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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy 100th Anniversary to the New Hampshire primary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. You can see how quickly that goes. The longest continuous recording of midnight vote. They're going to count the votes. Everything has been checked off.

[Cross Talk]

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So there you have it. The voting.

MARK PRESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT, via satellite: So there you go, Don. They have just closed the polls here in like 30 seconds to a minute. They've just -- right. So we're looking right now, Don. They've just closed the polls. They're going back to count them. We expect them out - I mean, there's only nine votes, Don, so it can't take that long. We certainly hope it won't take that long. They'll be right back out.

As we said earlier, on this white board behind me they will record the results. Now, granted, this is very symbolic in many ways but it is a part of this political lore that we have in the United States. Again, dates back to 1960 when Tom Tilson's father started the tradition. They not only do it in the primary, they also do it in the general election. Again, not only happening here, but in two other sounds, Millsville as well as Harts Location here in New Hampshire.

Now, Don, of course, the polls really open tomorrow morning in the more populous areas down in the southern part of the state as we wait to see who is going to come out of New Hampshire victorious on the republican side, as well as the democratic side. So let's wait a few min moments and they will come back here, Don.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Okay, Mark, don't go anywhere. We're going to continue on here and then we'll add you in to the conversation, but I want to add Ryan in. If you hear something, feel free to jump in.

Ryan, they've had a good record here in Dixville Notch over the past couple of election cycles. RYAN LIZZA, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, "THE NEW YORKER": Well, my understanding is since 1968 they've not necessarily predicted the republican - who is going to win the republican primary in New Hampshire, but Dixville Notch has predicted who the ultimate nominee is.

LEMON: Right.

That's not bad since 1968 getting all those -- I think there was a tie in 1980 between Reagan and Bush, of course Reagan went on to win the nomination but it's more of a celebration of New Hampshire and New Hampshire being the first in the nation and taking voting so serious.

LEMON: All right, let's put their primary predictions upon the screen: GOP 2012 results, Mitt Romney 2, Huntsman 2. So that was a virtual -

LIZZA: That was another tie.

LEMON: Newt Gingrich 1, Ron Paul 1. This was 2008, the results for that: John McCain 4, Mitt Romney, 2, Rudy Giuliani, 1. Then the Democrats in 2008 -

LIZZA: They got McCain.

LEMON: Yes, they got McCain. The Democrats in 2008 was Barack Obama 7, John Edwards 2, Bill Richardson 1. They got that right. So, you know, you wonder -

LIZZA: Not a Hillary vote in 2008. She won New Hampshire but Obama won at the nomination.

LEMON: If it was all like this we wouldn't have hanging chads or whatever. If nine people got to decide. Mark, what do you have? Here we go.

PRESTON: Here we go Don. We're going to see the results. Let me step down so we can get them for you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The results: on the Republican side, we have, for Donald J. Trump, 2; for John R. Kasich we have 3. On the democratic side, we have 4 votes cast for Bernie Sanders. None for Hillary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So there you have it.

PRESTON: So there you go, Don. As you can see on the white board behind me, only three candidates getting the votes. John Kasich, who came up here to Dixville Notch, who held a town meeting, about 60 people showed up from the surrounding communities, gets three votes. We know that he's been campaigning hard and there's been a lot of talk over the weekend that he has been surging throughout the state. We'll see where John Kasich ends at the end of tomorrow night when we see all the votes across the state counted.

Now, interestingly enough, Bernie Sanders, when we were driving up here, we saw a lot of Bernie Sanders signs along the road. Did not see any Hillary Clinton signs and, of course, she did not get any votes. Don, back to you.

LEMON: All right; Mark Preston, thank you. What do you make of this, Ryan Lizza? Trump 2, Kasich 3, Sanders 4, Hillary Clinton zero.

LIZZA: So one thing is Kasich actually reached out and asked for the votes, so that always helps. And then, you know, Sanders is from Vermont. The media markets up there probably cover Sanders as a senate, right, so he's [00:05:02] well known in northern New Hampshire, as he is in the rest of the state, so not a huge surprise there. And the outsiders did well, right?

LEMON: Yes.

LIZZA: 4-2 for the two outsiders versus only three for Kasich.

