Doesnt even have to think twice. Look what he did with this intelligence briefing to congress. He didnt even wait long enough to hear about the part about Bernie Sanders. I think there is a legitimate question. If he knew a month ago was he allowed to talk . I wonder why we didnt hear anything. He said it was intelligence he didnt want to say anything. Listen, i dont know. Why didnt he say anything . I dont know. Its good to know. It would have been good to know a month ago. Exactly right. Loyalty test. This loyalty test is straight out of voldemorts book. Are you with us or not. Its not supposed to be about that. When they came after this person i didnt say anything and that person. And that person. Finally nobody left. You know who will be there when they come for you. Not you. The vanilla gorilla. You know what, im not going to deny that. Vanilla gorilla is right. The color purple. You shol is ugly. My beauty is on the inside. Boy, bye. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. So, here we are on the eve of the all important nevada caucus. Just hours away from what could be a make or break vote for the democrats vying to run against the president. And we are learning tonight that russia is not just interfering in our election to help this president. We just talked about this. Theyre also interfering to help Bernie Sanders and create chaos in the race. Heres the message. To russia, stay out of the american elections. And what they are doing the ugly thing they are doing, and i have seen some of their tweets and stuff. They try to divide us up. Thats what they did in 2016. That is what theyre doing. Trying to cause chaos and hatred in america. Sanders says his campaign was briefed about at month ago on efforts to help him. And implies the news of the briefing was leaked to hurt his campaign. How do you think it came out now . Ill let you guess about the nevada caucus. The Washington Post . Good friends. Ill ask about that later on. Stay tuned. As much as this president doesnt want to admit it, doesnt want you to think about russia, it sure looks like things are working out just the way Vladimir Putin wants them to. So, lets not forget that Robert Mueller included russian emails like this one have february 2016. Quote main idea, use any opportunity to criticize Hillary Clinton and the rest. Except sanders and trump. We support them. It was just yesterday we learned about that intel briefing to Congress Warning that russia is interfering in our election right now. With the goal of helping trump. A source telling cnn what the president was really frustrated about was his fear that adam schiff could use that intel against him politically. Now white house official says the president has been briefed on russia attempt to help senator sanders. We dont know exactly when that briefing took place. Listen to this. This from the president today talking about russia efforts on his own behalf. I was told a week ago theyre trying to start a rumor. Its disinformation. Thats the only thing theyre good at. They get nothing done. Do nothing democrats. Putin wants to make sure i get elected. Listen to this. Doesnt he want to see who the democrats will be . Wouldnt he rather have bernie . The president sure does mention sanders a lot, doesnt he . You have to wonder whether putin is the only one who wants to see sanders as a democratic nominee. Running against trump. I see these phonies, the do nothing democrats. They said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. Here we go. Here we go again. Did you see it . Arent people bored . Nope. Not bored. Definitely not bored. Disturbed. Concerned. Worried about the safety of the country. All of those, but not bored. Interestingly, former acting theres that word again. Acting. Former acting attorney general Matt Whittaker warning russia is trying to interfere in 2020. Im never going to deny that russia tried to interfere in 2016. They tried to interfere in 2018 and trying to interfere in 2020. That is interesting. Its interesting that the former acting ag the man who replaced Jeff Sessions who was hounded out of the office by trump for recusing himself from the russia inquiry agrees with officials who told the president what he doesnt want to hear. Foreign actors will view the 2020 u. S. Elections as an opportunity to advance their interests. We certainly are seeing and have never stopped seeing since 2016 efforts to engage in maligned foreign influence. Right now russian proxies have geared up to repeat influence in the 2020 election. Were running out of time to stop them. Theyre doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign. Official after official stepping up and saying the same thing. The russians are interfering in our election again. In the face of all this with russia continuing to attack the foundation of our democracy, our free and Fair Elections what is this president doing . Hes cleaning house. Purging anyone who tells him what he doesnt want to hear. Sources are telling cnn that the president s new personal chief, his former body man, john mackentee is telling Agency Officials hes on the look out for any staffers who arent sufficiently loyal to trump. And he says hes focusing on the state department and department of defense. One white house official saying, quote, not a good idea on his part. Going to get himself and a lot of people in trouble. Maybe. But i think we can be pretty sure that the purge of the president s enemies list will please at least one person. The audience of one. One in the white house. Today ousted acting spy chief Joseph Maguire formally resigned after an irate president blamed him for allowing information about