and that's whereis tom stier didn't have any substance, just money. that is a big difference. paul: is bloomberg the most competition right now to sanders. forty steve pete buttigieg or amy klobuchar playing that role. >> i think is a little unclear. i think bloomberg is a potential and cookie jar has a lot of potential and both of them, i'm just looking at polls earlier a lot of voters don't know who they are and could be positively inclined or negatively inclined were a lot of the otherbl candidates are already known to sanders is tougherin for them to make progress. i will go back the sanders big problem is nothing hundreds his eroblem is elisabeth warren. paul: coming the problem is it for sanders that you have a concern among a lot of mainstream democrats and particularly, if he is at the top of the ticket, everybody down all of the way down, is going to have to defend the democratic socialist idea. if that's going to really put into play even maybe the house majority. mark: issues matter. bernie sanders is well-liked political figure more so than a lot of the others. but

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so the only two candidates there are joe biden and tom stier who spent $22 million in advertising on air to try and get a lead, but it looks very unlikely for him right now, guys. back to you. >> all right, christina there in charlotte, north carolina. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> there are more than 100 americans this morning under some form of quarantine because of the coronavirus outbreak. what does that mean? had and it quarantine even legal? there may be answers that could surprise you here. ♪ we see you trying and the effort is for real ♪ ♪ don't forget you could just show her how you feel. ♪ make the moment mean more. ♪ jared. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. in august 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near point comfort, virginia. it carried more than 20 enslaved africans, who were sold to the colonists. no aspect of the country we know today has been untouched by the slavery that foll

when they vanish the party becomes a label that billionaires like tom stier and michael bloomberg and donald trump can buy. before coming here a few days ago i went to the website of the democratic party out of curiosity. my grandmother who grew up on a farm in central texas, she and her african-american friends of similar background, high school educated were part of the travis county democratic party. they did election work and so on so i went to the democratic party to see and they just had a donate button. that tells you something about the structure of politics. it is a spectator sport unless you are a donor, a pollster or a candidate. >> to finish up then, both your views what does it look like to the be politically or culturally -- on top of that, there is no victory in these wars. there is no war where conservatives win everything or liberals when everything. what does the new settlement look like? >> to preface that in the new class war you need another class peace treaty. industrial capitalism is the greatest engine of economic development in history. you do not want the emp

stier i just don't believe that having the governme take over big parts of the economy. >>it's a smart thing to do and former mayors mike bloomberg and people to judge for trying pick somebody that can run this country a commander-in-chief not all of the answers have to come from washington but more the funding should'm john lawrence reports. >>there's one case of the coronavirus in san mateo county which has school ficials wanting to get to when i came home fm prison my sons were in their teens. so i got involved in juvenile juste, i didn wanthem to go through the same thing i went through. michl bloomberg created the young men's initiati. in helping keep other young men and young womefrom entering into t crimil justice system. and we see it, we see it in young people being employed. we see young people being removed out the system. running for present, what betr platform for him to speak about real justice, real refm. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. - only invisalign treatment uses smarttrack chnogy. it moves teeth more comfortably and predictably than o

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. >> another billionaire in the race, tom stier from san francisco was on the debate stage last time, but he has not been able to qualify for tomorrow's debate. this whole criteria has raised a lot of criticism about whether it was tilted toward bloomberg being on there. it will be interesting to see how he does. >>> the sanders campaign is planning to ask for a partial recount of the iowa caucus results. tonight the iowa democratic party was released the results of the re-canvas, showing sanders narrowly trailing pete buttigieg, with pete getting 13 delegates, sanders getting 12. technical problems with app caused major problems with the results. they think the margin of votes to be slim enough that a recount could change the outcome. >>> california's primary election, now just two weeks from today, and officials are expecting a record turnout. 20 million californians are registered to vote in the primary. tomorrow the secretary of state figures show a lot of vote by mail ballots have yet to be returned. all bay area counties only show legal digit return rates ranging from 3% of vote

