saue explains her support of joe biden. you can enjoy ♪ host: it is monday, february 10, 2020. 24 hours before the first in the nation presidential primary gets underway in new hampshire. good morning and welcome to "washington journal." we will ask you, how confident are you in the u.s. electoral system? .epublicans call (202) 748-8001 democrats call (202) 748-8000. others call (202) 748-8002. you can text us. to make sure to tell us where you are texting from. you can also find us on twitter and facebook. jim, saystweeter, washington journal will ask our thoughts. each state sets its own rules for elections subject to oversight by the department of justice. we have 51 electoral systems in the usa. thanks for sending that in. we will focus on the problems with the iowa caucus. it is front-page and leading the way for new york times this morning. became anwa caucuses epic fiasco for democrats. the first signs of trouble came early. the smart phone app began failing. party officials instructed leaders to move to plan b, calling the results into head orders -- headquarters. they would enter the figures into a secure system. when many of the volunteers tried to login, they made an unsettling discovery. they needed smartphones to retrieve a code but had been told not to bring their phones into the boiler room. were phoned in from gymnasiums and union halls, a myriad of other gathering places . it became clear that the whole process was melting down. an extensive article from the new york times. , u.s. brighter side election systems are better than you think, really. the technological meltdown that turned the caucuses into fodder for comedians and conspiracy untimely has cast an shadow over the improved methods. years after florida power florida'sad's -- hanging chad's stalled the presidential election, there are voting machines, registration databases, training programs, and more. buckley was with us yesterday to talk about the iowa caucuses and what is ahead for new hampshire. they were asked if new hampshire was ready for tomorrow's primary. >> we have been doing the first in the nation primary for 100 years. there will not be a single glitch at all. it is a big difference in how they are operated and conducted. >> are you feeling any extra pressure from what has happened in iowa or is this just something that you guys do? >> both. [laughter] -- actually kulas a cucumber i'm actually cool as a cucumber regarding those that are online making up stories. together with the attorney general and members of our state to make sure that if something gets made up by somebody, we can resolve it very quickly and make sure it is clarified. every single voter gets to go to the locations that they have been voting for many years. as long as they have been a registered voter. we do this multiple times a year. no state has more elections than the state of new hampshire. everybody runs for office or hold office at some point in their life. some of us have held multiple offices throughout our lives. host: ray buckley 24 hours to the start of the new hampshire primary. how confident are you in u.s. electoral systems that the iowa caucus was just finalized over the weekend. buttigieg picks up another delegate in the democratic party tally. sandals once a partial recast. has 14 in iowa and bernie sanders has 12. let's go to your comments. for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. everyone else, (202) 748-8002. caller: good morning, washington journal. theare a shining light in chaos and darkness. thank you. yes, iowa trying to get it right. they had issues and went back into the best job they could. whatever. have said they tried to get it right and it took them some time. please, washington journal used to be about the people having something to say and now it is like the commentators are engaging the people in conversation and asking questions. not you, you don't do it. one commentator does it and it's very distracting. please just let the people say what they have to say. and could you do more animal-rights issues and do more animal-rights issues. this is helen on the republican line. caller: i have confidence in the electoral system. i'm kind of confused by your question. the electoral college, each state has two representatives -- the rest of it, they are their population is based, maybe it is a sparsely populated spate -- state. host: what we are after is your voting system. your state.by not the electoral college but the electoral system. i don't feel comfortable with the current way they are doing it. i know it is faster results but there seems to be a lot of glitches. gives suspicion, whether valid or not, to the validity of the votes. we are in such divisive political times. it seems suspicious to me and i think it is for a lot of other people. maybe it isn't intentional. it may be just the system isn't good enough. if it isn't good enough to count something like our voice in government, maybe they should go back to the old way of doing it. what is the rush to get this vote out? what is the rush to get the results out to the public. do you think that because people want information instantly, all sorts of information is available, do people inherently want that? why shouldn't that be available injured -- instantly? generally, it has been available fairly fast. caller: but it has to be valid. if you have big problems in iowa, there is no guarantee you may not have these problems again in other elections. i think it is ruining the credibility of the voting system by having it in place right now. i think it needs to be refined to where there is no doubt in the public's mind about whether a vote is correct or not. i don't think it is inherent for people to want things immediately. we are pretty much adults and we can delay gratification. host: i appreciate that. question, i have zero confidence in our electoral system. between gerrymandering, stripping key parts of the voting rights act and overall suppression, there is no reason to feel even the slightest bit confident. jeff says the system works find. -- works fine. some populations are given unfair representation over large portions of the geographic u.s. nancy says very confident of the founding fathers got it right with the electoral college because every state is basically equal. votes, the focus is based on what happened in iowa a week ago today. for republicans, (202) 748-8001. for democrats, (202) 748-8000. .or all others, (202) 748-8002 the oscars were last night. taking off on those awards last night. in memoriam, the iowa caucus 1972 to 2020. is very important news. mueller said he would not testify be the report. it is because all 50 states were hacked and votes were changed. this is what carl manafort was doing when he was giving information to russian intelligence. they knew the exact counties, districts, and how many votes they needed to change for trump to win. there mueller report, the entire unredacted version has not come out yet. if people look at it, banks are being hacked. voting machines and all 156 counties have uniform voting machines. votinga wireless capability. you have a box in your house, a cable box with technology. voting machines have this technology where they can be tampered with from anyplace. companies,machine some of this technology they use, the hardware and sorrow -- software is from china and russia. remember, trump and republicans said that he could do whatever he wanted to if he felt like it was in his interest during the election. will beng machine directly changing votes. why were the 50 states hacked into? host: from tyler texas on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am an independent. do not trust, i the system. the last election, we had problems even if you voted one way or the other, the votes in our county and several others i -- at thethey went end of it. votes wereies said changed. we need a paper trail. i like the gentleman that called before. there were problems where all systems in all 50 states were hacked into. as it isgoes as long for the president to be reelected. then we've got problems. and the voter purging. we are talking about the whole system. the voter purging thing, the registration and stuff, we have crazy things now where they are trying to con you. host: what did that thing in the mail say? what is it trying to get you to do? caller: to take your registration and mail them in. what will that accomplish. host: you are on the independent line. it can you register as an independent in texas? are you registered as an independent in texas? caller: no, i'm registered as a democrat. but i vote both ways. they kept moving the polling places. when i checked where it was, they told me to rejoin the lines. host: we will hear from howard in centerville, maryland. go ahead. how about that? howard from centerville? trying to get you on the line. we mentioned the hanging chads in the 2000 election. congress passed the help america vote act in 2002 that made sweeping reforms to the nations voting process following the election. it mandated the election assistance commission to test and certify voting equipment nationwide. it also established the national voter registration form and a national clearinghouse on elections. there has been a bill proposed called the protect american voters asked to update testing and certification guidelines for election equipment. it directs the national institute of standards and technology to issue a yearly report to congress on the status of testing and certification. it would also establish a cyber assistance unit to help prevent or address cyber attacks. one of the sponsors is rodney davis. he was on our program last week to talk about it. >> how much more prepared are we then we were in 2016? guest: much more prepared. in this debate is the success we had in the midterms of 2018. we had historic midterm turnout and not one instance of accusation of foreign interference. but we have to do more. which is why i and my colleagues introduced the protect america's vote act. host: give us a snapshot of what the act does. guest: there is a lot of discussion on election equipment. really, the ballot marking devices. democrats have tried to push through numerous pieces of legislation that would deal with only the election machines. but there is a lot more equipment and activity that needs to be addressed when it comes to election security. look at the iowa app. they could've worked with dhs and been more proactive in ensuring the counting mechanism was up to par when it comes to calling and end results. this would help address the weird problem in 2016 in states like illinois where the voter registration system was hacked by foreign interference. these types of activities and these types of equipment don't follow standardized guidelines. illinoisney davis of talking about his proposed legislation. how confident are you in your states voting systems? (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. , (202) independents 748-8002. ins is mary billings huntsville, alabama. i have faith in our system but i would rather move to paper ballots to protect from outside interference. i encourage people to please vote. bill says i have confidence in blue states but no confidence in red states. comment, the superdelegates will pick the nominee. as always, a cricket system. system.oked caller: i think that we need to make a couple of real reforms in our electoral system. especially when the state go to as really need to popular vote count. the state delegate leaves room for bad actors to come in and shape the narrative of the election. it is not being spoken about on the mainstream media, bernie sanders did win the popular vote by over 6000 votes. the people are being disenfranchised and i'm very disappointed to hear people in iowansia calling conspiracy theorists. and other people upset about not being represented democratically conspiracy theorists. because people came out to vote. iowa democratic party, chosewith the d&c -- dnc to release the votes slowly. i believe they intended to create a narrative that pete buttigieg one -- won. he has two more delegates than bernie even though bernie has 6000 more votes than he does. you at think it makes conspiracy theorist because you want the delegates to be reflected mathematically. and another thing with the elections, we need to go to paper ballots strictly with permanent markers. live streaming the counting of the ballots? we are fine with surveillance state on the people, so let's sick the surveillance state on the tallying of the vote results. host: all right, amy, thank you so much. -- wewill go to howard will go to howard next in centerville, maryland. caller: good morning, how are you? host: fine, thanks. caller: my question is to touch back on last week's senate vote on the up or down on trump. now that maybe it would have been better somewhere down the road that the house and the senate considered changing the final vote on impeachment only that when the final vote is done, it is done in a way that no one knows who voted exactly what. vote in thea secret public, in front of them. this would take away the power from nancy pelosi and republican leaders, putting it back in the people's hands. a person can vote his heart or true conscience without having backlash that has happened with mr. romney. in hindsight, that might be a much better way for that particular instance. --id not know if there is was anyone else that thought that way. because that vote might be the most important vote senators and congressmen will ever pass. host: president trump on his way to new hampshire later today, tweeting this morning. in republicanting party, a record 53% overall. corrupt democrat pauling -- politicians have dropped me to with thest numbers impeachment hoax. thank you, nancy. caller: good morning. guysted to ask if you would explain to the american public the difference between the electoral vote in the popular vote. i believe that a lot of people think that the popular vote is what they need to see the person that they believe would do the best job for us all in the white house. that is not necessarily true. be the electoral vote that makes a difference in people just don't understand it. it might lend itself credence to the idea that the votes have been tampered with. they may have been or they may not have been. i really don't know which way to believe on that issue. that as a say democrat, i listened to president trump's state of the union address. whoever is his new speech writer, i want to thank them. he sounded so intelligent. it was like, wow. from thecalifornia wall street journal this morning, states across the country are taking precautions after the iowa caucus. states conducting nominating contests are facing new scrutiny of their voting processes after glitches caused confusion over which candidate prevailed in iowa's caucuses. law enforcement officials huddled on friday morning and gained out responses to hypothetical hacking scenarios ahead of new hampshire's tuesday primary. the police forces of manchester, concord, and nashua along with private sector experts. the manchester gathering had been scheduled for months and is one example of intensified efforts nationwide to secure the voting process since 2016 when russia was found to have interfered in the u.s. presidential election. independence line in hanover, maryland. i have been working in the software engineering field for about eight years. in regards to casting votes securely, i cannot emphasize enough the need for a paper trail. i think we should also move towards auditing voting systems. if you look at professional software, it is