russias election interference to be included in that briefing to congress. And lets not forget he was also in the doghouse for saying the whistleblower acted in good faith and followed the law. Admiral William Mcraven who has known maguire for more than 40 years writing an oped in the Washington Post saying this. In this Administration Good men and women dont last long. Joe is dismissed for doing his job. Overseeing the dissemination of intelligence to elected officials who need information to do their jobs. As americans we should be frightened, deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women cant speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when president ial ego and selfpreservation are more important than National Security, then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil. Maguires second in command, andrew hauldman also stepping down and putting out a statement that you could read as a message and i quote, i have complete confidence in the ic work force and enduring qualities of the community, integrity and relentless dedication to serving the nation. Qualities you could say are in short supply right now. All that coming as maguires totally unqualified replacement, trump lawyer Richard Grenell, is doing his real job protecting the president. The New York Times is reporting that grenell has requested the intel behind the classified briefing and as acting dni he has access to all the secrets no matter how unqualified he is. With Vladimir Putin attacking the heart of our democracy, sowing chaos, the president of the United States is out on a vengeance tour purging his enemies list. The question is what will happen in november . Is all of this working out just the way Vladimir Putin wants it to . Is the chaos the point . 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Whats happened in the last few days is frightening because by firing joe maguire trump is basically sending a message loud and clear he does not want anybody in the government, certainly nobody in the Intelligence Community trying to stop russia from attacking our election again as they attacked it in 2016. Telling it truth about what the russians are up to, that is firing offense, and it was very striking to me when this news came out about Bernie Sanders and the russians perhaps helping him which i would surmise they might be doing because they think Bernie Sanders might be a candidate donald trump could defeat in the fall, but at least Bernie Sanders to his credit said putin has no business interfering in american politics and as president i will ensure he does not do that. Have you ever heard donald trump say anything remotely similar to that . Of course not because donald trump is abdicating his responsibilities as president. He is actually tacitly once again encouraging russian interference. This is very frightening moment, don. Susan, you heard what max said. Do you think the russians think that having sanders as the nominee will benefit President Trump . I dont think we can say what exactly the russians are thinking right now in part because the reporting is based on sort of various leaks coming out of potentially congressional committees that makes it really difficult to know what exactly the motivations in question might be and what the intelligence finding actually is. I think max is absolutely right that the contrast between how Bernie Sanders responded and how President Trump has responded and is responding now is really remarkable. Think about what candidate trump did whenever he heard russia might be attempting to help in the election. Right, he made sort of coy statements like russia if youre listening. He welcomes that assistance. He made it known publicly he was open for business. Instead the Sanders Campaign came out and said this is not acceptable. We are not going to tolerate this, and if im elected president the russians are going to pay the price. Its not that hard to get this right. Its not based on some sort of specific ideological position. Its not that difficult to just tell russians do not interfere and meddle in our elections or our democratic processes or you will pay it price. So that raises the question why is it so difficult for the president of the United States to bring himself to say that . Listen, a big part of this also, michael, lets be honest is the president s paranoia when it comes to talking about russian interference in our elections. Were seeing that personality trait here, too, right . Well, we are. Actually were seeing a very complex game of paranoia because the russians have declared that americans must be paranoid because my goodness theyre not doing anything to us. And then the president is saying that democrats are making this up, its a hoax. You know, the net result of all of it is chaos. And im reminded of the republican activists who want to conduct an operation of chaos in South Carolina to somehow confuse democrats as they go to their primary. I dont think that chaos is a wise Public Policy standard for us to be considering or wise political standard. But i suspect that the president sees advantage in it for him. Hes always been a person whos felt that he could thrive when things are chaotic and other people lose track of their goals and he stays laser focused on what is now his intention to get reelected by whatever means necessary. Max, sources tell cnn that republicans in that briefing about russian interference were arguing russia couldnt be helping the president because no one has been tougher. You have a column out that complains why that is totally bogus, but its just shocking to me republicans could sit there and say that or even really