LEMON: So if you look at this, some people would say, how much stock should we be putting in this little town? Very charming tradition and they've got a pretty good record but not that much stock. Do you think the Clinton people are going, oh, my gosh; we're in trouble?

LIZZA: No, I don't think so. It's got a decent - it's predicted the nominee a decent number of times, in '68 on the Republican side, but, look, you can flip a coin ten times and get heads ten times in a row. It doesn't get much more. I think it's more of a celebration of democracy in New Hampshire. It shows the people of New Hampshire take this very seriously. They put on an event like this.

LEMON: We should tell everyone, the first votes are in. Dixville Notch, and they're happening in several other towns, Marksville and Harts Location as well. Small quaint towns in New Hampshire. The bulk of the voting in the southern towns and cities start tomorrow.

Mark Preston joins us now from Dixville Notch, where the votes have been cast. Trump got 2, Kasich got 3, Sanders 4, Hillary Clinton 4. Mr. Preston?

PRESTON: Well, you know, Don, what's interesting is that not only did John Kasich come up here and hold a town meeting, he has been on the phone with the voters up here trying to get their support. Our own Ashley Killough, who is traveling with Jeb Bush, reported tonight that Jeb Bush during one of his rallies says that he'd been to every nook and cranny in the state except for Dixville Notch but yet he'd made a few telephone calls up here. Clearly those telephone calls didn't work.

But, to Ryan's point, you know, this is a celebration of politics, not only in New Hampshire but, quite frankly, across the country. This is really a page out of the Norman Rockwell book. It's amazing up here how engaged people are, what they know about policy and what they want to hear from the candidates. So, Don, again, first votes cast here. Two other towns as well. We'll have those results later, but, really, this is very interesting heading into tomorrow morning, or I guess in just a few hours, we are in the morning, it's going to be an interesting race to the finish here in New Hampshire.

LEMON: Do the voters there talk, the nine people, do they talk to the media? Do they usually tell you why they voted the way they did?

PRESTON: They love talking to the media, there's no doubt about that. In fact, one gentleman who voted for John Kasich told me who he -- why he voted for Kasich. He told me the story that he went up to John Kasich and told the Ohio governor, listen, I'm interested in you but I think you need to attack Hillary Clinton and John Kasich at the time said I'm not going to do that. That's not my style. That's not what I'm going to do and the gentleman wrote him off at that time. However, the more he saw the infighting on the republican side and the attacks by Trump on Hillary Clinton, he started to come over to the John Kasich side.

John Kasich has been making a big deal about the compassionate conservatism that he is delivering. In fact, during the debate on Saturday night, he talked about not leaving anybody behind but using smart conservative solution. So smart conservative solutions sounds a lot like the John McCain campaigns, when he ran back here in 2000 and 2008. John Kasich seems to be running the same playbook and, in fact, one of his top strategists was a former John McCain strategist. Don?

LEMON: Mark Preston, do the folks there in Dixville Notch, and the other two towns, do they know that that people are going to be -- Ryan, I should say, pardon me -- do they know people are going to be paying so much attention to them at 12:01 on primary morning?

LIZZA: Yes; you can tell they're pretty media savvy. They've turned this into a celebration of the town.

LEMON: They study the policy and they study these candidates, but that's part of the reason they're so -

LIZZA: Absolutely; I mean, look, as cynical as you can get about politics, one of the things I love about covering Iowa and New Hampshire, is something like this, right. These states, Iowa and New Hampshire, the voters really do take things seriously. We had a voter still struggling over to whether to vote for Sanders or Hillary Clinton. These folks in Dixville Notch, they put on a whole show to celebrate democracy and this is sort of the epitome of what people love about New Hampshire, that shows how seriously they take this.

LEMON: I found your question fascinating, and I was going to ask if you didn't, why aren't you decided?

LIZZA: I know.

LEMON: You've had so much information. People are knocking on your doors; they're bursting through your television. They're on the radio. I mean --

LIZZA: And maybe that makes it harder because you're overwhelmed with the information and in later states you don't get that privilege, right?

LEMON: Right.

