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Bernie Sanders Keeps Pressure on Hillary Clinton; Denver Broncos Wins Super Bowl 50; North Korea Rocket Launch; Refugee Crisis Overwhelms Turkey. Aired 4:30-5a ET
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[04:31:10] JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Just one day away. The voting begins in New Hampshire. The nation's first in the nation presidential primary. The candidates all over this state looking for last second votes. Courting the undecided voters. We will break down the big changes overnight.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: The other big show. The Denver Broncos taking home the Super Bowl 50 championship title. The game's big moments and emotional post-game interviews.
Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans here in New York.
BERMAN: And I'm John Berman live in Manchester, New Hampshire. About 30 minutes past the hour right now and again we are just one day away from the first in the nation primary here in New Hampshire. And this morning, an interesting, surprising new line of attack from someone not even running. Bill Clinton turning heads this morning. Speaking more directly, more pointedly about Bernie Sanders and his supporters than he ever has before.
This is a real shift for the former president who until now has really only spoken about Hillary Clinton's record and experience. Listen.
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BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you're not for us, "The Boston Globe," "The Concord Monitor," "The Portsmouth Newspaper," they're all part of the establishment. Except "The National," paper, they endorse her, too, but Bernie took what they said that's good about him and put it in under all these endorsements. Except they didn't endorse.
Today they used a veteran's name saying he endorsed, he didn't endorse. But if you point it out, it just shows you how tied you are to the establishment. I mean, when you're making a revolution, you can't be too careful about the facts. You're just for me or against me.
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BERMAN: Again, this is interesting. Bernie Sanders -- Bill Clinton has never spoken like this before. This is the first time we have seen him really go directly after Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton has been trailing consistently to Sanders in New
Hampshire polling. The latest Monmouth University poll has Sanders up by 10 points.
Senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny is in New Hampshire with the very latest -- Jeff.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: John and Christine, one full day of campaigning left here in New Hampshire before the primary on Tuesday. Bernie Sanders not letting up on Hillary Clinton's record. At a rally on Sunday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he drew the biggest applause when he went after her record on Iraq, specifically that vote on the Iraq war in 2002.
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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Lately, lately, I have been lectured on foreign policy. The most important foreign policy issue in the modern history of this country was the war in Iraq. I was right on that issue, Hillary Clinton was wrong.
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ZELENY: Now Hillary Clinton is back in New Hampshire after taking a brief detour to Flint, Michigan. She'll be campaigning all day today, but she addressed something with CNN's Jake Tapper on "STATE OF THE UNION" about that double standard that still exists between men and women, and some critics who have said she's shouting.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are still living with a double standard. And I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman or you're in the professions or business or politics. You know, sometimes I talk soft, sometimes I get passionate, and I get a little bit excited.
I don't know any man who doesn't do the same thing and I find it sort of interesting that all of a sudden this is a big discussion about me, once again.
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ZELENY: Now both sides agree, Sanders has a commanding lead here, but the question is how much and the next question, what will those independent voters do? Oh, so fickle New Hampshire independent voters will hold the key to this primary election -- John and Christine.
BERMAN: All right, Jeff Zeleny, thanks so much.
On the Republican side a new fascinating dynamic emerging in the race. Donald Trump seems to be out in front, but then there's this bunching, look at that. The next four people in this race bunched together separated only by two points.
[04:35:05] Donald Trump is now perhaps also showing a softer, gentler side. Doing some retail handshaking and politicking. He is also playing now the expectation game a little. He spoke to CNN's Dana Bash.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So if I had two seconds, I think I'm doing OK. I'd much rather win. I could say to you, if I came in second or third, I'd be thrilled, OK? And that way we lower -- I know all about expectations. We lower expectations. If I came in second, I wouldn't be happy. OK? So now if I come in second, you can go around and say boom. No, I would much prefer to win in New Hampshire.
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BERMAN: That is the Donald Trump side of things. As for the pack behind Trump, Jeb Bush has found new life in New Hampshire. His supporters are hoping this is where he can turn things around. Bush is going hard after Donald Trump, calling him a loser for making fun of a disabled "New York Times" reporter and for disparaging 2008 Republican nominee John McCain.
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JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And by the way, let me echo what Lindsey said. It is a sign of real weakness when you call John McCain and Leo Thorsness, or anybody else that was a POW who served this country in a way that should be admired. American heroes. Calling them losers.
Donald Trump, you're the loser.
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BERMAN: Jeb Bush will be on "NEW DAY" at 8:00 Eastern Time. It will be interesting to see if he continues this line of attacking at Donald Trump. Here's betting yes.
All right. This Monday morning, Marco Rubio was trying to forget Saturday night. The Republican debate Saturday night did not go the way he wanted. And now the senator is trying to fight the perception pinned on him by Chris Christie that he is some kind over rehearsed robot.
