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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I know I've got an uphill climb.

[05:58:30] SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The most foreign policy issue was the war in Iraq. I was right on that issue. Hillary Clinton was wrong.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: When you're making a revolution, you can't be too careful about the facts.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm ready for the job. Senator Rubio is not.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm going to keep saying it over and over again. Barack Obama is trying to change America.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When I'm president of the United States, I'll run to the fire to put it out. I won't blame my predecessor.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're doing really well up in New Hampshire.

I could have won if Cruz didn't take hold of those Carson votes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A global condemnation of North Korea following a rocket launch.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We will ensure that the Security Council imposes serious consequences.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For the second time in his historic career, Peyton Manning is a Super Bowl champion.

PEYTON MANNING, DENVER BRONCOS QUARTERBACK: It's truly been a team effort, and it was a team win.

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

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Wow. Is that beautiful or what?

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: It is.

CUOMO: Look at that purple sky over New Hampshire. Good morning. Welcome to NEW DAY. It is Monday, February 8, 6 a.m. in the East. Mick is in New York. Alisyn and I are once again here in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Waterworks Cafe.

We are just hours away from the first votes being cast here in the New Hampshire primary. Starts at midnight tonight. Both races heating up in the final stretch.

Our new CNN poll of polls has Donald Trump with a big lead: 31 percent. Now, barring a shocker, the real race is for second. Senator Rubio came on out of Iowa on fire, then went down in flames, say critics, at the debate Saturday.

New Hampshire shaping up as a go for the governors. Kasich, Christie, Bush coming on strong, especially Bush, tripling his numbers in the most recent play. Who gets to stay in the race?

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: OK. So this morning you will hear from Donald Trump. And we'll have live interviews with Jeb Bush and John Kasich when they stop by the Waterworks Cafe here for some coffee with us.

On the Democratic side, Bill Clinton on the offensive, accusing Bernie Sanders and his supporters of sexist attacks. Clinton claiming that Sanders lives in a, quote, "hermetically sealed box."

So let's begin our coverage with CNN's Jeff Zeleny. He's live in Manchester with us.

Jeff, give us the latest.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning, Alisyn.

And Bill Clinton has been an aggressive campaigner but a quiet campaigner for months. All that changed yesterday when he went hard after Bernie Sanders. It's the latest sign that Sanders is posing a threat Clinton never imagined.

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B. CLINTON: When you're making a revolution, you can't be too careful about the facts. You're just for me or against me.

ZELENY (voice-over): Former president Bill Clinton unleashing a blistering, no-holds-barred attack on his wife's rival, Bernie Sanders, going after Sanders' healthcare plan.

B. CLINTON: Is it good for America? I don't think so. Is it good for New Hampshire? I don't think so. ZELENY: Labeling Sanders as dishonest and hypocritical in his criticism of the financial sector he so often rails against.

B. CLINTON: Anybody who takes money from Goldman Sachs couldn't possibly be president. He may have to tweak that answer a little bit. Either that or we're going to have to get us a write-in candidate.

ZELENY: The former president's words were stinging, blasting the Vermont senator and his supporters for what he called inaccurate and sexist attacks, including "Bernie bros," the mobs of Sanders supporters who use crude language to attack Hillary Clinton backers online.

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

ZELENY: Sanders disavowing such tactics.

SANDERS: That anybody who is supporting me is doing sexist things...

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ZELENY: Now, at the same time over the weekend, the former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright said any young woman who does not support Hillary Clinton deserves a special place in hell.

Now, this is all getting very heated out here, but Chris and Alisyn, so reminiscent of 2008, eight years ago here, when Bill Clinton said Barack Obama was simply a fairy tale, and that started things on an aggressive course on the campaign. It certainly reminds us of that this morning -- Chris and Alisyn.

CUOMO: Really do. Mistakes not to repeat. That's a theme for the Clinton camp up here in New Hampshire. Jeff, thank you very much.

