Early voting begins this morning to nominate thus far and what candidates maintaining all make a stand. Our latest polls out in nevada had Bernie Sanders in the lead and followed by joe biden at 18 . Pete buttigieg with 36 delegates with state in nevada. Michael bloomberg facing Sexual Harassment allegations as he rises in the poll. President trump after his impeachment acquittal is on leash. Theyre displeased with attorney general william barr for his perceived incident wechlt glli. Well get to trump later. 2020 is the most diverse state. Today is South Carolina and joining me now, some may call him the king maker in South Carolina, House Majority whip jim clyburn, how are you congressman . I am very fine, thank you so much for having me. You know i ran in 04 so i know your strength in South Carolina, and your organization on the ground. Tell me have you decided who you are going to support in the South Carolina primary because as a former candidate i know it carries a lot of wait with voters. Thank you very much for saying that. But, i have decided who i am going to vote for. I have not decided exactly what role i will put between now and at the election day on the 29th. Ill not be doing it publicly until after our debate which is on the 25th. After that debate, i may do something publicly but i have not decided what it will be yet. So you have not decided to announce publicly but you know who you are going to vote for. Oh, absolutely. I know who i am going to vote for. I know for some time now. All right, so i cant ask you to break your commitment not to announce you are going to endorse before the debate there but just tell me who you are going to vote for. Good try. Good try. All right, let me ask you this way, congressman. Is there anybody you would rule out voting for . No, i cant vote for some people who are not on the ballot yet. Mayor bloomberg is not on the ballot yet but there are quite of people on the ballot that i can vote for. I think a lot, klobachar, shes a great person and Elizabeth Warren. I have done events with her. Bernie sanders i had press conferences with him and i have done events with joe biden. And steyer, i gotten to know him. I have been in and out with all the candidates. My grandson is for mayor pete. I think that all of us in the clyburn family are doing what we can to make South Carolina primary and good productive primary, trying to make it for all the candidates because we want to stay in this window and keep them coming into South Carolina. I am not doing anything that i think it would jeopardize my state and primary. I can only vote for one person. I will talk about who that one person would be, i have not yet decided. Let me ask you this congressman. You mentioned former mayor bloomberg is not on the ballot in South Carolina. But, if by chance if he would win the nomination, could you support her . Oh yes. Absolutely i could. I got to know mayor bloomberg and watched it all. I knew of him a long time before i met him. I knew some great positive about him. Some negatives about him. But, i do believe that the positives out weigh the negatives. You have to compare the candidates with each other, not with the all mighty. I will not be comparing bloomberg with the all mighty. I will be comparing him with donald trump. When that happens, it is easy. Because hes under fire for stop and frisk. Did you know i was apart of that. I am definitely going to ask him as i have pressed bloomberg on it, would you say it is positive that our way is negative if hes the nominee you would support. And you god father of the black caucus. I dont know about that. You got to compare. If i compare bloomberg with trump, there is no comparison. You know we talk about bloomberg and what he may or may not have done for stop and frisk, i thought it was racially charged policy. He apologized for it but not officially for some people and maybe not efficiently for me. He has made an attempt to apologize. I would like to see apologize for the nine people in his Apartment Building in new york, apologize omarosa for calling her a dog or these kinds of things. He needs to own up to the bar. I dont think bloomberg in his worse can be that bad. All right. Well, i think you made it clear where you are. As always great to talk to you congressman jim clyburn. Thank you. Thanks for having me. All right. For more on this, lets bring in michael hopskin and reena schultz. Reena is a republican strategist and founder of the womens public leadership network. Michael, you worked on hillary and president obamas campaigns, we are seeing now the campaign for the 2020 nomination goes south and west. For the first time people of color will have a sizable plot of the electric or the participates in the caucus of nevada and the primary and South Carolina. It had not been that in the first two states. Something many of us have been concerned about for a while now. I put it aside for this discussion. How do you weigh this field of candidates of Bernie Sanders to biden to klobachar and to Elizabeth Warren and tom steyer, how do you weigh them in terms of the issues that blacks and browns may be concerned about that may not have been as much of a prioritpriority. Maybe a concern but not a priority concern to voters they dealt with iowa caucus. I think any democrat in this field is ten times the individual and ten times the american President Trump is. I think everyone of them will be a better president and serve the African Community better than donald trump would. They have complicated