of fact in south carolina. for a small state, south carolina has something of an out-sized reputation. it's known for its peaches, its beaches, and its complicated history. one of the first major centers of the african slave trade in north america on the other side of the state-- in "charles towne" today's charleston -- sits in the heart of the carolina low country. more than 300 years later,the lives those enslaved people lived and the culture they brought with them on their forced journey to a new world, still echoes in a community holding onto a pained but proud -- past. in the low-country, our special contributor joie chen found the spirit, and the strength, of the gullah people rising again. >> down here, where the river meets the sea, rises a rich history, of a people who coaxed rice to grow amid these brackish waters, and built a community that's endured for over 400 years. they call themselves 'gullah' a name that likely came with the enslaved people from west africa a name that keeps their , descendent

in his book, you talk about other candidate to call south carolina make or break and they see south carolinas they either can't succeed there, they will not succeed. win southen does not carolina, or he just barely wins south carolina, what does that mean for his campaign? guest: i think it's really bad news for joe biden. if he were to lose south carolina, i don't see what his path forward is. south carolina is important because all of the southern states go right after him. you think about iowa and new hampshire, and new hampshire is the first primary. there is not a big group of new england or northeastern states a few days later, but in south carolina, it is the first of the orderprimary, in short after south carolina, you have this clump of super tuesday states. perspective,aphic a lot of these states share common characteristics and have a similar political culture. if people are feeling and really connecting with joe biden, particularly african-american voters connecting with joe biden in south carolina, alabama also has an african-american percentage, over 30%. solid, is a strong, co

is the business of south carolina. and i'd like to recognize some of our companies that are here tonight. representing odaans cabinetry, mr. jonas hahias, ceo, and his wife, maria mahias, please stand and be recognized. welcome. [ applause ] >> representing ge appliances, a higher company, mr. frank chefle and mr. bill good, will you please stand? welcome. [ applause ] >> and representing spartan motors, their counsel, ms. stephanie few, please stand now. welcome. [ applause ] >> and representing mccall farms, mr. marion swenk, president and co-owner and his wife ms. frances swenk. will you please let us welcome you. [ applause ] >> and representing lockheed martin, mr. ben pete, and mr. nick messenburg, please stand. welcome. [ applause ] >> all right. among the general assembly steps forward last year were a record number of recommendations i made to you, and you accepted. after careful consideration, i offer these to you tonight. last year, our budget from state funds totaled $9.33 billion, this year, we are expecti

knowing in south carolina, the winner of south carolina other than a john edwards, the winner of southes onto win the nomination. the winner of south carolina wins mississippi, alabama, louisiana. there's a chunk of votes that go along with that. >> i think the right context to be thinking about this is what was this to say about super tuesday. if we're talking about 54 delegate, super tuesday will deliver a third of the entire primary public. the question becomes how do voters take a cue here and is there a cue to be had. the two cues i'm looking for is what happens on the moderate side of this race. does biden win decisively and force other people out of the race or is this still an argument to stay in. the second point is, what can bernie say about his ability through consistency to build up base in south carolina because really at some point he doesn't have to win but what he has to show is he can make up that ground over the four years that people have gotten know him. that says a lot about what happens in kracalifornia and te. >> we're getting close to the end of voting in south

of course tonight, rallying supporters here in south carolina, making the trip even as his governmentt will not be on tomorrow's ballot, of course, in south because the south carolina republican party has decided not to have a primary. this is trump's. he's going to win but trump's here anyway, just like he was in iowa and new hampshire and nevada before votes were cast in those states in democratic contests. yesterday he seemed to admit why. >> we have tremendous popularity in south carolina. we're going to go down. some people said i'm trolling the democrats, and maybe i am. >> i'm joined by kathleen parker from "the washington post" who comes from around here. and jonathan allen, senior political analyst for nbc news digital. kathleen, you watched this president trolling, the new generational term used for a lot of things. he seems to want to be around the -- like a mosquito the night before they vote. >> he is exactly doing that, swarming and taunting. he loves to show up where they are to minimumi -- minimize wha they're doing and applause, his feed, he needs the lights and actio

