was put to the test at the cnn debate last night. the former vice president took a lot of heat >> from everyone. >> from everyone. here's one moment. where joe biden sparred with cory booker over their records on criminal justice. >> why did you announce in the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop and frisk and hire rudy giuliani's guy in 2007 when i was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine? >> there's a thing in my community, you're dipping into the kool-aid and you don't even know the flavor. you need to come to the city of newark and see the reforms we put in place. >> so what about senator kamala harris after a strong showing in the first debate? some thought the strongest of all the candidates, she now learned what it's like to take serious incoming. she was forced to defend her

record as california's attorney general. one of the sharpest attacks came from tulsi gabbard. >> she put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. >> i did the work of signific t significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people which became a national model for the work that needs to be done, and i am proud of that work. >> this morning half of the candidates who were on that stage last night, they will be here on "new day." sort of a round two. andrew yang, michael bennet, kirsten gillibrand, kamala harris, and cory booker. and we'll talk about the keys. is joe biden is a stronger or weaker front runner after the debate? are the democrats stronger to take on president trump than they were before last night?

let's bring in bakari, april ryan, and andrew gillum and angela rye. angela, i want to start with you. those big questions, who won, who lost, biden weak or strong, democrats better or worse. a lot going on this morning. >> there is a lot going on. go. there is a lot going on this morning. i think that i was really happy to see strong moments from julian castro. he really showed up. he delivered. like, from the opening to the closing. i also think that bidjoe biden prepared to take on attacks but i don't know how he took them. a telling moment for me was cory book booker and how he handled disruption by protesters. listening to what the protest is about and waiting for them to have their time and then reclaiming his. on the contrary, when joe biden was interrupted, he looked

agitated. i don't think he handled it as well. also andrew yang. andrew yang. he showed up. i'm just saying. i was like, okay, i see why folks who don't like politics like this guy. >> kamala harris came out swinging and never really stopped. to tell you the truth, she turned her body language towards former vp joe biden and had a number of things she wanted to hit him on and she never really let up. she was set to aggressive. do you think that was effective? >> that's still yet to be seen. as she was throwing punches, they were also coming back. they were coming back in volumes. i think you could see the strategy was to not really address too many people who are were to the left of her on that stage and get into a discussion with joe biden. you know, she had to -- and we talked about this yesterday and the day before. she had to go in there, stand in her record on health care, talk about those issues. it was the first time that she wrote out this plan for the

country. you know, she's going to have to continue to defend that plan as we go through. i think it's a good plan. there are many who think it's a good plan. she's going to have to be firm in that. then defending your record which is something i think everyone has to do. senator harris did a good job last night. but she's going to have to do a better job. >> bakari seller, harris set the bar yesterday. said she's going to have to be able to explain it. and she was pressed on it. so do you think she met the bar she needed to? >> well, she was pressed on that and a number of other things. and what we're going to want to see as voters as we move forward is that senator harris doesn't have a glass jaw. that she cannot only deliver a punch but she can take a punch and keep on ticking. that came in my opinion under some question yesterday as a result of the debate, demeanor, posture, response, level of

aggressiveness. and not just doing the debate, but in the cnn after interviews that took place. >> what did you hear last night that raised your eyebrows? >> she was asked again about tulsi gabbard's attack on her and it was sort of, you know, she's sitting at 1%. i think we should move forward. >> condescending. >> there was not a real engagement. i don't think that's who she is. i think yesterday may have taken her off guard. but i've got to tell you, i was not a fan of last night' debate. >> why? >> i thought by comparison to the night before which you had stark differences on that stage, it felt like the day before's debate we got a lot more substantive, you know, sort of conflict between each other. last night felt a little cheap. it felt much more political than about the people. and i think if you were a regular viewer sitting at home, you wanted to hear more about what these folks were going to do for you. we predicted it. we knew the second tier