issues whether it is joe biden or his record with the crime bill. I think there is complications. Democra democrats have to beat donald trump and not beat each other. Now, reena, who do you think is the one that the president was most concerned about if the argument that michael just raised and for that matter congressman clyburn raised is electability. Beating donald trump and maybe having get past some of our differences to get that defeat. Who dow think t you think the p is most concerned and defeat him giving him the hardest time of the general election. It used to be biden and everything told us over the past few weeks that the president is feeling certain about his reelection chances. Everything seems to be going in his favor right now. He controls things in such a way where many of us feeling like are we living in banana repub c republic. These are odd times we talk about this network. We must see this for what it is. It is an opportunity to talk about our values. The values of the Republican Party have frankly gone behind the scenes. They have gone missing. These republicans care about trumpism, trumpism is about winning at all costs. The president he does not see Pete Buttigieg as a problem. He wants to face sanders. The republican play book is to say socialism is bad. I think it is shaping up to be bloomberg who is coming out this obviously in a unique way because of all the money, the influence of that money on the ability to get to people and make them question, things like the age of these men and even women to some extent. The color of their skin. This is a white race, this is an entire entirely white race we are looking at. Absolutely. Sth thats hard. How did we lose some people . What does it mean of the politics of 2020 and beyond. These are confusing times and what i would hope most americans would do is pay more attention to what these candidates are not saying. The more they do not address the issues of race and justice. The more we know we cant trust them. Thats the point, michael, that i keep on making. I dont care how much right wing says i am being racial proponent here. They have a lot of time anyway. There is a wealth gap and there is a race gap. I mean even at every level, blacks treating differently and browns in the middle class are treated differently. I think the candidates have to talk about that. I think also the contrast that the Trump Administration has not dealt with. He talks about low blacks unemployment is still double unemployment to whites. Actually it is something Bernie Sanders have been successfully talking about, talking about economic inequality. When trump talks about how he lower the africanamerican rate, you have to look at the facts. When president obama came into office, it was 17 . When he left office, it was 6 . Donald trump improved by 1 . I have to remind my democrats that stop panicking. Donald trump is at 44 Approval Rating and president obama was at 69 at this time and president bush was at 90 at this time. Hes beatable. What we have to do is talk about our values and what we are about and how we can win. Reena, you said that hes comfortable but every poll shows three or four of the democratic contenders in a head on race would beat him. You know rev, i dont trust the polls much anymore because we are so early in this. Look at the states that voted. We dont know what South Carolina is going to do yet. The nevada caucuses. Theyre going to be diverse. We may find something telling there. These hypothetical matchup, i dont find much weight in them. What i find weight in are polls of the recent yahoo talking about american views of socialism as well as how they see Bernie Sanders and there was some striking figure, 62 of americans find Bernie Sanders to be a socialist. 61 of independence find him to be a socialesist. Socialism is bad, dont vote for it. Give us your vote again for another four years. Your economy is fine. We have not had any terror threats. This president kept you safe and hes got more money in your pocketbook. The reality is americans are scared of all right, i have to hold it there. Well have more from michael and reena later in the show. Black voters supporting bloomberg have something to think about this weekend as his vast comment about red line and stop and frisk has resurfaced. Well speak with former black panthers leader and national cochair of the Bloomberg Campaign. Congressman bobby rush of the controversy. Richa richard newy wi luis with todap story. The boy is being charged as an adult. Nbc news will not release his name. Hes the second teenager charged in this incident. Major who was 18 was fatally stabbed during a robbery gone wrong back on december 11th. She was laid to rest shortly there after. The u. S. State department is evacuating all members from the cruise ship. The princess coastline is off the coast of japan. 285 confirmed cases of coronavirus on board. 