LIZZA: Later states, when there are ten states voting you don't have the candidates meeting you one on one. You know, the famous thing in New Hampshire is, you ask a voter who you're going to vote for and they say well, I don't know. I've only met Hillary twice and Bernie three times. That doesn't happen later on.

LEMON: If you're just tuning in, just about 9 minutes ago the first votes were cast in the New Hampshire primary, up in a place called Dixville Notch and two other towns. We're live at Dixville Notch. There were nine voters in Dixville Notch. We'll tell you the results. Here are the results on the republican side. On the Republican side: Donald Trump 2 votes, look at that. Fist in the nation, 2016. They're celebrating. They're going to cut into the cake there in Dixville Notch.

[00:10:03] Donald Trump, two votes on the republican side. John Kasich three votes. So John Kasich is the winner there.

LIZZA: The winner there.

LEMON: On the democratic side the winner is Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders, four votes. Hillary Clinton, zero votes; and they are celebrating up in Dixville Notch. The first in the nation to vote in a primary for who is going to be president, you know, come November.

LIZZA: And I think there's a little bit of a PR thing going on here. People are constantly saying why does New Hampshire go first and this state likes to promote these kind of things to make people aware that they take this seriously.

LEMON: Okay. Mark, do you have results of one of the other towns? What do you have?

PRESTON: We do. We have results in from Millsfield right now that have just come in. Ted Cruz received nine votes. Donald Trump received 3 votes. Number of the republican candidates only received 1 vote. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton received 2. Bernie Sanders received 1. In total 21 votes. So, Don, if you can imagine this, we're talking about two locations where a total of 30 votes have been counted, and to tell you, here, there must be 30 reporters in this room right now, a very small room, who are recording all of these results.

LEMON: More reporters than people, right? Okay, so Millsville, you said Clinton got 2 votes and Sanders got 1 vote, right? And then Cruz 9, Trump 3; correct, Mr. Preston?

PRESTON: That is correct.

LEMON: That is correct, and so more reporters there - in all 21 votes.

PRESTON: There are more reporters here than there are voters, that's for sure.

LEMON: So they're very aware of what's happening at 12:01 come primary day in those locations and that's, you know, not the entire reason, but part of the reason that they may be so engaged is because they know the eyes of the country are on them.

PRESTON: Right, no doubt. I mean, listen, we just came out of Iowa which is another state that is very civic-minded. A lot of criticism that Iowa and New Hampshire are two states that have been so influential in the process and they would like to break it up and they would like to see some of these bigger states, such as California or Florida or Michigan, have more of a role, and this happens every four years where there seems to be a struggle and a fight over there.

What makes it really interesting, and in some ways essential for candidates in smaller states is that you can go in to an Iowa or New Hampshire and you can campaign and you can meet the voters one on one and, quite frankly, you can buy television ads in these states because they're not as expensive which allows the likes of Rick Santorum, if you remember back in 2012, who won the Iowa caucus. If you look at John Kasich, who doesn't have a whole lot of money, he's up against the Trump machine. He's up against the tens of millions of dollars that Jeb Bush has but yet he seems to be doing pretty well.

So that's what makes these states very unique. I have to tell you, these folks here, they know what they're talking about. They know policy. They know their politics and, quite frankly, they want to know their candidates. They don't want to meet them once, Don. They want to meet them twice, three times, four times, five times is when they make a decision.

LEMON: Okay. I understand that John Kasich is already tweeting about his victory in Dixville Notch. Let's put it up on the screen. I'll give it to Ryan and to Mark, whoever wants to respond to it. It says, "Early momentum as John Kasich wins GOP vote in Dixville Notch. Let's keep it going New Hampshire." What do you make of that, Ryan?

LIZZA: Well his main strategist, John Weaver, he knows a thing or two about New Hampshire. He's worked for John McCain and, of course, won New Hampshire against George W. Bush in 2000, so they know how to play the game, they know how important Dixville Notch can be in getting a little media attention and getting things rolling. I think that this is a fun thing. right? This is not predictive. None of the other candidates right now are losing sleep or waking up or their aides are saying oh, my god, we lost Dixville Notch.

