Classified briefing that russia was interfering in the 2020 election. Specifically, to help reelect President Trump, the Washington Post reporting that officials told Bernie Sanders campaign and the senator himself russia trying to help the campaign to interfere in the democratic primary. Well speak with a reporter at the post who broke this story. In a statement moments ago, sanders said i dont care, frankly, who putin wanting to be president. My message to putin is clear. Stay out of american elections and as president i will make sure that you do. It is notable the president has never put out a statement of putin stopping the meddling. The president claimed that democrats were trying to rig the primary against him. Part of the russian playbook from 2016. Jonning me is michael sheer, a reporter at the Washington Post who broke this story and joined by our own road warrior Shaq Brewster and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Michael, is this essentially the same briefing that ho
The nevada caucuses and hes now the clear front runner. Its time for a closer look at varney and in particular the superficial cliche tweeted out by nearly every pendant that he is a populist, the democrats version of donald trump. That is completely wrong and i will show you why. First i want to sho say this about him. Ayden meyer him for pushing him to the position of where he has made through his ideas. Many of the things he say are write about the country. And on a personal note i have a lot of respect for nina turner, shes a huge talent with a big future, but, here come the butt. No one should buy dependent easy consensus that varney is a populist like trump. He is not. There are the four reasons why. First, trump wasnt outsider. Varney is actually an insider. Before entering the president ial race, donald trump never ran for anything. He was never in politics and approached it like a problemsolving businessman. He combined traditional conservative ideas with new more populist one
Against terrorism. Prime minister modi is a very religious man, a very calm man, but a very, very strong person. Very tough. We also talked about tariffs because as you know, india is probably the highest tariffed nation in the world meaning charging tariffs to outsiders. I said we have to stop that. We have to stop at least as it pertains to the United States. I think were understanding each other. Sandra chief White House Correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president and he is joining us now live in new delhi this morning. A lot of activity from the president. We expect more in a few moments. Good morning. Certainly. The president talked about a lot of things during that press conference. India among them. Well get to one of those key issues in a second. We had the chance to ask the president about domestic issues as well including his criticism of Justice Sonia sotomayor in addition Justice Ginsberg after sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent in the public charge case that
Forward adding that bidens family will become a focus for the president again. This, as nbc reports that those close to the president have long been concerned privately about a headtohead hatchu matchup witn particularly in the rust belt states. Here is chris coons of delaware. Donald trump is right to be afraid of joe biden as his opponent in november. Martha so lets get some reaction from the white house to all of that tonight. Kellyanne conway counselor to the president joins me now. Kellyanne conway, thank you for being here, good to see you tonight. Hi, martha. Martha whats your response to those reports first of all that the president is concerned about a headtohead matchup with joe biden because he is popular in some of those rust belt states . Im sure thats being pushed forward by the biden people just like it was being pushed by the bloomberg people and 551 million worth of paid advertising that donald trump fears Michael Bloomberg and fears joe biden. The president said and i
Vitali who has covered the klobuchar campaign. Ali, how was this decision made . I think for a lot of people, the pressure was really mounting. We knew the 72 hours between South Carolina and super tuesday tuesday were going to be so crucial. What ended up happening is throughout these early contests, we saw joe biden having middling performances, and for a lot of the other candidates trying to compete, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, they were able to find footing in that. What happened after South Carolina is joe biden showed hes got a lot of fight left and it left a lot of these candidates who happened to be younger and could be the future of the Democratic Party wondering what to do with their president ial prospectors. For Amy Klobuchar, look to super tuesday, shes got a home state. When i talked last week, she was bullish about her chances, telling me she thought she was going to be able to win in her home state. Look at the polling, Bernie Sanders is close on her heels in minn