candidates would have to engage and engage aggressively. and i think that happened. at moments it felt, god, i wish we were talking more about the people whose lives we're trying to impact. >> april, your take? >> i'm very much with the mayor. i had an issue last night with some of the canned responses. i mean, kool-aid is a great drink for some, but i felt that that was strategically placed and it was corny. you know -- >> but aren't all zingers corny? >> no. we've had good ones on that stage. >> there were genuine moments, but there were also moments where people had to say, look. i'm going to one up you. the blood was in the water. blood in the water was kamala harris because everyone did opposition research on her as well as joe biden. joe biden -- and when it comes to joe biden, you know, it was a fight. it was a fight. he came for the fight. but it was also a handicap match because everyone jumped on him.

versus him being able to give his information. he was so shaken, rattled. but we saw a stronger joe. we saw a wounded kamala. she can give a punch, but she can't take one. and cory booker, spartacus, i don't know who he was. it wasn't mr. rogers and wasn't walt disney. >> but you think he had a commanding performance last night? >> i think cory did well last night. >> he did well, but he was different. >> i think that's who cory is. and i think castro did well. but i want to say as the night went on, i know we're giving our lumps to senator harris. she actually did extremely well when she focused her fire on donald trump. i think that when she was laying out the argument of donald trump breaking those promises, i think in her closing when individuals heard that agenda, when they saw that fierceful record as prosecutors, you know, that is the kamala harris people believe can take on donald trump. the blessing in all of this is we're sitting here august 1st of 2019. so this is the second debate

we've had. i think everybody on that stage will get better. but to andrew's point, to make this is a clear contest, this will have to win out. i think kamala harris is the most talented person in the race. and i think that joe biden is weaker going forward. but we shall see. we just have a lot of questions. >> i just want to push back really quickly. i think that bill de blasio -- i don't know where he was looking. like, he was -- but anyway. when he was pushing back on joe biden and forcing him to answer questions, that's the role i believe kamala harris should have played and what she should play going forward in the debate. i do not think it's in her best interest to prosecute donald trump in her opening and closing moments. that's the time she should be showing her vision for america. that is important. people know she can effectively prosecute. if you've ever watched this woman, she's a superstar in these. we need to see a different side of her. >> when you talk about the

prosecution, this is probably it for bill de blasio. >> yeah. >> yes, yes. over, done, toast. >> but he doesn't want to go back to new york. >> but here's the problem -- >> y'all are hard. >> but it's real. last night what should have happened, those candidates should have jumped on him about eric garner. and when he threw it over to the vice president, there are a lot of people who had can take responsibility for what happened to eric garner and the fact that there has not been justice. but the moment was lost and the vice president should have come back, as mayor you are over top of the police department. and we heard the protests last night. >> but the issue may have been been, what's the point of punching down to bill de blasio? >> to put on the record, this is still an issue. this is still very much an issue. >> and it's old. joe biden said old. we're talking about old stuff. they just decided that eric garner's case would not go forward with the department of

justice. it is still time right now. >> something can be done. >> can i ask one question about something angela brought up that has been brought up also with kamala harris. donald trump. angela, you said something interesting. you said you didn't think that she should have used her time to prosecute donald trump. this morning as we're waking up, a lot of the conventional wisdom is that president trump got off easy. do you think he should have been more the focus, mayor? >> well, he's always the focus as part of this. if he isn't, he's going to insert himself one way or another. one way to use the president is contrast our visions. his vision for america versus what our vision for america is. i also got to say these folks are in a primary and they're trying to win the first race first. and so i could understand why it is that they're putting attention on each other. and the final analysis last night was probably no damage done to biden and no real damage done to harris. but for the second tier candidates, people are going to

be looking twice at cory booker and quite possibly more at secretary castro. >> and yang. >> those two i thought delivered a bit of a the command performance. >> can i explain to the viewers why andrew yang is so good at what he does? everybody at this table has been around politics, covering it, running for office, dealing with candidates in the caucus. but yang might be the most disciplined candidate i've seen in my life. with every single question, it came back to his answer of the universal basic income. the question was about women in the workplace. the question was about criminal justice, universal basic income. so his discipline last night shone through. there's nobody on the stage who knows and you yang to throw a counterpunch. >> but he put it on the table. and he's going to be around for a minute.