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SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Here's the bottom line, this notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There it is.
RUBIO: He knows exactly what --
CHRISTIE: There it is, the memorized 25-second speech.
RUBIO: Well, here's the response. I think anyone who believes that Barack Obama isn't doing what he's doing on purpose doesn't understand what we're dealing with here. OK. This is a president -- this is a president who's trying to change this country.
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BERMAN: Chris Christie says his performance during the debate succeeded in shutting down what he called the anointment of Marco Rubio as the frontrunner in the so-called establishment lane of the race. Governor Christie says he thinks Senator Rubio, quote, "didn't look like he was ready for the game." And then after Christie's assault on what he called the anointed one, the governor says the whole race has changed.
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CHRISTIE: The plan was to go and talk about the thing that I have been talking about all week, that there's a big difference between me and Marco Rubio. Between my experience and his. Who is ready to take on Hillary Clinton, who's ready to run this country. And so this isn't about me or Marco Rubio. This is about the country. And the country needs a president who's ready. We've had seven years of a president who wasn't ready for the job. I'm ready for the job. Senator Rubio is not. And that's the point I was trying to make last night, and you know, I think it went OK.
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BERMAN: All right. Senator Ted Cruz drawing new distinction with his rivals. Now on issue of women registering for the draft. In Saturday's debate, Rubio and Bush suggested that they would support having women enroll in selected service now, women are now allowed in combat. But now Cruz tells a New Hampshire audience that the idea is nuts and immoral, and that it would not happen if he were president. Senator Cruz noted that he is the father of two little girls.
Not all serious political warfare over the weekend. "Saturday Night Live" had Bernie Sanders as -- on stage with Larry David. Larry David was the host. If you missed it, Bernie Sanders played a socialist immigrant on his way to the United States in a sketch about "The Titanic."
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SANDERS: We need to unite and work together if we're all going to get through this.
LARRY DAVID, ACTOR: Sounds like socialism to me.
(LAUGHTER) SANDERS: Democratic socialism.
DAVID: What's the difference?
SANDERS: Huge difference.
DAVID: Huge?
SANDERS: Huge.
DAVID: Huge with a Y, hey? Who are you?
SANDERS: I am Bernie Sanders-witsky. But we're going to change it when we get to America so it doesn't sound quite so Jewish.
(LAUGHTER)
DAVID: Yes.
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BERMAN: Love "Saturday Night Live." Bernie Sanders loves the kids. Doing very well with young people all across the country.
You know, the dynamic here, Christine, is so interesting. Because in New Hampshire, really a third of the voters don't decide until the very last minute. That very last moment when they walk into the polls. And you can vote in either party primary. So there's no way to tell often which way a guy is going to go or a woman is going to go. I mean, someone who's at a Trump rally can turn around and vote for Bernie Sanders tomorrow.
[04:40:01] ROMANS: It's remarkable. And the access so many of these voters have to so many of these candidates, I mean, I think Chris Christie and John Kasich have something like 100 town halls. I mean, they have been all over the states. You can see numerous candidates a couple of times if you want until you make up your mind.
All right. John, thanks for that. That's the big show going on in New Hampshire.
Another big show happening this weekend, of course, Peyton Manning and maybe this was his last rodeo. If it was, the ending was sweet. His Denver Broncos are Super Bowl champions. They beat the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Super Bowl 50. The real star of the game was the Denver's defense. What a game.
We get more now from CNN's Coy Wire.
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COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: For the second time in his historic career, Peyton Manning is a Super Bowl champion. At 39 years old, Peyton became the oldest starting quarterback in Super Bowl history. Now many think this is his last game. And if so, what an incredible journey it's been. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PEYTON MANNING, BRONCOS QUARTERBACK: It's a special feeling. I actually know how hard it is to get here. It takes a lot of hard work and you've got to have some -- you've got to have some good fortune. And we're really very grateful to be here, to be in this game to play the Super Bowl 50 and certainly to be victorious. It's very special. To be the great football team.
OWEN DANIELS, DENVER BRONCOS: To be able to play with the greatest of all time and share a championship with him. It means everything.
VON MILLER, SUPER BOWL 50 MVP: It means everything. You know, me knowing Peyton. It's been great. You know, he's a great leader. I'm happy for him as well.
ANTONIO SMITH, DENVER BRONCOS: It means the world to me because I love all my teammates. And to see what he had been through this year and to come back from it, and lead us into a Super Bowl win, you know, Peyton. Ride off into the sunset if you want to, brother.
MANNING: I don't know the answer to that. I think I will make a good decision. And I think I'll be at peace with it, whichever way it goes.
