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Clinton, Sanders Spar in Contentious Debate; CNN Polls: Trump on Top in N.H., Battle for Second Emerges; Barbara Bush Campaigns for Jeb in New Hampshire. Aired 6-6:30a ET

Aired February 05, 2016 - 06:00   ET

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I never sent or received any classified material. Doing the same thing to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rice's aides. They are retroactively classifying it.

[05:58:36] SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: One of the things we should do is not only talk the talk but walk the walk.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm No. 1 in New Hampshire. Will you please keep me there? This is ridiculous.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump is very rattled right now.

TRUMP: We're going to win with the military. We're going to knock the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of ISIS.

BARBARA BUSH, FORMER FIRST LADY: He's everything we need in a president.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: My crowd sizes normally aren't this large. I wonder why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Super Bowl 50 is on track to be the most expensive sporting event in U.S. history.

CAM NEWTON, PANTHERS QUARTERBACK: For us the ultimate goal for this sport is to win the Super Bowl.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is February 5, 6 a.m. in the East but 3 a.m., still party time where I am, out on the West Coast for Super Bowl 50. We've got a lot to tell you about with the game. But first, we have to talk politics. You've got Alisyn and Michaela in New York, holding it down with what we saw last night.

The gloves are off on the Democratic side of the presidential election. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders exchanging big barbs last night in a debate about who's progressive and who is best for the job of being president.

A big phrase of the night, Alisyn, is artful smear. Hillary Clinton telling Bernie Sanders to lay off.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We are going to get to that, Chris, momentarily. But over on the Republican side, Donald Trump says he's moving past his calls for a rematch in Iowa. Instead, he's focusing on New Hampshire and changing his playbook there. A new CNN poll has Trump ahead of the pack with the primary just four days away.

Let's begin with John Berman with highlights from last night's debate. John, we hear it was particularly feisty.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now for something completely different. First of all, only two candidates on the stage. That, in and of itself, made a big difference.

And secondly, for those who thought that Hillary Clinton might be patient, might wait until she got to favorable political terrain and not take on Bernie Sanders until then, well, now they know that notion is gone.

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BERMAN (voice-over): Three days after barely winning Iowa, five days before facing daunting odds in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton clearly decided she could not wait another day to fight back.

CLINTON: I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you.

BERMAN: The battle: who is the real progressive, and who is beholden to the establishment?

CLINTON: I am a progressive who gets things done, and the root of that word, "progressive," is "progress."

SANDERS: Secretary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans. And by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment.

BERMAN: Clinton, who has been careful not to offend the young, passionate support behind Bernie Sanders, now seems to think it is worth the risk.

CLINTON: Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me as a woman running to be the first woman president as exemplifying the establishment. And I've got to tell you, that's really quite amusing to me.

SANDERS: Being part of the establishment is, in the last quarter, having a super PAC to raise $15 million from Wall Street.

CLINTON: Enough is enough. If you have something to say, say it directly.

You not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.

I think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks, and let's talk about the issues that divide us.

BERMAN: Sanders was only too happy to talk about those divisions, not just on Wall Street donations, but also then-Senator Clinton's vote to authorize the Iraq War.

SANDERS: Experience is not the only point. Judgment is. And once again, back in 2002, when we both looked at the same evidence about the wisdom of the war in Iraq, one of us voted the right way; and one of us didn't.

CLINTON: A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS. We have to look at the threats that we face right now. And we have to be prepared to take them on and defeat them.

BERMAN: Clinton also tried to use new information to defuse the controversy over her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state. The fact that now e-mails sent to both Colin Powell and top aides to Condoleezza Rice when they held the job have been deemed classified.

CLINTON: You have these people in the government who are doing the same thing to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rice's aides they've been doing to me, which is that I never sent or received any classified material. They are retroactively classifying it. I agree completely with Secretary Powell, who said today this is an absurdity.

