bernie sanders! >> reporter: maybe the junior senator from vermont. >> if i were a republican looking out at this crowd, i would be very nervous. >> reporter: for this crowd here in wisconsin, he's a rock star. senator bernie sanders has been making the rounds in lots of states ahead of the midterms. >> it looks to me like oceanside is ready for a political revolution. >> reporter: the white hair, the rumpled suit, and that unmistakable accent. >> i'm here today to end one party rule in washington. >> reporter: a gentle reminder of what might have been and maybe, just maybe, could be still. >> got a lively crowd here. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: backstage in kenosha, talking strategy with illinois congressional candidate garcia, sanders down plays the idea of a big blue wave. >> anybody thinks this is going to be easy, the democrats are going to end up with a 20-vote majority, is absolutely dead wrong. the republicans can still hang on. they can still win this thing. >> reporter: he's doing everything

bernie sanders was too polite in the 2016 race. do you think hillary clinton changed her votes based on the took.that she yes, absolutely. they all do. they take the money and they vote that way. do you believe in a conspiracy theory that the corporations that give money to politicians don't want something in return? they would be fired. they have a fiduciary responsibility to get a return on investment. the first time they give to a politician is a test. the second time they give to a politician is because they got a return on investment. this whole town is corrupt, this whole town is toxic. digital media calls it out, we are connected to the people, and that is why we champion progressives, and that is why we will win. and let me conclude on this -- 2020, which as i said is ,tarting in about two weeks 2019 and 2020 -- will be a giant clash between the old and the new. it will be old-style politicians -- we do this on the show all the time. we cover all of those debates and town halls live. and when martin o'malley takes jacket --

and if senator sanders tries again, jeff weaver will likely lead the charge. sanders and weaver believe that democrats must return to their populist roots and restore the country's commitment to economic equality and truly make america great again. jeff weaver, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you. happy to be here. >> what is your assessment of the progressive movement in the midterms of 2018? >> yeah, so, i just got back from a nine-day, eight-state tour with senator sanders around the country, campaigning for democrats. and it is incredible the amount of excitement there is on the ground among progressive democrats all across the country. i mean, we were in south carolina, we were in michigan, we were in california. so it's really everywhere. and, you know, the 2016 race really gave voice to a whole new generation of people. you know, it's a lot of young people, a lot of working-class people who had given up on the democratic party, given up on politics, who now feel really re-engaged. >> how do you think progressives will fare? >> well, you know, we have

and sanders. during their 41 years together, they produced six beautiful children and nine grandchildren. in 1971, senator sanders founded the law firm of chestnut sanders and sanders in pettaway which was one of the top african-american law firms in the state of alabama as well as one of the largest in the country. senator sanders dedicated his life to making sure he pursued justice on behalf of the underserved. he gave a voice to the voiceless, and he still works tirelessly today. in 1982, senator sanders decided to pursue his passion for helping others on a statewide level. winning a seat in the alabama state senate for district 23. during his 35 years representing the largest political region in alabama, senator sanders won seven bids for re-election. senator sanders has proudly championed issues such as education, childhood education and nutrition, as well as health care and women's issues and removing the sales tax for food. he served as chair of the finance and taxation education committee,

senator sanders is running in 2020, not just for 2020, that he will... good chance of doing well, but some of the other people floated, former vice president joe biden, senator sherrod brown, may find themselves at somewhat of a disadvantage because it seems what democratic primary voters looking for are women candidates and candidates of color. democratic primaries voters, if they had a choice, if they could choose a woman or a anyone white candidate and a a white guy, they've almost always taken one of the other two, that seems to suggest that as we approach 2020, you can divide up the field and rate accordingly based off of identity really, candidates who represent diversity, who may be historic first have an on-paper advantage over those who don't. >> well, democrats want somebody new, democrats usually do. so that might argue for beto o'rourke, who would be a white man. but i do think there is zero possibility that the democratic ticket in 2020 will be two while men. >> senator sanders has another problem going into 2020, which is that hillary clint