commonly audited by an independent third-party. making sure it is not only correct but secure. there are companies that do that for software systems. we should allow that on voting machines. we should allow nonprofit organizations and academic institutions to perform security audits on the ballot casting machines. host: in kentucky, the republican line. good morning, patrick. caller: good morning, sir. a couple of thoughts on the electoral college. i will preface my remarks by stating a fact. fact into to tie the a couple of thoughts. , there was anywhere from $15 trillion to $20 trillion that has been administered to the american public since 1965 during the great society. that's in the form of programs. to $205 trillion trillion, i will basically try to show you what the founding fathers had in mind when they society through creating our government. the electoral college was based upon not just information and knowledge, but based upon their wisdom. the founding fathers were coming out of the society where they had divine right of kings. kingsis divine right of caused a great deal of suffering during those times. the -- uh, the founding fathers, when they wrote the constitution, it was written that all mene fact were beings created by the creator. they were bodies and souls. the divine right of kings, in society, they felt that they were more powerful than a common, everyday person. they educated animals the way they do today. host: do you think the inclusion of the electoral college, the voting by electors in the constitution was partly a response to that in terms of why they included it in the constitution? was thewell, john locke political philosopher at the time. thatlocke held the notion all men are created in the image of god. concepts into the electoral college. locke is a very important person in creating our nation. the founding fathers use john locke in reference to jeremy benham, in contrast to jeremy benham. host: patrick, we will let you go, but we appreciate your points. -- hill, about tulsa gabbard tulsi gabbard. saying, "that's why i'm asking you join me in demanding tom perez accept responsibility for this gross failure in leadership and resign now or can -- resign now." tom perez was on the state of the union over the weekend on cnn and responded to some of those calls. >> absolutely not. jake, look at the last few years. my job when i came in was to rebuild the infrastructure, to win elections, and when you do that, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. i have a respect for the congresswoman. she does not respec agree with that. i respect that, but i categorically disagree with her on that. we have been winning. it is important for people to take a broader step back right now. this is the most unsettling phase -- cycle. in 1991, george herbert walker bush's approval ratings were skyhigh. people were saying there is no one in the democratic party field who can win, and there was a lot of understandable angst. we are in a similar position now in the sense that i do not know who the nominee is going to be. we are barely out of the starting gate. and the angst is elevated, because we have the most dangerous president in american history. but here is the good news. we have been winning elections in 2017, 2018, 2019. we are better positioned to hand our nominee and infrastructure for success than ever before. jake: speaking of infrastructure, can the american people, can democrats have faith in, a, the results that ultimately come from iowa, and, b, what happens in nevada? because they are also going to have a caucus, and they are going to use now the same app from iowa but a new tool, according to "the nevada independent" newspaper. mr. perez: i have great confidence in nevada. we have been in touch with them regularly. they have great party infrastructure, great leadership, and they have a great team, and we will continue to assist them in whatever manner possible to make sure that there caucus is a success. they have early voting in nevada, unlike iowa. i want to send a message to voters that we want to make sure that every vote counts, and it is clear that it is a very close race between mayor buttigieg and senator sanders -- jake: can people have faith in the ultimate result out of iowa? are you going to trust them? mr. perez: i do, and here is why. this is about who gets the most delegates. in the 90, 95 precincts that they are looking at right now, the range of delegate allocation -- again, 41 delegates -- is unlikely to be affected by these problems that were uncovered. having said that, we should not have problems. tom perezchair yesterday, talking about iowa, asking you, how confident are you in the electoral system in your state, the voting system in your state? (202) 748-8001 for republicans. democrats, it is (202) 748-8000, and for independents, that is (202) 748-8002. in the "dayton daily news," eight counties miss the cybersecurity checkup. in illinois, a report from "the hill," a technical glitch in illinois, that is the story that came out in late january. illinois is next up, dug on the democrats line. go ahead. um, i have hadh, this proposal that to tweak the electoral college, and it starts ofh expanding the number electoral votes. they have not added any electoral votes sense, i think since nixon was elected president. that was just for washington, d.c. since then, the population has increased from 200 million to i think now 325 million. so we have districts now where one person is representing as many as 750 thousand people, and that is not adequate representation. need to do is use wyoming, which has one house district, and it is the smallest population in the united states with 600,000 people. use that as the baseline or the template for redrawing the districts. doug, we are kind of talking about how confident you are in the system itself, more broadly, the voting system, for example, in illinois, where you are calling from. , my perspective is based on the smaller states are not -- are being more disproportionately represented than the larger states because of the population increase not being reflected. if you added more electoral votes by adding more house districts, you would get better representation. the districts themselves would be less prone to gerrymandering, and the electoral and popular votes would align more close with each other -- because they did not in the 2000 election and the 2016 election. host: all right, onto jackson, kentucky, on the republican line. go ahead. caller: yeah, i just want to say that the electoral college is based on the republic, governed by laws, to protect the individual from ambiguity. host: all right. germantown, maryland, democrats line, terry. hello there. caller: hello. good morning. host: good morning. caller: yes, i have got one question. why -- it has been three years, going on for years -- why hasn't toald trump done enough prevent russia from interfering in our elections? thank you. host: to pollock pines, california, republican line. john, hello there. caller: yes, i wanted to talk about the electoral college. people around the country need to realize the electorate here in california over the last 40 years has been bought and paid for by the different democrats convicts,ther catholics, or the rich. so when you talk about the popular vote, california gave that margin of victory. the populart is vote that is essentially bought and paid for by groups who don't like each other. yet they all vote for democrats. host: all right, we welcome your comments on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. carla says "one person's vote should not count more than the next, meaning the flipping votes in montana are equally as aborted as new york's." robert says, "i am amazed at how do not understand the electoral college. it is not the reason to throw it away. it is embarrassing." this from jason in eugene, oregon. oregon confidence in electoral college. there is no absentee vote. felons regain their vote after their sentence is served." (202) 748-8003 for your texts. to st. clair shores in michigan, eli, hi there. everyone who is intelligent with critical thinking understands our electoral system has not changed, and russia did not sway a single vote. there were just some hackers in st. petersburg had very little effect, if any. the reason we are talking about this is the democratic party lost election, and they had to have an excuse for it. they are also setting the stage to delegitimize trump in 2020 what the democratic party does not realize and what these elites do not realize is they depend on government. the federal government is their cash cow. they cannot obtain a gain power in a free and peaceful and voluntary target. the only way they gain power is through coercion and use of the levers of government. and what they have done over the last three or four years as they have undermined the integrity of the very government that they depend on. they have attacked the senate, destroy the respectability that americans have for the house of representatives. they did not use the courts in order to subpoena john bolton. they disregarded the courts. now they are attacking the election regime that they depend on. so the democratic party is going to hang themselves with their own vote. host: an article in governing magazine, it is governing.com commander headline, "friendly fire: the number one threat to american election cybersecurity." an article that came out last week. what if the"one o greatest threat is not hacking but americans. > ? angine a scenario in which american operative opens and email, seemingly from her email provider, asking her to change her password, she clicked on the link, and unknown gives -- unknowingly gives her information away. now stop imagining, because this happened to a high ranking hillary clinton campaign official during the 2016 election. this is not to minimize the legitimate threat by russia and other state-backed hackers during the 2016 election cycle. kremlin-connected hackers targeted elected officials in 21 states and succeeded in breaching a voter database in illinois. while voter data remained intact, the fact that they were able to finagle their way into the system should raise alarms. many cyber security scenarios, such as the fishing scenario described above, take advantage of mistakes made by americans. efforts to increase funding for of thesesecurity, many will still exist when many americans go to the poll in november. governing.com is where you can read that. confidentwill not be in our electoral systems until i can verify that my vote was cast and counted correctly. when i turned 18 in 1976, in august, i was registered to vote, and i've only voted in like, two elections since then, and i have no idea of my vote was ever counted correctly. host: don, has your concern been over the last two years? changedno, nothing has since then. if you go to the bank or you go to an atm that is not even your bank, you can get a receipt that shows what you voted, then you can check it against your bank statement to see if they counted everything right, so why can't we get assigned a random number when we vote, and then after we vote, they print out a list of all those random numbers and how they voted, and you get a receipt that shows how you voted, and you can check it against that to see if they counted your vote correctly. how else are you going to know if they did it right? it is called checks and balances, and it is what our whole system is based on. florida, democrats line, judith. caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say that i have no faith in our electoral system , with what we have just gone through with the acquittal of this president that we now have an office. i think if he gets reelected -- and i am sorry to say, i think he probably will, because he from russia and any other foreign country, china, to system, and for some reason, with the gerrymandering that is going on in this country, the republicans, they cannot win unless they cheat. i just have no faith in it, and i am sorry to say that i think if this man gets reelected, it will be the end of our democracy. host: an article here and "roll call," a big day for the 2021 budget. white house budget would/domestic budgets. the election year budget is expected to be released this afternoon. point 8 trillion dollar election-year budget 60 seeks to balance painful reductions with openings of bipartisan deals on drug pricing and infrastructure." expects to hear more about that from members, perhaps the president, head trip to manchester for the rally tonight. ed it is in virginia. republican line. caller: yes, good morning. . officer serving as chief and assistant chief in fairfax county many years. helped with the american vote act, back when they were getting ready to pass it, and i made comments to the state of virginia, warning about touchscreen voting machines. since then, they outlawed the system in fairfax county and other places of virginia because of it being easily hacked. primarilyroblem was when they had an election for head and come but lost, and then they did a forensic analysis of the machine, showing votes for the incumbent and reversing to the challenger, and then that was when that vote was reversed. the biggest proposal i would have is the threat is not russians or chinese or whoever, it is voting machine manufacturers and the people that control those systems. it is just a very few number of people that can affect those things. the poll workers who are in the election cycles in fairfax county are very good and very hard-working, and they have great procedures to make sure everything is checked and double checked, that results are posted on the bureau of the precinct, so anyone can come up and see what the actual vote was. the only really care for this problem is paper ballots, which they do have more of in virginia, but hand counted against whatever the machine count was, to verify the results by citizens of the precinct better witnessing the vote, and then their signatures are affixed to the results. that would be my suggestion. host: based on your experience, ed, you say the best thing to do is to go back to paper ballots. caller: correct. i mean, you can always tea with, you know, substituting ballot boxes and stuffing the ballot boxes and things like that, but keeping control of custody of the voting artifacts is also one of the key things. but if it is right there where the citizens are, running their own elections and posting the results and taking photographs of the results -- host: i do not know if you are still on the line, we may have lost you, but the fellow caller from new jersey and suggested places will give you a receipt, a random receipt, but you can go online, so yeah, i voted for so and so, and the result online confirms that. what do you think of that idea? caller: there are some problems with that, because you still do not know if people are actually going to check it, and what is an individual going to do if they find out it is not correct? it would have to be a mass swell of people that are paying attention to do that. but if you have the local , witness the ballot counting, posting the results with their signatures on it and taking a photograph of it, they can post that to the internet, and the voters would be more assured that nothing untoward has happened. host: let me ask you real quick, because you said you helped in the creation of the help america vote act in 2002. what was the biggest thing you think that legislation resolved? caused a much easier way to cheat the public of what their votes actually were, and this system has