>> we do have andrew yang literally waiting on the stairs to talk to us next. we want to ask one question of you because president trump in a way was a focus of criticism last night. is that smart politics for the democratic field? >> i love you ask that question, john. because there's a lot of twitter chatter about whether or not that's an effective form of conversation and debate. and i think that if we -- once we get to the point where we can no longer call in to question the records of any president. right? of any person who has been a public servant to this country, we have a problem and we're no longer patriotic. i don't think he's above being criticized. i think that is absolutely fair game. i think again, secretary castro had a strong moment with joe biden where he said the difference between me and you is that one of us has learned from the past. i quoted that wrong, but i think that's really important. joe biden came and thought that maybe because he was in front of a black audience, all he had to do was say i was the vice

president and president obama's record is flawless. and that's not real. he struggled with that. i think it's important for people to say, we started. we laid a good foundation. >> hoang on. i'm so sorry, angela. april. bakari, hang on. mayor. everyone. cut me a break here. because the control room -- what they just told me was you guys are coming back. we're going to bring on andrew yang right now because you were talking about him in the moment he had last night. we're going to bring on candidate andrew yang and now you'll all be back. i think we have andrew yang to look at right here. >> we are looking at him. he had a memorable line, many of them last night. so we're going to talk to him right now. most people think a button is just a button.

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we need to do the opposite of much of what we're doing right now and the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. >> that was businessman andrew yang getting some of the loudest applause with that line in his opening statement of the debate. will he stand out in this crowded democratic field? andrew yang joins us right now.

great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> how do you think last night went? >> thought it went great. it's phenomenal to be back in detroit. i spent a lot of time here. it felt like we got a really phenomenal opportunity to make our case to the american people to present our vision. >> you know, our panel very quickly was just applauding you. they said that your discipline, your messaged discipline, your single minded focus and the way you could work any questions back to your message of wanting to give every adult $1,000 is admirable. do you ever get tired of that or want to branch out? >> well, i have over a hundred policies on my website. the freedom dividend to me is just the main one that would improve americans' lives the fastest. >> i want you to explain that again. you didn't even really at the debate get to dive in and explain why you think that's so important, particularly it deals with issues of automation, it deals with issues of inequality.

so explain it. >> well, we're here in detroit. the midwest and the south lost 4 million manufacturing jobs over the last number of years. and those jobs unfortunately were not replaced in any real way. and what happened to the manufacturing jobs will now happen to retail jobs, call jobs, food service jobs, truck driving job is the most common job in 29 states. my friends are working on artificial intelligence that's going to displace many of these workers. and the more they know, the more concerned they are. so to me this is one of the driving forces behind donald trump's victory in 2016. because if you look at where these manufacturing jobs, where they used to be, they were in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, iowa. all the swing states he needed to win and he did win all of those states. the freedom dividend, this $1,000 a month is a path forward for many americans to continue get pushed aside by an economy

that's -- >> why give it to millionaires? wouldn't you save if you don't give to millionaires who don't need it? >> this is based upon the experience we've had in alaska which has had a dividend for almost 20 years. everybody in alaska gets $1,000 to $2,000 a year. it destigmatizes it. you don't have to check how much money everyone is making. and it's a right of citizenship. >> there's a big difference between the population size of alaska and the population size of america. >> yeah. it's going to do even more good here. they're paying for it in alaska with oil money. technology is the oil of the 21st century. and if we give the american people a tiny slice of every amazon sale, every google search, every robot truck mile, we can do this. >> is that your plan forever? automation isn't going away. so you're just going to keep