is sanders directly responsible? no. i remember having breakfast with sanders in california, the democratic party probably in 2020 will be more like bernie sanders than secretary clinton. people in 2014 would have said you're crazy. they would have said she's the future, center, left, establishment democratic party. no more. almost every top democrat trying to go to the progressive left. trump stole the issues from democrats. trade was the democratic union issue. the republican party is now taking trade and becoming this protectionist party. totally changed the republican party. drastic historic changes. they matter. you may think they're not serious and these people matter and shouldn't be shrugged off. >> two more, one for abby and the panel. you mentioned this, why are we worried about foreign powers that get shared a thousands times. abby: it doesn't matter where the memes come from. they can come from the russians or from whoever really. it's just that they just happen to have figured out how to use them pretty effe

you could help us understand how a state like vermont would have a republican governor and bernie sanders as a senator. that seems -- >> well, you know, one of the things about vermont is it's really a retail politics state. folks know each of us from our years of work, really getting all around the state, as you pointed out, we are one of the least populated states, about 625,000, 640,000 people. so you actually get around the state over a couple years and people really get to know you, get to look you eye in the eye and it's much more real than just commercial, you know, campaigns with negative attack ads. they exist, but for the most part folks in vermont sort of have that new england tradition of local democracy, respect for the institution and respect for the individual and that goes a long way. >> now, lieutenant governor zuckerman, you are an organic farmer by trade. what got you into politics? >> well, actually, i was sort of a precursor to what happened a couple years ago with respect to bernie sanders. i was a student at the university of vermont back in 1992, i heard then congr

sarah sanders:"they are making a car that frankly people don't want to buy." (ken) (ken) that was jim acosta reporting. (pam) we are learning more about the deadly shooting at the borderline bar and grill nearly three weeks ago in california. a gunman opened fire during 'college line- dancing night' in the thousand oaks club. police say, the shooter opened fire and tossed several smoke grenades into the bar... to create confusion. he then sat and waited to ambush law enforcment officers who responded to the shooting. the ventura county medical examiner spoke today.. about the victims' fatal injuries. <"all of the victims died rapidly as a result of one or more gunshot wounds. the victims sustained injuries to vital areas. many of the gunshot wounds were from close proximity, and there was no chance of survival."> the gunman killed 12 people, including a law enforcement officer, before turning the gun on himself. one victim was also stabbed. the motive still remains unclear. (ken) mysterious explosions...neighbors in north phoenix say that ever since october...

stopped from bernie sanders independent senators and the humanitarian crisis on earth. we have already seen eighty eighty five thousand children starve to death so the united nations tells us that millions of people. are facing starvation. ten thousand new cholera cases. every single week because there is no clean drinking water there in that country. and all of that was caused by the saudi led invasion of yemen. three years ago. led by a despotic dishonest dictatorship. and to my mind it is imperative today that the united states senate tell saudi arabia and tell the world that we are not going to be continually continuing to be part of that humanitarian disaster we are ending our participation in that horrific war and that we are going to do everything that we can to force the saudis and the who ts that the peace table and to provide the desperately needed humanitarian aid that yemen requires and it was there any credibility start to your mind if i. think you know it's not strictly worse not better the question it is who is the world's leading military power and the l

breaking news as we await the start of the white house press briefing where press secretary sarah sanders is expected to get questions on some big and important topics today, including the dramatic turn in the russian investigation, the high tensions on the border for a couple of examples. let's go "outnumbered overtime" now, i'm harris faulkner. sarah sanders expected to step up to the lectern you see on the left screen right now at any moment. the president has gone out to robert mueller this morning just hours after the special counsel said former trump campaign chairman paul manafort broke his plea deal by repeatedly lying to prosecutors. the president tweeted this... sarah sanders, again, expected to take questions on the administration's response to the crisis on the southern border with mexico. as you know, border agents fired tear gas on rock throwing migrants who rushed on major u.s. crossing from mexico over the weekend. we should note, this will be the very first briefing since october 29th. the first since the white house implement the new guidelines for reporters. things coul