LEMON: That's easy for you to say because you're not running. John Kasich is, like, this is a harbinger. This is our prediction for what's going to happen tomorrow. Thank you, Ryan Lizza. Hey, thank you, Mark Preston, up there in Dixville Notch, where there are more media people than actual voters. Great reporting, Mark. Be safe. I'll see you back here in Manchester soon.

All right; that's it for all of us tonight. Thank you so much for watching. CNN'S coverage continues now with Isha Sesay and John Vause. Good night.

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[00:18:19] JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello everyone, great to have you with us. We like to welcome in our viewers in the United States and all around the world. It be votin' day in New Hampshire; I'm John Vause.

ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: It sure is; and I'm Isha Sesay and you are watching "CNN Newsroom" live from Los Angeles. The latest test in the race for the White House is well and truly underway. Results are coming in from the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Voters in a little place called Dixville Notch and two other towns have cast their ballots in the country's first presidential primary.

VAUSE: Get ready; here come the results. The first have come in from Dixville Notch, has nine registered voters and here are the numbers. I know this is exciting, on the republican side: three votes for John Kasich, two for Donald Trump - he's already complaining about that -- four went to Bernie Sanders. And then in the town of Millsville, 21 votes were cast. Ted Cruz led among the Republicans with nine votes, because he's from Canada. Hillary Clinton beat Sanders 2:1 on the Democratic side.

Polls will open in the rest of the state in the coming hours, but at least now we have something to talk about for the next 15 hours.

SESAY: Well, the outcome of Tuesday's primary will depend largely on the Granite State's famously late deciding voters. So much to discuss. We're joined here in studio by Republican Consultant, John Thomas; Democratic Strategist, Dave Jacobson. I like to call them our two wise men. Good to have you with us on this night.

JOHN THOMAS, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, THOMAS PARTNERS STRATEGIES: Thank you.

DAVE JACOBSON, CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT, SHALLMAN COMMUNICATIONS: Thanks for having us.

SESAY: Got some results coming in. Let's start with Dixville Notch, a win there for John Kasich who actually is the only candidate to actually go -

VAUSE: That helps -

JACOBSON: That helps.

THOMAS: That'll help.

VAUSE: -- goes to Dixville Notch. It's still a squeaker. He went and he's up by one.

SESAY: He got the three votes; he claimed victory, but what is it worth. What's a win worth here?

THOMAS: It's for too early right now.

VAUSE: No kidding, really?

[00:20:03] THOMAS: People pay me big dollars to tell them that, but the truth is, the question we're going to watch is can Trump be the comeback kid? Can he win, but not just win, can he win big in New Hampshire? Then we've got a four-way scrum between the top other tiered candidates, you know, Bush, Kasich, Rubio hopefully coming back from a debate, that's what his team's hoping, and Christie. That's what we're going to watch.

Dave, your thoughts on the Democratic side. Sanders getting four, no votes for Clinton.

VAUSE: Hey, (inaudible) Dixville Notch, come on.

SESAY: Let's wrap up Dixville Notch though, your thoughts there though?

JACOBSON: I think, clearly, it's anecdotal, right, but somewhat symbolic. We're going to see a big victory tonight, most likely, at least, by Bernie Sanders. The question is, is he going to win by double digits? Can Clinton sort of eat into his lead? It's largely going to be an expectations game at this point. You know, if he wins by double digits there's going to be an argument for him to go on, him to run this national campaign and this long drawn-out battle, that could go all the way out to California. If she's starting to eat into his lead, then it's going to raise questions about his viability.

THOMAS: The Clinton campaign is already starting to show some signs of imploding though. Today we just saw that Clinton said she's going to have, if she doesn't show well here, she's going to have major staff shake ups.

[Cross Talk}

VAUSE: We'll get to that in a minute. That's a little disingenuous. Now you brought up Donald Trump. He had a campaign a couple of hours ago, it was in Manchester. There was this exchange between Donald Trump and a supporter. We'll play you the highlights and cover your ears.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP (R) REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You heard the other night, they asked Ted Cruz a serious question, what do you think of water boarding; is it okay? And, honestly, I thought he would say absolutely, and he didn't. He said, well - you know, he was concerned about the answer, because some people -- she just said a terrible thing. You know what she said -- shout it out because I don't want to -- [bleep].