have that mindset this isnt happening. Right and you wonder do they actually believe this or are they repeating the party line . Whichever way its ridiculous because look at the fact pattern here. Donald trump is trying to prevent the Intelligence Community from fighting a russian attack on the United States, these congressmen are still claiming oh, hes tough on russia. Donald trump is the guy who keeps repeating the Russian Disinformation Campaign blaming ukraine rather than russia for the attack on the u. S. In 2016. Donald trump the guy who turned over Northern Syria to the russians and their syrian allies who was helping the russians all over the place, who never says one negative word about Vladimir Putin, this is one of the things i pointed out in my column, lets not forget donald trump is actually shorter than Michael Bloomberg. He always treats Vladimir Putin with incredible respect even as he denigrates everybody else. This is clearly a president who has a soft spot in his heart for putin. And theyre returning that affection by trying to reelect donald trump. He trashes the u. S. Intelligence community. I mean, what do you think putin thinks when he sees donald trump attacking our fbi agents, our diplomats, our intelligence officers, firing the ones who are honest, promoting lackeys and calling the dedicated professionals traitors and human scum . I mean that is Vladimir Putins dream come true. Susan, lets talk about retired admiral William Mcraven and i read some of it. I talked about it in my opening statement, weighing in tonight with a damning oped in the Washington Post saying as americans we should be frightened, deeply afraid for the future of the nation when good men and women cant speak the truth and when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when president ial ego and selfpreservation are more important than National Security, then theres nothing left to stop the triumph of evil. This is scathing. Yeah, i think its really significant somebody like admiral mcraven, somebody who has really been hesitant to talk about politics at all, to weigh in the trump era even though he has sparingly in the past, for someone like that to be sounding the alarm of the danger of this moment because think about what were seeing right now. Reportedly the president has decided to dismiss the acting director of National Intelligence because he dared to allow a congressional briefing related to Election Integrity in an election interference be given to United States congress. A coequal branch of government with significant oversight responsibilities, with legislative responsibilities about an issue that goes to the core of National Security, the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process, the foundation of our democratic system. And thats whatever that information is inconvenient to the president of the United States, politically inconvenient, inconvenient for his own, very, very fragile ego. He retaliates against people, and so the longterm consequences of that is that less and less information is going to make its way up the chain within the Intelligence Community, within the executive brav. Less information is going to make its way to congress. And so the people tasked with protecting this country, with responding to defending us are not going to be able to do their jobs. And the only way to describe the situation were in is a dangerous one. This is dangerous moment and i really do think its revealing that admiral mcraven feels like he needs to speak out in this moment. Michael, at the top of the show i said to chris its only going to get worse and he said maybe not. I dont know. I think its only going to get worse. What do you think . Well, i think its going to get worse. Weve got a president who measures people in terms of their loyalty not in terms of their expertise. And for the president thats a very scary prospect. You know, you can run the Trump Organization saying everyone has to be loyal to me and thats the first and only priority, but when youre the president of the United States and National Security is at stake you want people to be able to speak truth to power and what hes saying now is that the truth doesnt matter, the power is what i care about. And if youre competent and experienced and brave, im going to squeeze you out and replace you with someone far less qualified but whose loyalty is assured. Loyalty only goes one way. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Intelligence Officials Say russia trying to interfere in this years election. But does the president s new pick for acting dni stand with the people hes now overseeing . F the corner of my eye. Just a blur when they jumped the median. There was nothing i could do. daughter daddy dad vo shes safe because of our first outback. And our new ones even safer. avo welcome to the allnew subaru outback. An iihs top safety pick plus. 