progressively gotten worse since the 2002 act was passed, and people find more and more problems, and the iowa caucuses was a travesty, because there was no reason for having a problem. back in the republican election a few years back, they announced the results, and they had one person winning. but then when they went back and corrected it a month later -- it took forever -- they found out that rick santorum had won the election. host: right. caller: and that is the same thing that happened with bernie sanders this time. theyst likely won, and started moving delegates, superdelegates' totals around and assigning the different unknowns whond never even campaign and i will, deval patrick of massachusetts was assigned delegates as a winner! and it is, like, crazy. they need to be attention to people who have their cell phones, that took pictures, working the contest there in iowa and get together and put all of those results and have an independent third-party or voters, everybody look at it and find out who really won. host: ed, appreciate you weighing in with your experience. bernie sanders was awarded 12 delegates, pete buttigieg 14, but bernie sanders reportedly challenging back on in iowa, as they move onto new hampshire tomorrow. we go to eileen in georgia, democrats line. feel like the first question that was asked was -- do we think our state is doing anything it can to protect our election? no, i don't, because the same problems we had in 2016, we are using the same machines. we have not upgraded. inlso feel like the voters the state of georgia are not as confident in our state's ability to protect our election. host: andrew, rochester, new york on the republican line. caller: good morning. thatguy from virginia, ed, is why we love c-span so much, and thank you very much for c-span. the votingng is, in machinery, and counting of the votes, there should be a law that says no politician can -- or politician's staff -- can have any part, in any way, shape, or form of, you know, the voting machines. and i love that guy from virginia's saying about counting the ballots by hand, the paper ballots by hand against the machine count to see if they lineup. and then two is established, the a -- theeds to be scripture says there needs to be a law that keeps it out of any app. they got ripped off by the dnc, the people. great show. thanks a lot. host: decatur, georgia, good morning to dave on the infinite line. caller: hey there. thank you. i love my c-span paradigm is very dedicated c-span listener here, and i want to tell you here, i want to say here here to your first caller this morning. people call, they have their , and when theyy t host throws in a question, "well, who did you vote for?", that can really mess up somebody's train of thought. also, please do not waste time saying good morning. to people, "how are you today?" stop with that at bus people on the street. people are on hold try to get through, and you cannot waste time saying good morning to each other. about the confidence in the voting, this is where he gets back to c-span is so important. i tuned into c-span the other gomert, the character from texas, who goes on, they have a speech on there for 20 minutes, and man, you can really piece together where these people are coming from. when you will not get that on any other station. o nervous to continue. thank you. host: [laughs] all, dave. at off thedon't rush me line, sir, you can ask another caller how he is doing tiered we can do this, america. get this baby done. host: dave, i hope you have a good day. report, they say "a leading federal agency watchdog has admonished me home and security for its lack of security preparation with the 2020 presidential primary season already underway." washington,nt in shelby pearson has been the intelligence community's talkedver election czar, about how the government is aiming to counter foreign interference in the national elections. [video clip] >> i appreciate the spectrum of tools not only to the intelligence community but also the government to counter foreign influence. speaking to the intelligence community, first and foremost, we seek to not only collect against this activity and perform insights, those insights are critical, not only to inform policymakers, so they can make decisions, but i think even more so to develop a level of expertise so that we can anticipate these moves before they happen and provide the greatest amount of decision space for our leaders in order to best defend the united states. that can also find its way into providing intelligence that supports our diplomatic engagements, which can range from working with our allies, which is such a strong component , all the way to how our state department can do marsh countries that are looking into this activity. it can also inform the delegates for sanctions, and i think you see a certain surge and sanctions recently in terms of a major policy mechanism by which we try to impose costs and consequences for this type of activity. this also then, on the other hand, i think, several other tools that are available to us, one to help our colleagues, for command,in cyber cemen to target this activity on the network before it even happens. and then also, which gets a lot of attention, is the downgrading of intelligence information, which can be challenging, to share that with network defenders and those that are involved in influence operations or social media companies or tech companies, so that they can use that to better defend their networks. so i think we have -- it is not just downgrading classified information, and i recognize there is a heavy premium on that work, but there is a full spectrum of tools that i think the i.. either has in their toolkic. or we used to inform a broader range of the federal government. host: how confident are you in the electoral system? your calls and comments until 8:00 a.m. eastern. we will focus on the new hampshire primaries pacifically after that. president trump will be in new hampshire tonight. "they have a boring deal going on. votes were fried. big crowds in manchester." indiana, in pennsylvania, democrats line. caller: yes, good morning. ofant to say i have a lot confidence in the electoral college, and i want to speak to the trump supporters who say we cannot it over the 2016 election laws, they're telling us to forget it, that in 2016, trump and his supporters condemned the electoral college. they condemned it as a "rigid, unfair system," and they want it done away with. an trump went so far as to say if hillary clinton won the rigged, unfair electoral college, he was not sure he was going to certify the election results. and then after trump won the election, by the rigged system that he condemned, he went on a victory tour, celebrating his huge, rigged victory. thank you. is an old fort, tennessee, republican line. go ahead. system yes, i like our the best of all systems. you go to your local school, or wherever they say we have early voting, so there is no excuse for anybody to not be able to vote, and less they just want to complain and just be crazy about it. but anyways, you go win, you get your paper, you slide it in the slot, you pullout -- you, uh, mark, uh, the you hole, then you folded up, put it in a box to be counted later. to keepanswer is, i the fraud down, if they would just announce on all the news networks for a week straight, one minute, one minute, hey, you are going to present for 20 years if you are caught in any kind of fraud, i think that would stop it. i know, that would not be inhuman, that would be just perfect, and go trump 2020. host: here is an article about the super tuesday in texas come us was italy, "texas tribune" with the headline "new texas process expecting a delay in super tuesday delegate totals. " a full accounting of how many delegates each presidential contender wins will not be available on election night. the secretary of states office says it does plan to have the results tabulated. to mount pleasant, texas, on the independent line, mark. voting yes, i think the machines are probably the easiest way that we will ever cheat and election. i think we should go back to paper ballots, and then back in the corner, you put your thumbprint. they can always scan those ballots to make sure that nobody has double voted, and then you always have a record. and earlier, a guy said that maybe we get a random number two go online and see how we voted, i think that would be a good idea. thank you for michael. host: to james in akron, ohio, democrats line. caller: yes, i think oregon has the best system, because one's has servedson their time, they come eligible to vote again. ,y main concern is every year republicans try to disenfranchise people, primarily minorities and black people. my main concern is too many times, too many black people are purged from the voting rolls. thatlso, the four states the russians got into the voting system, they had to do something, because donald trump won michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and i think the other one, all four of those but they said they got into the systems. those are in places that the republicans usually don't win. thank you. host: on twitter, we are @cspanwj. on paper ballots, this one says "paper ballots are not the problem. hackedised apps or modems are the problem. 2016 was rigged." in hyannis, massachusetts, we hear from mark next. caller: good morning, bill. since we are giving out suggestions, i suggest that anybody who does not mute the tv should be cut short. theanyways, with regards to election, i think it is pretty funny think it is funny that iowa of all places chooses to use this app format for their caucus, which is already weird enough to most americans. trump, i had to unfollow him on twitter. i think if america does not describe -- does not give this guy much attention, obviously you have to pay some attention but the media and everything, every day it is absolute craziness. it is making everyone crazy. thank you guys for everything you do. host: what made you in the end unfollow the president? guest: every single -- i do enjoy to hear you guys read his tweets. every day and night, you can see this guy -- you can read him like a book. is not that but it funny. unfortunately. [laughter] thank you guys, again. keep up the good work. host: thank you for your calls. more ahead here on washington journal. up next, we are on the ground in new hampshire with a preview of tomorrow's first in the nation presidential primary. .irst, paul steinhauer and kathy sullivan. ♪ >> today, president trump holds a campaign rally in manchester new hampshire at 7:00 p.m. eastern . watch our coverage live on c-span3, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. article two is adopted. indo you solemnly swear that all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws? >> i do. >> the centage will convene this court of appeal meant -- the senate will convene this court of impeachment. >> on the basis upon which this has moved forward as a regular to say the least. >> donald trump, president of the united states is not guilty as charged in the second article of impeachment. >> for the third time in u.s. history, a president has been impeached and acquitted. from the house hearings to the senate trial, c-span has provided live coverage of the impeachment of president trump. you can find all of our video and related resources at c-span.org. your place for unfiltered congress. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: joining us for manchester, new hampshire is political reporter paul steinhauser. great to have you back again. less than 24 hours now before the polls open. when do they open tomorrow, 7:00 a.m.? >> most -- guest: most open at 7:00 a.m., most close at 7 p.m.. for most americans we are back to normal. it is a primary, it is a normal election, you go in and vote. it is not like a caucus. host: we have been talking about election security here. any sense from election officials in new hampshire of what they have done in the wake of iowa to double check their systems? full: there has been a show of force here by the secretary of state. bill gardner had a news conference with the governor and attorney general to reassure americans that results here should hopefully be controversy free. they use paper ballots appear. i filled out my paper ballot and filled it in. old-school, but old school nowadays with all this hacking into history we have seen, old-school is reassuring. host: we will tell our viewers and listeners that the networks have lots of coverage today throughout the state. we mentioned the president appearing tonight in manchester. paul steinhauser, as you watch it, where in the state most of the candidates are trying to focus and why? the population in new hampshire is in the southern third of the state. that is where the larger cities are. it is closer to massachusetts and the seacoast. that is where most of the candidates concentrate. nobody ignores going up north to the mountains. most of the population is basically from concord south and that is where the campaign traffic is traditionally. "at: joe biden said he took gut punch," what has he been doing differently? guest: he has been downplaying expectations different -- big time. he talked about how he took a hit in iowa and said he was likely to take a hit in new hampshire. saturday he had a news conference, i asked him are you writing off new hampshire? he pushed back vehemently. it is clear from what joe biden says and what his campaign tells us that they are not looking for a victory here. they are looking to get out of here hopefully with third-place and move on to the more diverse electorates of nevada and south carolina. withiden, south carolina the majority african-american electorate is his firewall. he is hoping to escape here with a third-place finish pair polls indicate that might happen, but it may not. host: in addition to joe biden, who do you think stance the most most toand likewise the lose from the new hampshire results? guest: great question. bernie sanders, polls suggest he is going to win. that is expected. he is from vermont right across the river. four years ago when he beat hillary clinton by more than 20 points. he is expected to win, if you wins i do not think he gets a huge bump out of that because he is expected to win. pete buttigieg has a lot on the line. he surprised everybody with that -- i guess you could call it a victory, but by this much. bernie sanders also claiming victory in iowa. for buttigieg, expectations are higher. if he does not come through, that is an issue. he has been getting large crowds to pass couple of days. yesterday and all other days combined he had more than 5000 people, which is a lot here new hampshire appeared let's talk about elizabeth warren for massachusetts. this is almost home turf for her as well. ofre is a history massachusetts politicians running for president doing well, and often winning bank -- winning. think mitt romney. if she does not do well here, she comes out of new hampshire limping. that is an issue especially for biden because your campaign coffers are starting to get then. to --ll continue amy klobuchar from minnesota. one of the latest suffolk university polls here came out late last night and it suggested that she has surged nine points over the last two days. we will see. these polls may be accurate, they maybe not. if she has a big win here, that would be a big boost. if she does not, is that the end of the line for her? also, the other candidates almost exclusively campaigning here in new hampshire. allael bennet of colorado, he has been doing is campaigning