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Sanders won the focus groups and bernie sanders won the online donations and the number of twitter followers. a lot of professional inside-the-beltway democrats were happy, but she did not answer the question of what is she going to do a week from today because bernie sanders is not the boss of me and not boss of you and not the boss of the benghazi committee. >> i knew you were going there. >> i am going there because when she said sensitive information was mishandled about edward snowden thats...

>> many of the headlines today touted hillary clin as the big winner. bernie sanders fans are reporting to his dominance. his campaign said it raised $1.3 million last night in the four hours, four hours after the democratic debate began. sanders also gained the most new facebook followers, 35,000, increasing the following to 1.69 million. clinton added 18,000 increasing her following to 5 had the 4 million. he got more google search traffic than all the other debate candidates. and then there w...

Explain from a political standpoint what his rationale could be since there is such a strong showing from hillary clinton, the wind is at her back right now, what is his message? how is he going to unify democrats? >> two things about that. first, i think his message would be something like this is a genuine guy who comes from the middle class, who will fight for the middle class and he would talk about the future, what he wanted to do to build on what the obama administration has done. i think ...

Far this year. a civil debate, it was substantive and i think you were rewarded with a tremendous audience of 15 million plus people. so congratulations to you. in terms of our campaign, we thought bernie had a phenomenal night. i think what is fascinating when you listen to the debate, the extent to which issues people were talking about are issues bernie sanders has been talking about. its clear hes driving the agenda not only in the debate but campaign and people are responding. we saw in the...

You heard from the sanders campaign, what do you make of their interpretation, the reporters thought hillary clinton had a better night but the sanders people saying not so fast. their candidate did great. they think their candidate won and the fundraising backs it up. >> you know, its a very surreal experience for me because i sat on that stage last night and i look that the debate and said hillary clinton won hands down, she was better and did what she needed to do and saw the focus group, a f...

If you look it at the opinion polls bernie sanders actually won. same thing that happened in 2008. the pundits came on immediately after and said hillary clinton won the debate. hillary clinton won the debate. focus groups, online money went to who? they went to barack obama. >> wait and see what my youves record is after the show. its a long race, isnt it? >> its a long race and were in the first inning. >> inkeyed. usmg, nice to so you, mr. chairman. >> you wet. s which for candidate k the str...

And the national lead, theyre being worked to the point of exhaustion in a job where one second of lost focus could cost hundreds if not thousands of lives. americas airports in desperate need of air traffic controllers. good afternoon everyone. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. were going to begin today with the politics lead. the first day of the rest of the race for the democratic presidential nomination after a debate that much like the city in which it was hosted had it all. the inst...

>> could that be happening here? are there ways that bernie sanders could have picked up some support from viewers? >> i think he -- we treat -- like in politics and the media, we treat debates as olympic events. if you win the most debates, you win the nomination and election, and thats not the case. i think its interesting that bernie sanders, despite all the pundits like ourselves, saying that hillary had a great night, and i think she did, sanders did very well in the focus groups and very w...

A lot of folks think its going to be this moment, and i want to hear your take. listen to this. >> you know, we know that if you are learning, youre going to change your position. i never took a position on keystone until i took a position on keystone. >> is that the ad? >> i literally kept thinking to myself, john kerry did debate prep with her because it was, you know, i voted for it before i voted against it. it was horrible. to say that, like, i didnt have a position until i had a position. ...

It is emotional and moving. you can so a little bit of it there. do you think one commercial could do the same thing to the debate as it did to the focus groups and change the conversation? >> the draft biden people have done an incredible job of keeping that relevant and putting this out on the day of the debate was a smart thing to do. we are talking about it. i am interested to see if they put the bucks down to buy that very expensive time in the middle of the debate. that would be a moment w...