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He has access to everything, so what will he do with the information . Joining me now is robert litt, the former general counsel for the director of National Intelligence. Bob, appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Give me reaction to grenell demanding proof of russian interference . Well, in the abstract i dont think its problematic which is to say this is the major thing on the plate of Intelligence Community right now and its not at all inappropriate for a new guy coming in for him to understand what the facts are. The problem is he going to be looking at this from an objective point of view or looking at this in an effort to undercut the Intelligence Community to pass information back to the white house for the purpose of attacking the Intelligence Communitys conclusion . Im always prepared to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. We now have an director of National Intelligence. How does that impact National Security . So the statute that created the position of director of National Intelligence says that the director of National Intelligence is supposed to be someone with extensive National Security expertise, and theres no way you can say that grenell has that. This is complicated job. Were focused on the issue of providing intelligence to the president , but it involves overseeing the execution of a budget of tens of billions of dollars. It involves setting priorities for intelligence collection and analysis. It involves setting policies for things like information sharing or security clearances. It involves helping understand what kind of overhead satellites we should be using. This is not a job you can learn on the job, and its certainly not a job that can be done on a part time basis while youre also serving as ambassador in germany. One of grenells first hires was a former National Security counsel official, former devin nunes staffer. Played a key role in helping discredit the russia investigation. Does that move tell you anything about grenells priorities sph. Look, i dont know kash patel. I think it may be troubling to have somebody who effectively may be number two who spent the last year or more literally trap sing around the world to undercut the Intelligence Community. Its going to be very difficult for him to regain the trust of the people who were in the Intelligence Community with that background. Joseph maguire is the one who received the whistleblower complaint on the call but did not actually share it with lawmakers. How do you think a loyalist with grenell would handle a complaint like that . Its hard to tell. I think maguire handled it appropriately. Remember that the complaint initially went to the Inspector General, and so grenells ability to impress the Inspector General is somewhat limited because the specter general had the degree of independence. So its not clear he would have been able to suppress it anymore effectively than the white house was able to do in this case which was to say ultimately not at all. Well, the question is, though, can you do what devin nunes ultimately did with, you know, some of the information that regarded the mueller investigation, go back to the white house and then warn them what was happening so they get a heads up . Well, actually the white house did get a heads up in this case anyway because they called over to the white house because they were concerned about whether this raised issue of privilege or other concern. So the white house actually knew about this complaint before it became public. What are you hearing from people inside the Intelligence Community . Are they concerned about this . I think theres a lot of apprehension. Again, i think most of them are willing to give grenell the benefit of the doubt, but hes going have to earn their trust if he wants to have it. He comes in as we said earlier with no obvious qualification for the job other than the fact hes personally loyal to the president. The Intelligence Community prides itself on being nonpartisan, on offering unbiased factual analysis to the president. And im sure theres a real concern out there that are they going to be pushed to tilt information, to with hold information to slant the analysis theyre providing so that the president hears what he wants to hear . And i think grenell is going to have a difficult task to convince the Intelligence Community that thats not what hes there for. And as you said maybe he will. He says youre willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but we shall see. Thank you, robert litt, bob. Thank you i appreciate your time. Michael bloomberg says hell release three women from their mdas, but that isnt stopping him from getting slammed on all sides. Should he have seen all this coming . Future. Shouldnt your toothpaste do the same for your mouth . 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I want to talk about it now with cnn Political Correspondent mj lee. I appreciate you joining us to discuss this. This is major reversal. Reporter it is a major reversal, don. As you said when he was asked about this at the debate he said he didnt want to release these people from the mdas. He said that these were sort of conventional contracts. Just to remind people about these mdas, the Bloomberg Campaign is basically saying theyve identified three cases of ndas that involved things Michael Bloomberg was accused of saying. And according to a Senior Advisor one of those three involves a woman involved in a lawsuit launched in the 1990s that cnn and other Media Outlets have reported on. This woman accused mikem bloomberg of having said some crass and crude things in the workplace. The identity of the two others in the remaining ndas, we dont know who they are, and weve been pressing the Bloomberg Campaign to get a sense of why this reversal and one Campaign Aide told me earlier today that up until this point Michael Bloomberg had been thinking about all of this as a ceo, and now hes trying to think about it more as a person. Shouldnt they have considering this had been discussed before, shouldnt his campaign have handled this entire situation better, mj . Thats right. These allegations have been out there for a while. Obviously dating back decades through his time as a businessman, and he was a public figure, a new york city mayor for three terms. And i think this was probably one of the top issues that the campaign