All right. Let's dig into the big brains that we have this morning: CNN national political reporter Maeve Reston; CNN Politics executive editor Mark Preston; and CNN senior political analyst and editorial director for "The National Journal," Professor Ron Brownstein.

All right, Maeve. So we're all talking about 2008. But what is the state of play right now within the Clinton campaign? The polls have showed Bernie ahead for a long time. There's good and bad reasons for that. But where do they think their chances stand right now?

MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think they are going to close the gap somewhat over the next couple of days. And it feels that way, Alisyn, when you're out with Bernie and Hillary.

But right now Bernie Sanders has a huge lead. And the energy in his crowds is just a totally different ball game than what you're feeling with Hillary Clinton here. Her rally on Saturday, which Jeff and I were both at, there were a lot of people from out of state, a lot of her canvassers. And then you went into Sunday, Bernie in Portsmouth. And he was blowing the doors off. So I think there's a big enthusiasm gap here for her. And that's why we're seeing Bill Clinton come at Bernie Sanders a lot harder than he has in these final days.

CAMEROTA: So enter Bill Clinton. Mark, how did this go over in 2008 when Bill Clinton went more on the attack, as he is now?

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Like a lead balloon. Right? You'll all remember back then, it was one of those moments where you have to be very careful -- well, certainly, back then. I mean, this is a different state of play right now.

But back then, you're talking about possibly the first African- American president. Bill Clinton had said some things, had tried to downplay Barack Obama in South Carolina; had said, listen, Jesse Jackson had won South Carolina and where did his candidacy go? At the time, it was racially tainted, or at least people had thought.

Here now it's hypocrisy. Right? That's what the Clintons are trying to hammer home. Talking to the Clinton campaign yesterday, they were trying to hit Bernie hard. Because one of his No. 1 issues is Wall Street money. Well, guess what? Bernie Sanders went to fundraisers where there was a lot of Wall Street money, critically, you know, up here on Cape Cod, where big donors would come in and senators would go for a weekend and spend time with them. So it's about hypocrisy for them.

[06:05:09] CUOMO: So Ron, when we're looking at this, you know what the poll numbers are. You know what the state of play is. But the question becomes what the state means, as a reflection of the Clinton campaign. How do you see it?

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, a couple things. First, I think Bill Clinton is raising an important argument. He's not the ideal messenger for it.

And look, the important argument is that Bernie Sanders is basically making the case that, unless you are for the most ideologically aggressive solutions to all of the challenges, you are either, A, bought and paid for, or B, kind of a weak incrementalist. And I think that is a cul de sac that Hillary Clinton has wondered into. That to be -- that not to be for a single-payer healthcare plan or not to be for breaking up banks somehow makes you, you know, too pragmatic. And you don't get the lift and the argument and the -- kind of the movement that the senator has been able to get.

For -- for Clinton, this is not the critical line of defense. The critical line of defense is Nevada and South Carolina. That is where the diversity of the Democratic Party comes into play. African- Americans and Latinos in Nevada, African-Americans in South Carolina, that is the line she cannot let cross.

CAMEROTA: So Maeve, it's interesting to see Bill Clinton shifting into this other gear, because up until now, he had been sort of described as being a little lackluster, a little low ebb, a little subdued. And now he's going -- right -- like, you know, guns a- blazing. But given that it didn't work so well in 2008, why are they doing this one again?

RESTON: Well, I think that they feel that they're in a very, very tight race, as we all feel here. And that it's time for people to actually look at Bernie Sanders's record in a much more robust way.

And you know, the attacks up until this point, you know, she sort of toggled back and forth between going after him and then backing off. And so Bill Clinton in some ways slides more perfectly into that role than Hillary Clinton, especially in the final days where people don't necessarily want to hear their candidates getting really negative, particularly on someone like Bernie Sanders, who's well-known here. He's tried to run a positive campaign.

CUOMO: Right. You don't have to hide from the reality. 2008 was about race also.

RESTON: Right.