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WIRE: Manning's teammates came through for him. A dominant defensive performance by Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and company. Cam Newton was under duress all night. Being sent home deflated and defeated. Peyton Manning hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, and if this is the final chapter of his story, it's a fairytale ending for a living legend and one of the greatest figures in American sports history.
Coy Wire, CNN, Super Bowl 50.
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ROMANS: All right. Thanks for that, Coy.
Forty-two minutes past the hour. The refugee crisis reaching a boiling point in Turkey. Turkey now says it is unable to take in more people fleeing a war torn Syria. We're live with the new developments next.
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[04:46:05] ROMANS: Global condemnation of North Korea following a rocket launch Sunday. It comes on the heels of what Pyongyang claimed was a hydrogen bomb test last month. The South Korean president calls it a challenge to world peace while announcing her government will begin talks with the U.S. on installing a sophisticated anti-missile defense system.
We've got our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson for us this morning in Seoul, South Korea. And Ivan, you know, every time -- every time Pyongyang tests or
launches something, it just adds to its body of technical expertise that really concerns the global community.
IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's the agreement that the United Nations Security Council made. That even if this launch was, as North Korea claims, truly for peaceful scientific reasons to put, as it describes it, an earth observation satellite into space, it is still being interpreted by the international community as a step towards developing a nuclear weapons delivery system. So it's being taken very, very seriously.
When the launch took place, you had the militaries of South Korea, Japan, the U.S., Taiwan all closely tracking the launch of the rocket. You've since had the South Koreans, for example, following the debris trail, trying to pick up some of the debris and instead of celebrating the holiday here, the Lunar New Year, it's the biggest holiday of the year here in Korea, you've got military and intelligence officials, diplomats working very hard on trying to figure out what exactly went into this rocket and how to build some kind of a response that can try -- try to stop North Korea from moving forward with this nuclear weapons and rocket delivery program.
Amid the condemnations that have come from the U.S., France, Russia, Japan, South Korea, you've also had criticism from North Korea's most important trading partner, which summoned North Korea's ambassador for a formal protest. China expressing regret about the missile launch. But we're still not sure whether or not China will step up and apply fresh economic sanctions against North Korea. That's a measure that the U.S. and its allies in this region have called for in the past -- Christine.
ROMANS: All right. Thank you so much for that, Ivan Watson.
Back here in the U.S. police are investigating a deadly shooting at the scene of a Mardis Gras parade in Past Christian, Mississippi, Sunday. Two people were killed. At least four others wounded. It happened near the route of the parade which had ended when those shots were fired. Authorities say they are questioning one suspect in that shooting.
A new low for the Chicago Police Department. That's what the attorney for the family of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier saying about a lawsuit by the Chicago cop who fatally shot the teenager in December. That officer who shot Quintonio LeGrier, Robert Rialmo, claims he was traumatized by the shooting. He's asking for more than $10 million from LeGrier's estate. The officer said he opened fire because he, quote, "reasonably believed that LeGrier would kill him."
Divers will resume a search this morning off the Southern California coast for wreckage from two small planes that collided last week. Authorities say the remains of two victims and parts of one plane were recovered Sunday more than 100 feet below the ocean surface. Officials launched the search Friday after radar showed the two planes colliding in mid air. New York City's mayor announcing a series of new safety measures in
the wake of a deadly construction crane collapse. One person was killed in that accident Friday, three others were injured. Investigators still don't know exactly what caused it. Among the steps being taken, the city will require contractors to stop operating crawler construction booms when steady winds of 20 miles an hour and gusts of more than 30 are forecast.
Fifty minutes past the hour. Time for an EARLY START on your money this Monday morning. Markets in Chinese markets closed to this week for the Lunar New Year. European markets, U.S. stock futures are looming a little higher. Looks like stock futures have just turned down a little down here.
[04:50:03] A bad day on Friday on Wall Street. Here's the damage report. The Dow fell 211 points. The S&P 500 fell almost 2 percent. The real damage over the Nasdaq. Look at that. 3.3 percent lower. It's now the lowest level since October 2014.
Every Chipotle restaurant will be closed today for a food safety meeting. Every single one of them. Now that the CDC has declared Chipotle's e. Coli outbreak officially over, Chipotle wants to keep it that way. This four-hour meeting will focus on changes Chipotle has made to how it prepares food. The e. Coli outbreak started in the northwest. It spread to a dozen states. About 500 people got sick before Chipotle got it under control.
Chipotle was a darling among investors reaching a high of about $750 a share. Look at this. Its food safety crisis has pushed the stock down about 40 percent since then. And now it's a butt of jokes. A lot of people saying, for example, online that Chipotle got rid of its problem of long lines by having food that made you sick.