expected either the moderators or some of his rivals to ask him about. And i think it really escalated because senator Elizabeth Warren was very set ongoing after him on this issue of the ndas. Lets actually take a listen to that exchange. He has gotten some number of women, dozens who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements both for Sexual Harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace. So mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women for those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story . We have a very few nondisclosure agreements. How many is that . Let me finish none of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didnt like the joke i told. And let me just these would be agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet. Reporter so just some of the language bloomberg was using there was very tonedeaf, and clearly the response that he had on the debate stage really were not adequate. And remember last night, too, Elizabeth Warren escalated this further at the cnn town hall by walking on stage with a contract. Remember her career includes her work as having been a contracts lawyer. And she essentially said, look, dedid the work for you, Michael Bloomberg. Heres the paper you can sign to release everybody from he was going to continue getting these questions, and cleatly thrly th realized they needed to do something different. And has warren responded . Whats her reaction . Yeah, you know, when the Michael Bloomberg news broke we were actually outside of a diner in las vegas staking her out, so as soon as she came out we asked her about this news. Heres what she said. Its just not good enough. Michael bloomberg needs to do a blanket release so that all women who have been muzzled by nondisclosure agreements can step up and tell their side of the story. I think this is just one of many examples, don, of Michael Bloomberg sort of realizing what can happen when youre a relative newcomer to a president ial campaign, the fact hes recently been surging, has been getting a lot more attention especially as we head into super tuesday. This is candidate and a campaign clearly realizing that theyre about to get a lot more heat for a lot of different issues from his past. Don . Mj, thank you. I appreciate it. Now i want to bring in cnn political commentator Hillary Rossen whos a democratic strategist. Good to see you. Whats your reaction to bloomberg agreeing to release these women from their ndas . I think its a mixed bag. I have a lot of experience at these issues around the times of legal defense, but ill tell you very few Companies Agree to eliminate the use of ndas, these nondisclosure agreements for Sexual Harassment, discrimination and assault over the course of time. And so the fact that the Bloomberg Company is not going to use them anymore is a big step and something wed like to see other Companies Take a hold of. But, you know, theres no question that theyre complicated. We have no idea how many there are at the Bloomberg Company right now. And what weve heard from Mike Bloomberg is there are only three that affect him. It wasnt physical assault or sexual assault. It was more language, and he is releasing those women and letting them talk. And i assume were going to end up hearing from them over the course of the next few days. But i think the Bigger Picture is when youre running for president your standards are different. You know, donald trump didnt agree to live by a different standard from a businessman to a politician, and i think democrats want to be better. We want to do this differently. And so if youre a businessman running for, you know, the democratic nomination youre going to have to youre going to have to step it up in terms of these policies. So hilary i want to ask you Many Companies have ndas, and they sign ndas when people leave, when executives leave. Should that be demanded of all companies . Is that are democrats setting a precedent here that is sort of a purity test for all companies . Almost all companies do have these agreements. And the way that it works is essentially you leave a company or you get fired from a company and theyll offer you money and in exchange for extra money to go theyll usually say, well, sign this thing and dont tell anybody about what happened. The difference is that when the thing that happened was Sexual Harassment, gender discrimination or, you know, god forbid assault, what youre not really doing is addressing the cultural changes that need to be done in an organization. So thats why ndas around these issues are so important. So for instance no one expects the Bloomberg Campaign or, you know, mcdonalds for that matter to say that if youre on employee and you leave you have an nda, youre not allowed to give people the passwords to the company computers. So theres legitimate reasons to have ndas in corporate america. But in this case if what youre trying to do is promote culture change, if youre trying to create safety for women and men in a working environment, you cant hide the abuses, and thats the piece why its so important. Thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Some Democratic Candidates are spending hundreds of millions of dollars and others are looking at a big cash crunch. How the money could affect the democratic race. Thats next. At todays best western, stay two nights and get a free night for your next stay. One night, two nights, free night. Book now at bestwestern. Com. Can be a sign your feeling digestive systemhed down isnt working at its best. Taking metamucil every day can help. Its psyllium fiber forms a gel that traps and removes the waste that weighs you down. It also helps lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption, promoting healthy blood sugar levels. So, start feeling lighter and more energetic by taking metamucil every day. 