john: to south carolina. what does a jim clyburn endorsement mean before the february 29 south carolina primary? lisa: this was really interesting and i am glad you asked him about this because we know joe biden is a close friend of mr. clyburn. he has not endorsed anyone but there has been a lot of reporting about the various connections he has. and the ties he had. sarah: one of my colleagues said he showed up at a fundraiser in south carolina where biden was holding an event. i think we are seeing some signs, but if you were to make an endorsement, this would show he believes his candidate is weak heading into the primary and he would need this dditional boost. john: we talked about tapping his network and he needed to inform his network about his thoughts. sarah: but he also signaled there will be risks. he does not want to risk the status of the first in the nation primary by having the -- someone so influential, perhaps the most influential democrat from south carolina, putting their thumb on the scale.

we are going to win south carolina. the next step is north carolina.cheering] we are going to win here as well. that's a straight pass to the nomination of the president of the united states of america. jon: biden said he doesn't need to win by two or by ten but if you went, the bigger the wind, the bigger he will get and there's a lot of enthusiasm behind him. $1 million a day since last week. he didn't want to speculate today about michael bloomberg may be cutting into his support moving forward but he did stress the working class people and african-americans, which is huge here. we are about 60% of the democratic primary electric is african-american. >> he's been coming in-and-out of south carolina forever. it's nothing to walk into a restaurant nowadays and see joe and jill sitting there, not politicking, not casting for vote but carry on their lives. that to me says something. jon: he hosted all the democratic candidates at his famous fish fry, they all wanted his support. he picked biden this week and he's trying to help him win something. jon: t

victor in south carolina.ard. steve kornacki. and, steve, i note the map is filling in. >> we have results. you know, these caucus states, these took days to get. we are starting to get some real numbers in south carolina. not a lot but you see initially, biden 53%. sanders, very distant second. followed by tom steyer. i can tell you that the vast majority that you are seeing right now, these are absentee votes. we saw in 2016 that the absentee vote, sanders did substantially worse among absentee voters. so if that pattern holds, you might see sanders moving up a bit here. you might see biden falling off a bit. again, i'm not talking about something that is going to change this election or even call it into question. but if it's 39 now, that spread between biden and sanders may get narrower as you start to get to same day. but overwhelming here. biden blue color, get used to it. our exit poll showing, not surprisingly based on what we showed you, biden supporters running particularly strong in this region of t

live from beautiful charleston, south carolina. th nevada behind us, the first of the south primary is just six days away and all the sudden bernie sanders is much closer to becoming the democratic nominee. i'm joined live by democratic president, joe biden. for months he was seen as a frontedrunner. but that was then and this is now. plus, senate candidate, jaime harrison faces an uphill bat tool unseat lindsey graham. but first the votes are still being counted in nevada. but bernie sanders is projected to notch a resounding victory. with about half the vote accounted for, senator sanders has more support than the next three candidates combined. according to nbc entrance polls, he did it with the help of 65% of voters under age of 30. and 51% of hispanic voters. and he is now a candidate with a tremendous amount of wind at his back. just look at this crowd. in houston, texas this was earlier today and honestly nobody should be surprised about this. if we use the metrics of any other year and applied them to bernie sanders, he woul

you were also tweeting from the south carolina democratic party first in the south denner last night. a number of other candidates spoke there. did you hear anything about how the candidates plan to make their case to voters on the debate stage today? >> it certainly sounds like down ballot races and nationally for competitive maybe moderate, democratic seats. it will certainly play a focus, particularly on probably the debate stage tonight. we heard a lot of name dropping of jamie shareson, the former democratic party running to unseat lindsey graham. we're obviously in charleston today and this is an area held with a seat by joe cunningham in the first district. a seat held by republicans for a long time. so electability, viability and the impact that these democrats running for president will have and down ballot races played a focal role last night at the dinn dinner. >> you're not just a reporter who arrived to cover this primary on saturday. you've been there for a while, you know this state and its quirks. what are we missing about south carolina's voters this primary season? >