BERMAN: Once again, Sanders refused to pounce on the e-mail questions, though he noted the opportunity is out there.

SANDERS: I will not politicize it. There's not a day that goes by when I am -- when I am not asked to attack her on that issue. And I have refrained from doing that. And I will continue to refrain from doing that.

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CAMEROTA: All right. John Berman, do not go anywhere. Joining us now to break it down is our CNN political commentator and anchor for Time Warner Cable News, Errol Louis; also CNN national political reporter, Maeve Reston.

Errol, let me start with you. Did we see something different last night in terms of tone and feistiness from the candidate?

ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Absolutely. And some of that you can give credit to the moderators who let them talk. You know, there were exchanges where minutes would go by without the moderator saying anything. I mean, just kind of traded accusations. They responded directly to one another. So they established, I think, a tone that was both more heated. There's a lot more at stake now.

And, you know, with the moderators out of the way, you got to hear the issues. And it -- frankly, a lot of it was, I think, less personal. Although, you know, there were those riveting emotional moments. But real, you know, interesting and important issues. You know, if you take $675,000 in speeches, does that buy you? And it's an open question. And I thought it was very well debated last night.

CUOMO: That was a very delicate tango last night over the money with Clinton saying, Maeve Reston, "Hey, just come out and say what you mean." You know, because obviously, the implication is undue influence.

[06:05:04] But what are you hearing from the two camps about how they want to negotiate this space between these candidates? One of the reasons Errol is right about this extended dialogue last night is because they're not complete opposites. They are finessing positions. What do you hear about the state of balance?

MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I mean, it's a tough balance. And it's hard for both candidates to figure out exactly how far to go.

I mean, you think Bernie Sanders' campaign is trying to say that they're running a campaign just on the issues. They aren't going after her personally. The idea that he's been running a smear campaign, I think, is a step too far by Clinton.

But it is something that really matters to voters on the trail. They like Bernie Sanders's positivity. And so he has a very delicate line to walk here. People liked it when he backed off on the e-mail issue, for example. They think that he is honorable, you know, a person with integrity. And so it's very hard for him to go too far with her on these attacks. And that will be to her advantage to her extent. And you saw her come back really hard at him last night.

CAMEROTA: Yes, and you heard her come back. That was a different response, John, than she'd ever given before about, "Say it. What do you want to say about my taking speaking fees from the banks?" She called it an artful smear. And you heard the audience go "Oooh!" But I couldn't tell, were they were mad at her for going after Bernie Sanders or mad at him for the artful smear? How were they reacting?

BERMAN: I think they were just reacting, first of all, to the electricity of the moment. If I had to -- if I had to score who they were with at that moment, I think it was more Bernie Sanders. They thought Hillary Clinton was pushing it a little bit too far.

But I think the remarkable dynamic last night is the signal from the Clinton campaign that she is looking now past New Hampshire firmly, right? First of all, she announced she is going to Flint, Michigan, on Sunday, leaving New Hampshire days before the primary campaign in a different state. That, in and of itself, is interesting.

No. 2, going after Bernie Sanders on guns as strongly as she did in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is more of a gun state. She is trying to send the signal, I think, to South Carolina, Nevada and the March 1 states. I now am taking Bernie Sanders seriously. I am going to battle him more aggressively. And this is the campaign you will see when it comes to your doorstep.

CUOMO: So Errol, if you look at the poll numbers, all of -- go ahead, Maeve.

RESTON: I mean, that's her whole campaign here, is that she's the fighter. She can do this. She's, you know, made these progressive changes in the past. He's all just talk. For her to show toughness right now and really go after Bernie Sanders is probably a good -- a good line of strategy for her to take, particularly as she's trying to convince voters that she will be the stronger candidate up against the GOP nominee.

CUOMO: Right. But Errol, she's got to battle the idea of perception being reality. Is this, you know, the full Clinton coming out against, you know, the nice, avuncular Bernie -- although he can be very cantankerous, right? We all know that.