dolling out the thousand dollars? is there another solution to keep americans working? >> well, i touched on it last night. the goal is to try to create new jobs that focus upon the needs of the 21st century. around our own health and well being. around caring for each other and educating our children and making the environment cleaner and safer. right now unfortunately those are not the ways we measure our own progress. really we measure our progress through gdp and stock market prices. and these measure mgments are becoming related to how we're doing. g zp at record highs while our life expectancy has declined for the last three years. it's not just life expectancy. it's stress, anxiety, depress, drug abuse. if we get the measurements wrong, we're never going to make progress. >> you made the point on the stage last night that you felt every candidate would be better as president than donald trump.

do you think that point is being missed in the current discussion? >> well, it's just the mechanics of the process. one of the things i joke about and it's true, you notice that everyone always attacks someone above them in the polls. this is the mechanics. well, you know, you need to boost your profile. you're going to have to take a shot at one of the front runners. and so that's why we have this dynamic that encourages us to tear down the front runners. and it's not going to help us beat donald trump in 2020. >> do you think the debate last night because there was a lot of those cross attacks ended up hurting the democratic party somehow? >> i think viewers are savvy enough to know what's going on. they see it's like, hey, they're going to take shots at joe. they're going to take shots at kamala. and they take it with a grain of salt. because they know at the end of the day the party is going to come back together. >> the other thing we've heard a lot over the last eight hours is, wow. it made it seem as if president

trump was far to the right. that all of his policies were being attacked as too far to the right and not doing enough. did you see that? there's certainly that baked in. and the democratic party has shifted in some ways even during the last several years. >> you think that's a good thing? >> well, i think that right now the party's at a point we're trying to figure out what the core ideas of the party should be and the case we're going to make to the american people. i think that's productive and healthy. i have my own ideas that should be front and center. it's not just me. the entire party is trying to figure out exactly what it stands for. >> joe biden going into this debate was the faraway front runner in the polls. do you think that he helped his case or hurt his case or just held solid last night? >> you know, it's interesting to look at this. because if you see what happened after the last debate, joe had a bit of a dip and then just came

back. like, we all know who joe biden is. i'm not sure last night changed anyone's opinion as to who joe biden is. >> why is it funny to you? >> it's funny because, you know, we hype up the debates and the narratives that develop out of the debates and then to see that joe biden to snap back to where he was and everyone snap back to where they were, i think people's perception of the candidates is very resilient. >> number one, based on what you said last night, would you support any of the democrats who wins the nomination if it's not you? >> the plan is to beat donald trump in 2020 and i would prefer any democrat over donald trump in 2020. >> and the second thing is, where do you stand right now in terms of making the debate stage in september? you've met the donor threshold, correct? >> yeah. and we thought we had the polling threshold. but we're going to be on the debate stage in september and october. we're already past the donor threshold and will be past the polling threshold probably some

time this week. >> andrew yang, thanks for making this your first stop. >> thank you for making me your first guest. >> first guest ever. >> i inaugurated the show. all right. we have four more candidates joining us this morning. michael bennet, kamala harris, kirsten gillibrand, and cory booker will be here live on "new day." so democrats may not have attacked president trump as often as some would have liked in this debate, but they did take on as we were just talking about some of the policies of formere formered. president barack obama. how smart of a strategy was that? that's next. it's tough to quit smoking cold turkey.