Okay. You're not allowed to say - and I never expect to hear that from you again. She said -- I never expect to hear that in you again. She said he's a [bleep]. That's terrible.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: Okay, so tomorrow Donald Trump will say he's only talking about baby cats, but is this the sort of thing people want to so from a man who could be president? I mean, where's the line here?

SESAY: Where's the decorum? THOMAS: You make a good point, but bizarrely that's what his supporters love. It's that it's that raw, unvarnished honesty that comes with him. He calls it like he sees --

SESAY: That's not honesty.

THOMAS: But he calls it like he sees it and the crowds -

JACOBSON: And the f bomb the other day.

SESAY: I mean, I don't understand. I hear people say that, it's about his honesty but that's just repeating the profanity. That is not about -

THOMAS: It is vulgar, but that's what his audience wants to hear and we're talking about him now. He's breaking through the news cycle at an important moment.

VAUSE: I just think there were kids in that crowd.

THOMAS: John, you make a good point, but the trouble Donald Trump has had, he had this in Iowa, is that Ted Cruz has mirrored Donald Trump on almost of all of his positions. So if he can draw a contrast and say, actually, you know what, I'm going to water-board. You're going to carpet-bomb, but I'm going to one up you. That's what he's trying to do.

SESAY: I think it's just worrying about where it's taking the discourse, the political discourse in the United States. I think that's the bigger issue.

Talking on the democratic side about, -- before we get there, I want to talk about the back and forth between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush today because that is noteworthy. It has seemed a little bit like a cage match on the final day ahead of vote, just jabs flying everywhere. Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, such insults. I want to you know, play a back and forth for our viewers and get you to respond.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: He's like a child. He's like a spoiled child. He spent $110 million on a campaign and he's nowhere.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: Okay, so yeah, there was a lot of smack talking from Trump. He was responding to Bush, who tweeted this out: "You aren't just a loser. You are a liar and a whiner." Also said, John McCain is a war hero, over and out. You know, why is Trump continuing to go after Jeb Bush? He's got 7-percent. Isn't he punching down at this point?

THOMAS: You're right, but Donald Trump can't resist but attacking his attacker. He just can't. Jeb Bush put out the bait, Donald Trump's taking it. If you're Jeb Bush you're loving this in this moment.

JACOBSON: And I think second place, third place, is up for grabs right now in New Hampshire and if Jeb Bush is able to consolidate some of that establishment support and have a strong performance, sort of pull of a Marco Rubio, what Marco did in Iowa with the lower expectations it could propel him to South Carolina with momentum. There are some talks that he'll have his, President George Bush, campaign for him there. So that could bode well for him.

THOMAS: And we saw a poll just as recent as yesterday, over 40- percent of the Republican electorate in New Hampshire say they're undecided.

VAUSE: Yes.

SESAY: Mm-hmm, which is still a lot of people.

VAUSE: On to Hillary Clinton now. You brought this up, you said that she's going to fire everyone, which is not sure.

THOMAS: I didn't say everyone; I did say a shakeup.

VAUSE: This is what she said. Let's listen to the actual statement from Secretary Clinton.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEC. HILLARY CLINTON, (R-NY) REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going [00:25:02] to take stock, but it's going to be the campaign that I've got. I'm very confident in the people that I have. I'm very committed to them. They're committed to doing the best we can. We're going to take stock. What works, what doesn't work. We're moving into a different phase of the campaign. We're moving in to a more diverse electorate. We're moving into different geographic areas.

(END VIDOE CLIP)

VAUSE: Okay, she's going to take stock, but clearly you don't take stock when you're winning. So things are not happening in Hillaryland right now.

THOMAS: She's moving into a different phase called panic-mode, that's where she's moving.

[Laughter]

JACOBSON: Well now we're seeing national polls where she's only up by two points so it's clearly a big problem for her. Look, we heard this talk eight years ago, right before New Hampshire, when everyone thought she was going to lose. Barack Obama was leading by double- digits in New Hampshire, but then obviously she prevailed and she pivoted away from -

SESAY: But the question has to be again is it about the campaign or was it about her, essentially what's the problem?