CUOMO: And Bill Clinton got caught out there, you know, to critics talking about race.

CAMEROTA: Sexism is now another hot topic.

BROWNSTEIN: There are structural problems with using a former president in this role. I mean, first of all, I don't think Americans like former presidents being that engaged in kind of a direct hurly- burley, back and forth.

CUOMO: You think that's how they see Clinton, not as a husband/advocate?

BROWNSTEIN: I think it's a worry (ph). But secondly, in this race, it's especially, I think, problematic to use him in this regard, because the argument is that Sanders is a movement against these giant forces inside the party. And having a former president deliver the punches against, you know, kind of a senator from Vermont, just seems to reconfirm the idea of Bernie against the machine.

CUOMO: Right.

PRESTON: But you know what our problem is? Is that we look at these folks like they're robots, they're robotic. That's his wife. And if somebody came after my wife, you know, I think I would throw, you know, a right hook. I'd through a right hook and a left hook. And at some point, it's got to be hard for him to sit back and see his wife keep on getting pounded and not step in. So a lot of this is driven by emotion. It has to be.

CUOMO: This is a very different race in a key way. Not only was the issue of race with Barack Obama what wound up becoming the difficult negotiating point for criticism, but Bernie Sanders presents a very different animal. Hillary Clinton won here in 2008, because it was about machine against newcomer. And she rebounded well from an energized caucus in Iowa. This time the state of play is very different. Can she write up New Hampshire? "Everybody thought I was going to

lose. It sets up Bernie. He's been ahead for ever. Let's get to the real stakes now where the demographics reflect the country. Is that a saleable thing?

RESTON: Come on now. I mean, look at the Clintons' history here, right? I mean, her husband has won here twice. She had this incredible comeback in 2008 with a group of women in Portsmouth.

CAMEROTA: He came back strong, but he didn't win.

BROWNSTEIN: He came back from that.

CAMEROTA: It was a comeback moment.

RESTON: A comeback moment. And I think that -- that for the Clintons to claim that this is just a state where Bernie Sanders has a home- state advantage and, you know, they're completely out of the ball game is ridiculous.

BROWNSTEIN: That part isn't real. Right, Mark?

PRESTON: No, no.

BROWNSTEIN: The home-state advantage. People a year ago in New Hampshire were not following Bernie Sanders. You know, they follow Massachusetts TV, not Vermont TV. In Massachusetts, you might have a home-state advantage.

Look, I think it's partially true. Partially not true. In the sense that yes, it does reveal something. If she loses big here, it does show a problem she's having with independents and with younger voters. Again, that is real.

But on the other hand, we're talking about a state that is 95 percent white. In a Democratic primary, we're about 35 to 40 percent of the voters will be nonwhite. And until he shows he can crack that. A new poll out today in New York. Again, Hillary Clinton, about two-thirds of African-Americans, Latinos. That's the piece he has to get over. We will find out in Nevada and South Carolina. We'll begin to find out if he can do that.

CAMEROTA: Panel, stick around. We have a lot more to talk to you about. We have more on the GOP race, on the GOP side, which we just talked about in a moment, coming up on NEW DAY.

[06:10:04] We also have an interview with Donald Trump and former Florida governor, Jeb Bush; and Ohio Governor John Kasich will join us live here at the Waterworks Cafe in our 8 a.m. hour. Stick around for that.

In the meantime, let's get back to Michaela for some other headlines out of New York.

Hey, Michaela.

CUOMO: Other headlines. The Super Bowl?

PEREIRA: Well, I was just about to say. There's only one other story happening right now, obviously, right, Alisyn and Chris? Peyton Manning and his Denver Broncos teammates Super Bowl champs. They beat the Carolina Panthers, 24-10. But the real star of the game was Denver's defense.

Let's get more now from our Coy Wire, who is the man of the hour because he is still live outside the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Are you the only guy there right now?

