has everything. it has all your lists of voters, it's where you put all your information in. it's usually where you keep mostly your volunteers. so, right now you know, they can't print off lists of call sheets, of walk lists for their volunteers to come in and use. i mean, from the very top to the very bottom, every single staffer uses this. not just every day, but like every couple hours a day. i don't know what i would do right now if i was in a sanders campaign office. >> sabrina: well so do you think they're response saying that this is the dnc trying to undermine clinton, or undermine

sanders: absolutely not. i think it' s fair to say most people did not think i could become a credible candidate. i was some fringe candidate. we have what millions -- we have let millions of people into our campaign. we have a path to victory. today if the election were held nationally we would lose. we started the campaign at 3% in the polls. most people did not know who bernie sanders was. we are going to continue to move forward. josh: how important is new hampshire? sen. sanders: it is vital. we are fighting hard and has a chance to win. josh: we have 60 days or whatever. sen. sanders: you are going to see me, like it or not. josh: there' s a great number of people who appreciate it. you managed to draw a lot of crowds. best of luck to you. come back before the election day. sen. sanders: you got it. josh: thank you. we will tell you why he thinks the new hampshire primary is key to his longshot success. he may not have the name id of other candidates, but he will put his resume against anyone. former vi

this is sanders' sweet spot.alk about billionaires and he wants to be the enemy of wall street. >> we have another clin clip. hillary clinton spooem speaking about isis. watch this. >> when we look at these complex problems, i wish it could be either/or. i wish we could say yes, let's destroy isis and devoid -- by the minute. no. we have a strategy and a commitment to go after isis which is danger to us as well as the region. >> peter, what do you think? >> that was a good answer and she's right, actually. she does finally have a strategy. it's a very difficult issue, but john kerry is now beginning the diplomatic process. they have a u.n. resolution. she's right on the subject which is bashar al assad is the recruiter for isis. as long as you have him there and a government that has no legitimacy, it would be very difficult politically to rally sunnis against isis. so i think she showed her command of the material there. >> do you agree? >> well, yes and no. she used tougher language than even president obama is

now she has an opportunity to make sanders the target. sanders trailing clinton in the polls here. you know, this might make it almost as fun to watch as democratic debate, which they have been a little more stayed, these democratic debates. might be as much fun to watch as the republican debates. >> finally some drama to talk about, right? >> exactly. >> this particular dust-up was resolved, i guess, pretty quickly when it came to this voter database at the dnc. but there has been some ongoing tension, hasn't there been, between a bernie sanders campaign and his supporters with the dnc and the establishment democrats when it comes to hillary clinton. and they're saying that, you know, they're biased towards hillary clinton. >> oh, absolutely. and i mean, what's interesting about this kind of inside politics dust-up. voter files and these kind of inside baseball is not something that is on the top of many voter issues. voters are not worried about this issue. but what it does speak to, as you kind of point out is this larger landscape. bernie sanders has, you know, fired up his sup

the bernie sanders campaign suspended two more staff members. >> sanders' campaign manager saying they dozen of accounts that may have been wrongly accessing voter data from hillary clinton's campaign but that doesn't necessarily mean half a dozen staffers, since one person can sometimes have more than one account. we have will continue to follow this throughout the morning. >>> in the meantime, cnn's athena jones joins us more on the highlights from the democratic debate. one of them was this apology that the debate kicked off with. >> reporter: absolutely. interesting to see the debate kick off and diffuse that at least on the candidate level. i got to tell you compared to the gop showdown from earlier in the week, last night's matchup was pilolite and even warm at times to there were stark differences on policy and approach, especially when it comes to fighting terrorist groups like isis. >> on our worse day, i think we have a lot more to offer the american people than the right wing extremists. >> reporter: hillary clinton and bernie standards face-to-face for the first time since

this is going to reenergize the bernie sanders movement going into a debate where i think bernie sanderst know. >> it's a process story for them in the sense that there is no real fear at least so far that there is any actual sanders personal involvement here. he can be the victim. >> structural because it is outsider versus insider. he is being locked out. >> they did like walk into the open door. they trespassed even though the door may have been open. >> a process story when the story is bernie sanders running against the democratic party. >> let's pause and when we come back rubio/cruz. who is winning that debate? (donkey noise) (elephant noise) (mic screech) there's a big difference between making noise... (mic tap) ...and making sense. (elephant noise) (donkey noise) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates! enough talk. give us a plan. the possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with

