as the former fbi director spares no salacious details in his take downof the president. i don t know whether the current president of the united states was with prostitutes. and the the president fires back plus a legal battle at home. the president trump s personal attorney the focus of a probe as president trump defends his so-called fixer. good man. it a disgraceful situation. might the president s personal attorney be indicted? stormy daniels lawyer is here. ahead. hello jake tap ner washington with the state of our union, it s at war. abroad and at home. president trump this morning waging rhetorical battle against former fbi director james comey tweeting quote unbelieve mri james comey states that polls where crooked hillary was a leading was a factor in the
votes weeks from now. i m wolf blitz the ner washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is a cnn democratic debate special. you re looking at st. ansom college in new hampshire where the democrats are just wrapping up an often heated debate. we heard hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o malley drive home their differences on critical issues, including the war against isis, gun control and corporate america s political power. this debate comes just weeks before the first presidential primary season votes with cast and it comes in the midst of a controversy pitting sanders and clinton camps against one another. sanders telling clinton early that he s sorry, that his aides got unauthorized access to clinton s voters files take advantage of a problem with the dnc s computer system. does secretary clinton
inquiry, we should move on. you want to know why things don t get done in washington? because for the 4r569 24 hours with those issues being so urgent to people as he tune in tonight wondering how they re going to even be able to buy presents for their kids, instead, we re listening to the bickering back and forth. maybe that s normal politics in washington. but that is not the politics of higher burp that people expect from our party. i worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the republicans, particularly donald trump, is sending a message to muslims here in the united states and literally around the world that there is a clash of civilization, that there is some kind of western pot or even war against islam. which then, i believe, fans the flames of radicalization. thank you. i think we re going to go on this is one of those issues that separates governor excuse me, no. governor, we have too abide buy the rules here. i am the person on the stage that has pas
interesting to watch this. everybody thought he would be the leader. he said this in one of the debates, when asked what s your biggest drawback, he answered honestly, i don t do anchor well. and the other problem is his lane is very crowded. you ve got rubio and you ve got christie surging now. cruz is basically alone in that comi conservative evangelical role. thank you so much for joining us. i m wolf blitzer in washington. the news continues next right here on cnn.
catherine herridge, what have we learned this morning? reporter: early ner washington, the head of the tsa, john pistol spoke at one of these meetings and the type of intelligence, though it was vague, that led to the thermos alert was prior to the christmas holidays, pistol said they had intelligence that al-qaeda in yemen, aqap, may have tried to put the explosive tapt within the thermoses, the same group that tried to plant a cargo plot by taking a similar explosive and putting it into toner cartridges in october. let s listen to pistol from earlier today: this plot was that they would use tapt around the cylinder of the thermos, put it on a passenger or cargo plane and however the initiation, the detonator, they didn t describe, so that s general intelligence. what do we do about that? we put out alerts saying all