[Stelter:] What unites the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination right now? Is it screen time? Because Pete Buttigieg seems to be saying yes to every T.V. interview under the sun, national and local, and it's been working for him for a year now. Bernie Sanders has been on lots of shows lately too, even while leveling critiques of the media, and Michael Bloomberg, his television strategy is an ad campaign that is just unrelenting. You know, Twitter moments and Tick Tock memes are great, but the primaries are still won and lost right here on the tube. Let's talk about it with Philip Bump and JoanWalsh there back in the table, joined by New York Magazine's Irin Carmon as well. Let's take a sprint around the primary field. Six candidates, six minutes beginning with Bernie with Joe Biden who of course was buried by unflattering coverage as a result of the New Hampshire primary failures. But Philip, is that what's to be expected, you know, you come into place you're going to get scrutinized?
[Bump:] Yes. I mean, it was certainly was coming into both Iowa and New Hampshire. He knew he wasn't going to do as well as he would in later contest based on what his base was, but he did even worse than expected. And since his entire value proposition to Democratic voters was I'm the guy that can win the race against Donald Trump, losing two races very badly to, you know, four or five or three or four different Democrats didn't help that case.
[Stelter:] One of the other New Hampshire primary narratives was about Klo-mentum, am I pronouncing that right or
[Irin Carmon, Senior Correspondent: New York Magazine:] I prefer Klob- mentum.
[Stelter:] Klob-ment0m?
[Carmon:] Yes.
[Stelter:] Is she finally getting the attention she deserves? What's your view about how Amy Klobuchar is being covered?
[Carmon:] Well, because our industry has such a bias towards the recent, the novel, I think Amy Klobuchar really benefited from timing. She hasn't experienced the same level of press setting or scrutiny that's a Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden have already gone through. And so all of the sudden, folks who are maybe, let's say, college-educated white women in New Hampshire looking for a home, Amy Klobuchar, suddenly, she's tough in the debate. She had some incredible moments pushing back at Pete Buttigieg's lack of experience. And so all of a sudden, we in the media are talking up Klob-mentum, Klo-mentum, I think, Klobucharg, pick your pick your poison. But I don't think we've really had the depth of reporting or scrutiny on Amy Klobuchar as we have had on other candidates. She came in strong chest when she needed it, but we're I think we're going to see in the long term what that looks like.
[Stelter:] What about the other female candidate that's high in the race right now, and that's Elizabeth Warren, not a great performance in New Hampshire. And this Free Beacon headline is notable. She's on a fundraising pitch of supporters saying we can no longer count on the media to cover our campaign fairly. Is this just a typical bash the media when things aren't going well strategy, Joan?
[Joan Walsh, National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation:] No, I don't I don't think so. You know, she had a tough night in New Hampshire, and that made things a lot harder for her. But before New Hampshire, coming out of Iowa, where I was, Brian, I wrote a piece that said Elizabeth Warren is being erased by the media because she really was. The story was OK, Biden flopped. That was I admit, I'm a reporter. I understand some of why this happened. Biden was a big story as a flop, Bernie and Pete tied. Pete looked like baby he won. He's always a fresh face. But the woman who finished third, a decent third, not her not her dream, was really I was watching, you know, cable stations that were jumping around and skipping her. And you know, even on the night of the Iowa caucuses, lots of people cut from her to Biden because Biden was a bigger story and that it was a very sad performance. So I understand why she's upset. But I think having done as poorly as she did in New Hampshire, she can't just blame the media. I think that there's you know, there's stuff going on in her campaign and in her own approach to getting attention that she's got to address. She did not go out and grab attention and grab time in the debate when she really should have and Amy certainly did. I think she's got to be tougher, quite honestly.
[Stelter:] And Bernie Sanders also has complaints about whether his campaigns being overlooked. That this has been a topic for a long time at this point, Philip. Is that fair?
[Bump:] You're setting me up here. I mean, look
[Stelter:] In ten seconds.
[Bump:] Right. Now, I mean, Bernie Sanders' campaign is doing well. He's at the front of the pack right now. You know, they a lot of his supporters want to call them front runner. He has a very avid base of support that wants to see him treated as the sort of go-to eventual nominee, the only person who can beat Donald Trump. And so we get a lot of pushback in the media when we report on Bernie Sanders because there is an expectation of how he will be covered that I don't think applies to other candidates and doesn't come from other candidates basis in the same way. And I think they're effective at pushing people to ask questions like is Bernie Sanders being treated fairly? I think, generally speaking, he was. And now my mentions on Twitter will be a mess for a week.
[Stelter:] OK, let's get to a couple more candidates after a quick break. Everybody stay with me. And a quick plug here as well. We have an election night coming, another election caucus night at least this Saturday. CNN is starting the race for the White House. The new season starts tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time here on CNN. More here on RELIABLE SOURCES in just a moment.