THOMAS: Well, I think David Axelrod, her former advisor, summed it up perfectly this week, where he said, you know, sometimes it's not the staff that's the issue, it might be the candidate. And that's the problem she might have.

SESAY: We've got to ask the question, if she doesn't do well in this vote in New Hampshire, if the margin of defeat is as great as some fear, do we think this will be the moment for Michael Bloomberg to tip his hat in because we know he's already said he's looking at this race? I mean, what are your expectations?

JACOBSON: And there's also the argument of Joe Biden or an Al Gore revisiting this.

THOMAS: Or an Elizabeth Warren.

JACOBSON: Right, I mean, if she doesn't look electable, if she can't beat the democratic socialist in these early states, the national democrats, who are part of the establishment, are going to start to pivot around and look for someone else.

VAUSE: I mean, do you really think there is a lane for Michael Bloomberg? Can he run a successful independent campaign? Is there a path for the antigun, anti-Big Gulp, anti-transfat, anti-Styrofoam candidate in this race?

JACOBSON: I think the issue is that America is increasingly becoming more and more polarized, right. We're seeing the democratic socialist, with Bernie Sanders, on the left. You've got the Ted Cruz's, the Donald Trump's, the insurgent outsiders on the right. There's an argument to be made that someone could sort of come up to the middle and appeal to those Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania moderate voters who are looking for someone to get stuff done.

THOMAS: If Bloomberg runs everybody can assure the presidency go to the Republican nominee.

VAUSE: Yes, he takes from Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Guys, good to see you both.

SESAY: Always good to have you.

THOMAS: Thanks for having us.

SESAY: Thank you.

VAUSE: Okay. We will continue with our coverage of all the primary results coming out of New Hampshire because we're still (inaudible) these little tiny towns, like they matter, but also hear from one of the men -

SESAY: They matter. They matter.

VAUSE: -- in Dixville Notch.

SESAY: First, how some of the biggest jam (inaudible) are feeling the burn.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [00:30:59] SESAY: Welcome back, everyone. The first primary votes of the 2016 U.S. Presidential race are in. The small township of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire cast their votes just after midnight local time.

VAUSE: Okay; here we are: nine registered voters, three went for republican John Kasich, two for Donald Trump. On the democratic side four voted Democrat Bernie Sanders, no voters for Hillary Clinton.

SESAY: Well the Sanders campaign isn't just attracting younger voters; it's attracting the bands they listen to. The campaign hosted a "Commit to Vote Concert" in New Hampshire Monday, featuring Jam Band rockers like John Fishman, of the band FISH, Matt (Inaudible) and Edward sharp who sang a special "Feel the Bern" song.

("Feel The Bern sung)

VAUSE: Well Senator Sanders also has the support of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who hosted a fundraiser for him in Los Angeles on Friday, not to mention model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who rose to prominence after appearing in the "Blurred Lines" video. She explained to CNN's Brianna Keilar why she's not supporting Hillary Clinton.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

EMILY RATAJOWSKI, MODEL & ACTRESS: I understand the urge to want to support, you know, a democratic female candidate who has completely earned her stripes. I think that my initial response to Hillary was a positive one, but depending on your politics, if you don't agree with some of the things that I think, you know, are pretty extreme and very, very to the right of where I'd like to see the party headed, it's really that simple to me.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: It really is quite remarkable the coalition that Bernie Sanders has been able to build. Sanders has racked up a long list of Hollywood supporters, including actress Susan Sarandon, comedienne Sara Silverman and actor Seth McFarland.

VAUSE: Okay, let's take a look at some of the latest poll numbers which are coming out of New Hampshire.

SESAY: Yes, CNN/WMUR poll shows, among the Democrats in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders holds a big lead, emphasis on BIG lead, 26 points ahead of Hillary Clinton.

VAUSE: Donald Trump leading the republicans with 31-percent, 14 points ahead of Marco Rubio, who is in second place. Ted Cruz, remember him? He won Iowa. He is coming in at third, at 14-percent.