in a statement sarah huckabee sanders outlined the new guidelines. among them, a journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists. at the discretion of the president, follow-up questions may be permitted. when a follow-up has been asked, the questioner will yield the floor. when applicable, physically surrendering the microphone to white house staff for use by the next questioner. failure to abide by any of the rules may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist's hard pass. sanders added, we would have greatly preferred to continue hosting white house press conferences and relies on a set of understood professional norms and we believe the overwhelming majority of journalists covering the white house share that preference. but given the position taken by cnn, we now feel obligated to

to hear sarah sanders say from the podium, as you noted, this is the u.s. government, federal agencies over which the president has oversight over these agencies. it is his government that has issued this report that the president and his spokesperson now are trying to dismantle. it's their government that put out the report the day after thanksgiving of course to try to bury it because, as you know, this does not fit their political narrative in any way whatsoever. to gloria's point, everything is viewed through the political lens right now inside the white house, and the president clearly understands that this an issue that he does not want to deviate from where his base of support is and giving into this kind of scientific report sort of deviates from the base talking points on climate that the president has been putting out there. >> reporter: can i just add something to that, brooke, which is i believe it was last night that the president was talking about the deep state and how his administration is effectively trying to winnow out the deep state and

the difference between bernie sanders and donald trump was the reason bernie sanders hadn't been mentioned because he wasn't having those incendiary words at his rallies in the same way that have been perceived. >> that's entirely a question of how the media treat these things but he's not responsible for the violence but the idea that trump is responsible for the violence either. i think you could probably give a laundry list - - >>howard: this crazy person with a bomb was a fan of bernie sanders. a fan of donald trump it it's the press that then makes that link. >> they have to report that. you're a reporter. you see the picture of the van. you can't not say - - >> but you don't see the same pictures on the guy that shot steve scalise. it's all click-bait. >>howard: i think we kind of came to agreement. thanks for joining us. cnn's don lemons is the biggest threat in the country comes from white men. up next, he reported that says donald trump is more dangerous than i we all want more time with our dads, brothers, partners, friends, and our sons. together, we can stop men dying too young

trish: i think bernie sanders is making a political play. >> if bernie sanders is going to make a criticalomment, it's more sound to say it's authoritarian. trish: when your border is being threatened -- >> we need to do something. >> the president's responsibility is the national security of his people and you have to use the military to secure the borders in the short term, that's fine. trish: thank you so much, everyone. will images like this help get democrats and republicans to the table final to get some immigration reform? funding for a border wall. when you see that why would you say we don't need some kind of protection for our border. hollywood reacting to tear gas being used against migrants (roger) being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. (avo) another tru story with keytruda. (roger) my doctor said i could start on keytruda so i did. with each scan things just got better. (avo) in a clinical study, keytruda offered patients a longer life than chemotherapy.

senator sanders, thanks for being with us. have democrats become radicalized? >> well, i think what democrats are increasingly trying to do is represent the middle class and working families and not the billionaire class or the 1%. when you have a president who attempted with the republican leadership to throw 32 million americans off the health care that they have, we stood up and we fought back. and when you have a president who gave a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1% and then, anderson, came back with a budget that would cut medicaid by a trillion, medicare by $500 billion, the social security disability fund by $72 billion over a ten-year period, yeah, we stood up and fought back. and if that is considered to be -- i'm sorry. >> the president points to a booming economy, although he doesn't point to it very often, he's talking about other things. but his administration will point to a booming economy, to record low unemployment among large swaths of the population, among many different groups. >> that's true, and there's also very low unemployme

sanders: i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president, let me thank senator lee for his leadership on this resolution. at a time when many bemoan the lack of bipartisanship is you're seeing it here today, people coming together around an issue of enormous concern. and i thank senator lee, and i want to thank senator chris murphy of connecticut, also one of the leaders in this efforts, and the other 17 cosponsors of this resolution. mr. president, in a half-hour or so, we're going to be casting one of the most important foreign policy votes that we have cast in recent years. it is a vote to demand that the humanitarian crisis in yemen be addressed. it is a vote that will tell the despotic dictatorship in saudi arabia that we will no longer be part of their destructive military adventurism, and it is a vote, as senator lee just mentioned, that says that the united states senate respects the constitution of the united states and understands that the issue of war making, of