he is not the other one, tom stier has been in there for the while and has his impeachment pac for years. he has wanted to be in the race. mike bloomberg needs to stick to his record. he doesn't like to personally be pushed. he gets very agitated easily. that's where he kind of -- i don't want to say yells but short, quick answers. >> no one yells more than bernie sanders. >> that's his normal decibel level. when i hear bernie saying this guy just sweeps in here and wants to be the democratic nominee. bernie sanders isn't even a democrat himself. it's a very funny thing. >> let me pause on you there. we went back and forth last week and we had kind of a moment that caught fire. i'm curious. she said bernie sanders signed a piece of paper. because he signed this piece of paper if he wins the nomination and goes on to be president, her talking, he will stick with being a democrat and do things for the democratic platform. >> that would be nice. >> i just postured what makes you that i bernie sanders is going to change. is there anything about that man that you know will change? >> i think

stier more than million and here in south carolina steyer's spending 22 million far outpacing his rivals, including biden this biden's aides are keeping a close eye on stier as robust investment in the state to free eat into biden's expected margin of victory stier 20 lead dismisses the criticism would you say to those people who say you may be taking votes away from vice president biden. i would say that's insulting not to me, but to the people that somehow he owns the folks really. and there's an implication in there that in fact we're talking about african-americans. >>that was jeff zeleny report a new cnn poll shows senator bernie sanders holds big leads in california and in texas which are the largest states to vote on super tuesday next week. he is polling at 29% support former president joe vice president joe biden has 20% and former new york mayor michael bloomberg has 18%. >>joe biden's wife doctor jill biden was in san francisco today she met and spoke with voters on her husband's behalf at fort mason. catherine heenan the host of inside bay area politics was also there. doctor

stier more than million nationally. and here in south carolina stier spending 22 million far outpacing his rivals, including biden this biden's aides are keeping a close eye on stier as robust investment in the state to free eat into biden's expected margin of victory stier 20 lead dismisses the criticism what would you say to those people who say you may be taking votes away from vice president biden. >>i would say that's insulting not to me, but to the people that somehow he owns the folks really. and there's an implication in there that in fact we're talking about african-americans that was just telling me reporting. a new cnn poll shows senator bernie sanders holds big leads in california and texas. >>which are the 2 largest states to vote on super tuesday. sanders is polling at 29%, former vice president joe biden has 20% and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has 18% meanwhile, joe biden's wife doctor jill biden was in san francisco today she talked with voters on her husband's behalf catherine heenan th

and the team of tom stier says he is focusing on nevada and south carolina where they say that pole averages show he has much stronger support and the nevada caucuses are next saturday, february 22 so just 10 days away.>> and here is where the candidates stand in the delegate count so far i'm after iowa and new hampshire, pete buttigieg has 22 total delegates and bernie sanders with 21, elizabeth warren has eight, amy klobuchar has a seven and joe biden have six. candidates need 1191 delegates to secure the nomination on the first ballot of the democratic national convention. >>> two more candidates dropping out of the presidential race following the results of last night's primary.>> you know i am the math guy and it is clear tonight from the numbers we will not win the race. >> in announcing the end of his campaign entrepreneur andrew yang said he did not want to continue accepting donations and support in a race he could not win. and colorado sen. michael bennet dropping out of the race and his campaign never gained traction in the crowded democratic primary field and he failed to qualify

president trump took shots at michael bloomberg as well as tom stier for how much money they spent, saying they still have no real pass to the nomination. the president focused on his economic record, saying his administration has set 144 stock market records. he has two more rallies this week including an event friday night in las vegas, the day before nevada's democratic caucuses. stomach avenue some was laser focused on the states homeless and affordable housing crisis today during his annual state of the state address. >> it's a disgrace, the richest state in the richest nation, succeeding across so many sectors is falling so far behind the properly house, he'll come and humanely treat so many of its own people. >> governor newsom took the unusual step of devoting his entire state of the state speech to just one topic, housing and homelessness. he proposed making it easier to take conservatorship over the mentally ill who are living on the street varied and he announced the rollout of temporary trailers to shelter the homeless in five regions including here in the bay area.>> the next