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>> i asked the vice president point blank did he use his power to stop those deportations. he went around the question. >> you can't have it both ways. you invoke president obama more than anybody in this campaign. you can't do it when it's convenient and then dodge it when it's not. >> your plan by contrast leaves out almost 10 million americans. so i think that you should really think about what you're saying. >> mr. vice president, it looks like one of us have learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't. >> back with us to talk about all of this we have bakari sellers, andrew gillum, angela rye, and april ryan. bakari, what did you think? did you expect president obama to come up so often? and in sometimes a critical light on the second democratic debate stage? >> yes and yes. i mean, you have the president's former vice president on stage. and joe biden gets into this point, sometimes, where instead of talking about the policies of

barack obama, he tends to use barack obama to deflect from his own record. last night what you saw was he got caught in between. so you can't use barack obama to defend your record and then disassociate with him on tpp and disassociate with him on deportations. either -- you have to be more nuanced and more critical. joe biden had issue with that. i do want to say, though, and from the viewership point and perspective, because sometimes we get inundated. barack obama still has a 95% approval rating amongst democrats in this country. so you have to be very caution. because even when those individuals -- i have a feeling even when tested on immigration, there are a lot of poor democratic voters who will not like that message of challenging barack obama. though i agree like angela he is not above reproach. >> here's where we are. we are in a new day, as we know. >> on "new day." >> good placement. >> good placement.

here's the issue. we are not fighting like we used to fight ten years ago, 20 years ago. and the democrats have to really be careful. barack obama is one of the most successful democratic presidents of all time right now. bill clinton, he's been diminished by donald trump. but if you look at the record of barack obama. some of this is the family issue that they should be fighting amongst themselves behind closed doo doors, but then you have to remember as barack obama is this president with this great approval rating and you have this president over here, donald trump, who is constantly trying to berate him, bring him down, discredit him. you have to be careful. because you could play into that. >> do you think they went too far last night on that? >> yes, i do. >> no. >> i do believe that. no, no. because some people -- a lot of people are just coming into this political game right now because of donald trump. they don't understand. a lot of people came in because of barack obama. and sometimes as you try to give

them everything, you can't give everybody steak when they're only on milk. >> i think our reality, though, is that this is a democratic primary. this is the time you have to challenge democrats on policy prescriptions they've been putting forward, challenge the proposals whether or not they're making sense. and pa rt of what we have to go on is frankly the last democratic administration was his. >> but that was not great. everything was not wrong. >> but i think there was nothing that was below the belt. i think it was all fair game. and i think the challenge, though, is if vice president biden, to bakari's point, if he's going to stand on the glory years of barack obama he has to stand on the rest. >> but be careful how you fight. >> there's no choice here. it's a false choice. you can be critical of the elements of this administration that were unsuccessful without saying barack obama was a bad president. >> he wasn't. >> he had to inherit quite a separated government. and it produced some successes

but also shortcomings. we'll be able to read his book soon. he may be able to reveal what he thought those shortcomings were. >> the argument out there in the atmosphere is if barack obama is too far right for today's democratic party, that shows you how far the democratic party has drifted. >> i looked at the debate and watched commercials paid for by the donald trump campaign that had every one of the candidates lined up and called them all socialists saying they agreed on this, this, this and the third. probably not factually true. but they will have this line of attack. they attempted it before we even entered this race in earnest. shading every democrat as if we're all socialist. i'm simply saying i'm a democrat. i identify as one. so far as i know, at very least 19 of the 20 people on the stage of the last two nights also identify as democrats. >> but also this, and let me just -- i hope that every democrat watching, i hope

they're watching our panel because it's robust to say the least. but all 20 democrats have to step their game up. >> that's true. >> you know, i love kamala harris. i think she -- i hope she will be the next president of the united states. but even kamala harris or joe biden who has this experience or even bernie sanders or elizabeth warren, i think that this is a very healthy process. because what we've learned after the first two debates is we still have a long way to go. every candidate has their own flaws. every candidate has their own issues. our message on health care was all over the place. our message was not an elevator pitch. it was all over the place. and what we do know, and this is to steal from chris who always talks about this late night. donald trump is sitting in one corner of the ring with a baseball bat that is going to bludgeon us with things that are not factually true. and to andrew's point, no matter where we are he's going to call us socialists. but we have to step our game up.