So that's going to be her balance. Let me ask you this. Do you think the best thing that happened for her fate in New Hampshire, despite the yawning gap in polls between her and Bernie, was something that wasn't about the debate? It was the news about Powell and Rice and what e-mails may have been later classified as, you know, confidential information within their own experience as secretary of state.

LOUIS: You know, what's interesting about that, Chris, is that nothing factually has changed about that. I mean, the Clinton camp has been saying this all along, that what happens in the way of classified material, sometimes it is after the fact. And it's very frustrating and difficult to get across. You know, certainly, the Republicans who have been attacking her don't get back into any of the niceties about when things were classified. They just say that, you know, she's under investigation and maybe she's going to go to jail.

But to sort of bring one as a validator, somebody as sort of revered, frankly, as Colin Powell really sort of helps her make her case in a way that she wasn't able to do before. So yes, an amazingly good stroke of luck for her and something that, frankly, they probably should have turned to a long time ago. Because it's not like Colin Powell said this was the first time. This was known for weeks now. And instead of floundering around, I think now she's kind of getting her footing on this.

CAMEROTA: John, what do you think about that? Because now that it has been revealed that, not only Powell, but also Condoleezza Rice or people connected to her, had now-classified information on their personal accounts, as well as Hillary Clinton has been making the connection, they also took speaking fees and were paid handsomely after they were secretaries of state.

Does this -- does this work to fight back against what Bernie Sanders has been saying?

BERMAN: Those are two separate things, right? Because Bernie Sanders really isn't talking too much about the e-mails. He is talking about the speaking fees. On the e-mails, I think what Hillary Clinton is trying to do Democrats

don't care about the e-mails. They don't really -- they're not bothered by the notion of what she did send or receive. What they're worried about is that it makes her tarnished down the line and raises about Clinton and maybe makes her less electable and opens the door to them saying, "Hey, you know, maybe this Bernie guy is not so bad. Maybe he really is more electable than Hillary Clinton." So that's why the e-mail issues help her.

[06:10:12] On the speaking fees for secretary of state, the problem with that is that, you know, the facts -- they're not against her, but the facts are the facts. I mean, she took big-time speaking fees. It happened. And I think that she's just going to have to find a way to take that issue and move on.

CAMEROTA: Panel, stick around. We're going to call upon you.

RESTON: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

CAMEROTA: What, Maeve?

RESTON: You could buy a house with that amount of money.

CAMEROTA: That's true. They are handsomely rewarded for those speeches.

But stick around, panel. We want to come back to you momentarily. But right now, let's get over to Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right, Alisyn.

One day after ripping into rival Ted Cruz for stealing the election in Iowa and demanding a rematch, Donald Trump says he's over it. The GOP frontrunner telling CNN's Anderson Cooper his main focus now, New Hampshire.

A new CNN/WMUR poll shows Trump is holding his lead among Republicans in the Granite State. And a battle for second now emerging with Marco Rubio moving up in the polls.

Sunlen Serfaty is live in Manchester, New Hampshire, with more for us.

Good morning, Sunlen.

SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Michaela.

Well, Donald Trump is noticeably toning down his rhetoric, backing off attacking Ted Cruz and recalibrating a bit here on the ground in New Hampshire to campaign in a much more traditional way.

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SERFATY (voice-over): Going into the nation's first primary next Tuesday, the GOP candidates are taking New Hampshire by storm.

TRUMP: February 9, you've got to get out and vote. No matter where you are, no matter how you feel. I don't give a damn.

SERFATY: Donald Trump ramping up his ground game, a lesson learned from his second-place finish in Iowa. Switching gears at last night's rally in Portsmouth, he then attacked opponents Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, instead firing up the crowd with one message: He's in it to win it.

TRUMP: We're going to win on health care. We're going to win with the military. We're going to knock the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of ISIS. We're going to knock the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of them.

SERFATY: The latest CNN poll shows Trump maintaining his lead among Granite State voters. Rubio surging to second place, Ted Cruz downplaying his third-place status.

