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He says democrats are freezing him out of information he's nighted to have. and showing blatant favoritism for hillary clinton. senior political correspondent mike emmanuel has details. >> vermont senator bernie sanders' campaign is fighting back, threatening to take the democratic national committee to court. the dnc accused the sanders campaign of improperly accessing confidential voter information, gathered by rival hillary clinton's campaign. campaign manager jeff weaver came out swinging, claiming party leadership is actively favoring clinton. >> individual leaders of the dnc can support ...

Information. in other words, by their action, the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. we are announcing today that if the dnc continues to hold our data hostage and continues to try to attack the heart and soul of our grassroots campaign, we will be in federal court this afternoon, seeking immediate relief. >> msnbc's steve kornacki interviewed josh you'ret ski, the one staffer who was fired from the sanders campaign. he said they did not misuse the data. >> we knew that what we were doing was trackable, and we were trying to cr...

Campaigns in modern history. >> the sanders campaign fired one aide for viewing clinton's proprietary information through a firewall that was apparently wide open. but campaign manager jeff weaver says the punishment, everyone temporary, is out of bounds. >> and if the dnc continues to hold our data hostage, and continues to try to attack the heart and soul of our grassroots campaign, we will be in federal court this afternoon seeking immediate relief. >> democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman-schultz told wolf blitzer the sandsers campaign would be blocked from the party fi...

States, but these caucuses, he caucuses with the democrats but is an independent socialist so having someone who is an independent now going to court and his campaign going to court with the democratic party is a fascinating subplot here. >> let's remind everybody exactly what jeff weaver had to say about that and whether or not they are going to end up in court today. take a listen. >> individual leaders of the dnc can support hillary clinton in any way they want. but they are not going to sabotage our campaign, one of the strongest grassroots campaigns in modern history. we are announcing to...

This entirely on the dnc saying the dnc's vender failed to keep it confidentable. >> if the dnc continues to hold our data hostage and attack the heart and soul of our grass roots campaign, we will be in federal court this afternoon seeking immediate release. what is required here is a full and independent audit of the dnc's mishandling of this data and security from the beginning of this campaign to the present, including the incident in october that we alerted them to when we were fairly confident that large amounts of our data were sent to another campaign. >> joining me now is jeff zeleny....