We were able to speak to Tim Tulletson, who - Tom Tulletson who is the New Hampshire presi -- we can't get ahold of him. He's obviously busy doing a recount right now. There's something (inaudible) going on, but one thing which - we have John and Dave back so let's just talk about Bernie Sanders. You know, and the music tends to reflect the support, doesn't it?

In many ways when you compare Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders and if you look at the numbers that came out of Iowa the younger voters went to Bernie Sanders, 80-percent, to Hillary Clinton's, what was it, 15- percent. So why is he doing so well? Because young people can't get on to that (inaudible)? Steady as she goes.

DAVE JACOBSON, CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT, SHALLMAN COMMUNICATIONS: I think part of it is the democratic is having an identity crisis. We're seeing it on the Democratic side and we're seeing it on the Republican side as well. It's the establishment versus the insurgent, outsiders, anti-establishment, anything but Washington candidates and that's appealing to young people, people who have just watched sort of Washington and all its dysfunction and the gridlock, and nothing getting done.

These are people who want to be inspired. They want to be optimistic and look to the future. Bernie Sanders sort of embodies that narrative.

SESAY: And what about the appeal he has to creatives, to the Hollywood types, I mean the traditional bastion of the Clinton?

JOHN THOMAS, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, THOMAS PARTNERS STRATEGIES: he's running as a non-establishment candidate. He's running for the Apple phone generation. I mean, that's what he's running as. He's done a good job, I mean, harnessing the power of "Saturday Night Live," with his twin Larry David. He's outplayed Clinton on every hand there.

VAUSE: This must be difficult for the Clinton campaign to swallow because, you know what, Hollywood, that was their (inaudible).

THOMAS: That's right.

VAUSE: So he's really cut their grass there. That's going to hurt, right?

JACOBSON: This is her nightmare scenario. This is the base of the [00:35:01] Clintons. Like, they go to Hollywood to cash the big checks.

VAUSE: Yes.

JACOBSON: They come out here, to California. It's the ATM for presidential campaigns, particularly among Democrats, right; and now you're starting to see this slippery slope, with more Hollywood heavyweights going towards Bernie Sanders.

THOMAS: I don't know if it's just -- I think the entire election has been angry. The Clinton's are angry, because even if Hillary does prevail in the nomination, she thought this should be a coronation, not an election.

SESAY: You're saying she thought -- she's always said, and has always balked at this notion that she considered herself to be inevitable.

VAUSE: So she said.

SESAY: I know.

THOMAS: I think what she said publicly -

SESAY: No, no, no. Let's just hold you to the line, at least of what she has said.

THOMAS: You're right.

SESAY: Put that out there.

VAUSE: Okay.

SESAY: All right, the wisemen.

THOMAS: Thank you.

VAUSE: Okay; now, one thing which we've noticed about the campaign trail as the stakes get higher, there has been an uptake in what we like to call verbal fisticuffs. For the first time -

SESAY: Is that what we call them?

VAUSE: We do now. For the first time in the Democratic race former President Bill Clinton went after Bernie Sanders, attacking Sanders' record on his healthcare plan and accusing some of his supporters, that's Bernie Sanders supporters of being sexist.

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PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain, just explain, why they supported her, have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane, often, not to mention sexist, to repeat.

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VAUSE: Who hasn't been trolled on the internet? A spokesman for the Sanders campaign called Bill Clinton's comments "disappointing" and said his candidate will continue to focus on his message.

SESAY: On the GOP side, Donald Trump is pulling no punches ahead of Tuesday's vote, continuing to rip opponent Jeb Bush at a campaign event in Salem, New Hampshire.

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DONALD TRUMP (R) REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He's like a spoiled child. He spent $110 million on a campaign and he's nowhere.

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SESAY: Jeb Bush is taking his on shots at Trump calling him and his comments "desperate, sad, pathetic". Bush tweeted, "You aren't just a loser, you're a liar and a whiner." VAUSE: Now, be sure to tune in for our continuing coverage of the New Hampshire presidential primaries, all day, all night, it never ends; right here, on CNN.

SESAY: This is the only place to be, so do stay with us.

SESAY: Now, U.S. President Obama will request $1.8 billion from Congress to combat the Zika virus. The virus is linked to a potentially deadly birth defect and it's been rapidly spreading throughout South America. Mr. Obama's request will include $200 million dedicated to finding a vaccine.

