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So obviously a state like california or florida, the big states need money, you can see with money. >> yeah, of course. >> but he doesnt imagine joe biden being a player in those states despite the name recognition, the history, and being versus a new york mayor who is already not liked very well? >> well, i think his feeling is with the resources and the ability to communicate if biden falls, as you hypothesize and i think its a real possibility, he will have a chance to pick up that constituen...

California or florida, the big states need money, you can see with money. >> yeah, of course. >> but he doesnt imagine joe biden being a player in those states despite the name recognition, the history, and being versus a new york mayor who is already not liked very well? >> well, i think his feeling is with the resources and the ability to communicate if biden falls, as you hypothesize and i think its a real possibility, he will have a chance to pick up that constituency on super tuesday with 1...

Have no big money, no big donors because i dont want to be beholden to anyone. bloomberg and steyer are making a similar case. were not beholden to anyone. >> right. and bloomberg a little bit different from steyer is not even taking -- hes not taking any donations at all. >> steyer took the donation so he could get on the debate stage. >> exactly. bloomberg doesnt care about being on the debate stage. hes okay being off the debate stage right now and hes not taking any contributions at all. so ...

South carolina. speak up when we launched a campaign yesterday, we didnt launch it and four stay true tot of that process. we want to read in 16 states, which are 40% of the available delicates. >> the billionaire has already spent more on ads than the amount raised by last quarters top democratic fund-raiser, bernie sanders. >> i understand the power of the 1%. we are seeing that right now, literally with mayor bloomberg. he has decided to use part of his $55 billion, not to buy a yacht, not to...

He had transplanted new yorkers and he thought that would be the strategy and it didnt work. he largely skipped new hampshire. instead of momentum, i think the bluebird camp wanted to be -- bluebird camp, money, not momentum. he poured money into gun causes and climate change causes. they flipped seats at the local level. a former advisor to barack obama said hes basically, bloomberg is playing this air war, going to dump money in. unita groundwater. of course you need money for ads but you need...

Money. >> the bloomberg campaign plan is to let other candidates win in iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina. >> we didnt launch a campaign in four states with 4% of the available delegates. we launched it in 16 states. >> the billionaire has already spent more on ads than the amount raised by last quarters top democratic fund-raiser bernie sanders. >> i understand the power of the 1%. you are seeing that right now literally with mayor bloomberg. he has decided to use part of his $55 bill...

$39. how much money is he going to spend? >> hes going to spend whatever it took to spend to be elected three times for the mayor of new york. for the things that he stands for, climate change, stopping illegal guns, public health issues and a fair economy. you know what, hell do what he wants to do. hes going to try to win, you know why, bloomberg doesnt like to lose. >> is he really sorry for stop and frisk? >> knowing mike bloomberg, hes sorry for that. sorry because it injured people. >> but...

That will give me an indication of where he lies with other things and i dont know that i would go there. i dont know. i dont know enough about him yet. >> reporter: i will tell you as ive been talking to voters here, i havent been surprised by the fact that most of them had to say, with the first two voters which is i dont want another billionaire in the race that matches the rhetoric bernie sanders has had, but the last voter surprised me when he brought up the big soda ban. that wasnt somethi...

Make inroads with the voters on the ground and what those campaigns have that bloomberg doesnt is that they have been running for several months, and what he has that they dont, is that he doesnt have to worry about the money, and he has as much as he wants to spend for as long as he wants to. >> and what about the other candidates and what they are saying? >> well, alex a long time to go back and forth over this, because over the course of the past few weeks, we have been talk about bloomberg i...

Where advisers and people around the president have a say, have some sway? and your story about the president retreating to his own quarters was also, if you look at all of this, about do i want staff? do i want professionals? do i want advisers? or would i really like to do everybodys job? thats a bit of the wild, wild west, isnt it? >> it is. i wonder if you think americans fully understand what the president did and whether or not it was acceptable. do you think the case has been made and its...