campaign data inappropriately, sanders supporters and the sanders campaign would expect me to reactsame way in which i would do. >> reporter: and the dnc gave into the sanders' demands before they were to appear in court on friday night. saying that i agreed to cooperate with the party investigation and that quote, we are glad that all parties are moving forward and that the candidates and the party can refocus on engaging voters on the issues that matter to them. while sanders gave clinton a pass over the e-mail controversy in the first democratic debate -- >> the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you. >> reporter: the question -- will clinton attack him tonight for the preach? the democratic front runner acting at times like the nominee already. >> as president i would work with responsible gun owner. >> reporter: now, the dnc is launching an independent audit. this morning a campaign issue says this, alex, quote, we believe this audit should proceed immediately and pending the findings we expect further disciplinary action to be taken

and sanders' campaign manager lobbed a major accusation against party leadership: (( jeff weaver/sanders' campaign mgr: "i think the evidence is mounting. it's almost irrefutable. that there are people in the dnc who are trying to help secretary clinton." )) ((paul joncich)) the move comes after the d-n-c blocked sanders' campaign from access to a voter database because campaign workers reportedly used a computer glitch to download information from hillary clinton's campaign. weijia jiang is in new hampshire with the big developments ahead of tomorrow night's democratic debate: bernie sanders' campaign filed the lawsuit in federal court after the democratic national committee suspended access to its shared voter data base. (sot: jeff weaver /sanders campaign director) we need our data which has been stolen by the dnc the dnc blocked the sanders camp access after a 45 minute computer glitch, on wednesday, allowed workers to view information gathered by the clinton campaign. sanders' fired data director josh uretsky. but, he insists he wasn't trying to snoop. (sot: josh uretsky / former sa

the sanders campaign access. dnc chairman, debbie wasserman schultz, spoke to cnn last hour. >> the dnc is now letting the campaign back on to the porch. if this was fewer than 12 hours ago, why restore this despite the continuation of the investigation. all you said in that sound bite yesterday is true today. >> what we had been asking for that they had been refusing to provide us with is who on the sanders campaign accessed the information, what information they accessed. they needed to show us they didn't have it anymore and weren't able to get access and manipulate it. that's why the access was cut off to the voter file. they were refusing to give us that information. our job is to neutrally manage the primary to make sure there is a level playing field. when the sanders campaign after this window opened through a glitch from our vendor, their staff took advantage of it. in a sense, they went into the unlocked door of the house and rummaged around, took things that didn't bre long to them and then actually ac

the dnc has barred the sanders camp from accessing its data base and last hour, senator sanders spokenbc news team on capitol hill. >> reporter: senator sanders, do you have any response?

the sanders team is celebrating a major endorsement. al jazeera said david shuster reports. >> at the community occasion workers of america, one of the nation's largest unions, it is the boost bernie sanders had been hoping for. >> we are here today to formally endorse the next president of the united states, senator bernie sanders. >> the c.w.a. will now dispatch thousands of that into the early nominatin contest, they will go door to door make phone calls and help the sanders campaign turn out the vote. >> god bless the united states. >> eight years ago, the c.w.a. chose not to make an endorsement in the obama clinton nomination race. this time, the members' decision was a landslide. >> they voted decisively for bernie sanders. [ cheers and applause ] >> even sweeter for the vermont senator, on thursday, he also received the endorsement of the million member group democracy for america. earlier this year, d.f.a. organized the movement to draft massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. warren, sanders and most progressives share one majo

secretary simone sanders. thank you for being with me. i appreciate it. >> no problem. thank you for having me, poppy. >> nice to have you on the program. what's your reaction to what brian fallon just said? he said, look, you guys knowingly did this. you wanted an upper hand in iowa. it's egregious. and you say? >> i say what's egregious is the dnc's grotesque overreaction. look, we've been very clear, what our staffer did in viewing that data from the clinton campaign was wrong and that's why we took swift action internally to terminate that staffer. we immediately wiped his hard drive. so we have -- we did due diligence to make sure we did our part. we are currently investigating other staffers from the reports that have came out. our campaign manager yesterday was very clear and noted there were folks that had information that they did not want have. while the dnc was sharing information yesterday with everyone but us, we weren't able to effectively investigate anything. we are investigating other staffers

this comes for a bad time for bernie sanders frankly. he was going to get some big endorsements, and ounion. this is a crucial state for sanders, right next to his home state of vermont and he has been polling pretty well. the last clear politics average showed him ahead of clinton, 48 to 44. that's far better than he's doing nationally or other states like iowa or south carolina where hillary clinton is ahead. both of these campaigns how they address this issue tomorrow. one thing that voters tell us they like about bernie sanders, the fact that he's down to earth they say, think think he's not your typical politician, so allegation about his campaign that they are messing around in the clinton's primary information is a problem. press briefing over the phone with reportsers they were really zinging the clinton campaign. she might be careful tomorrow not buy into a david and goliath narrative. puts them off a little bit in this state of new hampshire. john. >> libby, obviously new hampshire plays an important role in the primaries. sear