Trump on Clinton: ‘She lies like crazy’

“They are going to people showing videos of Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadis”, she said.

“I know Secretary Clinton was gleeful when [Libyan leader Muammar] Gaddafi was torn apart”.

Over on ABC’s “This Week,” however, Clinton’s communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, said “she doesn’t have a particular video in mind, but he is being used in social media”.

Mr Sanders was less combative over the issue than his campaign chiefs, who have accused the DNC of “trying to help the Clinton campaign”.

Sanders said that his staff “did the wrong thing”, but the Vermont senator also suggested that the issue should have been handled without a public spat between the campaigns and the Democratic National Committee. This is not the type of campaign that we run. “Instead, we’re listening to the bickering back and forth”.

“The Sanders campaign crossed that mark during the debate as grassroots supporters flooded the BernieSanders.com website”, the campaign said.

The debate, the third for Democrats, was expected to have low viewership given that it was scheduled on the last weekend before Christmas, when many Americans have turned their attention to the holidays.

Senator Sanders said he agreed with Clinton and O’Malley’s statements.

But among voters, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are pretty, pretty, pretty good. She is 25 points ahead of Sanders in one poll.

If Clinton is too aggressive in taking on Sanders over the data breach, she could risk alienating his passionate liberal voters, whom she would need to win in a general election.

“There’s no such video”, Trump said, a day after Clinton during her party’s presidential debate alleged that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is using videos of Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric to recruit people.

“We now have that”, she said.

“We will not get the support on the ground in Syria to dislodge ISIS if the fighters there who are not associated with ISIS, but whose principal goal is getting rid of Assad, don’t believe there is a political, diplomatic channel that is ongoing”, Mrs Clinton said. “Do you think that’s a coincidence?”

At many times, it got heated between the candidates.

JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images Hillary Clinton set her sights on Donald Trump over the GOP front-runner’s comments on Muslims during Saturday night’s debate.

Thereafter, the debate – the first one pitting the Democratic candidates against one another since the December 2 San Bernardino massacre that killed 14 people and which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has linked to Islamist extremism – largely revolved around gun violence and terrorist threats.

With the first votes in the nomination race to be cast on February 1 in Iowa, Sanders and O’Malley are short of time to blunt Clinton’s momentum.