I dont just need your vote. I need you to find other people to vote for you. Remembering nancy reagan. I cant imagine a marriage being any other way but the way that ronnies and mine was. A love story that can never die. Lets talk live at the cnn news room. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. Time is short and tempers shorter. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get testy at a michigan debate. Sanders gaining ground and racking up weekend victories. Clinton holding the lead and anxious to kill off the challenge. The candidates stuck to issues but came ready to rumble. Live in detroit with more. Good morning. This was a debate in flint, michigan. A lot of it was about the failure of government when it comes to the toxic water crisis there. Michigan is also a labor stronghold. Hillary clinton landing punches on Bernie Sanders. He did the same with her when it came to her trade positions from the past. He took aim at her over or she took aim at him over his auto bailout position. It was really the tone that captured so much attention. It is raining lead in flint and the state is derelect in not coming forward with the money required. Reporter contaminated water and lost jobs dominated. Children in america should not be poisoned. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders and secretary Hillary Clinton sparring more aggressively than ever before over wall street ties and the economy. I voted to save the auto industry. He voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. If you are talking about the wall street bailout where some of your friends destroyed this economy you know excuse me, im talking. Let him respond. If youre going to talk, tell the whole story. Let me tell my story, you tell yours. I will. Sanders supported a stand alone auto bailout bill that failed but voted against a larger bill that included money to bailout wall street and the auto companies. I said let the billionaires bailout wall street. Shouldnt be the middle class of this country. Wait a minute. Can i finish . You will have your turn. Clinton optimistic about growing the economy. We are going to stop this kind of job exporting and we are going to start importing and growing jobs again. Only to be slammed by sanders over trade agreements she supported two decades ago. I am very glad that secretary clinton has discovered religion on this issue. But its a little bit too late. Secretary clinton supported virtually everyone of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate america. Reporter and butting heads again over gun control. Your position is there should not be any guns in america, period. Can i finish, please in. Reporter Clintons Campaign chair telling me sanders performance was a disappointment. He saying he wants a positive campaign but seems a little more negative and desperate. I thought his tone bordered on disrespectful. Reporter Sanders Campaign dismissing the charge. They doebt want to talk about her record of taking wall street contributions. It was really a bad night for the clinton people. Reporter how is this race in michigan shaping up . Journal poll has Hillary Clinton leading by 17 points with likely voters. That is quite the spread but i was talking to a sanders aid who says their poll shows it is tighter than that. We will see tomorrow night. This is a state that is not winner take all. It is proportional delegates. There is a lot for both of these candidates to gain. Well see reporting live in detroit, michigan this morning. Michigan is a mustwin state for Bernie Sanders. He won three states over the weekend but clinton does kill when it comes to delegates. She is way ahead with 1147 to sanders 498. All states he has won are overwhelmingly white. I want you to ricin to one remark that lit up social media last night. The actual words are awkward at best. When youre white you dont know what it is like to be living in a ghetto. You dont know what it is like to be poor. You dont know what it is like the street or dragged out of a n car. So lets talk about that. With me now a Bernie Sanders supporter and former at large member of dnc council and former national co chair of gen44 and joined by arol lewis. Lets start with the kind of awkward comment that Bernie Sanders made about the nations poor. Does he realize that most poor people in america are actually white . I think Bernie Sanders is well aware of the demographics and numbers. This is also we have to be real here for a moment. These candidates have been campaigning every day. They are going to have off moments, moments where they are caught offguard and message isnt 100 spot on. With all of that being said i think this is a distraction. You saw john spin the message so the media would be talking about that rather than the fact that his record for africanamericans, for white americans, for Racial Injustice has been the strongest. Hillary clintons is about she was her own that may be true but africanamericans by and large arent feeling that because Hillary Clinton wins africanamericans by a landslide. One reason for it is that she has a certain fluency not because of the issues or personal biography as when Bernie Sanders is running against the establishment, who is the democratic establishment . In certain communities it is black elected officials, Civic Leaders working for decades and a lot of ways they are allies with mrs. Clinton not simply because of positions she has taken but because she has done the things that make politics work over the years, appearance, fundraiser, nice personal note when someones mom dies. It means a lot to local politicians. They are the people who bring out the vote. Voters dont just pop up and show up at the polls because they feel like it or because they like what you did 30 years ago. Somebody has to tend to that and Bernie Sanders, the outsider running against the establishment basically has not done that. He has a lot of ground to make up. How can he make up that ground because he needs to win michigan 14 africanamerican so there are plenty of votes there. Proportional representation in michigan. The polls are close. If it does come head to head those delegates get split up. Aside from super delegates which could turn they are 200 delegates apart from each other. Expect many super delegates to turn who are supporting establishment candidate for the reasons mentioned. When you are part of a political machine you have to play a certain game otherwise you are not going to get promoted to positions in congress. You are not going to get promoted to party positions. You is to oil the machine to keep it working. Millennial africanamerican support is siding with Bernie Sanders. I want to talk about tone for just a second because sanders appeared frustrated by clinton at times. Can i finish insured tone and approach to someone trying to become first female president ial nominee was the story of the night. I dont know if it was the story of the night but the minutes that surrounded it. It knocked me back watching it. You look at twitter feed and that was a common perception. Its a minefield. It is difficult. We know and it is probably in textbooks by now what happened when Hillary Clintons first opponent was a guy who tried one of these stunts to look assertive and walked over to her and loomed over and asked her to sign a piece of paper and this stuff. The campaign was over at that point. He