i'm deciding between buttigieg and tom stier. i mean, whoa! don't you understand you're supposed to be in a lane. >> so it's not ideological? >> no. a lot of people behind bernie, his hard core people are indeed one revolution. they're of the left. some people going with biden because they don't want that as a reaction. a lot of people have not made up their mind yet. they're weighing people on all sorts of traits and characteristics that may not be ideological. >> i think that's right. i met some of them today. >> yeah. let's recall. bernie sanders was in this race four years ago. he bested hillary clinton by 20 poinz. he has a lot of popularity here. i was at an event here in new hampshire after the iowa caucuses or however we left that state. he had so many people at this event that they were bussing in attendees from a parking lot that they had to put people in like about two miles away. he still has a huge, huge base of support here. it stants to reasds to reason t of people from 2016 are still with him. pete buttigieg surprised us. joe b

please give it up for tom stier! -- tom steyer! [applause] >> hello you guys! hello nevada! let me say this, today was a fantastic first day of caucus voting, nevada. almost 12,000 votes. and let me say, i have been coming to nevada since the summer of 1976 when i came here to work for $100 a month as a ranch hand in gardnerville, nevada. worst pay i have ever had in my whole life, and the most fun. let me say this. i know that people think of me as a rich person, but that is not how i think about myself at all. my mother was a teacher in the new york public schools. and when she retired as a teacher, she went and taught prisoners in the broken house of detention. my father was the first generation in his family to go to college. he graduated from college at 18. my grandfather was a plumber. my father went to law school, left the war to go to the navy in world war ii, because my parents were depression-era, world war ii babies who thought, you show up when the nation called. after the war, he prosecuted the nazi war criminals at the nuremberg trials. and let me say, what he

stier did not make the debate stage the other candidates on the stage tonight or joe biden pete buttigieg amy klobuchar elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. >>speaking of bernie sanders, the vermont senator is the leading choice when it comes to california voters this is according to a new poll that shows. sanders has 32% of california voters support a double digit lead over his other democratic rivals. second is former vice president joe biden who would garner 14% of california voters followed by elizabeth war, a warren just off by a 0.1 more point down would be michael bloomberg and he's tied with pete buttigieg. >>2 patients are under quarantine at a count now, we know the trump strategy- try to win by attacking, distorting, dividing. mr. president: it. won't. work. newspapers report bloomberg is the democrat trump fears most. as president, universal healthcare that lets people keep their coverage if they like it. a record on job creation. a doable plan to combat climate change. i led a complex, diverse city through 9-11 and i have common sense plans to move america away from chaos to

stier more than million and here in south carolina stier spending 22 million far outpacing his rivals including biden this biden's aides are keeping a close eye on stier as robust investment in the state a free ticket it into biden's expected margin of victory stier 20 lead dismisses the criticism what would you say to those people who say you may be taking votes away from vice president biden. >>i would say that's insulting not to me, but to the people that somehow he owns the folks really. and there's an implication in there that in fact we're talking about african americans that was jeff felony reporting for us tonight, a new cnn poll shows senator bernie sanders holds big leads in california. >>and texas which are the largest states to vote super tuesday. he's polling at 29% support, former pres of vice president joe biden has 20% and former new york mayor michael bloomberg has 18%, joe biden's wife doctor jill biden was in san francisco today she spoke with voters on her husband's behalf and fort mason. >>catherine heenan the host of inside bay area politics was also there. docto

stier. at at your calls about campaign 20/20 , live coverage on c-span on-demand at cspan.org or listen live on the free radio app. >> sunday at nine on afterwards, pulitzer prize winning journalist nicholas kristof and sheryl done report on the issues acing the working-class and rural america in their book tight rope. thereinterviewed by oregon democratic senator jeff merkley . >> the people in the small-town around america and the ruralareas around america , peopleare walking on a tight rope .and one miss and they fall. there's no safety net. >> over the last 50 years we have vastly overdone it and it's become kind of upset with this personal responsibility narrative, blaming the people who fall off the tight rope. for the catastrophes that follow. >> once afterwards sunday night at nine eastern on book tv. >> next hearing remembering the holocaust and marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. the house oversight and reform committee heard from witnesses on waste to comb