here. tulsi gabbard from hawaii, and deval patrick from massachusetts who has been campaigning here and south carolina. if none of them perform well here, do they go on? finally, i do not want to leave out andrew yang. he was really rising for so many months but the tech entrepreneur had a disappointing finish in iowa. he says new hampshire is a natural place for him. if he does not have a decent finish here, what is next for him? host: paul steinhauser. we would love your calls and questions. (202) 748-8001 four republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. , (202)pshire residents 748-8003. the boston globe suffolk paul at least that suffolk poll puts bernie sanders up by 5.3%. up ahead and that full 26.6%. there may be one last-minute pole coming out today, tell us about that. poll: that is the cnn conducted by the university of new hampshire. it should be coming out this hour. if you see it, i do not have my computer, but if you see something pop on cnn, that would be -- i believe that will be the final poll. host: we will keep an eye on that for sure. guest: i like these snafus in iowa. cnn had a des moines register poll, they have been doing that for three quarters of a century and they had snafus there and it never came out. that has not been the issue here. but polls aren't always right here at here is the thing about new hampshire, they are traditionally late. conductedlk poll was saturday and sunday. it indicated 11%, so they were still truly undecided. of those who said they were backing a candidate, 45% said they may change their mind by tuesday. it goes to show how everything can be up in the air. like theke these polls final results because new hampshire is known for giving surprises. hampshire is also known for being contrarian, often going against the grain of what iowa does. that is what makes these 48 hour so fascinating. candidatessee any drop out after iowa, we thought john delaney would but he dropped out before. maybe that is also because it it's taking another week to get this result. i think we will see candidates drop out come a morning here in new hampshire. host: on that contrarian notion, you talked about bernie sanders from vermont, or warrant for massachusetts, correct me if i am wrong, the last democrat to win the new hampshire primary and go on to be the president was jimmy carter? guest: exactly. he did it the old-fashioned way. first, in iowa where he won, and then here in new hampshire he put his nose to the ground over months and months and was doing retail politics over and over. that changed the landscape. it put a much bigger emphasis on retail politicking. --se parties of a town halls house parties, town halls, not just one large party. he perfected that it is considered a tradition here in new hampshire. new hampshire voters, if you don't meet three or four times you feel cheated. it is a special thing and do hampshire is proud of that tradition, voters being well-informed and also having great access to candidates and keeping them honest. host: the iowa caucuses, a disappointing turnout for a number of people. less than they expected from the previous caucuses, what is your sense of the turnout tomorrow? how was the enthusiasm? guest: the secretary of state has predicted a turnout similar to 2016. you had a very engaged republican electorate because we had that wild race on the republican side. primary was less enthusiastic between clinton and sanders. they are tell me looking -- hoping that they will exceed the secretary of state's predictions for turnout. their narrative coming out of iowa was, democrats have been saying for a year or two that they can't wait to get donald trump out, and then the turnout was well below the historic turnout of 2008 when barack obama won in iowa and eventually won the nomination in the white house. a little discipline from there. we will see if there is a bump here, we will know wednesday morning. host: we have darlene in gold hill, oregon on the democrats line. caller: i want to, that i thought oregon does have one of the best systems for voting. you register when you get a drivers license. you turn 18,until you're eligible to vote. you have two weeks to get your vote in. i think that is a good system. a lot of people do not have computer access, believe it or not in rural communities because we do not have broadband. i think also that the iowa caucus was crazy. let people have one man, one woman vote. not have everybody sitting around trying to change her mind. thank you. host: any comment? guest: a lot of people are confused by iowa. sdes.alignment, the some caucuses have different rules. some are more straightforward. in iowa, the republicans basically just have a one round vote. there is no second round, no viability. otherters try to grab supporters from candidates who did not crack 15. -- 15%. it is a very different kind of field in new hampshire. again, much more traditional. it is a primary, you put your ballot in and you are done. the debacle in iowa with the reporting is obviously now going to put a lot of attention on iowa and on new hampshire, unfortunately because there has always been a push every four years for iowa and new hampshire to be removed from the top of the calendar. new hampshire now celebrating its 100th anniversary of holding the first primary in the race for the white house. the has been first overall, first caucus state for half a century. every four years there is a push to get them out because they are not that diverse, majority white populations, and this state has a large urban area so people say they are not reflective of the country as a whole. new hampshire is going to brace for that again and it is going to be tougher because of what happened in iowa. host: what is your sense of the top issues in new hampshire voters are asking about, town halls, house parties, things like that? guest: health care has always been a top issue. here in the democratic party there's a fight between those who want medicare for all that bernie sanders has been pushing, as has elizabeth warren, a few of the progressives versus a public option. something you hear from pete buttigieg, joe biden come amy klobuchar and others. very large issue. prescription drug prices, not just hear the whole country is dealing with skyrocketing prescription drug crisis -- prices. here, voting rights is big. this state and a few others, the republican legislature a couple years ago -- the republican governor here passed some bills that tightened voting eligibility. that is a big issue as well. foreign policy, big issue. why? new hampshire has one of the highest populations of military veterans. liketional ones as well the economy, and the opioid epidemic. thats four years ago that issue, the opiod crisis, really exploded on the campaign trail. it had been an issue here and campaign for a decade. itdidates all that, and became a national issue partially because of all the attention on new hampshire. host: bill in syracuse, new york. caller: here in the northeast we outage sunday. have youdering if -- guys understood that you -- the primary will be primarily on paper ballots, and do you see any way in which some snafu like occurred in iowa could occur? a -- say at to see good word for the caucuses that requires a person voting to voting, and it also makes it necessary that they have an articulated reason for voting the way they do. that is my comment, thank you. host: ok. the caller makes a good point. with her caucus, it is more involved. you have got to give up a couple of hours in iowa on monday night, often a cold monday, to go to a caucus site. be it a school, firehouse, cafeteria, whatever. you need to be involved and make the case. especially if your candidate is a viable and you're making the case for other people in the room to come your way. it is a much more involved system. i think 14 states still hold caucuses. there has been a move toward the primary system because it is much more familiar, also less time-consuming. berry, massachusetts. republican line, eddie, good morning. concerned nobody is talking about the budget. how are we going to do it? we are at almost $6 trillion deficit this year. i hear warren and sanders talking about the state, but even mitt romney i think took his money down to the cayman islands. ng said something -- i think that would be a good thing. yang has pushed -- that is what he is pushing for. value added tax to pay for his freedom dividends, his universal basic income he has been pushing. it seems like that would be a tall task to get something like that pass. as of the budget, some of the more moderate candidates pushed back against elizabeth warren and especially bernie sanders when it comes to their push for medicare for all. their push for free college. joe biden just yesterday in hampton beach along the ocean, he once again brought up the issue of how are you going to pay for that? it sounds great, but let's be realistic. how are we going to pay for that with current budget restraints? fiscal responsibility does come up to a degree in the democratic primary. it is obviously a much bigger issue on the republican side. talk about republicans, we are going to have president trump right here about two blocks from here tonight, having a large rally at sna chu arena, the largest indoor venue in the state. u arena. he did something similar in iowa, a few nights before the caucuses having a huge rally. the president is trying to steal some of the spotlight from the democrats. this is an important state for donald trump eared it gave him his first victory. he slaughtered the competition four years ago here. lost the general election here, so narrowly, less than 3000 votes. new hampshire is the smallest of those battleground states for electoral votes, but everyone is important. he narrowly lost here four years ago to clinton. i think one of the recency is coming here to plant a marker and try to win this state, one of the few states they hope the president can flip from blue to red. host: we are covering that tonight, president trump's rally, live on c-span3, c-span.org, and on the c-span radio app. other live events as well from democratic candidates. paul steinhauser with the concord monitor. in years past, your newspaper has done the editorial board has --e an endorse a candidate not doing so this year. tell us the reason for that? guest: it is a sign of the times. the newspaper industry has struggled. transparency, i write for a number of outlets. i am not a staffer there but i believe the reason they are not doing this is partially because, you could say, logistics. they do -- they do not have large enough an editorial board to do that. it is a sign of the times, newspapers are struggling. not just new hampshire, everywhere. there have been a couple of papers that have endorsed in new hampshire. the union leader, the largest paper in the state, endorsed amy klobuchar. as did the -- sentinel, a progressive part of the state. she has picked up three or four endorsements. bernie got fun as well. endorsements from newspapers definitely do not hurt. i don't think they had the cachet they once had, because most people getting news from other sources. host: edgar, go ahead. i get a voting card with a number on it like we always got during vietnam, we got a draft notice. with a number on it that would correspond back to the election commission. you can tell whether they voted or didn't vote. another thing, i am tired of hearing about the russians because they said i astronauts in space. nationalt had the space astronauts up there in 10 years. host: you talk to little about the procedures election officials in new hampshire's have gone through, but what are people saying at these events in terms of in the wake of what has happened in iowa? are voters raising concerns about votes? aret: voters here obviously proud of our traditions. we do not take them for granted. we are hoping there will be no snafus. like we saw in iowa. bill gardner made it clear to say we are not using any apps. bill gardner has been secretary of state for four decades here in new hampshire, he is old school. going old-school with a paper ballot is probably a wise thing to do. voter turnout is always pretty impressive here, be it for the primaries for the general. that is another thing the state is proud about. host: what to remind viewers and listeners in new hampshire, we have a special line set up for you, (202) 748-8003. jennifer, riverside, new jersey. new jersey, jennifer go ahead. caller: hi, yes. democrat. i am going to vote for trump. host: why? why am i for trump? he has done a good job. host: that's jennifer in new jersey. next, fill in florida. -- phil in florida. caller: how are you? host: go ahead with your comment. , iler: two quick questions want to work this back to impeachment. said congressman who spoke i want to strike the last word and i never knew what that meant. question, there's a lot of talk about iowa going first, what is the advantage to going first that is other states are looking to get a hold of? guest: good question. i will answer your question about stryker last word. being first in the nation, why is that important to new hampshire? guest: thanks for saving me. i don't cover capitol hill on the campaign -- i wouldn't have the first clue to that. obviously everybody wants to go first for the attention. the candidates camp out in iowa, new hampshire, and to a lesser degree south carolina for a year to a year and a half. this cycle started after the midterms 2018. if you're a state that votes high up in the order, while those early states, you are going to get a lot of traffic, national attention. from a financial standpoint, it helps the economy. look at all the business it brings to iowa and new hampshire. an influential role, the voters of iowa and new hampshire. you take a big field and my lord, this time you break your record. around 25 or 26 candidates last summer. we helped widowed the field. by the time you get to super tuesday, march 3, 14 states voting, the field is smaller. the campaign takes on a different feel. less about retail politics and candidate to vote or direct contact and more about going from the ground game to the air war. onge rallies, advertising television and radio makes a big difference. many states would like to see themselves hi up in the order. host: to the caller's question about the term "stryker last word." word," it ise last a device to extend time, from everest to have more time in the process of marking up legislation. we will go to dave in bedford, new hampshire. republican voter. caller: caller: when you go to the polls, i have been voting for a while, you got to show your license to get your ticket and everything. picture you're a resident, correct? i was wondering, what do they do to safeguard these illegal immigrants that have drivers licenses that are in colleges? how are they stopping them from voting? voter eligibility is a big issue here in new hampshire. there has been a big fight over that for years, as well as out-of-state voters -- residents who go to schools in new hampshire. their ability to voter new hampshire. these are two issues that have been sticky here, democrats and republicans have fought for decades but has become extremely large. winning the, after 2016 election, pointed to massive voter fraud. he singled out states including new hampshire. as i mentioned, republicans and 2017 and 2018 when they controlled the governor's office and both branches of the state they tightened the eligibility restrictions. democrats come another they control the legislature avenue tried to roll them back, unsuccessfully so