This morning is how does any of this including apparently the effort to silence these officials from talking, how does that make america safe . Meanwhile, democrats are gearing up for tomorrows nevada caucuses. We have new reporting about what the Bloomberg Campaign is doing after his disappointing debate performance. Plus new details on how Elizabeth Warren is trying to bruise bloomberg. And the financial strain on her campaign. So joining us now to discuss the breaking news on Russian Election interference and the president s reaction is cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash and jeffrey toobin. Great to have you both with us here in new york. Dana, tell us your reporting. What was it that particularly set the president off . The notion that im told it was simply the notion that the russians not just were interfering but were interfering on his behalf. And as you said, telling that to the congress. Telling that to the House Intelligence Committee. Particularly telling that to the chairman adam schiff who the president sees as a political enemy which is understandable since he did lead the charge. He was the chief manager in the impeachment trial. And that is what set him off. The issue is that if youre not going to tell the house intelligence chairman about something that is incredibly dangerous and something that is not just looming but happening now, apparently with regard to the 2020 election in order to get the Government Systems up and running to do something about it, who are you going to tell . Jeffrey, if you can hang on one second, i have one more question for dana here. You know what . Take the whole thing. I enjoy listening to dana. What exactly happened . There was a briefing by this official from the Intelligence Community, this woman shelby pierson. Who told the House Intelligence Committee what . My understanding now, this is classified, so were getting this from sources. Who said specifically that the russians are meddle iing and theyre meddling in the election already to help the president. It is that that set after learning about that that set the president off. But more importantly, set republicans realtime on the committee off. They felt that it was too aggressive. That it was too specific. And they questioned the accuracy of that. And i am just going to clean it up. I was told by somebody familiar with that that it was a mess show. It starts with an s. Rhymes with spit. It got very ugly. And look, this is a kplee that has had a lot of partisan problems as we know stemming not just from the impeachment inquiry. But even before that. Can i just say one thing . Im so much older than all of you, and im so old i remember when donald trump was impeached. Remember back in december of 2019. And remember when what he was impeached for. He was impeached for putting his political interests ahead of the countrys National Security interests. In ukraine. This is the exact same thing. Because not because hes doing a bad job. Not because hes providing inaccurate information. Its because he is providing information that could be used against him. This is how he behaves. There are so many upsetting things about the president. But one of them is the republicans on the Intelligence Committee who are supposed to be receiving this information as dana just said, theyve questioned the accuracy of it. Okay. Maybe. We just dont know because its classified, if the accuracy is wrong. I mean, they didnt like when the intel officials said that the russians have, quote, developed a preference for President Trump. Or if theyre questioning the accuracy because they dont like that message. Look. I think if one of the things you hate to do, we really were reluctant. Im going to go back to the george bush era to get involved. We had a little bit of intel about who they might want to win. Intel people dont want to wave to the political sphere. Theyve got some intel. Because thats something they dont want to say. They do missiles. They do nukes. They dont do domestic politics. Im going to guess the intel is pretty good and the republicans on the committee clearly are embarrassed by this as they were in 16 and dont want to hear the message. Just to point out the obvious, in 2016 they sure had a preference for donald trump. I mean, you know, they hacked the emails of the dnc. And of john podesta. They engaged in the social media conspiracy out of st. Petersburg. It is a well established fact. So it would be surprising that if they were doing Something Else four years later. Not to be pollyanna about this, but it also the fact were having this discussion and not a discussion about what the Intelligence Community is doing to stop this, to combat it, to prevent it. Which was the intent of this briefing in the first place to say, you know to send up a flair saying this is happening now again, guys. And, you know, four years ago thenpresident obama was criticized for not doing enough. When he heard this was happening. Because he was worried that it would look too political if he said something publicly. So everythings scrambled, but its the same kind of issue. And the fact that is not the conversation is frightening. Its also not the conversation why the russians want donald trump to get reelected. Which is interesting in and of itself. And