stier, he has been able to take advantage of the ground game here in south carolina over the past few months while some of the other candidates including joe biden have been duking it out and iowa and new hampshire. we have seen a fox news poll harm stier poll numbers rise and a lot of that contributed to his widespread name id in the state, he has been able to spend millions of dollars on television, digital, print, ads, so certainly those are the two camps we have seen some of the two camps we have seen some of the support leak into. do you think that south carolina is the last stand forjoe biden if he doesn't come out top there is an over for his campaign? it really depends who you ask. his campaign and his surrogates on the ground here certainly feel like even if his poll numbers don't do seriously well, that will still push him over the top when he had the two super tuesday states. but it remains to be seen. tuesday states. but it remains to be seen. it is very difficult to tell but i don't think anybody is necessarily honest own supporters are not discounting what he can do in t

[applause] ♪ >> new hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage, tom stier. [applause] ♪ stier: how are you guys? hello, new hampshire. saying that by every single democrat running remains one million times better than the criminal in the white house. [applause] ourlet me say i know that rights are being trampled on. we have a right as americans in the 21st century to affordable health care. right to clean air and clean water. no one gets to poison you with pfas. we have a right to an equal vote. they can't take it away from college students in new hampshire anymore. right to a living wage in the united states. wage is ridiculous and immoral. and we have a right to quality public education including universal prekindergarten for every kid in the united states. we know that donald -- i said last night on tv, donald trump can win unless we take his ass on the economy. if you guys saw the union leader yesterday, he took out a full-page ad. the top of it was democrats who feel new hampshire jobs and the bottom half was how great he was. we are going to have to

bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and tom stier. the calls about campaign 2020. live coverage on c-span on demand@c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> ryan mccarthy. chief of staff general james beard current operations and modernization efforts. held by the center for new american security. >> thank you for joining us today. here at my virtual fireside, we are graced with the presence of the 24 secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. thank you both so m

stier and your calls about campaign 2020, live coverage on c-span, on demand, c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio apps. >> we are joined by two members of congress from miami, republican congressman carlos c curbello and jason out my are, i want to start with the comment of the viewer who called into this program yesterday, that she is done voti

tom stier, $10.4 million on ads in nevada all loan, the biggest vendor in the state by far. >> we are thrilled with the progress of this campaign but only two states in. so much depends what happens next. >> i figured from the beginning this would be a long nomination process. >> you guys want count the votes, right? i know you know how to count things in reno. >> reporter: nevada is significant because it is a more diverse state, new hampshire and iowa are white states. looks a lot more like america, has a large hispanic population. it is also significant because the caucus, after the mess and iowa people are watching it closely. the issues and iowa started with a failure of any reporting apps. they will use a similar apps but after the issues in iowa they decided to scrap it and are using technology developed by google that is off-the-shelf. after the issues we saw in iowa will not happen in nevada. we will see in 7 days. neil: what happens in vegas will have to stay in vegas. the acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf on how the us is going to prevent a coronavirus outbrea

. >>> another person we'll see a lot of tom stier, president and founder of next gen america and 2020 presidential candidate for the party. let's get to the statement, tom, you issued on the new dnc debate rules which you said in part changing the rules to accommodate mike bloomberg and not changing them in the past to ensure a more diverse debate stage is just plain wrong. the democratic party should be doing everything possible to ensure a diverse field of candidates instead they're changing rules for a candidate who's ignoring early states voters and grass roots donors. shouldn't he rewarded at all for not asking people for money? >> look, the real point here is, alex, that in december, i asked the dnc publically to change the rules so we could have a more diverse set of candidates. we are a diverse party, we are a diverse nation, and i think it's really important that we have candidates who reflect that diversity of background and opinion. they didn't change the rules then to open up the debate stage. and now they're changing the rules so that mike bloomberg, who's never done gras