you look at that poll in south carolina, a poll taken by nevada, but up by five in south carolina. biden has been talking for months about african-american voters being his strongest base of support. looking at an electorate in south carolina that will be 60% plus black. there is a question there can biden rally the troops for one stand in south carolina. if he could get a win there, if he could demonstrate strong performance with black voters, could that have a ripple ef flkt that goes over to super tuesday and helps them there? if there's somebody you're looking at to take a shot at sanders, you can say it's biden, having a shot in south carolina. >> if joe biden wins south carolina by three or four points, is that really a win? >> that's the thing. you no who hasn't been spending money in south carolina? it's bloomberg. if it's a narrow victory for biden, he gets to get on the board. a couple days later he's in states against a guy who is dropping $20 million on the airwaves and getting support in the polls with who biden has been targeting. >> that sanders number encroaching on

biden has said that south carolina is must win for him. and then there is all of this talk about a multicandidate field and what it does after super tuesday. setting aside bank accounts, and resources available, do you think in the perspective of your goal is to beat donald trump, do you think folks need to start dropping out and quote/unquote uniting the party? >> well, i think what we're going to find is that south carolina helps us narrow the field. reality is let's be clear. there are three or four people that have a path to this nomination. and my hope is that the field will winnow not because i'm in favor of one candidate or the other, but because we need to crystallize the focus on who can take on donald trump. i think michael bloomberg's late entry into the race, the fact he spent the amount of money he has, has only complicated matters because it just means that it is even harder for candidates to hit that 15% threshold, which is important in order to get a delegate. so my hope is that going into super tuesday, we really will only

and, really, i should not do anything to jeopardize south carolina staters and the first in the south primary. i want to show why south carolina ought to be first in the nation as a primary. because we got the demographics that make up the democratic party. we've got african-americans, hispanics, how numbers are different. we've got quite -- progressives who want to see democrats in office. that's why jimmy harrison is doing so well in his race for the united states senate. a lot of people seem to be surprised at that. i'm not. because we have some pretty progressive people here in south carolina. a lot of people who are white really would like to see new leadership in the senate and new leadership in the white house. so we're not doing anything here to jeopardize our being successful with that. >> i want to shift gears a little bit if i could. last night at the naacp image awards, american hero to all of us, your colleague john lewis was honored with the chairman's award. he did not attend the ceremony as he's fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer. what are your thoughts about your good

the south carolina republican party some elements in the south carolina republican party have always manipulated their primary by doing stuff like that. you may note that the south carolina republican primary built it on the confederate battle flag. these kinds of things are not new to south carolina republicans. the south carolina republican primary put out all kinds of misinformation about john mccain, accusing him of things that led to his defeat in the south carolina primary. that are some elements would do these kinds of things. there are a lot of good decent republicans in south carolina as there are in the country, but there is an element in that body. >> should south carolina consider going to a closed primary? >> i would not advocate that. i would say if you want to be an independent you should have the opportunity to choose which one you want to caucus with. independence go back and forth and through every election season they have the ability. you just can't participate in more than one in any one election. >> congressman tell us about this field in south carolina, after w

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south carolina used to be a caucus state. got rid of the caucus because i know how caucuses are manipulated. i have been in the caucuses and i know how they are manipulated. we ought not to have caucuses. with -- john: would south carolina be a good place to launch the primary season? yes.clyburn: i was arguing for south carolina to be among the first. the the way it is now, primary season starts on super tuesday. this is the pre-primary window. to caucuses, two primaries in the pre-primary window. we ought to get rid of the pre-primary window, just have a primary season and select that wely and rotate so do not always have one state dictating the outcome or what -- of what momentum may be built. week aboutts this republican groups organizing to use the open primary process in south carolina to skew the results of the democratic primary coming up on february 20 9 -- what do you make of that? 29 -- what do you -- what do youca make of that? clyburn: south carolina's republican party built their primary on the confederate battl