then after that meeting, there are other developments that have taken place over the last week. Number one, the president got mad at the thenacting director of National Intelligence maguire. Then he pushed him out. And he put in rick grenell. The ambassador to germany with zero intelligence experience, jeffrey. But with a whole lot of experience being loyal to President Trump. What does that tell you about how he wants information being disseminated . And its part of a pattern weve seen from the president since the impeachment trial ended. That all the professionals are being sent to, you know, siberia. No pun intended. Thats right. Siberia, where theres a lot of support for President Trump apparently. And being, you know, replaced by loyalists. And being replaced by people like bill barr who are notwithstanding what they say toadies for the president. You could extrapolate if you dont like what the Intelligence Community is telling people, put someone in charge who might keep them from telling people those things. And, you know, the politization of intelligence is such a scary prospect, it winds up getting us into things like the iraq war when intelligence is shifted to move to push the country in directions the Political Leadership wants to go rather than where the intelligence says its going. What does it mean that the acting dni now has no intelligence experience and that the new reporting is that republicans on the Intelligence Committee and President Trump dont like when intel officials give them certain information. I tell you, this is taking me back to when i was a child. Its like if i played the game of battleship, i could be the secretary of defense. The guy knows nothing about intelligence. Im cynical, thats who i am. I apologize. If you watch what grenell said, he said im not going to be around long. Legally he cant stay around that long. If youre sitting there saying im going to slow roll it. Im not going to Pay Attention to what he says. Theres a challenge there when staff comes in from the white house that stays beyond grenell, theres a problem and there are reports of that happening. First theyre going to slow roll him. Second is whats his ability to control the message . The information he gets on russian hacking is going to come from people who have been around for 20 or 30 years. Is he going to change it before he goes to the hill to testify . Thats going to get out in the leak. And the last thing is, how do you control the director of the Intelligence Agency nsa particularly and the director of the cia who will get out there in testimony and say stuff different than what grenell says. The system here is going to be interesting. I think itll undercut the choice for dni. You say interesting, i say less safe. What about any of this makes americans more safe or protects us from the russians attacking our democracy . I would agree with that. Let me give you a specific example of that. The president s primary responsibility as commander in chief, from day one youre responsible for protecting the American People from foreign threats. You need Homeland Security to talk to state election boards. You need cia to conduct covert action in russia. You need state department to talk directly to the russians about interference. You need nsa the National Security agency to start hacking the russians themselves. Thats got to be coordinated from the white house. Bottom line. Do you think the president of the United States, President Trump has ever directed the white house to have a coordinated plan to speak to the American People, protect voting systems, and counter the russians . Ill give you the answer. No way. On a much lighter note, the president if he doesnt like the intel, but he is a movie critic. And so last night he did feel strongly about weighing in on best picture. Here he is at a rally. And the winner is a movie from south korea. What the hell was that all about . We got enough problems with south korea with trade on top of it they give them the best movie of the year . Was it good . I dont know. You know, im looking for, like, lets get gone with the wind back, please . Has anything ever been more telling than that he wants gone with the wind back . Heres what the movies distributor theres a lot to that. I know that. Gone with the wind isnt exactly the most woke movie in the world. Heres what the movies distributor followed up with. It says, understandable, he cant read. Referring to the fact it has sub titles. Yeah. Look, its not well, it is about that. In that hes performing. Hes on the stage, hes performing his rally. Hes got his rally shtick. Hes looking at the people who want the red meat and hes giving them the red meat. And the red meat for someone like donald trump who has always been a pop culture critic, for a long time he started using his twitter handle not just to weigh in on politics but to weigh in on everything from, you know, hollywood romances to movies. And he just cant help himself. And it does play into the notion, look, that hes saying this is an American Academy award winner. And its a foreign country, foreign film. Its not american. In fairness, its like only yesterday that gone with the wind was in theaters. So its you know, he was remembering that. Back when america was great. Yeah. You know what . Well always have terra. Jeffrey doesnt give a damn. All right. Thank you, all. Phil, jeffrey, dana. Breaking news. Mike pompeo Just Announced a sevenday reduction in violence in afghanistan negotiated between the u. S. And the taliban moving one step closer to a possible deal designed to end americas longest war and remove u. S. Troops from the region. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in london with the breaking details. This has been brewing for some time in several different steps. Reporter it has. And its fallen apart before. What we should see tonight is a first key phase, possibly a confidence Building Measure really in which the guns are meant to partially fall silent in afghanistan. Now, not everything will be included in this reduction of violence. Fighting against isis were hearing from an Afghan Security official may continue. And there may be a lot of confuse about what is and is not included in it. But if the u. S. Military at the end of seven days judge this reduction in violence has been successful, well, secretary pompeo in his statement went on to say that they would anticipate a signing of a deal between the United States and the taliban in doha on february the 29th. Now, of course, there will be many parts of the insurgency very keen to see this next week ahead of us show a reduction in violence and get to that point where the deal is signed. If that does occur successfully, then there will be talks between afghans representing the Afghan People because the government doesnt want to directly deal with the taliban. They will talk with the taliban that may occur in norway, it may occur in the weeks and months ahead. Its a messy road potentially. Doesnt really want the americans to leave it. They know they need the support and needs the taliban on the ground winning a lot of the time. But for americans, essentially, that deal in doha may mark the beginning of the end of their fulltime military presence there. The troop numbers may start coming down. They may start changing their focus. This is not a tidy end by any stretch of the imagination. This war for many i think has felt endless. This is the first time weve seen a clear plan long debated for by the United States. But for ordinary afghans, this is not out of the woods at all. Its a new dangerous chapter, certainly. Thank you very much for all of that context this morning. Meanwhile, back here Team Bloomberg trying to reset after his debate disaster, i guess thats what its being called. And senator Elizabeth Warrens campaign is strapped for cash. So we discuss all the latest in the 2020 race next. Lets get down to business. The business of hard work. Hustle. And high fives. 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Lets start with you. How do you think nevada is going to go . Well, first, good morning. Mind my manners. Or if the guy running our country is watching [ speaking in Foreign Language ] let me get back to that news. No, i dont think anything slows bernies role. This debate was electric, amazing. Somehow bernies opponent wrs operating on the theory that attacking Mike Bloomberg will stop bernies asen dense. I thought senator warren last night just in the town hall, just devastating to Mike Bloomberg. Im not sure that slows down bernie. Theres a lot going on with Elizabeth Warren. Lets play something last night where she continued to press Michael Bloomberg on the nondisclosure agreements that his company signed with various women. So lets play that moment. I wrote up a release in covenant not to sue. And all that mayor bloomberg has to do is download it. Ill text it. Sign it and then the women or men will be free to speak and tell their own stories. All right. The part i was most impressed with was she said i wrote it. Shes reminding people she a law professor. One of the professors on contract law. Then of course theres more to it. It was a clever stunt. We were talking about it this morning. Shes keeping it going. But i think what paul said is really important. Shes going after Mike Bloomberg and others are going after Mike Bloomberg while Bernie Sanders is going like this. Hes looking at the carnage on the side of the road and waving goodbye as he passed by. Shes offended by everything Michael Bloomberg represents. Using his own money to what he did before, whether it was these allegations of the way he talked to women, the way he treated women. The, you know, policies that he had. But also shes antiwall street, antibig billionaire. And he represents hes a foil for her that she just she wants to use. She also im not saying she wants Bernie Sanders to be the nominee. But if its a choice between the two of them. I think she would pick Bernie Sanders rather than Mike Bloomberg. Were doing the way back machine. Thats interesting what you just said. Basically going after bloomberg helps define her. It helps define herself. No question. Again, she needs to be in the spotlight right now. How do we know that . Well, we know that because we learned overnight, paul, and this is surprising. It was surprising to me as someone who covered campaigns. Her campaign took out a 3 million line of credit at the end of january just before the iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary because they were nearly out of money. They only