All right. The refugee crisis reaching new heights in Turkey. The country now saying it's unable to take in more people. We are live on the border with new developments next.
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ROMANS: A refugee crisis of historic proportion is overwhelming Turkey. There are currently 35,000 Syrians gathered at Turkey's border. That border has now been closed for a fourth day. The Turks declaring they have reached the end of their capacity to absorb anymore migrants.
CNN's senior international correspondent Arwa Damon, she is there for us this morning from the Turkey-Syrian border.
And Arwa, it looks like the crisis there growing more dire by the hour.
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is. And tens of thousands have already amassed with tens of thousands more potentially expected to end up having to flee for their lives.
Now Turkey is saying that at this stage it does not deem it to be necessary to let people through and that they are providing for the Syrians on the Syrian side, sending in tents and food and water.
[04:55:12] They are allowing those who have medical emergencies who need surgeries to come into Turkey and be treated at hospitals here. But speaking to those who are stuck on the other side, they will all tell you that having fled this horrific violence, having made that impossible decision to leave everything they love and know behind, they don't want to sit in tents on the Syrian side of the border. They want to be able to reach Turkey so they can finally breathe and have that slight sense of security they are so desperately looking for -- Christine.
ROMANS: So desperately looking for and we are watching all of Europe start to close its borders. Big concern about the migrant flow, but it doesn't fix the fact that tens of thousands of people are still desperate to get out.
What is the long-term strategy here for managing this flow of people?
DAMON: Well, that's been the problem from the get-go, Christine. There is no long-term strategy and no one really has a viable one to put forward, as more people flee the violence inside Syria, they will eventually somehow make it to Turkey, and many of them will travel onward to Europe. This most recent influx to the Turkish border and exodus from these areas in the Aleppo countryside have been brought on by a very intense rush of bombardment that has allowed regime forces to move into these areas and potentially move toward and circling the city of Aleppo where the U.N. warned there are more than 300,000 civilians who are potentially at risk.
It's also proven to be very strategic when it comes to the regime's position on the battle field. This ability to advance with the very intense Russian air power. So the battle field dynamics within Syria are going to be potentially shifting very dramatically and that is going to cause an even greater influx of people into Turkey and then moving onwards. And it's going to have a significant impact on the fighting there as well with some of these moderate opposition leaders saying that they can only hold on for a few more months if the status quo continues.
They are trying to debate their options. None of them looked good. And among the options are surrendering to the regime or allying with the Kurdish fighting force who many of them do not trust and some are even potentially talking about allying with ISIS out of sheer desperation.
ROMANS: Just impossible situation. It gets more impossible by the hour.
Thank you so much for that, Arwa Damon, for us on the border there with Syria and Turkey.
Two Somali airport workers arrested after getting caught on video handling a laptop bomb that exploded on that passenger plane last week. The suspect who got on the plane with the bomb was sucked out of the fuselage and killed. Somali authorities asking the U.S. to help their investigators. Several members of the FBI now on the ground assisting them.
Rescue workers are still digging through rubble looking for survivors of a powerful earthquake the rocked Taiwan over the weekend. The death toll rising to 34 with more than 100 people believed to be buried beneath the collapsed 17-story apartment building. More than 170 people have been rescued alive from that apartment building.
Want to get an EARLY START on your money this morning. Markets in China closed for the week for the Lunar New Year. Europe markets slightly higher. U.S. stock futures looks like they have dipped a little bit lower here. Hoping to turn around Friday's terrible losses. Look at Friday. The Dow fell 211 points. The S&P 500 fell almost 2 percent. The real damage is in the Nasdaq. Falling 3.3 percent. Now in its lowest levels since October 2014.
Corporate leadership is still a man's world. A brand new study this morning examined 22,000 publicly traded companies from 91 countries. More than 95 percent did not have a female CEO. Half had no female top executives. 60 percent had no female board members. And those companies may be paying a price. This study found that companies made more money when at least 30 percent of its executives were women.
Quicken Loans wants you to get a mortgage in eight minutes. But its Super Bowl ad got Super Bowl backlash. Quicken Loans is pushing its Rocket Mortgage during the Super Bowl last night. An entirely online mortgage process. The theory is here we buy music, cars, everything we buy online. Consumers should be able to get a mortgage like that, too. But critics say it promotes the same kind of lending environment that led up to the housing crash and the great recession.
The Consumer Financial Production Bureau chimed in with a tweet, telling homeowners -- telling buyers to take your time. Ask questions. Know before you owe. Quicken loans president told CNN Money, well, he agrees with the CFPB. He said, quote, "It's time for the housing industry to advance." In our minds this is about transparency.
All right. EARLY START continues right now.
BERMAN: It is the day before. Just 24 hours from now the voting begins in New Hampshire.