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: There's a few other people here. Producer Dan is with me. I didn't sleep, really, much last night. I was so excited. Guys, this was my first Super Bowl. And my goodness, did it live up to the hype. I wish my big brother, Chris Cuomo, could have stayed, because it was awesome.

Now Peyton Manning won that second Super Bowl title, but it was his teammates who came through with -- for him, especially that dominant defense. What a performance. You talked about Super Bowl MVP Von Miller and company just crushing Cam Newton all night along. Cam didn't do his famous bad dance once in this, and he was under duress all night, being sent home deflated and defeated.

The Broncos tied a Super Bowl record with seven sacks. They tied the '85 Bears in this game.

Now, the Broncos and Peyton Manning hoist that Lombardi trophy, and Peyton Manning could not be any happier. Here he is.

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MANNING: It's a special feeling. I sort of know how hard it is to get here. It takes a lot of hard work, and you've got to have some -- got to have some good fortune. And so we were very grateful to be here, to be in this game and play in the Super Bowl and certainly, to be victorious. It's very special. Been a great football team. And so I do not take it for granted. I know how difficult it is. And I'm very grateful.

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WIRE: I'll tell you what. Fans were grateful for that halftime performance. My goodness. Queen Bey, Beyonce, took the stage like a boss. Her crew wearing all black: black leather, black fishnets, black berets. Remember, this is Black History Month. This was very reminiscent of the Black Panthers movement, which started in Oakland back in the '60s just across the bay from the big game. She performed her new song, "Formation," got into a dance-off with Bruno Mars. And to be honest, guys, she stole the show from headliner Coldplay. I got goosebumps two times in that game. Once was during the national anthem. The other was during that performance. It was awesome.

PEREIRA: Coy Wire and his first Super Bowl. I can see the excitement. I can hear it in your voice. I can hear the smile in your voice. Coy, thanks so much for sharing all of that with us. And we're so glad that you got to enjoy that very special occasion with your big brother, Chris, too.

WIRE: Yes.

CUOMO: Let ME tell you something: that Coy Wire, not just a pretty face connected to a steel pillar that is holding his body. He nailed the analysis of this game at our special on Saturday with Dan Marino. Coy says, "This is going to be all about the defense. This is a different game. Don't write the Broncos off."

I said, "Shut up, pretty boy." And he wound up being exactly right last night.

PEREIRA: He knows the game. It's weird.

CAMEROTA: Yes. He's spot on about Beyonce stealing the show, too. That was great...

CUOMO: He said he got choked up when he watched Beyonce?

CAMEROTA: Chills.

CUOMO: Chills?

CAMEROTA: Yes.

All right. Coming up, Marco Rubio still reeling after being knocked off his game at the final debate here in New Hampshire. His rivals are ganging up on him, but he's fighting back. Can he outperform them by continuing to attack President Obama? We'll debate all of that, up next.

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[06:18:10] CUOMO: You can smell the desperation in the air as the Republican presidential candidates barnstorm the state in the hopes of securing a ticket to get out of here and move on in the race.

CNN's Sara Murray live in Manchester with the latest on the GOP race -- Sara.

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Well, Chris, if you thought all of a sudden, Marco Rubio is going to switch up his stump speech, think again. He is doubling down on that polished performance that got him in a little hot water during this weekend's debate.

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RUBIO: It's funny. The -- I don't know. People think it's a bad thing. I'm going to keep saying it over and over again. Barack Obama is trying to change America.

MURRAY (voice-over): One day until the New Hampshire primary, Marco Rubio is doubling down on his rhetoric after Saturday's shaky debate performance.

RUBIO: If you want to be like another country, why don't you move to another country?

MURRAY: Under fire from Chris Christie...

CHRISTIE: You have not been involved in a consequential decision where you had to be held accountable. You just simply haven't.

MURRAY: ... the freshman senator repeated the same line four times Saturday.

RUBIO: And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know 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. This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not...

CHRISTIE: There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.

MURRAY: Back on the campaign trail, his GOP rivals are exploiting his slip-up.