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first of all i have won races in south carolina. and i have lost in south carolina.i could have beat mcmaster by 50% and one vote. i would be in the lieutenant governors house. winning is winning. i don't want to go down that path. with joe biden with all due respect to my good friend. joe biden is going -- all due respect to my friend. >> this is terrible. >> joe biden will win south carolina. this is not a question. with all due respect to everyone watching and waiting, the polls we're not really buying those. joe biden is going to win south carolina. the question is, how much is he going to win south carolina by? to your question, i think that a win for joe biden a five points is good. i think he'll eclipse that. in the ten to 15 point range. which will catapult him. i'm a kamala harris supporter and fan. i'm not in the joe biden camp. i know south carolina well. my daddy called me today and said what are they doing for joe biden today? he's taking people to the polls tomorrow for joe biden. that's just the way it is because of the familiarity with who he is. and

this is our last event in south carolina.tatee been all over this and small towns and small cities. we are so appreciative of the hospitality and the support we've been getting, so thank you, south carolina. [cheers and applause] and i'm very proud to have some outstanding members of the legislature here right now. i want to thank representative wendall gilliard. representative justin. representative terry alexander. and a number of other members of the legislature who are not here. let me also thank black-a-lack for their band, for their music. let me thank representative thigpin for all the work he does. thank travis washington for his remarks. thank my old friend, gus newport, former mayor of berkeley, california. and thank somebody who has become an increasingly close friend, a wonderful actor, a great american, danny glover. and let me thank one of the rising young political stars in this country and that is mayor chokwe lumumba of mississippi. and let me thank one of the greatest rap stars, killer mike. and let me thank

[cheers and applause] killer mike: before i leave this talking to black people in south carolina. listen to me, black people in carolina. i don't give a damn what your eaders who were radical 55 years ago have done. if they're not doing it today. black people in south carolina. if they're telling you to wait wait and holdon't on. if they telling you good enough s good enough, it ain't good enough. if it rhymes with slow, don't vote for it. ou understand what i'm telling you? if the name sounds like mike, it.t vote for the only b.s. we're going for this one is bernard sanders. for is no more time bullshit. we will be progressive. be progressive when? >> now. love you all. thank you. doing thisleasure of before i go. heard slander and nsults given to women and especially women of color and black women in this campaign and it, it has part of come from people who often look like those women. known -- i am not introducing a black girl. i am introducing a powerful happens to be black. i want you to know it ain't nothing magic about her. logical. she's sensible. and she's something beyond

could south carolina be powerful enough to rocket joe biden back to the top? and what does it mean for michael bloomberg? plus, bernie sanders is moving on to super tuesday and on to a rival's home turf as prominent democrats float a convention fight with his supporters as "the 11th hour" gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 1134 of the trump administration, exactly 250 days to go until the 2020 presidential election. tonight the spread of the coronavirus is taking a further toll on global markets while adding to the pressure on president trump. today the dow saw its biggest one-day point decline in history, plunging more than a thousand points. and tonight there are indications of potentially more losses to come. the number of reported virus cases worldwide, meanwhile, continues to climb. it is now at more than 82,000. and while the majority of the cases are in china, "the new york times" reports the coronavirus has now been detected in at l

but, folks, i intend to win south carolina and i will win the african-american vote here in south carolinaed south carolina his fire wall, those of his words. it's not just about winning, though. some are saying it's about how much he wins by. he has to win convincingly. how much do you think he needs to win by to propel his campaign into bigger successes on tuesday and turn this thing around, like he said? >> i hate to put a number on it because we can argue one voter or 10% of the vote but i think what's important here is that joe biden will win south carolina and he will win south carolina handily. this is a candidate that doesn't just show up on election day or the week before election day. this is a man who has come to south carolina for decades and has shown his support for the voters in the democratic party in south carolina. he's hosted fund-raisers for county democratic parties in years that his support in those counties was irrelevant. he was come to south carolina and endorsed candidates on the legislative level to the congressional level when his support to those people was irr