>> i agree with you. i am never one against a competitive primary. i was in one myself that produced me as a nominee. i hope that through this -- last night as an example, we can draw distinctions and have them strongly on the issues on the record. i think the cheap political stuff which most of these viewers actually see through which is why in the cnn panel that took place after the debate, nearly every one of them said they thought cory booker or secretary castro were the highest performers. and they sited some of the positive energy that was brought to it. >> i think on that point, like, when you think about how barack obama won, he won on hope and change. >> that's right. >> there was not enough hope and change on that stage last night. and that was, i think, to be contrasted with the day before. yes. cory booker and julian castro. but joe biden should have been on that. kamala harris should have been on that. even kirsten gillibrand who said she works but i don't think it was the promise of what she would deliver. he just said she would deliver.

>> elections are about the future. >> i want to talk about the kool-aid moment from cory booker. >> i'm going to go ahead and tap out. >> there's no such thing. lean in. >> oh yeah! >> what? >> this was an exchange about the criminal justice reform. but cory booker came after former vice president joe biden with this. >> why did you announce in the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop and frisk and hire rudy giuliani's guy in 2007 when i was trying to get rid of the crack cocaine -- >> mr. vice president, there's a thing in my community. you're dipping into the kool-aid and you don't even know the flavor. you need to come to the city of newark and see the reforms we put in place. >> newark has kool-aid. >> april, you're crying. >> she became the kool-aid man on stage. >> the record must reflect that april did begin this segment by saying kool-aid is what we use

to dye our hair. >> i didn't say that! i did not say that! i said in some places they do use -- now it's not a drink. >> it is a drink. it is not hair dye. >> i have to say this. senator booker, you know i love you, man. but i could just see you going, oh, here comes my time. here comes the kool-aid. >> but with black phrases you don't enunciate every word. >> they say you dipping in the kool-aid. >> don't even know the flavor. >> what is it? >> you all up in the kool-aid and you don't know the flavor. >> it was a -- >> he was to pedigreed with it. >> you're dipping in the kool-aid. >> let me record also show i didn't participate in any part of that. >> lighten up, andrew! >> do you know that it was -- for certain people who were looking at -- >> why are you doing this?

>> we're not supposed to be having this conversation. >> you can. >> there were a lot of people watching that, a lot of black folk who were like, no. but to -- >> they clapped in the audience. >> to the democratic voters, it was an endearing moment for cory. cory had a good night last night. >> he did. >> part of him delivering that line showing the jocularity of it. >> the what? >> the jocularity of kool-aid. >> he was having a good time. but the point is voters also need to be exposed to our candidates not just off the substance of their policy but they're also looking for a feeling like who is this person. could i afford to live with them for the next four years or do i have to have my kids every time cnn comes on because you're embarrassed by what the president may say? >> now i want to know what kind of kool-aid. >> i think kool-aid has responded. do we have something on twitter? >> oh!

>> they put an oh yeah, april. >> oh yeah! >> we know the flavor. >> it should have been blue raspberry though. because it was a democratic debate. >> they did their work. >> this is a conversation we should wrap up. >> i want to thank you all for being with us all week. please come back. i think we'll do this a lot more. >> we want to thank you for having the bold, brave vision, you and the producers, to do this when other networks couldn't or wouldn't. thank you, guys. >> amen. >> hallelujah. >> every day. >> as a shade tree grows above your head. >> thank you, guys. this is great. all right. they will be the first to weigh in on the 2020 presidential race, so who won the debate in the eyes of iowa voters? we were there. we ask them next. just between us, you know what's better than mopping? anything! at the end of a long day, it's the last thing i want to do.