had 2 million cash on hand. And that was before iowa and New Hampshire even happened. They were worried that they couldnt make it. They took out a line of credit. They say they didnt tap into it too much, but what does that tell you about the state of the Warren Campaign . Theyre living hand to mouth. Ive been there. Danas right. I think part of that just electric performance is designed to raise money as well. Not just to show shes the alternati alternative. And that will help her raise money. I will also note apparently yesterday she gave her blessing to a superpac which is few weeks ago that was i used to advise a super pac. I dont think theyre evil. Apparently senator warren now has my position. Even though wed like to end them all, but a few weeks ago, she would have attacked any democrat who had help with a super pac as this example of one of those great laws. Sometimes in politics, you have to ride above principle. I think youre raising an interesting point. Again, this gets back to bloomberg and going after him for the money, okay. Whats the alternative . Do you want him spending his own money, dana . His own money that he earned . We know where it is. Its not dark money being funneled from undisclosed do nors. When youre running out of money, maybe your principles change. Thats an interesting argument that, you know, wouldnt be surprised to hear on a debate stage near you from Mike Bloomberg. At least its not dark money. Im beholden to myself and nobody else. You know, yes. I think your principles maybe change a bit. Shes trying to straddle the line saying im going to play by the rules that exist. I want to change the rules. And a lot of the supporters were pleased with the night he has. And also that he is starting to take on Bernie Sanders more on the issue of guns. Lets listen to that. And the fact is bernie has had a very different record than me for a long time. Im the guy who as the chair of the Judiciary Committee passed the brady bill that background checks. When bernie was running for the state of vermont, he said it was a tough state to run in. He voted against it five times in the house of representatives. Okay. So walk me through this in the next 14 days of joe bidens life if he wants to get back in this race. It is political malpractice that those folks stood on a stage with Bernie Sanders who is winning nevada. Its a short walk. 413 shot and wounded beyond that. And it hardly came up at all. That was political malpractice. Joes raising it now. This is one of the issues where hillary used to defeat in the primary four years ago. It is one of the few issues where he has not got a spotless record. It was critical to the brady bill that we passed and signed in the 90s. Really good information. Paul, dana, thank you very much. Hes going to speak a different language when he comes back. Multilingual paul begala. All right. So russia prefers donald trump and the Intelligence Community is telling lawmakers that russia is trying to help get the president reelected. Why does the president want this quiet . What does this all tell us . Thats next. Can you heal dry skin in a day . Aveeno® with prebiotic triple oat complex balances skins microbiome. So skin looks like this and you feel like this. 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What weve done is make it a little bit harder. With the social media companies, it must be said, they should get credit. Theyve made it harder to interfere. But what the russians and other bad actors are doing are going underground. Going into private facebook groups. Theyre cruisi using home grown. That means home grown actors against discord. Is that the strategy here . Of course. Thats always the strategy for russia. They want to point to our issues and say to their people, hey, that democracy thing is not working out so well over there in that shining city on a hill. And from what youve seen for the past three years from the trump administration, you say that our counterterrorism strategy appears to be a hail mary pass. Yeah. Whats that mean . I think weve got some dedicated people across the government working on these issues at different levels. But from the white house, we dont have recognition that this is a threat. In fact, President Trump has belittled the fact its a threat. Hes joked about it with vladimir putin. Until we get that signal from the white house, theyre going to keep doing what theyre doing. And we dont have a coordinated strategy. Weve got these little pieces working. We dont have that strategy to inform the American People. So youre saying without President Trumps buy in, the Intel Community cant do its job well enough . Well, hes undermining their message and hes undermining the costs, the few costs that we have imposed on russia and other bad actors that are interfering in our elections. As you know, his Administration Says they had imposed costs. There were 13 russians indicted because of russian meddling. There are 19 russians sanctioned. They hit some busy with it. Well, some of that is related to ukraine, of course. Its not only related to disinformation. But all of those messages are undermined by the fact that President Trump gets up every day, he tweets. He says things like no collusion, et cetera. And now we have this news from the New York Times