to win in south carolina for a long time. there was some question if he didn't do well in the first three contest whether his lead would evaporate. it doesn't look like it has. we'll wait and see for sure on saturday night but the question is whether it will take him anywhere after that, to give him the bounce he needs to catch bernie sanders' level of momentum. we are going into super tuesday, bernie sanders is expected to do very well in california. which has, you know, the lion's share of the delegate on that day, but there are other big states voting that day. if biden does well in south carolina, he may do well in north carolina or texas perhaps but then you have the california result for sanders. then you're moving into a very unknown sort of realm for biden where he doesn't have a lot of money. he doesn't have a big organization. both of which sanders does have. so competing that way sanders is still ahead. >> the other interesting thing on sanders you have folks saying he's going to be a disaster as the general electi

he believes south carolina is his firewall.o that he was there on new hampshire primary night. >> yep. remarkable you have to scroll up to find biden on the results. that's just really remarkable. thank you, phil. >>> it's going to be a long 17 days for joe biden before the south carolina primary. the former v.p. led the democratic polls for the best part of a year, but he left new hampshire before most people even voted. >> we just heard from the first two of 50 states, two of them. i all the nation, not half the nation, not a quarter of the nation, not 10%, 2%, 2%. where i come from, that's the opening bell. we need to hear from nevada and south carolina and super tuesday states and beyond. >> jessica dean covers the the s in manchester, new hampshire. jessica, how does he leave before the polls close? >> reporter: yeah. good question, laura. i think a lot of people were going, wait, what's happening? but yeah, that came out yesterday morning, and then that is exactly what happened. joe and jill biden leaving the state of new

senator sanders is not going to nevada immediately after leaving new hampshire or south carolina immediately after leaving new hampshire. instead he's going to north carolina, going to texas, and has a stop in colorado on sunday. that's a place super tuesday, they're making it clear they invested their in super tuesday states investing $5.5 million after the iowa caucuses. now it's time to invest the candidate's time in places. they're making a clear signal to all the other candidates they're taking the super tuesday bigger an more diverse states very seriously. >> go where the big delegates are. vaughn, big question for pete buttigieg. less money than sanders and steyer in south carolina. what are they doing to compete against more money and better organization? >> it looks like shaq may be at the bridge cafe down the road. put in an order for one of the peanut butter smoothies. it's appreciated. we're catching that plane to go out west and track down pete buttigieg. he's in south bend, indiana. he's heading out to las vegas tomorrow. i was just talking with the campaign official who tells

carolinians and south carolinaocrats, both parties pride themselves on the fact that they are independent thinkers, and they like to go their own way. i don't think there is any state other than probably delaware where joe biden has a stronger relationship with democrats and they are poised. >> laura: there's a lot of excitement today. a lot of them want to get rid of trump and i keep telling them that is not going to happen but you can have fun tomorrow. anyway, bernie's campaign guy tried to explain why bernie left the state early. t watch. >> where is your senator going to be tomorrow? in south carolina or some other state? >> he's in some other states tomorrow, massachusetts and he will finish in vermont. >> are you assuming he's not going to do well in south carolina?, >> not at all. we typically do this, after the first few states have moved on. >> laura: thoughts? >> i think he has seen some polling and it doesn't look particularly -- why waste the time here to think biden will probably get a victory, but is

he said this about his chances here in south carolina. >> so, finally, south carolina. >> finally. >> this is what you've been waiting for. >> yes. >> reporter: is this state still your firewall, sir? >> i think it's the state i'm going to do well in. i think, you know, it has 60% of the vote is the african-american vote. they have an opportunity to basically choose who the nominee is, depending what they do. if they do it strongly, i think it's a real -- look, the issues are the issues that are of great concern. health care that's actually available. this governor, the previous governor did not extend medicaid under my proposal, anybody who qualifies for medicaid be automatically enrolled. we're able to pass it and get it done quickly. >> reporter: you told worshippers here that they can own this election. do you think some candidates are trying to buy this election? >> that's not what i meant. what i meant was that they, by the african-american vote coming out of this state today, they can put a stamp on the democratic party that says look, we're entitled to a big piece of the reaso

