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i'm joined now by florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chair of the democratic national committee. welcome, happy holidays to you. >> thank you, andrea, to you as wel. >> first of all, what about donald trump and this new attack he has unleashed on twitter against bill clinton campaigning for hillary clinton more actively in january? >> you know, my assessment of donald trump's candidacy is that he's been an equal-opportunity insulter. he has engaged in some of the most vulgar invectives and rhetoric and really brought this presidential campaign, its tone and where the debate is on the other side of the aisle to the lowest steps i've ever mean? a presidential campaign. so much so that my own daughters when seeing his commentary on tv asked me, "mom, why is he so rude"? that's not what we should strive for in holding up our presidential candidates on either side of the aisle.
about terrorism, threat of terrorism, than they are about the economy. at least according to the polling. and, in fact, you had pulled within eight points of hillary clinton in a recent cnn poll taken before last saturday night's debate but the margin widened to 33 points among those polled after the saturday night debate which shows it's tilted heavily on foreign policy. doesn't it show that you still, among people who are concerned about foreign policy, concerned about terror, you really have some ground to make up against hillary clinton? >> you know, it's interesting the way cnn spun that poll. because you know what that poll showed? it showed between their last poll and this current poll we gained is 12 points on hillary clinton. she dropped eight, we went up by four. that's the message of the poll. another poll came out, rasmussen also showing up and closing the gap. in new hampshire, some of the recent polls have us ahead and in iowa we're close to catching up to her. so i think what the polls are
safe travels. >> thank you very much. i'm joined now by florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, chair of the democratic national committee. welcome, happy holidays to you. >> thank you, andrea, to you as well. >> first of all, what about donald trump and this new attack he has unleashed on twitter against bill clinton campaigning for hillary clinton more actively in january? >> you know, my assessment of donald trump's candidacy is that he's been an equal-opportunity insulter. he has engaged in some of the most vulgar invectives and rhetoric and really brought this presidential campaign, its tone and where the debate is on the other side of the aisle to the lowest steps i've ever mean? a presidential campaign. so much so that my own daughters when seeing his commentary on tv asked me, "mom, why is he so rude"? that's not what we should strive for in holding up our presidential candidates on
looking very lucky. >> helene cooper, we saw bernie sanders even today not talking about foreign policy. he started our interview talking about climate change, economic disparity. his wheel house. even after the most recent polls show he really lost ground in that debate last saturday night when he failed to respond effectively, according to those polls, on foreign policy. >> that's absolutely true. and i think that he's just not that comfortable there. he doesn't want to talk about it. you see him -- and you see many of the republican candidates, as well, when it comes to foreign policy, they repeat the same talking points and they say that we need a coalition. a lot of the things that they say that we should be doing are thing, i would add, that the administration is already doing. so it's just sort of -- watching them, i felt that way as well with the republican debate, the last republican debate where these guys are talking and coming out with these phrases that are designed to make them seem as if they're being strong but when you look behind the sort of rhetoric and there's not
looking very lucky. >> helene cooper, we saw bernie sanders even today not talking about foreign policy. he started our interview talking about climate change, economic disparity. his wheel house. even after the most recent polls show he really lost ground in that debate last saturday night when he failed to respond effectively, according to those polls, on foreign policy. >> that's absolutely true. and i think that he's just not that comfortable there. he doesn't want to talk about it. you see him -- and you see many of the republican candidates, as well, when it comes to foreign policy, they repeat the same talking points and they say that we need a coalition. a lot of the things that they say that we should be doing are thing, i would add, that the administration is already doing. so it's just sort of -- watching them, i felt that way as well with the republican debate, the last republican debate where these guys are talking and coming out with these phrases that are designed to make them seem as if they're being strong but when you look behind the sort of rhetoric and there's not
polling shows is that americans since paris, since san bernardino are more concerned about terrorism, threat of terrorism, than they are about the economy. at least according to the polling. and, in fact, you had pulled within eight points of hillary clinton in a recent cnn poll taken before last saturday night's debate, but the margin widened to 33 points among those polled after the saturday night debate, which shows it's focused heavily on foreign policy. doesn't it show that you still, among people who are concerned about foreign policy, concerned about terror, you really have some ground to make up against hillary clinton? >> you know, it's interesting the way cnn spun that poll. because you know what that poll showed? it showed between their last poll and this current poll we gained 12 points on hillary clinton. she dropped eight, we went up by four. that's the message of the poll. another poll came out, rasmussen, also showing us
i talk to people in the clinton campaign at their headquarters during a debate watch party they had and this is a few months ago, talking about how trump helps them. it's like an open secret. they think he illuminates the worst parts of the gop. they would love to be feuding directly with donald trump. i will make a separate point which is i don't really think she lied as much as everyone is saying here. she was speaking somewhat figuratively but the clinton campaign had pointed to rita katz, who is literally the preeminent analyst in this sphere and katz has said, yeah, there's no video, there is no video, but isis is talking about donald trump and they're very happy about his arguments. the same way that clinton feels like trump can help her, isis feels like trump can help them. if rita katz says it, this is a women who gets every isis video first. she has a long record of knowing what they're saying when no one else does. that's a lot of evidence as far as i'm concerned. >> by that standard though when donald trump said that there
at this point, in president obama's re-election campaign, he reported 2.2 million contributions. the sanders' campaign has now reported 2.3 million contributions. the sanders' campaign says they broke the record during the democratic debate saturday night in new hampshire. >> should corporate america love hillary clinton? >> everybody should. >> will corporate america love a president sanders? >> no, i think they won't. though hillary and i have a difference as ceos of large multinationals, they like hillary. they ain't going to like me. and wall street is going to like me even less. >> joining us now michael hilzik, pulitzer prize winning columnist, and sam stein is still with us. michael, that fund-raising number is quite striking because he's being compared to an
safety of american troops there. new information about the woman plowing into dozens of pedestrians on las vegas strip. i'm boris sanchez. welcome back to "early start." >> i'm christine romans. donald trump taking the attacks to a new level. in michigan, trump used vulgar language to describe the 2008 primary loss to obama. he stopped himself on the attack for her late return from the bathroom break during the saturday night debate. listen. >> i know where she went. it's disgusting. i don't want to talk about it. no, it's too disgusting. it's disgusting. we want to be very straight up. okay? everything that's been involved in hillary has been losses. even with the race with obama. i don't know who would be worse. she was going to beat.
fall into that trap, he is going to win that contest. there's just no way to beat him at that. hunter, go ahead. >> well, i think you're absolutely right. that would have been the best moral way to handle it. maybe in one sense strategically. and i think i'm not alone, i think you're not alone in wishing that all of these campaigns would be a little more honest and a little more moral in how they are dealing with each other. >> all right. we're going to have to take a break right here. coming up, hillary clinton wants everybody to love her as she said during the debate. and bernie sanders during the debate said, no, he doesn't expect everyone to love him. and we also have an msnbc exclusive coming up, video from inside iraq showing the fight against isis. and in tonight's "last word" we're going to meet a couple of guests who i discovered on twitter this weekend.