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  • JUDY WOODRUFF: With just three weeks until Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses,

  • an increasingly close race there is exposing new rifts among the candidates.

  • Lisa Desjardins is back with this report.

  • SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), Presidential Candidate: When millions stand up and fight back, there

  • is nothing that will stop us.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: The Democratic presidential field, still numbering in the double digits,

  • narrowed today by one.

  • SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), Presidential Candidate: Today, I am suspending my campaign for president.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker ended a campaign that had pushed for national

  • unity, just as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren

  • abandoned their year-long nonaggression pact.

  • SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), Presidential Candidate: I was disappointed to hear that

  • Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me. I hope Bernie reconsiders and turns his

  • campaign in a different direction.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: That was Warren responding to a leaked Sanders campaign script distributed

  • to volunteers and published by Politico. It attacks Warren by charging that she appeals

  • only to highly educated, more affluent voters. And it says that she's bringing no new bases

  • into the Democratic Party.

  • SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Presidential Candidate: Elizabeth Warren is a very good friend of

  • mine.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Sanders denied a role in the role in the new offensive strategy and

  • distanced himself from the campaign volunteers involved.

  • SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: People sometimes say things that they shouldn't. You have heard

  • me give many speeches. Have I ever said one negative word about Elizabeth Warren?

  • LISA DESJARDINS: The tension comes as new polling shows a razor-thin four-way fight

  • in Iowa. Friday's Des Moines Register/CNN poll had Sanders narrowly in the lead, earning

  • 20 percent support from likely Democratic caucus-goers, with Warren statistically tied

  • with him.

  • Following close behind, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, and former

  • Vice President Joe Biden at 15. Biden topped today's Monmouth University poll with 24 percent,

  • with Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg tied in a close second.

  • PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), Presidential Candidate: Thank you!

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Buttigieg also spent the past few days in Iowa, with a Des Moines touting

  • the endorsement of a prominent Iowa congressman. But the candidate also faced some controversy

  • PETE BUTTIGIEG: I think your facts are a little wrong, so I'd love a chance to talk with you

  • about it.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: The former mayor confronted protesters in the crowd challenging his record

  • on race, including on policing and housing for African-American communities.

  • PETE BUTTIGIEG: Can we agree that we can talk about this respectfully?

  • WOMAN: We have been trying to talk to you since South Bend, Pete.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: With a number of candidates camping out in Iowa, others are putting their

  • marks on the states that follow.

  • ANDREW YANG (D), Presidential Candidate: Hello, Dover, New Hampshire! How are you?

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Entrepreneur Andrew Yang hoping for a surge in New Hampshire.

  • ANDREW YANG: Screw Iowa. No, I'm kidding.

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • ANDREW YANG: Kidding!

  • (LAUGHTER)

  • LISA DESJARDINS: Biden looking to cement his lead in Nevada and court Hispanic voters there.

  • JOSEPH BIDEN (D), Presidential Candidate: Now, I can assure you of one thing. My Cabinet,

  • if I'm elected, and my administration will look like America. It will look like America.

  • (APPLAUSE)

  • LISA DESJARDINS: And former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg campaigning with television

  • personality Judge Judy in Texas. Bloomberg has staked his nomination chances on the Lone

  • Star State and others which vote in March.

  • MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, Presidential Candidate: Judge, I am so honored to have you here. I'd

  • love to tell you that I watch you all day every day, but I have a few other things to

  • do.

  • LISA DESJARDINS: A dozen candidates still crisscrossing the country, but just six of

  • them will face off tomorrow night in Des Moines in the seventh Democratic presidential debate.

  • For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Lisa Desjardins.

JUDY WOODRUFF: With just three weeks until Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses,

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