we're going to win in south carolina. and then super tuesday and we are on our way. >> joining me simone sanders senior adviser of biden for president. simon, good to see you, congratulations on the showing last night in nevada. although it reminds me a little bit of bill clinton as the comeback kid because it was a very distant second from bernie sanders. how are you feeling about it? >> well, look, we feel, first, thi thanks for having me. we feel good about last night. i would like to remind folks in the spirit of president clinton, he lost one but 11 contests and he went on to be not just the democratic nominee but the president of the united states of america. we feel good. we're here in south carolina today, as you can see. and vice president biden will be out and about campaigning today and campaigning hard throughout the week. meeting voters where they are because the reality is, ali, this race is just getting started. >> all right, what do you look at when you look at the entrance polls from yesterday. the idea t

in south carolina, in denmark, south carolina.ng them. the state wouldn't give them a water treatment facility. if you go to the denmark, south carolinas, and meet the people there and get them in leadership, if you go to spartanburg, south carolina, there's incredible environmental justice leadership there. if you start in those communities with those leaders, you get the right climate plan, too. you get everything in one package with justice, racial justice, and the front. >> tom, i saw some video today. i'm going to play it right now. i can't say that i know what this is about. but it looked like you on a stage dropping it like it's hot. what -- what's -- you can't hear it. but you're dancing on a stage. what's going on here? >> we were having a rally, and i was having a good time. ali, i know that seems strange in american politics that someone could relax and have a good time, but that's all that you're seeing. actually, it was fun. >> good to see you, my friend. hope you have a good day. we will talk again. democratic presid

live pictures from south carolina.e answer because he's appearing there with the former vice president joe biden. this is something we've been waiting for all morning, for days, in farkct, leading up to e primary on saturday, given the democratic whip's enormous influence in the state of south carolina. >> let's listen in. >> the democratic national convention in 1972. and we have maintained a friendship ever since. we had no idea that we would end up getting elected to congress the same year. and i owe a great deal to -- i never would have become chair of the congressional black caucus were it not for ought tuteledge thank her for being here today. several of our colleagues wanted to join us today but when we decided to make this announcement on this day, they had already booked flights back home and back to washington and could not change their flights, or they could have, but they would not have been able to get out in time to make votes this afternoon, so they are not here. i have joining with me today are several

now it's on to south carolina. where the candidates will debate again tomorrow night ahead of saturday's primary, and there is an impending big endorsement expected wednesday for joe biden. joining us from charleston, south carolina, msnbc correspondent vaughn hillyard. vaughn, what's happening? >> reporter: jim clybourne is expected to endorse former vice president joe biden here in south carolina today. we're five days away from this primary and reverend al mentioned. when you looked for years ago here in the state, hillary clinton pulled in about 84% of african-american support over bernie sanders. a big change over the course of these couple of years. this is where you find yourself with pete buttigieg. he said in his speech after results starting coming in, it's time for country to take a sobering look where the race is heading. s s s at the same time, you saw where he came in, in the race. he was on saturday morning, i talked to pete buttigieg. he told me we could wake up march 4th the day after super tuesday

he has been spending millions in south carolina. >>ut was in carolina earlier this week and put the question to tom steyer abt him spending so much mon south carolina. so he's not only spending millions of dollars on ads, he's also been having block parties and he's hired a bunch of staffers from the community so a lot of africanrkmericans g for tom steyer and sai some people are telling me i'm trying to buy the vote and this is how you politically organize and thought it was racially discriminatory to accuse him of trying to buyhe african-american vote in south carolina. i should say i did hear from some steyerpo sers who didn't like joe biden they thought maybe he didn't have the stamina to keep it together. sanders wasoo radical but ie south carolina when i land thrd it felt like a joe biden state and felt like people were saying look, he was with barack meobama. he is e who was voted by the last president, first african-american president. e person that i feel comfortable with. but i should say when i talked voters they saw thei

she has not about a presence in south carolina. she's not in tennessee, not in virginia, she's not in north carolina, yes, she went to little rock and needs kudos for that. if she's spending the majority of her time in oklahoma, the dakotas, and minnesota, that's not someone who wants to try to win the african-american vote. i know she's riding a wave from new hampshire, but i've spoken to amy klobuchar staffers, i've spoken to people who support amy klobucharme klobucharme klobucharment. she's -- amy klobuchar. she's been one of the if not the best candidate running for president, act like you care about the voters and bakari will be happy. i spoke about myself in the third person. sorry about. that action like you care about the way black voters tend to think and want to vote. and give us a chance to love you. she won't even do that. >> that's interesting, alexandra. what do you think? amy klobuchar's wheelhouse is middle america. she talks about that a lot, that she understands people in the heartland. she's from there. they're h