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I like that because on sundays you know i gotta talk to mama, then on. This is your wakeup call, people. The new tracfone wireless. Now youre in control. Looking back for too long because i did not understand the unintended pain that was causing to young black and brown families to their kids. I should have acted sooner. I didnt and for that i apologize. It has been a real roller coaster of a week for mayor bloomberg as he apologized for his endorsement of stop and frisk tactic as mayor. A 2008 recording of him resurfaced which he blamed in the red lining for the financial crisis and mischaracterizes the races practice so badly that Elizabeth Warren put out an ad explaining his mistakes. As democrats emphasized the need to keep the house and retake the senate. Bloomberg has been under fire over his history like pete king and orrin hatch and Susan Collins collins. Despite all that, hes been picking up endorsements this week. Joining me now is bobby rush, Bloomberg Campaign cochair and a member of the congression black caucus. Congressman rush, you know that i grew up in the Civil Rights Movement in new york, the guys were older than me that i looked up to, you were one of the leaders of the black panther in chicago. You barely escaped your life when Fred Hamilton was killed and been a prominent and diligent member of congress and it really took a lot of us to really notice when you given your background and consistency decided that you would support Michael Bloomberg whos been under attack by some of us in new york about stop and frisk. Now, his thing about red lining. Explain to me why you are supporting bloomberg given some of the questions that have been raised. I am pleased to be with you this afternoon. Let me be clear, i really put through a lot of thought before i decided that i am going to go with bloomberg. Initially i appointed Kamala Harris and when she dropped out, i didnt know who next. That was a time bloomberg said i was not going to enter the race so i was not thinking of bloomberg. I looked at he is history. Hes not a one dimensional individual as you well know. Hes a millionaire and without bloombergs money that he spent on behalf of the middle class of the last election and 2018 e lele election, we would not have the house. He supported 23 new democrats that gave nancy pelosi the power. If nancy did not have the gavel, we would not have been able to impeach trump in this house. Bloomberg spent money on gun control and throughout the nation. You had the combination and the africanamerican community. You have donald trump creating all kinds of chaos. Who were complaining at that time . Senior citizens, mothers, millions who are concerned in the community. Look, stop and frisk is something that i have been opposed to in chicago. We know stop and frisk of what it means. Michael bloomberg, not only he apologized for it but he owned it. I think bloomberg has done all those things particularly in houston two days ago and i think that really ask the black community for support. Let me say this, Mike Bloomberg, in my opinion is the only one thats ready to beat trump right now. Before you go there congressman. I want to raise this, your colleague also says bloomberg. He had insights of black voters that was surprising. Take a listen to what Gregory Meeks had to say. They know their interest is making sure donald trump is defeated. Thats the interest. Theyre going to move in the direction that they think who is the best person to defeat donald trump and whos dpoigoing to ta about their agenda. It seems that you are making the same argument congress lucy mcbaths son was killed in the shooting she endorsed bloomberg. The argument i am hearing did not justify or making excuses for what he did for stop and is frisk but you are saying you think he can beat donald trump and i am assuming thats the greater good. Right. Let me just say this, i learned this, former member of the house, william clay, he says there is no permanent interest and permanent ennemies and friends, no permanent friends, just permanent interests. It is in our interests that you put the person, nominating the president in office who can best beat donald trump. Right now it is Michael Bloomberg. I have to leave it there. I do remember congressman clay saying that. We all have that permanent value. I am going to keep on asking that question. Congressman bobby rush. This wednesday, i will be going to las vegas to attend the democratic debate hosted by nbc news at msnbc. It comes three days before the crucial nevada caucuses and well put the remaining ka candidates to the test. Thats wednesday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on nbc and msnbc. Coming up, President Trump is hoping to expand the 8 of black voters he won in 2018 by shelling out millions of dollars. News flash, it is not going to work. I will explain why, next. Obama hes been a leader throughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. Michael bloomberg is here. Vo leadership in action. Mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. Obama at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. Bloomberg im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Applebees new irresistabowls now starting at 7. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. sensei beautiful. But support the leg when i started cobra kai, the lack of control over my business made me a little intense. But now i practice a different philosophy. Quickbooks helps me get paid, manage cash flow, and run payroll. And now im back on top. With koala kai. Hey more mercy. vo save over 40 hours a month with intuit quickbooks. 