far. you do need a drivers license when you show up to vote. you need documentation to a -- proof you are a resident. host: from georgia, democrats line. caller: i am very dismayed about the democrat's performance at the caucuses and primaries. they should all be focused on attacking trump, divide and conquer, and stop attacking each other. need to moverren towards the center as americans do not understand that we have some socialism here already. it has not hurt us. particularly which has hurt us, the socialism that corporations have been blessed with avoid taxes. it sure does not fit under democracy. host: any comment? good point. a all candidates are very vocal when they campaign. -- on what a danger donald trump is. they all criticize the president, some more than others. they're trying to get away than -- i get away from that and can focus more and what they would do. it is only natural in a primary for the candidates to paint contrasts with from another. i don't take it as anything -- any surprise we have seen candidates in the couple weeks closer to crunch time when the voting actually bins, -- voting actually begins, you see candidates attacked other more vehemently than they were earlier. sanders, i was with him yesterday and he said that regardless of who wins the nomination, he said he will support that person. i think there is an understanding by a lot of democrats about what happened four years ago. the deep divisions between sanders's supporters. many sanders supporters not voting for clinton, either sitting out or going to jill stein, or gary johnson. some going over to donald trump. after four years of trump in the white house, i think most democrats believe that regardless of who the nominee is, they will support the nominee. when i was in iowa, i was talking to a bunch of sanders supporters and i was asking them if bernie sanders does not win the nomination, let's say it is joe biden or michael bloomberg, would you support them? not all said yes. there are tough feelings, but democrats do not want to repeat history again. host: comment about iowa and new jersey on twitter from patrick who treats, iowa and new hampshire are relics of the past trying to resist the changing demographics of the u.s. what you say about that? years, iowa four and new hampshire have to put up a fight to keep up their status. here is the argument here and in iowa, when you take the first ,our contests in their entirety new hampshire which is predominantly caucasian, and then add vat at which has a large latino population, and south carolina where the majority of the electorate is african-american. when need to come altogether, you get a more balanced look at the overall demographics of this country. vegas and renos have large urban areas. south carolina has urban areas in charleston and columbia. that is with the states say p when you take all four in their entirety you get a clear look. i will also say there was more criticism of these states going first in this cycle than i have ever seen in recent memory. the health and urban development secretary under present obama, he was heavily critical in the last of his two campaigns going first because they were too fight. now you hear michael bloomberg saying the same thing. too white.e bloomberg is vowing that if elected president he would change the calendar. tougher thano be ever as we move towards the 2020 for cycle. host: bloomberg is not on the ballot in new hampshire. are you seeing his ads up there? are you seeing it online? guest: we are seeing him on tv here because the most populated parts of new hampshire are the southern parts, they are in the boston medium market. massachusetts is one of the 14 states on super tuesday. maine as well, we are surrounded by super tuesday states. we do see the ads plenty in this state. bloomberg when he jumped in, it's up that he has anything against iowa or new hampshire, but he got in too late. other campaigns had built up strong organizations can, so he was going where the delegates are. there aren't that many delegates at stake in the first two, it is more about gaining momentum out of these states and gaining national attention. at the end of the day, this nomination is a battle for delicates. -- delegates. host: according to the sentence -- census, host: census data from 2016. we go to jerry in sewall, new jersey. democrats line. iowa thatbelieve in sanders really won. i think they have done everything they can to quiet that down. the other thing is the ballots. i am listening to everybody feeling ofout the the election, but that is because everybody knows trump is going to win. everybody is going to get wise to that. election.buying the that ain't gonna work either. there is no way people are going to vote for that. no. he is not going to be able to come in out of nowhere. won'ts people certainly vote for bloomberg. about white people and black people. you want to talk about dividing a country? keep doing it that way. keep saying how important black people are and you will see how many white people are going to come out and vote. i do not like the fact that you keep doing that. don't do that. we think for ourselves, we know what we are doing. we are not against black people, so please don't keep bringing that up. host: kerry in new jersey. outnow the news came yesterday, sanders is going to contest the vote in now you have . what has been his tone? has he hinted that he was ripped or that he should have been number one in that count? guest: it assassinating. in 2016, after bernie sanders narrowly lost the iowa caucuses to hillary clinton, he and his campaign and supporters were critical of the process. iowa determines its winners by these state delegate equivalents. caucuses the first round of eventually determining the delegates. so after complaints and criticism by bernie sanders, the asked iowa the dnc to be more transparent. so in this cycle, they not only reported the equivalence , but they also released the raw totals from the first round and the second round. that had never happened before. this time, the main metrics, which remains the equivalent, buttigieg narrowly. sanders has been pointing for the last week to the raw vote totals where he is up by 6000 votes. he had a conference in new hampshire when he declared victory and he said hey, where i come from -- that is my bernie sanders accent [laughter]-- voteinted to the 6000 margin he had from the raw vote totals. that is what this whole confusion is. for the first time we have more than one metric in iowa. he is calling for a re-canvassing. we will see where that ends up. we have been joking here that we will have our results before iowa. guest: let's go to -- host: let's go to our new hampshire line. this is laura. caller: hi. as i was listening, i changed what i wanted to say. first of all, i love michael bennet. i wish she was catching more attention and i wish people wouldn't just jump on the popularity train. the one thing you mentioned that is the most important thing is ,hat every single democrat whether you like the nominee or not, you have got to vote. bernie people, i don't care if you don't like who got elected, you have got to vote. we are not going to win if any group of people since it out. black, white, women, i don't care. that is the key. we have got to get people to the polls no matter what. mr. philbin? i am sorry i forgot your name. i love your bernie imitation. raymond -- go to excuse me ted in raymond, new hampshire. you're on with paul steinhauser. caller: i noticed when a lot of the candidates come to new hampshire they go to manchester. one of the things i wanted to know was about the homeless. they can't be coming here and not seeing them, they are everywhere. homelessation of the is getting out of hand. i think that should be a major issue for a lot of these candidates to deal with because the difference between the --ple that have and that those who have not is not much. there would be more and more homeless -- that is a big issue for me. it is almost like they don't count. thank you. paul? guest: there is an issue here in manchester with homelessness. we have seen candidates not just in this cycle but cycles in the past visit shelters to help people. another place you might see it because it has become a national story is in california open the campaign trail moves on to california, the largest of the super tuesday states. it has been such a big issue in san francisco, homelessness. you have also seen the president use that issue to attack the democrats. if the democrats control california. you will hear more about that. as for the color before, let's talk about michael bennet. i had a chance to interview him a number of times. you hear a lot of people say they really like what he is saying and what she was getting more attention. i was with him in early december when he kicked off that first of 50 town halls, and new hampshire tradition, starting in december. he had his 50th over the weekend. holy --famous for holding so many since 2000. this cycle, a lot of candidates have been using that format of speaking, giving a stump speech but more importantly taking questions. host: let me ask you about the that dixonower lodged is always the first to report. will that be the case? guest: it will. for a while it wasn't because there was concern there was not enough people up there. on.ille notch will go midnight tonight and into tuesday morning. another place does it as well. and i believe there is a third -- they do it again in the general election. it is interesting to see those are the results come out just after midnight. the vote totals obviously are so small they are not predictable what is going to happen when the total primary electorate gets to the ballot box. guest: it will be midnight tonight because the polls will open it they will have the results of the handful of people voting in dixville notch. ok, robert in brooklyn park, maryland. this campaign is elizabeth warren's, it is up to her to win or lose. i think the only thing she has to do is get on the right side of the border wall, get on the american side, strap on a handgun and go get on the right side of the second amendment. she would look just like teddy roosevelt back in the early 1900s. and big destruction bank destruction and big-company takedowns, she would look just like teddy roosevelt. for senatorat stake warren coming out of iowa, correct? guest: very much. it is not like she's going to drop out of she has a poor finish, but this is her home turf. she has home-field advantage. she is very well known here. she spent a lot of time here over the years campaigning for new hampshire democrats. she -- if your memory, she had a surge in the spring and was -- and then a lot of scrutiny came away and people were questioning her medicare for all plan. when she put out her ideas on how to pay for it and how to implement it, i think that was a problem with some of the progressive pulling of the base of the party per -- party. we saw her pull numbers slip and she came in third in iowa. ground a very strong game, she has put together a strong organization, a grassroots get out the vote organization and she is counting on that organization to produce good results. saturday night, which i believe was live on c-span, the annual mcintyre dinner. it is the largest every year for the democratic party. this year, you had all of the democratic candidates there. she had an extremely large section of supporters there. she has quite a ground game here and we will see if it delivers come tomorrow. host: on fundraising, jennifer joe biden onts, " cbs this morning on whether his campaign is having money woes, quoting former vice president joe biden, we have been raising $1 million a day, we are doing fine." who is doing well and not so well in fundraising? campaign had ang conference call friday afternoon just before the debate. that was the question a bunch of us were asking. they were pushing back just as the vice president was doing this morning. they have enough. let's be honest, at the beginning of the year he had less cash. there was a metric we use. bernie sanders has been a fundraising giant. he outfront raised all the other candidates in the fourth quarter, october through december. he pulled in a whopping $25 hasion in january alone and also had strong numbers in this month of february. it couple of his campaign, like the buttigieg campaign touted they raised $4 million or $5 million in a few days after the caucuses in iowa. amy klobuchar has been getting into it, counting how much she has raised the past days. this is an important metric because campaign cash pays for the candidates to make and put up ads on tv. it pays for travel, it pays for them to hire staffers and beef up their ground game, and get out the vote. it is a crucial metric and a lot of times you see candidates drop out because they do not have enough money. host: robert, on the independent line. caller: good morning. the primary scum i think it is good that those states have the first primaries because it gives lesser-known candidates a chance to go out and sell their stuff. caller: [indiscernible] host: go ahead. aest: the color makes important point. importantler makes an point. you do not need a lot of money if you're a candidate to campaign here. is not like texas or new york where you need a big warchest. that house always been the argument and it is one of the reasons i would want -- that ability to level the playing field. look right now, you have michael bennet doing all of these town hall spirit he does not have a lot of campaign cash but he is out there every day doing retail politics. he is not the only one, a lot of candidates, skull -- tulsi gabbard, of all patrick, candidates that don't have large war chests, these small states give them the ability to reach out without spending a lot of money. host: who has surprised you the most? and who has disappointed or not lived up to perhaps there campaigning hype? guest: do you know who surprised me? . andrew yang. he declared his candidacy back in february or march. i spent a lot of time appear, have had a lot of time to see him. the guy is a natural. he is funny but he is interesting. went from the longest of longshots to a middle tier contender. now it does not seem like he is going to win the nomination but his transformation and his elevation were fascinating to watch over the last two years. side, i doppointing not say this with malice, but the vice president debating, and retail campaigning is not his wheelhouse i will say he does not give the best stump speech. he may not be the latest on his feet in the debate hall, but he is very good with personal contact. you see it, when he has done with his speech he does a receiving line. he spends a couple of minutes with these people and talks to them, gives them a hug, feels their pain. i will give him credit for that. that is something that is overshadowed by the national media. host: just a little over 10 minutes with paul steinhauser, political reporter writing for the concord monitor, joining us this morning from manchester. one day head of the new hampshire primary. we invite your comments, (202) 748-8001 four republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. for those of you who are new hampshire residents, (202) 748-8003. let's see if we can get here in the last 10 minutes. hazard, kentucky. caller: i think they need to leave trump alone so he can do his job. i am a democrat, but i am going to vote for trump again this year. biden, clinton, they all need to be investigated and charged for the stuff that they have done because they are nitpicking trump. host: paul steinhauser, remind us again of the general election gap that the trump campaign is hoping to make up? it was the smallest margin by vote. i thing michigan had a smaller percentage because they had a larger electorate. this is one of the states that the trump campaign has set for months they hope they can flip from blue to red. bigger try to defend the battleground states like pennsylvania, michigan, where democrats are hoping to flip the other way. those states helped put donald trump in the white house. he is concentrating. it is one of those states that is on his radar. here, he wase came here in august. that is where he is coming back, to that same arena tonight. we are also seeing a full force by the trump campaign here as well. what they are trying to do, they were successful in iowa. they did the same thing in iowa and they were able to pump up the amount of people who took part in the republican caucuses and they are hoping again to do the same thing here to pump up the primary vote. there is a republican primary here and there is one challenger left, his name is bill weld. he announced his primary challenge to donald trump back in april of last year. he is up here almost every week, it is pretty easy when you live over the border. the polls indicate that he never really resonated. he is in single digits right, four or 5%. -- 4% or 5%. there was another cap -- another challenger, joe walsh who went on to become a talk show host. he just dropped out of the race a few days ago. host: the president promoting his manchester gig. i hope the "fake news" is talking about the big crowds forming for a new hampshire rally tonight. that is live tonight on c-span3. 