i think he thinks bernie sanders would be a fine opponent. i think he thinks less that joe biden would be. >> do you think he's afraid of joe? >> i don't think donald trump thinks that way. i don't think he's sitting there worried about it. but here is what people don't understand. everybody is saying, who is the front-runner? just as important is who can stay in the race to take votes away from somebody? >> who has the staying power? say iowa goes for elizabeth warren and elizabeth warren wins again in new hampshire. and does it again in nevada where there's a lot of working women and then you go to california and she cleans up. but who else can say -- so it's about war and kamala harris. is it over then? >> no. >> or is there a guy like biden or beto who stays in there for 10 or 20 contests and finally goes around the the corner. is that still possible? >> yeah. i'm still on the rules committee, chris. and one of the things we try to establish is to not just get the states to spread out a little bit, but to ensure that we have the kind of d

sarah sanders was there, among others, answering questions. >> reporter: yes, wolf, i was at the first briefing in a month. white house officials tried to carefully ask questions. sarah sanders appeared to indicate there weren't talks inside the white house on pardoning former chairman paul manafort, but the white house didn't exactly encourage manafort to cooperate with the special counsel's investigation, just as he has been accused of lying to the investigation. handle with care. >> that seems to be the white house approach from dealing with the allegation from the special counsel's office that former chairman paul manafort violated his plea deal by lying to investigators. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: at the white house briefing, there was no talk of pardons. >> i know we are not in any one's conversations regarding pardon. >> reporter: no real push to urge manafort to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller. >> would the president recommend that mr. manafort offer full cooperation to the special counsel's office? >> we can only speak to what our role is in that process and

the way you treat sarah huckabee sanders is horrible.ther people is horrible. you shouldn't treat people that way. trish: unbelievable. i am not talking about the president's response. i'm talking about the cnn chief white house course yenlt. flipcourse -- correspondent. there is such a thing as time and place. but apparently this reporter doesn't understand or perhaps he understands, he just doesn't care about any of that. if you consider how that reporter started the interview, it was clear, his biases were on full display. but let's put that aside. we all know where cnn is coming from. my problem is what transpired when the president tried to wrap them up so another journalist could get in a question or two. this reporter wouldn't give up his microphone. he wouldn't stop. when a young woman, a white house intern tried to remove it to his hand so they could move on to the next question, he sort of seemed to be wrestling with her. wrestling her for the microphone. i get it, jim acosta that you are bigger than stronger than her. not that

sanders accused acosta of placing his hands on the intern. she called the behavior unacceptable, but an independent video expert tells the associated press it appears sanders' video was altered to speed up acosta's arm movement. sanders has not revealed the source of that video. >>> time now though for our check of our weather for this friday morning. >> good morning. fire danger continues out west. high gusting winds through the afternoon potentially upwards of 50 miles per hour and in the north central region temperatures here are frigid and the winds blustery. it's going to feel like single digits in many spots and dealing with lake-effect snow. several areas seeing one to three inches. that same system going to bring soaking rains to the northeast. i'm meteorologist julia weiden with your accuweather forecast. >>> coming up, the new video of a disaster at sea, which could be a half billion dollar mistake. >>> also, was it a hate crime? new details about the angry protest outside of the home of fox news host tucker carlson. >>> and the not

i was proud to stand with my colleagues, senator sanders and senator murphy to file a discharge motion of the resolution that would remove u.s. armed forces from yemen. at that time members of the foreign relations committee requested additional time to study the issue and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from tennessee, senator corker requested this with the commitment to bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to yemen, saudi arabia and ourselves. since then the committee has held a hearing on this issue and introduced a separate bipartisan bill to address it. but no further action has been taken. and so, today, eight months later, the bloodshed continues, still embedded by the united states. even amidst further revelations of the saudi depravity. it u is long past overdue congrs removed that u.s. forces from yemen as recent circumstances only confirm. today we had the chance to remedy the course of action, and to do what the constitution and justice dem