live from beautiful charleston, south carolina. the south primary is just six days away and all the sudden bernie sanders is much closer to becoming the democratic nominee. i'm joined live by democratic president, joe biden. for months he was seen as a frontedrunner. but that was then and this is now. plus, senate candidate, jaime

i think medical debt is one of the largest contributors to bankruptcy here in south carolina. and the average student debt is $36,000. so, the issues that we talk about are the ones that i think would resonate with south carolinians. >> so, you talk about that. of course, as you know, a number of democrats have said that bernie sanders is an armageddon as far as they see it. it's going to wreak havoc on the bottom of the ticket. what's going to happen if bernie sanders is in the white house. here is president obama's former chief of staff, rahm emanuel speaking. i want to play it for you. >> is there panic in the democratic process right now? >> i would say panic would be the adjective to describe the mood right now. >> should there be? >> oh, yeah, sure. this is a consequential election and you don't want to make a mistake. personally, i'm friendly with senator sanders. i'm not a fan of the politics. i think it will lead to an electoral defeat. >> panic and electoral defeat. >> i think i rarely agree with rahm emanuel and i don't agree with him now. i think that what we've see

talk about south carolina. i want to throw up an entrance poll graphic of african-american voters in nevada and just because african-american voters vote one way in nevada doesn't mean they will vote that way in south carolina. booiden at 39%, but sanders getting 27%. stier a at 16%. warren a at 10%. i looked a at that and it felt like a reasonable south carolina poll going in with a week to go. is that how you would see the spread right now in south carolina? >> i don't know if i spent enough time trying to figure out exactly who has how much, but all these candidates will get some african-american votes. no question about that. i do believe, however, that if we were having the election tomorrow, joe biden would have more of the vote. how much more, i don't know yet. i think the debate on tuesday night will have an impact and i think that some activity after that might have an impact as well. >> are you concerned -- joe biden believes you're going to endorse him. a lot of people believe you want to endorse joe

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but folks, i intend to win south carolina and i will win they are african-american vote here in south carolina. >> reporter: the former vice president also taking aim at billionaire tom steyer. >> you talk about you're concerned about race. well, my good friend on the end of this platform, he, in fact, bought a system that was a private prison system. after he knew that, in fact, what happened was they hog tied young men in prison here in this state. >> -- in a prison company thinking they'd do a better job. i invested and i sold it. since then i worked to end the use of private prisons in my state. you wrote the crime bill that put hundreds of thousands of young black and latino men -- >> not true. >> reporter: elizabeth warren offering rare attacks against her fellow progress i haive. >> bernie and i want to see universal health care. i dug in, i did the work, and then bernie's team trashed me for it. >> reporter: but saved some ammunition for bloomberg. >> the that is correct that he cannot earn the trust of the core of the democratic means he is the riskiest candidate standing on

six republicans were on the south carolina debate stage. jeb bush was gone a week later, ben carson, marco rubio weren't far behind. tonight's candidates know a further whittling is coming and recent debates show they matter. we have a team on the ground following the campaigns. shaquille brewster with the bernie sanders, ali vitale with elizabeth warren, josh letterman following michael bloomberg. good to see you. shaq, bernie sanders says he is ready for the pressure. what can we expect to see tonight? >> reporter: that's right, chris. he said he was ready for the pressure of being and scrutiny of being frontrunner. what you're seeing from his campaign is him trying to get ahead of attacks that have been telegraphed from some of the other candidates. we know he is going to be on stage, defending his big ideas, things like medicare for all, college for all, green new deal, and candidates like vice president biden are ready to go after him, say you haven't provided the cost, haven't been honest about that. senator sanders released pay fors,

