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Questions, and because of the timing, everyone inferred, and this is what the republicans watched everyone to believe, is she was given questions in advance of of a cnn town hall meeting, and then was sharing that with the hillary clinton people, not with the bernie sanders people. in fact that's not true. not only did she deny it and cnn deny it, but in fact she was given narrative story lines for the cnn panel they were doing, and according to tad devine, she was in constant contact with him, sharing the same information. she was a democrat representing democratic candidates on the cnn panel...

This far. i think they're doing a spectacular job. >> anything you would tweak, bob? >> i think he's -- he's drawing crowds, huge crowds, but at the same time, he's doing all this personal campaigning. so, you know, one comment would be, well, big crowds, but, iowa and new hampshire, you've got to go meet people. he's going and meeting people. i think they have a lot of field organization on the ground, and a lot of it is volunteers. so, i think that -- >> and we should say you're a longtime partner, tad devine -- >> my former partner, tad devine, is the strategist for bernie sanders, but i'm ...

Having access to this voter file. the dnc says this is temporary, but the clock is ticking. the iowa aiowa caucuses only 45 away. >> thanks so much. let's bring in tad devine. he joins me live from burlington. tad, first of all, has your campaign filed suit yet? my understanding is court closed nine minutes ago. >> well, jake, i'm in vermont. it's my understanding that they were preparing to file suit i wouldn't be surprised if it's been filed. i just haven't been notified of it yet. >> so let's just get to what happened. your campaign has fired a staffer for downloading this information. why ...

Huge progressive organization endorsed us. we've got over 2 million contributions to our campaign. all that happened yesterday. >> right. >> and i can understand people being concerned about his progress. but, you know, to do this to us now so close to the iowa caucuses is wrong. okay. they just need to recognize that. let us have access to the data. we'll figure out who did what. we'll be very transparent about it. if they want a court discovery process to figure out what happened, we welcome it. >> tad, is there any chance that senator sanders would run as an independent for president given ...

>> his philosophy is democratic. >> he's an independent member of the democratic caucus in the senate, but not a democratic member of the caucus. >> he's a democratic member. >> he's running as a democrat for the president of the united states. >> first i heard that. it's a weird situation. he's now a democrat. because in the past, he's run against democrats for the senate, ran against democrats for mayor. >> in this campaign, he decided to run for the democratic party nomination and is running as a democrat. i'm glad we resolved that. >> i didn't know he changed party. >> he didn't. if he cou...