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I am guessing you are hoping that black voters dont notice that your Justice Department has forced to limit the number of people who would benefit from this new legislation or your support of private prison, or your approval of the military of local police force. All moves thatll have adverse and deadly impact on black lives. Days later at the state of the union address, you singled out multiple black americans in the audience including charles mc e mcgee, Elementary School student janaya davis. All to taut your voters. Your approach would work better if it was not pep perred wipere lies. Like you said miss young was trapped in a failing school. Your team is so desperate to lure black voters that your allies are literally handing out cold cash at events in swing states all while sending your races. Black voters see through you, mr. President. More than 80 black americans identified as a racist correctly in my opinion. You can keep lying about your record or exaggerating, black voters who you are. A man sued by the department of justice for races and housing discrimination, who called the Death Penalty for five falsely accused black teenagers and built his entire career on the racist lies that this countrys first black president was not born here. Your fathers money meant that you had never faced any consequences for r yoyour actio. Mr. President , unfortunately for you, there is not enough money in the world to convince black voters to forgive exactly what you stand for. But if you think you can convince us by all means, call off your administrations mini voter tactics and roll the nidi on us in november, i dare you. Tthe bad news . Ouyour patience might not. Ay. Depend® fitflex underwear offers your best comfort and protection guaranteed. Because, perfect or not, lifes better when youre in it. Be there with depend®. Tracfone lets you keep your leftover data each month. 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In florida, gop lawmakers have been largely successful in sabotaging a 2018 valid initiative and restored the franchise to nearly 2 million largely former felons by attacking on a requirement that they pay a court of fine before exercising their rights. In arizona the Republican Attorney general is asking the nations highest court to over turn a federal ruling last month that the states banned on Third Party Collection violates the Voting Rights act by intentionally reducing black and brown access. Of course in spite of all of these and other examples and dozens of lawsuits, the trump Justice Department has never pursued a single minority Voting Rights case. Joining me now our nbc News Reporter janelle ross. Janelle, i remember under the obama administration, we had several lawsuits that many in the Community Supported and really pushed for president obama. I think it was 11 active lawsuits around Voter Suppression. The Justice Department not only pursued any they actually withdrew some lawsuits in texas and i believe north carolina. This is an active strategy by this administration. At minimum it could be said that Voting Rights division of the Justice Department decided to focus on cases involving military Voting Rights so rights of those who are enlisted and difficulties they faced in casting ballots and have not put any resources in any Voting Rights cases thus far and involving minority voters. There are a range of issues as you mention around the country and everything from polling site closures to difficulty registering in ballot collection process and difficulties purging voters. Exact match on voters regist registration in terms of registration and names and issues around facilities allow to service polling sites and how many Parking Spaces they have to have. There are a range of issues. These are done in mostly black communities. Polling sites were changed in black communities and other states like alabama. We see where they closed sites and made it where you have to travel more distance to vote on other things. So this is a real plan based on race. It certainly could appear that way given the effects are very clear, each and everyone of these practices seem to have a particularly large impact on voters of color voters and latino voters and i would add young voters. American young population is increasingly black and brown. Those two things tend to over lap. According to your report, i want to be clear. The Democratic Party sued 11 times in the last two years. Testimony justi the justus departmeice departmee Trump Administration have not pursued any case of color the last two years. Thats correct. As i would say intentionally, these are cases that were already going and vetted and decided to go by the Justice Department and by some magic all of these cases were withdrawn or not dealt with when the Trump Administration came in. Well, it is impossible for me obviously to be inside the mind of the people inside the Justice Department. All we can see is the pattern in terms of which cases they are or are not pursuing if thats clear now, michael star hopkins and and democr and reena. We are talking about the peoples right to vote here. We are talking about fundamental rights of the people of this country. If there were evidence that the Justice Department say we need to deal with this, how does it become no evidence when a new administration comes in other than it is based on a political strategy that had race voinvolv. If you cant vote, you dont have your full citizenship. We saw the effects of Voter Suppression and georgia with Stacey Abrams and 2020 in florida not being fully implemented and desantis continuing to block the implementation of that. Not because he cares of whats going on but he wants to stop minorities from voting. He wants to stop them having their full citizenships. People like you march for it and they die so that we have the right to vote. You see republicans stopping voters from being able to participate in the process. Reena, explain