7:00 eastern. we go to mechanicsville, virginia. stuart, independent. caller: top of the morning to you. i have a novel idea. democrats -- i think they are meeting in september, once that happens we're going to have to have a presidential debates. presidentpe that the having the bully pulpit will say ok, we will have the -- we will have debates but i will only debate lincoln-douglas style. take the press out of it. we do not need george stephanopoulos, andrea missiles but even chris wallace asking questions. -- andrea mitchell. let the candidates ask each other questions, respond in time and have a rebuttal. i think this would drive the press crazy because they like to control everything. host: thanks. just to let you know, those debates -- guest: that would be fascinating. that would be must ctv. see tv. id -- i likelor's idea.ller's though the president has not said 100% he will take part in these debates come of that is a question going forward. we will see what the president does. 29t: first debate september ahead of the general election. brad in georgia. caller: thank you. i am going to disregard an earlier collar and say good morning because it is the polite thing to do. host: good morning. caller: what i was hoping for is you would be able to talk and explain, because some people seem to misunderstand that primaries are run by political parties. there are common rules set by federal election commission, but that is why things are different state-by-state. that is why the order is the order that it is. think people are missing that appeared in states for they have closed primaries, that is sort of a big deal too. those rules very state-by-state route if you can speak to that, and maybe inform the public more about what is going on right now, that would be helpful. thank you. caller ash that is a great question. it is different state-by-state. in iowa, those caucuses are administrated by the state party. it is different here. new hampshire election officials, the governor, as well as the chairman of the party here have been stressing since the debacle in iowa that it is different here. the election is administered here in new hampshire by the secretary of state. it is the governor here that will administer the vote in new hampshire. the rules are often different state-by-state. here we have what is called a semi-open primary. undeclared voters, i am one of them, we can vote in either primary. what will happen, i will go to the polling station tomorrow and i have the option as an independent voter to either pick up a democratic card or a republican card. to do that i have to register as a democrat. after i put my ballot into by go back and reregister as independent and leave and go on my way. that's how they do it here in new hampshire. undeclared voters make up 40% of the electric -- electorate. some states even allow republicans to vote in the democratic primary. other states vice versa. host: we hear from martin in mississippi. caller: yes. all of these democrats running around giving trump trouble, my family voted for trump, a lot of my family voted for trump, he is the only president i know that israel. he don't fake nothing. all these other ones, clinton faked with his sex scandal emma everybody else had a scandal, nixon and all that stuff. days aot brought up 365 year, it was brought upset -- brought up temporarily. i have been into politics party. they waste a lot of taxpayer money. they ought to realize everybody has their own opinion. if she is nancy or clinton or trump has got their opinion, it is great. don't push it on the people. the people i talked to don't want to hear anymore of this, they are tired of it because they spending all that tax money on trump trump trump. what about all the medicated neural -- all this other stuff especially for old people like me? we get stuck. we made the world what it is today at all the young people are getting all the benefits. host: martin in mississippi. final thoughts ahead of tonight's rally? had the primary tomorrow? primaryhe new hampshire and the results are always important every four years. this year it is even more elevated. why? because we still don't know what happened in iowa. i think the results here are going to be incredibly telling. unlike in iowa where no candidates dropped out after the results trickled in, i think new hampshire could shift the race little bit. we may see candidates drop out. that is why there is so much attention -- every four years, but especially this cycle, what happens to new hampshire. it could really dictate what happens down the road. this race is going to change locale after new hampshire with nevada and super tuesday. before we get there, you have got to go through new hampshire and these results will be telling. tweet thise seeing a hour by the senate president in new hampshire saying, tomorrow i am voting for joe biden. we need a strong proven leader to bring our country together. are you surprised by that? guest:. surprised. long-term democrats does -- she has been a democrat a long time. a lot of people thought she would back or endorsed joe biden. she never did until this tweet that you just saw. she works for the firefighters union here, the new hampshire chapter of the professional firefighters -- international association of firefighters, one of the first major unions to endorsed joe biden in april. not a huge surprise. endorsements -- let's talk about endorsements. there are nice to have, but do they make that much of a difference? probably not. you're never going to say no to endorsements because you get media attention and may a little bump. his reporting on the primary at steinhauser. thank you so much for joining us. guest: thanks bill. our: coming up, conversation about the new hampshire primary and new hampshire politics in general. we are joined by democratic national committee woman kathy sullivan, who supports elizabeth warren. joined bywill be biden supporter and new hampshire states entity -- state senator, but first up house parties are a staple. 2020s cardona posted every democratic presidential candidate at his house this campaign cycle. we talked to him about the idea of retail politicking. house party is basically the new hampshire way of doing politics it is a tradition that goes back 100 years. first of the's nation status is 100 years this year. it's basically about welcoming the candidates into your house, into your community. hosting them whether it's with food or things to talk about around the table about the issues. normally you invite the whole community to come to your home and be able to have access to the candidates. i have posted about 30 events here. the house party normally comes very sort of strange way. every house party is very different. not one house party is the same even though you try. normally the house parties, you start off by talking to the candidates or their staff and finding out what they want to come out of this event and then you reach out to the people in the community you can think make it happen. of course potluck is a very important thing in new england. normally you reach out to everyone and tell them this is potluck style and bring your best recipe. then the candidate prepares a speech. the host will introduce the candidates. here you can see a couple of the candidates we have hosted in the house. we have bernie sanders, pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren, andrew yang, marianne williamson. tulsi gabbard. .eto o'rourke vice president joe biden. senator gillibrand has been here. this is a picture with john delaney. here some of the events take place outside on the porch because the crowds tend to be pretty big. this is a summer late afternoon with senator michael. that was a great night and a great conversation. retail politics in new hampshire is extremely important to us because it's the way our small state gets to make an imprint in american politics. a lot of people say new hampshire has a big say. we are a little bit over one million strong here in the state. take our political system very seriously. dedicatedors are very to making sure that our voices are heard. is superhis tradition important at ensuring that democracy continues. ourink it is so great that state has such a big say in what happens. superthis tradition is important and something i hope we have for many years to come. us fromining manchester, new hampshire, kathy sullivan. party had itsire biggest annual fundraiser saturday night. heard from a lot of the candidates. from senatorear warren that gives you confidence going into tomorrow's primary? event was a great event. raise tomato -- raised a lot of money for our state party. senator warren had the loudest cheering section and the most supporters. i think her message has been on point. she is the candidate who can unify all democrats and bring in independents and some republicans and also that she has a compelling life story that will resonate with americans across the country. host: she was unofficially third in the iowa caucuses. to getes she have to do those numbers -- who does she have to reach to win tomorrow? conversation on the candidates have been having over the last couple of days. is do or die in new hampshire. or fivee probably four tickets out of new hampshire. given that there was no clear result in iowa and it's going to be relatively close in new hampshire, the general feeling is there will be four or five people who continue on to the next set of contests. for thereat thing country that so many people will be in the race. there are some candidates who want to survive new hampshire. will be fivehere people coming out of here with resources and the ability to go on and compete. host: how has her fundraising been particularly in new hampshire? is never ashire great state for fundraising. how mucheally tell you she has collected here in new hampshire. i know that new hampshire is never a state that gives a ton of money. we are a small population state. you don't see a lot of money going to the candidates from new hampshire. i do think her fundraising is fine around the country. the organizers she has around the country. neighboringfrom the state of massachusetts. tell us about how you think her proximity as a massachusetts neighbor has helped her in new hampshire. >> people in the southern tier of new hampshire who get a lot of their news coverage from massachusetts whether it's from boston tv or boston newspapers such as the globe and the herald pickup news from massachusetts and therefore would obviously have heard of senator warren before she decided to run for senate. that she haso campaigned in new hampshire in the past for some of our state candidates here. for example our united states senators. notion thathe neighboring states have a huge advantage is a little overblown in new hampshire. thee's a lot of parts of state that aren't reached by the boston medium market and people here really do expect the candidates to come here and campaign and voters make up their minds among all the candidates. it might give an advantage with respect to name recognition and the media coverage for massachusetts but i don't think that's really more than a couple or three points for any candidate. i think it's a little overblown the idea that being either candidate from massachusetts or vermont really is a dealbreaker here in new hampshire. host: has she been able to wedge her way into that medium market? mike bloomberg, bernie sanders. as senator warren's tv message been able to get out? >> definitely. not just to the media. what's more important in a primary state like new hampshire were retail politics is the most important form of politics, she has had a lot of organizers in new hampshire for a year now going door-to-door, talking to people one-on-one about why elizabeth warren is the best candidate. she's experienced. her life story. her intelligence. the plans she has. it's why we've been talking with people on a one-on-one basis in addition to the medium market. people over the weekend about had they received any last-minute doorknocking for many of the campaign. they all said they had received a visit from someone who was in elizabeth warren volunteer. she was the only one who all of them had heard from one of her volunteers over the weekend. host: and our guest is kathy sullivan. we welcome your calls. (202) 748-8001 republicans. (202) 748-8000 democrats. others.8-8002 (202) 748-8001 hampshire, in new (202) 748-8003. you are a national committee woman. iowa. out of the late reporting on voting. what has new hampshire done to for the election tomorrow? >> you have to remember new hampshire has a different type of process. we are a state run primary. by our newrimary run hampshire secretary of state's office. anniversary ofth the new hampshire primary. of local and ward officials who have been doing this for a long time. officeorney general's has announced they have a team of officials ready to go around the state if there's any problems anywhere which we don't anticipate really. that areaper ballots fed into counting machines when the polls close. so we really don't see that there will be the unfortunate problems which happened in iowa with respect to the account. i feel badly for my friends and i. my understanding is the caucuses themselves went great. everyone was happy with the caucus process. becauselem came about of the inability to report. are in new hampshire it's state run primary. it is something the government overseas and is responsible for and something that has been in place for a long time. in new hampshire we only have two year terms for our state officials. tans -- towns and cities have elections in the off years. here in manchester we have an election every single year. our election officials are really experienced and used to all sorts of problems coming up and how to deal with them. host: you feel like the national committee that tom perez has responded appropriately to the problems they've had in