bernie sanders came in second. but to underscore the desire for new faces, beto o'roarke fresh off his loss in the texas senate race came in third. senators elizabeth warren of massachusetts, kamala harris, cory booker of new jersey was just behind. none of the others earned as much as 3%. none of the big named candidates have officially announced their entexs for 2020. but on the stump in the waning days of the campaign, many seemed to be previewing their own 2020 pitches. >> democrats choose hope over fear. democrats choose unity over division. and most importantly, we choose truth over lies. >> ideas that just three years ago were perceived to be radical and extremist ideas are now ideas that are supported by the vast majority of the american people. thank you, iowa. >> we are better than this. and that's what we're fighting for. and so let's think about it in the context, then, of what's at steak. there's so much at steak. >> this is not a time to curl up. it is not a time to shut up. it is not a time to give u

secretary sanders lied.n incident that never happened. this unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. jim accosta has our full support. anything else you want to add? >> i was trying to ask a question of the president at this press conference and it was obviously a question they didn't like. it was about the ad they were running before the midterms. we were going back and forth. you can see in the video, the intern came up to me, they are describing her as an intern. i don't really know who she is, and attempted to take the microphone away from me. all i can say at that point is that i was trying to hang onto the microphone so i could continue to ask the president questions. obviously, you know, i didn't put my hands on her or touch her as they are alleging. and it's just unfortunate that the white house is saying this. you know, we all try to be professionals over there. i think i handled myself professionally and i appreciate all the comments from my colleagues. i

we'll be back in one minute with vermont senator bernie sanders. vermont senator bernie sanders. so stay with us. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that the dir affed up 'causethey a. wh start with one jobors... spread allround.h. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ comfort. what we deliver by delivering. >> brennan: we're back with vermont independent senator bernie sanders, who joins us from burlington this morning. he's also the author of a new book, "where we go from here: two years in the resistance." senator, welcome to the program. i do want to ask you about that book, but first off, you are on the environmental committee, and i want to ask you about this report from the trump administration, a really sharp warning about the immediate danger of climate change, strongest language we've seen thus far from the federal government. what action will congress take? >> well, what congress should do is move aggressively in listening not only to this report from the trump

secretary sanders lied. provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. this unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. jim accosta has our full support. anything else you want to add? >> i was trying to ask a question of the president at this press conference and it was obviously a question they didn't like. it was about the ad they were running before the midterms. you can see in the video, the intern came up to me, they are describing her as an intern. i don't really know who she is, and attempted to take the microphone away from me. all i can say at that point is that i was trying to hang onto the microphone so i could continue to ask the president questions. obviously, you know, i didn't put my hands on her or touch her as they are alleging. and it's just unfortunate that the white house is saying this. you know, we all try to be professionals over there. i think i handled myself professionally and i appreciate all the comments from my

now some people have looked at the clip and agreed with sarah huckabee sanders and attacked acosta for being what they sow allege was essentially disrespectful to the president others however have looked at the clip and said this was simply a unfortunately position arm this was not in a ten intended assault and said that actually it's sarah huckabee sanders who should resign if she's violating the freedom of the press and free speech rights of this reporter let's review the m.s.m. mainstream media reaction it just is it crosses a line you don't put your hands i don't want him a cost to sort of wrestling this young white house intern jim acosta clearly never touched that white house and so that's just a lie and what i saw was a battery not by jim acosta but by that young white house aide if you can use a fake video use a fake video if you go all the way do something like this. so what do you see in the video clip if you look at that clip do you see an inappropriate touching or an assault or do you see simply an arm it's in the wrong place and some confusion about the microphone that dep

heather: let's talk about bernie sanders.s been outspoken about a number of things, race has been a factor in florida and georgia's races, in florida minorities helped boost desantis to the governor's office. bernie sanders says i think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives whether or not they wanted to vote for an african-american. what do you make of that statement? >> i think that is an insult to the voters of the state of florida. we had a vigorous, informative campaign, we had debates. i would point out to senator sanders, don't know how much time he spent in florida but, to find out what the people of florida are all about, we are a very diverse state but remind him florida voted for barack obama twice, in 2008, and 2012. for him to make a suggestion like this, one, is baseless. i want to see what evidence he has and an insult to the voters of the state of florida. we have a diverse state here and people able to -- the se