CRUZ: If momentum were measured by the media, Marco Rubio would already be the Republican nominee. Iowa demonstrated the media doesn't get to pick the Republican candidate.

SERFATY: While sharpening attacks on Trump.

CRUZ: Donald Trump is very rattled right now. He told the entire world he was going to win Iowa. And then he didn't win.

God bless the great state of Iowa.

SERFATY: Just a day after accusing the Texas senator of stealing those Iowa caucus votes, Trump now telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he's over it.

TRUMP: I'm so much, because I've been here now for two days. I'm so much into this and into New Hampshire that I just -- I don't care about that anymore.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR; But do you think Ted Cruz intentionally was spreading...

TRUMP: I don't care. I don't want to even say. Let's see what happens. I guess people are looking at it. Who cares?

SERFATY: Meanwhile, former GOP candidate Lindsey Graham, who endorsed Jeb Bush, blasting both candidates this week, calling Trump's views on foreign policy gibberish and calling Cruz an opportunist.

GRAHAM: If you're a Republican and your choice is Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, in the general election. It's the difference between poisoned or shot. You're still dead.

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SERFATY: And while Cruz and Trump really duke it out, the battle within the establishment lane of the party is really heating up, and it's really escalated the last 24 hours, Alisyn, with Marco Rubio remaining target No. 1.

CAMEROTA: It gets more interesting every day, Sunlen. Thanks so much for that background.

Meanwhile, Jeb Bush turned to his family for a boost to his faltering campaign. His mom, Barbara Bush, joining Jeb on the campaign trail last night and his brother, George W., the former president, to make his debut in a new TV ad.

CNN's Athena Jones is live in Washington with more. Good morning, Athena.

ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn.

That's right. This is a candidate whose logo doesn't even include his famous family last name. He's talked about running as his own man. Now he's embracing that name like never before.

And this is a campaign that's pulling out all the stops to try to finish strong in New Hampshire on Tuesday. If Jeb Bush himself struggled to spark the kind of excitement we've seen from some of his competitors, it was clear last night that his mother doesn't have that problem. She brought out a crowd that Jeb noted was a lot bigger than usual.

Take a listen to some of what she had to say.

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B. BUSH: Jeb is the nicest, wisest, most caring, loyal, disciplined -- that's good. Not by me.

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JONES: And Jeb isn't just looking to his popular 90-year-old mother for help. His popular brother, former president George W. Bush, is also stepping up in a new ad from Bush's Right to Rise super PAC. Take a listen to that.

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[06:15:05] GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I know Jeb. I know his good heart and his strong backbone. Jeb will unite our country. He knows how to bring the world together against terror. He knows when the tough measures must be taken.

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JONES: And look, Bush is in double digits in New Hampshire, according to our latest CNN/WMUR tracking poll. But he is still in fifth place behind Rubio and John Kasich, who candidates he'd like to beat or at least not lose too badly. So he's promised to surprise the world on Tuesday. We'll see if bringing out his family works -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: There may be a lot of surprises on Tuesday. Dana, thanks so much for that.

And just a reminder: We'll be on the road for the New Hampshire primary. If you're in Manchester, stop by the Waterworks Cafe to say hi Monday and Tuesday -- Michaela.

PEREIRA: Very cool.

All right. We have some breaking news overnight. The U.K. says it will dispute a U.N. panel's ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being arbitrarily detained. Within the next hour, Assange is expected to walk out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He has been holed up for nearly four years. Assange is avoiding extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of rape. British police say Assange will be arrested if he leaves that embassy, regardless of the U.N.'s decision.

CAMEROTA: Also breaking overnight, two NYPD officers recovering after getting shot while patrolling a public housing complex in New York's Bronx neighborhood. Police say the officers approached two men in a hallway when one of them opened fire and ran. One officer hit in the face, the other hit in the abdomen under her bullet-proof vest. The gunman fled to an apartment where he killed himself. Several other people have been detained and questioned.