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they are not. and those voters, they matter so much. so who stood out in iowa last night as they were watching the cnn presidential debates? vanessa yurkevich joined them in dew bea-- dubuque. she's live with the take. >> reporter: many of them watching it like a sporting event. cheering, booing, clapping, trying to figure out who was going to come out victorious and whether or not they could support them in the iowa caucuses just six months from now. >> i think democrats are expecting some engagement here. i expect we'll get it. >> reporter: and with that, it was on. >> you're dipping into the kool-aid and you don't even know the flavor. >> reporter: voters here in dubuque, iowa, comparing this to -- >> speed dating. >> a ping upon match. >> a family road trip. >> reporter: some picked up new

fans. >> i have to say, yang has been very impressive. and, you know, it's scary because of what we got with donald trump being a businessman and then you say, well, yang hasn't been in the government and he's a businessman. but i like what he's saying. >> reporter: and others fell flat in voters' eyes. >> mr. vice president, you didn't answer my question. >> i think gillibrand probably hurt herself in continuing to go after it when clearly it wasn't going to go anywhere. >> reporter: joe biden taking a lot of incoming heat. >> the vice president -- >> vice president biden -- >> vice president -- >> reporter: his supporters in this room had his back. >> everybody can have a good talking point and breakout moment because that's what's they're being coached for. but i want the person who has been steady. >> reporter: but some still questioned his performance. >> i'm concerned about certain people like biden. i found him stammering and not

finding his words. >> reporter: a standout for a number of voters here was cory booker. many feeling like he could earn their vote and their donation. if you had to write a check, make a donation to one of the candidates up there on that stage, who would it be? >> cory booker. definitely. i just -- i like his message. i like his demeanor. i feel that he's the kind of person that a lot of people will be able to relate to. >> reporter: in the end still, few say they walked away with a clear winner. >> i've got about seven or eight i'm looking at hard. six or seven, not so much. and the rest are -- that's nice. but we can't all be president. >> reporter: they won't all be president but they also won't all make it to the next debate. that's because of a donor requirement. that's why last night's debate was crucial. if they like what they saw, they're going to open checkbooks

to keep campaigns funded and to help them qualify for future debates. >> vanessa, it is so helpful to hear from viewers and voters particularly in iowa. so thank you very much for being at that watch party and bringing it to us. meanwhile, tensions are escalating again with iran. why the trump administration is sanctioning iran's foreign minister. next. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn.

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sanctioning the foreign minister. clarissa ward joins us with more. what's this about? >> reporter: according to the trump administration, this is essentially about the fact that they view zarif, the foreign minister who speaks fluent english who is very outspoken who travels around the world very skillfully putting forward iran's point of view, they view him as essentially being a sort of pawn for the iranian government and specifically for the ayatollah.

another step towards denying the iranian regime to enable terror and oppress the iranian people. zarif has for years now been complacent in this activities. zarif himself fired back with a sarcastic message on twitter. saying, thank you for considering me such a huge threat to your agenda but what's really interesting here is the timing of this. because it was just a few weeks ago that zarif visited new york. he sat down with some journalists including our own fareed zakaria and gave the first real indication that possibly or the first hint that possibly the u.s. might consider renegotiating the nuclear deal between iran and the u.s. if that's the case, zarif would be the front man of those negotiations and so what kind of a message is now being sent by

the trump administration by trying to push him out, who becomes the person then that the u.s. would hold those negotiations with? >> key questions. clarissa ward, thank you very much. all right. we have a big morning ahead here from detroit. four more presidential candidates will join us right here. what did they think about their performances? that's next. ♪ book now and enjoy free unlimited open bar and more. norwegian cruise line. feel free.

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we are in detroit after last night's contentious democratic debates. so let's get a special motown version of -- >> oh, good. i'm going to like this. >> -- your late night laughs. ♪ i guess you'd say what kind of candidate talks this way ♪ ♪ marianne williamson ♪ talking about marianne ♪ got to have barack obama ♪ has joe mentioned he knows obama ♪ ♪ yes he's really tight with obama ♪ ♪ ooh i bet you wonder if we knew michael bennet was running too ♪ ♪ with some other guy named jay inslee ♪

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