stier -- tom steyer? elizabeth warren? are we ready to make history? elizabeth warren has a plan to fight corruption, make big structural change and saturday last ceiling once and for all. universalget childcare, universal pre-k, spencer -- cancel student loan debt, provide free college tuition and to end gerrymandering, in citizens united once and for all. our democracy should not be for sale or anybody else and elizabeth warren has the phrase and energy to fight and win. we welcome you all to join elizabeth warren tonight. >> the last to be heard from is andrew yang. >> i'm here with the yang campaign. for theeen volunteering better half of the last year for discoveredgn and i yang in a contest and a longtime nobody knew who he was. i'm hoping by now all of you have a lease heard from whom he has and how he wants to put pocketn every americans at the age of 18. -- i havenk it is a been fighting for this from the very first day i heard it and i was not a democrat in the last are not thele and only one. i have met so many others like me that have been

stier is up 11 points since last year. among south carolina's black voters, biden has 28% sitting at 45% of support, 28% lead, excuse me, sitting at 45% support, meanwhile, 39% of south carolina's democratic primary voters say they are firmly decided on their pick, while 39% say they are open to a different candidate. 15% are still undecided. >> joining us now from orangeburg, south carolina, garre garrett haake, good to have you with us. let's talk about bernie sanders, what is bernie sanders final pitch to voters in south carolina ahead of tomorrow's primary? >> reporter: bernie sanders pitch has been pretty consistent over the last several weeks. if he's changed anything up recently i would say the latest change is he's more about the unity candidate than he is a candidate who can beat donald trump. he's trying to address the electability concerns that have long existed about putting him at top of the ticket directly. it's weird to hear bernie sanders come out on a stump and talk about polls but that's what he's been do

stier what he plans to say and -- we will ask tom steyer what he plans to say and how he is doing in new hampshire. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ "balance ofis power." we go now to mark crumpton. mark: pete buttigieg and bernie sanders will meet face-to-face on the debate stage tonight in manchester, new hampshire. there virtual tie in the iowa caucuses sets them up as the front runners in the delegate race. joe biden and elizabeth warren are likely to go the offensive after disappointing performances. officialssey, health boarded a cruise ship and screened more than two dozen passengers who recently traveled from china. they were looking for symptoms of the coronavirus. 23 passengers were cleared. the other four are being evaluated at a hospital. the trevor transatlantic trade truce become a depressor this month if the united states follows through on a plan to increase its tariffs on the european union. is starting toer deploy a trade tactic called carousel retaliation, whereby a country periodically shifts tariffs on different groups of goods. there

steyer 17, sanders a 13%, the eastern carolina university poll 31, sanders 23, stier 20. other candidates only in the single digits. meanwhile our viewers can tune in tonight with a townhall with amy klobuchar at 6:30 tonight. >> you are always all over it. thanks. for ambassador to the un nikki haley says she worked with countries under socialism and solidarity and misery plaguing their people firsthand. she says the fact that bernie sanders is weeding his party on such policies should be a major red flag for america. >> the idea that the front runner of the democratic party is a self-avowed socialist, bernie sanders is going to be the poster child of the democratic party is absurd and i can show you there is not a socialist country anywhere that think socialism is a good thing. look at all the countries never tried it. they go as quick to capitalism as they possibly can. 20 years ago 94% of the world was in extreme poverty, today it is 10%. that is because of capitalism. >> as bernie closes the gap with joe biden in south carolina it is important to note more people are

stier my name is giuliana work for seven news could you answer a couple quick questions overweighting? so our latest seven is pole says he lost a point yesterday until 1%. what do you need to do right now to try to make it to the primary? i don't know what that pole is in south carolina i am doing really well up 254% in the black community i'm doing very wellin the latino community the kind of diverse this going to need dissemination to represent this country. and i can do it. >> they show bernie sanders is a front writer and likely voters here in new hampshire. why do you think people in this state should vote for you over bernie? >> i can take down truck. i can beat from i built a business over 30 years i can show you he is a liar, he is a fake. he is terrible for the american people. whoever the democratic candidate is these got to be able to do that either experience and expertise to do it i'm looking forward to it. >> how long are you repaired to stay in the race? [inaudible] >> you said about 200 million or it could be more now of your own finances into this correct? you think t