PEREIRA: Prosecutors in Georgia are revealing now more about the murder of Nicole Lovell. Authorities say two of the Virginia Tech students, David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers, met in a restaurant to plot her kidnapping and killing. They bought cleaning supplies and a shovel.

It's believed the 13-year-old girl was planning to expose her online relationship with Eisenhauer, which may have motivated the killing.

The young girl was laid to rest Thursday. Hundreds attended her private funeral.

CAMEROTA: All right. Well, you heard the political news, right? Donald Trump insists he doesn't care if Ted Cruz stole the Iowa caucus. Trump has a new focus now. We'll tell you what that is.

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[06:21:11] TRUMP: We're going to start winning again. We're going to win on trade with these other countries that are ripping us off. We're going to win on health care. We're going to win with the military. We're going to knock the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of ISIS. We're going to knock the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) out of them.

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CUOMO: That is Donald Trump, focusing on New Hampshire, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper that he doesn't care about the alleged voter fraud anymore. Remember, he couldn't stop accusing Ted Cruz of that just yesterday.

All right. Let's discuss the state of play. We have with us again Errol Louis, John Berman and Maeve Reston. It's good to have all three of you. What do we see in this shift? Errol, what do we know now? Not only

is this about the Steve King tweets, the congressman out of Iowa, who's a dedicated -- you know, what would you call him, a surrogate and a supporter of Ted Cruz. We have the allegations about the campaign coordinating this message that Carson is gone. Does this tarnish "trust Ted," or is this just politics as unusual, and that's why Trump is moving on.

LOUIS: It's very much politics, as usual. And this is Trump,, the first-time campaigner, I think, learning one of the cardinal rules, which is that you don't go back. You don't get to do a do-over. You don't get bogged down in who did what. Because the country doesn't care, and there are more races to be fought.

So, you know, him finally sort of giving up on that and moving on is him, I think, learning that, you know, there's some stuff that just isn't going to work. And he does that remarkably without any polling, and we know he's not particularly listening to his advisers. So I think he just kind of intuited that the crowds of New Hampshire do not care about some allegation about what somebody said about Ben Carson in some long-ago caucus that happened all of, you know, 72 hours ago.

CAMEROTA: Well, that's the point, John. If it --what was a constitutional crisis of voter fraud on Wednesday. Now he said he's moving past on Friday. Do people really not care? Are they that fickle?

BERMAN: It's like he -- he said he quit caffeine. "I'm off the caffeine now. I'm all decaf." And he just decided midday.

Look, I think Donald Trump, to an extent, got what he wanted on the Ted Cruz thing nationally. Forget New Hampshire. I think Errol's right on New Hampshire. I think New Hampshire voters don't want to talking about Iowa. Nationally, it became an issue. It was talked about for two days.

You know, what did Ted Cruz do and not do in Iowa? What did Ben Carson say or not say about whether or not he was going to forgive Ted Cruz or not. It's an issue. It's out there. Donald Trump got everything he can get out of it and now needs to focus on New Hampshire. And he's got a challenge in New Hampshire. An expectations challenge. Because people now assume that he's not just going to win there, but he's going to win big.

So how much does he have to win by in order for it to be considered a success for Marco Rubio if he finishes second or third? Are people going to say, "Oh, Marco Rubio, he showed up. He won again." You know, Donald Trump needs to be concerned about that, and I think he's trying to milk every vote he can.

CUOMO: So let's play off J.B.'s word of expectations there, Maeve. When you look at the polls, no matter what you look at, you see pretty clearly that a third of the New Hampshire voters are still open to their choice, right? So that's a pretty good unknown going into it.

How does that couple with what Lindsey Graham said yesterday? Talk about the master of the artful smear. He said when you look at Cruz and Trump, it's a question of whether you want to be poisoned or shot in the general election. Either way you're still going to die.