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Now to the state of the race, any democrat who is in the Bernie Sanders or a billionaire is likely to be feeling a cash crunch. New filings submitted to the fec showed that senator Bernie Sanders way out in front, 16. 8 million on hand, joe biden and Pete Buttigieg have 7. 1 million and 6. 6 million respectively while the rest of the pack are all under 3 million. Tom steyer, and Michael Bloomberg are excluded because they are selffunding their campaigns. Lets discuss with jim acena and mark mckinnon, gentlemen, good evening. Must be nice to be billionaires. We all cant be one. Tough numbers for anyone who isnt Bernie Sanders for michael broomberg. How difficult is it going to be for some of these campaigns to keep competing into super tuesday . Its a real challenge. Look, money is the oxygen of american politics for better or for worse. And a lot of people made some big bets and spent all their money in iowa and new hampshire, trying to move. In mayor buttigiegs case it worked. And he had his big surge moment. Some of these other folks, like Elizabeth Warren, et cetera, spent a lot of money, didnt get the result they needed. So, you know, youre going to super tuesday in less than two weeks, and the democrats decision to move california and texas up in the calendar means you have two incredibly expensive states along with all the other states and youre starting to run out of money. Its going to quickly shrink this field and youre going to see a couple candidates have to get out soon after super tuesday because theyre going to run out of money. Talk strategy, sanders the front runner. If he performs well in nevada and South Carolina, if hes flush with cash for super tuesday, could he amass enough delegates to be unstoppable . Well, unstoppable is the issue really because thats why there was that great question at the end of the debate the other night which is would the other candidates support the notion of just somebody having a plurality, the most votes, but not a majority of vote the going into the convention. All the rest of them said no, we want to let the process play out. Bernies case is going to be, weve got the majority, the wind at our back, its inevitable. But the other candidates have a say in this because theyve got delegates and at the end of the day they could decide you know that they dont that they think a sanders candidacy is problematic in the general election and combine their forces and create a majority among the moderate candidates who dont have a majority. Its yet to play out. But bernie is likely to come out of here with a win and then super tuesday with a lot of delegates. It will just build and a lot of momentum and physics, hard for the others to resist. Bloomberg got in this race in part to stop sanders but is his presence actually helping sanders because hes splitting the moderate vote . Well, whats true is you have a bunch of candidates, bloomberg, biden, buttigieg, amy klobuchar, all splitting the same vote. Right. And my team looked at all current polls and looked and said, okay, after super tuesday, if all the polls stay the same, who will come out of super tuesday with a big delegate lead and right now because you have so many candidates splitting Bernie Sanders could come out with a 300 to 350 delegate lead coming out of super tuesday and there its really hard to stop him. Marks right, we have to see what happens in nevada tomorrow and see what happens in South Carolina. But pretty soon there needs to be some consolidation or whats going to happen is what happened to the republicans in 2016, its going to be hard to slow sanders down, as it was trump, as the calendar goes on. Mark, listen, for this weeks episode of the circus, you spoke to senator Elizabeth Warren the day after her debate about her attacks on bloomberg. Lets watch. We have to come together and beat donald trump. And the best way we do that is we pick a strong candidate who can speak to all parts of our party. And who can get out there and fight and beat him. Last night was at least partly about thats not Mike Bloomberg and we just need to eliminate that. Is Mike Bloomberg a manifestation of a lot of things youre fighting against, was he a proxy for donald trump in a way . In many ways. Because, look, he is an entitled billionaire who looks at the whole financial world as how you suck value up to those at the top. And mark, she wants to go after bloomberg, fine, but is she going after the wrong person . Should she be going after the real front runner, no . Arguably, yeah, you could say that and people are saying bernies the guy thats standing in her way and thats the guy she should go after. But what struck me is she had such conviction in her arguments the other night that Mike Bloomberg represents everything shes about in her politics. It occurs to me that had Michael Bloomberg gotten in the race earlier she would have had that foil and might have done much better much earlier because we saw the Elizabeth Warren fighter Everybody Knows is out there. She didnt have a player to foil against. Now she has Mike Bloomberg. Thank you mark and jim, have a great weekend. Russias interfering in the election but the president says nothing to see here. Are his denials putting the country at risk . Can my side be firm . And my side super soft . Yes. With the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet. 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