theetion winning ahead of tom steyer by 18 points and stier is number l two in south carolina. >> spend all of his money in south carolina appealing. bloomberg did not spend money so who he's taking from is a big question. but a lot of also ran that's going thin very quickly through south carolina and into super tuesday, and this is going to be the question is -- does biden get enough bouts from south carolinaing to go to super tuesday and have a formidable showing because he has been fading. is it enough? we shall see. i don't know. >>one of our senators we interviewed him yesterday 60% of the democratic voters are african-american about and so there's such a significant pull because they loved, they love president obama and biden was absolutely vice president. >> bernie can have a tendency to overperform poll too because one poll shows biden doubling his support right now that may not be what we see. >> but you have to figure that if joe biden runs away with it in south carolina and real possibility he could people in the super tuesday state who have not done early voting are going to

styer who we've all been talking about this would be the section where stiers people would sit so what happens if there's a leader somebody gets up and talks and at an event this big sometimes it's the candidate him or herself that comes to plead their case then what happens is they take a vote in that vote people gather together in groups and if you don't have 15 percent that candidate is not viable in this particular precinct so you get rid of them and all of those voters have the opportunity to go to someone else so there's a 2nd vote taken there used to be multiple but this year there are only 2 and there's a complicating factor that this year could make things a little confusing it used to be said that there were 3 tickets out of the iowa caucus the 1st 3 people numerically who won delegates gold silver and bronze will now they're going to announce the winner of that 1st vote the winner of the 2nd vote and the ultimate winner of the delegate count so it's entirely possible that you could have people arguing that they had a moral victory even if they didn't get the most delegates s

stier. >> first of all. >> let me go. >> tom i think she is not met my plan not yours. >> i think we are talking about math and it doesn't take two hours to do the math. let's talk about math. >> here's the math. [inaudible] >> senators a quick response. [inaudible] listen to the moderator guys. >> is it my turn? >> you have a name you are allowed to respond. >> what health and human services has said and analyzing healthcare costs, white yale recent study has said is that your program would cost some $50 trillion over a ten-year period. we would continue to pay in some cases ten times more for the same exact prescription drugs. what every steady out there, conservative or progressive says medicare for all will save money. this will cost about 45 billion not 60 trillion. [inaudible] senator sanders would like to bring mr. stier in on this. mr. stier believes. >> this conversation shows a huge risk for the democratic party. we are looking at a party that's going to decide we are either going to support someone who is a democratic socialist or somebody who has a long history of being a

michael bloomberg alone accounts for half at with more than 500 million in tv radio and digital ads, tom ser more than million and here in south carolina steyer's spening 22 million far outpacing his rivals including biden this biden's aides are keeping a close eye on stier as robt investment in the state to free eat into biden's expected margin of victory stier 20 lead dismisses the criticism would you say to those people who say you may be taking votes away from vice president biden. i wod say that's insulting not to me, but to the people that somehow h ownthe folks really. and there's an implication in there that in fact we're talking about african-americans >>that was jeff selling the rorting for us tonight, a new cnn poll shows senator bernie sanders. >>holds big leads in california and texas which are the largest states to vote super tuesday. he's polling at 29% support, former president to vice president rather joe biden has 20% and former new york mayor michael bloomberg has 18%. next at 5.30 the number of peestrians kille in the united states has hit a year high. >>we'll take a

tom steyer is not one of the leaders. soft -- imagine south carolina because he is doing better there. maybe five., tom steyer was pointing out iowa is not a diverse state. important, the emphasis on beating donald trump. we hear that from all the democrats no matter who they are backing. the most important thing is beating donald trump. you mentioned, he is not one of the leaders. in terms of the polls, as much credit as we give to paul's, of the polls.jud over thells are all place. we had a recent pulsating bernie sanders is not -- a recent poll saving bernie sanders is number one. the real question is fully parted, do we want to go mainstream centrist or more progressive? mainstream centrist, probably joe biden. more progressive, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. david westin in des moines. us on our join special coverage of the iowa caucus starting 10:00 monday in new york. tuesday, we will carry president trump's state of the union address followed by the democratic response. that kicks off 9:00 p.m. in new york.

