Clinton, Sanders face off in final Democratic debate before NH primary
11:03 p.m. Closing statements: Clinton asks New Hampshire voters to come to the voting booths on Tuesday with their hearts and their heads.
Sanders said he believes the U.S. needs a "political revolution" that says that the government belongs to everyone and not just a handful of campaign contributors.
11:02 p.m. Clinton is asked whether she would choose Sanders as her running mate if she becomes the nominee.
"I'm not getting ahead of myself," she said, adding that would be a "little bit presumptuous."
Sanders agreed.
10:58 p.m. Choosing between immigration reform, gun reform and tackling climate change, Clinton is asked which would she would focus on first as president. She said she would get to work immediately on putting together an agenda that would build on Obamacare, bring down the cost of prescription drugs, implement paid family leave and early childhood education.
Sanders said it's going to be difficult to achieve a lot until campaign finance reform gets done.
10:48 p.m. Debate moves on to talk about trade deals.
Clinton, who has come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal negotiated by the U.S. and other world leaders, said she'd like to see changes that would make "a real difference."
Sanders said that trade deals are written by corporate America and results in the loss of American jobs.
10:43 p.m. Clinton said that the water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a "an emergency."
"What is being done is not sufficient," she said, adding that she will visit Flint at the mayor's invitation on Sunday.
Sanders said he has asked for the resignation of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, R.
"The idea that there has not been a dramatic response is beyond comprehension," he said.
10:41 p.m. Clinton is asked whether she still supports capital punishment.
"Yes, I do," said Clinton, who added that she hopes the Supreme Court makes it "absolutely clear" that any state that continues the death penalty must meet the highest standards of evidentiary proof.
Clinton said that he should be reserved for "particularly heinous crimes" like terrorism.
Sanders said he doesn't want to see "government be part of killing."
10:30 p.m. Clinton is asked whether she can guarantee Democrats that her private-email situation won't hurt her chances in the general election.
"Absolutely, I can," she said. "I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever."
Clinton said she is "100 percent confident" that nothing will come out of the FBI investigation into her email server. She brings up new revelations about the State Department inspector general finding that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and aides to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sent or received emails in their personal email accounts that contained classified information in them.
10:27 p.m. Sanders said that his campaign is the one that "creates the large voter turnout and helps us win." He suggested that the enthusiasm about his candidacy will help Democrats retain the White House, regain control of the Senate and win more governors' chairs.
Clinton said she is the person who can do all aspects of the job and that she has the best chance to win.
10:24 p.m. Chuck Todd said that the Des Moines Register said that an audit should be conducted of Monday's Iowa caucuses. Asked if Sanders accepts that Hillary Clinton won Iowa, he said he agrees with the Des Moines Register.
He said at the end of the day, he and Clinton would "break roughly even."
Clinton said she would cooperate with any audit that is conducted.
10:16 p.m. Rachel Maddow said that some conservatives are suggesting that the Department of Veterans Affairs should be privatized.
Asked if she agrees with that proposal, Clinton said, "I am absolutely against privatizing the VA."
She said she would do everything to build on reforms that Congress has passed to fix wait times and services to veterans.
Both Clinton and Sanders said this proposal has been floated by a group that is funded by the Koch brothers.
10:12 p.m. Chuck Todd names North Korea, Iran and Russia and asks Sanders which country was the most important national security threat.
"Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation," Sanders said, "Run by a handful of dictators or maybe just one."
Todd then says that Defense Secretary Ash Carter actually named Russia as the most important national security threat. Clinton said that he is referring to the "constant pressure" Russia is putting on U.S. European allies.
"We've got to get NATO back working for the common defense," she said.
10:09 p.m. Clinton said the U.S. shouldn't immediately normalize relations with Iran. She said that would "remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have right now." She said the U.S. must take this "step by step."
Sanders claimed he never called for normalizing relations with Tehran tomorrow.
10:06 p.m. Sanders admits that Clinton has more foreign policy experience since she served as secretary of state. He said that experience isn't the only thing that matters. Judgment matters, he said, and he again suggested that Clinton had poor judgement when she voted to authorize the Iraq war.
Clinton shot back and said that President Obama trusted her judgement when he selected her to be his secretary of state.
10:04 p.m. Asked why Sanders hasn't proactively laid out a foreign policy doctrine, he said he shouldn't have combined a speech about Democratic socialism and foreign policy into one at Georgetown University.
Sanders said that his doctrine would focus on: "No we cannot continue to do it alone."