so you have south carolina. it's clear that even if biden wins it's not going to be by the same margin you saw hillary clinton win so that will cut into any sort of delicate haul he would take. super tuesday, states -- some of those states are white states like colorado has latinos there, too, a state bernie sanders did well in already. california, he didn't lose it by that much. texas has a lot of latinos there. this is really hard. you have these town halls coming up. you have these debates coming up. but this is a train that is fast moving, that has been on this track before, right, sanders has won many states before and put together a grassroots organization so that's hard to stop. >> there's a lot of questions among moderate democrats about the electability of senator sanders. those questions get answered, though, the more he wins. if he does well, incredibly well in south carolina, it's hard to imagine somebody else overtaking him. >> it is and i like to remind people at the end of the day the democrats, t

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now, biden, if he does well in south carolina, that may portend a good night for him in southern statesrth carolina or alabama or texas perhaps. but then you've got the california result for sanders, and then you're moving into a very unknown sort of realm for biden where he doesn't have a lot of money. he doesn't have a big organization, both of which sanders does have. so competing that way, sanders is still ahead. >> the other interesting thing, basel, on sanders is you have folks out there saying to democratic voters, he's going to be a disaster as the general election candidate. don't nominate him. you won't beat trump. but the polling, i saw more state polls today -- pennsylvania, wisconsin, if you just did a blind test of the democrats versus trump in the head to heads and say pick which one is sanders, you wouldn't shall able to because he doesn't stand out in the polls as uniquely unelectable. >> what's interesting to me is, you know, if i looked at the results of the 2016 primary, he won in a lot of areas that trump one because there's a strange of their narrative that is very

. >> i think i have a real firewall in south carolina. >> reporter: but now? biden's career facing a make or break test in the the place where the bonds are deeper than politics. south carolina has been a biden destination for years, especially in 2015 as a family in mourning. >> when we lost our son beau, we came to south carolina to to the low country to find a sense of peace. you helped us heal. >> reporter: one week before he kicked off his third presidential campaign, biden recalled how one of the state's icons helped launch a 29-year-old on his first run for senate. >> i thought if this powerful senator thought i could be a senator, maybe i really can do this. maybe i really have a shot. >> reporter: in washington biden also formed a bond with south carolina's other senator, a former dixie democrat turned republican, offering the jewel you'll ji in 2003. >> strom and i shared a life in the senate for 30 years. i tried to understand him. i learned from him. and i watched him change oh so suddenly. >> reporter: biden's relationships pose d an early test fo

>> south carolina is a really important state.question. >> i think what a lot of people -- when i hear people talk about you, first of all, they see your ads. they like the fact that you're talking very openly about issues that face black voters. but they also say to themselves, boy, wouldn't that money have been better spent in a lot of ways? trying to help one of the other nominees, who is more viable at least in the polls. or trying to put that money into senate races? what do you say to people who say that? >> i say i am also doing that, joy. as you know, i've started one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the united states, next gen america. next-gen did the biggest youth voter mobilization in american history in 2018. and it's proceeding along without me running it but with me supporting it right now. so for everybody who says you should be doing grassroots voter mobilization it's like, well, actually, i'm the person who's doing the most grassroots voter mobilization in america. and people say you should be knocking

of south carolina. welcome all of you to democracy now! responded to last night's debate. cook's first of all, i would like to say hello to my two friends dr. reed and gilda cobb-hunter. two people i respect. adolph was on my dissertation committee, so i have something in common with everybody on your show today. but watching the debate last night, it wasn't the confederates firing on fort sumter, but it was fiery. i think senator sanders showed himself well. i think looking at the rates of south carolina -- race with south carolina thing is going to line up with south carolina doing well. i think tom steyer is going to do well because he has done outreach in the black community and campaign the old-fashioned way in the way i see the vote breaking down, older voters -- boulder democratic party establishment voters are going to vote with biden. younger voters are going to vote with sanders because of the institutional change in structural change he represents given college education cost and the cost of

democrats gather together in south carolina. after south carolina look how many delegates. more than a third of the votes in the whole contest. they lead up into july in milwaukee for the nomination. >> specifically look at