couldnt have done a worse thing. It is difficult for men to know how and when to be assertive because you can go to the line. Bernie sanders went to the line. I dont know if he crossed it between being assertive and obnoxious. Hillary clinton has run a president ial campaign before. This is the Second Time Around this is a particularly nasty campaign. She does go against donald trump he is going to be nasty and i dont think that voters who dont like Hillary Clinton will care very much. I think one of the things a lot of people dont know in the audience this is a debate trick. Anybody who has done high school and College Debate knows if someone interrupts you you keep pushing back. That is also a debate trick. She got in the last word and stayed composed. Bernie sanders is as unconventional as you can get. Fun conversation. Thanks so much. Now to republicans and marco rubio turning his attention to florida today after notching his second win of the 2016 season in the puerto rico primary. Rubio pivoting to a state he says he will win even with recent poll shows him trailing donald trump by double digits. Im talking about florida here. Jason carroll tracking the Rubio Campaign joins us live from tampa with more. Reporter good morning to you. As you know florida is a mustwin state for rubio just like ohio is a mustwin state for kasich. Rubio camp knows the state and feels as though they have a good ground game here. They feel they can pull out a win here. We are going to be watching to see what happens when rubio has his rally here in tampa later today to see if he continues to attack donald trump to see if he hones on that controversial issue involving trump and his stance on torture. He flipflopped on the issue saying he would abide by u. S. Laws regarding torture then later on saying that he would try to expand laws to try to change it. You have to play the game the way they are playing the game. You are not going to win if were soft and they have no rules. I want to stay within the laws. I want todo all of that but we have to increase the laws because the laws are not working. A number of Republican Security experts condemned trumps stance calling it inexcusable and since we have been here in the state of florida we have seen a number of antitrump ads running on tv. You can barely turn on the tv without seeing one of those spots. Trump had a response to that early this morning just about an hour ago tweeting the following. He said we cannot let the failing republican establishment who cannot stop obama twice ruin the movement with millions of dollars in false ads. So once again there is trump speaking out again. Trump believing this is a twoman race between himself and ted cruz. Trump will be campaigning in North Carolina and mississippi today. Cruz for his part will be in florida tomorrow. Jason carroll reporting live from florida. It is a big political week on cnn. Tomorrow we have complete coverage of super tuesday part two. 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Nancy reagan and Ronald Reagan may have met in hollywood but she said the role that she most valued was that of being Ronald Reagans wife. A country in mourning for one of the most influential first ladies of the century during a kman so invoked Ronald Reagans legacy the president ial candidates quick to express condolences. Donald trump called mrs. Reagan an amazing woman. Ted cruz said she will be remembered for her deep passion for this nation and love for her husband. A moment of silence for her at the democratic debate sunday. The president and first lady say they are grateful for her life and pray she and her beloved husband are together again. Born in new york city and raised in chicago nancy reagan began her career as an actress in hollywood where she met fellow actor Ronald Reagan in 1949. The two married in 1952 beginning one of hollywoods and washingtons most enduring partnerships. Everything fell into place with ronnie and me. We completed each other. Reporter nancy played a pivotal role in the rise of her husbands political career always by his side gazing adoringly. I dont remember thinking anything except here he is and he is president. Reporter as californias first lady she focussed efforts on helping vietnam veterans. As americas first lady she championed the fight against drug abuse bringing National Attention to the issue with her just say no campaign. She had her own special grit. President reagans fiercest protector. Later in life she nursed her husband during his battle with alzheimers and became a leading activist raising millions for research. It is sad to see somebody you love and have been married for so long and you cant share memories. Reporter after his death in 2004 she remained committed to preserving her husbands legacy, a symbol of the Republican Party. When you balance it all out i have had a pretty fabulous life. Reporter it is pouring here right now at the reagan library. This is where nancy reagan will be laid to rest next to her husband. Preparations are underway for a very large private memorial held here. At the same time the library is prepare frg people in the public who want to pay respects to the first lady to come here at some point and be able to do that. Some people have brought flowers. But they are saying that Nancy Reagans last wish was that if you wanted to bring flowers in lieu of that donate to the library instead and supporting the legacy of her husband. Reporting live from california today. The reagans love story overshadowed all of Nancy Reagans accomplishments, a relationship Everyone Wants but few have. Their son ron talked about that. She loved her husband more than anything in the world and i think you can make the case that the Ronald Reagan that we all came to know as president would not have existed without nancy reagan. Once they had bonded together they really were inseparable. It sounds cliche. I dont think they ever spent a day apart where they didnt call, speak on the phone. He wrote her letters in all her life, all his life. They were in love. They stayed in love for 52 some odd years. With me now carl anthony, a historian at the National First ladys library and former speech writer for nancy reagan. Im joined by david gurgen, served as president ial adviser in the reagan white house. Welcome to both of you. I want to talk about the reagans love story. We talk about Nancy Reagans devotion to her husband but he adored her. Tell us about that. Well, it he was very protective of her. And you know i remember a wonderful quote of his when during the white house years when they asked him what he shared with his wife and he said i assumed she is cleared for top secret. So he really shared with her his work but what is really interesting when you break a lot of this down what are we talking about . We are talking about personalities. Of course, policy is complex and budgets. But at the end of the day we are also talking about personalities. And forming friendships. I think so much of what mrs. Reagan encouraged in her husband was the idea that you can have political differences but, you know, you can still be friends. You can still keep a dialogue. That is something she once told me that she observed with her mother who was, by the way, to the end of her life a democrat. And her father, her step father was a republican. Interesting. So david you knew nancy reagan. She wielded power behind