10:00 p.m. Moderator Chuck Todd says that the next president will likely be dealing with at least 10,000 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan. Asked how long Sanders would leave them there for, he said he will work hard to ensure that they "do not get sucked into never-ending perpetual warfare."
"You can't simply withdraw tomorrow and leave the Taliban or anyone else to reclaim that country," Sanders said when he was pressured to answer the question directly.
Clinton is asked the same question and said she would have to make "an evaluation" at the time at which she would take office to determine how much assistance the Afghan government still needs.
9:56 p.m. Clinton is asked whether the U.S. should escalate the number of U.S. troops fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
"We have to support the Arab and Kurdish fighters on the ground," she said. "We will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq. That is off the table."
"I support special forces, I support trainers, I support the air campaign," she added.
Sanders said he agrees with much of what Clinton said, but reminded voters that Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq.
9:50 p.m. Sanders is asked whether he could work with big business even though he has railed against several major U.S. companies. Moderator Rachel Maddow points out that major companies have helped launch employment opportunity programs for military veterans and Obamacare was developed in cooperation with big business.
"Of course, I could work with them," Sanders said.
9:46 p.m. Clinton is asked whether she would be willing to release transcripts of her previous paid speeches.
"I will look into it. I don't know the status. I will certainly look into it," she said.
The former secretary of state said that she spoke to groups about her experience leading the State Department and she said she would talk about "how stressful it was advising the president about going after [Osama] bin Laden."
9:40 p.m. Clinton is asked if she's been too dismissive of voters' concerns about her ties to Wall Street. She said it's true that she went on the speaking circuit after leaving the State Department and did speak to firms on Wall Street.
"What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash," said Clinton, who added that she proposed changes in CEO compensation and called for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before it was even created.
Sanders said the idea that no Wall Street executives have no criminal records must change in the U.S. and exemplifies corruption.
9:31 p.m. Clinton goes after Sanders' record on financial regulations. She reminded voters that the Vermont independent voted for legislation in 2000 that a report said was a "key turning point" in the path to the financial crisis.
Sanders hits back, arguing that "nobody fought harder" for the deregulation of Wall Street.
9:27 p.m. Clinton said that while Sanders claims he has never issued a negative attack against her, he has actually been launching "attacks of insinuation," which she said aren't "worthy of you."
Clinton went on to say his campaign has conducted an "artful smear" of her and her campaign.
9:19 p.m. Sanders reminds voters that he is the only candidate on stage who does not have a super PAC fundraising for his campaign.
9:17 p.m. Sanders is asked whether he considers President Obama as a progressive and initially dodged the question by explaining why he initially attacked Clinton on being a moderate and a progressive. Eventually, he answered the question.
"Do I think President Obama is a progressive? Yeah, I do," he said, but explained he doesn't support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that Mr. Obama negotiated.
9:12 p.m. Clinton is asked why liberal Democrats should support her as president even though Sanders claims she can't be both a progressive and a moderate.
"I am a progressive that gets things done," Clinton said, who added that Sanders' definition would mean that President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wouldn't be considered progressive.
Clinton then aggressively attacked Sanders' record and votes that wouldn't fit that definition either.
"I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times," she said.
9:09 p.m. Clinton said that for some of Sanders' proposals, "the numbers just don't add up" and that the government shouldn't start over again on ObamaCare.
Sanders is asked how he would be able to implement some of his proposals, but he dodged the question and argued that every major country on earth has managed to provide healthcare to its citizens as a right.
"I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that," Sanders said.
9:03 p.m. Candidates begin with opening statements. Sanders talked about the rigged economy and the corrupt campaign finance system and vowed to overturn Citizens United.
Clinton said it's true that the economy hasn't been working for Americans, but she also said that the nation still must confront racism, sexism and discrimination of the LGBT community.
"I'm not making promises that I cannot keep," she added, referring to some of Sanders' proposals.
8:45 p.m. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, are about to face off in the final Democratic presidential debate before the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
They both agreed to the 9 p.m. ET debate on MSNBC, which was only recently added to their schedule. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley dropped out of the presidential race after he finished in third place in Monday's Iowa caucuses.
They also participated in a Democratic town hall hosted by CNN on Wednesday night.
The debate comes just a few days after Clinton was officially declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses. The former secretary of state won by only 0.3 percentage points.
The latest CBS News battleground tracker poll released late last month found Sanders was leading Clinton in New Hampshire by 19 percentage points -- 57 percent to 38 percent. That survey also predicted a close race in Iowa.