something to me that i cant figure out and thats President Trump said hes going to have a commission on voter fraud and hes claiming so much voter fraud, what happens to that commission and what did they find out . Oh, that commission was like everything else, lips service from the president. Oh, you mean he didnt do it . Are we surprised . Here is the strategy of the white house employees. The president tends to speak out on his rear end. On one hand he says russia had nothing to do with anything then he faints complete ignorance when people show him whats happening with other parts of the country. This is the master mind of Congress Sitting on kplil acapi hill. This administration as well as this senate majority, Mitch Mcconnell is changing the landscape for black and brown people for decades to come. Thats what i have been most worried about. Republicans frankly there is a lot of misinformation, i am talking to Republican Voters mainly of the age of 50 out in the western states and they dont really know any of whats happening to people like us. How we are not being able to allowed to vote in certain states. They almost act as if there is no problem. And so the reality is this, we have to get smart, we have to vote for people who we know will represent our communities, who we know are going to take action on the first day they go to office and thats really all that can be done. Republicans are going to continue the same play book and rig n ignorance of this issue. Rina is a republican obviously. Let me ask you, michael. When we look at desantis and the florida legislature, putting this where you have to pay all your court fees before you can vote. To defraud voters to voted to make the law that these fellas can vote. I mean let me paraphrase a line from our lost brother, kanye west. Donald trump does not care for black people. He goes after president obama and he goes after the central park five and every black person that had nothing baad to say about sluvladimir putin. We got something to say. Rina. Did donald trump ever come up with this birth certificate he claimed he had on barack obama . Never. This is what he was known for, right . It was the very thing that he led with. He brought it into politics. And now what . We come so far from that. We should not forget who the man is. Hes a racist to the core. He has a problem with anybody whos skin color thats darker than his. The reality is this, he just, he has managed to stay above the fray time and time again but impeachment should not be forgotten. It was a history, it was a civic lesson for all of us. There is so much the house can do and my friends had put a excellent piece yesterday on actions what Speaker Pelosi can do and Congressional Democrats can do to hold the president accountable as he continues to assault the constitution. Janelle and rina and michael, t thank you all of you for being here. Coming up next, vanessa hauc of telemundo joins me colleague Alicia Mendez talking about latino voters a many of them are getting sent to the next caucus in nevada next saturday. Up next, my final thoughts. Stay with us. I dont add up the years. And i dont count the wrinkles. But what i do count on is boost high protein. And now, introducing new boost women. With key nutrients to help support thyroid, bone, hair and skin health. 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On monday the city of los angeles will memorialize kobe bryant and his daughter as they have memorialized the others that died with them in that horrific helicopter crash. And unfortunately, throughout the early part of this week, there was a controversy around gayle kings interview with a wnba star and legend that snoop dogg, the artist, took issue with. And responded with a threatening and in many ways a profane attack calling her a b and other names. I took issue with how he responded. I understand his pain. I felt the same way when many journalists would bring up negative things about james brown, the god father of soul. Or Michael Jackson who i was close with and did the eulogy at his burial. But i said there is an appropriate way to respond even when we disagree. And under no sixes should we ever call people names or threaten them. Some agreed, some disagreed. But let me give credit to snoop dogg who came out this week and fully and full throated with full floatthroated apologies sa that he felt he was wrong, he felt gayle king was wrong, two wrongs didnt make a right and he gave a full apology. He gave a teaching moment to many of us that we should think and realize the implications of what we say. If someone with his following can be big enough to say i misspoke there, maybe all of us need to think and say dont just always go to your corner and fight. Sometimes think about it and say maybe in a moment i missed the longer inferences for people of whatever gender or whatever situation they may be in. So just like i called you out snoop dogg, im calling you up to say thank you. You did the right thing and you should be congratulated. That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Eastern for a new live edition of politics nation. Up next, our coverage with more of todays news. Lievers first. 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And is there strive between bill bar ig oig and the president . And the dim being process under way. And one of the moderators will join me. And we have two big stories. Tonight on the campaign trail, early caucusing is under way right now in the state of nevada. And that is where a