TRUMP: Did Marco do well last night in the debate?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No!

BUSH: You cannot script being commander in chief.

CHRISTIE: We need someone who's been tested and ready to go against Hillary Clinton. Senator Rubio proved last night he can't do that.

MURRAY: This as polls continue to show Trump way on top in New Hampshire, much to the dismay of the establishment candidates.

BUSH: Donald Trump, you're the loser.

MURRAY: The billionaire garnering more than twice the support of his nearest competitor.

Meanwhile, Rubio is already looking past the primary.

RUBIO: I'm coming back in August and September, because we're going to win New Hampshire in the general election.

MURRAY: As the front-runner, after his second-place finish in Iowa, tries to manage expectations.

TRUMP (via phone): I think I'm going to do very well in New Hampshire. But no, I don't -- I don't think -- I want to win New Hampshire, but I don't think I have to win it, no.

(END VIDEOTAPE) MURRAY: Now, there's a big battle going on coming out of that debate performance. And the question is who wins in the establishment lane? Can Marco Rubio keep up that momentum from Iowa? Or will that hit from Chris Christie take him down a notch and maybe create an opening for someone like John Kasich or maybe even someone like Jeb Bush.

Chris and Alisyn, back to you.

CAMEROTA: OK, Sara, thanks so much.

We want to bring back, in our panel, Maeve Reston, Mark Preston -- that rhymes -- and Ron Brownstein. Guys, great to have you here at the Waterworks Cafe with us.

Let's look at the newly-released poll of polls. This is the one that sort of compiles everything together and then looks at an average. This is where we are today. Trump has 31 percent in New Hampshire. OK, that's a runaway lead. Marco Rubio, when we last checked, was at 15 percent. Then it goes Cruz, 13; Kasich, who has always put all of his eggs in the New Hampshire basket, in coming on strong here, 11; Bush, 10 and down from there.

So Mark, what do you think about where Rubio is today after the debate?

PRESTON: Seriously, I mean, he got hurt. There's no doubt. It was a rope-a-dope, what happened to him on Saturday night. It certainly did open another ticket, I think, out of New Hampshire. We were looking at four tickets out of New Hampshire. The establishment ticket, the Trump ticket, the conservative ticket, the gubernatorial ticket. And I think you've got another gubernatorial ticket.

However, going now on this Monday, I think looking at polls, it's really not going to be helpful as we're heading in. The race has changed. There are late deciders. And quite frankly, Donald Trump is not going to win by the margin that he's leading by now. That's just not going to happen. Probably going to win, but not by that much.

CUOMO: Look, one of the -- the race on the GOP side is different in a lot of ways. One that probably matters most right now, Ron, is the undecided. Depending on how you look at the calculus of how they're breaking down preferences, you have somewhere between 25 and 35 percent of the people who could change. We saw how that played out in Iowa.

But this idea of how many tickets got out of New Hampshire, that was very dependent on somebody...

BROWNSTEIN: Separating.

CUOMO: ... named Marco Rubio, you know, really separating from the pack. You don't have that any more. I think the theory of how many tickets you have, get out.

This poll of polls helpful. I think when Governor Bush is on the show this morning, he's going to say, "You know, I want to talk about the Monmouth poll," where he tripled his support...

BROWNSTEIN: Right.

CUOMO: ... just since January. What does that suggest?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, first of all, I thought I was smelling bacon. It turned out it was desperation.

CUOMO: Smell in the air.

BROWNSTEIN: And not to get all Zen here, but you know, the most important thing that may happen to the Republicans in New Hampshire is something, as you're alluding to, that doesn't happen.