saying that this important briefing that was going on on the hill last week has again been undermined the president. Because he doesnt want to hear the fact that the russians are supporting him. Let me remind when the President Trump sided with putin. Dan coats came to me and others and said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. What did that moment mean to the Intel Community . Well, i think to every american, its shocking to see the u. S. President siding with an adversary. Researchers like myself who see this going on on a daily basis. I was shocked. My jaw just dropped. Its one of the saddest moments of the Trump Presidency for me. The reporting this morning is that its gone beyond the president now. And when the intel officials went over to the Intel Committee in congress to brief them as is their job and its the Intel Committee to receive this information, process it. Something many republicans in on the Intel Committee didnt they also became irate. They didnt want to hear the message that russia had, quote, developed a preference for donald trump. So if theyre not even receiving the information. Where does that leave us . I mean, it leaves us in a very dangerous situation. Im not surprised that the issue has become so politicized. We saw this playing out during the impeachment proceedings with the republicans repeating essentially russian disinformation. Almost wrote about ukraine iian alleged interference. Essentially we have a party siding with a strategic adversary of the United States. And weve got the American People not prepared. Our government is not prepared. And weve imposed no cost on the bad actors that seek to undermine our democratic choices. On that alarming note, nina we appreciate your expertise. Thanks for having me. Disinformation officer. Love that. All right. So Bernie Sanders has surged in the national polls. What does he have to do, though, to earn the support of, save, conservative democrats. Maybe moderate republicans. Never trump republicans. Can he win them over if they are wary of the idea of democratic socialism . As a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. At liberty butchumal cut. Liberty biberty cut. Well dub it. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. You try to find the words say it with a taco pun, or maybe with some birds . Maybe this year just leave the cards behind give her something that will stand the test of time make the moment mean more. Jared. A new kind of investor with an app thats changing the way we do money. Download robinhood now. Can we go get some ice cream . Alright, we gotta stop here first. From smarter atms, to after hours video tellers comcast business is connecting thousands of banks to technology that turns everyday transactions into extraordinary experiences. Hi there. How are you . Do you have any lollipops in there . laughing no, sorry. Were helping all kinds of businesses go beyond customer expectations. How can we help you . We are are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. Problem is as dr. Martin luther king reminded us, we have individualism for the poor. What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. Whatd i miss here . That was Bernie Sanders dismissing a recent poll suggesting American Voters are uncomfortable with the idea of electing a democratic socialist as president. Michael bloomberg obviously felt differently. The question for Bernie Sanders is this. If he is the democratic nominee, can he attract conservative democrats . Can he attract moderate maybe never trump republicans to win in november . Joining me now to discuss is anna navarro and krystal ball. I want to establish a baseline before we even begin the discussion. Anna, let me start with you on this. Does the democratic nominee need moderate republicans or never trump republicans to win in november . Does the democratic nominee need to be a democrat . To win the nomination. And its looking increasingly like maybe not. Look. It depends what formula you use to get to the includes some of the places that were lost by less than 7,000 votes. Then you have moderate democrats and you certainly have disenfranchised republicans, never trumpers who could make that difference. Or you need to make it up from being able to take out that Obama Coalition to the streets. That didnt go out on the same level as they did in 2012. Either way, youve got to come up with a formula for 270. Do you think the democratic nominee needs to worry about attracting republicans . I think ana lays it out well. But i dont think you have to pick either or. And with Bernie Sanders, look. We know he excites the base. We know hes going to bring out more young people and probably more working class Diverse Communities that stayed home in 2016. But we can look at his 30year electoral history in vermont to see how he does with those moderate and conservative voters. Vermont overall is a more liberal state at this point. But there were 61 towns that voted for donald trump. Of those 61 towns, Bernie Sanders won 47 of them. Now, compare that to Elizabeth Warren in massachusetts where there were 91 towns that went for trump. She was only able to win back four of them. So we can see actually Bernie Sanders has outperformed in the kind of deindustrialized towns in vermont that