iowa? >> i'm taking a deep breath here because i hate to be critical. wish there had been a little less finger-pointing about who was responsible for what happened in iowa. i think the iowa state officials really tried hard. they have been working for a year to get ready for the caucuses and thought they had everything in place ready to go. there was acourse problem with republicans flooding the phone lines of the iowa democratic party so that the backup plan in case the app failed was to call in the results. but then people were unable to thethrough because of actions of republicans to interfere with the reporting process which is not getting a lot of publicity. they had a backup plan that was interfered with. i would haveay handled it is i would have said, i take responsibility as head of the party. there were some mistakes made. we are going to investigate this and get to the bottom of what happened. let's withhold judgment let's calm down, let's focus on the great candidates that we have. to looks just continue into what happened and what went wrong. host: just to be clear, you are saying that you think, you have heard there were republican efforts in iowa to flood the phone lines for the reporting that prohibited democrats from getting their reporting in. >> yes. it's not just something i heard. there's actual proof of that. websites where people were going online and putting up the phone number saying make phone calls, flood the lines. there were people in iowa on the phones saying we were having trouble with people calling us who were trump supporters. people -- there's been a lot of reporting about the app failure but not a lot of reporting about what went wrong with the backup system. that is something people need to recognize. there was some outside interference with people calling in and trying to disrupt the reporting process. host: (202) 748-8003 new .ampshire voters (202) 748-8003 go ahead. caller: i watched the debate on channel nine the other night and i noticed that it was quite an extravagant set up. he had seven podiums, seven candidates, all this news media. i did not see one single american flag. shame on you. good night. host: daniel in erie, pa. caller: good morning. even if the republicans interfered with the iowa caucuses, that is no excuse for a five day reporting later on. there were 100 75 different precincts that have voting irregulars. precincts hade more votes than they had voters. in.a precinct captain . there's 149 precincts in our townie -- county. switchd voters to parties from democrat to republican and the bernie sanders people are very upset because they think the caucuses were stolen from them and they say if bernie is not there standardbearer, they are not going to vote or they are going to vote independent or they may vote for trump. friends whichical means they pay no attention and they intend to vote for trump simply because of the fiascoes the democrats are pulling and nancy pelosi's temper tantrum at the state of the union address. host: confidence in the vote in iowa. how does that translate into new hampshire. you talked about your state's regular efforts on voting. >> in new hampshire you will not see those types of issues because the process is run by the state of new hampshire, not the party. a state party does not have the resources the state government has and in this case the primary is run by the state government. we use paper ballots. all the ballots are counted. in new hampshire in the past we have had recounts in some of our elections and the recounts have always shown that the paper ballot process is actually very accurate so you want to see those issues. i want to go back to what the caller said about c-span. sir, i was there in the auditorium. i was there when we sang the star-spangled banner. you are trying to say democrats are not patriotic, you are dead wrong. that's why we are in this process. it gets my irish up when someone tries to insinuate that we are not. who you were because i would drive to merrimack and demand an apology from you in person. next inn is bridgewater, new jersey. caller: i would like to point out that it was really disgusting that this last debate had 12 minutes of commercials for you even got started. and introduced the debate on abc there were 12 minutes of commercials. this is just really disgusting. the second thing i would like to point out is why can't you have the primaries all at one time? that way everybody knows who are the candidates and we can have a very long campaign that's substantive issue debate instead of all this hoopla over which all the media gets all this money from the commercials and so forth. not enoughe are delegates, you people saw what the republicans got when they had a slew of candidates going to close to the end. they got the baboon as their candidate. host: several items there, kathy sullivan. how much input does the state party have over the debate? >> nothing. i was about to say i do not disagree that there are problems with the way the debates have gone in the way they have been handled. i have expressed my deep disappointment at the criteria that prevented a number of very qualified candidates from participating as the time went on. this most recent debate was an abc news debate. if you would like to register your disappointment with abc, i strongly encourage you to do so because i agree that there have been issues with the debate. i wish the criteria had been changed so more people could participate. what was the second point? host: he was calling for why can't the primaries all be on one day. you talked about the money that the ads cost and that the media and the networks get from these primaries. if you had a one day primary, the only people who would be able to compete in that primary would be people with access to almost unlimited funds because it would be a national campaign , the only people who could compete would be the ones who had hundreds of millions of dollars. . it would be very difficult. of new hampshire and these first four states is that it forces the candidates out of the washington bubble or whatever other bubble they may to talk to voters on the and listen to their problems, concerns and stories. if you have a national primary, all of the concerns of people like you and me would be filtered through strategist, consultants and pollsters. it would all come down to who had the most money. host: story on politico with a look at several of the signs from the candidates campaigning in new hampshire. here's patricia in philadelphia. trump's mind now. he wanted biden out by ukraine. he wants sanders out by socialism. he's not worried about the rest. except mayor michael bloomberg. he is scared to death. to the democrats, re-think. host: kathy sullivan, any thoughts on michael bloomberg? have been seeing a lot of michael bloomberg although he's not campaigning in new hampshire. adsre getting all of the tv the rest of the country is seeing. certainly as we go into the , you will see a lot of mayor bloomberg on tv so you will certainly have your opportunity to catch her throat -- cast your vote for the candidate. i disagree he is the only candidate who could be donald trump. i'm particularly fond of elizabeth warren and i think that when we come to november, we are going to get behind. i would also tell you it doesn't matter who the democratic nominee is. donald trump is who he is. nasty, mean, divisive liar. beat uptry to relentlessly on whomever the democratic nominee may be and it's going to be up to us to out and theur story policies that are bad for the country so we can get together and beat him come november. host: elizabeth warren got the point of the des moines register in iowa. the new york times ahead of the new hampshire primary. what other key endorsements has she gotten in the state or looking for? >> in new hampshire she has most recently got endorsement from our democratic state senators including kevin cavanaugh and she also received the endorsement of carrying a really. she has received the endorsement of the president of the stonewall democrats and she has picked up some very important endorsements. endorsement is important individuales to the reporters. host: where were you in terms of area of the state, what will you be looking for? >> i vote in manchester in ward eight. republican leaning. very much a working-class middle-class neighborhood. i will be looking for results early from manchester. you will start to get a sense from the state's largest city by 8:00. as to what's happening here. the second city is nashua. their polls do not close until 8:00. are a lot of big towns. some of them are bigger than our cities. towns like bedford which is a republican leaning area but there are a lot of democrats who live in both areas. so that will be interesting to see who comes out of bedford with a lead. i also will look to places like durham. there will be a lot of college students voting in that area as well as in the area of plymouth and keene. the upper valley in the western part of the state home to dartmouth college. areamuch a highly educated . a lot of professionals and so it will be interesting to see how the vote divides up. portsmouth would be on the seacoast and the towns along the massachusetts border. have a we are going to fairly decent idea of how things are going. in 2008 we didn't really know what was happening until well after midnight. i will bethe areas focusing on. in new hampshire, good morning. you.r: thank a couple comments. republicans now have somebody to vote for. god and country mitt romney. of concerned about the lack coverage for people like kelsey and yang and stier. is 17d out that kelsey years military. she's a congresswoman. she ran bernie's campaign. herfinding out things about that were suppressed by the media i believe. the quick fix for iowa. use paper and a machine that's not connected to the internet and people should follow their hearts, not the polls. phones is only landline which is 43% of the population, mostly older people. let's have clean elections that aren't interfered with or suppressed by the media. the media just jumps on and repeats information out of iowa that wasn't even verified and then you find out the app is owned by friends of the dnc. host: kathy sullivan. you 100% thath there should be a lot more coverage of all the candidates that a lotnfortunate of the media do pick their favorite candidates and to focus a lot of their attention on them. the fact that not all of the candidates are able to participate in the debates and the moderators frequently predominantly would only ask questions of certain candidates so you had some candidates with very little time. andrew yang got very little time in the debate. gabbard,ect to tulsa she has had a very interesting campaign. she spent money early on buying billboards in new hampshire. i think she found a way around some of that media blackout to gain attention and introduce yourself to people. some really interesting free media events. she's really done her best to try to work around that media blackout. i agree it's difficult if you are not seen as one of the candidates toding gain attention. host: we got a text that says i would like to see debate covered in a way other than a sports event. thank you for being with us from manchester. our new hampshire primary coverage continues. bywill be joined next melanie levesque as washington journal continues momentarily. ♪ >> the new hampshire primary is tuesday. watch results and candidate c-span orive on listen on the free c-span radio app. >> president trump holds a campaign rally in manchester, new hampshire. watch our campaign 2020 coverage live on c-span3, at c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> do you solemnly swear that in all things relating to the impeachment of president donald john trump, you will do impartial justice according to the laws? 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you said he got a got punch by iowa. >> we have two neighboring from vermont and massachusetts. there is some stiff competition and we also have amy klobuchar who is rising. it's going to be a challenge but what i'm seeing is jan new hampshire that the polls are very favorable for vice president biden. host: in new hampshire in particular who does he have to reach to win tomorrow? think the undecided voters is about 40% and we really need to reach out to those folks. at this time from what i'm seeing, vice president biden is and not with elizabeth warren. we can't really tell until it's over. senator melanie levesque, joe biden supporter. we welcome your comments. (202) 748-8001 republicans. (202) 748-8000 democrats. (202) 748-8002 others. (202) 748-8003 new hampshire residents. we would love to hear from you. senator, you endorsed joe biden at the end of january. what was it about senator biden that made you come out in his favor? when i was felt that going to go to the polls, as much as i liked some of the other candidates, i felt it was going to be joe biden that i voted for and the reasoning for that is a resume is important. you have done is important. joe biden has had a very extensive career and accomplished a great deal. also surfing with one of our greatest presidents. so i felt that his experience was something we need in this critical time. candidatesber of have pointed out that new hampshire isn't necessarily the of the 50ct state states in the primary process. why is it in your view important that new hampshire lead the nation to have its primary? doesthink new hampshire have a great deal of diversity. speakf our high schools over a hundred languages and there is a lot of diversity. you just have to be where the diversity is. different functions, churches is critical to meet those folks. one of the great things about new hampshire is that it's so small that a candidate can run. they don't have to have extensive finances to run but it's a great way for people to reach out and meet people and then have their views broadcast for the nation to see. capturing they tone of the campaign in new hampshire, pressure builds for round two. susan page writing that the volatility in new hampshire escalationfueled an in political attack and counterattack during a fierce week of campaigning. happens tuesday the results are likely to signal the democratic message ahead. senator, as you look so tomorrow what is your sense of how joe biden will do? >> i'm hoping he comes in and the top four. we have neighboring states, candidates that are running. they are well-known and well-liked. host: we hear from barry in montana. independent line. good morning. >> i was calling in regard to your last speaker. where does she get off? don't have a lot of proof about republicans causing their problems. precincts was 1700 when the app didn't work and that's what was jamming the phone lines and they've got to blame somebody for their incompetence and this is what i have to say. host: we are talking about the problems that happened in iowa. the results just being finalized. senator sanders challenging those results. how confident are you in the states primary voting system? i can't speak for iowa. haven'tampshire, we excellent system that has very few points of entry for any kind or cheating on our voting. we do have paper ballots. different types of monitoring and voter systems. i feel that we are really prepared for this election. i also have a great concern about media fraud. and when different groups portray themselves to be candidates and mislead our populace similar to what happened with the russians. i feel like that is a bigger concern to not only new hampshire but to our country. we really have