Bernie sanders and Pete Buttigieg are going against each other with attacks for each other. And sanders says that buttigieg is getting advice from his wealthy campaign donors, and but jbut buttigieg jabbed back at him. And now we think that it is getting lower. Reporter the print is on in New Hampshire. We have to get the Party Together to beat donald trump. Reporter the candidates in a mad dash across the state for the democrats candidates to make claims to the voters. He is a great mayor, and guess what, he was a mayor. Reporter former Vice President joe biden downplaying the experience of mayor Pete Buttigieg. Well, he is no barack obama. Reporter and he fired back. Well, he is right. I am not, and neither is he. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders is attempting to hold off the buttigieg surge by knocking the donors funding the mayors campaign. You can see the campaigns conferring with the donors. You are my donors. We dont go to rich peoples homes and get advice from millionaires and b
And now, a scientist is missing as the u. S. Is seeing the number of coronavirus cases jump. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we begin with the new independence at the Justice Department and attorney general bill barr. Despite barrs public show of frustration last night telling abc news that President Trumps tweets about the Justice Department matters make his job hart harder which is rooted not in the barrs look for independence, but the illusion of independence as some of the supporters on the president s Favorite Channel seems to suggest. And the media sees trump versus barr, but it is i got this. That is because when you see attorney general barr doing what President Trump would do this, and the officials told him this afternoon that he is ordering a reexamination of the high profile cases and bringing in a u. S. Attorney to take a second look at them and this is the case of the retired general mike flynn, the former Trump National security adviser, and flynn pleaded guilty
Roger stone on thursday as the president flips out over the case threatening to sue everybody all over the place. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. We begin today with breaking news after weeks of house and Senate Republicans claiming in the impeachment trial that President Trump cares gravely about battling corruption. President trump this afternoon officially forgave crimes by powerful men who abused the powers for personal gains. And the post acquittal campaign of punishing the enemies and rewarding the friends and a world in which the prosecutors are seen as the bad guys and the criminals the good guys. The president announced that he is commuting the sentence of former illinois governor Rod Blagojevich who was a onetime star on his tv show the Celebrity Apprentice. He plead guilty to trying to sell a open senate seat, as he put it on one moment. I have this thing, and it is [ bleep ] golden. Im just not giving it up for nothing. President trump also pardonning former
Slowing down the u. S. Economy considerably and keep consumers from spending and ultimately hurt businesses. Uncertainty over how much the impact of the virus will hurt the global economy. Alison kosik at the new york stock exchange, thank you. Now to our 2020 lead. Elizabeth warren officially dropped out of the president ial race this afternoon. The massachusetts democrat made the announcement after a disappointing super tuesday saying she has no regrets and promming to keep up the fight. The focus turns to who she might endorse president senator said she wanted to take time to think about it, but we know both joe biden and Bernie Sanders have spoken to warren in the last few days. The exit leaves just one woman left in the president ial race. Tulsi gabbert who has 1 pledge delegate to her name. There were six women vying for the president ial normal naigs at one time prompt iing whether in the near 2020 women candidates are still held to a different standard. And half the fight sex s
Hours since i was on air last, more than 100 people, 146 more people, have died from the coronavirus. I want to take just a second here to think about that so it is not just a number to you or to me. 646, each one of those numbers, someones son or daughter, someones mother or father, their brother or sister. Whether young or old, there are oceans of pain and suffering surrounding each addition to this grim toll. A week ago there were just over 6,000 confirmed cases. Now weve crossed the threshold of 50,000 and the calls for supplies from doctors and nurses on the front lines are getting even more dire. The messages from the white house on forcing industry to manufacture these needed supplies continue to be somewhat contradictory and confusing but today the head of fema told cnn that his team is using the defense production act for the first time to secure more testing kits. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ripped apart the response from the federal government arguing in a scathing News C