stealing the election from bernie sanders. i mean, this goes on and on. what's happening here and can you update us on arizona? >> so we do have enough lawyers on the ground, sean, and obviously, we had this great ruling today where the judge said that they were being unconstitutional in the way they were not being transparent with the ballots. brenda snipes. in arizona we just also got a good court ruling. we had two democratic counties in arizona that were continuing to try and fix ballots and cure votes and none of the republican counties were doing it. the court ruled today that all the counties get to do that equally, and so there will be going on until next wednesday. that will be very good for mcsally but our lawyers have been on the ground. the rnc is on the ground. we have over 300 staff in each of these states to monitor the machine recounts and all this curing that's happening in arizona and we have to do this. it's unfortunate. it's not incompetency, it's intent. this is corruption, it's election meddling. i don't know where adam schiff is. co

i switched to a less bernie sanders, -- i switched to elect bernie sanders. host: thank you.go to kay in florida. good morning. caller: [no audio] good morning. i am an old democrat, and i regret not having hillary's brainpower, but if she should run, i will probably change my party affiliation to independent. host: why is that? caller: i just cannot go through another hillary campaign. host: thank you. we go to tammy joining us from minnesota. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i agree with the last two callers. i was a pretty supporter, but i did vote for hillary. i like harris and amy amy klobuchar and al franken. host: thank you. approvalton has a 75% rating among democrats, an to be the mission first female president and a personal grievance against president trump, whose supporters have never warmed up to her. eyedas a steely determination to defeat mr. trump. she has two years to go over what she did wrong and take her on again. richard nixon came back from his last to john f. kennedy at one the presidency in 1968. he will be a model for winning again.

says they will not file charges against jane sanders. 2010 real estate deal led by sanders, she served as president from 2004 through 2011. rob: now to a foxbusiness alert, the perfect toy for your kid this christmas, watchdog groups is not so fast. jillian: tracy carrasco from foxbusiness with the most dangerous toys this holiday season. >> reporter: every year the child advocacy safety group come out with a new list called the world against toys causing harm. the world's most dangerous toys, they look at choking, safety hazards, on the top of their list, a number of them. the nickelodeon princess night pillow pet sleeptime, the vortex blaster gun, marvel black panther, power ranger super ninja steel, super blade and the cabbage patch kids doll. a lot of these are very popular toys. the group says parents should shop defensively. just because you know a brand doesn't mean the toys necessarily safe. the toy association argues with a report saying the list is biased, inaccurate and needlessly frightening to parents but something you shoul

yeah he has remained quiet although the white house press secretary sarah sanders they just walked past her office she still at her desk working away and sent out a press statement to the press corps here at the white house cicely updating us on the president's activities not only is he still watching for these returns as they still continue to trickle in moving towards the west coast but he has been making telephone calls we know that he's called mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate to congratulate him he spoke with the outgoing house speaker paul ryan as well as congratulating now palosi who of course is piers is poised to become the next speaker of the house a position she has held before and we also know that in the discussions he called chuck schumer who is the minority leader in the senate and they the white house says that the president continuing to make phone calls he's been sort of working the phones making a series of cream graduate or recalls to those that have one tough senate races governorship successor a as still the president remains up but is still very

sanders has that part right.he government deciding based on the price. >> i'm in favor of 15-year patents. >> a lot of these drug manufacturers have in perpetuity. >> you are spending billions in research and r & d. it will bring down drug prices, but not in america it's happening elsewhere. david: price controls cause shortages. stripping away patent rights would create and d.e.a. rth ne. >> american pay the full cost of the drugs and the other countries are free riders. trump has to get tough with these companies and say you have to honor our patents because that leads to more innovation. david: the idea of what is excessive. we have seen examples of it. we have seen drug companies that take advantage of their particular expertise or patent. but that's the role of the press. if you have a committee that decides what a drug or other product is worth, you will have a mess. trish: for sure. you will have a mess. steve mentioned the countries need to start paying and honor our patents. what about the drug companies