to scrutinize what we are reading. that in thee seeing campaign in new hampshire? >> yes. we are seeing that in the campaign. not necessarily this campaign. we have seen social media fraud. host: richard in towson, delaware. caller: good morning. biden supporter ethnically and i can tell you that -- definitely and i can tell you that without a doubt the reason the republicans are going so hammer and tongue on joe biden is because with all their money and other data mining, they know that the one guy who can take trump out is joe biden. with swiftme thing boat veterans for truth and the benghazi debacle. runner harm the front and it's really unfair. with all due respect new hampshire and iowa. talk about demographics. new hampshire and i was demographics are aligned with the pga tour. host: let me ask you, how do you think joe biden has come out of of thethe efforts impeachment. the criticisms of joe biden in ukraine. how do you think he will come out of this? back and target on his that's exactly what trump and republicans want. if i was hunter biden and joe biden i would say, they wanted hunter biden on the board namese the biden names -- stands for integrity and professionalism. host: your thoughts on how joe biden has fared. >> i think he has fared well. no matter who the candidate would be, they would have a target and they would be treated the same from our president. i find that joe biden is a very credible honest person. a man of integrity who has done so much for our country with the national cancer moonshot. helping with the revitalization of our economy when we were in recession. with the affordable care act. ande seen what he has done we should know better than to believe some of the comments that are made by our president and those that are trying to stain his name. is dan in clarksville, tennessee. know why would like to the democrats are still defending hunter biden's white privilege so much. it's almost fanatical. kind of addressed that. do you care to respond? thattually it's joe biden is running for president and again, he is a very credible man. he's a good man that has an extensive record of service to our country and i think people tend to look at that more than listen to people saying negative things that may not be true. along the lines of even social media fraud when people make up things about candidates that are not true. and we have to look at people's record. we have to look at where they've been and what they've done. host: pete buttigieg is the lead candidate just ahead of bernie sanders. the biden campaign has an ad running criticizing the experience of pete buttigieg. here's a look. >> barack obama called joe biden the best vice president americas ever had. pete buttigieg doesn't think much of the vice president's record. when president obama called on him, joe biden helped lead the passage of the affordable care to 20ich gave health care million people. when parker was called on people to he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of south bend colorfully illuminated rivers. they both have taken on tough fights. joe biden helped to negotiate the iran deal and under threat of disappearing pets, buttigieg negotiated later licensing negotiations on pet chip scanners. joe biden revitalized the economy of the midwest and led the passage and implementation of the recovery act. revitalized the sidewalks of downtown south bend by laying out decorative break. then both of them have made hard decisions. despite pressure from the nra, joe biden past the assault weapons ban through congress. then he passed the violence against women out. even when public pressure mounted against him, former mayor pete fired the first african-american police chief of south bend and then forced out the african-american fire chief, too. we are electing a president. what you've done matters. host: new hampshire senator kathy levay -- kathy levesque. you think that's a fair thing to ?ttack pete buttigieg on experience versus joe biden's experience. >> i do think it is fair. i think experience is one of the key points here. we are in a critical time in our country and if we don't understand that we need to have somebody who has experience with getting these things done, that we are going to be in a bad situation if we can't have a democrat as a president. but if we can't bring on somebody who has already known all of the leaders on the world stage, who can very quickly start attacking climate change, who can work for our health care and nothing against pete buttigieg. he is a wonderful man. he was a great mayor. but we need more than a mayor right now. we need somebody who has the vast experience. and at this time, why wouldn't we go with somebody who has experience who may choose somebody to be a vice president who is one of these passionate people running for office? we have great civil servants around our country and i think that pairing joe biden with another one of these candidates or one of our great civil servants would be a winning ticket. host: one more thing on that ad. pete buttigieg's campaign responded from the hill. at this moment the american people are crying out for something different than the classic washington style of politics. washington politics trivializes what goes on in communities like south bend. don't thinkesidents their lives are a washington politicians punchline. woodbridge.rina in katrina?id you say how are you? i'm calling to make a couple of comments. absolutely love joe biden. my only issue is that i think his train of thought sometimes and his validity in his speech doesn't give people the confidence that he is electable or it compete against trump's rhetoric. i think of course he will do a great job. let me go back. one of your callers saying that democrats are always trying to blame the republicans on various issues or suppressing votes and that's definitely happened to me maybe three times at minimum. constantly receiving robo calls or telling me that the vote is over, no need to come out. all kinds of stuff. putting things on my door saying things. it definitely happens and i did see there was an online presence of -- the republicans clogging the phone lines for the iowa caucus, they were definitely doing that. for the republicans that don't believe that, you need to do your research. that definitely happened. they were definitely clogging the phones. overall i am a democrat. i will be voting for whoever is the nominee. but i am for bernie sanders. i think him and a moderate would definitely do well. there, i'm voting and bringing tons of people with me to vote. that's katrina in virginia. melanie levesque, your thoughts. >> thank you very much for calling in. arst of all, talking about new page, we talk about that at every election. things are not going to change until we have independent redistricting, until we draw our districts fairly. so we could have a democratic president. but if we don't have a democratic house and senate or at least people that are willing to serve our country rather than look for their own power, things will always be the same. that's why i feel that joe biden would be the person who can help us flip the senate. workus keep the house and on things like redistricting. hefar as the way that presents himself, i will be honest with you. i had some concerns at the beginning as well and then i heard that he had a stutter that he overcame and then i looked at him in a totally different way. i understood that he was trying to be thoughtful when he spoke and trying to overcome the stutter. many people in our country stutter. ithas been able to overcome with his techniques. he has done so much for our country. when you meet with him one-on-one, i had an opportunity to meet with him three times one-on-one. and have conversations. and what i got from him was a man of wisdom who was a man who was a statesman who believes in decency and rather than poking shots at people, he's going to take the high road. when there is a fight that he needs to fight, much like myself, i will fight and he will fight for us. host: on the new hampshire line in salem. dave, go ahead. caller: just a couple quick comments. i'm never going to be able to understand trump followers. person seemost to a to believe the conspiracy theory more readily than what is out there as public information. what they see, what they hear. that's the one thing that really jars me. i think it's going to make it very difficult for any democratic candidate to gain any kind of footing because there seems to be such a groundswell of accepting the prescribed story. as opposedcan line to what they see, what they hear. what they should understand from history. joe, i hope he makes it. he seems like a very solid guy. i'm just afraid the media is going to tear him up. i will leave it at that. wait for your comments. host: senator levay, any thoughts? are people i have heard independence, that are republicans. they may have voted for trump the first time but they do not want to vote for him again. there are many people who see what has happened in the u.s. senate and they don't understand why our senators can't listen to reason and fight for our people and our country rather than holding onto power. so i am hopeful that people of goodwill are going to come out be voting innot hordes for our current president. the other question you had talked about was regarding -- i just lost it. host: i apologize. i lost it, too. go ahead. >> i personally feel that we as an american people are going to do the right thing. i think there's more people that are supportive then not. ask you about the trump campaign's efforts with the african-american votes. the super bowl, the pointed direct comments on the state of the union last week. the opinion piece in the wall street journal. african-americans were front and center at state of the union. what's your take on this effort by the trump campaign and the president. know that ourple president is a showman. he really have to look at what somebody's done, not just what they're telling you. he said something about what have you got to lose, try me. we are losing. people are losing and you can't just prop somebody up, a person of color to make us want to follow you. host: in new castle, delaware. caller: good morning. all of the corruption that man has committed during his 50 years that he's been down in washington and has done nothing, i mean nothing. and i'm a neighbor of his pain i know what joe biden is. he's scum. all the years that he was down he rode the wilmington railroad down to washington every day and didn't pay a dime. he is cheap and can be. and when barack obama voted for the obamacare, they took $716 billion from the elderly, from the medicare to fight for the took care and then they $700 billion out of social security and gave to the refugees. host: that is an a in delaware. mike in strongsville, ohio. caller: is just so hard to believe that you can sit there and try to say that biden didn't do anything at all when you know damn good and well that something went on there. what you're saying is you're giving him a free pass for what he did and you are not giving donald trump a free pass for what you think he did. let her respond. >> i have never met donald trump and i'm not accusing him of anything except that i want a different type of president. i have met joe biden several times. even in 2008 i met him and i've seen his track record. he is a good man and a decent man and i'm not going to let someone who's trying to muddy his name to change my views. see whatch want to and i believene joe biden has done good work for our country. in baton rouge, louisiana. caller: by support donald trump for a lot of different reasons. and i also think that he's doing a great job and i also think that he's going to be the next president of the united states thank god. i also think the democratic party left me when supporting bernie sanders and all these people with this communist stuff that's coming down the line and it's the 2030 agenda and i'm looking at the 2021 agenda. i'm looking at all of the big i just thinkon and that donald trump is the best for our country now. and i wonder what's going to happen after the four years that donald trump is not in. who's going to come behind him? keep usperson going to out of socialism and communism? the democratic party left us. young left us. so please do not come here and tell me anything different. i believe that what mr. trump is trying to do for this country and i think he's doing the best thing for this country. levesque, how does joe biden reach trump supporters and others who may not be inclined to vote for other candidates in the democratic ticket in the primary? andhank you for your call i'm sorry you feel the democratic party left you. we have a very big umbrella in the democratic party and there are very diverse thoughts. minde, i want to keep in that we are a country of democrats, republicans and independents. and we should have a president will serve all of us. toill say maybe try to go somebodye events of like vice president biden and listen to what he's saying. ask him those questions. why the democratic party left you. maybe you can come to some kind of understanding. but maybe he has heard something that he has heard before. heard thatave message. the great thing about our country is that we have the right to vote. we can persuade each other about who to vote for and what to believe in, but at the end of the day we all have that right to vote for who we choose. so if you choose our current president, that is your right. levesque, first elected to the new hampshire senate in 20 18. the first african-american elected to the new hampshire senate. joining us from our studios in manchester. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. host: that will be at for our coverage from manchester and for the program this morning here on washington journal, but we will be back tomorrow morning as the primary gets underway. look for your calls and contributions as well. hope you have a great day. ♪ hill, the house and senate are both in session today. the house for speeches at noon eastern and legislative work at about 3:30. members will debate nine bills dealing with homeland security issues including using drones made in china and russia. the senate gavels and at 3:00 eastern time on federal appeals court judge. senators are expected to consider a resolution to limit the president's ability to send u.s. troops into hostilities with iran. you can follow the u.s. house live here on c-span and the senate live on c-span2. the new hampshire primary is tomorrow, here is a look at our live coverage today on c-span2 as the democratic candidates visit the state. bernie sanders holds a town hall in -- and elizabeth warren hosts a get out the vote rally in manchester. at 7:00, pete buttigieg jose get out the road -- get out the vote valley and exit her. you can also watch these events online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. today, president trump holds a campaign rally in manchester, new hampshire at 7:00 p.m. eastern. watch our campaign 2020 coverage live on c-span3, at c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> the new hampshire primary is tuesday. watch results and candidate speeches starting at 7:30 p.m. eastern live on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> over the weekend, some democratic presidential candidates spoke of the new hampshire democratic parties largest fundraiser in the state, the 61st annual mcintyre shaheen hunter club event. we begin with the state u.s. senator welcoming the crowd. 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