stier. [applause] mr. steyer>> thank you for bein. mr. steyer: my pleasure. jeanne: we are trying to suss out the balance of what the candidates are trying to seek and with their agenda would be. meaning you become president, we have water problems, road problems, all sorts of airport problems. there are problems with everything buried under the ground in the last 50 years, and everything that goes across water. your limited funds. how do you balance it? what are your priorities? where would you put the limited resources you have into your projects? mr. steyer: let me say this, there are different ways to do infrastructure in this world. and one of the ways is to raise tax money and spend it, and i think that is an important way to do it and we will talk about it. on the first day of my presidency, i would declare a climate emergency and start changing the rules under which private corporations are allowed to generate energy, about the kinds of cars they are allowed to produce, and a kind of vision efficiency rules they have to operate under. those are also i

stier, the senator from minnesota, even warren. at this point, is it unusual for you to see single digit people staying in the race? carolina, it will be very difficult for some of those candidates to stay in the race. i thick it is just the nature of the race this cycle which is that many have been able to raise money from individual donors to stay competitive or to try and stay competitive in those races but i think the pressure will be intense for some of them to drop out if they failed to do well on saturday in south carolina and i think for sure after super tuesday they will be forced to drop out. out atephanie had phenomenal essay this weekend comparing democratic-socialist's with social democrats, comparing withe sanders americans the nordic model, with the swedish model as well but from how far is the senator from vermont from a scandinavian socialism? >> what he is trying to do is unprecedented in the united states, pushing his medicare for all proposal, banning private health insurance. even in some of those european coun

tom looks good. biden looks good. >> president trump, who accused by the candidates by interfering in the democratic primary hosted his own rally in south carolina yesterday where he highlighted the economy. >> the unemployment rate in south carolina has fallen to 2.3%. [cheering] the lowest rate in all of america. reporter: for the first time in a statewide election, south carolina, touch screen voting machines and a paper ballot and officials in the state believe that's good because in case issues, a paper ballot will be something they can get the results with. neil: you just interviewed the one voter, i might vote, i don't know. thank you. "wall street journal" mariana, democratic congressman as well. along with our own susan. what's at stake here? the former vice president be getting his endorsement, that's a very big thing. if he can write himself and south carolina, what difference would it make coming into super tuesday? >> he needs a big win for all the reasons they should. most of him, he do

weekend. 11 :00 p.m.ht at eastern democratic presidential joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, stier, sanders, and warren speak before clark county democrats. 5:00 p.m. eastern joe biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, and tom steyer speak at a forum on infrastructure. watch on-demand at c-span.org and listen on the go on the c-span radio app. are live fromd we the savannah book festival saturday at 9:00 eastern. our coverage includes editor of the american scholar on the life of 19th-century showman pb barnum. and an environmental lawyer on his 20-year legal battle against dupont. and the recounting of the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1859. at 2:00 edward larson on the partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. at three: 15, identity and race and her experiences growing up in puerto rico. and michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. the savanna book festival, live starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month. congress approve the equal rights amendment to the constitu

host: did tom steyer's rise in the polls in south carolina hurt senator sanders any? guest: not at all. i think, if anything, we have the respect. we are seeing that stier had the ability to do the work he did in south carolina, had great dialogue with tons of stier have much respect for senator sanders and the actual campaign, so no, not at all. i think senator sanders and supporters of the senator sanders campaign will be diehard supporters all the way to the end. not at all. host: you are on the ground as a regional field director, what will turn out look like? when we talk about young voters, will we see a lot of young voters in south carolina, and voters overall show up for the democratic primary? guest: absolutely. i'm all smiles because i think this will be an absolutely amazing turnout, and his coming? everyone. host: we have heard a couple voters say they voted early, for the primary. how much will early votes affect this campaign when we start counting votes? do we see a large population of early voters, or will it be just a trickle coming in? guest: i think