Bernie Sanders Still faces Big Hurdles For Dem Nomination; Sanders Makes Gains In Iowa
COOPER: And tonight, our foreign affairs correspondent is going through the latest edition of e-mail from Hillary Clinton's private server when she was secretary of state. There are about 7,000 of them so she is reading as quickly as she can. We'll get some details from her shortly as she reads and as we weigh we want to look at the kind of drag that the story could be putting on the Clinton campaign as well as the appeal this primary season of anti-establishment candidates that like Donald Trump have been course in on the Democratic side Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders. A new polling tonight on the state of the raise in Iowa, our chief national correspondent John King has the numbers. John, Bernie Sanders with striking this since of Hillary Clinton shows the details.</s>JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, Bernie Sanders has to encouraged by the numbers. Let start in Iowa, Bernie Sanders at second percent -- second place, I'm sorry in the new Iowa poll at 30 percent but Hillary Clinton stand out at 37 percent. So Bernie Sanders within seven points that's the first time Hillary Clinton is below 50 and it says here, 31st report has a back grade on Iowa of the past few months. So Bernie Sanders it has to be encouraged with that. We should note Joe Biden is there at 14 percent but Bernie Sanders with this striking distance now in Iowa. The latest New Hampshire poll has Bernie Sanders actually in the lead by seven points so Hillary Clinton trailing in one state, very competitive in the state of Iowa, it's just a fascinating race. Can he build on this, we'll see but he's in great shape as the summer ends and we turn to September.</s>COOPER: And Sanders, I mean he's got momentum on the polls. He's drawing huge crowds in terms of actually getting the nomination what kind of hurdles do we have tackle?</s>KING: This is the defining question for Sanders, is he a message candidate is he more of approaches candidate or is he a candidate to win the democratic nomination because let's assume he does well on Iowa when there was very close second. Let's assume he does well on New Hampshire when there's a close second. Bernie is in a race with Hillary Clinton. The race goes out next to Nevada, February 20th. Labor support key here organizing Latino voter's key here. Sanders does have labor support. His political career's been based on Vermont not a lot of track record going after Latinos, then from there the race would come to South Carolina. This is the first state where you have a majority of the Democratic primary electorate African-American. Bernie Sanders again has been in Vermont all his life, hasn't competed for the black vote much. This is the Hillary Clinton's constituency especially with Obama not in the race. So that would be another big question and a challenge. There's the biggest one, Anderson. After those contest, you do in Nevada, you do in South Carolina, that on March 1st, about a dozen states are going to vote. Now, Sanders own state of Vermont votes that day, Massachusetts votes that day, Minnesota might be friendly to the liberal Sanders. But then you get into a number of states, you have Alabama and Georgia, a majority of the Democratic electorate African-Americans. North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, about a third of the Dem -- 30 percent to a third of the electorate of the African-Americans. Texas is about 20 percent African-American, another 30 percent Latino. So not only does he have to have a diverse coalition, Bernie Sanders build and organized that, but with the dozen states on the map, you got to do your delegate work. You got to do your state work. You got to have the money for television ads. This will be a test of whether Bernie Sanders again is a message candidate working out the national campaign.</s>COOPER: Yeah, John, stay with us because I want to bring in Gloria Borger, our CNN Chief Political Analyst. When you're talking to people in Iowa, I mean do they see this as a protest vote for Bernie Sanders or do people you talked to in Iowa, in New Hampshire, really feel like he could get the nomination?</s>GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, I think that what voters are doing in those too early states right now is they're kind of dating Bernie Sanders a little bit. They're not sure they want to marry him yet. It's not that they don't like Hillary Clinton. She's got a 77 percent favorability. He's got favorability of 73 percent. So they're taking a look at someone new and they like what they see. But here's something also to keep in mind, two-thirds of the Democrats in those early states believe that Hillary Clinton could actually win a general election. Democrats want to win. They don't necessarily feel the same way about Bernie Sanders. They're going to have to see how this develop, but they've want to nominate a candidate they think can beat the Republicans.</s>COOPER: John, how bigger problem is it going to be that Bernie Sanders has in the past identified himself as a socialist? I mean if he continues to get a lot of Hillary Clinton's thunder, would she ever use that against him?</s>KING: You just asked what potentially could become the, the, the underlying that again and keep running it out to finding question. Right now the Clinton campaign says Bernie Sanders is a friend. We have no intention of attacking him whether it's through direct rail, whether through e-mail, whether through television ads to conventional weapons if you will in politics. Hillary Clinton's friends in the Super PAC community say Bernie Sanders is part of the family. We have no intention of negative ads against Bernie Sanders. If he were to win the state of Iowa, if he were to win the state of New Hampshire or essentially be in the dead hit as the contents moves on, they would have to revisit that question. Anderson, you make a key point. When you move to south, you have a lot more conservative Democrats. Yes, levels of the base of the party, well, you move into those southern states, the socialist label would hurt Bernie Sanders more without a doubt. The question is will Secretary Clinton herself or some of her friends in the Super PAC community. Will it come to that point when the Democratic way comes in from a friendly competition into a battle?</s>COOPER: Gloria, I mean you look at the age factor on Bernie Sanders.</s>BORGER: Yeah.</s>COOPER: He will be 75 when he would be entering the White House. Ronald Reagan was 77 when he was leaving.</s>BORGER: Right. I mean, look, you know, Bernie Sanders is not a string chicken as they say. Hillary Clinton is 67. Donald Trump is 69 years old. Joe Biden is 72 years old. It seems to me that voters right now aren't talking about age. They are talking about where you are on the spectrum and they want to see you as an outsider. They don't care about how old you are. If somebody who's older gets nominated -- and you know this, Anderson -- then we all start talking about will that person have a single term, who will that person's vice president be. That was very important with John McCain if you recall. But right now, it's a little too early to start talking about whether they would nominate somebody who's 60 plus.</s>COOPER: It's cable news. It's never too early to start talking about anything.</s>BORGER: OK, not too early. I take it back. I take it back.</s>COOPER: Gloria Border, thanks, John King as well.</s>KING: You're welcome.</s>COOPER: All right. Just ahead. There's newly released Clinton e- mails. I'm with Elise Labott and her team will find it. We'll check back in with her within a moment.