RESTON: Lindsey Graham. You know, nobody does that better, right? But so I think what's so interesting, I was out with -- with all four of the establishment candidates yesterday, Kasich, Rubio, Jeb. They are getting big crowds.

And the thing to remember about New Hampshire voters is not only are many of them still open, but many of them flip and change their minds on the last weekend. We've seen this over and over again over the last couple of presidential cycles.

So there really is an opening here and a potential liability for Trump for people to say, "Hey, OK, well, Marco came out really strong out of Iowa. So I'm going to give him another look." His -- his event that I was at yesterday, people couldn't get in. They were all outside listening.

[06:25:16] And I think that there's also, you know -- there was a huge crowd for Jeb Bush. So a lot of people are getting down to the wire saying, OK, maybe Trump isn't invincible. Maybe I should give these other guys a shot.

And you really are seeing kind of a very fluid race here on the ground in New Hampshire. The people -- the voters that I talked to yesterday are still deciding between three or four candidates. There was one exchange with Chris Christie at an event where the woman told him that she was deciding between Rubio, Kasich and Christie.

And he went through this whole long exchange trying to convince her to vote for her. And she said, "I'll let you know Monday night after I see Kasich." And that's the way people think here. They wait until the last minute until they're sure.

CAMEROTA: Right. Errol, let's talk about Jeb Bush. It's interesting to hear Maeve say that he got a huge crowd, and there was something of a celebrity sighting, which was Barbara Bush. Why now is Jeb Bush turning to his family; his mom, Barbara; and his brother, George W., the president?

LOUIS: It's very likely that this is going to go down in the books as one of these important miscalculations that you wouldn't expect from somebody playing politics at this very high level. It almost reminds me of 2000, when Al Gore didn't want to campaign with Bill Clinton. You know, and everybody understood why. And in this case, everybody understand why it was "Jeb!" with an exclamation point. And that the brother was unpopular, and the family was, you know, maybe seen a too much of a thing of the past and so forth.

Sure, all the polls show that, and the strategists were well-paid to tell them that. But in the end, you know, George W. Bush is popular with important segments of the Republican base that Jeb Bush needed to connect with. And he probably all along should have had the whole family out there with them. The ad looks very effective. His mom is sort of a rock star with the

Republican base. You know, it brings back memories. He wants seniors to vote for them. There's nothing wrong with reminding some of those seniors about the good old days when it was his father or his brother who was president. Again, an understandable miscalculation. But I think he -- it may be, I think, to correct it at this point.

CUOMO: Yes. But you know, J.B., you know how the media is. If he brought him out sooner, it would have been pandering, Maeve. You know, this is what happens.

John, let me turn to you for a second. Put your big brain on this. Marco Rubio is being established now by his own campaign as the establishment candidate. How did a guy who was elected as a Tea Party choice, who doesn't believe or accept the science in global warning, who is not in favor of any -- any deviants on right to life at all when it comes to abortion, how did he become establishment, which means moderate?

BERMAN: Two things. No. 1, I think first of all, when you talk about the Republican establishment. I'm not so sure that his views are that different than right now where that center of the party is.

No. 2, what you see is you see a party that wants to win in November. And the party leaders, I think the members of Congress, I think members of the conservative establishment media, and those people exist, have all now universally decided that Marco is their man. And they are going to do everything and anything they can do to get him elected. I think the cries...

CUOMO: Signs of global warming?

BERMAN: Marco Rubio thinks what Marco Rubio thinks. Who's going to stand up to a member of the Republican Party and say he's wrong? You don't see that anywhere. I don't think it's surprising at all that they've chosen him to go forward.

CAMEROTA: John, Maeve, Errol, thank you. Great to get your insight.

Let's get to Michaela.

PEREIRA: Hillary Clinton is insisting that she is not concerned about the e-mail scandal hanging over her campaign. She is not the first secretary of state to use private account, if you have an account for classified materials. So is it the end of the controversy or merely a new wrinkle?

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