are similar to those key swing states in the industrial midwest. The question isnt an either or. Ana, this is where you come in as someone who spent your life in a republican party, as someone who has been a lifelong republican, how comfortable would you be voting for someone who calls himself a socialist . I am incredibly uncomfortable about it. Problem for me is that i am most uncomfortable voting for donald trump. That for me is not an option. But i can tell you that theres something two things about Bernie Sanders. Number one, this is who he is. And at 76, 78, whatever he is, he is not going to change. And he cant change because people would question his authenticity. But in places like florida and for people like republicans and moderates and i realize people in the democratic primary dont care when they say you screwed up your own house, take care of that. Theyve got a point. That being said, when we hear the word socialist, i fled communism. As did so many cuban americans in miami. There is a reason why donald trump is dragging out the you know, the democratic from venezuela at the state of the union. Because it triggers us emotionally. And when we see these videos of Bernie Sanders talking about the soviet union and talking about cuba, it gives us the heebiejeebies. Theres a lot of young people who embrace what sanders is saying. I have friends who said their children were in iowa. People from miami, you dont go to iowa in january and february. Because they were campaigning for Bernie Sanders. Lets put up some poll numbers here. This is from the wall street journal, i believe. It has to do with if people are comfortable with the candidate being a socialist. 46 very uncomfortable. Ana used a Political Science term for this wuhich is the heebiejeebies. And you acknowledge they exist for a lot of voters whether democrats absolutely 100 need them, i dont know. But theyd sure be convenient if you want to win an election. When you look at the polling when its not just some hypothetical socialist. The polling shows Bernie Sanders is the best candidate in terms of electability against trump at this point. It used to be biden. But now sanders outperforms biden on that measure of electability. I think the bottom line is and this is core to my own political philosophy. Economic populism is an electoral winner. Why . Because its a unifying message across the working class. Bernie sanders focusing on health care, on wages, on labor rights, on clean air and clean water. These are things that are not partisan issues as he loves to say which i think is a great point. Republicans get sick too. They care about their health care as well. And while and to the point about the Latino Community and the importance there, that is an incredibly important electorate with very diverse views and i never want to paint with a broad brush. But if we look in this primary, theres one candidate who disproportionately outperforms with latinos. Thats Bernie Sanders. I mean, weve seen polling that ive shown him up over 50 with democratic primary voters in the Latino Community. So his strength will is also going to be incredibly important in my of these swing states. She hits upon something. Not all latinos are alike. Some of us are from little mexico, the real mexico, the mexico surrounded by water. And we come to this with different experiences. We come to this from different political perspectives. And you also look, when youre an american, youre a latino. Youre a woman. Youre a union member. You are many, many things that make up who you are in your political philosophy. Great to have you here with us this morning. Thank so much. All right. One of the most influential labor unions in nevada does not support Bernie Sanders because of his signature medicare for all plan. 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The defending super bowl chiefs would have had to play in the wild card round last season against the steelers who would have made the playoffs. The rams would have made it from the nfc. The owners are trying to increase the number of regular season games from 16 to 17. Its something they pushed for during the last cba negotiations in 2011. That included a lockout. Some bigname players not happy with this initial proposal. Houston texans star jj watt posting on twitter, hard no on that proposed cba while the packers player questioned the balance. Know your worth. The vote will move to the Players Union for an initial vote, i should say. The collective Bargaining Agreement ends after the upcoming season. So still a ways to go for these two sides. And i now know, jj watt because of snl. Thats really what its about. I actually even knew that Sports Reference that you called up, coy. Hes so confused. I know he is. Thats what well, thats my aim with sports. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner heading into tomorrows nevada caucuses. But the states most influential union says a vote for sanders is a vote to end health care as they know it. Kyung lah is live in las vegas with more. What are they telling you . Well, this is really something thats been playing out for several weeks on the ground here, alisyn. And its only intensifying as people head to the caucuses and the next 24 hours or so. Bernie sanders has been courting the latino vote. This battle threatens to blunt those efforts. Just hours to the nevada caucuses whos got the power . Reporter the 60,000member Culinary Union, including casino worker alicia sosa. Shes fighting on the picket line to unionize more workers at another casino. My husband has asthma and we fought for that because we couldnt afford it. Now i can, and he can and he can be with me longer. We should be able to have that. Our choice. Its our choice. Reporter shes talking about her union health care. In one building she gets doctors visits, prescriptions and eye care, all covered. The Culinary Union warned its members a vote for Bernie Sanders and his medicare for all plan would mean an end to union health care. Im not sure about the medicare for all, if thats a good idea or not. You know, it sounds good. It always sounds good but im not sure. Reporter the Union Battles spilled onto the debate stage. You are the one at war with the Culinary Union right here in las vegas. We have more Union Support than you have ever dreamed of. Reporter sanders then addressed the union member ss. For my friends in the Culinary Union, ill never sign a bill that will reduce the Health Care Benefits they have. Reporter on the picket line, the courting of the union vote was in full swing. One by one, every top candidate on the nevada ballot is up for sanders, marched for workers. While medicare for all is not a deal breaker for every union member were not going to leave him out yet. Youd be open to him . Yeah, yeah, for sure. Reporter it is weighing on suzanne. She met Amy Klobuchar at the Culinary Health care center. Do you believe Bernie Sanders when he says medicare for all will replace this and take care of everybody . No. I really dont believe that. Im scared because if he ends that, where are we going to go . Reporter so now while the union did make clear to their members how they feel about Bernie Sanders health plan, what they did not say is who they should endorse, who they should vote for. The union did not specifically endorse one candidate. Thats why youve seen so many of these candidate goes out direct three Union Members and try to court them. A little mixed messaging. No clear direction from the union. A little hard to say at this point what impact this is going to have, although it appears to have come impact on Bernie Sanders. The sanders team considered the nonendorsement a victory considering what could have happened or what could have been. Kyung lah, thank you. Thanks to our International Viewers for watching. For now, cnn newsroom is next. For our u. S. Viewers, what the kremlin is trying to do today and President Trump does not want to hear it. New day continues. Intel Officials Say russians are interfering in americas election again. The house intelligence chairman adam schiff was in the room. The president refusing to hear what the intelligence officials are telling him. Nobody is going to believe this garbage. New developments in the race for the democratic nomination. The nevada caucuses are tomorrow. The real winner in the debate last night was donald trump. Bloomberg made a fool out of himself last night. Hes advertising himself to be baracks best buddy. What were seeing in poll after poll is Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to beat donald trump. This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Its friday, february 21st, 8 00 in the east. Russia is interfering in the 2020 election and President Trump does not want to hear about it. Cnn has learned that u. S. Intelligence officials briefed lawmakers last week on what the kremlin is doing. And when the president found out about that briefing, he became irate. What they are doing, according to intelligence officials, is working to help reelect the president or at least the Intelligence Community believes that their preference is to reelect the president. The president was upset because house intelligence chairman adam schiff was in the room to receive the briefing and the president was worried that the information would be weaponized to hurt his reelection chances. After that, the president abruptly removed his acting director of National Intelligence and replaced him on an interim basis with a loyalist who doesnt have any intelligence experience. Were going to speak to a member of the House Intelligence Committee in just a moment. Joining us now, cnn political analyst Maggie Haberman for the New York Times and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Both of these terrific reporters have information about how this all happened. Dana, let me start with you. Walk us through what happened, what was said and what upset the president. For the record, were confirming maggies great reporting from yesterday. And what i am told is that it was a very, very contentious meeting that ended up happening in the House Intelligence Committee last week. What should have been a very sober meeting because it was the person in charge in the Intelligence Community of Election Security going to the people who oversee the Intelligence Community. The house members. And saying heres whats happening. Heres how russia and other Foreign Countries are trying to weaponize trying to get themselves involved in their elections, whether it is social media or through other means. And as