VAUSE: Now, Brazil is ground zero for the Zika virus but concerns about the spread aren't slowing down the celebrations there for Carnival. Nick Paton Walsh reports now from the middle of all of that, in Rio.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John, as you can see here, all the warnings, to (inaudible), to wear long-sleeves, wear repellant, (inaudible) being listened to (inaudible). This is just the beginning really. Tomorrow Mardi Gras in the United States and 48 hours or so, more or less, of this festive atmosphere, a time with many people in Brazil are trying to forget the economic hardships of the past few months and put out of their minds the health emergency that's been in their midst in the past few weeks. But this is a key time for the spread of Zika. However, in Congress it sounds (inaudible) this far with this kind of madness going on around me.

The key question is, do people who come to the carnival, do they go back to their home countries and further spread anything they may have picked up here or is it a time where some optimists hope perhaps more people catch it, more people become more immune and therefore it spreads lightly more slowly. But everyone's eyes here, in this festival, in the months ahead, are on the Olympics. That's what's so key. The U.S. government saying to its athletes, you don't have to come if you're really concerned. Of course, competitors are going to want to compete, but as you can hear all around me here, Zika is not - what's on people's minds right now, frankly. It's hedonism and I think the fear will be when the hangover wears off, exactly what has this mad few days done for the spread of this potentially very worrying virus indeed? John.

VAUSE: Our thanks to Nick - do you notice wherever he goes there are explosions? He can't get away from it.

SESAY: Yes, he can't take the excitement wherever he goes, let's put it that way. Time for a quick break. We're going to give you inside the Oscars' gift bag. Find out what the nominees are going to be taking home, even if they don't win that coveted statuette. You are going to want to hear this.

VAUSE: Also ahead, North Korea's controversial just launched satellite takes a tumble in space; those details next.

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SESAY: There's a new twist involving the satellite that North Korea launched into space just this weekend. The U.S. Senior Defense Official tells CNN the satellite is tumbling in orbit. That means it's incapable of functioning in any official way.

VAUSE: But, another official has told CNN the fact that North Korea advanced its missile program enough to simply get this satellite into orbit is more of a concern than how its functioning right now.

SESAY: Well, the international community is considering stiffer sanctions against North Korea in response to that rocket launch. Let's bring in CNN's Paula Hancocks. She's in Seoul, South Korea. Paula, what are South Korean officials saying now about the current status of the satellite?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT, via satellite: Well, Isha, they're not sure if it's functioning at this point. We do know that the defense ministry believes that it is in orbit, but we have heard that President Park Geun-hye has spoken to the U.S. President, Barack Obama, this morning just a few hours ago. They both agreed that there had to be strong sanctions and they also agreed there had to be bilateral and multi-lateral movements, not necessarily just those within the United Nations. She also spoke to Japan's Prime Minister; they agreed the same thing.

The thing is, Kim Jung Un has been fairly transparent in what he has done. He said he wanted to launch these satellites and he has said he wants a dual track approach of a very strong nuclear program, and also a stronger economy. We know he's progressing with the nuclear, but what about the economy?

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HANCKOCKS: It's called "The Pride of Pyongyang", a beer with a soft, smooth [00:45:02] fragrant taste. Propaganda from North Korea is nothing new. Commercially motivated adverts are.

JOHN DELURY, YONSEI UNIVERSITY: I think some of what we're seeing in terms of, you know, by North Korean standards, sort of innovative branding and marketing of their products, is genuinely targeting Chinese consumers to see if they can get into the Chinese market.

HANCOCKS: China is the one of the few markets in the world that the heavily sanctioned North Korea can access, its portal to the rest of the world.

Visiting a cosmetics factory last year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the domestic on Hasu (ps) brand to become internationally recognized. Reliable data from North Korea doesn't exist, but South Korea says last year trade between the two was at a record high, at $2.7 billion despite high tensions over the summer. Trade with China, in 2014, was $7.6 billion, representing 90-percent of all North Korean trade. Kim Jong Un has made the economy part of successive of speeches, this year calling for all efforts to be made to build "an economic giant."