sarah sanders, president putin and trump were supposed to talk.lled off the meeting because he said of ukrainian -- the incident that happened in the black sea. russian aggression against ukraine. this morning, russia came out and blasted back and said we think the reason for the cancellation is not ukraine. we think it's because of the michael cohen story. the domestic issues that the president faces back home. sarah sanders is telling us the russian witch hunt hoax in her words are nearing an end. she says it probably does undermine our relationship with russia. she adds the meeting is ukraine. hopefully that will be resolved soon so productive conversations can begin. this is an acknowledge froment the white house. we take a look at some of these live images coming from. >> do you know why this statement was put out because there's really nothing in here. it doesn't seem like any reason to put out this statement. was it in a response to a question? do you know? >> reporter: we asked about it and i'm sure other outlets did. a spokesman came out

sarah sanders issued a statement saying the russian witch hunt hoax which is hopefully is nearing an end is doing very well. it does undermine our relationship with russia. the meeting for the cancelled meeting is ukraine. hopefully that will be resolved soon so the productive

now, the last election, the last election, hillary clinton versus bernie sanders. the election starts and there are 3000 3000 people at a berne sanders convention and there's literally 50 people at a hillary convention, and msnbc and the people that work at their come out and say that hillary clinton has a 30% lead on bernie sanders. so the whole process works its way out, and -- >> host: got your point. you want to talk about the influence on the democratic side of bernie sanders and hillary clinton from 2016 and what it means heading into tomorrow? >> guest: bernie sanders and hillary clinton kind showcase the two faces of the democratic party. you have this traditional, traditional going back to the '90s at least, kind of new democratic base that the way to win elections was attacked the city, moderate some positions although hillary was more aggressive on social issues certainly then bill had been. you had bernie sanders represented this fledgling progressive wing that's been flexing its muscles in these elections. what's going to be interesting is to see how t

sarah sanders claims cnn is grandstanding by suing. administration is going to vigorously defend itself. the white house cannot run an orderly and fair press conference when a reporter acts this way. if there is no check on this type of behavior, it impedes the b ability of the president, the white house to conduct business. no doubt there were outlets or reporters that you and the president didn't like. but you didn't take their passes away, did you? their press pass? >> well, it wasn't even about who you liked and who you didn't like. there are plenty of people who -- on a personal level you may have a good relationship with, when they were in the briefing room, they were very tough. jake tapper from cnn is one of those reporters. he was tough every single time he was in a press conference with president obama. john carl from abc, savannah guthrie, april ryan. a lot of reporters came in there and were tough with the president, with robert gibbs who was my boss at the time. or me when i was at the podium. that's part of the job. you c

sanders tweeted, president trump believes in a free press. we will, however,ol neverate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her j as a white house intern.

>> let me read the statement sarah sanders released, quote, today k the court made clear there is no absolute first amendment right to access the white house. in response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the report reporter's hard pass and further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future.

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what happened to sanders, harris, gillam in florida, came in close.. >> i agree to a certain extent. he did lose this race but a part we should pay attention to is a conservative state and he didn't run to the center. he had a strong democratic platform and almost beat ted cruz. i think for democrats what they can look at is somebody young and charismatic which is important. that is why they compare him to obama at times. is not like bernie sanders with a socialist platform which is not going to work well for the majority of americans. i understand why people are pointing to him but we have to see more from him to know whether he is a true contender. todd: a little bit of the debate. i think this is about holiday spirit right now. >> i will say he almost didn't beat ted cruz because of ted cruz. ted cruz was the only thing standing into cruz's way because he's this ideal candidate. i don't think we see socialism which i'm not one, the entire american body will agree with but i don't think he is it. they need to figure out the best message to carry on.

what about bernie sanders? sure, why not? being an effective member of congress has never been a priority. [laughter] if i had remembered that c-span was doing this, i probably would not have said that. [laughter] sleep deprivation. mike bloomberg who spent, gosh, what was the total? $100 million. can everything that bloomberg has done on