I mean, coming out of Iowa, you had Ted Cruz with a clear lane as the favorite of evangelical Christians. Donald Trump has this stronghold on blue-collar Republicans. He did very well with them in Iowa. He's been leading. Cruz and Rubio combined here in New Hampshire. And what people -- what many people were hoping for in the Republican leadership, was that that center-right, more white-collar, mainstream conservative lane would begin to consolidate behind Marco Rubio, who -- and he would separate from the others. I think that process has hit a big speed bump, as Mark was suggesting. And it is entirely possible that we come out of here with at least two of the other governors being viable. John Kasich, I think, has an excellent chance of finishing ahead of Rubio. And the longer that persists -- I mean, that's not a neutral phenomenon. The longer that lane remains fragmented, the better it is for Trump and Cruz.

CAMEROTA: Go ahead, Maeve.

RESTON: We haven't seen yet, first of all, with Christie, whether or not he's going to hit a wall or not. Because he -- some people might have perceived him at going too hard at Rubio coming out of there.

But the thing with Kasich and some of the other candidates is that the question is, where do they go after this? Right? Jeb Bush has a strong organization in South Carolina. He has a lot of establishment support around him. It's a good state for his family. Strong veterans community.

And I think that the question is whether Kasich, if he has a strong performance on Tuesday, where that goes. Can he build the ground game? Basically it just keeps the race going for some time to come.

BROWNSTEIN: The other thing, though, you really saw after Iowa this tremendous effort to consolidate behind Rubio. You saw Santorum endorse him. Jindal endorsed him. Tim Scott endorsed him. More establishment figures, leaders in the party saying, "OK, this is the guy."

What Saturday night did was, I think, talking about eggs in the basket, I think it made a lot of Republicans go, "Is this where you want to put all of your eggs?" And it means a second look in donors, and it's a second look for others. RESTON: Donors are frozen after that debate. When you talk to donors

who were leaning towards Rubio, going that direction, thinking, "Finally, maybe this is our guy." And then watched that performance. And that was it.

PRESTON: Particularly the Bush donors.

RESTON: Who were ready to flee.

CUOMO: The question is not going to be about this, about what the governors -- what they're saying.

One argument that is fairly compelling, and I want your comment on it, Mark, your take. Is that "Stop calling Rubio the establishment guy. This guy came in as a Tea Party guy. Look where he is on abortion. You know, look where he's been on these different issues. Why are you confusing him with me?" the governors are saying. Is that a fair contrast?

[06:25:18] PRESTON: It's fair in the sense that Rubio rode in as the anti-establishment guy, ran against Charlie Crist, who was really slotted to be the vice-presidential candidate, you know, several years back. He took out Crist, took out the establishment, rode in the Tea Party, came into the Senate. Go -- when he got there, came to the center a little bit more and aligned himself with the establishment. So what is Marco Rubio? I don't think any of us really know Marco Rubio.

BROWNSTEIN: I think he is clearly to the right of the governors. I mean, yesterday at his town hall when he was asked, "Who are your Supreme Court models," he said Clarence Thomas and Anthony Scalia.

And in fact, if you kind of look up and down the agenda, there is not nearly as much kind of reaching out I can work with both sides as Christie, Kasich or Bush.

And I think, as I wrote yesterday, the defining gamble of this campaign is that he can spend most of his energy pushing, trying to get those voters more to the right. And eventually, voters in the center will feel they have no choice but to go with him, because he will outlast the others. And that is, I think, what is being put at risk by what happened Saturday night and what could happen in New Hampshire tomorrow.

RESTON: And particularly his abortion position, I think, as we go forward; you know, not wanting exceptions for rape and incest. That is going to continue to be a huge issue for some voters, particularly as -- as voters look at whether -- who's the most electable candidate against Hillary Clinton.

CAMEROTA: Sure. And certainly here in New Hampshire, where many people identify as pro-choice.

Panel, thank you very much. Great to have you here with us.

All right. There are other stories, believe it or not, to talk about. Let's get over to Michaela back in New York.

Hey, Mick.

PEREIRA: All right. You guys get a bite of breakfast. I'll handle things for a second here.

North Korea's latest provocative action, launching a rocket into space, drawing all sorts of global condemnation. Ahead, we're going to take a look at how the international community is responding.

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